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DR. WALKER MATTHEWS
Dr. Walker H. Matthews was
elected secretary and treasurer of
tha Georgia Association of Optom
etrists at the annual meeting of
that organization held in Douglas
January 24, 25 ang 26.
D 1 Stephen Outlaw, Atlanta
as elected president; Dr. Steph
en Ciernazian, first wvice-president
and- Dr. W.. B. Colby, Atlanta,
ond vice president,
Retiring officers of the associa
tion are Dr. Henry J. Godin, Au
gusta, past president; Dr. Walter
Bell, Macon, past first vice pres
jent; Dr. O. M. Schomburg, Sa
vannah, past second vice presi
nd Dr. Stephens Gerna
zian, Atlanta, past secretary and
treasurel .
In addition to his duties as sec
retary ang treasurer, Dr. Mat
thews was further complimented
t 10 association by being elect
ed editor of The Georgia Optome
trist . publication issued every
two months,
Dr. Matthews is being congrat
ulated by the many friends he
has made in Athens since moving
here several months ago on the
latest honors accorded him by the
optometrists of the state.
A legislative commitiee was
named to assist in drafting ade
qutae motor laws to lessen acci
dents by compelling drivers to
undergo visual examination for
tereoscopic depth perception and
peripheral vision.
A eclinic econducted by Ralph
Barstow, internationally knowl
lecturer and economist, was th¢
feature of the three-day meeting.
In his address to the conventiol
Mr, Barstow declared that both
n the United States and in Can
la, optometrists are making great
headway in their two public serv
e campaigns.
His address, in part, follows:
\lready, many states, through
their highway commissioners and
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DAY — BY — DAY
ON THE RADIO
BY C. E. BUTTERFIELD [
(Time is Wastern Standard)
NEW] YORK — (&) — Until the
“nd of the week at least, probably
longer, the networks intend to con
llue broadcasting from the Ohic
Valley flood.,
At present, while flood zone sta
tions are concentrazing on high
Water information, all regular net-
Work programs scheduled from
them have been cancelled. Among
these jg the CBS Friday matinee
by the Cincinnati Symphony.
Try these tonight—Wednesday—
Talk WABC-CBS 10:30 Discussion
°f Family planning,
WEAF-NBC — 7:80 Recital of
| f:,nmux.r Violins; 8 One Man’s Fam-l
Vi 9 Fred Allen; 10 Hit Parade; ‘
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What They Say About
Roosevelt Birthday
Ball Here on Jan. 29
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By EDWIN ROGERS I
Student, Henry W. Grady School |
of Journalism. ‘
“The plan for this vear's Warm
Strings donation is better than |
Irevious ones,” according to R, V. |
\\.M?‘-I.Q(;n. v-pres., of the Citi-
N 5 and Southern National Bunk,,
He strongly commended the
Plan fop booling donations whichl
‘;,M“]‘l make an appreciable in-‘
tome from g Permanent fund ros-.
Sible. The Roosevelt Ball hes now |
become an annual custom in Ath«l
118 like the el CPoss ol call,
e salq.
.—\H'wns has always given more
htu-r.‘xlly than her shave. SHe was
* national leader in the first do-
Nation for the project.”
«Jle favored the Reosevelt Bal:;;
‘a \~or'_v good thing," m \
that he himself _ has ‘personally
SUbborted it from its beginning.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Mississippi Valley Evacuation Ordered
Old :Agfe Pension Bill Introduced In House *T:)dzly
QUICK PASSAGE OF
KEYSTONE BILLS 0F
RIVERS 1S EXPECTED
Three Companion Bills as
Aid to Aged, Blind, and
Children Offered
SIGNED BY GRAYSON
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Maximum Pensions of S3O
- Per Month Provided
For All Over 65 |
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borts s iioc oot a 1 ok \
DEMANDS PROBE |
ATLANTA —(AP)— Gov
ernor E. D. Rivers called on i
the general assembly today to ‘
make a “thorough” investiga- |
tion of what he termed the
“twentieth century military
and carpetbag regime” of his
predecessor, former Governor |
Eugene Talmadge. |
Rivers, appearing before a
joint session of the assembly,
in his first legislative message
said he interpreted his election |
as a mandate of the people to
give a “complete accounting”
of the Talmadge administra- |
tion.
He added: l
“l urge that the mandate of
the people be not forgotten.” |
A bill calling for a legisla
tive investigation of the Tal
madge administration is now
pending in the assembly.
ATLANTA — (#) — The key
stone bills of the Rivers adminis
tratton—old age pensions; aid for
dependent children and assistance
to the blind—came before the house
of representativs today.
The three bills were signed by
Spence Grayson of Chatham, and
Mrs. Helen Williams Coxon of
Long county. ¢
They should become operative as
soon as passed by both houses of
the legislature and signed by' the
governor.
The “old age assistance act”
would provide maximum pensions
of S3O per month for eligible per
sons over 65 years of age. ‘
No Limitg
The aid to dependent «children
act provides aid to “any depend
ent child who is living in a suit
able family home meeting the
standards of care ana health fixed
by the laws of this state X X X.”
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E What' sGoilig On In ;
- State Legislature |
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‘(By the Associated Press) |
TODAY ’
SENATE: Convenes at 10 a. m,,
IC.S.T.; has 1937 appropriations bill
up for second reading.
HOUSE: Convenes at 10 a, m,
C.BX.; slated to receive old age
pension bill. :
Joint session: 11 a. m., C.S.T. to;
hear first personal message of Gov-l
ernor Rivers. |
YESTERDAY
SENATE: Received “public wel
fare reorganization act of 1937
providing machinery for adminis
tering old age pensions and contro)
of state eleemosynary institutions;
lalso disapproged Talmadge’s oustex’
jof Treasurery Hamilton and Comp
‘troller General Harrison.
! HOUSE: Passed 1937 approprla-l
| tions bl
Local Chapter Mails Check For
$1,646 To National Red Cross
A check for $1,646 was mailed
the national organization by Mrs
| George D. Thomas, chairman of
lAthens chapter of the American
Red Cross, for sufferers in the
!flood areas of eleven states,
‘ Meanwhile the drive to raise
funds goes forward, sinee the or
!iginial quota set for the local chap
| ter has been raised from s§soo te
‘52.500.
| There seems to have been some
, misunderstanding as the result of
‘announcement yvesterday that the
lfund was nearin gthe $2,500 mark.
That estimtae included not only
the actual cash received but alse
money that had been pledged but
not vet turned in. It is hoped
that the pledged amounts will be
turned in rapidly so that the work
| of relief and rescue can go for
ward quickly and smoothly.
Relief needs are steadily mount
Full Associated Press Service
T. A. Gibson Elected Presicent
Athens Chamber 0f Commerce;
Program Adopted For This Year
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civic leader, who today was elected
president ot ine Athens Chamber
of Commerce for 1937.
UPERA SINGER DIES
FAOM STAB WOUND
Lawrence Tibbett Acci
dentally Slashes Friend
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' In Rehearsing Duel
| NEW YORR —#) — True to
the tradition of the stage Lawrence
Tibbett sang for a Newark aud
ience last night while saddened by
the death of Joseph Sterzini, vet
’eran Metropolitan opera basso, five
{hours after Tibbett accidentally
‘had inflicted a slight stab wound,
i Hospital attaches said Sterzini's
| death probably had been caused by
ia blood clot. An autopsy was
, planned today,
| “It wae the most terrible thing
that ever happéned to me,” gaid
the celebrated baritone. “Mr., Ster
zini was a very good friend of
hnine. I am terribly upset.”
| The b52-year old Sterzini, col
!lapsed on the stage of the Metro=
politan opera house as’'a company
lof 100 rehearsed ‘“Caponsacchi” in
iwhich Tibbett sings the role of
' Guido Frateschini.
l Sterzini, who had sung in the
chorus for 28 years, was required
| by his role to hold another singer
!at whom Tibbett lunged with a
stiletto. The Kknife, which was
Esupposed to be dull, twisted in
' Tibbett's hand, inflicting a gash
‘itbnut two inches long on Sterzini’s
hand. 1
A physician bandaged the wound
and Sterzini wanted to go on witl
the rehearsal but Tibbett and oth
ers induced him to go to a hospital
where an operation was perform
ed.
In the meghtime, half the opera
cast, Tibbett among them, went
to Newark, N. J., to sing “La Tra
viata.” Just before he went on
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ing as the flood waters of the
swollen rivers sweep down their
course, Cary T. Grayson, national
chairman of the American Red
Cross, informed Mrs. Thomas by
wire today, in calling on Athens
chapter to raise the needed $2,500.
Manager Lynne Brannen of ra
dio station WTFI today asked the
Banner-Herald to announce that
if any mistakes appear in the list
of names appearing as contribu
tors, that the radio station be no
tified so that the mistakes can be
corrected as quick as possible. Mr.
Brannen said that in the rush of
contributions ‘it is quite likely that
a name is misspelled or an initial
given wrong and he wishes te
correct any mistakes.
In the gravest emergency the
‘Red Cross has faced since the
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, January 27, 1937
iNickerson and Gloyd Are
. Named Vice-Presidents
! By Directors
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i WRICHT TREASURER
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Program Includes Comple
; tion of Civic Hall . |
| For Athens = {
: Thomas A. Gibson, general man
ager of the Athens division of the
Georgia Power company today
was elected president of the cham
ber of commerce for. 1937, suc
ceeding Tate Wright,
Serving with Mr, Gibson will be
S. H. Nickerson of the Athens
Hardware comprny, first wvice
president; R. H. Gloyd, of Gloyd’s,
[nc.,, second vice-president; - Tate
Wright, treasurer and Joel A, Wier,
executive secretary. : ‘
Immediately after Mr. Gibsen's!
electiop to the presidency he pro
posed continuation of p program
which includes development of the
livestock industry for this section,
with organization of livestock clubs
in the eleven counties comprising
the Athens area; widespread ad
vertising of the Seminole Trail
highway; completion of a paved
highway from Athens jo Gaines
ville vig Jeffersion and from Ath
ens to Cornelia, via Commerce and
to urge support for an agricultural
research fund for the University.
The- directors also adopted @&
resolution urging support of the
President’s Birthday Ball here F'ri
day night proceeds of whiech go to
the Warm Springs Foundation and
for treatment of victims of infan
tile paralysis 4
A committee on committees,
comprised of the officens of the
organization, was appointed to
meet, tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock at
avhich time all committees to
serve this year will be appointed.
Another meeting of the board of
directors was called for next Mon
day night at 7:30 o'clock.
The new president of the cham
ber of commerce has heen active
ly interested in the ohjectives of
the organization since coming tc
Athens fourteen years ago. He is
at present a director of the or
ganization and has served in va
rious important capacities for
many years. Mr. Gibson came to
Athens in 1923. In addition to the
promotion of civic enterprises gs a
member and director of the cham
ber of commerce, Mr. Gibson has
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F. R, SHAPES COURSE
W UTILTY BATTLE
Negotiations to Pool Gov
ernment and Private
Power in TVA Broken
WASHINTON. —(#)— President
Roosevelt shaped a tentative course
today toward expanded public
ownership of electric power by
breaking off negotiations to pool
| government and private power in
the Tennessee valley.
He took the action, he said. be
cause 19 utility companies obtain
ed a “sweeping preliminary in
junction” against the Tennesse¢
Valley Authority.
’ Explaining this precluded a
transmission agreement, he wrote
114 government and private con
ferees yesterday that meetings
‘would be discontinued.
.~ The Commonwealth and South
ern Utility company protested the
‘action. Wendell Willwie, its pres
ident, said in New York:
- “I am unable to understand how
‘the temporary injunction precludes‘
‘either the pooling of transmission,
‘the studying of the various prob
lems arising out of the TVA op
;erations or the working out ofa
permanent solution. l
“The dismissal of the lawsuit or
the dissolution of the injunction
would place our property at the
mercy of the uncontrolled discre
tion of the TVA.)”
Mr. Roosevelt said at a Dpress
conference the decision to end the
power pool conferences would nos
affect negotiations to renew the
commonwealth and southern con
tract to buy government po'ei
from the Tennessee Valley Auth:
ority. The contract expires next
Wednesday. 1
One administration leader com
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Martial law was declared in Louisville, Ky., January 25th, as 230,000 persons fled .from the u‘wadn»ng
waters, as the Ohio river mounted to record heights, bearing in its train the ingredients of epidemics
and disease, the ugly specter that federal as well as private relief agencies are preparing to battle.
This airview of downtown Louisville shows clearly how the stricken city is at the mercy of the ever
rising river.
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lTen Chevrolet Plants in
. Michigan and Indiana
. Reopened by G. M.
1! DETROIT — (AP) — Nearly
40,000 employes were called back
to work today in ten Chevrolet
plants in Indiana and Michigan
which have been closed as a con
sequence of strikes in other units
' of General Motors corporation.
Another subsidiary, the Fisher
’B‘ody corporation, has 7 recalled
5,900 more to work in Michigan to-l
| morrow. |
',. ~Before the world's largest auto- |
mobile-producing company started
Ithis back-to-work movement morei
k'than‘ 125,000 of its' employes were
idle. !
Seventeen rlants were closed by
strikes in them, and the company |
has said it would not reopen themi
until the dispute is settled. Two
of these—the Fisher Body ma’msl
the U. A. E. A, until the strikers
held by “sit down” strikers since!
December 30.
Altogether more than forty Gen- |
eral Motors factories from coast|
to coast were closed or their op-l
erations curtailed as a consge
quence of the strikes called by
the United Automobile workers afl
America.
The refusal of the union tol
evacuate the ‘sit-downers” atl
Flint has blocked negotiations for
a settlement of the strikes, the |
corporation refusing to meet \\'lth’
and minimum wages Wwith ]uhnri
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LOCAL WEATHER
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GEORGIA:
Cloudy, Rain
o *l‘ S Thursday and in
LY & South and
‘?:,;‘;,.' @ IContral Portions
I ‘ Tonight; Some
(RS SAMEY what Colder in
(im (///'”4 Central Portion
AL ._._‘_” i Tonight and
: : Thursday.
RAIN
TEMPERATURE
SRR (L v R 820
SOWERE. ... el aaT S M
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total since January 1...... 8.43
Excess since Jnauary 1..... 4.28
Average January rainfall... 4.83
KAISER OBSERVES
HIS 78th BIRTHDAY
i pp— \
BORN, The Netherlands ~—(AP) |
—Former Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger
imuny clebrated his 78th birthday
today, alone with his memories.
l The heaviest snowfall in many
| years confined the former ruler to
his retreat in exile, under doctors’
’m'dm‘slo remain indoors until fully
recovered from a recent influenza
! attack.
~ The Amsterdam telegrarh report
ed Wilhelm so feared recurrent
illness that no member of the
household with any symptom of
the ailmept. was allowed near
him.
After breakfast and the usual
morning religious service, the first
item on the former Kaiser’'s ob
servance of the day was a visit to
the upstairs bedroom where his
first wife, the. Empress Augusta
Victoria, died in 1921.
: i 1
Floor Show Will Present‘
Outstanding Talent Herel
Friday Night |
S ——— 1
! A floor show that will present'
lsome of the most talented dancers |
and singers in Georgia will be a
feature of the President’s Birth
day Ball at the Pound auditorium
Friday night.
Sam Butler, who is assisting
Chairman C. A. Trussell in pro
moting the Birthday Ball, said to
lday that the Marion Rhyne school
of the dance and the Jeffers danc
ing School will present programs
for the floor show which promise
to He very entertaining. -
The Jeffers School section of
!the program will present Bubbles
' Wingfield and Ray Cooper in an
adagio dance and Mary Trussell in
|a contortionist dance number. In
laddiuon, rersonable Dorothy Phil
pot will give a syncopated tap
!dance. Miss Philpot, as well as
other members of the program has
1 been an admired feature on sever
|al similar programs in Athens.
| The other numbers, that bf Miss
| Trussell and Miss Wingfield and
| Ray Cooper, will also prove to be
| pleasing events. 3
In addition to the above num
bers, Bobby Adams and Joan
Maupin will present a tap dance,
Ann Johnson. soloist and the pro
gram of the Marion Rhyne School
will combine to make one of the
most entertaining programs given
here this winter. The Bulldogs or
chester will rlay for the dance
which begins at about 9 o’colck.
Tickets for the Birthday Ball are
being sold this week. The dance
—
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PROBE OF TAMIAMI
\ Uncle of Athenian Among
Those Injured in Florida
\ Bus Accident
MIAMI, Fla, — (#) — The fed
‘era] government today entered the
!investigation of the Tamiami Trail}
bus accident which killed 17 per
zsons Monday while morgue oft'i-’
cialg oompleted identification of
the victims. 5
Inquiry from relatives developed
that two women, the last to be
identified, were Mrs. Mabell Black,
| 59, and Miss Cora Lindburg, 55, re
!tired school teachers of Maple
‘wood, N. J,
' John O. Rogers, director of the
'motor carriers bureau of the Inter
| state Commerce commission, in
structed L. G. Thompson, Florida
'bureau supervisor, too come. here
and assist in the investigation. An
Jdnquest will be held tomorrow.
UNCLE INJURED
Among those injured ip the
Tamiami ‘T'rail bus accident was
Edgeworth N, A. Price, uncle of
Dr. Walker H. Matthews of this
city.
Mr. Price ig a retired jeweler of
Enterprise, Ala. The Associated
Press this morning reported Mr.
Price suffered bruises and expos
ure but that so improved is his
condition that he may be released
from the hospital today. 4
Here’s Flood Situation By
States; Death Toll Is 137
(By the Asscciated Press)
Known dead: 137.
Estimated total homeless: 750,-
000.
Estimated total damage: $300,-
000,600,
KENTUCKY
Known dead: 53. Estimated
homeless, 300,000.
LOUVILLE—HeaIth commis
sioner estimated at least 200 more
persons had died of disease direct
ly attributable to the flood; 230,-
90 homeless with majority eva
cuated and hospitals packed; three
serious fires burned out overnight.
PADUCAH — Refugees reached
Nlinois across Ohio river by boat;
about 1,000 remaining with res
cuers attempting wo reach them,
OHIO
Known dead: 33. Estimated
HOXE
ALL PERGONG LNING
WITHIN 50 MILES OF
RIVER ORDERED ‘UT
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'U. S. Army Order Extends
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i From Cairo, 111., to
l New Orleans .3
| IS DRASTIC STEP %
[ Untested Levees Believed §
| Unable to Withstand
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‘ (By the Associated Press)
Compulsory evacuation of hun« %
dreds of thousands—embracing all ‘a
persons living within 50 mileg on
both sides of the Mississippi river
from Cajro, Til, to New Orleans—
was ordered today by the U. S. >
army high command as the mighty,
flood-gorged waters of the Ohio
river swept on to threatened new
| heightg of disaster, i
| Thirty-five thousand motor trucks
! were immediately - mobilized to
carry out the greatest exodus in
I history, b
| Secretary of War Harry Wood
lring, acting swiftly in America’s
greatest emergency since the World
War, announced that headquarters
for the mass evacuation would be
l(-stablished at Jackson, Miss.
Drastic Step i
l The sudden drastic step followed
ia report from army engineers em
| phasizing the imminent danger of
vastly increased floods along the
Mississippi once the swollen tor
rents of the Ohio spills its flood
{erest-into the.*“@Pather of W;aterl."‘f%‘:;%
Army engineers said the billion
dollar new levees flung up along
{the lower Mississippi after 1927— é
jand not since tested by severe
floods—could handle only 2,400,000
cubic feet of water per second. =
| The raging Ohio it was pointed
-out, will dump a minimum of 3,-
000,000 cubic feet into the Missisgs
ippi when the flood crest hfllzfig
. Cairo, Il i
‘ All Cities, Towns , .
Whole cities ana towns, along
[the 1,000-mile stretch from Caira
[to the Gulf of Mexico, fall under
| the mandatory program of flight
| from the path of invaston, e
| The crest—and the start of the
j “super flood” predicted by Lieut.
i Col, Eugene Reybold, district chief
lof U. 8. army engineers in the re
{ gion below Cairo—is expected ta
| break within a week, .
From army headquarters at
Washington, D. C, telegraphic or=
| ders clicked oiit to corp area com=
| manderg at Atlanta, Ga., Omaha,
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WHAT CONGRESS
IS DOING
(By the Associated Press)
TODAY i
SENATE: Takes up $50,000,000
seed loan bill. :
Ruies committee considers gov
ernment reorganization,
’ ICivil libertieqg and railroad fl‘f
‘nancing inquiries contlnue.
~ Judiciary subcommittee rmw
‘hearings on O’Mahopey cw
‘tions licensing bill, :
HOUSE: Considers putting all
postmasters under civil service, =
YESTERDAY
House passed $790,000,000 defi=
ciency relief bill. :
Senate tok up routine business.
| homeless: 103,000, b
~ CINCINNATI—Ohio river ceased
rising, although holding close to
80-foot level; city's electric and
water supplies functioned on in
termittent basis and 30,000 home
less within city had hopes of speedy
return to their homes; Red Cross
reported no danger of an epidemie,
PORTSMOUTH—OfficiaIs believs
ed disaster “whipped” if river holds
present 74-foot ievel; about 35,000
homeless on hilitops with 2,000 eva
cauted, g
| ILLINOIS
Known dead: 6. enimagé
homeless: 50,000. i
CAlßO—Relief workers pushed
over icy, snow-covered streets to
evacuate one-third of 13,000 resis
dents while crews hurried construe=
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