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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1923)
Inve*tlg«te Today! .» I® Regular Subaarlbartf ~7 u •fg THE BANNER-HERALD * 11,000 Aecldant Policy Frao THE j Dolly and Sunday—10 Cento a Week. Established 1832. Dolly ond Sundoy—10 Cento • Week. ' ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING 30 l-2c PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. 30 3-8c THE WEATHER: Georgia: Fair Sunday. No Change in Temperature. VOL. 81. NO. —0 Aaooctated Preoo Sendee. ATHENS, GA„ SUNDAY. OCTOBER *8 1"*q, A. B. C. Payer. Single Copies 2 Cento Dally. 5 Cento Sunday. STRESEMAN FIRES OPENING VOLLEY *-* —+ +—4> *2-—-J-—-J- -J-—j. -4* “Dollar Day” Opens Trade Campaign! Commands German Reichsvtthr. ncBi In addition to offering to buyer* the obolce of the best that can be had In every line of business rep resented in the Trade Month cam paign $2500 in prizes will be given away to those holding trade cou pons issued by the business con cerns. The trade month opens Novem- Two major jjris.es, one tor inside ... . _ __ _ her 3ru and cioaes December 3rd. Mi’a Anna B. Hogan, Jersey u,, Clty ot A ,hen* ana the City, la not yet 25 years of age. othor , or ouU lde ot the city limit* but already hot wo.i many legal' p. iiven , w ,y. The prlxea, two Victories. She mently "•« «»■ Ford tcur-door" Sedan., will be gaged to defend a man charged in B ; rell awtJr at the cloee of the Hacltonaack, N. J., with flrat de- camoaUrn. • (tree murder. She aucceeded In. wriTtfiin artit getting a aecond degree verdict 1 with recommendation of mercy. I puizeb Open • Campaign Here 'Next Saturday; Will Have $2y00 ‘Prizes Trade month in Athens will be opened Next Sat urday with a “Dollar Day.” Every day following Saturday will take its place of importance in the big campaign which will prove one of the most beneficial to buyers conducted by business concerns in this city in many a dpy. $2500 IN prizes j j Here’s Chance to Become a Member Of a Popular Club EX-KAISERji PAYS VISIT TO GERMAN BORDER FRI. On every Saturday, beginning November 10 fiv# twenty dollar gold pieces will be given away at 12 o'clock noon. Two one hundred ‘Inside the city limits and one fc. outside. Four fifty dollar bills will 'be given away in general. Seven j twenty dollar gold pieces will be , given away in general ond one ten dollar gold j^ece for tbe general of ■ MUtW^i part In-the wending^] Will Be Conducted ■ Aftw'Ot’ ffiF to' attrod In a "body (By Associated Press.) D G O R N, Holland.— Former Emperor'William and Crown Prince" Fred erick William, accompan ied by two other person ages, left the ex-Kaiser’s home here at six o’clock! Friday evening in an au-l tomobile in the direction I of Ai*iiheim,j about ten miles from the German 1 border, and returned at t w o o’clock Saturday morning. It Is reported that the Crown Prince wiahes to return to Ger- nmny at any cost and that he has Had conversations on this subject with representatives of the Dutch povernnt.ent. It was stated that they were Yellowed by three other automo biles, according to persons well inormed’ regarding affairs at the Kaiscr*s chateau. award. | "Dollar Day," next Saturday vr’II i attract hundreds of people to Ath ens as membeis of the Trade Month campaign will have "some of the best values ever offered for one dollar for the thrifty ’buyer. Nex? Thursday dozens of pretty gels will offer for sale in tbe city of Athens and on the Georgia campus tags for the purpose ot raising suffi cient money to sand the Geor gia band to Columbus for tile Georg’fl-Auburn football game on the 3rd of November. One of the biggest attrac tions and advertisements of the day there It the parade of tho two student bodies through the streets of the city a« the trains come la. And’ of courrt the winning college parades after the game. The Georgia band muat be there! It la hard work to play for a football game. It 1, ouatomary to .end the band and the peo- havo always COLLEGE STUDENT IS DEAD AS RESULT OF HTTEIfT TO STEAL SOTO TIRES* (By Associated Press) CHAMPAIGN. III—Preparations to travel by autombile to the North western-Illinois football game at Chicago, coat the. life, of t*hl\ Sharp 222, a University .of Illinois freshman Saturday. t Alexander Schults, son of professor of the. department Physics at the University and Sharp, acquired un old edr and planned to fix It up for the rtlp. ’Needing tires ,for the car, 'they attempted to tntye them from ot^rr cars. A motorcycle pollcentanf caught them In the act and wheo fihnrp ran. shot him. Schults. 1 who 'remained in tho car was later ar rested and Is being beid under bond FUNERAL "SERVICES J. {DELL AT 3:30 TODAY Services Over Body of Well Ktrown Athenian Harris Speaks At Elberton ATLANTA.GA..—One apeaklng en Ragcment- far the first week in Nov* ember was announced today by Sena Nfcxt Thursday they gef opportunity. It will take $500 ami these pretty girls are go ing out for not a cent less. They will be working for a prize other than the money for the band. This will be a prise to the young lady who takes in the greatest amount of money and then additional prises to the members of the winning, team will be awarded. The Hogan Thursday plH be "Join Ahe 'Send the Baud to Columbus club.* " Poultry Exhibit One of Features Of Athens Fair Boys and Girls, of Clarke 'Have Been Preparing For Several Months For Arml.tlc. Day will'be celebrated Event. In Athene thin fall on Saturday November 10th. November eleventh falls on Sunday and the celebra tion will. In a way be spilt in that J... . , hn _.«.* (ogetner wun atm. Anaw the publicpart O ’ * he ^ ,l ! Wood Bryant, and J. W. Fk-or, the Uh. place M;jdey nl«ht._ | coilBlv repreeenUOyee of the *** when BOS'*’ «»<* alrU ’ <?<«*> Wort - wIU the UnlV r v ’ . | pu t on a poulty exhibit, at the com- the Vlrglnln-Georala game will bef*^ clark ^ c '„ nt p,,,. whlch „ played. »to be ibeld In conjunction with the 8hort exercise* will mark the j q q p Fhatlvnl. .. celebration thla year. Robert Troutman, Georgia graduate and prominent Atlanta attorney, fon of the fate Dr. M. L. Troutman for- mer pastor here, will deliver the address of the day. Thla will be delivered from the Shackelford building platform at eleven o’clock and traffic on the cross street* will be suspended while he apeak* A band wyi 'pl«y the Star Span gled Banner and a bugle corps wli’ blow tape while some local ex-aer- vlce man will introduce him. Monday night the ex-service mer .. w ui hold their annual banquet a< william J. Ham., the date beln. ™ 0Mrftan hot „ aI ,J R |, , h „. of «' Vernon. Montgomery th „ a . ct |on are t rged to buy their lay November 5th. at ,:M -■ | ,| rketB fmn Fleetwood ™ Monday November 6th: at »:*> *' I tlckete at once from Flretwood One other addreee will compleie, , . , ha | rman of the committee. * nator Hartis'a tour of the auto Into | m ^ th * rc " w * Mr. R. C. Necl.v, Well On Monday. October tSth. Senator Known Here, Is Dead llerrie will apeak at Elberton. Klbnrt ">unty. et Ilf a. m - - He' le dteueelng baleletiof, before L'ongrree an.l mat- #nd J(rB ( .^W_ t-r. covering bid "ervlce during the A|e<and , r judder and Mine* Su nnt four yean of hie term In tha >nd Nlna Boudder Bernstein * Chapel This Afternoon. Funeral rervlces for Mr. Jame* Au»tln Bell, who died pt a * local hospital Friday afternoon at 2:S« o'clock following a sudden attack of pneumonia Thursdny night, will be conducted from the chapel ol Bernstein Brothers, funeral direct ors, this afternoon at t:30 o’clock. Rev. J. C. Wilkinson, pastor of th< First Baptist church of which Mr. Bell was a member will preach the funeral sermon, assisted by Rev. J. J. Bennett, pastor of the Frlnct Avenue Baptist church. Interment will be held In .Oconee cemetery. The pallbearers will be Messrs. Howell Cobb, Jlenry West, Ccnrra! Von Seeckt is chief of staff cf-thc Army of tha German Republic, a id hia will b? the task of putting down the various revolu tions now threatening the Berlin government. He is shown review ing the government troops who have juat quelled an uprising in Kustrin. • Athens Lawyers Will Attend Bell Funeral in Body PIS IS SKEPTICAL President John B. Gamble of the Atiuta*1>ar has tourt tho foilow- Ing call to tbe bar members: "Tho members of the Athens bar are requested to moet at Bernstein Brothers Funeral Home thla after* tiiic L^Woi' 1 of t our t broth! i r, \ueTin W h i T e. No "Objections Bell." Albany Puts Ban Have Been Advanced By i French, Apparent That Paris Is Doubtful. On Carnival Shows PAm3 ._ Tha proJectad lw , r „. ■——■ • Uonal conference to determine ALBANY, aa.—What little mon*, t -..mcy* capacity to pay repara- ey the boll weevil and wet weather, tloag , temporarily at least, baa _# **• - pj aced the Rhineland republic in allowed the p*ople’ of South Geor __ *■» 10 ">"K* "»• >«" r ," houl '' • Zho ibatid ae a tooie of'diecuetion. , b nquanderil n eni nival, and Ike A „ accc! , te< | by Premier Polncore, tlnna ge to the amount ot oil ;>-j □mueementr. in >h-opinion of the pU „ for the conference meet, duced from It. well. P Albany city Counrll. Thle vle« . wlI b nq ubject,oo. but with much wn« evpreee.d by |iractlcntly ev cwm . “ X ' T ' Ebert - Stresemann Regime Demands Retirement of Dr. Zeigner’s Followers i (By Associated Press.) BERLIN.—The Ebert-Stresemann government fired the opening gun Saturday night in its battle for unchallenged authority within the federation of the German state by dispatching an ultimatum to Dresden, demanding the immediate retirement of Dr. Zeigner’s Socialist-Communist government and simultaneously demanding of the Bavarians the restoration of the Berlin government military au thorities within that state. DUSSELDORF.—The Rhineland Republic is holding its ground with some new accessions over Saturday night. Few disorders were reported in consequence of the movement of French and Belgian police to supervise the policing of towns held by the Separatists, insisting upon the disarmament of trou blesome factions. IE CASE AGAINST COOK UD BY OF 0. S. FT. WORTH, Texas.—The gov eminent !n the trial In federal court hero of Dr. Fredtyick A. Cook and thirteen others charged with using the malls (o defraud In connection with <t’l operations, made Its first attempt to prove through witnesses called to the stand that the petroleum producers association of which Dr. Cook is president made falae represents- ery one of the six member* and, L« Matin, which Is supposed to Frank, Stella and Nancy, two ala ter*. Mr*. J. I. McLaughlin or Greenville, On., and Mis* Winona Bell of Philadelphia and hi* par ent*, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Bell of Athena.' H^was one of the lead ing members of the Athena bar, having served as city attorney for eevsral term* and also a referee In bankruptcy. Mr. Bll wa* a gradu ate of the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He'was a * member of the Elks lodge and wai a deacon In the First Baptist church. He wa* bqm In Texa* and had lived In Athens eight years death claiming him in his fortieth The boy* and girls of the coun ty have been preparing for months for this event, and together with the local chicken fanciers, prom ise the best feature of the coming fair. —— *The Poultry Husbandry Division year, of the State College of Agriculture, | Mr. Bell was well known a* a Is working hand In hand with the practicing attorney in northeast local association, and will c.gist Georgia, having been associated In making tbe venture a success. | with some of the most prominent Last year the poultry exhibits legal trials In this part of the attracted bte greatest crowds, and state. with added interest all over the I * lir — county In thoroughbred stock, this KiWSflis Hallowe GH Waynesboro where they went yes terday -to attend the funeral of Mrr, .Seudiler'e. brother. Mr. It. O. Neely who died euddenly Saturday moraine. Mr. Neely wa. a prominent cot- tbn factor of Wnyneeboro and a former member of the etate legit- lature. For many yrare he wan a member of the board of truetee* of the state College of Agriculture end wan e mg|p>**r »jwt j when the big acadfnjjc building of year 1 , exhibit promlee, to be far ahead of tbe Hit (how. Thepoultry exhibit le eolely In tended ae an educational feature, and le ‘ntended to encourage the h reef at of'“Better poultry and more of it.“ E. C. Paine la tbe president and L. D. Benton, secre tary. Thovc In the county can get tbe , desired Information from lira. Bcudder, Bryant or Ur. Ftror. Entries will cloee on October 10th. and bird, muet be In tbe ehow room by 4 P. ,\L, ot Monday, Nor. 12th. TEACHERS ORGANIZE DUBLIN. Oa.—The teacher* of l-iurrn* have organised a teacher. ' luh which I* to met once a month 'Old i* composed ot nil the teachev, in the county school*. The or ganization Is known n» the Lau ren* County Teacher* A.soclatlon and It le thought that It will 1>< beneficial to the educational ayatmt hCof Mrl-Edlth ward. th. 1 «u a K cOfUMMhotiic demonstration agent, and Is well known h . Fire Enpinas Are Called; No. Fire The fire department wa* called to Martin Brother* shoe repair and harness place on Clayton street Saturday night about > o'clock bat the call proved to be from collect® ed smoko rather then an actual No damage wm done, 2|!£&* I Mayor H A. Peacock In uhnnt- rel| ^ g,, „f principal sup- mnusly dccl'nlng tly> reaue.t of the ,, orterB of M . poinceie, *«yi Bat- local poet of the American Legion urd , y mornlng . « Al |, iUndBi tha ....... ..™„ *°, r Ul ® "f the mimlcipally owned con , ereuce ought not to srouie too Frank Holden. Ablt Nix. Lamar c.I futrt around* nnd free license In va|( hope*. It laivaln to expect to Rucker. Carl Pro*»lry. Cherle, Promoting a carnival nr.d b-rae- „ ach BD y f| na | aettlement of rep- Padgett and Walter E. Jack*nn. • ™ c * n * program. _Th. legion "“V . aMl(0aa or to ,| X the amount of Member* of the Athens Bar A**o. b --“ Promlred I1.000 for It* shnrr lb(( 0trmMO j B h( go long a* the elation ,»vin act a* honorary pall. I of ,he ” r ' ln . , ’: i . M .1 V T United State* will not agree to beererg. pr.trcd the belief that people would |n t(J (n<) dllcuaal0 Q* tho prob- Mr. Bell la aurvlved by hi* widow | "P"' 1 , " ou * ! ' 5"° n ' y , tern of the Inter-allied debt,.' Mr*. Ntetia Bell, three children, !Sn<! *♦-”* j? ", „" t Lo Jouirmi welcome, the pre.- . -h-community. Thejam. carnivnl nfe 0( gn Am#r|can p on to have furnUhed he mld.nt t)| , prU|Kued body. Le Pe:t Parla .-n ctlon* at a fair that wa* called hol< ® lha( by accepting th, Brltl.h piotf ial France bee glveo not only proof of her entire good will, but nas mau’e possible eu agreetniut atnou^ all the Interested parties. It .* generally understood that tho conference will not assemble Color* December and It L li expect ed that it* work wCI last a very long time It It I* to make a thor ough Inquiry Into the financial con dition or Germany. 'Dr. H. B. Heywood In City Primary Dr. H. B. HsywooJ, who has served for two years as aldermap from the Second Ward, announces li tbday’s Banner-Herald for ra- clecJon from that ward. < member of the Board of Aldermen member of theBoard of Aldermen he has shown a keen interest in civic affalis and Is known as one of the best Informed men on the affe*rs of the dty on the board. *- His announcement come* as the th'«rd In the city since the execur five committee fixed the primary date last Wedneeday. JTen Dollars Now to Pass Stationary Car Judge Thornton ot tho Police court announces that hereafter the tax for those who aro convicted In hi* court for passing a street ear while It has stopped*to take on nnd let off peseenger* will be fte.OO and cost Instead of $1.00 and nopt an heretofore. This is also a sUte offense and Party Draws Near; Big Time in Store Well, the KlWenls Halloween party Is only a few nights away and already the cos- t'-mer*, amateur and other wise. are being besefged with orders. Last year, Klwan'an David F. Paddock, esq., won the cake with pcrhai.^ tue most UnUMWil costume ever seen In Athens. It made Dave look more un usual than evee and of course he won * out. despite strong competMTon from "Tut” and Carlton Jester. It Is said the above men tioned gentleman, last named, will come disguised as an In dian turnip. Walter Forbe* Is going as "Flaming Youth." Th<*committee which will have charge of arramgUig the de tails of the' party has been completed with Walter Hodg son at chairman. the community was attta< off this week, but the councllnien expressed themselve* “willing tc tolerate the carnival for the fake of the agricultural and live *to«k exhibits" that were to be given hut which could not l»e secured Ir numbers desired, thus causing the calling oft of the fair. Rev. Collins Here Todav At the First Methodist Church Ro%-. I* W. rollina pastor of f tl« Elbe*un Mektodtst churgh will j»re.u’h et tbe Firet Method lit rlirjvh hir- t f . -i« - morning. The •-» •I'.-r Wev; S 12 Wamcn. will go H?!cn tr.Jty tie »r.*ft t*a’* In dettU'-i’HCi ' »•* ch Rev. Mi. Collin* •* on- • ' »‘:e leading young mlnlsteiw In the Meth odist Church. Conductor Is Killed As Train Hits. Open Switch WASHINGTON—G. F. Archer, n Norfolk and Western freight con ductor, was killed when through train No. 41,. New York^to New Orleans, ran into an open switch at Brlvtol. Vn., and hit a etring of freight ear*. No oth*r casualties were reported. Four Killed Outright And Others Injured In Boiler Explosion GREENVILLE, Ain.—Four men were reported killed and several Injured In a boiler explonlon nt the plant of the Beeland Gin company here Saturday morning. Three of the dead are negroes, reports from the scene of the d!«* after say*. Robert Jones, manager Shore Oil Corporation of Eldorado, Ark., testified a» to the production of wells In the Smackover, Arkan sas, field in which the petroleum Producers Association had Inter ests. He testified that only 18000 barrels were produced from these wells. t HENRY ASHFORD MAKES 100 BALES COTTON THIS YEAR; The Central government's com munication with Premier Zeigner brands the latter’s ministry as an outlaw government whose mem bers openly incited the population of Saxony to riot and to defy the existing martial law and the Cen tral govern meat's authority in general under the existing state of emergency. The ultimatum vir tually give* Zeigner and his radi cal cabinet members twenty-four hours to resign. The towns uf Kreuxnach and Flor*hi|'m weie occupied by tho Republicans Saturday morning and Coblenz and other large centers wen® being held without further oi>I»o-‘iIom. according to adviw-cs to French headquarters thre. The growing unrest on the right bank uf the Rhine, however lx considered unpronx'slng for th') ex tension of the republic until ibu Republicans find political and eco nomic conditions more favorable. Gloomy forecast* of the Ruhr’s im mediate future appeared In Ger man newnpaper* Saturday. They *ay German industrmlists Intend to execute a program for t?te shutting down of mines and factories It is said that bu*!nee* circles have plans for a Rhenish WVfltphallan state vf'thin the Reich, but the movement is not openly advocated. Food' and unemployment riots, accompanied by pillaging apd re sulting in clashes with authoritfef ii re reported from various town* throughout the Ruhr. There were many casualties in some casee. Twenty-seven persons were killed nt Bochum and fifteen wounded, hile five were killed at Duis* WATKIN8VILLE, Oa. — Henry Achfonfc the %»enion member of tbe tom of Ashford & Co. 7 , of Wat- kinsville. has demonstrated’ to the world by close attention that cot ton can be made under boiL wee vil conditions. At tfne beginning of the season with dark prospects he began with his folks by buying all supplies in the vtny of food for the sbek, even buying h®s cotton seed to plant. He' planted or had the ten ants plant, two hqndred and fifty acres. In cotton. By staying on tbe Job with his folks every day tnroiigh the summer he has made one hundred bale,j of cotton. H's tenants have made all /expenses and will eb able to pay some of thett** cai)|ed«ve* aJ.oJ.its. £Ir. Ash) fora has experienced the fact In this adventure that making cot* under boll weevil conditions Is no Isay man's job, but with tbe proper Amount of energy and sticking qualities it can be done with a profit ' of the gin wa* among the injured,i bore who violate thla city ordl« Window* In nearby building* were nance lay themselves liable foi shaken out by Ibe explosion. pr*«fcut!*n In ths.atate courts. CONTRIBUTES TO WASHINGTON MEMORIAL .ATLANTA.'—A copper placquo the gift ot the Georgia Masonic lodte was recently milled to Wash ington by Dr. Joe P. BowdoJn. grand master of the Georgia Ldge or Masons, to be placed under the ( corner stone of the memorial now j being erected by the Masons of the nation at Alexandra, Virginia. On one side of the placque, which le fqur Inches square and five* eight* of an inch thick, la the seal of the'Grand Lodge of Gergoia and on the other side is the Georgia State seal. Both sides of the seal have approp^ated Thsoriptions. Tho contributions of ,al! the grand lodges will be placfed In a box to be sealed on OctobeF 30 and placed beneath the corner stone when It Is Isyed on November 1. ill Voting at Bochum, which has hitherto been relatively froo from *uch disorder* was declared by of ficials to have been inspired by outsiu’e agitators. The casualties came when the Oerman police fired into the mob. The trouble at Dui*- berg arose when the looters weru surprised by a patrol and a Bel gian detective was shot and wounded. The Belgian troops were then called out and opened tire on tho pillagers. BERLIN.—Hugo Stinne* and other representatives of German Industry, after conferring with Chancellor Stresemann re-opened negotiations In t.be Ruhr with Gen eral D«*Goutte, the French occupa tion chief, Saturday. The continuance of operation* In Ruhr plants depends upon the result of these discuaaioiis. Agreements to resume work have Ijeen signed with the jccipa- tion authorities by eighteen Gor man mine owners In the Ruhr, un cording to official information is sued here. The firms represented the control of a group of twenty- five mine* and eight factories. Croker’s Widow Offers His Entire Estate To Tammany Hall NW YORK—Bui* EJmon.leon Croker, widow of Richard Crok«*r former Tammany leader, ha* of fered the estate of her late hus band to Tammany hall. In makinr the offer to Charles P. Murphy, p resent * Tammany chief, Mr*. Croker said she wan carrying out the wuhe* expressed by Mr. Corker on his deathbed In Dublin. She declared that U had been his wish that sh*» return tn New York, bo to Tammany hall and ff*r tht* hoy* al Ithe help they ed."
