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NIVERSITY HOSTS
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Qutstanding Religious
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The seventeenth annual Ba.ptistl
gtudent TUnion of the State of
Georgia convenes at the First Bap
tist church in Athens Friday, Sat
wday and Sunday with D. D.
fammon, Jr., a student at Geor-
Tech, presiding.
The convention opens with 2
panquet at the TFirst Christian
church at six thircy Friday eves
ning at which Morton S, Hodgson,
prominent Athens business man,
will act as toastmaster. O, M.
Cates, Jr, B. 8. U. president at |
the University of Georgia will give !
the welcome address and Dan
Burge, student at Emory Univer
sity will give the response.
The first session of the conven
tion will follow immediately after
the banquet in the Sunday school
room of the First church. The ad- i
dresg will be given by Rev. Harry |
V. Smith, pastor of the First!
Church, Forsyth, and his address
will be followed by five short talks |
by students giving their religious
experiences for the past year.
Dr. Carl M. Townsend, of Ra
liegh, N. C., will bring the closing
address.
Mr. Smith’s address will be the
first of a serieg brought by him as |
the leader of the devotionals forl
the entire convention series. The
general theme for the conventionj
js, “Today ang tomorrow Witk
Christ.” " e
There will be three sessions
Saturday at nine, two and seven
oclock respectively. At the morn
ing service Dr.. J. €. Wilkinson,
Athens pastor, will be ‘the m&a.lrnl
speaker. His tople will be[
“Faithfulness—Christ's only re
nirement for his rollowers.” '
Saturday afternoon there will be
group discussions of student pl'Ob-l
lems. Edwin S. Preston, gtate B
T, U. leader, Dr. Pope A. Dunrcan,
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Services Held Here
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For R. W. Applewhite
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Who Died Yesterday
Funeral services for Richard P.
Applewhite, 54, who died yesterday
norning at his home on the Mitch-
Il Bridge road, were held here to
day at 12:15 anq remains convey
d to Capron, Va., where services
ill be held again Friday.
Mr. Applewhite, a native of Vir
infa, had made his home in Ath
s for the pas¢ ten or twelve
Years, operating the Green Lan
f'n on the Mitchell Bridge road
0r the past several years.
Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor of the
irst Presbyterian church, offici
led at services here, held in the
hapel of MeDorman-Bridges fun
il home. Serving as pallbearers
vere T, J. Shackelford, W. W.
Sott, F. €. Shackelford, Nat
layes, Harry Elder, Cosby Daw
on, Ernest Poss and Jewell Phil
ips,
_"'fir‘\'ivnrs include one sister, Mrs
Ella Whitfield, who resides in
Wakefield, Va.
hildren May See
“
Borneo” Saturday
At Georgia for 10c
“Borneo,” the final nature pic
e made by the late Martin Joha
°l and Mrs, Johnson, is showing
' the Georgia Theater Friday and |
“irday, Beginning Saturday |
Oing at 9:45 o'clock a special
tldren's matinee will be shown
"oall under 14 years of age will%
admitted for 10 cents each. |
The Banner-Herald is giving 50
e tickets to children who other
¢ would not pe able to see the
Vie. The tickets are being dis-i
o ted by Capt. McDonald of the
. 'ation Army and are NOT at]
o Banner-Herald offices. Lowenl
''mas announces all of the im
rtant scenes, l
oy Scouts to Hold |
D i ?
ress Rehearsal in |
Hardman Hall at 7:30i
A dress rehearsal will be held
. Hardman Hall op the Collegei
. ~\f~'!‘i<‘uture campus this evening |
! final preparation for the Bo.\'l
h}:“‘,'” Cireus, which will he held
¢ Friday eveninz at 8 o'clock.
[° program tonight will beginl
130 o'clock, The awarding of \
merit badges will be one of ,th'e]
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more than a year since the death
of Actor John Gilbert has been
Hollywood’s most popular wid
ow, will marry at Christmas
time her direcior, Jack Walter
Ruben, below. Miss Bruce be
gan her theatrical career in the
Follies and is considered one of
Hollywood’s loveliest blonds.
MDUFFIE GITIZENS
T 0 HONOR WATSON
Ralph Ables, National Ex
ecutive Secretary, to
Speak Friday at 8:30
By HINTON BRADBURY
THOMSON, Ga.— (Special) —
MeDuffie county citizens will pay
tribute to the late Senator Thomas
E. Watson, and officers of the
district and state R. ¥. D. asso
ciations will honor Ralph Ables
at a banquet and speaking here
Friday night.
Mr. Ables, executive secretary
of the National Rural Letter Car
riers Association, will be honor
guest at a Board of Trade ban
quet in Knox hotel at 7 o’clock.
Mr. Ables, a native of Fyffe, Ala,
will be the principal speaker at
Thomson High school at 8:30
o’clock.
The gatherings are being held
in the interest of buying “Hickory
Hill,” home of the late senator,
which is located here in Thom
son. Letiier carriers of the nation
expect to purchase the historic
home and its valuable surround
ings and make it a memorial to
the man who is responsible for
free delivery of mail in rural sec
tions.
Among other distinguished per
sons who will attend are E. S.
Sisk of Lexington, secretary of
Georgia Rural Letter Carriers As
sociation; W. G. Thornton of
Hull, president of Tenth District
Letter Carriers; Hamilton Mec-
Whorter of Lexington, and J.
Quinn West of Thomson, attor
neys for the Thomas E. Watson
R. F. D. Foundation. Mr. West
has charge of the program Friday
night.
The Board of Trade, which is
acting as host to Mr. Ables, is
McDuffie county’s leading civic
organiaztion. It is composed of
the outstanding business men of
Thomson and that section. C. E.
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Dr. Paul R. Morrow
Directs Curriculum
Research For Statc
ATLANTA— (#) —State School
Superintendent M. D. Collins an
nounced today Dr. Paul R. Mor
row, professor of education at the
University of Georgia. has accept
ed a position as director of cur
riculum research in the state de
partment of education.
Dr. Morrow has been granted @
leave of absence from the univer
ity for several months to direct
‘the work Dr. Collins said.
M, E. Thompson, assistant state
school uperintendent will continue
Full Associated Press Service
Home Rule Versus Centralization
The Atlanta Constitution is alarmed over the grow
ing tendency to centralize governmental authority at
‘the capitol in Atlanta at the expense of the local com
munities, The Constitution admittedly had more to do
with the election of Governor E. D, Rivers than any
other single agency. So it is difficult to establish, as
some of the Governor’s partisans have attempted, the
contention that the movement of the Association of
County Commissioners, resisting State encroachment
upor: local affairs, is politically inspired by “enemies”
oi the Governor.
The Constitution is certainly not an “enemy” of the
Governor. And when it devotes its leading editorial
to a warning against any attempt of the legislature to
further jeopardize home rule, it is time for both the
legislature and the Governor to view the program of
the Commissioners not as a political movement, but as
an honest effort to preserve for the local communities
the right to govern themselves without interference
from the State,
Practically every county in Georgia, through its
commissioners, has voiced objection to the declared
intention of certain spokesmen of the present State Ad
ministration to further concentrate power at the Capi
tol in Atianta., Due to the fact that there has been
much opposition by the counties to the imposition upon
the counties by the State Department of Public Wel
fare of most of the cost of administering the social wel
fare law, an effort has been made to construe this op
position as enmity to the humanitarian objectives of
this legislation. As a matter of fact, many of these
counties, Clarke included, have operated public wel
fare departments for many years. Their fight is not
against the public welfare legislation. Their fight is
against the State forcing the counties to bear most of
the cost of administering this law when the counties
are legaily responsible for only ten percent thereof.
Then, too, the Commissioners want the legislature to
fix the amount of exemption for homesteads at $1,250
instead of the maximum of $2,000. And unless this is
done ali of our public services, such as schools, health
protection, ete., will be cut to the minimum, or else the
tax lates will be hiked on other property so that, in
the end, those who rent homes will have to pay higher
rents and those who rent business places will have
their rents Thereased,
The Commissioners ask for an additiona] one-cent
of the gasoline tax with which to build and maintain
county roads go that they can relieve the local taxpay
ers. The State is collecting more money than ever be
fore from the gasoline tax. Surely the counties should
ve given more of this money for the purpose of build
ing and waintaining rural roads. The counter proposi
tion of the State Administration leaders for the State
to take over the rural roads is dangerous for more rea
sons than one. In the first place, it will cost more for
the State to maintain local roads than it now does.
Furthermore, such a system would give the State High
way Department too much power over local communi
ties. As asserted by the Oglethorpe Echo: “To remove
government too far from the governed is sure to arouse
contentions and suspicions, It creates sentiment among
the people that they have no direct interest in govern
ment. It is dangerous for that to be the case.”
The Tifton Gazette, in this connection, says:
“County ccmmissioners of the state may be expected
to fight to the last ballot the proposal to take from
them all the gas tax. The commissioners are asking for
the county share of the gas tax to be doubled instead
of being cut off.”
Expreg;sing itself in no uncertain terms, the Madison
Madisonian declares:
“Peopl2 are aroused all over Georgia at the prospect
of the next legislature taking over the county govern
ments of Georgia. It will be a sad day for the counties
of Georgia when the designing and small-bore politici
ans of Georgia take over the management of county af
fairs.”,
Winder Drum And Bugle
Corps To Appear At Fair
One of the features of the Am
erican Legion's annual Northeast
Georgia Fair, which opensat Com
munity Center Monday night, will
be the appearance of the Winder
'Drum and Trumpet Corps for per
'forma.nces at the Fair next Wed
nesday afternoon and night.
| F. H, Williams, general chair-
Iman and secretary for the Fair
‘announced this morning at white
school children, both city and
.county, will be admitted free to
'the grounds on Tuesday from 1 to
"6 p. m. and that colored school
children, city and county, will
likewise be admitted free to the
erounds on Wednesday during the
same hours. This includes only
admission through the gate ana
does not apply to the shows and
rides. ;
Chairman Willlams also announ
ced a series of Post guests night,
when members of the various
posts will be adinitted free of
charge to the grounds upon pre
sentation of a paid up 1938 Awm
erican Legion card. Post guests
nightg are as follows:
Jefferson Post—Manday night.
Monroe Post—Tuesday night.
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, =—ESTABLISHED 1832-a
Athens, Ga., Thursday, October 28, 1937.
Danielsville Post = Friday
nigh#,
Madison Post — Saturday
night,
All local Legionnaires and Aux
iliary members will pe admitted
free of charge to the grounds at
any lime during the Fair upon
presentation of a paid-up member
ship card at the entrance gate.
The Winder Drum and Trumpet
Corps is a group of approximately
50 Winder .High school giris, said
to be the only outfit of itg kind
in the South composed of girls
only.
They are directed by Douglas
Appleby, for four years a mem
ber of the University of Georgia
band. Miss Margaret Watson Is
drum major. For two years they
have appeared in American Legion
parades and gatheringg of similar
nature. Their Insiruments were
rurchased at a cost of $1,200 and
uniforms cost SI,OOO.
The County Home Demonstra
tion Agent has been hard at work
in getting up exhibits of women
and 4-H club girls cilubg and
County Agent Watson - has been
doing the same for the farm &x
--hibits and boys 4-H clubs. ;
DOOMED BATTALION
OF CHINESE TRODP:
REFUSES ANY HELP
British and American Sol
y diers Offer to Help
Unit Withdraw
PRECAUTION MOVE
Exchange of Bullets Er
dansers Residents in
Foreign Quarters
! SHANGHAI — (AP) — U. S.
‘marines and British troops offer
‘;ed tonight to aid withdrawal of 2
;Chinbse battalion, #trapped by
Japanese, to end the menace of
stray bullets in Shanghai's inter
national settlement with its thous
ands of foreigners, including A
‘mericans.
. The offer was refused.
. 'The defiant, almost certainly
doomed battalion held grimly to a
small area within Chinese Chapet
which the remainuer of their army
abandoned yesterday to flames and
?dva‘ncing Japanese,
- Crowds of foreigners and Chinese
ad gathered on rooftops, despite
shower of machine gun bullets,
watch the battle along the
ttlement’s northern border when
the American ana British offer of
agid was made.
. There was danger to the inter
wmational settlement, too, on the
'western edges and along the
French concession frontier, with a
}m_hr battle in progress around
‘Hungjao, suburb in which are
located many of the city’s fineat
‘homes.
[ . Brig. Gen. J¢hn C. Beaumont,
‘marines commander in Shanghai,
and the British major general A.
P. D, Telfer-Smolet, contacted the
embattled battalion in Chapei by
a still serviceable telephone line
connecting with a warehouse in
the battle zone.
The American and British com
manders suggested that their
forces be used to aid the beleag
uered Chinese in obtaining sanc
tuary south of Soochow creek,
Remindegq of the destruction that
Japanese planes might cause 10
their position, Commander Col
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OUCE JOINS HITLER
(N COLONIES MOVE
Mussolini Backs Up Ger
many’s Effort to Regain
Lost Colonies
ROME.—(#)—Premier Mussolini,
celebrating the 15th anniversary
of the Fascist march on Rome, de
clared¢ today it is “necessary” that
Germany be restored to her “placs
in the African sun.” s
I 1 Duce thus voiced support for
Germany's esire for return of her
war-lost colonies. He spoke at
Mussolini forum in the presence
of 100,000 fascists from all parts
of Italy.
A German delegation, sent to
Rome by Reichschancellor Hitler
for the celebration, heard the pre
mier, along with other foreign dip
lomats,
“Mussolini turned to what both
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
term the threat of “bolshevism” in
Europe.
“For durable and fruitful peace
it is necessary that bolshevism be
‘eliminated in Furope,” he told the
massed blackshirts and visitors,
“It is necesasry that some claus-«
es of the (World War) peace tre
aties be revised,” he went on,. “I
is necessary that a great people
the German people, have once
more the place to which it is en
titled and which it once possessed
in the African sun.”
The premier shifted to Italy's
own colonial empire. “It is neces-
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LOCAL WEATHER
GEORGIA: Fair tonight and
Friday, slightly cooler in in
terior, possibly light frost,
slightly warmer in northwest
portion Friday.
TEMPERATURE
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NOrmERY ux wiav o+ chilie s 14000
RAINFALL
Tnches last 24 houss «: 4. .00
Total since October 1 .. w 3123
m since October 1.... 8.69
Average October rainfall .. 2.91
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Ready to don “overails and shinguards” in an effort to ettect a
truce between the Committee for Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor were George Harrison, left, chairman
of the A. F. of L. delegates, and Philip Murray. leader of C. L. O.s
conferees, shown above at the peace conference in Washington.
Harrison is president of the Railway Clerks and Murray was a ma
jor figure in the organization of the steel industry.
RIVERS PLANS FOR
VISIT OF WINDSOR
Hopes Duke and Roose
velt-'Will Meet in Atlan
ta Thanksgiving - |
ATLANTA—(®)—Governor E. D.
Riverg had hopes today that
President Roosevelt, the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, and eight
southeastern governors would mest
in Atlantz on the same day during
Thanksgiving week.
Informed unofficially yesterday
that the Duke and Duchess pian
ned a stop-over here on either No
vember 22, 23 er 24 during the'r
forthcoming American tour, Riv-.
ers started planning a reception,
He informed Charles Bedaux, the
Duke's American ' representative
and Marvin H., Mellntyre, secre
tary to the President, that he de
sired to make any arrangeéments
satisfactory to both the President
and the Duke.
He also said he had hopes of
having the eight governors, com
ing to confer with President Roose
velt at Warm Springs, arrive or
the same day the Duke and Duch
ésg is in Georgia.
“I doubt if there has ever been
a time in the history of Atlanta
and Georgia that so many disting
uished personages will have Leen
gathered among us,” the governor
said. ;
“We wang to make the most of
it both for ourselves and our vis
itors, We want them to know jusi
how great our already famous
hospitality is.”
While in Atlanta the Duke is ex
pected to visit Techwood and At
'ianta. University Federal Housing
Projects. He has announced thal
hig visit to America is partly for
‘the purpose of studying housing
conditions,
A DOUBLE SWING
PARIS — () — The Duke and
Duchess of Windsor are planning
a double swing across the United
States from New York to Holly
wood and back to Miami, a close
associate disclosed today.
They will travel with about 70
trunks gnd a retinue of six per
sons, he explained. The westward
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Several Examinations
To Be Held Soon Far
Civil Service Posts
Several competitive examinations
to be held soon, ‘have been. an
nounced by the United States Civil
Service commission.
Examinations will be held for en
gineering draftsmen, for work on
ships, paying $1,620 to $2,600 per
year. Optional branches are ship
piping, merine engines and boilers,
electrical and hulls. A purchasing
officer, pay $3.200 a year, assistant
purchasing officer, pay $2,600, and
a janitor purchasing officer, pay
$2,000 a year, are needed by the
procurement division of the treas
ury department and exams will be
held at the same time to select
mm. 3 THiaaed 3 i SN
'i':n information may be obtain
ed from H. K, Brackets, secre
tary of the United States Civil
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
"PLACE” PARLEY OF
LABOR 1S RECESSED
Adjournment May Last
Indefinitely, Due to Mu
tual Attitude |
WIASHINGTON,—(#)— Attitudes
of “no surrender” by both factions
in organized labor's - ecivil war
created a widespread belief today
that the week’s recess of the peace
conferenc might last indefinitely.
An American Federation of labor
statement last night said:
“Wie have not received any help
from: the representatives of .the
‘committee for Industrial Organiza
tion. Unless ther is a change in
their attitude....it is doubtful if
any progress canp be made toward
peace.”
l The federation's peace commit
tee had just heard its own terms
;rejected by the C. 1. O, delegates
an equally strong language. Philip
|Mumy, C. L O, peace commit
{tee chairman, said the A. F. of L
bffer would mean “abject surrend.
!er" and was wholly unacceptable.
The C. I. O. made the first peace
{proposal Tuesday. In brief, it call
fed for the C. I O. to fly the A. F.
of L. flag but to remain virtually
an independent department,
The A. F. of L. would have none
of that. The Federation’'s peace
| committee proposed that Johp L.
i:Lewls' unions dissolve the C. 1. O.
and march back into the A. F. of
. to fight for their principles at
| federation conventlons.
The federation charged that
{Murray “issued a public statement
rejecting our proposal without ad
vising the conference.”
It spoke of “extravagant and un
supported’ C. 1. O. membership
lclaime and defended itg own peace
terms as affording “a reasonable
‘opportunlty of healing the breach.”
“We offered to continue an in
tensive campaign along both in
dustrial and gratt lines,” the A.
F. of L. statement said.
Op analysis, the federation said,
the C. I. O. plan offers “no basis
of settlement,” and “simply means
a continuation and enlargement of
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Small Dog Arouses ‘
Three As Building
Burns Near Athens
| A small bulldog wag credited to
lday with saving the lives of Mr.
!.and Mrs. R. G. Blackwell and their
{small daughter by awakening them
{in time to prevent their service
‘station on the Ila-Danielsville road
ifrom being destroyed by fire about
2 o'clock thig morning.
' The fire was believed to have
istarted from underneath the sta
itlon and a section of the floor
labout six feet wide was burned
| pefore Mr. Blackwell awakened
imig‘hbom who assisted him in ex
lfinguishing the blaze.
Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell and their
;da.uxhter sleep on the second floor
{of the station. Mrs. Blackwell was
jawdkened by the dog which was
i»wxm and scratching her on the
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Endorse Commissioner
Objectives
MAKING HEADWAY
Murdaugh Promises to
Relieve Counties of
Extra Costs
ATLANTA.—()—Cautious ap
proach of the E. D. Rivers ad- ‘,3
ministration to controversial issues
of state politics indicates only a
few carefully selected subjects A
less likely to cause discord will be .
placed before the srecial general
assembly next month. g
Striving for a short session re-=
plete with “harmony,” the gov- E
ernor has jusl% closed a long se- fi
ries of conferences with legisla
tors on their views of solutions
to the state’s problems, and next
week will start another series
with other groups to feel the
pulse of sentiment throughout g
the state. ;i
His conferences next week will o
include county commissioners,
some of whom have been stirred
by recommendations of a spee- ‘é
lal tax commission for the state to
take over all road work and with- i
draw road money from counties.
‘ A source close to the adminis-
Itration revealed a rlan devised to
circumvent this opposition by
making the transfer optional with
the commissioners of each county,
and not mandatory. Such a step,
Some observers say, would lessen
the chances of a “finish fight” , |
over the road issue. F
At one time, it wgs planned
that the session should be devq&-‘w@
Ted almost exclusively to taxes,
with a thorough revision of the o
state's system to be scught. e
Legislative Split Gy
Division of legislative sentiment
roints now,to a possibility the
tax legislation will be confined al
most entirely to enactment of
homestead and personal property ,
exemption laws, and an intangible
tax act, authorized by constitu
tional amendments. o
Political circles reported mfi
divergence of opinion over i ’f:%*
ant tax matters suggested for ngk
islative piction. e
The meetings, held in prepara
tion for the fall session of the
general assemhly have developed
three groups in the two houses, &
reliable authority reported. A
compromise appears as the only
key to major legislative prom;,fi;\,
toward Rivers’ goal of 'general tax g
revision . T
One group favors full revision
at the session, desiring to settle
the state’'s tax problem by pass
ing a large revenue measure m%‘
as a gross income, sales, or gross
receipt tax, and writing off tha
books several minor revenug
measures now in effect. b i
Another sector favors “speeial®
taxes to offset impending income
deficiencies for this fiscal year,
and especially for the 1938-39 fi
nancial period, when between $5,~
000,000 and $10,000,000 in new revs
enue arparently will be needed
for “a permanently balanced bud
get.” Insurance, power company,
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Tickets For Local
Concerts Are Good
For Macon Concert
Anna Kaskas, beautiful and dis
tinguisheq contralto of the Metros
politan Opera Company, will ap»
pear in Macon tomorrow night un
der the auspices of the Communs
ity Concert Association. ;
Athenians who are members of
the local association may attend
this concert to be held in Wealey
an College auditorium, and others,
simply by presenting their mem
bership cards. L
Wilbur Evans, baritone, will be
in Macon on December 14; Bever
idge Webstet, NBC pianist, on
February 2, and the Barrere Little
Symphony Orchestra on March 29.
Though all’ Athens concerts'‘come
after Christmas this season, local
membership cards have been mulls
ed out in case memberg wish to
take advantage of the reciprocity
feature.
The first attraction in Athens
will be a joint concert on January
7 by Conrad Mayo and Grace Pan~
vini, both Metropolitan artists, OB -
February 1 the famous Spanish
dancer, Carcla Goya, ¥ - app ';,
and on March 31 the Barrere Lits
tle Symphony Orchestra.
| Tickets were sold during a oBe:
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