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• investigate ■ w To Rogol*' 8ubocrtbora THE BANNER.HERALD J1.000 Accident Policy Froo Dolly and Sunday—10 Conto a Week. Established 1832 Dally and Sunday—10 Canto a Weak. ATHENS COTTON! WEATHER! Cloudy With Probable Light Showers. •• Associated Press 8ervlco ATHENS, DA* MONDAY, JULY 2, 1323. B Single Copies 2 Conto Dally. I Cants Sunday. LEGIONNAIRES GATHER HERE FOR 1923 STATE CONVENTION Columbus Will Send "Big Delegation Here For Legion Meeting RHINELAi CUT OFF FROM OTHER PARTS \ .live Post in Electric City ■Will Be Represented By Eighty or More Legion naires. TO GIVE FREE SHOWS HERE Commander of Fort Ban ning Will Be Among Group to Visit Athens During Big Convention. COLUMBUS, O a.—This city and Fort Bennlne, located near here on a 97,000 acre tract and the home of the Infantry School, the great rut school of arms In the world will send a delegation of more than 80 to Athens for the state convention of the American Legion next week, officials of the Charier 8. Harrison post stated here today. The local post has a membership of 106G and Is one of the lives! in the South. The commander and adjutant of the post will arrive in Athens Sunday and early Monday morning will confer with the may or of the Classic City relative to certain stunts to be given by the Columbus delegation. The lo* cal poet plans to srfend several hundred dollars on advertising the post and Columbus, this being ex clusive of the amount the onegA^ tlon will epend for hotel Accomo dations and other items. The Columbus men will present a free show once or twice daily presenting 8. L. 8tan!ey. “the man who trows.” Mr. Stanley Is a mas ter In muscular control, Increasing his height seven inches and doing a number of spectacular and un canny stunts. One of the most spectacular stunts la that of free ing himself from six wrestlerr without the use of his hands. Thi “man who grows" allows six men to get weertler holds on him and then breaks these holds by expan sion of muscles. The stunt Is a difficult one and In some Instance* n half hour of exertion is requh*e< to break all the holds,' Medical men of Columbus and the medical corps at Fort Bennlng are nmaxec’ at the wonderful dislocations Mr Stanley can produce. ,One special stunt Is to stop hit pulse on any beat people In thr audience call, Mr. Stanley asking physicians to count the beats and at that number designated for each pulse stops that pulse. The Columbus post of the Amer ican Legion has dons much to ad- vertlsa that city ahd Fort Ben nlng and at Athena will carry ads In tha newspaper and dlstributi fRANK O. MILLER Adjutant of the Allen R. Fleming Pott and chaimMn of the Gen eral Convention Committee. VANGUARD OF LEGIONNAIRES ARRIVES HERE Political Gossip Begins. Three After Next Con vention. Talk Begins on Race For Qpnfmander. A large vanguard of Legionnaires gathered here Sunday night and Monday. The entire personnel from Department Headquarters, headed by Commander Rodney S. Cohen ot Augusta, arrived Sunday night and established headquarters t Georgian hotel. Edgar B. Dunlap, commander of the Gainesville post, is here. Rob* Troutman of Atlanta was among the early arrivals as was Evan P. Howell of Atlanta. General H. D. Russell of Macon, head of t!Ue‘ National Guard In Georgia, with Pope Furman Brock of that city, arrived Sunday night for the convention and lor the ses sion of Federal court this week. A delegation of 80 from Colum-' bus traveling in a motor convoy and headed by the famous Fort Bennlng band and the local post troubadors is enroute here and will arrive Monday afternoon. r As Measure of • Reprisal For Killing of Belgians, Rhineland Ib Completely Blockaded. E F F E Ct7 V E TWO WEEKS (Only Food Supplies M^y Be Carried Across “Dead Line.” Mob Violence Is Feared. COBLENZ—The frontier between occupied and unoccupied Germany haa been cloned for a fortnight b! the allied high commissions in re priaal for the bombing of Belgian troops at Ilochfeld Saturday. Tht casualties were reported-ag ten kill ed and some two score^fvounded. The decree, which went Into ef fect Sunday midnight, permits only food supplies to be taken across the frontier. No German may cross thla line The decree prevents visits, trips ,ol merchants, and absolutely shuts the Rhineland out of Germany. BRU88EL8 FEARS MOB VIOLENCE . BRUSSELS—Police are guardlm the German embassy here, fearing mob violence and demonstrations at "a result of the bombing of 'Belglai troops at ilochfeld. The socialist press urges moder ation. warning Belgians against t campaign of hate and terror simi lar to that ■practiced by German} against Belgium In the world war. SIMMSES AGAINST WHIPPING PARTY SUSPECTS Acquittal of Matthew Stinchcomb Causes Oth ers to Be Thrown Out of Court; Attorney Says. Acquittal of Matthew Stinch comb, one of eight Barrow county men Indlctod for assault and bat tery In connection with "whipping parties" In that vicinity remitted In the other caeca being thrown, oat of court, according to Attorney James W. Arnold of the defense here Monday. AND BUDDY IS HOLDING IT HOLD IT. BUDDIES •The Georgia Delegation headed the parade at New Orleans last year by virtue of winding this trophy and evory indication is that the cracker bnftoh will again lead the march • at San Francisco this fall. Whispering of political action Js circulars, giving the hours of the I In evidence around the hotel and free fhows and setting forth fact!; on the streets where groups of about the Blectrlc City with 10(. Legionnaires gather. No definite successful Industries manufactur- J line-ups are In evidence but sex* RE'EICT BATTLE OF 'SEARCH'S APPLE LITTLE RUUD TQPj ORCHARDS PRAISED For -First Time in His-jCol. Gantt Writes of Trip tory, Troops Will Repeat to Mountains Where He Fight Between Two Annies. (By Assoofatad Press,» GETTYSBURG—Veterans of thr North and .South gathered here Monday on the heights overlooking the site of the Battle of Gettysburg to wltnes sa re-enactment by mod ern artillery of the Confederate at tack on Little Round-Top In 1S63.1 Company to of the llth Field tlllery known in artillery circles as Harding's Own" wll ltake part in a sham battle which Js the feature of the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary. On several occasions In ihe paal troops have demonstrated the fa mous Pickett’s charge but no at tempt haa ever been made to repeat the encounter between the Confed erates and the Northern Army at Little Round Top. Historians have declared that the attack there really marked the beginning of defeat of Lee's forces I hundreds of American Legion iMen Gather in Athens for■ Convention Jfa , ;t{n y <^ C ' onvention °P ens Monday Night With Registration/ tZ£L’S,‘d%£* •* Senator Walter George,.Garner AS CATES SWING WIDE Eleven Thousand Four Admission to America. quotaTfast BEING FILLED Many Will Be Turned Away For Another Year As Quotas Are Rapidly Filling. Walker, Major General Hines and Many Others Will Deliver Speeches Here. at anchor ohlslde Ambrose light- Saw Thousands of Fruit Bearing Trees. fly T. LARRY GANTT In Ul« story of the Alhambra, nllin . wa jtlng for th< stroke of tnld' t to main a dash for qusrran' gend of v young Moorish Prince,'t.ne with the admittance to tbi and that be may never know Iqyo United States ef their passenger* or woman, when an infant he was as th.tr goal. Heartbreaking scensi placed In a beautiful garden in were expected by the officers Hun- Grennds. with only male attend-‘day as the quota was quickly nil- ant., and while surrounded by all, id. • the beauties and luxuries of life,' Six hundred spent 8undsy night wsS forbidden any knowledge of on Rills Island and ware summed the female sex. early Monday by Inspectors. But when the prisoner attained | The remainder ware being held the age of young manhood, flndbig ‘be liners which brought than naught else upon which to flx bis and where It Is probable that many affection ant! devotion, fell In love|°* them relslve the dleap- with a beautiful and shapely tree ’ pointing news that the quotas ol growing In the garden, and upon 'bdr countries have bean filled and this tree lavished nil the endear-. ' ht / *»“ “°°“ r ,on « manta amt davotlon that a lover, b » fOT « the door, .wing open again would upon hi, sweetheart. _ " _ ... Strand to Offer Opening Monday night and Tuesday morning with the registration of delegates the fourth annual convention of the Georgia department of the American Legion will bring to Athens for three days hundreds of the veterans of the recent world war. Addresses by United States Senator Walter F. . ... ■^■^George, Governor Clifford M. Walker, Major-General NEW YORK^wi'h a grand total ; Hines, head of the U. S. Veterans Bureau and of eleven thousand .'our humired I Other notBDJeS Will Auu to B pFOgTUTTl Which, for CH- , and eighty-two aliens in port at tt6rtainment features, surpasses anything of its kind ever*1 * * ‘ ’attempted in this state.* Wartime "buddies," now leaders In their various professions, wom en members of tho American Lev* glon Auxiliary as woll as many j vmitora bent on seeing the fire works and enjoying the entertain-’ ment pror.rum on July i, will bej tho guest! of Athens and take part or vlnw from the sid linos tlie "hOmcthXng doing evt minute" progr&m worked- out the local comuiiteo of which Fra O. '.Miller is chairman. the end of a race of Immigrant 1 attempted in this state.' carrying liners to reach port here)* — first before the new Immigration If .1 ... quotas were with, nine thousund (LOCctl VsOlHIYlFHlClCF other* were still clamoring for ad- ‘ mittance through Ellis Island Mon day. Though their hearts and eyes were set on "Amerlc", the promised land to most of them, only two thousand were passed through the Kates into the new world Sunday The officials at the Immigrant eta- kept busy all dny Sun day asking questions and giving to hundreds of tho# who were coming Into thte coun try. Saturday, i)tght sixteen ships i“The Man Without When I vlsltod t*ie apple orch- j a arifc of ..Habenlbam and looked V/O Unify IftTl upon those lovely specimens of the • . «« vegetable kingdom—each tree most Legion rrogram HENRY H. WEST Commander of th, Allen R. Flam ing Past which Is hast to the Legionnaires. Higginbotham Trial Expected To End Thursday artistically fashioned far beauty i tint ,oun, mot.ri.lt Flint. rail -fLfl-,./-...-"- My nave boon (upon an apple' Noted Athletic V gearlAI- QrauU ll2: t lC« n 5.r 0 . r ni n Dle n To7Mk .'h"'wn"hera7„’conV^i'lon wl£ th”.' Leader Speaks a^™***™*;*™ Here Monday- noutlay and Thursday, is said to be of the most gripping and In resting pictures ever filmed .The story Is well known and Is told Tho defense dsmatided Idol of i p-i—.- pierce 'ttot^towIV th’» , ’twta"T» l b££t ',{£■iTbektory I.[wall known end Is told the other seven cases after attach.. General raJme r, rterce, tMt une way MI* by Arnold Daly. th* famous char- comb's acquittal and the state re-) President N. C. A. ta ch£* Z'&ZWoX strives to have each tree as nearly hlv|( patHu ,„ m bul ing 200 different articles^ Fort Bennlng, the* great military reaer. vatlon, will also be boosted. Tht Columbus men have a wonderful •plrit and have accomplished much lost year winning the national rifle matches at the nation*! con ventlon of the Araericau Legion against nearly a score of tcamr from as many states. The team shot under the colors of he stats department. MUCH INTEREST IN ATHENS Du* to the fact that Athens it •the second love of George C. (Rid) Woodruff; who has spoken of Ath ena a number v of times .Columbui men are especially interested In lookint th# city and the University of Georgia buildings and ground! over. Woodruff will coach tht Georgia eleven this fall and last year his great leadership was felt In Columbus when he brought th< membership of the'Columbus Le gion post up to the largest of any In the state end the votes of that organisation at Wayeroaa, the larg- *et number at the convention, went ■olidly for Athens for the 1923 con- ventlon. OTHER NOTABLES IN DELEGATION kjldtklon to Kid Woodruff the Columbus delegation will havf Other Interesting members atonj{ „„ . y (Turn to Page Three) Sons, funeral directors, In charge. oral prominent Legionnaires have been mentioned as successors to Commander Cohen. Prominent among these are Edgar B. Dunlap, Gainesville, who was a candidate last year, George Woodruff of Co lumbus, Fbnvilie McWhorter of Atlanta and others. Savannah. Rome and Albany are to make a fight fop the 1924 con vention and the selection of the convention city will have a bear ing on the political angles. Fleming Post Delegates Named The delegates to the state Le gion convention from the Allen R Fleming port are aa folio we: Henry H. West. Howard T. Ab ney. A. T. Almand, K. E. Beschnm, W. L. Erwin, A. T. Levle, .1. H. Ijanpkln, W. K. Mcodtar, W. D. Paschal). T. H. Mctlatton, Charles E. Msrtlm Funeral of Infant fused to try them. It was stated, oAf Phnnpl On •The imVcImenta, eleven In ell. 1 ^F>eaK8 At Gnapei on were returned against Thurmond Ideals Of AthletlCS. Stinchcomb, Guy Thurmond. Met-; .. thew Stinchcomb, Frank Bnraon.l ■ . , Fielding Williams. Oen GranL Ben A large erowd of AtbsnUns ss Wall, Boy Perkins after the w%- well as students at the University ping of Ashnry MeLesky end Reu- 'of Georgia Summer School wlB ben 8orrells. negroes. In May 1332. > htsr General Palmer Plsrce. hesd K was brought out ta the trlel|of the National Collegiate Athletic In Winder eeveral days ago that ‘.V? nfJS g'is csred.for nonl« orchard. When ta Ben Grant, cashier of the Btatbam | Monday night at 16 |bkhmi iney , ure i r tolUl . rt „i the Bank and Frank Bnraon were ln, oclocI - tamel| cherry Woesome of Japan. Athens taking n Masonic degree on I General Pierce will apeak on And Just hero, let m< suggest to tho night MeLesky was whipped. -Jaeala of Athletics” Monday ,n, e apple growers of Habersham alike In shape as t»aalble-thnt „„ chnrm<d w|lh th«fr limbs may shade the »t«r- pmotIon - reunding ground end et the same time be so shaped end trimmed ns to make the gathe^tog of fruit nn easy task nod guard nganst Injury by storma and winds. There Is not a more beautiful sight for the eye than n well trained nnd properly Jury Thursday. Former “Whipping Boss” | T0 8PEAK to Know Fate When! At < »vi, I of VIS Senator ; by F. oommi Thomas Walter Higginbotham, j former convict whipping bona, In! exception it will continue to at-! v,jji J Thursday, counsel for |he state and defense declared here, following an announcement by Judge H. A. Mc- REGISTER UNTIL 11 A. M. TUE8DAY Registration of the delegates'! begin at the Georgian Hotel Mo: day night and continue until o’clock Tuesday morning at wh time the opening of the conventlo and recep|;on of dclegWjes take place, Mayor Goorgo C. Thomas, cellor'David C. Barrow, H« t. Command' Fleming, Jr., the and Mrs. E. H. .l^hnson, comL of tho Wo-iien'a Auxiliary, deliver tbepwelcomo addraai which Mrs. w. F. .Raker Auxiliai \ ,,,,,1 |{ <H lney Col inauder of the Georgia partment, will respond. Tho principal nddres| momlnit Hoseion will General PYaujc Veterans Itureau. v::il be .Introduce chairman of th, llltntion Connnlj | SENATOR G! , fzatlta Funeral services for Joseph Weaver Simmons, Infant eon of Mr. and iMm. M. C. Simmons, who died residence. 280 William* street, Sunday, were hej^'at; ihe grave-aide ta Oconto", cemeti Monday at I p, It Is stated. The followtng ntght Sorrell* was whlppad by a hand of maeketl picn. The same night Guy Thurmond and Matthew Stlnch- romb were shot trying to arrest Tom ePtera at the home of hie brother Will Patera. The men bod warrants for Peters, It ta aald. Slot other men were with them ho* were ta a ear several yards from te .honae. It was stated. Will Paten I* under 'Indictment in Onmee county for shooting the white men. Ex.Oovenior Hugh M. Dorsey. Solicitor W. O. Dean. O. D. Rosa nnd W. C. Mundey, of Atlanta rep- reseated the state while Senator O. A. Johns, of Winder. J. W. Ar nold of Athena, Wewta Russell and Hoyt Chandler of Winder repre. •ented the defense WWpotng of the negroes created considerable excitement In Barrow, county at the time It occurred. THOUSANDS HELO UP MON^REAIe—Immigration offi ces ware not open Sunday, hence the thousands. awaiting entranov to * the United Hiatts could no' Isavti CaDOdtui'l clHeh. Many had night nnd on tha “Need'of Phyaf col Training In Our School*” Tuesday morning nt> 11 o’clock ta tha chapel. General Pierce wilt ho the guest ot Dr. & V. Sanford of the Uni versity while In th* city. Dr. Sen- ford Is a member of the executive committee of the national as socle tlon, end president of the South 1 ern Collegiate Athletic Association. No man in the country haa given more time and thought and contributed more to the advance ment of college athletic* on a high plane than General Pierce. He or ganised the association twenty yean ego and served aa its presi dent even while serving'his coun try overseas daring tha world war. Tha National Collegiate Athletie Association la the moat powerful athletic body in this country. It la the organization that makes tha rule* for all sports, football, bas ketball. track, etc, and ta an or ganization compound of mon than two hundred and fifty of tha lead- fair' institutions in America—H*r- wd, Yale. inee cemetorY'datoed to leavti Setarday, bet » Georgia/Chicago.,MtnemoU. Ietaa, i. Dunawar A fJaa-painted oat that traina.wyuM California, etc. , , ■ —— - -• •—i» ballon rd-'fJlatesww ' then land them at the fore midnight of June SO. dramatic Cullen that he will hold a full sea slon of court on July 4th. The de- Thia picture la being shown hare I? 1 **® '• expected to close Ha case bv th* Allen R. Fleming post ol (Tuesday and the following day will the Legion and .the proceeds have be devoted to arguments, It was been gruolousiy donated by that next toeing i they Imitate thr Japs snd'liavo an Apple Bloosom Festival. | I spent considerable time while In llnlwrahem Investigating oip‘el ruIRwe. and the growers and all; femliitar With the business most kindly-and patiently answorvl my question*. From J. 1. Roper, heed of tho Apple Growers’ Co-Opera. theutre to the Lesion to help de fray the convention’s expenses and the public 1s urged t-i attend. It win he ehown at the Strand Wed ntsday and Thursday from 11 a io.’uii.il II p. m. The admlalton Ir 35 cents, adulta, 10 cents child ren. said. Higginbotham Is on trial for tho murder of Martin Taber, of North Dakota, |R being alleged that the former whipping boss of the Put- nem Lumber company whipped Tabert so sevtrely while ha was serving ns a convict on January J (Turn 'p> page eight) History of Athens Chapter ——By Mrs. R. C. Orr ' American Legion Auxiliary Athens ta never behind-hand live Association. 1 got some in-.when It comes to patriotism. Her teresttag facts. Thera are now in'record during tha world war was Habersham county between 500.000 1 one to bo proud of. end 1.000.00 bearing apple trees, and the acreage la ranWIy Increas ing. The apple lo a fruit that at tains Ota greatest perfection In the Following her traditions, Athens contributes a very live chaptah to the American Legion Auxiliary, mor-ntalns. Bttd the soil and climate i Oeorglw departnient. A little his. of Northeast Georgia Is espe-lni^! “T »f »“• toapter roads »■ fol- aoltcd fnrgrnwtnr tito fi-iest siw-ct-1 lowS! mens of apples. The apple beU la I The flrat moating was called at e< ending /.-ora Habersham into the hospitable home ot Mrs. T. It. Rebun countv and the Can,linn*. [McHatton on Dec. 12th, 1121, with Te Show what the eople has done the following ladle* answering t for Habersham county Mr. Ropr.-1 general Invitation through the ann before the Introduction of this .Banner-Herald, new crop he could buy land around I Mrs. W. O. Faroe. Mrs. C. If. Comer* at from 12 to 35 an acre, Rnelllng. Mr*. T. W. Reed, Mr*. J. sells at from 3128 to IlM.an acra, S. Stewart. Sr.. Mr*. A. A. Rayl*. or lea*. Today undearefl.hfad there; Mr*. W. P. O’Callaghan. Mis* and In enectaPv wn|L-torat«d end ClquJIa Hanlgeo. Mia* Frances compaYativrly leval; Ib.lirin bring chewy. Mtaa Maude flhesay, Mrs. a still hlahar prio*. .Bhfiuieiopple fjA^Sneed. Mr*. J. Z. Hoke, Mr*. (Turn to page eight) .«^Bocock, Mrs. S. V. Sanford, Mrs. R Lee Calloway, lin Williams, Mrs. w. D. Itytr R H. Dorsey; Sr., H Holden. Mrs. E. K. Mrs. John li. Northcutt.j Patton. Mrs. T. It. Mel! E. II. Johnson. Mrs. It. i Mrs. T. H. McHatton i tenuiociry chairman and 1 of fwonty-four women! thdr enthusiastic-support. , At the May (1K2) meotld Hammond Johnson was 9 president. At that meeting j for “Poppy Day" were made going Into effect, and rca)|zli sum of four-hundred dollars L devoted fo the founding of a I school for the children of i who died ta the war. May 30. 1922 was fltti esrved as memorial day. beautiful flag was presented tol t Fleming post, six At (Turn to Page Three)