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THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy Sunday; local allow
era along the roast. Monday f
Little change in temperature.
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ATHENS, GAo* SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1(24.
IA.B.G. Paper, Slagle Capita 2 Coata Dally. ( Cento Sunday.
YESTERDAY
TODAY
—t——There
TOMORROW
Report* from Atlanta tailed
to Indicate how Clarke's two
representative* voted on the
bill that was loat In the house
providing fo r a four year term
for governor with the provision
that he be Ineligible for re-
election. The people of thla
county are not only In favor of
thla bill but ar« strong for the
mosure that provides for blen.
nlal sessions of the legislature
and want to M a record vote
on thla bill when it cornea up
for
The bQl that has been intro
duced In the legislature af
fecting the Civil Service Com
mission of thla city provides
that the members shall be elect-
by the people and the term of
office shall be three years. Un
der the present bill mayor and
council names the members of
th# commission and the term
of ofrtce Is six years, a new
member being elected of re
elected every two years. The
commission la composed of J.
H. Grlffeth, Jay H. Epttng
and W. D. Baacham.
Defense Charges Testimony Of Witness Was
Intended For Intimidation Of Justice Caverly
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State Department Sends Note On Murder
liajroi
yor Sheppard of Gadaden, >
Ala., doing 32 miles per hour
on Prince' avenue, deposited
$10.76 in the coffers of the city
this week for the privilege of
"stepping un it” en route
through the city. BUI McKin
non was the motorcycle officer
prbo happened along.
Lieut. Colonel James H. Do-
ale* 1 lma returned from a yatch-
lng party off the co*M of Geor
gia with the governor's staff.
That probably accounts for the
fact that "Jim” hasn’t had a
freak laundered white suit to
wear this hot weather.
Recordec Joe H. . Lumpkin
has adopted a plan of "sen
tencing” hardened city code
violator* especially some who
X. hit the white lightning too fre.
hpently, to attendance at
church at least once • a week.
He requires that an attendance
slip tie brought either to him or
the Client's lawyer every Mon
day morning while the "sen
tence" runs. Judge Lumpkin
says that he is receiving the
hearty support of several lead
ers of Sunday School daises
in the city and that the plan
which he ta trying Is working
admirably. What he does Is
to give the offender a straight
sentence and then remit It up.
on the condition of good be
havior and church attendance.
Violation of the conditions
makes the sentence effective.
Over one thousand dollars
worth of peaches will be sold
from flv*- serve of trees at
the State College of Agricul
ture this year. The trees were
so selected that fruit Is avail
able from the earliest varieties
tfntll th e very latest. The
fruit is handled
Greenhouse.
Illicit. , 141V
through the
■FELD TO HID
NOTE TO PERSIAN
GOVERNMENT
NEXT WEEK
WASHINGTON.—
The American govern
ment Saturday took for
mal action to secure satis
faction for the killing of
Robert W. Imbrie, Ameri
can vice-consul, by a mob
in the streets of Teheran.
The state department
dispatched a note regard
ing the murder to Joseph
S. Komfeld, American
minister at Teheran.
Komfeld is expected to
present the note formally
to the Persian govern
ment early next week.
State department .officials would
not comment on the note but It
was believed that the not. was la
the nature of a> strong protest and
that It demands amends for the
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Little Progress Accomplished On Important
Bills Before General Assembly; 15 Days Left
Brazilian President Is Holding A
Yacht Ready For Quick Flight
TO LEAVE SAD PAULO
CITY AS FEDE1S
PREPARE FOR ATTACK
Bumper Crop Indicated
For Clarke This Year
PLAYGROUNDS ARE
A bl. (*rttr manufacturing
conc.ni announce, that It U
tn.kinr loud colored hoM tup.
porter. In nn effort to Indu')
th. coll.pt hoy* lo return to
tha atylo of kreplnp their MX
up inatead of nlloirlnp thorn to
lump alopplty around Iht
nnklc. Wonder If they lire
polnp to recoin th. anpport of
p*nu manufacturer. In h.rlnp
th. Unpth ihortened » that
th. flashy pnrt.ro will ahowf
Th. Btat, Collep. of Aprlcul-
tur« I. certainly corrylnp edu
cation to th# hlnttrlondt. Some
of the ptrln nttondlnp the club
camp thin lummer had new
ridden on o train until they
came here. Md nerer men
wnior flow out of 0 spigot,
hid nonr im n moving pie.
tun no, o bothlnp null. But
they know how to c*n fruit and
bake bread, hod htord of
bobbed hair ood knew the
ehup-chup of o Ford automo
bile etlmblnp ow the moun
tain.
-A Mid Bummer Nlpbt'e
Dream” was a part of the pro-
pram nt tha Slat. Normal
School Friday nlph|. It moat
ha to boon about .Sow Hurries,
ole# treaty moral np. whan hot
toast and MffM toko the chill
pway. On. baa to dream about
ouch thlnpe to p.t a ticket to
dream-hud thcaa nlphti.
Cicero WHUame and Stobo
McDaniels,, veteran pirett car
oondnotoreuiotormen are |of
the opinion that next to the
man who. samples the Ice to eee
If lie noma herd enonph they
have tho-beut Job. In tow. thla
awalterlnp weather. -All we
hart to do le lust open up all
' the windows of the car Tooth
Ttyi two playgrounds that hare
boon. opened here, on# on Cheat
•treat tar whit, children and one
nt thro Wait Brood colored school
for nopro:>. ore belnp lorpcly at
tended dally and are proving more
popular .very day.
Two aupervitad play acMlona are
hold dally, one from 10. to 12 In
Ukx forenoon and another team 4
until ( lo the afternoon. Two up-
err (pore look after the children
oa each playpround while Mlie
Andrews pupanrlaet the work nt
both and plana the program..
Tbs Klwanls club voted Thure-
day tp vi.lt the playpround. at
an early date and tha Rotary dob
le expected to follow likewise,
ntlete o*o orpxnkatloue hod a
largo part In aatabllahlnc the piny
Before the season closes on
September flret when th. children
(Tum te Pope Two)
(United Preae Staff Correapondant!
. .BY BBTANTPOWEES,
•BUENOS AIRES.—
President Bernardes of
Brazil ,is keeping a launch
ready Say and night pre
pared to flee should the
occasion warrant, accord
ing to reports brought by
steamers from Rio Janei
ro.
Official government report., how
ever. .how nothing to Indicate
ouch extreme gravity at thla They
declare the fighting around Sea
Paulo la continuing Virtually with
out change.
Censorship (till prevents occur
ate Information from the battl.
zone. .
All clvlUana have been notifl*'
by th. Braxlllan government to
leave Boo Paulo wh.ro fer.era’
troops will lannch a debit!vo attack
end crush tha revolqtlonlsts no
carding to a report from Rio Ja
neiro.
The attack I. to ho launched
again.it rebtl atronghold through
thickly settled sect tone of the city
Weather Conditions Fine
For Cotton and Aids
.Gerteral Crops. Weevil
Warfare Is Progressing,
Firor Reports.
Indications are that Clarke
county will harvest next fan tha
largest cotton crop It. boo raised ia
the last.(our or five yearn.
'COOLIE BRANDS
PACIFISTS AS
“INTERFEHEHS”
‘SPITE WOP
r Associated I
(By Associated Press)
OOATESV1LLE Pa. — Denfamtn
Don.Inver. Atlanta City roil es
tate dealer was under arrest Sat
urday charged with th* murder ol
his aged parents In Lancaster. Ps.
rourtmn years (go. Ha declared
his arrest tha result of “.pits
work” on the part of n brother who
•wore'oat the warrant charging
that while hla Parents slept, ho
asphyxiated them lo obtain‘pos
session of rich real estate
Speculator, Not The Farmer, b The
Man Profiting From Present High
Grain And Livestock Markets
«M*» »1d
bo sses- -
BY D. a MEREDITH
Unltsd Press guff Correspondent
WHEATON. Minn.—“The specu
lator nod not the termer Is pocket
ing profits tor preamt livestock
and grain msrtots.
“Now that prices are up, the
farmers have nothin* much to veil
8o far sa agricultural reltel Is
concerned the preoent, situation
nwone nothing. It is a fictitious
market-’
This la the statement of P. W.
Murphy, chairman of the executive
board of the American Council of
Agriculture. He Is a dirt fnrtner
himself.
“The farmer ie getting abn.'utely
nothing out of the present market,"
Murphy told the United ‘Press.
“Even It he had train to sell he
could make no profit on the market
today,-for Its cost, 41.76 to Pro
duce a bushel of wheat, sixty
ceuu to produce a bushel of oats
and til per hundred pounds to
produce bog. for market.” ho sold
“On the first of July when price,
started np the avenge Burner had
not more than ten per cent of the
I lost year's crop In .tores*. This he
“Tybee’s blowing I needs for feed nntil Use new crop
have nothing oa those I la harvested, end what ho doesn’t
lft they say. . Jteed. ho must sire for end until
this year’s crop is In and he la sore
of seed for the next year.
‘ “On today's market tha porches
lng pofer ot the fanner lo only TO
per coot of what It was la 1*12
In..
The fanner's purchasing power de
pends upon pive> at the primary
market and not at the terminal
market- «
“The farmer hat to pay tha
freight to the terminal marhat and
he boa to pay the freight from the
terminal market to the Bum on
what ho boy*. Freight rote* ere
twice u hlga u they went in
l»lt. ■
‘ There la n good crop prospect
in the northwest, hot conditions
arc such everywhere else that
there will be a world aborts** ol
between 100,000,000 rad MO,«M.OO«
bushels of wheat. Tiara is a carry
over from last ytor of lash than
1M.MO.0M bushels and on this
basis the present market price for
Wheat should be at least 42
here taed at least that much for
wheat to poy out"
Murphy said that the American
Council of Agriculture, organised
hero Joly 11 end 12. will have an
important announce moot tarty next
W. Firor, who hoe been directing
the fight on the boll wepvll in
Clarke county for the tost two
weeks the weather conditions re
cently hero town generally farora-
ble for crop, and partlculnrly fine
for cotton.
Cktrko county termers realise tha
necessity of contlnnlos a determin
ed s uture on tha bolt weevil until
all danger in past and It la believed
that they will keep np the fight.
Mr. Flror’t weekly report on tha
(Tum to Page Three)
PRESENT SESSION
LACK OF WORK ON
€'
News Flashes
(By Associated Preae)
WASHINGTON. — Chairman
Spencer of the senate committee,
hearing the co&test over the «eat
of Soator Mayfield of Texan, demo,
crat, enounced Saturday that at an
executive session of that body held
rccuntiv-at Atlantic city, permit-
son wu given for the reopening ol
the onie along strictly limited lines
POSTPONE DATE
, (By Associated Pres.)
WASHINGTON. — The dot* on
which forty-two rail roods of the
country would bare been required
to Install the automatic control
systems was Indefinitely suspended
Saturday by the Intentats Com
merce Commission.
CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS
(By Associated Preen)
CHICAGO.—The United 8
Railway Labor .Board will pn
State*
■ay Labor Board will proceed
with the contempt proceeding!, In
United States district court again**
the Railroad Broth or hood lepre-
•cMativre who hare refused
testify in the engtoiemeot wag* dis
pute wAh western railroads, t|
was announced Saturday. At the
see time the hearing of the die
, FOR FIRST
TIME, CHALLENGES 1
WITNESS IN TRIAL j
NERVE
Associated Prose)
(By Assoc
IICAGP. — Brigadier General
ATLANTA.—With but fifteen _
days of tho present torn remain- ~ u proceed"
lag when the house tad teonte pal *
convene on Monday, the Georgia
legislature bids faVt to com
plete a session devoid Of any! cHH_
out standing constructive togisto. charloa G. Dawes, republican
live enactments. ‘Thus are lire nominee for vice-Dissident wlP
under coosIduaUon to "pS,W. ratlon.l SgL w|tk
both branches, than, are *°m*,an address at Lincoln. Nebraska
pieces of really Important, state- the home town of Governed
wide proposed legislation on tholr chariot W. Bryan, deraoc
calendars, but arid# from th, nomine* for vice pre.ld*nt, ..
Tkach county creation, the twO Aognat 29, according to an on-
honne* have eo far failed to com- 1 nouncement made at repel Hear
plat# action on nay proposal tost headquarters lure Saturday.
— {ptrepMUn*
United Preen guff Cerrespondenl and ,of bond Iseues bare not yet
WABHINOTON—Pretld.nt Coot. - 1 ' -- - - -
Weather Person
Is Dangerous To
Monkey With
By DAN MAGILL
We bars only oursslvts to
blame. W# were fortwarntft
by our better and mors pre
scient half not to set involved
wltb this weather person. Ws
would not bead the warning
born of woman's IntulUv* facul
ty for sensing danger, and ap
prising tbs strength of unseen
forges. But wa reckoned not
wltb th# ability of lb# weath.
tr individual to get us am-
brollad In just what wa bar*
been embroil*d In, to-wlt:
Friday wa had to taka a day
off of our regular work—a
thing which wa hatsjiks bias
es to do—just tof answer all
kinds' of quarries about the
weather, PI because, innocant
Oiks, wa reported In this nawa.
paper the position of tbs ther
mometer at certain times two
or three days this week. *
X sweat voiced woman want-
. ad to know If our thermometer
was working good because tbs
one wa consulted at 11:16
o’clock Thursday registered 10
degrees flat while bars was
hitting It off at 104 and threat
ening to get higher. Wa told
her to cool it off. Another
kind parson wanted to know If
wa knew anything about fix.
lng thermometers. Wa told
her w« didn't even know how
to fix an umbrella or what to
do with old rasor blades. Still
another telephoned to know
whether w e would be ao good
as to tell her whether It waa
going to rain Saturday after
noon about baf-paat four but
when some man called up to
know if it would be advisable
to take a trip through the-
country one day next week,
why, we just gave It up. From
now on, If we know what’s good
fo r ua, well let this weather
person alone. First thing we
know homebody will be wanting
to find out whether It Is beet
to plant fall Irish potatoes be
fore t^e moon changes.
However* for the benefit of
those who .didn’t notice It the
thermometer registered H de.
grace, running on two cylinders,
two flat tiraa and an empty
tank yettergay*
ldge Saturday rebuked pacifists or
ganisations for opposing prepared'
ness end interfering with plana foi
"Defense Day.” September II,
when a teat will be made of the
nation’s military resources
Tha president said criticism* ol
this tsst as "militaristic war* *un
fair* and declared the critics bad
made use of th* "device of mlerepre
uentatlon."
Mr. Coolldge's views were con
tained In a reply to a letter from
Frederick J. Libby, executive sec
retary of the national council to*
prevention of wyr.
President Coolldg« answered that
he was thoroughly in sympathy
with every practical effort to (pre
vent war but said he strongly oh.
jected to stripping the nation of
safeguards In the chanc# of mini
mising war.
Oratory Dept
Presents Program
Monday Night
INCENDIARY FIRE
7TTVT ™ — 'Tv I ( B F A Modeled Press)
been sufficiently acted upon to) YAKIMA. \Va,h. — Police say
come up In either branch for con-, that tho quarter or a million dol-
s Id oration of the body oo a whole | lar fire which destroyed one no.
Thor, has htan practically no tpod a hall blocks here early Saturday
tonus for highways or for tho pro
posed state-owned port authorised
cr vetoed. Whether the etat* wll>
Issue 4M.OM.MO .In cood roods
hoods, crest# a highway district
waa of Incendiary origin.
BELASCO ILL
(By Associated Pro
NEW YORK.—David
Polasco,
with Issuance of 4*0,000 In nod dean of Americas theatrical pro
hondo, pr create • public owned,ducers Is III with grippe and
tenntMl by Increasing the stats'.; bronchitis here. Betaaco {roe sixty
hooded Indebtedness to too extent yean old Friday. Ho Is '
of ttE.0M.0M h» not yet been de-
termlnrd by legists tire action.
STATE PORT
BILL
• Th, state port bill alter re
peated postponements In tho state
senate- has boon art lor constders-
thought to be seriously III, though
—rtHcfently so to liars two doctors
and o oune attending him.
(Turn to Pete Tws)
GET 42.900
(By Associated Presl)
NASHVILLE. - Walking
CRIMINAL COURT
ROOM, CHICAGO,. I1L—
Charges of “attempted in
timidation of Justice John
R. Caverly” by the state
witnesses were made Sat
urday by chief defense
counsel, Clarence Darrow,
at the judicial hearing of
Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold for the murder of
Robert Franks.
After more than an
hour of merciless cross
examination of James
Gortland, Darrow sudden
ly shot at him this ques
tion:
“Don’t you know that
this story, of yours of a
friendly judge is a pure
fabrication given for the
purpose of intimidating
thji court?”
“No, it is not,” Gort
land replied.
During, his testimony Friday
Gortland said that during one of
his conversations with Leopold the
(Turn to pais sis.)
BEGIN FINAL WEEK
into
Tho Oratory Department ol the
University Summer School will
pneent a program or on, act playr
and readings at th. Colonial the.
sir, Monday evening at g;lE.
Thor, will also bo brtot talks from
some or thea, mtmbws of the
Summer School Faculty who arv
offering courses of study In tht
Oratory Department.
Tho program to os follows;
Part I;
1, Box Borders—David Cronahaw
Borrow—Mario Brown.
Grorxta Unlveralty—Ptoy-
folk—Chancellor Borrow.
Tho Now Voice—41. V. Boa-
ford.
.. (a) “Lot It be Paid” “Weald
Spaces"—Lolll, Bflla Wylie.
(b) “Whin th* Little Boy Re.
Away,” “Th, Truant’’—FranW L.
(Turn to Pago Thrc)
WHAT YOU WILL
HEAR ON YOUR
RADIO
REPLACES WATSON
IN SENATE PROBE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON—A mooting Sat.
urday tho aoaato aoloct commltteo
authorised to Invottlgato th Inttr-
nal Revenue Bureau, resulted in
the formal resignation of Senator
Watapn, Indiana, chairman and hit
replacement by Senator Commits
of Michigan and th* decision to
resume the Inquiry on September
t.
NEGRO CONFESSES
11
the office of the Hartford Hoslory
Mill, here Saturday, three un
masked men at the point of re-
votnre, gathered from a desk th.
wrtkly payroll of 43,MO anil te.
capml In an automobil. waltlnl
outside the building.
EDITORS RETURN
(By Atoociatod Pres.)
QRUKSWICK. — Members
the Georgia Press Assotla
havieg completed, practically
weeks tour of tooth Georgia were
returning ’to their homes Satur-
lay. Upon th, retprn from Fenian,
dlna they were entertained at i
ball at the hotel here end finish
ed out the day with a fish fry at
8t. Slmoa’a Island.
SESSION TO CLOSE
AMERICANS WIN
(By Aaaocfated Press)
HARROW ON THE HILUFnf
land—The United State* defeated
the British Empire in a series of
matches hpro Saturday hrtwsar
tha American swimming team and
the lending swimmer of lb* cm.
plr*.
SUNDAY'S FIVE BEET RADIO
FEATURES
(Copyright 1424 By United Press)
WEAF-New Yorh, .44. metre,
and WCAP. Washington. 444 me-
trea. 4:M p. m. EST. Capitol
Thectrg pragma, with "Roiy."
WJ2—New York, <65 metres and
WOY, sekaectady, 4M metres. 7:20
p. m.. EST. Concert by N«w York
Philharmonic orchestra.
WOS—Jefferson City, 449.4 me
tres 4 p. m.. CST, Union opra air
services.
WQJ—Chicago, 441 motrra. 7 to
4 p. ro.. CST. William Orchestra
and galaxy of arttota.
WOAW—Omaha. 124 mattes, (
p. m-. CST. Musical chapel service
by Walnut Bin choir.
fBv Associated Preae.)
CAIRO. HI.—Here Connote, ne
gro, ccnfceaed hero Saturday that
h* participated with Fred Holt
another Cairo negro. In a hold up
at Villa Rldgt loot Monday night
In which Mlsa Delay Wilson. It.
woe killed and her father. J. C.
Wilson severely beaten.
Hal* to on* of th, thro* negro*,
who** thmtsntd lynching Iasi
Tuesday resulted, to tho calling out
of ths Illinois National
After his confsoslna.
was rushed to Mound City, the
seen* of a previous mob demon'-
stratlon and from there was to he
token to a distant loll, th* location
kept mnt, where three other ne
gro*, ere being held tec oof* keep,
lng.
ABANDONS TRIP
(By Amoctotsd Press)
WASHINGTON - Cooler wpotb
■. bringing to u end the .test
wav* prevalent in Washlngtnu all
wtsk. tod President CooMdg* to
ehairdos Saturday kjs usual weak
to dtrip aboard the Mayflower in
favor of a week end to'Washing
ton d- voted to conference and wort
on his noUdcetfoo address.
JUSTICE DIES
. . (By Associated Press)
MANILA—Manuel Araulkj, chiol
justice of th. Supreme Court of
tho Philippine Islands
Saturday. Th* justices of the
court ere appointed by (ho presL
dent, of tht United States.'
WILL HAYS SPEAKS
' (By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES—Exploltlon of
motloq pictures by mesne of dto
*t» untruthful , or satacloui
publicity stories must coaar If the
fllm Industry, la to frtv Itself of
aocuottldn that Us natural bout Is
toward filth. Will Hoys, president
of-th. Motton- Ptotora Predneora el
America told member, of rh,
Wampas, an orconldatlon of pub*
The University of Geor
gia Summer School Mon
day will begin its final
week after enjoying: per
haps the most successful
session ever held.
Summer- School "Music Wssk”
come to a close Friday evening:,
with the preKentation of Mundel-
(Turn to Pag* Throo)
ARE v
NAMED TO HELP
I
OF THIS STATE
About forty represen
tative business and pro
fessional men of Athens
and Clarke county were
designated Saturday by.
Mayor *0. H. Arnold and
President Joel A. Wier of
the Chamber of Com
merce to go to Atlanta
tomorrow to attend a
statewide meeting called
by Governor Walker in
the interest of the South
ern Exposition to be held
in New York next Janit-
ary.
The movom.-nt to stag* a South*
ern Exposition in New Tor* wna
launched never,!I years ago by th*
Southern Commercial H~rmfrff
Association. &n.i through thf rf,
(Turn U Paot Thrsal ^
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