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Investigate Today! To Regular a Today! Subacribtn THE BANNER-HERALD 51,000 Accident Policy Free THE BANNER-HERALD Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a WeeS. 1WB<1 Established 1832 Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week, ATHENS COTTON: Middling . Previoue Close » 2 THE WEATHER: Generally Fair Sunday and Monday, VOL. 91. NO. ISO Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA, SUNDAY, JULY, 22. 1923, A. B. C. Paper Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday, PROBE OF SMTH SUVMG Will BEGN MONDAY b|*--b|s *J*—»Js *t* *1* —■ *1* 4* 4—4 +-4 44 4-4 4—4 <44 4—4 4-4 BARRETT & CO. WITH I COMMITTEE Clayton Street Store Robbed: Financiers Representing Eastern and Southern Banking Creditors Hold Conferences to Keep Concern Going. IN LIQUOR CAR TO BE Wins Seat local cotton is HELD HERE INTACT Restraining Order Frus-| “assrrjs'ff CLOTHING STORE Staple From State. Thief Works While Mer chant Sells Bill of Goods Shortly Before Closing Hour. (By Aaaodated Press.) AUGUSTA, — Appoint- nent of • creditor’s commit tee to conduct the business of Barrett & Company as a going concern was reported •arly Saturday night as be- ing arranged by financiers of goods to a customer shortly be- representing eastern and'tore cloning time ia*t night bur* .outhem banking creditor.. The company, one ot tne ■ one hundred dollars or more and louth’a largest cotton fac-tried. The.merchant discovered the rob* bery when he went to the cash drawer to make change for a cus tomer. sore, baa announced the ability to meet its obliga tions at the present time, rariously,estimated at be- ween $1 300,000 and $1,000,- 300. The financial group after being in session for ten hours recessed .... ,,... u..,.. I1..I at 8.15 o'clock Saturday night fori door to Stewart Jewel.ry store, one hour. It w»s snnouassd th-Atl was thrown open to let In air and an agreement was expected to be the thief evidently waited hack ot reached at 10:30 o'clock and a the store in the darkness unUl Mr statement would be isstied. | Wingfield became busy In front Court action wgs taken here waiting on a customer and then earlv Saturday night to check I stepped In and robbed the each what Is said ot have been a “run'' | drawer. Mr. Wingfield stepped to on the AUantic States Warehouse the front door with a customer and Cnmoanv leased by Barrett A'talked a minute then went back to Ccmnanv A court order was i wait on another one and discovered sinned restraining those having | the robbery when he went to nmke bona fide claims against Barrett | change. A Company from molesting the. Police were summoned warehouse" with respect to the de- arre-t. In the .robbery 1 livery of cotton. The court was petitioned by I John Phiaisy. president of the. Warehouse Company. The »**ri-. ing of .the temporary restraining order came while financiers rep- ‘ATTEMPT IDE TO MADISON COUNTY JAIL [ JUST WONT HOLD«THEM j|||n Threatening Letter Is Sent North Carolina Judge in Flogging Case. Invisible Empire Men tioned. Mangus Johnson, candidate for seat in United States Senate of Mr. Wingfield states that he had I late Senator Knute Nelson, who $100 or more in cash and checks ‘^ e Fchted Governor Preus Friday deposited In the cash drawer. Hf: j kept bis cash In a desk drawer. The rear door of the store, next : in Minnesota senatorial race. (By Associated Preea.) LUMBERTOWN, N. C.—Fifty{ minutea after the fate of three al leged Robeson county Ku KIux Klansmen had been placed in the bands of the jury here lste Satur day afternoon the defendants heard the words “not guilty," which exonerated them of partic ipation in the whipping of two white women near this city on the night of April 14. ; And five minutes later the trio —Mike Lawson, chief of police of. the village of Farmony, and John son Edgoboth, a farmer, and Julei Third Escape This Year Is Made By Prisoners Confined in Danielsville Bastile. SIX NOW AT LARGE SAYS SHERIFF HALL I Grand Jury Recommends New Building But No ! Move Is Made to Con struct It. DANIELSVILLE, Oa.—(Special) C nee more the Madison county j Jail here failed to hold lta prison* icrs and the third jail deliver/ this ! year was discovered Saturday | morning by a citizen living deaf j the county bastile. Three prison' ern escaped. The dilapidated condition of th# Evidence of Sensational Nature Be Presented to Tribunal in Inquiry, States Attorney For Prosecution. ATHENS RELATIVES I X IVDL T TO BE WI BE WITNESSES WILD 105 BOTTLES Superior Court Convenes in Greensboro Monday Morning At 10 O'clock, Judge Park Presiding. “John Mitchell” and “Mattie Smith” Held in County Jail on rants Charging Prohibi tion Violation. Investigation Into tho slaying ot Jett and J. a Bmlth. both ot Ath- War- en *« who w,re killed by officer. A man, g woman and one hun- whlle trying to errest a liquor In Cre.no county Inst month, will be made by the grand Jury of that county which convenes in Greens boro Monday. The four officers charged with murder In connection with the ert drtd and five quart bottlsa of death of the two Athene a™,.™ wh .key were captured by Athens J. H. Oastley. federal prohibition police and county officers last enforcement agent; Sheriff w. j night on Jackson street between 8turdivant of Taliaferro county Clayton and Broad.» Ed Howell of Taliaferro county The raiding was conducted by' Iv * ra ° , » I^vejoy of Greens county Mitchell and his residence as Ro- Two other officers, E. N. Brook, challe, Ge., and the woman gave °* Un,on Point and J. T. L. Darby her name a. Mattie Smith and White Plain* were In the raiding clalmg to be from Flttgerald, Ga. P*rty but released at a hearing on Both the man and woman warn h,b “* corpus before Judge Bam. Broaden, a ’mechanic.’ both of Gens'*’. Francisco Villi, leader .Jail has cost the county consider .turned over to county authorities j “ el H - Sibley of the u. b. Dietrioi Proctorville, were free men for of Mexican rebel forces for past money, states Sheriff W. JL|on warrants charging violation of Court. IVIAY RESIGN POST Solicitor Thomas A. McNIel ten years, who was shot and killed, H “>l. And although the county i the prohibition lew. promptly nol pressed the indict- by his secretary Friday after- «r»nd Jury at the teat term ment for firit degree-.Jmigiary ■ noon. ’ which had been returned against . ‘ them at the same time as that t’oliCC Warn AutO the assault and kidnap-1 0wn£rg W j thout j made at n lute hour. resenting eastern »nd s° u thern banking creditor* of Barrett & Company, were diseasing the ap- _.i-i. a _ apftJiFnpa' ronimit- pointment of a creditors commit tee to conduct the business of the cotton firm as a going concern. Because of confusion in the marks of cotton stored in the At lantic States Warehouse Com pany, which has. « capacity of Premier of Ulster Will Resign Says Rpmor. Is Considered For Colonial Governorship, Mufflers on Cars court recommended a new Jail or move In that direction has started, CANT RECALL ALL E8CAPE8 160,000 bales, alleged “to be due to the negligence or fault of W. P. O’Keefe, former warehouse- (Tum to Pa,* Four) Governor of Lower Sile sia Issues Proclamation. Hundreds of Arrest3 Are Made. Plunderers Killed. (By Associated Press.) BELFAST.—It is persistently rumored that Sir James Craig .will resign as Premier of Ulster, according, to the Irish News. I Newspaper reports are based apparently on the absence of the premier from Belfast last week tor the Orange demonstration. ' The Belfast Newa , aays hi* name has been associated with the coming appointment to the Colo nial governorship. It i» authori tatively stated that he was offer- fered the Colonial post in 1921 t but refused because it necessitat ed his withdrawal from Iriih poli tics during that critical period. At Conference of World’s Baptists (By Associated Press.) , . BERLIN. — Serious disorders Mrs I A Darwin »* r ® t*Wng place in Breslau it was _ _ - Vi J V li, Tn 1 it«*n/l I Seated in semi-official dis- j MulIuiS Sneaker Painfully Injured I patches received here Saturday,»*"11111105 upcaliCl Early Yesterday *»ying that the governor of lower! . • |SUesia has issued an order pro-’ Mp _ , A n-rwin was painfully claiming ‘’Severe exceptional con- nut "o. Uang.rou.ly Injured on dition- in this^town^.nd district." Hrlnc. avenue yesterday morning SA of “note! me d et- Rev. George W. Truett of mob I. front of Roger, grocery y lv p t bt sia per- TeXHS Is AlfiO On PrO- - mission to hold it. The chief of tj- o»„i,i,„i_ police has instructed his men to gTSDl Of Big Stockholm taka ill possible measures to sup-i Meeting, press any excesses. Hundreds of I arrests have been made and aev-J eral plunderers killed. ing of ^frs. Addie Purvis and Mrs. Mary N. Watson, the flog-! ger 1 . victims. | „. „ . But H. L. Taliaferro, who ad- Sheriff Hall doesn't remember mitted being a fpecinl Investlga-1 Auto owners who haven't cut-Uu«t how many escapea have beop tor for the Ku KIux Klan did not outs or mufflers must attach them. ma de from tho JalL He rocallo fare «o well 00 the defendants in. to their com. | one year before last when several the principal ease. Immediately This was tho order which went Pf‘»»nvr» sot »»«> bat were re- sfter the jury retired In tho flog-'out from police headquarters yea ging trial Taliaferro, who is said terday. covered. The expense of adver* Using for the fugitives, paying ro- to come from Atlanta, was given| captain Tom Hart stated that. • hearing by Judge N. A. Sin- t j, e num b e r of automobiles wlth- dair, presiding in 5°be*on county out mufflers ii Increasing and ad- superior court, and adjudged In v j seg th«* owners to have their rentempt on^hargs o^tampering ^ l0pplled w ,th these sppuren- with states witnesses in the flog or ,,| M t | le police will halo On each of the three counta the'^ * for ? Thornton of re judge imposed fines of $850 and border (Turn to Page Three) “MITCHELL” WAS HERB TUESDAY jail sentences Jail. of thirty days in LUMBERTON, N. C—Judge Sin clair, presiding st the trial hers of three men charged with flog- JOHN GRANT. JR. Mrs. Darwin suffered a fractured lea and was carried to the Gen era I Hospital where aho was r# ported resting comfortably last night. Mr*. Darwin had been shoppin* In the Rogers store and was cross ing the street to H*r automobile parked on tha other aide when two rar*. one driven by Dr.* W. Drown, going toward tbo city and another, driven by a stranger, go ing toward the Normal School came upon her. She stepped out of the way o! Dr. Brown’s car Into the path oi, the — J * ■ M„lei,l,,' ‘ the other car and turned quickly’ to evade being knocked down. She turned so quickly It caused her to full to the pavement. The car go ing toward tha Normal School was traveling very elowly, states eye witness and the front w'j^t fan partly over her ankle and then ■topped. Her Injury was caused by nent. It la stated. tall to the G. M. A. Ready For Fall Term Opening (By Associated Press.) COLLEOB PARK, Os.—Arrange ment. for the fall term of tho Oeor- , Military Academy here sre he ms completed. Colonel J. C. "Oodwafd bus announced that Our Morrow. Vanderbilt athlete, will Ba »e charge of athletics at the In stitution sad that L E. Whits. Davidson .tar, will I coach. RUSSIAN TRADE INCRIA8E8 MOSCOW.—RuaMa's foreign trade for the «U month, color March ,1 „ n. show, so Increaie over the preceding MAC °N. Oa.-Contrary half vear ucoordinr tu official iitatl*- ’P or ts» no warrant for speeding was . _ . ,, wnilin 0 rTeobred^n l tlcM The value of the export* la placed 'token out Friday against John W. genuine old Scotch maturwJ,^'' 11 ';^ *rle<l at the present glng two white women, received an J 47#gJli000 ,. 0 , d rub!ea . More | h *e. Grant, Jr„ son of an Atlanu capl- blended and bottled by James B. J*** 10 " of Gr‘*ene Huperior c*urt to England. who «'©•ived minor Injuriea Lawaon. 73 Seagate. Dundee: Gil-l"*“ ,d * I early Friday morning when hi* Htuts automobile overturned just off the Forsyth Road near the Idle ’Hour Club. The frarrant was <sald to have boon taken out by County (Turn to page two) HO percent It Won’t bq so Very Long Now Before the Last Member of the (t Last Man Club” graves, Poiccman C. A. Lester end County Officer R. A. Saye, Jr. > The occupant! of- the car, _ Chevrolet roadater, offered no re sistance, state the officers. Chief Seagraves states “Mitch ell” was in Athens Tuesday and arouiad his suspicion. He wrote Secretary of State McLendon to find out to whom the license tag on his car was issued. The license was issued for a Ford whilt a Chevrolet we* carrying it, the de tective learned. The license tag waa isaued to John W. Kelly of Rochelle. 1 Last Right, having recalvad ■ “tip" the car would be here the Two Athene attorneys, Austin Bell nntl Dorsey Devin, will aul.t Holicllor Doyle Campbell In lb. pronecutlon. W. 8. Fl.her of Green.boro will olio n..l.< in. lb The radiing ns conducted by prjisecuttoru. Attorneys Bell « n d Chief of Detectives Charley Sea- Davis were emj employed by the Smith family. SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY Evidence of a sensational nature Is expected to be placed before th« grand Jury, ntnte attorneys for the prosecution. Of particular Inter- V.?J.*, "mtement by Attorn... Mr. Jnekeon and Auatlii Dell that _ - his son, keeper* of a grocery store near where the two Smith's were will testify that they saw tne Athens men with a large roll or money In currency the afternoon Of the nliht the* were killed. The r0 J) WI1 * estimated at ebout ,300.01. Only ,6.00 wns found on tbe per- °! r tho two tnen by Under- “SrS-W-V I" Madison where officers waited for its appearance ‘hole bodlea were taken after the and pounced upon the occupants *"ootlni, it Is stated. when it drove in sight. . Attorney Dell states he bell*^. The whiskey was labelled “J. A. "ill 1,. promAily Lawson’s special liquer whiskey, I Jury, if so the Lawson, 73 Seagate, Dundee; Gil-j . . , ley’s London Dry Gin; InhisbawnI***ted that It will be shown Irish Whiskey; Spey's Royal th Qr »nd Jury thst the horn!- Scotch; Canadian Club. Open the Wine to roast the Other Members Z'*£o n ? nnt - I According to the officer, Oranf {outran the motorcycle to the Idh telegram to hit Hour Club Wedfeeday afternoon j Moseley said he followed the young man to . the club houae (B> Associated Prc%a.) HIGH UGHTS Of the Annual Meet ing of the Georgia Forestry Asso ciation. (By MRS. R. C. ORR Ob tree, you are beyond human eulogy! You are our be»t citizen. You preserve climnttf and soli, moisture, and the soil from You give ua our furniture, hjuoe building material, cros* ties, crate material, and wood pulp for print ing paper, and card board*. Your every single type of tree cqrffe* a wood with ft* own unique u»ea. tree, you are a veritable ro mance! Witness your beautiful form and yo.nr deep and spreading shade. We *ee in you our oldest and largest living thing. And be cause the leaf breathe* out what man breathes in. and man breathe* out what tbe leaf breathe* in, we see tn you the great c!ean*er of our atmosphere." This I* a Quotation from (Turn to Page Four) [ STOCKHOLM.—Religion in Rui- *ia is not dead, War on religion, as reported In the recent execution of Archbishop Zepliak and the trials of priests and prelates has this Unexpected sequel. One hundred Russian Baptists, minister* and lay delegates, are on their way—with the permission of the Soveit government—to attend the World Baptist Congress this month. The convention, the first inter national session of the Baptists in twelve years, opens on July 21 and will last for a week. Of its 2,500 delegates, about 1.000 are expected from America. Since the Rev. R. 8. MacArthur to attend, sent a ' comrade*. —- STILLWATER Minn,—Banquets T Iam „ w lti . uuumm woarw aa a general rule, • and eepeclall) Amld*t the aiMrklinc glassware fr , endi upon th*e prom- since Mr. Volstead' leadep Into on polished table, surrounded ^ that a^nt would be careful fame, are places where aom» peo* by the four *ur -vor* of days gone , and not drive teat, he waa not arr # _ 1If _ t ^._ tn byr-and tho empty chairs—stood u. rested. IW pie go to talk other people to sle p of w j ne ot an 0 | d mnd nu-* j The following day Grant la aald after an Insufficient' meal. make. No fake, that wine. Ito have narrowly avoided an led* However, a banquet was held | A , thty hav , done year of „, l^ d , 0 n " SHm! In this city Friday nOxht. which year, the four m.n talked over th< by th , 0 tt\cn a, 60 fuller waa not Ilka the usual banquet olden days, and the tired eyes, be- „ n | l0ur jj, WM „., ppf< ) a , There were no oratorical night, ginning to bo dimmed hy the baa. crumD's Park end again fri.ndr “v long-winded sprekera. which accompanies fading y«« , ntwv ' nMl . IJp0 „ th. promlre th.l Just a mti. gathering of men, SPffi 0n,W ‘ h * « gray haired and rapidly falling In RETURN TO LAW jclde occurred nt a point In a pub lic road of Greene county where *n automobile could easily have been stopped without the uee of re arms as th* roads wors vary narrow and had high bank, on V? ‘.''Ii U Wl " b * *h»-" further that the automobile was the rear and that fired upon frhn. — f there aro numerous holes m tne la C . k ^° f Hame; that th * younger Smith whom Ghastley claims fined I upon him, disd with a cigarette ;l)i Young Athenian Back In-l5J*'*£* h«"d. The bullet riddled • r V> re V Ctothlng Of the two dead men will to' Profession By Leas- b. exhibited to’WSjSBi ing Offices in Southern b “"’'L h0 ,L''* ]!L ,h * ™* r Mutual B.uiiding Here. The tabla held thirty four place/ for the benqusteerf and there weir thirty four chairs. glasses In front of these vacant chairs were turned down, with a little black wreath around each one. told' Cap’n Henry." "Little Bill* end Cap’n Henry have long sine. y wng n^T tookTct^WS of passed over the border of the Jlv- au t„ ma hlle. ing, hut the story I* told ever year • and the laughter alwny* follow#, though this vear It didn't seem a* thirty four chairs j strong a* it used to he. - Possibly black—and th« I they were thinking of the other Robert L. McWhorter has opened law offices In the Southern Mu tual building and resumed tbq practice of law In this city, again while In Maoon the offlcet He Is a graduate of the Untver- aflowed him to go, and another slty of Georgia and a graduate of the law school of the University This waa the annual banquet ol ‘Last man Club," one of the of the Baptist World Alliance, died m “ l •»* PJOFuUy syropath- of New York, who was president j e,,c cIub * ,n ,h * world, last February, and Dr. John Cllf- When tha club was organised ford, of London, deputy president, j thirty nine yean ago, thirty foui will probably not be able to at-j men, veterans of the battle of Buli tend on account of his advanced . Run, gathered around the festivo age, the Rev. J. H. 8hakespeare, ’ board to talk over the old days and European secretary of the move- renew their friendship. Tear aftei If .It w*re not such a beautiful nentlmentallty. the picture -would he pitiful ft deed, these aged men. slowly, crumbling before the rav* ages of a certain death going back for a few brief fleeting minutes tr the days of their youngmanhood. Foster Father of 57 Girls Arrested On Mann Act Charge ment, has taken charge of the ar rangements. AMERICA DOMINATES "America Is tbe dominant Bap- the i tint country In the world/ be aays. (Turn to page six ) year, aoms other seat waa vacant the number alwaye Increasing r.t the aycthe of time removed another from the tanka of the living. Tear after year the vacant chairs w«r« draped In black. Friday night only four of th< original number were preeent. The fifth man, atm living -Nit too weak Next year the hanauet probably won't number as many ss It dsea now, but the remaining member* will hand iu*» that much closer to gether and. give their toasts to the absent member*, “to those whr shall come no more," and. the Inst man of the club w!N open the bot tle of rare old wine, and drink a toaat to .those who have gone be fore and who are waiting on the other side of the ferry for him, to great him anew and te*l ngalr the story of what "Little BUI” said to “Cap’n Henry." LOS ANOELES.—Dr. H. B. Allen said to be -U)e founder and sup erintendent of a girl's school at Sabots Va., waa arrested at hts Hollywood realdance on an Indict ment charging him with violation of the Mann act In transporting one of hfs fifty-seven adopted daughters from S&bot to Pittsburg. Department of justice agents who arrested Dr. Allen alsd took into "•ytndy a woman who said ah# was bfl housekeeper and two younger women who stated they were bit n don ted daughter*. The former was held as a material witness, and the latter, who gave their age* at 19 and 17, were placed In Juvenile hall. Dr. Allen declared he was will ing to return to th* east to fight the charge. of Virginia, one of the leading law schools of the nation. After hla graduation from Virginia Institution he sntsred the service and when hostilities ended, be returned to Athens and com menced the practice of his chosen profession. Later he entered bus! nesS and for the past few years he has conducted the well known firm of Grlffeth Implement being the managing director and president of the company. Hla many friends will learn with Interest his decision to re-enter the practice of law, a profession in which he la ao well qualified to follow. clear up the 1 __ Among the r.ther witnesses to b« produced by«thq prosecution will (Turn tu page four) Haled For Speeding, Actor Handed New Part to Memorize JUBBULPORE APPLAUDS RAISING OF INDIA’S FLAG NAGPUR, India.—Demonstra tions bald In connection with tha display ot the Indian national flat continue dally In Nagpur, and hKve spread to other cities ot India. Ar rests in Nagpur for flag agitation now total 540. Aa a rule the pris oners are girant brief prison sen. CLEVELAND.—Wallace . Ford, 31. an actor living at Willoughby appeared be(ore Police Judge Stan ton Adams In East Cleveland for speeding. HI, excuse was thst he \va« hurylng to a theatre here to a rehearsal. "What would have happened If you had been late?" queried tho Judge. 'A fine of 325 front the stags director.” answered Ford. v- 'Any Ford Jokes In the show,” the court asked. “I’m the only one.” "So you went 40 per—and got thdro?” "Yes, sir." "Well," concluded the judge, "1 don’t want you to miss anything, (Aside to clerk) fifteen and costa -f24.10." As Ford made his exit from tha a urtroom Judge Adams handed n a copy of the latest edition of "Traffic Regulations for Boot Cleveland." “That’c your part for next weak#9 s remarked.