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| "PV:V :' v r i' 3801 T— Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribers THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Folicy Freo Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. Established 1832 Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. . ATHENS C( Middling 22’/| Previous Close THE WEATHER: Slightly Cooler With Proba Shower* • VOL. 91. NO. 143 Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JULY SO, 1923. A. B. C. Paper Single Copies 2 Cents Dally. S Cents Sunday. Heart Expert 4-4 4-4 4—4 4-4 London Follies Queen Now Wife of English • Earl Called In Harding's Illness 4—4 4"4 4-4 4—!• *5—!* 4—5* 4-4* 4—4 4—4 4-4 4-4, 4 4 4 4 Awaits French Reply To British Note STRICT SECRECY IS STILL CONTENTS BE REPLY i Newspapers Assert That Agreement Is Reached on Main Points, Despite Cloak of Secrecy. Slit! ii Xorthenk, whom she married cently In Chicago. (By Associated Press.) PARIS.-The text of the Bel gian reply to the British commu nications dealing with reparations | was received at the Quay d’Orsay I Sunday morning and the French 1 and Belgian replies delivered to • the British foreign office, j M. Poincare, who is spending the (Week-end at his country place at j . (Sampigny, has his first real re- The latest American girl to Jolr | p. )se after j 9 mon ths in premier- cl.isive Knglish royalty a Mis. Hhip inU}rrupted durin th £ d to ssica Drown, n.rmer Pol lies girl | re< . eive the cont , nts </ th e Belgian a!!Jit 0 11 over a special telephone from ’” arr *** the foreign office. While the strictest secrecy still is preserved with regard to the contents of the replies of France and Belgium to the British note it can be said that the Belgian gov ernment has given effect to cer tain observations made by the French government, with regard to certain phrase in its draft r«- j ply, as M. Poincare did to the ob servations of the Belgian govern ment in the draft of his reply sub mitted to it on Friday. The secrecy on which so much was nisitsed has not prevented the Brussels and Paris newspapers of _ , , 1 serious thought from assuring 15 a r r o t* ■CMPPllIttented their readers that the replies will For Efficient Way He NINE YEARS AGO THE STORM BROKE Monday Athens, along with the rest of the 1 the most interest exciting Sunday in its Nine years world, awoke history. This date, nine y**ars ago, the great World War had just started; on Sunday armies were marching all over Europe and on Monday declaring war was the popular pastime. On Sunday, as the events broke, all Athens drunk in the news from bulletins posted by the newspaper* here and it was clear then that the world was on the eve of a new era, on the threshold of a catastrophe of world wide import and influence. Now, nine years later, the actual conflict is over, has been over nearly five years, but the apparent tranquility of the days before August 1st. 11*14, seems yet in the distant. The volcano that erupted nine years ago finally spread its and hatred to this country and America was swept into the great cr hordes toward tic Since Augus history that are November 11th, i excitement as did dlict to stop another invasion of the eastern r.t. 11*14, there have been many dates in cinornble but with the possible exception of K, none of them hardly carried the tingling unday, August 1st, 1914, nine years ago. VILLA DEATH DREAM NOW SHATTERED Agricultural Pageant At 8 O’clock Monday Predicted Disorders By Sunday Gatherings Fail to Mater ialize. History of Agriculture From Washington’s Time Will Be Depicted in Amphitheater on Campus of Agricultural College. Will Attract Largo Crowd of People. Advertised Roll Weevil Poison Over the Cotton Belt. be found to be an agreement In principle on leading points; that there will be no negotiations with Germany before abandonment of Germany’s resistance^ evacuation of The Agricultural pageant, which as on the Mummer School enter- Inment program for last Fridns •ailed off (tii account of rain ill be shown at tin* amphitheatre, but AUGUSTA, Ga.—A thorough subordinate to satisfactory pay- ment of differences concerning the method of paying reparations. Agricultural Col! elgth o'clock, M< The final concert of the juimmei school music department will be given Tuesday evening, 8:1G at the University* Chapel. The theme of the I’agennt to be that the presented Monday evening will Ruhr will belP rew, »t ,n graphic form the history The final concert of the musb department, to he given Tueadaj evening, will include vlolln t vocal* and instrumental numbers. Or* impositions of Bach (By Associated Press.) BERLIN. — Anti-fascist day, Sunday, with which the German communists had threatened to overthrow the Cuno government and incidentally wipe out the bourgeois?. revealed itself ns a bolshevik hoax of the familiar (type, notwithstanding the fact that it pro veil to be one of the chief elements of aggravation is) the perturbed economic and polit ical situation during the' past week. The demonstration in greater Berlin and at other points sim* me red down to indoor meetings dhtinguishol by lurid oratory rather than heavy attendances. In £*eipsic, Dresden and at Thurin- 'in points, where open air dem- strations wer® permitted, tjie imnunisls were able to muster only restricted portions of their campus, at ( Haydn, ami Mendelssohn, will ’ evening. played by 27 pianists In ensembb, CToorge Folsom Gran berry t director ^ reorganization of Hill’s Mixture| w | 1 } c h already has been proposed Corporation is being made, and J.j by Belgium to the allies. T. Clark has been elected secre-, * ^ tary and treasurer, It was an- « • ■ - iTlieile - The continue- OOClCty VjlrlS -.iced Saturday. or the corporation, it was said, j will be made under the most spitious conditions. Although all of the old officers < f the corporation have resigned, of whom Frank H. Barrett was; president; William M. Dixon, vice Ordered Around As Hello Girls pre WORCHESTER, Mass, iltliy society girls here lent; Thomas Barrett, Jr., lnK ordered about daily by their president and treasurer; Ju- {,y"| er> dictated'by their liun Barrett, vice president; and nnd >co ided by their friends. Thomas Getzen, secretary, it was Vet thl . y take it all smiling, for announced that Frank H. Barrett,,, rt „( their j«»b. For Mlm D. Hill of Gough, Ga., will Made linc Noyes and Miss Ruth of agriculture in America, begin ning with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were farm ers as wel ns statesmen. The wife of the- American farmer and thr American farm boys and girls wit be introduced, after which the farm woman wl! ltell of her mul titudinous duties, mentioning the fact that she Is still listed In the United States (Vnsus ns a woman of the music department, protnl es a varied program of works p: the ancient and modern masters o musical composition and the man^ who have enjoyed former concert- directed by Mr. Cranberry are an ticipsting one of the most delight ful entertainments of the seuaon In this final -performance. This concert is especially Inter est Ing from the social point of view because severnlj musician! Georlga well from all ot from Alabai Virginia, who are studying In th* Music department of the Rummer School will take part In the pro gram. CULLED OFF AS NEW COMPLICATIONS ARE EE Noted Physicians Called Into Consultation As President Develops More Serious Symptoms Mon* day. FRANCISCO.— dent Harding will be rushed hack to Washington by the fcatest special train avail able, as soon aa he recovers from the present illness to be suffi ciently able to stand the Jour ney back home. ,/fke unused Villa tomb in the center of an ancient remeterv in 'hihuahua Cite. e.„«,.l ^ orth Mexican fiRf tt7SL time" following and no where did the < _ parades or pyblic meetings call Chihuahua City, capital of the for police intervention. Much criticism has been leveled inst the Cuno government , Hitting the reds-to pursue „ . . s campaign of unusual violence in; And* «o f at heavy expense and much time, he'eftefe’d a ttfftib fdr their party organs during the past himself, one of the most Impressive In all Mexico, ten days in view of the prevailing But after Villa as murdered recently, officials refused to permit unrest growing out of the money his body to be carried here. He lies in Parrall, and the great tomb eled ’ u Mexico.—Pancho Villa wanted to be buried here character InTif™ °* b *‘ n ‘ fa ** outstanding and food situations. That the reds remains untenanted, were aide to recruit only a small It stands in ■ cemetery in the heart of the capital of the state of portion uf their following Sunday Chihuahua, and may be seen for miles. was due in no small measure to The Rodriguez tomb is just north of it. Scores of others surround the veto placed upon their agita- it, most of them bearing inscriptions dating back to 1700. tion by the united socialists and It is possible that some time a future administration will permit the labor federations leaders. j transfer of the body. But that stems a remote possibility now. Following thin, the Stale College will be rated on information on : Unci Rani and of AgriciiHurt The activities of this department nnd that of the department n Public school music directed bj John Lang Gibb, have been *• Berlin food facilities are re ceiving the active attention of the the i Ne ntinuc actively connected «• company. Northeaster bankers and cot- ..ere here for sev eral «lays recently, paid Frank II. Rarrett a high compliment for the efficient way in which he has *o ally advertised Hill’s Mixture over the American cotton belt, snying that it is the greatest six months’ advertising accomplishment they have ever known. The election of Mr. Clark as secretary and treasurer was done by unanimous consent, and when his name was suggested to a large banking company which is not in 1 ‘ * ’ th. sted in the situation, a higher Harrington, lender* of the yoiuw'r set became “hello girls’’ helplm out the telephone company In » time of emergency. After Altar ........ ...« at the end of the telephone wire, the. endorsement was given him, it was ••It's mighty hard to keep a *mll< In the voice all the rime, but we're going to stick it through. Then Iwtween calls. Mis* ’ Kcyei told of her experiences: ••l’ m afraid I expected everyone to be as courteous and considerate to me as though I were In a. ball room or In my own home," sin said. "But I soon learned differ •■hi ly. One man, a butcher, be came awfully irritated Mr. Clark charge of the business out. active through- parties announcing the reor ganization of the corporation said that the condition of the concern is all right, otherwise other steps vould have been taken in the premises, it was announced by those interested. RUHR BECOMING RURAL ESSEN, Germany.—Grass has Ircgun to sprout on the tops of thousands of freight care lying idle in the railroad yards of the Ruhr. Many of them are filled with merchandise and have not turned a wheel since the French J.nd Belgians marched into the in dustrial area last January. The grass in some eases grows luxiantly while London, Parrs, Berlin and Brussels talk about peace. HOLD EXAMS. (By Associated Press.) ATLANTA. — Instructions for Holding the state teachers exami nations throughout Georgia on August 3 and 4, were being sent rut Saturday by State Superin tendent Ballard. The examination '‘ill be bald under the direction of the County School Superintend ents, who will receive copies or the questions from the State De partment of Education. him the wrong number am! lime finding it of fruitless Jig wearing he yelled Inti rtfhsclonuhl After tr% mlnut gllng nnd the phone: ’’Say! Arp you dead? Go on bad. to mother and gimme somebdy who can get a number." Miss Harrington doesn’t like hei Job much1 eltb Life wouldn't lw» soys. “If I had to o sweet.” sh« » a telephone operator all the time. -The business men alone are nd mirahle In the way they treat us Hut even they are wearing on th< cars lying nerves." ^ _ NEGRO CUT? ANOTHER Wash Alexander, negro, is belt! In the city Jail charged with cut ting Charlie Hill, another negro, Sunday night. Clark HHI. broth ... of The wounded man. Is also heF by the police. Alexander cut HU When the latter tried to stop hlrr from disturbing the neighborhood of Fitch's Alley. Alexander nnd Clarke Hill were drunk. It Is said. AUSTRALIAN FRUITS PROSPER THIS k EAR SYDNEY, Australia.—Th" an nual fruit production of Australia i Ncientlflc ngrleul- »e College will ap- irgn nixed force to lentiric knowledge iImh.h of the work through the prison- unity spirit,’’ the I South Carolina nnd 00 „ tr oiler, who is in touch with the league of aftricul- [ tpre with .the purpose of obtain- 1 lug increased deliveries and also i improved method* of distribution * at points of delivery. Imperfect; organization in connection with the allotment of consignments of ( cattle, potatoes and dairy pro-, <1 that It was found Imposslhl. ducts are blao.rd for much of'the ; combine the two in the final * o0(] shortage in the markets of ‘ There will, therefore, b. spread thin The broadei will he shoi tilth'll of *’< rural church, the home twon n»-i paper, and th** rum* school, all which are helped and strengths by tho f* ture. COMMUNIST KILLED [.ONDON.—A clispaeth to the' Cofdrnl News from Berlin saysj the big cities. special demonstration of puhll* •ehoof music Wednesday evening In view of tho fact that Mr. Glbh’r work at the Rummer school |r form'll "what Tjtta *-»Ty Vrouhl. on Sunday In con , .ho most strlkln.ly suceef,,' NcVltuT J _ wodn , ,&re^n^ f ,rirrhra , S'Elbert County WodfMda; | up # nl( . t . tiR .. of farmers. One j communist was CAN’T ESCAPE IT! WASHINGTON. — Maryland and the District of Columbia are experiencing an influx of motorist* from Virginia, auch uh has never before taken place. The reason 1* Virginia has a gnsolinu tax of 3 cents on every gallon of fuel bought there. So the motorist* come here for their gas* where it isn’t taxed. But jhn for long! Beginning January 1 Maryland and the District of Columbia will col lect a 2-cent gasoline tax! At that, it will be cheaper than buying fuel in Virginia. courses offered this yenr. consld , . jerahlc* Interest Is centered around P 1 ”' killed and six TAX REFORMATION Resolution Introduced to Postpone Action of Tax Problem to Next Veer. Judge Fortson To Hear Cotton Claims Tuesday were injured, Day Tuesday At Agv College CLAIMS 1 -TREATY Conference Sunday Night Futile. Clause May Be Inserted to Bring About Settlement. (By Associated Pre*rf.) , LAUSANNE—The Turko-Ameri- can. Treaty will be drafted In .three languages, French, English Land Turkish, with French as th* I official text If itn agreement I * reached here, as It now nppeura In- Men creaain * | y probable. American and Turkish repre- Rarrett and Company Ad-j mlts Insolvency; Willing to Be Adjudicated a Greek Leeation in London Bankrupt, Answer Says. I Denies That Republicans Are Staging Revolution Judge Blanton Fortson will hear the claims of thoie.who have un incumbered cotton stored In the Independent Warehouses, Incor porated, here Tuesday. This an nouncement was made at the hear- ATLANTA.—The resignation of Fret! Bridges. ' rending rlerk of _ . . . . the house, who was attacked in ^ tu , rt ay " hen c * r '*[ n ’ • 1 **' the Injunction sgcursd against in Greece. (Bv A»«vlit?d Press.) I.\ NDON—Although ther Is continued Republican agitation Gree, resulting in much appreh* , rtrtn ^ v slon among the monarchists, there i °**' Is little cause for Immediate alarm concerning the stability Over 200 Business and Farmers Will Spend I eentatlve. aa.Jn wren [led with th, Dav Studying Improved cl * l,n * < * u *“ lon " Sunday nizhi ’ ■ w 7 , r I without eomlns to an a.ireement 1* arming iuetnOuS. j l,ut armnaln. fnr another meeting ■ | to b. held Monday monitor. More than two hundred Elbwt| It t« reuarded as posslhte that . ounly farmer, and business mar i 'hr wlutlon may he found by In* tvtn spend Tuesday at the Sun »rtlnr a clause In the treaty .ftp fotteae of Aarloulture studytnt “•»*'"* that (he American clalnr methoda to "beat the boll weevil." j w,n h* examine,! hy two .pprnla- The trip was errs need hy th. clt- I ***• on * Turk nnd one Amerle.n Irena of that. county for the pur ' Should these two fait to reach n pose of securtnr more Informetlor 'preetleal nrreement they would he on alfalfa -and other crops whk-t (empowered to decide on the tneth- 1^.! they are now Interested as a sub- od ° r a*"lem.nt, acordtn* to the SAN FRANCISCO — The President, of the United States is a sick man Howserious the illness may be was not said, late Sunday night, beyond the statement that "new symp toms have arisen during the day, indicating complica tions in the case of the Chief Executive.” Though the illness may be a passing one, it wav thought serious enough tr. bring about the cancellation of the President's entire California program and to bring into consulation two of the leading California phy sicians. A bulletin lhaued early Sunday by Brt,. den. Sawyer, tho persona/ Physician of President Harding, stated' "The President In murih better, but the facta aro that he lie n really sick man, suffering from a violent attack of ptomaine poi soning." After that bulletin was Issued tho ITtsIdent developed other symptoms of a more serious na ture nnd another physician was called Into consultation. As no rapid Improvement was shown by the President, it was thought best to eSIl two mors physicians in to consultation. The four doctors met In consul- tution and after a rather lengthy conference emerged from the room without Issuing any statement, al though Gen. Sawyer had previous ly announced that following ih« consultation, n bulletin of the Pres ident’s condition would be made public. Won** of tho four physicians would make a personal of unoffi cial statement on tho condition of I*re*ldent Harding. W 1 mnaultln* phyalcl.ina w.r. General Sawyer. Dr. Hub«rt Work Seeretary of the Interior and form-' er Preald.nt of tho American cal AMnclatlon, Dr. liny T Wilbur, Prealtlent of Stanford 1 'n verelty ami th. preaent the American Medical An and Hr. charle'a Cooper of ] fiiro University, . heart FEAR HEART COMPLICATION . I (dilute or supplement to cotton fo* The business men of Elbertoi ’ij^innd Rowtnan have volunteered »u* the warehouse company by thel throne. Hritish diplomatic officials to * >r * n k the visitors ti Manufacturing company Alhen. Monday lnform.il the j |n ra ^ m , nt|ns „„ Th( oreiyri Offlc. here. -' ... i,.... t ...i resolution charging a miscount on an amendment relating to the D"-. partine.it of Agriculture last week, Athene Moore^chicf c!criT. tC< * ®“ raar * t Action on making th. Injunction j The Greek Legation The’ ren,lotion* directed n t| permanent wan poatpomd until nnunred that there waa no trt-tl Bridgi-S Was defeated by the Saturday, August 4th. Ill, reporta of n Iteniihllc.in revolu- hou.e after several hours’ debate. . Fortaon announced that tionary movement In Oreee. * The smemhnent which, it is (he would Imhu« an order releas* li is said that these unfoun lcc alleged was counted out was one* ,nB 8,1 cotton Individually when j rumors have been appearing removing all appropriations for • 'h' reeelpta have not been hypothe- the Bureau of Markets. The reso-1 "»*"■' 1 “"<• -here the owners havr lution nrovided that no one hold- e,tabllahed their elalma lo the ing office in the Stale Depart-! natlafacilon of the local receivers ment within the last six months j J- Wilkin, nnd B. F II.rd.mai could held any poiiticn in the 1 . , T h* cotton that la Involved In a„„.e Itriilecs wax formerly con-"oana through the failure of Bar- house Bridges waa'formerly con-'bmn. through nected with the Department of feU «"d company will be held pond Agriculture. L'^'ioe'reaJd'Vrom about 1,000,0001 Asserting that aufficient Infor- ho.he'ls’in 1918 to almut 4,7023"«, raation cannot be obUitud at pres- J2?tat12* r* th ’ t ^ ,ourt " n more The fruit finds a ready market I days , US'»-32 «^-|SS^SSX2&, , 5>SSnr hearing Ing the outcome of the Haturday C. If. I’hlnlgy. manager of thr local branch of Bacrett and Com pany. and C. C McFhall,- book- k«H-pcf v went to Aur>i«ta Sunday «H-|a!r,/Wt-ui in AURiiztu cdtrjmt with them th* recerds ol (Turn to Pag* Six)- some time In the European ITesi nnd that only Sunday night, th* Legation here received a denial o them from the Greek Oovernnient. BANK FAILS COLQUITT-The First Natlona Psnk of Colquitt failed to open Itr doors Monday, said to b.» the re sult of a run on the Bank Raturday The cause of the run was not ni\* nouneed. The capital stock of thf bank Is fifty thousand dollars t am’ K Is.reported to , hnvf deppsltr amountlns to thirty t^ousapd del- lar»- e Atlanta Constitution Monday statei editorially: "Between 2&0 and S00 Elbert county farmers have signed up ft vlnlt. In one party, tomorrow thi Rtate College of Agricultare at ker® on th^ nleht Inserted clause. JUDGE INDICTED KANSAS CITY.—Edward Flom- ing. Judge of the South Rldo Mu nicipal Court here, was Indicted Saturday by the grand Jury on n charge of leaving the scone of an accident before officers arrived. The indictments grew out of the wrecking of Judge Fleming’s car __ her® on the nltrht of June 13, which Ath* ns. ond to study at first ban/1 was responsible for the death or the practical system of balanced | Mrs. Elizabeth Dugan, who was agriculture, alfalfa production. «nf riding In the car at the time of ‘n general nil of the ro-ordlnatlns the accident, branches of huslness-llks, system- { farming und^r existing’ eco- j \ PROBE AGRFFMENT nomle conditions 'This is the spirit that wins In the face of the boll weevil, labor short nge and other conditons looked up on as agricultural Hl> It la th« aplrlt that frequently turns adver* ally into profit; and that dsvolopf greater.and bigger things by rea son of barriers In the old boatdg (Turn to Pag® Six) (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO.—The agreement of snm® twenty-five leading refiners of the mid-continent field Satur day to dose their plants daring August to combat heavy jfcrodoc- tion will. be. investigate*! tar th* ual*-.* affiea .fcan, it day sight. Th. culling In of Dr. Coop (teth.r with oth,r A...inp, ,, , Inillcalcil that the effect of p..« ; oil.!., .nn..1l a. . .. _ ^ J . ■■■■I alble complication, on tho iloni-a heart action I. belnir cil carefully. An Informal .latomant Monday mnrnlna conveyed formutlon thnt Harding main In Ran FraRcIaco han completely recovered. It la thought that du. to _ of .xcrefec on the Ion* trai t mental trip tha President mure, susccptlhle to tha ntomalno polaonln*. y.r stated that he waa of ... Ion thnt tha Initial attack ncs. was roused by tho CO tin* crab, and fish Alaskan water which times with copper and rapid chan*, from the Alaska mal. to the much warm.r aggravated th. attack. BALK AT VACCINATION; LONDON—England Is , n r „, danger of n rmallpox cpldonilc a<- f-nrfling to Ilr. W. W. Kaap. I’hll- a.lolphla. who Is visiting here. No vllt* Chamberlin.- Minister of Health, agrees with him. Dr. Keen criticised the rei'- nf ac tion of 1-srlIaip.nt In permitting “consclenllous objector," to vncrjnatlon. Gloucester Is now suffering from on outbreak of thr