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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTCN ..INCH MIDDLING .. .. 14 1-4 c s MIDDLING o .. .. 13 3-4 c 1 'MIDDLING .. «o - o 13 1-de e Vol. 105. Mo, S 5 TH PICKET LINES TN TODAY ABOUT {ILLYWOOD STUDIOS Actors’ GCuild Defers lts Decision Until Next Sunday : FEDERATION STRIKES Claims 6,000 Members With 3,500 on Picket » Duty HOLLY WOOD—(P)—Thin picket | Enes were drawn today around the major motion picture studios as 11 unions of the . Federated Mo-i tion Picture Crafts went on stri‘ke,' The Actors’ Giuild, comprising many of the top notch stars, ha.s‘ deferred action for ene week on; the question of joining the walkoutl and has opened its own negotia tions with the producers. ! At Paramount and RKO, ,two of‘ the few remaining studios in thel actual business district of Holly-, wood, only a few dozen pickets wearing "F.M.P.C."" arm bands took up their posts. The Federation claimp 6,000 mem pers and has announced that 3,500 have been assigned to picket duty.| Among the early arriving stars ay Paramount and RKO were Karen Mortey, Ira Lupino, Charles Ruggles, Ralph Morgan, Frank Morgan and Fred Mac Murray. Basis of the dispute, which first flareqd into a strike last Friday night, is the Federated Crafts de mand on nine major companies for sole bargaining rights. For the first time in years, the United States’ two-billion-dollar motior: picture industry faced a serious production stoppage. Two thousand aectors and ac tresses, some unknown, others fa mous, but all aligneg with the Sereen Acters Guild, attended 2 meeting last night to vote on strike questions, Like the Federated Crafts, the guild is seeking a closed shop, B hesitated, however, at a decision which would throw 40,000 persons out of work and stop a weekly payroll of $1,500,000, ; Instead, Secretary Aubrey Blair announeced, the Guild instructed it# directors to begin conferences with producers on Wednesday and re port results to a general meeting sunday. The producers had already aereed to negotiate. Burlesque Theaters Go Into Courts in Effort To Break Closing Order NEW YORK.—(/)—The case nfg The City vs. Burlesque”’ went nto the courts today with the 141 hurlesque theaters of the metropo-‘ is dark and their owners gloomy-} Burlesque, still stunned by the| 'ity’s action in closing its thea-.: ters completely for the first time in history, prepared to battle for% its life, : ! Attorneys for ,the theaters saldt they would apply te the state su preme court today for a writ Of; mandamus. The attorneys planned to ask a| preliminary stay enjoining intei‘-[ ference with the shows pending a final hearing, after which theYl hoped the court ‘would compgel Commissioner of Licenses Paull Moss to issue new licenses re-; placing those which expired atl midnight Friday. ! However, the ecity's intention tul follow through on the fight was made known by Mayor LaGuardia himself in a statement pending Moss' action in refusing to !‘enew‘ e burlesque licenses, and strong-l ly criticizing the theater opera-; tors for “fith and lewness” or‘ their shows and their ‘‘brazen md arrogant attitude of defiance.” | GOVERNOR RESCINDS l ORDER; LIBERTY TAﬁs COLLECTOR REMAI M ATLANTA —(AP)— The gover nor's 'ifice announced today ﬁi would descind a previous order de “laring the office of T. H. Bagley, Liberty county tax collector. The order declaring Bagley's of it vicant was issued Saturday on the understanding of the governor it Bagley had failed to m&ke\l bond after his election, Downing Musgrove, executive 1 “cretary to the governor, sald to -44y in the absgence of the governor that the Liberty county ordinary j»hgums Rivers Saturday night and mformed im e held Bagley's bond, and had not sent it to the “Umptroller-general Migrove sald the ordinary told i Bagley was fil. .‘4”“' executive secretary said he (o recelved . Bagley's bond of sl,- " und the order rescinding the aniinal order would be jssued at The Liberty county official was "“horted to the governor as one of tight who failed to make bonds jiter thelr election. §ix of these LRI and @ ;e Laa L g 0 extension ;” M‘W‘M w ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Roosevelt And Followers Face Fundamental Battle With Old Line Democrats Southerners in Majority Of Those Lining Up Against FDR PROGRAM HELD UP Presidential Nominaticn In 1940 Involved in Present Strategy By RODNEY DUTCHER Banner-Herald Washington Cor responaent / WIASHINGTON, — If. the ucer tainty of many who are here on the scene may be taken as indicative seldom has there been such a period of general confusion as to the un derlying political situation in Washington, and the future move mentg of government, No gift of prophecy is necessary, however, to enable one to outline the essential fundamentalg of the present state of affairs, and to re veal what the chief characters in the play gre going to do—if .they can do what they want to do. You must start with the premise that the one great political force in the country today ig the Presi dent of the United States. i That does not mean that the power and prestige of Roosevelt iwon‘t or can’'t be crippled by co [amions of his opponents now form ing or yet to form against him, It [docs mean that it will take quite 'a. lot to beat the man in the White House and his program, There ig now coming into the open a fundamental clash between Roosevelt and his liberal follows ers on one side, and conservative Democrats—represented in Con gress mostly by southegners—on the other, Two great jissues are |at stake: 1. The successful progress or drastic curtailment (of the ‘ Roosevelt reform program. | 2. Control of the Democratic® party and itg presidential nom ination in 1940, The issues are closely entwined and the big question here in most minds is whether the Democratic party is to be a liberal, progres sive, forward-marching party sworn to social and economic re forms, or an old-fashioned Demo cratic party, more npearly like the one which nominated John W, Davis, the Morgan 'la.wyer, for president in 1924. Roosevelt is definitely committed to making a “new party” out of it. Everything Else Waits Virtually the entire JKegislative program has been pushed off into a corner pending the Senate vote on the Supreme Court reorgani zation plan. This, it can be said, is due to Roosevelt's sense of strategy, his belief that if he loses the court fight he can no longer be effective as a guide of legisla tion, and a fear of taking on more than one bhig battle with Congress at the same time, If he wins the court fight you need not be surprised to see him push right on with demands for his reorganization program, wage and hour llegislation; a broader and heavier tax program with no curtailment of relief; crop control and other farm legislation: hous ing legislation and pational plan ning projects more or less along the theme of TVA. Six months after his tremendoug (Continued on page three.) et —————— Southern Buildin outhern Build Shows Big U fmrd s Big Up Swing, Says Record BALTIMORE.—(#)—A spurt in private building boosted southern construction contract awards to $76,747,000 in April, the Manufac turers Record said today. The figure, an Increase of §O,- 000,000 over the preceding month, raised the total for the year to $266,781,000. The publication said contracts amounting to $23,659,000 for build- ings sucn as apartment houses, | banks, office structures, residences, | hotels, churches and siores repre-j sented the highest total since January, 1936, Dwelllng construction for April amounted to $13,608,000, the mag azine said; apartment and hotet work $4,437,000 and stores $3,960,« 000, 1 Road work amounted to $1%8,- 369,000 in April, the highest monthly total in a year, while in dustrial construction contracts aggregated $20.481,000, an increase of ‘more than $5,000,000 over Aprlll a year ago. Listed among the projects was a $600,000 plant gponsored by the Georgla Power company for plac ing wires underground at Colum bus, Ga. 1 Developments in the southern{ paper manufacturing field, were described as including news that | Hollingsworth and Whitney com pany of Boston were making in vestigations with a view to possi ble establishment of a plant at Mobile, Ala., while work is going ahead on various southern paper plants, including the Brunswick Pulp and Paper company factory in Georgia. The magazine also said .the @lidden company, paint makers, is to build a S2OOOOO plant at Val e OBe - L DuPont and Raskob Answer Charges of Income Tax Division NEW YORK —(®)— Two of the nation’s biggest industri alists and financiers, Pierre 8. DuPont and John J. Raskob, appeared before the U, §. Boqrd of Tax Appeals today to face charges that they en gaged in fictitious stock sales to. each other to establish losseg in their 1929 income tax. They were accompanied by a dozen or so attorneys. Richard L. Disney, a member of the U, S. Board of Tax Appeals, presided at the hearing, The cases against DuPont and Raskob were severed. . The DuPont case came up first and it was expected -that it would take several days, to be followed by the Raskob case, Co-Defendants of Parkers Suddenly Make Guilty Pleas NEWARK, N. J—(AF)— Three co-defendants of Ellis H. Parker and his son, Elis, jr., suddenly changed their pleas to guilty in federal court today immediately after a jury was sworn to try the five on conspiracy charges grow ing out of the Wendel sequel to the Lindbergh kidnaping. The three are Martin Schlossman, Harry Weiss and Murray Bleefeld. Federal Judge William Cuark, ac cepted the guilty pleas. : Schlossman and Weiss were con victed and Bleefeld pleaded guilty to a state kidnaping charge in Brooklyn in connection with the charge of Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton attorney, that he was ab ducted and forced to confess false ly to the Lindbergh kidnaping. Counsel for the Parkers had charged earlier in the trial that some of the Brooklyn defendants planned to turn government wit nesses. United States Attorney John J. Quinn denied today that he had any advance knowledge of the plans of the Brooklyn men to plead guil ty. ‘Husband of Former % ~Athens Woman Dies ! g e ‘ John Nevett Owen of Jackson iville. Fla., passed away early Sun tlda_v morning. He was recently | stricken with an attack of angina, !hul after a rest resumed his werk [with the Southeastern Oil company, las traveling salesman, which posi: ’U’on he had held for several years, | About ten days ago complications !' arose and his condition grew worse, ‘H(z was forced to enter the hospi i tal where he died. | Mr. Owen is survived by his !wil'f‘. Mrs. Rosa Munday Owen, | formerly of Athens, who is the sis 4!”' of Mrs. John Henderson, and Iu niece of Mrs. Alice Adams and 'l\lrsA W. P. Briggs; a brother, { Prof. Filliam Owen, head of the ;Numl School of Architecture, of New York; an aunt, Mrs. Lulie {.\'('\'(‘tl Oates, New York; an un | ele, C. D. Flanigen and cousins, | Mrs. H. M. Heckman, Miss Jean { Fianigen and Douglas Flanigen of this city:; John Monteith Flanigen luf Atlanta, and - Major Barrington Flanigen of the U. S. Army. ! His parents were the late Capt. | Wyatt Owen, and Mrs. Sarah Ne :vnt Owen of Athens. Funeral and xintm‘ment were held in Jacksonville It(umy. Rosenwald Fund Honors Dr. HW. Caldwell And Miss Mildred Mell ATLANTA-—(#)—Five Georgians, two newspapermen and three uni versity officials, are among 19 white southerners awarded fellow ships averaging $1,600 by the Juli us Rosenwald Fund for the study of problems afféeting the South. The winners of the awards an nounced by Bdwin R, Embree, president of the fund, through Raymond Paty of BEmory Univer gity, director of the special com mittee which made them, were se lecteq from 800 candidates. The Georgians to whom fellow ships have been awarded are: James Soule Pope, assistant managing editor of The Atlanta Journal, for study of the relations ship of the press to political par ties in England and on the conti nent, ‘¥ . Ralph Emerson McGill, sports oditor of The Atlanta Constitution, gor investigation of the relationship of the press to land tenure and minority groups in Ireland ang on Athens, Ga., Monday, May 3, 1937. Blame Terrorism on Deputies DR TR A R R SRANEAEREN R R R LU SRR N e DR R R 2 AR B i S AT RN B W "‘-‘.“ 3 ¥ i . AR TR . e R N . ; R Ll e g RN g N & B i 3 & AR R e SR B PRI . TR SaaiE et . L & B Ry 5 e DR 3 3 A RS R e g S L S R i S R R R N e S Refusal to assist sheriff’s depu ties in the slaying of Bennett Musick, son of a union organizer, brought retribution in the form of an attempted assassination by them, Hugh Taylor (below), former Harlan County, Ky., dep uty, charged before the Senate Civil Liberties Inquiry in Wash= ington. David = Sullenberger (top), young truck driver riding with Taylor, confirmed the stoa of the attack in which bo & were wounded. 3 I’W&%% s s e B R e e & Lo 3 /?i, s : S | By O U e e S s e " e O . G f,j}ﬁfi}?ﬁi?EE?‘ETEEEEE;EQE:%?E;?-?l:i=:ff;l;i}.;i;,v..:jf-?-_ e es e R - ¢ e B s e BN G N T 3 O WBoG e i R B v e : Py Mo st E 50 M oo e A s B T e 8 TRI By : T % = A s s T o B, et SRS RS, SIMPSON FAEE ‘TO MARRY WINDSOR | Wally Is Granted Divorce Today by British Court; Edward Leaves Austria i AINTANAINT AN «™7 ‘H’, LA U TOTUVAW |bit of British court routine freed Wallis Warfield Simpscn finally ll’rom her nine-year-old marriage to a London ship's broker today and started Edward of Windsor from his lonely Austrian retreat toward his betrothed in the French Touraine, ; l The final divorce decree was | rronounced with a minimum of lostentation before a handful of spectators in the London divorce court. Sir Boyd Merriman, pre siding judge, nodded his head and said the words that freed Mrs. Simpson for the last act of Eng ‘land's.classic drama of conflict between crown and cupid. Less than two hours later, the Duke of Windsor, until last Dec ember Edward VIII, King of Eng land, announced he was leaving | Austria at once for Tours, France. Near Tours, Mrs. Simpson re mained in seclusion at the Cha teau De Cande. At the chateau, Mrs. Simpson’s spokesman continued to insist that there would be no wedding until ]aher May 12, when Edward's bre ther, George VI, is to be crowned ;with his queen in Loplon town. | But the fact remained that | Mrs. Simpson, who married Ern l (Continued on page three.) the continent, Dr. Harmon White (ffnldwvll,l president of the University of | Georgia, for study of thz hismry{ of English universities at Iremndm‘ Dr. Goodrich C. White, dean of the college of liberal arts, Emuryi }Universlty. for study of the devel opment of higher education in the Netherlands ‘ Mildred Rutherford Mell, acting dean of Shorter college, Rome, for soclological study at the Univer gity of North Carolina. : Pope plans to leave for England on May 20; MecGill in the late fall, and Dean White on January L. Eligible for the followships, fund officials announced, were no¢ only 'gcholars and scientlsts, but also 'W‘mu “who may plan to go into lthe professions or the fine arts or into agriculture, journalism or cre ative writing, education, business or public service,” Winners of the awards “expect to make their ca § by i? 4 oy : & 4 ~ESTABLISHED 1832— CUT N ROOSEVELT RELIEF BUDGET s ~ AGAIN THREATENED House Committee Hear ings on Deficiency Bill Is Begun ASK PWA EXTENSION Presidential Message on Integration of Power Development Awaited WASHINGTON. — (&) — The start of house hearings on a re lief-deficiency money bill brought more talk today of cutting one third from .the $1,500,000,000 rec ommended by President Roosevell for 1938 relief spending. Rep. Woodrum (D.-Va.), acting chairman of the sub-committee holding the hearings, said he be lieved congress’ present economy mood might result in such a cut, Speaker Bankhead expressed the belief a final decision on the amount would be held in abey ance until the President returns from his fishing trip. Relief spending has caused the bulk of the federal deficits. This year's federal spending has been‘ at a rate indicating the total will be nearly $2,000,000,000. y In addition Works Progress Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins said in a statement yesterday that state and local governments spen sl,- 245,000,000 for relief in 1936 and would spend mecere this year. ‘While economy discussion cen tered for the present on relief spénding, congressional leaders looked for other sources of po tential reductions. Woodrum ‘wrote heads of 32 in dependent federal agencies asking them to re-examine their budgets and help congress cut at least 10 r-erce\nt from their requested ap prepriations. A flat 10 percent cut and a pro posal to impound 15 percent of appropriations were the two ‘ma jor suggested aprroaches to the economy preblem, but there was talk of giving each individual item consideration. Secretary Ickes asked a house appropriations sub-committee to approve extension of the active life of the Public Works Adminis tration for two years mere. The P. W. A. chief appeared at closed hearings on a measure to permit the federal works agen cy to use its $150,000,000 revelv ing fund to finance new projects during the next two years begin ning July 1. Unless congress acts, PWA will expire June 30. Hearings on the relief-deficien cy appropriations bill, which Rep- Woodrum (D.-Va.) has suggested might be trimmed $500,000,000 to reduce relief spending for next year to an even $1,000,000,000, will follow the PWA study, probably Wednesday. In saying that he believed con gress might make the $500,000,000 relief cut, Woodrum asserted there was no prospect of early action. A presidential message on na- (Continued on page three.) Atlanta Club Will Give Free Concert On Ag Hill Tonight The Georgia Evening School of Atlanta, will give a concerty at the Physical Education building on the College of Agriculture campus this evening at 8:30 o’clock, The program is free and the public is Inviteq to attend. . Th; program, sponsored by the College of Agriculture clubs, is expected to draw one of the larg- est crowds of the season on Ag [hill. Not only students of the University of Georgia but the peo ple of Athens are invited by the 4-H elub to attend. Approximate ly 1,900 persons are expected. Frank Downer, presideny of 4-H clubs, announced thig mornin Dean Paul W, Chapman ang for- Imm' Chancellor Charles M. Snell ting will be in charge of program, This group of entertainers, sim flar to a glee club, is one of the leading in the state. They have lmade numerous appearances over ‘the state buy this is their first appearance in thig section, Dean Chapman is responsible for |the program. He witnessed one of Itheir programs recently in Atlanta ‘ana invited the club to appear at ‘tha University, He sald this morn |lng “This is one of the best con certs of {ts kind T have ever heard. The students have shown a great deal of Interest in the event and have ecompleted special arrange- ments to seat a capacity "rn‘wd,[ We also urge the people of Ath ent to be present”, ‘ There will he no admission charge. The roadg to the bullding | ore newly paved and good park-! Ing space is available The program is as follows’ Asslsted hy “The Playcrafters”. | John D, Hoffman, director; Frank | Sule, tenor: J. T. Pittman, A companist and plano soloist; Mrs. }:{ C. Adams, soprano-guest uoln-, Invoeation of Orpheus — Jm-op#! Perl; My Heart Commands Itself| To Thee—Orlando DI Lusse; The | N Asks PWA Extension Italians Reported Trapped ‘At Bermeo; Loyalist Troops - Encircling Important Port Speaker and Jaycee Head o 0 OA P R T S | A RN ??_\'-\ R o ¢‘\\:\\‘\\¢}\Q\“\\\‘ BAR RROO B SRR T S RR R SRR BT R S TSR Ry S, A R R BR A N N e e O \‘\ \\ TR O e L R A R AR TR - e A '\i‘}\.\".*!'?'?i?-i R S e S e TR S Rt e R SR ;:}:i:_’:;':{;}ﬁ:k::::i:i 3 ST R B s LN 5 B SR SEOOGRIRR R R e BB R R R R SR ROl ] R AR e e B O AN y\ B R R ‘:;;35;:;:;:;5;555;-;:“:‘;5;555"f:;ig,’;‘:&gf;f;:‘;5:15.{:53i;f_:.’;i;i:frfri_:f:.'c.‘:?:.‘»?-’f B R R R ;;:::;' o R R . SR R -":.‘;:;:;;:‘.’;’:«:-:a:r‘,-:-:1:~:‘:‘:1:1:?:-'1.‘1:1:‘ (S 2 BB S Y t e SRR R 8 E s;s3;s»s:»::;:.:;s:fgmiﬁgﬁgggﬁig:: s T e R : SRS SRS B R 4 e : DRSS S R SR eil RS R TR SRR 8 S : 3 e » : ; i GOV. E. D. RIVERS TWO GEORGIANS ARE KILLED IN WRECKS Baxley World War Veter an and Savannah Woman Victims SAVANNAH, GA.—(#)— Leroy Sellers;, 40-year-old Baxley Wrorld War veteran, was killed and three other persons ilnjured when Sel lers’ automobile collided with a bus at Midway yesterday. M. E. Graham, jr, of Jackson ville, alone in the bus was cut and bruised, The bus was en route to pick up pasengers on another bus at Midway. The other injuree®, both riding with ‘Sellers, were Miss Aletha Lamb, his niece, and Miss Mary Murphy of Baxley. Both weraz pain fully, but not geriously, injured. Young Wioman killed ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA,—(#)— A young Savannah, Ga, woman was fatally injured gnd several othey persons hurt in an automo ble accident about twelve mnes‘ north of nere early today. 1 Mrs, Edward Taylor of No, 652 East 36th street, Savannah, Ga, was dead upop arrival at a local hespital, She was 18 years old. Other occupants of the car in which Mrs. Tayloy was riding in cluded her husband and parents, Mr, and Mrs, H. A. Heath and ths later’s young grandson, Herbert Tutten, all of the game address. Acocrding to only merger infor mation avallable, the ESavannah party was enreuate home after spending the week-end in St. Au gustine with relatives. Extent of inuries to ~ others in the capr had not beep fully deter minea. Hospital attendants, how ever, said they believed the others were not seriously hurt. Mrs. . Frank Rhodes Dies Sunday; Husband Passed Three Days Ago ATLANTA, A~ Double fun eral services were being arranged today for Mr, and Mrs. J. Frank Rhodes, formerly of Athens who died thre days apart in the same room at their home on Ponce De Leop avenue, Mrs. Rhodes died of a heart at tack late Sunday. Her husband died of a similap ailment Friday. I3oth were prominent in church and leivie work., ! Surviving are three daughters ers“R. BE. McClure, of HoOllywood, xF‘m.: Mrs. W, E. Frye, of Flat i Koek, N, C. and Mrs. Anna R, Har {rison of Atlanta, and three sons, lHarry of Orlando; B H., of Miamij tand J. ¥. Rhodes of Jacksonville Athenians Attended War School Held in Atlanta on Weekend Several Athenians, members of the Reserve Officers Assoclation, spent the week-end in Atlanta, where a two-day school in defense methods was held at Fort Mec- Pherson. Among the Athenians attending the meeting were Colonel T. H. McHatton, Major Pope Holliday, Captain M. A. Hubert, Captain Harold B. Hodgson, Captain O. J. Tolnas, First Lieutenants D. IL. Turpin, Prince A. Hodgson, John Bondurant, Olin Price, Bill Arm strong, Tom Whitehead, Jack Yow, M. N. Tutwiler, and Second Lieutenant Lamar Greene and e L L e A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 2c—s¢ Sundayz B R RS S e e g PR B RSB -1 o R BRI e B Re B 3 PR : R e e R B. e e BB R RN e eSO SR R B R it :'41.1:-;-;-:-. s e BR A A B R S R O B ey [ S B R R et il R ;;;.Mr‘ i ta s s ,3};,;_;;;;,;,;;,_;;;,:; . O o e 0 e R BRSSPI R R AR N R B GBI R s . 1 g g B oe e oAR e s B s i R g 3 St e 3 % oS e B G B R :'%°: & GILBERT ROBERSON AIVERS 15 SPEAKER ~ HERE THIS EVENING Program Begins at 7:30 With WTFI Coming on Air at 8:00 By HINTON BRADBURY The Governor of Georgia 'will be guest speaker tonight at the Junior Chamber of Commerce banguet beginning at 7:30 o'clock at the Georgian hotel, The pro gram will be broadcast by WTFI. As special guests tonight will be 65 ren, all of whom are state offi cials and well-known Athenians, This is the first banquet for the recently organized young men's organization ,which boasts a mem bership of 145, The program opens at 7:30 with 30 minutes of musical entertain ment. This will be followed by an address of welcome by Mayor T. 8. Mell. Included on the gala pro gram will be the Georgia Bulldog Orchestra, the University Glee club and other acts. The large Georgian hotel ball room ‘will be filed to capacity with the almost 160 Jaycees and their 65 guests. Officers of the organization were forced to limit the list of guests to heads of the different organizations, city and county officers and a few others, due to syace. The Junior Chamber of Com merce, organized only a few weeks ago, is today ong of the largest and fastest growing organizations in the city. Well known young (Continued on page three.) Unemployed Census Receives Attention Of Senate Committee WASHINGTON . —(#)—Proposals for a census of the unemyloyed received consideration today by a senate commerce sub-committee, despite the'opposition of President Roosevelt . The commerce department’'s buse iness advisory council and other groups advocating the census have contended it is the best means of determining the exact number of idle. The unemployed total is esti mated at about 9,000,000 by the two agencies which make regular calculations, the National Indus trial Conference Board and the American Federation of Labor. Their figures, however, do not represent a person - by = person check. The number of persons at work in non-agricultural industries in March was estimated last night at 94,138,000 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was a gain of 8,241, 000 over March, 1933. Although the total was only 1,- 289,000 lower than the figure for March, 1929, Secretary Perkins gald it does not mean that unem ployment has been reduced to within that margin of the 1929 level. Chamber of Commerce Wants List of Rooms Athenians with rooms available for renting over the week-end are requested to notify the Chamber of Commerce. It was announced today that various meetings of statewide importance scheduled here for this week-end have caused & shorwge I accommodations at the hotels and those with roomg to reut in private homes are asked to let the Chamber of Commerce know in advance so that reserva tions may be made for them by out of-town visitors. s i bty 1 lH oo E‘ ; ECUE OF 3,000 CHILDREN WILL BE MADE AT ONGE British and French War Patrol Protects Bilbao Refugees e ‘sl, JEAN DE LUZ, FRANCE— (#)-—Scores of Italians from ap in surgent army column today were reported trapped at Bermeo, Om Bay of Biscay coast about 8 miles from Bilbao, the sl A Basque officer, reaching Bil bao, said they wore leaping into the sea and attempting to ¢wim to the eastern shore of Gernica inlet, 2 miles away, The Basque reports said gove ernment troops had encircled Ber= meo, a small but important port. (In London, authorized spokess men meanwhile gaid 5,000 children | shortly would be evacuated from beseiged Bilbao under prm ction of British guns. British an&ew ‘merchant ships. will cooperate in ‘taking out noncombatants )" ' Diplomatic quarters heard today that the Spanish government had sent its biggest ‘battleship, the Jaime Primero, to the Bay of Bis~ 'cay off Bilbao, apparently in a Imove to shell insurgent lines taround the Basque capital, e ' British and French Men-of-Wag | patrolled the bay today to protect !mer(-hant vessels bringing the first Irefugees out of Bilbao, e Diplomats asserted the Jaime !}"rimero. carrying »2-inch guns, | probably would be able to strike | a crushing blow against insurgent vessels oberating in the bay, pare ticularly since the sinking by gov=« ernment planes of the insurgents' lheavlest warship the Espaa. o | While strict secrecy surrounded ‘the plan, lest Spanish insurgent | warships interfere, diplomatic re | ports indicated nine PEritish |treighters hag left or would soon leave the Basque capital with some 5,000 women and children. ' With Gey Hmilio Mola's insur= | gents reported only elght miles | trom Bilbao, there was no surety | that more of the populace—swollen to at least 350,000 by the influx of lrefugess —could be taken to safe= ty. | | “he British battleship Royal Oak | ; s (Continued on page three) . Athens High Military ' Department Is Rated ! Honor High School Athens High school’s Junior mili tary department has been awarded the rating of “Honor High School,” according to a letter received to day by Superihtendent B. M M‘; from Major General George Van Horn Moseley. jj; - “r‘%ﬁ The letter follows: v Rl Mr. B. M. Grier, A Superintendent, Athens FHigh School, o B ”’Z‘ Athéns, Ga. o My dear Mr. Grier: e } It is a pleasure to advise you that as a result of the Report of the Proficiency Inspection of Junior ROT'C units this year, Athens % school has been awarded rating of l"Hunm' High School.” i I wish to extend to youw. and through you to the facultyﬁw‘ Regular Army personnel, ang z;,y » ROTC students themselves —my congratulattons on the high rating that has been earned, based, i is, on proficiency in instruction, training, discipline, leadership and morale. L MR Very sincerely Youﬂ.g GEO. VAN HORN MOSELEY, Major General, Commanding: LOCAL WEATHER GEORGIA; e ! Mostly Cloudy 5 & lsh Tonight and = - Tuesday, Possi» % s}?‘.3’@ e bly Occasionai SRR Rain in West %ﬁ g and Extreme A P! South Portions; s &:y&»"___."" ’i Not Much Change g 6\, . in Temperature, k 3 b.. : b o RN e TEMPERATURE Highestuess ssds ansthe osaalifioh LOWESL. vae sbes Snsn anisy NS “ MOAN .. vs sssel sl sishoyes DL N NOTIMGL: s s s ias anis wenbasißog RAINFALL £ Inches last 24 h0ur5,....... T, i Total since May 1.....c0eun 8 Deficiency since May f.... .58 ;*%f Average May rainfall....,. 8.68 ;’; Inches since January 1.......25.““”{; Excess since Janualy L. s.l§

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