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ATHENS COTTON: • laeeetlgate Today) To BcgnKr Subscribe Middling ... .... 28, Previous 27 Va THE WEATHER: Clear Wednesday night and Thure- d»y. . THE BANNER-HEBALD HAW Accident Policy Free Oally end Sunday—10 Cents ■ W ask. ATHENS. GA„ WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1923. DEAD A1 Spencer Is Gone, But Bandit’s Life Is Vividly Recalled. Hundreds In Prizes - Will Be Given Away The retail, wholesale and banking interests of Five Towns Threatened By Raging Fire Sweep ing Over Sixty Mile Area Wednesday. GUARDSMEN TURN OUT TO FIGHT Athens took definite steps Wednesday morning to stimulate interest here this fall in trade and the pay ing of notes and debts • Oklahoma Governor Will ing To Step Down From Executive's Chair if Leg islature Passes Anti- Klan Measure. McBee to Be Speaker. Believe Liquor Law Vio lators Are Responsible For Attempt On Of ficer’s Life. SIXTY HOMES . ARE THREATENED i i Occupants pf Officer’s Farms Burned Out, Navi- l gation Stopped on Great A ■ pedal meeting w» called at the chamber ot commerco and • committee appointed to work out detail* ot the plan. Roughly It.will be along the fol- .lowing line*: the merchant*, banka and wholeaale houaes will he re queued to co-cmerate over a pc clod lasting probably a month, until about Nov. 20th and during this time coupons wtll be Issued to each porebaaer or payee ot a bill or noto and at the does ot the campaign handsome prises, constating ot an automobile and other worth while article* will be awardsd the win ners. the ones holding the lucky number*. Lakes As Waves Of Flame Leap Onward. ((By Associated Press) DULUTH. ^Hnn.—With one dead and five towns threatened hy fire, navigation on the Great Lakes and bus lino service alike Wednesday was hampered by a pall of heavy smoke, several settlers' cabins wero burned out and thousand* of dollars (By Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA CITY—Plans for the fmpea..ehment ecoton of the stato legislature to convene Thurs day moved forward Wednesday ap parently undisturbed by the offer made Tuesday nljht by Governor Home Thrown Into Cel lar, Man, Wife and Baby Rescued. Wilton to resign if the legislature would pass a bill unmasking ths Ku Klan In Oklahoma. “Ths legislature will not traffic with the. governor on logltlatlon and thorsby render him to the consequences of Ms acts," W. D McBoe. loader In the legislature of Walton's opponents declared. property loss was wrought by forest fires raging in the northern part ot three states. Hundreds of fires which have been burning for some time were fanned all day Tuesday by the high wind, reuohlng dangerous propor- proporUons, uniting and sweeping onwaru with renewed’ vigor. GIANTS 5; YANKEES 4 YANKEE STADIUM N. Y—With the score tisd 4-4 end two eut in! the first half of the ninlh**inn!ng Stengel, Giants' csnttrfielder, brake up the first world series game with |, . horn, rtm and the Giant. "T-" „ccuuvc . to 4, th* Yanks b»ln« unabls tojchair'lf the ilegislature In its scs- tcore Irt th* final .fort. . Score by Inning.: Yanks 120 000 100-4 j Batteries: Watson and t V for the Giants. Hoyt and 8ohanp for tho Yankees. Now York—Walto Hoyt weaken* «d In the third inning hare Wed nesday and the Giants'scored four rnus before the frame was «vor Bush was substituted for Hoyt. Ryan went In for Watson and 8ny. dor for Gowdy for tho Giants In tha third. NEW YORK—This dty la agate the msecs tor baseball fans ot tho country Wednesday. _ Tho committeo appointed .con sist* of M. J. Costa, chairman; Ar tur Booth, McBride Howell, E. H. Dorsey, Jr., and J. Warren Smith. This committeo I* .to moot Wed- I nesday afternoon and work out lha OKLAHOMA CITY.— Governor •'Jack" Walton is willing to step, 8* down,from tha chief executive's atlOasSmimiSZ*^ '. .-IwKSK ...— ;u ...lI - '■ - - sion beginning Thursday rid* the _ [stau of tho Ku Klua Kla ii:::,-- iriahn and Will lie, i. Hi,- l.iti.-r :h> Ij At least, the governor signified! n >® vh ». the former Ambassador to England, resigned. K . ... j|hls willingness to resign in n Key wilt rlay a hlg part In tho coming political campalg Gowdy|statement frtued on the eve of the; - which he called teat Saturday. ! EASON CHARGED TO SD LITTLE GIRL This plan hoa been worked very IG KILLED Hundreds of men are backfiring through tho heavy brush trying to anvo tho village* of Blueberry, small Douglas county community, and Lake N’ebagamori. Hawthorne is also in Jeopardy. Three farms north of Brule .have been burned out and all the cat- tie destroyed. Ontonagon, seat of the county by that name, is threat ened by fires surrounding the vil lage. The town of Green, six miles away la endangered'. Lumbermen estimate that sixty square miles already have been burned over. Dougina, Anbland, Bayfield and counties In Wisconsin are dotted with flames. The breathing then Is described as torture. (Mildred Koivu, three years old. wandered into tho woods near Mohawk, Mich., and was burned te death. Late Tuesday night Govern or IJlalne of Wirconsin ordered out f.’:e superior units of the national guard to fight the fire raging through th state ark of Manitou Falls. ment Pearco and bla family were thrown into the cellar with the debr-s. Pearce extracted hlmseir, re«-, cued the baby and then with the aid, of neighbors dag it Is wife frem the rulnt after hoars ot hard wot*. ' Mrs. Merriman's home adjoining was so badly wrecked that the aged lady, who has been seriously 111 had to be removed from the tottering structure with ladders to the second floor. Jefferson* county vofflcfalr ‘are working on the theory that liquor law violators prosecuted by Pearce | ‘JamtHng. POINCARE SHUTS OFF TALK OF ;CO-OPERATION' IN THE RUHR way, eald. "But 1’U manage to get eomeone whllq they're doing It.” But he didn't. SHOT DOWN The end came'euddenly. Trapped on the Waehlngton-OraM road bj Marshal Alva MacDonald, and a group of others whoa* duty tt lei to rid society of human mennee* k. i.- ..1,7; rinn Hhsrn pnmmnndi (By Associated Preaa.) * PARIS—Herr Von Hoescta, Ger. man charge. d* affaires tilled on Premier PoJncare Wednesday and offered the co-operation of tht Belch toward resumption of normal economic life of the Ruhr. Premier Poincare replied that inasmuch aa negotiations were In progress In the Ruhr with groupr of induatraillata and labor leader* he did not consider tt advisable to begin further conversation en the same subject. He Informed Harr Von Hoesob that when Germany ie ready te make a proposition covering the entire reparations question he woukt.bg glad to conaider It. Featured by the bitter struggle between political and economic fac- Hone, events of the past !t iioure r.,w»wtl Bwuuy toward climax. J lift ' llghta In a day of otneatljns weiti * LARCHMOXT. N. Y.—Four j APPEALS I bricklayers were fined $5 apiece TO ALLIE8 (hero Tuesday fpr working on the I Sabbath. "That't all right,” they 1. It wa# learned authnriatively j MUd. as they peeled off the bills. | that Chancellor Btreosemann ho* — — • ■ oaked France and Belgium whether I they are prepared to enter Into 1 •• Roti.itIons for reafimption of repa. rations payments. 2. Big buslnere handed the fior- eminent a short-time ultimatum Hodgson Keeps 25 ; Unfit Animals Off |Tables Of Athens iTotal of 675 Animals J Slaughtered A" Last Month. are resontlbplt for the d| At two o'clock Wednesday after-1 noon the New York Yankees of the America League nnrt the New Tprh National League , School Tots Give Captain Dozier A I Delightful Party Cattln T. H. Dozier. Clarke’g veteran county school superin tendent. faced a great aurprlee when he cam* down to the court houee Wedneadey morn- j Ing end opened hi, office. On the big table In the cen ter of the office he found- a huge cake, all alight with many burning tapers; around the cake was heaped many dozens of other little tokens while on j another table was a veritable deluge of cards and letters. "What does all this mean," be Inquired. Then be looked at the cal endar and remarked, ‘‘Well, well. If 4t Isn't my blrtnday. ! It wai,"and hla eighty-ninth. Every school in the county remembered the fact and aent some token pf good wtahes, the teachers remembered him and the high pile of cards and let ters was made np of Individual greetings from the school chil dren of tha county. On the huge cake burned 89 candle*. The county hoard, the demaml- atrstlon agents and hundreds of friends polncd In the greet- lugs. Captain Doxler it one of the veteran educators of Georgia. He graduated from Emory University In 18W and has been a teacher ever elnce. In 1885 «oon was chot*a for the superintendent of Oglethorpe county, hit old home county, and upon moving to Athena 4n ISIS toon wot choten Jor the tame position - here. He hat held tt ever since. HU U i remarkable record— a remarkable life and he was being felicitated Wednesday by a wide circle of frienda. emanueTcounty a fin* In the handa of the Jtndlt. A half down gunt spoke, niwt A» fell. Banks erpecially are glol it's ov er now. They had mnny rewards posted for hla capture, "dead or alive”, for Spencer was the moat notorious raider since the days of the James and Dalton brothers The government recently added $10,000 to the general reward. E8CAPED Giants of the „ winners of their organisations, meet In the initial game for the world's championship. The stage is ret for the greatest series In all hlatory. The lnltla’ 1 game will be played on the new and most costly of baseball parks! In the world, that ot the Yanfceee. I And both tea me are ee. lor the great event and confident of vic tory. Both are regarded aa about equal In all. departments and record breaking crowds are expected to attend the write this year* especi ally for the opening game when' over 70,000 can be accommodated. . . The twirier* upon whom McGraw j bank* much of hla hope of victory] are Scott. Nehf. w»»«cn, ::w*u ate. j Qatiian, four veterans with "Rosy’ Ryan and Bentley, younger stare, aa likely reserve material. Neither of the latter le expected to start any of the games unless one or more of the veterans fall to show up to form. Huggins, besides Pennoclc and Hoyt, has Bam Jones, Bob Shaw- key and Joe Bu*h to depend upon All five have the “stuff.” Shaw- key and Bush have' not come quit* up to their Iff! form, when the> were Huggins' mainstays, but Jones, Pennock and Hoyt bavt performed brilliantly'moat of thia PORTLAND Ore. — The American Federation of Labor 1* opposed to recognition of soviet Russia, against resump tion by the United States of (rade relation* with Rureia and her. no intention of supporting a third political party In 1*24. The convention of the Fed eration Tuesday, after a live. ty ie*s|on t went _ on record against the above Issues fol lowing a stormy dabate. Last Month. Talk Of Motorizing Sanitafjr De partment Tw.nty-flve animals destined foj the table- of Athena home, wer- condemned by Inspector Harold Hodgson at tbe abattoir toe month, he reported to the Board ot Health Tuesday. , A total of 442 animals were In spected previous to slaughter as: (18 after being slaughtered, ao-n: being carried over frem pre vious month for slaughter. Of the number slaughtered, 404 were cattle; Iff hog* 14 eheep anf IT goats. Talk of motorising the sanitary corps was rernmed In th* board meeting Tueeday over which Hug! H. Gordon, Jr., presided In th* ah eence of Dr. Unton Oerdlne, preal- denk A commute was named to con fer with D». J. D. Applewhite county health officer. In outUnlnt to th* Child Health Aceoctatlotr which the needs are hare prelimi nary to establishment of the Bn. yesf clinic here. Dr. Gerdln, Dr. I A. M. Route and Mr* T F Green were named on this committee. Spencer started bin deaperado ca reer in youth. Hla escapades ware famous when he was arrested a* e j cattle rustler at Nowata, Okla. Glv. en a 10-year term he finally was made a trusty. That trust war mis- placed—for Spencer disappeared. Then £**?**!!',*?*«•**• " inn; Hat of raid*, and one eocape from prison Downs of bank* fell hi* victims It la raid. At Gentry he was shot down, but dragging himielf to hit horse, escaped. He had his own gang, man* picked for Individual cruelty, deu perate cha-actere willing to tak* Chance*, and l»orn to th* thieve* code of “once captured, never talk." It fs raid Spencer had a romance In hlr life. The girl thought tf fr«5 L»m OKcechobce. which Tuesday broke through the dykee qf this town and aurroundidg coun try bad subsided Wednesday mdrn- Ing to the extent that high aria of [ tbe town could bo teen. The water Is ttiii coming through tbe dykee but the high wind has abated'. No damage to any bu&Ifn* to vtofbie and K It believed only alight dam age .was guttered by stocks. The routing of tbe .Russian lycognltion movement. which gained only a few scattered supporters, wee believed to have eliminated the last big Is sue over which the federation has been In any way divided. (Jovernor Friend W. Rlcb- n dnon. of California, waa urged to grant pardons 4o Thomas J. Mooney nr.d Warren K. Billings Imprisoned In that elate for connection with a Ban Francis co dynamiting come years ago. TALK ABOUT ADVERTISING Courtesy la a business virtue that can’t misfire. Advertising la one way of commanding Success. Practical • advertising aide practical every day buying. Every customer la a possible friend. The wise man doesn’t foot him. year of hi* career^ twirling a no- hit game against the Athletics and turning In a two-hit performance on hi* next mound turn. Mrs. W. E. Dickson Died On Tuesday AthenY motorcycle, poke J. O; Weatherford end C Kidd were praised Tueeday at th* meeting of th* Civil vice Commie:Ion. SONG SERVICE AT YOUNG HARRIS "Overhead’' goes on relent lessly. Advertising putt shock absorbers under it. JBFFBRBON—Mrs. W. E. Dick son. aged M. ona of the most prom inent women of Jackran county died at, her home In Jetteraoo Mot-day. Funeral service* will be conducted Thursday with Rev. J J. Bennett, paator of the Prince Avenue Baptist church In Athens fn charge. Th* t cervices will be helf James Barrow, speaking as a pri vate citizen, praised the motot policemen for taking such Koof care of little children who cross the street at the ' Childs atreoi school. I Tha motorcycle policemen were also praised, for their activity in arresting violators of the traffic laws lost month. Chief Beusse re. ported that 178 arrests for viola tion of the traffic laws were mad* among them ft for speeding; 41 fo rm rear lights; 40 for glaring head Ifgfrt* and twelve for recklerr driving. Thg biggest enthusiasts over advertising are the ones who have done most of it. Among tbe matters coming to the attention of City Council at Its regular session Wednesday nlgbt will be action on calling an elec tion to gpprove $60,000 bonds for the’Braid street Improvement pro ject Council w4U also be exiled upon to elect a member of the Board of Education from the Fifth Ward to ripffi |»mf a IMi.idMho re signed on solos it of )ovito tho Fifth Wort. The competitor worth watch ing Is the one who keeps right on advertising no matter what the ups and downs of trade may be. CINCINNATI. O.—Frederick W Kecht, former cashier of the Amer ican National Bank at Dayton, pleaded guilty in federal district court Wednesday to Indictment charging him with having embes- zlcd $206,000 of the bank's funds The sentence was to bo prono*’ rod lator Wednesday. at 11 o’clock at tbe Baptist church here. Mrs. Dickson la survived by dig following children. Mr*. J. C Bennett. Mr*. C. T. Story, Judgt W W Dickson of Jefferson. TIelcr Dfrknon and Mr* Snm Wilson n* Atlanta, some special selections of songs by tha board of stewards such ar “My Latest Bun la Betting Fast" and eongs .by the audience. B. Dunaway will • preside ovei the service and everybody is cor. dially Invited to attend and tak* part in this service. BEFORE YOU SHOP IN THE 8TORE8 TOMORROW. 8HOl» FIRST TONIGHT IN THE BANNER-HERALD.