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gV Inreitleate Today! To Ke*ul»r Subscriber! THE BANNER-HERALD |1,000 Accident Policy Free THE BANNER-HERALD Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. Eetablished 1831 Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. 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.