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VOL. 91, NO. 141
Associated Press Service
ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY, JULY *7, 102S.
A. B. C. Paper
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday.
WOMEN VOTERS ASK DEFEAT OF CIVIL SERVICE Bill
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France’s Answer To British Note Now Ready
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''Pas*™ Resistance” I Ask Possession of Stored Cotton
Will hp Mam Point J
Will be Main Point
in Reply of French
At Amphitheatre
Progress of Agriculture
Will Be Depicted on the
Campus of State College
For Benefit of Summer
School Students.
(By FRED STEWART)
The scene of summer school en
tertainment shifts to (no Agricul
tural College for Friday night.
Three rings of the four ring circus
will hold up their acts on that
night, that all interest may center
around “the grand extra special”
in the fourth.
All eyes will bo teurned to tho
amphitheatre on the Agricultural
College Campus, where a great
spectacle In the form of an agri
cultural pageant will be staged, at
eight fifteen P. iMl Students of the
Normal School, the Lucy Cobb In
stitute, University, Agriculture*,
French-Belgian, declaration to *nd citizens of Athens are Invite \
tho effect that passive resistance j to attend.
In the Ruhr must cease before an> » Oay McClarcn s Interpretation of
negotiations with Germany are un* "Bought and Paid For," present-
, . ..... jf^r at tfra UnlVarailr Octagon
afiPWF Wrls'faSY Thursday night, was received with
WIRE CLARKE SOLONS
TO KILL BILL WHICH
IS BEFORE ASSEMBLY
ENT OF
Society’s Air Taxi Crashes
France’s Reply Sent to
Belgium First For Rati
fication. Reaches Down
ing Street Saturday.
(By Assoclstcd Press.)
PARIS—The French reply to
Or.at Britain’, communication ro-
gnrdlng the reparations problem
pill be delivered to Downing
Street cither Saturday or Sunday,
It wa. announced here Frldav.
It was stated that tho French
reply ncccpts Bum. of tho British
aumratlon* and asks for furthei
light on other propositions.
(me of tho main points In the
French reply, 1s that It malntalne
JUDGE FORTSON TO
HOLD HEARING HERE
t SATURDAY MORNING
Robert A. Loeb, eon of Albert
Loeb, prominent Chicago business
man, ia the youngest man ever to
be graduated from the University
of Michigan.
the pr
Civil
Wl«U iivut EM* UIIITSIslty ,
pin. HS is but, is, and here which, it is
colless this June. Volin* "i a calculated to t
ond of athletics, as will as .. . ,
just about as much enthusiastic
applause as an audience of normal
human beings can show. The Oc
tagon was crowdod to capacity. It
was considered no less than mat:
vclous. tho way this artist, alone
on a big bare stage with only a
'drrtaken^ ■„
Premier Polncai
Thursday night for hla country
'homo at Bamplgny for a low dny*
'rest after giving the finishing
touches to tho reply to tho British
communication. That fact in Itself
shows that the note has boen com*
pletcd and ia muly to bo dispatched
to London, as Poincare would noi | o**”tshli) fnr nrnn
have left th. city unlew .11 detail. " , "* lo k c, " lr . n " d I.
had Item thoroughly thrashed out 1 • rt Ji 1,81,1 ^ 8r a l* d .| 0 “®, *'
It wus Stated further that IhejwoH as could a *! U “ 8t Pi?”?!
document, carrying France's ana*. ous actors with ail their elaborate
w. r will not t.e sent to Great Brit- I and expensive costumes and stago
aln until It has been dispatched to i setting!.
Belgium and that government had I McCLAREN
sufficient time to examlno it] RECITAL
closely.) This may cause a delay Gay McClaren jilayed the parts
in iho receipt of the noto by Eng- n f five characters and each of
land, but la not likely that it will I t hoso characters stood out distinct,
as tho Premiers of both France and| an( ) individual which will remain
UolKlum have l»een in closest har j , n the mem ories of those who had
mony on the ropiy to England. | fho p i nagur# , of their acquaintance
As suon as ths French Ambasra-, „ her wonderful art. It’s a
f r ' iror '" right gpooky feeling to know for
mi, .- Th.unta has a copy in hand that only one person Is on
tho r*>nch Ambassador in London * , . i,.,.
will be notified to deliver France'*,? and y " ®» fu* name
• iiponse to the British Foreign of’ !»> f ■ dosen up there St the same
lime with all their little peculiar
ities.
ATHENIANS
DELIGHT
Miss Morris and Miss Bond of
Athens have delighted atimmor
school audlencea several times this
season with their violin and piano
music. Tho following appreciation
Is found In tho latest '"Items”:
'•Tho music department of the sum
False Report on
Vote Is Charged
In House Friday
Introduce Resolution
Which, If Passed, Might
Cause Impeachment of
Clerk of House.
(By Associated Press.)
ATLANTA—Assorting that It np*
p*ared the elerka or "some of the
clerks of the state houae, some of
whom are recent employees of the
department" and affected by
amendment offered Thursday
strike out alt appropriations for
the Htate Bureau of Markets had
mused a false result of the vote tc
be announced, a resolution by Ben*
nett of Dodge and twenty-one oth*
rrs providing that no employees of
any state department or ones who
ha«l held auch position within six
months could be conectod with the
house in any capacity was Intro*
duccd Friday^ ^ ,
Speaking in opposition to the res
olution. Ennis of Baldwin declared
the measure reflected on the clerk
of the house who had served In
that capacity for many years. The
resolution ia "distinctly unfair” he
said as there was no one whe
“could swear that the vote as an*
nounced was not correct.”
Passage of the resolution would
mean impeachment of the clerk. h<
asserted. New of Laurens stated
he was willing for the amendment
removing all personalties from th<
resolution to be passed. The man
nt whom the measure was direct*
®d. wUd, had lateen an employee
of the department of agriculture
many years.
M I am willing to swear on oath to
th* best of my opinion that the
amendment urns carried yesterday*
he assarted In reply to a question
’<* (Tarn to P*z* Three)
society folk taxi between Newport, B^I., and jtew^ York City. h « company a 1,(1 others, the Bank of Charle*ton, or any in-
dropped 300 feet as several hundred of the oxcluisvc colony iooked dividual r . r company, wna restrained from moving cotton
on. II. Cary Morgan and Howland Fowler, passengers, and H. H. from the local warehouse 88 a result of the Barrett and
Thornbum, pilot, were taken to the Naval Hospital. ;j company financial tangle. Judge Hodges of the North-
-I ern circuit rigned the temporary injunction and Satur-
Hearing on Petition Restraining Re*
movai of Cotton From Athens
Bonded Warehouse Set For 11:00
O’clock At the County Court
House. Brilliant Legal Array
Ready For Hot Battle.
Hearing on the petition signed by Judge W. L. (
Hodget of the Northern district restraining anyone from!
moving cottcn from .the Athens Bonded Warehouse will
come up before Judge Blanton Fortson at the court
house here Saturday morning at 11 o’clock-
Upon the petition of the Athens v Manufacturing!,.,,, nr mraiT
Company and others, the Bank of Charleston, or any in- If II I llyl* ML ll , L|!||
IS TALKED ABOUT
I Executive Committee of
j Athens League Begins
I Preparation of Question
naire. See Politics in
Civil Change.
1 GHEE IDE
FDD STATE SCHOOLS
University to Get $85,000
Maintenance, State Nor
mal Voted $6,000; Ag.
College Same.
Appropriations that will finally
be approved by the honse and sen
ate for state institutions are
given below, having been agreed
J. Phinizy Tell a 1 day was set for the permanent hearing.
hears 00.
.Georgia. Railroad Bank,
Head Says Three Aider-
men Are Holding, Two I* V T
Jobs Undbr Administra- r I r
tion.
(By Assoefated Press.)
augusta.* Ga.—Dr. j. m. caid- Club Appoints Committee
well, AH. A. Woodward and Dr. W.
D. Jennlng*, members of city coun*
oil, are holding two positions con
trary to law and should either leave
council, or resign the other posi
tions held by them, according to
........ „ „ , letters written to th three alder*
upon by the house acting *as u r, . ien i! y Ja ** ob Phjnliy, P* [hcai J an addrecs by Dr. Howard
committee. Appropriations for * ,e Georgia Railroad Bank, whoi Minrhin nmfnsKnr nf nnniinH nn.
to Arrange P’or Barbe
cue With Rotarians At
Cathedral Pines.
Athens Klwenians Thursday
Upon the report that Barrett
nnd, company might be thrown Into
' the hands of receiver the dank of
(Charleston, which had lent large
j sum* of money on cotton through
that company, sent representatives
and box cars her* to taka posses
sion of several thouMfed bales of
cotton held In Athens. R. 8
Small president of the bank came
here hi person, In nn attempt to 1
Hot possession of the staple. Own-
of tho cotton anticipated the
local institutions remain as they
are. The figures follow:
Support ami maintenance, Uni
versity of Georgia, $85,000; Sum
mer School, $6,000; support and
maintenance of Georgia Tech*
$112,500; support and maintenance
of State College of Agriculture,
to match Smith-Lever fund, $100,-
000 annually; State Normal and <
Industrial College, $15,000; State
College of Agriculture, to co-op-
cratq with federal government in
extension work o the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Georgia Railroad Bank, wno j Minchln, professor of applied op-
Id he acted as on. of tha larse.t „ oh , 0 Dr M|n .
chin and Dr. J. L. Pendlcy of Ath.
enn were guesta of ths club. Dr.
tax puyera in Auguata 1
Caldwell and Jennings an city
physician* ns well aa councllmen
Directing its fire toward
the proposed change in the
Service Commission
claimed,
throw the
police and fire departments
back into politics” and at
tho samo time discussing
abolishment of Ward repre
sentation in City Council, the
Athens League of Women
Voters Thursday afternoon
got down to business in pre
paring for the fall elections
for municipal offices.
The Lcaguo took action iimilnxt
the proposed Civil Service change
by framing n telegram to Clarke’s
representatives In tho Oenoral As
sembly requesting them to kill It.
Tho hill has already been Intro-
V,:,"' *W i *7 duced and Is said to moet tho np-
Who Killed Proh 1 Aeent provnt of tho representatives aa it
standee—T" • 7 ’
In nddltlon to tho lelogram frt
tho executive Committee, ln<II
ual members of tho Leagu"
clsred they would wrlto tho i
9, Toombs DuBoso and
Holden to oppof.o (he
measure.
Three West. Point Boys I
Exonerated At Prelimi
nary Trial.
RAISE FUNDS TO ■
PROSECUTE AGENTS
West Point Citizens Rais
ing Money to Prosecute
Officers For Shooting
Boy.
As the bill now stands it
rides for retention
Horrlcfl regulations, tbo change i
WEST POINT—A. S. Humby, Jog nn Increase In personnel
move and secured the order before Frank Jones and Roy Wllliums, three to five monitors, two to ho
any of the cotton could be moved.. three West Point youths, were ex- elected from a> well n* by council.
J. J. Wilkins and B. F. Hardeman onerated of charges of murder In I At first the bill provided’ for elnc-
were appointed temporary recelv connection With shooting at feder- tion of nil members from council.
<tb for the cotton In the tempor* a! prohibition officers on the Wes' 1 j This was opposed strenuously i
ary injunction I Polnt-Chipley (highway Tuesday, the amendment Is said to i
night at a preliminary trial here been arrived. Now tin* an
is under fire.
1 1° nddltlon to launching i
hclleyrd h.rs thst this action will Polntf , wor , oat th , w „ rwt , fol ths Propo,...!
“■* '—' -— ths youths' srr.it. 1
Mnc. th. potttlon was fUM Bar- Thunl<U| , Mton Jultlc . of
rott ond company haa been put in p faoe i*. Hodaea
the hands of receivers but It Is not
ffect the status of the local cot- _ ^
ton. thl. now btlnc a quntlon to| a mimt'nthu b«n startm Ic
>i;n.t.iniin n« nwi »« vwuuviiiuri> . . , . .. j n f ; . ,, , _ ’ . 1 « luuTnimiii nu urrn lUinea II
htlc Woodward II solicitor of , ht 1 to tog of tto Sthool of, b. drcld.d bitwiin thou who r .|„ fun „, , or , h . ,„ f „, d ,„ nK
- 5f* ’**!" ** 1 h,v ’ mon81r ,0 *»* < * 8 " « •»« °>* if thi youth, ind to pro«cut, thr
•Ity Summer School, which Is bo- j owners. tn.mbsn of th. fodcral raiding
mer icliool gave to tho students $35,000; State College of Agricul-
and tho public at largo another tiire, for ficld meetlng and farm
real treat In tho violin recltnl
Tuesday evening, at Pound Audito
rium by Miss Msrgaretho- Morris,
assisted by Miss Frances Bond,
nlsnlstl Miss Morris Is an Athens
institutes, $2,500.
Support und maintenance of
twelve district agricultural schools
$180,000, each school to receive
$15,000; North Georgia Agricul
tural College, $27,000; State Med-)
county Juvenile court in addltior
to being a Fifth Ward alderman
The physicians have declined to
resign on the ground that the pres*
♦ nt city nttorney and two formei
city attorneys have ruled In theii
particular cases the city code gov-
crnlniT these matters la not violated.
to tbo Civil Service
talent having studied In Chicago,
where she attracted the most fav
orable comment of musical critics.
Her work has the qualities that
distinguish the artlat, and her
numbers wore repeatedly en^orod.
Miss Bond’a work at the piano was
also appreciated and highly com
NORMAL SCHOOL
GETS $63,000
Support and maintenance of
the Georgia State College for Wo
men, $90,000; support and niain-
Nonv
Mrs. George Folsom Cranberry
will give an organ recital Satur*
. . day evening at the Central Presby.
tenancc of State Normal School, terlan church, corner Mllledge and
ing attended by a large number of
optometrtsta of Georgia.
Kiwanian Jimmio Bruce rej
on tho Distrf tcTrustees meel...„
Macon which recommended’ that i tho original owner until he le
Dr. Andrew M. Koulo lm requestod I •"/“» »"'• «W that la nrtsa-
Woodward said he already hat to have the Agricultural College | pnry tor them to identify the cot r
informed frivr.ds he would rerlgn. represented on the propram of tho , ton ’
fn September but did not propose to ' state Convention in Columbuu and The bankers interested have atv-
quit While the mayor and council'that stop, be taken toward or-(en out no mination s! to whal
are under fire. ,Tho mayor and. (fanlzatlon of a club In Gainesville, j they will baa* their case on tout
^ j ™=“™™®«? j doUon! * wcre It I" Intimate that th.y bar. Ian’
i~.ni K( wan ] an u # m. Foil Hove report
ed on a trip he recently made to
California and discussed' the fine
roads built by people of the west.
A committee was appointed to ar-
‘’•anro for a joint barbecue with
the Rotarians some time soon.
Pat Lamkln won tho attendance
prise.
the League discussed’ abolish
of tho ward system in
crease in personnel of tho
Board and woman represent 1
Tho hearing la certain to be a party. Several thousand dollnrr ; thereon and ' nforcementfipj
| hotly contested one. Owners of the ’have been pledged. It la aald. May* ’ prohibition and traffic Ir
’ported cotton contend that under the law. or Lanier la loading the campaign' I»*n- < wcr<* discussed by
ting in Georgia title of cotton remain: in th* boys' Interest. .mltteu with ;« view of
vcstlgnted on chargi
legal acta preferred by the local
Real Estate Board.
Mrs. Granberry in
Recital Saturday
mended. Mss Bond, nnotlier Ath- $63,000; for extension work of the .Prinre a.rnues. This recital Is a
enian. Is s youn* mnsldan ** '
marked eccompllsbnicnt."
of
Georgia State Coll.ro for Wo- J foatnre of the University of Beer-
Establish Record
In All Metal Plane
GARDEN CITY—Eddie Stinson
accompanied by Charles Dickinson.
President of th. A»ro CJub ; of Illi
nois and Arthur Gary, mretinnle ar
rived nt Has.lhurat Field here, nt
seven thirty Friday morning. In a
Junker all- metal monoplane.
The party left Chicago at eleven
o'clock Thursday night nnd com
pleted the Journey In eight nnd H' ten ance, Georgia
half hours, for the first non-stop f 0T Roye, $27,000.
three passenger night flight be
tween the two clttee.
HARDING IN DANGER
SEATTLE.—Transport ' Hender
son, carrying Presidsnt Harding
and party returning from Alaska,
rammed ths Destroyer, Zsilln I
Pugh) Sound, forty miles north of
here, according to wireless from
the Henderson. .idw n
men, $12,500; support and main
tenancc, Georgia Stale Women’s
College, at Valdosta, Ga.; sup
port nml maintenance, Georgia
Industrial and Normal School for
Colored Youths, $10,000; support
and maintenance of tho Georgia,
Agricultural, Industrial and Nor
mal School 'for Colored Teachers,
$15/500; maintenance of summer
school for negro teachers, $2,600.
Support and maintenance, Acad
emy of the Blind, $36,000; support
and maintenance School for the
■ Deaf $70,000; support and main-
'tenancc, Georgia Training School
for Boys, $27,000.
Salary, commissioner of com-
merce and labor, $3,<p0; assistant
commissioner, $1,80<H chief clerk
and stenographer, $1,500; factory
inspector $1,200; contingent fund,
$1,800.
Commissioner of agriculture,
salary, $5,000; cleric, $2,500; main,
tenancc. OItJNM; eRwnist, $3,000:
nmintenanes chemist’s office, in.
(Turn to Page Seven.)
giu Summer School concert nerios
end ail students nnd other music
lover* are cordially Invited. The
program will begin promptly at
6.-15 and will not exceed the hour.
Following le the program;
Rhapsody on Pentecostal Theme
—Fsulkes.
Introduction to the opera Faust
—Gounod
Nocturne F minor of. 65, No. 1.—
Chopin.
Vision—®lbl.
Pastorale—Claimant.
The Question—Weatenholme.
Tbs Answer Weatenholme.
Elegy—Noble.
Sing. Smile, slumber—Gonnod.
Wedding Song-Woodman.
Who remembers way back last
winter when It was cold enough
to Just keep on hugging)
■Hunt the . bright „ thing'- - Even
-rcaqtaloppee hare their good points.
They never squirt In your eyectft
Daughter of a
Former Athenian
Dies in Phila.
News reached Athens Thursday
of the death of Miss Augusta Allen
at the homo of her parents. Mr.
ami Mrs. Arthur H. Allen, Phila
delphia. The funeral nf Miss Allen
waa held Friday and the Interment
was In Phlhdclphia.
Miss Allen's cither was prior
to her marriage. Mies Mary Ella
Noble, daughter of Mrs. Augusta
Hill Noble, of this city, and her
many friends will hear with great
sorrow of her bereavement.
Miss Allen had graduated last
June from Drexel Institute and was
one of the threshold of a life
full of promise. Her Illness wis
brief and her death came as a
great shock to her fond parents
and friends.
Better watermelon la ® simple
more money on the cotton than wax
received by the original owner*
and arc therefore unwilling to sur*
render the cotton upon the pay*
meat of the loans advanced to the
owners.
Home of the cotton tied up If
■aid to have no loans whatevei
mad* to the owners.
CONFERS
WITH DI8MUKE
ATLANTA—A conference
day Let«<ren United Btatea DIs-
by the <
Includ
thorn In a questionnaire it Is fn
log for presentation to t
dates for nldcrmanic c
tho mayoralty next 1
inmpllcd and
trict Attorney Clint W. Hager «nd' #.o„ h v r
Federal Prohibition Director Fred 1 w Jjf.® 7h_ 'i in^nr inn
D. Dlsmuke will determine whether I f w"*
or not the government will take • H* 1 *? w " erv *, u , nch £°
action against the three West To T. 1,10 ****,, ,
Point youths implicated in the * addressed by airs. 1
shooting episode on fhe Weat Point* Savannah, c halrmnn <
Chlpley highway at midnight Tues
day.
The next step In the Investigation
was made known by Director Dio*
HEARING TO
BE HOT ONE
Must th* etty'a leading legal tal
ent haa been employed by one side
or another In the case and th* ar<
Kutnchts are expected to be both
heated and lively when Judge
Fortson calls the hearing, which
will take place Iq the superior court
mom nnd not In the judge's pr!
vote office.
Most of the bearing will be con
■tuned In arguments and but few
witnejixe4 will be called to the
stand. Robert Ould, representing
the Independent warehouse com*
vany, A. R. Nicholson, of the asm'
warehouse, representatives ’ of the
Bunk of Charleston, and probabh
other banka, and representatives
of Barrett and company may be
asked to tell of the transaction!
that have caused the legal entan*
a laments.
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English Cotton
Experts Visit
State College
Como Here to Study jbx-
isting Types of Cotton
and Methods For Im
proving Staple.
Two English cotton experts
.were In Athena Friday conferrinr
with officials at the State College
of Agriculture. The visitors are
Arthur Foster, chairman of the
North Lancashire Cotton Splnn*r»
and Manufacturers Association ol
England and Arno 8. Pearse. gen*
eral secretary of the International
Federation of Maater Cotton Spin
ners and Manufacturers Associa
tion of Manchester, England.
The visitors are making nn ex
tensive toiy of the cotton regtona
legislative committee,
George C. Armstrong nnd 1
Gordon, Jr.
HIGH COLLARS
While it is not expected to be
come a popular style, the high (for the purpooe of studying the
collar ia seen on some of the most vartooe type* of cotton grown h*p
- chic costumes. Lingerie collars land methetfa for improver
learn toUre not so favored as those of the I dusting conditions in thb
material of tho frock* * I growing industry,
law.
will
V
CHANGE IS
UNNECESSARY
Messrs Gordon and
spoko against tho
In tho Civil Service
It la unnecessary and u
Gordon also advocated
geatlon that tliQ tear
Wiped ont here and
bo elected from tho ‘
Tills ouggcitlon was
(Isrlal sanction but
he brought up again In
tee to complin the
which will he fram
gnstlona tent In, by
Izatlons.
It waa pointed out
echool board, naw
posed of two members
ward, one from the i
tho mayor, who 1, i
flcto. Tho auggeatlon
that thla makes the
cumbersome and the
abould lie decreaaed i
appointed to membership,
datea for council and t
be given an opiortunlly
their views on thla next
Mr. Gordon stated that t
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