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Prettiest in State
Athens business men believe that the plans for a
big trhde revival here next month, worked out by a
special committee, will "bring business to this city”
if properly promoted, according to the way they are
subscribing to the fund to put the campaign across.
C.nvaulng teams met Monday
Still Smiles
Accident Occurs When
Car Hits Sand Bed on
Commerce Road. Broth
er Lives Here.
Representative of Tatnaljr. i
County Would Call Con
stitutional C o n v e ntion |
Instead of Extraordi
nary Session.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS—In a duel fought here (By Associated Press.)
Monday morning Duke Laitsa • ATLANTA, Oa—A request that
de Camastera, Italian noble* j Governor Clifford Wniker amend
man, was wounded by a thrust hi* call for an extraordinary res*
from the sword of -Jacquea slon of the Georgia general nssem*
Rlchepln, author and husband bly next month so that the legls*
of Cora LaPatocris, actress and Intors might pass a resolution pro-
theatre manager. . ■» vldlng for a constitutional con-
The duel grew out of a dis- ventlon war. made In a statement
pute Sunday night when the issued here Sunday night by Her* *
Duke presented two compllmen- rebel Elders. Tatnall county repre- |
tsry tickets at the door and re- rental!ve.
fused to pay the war tnx. “or twelve months I have etudl-
When Rlchepln attempted to cd the tax questions in Georgia and |
explain, the Duke hreamf angry the other forty-seven states/' said
and appjied *a epithet- where- Mr. Elders. “When I went to thi
upon Rlchepln si,ipps^hls f ice. p gulpr roaMon last summer I
.The txchtnge of cards foIlQwrd.-^rimew iHr^tlHf
The Duke Is Hurt
In Duel After He i
G*;ts Face Slapped |
PARIS
WORRIED
Ait automobile, driven b7 C. A.
Freeman of Hull, struck a sand
bed on the Nicholson-Center road
about noon Sunday, turned over
twice and so seriously injured
Martin P. Payne of Clarke county
that* he died shortly after.
Mr. Payne was sitting in a back
doorway of tho automobile when
it turned over. He was pinned
PARIS.—It is understood here
that Premier Poincare doubts the
success of the Separatist move
ment in the Rhineland and is ap
prehensive that increased difficul
ties for the Allies will follow in
the wake of the movement, if it
is successful.
There seems to be more worry
in (l.o French official circles over
the situation in Bavaria than in
the Rhineland.
TO EXPLAIN
THE PLAN
meeting the plans for
At this Ln..—.. n.. r -
tho trade campaign will 'be ex
plained in detail end any business
man whom Ibe committee has been
unable to see is given the oppor
tunity to join the movement. All
business men arc urged to attend
the meeting.
Over eighty.business men have
already subscribed, a partial list
ol which has been,, printed-, The
others will be published after
Tuesday. Arthur Booth, general
chairman, believes that the busi
ness men (and ovary concern do
ing business of any kind In the
city is included) will put the cam
paign over big.
Other cities hsve tried tho cam
paign and have been enriched
thereby. - r i,
RECOGNIZE
TREATY
Freeman. The occupants. fin.
Peyno, who was elightiy injured,
i her husband end two children and
Mr. Freeman, were returning from
] Commerce. When the car hit the
sand bed the driver lost control,
tend it completed two uido turns.
’ No one wee seriously hurt except
Mr. Payne.
FUNERAL
MONDAY ,
' |
Funeral services over the body
of Mr. Payne were conducted
Ten White Men in .
Gambling Game Ace.
Nabbed By Police
come to oru poople. I Introduced
bills covering eight fundamental
propositions of tax reform. If put
Into law, they would relieve the
farmers and laborer* and the poor
people and the land from the great
burden of unjuat taxes and place
It on the rich, and at the same
time develop thli great state of
oura.
"fly the end of the regular ses
sion I wa* convinced that there
wn« not the necessary number* In
the house or senate to pass my re
form measures. I know today we
have, enough votes In the house to
pass them. I refret to eay I *m
reliably Informed that two-third*
of the senate will not pass tax re
form bills. I ant trying to talk
plainly to the people of Georgia, j
"A constitutional convention lr
the way to settle the tax question
and the school question And the
reformation of our court procedure
and every other vital thing that
needs reforming.
“Eight years ago. I lost this fight
In the house and v four years ago 1
lost It in the senate and I have a
Atlanta'
house, all charged with gambling.
The men put up $10.75 cash bond
each. The cases were docketed
for triel Monday. Those nabbed
in the room ell charged with gam
ing follow: Joe Wheeler. W. C.
Johnson, Joe Smith, B. F. Watson,
Mercer Whittle, Joe Carson, Wad
Hampton, John Jones and A. L.
from the Union Christian church
in Oconee county Monday afteiN
noon at 3 o'clock with Rev. J. A.
Quillian, I pastor of the Oconee
t Methodist church of Athens
ating. Interment followed in
Union ceraatcry. Bernstein
, lers, funeral directors, were
in charge. Tha body of Mr. Payne
Miss Julia Emery Is credited
with being the “most arrested
woman in the world.’ H?r fault,
is ijr leading picketing parties and 1
sending literature not in accordi
with gpverpment wishes. She 4 *
again In the national copital.
1 Mist Irenie Pergantis of Atlanta, Ga., won the honor of being the Stn
most beautiful girl in her state, a state which prides itself on Its off*
beauties. The contest was held in conjunction with the Southeastern, tho
(Fair in Atlanta.*
The board of County Commi* A
sioners will meet on the first *■
Tuesday in November to consider
the recommendations made by the
grand jury last week relative to
an investigation of the offices of /
tax collector and receiver In the the
county. Bo<
The auditors for the county*
Alonso Richardson company, of *
Atlanta, stated in the audit that «"
certain “irregularities” exist in ce *
the system employed in both off! »
ces end the grand jury referred w
the investigation to the Board of i
1 'was carried to Bernstein’s funeral
would go;home Sunday where It was kept
>r their op- through the night,
end all these Mr. Payne, a brother of James
n<! too much A. P»yn* of Athens, is aurvlvetl
1 .hall keep by hi* widow, three daughter* and
constitution!* three eon., in addition to four
let it." i brothers and throe (liter*. Mr.
resolution pending i n the preeeut
house (or a eonstiutional conven
tion.
'The member, of thi. convention
would be fresh from tli. people end
would do what tho people warn
don. about tUrae reforms. Then
HIS MISSION
OVER, JACOBS
COMES HOME
I Mr. Fratman. tha driver of tha
■ cur, is a section foreman on the
'S. A. L. railroad. Mr. Pam was
47 yean old and had lived in
Clarke county three year*.
‘ZEV” SWEEPS ENGLAND’S BEST ASIDE AND
FLASHES IN THE WINNER BY FIVE LENGTHS
, (By Associated Press.)
LONDON—Dr. Thorn well Jacobs,
president of Oglethorpe University
sailed for Nrw -York Saturday on
tha Mauretania. "" “
Commissioners and the
tlon will b# taken up at
Danielsville
Road Open For
Travel Monday
The Danielsville road and the
street in the city limits from the
River-street bridge through Bar-
berville ware opened for public
travel Monday aftsmoon when the
city forces tore down the barri
cades at Rivers’ store and at tha
- ,—-,- T Members of the
family of General Oglethorpe taw
. him off and thanked him tor re-
IU vlvlng the almost forgotten name
r Finn °f the founder of the state, ot
tOeorgU. Several of the General's
[relatives favored Dr. Jacob's plan
of Mrs., to enshrine tbs body on the cam*
Athens, pua of the University, but a great
QUITMAN—At an forty ho Ur
Monday morning flames, breaking
out In three different seotions of
the business district ot this city
had already caused damage esti
mated at more than $100.00J and
the probability that the total dam
age will run much higher than this
enter th# practice of law with ths (By Associated Press.) figure.
well known firm of Caroler, Thomp CHARLESTON, III.—Bandits es* At 1:30 Monday morning. the
■urn a Kitsch. »C hSTV TV-ITT* 1 *—* n* flr,» flee hrnlr* iwt. tha alarm
Mr. Hsrrold Is a nephew of Gov-{twelve held up the night watchman* coming In from the Qultn. ■" M »-
rrnor Walker and a ton of Mr. and and blew open the vault and vote/ chine Company. A few minutes
Mrs. Frank P. Hsrrold of Amerl- of the.First National Bank of Oak* j later, while firemen were battling
cus. He recently graduated from land, early Saturday and eaeaped the first fire, another call came in
Oxford In England a* a Rhodes‘with $15,000 in currency and I for the department from two <>f the
Scholar. He completed hie Oxford bonds. Telegraph and telephone uptown stores and ft was neces-
i Judge Brand Is
Back From Trip
To Washington
Mrs. Sarah Collier
. Died Late Saturday
Ur.. Sarah Collier, a*«l *7, died
&t the home on the Smlthonia*
Comer rood Saturday night at 11:40
o'clock following an illness of two
weeks.
Funeral service* were conducted
from the residence Monday after
noon at S o’clock with Rev. W. P.
Brooks, Jr„ officiating. Mrs Col
lier was n member of the Baptist
church Interment was In the fam
ily cemetery, Bernstein Brothers,
fun«r|d directors. In charge •
Mm. Collier Is survived by four!
*l*tero, one brother, two sons. Miles
and Ralph Collier. 2
.iL 4JsHKE3HI5hseSH
Congressman .Charles H. Brand
Is back homo after several days'
stay In Washington wher« he went
' '>n official bn sines. He states that
politics fs all a-buaa In tha capital
I offy and that the Republicans ore
ill at ease over the election next
yeer.
Judas Brand states that from
what he could gather around the
corridors President Coolldge Is not
r n popular a* he was Immediately
fotbm»ng' tho death of President
Harding and that his nominator
(m not aseureil by any moan*.
ZEV WINS! ZEV! ZEV! That cry came from 70,000 throats as Zev, belonging to Harry Sinclair,
. ._-.-_t.-j r. C! " gland’s pride owned by Ben Irish, gentleman farmer,
in the first international match race in America.
in a race at a mile and a half at Belmont Park, N. Y., i ’ *’
jThe winner received $80,000 and a gold cup; the loser, $20,000.
ATHENS COTTON:
middling 29 s-«e
PREVIOUS CLOSE .. -. 29 5-8c
THE WEATHER:
Clear Monday Night and Slightly
Cooler. Clear Tueaday.
Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a WeeE, 1
5 Cents Sunday.
Invaetlgal, Today!
To Regular Subtcribw*
THE BANNER-HERALD
<1,000 Accident Policy Fra*
THE
t
Dally and Sunday—10 Cents s Week.
■ilMSefWfTP^ Established 1832.
VOL. 91, NO. 215
Associated Press Service.
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1923, 'J
A. B. C. Paper.
NEW REPUBLIC FOR GERMANY
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Merchants Ready For Trade Boom M ee ti n g
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One Dies in Auto Wreck Near Athens
Separatist Movement Is
Gaining Headway Monday
As Rhinelanders Advance
morning in th* Chamber of Com'
merce, made reporta of work done
since last Friday and then
out again to see other business
concerns, ft order that ovary
business man in the city may have
a part in the bt^ trade boom the
central committee baa called a
mass meeting at th* city hall
Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
P.
KILLED WHEN AUTO
(By Associated Press.)
MAYENCE, Germany.—Rhineland forces en
tered Mayence Monday morning but met with re
sistance when they attempted to occupy the city hall
here. Two Separatists were wounded in an exchange
of shots.
The governments of the Reich and of Prussia are
reported to have invited leaders of the several vari
ous Rhineland Separatist parties to meet their repre
sentatives in Cologne Monday afternoon to discuss
the immediate establishment of a Rhineland State
within Germany.
Berlin, It is said, believes that
such a stato must be proclaimed
immediately to put an end to the
lastspreoding Separatist move-
Peckere, 60 ‘
ufacturer, who is one
f Ute leaders of the Separatist
roup at AJx-La-Chappelie, 3*id
ere Monday that the Separatists
were ready to assume their share
of the reparations a* provided by
tho treaty of Versailles and were
willing to recognize the treaty.
He added that Coblenz would be
the capital ot the new republic
and said that Rhineland forces
nizid into filitury for
mations but are as yet unarmed.
However, he added, they know
whore to find weapons, if it be
comes necessary/’
mam fires
E 1 HEART OF
T
More Than $100,000 Dam- ■
age Caused By Early
Morning Blaze. Investi
gation Starts Immedi
ately.
