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GEORGE SLOCOMBE
presented -by the Institute of
Public Affairg at the University of
georgia, George Slocombe, English
publicist, will gpeak twice at the
University chapel on Monday, Jan.
9. The subject of his morning
lecture will be “The Civil War in
Spain;” that of his evening lecture
will be “The Ruropean Crisis.”
Mr. Slocombe ig best known for
the part which he played in per
suading Mahatma Gandhi to at
tend the London Round Table con
ference. In 1930 Mr. Slocombe was
sent to India to report the Civil
Disobedience Movement which
threatened to precipitate the grav
est crisis in the history of India’s
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By The Associated Press
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IS AN APPENDIX CATCHING?
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—-ILeonard Gros
kind, 20, of Bolivar, Tenn., was
feeling unusually well as he waited
in a hospital while surgeons re
moved an appendix wrom his bro
ther, David,
Within the hour, however, he
himself was stricken by appendici
lls and underwent an operation on
he table his brother had just left.
HELLO AGAIN
WINFIELD, Kas—When Dean
Robinson’s automobile stalled on
the Santa Te railroad tvacks, he
lorgot all about his dug, in the
ir with him.
Robinson leaped to safety just
Delore a speeding train demolished
his machine. 'When he reached
iome, there was the dog sitting
on the steps.
PLEASE REMIT
ST, LOUIS—A loan is a loan—
Not a gift—to school children of
I City.
L Barney Mead, head of the
Slaile Parent Teacher Association
lound that out when she conducted
4 survey among 3,000 children to
g Ine “principal points of fric
between parents and off
1€ major complaint, she con
ded Failure of parentg to re-
W money through inadvertence
therwise, horrowed from their
irer f school age.”
FLORIDA, DON'T LOOK
_LOS ANGELES—OOId man win
—a seldom sgeen and decidedly
‘hwanted guest in this city of
'€ly advertised sunshine — at
T Has won offieial recognition.
k‘;‘; City council appropriated
W 1o furnish outdoor laborers
.+ led flannel underwear, wool-
L CUCKs and other garments capa
\' I withstanding the rigors of a
“Uithern California winter.
TV Re ST gL s
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What They Say About;
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Roosevelt Birthday i
Ball Here on Jan. 29 !
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BY ANNIE LAURIE WHITE |
Student jp Henry W. Grady School
of Journalism 1
“One of the greatest enemieg Of}
hilthooqd ang of manhood *is the
dreagegq disease of infantile para
lysig—j may strike in the hovel or
M the Place,” gajd James Whilf‘.}
T, president of the National Bank.
% Atheng before leaving Athens
st week for New York. |
T think €veryone should lend a
~bing hand. to the very worthy
ftforts in raising funds for the
Pesidents Bany with its very hu
rT‘_"f”i‘—:fl‘ifxn objective, “declared Mr.
\,f hite jn speaking of the President’s
52l to pe held in Pound Auditor-
Um on the Coordinate Campus on
‘duary 99
This year the entire proceeds of
the Ba win g 0 to the Warm
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Roosevelt Urges Congress to Continue Irade Treaty
Floc;d *A;ea G;ov*vs*Wider ;\s* R*ains aoati;mg Ovelf N,;lt;Ofl
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20,000 Now Homeless;
No Relief Seen
RAINS CONTINUE
Pittsburgh, Portsmouth,
Nashville in Danger
From Floods
(By the Associated Press)
The flood area of the midcon
tinent grew wider today ag over
burdened rivers, swelled anew by
rains, sent surplus water over
thousands of acres of farm land
and menaced life and property in
many communities.
Unofficial estimates indicated at
least 20,000 persons were driven
from their homes by surging flood
waters, Coast guard units, the
Red Cross, American Legion for
ces and an infantry unit joined civil
authorities in aiding refugees.
Brunt of Flood
Hazelton, Ind., Hore the brunt
of the flood’'s latest onslaught. The
village was inundatead to a depth
of 12 feet when the White river
broke through a levee., More than
200 families fled to higher ground.
Several hundred families eva
cuated Evansville, Ind., where the
rising Ohio river threatened des
truction. Some 1,600 persons were
homeless in Cincinnati while 1,000
families were routed by Ohio river
waters that eovered 50 eity blocks
in nearby Newport, Ky. Thirty
blocks in Dayton, Xy. a city of
10,000 population, were submerg
ed,
The Andrews Steel company
closed its Newport, Ky, mill em
ploying 1,500 men because of flood
conditions. Approximately 800 oth
er workers in Newport and vicinity
were previously made idle by high
water.
Continued Rains
Anxiety for the safety of Ports
mouth, 0., with jtg 43,000 popula
tion, increased when continued rains
brought a new rise in the Scioto
river. Five hundred workers piled
sandbags against ene Scioto levee.
The Red Crosg reported 2,000
refugees in the flood area of Ken
nett, Mo. Rescuers searched for
many families belipved marooned
by the St. Francis river flood wat
ers. Seventy-five families were
rescued by motoreoat crews yes
terday. High waters made 250
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Boxer Is Questioned
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In Mattson Affair
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SEATTLE — (#) — The hum;
for Charies Mattson’s kidnaper-)
killer turned to questioning here|
today of 13 “Shanty Town” resi
dents, rounded up ir a police drive
against itinerants. Many w(*ro!
found possessing firearms. |
The 13 were held in jail overnight, '
fingerprinted and the prints turn-i
ed over to federal agents, ‘
At Beverly Hills, Calif., a man'
was held, identified by Detective
Lieutenant C. H. Anderson as!
Oliver B. O’Neil, a 3‘_")'0:11“-01(11
prize fighter, of Chlcago. Anderson|
said federal agents had quostionm];
O’Neil in the Mattson case and had |
sent his fingerprints to Washing- |
ton. !
There was no indication officers|
had found anything leading toward)|
solution of the crime. i
Georgia News Briefs
La GRANGE —(AF)—John Edw.
Whitley, 91, father of J. E. ‘Whit»
ley, 91, father of J. E.; Whiltey, Jr.,
widely known contractor, died at
his home here Tuesday night after
several weeksyillness Funeral ser
vices were held yesterday.
He is survived by- his widow,
four daughters, Mrs. Edgar Whit
ley of Eufaula, Ala.; Mrs. Tom
Green of Columbus; Mrs. | Mary
Wade and Mrs. Sallie Clark of La-
Grange, and five sons, J. B. Whit
ley, ijr., of LaGrange; G. e, ‘of
Marietta; M. C., of Woodbury; &
8., of Greenville, and J. 8. Whit
ley of Columbus. :
ATLANTA —(AP)— James R.
Boyd of {Jacksonville, Fla., has been
named superintendent of railway
mail service here, He succeeds
John F. Bradley who died last
Friday. E, D.j)Alams remains as
Full Associated Press Service
Leaders Will Discuss Livestock
Industry and Power Project Here
At Chamber of Commerce Meeting
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! LOS ANGELES — (#) — Court
action was planned today in' an
j.xfl'um t 0 wring from enraged Rheba
{ Crawford the rest of a sensational
| deposition already studded with
references to drunkenness and mis
conduct directed at Aimee Simnl":
McPherson. |
‘Willedd Andrews, attorney for
the blond evangelist of Angelus
Temple, said he would seek a court
order requiring Miss Crawford, Sis
| ter Aimee’s former co-worker, to
resume her story.
Once known ag “The Angel of
Broadway,” Miss Crawford became
infuriated yesterday over questions
Andrews asked for a deposition in
her $1,000,000 slander suit against
Mrs. McPherson, abruptly she
stormed out of his office, slapping
as she went a man Andrewg em
! ployed as investigator and body
guard.
“I spoke to her real nice and she
socked me,” said Harry F. Comber,
former San Clemente police chief.
“I don’t know why I did it,” Miss
Crawford said later, “unless it was
lbecause of all those untrue things
[they were hinting at. It’s the first
time I ever lost my temper.”
t Joseph Fainer, Miss Crawford’s
lawyer, asserted he would resist
the proposed court order on the
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@ssistant gupgrintendent of the
Atlanta division under Boyd.
ATLANTA —(AP)— Automobile
license plate sales totaled 90,762
today, 22,475 more than had been
sold on the same date last year,
Marcus L. McWhorter, head of
the state gnotor vehicle division,
attributed the increased sales to
improved business conditions.
The present law prescribes that
1937 plates must (be purchased by
February 1,
MACON, Ga. — (AP) — Edith
Gardner, 7, daughter of Professor
Joseph Gardner of Lanier High
school for boys, and Mrs. Gardner,
died shortly after she was struck
by an automobile near here yes
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] 7 O'clock Tonight at
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! Promotion of the livestock in
;l]ll.\'ll‘_\' in Georgia and develop
{ ment of the Clark’'s Hill power
{ navigation project on the Savan
| nah river will be discussed at the
s:mmml meeting of the Athens
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!m(—*n and women, in addition to
i delegations from Macon, Augusta
{ and Elberton. |
{ E. B. Weatherly, widely known
,]ivoslm‘k promoter, of COChl‘an.]
| a former Athenian, will be one ofl
| the principal sreakers. The Au
qusm delegation, headed by Mayor»l
| R. E. Allen, jr., will discuss plans
and purposes of the Clark's Hill
{ development.
| Mr. Weatherly has served as a’
Imomhm' and president of the na
| tional committee aprointed by the
| federal department of agriculture
[ some time ago to draft & cattle
marketing adjustment program. He
is one of the south’'s leading cat
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‘:lo producers and has served as
i‘lirovmr of the American Aber- |
deen Angus Association, president
| of the Bleckley County Board of
,’"l‘mdl*, and vice-president of the
| Southeastern Economic Council.
i Leader in industry
I Mr. Weatherly operates a 5,000-
t acre farm at Cochran, devoted ex
éclusi\‘oly to the raising of pure- |
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Prelate Determined to
Work as Long as ““Breath
Remains in Body”
VATICAN ClTY—(#)—Pope Pius
VI was held in bed by pain today
after what was described official
ly as an agitateq night.
Increased doses of sedatives were
administered to ease the suffer
ing in his legs and enforce sleep
during the restless night, attend
ants said.
The holy father nearg mass from
his bed and then set about the
curtailed routine his crippled state
allows him. Prelates said he told
Archbishop Castiglioni, coadjutor
of the Diocese of Milan, he was
determired to work as long as
breath remained in his body.
Certainly we suffer greatly,” he
was said to have remarked, “but
we suffer voluntarily.
“We offer God our sorrows for.
the most suffering parts of the
church, which particularly are
Germany, Spain, Mexico and Rus~
sia.”’
Well informed circles said the
holy father’s expressed desire for
a new wheeled couch in which he
coulg sit upright and work more
comfortably, was no indication of
convalescence in his fight against
paralysis and complications of age.
During his worst spells, they
declared, the holy father has been
raised to a sitting position to aid
his labored breathing. Prior to his
relapse, he had been using a
wheeled divan.
Dr. Amanti Milani remained
throughout the night in the Pap¥
chambers,
Additional sorrow awaited thé
pontiff today in the news of the
cmnp—
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Athens, Ca., Thursday, January 21, 1937.
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PEACE EFFORTS FAIL
Several Strikes Broken in
Other Industries; Many
Return to Work
STILL IN CAPITAL
Labor Secretary Perkins
Expresses Hope for
Ultimate Peace | |
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By The Associated Press |
Resumption of work by sovem]l
thousand strikers, closing of addi
tional plants in the automotiveln-l
dustry, anq renewal of efforts by
federal officials to settle the widf’-l
spread :General Motors strike were
major developments today in the
nation’™s labor disputes.
Secretary of Labor Perkins ex
pressed hope that negotiations in
the General Motors strike would
be “satisfactorily concluded.” Her
initial conferences with opposing
leaders were fruitless,
Idieness Increases
The number of employes made
idle by the General Motors dis
pute increased to 135,000. The
Buick plant closing at Flint, Mich,,
the Fisher Body plant at Balti
more, and the Chevrolet plant in
the same city affected 2,400 work
ers,
Six hundred workers prepared
to resume work at the Somersetl
Shoe company in Skowhegan, Me.
after strikers voted to accept a
proposal for a wage adjustment
Beh. 1.
Strike Ends
An eight week strike of textile
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DAY —BY — DAY
- ON THE RADIO
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S B O B .el A PSS
By C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Time s Eastern Standard)
NEW YORK—{#)—Pitter Patter
of tne rain that drenched Wash
ington offereq continuous sound
effects for the fourth broadecast of
a presidential inauguration. It made
the slight drumming noticeable
in the loudspeaker background.
For the most part the broadcast,
despite the weather handicaps,
moved along with precision. In
cluddd were NBC overseas pickups
from Americans in London, Paris,|
Honolulu and aboard the Liner
Rex off the Azores, who comment
ed on the President’'s address not
long after. it .had been delivered.
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Try these -tonight (Thursday):
WAF-NBC—7:IS Voice of Experi
ence; 8 Valles Variéties; 9 Show
boat; 10 “Bing Crosby; 11:30
Frankie Masters Orchestra,
WJIZ-NBC—7 Easy Aces; 8 Roy
Shield Revue; 8:30 Rochester Phil
harmonic; 10:30 NBC Jamboree;
12:80 Frankie Trombauer OrChes-l
tra. ;
Talks—America’s Town Meeting,
topic *“Consumers’ Cooperatives andi
Private Business,” WJZ-NBC 9:30.1;
What to expect Friday: WEAF- |
NBC—2 p. m. Music Appreciation.]
(also WJZ-NBC): 4 Tea Time Va
riety; 6 Old Traveler's Tales.
WABC-CBS—2:IS Tea Time Va
riety; 3 Kreimer String Quartet:
4 At Three Consoles. WJIZ-NBC—
-10:05 a. m. Council of State Gov
ernments, Attorney General Cum-}
mings; 12:30 p. m. Farm and
Home Hour; 3:15 Housing Confer
ence, Mrs. Roosevelt and others. |
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If George VI of England follows the “serious suggestion’ of older
court officials and grows a beard, future history students may have
difficulty in telling apart the Georges V and VI, from their pictures
The striking resemblance between father and son, noted with
pleasure in England, is easily seen from the above photographs
The eyes of the two are almost identical, as are noses and fore
heads, the general shape of the heads, and~the way the bhair is worn.,
Ex-Convict, Captured In Michigan,
Admits Slaying of State Trooper
BISHOP CALLAGHER
PASSES IN DETROIT
DETROIT —() . Laity and
clergy—Father Charleg E.. |
Coughlin prominent among
them—mourned today the death
of the mogi . Rev. Michagel J.
Gallagher, bishop of the Catho
lic diocese of Detroit.
Lost to TFather Coughlin,
himself more familiar to the
public than his church superior, ‘
was a counsellor and outspoken
defender of his right to free
speech.
Bishop Gallagher, 70, diocesan
head since 1918, died suddenly
la stnight from wcomplications
following a streptococcus in
fection, and Father Coughlin,
at his Royal Oak, Mich.,, home
said:
“I have lost the best friend
ocutside of my famlily.”
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IN THRILLING “RACE”
Man With Appendicitis
Is Rushed to Hospital
With Bob Sleds and Auto‘
OKANOGAN, Wash.—(#)—Valiant ‘
dog teams defeated the Cascade
Mountains’ deep snows to sa.ve‘
Fred White, 25-year-old miner,'
from an appendicitis operation inl
the wilds ang place him today in
a hospital bed.
White arrived at a hnspital here
last night for an appendectomy
after a journey of more than 15
hours in 18-below-zero weather.
Plane, ambulance and automo
bile as well as bob sled played a
part in the dramatic rescue — a
battle with snow drifts which end
ed with both dogs and drivers ex
hausted.
Hospital attendants said the op
eration was delayed because White
suffered “some shock” from a 60-
mile trip from the Azurite mine
8,000 feet up in the mountains.
Dr. E. P. Murdock, who climb
ed to the mine last Saturday and
then ecallegq for aid, prepared tc
perform the appendectomy. He had
hesitated to operste at the mine.
The altitude increased the pati
ent's gastric pressure.
Heroes of the exploit included
the dog team mushers, Ed and
Charles Kikendall. At daybreak
| yesterday they set out from the
mine with White and Dr. Mur
lt]n('l{, mushing about 11 miles to
lhnrsnhavpn Station.
‘ There they met George Stone
braker, of Wallace, Idaho, with a
fresh team of dogs which had
been flown 200 miles from Lew
ijston, Idaho, in a plane piloted by
Bob Johnson, Missoula, Mont.
Stonebraker carried on to Rob
inson Creek Station where g bob
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A. B C. Paper—Singla Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Alcide (Frenchy) Benoit,
Young Gunman, Caught
In 20-Hour Chase
MONROE, Mich.— (&) —Alcide
(Frenchy) Benoit, youthful pa
roled conviet captured after a 20-
hour manhunt, told today how he
killed Michigan State Policeman
Richards F. Hammond and then
handcuffed the officer’'s body to a
rural mailbox.
County Prosecutor Francis
Ready announced the confession of
the 24-year-old black-haired gun
man shortly after Benoit's desper
ate game of hide-and-seek over
sleet-covered country areas with
officers of ‘three states and the
federal government ended in Mon
roe—a short distance from the
spot where he abducted 'Trooper
Hammond at midnight Tuesday.
Hammond and Trooper Dan Si-‘
neni halted a stolen car occupied
by Benoit and John H. Smith, 29,
alias Delberto, and decided to take‘
the pair to headquarters for ques
tioning in connection with the
abduction of Fred Williams, a
Detroit used car salesman, who
was left tied to a tree at Toledo
early Tuesday night.
“I got into the patrol car with
the officer” (Hammond),- Benoit
orally confessed to Prosecutor
Francis Ready, State Police Cap
tain Lawrence A. Lyon and Sher
iff Joseph J. Bairley. Sineni and
Smith followed in the seized au
tomobile.
“As the car started I jammed
the gun into the officer’s ribs and
told him to slow down,” Benoit
said.
“Instead Hammond started to go
faster, so" I slugged him over the
eye with the butt of my pistol and
told him to turn onto a side road.
“The other officer (Sineni) be
hind came up close. I turned
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Why Little Finland Can Pay
THE LAST OF THREE ARTICLES
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Finns
are modern — their living
cheap. A good meal costs 30
cents,” They had to fight to gain
the economic status which
enables them to pay their war
debts—alone of America's deb- |
tors. This is the last story of ‘
a series about these debt-pay
ing people.) |
HELSINGFORS — () — Fin
land desires recognition for other
things besides prompt and consist
tent payment of her “war debt” to
the United States, ‘
Finnish women sécured the right
to vote, for example, as far back
as 1908,
There is an excellent educational
system, with practically no illiter
acy.
The cooperative movement Is
developed to a high degree, Fin
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)Appeal Made in Letter
To Chairman Doughton
; Of House Croup
TASK UNFINISHED
,’F. D.R.’s Speech Leaves
- Congress Wondering
About Future
WASHINGTON .—(#)— President
Roosevelt urged congress today to
continue the administration reci-
DProcal trade treaty program as a
means of promoting ‘“durable
peace” ang a ‘“balanced economiec
recovery.”
His appeal was made in a letter
to Chairman Doughton of the
house ways and means, before
which Secretary Hull appeared in
person to ask pasasge of a meas
ure etxending the trade policy
three years.
Mr. Roosevelt said the nation’s
“vigorous initiative in the field of
;überallzation of commercial poli
cies has been an important factor
lin arresting the world trend to
ward national economic isolation,
[which seemed almost irrestible
three years ago.”
| Task Not Finished
Asserting the task was by no
‘means finished, Mr, Roosevelt said
“emergency conditions” stil] exist
in international trade relationsand
‘excessive barriers continue to op
‘erate against American trade,
“Their reduction,” he worte,
“continug to be an essential re
quirement of a full gnd balanced
economic recovery for our coun
oy
‘ Of even greater importance, M.
Roosevelt said, was the effect of
liberalizing trade practices on in
‘ternational peace.
“Economic strife, resulting from
inordinate or discriminatory trade
‘harriers,” the President said, “is
‘one of the most fruitful sources
of political animosity and military
conflict.”
Congress Wonders
President Roosevelt’s inaugura
address left Congress vgondering
today how much social legislation
will be attempted this session and
where it will lead in the differ
ences between the administration
and the Supreme Court.
Leaders of both major parties
hailed his speech as 5 noteworthy
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Rebels Charged With
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Execution of 14,000
BAYONNE, France.—(/)—Four
teen thousand persons have been
executed by Spanish Fascists in
Navarre province since the begin
ning of the Spanish civil war, the
Basque Nationalist government at
Bilbao charged today.
Air and ground battles broke
with new violence on the Madrid
and Malaga fronts of warring
Spain today.
Neutrality efforts stood stoek
‘Slill. But Italy and Germany will
inform Great Britain shortly, it
was learned, that foreign financial
'aid and propaganda must be elim
inated from Spain along with
foreign volunteers.
The League of Nations couneil
met at Geneva to discuss both the.
need of Germany for raw mate
rials and Spanish government pro
tests against alleged Italo-German
violation of its sovereignty.
nish eooperatives today do 40 per
cent of the total retail trade. Fully
50 per cent of the population is
enrolled in either consumer or
agricultural cooperatives.
Helsingfors today is one wof the
most modern citieg in Europe. Its
new architecture is thoroughly
sympolic of the sturdy complexion
of the country. Living is cheap.
An excellent three-course meal can
be had for 15 Finnish marks (about
30 cents.) w 4
A room in the best hotels in Hel
singfors can be had from 30 marks
(60 cents) up. Taxicabs are &
temptation. e
In the summer of 1917 Finland
was in a deplorable condition. There
was a food shortage, an ewj
of strikes. Today Finland -fi;
nineteen years of testing an inde-