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-aj 11. Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribers THE BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Foiicy Freo THE Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. -HERALD Established 18S1 Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING 2-1 PREVIOUS CLOSE 23J). THE WEATHER: Probably Clear With Littld Change in Temperature, VOL. 91, NO. 135 Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA„ MONDAY, AUGUST IS, 1923. A. B, C. Paper Single Copies 2 Cents Dally. S Cents Sunday, Black Gold Brings Riches to Poor Orphan Girl CUNO AND CABINET TENDER RESIGNATIONS •M* •!•—•M' •M* *1 —4* 4* 4* Lord Curzon Declares Occupation' of Ruhr Illegal and Unauthorized ACCEPTED BY PIES. DOROTHY CARMICHAEL I’ONCA CITY, Okla.—Sixteen- That homestead now is valued yeajr-old Dorothy Carmichael has at $30,000,000. Oil, that's the rea- suddenly become so rich she's still'son. dizzy from the change. Half of it is Dorothy’s. The Money—dollars—millions—heaps other half has l.een willed to Mrs. of good things—nothing to do hut Pettit, her aunt and governess, gather 'em in—and little Dorothy living there when the land was alone to enjoy them! still considered good only for Alone, without a mother—she)mediocre farming, had left homo when Dorothy was 1 Now, Dorothy, wrested from a baby in the Philippines. With- the claws of poverty, is living out a father—he died in a Manila! with her aunt in a pretty little hospital when she was 3. With cottage in town, learning her les- only her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Pettit,! sons as every other school girl does to car© for her and direct her, I and enjoying life as though she Dorothy came into her strange!always had been used to the lux- nonderland of wealth. juries of millions. Were it not for Michael Koeg-I Her royalties — estimated at ban. a buddy of her father’s in thejsomething like $1,000 a day— Philippines, Dorothy might stilt still reel her head when she InmKs he there, a poverty-stricken or-j of the enormous income, phan. But Koeghan brought the But she tries to forget her girl to the United States, sftught riches, turning her mind to music her fathers relatives and finally) and play, and the good things her settled her on the little famliyj poor parents could not provide for homestead at Tonkawa, near here. I her. FRANCE SAYS GREAT IF OF HER 10 ALLIES “France and Belgium Not Ready to Answer Such a Summons Even From England.” PARIS—The British note, delfv 5 rrocl here Monday Is regarded In of ficial French circles as a positive disavowal of Britain’s war allies mid a frank espousal of the Off man cause. It Is thought that the reply of Premier Poincare will Ik* dispatch ed In due time, although official* hold that the note from Great Rrlt- atn smacks'so much of propaganda that It might properly be Ignored "This nmnzing document pro poses to haul France and Belgium EIGHT HOUR DAY A REALITY (By Associated Press) GARY—The elgth hour day In the United States Steel Mills here heroines a reality Monday At first It will only Include blast furnace workers. Undct the new wage system which at tends the changing of the time day, the men receive four dollar* i day wht 3 they formerly wer< paid four dollars and eighty cents. * HOUSE MIPS BILL WHICH WOULD CALL LOR NIGHT FACT THAT ENGLAND IS IT IN SYMPATHY WITH RUHR POLICY Split in Entente Foreseen 1 As Note is Handed to Belgian and French Am bassadors. NUMBER 23)00,000, REP0RT8 PASTOR “Baptists In Russia hnvo In creased from 100,000 in 1014 to 2,000.000 at the present time.” This was the statement made by the Rev. ITdyar Y. .Vullln. president of the Baptfft Theo logical Seminary at Loulrtville. The minister arrived in New York on board the Swedish* American liner Stockholm with fifteen delegates to the Baptist World Congress, held In Sweden July 21-28. Entire Armies mil be Put to (PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Sleep,n Wars of the Future mm ^ (By Associated Press.) LONDON.—Great Bri tain openly went on rec ord as to its position with regard to the Franco-Bel gian occupation of the Ruhr. tion correspondence with the, to Curriculum, allies since June. Ldrd Curzon, secretary for for eign affairs. In an elaborate note dealing with nil the manifold q«- (By Associated Press.) I NKW * YORK.—Whole armies put to sleep and taken prisoner in gas warfare is by no means an lmpcK3ibility 25 years hence, Col. Raymond F. Bacon, chief of the Technical Division of the Chomi cal Warfare Service, A. K. F. says in a description of the pos sibilities of the future art of war made public by the American Chemical Society. The $2.000,000 spent on the re search organization did more to- wafrd winning the war, Col. Bacon asserts, than any other $200,000,- to meet in combat man to man. “But no one looking back on 000 spent in other ways. One of (that period would attempt to say the greatest lessons of the war ^ waa possible to have stay- “One can easily imagine the sit-1 out ion at the time the fighting was hand to hand with the spear or the sword, and gunpowder was | first introduced, which in those! days perhaps permitted the antag onists to fight at a range of 100 ^•„u^r«T t pro h br Chief Executive Enters ‘tins the horrible new mode of White House OfflCCS For •S*&rZ,*SiJfS; First Time. Spends Quiet stand off 200 yards rather than« Sunday. hv so far gone almost unheeded, according to Col. Bacon, who ti^ues: ed i he hand of progress and tq have prevented by any legislation or ngicement the use of gun-pow- warfare. Moreover, the To say the use of gas in war fare must be abalished is almost the same as saying that no pro gress must bo made in the art of _ .warfare toward making it more!with spear and sword was more H ‘* * ;efficient or more humane. If one icruel and inhumane than tho l (By Associated Prcfs.) WASHINGTON. — President Coolidge took up his duties for the first time in the executive offi ces of the Whlto House Monday morning. It was announced that the pres pacts of the-problem, sets fold In that the British government tranls tho occupation of the Ruhr as Illegal ADOPT VOCATIONAL TRAINING COURSE t„ 'rwuU"of the"great battle, of hi,- 1 fighting with the gun and bullet.. r „^t v - W ’’k/ , Sixeen High Schools, In- tory _ one wil [ fin ,| that tlll , vi ,,. Similarly, at thiv'present time w« umu enter7L r ‘tb» k nf'i r. with the pubhea- eludimr Hartwell and La- tori.m, general conquered hi;, cannot effectually stay the nimident ahimk^hatidi Sunday ot its official! “la Add This Course^K,X , S“c l ^,^toiLliti» l ^J“S!K 2 ' ' sat saws ass s*. ana. zjstra S3Sg?KS£c & CHANCELLOR CALLED TO VACATED OFFICE Dr. Gustav Strcsscman, Leader of German Peo ple’s Party, Called By Ebert to Post. (By Associated Press.) BERLIN. — In accord ance with the will of his people, and following the recent resolution by one of the powerful political parties, Chancellor Cuno, for the second time ten dered his resignation to President Ebert of Ger many here Sunday and it was accepted by the head of the government. The entire cabinet also resign- w-JPTSS ed at the same time. that the Band to hand fginung Mra . Hardlng , oavca the WhlU) Dr. Ou.t,,v Streams*. i. He wax accompanied by his sec- . * ~ rke office tho Sixteen high schools In the slate have added Vocational Agri culture to their courses this year.. Following 1h a list of the school! 1 taking up this work, ns given out J by Paul Chapman. 8tnte Super il unauthorized by the visor of Vocational Agriculture: Versailles treaty, thus supporting. Zehulon. Hart county. Gore, Tal* the German contention In this rc-: Inpoosn, Dillard, Pelham. Camilla, sport. At tho mme tlmo, however, j Portel # Lnvonla, Hnellvllle, Brook- ho 'offors to submit the point to let, Warrenten, Powder Fprirgs | strong CA1DA LOSES ALU arbitration at Tho Hague or by some other body. While still adhering to n tone of the utmost of courtesy and saying nothing definite with regard to and separate action on the part of Groat Britain. Lord Curzon empha sizes that Great Britain, cannot agree with the French policy, which he Intimates plainly seems to point to nn Indefinite occupa- (Turn to Pag® 8lx.) Votes First to Hold Extra Sessions Rest of Present Term Then Defeats Bill. ’ (liy Associated Pres,.) ATLANTA.—The house Monday (voted to hold night sessions for .. 'the rest of the time during which their efforts to make Germany car-(the assembly is due to-remain in ry out her treaty obligations.” said, session anti then changed its mind a Foreign office offlclnl. “France.and voted not to hold the extra and Belgium are not ready to nns-i sc'"’«ns. won such n summons even from Milner of Dodge county, urged Great Britain” |the mgnt sessions, saying that im- Thin statement made by tho of portnnt bills could ho considered if Austell. Rentz, Brnselton. This is the largest numbor ,ol schools to begin this work in an> one year since the passage six years ago of the Smith Hughey Bill creating this type of cduea* tion. Mr. Chapman states Mint, he has received more requestf for this work than can be granted due to the lack of funds. He states fur ther that, last year In this state there were thirty jeven high schools, twelve Agricultural and Mechanical (A. & M) schools, and eighteen negro schools which rlod on Vocational Agricultural work ns n regular course lined by the State Flans This, and many other things, are an Indira tion that the sentiment for this type of education fs rapidly creasing The Federal Board furnishes one half of the funds for carrying this work, and the local board must match every dollar furnished by the Federal Board The work Is under the supervi slon of a teacher who Is a cellegt graduate and who has had prr Find Chlorine f Gas Will Not I Kill Flu Germ Nine Reported Dead At_ Seftz While Several! tlcal experience In fanning. He Others D : ~ AA " TT *— 1 * lve ® c,a ** room instruction and Monday. fWrtl. while In n strict sense still unofficial, reflects the tens* D eling which has been aroused by the note In the higher French circles. While there has been a feeling In the nlr for sometime that the al titude of Great Britain on the rep arations question /would possibly precipitate a crisis. It was no! thought that such a storm of pro test would be aroused ns bus mn* ferfnllzed since the note was de livered. Mercer President Occupies Pulpit Of First Baptist presl- Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, dent of Mercer University. visitor to Athens Sunday. Pr Weaver came here to occupy th* Pulpit of the First Baptist church In the absence of the pastor, Rev j- C. Wilkinson. The educator spoke at the morn ing and evening services of the church, delivering very Inspiring moHsages at both services Dr Weaver assumed the presidency o’ iT'L"!’ 0 " 1 f °“ r ?.*" V"' LfyVfew day,, and hi, condition clnco that time the Inatttutlon har ’.„,l i,„ ho- shown remarkable growth. (By Associated Press.) LONDON. — Sanguinary fight ing between tho Communists and militia has occurred in Seitz, Sax ony, according to a Central News dispatch received here from Ber the extra sessions were held, which it would otherwise he unable to consider. Among the more impor tant legislation which the night sessions would take care of in cludes the proposed * tax reforms bills. Speaking in favor of the ses sions, Representative Elders of Tattnall stated that the night ses sion would remove the necessity for the calling of an extra ses sion of the assembly later in, the ^ The house also defeated a reso lution which would have called from the senate the general t*< bill. The authors of the resolution stated that the bill had been has tily considered and that it in cluded an item requiring hanks. „ to pay an ad valorem tax on their A LUEBECK. — The Communists i i_ I qrn hnbbnp- this ntv nftor fnranntr The first official caller to pay a visit to the chief executive in the officee at the White llouec wa, Frank W. Stearns of Boston, a close personal friend and picked by many to be the '.Tolunel House” of the new administra tion. The president spent n quiet Sunday at. his suite st the hotel and made no official appoint monta, preferring a day of com plete rest following the strain un der which he has been laboring for nsat few dsvs since the {death of President Harding. 1 Ho attended the regular Sun | day morning aervlcea at the Firat ... . BOSTON.—It was the oxygen ~ “ ‘ ' ' ‘ OTTAWA-In the death «rf| t , ho chlorlne _, n the gas In-ig?®""* President Harding Canada has . . . . . ... j Stearns, lost a friend, and international by tho ShUdents of the Un H Following the sermon, which issues that were under negotia-ivcraity of Arkansas that warded j^as delivered by Rev. Dr. Nehe- tion between the Canadian and j off influenza. miah Boynton, a graduate of tho United States governments are| The finding made recently by n*a*M»«!'« a imo Mifop Amh«ni now left more or’ less up in tho .the American Chemical Society a j r , that Inhalntions of chlorine and The death of President Hard- oxygen among a large body of ing has touched the heartstrings students decreased the cases of of every Canadian, from His Ex-'flu from 133 per thousand to 44 cellency Governor-General Lord per thousand, Is due to the prop- Byng to the lowliest worker. Not etties of the oxygen alone, accord- It Was Oxygen That President Has Asked! Warded Off Disease in Friendly Treatment on| University Student, a Pulpwood; Embargo! Specialist Discovers. May Now Be Dropped, j BOSTON.—It was the oxygen:Congregational church with Mra, Coolidge and Mr. and Mrs. Frank president’s Alma Mater, Amherst College, the patsor was enter tained at luncheon by President Coolidge at the hotel. During the day, Chief Justice Taft called to suy farewell before resuming his vacation in the Ca- nadian woods. Secretary Chris- since the death of King Edward Ing to Dr. Thomas W. Leavitt, of t j tn an j D r . Sawyer also called toM" «;"*”«• * cabinet which would ac- IV. has the Dominion displayed j Malden, an expert in respiratory iay t h a t Mrs. Harding, who is at «®Pt **' J pmtform tho program* of According to the reports, a large body of Communists stormed the town hall, which was occupied by. iH soldiers and there was also con-ill'.^J' sidcrablc fighting in the streets, 1 following the attack on the hall. The bodies of nine Communists have been recovered while thirty more were injured, 1 many thought to be fatally wounded. Many of the militia were also wounded, though so far none have been re ported as fatally Injured. ry out their clasa work tn a prac tical way on the farm. The most progressive farmers educators, and business men have realised the importance of Vocn- tlonal Agriculture. and ara landing _ • t - ron , miMion to go an- every aMtitaac. o get this type tI ^, y owr thc proJect> with , hB Hlch U S^h^?i«”t!f b nMrela. ' n ' h ’ *** ult that lhc l ,ro P°“‘ 1 P ul P" riere be no “o7nthu. ‘hat '-JE* e ^ arg0 “ "° W “ kely 10 Ka.HiWled off. such sorrow. ! diseases. . , When thc Cabinet Council of. The sUtemcnt of the American the Dominion government met du- (Chemical Society concluded with ring the week, several subjects;a recital of the possibilities of that President Harding was vital-{treatment with chlorine and other ly interested in were up for dis- gases in respiratory diseases, cussion. One of them was thc appointing!OXYGEN , of a Royal Commission to Inves- j EFFECTIVE tieate pulpwood conditions. One, of the last things President Hard- “It was the oxygen in the gas ,i:.i wkti. r.nn.ia «... » n inhniiwi by these men that pre- Vocatlonal Agriculture as Kas b^enj^ __ cnrlred on. la filling a great n««l| LC , vt , N PENNSYLVANIA in nrorgla'a Agricultural develop. COMMUNISTS HOLD CITY capital steok, surplus and un.livid-|ar« holding thixcity after forcing ctl profits, which these members the senate to retire. Heichswchr stated had been unintentional. .troops have arrived in the city to attempt to restore order among the mobs which are steadily path SWALLOWS PEBBI.ES UNTIL THEY CAUSE FATAL ATTACK MORRISTOWN, ,Pa.—F|.ndmns OR. HUFF AGAIN ENTERS POLITICS ATLANTA. On.—Dr. I. N. Huff ha. announced hfa candidacy a. alderman from tho ninth ward In the coming municipal election. He] pebbles »W oppose Oscar Williamson. ci ing. It is feared that there will be considerable bloodshed end fighting before the city settles for swallowing pebbles cost the ( doWn to normal again, life of Charles F. Cash. Jr., five! ~ ~ years old. Thc child had been ill 1 BE R L I N.—Several strikers • - - * *- * we re killed and many wounded at Hamburg ship v*rds in a clash ‘with thc police Monday, dispatch es from that place state. It is alleged that the trouble was precipitated by the strikers refusing to allow those who were willing to work from entering the ship yards, whereup the police in tervened with the result that fierce fighting took plaee in which several strikers were killed. became worse and he expired be fore a physician could be sum moned. On two or three previous oc casions the child was taken seri ously ill, and for a time the cause of the attack was a mystery. Fi nally, * when the nature of the trouble was learned, a quart or pebbles Iras removed from hi* I body by a local physician. Ing did while in Canada was to! inhaled by - ask for sympathetic treatment ye.jtcd influenza,’ declared Dr. from Canada on the pulpwood a it-< Leavitt “Apparently, the chem uation, and ss a result of his ef-iical society concluded that the forts the government decided to chlorine was the effective agent, • * but that is ,not so. It was the oxygen. As for tho chlorine, tho only reason they failed- to get harmful results was because they used it in such minute quantities. “Only a small quantity of chlo rine was used in this preparation. It didn’t do any harm, hut the oxygen, did the trick. There are highly disinfectant qualities Grant Johnson Wanted By Law For Murder of Guy Colbert on Waters Street Saturday. police Monday were seeking Grunt Johnson, negro, who ■ charged by a coroner’s Jury with having killed Guy Colbert o» Water street late Saturday night. Warren Shaw, keeper of a small store on Water street where n barbecue warn In progress when the Colbert negro was killed, la In the city Jail, held In connection with the shooting. 8haw Is said to have furnished the pistol tor thr slaying of Colbert and aided)In the act otherwise. ■ 1 •' A coroner's Jury over whleq Coro ner C. X. Weatherly pi+slded Sun day afternoon returned h> verdict (Turn to Page Six) 6CORNN8 A ROYAL DECREE BUCHAREST—Queen Marie telle a delightful story about her young est daughter. Princess Ilyeanu, In which an American doughboy liv ing In Pennsylvania figures. The former Yankee soldier, who bail served on the western front In Frahce, returned to his father’s land in a little town near Phil adelphia. where he saw photo ! graphs of the little princess with' her pet dog In the American Sun day pictorial supplements. Bn* amoured of her smile and girlish beauty, the doughboy wrote the princess asking her to correspond With him, and saying If she woult* become his girl he' would "never take any other girl to the movies." JEFFERSON MEMORIAL TO EXHIBIT FAMED OLD BELL ST. LOUISt Mo.—Handed down Ihrouah generation! of an old In dian famltr, n historic bell which figured In many Important event, biSTa year, old, in cofi- ncction with the death Sunday of Dr. Gustiiv Stressman, leader of the German people's party, has been commissioned by President Ebert to form a new government After accepting the task,* Ilcrr Stressman had a conference with thn representative* of the' various parties. The greatest difficulty M‘ems to be In connection with th*> foreign ministry gnd It la be^everi possible that he will take the host himself temporarily. * It Is believed In political -quar ters that Ilerr Ullferdlng will “ the new finance minister j Setlgian will be named ml— Interior, while' the name of Rhelnhnben, of the peop is mentioned ns the new of state to tho Imperial lory. Thus the new cabinet would a* strictly political character, In eluding representatives of tho ui. ed soc*^llstr # clerical, people’s n»< democratic parties. Tho unltci socialists have made It known th n they expect to have four sentn Ir tin* inihiHtry. Just before Chancellor Cuno call ed on President Ebert to submit the cnbi lot’s resignation, tho relch- stag leaders representing the pres* ent coalition parties and the unit ed socialists visit ctl the president and discussed with him the pros pects of constructing/a government on a four-party coalition basis. This Indicated that the united socialists had arrived at an under standing with .the bourgeol-o* i»nr- tles with respect to their readlnesF House, “doing Internal tax and flnenclal measure* nnd other political and economic demands which tho united social ists put forward In their campaign against Herr Cuno. Tpe four-party coalition:. which hereAfter will occupy the govern ment bench In the relchstag will command a majority whinh is ‘op • posed by only 71 nationalists am) 2S communistic votes out of a to tal of 283. l)r. Stressman was .bom In 187R He Is one of Che moat fluent‘speak • .. |i tii nkhftsc and nn out Files Claim in Court For out qanyman. n.verth»i..«. Full Ownership of For- nn MHff In the powenlou of Louis J. 'Manar, known ns "Indian' Lou," a medicine talesman. The bell, which lu more than 204 years old, still retains Its pure ton*. The moat Important event In Jta history waa when It waa ured tn warning of the "attack of 17*0 " whan the French and Indian, met In St. Loots. The bell nil I be placed on exhibition In the Jet- tenon Memorial soon. (Turn to Pago Six.) INTO DEATH SUN. Two Twenty-Two Year Old Boys Held on Mun der Charge For Death of Robhins. (Rv Associated Press.) RICHMOND.—Charges of mur der were preferred against Wil- jliam Ganzert and Jennings mer Watson Publication Monday. (By Aasociated Prr«a.) THOMSON, Ga. — Mra. Alice >„ Louise Lytle, for many years man- ln |aginK editor of the Columbia Sen tinel, owned by the late Thomas | Watson, Monday filed a claim in ‘court for the full ownership of the publication. Mrs. Lytic stated that ahe al ready owns one-Balf the stock but now claims thc other half of the stock In payment of money owed her by thc Watson estate. The paper suspended publica tion pending the adjustment of the claim. Mrs. Lytle, the publisher of the former Watson organ under a lease with the other owners, and Grover Edmondson, the editor •Ince Senator Watson’s death, stated in last week's issue nf the paper tt would probably discon tinue on account of activities of their “enemlee.” Both Edmondson and Mrs. Lytle charged that J. J. Brown, com- raiasToner of agriculutre, wa, very tn Obilllnn t!,.. ttetilin.l” .J. J. Perry R. Robbina, 27 years old. Robbins was beaten to death J>y a bund of masked men when he went in search of his brother who had not returned home from bis work. t Thc exact motive for the attack nn Robbins has not yet been fully ascertained. The men were apparenUy lying in wait for him the police stated. active in "killing the because of “attacks department 1 SPARTA, Ca.—County commis sioners of Hancock have tentative- ly planned to employ a county demonstration agent. Well Known Baptist Di vine Assumes Duties As Pastor of Prince Avenue Baptist Church. Dr, j. J. Bennett, well known Rapt I* t minister, opened hls min istry at the Prince Avenue Bap tist church here Sunday morning Mp^aklng to a large crowd. ; 5 Dr. Bennett cornea to Athens from the Jackaon HU! Baptist church in Atlanta. He was for many years secretary of tho Bap tist Home Missions Board. :L The new pastor spoko Sunday morning on the text "For What Have Ye Sent For Me.” the ques tion asked by Simon Peter when he went to tho house of Cornelius who had seen a vision and wanted It Interpreted. The message of the new pastor wax directed to tho members of the church of which he was be coming lender. Dr. Bennett Is recognized ns one of the south’s leading divine* and people of Athens nro glad to » him serve the community nr pastor cf the Prince Avenue