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m *Sf~' Investigate Today! To Reftilar Subscriber, THB BANNER-HERALD $1,000 Accident Policy Free THE Daily and Sunday—10 Cento a Week. -HERALD Eatabliahed 1831 ' * Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. VOL. 91 NO. 158. Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 192J. A. B. C. Paper Single Copies 1 Cents Dally. S Cents Sunday. LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS; EXTRA SESSION IN FAIL •F—+ *F—F >F—4* F-4 v—-F--F *F—*i* *F .$■ J. i V ltl_a|| A aTe afi .f. ,y. 4’ T T "T V —V *1* 1 *1* ^—4* , *1* *1* Arrest Eighty-Four In Savannah Runt Raids Thursday jMorc Reductions As Gas War Goes 1 Merrily Onward' (By Associated Press) j NEW YORK.- As the gas war | continued the Standard Oil of •New Jersey announced a reduc tion in the tank wagon price of 1 two cents per gallop in West Vir ginia and cne cent reduction in the .northeastern and New England I states. Reports from the Standard f Oil of Kentucky said further re- j duct ions might be expected in the !southeast soon. * First Open Cotton Boll Is Brought In Tho first open cotton boll of the season was seen here Thursday. It addorned the lupel <ft Hugh W. White, manufac turer ami planter of Whitehall. Mr. White reported that ho found three open bolls in his imrnlng’s stroll through his fiilds, which are more promis- Iiik for a good crop than last year. Mr. White also stated that he found more weevils Thursday morning than any time this year. This is the beginning of tho ^migration season and the time when dally examinations of tho fields are necessary. BOY HELD BY POLICE Cashier of the Exchange Bank of Savannah In- EsgttSW 10 OBIT FIGHT _(By Associated_Prcss.) 01 BOLL WEEVIL AS SAVANNAH.—W i t hi eighty-four persons al ready under arrest for the violation of the con spiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act, Department of Jus tice officials stated that they believed that they had finally rounded up one of the largest of the , , , , m linnflnn. .i to mako n good cotton crop, nrc lard Trouton, whoHo body forces in the en- getting ready to mako tho lost I found In Line Creek Tuesday with n th ° lnV “ l0n ° f th0 i ‘be skull crushed and five bullet holes In tho body, around which CITY COURT J AID STATE GETS $25,BOB F Deficiency Appropriation For School Goes Through —Governor Fails ti Name City Court Judge. President Andrew M. Soule Pleads With Far mers Not to Relinquish Battle With Weevil Un til Crop Matures. Judge J. D. Bradwall remains judgo of the city court through* the failure of Gover^r Clifford Walk er to either nai.io a successor or to mako a ro-appointment. Tho present term of 5tu)ge Bradwcll ex plres on 5op^’l2th and this ap pointment now holds o#r for an other year, since the appointment has u» ne eonnrmed by the sertkta at a regular session. Dennis Penny, the newly named r» c*a j •• Tr solicitor, takes over the duties of r ormer otllutent At uni- the Office on the 13th of Feptember, versity Here, Held With I '-»">»'■ r Rucker, th. Four At Newnan. 1 prPSPnt ,ncnmbent ' Mr ppnny 8 ap - Daniel in the Lion's Den Julian Glenn Carpenter, tire United States. Other important arrests were forecast and ,t was stated that indictments will bo sought not only under the Volstead Act, but also under the Customs laws a K«| n »t smuggling in contraband. Thursday’s activities both by the grand jury and by the raiding squad follows months of investi gation here by government agents. Those indicted are said by officers to be the leaders of the alleged band which they say has been bringing into this country and dis tributing large quantities of intox icating beverages. Those indicted include many prominent in the business and social circles of this section. They included John J. Powers, vice pres ident and cashier of the Exchange Hank of Savannah; Jostmh B. Berner, merchant; Samuel Berner, 1 ormer police sergeant; A. Carl son, merchant; C. Graham Baugh, lawyer; Frank Balcon, grocer; and many others—all well known in Savannah. In connection with the furor which was created here Thursday, beginning with wholesale arrests, which began the middle of the morning, haa been the action of the federal grand jury. The first indictment the new grand jury re turned and upon which an imme diate arrest was made upon a bench warrant, was that against William H. Hanr, alias Willie Haar, charged specifically with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. The defendant gac bond in the sum of $10,000 for his up puma nee to answer the in dictment. , / AUTOISTS MEET TO NEWNAN.—The killing of Mil- boll weevil Although the rain of the last polntinent, along with other ap pointments made s y the governor, was approved by .be senate late Wednesday afternoon. AKlIHlUiU HIV S .Sill Ul tlltj tun. I . , few day, haa made fighting the; J* dcepcalt niy.tory has closed, weevil very illfflci.it the farmers, " OTme 1.' • earin K Thurs- are not discouraged hut are stand-11'" 5 : ''. lth I ^ re ! t °* , ve mc ”. lag their ground and "going nfler " c *•<"■« ,l0 ' 1 . lkcp :" , - | » w <“»■ the pest" with the intention of brother-in-law of tho dead jnr- rMeting them I A 8earch 18 baln K mado% The next few weeks will be | » h » '» »«*'' t0 , h **» ’«*« crucial weeks for the farmers of, «*ty Wednesday whole thought this section who have planted cot- l‘“ Vf closely connected wit), the ton. and nenrly all bavo pat in r ,,, er ‘ _ t _ some cotton acreage. Those with L J «« an 0 enn Ca-penter. one of fewer acres to the plow will not '"J five prisoners, .niton Into cus- ffn.l it ns difficult to handle the! '™Iy Wednesday Is said by the weevil as those who have planted i ,hari « hav0 *»>“» ‘he .’u.pect large acreages, It Is pointed nut. >* «* Nowmn In an automobile Farmers In lids section found . st) eriff Carpenter did not .ovoal last year that constant fighting Carpenter* •name, hot it was Irani- helped control the boll weevil and j (Turn U^pagf Oignt} despite adverse weather conditions j _ they will he found the next few IM' arnn Auto Theft weeks battling against the enemy iwacon " ul ° of the cotton crop. I Gang Leader snot I In August. 1925. DR. SOULE'S . { L. E. Cooper, local barber wat STATEMENT I » (By Associated Press.) i* also named Wednesday a member At the request of tho Banner- MACON.—Jack King, alias Jack J of the Georgia 8tate Barber Ex- Herald, Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pres- LivIhgNton, leader of au alleged I amlners' board.* Upon O. A. Nix, Lawrencovilln. Trustees of the fTnlverslty oi, Georgia named by Governor Walk er and 'confirmed by tho senate are, Judge George F. Oober, (Marietta, ro-appointed to Berve from August " i 13th. 1923; E. B. Barrett, Galnos- ville, named to succeed Howard Thompson, Gainesville, to serve fr*>m August 13th; W. H- Fleming. Augusta. to succeed Bowdro Phlnlsy, to serve frorii August X3th; W. E. Slrraons, Waycross, succeed ing John W\ Bennett. Waycross, to serve fyom August 13th; Howell C. Erwin, Athens, to succeed H. J. Rowe, Athens, who will serve from Aug. 15th. in the new trusteeship created bv tho legislature for the purpose of giving Athens three i members on the board. The next (trustee appointment) to expire ll ule. i ident of the State rollog* of/ Ag- ( gang r.f automobile thieves was shot riculture, has written the following i In a pistol battle with deputies and rules for fighting the weevil which city detectives Wednesday. King is will be of value to the farmer: i in a hospital and the wound will “Various methods of fighting the! not prove fatal. About a dozen boll weevil hivn no doubt been in- shots werp fired in the battle which stltutod and followed by our fa-i. - J occurred on Cotton avenue a era during the present year. It Is j thickly populated business dis- (Turn to page two) district. declining the appointment as Judge of tho nowiy created Piedmont elf-, cult, tho governor, named Lewis Russell of Winder ftr tho place. Mr. t Russell is at present secre tary to Senator Waltor George In Washington. Pemberton Cooley of (Turn to page eight) Daniel Frohman (center), theatrical impresario, takes a chance with the jungle kings on the lion farm of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gay, in Los Angeles. He’s b$en tipped off, however, that the brutes hod just finished their* breakfast. (Oy Associated Press.) i Infact some of them said he ought LONDON.—Tho rejuvenation of not to do It. ftne prominent aoelal women us well as men and with Out the aid.of the beauty doctor p.nd the dressmaker, has been prom ised by Dr. Voronoff, the famous monkey gland expert. I)r. Vor-m- off explained during the recent In ternational Surgical Congress that he was making exiierimeuts at tho present time, and expected to be ablo to announco the secret of everlasting girlhood about Novem ber. Tho announcement that ho ex pected to make grandmothers into debutantes caused a sensation among the delegates, and many of them were frank In saying that they bellovcd It utterly Impossible. worker of London declaring: I “What tho doctors should do Is 'to fled somo means of preserving tho strength of women of seventy, so that they could give the benefit of their ripe experience to those in need of it “Women who bavo grown old naturally prefer nature to tako Its own courso. Thero are women who would give anything to havo thel lost lKJUUty and youth restored, but they aro of tho selfish type.” Dr. Voronoff refuses to discuss the subject further than to say ho has progressed to the extent that ho is certain of success. Famed Doctor ZVowMsesiFARMEBS UBfiED TO Everlasting Girlhoot Monkey Gland Expert Says He Can Make Grand mothers Into Debutantes and Creates Big Sen sation. Will Not Need Aid of Beauty! Doctors. E FIGHT ON BOLL WEEVIL HERE III CLUBS ENJOY ANNUAL OUTING Convicts Are Own Guards. Under Louisiana Penal System 3 Conations of highways In this section of the state will be dis missed by members of the Athens Automobile Association at a meet ing in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 6:30 o’clock Thursday. The meeting was called by Pres ident F. J. Lawler and some very important business will come be fore tho association pertaining to highway development. It Is pos sible that the matter of improving a stretch of road on the Bankhead Highway In Madison and Franklin counties will also be discus 8 ed. Plans for attracting more tour ists through Athens and making the highways In this section the most easily travelled will be the principal subject for discussion. The Automobile Association was organised last year and Is pri marily interested In road develop ment Recently plates with “A. A. A.” were given Jthe members of the club. The Association, organized as a separate unit, has beepme affili ated with the Chamber of Com merce and now forms « part of that organization. Attend Joint Outing o: Clubs Enjoys Barbecue At East Lake. dollar bonds each. “Jo." lifer at the Louisiana penitentiary at Baton Rouge, keep* the bloodhound, and tralna them. 1 ii a daughter of a prison official. Those walls don't look The little girl i BATON ROUGE, La.—A peni tentiary without a cell! A prison where convicts guard themselves! And there, in . substance, you have the Lousiana State Peniten tiary under the administration of Governor John M. I'arker. Governor Parker’a theories as regards prison, reformation arc attracting national attention. They are revolutionary. And those who have visited the "Big House" here say they are producing the desired result*. Except' for the wail and the sentries posted thereon, one would not suspect he was in a prison. The convict* sleep in huge dormi tories, kept spotlessly clean. No bars bind the windows. Only screens to keep out insects of the night, that the sleep the better. ; so difficult to male, do they? The idea of trusting men who hsve made a faulty step, starts in the governor’s very home. His butler is a former prisoner, a man who haa' gained the esteem of the entire household. For, as Parksr explains it. "How could I expect other men to employ ex-conricta I know to be all right, If self?" The most striking thing about the strange prison is the prisoner- guard system. Crack shots, who have good records, are chosen for the task. No other prisoner is al lowed to come within 30 feet of one of these guards. Guns are loaded with bi)ckahot, and in the few attempts^ _ within_ the past freedom, ears, of breaks for m haa been a< “A guard knows,’ four yi prisoners may, the aim has been accurate, explains, "that if he misses he is demoted, and never given the op portunity again.” One particular prisoner-guard, up for a stretch or JO years for killing, has the particular affec tion, if one could call it that, of the governor. “The money he makes as guard —oh, yes, we pay them for the work—is aent back to his wife and children. “These men are not brutal to ward othSr prisoners merely be cause they hsve been shown this exrta confidence. They simply arc firm. And the other prison- Memhcrs of tho Athens Rotary and Kiwanis clubs nnd their guest* forgot the summer heat anil bu*lnes» worries Wod iosdiy jand oninved the annual joint out- jing nt Fast Lake. A barbecue ami other entertain. .went features i icluding singing ■of one of Morton Hodgson’s lat est songs, dedicated to Porter Plerpont, district governor of Ro; tary, helped make the occasion one 'of the most delightful over he'd by the two clubs. President. B’lbips " Phinixy of Rotary and 4. W. Barnett of Kl- wanis wan at their best and con- bt&UtM mueh'tewnrd the fun of the evening. The: attendance was tha largest ever enjoying the Joint bsrberue of the two clubs. Mike Casta and Joel A. Wier, chairmen of the outing commit tees for the Rotary and Kiwanis | undone to^make the barbecue andj FARMERS CONTINUE ontortainment features a success/ ■■ ■ — The* barbecue was well prepared^^ Fight on Weevil. Tech It was served at 6 o clock. j . - . * A ^ .After the barbecue was finished • Gets Important Appro- an old fashioned square dance was! nrintinn From State, held in the pavlllion on the lake.) P n «HHl rrom BIUIC. Morris* band furnished music. r . ttM mi , The awarding of prizes was one' Leriristure adjourns Extra sea- of the bright features of the en-! “'o'’ ,n November promised. tertainment Eight prizes wer*| . . ... . . given, tho winners being desig- 1 Auh ' lrn e 1 " 1 A , IaI, * n ' 1 i ; noted by various schemes. Those I "> Ix>*t-*eo*on football game after who won prizes were Major Hun-: Ion* S>eH<x* of non-mlaUona. North Carolina Lieut. Governor Is Under Anrest Brother, Son anjLBusiness Associates Also. placed Under Arrest ' on’ Fed eral Warrants. Col. Gantt Declares Pros perity of Southland De pends on How Fanners Go About Combatting Pest. By T. LARRY GANTT "There is a tide la all men’s lives, taken as tho ’flood leads on to fortune.” And that tide Is now upon tho cotton growers of the aouth and Its flood la right at them. A little insect, the boll weevil, has coat the cotton growers hun dreds of millions of dollars and threaten! to destroy the greatest money^ron nt any country on th > globe, and ’n (he production of which crop that narrow atrip of territory known as tho Southern Stales nf North America 1ms a practical monopoly. And It Is cotton that gives our country tho hnlanco In Its foreign trade. Our farmors cannot compete with tho rich prairies of tho west In the produc tion of grain and like foot! crops, but no other part of our great country-ran grow cotton in compe tition with tha south. , Already tho oppetimnro of lhl» little peat ha* causod the mlgrn lion to other states of thousands of negroes and la forcing many whites to desert tho form. So It Is ejeariy seen that tho prosperity and future of our beloved Southland (Turn to page eight) LDE VALERA PROVES (By Asaocijtad Press.) nAI.ElGH, N. C.—Lieut. Govern or W. T. Cocpcl Thomas E. cooper, lilu brother am! Horace C. Cooper his sen, with Clyde L. Lassiter, business associate of the family wf re arrestf d at Wilmington Wed- . nrriday on Federal warrants charg- j Ing them with a conspiracy to wreck tho defunct-Commercial Na tional honk of that city, it waa lonrnod Thursday. Lassiter is held finder a five thousand dollar bond Til r Pn PP HTITTnO and the other, under ten thou..ud j j [||. |- || ^ [ }) IM tllD The Day’s News Auburn and Alabama to Resume Relations in Athletics. era, scenting the confidence we —.. ,. .... ... place in all by the mere fact of, ter Harris, Mr*. W. B. Steadman, . . , having prisoners to guard pri*oa- Mra. Joel A. Wier. Mr,. Thomn, Bradwcll remain, city era, Jo nut try to take adrantagu M.- Powall, Mis, Leila Mae Hull, I c™” J«<lae through failure of ,of it. They could not get awayjMis* Katherine Wier. J. T. Pit- Governor Walker to make appolnt- the governor I with it, anyway." jtnrd and Mrs, E. F. Porter. Iraent. As Prisoner, He Is More Dangerous Than When He was At Large, So It Is Claimed. fBv Associated Press.) LONDON.—Tho English pro. a lose, no sympathy on Ramon do Valera, but on the other hand It show, no tendency to congratulate the Free Staters who arrested him at the political meeting in County Clare Wednesday. It It generally agreed that hi, captor, hive a problem in the ar rest of the republican leader, the relation of which mpy coat them dearly. The prevailing opinion seems to be that De Valera i, less dangerous as a fugitive than ha a prisoner and that he takes the role as some what of a "white elephant" on the hand, of the Free Stater,. TO PROBE AG. DEPT. ANO REPORT LATER Compromise on Confeder ate Veteran Pensions For $1,300,000. To Devel op Earthenware Indus try in Georgia. Special Session (By Associated Press.) ATLANTA.—Governor Walker stated Thursday that he would call an ex tra session of the Legis lature Friday and at the same time would make known the personnel of a special commission, com posed of members of the legislature, farmers, bankers and merchants to study the tax problem for the purpose of reporting to the special session. It was stated that the ses sion will probably be call ed for November 15th, though it may be conven ed earlier. ATLANTAr Ga.—Both houses of the Legislature adjourned at 2:30 -Thurs day morning after the last hectic hours of trying to clean up, compromising on the Appropriations Measure which provides for $1,300,000 for pen sions. The House killed the State Auditor Bill before its adjournment. Eight members from the house and four from the Senate were appoint ed as a committee to in vestigate the report of the Department of Agricul ture and tender a report to the governor within sixty days. All tax reforms were killed by the House by a close vote. At tha last minute, the House approved an appropriation or ten thousand Hollars for the establish ment of a department of ceramic, nt Georgia Tech. Tho final pas sage required the reading of ihe constitution of the public school*. (Turn to page two) — m . . ; -W IN MEMORIAM In Life’, benutiou, garde n —nmde beautiful by such as she who was ’taken away Ihe great Gardener came vif t- !y Monday evening ar I by the light of the atari tenderly plucked one of the lovclio.-t ,,f all the lovely blossoms that bloomed in Ilia garden u that tho sucetncaa of her character and the gentleness of, her heart may make a sweeter fragrance near His Throne and add to Heaven more of Heaven. In the passing of .Mrs. Charles Joel, this i loses one of tho souls that ever made it home. Her loss can a-ver measured as her tovo mother, wife, and friend never be measured. She lcai a void in the heart of 1 dear or.ci and In the hearts nil who knew her, for truth fully, all who knew her love, her, that will always remain. To those who loved her whom she loved know that whose life was such as her’* cannot die but will live always —always in the hearts of you. If at times cold reasoning says she's dead, the warm heart of you will shout a, high as tho furtherest sky— “She live,!” For soub, like ■heris “There is no death, The stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore." -I.