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DR, FRANK LEAVELL
pr. Frank H. Leavell, of Nash
ville, Tennessee, will speak Sun
day at First Baptist church at 11
2. m. and at Prince Avenue Bap
tist church at 8 p. m.
Dr. Leavell is the head of the
student activities of the Southerr
Baptist Convention and on the ex
ecutive committee of the Baptist
World Alliance.
He is considered among the
most forceful speakers in the
South.
Among the other activities in
which Dr. Leavell will participate
in while spending the week-end at
the University is making the prin
inle address at the banquet given
Saturday night at the Georgian
hotel by the Baptist Student. Uni
on of the university in honor of
the foreign students attending the
University of Georgia,
Having recently returned from a
trip to the Orient where he or
ganized the Baptist Student Union
in Japan, China and other coun
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Charlie Lambeth Is
Seriously Injured
Whil yor il: ere
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Charlie Lambeth, 60, of Maxeys,
Ga., was seriously injured this
morning about 10 o’clock when he
fell through a hole in the second
story of the new dairy barn at the
University of Georgia.
Mr. Lambeth, a carpenter, was
working on the second floor, when
he toppled over and fell through a
le about three feet square, made
in the floor so* that hay can be
transported from the first to the
second floor.
His head struck the cement
floor, fracturing his skull.
His family was located about
noon - through frequent radio
broadcasts by WTFI. The radio
station was notified of the acci
dent immediately, and began
broadcasting for the family of Mr.
Lambeth to come to the station.
LOCAL WEATHER
Sid g oo GEORGIA:
| Mostly Cloudy
—_— Tonight and
Saturday; Pro
ol bably Followed
3y by Rain Saturday
"2; 3: Q/ Night or Sunday
AR B and Possibly in
"_rm‘,:,' ‘ Extreme South
(!R'«. e wets Portion
A J///’il Saturday After-
U ‘f,!’i“ noon; Not Much
Change in
RAN ~—~ =~ Temperature.
TEMFERATURE
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Lowest. ..i Juviiviii os v D
Meari, ... it biln et itil
Novmal, .., o S 0 G el A 0
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5....... .36
Total since January 1...... 8.33
Excess since January 1..... 4.36
Average January rainfall.. 4.83
Legislative Action Assured on
Road Patrol, Drivers’ License
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ATLANTA — (& '-'Legislativej
action of some kind on a measurel
' establish a state highway pa,troli
and license drivers of automobiles
Was assured here today, |
A house committes tast night
'eporteq favorably on a bill intro
luced by Representative Clement
E. Sutton, of Wilkes county, fol-
Ef-\\’ing a publie hearing in a down
town kEntg], |
The committee selected the Sut
on plan aftep voting adversely on
iree other proposed measures in
e duced. by Representativeg Coch
;l and Edwards of Thomas coun-
V. Elliott and Leonard of. Museos
¥¢ and Freeman of Bibb. |
he Suttom bill proposes to
[Derate with a patrol of 80 men for
the firgs Yeal‘lt-&'cnstdmml‘
0 be raised by dri~ers license fees.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Flood Crest Moves Southward
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Skirmish Between Senate and House Seen Over “Emergency”’ Appropriations Bill
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Amount Is Raised From
SIOO,OOO to $150,000
, By State Senate
CERTAIN OPPOSITION
Seven-Month Term for All
Schools Provided in
Bill Passed i
BILL PASSED
ATLANTA. — (AP) — The
house passed today by a vote
of 157 to 1 a measure to re
organize the State Board of
Education. ‘
It is a companion bill to the
one approved yesterday au- |
thorizing the state to pay ex- ‘
penses of common schools
throughout Georgia for seven
months of the year. |
Representative Barrett, of
Richmond county, gave the |
lone “no” vote. <He neither
spoke against the bill nor ex
plained his vote.
State Representative Walter
Sanders of Coweta county in
troduced in the assembly to
day a proposal to create a uni
cameral, or one-house legisla
ture, similar to that recently
established in Nebraska.
ATLANTA.— (&) —-Possibilityl
of a skirmish between house and
senate over the 1937 “emergency"’
appropriations act apparently was
raised today by the reaction of |
.some . house.. leaders to a senate
amendment hiking the alloca.tion'
to the agricultural department.
Passing the bill by a 44 to 0 vote !
after a prolonged session yester
day, the senate boosted the house
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Dr. E. A. Landau _to Be
Guest Speaker at Temple
i Tonight at 8 O'clock
The week-end of Jan. 29-31st
‘has been designated as ““National
Youth Time” throughout the coun
‘try. The wvarious organizations in
! this community will observe this
loccasion with appropriate pro
{grams.
On Friday evening, Jan. 29th, at
8 p. m. special religious devotions
will be held at Temple Congrega
tion Children of Israel, located at
the corner of Hancock and Jack
son. This night will be known as
l“Youth Temple Night.” Daniel
{ Katzoff, senior student in the
! Georgia, School of Pharmacy, will
read the prayers. Miss Nolee Mae
Dunaway is in charge of the mu
sic.
The guest speaker for this oc
‘caslon will be Dr. E. A. Landau,
Rabbi of the Jewish Congregation
lof Albany, Ga. He is a prominent
civic worker and well known in re
ligious and socii circles through
out the state. Dr. Landau has
faithfully served the people of
Georgia for many years and yet
has managed to retain a <vital in-|
terest and devotion to youth that
has made him popular with uni-
Iversity students.
He spoke here last year and
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Physical examinationg would be“
required for issurance of drivers
licenses, with mandatory revoca-}
tion of license provided when laws
are violated. : |
Constitutional officers of the
state would act as 2 goard of
commissioners in charge of the pa
trol, and officers would be ap
pointed for three year terms.
The committee voted an amend
ment to the bill as introduced, pro
hibiting use of highway patrolmen
in labor difficulties. Existing coun
ty police units and sheriffs would
provide finger printing services.
. Speakers at the nearing included
Major General George Van Horn
Moseley, commandant of the fourth
corpg army area; W. A. Abercrom
bie, of Athens and Ben R. Stroup
of the national safety council and
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Full Associated Press Service
FIRE ON VESSEL IS
EXTINGUISHED TODAY
NEW YORK — (#) — The
captain of,the coastwise vessel
Shawnee wirelessed late this
morning he had succeeded in
extinguishing a raging fire in
his No. 2 hold after a fight of
several hours during which he
dispatchei an SOS call.
Carrying 150 passengers and a
cargo of fruits and vegetables,
the Shawnee, of 6,209 tons, with
a crew of 174, was bound from
Jacksonville and Miami for New
York when her skipper wireless
ed a call from a position off
Cape Henry, Virginia, for
assistance at 7T a. m., E.S.T.
The City of Birmingham and
the coast guard responded.
An hour and 20 minutes later
the Shawnee advesea all ships
in the vicinity the fire was un
der control.
Ousting Strik
Sought by G.M.
Company Says Men Are
No Longer Considered
As Employes
AUTO-LABOR AT A GLANCE
By The Agsociated Press
General Motors petitions for
court order evicting “sit down”
strikers from two Flint (Mich.)
plants and reveals it no longer
considers them employes.
United automobile workers
of America directed to appear
< .for -hearing on the petition
Monday .
Union indicates discharge of
strikers is discrimination
against its members and may
raise new issue to be negoti
| ated.
Three federal agencies as
sign operatives to investigate
phases of strike.
Secretary of Labor Perkins
and Gov. Frank Murphy of
Michigan remain “hopeful” of
preak in deadlock “soon.”
By The Associated Press
DETROIT—A petition seekinga
court order for eviction of “sit
down” strikers from two Fisher
body plants at Flint, Mich., re
vealed today that General Motors
Corporation no longer considers
the men to be employes.
Roy Brownell, Flint attorney for
General Motors, filed the petition
with Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola
of Genesee county (Flint) late yes
terday. It requested an injunction
prohibiting the strikers from con
tinuing to occupy the plants they
‘have held since Dec, 30.
- The court difected the United
Automobile Workers of America.
which called the strikes that have
crippled operations of General Mo
tors, to show cause why an in
junction would not be granted at
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31X AOAD DIVISIONG
PLANNED BY MILLER
Chairman Says New Move
To Comply With Wishes
Of Federal Road Bureau
ATLANTA—(#)—The state high
way board had plans underway to
day to establish six divisions in
the department to comply with
what Chairman W. L. Miller
termed “the wishes of the (feder
al) Bureau of Public Roads.”
The action will double the num
ber of maintenance and construc
tion units in the state, and will re
turn the department “to the same
basis as was in effect prior tc the
Talmadge regime,” a formal state
ment related.
The division headquarters would
be at Rome, Savannah, Augusta,
Columbus, Macon and Fitzgerald.
The offices at Savannah, Augus
ta and Columbus will be re-estab
lishment of offices formerly located
in these cities, while the Rome
headquarters will result from
transferring the division seat from
Bast- Point. The East Point shops
will continue in operation.
The board will appoint a division
engineer and assistants for main
tenance and construction work in
each division in addition to cleri
cal help.
Miller said the Federal Road
Bureau had contended “that proper
supervision could not be given
construction projects with only
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Athens, Ga., Frday, January 29, 1937.
Flood Situation At A Glance
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:l;:;:stmianp v::::vfltdhaé:o:s eof;ii?::’:il:fi theocountry’s worst disas
ter. From New Madrid, Mo., down to Louisiana, over a 300-mile
stretch in the area indicated by the dotted lines, levees are being
fortified with a solid sandbag backed wall of planks. Territory for
50 miles on either side of the Mississippi from Cairo to New Orleans
will ke evacuated. This is a distance of 1500 miles.
Germ-Laden Waters Relax Hold
On Louisville; Streets Collapse
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— () —
Street collapses is the newest
worry of this flood-battered
city.
Captain Estel Hack of the
Police traffic bureau, said to
day First street between
Breckenridge and College, and
Kentucky street from Third to
Fifth had caved in.
LOUISIVLLE, Ky.—(&)—Wreck
age and germ-laden flood waters
relaxed their strangle-hold today
on this “Gateway to the South,”
where the Ohio river’s greatest
overflow in white man’s memory
has destroyed $100,000,000 worth of
property and taken an undeter
mined number of lives in the past
week.
- From an all-time crest of 57.1,
reached Wednesday, the river had
receded more than a half a foot
today. The weather bureau esti
mated the rate of fall at one
tenth of a foot every five or six
hours.
Many Fugitives
Tentacles of the monstrous flood
still «~ held thousands prisoners in
south central Louisville and ad
jacent lowlands. Fugitives who
fled panic stricken before the
Georgia News Briefs
AUGUSTA, Ga. — (#) — A spec
ial train left here today carrying
a fire engine and six firemen to
flood-stricken Louisville, Ky.
WASHINGTON, D. C, — (P —
Representative Vinson, of Georgia,
introduced a bill here authorizing
a $50,060,000 appropriation for a
farmers’ home corporation to pro
vide additional credit facilities for
agricultural development,
HAZELHURST, Ga. — ®» —
Execution of Lawrence Ward for
the “stomping” to death of his 14-
yvear old stepdaughter Maude Sal
ters, was automatically delayed to
day when sickness prevented Judge
.Gordon Knox from ruling on a new
trial appeal.
Ward was convicted last Dec
}ember 9. 'The execution was set
for today.
" ATLANTA - (# — Represen
lutmg J. T. House and Theo W.
creeping waters were scattered as
far as 200 miles from the Ken
tucky metropolis.
No official would say how many
were dead from drowning, pneu
monia and other diseases the flood
would leave in its wake. Before a
semi-official civilian censorship
sealed his lips, Dr. Hugh Rodman
Leavelle, city health director, esti
mated flood deaths at 200. That
was four days ago.
Board of Trade President Wil
liam A. Stoll, whose appointment
as ‘“‘publicity coordinator” closed
the mouths of officials in a posi
tion to estimate flood fatalities,
said he was investigating the sit
uation.
Rich Flee
The Highlands residential dis
trict, connected with lower Louis
ville by a pontoon bridge almost
half a mile long over swollen Bear
Grass Creek, struggled with war
time fervor to care for thousands
of the 230,000 refugees from in
undated west Louisville and partly
covered central Louisville.
Many who were financially able
fled by airplane to a haven far
from the threat of typhoid, scar-
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Coleman of Lowndes counly netted
$76 from members of the legisla
ture this week when they circulat
ed a petition for donations to the
Red Cross flood relief fund.
House said the amount would
be turned over to the Fulton county
Red Cross chapter for dispatch to
Red Cross relief headquarters,
The house also passed a resolu
tion urging Georgilans to donate to
the fund.
MACON, Ga. — (# — Approxi
mately 75 officials of colleges and
universities in Georgia gathered
here today for the 21st annual ses
sion of the Association of Georgia
Colleges.
Speakers listed on the program
include Dean Leon P. Smith, jr.,
of the University of Chicago, son
of the dean of Western College
here, who speaks tonight, and Dr.
J. R. McCain, president of Agnes
i e .
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Study of Building? Needs of City
School System Authorized; Board
Re-Elects Dr. Mell as President
: .
All Other Officers Alsc
Re-Named for Another
| Term
ADOPTS BUDGET
Board Plans to Furnish
Students With Ma
terials at Cost
A study of building needs of the
Athens public schools was authors
ized yesterday by the board of edu
cation which also re-elected Dr,
John D. Mell as president.
The board also re-elected all
other officers: E. L. Hill, vice pres
ident; B. M. Grier, secretary 7"d
James Barrow, treasurer.
The building committee, appoint
ed yesterday, will make a thorough
survey of all buildings in the
school system for the purpose of
developing a plan to remodel or re
build those which have become un
suitable for school purposes. The
committee is comprised of Dr. Hill,
chairman; E. D, Sledge, Dr. J. K.
Patrick and Superintendent Grier.
A report on the findings of the
building committee will be sub
mitted at the beginning of next
year, In his report to the board
yesterday, regarding the financial
status of the school system, Sup-\
erintendent Grier pointed out that
it has been suggested from time to
time that the “most imperative need
of the school system of Athens is
a building program which will pro
vide adequate physical facilities for
’the operation of the schools,
g Building Needs
“Since the City of Athens retires
$150,000 of the bonded indebted
ness on or before the first of July,
1938 the superintendent suggests
that the board appoint a commit
tee at an early date to work, dur
ing the calendar year, on a de
finite building program for the
schools. This committee should, of
course, work in close harmony with
the mayor and city council so as
to become acquainted with the oth-’
er needs of the city and ascertainl
what part of the bonded money, if
revoted, could be used for educa
tional purposes, A great deal of
time and thought and careful study
should be given to this project.
That is why it 1s suggested that
the committee be given the major
portion of the vear to work out its
'program so that the same might
be reported to the board at the
January meeting in 1938 for cons
sideration,”
Adopting a system which has
been used in the public schools of
Savannah, Columous and Fulton
county, the board decided to be
gin furnishing school materials and
supplies to pupils at cost. This
system will be inaugurated with
the beginning of the school term
mext September. The text-book
wrental system inaugurated by the
yboard several years ago has en
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Dance Tonight in Pound
Auditorium; Mayor Asks
For Full Cooperation
By KENNON HENDERSON
Student Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism
“Georgia ought to be especially
liberal in its contribution to in<
fantile paralysis as it is the sec
ond home of President Roosevelt,
and Warm Springs is the site of
the second White House,” said
Mayor T. 8. Mell today. |
“People should support the Roose
velt Ball unanimously. Infantile
paralysis is increasing and ever Y-i
one should be interested in com
batting it. President Roosevelt be-!
lieves Warm Springs aids in cur-*
ing the disease and he ought to
know,” said the mayor.
The fourth annual Roosevelt
Ball will be held in Pound Audi~
torium op the Coordinate campus
tonight from 9 to 1. Tickets and
buttons are still on sale at $1
earh.
This year every penny of money
above actual expenses will go to
the Warm Springs endowment
fund. for which Georgia is at
tempting to raise SIOO,OOO. .
The Georgia Bulldog orchestra
will furnish the music for the
dance tonight, and in addition, a
floor show by dancing students of
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Dr. John D. Mell, who has serv
ed as president of the Athens Board
of Education for more than thirty
years, was re-elected to that office
by his collcagues here yesterday
afternoon.
YOUTH WEEK WILL
START ON SUNDAY
Services Opening Youth
Week Held Sunday at
Christian Church
First Christian church will ob
serve Youth Week beginning Sun
day, January 31. Services Sunday
will be conducted entirely by
young people. Jack Stewart, grad-‘{
uate student in the University of
Georgia, will give the morning‘
sermon. Other young people will
serve as elders and deacons in
the observanec of the Lord’s Sup
per. J. P. Miller and Winston
Whitehead will serve as elders.‘
Special music will be provided by
a young people’s choir.
Sunday night at 8:00 o’clock,
services will be in charge of Miss
Elma Ruth Christian, chairman
for the regular Sunday evening
young people’s meetings. The fol
lowing young people will make
talks: Miss Eugenia Burton, J. T.
Bradberry, J. P. Miller and
Franklin Scheider. The general
theme for these talks will Dbe,
“Helping Others to Be Christian,®
These discussions are based on
special programs appearing in the
young people’s magazine, “Front
Rank.” Miss Hazel Whitehead will
play the organ. ‘
Monday night the Annual Youth
Banquet will be held. Mrs. L. O.
Turner of Atlanta will bring the
chief message. Mrs. Turner is
state secretary of missionary or
ganizations for the Christian
churches of Georgia. She will
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Cash Gifts Slacken But Still
Being Received By Red Cross
r Contributions, though slackening
up in speed, continued to come in
at offices of the American Red
Cross in the court house, as fran
tic efforts were being made along
the 1,000-mile stretch of the Miss
issippi from Cairo to New Orleans
to hold back the rush of water that
was descending on .
From noon yestereay to noon to
day, Mrs. George D. Thomas, chair
man of the local chapter of the Red
Cross, reported approximately SIBO
had been received in cash and
checks and voiced the hope that
more funds would be received.
For the past several days the
sbulk of the Red Cross relief work
has been in the stricken areas from
Cincinnatj through Kentucky, This
work must be kept up, of course, if
disease is to be held in check. In
addition, as the flood roars south-|
ward, the relief and.rescue agens
HSME]
ENGINEERS EXPRESS
BELIEF THAT LEVEES
WILL HOLD WATERS
‘Crest Hovers Just Above
- Paducha, Ky., Today;
1 Levees Watched
MANY TENT CITIES
Mississippi River Rises
Steadily; Estimate
Is Lowered
By The Associated Press
Flood waters of the north, un
relenting after a $400,000,000 scourge
of the Ohio River Valley, began
a plundering invasion into the
heart of tke deep South today. :
Scores of villages and countless
farms along the 200-mile stretch
from Cairo, 111, to Memphis, Tenn.,
swam deep In the rising yellow
tide of the Mississippi, fed at a
rate of mnearly 3,000,000 cubic feet
per second by the falling Ohio.
Crest At Paducah
The crest was still to come—now
hovering just above Paducah, Ky.
With rain and snow forecast, a
pick-and-shovel army of 100,000
toiled like beavers to fortify the
lbllllon-dollar levee system, ranging
southward from Cairo, that guards
;the rich cotton delta lands along
the Mississippi.
United States coast guard cut
ters shuttled up and down the
restive waters on “picket duty” te
lwatch for weak Sspots or new
breaks in the levees. !
Warned of impending danger,
new hordes of refugees streamed
from the low-lying marginal lands
along the Mississippi. |
Tent Cities
Tent cities sprang up on high
lands and bridges 30 miles from the
river to house temporary “orphans
of the flood.” At Barton, near He=
lena, Ark., a single concentration
camp received 15,000 refugees. Ten
additional centers were spotted.
Thousands of others were removed
to east Arkansas cities and te
Memphis. 1
And last night, in the darkness,
around the red-flaming camp
fires, voices lifted in prayertul,
hysteria-touched song:
“River, stay 'way from my door’’.
Every levee throughout the Mis=
sissippi system washolding today
—and U. 8. army engineers pre=
dicted they would continue to hold,
barring the unexpected.
Fight Own Battle
In Little Rock, Ark., Gov. Carl
E. Bailey declined eastern offers
of help, declaring Arkansas wants
to fight its own flood battle—with
aid only from the U. 8. army and
Red Cross — “until we are com
pletely licked.”
Memphis, safely perched on the
Chickasaw Bluffs, hummed with
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U. S. Navy Seaplanes
.
Arrive at Honolulu
. HONOLULU — ® _ Twelye
'giant United Stmees naval sea=
lplm:les roared over Honolulu in
|formation early today, 21 hourg and
156 minutes after leaving San Die
go, Calif., 2,568 miles over the
Pacific ocean. o
The squadron, carrying 80 men,
passed over the city at 3:51 a. m.
(921 a. m. ES.T.) preparatory to
landing on Pearl Harbor at the
end of their journey, 3
It was the greatest mass overs
water flight in aviation history,
‘but to the navy it was just o
routine transfer of equipment.”
cles must follow \closely, It is at
once apparent that the larger area
the flood covers, the more the Red
Cross relief and rescue work must
be expanded. This, of Ccoursa
means that more money will be
needed. s
So serious is the flood situation}%
that toady President Roosevelt or;g
dered Harry Hopkins, Works Pro
gress administrator; Major General
Markham, chief of army engineers;
Col. F. C. Harrington, army en
gineer attached to the White House,
and Surgeon General Thomas o
ren, jr., to proceed at once to
‘Memphis and set up headquarters.
Men of such responsible posts
‘would not have been sent into the
area “if the situation were not in
.deed distressing.
. In the immediately above Mem~
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