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Investigate Todayl Tiber* JTo Regular Subscrl! % tiib banner-herald $1,000 Accident Policy Free THE BANNER- Dally and Bandar—10 Centa a Week. Eatablbhed 1831 VOL. 91, NO. 172 Aaaoclated Preaa Service ATHENS, GA„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1923. Mrs. Harris, Registered At Ansley Hotel in At lanta, Sees Constitutioft Reporter After Four Days’ Wait. HUSBAND CALLS HER “LOVE-CHILD” Beauty, 27, Says She Will Prove Her Heritage and Refute Intimation^ That She Is a Scarlet Woman. (Special to Banner-Herald) ATLANTA.—After registering at the Ansley hold! for four days anti nuocejefully wjthatatjlng a con stant onslaught of reporters from local newspapers, beautiful Mrs. Eleanor Elalno Lo Harris, who gained the tlUc of "tho mystery woman” as tho result of her olu- sirencss, Friday nlgilt in in ex clusive etatement o The Constitu te.o revealed Iter identity as the wife of Bevery Evans, a former vlre president of tho National City Bank of New York and a principal In the suit for annulment of their marriage which for two years has proved' tho sensatlo of New York. Atlantans generally will remem ber the Harris ease, which was rivalled only In point of senaaMon hr the Stillman enn and la 'ramrod by the fart that Stllimnn waa rrca- Irient ot the nanto bank with w'urh • Harris was connected as ylgo ijres -1 Ident. . ' ' Mrs. Harris, a bosuilfnl woman r.f about 27. waa branded by her millionaire K-ebard In his snnu- ment proceedings as n scarlot wo-1 n,nn of tho underworld and n half- 1 csstr. Harris. Who Is a wealthy oil men amV rancher ot Texas, It will hs gonorally remembered from nromlnontly-dirplayed news nrtlc- lrs. charged that hie wlto wns a "love child", that she had faiecly rnpresented herself to be a tnom- her of a blue-blooded southern; t-n-ily end that ehe was a product ot the (Jiml-mondo. VOICES HEATED ( DENIAL USTIEESJift •Indicated Cotton Several Points Prospects Last Ahead of This Year' S. Production. LABOR DAY MONDAY Athena Monday will join the country In observing Labor Day The post office will observt holiday schedule. That Is, Ok general delivery window* will not be open but one ht.ur, from 12 until 1 o'clock. City mall carrier* will make only one de livery, the morning delivery. The cotton markets were closed yebterday and will also be doted Monday In recognl* tlon of Labor Day. All bank* will be cloved Mon day. Yield Above -•iTOKIO IS AFIRE AS DISTRICT AVERAGE 58; LAST YEAR, 51 Banks County Indicates Best Yield of Any Coun ty in This Section. Farm ers Continue Weevil Fight. KEEP FIGHTING i With prospects of. a much better cotton crop than last year farmers In Clarke and adjoin ing counties will go forth Mon day to finish the battle against the boll weevil. Results from poisoning the weevil have been thus far very encouraging and If tho fight is kept up for the next two weeks the victory will be ours. 1AKESHQGKSAREA; AMERICANS IN CITY Washington Estimates 1,- Increase of Several Hun dred in Enrollment Is Expected By Superinten dent G. G, Bond. SIXTEEN NEW INSTRUCTORS Official Opening Wednes-j day But Doors Swing Open Monday Morning At 9 O’clock For Prelim-} inaries. IF ITALY SHOULD SPORN SETTLEMENT BY LEAGUE, WAR FT Diplomatic Circles Re gard Attack on Corfu With Slaying of Fifteen Greeks Tantamount Dec laration. ■ 000 Americans Are in!*'h°°i children, an mcr«u. 0 f *sv-1 eral hundred over last year, will* Burning Japanese City, return to ,c h00 | here n „ t WMk# j Herr Glesberts, minister — ! posts and telegrams in the 1 upward* of 82001 German cabinet. Casualties Reported. (By Associated Tress.) SAN FRANCISCO.—Tokio morning at 9 o’clock. While the grammar and Illgh| School* do not open until Wednes- J day officially, the doors will be j 8 1 thrown open Monday at which time m>nr „r ii,.f those wishing to stand entrance rx- d JK »* the High School or dZ«iZm| d ' «J> "conditions” at either .he tKjTb.ovt hJfh.™ f-rAmwar or High Schools will oe! Isusper -m' 1 ^'nd .'^"'flamC. A** spreading to surrounding towns,l.. No ,or . mal “ ercl .***. w,, L ,, ? , .' k l according to 0 message rcceW ISAYS U. S,'MEXICAN RECOGNITION IS IN LINE WITH POLICY GREECE SUBMITS AFFAIR TO LEAGUE ■ Reserve Italian Troops Reported Held in Readi ness. Jugo-SIavia, Italy’s Enemy May Be Brought Into the Tangle. To thesn charges Mrs. Harris Frldsv night In Atlanta, hronkint s long silence during which she drclaron sho has bnen on a pil- gr!tango tq collect evidence end dor r hor name, voiced * heated de nial In tho form of an affidavit Mihsnribod to o,->- August 18 In St. Lools. ‘ Sho denied that she had made any misrepresentation to her has- b-rnd concerning hor family con nection, hut proceeded to e>vr evidence in detail to shoe* that hei family to the Leo family of Ten nessee. , In roply in charges that she hat had Improper relatione with a man Here are seme more of the girls selected by their home town, to compete in the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant in which America's most beautiful girl it to be found. The full-length portrait is of Miss Billie Gates, of Richmond. Va. 'At the top is Mis, Ruth Agnes Brady, of Wilmington, Dei. Miss Mildred Maconachy (center) will represent Norristown, Pa., while Miss Mary Weaver will carry the name of Lakeland, Fit; ■ (Turn to Pane Five) Dick Harris, Well Known Negro Held On Liqiior Charge Must Face -Recorder.Mon day Following Raid on Barber Shop Friday Aft ernoon When Liquor Was Found. Dick Harrla’ bigtx-r shop on (--liege avenue, operated by one 01 tho ante-bellum negroes who hat enjoyed A good reputation In Atn *n« many year*, wa* raided Fri day afternoon- by policemen •*«*• now Dirk face* charge of violating th«* pmhlbtlon law. Dick wa* not In the *hop when It wa* raided. He w** helping mov« his household good* to anothet house. Saturday morning he went to the police headquarter* «*»«» n’ade bond in the amount of hiding appearance In Hecordert co "rt on day. Three policemen made the n»W- Captain Claude Craf. Detective Ibiuh Moore and Policeman J. M N*lm*. Two pint* of wM*key and a 'mart »>ott!e almost # ull of *h|*k#y>*•* found by the raiding officer*, all in U»e rear of *be •hop. On# point wa* In a aultease empty can, which officer* say hod contained whiskey, wa* found •tid sever*l emptyc an* were In the T9 *r of the place. However, pollct **y they .re not convinced the*e thrown out by Harris. The .police were tipped off that Harris bad been selling whiskey.- Many Attendants -Will Board of Directors Hear Arrive in Athens Mon day. Large Enrollment Expeced. The IMS-24 session of ths Stall Normal School begins Tuesday and a cdfflclency In the anlaries and year 624 students were registered In the regular session and tf bet ter accommodation! wd* avail able more than tbia number could Encouraging Statistics About Business of Ath ens Institution. The Board of Directors of , the Fidelity Loan and Inve*tm*nl company held a meeting Thursday afternoon and received the auditor’* report'on the business of tho com pany a* of date of Aug. 9th lasf The report was'* most encour aging one and showed the folk able more uw bo cared for during the new term in* outstanding fafts relative to Many time* the number to reg- (Tur». tf P*Q# Fiv#) Large Crowd Enjoys Hoa- Georgian At His Home in Oconee County. By T. LARRY GANTT '••A crowning success and most delightful occasion.” Such was the unanlmoUs verdlpt of the three hundred grJ^Hs whr. Attended the barbecue given yes terday by Hon J. D. Price at hi* Va.<ti !<••* f*—n home in Oconva. Ana fully 1 300 mt-seKi in!nvcmT'noint. dl <Svc A^cri/a Ocm tho * h ' “*<£*»■ b Washington Sees Consist- la several points »bq>0 . ntem ,, 1|t of tl;c CMnp . h y- a ^ ™™n^heghmlM Mon- - -- - Northeast cotton yield m ncvorai pomia woqvu j sun ,, r : n f ( , n prospects this time last yesr, 1" station at KomMts. advance of the average predicted .. Jkavy rss ualUc-. arc reported. --“day for the U. 8. ami fourteeb H un ,or Is ell-ot that all traffic Is t MANY points above the average for the suspended throughout Toklo. Rcr-, teacmepr stato of Georgia, according to , ogees running In all tlirsetionn. I- NEW report leaned Saturday by Georgia Co-operative Crop Report ing Service. A study of tho ret>ort shows that tho cotton production situation In Georgia this yeas is the reverse for that of last year, uppe-r Georgia "Many disastrous accidents have making tho crop this year. been reported, many trains wreck- Tho district average In the dls- cd. It is also reported that a se- trtt. 51 this year as against 47 vere tidal wave struck the coast at f.8 as against 6T for 1922 at this .Yokohama.” time. Tho district average for Ihe ugees running dow^et-vsIvo^'i-orTtow“' »•» -*«"* w- •• Asakusn, ‘^’ianrehinshi railway | ‘ 1 '* "T,— station at K.lko, the buildings < Tur " *° p ««* Fiv *> occupied b/ the Peers club, end! the Toklo arsenal. district in which Banks, Elbert, -cm E TO BAN KRANC18CO—Practically Kranklin, IIMI. Mndtarn, f3*lc- th . , nlir . clly of Ynkohiuc (Dy Associated Press.) ■ LONDON.—Italy’s action. In bombarding and oc»riipying Corfu, a contravention of the neutrality of tho Island guaranteed In per petuity by tho treaty of 1865, in which Great Britain ceded Corfu to (ireecp. Is considered In military diplomatic quarters of London as a tantamount declaration of wat upon Greece, ant! as constituting -**. . M M a flagrant violation of Ini-iai’.onnl ently With U. S. Policy tew. Should’ Italy Igore tho Inter- in Ifpqiimntmn nf Rolfi- vent,t)n of tho League of Nai’ona in uesumpuon OI ivCla ftn( j , ( J 10 independent efforts of he tions. {'« unrll of nmhnssHdors for an ami- - T - ■ I cable solution, military experts sen N (danger of Mm war spreading Recognition of the government j oughout southeastern FJu^ope. of President Obregon by the Unit-. ed Stated, which wot announced • JUGO slavia Friday by Washington, la regarded (LINKED WITH GREECE here as in line with tho American policy, stated through successive administrations of giving disinter- . ested help to a friendly country so 1 long as tho rights of Americans »ro properly safeguarded. thorpo, Stephens, Wilkes counties | and numerous casun’tles bav* I a , «-q, , n . arc situated In 65 for this year an JZTZd „ the result at a con- Accepts First VlCe-PreSl- AMERICAN COURSE WAS DIFFICULT , The announced aim ot the Wash ington gorernment has boen direct- It Is recalled that Juglo-Hlavin Is linked by royal marriage (o Greece. Moreover Greece has re ceived from Juglo-Slavla only r. few months ago certain promises of support in tho event of being attacked by another country. In re - turn for, which Jugo-Slavla has given use of Salonlkl as a free port of entry for arm? merchandise. Allied* observers also refer lo the contiued enmity between Jugo slavia ad Italy /over tho Mum r'almntlnn questions. Rumania also J has dynastic ties wl»h Greoce snfd I • couraglng fnternaUonsT complica- * In case of u declaration of war by I Wt ■ I _ , TTTTT’ . tions Incident to a condition, of : Italy on flu* Hellenic kingdom the M.l. lis feared have been felt at Tnklc Charles H. Phlnfsy hns accept-' taevoiution an d civil war ^running, Buchnrresf. government might ho The average for the northwest' and Yokohama. The American tho position of first vice president' „ morfl n, an a decade. extorted In vt»*w of military men, of tho Georgia Railroad Bank, Au- I ;to lend iwtivr support to Greece, gusta, and will assume charge of started I Orcem alone is III fitted to with- tho office un the 15tb of O"'j J. 8. P OLICY lr i of ?ho r SL.? l l!rd" d m ^I n . k u h" Tho story of the present cycle, Clan Hal '^hankiM iltmCYnnYh', of Apiericsn-MextcaB relations has stantl.il bsnkinK Institutions In ^ rea j ^ginning In the outbreak [ per cent August 26. The general j aw ted over six minutes at IT. S. aversge re peered Friday waa t, ut more serious effect# it district Is 68 this year as against yy maintains a hospital there 61 at this lime last year; west dls- - but It has a very small staff. Yo- trict, 61 this yoa ras against 47 kohsma Is used generally as * last year; southwesL 80 this year residence section for Toklo busi es against 62 last year; south, 23 n *ss firm*, tb’s year as ngalhst 47 last year.} ' — clanks county's cotton crop In (Turn to page two) (Turn to Psg* Fivs) Gasoline Drops One Cent Gallon Here Saturday j Washington—pnuauat anxie- I ty Is felt here evar reports of tl** 1 'earthquake and fire In Yokohama ‘ It Is estimated that- more than r ! thousand citlsen* of the Unl'ed I States have residences In Yo’w- ' hnma which Is only 30 miles from Toklo. The price of gasoline In Ath ens reached a new low level Saturday when n reduction of one cent per gallon waa an nounced by the . fill stations, following a cut made by the Standard Oil company. Gas Is now retailing here for 20 cents per gallon, nr five gal lon* fo • one dollar. This means that It Is actually selling for 19 cents, one cent per gallon being; levied as state tax. Throe Men Die As Auto Crashes Into 11 o south. ltd capital stock, rtsour- CCS anil undivided profits amount to several million dollars. Tho doparture-.of Mr. and Mrs. Phinlzy will mean a Croat lost to tho city and their numerous friends will learn With regrets their de rision to mnke Augusta their fu ture home. It Is understood that Mrs. Phlnisy and their ion, Tltlllc. will remain In Athens until the Heavy Motor Truck ”■ ‘“I b ° m9 The ronmctlon with which Phlnl-v bos secerned Is one of th* most Important buslnesn proposi tions In the south. Ho will have tho active direction of this Insti tution whl-k Is , giant In com-’ no rclnl am? banking circles In thin and other states. iDECIDE NEXT WEEK ON CHILD CLINIC WALLINGFORD, yt.—Three mer were killed here Thursday as th* roaUlt of a collision of their au tomobile with a motor truck neat here. They were George Congdon hi*’ brother John T. Congtkfti. unJ James Motrfek. FIRST SHIPMENT OF TOMATOES LEFT ATHENS YESTERDAY, OTHERS TO FOLLOW nlfalilv nf Well Known tor various points In Florida, pitalliy 01 , the flrot shipment of this kind ever eent from this section. ' Although the sixty-three crates, shipped by express, fell far short of a carload. whk% was the goaL it represents the first etep toward reaching out- . aide market, for. produce rain ed In thla section. It la de clared A carload contains shoot 400 crates of tomatoes but the sur plus now on hand to this nee- tlon, at least the twelve coun ties feeding the Oort Merkel, waa not tarae=tmnilgb- npparent ly, to fill Kible to ship by frslgbt. However, U Is pointed out. the fort put forth to ship a ear of tomatoes has brought produce buyer* In touch with the North east Georgia producer*, making It possible for them to know Just what kind of produce finds *a ready sale in other sections and bQW the product* should be packed for shipment. It w-s learned yesterday that tho visit her* of J. munlcatlon by the Commerce marketing commit tee and Mrs, Beside Troutman, market master, with other pro duce men, has opened a market for n large qu; toes which will mature In thla section within the next few week*. J. J. Adams of Bogart, who ha« been eclllng produce at the Curb Market since Its begin ning, has neveral acres In t»»- alnci and plana to .'hip two carload* soon, 1» wai stated T. A. Henry, anotser Curb Market enthusiast, who lives n. Oconee Heights, has four ncrca In tomatoes. Ho also plans to ship to Florida. It- It. Daniels of Jackson county stated yes terday he ha* ftbout twelve crate* which will mature eoon. These will be shipped to Flor ida, arrangement* having been made to handle them. iMafafeyi ii'iAiB ' •- TJiose who deatre to ehlp as criaII an amotjnt as one crate „—t information on how to proc«e-I from Mr* Trout man. By ehippins a crate or more when the crop matures rapidly and the market here ta flooded It will result In a lav ing to the producer. It Is point ed out. Three weeks ago a ear might have been filled with green to matoes. !• la believed. The effort to ship Sr c»r MU week lias opened a market fat eny v.TPlas. however email, that ruf he grown In the tutor* 0} telling off the sur[>lile In UlO of tho military rorolullon | led by Francisco I. Modern against | the long.oatabltshed regime of i President Porfl-rio Dial. A policy of non-interference was adopted by | President Tnft, who oon mobilised unit of the regular army on the j b.irdrr to guarantee neutrality ant, ... rtr.,, w p ,| protect AJtterican Interest.. There- Aulen* VV1U KT10W Wed after extra troopa were stationed nesday Whether It 18 there In greater or less forco until' rri..*- rrL r „ P R„. 1029. by which time Ute general '^ ,1U1LL uul 01 1Mne situation had ceased. OBREGON QUIETED REVOLUTIONIST# maining Cities. Athens will know Wednesday whether It ha* l>ocn selected as tho (stto for location of tho baby clinic General Obregon wo* #lpctcA f«r tho American child Health As* a four year term and assumed of- soclatlon plans to establish in th# flee on December 1, 1920. Ho ©« tabllshed a military command of the situation regarded hero as sat isfactory, and irritation! for the United States have gince that time greatly diminished. Sevoral* na tions Including a number in Latin- Ainerlrs, have -recognlxed Obregon. Others, however, notably Groat Britain, preferred to await action I by the United States. Southeast. Dr. Whiter Brown of New York a representative of the AhuocIr- J on, was In Athens IJrlday In consultation rith health officials and authorities In the public school and stato educational institutions who promised' close <n-operation In making tho clinic a Kucceas. Dr. Brown told represent*lives SAVANNAH, Oa.—PU»n* for th* Labor Day celebration which Is to be held at Daffln Park uader the of the Savannah Trader r AsMmbly, have 'been completed. People who attend the celebration will have the privilege of taking basket luncheon* and a l.irge crowd Is expected pros,- forth results. (of various civic, social, education* and health organizations* who mot with him Friday that only three eltlcn In the southeast are being considered by tho Association as a possible llto for the clinic, Ath ens. Danville, Va.., and Charlottes ville. Va. Athens’ application for tho clinic, nut of a large number from all over tho southeast. Is credited with being the best and tt Is known that this city Is very favorably in the mind of the committee which will decide whore to locate the clinic. 3£p$h hero work and time haa been given to the movement to bring tho five-year clinic here by the committee in charge and (t believed their labor will brio#