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Established 1831.
Daily and Sunday—13 Cents. a Want
ATHENS COTTON;
MIDDLING 17 1-Bc
PHEVIOUS CLOSE .. .. 17 l-8e
THE WEATHER: .
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday
| with probable thunderahowera.
VOL. 91. NO. 158
Aaaoclated Preaa Service.
United Preaa DIapatehes.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY. iuLY 25, 1926.
A. R C. Paper. Blnile Coplea 2 Centa Dally. 5 Centa Sunday,
EAGUE OF VOTERS LUNCHEON HIES.
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HIT AGENT IN
S WEEKLY REPORT
A ucod farm crop yesterday was
rospect for Clarke county as
, csii 11 of the fine rains which
II Thursday and Friday, L. S.
. county agricultural agent
•ed in his weekly report.
v ,„.v..n is recovering from the
old spell of a few day* ago, the
i< r is doing less damage than
re, and the rains make it pos-
for the county to produce a
yield of corn ,the report of
Watson states.
ie report of the County Agent
The rains have saved farm
ps in Clarke county for the
ie being. Today it is possible
all crops to produce a good
Id. Hundreds of acres of corn
Clarke county were most ready
mature a stalk without any
it and the entire cotton crop
* all but doomed to failure.
Carlv torn has a chance to pro
car vet and cotton and
•ounc corn .may yield a fine crop,
crops have suffered very
ittlc.
Cotton.
Cotton is just-reco’
he cold nralhar whirl
bout ton days oto, I
Monti)' fins set very III
omjuircd to what it might have
I the weather been more favor-
However with n good mois-
r,million and warm wenthor
ntton * nn put on a prop of squares
thin ;i few days, ' V.
'.Many of our cotton fields prior
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Plan Greater Opera Season Mere In 1927
DISCUSS ISSUES AT
m— .7 w —uu— — —nc » . * —t»j—
Poincare Worried About Anti-Foreign Riots
;TI
HAVE ACCEPTED
Plans for a greater opera for Musical Festival
r _ r g the 1927 Summer School were launched
rlday night when the closing program of the 1926
session was given.
Senator George
Will Not Meet
Judge Russell
In Debate
TLA NT A—(TP)—Senator Wal-
F. (Icorgc Saturday declined to
ate farm relief legislation and
world court question with
icf Justice F.ichard B. Rua*ell
the Georgia Supreme Court,
j i•; opnosing Senator George
rthc democratic nomination.
: enntor George Issued n state-
nt in reply to a challenge from
!ic** Russell.
ii • senator declared that recent
»rm relief legislation In the
Tnitcd States Senate doe* not pre-
Georgia campaign issue be-
the Chief Justice has not
hich bill he favored and that
or'd court measure he sup-
rted does not involve the United
in any entangling alliance*,
mator ndded that his high
I for the supreme court of
ia in the abse nce of any oth-
»h!,.ration, would not pern-it Ex:iroln .,.
•nesee in political disputes ( . N . p( ,
Dr. J. S. Stewart, in making
the announcement that a greater
program than ever before was the
nspirations of the Summer School
authorities, stated that it was
felt that the school should not
bear nil the guarantee and when
ho called for an expression by
Mayor Dudley relative to the at
titude of the city Mr. Dudley as-
! sured him that the city would
make an appropriation of $500 to- ■
wards the 1027 session. It is be-i
lieved that the county will do
likewise. President Barnett of the
Dr. W.D. Hooper
Rounds Out 30
Years As S. S.
Teacher Today
Thirty years a teacher of
the same Sunday School class
is the record which Dr. W. D.
Hooper will complete today.
Dr. Hooper has lectured to
a class in the Sunday School
of the First Presbyterian
church for thirty years. That
is, when he has finished his
lecture this morning, he will
have rounded out his thirtieth
year.
That Di*. Hooper is a popu- ■
lar teacher ia indicated by
the Urge class that greets him,
evenr Sunday. Theaverare
of aemal&nirfay I
m tMt have bccogie fsmous
here and have alumni through
out the Mate. They ere or
were conducted by Miss Mil
dred'Rutherford, Mre. J. C.
llutehiue, Dr. Jere M. Hound,
the late Judge Andrew J.
Cobb, Col. Henry C. Tuck, Rev.
George E. Stone,
ORATORY RECITAL
WASHINGTON — (/P) — Ned
M. Green, the San Francisro pro
hibition administrator, who says
publicly he has been given parties
with confiscated liquor, was sus
pended from office Saturday by
Acting Secretary Winston of the
Treasury. . .
A report of Green's activities
was presented to iMr. Winston,
Saturday from Alf Oftedahl, head
of the special intelligence unit of
the Internal Revenue Burcuu on
the Pacific Coast.
In an interview witn Oftedahl
the report said, Green confirmed
published stories about his drink
ing of liquor.
All the charges of misconduct
against Green alleged personal
irregularities, Mr. Winston said,
and no graft is involved. •
ith the Chief Justice.of that tri-
unal.
Adimt* Parties
SAX FRANCISCO, Crtl. —The
Examiner said Saturday that Col-
r nel Ned M. Green, federal prohi
bition administrator for northern
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Man Is Charged
With Murder Of
His Wife
METROUOL18, ILL. — (A*) —
Charged with cutting hi* wife’s
head off with a pocket knife, O. B.
I.ognn, retired farmer of New Lib
erty, was under arrest Stotur-Uy on
a murder wuirant.
tf
IS
Nothing Doni
*■ TAWS. - (UP) U Premior Poincare t Saturday Cal L i 8
v»d to trnrb atiti-American demonstrations by
rislan street crowds after a cabinet session at
which he outlined the financial plight of France and
explained to his colleagues the principles upon which
he Will base his financial project to ‘rehabilitate the
national finances.
furnished
of the Oi
be the chief'
School student
LOSING OUT IN
TEXAS RACE
public appearanci _
the Colonial theater
at 8:30 P. <M.
The entire program is compos
ed of work done by the students
themselves in Oratory classes dur
ing the summer session exclusive
ly, under the efficient supervision
of Miss Carolyn Cobb, director of
the Oratory Department.
The Oratory fJepartment has
has madp much progress since it*
organization in Summer School.
This U evidenced* by the’summer
rcssion being a branch of Emerson
CollcgcSof Oratory, Boston, Mass.,
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.Th, Premier is disturbed by
the growing nnti-<ir**ign feeling
Which has been exhibited against. %
Americans and Englishmen. lie! w
summoned the Prefect of. Police j
SaturJay and it was at fiist dt-j
elded tu detail escorts of, bicycle
police to accompany tourist motor;
busses and to post police motor!
guards at tourists agencies. Later |
the use of motor busses for night j
sielng was prohibited by the gov
ernment.
TD
TE COMMITTEE
TUBE nc
II
Ur
BEGINS WORK
PARIS— -UP) —Premier Poiu-
caire took over Ills dutie:i os Fin-
unce Minister Saturday. M. Bri-
and w«» boek at the Foreign Of-
(to and v.hfdls of the new gov-
ernpttnt berall to -un smoothly
a(tor the Hiatus rawed by thq
Ford Doesn’t
Want Stogies
Named For Him
1 v '.rf
With thirteen candi
dates already having ac
cepted invitation to the
League of Women Voters’
luncheon at the Georgian
hotel next Tuesday at 1
o’clock interest in that
! event is increasing daily.
The candidates will be guests
of the League *nad tickets are on
sale at Costa’s and the Georgian
for one dollar .each for other citi
zens who desire . to attend the
luncheon.
Those who have accepted Invite*
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WASHINGTON*. —{&) — Henry
Ford has lojxt a fight to have the
name of his automobile eliminated
ront a brand of cigars and stogies.
Denying the application of - the
Ford Motor Company to cancel the
registration of the brand by .John
A. MeAdoo \?f| Charlotte, N. C., the
patent office has held 'thut a cor
porate name may be registered as
n trade mark: when used on goods
differing :ro'm those manufactured
by anther corporation of the samo
name.
Wilbur Talks;
NEW YORK —<AV- A four-
day heat wave in the New Knjr-
huid and the middle Atlantic
•states, • lcesened Thursday by
•tonne,. Saturday has claimed
PAUL SMITH’S, N. Y.-(JP)—
The iuidisability of beginning con-
etruction of a 0,000,000 cubic foot
lighter than air ship for the ngfy
ne«t year was discussed by Pres
ident Coolldge and Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur Saturday but no
final conclusion hnl been reached.
1*006 I hour a
. wero nineteen in New Eng-
iand, eighteen in New Jersey, nine
in New York city and four in New
York atate.
Among the New 'York victims
were John Watson Dixon, lawyer
and president of the Yale club end
Harry. Anson Moody, a former of
ficial of the P. W. Woolworth
Compdny.
Pitchforks Used
To Halt Meeting
Of Ku Klux Kian
CHICAGO— (U P) —Tale* of
alien irunmen patrolling the polls,
$3,000,000 Alleged to have been
dowpfrll of the Hcrriot ministry tho Senatorial primary
A spokesman for the Foreign ' ... . » * .
Office sold pie believed the debt | »»d reported gpois misuse of state
accords witn the United .State* 1 offices in elections, will be the
aqd Great Britain would !>c rati-1 three-fold subject of inve*tiga-
fled within a fortnight ns exter- „ hcre Monday when the Reed
na! credits Were me of th» main I hwiswJn. i»> in
things nectssarv v.» the financial j committee begins it in
rehabilitetion of the oountrv.
He cited France’s present needs
First, economv in 'rove**
ment expenses; second, that th A
rountrjr should work more, spend
l*rt and raise interna* lo*n* and
thl»^. foreign credit. AH three, he
mid were necessary under present
circumstances.
Ihey
Can't Cover Their Tracks
Completely; Sooner Or Later
Some Overlooked Trifle Is
The Nemesis Of The Crook
DALLAS, Tcxai. — UP) — Dan
Moody, attorney feneral of Texaa
, and democratic candidate for the
nomination of xovernor. lead Mir.
I rlam A. Ferguson, incumbent.
I seeking re-nomination, by 19.636
I votes when 116 counties out ot 251
| bad been hetrd tram by the Texas
election bureau lata Saturday.
! only one county waa reported
] absolutely complete.
First Woman. Judge May Also
Be First Woman Elected To
The United States Senate
quiry into Illinois politics.
Nineteen witnesses have been
called in connection with the three
stories it developed Saturday
night as county* agencies were put
to work upon ^ recount .of ballots
cast In Chicago^ “bad lands.**
The witnesses include princi
pals in the campaigns of Frank L.
Smith and WiUiam B. )$cKinley
: for the republican senatorial nom-
' ination; influoiHial Cook county
politicians; “Angols” of the sena
torial ticket; wet and dry advo
cates; public utility officials, ahd
CORNING, IOWA.-<AVA*mr
b «d with pitchforks, hammer*, crow
bars_and similar crudo weapons,
70r persons attempted towtop mem
bers of’{he Ku KTux Klan bound
for a county meeting near 1)0r*;
Friday night. Arrival of officors'
prevented a disturbance.
Amassed on a bridge over a hill
road at* the north edgo of town
after marching from the business
district, thfc demqnstrator*'refus
ed to pdrmit Klansmen to pass.
Sheriff Ooakley? said that a fight
was in its early atages when he
arrived.
Later in tho evening two
Klansmen were slightly injured,
and auto* In which they were re
turning home from their meeting
was badly battered by large rocks
•and other heavy missies, thrown
from the darkness. The Klansmen
did not ston to investigate, but
notified the sheriff.
WASHINGTON H/P)— An In-
vfstlKatlbn to determine how A.
Hlelskl, prohibition, "unde* cover"
man tin New York received the sal
ary of; $1100 a month which -ft* told
a Now York/court* he got,Wag
started AafUrday. by Compfrolloe
General Mif$nrl. •>
□McCarl v ordered an inspection of
all govern nunt payrolls after re
ceipt* of cdmplalpts from members
of eqniress and. others. Tho man
disclosed his njipr during the
Dwyqr rurW trial IS this
The comptreUer pointed out that
the law. prohibits a prohibition
Iworkfr from receiving more than*
»7,R0q a year and also prohibits a
government, worker from drawing
* rtlarffs .where the
total
_ . combined
Ore than $2,000 annually.
! welfare workers.
II O'
v difficult it is for the mur-
<l<n r to cover all his tracks!
younu woman recently was found
n, ’J r Boston. In a few day* the
Mice ch ared up this mystery, re-
vea.ing that Miss Edith Isouisc
,,r » a-h«* ;md died after an illegal
{^■ration which her sweetheart
arranged.
Tho work of the police fn this
f . a '‘‘ ^ >n striking contrast to the
tive work that has led to the
of similar crimes that
n*v<- shocked the nation during
lhl last B0 years. In the Boston
f ? s '* reconstructed newspaper
JKftchcy and photographs of the
* oun «f woman's head led to her
prompt i«ientification and gave the
W'ce clews. Ml'
. Bit* of Evidence. *
. ,u t in other cases, clews that
.cmed utterly worthless
ave Ymally led to the arrest of
tho
murderer,, after months of
and brilliant detective
|n five outstanding rases, the
•“wderert sought to cover their
tracks by dismembering or other
wise disposing of the body. They
felt that if the body could be hid
den it would absolve them of the
"But in all the cases, some tiny
bit of evidence dropped by the
murdererers in the efforts to con-
• . i l-- of thn virlini' , n:lVC
ecu! the body of the victim'have
led to a solution of the crime.
Shoes Reveal Slayers.
Consider, for instance, the case
cf Pearl Bryant, murdered in
Newport, Ky.. in 1895-.n crime
that drew first-page headlines for
weeks alt over the country.
One morning her headless body
was found in a yard on the edge
of town, it was partly clad, ap
parently there were no P«*» olc
means of identifying jG Detec
tives found one slim clew—« trade
mark label and serial number on
one of her shoes. But that clew
was enough.
Lyncb Davidson, tho third ol
what was known ss the “
Three Candldstes*'.' was
than 9.060 votes behind
Ferguson.
The figures were: _
Moody—*1476. j
Ferguson—-kUW.
Davidson— 12,1*1.
The other thres on the
and their votes sryre:
Zimmerman—143. .1
Wllmans—119.
Johnson—64.
Four Burned To
D e a t h In Fire
At Muskegon
By Brno* Catton. ,ent ns former Senator Atlec Tom
ELAND, Ohio—-It wasjerene.
jt years ago that a young j She. is Miss Florence Allen, one
who .bed recently passed of the country’s best known worn-
Ohio b*r examination went to I on and certainly one of its ablest,
office of a big law firm in j ^ Jin the eight years that she ha:
%od asked for a job as been in' public life she has mad'
attorney.
Phe head of the firm—a patri-
__ hid barrister of the old school—
stroked hit whiskers and looked
the window to where the snow
was drifting lazily down on Eu-
~ Amok
MUSKEGON, iMiCh. — WJ —
Paul Christie,. prominent floral
business man;'his. wife and two
children, Marian, age 7, and
■le,. 21months old, .were .burn-
was d«-
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After a month’s work the shoe Charles. « months okL.wl
ras traced to a store at Dayton, led Yo .death .fo^rday wh
Ihio. Through the store the dc-lbosne in North Musksgon
■Ml
olid avenue,
in a kindly
“It would lx
have a woman
cause I should i
even to the co>
like this."
Running for the Senate.
That waa Hfh* years ago. To
day tba Yroman whom this man
wan tea to shield so carefully Is a
justice of tha Ohio state supreme
court and a candidate for^B
democratic nomination to the U.
<8. Senate. * mr. f*
And aha Isn’t Jtety—other can
didate,” either. ? Political experts
giva mi an oven change Ip her
■pPPon*
a record that any man or womai
might envy. No woman can offer f
anything like it; few men can. I
She Was the first woman in the j
country to preside over a court j
of jrt&ieral jurisdiction.
Sh* wn» the first woman in |
the country to preside over ^ first
What Does Hie Farmer Want?
The Same Chance To Succeed
As Others In Life, Declaresl ,
5. H. Thompson, Their Agent
degree murder trial. . I ATLANTA.—(/P)—J. J. Brown,
Coatences Man to Death . state commissioner ot Agriculture,
She waa the first woman in the | jn „ statement Issued Saturday,
country to pronounce the sentence , | nv |ted Eugene Talmadge of^Mc-
.d “ i “ : —’ itae, opposition candidate for the
CHICAGO.—Tho pnblic realises
that the farmer la facing a crifiv
and wants relief.
But what la this crisis and vebat
relief is wanted?
Many have qualified to explain
but few have been ao vfcll chosen
for the teak a« Sam II. Thomp
son. the authorized mouthpiece of
the majority of the farmers in this
country. ,
Thompson is president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion. an organisation with mem
bership In 45 stetee and branches
in 188 counties.
Thompson known the fafmer be
cause he is p fanner.
Herewith he gives the readers
of death on n convicted criminal, _
She was the first woman in the ! * cnmm{ ‘ 8 r | oner ' M office, te meat!of the Banner-Herald through
country to sit in a state nuprehie h(m - ln a ler j cg 0 f joint debates, NEA Service, an Interpretation of
ctu . r * ... „ . . I mi, of which Mr. Brown proposed i Ibe agricultural dilemma.
nf A h^n^ .fc"r ?n . eXCC m.n Khmitd be held in McRae. Mr. Tal- “Wtot the farmer really wanta.”
* hlwom »" K ' I madge’s home and another In El- aaya Thompson. “I* legislation
Unitad ° f * he I berton. Mr. Brown'a home town. | which will give him an aqual op-
u „,y, „„ j , h . I Mr. Brown said thatVhs wolld portnnity to -fprosper under the
tbkSlJSf*.^ ' discuss Mr. Talmad^srTWord and Amsrlcan plan that is offered to
Hits woman who has gone so rar.-— ; ' Y,_
in -o short a time? fitness tor the oU “ r
Sh» Is one of the most intensely! In « “”d ,h * 1 Mr. TalgtadgCc will J
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Others Ost Federal AM.
ed .by, immigration laws, by laws
limiting houra of work and other
artificial meatif.
“The farmer seel Industry pro.-:
tected by tariff and other means'
to maintain alt artificial level of'
domestic prices.
“All these things the farmer
sees and appreciates. He mltialf
that bis own industry, tho largest
in America, with a capitalization
ot more than (evenly billion dol.
tars. Is unprotected, meeting TOrid
competition'with tha rasnit tost
those engaged in agricnltural par.
suits find themselves at severe
diaadvahtage.
“Not only are those directly en.
gaged In farming at a dlsadyant.'
ag^ but the farms, knows Dipt
tho great numbers of other grttuna
whose livelihood la dependent
upon agriculture an also at a
disadrantago. ,
"With this understanding tba
farmer proposes that government
al action be taken lo provide an
artificial means which will piac«
agricillliir,* on the mime hu.i'i wtt]g
*2»s ftSMI BSJ ubor {rates!*i -. Jlura to page cighta
HEAT WAVE TAKES
160 LIVES IN:
FOUR MVS f