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ATHENS COTTON*®
MIDDLING 19 l-8c
PREVIOUS CLOSE .. IB l-8c
THE WEATHER:
Rain Wednesday night ainl
Thursday. Warmer Thursday.
"Miss Moina’ Is
Honored On House
Floor; Athenians
Given OfHces In
History Society;
Coffee Club Error
iir'
Mias Moina Michael, Ath
ena, vaa memorialized by Con-
groasman Chaa. H. Brand on
the Door ot the congress -lues-
day alien he told members ot
that body hoe- end why Mies
Michael wrote her famous
pcem In ansaier to Col. John
-UcRea’a,. "In Flanders Field ”
Dispatches from Washington
Tuesday night were as fol.
Ions:
“WsshlnQton—Rspressnta-
tlvs Brand, of Athens, paid a
high tribute Ip e speech In the
heuse to Mine Monla Michael,
of the state normal school, as
the originator of the poppy as
the memorial flower for the
American soldiers who lost
their lives Ip France.
"Brand told how the Inspir
ation for the poppy hid come
to Miss Michael as she sat one
November day In 1913 In over
seas headquarters of the Y.
M. C. A. In New York city
reading Colonel John McCrea's
poem, “In Flanders Fields/*
' "During a qulat morning
hoar In tha hsadquartora office
Miss Mlohael reed this poem
and studied Its graphic Illus
tration," the Georgia member
told the house.. "Her dedica
tion was then and thsra made
to keep the faith end to wear
always a rad poppy of Fland-
-enkfialdt aa a algn of rem
embrance and a token of her
pledge to hold high the light
of liberty symbolized In the
torch."
"He sketched the various
steps In her campaign which
resulted.finally! In having the
American legion flow**
1920.* /.
A* a that ia oar-
. tial recognition/of Miss Mlcti-
nel’a interest In the men who
fought in the World War, the
Executive committee of the
Georgia Department of the
American Legion haa arranged )
to have a aketch of Mian
■Michael carried In the volume.
•‘Oooritla Women" now being
milted by Junes B. Nerln. At
lanta.
Dr. B.' P. brooks waa namod
a vice president of the State
Historical Society at Its moat
ing In ’Savannah thla week,
lie end Dr. E. M. Coulter were
attendepte at the meeting.
Resolutlona on the death* of
Judgo Andraw J. Cobb of Alh-
ents and Henry It Ooatchlna.
Columbus, were adopted et the
meeting.. W. W. Oorton, 8a.
vannah, waa elected prealdent. i
Volume hue, number one of
"The Georgia Highway On-
sottc” la olt the prose- It
carries an Athens date line on
the meat heed and ia publish
ed by the Osorgle Highway
Association.' C. C. Thomas,
secretary of the AthenwChem-
her of commsree, la preeldent
of the Asiioclatton. The issue
carries a lot of Interesting
highway Information, especial
ly -re’atlre to bonds and pav
ing In tha state. It Is strong
ly In furor of the issuance of
stttb bonde for tho completion
of tho highway system.
So for no blstorien. novelist
or Idealist has come out with
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY IT, 1926.
TF"
Ae B* C. Piper.
2 Cents Dail^r.
ri
ll Cents Sunday.
DLL. UPSHAW Counties
Ernest Holmes, Omaha merchant, suffered d stroke of apoplexy
and during hia iUner.* forgot the combination of hia uaU, which con
tains several thousand dcllnia in cash. 80 he asked professional
cracksmen to come and try to open the safe Tor him. The one pictured
above, who refused to give his name, said be waa the best safe crack
er on the Pacific coast—but ho couldn’t open tho safe. Experts havei
advised against the use of explosive or blow torches. ' •
TRADE COMMISSION
PUSHES PROBE OF
ALUMINUM COMPANY
WASHINGTON. — (U
P)—-Wpts and drys in the
house Wednesday joined
hands on a plan for inves
tigation the results of
prohibition after six
years of operation.
. Representative Cellar, democrat/j
New York, introduced a bill. for an i
inquiry into every phase of. dr) s
t enforcement by a Presidential com. I
i mission and revealed. that Repre
sentative Upshaw, democrat. Clear
gla and dry leader aud Represen
tative Hill, republican. Maryland,
wet ebampion, approved hi s plan.
Cellar proposed appointment by
the President of a commission of.
1 seven members two of whom would
be women. The commission would
I be required to hold hearings in
, various parts of the country to as*
.certain public sentiment and then*I
. recommend what percentage -of |
• alcoholic content ' might be —*
us ‘‘intoxicating Intact.**
1 Opcijgtlon >of .the commission
feta# of ihe Treasury or ,som*>-
one designated hy him to act
.nh ex-officio member. Pere
who have had affiliations with wet
or dry organizations would bo in
eligible for membership u&ler the
bill.
Defines Bill.
Cellar defined the scope of the
bill .as follows:
“The effect* of prohibition upon
business, industry and labor; Ua
relation to vital statistics, Includ
ing Its effect on social and moral
conditions In the various communi
ties throughout the state, together
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enewed Violence
Is Feared At Any .
/ Time In Mine Zone
EVANSVILLE, IND
—UP) — Renewed
P lence was feared lit
r time Wednesday in
coal mining district
oi southwestern Indi
ana where a dozen min
ers were injured in riot
ing Tuesday.
One of the injured
meg Lee Corbett, a non
union miner, is near
djeath from stab
\yimnda. ... 4 .
•PITTSBURGH—<UP)—The federal Trade Cora
mission, having won a victory in establishing that it
has the means of compelling the Aluminum Compa
ny of America to produce records requested, Wed
nesday began the fourth day of its proto; of the com
pany’s business methods. ',
The Commission seeks to prove
TO
: that tho organisation controlled
by the Mellon interests, is guilty
| of monopolistic practices and un
fair competition.
Photostatic copies of about fif
ty letters and telegrams were in
troduced as exhibits after attorn
eys for the corporation termed
such proceedure “outrageous."
Tho objections were recorded „ on
the documents. None of them is
available to the public but it was
admitted they contained trade
secrets,
' There will be no session of the
hearing Thursday because cf tho
annual meeting of the board of
directors cf the Aluminum Com
pany at its offices in Pittsburga.
LOU ELKS WILL
IS
CHEN MEET
DEATH 111 FIRE
ALBANY, N. Y.—(UP)— Mr«.
Edmund Teal and alx children
AMERICAN MISSION
OFF
WASHINGTON.—(A^—President
Cootldgc. after a brltf stay to h *
office Wedn.aday, returned to bla
living quartan In the White House
to ac*k relief from a heavy cold
BBRLIN, Germany.—.(UP) —
The Standard Oil company, undei
the cqver of the. Banque de Pari*
et dea Pay* Baa J* negotiating
with the Russian soviet regime for
n concession - in the Rnealan oil
fields and the eltabliihment of a
nominal Pranco-Rusalan (through
actual standard Russian) monop
oly for talo of soviet oil In Eu
rope. ...
The French bank with the con
sent of the Freneh government
hoe devolved a achcmc whereby
the hank would grqnt the soviet
large long-term credits end the
nu A V*M UIJU BIA unitiltu.
were burned to death early Wed? |
nesday when fire destroyed their
I heme at Central Bridge, f near,
| b^Teal and the oldest daughter
(escaped. .•* >
• Neighbors were unaware of the
fire until Teal, with both arms
broken and clothes afire n escaped
from the burning building find
aroused them. The fir? U-thought
to have started from a defective
chimney. '■;
It. was impossible to summon
aid quickly as the telephone ex
change closed at midnight and thy
only telephone with ont&Mc ——*
One of the most important meet
ings of the ye*r will be held by
The President confered daring local Elks Thursday night at eight
the morning with Chairmen Mao- tHtrtv o'clock at the club homo on
* ... —- Washington street, according to an
announcement by Exalted RuLr
G? a nar Pntmlsnno.
fn addition to-the regular bust-
new, the nomination of
for the coming year will hold the,
nt tent fori * of the lodge. -The nom
inations must be made at the
Thursday night meeting *
Final plans for the visit of
Grand Exalted Ruler District Don-,
nty Broyles of 'Atlanta' lodge, will
be made. The District Deputy will
visit the local lodge in the uexc
All Elks, both lock! and visiting,
are urged to ^attend the meeting
Thursday nipht.
den of the bouse appropriations
committee and received « call
from Ambassador Riano*of Spain.
K then cancelled other engage-
meats for the day.
Olr. Cooltdge appeared at his
desk at the usual time and trails-
acted business demanding hla lm-
mediate attention, lie has suffer-
ed for a long Unto with a n»»>
trouVe aud. ha*, taken regular
'ttg&Jbm, AM »«
cou.lder tha. cold-which hf l»>™
traclc-d a* seriqiu. They •*« «
could he more quickly cured If
non root waa taken hy ur -
poolldge.
ncctlon waa in a physician*, office
same distance away.
PEKIN, China. —(UP)—Amer
ican miaaionarle* were reported I
Wednesday to he under fire at /
Sfnyang end one of their number*
was reported kidnapped. ’
Taeir tuppHue have been cut
off for three week,- and real- die-
tret*, ia reaultinfr. The conse-
quence of tho firing and the
shortage of food, the American
Vice Consul at. Hankow, Is pro
ceeding to Staying In the hope of
deriitag. relief measures.
This word reached here Wed
nesday after Tueaday*a advice,
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Drained To Build State
ineer W.R. Neel
OOLLOMOF SLAPS
MINORITY GOVT.
AT MEETING HELD
OT LOCAL CITIZENS
Georgia counties are
being drained financially
to do the work of high
way building that the
state should do,. W.. R.
Neel, chief engineer of
the, highway department
declared here Tuesday
.night at mass meeting of
'iiixtns held under auspi
ces of the Chamber of
Commerce.
|. Mr. Nani and James A. Hollo-
ipou, associate editor of Tho At
lanta-Constitution, were the prin
cipal speakers at tho meeting over
which President Andrew C. Erwin,
presided. Mr. Hollcmon spoke on
tho “Duties of Cltlzemthip,’' de
claring that Georgia's present con- 1
dltlrn Is duo to negligence of tha
majority to exorcise the rights of
duties of citizenship.
Mr. Neel stated that he Is In
disagreement with the Stato High
way Board over the best policy to
pursue In highway construction a)-
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/GIFTMiTTEE
OF T. W. G. I. El
An ordinary cotton petticoat tuny be wotth $200,000 to Mr*. Lor-
ra-'no Richmond of Loi Angeles. When her uncle, George A. Headline,
died and left a 3200,000 fortune, aho produced a paetticoat on the hem
of which he had written Ms will leaving the property to her. Other
relatives are contesting the will. >
LIFE TERM GIVEN
MAN WHO KILLED!
LABOR DEPARTMENT
IS STUMPED OVER
CATHCART PROBLEM
Mrs. A. S. Parker, p res idea t
of the Young Women’s ChrtstJhn-
Assoclatlon has called a meeting
of the Initial gift «onsmlttew%r
the maintenance campaign -tor
$8,000 which opens next T8ka-
MEMPtilS, Team—Life Impris. _
onmenf.lt the penalty A. C. Welah! r m> n | rv for a visit
will pay for th« murder of Dollle| C ° U _* ry *°. r ? .
Cooper, -hla sweetheart. Secretary of Labor Davis il
Watch shot the girl down on {expected to rula, on the ur.ucua!
ZL-’.u . ju;bc-e on December 14,tense before ho leaves for Florida
hlSThi Wednesday but hi. decision
_ - 'JSy.Tiny not bo mqdo public for a
Reverend ris’.riton Black, P“' ?L "|S ov« her IMaUate'bodP I f .' w dw ** He h V conferred with
tor of the Methodist church, w*s.*"“ Attorney Genera) Sargent on the
badly burned in trying to rescue T?' 22 nnd WM wrtou * bot **• n 11"»e1 mirations Involved and has
the victims. | covered.
The pastor, who hod returned]
from Albany on n midnight train, 1
■aw the flames and heard the
erlea of members of the family.
He made his way to the second
Hoor where Tesle, unable to
force hia way through the flames
_ , WASHINGTON—(UP)—While Vera, Countess Knyin
T Cuthcart languishes at Ellis Island, officials of the the committee whose incmu-u ja-^
I Labor Department continued to struggle with the'jjjjjjj. “” f >
problem whether'the titled English woman should Ttbbots, m«. H>rrv n'o<Hr*»iL
j be excluded as an undesirable or admitted to the c * D * rUa '
recommendations to guide him.
Faced with tho fact that t
countess may appeal her ease to 1, cn , „f the
llw United SUtea Diatrict Court' meetings in
of New York and iscuro a writ campnlsn. 1 „
of habeosi corpus that may leml subscribers will be rho:
Plans are being completed -fee
the meeting cf all team captains
and members on Friday evening
st 6:30 at the Y. W. U. A. ThS
■t important
i preparation for ’tha
Lists of prospective
and da-
I legal .
[the Immigration
ssvicta in turn would guarantee a to hla children, was.taring to dray
large oil supply to France. hla wife, to safny. The woman.
—— however, struggled successfully to
, go bock to the children and per
ished In the flames. Three- of
| the children were sleeping in the
attic when the t’re broke out.
The Humes forced tho pas
ond Teale to Junto from n second
story window. Teale was badly
hal t in the leap.
NEW YORK.—The Southeastern
Power and-Light Company which
recently acquired the-Georgia Rail
way and Powerd^cmpony^alao.may
purchase the controlling stork of
the Georgia Light Power and Rail
way. according to Wall Street ru
mor*. - £<.'■' ■
Dempsey’s Sparring
Partner Is Found
Dead In Hotel
RICHMOND, Va.—Ralph Brooks,
scarring partner -of Jack Dempsey
■hot himself through the head In a
room In * hotel here Wednesday.
Physicians at'tbd' hospital
which he waa removed:held
What You WiU
Hear On The
OR a t* i o
United Prrng.
THURSDAY
CNRM--Montrtal—411 me
tret—S:30 p. ,m. E8T—Hart
House String Quartette.
WTIC— Hertford—476 Met-
rt*—5 p. m. EST—Lecture by
Ofga Semcrocfy noted concert
pienlet. ,
WSB—Atlente—428 metres
—S p. m. CST—Alfred Hol
lins* organist.
KDKA—East Pittsburgh—
309 metres^— KYW—Chicago-
535 metree-KFKX—Halting
—238 metrt«m~WSZ—Spring-
field—333. metres—8:30 p. m.
•at EST—Dinner Musi’;.
• WNYC—New York—62« me
tros—S p. m. EO'*—Hockey
game, Boston vt. New York.
tey Centre) Sargent on the to her being released on bond, tailed .Inatructlona gins for *'»I1
questions Involved and has Daria is reviewing the situation 1 tag the Y. W. C. A. to AtheraT
emigration board ot review! , (Turn to Page Five) 'Supper will be «< i-cl. ^
CAPTAIN RICHARDSON MAKES L AST
APPEARANCE HERE WEARING RED
AND BLACK WEDNESDAYNIGHT
Captain Nolen Richardson lends harder in
tho Georgia BtJIdoga on the court
at Woodruff Hall for hi* last time
in. the final game of tha present
season for the BulMoga bore
{Wednesday night against Clem-
; son. The game will atari prompt
ly at eight fifteen o’clock.
For three yean-Captain Rich
ardson has starred on tha basket
ball team and hla final appearance
before the local populace Wednes
day night cltmu a brilliant ea-
reer. And, -or no other reason,
the Bulldogs will fight all tha
may -be
. % befbl.v
Tech' I* the only remaining
game on tho schedule before the
Conference tourney, thla gome to
bo played Sattndny night In At
lanta. Just as waa the eaae in
the second game of the series,
George Keen, forward, was con
fined the earlier part of the week
due to sickheaa, but returned In
time to take his part against the
Jackets. Keen Is improring nice-
Ir and though be will be unable
to face Clemson, he ia expected tu
be ready for.the Tech tussle-
Following the defeat of tb?
Bulldog* at the hnnOn of Ken
tucky here Monday night, a Hlh§
practice Waa held by the Red and
Blockers Tuesday. "Flash” Turn-,
cr nnd Walter Forbes, suffering
with Injuries, will be in sliapu,
nnd Harrell Huguley. who , hits
1. .11 ■ ■ ' ..f Gh- line-up slnce'fhb
t'n I' : - i-n:ision, --arly this Sen*
s< u, is lisck on til" en-no thougli
not in the best of shape. It la
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