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Two Ihre Gaines &
Thi S ison’s All
Over?,It’s A Poor
Ru'e That Doesn’t
Ways; A
To City
Two Store basketball garnets
AtheisTdUtd the curtain will
ruHra down. Kentucky
comes ^Monday night and
Clemsotf ^ Wednesday night.
* Kcntudd’,and Georgia have a
I habit of; staging hair raising
Ibattlea ftl the basket court
•find usually not more than one
or two 'points separate the
scores at the end of the game.
rememlicrcd that o
the Wildcats a
championship over
.years ago
e Kentucky
e Georgia won
ut. This game
[of the best of
Sec. Davis Issues Warrant For The Arrest Of
English Peer, Looking To Deportation Action
V
.Yus self
then
purchr.sk
ft reduction to the
j and a substan-
i at that. Cuyler
be able tp offer
Kfattns on parts
ppretty soon.
$gint eight million
of bonds ' over
H for various lm-
Have you 'no*
y tearing their
any “pay as you
‘ of securing the
they need those
for? Bonds
o things for
©unties but for
hey are anything
ghat is if you Bs-
"pay as you
pave l
_ had a great-
shed off on it
i*lo»fcr, persons
and a certain
bublic respect but
whole feMtf occupation is
inspector street corners and
r dlmf fltft’ors and gossip,
not libs. The vagrant
loam fk ..usually in such >11
repute that hr cuts nd figure,
• motley, crowd
Tre'ittfn- vitf? but ‘ the above
nicnliouW-class is different
and jlucfcy
has nope.
lowtt;/.
T! e picture of Bobby Jones,
golf j champion, that ha* been
‘ay in Coitus window
A the town that
if there is ,uch a
BULLDOGS BATTLE
KENTUCKY QUINTET
HEREMONDAY NIGHT
BY MARCUS BRYANT
Basketball, with the exception of the Southern
Conference tourney, enters its last week’s schedule
for the Red and Black, including Kentucky, Clemson,
and Georgia Tech.
Kentucky will be played here
Monday night, Clemson appears Devil”
Applies To
Father
PYRG08, Greece—(UP)—
This Peloponessian town was
alarmed Monday at what 4t
considered a bad augury when
a bhby was born hers with:
One eye—
Two horns—
And a tali, sight inches
long..
GERALD GHAPiN IS
ONE STEP NEARER
E
Snowflakes Did It
day night in Atlanta the Bull
dogs and Jackets play the final of
a three-game series.
Kentucky, along with the Uni-’
vertrity of . North Carolina, Mon-!
day occupied the top rung among j
teams in the conference, both!
teams having a perfect confer
ence record this season, having!
won five games. j
The‘Bulldogs .Saturday night i
defeated the Atlanta Athletic*
Club, 30 to 33, in one Of the most*
Interesting games here this sea
son. Kentucky will add to inter-'
eat of local fandom and promises
to be another banner game on the
schedule.
Stands Fifth
Georgia stands fifth among
conference teams, having won
(Turn to Pag* Six)
A • blinding snowstorm near Cumberland, .Md., ret this plane on
s nose during a flight from Bollftig Field, at Washington. Occii-
. pants of the plane were saved from serious injury when heavy drifts
j prevented the plane from turning completely over.
i ]
Chamber Of Commerce >
Offers Cup To Cage I
Tournament Here
•n cJIa
r ° r , •
in the*new
_ i- to be hung
’ountry Club.
The jLeairue of Women
e,\. uWe rtsponsible In a largo
nuasure f.r getting out the
M)tc recently. caat in the ape-
< ial election in this countv,
and, the le ague feels that it
•t was the cause of a greater
interest >**ing shown in a «»■*
trio flection It was repaid for
it.t effort*. There is one duty
that the League could well
afford *t«» undertake In Geor
ballot system In the
Any county way have this x
county
:.ystenv where
mended by two
grand juries
grand
iy have this
it Is rccom-
.wo successive
, v Clarke haa it.
Ntated that several coun-
MVD , n this auction have eomc
within one grand jury f®com-
mendeupn of • getting . the
svjcm but that dealing
HitUi.ns have manayd to
defeat it. Tka. -lAMW *“■
find » fnatfoJ fieW to work
i„ if thii D token up ovar
the state.
The Athena Chamber of
^Gpmmeroe, after • matting
• Saturday named a committee
composed of A. G. Dudley,
.Lawrence Costa and W, T.
Forbes to offer a trophy to
the winner of the semi-finale
for third and .fourth place in
the 1926 Northeast Georgia'
High School Basketball Cham
pionship Tournament, to be
held hfrt during the last week
in February.
In offering th« award, a sil
ver cup, tho committee said
that'the award was being
made "In recognition of tha
work of the Athene Young
Men's Christian Association
and the Athene Banner-Herald
in developing thf game of
basketball and spreading the
doctrine of clean sports in the
schools, both large and small,
throughout northeast Georgia,
in advertising Athene to the
thousands of strangers attend-
the tournament gamee
and at an added Incentive to
the teams which battle their
way almost to the champion
ship but fail to win the title.’
The executive eommittee of
the tournament, composed of
Clarence W. Jones, physical
director of the Athene. Y. M.
C. A- and chairman, E. E.
‘•Pat" Lamkln and B. C, Lump
kin of the Athena Banner-
Herald, accepted the award
and-thanked the Chamber of
Commerce for its whole-heart
ed support of the tournament.
SENATE AND HOUSE
CONFEREES BEGIN
FIGHT OVER TAXES
WASHINGTON.—(UP)—Senate and house con-
ferces began their battle Monday to adjust differ
ences in the new tax bill as passed by the two houses.
The house, according to Rcpre- _ m ——
asntativQ Green, chairman of the Pf «» a Ha macro fa
ways and means eommittee, is de- 1 1 r c L/ttlliage 13
termined to wipe out the prodig-! A a
ious slashes made by the senate. • CStUllftlCCt At
Estimating the total reduction aaa aaa
of the senate Wi^at$eqq,qqoj)oo $1,UUU,U00
compared with $326,000,000 as.
passed by the house, Green de-. niVTn ,,
clarcd the senate .version an f Ohio.—(UP)—Fifteen
economic folly/' certain to cause f!!®_ j 0 ™* 1 }° abandon
a huge deficit in the
unless rectified.
NOTED SCIENTIST
WILL
El
Treasury the ^ r homes and damage estimated
1 at $1,000,000 was caused when fire
swept two business concerns and
damaged eight others seriously
Monday.
It was discovered by a detective
I who sounded a general alarm. At
that time the flames had converted
the National Meat Market !sto a
seething inferno.
NEW YORK,—(/P)—Gerald Chap,
•nan, convict**! ban-It us the mur.
derer, Monday lost his ■ appeal to
United Htatce Circuit Court cf Ap.
peals ..for a writ of'.habeas cor
pus. '
The Appellate Cvurt sustained
the order of Federal Judge Thomas
ot U'unneocleutt in 'dismissing
Chapman’s application
writ.
Chapman, tinder sentence lo hang *
on March 3 fer the murder of po
liceman Skelly of New
Supreme Kingdom Is Pro-! Voung AcCCOts
moted By.Ex-Ku Klux fo^don ? To
Geneva Parley
Leader Atlanta Teach'
era Atso?‘Named,’
ATI.ANTA, Ga.—Dr. Eciwln Lin.
ton. retired professor in (he Uni
versity Medical School at Augusta
n«s among those n*.v.<*<j at the
mats meeting of the Supreme King
oa.,„ o* .,c« nVu, 1 ;; I dora here Saturday afternodn a^
sought by tho Imben’i corpus pro— J teaching the evolutionary bypothe-
feeding* to bo returned to Atlanta j . .. ....
rlson, from which he escaped af- . ® r ’ Mnboney
r H«vln e only n «..rt iwrt of h!»' Minl.ter of the Supremo
ven.y five year, .entenc. for the . Kingdom, he. been eddreMlm
f2,000.000 mail robbery in New Womer ■ Clobe over the .toto ox-
York city. j pounding the evolutionary hypothe-
The opinion hand.v) down Mon-1 " ,s * Dr. Union retired from ae-
day, written by Federal j u dg e [ tire teaching In J9*2. Re stated
Mantnn, declined to go Into the j Monday in Augusta that^ he
question of the validity of the l*re- j addressed one Womans nub
sident’s cnminutatlrn of Chapman's the evolutionary theory. .
sentence. The court held thut only j The Supreme Kingdom Is being
tho United Htate* government could Promoted by h. Y. Clarke, who
have tho right to enter an objejc- | was ene ot the original promoters
tion in this connection and pointed I °f the Ku KIux Kilo and who was
out thut .ho govern mem, through j “deposed’’ by the Evans taction of
Assistant U, h. Attorne:/ Cohn had i the Klan. Clsrke was said to have
urged that the sentence of the state been ihq financial brains of the
ourt-be carried out. Ku KIux iKJan.
GENEVA. —(UP)— Owen H
Yeung, associate of Vice .president
Dawes is creating of the “Dawes
Plan" hag accepted an Invitation
to. take part In the preparatory
commission of the League of Na
tions economic conference.
His acceptance Is Interpreted
here as Indicating that the United
States will bring before the con-
addressing ference a demand for an Investlga* .
tion to break up world monopolies JJJf
In certain raw materials.
On Wednesday at eleven o'clock
there will bo an address by Dr.
Vendor I^cnnrd of Johns nopkins
University. Dr. Leonard Is a pror
fe^or In the School of Hygiene
and Public Health and has won a
world reputation through his re
searches in antiseptics.
His most noteworthy contribu
tion to science !q his HoKylresorcl-
WILL DISCUSS
ISSUES
HUNT IS. MED
DEPARTS?
NEW YORK.— (UP) —Der
partnre of the Earl of Craven
from the United States may
settle the queslton as to
whether the government hss
raised a question of “double
moral standard" in exclusion
of alien*.
Afte» Commissioner of Im
migration Curran had asked, a
warrant for the arrest of Lord
Craven, it was said that the
Earl had left for Canada, rath
er than face investigtion cn
(he same charges of “moral
turpitude" which caused ex
clusion of Vera, Cofcntcss of
Cat heart.
tion to science In his HofcylrosorcJ- ognu issues wui oe inc
noli an antiseptic more ; powerful rhief topic at the'^Chamber of
forested "M invited to hear Dr. i^**^*/ «n
i I editor ot The Atlanta Constitn-
NOTE COSTS 827.75 * io "' *nd on. of too l«»i»r. in th,
GOSHEN, Ind.—Abe Yodef. «n movement to h»ve the fortheom-
An,i.h farmer, livin* In Middle- ‘"it ..Mion of th. I.gi,l*tnr« to
bury township near here, wrote Iy*™ constitution providinc
W. H. Babb, a rural aehool teach-! {or .‘"« u ” subject to ap-
er, a note in relation to hia aon • proy-I of the people in the neat
being absent from school. Babb •‘<«‘on. dclivm the
caused prosecution of Yoder, on a pnwtpgl addrsea.
chnrge of circulating obscene lit-
WASHINGTON^
—(UP) A warrant for the
arrest of the Earl of
Craven was issued by Sec
retary of Labor Davis
Monday.
The warrant was signed by As
sistant Secretary of Labor Hus
bands and telegraphed to Commis
sioner Curran at New York. It
will be turned over to a federal
officer for service on tho Earl.
,1 u Tho warrants wore asked Sun-
membership meeting dav by Henry Curran, commis-
M-wi-S-Vitlock.* Moner of immigration at New
Hotlomon, associate York, after Craven admitted to
Discussion of highway and edu
cational bond i&Kcs will be the
A True Friend Of Children
'i . il -THE LADY OF SMILES"
Dr. Winifred Sackville-Stoner \
IIV FLORIDA C. ORB
; onx yPa re ago I h«d the good
time to meet a tody who »•
.indS of •’ r £' nt T . £t Vto'tod
lember 1’rcsjdont «« „ nn thi'
this nlay certain talents might l>c
detected- Said Dr. Stoner:
"Environment is the architect
of heredity and toys ir tools nro
the architects of cnviionment.
Through constructive toys we enn
HHI .... rn discover ns well us develop gc-
SSTwh^.T^m-toi 1 S3
SgSilfii “ d ITT7J m'Si tS!
TENDENCIES and TALENTS can
he discovered through watching
children nlay GAMES with AIMS
and through allowing littlo folks
tho 80.5 tln " “‘/'(rith ono to pley, o. they wish with con-
; meet Ik S V^"reailcd Dr. Uructive toys,
hose ‘ J.n' to Ath- “MUSIC-thc language of tho
ht on her dce |ac soul and the one Icagmo of na-
jiSsiito* * c0 “i„wthlng tions, shows whether children are
liar her ’*® b Juke hlue naturally rhythmic, whether they
owed by nato” ' „.„,ted; have well ordered nunds a, well
/ brown) bodies, whether they here
. u cultivated'SPIJJ*- * .* 0 ( keen tone sonxe and a aensc of
,at her smile 1* the tm . j^^ony Bg well as of melody and
; uveted & RHYTHM, the elixir of life,
null contact vltb *. l ° m iUng "I use the radio, phonograph.
sid( . of children—the »m and M musica , j n8tr uments as
( children being tjmir ^ well a* the typewriter to test tlys
r C. __ one sense of rhythm,
talking with Mrs. g to°!L^; "GAMES with AIMS-Tltreugn
„Jh> 11 had «>, gw^ArJj, playing gmmea that have alms-
"j hcl . in when I cawJ'/T game, that teach geography,
. "ns giving * ° epeillng, hlatory, and even the SO-
„ „ Lucy Cobb Chapel M c ‘, |ed bue „ ^ ARITIIMETIC-
“ lav February I have no difficulty in diacovery
; which would A" of chihlren'a tcndencltu. I do not
'• <Turn '° P * se8lI) -
It ,ix now expcctnl that Chapman
will carry hia appeal to the United
te.atea Huprcmc Court. Fredrick J.
Groehi, hia couhcI, stated at tha
lime the argument as mndo to tho
ApiMillatc Court that 1C tho duels.
I lon vvtih udversc, he wcuid make the
attempt.
The opinion of Judge Manton
.who wish Judge Hand and Mack,
‘heard tho apeul, said In part:
Tho Opinion
‘it is argued thot before the sen-
(ence of the otato can bo carried
cut l»y hanging, the prhbnrr must
first serve the balance of hts term
imposed by the U, 8. District Court l
This argument Is based largely
on the theory that tho ITosIdent'n
grunt lor commutation of sentence
Is Ineffectual because It was not
accepted by the plaintiff.
’We need not consider the offec'
of the commutation granted «r the
refusal to accept It.’’ tho opinion
continued. *'lt Is sufficient that the
(Torn to page'oig)
TUSSDAY
WNYC—New York—626 me
tres—noon. E6T—Municipal
Reception to Captain Fried
and Crew of 8. 8- Roosevelt.
CNRV—Vancouver—291 me
tros—8:30 p. m. PC ST—Com
edy-drama "Peg ’O My Heart.’’
WGBS—New York-616 me
tre*—10 p. m. EST—Bits from
"Chariott’s Revue."
WGN—Chicago—306 metros
—9 p. m. C8T—Medina Tem
pts Shrine Band.
Hockey games—either wJZ
—New . York—406 metros—
8:30 p. m^—Toronto vs. How
York—or WBZ—Springfield—
333 metre*—8 p. mi EST—
' PitUUu^t:; it. Boston. •_ .
ATLANTA TEACHERS
TEACHING "EVOLUTION’*
ATLANTA.—Names of flvo At-
lonLi high school teachers were
presented Sunday afternoop at »
public mass meeting sponsored by
tho Supreme Kingdom at the For
syth theater, ns being orptaouta
of the theory of evolution. The
names, read by Dr. William J. Ma
honey. who made tho principal ad
dress, wero Professor O. W. Walter
Professor Hal Hulsey. Professor
IL J. Martin and Professor I>. W.
Johnson, all of Boys* High School,
and Robert DcFoor.
Resignations of the teachers
were not demanded. I>r. -Mkihoncy
(Turn to Pag* Six)
Local Agents Of ‘Supreme Kingdom'
Claims Kinship With Balaam 1 s Ass;
Asks For Local Members Of Group
Ten Dollars or Some Such
Fee Charged For Mem
bership. It Will Save the
Grand Treasurer and
Keep God on His Throne.
BY DAN 31AG1LL
NEWS ITEM: Atlanta—The
Supreme Kingdom, an anti-evo-
Tourists Flock
To Tia Juania
For Last Fling
KAN DIEGO, Cal.—(UP)—Al-
though charges which may call ont
tho flriug squad before the week
ends, hangs over the chief cf police
lutionist organization Sunday! of Tia Juana and six other Mexi<
launched warfare on the teaching
•lb8c
Mr. Hollomon has spoken
Athens several times and his ad
dress Tuesday night will be heard
by a large crowd.
The membership meeting Tues
day night is one of the regular
semi-monthly meeting* author
ised by the membership when the
qbamber of Commerce was re
organised recently.
The meeting will be held in the
Chamber of Commerce head
quarters on Clayton and Lumpkin
streets.
“Green Barriers”
Wijl Be Shown
Tuesday Night
At Chapel
On account of tho Georgia-Ken.
tucky game Monday night, the
••nos. Tia Juana was thronged with j educational film, "Green Banders’*
immigration inspectors that it was
ho that Countess Cathart accom
panied to Africa—ar. escapade
which officials construed as war
ranted her deportation as involv
ing "moral turpitude."
CONTINUE FIGHT
WASHINGTON. — “Our fight
is against the official recognition
cf the double standard of inorals
by' the United States government;
many other men who have com
mitted acts of moral turpitude,
have been admitted to this coun
try and we will continue our fight
for the admission of Countess
Cathart." , i
In these words,. Alice Paul, fem
inist leader and chairman of the
National Women’s Party, Monday
announced In a United Press in
terview that her organization will
not give up the battle now that
deportation warrant has been
sworn out for the Earl of Craven,.
wealthy English peer and former
lover of the noblewoman now hc.d
at Ellis Island for deportation.
Negro Killed In
Auto Wreck; Two
Others Hurt
tourists .Sunday from the Ameri-1 will be shown at 7:30 Tuesday
"an side who engaged In revels night Instead of Monday night as
lasting until well - into Monday l was previously announced. Mrs.
morning. I Worth Hadley, formerly Miss Juilm
Many were drawn to the borai'r'Orr of Athens, take* the leading _
the .Supreme Kingdom. Being! rosorl* when they heard of threats i part in the picture. Mr. Hadley, i,Payne undertaking parlor. Jeff Bold
short of rash at present I in* rinse It, anxiooa to have "ong’a graduate of the Forestry school • another negro ws.* e^riously hurt
ducod the Gentle Grafters, I ’ last fjing” before the westti chief j of the State College of Agriculture and Nathaniel Reid was slightly
— — - ' l_ t. J a I 1.1 I u.... Tl...- ai.i-. tenl M.lfV ,
Earnest Itainc**, i negro was
killed Sunday when tho automohito
in which he wan riding was wrecked
on river street when it tried to
round a curve. The car ran Into u
post. Raines’ body Is at Mack
(Turn »e Psg* fix)
oasis in wiped out.
j takes an important part.
hurt. They ware sent to SL Mary’
Thirty Nine Teams Enter 1926 Northeast
Georgia Basketball Tournament, Held Here
B. C. LUMPKIN
With thirty-nine teams entered,
the stage will b« cleared for the
drawing* Saturday afternoon
the Athens Y. M. C. A. for the
fifth annual Northeast Georgia
11 lab School Championship Basket
ball Tournament. Several other
teams wired in Saturday night
tnat their applications fta*l been
mailed but no action had been
taken by the executive commit
tee of tm* tournament Monday as
to whether these last minute teams
would bd admitted. ^
The teams already entered are
i follows:
Atheift. Braseiton. Bow'crsvllle,
Plshop, I Bogart. Centerville, Cor.
nella, •IFvaukfJn County High
School f (Carnesvlite). cummins,
Colbert! Cbatsworth, Comer, Madi
son unty High School (Dan-
lelaviUd,) Dacula, 'Eatonton. Bast*
anollera Elberton. Grayson, Greens
boro, 01a, Lavonla, Lexington, Lo*
V
gansville, Madison. Monroe, Martin
Institute iJefferson). Nclhon, Oco
nee County High School (Wat-
kinsviile.) Royntah, Reed Creek,
Snellvllle, Hutham. Tate, Toccoa,
Wlhterville, Washington, Jllartwell,
Winder and Covington.
Tbexe annual tournaments an
put on by the Athens Young Men’?
Christian Association and th*
Athens Banner.lforsld and th*
1926 event wflll be the fifth one
staged. The first tournament was
won by Greensboro High School:
he second by Watkinsvllle High:
the third by Athens High School
and the fourth, last year, was won
hy the fighting Grayson High
School quintet.
Bsch year the winning team Is
awarded some trophy. This year
the-winners get a beautiful bronze
statuette of a basketball play,
twenty four inches high, mounted
on an ebony base. To the player
iudged the most valuable, a silver
loving cup i* presented. The busk-
etballs used In. the tournament aro
also presented to some team. The
Athens chamber of Commerce will
preach £ a silver loving cup to the
winner'of tho gamg.fof third and
fourth place. This action Is taken
by the local body recognition
of what .the tournament means for
Athens and is given as added en
couragement to the teems that get
aliocst to tho finals but do not
win the title.
I-arry Conover, who has refereed
all four of the previous tourna
ments. will ’again have charge of
the officiating. Lorry, who former-
ly was a coach at the Unlveriity of
Georgia and a four letter man at
Penn State, has always given the
highest satisfaction In tha tourna
ments and it is for this reason-that
be ’* being brought at a large ex
pense from hla home in Atlantic
City for the 1126 event
AU the tournament gamaa will
be played in Woodruff HaU aa last
year. The three court* there wjll
I be going full blast at the same
{time on the opening day, due to
Ithe large number of teams entered.
I The ball wlU seat 3.000 and at the
| final game last year between Win
der and Gfayonn there were 2.700
paid admissions, showing Just what
a drawing card tho tournament is,
even when nb local team is play
ing for the championship. All the
winners of previous tournaments
have entered 1926 tourney.
Duo to the wdde range of schools
from which this toumamsnt draws
Its entries, the tournament has,
come to bo recognised without
doubt aa settling, all championship
claims of the sohools for the title
of northeast Georgia. Each year
more teams try to get Iir the tour
nament but some must bo donled
for various reasons, such no eligi
bility snd because they are out
of the section. Many team* from
south Georgia have tried to outer
the toumamsnt bat it Is confined
fo northeast Oqorgi|. Thp tourna- (
ment is conducted Under the eligi
bility rules of tho State High
School Athletic Association and
under the spirit of'fair play and
sportsmanship of th©,Young M«n’a
Christian Association, and that’o a
combination that can't be beat
With each team bringing tne
men and a coach and 39 teams en
tered, it means that 429 player*
and coaches will bo In Athens for
tho tournament, outside ot the
thousands of supporters tb.« viri
ons schools bring from their home
towns. It Is the best possible ad
vertisement the city and the Uni
versity of Georgia could receive
and the moat favorable, for every
leaves Athens with pleasant
memortem or th.- good treatment
accorded it here.
Tho drawings for places in tour*
(lament will bo held at the Y. Mr-
C. A. Saturday afternoon at threw
thirty o’clock, at which time eiery
team entered may have promutt
a rcprcaeuUiive, If ili&k’jHb ^
S^J