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Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribers THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Policy Free •Ingle Copies ! Cants Dally. . This shows a typical scene at Wichita, Kiis.. wnen SO city bluet.;- were turned Into cuttsis by if the Big Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers, All Industries Were tied tip. The flood waters crca V nuch suffering and made thousands homeless In Wichita and two neighboring cities, Arkansas City end Winfield, Kas. Several persons arc reported missing. Property damage totaling several million dollars la teported. * ' • BIG con Bad Memory Helps Find: Watch Owned I. T.KflpatricI • !. T. Kllpatrlcf., well knowi Athenian has a bad memoir At I,east, bis memory Is not goot enought to trust. Bo when i friend? -recently naked him t buy an article Mr him on a trtj to Atlanta Mir. Kilpatrick tied i memorandum with the man'i name to hla watch. Mr. Kil patrick value# hla watch vert highly./It le over one hundret wears old. And when he lost It In At lanta II was like losing a best friend. "I'll never see It again,’ thought Mr. Kilpatrick. Ho redl- ly thought ao, He came back t( Athena and gave up all hope ol again seeing hla valuable tlm< Plc-e. a day or an later he wai reading The Banner-HeraM Want Ada. He saw an ad, Jus a few lines, advertising for th( owner of a watch tJund In At lanla. The description flttej that of hla own watch precisely. "That's my watch." thought Mr. Kilpatrick. Friday morning he , came to the Banner-Herald of. lice to nee If It was really hla -watch. It was. You can Imagine how glad Mr. Kilpatrick was. I wouldn't have taken $200 foi that- watch," saya Mr. -Kll Patrick. MEETINIG HERE A meeting o( Athenians to take action on the proposed suspension ol the GalnesvMIe Midland railroad service from Athens to Belmont waa culled for Monday afternoon at five o’clock by. director# of the Chamber of Common:?. Repre sentatives of this body and other civic organizations as well as towns afefeted by the sue. pension will attend the meet ing In the Chamber'ot Com merce headquarters. VOL- 91, NO. 129 ATHENS COTTON: Middling 2S J , Previous Close ....26'. THE WEATHER: Showers Friday with lower temperatures. Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY. JULY 13, 1123. I Cents Sunday. Dally and Sunday—10 Cants a Week Established 1132 • Dally end Sunday—10 Cents a Week. t "•I* v 4*-4» v t t *r *«* *1* Girl’s Death Wichita Business District Inundated By Flood OVED EMBIIINT AS TRAIN DERAILS L. H. Carr, Durham, N. C. Killed. T Injured Rushed to Huntsville Hospital Friday Morning. (By Associated Press.) MEMPHIS—One man was killed v ifcnc! thirty others in juretf, many of them thought fatally, 1 when the Memphis Spciali one of the fait fly ers of the Southern system running from New York to Memphis was derailed about two miles east of Larkins ville, Ala., Friday morning The train was running along at an average rate of speed, reports state,' when the accident occurred, four Pullmans, all of them full of pasifciigers, and two day coaches were torn loose from the eftgtne, mail express and combination cars and hurtled down an embankment, when the ‘tyetiMlment happened HUNTSVILLE. Ala.—Fifteen of tho injured persons In the wreck of the- firnt Memphis Special be tween New York and Memphis were brought here early Friday morning following the wreck and taken to a local hospital. The fifteen brought to this city were among the most seriously In jured, twelve of them aald to be very seriously hurt. One man wan killed L. H. Carr nineteen ypnrs old and living In Durham, N. C.. while soveral more are said to be lying at the point of death. According to reports from per sons who were In the pullmane when the wreck occurred, the train was running along smoothly, at an average speed, when ther came a slight Jolt. Immediately following by the cars turning rapidly over as they plunged down the embank ment wher the derailment pc* curred 4he train crew aided by the passengers who escaped Inji^ry immediately set about rescuing the passengers who were trapped In the overturned cars. A wrecking train left Immediately for the scene of the wreck as soon as reports of thg accident were re ceived. BUT NOT WITH A BRICK— A Brick ia all right in ita piece.' Make, fine building mater ial. But— Von can’t use it se a substi tute for e cent of invitation. 'They toll us it's e social cr- ro? U try It In other words— Don’t Interrupt the other fellow's affairs to tell him about your affairs—to e*k him to do business with you. for instance. Catch him when he wants to be eaoght—when he’s at lib EXTENDED FRIDAY BY FRENCH PATROLS Limburg and Barmen. Oc cupied By French Troops —City Officials Held As Hostages. (By Associated Press.) DUSSELDORFf-The town rf>f Limburg. ‘Just beyond the Cob lenz bridgehead, whfch the Ameri cans formerly hold, was occupied Friday by French troops «a h p©r- magent occupation town, it was announced Friday morning. Barmen, a small town in the El* borfield manufacturing district wgt also occupied by French troops. Ssyor&l of the officials of the t«wn) were arrested by French soldiers, dfter^which the trops withdrew. - Tho announcement telling of the occupation of the towns and the ar rest of the officials, does ndt tgll the number of officials or their names, who wero arrested .to be held as hostages. < { However, it was understood that I operations on a considerable scale was undertaken so to Impose a | penalty for the numerous frontier Incidents in which sabotage has been charged to the Germans in the occupied area. Barmen was Just’ outside the oc- \ cupled area and frontier, affairs 1 culminated recently In one which - Involved the. security police. Paris was silent Friday morning the resplt of the occupation anf the taking of hostages. ATHENS ELKS IDE GOOD IMPRESSION AT BIG CONVENTION Double-Barrelled Cannon Used in Atlanta Parade By Local Elks. 150 in Line. SEEK ATHENS’AID IN EFFORT TO STOP G-M SUSPENSION GIRL FOUND DEAD WITH MAN’S BATHROBE ON HE! University of Chicago Students Quiz zed By Police in Connection With the Case. Last Seen in the Room of Student. TRIP TOT Delegation of Business Men Visit Y. M. C. A. Camp For Girls and Boys in Mountains. Quite a delegation of Atheni business men, members of th* Rotary and Kiwnnls'ck js, went 'to Camp Edwards, near Tallulah Fall* Thursday as the guests pf the Y M. C. A. campets there. The Ath ens delegation went up by train and by autos and report a delight ful trJP- "*** , , All of them are singing thi praises of the cnm»» say that every boy and gljl ofthe^cion should take advantage ot the "****" did environment and recreational features offored by this camp. Among those going up were Abl Nta. Harris I><w. 8. J. Moss Bil lups Phlnlzy L. K. Bdw - rd - ®j. ® Flanlgen T. F Orson A “ *? udlc * J. C. Wilkerson, James White, ft. H. Gordon. Jr., and others. > Those who went l»y auto took the rodtc by Tugalo and visited the Georgia Railway .and Tower com pany’s development there. Sen. Dillingham , Dies on Friday (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, -important changes in the senate committee Measure Providing For Electrocution Gets Ap- prpval. Income Tax Bill Put on dar. Monday’s Calen- eriT to Helen and be Interest- | ea < ' dl f rl hip will reeult from the That’s when hd’a In n mood Mch'Mcnrred nt Mont- It’a when he’e rending hla hoas newspaper that he wel- lomrs instead of rtaento—the other man's atory. Your story. He’s looking for thing* thht interest him then. • ■Tour efforts to attract hla attention doesn’t distract Dora things hi which he’e more in- ■ Like • brick on the Friday raft ■ •> That's one of the why every dollar put into well' plagued newspaper advert!*- Ing, backed by the goods awl , tho service, clicks onr old ) friend the eaah register and ■hows a profit. Not merely a profit, hot a permanent gain In friendship. Tell your store, news to ■•tyswwfs® yon next d»jr In your «t?re., T AD PHONE 73. Vermont, which occurred peller. Vermont, early morning. *■, ' Senator Dillingham was In Une to become chairman of the flt. dietary Committee upon 1 the ra- organtution of the .caste next pe. ccmber. ni he was the ranking member to the tale senator Nelson of Minnesota who wondurirmwt until the time of hta death tost spring. Senator Brandegee. Re. publican from Connecticut now Is In line for the place which would have been Senator Dillingham e. CHINES EAND OPIUM BEING SMUGGLED INTO PHILIPPINES MANILA.—Smuggling of Chinese and opium Into the Philippine Isl ands from ports In British North Borneo qontlnues on an extensive ™.ta, according to Vicente AL datteei; Insular eOHeeto?, of en»- wltb'WW Just returned fmtn a°visit rohdff'a'ddken port. IX the archipelago. . (By Associated Pre«».) ATLANTA.—Tho bill of Repre sentative Perkins of tMuscogee, providing for electrocution as a method of putting to death per sons sentenced to die by courts of Georgia was reported favorably to the house by the penitentiary com. mittee Friday. * The committee also acted fav orably on the measure of Knight of Berrien to provide for treatment of insane prisoners at the state asylum but the report was delay, ed until next week. Langley of Floyd appeared be. ,fore the house constitutional amendments committee in support of his measure designed to make all state house officials constitu tional officers and elected for four years instead of two. The measure also provides that the governor cannot run for re. election to succeed himself In of fice. No decision was reached by the committee. . * In tho Senate Lankford’s I Home tax bill was favorably reported and put on the calendar fir con. sideration Monday, while Mason’s meastiro providing for classiffcar- tlon of property for taxation pur. poses was aJ»o approved. The fin ance committee considered both bills. Debate on five reeolutions call, ing for. investigation of the State Highway Department, chief among which waa that of Me- Michael of Marion, tinker indict* ment in Bibb county on charge of criminal libel, decupled the house as a committee of the whole un til adjournment. *T have watched legislative in- vestigations many years,” Barrett of Stephens asserted, “and It have not yet sden one that resulted in accomplishing anything- I dp not believe in them but I im going to try and get The Athens lodge. Number 790 of Elkn, maue a splendid showing In the big parade in Atlanta Thurs day. . The lodge occupied a good place in the line of march and headed by the Whitehall band and the double barrelled cannon, over Ho of the local members inarched. Tho costume wan purple overalls, white shirts and broad brim pal metto hats and a cane. i m* double barreled cahnon wa* mounted on a truck and on it was a large streamer-banner on which with printed. “The only double Myirieicd cannon in the world, made and manned by Athenians." Tho cannon attracted lots of at tention and was one of the main ffutures of the parade. % Nearly 20,000 Elks participated j In the parade with lodge numbor tow of Philadelphia making , th* I best showing. This lodge had ovei' 600 in line, all costumed and of-1 ferlng a spectacular display oil gaudlnesa In the way of mard gras settings mixed with the gen-1 [ernl h« home of r(>*tum!TTff*nBfrlCthJgr fc ' w ' #>• ' ' " - *■ All the convention knew that ! Representatives of Every Ath **T *.y| County, in This Section hit with his personally composed ! to Outline Plans For Big- song, "Uncle Bud."i In !the hotel, ffer FoOcTCrODS. lobblee, on tile street! and In thej ® ■ ' ■ * . cafes he eras’alwkjrs tho center *k| ... y| (By Aseeelated Frees.) _ CHICAGO—Four University of Chicago students were being questioned by Chicago police Friday follow, ing the finding of the body of Elsie Campbell, waitress, i night °* th ° studw,ts boar< * in £ house here Thursday] The girl died several hours after she had been found on tho street. She was clad only ih a man’s bathrobe.! "■"XScof'f'd. a graduate of the University of Chicago)* told tho police he had induced the girl to' come to the! rooming house. Scofield said she went into the room of j David Lnmberg, a Chemistry student, disrobed anti put] on Lambergs bathrobe. She then turned and locked the door onrthe inside, Scofield said. “That is all X know ” he ^aid. ’ 1 HERE SATURDAY Meeting May Be Called Here Next Week to Dis cuss Retention of Line to Athens. , ORIS 016 GRID Chapel At University Packed With People Bent on Enjoying Musi cal Program At Summer School. ' J. C. Turner and Thurston Ben ton, representing the business In terests of Jefferson spent Friday morning'in Athens In conference with • number of Athens’ whole, snlers and business men in hn ef fort to elicit co-operation here In a fight to have the Gainesville Midland railway maintain its freight and passenger service from Belmont'Junction to Athens. Notice has been rfiven by tho railroad of application filed with Judge Barrett of tho Southern dis trict of Georgia, U. 8. court for a discontinuance of the scrvico on that part of the C. M. railroad from i Belmont to Athens. Tjie heario; has been set for Ju^y 21st In Au gusta, Georgia. Jefferson will send crowd and no person at the con vention had a greater time than did i Producers of food crops from the Athens ruler. I {every county In this section and Arthur Flatau. deputy for the|all the ClarJce copnty communities Lodge meetings and represgnted the. will be hero Saturday morning foi state In his official capacity. -a conference with County v Agent jJ. W. Flror and Mra. Beaalo Trout* Activities of Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Brand and Postmaster Secures New Service Be ginning July 16; 'Mall carrier service will be open ed tor the Normal 8chno! district July 16. roitmaater Paul M. Smith announced rriday. 1 The sendee will re permanent, State! the postmaster, M a reault ot acUrlllea ot the chamber ot Commerce'. Congressman C. H. Brand and the poatmaeter. The Normal School anhSitatlon will be abandoaed on July 16, however, stamps, money orders may be bought and letters regia. Peed and Instated In the ntore ot W. T. Florence on Prince arena* near Batata. Packages and letters will be col lected and brought to the mein of fice three to four time* dally, aaya the postmaster. Will Preach On 93rd Birthday theii against it.' TROUBLED MEXICO (By Associated Press.) MEXICO cmr—AJI parcel post shipments from foreign countries to Mexico must be accompanied by a commercial Invoice, certified by the Mexican consol newest the point of shipment, accoifllng to a recent government order. For a shipment leas than $6, the certifi cation is free. From $5 to $50 the charge is $t and from $50 upward the charge Is $Z. Shipments arriving without nn tifvoiee will' result in a fine .being imposed of"9$ centavos for goods valued'at ietS'than 100'pesos, and 60 centavo* - for thoae valued at more than 100-pesos. Many people failed to got seals a delegation there to'oppose the at the recital of Mr. and Mrs. High discontinuance of the service and [ r>„„ r n u U Hodgson > In tho University i this delegation will call upon Ath-; riOV. J. V. «1. luorrio, ro forty Years Member of North Georgia Confer- will leave town ence. At Young Harris STRANDED chapel Tburada- night The crowd ! mu to Join Ih tho move to have the .. ,, - filled the lower floor,of the chspoL! train service continued. - , .. .- . “W committee I overflowed to the balcony and *.h7d° iLte DUU ” r ’ tood *' ‘be doorway to on- for the investigation theii vow | joy ihe splendid program. The fame of Mr. and Mrs. Hridg- aon is .widespread and wherever they give a recital a crowd of music lovers Is certain to bo at. Sunday. Rev. J. V. M. Morris, beloved Athenian, will cslsbrato his f!r«J birthday Sunday by preaching a' Young 'Hart-in Methodist church at If tho service is discontinued on this road Jefferson, the county seat __ __ of Jackson count.v^and an Impor- tracted. Thursday night was no ex* 1 tant business center of that sec- ccntion. I tlon, will >bo left without either The recital was part of the 3um- | railroad freight or passenger ser- ; the m Arnlng service, raer School entertainment program! rice, the Gainesville Midland rail-; Morris is one of. the oldest for this week. Mrt. Hodgson, who , road being fhe only line to serve L r <iained. If not the oldest Metho- possesses a remarkable voice de-^hst city and the points«between dfst minister in the southern lighted the audience with her sing-. Belmont junction and Athens. . ichui*.:.. 22v was a member of the ing with Mr. Hodgson as accom-j The delegation to Athens Friday;North Carolina Conference contln* panist. j urged the co-operation of the Ath- 'uously for fifty years and attend* v The program was closed with ens shipping public in holding the ed nearly every conference meet- sieging by Mrs. Hodgson of several ‘service, calling upon them to prom- ilug. sonde written by Mr.. Hodgson Mae enough supped to the mad §uf- l>n Morrie le etili title and heerty which, if the applause that foi ficicnUy to authorise^ with lha and enthuriaatlc Is hit, work. Hi.- lowed if an fndfeetfon. was- the {business of othor points along the oppron.nce at Young Harris church moat appreciative part of the pro- line, the maintenance of the »er. S«»»day will attract a large gram. vice. ‘crowd of hie friends and admirtra Tho Woman’s Club Short offered by tho University t.l i gia Summer School, which bedn in session hero this comos'to a closo l-riday i with a record which stampa groat success In every ».a; officials, connected with ih** Tim last meeting for of club problems was day morning on the campus. Dr. n. E. Pork, spoko on “Literature," the groat power of Uterntt Inspire, anil tho imrUrtan poetry dun to ita uplifting Rorrral other short spn-'rb mmlo on various problems corning ladles ol tho Womens Tho week's session i Friday evening when th tertatnment nrrangod eourso, will bo given at Normal School. At that pageant will bo staged n n I mnl School campus. This talnment Is expected In bo one tho most brilliant nffnlrs (>r tveok; tho psgonnt Is nrrangod Miss Vance, and extend Former Tenth District j££X u„ v0 «, 1 ;' c p c n S8 n ' I1 ' , ' ! 1 Congressman Succeeds , m«. niid,io n nd’ Mr#, q v. Phinizy on Board. Sir- m " n r mans of Waycross Takes ban, market master. Th confrcnce will be held In th* Chamber of Commerce rooms at 11 o’clock. Representatives from Oconee, Clarke. ’ Madison, Elbert Oglethorpe, Jackson, Banks and Barrow counties will be here to discuss prospects for a bigger food production next season which will be followed up with plans for mar keting. The Ciirb Mbrkot commit tee will be organised at the meet Ing. UNIVERSITY BOARD Officials Well Please With Success of Summer School For Club Women. Bennett's Seat on Board. NT A. —Oovornor Walker Friday appointed William H. Flem. Ing of Augusta to repreaent the tenth district nn the University of Georgia Board of Trnatces. Mr. Fleming auecaed* Bowdrco Phlnlzy of Augusta. The governor appointed W. E. Slrman. or Waycrosa to repreaent .the elerentb dlatricL Mr. Birmans succeeds .John W. Bennett, also of Waycrosa. Mr. Fleming to , a prominent lawyer and former con gressman. Dives Into Water To Save Girl And Drowns With Her (By Aaaooihted Proas.) ' NEW YORK.—A yoong woman, unidentified, leaped from the East River re-training wall gt Carl Schurz park her* Friday. When two men dived to her rescue she locked her arms about their n«6k> pulling one of them. John Dunn, Momhelly, the survivor, was rts. cued by park guards. or prominent club wnrke have worked so hard lo bring have received the henrilent the sucress of tho short cot aratataltona. from nil who hove , tended Ih? meetings, lor tliolr.. cel tant work! Humane Society Examines Cows \ Of Local Daii The Human* Soccty '»*raln hard ot work In thin cltj cording to Mrs. Ml Tkldent of the Athena Mo.-i«*ty. During the past wsti Retvca stated, a dairyman outskirts of the city was to the Society /or allowing lib to boom© almost starved. Officials of the society paid dairy a«vliit and found that th4 reports were true. Thfy put man whevowns the dairy on notiei that If tho cows were not kept better nhapo and an effort made I give them more food, a caao w bo made against him by the ciety. Chief Health Hodgson was asked b these cows and report whether milk from them was fit 1 The f officials of the p:i> 1 another visit to the dalrj a few d*iy« to **•<»• If i Sell Gate. Thcdxmre 1l |be*?n made o Improve th •i m of the cows, If not, caae will bo docketed against I