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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTON ; e INCH M\DDLING Jiialaen Seoo X MIDDLNG ooe eves 13 1-4 c ~mDDLING iUy dewkdd AR . 05, No- - fversity High §cipal Goes To §umbus High MISS ANNIE V. MASSEY fiss Annie V. Massey, for sev | years principal of University n school, whose work as an beator is known throughout the i and south, has resigned her sition and will become a mem ¢of the Columbus (Ga.) High ol faculty . Miss Massey came to Athens in ptember, 1922, as a teacher of dorv in the Training school of then State Normal sclool. ¢ Training school at that time hsisted of eight grades but un ¢ the leadership and efforts of s Massey, Miss Kate Hicks d the late Dr. J. M. Pound, it ¢ reorganized on an . Elemen ry, Junion and Senior High Miss Hicks was made principal the Elementary school and iss Massey became principal of High school. In such capacity sy Masse has served since it time, affording great satisfac p to her Athens and Clarke ity patrons and purils. Re rkable strides in progress have n made by the schools under g direction of Misses Massey d Hicks and it has become a pdel of its type. The school has become the Uni rsity High school: and is a mem rof the Southern Association of condary Scheols, €lass ‘A, .and dlso the official High scheol of dr'Ke ( nty Work Recognized Development of the school and b far-reaching influence are due ginly to Miss Masseys This in hence extends not only to the s and girls of Clarke county, t has extended throughout the hole state of Georgia through ) ndreds and hundreds of Continued on Page Four) 8 LOCAL WEATHER | — e ] i . GEORGIA: ‘ a Q Partly Cloudy l { G s o) " South and g~ Cloudy in North | . N Portion With | 4 i p ! Local Rains in - | North and West i /‘— (7 Portions Sunday; | ] > Monday Pgrtly I | , Cloudy; Some- i ‘ ’<\“j | \ghath Colpder "N - ort ortion ’ toupy Sunday, ‘ : - TEMPERATURE l j : oA St o sv sk eibß | - o piaAL G 0 i B =~ RAINFALL | 3 l 'ast 24 Bours: ooy N * e oice January L. 00, 6:08 v (\ Since January 1....: 3.82 —Tage January rainfall... 4.88 'JapaneseCabiu]}ﬁalls Before Bitter Attaéks Of Parliament . By JAMES A. MILLS . () —The Japanese L X Saturday before bit i Ol a parliament arous "Alnst apparent army efforts & L militarist or Fascist g U ernment. N f t time in the his e iet, the house of rep ‘, ttve succeeded in ousting . CriMent unable to reach a B etween the military i ¢ 'Slng political parties. " a tenge 20-minute session, b K Hirota tendered to o g the collective resig . the 320-day old cabi- E § commanded Hirota I pending selection of a . 20ine Meanwhile the diet 3. hain suspeaded. r_; observers agreed the cab ath... . CSignation complicated s 040 eased the situation, s':x “risis entered a new stage “USEIe between political par ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Georgia Legislature Opens 60-Day Session Monday Fire And Disease Are Thvin Thrédts fn Flooded S GINGINNATI AREA 15 ) \ sl i Red Cross Is Doing Noble| Work for Homeless and i Hungry Victims ‘ LOOTERS SHOT DOWN‘ 72-Foot Deep Ohio River! On Worst Rampage in | Nation’s History I By The Aisociated Press | CINCINNATI, O.—(®)— The 72- foot-deep Ohio river, glutted hy! an unprecedenteq flood, tossed up! on its vast Ohio banks Saturday night the ‘despair of hunger and the twin threats of fire and dis ease, More than 75,000 Ohioans were. homeless in the valley of the Ind ians’ “Beautiful River,” ruled as never before by the flood gods. For 300 miles down the stream from Martins Ferry the story was much the same—here a milk short age threatened -—— there food was running low. In that city gasoline pumps drew their last fuel, and in adjacent towns hundreds of per sons clung to second-story rooms, still waiting to be rescued. 56,000 Homeless Waters 72.8 feet deep pounded Cincinnati, in whose Metropoiitan area semi-official estimates reck oned the homeless at 56,5600. Approximately one-seventh of (Continued on Page Four) Horticultural Expert Says Plants Will Bloom Again This Spring, However By MARY ANNE BRASWELL “What effect will this sprinf.rl weather have on the flowers?” is the question all flower-lovers are asking. Professor Hubert Owens of the| horticultural department of the University of Georgia, in talking to the Banner-Herald, said that he expects a freeze gnd the flow ers will be killeq but will bloom pgain in the spring. But there will be a small crop, he added. Some of our spring flowers which‘ have already been blooming :u-n| violets, hyacinths, flowering shrubs and daffodils. l Mr. Owen stated that the daf fodils do not have the choicest| blooms and they have very short| stems, and that they will not h‘; so good when they bloom again in the spring. ; However we should thank this warm weather for three very beau- | tiful winter flowers, These are the| “winter honeysuckle, Japanese sweet | shrub and January jasmine. 'l‘hvl'!'l has been an extremely large crop| of them. E Everyone is saying that tl)",\" have never seen a winter like thie | but a lady at the Curb .\lul‘k'"; said that she remembered one quite similar to this when Hm: peach trees bloomed in ‘lunu:n‘.‘-‘t ang afterwards there was noj frost and there was an (*xuvll('nti e | (Continued on Page Six) i ties and army for control of the | next government. | This new government, many be lieved, would follow army insist ence and be an outright militar istic cabinet from which party | elements would be excluded. | Political rarties were cham pioning a coalition government: dominated by diet (parliamentﬂ members but including represen tatives of Japanese bureaucracy, one army man and one navy offi cial, the latter two being impera tive under the existing imperial ordinance. Naval participants in the polit jeal fight were lined up apparently with party leaders. Final decision to end the crisis, it appeared to informed observers, rested with the emgeror. The emperor Saturday night dispatched an imperial messenger to 87-vear-old Prince Kinmochi e ~ (Contipued on Page Six) Full Associated Press Service BROWN APPROVED BY | SENATE COMMITTEE! WASHINGTON — () — T h e senate agriculture committee ap proved Saturday the nomination of Milburn I. Wilson of Montana, to be undersecretary of agricylture. It also approved the nomination of Harry L. Brown, of Georgia, to be assistant secretary. Wilson, former assistant secre tary, was named to succeed Rex ford G. Tugwell, who resigned to enter private business. Harry L. Brown, former direc tor of the Georgia agricultural ex tension service, left here three weeks ago to assume his new du ties in Washington. . Approval of his slection by the sénate agriculture committee and then by the senate itself is con gidered little,more than a formality. Walter S. ißrown is acting exten sion director here. ‘ = Favorable Signs Noted in Effort » S To Break Stri l 1o Dreak ofrike | ! AUTO-LABOR AT A GLANCE By The Acsociated Press l- Secretary Perkins reports ' “tavorable signs” in automo l tive strike negotiations; says che may invite John L. Lewis, [ Genera] Motors to peace coi: ference, William S. Knudsan, @ M. ' vice-president, says next step up to union; announces some plants will reopen Tuesday. Homer Martin, United Au tomobile Workers president, says strike could be s=ttled in 24 hours. ’ Governor Frank Murphy, ac tive in conciliation efforts, re | turns from fruitless Washing ton conference, withholdscom | ment, | General Motors announces | total idle now 125613, George E. Boysen, president ’ of Flint Alliance, announces | Mmass meeting Tuesday to map “program of action” 'to put 1 men back to work, ‘ National guardsmen remain in | background as strikers keep . positions in two Flint, Mich, | Fisher Body plants. ‘ PARTIAL REOPENING ' DETROIT —(AP)— General Motors corporation announced plans Saturday night for partial reopening Tuesday of some of - its plants closed by strikes ! which have thrown 125000 of | ' the corporation’s wage-earners ! out of work, ' The plans involve a “couple of days a week” for 95,000 idle employes in factories closed by the paralyzing effectg of strikes | in other corporation units. The partial resymption. it was esti- i (Continued on Page Four) l 5 3 1 | | | RESERVE OFFICERS, ) | i [ i ] i iTalk By Lieutenant Col-] i onel John Robinson to | Feature Joint Gathering * ] The Reserve Officers Association |of Athens and v icinity, together | with the local American Legion | Post, will hear Lieutenant Colonel | John N. Robinson, Infantry in i structor at Fort Benning, Geor- E;:ia. as the principal speaker at | their monthly meeting January 28, | when the visiting officer will ad 'drvss them on the subject of Mod ern Supply System as applied par ticularly to motorized units. , Colonel Robinson has been an instructor at the Infantry School 'since his detail there in 1932, and has had on previous tour of duty‘ !as a student in the advanced | course in 1922-23. His military ca-! |reer, which began with his com- | i mission from the United States | | Military Academy in 1916, ln—i | cludes service with the Punitive |Expedluon into Mexico asa mem‘, { ber of the 20th Infantry under [ General Pershing, service with the 10th Division during the World‘ War. and after the war, in China ;wlth the 15th Infantry. l He has also been on duty as Professor of Military Science and lTactics at Pennsylvania Milltaryl ICollege. and attended the Com-; mand and General Staff School at lFort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Fielg Officers course of the Chemical Warfare School at Edge wood Arsenal N. J. in 1931. Colonel Robinson’s talk will, deal e e ¥ Athens, Ca., Sunday, January 24, 1937 NN ¢ . 9 . O . ’ Jouseboat ‘Buried’ in Ohio Deluge| T A :% o s A'M"‘"‘“‘\“W' AR AR R R AR, AN d,% BRI :A:: 4'(B B Wmm,wﬂm¢f¢mrf~»mf~mf'fvvfm,,,,,;?;m,v.,m” - 1 SEam R R e g e s oo ! . e 00 | - e 1 — His houséboat resting on the bottom of the Ohio river, near Steu benville, 0., in one of the floods which raged across nearly a dozen, states, Sam Simpson, 54, here is shown trying to fish some of his possessions out of the windows of his inundated home, Simpson saved his wife and three children from the torrents which sub merged his 30-foot craft, its roof barely showing in the photo. Physicians Fight Danger of Gangrenein Paralyzed Leg of Ailing Pope Pius XI | RESTING WELL ' VATICAN ClTY.—(Sunday) (AP)—Pope Pius early today was “resting as well as can be expected,” said a semi-official bulletin from the Vatican. The danger of gangrene in his paralyzed left leg continued to cause anxiety to his physicians. VATICAN ClTY.—(&P)—Danger of gangrene in his left leg threat ened still further the rrecarious life of ailing Pope Pius XI Sat urday night. He was givep injections to check possible infection in an open sore on the leg, caused by the breaking of a varicose vein. The 79-year-old Holy Father took less nourishment than dur ing recent days. Drowsiness over came him after the injections. Vatican physicians agreed @ gangrene infection might mean his Roosevelt Asks For $2,000,000 To Aid 300,000 Flood Refugees CHICAGO — (#) — Cold, hunger, snow and disease plagued nearly 300,000 refugees drywen from their homes by icy waters Saturday. Eighteen deaths were counted a. a record-smashing flood cut an ever widening swath through the lower Ohio Valley and the menac ing Mississippi burst through its levees. Property losses—estimated at ap proximately $1¢,000,000 ijn Ohic lone—increased a pace. Damage in Arkansas, officials feared, would reach $13,000,000. Eleven other states were affected. President Roosevelt issued a pro clamation asking the nation to contribute $2,000,000 for the relief of the homeless. He or@cred fed eral agencies to lend their fullest assistance, | Aid Rushed | Spurred by pleas for aid mercy, trains, boats, and truckg and plan-| es sped food, fuel, medicine and bedding to the inundated areas‘i Some 20,000 WPA workers were rushed o flood centers. Midwest ern directors were ready to as-i sign 50,000 more to help the grow ing army of men, women and chll-] dren forced to evacuate in snow, Scotland Yard Detectives Advise Wally Not to Return to England CANNES, France — (#) — Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson has been advised by the Scotland Yard de tectives who guarded her during her first weeks at Cannes not to return to England, The detectives, assigned to her because of their experience in guard ing high personages and their knowl edge of the ways of cranks, told her that only by keeping out of Britain can she have absolute se€- curity. There is no possibility of a popu lar demonstration against her — the British are too phlegmatic for that and want only to forget the affair which resulted in the abdi cation of Edward VIII, the detec tives said, They were thinking, end in a very short time. The Pope's chief physician, Dr. Aminta, Milani, was understood to be greatly concerned over the @nger of gangrene, believed due to the almost complete stoppage of circulation in the Pontiff's leg. The strain of the Pope's com plicated illness on his heart pre sented another hazard. His condition in the past few days, they declared, has been the poorest since he was stricken December 5 with partial leg rar alysis. It appeared to be increas ing in seriousness. A semi-official statement, how ever, said he had improved slight ly and that his pains had dimin ished somewhat in the afternoon. Saturay His Holiness received two German cardinals—Karl Jos eph Shulte of Cologne and Mich ——— (Continued on Page Four) gleet and freezing temperatures. . Secores of communities were with out heat, gas or light. A drinking ‘water shortage developed. Fneu monia and influenza were report ed rife in several stricken towns. Many communities were isOlated Hundreds of householders °were marooned. At Frankfort, Ky. 2,900 convicts were ordered moved from the flood-bound state reformatory Twenty-four of them broke from the prison, and plunged into six feet of water from the overtaxed Kentucky river. One escaped. The otherg turned back under the fire of guards. J Louisville Submerged i Several square miles were suh-} merged in Louisville. Some 6,000 were homeless. Drinking water{ was rationed, Theaters and school; closed. Between 8,000 and 10,000 left their houses in Paducah, Ky. More than half the town was inundated. The state health department dispatched nurses and serum by boat. | Beds, food and clothing were | loaded on a relief train at Indiana" ‘ (Continued on Page Four) ! they said, only of cranks. | The resentment of a certain part of the British population wag shown in the abusive letters which came to her at Cannes. They were stud ied carefully by the detectives. Virtually all such letters came from the Britisjy Isles. The Scotland Yard detective charged especially with Mrs. Simp son’s safety was James “Athletic” Evans, a tall, thin, wiry ace of the special division for guarding the royal family and prominent visi tors. ; Evang often accompanied the late King George V. He accompanied the former King Edward and Mrs. Simpson on the famous vacht trip, in the Mediterranean, : Dr. Thomas Alexander, Of Columbia University, Will Speak at Press Institute Noted Educator to Discuss Proposed Program for State of Georgia | Dr. Thomas Alexander, chairman of the New College of the Teach ers College, Columbia University, and recognized as one of the fore most educators in America, will speak to Georgiy editors at the opening session of the Georgia Press Institute in Athens on Wed nesday evening, February 17. The institute will continue through Sat-J urday, February 20. . Dr. Alexander, a man of aid-‘ vanced ideas and practices, wm‘ discuss a proposed educatlonaU program for Georgia, and the part the press of the state should play in it. He will be the guest of the ‘University of Georgia. In announcing Dr. Alexander's appearance, Johu Paschal, insti tute chairman, and Professor John E. Drewry, director of the Grady School of Journaliem, stated their belief that he hag a message of great interest and importance for ’Georgia editors. Humanizing Education A stimulating thinker and speak er, Dr. Alexander is no stranger lln the state, having spoken here several times and conducteg some of his educational experiments here, He is known as ‘“the teachers’ { teacher,” and for his efforts to ‘“humanize education”. As head lof the New College at (Columbia lhe has instituted an entirely new |method of educating teachers which includes, bhesides academic work, field work in the upper and lower strata of urban communi ties, in rural seetions, and exten sive foregin travel,, His principal rural project is in North Carolina, and he is intense ly interested in the educational de-{ velopment of the 'South. Dr. Alexander will be the hon-l ored guest at a dinner Wednesday evening given by the university. with Dr. Harmon W. aldwell, president, as host. This will be ltol]owed by a reception for the“ guest ang the Georgia press. | l Dr. Caldwell's words of wel come will be responded to by 'Kirlz Sutlive;! president of the ‘Georgia Press Association, The address by Dr. Alexander afterwards will be open to the public. A Varied Background Dr. Alexander’'s educational lbackground is remarkably wvaried. He received his A.B. degree at Columbia in 1910, and his Ph. D. in 1916, He studied at the Uni versity of Jena, Germany, and elsewhere on the continent, His teaching posts have included Rob ert College, Constantinople; Heath !cote Preparatory !'School, New York; Real-Gymnasium, Stettin, o S e ' (Continued On Page Six) J yLuUUu i ‘ HERE TWICE MONDAY English Author and Jour nalist Will Speak on Af fairs in Europe “The Civil War in Spain” and “The European Crisis” will be the subject of two addresses by (}m)rge[ Slocombe, English author a,ndf journalist, presented tomorrow byl the Institute of Public Affairs. At 12:30 in the morning, Mr. Slocombe will consider such topick connected with the present con flict in Spain as the fall of the firet Spanish dictatorship, the fall of the monarchy, the quarrelsl of the young Republic, the rise¢ of Fascism, the left victory of 1986, the revolt of the junta of generals with Italian and German aid, and the outcome of the struggle — a Fascist or Bolshevik dictatorship, with its consequences for Spanish Morocco and the balance of powerl in the Mediterranean. At 8 p. nf. Mr. Slocombe wil]i consider BEurepean affairs in u—en-i eral. discussing the latest develop ments in the Franco-German (~on-i troversy; the chances of war or of | ‘avoiding war; the re-armament ofi Arance. Germany, Great Britain; Ithp possible Iline-up of the Greatl Powers in the event of war; the !declino of the Leagie of Nationsl and the return to the pre-war 1’01'! jcy of military alliances; the next!| battleground—on landsea, or in the air: the military importance of Soviet Russia and the Balkans; and Great Britain's gbandonment e ~ (Continued On Page Six) A. B C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢c Sunday @ S . e e e DR. THOMAS ALEXANDER, chairman of the New Colizge of Teachers’ College, Columbia Unl\/t"r'Sltyv who wil] be the dinner guest and &peaker at the opening sessicn of the Georgia Pross Institute in Ath ens on Wednesday, February Y. FOR ARTIE DUNAWAY Popular Young ' Athenian \ } Succumbed at Home on Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Artie Duna way, 38, who died Friday after noon at 5:30 ‘o'clock at his resi dence, 1390 Boulevard, will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the First Methodist church. The services will be conducted by Dr. George M. Acree, pastor of First Methodist church, of which Mr. Dunaway was a member and linterment wiil follow in Oconee ‘HHI cemetery, McDorman-Bridges lin chargee’ of arrangements, Pall-bearers will be members of Allen R. Fleming, jr., Post No. 20 American Legion, of which Mr. Dunaway was an outstanding mem ber. They are Tony Camarata, POost commander; Frank E. Mitck- | ’ell, service officer, Henry H W‘estl 'D. L. Turpin, L. Dennis Penny, all| past commanders and E. L. Eber hart, H. B. Franklin and G. B. Cook. An honorary escort will consist of membhers of the Legion Post and members of Joe Brown Con nolly chapter No. 2 of the Disabled American Veterans, of which Mr.| Dunaway was also a mOthr.J Members of the D.A.V. and Legion are requested to meet at the church at 2:30 o’clock and the request is made that all who have Legion or D.A.V, caps, wear them. Surviving Mr. Dunaway is his | i (Continued on Page Four) i Red Cross Asks Athens Chapter Raise SSOO For Flood Victims Mrs. George D. Thomas, presis dent of theg Athens Chapter, Amer ican Req Cross, Saturday received a telegram from TRear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chair man of the organization, urging this chapter to raise SSOO as its quota to aid in relieving distress as the result of floods in eight states, Mrs. Thomas said the need for funds is acute as immrediate steps must be taken to secure medicines, clothing, food supplies, nurses, doctors and all the rest that is needed when disaster strikes. First contributors were Dr, and Mrs. C. M. Snelling who gave $lO, and Mrs, Thomas, who ‘do nated $5. While we'in Georgia are experi encing warm, spring-like wecather, while Mem are blooming and everybody is laughing at the coal man, in those eight states, people just like us are suffering terribly. H2YE i | i | , ° Appropriations Measure s Among First Order of Business This Week IS TAGGED “RUSH” Senate to Receive Long List of Appointees From Governor ATLANTA.— () —The legisla ture on which Governor E. D, Rivers will derend for a “recon struction of Georgia” will begin its biennial 60-day session here Monday. Fully organized in a preliminary 10-day meeting concluded last Wednesday, the general assembly will be ready to pitch full force into pressing state and adminis tration matters. Opening_Calendar . The first day’s calendar callg or: 1. Consideration by the house of an appropriations measure for the first six months of 1937 to restore the state to normal financial oper ation. : l 2. Receipt by the senate of - Governor Rivers’ long list of ap pointees to various state posts, in cluding several county court judgeships. 3. Introduction in the house of the key administration measure— a social security bill providing old age pensions in &gorgia. 4. Presentation of several other ' bills, most of them administration= backed, desling with labor prob« lems. These are slated to include establishment of a state labor de partment, provision for Georgia participation in federal unemploy ment insurance, and & revision of the workmen’'s compensation laws. 5. Beginning of committee ac tion on Dbills introduced during the 10-day session. These include such items as seven-month opera tion of public schools by the state, free text books to public school students, reorganization of the state highway department and board of edueation, and establish ment of a state patrol. Tagged “Rush” Tagged ‘“rush” by administration leaders, the 1937 appropriations measure will let the house begin its session this year where it left off in confusion two years ago. Failure of the assembly to pass a money bill in 1935 left the state without a legislative expenditure guide for 1936 and 1937. Former Governor Bugene Talmadge solved the problem through his one-man financial rule. But Rivers has adopted a policy of not spending (Continued on Page Four) . 34 Marine Planes Pass Over Athens ATLANTA — (# — Thirty-four marine corps planes stopped brief ly here Saturday en route from Quantice, Va., to the air corps base at Maxwell Field, Ala. The planes passed over Athens Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Twelve of the number were seen over the south side of the eity while the rest passed to the north a few minutes sooner. The planes came through during a cloudy per iod of the afternoon and only a part of the 34 wag seen. ‘They have seen home and all they own swept away on the crest of swirling torrents of water. Having lost sverything they had, they now are menaced with pos sible death in the form of epi demics and plague. If you want a vivid picture of what is happening, tune in your radio on the Cincinnati or Louis ville, Kr., radio stations and lis ten to their almost constant bulle= tins. Your heart will melt as you realize the grim batte against ters rific odds being waged. Lives have been lost, humans caught in the grip of the flood waters and carried away. But the immediate ioss of life is nothing to what will come unless the epi demics that always trail floods is kept in check. S On top of the present suffering there is more rain, snow ﬁ‘% (Continyed on Page Four]

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, January 24, 1937, Home Edition, Image 1