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’J * Y. W. C. A, Workers Begin Drive For Funds Here Tuesday II CNNTS a wm DAILY AND SUNDAY. PAY TBS CAEBDUL THE BANNER-HERALD Dally and Sunday—13 Cents ■ Week. Established 1832. Daily and Sunday—so Ceuta a Week. , ATHENS COTTON: [ NO MARKETS. HOLIDAY. THE WEATHER: Ccldcr with ehowerfc M-nd--' . 1 Cloudy and much colder Tuesday i cud Tuesday right. -i 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,