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■ HMtbat* TodixJ VH- To Regular Subscriber, THE banner-herald |1,000 Aeeldeat Policy Free Daily and Snnday-10 Cent* a Week. - p -ran <gw»*v rp~ EaUbllshed 1851 pally and Sunday—10 Cent* ■ W self. ATHENS COTTON: I inhUNG 28 l-2c I atppuNG _ PREVIOUS CLOSE .... 28 3-8e | THE WEATHER: Fair and Slightly Cooler. 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 *-+ 4* I 1 'I T -T, V T A A A. A. T i T V *1* •I* *1* *1* *1* 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.