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InVebtlgale Today! To Rogular Subscribers THE BANNER-HERALD |1,000 Aooldont Polloy Free THE Daily and Sunday—11 Ccnta a Week EeUbllehed IMS- Daily and Snnday—13 Cents a West ATHENS COTTON: , Previous Close p., 32 3-4c THE WEATHER: Cloudy Thursday and Cooler. VOL. 91. NO. 284 Associated Press Service. ATHENS, GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1911. A. B. C. Paper. Slnyle Copies 2 Cents Daily. < Cenis Sunday. GERMANY TO DISREGARD VERSAILLES TREATY Memorial On the snot of this memorial to the re-created America the last Confederate troops surrendered, it la on the Bennett Farm, three miles west of Durham, N. C. The chimney of the farmhouse still stands. The two columns repre sent the North and South and the caption over them reade "Unity. ptlil to FINEST Member of Clarke Coun ty Pig Club Wins Grand Champion Prize At the County Fair. OTHER PRIZES ARE AWARDED Fair Is Attracting Large Crowds to Exhibits and Miller Brothers Shows Offering Amusements. Thirteen iiourea were raided Id the section known -«s "over th* river” and twenty-one persons, men and women, face charges of disorderly conduct as a result. The round-up was. held about two o'clock Thursday morning and the houses were located on Second street, Water street, Hobson ave nue and Third street This ip one of the largest anti-vice round-ups conducted in Athens in the last few years. The men and women arrested are all charged with be ing in a house of 111-repute. The trials were set for Thurs day* afternoon. Those arrested follow: Myrtle White. Roy Rich ards, Frcdi Mae Echols, Mrs. Ma tte Saunders, Kate O'Dyer, Ace Hammond. Mamie Williams, Alice Reid, Abe Fat ostein. E. J. Flood, Ruby Justice, Mrs. Lissle Saylors, Susie Henry, J. M. McClure, La mar Frierson. Ollie Money Penny. Richard Bullock, . Zara Alfa, Hazel Burton, Max Pinson. The policemen making the raids were: Chief Beusse, Chief of De tectives C. E. Scagraves, Hugh 51. Moore, C. A. Lester, E. M. Wood. His Luck and Our Brains Ought to Make a Good Pair CLOSE fCONVENTION IN ATHENS THURS. P.M. Police Arrest! CHURCHES OF CHRIST 21 People Here In Vice Raid EarlyThursday Twenty-one arrests were made early Thurs* day morning by Athens police in an anti-vice round-up directed by Chief Henry W. Beusse. n CPUTPUPPl Tfl Dr. M. B. Miller of Athens util I UlUkU IU Is Elected Vice President DEATH FDD LEADING GRECIAN REVOLUTION Pi t-i -i 1' (By Anodtlri Preus.) ATHENS, Greece.—The coart at Elea Sli has sentenced to death Generali Gergallde* and Leonard Puulos and Majors Avrambos and Nlcbolareaa, Isadora In the recent revolatlonary movement. Many other offlcera of high rank were Involved In the revole and were tiven sentences either of life imprisonment or long terms. Says Money Has Been Wasted on Railroad Fares Negro Educator Urges Members of Race to Stay in South, in Address Here. Christian the engine started, he reported to "Athens Beauty," a pure bred Poland China Ollt. bom but 14 months ago weighing “®* r *F ® . vewer .mu iu»i ■*. «— pound! was Judged th«i Ormnd w KpU|n why a, bo m b hid been Rev. W. A Dlcklns. well known colored educator, spoke at Ebcr-. oexer church Wednesday night be fore an au4!ence of colored peoplo. Ha urged those of hls arce to ve rnal In tho south rather than ml- grate north whore the climate Is severe, housing conditions crowded snd suffering rampant. The speaker told of tho progress the race had made la the avutb since the negroes were given their freedom, stating that they owned (By Aeeoeleted Press) 600.000 homes, a million farms and CHICAOO.—About to start his | had accumulated wsalth to the ex- automoblle, Edward Dewey, re-1 tent of over e billion dollars. He member!ng that one of Ms spark | stated that five hundred colleges nlaga had been . cauilng trouble. an u normal schools were maintain- raised the hood oi the car audied in the south for negroes with round a fourteen Inch Iron pipe I nearly two million studets In all tilled with gunpowder and- to ad- the schools with forty than sand Justed that It would explode when teachers and about the aume num ik. .nwlito .InetnH tin MIMPtAll tfi ' i .a IT. .t.lnd ihrm champion of Clarke county over ell breede and all aotmali shown at the 1 darks County Pig Show this week. This remarkable animal was ex hibited by Paul Fleming of Fowl- era community- An » result of this content and the cont/etent win ning of thle pig ut the Southeast- em. Macon, and Savannah fain, Paul riming, who is a member of the Clarke County pig cub must be accorded the place of honor among the hog raisers of th.s county. The prites for the pig club win ner* wore awarded Wednesday afternoon. The community prises and individual prises for the Girls Canning elub will be announced Thursday afternoon. placed In Me macMne. her of minister He stated there were fifteen mlUton negroes ware In tho U. 8. and that Mat million of these were in the south. He quoted the late Booker T. Washington In saying '-Let your bucket down where you ore.” He amid e mlllbn negroes had left the .south during tho exodus and that (a hundred thousand homes her I been sold and the money wasted In reiiroid fare end the like. The Fair la being visited by hundreds of people dally who com- IS AFTER FORBES IN DEAD, , EARNEST IS lll£c8£WS Mayor of Athens (By Associated Prate) WASHINGTON — Stirred by Charles R. Forbes charges sgalnst the eommltee couneel John F. O'Ryitn told the Senate Inveetl- ■stlnx committee he expected to prove convincingly the whole truth of E. H. Mortimer*! chargee that Colonel Forbee wee one of a gang nunurav. vi nw*- —*■, --- -— of ^conspirators —b®— menl wry favorably on the ex- ( *ether cheek end Jowl to defraud Mbits. The MlUer Brother* Shorn th. government .» furnishing emu.em.nt feu- t*. rtow that"* «£ criminal conduct was In conson ance with Forbee* previous life record. When O’Ryan took Forbee In hand on the wttneee atnnd. he brought out the feet that the for th! mer Bureau Director le a natural turns. The fair la being sponsored by the Odd Fellows. Robert llerdemen of Wlnterville. J. R. Brans of the Tuckaton com munity and A. P. Winston of Ath- enu were, among those who tent pigs to the «how for tho open ring competition. The members of ■* cl.rle County Pig club having load cttlaen, (Turn to Pee# 81*) PROCLAMATION IS (By Associated Preee.) ATLANTA — Governor Walker Thursday amended Me preclame- I'on for an extraordinary of the legislature » ai i brace the svbjects of State Audi tor. a new Budget Commleakra and additional tax collecting machln- .... It developed Thurs- day that the committee had heard tfret Mortimer, w?fe of Morti mer, who testified that hla wife wan present on eeveral parties he k.g 7 i|k fn»hM in executive ess- ,l ^?Ryan asked Forbes If he had an altercation with Mortimer on Labor Ylay. 1912. Forbes replied that he had word* with him but did not remember when It was. "Was it about Mra. Mortimer ? O'Ryan demanded. "I don't remember." tht witness answered. ^ >j^>rbes conceded that Mortimer had found he and Mrs. Mortimer ,.t|on together In sn apartment but he em-1 declared that the door His action la taken to make cer tain the legality of any Jeglsla- t!on on these questions at the ex- apartment was sUndlng open. TRAIN KILLS IRv Associated Press) ATLANTA—F. E. Moore of Col lege Park, waa killed when he - stepped from a trolley car at Oak- ,ra resaion . - v ■ • Und City l.tv front .pf a Central,of n address the Annam-Ideaf and «tbfy Pre*VPf r i,y date, convenient! f illed ... hear the npprwchlng train. of Alabama, i of, Georgia Brotherhood. The seventy-sixth annual) con vention of the Churches of Christ will pas# Into history Thursday evening, when Pr. O. 1. Hoover, Indianapolis, Ind., delivers closing Sermon. Dr. Hoovnr w,n scheduled to speak Wednesday evening, but the postponement was made (or various reasons and Thursday evening he to to .close the biggest convention of the Chriifan Brotherhood In Ooorgia. | Rev. Janus ibirtlfld of I-ogamr ■ vllle, fin., will conduct tbd Do votlonal part of the program at eight o'clock; The Thursday afternoon pi wxe one tbit will long be bored by Disciples ot Since the Southeastern Chi college, Auburn, htd char the sendees and rendered n built program, brlngliif out < phase of the college work. I L. Shellnut, well known Oe minister end president ot the. In stitution presided at this session, wMIe th, atudente bed charge of the program. , < A feature of the Thursday morn ing session waa ’ the lnsn*.ratlonal address by Dr. B. O. Orahood, San- dersTllle, who used for a theme. “A Message to tho chstrehea of Georgia." Dr. Orahood: la • force ful minister and hla message was r heart to heart talk to the churches ol the state. With every available eoat ln.tho jiudltortum filled to its sealing capacity, the session. TVedqcaday evening marked a new day in Georgia for Disciples of Christ, for never before has an audience been to well gripped Us was (ha strong congregation - bore, when on ordlnat/on service wee performed by Dr. M. B. Miller, ot Athens; Dr. John H. wood, of Roma: Dr. Ben Foster, ot Macon, and Dr. E. L Shcllnutt, of Auburn. Tho,ordination sarvte* was very simple yet Impressive, since those taking the new etand for Christ, rendering themselves unto the will of the Master, wen Athene people. O. U Johnson, who Is well known to tho young people of tho stato In ebrish'an Endeavor circles, waa ordained Mto the ministry, be cause he 1, to enter Into full time service for the chrietlen churches the first of January, while-J. E. Skelton, a.prominent business man of tho town, will presob, when opportunity presents Itselt Preceding the ordination service. Mrs. Affra B. Anderson, promo tional secretary of the Golden Jubilee Campaign Of the United Christian Missionary Society, gave an addrese on tho calls of tbs world to a sln-ste'cken nation, ap pealing to tbs peoplo of Georgia Well Known Athens Bus iness Man Is Entered in , Race By Number of His jnuiee money, win erect a boapltal ab the Southern Christian Homo in Atlanta. wWl# the other will go. to various mis sionary enterprises at home and abroad, rs. Anderson told the peo- (Turn to Pap. Six) Brother-in-Law Of Cong. Upshaw Killed Thursday His Family Says Treaty Not Binding In View Of Occupation Of Ruhr By Allied Nations (By Associated Press.) LONDON.—-Germany has decided that the Treaty of Versailles is nbt binding and has determined to repudiate the treaty and to comply with neither the reparations clause or any other of the clauses as long as France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr, a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Berlin stated Thursday. The attitude of the German government, states the Mail, is that the repudiation of the treaty logi cally follows the theory that the occupation of the Ruhr infringes on the treaty and that as long as the French and Belgians persist in breaking Die terms of the treaty, Germany herself is not bound to ob serve them, v The former Crown Prince of Germony baa returned to hiTTam ly at Oela.* Thlaahowa some members of his family. Tpo show* his_wWc anil two daughters; inset, left to right, Prince Wilhelm and Prince Loots Ferdinand. Commissioners Ruie|Tax Collector Entitled To Commissions Withheld Daily Haul* By Bandits Reach $34,000 Thurs. KANSAS CITY—Two masked bandits held up two messengers of th* Arentin* State Hank at Ar- Kcntlne .HouiaVJlfd and 17th Street hire Thursday nml ’eneaped with ?:<V'00 In r.iMh. COLLINS VILE, III.—Three ban dita held up two clerks of'the Con solidated Coal Company here Thursday and escaped with 114,000 of tho payroll money. Other Phases Considered Later. Commissions to A M. Burch Allowed. Fu ture System to Be Changed. Sitting in executive session the board of county comml.aloners Wednesday afternoon resumed the bearing ordered by the (rend Jury of thb October term of the Clarke superior court relative to the af fairs of the office of tax collector of the county where U'was alleged by the auditors that certain "lr- regularities’* existed. The county commissioners were fairs* of the’office of tax collector instructed by the grand Jury to In- — rr _ lv „„ eeetlgato and "adjust” the, matter to rive to tho cause of both homo and tho progress made In the mat- end foreign missions, bringing In ter la beat told by the minute* of the tact- thatTpart of the Golden Friends. Announcement le curried today of the entry of O. H. Arnold, Jr. into the race for mayor of ths city, tho primary to be held on Nov. *». Mr. Arnold waa placed In the race by a number ot hla friends who paid Ms entrance fee end secured Me consent to become a candi date. "I am not a candidate upon my own volition,** etated Mr. Arnold, "but U my friends hava pot me In tbs race I am in It.- Mr. Arnold la • well known business man and has already served'the public In beyerel oW| - Mm. lumbers cf the AftssM fam ily. a number of brothers, have served In the state legislature arid senate white Me. Arnold .himself hue always taken a keen intereet In the affairs of the city. Hie entry makte two candidates who have ennounoed for the piece Judge George C. Thomas already having announced for re-election The entries close Saturday at noon, BILE PISSES (By Associated Press. ) ATLANTA, Ga.—The Lankford Income Tax Bill as amended was . passed by, the Senate by - a vote of 38 to 6. (By Associated Press.) LAKELAND. FUr-C. 8. Whip- pie, music store dealer and broth er In lew of Congressmen Upshaw of Georgia, waa »hot and Instantly killed ***** aaHy ThuradaT Ol M lay alMping in hla home. Police investigating the caee worked on the theory that Whlpplr waa »hot >y hla fifteen year old (bn while the boy waa walkinr In hla sleep. The father an£ eon had planned to go hunting Thurs day. - When the other occupant* of the .house Mard the shooting, they rushed to the father's room found hltn dead. Th* boy found In bed still asleep. and tire eereWn. held by the cotnmls- stoners. one Tuesday add the other Wednesday afternoon, lb# minutes etote: tTuesday's session) "Pur suant to tho recommendations ot the October term of the grand Jnry. end In response to tho re quest of Commissioners, Mr. W. A Malory, tax collector, appeared be- for . the board for a hearing In connection with the auditor's re port of Alonxo Richardson 4 Co. Captain J. F. Hart, county auditor alao appeared before the hoard, and Col. Abtt Nix. representing Mr. Mallory. Mr. Mallory stated to tho board that the spring term ot tho 1921 grand Jnry recommend ed that A. M. Bucrb be pad 16 ner cent for collection of tuxes on 1920 Fi Fa». and « »4 Ijef cent on all the yetre back of 1920. Alio that commissioner Hodgson acraed that th«*v ccsmt“lnn> be pJldMr. Burch. Further that He took the matter up with Governor Each Rotafian Had a Boy As Guest At Meeting. Hugh H. Gordon, Pre sided. • V* , its Defends Transportation Act Against Attacks of |‘ “Communistic” Legisla tors in U. S. Congress. The railroads of America arc not asking for any special privile gea or any preferred treatment; all they aak is a square deal. J. D. McCartney, assistant to the presi dent of the Central of Georgia Kiwnnis Club The Rotary did* devoted meeting yesterda# to the boys of the community. The RoUrians having os their guest a .boy who whi shown every attention and given a part In the programme of song*. This club has done k • great work among the boys of Athens; their purpose being to help the . 4 f . .. boys to make better citizens of the | Railroad, told the tomorrow. CoL Abit Nix addressed iThursday, the boys In a most pleasing and In-1 Mr. McCartney waa the pnnei structlve manner and held their at- pal speaker at a meeting of tho tentlon throughout the meeting. He club held at the Agricultural Col ls one Of th* ablest and most at- lege cafeteria. The Georgia Four tractive tpeoker* In th* city and»wero gueaU of the club and sang, his addresses on all occasions are) Mr. jMcCtotney'g address was on looked forward to and appreciated "The FuWic and the Railways, by those fortunat* enough to hear Ha discussed the gro wth of rail- him. He has devoted much tiraelwaya f n< ^ nnd work to the boya department porUtlop facilities in this coun- of the Rotary club and to him W|try, and the tttacka mad* on the due much credit for th* splendid i transportation act of 1920. results accomplished during the In discussing the question of pest few years. dealing with the rkilroada Prof. A. Rhodes Introduced to the * McCartney «fcld: club two boys of Clark* county “Th® railroads Mr. who have done much to advertise th* city and county at all ths fairs held In the state on hog breeding, Paul Fleming was awarded the fir•* *»»• At lanta gnd Macon fair* for th* best hog and Ha! Fnlbrtght, who agreed that Mr. Bureh could be paid tho aame commission from the state, and that Governor Dorsey told h<m to take tho msttcr up with Mr. Hard wick, at Mr. Hardwick’s term would soon begin as governor, waa!which h« In turn d'd. and that Mr. Young. Hardwick agreed thattho commla- Whipple waa placed in Jail but (alone <*»*** no charge waa made against him. manneg for the taxes collect d f FOUR ARE KILLED (By nssoerated Press) NEWARK, Ohio.—Four Colum bus men wore killed Thursday morning when an automefolle to which they were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania inti ht FYlW- burr, northeast of hem The tn®n were on their way for * day’s | hunt. ' took the matter up with Governor ,» olond Chlna Dorsey, gnd Tax Commissioner Vaughan received first prises from "the same fairs for the best Berk shire hog. An attractive feature of th# boys' meeting was the leading of th** singing of "Down In Arkan- sn* by Hutchin* Hodgson, the young son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Mor ton Hodgnon. The child has a beautiful voice and he waa per fectly.at home In Its rendition. Hugh if. Gordon, Jr„ presided at the meeting and In a few and ap< preprint* remarks to the boys, the the state. HODGSON'8 STATEMENT "Commissioner Hodgson being uresent <Ut,d that he remembered wax under the imnreeelon tlut the (Turn to Paso Five) meeting adjourned. SCOUT MEETING The regular monthly meeting ol • Ootlft'of Hbnoi*. 'District* No. 1, Mr. Mallory’s• tsking up this maty Athen** ,wlij.,ha,heia 4 *t <be City ter of commlrelons with Mm, and Hell Thur^ey. November is. Ml unit.. Ihe Imnreaston that the nPdhrh. ■ 'All members requertld t« f rankly Invite the fdllest inquiry into their methods, resources, earnings, pur poses and accomplishments. They have nothing to conceal. They would gladly welcome a nnlvewal public undcrsUnuuie i. slat they (Turn to Pag* Eight) I “Chubby” Calis. | ’Em At Colonial j Theatre Saturday •If you are one of the unfortunates and unable to accompany the Bull dogs to Nashville, then amble up to Colonial Theatre Saturday af ternoon at three o'clock for th# re- turns pf the game. The announcing will be In charge of "Chubby" Allen, and th# detail* are all perfected. . , * , * ’ Along with this game, results of other games played over the coun try will be given.- ‘ The Admission price for. the en tire program will be fifty cent*. First Methodist Elects Stewards For Coming Year The regular annual fourth quarterly conference of the First Methodist church last night elect ed the following a« stewards for next year: D. C. Barrow, Capt. T. II. Dozier. Dr. J. A. llunnlcutt, Sr., W. I. Ab ney, R L Patterson, L O Price, Dr A C Holliday, J O Payne, Jr, George M. Abney, Dupree'Hunnl- cutt. Frank O. Miller. M. O. Nich olson, C. N. Weatherly, J. Warren Smith, Dr. E B Hudson, J C. Jes ter, P .O. Vannatter, Dr I, Earnest, It. J. Hancock, T. W. Reed. Walter B. Hodgson, J. P. Knowles, L M Carter, T II Dozier. Jr, E 1) flledge. II. II. Hinton, J. G. Oliver, George E. Deadwyler, J. W. Jarrell, Jr, Dr J D Applewhite, V J. Moss. W. T. Dean, W, K. Meadow, E. S. Sell, Hugh A Ilugglns, Harvey J. Reid, R. C Wilson, Thomas Comer, 8. P. Spier, Claud Tuck, George 8. Craof. , ~ The church has closed another great veer With people have Joined the church up on prefers Ion of'fslth. and ninety- four hy cerllflcatd Tho roll of members lias been carefully revls- and there are now twelve hun dred and thirty-eight members of this.church living In Athens and tho surrounding country. The North Georgia Conference assembles In Atlanta next Wed nesday. and Athens will be repre- ! 1 y ts* Methodist psstors of "■I • -evonl laymei delegates nnd visitors . BANKER SUICIDE8 (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS—Eugen« Roberts, vice president of the Whitney Central Trust and Ings Bank of this city, Wedm-egay shot and Instantly killed He had been In III health h tints. NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUING (By Associated Press.) PARIS,—Advices from French sources in Berlin Thursday stated that negotiations between represen tatives of the occupied territories and the Strese- man government concerning the future 'status of the Rhur and the Rhineland were continuing at the time of the report. STILL IN PRODRESS (By Atfociated Press.) NEW YORK—■W. E. I) Stoke* will not oppose the suit for sep. arallon brought by his wife, Mrs. Helen Klwood Stokes, his attorney told Supreme Justice Wasservo- gel Wednesday. He added, however, that gtoko* would appeal from the recent ver dict denying him a divorce. Irndorn Gnlnesburg. Stokes* at torney told the court that hl s client would consent to the separation decree but would contests tha^ [WBiint jinim 1 » y sought anu would fight tor the cusiuuyii;? the children. In addition, Stokes refused to admit hls wlfe’H allegations against him in answer to hls unsuccess ful attempt for the divorce. Ho told the court thut Stokes did not desire It) live with Mrs. Stokes. At this point, Samuel Untemeyer counsel for Mrs. Stokes, aros« and Interrupted to say that she would Just as soon live with a kangaroo as with Stokes.