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W, 105 No 13
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olf ‘Re-organization Is
planned by Rivers
Majority
ATLANTA. (P —A. self-initiat
f-‘,..‘,;-;_m].:rlliwn" of the State
. wav Board shared the spot-
E otivities of the legisla
® . the Georgia capitol today.
\‘ close to the administra
o predicted the ~ BOATE == Now
1 py appointees of Guv-
N‘X 5. D. Rivers—would cancel
b .oad contracts: let by the Tal
‘:.i’u- ad#ninistration since Sep
;]..‘ nd not Yet completed and
~.\ f new bids,
\ he report was - that the
1 mig continue with chan
o« in its personnel by removing
u of officials and em
-I\\ gerving under the Talmadge
gministration and name Rivers’
jends to replace many of them.
These reports followed a bhoard
ceting vesterday in which Chair
jan \\'.v {,. Miller of Lakeland
nd Jim L. Gillis of Soperton,
onstituting the Rivers majority,
poved through a resolution ap
arently intended to force out,
ohn A. Heck, sole remaining
Jimadge-appointed member.
The resolution limits Heck’s pay
and that of Gillis—to . S2O a
onth unless special meetings are
alled, denies them office space,
oreing them to incur expenses. ]
The legislature, which yesterday |
ave control of the highway board
o River when the senate ap
roved his appointment of Miller
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ivestock Group May ‘
Select Athens as One
0f City Headquarters'
e s \
\fuch interest is being shown in!
he livestock development program !
1 Georgia which is sponsored by a
roup of ritizens headed by Col. E‘
Weatherly of Cochran, widely
nown livestock producer.
Jgel A, Wier, secretary of the
Athens Chamber of Commerce ,saic
oday tentative plans of the. group
all for organization of livestock
ssoclations in every section of the
tate, Athnes will probahly be
eadquarters fopr one group, com
rised of ahbout eleven counties in
his section
The purpose of the movement is
) Incresae the number of improved
attle in Georgia and raise more
of the heef cattle that the state
msuries, in addition to dairy pm-|
lucts, a large amount of which i |
bought from other states - every |
pear by Georgians ’1
C.OF C. TO ELECT
NEW OFFICERS AT
MEETING TOMORROW
2 ———n
“ ‘ "'ti";“;;rwflm .Axhons Cham
nesdavy rerce will meet Wed
;oGay morning at 10:30 o’clock
bore ¢, DUrpose of elSGting offi
-0“6 New year. Heven mew
[ COrS were . eleGted . by . the
F ership last week.
LOCAL WEATHER
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GEORGIA:
&5 Cloudy, Occasion-l
|8 -2 al Rain Tonight,
| "l\ ‘gfi/y and in South and
TS Central Portions
'fl',',',’ ‘ Wednesday;
NG S B Colder Tonight
(i\\\\ {(///’”4 in Extreme East
"\"fii“—';”;‘v& and Extreme
’ South Portions
— RAIN
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_ TEMPERATURE
Highest .. , . Cies Nbak aßei iR ‘
]‘ vice Raau iBl
Aon. .. ol
Norma) svgiitasunin s o 00l B
: RAINFALL
Inches Jagt 94 hours, .. .....1.00
}T.“‘v‘-"f Since January 1.......8.43
:,\/..._\\ since January 1......4.44
“Verage January rainfa11....4.83
Three-Way Investigation Is
Pushed Today in Bus Tragedy
\_—_—
MIAMI, Fla. — @) — A three-
Nvestigation was pushed to
¥ into the disaster that brought
gk, drowning o 17 passeng
‘ [ a bug crossing The Even-
Lo Minkgiige e dead were
n thern visitors,
o Ve wer talking and laughing—
' it was horrible” said
har, Vinifred Willtams of Bing-
S N “The woman be
} drowned. The man in
Srerammel, ooked go strong—he's
't mechanies, sent indepen
:d;" Y civil authorities, state
nore . L COMMmission ana the bus
exars . Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc.,
»::I the big, mud-caked ve
- that glithereq on its back into
2 Toadgige canal,
The bus carried 30 Ppassengers,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Death Toll in Flood Reaches 125;
Levees Along Mississippi Tremble
NEARLY 32900 FOR
FLOOD FUND RAISED;
DRIVE TO' CONTINUE
Original Goal Quadrupled
But Additional Appeals
Are Received
DEMANDS GREATER
Gainesville Leading State,
Athens Second: Cam
paign to Continue
Mirs. George D. Thomas,
© chairman of the Athene chapter
of the Red Cross, nas asked the
Banner-Herald t» make especial
mention of the ract that pupils
in Childs Street Junior High
school have raised $19.00 in cash
and sent the money to the Red
Cross office in the court house
for flood safferers.
Athens more than quadrupled its
original quota of SSOO being raised
through the American Red Cross
for sufferers in the flooded sec
cions of 11 states, and went speed
ly on with the work of mercy as
fresh appeals _from the national
organization were received.
The flood is taking on such vast
Jroportions that the Red Cross
chaptey here has received an ap
peal from Rear Almiral Cary 7T,
Zrayson, national chairman, to keep
up the drive for money, s
Red Cross offices in the court
house have already received $353.50
in contributions, while WTFI at
noon reported having $825.05 in
cash and §51,070 in pledged contri-
The Red Cross gssued the first
appeal in -the Sunday Banner-
Herald and Manager Lynne Bran
nen of radio station WTFI follow
»d, issuing the apeals for money.
The appeals, intermingled with
Associated Press news bulletins
broadcast from the Banner-Herald
ffice, were continued throughout
most of the day. After the paper
was printed and the teletypes had
:ompleted their day’'s work, the
‘adio station continued its appeals.
Both pewspapers and the radio
station have given unlimited pub
licity to the terrible conditions in
the flooded areas and Athenians
have responded nobly.
Gainesville Leads
So far, Gainesville is leading the
state in oversubscribing its quota.
A goal of $260 was set for the north
Georgia town devasted last April
by twin-tornadoes and this morn
ing $1,500 had been raised -and the
drive wag still going.
As far as could be ascertained at
noon, Athens was second only tv
Gainesville in the state in over
subscribing jts queta, having quads
rupled it. Thig mark will be rais
ed as contributions are still com
ing in to the Red Cross offices, the
Banner-Herald, the Daily Times
and the radio station is being flood
ed with phone calls.
Following is the telegram re
ceived thig: morning by Mrs
George D. Thomas, chairman of
the Athens chapter of the Red
Cross, from National Chairman
Grayson: :
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Geo. D. Thomas, Chm.
Athens Chapter, American
Red Cross, Athens, Ga.
Because relief needs in flood
ed areas of Ohio and Mississippi
Valley increasing every hour as
continued rains send rivers to
highest levels in history with
more than four hundred thous
and persons driven from homes
urge you double your relief ‘
quota and go as far beyond |
the doubled figure as possible
stop we are contributing million l
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its driver and a negro porter, bound
for Florida’s west eoast on Mon
day’'s daylight run, to the bottom
of the 12-foot deep waterway par
alleling the Tamiami Trail
The mishap occured 35 miles
west of Miami, in a wild area
sparsely populated.
“Something popped, and then the
front end seeméd to fall down to
the ground,” recounted the porter,
Robert Singleton, who with a
passenger rescued seven of the 14
other survivors. ° .
The comipany blamed" either a
tire-blow-out or a snapped front
mfih‘cu& v ASE IR el
Driver Escapes . . .
+ The bus -gdriver; Wi W' Hammend
of Tampa, escaped with minor lac-
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Pillars of black smoke lighted by flashes of rolling flames sent a .
signal of destruciton in Cincinnati as the photographer sighted his
camera through frozen tree branches for this picture of the Crosley
Radio Corporation warehouse which was destroyed by fire. Exploding
tanks of gasoline sent wave after wave of liquid flames along the
waterfront of the huge Mill creek industrial district causing damage
14 ARE RESCUED
AT RIPLEY, TENN.,
RIPLEY, Tenfi.— () —J. W.
Hedgepeth, Ripley newspaper edi
tor, said today that 14 persons, re
ported drowned last night when
their house collapsed into the
Mississippi flood waters, had heen
rescued.
Hedgepeth salq the 14 escaped
frem their houses a few minutes
before it toppled -into thé flood
waters of the Mississippi river.
CATTLEMEN ELECT
OFFICERS TOOY
A. L. Thompson, of Coch
ran, Is Named President
- Of Jersey Cattle Club
A. L. Thomrson, of Cochramn
was elected president of the Geor
gia Jersey Cattle Club at its an
nual meeting Tuesday morning at
the Georgian hotel, succeeding Dr.
H. D. Allen, of Milledgeville. Oth
er officers elected included J. B.
Hardmand, Commerce, first vice
president; S. M. Carter, Carters,
second vice president; and Tom
Breedlove, of Monroe, secretary
treasurer. Six new directors in
clude J. H. MecGee, Lawrenceville;
H. D. Allen, Milledgeville; Mrs.
J. J. Cummings, Donaldsville; C.
L. Batcheldoy, Columbus, J. B.
Powell, Macon, anl E. O, Cabaniss,
Maxeys.
Among the important matters
disposed of was the passage of a
resolution favoring re-establish
ment of the School of Veterinary
Medicine at the State College ot
Agriculture, which department was
discontinued several years ago.
The club’s annual consignment
sale of Jersey cattle will be held
again in Athens, according to ac
tion taken at the meeting. The
sale will occur in May, the exact
date to be determined later by the
sales committee.
The annual meeting was presid
ed over by President Allen, and
among the speakers were Dean
Paul Chapman of the Agricultural
College; Dr. A. G. G. Richard
son, of the animal husbandry de
partment; F. W. Bennett, who
discussed the progress of official
testing; and Walter 8. Brown ac
ting directoro pf the extension
department.
The Baker tropohy, offered tc
thé owner of the cow under five
yedars of age who makes the besi
production record in her class was
awarded to J. H. McGee, of Law
renceville; dnd the Hardman
trophy, for the best herd test rec-
Athens, Ca., Tuesday, January 26, 1937.
Peace Efforts Stalled Again As
Sloan Refuses Plan of Perkins
WASHINGTON —(AP) —Gov
ernment efforts to negotiate the
the General Motors strike stalled
again today over the refusal of
Alfred P. Sloan, jr.,, president of
the corporation, to confer with
unipn leaders,
Sloan, replying to Secretary
Perkins' invitation to a meeting
‘Wednesday, said in New York his
organization “must decline to neg
otiate further with the wunion
while its representatives continue
to hold our plants unlawfully.”
Getting the sit-down strikers
out of the factories, Sloan said, is
not an issue to be negotiated fur
ther. Under the “Lansing Agree
ment” for negotiations, he declared
the union failed to keep its prom
ise to evacuate.
Adolph Germer, Detroit repre
sentative of John L. Lewis, com
mittéee on Industrial Organization,
denied Sloan’s assertion that Lewis
would not evacuate the plants
until the United Automobile
Workers of America was recogniz
ed as “exclusive . bargaining
agency” for GMC worgers,
“What Lewis said,” declared
Germer, “was that the strikers
would not be called out of the
plants until the corporation has
negotiated with the union. The
question of exclusive recogni
tioon would be settled _in the
conferences.”
Although Lewis had accepted
Miss Perkins’ bid to Wednesday's
Georgia News Briefs
ALBANY, Ga. — (#) — Superior
court records listed today the con
viction of Edgar Rose, alias Robert
Taylor, for the slaying of Tomi
Lewis, chain gang guard, while the|
state moved for immediate trial of
Fred McMichen, jr., under joint‘
indictment with Rose for the slay
ing. t
Rose was convicted yesterday by|
a jury that deliberated 30 minutes,l
The verdict carried no recommen-l
dation for mercy, making the death l
sentence mandatory, e
Lewis was shot and died fromi
his wounds on December 29 when
two prisoners, said by the state'
to have been Rose and MtMichen,
over-powered the guard and shot
him with his own gun. The pri
soners were captured at Gadsden,
Ala,, two days later.
- DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — ) e
T gt b 'r'—"_-_"'" el VJ".OL“.MVWM
estimated at $2,000,000 and threatening other storage tanks, ‘Half:a
~ dozen major plants were destroyed, including also the Standard 'Oil
~ shope, More than 200 residents of the district were saved from the
choking, acrid smoke and flames. The fire added to the horrors
already experienced by the worst flood in Cincinnati’s history. One
fourth of the city was under water with 50,000 persons alrdady
driven from their homes.
conference, he was represented as
being ‘displeased because he felt
the secretary had wished to renew
the “Lansing agreement.”
This would bring up again the
' removal of sit-down strikers from
the rlants at Flint and elsewhere.
In his letter, Sloan said:
“The only issue then (last weelk
and now, is the evacuation of the
unlawfully seized plants. You
lwill recall that it was agreed by
Ithe union in Lansing, Michlgan‘
on January 15 that such evacuationl
’would be effected not later than
iJanua.ry 18. This was not done. ‘
i “Nevertheless, in the interest of
| peace at the request of Governor‘
|Murphy we have as yet made no
In’\ove towards opening plants on‘
strike, although the union has
!sincq attempted to call additional
| strikes. 1
“We. stand ready now and at all
times in the future as we have in
the past to coorerate and consult
with you on any and all phases of
the problem.”
The Flint alliance, opposing the
UAWA strikers in that city, be
came meanwhile a subject of the
senate investigation of civil lib
erties and “interference with the
rights of labor to organize and
bargain ecollectively.”
Chairman La Folette (Prog.-
Wis’') called the alliance presi
dent, Geoorge E. Boysen, and
three Flint peace officers to testi
fy before the committee.
- store of SIOO in cash and most of
| the stoek.
| Mrs. Summerour releaséd herself
iand her husband after gnawing
'lthl‘ouxh the ropes binding her.
i Report of the robbery wag delayed
due to the fact that the nearest
itelephone 1s 15 “ miles away at
i Dahlonega.
! ATLANTA — (#) — The Georgia
‘Power company . has reached ten
‘tatlve agreement with officials to
‘install trackless trolleys on the new
ipavecl highway between Hapeville,
College Park and Atlanta,
t A dual system of overhead wires
permits the vehicls, much like a
large bus, to move with traffic and
to pull to the curb to discharge
passengers, 5
. ATIAN_TA —_— P — K&jngen
eral Waiter L. Reed. inspector
| spection of the Fourth Corps area
WOMAN ARRESTED
.. ON GABLE CHARCE
LOS ANGELES — (#) — Mrs.
Violet Wells Norton, 47-year-old
Canadian, was under arrest here
today, charged with attempting to
obtain money from Clark Gable,
film actor, by claiming he is the
father of Bgr 13-year-old daugh
ter.
Federal officials said Mrs, Nors
ton declared she engageéd a man
named Frank Billings as a tutor tor‘
her sonin Long Sherwood, fimer-‘
(Continued on Page Seven)
3 ARE INJURED IN
STRIKE DISORDER
Police and Pickets Clash
At Cadillac Motor Plant
In Detroit Today
DETROIT —(AP) — A woman
and four men were injured tooday
when police and pickets clashed
at the Cadillac Motor Car compa
ny plant here Union leaders said,
police swung their clubs no the
pickets,
Six autoomobiles got through
the ricket lines into the plant.
Police said they carried execu
tives of the company.
Five persons suffering head in
juries, were taken by union work
ers in private cars to receive med
ical attention.
The General Motors strike ex
tended from coast to coast today
for the first time as the corpora
tion completed plans to return 39,-
900 of its more than 125,000 idle
employes to work tomorrow.
About the time General Motors
officials here announced the re
calling of workers to ten plants in
Michigan and Indiana a disturb
ance in which three persons were
hurt and property was damaged
occurred last night at Andersoon,
Ind., where two subsidiaries are
closed.
Joseph Carney, Anderson police
chief, said a crowd of about 2,000
persons prevented the United Au
tomobile =~ Workers of America,
which called the strike, from hold
ing a meeting in the Madison
county courthouse. 1
Police Chief Carney said the de
monstrators threw eggs and there
were numerous fist fights.
From the courthouse part of thei
crowd went to the union head
quarters and, the police chief said,
some turnishh'm; were ruined and
office records destroyed.
A. B C. Paper—Singla Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
40 DEAD IN SOUTH,
100,000 HOMELESS
(By the Associated Press.)
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(#)—The
Mississippi drummed an omi
* nous crescendo on its levees
today while the south counted
40 deag and 100,000 homeless
in what may be only the pre
lude to a “super flood” dwarf
ing even the 1927 deluge.
Upwards of 1,000,000 acres
in the Mississippi basin are
under water now but most of
this has been done by tribu
tary streams. None could say
what will happen when the
maq Ohio river dumps its still
unreached crests into the par
ent waterway.
‘Warning that a “super flood
is on its way"” came from Lieu
tenant-Colonel Reybold, dis
trict chief of U. 8. Army en
gineers, gnd spurred harassed
relief workers to plan for still
more Herculean labors.
Here's Situation
On Flood Givenby
States and Cities
(By the Ascociated Press).
mnas OHIO
Homeless, 103,000; dead, 13. |
CINCINNATI—The water sup
ply polluted, the health depart
ment said. Officials cut the ration
to one hour daily. The flood had
claimed elght lives ang 60,000 of
750,000 residents were homeless.
Meteorologist W. C., Devereaux
estimated' property damage at
$10,000,000 to $15,000,000. Governor
Martin L. Davey predicted a nec
essity for martial law,
PORTSMOUTH — Relief trains
began removing 35,000 refugees to
Columbus, i
WARRENTON-—Volunteer fire
men resCueq 50 residents.
WARREN — Firemen saved 200
families from the lowlands of the
flooding Mahoning river.
COLUMBU'S—Legislature appro
priates $250,000 for fiood relief.
KENTUCKY
Homeless, 300,000; dead, at least
37.
LOUISVILLE—An early morn
ing varnish plant fire fulfilled the
city's fear of flames, The blaze
apparently burned itself out.
United States army troops were
on their way to enforce martial
law declared by Governor A. B |
Chandler. More than 200,000 resi
dents were homeleéss.
PADUCAH—Rescue barge cap
sized, 14 drowned. City of 35000
almost completely inundated,
FRANKFORT — Evacuation of
the flooded state reformatory was
lcomplbtod. The number of in
matés killed in a flood-induced
riot was doubtful, Natlonal‘
guardsmen predicted 12, one state
official sald a checkup showed 40‘
to 45 missing. :
MADISONVILLE — Four men
were drowned in a flooded coal
mine.
OWENSBORO—Ohio river rose
a foot over the previous all time
high of 52.5.
HICKMAN—Workers bolstered
a weakened Mississippi river
levee,
INDIANA
Homeless, 70,000; dead, 6.
EVANSVILLE~The river stage
approached 53 feet, with 55 pre
dicted, against the 35 foot flood
level. At least 8,000 of the 102,000
residents already hag evacuated.
LAWRENCEBURG — Most of
the city of 7,000 was inundated,
all roads were cut off but -one and
both food and medical supplies
were needed.
AURORA-—Residents “boasted”
the guage reading of 80.7 feet was
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Congress Hastens Debate Today
On F.D.R. Flood Relief Request
WASHINGTON —(AF)— Con
gress joined the unprecedented gov
ernment flood aid program today
by hastening debate on $790,000,000
administration relief request, all of
which may be used for disaster
victims,
Fending its passage, President
Roosevelt allotted $900,000 of emer
gency conservation funds to the
relief or refugees.
The proposed $790,000,000 relief
fund was intended orlgmany;
to care for relief work until July
1, but President Roosevelt gave out
word it should be used for flood
sufferers until the fal extent of the
damage is learned.
' Then an additional appropriation
will be sought. e
H2XE
GITY OF LOUIGVILLE
5 ALMOST ISOLATED;
U.S. TROOPS ENTER
Torrents of Water Spread
Over Area of More Than
~ Million Acres
TEN FEET HICHER
’Lower Mississippi Valley
Awaits ‘“‘Big Test" in
Flood Battle
(By the Associated Press)
Fear stricken tens of thousands
cowered behind weakening levees
or fled to higher levels as the
monstrous yellow tide of the Ohio
river swelled to gecord-breaking
flood heightg on its sweep to the
Mississippi.
Eddying in muddy, slow-rising
torrents, the waters spread over an
area of more than a million acres,
taking a toll of at least 125 known
dead, driving 550,000 from their
homeg and leaving many thousands
more marooned in precarious
straits, Whole towns and villages
showed only rooftops.
Property damage was estimated
far ig excess of slo,ooo,ooo—and on
every side, from city officials and
army engineers, came the warning:
“The worst is yet to come.,”
Towns Evacuated
‘Wholesale evacuations of flood
seiged towng in Tennessee, western
Kentucky, southeastern Missouri,
Arkansas and Mississippi signalled
the greatest mass flood exodus in
history,
From Pittsburgh in the north,
where anxious erowcs watched the
flood relentlessly spread over the
edge of the -hillion-dollar business
district, to the erest of the deluge
sweeping into the mitssissippi river
beyond Cairo, 111., a panorama of
watery desolation extended mile on
mile,
- In the lower Miusswsippi Valley,
‘where 600,000 were made homeless
in 1927, authorities awaited the
big test of the great system ot
dikes and levees build along a 300~
mile stretch of the Mississippi afte
er the 1927 disaster,
“A super flood ig on its way,”
came the grim warning from Lieut.
Col. Eugene Reybold, district chief
of U. S, army engineers, at Mem=
phis, Tenn. :
10 Feet Higher
Reybold predicted flood stages
along the Mississippi at least 10
feet higher than recordg set in the
tragedies of 1913 and 1927.
[President Roosevelt, anxiously
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What They Say About
Roosevelt Birthday
Ball Here on Jan. 29
| By CONSTANCE THOMAS
(Student, Henry W. Grady
‘ School of Journalism.)
“All organizations, as well as
individuals, should do everything
possible to make the President’s
Ball a financial success,” said
Miss Lucille Crabtree, general see~
retary of the Athens Y. W. C. A.
Stressing the need of support,
she added, “Athens citizens should
feel the importance of not only
helping the Warm Springs Foun
dation but also having a ‘nest
egg’ in our own treasury for the
prevention of infantile paralysis.”
The fourth annual Roosevelt
Ball is to be held in Pound aundi-
Itorlum on the Coordinats campus,
January 29, from 9 until 1 o'clock.
Tickets and buttons are on sale
for $1 each. :
ment, working day and night, ex
erted all their energies to aid the
homeless, who had passed the half
million mark.
“Step on it!” was the latest com
mand of the President, said one
member of his central relief com
fittee,
House consideration of the relief
bill wns one example of the in
creased speedy. Democratil leaedrs
hoped to pass it by tomorrow night
at the latest. Then it will go to the
senate for gquick consideration.
The armny’s role in the relief pro
gram became greater than ‘”t:s
with the authorization nm
four companies of federal troops
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