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PAGE THREE THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936. STARHEMBERG DELAYS DOWNS' FATE TO REST FIRS CONTRACT LET President of Merchants9 Group Enthusiastic Over Festival Plan RETURN OF JURY HANDS TODAY HAPSBURGS FOR SEWER PROGRAM Anti-Slot Machine Bill. RICHMOND, Feb. Z.UP) The house of delegates today voted to banish slot machines with an element of chance from the state while the senate passed the bill allowing the tate corporation commission to regulate for-hire trucks with amendments which leave little for the commission to regulate except insurance and hours of drivers. ther on the afternoon of May 1.

1935, and turned the gun on Mrs. Carter during a moment of emotional unsta-bility when she appeared from behind a workbench in the lock shop on Alabama street. Etheridge and Milling contend Downs was justified in shooting his father because of innumerable threats made by the parent to his son. Among witnesses yesterday were H. G.

Thurman, S. R. Green, Guv O. Guest. Harry Cohen.

L. W. Whitley, E. H. Griggs, J.

P. Clayton. John Henderson, George Cornett and C. D. Crow.

The trial will be resumed at 9 o'clock this morninir with Judge John D. Humphries presiding. Dogwood Fete Will Revive Atlanta Spirit of Resur-gens' Says Foster. CHEERS, LAUGHTER GREET M' DONALD LONDON', Feb. 5.

(JP) A mixed reception of cheers, laughter and at least one "boo" greeted former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald today when he returned to the house ot commons as the representative of the Scottish universities. A few sarcastic remarks were made by opposition members while Mac-Donald signed the roll. One member, imitating MacDonald's manner of speaking, cried "'Ah, my dear friend, I am so slad." The former prime minister received his present spat in a by-election in Glasgow after beins defeated in the recent general election by his former constituency. Defense Attorneys Put Character Witnesses on Stand for Accused Man. Archduke Otto Receives the News in Paris Through "Messenger." PWA Announces Awarding of Grading Work on R.

M. Clayton Plant. f1 "yk Lenox Park Public School Bus Transportation HEmlock 8571 mi -W PARIS, Feb. 5. UP) The young Archduke Otto hastened here from his exile in Belgium to confer with Vice Chancellor Ernst von Starhemberg, only to be told through an intermediary today that the restoration of the Hapsburg throne in Austria has been "indefinitely postponed." Diplomatic circles said von Starhemberg refused to receive the pretender, but Otto employed one of his many Bourbon cousins as a "messenger." One of von Starhemberg's reasons for postponement, it was said, was that it would facilitate a Danubi-an understanding, since the Little Entente is bitterly opposed to restoration.

Otto presumably had planned to plead with von Starhemberg to reverse bis decision. In Austrian diplomatic circles it was said "The arrival of Otto at this time is very embarrassing." The question of restoration, informed sources said, is the chief stumbling block to an economic understanding between Austria and the Little Entente. MULROONEY IS NAMED TO NEW POST IN N. Y. ALBANY, N.

Feb. 5. UP) New York city's former Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, who began as a waterfront "cop," became correction commissioner of the Empire State today. Governor Herbert H.

Lehman se-leceted the blue-eyed, reddish-haired Mulrooney to succeed the late Dr. Walter N. Thayer Jr. The Governor's appointment was immediately confirmed by the state senate. For two years Mulrooney has been chairman of the state alcoholic beverage control board.

As correction commissioner, Mulrooney will head the state correction department which manages six prisons, including Sing Sing, three reformatories, three institutions for defective delinquents a house of refuge and two hospitals for the criminal insane. The movement to give Atlanta an annual Dogwood Festival gained new impetus yesterday from enthusiastic indorsement by Alvin E. Foster, newly elected president of the Atlanta Retail Merchants' Association. "We need a movement like that," naid Mr. Foster.

"We need it for several reasons. It obviously makes for prosperity because whenever you can bring a lot of people into the city, to stay here several days each, you bring money into town which 'circulates throughout the city, helping everybody. "But to me the big thing about this is to see the old 'Atlanta spirit' rising from the ashes of depression and living up to the Resurgens motto which this fown of ours has so well upheld through the years. And that is fine because whenever we have organized for progress, Atlanta has spurted forward. It happened after the Cotton States Exposition.

It happened after the Forward Atlanta movement. It will happen again as the Dogwood Festival brings in new people to spread the good word about Atlanta. "I am su.e I speak for every merchant in town when I say that Mrs. Cooney. the Garden Clubs of Atlanta, and the businessmen who are co-operating with them, have begun an important and valuable work which will gain impetus every year, and become a tremendously valuable feature of Atlanta's spring season." The Atlanta Dogwood Festival was announced late last week by Mrs.

Robert L. Cooney, who has been asked to direct it. Late in April, when dogwood is expected to be at its peak, a week of celebration will be held during which a balanced program of enter- The trial of Alvin Downs for murder will go into the third day this morning with a statement by the defendant expected before the case is given into the hands of the jury, probably this afternoon. Downs, charged with shooting Mrs. Myrtle Carter, bookkeeper in the Downs locksmith shop, and the killing of the father, C.

C. Downs, yesterday heard a succession of defense witnesses testify to his good character and peaceable nature. Defense Attorneys Paul Etheridge and B. F. Milling drew from each witness testimony that Alvin had withstood violent abuse and mistreatment from his father for years.

They said Alvin "is a good boy" and had always borne a reputation for quietness. The state prosecutors, Solicitor-General John A. Boykin and Assistant Solicitor J. Walter LeCraw yesterday sought to show Alvin Downs shot Mrs. Carter in anger because she was oecnpying the position of secretary to his father, a job formerly held by his stepmother.

J. West, shop employe, was the last state witness before Boykin announced he would rest the case. As each defense witnpss told of Downs' good reputation, Boykin asked on cross examination whether or not the young man knew the distinction between right and wrong. Every one replied in the affirmative. The defense contends that Downs, goaded by years of abuse, shot his fa i) Vsmihh.

lire Cbit Givimx The first contract on Atlanta's sewer modernization program, being prosecuted jointly by PWA, WPA and the municipality was announced yesterday by PWA. The MacPoujald Construction Company, Atlanta, was awarded the grad ing contract on the R. M. Clayton plant at a cost of $25,348. Similar contracts on South River and Ctoy plants have not yet been considered by PWA.

Clarke Donaldson, chief of construction, told members of the bond com mission during the day that city en jrineers doing field work on the WPA part of the work are saving from $8,000 to S1O.0O0 monthly. Salary adjustments ranging from to $75 a mo th for engineers already on city pay rolls have been allowed from the bond funds. Donaldson informed the commission when questioned by K. A. Wachendorff, member of the commission.

"They amount to about $2,600 a month, but if we had to hire additional engineers we would pay out from $8,000 to $10,000 more each month," Donaldson said. "As it is, the oty engineers perform their regular duties and attend to the sewer work in addition." He told commission members he would file with it a complete list of the supplementary salaries allowed for such work at the next meeting of the commission. Several contracts for purchase of material for disposal units were approved by the commission. They previously had been voted by city council subject to bond com ission ALVIN E. FOSTER.

THE CANDY OF THE SOUTH: tainment will be brought to the city. Great pageants, headliners of stage, screen and radio, athletic events and many other features are planned and it is expected many thousands of visitors will be brought in from all parts of the south. The Garden Clubs of Atlanta, sponsors of the event, have secured the enthusiastic support of leading businessmen, and the festival details are rapidly rounding into shape DEKALB FARMER BUYS 22D TAG FOR AUTO J. W. Hunt, DeKalb county farmer, yesterday bought his 22nd automobile license tag for the same car.

His tag application showed the car was made in 1914. Hunt said two bodies had been worn out and that the car now sported its third. Speed Pilot Lands. WICHITA, Feb. 5.

(JP) more than nine hours after he left New York, Howard Hughes, speed pilot, stopped here today on a leisurely east-west flight to Los Angeles. He landed at 3:40 p. m. (4:40 eastern standard time). Hughes left New York at 7 :07 a.

eastern standard time. Sold by Better Druggists Everywhere I ior oetaiiea puouc announcement. W. S. COLEMAN DIES AT ATLANTA HOME WESTMORELAND HEAD OF CAPITAL CITY CLUB it's Going Great Guns! Lowest T7 77 CANDIDATES NAMED FOR U.

S. ACADEMY mi Georgia Newspaperman Passes Here at Age of 72 Years. W. S. Coleman, active in Georgia newspaper work for many years and a resident of Atlanta since 1915, died yesterday at his home, 1041 West Peachtree street, at the age of 72 years.

Mr. Coleman served for 14 years as president of the Georgia Press As Officers and Directors for Year Elected by Members' Ballots. Winter fares IN HISTORY Great February sociation, being mainly associated with the organization when it was known as the Georgia Weekly Press He was a native of Cedartown, where he published for many years the Cedartown Standard. He was ATLANTA to California Through Santa Pm PuMmani from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and New Orlaans CJ7 Rurd COACH.

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off MORfflE- Fluffy Priscilla Curtains Examinations for West Point To Be Held on March Third. William Blackshear Zubery Cuth-bert, has been named as a candidate for the United States Military Ac.demy at West Point, from the third Georgia congressional district, while Ashley Little. Talbotton. and William Campbell. Carrollton, were designated as candidates from the fourth district, fourth corps area headquarters announced yesterday.

They will take examinations March 3 for entrant'- July 1. Meredith M. McKeuzic. Cordele, and Robert K. Clements, Buena Vista, were named as first and second alter-n tes from the third district, while Charles A.

Cannon Covington, and Hugh Turner McDonough, were named as first alternates, and Robert V. Ferguson, West Point, and Henry Williams. Warm Springs, were named as second alternates from the fourth district. From the Florida second district, Wendell Conlee, Lake City, and Yancey Agnew Harris Gainesville, were designated as candidates. J.

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Fmm the Alabama national guard was named Edwin T. McGowan, private in the thirty-first infantry, John L. Westmoreland, prominent Atlantan, was elected president of the Capital City Club yesterday afternoon, succeeding Jackson P. Dick, retiring president. Mr.

Westmoreland was elected following nominations made Tuesday night. He was unopposed, as were the other nominees, including Major Clark Howell vice president, and William T. Perkerson, secretary-treasurer, who were elected. James R. Gray was chosen a full-term director, after having served out the unexpired term of the late Major John S.

Cohen. New directors elected were Jesse Draper, James D. Robinson and Baxter Maddox. and directors reelected were Albert Thornton, J. Sherrard Kennedy, Ryburn G.

Clay, S. C. Fleming and John Grant Jr. W. P.

Timmie continues as manager. The officers served both the Capital City Club and the Capital City Country Club, at Brookhaven. The out-going officers reported an increase of 100 members last year and reviewed the club's activities. Ballots were cast from noon until 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 3nc Originally 88c a pair Grand fluffy ruffly, fresh curtains for less than half price! Marquisettes and nets in soft pastels and dainty flowered designs.

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J. Harris, both in business and private affairs, being known as the senator's best friend. A graduate of Dahlonega Military Academy, Mr. Coleman entered newspaper work early in life. His last active business was as a referee in the bankruptcy court of Judge Harry Dodd.

He was a member of the S. A. E. fraternity, the Old Guard, and was a past grand master of the Odd Fellows. He was active in affairs of St.

Mark Methodist church, and served as a steward for several years. Mr. Coleman served in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and, with Senator Harris, established the Georgia Fire Insurance Company. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Annia Thompson, of Cedartown. and a brother, J.

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. came back to his home land today and announced organization of a new film company. "I have no plans to marry anybody," he said, and denied specifically that he was engaged to Gertrude British actress. The former husband of Joan Crawford, now Mrs. Franchot Tone, arrived on the liner Majestic after a year in England and said he had organized "Criterion which, he said, will make four pictures a year to be released in this country through United Artists.

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Feb. 5. (JP) The youth of today are "doing a splendid job of thinking for Mrs. Albert .1. May.

New York, second vice president of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, told members of the executive committee and of Adath Israel and B'rth Sholom Sisterhoods at a meeting here today. Mrs. May, a daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, Cincinnati, founder of reformed Judaism in America, said youth is thinking in terms of groups instead of individuals. Mrs.

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