The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, November 12, 1923, Image 1

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2g InvMtlgat, Today! Ta Regular Subaorlbara THE BANNER-HERALD |1,000 Accident Policy Praa Dally and Sunday—1) Centa a Weak Established 1832, .’w.'i'fWUWSP' Dally and Sunday—13 Centa a JYeofc ATHENS COTTON: Middling . S2 7-S* Pravioue Cloaa 321-4a THE WEATHER: Clear Monday and Slightly Cooler Monday night. VOL, or, NO. 231 Associated Preaa Service. ATHENS, GA-. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1923. A. B. C. Paper. Single Coplea 2 Centa Dally. ( Centa Snnday. EX-CROWN PRINK ARRIVES AT DELS MOli 4—* 4—4 1 4“-4* 4—4« 4—4* 4—4* 4* 4* 4* 4* JL A T T •I* *1* *1% •i—* *J4 ►|*-.-*Js r f, T t. V V O.L-. J ai Passage of Five Per Cent Income Tax Now Predicted Arrival Occasions jig — ———^—-—— Little Confusion; Hittler Arrested LEGISLATURE SETTLES DOWN TO WORK AFTER SHORT ADJOURNMENT English Beauty / (By Associated Press.) ATLANTA, Ga.—The house came back to work Monday from its week-end recess with a committee measure looking to an income tax with a five per cent limitation, foremost .pn its calendar. The sen ate, hatfng passed a bill by Senator Pace that would provide for a state auditors office and sent it oyer to the lower house for action, will not return from its holiday until Tuesday. This measure had not been acted upon by a house committee when the lower body reconvened Monday. Proponent* of the five per cent Income tax u the major plan to solve tho state’s reputed tax ills, were optimistic that it would bo passed in short order and sent to the senate. Debate on It Friday disclosed that its opponents ex pected the measure to be adopted and many of them joined in the ef fort to plaee the limitation a! three Instead of five. As framed j by the committee the bill would not touch upon the schedule of rates and exemptions under its provisions:bit these would be left! WASHINGTON. — President to the letiejatura that ta ceUed to,Coolidge laid a wrcith on the | enact enabling legislation in the tomb of the unknown soldier at proposed amendment is ratified by I Arlington as the "Armistice day tin. r ilsss in fka.esavf frati tf* rn 1 sal an a s I—, _ _• ■« s . I or PISES. CUE Today Is Last Day To Qualify to Vote WHITEHALL MAN IS Monday, November 12Uf is the final day for votors to qual ify for tho m* nioipal primary to be hold on tho 27th of this month. UnfetL those voters who are not qualified to vote make t ham solves eligible by • o’clock -Monday (today) they cannot' participate in tho It is nscstssary to pay all of the 1922 state and county taxes, be registered at the court house and pay all of tho 1923 city taxes and be regis tered at t> jl* c'Ay hall and .if you have ruavd from one ward to another einee tho last slsction hav# your registration changed to tho proper ward. Tho entry data for candi dates clotea Nov. 17th at noon. CUT TO DEATH; SLAYER IS IN Itht-votm.ini the. next gentral else- tribute of the American people to turns.. Governor Walker ^aaj>rorJ the memory of “those wI Latest photograph of Joan Yarde-Buller, Eldest, daughter of Lord and Lady Churston, who ia considered one of England’s most beauti ful girls. She also is popular in this country. BELOVED ATHENIAN DIES IN ATLANTA ATf EARLY HOUR MONDAY; Him TUESDAY Sam Foster, aged '48, was kill by Henry Eberhardt, both resi dents of Whitehall. Sunday night about dusk near BraswslI In Mor gan county. Foster waa cut with a knife, the wound reaching almost from ear to I car. He died Instantly. Eber hardt war being held In Morgan county Jail Monday at Madiaon charged with murder. Ha gave hlmadf up. It Is statsd. (By Associated Press.) OELS, UPPER SILESIA.—Former Crown Prince Frederick William, after disappointing thousands of his admirers, who had gathered here Sunday to wel come him back to Germany, arrived at his estate Monday, says the Berlin correspondent of the Cen tral News. Perfect |COULD NOV ' DEFEND SELF 1 will call. the assembly In extra r this session : . Considered as of secondary im portance but both having to do with the state's tax problem, two other bills that have received fav- ot able committee report will also be before the bouse. One by Rep- rsentativo ; Aubrey of Bartow county, would make the pro vis ions of a law now in effect ir counties - having 125,000 or more population investing the tax col lector with police authority in the collection fof taxes, applicable to all counties in the etate. This applies particularly to the issu ance of fi fat, the issuance and s^.tbs end but died that'rfhennRP might come. >r • * Tho act of tribute to the dead Monday morning at a sanatorium Ip Atlanta to which she had been According to Ernest Footer, son tho dead man. who waa with | hia father and Eberhardt at the I time of the Killing. Eberhardt cut his father without provocation, jumping on the senior Foster be fore he could def<nd himself. Kb- erhurdt, it Is stated, declared that the two Foster* tried to Injure him und he was defending hlmeelf. Ernest Foster, who was at Dun :i way's funeral parlors here Mon day where the body Is being kept awaiting completion of funeral plans, said the three Went to So- I service of which are now n»ade. WMw , from the bheriff* office except in paMe d, the larger counties. Represents- “idealism of the world war was performed by the chief executive with little ceremony and In strict accord with the custom established a year ago by President Harding. Several thousand people attend ed services held at Arlington In the afternoon and many more gathered on nearby slopes heard the service o: songs, prayer and address throush amplifiers mount ed on lop of the structure. Bishop William F. McDowell, of the Methodist Episcopal church, made the principal address, an appeal to the American people to keep the faith at the time when the tendency is strong to lapse back into - ordinariness of aspira tion, into complacehcy of eoul when the glory of conflict' has IN STATE HIGH IN PRAISE OF STUDENTS! tive Aubrey contends tti«t the effect of thia system is to hold the tax collector responsible for often fails in the the collection of taxes but at the same time leaving his office with out any authority to do so. Committee* • were expected to take aetkm during tho day on • measure by Representative Camp of Campbell that would apply fines and'forfeitures in C**e* *n*- ing from prohibition law violations to the support of the proposed w hich „ free text, book legislation. Rep- the time the president resentative Craig Arnold of Lump- national wreeth.” kin county, would revise the tax f Leaving the white house at 10 equalization system now in effect j o * c i 0c i C| Mr. Coolidge arrived at t*» the extent of providing Ior j Arlington before many of the three tax equalisers in each can-(thousands who gathered there in grcssional district _ instead^of 48 ogggnrance of the fifth _ annhrer- long pu»:, in the patient and crea tive endurance to the end. in the days that show no heroism, but only toil and effort," Bishop Mc Dowell said. “That is the test that is upon u« now.*' Brief ceremonies were held at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the conclusion of the amphi theatre services and numerous vet erans' organziatlons added their wreaths to the mound of tributes Hamilton McWUorter panned away after a brief (linear. ' The new* of the death of Mrs. McWhortir will carry great sor- | row to the hearts of thousands, ‘.both In Athens and throughout the j state. l r p to the last few weeks j she had been In apparently good health and b*r death comas us i) great shock to h«r loved ones and U. S. Prohibition Enforcement Officer Fred Dis-j' A. Mir. Camilla Pharr, of Wash- muke had nothing but praise for the conduct of the; ln «‘ on - - «** on - ot students of the University of Georgia at the game m0 *‘ cuUur ' J , “ ,d * , ‘ n,c “" yo,,n ‘ earned tor medical allClrtit SUiltoY, »Imre Eh.. ' harde, an employee of the Gebrgin Factory, went to tee an employee of the mill at Social Circle. The two Fosters went with Eberhardt, a Mend of the family. , „ game Saturday. Mr. Dismuke and four of his force were here to “observe” the conduct of the students and following the game said so far as he could observe there was no drinking problem at the University. Not only did Mr. Dismuke. d«’ Pay Salary For steadily higher from ***• president laid “the • for the state. His bill to this ef- (T.urq to Page Six) Robert E. Lee Chapter of Robert E. L« . U. D. C. to Place a Me morial on Campus of G. M. A. COLLEOB PARK. Os.—Dwjttlon has been* reached by ths R®bert E I**e Chapter of the United Daugb t*r* of the Confederacy to place a suitable marker upon- «he * hide- waa used-In the Battle ol Atlanta and which runs diagnaUl through the campus of the Geor gia Military Aeademyi The meet- Ing at which the P. D. C. drew uj the resolution to erect this marker was held at the home of Mrs v. C Mason on Virginia avenue. This memorial, to be constructed immediately, wil Iserve to com- niemorate a *pot which on account of Its elevation served as a signal post for, more than a mile and a half in both .directions during the sreop struggle. This trench Is one of the three major trench#* encir cling tbe city of Atlanta nnd I* to. day. discernible to a more or less connected way- for a distance of, thirty or forty mips. sary of the ending of the world conflict. He was accompanied by lUitar Mrs. Coolidge, his military and naval aides, and Secretary Weeks, of the war department, and Acting Secretary Roosevelt, of the navy department. E1ESSEE FARMED KILLS SEVEN OF HIS TEN CHILDREN SUN. clsr* there wu n. drinking prob-[ A FIV,.. lem but he said he wanted to go n “ ,cn8 UOeS 1 -Ot on record a, believing that any arrested earlier In the day corn- might be lent to the university without the leut fears for his condact. “I-re never seen a finer ect of young men.” he slid, “and al though I have looked, and looked carefully, I .have not eeen a stu dent drinking. This to my mind is itest recommendation that can have. It ha. been a marvelous exhibition to me and I might say something of a revela tion. I had been informed that there was drinking to excess, that liquor was being poured into Ath ens for the game. But I haven’t found it. I haven’t seen a man drunk. “Thie is dus largely to the uni- ' the city pe varsity faculty and the city police, of Athens. Both bodies are doing On the way hack Kbsrhsrd* stopped his car In front of Sam Jones’ near Braswell and tho Junior Foster left the car for a while. On the return he was asked by Ktxr- hurdt to run ths car down * th< road u little piece. He did ao Shortly after he parked tbu oar In women in that section of the (front of the home of Tom Pierce* state. She was- the daughter of down thr road from the Jones Mr. Marcus Aurelius Pharr, of j horn*-. Eberhardt came up and Washington, and. hie wife, Mrs. | M jd: “you’re trying to steal my Camilla Oliver Pharr, a daughter j car. are you?” With that remark of Mr. 8h<tton Oliver, who In his I he reached over and cut the elder day waa one of the moat promt- J Foster. Ernest FagUt declared nent citizens of northeast‘ Georgia, j hi* father could not defend hlm- She waa born March *4, 1330, and 1 self and that when be tried to pull This foot—that of the wife of a prominent financier of Paris—is said to bo the smallest in France. It’s a No. 1. Do you have smaller foot?' On his journey towards hie fu ture home, the ex-Princ« passed through Wusterhsusen, nesr the German capital, where he was welcomed by the Burgomaster in a brief speech. Simultaenously with the news of the arrival of teh former Crown Prince comes a dispatch from the Hague, which states that Dr. Kan, an official of the Minis try of the Interior, left for Doorn Mondax for a conference with for mer Emperor William. Dr. Kan of the Dutch official family, was reported to have made the trip to Doorn to confer with the former Kaiser in view of reports that the ex-Kaiser may be removed to some safer 'place, due to apparent easiness with which the former Crown Prince left the country and returned to Germany. From Berlin comes the news that Adolph Hittler, leader with General Von I.udendorff in the re cent Munich revolt, was arrested near Lake Staffel, South Bavaria. Monday. It was stated that Hitt ler offered no resistance. Reports Saturday night that General I.udendorff. who nad been mitted suicide, are officially do^ nied in Berlin Monday. Berlin Is taking the arrival of' the ex-Crown Prince in Germany with calmness. Instead of the ex pected confusion his return was taken, mom with a spirit of euri-i osity, in view of the recent Mu nich revolution and the widespread dictatorship. wjmj In her sixty-fourth year at tbe time of her death. |> t ^ n . During, her girlhood she attend- Ked Cross oecy, rd «*•*** ■cbooia m — Eberhardt off he waa out. He showed a scalp wound, a hole In his hat apparently 'made with a knife and u slit was in the lap«l of his National H e a d q uarters Pays Salary and Half of Office Expense Here. Ask $3,000 For Relief. | and Washington, and for her j coat, where, he sold, Eberhardt put brightness of Intellect and gentle- at him. ness of dlapoeitlon woe beloved b> both teachers and schoolmates. In her early young womanhood she became the bride of Hamilton Me- j Whorter. a young ttwyer of prom- i Inence who In after year* became one of the foremost attorneys In ■ j the atatri and a man of great nm eh t»~i I prominence in public affairs. Final plans,for tho Red Crete' u... xtrVVhnrt, -noil Chili were being developed Monday. A meeting of th« men’s Eberhardt and hie father had been drinking some the younger Foster said Monday. L; Ex-Service Men ,V-»h Deliver Speeches At Schools Monday j ATHENIANS ALSO First Methodist Pastor Comments on Street Fair, Armistice Observ ance . and Policeman’s Expulsion. Mr. Footer has been a reetdint of Clark*’ count, about one year. Surviving Mrs. McWhorter are ’ coming hero from Hontwlck. her husband.- Judge Hamilton Mc- WhdrtSr. nnd her children. Mm Julie McWhorter' Price, Mrs. Ca- mllla McWhorter Erwin, Mr. Mar cue P. McWhorter. Mr. Hamilton MeWhortrr. Jr., Mr. Robert gratulate them.” committee in scheduled for lion day night nt which time tho teams from the Rotary and Kiwnnts clubs und other organisations will pro of Athens. Both bodies are doing pn ro for their port In the roll call.i McWhorter. Mr. Howard H. Mr. their duty to the city end state Thf; women's organisation for the! tVort-r. MI-» Halil'' MeWhortrr and I want to be the first to con- .. R „n cull" will bo computed! and Mr. Thurmond McWhorter within the next few days. AI Ph# la also survived hr her bro- booth will bo conducted at tholther, Mr. Marrua A. Ptuirr. of Clarke County Pair by Mian Sallte • Washington. On, and her sisters Oondwyn, Where people can enroll | Mrs. J. n Dyson, of Washington, ns members of the Red Croes. ! Snd Mrs. Willie Massey of Mae,on. Athene will be naked to sub- I Paeaeased of all the rare and scribe 13.049 to the work thlo ' lovnhlo trnlte of Christ Ian charac. ytnn Although fifty cants for | ter Mrs. MeWhortsr won n loving snch subscription goes to notional and faithful wife, a fond and of. CHATTANOOGA—Buck Ourrt- >n. a farmer living near Dayton Tenn., sho tand killed neven of his tan children Hundny afternoon, ac cording to advices received here. OnrrlBon'e wife and hie other children r scaped 'death, Posass wore reported scouring the hills for Garrison, who Is said to htfvs ftrd after the murders. Xews Of the tragedy was brought to Dayton by tho wlfs, who had run for miles, according to Inter reports. _ Breathless, she gasped out DEAN QUESTIONS STUDENTS AT YALE (By Amociated Preet.) NEW HAVEN.—Thirty Yale students have been queatloned by tbe dean of the Unlvereity con cerning tbe presence in their rooms of .bottles of grape juice, which was unfermented when pur. chased, but later on was nude po tent by the addition of yeest. An kgent took opders on the catspus for grspejuice, which wee delivered so long afterwards that many thought his visit was n hoax. When the grspejuice arrived direc tions came with ft for the adding of the yeest. It is reported that .a™. I many followed the directions and '""' found out that ths recipe came up ."'Ifully to the claims of the • agent. Christian Church Convention Will Open Here Tuesday Severe! hundred deleratei will meagre details of the crlpie. tel I-be here Tuesday to attend theeon- Ing how ’ her husband had shot vention of the Churches of Christ _..o — n——which frill oih Dr. 8. E. Wasson, pnstor v of ths First Methodist church Sunday morning' ucored city council for nl« lowing the "street fair- to show In I Athens, the CIvU Service Commls. ejon for suspending a policeman for entering a house of III repute without closing the ht.uee. and commented on tho way Athens treated the public obdervnnee of Armistice Day hero Inst Saturday. Dr. Wesson said <10 did not know but a fsw msmbtre of tho city lon- eouncll but their teflon In allow-, r »—., ...» Ins the street cnrnlvat to cornel Athens; Guy Fost*r. Frsd Pontsr.ihere In ths face of renolutloni op.| Kreesl Komar, Athens and John poalnt It adopted by the Pruiten. Peter. North Carolina. ! ttal Committee of the University Ebsrhardt Is marrltd and fins a' »" a «he RhUry club did not nult I —II.. u- -v—* s>— him **A bunch of poo areas”, tl)» vm a farmer and Is survived by hla widow and nine children, Mra. Ora Mize. Whitehall; Mrs. Clyde Kenny, Bostwlck; Mrs. Ura Dur- dfn, Porterdale; Mir* Angle Lou Foster, ami Miss Edna Foster, Seventeen ex-service men deliv ered rhor* zpeeches at the schools of the city and county Monday at ’clock in observance of ”Ba- trioUam’’ day. The flag aad the fealty due It, wus the subject i Hpeclflcally of the talks and'they were Ihtrmd to with Intent In tercut by the student*. Thone making these speeches were a* follows: College avenue, W. L. Bnrln. Child Street, Dr. Joe. 8. Stewarts Chare Street W. K. Meadow Oconee Street, Carl Croeoley Barrow School, H. H. Wee*. , Wintervlpe School, Kloetwo©4 Lanier. Turku ton School, F. O. Miller. Edwards School, A. T. Lerle. Belmont 8chool, Charlie Dynr. CentirvlUe Fchool, A. I. Almond. Whitehall School, A. O. Lunaway. Princeton Pchool, J.- II. Chafln. Hinton-Brown hScool, R. L Keener. Fowler’s School, Maj. Burch. Lampkin School T. M. Fowler. Uarbeville school, Jake Joel Oconee Heights ,IL L. Herring- GERMANY’S ANSWER family. He la about forty yearn h,ro - old. According to the younger Fouler. Eberhardt and the dead man were good friends snd had "mt»r ha a croo* word.” headquarter*, it In return ha a much more than that per subscrip tion back to Athens. For instance the national headquarters Is pay ing the salary of th« executive secretary nnd half of the office ex penses. Therefore, practically all f'.ctlonate mother, a true and loyn'j friend. 'an<| a citizen of rare und a hiding influence for good. Aince early girlhood ahe had been a true and devoted member of the Meth odist church. Esprefnlly did her virtues shine WE FAIR IS of the money raised In Athena goes around the family circle, to relief work direct. | the Joy of her life to minister to Fifty cents per subscription does. the pleasure, the comfort and the not mean thnt If 83,000 It rsiser’ j well-being of those of her Imme- the^ national headquarters will get. dlate household, snd In this hour half. The national headquarters. of sorrow hir husband and her w»l get fifty cents out of s sub-1 children rise up to call her ble».ed scrfptlon whether it Im II or 3100 { The remains of Mrs. McWhorter Th»p»rnp* If WMI ...L...IL. J.l ' .... Therefore, |f you subscribe ten dol- were brought to Athens Mr/idny lane only fifty cents will he een* I and wJII be in tor red Tu*M«y to headquarter* while 19.80 will • morning In Oconee cemetery. The train In Athens. (funeral will be held Tuesday morn. ; Ing at eleven o’clock at the res!- LEGIONNAIRES BANQUET d#T,c ® of Mr - and Mr "- c down seven of the children, on* Ex-service men of Clarke coun oneit that | ty will banquet at the Georgian by one, with a shotgun, eSrb tlpie to reload the Garrison,, it was said, I drinking heavily for som« stopping night at the Firzt Christian j Hotel Monday night. This Is the weapon ^church. Many prominent religious! annual feart usually held on Armia. ad been leaders-in Georgia will bo here tojtlce night.- A large crowd''is ex- time. take part in thb cohveniton. ptetrd. •Brwln, on Mtlledge avenue, and The risrkr county fair and Odd Fellowa Festival opened Monday. Tuesday will be “School Day” at the fair and a parade will be htfld in which all school children Clarke county will take part. The exhlbltls of community, boys and girls ciube under superivtlon of Mrs. Annie Mae Wood Bryant snd County Agent J. W. Flror were being arranged Monday. The poultry exhibit will be under the auspices of the Athens Poultry will, be conducted. by Rev. H. Wqsson. pastor of, the First odi«t i-'lurch of this city, of which Mr*. McWhorter bad I png been a member. Association. Miller Brothers shows, which wit] furnish the amusement features, will hvae their tante on Washing ton. Hull and Broad streets nnd part of lower Otyytou. In the'bourse of his sermon, which lasted about ’twenty min utes. following some* busim the church, .the minister referred to the suspension of a policeman recently^ "They; spooking of the police and fire commission sus pended, a poor policeman for enter, lag. a hqaee of 111 repute hut didn’t have enough evidence to close the house.” he said. He said It was a shame the way people crowded hround the *laea where twenty dollar gold pieces were given .away last Saturday while the Armistice observance was being held “Athens Just forgot*" he said/ “A mere haniful heard the address, a good one, while bigger crowd scrambled for the twenty dollar gold pieces." he mid. PESNOT MEET THE 'ALLIES' APPROVAL TOY FACTORY FOR MOUITRIF ASSURED MOULTRIE, Ga.—Toys will be made In Moultrie now that s nov elty company has constructed a factory for this purpose here. Among tho toys that will bo fea tured and which has already been put on the local market is an “ele phant rock-a-bye" ard other small (By Associated Press.) LONDON*—Great Britain is not likely to take Individual settee looking towards the ejectment ef the former Crown Prince Wllliapi from Germany, nor Is It at all probable that she will stress Me banishment in any collective re presentations which may be made through the council of Ambassa dor*. it was declared here Monday PARIS—The German net#, re plying to the protest of the aintV council of Ambassadors against tbe return to Germany of the former Crown Brine* Is understood to be unsatisfactory to the allies tubers of the Ambassadors coun- lummnned hurriedly conren*- Monday afternoon for Sid*