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Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribers of THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Policy Free. 4* Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. Established 1832, Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. r (THE WEATHER; r ; .' Clear and Cool - S ATHENS COTTON: Middling _ 30Ke Previous Close ....—a.... 30lie VOL. 9t. No. 23. Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1923 N. E. A Service Single Copies S Cents Daily. 0 Cents 8unday. Bodies of Two Slain'HJIiCK WILL • Deputies Are Found! QUIT AS 60VERH0R Covered With Mud Thanks and Asks Blessing on Those Saving His Life FOR U. Si POSITION waiter Bray, Who Monday Afternoon Waa Found on High Plank, Apparently About day located* Under Cow’s Carcass. a alleged slayers MAKE CONFESSION TO KO TEAMS, CUNO, • Georgia Governor to • Resign Soon to Accept Appointment . From President Harding. HERBERT CLAY MAY BE INTERIM HEAD The Two Found Were Members of a Party Which Raided a Moon-' shine Still. ah< KRANUNTON. .La.—The bodies Wcsylan Cralne and Wiley deputy Hhcrlrte, slain But- ,i, by moonshiners were founa i iy Wednesday buried In mud, :n- uliieh they hpd been pressed and vml with the caroass of a dead iv They weri\ found about a i.,i ier of a mile from a deetroyed shine still ill the eight miles from here, slayers, John Murphy and mu (lltleen Roster, nvoonsnlrers ,ve inTifessed and led the officers , : lie burial spot.'It was announced v .imtrlct Judgq Prentiss B. Clark. They had previously been round- l up with ten others andrpmcsd i nil by u posse of about 800 rmed men. Who had beat tne I* and swamps for of Chsthcellor Giving Position That Germany Has Taken is Studied. -BERLIN (By the Associated Press.)—Chancellor Cuno’s declar- ATLANTA, Ga. — Governor Thomas W. Hardwick announe- here Wtdnesday that lie would „ , .. , accept an appointment as “so long as the occupation renders,, _ it impartible to estimate our own 1 S P' CI *' Unit, . d 8tal " * Uorn,y ation that Germany will hold out in the Ruhr, and his intimation that no overtures will be made pass capacity” rang through tjie Rcisc- tag Wednesday os the people ap praised their spokesman’s address swamps to tha Reisestag. Asserting that 'France had ob tained nothing in all the weeks of PRESSED into mud BY HUMAN FEET The bodies wero found a few feet mutt ami showed signs of having lirt-used Into the bud by the feet of their slayers. The body of 1‘teree wus mutilated with an axe, ' hulleatlng, according to tno «u- Ihuiillos that it was first planned t„ iiiumembsr the bodies and dis pone <>f them In Some other way than huriitl. The confessors told the sheriff of how the deputies bad come to their home on Buturduy morning, rulded their util and .Placed both of thorn under arrest. They wore searched and then the party starts cn loot out ot the swatnp. Coming to a nar row lane the four walked In single ule. .Murphy, according' to Judss I lark, pulled a pistol he turn Con cealed on his person and ahot deputy l’ierce, killing him,- He then killed Deputy Cralne. ‘Both bodies Were carried to the spot wnere they were found. The bodies were brought here this morning und pre pared for burial. Hardwick to Be Special U. S Attorney in Pros ecution of War Fraud Cases, Said. to Commit Suicide, Grateful For Rescue. MASS MEETIN6 OF NEW TRADE BODY French And British Deadlocked About' New Membership of Op- W. T. B»*ay, who was saved from blessings falling or Jumping off the Seaboard Air Line railroad trestle late Mon day thanks those who saved MB life in a statement sent to The Ban ner-Herald Wednesday. Mr. Bray’* letter follows: “Please allow me space In your paper to express my greatest thanks to all dear friends tna: came to my rescue and saved my ever rest and abide with them all. Is the true and heartfelt prayer of W. T. BRAY and FAMILY.” Mr. Bray walked to the middle ot the trestle where he is said to have have undresed and :ifter wav?ns "good-by” to some mep on the hill side prepared to Jump off the bridge, ninety feet fp.xn the ground. He finally decided to lie down on life from disaster and death while'an eighteen inch plank from which holding to the high pinade on tno |friends rescued him. He*waa fined Seaboard R R bridge. . 1115.76 In recorder’s court the fol- “May the good Lordlii richest' lowing day for drunken esc. General at the expiration hie term as Governor of Geor- SAVANNAH, Ga.—Governor Hardwick will announce hii inten- 'FI0UIS'MSI! SEEK OEM IS SE SHI smi ganization to_ Gather] ||, S. OPPOSES OIL, At Georgian Hotel At 8 O’clock. NIX, CHM. REVISING CONSTITUTION BODY CONTROL BYALIENS Rueter’s Correspondent Learns That French Fail to Get Through British Zone. _ , „ -ox rr x Determination of U. S. Several Comnuttees HaV* Stick to Its Policy Been Named. New. Con-1 3^ j n Refusal of stitution and Revisions Lgggg Asked 4 on Slate. Pretty Girls Galore Katherine Park, Chubby Allen, Minor Wheaton Hap Harvey, Leads. the occupation Herr Cuno scoffed tions to resign at nn early date to at talk of negotiations so long as nccep t the appointment from this situation remained ns it is. ,-p rcs 1 dc „t Harding as Special as- “We will agree to no settlement jgUtant Attorney General of the severing illegally, occupied ‘ertd-I United Slates in charge of war tory from Germany” he said, “or f raU( l prosecution, according to in- any agreement which fails to re- .formation received here from AU store to freedom Germans wrong- ’i an ta today. fully punished. Tito world ik si-1 . - 1 lent the victims arc still too few.], According to the law of Geor- I do not a| ’ »- ,_~.i . “ ** ‘ * sign count) _ that after seven weeks of fighting t0 rm of Governor Hardwick whkh.... _ ......... ... for our rights and for the peace runs un ti| sometime in June, w#n nal stages and according to an an- bold chief Interest for Detroit vot- appreciated ir they will notify of the world, we still static! alone.” the incoming admmistrt.tim takes nouncement made Wednesday by *rs Wednesday In tbo spring pri- i th ® chamber Bt onc ® °* th ® omU " Preparations for the “Frolics of The first general.knasa meeting of the membera of the reorganised chamber of Commerce will be held on' Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the Georgian Hotel to act upon a proposed revision of the constltu- jeought by the Rpxund Petroleum tion and by laws WASHINGTON — Determination of the government to adhere to ns policy agdlnst oljen control of do mestic oil fields was seen Wednes day in tht decision of the Interior Department denying the lea*,, LONDON—Rutters’ Cologne cor respondent learns on the highest authority that French and Brit ish representatives are still com m | pletely deadlocked over the ques- I corporation to extensive oil lands tion of moving French trops and for the now o| the Creek mafon tr ibo m oiua- h Jterday and approved by Secretary Fall »» his last official act berora in originally planned retlrln , from ottlce . ling of'group meetings for secur-jhorns. . ~~— I Ing suggestions, as to the program 1 The decision was announced yes. Primary Selects Possible [ 0 r work for the year. Successor to James | it had Bee: Comen Would Raise' *° Orf* meeting on Monday The Roxana company tno dwts- tx„-j I but It was found that other events Ion said le owned by the shell Salary Paid_ conflicted ao the date was adranc %£?«*£ Jed to Friday night of tola week t , b. owned by Dutch and British DETROIT, Mich. — Nomination and notices were sent Wednesday 1923,” which is to be the biggest, of two candidates for Mayor, one ®*® jT enrolled member of the of whom will be elected In April; ghould anyone who has Joined most spectacular, and best a ms- vsvassao “»t- * v " • t ACCOrUlIlK Ulc law Wi intros' 1 T^mereW note ?t?te aennto wlf^fiB'tho °une°Dired 1 teur performance ever offered in ‘to fill the unexplred term of James or „£<> desires to Join, not re- mtrles. I .mer.lv note sta te senate will fill tho unexptred , Atheni> m into their fi . QoxxtIUM, United States Senator, ceived one of these notlcea It will a ! * . . . . L . . . . . 1 . . . — . >, _« lu> n hi.mmIsIaA (# 41iam ^||| up the .reins of the state govern- •licnt. FEAR BECAME PRONOUNCEO SUNDAY Foar for tao lives of the aepu- tin, In-canto pronounced Humnty when they tolled to return her* ut ter netting out Friday night h„rne-back to raid a still. One of the liurees returned rlderleae ban- day inurnliig' and. the other was found tied in a shack near the alia. A poiuo was formed. District court then In session was adn)urnea, bunkn and other buslnew uousoa were elosed and a deUcbment ot nvalryu.cn from Bogamat (H.lned .n the .“rich. I'.e authorities believe 1 the <1*I>• u lire had been slain and their lea-» cir.|k>eed of, A visit t» lt,» locality where the raid occurred revealed n deetroyed still. A dosen pem-ne living In Ihe vicinity were arrested and placet) In Jail as sus pect.. The bloodstained clothing of cue of the mlasing men eras found In the hums of one of the suspects. IBMKOFHIIF Executive Party Basks in Fla. Sunshine. Mrs. Hardi; Well, MIKE HIKED Bill DIKE'S HIS slon so that tho list may be cor- iig Stands the THp^XrfcnZS. Kt Local Bank is Patron ized. iy in Athens fo I chapter of the D. A. R-, and talent Includes pretty Athens i and bright handsome Univer sity of Georgia boys. Miss Katherine Park and Mr..— , Minor Wheaton of Griffin are toy HO 1 Longer De have the'leadmg roles in the 'pre- — — • ■ duction, and “Chubby” Allen and “Hap” Harvey trill be the princi pal comediaps, Mr. Bishop au- noun ces. A car load of special scenery - . and dashing costumes for this east coast Inland waterway and They’ve resumed coffee making production has been ordered and another round of golf_were contcm j n q||| Drake’s erstwhile ‘bank. w jn he in Athens this week. Much The Oglethorpe county farmer, j 0 f very httegt and most tuneful who a few weeks ago lost ffijfflDimujfc: wrill be beard in this prp- — .— ^ “deposited” in a perculator hid- • duction, and viewed from evory The course over which tho *clf den in h is cotton seed house, madei^g, it ufe to predict that game would be played was vn- n v | s {t to Athens Wednesday and;$he “Frolics” will be an over- Director Jimmie Bishop, all will There wore six, candidates j’ecVed i? raised ern^the" initial*<>ffcring 5 or tho mayoraIty nomlnatlon - The j President Hugh White Wednes- Monday evening. ^voters also had before them a pro day appointed the following _com- “The Frolics t sical comedy revue Interests and to form the control ling stock of the corporation. Tna company bhaed Us argu ments for right to lease on tne ground that the secretary of the Interior had no authority to dis approve tt solely on the ground U|at the leeseee were aliens, but Secretary Fall based bie decision oil a recent Federal court ruling •aLlak kat.l _. J. —IS l_Jt— of 1923” is a mu- posal to raise the salary of the mltteo on Group Mettings. These evue being put on mayor fro m »8.000 a year to 112,- ^ the benefit of the |»» chairman of tbo various group 000 a yaa* ORMOND BEACH.. Fla.-rMoro leisurely cruising down Florida’s plated by President Harding as he began the second day of Ills vaca tion in the Peninsula state. decided early today, according to advices from tho “pioneer" the houseboat on which tho President and Mra. Harding V® takln « tbe cruise. The plans called tor which, he held made all Indian leases "subject to the upproval of These ' aacretary of the Interior." HIRE NCI REFUSED BTTUIKSI i meetings to be held on Friday even l Ing: Q. A. Booth, J. Costa, A. G. ; Dudley, W. L. Erwin, C. D. Flanl- jgen, prof, A. Rhode*, E. R. Hodg son, Jr., J. W. Jarrell, Jr., Thomas 8. Mell. Dr. W. L. Moss, Col C. Ing, J. U. Jester. A meeting of these group chair men has been called for Thursday at 11 a. m. at the Georgian Hotel at which time the Group Meeting plan will be explained and a sam- BEUSSE PRAISED FRESH OUTRAGES ARE REPORTED In Consequence .of Police Force* Shops and Houses Are Entered and People Robbed. through tho Brtiah Zone. General Sir Arthur Godley com manding tho British troops at Co- logno and General Payot, French chief of transportation in the oc- cupled region held two confer ences Monday. Tho correapomf- ent says General Godley flatly refused tho French demands, whereupon General Payot said i would appeal to London. The French asked the right to run trains between Bonn and Ncuss, which would involve a minute switching operation part of every train in the Cologne Central station. The British contend the.«corrcspondent asserts that this would seriously hamper traffic and would lead to a strike of the German staff, making the British position un tenable. FRESH INSTANCES OF OUTBREAKS Nationalist Assembly pie group meeting held.’ ' Will Not Accept Treaty. Further Negotiations ed with presenting a revision of Are Possible. Civil Service Commis sion Lauds Athens Polibe Chief For Excel lent Work. CONSTANTINOPLE — Advices from Angora state that the Turk- put the recovered money In e | whelming success. safety deposit vault I In addition to Mr. Bishop who xi. National assembly has decided Mr. Drake has deposited around Ij, the director of the show, a M*-1 that the Lausanne treaty is unsc- 86,000 in a local institution. This Bremblette, New York musical Iceptable. The government, how- --- is about the same .amount he comedy stage director will be in l evar was authorized to continue game at one of two or three Pl«** claims.to have loit whenJble cof- Athens on the two nights of next negotiations on conditolns that depending on ‘he speod of the fee pot Imnk" w« rifkd a few'week that the offering ie liven, X £tt£l In conform!- houseboat which cast off here Ute i wce ks ago. To be «*«<*, 'Mr. Monday and Tuesday. »y with the complete independence yesterday, after the prudent had 'Drake declared he had 86500 de- X special feature of the protjuc- - - ■ — had a galna ovey 'thfl Ormond I positted in the coffee pot which | tion will be the famous “Bull- Beach couree. New Smyrna, -0 [,j kept in his cotton seed house. do g>> orchestra, miles sofatb of .here seemed to |bo He ia ta id to have dlecovered — the most BkeV place. “■ ino the Constitution and by-laws to be (Turn to. Page Five) TRIED FORM of the Turkish Nation, and all oc- i _ cupled territory be evacuated Im- 1AVO mediately after the signature of — ‘ , >82600 In the seme coffee pot only The relaxation not to mention . )srt WMk . the recreation he has been able t T he atory of BUI Drake’* coffee to obtain since leaving Washington [pot bank and the robbery which already has helped him, members f ed to the arrest of his sons and of the vacation party eay. .subsequent release when they Despite the long railroad trip J stoutly denied any knowledge of the visit to this land of perpetual the theft, caused a great amount summer, alto has been of Imme- [of interest and was -followed by dlate benefit to Mra. Harding, wbo 'advertisements by banka in —- Is gradually regaining her former strength. Planes Hop For shmimhem oral leading citiee, pointing out the safety in placing money in banks instead of coffee pots, stock- or in the hay loft. Mr*Drake, it wili be recalled be- For Miami, Fla. nflu’^t buiw he got kinder ig his money in the PALM BEACH J no.—The SIX - . ... army plane* arrived late yctercay he aI ;y, of , th ' , . enroutc from San Antonio. Texas, would be deposited m a realg Dan A Sutherland and Department of Com merce Principals in Con troversy WASHINGTON—a row featured by the charges from Dan 'A. riuut- rhaiges from Dan tf Li nil, delegate to Congreaa from Alaska that the Ccmmeece depart- has "handed the Sawsoip hah, rio* of Alaska over to the CM- < Sau Francisco fish trust” hae l iewipiuted by action of tne >h artment •>>' temporarily extend - h - the KuvSrnment salmon reaerve In Alaska, ttt protect th* Indue- he delegates attack, made rn s tement put into the Congres- i d record before his departure home Tuesday was declared in tespenee from Assistant Secre- v Houston of the department to the moat complete demagogic A: ever put over,’ : was contended that th* action •he department In extending the ■■rve and ordering that no new ■ f , lie* Should be erected pend- action by Congress to protect Industry, had given to three Salmon pocking conoenuj the unpoly ot dishing rights. , Ir. Houston replied that In tajt* these temporary measures to ot a great food resource from ucUoa the government nad '••>1 precedents set by I’rert- itnoseveit and had the fuUest >rt Of Alaskan citizens and In- "• .a ■' trf Porto Rico were expected to hop off today for Miami. While five of th* machine, alight® at Neptune beach safety, one met mishap in trying to land, taking a sudden nose dive lnto / the water several feet deep near the shore. Lieut Guy Klrksey, pilot Lieut E. T. Sflscr were ir plane end were uninjured. PREPARE to WORkOUT ST PETERSBURG, Fla.—Sev- J£n members of the Boston Na- tionals including Manager Fred Mitchell, arrived ^Sunday IITY RACE IS BECOMING KEN Misses Jowers, Hammond and Jackson in Lead Others Are Receiving' Mone Votes. Chief of Police Henry Beusaee waa preload by th Civil Service Commlston Tuesday night tor tbe effective campaign against' traffic violations waged by tbe depart ment: Chief Beusse’s report snowed one hundred and fifty-tour cases were docketed tor traffic violations dur ing th* month. Bixty-three people were arrested land tried for operating cars with- ... . _ oktt tall lights; five for reckless Women tO Face driving; fifty-eight for operating Trial For rtont-h nf an automobile with glaring neaa- lnai ror ueaul 01 'lights, total of two hundred and Several Husbands. Select' oXhty-mm, case. w. r . docketed. Fines collected amounted to third husband, Frank Kftpcxyk, one of the several persons, hus and relatives, alleged by the state to have been poisoned night and k prepared lob the first workoqt Monday morning. In cluded In the ^arty were^ pitcher* skittish* of. banks. H* remarked, however, after the theft that if of the money it j {n a real, non- cst-to-goodness tank. The kind with the wicketl, tellers, cashiers, n’. everything. • Whether Mr. Drake’* declaration that he would fetor the banks had anything to do with the return of 'while the money is not known. However 18719, end the money, or part of it, waa found 2699 foUow closely. Misses Neb the by Mr. Drake only a few daye age H, Griffeth, • Harriett Stephens 'and re‘land* haste to pat in intolgnd MoUie Whitehead are inereas- repl bank, tjfj (imr their lead considerably. ■ • •' ' 1 »The Rotorians, Kiwknians and Shriners, each organisation having a candidate in the race, declare i LIIUUUU UUkllkheir candidate will win the first Iprixe, a Ford coupe. The other prizes are $100 in gold; |S0 in i gold and 830 in gold. Voting becomes brisker each ms asked jn- yesterday in ___ ' . rors by the prosecution. I LONDON—(By The Associated' Investigation* of. the deaths of Press.)—The excitement s roused in former bus bonds of tbe women and the House of Commons ana tne po- t relatives resulted in charges of , ni litlcnl clubs over the defeat of Jctm murder against them when coro- • r\ C^S'GoSdy 1 md OteChltoSrii Jt and Devlin. BOTTLERS ADJOURN * ATLANTA, Oa.—The Oeorgtn Bottler’s association which held Its annual coiurentlon here Tuesday was adJouSed with tbe election of the following offSere: Fred B. Gould, of Atlanta, president: John C. Nay, of Augusta, vice president: A. E. Kelley, secretary and treas urer. The convention was attended by about seventy-five representa tives of the industry. * ■ . dies in savannah Mean Cotton Acreage Reduction, Bet ter Machinery, and New Crops. , BY T. LARRY GANTT. , Mr. Martin Abney sayt that while the leering of so many ns-j gross for the North may temporart-, Iy Interfere with farmers In end Itj will prove a good thing for tbe 1 South. In the first plact It will force a reduction of tbo acreage planted In cotton and Is. an Insurance ngafnst ■ our fsstners growing eny ! *Hiniat» i '«seope ot toe staple. Msto Niton 'Mto toaa’kMto-oe production. Henceforth' wanatwlke*- sured n fair'pries tor this etop and tbe grower, will be pald a profit on (Turn to Page Five) Secretary of Treasure bends Third to Loss Lately tw0 . Labor Candidate SUC | Indications that the death pen- Ceeds Him.’ laity would be sought Miss Sue Carter ie tbe latest' nominee in the White Way Popu larity Contest which closes April 4 when thousands of people from Northeast Georgia will flock here for the day of big entertainment. Wwfantoav* Mina Clovis °Jowcr* lof th* treasury to u parliamentary poison in the exhumed bodies. metatetoWlead srito 4139 votre JS’JTb.'IJSS Th ® haa the the- > M& M !K. W ?S^terau n «hou. "to to m ^, W to. in" ’ r “low eloseiv. MU.*. Nel-. n ®7*5“P«?- ^ JsursTKo of the deceased persons. Aside from .the .unprecedented defeat of three ministers In succea- slon, only a few months after tne new government came Into power, the significance of tho breaen tn the solid conservative Phalanx of Liverpool, Impress, the public. Mr. Hills was defeated In tbe Edge HUI division of that city by a plur ality of about 1,000 votes. The seat was won by J. H. Hayes the labor candidate. With the exception of tho Scot lend division of Liverpool, which the veteran Nationalist Thomas P. _ - , , O'Connor has repreented by a con-1 (jUGSt. LiUtlCn At servativ* for many years. fointi 9 (Vslnalr An the factor In Mr. HIU’s defeat a L* HW.A. according' to some, observers Was the woman’s vote. There ore more „ Wr l 1 —in » than M.eee women elector. In tbo th^wSL fSuSlSfV^^KStare constluency and It Is among »he Thnrfite^ at s Svi^-lr. Fhltw^H women that the hostility toward tn* l. nn f* < *k7 •* * 0 *•***, Fleetwood government Is generally manifest. I Lanier, secretary announced Wad- Mr. Hill’s defeat Is regarded ... a staggering blow at the govern- Secretory L«nler haa made ar- ment. Mr. Hays, tho now member! rahgements to have luncheon lx a formed London i? 1 (Iceman. He' Mnrw * OV th# College Cafeteria. Is now secretary of the National .The meeting will begttl at Police union. (and dose at 3. 11485.10. Fire Chief D. W. McDorman re ported the department answered twenty-one alarms In FebruaiV, BIX of these wera at business housss; ten residences and five false. UNiSKEDMl • Kl No/ Trace ician Taken From Front Yard. Found of Who Was ESSEN—In consequence of a lice force, now outrages are re- ..jrtod dally. Shops and houses nre entered by marudors and rc*i- drilts of tho city nro held up and m ■ fire brigndo has taken over the duties of tho police. The French will not permit them to carry arm*; so they have equipped themselves with pieces of rubber tubing loaded with lead and with wooden revolvers. The firemen are very active ir their new duties and find eager ailstance in tho commnniats who teem anxious to show that they are not connected with the dis orders. • • CALLS 14 WITNESSES Masked Band Activities Including 2 Deaths, and Girl’s Expulsion Investi gated. His Own day and hardly an Athenian can be found now with a (pare pen- (Tum to Page Five) COMMUNITY PHILOSOPHY Mighty “Willln” Oxen A farmer once sold a pair of oxen and guaranteed them :o be f the most "willin’ ” pair he had ever seen. Th* man who bought them cogiptalnec snout them saying that one did all tn. pulling and the other sturxed and lay back In the yoke. When we took the former owner t» look the reply Was “I guaranteed them to be willin' and they ars on* of ’em's w|}lin’ to work and **“ —* 'llln he should.’ KIW11S MEET %t"Cl£6E .■-* ^ f‘• I put nit motor car up fSi OKLAHOMA CITY, Olda.—No trace had been found early Wed nesday of Dr. B. Cbeston Gold berg, local physician who was ' Tuesday, night outside hie home by four unmasked men and whisked away in a motor car.. , The physician returned home last night from- a visit to. a pa tient with his wife and small son. When he entered hiei i put hie motor car up fsr the grand ; Cafe and digged Him to the where they forced him into a mo tor car and drove away. Mrs. Goldberg, who had entered the hones heard Mr husband call ing for help. She rnshed out and struggled with th* kidnapper* but wasbeaten off. Mr. Goldberg de clared that so far aa she knew the physician had no enemies. sion are Loots E. Elkton, J. L. Daniel, father of Watt; Sidnov White, Mrs. Lktsle Inadct, "Tut” Davenport George Eckles, E. W. Andrews Rufus Eubanks, Red Eu banks, D. J. Peters and J. W AJneworthy. 18 o’clock MEDICAL MEN MEET CHATTANOOGA ,T«nn.—Th* annual session of the medical sec tion of the American Life Associa tes pres to ■ The Morning Post, the Staunch- Miss Harriett Stephen*, student ftion with about £00 eet organ ot the conservatism >n,*t the Stat* Normal School, whom 'ent opened a three HWiJWtofeStt* club ia speneoitog in to* Pop- that at Signal MoonUfa Inn here Contest, will W a guest at Wednesday. The • convention was /aa 1 iiCwia '£V£i‘f$?£?£2( S“'~* * BASTROP. La.— Fourteen wit nesses-have MSB summoned to ap pear Wednesday before the More house Parish grand Jury investi gating masked band activities, and particularly kidnapping and tho slaying of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, of Mer Rouge, last Au- ■ st- laid at the door of the Ku ux Klan by state officials res ponsible for tho inquiry. Twelve 'of toe prospective wit nesses testified before the open hearing in January concerning the kidiuti ipping on August 24 of five including Daniel and Richard bn th* Baitrop-Mer Rouge high- Ada May Hamilton, the 17 year old girl wf-o was warned by a masked band *4b leave her home on pain of-being tarred and feath ered,'and her mother were among tho witnesses to be questioned to- who will appear before during today's Pay Taxes Now and Save Money Clark*srnunty citizens Hvlns nut side tbe corporate limits of the three'towns Athena wlntervllle and Whitehall who are subject to the commutation rohd tax will save fifty cento by paying the amo nr tots month. . This tax i* IMS per year and la now da*. It Is payable to Tate Wright, clerk ef the County Com- mlsloners, In the court house. If it Is net paid By April first a fra «t fifty cents will ha added to the M.oe, making the total »3.so. no., who default In the payments will be subject to roud duty. ..