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gPSJgig |1,000 AMldint Policy Pro# To Regular Subscriber* THE BANNER-HERALD Invaatigato TodayL BANNER-HE Ddly and Sunday—1J Cent* a .Wart EaUbliahcd 1832. Dally and Snnday—13 Casta a .Week. ATHENS COTTON: MldJIina 38 1-2e Previous Close 351-4o THE WEATHER: Clear ' Friday and Colder Friday Niofcl. VOL. 91, NO. 270 Associated Press Service. ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1923. *• B * c * p *p* r< Sint la Copies 3 Cants Daily. 3 Cants Saaday, GIANT DIRIGIBLE NOW OFFICIALLY LOST CHICAGO.—Overcrowded condi tions In the stato Institutions for tho' Insane nnd the flimsy con struction of tho hugo frame struc ture called tho "death Ihouso," which was destroyed by fire Wed nesday night with a known loss of 17 lives, wore blamed Friday by authorities for tile fatal blaic at tho Chicago state hosp'tal for tho Insane at Dunning. Judge C. H. Jenkins, of Sprtiis-1 field, state director, of the denart- It l a reported that Lieutenant mont of nubile welfare said It was Osborne Cutler Wood, son of Gen known, of course, that the bunted eral Leonard Wood, governor hu'Jdltlg was tiot fireproof, but that general of tho Philippines, nl It was tbet “best we had.' ’ Do side Judge Jenklna. who will Made Money? REVOLUTIONARY FORCE WILL ATTACK TAMPICO WITHIN COMING WEEK HALL SUITED TO BE ■IN OF NEXT I-,quire Into the fatal fire on be- ntilf of the state of Illinois. Fire Attorney te I. Whltty, Coroner Oncer Wolff and County 'Judge t E. K. Jnreckl will make Investigations. The coroner's Inquest, was .post poned until Friday. At noon Friday with 17 bodies, only five of them Identified, in the hospital hiorgue, 23 patient* • unaccounted lor and at 1 sign ltir commission soon. He reported to have made nearly « million dollars in Wall Street spec-1 p WAgHIN0T ^rr Hcnry c Hall ulatlons, and is about to enter tnc' WASHINGTON — Henry c. Hall diplomatic service^ , 2 TSMSSS&TSE Another Simmons SSTT ***** ,or ,h0 ' cn - * i 7 Tho announcement by the com* Loses W lie and /" mimion Friday stated that in- tho w - ! method of selecting the chairman I e ft 1 1* Daughter ** rotation, Commissioner Hall himself ns though freeing himself from the mental haze, dashed out Of.tho building. He ran into fire- fighters from engine oempany No. 98 and, po'-ced ttem. and all night long old Joe was In the van tak ing perfect Tprt In the fight against the (lames jukt as be did years ago when a member of engine com- Vn m ' papy No. 81. ■ Another curious change a pa-, tlent was noted In the case of Hugo Arnold, one of the most violent of'the patients, who, In hia rages, has broken Iron bars and fcas amuck. As fright mounted | man and girl In Jwkaon county. atnoung the unfortunates, come of Hi hi b' gan shouling f*ir Hugo a- though to seek a'leeder. And then, Hugo the terrible, feared by guards and Inmates alike, was found wan dering around, quivering with terror, the angry madness gone from bis eyes and in Us place a look of terrified understanding. NOT TO RESIGN AT f, IS SI (By Associated Press) TOKIO.*-!n view of develop ments growing out of the attempt-; ed assassinat'ori of Prince Regent llirohito, the latter'tas requested the inembelrB of tho cabinet to <®n* ilnuo In office for tho present and they are expected to rotlro before tho meeting of the Diet op.Jan uary Zb. The cabinet was In session all day Thursday considering tho slt- uaicn precipitated by tho attack upon the Prince Regent which has confronting Home Minister Goto is as Ad to Im? insistent upon the acceptance of bin resignation presented Thurs day, inasmuch as ho la comnclled by custom to Bold himself official ly responsible for such an untoward incident as an attempt to slay the heir to the throne. COURT MUST DECIDE IF AUTO 18 DEADLY WEAPON CRYSTAL LAKE. IH.—I* an au t"mobile a pleasure vehicle or a deadly weapon? This question will come up 1 nthe,trial of Ivan Hutchinson and A. William Ben son. Of Crystal 1 Lake. The young men were charged with assault with a deadly weapon on the iM-rnon of Leo T. Addison, Joyed to .the fullest Dr. W. S the “deadly weapon” being an au* Robinson spoke following Mr. tumobile. mpnppmHIHW An automobile driven by Addi- •on was struck l>v a ear in whic h the two r*ry«tal Lake men were riding. Addison** machine turning Meawhile nothing, definite has been learned by authorities work ing on the,case In Jackson county, at least nothing Important enough to warrant'an arrest. Another Victim Of Jackson ’Fray Dies From Wounds Another nkgro who 'win ,hot In the ehootlng affray in Jackion county C’hrtBtmsH p»y has died from- ballet wound.. It wa. learned her Friday. Geonte Lay, the negro who died inhtantly was .hot sev enteen times, at leaat hie clothes bold seventeen bollet boles. Five' ncgrdcs were shot In the affray. Athens Masons Enjoy Program Thursday Night Interesting and Inspiring Meeting Held in Temple COME IN FAST Collections of County Of ficers Unusually Good This Year, Report Shows. £ 2 $8SZ£5&RJBfc North Carolina Man ini other eleven are believed tdJ|avB game Plight As John | ^ 1 its O 1 AAtJ) fled Rom th,. institution daring gj mmons 0 f Jackson Co., ll 'ameoKo 5 °tJnnsforn»ationa were Writes Police Here. wrought • under the red glare ns , the'hugo frame building blazed 1 An interesting .‘■idellght c and foil in ruins. % disappearance of Mrs. John Sim* Joe V<‘«ey, once (0 city fireman, j monH an «j her seven-year-old who was sent as insane to tliq In- I daughter. Hoealeu from their horde i , several years ago, heard ln j a ^k, on county d fe\V .weeks the clanging fire apparatus ardv- | n0(f an d subsequent discovery of lpg as the flames began to pnint' itwo bodies thought theirs ln o _. .. . JfkyT-Old Joe. as IS a dapV burned farm mm,,' wdlri’ ‘ leariwd *2* through wbfrfv the each famlUot |>rtd«r when Deuetlr. c K: Sre- ^ ‘ *,^!i sounds of battle with the flames graves produced a letter from W. began to penetrate, stialghtened H . s| mm0 ns, of Thomaavllle, N. C.. “ w, *“ f# declaring- he also had lost a wife nnd little daughter V The letter describes In detail tlie clothing worn by the missing woman and little child, also reven years old and aso deacrlbes a man who evidently left with her, al though the letter doea hot ao state, The woman’s name la Julia Sim mons. and the little «|rl Luclle Simmons. The letter does state when the woman and child left but requests the police more Information regarding finding of the bodies of the wo* (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON.—An attack by Mexican revolu tionary forces on Tampico within a week was fore cast in an official communique of the De la Huerta group received here from Vera Cruz. Ttee communique, dated Decem ber 26, follows: “General Figueroa, reporting ou the capture of Puente Ixtla, in the stato of Morelos, about fifty miles south of Mexico fifty on the twenty second Instant, states that the en emy gariu:on at that place, com posed Of 400 men, was defeated with miny casualties. Tftrty pris- - anew wc-ro taken and much war } njatcrial; also two trains. | ■“The.armed transport Coahuila wa* recently pursued by the .fed eral gunboat Progreso in the Pa cific. and the Jatter having a su perior armament. Oho Coahuila soufht refuge In the harbor of Ac apulco. Fort San Dleto, which pro jects the entrtnee, having long range artillery, prevented further pursuit.* “Sincp,yesterday Juarez and La redo have been cut off from rail way commutation with the in terior. The olljreglon in northern Vera Cru* is ^fowly coming under j the domination ofthcreta oisfcrtaa the domhiaUoh of the revolu tionists, .while troops ln tho Isth mus of Tehuantepec region are In dally contact with those of the Im position government under the command of Bravo lzqulerdo. * “(Jenerttf iMnycotte has executed a predetermined plan reeultliig in the effective defeat of a flying column of Obregonlst troops, whldh he keeps moving from one front to mfatrrapmv mwm psftw foe have reached "his office thus far. give Indications of unusually goodtJJJ 11 ^ * hia fjjwee whirhShlS collections this year, according to ®“‘ er * 0Dly of *°" on whlch tlley The' . U t P .t, a ^.'ury V'^ , L :! , raa h :oeK" Prt “ bly atWck ' but It will all be needed, the stato I f _ treasurer saye. , The county tax collectore are sup posed to close 'their books on De cember- 20. and to have their final reports In the hands of the comp troller general by December 31. The law brings *bopt a rush vf taxpayers to escape the penalty that goe B on after the final day for collections, and consequently the largest volume of tax money reach es the state’s cofffrrs at the close of the last quarter of the year. It has been the custom for the Legisla ture to grant extensions of time for the tax collectors to gather In dellnguent taxes, without Impos ing any penalty upon the collec tors themselves, although the tax payers must, stand*a penalty of $1.60 and Interest. The state will c!o*e the calendar year with approximately a million dotars on hand, according to Treasurer William J. Speer. PARIS ANNOUNCES BODY OF COMMANDER FOUND IN SICILIAN WATERS LATEFUSH PARIS.—Official announcement was made here Friday that the dirigible Dixmude has been lost at sea. This announcement was based on the fact that the body of the commander was found in Sicilian waters. ! PARIS.—While all France has mourned the fifty ■ men and officers aboard the dirigible Dixmude as .•n’i wo re P° rts > stating that the ship was seen, still afloat, Wednesday morning and again on Thurst- On Christmas morning citizens of Whitfield, Maine, dug up tho-Tjody of John Snow, shown here with wife, and burned it. Snow, killed his wife, his Wife's mother, her aunt arid the latter’s son: Then he killed himself. Police Capture Man ‘Thought Responsible For Death Of Girls OF PASTOR- FACES WHITE SLAVE ACT SYRACUSE.*—Eugene Dent Langston, a jeweled of Hamlet, N. C., was arretted here by an agent of the department of jue- tiee charged with violation of the Msr.n act-in efopmg with Mrs. Gertrude Harr.*il, wife of Rev. Benjamin Harrill, Baptist clergyman, and bringing her to city. Mrs. Harrell was not Singer Carries Act Over Though Grief Stricken E.L STUDENT DELEGATES ATLANTA— Representatives of leading •Georgia universities num bering more than 100 left Atlanta Thursday afternoon for Indianap olis, where they go .to attend the ninth annual convention of the a-., . 'Student Volunteer movement that UDSerVing Ot. (jonn tne convenes there December 28 and lasts through January 1. The delegation will he headed by E. L. Becrest of the University of Evangelist. One ot the • most enthusiastic and Inspiring meetings over held iiicreaaiTr greatly the difficulties |>y sit. Vernon Lodge o{ Masons , . confronting the mWsters. 'took place In the Masonic Temple , n , , . n I Thursday night at which Um« the xlCIlty Of lC48 i And I" ^ Jowl At: (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO/.*— Fernand Ansaeau, singer with the Chicago Civic Opera company, obeyed the great unwritten law of tho stage Thurs* d»y night when lie sang “Monna Vaifoa" just after he was notified tjiat his father, Alexander Ans- seal, had died In Bruasojs, Belgium. He scored a decided triumph, ac cording to the opera critics, stop ping the performance with ap- plauce at a point where It never bad been halted before. Mrs. J. H. Seabolt Buried .Friday (By Associated Press.) r NEW’ YORK.—Captured on the tip of a keen eyed employment agent, Frank Benner, alias Collins and Cafleton, claiming to be a war veteran, Friday was alleged by the police to have confessed that he j arrest, 1 * assaulted, and murdered Miss Estelle Phillips in this! city last October and that three weeks ago he.attack-] giving dstails of their elope* ed Mrs. May Mitchell, a nurse in a hospital in the m,n * •" ,l m » kl "3 !» Chestnut Hills section of Philadelphia, torturing her so that she is still an invalid. Detectives were trying to con-^ 1 . ' A telegram from In-Saluh to the marine ministry gave life to the hope that the men are still and though th e report may alivo be correct the ministry cannot de termine the reason why the car rier pigeons aboard the ship have not been released, granting that the wireless on the giant air cruiser is out of order. Officials state that the report must be received with reserve, but the search for the craft has -been whipped to new vigor and Arab riders again sweep over the deserts nect their prisoner with iho mur der and mutilation of pretty Ream Haxie, 17, ln New York in Feb ruary, 1920, and with similar crimes reported 1 In a 'half dozen cities by a man answering the prisoner's general description. “Maybe It was the war pat such Ideas Into my head,” Benner was alleged to have declared at tLo end of a fiank. unemotional con fession. ”1 get wfjf^like a maniac. Give mo soinethlng'to eat.” He U a stocky, powerful man, a chef, who. slnco the war has work ed in many hospitals and on oce^n passenger ships. • Funeral services for Mrs. J. H. Seabolt, wife of Prof. T. Seabolt of Madison county, were conducted Friday morning In the family ceme* tery. Mrs. 8enb6!t died last Sun day. The 'd{ffeased was a native of Union county but had lived near Athens for over two years. She Is aurvtved by her husband, two daughters, Sirs. Bonnie Hor- klns, and Miss Bessie Seabolt. he was employed at'n recorstn*r- ihree sons. Clay, Gayes and Teddy, itlon hofpltal hero. About mldrlglit Home}on October 11, according to the His father, he said, was ,a church worker In Montreal who alter hnd a plumbing »d*ej> in Brooklyn. In bli pockets were letters received Thursday, o.ie signed "Mother/* ent? dated from Wood haven, Long Island, 4nd another from “Sister,” who * Benner said was the wKo of a Newrrk. N. J.. bank employe. He •aid be had anothqy Bitter In Ohio, Michigan.. Miss PhUiine. a department store clerk, roomed In a house* on West 97th street next to Benner when Bernstein Bros. Funeral was in charge of the arrangement! celebration of SL John tho Erange list was observed. Special program was arranged for the occasion including address- Paymopt Mavlrof es by several prominent Masons,! * <*1 UlCr® iTldrKCl music by the litasonlc quartet and 1 ; -. installation ceremonies performed * Athenians will find plenty at the Among those who delivered ’ad-1farmers market Saturday to start dresses were Rev. J. V. M. Morris, .the year right Insofar as edibles one of the oldest Masons In the can help them. Mrs. Beesie Trout city at well known Iletbodlft min ister. A feature of the meeting . was presentation of the past masters jewel to E, O. Klnnebrew by Past- Master E. C. Paine. M. Q. Michael, a paqj master, delivered a very in teresting address which was en- Roblnson spoke following Michael and gave a most {merest fng and enjoyable address. meeting was opened* 1.3 Chaplain Oor*e K. Sto n *\ WH! L. jlng of Alon Erwin, recently elected worohtpf’-’ each septet Mr. •€?. C. McPhall, well known lo cal cot Urn man, dlsd unexpectedly at s local hospital Friday tfumoon at 12:JS. Ho had been in III health for nome months but his friends did not * _ expect the end tn cume no suddenly. .i?. a8 », ter ’ * ann0U ? ce * He had been confined to the hoapiul the farmery will have pees of all >for several weeka but last week wan kinds and hog jowl as well as'out and down town, spinach and other winter Vegeta- 1 H* came here about twelve yean bles. The market has been closed **° from Hawklnsviiie and since then since last Saturday but a plenU- ,ha ! ^* n f **>okk"p*r for Hardman •» ?^d p . h ':!r,hre U ,r* n or, h ^iT I ; ( master, preHl«ie<f GET8 TEN YEARS NESV YORK.—Ernest and Marie Vetter who were convicted of first iegree manslaughter for the klll- - Strrey last May wsro> I to serve from eight to ten ye in prison Friday. He was about S» year* old and sunrivfng him are two sons, Rhodes McPhall of Miami, Fla., and A. C. McPhall of Chicago. # Neither was here at the time of Mr. MePhairs death and arrangement* of the fun eral will await word from them. Hemutein Uro*., Funeral Home is In . hnrge of the remain*. Marriage-Divorce Ratio in Clarke Co. For 1923 Is 7 to 1 Dsn Cupid was about ssvsn end a half time's as busy as Old Discontent in .Clarke coun ty during 1921. .Or In other words for evsry . seven and a half marriages there was one divorce. Thero was a total of 57 di vorce Cases filed during .he year, or up through the 28th, and for the seme period thore were 431 marriage licenses is sued by Ahe ordinary. Not all the divorco cases filed reached coui*t as* rome of them were settled and the parties r<Kinitsd. The figures are for both whites and entered. The divorce figures are not ivind'*** to white dnd colored but irt'th* marriages there were 199 licenses issued to colored couples and 232 issued to whites. The docket shows that divorce cases were disposed of as follows: Cond-oned. 3; first verdict 1tj‘ second verdict, 3? defaulted, 22; dismissed, -1; answer filed, 4; disability removed, 1; pending, 1b. These pending have been filed since a court sitting. sary to t%ke Mrs. Harrill into custody as a material witness. According to the * statement Langston and Mrs. Harrill, af ter an acquaintance of several months, met at Petersburg, Va., from where they went to New York city ami later to Montreal. They remained there but a short time and came to Syracuse, where on November 14, tho statement stated, they registered at a hotel, the next day moving to the rooming houee where they remaned, ac cording ta the proprietor, oc cupying separate rooms under their own names until the ar rest. Langston had been work ing in a Jewelry store here and Mrs. Harrill had found employment in an automobile agency. Mrs. and Mrs. Tatum Lose Infant to seek further word of the craft. She wa, seen at 8 a. m. Wed nesday, according to private dto- patches. Late Thursday night tV ministry of marine issued a tetX gram received from In-SaUS, twai ms out the earlier report? The telegram read: i i “Dixmude observed 125 miles south of In*Salah, supposed to be going toward Tamnrasset. A pa- jtrol commanded by a French offl- er left for El-Olga immediately, t second patrol left for Ha.Rgll% na, and a courier left for AtaMi • II seeking to confirm the Dlx» nude’s presence. They carry, lif- tructions (of procedure^ in U19 event th»* ship attempts to land.’* All the places named are miiL tary posts in the Northern Sahara. The report that the airship was still afloat Wednesday has, if (anything, deepened the mystery .surrounding the fate of the cra|t. I The ministry of marine annooM* ■ ed Thursday that the Dixidine was supplied with a orate of caN rier pigeons, which were to have been used to communicate With I the land in case the ship’s radio iwa3 put out of commission. Making thi s announcement^ of- [ficiuls declared that the fact that no pigeons had come back from | the -ship practically proved that the Dixmude had crashed or ex- iploded. The majority of opinions o An i was that a crash had terminated ^ on the flight. - Friend* of Mr. and, Mrs. W. O. Tatum are sympathizing with them In the death of their Vjfaat son, who died Wednesday and was burled Thursday at 2 m* at tho Whitehall cemetery, funeral ser vice* being conducted at the grave. , Btddti tho bereaved parents tho tbs j bright little boy Is survived hr two sisters and three brothers. The funeral was In charge of Bern stein Brothers, funeral home. REVERSES POLICY Explosion, of Dynamite Cap Causes Death of Little Boy. prisoner'* confession, he forced end trance to the girl's room; attacked and strangled her. denuded and mutilated .the body, knd fed with his belongings after having left In the bathroom a handkerchief with a tell-tole laundry mark. The body was found nexj.dey. Ben nr r told of seeking refuge Philadelphia where he lived at the Edward hotel And later worked In | a girls* school In Brvn Mav. r. a j suburb. Later he became acquaint- J ed With Mrs. Mitchell, employed ! ‘liMtnm n Hl!i ,0r roB ““ ,, “ v ‘■ , ln i c™* Welch, the .even year. On. nliht i .ccomnanl«l hr-“ f Mr - *" d »'"• a dahee and o n $heir return at-. We, f h * °f «ear Athens, died Wed- tacked her with a broken bottle. • J****lay right at 9:S0 o’clock, as according tn his alleged confe-- \ f eau,t frightful Injuries slon. He left her half dead to rrawl :* Wc *» received when he Into fete Institution later and tetl ,'?* u * €d * dynamite cap to explode the *tory. She fs still under caro of i by • trik,nr wltb * hammer, doctors. * Th® *»dy was prepared for i^i — ■ ; burial at Jierastefq Brothers' NEGRO KILLED ,funeral home and later conveyed , to Carter’s cemetery, near Winter- Harvey Collins/ a well known ville, where funeral service* were Athens negro, who has been a | conducted by Rev. Phil Davis, fol- wafter at the Geonrte hotel .for > lowed bv Interment snv veers, was killed when the Thi> deceased fo survived bv his itomobile In which he was riding {parents',’6ie sister and two brotb- ilHded with another enroute to jers. all <»f ** ‘ raw ford. [thy of nun (By Associated Press) • WASHINGTON. — Reversing It’i previous policy, the house ways # and m»'an> committee Krid;.y i.cxir Little Gradv Welch' pubUc - lho nc ' v rcve;iuo 1,111 ln ,r,e he is still aloft, howeveA thero seems no possible explana tion as to why the pigeons havn not been releasd. LAD DIES FROM I Dioe r%( Inin.ia. 5»' socretary llollon. Thore 'had aJa injuries been criticisms from the Demo' 1 sent to tho capitol crat* egathst tho withholding of the detailed content* of tho bill. PAGE ONE U POISON LIQUOR (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA. — Polaon liq- >r wa* held responsible for the deaths of 875 person* In this city during the present year in a state “t published by Deputy Coroner Frank Paul here Friday. "This,city has been wide open,” he sa’d. ACT'TO COMBAT GOITER * IN MICHIGAN SCHOOLS LANSING Mich.—Because of the prevalence of goiter among Lan- mng school Children, the board* of health and education will confer tr arrange fo rthe administration of iodine to the pupils as a preventive treatment. fhl* action was recommended | Pentecost chu by Dr. R, 8. Hill, city health-off! { examinatlo Oglethorpe County Boy Killed While Hunting. Another From the Same County Dies Here. , Berner Stephen*. 14 year *»ld son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stephen* of Ogtfthortoe, died Thu)*»»kiy after noon a* a result of an accident of a discharged ehot aim. The youth had been out hunting with home boy friends and after returning home was playing with the gun which went off. the en tire load lodging in his chest. DeaUi wa* almost instantaneous. Grady Welch another Oglethorpe county boy, died Wednesday night In a local hospital, as a result of a dynamite cap exploding in Ms hand, making two death* from that county as the result of exptoafVe accidents. Surviving the Stephens youth are his parents and several broth- srs and sister*. The fur,ora! ar.d Interment were conduct«|>t Friday afternoon eg. In OgiethocgM, Hugh Bolilag lit with Re hlcb • charg Her irn*. Funeral Horn* in charge of the srraagtmeatlr