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VOL. 91. NO. 244
Aaaodatcd Proa Service.
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1923.
A. B. C. Paper.
Single Copies 2 Cent* Dally. I Cent* Sunday.
ARNOLD WINS DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR MAYOR
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To Plan Road Improvement At Meeting Tonight
KT SEMES LIST
Culp, Hey wood, Matthews
Are Aldermanic Winners
OF eHIVIES DEPENDS
01V SAT. ATTENDANCE
People who have ticket* re
served lor the Oeorgia-Centre
nested
jrame *re requested to get
them Wednesday afternoon at
Costa’s. Student managers will
have these tickets there At 3
o'clock gad unless they are re*
.ieemed at a reasonable time
before the game they will be
placed back on sale, it is • an
nounced.
.Athens people are being
uiged to rally for the Georgia*
Centre game here Saturday, the
final game of the season.
It behooves the city to sup*
port this game not only because
*t in on© of the greatest of the
present season but because upon
a depends to a large extent
what Athens gets next fall in
the wuy of football attractions.
Ther* aro plenty of good,
seats left. They are on sale at
Costa’s *
Uncle Charlie Moran accompan
ied by bis full cqntigent of prayin'
Dloneis from Centre College of
Ktumsfcjr wiu.wl« irLA'htMA.Fr 1 ;
day morning jit tea o clock on tiller
tint Inyulon of Athene and Sen-
ft-rd Held where they face
UeniKla Bulldog, on Saturday,
The Bulldogs bay* not land .0
well In the last two gimee in fact
they Hava farad wort* than that,
hut.* Saturday. la another day and
It Is about time tor theboyato get
buck on their atrlde and be ready
for the onslaught of the Gold f and
White.
Last Saturday Centre triumphed
over Washington and Lea by a
score of 19 to 0. The weak before
that Auburn was met and defeated
'.he score being 17 is 0, Georgia
heat Aub urn 7 to 0. That gtrea tha
edged by comparing scores to en-
tre and It seema that may be the
case. .....
Vandy ben. tb* Bnlldqgs In Nuah
vlllo 35 to 0, and Alabama hadn't j
He’s Youngest
Albicn, Mich., claims the young
est city manager in. the country in
the person oi. I) ;rmid F. Herrick.
24, who has held that position for
several months.
OAPT. W. A. CLARKE
tGaptain AVtillan
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Clarke, ngcil 02, one of tha oldest
railroad men in- Georgia, died at
hi. home • here, 245 Boulevard,
Monday night at 9 o'clock, follow
ing f ihort Illness.
Funeral services will
ducted from the bohte Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock. Dr. J. J.
Bennett, pastor of the Prince Ave
nue Baptist church, will .preach
the funeral sermon.
Interment will be held in Oco
nee Cemetery with the following
pallbearers: Messrs. George Story,
jess T. Byrd. R. L. Miller, W. F.
Dorsey. W. T. Sullivan, C. L.
Byrd, W.l B. Veaiv of Gainesville;
C. H. Martin, Gainesville. The
Order of Railway Conductors will
act as honorary escort.
CLARKE TO JOIN HANDS \
WITH THREE NORTHEAST},
GEORGIA COUNTIES FOR
IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS
IN THE DAY’S NEWS
Athens Tuesday night Wilt join citizens from
three northeast Georgia counties in improving the
|nain highways of,this section.
John N. Holder, chairman «rf the
state highway commission will be
the principal speaker at the Cham
ber of Commerce yood roada fo
rum meeting in the Georgian Ho
tel Tuesday night at 9 o'clock.
Representatives from Hart,
Madlsoi\ and Franklin countlei,
through which the Bankhead high
way goes, will stland the meeting
for the purpose of discussing
plans for improving certain
stretches of the highway lying in
these counties.
Louie L. Morris, editor of the
Hartwell Sun, Tuesday morning
telephoned Secretary E. W. Car-
roll of' th. Chamber of Commerce,
that Hartwell will send a large
delegation to the meeting:
Royston and Danlelsvllle will
alio send delegations to the meet
ing which will be attended by a
large number of bluntest men
from Athens, all interested in the
development of tourist travel
through th>a section.
Report Indicates Wom
en’s Organization Has
Helped Support Many
Activities of Y.' M. C.A.
section that has been
in many years and it ii expected
that' betterment of all roads In
this part of the state will be one
of the reaults of tha conference.
r . . , Captain Clarka i t survived by
been reckoned as a team possess-' hil w ; dow , „ , on Dr . w . A.
a vary strong offense. Those ciariie,- Jr- and one daughter,
'" gamaa Showed several thing* Mrs. Arthur Fields of Greensboro.
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that needed remedying and
*ork had gone forward with a roll
In the - first place, tha Bulldogs
were badly off form in both games
(or the simple reason that ther-
Isn’t a team In th* aonth who I.
thirty six pq’nti, or svan twenty
eight points better than the bull
dogs.
Kilpatrick I* about tbfc only ir.an
(Turn to pag two.)
Captain Clarke served for thir
ty-nine years continuously with
tho Southern railroad. He was
conductor oh the Gainesville-Mid
land railroad at the time of hla
death. He waa a member of the
Order of Railway Conductors and
the Baptist church and was one of
the.best liked men in this com
munity.
Athens Still Slow to Respond to
Appeal For Thanksgiving Day Box
To Disabled Soldiers in fiospital
Thanksgiving to
See Lively Golf
At Cloverhurst
The regular Thanksgiving medal
11 ba h< " ‘
score tournament will'be held for
the golf play*, of tha Clow-
hurst Country Club Thursday. Th*
prises to b* awarded are: Beat
medal aeon, 3 balls; second best
medal score, 2 balls; best gross
■core, 2 balls; second best gross
score, 2 balls.
Medal handicaps will prevail,
The entrance fee is & Wilts.
Miss Emma White
Died On Monday
_ by F. 2. MONAHAN
which the Atbehs Wo-
Jjr the three hundred
Georgia ,oJdler» at the Lenwood
Hospital in Augusta for Thanks-
Kiving Day, cannot b# sent to the
boys on that day.
The reason that the box cannot
bo sent on time la because the
P-ople of our city don’t seam in
terested enough to contribute the
"wssary money. The efforts to
ret money enough to bring a lit
he cheer into th* dreary Hva* of
those boy* has netted exactly fifty
dollars up to date and the ladles
Of the committee have bean comt-
tag the town for mot* than a
tve"k.
The box Will be sent but the
committee in. charge 1* going to
"ait until the day aftar Th*nka-
mving in tb* hop* that enough
money will b* contributed ao that
Athens can make a showing that
‘ne will not be ashamed of.
The cigarette!. for the aoldlere
“11 cost 125.00 at wholesale
pr-ces. That leave* 32AOO to buy
“ther things for three hundred
*»y«. How far will 325.(10 go to-
»«rds getting up a box?
Kvervone of those I
hoyi, shell-shocked boys, soma of
them so badly that they are forced
to be kept in padded cells, some
with limbs mlsiingl others bed
ridden for life. Not a pretty pic
ture, la it? That box would help
make those boys feel that they
are not entirely forgotten and
stub Athens can’t raise enough
money to send -a box that would
go around. But the committee are
all optimisti and haven't lost hope
The following la a list of some
of the people who haven't forgot-
ten:
Previously acknowledged . .329.00
Cash .. . • • • • 1-00
Mr. and Mrs. f. A. Solomon
of Savannah .. ..-,i j- 2.00
Mr*. C. B. Daniel . . .? . . LOO
Mias Moipa Michael .. .... 5.00
Mist Sarah Hunnlcutt .. .. l.Od
Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin 8.00
and 15 pounds pecans.
Mrs. J. M. Pound 1.00
Mrs. H. M. Branch 1.00
Fickett Jewelry Co LOO.
Mica Annie Crawford .. .. 1.00
Mre. Alexander Rhoades 1-90
Frank Holden 1.00
Mias Emma White, daughter of
the late J, M. White of Madison
county, died near DanlelsvIU*
Monday at 11 o’clock at the home
of Mr. W. J. Carithere. She had
been ill *1* weeks.
The deceased wa, 37 year* of
age and had Ihrad in Madison
county all her life. Tha funeral
waa from the home Tueaday aft
ernoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Phil
Davis of Lexington officiating.
The interment was at Comer.
Bernstein Bros. Funeral Home was
in charg*.
The work of the Ladles Auxili
ary of the Athena,Young Men’s
Christian Association for the phst
year was a most helpful feature,
and mado possible much of the
Splendid work which was -done.
A report of their, work at this
t’m* Is or special Interest, as tholr
organisation. Is. being largely
tended and more thoroughly
ganlsed amonxtthe chlitlan women
of Athens, Who sro Interested in
the work that the Athens “Y” Is
carrying on In “the making ot men'
of their boye.
This loyal Christian group of ef-
5'clent .women, by the work of
their own brelna and hand*: earned*
3403.11 during the twelve months
(Turn to pag two.)
I O. H. Arnold, Jr., Tuesday defeated George C.
i Thomas for the democratic nomination for mayor of
I Athens, carrying every ward but the third, with a
' plurality of 285 votes.
The aldermanic races resulted in the election of
Henry T. Culp in the first ward. Dr. H. B. Hey wood
in the second ward and Vincent Matthews in the
fifth ward, B. R. Bloodworth in the third and W. R.
Tindall in the fourth, the two latter without opposi
tion.
iREV. VENABLE DOES
10 MONROE POST
First Ward
Thomas, 65.
Arnold, 240.
Culp, 192.
Jackson, 116.
Dr. Hunnicutt, Well
Known Here, Is Made
Presiding Elder Atlanta
District Other Appoint
ments.
Rev. Marvin S. Will lame, for*
bier pastor of Young Harris Me
morial church here, was suucran-
i.uated at the North Georgia. t’ot.-
f£tvsst in Atlanta this wjek.
It will be of interest to Athen
ians to learn that Rev. W.
Hunnicittt, formerl) Centenaty
Secretary, wa* appointed presid
ing elder of the South Atlanta
district. Rev. G. F. Venable, for
merly presiding elder of the Ath
ens districtg goes to Monroe at
pMtoi, succeeding Rev. W. S. Rob
ison. who come* to Athens
Riding elder.
Th« complete lint of appoint* j
menu from the Athena and Klbur-i
ttm Miwf riels follows:
Second Ward
Thomas, 103.
Arnold, 113.
Heywood, 145.
McCall, 73.
Third Ward
Thomas, 155.
Arnold, 125.
Bloodworth, 279.
Fourth Ward
Thomas, 106.
Arnold, 141.
Tindall, 248.
Fifth Ward
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Thomas, 95.
Arnold, 190.
Matthews, 144.
y, 141.
T
LEE SINCE 1920
NEW YORK.—December cotton
contracts jumped up to 30.10 at
th* opening of the market Tues
day, an overnight advance of fifty
point, and the highest level since
. Th* advance was due to the
•trong English cables and th*
bullish spot reports from tho
south.
Communists in
Berlin Arrested
As Precaution
W. S. Robinson.'presiding elder;
Apalachee, H. M. Strozler; Athens
Flret Church; S.- E. Wasson; Ath
ena, OcanaO Street, J. A. Quit-
Han; Athens, Young Harris Me
morial. H. p. Read; Athena dr.
cult. H. I. Bowden, supply; Dish
When Edith Ray was chostn as Illinois* prettlaat girl In a atato- _
wide contest, folks expected to hea, of her engagement to a mil- op, C. N. Hays; Buck-head. A. P.
llonaire. Sh# surprised these folks by marrying » disabled war Foster; Crawford, W. E. Puiccll;
hero, who la attending college. They aro happy.
PERFECT PHN TO BOOST BIAD STREET
ITT HAIL IE
A working organisation will be, Daughtecy street east of College
perfected to work from oow until I Avenue .and Mayor Thdmaa -spoko
Deem her 5th and on that ay |„.! ln M '" or °' th 'j£y *'. tho
tereat thomseives In getting eut . uppo ^ 0 , lh ' e woman's club, stat-
tbe voters for tho bond election as i ; n g that her organisation had cn-
a result of the mess meeting held dorsed the project many months
BERLIN. — Several prominent
Berlin Communists were arrested
Tuesday a a a precaution following
the. circulation of a report that
... . cams to'th* hands of the authori-
Surviving Mias White are two,tits that Moscow had called
ejui ?*«***• ***-»• nmw ■*« |l<a UUI( DIOSCOW RSII CaiIB/| OPOD
•tet'rs. Mre. W. J. C*rUh*r, end'the Berlin Communists to> under-
Mre. O. T. Patton, and *h~e broth- take bloody provocations late
ora, L. A., E. D. and W. E, White. | Tuesday evening.
at th* etty ball Monday night.
About fifty.eathue'aatic cltisena
ere In attendance at tho mooting
and Lamar C. Rocker made a mo
tion that a general committee from
the dty at large* and from the or
Due to the inclement weather
rsniretioM taVrein. th* bond, he »• crowd was smaller than was
SmAd U to fhe'lr Inrerret ^ ant'v'pated but It waa enthuhlastlc
named to work to tholr lutereat >Bd t|)B 0p|D|011 pn . T , mog wa .
Commerce HW.I?'!’” Organisation!, perfected
Greensboro, A. E. Santbum;
Greene, circuit, A. P. Foster. Jr,
supply; Lexington. W. L. Jolly;
Little River. J. G. Devi;; Madison,
T. R. Kendall, Jr.; Princeton Mis
sion. D. C. Mhttcraon; Sharon, A.
O. llaggarly; Tignall. J. S. Hill;
Union Point, F. D. Cantrell; Wash
ington, T. J. Branson; Watkins-
vlllo, B. II.. Trammell; White
Plains and SHusi. Kijiican; j
Wlntarvlllo Uikl ChiriV— * "
Ga. Square and
Compass Meets
The Square and Compass Club
of tho University of Gvorm'a will
hold a meeting in ono of the
buildings on tho campus .Tuesday
evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock,
it is announced.
John A. Allen, prominent stu
dent in ■ the Henry W. Grady
school of journalism, is president
of th« Square and Compass which
is a club composod of the students
are Georgia who are Masons.
Allen; commissioner of education,)
S. E. Wasson.
Parading in “Pillow
Condemned By^-
Senator Jim Reed
H. S. SfWth, presiding 'cider;
Bowman pircuit. W. W. Benson;
Canon circuit, F. E. Crutcher;
Camcsvillo. T. L. Rutland; Center
circuit, J. L. YPmer; Comer and
Colbert. W. E. Brown; Commerce,
J. R. Turner; Danielsville, M. C.
Allen; EIbcrton, First church. L.
W. Collins; Elbert circuit, J. A.
Sprflyberry; Hart circuit. F*.' U.
White, arid Harry HcSfiion, who and «”ne bard work dons between
wa* chairman o’ thT^mmlttec. ^ “* “J lh * cU "! B ' ® f 1 ‘ h * P 0 , 11 *
Ablt H'x preaided and Judge T. F. 0,1 c,( ‘ ctlon d *? Ul » u '° vot ”
Green spoke In .favor of the bonda. neceaanry^to-oany the bonds cap
pointing nut th* naeda of bavins ** “cured.
Broad street opened up from Mil- f .The personnel of the committees
ledge to Lumpkin. J. M. Head put will be announced si soon as they
a pica for the paving of are named.
National Storm in Craig Cahe
Over Election and Free Speech
Total ..$60.00
Several other contributions have
voryone 5f those boys ere j been sent in, including fifteen
Georgia bfeys and evtryont of 1 pounds of pecans from Mr. «nd
them bear tome mark tfi ahow'Mra, E. K. 1 Lumpkin and twelro
NEW YORK.—Out of a quarrel
of two ■trouK-wlllad men
broken a storm that Is casting a
heavy ahadow over naxt year’s
presidential outcome. Yet the
men involved ar« neither mention
ed aa posslblllti**, 1 ' nor as direc
tors of the boom of any candi-
They who started the controver
sy are: Charles L. Craig, city
comptroller of New York, and
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer.
They who are worried about it*
result are the politician, who are
trying to direct tha destinies
the major political parties.
But tha persons most concerned
are you and the other millions of
citizen! of the nation, for legal
authorities believe the issue of
Craig, a* the financial guardian
of 8,000.000 New Yorkers, criti
died the federal judge during a
heated controversy about a receiv
ership of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company.
In a letter to Public Service
Commissioner Lewie Nixon he
“It seems to .me a monstrous
thing that an order of a federal
judge in a court of equity ehould
stand between the public end the
truth under such circumstances.’’
Federal Judge Mayer construed
this as a reflection on the court.
H* had Craig haled before him.
After a long hearing he adjudged
“hat he gave up in the world war|declu of playing eards donated f/xrdom of speech and criticism Is him guilty of contempt.
r ° r America. Thar* are blind through Mrs- Simon Michael. iinvolved. * j. Then began a battle In
the
courts that lasted for four yean.
Craig appealed. He secured I
writ of habeas corpus from Judge
Martin T. Manton. But the United
States attorney appealed to the
Circuit Court which sustained
Judge Mayer, holding that a low
er court had no right to grant
writs of habeas corpus in such
Finally the case came up before
the Supreme Court, Jnd there, in
tha court of final resort. AJralg
lost out |
Then the storm broke. Former
enemies of Crelg came out to de
fend him; newspapers that had
rarely ever aided with him took
Us cause;; joriMs-and lawyers
a.IILul In hla atirttvirf '
of note rallied to hfs support.
' Some of them advocate the pas
sage of an act by congress to pre
vent Craig’s commitment. Some
want Juthr Mayer to relent.
Others look for a way uot by
presidential pardon.
But Crii? himself • isn’t very
hopeful. He Is ready to spend his
Christmas in the Essex county
(h{. J.) jail, whom federal prison-
ere from these parts are held for
short terms.
His wife is arranging to rent
an apartment near the jail, so
that she will be able to be with
him every day.
Meanwhile political leaders are
worried. If Cool id ge pardons
Craig it may be interpreted, as
some as a slap at the federal
courts. If Coolfdge doesn’t par
don him, some fear that New York!
York will be
Vickery, supply; Hartwell, J. H.
Barton; Homer. M. M. Maxwell,
supply; Lavonia* C. D. Read; Lin
cofnton, A. M. Sprayberfy; Mays
villc, A. S. Hutchison; Middleton.
O. E. Smith, and one to be sup
pttsd:.'Royston, T. M. Elliott;
South Lincoln circuit, J. E. Sia-
than; Toceoa. Felton Williams, 4
Toccon circuit, G. O. Wright, sup*.
S y; superintendent of rural Sun*
iy school work. J. C. Adams,. La
vonis, quarterly conference; corn
mlsfcloner of education, L. Vv
tins.
Col-
JAP COPS ADOPT PISTOLS
TOKIO^—The long sabre of the
Japanese policeman, an unwleldly
weapon in a trough and tumble,”
is to be replaced by
and short sword.
revolver
KANSAS CITY,—Invasion of re
ligious liberty is permitted in the
United States |!n defiance of the
American Constitution, Senator
Reed of Missouri asserted in an
address before the Hannas Bar As
sociation. The huslneag of para-
d'ng in pillow slips is the most
un-American thing which has be
fallen the nation In the last cen
tury, ho declared.
Endangering The
People of Athens
This happened in Athens.
Our Tb nurse visited a home the
other day and arrived just in time
to witness the death of a tuberculo
sta patient. She told the family
what to do, which (Included burning
tho # matrass upon which the tuber
cular patient had suffered and died
Th' f.irnly .|roinsert.
Doubting that the Instructions
would be carried* out the nurse re
turned later and found the mat-
trass still in use. Piled high on
tho mattrass were clean clothes
lately, washed and Ironed. They
were being prepared to bo def.ved-
ed to a prominent family on Mil-
ledge Avenue.
Bandits Force Policeman
To Drive Hem To Freedom
(By Associated rasa) ed and mado an
JOPLIN. Mo.—A captured po- their esrepe.
llceman wa* forced to drive to
freedom from four bandits who
Participated- In the hold-up of tho
Bank of Aatrary, .Mo., Tuesday.
Tho kidnapped officer waa Clar
ence Allison, Joplin motorcycle pa-
uMm. .u.iv.trolman who engaged the me -
lost to the republi- single handed nl a field near Crei
instrument In
cana during the next campaign. |llne, Kansas only to be overpower-
Sevcral hours after the hold-up
Allison came across the quartet In
a field where they had abandoned
their automobile. He took three
and started marching them to the
road when the' fourth appeared
from behi'nd and covered him. He
wae forced to take the wheel and
drive tin* bandhs to near the Ok
lahoma line.