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VOL. 91. NIL 28
Associated Press Service.
United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS. GA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1926.
A; B. C. Paper.
tloCol'V,
cnta Daily. 5 Onta Sunday.
400 Visitors for
Athens This Week;
Regret Dr. Jones
Leaving Atlanta;
Don’t Forget Our
Girl Cage Champs
More than 460 official rial,
tors will be 10 Athens for sev
eral days this Week while to
this numhsr will bo added
many hundred casual visitors.
The occasion of these visitors
is the annual Northeast Geor
gia basketball tournament at
Woodruff hall, beginning Wed
nesday aad running through
Saturday. The best high
school teams of this taction
are entered In the meet and
seme tine basketball games
aro in the offing Larry Cono
ver. popular athlete and for
mer Assistant Georgia coach,
will handle the games as ref
ers*.
Friends in Athens of Dr. M.
Ashby Jonas will he sorry to
learn that he has tendered
hit resignation to hit Atlanta
church to accept the pastorate
of i. church lb St. Louis- Dr.
Jones hat visited Athens on
numerous occasions and has
spoken here many times, es
pecially during the World
War. Wobdrow Wilson never
had a more ardent defender
than Dr,' Jones. Atlanta will
miss hit presence and Athens
will regret that he Is leaving
the state. < ■ stis4h.fi
I Did yon read the Y. W. C. A.
Extra’' with the Benner-Herald
Sunday? If you did It will
not bun you lead again »ow
the “Y" aervea Athens and
- If you didn't look the follow*
Inal over: . ... .
It aurrounds girls and wo- •
men with Christian'Influence.
It works with girls who
WASHINGTON.-(UP)—Heralded as the great
est anti-prohibition rally in history, more than 1,000
delegates of “Face the Facts Conference Associa
tion” against the prohibition amendment gathered
here Minday, demanding modification of the act in
favor of light wines and beer,
Capacity crowds for the maw
mooting at' the Mayflower Hate!
wore predicted as ‘ncoming trains
brought state delegations from
Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, New
j Jersey, Delaware and New York.
Individual “wet" leaders
present from every big city in the
country. * 1
Leaders of‘the conference said
that an overflow meeting would
probably be held if they <gmt(l
obtain a suitable auditorium.
OK
TO SAFETY DINS
PEKIN.—(UP)—Seventeen Am*
erlcans, outside the slnyang city
wall during a heavy bombardment
WA9UFKQTOIN.— One hundred of theVlty by General Ku Peo F\»
million people are ready and will, have been transported to safety ac-
Ing to follow the leadership of 4h«
Association against the Prohibition
Amendment tor Modification of the
Volstead Act, Son itor Kdwurd*
democrat. New Jersey, declared in
an address to delegates to the se
cond annual “Pace iho Fact Con
fYrence". Monday.
The eyes of a nation deceived
have been opened, “Edwards said.
'^Bnce the birth of prohibition six
ago, fnlr-mlnd»a. honest and
Americana have tolerated the
ishnients, intolerance and uu-
trocratic exercise of i ipor power bv
utl inconceivably si.-all minority
seeking to overthrow a tolerant hut
assertive majority*’, he eon tin.
m ai
nAdUl
[>«”* t^.futurc In thair keep- ^
?t it progressive—helping {Governor reay**
Asks A Third
Term In Office
girls meet the problems o» to
day. J
It {develops leadership in
church, home, school and
civic aetlfrltlM.'h
It is a part of a world or*
ganizstlon with a worid.wlde
r *lt ^ fosters good htalth
through gymnasium, swim-
ming and physical training.
It promises good fellowship
through clubs, classes and
camp.
It fumishts recreation, rest, .
relaxation.
It is a center for mestlngs
for men’s and women’s organl*
vatlons.
It open* the door of oppor
tunity—its members are a part
of the largest women’s organl*
zatlon in the world which Ha*
as its purpose 8ERVICE to
girls and womtn of every rac®.
•vary nation, every creed.
The Countess of cathenrt
certainly has causod Immlgra-
tion offlrlfcle to extend them-
relves eo far as work la con.
corned. After spending the
better part of a day end a
night on -etndylng’’ the que*- .
tlon Secretary Davie bad]w
rush off to*Florida for Mat.,
following the -atranuonanees
reused by Us exertion on the
raao.” ImmixcatUm officer
Curran, et Ellis Island, also
woa so overtaxed with to*
burdens of the case that he
went to bed Sunday aad loft
word that ho wnsn't at home,
even over the pbone, to **7*
one, not ever President Cool*
idge.” Had net the Earl of
Craven **•» “tipped off
Rufflclcnt time to escape to
Canada the Immigration offi
cers would probably have been
so “exhausted” that medical
attention would have been
necessary Too bod about all
the “worry” caused them-
In passing around bouquet*
Athens should not overlook
the haeketball team composed
nr I be girls of the Athene
High School. This teem,
ranched by Mxrthn Nicholson,
hasn't lest a g*n»« ,l» <■»“
years end hxs played •»
comers. Friday and Saturday
Ik* Marietta and Docatur
teams wore beaded over.
Don't forget the accomplish-.
..monte of ihcso girls. The/
are deserving of the pralee.of
every Athenian. ' -
Fire Destroys
NASHVILLE, Team— (UP) —.
Governor Austin Peay, Tcnnexgeo’s.
famous "evolution” executive an
nounced his candidacy for a third
term, election to which would
ddwak all precedents in the state’s
history.
■P»sy asked a third term In order
to complete vast ‘progressive
steps that have been started un
der .his administration.
•Those who believe that a third
term Is treason can make the
most of It”, defied the governor,
admitting that many of his inti
mate advisers had warned against
the breaking of the tradition.
STILLMANS ENJOT
cording to word receiysd here
Monday. The Chinese Govern*
ment has ordered a punitive ex*
pefjitlcn to get underway against
ionlolET
The owning nrrots the front of
4h« Citizens and Southren. bank
building. corner College .venue
and Washington street, J™ n ’_
Sunday night "hout 8:30. The en
tire owning hurried before the fire
department was culled no*
other ,’rmage, other l 5“ t , ’5 k !K
the hrick .m the front of the
build!r«. ,ln . n, '' r . ‘ “J
posed that It cenrette to
Jrom above started the fire
IN PARIS HOTEL
PARIS.— <tf) -James A. Still
man, former New York banker
and his wife, Anne Urquhart
Stillman, estranged long but now
reconciled, are passing their sec
ond honeymoon joyously but
ouietly. in a secluded hotel near
the Arc de Trlomphe.
They are making Ao plunges
into the spectacular ijte of .the
Montmarte or seeking no social
connections and practically their
only visitor is Mrs. H* P. Davison,
their daughter.
Carolina State and Alabama Toly-
echnic Institute. Auburn, will
meet in the first-game of the
Sotuhcm Conference cage touma*
ment here next Friday afternoon
at 1 o’clock.; The second game
will be played between Kentucky
University and Virginia Military
Institute.
At 3 o’clock on the same day
ies will meet the
Mississippi Aggi
University of Maryland.
The University of Virginia and
Tulane play at 4 o'clock and the
University of North Carolina and
Clemson College at 4 o’clock.
The remainder of the pairings
for, Friday follows: »
fl p. m.—Alabama vs Georgia
Tech.
7 p. ra-—Ecwance vs University
of Mississippi.
DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO YIELD it) EFFORTS
i
SENATOR GEORGE IS
WASHINGTON DAY
- SPEAKER HERE ±
The finishing touches of a prlng
football practice will bo applied
till* Week by Coaches “Kid” Wood
ruff. Harry Mebre, jimmy crow-
ley* and Hackman to the pros
the heroes of the Red and D
on the gridiron for 1928.
The week will come to a cloto
with the regular football game
with tho Oglethorpe Petrels on
Sanford Hold at three o’clock.
The admission will be one dollar
and it will bo well worth It. The
game will serve to give • line on
Georgia's and Oglethorpe's pros
pects on the gridiron next fall, as
all men playing on the freshmen
teams cf last season will take part
In this game.
The. game Is to be a regular one.
A lot of bunk has been spread
about tto coaches aro going to
stop the game whenever they like
point out flaws In the play. If
_>lr charges. No such thing. If
a coach walks on m field to do
thla be Is mighty liable to get run
over and trampled on while the
referee will certainly penalize his,
team. It Is golgg.to be a winter
. (lurri to Psae SI*) .
Athens Monday observed the 194th anniversary
of George Washington’s birthday.
An address by Walter F.* George, junior United
States senator from Georgia, featured the special
exercises commemorating the birth'and services ofi
Walsh Continues Fight
On Senate Floor Mon.
WASHINGTON J— (UP)—Unofficial edmpromise
efforts to restrain democrats from their purpose of
investigating the Aluminum Company of America
fell flat Monday and the fight was taken up on the
senate floor.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh an*
nounced that under no condition*
would ho recede from his demand
for further inquiry. Walsh said
that he-believed the facts found
by tho senate judiciary committee
NATIONAL GUARD':
WHO KILLED
the company
the anti-trust law.
Aik Counsel
WA SIIINCITON,—{&)-
souhition requesting
c oolldffe to appoint *pccinl Counsel
for thn prosecution of the Mellon
controlled Aluminum Company of
America—In the same manner in
which ho named upe.-lai.counsel for
• prosecution of the oil scandal—-will
I be Introduced soon in Qm
The record now before the **«n.
ate show* a plain violation of the
antitrust law by the Aluminm
Company”, RoMnedn - told th«
United Press Monday. . ,
”1 think the senate ought to
affirmative action for tjom
of tho situation’*, he said.
OULF PORT Miss— (UP) — 1 ,y
Robinson,
Company M. of the 165th Inf. Mta- tt* Dr lender,
eleelppl National guard, armed
with machine gant and riflee, Mon
day itood guard over Harold Jack-
eon. hold In >11 hero charged with
murdering W. N. Mincer, and J. A.
McLcmore, two U. 8. department
of agriculture employee, atationed
at Picayune.
A close watch haa been main-
talnad * to guard against potilble
mob action.
Jeckscn who was Implicated In the
murder'orjeue Pet-are dWheld
In-New Orleans rnroot.kcenlnu In
connection with tne crime wus :.r-
rested Saturday ehortly niter the
motor truck. In which tho , two
vlctlma started out on a hunting
trip, hod been located In Haltlee-
burg. The motor truck along with
money and Jewelry of the men had
been stolen.
*—— — c* —-- -- - . . Athens Elks .... lu.....n
the “Father of His Country Monday morning aftfhu* Monday for the meoun* to
completing
8 p. m.—Georgia rs Tennessee. bcho ° 1 '
These pairings were mode here
Sunday by a committee of which
AI Doonan of the Atlanta Ath.
letlc Club, was chairman, i
Slxteo nof tho twenty-two con
fire nee teams qualified for the
tournament. Those which will
not be represented art Siath Car
olina, Louisiana State Univebaity,
Washington and Leo, Vanderbilt
and Florida.
the University chapel.
iMrs. Julius Tnlmadge, state re-f _ * _ _ 7“
£& Lw3^STEiMS IN f. W. C. J.
Institute, and-Tuesday morning all
10:80 o'clock exercise* in obserr- “ —- *
ante of Washington a , birthday
will be held at the State Normal
The sixteen which will take
part In the tourney are Maryland,
Virgin's, Virginia Poly, North
Carolina, North Carolina State,
Ciemsoir College,' Georgia. Geor
gia Teeh, Alabama, Auburn, Mis
sissippi Aggies, University of
Mississippi
wcnuiiw,
Tulane and Kentucky.
The tournament opens , Friday
. 1 o’clock in tbe city’ auditor
ium. Winners ol Friday’s pair-
ings will meet Saturday- The
temi-finala will take place Mon
day and the finals on Tuesday
night.
COURT CONVENES
City court, convened Monday
morning and began trial of crim
inal cases.
President At S7
George Washington was bon
ip Virginia February 22, 1732, Ha
was inaugurated president of the
United States In 1789 and served!
two terms. He was 67 ysara?of
age when inaugurated th» first
time. He died it the pge'of 67.
Senator George spoke on Wash'.
Ington’i administration in hie ad
dress Monday morning.
According to custom the public
schools, banka and postofflee ob
served holiday hours Monday.
Warns Agsinst Blocs
-DRIVE MEET TUES. ;
0E8IN SOLICITING
FUNDS HERE
; l.oror District Deputy Grand Ex
alted Ruler B. C. Broyles of At
lanta lodge on hie annual Inspec
tlon trip to tha local lodge ’ here
Wednesday night.
The meeting will start at 8:30
o’clock and among other features'
will be initiat'on of candidates
with both degrees being
Miss Landowska,
'Harpsichordist,
To Give Recital
Waihington’s advice against
formation of political parties along
ies. University of geographical lines was sopited to
wsnee, Tennessee, the tendency in this and foreign
counties to government by bloc or
group by Senator George.
The senator quoted Washing,
ton’s warning against organise
political parties
tlon of political
Already team workers
for the Young Women’s
Christian Association
campaign are at work
catling on prospective
subscribers to the $8,000
maintenance fund for
1926. -
Thlx compnny cf •age* men and
‘ A t Ik
OMAHA, Neb.—('/P)—Convinced
•iter two flights of qu’et, the
'‘maniac sniper” who terrorized
this city Inst week has left the
vicinity, citizens resumed normal
pursuits Monday. ■
Here Thursday
. | Friday night when he shot And
Wanda Landowska, noted hem- seriously wounded Ros* W. John-
*lchori*t, will give a recital in son*
degree tcem and ritualistic work! S ' n, 7-Stevnll chapel Thursday, The gunmen, ilur'ng his ectiv-
imilddfws byAbR NUttowob 1 t h m - *£2! 5? k L ,! ';‘ 1 *»“ and '™ lr ' d, " l
I gome the visitors; . monster so- t "°. and . * ,)0 - »* ‘ h “" •
del session efWr tbe meeting and ”“* lc ^lub Series has prowntod dozen others.
Ilnusic by a string quartette. this season, ami from reports of
Exalted Ruler Caspar Palml- M , r ,'„! ,ug M' odli,c , n “, nCernl ?' "J”
sano urgee that all local and vis- ablllt >' ° r ,hl! ar,i,t ' B promfses to
Ring Elks nuke thfir plans to «me .ip to tho high standard of
lot,end the meeting and the social ‘ h |"ra°~, hen . MoIlc |
Series will bo admitted on presen-!
tatlon cf their tickets. Tho admis-'
slon pricn fer non-subscribers is
81,00, and 75 cents fo.* students-
E COMMITTEE
' HVIVIIW ... ...Voting |
I session which follows.
THER ARRESTED
F(
“Kid* Awakening”
To Be Shown At
Normal School
*V >n *|women who !••! >hat‘Athens ft’ould
gtogrsphicsl or sectional lines lQW<WUch „ t hc Y. W. c. A. were
acd rsferred to the internal trou-
England, France.and Italy 1
pie of what., i* Lkeiy to _ __ _ w
follow where the government of a Tuesday evening, but will turn that |on several occasion for plain mal- dially
country is conducted by “bloc* i meeting into • Joint ‘‘opening night ad'es according to «ttendants. Her small
or groups organized within p*r-Jand rep6*t mee lhg” .-upper‘will be (last visit was about s month ago'the p
WASHINGTON.— (/P) —By an
nnnlmous vote the house com
mittee on election of president
and vice pres'dsnt Monday re*
i* Mrtcd favorably the Norris reso-
i* iution, proposing an amendment
J S , „ __ _ . _ lito the constitution.'
died at Charity hospital here staged at the High'School about ‘‘Providing f <r the <i>nvening
. .* early in January
NEW ORLEANS, UP)—, „ . . .
Mrs. I .aviru Hussey, 23, Monday The Boy Scouts Athens will i
faced a murder charge here (ok put on tho play, ‘‘Kids Awaken*
lowing the death of her first and Ing," at Pound Auditorium Mon
last child, C-ycar-old Vera, who day at 8 p. m. This play
“ ‘ “ ‘ n ‘|b|(kimf s .... __ ____
was pronounced of congress
(Turn to page six)
and she never left again-
♦hose who saw it, to ba a play after the November eleetk.
real merit. The public -s cor- stead of December of the year
invited to see this play. A following th“ election and for fn-
admiasion will be. charged, auguration of the president late
P, Tocesds going to the camp in January following Tvs election.”
fund ‘for the Boy Scouts. »was the amendment.
Stage All Set For 1926 Northeast Georgia
High School Tournament To Open Wednesday
With all plans completed the
curtain is ready to rise oq the
fifth annual Northeast Georgia
High School Basketball Touma
ment which Is to open at Wood*
— f .y,,/ - ru(f llsll Wednesday morning at
Awning Of Bank ,0 wth ocl f« k ty t«ms enured,«
will be necessary to play twenty
games on the opening day. ' The
honor of prixing off the lid for
tbe 1926 annual affa'r goes to
Nelson and Gainesville who bat
tle on one court, while Watkins-
ville, a former to urea ment winner
and Bishop, both of Oconao coun
ty, fight it oat on thc other
court Two games will be kept
running at full apeed ‘
tho day and until 10:1
day night.
10:30 Wedncs-
Larry Conover, former conch at has been won by Greensboro Highland will make them play all the't'eipants. Thousands of supDort-'cnding at 10:30 Wednesday i
thc University of Georgia, who Wntkinsvilla High, Athens High harder,
has refereed all four of the prev-'ond Grayson High School, AU The
iouj toumamanU, will again have,four of the toams are enured lu Uurnan
charge of the off'ciattng. Conoveri the 1026* event
will arrive In Athens from his __ . ,_■ _■
home in Atlantic City Tuesday. I G Spalding - Company.
Tho winning team ia to be pre- manufacturers of athletic goo*,
rented vrith a twenty-four inch F™ ?"*•"* miniature gold bas-
brcnxe statuette of a basketball; kothalU, engraved, to members of
player, engraved end mounted on|«*^“"r
an ebony
The player who is judged the
most valuable to his team will bel
* vta3j
.ment as *a personal award to’the
playen.
,ore from the forty towns entered,lore as follows:, Gainesville-Nc.-,.
basketball, used in the will throwt Athene Wednesday, sen; Watkinsville-Biihop; T*U- Comer last Saturday won the
Uurnament play will be awankaiThursday. Friday and Saturday Lavonla; Winder-Grayson; Elber-|Mad’iM county tournament over
to the r-ml-finalists aa has been,a* their school* Mttle for auprem- ton-Comer; Swlliille-Eastanolleej'Ha High, Dan • I wll.-. Bond Actd-
tho custom m the past. «jr. At thc final game lost year'cummieg-lta; Wlnterville-Dacuta; «f and Colbert. A* < olbert High
An idea or the good the tour-'2,700 paid odmlaaiaa to ere Wln-iMadUon-Wash'ngtoa;' Hartwell- School defeatad ^in* High for
nament is doing to develop clean der and Grayson fight for the Colbert: Bogort-Carneevlllo; Ea- the only loss of the year by Ath-
.thistles' all over Northeast. title. Neither af these teams tonton-Crrensboro; ChsttswoWb-ens, it tru ins that Comer has u
may be shown by the.i'rew many admissions from Ath- BowenviUe; Jefferson-Monroe; strong teem.
tournaments ens, cither. The most of the r - - - - - .-*-— '*'-
.. . _ Tha Athena Charobar of Com
presented * beautiful ailver iovingl meree, realising the great work!
cap by tbs tournament offlcole- uing done by U» tournament tsibaB.courts, many of them Indoor
This cup haa'been won twice by advriTttte Athens ell over this courts. .
ftthlettss
Georgia
fact, that since tbe ...nn,ur.u_ , „»»,. .... —» mm
were rust ’ started, more thin)spectators came from Winder end
twenty-three schools have token. Grayeen.
the game of basketball and ...
each-of them have built basket.-
Winder players and once each by section, boa offered a
an,Athens High and waRMvgbdn cup to the quintet w
High player. - - I third ploc*. This cup will
The tournament championship added stimulus tor ire
The forty teems will bring ten
men each and a coach to the 1928
tournament, making a total of
four hundred and forty active por-
All games will be played
Woodruff Hall, the now basket-
Loganville-Covington; Statham- AtheM High m«:s C*irnelia ir.
Brarelton: Reid Creek-Toecoa:' —hot should bo a hummer. Tho
ComeVa-Athene; Omterville-Dan-|«h>rneUa quintet recently defeated
lelsvilla, and Lexington-Royoton. .the fast ttyerelds Academy tesm
(of Gainesville. Greensboro,.
, , —- - -j- Among tho feature games on former' tourney winner, meets
ball, temple of the Univereity of the flrat day will bo those be- Eatonton. a dark horse, while
Georg a, located near Memorial (ween Comer and Elberton, Ath-Winder end Grayson, the 1925
Hell near Sanford Field. 'ene High' and Cornelia, Hartwell f-nalists. tle-np. with Gainesville
The list of gomre for the first and Colbert, Greensboro and E*-jmeeting Nelson, and Jifferson
day, storting at 10:20 o'clock and^tonton, Winder and ' Grayson j picked to defeat Muuroe,