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• W. C. A. Drive For Funds Officially Opens Here Tuesday II CKNTfl A WH DAILT AND BUKDAT. FAT TH» CARROT. THE BANNER- Dally »nd Sunday—is Cents a Week. Established 1832. I A ^n?NS COTTON: 1 PUDDLING V19c 1 a CLOSE .. .. 19 I-8c TBS WEATHER: I Fair Tuesday nicht and Wednes- I day. Colder Tuesday night. ■VOL. 94, NO. 29 Associated Presa Service. United Presa Dispatches. ATHENS. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 192G ■■■■ - ~— A. B. C. Paper. Single / i 2 Cent. Dally, t Cmta Sunday. fooo Chicks Make *ots Of Chatter; ’reOftWed. \Ben EppsHasOne Of The Smallest Two “First Timers”: Singer, Photograph Chiclci, four thousand of them—but we didn’t count Din—nil fuxay and wuzsy ore |W be seen at the hatcheries fin’ Crawford and Stra’n on ■thb Princeton road. Not one ■of theae bidadees are over two ■weeks old and they can make Bnore noise than so many IrppTrows, and according to ■Tom Crawford, their special Eftiatrdian, they are always & hungry. These chicks are ■fram two incubators, each Pwith nn egg capacity of 12,- |Ol*s, and it the little fellows (are not shipped within 24 |ho|rs after they are ‘‘taken Eofn’ they are left at the f hofchcry to . grow un os broil- ' or fryers. White Leg- hr ins, Rhode Island Reds and Block Giants arc among those hatched off this spring and hWiin you get about 4,000 of lh«m together — well, they | nu ce some “chickens.” f' According to l«wrence I Co ta’s version of golf on the F At ens (Country club course, u- lt h n game of seeing how r let balls you con feed the * fi:;h each time you play, “and y Ja|e Bernstein certainly » dolsn’t believe in letting the l Tip i go hungry,” say* Law- k ret co. I ' he special session of the ' lcj stature called by Gover- [ no Walker to adjust the old I aoViers* pensions and to con- p- rider bond*? for educational T :»n>| rond purposes, begins 1 Wednesday. It shouldn't take tho legialatiire Jong to frame j. bilb on each subject and then * , the people themselves de- i press thcmkclves on the estion and i o high hatting tho part of the legislature at it must Jecidc them is pcccifary. f .. Georgia anA Tech meet i sknin Tucsday\night in At- HEjanta. But there will bo no tthletic fireworks, no admis sion charges, bujL a lot of {words will be passed, ultra friendly, however. Dr. M. L. 1 Brittain, president of GcorgiA Tech, and Dr. R. E. Park of the University, will be tho principal speakers. The meet- Sing will be held at the Bilt- more hotel and the “Bulldog” orchcsttn and the “Yellow Jacket” band will furn'sh the music/ Affairs of Interest to Wh . Institutions will be up • for discussion. E Showing two j.Hurcs of H the machine, “Aviation”, » magazine of air activities, car- 1 flaghr-its February issue a M story about th« “Epps Mono- R plane,” built and owned by Ben T. Epps of Athens. This piano is one of the smallest | commercial airships ever built J and weighs only 3M pounds. The story it the magazine follows: _ 7HE EPPS MONOPLANE One cf the simplest and, at the bsim> time, most Interest ing airplanes of low horse* power, which have been con* Htructed. is the Epps Mono plane. A» will be seen from the accompanying photo graphs. the machine la a high , wing monoplane though not a ••parasol" type, the wing be- ' lag attached cn each aide to the upper fuselage longerons. It la a single place piano with th- cockpit arranged between the front and rear main wing spars. !' s v IV wing is. generally speaking, of normal construc tion. It la braced with four strata,' two on each side of the liwlaiM*. extending to point* in the main .spars on the low er surface of the wing, op* prcximately one third of the semi-span from each wing tip. These struts support the wing on each side from points on the lower fartfsge longerons and on fuselage cross mem* The airplane which is * good flier, was deoigned and constructed by its owner, Ben T. Epps of 392 Washington Street. Athens, Go. The plane / weighs 3SP lb. light and has a speed o* 60 m. p. h. with » _-tiding ‘•peed of 23 m.p.h. A? fairly thick wing section is hployed and ailerons are of hplo dimensions and good {pert ratio, being of eonsld- hie span. These ailerons operated direct by means taking, coniiectinr Igh the wings to the pf l fuselage, like the wings . ofjnormsl construction, be ing farmed in the r *a ,oroar Y of wood longerons, V- to p*o »•»-) CAGE TOURNEY TO jOPEN WEDNESDAY Georgia Will Meet 'etborpeHere In ./•ooMO»Fri^ Him;fiIn[i Sj|) % TAKE PART: CONOVER REFEREE Monday the Georgia Bulldogs launched into the fourth week of the spring training period, and this wiek marks an innovation in sports to be created at lllllL l (ill! i Georgia. Friday afternoon on Sanford Field the! ? Bulldogs meet the Oglethorpe Petrels in a practice; n . .. . ....... clash. • F r One of the banner events in sports for Athens is Hoover, spring pract'ce will —: the annual Northeast Georgia High School Basket- ,he practice affair. Threat Letter ball Tournament, which begins here Wednesday Tr^u,, J..,- for .ho mem. Lener morning at 10:30 o’clock, and ends with the title Received ny I game Saturday night All games will be played at Noted Singer woodruff Hail. BuJ&r until Saturday woek, Match G, tiosinj? a live, week Program, which has been in charge of Coaches *'Kid” Wood ruff, Harry Mehrc, and 1 Jimmie Crowley. j ' The Monday afternoon workout DETROIT. Mich.— (UP) —An v J8K^ e y* 19-year-old .Kansas City girl, was singing for the firzt time as a prims donna in New .Metropolitan Opera when this photograph of her was taken. And it was the first time a news! SSuiSEZPi * n HCtua * Metropolitan performance ever had been made. The camera, equipped with n.— , - telephoto lens, wsi mounted in an aisle of the Metropolitan's rear gallery, 260 feet front the stage. <j ! **■ - ■ • - — - — T" _ _ ~ - " ' —J dcntaK""'’ WM in charge of Harry Mehre. ‘ ticnyraou, •'black hand” threat Coaches Woodruff and Crowley bfe of Beniamino, ■ ------- — - v .pa ... „„„ nuu ,v auu nr»v wme ■ nrwai™® not on scene, being out f 1 *. ar ! ws^eived on, photograph of an actual Metropolitan performance ever had been made. The camera, equipped with n.°f tb e city. Ofondoy’a workout "• a *rival here Monday night , j- 1-»- -t— a.-.. _ «*__. . — - - l H vr- . 1 —*—*«-♦—i- |0 f signal drills, Tunning rnused hurried csncollation of s er punts and other inci-* engagement for/ Tuesday dchtah. } n ^Pht and flight of the star from Tuesday will most i kel> find thia city, the Bulldogs in a lengthy scrim-, , . mage. Scrimmages were held’ dally last week and the squad . DETROIT, ^ich.—After spend* hai shewn up well. Heat will be in * a « eveuing. under police trying for the candidates, if 'juanl m u sttfte at a hotel here, Tuesday morning might be taken j Jcnjaminc Gigli, Italian grand MH critari^H-e»d;4o-eapwdad- toy sta*, • slow the woik tip in a small de- *y jPMMWi ■ —i mmmti All smiles after the triumphal “greatest moment” in hdr TIT -(>P)r free. The coaches have drilled no especial teams together, though four or five eleven have been __ Anderson}*. for Buffalo Short- Dupre, who in /»vi In Noel,'Cobb, {£»-♦' 1 0‘ih)?k *T/ffaa7 fjp^rr-nt .r ur!1 brown An.brs.rn j morning, without filling a concert 'family .who posed n Freileh dipl«»-1stasec engagement here Tuesday night. |«»t »n peeatur. P“oF K ia and mar. The sudden departure ot the Preny Mis* \ »r,*lniaHonin*s- tinger was said to be due to j worth, Agnos Sectt student, Team*'are expected to begin arriving in Athens Tuesday after- : ooii and until \v •><!....*,inv at noon. Forty teams arc entered in thia tourney, the fifth to be staged here, and necessitates twenty games to be played on th opening day. Beginning promplty at 10:30 Wednesday mornng two games T/ill usher in the 1926 tourney and games will follow in full jl.’ast until 10:80 Wednesday night. Nelson and Gainesville furnish the opposition on one I court, with Watkinsville and j bishop performing on another demenun nrnecox” ae- Decntur ;hy»lrlans, and this dloirnrsis of hit case may ex- Everything is in read- ui a iness for the opening and ! tnrkic ; first report meeting of I ^ the Young Women *sj recent practices. Christian A s s o ciation! Be,ide ?. occupied ! n signal drills simultan- blacklsond :iireati made against §*^ m - ' eously. Freshmen have taken 1 him. *?.. XJ®. , places along with the varsity. i Just before the arrival of Gigli V itan°»L tho Fr»nk Dudley, Bobby Hook,,' 0 „„ hi.i party from Chicago Mon- i h |hn>i?KlMl rtuden™ ‘ h and McCrary have ahown up woll; day night, police recalved u Tn A„H™r^ oiy, , l r wh,> .v among the acore of banks grad- j typjw.itton iota fened "True I.»», m. uated from laat year’a fro.h out-1 Frienda of Italy- whi:h laid if j “15S.1 The* tournament was first get! in Athens in 1922, wiHh eight teams entered. Gieensboro won the title that year, Watkins- vil.'c was victorious in 1923, Ath ens copped laurels in 1924, and, Grayson swept to first place in last year’s affair. All four prev ious title-holders are entered ta this year’s touiney, . The tournament is held under ro»,n l^’rtkuta.'SSnta.O* Detectives an hand’ squad met ah smiles mier me uiumpiwi luwcnvui. •«* tier life, i 1U1 |I? V l W ouhbn^fr one* 1 !* tfst^hei^ nro° P an ^ e< l him to the hofol where Marion Talley receives the congratulations of OUo Kahn, New York.tcmght- Supper Will be JlSSiTwin irSHto *Id pKl D.ey unaided him until Miwtly :apiUl‘.t .h/ the MetropoliUn’s Imping patron. ^ served promptly at TlSMttf? ^ —— ' ' * “ ’* “* (Turn to page six) of the . . _ game which serves it to be maintenance for $8,000 interesting affair, front the “Black met tho .in.’i nnd Annul M.r.;.g. , Th. program for the open,ng DECATUR a.. — Itrlniivn of i. d *X> wn .^ h hepni at 10:.0 Wed- RISE ON SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEO. ! ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—AH is in, readiness for the extraordinary session of the Georgia General Assembly, which convenes at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Members of the ‘.mate and houao of npreaentative, had eith er arrived or were arriving And quartering themaetvea late today for a .toy of indeterminate dura tion. Tha Kimball Houee, hiitorie old hostelry and birouac of many a Icgi.latlve campaign, ia throng ed with legislators grouped about. the lobbies and in private and semi-private conferences.. , • Over on Capitol Hill a corps janitors have been kept at work since lust- 'Saturday, cleaning desks, windows, fillinr inkwells! and generally clearing the deck. I for action. A pungent. odor of furniture polish pervades the chamber! of bouse and senate and is wafted down the halls when ever a door la opaned. Notwithstanding the apparent bustle of pre-session preparations, the tame stillness prerails in leading legislative circles as has prevailed for. some time, put, and no official indication ia patent ' plant of 01 o’clock. AH team mem btrs, committee members and guests will be present Mrs. A. S. Parker, presi dent of the association and general chairman for the campaign, will pre side. Tha program will be Interesting and inspiring. Members of the campaign executive committee. In cluding Andrew Erwin, Miss francos Ta'madge. Mrs. Robert Ray, Mrs. C. M. SnelDng, Robert Arnold. Mrs. John D. .Moss and Mrs. W. s. Robinson, will all have r % rt J n the l ,ro *™m. Captain WOULD FORCE WET ’*(» ia aftcr Leaving the hotel, Gigli and hlf party went to the railroad station and boarded a pullman which wa* attached to the Chicago A Buf* falo train here. No one wa» al lowed in tho car but the zlnger'a !»riy. M New York Makes Bid For Fame; Finds “Sniper” Y. M. C. A. and the Athens Ban- nnti nre- ncr-Herald. Larry Conover, who has officiated at the previous tourneys, has again been aecuured for this year. The program for the opening Mr*. Noel Dupre, formerly Mia* Virginia HolUnfcswor.h A«ne« f?ott college etudent. went ahead Tuesday with plane tu have her marriage unnulle l Armed: wlthr.i Jett*.*’ of Introdur- tloa to Rtmo'Tabh, ue.ilcr xtuilent at Emory University fmm William C’lSham Echols. Alu'»n.nu, Epswort'i league pfflclal and u'so’eonnecteI With lUrminghnm-Hcuthern Col.} lege. Dupre arrived heie on Feb ruary 7, At n social affair, at tho home of H. C. Christie, Jr., h.'mrt Shi Hollingsworth, a re’etive of Dr Christy. __ A whirlwind courtship ii EIRE DESTROYS 1 OF RELIEF slflS MURDERER IS CAPTURED MONDAY insofar as concerns aetual i opposing sides to the big question which is expected to breuk in one of the house.—the bond-is- uo proposal. Perhaps the most obscure of 1 is the attitude - of Governor 'alker with regufd to criticism the wording of his reeently-is- d official proclamation, sauinp ‘orth the matters which the law- uskrrs must confiiu OMAHA. Neb. —(UP)— This city’s “manisc sniper' who terror ised the Nebraska metropolis with night attacks in which he killed two and wounded others is not a maniac but shows a rational ten dency in trying to escape death penalty, county attorney Henry Field announced Tuesday, Field, who filed first degree murder charges •nlpfr, who wps captured at Bart lett, Iowa, Monday, said the man was an “inoffensive looking Iowa farm hand" and bv no means in- sane. The prisoner said his name is Frank Carter. “Of course,” Field explained. “The man had a - low criminal dnrinir the extraordinary sea- tnenlaJR*:<Ohit he is virtually no- (Tarn to pace six.) (Turn to P*w« Six) entertainment by .... serves and members of’the Busi ness Girls Club. If any citizen of Athens enter tained a doubt about the effec tiveness and worth of the work of [the Young Women’s Christian As sociation hero, it would have been effectually dispelled if they could have been with the members of tho Rainbow Club, Girl Re- Ourn to Pan# Six) I NEW YORK.— (UP) —Terror WASHINGTON. (UP) - A ppr ead over the East Side Tues- program to force the Wet and dryj^y at reports that a “sniper” of. issue before the nation for a < the same type captured in Omaha, I referendum at the 1928 f’rmdden- Nebraska, had made two appear-1 of ___ minstrels, was! led by two bullet wounds *n i back Monday night as ho J*. W. Barnett will make one of i t!al Hcction was adopted by the; nnce * during the night, his brllliand tabloid talks, and | » eco ^ 1 "Face tho Facta Confer- ( "Happy Jim” Barn2lory? there will bo music and special .wjJux®_ 4 HR a * nsi : a trio of negro >( mlnstre IS FOR RUM Of he prohibition amendment. i j[j]| After speakers^ from all parts hte Atlanta Journal To Broadcast Athens Cage Tourney The ellaata Journal radio broadcasting atotioa, WBB. will hroadeart the return, euch night of Co Xorthratt Georgia High Srooi! Oum- picnahip Ra.krtball Tourna ment, which opens in Athena Wednesday morning. Twenty games will he play ed on Ihe opening day and as «oea as the reunite are in the lournal will broadcast them to that the forty towns will C t the news of their frame fere the papers carry it the next day. All touma having teams entered nn tune in on WSI, and get the mulls shout twenty hour, before the papers carry the results. evils of prohibition In n ten hour j.Avenue nrvi 113th rei.ion, Cupla’ii W. H. Stajton) Rl>1<irt Le„„ on , nnither negro.) i hairman of the i-Mocmtioh nn- wan wounded, while the third, nounced that political nnd jegis-, Rcbeit Corckxy. escaped injury. ■ ‘— ■*“-■■The rocond shooting came earfy ST. PAUL, NEW YORK-—(UP)—Tea chil- dren were among the forty five patients rescued early Tuesday from the Bay Ridge sanatarium when fire destroyed the interior of the two story frame and stucco I structure. I One man wns on the operating I tabic when the blaze began but ! ru^geons completed their work 1 and the patient was wrapped in blankets nnd taken through a driving snowstorm to the nurses hr me next door. ' Many ■ i the women in th** hos pital were maternity casts and po'ice received a report that three babies were born during the cx- Minn.—(A 5 )—Two | cltement of the fire. The officials n. ku I I s_ a .... at... .. . iativo committees had been •form* iw ^ id to work for modification ot Tuesday on the downtown East-St. Paul patrolmen were phot by! ref d to comment on the , the Volstead act. jg lde at Second Avenue and 27th on unidentified gunman in tho,port. street. Frank Carr waa wound-froaldenc# district here early. When quartern in the nurses four snots and fall wet*- Tuesday and then as they lay home brcaim* crowded, private helpless in the streets, each wa* j homes in the vicinity were thrown ■hot through the head. jopen whilo the most serious cases The slaying come os a climax j were taken to other hospitals, to a search for robbers who hod} terrorised the reside net district f I TO BE COMPLETED^ H r Flans and specifications * for the i completion of the paving on the Athens-Donielsville road, the Bankhead highway, through Clarke county, have been returned to County Engineer H. K. Nichol son by the highway department. The plana wart approved and work cn this road will get under .way at once. Material has already been placed .along the sidings of ucvii |Juu:cu ■iuiik in* niuinkB in the Seaboard railroad at Hull and the actual hauling of the .tone to the roadway will start at one. With the eomplttioa of thia stretch of' road the Bankhead highway will bt hard-iarfac-'f its •entire distance through, Ctar county, via w* of Wi»d. r. Wednesday • Final Tuesday plans were completed TMFSS&gg Ruler B. C. Bray lea of nta Elk Lodge on hi. an nual visit W-lhspcct tha I lodge here Wednesday night. The meeting will bt started at eight thirty o’eloek at tho club bom, on Washington Street and the ether features of the meeting wiB be the initiation of candi* >, degree team work, giving degrees, ritualistic work, so cial session and .penal music. Ail Elite, both local and visiting art urged tr attend the meeting, Monday night and early, Tnaaday and who bad committed aeren hold-ups in three houea. The slain policaAen, John I Schultxe ar.d Frrd A. I’orteeh, were patrolling the diitrict in an | auto and had started to jovesti-1 gate a large case w.aq the (hoot ing occurred. Portich flashed his light into the machine and was met with gunfire, two bullets hit- tihfl: him. ,» As Schultze started to hlf aid, he was also shot Mr*. Thoma? Cameron, llrinf nearby, said afa* waa awakened by the firat shot and saw a man walk to tho sOot where Schultze waa lavin«. .The mau ahe said held hi revolver abs* to the policemen’* head and fired. He then walked to Tortach, pram i J Ida revolver doae to hi* head nnd fired 'airain. After the' second shot - Mrs. inumn said the slayer examined bo(h bodies and then leaped Into a car and dashed away. _ EVANSVILLE, Ind. ~ <UP>— Three units of the Indiana Na tional Guard were concentrated in this city Tuesday, prepared to any renewed violence in the struggle between union and non union miner* of the southwestern Indiana coal fields William Kir-hner, adjutant gen eral of the natioral guard, oider- cd ihe troops sent here Honda/ night after a confreence on tho situation with Governor Juv'Lwn iy lpdianapolib