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ATHENS
middling
WEATHER
Rain Sunday.
A CONSOLIDATION OF THE SUNDAY ISSUES OF THBATHBNS BANNER AND-THE ATHENS HERALD
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To Regular subscribers of •
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VOL. 91, No. 21 Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1923.
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday.
BLACK HAND REIGN OF.
MURDER BROKEN UP BY
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
FATHER TRIES TO
SENATE GETS DEBT
J
Committee Demo c r ats
Consideration. 1
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia—A series of mur
ders and dynamiting covering a period of two and
one naif years in Clarksburg and Fairmont, West
Virginia and Uniontown, Penn, has been terminated
bv the arrest of nine men in this region and two in
tne Pennsylvania city, Clarksburg police officials
announced Saturday night. Other arrests have been
ma le at Baltimore and Lumber Port in connection
with the case, which the police officials described
as " A Black hand reign of terror.”
The men held in the county jail
hue were arrested at Fafcmont
ami in this .City. The specified
charge against them is the mur-
,li r uf Jimmy Papara, alias Jimmy
Little, who was killed three weeks
a g „ Saturday night. Word of the
arrests was withheld from the
public until the police had round,
up all suspects.
According to the police they ob
tained written statements from
number of the prisoners clearing
up several murders and dynamit
ing and plots to kill well known
residents of Clarksburg and fair
mont, including the Chiefs of Po
lice of the cities Grimes mention
ed in these statements, the police
said, included; That the murder of
Kell Lemons, Fairmont girl,
whose body was found in a trunk
near Baltimore.
Shooting of Angelo Cambria,
Uniontown Banker,
Murders of John Lacava,
Clarksburg taxicab driver
(Big Joe) Cenito of Clarksburg
and Itocco Vcrgillions, - of Fair
mont.
Among those marked for deal .
police said, were the Rev. G. T.
Cairn r and Chiefs of Police Wolf
and L. D. Snyder.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
Beginning with the issue] of Monday, February
Would Concentrate
12th, The Banner-Herald
flitti during the week, excel
present, on Sunday morning
The Banner and of The H
sued, morning and afternooi
were consolidated over 18
Effort Brings Case
Juvenile Court.
IRL
Into
Aunt
fort Of Community To} tinued as separate issues,
Solution Of Problems, • The Banner-Herald, in the
Campaign Leaders Say. J
To Adopt Far-Reach
ing Program Of Activity
With Men Best Fitted
To Handle It.
WILL STOP CONVICT
“Nothing short of a civic revi
val” is the goal of the expansion
movement of the Athens Chamber
of Commerce.
Not merely a membership cam
paign; not simply an effort to “tide
the organisation over another
year;’’ not a half-baked effort, bnt
a real community-wide movement
with foundations carefully laid af
ter an Intensive study of local
conditions by the public in gen
eral, and conducted by the best
Claimed Father Unable leadership that Athens can pro-
Given Custody of Child.
To Care For Girl Due To.
Ill Health.
duce.
First, a concentration of Interest
on the iyirt. of the entire public
upon the solution of community
A father’s attempt to' kidnap,problems through organised ef-
his own child from Its aunt with
whom she was living resulted In a
case In Juvenile court Saturday.
The child’s mother (Is dead.
Tho child, six-year-old daugh
ter of Homer Suddcth, formerly of
\ Greene county, has been living
ath, jvith her aunt, Mrs. Fred Warwick,
631 Thomas street Recently the
father tried to kidnap the llttlo
girl and send her hack to Union
Point to live with her aged grand,
mother. ,
The attempt or tho father to
abduct the little girl led her apnt
to file a petition In Juvenile Court
preventing Mr. Buddeth from eend
lag the child back .to Greene. The
petitioner claimed the father was
vleUra of-tuberculosis and un-
oro to support
able, therefore to support himself;
and three children, two of whom
were adnrded him, by the Greene
Will Not Resort To 9^"| C °The , plalnmf y won the case. Judge
structive Tactics During J. D. Bradwell awarding the little
child to the* aunt tor tlx months
pending recovery of Its father.
WASHINGTON. — Approved by
the finance committee 8 to I, the
hill passed Friday by the house
divine congressional sanction to
the British debt settlement agree
ment wus rf ported forpmlly Sate
unlay to the senate. Chairman
Mot umber Indicated that It was
his intention tv call the measure
up the middle of nexS week, but
whether It would bo possible to
tlisplaco at that time the adminis
tration shipping bill, now th» un
finished busintes of the senate,-re
mained 'jo be developed. •
One republican, La ' Follettee,
Wisconsin, and two, democrats,
Walsh, MassaKhusetls, and Gerry,
Rhode Island, voted against the
hill in common, while one demo-
rr.it. Wiliams. Mississippi, support
ed it. -
Committee democrats opposing
the legislation agreed not to ro-
a rt to Obstructive tactics during
the senate oonalderaUeu
hill and republican leaders ware
hopeful Of getting a vwW after de
bate iif one or two days.-, Thera
were some indications, however,
that the discussions would be
father general and that several
senators would insist upon more
Information regarding the debt ne
natations than has been made
public. Y -■
HOPE DEASY APPEAL
WILL BE
Airplane Lands
Safely In Dark
Paris — An airplane, flying
thr..u K i, the darkness from the
Rrili*h field at Croydon, Eng.,
mud., a successful landing at Le
Boufet late Friday night. Ths
1‘un- 'otivwed a course marked
cut by special light signals and
hr aviator reported hie progress
lr wireless’ telephone. When he
-rri' -l at Beauvais, 64 miles
from Baris, where' a fog forced
he last ixi>crlmental night flyer
land, the aviator sighted the
ja’lit on He Lo Boursct flying
; i'ld. whereupon he . dropped-a
Jt'0 flare. Thin was the Signal
' the illumination of the- field
h-i the subsequent iandlng wa»
l’f- t. it is expected that a
"vu:-!- night paaenger service
w i i„. »t[... ted soon between
f i n and de Le Bourget, ■
Tiine Alone Will Reveal
Its Effect, However, En
glish Correspondents Be
lieve;
LONDON — The concensus of
opinion among the English corres
pondents In Dublin Is that time
alone will reveal the effect of
llam Deaay's appeal to the repub
lican leaden. Well wishers of the
Free state government hope that
many of the rank and file of the
be issued every after
Saturday, aiid as at
The separate issues of
ild, which have been is-
Since the two papers
iths ago, will be discon-
issued in the future, as
‘tfemoon only.
The reasons which have impelled the manage
ment of The Banner-Herald, %fter careful considera
tion and investigation, to take this step are as fol
lows:
1. Few families in Athens take both the morning
Banner and the Evening Herald. Out of over 3,000
homes in Athens approximately 2,400 take the even
ing paper and approximately 600..take the morning
paper. There are less than 150 homes in Athens
where both the morning and afternoon editions of
The Banner-Herald are taken.
2. Subscribers out of Athens very naturally de
sire only one Athens paper. The combined edition of
The Banner-Herald will in every way be better-able
to meet the demand from adjacent territory for a
complete Athens daily newspaper.
3. ~ '
ens have been losing money* The recent experience
of Athens endeavoring to support three daily news
papers has been even more expensive to all con-
cemed
u * ■ i; ' , approved uy mo jguvemor, saouia
4. Paid ui advance subscriptions to the dailv be effective «n dcontraunur. ti>«
™ ®>"“ r Wi " "5 f " Baru.er-Herald "a-lSrife’SS'^SWS
in tholr minds a keener conception til the expiration Of SUCh subscriptions, if desired, or'S? 11,8 *°vernor In office at tho
Of their obiigatiomi»cRixen. and'the subscription price for the unexpired term will be j &&&
refunded. In the few cases where a subscriber is' IIar,}wlck would be changed or at
PaPCrS ’’ ascription will be extended | fflfSifA"? i.w wh.cn
to cover tine unexpired term of such subscription on joo' traop nidwicn has referred
The Banner or refunded. , « 0,8 • l ‘°rney general, it that of-
5. For years the two Athens papers have strug
gled along with separate circulations varying from
2,000 to 3,000 each. Combining these editions, The
Banner-Herald will start off with a circulation* of
over 5,000, and it is planned to increase this circula-
tion to 6,000 in the near future, which will then give
t® Athens the^largest daily rewspapercirculation
_ 6. It is hoped that by a consolidation of The
Banner and The Herald in the daily field, and with
«AM C K 1 S at n n i;® ,read J : [, effected in the Sunday
field, that it will be possible to produce a better pa
per^, to increase the combined circulation to 6,000 and
at ,T e |a. m e tune to cut down the expense of dupli
cate! Publication to such an extent that the paper can
be made self-sustaining for the future. -
l l ANDREW C. ERWIN, President.
6 pm INTERNATIONAL FORCE
TO HIM -HARDWICK NATIONS LEAGUE
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fort. An educational campaign di
rected to every man, woman and
child In tho community to tnitilt
Governor Seeks Ruling
By Attorney General To
Bring About Settlement,
He Says.
If He Has Authority, Or
der Will Be Issued Bar
ring Use, Of Lash In
Camps.
ATLANTA, an.—Governor Thou.
W. Hardwick announced lata Sat
urday that he had requested A»
torney General Napier for a rul
ing which he said will bring about
Un ultimate settlement of his part
In the controveny over the whip
ping of prisoners In O egla con
vict camps.
It it Is held, the governor said,
that tho authority to end the use
of the lash rests with i him he
Would Immediately ban such pun-
For years the two dftliy newspapers in Ath- JESSf*wSSfrireu tmLtZ
was necessary In working prison
ers and that It was vested wlth the
authority to use is under the act of
1906, providing the commission
should make rules which, when
approved by the (governor, should
LORD CECIL PROPOSES
1
.GENEVA.—(By the Associated Press.)—Lord
Robert Cecil’s project for a treaty of mutual guaran
tees providing for an international military, free to
be used against any state assuming the role of an
aggressor, was referred Saturday by the temporary
committee on disarmament of the League of Nations
to a sub-committee for further consideration.
It t^as provided, that, meanwhile
the technical opinion of the per
manent military commission of ths
League would be sought. The ses
sion was probably the most tur
bulent in the history of ths League
of Nations committees;
M. Viviani of France and sig
nor Schanxer, of Italy declared
the time NOT ripe for Lord
Robert's project. To their sngges- *
tion that it be referred to the mil- ’
itary committee for farther study
the British statesmen retorted
that this meant ths burial of his
project which waa intended to
pave tbs way. for a reduction in
Armaments.
JVI. -Viviani held that the treaty
stood no possible chance of sue-
cess | unless supported by tho vari-
out governments and that it
therefore should.be referred to the
the patriotism
'vice. The relation to the
munlty of the modern chamber of
commerce In the advancement of
the city and Its trade territory,
not only in a. material sense but
in the social welfare of the peo
ple.
WOULD MAKE BODY
REPRESENTATIVE ONE
A campaign to make the Cham
ber of Commerce. representative;
of the entire community and ths
(Turn to page,eight)
Mima
Ini
°f ib* Irregulars will be Influenced by
Denny's attitude and avail thera-
oelves of the amnesty participa
tion with the result that the re
publican chieftains will And their
following considerably dimint •'’''"l
Reconsideration by the republi
can leaden are not regarded as
hopeless in. some quarters, where
it is remarked that Liam Lynch’*
reply merely turned down the pro
posal for unconditional surrender
and did not bar the door to all
negotiations. According to a Dub
lin dispatch to the Times, the fact
that the government has suspend
ed. all executions Is a hopeful sign.
Believe Negro
Murderer Found
K V
(•ill,.
Safir
io
farm.,
CUHt-fl
Held For Stealth
Of Money Orders
ATLANTA—J. T. Alderman,
former postmaster at Kinard,
Florida la under arrest at Tifton,
Os., charged with theft of blank
money order forms from the post-
office of which he formerly was
In charge, according to Informa
tion made public bore • Saturday
"by Joe Hopkinson post Wfic* In
spector who te in, Titibn investi
gating a 61.000 money order,
which'was cashed there and. later
found to have ben made out on
one of the forms missing from
the Kinard office J. T. Hall, also
waa arrested add le held In con
nection with the cose.
Alderman according to lnfor-
matlon made public here was ap
pointed postmaster at Kinard on
February 1, IMS end wae dis
placed by a acting postmaster on
January 10, IMS.
Adopt (Resolution Re
questing President To
Proclaim National Anti-
Dope Week.
CHICAGO—A resolution against
the dope habit has been unanimous
ly adopted by ell B. P. O. & Elks
lodges. The resolution, which wah
fathered by Exalted Ruler Sinek,
of Chicago, Is a nation wide pro
position and is sanctioned by
Grend Exalted Ruler J. E. Mas
ters and being passed by all Elks
lodges. ; .
It provides tbat .the president
of the United.States be respect
fully requested to set aside a week
to be known as National anti-dope
week, and that he cause to be
gathered together an International
conference of competent men and
women who will formulate nlane
and methods looking towards the
eradication of the evil, not only
In-the United States, but In every
country in the world.
usvalna the commission ths
will e
ftlcial
matter will end but if It holds that
(be present governor must approve
all rules and regulations in force,
the governor safe be Would Imme
diately Issue an eexcutlve order
barring further use of the lash In
convict camps, -
WIT
Of
Twq Old Parties Go Out
Business.’ Election
“GEORGIA DAY” WILL
SUGGESTS ISSUE OF
BONDS FOR A PARK
Mayor Thomas Bays,
“Baby Bonds” 'Would
Provide Money For Site,
Doubts Whether Funds
Caii Be Found In Gener
al Treasury of City.
Issue “Baby Bonds” here to pur
chase the park and nee It for a
fair ground as well, is the sugges* _
tion of Mayor George C. Thomas, military .committee, the, - members
The mayor thinks the city hss of which 'resented the govern-
Aftei/ a .violent debate Lon]
Robert’s committee suggested that
the technicians ■ be asked for an
opinion but that.the project came
again* before' the disarmament
committee in June wae adopted.
not the money in the general treas
jiry to buy. the site for the propos
ed park, although sentiment is
widespread In favor of the city’s
going Into the pronosttlon.
“We are all agreed that the city
should have a park; said the may
or Saturday, “However, the city
hasn't the ready money to spend
buying ths site. Why not issue
“Baby Bonds” and sell them to,
local dtixens. In this way ths
bond margin will not be affected.
The.city will get Its park. We can
hold the district fair on the park
grounds .and the .holdera' of the
“Baby Bonds” would make a good
Investment.
The ftnante committee of coun
cil has the park proposition. In
hand following requeflt by repre
sentative citizens that a site be
bought as early, a* poaaible. 15
IT
Action In Deferring Clos-I
ing Smyrna Harbor
Causes Sigih of Relief
In Washington.
STATE UNIVERSITY BE OBSERVED HERE
State Normal School Stu
dents And Faculty To
Have Special Exercises..
Henceforth, By Merit
p ro^8 Arrang-
Abolishing Unfair And e d To OW™ Annni
E
IMDUGIUTS HERE
Commissioner
Is Shot Dead
XVII.LE, Ga. — Sheriff
"! frawford county, left
!- v afternoon for Monticel-
"la. where he has been In-
Tam Massey, > s ’negro ac*
^ "f slaying Zanle Bryant.
l lniU where he had been lunyl \V. .L. Ilracknell, a former com
/ heroes. misslocer.
Steel Production Cannot
Be Enlarged • Without
More Laborers Schwab
Asserts.. .
NEW TORK.—Chas. M. BChWab,
chairman of the board of the Beth
lehem Steel Corporation, sailing on
the Olympic. Saturday for a five
week's,four of Eifeland, France
and Germany' declared that Amer
ican srt(e| production had neachedl
Its' peak and could not be enlaty I
ed until the labor shortage had
been e^dlcatsd' *
tte ''ft*?* * American corn la»t year
immigration laws tp permit the en- require so large a quanti-
tranee to this country of dcatra-
Underhand” Methods.
PoUtlcs In the student body at
the University of Georgia is deafl.
The two parties, ’‘Mugwumps"
and “G. O. P.” tho to get the
“spoils” In former days, pulled
“coups." restored to strategy .and
■hrewd schemes the envy of some
of their elders out In the state,
are defunct
At least an agreement has been
ed To Observe Anniver
sary of Birth.
CBy Chat. E. Martin.)
Tcr.i.rjow, February 12th, I*
Georgia day. or the one hundred
and ninetieth birthday of the
founding of the Georgia colony
t>> fumes Oglethorpe.
It is to be regretted that the
occasion Is not observed more
sene rally than It Is by Georgians
but it will not a together be over.
WASHINGTON.—Ait'on of ths
Turkish authorities In deferring
execution of the order closing
Smyrna harbor to foreign warships
j except of limited size, occasioned
manifest relief In official circles.
American representatives In the
Near Eos] bays been watching the
situation at Smyrna with much
concern. Thor has been fear that
hasty action of tns local Turiclsb
commander there might precipi
tate hostilities l>etwon the Turkish
military and ailed warshlpe. Ths
reeling, it was learned Saturday,
vas varied In a conference between
American and Turkish representa
tives at Constantinople several
days ago In connection with the
Smyrna harbor closure order.
‘MR. WILLIE' ESTATE
. .. ... _ . oui ii win noi niogeuier ue over
reached for election of all officers looked m Atihcns where ono InsU-
at the University by k committee tu|lon at least will observe the
Even Its Friends Cannot
See Where It Will Win
Oat In The End They
Say.
WASHINGTON—With congress
adjourning sine die at the end -'f
another three weeks, the baubles
of the much harressed ad minis tra
Com
ble laborers." he said. "Thle will
be the solution to our present In
dustriat dimculUei.”
2 Die As Plane
Crashes to Earth
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Lieut.
Frank Honslnger, S7, and sergeant
Joe Kelly, both of Kelly Field,
were Instantly killed ats Friday
afternoon when the DS Havlland
combat'plane from which they
pbs Jn the war
, , _ ,«!»**«! before
gri*. General William 7? pitcfen.
assistant' chief of the United
States nrmy air service, crashed
to the earth near Laredo.
K
from the facnlty after the groups-day fittingly Indeed.
Into which the fraternities and • The State Normal school will
campus men have organised may!not only have appropriate exep
recommendations. Election wlll'ciaes commemorating the date _
be on merit and by alternation,|bob will serve a 'Georgia prod-[tion shipping Mil have multiplied
(Turn to page two) ; , (Turn to page two)^f Iso that even ,tta friends said Satpi
*day and night that its ultimate fata
waa’zurrourtded In Increased doubt.
Several new plana of. attack up-
jta tbo bill were laid Saturday and
a compromise move among re
publicans to design drastic amend-
menu was instituted at a con
ference with President Harding
at the White Home. Senator Mc-
Nhry, republican, Oregon autbot
of several amendments modify
ing the subcention and other pro
visions of the Mil together with
several other senators, discussed
a compromise plan with the-presi
dent, but 'action went, over until
next week when chairman Lasker
Rich frew York Lawyer
Gets Cabin And Fur
nishings Of Darkey > He
Befriended.
FAtfiTTEVILLE. N. C. — Be
cause “My Willie” never failed
him when he needed advice, or
help William James McAlistsr, of
Fayetteville, aged > ex-alavo who
died early Saturday made' William
Fuller, of New 7ork,-tsnersl cocn
sel of ths American Tobacco Com
pany pole, heir and ben*flctary to
hts estate consisting of a small
cabin-and Its furnishings, it was
learned when McAlister’s will was
found. The old-negro’s, death wss
caused by burns sustained when
be fen Into *n open are place. .
’Uly wife, now deceased, belong
ed to hit (Mr. Fuller’s) tatbef
and mother” read McAlister’s will
”tnd It was my pleasure to.be neaf
the Fuller family after the; war,
brining an lotimaoy between mo
and Mr. WllUam, then a small
boy. When I needed advice, Mr.
Willie never failed, me. He m*J
not need my little home, I pray,
but be will know better what to
do with It than I, and In this way
I want to show by appreciation fot
what he has done for me.”
McAlister, who was 94 years of
age, had been a resident of this
city »s tong as the oldest citizen*
can remember.
Mr. Fuller formerly
Fayetteville.
Turk Foreign Minister
Says Departure Of His
Mission Is Not Final Ac
tion. ‘.fl
BUCHAREST, —• Ismet Pasha,
TurktaN foreign minister, who ar
rived here Saturday with tho other
members of tbs Turkish delegation
at Lauiannsnwn their way to An
gora from tho paacs conference,
said he did not regard the Lau
sanne conference aa closed and
that the departure of the Turkish
delegation must not be considered
final in the. absence of any uot'fi-
catlon by tbo allies that tbs con
ference was ended.
Turkey was animated by Pacific
intentions, Ismet said, but that did
not signify she woud admit that
her legitimate right* should be Ig*
M
Sheriff Countermands
Request For State
Troops To Guard At Wa
co Texas.
WACO, Texas.—Although there
as no demonstration Friday
night indicating possible mob ac
tion against Roy Mitchell, negro
v.-ho county authorities Bay has
signed written confession;, to five
murders tn this county during the
past year, the County Jail contin
ued under guard Saturday. Texas
Rangers Ordered here by Governor
Neff, wll nrA come, according to
Sheriff Leslie Stegall, who said he
I had countermanded his request for
slato officers owing to the con*
I tinned quiet situation.
Germany Use
Much U* S.
ty this year, the American agricul
tarsi representatives In Berlin re
ports. American cord was used
largely for the manufacture of
alcohol after Gornufn food regula
tions limited the use of potatoes
for tbat purpose to 20 per cent of
the alcohol production. The limit
now has been raised to SO per
cent and with the ISM alcohol out-
nut estimated at 63,000.000 gallon*,
the distilleries will require only
about 8,000,000, buibel* of corn.
POSTPONE TRIAL
iM ACON, a. — M. D. Wood, who
la alleged to have shot and killed
.Fmwbnrk. of Rome, Ga.,
and then to have wounded hi*
sweetheart. Miss oiene conreon,
on .a principle street hare early in
Dqqsmter, will not go on trial Moa
day as planned.
Youth Arrested’
For Stealing
Howard Small, colored, about 14
years old, was arreited Saturday
morning by detective Charlie Sea-
graves and charged with stealing
money from the Combination storu
on Clayton street. The proprietor
has been missing certain amounts
for several weeks and sofepectcd
some of the colored help of the
store and Friday night he mark
ed some of the money and awaited
Saturday morning for develop
ments.
Tbo marked money waa found
on Small, It Is claimed. He wtll
very probably bo tried by the juve
nils court.
ADJ0URN8 UNTIL TUESDAY
LOS ANGELES, Cal..—No MS-
Cion wacchald at tbo trial of the
•mt ef George Chtwin Joseph. New
York attorney .te_ recover 624,0000
from Pauline Frederick picture aa-
treef and her salt. Adjournment
until Taesdajr-Jwvinr been taken
Friday. '
next week wben chairman Lasker
of the shipping board la to bo
criticised.
Wilson Denies
Merger Rumor
NEW YORK — Reports tbat
Wilson and Company. Chicago
packer*, were considering a mer
ger with othej* tacking Interests
ware denied Bata (day by Thomas
Wilson, the president of the com-
poify who Is hero on an Inspection
Attributes' Success of \ Sale To
Advertising in The Banner-Herald
Banner-Herald Co., f
. City. • •• : j ^
Gentlemen:, , * . .' : • a
We have just completed compilation of results
on our clearance sale, and find total figures 'highly
pleasing. ’ , ' 4
As your papers were the chieff means used to get
sales news before the public, we feel a word of
thanks is in order. We are now sure of the pulling
power of advertising in the Banner and the Herald.
With kind regards, 1
Very truly yours, “ "*/
' DORSEY FTJRNITURE CO.
. ,,,) , ... By J; R Northcutt
*XO£lCr j Jagflfl oV 'tjnf
(Theabove vrasunaoKcited' «i(<the“’partOf The
Banner-Herald and;'therefore.& all .the mbre ap-
preciated.--Editor.)