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THE BANNER-HERALD
Invaatlgato Today!
Dally and Sunday—IS Centa a Weak
Established 1832.
ATHENS, GA„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER SO. 1923.
VOL, 91. NO. 271
THE BANNER-HERALD'
ATHENS COTTON:
middling
PREVIOUS CLOSE 35V|«
THE WEATHER:
Georgia: Increasing cloudirv
Da!!/ and Sunday—IS Cents a WeeS.
followed by rain Sunday afternoon
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A. B. C. Paper.
Simla Coploa 1 Ceuta Dally. I Casta Boday.
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Wednesday
Paving Of Cemetery Driveways
H One Of New Year’s, Real Needs
TIKE IIP DUTIES
The city administra
tion will change next
Wednesday at noon
when the councilmen
and mayor named in the
election in December
take- their seats and thi
retiring members pass
from the governing
body.
Mayor O- H. Arnold,
Jr., will succeed Judge
George C. Thomas as
the city’s chief execu
tive while three new
members of council will
be seated. Henry T.
Culp. retains his seat
‘rrtrn the first; Dr. H. B.
Hey wood Holds over
from the second and B.
R. Bloodworth will take
the seat now occupied
by George C. Arm-
strong from the third
ward Having been
named- unopposed. W.
R. Tindall, also named
without opposition, will
II had been suggested that the driveways in Oconee cemetery
he included in the paving b.vlget of the city for 1924 and this Is
a suggestion that should certainly meet with the approval of
No money has over been spent on paving the streets of the
“city of the dead" and the cost of the proposed 1 improvement is
so negligible that no serious opposition can be raised on that
account.
Th driveway of .the cemetery runs from the underpass at the
railroad track to the bridge across the cWer, the driveway forking
into.a pqcond avenue and then merging again near the bridge.
The length of t» e- two is approximately 2000 lineal feet or about
4000 square yards of paving- It is estimated by Captain BS’/nett,
city engineer, that the cost will bo about $2 per square yard, or
This driveway is used extensively and the present gravel
surface is. very nnestisfaetcry In the winter and during rainy
season* , tf my people drivd through the cemetery almost , e ,^^
day while practically everyone '
*ho has a friend or relative buried
LuctT would like to 'see some attention given the driveways.
The cemetery Is under the management of the Oconee Ceme
tery Association but Mt is hardly probable that enough money will
ver bo accumulated by the arsociat’on to take care of any per-
i nfni iha Htv will have to take charge ci
manent improvements and the city will have to take charge
this work and see that it is done.
The administration that 1s about to assume control of the
citv government could find *no f«ner piece of work to lay its tatim
to than paving the cemetery driveways. T he P*°P’® nf t a f
wMit It done', this much is assured and the Improvement Is one
prompted by actual need rather than sentiment. • r ,
The small sum of $8,000 could not bo spent -tola bet»or ad
vantage and/or a more popular purpoae than thia. .
Lost Dirigible
l
i-i-
Complete Program Of
“iFarmers Week” Here
Announced Saturday
UNCLE 31 TO SELL 1
MRPHES AND
RIFLES TO
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON.—T h e
Washington government.
has agreed to sell a quan
tity of war material to
Seme of the nation’s foremost agricultural leaders .
, will be here January 21-26 attending the annual the Obregon government
| “Farmers Week” conference at the State College of i in Mexico.
! Agriculture, program for which was completed and I The decision was reach-
announced yesterday by Dr. AndrcwM. Soule.
i The conference next month will . —»■■
'deal with agricultural problems of
'all kind* and an effrvt will be
made to map out a program which
will increase the state's revenue
from agriculture many millions of
.dollars.
cd after a request for
Experts In producing, grading
‘and marketing and financing * of
nops will be hc..e to take part In
the discussions. Governor Walker,
jj. J. Brown, state commissioner
of agriculture ; J. E. Con well, pres
ident Georgia Cotton Grower Co
operative. Eugene R. Black. Atlan
ta bankec; L. G. Hardman. Com
merce; P. T. Anderson, governor
, C'jorgia Klwanls d/jtrict; T. J.
Hamilton, and J. B. Nevin, nows
Dawes And Young Off
To Solve Reparations
The above photograph i
the largest. ol its tyne i
ill-fated inveiHgfctfon trip o.,— . . . .
ended in tragedy. Fifty lives wero lost, it is thought, when tne ship
plunged into the Sea. The body of the commander was found in the- cbMPLETE
water by fishermen. PROCRAM
J such action had been re
ceived from the Obregon
government and it is*un
derstood to have been
prompted by a desire to
STAGE BEBELLIONi^^r^r
led uprising.
Although details of the trans-
IAL SCHOOL
(By Associated Press) action are still pending before
DELAWARE, O.—Disorders Secretary Weeks the material in-
among the Inmate, of the Girl’s v .°,l vcd is to include military
rifles now stored at Ft. Sam Hon*.
army depots near
military air-
Former Budget Director and General Electric Ex
pert Sail Saturday. Dawes Has Not Yet
Learned to Say “Hell and Maria
in French.”
Romance Is. no respecter of
places wherein to get married,
and the Banner-Herald news
(By Associated Press.) j
NEW YORK.—Brigadier General Charles G. j
Dawes, former director of the United States Budget, i #na tiw wi
. , and Owen D. Young, ohairman of the board of the; for co i. mad.
succeed Carlton 1 horn- , E , ectr j e Company and Radio Corporation of; nomanco and Love have led
ton from the fourth two of the { hree Americans invited by the | thea yi C tim. to g,t m.rt.d
while-Vincent Matthew* i Inter .Allied Reparations Commissions to sit as mem-
will succeed A. L. How- ^ of - tg comm i t tee to consider means of balancing
land, who did not offer German budget, sailed Saturday for Europe.
for re-clecton, from the General Dawes, smoking his “
fifth ward. * j pipe, the bowl of which always,
Other councilmen whose terms so ems upside down, was in one of
anner-Hcraid News Force
Peeved; Wedding Occurs In
Business Office While An
Unromatic Reporter Sleep<
to not exp're until the e ta, e of i pKU jj, r m oods and refused to
complete the body | P „ fina ™
1924' who will
a „. n T lottery "from the first talk of European finance.
‘, K ’» jiiii from the second, He paced the deck* of th Am
j^Jteaker fromthe third. C. F. erica before sailmg time, attempt-
J. H. R-<.ker *. . .. d Wal- ing to elude newfcapermen nnd
^"nii/iSnm'tho fifth uttering numerous of his lemouJ.
Semberawill go into "Hull and Meries" every time they j
office at noon, when n Joint meet-jehot a queetton »t it- It w«» Well Known Clarke Cotin-
t 'ZXT^o 3f brhTthe? he had «n^ top*. “tot'ho i ty Woman Succumbs to
Iw 2™ Mayor ceorge r. T- om.s would be able to determine whet Attack of Pneumonia.
S» vav ^ W ° y 0< j Funeral Services Sunday
when*th^new"body‘hs* 0 recognUed AStem001 '-
(Turn to Peg. Six)
VENSIOS LEAVES
'there with the impertieiitV of ut-
ter ignorance,” he said, “but 1
have hopes that we will accomo
plish something."
General Dawes was asked,
“Have you ever tried to tranalate
‘Hell and Maria’ into French, Gen
eral; so it would he useful in
I P “‘ilYll and Maria no. I never
'thought of it," he replied, assum
ing an expression ol perplexity
Yesterday mornlnk »t 9 o’clock
at her home near the city, Mrs.
Wilt,am H. Dean passed away
after a brief lllnese with pneu
monia. 8he fend been In falling
health for a number of years and
succumbed quickly to the ravagea
of pneumonia.
TOT death of, Mr*. Dean will
corry sorrow to the hearts of
thousands who knew mud loved her.
Former Premier Begins
Return Trip to Native
Land With Misgivings
As to Outcome.
fTnrn to page *l»ht.)
PARIS—Former Premier Ven!
«lo» of Greece left Paris tor Atn*
Saturday .
He evaded newspapermen by on
•" uncln* t^at his departure
••cen postponed. Thi*#»tttloi» wa*
'xnhined by bis friend* •« due to
the hitter animosities In Greece
axainat him that hav not been AP*
i»;»iM»d. He feels that thre Is *
u ' mi.lable minority if not on oe»
b»al majority against him In
at the present moment.
and twirling hla^pipc in hU ‘“‘h-.gj,——- m qf , he Vwt known
women In this section of the atkte
and was prominently identifed
with the beat and moat enduring
work of the church.
Mrs. Dean was, prior to her mar-
. ,'age, Miss Fannie Ornham. daugh
ter of Mr. Abner Ornham nnd bis
wife, Martha Thompson Graham,
and granddaughter of Mr. John
WOMAN TO DEATH AS';
SHE LIES IN HER BED
(By Associated Prest.)
WSLSbK (OWN. inn.—Hats
gnewing at the dtfentelMS
body of Mro. Margorot Taylor,
79 end a paralytic wort r»
•ponsibl. for her death it she
lay in bed at her home here
several day. ago. .
C. B. Crumpaeker, epronsr of
St. Joooph County mode the
William Mayne.
She was born Not. 2S, 185! at
the old borne now known at the
Ornham place wblcb baa been In
tte family since the original grant
by the mate.
On Dec. 21. 1875 the waa mar
ried to Mr. William H. Dean, who
waa one of the beat known plant-
era In thla section of the Mate and
a man of the hlgheat character.
Hl ff frlands arc skeptical of aay( SL ^
Wltta* action he may undertake, re the cm** of
!n A.u to I- nut that the woman's death. Haw* ■*
ceremonies in airplanes travel
ing tliro/gh the mists but
never bt^ore in all human his
tory has a wedding been pe-r-
foimcd in & newspaper office
until last night
The wedding ceremorfy was
performed In the business of
fice of The tanner-Herald
whilo an unsuspecting reporter
(married however) slept
peacefully upstairs over a New
York World ntory of an .\mer-
Ican girl’a engagement to a
Danish prince, heir to the
th^ne of Denmark!
Think of it. Romance hap
pening right In a newspaper of-'
flee’ at tfrat. drab, colorless,
deapisedly efficient and
smooth working department
wherein §elf-re8pecting report
ers, managing editors and tele
graph editors fear to tread,
even on Monday’s (we get
paid on Monday’s). The shock
is ono the news force will never
withstand nnu as fof the So
ciety Editor who had laid aside
•her labors for the day, we •
know she’ll never get over f$.
But, we had better get Into
the real story, and' that is the
fact that In the Banner-Herald
office Mls a Groce Waters of
Athens last night was married
to Mr. Leonard Frierson, mem
ber of the University cavalry
unit. Rev. Oliver Prather, well
knou*n minuter, performed
the ceremony and the chief
witness was >!•*. Roy Wilson,
foreman of The Banner-Herald
coni!»oslng room. The battery
of linotypes, presided over by
iMessrs. Thomas Paschall. P-
Mathews. W. A. Mathews.
FIGHT “T.B.”
Citizens Increase Support
in Effort to Control Tu
berculosis in Clarke Co,
Each Year.
That clarko’ county people ,are
phasing .support of anti-
I’jborculosis work In the county
each year Is seen In !he,report‘rf
Mrs. A. B. Parkftr, chairap*ti nt lYo
S mnuign to raise funds to carry
the,work In 1924. Mr*. Phrker
stated yesterday that report from
sale of Clpifctmas Seals shows that
$2634 was raised.
The county schools and two col
ored school* have not yet report
ed. The Christmas Seals were sold
by committees of women repre
senting the churches ■and other or
ganizations. A. committee of bu?I-
nsse men sold about $1400 wotth
of Seals tie women selling the re
mainder of the $2634*
Last year around" $1200 was
raised by the sal® of Christmas
Seals and the year before that
.considerably smaller mount wak
sold. The Increare each year Ind'.-
Ovcr five .lum.Ted people arc ex-
-attend the-conferences.
The mograrn In full*follows:
• MONDAY, JANUARY 21
Alternoon 8esslon, 3 O’Cclock
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, preriding,
invocation—Dr. J. C. WUUnson,
pistor First BaptUf church, Ath-
>ens, Ga.
Address of Welcome—Dr. L. G.
Hardman, chsirman of the execu
tive committee of tho board of
trustees of th® Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture.
Address—Hon. Clifford Walker,
Go vet nor of Georgia.
Address — “The Co-operat'.ve
Movement," Hon. Eugne R. Black.
Evening 8esslon, 8 O’clock
Dr. T. H. McHatton, preaiding.
Moving pictureu under d'rectlon
of Prcf. George A. Crabb.
Address—“Blueberries In West
ern Florida," Dr. Carl B. James.
Horticulturist, L. * N. Railroad.
‘Montgomery, Ala.
Address—Hon. A. J. Evans, Ft.
Valley. Os.
Tuesday, January 22, 9 O'Clock
Prof. M. C. Gay, presiding.
Address—“Cooperative Market
ing,” Pi of. O. B. Jesness, Division
of Market), University of Ken
tucky. Lexington, Ky.
AthWefc* — “Marketing Poultry'
Prodv»ets," Prof. Roy C. Potts, Bu
reau of Markets, U. 6. Department
of Agriculture. Washington, D. C.
Address—Hon. s. B. Talley,
(Tarn to page tlx.)
[ »'<r 'ho pr,«nc. o( Bh,rl« Hnrto,
j of about $750,000 for the material.
| Decision of the Washington ad-
nnd a force of deputies.
The girls nifty attempteil wv(iWlull
wreck and break windows although ministrorion to make the sale came
the main force of the outbreak .somewhat as a surprise inasmuch
was spent Friday nlxht, the out- as President Harding on April 23,
break continued throuxhout the last, made a statement of policy
night nnd into Saturday often for the War and Navy Department
noon - which opposed the «ale of any sur-
Srhool official got In touch wlth'plus military equipment to foreign
Director Harper »of the State W>1* 'powers,
fare Department who happened to
be at Athens. Ohio. A dozen or
mor# of the girls who fled from the
institution Friday, night
at liberty late Saturday.
COLLEGE OPENS FOR
Normal School Also Be
gins Thursday. Lucy
Cobb and City Schools
Start on January 7.
WASHINGTON—The gnrrtson of
the port of Tucxam in the state of
Vera Cruz under the command of
Colonel Rueda Saturday Joined the
revolutionary movement, according
i" :> nu’MMiiLe filed at Vera Crux St
2:30 p. m. by the acting secretary
of foreign affairs for the revolu*
tionary organization to friends In
Washington.'
Tho message described the de«
velopraent as important “not only
because of the number of troops If
gives us for field service but be
cause it gives the revolutionary
movment absolute control of tho
entire oil region of which Tuxam
la the port."
Commissioner Must
“Pul Up or Shut Up”
Says Rep. Newton
Tho Unlvortlty of 'Ooor,:. otu-
d.nl, will return to collexo thin
week. " The- opening date for the
eprlns term le Thursday) the third
but the rcrlstration duties must „„
he completed WedhewUy and elaM.. (hln ,^ „ ronah0 ,j c
w h ; J*** d “ r ' eapltol of Jalisco, while
helm ^ m !L. 8Ch0 ?'„ * ,M state of Conhulla soldiers
begins again Thursday fallowing
\ the Christmas holldayk. * .
Lucy Cobb, will pot re-open until
th# 7th nn«t on the ..ns. j.i
.TUAREG— Federal forces Satur
day were hemming in the revolu-
daiajaro.
/ftw An-oclated Press)
WA sir I NOTION- Efflbrts were
renewed Saturday by Representa
tive New loir. Republican from
Minnesota, to obtain information
the District of Columbia po-
cate* that the people of the city , j| C# as to the disappearance of the
and county arp realising more anu ; io ns n«t of liquor purchases which
more tho danger to the community was seized In the recent raid, in
played Mendelsfohn’n wedding
march as the Printer** Devil
inarch as
danced with glee and the re-
portt?. slept. “Dudo” William
maue-up man, playcfl the part
of mediator -and phoned the
groom’s mother.
The Banner-Herald wishes
for the couple a long and happy
life—oven if they did start out
wrong by getting married in a
nffl.a tho hllltnBII
newspaper office—the business
office.
rtwiihl Wnlxelor nil^ixWe
i 1 '!intaln*.c. of the Royollxt re-
e 'm. Which he la known to favor
^ will antaeonlxe th. mint vio-
eltmentx of tho country.
Mr*. Dean had hoot), durlox the
greater port of her life, a conal«-
ent member of tho Mothodltt
church and deeply devoted to al.
„rvx (of Ita work. She waa for« nmnher
wound ranching fram har right of year, dlatrict aecretary of the . Untie Coaat Lin. and th.
*ar to th. point of th. jaw wav j Woman's Mlialcnmy rill, and N.ahvllle rnllro
caurad by aom. human a»iail ’
HKAR arguments
(By Associated Prow)
WASHINGTON’—Arguments ov-
er the proposed lease of the Caro*
number j Una and Ohio railroad to the At-
Louts- ‘
of agriculture; J. E. Con well, pres-
tlcn and not doing anything to
control the spread of the diaenae.
The money raised Mis month as
sures a nurse for the county next
year and the work of fighting the
disease will go on.
STORK LEADS
Nearly twice as many births
as deaths were recorded In
Clarke county for 1923, accord
ing to records f» the office of
letter to Commissioner,of police
Oyster.
Mr. Newton, declared the com*
mindone'' had failed to -give him
the information requested regard
ing the raid and subsequent *cvol-
opmenta.
“The evidence Involving *he al-
•-Aged prominent and Influential
men Is lost, said Mr. Newton. No
body knows anything about It. The
preemption 1s obvious."
the 7th and ‘on the same date the
high School and city system will
•tart again.
Examinations will begin at the
High School Immediately after the
term opens.
suing a rebel band that looted the
town of Allende about fifty miles
south of riedraznegras, according
to border reports. «' . ’-A
It was stated that tho fall of
Guadalajara was momentarily ex
pected. Federal troops, nfter cap
turing the towns of Zacoalco, Yur*
netinro nnd Ciudad Guzman, are
closing in on three sides.
President Obregon has moved big
headquarters from Irapuata to
Yurecuarau, following the evacua
tion of that town by the rebels.
^ k l J *±iJ!rTraI.t: i Armored Cruiser
Ordered to Waters
records ire complete through
Friday night. A total of V
birth* havs been reported
Mr. Barrow's office against
total of 376 deaths.
Around Honduras
FIND BOOY j
(Bv A*,ori,ted Prat,' . (B» Ao.ociatrd Prew)
ATLANTA—Th, boily o( P-1**'* WASHINGTON—Tho nrmorad
John H. JMckl, of Compony H.'riuincr Rooh.st.r, flocihlp of tho
!2nd Infantry stotlonril it Port i i. n | tMl g( M ,. >pM ui write
McPh.r.on, wax found ’yln.x b»*ii!o muodron In Control .ml South
tl-o. tracko of the Atlanta er-4 Wrat [ tmt-’r.n water, ha, bran tent to
Point railroad twnr Cat!*' Fork,th. port of Amapaln. Hondura. and
Battrday,’ He wa. fro-t Nnt.ro,s. will remain In that vicinity until
(By Ateoclated Pro.)
. PARIS—A auddan oxploaion waa
>u*x..trd Saturday a, tho probable
cauae of tho disappearance ,of the
dirigible Dlxmude. Advice* from
Home' .aid 'that nothing had bten
found among th. effects of Liau-
tenant Granadan, commander of
th. dirigible, whoa* body waa re
covered by fisherman off Sicily to
ahow that he frit th. .hip wa. In
Immediate danger. In addition to
fining .(he body the fishermen
told of seeing flasher at sea.
Indiana Governor
Farrs New Charge*
* By the Grand Jury
(By Associated Press.)
INDIANAPOLIS—The Morion
county grand Jury which investi
gated the financial affairs of Gov*
ernor Warren T. McCray and re
turned eight indictments agaJnst
him charging forgery, embezzle
ment UJld I ’ ■ V s . tunlay return
ed seven additional Indictments
charging specific instances of these
The Indictments made new t
sationg against the governor.
railroads were n«„ and apparently had either fall- th * r >m»nt disturbances in Hon*
the Interstate . ah t,nm n train m* been run over ■ n>i qa-.ilsm. tr■ _I• a t. n j.
I that church. Her husband, during heard Saturday^ by the Int*rsU # te?en from a train or been run ov$r duraa and Southern Mexico haVc
1 (Turn to page six.) {Commerce Commission. .by one. 1 qulted.
CATTELL ELECTED
(By Associated Press)
CINCINNATI—Dr. X. McKen
Cattell of New York Citv wav
elected president of the American
Association for the advancement
ol Science here Saturday He suc
ceeds Professor C. W. Wsicott,
aecretary o fthe Smithsonian In
stitute of Washington i
RELEASE WOMAN
(Bv Associated Press.)
ATLANTA — Mrs. Margaret
Weaver, under Indictment ai
accessory before the fact in the
the killing of W. S. Coburn, for
which Philip E Fox was i
tenced to life Imprisonment re
cently wa# released on a bond,
of $1,000 late Friday night.
