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v h The Weather! |, |r jnd colder; strong Athens Cotton: MIDDLING 27 l-4c PREVIOUS CLOSE ..... 27 5-8c VOL 90 No. 316 Associated Press Dispatches ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17,1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday- LARRY GANTTS DAILY COLUMN Gantt Writes All The Latest News (By T. Larry Gantt.) ::ew iron bridge on River j. now being put together ,1 it will not take long to com- the job. It is a fine and gi- ,, structure a s heavy as a -i'ilrVjacl bridge, but much broader. " he one of the best iron ridges in our State. It will take ine time to complete the filling of the approaches to the bridge. ,ii the houses on this fill must be to the height of the fill, and THEY’RE FEEDING THIS PUP THE WRONG FOOD miis mra i Notice Posted on Coloned Lodge Building Near Jackson Sdiool Setting March As Limit. BELIEVE ~LABOR AGENTS AT WORK » P | ready f be«i 1 e!evat> « Identity ^Determined, the eountyjnust bear the cost | Clarke Officials Will Ap- - pre (hend All Guilty Per sons. ,vork. Three national high s' entering Athens must use this bridge. When the bridge and t to Barbervillc are complete ill result in building good roads to Hartwell and Elberton. ■fhi« is one of the most important pieces of road improvement ever in Clarke county. ^ CAMPING ground The subject of a tourist camp ground for Athens is now bein taken up and a suitable place will elected very soon. Every one realizes the importance of this work. An effort is being made to ecurc highly desirable site near center of Athens, but 1 dm not yet at liberty to give partlcu lars. Mr. Price owns 16 acres of land just beyond the River street bridge, and says he would be glad to let the city have what land it needs aa a camp-ground. Mr. Price most attractive tourist ramping ground can be had in a pine grove and a fine spring U near at hand. But it is better to hare it as near our business ten- j possible, as these tourists will spend money in the city and patronize our cafes and places of amusement. It is now a settled matter that the molt important work for our city is to have a first Hass tourist camp ground, with all conveniences. I hope soon to nport that a site has been secur* ed. PROFIT IN -» dull PECANS Mr. Frank Shackelford has a young pecan grove in Hancock county and he says he is already getting an incomo of from $20 to $25 per acre and he cultivator crops Between the-trees. -The pecan, when it begins to Ml, wiU increase the yield of nuts about ten pounds every year. A number of groves are being set out around Athens and before many year* this crop will be a new source of income. The pecan attains its greatest perfection in this section. VACANT STORBS BEING RENTED The vacant stores in Athens are all being rented and which is a healthy sign. I umfyntand that Bradberry-Owene Co. who dosed down their business a short time since, have rented the corner store in the Lipecomb building, formerly occupied by a bank and ( in about three weeks will open i theicin a stock of atationcry and other goods in their line. They will wke a special of barber supplies. Bradberry tells me that be is longer connected with the firm. Mr. L. C. Biown says that his coffee business has Mown to proportions that no cannot fill all orders. He has ordered a narchcr and grinder, when he will hive a capacity of 300 pounds of County officials are making in vestigations Into, the alleged potting of a notice on the Colored lodge building r-ear the Jackson colored school on the Danielsvllle road - in Clarke county Sunday night giving warning to the neg roes that they mi-st be out of the county by March first. A notice of this nature Is said to have been found on the build ing 'Monday morning and baa caused considerable uneasiness among the colored population of that section of the county. This community la the site of the Jack eon school, one of the leading (colored school.^ of .the counCy. and is largely populated by t eg- roes. BELIEVE WORK OF LABOR AGENTS .. The notice Is believed to have been put there not by .persons who live In the county and wish to frighten the negroes into leav ing but by labor agents who are known to .be operating ill this section of the state and who re sort to any means In getting laborers dissatisfied and “signed up” to go north and to other sec tions of the South where they are given employment. Similar notices were pasted over Oconee county several months ago and it developed that either irresponsible parties post ed them or they were put up by labor agents. . I , WILL INVESTIGATE THOROUGHLY It dr-ttndrstood-that-the county officials,wiU make * thqtough in vestlgatlon of the posting of the notices and make an effort, to apprehend the parties who are responsible and In be meantime the negroes of the settlement are being told. It Is said, to i pay no attention to the. notices but to go on with their work gi usual. If it Is found that agents are operating here illegally they will be given the limit of the law and alio handled for posting intimid ating notices. if mi bums “$e Have Tried Soft Methods and Failed— They Will Get What They Gave Belgians.’* economicTforce IS LESS SANGUINE Ruhr Valley Tuesday Ap peared in Linn For Un compromising Military Occupation. TO EXPELL FRENCH LONDON — (By The Asso ciated Press.) The German government has decided to ex- pell all French civilians from Germany, according to a dis- S tch from Berlin to the Daily ; press late Tuesday night. Aside from the actual fight ing, a state of war now exists between France and Germany. Marketing Sweet Potato Crop Now' - Definitely Assured F SKED OUTRAGES MOVES TO CLIMAX Radio Concerts in Ga. Physics Bldgs. Radio concerts are received by the Physics Department of the University of Georgia every Sat urday when the weather conditions permit. • .1 These concerts are received from many cities of the East and a few of near by towns tnat have broad-casting stations: A11 students and friends are in vited to attend these concerts, which are both amusing and in structive. „ ' mom coffee a day. IMF. PUTY ON ARSENIC 1 am glad to know that Senator Harris is urging the President to remove the duty of eix cents per lound on vsen:<\ If all of out Southern members will call on President Harding and explain to him the fact that thig ‘duty simp ly means a great reduction in the '•otton craft. I think he-will heed their request. It was a very great •utrage the placing of this duty on arsenic. Until the discovery of the fact that it was necessary to com bat the boll weevil, metaiic araen- " was considered a by-product like ttas tar. find used by railroads to kill bushes and weeds on their -ieht of way. But no time ie to he lost if the duty is removed and 3 supply is shipped in to use th coming year. (Turn to page two) GERMANY IS IN WILFUL DEFAULT. LI Fourteen witnesses ''wore In eluded m the lilt announced to be hoard Tuesday In addition to a dozen previous lists but have not yet appeared because of Ill ness. or for othes reasons. Mon day'* Hat of new names are Smith Stephenson. J. t>. Higginbotham, slon* Tuesday”decided™thmt Oct- ' H«rry Norris. Jatk Haydsn. O. many bad wilfully defaulted In do- W. Walker, E. Morris, Robert Lee * • *- **" " Hnrkness; Alfred Hill; E. M. Gray. Buatt Jonas; Frank Lew-, elyn. Hurry Pipes, Dewy Bown and C. N. McGowan. StVfcHAL UTHbftS WILL TESTIFY BARSTROP, La. . - Investiga tion of hooded traced!*! of More house Pariah moved gradually to ward a climax Tuesday with the rtpige.of the net of'evidence be ing woven by etato'a attorneys spread by = the testimony of two witnesses. self-declared mem bers of the Ku Klux Klan, to show a gathering of Klansmen in Bastrop on the night of-the kid napping of Watt Daniel and Thoa. Richard victim* of a band of “btackhoods" to repel an unex pected attack by tno people of the neighboring village on -Mer Rogue. With this testimony on reoord approximately a score of witnes ses were 'under subpoena at' the Start of Tuesday's session of the open hearing to undergo quee-! tlonlng of A. V. Coco, state's at- _ ... . ; .. tomey general and other state; * ev 1 ; Ashby Jones, of Atlanta, council ■ who have undertaken to Tfl * mo 2 rn divine, will address task of solving the mystery of! Athens .Rotartans at tho regular the *eliure and slaying of l)anlal Jof the club to.be held at and Richard and other maaked ( the^ Georgian Hotel at two o’clock, band depredations lq Morehouse. Regular Weekly Meeting Local Civic Club To Be Held , At Georgia .Hotel Today. HI DORTMUND,—(By * the Asso ciated - Press.)—-French general headquarters' has information that 6,000 met, of tho German Reichswehere are concentrated south of Mnenster, leaa than 25 miles north of Luenea to the north of Dortmund. The French have advanced to both Dortmund and Luenen, and the outpoots of the French and German forces at some points are only from eight to ten mites apart. PARIS.—(By The Associated Press)—The reparation* commit Last’s Week’s CIRCULATION Combined BANNER-‘HERALD Was as' follows Tuesday J...... Wednesday v.'. Thursday 5,109 Friday 4,032 Sunday 4,550 No issue of the Banner i* pub- h, hed on Monday morning. No la- *“'• of the Herald is printed on Sat- urdui evening. banneTwherald ATHENS, GA. BUHMT law.. — r liveries In kind for 1922. France, Belgium and Italy so voted. Kem- ballCook. representing Great Brit ain In place of Sir John Bradbury, who waa reported Indisposed, ab stained from voting. Tho default, it was explained by Louis Bsrthou, president of tho commission, resulted , from the re fusal or the German government to make deliveries In kind while the French were In the Ruhr. -The French high commissioners were anxious to obtain the vote of the reparations commission de claring this dofsulL as sn authori zation for the French policy of re quisitions which It is believed will be enforced Immediately. (The hurried decision followed liveries In kind, including coal. Germany’s refusal to make any de- wood cattle, dyes and building ma terials. so long as the French re mained in the Ruhr. President Bsrthou said Germany*; refusal was an open defiance of the .allies which must be met with Instant ac- American representative, Roland W. Boyden. and CoL James A. I/Jgan were present but bad nothing to ear. Franklin Will Be wS? Honored By P; Q. WASHINGTON. — Benjamin •arv-esaeKSisss. his birth atBostpn, and tho Bret of his birth at Boston, ana tne nm day of “thrift week” of the now one-cent stamp bear ing the portrait of FrankHn^ One million of the new stamps will be placed on cal* at Philadelphia. Several otbars were expected to testify in connection with statements made by two of Mon day's witnesses. “Jap” Jones and James Harp, farmers of tbe vil lage of Bonita who told of the preparation* tirade, by. member* of the klan In Bastrop to (tave off-an attack which might have been planned.by the citizens of Mer Rouge as a reprisal for the kidnapping of Doulol and Rich ard. Harp testified that h* was post tive Capt. J. K. Uklpwlth, exalt ed cyclop* of the Morehouse klan. Woo lo Bastrop on the night that Daniel and Richard disap peared. Hit testimony was Cor- rcraborated by Jones wbo testi fied that ho called on Captain Sklpwlth early that night to find out whether the kidnapping of the two men on the Baatrop-Mer Rouge road was the work of the Klan. He said the exalted cyc|op* denied any knowledge of the blackhooded band. Several prospective witnesses wbo were named, by Jones and Harp a* being members of the guard which stood watch at tbe Thomas Hardware store in ad vance of tbe raid by Mer Rauge citizens are expected to testify In corroraboration as to the where abouts of tbe, Klan leader on that night. (Turn to Fage Two) Dr. Jones' address will feature a splendid program arranged for the meeting. Each Rotarian is expected to bring,one guest, “Dollie Show” At Georgian Friday The Athens Woman’s Club in vites all the dollies of the town, to a doll show at the Georgia Hotel on Friday afternoon, January 26th, at the Georgia Hotel. There is a wonderfully good time in store for all who accept the in vitation. There will be a prize for the most attractive dolly of them all —one for the most unique—one for the oldest one for the best doll dress made by a girl under eight years and one for the' best dress made by a girl between the ages of 8 and 12. And after the dollies have all been seen and admired will come a program by the young folks for the young folks and it is a certain many grown ups will see that they can not afford to miss such a. splendid time. There will be a 25 cent admis sion fee for each doll entered as a candidate for a prize and a small admission for grown-ups. Full details will be given in Sunday’s Banner-Herald with the names of all the young perform ers. 2 FIREMEN OVERCOME WASHINGTON.—Two \ Bremen were overcome by escaping gas and one occupant of the building by smoke In a fire which totally destroyed the Norfolk apartment house here Monday night, causing damage estimated at $100,000. TAKES OATH AUSTIN, Texas.—Gov. Patrick Morris Neff at noon today was to take oath of office for; his second aring disposed of the civil bus- st facing this session of tho Mrier court With the exception one esse which it is thought . t-b*.4|Btokly-flnishod-thi» morn ing, Judge Fortson .announced J*te yesterday that the criminal docket would likely be called today. A comparatively heavy criminal docket is facing .tho high tribunal, the cases' to be tried, including murder, manslaughter, auulat and battery, and prohibition violations. ’’ Tuesday saw a large amount of by the court, the larger part of this involving small cases. A total of eight true bills wore returned by the grand Jury in the one-day session Monday. One of these was for murder, oge for In voluntary manslaughter, two for assault and battery, one for assault with Intent to kill and three for violating tbe whiskey taws. John Mines wss Indicted Mr killing Reynolds Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Smith on No vember 16. Involuntary manslaugh ter was charged, U being alleged truck at'a rapid speed and struck that Mine*, a negro. Was driving a tbe youth causing almost Instant death. Cliff Easley, colored, was Indictsd for murder for the killing of T. C. Moon on December 25. Easier has not been caught Irene Wlche and SalUe Wler, colored, were Indicted for assault and bat tery and Willie Rucker, colored was Indicted for assault with in- ftent to kill. He was also Indicted on two other counts, one for hav ing whiskey and one for selling whiskey, and iMclrln Hubbard waa Indicted for allowing a still on his premises. > The case of the Arnold Grocery companv vs. Bedgood and Brooks occupied a large portion of the time Tuesday morning, a verdict finally being agreed upon. This was a case appealed from tbe Justice court ana Is five or six years old and Involved garnishments, Judg ments and other forms of proced ure. <• Howard And Mell, Speakers Friday at eleen o’clock Thomas S. Mell will deliver an address in the University of Georgia chapel. The' subject of his talk will be General Robert E. Lee. Aa Mr. Mell is an orator of great repute, much interest is be ing expressed on' the campus re lative to the coming event On the twenty-second of Feb ruary, Washington’s birthday, Mr. Wm. S. Howard of Augusta, Ga., wiU be-the speaker of the day. No general holidays are declared by the University for these days be cause of the customary spring va cation, which is held at the close of the second term -in April. DUESBELDORF — . (By tho meeting ot tne noay nere yester- Assodatsd Press) —. The French day. _Tne new officers are,__Hugh 12 HURT IN EXPLOSION CROWLEY, La. — Twelvo per sons wore reported Injured and a number of buildings wrecked at Scott La, 20 miles from here. Monday night, as a result to an explosion ot dynamite. • now control every outlet from tho Ruhr Into Germany, whether by rail or water. The lines were ex tended Tuesday through Dort mund. ten kilos north to Luen- on on the Pipps, and thence to Witten, which is ton 1 kilos south of Dortmund. Tho French troops were order ed Tuesday to occupy the entire neutral zohe, halting on the out skirts of Dortmund. This move ment will bring tho militant be yond the Hattingen-CaatrO-Breck llnhouie Una seized Monday. Th* fortieth' trench Infantry division entered tbe Ruhr district Mon day evening mown* towards Hat tenant. i French cavalry appeared on the outskirts of Dortmund at noon Tuesday. It was expeeted that the occupation of the city would be completed by four o’clock Tuesday afternoon. UNCOMPROMI8ING ACTION FORECAST ESSEX—(By the Associated Press) — Whatever the outcome of the ‘conferonoe set for Tues day at Duosaoldorf between tho German industrial magnates and the French economic mission, th* Ruhr vaUpy appeared Tuesday morning to be in line for an un compromising military occupa tion. 'We have tried soft methods and the Germans have refused to co-o|>erat«” and corporations were told at the French mlltlary headquarters. If they don't come to terms now they will got a taste of whet they gave Belgium and Northern France. W* will give them somotbios to whine for." Tuesday’s meeting to which the German industrial leaders had been Invited under tho threat that If they fielled to appear they would bo sent for, waa to bo pre sided over by General OeOoutte. From the windows of the confer ence room In the Duesgeldorf city hall, the French tanka, ar mored cars and infantry were dlficernlblb as they moved for ward to strengthen the hold of the French upon Germany'* rich coal fields. WILL 8TINNE8 SEND A REPRESENTATIVE? There wag great interest as to whether the stinnos holdings would comply with the Cummins to send a representative to the Conference. Hart gtinaee him •elf was'reported to have left his miU between Bochum sod Dort mund, Monday evening, bound for Berlin. French economic experts ap pear somewhat less sanguine than the military leaders over the prospects of obtaining practical results from tbe sccupation. They came her*, it is admitted, unpre pared for an operation ot this magnitude and th* turn of events has caused M. Costs, head of the million, to look rather depress ed. although he voiced the opini on that today's conference would straighten out the situation. The about face position of the German industrialists took the French by surprise. They were quite convinced that the Germans Veterans WiD Be Guests of Normal The Cobb-Deloney Chapter Con federate Veterans are to be guests of the Normal School January 19, birthday of their illnstrian leader, Robert E. Lee. The veterans will assemble in the Pound Auditorium at 12:00 for the annual program on Lee’s birthday after which they will re- pair to Winnie Davis’ parlors for Definite Program For a social half hour with the faculty < nyr„_i,-i;_„ Oiimlm D»a and students of the school and at Marketing Surplus rTO- 1:30 rroair to the dining room to I duce of This Section have dinner with the students of| » the school. Mayor Thomas, “Miss! AClOptea. Millie” and Henry West, comman- ( der of Allen Fleming Post and CLAUD TUCK HEADS LATE MOVEMENT Permanent Organization Will Be Formed Next Tuesday. 35,000 Bushels Await Marketing. 'Swfeet potatoes, about 35,000 bushels in all, now being held , in i caring houses in Clarke and 'ad joining counties wilt .be marketed. This fact was definitely establish ed hetc yesterday afternoon when the Athens Sweet Potato asso ciation was organized' with a tem porary group of officers. Perman ent officers will be elected next Tuesday afternoon at a meeting to be held at the* State College of Agriculture. .. ' j 1 At the meeting here yesterday, Claud Tuck was elected president and E. W. V. Carroll, secretory, Hulme, vice-president; Frank A. term of office extending un- Holden, vice-president; E. W. Car- 111 tir ? e J" the elettion ol tn <> roll, secretory; George A. Mell>{P»"«t - treasurer. . L Kepresenutivee were presen; The personnel of the different 1*™“ »«**»1 counties in this sec- committees will be announced by < tlon ' President White Wednesday. Mrs. Hammond Johnson, president of, Auxiliary of Allen Fleming Post will be guests of honor-to the Cobb' Deloney Chapter. HUGHlii Officers to serve tbe Athens Chamber of Commerce during this year were elected at tbe regular meeting of the body here yester- W. White, president; G. Harold It was decided to hold weekly membership meetings during the year, the first one to be held in connection with a luncheon eraly next week. At this meeting the K cgram of work for the yea .* will discussed. Other member* of the .new board are J. W, Jarrell, Jr., J. M. Ba ling, James ; White, Miss Katie Palmer, Sol. J. Boley,_Df. Ij C. Wilkinson, H. O. Eptiffg, W. L,' Erwin, Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, D. F. Paddock, B. R. Bloodworth. PROBE HIS DEATH COLUMBIA, 8. C—Officers Tuesday were eonUnuIng their at tempts to .dear up tbe dreum- ■tances surrounding tho death ot L. Williamson at hu home at Wag ner, Aiken county, In November, 1(21, In which etie Mrs. Della Kate Williamson, wife ot the dead ipan, Is held. Officers Intimate there may be farther arrests following tbe In vestigation by detectives into thi events leading up to the fleath of WilUamion and also the story told by the mother of Williamson, a (rail old woman of 80, who ex pressed tbe belief to officers her son did not die by suicide. Mrs. Williamson maintain* her Inno- C6QC6, A 'canvass of those in attend- 1 ance showed that about 35,000 .bushels of strictly number .one,., ki.'it-dried Porto Rican sweet po tatoes were oeirig'held in the cur ing houses of Clarice and adjoin- ing counties and plans were work ed out for securing a market for ] this quantity. EXPERTS GIVE ! GOOD TALKS V " A ‘ The question of finding satis factory markets for the 1922 sur- ! plus , crop and this year’s produc- j lion ot potatoes was discussed nt length by trot. M. C. Gay of the J Stat eCollege of Agriculture, 0. I Harold Hulms, J. ,L. McLeroy, Harry Pittard, A. N. Barwick, F. L. Duncan, G. S. Wright, W. Si ; Smith *nd others. A committee consisting of (;.' Harold Hulme, J. L. McLeroy. G.( S. Wright wa* appointed to work- out definite detoili of the-perman ent organisation which will be e fectod at a meeting to bo held tho College of Agriculture at o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Ja ary 28, to which the sweet producers of a dozen c counties in the Athens tr will be Invited t(} attend. Hardman Bic Being Fini Work is progressing the now Hardman building, wall is being made of brick .. nearly up. This building is on t University campus. This building was named by the Board of Trustees of the Univer sity of Georgia in honor of Dr. L. G. Hardman, of Commerce, Ga., Authorities admit thgt a razor «• naraman, or v-ommcrce, ua., with which WillUmsoa-ls alleged to ,P r - Hardman is a Prominent Hera- A ber of the Board of Trustees.. Classes in Animal Husbandry and Stock Judging will he held in have cut his throat while In his bedroom ha* come Into their pos session and Is being held for use in the trial. is SOS in Stock Jut the builamg. formerly the tors. The building wn- Cavalry hcadquar- ' The Pandora of the University of Georgia for thie yoer, accord-, ing. to advance reports,/promise* to be one of the- best publications of. this kind put out by the stu dents of the school. F. L. Bowen, editor-in-chief, states that the maauscripta for the. volume are being completed quickly as possible and he'expect* i to have tbe book in tbe hand*. * the printers by the latter part' April. ' The book represents the highest literary efforts of the student body and to be elected editor-in- chief is one of the highest honor* that a senior can attain. This years' issue will be pat- had agreed In principle to the coal I terenod after some of the western deliveries; hence yesterday's I college publications of this type" so breakdown in tbs economic ne*o- I that It win be different from prsv- (Tum to page two) Jlous publications. * 'S These Twelve Months Are Here to Serve Your Business 'HH “The business tide has turned." That’s tho old year’s message to the new—and to yon. •" ' Expert* have pointed oqt. that In 1922 we climbed back to the upward side of the business cycle, ana every peasing week adds strength to this certainty. — It la time to plan boldly, in con fidence. These twelve months are here to nerve your interested Nor will Ihev quibble over past problem". Yotar 1 energy will-not spend it- lf pulling against the brakes of pessimism. ' ic Your skill and courage will eprn the dividends they dexerve. This year belongs to him who takes it Increase your, dividends by pat ronizing the advertising columns of THE BANNER-HERALD Yesterday’s Combined IRCULAHON OF THE BANNER-HERALD WAS*-* 5,051 Copies