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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTON Wit st 1-INCH MIDDLING .. .... 9 1-4¢c 1.16 MIDDLING ...... ...s 8 7-B¢c 7.8 MIDDLING +.ve v oo 8 1-2¢ Vol. 105. No. 250. MARINES AUTHORIZED TO FIRE ON AIR ATTACKERS [IBOR PEAGE MOVE FICES FAILURE; Gl FIECTS PROPGGAL AFL Asks Dissolution ot Lewis Group as Peace Basis ' UP IN THE AIR Federation Makes Coun ter Proposal in Answer To John L. Lewis WASHINGTON —{(#)— John L. Lewis' rebel C. 1.0. rejected today the American Federation of Labor’s tounter-peace proposal.. “The proposal suggests abject surrender,” Philip Murray, chair man of the C. 1.0. peace commit tee said in a statement issued two hours after the federation had suggested dissolution of the C.LO. 45 the hasls of the settlement of labor’s strife, Marray said the federation had called for the C. 1,0. uniens which originally were affiliated with the A F. of L. to “desert and betray the twenty three new national and international uniong that have joined the C. 1.0. since its forma tion two years ago. Murray also described the fed eration’s offer as “merely a reaf firmation of its former policy and certainly iy does not contemplate the organization of the unorgan ized into strong unions. Their proposal, as Wwe unders stand it, constitutes a rejection of the prineciple of industrial organi szation in mass production and other basic industries,” Murray added, “Iy has been clearly demon strated by the committee for im dustrial organization that the mass production and other basic indus tries must be organized on indus trial lines, ; . “The A. ¥. of L. proposal indi cates that the A. F. of L, is still determined to prevent such organ. ization, even though it may pre vent the organization of the mil liong of unorganized workers in such industries.” Up In Air The C.1.0.’s rejection of the A F. of L, proposal, the latter made as the meeting opened today, left the peace conference up in the air, with delegates undtermined wheth er it would continue. The federation’s three-man peace committee, headed by George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Clerks, submitted this proposal to a peace conference this morning as a counter suggestion to the C, I 0. proposal of yesterday for ess tablishment of an autonomous C. (Continued on Page Two) Mrs. Lula Ross Is (Claimed by Death; aimed by Death; . Services Thursday Mz Lula Bell Ross, 60, well known Athens woman, died at her home on the Boulevard this morn- Mg following a shorg illness. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock ‘fom Bernstein’s chapel, with the Rev. §. Cartledge, pastor of Central Presbyterian church, in tharge. Place of interment has lot been announced. She was the widow of the late T. J. Ross, and had made her "ome at 739 Boulevard for years. She was a member of the Central Preshyterian chyrch, Pallbearers tomorrow will =be Ernest Potts, George Storey, W. V. T. Stewart, S, N. Butler, Fred Bal and A. M. Center. SUrvivors inelude a sister, Mrs. . R. storey, of Columbia, §. C.; Jother, Charles Bell; uncle, Henry McGee, Gireenville, . C., and a “ousin, Henry McGee, of Athens. Pictures of World Famous Tabernacle Will Be Shown Here : s k“'wi*- films 6f the werld famous SAt Lake City Tabernacle and “ode Organ, which during 1930 a 5 visited by some 300,000 peo "% will be shown at the Georgis I hotel tomorrow mnight at 7:30 Numerous other slideg will be “10wn, ineluding the Indian cere- Monial centor, Indian pottery, and Pueblos. A planket of many colors ind designs, made by a Utah Nav ;‘~" Will be shown during the eve ing The film lecture will be present *l by Flders Darrell A¢ Wilson, Fi‘ark[oot, Idaho and Ray E. Hanks. of Salt Lake City. There is o admission. and the üblic, students and . friends are trdially ‘invitea - - . - ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Can You Beat ‘. This Record? e Lol e T e 2 RS % - e k 2 B = R 2 b B e 23 3 e % R R O S ?’ Sar i Ro S s R o s R = 0 O S LA o RS B %\ T R R e s . Lo e e b T G B s . G R G Lo ¥ S B g 3 B v oo RS SRR RN e s & .' - S B B By RO i B = s it B i s ? P @ This man is C. A. Hartley, 81, who has lived in Pomeroy, 0., for 60 years. He has never owned an auto, never touched a steering wheel, never entered a trailer, never smoked a cigaret, never worn a’finger ring, never drunk liquor, doesn’t owe a cent. Since returning from the Spanish-American War 39 years ago he hasn’t touched a fire arm, hasn’t killed an animal, a fish or a fowl- He never gets up later than daybreak, never sheds’_/tears but from one eye. MERGHANTS, STATE |EGISLATORS MEET Merchants of Surrounding " Towns Invited to Dis cuss Tax Problems | Letters have been sent to four teen surrounding cities inviting merchants and their state repre sentatives and senators to meeti with Athens merchants and Clarke county legislators at Civic Hall next Monday night at 8 o’clock. The mecting is. being held to | discuss tax legislation that aprears , certain to be passed at the spe cial session of the General assem- ! bly, which convenes Thanksgiving | Day in Atlanta. “It is almost certain that a sales tax or a gross receipts tax ‘'will be passed at the special session,” Joel A. Wier, secretary of the lo cal Chamber of Commerce, wrote in his letters, “and weg believe a meeting of .this kind is necessary | to let our legislators kngw which , of the two we prefer.” Merchants, it was pointed out,' generally prefer a sales tax to a ; gross receipt tax, with a manda- f tory ciause passing the tax on to | the consumer. If a gross receipts ! tax is passed, it will have to be paid by the dealer. Letters were mailed today to merchants in Winder, Statham, Monroe, Eatonton, Commerce, Jer ferson, Madison, Uuion Point, Greensboro, Crawford, Lexington, Comer, Carlton, and Royston. Montague Freed cn Charge of Robbery . ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y.—(#) Acquitted of a seven-year-old rob bery charge, John Montague plot ted today a new and richer chap ter in an already amazing life. Shortly after an Adirondack mountain jury freed the fabulous golfing pal of movie stars, offici als of the Paramount Studios an nounced in Hollywood that “Mys terious Monty” had signed a con tract amounting to $1,000,000 in seven years, The pact was signed with Ev erett Crosby, Bing’'s older brother, and calls for appearances on tbe‘ radio, in pictures and as a prufc-s-‘ soinal golfer competing in the na tion’s most valued tournaments,l studio executiveg said. I Montague's first radio appear ance probably will be on Bing's next program, they said. Tenta tive plans also call for a series of golfing movie shorts, a part ir Bing’s next picture, “The Badge of Policeman. O'Roon.” | Here, however, as the dimpled mystery man of golf read congrat ulatory telegrams on his acquittal, he refused o discuss future plans as length but said he hoped to find permanent residence in the motion picture land where he won | acclaim by his extraordinary golf ing feats. el i LIGHT FROST , E. S. Sell, U. S. Weather Ob-| server here, early this afternoon receivdd & telegram from the Wieather Bureau saying the tem- ONTRITIRE, - o Full Associated Pretss Service Athens, Ca., Wednesday, October 27, 1937. New British Plan Gains Ground But May Omit Soviet I LONDON—(®A)—Movement gatha le!'ing force among other powers to reach some sort of agreement |on Spain’s foreign soldiers—with { or without Russia—threatened to | day to leave the Soviet Union out :in the non-intervention cold, | Al other ' participating nations | agreed last mnight to the British N proposal specifying that belige- Irent rights be granted to both the !Spanish government and insurs | gentg when *“substantial progress ‘has been made in withdrawing lalien warriors from the civil con | flict. ‘When the diplomats resume their bickering Friday, it was expected they would reach an agreement on a withdrawal plan-~tncluding Mos cow if possible, but without het if the Soviet Unionp would not come in, . REBEL TROOPS MASS MADRID,—#)—A new drive to cut government Spain into two parts wag believed foreshadowed today by reports of huge concen trations of insurgent troops north of Teruel. The Teruel battle area, coms waratively quiet while Francisco Franco’'s armies were “eliminat ing” the northwestern front, is really the southern tip of the long Aragop front, reaching from the French frontier to a point about 135 miles due east of Madrid. It Jjuts within 80 miles of the Medi terranean, just rorth of Valencia Closing of #hat 80-mile gap would cut off Catalonia, prospec tive seat of the Republican governs ment, from the rest of government Spain, including Valencia. and Mas drid. A dispatch reaching Hendaye, France, from the insurgent base at Burgos said Franco's observers reported “a number of white flags and red and gold (insurgent) ban ners flying from rooftops inside Madrid.” The report recalled methods used iast week on the fall of Gijon by insurgent sympathizerg to signal capitulation of .the insurgent of- }fensive that wiped out government ' resistance in the northwest. , (Insurgent advices also said the ' Burgos headquarters had been 'motified that a ‘“considerable num ‘ber of persons” were leaving Ma drid and crossing the nearly year olg siege lines into Franco's terri tory., g (War communiques from both jinsurgents. and the government wcited scattered engagements on warious fronts but said the activi ty was confined mosty to artillery 'diels. Both sides reported fighting \s{n the University City sector, on lthe northwesterp edge,of Madrid.) PROMINENT OGONEE COUNTY AN PAGSES Services to Be Held on Thursday for Henry Murrow : Henry Murrow, 56, one of Oco nee county’'s most prominent citi zens, died at his residence in Farmington Tuesday night at 10 o'clock after a short illnesss Funeral services ‘will be held Thursday aftermoon at 2:30 o’clock at Farmington Methodist church. The services will be eonducted by Rev. J. Lee Allgood, pastor of St Paul's Methodist church, Atlanta, assisted by Rev. Frank Jenking, pastor of Farmington Methodist ehurch. Interment will be in Farmington ‘ cemetery , Bernstein Funeral : Home in charge of arrangementsl and pall-bearers will be J. M. Few, T. R. Aycock, B. ¥, Whitehead, Dr. C. G. Middlebroows, U. B. Sammons, O. M. Branch, A. X Crowley and A. P. Addington. An honorary escort will consist of Oconee county officials and H. E. Williams, W. T, Haygood, (Continued on Page Two) e e ——-_—-__M LOCAL WEATHER ——————— GEORGIA: Fair gonight and Thursday; Colder tonight, possibly light frost in the in-. | teirior. ; TEMPERATURE Highest...s ss'ss tsse soe 180 TOWEBL.. oo sdinikngw wosts .0 MERN. ..o +043 Rearlinrosnnniiß O Notmal... ... sesé sonnassso.o RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5...... .96 Total since October 1......11.23 Excess momﬁ. 8.78 Average October rainfall... 2.91 i "m"“ﬁ”i J P O Lhr e e L et s b e s »‘«s- ~—ESTABLISHED 1832-4 R 's Chief otary’s Chief, Vc o 8 . e S . :Visiting in U.S. e S s L & e i e -':;s;s§§_s;~ E R < 'i<§?§3§;’5§5;555;2;5;555;555§-::-"_'-_'1" S e ErEEe oWO ERs YWHE g%SR T R Bo 0 e Bao nn T Brmaß o e e G N e - A s e n Lo S LA e 3 S S RS RO R e U 8 e S L o Mgl Continuing his .tour of North and South America, Maurice Duperrey; of Paris, France, president of Rotary Interna tional, is shown above as he arrived in Miam{_ for confer ences with American civic club leaders. . Duperrey, Paris in dustrialist and hotel executive, will attend meetings in Chicago, Ontario, Canada, and New York before returning to France. WINDSOR VISIT 0 .5, 15 UNOFFIGIAL Duke, Addressing News men, Insists He Is “In dependent”’ Observer = PARlS—{#)—The Duke of Wind 80r, in his first public speech [since his radio farewell to the ems= pire after abdication last Decem ber, announced today he was going to America as a “completely inde- Jpendent Observer, without political consideration,” but that he hoped to aid in “solving some of the vital ’problems that beset the world to lﬂay." The duke, addressing more than 100 English and members of the Anglo-American Press Association said: “lI am now a very happy mar ried man, but my wife and I are neither content nor willing to lead a purely inactive life of leisure.” After the luncheon, the former British king said he was sailing for the Unitedq States aboard the Bremen on Nov. 6. ‘Wihndsor said he and the duchess would spend five weeks in the United States, but that he did not plan to go to Canada “this tifne.” The duke’s address: 4 “When Mr. Philip (Percy L, president of the club) invited me to this luncheon on your behalf ] accepted with pleasure, but with the stipulation that I should not be caled upon to make a speech. “However, in the light of recent press comments, T have, with your cnairman’s permission, called upon myself to say a few words. |_ “They do not concern public af *fairs but are of personal nature ‘aud I wigh first of all to thank you |for your hospitality and for the spirit of the invitation. “Wihen Mr. Philip originally in- (Continued on Page Three) Young Business Men Considering Plan of Group Hospitalization Promotion of a group hospitali zation plan for Athens was dis cussed at a meeting of the Young Business Men’s club at the Y. M. C. A., Tuesday night, Under the plan a person would pay a fixed amount to the hospi tal and in return would receive certain hospitalization services when needed. The last general as sembly passed an act governing the plan in Georgia. Severa, states already have put the plan into oreration. In discussing the proposal, Max Michael, chairman of the board of General hospital, said that if the plan is put into effect the hospi tal will be willing to coorerate with the. association to the fullest. Mr. Michael outlined the histo ry of the hospital and its strug gle against financial difficulties and touched on some of the tech nical points in the plan. He said the bill, as approved by the gen eral assembly, stipulates that the proposed organization or corpor ation must apply to the proper courts for a charter and that this aplication must come from the local medical society and be ap ‘rroved by certain other state boards. In conciuding, Mr. Michael said. G.OP, WILL LIKELY FOLLOW HOOVER AND HOLD 1938 MEETING Former President Makes New Demand for Mid- Term Parley WANTS A PROGRAM Sayd in Boston Speech Country Wants Affir mative Declaration . WASHINGTON —(#)—Two * de velopments caused persong in touch with the Republican national committee ‘to predict today that it will sponsor a mid-term party eonvention early in 1938: 1. Former President Hoover de voted much of his speech in Bos @n last night to arguments in q;ppport of such a conference, hich he said should adopt “posi gve and affirmative principles.” 12, Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republi can presidential nominee, conferred Yesterday with National Chairman John Hamilton over methods of selecting delegates if a convention is approved by the committee at a special meeting November 5. There have been reports that Landon was not enthusiastic over the convention idea. Nevertheless the fact that he and Hamilton dis cussed such details as delegates led many followers of the sgitua tion to assume he believes a na tional meeting will be held. Landon issued a statement say ing: . “We are particularly concerned that if the national committee shoulg decide to hold a convention that the rank and file of the party s?)uld be represented in the de liberations, as well as in the con sideration of any report on bes half of the policy committee,” (Advocates of the convention Fﬁﬁbe suggested that a policy com ‘mittee of party leaderg should first draft a tentative set of principles.) ~ Both Landon’s statement and Hoover's speech advised that the Republican party appeal to all opponents of the Roosevelt admin istration. Hoover used the suge gestion of a coalition, previously advanced alsoc by Senator Vanden berg of Michigan, as another ar gument for a national convention “People fuse or coalesce around ideas and ideals,” he said,” not around political bargaing or sta tagems.” HOOVER APPLAUDED BOSTON—(#)— The Republican party had a fresh demand today from Herbert Hoover for a nat (Continued on Page Three) Mrs. L. B. Thompson Succumbs in Bogart; Funeral on Thursday Mrs. L, B. Thompsocn, aged 69 died thig morning at 2:15 o'cleck at her home in Bogart following ap illness of several months. Fun eral services will be held in Bo gart Baptist church Thursday af gernoon at 8 o'clock. Rev. W. O. Cruce will officiate. Sons will serve as pallbearers. Mrs. Thompson, better known as “Cousin Nannie”, was one of the most beloved women in that com munity for a number of years. She was the gister of Miss Georgla Betts, and the mother of Mrs, .J. R. Tarpley and Mrs. Gaspar Pal misano, all of Athens. | Although ill for several months her death was a shock to a host of friends throughout this section. Her kind ways and pleasing per sonality along with an ever pres ent smile made her g lovable char acter, Mrs. Thompson was a native of near Jefferson in Jacksop county, but practically all of her life was spent in Bogart community, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were among the first settlers. They had been married 51 years lastg January. The body mnad been carried to Monroe where it will remain until Thursday afternoon. The body will lle in state Thursday afternoon from 1 to 3 o'clock. Survivors include her husband, I. B, Thompson, of Bogart; five daughters, Mrs, T. D. Guinn Monroe; Mrs. J. H. Barnhart, Jacksonville, Fla,; Mrs. W. E. Whitehead, Farmington; Mrs. J. K. Tarpley, Athens; Mrs, Gaspar Palmisano, Athens; five sons, C A. Thompson, Gainesville, Fla.; 1 H. Thompson, Gainesville, Fla.; Q B. Thompson, Montgomery, Ala.; Clarence B. Thompson, Jackson ville, ¥la.;: Francis H. Thompson, Jacksonville Beach, Fla,; sister Miss Georgia Betts, Athens; bro ther, 10. B, Betts, Washington, D. 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X Member Of Legislative Tax Committee Raps Exemptions ROME, Ga. —(AP)— Hen derson Lanham, Rome attor ney and member of the legis lative tax committee, told sev enth district county commis sioners here yesterday the committee had no idea of re moving county governmental powers to the state capitol. District meetings of the county commissioners’ ass ciation of Georgia have de« scribed the commitiee's recom mendation for state assumption of certain county Tunctions as a tendency toward centralized government. ‘lhey opposed by resolution the prorosal that the state take over county roads. Lanham termed the §2,000 homestead exemption law ‘“‘the biggest folly ever adopted by ‘“Eye Windows’’ Provide Sight For Blind, Surgeons Informed By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor CHICAGO —(#)—- A rectangular shaped window in the eye is the latest contribution of surgery tc persons blinded by burns, searing chemicals and ulcers. | These windows are made of bits of the cornea, the transparemj outer covering Jf the eye in fron! of the pupil, and they are obtained from the eyes of persons newly dead. The windows replace oper ations which formerly attemptec to transplant an entire corneva from the dead to the living, | The new developments were de scribed to the American College of Surgeons by Ramon .Castroviejo, M.D., of the Institute of Ophthal &mology, Columbia Presbyterian lmedical center, New York. The beginnings of this surgical art, he said, go back to 1789 when physic llans tried glass windows, They failed. Helm Of Vast Steel Empire Is Passed To Younger Hands NEW YORK. ~—(#)— Rule of a vast empire of steel mills, ore and coal mines, railways and steam ships that in the United States Steel Corp., soon passes to new and youager hands. Edward A. Stetiinius, jr., 38- year-old son of a Morgan partner, and Benjamin F. Fairless, 47-year old son of a coal miner, are tak ing over the chairmansiip and the presidency of the two-hillion dol lar enterprise, employing directly a quarter million people. ~ They were assigned to their new posts at yesterday's meeting of the board of directors, at which two 63-year-old titans of steel prepared to retire to less onerous lduties. Myropn C. Taylor, present chair man, said he would not serve again when his term expireg next April 4. And it was announced that Stettinius would take his place. The directors also chose Tairless to succeed William A. Ir vin as president, effective Jan.l. Stettiniug i 8 now chairman of the finance committee and Fair less is president of the corpora tion’s’ principal subsidiary, Car negie-Illinois Steel Corp, ¥ laesr;itc its climactic flavor, the hoard’s announcement was regard ed as wholly in line with a pro- A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 2c—s¢ Sunday oison Elixir the state.” Commissioners from ien counties of the seventh con gressional district unanimously adopted the association’s leg islative program ealling for allocation of one additional cent of the gasoline tax to counties, setting the home stead exemption figure at sl,- 260, payment by counties of not more than 10 per cent for Social Security administration and classification of intangible tax on a percentage of market value, They also voted to ask thé legislature to exempt all coun ties from the 6-cant tax on Diesel engine fuel. Another group of commis sioners met today at Gaines ville. Recently worldwide attention has been attracted by operations in which the entire cornera was transplanted. But Dr. Castroviejo said, all the entire corneas “re ported in medical literature” have been failures. These borrowed eye€ coverings ultimately became opa que, In the “window” operation the sightless cornera is left in the eye. A small piece of it is removeq in front of the pupi! of the eye and the “window” set in this opening He found rectangular shaped windows give better results, can be fitted better to merge with and become a living part of the rest of the eye. ‘ Only human corneras can be used to make these windows. Ex perimentg witH rabbits have shown that borrowed “parts” from ant |mals eyes are mot suitable for hu mans. gram conceived by Taylor short- | ly after J. P. Morgan persuaded‘ him to emerge from retirement] and take s hand in the manage ment of the steel industry's larg-1 est unit in 1925, Complementing the shifts in the‘ top executive ranks, directors chose | J. L. Perry, president of Tennes see Coal, Iron and Railroag Co., Birmingham, Ala., subsidiary, for the presidency of Carnegia-Illinois as successor to Fairless, and named Robert Gregg, vice preai-l dent of the parent corporation, as, president of the Birmingham unlt.! Rounding out the drama of per sonalities, the board declared al dividend on the common stock for' the first time in five and a half vears, A payvment of $1 was or dered in token of the large prof its made during the first nine months of the year, although the (Continued on Page Two) "'NO LIONS MEETING Due to attending the banguet Morday night in honor of Mrs. Caroline - O'Day, the Athens Lions clup will not meet Thursday at HoME! nrol ™Tm JAPAN DECLINES 10 - ATTEND CONFERENGE U. S. Soldiers May Fwa; On Attackers in Self-Defense . = = FIERCE FIGHTING Chinese Retreat From Chapei to New Line Of Defense TOKYO —(AP) — Jaran for mally declined today the invita tion to participate in the Brus sels canference of nine-power, i pact adherents on the Chinese~ Japanese war. "‘ A note handed to Belbian Ams bassador Baron Albert de Bassom- 2 rierre declared the conference was L inspired by the league of nations . and would “put serious obstacles in the path of the just and proper solution” of the conflict. g (The Belgian foreign office an+ nounced yesterday in Brussels that the orening of the nine-power % bact consultations had been post poned from next Saturday to next Tuesday.) ke o Shortly . before delivery of the note to the Belgian envoy, Japan~ ese foreign minister Koki Hirota received imperial arproval for the reply. Seriaad The Japanese foreign office m~ ultfaneously released a long in- formal statement relterattn& Jk pan’s contention thai Japan ‘was fighting in self defense. Ared 'v’lr"h’;;ta:;en—xent asserted the niﬁqb' power treaty was obsolete becaue of what it termed infiltration of Communism in China and declar=- ed “the Japanese nation, rising as one man, is united in a determin= ation to surmeunt all o'ostam“\%l the purpose of effecting a speedy settlement, R “The Chinese-Japanese difficul ties can be solved only through direct negotiations between the two powers on whom falls the common burden of responsibility for the stability of East Asia,” the informal statement argued. ; CAN RETURN FIRE SHANBHAI — (AP) — United States marines were authorized to= day to open fire in self do(m% on any airplane attacking them om non-combatants in their sector of the international settlement. Admiral Harry Parnell, commans der of the United States Asiatic fleet, authorized the defensive 'measure as fierce fighting, o sified by the retreat of Cm itroops from Chapei to a new de fense line, raged menacingly AW ud ‘the internaicnal settlement. on e \ Tremendous fires set by the ﬂnz, battled Chinese and Japanese rag ed through Chapei, native quar@% (Continued on Page Twoj}“?ﬁﬂ ! e N Brother of Victor " McLaglen Arrested ‘ LOS ANGELES —(#)— Leopold McLaglen, burly 49-year-old broth ler of the screen star, Victor Me- Laglen, was booked at the county jall today on suspicion of solicita= tion of the commission of a crime and suspicion of subornation of perjury. McLaglen vehemently denied to Sheriff's Inspector William Pen= prase that he tried to “shake down’” millionaire Philip Chancels lor for an SB,OOO salary bonus. “I do not know what this is all about. There is not a scratch upon my integrity in any country of the world,” he said. ot Mclaglen was takep into custs tody last night after what Inspegs |tor Penprase said was a six weeke investigation requested by Chams icellor, who inherited an Akron, O, 'fortune. o i Held in technical custedy as & | material witness wag Chancellor's former secretary, Stanley Glimm. | Chancellor said he became ags quuinted with McLaglen when | hired him to teach him & BneW form of jiu-jitsa, . ~,;%.;g ‘ Chancellor told Inspector Penm~ prase he decided to write a book 'and McLaglen persuaded him | 9 take espionage for his bject, 'agreemg to supply material of various international intelligence ' operations, A After some months, Oh'j lasserted, McLaglen failed to « | duce useful data. Chancellor said ‘McLa.glen was dismissed then but did mot recognize his discharge, claiming they had agreed he was to be employed until Deccmber and be paid $20,000 bonus. = . 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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, October 27, 1937, Home Edition, Image 1