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VOL. 91, NO. 157
Associated Pres* Service
ATHENS, GA„ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923
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Single Copies 3 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday.
LITHE HOPE FOR ENTOMBED MINERS
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DE VALERA CAPTURED BY FREE STATE TROOPS 1 ^^^™^ 0 ^
TWO YEAR SEARCH FOR
REBEL CHIEFTAIN ENDS
WITH ARREST TUESDAY
Fulfilling Promise to Appear Before Political Meet
ing, Eamon de Valera Is Captured By Irish
Free State Troops Tuesday. Crowd Cheers
Him As Soldiers Make Arrest.
ENNIS, COUNTY CLARE, Ireland.—Eamon de
Valera, leader of the Irish Republicans, was arrested
here by Free State Troops Tuesday.
De Valera promised that he would appear anr 5
would address a political meeitng and he made good
on*his promise but at the sacrifice of his liberty.
The man hunt, in which Free State Troops have
been engaged for the past two years and which has
led over all of Ireland and part of England, termi
nated with the capture of the republican leader.
I)e Valera appeared at the| , .
meeting undisguised and received
_ great ovation for his nerve in
appearing as he had openly an
nounced.
The crowd loudly cheered him
n a the troops arrived and after
firing several volleys over the
heads of the assemblage arrested
De Valera.
De Valera i; a candidate for the
Clare County seat in the coming
ejection*. He had announced that
if he were unmolested Tuesday in
his first appearance, he would
make other speeches.
His appearance was dramatic, to
say the least. Many thousands
gave a tumultous cheer as he as
cended the platform to begin his
speech. , * ,
Just then' someone, shouted,
“The soldiers are coming.”
As the troops came up and sur
rounded the platform, De Valera
lull and it was thought that he
had fainted but he . got up and
accompanied the soldiers.
Man Holds Girl
For Board Bill
Of $400 Overdue
1.A ORANGE. III.—After being
lielil a* an alleged chattlc for two
wars In payment of a $400 board
bill, elovon-yeor-old Margaret Mel
ton wan rescued from tho farm of
J. J. Smith, near here, by authori
ties Tuesday.
She told the tearful story of bav
ins to wenr boy'n clothes, of betnff
beaten with a stick when she was
unable to hold up her end of the
work ns n farm hand and of hay-
inn to sleep with the dogs. Neigh
bors caused an Investigation of tho
ease whon Ihey heard the girl's
screams at nlnht.
Margaret was plnced In charge of
the farmer and his wife by her
father. Lloyd Mellon, nn Inventor,
when fhe rouplo agreed to care for
her for $200 n year. The father
paid for two years, hilt has not been
heard from since 1921.
TIMRLV TIPS TO
ATHENS MERCHANTS
You deserve In proportion
as yon serve.
Tomorrow’s haste won't re
pair today’s waste.
Definition: The newspaper
Is advertising's big opportu
nity.
What great merchant ran
yon name offhand? Don’,
thye advertise.
Idle wishing yield* before
honest wanting. The more
yon want the more yon II
work.
Advertise up to your hopes
and expectations; business
grows hy looking ahead to
bigger things.
“Special' sales” can he ad
vertised most strongly By the
merchant who has been adver
tising all the time.
Angnat Dargain Sales are
In fall blast and represent In
many instances the greatest
money savings event of the
entire year.
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AUGUST BARGAINS.
Like Tarzan
“Aunt Alice” Goes
Home and Leaves
Her White Folks
After 57 Years of Service
With Nicholson Family
Old Negress Passes on
to Eternal Rest.
To servo in one family for
57 years witn grown children
never being able to remember
a missed day is n record that
sounds more like ante-bellum
days than these modern times
of many servants during the
babyhood of one child.
Anil not only to serve for
more than half a century but
to actually die in service is al
most an unprecedented record.
Hut Tuesday night when
Alice Thomas, colored, for all
these many years everything
but a member of the Nicholson
family, nt the time of her
death a servant in tho A. It.
Nicholson home, died sho
rounded out a life of faithful
and unfailing service to a
family that she loved above
self.
Tuesday sho was about her
usual duties at the Nicholson
household but during tho night
her spirit passed on to Join the
faithful In the world hereafter.
The old time “auntie," a relic
of the days of slavery, had
nursed Messrs M. G., A. It., M-.
E. and H. K. Nicholson and
then In turn had nursed the
children and grand children of
these leading citizens of Ath
ena and not one of these grand
children can recall in their
memory a single day that she
ever missed from duty. During
all tho 57 years of service In
the family she had never miss
ed ns much as two weeks frui *
duty, it is said, and when she
came to dio she simply passed
out overnight.
"Atfnt Alice” died at her
homo on Uroad street and the
funora! and burial will bo
sometime Thursday. She had
hundreds of white friends In
Athens and many of theso will
bo present to hear tho last
rites pronounced over hor
grave. '
BIER & CO JEN
While Chaos Reigns In Some
Ways, Germany Is Now Making
Material Headway, Says Bush
County Roads
Scraped Since
Recent Rains
NOTE:—The following la
the unbiased opinion of a well
known political and economic
writer who Is making first
hand study of the situation in
Europe for the Newspaper En
terprise Association of which
the Banner-Herald is a mem
ber.
By MILTON BRONNER
LONDON.—‘Politically Europe Js
going from bad td worse. Materially
the condition of Europe Is' becom
ing better One seen the political
froth at the top. Superficial ob
servers don't see the material pro-
gress beneath the surface.
This is the mature judgment of
one of the most mature and far-
seeing business' men of New York
Clarke county’s top sold roads
have practically all been scraped
— | within the past several days, since
and London—Irving T. Bush, head lho ra,nB of ,ast week * b Y the roun-
of the Bush Terminal Co., of New forces and are now In splendid
York, head of the company that S "J£?‘
built the inagnificieut Bush Build- ] This work won ordered done at
liig In l*ondon, ami president of tho August meeting of the county
New York State Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr. Hush has recently had Inti
mate conversations with Trotzky
and Kamenoll in Russia. Mussol
ini and Clolltt! In Italy, Chancellor
Cuno, Stinnes and leading states
men and business men in France
and England.
"There arc,” said he, on the eve
of his departure tor America,
“three vital things In connection
with tho condition of the world
today—First, the French occupa
tion of tho Ruhr; second, the
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Governor Walker Signs Measure For
Placing Ten Per Cent Sales Tax On
commissioners last week and Cap
tain Estes put his gang on the task
nt once.
Work is progressing nicely on
the paving on the Jefferson road.
Tho county’s end of the Danieln-
villo road has been completed and
flu* final stretch to the city limits
Is now “setting” before traffls Is
turned on It. The city Is complet
ing the paving across the River
street bridge and the entire pro
ject should he opened up some tlmo
the first part of September. Traf
fic has been diverted to the paved
block on Mlltedge avenue and on*
of tho roughest sections of tho
city’s main thoroughfare put In
good shape.
FIGHT TO SAVE MINERS
Thirty Taken From Upper Levels of
Mine, Following Explosion Tuesday.
One Hundred Thought to Be
Doomed. Women Surround
Mine Waiting For
Their Men.
Cigars and Cigarettes,
Mary Frances Ward, of Atlanta,
Gn., is only nine months old hut
she doer, stunts on n trapeze im
provised from a coat hanger to
show her unusual physical devel
opment.
! Funeral Services Con
ducted From Hebrew
Synagogue At 5 O’clock.
Interment in Oconee
v Cemetery.
The remains of Mrs. Charlie
Joel, Who died nt hey .borne on
University Drivn Monday .wight nt
11’o’clock afte^ l an illnesk of ohei
week, were Interred In Ocofobe
cemetery Wednesday afternoon
following funeral services conduct
ed by Rabbi Stem nt the Syna
gogue.
The pallbearers were, Messrs.
Ernest Michael. Abe Link, Atax
Michael, Aaron Cohen. Sol Boley,
Arthur Flatau, Irvin Myerson.
Warrants Sworrt Out In
Aiken, S. C-, Charge
Fraudulence
( (By Associated Press.)
AIKEN. S. C. —Warm)*
ncain.rt four member, of the
firm of Barrett and Company,
charging the obtaining of good,
under falae pretences were awora
lout against Frank Barrett,
Thomaa Darrett, Jr* Julian Bar
rert and Tom Getxen, by C. R. Ly.
brand, a merchant planter of
Wagner according to Magistrate
Itahnrn, before whom the war.
rant, were aworn out.
The warrant* will not be aereed
until Governor McLeod haa been
requested to laaue papers of requl
aftion. the mkgiatrate atated.'
The Day’s News
Tobacco Tax Bill ,
( PASSESSENATE
(By Associated Press.) in running down the hecont flog-
ATLANIV..—Governor Walker glng perpetrators and to chock any
Wednesday signed the measures future disorders.
•ipuylnp n of ten peri The Ba j 0ll meosur is expect-
ec*v. on all eifneiivh and rl:nt*». I , * . , . , .
A moanin' authorising the city'** * and
of Savannah to Issue bonds -J*er. au®-hnIf millions annually,
three million dollars to Improve The Alto tubercular sanitarium
port facilities was passed by tho I wl» receive $259,000 tor tho noxt
House. The measure must go back : two years. Otherwise the money
to tho Senate for concurrence In a will tie devoted to the payment of
U, f* A i Georgia Cotton Is
, Wednesday j .. „ ,
Making ratr
Progress
LATE DISPATCH
KEMMERER, Wyoming.—Ninety-One bodies
.had been recovered from the Kemmerer Coal
' Company mine here late Wednesday, as a result
of the explosion in the mine early Tuesday.
It was stated by an official at the mine that
between 1.77 and 178 men were in the mine at the
time of the explosion and that thirty-four had
been taken out alive. /
slight change. It then will go to
the governor and must be approved
hy the voters.
Governor Walker stated* Wed
Confederate pensions.
This measure with the three cent
gasollnt tax marked the major ac
complishments of the session and
nesday that he had been In touch is expected together to .boost , the
with Bibb county officials and had > state’s revenue four and ono-half
been assured of their co-operation mlll'c*» annually.
Weekly WoatherJReport
Issued Wednesday and
Received in Athens
Over Linnell’s
Wire.
Governor Walker Names L,
Dennis Penny Solicitor;'
Other Appointments Made
ATLANTA, Ga„— (Special)
Governor Clifford Walker to
day made the following ap
pointments:
To be trustee of the Univer
sity of Georgia, city of Athens,
to succeed IJ. J. Rowe, ap
pointment originally tendered
J. II. Dozier, who declined,
Howell C. Erwin.
To be trustee of the Univer
sity of Georgia from the city
of Athens-under the bill re
cently passed by the House
and Senate, Hugh J.‘ Rowe
To be trustee of the State
College of Agriculture from
the University board suc
ceeding J. W. Bennett of
Waycross, Major W. E. Sim
mons, Lowienccvllle.
To be solicitor of tho city
court of Athens to succeed
Lamar C. Rucker, L. Dennis
Penny.
To be n member of the
Georgia State Barber Exami
ners’ Board L . E. Cooper,
Athens.
Mo appointment of nty
eourt judge was .announced
from the executive office at
two o’clock.
Mrs. Joel, who, before her niar-f B r#r Wvominir
latra nmi Uisn Ifililn S*ei>nneh» r. *
Miners Entombed.
Senate pasaea-tobacco tax biU
after bitter fight. Goes to gover.
nor for signature.
Believed 100 dead and 37 others
trapped in mine explosion at Ken-
rlage waa Bliss Hilda S'P|ipac-htr.
n( Baltimore nn* New York, mar-
Iriod Mr. Joel In 1919. She won
many friends upon making her
home in AthonB ami her death was
the occasion of genuine sorrow
throughout the city.
Mrs. Joet la survived by her hus
band, a well known young business
man. a little son three years old.
Charlie, Jr., her parents, Mr. and
Mra. Louis Steppacher . of New
York, two ylsters, Mis*** Esther
aiid CJpnche Steppacher end a
brother. Davt* StenPocher.. all cf
whom were here for tho funeral.
AUGUST BARGAINS. whom were here for me mncrai. vvy,
‘
Francis Ford, movie actor and
producer, seriously ill.
Eamon de Valera arrested by
Free State troopa at public meet'
ing.
Complete plan for manufacture
of counterfeit Federal Reserve
notes announced from New York.
Big Feet Now the Style for Women,
Says First Chinese Priest in U. S.
NEW YORK.—The Chinese girl
of today who has a large foot if
envied by all her sisters, says the
Rev. Father Simon Tang, frist na
tive born Chinese to be ordained
in the United States as a Jesuit
priest.
’•This,” he says, “is only a nat
ural reaction brought about by the
old custom of binding Chinese girl
babies’ feet.
“The old-custom even In the in
terior In fast going out and it is
only n question of u few years un
til this inhuman method of mu
tilation of a girl baby** feet will
be a memory.’
Father Tang, who. will in Sep
tember. begin his third year’s
work in. St. Louis Umriersity, re
cently sang his first mass here at
St. Francis Xavier’s College. He
Is 33 veers old and when but a
boy in Macao, a Portuguese con
cession in South China, he began
studying for the priesthood.
He says he felt that he would
rather be ordained in the United
States than any other country al
though he studied abroad for
years in Portugal, Holland and
Belguim. During hi* atay In Por
tugal a revolution broke out and
he was placed for a time with
other Jesuit students and priest*
in an underground prison.
Latin is more simple for Patker
Tang than English; In fact be ha*
only been speaking English for a
Benjamin Appleby, president of little more than a-year. When he
Consumers’ Gas Company at Way- entered the theological college in
eroks nnd gas comnany
City, Tcnn., dies Wet’
at Johnson.St. Louis he i
English.
spesk any
Cotton made moderately good
progress everywhere except In tho
southern portion or Georgia and
the weevil damage was extensive
over the western and southern
parts, according to the weekly
weather report received iVWIflei-
day over F, J, Llnnell and com
pnny’s private wire.
The report In full follows:
TEXAS—Cotton deteriorated and
eomlltlnn Is mostly rather poor to
rairiy good, although very good to
qxcellen fu some favored tocalltfcA
Tho hot dry weather la caualn,
shedding nnd premature opening
rapidly hut holding weevil in
check. Moderate loaf worm and boll
worm damage in parts wost and
south. Cotton opening rapidly and
excellent progress made In picking
and ginning. Picking starlet) except
in northwest and extreme north
east.
OKLAHOMA—Cotton generally
deteriorated: wilting and shedding
bodly; rendition rather poor to
fairly goad; weevil Inactive.
GEORGIA—Cotton deteriorated
In south; elsewhere made moder
ately good progress general con
dition very poor with considerable
shedding. Weevil damage exten.'lre
over entire western and southern
portions.
KEMMERER, Wyoming..—Making heroic efforts
but slow progress through the partly dismantled por- ,
tions of the Kemmerer Coal Company, to reach their
entombed comrades, thought to be about thirty-seven
in number, the rescue parties worked throughout the
night Tuesday and all day Wednesday. .
Of the entire number of men who were trapped
in the mine by the terrific explosion early Tuesday,
about thirty were brought out, while the remaining
number of miners, about one hundred are thought to
have perished.
There is still n slight chance for
Cinderella
ALARAMA — Cotton shedJIng
badly In many sections. Cotton lent
worm InfesUng central and north
ern portions. Bolls opening In rome
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So many nice heads could have
been written over this picture.
She’s Dorothy Dear of Montclair,
N. J., and ahell be Princess Cin
derella at the 32nd annual baby
panda at Asbury Park, N. J.
Princess, Dear and Cinderella are
three fine names for one girt to
have. And so’s Dorothy.
some of the men who were caught
on tho upper levels it is thought,
but scarcely n hope for the miner*
trapped in the lower cuts.
A huge crowd surround 1
mine craly Tuesday as s<
news Of tho explosion was circu
lated and remained theni?
I through tho night Tuesday, i
ing coffee nnd sandwiches to the
tired, haggard eyed men who are
striving so valiantly to save the
lives or recover tho bodies of
their fellow miners.
Mothers with the babies and
chiidren hem in the opening to
the shift through which the re*,
cuo parties emerge, wailing r,, r
‘ h .'* r husbands, the lueldess
who If not already dead haven’t
ono chatjco in ten thousand of
daylight again. It I*
a Pitiful tragedy, as the wives
and mothers, sweetheart* uml sis
ters wait and wait nil through the
blackne*. „f the night for the
rnch who are separated from them
in a living tomb.
Tho explosion occurred t_ ... ...
ejiilty of tee 1,700.font level ■ f it
mine, Lato Tuesday night
workors had penetrated tp marly
ovory quarter of tho underground
workings, anil It (was Indicated
they had brought out all the men
remaining alive. Smoke-hlucki-m-d
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REV, SIMON TANG
Spanish have all been mastered
by Father Tang. Ho complain*
that English words have too many
ayllablea, explaining:
‘Take for instance, the word
'prohibition—there are four syl
lables In it. Now in Chinese we
can say 'prohibition' with one syl
lable, a word, if spelled in English
would have but two letters but I
fear few American* , could ever
leafn to pronounce It.
“Chinese isn't a* herd as it
When he looks. All you have to do Is. road
TO USE “BUI STICK”
Senator Keys Tells Pres
ident to Use Drastic
Measures in Event of
Coal Strike.
from right to. left, starting at the
of tho column and going to the
It’s really very simple."
(By Associated Preea.)
WASHINGTON—Drastic meas
ures In the event of a coal atrike
were recommended to President
rooltflgo Wednesday by Senator
Keys, republican of New Hamp
shire .who told the president he did
not believe the people will take
kindly to the use of substitute*.
Senator Keys expressed confi
dence, however, that the medita
tion between operator* and miner*
In progroB* In New York Wednes
day would be successful.
Says Former Secretary
of Agriculture Helped
Wall Street to Bring
Panic in Farm Prices.
•IFFFE, low*.—Senator
made charge* here Titcaday that
E. T. Meredith, white secretary of
agriculture under Proaldent Wil
son saw the plans laid for tho de
nation ft agriculture and failed to
warn the farmers, in an address
Tuesday night
Instead of protesting or acting
la a way to prevent the deflation.
Brookhart said, Meredith sat in the
Wall 8treet game and helped to
produce the greatest panic In firm ]
prices In the history of Agriculture.
George Stewart in Seri
ous Condition As'Result
of Brawl in Speeding
Motor Car.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK.—George Stewart,
brother nnd business manager for
Anita Stewart, the motion picture
metres?, Is in a serious condition
at a local hospital as a result of
a fipht in this city that occurred
Hat Wednesday. Moses Materia.* ky.
a prominent lawyer has been re
tained by the family. He asserts,
however, that he Is retained a< a
spokesman for the family and that
no legal steps are contemplat' d.
A well known motion picture di
rector Is accused as being the as
sailant as the fight occurred when
Stewart and ho were riding along
the highway in nn automobile.
•Mnlevinsky said that tho family
felt no anfmns toward the director
and would rot have mentioned it
had not the newspapers learn* d or
the affair. Stewart’s skull
,tured
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