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VOL. #1, NO. 60
Aeaoclated Press Service
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1923.
N. E. A Service
Single Copies I Cents Dally, I Cents Saaday.
Germans Reported To
Be Hard At Work On
New Reparation Plan
BERLIN.—The German government is plunging head
long toward making a new reparations offer which will
develop within a fortnight unless present plans miscarry.
This revelation was made to the
newspapers Monday. The cabi
net of Chancellor Cuno Is jockey-
it i> understood, to obtain
mg.
favorable treatment for the Ger
man demand that the French evac
uate the Ruhr and return the
Rhineland to the absolute sover
eignty of the Reich..
in the meanwhile, German and
British industrialists are conduct
ing negotiations, apparently in
view of giving the British a share
of the Ruhr industries, thereby
creating a better baair for subse.
quent negotiations.
The government plans discus
sions of the Ruhr situation by
members of the cabinet within the
next few days when jt will be de-
ideil how best 0 answer Lord
Corson, the British foreign minis
ter, who recently made a signifi
cant speech in the British T
of lord. .
The socialists are growing more
uneasy day by day and are in
creasing tneir demanoa that t„e
government take some action to
stop the Ruhr embrogiio, pointing
out that something mqst he done
quickly or the inhabitants of the
Ruhr will .not tolerate present
conditions very much longer.
Germany’s internal situation is
growing much worse, which is evi
denced by tha further drop of the
mark which is now quoted at 29,-
10,1,0 department officials, it was de-1 under guard after having
clared hero Tuesday. Salomon escaped from the Atlanta
uoo to the dollar.
Can Save Money
By Using New
Athens Street Car Com
pany*'Will Begin Pass
System. Cost OnlyOne
Dollar Per Week.
No longer will it be neceaaary
for patrons of tbe Athena electric
care to tusa with the annoying odd
pennies or that hoary nuisance—
the transfer. Beginning Friday, 27,
the Athena Railway and Electric
company will piece an advance
sale through all Its car operators a
new kind of transportaUon rata
that will maka it evsn easier to
use the street care than a personal
machine. This rata will ha known
as the Unlimited JUde Transferable
Weekly Past. Tha name reelly tells
the story.
CAN RIOE
ALL WEEK
Felder Named As
Bribery Is Laid
To Prphi Agents
Thomas B. Felder Men
tioned in the Affidavits
Claiming Bribery of De
partment of Justice Men.
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO.—Affidavits made by
Edward M. Salomon, of Chicago,
that ho paid $12,600 to two mon al
leged to be employees of the Uni
ted States department of justice
IDENTIFIES TWO AS
CHAPIN’S “AIDES”
Miss Ramey, Local Train
ed Nurse, Identifies Two
New York Men As Ac
complices.
Athens To Pay Homage To The
Men Who Wore the Gray In The
Days Of *6i, Here On Thursday
WILL FINISH
CASE THURSDAY
Hearing Continued to
Thursday on Legal Tech
nicality. Silverstein and
Didato Under Bond.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK.—The de
tails and events leading up
to the escape of Gerald
Chapman from a hospital in
are In the poaseValon of treasury I Athens, Ga., where ne was
charges. It la said, that the money
was paid for favors which tho men
failed to deliver.
Special dispatches from Washing
ton to newspapers here asserted
that the disclosure of the existence
of the affidavits threatened to di
vulge how bootleggers and others
Federal penitentiary and
been wounded and captur
ed again, were given here
Tuesday by Miss Coraiea
Ramey, Chapman’s nurse.
The hearing was before
were mulched of large sums for United States Commissioner
protection they never received. Hitchcock and the trained
Ooples of the affidavits are said to j nurse, brought here from
Heal?congre*Bmen f who‘may r bring Athens to identify the two
•k. .... il. t - man A It a Si lv<»i*sf t»m Ann
the matter up before the house*, men, Abe Silverstein and
Salomon eiaims the .men promised i Dominick Didato, as being
to make him prohibition director of
Illinois.
Salomon Is said to have written
letters to William J. Burns, chief
Cl 1. nr _ of the bureau of investlgaUon of
iJUrcel Lai rlall the department of Justice, and
George ChrisUan, secretary to
President Harding, in connecUon
with hla charges.
Salomon In hla a.fldavlt i* said
bate, mentioned Gaatoo B.
Means-end Hmer Jernlcke ae two
department of Justice men with
whom he had certain dealings. He
also Is understood to have refer
red to Colonel Thomas B. Felder,
who was Instrumental In petition
ing William Howard Taft, then
president, for n pardon of churleB
W. Morse, wealthy ablp owner now
under Indictment In connecUon
with alleged war frauds.
the two men who aided
Chapman to escape, was a
government witness.
The nurse testified that
she did not aid Chapman in
his escape but that she did
receive a letter from Chap
man after his escape which
had been mailed in’Athens.
Miss Ramey Identified the two
men Tuesday as the ones who
visited Athens on April 4th, the
day Gerald Chapman escaped
trom the hospital.
She testified before Commis
sioner Hitchcock that the two men
were known to her as Karuse ant
Cohen, that she met them on April
tth, and that she delivered a note
from Chapman to them. When she
delivered the note, the said Cohen
said, “You have come too bite ae
it will be necessary now to buy
an automobile and ft's too late to
Ho that **
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM
The officirt program fori Memorial Day in Athens,
Thursday, April 26th, is as follows:
• 11:30 A. M.—Meeting of Veterans at City Hall.
12:30—Dinner at Lucy Cobb, given by the U. D. C.’s,
to which the wives of the Veterans are invited.
3:00 P. M.—Main addresB of day at the University
Octagon, Major General W. A. Clark, of Columbia,
S. C., orator of the day. Prayer will be offered by Dr.
Len G. Broughton and music will be rendered by the
High School band. Delivery of Crosses of Honor wili
be by Miss Mildred Rutherford, president of Laura
Rutherford Chapter, U. D. C.
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground” will be sung,
Dixie will be played, and Rev. J. V. M. Morris will pro
nounce the benediction. /
The exercises will be short, lasting less than an
hour.
The public is urged to attend and pay honor to the
heroes of the Sixties. •
MET HANDS DDT
PRISON SENTENCES
IN LIQUOR TRIALS
j Eight Men Sentenced to
Serve Time By Federal
Judge in Prohibition
Cases Tried Here.
No Record Found
Of Burial Permit
In Convict Probe
State Healtih Officer Tes
tifies. Fla. Legislative
Committee to Disinter
Tabert’s Body.
Memorial exercises An Athens
this year will be appropriate but
phort.
What few living veterans there
are will be the center of attention
but the general public Is Invited
and urged to attend tho public
exerclftex to lie hold In the Uni-
NINETEEN CASES
TRIED ON MONDAY
Tobe Anderson of White
County, Received Long
est Sentence, 4 Months
Admits Making Booze.
Eight men were given prison
sentences by Judge 8. H. Sibley in
Federal court Monday after ver
dicts of guilty were rendered In
cates of violation of tbe problblUon
law.
The longest sentence was given
Tobe Anderson of Whtte county,
who plead guilty to manufacturing
whiskey. Anderson was given four
months In prison straight Millard
C. Oriswell of Walton county, was
TALLAHASSEE.—Nor record.of
any burial permit for Martin Ta
in* rt. of North Dakota, who died In
a county lease convict camp, can
ho located by the Florida state
board of health, tbe joint legisla
tive committee inquiring Into the
youngster's death and other re
ported prison brutalities, waa no
tified Tuesday by Dr. Raymond C,
Turck, state health of Deer.
Immediately upon being inform
ed by Dr. Turck the committee
voted to appoint a subcommittee
to go to tha Mingo cemetery end
other places near Clara, Fla.,
whore Tabort la said to havo been Oka ,
buried, and exhume the body.-s* fcAriioae who have died during tha!
'jraliv Octagon a 3 o'clock in tho also sentenced to four months or
hfternoon. * | payment of ftOO fine. Griawell, a
The observance pf Memorial day I Walton county man, plead guilty
this year brings to light some ot 1forging obligation, of the United
the fact* relative, to its origin. „ ..
According to MIbb Mildred Ruther- Millard Griawell. another man.
ford, historian general. Col James ^ rom Oreene county, was sentenced
ltuniMey of the First Georgia to payment of a $100 fine upon*
regiment, delivered the first me- verdict of guilty to possessing
niorial address in Columbus/ Ga., property designed fo* the manu-
April 26th, I860. The first future of whiskey,
monument to be erected to a Con- , _
federate soldier was at Cheraw, 8. OF
C.. and waa unveiled In June 1867. CA3 E8
The first monument to be erected , „ . ...
to an unknown soldier waa at Win- • ^ following cnees were dls-
cbester, V., and waa unveiled to p0 " 0( L °* b y court Montny:
Unknown and unrecorded To ^° Anderson. White county;
tlead." . manufacturing whiskey, 4 months
Tho membership of Cobb-Do-“V, 1
loney came of Confederate veter- ‘' l !!* rd .^in^VhnLtinrm?'of
an. has dwindled from fin. county. forging obligations- of
Turkish-French Row
Threatens As Peace
Parley Is Resume
‘•■■ms
(By Associated Preis)
LAUSANNE.—The resumption of peace negotiation!
between the Turks and the Allies has given rise to the
suggestion that Turkey’s expressed desire to cast oft
France as her economic pilot may lead to difficulties and
to what will probably be the most important development
of the entire conference.
Dr. Sanford Has
Been Given Very
Important Place
Named on the Executive
Committee of Olympic
Games; South’s First
Representative.
one has dwindled from fifty to n„ «r mm « «
lortv-four durlnj tbe past year, a mntV°' ” 4
aks ot six by death. I months on a plea of gunty.
— Millard Crlawell. Greene county,
disinterment permit lnu been paM year are, O. P. nrightwell, J. 1 manufacturing whiskey; One of
granted tho committee by the state I. N. Cheatham, J. A. Palmer, J. F. • $10o. upon a verdict ot gulliy. to
health officer. ’- ,W. Osborn, George W. Sims and possessing property designed for
Late Tueeday the committee vlr- Joseph W. Woods. manufacturing whiskey. ■
tually concluded bearing evidence! — ■ j Wilson Almond, Morgan county;
do that.
She said she did not know
Chapman before he was brought
to the Athena hospital,
“Unlimited'' means that the pnr-
rhaaor or bearer of the pass will
have tbe right to make aa many
trips as be pleases from Monday
American Legion Making
reduction In the fere ot either the
purchaser of the pass or of the
purchasers family. In other words,
the pass will cost only 14 1- 7fares
hut it wUI be good for aa many
rides as the bearer cares to take,
whether for the length of tbe line
or tor only two or throe blocks to
escape heat, bed weather or tho
Increasing weight of a bnndlel In
this wise, the railway service Is
made much mon useful to the car
rider aa well ae extraordinarily
cheap.
“Transferable” mean* that tho
pass may be transferred by tho or-
ikiual purchaser to any one else
at such times aa he does not have
to rldo himself. In buying, the pur
chaser simply bands a dollar to the
ear operator without any red tape
to contracts or signatures. In
Appeal As National Me
morial Day Approaches.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. — The
American Legion's appeal for con
tributions to a .200,000 endowment
fund to provide for tbe annual dec
oration of the graves dt overseas
dead waa characterized as one
from which no American could turn
aside by James L. Felser, national
vice chairman of the American Red
Cross, who recently visited Legion
national headquarters in Indianap
olis. As Memorial Day approaches
the number of contriblutlons re
ceived at Legion national head
quarters reaches new heights.
The largest asm In contributions
to date has been received , from
Michigan. Other leading etaes. In
Counzel for Silverztein and Di
dato were given until Thurzday to
•ubmit a brief anpportlng their
contention that tne indictments
returned againit them in Athena
on April 13th were insufficient.
Judge Walter Cornett when
aueitioned here Tuezday after
noon about thie feature of the
case >afd that it meant that the
two would be held under bond un
til this legal point is decided and
that it the government was sus
tained they would bo returned
here. If not they would be
leased.
f««. It la easier to purchase a nose relative order, are Penneylvanla,
than to pay an odd faro. The or- INew York. Illinois and Virginia.
Wnal purchaser may be the bead i A donation which caused r
Ot the family who will on It to and comment at national headquarters
Irom his dally work. Including waa received from a group of form-
luncheon trips. In the evening, Ifier service men recovering from
lie does not care to use It again to i wounds In .United States Hospital
to to a fraternal meeting, to some; No. 60, Ward J-3. These men gave
. !. w .... . a sk. .mall onmnnnil.
Appointed As American
Commissioners to Hold
Conference WitK Ob're-
gon Government.
friend's, to the Y. M. C. A., „
theatre or tome other purpose, he
may be sure that someone else In
Ihe household will be glad to make
U8e of IL Aa a matter of fact, ex
perience with the pass In dOea
like Athens Indicates that It will
l» used about thirty times a week,
which mean* a fare of 1 l-3c a
ride to the wholesale customer
who has agreed to purchase a dol
lar’s worth of service breath sev-
ro fill day... The past salea period
w.M alway. be Friday In advance
to Tuesday night of tbe week of
sale ;but the pass’week of use will
[-Monday to Sunday night Indus*
,J, he term, "Pass.” of course, I*
Mif-eiplanitory. it hag always
men associated with command of
,he service of n railway without
questioning and friction. The only
la that this I* a pay pan,
that the general public may now
*** of the service as
■mely «a an official of the rail-
**y. The nee ot the pare, Indeed.
h*» been compared to a police-
war of nilag the care. He
r**,tk» right to board as often .ae
Jtkea and ride as long or as
‘“J* * distance as he likes. Ills
“?‘f or m la hla pass. The purchase*
the Athens pass will have even
their best of the small compenaa
tlon they receive and dropped It
Into a tin wafer can, slit In the top.
When the can waa opened It was
dimes and quarters. Accompanying
found to contain $18 In nickels,
tho contribution was the following
poem:
“And the thought we send across
the wave
As we lie upon our cot,
It plant upon each far-off grave
One sweet forget me-not.“
BIBLE CONFERENCES
AT FIRST METHODIST
Beginning with the afternoon
service all sessions of the Bible
Conference will bo held In the
First Methodist church. It was
announced Tuesday morning by
the committee In charge.
The hoars for the four dally
sessions are 1:30; 11:00; 4:00;
and 0:00 o'clock dally and theca
cervices will all he bald in the
First Methodist church Instead
if the Octagon on Use University
of Georgia campus
On Sunday mornings the four
ministers leading the services
in the conference will preach at
In the city.
tbe various <
(By Associated Press)
In the Tabert case with tbe ex
ception of awaiting a report from
Its subcommittee which will leave
hero Wednesday for Clara. Tha
subcommittee will take along Arth
ur Johnson, a former convict, who
declared ha and three other men
buried Tabert In a spot other than
the place designated by wltpesses
appearing for the Putnam Lumber
company, at whose lease camp Ta
bert met his death.
Worcester Man
Regains Memory
In Georgia City
Suddenly Regains Mem-,
ory in Savannah. Mind
Has Been Absolute
Blank Since April 4.
DAMAGED DYFUK
manufacturing whiskey, acquitted.
I O. if. Doss, Morgan county;
! manufacturing whiskey; 69 days
. upon n verdict of guilty.
Alfred Hall, Morgan county;
manufacturing whlekey, acquitted.
Tom Beck, Stephens county;
manufacturing whiskey; 60 days on
n plea of guilty.
Lawrence Anderson, White coon-
$200,000 Damage Done By 'minSMmTpIre'of'imfuy ttr **
Fire in New Jersey Rain j m ~ n’Tw J.
Comes to Aid of the on t pie# ot guilty.
Firemen. ■ M Morris, Whits county;
Dr. 8. V. Sanford, athletic di
rector at tho University of Geor
gia, has bpen honored by hcblni
nod on tno executive com mil too
ot tthe Olympic Games. This com
mittee has In charge making ar
rangements for the American team
to participate. In the International
events and so faa as la known this
Is the first time a southern rep
resentative has been named on the
committee.
Announcement wee made ot the
appointment last Sunday and Dr.
Sanford has already been notified
ot the appointment
TO PROBE
“DIVIDEND” CASES
Prohibition Officials to
Investigate Distributing
of Whiskey to, Stockhold
ers As Firm Dissolves.
WASHINGTON.—Acting ProblM-
bltion Director Andrews, ot Illin
ois, was suspended Tuesday by
Commissioner Haynes pending an
Investigation Into tbe case of the
Grammes Ullrich distillery, (
The suspension of Mr. Andrews
added a new complIcaUon to an al
ready tangled situation In Illinois.
Appointment ot a permanent state
director has been delayed for
Most of the Turkish debt h
owed to France, whose national!
also have a preponderance ot eco
nomic holdings In tho domain nun
governed from Angora.
Tho Turks havo expressed the
desire to shake off tho French con
trol. whllo the spokesmen ot France
aver that they are interested on
In so far aa protecting legitimate
French Interests and Investment,
In Turkey, to which end they have
au xuiac/p iu wuicu turn I.
already ntada extensive
slona.
conces-
TO SAFEOUARD
UNITED STATES
LAUSANNE.—Safeguarding
Ihe legitimate national Interests l
tho United States and of the prln
qlplo of commercial opportunity I
all nations was officially set fori
Tuesday ns the guiding rule
tho American representatives wh
tho Near East peaco conference i
turned Its labors in an endeavor I
restore peaco between the allied
powers and Turkey, and between
Greece and Turkey.
Joseph C. Grew, American min
ister. said the United States wel
comed tho resumption ot the con
ference. It had reconvened on a
substantial basis an understanding
had already been reached on a va
riety of Important subjects and
upon this firm foundation the Unit
ed States expects soon to see
orcctcd that edlflco ot a Just and
stable peaco for which the
was waiting with eagerness.
worlo
S. S. Convention
Plans Directed
By Dr. Stephen!
Chamber of Commerc
Directors Name Univer
sity Professor Chairman
of Committee.
Dr. IL P. Stephens has boon
olected chairman of tho committee
many montha because Commission-1 on arrangements for the regional
i manufacturing whiskey, acquitted.
Ed Walker, Stephens county;
pAnavvuuu.—rour nou.es, n *^ l * ke)r ' nnod ,6 ° 00 •
church and a school were destroy
ed as tbb Inhabitants ot six or eight
villages near here fought a losing
fight aalast a rapidly advancing
forest (Ire until at 10 ,o'clock a
heavy shower quenched tho tlames ‘
plea of entity.,
Bob Anderson, White county;
manufacturing whiskey; acquitted.
Charlie Anderson, White county;
manufacturing whiskey; acquitted. •
Floyd 8helnutt, White county;
or Haynes and Senators McKinley
and McCormick, have been unable
to agree on a selection: Thera bed
been rsports tpat Air. Andrews was
and ln a few minute. .c-compir.l.-
ed what firemen from several 0 . B .* n
towns bad been tryln to do all day.'
The dlrtsible Z-Rl, under con- i osmnufneturllnjg whiskey, 60
>n by the United States gov- ! U *S£ „
days
stroctlon I
SAVANNAH.—Earnest Hale, a Irnmenr' it llkehiino ° v" j' 1U |’n o«car Harris, Morgan county;
splendid specimen of young man- °7‘.“! ent J J' J? manufacturing whlakey; 66 daya,
hood, apparently about 33 yean M n rth rn7e l.. “P°n a verdict of guilty,
of ago, whoso home is In Worces- ‘J* e labS thl <-’y Rosa, Greene county, mann-
ter, Mai*., where he waa assistant f hen ,“ whieh tho^lv^omii! lecturing whiskey; acquitted,
physical Instructor In the academy. l " * ,lloh ih.^ames r »' D* ,tor »“> wren. Wal-
^“t-! St.ckJj l0T ‘... qouaty, -$160. upon pleas of
self on tbe river front of Savannah, i ..'I i. W if i ,h ,, fted /? <1 guilty,
halled'a passing citizen and asked Mopt within ball a mile of the Luc(
to be taken to tho police station., BBD * , (; . . ■
There ho declared that at the mo-! J" «>l «bout 10000 atte. ofplnt
meat when lie helled the Savannah woodland wore destroyed, with a
man, a stranger to him, be for tho * bout $200,000. The Meth-
flrst time remembered any loci- odlat Epl.copal Chureh of Bllver-
dont at all of hla life since April ‘“.N- J* »a. directly In the path
4. Where be has been and what he ot the resiling names, as was a
has done since that date, how he »mall wooden schoolhouse. So far
came to he In Savannah or how could bo learned here no ono
long he baa been here, he declares, waa Injured In the all day battle
he has no Idea. against the lire.
BROUGHTON ARRIVES FOR BIBLE
Hughes bus announced that the (CONFERENCE; DR. G. CAMPBELL
with mnPMMilaHvM rtf $ha Aiwa- I MORGAN WILL PREACH TONIGHT
with representatives ot tho Obre-!
gon government 1 nMelrico City, |
Se°t U roi. I Dr. Len G. Broughton, noted Baptist minister, arrived
pan. and John BartonpHyne, tora- j in Athena ea/ly Tuesday morning and began hia lectures
or secretary of the interior and at the Bible Conference in the Octagon at XI o clock,
now chairman of the American Tuesday night Dr. G- Campbell
Rod Cross. 1
The'time for the meeting of the |
intmlsslon In Mexico City has not Methodist church, the service be
commission In Mexico City has not
been set as yet,-but will be an
nounced at an early date.
TJts American Commissioners
will be gnlded In dlaennlons by
broad considerations of policy
which have actuated the admlnla-
which have actuated the a
(ration In iaklng this step.
McLellan Begins
Month-End Sale
McClellan’s pdptilar store has
begun its regular month-end ealee
and those desiring to find real
bargains at low prices will find a
largo collection of merchandise at
popular Clayton street store.
An advertisement In today".! Brn-
ginning at 8 o'clock. Wednesday
night at the Mune hour Dr.
Broughton will deliver e sermon.
Monday night Dr. P. C. Morgan
ireached to an Interested crowd.
preached to an interested crowa.
The song services at the confer
ence are attracting considerable
intereet and enthusiasm. Rev.
Claude E. Goodwin is director and
puts life and vim into his work,
the audience joining in the singing
with spirit.
Dr. Broughton arrived in the
city Tueeday morning in time to
begin hia aeries of lecture* at the
111 o’clock hoar. He will lecture
this week on “Paul’s Great Four
fold Testimony.” Tuesday morn
ing his topic waa “His Testimony
of Himself.” Wednesday morning
his subject will lie “His Testimony
ries of lectures on “The Spiritual
Lucius Terry. Walton county;
possessing whlekey. One of $76,
upon a plea of guilty.
neon reports inai ar. a
to be made a director.
In tho Grammes Ullrich case,
liquor valued at $600,000 waa dis
tributed among stockholders aa a
result of dissolution of the firm.
Mr. Andrews was In charge ot pro.
hthitlon enforcement during the
dissolution proceedings.
Mr. Haynes said that Mr. An
drews had given permits tor re
moval of the liquor from the Gram
mes Ullrich! warehouse to the
homes of the stockholders sharing
In the distribution. Although this
plan, ha said had been disapproved
by headqurtera here In other
cases, the Illinois director failed to
advise the Washington of hie In
tentions.
INDICTED BY M
CHICAGO.—Coincidental with the
announcement from Washington
Tuesday that Roscoe c. Andrews,
acting prohibition director for Il
linois. had been suspended pending
Inrestlgatlon by the prohibition
division of tho recent liquidation'
of Oormmet end Ullrich, whole-
' eele liquor dealers, by distribution
nf lit llhtertvs atnalr tA'atnsilrhnMaM
Federal Grand Jury Re
turns Indictment Against
City Treasurer on Prohi
Violation.
of Its liquor stock to stockholders.
William D. Mon acting director
for New Jersey, became acting di
rector for Illinole. Mr. Andrews
turned over the office to Mon
Tuesday morning.
Svmphony of the Scriptures'
Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
Tuesday morning the topic was
“Tho Allegro Movement- The
Pentateuch.'' Wednesday morning) csrvenka la also president of n
his topic will be “The Andante. brew)ng company, while Hoetcr
Movement. Then 1 lectures s11 ,. h..I . I...
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO.—John Csrvenka, who
was Installed as city Treasurer of
Chicago one week ego, John Hoe-
ber, Jr., end Barney Grogan were
Indicted Tuesday by the Federal
grand Jury, which Is in session
hero on charges of violating the
prohibition laws.
Movement.’’ n 1 J 0,0 t , • l« also head of a brewing company,
delivered at 9:30 and are proving, 0 rogab, the third man be-
V< T3r.*G. r *Campbe 11 Morgan winjH*. “ ,00n BBi
lecturing' « '» ‘h 00 * 1 * sensational dc-
?h l riH CoVv j --”lvelopmenta will grow out of the
There "ccturc's'are on the P^Ml | Indlctmeut. against the three men.
Country,"‘^Feeding swin wv" 1 No Kiwanis Meeting
2p3K»to'neu?oi” topic ' TiU b:! i Here Next Thursday
The Prodigal Son i» one of the I ‘ ~
most interesting of the Biblical j On account of .Memorial Day ex
characters and the interesting I erclaes nest Thursday the Kiwanis
in which Dr. Morgan Uj c l ab meeting will not be held, It j mission announced thl« afternoon
these eeries of lectures on announced Tuesday. The reg- however, that within a few days ho
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INDICTMENT OF NEW
TOOK MAN REFUSED
convention of tho State Sunday
School Convention which will ba
bold In Athens May 14, 16 and 18,
it was announced Tuesday.
Dr. Stephens was elected by tho
Board of Directors of the chamber
of commerce which held a meeting
Monday. Ho accepted and will ap
point the following chairmen ot
committees within the nest few
days: onertalnment, registration,
reception, flnanco, publicity, bnlld-
lugs, ushers, music.
OUTLINES
PURPOSE
R. D. Webb, general superintend
ent ot tho Georgia Sunday 8chool
Association upon Invitation ot tho
chamber of Commerce appeared
before that body Morula/ night and
outlined tho purpose of tho regional
convention to ho held here.
“Tho New Day 1n Religious Ed-
* ivcIlftIUUB Edl*
ucatlon will ho tho Uieme of tho
ConvcnUon” ho said. This themo
will run throughout the whole pro
gram, and every address will be
along this thought. The choicest
speakers that could be aecured will
be henrd during these three days
by tho largo delegation of workers
coming from every section of the
state.
Among tho speakers will be Dr.
. E. Trails, New York, popular
author and lecturer; Dr. Hugh 8
MaglU, Chicago, general secretary.
International S. S. council; C.
Harold Lowden, Philadelphia,
leader, convention music; Dr. Allen
Wilson, Augusta, president Georgia
Sunday School AsHociation; Prof.
W. A. Sutton, Atlanta, first vice
president Georgia Sunday School
'Association, and others.
Grand Jury Fails to In
dict W. H. Anderson on
Grand Larceny Charge
Tuesday.
(Bv Associated Press.)
NEW YORK.—The grand Jury
which since last January has been
Investigating charges of grand
larceny against William IL Ander
son, state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon leauo. Tueeday tailed
to find an Indictment and was dis
charged by the court
Assistant District Attorney Fe-
cora, who appeared before the Jan
uary grand jury after O. Beratal
Phillips, a former collector for the
league had charged that Anderson
had accepted a split on his com-
TWENTY LIVES LOST
T'QUAKE
Many Lives Taken As
Toll By Earthquake.
Complete List Not Yet
Finished.
(By Associated Press.)
MOSCOW'.—Tremendous sea and
earth disturbances have taken
place recently Inthe artic and may
still be continuing, according to
Chita dispatches received here
Tuesday.
The reports gave details t
arthquake which recently
several buildings and many persons
into the uea at Petropovlosk.
The total loss ts not yet defin
itely known, but la baa I
tabl Uhed that
that twenty-oi
mum
