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Vol. 107, No. 306.
\URDER TRIAL OF
IS, MTBEE
oFcAI HERE TODNY
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' Judge Fortson Allows
~ Death-Bed Statement.
After Sharp Debate -
‘ e s ———
A sharp clash petween opposing
counsel over admission into evi
gerce of a dying statement made
by Bruce Mcßee approximateiy
one hour hfter he was shot here
on the night of October 15, fea
tured ‘the opening session of the
(rial -of Mrs. Mcßee, who is
charged with murdering ber hg.p
pand. oo
Judge Blanton Fortson allowed
sdmission of the statement, which
wae made to Dr. H. B. Harris,
atiending physician, after nearly
an bour of debate between T. o
ciackeiford, one of Mrs. Mcßee's
attorneys, and Solicitor General
Henry H. West, the prosecutor.
Knew Seriousnes of Wound
pr., Harris testified that Mcßee
knew that he had received a mor
-1l wound when he made the stite
ment directly accusing his pretty,
plond wife of his murder. .
of had told him he would not
survive and he had repeatedly
said he would not get well, before
making the statement,” Dr. Harris
asserted. by
«1 asked him if he shot himself
and he gaid no. 4
“Then T said to Bruce: ‘Who shot
you? .
“He replied, ‘Letty V. shot me.’
“1 asked him why she had shot
him and he said he would have to |
go back several months to make‘
that clear to me. |
“He said a man named Newby
who lived in Athens had broken‘
up his home. . |
T asked him why ghe would kil
him about that. ]
“He said: ‘He called her at thel
store this afternoon and 1 answer
ed the call. T was bringing her to |
Athens’.’
Dr. Harris said he then asked{
(Continued on page two.) |
Scant Likelihood
0f Immediate
Relief From Cold
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cold weather continued its siege
against a large part of the nation
today, and weather observers said
there was seant likelihoog of im
mediate relief.
A snow storm in -the Roeky
Mountain area enveloped Colorado,
Utah, Wyoming and Montana,
while lighter falls were reported
in North Dakota, Minniesota, Kan
sas and Missouri, extending as far
south as Oklahoma. The upper
tier of the Middle Atlantic States
also had some snow.
‘ln the south, frost chilled areas
as far south as Tampa, Fla., and
low temperatures prevailed along
the Gulf ICoast.
In New HEngland, where it was
generally fair, the mercury stood
it below zero in most sections of
Mine, northern Vermont, and
New Harioshire, It was also helow
2ro at North' Platte, Neb. and
Kansas City.
At Enterprise, Ala., one death
by exposure was reported, and at
Aberdeen, Wash,, 11-year-old Law
rence Tanner was killed by exhaust
fumes when his parents closed the
windows of their automobile be
cause of the cold. The parents
Were not harmed.
Minimum temperatures in the
south included 13 at Nashville,
Tenn, and Little Rock, Ark.; 15
at Memphis, Tenn.; 23 at Atlanta;
% at Thomasville in the southern
hart of Georgia; 24 at Shrevepoprt,
La: ang in Alabama, 18 at Flor
fnce, 22 at Birmingham and Ever
green, and 26 at Dothan.
Elsetwhere, low readings includ
¢d Cleveland 4; Buffalo, N. Y., 1;
Syracuse in the same state, 8 be
low zero; Sheridan, Wyo., 3; Bos
-190, 18: Cincinnati, 8; and Havre,
| Mont., 7
Dionnes May Visit
World’s Fair,
New York Learns
NEwW YORK. —~()~-Reports were
‘urrent today that the Dionne
Wintuplets might be brought to
the New York World’s Fair this
Year—but fair ofticials, while re
fusing to discuss reports an offer
had been made, said no contract
had been signed.
Last year, guardians of the fa
mous five refused to permit them
0 be brought to the Flushing ex-
Position — hut, at that time the
children never had left their iso
ated home in Callander, Ontario.
Since then. they have made 2
180-mije trip to see England’'s
King and Queen' at Ontario. =
The rumors had it that, should
the deal be successful, a home
¥ould be set up on the site of the
demolished Russian pavyilion .
Harvey 1. Gibson. Fair Corpor
tion hoard chairman. said no
‘ontract had been .signed and
ould not discuss the situation
further. But others cloge to the
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Oceans Swept Clean 0f Nazi
Shipping, Chamberlain
Says; Lauds Union With France
Prime Minister Sees Alliance As
Basis For Peaceful Rconstruction
By The Associated Press
Prime Minister Chamberlain today declared that
the present European land and air warfare “‘is merely
a preliminary to the main struggle”’ and asserted the
union between France and Britain has become so
close “that neither of us can give it up.”
Jap Cabinet Soon
To Resign,
Tokyo Report Says
TOKYO.— (#) —Resignation of
the cabinet of Premier General
Nobuyuki Abe as soon as organ
ization is completed of a new Jap
anese-dominated central =~ govern
ment in China was Dpredicted in
political circles today.
The cabinet's failure to achieve
any considerable improvement in
relations with the United States
was regarded as likely to prove
the primary cause for the predict
ed fall. Others were the inability
to end the conflict in China regime.
to administer Japanese - occupied
territories and be headed by Wang
Ching-Wei, was approved by the
cabinet yesterday. Wang is a for
mer premier of China ~who has
been at odds with the Chungking
government of Generalissimo
. (Continued on page seven.)
.
Naval Expansion Is
Criticiz edpA
‘AS
Policy “Reversal”
WASHINGTON.— # —Critics
of the administration’s $1,300,000,-
000 nmaval expansion program con
tended today that it represented a
startling reversal of traditional
policy because it contemplated a
fleet able to cope with popssible
coalitions of foreign powers,
“OQur naval policy for a long
time has been a navy second to
none,” said Rep. Cole (R.-N.Y.),
a member of the house naval com
mittee, “Now ~we are told we
must have one better than all the
rest of the sea powers combined.”
Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief
of naval operations, told the com
mittee yesterday that the navy as
now constituted “was not conceiv
ed to be adeqyuate to @efend our
selves against a coalition of
powers.”
“More recently it has become
evident that we must consider
such a theory,” adding that world
conditions ‘presage a greater men
ace to our peace thau was the
case a year ago.’
Despite the viewpoints exprpess
ed by the navy's high command,
Cole and other critics of the pro
‘posed 25 percent increase in the
pavy's toal tonanage said they
feared “we are becuming hysE -
Sst SRR oo i kiR
“It ig only on the sea that Eng
land can see the trend of hostili
ties,”” Chamberlain saia in a radio
{address. “The oceans of the world
shave been swept clear of German
shippingy’ .
In discussing cooperation ‘be
tween the Allies, the prime minig
ter predicted,
“It might .even develop = into
something wider and deeper, be
cause there is nothing which could
tdo more to precipitate the start of
a peaceful reconstruction,”
Chamberlain bitterly attacked
Germany’s treatment of the con-»
guered peoples of Poland and
Czechoslovakia and referring tg
(Continued on page three.)
Warplane Secrecy
Is Imposed By
U. S. Armed Forces
BY DEVON FRANCIS
| Associated Press Aviation Editor
| NEW YORK—The armed forces
ihave imposed restrictions of almost
{war-time severity on information
lregarding American warplane pro
iduction in connection with the ex
|port of aircraft, the army’s air
Ironrmmnent drive and plans for
:expunding the navy’'s air force.
! In the interests of national de
{fense, pictures of American-made
{military planes must be submitted
(to the army, or to the navy, for
lapproval before publication.
| Announcements by manufactur
fers undergo the same scrutiny.
I Aircraft, engine, accessory and
finstrument makers decline to di
vulge information whicn, In any
way could be construed to be a
violation of the 1917 espionage act.
’ Indirect, the ban is nonetheless
§ (Continued on page three.)
*Texhle Manufacturing
{Repmcd Increased
' Considerably Recently
l ‘WASHINGTON. — (# — The
;Bureau of Agricultural Economics
| reports textile bill activity “either
is continuing at a high rate or
has inereased considerably during
the past few weeks” in Great Bri
tain, Italy, Holland and Japan,
“The ‘favorable developments in
|these countries appear to have
more than offset the declining
iconsumpdon which appears to
|Lave taken place in the German
controlled area and in a few other
icountrlep." the bureau declared.
| Exports of American cotton from
August 1 to December 14 reached
| ISR 1) 3‘. . £ N L 5 r a
ear age : i eg &
Athens, Ga., Tuesday, January 9, 1940,
SUPPORT OF TRADE
TSI
URGED BY Chphln
State Department Says
Georgia Has
Benefitted From Pacts
MACON, Ga.— () —Dean Paul
W. Chapman of the Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture today called
for naticiga! support of reciprocal
trade agreements so long as the
south “must look to other coun
tries for markets for cotton, tobac
c¢o, naval stores and other import
ant cash crops.”
He cited middle western opposi
tion to the trade . agreements
“largely because we have import
ed some canned beef from South
America under the trade agree
ment program,” in a talk prepared
for the state convention of United
Georgia Farmers opening bhere to
day. “Other groups are also op-
Posing the rvenewal of the trade
agreement policy.”
| Declaring that while the program
had not brought material gaing to
agriculture in foreign outlets for
farm produets, he said the prin
ciple was sound, and ‘“other parts
of the nation should join the south
in supporting the . , . policy, not
to help the south, but to help
themselves.” §
“When we lose foreign outlets
for southern farm products it
means that southern farmers lose
their jobs. As a result, these far
mers must, in most instances, be
gin growing farm products al
ready produced in sufficient quan
tity in some other part of the
country. Thus the economic struc
ture’ of the entire country is af
fected adversely.
“Already because of the loss of
foreign trade we have withdrawn
about one-fourth of our cotton
land from the production of that
crop. This, in terms of the na
tion’s agriculture, means finding a
new job—and a new source of in
come—for 10,000,000 acres of crop
land and 2,500,000 people.”
President Robert M. Stileg re
ported approximately 5,000 mem
bers of the United Georgia Farm
ers. and predicted the two-day
(Continued on page three.)
Terrified Russians
Roaming Aimlessly,
Finnish Report Says
COPENHAGEN — (AP)— Dis
patches from Finland today de
clared thousands of terrified Rus
rians, facing death or capture,
were aimlessly roaming the bleak,
cold region east of Soumussalmi,
central Finland, as a result of the
Finns' destruction of the Red ar
my's 44th division.
Finnish ski scouts were said to
be rounding up the fleeing Rus
sians or annilhilating them as the
rout continued.
Great numbers were doomed to
to death in the intense cold, re
ports said, while others were dy
ing of starvation. Remnants of
of the Russian 163rd division,
which the Finns reported cut tc
as the 44th were reported being
pieces late in December, as well
mopped up.
The Finish victory over the 44th
division was attributed in Helsinki
to Field Carshal Carl Gustave
Mannerheim’s instructions for ‘win
ter fighting in the north country
to “hit the Russians in the stom
ach.”
As a result, the Finns were said
to have concentrated their atten
tion on disorganizing Russian
supply lines and destroying field
Kkitchens.
Even the hardiest Russians
found their morale slipping as
they were forced to fight day after
day without warm food, these re
ports said.
Guardsmen Protect
.
Prisoners At
- - - . .
Mississippi Trial
PRBENTISS, Miss.— (#) -—~Three
companies of National Guardsmen,
armed with riot guns and tear gas
supplies, moved onto the Jeff Da
vis court house squaregtoday as a
precaution against possible “mob
violence” during the arraignment
of two negroes on a charge of
slaying a peace officer.
Sheriff 8. G. McGee requested
Governor Hugh White to send the
guardsmen aiter “feeling against
the negroes” continued to mount
J. C. Sanford, former city mar
shal, slain last week in a burst of
gunfire when he and other officers
attempted to search a ecar for li
auor, was popular throughout the
area. Crowds of farmers and town
dwellrs from miles around,-many
of them armed, began milling
‘about this county seat &s soon as
the prisoners were returned here
vesterday.
The mnegro suspects, Jerome
Franklin and Hilton Fortenberry.
were permitted to remain here but
a short time before being hurried
vay again by officers to undis
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Wadsworth, Republican 0f
New York, Applauded As
He Raps: Anti-Lynch Bill
Terms Measure A “Fraud’; Passage
By House Regarded As Certain
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Rep. Gavagan (D-NY)
announced to the House today that he would move
“at the proper time” to eliminate from his anti
lynching biil a provision exempting violence in con
nection with labor disputes.
“Poor Richard” Is
Revealed As
Far From Thrifty
~ PHILADELPHIA — (AP)—
~ Anti now after a century and
a " f the truth is out about
njamin Franklin—that great
: equ'" nt of thrift and other
ca%;;:fl principles.
. He | didn’t always practice his
owméreachmcnts :
In fact, Franklin, like some pres
ent day folk, had quite a lot of
trouble in keeping sufficient funds
in thé bank to cover what he wan
ted to draw out,
‘%j}e name ‘Poor Richard’ might
ea.s!!y have derived from his bank
account rather than from his al-
manac,” declared President Will
iam Fulton Kurtz, of the Pennsyl-
vania company. “He was over
drawn at the bank at least three
days out of every week.”
. President Kurtz spoke after a
persual of the early records of the
Bank of North Ameriea, where
Franklin and many of his illustri
‘ous compatriots of colonial days
kept their money.
4 qowo records of the bank,
first ‘One established in the United
States, were turned over last night
to the historical society of Penn
sylvania. .
They covered one period from
1781, when the second continental
congress chartered the institution
as a means of providing supplies
and finances for promoting the
Revolution war, down to 1929.
In that year, the venerabie Bang
of North America was absorbed by
the Pennsylvania company.
An example of the bank’s service
in the Revolution in this entry,
reporting progress in rhe requisi
tion of 1,000 tents for George
Washington's ragged army of pa
triots:
“Mr. Thomas, the bank factor,
has made considerable purchases
of cloth for tents, but as they are
not yet cut out he is not able from
the very different breadths of the
cloth to form a very accurate
judgment of their number. He
thinks, they do not fall short of
400,
Deportation Case
Against Bridges
Dismissed By U. S.
WASHINGTON., — (#) — The
deportation case against Harry
Bridges, west coast CIO leader, has
been dismissed by Secretary of
Labor Perkins, who held that his
connection with the Communist
rarty was Dot established
By her action last night, Miss
Perking approved the findings sub
mitted by Dean James M. Landis
of the Harvard Law School, spec
ial trial examiner in the case.
A depotration warrant issued in
1988 charged that Bridges was af
filitade with an organization which
advocated overthrow of the gov
ernment by force and violence.
Landis found that Bridges was
“energetically radical” in. his be
liefs, but said evidence-did not
show “that the methods he seeks
to employ to realize them are
other than those that the frame“
work of democratic and constitu
tional government permits.” :
Bridges. a native of Australia
ame to the United States in 1920
LOCAL WEATHER
GEORGIA: Fair and con- |
tinued cold tonight; light scat- |
tered frost; Wednesday partly i
cloudy and slightly warmer. !
TEMPERATURE |
Highi o .. e 0 i
LOWeNE o ... a 0 280
MEEE 0 vy 390[
NotE & .. e i 030
RAINFALL
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Total since January 1 .. .. I.o€
Deficit since January 1 .. .42
He stated this intention at the
lstart of debate on the measure
'which woulq impose penalties on
peace officers who permit lynch
ings and on the political sub
divisions in which they occur.,
The provision which Cavagan
said he would attempt to strike
out says:
o ‘Liynching’ shall not be deemed
|m include violence occurring dur
ing the course of picketing or boy
cotting or any incident in connec
tion with any ‘labor dispute’.”
| Cavagan probably will offer his
motion when the bill is opened to
amendment tomorrow. l
Only a handful of the legisla
tors were present when. the house
convened an hour early (at 11 a.
m. EST) in an effort to complete
six hours of debatg by nightfall.
Rep. Wadsworth (R-NY), one
of the few northern opponents of
the bill, told his colleagues it could
never be enforced. As the opposi
tion’s first speaker, Whadsworth
was greetedqd by applause from
southern members.
He branded the bill “a snare and
a delusion.” A far better solution
of the lynching problem, he assert
ed, is the program of education
already undertaken,
Only 3 In 1939
| He pointed out the country had
100 or more Ilynchings annually
Jjust a few years ago. In 1939, he
said, there were only three,
Other congressional developments
included an announcement by Ad
miral Harold R. Stark to the house
naval affairs committee that the
navy is seeking funds agaln this
vear for harbor improvement at the
far-eastern Pacific Island of Guam.,
A §5,000,000 appropriation for that
purpose was refused by congress
last vear; the sum now sought is
$4,000,000.
Wadsworth declared that the
legislation would give the federal
government power to ‘destroy the
government of a county, the crea
ture of a state.”
“The truth is,” tne tall New
Yorker said, “the whole thing
shoulg have died aborning.”
“It's passage y the hbouse mis
leads multituaes of people, who
wil} wake up and find it a colos
sal fraud,” he asgerted. “I hate to
see congress pass legislation, what
ever its motives, that results in
disillusionment.”
He contended that under New
York state law, county officiais
could not legally pay fines which
(Continued on page five.)
Trade Deal With
Uruguay Is
Reported Stymied
| WASHINGTON.— (#) —Nego
{ tiations for a reciprpocal trade
| treaty between the United States
§a.nd Uruguay have broken down,
lon top of the collapse of efforts
!to reach an agreement with Ar
‘gentina,
The Argentine negotiations were
lended last week-end after dis
lagreement over piacing customs
; quotas on typical Argentine pro
*ducts such as linseed and canned
| beef,
J “Because of the similarity in
| important respects of the export
.| trade of Uruguay and Argentina
with the United States,” the State
Deparment said last night, “it has
| been found necessary in view of
the recent termination of negotia
| tions with Argentina to terminate
‘also the regoiations with Uru
;guay."
Congressmen from cattle raising
states had opposed agreements
with both countries.
Negotiations with Chile still are
under way, but the controversial
‘ltem of coppepr has been eliminat
led. 5
i Meanwhile, President William
;Green of the AFL declared in re
| sponse to an inquiry from Secre
{tary Hull that the Federation
gne\*er had expressed opposition to
| continuance of the reciprpoca’
1 trade program.
| Hull's inquiry was prompted by
| accounts of the action of the wage
earnervs protective conference in
ipetitioning congress to repudiate
all agreements not ratified by the
'sennte.
{ The conference is headed bY
Maithew Woll, AFL viee-president,
| end describes itself as the taflfll
! group of the Federation.
‘ The conterence petition said tho’
AFL executive council had adopt
{ed a resolutoin opposing “recipro
ca) trade treaties which discrim
inate againsg American workers.”
Green told reporters that he did
not recall whether the AFL had
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Duped Lupe Hits Gypsy Trail
uped Lupe Hits Gypsy Trail
Seeking Her Stolen Stockings
The shapely legs of screen actress Lupe Velez enlivened the Los
Angeles police “show-up” where Lupe viewed gypsy women sus
pected of duping her out of $2500 in a “money blessing”’ hoax and
stealing several pairs of the actress’ seamless hose. Lupe demon
strated—llike this—~when she ordered the suspects to lift their
skirts, so she could see if they were wearing stolen stockings.
THIRD TERM “RIDDLE” STILL
UNSOLVED BY JACKSON
DAY SPEECH OF ROOSEVELT
Huge Dinner Is Held In Atlanta;
Wallace, Jackson Urge Renomination
By D. Harold Oliver
WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Roosevelt's
"'plate-side chat” to Jackson Day diners, lauding in
dependent political thinking and joshing everyone
from Republicans to himself, brought cheers and
laughter—but left unanswered today the question
of his future plans,
News
Briefs
DENVER —(AP)— Robert Ede
len, 23, doesn’t like to have a street
car bell clanging at him while
picking his way across an icy
street. So he smashed a window
of the car, slicing an artery in’his
wrist. He just had an “irresistible
urge” he told Patrolman E. W.
Rogers. He was held for investi
gation.
VAN NUYS—, Calfe— (AP)
~Battalion Chisf William B.
Seekins has headed the fire
department’s emergency res
cue squad for years. He has
rescued many persons from
burning homes and tottering
buildings. He has climbed
blazing piles and rickety lad
ders. Always he escaped un
scrafichesd Workng in this
garage, he slipped and fell.
Result: a broken arm,
JUNEAU, Wis. — (AP)— Ju
neau has no patrol wagon but po
lice Chief Max Arndt gets along
okay with his one-wheel, one man
power substitute,
The chief felt the need of a
“black maria” when he attempted
to arrest an intoxicated transient
sleeping on a street,
Stumped only a minute, Arndt
loaded the man into a wheelbar
row and trunled him to the jail
house.
ATLANTA — (AP) — An art
center will be established here
with funds from the $750,000-t051,000,000
$1,000,000 estate of Edgar P. Mec-
Burney, Atlanta financier, whe
died last week. Mcßurney ‘willed
a life interest in the estate 'to his
(Continued on page five.)
County Officers Seek
Re-Election In
Primary February 23
{ Five of the six incumbent Clarke
leounty officers who must be re
‘elected this year, announceq they
'would be candidates in the pri
'mary to be helg February 23.
! Coroner Bert L. Beussee has not
vet announceq whether he will
seek that office again,
j Elmer Crawford, county clerk;
‘,"Wb.lter Jackson, sheriff; A. E.
Davison, tax ecollector; R. C. Orr,
ordinary, and Marshall Bryant, taxl
receiver were the incumbent offi
cers announcing for re-election to
day.
~ Mr. Crawford, in his official an
nouncement, said A. Broadus Ceile
would be on the ticket with him
;;h m% ot Stk R
HSYE]
i Democratic leaders who heard
lthe chief executive make a jovial
!and philpsophical talk at last
| night's SIOO-a-plate cedebratfon
interpreted his remarks variously
as an indirect bid for a third term,
{2B a valedictoty, or merely as a
!studied effort to “keep 'em guess
ing.” Ling
z Most of the party bigwigs
laughingly agreed with Mr. Roos
evelt's own comment, however,
that he was a “self-made riddle*
and predicted that the riddle would
go unsolved for weeks or months,
Even though the presient fail
,ed to allude to the third term is=
sue, Secretary Wallace, speaking
| in Des Moines, said flatly that he
hoped the “nominee in 1940 would
be President Roosevelt” and..at
Cleveland, Robert H. Jackson,
newly appointed attorney general,
. came virtually as close to advocate
ing a third term. e
! Frivolity ‘was the keynote of the
-dinner here, and Mr. Roosevelt wag
in a story-telling mood. But his
'speech had some serious moments.
~ Taking as his theme “By Their
Motives May Ye Know Them,” He
told his hearers in Washington
-and at 44 other dinners that it was
not so much the party to which a
leader belonged, but the deeds he
performed in the interest of the
general welfare that counted,
The future, he asserted, lies
with those wise political leaders
“who realize that the great publie
is interested more in government
than in politics; that the inde
pendent vote in this country has
been steadily on the increase.
Growing Independence
“The growing independence of
voters, after all, has been proved
by the votes in every presidential
election since childhood—and the
tendency is on the incraese. I am
too modest, of course, to refer tO®
the most recent example—the elecs
tion of 1936.
“Party regulars who want to wim
must hold their allies and support
ers among those independent vo
ters—and don’t let us forget it.*
Fven though he did not discust
the approaching campaign directs
Iy, the chief executive included in
his salutation to the 1,100 guests:
“Candidates here are candidates
there—"
National Chairman James A,
Farley, who introduced Mr. Roose=
velt, came closest to announcing
his own presidential candidacy
when, his bald head gleaming &
tomato red under the klieg lights,
(Continued on page five,)
Student At Lucy Cobb
During Civil War
Succumbs In Atlanta
ATLANTA —(AP)— Mrs: Olfs
ver Felt Evans, 9, who wasg'h
student at the old Lucy Cobb in=
stitute in Athens, Ga., at the out=
break of war between the states,
died today. She was a native of
Savannah. Twe daughters sure
vive. Fokiy il