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Vol. 105.- No. 247,
DUCE'S WARNING SPIKES HOPE OF INTERVENTION END
Anti-Centralization Campaign Mowves to N. Georgia
JEW COUNTIES JOIN
WOVEMENT T 0 KEEP
COMVUNITY POWER
Meetings Held at Ameri
cus and Waycross
Adopt Program
Allocation of Additional
One-Cent of Cas Tax
Advocated
ATLANTA. () ——The County
Commissioners Association of
Georgia, successful in middle and
gouth Georgia, prepared Saturday
to seek north Georgia suppert of
its legislatve program and cam
paign against state assuraption of
certain local government func
tions. 5
C. A. Matthews, chairman of
the association bhoard of managers,
announced the program would be
placed before northwest Georgia
county officials at Rome Tuesday
and northeast Georgia heads at
Gainesville Wednesday. i
County officials meeting in Mil
ledgeville, Wayeross, Statseboro
and Americus this week indorsed
the association’s program and op
posed a legislative tax committee’s{
rroposal that the state take over
county roads. 4
Matthews said Saturday the
Gilmer county grand jury at Eli
jay had also indorsed the pro
gram.
Activity over the road and other
rroposals _of the. tax committee
gave QGeorgia a decmed% warm
political atmosphere. |
Former Gover&or Talmadge en- |
tered the scene at Bainbridge, urg
ing election of offieials “to curb
governmental tendencies.” He
charged the present administration
with “attempts to abolish county
rights.”
Governor Rivers resumed on a
major scale for the first time
since his recent illness an exten
sive speaking tour expounding
his school, health, and social se
curity program.
He likewise listed several en
gagements for next ‘week, andl
planned to conclude legislative |
conferences leading up to the spe-'
cial November session of the as-!
sembly.,
Next Saturday, he will meet
with the tax commtitee to dis
cuss legislative reactions to tax
reform proposals. He will dis
cuss the program with county
commissioners later.
S ————
AMERICUS MEETING !
AMERICUS, Ga,—Commission
ers of 12 counties meeting here
indorsed the legislative program
of the Association of County Com
missioners of Georgia, pledging
support to a fight against further
centralization of government at
the state capitol.
C. A. Matthews, of DeKalb
county, chairman of the associa
tion's board of governors, exrlain
ed that the association program
does not oppose the state admin
istration or any state officer, but
is aimed at protecting the inter
ests of the counties,
Strong Protests
Strong protests against the
Plan to have the state take over
all country roads were voiced by
Commissioners attending the meet
ing,
T. O. Marshall, chairman of
the Sumter county commission,
said it will be impossible for the
State to take -over ‘all’ of the
Toads, |
Mr. Marshall said it would,
Mean the creation of 25 or 30
more divisions of the highway de
bartment and result in tremen-]
dous overhead cost, including en
tineers and red tape. He pointed
out that there are delays now .in
correcting emergencies in the
State highway system.
Ask Control Return
The commissioners pointed out
that county commissioners know
the needs of their localities and
are able to serve the people i““
local matters better and chearer.
They asked that the state return
0 the counties control which hasf
already been taken from the local
governments. |
The plan of making optional
the proposal for the state to take
over county roads was branded as
simply -an attempt to do indi
rectly what -.cannot be done di
rectly. The counties will find that
they will have to come into the
rlan, if it is adopted for any of
Georgia's counties, it was said.
STATE CONTROL ; b
PLAN ATTACKED b s
WAYCROSS, Ga.—(#)—A pro
posal of a state legislative com
mittee that the state take over
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Two Garr Brothers
Freed; Case Against
Third to Be Quashed
SHELBYVILLE, Ky.—(#)—Coun
ty Attorney Coleman Wright indi
cated Saturday he would con
sent to dismissdal of murder char
ges against Dr. E, S. Garr, view
ing prosecution hopeless after the
freeing of the other two brothers
accused of slaying Brig. General
Henry H. Denhardt.
Thus was indicated the early
writing of a final chapter .in the
blood-smeared romance of Vernu
Garr Taylor, sister of the three
defendants, and the officer killed
while accused of her death,
A jury of farmers last night
freed Roy Garr. Jack Garr had
‘been freed by a directed verdict
‘'several hours previously. Dr. Garr
had beem absent from the trials as
“too ili mentally” to attend, and
was in an institution.
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
AMERICA 70 PEACE
INNEW STATEMENT
Major Battle Rages in
Shanghai for City’s Key
point
WASHINGTON —(#)— President
Roosevelt pledged the United Stat
es again Saturday to aid ip the
restoration of “confidence and
order among nations” in a world
threatened by international law
lessness and strife.
.In an Armistice Day proclama
tion, he called upon the American
people to make the November 11
annivexsary of the ending of the
‘World War the occasions for dem
onstrating America’'s desire for
peace.
Describing the forthcoming day
as the 19th anniversary of “the
cessation of the most destructive,
canguinary and far-reaching war
in human annals,” the President
declared:
“Lawlessness and strife in many
parts of the world which now
threaten international security and
even civilization itself, make it
particularly {fitting that we should
again express our wish to pursue
a policy of peace, to adopt every
practicable means to avoid war, to
work for the restoration of con
fidence and order among nation®
and to repeat that the will to
peace still characterizeg the great
majority of the peoples of the
earth.”
He did not mention specific
cases of “lawlessness and strife”
but it was evident that he refer
red to the undeclared war in the
Far Bast between China and Ja
pan and the long, sanguinary civil
strife in Spain.
GREAT BATTLE RAGES
By MORRIS J. HARRIS
SHANGHAI. —(®— The great
battle north of Shanghai, with
possession of the Yangtze delta at
stake, Sunday went into its fourth
day with no sign of abatement,
Through a maze of creeks an@
canals heavily reinforced Chinese
and Japanese armies fought des
perately, the Japanese seeking to
smash the 25-mile front northwest
‘of thig city, the Chinese striving
to hold the lines by which they
maintaln contact with Shanghai.
The Chinese hold appeared to
be b: unghaken at least in Chapei,
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Dudley Enters Candidacy
For Mayor In City Primary
A. G. Dudley yesterday en
tered the Democratic primary for
mayor He had previously tender
ed his resignation as member of
the Civil Service Commission.
Mayor T. S. Mell last Sunday
announced = his candidacy for re
nomination in the election which
will be held November 23.
In announcing his candidacy,
former Mayor Dudley called at
‘}tentlon to some of the accom
~plishments of his administrations
'as head of the city government
‘and promised -to follow similar
policies if he is elected to another
} term. :
Mr. Dudley served five terms
of two years each as mayor and
;was succeeded two years ago by
Mr. Mell.
During his administrations, the
former mayor pointed out, many
improvements were made by the
lclty, government, including the
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Science Finds Ways To Measure Esp, The Sixth Sense-—
How Good a Mind Reader Are YOU:?
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pack, the subject points to a key card. The researcher puts the
card in the pile indicated by the tip of the pointer protruding under
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into five piles to correspond to
the key cards, which are marked
with star, circle, square, plus sign
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Ballots Mailed in
Chamber Commerce
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Ballotg have been mailed out to
members of the Chamber of Com
merce containing fourteen names
seven of whick are too be elected
directors of the body.
The ballots will be counted
‘Wednesday night, QOctober 27, ana
results anpounced. This is Past
President’s Night and music and
other features of entertainmen!
will be presented.
Nominated on the ballot are W,
R, Bedgood, Lee Bradberry, E. B.
Braswell, B. S, Dobbs, Harry
Hodgson, J. Swanton Ivy, Lee
Morris, V, W. McGwier, Abit Nix,
Sam Nickerson, Lee Price, J. J.‘
Thomas, James Thornton and
Walter Wellman. ;
Carry-over directors, who wili
serve with the seven to be elevt
ed, are Ralph Gloyd, Tate Wright,
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tive tests are conducted like this—two simultaneously sort their shuffled decks into five piles corre
sponding to the key cards placed between them.» Although Dr. Rhine's experiments indicate the exist
ence of a sixth sense, he and his associates still are mystified as to the way it works. - However, sub
jects in general exhibit about the same degree of ESP in all tests and the degree of ability varies
widely in this as in other faculties.
Pl KAPPA ALPHA
WINS BIFTAD CUP
Homecoming Week-end
Is Quitest in Years; No
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Biftad club’s cup, awarded an
nually to the fraternity or sorority
having ' the best decorations for
Homecoming, was presented Pi
Kappa Arpha fraternity last night
at the final dance of the week
end.
Dean Willilam Tate, one of the
judges in the consest, presented
the cup to Hilton Wall, of Atlanta,
president of thersPi K. A.
The winning decorations were
cleverly arranged, and a majority
of those who made a tour of the
fraternities and sororities, were
of the same opiinon as the judges.
On one side of the walkway was a
huge spider web, woven between
Itwo trees. Caught in the net was a
fly dressed in Mercer colors, and
coming down from the tree to
pounce upan the victim was a
‘liuge spider, with a Bulldog head
on it, dressed n Georgia's colors.
On the other side of the walk
way was a chapel bell, also dec
orated in Georgia colors, which
pledges of the fraternity rang
last night following the Bulldog
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warmer Sunday; Monday in
creasing cloudiness and warm
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How good a mind reader are you? Dr. J, B. Rhine of Duke Univer
sity has been trying to find out in experiments to determine the
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existence of a “sixth sense,” referred to as ESP or extra,‘sensory
perception.”® The researcher, left, shuffles and turns a deck®of spe
cial cards, Subject guesses the card turned. Five out of 25 correct
shows exceptional ESP.
They Sought to Deprive
Captain of Authority, Is
Claim Made
BALTIMORE. ~—(#)— Eighteen
members of the crew of the
freighter Algic were loaded into
patrol wagons Saturday night and
taken befere a United States Com
missioner for hearing op charges
of seeking to deprive their captain
of authority in a foreign port.
The charges were made in war
rants issued by the United States
distriect attorney’s office after
studying the log of the vessel's
strife-ridden vovage to Buenos
JAires and return,
. Captain Joseph A. Gainard of
the Algic, a . government-owned
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Mys. O’Day Looks Forward
To Dinner Here, She Says
Qver long distance telephone to
The Banner-Herald yvesterday,
Congresswoman Caroline o'Day
declared she is “leoking forward”
to the dinner here tomorrow night
in her honor.
Mrs. - O’Day, who attended the
wedding of her son in Atlanta
yesterday afternoon, will arrive in
Athens some time Monday and
after a visit to Lucy Cobb Insti
tute dormitory, where she attend
ed school as a girl, will be enter
tained at the dinner at the Y. W.
C. A.., beginning at 7 o'clock.
The program will be compieted by
9 o'clock, because Mrs. O'Day
must return to Atlanta that night
to board a plane for New York.
The occasion will be informal.
Tickets for the dinner, sponsor
ed by the Clarke County Young
Democratic club, have been sold
out, John L. Green, chairman of
Black Is Due For
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First Opinion As
New Court Member
WASHINGTON.— (#) —Unless
Justice' Hugo L. Black departs
from custom, he will write during
the next two weeks his first opin
ions as a member of the Surreme
Court.
Following the regular Saturday
secret conference, the tribunal
will meet briefly on Monday to
announce action on petitions and
then adjourn until November 8.
~ In the meantime justices will
devote their entire time to writ
ing opinions on the cases. They
were argued during the last fort
night. Most of the opinions will
be delivered on November 8.
For two weeks the new jurist
has remained silent while he lis
tened to attorneys arguing the
litigation before the tribunal.
What opinions Black will 'write—
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W.C.T.U. to Oppose
Local Option Plan
At Savannah Parley
~ SAVANNAH, GU.—(P)—Propos~
als for local option legalization of
liquor in Georgia are to receive at
tention at the 54th annual con
vention of the Georgia Woman’s‘
Christian Temperance! Union open
ing here Tuesday. |
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, for
ber W.C.T.U. president, said Sat
urday resolutions probably would
be directed to the special Noveme
ber session of the legislature urg--l
ing continuance of prohibition in
Georgia,
“We don’t want them to do any
thing to make Georgia any wet
ter,”” she said.
Mrs. Armor said local option
prohibition repeal ‘“‘doesn’t mean n!
thing in the world but that the big
cities will rule the state, I
ROOSEVELT ADVISES
PAY-A5-YOU-50 FOR
FINANGING AG. PLAN
New Taxes Must Provide
Additional Income, Says
President
WASHINGTON—(#)— President
Roosevelt wrote congressional lead
ers Saturday that any new costs
caused by the new farm program
should be covered “100 per cent by
additional receipts from new tax
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+ That fact, plus studies being
made by agriculture departmpnt
expertg for house and senate com
mittees, pointed strongly to early
efforts toward reviving some of
the processing taxes which went
out with the old AAA,
Mr. Roosevelt stressed that he
wanteq a farra program that would
be continuous and permaneni and
added: l
“It is especially important that
any new legislation should not un
balance the expected balancing of
the budget. In other words, no ad
ditional federal expenditures from
the general fund of the treasury
should he made over and above
existing planned expenditures. The
only exception to this would be
the incurring of additional obliga
tions on the part of the treasury,
backed 100 per cent by additional
receipts from new taxes.”
The President’s viewg were out-‘
lined in letters to Chairmen Smith
of the senate agriculture commit
tee and Jones of the house agri
culture committee,
Br&fly, the farm plan outlined
by Mr. Roosevelt would:
Safeguard farm incomes and soil
fertility.
Provide for storage of food sup
»plies in an ever normal granary.
Give surplus contrel but pre
gerve -export markets,
Keep steady prices for farm
products,
Keep local administration in the
handg of farmers,
He emphasized that any device
that sought to regulate prices
should be coupled with control of
the amount produced, and that the
whole plan shold “be financed by
sound fiscal methods.”
Mr. Roosevelt said that the soil
}conservutlon features of the pres
‘ent farm act should be retailned
in the new one, though he added
that ‘t was not strong enough “to
keep farm surpluseg from wreck
ing farm prices and farm income.”
“We must never again invite the
collapse of farm prices, the step
page of farm buying and the de
moralization of business that fol
lowed the federal farm board's
attempt to maintain farm pricesl
without control of farm surpluses,”
he said. l
EDITOR DIES
COLUMBUS, Ga.—(P)—Fred G.
Storey, editor of the Columbus
Enguirer since 1930, died Saturday
of a heart attack.
The 67-year-old veteran news
paperman was stricken in his of
fice and died before medical aid
could be summoned. He recently
returned to ‘work after an illness
of more than a month.
Storey was connected with the
Columbus Ledger before becoming
editor of the Enquirer when the
R. W. Page corporation took it
over. :
Survivors include his widow,
two sons, Fred G. Storey, jr., con
nected with the advertising de
partment of the Atlanta Journal,
and Dr. Bdward Storey of Co
lumbus, and two daughters, Mrs.
FRANCO RUSHES HIS
}News Agency Says ltaly
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VOICE OF MUSSOLINI
Russian Opposition to the
Itaiian Plan Adds to
| Troubles Vo
By JAMES B. RESTON =
LONDON—(#)—A. fascist warn
ing that Italy had made her last
concession, coupled with unyielding
,Rusaia.n opposition to the Italian
' stand, Saturday swept away Bu
i Tope’s optimism for a settlement
of the problem of foreign inter
vention in the Spanish Civil war,
The 68th session of the non-in
tervention sub-committee hag been :%
called for Tuesday but it promised
nothing but continued disputes bcor?;
tween representatives of Europe's j"g
great powers. wj%
| The statement issued at Rome
by the official Stefani news agen- é
cy and believed to have been writ:
en by Premier Mussolini himseif
said that “to believe Italy can %
' make further concessions (on plana
%to withdraw foreign troopg from
| Spain) is absured.” - o
| The statement was accepted in
. London diplomatic quarters as a
Ivh'tua,l ~ obituary notice for t!:atg
! plan by which Britain had hoped
for withdrawal of volunteers and
‘an attendaul lessening of tha
danger that the civil war would
| become a general conflict. i
l The efforts of the nonintervens
| tlon nationg were considered to
| nave been set back to the point
‘where they were before Italy made
| Foreign - Secretary Anthony Eden
| called “a Wwelcome contribution” to
‘the problem of getting forelgn
troops out of Spain, ; ;
Italy’s contribution was her aes
,centance Wednesday of the nine
‘point plan presented by Britzin.
She later qualified this, however
‘with the condition that all other
powers agreée in fu!! and Immegi
ately. drew a flat refusal &m<
Russia to accept political respom
gibility for the plan. .
Meet Tuesday e
A cup of tea saved the commit- é
tee from a complete breakup when,;%;};
Eden called a recess of Friday's
méeting at a critical moment,
causing one observer to comment:
“It will take something stronger
than tea to prevent the inevitable
collapse of the scheme.” o
The main discussion Tuesday
was expeced to center on whetb’t .
the nationg would agree to accept
the figures of the two commis.
sions the British plan proposed bv
sent to Spain to determine, among
other things, how many veoluns
teers were fighting for the insur
gentg and the government. These
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Scout Teams Chosen
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For Finance Appeal
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Will Gather Monday
Walter N. Danner, jr. director
of the Boy Scout finance appeal
for the Athens district, announced
yesterday that team captains will
gather at the Georgian hotel Mon=
day at 1:30 o’clock for a luncheon
at which time final plans for the
drive will be made.
A large number of workers
have agreed to serve on the vari
ous units making up the soliciting
force and Mr. Danner is confident
that the fine work that has been
done by the Scouting organization
during the past year will be re
‘warded by the provision of am
‘ample budget for next year. i
. Mr. Danner, citing a number
of instances showing an efficient
administration of the funds con
tributed last year, mentioned the
following: . ~;5-‘:‘:
Nine new troops organized since
the first of the year. T A
Objectives—new Scouts, set at
250 for the year, will be hx& ”“3
exceeded. .
Development of Camp uoys -
at Clayton, Ga., where 122 Scouts
camped for periods ranging from
one to four weeks. Pmctica%;;
construction was handled witl out
drawing on the operations budget.
A large increase in Scout gg;
vancement throughout the area.
An efficient and economical &=
ministration of the affairs of
couneil. e
“If the people of Athens Wx 1 &
to see just what is being fi:g:é
along Scouting lines, they should
by all means see the d emonstra
tion that will be put-on at the
Scout circus next Friday,” sald
Mr. Danner. “They will see Fe="
that W } ’l—:;sl“'9’ “.—A .