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l{mos, No. 12
Mhenians Quick
To Respond To
Fund Appeal
\ihenians were responding rap
v toda to the appeal of the
'\“ orican Red Cross for funds to
. used in the flood areas of ten
iates. At noon the Req Cross re
"el to the Banner-Herald it
M| received a total of $192 of the
;.‘;M. conl which has been set as
e quota for the Athens chapter.
pirst appeal was made Sunday
nd immediately newspapers and
the radio station began giving
itv to the appeal.
‘ George D. Thomas, chair
man of the Athens chapter, said
aniributions can he sent to
aitl daily newspaper, to radio
& WTIKI, the Citizens and
quthern National Bank, or direct
i ped Cross offices in the
All Working
Civic agencies, both white and
solored, joined immediately in the
mpaign to raise funds._to help
:J“ he work of rescue and relief
and to furnish supplies, warm
clothing medicine, ete.; all of
which will be needed to combat
the inevitable epidemics which
follow in the wake of the floods.
A (1. Dudley, chairman of the
ocal Red Cross disaster reliet
committee, today urged all to give
as promptly and as generously as
possible so that the funds may be
ent to national headquarters
quickl
One has but to read the news
papers o 1 listen to the radio
broadeasts from the affected reg-
Ms to quickly realize the dread
ful ruin being done by the floods;
It is not now a questioa of propi
erty damage. It is too late for
that. Homes, places of business,
hospitals, power plants, water
works, all have been ruined be
yond repair.
T'he immediate task ahead is
to head-off or stop the dreaded
epidemiecs which inevitably follow
in the wake of floods. For this,
Jarge quantities of medical sup
plies, warm e¢lothing, food, boats
id other items are needed, and
needed without loss of time. |
Loss of life so far by actual
drowning has been heavy, but is
not a circumstance to what we
will see if disease epidemics get &
foothold, Once the epidemics take
hold, you will read of whole wvil
lages and communities being wiped
out, |
It is imperative that we act
and act quickly.”
Davis Appeals
James W. Davis, president of
the Men's Civie c¢lub, an organ
zation of colored ecitizens, today
ide an appeal to his club mem
ers so aid in raising money. The
statement follows:
I am asking every member of
the Men's Civie club for a liberal
tribution to the flood victims
he Ohio river district.
You responded nicely to the
food and tornado victims last
¢ We want to do even better
In this disaster.
You may leave your contribu
tiomns with R. B, Ware, Samari=-
tan building; W. P. Hopson, at
Hopson's I'uneral Home, on Broad
reet Prof. Aaron .Brown, at
Athens High and Industrial school,
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Here’s Best Route
To Follow Leading to
Cemetery in Athens
WI
L. J. Watson, city street ('ore-i
man, today advised any person;
having to go to Oconee Hi“i
Cemetery to follow this route: =
G 0 down Oconee street to corner |
Dak, up Oconee to Carr street,]
rn right on Carr street and entverl
tmetery through upper gate.
Many people having been g()ingl
0 Oak street instead of Oconee,
Nd then turning out Carr S&reet.'
Mr. Watson said. That way is |
Passable, but taking the Oconee‘
et route practically all mud
Will he avoided.
It is almost impossible to enter
the cemetepy through the Thomas
Btreet gate
uB 2 f
uy Your Tickets |
s ”
To Birthday Ball, i
Trussell Appeals=
By HOWARD CLISHAM |
Student, Henry W. Grady School
of Journalism |
An urgent appeal to the people
o Athens to buy more tickets tn'
. President’s - ball . this- Friday/
238 made this morning by C. A.!
b€l chairman of the hii‘thday!
“ll Committee, ;
.l("r tourse, the recent bad W(‘&-‘
~,1., Probably accounts for " a 'go()('l]
. L of the rather slack.sale. of .the
oets” stated Mr, Trussell, “but.
. 'Mend te peally bear down thia!
"v“" Ast week, in our efforts tO}
\"h" ball across.” |
" Trussell called upon the per
-3 Who are gelling the tickets to
worTate with him fully in this
‘j,(:f‘ drive, Emphasizing the
PS¢ of the Warm Spring
~‘_”‘“’]d“mj, the organization that
'h‘n :*nr‘m from the proceeds of
~ ’f‘al" to the people of Athens,
enis. TUSseH ungeq that every Ath
al do his pa, :
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
44 Persons Dead, 500,000 Homeless As
Flood Waters Continue to Rise Today
20 Persons Killed As
Bus Plunges in Canal
From Tamiami Trail
Passenger Bus 1s Almost
Submerged in Water
Along Roadside.
FRONT WHEEL BREAKS
Driver and Negro Porter
Escape With Injuries;
Dead Unidentified.
MIAMI, FLA. —(&)— Nearly a
score of persons were believed
drowned today when a large motor
sbus left the Tamiami trail about
30 miles west of here in the ever
glades, and toppled into a canal
running parallel to the highway.
The bus company, Tamiami trail
Tours, Inc., 'said 31 persons were
aboard the west-bound bus which
left here for Fort Myers and Tampa
on the Florida West Coast. First
reports indicated 12 survived al
though several were seriously in
juried. 3
Many Trapped |
Robert Singleton, negro porter
on the bus, said wnose who lost
their lives were trapped within the
coach which all but disappeared
in the canal.
He said he broke a window in
the one corner of the bus above
water and crawled out. Then, he
'said, he helped all he could to get
out through this exit, ' \
_...The. porter said the right front
wheel of the bus suddenly broke,
the large vehicle lurched from sigle
to side, rolled over twice and
plunged into the canal.
Unconfirmed reports said the
bus wag traveling between 40 anda
50 miles an hour when the wheel
broke.
Bus Immovable
Autobmobile wreckers sent out
by the sheriff'’s office could not
budge the bus from its bed at the
bottom of the canal, which wag 12
or 15 feet deep, Only a small cor
ner of the rear end of the vehicle
showed above the stream. Authori
ties sent for a crane which a utili
ty company operates on a truck.
There was no way to get out all
the bodies until the bus could be
raised.
An Asgociated Press nhotograph
er, B. A. Glander, who followed an
ambulance to the scene, said the
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LOCAL WEATHER
Vo 4
5 GEORGIA:
Mostly cloudy,
=~ %‘ ) occasional rain
:‘,z - & in north and
é:’!ffi. 4 west p_orhons,
;Fm:‘ ‘ colder in north
LY B and west-central
(!*:‘: ‘ Ul | portions tonight;
_‘.‘.!:‘. ///i‘ Tuesday cloudy
oA S I and coider.
TEMPERATURE
Hishiah o e e 00120
T e R L SOOI |
MEEG L i i i, 005
NOYRY o o s, D
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .44
Total sinee January 1 .... 7.42
Excess since January 1 .. 3.59
Average January rainfall .. 4.83
Georgia News Briefs
ATLANTA—(®—H. Dixon Smith,!
representative-elect from Muscogee
county, said he does not intend to
take his place in the general as
sembly today.
He declined to comment on pos
sibilities he would assume his
place later this week.
Capitol circles attribute his de
lay in taking the oath of office to
a possibility he may get an ap
pointment to the state highway |
board. |
Smith said there is no time limit |
within which he must take his
place and that he can assume it
iany day during the session.
. TIFTON, Ga—(P—Reports here
today said A. M. George, Tifton
kdrugglst, was killed early today
when his automobile left the roadl
and hit a tree near Sylvester.
George was returning from Co-{
lumbus where he spent the week
Full Associated Press Service
’P kl S t
-
In U.S. Capital
WASHINGTON, —(A)—Success
©of new governmeni efforts to ne.
gotiate the General Motors strike
hinged today on the ecorporation’s
acceptance of Secretary Perking
request for its officers to meet
union leaderg across a conference
table.
If the bid is taken, Alfred P
Sloan, jr., General Motors president,
will meet Chairman ~onn L. Lewis
of the Committee for Industrial
Organization face to face on Wed
nesday for the first time since the
wide-spread auto strikes began.
Wyndham Mortimer, first vice
president of the United Automobile
workers of America, said at Detroit
the union would take part in such
a meeting,
“We do stand ard always have
stood ready,” he said, “To enter
into negotiationg to reach a prompt
sett.ei(nt so that General Motors
workers can return to their jobs
under Jdecent conditions.”
Under 1913 Law
- Miss Perkins acted last night un
‘der a 1913 law empowering her to
——
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G. B. CARREKER
‘ r— S —
Former Comptroller Gen
~eral Appointed By Tal
madge |ll Short Time.
ATLANTA.—(#—G. B, Carre
ker, 46, former chairman of the
State Revenue Commission and
comptroller general by appoint
ment of Eugene Talmadge, dieg at
his home here yesterday.
He resigned from the Revenue
commission two weeks ago when
E. D. Rivers succeeded Talmadge
as governor. He had been ill for
soveral weeks.
Carreker had been a trusted
frienq of Talmadge for many
years. He served as cashier of
the state Department of Agricul
ture when Talmadge was commis
sioner, and was given a place in
the state auditing department
when Talmadge became governor.
Last year, when Talmadge took
over financial affairs of the state
after the ’legislative adjourned
without passing an appropriation
bill, he called upon Carreker to
take over the office of the comp
troller general after William B.
Harrison was dismissed.
He resigned last June when
Talmadge named Homer C. Parker,
formger adjutant genera]l of States
boro, comptroller general. Carre
ker went to the Revenue Commis
sion to succeed the lats Paul H.
Doyal, of Rome, who died from
injuries received in an gutomobile
accident.
Carreker was a native of Zeb:
ulon, Ga.
Hg is survived by his widow and
.
(Continued on Page Two)
'ago from Doerun. Formerly he!
had been in business in Amerlcus,
and McDonough. ;
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga.—-(fi’)l
Four thousand folding cots and 5,-
000 bedding sacks, for use in flood]
relief work along the Mississippi
rivere, were shipped from this
army post by special train to
Memphis. I
‘ ATLANTA—(A—D. S. Zimmer
man, manager of the Chevrolet
assembly plant here, today said no
attempt would be made at present
to reopen the Atlanta Chevrolet
and Fisher Body plants closed by
a strike since Nov. 18. |
Meanwhile C. H. Gillman, pres
lld’ent of the local automobile work
ers union, said 250 additional pic
{kets were ordered to duty this
|morning “just in case efforts are
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Through this huge gap ripped in Beechmont levee,” Cincinnati, by the Ohio river's pounding flood
waters a roaring torrent poured down on lowlands, converting them into a shallow sea and inundat
ing Lunken airport. Even on the higher land seen in the background the water rose to a threat
ening level, in the third greatest deluge in Cincinnati’s history. Most of the city was high and dry,
with business as usual, but transportation was seriously affected.
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M 0. & " the states shown in the above map
%, R 6;,e KY threatened one of the worst flood
£ S NR. disasters in years, with damage
o b B 3 ‘; e . reaching into the millions and
KENN E‘T S o e\ - more than 500,000 people abandon-
SE ‘u SRR o ' ing their homes. Shaded sections
= . of rivers show where the menace
ARK. é‘b"‘ T/ M. was greatest. Especially serious
v §oM£MPH/5 was the situation along the 1,000
T = = T i a _ miles of the Ohio river, from
. " e Pittsburgh to the Mississippi
2 9 EN,Y ' river. Loss of life was held to a
x : e minimum as cities and relief
<+ MIS S l ALA GA ; agencies exerted ovory. effort to
: . evacuate lowlands residents and
safeguard health of the thousands
Q l \ crowded into relief stations.
AUTO WRECK FATAL
TO TWO COMER MEN
E. C. Kidd and Virgil
Coile Die From Injuries
Yesterday.
Two Madison county men, E. G.
Kidd, 31 and Virgil Coile, 22, re
ceived fatal injuries in an auto
mobile wreck one mile east of
Comer about 1 o'clock Sunday
morning. Mr. Kidd was killed in
stantly and Mr. Coile, who was
brought to an Athens hospital,
lingered for several hours, dying
last night at 9:30 o'clock.
R. W, Davis of Hoschton, who
was in an automobile that col
lidled with the car driven by Mr.
Kidd was not hurt seriously. He
an another occupant of the car,
Ed Reynolds, were given emer
gency treatment at a local hospi
tal.
Six people occupied the car in
which Messrs, Kidd and Coile were
riding. -
Funeral services for Mr. Coile
will be conducted from Cedar Grove
Baptist church, beyow Comer, to
morrow morning at 11 o’'clock,
McDorman-Bridgeg funeral home
in charge.
Mr. Coile attended Meadow
Academy in Madison county. He is
survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J, L. Coile; two brothers, J.
B. Coile and 8. W. Coile of Comer.
Funeral services for Mr. Kidd!
were conducted today at 3 o’clock}
by Rev. S. S. Williams from Vine
yard’s Creek church, Bemflte“‘l
Funeral Home in charge.
. Mr. Kidd is survived by his wife,
ithree daughters and three sons:
Gerilla, Sarah and Myrdell Kidd
and Ear] Kidd, jr., Odell and Har-
Athens, Ga., Monday, January 25, 1937.
DAY — BY — DAY
ON THE RADIO
By C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Time Is Eastern Standard)
NEW YORK, —(®)—The moth
er of the President, Mrs. Sara
Delano Roosevelt, is to be a Radio
She will appear in the Joe Cook
show on NBC. :
Her broadcast is to be in con
nection with the President’s an
nual birthday ball, which also will
be on the air later that night. She
is expected to relate several In
cidents in the boyhood life of her
President son, after which they are
to be dramatized.
Try these tonight (Monday):
WABC-CBS WJZ-NBC WOR-MBS
—IO3O President’s Rirthday Ball
prebroadecast, speakerg Pres. Roose
velt, Dr. Charles Mayor and oth-
| WEAF-NBC — 8 Fibher McGee
[and Molly; 8:30 Monday night
iconcert; 9 Warden Lawes; 9:30
{Dick Himber Music; 10 Frank
Black Concert; 10:30 Musical
l'l‘oast.
" WJZ-NBC — 17:15 Bughouse
Rhythm; 8 Helen Hayes; 9 Bishop
and Gargoyle; 9:30 Jack 'Pearl;
10 Good Times Society; 11 Don
Ferdi Orchestra.
What to expect Tuesday: WEAF
NBC—2 p..m. Band Lesson; 4 Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs; 4:45
Guiding Light. WABC-CBS — 2
Aviation award to Andrew Kostel
aentz; 3:30 Walden String Quar
te; 4:30 Barlow’s Pop Concert.
{ TAS=HEC . —1:45 Rachester Civie
{ Orchestra; 3U. S, Marine Band.
MOWVANI ARRESTED
0N TREASON CHARGE
| Soviet Officials Implicate
! Brother of ‘‘Marrying
| Princes” in Conspiracy.
| MOSCOW, —(P—Bydy Mdivani
| identified by Soviet officials as a
| brother of the “marrying Mdivanis,”
lvwas arrested today after having
!been implicated ag a co-conspira
| tor with 17 ousted communist of
| ficials on trial on treason charges
| Madivani, a former Soviet comse
| mercial attache at Paris and known
as a disciple on Leon Trotzky be
fore the now banished Bolshevist
| fell from favor, was said to be a
!prisoner at Tiflis, Georgia,
| (Georgia is republic in the union
iof Soviet Socialist Republics
where, in Czarist days, the
Mdiviani family were princes of
the realm.)
l His arrest was ordered, officials
| said, on the strength of testimony
iyesterday by Karl Radek, former
{ editor of Izvestia, who linked the
eitamous Mdivani family with the
| alleged conspiracy to overthrow
| ‘communism by helping Germany
| ana Japan defeat Russia at war.
| Radek said the Tiflis bloc was
| known ag the Mdivani bloc, pre
lsumah]y because one of the Mdi
vanis headed it, i
| (Bydy Mdivani is a brother of
| the famous Princes. He was a
‘,hrmher-in-law of Countess Bar
;l bara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-
Reventlow through the Woolworth
heiress’ mariage to the late Prince
-‘Alexis; of Mae Murray, movie
| getress, through her mariage to
'»' Prince David; of socially promi
| nent Louise Van Alen through her
! marriage to the late Prince Serge..
.| She also has been Alexis’ wife.
| The former Georgian Prince was
! : :
A. B C. Paper—Singla Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Power, Water, Food
Shortages Threaten
Stricken Midwest
Gillis Is Slated
For Membership
On Road Board
ATLANTA—(P)—Georgia legisla
tors gathered here today for a
60-day-law-making session destined
to be one of the most notable in
the state’'s history.
Led by an administration pled
ged to “humanize” state govern
ment by bringing it into complete
harmony with the federal New |
Deal program, the general assem- !
blymen will consider a series of[
laws which would give the statea
greater responsibility in caring for
the public and individual welfare
of its citizens,
The program of social legisla
tion, however, was shoved into!
the backgrQund op house and sen-i
ate calendars for the first few
days.
Gillis Slated l
Nomination of Jim L. Gillis of
Soperton for the state hlghway'
board, and senate action on other
State-house appointments held the
‘spotlight today.
Authoritative sources announced
CGovernor E, D, Rivers would send
in the appointment of Gillis, wlde-‘
s — i
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\ S vy |
Cailfornia Citrus Crops
Already Damaged $60,-
. 000,000 in Freeze.
LOS ANGELES — (#) — Citrus
crops, already damaged an esti
mated $60,000,000 by a January
freeze, were protected by orchard
heaters from frost early today as
the third polar air mass of the
north spread over southern Cali
fornia,.
Scattered firing was necessary
last night for the 18th time since
January 1, forecast temperatures
ranging from 21 to 29 degrees.
At Fontana, oil pots were light
eqd at p. m., when the mercury
sagged to 22. It rose to 35 de
grees in a short while. In the
Redlands-San Bernardino-Uplané
districts, temperatures of 29 and
30 were general after midnight
}wlth no heating.
Growers used the brief respite
in the coldest weather of a quarter
century to replenish oil supplies.
When fuel ran out early Sunday,
crops which survived last week’s
seveére frosts were killed in nu
merous San Bernardino groves.
Packing house managers estimated
damage of 50 to 65 percent,
Citrus industry observers com
puted the January losses at $60,-
000,000, and upwards of $10,000,000
has been spent for orcharg firing
Already hard-hit, Imperial Val
ley’s winter vegetable fields ex
perienced temperatures as low as
18 degrees yesterday. Temperas=
tures above 25 degrees arg foree
cast for the next 48 hours.
Members of Legion Asked To
Give to Kentucky Flood Fund
Members of Allen R. Fleming,
jr., Post No. 20 of the American
Legion were called upon today to
join with Legionnaires all over
Georgia, to make cash contribu
tions to swell a fuld to be sent to
Kentucky Legionnaires to further
their work of rescue and relief in
flood swept sections of that state.
A telegram was received from
State Commander Ed A. O’Connor,
Savannah, by Tony Camarata, lo
cal popt commander, which told
of the request of Kentucky Le
gionnaires. Commander Camarata
at once put the request on the
air through cooperation Oof radio
station WTFI, |
George M. Scheer, FEatonton,
state chairman of publicity for the
Legion, contacted publicity chair
men for each of the districts, ask
ing they get word to individual
posts as well as weekly and da.tl?
newspapers.
Contributiens to Legionnaires !n]
H2ME
Cincinnati Fears Water
Supply May Be Cut Off
‘ At Any Minute.
DISASTROUS FIRE
Plea Made By Red Cross
To Nation for 4 Million
For Flood Relief.
By The Arsociated Press
Power, water and food shortages
added to the torment of fire, flood
and disease today in the Ohio
River valley, focal point of rising
river waters which swept disaster
into ten states and left an esti
mated 500,000 homeless.
At Cincinnati, where blazing
gasoline tanks riding the swirling
waters brought an ever-present
fire menace, officials feared mea
ger lines carrying electricity from
Dayton and other centers might
be cut off, leaving the city to the
mercy of the water and flames.
Louisville in Darkness
Touisville, Ky., was in darkness
overnight, with 200,000 of its 380,«.
000 population homeless. National
guardsmen threateneq to use force,
to carry 5,000 more from Ports.
mouth, Ohio. Flood waters swepl
through the Kentucky state refors.
matory at Frankfort where un=
confirmed reports said 15 convicts j
were slain in rioting. .
As -the area counted at least 44
flood dead, rivers continued to
rise farther upstream, heightening,
the menace. At Wheeling and
Parkersburg, W. Va., flood weary
householders again sought relie®
shelters as the river rose. North
ward, at Pittsburgh, Meteorologist
W. S. Brotzmap feared the Mom=
ongahely and Allegheny rivers 4
again would reach a 33 foot crest.
Congress May Pay
Word that congress would be -
asked to pay relief costs in the
flood areas came from the White
House. ; :
At the same time the Red Cross
asked the nation to contribute $4,-
000,000 to aid flood sufferers. :
The brightest dawn in fourdays
brought some revival of spirits to i
Louisville, but Mayor Neville Mil=
ler urged all residents to evacuate,
The river reached 54.9 feet shorts
ly after dawn., Government Me=-
teorologist J. L. Kendall predicts
ed an unprecedented level of ap=
proximately 58 feet by tomorrow. ;
As the rising Ohio reashed a 791
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Army Blocks Effort
.
To Form New Cabinet
TOKYO, — () — The effortg of
Gen. Kazushige Ugaki to form a
new cabinet and end Japan's grave
political situation were reported
today to be blockee by army oop=
position.
The Japanese press declared
the army hag refused to name a
war minister for the Ugaki govern
ment, automatically cregting a
deadlock. Japanese law rezu!rea a
general officer on the active list
must hold that cabinet post.
The 68-year-old former Governor
General of Korea accepted his em
peror’'s command to form a governs
ment after a dramatic midnight
ride from his home at Nagaoka.
Athens will be gratefully received
at radio station WTFI, either Ath
ens newspapers, or any office of
the local post.
The following telegram was re=
ceived from Commander O’Connor:
“To post Commanders and
members of the American Le
gion, Department of Georgia.
! The Department of Kentucky
. has called on us for help in
I their work of rescue and re
. lief in the flood regions of o
their state. Please start cam
paign for cash for our Ken
tucky comrades. Wire contri
butions to Stanley A. Jonss,
Georgia department adjutant,
at Macon. B
Signed,
ED A. O'CONNOR.
State Commander?”
The following statement was
immediately issued by Post Com-=
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