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Investigate Today! To Begular. Subscribers THE BANNER-HERALD (1,000 Accident Policy Free THE Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. Established 1832 Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. VOL. 91. NO. 140 Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 2«, 1923. A. B. C. Paper Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cent* Sunday. Athens Women Prepare Yard Stick For Office Seekers ATHENS COTTON: Middling 23yi Previous Close ..Nominal THE WEATHER: Slightly cooler and cloudy Thursday night. •M* * ♦ + 4 +-4 +4 4—4 4—4 4—4 4—4 4—4 4-4 4-4 4-4 4-4 4-4 4-4 4-* Warrants Issued For Prohi Officers Charges Assault With Intent To Murder In Gun Battle Wednesday ANDREWS DIES LaGRANGE—Gordon Andrews, prohibition agent who was shot Wednesday in a gun battle with Frank Jones, Buck Hsunby and Roy Williams, died here Thursday. IS Body Horribly Mangled When Feet Becomes En tangled in Plow Gear and Mule Runs. yssr. Prim HARTWELL, Ga.—Alvin, 12- ir-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, who live just m* m,, L y across the Hart county line in iJVglTS. 1 lit-JOIMJS Gaines ' District, , Elbert county, was horribly mangled and almost Instantly killed when his feet be came entangled in the plow gear returning from the fields near the near the home for dinner. Young Holmes was riding tho mule, It was said, when the ani mal threw him, and started run ning. Before he could extricate himself the mule had darted quick ly off and the young man’s brains were literally beaten ont against while returning from the fields and terraces. Numerous bones were broken and the body mutilated in the hor rible incident that shacked the. whole of Elbert county and Hart. While medical aid was summon ed, nothing could be done for the youth, death having been almost instantaneous. When found, after the mule had run for one-fourth of a mile, he was still hanging to the gear, with the top of his head LaGRANGE—Warrants were issued here late Wed- era] prohibition officers, Grady Cobb, of the Newnan of fice and "Buck” Emory in the shooting which followed the attempts of the officers to stop and search the car in which Frank Jones, Roy Williams and “Buck” Hamby were riding. The warrants charged assault with intent to murder. According to statamaata made by the principals In the snooting af fray, the offlcere, accompanied by Andrews and Marlon Hogan, two sawmill men who had been depu ted by ths officers, went to a point on the highway to aearch for a still. Tba officers took a negro prisoner with them In the hope of . gaining Information from him about the location of tbo.oUlL It was stated that while the car which contained the officers waa parked on the aide of the road, they saw another car approaching from Chtpley. SUGGESTED HOLD-UP One of the officers, It waa stated, then suggested that the approach ing car might' contain whiskey, and proposod that they aearch l(. Ac cordingly .they, stationed them- selvea in formaUon serosa the road to stop the approaching car, wav ing their flashlights and guns. The driver of the car, containing the three youths, Prank Jones, stated Wednesday that when ths men stepped into the roadway waving their gune, he thought that they were bandits a.-<! were at tempting to hold up Ills ear and rob the occupants, when he recog nised two. of them, Andrews and Hogan, "Knowing. 1 ’ he stated, “that their reputations wer# somewhat shady,’’ and further knowing them a* saw mill men, without the right to stop a ear, he and his companions draught that they were being held up. donee speeded i p hie car and ran past the men, going In the di rection of Weet Point, at a high rate of speed. After he bad passed the men. Jones said, and waa driving on Into the darkness, shota were fired at the car from the group of men one of thy bullets striking Hamby In the bead. FIRES AT PURSUERS ’" ! * r Hiving pursuit, one of the cars containing the officer* eoon over took the fleeing cor and then ac cording to Jones, he gave William* hi* revolver and the tatter then fired it at the driver of the pur *uing car. The man ehot waa Andrew*, whe lo*t control of the machine, the car careening to the tide of the road. He waa later taken to r LaO range hospital where it war found that he had a bullet wound through bla abdomen, one of hi* lung*, breant and arm. Prohibition Agent Cobb waa ahot in the hand, the bullet ranging up ward. He claims that he wae shot *hen the oflcera firat attempted to atop the efr, while Jones and Williams claim that they did not fire a ahot until they were over taken two miles from the site of the original attempt tn *tojf them, and thought that thf men ‘were bandits, whan they pursued the car In which they were riding. State Prohibition Director Fred ™*muke Immediately ordered an investigation Into the shooting and detailed federal prohibition agent A. C. Sowell to take charge of th« investigation. Sowell arrived here Wednesday and announced that r thorough Inquiry will be made. Peeling against the officers 1* pinning high In this section, opin ion. being expressed that the offP cer " Were not within their right* «nd (hat tye methods they used tended to give ths boys In the car Jbey attempted to etop the Idea ibat they were stopping them with , *dea of robbery. Several prom inent citizen* of this city r *>mm*nted upon the fact that the officers had no warrant for the search of the youth's car and that they had been sent out to * earc b for a still, not *o stop pass* fr *by on the publle highway. What the next step in the c«*« following the issuing of ths war- ? nt « Will be. has not yet been an- y°uno#d.. Emory. one of the men for whom the warrants’were Issued romlahad |200 bond Wsdnesdaj Wsht. . . . /»/.•*« BE HOST TO BIB The Eternal Triangle MRS. B. EVARD KEPNER will start habeas corpus proceed* | lags Thursday morning. . The grand jury's investigation, j held behind cloned doors, with the | testimony carefully guarded, fol- lowed the verdict of a coroner's Bake Best Bread of Any Girls in .Eighth District. Bread Put on Exhibi tion. /' ' Clarke caaaty glrlz won first place In bread making and third in general average at the district breadmaking contest In Monroe Tuesday and Wednesday. The girls who represented Clarke, winners of the county con test held list May, are Mias Jessie August 9th Is Date Set For Annual Barbecue. Program Being Prepar ed By Lodge There. The Masons of the 8th congres sional district will hold their an nual meeting and barbecue at Danielsvllle on August 9th and on that day\ more than a thousand ol the district members will assem ble. The program for the day Is be ing worked out hy the lodge at Danielsvllle. In conjunction with district officers. E. C. Paine of Athens Is Worshipful Master: Robert Ashford of Wntklnsvllle Is Senior Warden. Arthur Mosely. Danielsvllle, Junior Warden. D. T. Mosely, Danielsvllle, treasurer. W. A. Capps, Athohs, secretary. Grand Master of the state. J. P. Bowdotn, will make the main ad dress of the day and Past Grand Master N. H. Ballard, who Is also State School Superintendent will also speak. . I Kepner was Immediately arrest- J ■laye r. ' ' «ver«Yf"nf Ihe^/iVnn'.r'. 4 vnrdfrt accompanied the girls to Monroe,’ AtheHTwin U, ^ < 'lnatte a ndince r Tt 0<i “1 iod,ed 3a ": YJWh Mn >- Kc < ,ncr '' «•»» found and led to the recall of the Feb- , n>ol>r«d. baked by Clarke county the meeUng. The barlwclle Sm be ,,ey, h * ve » nnou,,cei1 th< ” r Wng across a bed In her hoom at ruary grand Jury Monday. whlch won fl™t place. Is on served at 13:10. FORMER ATHENS WOMAN DIES IN ATLANTA WED. B. EVARD KEPNER FREDERICK, Md.—The grand j orjr 0 , inquest last week that Mrs. . , , w . ,. h . .. . Jury, which for three days baa been Kenner, member of a prominent h * r tatl,er, h ® me - wlth • taU,t Investigating the death June 18 ( am |/ y here. mc t her death ”at the wound through the head. After of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner. nands of BREAD CONTEST IN CANDIDATES WILL BE ASKED WHERE TRET STAND WHEN ELECTION IS HELD Executive Board of Lea gue of Voters Meets Thursday to Compile Quizz List. Members of the Athens League of Women Voters Thursday we preparing a yard stick with whlc] to measure candidates for mu pal offices In the fall elections. Thus far no one has announc for either of tho five oldermanla places or mayor. The executive committee of the League met at the Linger Longer Lodge Thursday for luncheon nt which time a questionnaire to he presented to candidates wag tom- | piled. The HfttfT* commit'" is Hardeman of Wlntervllle; Miss composed of Mrs. L. L. Hemlreu. j Etta Flanagan of Centerville; Miss ' president of the League; Mrs. Dorothy Williams of Wlntervllle. 1 John Morris, Mrs. Harrlo Dows, and Miss Elsie Todd of Tuckston jMra. n - S. Pond, Mrs. C. A. V. r- were alternates. noy. Miss Mildred Melt. Mrs. Kl- Tho newton county girls won W00<J Jackson, Mrs. B. F. Gentry, first place In geneKl average Mrs. George Crabb, Mrs. S. S. while Morgan, county's team won Smith, Mrs. John D. Moss. Miss Entertains Rotes The weekly luncheon of the Ro 1 tary club was held Wednesday at the Linger Longer tea room near the Normal School and an enjoy able meeting was attended by large number of Rotarians. The main feature of the program wan a series of rending* and .1 talk on her work by Mr*. Katherine Tift-Jones of Tlfton, Georgia. . The next meeting of the club will be Wednesday of next week No Trace Found Of Escaped Negro Albert Bonner, the negro con vict from the county farm who escaped from St. Mary’s Hospital early Monday morning by cutting the chain‘that bound him to the bed following an operation is still "ilni almost crushed off. The remains were Interred at Coldwater church, Elbert county, following appropriate services, conducted by Rev. Sprayberry. — of Vthena since "the Besides his parents he is aurviv- the vicinity of Athens stneo tne ed by three brothers, James, Dil- phjmicians him sUt. lard and Limmie, and two sister,‘that he is in a weakened physical Grace and Nettie. • condiUon. free, no trace of him having be«n picked up by the authorities. He is believed to be In hiding in THE TURNER COUNTY PLAN A Series of Articles Showing What the “Cow and Hog and Hen” Have Dope for One Georgia County. ALICE TERRlf PEAKS ADVENTl “Where the Pavement Ends,” a Rex Ingram Production By John Russell At Palace. . By JOHN E. DREWRY Adventure with a very large ’’A” has fallen to the lot of’•John Ruaae|l, author of the latest Rex Ingram production for Metro, ’’Where the Pavement Enda,” now at tho Palace Theatre. Mr. Hue- eell 1a, primarily, an author. If The Columbia. 8. C., State beds potatoes In January In beds baa reproduced In pamphlet form a remarkable series of articles by Its Managing Editor on ths Turner 1 County plan. The Georgia Association hat been formed to extend this plan to every county ln-Geor- gla and similar efforts will be mads In South Carolina. The Banner-Herald through, the courtesy of the Columbia state will publish a aeries of articles summarising the Turner coun ty Plan. The Banner-Herald has also secured a limited number of reprints of the State’s pamphlet and will be glad to mail one free to -»ny one making a request for same.) CASUAL COMMMENT ON TURNER CO. ACTIVITIES Early Swest Potatoes Among a group of farmers from Toombs county who came last week to Ashburn, to see for them- selves what Turner county had have done with its cow. how and hen program, was W. L. Duncan, liv ing near Lyons, who moved to tno Wire Grass region of Georgia five years ago, from Elisabeth City in eastern North-Caroling, and la *pe- clausing In growing for market early sweet potatoes. He has 38 acres already set to Big Stem jerseys, sad wiU set five more acres from draws and ten more In vines, making 60 altogether thla season for Ike early demand. He j 10x32 feet each and transplants in the fields lata In March or early In April, depending on whether the season Is forward or late. He has ridge poles running length wise over his beds snd over these In cold weather he draws sheets made of four widths of 12-Inch white homespun. In 10 2-3 yard ■trips, sewn together. Last year be averaged 100 bushels to the acre and got a bonanza price, because his potatoes wen among the earl iest tn come on the market. FOUR CONSTRUCTIVE FACTORS Turner county, according' to H. S. Mobley, dairy extension special ist of the International Harvester eompany. has fonr price factors that account for the success of Its •’permanent prosperity” program: 1. Financing, for the man who has seen the light! 2. Markets fop all the products of dlvertdfled agriculture. 3. Leadership., 4. A citizenship to support such program: Including, .happily, a relatively large number of small It, he la a moat excellent author indeed, and bla book of South Sea short stories has gone sailing Into editions Innumerable. His yarns of the Tropica are the more remarkable because they are entirely original In conception and In atyle. He ban stolen from no one. be baa quite evidently <gone forth and seen for himself tho strange corners of the world, and be bas the great gift of making bla read- era see them, too. He waa horn In Iowa at Davenport, he went to j school In Brooklyn and Chicago, Eb|s college was Northwestern, and from there ho wont framing the world around, 'came back on the ’’New York Herald,’’ became a spe cial correspondent In Central and South America, and so on. so forth until he became author of wbat Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says “the best book of short tales by any debutante since KlpUng’i •Plain Tales.’ 1 Incidentally’ be accompanied Rex Ingram and Ms company to Florida, anpervised the screening of his atory. built sets, scouted toyn and county for characters of T RECEIVER ABOLISH! LASH co; amvv, Mrs- Rebecca Wailes Hunnicutt, ..... • - __ beloved Allama woman, and widow HERE IS PRAISED ST" Roy Eiliston of Augusta, Named By Judge Sibley As Receiver For Bkrrett & Company. (By Assoclatsd Press.) ATLANTA.—Roy Ellison of Au gusta was Thursdiy named as re ceiver for Barrett ai:d Company. . died. Wednesday morning at the residence of her son, W. L. Hunnicutt, 38 Rockyford nvenuc. Kirkwood, in her eighty-third — — — Hunnicutt was descended Endorses Action of the !from 0< „, th * ““‘X* *«■* Board in Doing Away^ m M ,m Z n 'c£$%.^ With Corporal menu Isitlon won her hundreds of —— 'friends. Atlanta had been her Abolishment or coifonl punish- I home since the death of her hua- ment in the Athena public schools! hard in 19v04. day^aa^e^oraed^Tburedav^'hv ^ aumiUnitt^KIvaS*ln°Athens^* wMuw Mi. E. B* Hud.on. reGring'presI- j ri*ulture > * , at % tho meeting and discussed the ob- jectives of the state organization In legislation. Miss Julia Flisch, professor of history at tho Uni versity Summer School, also was a guest of tho League. Hugh H. Gordon, Jr., and Alderman George C. Armstrong were invited j While it Is a bit early to pre- , pars a questionnaire for B. Hunnicutt, one of tho dates, since nono has announc agricultural ex- J state members of tho League, It is tho purpose of tho organization to havo ono ready to present offlco seekers when they do con out for election. Several civic organization havo requested to send in a set of questions on public matters and from these thej^eague will compile a questionnaire to be used as a guago for measuring candidates. you can take tba word of moat of largo cotton lectors ®f Augusta dent of (he council of p, rent . i G Mrs i a . Dr. Hunnicurt'was also the literary editors of America for , T..ch.r,'AssodaUona bom. proprietor of the Southern Cultl- Mr*. Hudson delared the action ‘ vator, one of the south s most fa- , (Turn to page eight) mou* farming publications. GRANBERRK RECITAL the South Seaa, and ended up by exproeslng himself entirely and completely satiaHed with the ontlre production. Few authore have done aa much for a picture. J “Where the Pavement Ends" was adapted for the ecreen by Rex In gram. Alice Terry baa the part of a missionary's daughter, and Ra- >“on Novarro. who waa Rupert of Hentzau In ’The Prisoner of Zen ds”, plays oppoalte red. The powerful edet also Includes Harry T. Morey and Edward Connelly, Metro’s veteran character acton The photography waa done by John F. Salt*.' ISSUES ORDER fRv Associated Press.) AUGUSTA.—Judge Franklin of v,. . __ .the Superior Court permanently white farmers living on their own enJolnid indlvWlw j interests premises. - - CAROLINIAN IN ASHBURN Arrirultoral tnatreetlun nh** the Smlth-Hnghea act SFuwder tbe (Turn to pigefomr) 11 • Sibley, Immeu.nUly following tho petition In bankruptcy, presented by W. H. Fleming. The order will be filed InAugustk sometime Thursday. The proceedings .were brought before Judgo Sibley on account of disqualification of Judge Barren of Augusta, who is a relative ol frank Barrett, prealdent ot thi company. STILLAflSCALP OF AG. Mil/edge Hall Is Formally Dedicated Grand Master Joe P. Bowdoin of Georgia Masons Officiates, Installation Under Auspices of Mt. Vernon Lodge. Building Is Clarke’s ! Gift to University. "John Mllledge Hall." Clarke exercteea, and expressed hie con- Rpsnllltion Passed in thel cou,lt)^ ' , 60 ’ 000 k 1 ** 10 lh ® unlver- fldence In the future growth and IT11 _ I*'tr Georgia aa a memorial tri- .usefulness of the Unlverelty. He bute to tho donor of the land upon • referred to lie early and continuous which a large part'd! the campue struggle!—quoting from a lettei la located, waa given official and I written by Preeldent Meigs to public constructive progree* Wed-1 John Mllledge a century ago, In House, Calls For Expen ditures in Tick Eradica tion Fight (By Associated c r#s#.) ATLANTA—A resolution b> Wingate of Dnker uod dlllen ol Oconee calHng upon the Secretary of Htate to furnish legislators with a complete list of the lobbyists now reported operating In the 8tate Capitol and a renewal of tha fight on the Department of Agriculture through u measure calling ‘for detailed account of the funds spent for tick eradication work, were before the House Thursday. Pnrrell of ftiewart introduced bill to levy a specific occupation tax in addition to gasoline and oils, to be used for the payment of Confederate Pennlons, while Elder* of Tattnall Rubmitted a measure for each of the years 1924 and 192G to match federal funds for maternity hygiene. Another bill to supply free school }'ooks to th« Georgia Common School pupils was introduced by McCrory of Schley, who would supply books to children of th« first trades only. An annual appropriation of sixty from remnvlnfr cotton from the Atlantic States Warehouse which has been stored there. Louis roke waa appointed receiver. IJej houeand dollara waa reqmwted to. *6atntrnMr order’ mi soueht hyi this .purpose .In-, wa bilL. Tb# Mux- Barrett and company In connec-,|Jtm»,reis>l«»tou.oalll»e foriinfamK tlorr with it’s financial'' regwdJng dhe ——-My disclosed.' nu if j (fnra 1* p*ge eigitL), uj nesday afternoon when fbe corner •tone was laid. Acting upon Invitation of the board of trustees. Brand Master Joe P. Bowdoin of the Georgia Ma sons and officials of Mt. Vernon Lodge of this city were present and officiated, using the Imprcs- rf/e and beautiful ceremony ot that ancient end honorable order. HARRY HODG80N PRESIDENT The exercises were In charge of Harry Hodgaon. chairman of the prudential committee or the board of trust sea. who acted tor and In the absence of (he preeldent of the board. Judge R. B. Russell. Mrs. Hodgeon delivered a brief but beautiful tribute to John Mllledge ’’Georgia’s first greet philanthrop ist." and on behalf of the board tbanked the people of Clarke coun ts for fhelr liberality and commen dable spirit In making possible the building ot the memorial. Chancellor Barrow voiced his •rmlefnl appreciation In behalf of the college, the state and the youth frf.ngporin. for tha gift. He thank- Pd.|k<l grand master and local Ma sons i (9X (heir participation In the which Mr. Meigs spoke ot "his for' lorn hope" becoming a reality and with prophetic Ylafon said "a hun. dreg years from now a thousand young Georgians will ba. enjoying He benefits." Dr. Barrow said that laet year—a little more than the "thousand"—1809—enjoyed them. CORNERStONE INSCRIPTION The corneretone of the building to hr erected beers tha following Inscription: < JOHN MILLEDGE HALL Named tor the donor of the lend on which the University la located and erected by thf liberality ot the cltlsena ot Clarke county. Thi, cornerstone was laid by Joe P. Bowdoin, O. M., July 25, A. D., 1923, A. U. 5923. at the request of the Trustees of the University of Georgia. The building will be erected by mosey raised by a bond laane voted by the people of the county, and la the third gift of her dtlsene to the listitutlon. Two iprerlona do nations of t35,(XIO' each bad been ; Chapel Crowded With People Wednesday Night When University Music Department Renders Program. By FRED 8TEWART TO INTERPRET POPULAR 8TOR> Cay McLaren, who scored the hit of summer school enter tainment series hero hist rea son with her presentation of tho play “Enter Madame.” will present “Matron of tho Movies” Thursday evening, at 8:15. In tho University Octagon. The public is invited to attend. What is declared to linve hoc the most brilliantly tertalnment ever given by an "all summer school cost” waa Wednesday evening in tho Un *!ty Chapel, when the school music department, u direction of George Folsor berry of New York, lections from Gounod's “Faust,” The chapel was to capacity, standing room and hundred* stood around craining their necks to get at tho artiats through th« UowH, and straining their e catch the beautiful and ha ou* tones which filled the air. The performance open' eighteen pianists playing semble upon nine pianos, pils of the music departmei charmed and amazed the i by their wonderful rendition “Lov© Song” from the of tho Opora. Such a i pianists playing togethe er been seen her© and their doubts concerning the e which could be produced, when they began playing i on that point were dispelled, effect was wonderful. It was as any-handed wizard, a sin gle master mind, controlled thi key* instead of a dozen or more. Ml«* Carolyn Cobh then gave a reading from “Faust,” which wtu (Turn to Page FI vs.)