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TTTE RANNEIt-TlEliAl.D. ATHENS. GEORGIA.
MARKET
NEWS
GEORGE M. ANDREWS
207 Tenney Building
Leased Wire
1 them. At the final game left
■ year there were 2,700 paid admiv
sions, and the two teami fighting
for the title, Winder and Grayson,
neither were local teams. The
majority cf those spectators cams
from those two towns.
The teams, upon their arrival
here, will reginter at the Y. M.
C. A. where they will be given
information as to the big event.
ATRRNfl rnrmN I The executi .’o committee of the
The local cotton market closed i"“ rna jy cn f J? ®'“'PO»«i CUr-
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The* following were the ruling
prices in the exchange:
Tone, steady; middling, 19-72c;
steady.
Open High Low Close P. C.
Mch.. 19.47 19.58 19.45 19.45 19.54
May.. 19.05 19.15 19.03 19.03 10-07
July.. 18.48 18 ,9 18.46 18.61 18.50
Oct.. 17.51 17.65 17.56 1758 17.P
of the Y. M. C. A., chairman; E.
E. “Pat" Lamkin and B. C. Lump
kin of the Athens Banner-Herald.
The Banner-Herald has made
arrangements whereby six men
will be detailed to cover the many
games during the tournament,
thus completely covering every
phase of the largest tournament
ever held in the United States
with one exception. That excep
tion was the 1925 tourney here,
Dec 17.64 17.571 when the same number of teams,
Jan 17.51 17.57 forty, took part.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling
prices in the exchange:
Tone, steady; middling, 20.76c;
steady.
Open High Low Close P. C.
Mch..20.28 20.32 20.25 20.25.20.26
May.. 19.71 19.75 18.68 19.68 19-69
Julv.. 19.06 19.11 19.03 19.06 19.0'
Oct...18.20 18.25 18.16 18.16 18.1!
Dec.. 17.86 17.88 17.82 17.82 17.83
Jan..J780 17.82 17.79 17.78
FOSSES SHI
FOR 12 ESCAPED
T.
Killed Two From This Barricaded Room
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling
prices in the exchange: JIKESVILLE Ky.— (UP)— The
Open High Low Close trail of twelve escaped convicts
WHEAT— I who broke jail here Thursday was
May . . 167 169% 167 169% picked up lato Saturday' when
July . . 148% 149% 147% 148%, George Harris, a mountaineer rode
Funeral Notice
Fire Slayer
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY,SU.J
. 1926.
DOWNS—The friends snd rela-
tives of Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Downs, Watkinsville; Misses
Eula and Katie Downs, Wat
kinsville; Messrs. A. C., L. W.,
H. O., R. H., and Edward Downs
of Watkinsville, .Mrs. R. C. Eld
er, Mrs. W. L. Hall, Oconeo
Co., Mrs. J. T. Osborne, Ameri-
cus, Ga., Mrs. D. A. Hall, At
lanta; Mrs. Ti L- O’Dillon Wat
kinsville; Messrs. W. W. and I.
R. Downs, Watkinsville; Mr. J.
A. Downs, Farmington and Mr.
W. L. Downs, cf Vidalia, Ga.,
are invited to attend the funeral
of the former, Mr. John L.
Downs, Monday, February 22nd
1926, at eleven (11:00) o’clock
A. M. from , the Watkinsvii.'e
M. E. Church. Rev. B. H.
Trammell will officiate assist
ed by Rev. F. D. Cantrell of
Union Point, Ga. The follow
ing named gentlemen will
please act as pail bearers and j
m^et at the heme at ten
teen promptly: Messrs. (
Duggan, C. G. Parson, Roy
Ward, O. D. Chandler, W. H.
Ashford and E. P. Johnson. In
terment will be in the Johnson
church cemetery ;Oconee coun
ty, with Bernstein Bros. Funer
al Home in charge.
U«e
When Springfield. Ho., police tried to nrrest Clinton W. Holliwts-vorth, 20. for posaessiny weapon,,
he barricaded h'msclf in hi:; home and for four hdurr. stood off SO officers. He killed two men and
counded four more before the police finally broke in and captured Kim. Note how the walls are bul
let-riddled, with doors nailed over theVvindows.;. Inset shows i,;hh.; worth.
Oct. . . 141% 142% 141% 142H into town with word that he. his M am p Paatnr
I'ORV— wife and three son. had driven off IhaHIC I aSlUI
CORN—
May . . 79
July . . 8214
Sept. .. - 86%
OATS- ,
May . . 41%
July ■ ■ «%
Sept.
79% 78
f
wife and three sous had driven off
79% the men when they demanded
82%. food.
84% 83% 84%' a poseo, fagged with long
I searching In the hills had just
41% 41% 42 f come in for rest and food but whan
48% 42% 42% Harris broke his news, they took
43% 42% 43% f
Twenty Games To
Be Played Opening
Day; Woodruff Hall
To Be Battle Scene
(Continued from Page One)
ment winner faring Bishop her
next ooor neighbor.
The List
The other games for the open
ing day will be as follrws: Tate-
Lnvonia; Winder-Grayson; Elber-
v y t:n-Comer; Snelhrille-Eastanol-
lec; Cumming-Ilu; Wlnterville-
Dacula; Madiaon-Washington;
Hartwell-Colbert; Bogart-Cames-
v i 11 e; Entonton-Greensbpro;
Chattsworth-Bowersville; Jeffer-
son-Monroe; Logansvillc-Coving
Harris . . .
to the search again In the hope of
overcoming the men. The Pikes*
vllle posse, riding through
broken foothills Is part of a chain
flung put to prevent the prisoners’
escape from the stats.
WIFE. DAUGHTER.
THEN KILLS SELF
RALEIGH, N. C.—(UP)-Sud-!
denly driven inanne by domestic
trouble,, C. H. Jackson, 69,
Creek-Toccoas Comolla-Athen,;
Centerville-Daniel,vllle and; Lox-
’•ipton-Royaton.
Antoni; the game, on this list
sure to he feature events will be
the Athens Hlgh-Cornalla High
affair. Athena has Wen defeated
only once this year whtla Cornelia
has defeated the .‘-one Riverside
quintet. Winder an.' Grayson,
Inst years winner, come together
in' what should he a nerve-shat-
tcrer, while Hartwell and Colbert,
the lest named teem tl» only one
to defeat Athens Hi(h, ought to
bring forth plenty of fireworks.
Confusion As To
Identity Lead
To Claim
Pushes Dances
NEW YORK.—(UP)-Con-
fusion between two William A.
Clarke's, one a multi-million
aire copper magnate snd United
.Staten senator, and the other
a farmer of Missouri, school
teacher and druggist, lead to
mistaken claims of three Mis-
Fcurl women, according to a
statement issued Saturday by
Edward L. Blackman, counsel
for the estate cf the late cop
per king.
Blackman told of investiga
tions purporting to prove that
the three claimants were the
.1 La - William A
Entonton and Greensboro, one of
the dark horse* of the tournament
meet In a »corch»r while Elbcrton
and Comer will furnish the apecta-
tors with plenty of action.
The tournament, are itaped
under the auspices of the Athen,
Youny Men’, Christian Assorts-
tlon and tha Athena Banner-Her-
aid as have all four preceding
own, head Saturday, dying instnnt-
' y The triple tragedy was discov- "Her beauty drove me mad!”
cred by neighbors who called po- «pl»ined Myron Fading when he
lice. After n haaty investigation,!™ arrested for abducting Gene-
Sheriff Harrison and hia deputies »bv» • u ""~ *
were inclined to believe the trio
daughters of a William
Clarke who conducted a drug
store in Stcwartsville, Mis-
sourl, at the time he disap
peared in 1879 and that this
Clarke under no circumstances
could be the same* as the weal
thy senator.
This inJcrmatfci.', Blackman
said, was derived of friends
and relatives of both Clarkes,
some of them even acquain
tances of the trio who now seek
a part of the Clarke estate.
had been slain by bandits, but a
second inquiry dispelled this pus
picion.
Monarch is ts
To Try To Set Up
Dictatorship In
Germany
BERLIN. — (UP) — German
monarchists. Saturday took to the
Reichstag their fight for ending
IVR parliamentary rule in Germany
Tht winning team Is presented • »nd substituting for it a dictator-
a twenty four inch bronze stat
uette of a basket Sail player, on-
graved and mounted on an ebony
base, hy the tountement officials
Thi! members of the' championship
team will be presented miniature
gold basketballs by the A. G.
Spalding Company, manufacturers
of athlatin rvruul a
of athletic goods.
The player judged as tha moat
valuable to hi, team will ha
awarded a beautiful silver loving
cup by the tournament officials.
Silver Cup i
Th, Athens Chamber of Com
merce will offer a silver loving
cup to the loam winning third
place in the tournament, while
the basketball* used in the tour-
r.y will bo presented to the semi
iir Milts.
rinnllsts.
Larry Conover, former coach
at the University of GeorgiLWho
has handled the offh-tating Of nil
previous tournaments, will again
come down from Atlantic City to
toko charge of this end of the
event,
isfaction
phase.
thus assuring compl
on in this most in
iteU sat-
Important
The teams will hegia arriving
in Athens Tuesday, those coming
from tlie longer distances getting
in by Tuesday night while the
teams living nearby will probably
arrive early Wednesday morning-
With fortj tcama entered and
each team bringing ten men and
n coach. Athens .will be overrun
hy birketball rlayvrs until the
final game and precaution of
trophies Saturdty night. Four
hundred players and forte coach
es will spend the intervenina' day,
between Wednesday and Saturday
wrinkling their brows am) plan
ning their campaign as they look
•ahead with houea of a champlon-
And there is no doubt
ever that this tournament
the championship without
rt. as « look at the entry
! readily disclose- The
■3mm nf trams entered makes it
„ real Northeast Georgia tourna-
ment.
Draw Thousands
T- < fit ion to the four hundred
,.. i f..rtv irtivo narticinant*
t, thn
ids t
fiGD ♦ho town which have
ttaro'l always follow thrir
qrintets to the city to “puli’* for
■hip.
This move came In the form* of
a nationalist hill to kill article 64
of the republic's constitution, re
quiring that the chancellor and
cabinet shall have the “confidence
of the Reichstag," for the conduct
of governmental affaire.
The sense of the measure, if
palsed, would be to aubslitute n
dictatorship of President Von
Hiodenburg and the Luther cab
inet.
Politically informed periotu.
doUbt tjiat the bill will carry.
Case, 17, above, from
Oneida, N. Y., and hiding her for
months in a bungalow near Cam
den, N. J., Failing has a wife and
three children..
Man Wanted In
Murder Case Is
Captured In Va.
Two Are Missing
In Hotel Fire;
Thred Injured
SENATE DEMOCRATS
SPLIT OVER FIGHT
01 DEBT El
ATLANTA. —
stocks instead of ti e lash as a*
last resort to control unruly
prisoners in Georgia prison camps
was ordered late Saturday by tht-
' state prison commission which
drew up a uniform set of rules
on prison punishment. . v
Five methods of discipline ape
P rovided by the new rules. Each
i to be applied according to the
degree of insubordination. Minor
infractions of prison routine will
bring solitary confinement; raofca
serious acts will be punished
through restriction of diet; re
duction of clothing to stripes, use*
| of shackles and chains, and at >
final resort, the stocks.
Provision is made, however,
that a prisoner shall net remain
in stocks fpr more than an hour
at a time and that he net be
I committed to them without an eg.
lamination by a physician.
, I Governor Walker has approved
Vinppi.fr r.f.nt. “ . .. ,the new regulations and they will
once.
on hi. mother-in-law, Mra. Cecelia
& jijLANTA MAYOR TO
the’story died " he toId officer »
PERRY SELECTED IS DUN FOB CONODESS
WASHINGTON--(UP) — Sen
ate democrats tried to get togeth
er Saturday hi opposition to the
American debt commission’s set’-
lement of the *2,130 000,000 Ital
ian war debt and failed.
After a three hour meeting the
I conference called by Senator Joe
Robinson of Arkansas, the party
floor leader, broko up with the
party split between two factions
—those desiring to support the
settlement and those opposing
f Upon hearing of the split, Sen
ator Smoot, republican, Utah,
chairman- of the senate finance
committee, announced he would
Ac*.-! upon the settlement in the
senate at an early date, 'and ex
pected its ratification. Republi
can leaders have held up action
cn the settlement following its
approval in the house, thinking
the democrats were solidly against
NOTICE OF MEETING OF
CREDITORS
In the District Court cf the United
Staten for the Northern District
of Georgia, Eastern Division,
As a Court of Bankruptcy.
In re: N. Goodman 4 Sons, N.
Goodman, Sam Goodman, Abe
UWUUIMI, OCIil UWUIIWII, AW
Goodman, Bankrupt, No. 3109 in
Bankruptcy-.
To tin Creditors of Said Bank
rupt:
You are hereby notified that
there will be a meeting of credi
tors of tha above named bankrupt
on -March Etta, 1926, 1926, at my
office. Saving! Bank Building,
Athena, Ga., at 11 o’clock A. M.
for the purpose of examining
bankrupt, allowing claims, select-
ng a trustee and other legal
business-
THOS. S. MELL. Referee,
. Athena, Ga.
TAX PUBLICITY
ROCHESTER. N. H—.rPt—
T«x Collector William K. Klm-
ball hka dlecovared a sure-fire
I method to make uellnq'unta pay
their back teas*.
. A Hat of name* of delinquents
has been posted la the ' show
window of a Main-street store
The amount of taxes ranged
from 61 cents to 1160.
According to Kimball, almost
142,000 has been redelved older
this publicity Idea was Inaugu
rated.
' REAP
IUNNEK-HERALD
WANT ADS.
Knoxville, Tenn. — <un-
Hugh Payne, a police character
wanted in connection with the
double murder of Henry McMil-
lian, aged grocer, and his son,
Carl, here Wednesday, was cap*
tured late Saturday at Dorches
ter, Virginia, ‘according to word
received by officials here.
A squad of police and deputies
left here late Saturday to bring
Payne back for qucstidn'ng, he
hnving signified his
to return without
papers.
willingness
Miss Dina West of Port Huron,
Mich., supreme commander of the
Woman’s Benefit Association, has
instructed each of the 2,500 local
EAST ST. LOUIS. III.—</!>)— th / organization t o
Two mod are missing, three other. M'"’ ohasej for the teaching of
soveraly Injured end sixty guests rl ‘ f ,'^rl' 0n ^iru da,I £? s . ,u ^ h “
were forced to flee lu their night- , estimated
clothe, as the result of a fire "' 1, . brin 8 “O- 000 P"»° n » »®
which destroyed a section of the old dances.
Aniold Hotel here Saturday. I _ r».n *
The loss was estimated nt I1S0,- f’gyenUe Dill IS
Daniels’ Mother
Dies At Age Of
Ready For Final
DE
ORGANIZE REVOLT
AGAINST ESTATE
Ti
PUBLIC SERVICE
AGAINST UPSHAW
ATLANTA.—(JP)—The race .J:r
congress, to represent the fifth
Georgia district at the
primary to be held In Septepil
was made a throe cornered aff
Saturday when Mayor Walter
Sima, of Atlanta, announced
would be a,candidate in op,
ATLANTA -(/R-.ut-r numer- WilUanr D. Upshaw,
cumbent who has lik'ified ,
postponements, the Georgia intentions of asking for nlectli
Public Service Commission Satur- 1 Several weeks ago Ltslie
day elected James Archibald Per. Steele, former mayor of DecatUr
L> un . and representative 'in' the house
from DeKnlb cotmty, anpoi
Its chairman to fill the
expired term of Ibru. n. Tramm.lt £5* was” n’the „„ s
do.eased. | opposifion to Upshaw. Boto
Mr. parry’s teTm will expire on Mayor Sims and Mr. Steele havt
August 28, 1927. j announced that they will visit All!
The newly chosen chairman was sections of the fifth district,
the ranking member
mission. Ho la a native of Gwlnett Olrfp&t faw Hnrcn
c-un.y, a lawyer by prefession and ViaeSl
Earns Retirement
GJU3BLKY, Colo, -f (UP)— . A
veteran cnesnut •‘Muggins/ 1
by prcfesslon
has served in the house of repre.
3cntntives of the general assambl>
in 1900 and 1901,
hWrn JnmiUVy li;*-l879,
and was graduated from the Unt-
vcrslty of Georgia In 1898. Ho Is
fn democrat and was qt one tims . w
| mayor of Lawrencevllle and served ^
j on the Gwlnett county beard of “ “ v “ " " —“ ’——***
education. He entered ^he Public
Service Commission on July 2Q
1911. *
WASHINGTON.—(UP). —A re
bellion against the retroactive es
tate tax provision of thb new com
promise tax bill, was being oran-
gized in'the house Saturday night
Trip To Passage S±.V H '
, He announced he would make a
q<% « ■ J _• WASHINGTON. — (/P) — The | motion to recommit the Wll
0«J; DalUr a ay revenue bill, whipped into shape \ conference with instructions
providing for a tax reduction of
RALEIGH, N. C—(UP)—Mrs.'6^1,000,000 this year, $343,000,-
Adclaidc Worth Baglcy, daughter 0C0 thereafter and for many
of tho lato Governor Jonathan thanges in the administrative fea-
extradition, Worth of North Carolina and tires of the present income tax
mother of Josephus Daniels, for- hw, is ready for its llnal trjp
j after four months of hard work, J kill this clause which would make
Suffering from a bullet wound mer Secretary of the Navy, died through congress,
in his left arm, Tayna refused to here Saturday. f Representing a compromise on
She was 83 years old and had many provisions between the sen-
been ill only one week. j nte and house, the Jbill will be
taken before each 'branch for
ELIMINATION CURVES .ratification the fhrst of next week
8AVE8 THIRTY MILE8 ant p given appi.tval, will be —
NEW’ ORLEANS --*UP)-— The • gont to White House for th* compel his state to* enact an es-
“klndeat" public highway In th*. sifrnuture o{ Pregfdent Coolldge. tato tax so i»- can collect eighty
mth <m tn hi* ‘‘ui,twisted" shortly . ti... in l. u.„ I ./ ika /*Ja*aI ImtIao at.
>yi
admit any connertion with
dime. HI* capture wa* the ro-
unit of a confession of Fuller
Walter* of Blount county nt
whose- home twenty-five miles
sruth of here, tho car used hy
rite murderers to flco the scene
the low 1921 estaU tax ratea ef
fective upon aH estates which
have not yet paid the tax. -
All estate of millionaire’s who
have died In th# last year would
revive benefit of tho ratea includ
ing those of frank A. Munsey,
Julius Fieischman, James B. Duka
and William A. Clarke.
At the same time Senator
Trammell, democrat, Florida, an
nounced hi* opposition to tho en
tire, estate Us section which may
of the crime was found. louth is to be ••untwisted" shortly j ' "ri,e measure’will "become law I per' cent of the federal levies el-
Walter* told authorities he and .uWbIH.ta need no longe. lcf .„ fho fnd of neTt wwk nndfr , IowH , the
drove Payne to Bristol, Virginia,'ftnr dlzzllng wh.n navigating thl th | nroeram !*• manaeara he- wd
before daylight Thursday and more than 290 curve* in IM New l:. vr , vj .v ’ it, nmvisinns III 14*11 • • ^— »_
from that city. Payne took a bus/Orlwtna-Baton Rouae highway. for ' w-ide-Jpread reducrion" "n |MlIllOnailTC IS
to the home of an uncle. I With tho completion of tho work bccominreffective at one"
Payne attempted to hide in a'of straightening this, roadway, the n-i- i owcr „j income taxes will be
bathroom when the' officers on- distune, between th* two cities ,, (i r f? j . , ,
tered the home but mode no at- wm bo reduced free, no to op. ”
tempt-to resist, arrest. i prexlmataly w muaa. 'Maroh is payable by
Dead As Result
Of Fire; Drunk
any other horse, too” they add,’
“Muggins" has nevi
steel of a bit in his
brok. with a huckmore
ways been ridden thut way.
never f#lt {ho
i mou0 ‘ (He lime
lore and' haakt-
To Make Race
ATLANTA — Albert J. Wood
ruff, former member of the house
of representatives from DeKalb
county Saturday announced his
candidacy'for the office of chair,
man of * the Georgia Public S'erj
vice Commission to succeed Paul
B. Trammel.
The commission Saturday in ex*
ocutlve seislon elected James, A
Perry to fill the unexpIretX term of
Trammell.
Mr. Wocdruff who waa In tht
race for commissioner to the. body
at the last election and who poll,
ed yioro than 100,000 votes, altho
defeated by the late James D. Price dtTl Jht
of Athens, stated In his announce- #rnll * _ nH .
ment Saturday that he wa. th«, ‘w ""roam ar .hi
candidate for both tho unexpired ? ar the edge of the
term as well as the lonr term to
succeed Mr. Trammel!.
oldest, beht-tralned cpw-htrse i
the Wesiern, Plains, soon will leave
pastures here to spend the rest 6f
his days in a well-earned rest
California. “Qugglna/’ now
'years old, has been In more wi
ern founJ-ups and ho« had
cutUo hores. calves and colt
from his back than any
horse In America, riders that knot-
him of old «ay.
got more ‘cow sense* Uutn
Greatest Aquarium
Planned In Chicago
CHICAGO ..(UP)—
£!hedd who lived In tha village 1
Klstend, N. H. used to take i
In watching the
Use
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- Classified
Cards.
lage. To Johhny'a lovo of tho
uy tribe, Chicago today atu
a gift of «:,M0,M0 for What I*
planned to bathe woiid’a g>wl46>
acquatlum.
• Johnny’ la now J hn Q. Bhodn
t-lllionafre chairman of the bear
e.- Marshall Field A Company, Th
acquarlam bear* hi* name,
Ehedd has mad* a ureonal alud
of aequarluma in the great eltil
t-f the world .and the Chicago pro
J«* will be Ih* boat of It* ktnd;li
the world, according to a aUtamec
by the Shedd Acquarium society.
New York Digs Out
Pearson,- SO. whose fhther died two
years ago, leaving a $1,000,000 es
tate,. waa burned to death flxtur-
flay In a fire In hta room at the
(Maridge irotel, started by a light*
ed cigarette.
John Hogshead his companion In
a night'of revelry narrowly es
caped a similar fata.
The young men registered at the
hotel In the wee email hours af
ter a night at pleasure resorts. Both |
had been drinking the companion
aid.
The room was in flames before
Hogshead who had thrown him
self upon a bed with his clothes
on, was awakened. Hit clothes
were afire when he staggered to
the 4<x>r and shouted for help.
Hotel emplcyees prevented the
fire from spreading and when fire
men arrived it hau beet, put 'out j
They looked about an** left. |
After policemen . arrived Hogs-
.head began asking for Pearson..n-
\ vesilgatlon disclosed Pearson's
tody badly burned, stated In th-
charred remnan’s of an ovtrstnff-
ed chair In which %• had fallen
J asleep. ,
New eftvw removing machinery of thn New York street cleaning department came in handy whan
the big city had to dig itself out from under e HMnch snowfall the other day.
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