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Japs Warn Of Possible Rift With Britain
Annual Northeast Georgia Fair To Open Monday
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Fair to Be Located for
Third Year at Legion
Community Center
fun lovers of thig section are !
4] ready for the opening Mondays
night at 6:20 ‘o’clock of the Am-l
ericcn Legion’s annual Northeast
ern Georgzia Fair at the Commun
ity Center on Lumpkin street.
‘The Marks Shows, returning to
Athens for their fourth cbnsecutive!
year are bringing a midway rich in
color and glamor with many newé
ideas in modern entortainment. |
John H. Maiks, owner and found-i
er of thig vast organization has|
attempted to present to the Amer
ican arusement loving publie, a
“Mile-Long Pleasure Trail” that
caters to the. whole family—gone'
is al' the lewdness and- fakery in
tented attractions — gone is the
gambler with his sure fire winning
and in their place stands a monu
ment to clean refined entertain
ment, I
Larger Midway ’
'he midway, considerably larger
than ever before, will feature sev-l
eral new riding devices and tonted'
theaters that will be appearing
here for the first time. Heading
the lisy of these attractiong is the]
monster “Auto Skooter” a 330.000 i
thriller and * the largest portable |
ride ever congfrueted with twgntvi
autos driven by the patron. I is
the last word in thrills and literal- !
lv stealg the show from the bal—|
ance of the twelve big rides. '[‘his?
big ride is completely covered withs
“Neon" lights and is the last wnrd}
in the new idea of modernistic en
tertainment, Another big ride th;xt!
will be new to the patrons here isll
the “Octupus” with its long strang-|
ling arms and sensational featuros!
and combines the thrills of the |
ferris wheel, caterpillar and lindy-l
loop.
New features are not enly to be|
found on the ride plaza but all the|
tented attractions are new from‘
the front of the midway to *he
rear and heading the list ig “War- |
ren. Buck's Wild Animal Exhibit”
which is appearing on the road fOI"
the first time, i
Fhe Desert Demons, managed by |
that well-knowy, African (‘xplorer‘,l
Carlton Collins, is another of the
sure fire attractions, while the !
“Hall of Science”, direct from re
tent successes at ‘the Chicage
World's Tair ang Dallas Exposi
tion. is always in the top money
Class. The Monster side-show fea
turing Rohert 1,. Ripley’s “Believe
it Or Not” subjects is but another
e of the feature theaters while
:"1“ “Wall of Death” featuring
Yss - Mazelle, the Mile-A-Minute”
8l and the youngesy motoreycle
feedster on tour ig the last word
M thrills and sensational enter-
Wwinment,
<\‘ half score of other attractions
“ith as the laugh-a-house; mirror
Maze Harlem Dandies, will all
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Second News Section) . I
Merchants to Meet |
M iscuss |
onday to Discuss |
Taxes so ia
r Georgia|
Mepans T l
i,"“. hants and representatives
P ]» neral assembly from Ath
-1 2300 surrounding towns will !
Civie Hall Monday night |
“ lock to discuss tax prob- '
" ‘vvuntmm the special ses
{ ( he state legislature, which
*“ nes Thanksgiving Iy in ‘
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\ meeting has been calied b."!
o o CPchants’ Committee of the |
e 0 of “Commerec, and let-l
, e Sent' te merchants in
than twelve towns near |
“ 'f..‘l'in;,' the past week by |
A. Wier, !
k. eeting is of vast import- |
A “lice it is almoest certain a |
hse. 1 CIDES or sales tax ‘will be |
iy . CUring the session of thei
‘u,;" ¢ and merchants should |
.. ‘dvantage of the chance to |
,‘ S their opinion of what |
A\ wvil«l be enacted inte la“'-i
A Ointed out by Mr. Wier. !
e meeting will be held in |
on November 4, and a |
‘1 ol Athens merchants are’
&, ° to attend ijt. t
,m'\"" senators and representa- i
’,;‘r e requested to be present |
' meeting ‘here. i
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MISS ETHEL KNIGHT
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WILL HEAD MURSES
Superintendent of Gener
al Hospital Named 11th
District President
Miss Ethel Knight, supeprintend
ent of murses at General hospital,
was named president of the Elev
enth Districy Nurses Association
at a meeting held recently. |
Others officerg elected were Mrs.
H. Greer, second vice-president
and Mrs. Ralph Saye, treasurer. |
Miss Knight and Miss Louise
Alexander will represent the Elev
enth - Distriet ang Athens General
Hospital alumnae at the state con
vention to be held in Rome No
vember 4, 5 and 6. Mrs. Sylvester
Beer will represent alumnae of St
Mary’s hospital and Misg FEliza
beth Akerman will represent the
Elberton nurses, .
Among the speakers at the con
vention will be Dean J. C. Mead
ow of the University of Georgia.
The Eleventh District Associa
tion is comprised of twelve coun
ties, Newton, Walton, Morgan,
Greene, Oglethorpe, Wilkes, Hart
Oconee, Madison, Elpert, Franklin
and Clarke and each member from
this district is urged by officials
to attend the Rome meetings.
The 31st joini annual conven
tion will be participated in by
members of the Georgia League of
Nursing Education, the state or
ganization for Public Health Nurs
ing, the state committee of the
American Red Cross Nursing Ser
vice and the Private Duty Section.
Three national officers will con
tribute to a splendid program.
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Catholic Church to
Be Renovated Here;
To Start Work Soon
A permit ‘was granted to Edwin
Braun, contractor of Savannah,
Ga., to remodel the St. Joseph's
Cath6lic church here, work to
tart at an early date.
The church, located on the cor
ner of Prince ‘avenue and Pulaski
street, will be completely remod
eled on the ingide, at a cost of
approximately $5,000. ‘
After the work is completed the
interior will be typically English,
with a wooden ceiling replacing
one of plaster; a tile floor in place
of a wooden one, and many oiher
improvements.
A new choir loft will be erected
and a new lighting system in
stalled. The building will be
heated by hot air, circulated by
fans. A new baptistry will be
built in the front of the church,
also.
Cletus Burgen of Savannah, is
the architecture.
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LOCAL WEATHER
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GEORGIA: Fair Sunday,
slightly cooler in north portion
in afternocon or night; Monday
partly cloudy.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5...... 0.00
Total since October 1......11.23
Excess since October 1.... 8.32
Average October rainiall... 2.91
Total since January 1......54.62
Excess since January 1.....12.13
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iGovemor Orders Collec-,
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i CLARKE INCLUDED !
iVolun'rary Plan for State
. Taking Over County !
| Roads Favored i
! ATLANTA —(#)— The value of
intangible property on which the |
state is attempting to collect taxesi
for the past seven years was |
placed at $101,483,775 by state of
‘ficia]s Saturday for the 61 coun
{ties in which the drive has been
started. l
’ For the remaining counties, llstsi
{are being prepared showing stocki
land bond holders for the entire
'period, with Governors B. D. Riv-l
ers calling on county tax collecs
tors to get “at least the moneyl
'but the state”
| The ax rate for intangible prop- i
| erty—the fame as for real estate— |
thas been at five mills during four |
iot‘ the years, four mills one year,l
tand three mills two years, making
la total of 30 mills tobe assessed
against stocks and bonds ownedl
by a resident of the state for thé
whole seven years. The average
length of ownership of stocks al
ready listed, an official said, iß]
i four and a half years.
' Counties = already listed and
lslm\ving more than $1,000,000 are:
Bibb, $17,926,141; Carroll, $1,108,-
1843; Chatham, $34,695,233; Clarke,
1 $2,207,761; Colquitt, $2,891,035; Co
fweta, $2,758,219; Dectaur, $1,950,-
1'409; Floyd, $5,336,790; Glynu; $3;-
|160,221; Hall, $1,697,54¢ and Mus
| cogee, $17,815,371. |
The list has been completed onlyi
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IFirst Aid Must Be Course;
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l Sixty-eight teachers of schools|
in Clarke, Oconee and Oglethurpe'
countieg have gathered at Athens|
High school for the past week and |
lreccivod Red Cross instructionsl
from an official representative,
Oliver Allen, who was sent direct
Ifrom national headquarters.
Under a new law all teachers in
(eorgia high schools are required
to teach first aid beginning this
| year, The State Board of Educa
|tion asked the National Red Cross
;fm' instructors who are. now on[
the new duty. The work will cost |
the Red Cross approximately 310,"
000, it is reported.
Teachers will be training ap
proximately 50,000 students within}
the next few weeks, according to |
authorities. The Red Cross Wasl
asked to instruet 1,600 teachers,'
but officials now #ay there will be
2700 teachers taking the two
lwooks courwes, |
Georgia is the first state in Iho]
nation to attempt to give these |
’instructions and it is reported that b
many other states are now seek-;
}ing the services of Red Cross|
workers, who have been assigned
to this state,
. For the past week the fleet ol 1
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Two Public Welfare Institutes
Scheduled Here During November
| Two institutes on currenz prob
iems of public weélfare vill be
sponsored by The University of
Georgia, under the direction of
Miss Wilma van Dusseldorp, one
beginning Nov. 9 and running te
Nov. 13, the other opening Nov.
16 and running to Nov. 20.
Members of all Georgia women's
civic organizations are invited to
attend the institute. .
Dr. J. Watler Coutu, associaté
professor of sociology at the Uni
versity, will deliver the first ad
dress of each Institute and lead a
round-table discussion on a “Sur
vey of Social and Economic Prob
lems in Georgia.” These lectures
will be sivenT-oa ‘Tuesday night,
Noy, 9, and Tuesday might, Nov.
helnt: BoM S e Bls
Athens, Ga., Sunday, October 31, 1937,
MUSSOLIN RECALLS
HIS AMBASSADOR T 0
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PARlS.—(#P)—Premier Mussa:
lini of Italy Saturday recalled his
ambassador from Paris in a move
which diplomats considered as ag:
gravating France's strained diplo
matic relations with Italy.
" Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti will
return to Rome Sunday night,
Italians said, for a leave of ab
sense of “more or less long dura
tion.” Baron Rngelo Scaduto
Mendola, counsellor of embassy,
is also leaving his post, placing
the delegate Italo-French relations
in the hanas of a minor official.
The sudden recall ‘'was made, a
usually well-informed dipomatie
source said, because France had
failed to send an ambassador. to
Rome and left a charge d’affaires
in control of Italian relations
rather than recognize the Fascist
conquest of Ethiopia. i
Cerruti notified the foreign min
istry that he was leaving a charge
d’affaires to handle Italian rela
tions with France and after his
visit the foreign office issued a
communique:
2bs, LIl A 0 essador . ligh
made known to the forgign min«
istry that he has been invited by
his government to leave on wvaca
tion.”
Diplomatic sources said they
believed the rupture wuold not go
any further as the ambassador’'s
departure was felt to be due en
tirely to Mussolini's sense of pres
tige requiring Italian representa
tion at Paris to be on the same
basis as the French at Rome.
In Rome, informed quarters said
the Cerruti move was part of a
contemplated Ttalian diplomatic
shake-up. These unofficial reports
said Cerruti would probably be
replaced by Fenato Prunas, now
in the Rome foreign ministry.
BRITISH SHIP SUNK
‘ VALENCIA.—(#)—The northern
coastal defense Saturday night
:notlfled the Spanish ministry of
defense that the British freighter
lJean Weems was sunk Saturday |
morning in the Mediterranean Sea
by insurgent airplanes ‘which
dropped 1§ bombs.
The vessel was 16 miles off the
port of Gerona enroute from Mar
seille to Barcelona with a cargo
of wheat and condensed milk
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E. D. Rivers, Junior, and
Other Officials Attend
} Princeton-Harvard Tilt
: NEW: YORK, N. Y—E. D. Rivers
Jr., son of Governor Riverg of
Georgia, arrived at the Hotel Lin
coln in New York City to attend
the Princeton - Harvard football
| game. Mr. Rivers and the rest of
his party, including Downing Mus
‘gmve, the governor's executive
| secretary, and John Greer purchas
ing agent for the state of Geor
gia, were officially received at ‘the
Lincoln by Tom Johnson assistant
manager and lieutenant-colonel on
Governor River's staff. |
' R. T. Segrest of the Univer
sity’s School of Coemmerce will
Idiscuss population trendg in Geor
gia and their social, economic,
and public welfare significance.
His speech is scheduled for both
Wenesday mornings. In the aft
ernoon, minimum standards of
living for maintenance of health
and social productiveness will be
considered in lectures by Miss
Erna Proctor, Home Economist of
the Farm Security Administration,
Montgomery, Ala., and Miss Cath
erine Newton, asseciate professor
of home economics at the Univer
sity.
From ¢ o'clock antil 11 a m.
Nov. 11 and Nov. 18, probdems of
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Lighted by flaming wreckage of splintered freight cars, a derailed locomotive forms the background
for this unusual night photo of a train wreck near Danville, 111, where a passenger train smashed
into a stalled freight killing three trainmen and injuring 29 other employes and passengers. Fore
ground are the overturned coaches of the passenger train, and at right are rescue workers. A broken
telegraph pole blocks the second track.
OANER ANNDUNCES
~ SCOUT DRIVE Heße
Quota for Athens This
"Year $2,500; Breakfast
Tuesday
i W. N, Danner, one of this cily's
j outstanding ecivie leaders, announ
ced W ~the annual Boy
Scout Finance drive will 8o Teld
on Miesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, " Navember 2 38 and 4, and
the quota for Athens is only $2,500.
The above mentioned ampunt Is
what Athens is asked to contrib
;ute as her part of the northeast
| Georgia gquota. It will all be used
!to carry on the great Scout pro
gram of which all are familiar.
I The drive will get underway
l'l‘uesday morning when -a break-
Ifust will be held in the Georgian
| hotel for captains and members of
| their teams, There are 12 captains
l:md each bhas from eight to twelve
assistantg,
| At the breakfast Mr." Danner
will preside, at which time he will
briefly outline pilans for the drive.
A talk will be delivered by Max
| Michael, he being the principal
| speaker of the occasion. !
: In announcing plans for thi.c;
lyear's finance drive Mr, Danner
lcitfsd the many accomplishments
]of Seouts during the past year.
Scouting in Athens, he said, is at
its highest peak in history and the
!organlzatlon ig functioning as il
never has done before, ‘
Local Scout leaders are greatly;
responsible for mew troops being
organized in Greensboro, Daniels
ville, Hartwell and many other
sections near Athens.
All captaing and members of
their team are urged to be pres
fent at the breakfast Tuesday
morning, as it will be present at
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Rountree Named
~ Kiwani
wanis Leader
At Augusta Meet
AUGUSTA, Ga. —(#)— Kiwanis
clubg of Georgia Saturday elected
Ivy W. Rountree of Swainsboro
as districy governor and selected
valdosta for next year’s conven
tion
Rountree has been serving as
district treasurer. He headed the
Swainsbero club in 1935 and was
named lieutenant governor of the
eighth division in 1936. He is an
attorney and past president of the
Middle Cirauit Bar Assciation.
Rountree succeeds Dean Owens
of Rome gs district governor.
The international trophy for the
best achievement during the year
was awarded the Eatonton ciub.
The following were named lieu
tenant governors: F. A. Brewster,
Cedartown; J, C. Jones, Thomas
ton; G@George Simpson, Valdosta;
Jap Highsmith, Baxley; ¥Frank C.
Cross, Toccoa; Ross Sharpe, Ly
ong and W. Knox, Gray.
Rountree, a leader in Geoogia
Kiwanis work, still owns and op
erateg a farm his father gave him
when he was 14. He's now 49,
A charter member of the Swains
bors club, he has been a director
since its inception, was its presi
dent in 1935, became lieutenant
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Letter Carriers Meet Here
At Banquet Saturday Night
'Ralph Ables of National
Committee, Congress
i man Brown Are Guests
’ Members of the Tenth District
Letter Carrviers Association, num-
Lering aprroximately 125, met
here last night in the main din-
Ang reom of the Georgi Lel for
therr AT eßt DA
G. Thornton of Hull, district
president, presided and introduced
‘whqt was probably the largest
‘number of district, state and nat
ional officers ever to attend a ban
‘quet in this section. |
Guests introduced were Con- |
gressman Paul Brown, Chairman
@f the National KExecutive Com
mittee Ralph I, Ables of Fyffe,
Ala.; State President < Gordon
Walters, of Toceoa; Vice-Presi
dent J. K. Mobley, of Albany;
Walter H. Cannon, member of
state execuive beard, of Atlanta;
. H. Pender, presjident of the
South Careolina convention; Mrs.
Gordon Walters, State Auxiliary
rresident, of Toccoa.
Mr. Thornton announced the
resignation of E. 8. Sisk of
Lexington, as district secratary
treasurer. Mr. Sisk, ill at his
home and unable to attend the
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GOFGTOHOLD
MEETING TUESIAY
Seven Directors to Be An
nounced at Meeting at
Civic Hall Here
Annual meeting of the Athens
Chamber of Commerce will be
’held at. 7 o'clock Tuesday night at
Civie Hall, with past presidents of
the organization to be guests of
lhonor.
Some fifteen m‘ominent~ men!
who have served as head of the
‘Chamber of Commerce will be
asked to make short talks, mnot:
over five minutes each, on the
growth of the organization, in ad
dition to the annual reyport of
Secretary Joel A. Wier.” * ° " ' °
During the past year there have
been many developments in thel
organizaion, ¢hief :of whch was
erection of Civie Hall, beautiful
iilding located on the lower cor
ner of the city hall lot.
Sceretary Wier will explain bow
the facilities of Civie Hall will be
used to better the community. It
is planned to have agricultural
exhibits on the bottom floor and
art and industrial exhibits on the
seeond Aoor. Offices of the Cham
ber of Commerce are also located
on the second floor.
Outcome of balloting for the !
past several weeks for seven direc
tors will be announced at this
| meeting. Directors - whose terms
| pxpire this time are W. R. Bed
| good, Lee Price, Abit Nix, Sam
| Nickerson, G. V. MeCarson, C. 8.
| Martin and T, A. Gibson. Bal
ilots have heen cast through the
|man and were counted yesterday
| afternoon by the nominating com
lmittee. composed of R. H. Gloyd,
Tate Wright and Sam Nickerson.
l Mr. Wier said Saturday every-
A. 8. C. Paper—Single Copy, 2¢—sc¢ Sunday
GEORGIA BRIEFS
DUBLIN, Ga.—(#)—Unification
of the Southern Methodist Episco
pal church with northern branches
Iwm be voted on at the annual
onvention of the South . Georgia
Methodist onference here next
‘week’
The conference, starting Thurs
day, will elect eight ministers and
eight laymen to attend the gen
feral conference next May in Bir
'mingham.
| Btshop W. N. Ainaworth snd
‘his cabinet will meet Tuesday and
Wednesday at Macon to consider
‘appointment of pastors for next
vear. Four members will retire
ifl'um aclive service during the
conference. They are: Dr. Ed F.
Cook, Macon;: the Rev. Robert
Kerr of Richland; the Rev. W.
H. Wilcox of Broxton, and the
Rev. W. C. Rahn of Norman
Park.
NEWNAN, Ga.—~(#)—Petitions
circulated here Saturday urged
Sidney Camp, assistant United
States attorney for the Northern
District of Georgia, to seek the
nomination for representative in
congress from the ¥ourth district
next year. Emmett Owen of Grif
fin is the present incumbent. Camp
is a resident of Newnan,
ATLANTA.—()—Both imports
and exports in the Georgia cus
toms district were greater the
first seven months of this year
than last, the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce reported
Saturday.
Exports throngh July were $13,-
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Jury Convicts Marx
E Brothers of Theft
i Of a Radio Script
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LOS ANGELES —(#)— Grouchol
and Chico Marx, movie comedi
ans, were convicted in federal
court Saturday of infringing on a
copyright in a radio broadcast—a
verdict that Groucho said in tragic |
tones “might mean a jail jolt for
us.”
After the verdict, he and Chico,
equaliy serious, had nothing to
. |
The misdemeanor conviction car
ries a maximum fine of $1,060, or
maximum Jall sentence of one
vear, or both.
Judge George Cosgrave said
sentence would be imposed next
Monday, Defense counsel declared
they would ask for a new trial,
After only brief deliberation, at
jury convicted the high-salaried
brothers of using certain “gag”
material which Carroll and Gar-,
rett Graham submitted to them
previously, but which they reject
ed.
In the trial, the Marx brothers
contended the late Al Boasberg,
screen writer, prepared the seript
they used in the broadcast last)
vear. They testified they did not
recall the snhstance of the skit,
“Mr. Dibble and Mr. Dabble”,
that the Grahams submitted, and|
did not realize it and their broad-
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| BATTALION ESCAPES
Entrapped Uhnit Safely
' Runs Gauntlet of Ma
; chine Gun Fire :
i TOKYO—{®)—Members of the
‘ unofficial “council on the current
| situation,” including high army
officers and members of both
{houses of parliment, served notice
| Saturday diplomatic relations be
‘tween Japan and Great Britain
might be severed. :
In a resolution passed ' unani
mously with cheers, the more than
00 highly-placed Japanese charg-
Led Great Britain had been assisting
hing and added: “The Japanese
‘an not allow‘the British to con
tinue unmolested in their present
.mproper doings.” 8
The resolution declareq Britaia
had been the main driving force in
persuading convoeation of th-
Brussels nine-power pact conter
'i.\nce Nov. 3 in awn apparent effort
'to start interventton in the Chi
inese-Ja.Danese undeclared war,
“If the British fail to reconsider
their attitude,” the resolution said,
“we may be forceq to take an at
ftitude of grave determination by
severing years of alendly diplo
;matk: relations.”
Those present at the emergency
‘-ocuncil meeting included Tiejiro
’Ya’mamoto, ong of the dominant
'l)Ulltical party leaders and a farme
rer cabinet member; It, Gen. Yoshi
ltsugu Tatekawa, prominent in
"nationalist movements, and Shinge
Tsuda, an outstanding industra
list.
l Anti-British feeling hag been
riging steadily in Japap with chags
- ges the British fostered a r;
W‘Gfi slew 2,000
| Chinese non-combatants in Can
ton and the Japanese navy had
| torpedoed Chiness fishing junks.
Hongkong, the British crown
colony on the southern China
;coast, has been mentioned con
itinually as a source of munitions
for China and more recently it has
been claimed British munitiop ¢ar
riers have eéntered Tsingtao, Shan-~ .
tung provinge port in North China.
Among other charges against the
ißritish, Japanese editorials have
stated tfequently that England had
caused the United States to change
its original attitude of “under
standing” for the Japanese Dosi
tion, .
| BATTALION ESCAPES %
SHANGHAI -~ (Sunday)—(#)—
China’s “lost battalion” escaped .
its besieged warehousg - citadel
early today, running a blazing mas~.
chine gun gauntlet to sanctuary i
Shanghai's Inter-national Settie
ment., ;
au the height of a furious battle
that sprayed shells over foreign
owned areas of Central Shanghai
377 Chinese dashed down a 20-yflt‘&‘~_‘
opening to safety. y g
) They were disarmed immediate=
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‘Mercer Student Is
|
. Elected Head of
| B. S. U. of State
| Raymond Rigdon, of Mercer Uni
| versity, Macon, Saturday "was
!uumed president of the Georg&g
Baptist Student Union, which com
’vludes its seventeenth annual con= .
vention at the First Baptist churehr
| here Sunday afternoon, srae
Rigdon succeeds ‘D. D. Hams«
[n\ona of Georgia Tech, who is pré=
siding during the convention.
[ Other . officers ¢lected are O:. M,
Cates of the University of Georgla,
first vice-president; Dorothy Gunn,
‘Bessip Tift College, second - vice
president; and Charles Dunecan,
Pledmont College and Marvin
Jones of Norman Junior college,
third vice-presidents. Alice « Fu
trelle, of the Georgia Baptist hos
pial, was named secretaryai
treasurer, Hal Armstrong, Teeh,
correspondent and Ben Sca ‘54;
ough of Tech, pianist. f»afi%&;
Speakers on Saturday’s program
included Rev. J. C. wmw:
tor of the First Baptist church of
Athens, Dr. O. P. Gilbert, editor
of the Christian Index, Rev. George
C. Gibson, pastor of Rose Hill
Baptist church of Columbus, and
Rev. Claude Bond, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Pk
Gity, Alabama. ! '»7;
On the concluding program Sum:
day are Dr. Pope A. Duncun, pass
tor of the Prince Avenue Baptist
church, Athens, Rev. tarence
Jordan, Southern Baptist Theologs
ical Seminary; Dr. James W. -
Merritt, executive secretary of the
Dr. K. O Whits PEHEE = SN
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