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ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926.
Associated Preae Service.
A.B.C. Piper., Stash Copies S Cents Dally. '6 Cents Sunday.
In the Midst of Florida Hurricane
,ANTA, Ga.—(AP)
a i d inn the theory
an “imported” gun-
from Chicago was
mptyocl to slay Bert
lonrlson, special inves-
ittajr of Solicitor Gen-
ovkin’s office, who
lot to death in the
nil an Terrace Hotel
ist Thursday night,
Monday continued
o flow what they dc-
crifi I as three important
t'leail”
General Boykin had
intimated that he be-
‘imported” gunman hod
unlit here to kill Donald-
> for several years had
chief lieutenant in break-
»• ring of “confidence
/ith the arrest here of
n and one won.rn, who Is
Id in Columbus, Ga.* the
are following a triangu-j
thpy which they list in the j
manner*'tr r •, ; - . {
group of gangster* I
look Aaldson r s life to prevent!
|he « t of Jack Wilson, wanted I
i connection with the mur-i
i r s »»ral months ago of n |
(.■p-bfe road grocer and regard-
. v! tc whereabouts Donaldson
a? i; \vn to have important
idem
l. ' at kis death on the other
land, l ly kave been an act of re
numbers of the $1,000,-
icc ring" which operated
rial years ago.
| 1 ai he was slain by a local
prop n*wn to have been antag-|
'ftic rhim. I
.Vim! ifc on these “leads,” they I
ho, ntr incommunicado in the 1
pulton} county jail here two 1
In.thnj II. L. and C. J. Hughes,;
ird man, unnamed thus far I
ratalf.r W ..CHICAGO- (UP) - Another
(J »rfe„ wue of
J When Samuel Loscff, druggist,
I j drove his auto into his garage, he
Hurricane gales were lashing the photographer as well as the palm trees, when this picture of
Miami’s iccent tropical storm* was made. The blast drove huge waves over the Venetian Causeway
between Miami and Miami Beach, making passage impossible.
Some of the Miami hurricane’s handiwork is shown here. Houseboats piled up on the beach at Bis-
cayne Bay anti foundered. Wreck ige and household effects floated about the scene, with boatmen out
as soon ns possible to salvage what they could.
Girl Bandit Is
Leader Of Gang
Of Chi. Robbers
OL KILLED
EIGHT WITH
■MM’NT HOLLY, N. J.—(UP)—
b'VKirl, Miss pearl McSheery,
‘"killed in a bungalow on Sun-
1 *ak<». browns Mill, when a gun
|*ax discharged as sho and Miss
Queen struggled for poa-
O’Connor, witnessed
|»he shooting. Both she and Miss
'1’irn w,.ro hysterical Monday
police were unable to secure
oi*« r.nt story of the tragedy,
h- three lived together in the
|t*ligalo\v.
TO OT LEGGER,
IHOME BREWER
MUST PAY
TAXES
Washington.— (UP) —Th«
^l.-ggpr and home brewer—lf
are to be .taxed heavily
|’Haft.r for their Illegal busi-
• Treasury Department, car-
l rTi 3{r our mx provision* mapped
,y ; AssIm .nt Secretary Lincoln
Ar Q' u> hrw Unucd regulations
•aH'ng f..r taxation of kttlls and
l)T a heavy revenue “penalty” tax
|''Don »Ji\**rte«l alcohol, distilled
’^trag, and the, like. Failure
•hnoil«ggera properly to list
l‘* ,r income, lays them open to
[iimfipr raxe*,
Amir*** is known to bolleve
now penalty tag. syfjajn will
I T ' lVcp the prohibition service vlr-
Hir-MippokUng. « ;
E LIVES
was accosted by two men and a
younc woman, all armed. Taking southren frci ht 0 „i iccillcnt
*18,. .‘hey compelled the jlroRi5iat (whle h took „ )iv „,
were under
Four died
they found no money.
“This guy’s got money,” the
girl told her companions. “You
can't tell me.”
So, under the leadership of the
young woman, who was dressed in
n flashy orange coat and hat, the
bandits forced Loscff to drive"
them hack to hi* garage whe
WASHINGTON.— (UP) —Tw
‘ len
liv
probe Monday,
d near Wilmington,
Spanish War
Auxiliary To
Meet Tuesday
1 women who are lntcrcstced in
»mlng charter incmebrs of the
j Ladles' Auxiliary of the Oscar D.
I Hn wn Camp, United Spanish War
j Vct^ranr, are invited tb a‘ meeting In
I the Georgian hotel "parlor Tuesday
I « ternnon at J .o’clock.
The application for charter will be
ready for Hie signature <-l those de-
• siring to become charter* members.
I The Tall for the meeting is signed
• by Mrs. W. M. liurion, president
and Mrs. II. \V. Ficussc, secretcary
Delaware, when their car sped
into the path of a Pennsylvania ^ ^ A - - _
passenger train after it had |jJJ Yj* CJlfl
waited for a freight on another'
track to pass.
Five girls were killed and an
other seriously injuicd when a
train hit the truck in which they
they found a wallet containing: wcrc riding betwene Gastonia and
$132 which he had thrown to the Bcasemcr, N. C.
floor when the bandits first x ap
peared.
Peach Shipments
CHICAGO.—(AV""Mf„ X”. who
K G Ornilpton, radio operator,
■.ay* mailo a trip through Callfor.
nla with him. may yet dlsclote
Moving From This Sec
tion; Expect Fully
Twenty Cars.
Home Burned
For Liquors
WASHINGTON. —<UP)—^ Vhe
luro of old wines and fine liquors
wa.« blamed Monday for the fire
which lato . Sunday destroyed
Huvensworth. 139 year old Fair
fax county, Virginia, mansion.
IM THE DAY’S NEWS
PRESIDENT CHljS
At Canton
Boys from fourteen Georgia j
counties will arrive at Camp Wilk- ;
ins some time Monday for their
annual week's outing and shorty
course in farming. j
A total of 202 boys registered ■
at the Camp last week, tho first
week of the boys’ camp. Several
hundred girls attended Camp
Wilkins during the fivo weeks’.
gills’ camp. {
Boys nre expected tills week j
from tho ‘ following oounties: j
Butts (20); Campbell (30); Car-!
roll (20); Haralson (10); Harris
(25); Johnson (12); Mcriwcather
(20); Muscogee. Oglethorpe. Tal
bot. (20); Tattnall (50); Toombs
(«); Troup (20); Wilkes (30).
H. M. Atkinson, chairman of
the Board of the Georgia Railway
and Power Company will deliver
an address at Camp Wilkins on •
Thursday at 11 o’clock
Surrenders
kin son will discuss electrics) de- J
felopment of tho farms.
“Scarface Al” Capon!, alleged
head of a Chicago bootlegging syn
dicate, surrendered to federal of
ficers there on a liquor conspiracy
charge and was promptly served
with a warrant accusing him of
the ’murder of Assistant State’s
Attorney William H. McSwiggin.
~. He admitted knowing the slain
,scorch for the murders of Don| offjcert but dcnied aU know ledgo
is Jake Sarkish, one of tho
members of “Jumbo” Crowley’s
underworld gang nt Canton, Ohio,
questioned by authorities In the
AFTER PLOT ON t-
LOCAL SERVICES
Prayer services for Catho.
lies In Mexico were hold here
Sunday 'at St. Jooeph’o Catho.
lie church, Father King lead,
ing.
Bund*/ Aval Feast Day «l
tht church end for “St. Peter
In Chains."
In addition <o the regular
program of prayers, tho con
gregation gave ten prayers for
“Our Fithora”, ton “Hall
Mary” and tan “Glorias." In
addition tho Litany of the
Saints was sold.
TALE OF
DEATH IN
STORM
Mellctt, publisher.
of his murder.
Forty-Two Are
Killed During
The Past Week
(By Associated Press) '
Forty two persons killed ami
two hundred and scanty eight:
Injured was the traffic toll re-1
1 ported in cloven southern states
| during tho «ast week. The As.
NASSAU. Bahama.—OP)—Trip- “doted Weas survey Mrnday re
pled schooners, lailcn with retu- '
reps from the outlying Islands ol That total won four fatalities
the Bahamas, slowly coming one “ nd ” or0 than
by one Into the harbor here, arc casualty toll for the proceeding
bringing stories of more Iobh of w °‘! k ,, _ ..
life and property as tho result of North Carolina load all south-
the hurricane last week. ; r " • ,at0 ” , the num ' , ' r of /»-
Oeath toll Monday had mounted lf»Ue» *Hh eleven end reported
rer night to 146 dead while 400 eleven Persons Injured. Georgia
are still listed os missing. He- ** at * ll J re0 ‘ fd an<1 thlrtyjflve
ports that the storm had intoned mjurwi.
the sponge fleet where a great Iona #
of lire was feared, were uno-m- Vhw milirpn A<?
firmed and the sponke boats are -11JULCU
still unheard
NEW WITNESSES TO
TESTIFY BEFORE
' INVESTIGATOR
Androf Island, which suffered*.'
greatly from the hurricane, has
reported to the government hero ,
that corps have been g*deniily
destroyed. I
OFFICIALS PROBE
The historic house, home of
General W. II. P. Lee. Confederate
general, had been deserted for a
SEATTLE, Wash. —(AP)—Po
lice Monday were trying to de
termine whether 1 m Smith, a
middle-aged man, also known as
Thomas Johnson and Kelly, is an
; rel v a lunatic
Mountain Inn Is
Destroyed
nit KENWOOD LAKE, N. J.—
(1JP)—Six persons wero Injured
and twenty four vacationists es.
raped when the Mountain Springs
Hotel was'destroyed by fire Sun
day.
| The fire reduced the building to
ruins in forty minutes. Tho dam-
! age was estimated at $100,000.
Two of the Injured received
| sprains from leaping from a soc-
! and story, landing ou rocks near
the whIIh of the hunting building.
MAY FALL BEFORE
with a vivid imagination.^
In a “confession” Sautrday
re«‘;incTihrd«ihTtTi.‘*ifo i*** •>; "rsnssr*
•Sumo of the fl„„ t ana pre.tiewt‘
—A VW. n. or u | it'lhor vaults, started a tin ^ I committed in San Francisco, Ha- A
zclton, B. C., Sioux City, Wichita, physician began attempts to swim
Peoriaj Mankato, Minn., Minncap-|the English Channel Monday.
NEW BRUNSWICK N. J—(UP)
Pkst moving davelapmenta Mon
day In the' Hall-MIlla case will
bring bringf three near witnesses
before “ State’ Senator Simpson,
special, prolocutor, who will hegln
hla probe Into the four murder
years ago of the Rer, Edward W.
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
Tho new witnesses are: Rob-
'ert Ertln<: fafcm hand, whose
testimony is thought to show Ibot
thV'plF 'Woman". Mrs. Jane
Olbaon.. was not near tho murder
acene on the night the two lovera
were Wiled' a* she professes—
An unnamed girls who Is said
to have been with' Erllng In a
parked auto and to have seen the
"pig woman” drive, by on her
mule.
An unidentified woman. 8ha
was In New Brunswick on tha
night of tho murder, according to
Erllng and told him aho found
blood-stained loavee near the mur.
der scene.
MEXICO CITY.—(UP)
—With authorities of
church and state, keenly
watching pnblic reaction,
Mexico's traditionally de
vout people, Monday be
gan the first week of life
under the new religious
laws.
Additional guards surrounded
President Callcs after tho arrest of
nine persons charged with plot
ting to Dike his life. Archbishop
Mors Del Rio, heading the church
fdreos, remained in his home,
slightly ill from exhaustion after
the scopes St the closing of tha
churches, Tha city was quiet
Thera woa much comment on the
lack of interest displayed when
60,000 persons paraded Sundsy in
a great laborite demonstration is
favor of the govarnmant’a stand.
Tan per cent of.those who pa
raded were Woman. The' men were
members of unions, jolpsd in tha
C. R. O. M. or regional confedera
tion of labor. Quiet prevailed and
the several squadrons of' police,
armed with bayonets,' who rode
beside thp panders, wore not
nseded.
AN INTERVIEW
(Copyright By United Press.) •
ROME, July. — “The church
fighting her enemies the last
2,000 years, cannot entertain any
doubt regarding the final result of ■
the extremely painful situation in
Mexico," Pietro Cardinal Gasparri,
Pontifical secretary of state, told
the United Praps in an exclusive
interview.
“It is a' situation made sspec-
ially painful linco it is occurring
against Catholicism in one of tha
most Cathqlic countries in the
world," he dontinqed.
“The church hat been built on
the blood of martyrs. Her history
The messages from a Milwaukee, j, one | ong | n persecutions by ho»
rvrevnn—Mrs. Howard HardlnBj J enemies.” ■ ■ "rri
orchards of A. Costt, Dr. W. H. 1.1'
Hodges and H. Breedlove of Wat- re ,, a h r 1 , t f, " houghL Ru«i.ll I ldton - B - C "
kinsvillc and Bishop. Cost.;, has ^ 2 „. ls ttng h^ RU " C " < • “■»'
4,000 bearing trees. Dr. Hodges}.
0,000, and Mr. Brttdlove 7,000.
her Identity to prevent any hatm
befalling Mrs. Altnee Semple Mc
Pherson. Ism Angeles evangelist,
said a deposition by Ormiston (or.
merly employed at the Aw™
Temple by Mrs. McPherson, marie
public Monday.
Orntlston's deiiosltlnn exonerate
Mrs .McPherson froni any coniHC-
tion with his movements following
her recent disappearance. Refus
ing to identify his companion,
othrfr than “Mtos X”. a nurse,
the radio operator said that he
had sufficient confidence In her
“to state that I am of the opinion
that before any barm should be
fall Mrs. McPherson, who Is en
tirely Innocent of tho matter and
yet utterly unable to defend her-
* .. ... v -ill niatfr* an aiii-
welf. Miss X will make an fl«I
davit supporting mine.
Others in thnt section who have
a smaller number of bearing trees
are Cody and Edgar with 1,500
trees*'and W. I. and George Ab-
r\ey .vith 3,500.
Fully twenty car* will be ship
ped from these orchards with the
bulk of them being moved this
week. The peaches of Costa,
Breedlove and Hodges orchard-*
are being shipped under “Oconeo
Chief” brand and all of them arc
super-fine. These ’ orchards
_ young, this year being the first
Itefiis- i real crop and beside* being un-
‘ usually large the peaches are
highly colored and very swtet.
This is the first year that
peaches have been shipped from
this immediate section in any
quantities and tho growers feel
sure that the orchards will prove
successes. The peaches arc being
loaded at WaticinsvUle and Bishop
and arc being handled over V> le
Central of Georgia railroads i
is estimated at $100,000.
The homV waf bum hv and Kansas City. i Dr. George Brew.tcr of Eng-
Ravensworth B.1787 1 The I Smith walked into police station | aru , entered the water at 11
navensworth in 1787. The !<>■■ J Saturday night and said he was| oV .|h ck five mfles east of Dover.
tired of a life of ciime and that} 2 o’clock he was five miles off
he wanted to tell his story. W hen j Foikstonc.
police begat*-to kwh upon his ac« -j ©'clock Miss Clara Bello
count as rather wHd and oues-J of Sew York, a swimming
turned him regarding his sanity,t i n slriictrcs* who cntcccd the water
ne admitted he escaped from nn onc m |; c WC 3t of Dover pier, at 8
insane asylum in Missouri but as ( ©'clock, was twelve miles out. She
he continued the story officials ^ ac hcd the halfway mark in
.j .» [five hours and there was a possi
bility that she might break chan
SEN YEAR OLD
YOUTH TELLS OF
EOT
MEMPHIS. Tenn.- (UP) —
“Mama killed daddy because he
chased her with a big knife.”
That was the story told police
Monday by seven year old Louis
Jonea Jr., only eye witness to the
last quarrel between Mrs. Edith
Hamilton Jones 28, hla mother an«i
Louis, bis father.
placed more credence in it.
Violent Earth
Shock Is Felt At
who told of helm accosted on a
road near where the l*w bodies
w.re found by three men. Is being
Investigated.
William Phillip*, night watch,
man nt tho New Jersey College (or
Women nt tho tlmo. ot the mur,
dors, was released from jail Mon.
day under ball of 13.66°. He had
been held since Thursday night
■is s material wltneaa.
Ho Is alleged to. have told.au.
thoritles he saw Mrs. Hall return
to her home tho night of the
crime nt nn hour' considerably
earlier than thnt given by Mrt.
Hall when she told, her story nt
|he first Investigation.
j Herren Slayer
Removed From Clarke
Jail to Morgan County;
Trial in September.
j nel^ records.
swimming well and
headed for Ca ai* tat the ebbing
tide was carrying her toward
Faenza Monday! *&££ *“• Thewe ‘ therw ”
______ j A member of Miss Barrett's
' tug party returned to Dover Mon'
FAENZA. Italy.—OP)—A violent I ,' a> . afternoon and before rejoin-
earthquake, lasting three hours, j ing the tug, said the swimmer was
the center estimated to be 9.0001 going strong at 2 o'clock and in
kiloiueteni. 5.692 miles away, was ' very good spirits. Sbe was eat*
recorded by Professor Raphael i;;LT beef tea and sponge cake nt
Itendnndls’ observatory here v<m. intervals. There was *"
thy. ’ ’ , I aboard the tog.
music
MADISON, Ga Lester Little,
who was placed in Clarke county
jail about aix weeks ago charged
with killing John G'. Herren, has
been returned to the Morgan
county jail to nwcil trial nt the
September term of court. He has
retained Judge Lambert and Joa-
eph E. Pottle to defend. Solicitor
Joe Duke will repreaent the etate.
He waa returned to MndUon
that he might be near hii home
and family and friend*.
Unless there is some legal ex
cuse it is expected his trial will
occur nt the regular September
term of court, ■ t
They ahaU not prevail- US
added. —- see
EXPRES8 HOPE
WASHINGTON. —Hope of a
compromise settlement ot the
Mexican Catholic conflict without
further bloodshed wits expressed'
by officiate her* Monday.
There wna no evidence, however
that Action In being taken by
American official* to.mediate !the
dispute.
The following decision of Presi
dent Cootldgc not to lift the em
bargo on shipments .of arms to
the lootbern republic, the Stale
epartment, Is maintaining'on at.
tltu.lo ot strict neutrality.
Criticisms by American Catho.
lies of the administration’* hand*,
off Is oxpraaaad In protests pour
ing upon officials hero. Many o(
these appeals iPak for a definite
break in diplomatic relations and
evidence that this government
does not countenance Mexico's
alleged violations at civil rights.
OPfER PRAYERS
NBW YORK. — OP) — Roman
Catholics throughout the world
have thrown thalr moral support to
their church in (U conflict with
in Mexican gotmmen".
Special services srrl. prayers
for a favorable solution were or.
fered Sander hi Csfhotlc < hurr h-s
everywhere In compliauca with
the wishes ot the Pope. ' “*
In Boston tho Mexican govern,
meat’s new religious regulation
were branded hy Cardinal OTon.
nell. ranking falhollc prelate la
the United Hla. is as "the most
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