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THE WEATHER:
Clear Friday and Colder,
I VOL 91. NO. 259.
Aaaodatcd J’ress serrice.
ATHENS, GA„ fRlDAY, DECEMBER Id, IMS,
A. R c, Panar,
Sinaia Coylaa 1 Canta Dally, * jCanto Sunday,
CHINESE BANDITS PILLAGE TOWNS
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1LDH00D ILLS
It. Bolt, Director of Med-
I ical Service of Associa-
I lion Outlines General
Plan of Demonstration.
IVISITS OFFICIALS
IN COUNTY FRIDAY
Tugram Will Be Built
I Around Local Health Or
ganization. Director of
I Work Expected Soon.
A program of health activity
Jvitii the aim of eliminating as far
■as possible, childhoml ujs«a«6 in
IClarke county and eventually m
utheast is planned' by the
I Aim dean Child Health Associa-
Itlon which will conduct a five year
JiiFmoiMtratlon . here, Dr. Richard
■A. Bolt, repr-s.-Mtine th eazsocAn-
■ lion. Friday told a. Banner-Herald
Irtporlor. .«/. -
I The entire program will be built
|iM>n.rthe local health erganiza-
ItkiD, the work of the local authorl-
|U» being augmented from time
■ to lime by nurses and other health
Iwnrkrrrf furnished by the assoria-
|tion.
br. Bolt, director of the medical
|*rvices of Uii! American Child
\ \ -<»< •:»tion. arrived in Ath
* Tliuraday and' was in consul
lution with Dr. Linton Oerdine
iBn-Aident-of the City Board
I Health, Dr. J. D. Applewhite.
|health commissioner, Dr. W.
I Moss, Dr. W. H. CabanUe. presi
lient county Board of Htalth and
I others closely In .touch with the
I health conditions of the commu-
Inlty. • • ■.?' V
I ^DRESSES M tDICAL
I SOCIETY FRIDAY
Friday liiiHit Dr. Ilolt will ad
|IrfiK the County Medical Society
"Relation of tiro Medical Pro
| fmion to Child Health Work."
Actual. work In devoloplng tl e
I(rorram of the health demonetra-
|tlon will Begin by the flret of 1914
Inwa the arrival of Dr. B. W.
Ifarey of Utopiachoaetta who ha,
I bwn aoppolntnd director o( the
|vork hero. Dr. Caray was to have
prrired December owing to
■ 'he llbeaa of the health comnls-
I'loner of Masyaohtnet'a' be was
I wiueited', to remain on duty It,
■ 'hat atato where he held the of-
Ifln of deputy health coramlaaloner.
I Dr. BolL whose I vialt la tor the
I purpose of miktna the acqualrr.-
Imre of health anthoritiea here,
lame to Athens from Hanaflnld.
I Ohio, where, the' association has
|te.n conducting a demonstration
I'vo year*,' and. from Rntberford
thens Child Health Demonstration \Begin$ January 1
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TWO MEN HELD AT FITZGERALD
IN CONNECTION WITH BIG SWINDLE
!W. L. ERWIN NAMED
1
y
Worker
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SOUTH SHUDDERS AS
COLD WEATHER
AND SNOWS
Miss -Janet Fiah, dau
HamUton Fish, former stf
the New York state A
and sister of- Hamilton Fwh, Jr.,
representative In Congrtoi, has
been .appointed suportatendent 0<
nurses at St: Marks Hospital, ;N«w
York. ■ -
Freezing Weather to Ex
tend As Far South As
Southern Fla. Twelve
Bodies Recovered.
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Ill. — While jnllder
weather and rising temperatures
In the northwest and central sec
tions of the country dispelled the
hope for a white Christmas, colder
weather and snowfall* were being
generally experiencin' throughout
the south Friday. x
The sweep of the cold wive was
expected to extend as far south
; as southern Florida, with y plenti
| fuj sprinkling of snow in .’a states
I below the Mason, and Dixon L*no.
r | Warmer weather aided the re-
r- of lief parties la those sections of
r of J New Mexico and - Went Texas where
ibly t the search Is being made for per-
T '~ sons reported to have been lost in
th* 1 blizzard .Monday.
The bodies of twelve freezing
victims have beefi recovered from
the blizzard.
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(By Associated Press.) :Prominent Young Athens
CHICAGO.—Two pen are being held at Fitzger- ■ Attorney Elected As
aid, Ga., according to local police authorities, in con-j Worshipful Master
nection with the alleged $5,000,000 swindle engineer- j Mt. Vernon Lodge,
ed by Leo Koretz, Chicago attorney.
The two men left this city Tuesday in an airplane,
bound for Honduras, but were arrested at the Geor
gia city on the possibility that their plane may be in
tended to facilitate the flight of Koretz to Central
America, j
The swindle was brought to light when two postal
inspectors assigned to co-operate with representa
tives of the state’s attorney in investigating the
swindle, raided the office of the attorney. It is al
leged that the swindler victimized his own mother,
. Koretz disappeared and no trace of him has yeti* 1 ****” *“ d ?» *•«&” ch “’'
been found ' 1 was greeted with applause. He told
«W»IWI
THREE THOUSAND SWOOP
DOWN ON CHAHO; BURN
TOWN AFTER LOOTING;
TAKE WOMEM HOSTAGES
(By Associated Press.)
SHANGHAI.—Three thousand bandits under thi
leadership of the two notorious chieftains, Chen Yea .
Teh and Wang Han Ying, captured the town of Chat(
Wednesday, according to reports reaching this city
Friday morning.
The reports state that the bandits first looted tbd
..town houses and then applied the torch, leaving the
Atol U attornaTJa. S! tow "L a ***** of smoking ruins.
night named as Worshipful Master >
of Mt. Vernon lodge of Free Ma- I
sons, succeeding Oscar Kinnebrew.
Dr. Pope B. * Holliday was named I
Senior Warden and J. K. Patrick*
was elected Junior Warden.
John G. Quinn was renamed sec- i
retary and W. A. Capps was re
elected treasurer.
W. F. Dorsey, the lodge's oldest
past worshipful masUr and a Ma
son for 47 years, presided over the
WILLIAM L. ERWIN, who was
named Worshipful Master of
. Mt. .Vernon Lodge of Masons
at the 82nd annual Communi
cation Thursday night.
Guards Their Souls
OF
Nominated Thursday.
Lamfcin and Hodgson
Nominated For* Vice-
Presidency. To Hold
Election Next Ween.
'-Member, of the Klwanls club
held the ennuel nomination of of
ficer, et the Y. M. O. A. niur.-
d,y. Joel A. Wler. chairmen of the
board of director, for tho teat
yeer wee nominated for tho presi
dency, the nomination belnf tanta-
"Iintv. Tennessee, where e dem-j mount t o election. Harvey Stovall
attrition will bofln ahortly. ra .nominated treaiurer.
Tho other nomination! were
I follow,: For vice president. L. E„
v a ur u iliHttiun 1 ITUS-
J advanced
(in OHIO
hr Bolt Hated that the work ta
Ohio had advanced to the point
"here health anthoritiea of other
mrnmunl*e« nre vgdUns llkne-
Jld to look over the work belay
"one them to. the program of pre-
rfrllna rblllhood dliene. Event-
J*Ur. the- uioolatlon hope,. Ire
| health work hare will be need a,
* ftodel and grill bring here health
■sthorltio,, from other communl-
to aindy tho locel progiam.,
'*• will tako several month, for
Or. Cera, to folly in louph with
'to health oondlUon, in Clarke
,| "l hie Drat Work will bo that of
'ro'uintlng himself with tho need*
too then aa the proglira develope
•uoclatag will lie brought In to
*- the,local health authorities In
■ - nut Hi.- oroaratn.
hr. npU tvanbM to' mako If. very.
. 1 -r that th i rnsrara will
JV ..rked out throurh the present
">lih organisation in the eonnty.
will merely ghre your loctil
’otlioriiiee more a rate with which
? “ork." be aald. In other words.
" ussaclatlon does not plan to
»P a hurriedly worked ont or:
amtatlon tnt the purpou ie to
to *ly and thoroughly al dthe lo-
** 1 1»itb0rijles in developing a
"’•i'll nrganlratlnn whieh
t-wh into every phote of health
’rith the primary atm. of course.
1,'-"nilnntlug the dleeesee of
^nilfirpn. .. .
,T* AID LOCAL
A UTHORITIS6
"or instancy the health authod*
In the rjtv and county nov
,r ® interestPd in control of utber-
(Turn to Pag* •«*)
Lamkln end W. B. Hodawni trua
tee. W. B. Hodgson am. B E. Uni-
kln; directors. W.-L. Erwin, E. H,
Dorsey, c. M. Suolllag. J. M.
Pound, W. K. Mendow. C. B. Mer
lin; E. B. Mell. H. J. Stegeman,
T. W. Baiter. J. T. Plttard, T. F.
Green, S. J. Ware nml W. T.
Forbes. The members will vote on
Sevan of the fifteen nt the next
meeting. One truitee and «>« rice,
president will also be elected from
the nominees.
Klwanlan Weir, who wlll__ suc
ceed Captain J. ‘
Kxamlnations for the fall^ term
ar e being held at th* educational
Inetltutions here, Those of
University began^ Friday and will
last through tf»T 22nd. Btudenta
will leave for home aa they fin
ish with the 22nd) a* the last day
of the fall term.
January 2nd is the date aet for
the opening of the t'pelng term.
The State Normal School closes
fo r the fall term on December 20
and Thursday and Fr|dgy of next
week moat of th* girls of this
school will leave for the holiday*
They resume work again January
3rd.
Lucy Cobb Institute closes on tho
aftersoon of the 19th and will re
sume the spring term on January
7th. Tho public- schools of tho
city quit on the 21st and will re
sume work on the 7th of January.
The eprlng term will bring sev
eral hundred new students to the
State College of Agriculture. Many
short courses will begin after the
holidays while a number of regu
lar term student# will begin work
then.
briefly of the accomplishments of
[the lodge, Its work for the future
•and icgretted that so many mem-
• bers failed to get the true spirit
j of Masonry by not attending the
i meetings more often.
Me. Dorsey said that although
.Thuisdgy night was. known a« the
{ eighty-seend annual comnuinica- .
*»ion of tho lodge in reality Mt. I
Vernon ie more than a century old
( as shown by a comer stone in New
college on the campus which was
I put In place in 1822 by the lodge.
Reports of the .secretary and
ftieasorer and committees we:
read and the new officer snamed.
All of. those who were nuiuel
I officer.; have taken a keen Inter*
est in Masonic affairs. >Mr. Frwtji,
who was named Worshipful Mas-
j ter. Is one of tho most popular
! young men of the city and is well
• versed In the craft of the order.
Dr. Holliday and Mr. Patrick are
also leaders fa Masonic wohk
while Mr. Capps and Hr. Quinn
hold offices that ah* more or less
iwtmanenL Tholr election was
merely roujfhe.
Rev. William G, Jones, in charge of the Marine Department of the
New York'Bible Society (right foreground), will have completed on
Daccmlwr 9—Blbl, Day—hli SO nan of service distributing Bibles to
Seamen In New York hv>»r. Bibles are supplied in different lan
guages.
Eighth-Ninth Dist,
Press Associations
Combine at Meeting
(By Associated Press.)
JUAREZ.—Official dis-
patcRes received in Jua
rez contain reports of the
firsts clash between the
federal forces and those
of the rebel, General Es-
Itrada, in Jalisco. The fight
The Eighth and Ninth District Press Associations Icordim^ to* tte^renoils' 1
fishing trip ends in jail were combined into the Eighth and Ninth District an( i resulted in victorv
savannah, os.—a mi sen- Press Association at the meeting held here Friday. t hp federaLs A reh/l
l e r,. 0 v'oXr!rol;yr r *?•> CaldweU, editor, of the Walton News, was f ° r the A rebel
BATTLE WITH REBELS
NEAR JUAREZ FRIDAY
round In th, 1C, bog or a local tl,h
and oyater dealer^ wh*ti ho wa,
caught by officer, "Why that’,
coco - — Barnett n« no way to catch fish,’> aald Judn.
-resident, haa been a member of’Meldrlm wbo aantamwd Clwrtl. to
The club alece Its organisation and prison for hl« -fishing" trip.
Is one of the most active Klwan-
tena In Athens. He hta boM t**"*-
ly'Identified with all of the wo-
Jeota which llflwairio l!»p
and Is a worthy successor to I'ae-
tata Barnett '
The attendance prise Thorsdey
given by ’Ralph,Hodgson was won
by judge T. F. Green.
wa* given unaru, ursywn, nepo,. t - —..— -- —-
when h, plead gumy to a chares named president to succeed Ernest Camp of the
^Mmlt^^rin^lEighth District and J. F. Shannon of the Ninth. Mr.
act of fining ii sack with fi*h h# bnannon was named vice president.
• - • **-*•' e. W. Carroll was elected aecre- to have driven through but was
$2224 FROM GOAL
The vantehtng point In the Y.
M. C. A. budget campaign will
be reached when %2tt* !■ ra, ** d *
It was announced Fridey. N*n*
subscriptions totalling $77 were
SSrSiTbumdsy HelP reach
the vanishing point Business
men wbo aided ‘n ^e^camj
nafgn last week have several
hundred cards representing cl.-
liens whom .they are seeing at
leliut* in order 4o reach th*
vanishing point. . A 0
Term Exams.
Begin At State
University
Eumla.Uaa, marking th, cUw, of
lhe prrt term of th. lrapd MMkm «>
th, Vnlverstty of Oeocma got under
war Friday and will c-mtlnu, ihrougn
Saturday of-next week.
- —■t* finish tne«r —
l •Am the student* — -----
sminstlons, thsy will for them
«:hrl*ima» TS«mtWha ^The sr.^mo
term begins January »■
LET VAST WEALTH ESCAPE
LONDON Th, mvu reiponai-
l,ie for ih, opening of th, Klmtwr-
| ley diamond field. In South Africa
mid the flelda for »f.5M. believing
.them eshauited after having re
move eeveral thousand stones. Th,
field, hav, yielded diamond, ever
’ since. nM' had Kdwbl William
I Streeter., Who-died.b«r, recently
[at'the age SS»: reUlhed * Ills
* property he would have been, ouf
i*of the richest m«n in th# world.
tory and treasurer 1 and James P.
Davison of Cleveland was named
assistant secretary and treasurer.
The next meeting will be held
tn Athens the second Friday In
March.
The executive committee Is com
posed of Louie Morris of Htrtwell,
W. T. Bacon, Madison, Rush Bur
ton, Lavonts. J. W. McWhorter,
Vfadgr, a Morecock, ‘istw
rencevlUc, and F. D. Singleton,
cterkeevtlle.
The meeting Friday was small
In attendance oo account of the
weather buj very pronounced In
Interest ’
Rush Burton, editor of the La-
vonia Times, who was to have de
livered an address before the
meeting was prevented from at
tending on account of the condl*
tolns of the roads between here
and LavonU* Hla message on “How
the Weekly Press Can Best Serve
the Farmers the First Three
Months of 1124/’ wps read, bow-
W. T.' Andereom ^editor of the
Macon Telegraph wbo was ta
*peak on the "Presa and Good
Roads/* wired his regret*-. He was
prevented on account of the rains
SCORES WAVE OF
LAWLE88NESS
' Editor-Shannon of thy Commerce
Hews spoke on ‘"tye Value of the
Editorial Page" and his speech
was one of the best ever heard by
the association. Mr. Shannon
speaks with the same degree of
soundness and common sense em
ployed In his editorials. He refer
red to the value the editorial conll
in discussing such vital sub
jects a« good roads, agriculture
and lawlessness. Mr. Shannon has
very definite opinions of th?se
subjects and doesn't mind ex-
bteoalug them. In referring to law
lessness in the state he satd be
deplored the «e*mlr.g lethargy that
law enforcement had fallen into in
Georgia and he called upon the
editors to take a stand for justice
through th * r-gulsr legal charrels.
He aald that the courts had be
come too lax in deposing of cases
and that ft had come to paa* when
a man could go Into court and hy
hook and crook hive hi# case pc*|-
(Tum to page aix.)
captain with 160 men and
125,000 pesos in money,
deserted Estrada during
the fighting' and joined
the federal^
BILL PASSED
(By Associated Press.)
A T L A N T A.—The
House passed the Hoi-
dcn-Stovall bill, already
passed by the Senate
and which is designed
to give counties and
municipalities the right
to exempt from taxation
for a period of five
years ail new industrial
enterprises, including
cheese factories and
creameries, if they so
desired.
The bill now j?oe,s to
the governor for his sig
nature.
ATHENS RESPONDS
Atheps Is rezpondJng to • tno
appeal of the Anti-Tuberculosis
Association for money to carry
on tho fight against tuberc
svs. The committees of wo
from the First Presbyterian
church cuptalned by Mrs. A. L.
McCoy sold 1110.35 worth
Christmas Seals Thursday at
the booths In the city. This
money will be used in fighting
tuberculosis here. When you
stop to realize that there are
over 300 tuberculosis cases in
Clarke county who are daily ex
posing others it I.-, no woiui.r
that Athenians are buying
Christmas Souls to help ralso
the money to prevent the spread
of tills awful rijM’asf. "Aufii
is the boat word to describo
tuberculosis. It IS an -awful dis
ease. It slowly saps the life
strength out of its victim, all
the wMile the victim knowing
that the odds are against.nlm
The odds are against the vfc
tlm unless the disease is dl«
covered In time. If It Is found
In time.the patient may be
saved. It has been done many,
many times, it is ike purpose of
the Anti-Tuberculosis Associa
tion to continue employment
the tuberculosis nurse who ta
keeping in constant touch with
tuberculosis victims, teething
those just developing the dis
ease bow to protect themselves
and throw it off and Instruct
ing others in advanced stages
bow to prevent others from
catching the disease. This work
is making Clarke county a more
healthful place and a less, dang-
eroq» place in wbteh to live.
In remembering the large num
ber of tuberculosis cases In
Clarke don't get the Idea we
are worse off than many other
communities In the state. We
are not. The difference in us
and othar communities is we
see the danger and are trying
to eliminate It as far as possi
ble. A committee from the Col
lege Avenue P. T. A., with Mrs.
F. G. BIrchraore in charge sold
Christmas 8eola Friday. How
many did you boy? Well, buy
some more Saturday and help
carry on this fight You may
ive a life.
TUBERCULOSIS IS COX-
TAGtOUS.
The Magistrate and Ed-
u c a t i o n Commissioner-
and two other official*
were carried off by tha
bandits, according to tha
dispatches, with more)
than one hundred
dents of the town, among
the number many women
as well as men.
It is not known as yet,
due to inability, to dear
up communication lines,
whether any foreigners
were taken as hostages or
to be held for ransom by;
the bandits, or whether
any suffered death at ths|
haads-of the marauders. i
This is the second big
raid staged by Chinese
bandits since the one sev
eral months ago which al
most threw the Chinese-
government into interna
tional difficulties, wiihi : a
several other countries.
Five United States de
stroyers are said to b#
cruising in Chinese wa-.
ters at this time.
STATE LAUNCHES IN
ATTACK*
ON FOX’S DEFENSE
t ter«
tint*
WILL EXPORT 8UGAR
PRAGUE—The sugar crop
Czechoslovakia fs so good this
year that, after meeting local
needs to the extent of 230,000 tons,
th#* republic will have 3TO <>00 tun*
for export.
ATLANTA.—A war! tin* with
ror for many jrarg for the
to come when he would either be*-
come a raving manioc as Big
brother died or else pass into ■
Htate of brooding senility os did.
his father before his • death,
brought about a condition wittft
Philip E. Fox, on trie! for hds.!5te.
tor tho killing of W. 8. Coburn*
which unbalanced the mind of Ure
accused', defense counsel la tho
case said Friday when the trial
was resumed.
The defense outlined the basis
of its |9>gal struggle for the life of
Fox by submitting a death cer
tificate to show that Jack . Fox,
young brother of Phil Fbx. died II*
the throes of violent Insanity, and
produced witnesses to show that
Fox's father had lost his mental
equilibrium as the reeult of flnaa*
rial reverses.
It was further shown by form
er associates of Pox from Texas
that while engaged In newspaper
work there he was subject to spells
of brooding and extreme nervous
ness, and that on one occasion b«
was discovered In an unconscious
condition fn the city hall.
Tho state lost no time in launch
ing its attack upon the Insanity,
plea. Solicitor Oeierol John A.
Boykin calling attention of tha
Jurors to the foct that the death
certificate in the case of Jack Fox
stated that the boy came to ai
violent insane death as the result
of unwholesome practice on his
own part. At the same time, wit
nesses called*by the defense Ini
show that Fox's father. Samuel
Fox, was "odd" and "brooding/*
were subjected to severe and proa
longed cross-examination. _ ^