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VOL. 01. NO. 194
Aaaodatcd Prcaa Service
ATHENS, GA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER *7, 192*.
A. B. C. Papar
Single Copie* 1 Canta Dally. S Canta Sunday.
PARISSAYS DICTATORSHIP IN GERMANY
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Rumania Offers Bulgaria Military Assistance
OFFER IF $2,500,000 In Whiskey Is Taken
LI By Raiding Bandits On Thursday
OVER PRESENT RULE
Decisive Rattle of Revolu
tion Now Being Fought
Near Danube, Says War
Office.
(By Associated Press)
BUCHAREST. It is re
ported that Rumania has
offered Bulgaria military
assistance in restoring or
der in that country, should
the Communist revolution
assume the upper hand.
What 1« thought to be the de
cisive battle in the uprising of
the communlata la being fought
In tbe cUy of Ferdinand and the
village of Berkowltsa, which are
four miles a part and halt way
from Sufis to the Dmmuuv, accord
ing' to a statement issued here
Thursday by tbe war office. .
Five thousand communist and
Agrarian allies are besieged thm,
after having proclaimed a soviet
republic and established complete
control over the area.
Four thousand soldiers, aided by
civilian voulnteera. have been car
rying out an enveloping operation
during the past five days and have
now drawn their Jlnes completely
around Ferdinand and Berkowltsa.
The rebela are armed with sov
iet rifles and machine guns. As
many of them are army veterans
they have entrenched themselves
in sn elaborate system of earth
works.
ATHENS HIGH
OPENS SEASON
..The Athens Eleven meets
Madison HI on Sahford Field
Friday In her Initial game of the
1923 football'season.
Madison is returning to Ath-
enr with the firm determination
to avenge her defeat at / the
hands of the local crew last ea-
•on.
the
Coach Brown has
Athens team In superb condi
tion for this game. This gam
will give the local fans a chance
to see many new men In nptlor
besides the veterans of last
year's team.
The game will be called fit 3
o'clock sharp. Tha price of ad
mission Is fifty cents.
Gang of Forty
Armed Men Form
Raiding Party
MEETING AT
COSTA’S
■The members of the Rotary club
were the guest* of President Bil
lups •PhlniayTOWhMttjr it a most
delightful dinner served In the new
place of Costa’s.
‘Mrs. Morris Yow wsa among the
guests and favored the members
with a number of vocal and In
strumental selections. She possess-
most wonderful voico and
rare musical attainments.
Rotarian Mike Costa resented 1 to
the club s massive Rotary silver
(By Associated Press.)
PHILADELPHIA.—A band of
about forty masked men, some of
them armed, bound and gagged
the guards at the warehouse of
the Philadelphia Distilling Com
pany at Eddington, near, here, and
escaped with from seven to ten
truck loads of whiskey, early
Tuesday morning. J
This is the second raid of the
distillery within the last month, a
large number of men being driven
away the frist time, after they
had bound several guards but be-;
fore they had been able to obtain'
any whiskey. j
The whiskey, which wa* valued
at $2,500,000 was stored in the
warehquse and a legal battle was
in progress over its ownership. j
There were three night guards j
and two engineers in the building |
LATE8TINDOOR
SPORT
MONROET. GS.—R. J. Thomp
son, well known WaltOn county
farmers, early oqo morrilng felt
something moving about the
foot of the bod. He thought It
was tho cat, The next Instant
the animal bit him. Mr. Thomp
son lighted the lamp to run the
cat from the room but dis
covered’ he had been bitten by a
rattle snake which had crawled
into tbe house. Medical atten
tion precented serious develop
ments and’ he la now reported
recovering.
ABBEVILLE. S. C—An Ab-
bnville newspaper man does not
know whether he Is a “chunk
of cheese" or not, as he awoke
tho other night In the wee small
hours to find a rat chewing 06
his toe. All he has to report
the subject is that the rat
a sudden death from being
by a room celling.
>rt oft
: died
ig hit
No Delilah Has Cut This Baby’s Locks
when the bandits made their aP'!//)
pea ranee. The robbery was one 1
of the smoothest that has ever
been carried out in this section of
the country,
TRAFFIC IMPROVES
111 RUUDS
IN FRENCH RINDS
STUDENTS NIGHT’
WILL BE BIC
m
(B, Associated Press.)
on behalf of Mr. costa In a roost
Army Dianes circled over the beautiful speech, paying a.glowing
district, which Is mountainous, | tribute to Mike as a cltlsen and
Tuesday and Wednesday, droppln- j Rotarian.
anneals Inside- tho rebel lines. Among the rlsltors were. Lea
These read: “Bulgarians, you are villa -McCampbelll, of New York;
misled. Return to your homes and Jack Bocock, of Richmond; Coach
work, and prevent not only the, Rtegetuan, ^"nor.M.N
dlarputlon ,of tho country but the I Tutwyler. Mrs. Morris Yow and
enslavement of yourselves.
bell Which will bo used In the fu- COLOGNE.—Constant improve
lure at all meetings. Julian .Caetcb- ,'mont, In efficiency and economic
Ins resented the bell to the club results, in tho operation of the
■ German railway, system In the oc
•'The agenla of Moscow are
!ead!nir you on to suffering and de
struction. . The government will
have no mercy on those persisting
In betraying their country, but full
pltr on those who lay dhwn their
anna."
South -Carolina Governor
Will Ask Walker to Ex
tradite Julian, Frank
and Thomas Barrett.
iM-rs. -R. M. Goss.
President iPhlnlsy announced tin
appointments of tho entertainment
committees for October and No
vember. They are as follows; Oc
tober. (jharllo Eckford, A. O. Dud
ley. Brantley Dosier, T. If. Dotler,
Jr., and M. J. Costa. For Navem-
her: C. D. Flanigan, Hugh H. Gor
don. Prank Hardeman. Julian
OootchluS. Ralph M. Gobs and
Harry Ho'dgson.
Lee'Kinney Held
Wanted By State
And Government
COLUMBIA—Governor Thomas
O. McLeod announced hla decIBor
to request Governor Gilford Walk
er of Georgia, to grant extradition
papers for Frsnk H. Barrett, Ju
lian Barret and Thomas Barrett,
Jr. members of the defunct Au'
gusta Georgia, cotton firm °t Bar
rett and company, wanted In Aiken
county, 8. C., on chargea of obtain
ing property by false pretense.
The warrant for the arrest
the three Barretts was sworn out
on August II, by J. C. Lybrand. In
Aiken count7, charging that they
had defraudsd C. R. Lybrand, hir
brother, of Wagener. 8. C. ( out of
itlng to him that
$11,007 by repceatnUng to him that
the Barrett firm could handle hi.
cotton more*profltably than othei
firms, although they knew that the
company was then Ineolvent The
requeet for requleltfon pattern was
made August 17, and a hearing war
held before Governor McLeod Au-
net JO.
The ha.li of the extradition pro
ceedings was a warrant .worn out
In'Aiken, by t. C. Lybrand. a
brother of O. R. Lybrand, which al
leged that the four defendant! had
violated south Carolina laws by
(Turn to page five.)
Lee Kinney, wanted by .tote nod
federal authorities here, wae ar-
reated Isle Wednesday by Bailiff
H. D. Huff of Clark county nnd la
now In Jail p.wllnir trial.
Kinney la charged with atenllng
an automobile and operatlcg an
automobile without a licenee tag.
The federal authorities want him
for violation of tho prohibition law
New U. S. Deputy
Marshal Arrives
T. L. Allen of Dallas. Ga.. has
been appointed Deputy U. 8. -Mkr-
ahal for the Athens district.
Mr. Allen eucceed. Dr. J. A.
Whiting who has gone to 8outh
America. Mr. Allen Is a well known
former of Spaulding county .He as
sumed hl> duties In Athens at the
Marshal's headquarters on Sep
tember IS.
Mr. Allen wea formerly a post
master and recently nerved on the
federal prohibition squad.
TO .FACE FIFTH TRIAL
SAVANNAH. Oa.—Lee Curry la
scheduled to go on thlal for the
fifth time In Toombs county »n-
perior court October 1 for the al
leged murder of Burleigh Phllllpi.
He has been convicted three times
and each time the supreme court
baa granted him a new trial. His
fourth trial resulted „ In,*, idje*r
locked Jury. Curry haaihaMikehirt
cupied areas is pointed out in its
tistica tabulated by French off],
data. Every month, according t<
these statistics, shows an unantic
ipated Increase in the number of
passengres carried and merchan
dise transported, as well as addi
tional trackage brought under con-
trol of the occupation authorities,
In order, however, to obtain an
accurate perspective of what this
railway system, one of the moat
complicated In'the world, was like
before the occupation aa compared
with Its present statue—undoubt
edly greatly improved within the
past few months—It i» nocesaary
to compare it a. it ia today not
only with what it »»»»«»
months ago but alao with what it
was before it was before it was
taken over by French and Belgian
administrators.
IT LEGION MEET
"Student* Night," which Will
be held at the First Baptist
church Sunday promise* to be
one of the moat interesting* oc-,
cation* ever occurlng In young,
people’s life in, this city.
Two wet known Georgian*.
Morgan Blake, Atlanta Journal
eportlng editor and Joe Ben
nett. captain of the Georgia
foot Mi 11 team will be among the
principal speaker*. All Bap-
tlat churche* in the city will
do awny with evening service*
on that night for tho “Student*
Night* 'service.
George Sylvester, Indianapolis traffic cop, and local strong man, brooks no insolence from recalcitrant
autos trying to pass his corner when the semaphore it set against them. With a mighty shove he
pushes ’em back in line. When not otherwise engaged he crushes huge rocks in his hand* and bends
steel bar* Into loon*. Hero he’s shown holding his own with a powerful motor trying to back up on the
rope George hold* in his teeth.
CONVICT INQUIRE IS
1J
Jefferson County Grand
Jury, GoiducLtl(8-'lh»es>>jr. jg
tigation. Into Convict
Conditions in Alabama
Finished.
(By/ Associated Press)
BIRMINGHAM.—Tho Jefferson
county grand jury, which for xhe
last five days, has been investigat
ing tbe mutiny of convicts In the
Banner Mines went on a tour of
tbe state institutions Wednesday
and it was announced that tho in
quiry Into the convict conditions
bad been concluded.
Attorney General
Flays Defense in
Ward Case Thurs.
Asks For Proof of Alleg
ed Blackmail Plot
‘A'gnjnat.-Ward.Defens
Address '
GOVERNMENT TIRES
TO
Bavarian Action Unex
pected. Appoint Military
Dictator. Ebert Curtails
Certain Constitutional
Rights. End Resistance.
PARIS SPEAKS
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS.—The Ger
man government has
practically been
handed over to a mil
itary dictatorship, it
is deduced from dis
patches from Berlin,
it was stated at the
foreign office here
Thursday.
The situation is re
garded as full of dan-
g c r o u s possibilities
but does not furnish
any .basis for action
by the allies at the
iiiwwit time, it- —
said.
wl)h the murder of ,Clarence Pet*
etf. was resumed Tkhr»day, the
nJeu.f t^arng th, cohrt
room, carrying nsir a dozen nano-
kerchiefs In one bend nnd n packet
of lettern (n tbe other, from which
severe! other handkerchiefs show-
Again Revived.
ed.
Attorney General Sherman,
Enter the Gerald Chapman es
cape again. t!
Out of Atlanta comes a story
that Warden James E. Dyche of
the Federal penitentiary may be
summing up tha case against Ward :™ af Ch»n
told the Jury that the address ■ 0,n,1 “ 1 * ni th * ,Kav * ot Ch,, ‘
Wednesday by the counsel * or ,h *
defenee was a pitiful demonstra
tion axalnst the conclusive and
Solicitor Da via declined to atato ll[imlK t„ evidence and that lie tn-
NEW TRESTLE TO
SPAN OCMULOEE
MACON.—The Central of Oeor-
xla Railway baa awarded the con
tract for its new trestle across tho
Ocmulgee river hero to tho Nich
ols company of Atlanta. It will
have only ope track.
ChatSnv<mmtyj3l?har>^hBt
will ho taken to Lyons for trisJ.
BAN FRANCISCO—Lesdere o
the United States, both In govern
nient nnd fraternal circles, an«
many distinguished foreigners will
attend the 1»!J annuel convention
of tho American Legton, to he held
here October 19-19. .cording to l*
Blon officials. Among those wht
will either be present personalty oi
represented officially ere:
David Lloyd George and Sir
Dougins Helg of Oreat Britain
lord Byng of Canada: Marshal
Retain and Oenerel Manaln of
France; Oenerel Heller of Poland;
President Obregon of Mexico, and
Premier Mussolini of Italy.
Tho a-..—'can Hat Includes-.
President Colvin Coolldge, General
John J. Pershing. Admiral Robert
E. Coonts. commander-ln-chlef.
United States battle fleet: Major-
Oenerel John A. LeJSune. command-
fnt, U. 8. if. C.; Secretary of the
Navy Edward Denhr; Secretary of
War John W. Woeka; Oenerel F.
T. Hines, director, United State.
Veterans Bureau ;Samuel Comp
ere. president, American Federation
of lAbor. Judge J. W. Willett
commander-ln-chlef, Grand Army o
the Republic; General Edgar Tay
lor, adjutant-general. United Con
federate Veterans; Colonel Tilling-
hut L. Huston, commander-ln-
chlef United Spanish War Veterans;
Jem** A- McFarland, national oom.
- r„ Disabled American.i, Vets-
f,the World,War:,,Woodrow
9 and John Barton rayne
chairman, American Fed Cross.
MANY THOUSANDS
OF DOLLARS
will be spent In Athena,for.
Saturday week-end shopping
and It k oafe to aay that a :
■**» portion of there edoUanr
will ho guided by tho store
news and business announce*
men(s that appear In The
Banner-Herald.
With a circulation that en
ters over 5.000 homes every
evening with , the day’s new*
and at n time when every
member of the family has the
time to read and discuss both
the day’s news and the vsri*
ous store message* of enter
prising merchants, 'it Is no
wonder that Banner-Herald
ads have the habit of making
business for Hums' who use
them regularly.
Take our ti^—Before you
■hop tomorrow ia the Store*
of Athena, shop first tonight
in The Banner-Herald.
whether or not the jury will at
tempt to go to the mines In ques
tion to interview tho convicts, In
tho face of a prohibitory writ Is-
Isued against hla summoning con-
vlct* before the grand Jury. Prison
official* hold this writ to prevent
the grand jury from going to the
mines also.
The Investigation ha* stirred
public itnerost greatly, a* Govern
or Brandon wrote the solicitor a
letter telling hint to ceaso the
probe at once, pud that if it were
continued, it would bo usurpation
Of' th# ■ | governor’f power. Solicitor
Wtyti%ald no’attention to the or-
der^of the governor ar.d proceeded
frith 1 ‘the Investigation, and the in-
MlitfgaUpn was not stopped by the
governor.
tended to show It up as a smoke
screen to camouflage the Inability
of thepefenae to dlaolve the state’s
testimony.
man.
Dyche succeded Fred G. Zerbst
aa warden of the Atlanta prison on
July % 1921, coming there from
Oklahoma where he was engaged.
In the Insurance
! Boon after Dyche took charge* of
the prleon came the etartllng rev
elstlone about the traffic of dopo
eVMiuviia ntroui mw ,, reenw re a
The appearance of Mrs. Ward I | n *ide the prleoa and Dr. H.
In the con^t room was a signal for carrlck, assistant prison physician;
•nd four civilian guards were in-
people to lean slightly forward In
tholr scats to gat a clearer view
of the worse?* who has stuck by
Ward throughout tho cast. Ward
hr s shown Utile change
preaalon during the trial, sitting
beside hi* lawyers and conferring
with them upon each point aa the
case dally assumes now aspects.
Tho attorney general asked the
jury If It did not #aht to know
the details of the blackmail plot
which Ward claims have been
implicated In. Defense attorney
Fimpbeli objected to this, saying
that Ward had paid $40,000 to the
blackmailers to preserve hla se
cret. but Justice Wagner tola
Sherman to continue with hla ad
dress.
Sherman told the juty that Ward
was‘offering the claim that he had
been blackmailed as a defense
without showing any proof what
ever.
Thq murdered man had no gun
Farm Program Will Be
Developed Hem\ Friday
ATLANTA.—The Central Bap
tist church property on Cooper
avenue near Whitehall will bn sold
at public outcry October 2, un-
less a material man’s lien held by
the Carolina Portland Cement
company Is paid, according to the
sheriff. The edifice was tlircoloned . ^VSL'.'ierra'rinx'that wlrd'kinod
In tb* rente manner sometime h * man. aha was twelve yean
bnt the necessary n.000 at that - yoongor „ n j m uch smaller than
time was fortbcomln*. Members nt h| lf d who unarmed,
tho congregation hope to raise* ^ 9
money to moot tho present lien, j
____!Gets Three Months
For Ooeratinjf Car
Witthout License
State College of Agriculture Experts and Fanners
From Fifteen Counties Meet At County,
Court House At If O’clock.
minting up auto* operated with
out 1923 tag*. Ten arreats have
been made In the last, few days.
Bailiff H. D. Huff arrested Smith
lust Sunday.
TR00PER8 RECEIVE RIOT PAY
Fifteen county agricultural ag^ Division heads at the State Col- | SAVANNAH. — Approximately
lege of Agriculture, led by Dr. J.! $300 Is the
dlctsd In this connection.
Carrlck plead guilty and Is
(Turn to pace #. )
CARSWELL ID NEILL
URAL
(By Associated Pres*)
a hur-
midnight
session Wednesday, at
tended by General Von
Seecket, chief of staff, an
immediate proclamation
of a state of .emergency
throughout Germany was
decided upon and Minis
ter of Defense Gessler
was given executive auth
ority to put into force any
military or police measure
he might deem •warranted
in the circumstances.
Tiie action of the Ger- j
man government was tak
en when news of the ap
pointment of Dr. Von
Kahr as military dictator
of Bavaria was received
and the proqlamation was
intended as an offset, to
the Bavarian manifesto.
Bavaria's rollon «.-im -holly un-
rxpectt'il and tlio government Inail-
ore at first were at n loss to ac
count for It. Although It Is not
vlowod ne n studied affront to tho
central government, tho maun, r
In which It was launched never
theless wae construed an a ptc-e
(Turn to page fire.)
President of the Senate __ ,
and Speaker of House Ml*. Alfred Bailey,
Appear Before Investi
gating Committee.
(By Aasoelatad Pren)
ATLANTA. —George Carswell
president of the senate and Used
Nell, speaker of the Jinyee, te.tl
tying, before the legislative com
mlttpe which la Investigating the
state department of agriculture,
both denied that they hed held
any conference with tbe Commls
ents nnd a large number of firm
er! from counties In this aectlon
will meet In the Agricultural col-
leg auditorium here Friday morn
ing at 10 o'clock for the purpoee
of mapping oat a term program.
District Agent T. U Aabury.
whose headtraartera are tn Aa-i
gi«tg. will attend the meeting end
nit In developing |the program.
— sum apllt among the
Phil Campbell, director of exten-ltrnop of cavalrymen known at the
•loner of Agriculture, J. J. Brown]
relative to the appointment of
n™,. Ontith n nemo man. „>• I membere to conduct the Inquiry;
v oltn« ,I to three months lm ' Sj/rnTfo. Brown^ ODtKmenTlnlhd
prieunmont In city court here for I '"’••d f° r Brown e opponent In the
operating an automobile without*e, —J campelgn. * ...
I't-e.iae tag.''County officers are Wiley Oalloway, employee ofthe
agricultural department who had
been charged with undue political
activity during tbe hearing, satiat
ed him without pay In keeping a
check on the home pages and
doorkeeper*. Speaker Neill testi
fied. He said the! Galloway had
aion, will be present to discuss the
program and help In shaping It to
conform to tbe needs of this lec
tion.
The meeting In Athena Friday I,
one of ■ eerie* being held through-
tbe state title week under sna
il Ur* of the Stale College of **-
Georgia Husaare for their service
during the city's recent riot About
60 membere of the outfit partici
pated In the maintenance of order
after a mob bad attempted to take
■ negro from the county Jolt- Ttrte
aunt- does not Inclnde the tMiy* of
mode then ■ thourend Other
troops called Into service.
nothing to do with the apolntment
of the member* of,the Inveitlgat
log committee.
He explained that he did not ap
point Representative Stewart on
the committee because he bed
made eerioue charges against the
Veteran Engineer,
Died Wednesday
Imp. Alfred. Berry Bailey, veteran^
railroad man, connected/for a Ion*
number of years with tho Georgia
railroad o* engineer, died at n lo
cal hospital here Wednesday nii?ht
In hi* *Ixty*econd year..
Funeral ncrvicc* will be conduct
ed from' ftcrnsteln Brother*, fun-
err* rhnpei nt 1:30 o’clock FrM-iy
tfternoon nnd the body win b,
sent to Union Point, Ga., Mai
2:25 train for interment.
Rev. J. A. Qullttan, pastor of
Oconee street Methodist
the Oconee street Methodic
church of which Mr. Bailey wan n
member, will have charge of th«
funeral rrrvlro^
_ rer*
J. H. Waton, A. «M. Mor
gan, A. O. Hargrove, J. M H .m*
man. T W Morton. W M Newsome.
W D Darden, Reedy Chan nail.
Surviving Mr. Bailey nr»* hi*
daughter. Miss Marlon Bailey, one
non. Alfred Duke Bailey of At
lanta; a slater. Mrs. J. 8. Good-
rleh, of New York City, and the
following brother* of New Holland
made serious cnarye* against impend Augusta, IS. A. Bellow ,\ j
department a fid he wanted men on J Bailey, A. M. Bailey, J. s. nmiev
thd i rom m If ted 1 ( w!io iTonM Be Tdl r J' M r, : Bi ITey wa if a resident of
to 1 both ' tHd 1 state' ant! tfi^ depart- j Athenw for twenty-fot.- y. ar s. He
‘— tn '*WMBte8 v K HMOultf, Ga.