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ATHENS COTTON:
MIDDLING 21 I -
PREVIOUS CLOSE 24e |
THE WEATHER:
Clear Tuesday and Tuesday
Night.
VOL. 91. NO. 156
Associated Press Service
ATHENS, GA_ TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923.
A. B. C. Paper
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 6 Cents Sunday.
GERMAN INDUSTRIAL SITUATION IMPROVEDTUESDAY
ATTORNEYS LEAVING
FOR SAVANNAH FOR
HEARIN6 IN BARRETT
IY CASE
HELD FOR ATTACKS
ON SLACKER
(By AisoclJittd Press.)
EBERBAKII , Germany—Cal
vin Griffith of Hamilton. Ohio
nnU Kugene Nielsen of Chicago,
arej held in connection with the
attack on Grover . Cleveland
Bergdot, notorious draft evader,
and were removed to the Jail at
MoHhach. Griffith claims to lie
in the employ of Graves Regis
tration Service .and was search-
ing for the bodies of American*
hurled In the vicinity of the at
tack. Feeling against the Amer
icana is running high.
Federal Judge Grubb of
Birmingham to Hold
Hearing on Recent In
tervention Order.
Athens, attorneys and
individuals interested in
the Barrett bankrupt case
left Tuesday afternoon
for Savannah to be pres
ent Wednesday morning
when the ease of the local
receivership for abput 3,-
000 bales of cotton stored
in a local warehouse
comes up for a hearing
before Judge Grubb, U. S.
district judge of the
northern district of Ala
bama.
Judge Grubb intervened after
Judge Blanton Fortson had ap
pointed J. J. Wilkins nnd B. F.
Hardeman receiver* for cotton
here on which advance* had been
made ami which bank* in Charles
ton, S. C., nnd elsewhere were
attempting to get possession of
to cover additional loans negotiat
ed through Barrett & Company,
or subsidiary companies.
WOULD VACATE
RECEIVERSHIP
Attorneys for tho Vctjivcr of
Barrett & Company are seeking to
have the local receivership for the
cotton in question vacated and the
entire hearing be thrown in the
bankrupt court. Attorneys for the
local receivers and those for the
owner.-? of the cotton arc oppos
ing this move.
Judge Grubb issued an order on
August 4th staying nil action un
der Judge Fortson’s order tem
porarily and set Wednesday as
the date for the hearing to ascer
tain whether he would make the
order permanent or not.
Robert Ould of the Independent i
Warehouses, Incorporated, also
went to Savannah for the hearing
as did J. J. Strickland, attorney
for the company holding the cot
ton.
ALLEGED SLAYER
OF
Grant Johnson Held Tick
et to Birmingham and
FIGHT TO THE DEATH
PRICE SLASHING WAR
Cut of 6.fi Cents Per Gal
lon Made By Standard
Oil in War With Inde
pendents.
ONE C ENT GUT FOR
ATHENS
It was announced that a cut
of one cent per gallon had been
made by Ihe local branch of
the Standard Oil Company, ef
fective immediatey, at the offi*
here, Tuesday. The -price
now is 21 rents per gallon.
CHICAGO.—The gasoline pfico
war, which is rapidly spreading to
all sections of the middle west,
as effective in bringing about
the heaviest cut in the price per
Was Arrested in Atlanta (rollon since the price slashing lie-
I gan between the independents and
the Standard Oil Company.
The reduction, 6.6 cents per
gallon brings the price per gnllon
down to 15.4 cent* and is effec
tive immediately.
The heavy cut results directly
from the war on high gas prices
begun last week, by Governor W.
II. McMaster, of North Dakota,
which spread like wildfire through
the middle-west during the week
end. It is effective in South Da
kota, North Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kan
sas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and northern Oklahoma.
During the past three days
more than half a dozen state cap-
Terminal Monday Night.
Denying that lie was at the scene
of the shooting. Grand Johnson
Ihe negro charged with killing Guy
Colbert of the same race on Water
street late Saturday night, was
arrested in Atlanta Monday night
and returned to Athens 'Tuesday.
Johnson poascscd a ticket to
Birmingham. Ala., and was In the
Terminal station ready to !>onrd the
train when an Atlanta policeman
arrested him. Policeman C. A.
Lester nnd County Bailiff If. 13
Huff went to Atlanta about two
o’clock Wednesday morning nnd
brought back the negro, lie grnf
lodged In the county Jail, charged
with murder. A coroner's Jury
returned a verdict late Sunday af
ternoon charging Johnson with the
murder of Colbert, a young negro
The two men were at n bnrhe
cue held in tho home of Warrer
Hhaw when the shooting took
place. Johnson csovaped shortly
after the Hhootlng. . Shaw was ar
rest »*d for complicity In the affair.
Quarrel Over Money Mat
ters Leads to Double
Murder. Dismembered
Bodies Found in Field.
(Bjr Asaodalrd Pwss.)
MEDFORD, Mass.—Nunie G.
Tsekos of Franklin, N. H, was
arrested on a charge of muruei
after two boxes containing the
dismembered bodies of .two women
Were found in a field here.
Polite stated that Tseko* con
fessed that he had killed his wife
and her mother Saturday.
It was stated that in the con
fession Tsckos said that he had
quarrelled with the two women
over money matters and that
they had attacked him with a bat
and n knife.
He then overpowered them anti
after killing the two women cut
their bodies into many piece, and
placed the pieces in two boxes.
According lo the confession of
Tsckos, nfler staying the mother-
in-law nnd his wife, he took hlf
threo children to hU mother'* home
He then returned and placed Ihe
illsmemlrercd liodle* In the two
boxes and engaged Charles Clarke
to drive him to Boston.
When Tsekos removed the bodies
from the car near on open field
Clark stark his finger through o
hole In one of the boxes nnd though)
he felt human flesh. He then ran
to tell the notice of his suspicions
SIGNS TAX ACT
(By Associated Prose.)
ATLANTA—Governor Ctifforc
Valker Tuesday tiflntd th'
satins Ta* Act, which placer
tax of throo cents on over;
Ion ' of gasoline bought
o state. Th, Ad —
active on October 1.
TWELVE DIE WREN
BOTTOM FALLS OUT
OF
MILITIA 13
CALLED
(By Associated Pros..)
Tulsa—National Guardsmen
took over the Tulsa government
as a result of recent mob vio
lence, Tuesday morning.
Governor Walton Issued his
decree of martial law after
hearing the full story of th#
flogging of Nathan Ilantman.
lust Friday night.
In telling his story of the
flogging, llnntman charged that
Millce officials were Involved- In
his mistreatment. -
FORMER ATHENIAN
IS IMPLICATED IN
KILLING OF NEGRO
Roy Toney, Formerly of
This City. Suspected of
Murder of Negro At Jef
ferson.
JEFFERSON, Ga.—The coroner*!
Jury that has been Investigates
the death of Felix Davenport, col
ored, who was found In the Oconee
river last week with three bullet
wounds In his body that caused
his death, ha. rendered n verdict
The gist ot the verdict wn* that
Boy Toney, young white barber o'
Jefferson, b* held for Investiga
tion before the grand Jury.
Youth and Age Meet at Tallulah
Falls School Tioth to Learn
CHANGE FOR BETTER IS
SEEN AS WORKS START
OPERATIONS ONCEMORE
Industrial Works Resume Operations After Long
Lay-Off. Disorders Still Continue in Some
Sections. Communist General Strike in
Berlin Comes to End. Transporta
tion Almost Normal Again.
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN.—With the general strike of the Com
munists called off Tuesday morning and all trans
portation lines beginning to re-open, the industrial
situation in Berlin showed an improvement and there
were reports of better conditions in other parts of
Germany, although disorders were progressing in
many districts.
’I Collapse of the general strike
vevr n. a movement had been anticipated
If You Stay Away ^ Mastt
ways ami traffic busses an- run-
ons ».f the aged tenrhers at Ta liikili I- ills industrial School.
itals and a large number of towns wns In the vicinity of the plact
and cities had announced official j where the crime was commftt—o
attacks on gasoline prices. At tho about 9:300 o'clock at night, the
TALLI/LAH FAI.LH, Oa.—Youtl
i.l Old Ago meet here, ono t-
Toney Is said to he the last per provide a belated education for th*
Davenport the nigh) „, lv , , V :.lual>l. herlta,;.
shot by n party In an nu-
tomoh'h- n,t .hrown In « h ^ ^' nB nnd lenmlnft fo.
their own mutual benefit, nit
nnd the evidence showed that hi
Five Boy Scouts Drowned
in Canyon By Cloud
burst. Four Are Dead At
Farmington.
(By Associated Press.)
HALT LAKE CITY—Twelve live*
are believed to have been lost In
northern Utah ns a result of u se
ries of cloudhursts Into Monday
night and early Tuesday morning.
The property damage Is estimated
to olrendy have reached one mil
lion dollars with the likelihood that
It will run even higher when the
final estimate has been made.
Four persons are known to have
been killed at Farmington.
Two men and a woman are re-
ported to have been drowned In n
canyon nenr Farmington.
T! e roudburstsi were preceded
by a severe eectlrcal storm which
crippled communication facilities
and thus kept offlelals from mak
ing an accurate toll of tho storm.
time the board of directors of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
met here Monday to take blanket
action, their branches In various
affected districts were meeting
the new price* as fats as officials
anti independent companies
brought them down. The reduc
tion in the states affected aver
aged three cents a gallon Monday.
Now 16 cents a gallon becomes
the ruling price throughout the
middle west, as all independent
companies will be forced down to
it. The biggest private cut prev
iously had been one of five cents
la gallon by independents in Mil
waukee. Independents also had
gone down to 19 1-2 cents in tho
morning. I
SEVERAL SCOUTS
GET MERIT
AT COURT OF HONOR
Ten Members of Local
Troops Are Awarded
Merit Badges and First
Class Certificates.
Ten Boy Scouts were awarded
merit badges nnd other medals at
the meeting of the Court of Honor
Monday night. Two or three of the
hoys carried home a pocketful of
merit badges, wen on the recent
camp In the mountains nnd slnct
that time.
Dr. W. I*. Mathews of Winder,
chairman of the Court fit Honor
there, presided over port of ,the
meeting Monday night. C. D
Flonlgen, in the absence of Dr. 12
I*. Hill, tho loaal chairman, presir
ed over the presentation of the
badges and fJrvt cls* scertlficnte*
Scoutmaster F. I*. Clarke an
nounces the following awards:
Brandlson Caskey, first class badge
merit badges In cooking, fireman-
ship, first aid to nnlmnls nnd pion
eering; Albert ^Jlenn Richards Jr.,
another Troop ont scout was
At Member of Legion,
Let Him Come to Amer
ica.”
(By Associated Press.)
INDIANAPOLIS—*Tf the reports
received here, that Grover Berg-
doll. said he would like to have a
shot at a member of the Amerlenr
Legion are true, then let him comr
to America, where he will find
plenty of them to try out hU
marksmanship,” declared I>*mue
Unties, National Adjutant In r
statement here Tuesday.
"Legion members were not known
ns lielng particularly fearful of
German bullets during the war and
I do not think they have changed
since," said Holies.
Adjutant Holies characterised ns
V erfect “bunk” the assertion of
Bcrgdoll that the Legion wo* con
nected with the effort to 'get" him
was awarded a first class badge
and merit badges In flremanshlp,
first aid to animals and pioneering.
Donald L. Moors was awarded n
first class badge, nnd eight merit
badges, rooking, flremanshlp. first
aid to animals, pioneering, crafts
manship, personal health, public
health nnd safety first.
David Campbell will he awarded
a first old to animals badge. John
Howifs will be awarded merit
badges in flremanshlp, pioneering;
William Davis in carnplr* and
public health: Monteltn Capps In
first aid; Scott Epps In camping
hiking, pioneering, all from Troop
1. Charles M. Cate was awarded n
badge for rraftwork In wi \ fire*
mansblp. ' Irst aid to nalmals, pub
lie health, signalling, swimming:
Charlie Fort, camping^ • cooking
flremanshlp, first aid to animals
plonesring and public health. These
were not present.
time neighbors heard the shots nnd
began the senrch that revealed th#
dead man In tho river.
Tony Is a young barber here
married and has one child. Hi
worked at one time In Athens. Th#
next grand Jury will meet as soon
ns the date for the next session o
court Is determined.
The regular August term of su
pehor court here has heoA posfj
nonod on account of the creation
of the now Piedmont circuit nnd a*
soon ns the newly appointed offi
cers qualify It Is expected that n
session will he called. Attorney O
A. Nix of Lawrencevllle has been
named judge of the circuit
The Day’s News
Pfcgly Wiggly Head
Resigns.
ATTORNEYS
In Barrett Case Leave.
Local ntornoyn leave for Savan
nah to take part in hearing of
Barrett A* Company case.
tho Tallulah Falla
School, which la ownei
nnd directed by the tJ
Jndustrlu
allot
of Wo
rgla Fed
Clubs. Age*
from thel
tench haiull-
girls of tin
mountain homes
craft to the youi
school, white the younger genera
tlou reciprocates by teaching th*
three It’s to tho older folk.
Thus, from the picturesque past
will remain such I*garbs as the
knowledge of spinning and weav
ing. of making old hook rugs and
patchwork quilts—taught by the
old women who have been induced
to come down fro*! tho mountains
for this purport
CUSTOMS
PRESERVED
The grandmothers
gtnndmothern are the
nl: Im*tween colonial nnd modern
mcHcn,” explains Mrs. T. T
t. vons, treasurer of the school.
"The mountaineers are the real
ascendants of the colonial
It re. w ho have retained the old
ns'onin and arts while living their
•chid* d lives hi the mountains
■here some of them IJy* almost
* primitively as they did
ears ago
"They still know how to spin and
card wool and weave It Into the
hand-made fabrics so much In de
mand now. Through them wv
hope to restore to this generation
ihe handicrafts which would oth
erwise he lost.
"The children who come to out
school to learn modern ways of
living *lo not feel so estranged
rrom their people when they real-
czl what a heritage of art Is theirs
"It Is a'beautiful sight to see t
little girl trying to tench het
grand-mother to rend In return for
grandmother's Instruction In
onnectlng I piecing a quilt."
DIES MONDAY STEPS DOi MON,
Wife of Young Athenian
Passes Away At 11:00
O'clock Monday Night
After Lengthy Illness.
Mrs. Hililn .Too], wife ot Charlie
Grant Johnson, suspected in
murder of Guy Colbert, another!
negro here late Saturday night,' — . , ,
captured by officers in Atlanta as (Joel, young Athens business man,
he was boarding a train for Bir- died at the homo on University
mingtom. Drive Monday night at 11 o clock
I after an illness of several weeks.
Standard; Ol\ Company cuts! Mrs. Joel before her marriage-
price one cent a gallon on gasoline on September 3, 1919, was Miss
here. Price now 21 cents per gal-: Hilda Stopparhcr of Baltimore ami
n. 1 I New York Coming to Athens a-*
■ In young bride she won many
Germany’s food crisis grows 1 friends and her death is mourned
more dangerous; thirteen demon-iby all who knew her here. She is
Htrants killed near Breslau. I survived bv her husband and one
non, Charlie, Jr., three years old
Enrique Tirabocchl of Argentine ’members of Mr. Joel’s family and
republic, swim* the channel in the by the following immediate mem-
record time of 16 hours, 33 min-.bers of her family. Mr. and Mrs.
ute*. 'Louig .Sleppachcr of New York.
— | her mother and fnther, Mlsse*
Germans no* hold four men,)Esther nnd Blanche, bisters, and
two of whom are supposed to be'Davis, a brother.
Americans, in the attempt to kid-1 It was announced by Bernstein
nap Grover Bergdoll, at Kbcr-
bach.
Clarence Sounder^, at Memphis,
gives up the presidency of Piggly
Wiggly Stores. Inc, and will re
tire from its directorate.
Extensive damage is caused by
severe wind and rainstorm sweep
ing over Ohio.
American wheat growers urge
President Coolidge to call imme
diately special session of congress
to give them relief, Minneapolis
dispatch gays.
Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow
Wilton's son’in-law, has tentative-
Clarence Saunders Re-
si ijns As President of
Chain Stores. Turns
Over All Possessions.
MKMPmS-J. e. Rnutford. of
N.ifhvllt**, T«*nn» was elected pres
ident of IMsirly Wiggly Stores. Ine„
io succeed Florence Rounders
Memphis, whose resignation as
president had been accepted by j
board of directors earlier In th« *
day.
A new executive committee, com*
pos-d of Mr. Bradford; W. C. Car-
nolle, of Rt Louis; A. W Reardon
N»w Orleans und J A Maury, Mem
phis, was elected.
A statement relative to new poli
cies of Dlggly Wiggly Rtores, Inc.,
will lie Issue*! later In the day It
was announced.
. Bradford wns selected a/
new directing head of the
<inv nr n meeting of the dir-
•afl of 'Ihe stores organise-
held at a down-town hotel nf-
Hrothers* fdneral 'directors in
charge that tho funeral services
will bo held * n AthensW j t,. r ., brief session at Piggly Wig-
afternoon r.r 'Th«r«lay_ morning ^ h ^ lqmrtmrm n| wh|r j; th ,
resignation of Mr. Raundera and
flHl Interment will In- In D«
cemetery. Completion •>»’ arrange
meats await advices from relative*.
In New York.
Free Swimming
Lessons At Club
Members of the Cloverhurst
Country Club who want to Improve
their swimming and diving. jroun»!
or old, ran take ndvon'age *>f n
series of tree swimming nnd dlv-
ly accepted post as counsellor in ing^ssons to be given l»y David
international law to the king of Campbell, one of tiie expert swim-
Siam. I mere of the Y. M. C. A.
-■■ ■— I Young Mr. Campbell will lw» nf
John Haya Hammond, of Glou-jthe pool Tuesday and Friday after-
tester, Mass., declares coal fa«t*no©a for these lessons and no
finding commfsaion believes thatf charge whatever will be made fo»
will take the responsibility of a taught to swim as we
lockout or itrike. J ope, It la announced.
Scott, assistant to Mr
Saunders, were read and accepted
The meeting at the hotel was lr
less than an hour when ad-
inurnment wns taken for lunch
nnd announcement of the new offl-
c* rs made. Another meeting wa#
to Ire held this afternoon after
which a statement was to he Is-
All of tho meetings were execu
tive
ot
Hnunders, his control
store.-* organisation, both as exef
ctitlve head and director relin
quished. remained In his .private
office In another part of the same
fl»*or wiille the meeting at Piggly
Wiggly headquarters was In pro
gress.
T have turned over everything
f own. my home—everything,*’
Rounder* told newspaper men
"They have everything I built—!
everything except myself." I
ni x i? f 11h i'hi lift iillfiil LjUssk/i BSiMWii
Don't Blame
Us, Please
Yes, Wc Have No Indian
Turnips, Mr. Jester and
Mr. Ware But Old-
fashioned ’Cue.
By DAN MAGILL
"All we ask,” say our affable
and solicitous Insurance man
J. Carlton Jester, aided and
abetted by our kindly and smil
ing dentist. Samuel J. Ware,
*41! we ksk la that Bob WUUo
be tied to a leasli or els*' kept
out of that there Indian Tur
nip patch; otherwise East Lake
has no charms for us!”
In other words the barbecue
between the Roturlamt and HI*
wanlans Wednesday evening to
use poetic llcensg. at sumot.
will he minus two of our Inost
barbecue-loving fellow towns
men who believe now with all
their heart that "fire water**
ain’t nothing #lse lust Indian
Turnip Juice.
Py the way. Isn't It. too bad
that Harvey Reid had to go
and have hla tonsils taken
away on the eve of tills annual
feast. Whether It la true that
he hn«n't eaten anything since
the announcement of the Joint
meeting In preparation for the
event. It Is nothing but chari-
tnble that we attribute It to
tonsllltls.
Speaking of operations, the
bathing beauties at the 'cue
Wednesday will be worth the
exhorbltnnt price of admittance
which Fleet Lanier nnd Bill
Bllllnga have Imposed on us
poor mortals. If you can
imagine nnythlng funnier than
Hoke Smith diving off a spring
board at Piedmont' Driving
Club In Atlanta It Is Tiny
John Plttard of WlnurvMle
pulling the Identical stunt. We
may put on nn exhibition of the
"diving twins." Messrs. Plttard
nnd Frank Edward*. To that
rase the Lake will probab'y he
eidnr&ed between now :*ti to
rt on uw evening.
Tom Nelbllng will probably
be at the 'cue. since the legis
lature has seen fit to let the
Highway Department ext#t un-
ti' another probe.
If this barbecue does noth-
else It Is hoped that Charlie
Martin will pick up another
graceful act such ms handing
the guest of honor the basket
of flowers adorning center
of the table which be *to|-
from Mr. George Fnlroni Cran
berry and used later on rot less
than ten occasions, three ot
which we distinctly remember.
They tell me that In CuModei,
no that’s u town , Chari**
frames up banquets when hr
goes bock home Just to pull
that atunt.
(If anybody wants to know
why we write so much about
Charlie Martin our answer Is
wre get paid to do It).
Moving on to pleasanter
subjects, however, ain’t Mr.
Ted Mell having a hard time,
and good teachers so hard, to
get? You know what Napoleon
said how nn army travels. The
Normal Rchool, too. has, an
other business manager, we
hear. In the mtdst of thla aw
ful subject might lie the solu
tion of Hill Billings high
priced barbecue. . You never
can telt And, some people have
bought automobiles recently.
Also. There's always a reason
If you can locate It.
You know, when the M. R
gives you a command like
"write something about the
Rote-Klwantan barbecue, put
(Turn to Page Six.)
i
ninjr and the situation seems al
most normal again.
An improvement was also noted
in the private industries, several
of the larger works resuming op
erations, while scores of thu
smaller plants have already begun
work again.
The situation at Stettin 1ms be
come worse in the past few hours,
due to the strike of dock em
ployees and a number of shops
have been plundered by the dem
onstrators.
Word comes of the ending of
the strike of the pilots of boats
between Bremen and Hamburg.
It is reported here that twelve
persons were killed and more
than eighty wounded, some of
them fatally, in a clash with po
lice at Aix La Chappelle, early
Tuesday morning. The killing
took place in fighting * ‘ *
suited from an attack on*the l
lice headquarters by mobs in nn
attempt to release prisoners tak
in the food riots Monday.
Those killed at Alx La Cl
were all German clvltons.
In the demonstrations 1
four were killed and mor<
forty were wounded. The
were composed mostly of
workmen. When l they refused
disperse at the orders of the
thorltles k police threw hand
nadea and charged them wltl
sabre*, firing their revolvers
they charged.
Belgian troops did not
In Ihe affairs.
Boy, Fifteen, Is
Suicide Victim
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO—JnmeH WrJidu, as*
Yl'htn, Tuesday committal i
by ranging at the l’nrfntal I
w»i*re He 'tod been ciiPm*
corrlglblllty.
Alderman Bowler, who recently
conducted an Investigation of
charges that the Inmates of
school were Hed bread and w
for minor Infractions of the rule
and were Inhumanely lieaten f<»i
nothing, said he Intended! to In
quire Into young Wright**, death.
I . sm i
Bankrupt Brokers
Arc Facing Probe
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK—William McGee,
convicted stock bucketeer nnd
whoso whereabouts have been un
known since be and E. if. Fuller
were removed from Governor's Is
land. wns taken before the Federal
Grand Jury,, hearing evidence
against th two bankrupt brokers.
here Tuesday.
“WHILE YOU WAIT"
You can wait for the buy
ing public to discover yoa.
You ran ,rt rljtht out after
it. through advertising. and
compel the public to discover
you.
If you can afford to wait
lone enough—well, that’s your
affair. But—
If you decide to play the
watting game, instead of
hustling out after Success, be
sire you're on your toes
enough to provide the public
with something worth seeking.
Aa a rule, these days, peo
ple hare learned that the nnn-
ndvertised business Is aUo
the sleepy basin*—
Too slow to be worth hunt
ing for.
Speed tip. Clear your
shelves, Mr. Merchant, for the
new Fall goods that are
coming in. Carried over st
mean to** in inventory,
your Io*a in the open and make
stronger friends of the buying •
public.