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Investigate Today! Snbaeribc To Begolar Subscribers TUB BANNER-HERALD 11,000 Accident Policy Free THE HERALD Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. Established 1832 Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week, ' ATHENS COTTON! MIDDLING 25c PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. 24 3-4c TIII3 Vt*SA7BSSs Probable Showers Tuesday Night. ±L VOL. 91, NO. 162 Associated Press Service ATHENS, GA, TDBiDAY. AUGUST 21, 1923. A. B. C. Paper NVESTiem INTO IROES OE LATHAM miaifiT iimninn to BANDITS STAGE I WRING TRAIN RO BBERY GAINST HOWARD TO Confession Expected From One Of Men Held In Whipping Case\ Coal Crisis Result Rests With These Men MIKE ESCAPE WITH 1EIUY PACKAGES TART ON THURSDAY ricvance Committee of j 4 .a "p q~ ; \£ ft ; .. • • Jal few Jet ' 1 iwIIKhHi Atlanta Bar Association Gasoline and Arm I to Probe the Charges. Against Newly Appoint-! ed Judge of F u It o nj Court. Power Fight Gum ATLANTA, Ga.— Investigation Jof charges by Edgar Latham, (prominent attorney* against .fudge I (I. II. Howard, newly appointed, ■judge of the Fulton county court, ■will begin either Thursday or Fri- Iday, it was announced here by ■ Robert P. Jones, chairman of the ■grievance committee of the At lanta Bar Association. The investigation will get un- Ider way at a meeting of the griev- lance commitee of the bar associa tion, of vHiich Mr. Jones is chair- I man. It is the result of adoption | of a resolution by "a number of I leading Atlanta lawyers” at « meeting held Monday at the \ of- I fice of James A. Branch, presi dent of the bar association, call- ing for a thorough probe of the entire affair. Mr. Branch stated that sentiment of those attending the meeting Monday was that the charges were too serious to be dropped and that in “fairness to the people, the bar association, the judiciary and Judge Howard" they should be thoroughly investigated. "Heretofore,” said Mr. Branch, "we have had judges above sus picion and the charges against tho new judge are of too grave a na ture to be ignored.” "There was no desire on the part of anyone attending the meet ing Monday morning to pass upon the truth of the charges against (Turn to Page 81x.) Chewing gum and movie thrills evidently don’t go well together. Ask the scrub boy at the Masonic building who Is as sisting in getting the first floor ready to be occupied by a Oading furniture store Tom Mix’s daring horuetir.ck stunts, Bill Hart's tyro puns and Pearl White’s train jumps simply make ’em look for a parking ground for the quid opines the individual who dll day Monday was scraping up flattened out "pirmint’’ from the floor that formerly was at the receiving end of all of thise footbeats at tense situa* arose on the s*lv\.*rshent. That is back in the days when the Elite boasted cf the "western thrillers” and fair raising serials. It required an entire day and a gallon of gasoline to get the place “ungummed.' POLICE ON TRAIL ll“XJ PLAIIED WHIPPINGS Believe Hudson Brothers Were Paid to Commit Outrages. Confession Is Near in Third Degree. SPARTA, Ga.—Sheriff Jaa. M. Jackson, of Hancock conn* ty, who is ever on the alert for evil-doers, especially of Ihe II* quor-Kclling nnd moonahining persuasion, was on the war path Sunday night, and Henry Wynn, an aged colored man, was caught in the act. Wynn is said to be an old offender but has been sly enough to keep out of the hands of the law on most occasions. A bystander touched a match to the liquid, to teat IU quality, and the entire outfit went up in a blaze of blue flame. MACON.—Officials hero Tucs- d ly were expecting to embark on an oxtfnslv* bunt for other mem bers of the bn ml which has btv-n striking terror In this city for tho past month by floggings, aiul due to information obtained from tho Hudson brothers, who were captured Sunday In the net of whipping two negroes, expected to the gang fully rounded up by nightfall. During the last fortnight several men have been whipped nnd order ed to leave town within forty-eight hours, and at Intervals during the last six months scores of men have been flogged. The climax In tho First OI Senes 01 Tests disorders was reached early Sat PILOT HOPS OFF ON TWENTY-EIGHT HOUR MI SERVICE TRIP Tho threatened su.pcn.ion of anthracite mining September 1 may be averted by this conference llaj’H llammond. ohainnnn of tho roll commission; Thos. It..Marshall, commission Smith, commission ibepihor; (standing) E. E. Hunt, commission secretary; C. J. f member; George Otis nnutn. romtnisr.lon member; (standing) K. E. Hunt, commission secretary; C. J. Golden, president Dis trict No. 9; Kinaldo Cappellinl, .president, District No. 1; Dr. C. I*. Neill, commission member. ’ HALL CRASHES MON. jTwo Firemen Killed and Forty Injured When Plaza Hotel Collapses Monday Night. Judge Bradwell Passes Sentence in Whiskey Cases. One Case Is Can celled on Insufficient Evidence. Four people plead guilty to hav ing whiskey In city court Monday ^nd one case of the aamo char to wag cancelled upon recommenda tion of Solicitor Lamar C. n icker on account of Insu-Mrlent evidence. The appenranco docket wan call ed Tueaday and Judgments taken In several cases. Court will remain otien for transaction of business not requiring a Jury. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK. — Two firemen were killed when the roof and one wall of the New Plaza Hotel in Brooklyn collapsed during a spec tacular fire Monday night, accord ing to the casualty list compiled by the police Tuesday morning. First reports Jiad placed the number oC dead At ten. The list of the police cut this number down to two, though there is a possibility that more bodies will be found. The injured * number forty, most of them firemen, who were caught when the walls col lapsed. Ambulances were rushed to the scene from Brooklyn and Manhat* tan bringing doctors and a corps of nurses who assisted in the res- ork. Four alarms of fire brought additional firemen who unlay when the police engaged In a running pistol battle with alleged (loggers after they had kidnapped a man from In front of the rail road station. Governor Walker has threatened to place the city und*** - martini law. For Air Service Between I San Francisco and New,I York Begun. Cash, Body Return CLEVELAND, O.—Seeking to avoid arrest after he rob bed Mrs. George Brioci of $6.1 contained i;i a handbag, a robber jumped into the Cuya hoga river. "He’s escaped,” said police. "He’s drowned, and well find tho money with his: body,” replied Mrs. Brioci. For three weeks, she and her children kept watch. Final 1 ” the body was seen. The coroner was summoned and took the b.nly from the water. Still clutched in the dead band was Mrs. Brloci’s handbag—qnd her $03. ATHENS NEEDS PARK THEY ASSERT Athenians Point Out Rea sons W h y T h i s City Should Build Park Now. (By Associated »r*ss.) SAN FRANCISCO. — Twenty- eight hour mall service between San Francisco nnd New York was inaugurated Tuesday morning, ® s ss r night that tho Humana and otnor . .. niombora of tho Hogging band worn paid moa. and that through tho Hudaona thoy had learned they were being financed by an organ ization. A confession from on© of the Hudaona. the police anld. waa expected, and name* of thoao who Jinvo been financing tho (loggera would bo made public. We expect to make other ar- roata within forty-eight hours.” anld Sheriff J. D. Hlckn, Jr. Tho county official would not toll what (Turn to Pay* Six) Jamea Ealy. charged with hav- |„|, 0 assisted in tho work of res- Ing whiskey. from recorder'© court, ; cue . ing wnnKBj, irom idvuiwis vwi, jcue. was dlsmlsaed on account of In- | The firemen had carried lines of sufficient evidence. Helen Watson • hose into the structure and were was fined $27.60 or ninety days J fighting the fire unde.* the glare anon pleading guilty to having jof a half dozen powerful search- whiskey. [lights. Without warning; the en- John Vincent, a white man, was tire roof and one of the walls fined $36.00 or ninety days for hav ing whiskey after admitting the charge. Sallle Mack plead guilty having whiskey and was fined 36.76 cts ninety days nnd Albert “hlrley plead guilty of having (hlskey and was sentended to 5.00 fine or ninety days. Judge D. Bradwell presided. crashed, burying all of those the building. A number of spec tators close to the wall were be lieved also to have been victims. Dorsey Furniture Com pany Moves Into New Home. Woolworth Build ing Remodeled and Other Changes. Work Is nearing completion on several remodeling Jobs prepara tory to the opening of business th's city on his trip across the contin ent. Wilson, piloting a De Haviland plane was carrying sixty four pounds of first class mall, when he took to the clouds. The flight which begun Tuosday morning, Is one of a series which will bo conducted over a period of five days to determine the per- manecy of the schedule. At the same time as Wilson hop ped off, a plane was scheduled to leave New York on a trip across the continent to the Golden Gvto, carrying about tho same amount of mall. The two planes had prelvous* ly been tested and stamped as be ing In excellent condition for the long trip. This Is tho first active step In the establishing of a twenty-eight hour air mall service between the two coasts. Bulletins will be mado public, It was stated, as to the progress of the flyers and the conditions en countered by the pilots. . E. GA. Prof. L. L. Hendren: Groups of citizens should bo encourag ed to establish small private- ly ownea community parks such ns our owned by a group on rioverhurst Terrace. The clly should Im asked by the Chamber of if Commerce to aid In such semi-public parks by placing curbing, etc. Will Have Florida Pro duce Man Here Thurs day to Confer With Pro ducers At Curb Market. Prof Alex Rhodes! By all means, provide parks, recrea tion grounds, for the people. Efforts of the < haniber of Com merce to find a market for sur plus tomatoes Jn Jhls section bn* resulted in an offer of n Florida { iroducc concern to take car** cf n arge quantity of that vegetable If properly graded nnd packed. Secretary E. W. Carroll has re ceived a wlie from James S. Moody, of Tampa, Fla., In answer i query nnd Mr. Moody states he can handle a quantity of to matoes. The chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning got In touch with B Oglesbv, secretary of the. Sweetwater Valley Truck Growers ] Association who wired that the cn- | (Turn to Pag# Six.) j Or. 8 .E. Wasson: The Chamber of Commerce should work out a practical park plan nnd a system of children's playgrounds and then ask the Council to submit the proposi tion to the people In a bond Issue. Hsrry Hodgson: A central park and playgrounds accessi ble to the children, in my opin ion, Is one of the greatest needs of Athons at this time. Own Car; Pen JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.— Sentenced to the penitentiary on a charge of stealing his own automobile! Edward Z. Linders waa convicted in a St. Louis trial court on a charge of stealing a motor car. He appealed the case. Then he proved that he owned the auto. The court returned the car to him. Recently, though, the state supreme court affirmed the two-year sentence imposed by the St. Louis court, and or dered him sent to prison. Prison officials also declared It was too late for the jud&e IT Outlaws Captured By A1 Spencer. Fireman Re ceives Fractured Skull. Passengers Not Molest ed. who sentenced Linder to take any action. E Ml TO ADDRESS C.E. MEET Rev._ James Barfield Will Be One of Speakers At Convention Which Takes Place in October. Dr. Linton Gsrdine: Glad to sco tho chamber of Commerce sponsoring the movomont to ward getting parks and play grounds for Athens. , Dr. T. H. McHatton: Tho Chamber of Commerco has nmtlo no mintage In starting the movement for a municipal (Turn to Pago Six) Rev. James Barfield of Monroe will bo one of tho speakers at tho Northeast Georgia Christian En deavor convention whicl meets Iti Elberton October 6, 6, 7, a I* Johnson, president, announces. Rev. Barfield will deliver tho open ing address Friday evening, using as a topic, Friends or Christ In j the Church.” ; A meeting will be held In Elher- I ton August 26th to closo out the work now underway. Representa tives of the thro© churches, the , Young Peoples’ Societies, civic or- * aronloaflnH. ...lit , .LI a AND STILL THEY SAY THAT THERE IS NO REAL MONEY IN FARMING Baron firemen wore on the roof ^Yien Dir.e» Furniture com- WARRENTpN, Va.-Thla I. when the craah came. They were ".‘A, nl^dTmovlM lu Uock wlmt Amerlc V* “champion, farm ing. Htween 26 and 50 firemen,I,, t d fire .mcW. estimated. were in- ^“nThe In# have been remodeled to take } ark Boosters Meet In One-Hour Forum Session 8:30 C P. M. Mell Will Preside Meeting At Geor- Hotel Tuesday ?ht. ) Limited to One fur. itlona point to a largo crowd alod Athena people at tho of Commerce forum meet, day night which waa coll- ildent llngh W. White to ! plana for building a park foi tho city. •ting will be hold In tho assembly room be- I 8:30 o'clock, and llmtled i talked about building I nark for yoara. It la rie- park haa boon built n> la underway. It la Hah at laaat three nr tho clly and two- amount necessary bu been mixed, but playgrounds, It Is pointed out, will not take the place of a pnblic park. care of this firm’s business, which opens there on September 1st. The place for Woolworth’s formerly the E. I. Smith Shoo com mpany and II. J. Reid's, on Clay ton street, Is also shaping up and will be reudy for opening before October first. The old stand of Head and Me Mahan's at the corner of Jackson nnd Clayton Is being done over for the new firm of Funkenstaln and Lesser which will handle women’s apt>arel. This firm will be ready for the fall trade. PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN Costa’s now place, next door to the Southern Mutual Building, will l>e completed In a few weeks and (Playgrounds will lie used for the ready for early September open- children of the city while a par’: ing. In the new building will be can bo used for fair grounds In the (placed the delicatessen shop, now fall and numerous other comrau-'next door to the soda fountain, nlty events In tho year. Visitors to | and a quick lunch stand. An all the city will also have a place to tile kitchen Is being built In the go and enjoy themselves, It Is I rear of tho building and an en- polnted out. {trance will connect the lunch Unless Athens takes steps now-room with Costa's mala cafe. The tt> build or begin a park system I candy and flower departments will It will cost considerably more In | be moved to the present dellcates- years to romp than now. those In- sen shop, which will also be repafr- terested In the project declare. {ed and beautified. The meeting Tuesday night Is These, with the changes already open to men and women alike r.Lri j made by H. & Reid and the Smith both will be given opportunity to {Shoe company, will be the main give their views. The meeting will j business changes here this fall and he presided over by T. S. Mell nr d t the expansions seen In these Im- wilt be limited to one hour cndlog i provements Indicate a sound bt - exactly st 9:30 o’clock. lief In Athens as a basinets center. girl” has done: 8he started with a Shetland pony, a gift from her mother when sho was a baby cf three. And now ■he owns $10,000 worth of live stock. Including a herd of nor® bred Guernsey cattle, a heard ft beef cattle, as well as 20 8hetlund ponies, tw ohunters, 100 stanrard- bred chickens and a score of ’h.te colllef “She earned It all herself,'* rays her -mother. “She did It by bard work, by saving her money an*J in vesting It wisely.” This farmerette marvel Is C tXJ Keith, 16 years old. Her title of “champion farm girl” comes from the United States department of agriculture, which is promoting junior agricultural clubs, now comprising 600,000 boys and girts, all over the country. "I started out to help mother make the farm pay,” says Peggy “1 loved animals better than dolls, It was wondorful play! And it still Is—even the hard work. I suppose thnts’ why I’ve had such great luck." Not a bit of luck about It, says A. J. Bnmdngage, of the Con necticut Agricultural College and state leader of Connecticut agrl cultural clubs, who came here to Invite Peggy to the Eastern States Exposition at Springfield. Mass., next month, where she will exhibit her prize cattle and horses. Peggy was raised on a 635-acre farm near hero. She joined the ag ricultural club when she was eight and raised a small crop of pota-i toes herself. The >next year she raised sesd corn j-When she was 11 she put dp 24 quarts of pcfkles. hatched a setting of eggs* nnd fed ganlzatlons will attend this meet ing and. various committees will lie appointed to handle every de tail of the convention. Mr. O. I* Johnson, of Athens, Ga., who Is president of the district will pre side at the business session. Miss Nancy Lowe Morton, Junior superintendent or the district an nounces a new playlet, “The Junior Garden," which will be n feature of the Sunday afternpon session. This garden Is composqd of Junior Endeavorers from 26 societies and Jpveryone will bo dressed to rep- . resent a flower, and in song, mu- j sic, readings, etc., the play will (By Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA CITY. - Five masked bandits loot ed the mail express cars !of the Missouri-Kansas ■and Texas passenger train near Okesa, shortly after midnight Tuesday and escaped with twenty packages of registered mail and bundles, after overpowering members of the train crew. Fireman Towers is in a hospital here with a prob able fracture of his skull, where lie was hit with the butt of a pistol by one of the bandits Two mail clerks were also beaten severely while the train was enroute from Kansas City to Oklahoma City. The passengers not dis turbed nnd most of them slept through the train robbery which was conducted quietly and was one of the most daring in recent years. No estimate of the value of the loot taken was given out Tuesday though it it thought that it will run very high, at the express cars were carrying an extra heavy as signment of registered packages. Posset directed by the sheriff of Osage county were scouring the country nearby for tho bandits, who, it is believed have not had the opportunity of fleeing ^ far from the tceno of the robb„. It it Relieved that the hand o robbers number twelve, though only five of them actually partic ipated in the hold-up. The robbery was staged in a section which has long been the haunt of a desperate band of rob- Iwrs, captained by A1 Spencer, the most notorious outlaw of the present day in Oklahoma. It it believed that- the bandits boarded the train at Bartletsvillc, riding the blind baggage until the train reached tho scene of opera tions. The engine crew were forced, at tho point of pistols, to uncouple the engine and take It more than a mile away, while the hold-up was going on. bo given. Miss Morton hns enjoy- led much experience along this illne and a worthwhile program Is I oxnected. The registration fee for tho con jventlon has been sot for twenty- [five cents and Elberton’s quota Is j 160. while Northeast Georgia will Five Americans Are Killed When Bus Wrecks Mon. One Frenchman Also Meets Death As Sight seeing .Bus Plunges Over 100 Foot Precipice. PEGGY* KEITH AN I) A PRIZE HUNTER. two Shorthorn ateer calves. At 12 she took a course In stock Judging at Virginia Polytechnic In atltate And at 13 won f.ret prize at tho Virginia State Pair with a Hereford calf ami iron on th. Vlr- Inla team Hurt wan second 1 in the Inter-atato Junior atock Judging contest at tho Atlanta stock show. Now, boaldea owning and caring for her own stock, she in a partner with her mother In selecting tha animals for the borne farm, when 70 rows are milked dally and from 30 to 20 cattle are fattened every J»ar. (By Associated Proas.) NIC E.—Five Americans nnd one Frenchman were killed when n motor sightseeing bus crashed through a parapet on the high way bewteen Nice and Evian late Monday. The bus plunged down a one hundred foot precipice and into the river below. Fifteen were injured and it is thought that several of that num ber are protytbiy fatally hurt. Eighteen of the twenty-two pas sengers were Americana. The injured include Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Strayhom of Durham, N. C.. and Mrs. W. A. Hocker of Miami," Fla. Poincare Dispatches Ans wer to Recent British Note. French Reply Is Concilliatory, Stated. (By Associated Press.) PARIS.—France’s reply to the recent British note was handed to the British embassy Tuesday morning. There Is a feeling which, pre vails in official circles that the British will find the note concil liatory nnd that It will prevent a rupture In the entente. It was stated that Premier Poincare is unyielding in the es sential points of the note but that Great Britain will probably find the note inconclusive. Schedule Filed (ny Associated Press.) AUGUSTA. Ga.—The lia bilities of Barrelt & Co. arc given as 22,730.857 In a sched- ule filed with the United States Bankruptcy Referee. No assets are given but It is reported that they exceed th. liabilities. The schedule give* 651 creditors with Ihe lazes due by the firm amounting to 217.- fdj-l for Ihe local office and 22,071 for the Athena branch.