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Vol. 109, No. 38.
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McCarran Says Aid
Bill .To Brin
~ln 60 I%
i ariat—
George Fears More
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Amendments Might
Have “Moral Affect”
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gy WILLIAM B. ARDERY
WASHINGTON—(AP)——
Three opponents }}ammergd
at the administration’s Brit
ih aid bill in the Senate to
day, and one of them, Sen
gtor McCarran (D-Nev.),
predicted it would put the
United States into war with
i 60 days after its enact
ment.
genator Taft (R.-Ohio) said
ipat the bill would put ‘“the issue
of wai before the country within
six months, and Senator Capper
(R-Kan.) asserted that it would
give the president ‘“complete war
making powers.”
While the senate worked through
an extraordinary Saturday after
noon session in order to hasten
action on the bill, administration
gupporters discussed among them-i
glves themselves the question of
accepting two amendments -— one J
qggesting that the President con
qlt legislative leader from time to
time on operation of the ° British
aid program, and another naming
Britain, Greece, and China as the
countries to be aided under the
bill. |
Three of those in charge of the
measure — Senators Barkley (D.-
Ky.), George (D.-Ga.), and Con
nally (D.-Tex.) said, however, that
there was no present plan to ac
ept further revesion of the bill,
which already has been amended
by the house and the senate for
gign relations ‘committee. |
Opposes Amendments |
George told reporters that any
additional amendments might have
an adverse “moral effect.”” He said
the changes might be interpret
ed abroad, especially in Japan, as
a set-back to the President and a
sign of American disunity.
Connally and Senator Austin
(R.-Vt.), a supporter of the meas
wre, agreed that it was unlikely
that further amendments would.
make any appreciable change in
the final vote. An Associated Press
poll of the senate showed 62 pres
ently for the bill, 20 against, and
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‘Continued on Page Two)
L. Denni
. Dennis Penny In
Ordinary’s Race;
rdinary's Race;
! Others To Enter
L. Dennis Penny yesterday for
mally announced he will be a
candidate in the special election
to fill the office of Clarke County
Ordinary, made +wvacant by the
dath of Judge R. C. Orr last
Thursday. |
Mr. Penny's announcement was}
the first formally made, though
M"f- Ruby Hartman, Judge Orr's‘
assistant for the past twelve years,
and William T, Ray, local attor-!
iey, both announced they are defi
litely in the race and will make
;};m' formal announcements Mon-i
v |
”““"* Penny is a past commander
‘q;l‘“' !vru'nl American Legion post
and served as City Court Solicitor
der the late Judge J. D. Brad
:"]{ i’"“‘f‘_ the past two years he
g I_>urchasing agent for
\ University of Georgia.
m»‘j}\_ Hartman is well known
flw'v.v.:.a‘ %}xblm. having been con
m "" ‘-"“rh‘pu‘blic. office work for
last ‘1 T“Fn‘ty-mght years, the
Be o which have been
'\]‘. \ assistant to Judge Orr.
B s has heen a well known
:";- ting attorney for a numher
“‘, H‘ rs. "16' is a past president
f & Athens Lions Club and a
vears ago was elevated to
being .wit‘u,i:]h”l'n in Lionism by
e . the November,
i .":;”"““ election.
the ‘~_ the law, upon wvaecancy in
Otilce of Ordinary the Clerk
{Cont;j
L ntinued on Page Three)
Uwenty-Five University Co-eds
lompete Tn Beauty Revue
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| Averags February rainfall . 5.13
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| Deficit. sinco Jamaury 1 +.. 17
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Britain's Chances Less
Ifgl. S. Enters War,
i Tells Edito
Cites “Arsenal Of Defense” Role
As Safeguard Against Entrance
By Elise Wortsman
““We could do Britain no greater injury to her own
ability to survive than by entering the war now,” de
clared Kirke L. Simpson, Washington international
analyst of the Associated Press, in an address at the
University Chapel Saturday. . e
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. Pretty picture is Hope Edwards
. of Jackson Heights, N. Y., as she
obeys mother’s injunction not to
go near water, or something, in
Miami Beach,
Mrs. Hansford And
Edward Sray .
Are Acquitted Here
Mrs. E. C. Hansford and Ed-.
ward Gray were acquitted of
charges they were accessories
to the shooting of E. C. Hans
ford here February 6, at a pre
liminary hearing before a
three-man Justice court which
heard more than seven hours
of testimony Saturday. ' 3
Justices of the Peace Joe Nun
nally, Robert Hamilton, and Reed
Alexander, upon recommendation
of Solicitor General Henry H.
West, ordered warrants under
which Mrs. Hansforqd and Gray
were being held in jail, dismissed.
The warrants were sworn out by
the father of ‘the dead man. im
mediately after his funeral on
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(Continued on page six).
Seeking what is probably . the
most coveted distinction among|
co.eds, 25 of the University of)
Georgia’s fairest of the fairér sex!
will compete Tuesday night in|
the Pandora’s annual Beauty.Re-|
vie in the Physical Education,
building at 7:45 o'clock. |
" Departing from a custom of
many years, judges of this year's
}revue will face the task of mak
ing the final choice of the Uni-!
versity’'s number one beauty queen
of 1941—rather than submitting
eight hopefuls to some authority,
safely 1,000 mileg from Athens. . |
The judges who face this almost
‘hopeless task are Alonzo M. Lans.
ford, director of the Telfair Acad. '
en.y of Arts and Sciences of -Sav
annah, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
l (Continued on Page Three)
Mr, Simpson, ‘:\/ho was presented
by Ralph McGill, executive editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, was
the final speaker of the Georgia
Pregs Institute which was in ses.
sion here since Wednesday night.
‘Although it is dangerous. to
make predictions ahout the war,”
the speaker said, *“I would say
there is no longer a great fear
that England will be conquered.”
The fact that President Roose
velt wants America to be an ‘“ar
isena.l of defense,” with the arms to
| be used abroad, was cited by Mr.
i Simpson as a sign of safeguard
{against this country’s bheing drawn
!into the war. 4
, . Give The Best
i “We should give England the
| best we've got in equipment in
‘ stead of the worst, for there is our
| laboratory to test out defects,”
| Mr. “ Simpson " told 'his audience.
| “Never has there been a ' time
{'when we needed ' defense more.
:I'm for national defense in every
Isense of the term.” 3
The Pulitzer Prize.winning writ.
er of the AP’s storiesr on the Un
| known Soldier said that the weigh
lin‘g of the national defense prob
|lem by the people is significant
|of democracy, at work from -the
! bottom up.
! Greetings from the .. Alabama
| Press Association were extended
:toh the Georgia Press Association
| * (Continued on Page Bix)
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'Aviaticn Committee
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| e v ders |A%
Field For Week-End
I Four prominent Athenians de
.parted ' Saturday for Montsomery.i
gAla.._ where they will' confer with
| 'General Weaver of Maxwell Field,
l'and members of his staff as an
| other step in a campaign *to se
| cure an air base for *Athens. 1
The committee going to Maxwell
Field is the same as one appoint
ed at a mass meeting of merchants]
and bhusiness men here last week,l
with the exception of J. H, Hu
bert, who made the trip in place
|of Dr. 8. V. Sanford, who had
another engagement for the week
end,
Dr. Sanford will go with the
committee, - composed of Mayor
Bob McWhorter, J, K. Davis and
Joel Wier, to Washington some
time this week. It is planned to
'leave Wednesday or Thursday for
the national capitol.
Should an air hase he located
here it would be in the area sup
ervised by officials at Maxwell
Field. An officer from General
t Weaver’'s staff paid a hurried
visit here some time ago to look
over possible sites anq suggested
that more be secured before nego
tiations for the base were begun
[with air corps officials,
? . |
Clarke’s Farmers
Organize Farm ‘
Bureau Saturday J
BY GENEVIEVE LONG
Thirty.one Clarke county farm.
ers joined the Clarke Farm Bureau,
organized Saturday. The meeting
was the first rally in the state
resulting from the recent member
ship drive of the American Farm |
Bureau Federation. H. L. Wingate,
farm bureau representative trom‘
Mitchell county, 'was principal
speaker. ‘
“If farmers want ‘“to survive,|
they must organize ana present a]
solid front, as labor anpd industry
have done,” Mr. Wingate declared.‘
“Labor and industry are in a much
better position financially than
farmers because they are orgs.n_'
ized.”
“Mill labor gets 40 cents an'
hour, but farm laborers make only
5 or 10 cents an hour,” he pointed
out. |
~ “Prices of most commodities
farmers have to buy have doubled
since 1918-1919,” Mr. Wingate said.
“Therefore, your cotton dollar is
not worth but 50 or 60 cents. The
chief reason for this is that labor
and industry appeal to congress as
organized bodies, and not mierely
as individual members of a group.
| “parmers compose 25 percent of
the national population, are 30
- percent organized, and have 12
- percent of the national income,”
‘he went on to say. “Industry
'makes up 10 percent of the popu
‘lation, is 75 percent organized, and
has 67 percent of the national in
_come. £
With these statistics, you can
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(Continued on Page Thres)
German General Staff
Moves Into Bulgaria
Noted AP Writer,
oted AFY Wller,
Aiding ‘Friends,
Attempts To Cross
Desert Seeking Aid
For Stranded Plane :
By The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru. — Without
food or water for four days,
five scattered occupants of
a grounded - airliner were
still lost somewhere in the.
Sechura desert of northerg
Peru Saturday night despite’
a day-long-: search by ten
Peruvian army planes.
John Lear, a:r writer for the
special news. service of 'the As=
sociated Press; Pilot Hughe Wells,
a native of Shrewsbury, Mass.,.
and one other passenger gtarted
at 7.p. m, Tuesday to find aid for
theip~ fellow passengers, Condor
airling officials =aid today, and:
have not been heard from since.
Rt e R P A P B O BR B SO
REACH SAFELY
By the Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — John Lear,
a writer for the Special News
Service of the Associated Press,
and one of five occupants of
a grounded airliner who be- |
tame lost-in the Sechura des- ™
ert of northern Peru, has ar
rived in the coastzl town of
Morrope, it was reported to- ‘
night from nearby Chiclayo.
Yesterday, a - fourth desperate
Passenger set off alone across the
4,000 square mile desolate waste
to find help. It was reported late
today that this passenger, an army 1
officer, had been located, however. |
Two others, however, who pre-.
sumably had wandered off across‘
the het sands, were still unac
counted for. J‘
Altogether, five of the 15 occu
pants had been rescued by pilots
who risked a landing on the diffi
cult terrain, while four remained
by the airliner waiting to be
brought out.
Without Supplies
T.ear, Wells and their compan
jon set out Tuesday night with
only the plane’s compass and
without food or water, Condor of
ficials said, in the hope of reach
ing the Pan American highway to
the west, which connects Piura, 450
miles north of Lima, and Chiclayo,
825 miles north of Lima.
The Sechura desert, where it
rains bhut one in three or four
years, is one of the most deso
late wastes in Soutp America.
Only about six degrees south of
the Equator, the district is ex
tremely hot by day, frigid at
night. !
It lies between the coast and
the Andean range to the west.
I Lear, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lear of Mechanicsburg, Pa., had
flown to Iquitos, 650 miles north
east of Lima, in the heart of the
Amzzon headwater jungles whose
possession is disputed by Peru and
Ecuador.
He had left behind this territory,
noted for its bold, fierce natives,
however, and had crossed the An-
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Marionette Show To
Be Sponsored
ilot Cl
By Athens Pilot Club
—————
Direct from a year's successful
run in New York City, the MAR
IONETTE GUILD is sending its
two feature productions with their
original New York cast to Athens
in the Mell -Auditorium on the
25th of February. A performance
of “Huckleberry Finn” will be giv
en at 3:30 in the afternoon and
a performance of “The Count of
Monte Cristo” at 8 o'clock in the
evening, under the auspices of
the Athens Pilot Ciub.
The story of the adventures of
“Huek” Fian while floating down
the Mississippi on a home made
raft provides many thrills for
young and old. “Huck” is probably
the best known and best loved of
all the characters ecreated by Mark
Twain, and his exploits gain new
vigor and life on the marionette
‘stage. The restless, fun-loving,
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Judge Blanton Fortson, for twenty years judge of the Western
Circuit, yesterday tendered his resignation to Governor Eugene
Talmadge, to become president and treasurer of the Southern
Mutual Insurance Company. Judge Fortson was elected five times
without opposition by the people of Clarke, Walton and Oconee
counties.
Fortson Resigns As Judge To
Become Southern Mutual
insurance Company President
Expresses Appreciation To People Of
Circuit; Governor To Name Successor
~ Judge Blanton Fortson, for twenty years one of!
‘Georgia’s most distinguished jurists, yesterday ten
‘dered his resignation as judge of the Western Cir
cuit to become president and treasurer of the South
lern Mutual Insurance Comp?nly. 1- : :
et A R M ike ol dhsanives Judge Fortson’s successor, )
{ - - ‘
Services Will Be
iMiss Car't¥|
| A R .
g Miss Eula Carithers, beloved
l Athens woman, died Saturday
l morning at 1:15 o’clock at the
| home of her cousin, Mrs, Fred
| Whitehead, 185 Hull street,
' Miss Carithers wag 69 years old
and had been ill for the past
! month. .
| Services will be held Sunday
| afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mec-
Dorman-Bridges chapel. Dr, J. C.
Wilkinson, pastor of First Baptist
| church, will cfficiate.
{ Interment will be in Oconee Hill
i ———p 2
i (Continued on Page Six)
| ill Will
Alex McCaskill
Be Featured On
'Air Monday Nigh
/Air Monday Night
' .
i BY 808 MYERS
l Alex MecCaskill, former Univer
sity of Georgia athletic star, now
| head coach at Athens High will be
, featured Monday night at 7 o'clock
on Ernie Harwell's “Sports News
st
(Continued on Page Three)
serve until the expiration of the
present term, ending in December,
1942, will be appeointed by Govern
or FEugene Talmadge. Prominent
among those being considered for
the office, it is said, are Thomas
J. Shackelford, veteran Athens at
toney and former legislator, Judge
S. C. Upson, former. city courtl
solicitor; Solicitor GeGneral Henry
H. West of the western circuit;
Rupert A. Brown, former ‘solici
tor of the Athens city court a,ndl
present county atiorney,; Do‘.‘:;e,\'l
Davis and Claude McHaffey, wel!‘
known attorneys. ;
Those residing outside of Clarke,
who are reportedly among 'the
leading prospective appointees in
clude Morris Kelly of Monroe, well
(Continued on Page Six)
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Husband Of Former
Athens Girl To
Be Buried Tuesd
ay
James Lloyd Bewer, well known
to many Athenians, died at his
home in Norfolk, Va., Friday night
at 6 o'clock following an illness of
several months. Mr, Bower was
55 years old. . L
Mr. Bower was the husband of
the former Miss Mary Lou Lam
bert, member -of a family promi
nent in Athens for many years.
Services will be ‘held at the
[ (Continued on Page Twe)
A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Communists In Country
Prepare To Resist
Turkish Press Bristles At Nazi
Move; British Poised For Attack
By Robert St. John
SOFIA, Bulgaria.— (AP)—Nazi general staff offi
cers in civilian clothes, their black military boots
shining under their raincoats, began establishing
themselves in Sofia Saturday night and from thg
city’s leading hotel they peered quietly out at groups
of angry students shouting against ‘‘the German oc
cupation of Bulgaria.”
Ameri Must
! - g
Out-Sacrifice
-
Nazis - Waliace
“U. S. Action After
War To Determine 1
. |
Course Of World”
—————
, DES MOINES, lowa, —
(AP)—Vice President Hen
ry A. Wallace said Saturday
night that “the price of de
mocracy and peace on this
hemisphere is based on our
being more willing than the
Nazis to sacrifice our goods,
our time, and, if need be,
lour lives.”
} He made this assertion in an
luddrefls prepared for the National
Farm Institute, and, it was under
stood, read and approved by Pres
ident Roosevelt, It was his first
i address since he assumed the vice-
I presidency.
“Our only hope for peace is to
Ipre\'ent England from being de
' stroved by the Nazis,” he declar
ed. “Let those who fear the con
sequences of war keep that in
mind.”
Then,' looking toward a time
“when Naziism is defeated,”. Wal
lace said that the United States
has “the reources, the inventive
genius and the heart” to do ‘“the
job of peace” in gainihg higher
|living standards for common men
the world over.
“We shall look forward to the
time when no man will go hun
(Continued on page six).
Kent A. Hill HI
- -
With Influenza
In Local Hospital
Friends of former Representativg
Kent A. Hill will regret to learn
he is confined to St, Mary’s hos
pital with influenza.
Hospital attaches Saturday night
said Mr, Hill's condition was sat
isfactory at the close of his third
day there., This will be a source of
satisfaction to the many friends
of the long-time former city coun
cilman and former representative.
Simpson Warns 0f Possibility
0t Axis- Attacking America
BY MARY SUTTON
AND FRANCES PHILLIPS ‘
In an interview Saturday, Kirke
L. Simpson, of the Washington
Bureau of the Associated Press,
warned that the United States
should not gverlook the possibility
of an overseas attack as the logi.
cal move to cut off American sup
plies to Britain.
The Washington news Interpre.
ter thinks England will never be
defeated through attack, invasion,
or lack of fcod supplies, but says
the English need equipment with
which to right. He feels the United
States should gend the best ships,
planes and clothes in an effort to
“save ourselves from ruin.”
Means Business
Considering the pesitions of Jap
an and South America, Mr. Simp
son feels Nippon “means business
and won't stop agitating until its
HoXE]
On newly erected posts along
the highways leading from the
Rumanian fronuer toward the in
terior of Bulgaria, bright new road
signg printed in German appeared,
But up to late afternoon watche
ers along the Danube reported f
‘no regulay Nazi troop movex%g
intp this country had begun, i
though the river horder is hot@‘
with Nazj pontoons. ;;2;
(This troubled country may bu§
come the Germau high road wfg
Greece and Turkey.) é
The police here . arrested nearly
50 Fadical Agrarian leaders wtfil.,é
out explanation at almost the
moment the first German officers
arrived. Additional anti.aireraft
guns were mounted on the National
Bank building in the center of the
clty. }u
The British Bducational nmki
tute, which is connected with the
British legation, hurriedly shut ita
door and its four British director§y
made haste to leave the country.
Legation Remains s
The legation remains, although
the ministéer has made it clear
that continued diplomatic rela
tiong with PEulgaria depend upon
“Cerman movemernts,” 5
To their tens of thousands of
followers the Communist leaders
were understood to have sent the
word by grapeyine: i
~ “Resist the (erman invasion by
inon-cooperation propaganda, but
‘not by force!”
} Axis sources loosed a stream
‘of dispatches and rumors appars
‘ently intended to state the official
e
\ (Continued on ruge iThree)
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Cleveland C. Wood,
.
Former Athenian,
. .. |
Dies In Louisiana
et
Word was received here Satur
day night of the sudden death in
'New Orleans, La., of Cleveland C.
Wood, former well known resident
of Athens.
Mr. Wood dropped dead late
Saturday afternoon in the Louis
‘iann city. He was 57 years old.
' Survivors include one son, Wil
‘]i.’tm Wesley Wood, Miami, Fla.;
a sister, Mrs. Jones Purcell of
Athens; brothers, Billups Wood of
Decatur, Ga., and Lieut. Command
f(*r Arthur C. Wood, of the United
States Navy, Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Wood was the son of the
late Mr, and Mrs. W. L Z Wood,
prominent residents of this city.
| His father for many years was
fvity clerk of Athens and before
;then served as superintendent of
(Continued on page six).
ends are gained.” South America,
on the other hand, feels that the
United States has always held an
aloofness toward them, he de
clared,
“South America is In a position
to supply herself with all necessi.
ties,” he asserted, “and the people
have no blood relationghip with
us. In view of this. it is difficult
to predict what part they will play
in world affairs.” .
Aftermath Uncertain
Asked about the possible after.
math- of the current conflict, he
replied any prediction s danger
cus. Since this war came sSo pear
the last world catastrophe it may
result in almost any kind of eco.
nomic system, he added. :
“Britain in her war aims says
she wants to restore all the cone