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To RhuIh 8ubwrlb*r* ,
THE BANNER-HERALD
InvoatlgoU T«d«yt
THE
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Daily and Sunday—13 CcnU a WaaK
Eatabliahad 1832.
Daily and Sunday—It Ontd a W«L
ATHENS COTTON:
Middling Hid
Prevloua Clooe . — HVa
THE WEATHER:
Georgia and vicinity: Rain Sun
day and colder Sunday afternoon
or night. Monday and Tueeday fair.
VOL. 81, NO. 266
Aaaodated Prtaa Serried.
ATHENS, CA„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1923.
Simla Caplaa 3 Casta Dally. I Casta Sanday.
Dr. Soule Announces Increase Of
$131,000,000 In Farm Products
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New Split in Episcopal
Circles Has Echo in All
Denominations.
CLUBHOUSE and lakf,
GOLF COURSE, TENNIS
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COURTS TO COMPARE
WITH ANY IN SOUTH
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Work tb Be Begun on Project in Early Spring. Ready
For Play Following Year. To Be Located on
Jefferson Road Near Lamkin Home.
A new and modern country club, with golf links,
lake and other recreational features 13 being planned
for Athens and with the acquiring, of a large tract of
land in and near the city the new club is practically
assured.
A temporary corimittee composed of James White,
A. G. Dudley,. B. F. Hardeman, Joel A. Wier, Walter
H. Jones, E. F. Porter, Chas. E. Martin, W. W. Crews,
Murray Soule, H.'H. Gordon, Jr., M. S. Hodgson, A r-
thur Griffith, J. Warren Smith, Chas. Eckford, with
other business and professional men of thg city are
working out the iliitial plans for the club.
A tract ot land comprising 188
am, baa.Stan acQOlrad by nr-
rhaso On thn Jefferson rood near
the Oalmsvllle-lllilland crosatnf
arros. t!ie rood from the Uunkln
borne and It Is said that thta land
lies Ideality for the con»tructl6n
Of an eighteen bole golf cobae,
Urge leke, tennie courts and the
like. Thn land has an Idaal loca
tion, fronting about one-half mllo
on the Jeffenon road, north ot the
8. A. L. railroad. A natural stream
f'-il from several clear water
springe, will furnish water for an
IS acre lake In which will be put
several thousand,fleh and adjacent
to Wiu be built a boot house and
possibly A dancing parlllton.
TO BUILD A
REAL CLUB
A large and roomy club house 1s
Mng.plannod while the golf course
bells is the proepect for prectl-
catly all of the United States,
end the famed .teaming mince
pie will be eome what more
warm to palat* for tho weather
man eaya that thl, will be one
of tho warrnoU Christina, day.
in history.
REBEL ARMIES IN
CITY TB ATTACK
GALVESTON—Rebel armies un
der the command of General Cav
azos have begun an advance on
gfexlco City, according to an offi
cial dispatch received here by A
SENTENCED FRIDAY
ATLANTA.—Attorneys
for Philip E. ■ Fox, con
victed of the murder of
W. S. Cobum and senten
ced to life imprisonment
by the verdict of the jury,
were preparing Saturday
night, to seek a new trial
for Fox.
When Fox was ap
proached by reporters as
he sat in his cell in Fulton
Tower, he said that he had
no statement to make on
Tho rebels hive , ,
city «f Puebla “for reasons of mill- j ’■*"*
tnry expediency." It >" announced | ..j, m , man ... see my et-
by them hendnusrter* here. They t0rn6) ., f don’t feel like talk-
i.n.i i.aI.1 fins r'fv for Movornl ilav*. .
^ Hottest Christmas
AHORNEYS FOR FOX
1 In History Is .
j Prediction
(By A:re:!s1;d -Pre**-)
' WASHINGTON — Chri«tnM»
PREPARING TO SEEK
had held tho city for several davg. ^j, e p r j SO ner said to reporter*
The pesults of General Guadalpe h(J shortly after he arose
t* 'conference with the other aiwl ’i K nVlnrlr. His cell motes
Outlines Program
For ‘Farmers Week’
Here January 21-27
An increase of $131,000,000 in farm products in
Georgia since 1920 was announced Saturday by Dr.
Andrew M. Soule, president of the State College of
Agriculture, in submitting a tentative program fer.
the 1924 '“Farmers Week” here January 21-26.
“Georgia is on the upgrade,’’ Dr.
ENGINEER IS KILLED
»111 be inch as to draw state and 1
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YEIIZELOS IITED
|Tii
(By Associated Press.)
ATHENS.-The Coun-
yn * a . e Snnchee 'conference with the olncr ' around 8 o’clock. Hla cell mates
rdtrotls List (Jr ” b ' 1 *"'* r *'* nt JJS 4 Uu Fox had .pent a re.tl<’»» night
XUHVflJv vyy being kept ecerct hut General VIII- J ana the etching of hie-' atures
— - real, one of the participants In thei yM ltt|1 no u CC able.
conference. Is nunteff as saying . tkcleton motion for new trial
that they were roll.factory In 1 ^ to |je ,, led during th da y. de
ary respect, hnvln* served to dem- ord!nE t0 Attorney .Tank Hooper,
onetrate that perfeet nccoril exists I , vho together with former
among the Insurgent leaders. Th« I Gover nor Hugh M. Dorsey and’ At-
.lleeuselona he added, showed ‘»aj a Allen and J. E.
Bootleggers
Seized By
Police
the generalr. were In agreement. w efr herry, represented Fox during
? both on political and military alma.} n j n e-day trial which ended at
A correspondent with " *
ry aims, i nine-day
A correspondent with General:. o’clock Friday night with tho
Jose Villanueva’* column report* flln£ pf tbe te rdict: OuUtJ.
is... a.wo.o. onmmanrlef " r .....
that General Cavaios, commander
of the government vanguard near
Ban Marcos, ha* announced his
conversion to the rebel cause.
Several hundred revolutionary
soldier*, both of the Infantry and
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON—Some more
Joy whr. taken out of the Christ
mas season Saturday by the
public threat from the District
attorney* office $*• prosecute
those names who appear on a
long and imposing list of cus
tomer* which wn* seised Friday
In a raid on what police de
scribe a* a powerful syndicate
name/ appeared' j *^C?"n"pV'aSM'SeTht
» ligit when the Insurgent .rnopt ftuacKea tne
regon garrison, which Is command-
with recommendation for mercy.
I Filing of a skeleton motion It
themselves ( | l0 UHU al procedure In seeking a
cavalry, have placed m
under hla orders, .It is addedj new tr j a j an( j this move allows
Fighting Is reported to haVe been j counse i the opportunity of amend-
Jn progress »lne« '^Thursday J 1 ,; lng their petition later. The aten-
Santa Luccrsttla, si< important rail
way station In •ouMieffi Vera Crua.
on the list seised when
headquarters of the syndicate In
a downtown office building
were raided. A doaen arreata
, were made.
None of the name* on the
list have keen made public but
police have dropped many hints
• to the prominence of those .’n-'
volved.
Some months ago a similar
' list was taken In a raid on
another prominent boot»egger
and Included name* of a num
ber of army and naval officer*
and official* of the civil depart
ment* o the federal govern
ment and was published In a
Washington newspaper.
Isqulsrdo
Dr. J. L. Pendley
Receives Honor
oil of Ministers has decid- Kansas Governor
ed to instruct Colonel
Plastiras of the revolu-j
tionary committee, to ask 1
former Premier Venize-I
los without any conditions
and with complete liberty
of initiative, to return to
Greece and take the polit
ical situation in hand, j
Colonel Plastiras has
been appointed regent
since the ’ departure of
King George and the
queen from the bountry.
Twice before has Veni-
zelos been called back to
his country and each time
he has accepted only to
have the political powers
run him away again. This
time he has shown a hesi
tancy about accepting the
Shows Humane
Spirit
<Bv AeioeMted Preee)
LANSING, Ken. — Twenty
five convict., eerving term, at
the Keneae Strte Penitentiary
her« were at liberty Saturday
on Chriitmee oarolea granted
by Governor Jonathan Davie.
They ere on their honor to re
turn to the prieon at the expi
ration of f’fte-n daye.
William Latraeee, notorious
t-am robber wfioee escaped.,
have kept him confined In the
prisons of tho middle watt molt
of tho time oineo 1911 woo on#
of thoeo released for tho Holi
days. He reid r.o ono would
over find him agoing tho lew
again.
TWO ARE KILLED
JOHNSVILLE, O—Mr. and Mre.
Arthur Brumbouxh are dead and
tholr homo near hero le a hoop of
onllnterod timber, end hrlek, on .the
trout- remit of the explosion of the
call stating, howeverrthat
he would return to Greece
if it was the wholesale
wish of his people.
night Thn ngplnaton wa* hoard
for five mil** nn<l It’s force *h*t-
t*r*d window* In other nearby
house*.
Dr. J. L. Pendley. well known op-
toraetrlet has been, appointed af-
■ociate director of Uu American
Optometric Ae»oclttlon, for tho
middle and south Atlantic region
which Includes about eighteen
states.
Dr; Pendley. received notice of
his appointment yesterday The as
sociation formerly held one big na
tional convention including the Ca
nadian optometrist*' but it will
told regional conventions In the
future. )
BAR ASSOCIATION
ographer’s record In tbe case will
not bo ready for several weeks, ss
the evidence Vt the Fox trial was
probably tho most voluminous In
th# history of Fulton superior
court slope the celebrated Frank
case. *
While the Jurors In tbo case de
clined to discuss how the ballot
ing had run during the delibera
tions, which lasted nearly twenty-
hours, It was. stated unofficially at
th court house that the severity of
the punishment was the major fac
tor whicji delayed the finding of a
verdict, some holding out for th*
extreme penalty and with otlter*
contending for thQ life imprison
ment.
“We the Juty, find the defend
ant guilty of 1 murder and recom
mend’ him to the mei u ‘
court,” w#i; the verdict,
crowded courtroom by Assistant
Solicitor E. A. Stephen*, while Fox
sat bowed at the defense table apd
mumbled a barely audible ”no”
when Judse O- H- Howard asked If
he had any statement to make.
Sentence was pronounced immedi
ately, and Fox was escorted from
the courtroom by a special detail
(Turiv to Page Two)
Top left 'to right—Bishop William T. Manning and Rev. Leithton
Parks. Bottom—Hishop William Lxwrcdqc, Dr. Percy Stiekney Grant
and Rev. Eee H. Heaton.
dignitaries to net as spokesmen In
By ALEXANDER HERMAN
NEW YORK—Is religion on the
eve of a second Protestant Reforro-»| Thei c Issue* have been smolder
ing for a long time. Rut a sermon
at ion?
Or la the row rwtween the Mod
ernlsts and Fundamentalist* of the
Episcopal Church a tempest in a
tea-pot. that raay soon be forgot-
tept
Million* Of church-goer* of all
crerdn are wondering, for it has
Mia nearly 400 gears elnce so
clear-cut an Issue has cropped up
In nn organized church. ’ \
When it dldi it led to* a» revolt
that split the Catholic Church end
gave birth to Protestantism.
Whht wlll It bring about now?
LIBERAL
GROUP.
Where' John Luther* and * John
Calyln once, stopd as heads of the
Modernist MovcVnent of t!(0 six
teenth century, now.stands* group
of liberal preachers headed by the
Revf Dr*. Leighton Park*. . IHircy
Stiekney Grant, William N, Guthre
nnd jHjrttop Wftl(am Lawrence. .
An'd foremost of the rundnmen-
ta’|y'tf«, oppoRimr the Modi’rnlste,
stands Bishop.William T, Manning
of 'the Protestant Episcopal' Dio-
cc.rd of N>w York.
Ifptween them has arisen.a series,
of issue* that, bear A marked re-
semblancoto tbo. Issue*, that
brought on the first Protestant
Reformation* They Involve various
Interpretation* of the* Bible, and
thd’ tfrerogatlvea < of higher church
defining these interpretations.
ATLANTA—Engir>aer J, W.
Brown, of 1021 Atlanta avenue,
Deeatur, waa instantly killed
and three members of the train
•crew were injured Seturday
morning at 7:05 o’clock when
the southbound “Dixit Limited’*
creek train of th* N. C. A 8t.
L. railway, was wrscksd near
Kennssaw, Ga.
The injured, according to re
ports from rvtarrfVtta, wn»r»
they ware given medical atten-
Young, 47
Firemen W H.
Cherokes avenue,
cuts and bruiaes.
Brakeman J. M. Baldwin, of
Atlanta, cuts and bruise*.
J. H. Williamson, nagro por
ter, of 53 South Jackson street,
bruises
No passengers were Injured,
but several women bacam* hys
terical from nerv-oue shock.
Practically all the passengers
on th* solid Pullman train were
asfeeo and awakened by the
crash mad« their escape in
night r!«*h*«
Local officers of the railroad
characterized the wreck aa a
derailment. They were unable
to determine its cause.
The engine turned over and
the baggage car and two Pull
mans left the pails.
of tho Rev.' Lee W. Heaton, rector
of a Port Worth, Tex., church and
the action of.hla Bl*hop charging
him with heresy, has kindled them
Into n flame Uiat la spreading
across the whole country.
In hia preachment nn /‘What la
Truth,*’ Mr. Heaton.ealdf
**Th4re are those among u» who
believe that Jesus was In all things
both G6d and roan; th^Incarnation
of God and the aon of Joseph. This
I* my own opinion.”
For expre**lng such view*.'
charge* of heresy were brought
against Rev. Heaton, and he T* now •
awaiting trial before an ecclesiastic
court.
NOT FIRST
TIME
It u*nn not the first time the
Virgin birth doctrine had been
flouted.
The Rev. Walter Ruasell Bowie,
rector of Grace Church of New
York, ha* t&kert practically tbe
same vfrw a* the Rev. Heaton, And
Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts
ha* been called the center of th#
Modernist group on account of hla
views. ' j * '• !
The Rev. Dr. Percy Stiekney
Grant denounced the view many _
timer In a sermon last January M An J a ..
ho aald that Jeaus did not possess IVIOIlOaV UOXCS
(Turn^to Pape Two)
Engineer Brown was scalded
to death being pinned inside of
th* cab of the locomotive. Fire
man Young leaped aa the en
gine left the rails-
Th* accident occurred about a
nuarter of a mil# south of the*
Kennesaw station. Th’e train,
runninn on tim*. had *tow*d
down for the station switches,
and was running at an 18-mll*-
an hour clip, it waa aaid. Fire
man Younq to’d surgeons at
thn N-ilan sanitarium at Ma
rietta, while beina treated for
his injuries, that the train sud
denly seemed to come to th#
end of the track.
Jr and recom- m ^
mercy of th. Negotiations Oil
Jlct. reoit to a _ ■■ ■ •
Between^u.S. and
England on Booze
NEW YORK—The Canard
liner, Berengarla wa# selected’ for
the American Bar Association's
voyage to England next summer
because the Cunard officials
changed It* sailing • date to oblige
th# association after the United
Btntes Shipping* Board officials
had offered'^ no encouragement noi
suggested that they were interested
In th# effbrt to arrange passage on
the Lcviathian, Alton B. Parker,
chairman ot the commute* ar
ranging the trip stated Saturday.
He wa# answering the attacks
mad# bf Jame* A. Farrell of the
I ’nil' i! Line* rrltiolRlng ths
attacks made by James A. Farrell
..f th- United State* Line* crlticl*.
lng the lark of support of '.the
American Merchant Marine by thf
American people.
litiore
'SUOPP1NGJD&V
“'pSials
(By Associated Pr#*s)
WASHINGTON — Negotiations
with Greet Britain for'a apecia’
liquor treaty have progrea#ed an*
other stage with the tranvmlsaloi;
to London of American suggestions
in connection with a center draff
of the original American proposal.
It la expected IhAt an- agreement
White Man Nabbed
On Whiskey Charge
Mjelvtt* IJndaey. a white man, was
Soule said. “In 1920 our agricul
tural crop* were worth around
1169,000,00. In 1922, they Increased
in value to $211,000,000. Ini 1823,
to $250,000,000- The turnover of
our live stock and poultry Indue*-
tries will aggregate not far frofn
another $100,000,000. The new
wealth created* In the past twelve
month)* by th|ose opeijatring our
running land* represents a gross
therefore of $350,000 000.
“Wo have learned a great deal
al>out the boll weevlj during th*
pant ytfar, and it ha* been demon
strated that we can stilt ral*e due-
half bale and upward of cotton
per acre under wise and efficient
management. To do this call* for
the institution of new methoda>of
farm practice, the dlniminatlon r of
lunnainentai information, the “Util
ization of a diversified farm pro
gram into affect, the enlargement
and improvement d? farm butjta-
lng?. the development of klfell
b*a (b/. - * wa the establishmeat Jof
community, commodity enterfrt$e*
on u inn basis and th* enlargement
of co-operative marketing organi
zation*.
“Thl* In a wonderful program
and ft will take unanimity of, ef
fort to put it over, but It- can be
The
the “Fai
Christmas Seals
(By Associated Press.)
COLUMBUS..— C o n-
*11! be reached In the near future c l u ding Several months of
investigation of two well
known Columbus physi
cians,. Dr, Jonathan For
man and Dr. E. J. Gordon
arrated Friday afternoon on Cl.v- . rf , V pjiIprl that
ion street. by policemen l c. oBturday reveaiea mat
‘ they had unknowingly ad-
Con$#H#bn and Hugh Moore.
Lindsey had .In hla pgaaeaslon three
plgte ,of liquor,. the . policemen
state. He was'turned over to lb?
STORM MOVES EAST
(Bv Associated Press.)
SAUNA, K ui—M*fe*gvs r*c*iv»
ed here Falunlny tel! of *»“»vj»
ntiow* sweeping w« stern K..nfa*.
Hays, Oakley. Plainvllte and Colby
were among the towns reporting
snow failing heavily. The storm
seems to be moving eastward.
ministered poison to two
women who died last Sep-
one week and to a physi
cian who recovered after
having been dangerously
ill for several days. All
three w ere undergoing
treatment for digestive
disorders.
Epting wl|l have charge of
sales. The American Legion*Aux
illary teem captained by Mrs. Jo-
alah Billing reported gale# of $7
Friday although the weather waa
bad. ThA Episcopal church team,
captained by Mrs, Sam Nickerson
-..M $ 12.7 .*• worth Friday.
Re-Hab Arrested
Here on Bigamy
Charge Saturday
Albert A. Adams, a Re-Hab at
tho University of Georgia wa* ar
rested by Bailiff Huff late Satur
day night on a warrtn sworn out
by R. A. Skelton of this city.
Tbe warrant charge dthat Adams
married Skelton’s daughter here
on November 1, and that he had a
Ife .and two. children, ( one age
three and the other on** year old.
lams was’’held on an $800
bond.
warehouses.
The bandits succeeded
in stealing forty barrels
of choice whiskey that is
valued , at $60,000. It is
thought that the men
were inspired to the rob
bery by the near of the
Christmas holidays and
the present shortage of
whiskey".
Four of the men were
captured in one of the
motor trucks but the oth
ers of the gang succeeded
in escaping just before
net of the county and
police and the Nai
Guardsmen closed in,
Farmers
1* very eotfpra-
progma
Week" tl «* ye
hcnslve uml will bring to theatete
college some of the natlonViaed-
‘•r. in grow In;:, grading and mar
keting of farm products.
Among those on the program are
Governor < Jlffortf M. Walke^ Bu-
gen« R. Black prominent AuiQta
banker; O. H. J«*ne*s. dl.vla(jjtt of
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( By Associated Press.)
, BALTIMORE.—A
Campaign Herej EC ° re of armed men ahd a
(fleet of trucks late Friday
.night swooped down ^on
i«curt?<S2SiJ'SVSS oSSJ^ the Gwynbrook DistiUery
iixht tiibcrenio,'-! by ,ak- of warehouses at Gwynbrook
Sra^^Xi^ar owings Mills, shack-
of women from the First Baptist (led tnree guards ana
church captained by Mre. H. O. br()ke into tw0 of the
three' whiskey stocked