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ATHENS COTTON:
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PREVIOUS CLOSE .. - »lj*a
THE WEATHER
Fair Thuraday nifht and Friday.
Mir cooler Friday night.
VOt.'92, NO. 140
Aaaoclated Frau Berrien. United Praaa Dtapatchaa.
ATHENS, GA, THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1»!4.
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Government Attack On Sao Paulo Rebels Fails
in rid in
« BUENOS AIRES.-
• \ The attack in force by
’ Brazilian V«|eral f troops
on Sao Paolo rebels has
tailed and a new bopn
bardmtjnt of the city has
i$en started by the gov
ernment army. -.V"
Th* palatini horn* of th* gover
nor', of Sao Paulo has been" dam
aged budly. It wa* abandoned by
Governor Campos soon after the
rebellion started#
The rebel# are making fc new ef.
fort to Incite an uprlatng In Hlo
Janerlo and hare circulated 4 re
port the? Intend to attempt an
advance on th‘ e capital • along the
Central of Brasil railway.
Radio message from Santos, port
. of Sao Paulo, says the coffee capl-
i tol virtually 1* deserted except for
Trial Of Senator Wheeler On Charge Of Misusing
Office T9 Aid Client To Affect Campaign Greatly
Ten Die As New York Tl
Centra? TraihH i ts
Truck Loatted With
\ School Children T-
Returning From Pfdnic, Driver, After Waiting For
Train to Pass, Started Auto, Only to Be
Hit By Another Train.
(j) civilians whs heaviest (n tbs district
of Brasil, thickly populated by
Italian factory workers.
BIENNIAL SESSION
Bill HAS LITTLE
CHANGE IT SEEMS
ATLANTA. OA.ti-Wlth defeat bf the
hnuso of representatives Tuea. of the
Langfejr Bill providing for a four-rear
tana for governor and other etate of-
f'rialH. hope for passage of the 90m-
panias aconomlc measure providing for
MannhU session* of the'sUte leglala-
• turn by constltutloita) amendment; was
somewhat dampened. Now that the
lower body has Shows adverse sent!*
merit to the Iriliger
ard«
other maasuree aloag
• term af office. It
was retarded m many quarters t^at
similar lines
would meet a like fate at the bandy
of the (eglalpfefa during the reamt
aesnlop.
In Ihs Jower bouse. Representative
Harris of Jeffersoh county today w*a
exported to make another attempt to
set the senate bill providing-.for a State
Income tax off the house table and e«
~ the calendar for roaNderation., Such
a motion was defeated ft to 71 yes-
terday. The bill waa passed In the
senate last year and tabled by the
house during the ‘last days of tho
(By Associated Praaa.)
OAK HARBOR, Ohio.—Investigation into the
cause of the grade crossing accident here late Wed
nesday which took a death toll of ten and seyerely
injured ten others was underway here Thursday.
The ten persona were instantly
killed when a New York Central
passenger train crashed Into an
fore seven o’clock Wdnesday night
Four railroad* erddh the street at.
the point whey* th* accident oc-.|
curred. 1
A passenger train, eastbound
from Toledo wii just pulling out
of ths station one block
when William Spangler, 40, drives
of the truck,* halted for the train
DAMNING EVIDENCE
far IIP
I
making Ilf# Imprisonment the RUSI>
mum penalty for crime committed In
this state Is set for special order of
business today and a companion bill by
Senator Phillip# of the Eighteenth dla.
tiict has been set to foUew dtapoaU
" tlon of te Stovall measure. The Phil
lips bill would substitute eletrocutlen
for hanging aa a means of carrying out
the death sentence.
, New bill continue to flood tho
hoppers of tho legislative branches de
spite th« congested situation In the
lower bouse. However a large number
of measures 'are dealing with local
county matters.
“Contempt” Editor
Removed From
to pass.
Witnesses aay thnt aa the last
cars were crossing the street,
Bprangler started (he truck, pass
ing behind the eastbound train
only to be .struck by n fast west,
bouod train squarely In the center
of the;truck. ,
The- truck was hurled more than
a hundred feet, bodies belhr thrown
In every direction, somt being
ground beneath! the wheels of the
train and three being carried three
hundred feet on the pilot of the
engine. -
There prere twenty six person* on
the truck whcn.ijbe craph occurred.
woulTke and
AMEND STATE GAME
AND FISH STATUTES
(By Associated Press)
ATLANTA. — Th. senate of
th# Oaorgla atata general assem-
bly by a vote of thlrtyono to
nine Thursday defeated the
me.eur* by Senator Stovall
which provided for V>o abolish-
ing capital punlehment In th.
state.
Tl
COLORFUL BATTLE
BY FRASE REOWAROSi
(United Press Staff ttorresbondlni)
WASHINGTON. — In the fever
heat of tit*- colorful three <"'■
I oared battle for the .presidency
fraught with unprecoclcntted poo.
•Ibtlltlra the dramatic topcn «Uy
await th. trial of Senator Wheeler
of Montana, vice presidential can
didate on the Independent ticket
now oat for October—th, crucial
pointed out Th unday. I*
wfthoat parallel In American po
litical htetory. It waa mcalled that
Doha
JAPANESE CABINET
LOOKS TO PEACE
IN NEW POLICY
To
„ Efforts For,'Resumption of Diplomatic
Relations With Soviet Government Easier.
New Policy Prescntedio Foreign
\ Office Thursday.
hb. made the ryes for KPn eralIy regard'd os fixing
prssrdem .. ii.. :nc:sim (.‘ef-ft-Us-S's .—i IS and
1920 front Atlanta federal 'Prison. ■- . .
(By Aeioctated rajas.) '
TOKIO.—A new policy towards Russia, on which
it is believed that the Japanese government will be
willing to grant recognition to the Soviet government
was adopted by the Japanese cabinet at an extraordi
nary session here Thursday morning.
The new policy a, presented to
foreign Minister Shideharn
Quito inconptrned
• By EDWARD C. DERR
United Prera Staff COTmapondant
CRIMINAL COURTROOM. CHI.
CAOO—Friendo and .Intlmataa
Nathan' Leopold end Richard Loeb
Thuraday helped the otate pava the
way. for puolriimaat for tho mil
lionaire youth, who murdered Rob,
Slowly but ouraly stet.V attor
ney Robert Crow, produced d.mn.
Ing fragment, ot evidence which
h. hope, will fare. Judah Cavertj
to order the boy, nanged. ' '
Th.ro wore nvoral dramatic mo
ment. at th. onalon Thuraday.
The flrat cam* when ‘ Ellwbeln
Rattler, maid In th. Leopold horn,
for four yearn took IM.stahd’J
dlctnycntt on charge,
bto offtco to promote the Ate rent,
of a legal client which ha, u«-n
linoRins-OVor hlo head fince.prlnr
Whbelor in a holiday %nod<t left
Thursday with hi. family to motot
to MaooacnMtto. S’ • ■
Wheeler raid ho had cctued to
,‘glro the Indictment any thought
I after repeated effort, to have hi.
! trial hurried by tho department tof
I ju.tlce hove failed'. '
“Dacaiwa of the clrcum.tanc..
flummndlng the Indictment I re
gard u >• an aaaat In my cam-
pa’gn with Senator Imfolletto and
not u 0 handicap,- paid Whealpr.
Armstrong Youth
Is Better; Frances
Northcutt Same
It will be pleasing new* to th*
riends of M Blir Annttroog to
ederat prwon. I nmkimr an agri
ahoQt th* in* j two countries,
1 ot mJsUBln* resumption Of t
cement between the
looking towards
diplomatic lclations
young
factlon Ve^Wfqe' th^ maid and yo
LaopoUlo. , N*th*9 ■tlfftnad as
took th 9 stand. ‘ Their eyes mat
(Tarn tojwg* *lx.)
Rome Couple Held
After Skeleton
Is Found • 1
ATLANTA. — Half a doxen bilU
dealing with local county matter,
war* paw-d in rapid niccewion by
the senate Thursday, among the
committee report, being sunmlttcd
In tbo senate was that of tbe Hy-
jgiene and Sanitation Committee
'which reported nnfhvorablo the bill
wbicb would, provide for tho cre
ation of a atata board-of pltuhb-
tng.
No definite otreement wu
reached on the report of thii house
•ub-comfUse appointed to submit
recommendation, on a measure
LAB VEOA8-—Under the cnato- looking to tba aabaUtntfon of a
dr of Sheriff Dalgadom. Curt Ma- (salary baala tor thw p, system for
gen editor ot tbe New Mexico .couoey office. In conntte. or forty
Btaoe Tribune left tbe county Jail itbouwnd population or over.
Thuraday for Sante-Fo, where M> I Another meeting will he held Fri-
eonrlrtion on contempt of court j day at which tune further conoid-
will be rovbwed by the |«*t|on will bo glwra tba matter,
court- I Tba aenato paaaed the hoo.o bill
amasdlng ta charter of the city of
Prison
(By Associated Press)
CHATTANOOOA—W. H. Ben
nett, freight agent for the Southern
railway at Romo, and wife, wore
arrested Thursday In a Georgia
town and brought to Chattanooga
In connsctlon with tbo finding bar.
about a work ego a woman’i
I skeleton In a shallow grave bo.
.ninth a house undeesplng repairs,
The arrest of the couple followsd
on Investigation by Iifcat authori
ties of a report that' Miss Augusts
Hoffman, aged aunt of Bennett
had otampled the bouse In ltll and
about that time bad mysurlousty
disappeared.
During her residence at tbe Ben-
nett home here, police aay Mis*
Hoffman was tnaated In n modiste
shop and apparently was la good
circumstances. She left tho store
ont afternoon ’Jt Is alleged, with
the Intention of going to Knox
ville on a visit after baring drawn
a large sum of money from tba
friends
leant that bt continue, to hnprnvo
it the Athene 0 On oral hospital, -ie
received a fractured skull lari
, r lulIr work when he fell from the ran
rrara tuo« issstssu- kkig' hoard of on auto mobile on
.There lo a strong bond of af- Cotlb .treet and for several days
grave fear* went felt for big re
40my.
He hag not rally regained <on
sqbalneaa yat but Is greatly Im
proved.
Froneeo Northcutt. young dough'
tor Df Mr. and Mm. John R. Nrrth
entt who la ill at the homo on
Hill Street with typhoid fevar, was
reported Thursday morning In on
unchanged'condition. She has been
tnriously ill tor three weak, now
but thr many friends of Urn family
‘ —■' the crisis has passed
charges
FIRE DISASTER
(By United Praia)
RANGER, Texas. — Two Brad,
sieved lb hospitals suffering from
InJnr eO' and monetary damage of
'tHMtSat Wag .toll of a dlaarirara
fir* whleh*xwvpt halt a block In
" the c»nter*of tin bnsineai district
Mrs early Thuraday.
er of the
Valdosta, another to amgnd m act
to crests a new charter tor the city
ot LeOrange and a" third which
provides for a change In th* man-
re* of electing county commission-
»i of Early county In primary
elections.
Among the n*w bills Introduced
(Tarn to page six.)
Police declare that th. evidence
sbowo the woman
Knoxville. .
nouE.—William A. Bennett war
emoted here early Thursday t»
Chattanooga offleere. Re le prom
inent In the affair, ot this’ com.
munity and I# the'district freight
agent tor the Southern Hallway,
Ho moved to Root
age from Knoxville.
NEW YORK COTTON
TAKES ANOTHER
BIG LEAF
.—Cotton prices on
the local market Jumped from fifty
une to fIRy-elght points ovarnlght,
lifting July contracts to SS-M
Thuraday and Doqembar to 28.U.
This represented a rise of more
than ten dollars a bale In two days
WHAT YOU WILL
HEAR ON YOUR
RADIO
ices Reign
At Curb Market
Bolted dinners In Athena Thors,
day didn't coat much aa a result
of low prices reigning at tba Curb
Market. Mrs. M. L. Troutman an
nounced Wednesday that vageta-
blaa and other produce would bo
■old at a tower price Thuraday
and aha stood by bar promise.
Boons that have boon selling
for thirty cento Par gallon t
ent to twenty canto; tnma
went from tan cents per pound
to 5 and S; egg* from thlrty'eenta
per dopon to twnty-flvd; friers
from thirty-five cento per pound
to twenty-five. Plenty of traduce
woo on tbo market Thors day and
Athene housewives hod a large
variety from which to aoloct vege
table tor dinner. A paw entry was
fiald peas at twenty cants par
“Twelfth Night”
To Be Feature
Thursday Night
Athens has a rare treat In the
opportunity of hearing Francis Me.
Cab# Thursday evening In his in
terpretatlon of ShakespeaiVt
"Twelfth Night.” to be given at'th*
University chapel at 8:J5. ' . '
Those fortunate, enough to have
heard him earlier In tire mimmer In
hi* Ur 11khtful reading of "The (Jrea*
Broxopp”, by A. A,. Milne, will
elcom d this opportunity of hair
ing him.again. He I- a gifted
nrtlnt who lun th v power to create
for hi* audience the nhuatlon* and
characters of a drama bo that It
ia graphically portrayed in thelt
Imagination a* though U were
played. ' Hla hearer* will not soon
forget "The Great Broxopp” and
character will live In mem
many! Jy/mjtlful
line*, the pure nnd appealing love
theme. irresl*tlbl 0 comedy scent
and tn* Inimitable character port*
will be beautifully and adequately
handled Thursday night in Mr.
McCabe's platform reading of the
"Twelfth Night.”
Mr. McCabe, who 1* a member ol
the oratory faculty, has been teach.
Ing for some years at Emerson
Col!*g a of Oratory In Boston, 1C***.
Immediately upon lenvlng Athens
he will go to Boston to tench in
the Emerson Summer School.
Mr. MoCabe will be presented by
OPTIMISM PREVAILS
AS DELEGATES GO ’
CONFERENCE
Claims Damages
- Mias Cobb of the Oratory depart-
ror oon s Hurts
At Whitehall
. SUIT IS LOST
The $19,000 .bit against the
Georgia Manufacturing Com
pany filed by Mn. Lula Strick
land for tllogsd damages to her
son, Lloyd, hart fn 1923, ended
Thuraday in Clark# anparlor
court In a verdict for tho de
fendant.
Damage, totaling $10,000, are
sought from th* Oaorgta Mannfac,
taring Company In tha nit ot Mrs.
Lula Strickland a go Inst the con,
corn which wont on trial In auiisri.
or court Thursday morning. Mrs.
Strickland elalps her non, Uoyd
Strickland, waa injured so badly
Ma <arn/nf capacity was decreased
thrni- fourths when a dynamite rap
exploded In his hand on SSpttxnber
32. 1121. -The plaintiff claim# pa
dynamite cap was found by the
boy whit# it was negligently loft
by embldfees of the Georgia Fhc-
,0 <7- ,l',’i '•
Tbe plaintiff seta out that work<
men had-boon working on a wel|
near tha, .home of Vrs. Charles
8hidden wheae her ion wa. visit
ing a.d that they lett the dynamite
cap'Vliem It was found feted by
Major A; L. McCoy
Returns From
McClelland
Major A. L- Mlcoy baa relumed
from Camp McClellan, Ala., where
*nd O. R. C. training camp, spw- tteMtotekTdlnnor^tor
tol Ha n r,noita ra.T'tt* Unlreraltv " hen he ,OUni the “ n " ,d
Ha repofta tbat tb* UalveraltT k#pl , t tw0 or thrce H * ww
gorging .< with a null wben It ex
ploded, tbn pfelnttu state- Bba
claims bar •oai' did not know wbat
tb, cap was. She declares h|«
right band pad arm are useless
rad hearing and *) Might Impaired
as a mult of tb. explosion. The
boy woo seven years of ago wbsn
tn. explosion occurred, it to stated:
A Jury Wednesday acquitted Alvin
LoCount. 14-year-old whlfe boy
charged with a atatnatory often a*.
THURSDAY' 8FIVK BEST RADIO
FEATURES
Copyright 1924. By Unlfed Presa
WJY—New York. 406 metros, S
p. m-. BBT. Polo Grounds boxing
matches. Carpontter vs. Tnnoey,
Berianbsch vs. Ratner.
WMA—447.6 metres, 8:11 p. m.,
CAT Fllomlni Singing Society.
WBAF—New York. 492 etree, »
m„ EST—Vincent Lopes sad
hlo orchestra.
KGO—Oakland, 312 metraa, 3 p
. POST. KGO players present
-Kindling- a three act dan* *y
Charles Kenyon.
wjz—New York and WOV-
Schnectady, ISO metre*. 7:30 p. m,
BBT. New- York Fhnkarmoiilc or
chestras.
of Georgia mm at camp bar* mad#
aa enviable record, winning a
number of prise, offered. Major
McCoy has resumed hfe work hot*
with tho 12nd division trains and
will bo buoy for tb* next rareral
weeks with the program that la
brine planned by the war dopari-
maot for September 12th.
miss no
CE
OBOLENSKY
-Miss Alice Aktor
daughter of Lady Ribbleadal* and
th« late Jdffh Jacob Aato^, waa
married Thursday to Prlaoo Obol
ensky.
Lady Ribblearslo and Russell H.
Rhoads* American Vico
were tho wltnexi
no others present
IENCE
..MARY CRAIG AGAIN)
Considering the probahlllty
that few of (he some two thou
sand persons who heard Mary
Crefr Wedneedny i-vcnlnK will
ever mis. an opportunity to
haar bar again It |a believed
unnecessary to aay more than
this: glory Craig will ktvo a re
cital at'the State Normal School
rudtorium nt TBUS Thursday
erenlng. Thefcltixens ol Athens
and 'studsms.nf the Bummer
RrWI arc cordially Invited to
attiwid.
itSr
The Octagon* overflowed and
filled tho aurrbundlng- park with
admiring music lovers on Wled-
pewtay, the third tevenlng of
-Music Week.” In writing of local
.entertainments. It Is customary to
make comparisons with othors i>rc-
amted in this particular town, and
In Athens, whore much good music
la beard, no sorloos restraint Is
so placed. Bat In treatte ot tJtri
grand opera "Carmen” ns present
ed by th* Summer School Music
dotmrtmant Wednesday evening,
this provincial .reference system
■hall ha set aside a* It Implies nn
nnrfvcMBiry limitation. For on tM»
occasion was heard mule which
was not only of th* brat Athens
over heard, bat which would bring
(Tara to page six.)
BY LLOYD ALLEX,.
United Prew Staff Correspondent.
LONDON. — American
and British participants
in the inter-allied confer
ence maintained undimin-
ished optimism Thursday
despite the impasse to
which differences of opin
ion between internatiprial
bankers on the one hand
and the French govern
ment on the other have
brought the parley. Con
fidence was expressed
thnt a week-end of rapid
’ fire interchange of dis
cussion would solve the
difficulties which’ still
center around the subject
of guarantees.
Early Thursday morning tho In
formal conference at No. 10 Down
ing Htreet waa resumed with Am-
baxwtdor Kellog, Premiers Herrlot
nnd ThrunU and Count de Stefanl,
meeting with Hjiimeey MacDonald
in tin effort to reconcile the bank
ers deinnndR for security for the
German loan with the French <ft»-
Tho meeting brake up *t noon
without reaching * decision.
fn th* afternoon, Kettog and
Sccivtary Hughes are attending
one of King George’* garden per-
tie«. Hughes deeplte his avowed
intent/on ot kqnplag hi* bonds off
tha conference ha« been busy try
ing to (imooth out many of the dif
ficulties.
Athens Welcomes
Slight Drop In
Temperature |
— ■ v
BY DAN MAGILL — 1
It wa* nine degrees cooler
at mid-day Thursday than it
waa at the same time Wed
nesday. It was still hot
enough to make a fellow
viiion cool lakes and g»een
meadows, mint julep (they
look so cool), and mutter,
“winter time 1* the best **rt
of the year. I always liked
winter best." Of court* it
made no difference to him
that last February when the
water pipes burst and tbe ra
diator froze that he wa* heard
to exclaim fervently; “Wlnt*r
time is the worst part of the
year. There'* nothing like
the good . ole' summertime
when a feller can jerk off his
coat, fish, play tennis and
watch th* grand ol*' gam* of
baseball."
Hut getting back to wher*
wc started. It was nine de*
grccH cooler at mid-day today.
In other words the theitaome- '
ter registered ninety d*gr**s
today at 12 o’clock and ninety-
nine Wednesday at th* sam*
hour, if that’ll help you any.
To put it more simply th* au
tomobile seat didn't utick to
your trouser* a* readily today
as was the case yesterday, nor
did you have that tired feel
ing upon arising. Several pea*
(Turn to page eight.) „
FIGHTING THE BOLL WEEVIL
(By J. W. Flror, County Agent)
How tha Soli Wnvit Increases:
The ovrtxgo fentth ot life of a
warvll fa, summer time la 13 days-
During tha tall and spring, in
rinding the hibernating period. It
ia very much longer.
Th* remain weevil, after haring
mated, atari# laying eggs k> a tow
days. 8b* flrat sate from th*
square*. Then aba Insprats tbs
eqnaiM and If it has not already
reraised an rag from mother was.
rit. aha bistres a very small hots
consul _.(*!* a I*, small 4—rarm that ream IA.
with th* small Jaws that are to
Torre were m tod of th# moat
Altar the hole lo made, thp Jaws
are withdrawn, the weevil tarns
r round, extends tha egg dost from
tha rear of tb* body and deposits
an agg at tbs bottom of tb* pre
viously prepared cavity. Tba bole
la then sealed. Tb* square punc
tured in this operation flares otkn
Ihrlne* Serge Pfetonovtteh Obol
onsky Nftsdlnsky Xslstaky (a o
descendant of on* ot. th* oldest
families of Csarlop Russia.
Mias As tor I. a sister of VInemt
Astor, who braamo of sr. oat year
•SO and rams Into pooraraloo ot |ln a few days sad usually fens to
a •s.MO.OM trust fund created for th* ground.
by Bar father. * In g*asrel It takaa'a fooMfe a
month to compfet* tire egg laying,'
after which aha dk% naturally.
Three to eight eggs are laid each
day and a total of about 100 to
IM may bo laid.
TBreo rags hatch In from threri
to fire days depending upon thb
temperature.
Th. larva that comas from the
N» grows very rapidly daring
warm weather and often reach th*
pupa (wlggler) stage lo seven or
right days. Fire days or more are
need In molting and catting oat
of th* aqua re.
The adults from tbe eggs laid by
the wintered over weevils are now
starting to lay rags. Since these
weevils will continue to lay rat#
for about (I day* on tha areragr
and since the flrat eggs laid be
tbe rirarife trill harm produced
adults be tons this A3 day period
has elapsed, from now to tba and
of tb* aannmre, tb* broods win
overlay and tba infestation will
naturally be continuous.
CHICAGO. — Truo bills wore re
lumed by thn county grand Jury
charging ta-o boys with auemjAjng
extort 18,000 from Jooob
Franks, father ot the boy murder
ed by Nathan Leopold and Yichard
- Mb.
The boys. Walter Boryca nnd Ig.
LUux Clomras sent —ot a letter
to Frank. one month after th|*
murder of Robert threatening to
kidnap Robert's slater. »
Tho boys said *»-nt the Ve
ter because they believed the ekk*
Frank* wan no t«*rn>r stricken bf
his other loss that be would p*j> j