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THE WEATHER:
Cloudy, with riw In temperature.
Light winds.
Daily and Sunday—13 Ceuta a Week.
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ATHENS COTTON:
MIDDLING 2TM<
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VOL. 95, NO. 306
Associated Press Sendee. United Press Dlspatchea.
ATHENS. GA„ FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ». 1927.
A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 6 Cents Sunday.
FARMERS FACE RECOUP OF 1926 LOSSES
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Globe Girdlers Arrive In Hongkong; Carling Lost
SHORT COOP WILL,
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DEATH RIDES IN TOY, WAGON
IN LOST
Clio'S. IS ESTIMATE
Itv JOSEPH S. WASNEY
United Press Staff CorresnondcnL
WASHINGTO N.—
who
Southern farmers
suffered economic depres
sion last j’.’ar through low
cotton prices may recoup
some of tfiier losses this
| season.
Agriculture Department officials
I PHtimptod Friday that the short
i rop this year will probably bring
.me-fourth more than the bumper
I to*ton harvest .of 1926.
The record crop last fall of
I nearly 18.000.000 bales forced cot
ton prtese to extreme low levels.
Most southern farmers had to sell
| at leas than production cost.
Nature nowls taking another at-
The boll weevil has attack-
I H the crop: weather conditions
for boll frulUngs have been un
favorable and spring floods pre-
! vented planting of tlionsands <>f
•cros In cotton. I'jus remedying
I the over-production menace.
Farmer* themselves reduced
I cotton acrougo 12.4 on the urea
[ planted last yrav. This curtail.
! meat was bn advice of the govern
chaos In the cotton belt would re-
I suit If heavy planting continued.
The crop now Is estimated at
V.692.000 about six million
bales less than 1926 crop. Offi
cials estimated tho 1925 crop was
Jua* five million!! bales too high,
so the readjustment this voar
| again balances production with
consumption.
The crop, however, may bo
larger or amaller. depending , on
fnrfher advance* by the weevil
and weather conditions. Indica
tions were Friday that It would
ren somewhere between 12.000.000
and IS,000,000 bales.
WASHINGTON — </P>— Wash
ington official* are hopeful that pentgr during a holdup
tho disatfvantar* under which, county on January 8th.
Triple Execution
Held In State
Of Maryland
BALTIMORE, Md. —(UP) -
Three negroaa were hanged for
murder at the Maryland etata pen
itentiary early Frida v in the lint
triple execution in the hiitory of
Baltimore. Otto Simmons end
Arthur Swan went to the gallows
for the murder of Joseph E. Car-
pentfr during a holdup in Charles
«Y
WINDSOR WILL SCOUR OCEAN
FOR MISSING AVIATORS; BELIEVE
CARLING PASSENGERS ARE ALIVE
American exporti to France are | William IL Rosa paid with his
suffering doc to the new French, life for tho murder of Mrs. Lottie
tariff scnedule will prore of a tem-1 MeElfresh, Thurston, Md., this
porary character in view of the i eummer.
fact" that' negotlatlone for a mostI There were no demonstrations,
ia>orea nation commercial treaty hut a heavy armed guard war
between.the two countrlee have a|- thrown about the high stono wails
ready teen initiated. of tho prison.
Such a treaty would give the U.
S. privlcgcs granted other nations.
The.inclusion in tho treaty of the
most faroned nation clause ae has
been suggested by tho U. C.
would automatically overcome the
tariff handicap on American goods
by. the new French schedule!
YOUTH IS
Thomas J. Christian (right) is
-t in jail at Los Angeles, Cal., charg.
meat, which warded that financial C( j w itli murder, and Mrs. Walter,
Of HILL IS
LEI
IB FACE T
SEATTLE.-)^—Harry D. Hill,
inspected ff year old ilayer of hie
ased mother, PYlday was being
taken back u> Streater. lit, to vol-
nntsrlly face Riel. Guarded by
three Illinois offlrcra end accom-
wnled by his father, the young
Iniltlve Started east by train
Thursdsy nl|ht. He Is due in
Chicago Sunday evening.
The youth poked with hie cap-
lore and seemed apparently un-
inncemed over the prospecti of a
fight for life. He continued to
protest his innocence In the shoot
ing of his mother who wee shot
An*. 14th. Her body wai found
*'"«. 22 in a shallow grave In the
basement of her Streeter homo.
Expect Action
In Indiana
Political Probe
Galloway (in circloj, and her son,
Donald (right), are without a hus
band and father because of a bag
of butter beans and a toy wagon.
Donald, it waa said, traded his
wagon to Naomi Christian (pictur
ed above with her mother), for the
butter beans. After the beans were
gone Donald wanted his. wagon
back. A qutrrcl followed, in which
the mothers of ths children becamo
involved, according ti police inves
tigation, and which reached a cli
max when Christian leaped upon
the running hoard,of the Galloway
automobile and ' shot Galloway.
Christian ia a former Kentuckian.
New City Court
Officials Take
Office Monday
Judge Henry C. Tuck and So
licitor Rupert Brown will become
judge and eoliritor of tke City
Court next Monday, succeeding
Judge J. D. Bradwell and Solici
ted Dennis Penny. Judge Tuck
is one of the city’s best known at
torneys, and has represented this
county in tho legislature, and is
a former mayor of tne city. So
licitor Brown is a recent graduate
of the University and has been
practicing law here since his grad.
Judge Bradwell succeeded Judge
T. F. Green in May. 1920, when
Judge Green resigned and wae al
so appointed by Governor Welker
for the regular term after Gover-
no i'orsev named hie as Judge
Green’s successor. Solicitor Pen
ny was appointed by Governor
Welker. The retiring officer! of
B.:cs Summering
Atop Government
Building Here
»air.ir. me reining uimvbh vs
the court have splendid records
and the docket of the court is in
fine shape to be taken over by the
new officials, it Is stated-
INDIANAPOLIS, Ini -«>-
Madison County
Bov Dies Of
Injuries
William Brown, age 18. Madison
A fh*rr» agout the Marion county county boy died at a local hospital
mnd jury room gave rise to the j Thursday morning from injuries
rumor that the grand jury which received in an automobile .wreck
; investigating chafes of
willed corruption in Indiana
**>uld submit Its report some
time Friday,
Newspapermen, who have heen
"atchinr, for that development for
!*v«ral days ware told by William
”• Schaeffer, denuty prosecuting
that they should return
fridty afte^oon- William J.
Mo«ey, foreman of the ;m*nd jury
declined to sav anything hut would
“ot deny that the grand jury was
retting ready to report. •
first met h odist ch ijrch
The pastor is n re aching a series
sermons on the suhiect of temn.
tation On Sunday the topic wil!
he “The Force of Temptation
Take notic* that the second str-Hnent young man and
'ice U at 8;$9 ?. 4 Ukad by ail who knew him.
Tuesday night*
Young Brown was from in Madi
son county and had soent practi
cally all rtf his life in that county.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the Baptiit church Frida*
at three o'clock and intertnent will
follow In the Whitworth, cmrtcry.
Pemsteln Brothers Funeral Home
Is In charge.
Besides his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. J, H. Brown, the deceas'd Is
survived bv three sisters and hie
grand parents . . . . .
Mr. Brown was injured last
Tuesday night when the car in
which he was riding struck the
steel bridge near Ila. Ga. He was
frioualy bptnd and later died
from the
A swarm of bees has se
lected one of the highest
point* in the city to "light.**
For several weeks now this
particular swarm has made
one of the lookout* on top of
the postoffice their summer
home, enjoing the cool breez
es of their genuine outdoor
Bleeping porch. Tom Forres
ter, keeper of the building,
made :i trade with the bees
soon after they "arrived,**
agreeing that he wouldn't go
into tho honey manufacturing
business if they would not
enter into the stinging bust-
ness.
Mr. Forrester says he ha*
no Idea what the plans of the
hec« for the winter are, hut
he Is satisfied they will have
to hunt warmer quarters than
atop the government budding.
CHICAGO — f/P) William
Mitchell, 27 year old department
*'«tote clerk, who said ho never
drunk, smoked, gambled, or went
half of this timo, however, was
spent at luncheon.
Murders Wife STAfSK XTST^tSSS c - * <*■****“«
1T1 UrUC?lO " M V. Identified no the “Cat Rfenriit V
(identified as the "Cat Bandit, 1
For Other Woman; 1 ^X I S a . t ,rfo h r ave n, , :?r ,, e
MONTGOMERY. —(UP)— Sam
Hall, negro who murdered his wife
for another woman, paid the su.
premo penalty for his crime Fri
day rooming when ho died In tho
electric esalr.
In the chair Hall confessed tho
crime, which he had steadfastly
denied previously.
Hall said he and.a woman had
gone to hi i wife's homo, killed her
and dragged 1>er off to tho woods
together. The body was found In
the woods, and Hall had contend,
od that he killed her with a knlfo
ho tiad taken from her. Self-de
fense waa his plea for mercy.
The negr^antered tho chamber
at one o’clock and was pronounced
dead at 1:29.
Mrs. Willis And
Townsend Freed
By Carolina Jury
ok
.EENVILLE. 8. C.—(/p)—Mrs.
Fthel Willis. 31-year-old widow,
and Henry , 8. Townsend, former
deputy sheriff, today wero cleared
of a charge of slaying tho for-
■’uisbsnd. Sheriff Sam D.
Willis, of Greenville county.
It took a Jury less thanjono hour
or formal, deliberation, 'to agree
upon a verdict or not guilty, after
* trial lasting two 'weeks. ,TUo _
Jurr, re ported at 2:28 o’clock this j nom | nalloll tor UnUe(1
afternoon, having,boct\ out for an 1
hour and 40 minutes. More than
HONGKONG, China. — (UP) — The Amerieao
around-lhe-world fliers, William S. Brock and Ed
ward F; Schlee, arrived here from Hanoi, French
Indo-China, at 3:30 p. m. Friday.
Flying Eastward from Habor Grace, N. F., they
reacted the Pacific ocean on their fourteenth day of
the flight, setting a new world record. They had
covered approximately 9,550 of their 22,067 miie iten
erary around the world.
WILL BE
CANDIDATE FOR
111 SENATE
COLUMBUS. O,—(UP)-rOovcr-
nor Vio Donahey of Ohio has def
initely decided to declare• himself
ndldatc . for tho Democratic
Sen-
I taor In 1928, tho -United Press
Ga., mother of -Mrs, wyils, fainted
when tho verdict was-read. The
accused wonuui, dressed In tjoep
black, .rushed to hef side ns she
„ collapsed, and her con corn over
are laid at *hU * door'and* m many her mother hid any signs of rellof
burglaries. He talked freely to. on her
police and said ho had no Idea of shown.
face that might liavo
Negroes Injured
Two negroes Harry Jones and
Henry Booklns. are,at the General
hospital rather badly Injured as
the result of an automobile acci
dent Thursday night.
Both have injured backs, lacer
ations and possibly Internal in
juries- Th?y were driving a U-
Drlvlt on the DanlelsvUle road
about midnight. It Is stated, and
turnfd over.
Augusta Woman
Is Slain; Said
Mother Not Present
The slnin slieJXTs mother, Mrs.
(Julia Ifollls Willis, of Greenville.
I who had sat by her dauglitor-in-
law throughout tho long trial, and
testified in her defense, was not
In the court-room
■ f . gi . wj | Mrs. Willis, mother of four chll
mate unot ncridren. and Townsend, formor dep
AUGUSTA —(AV- Mrs. Helen
Sousa, died at a local hospital
.shortly after 11 o’clock Friday as
result of a bullet wound said to
have been Inflicted by her bus-
band, Joe Sousa, her husband and
son, Bradly aro In a serious con-
dltlon as a result of tho shooting
affray.
The shooting occurred at the
house occupied by both the Sousas
and Spradleys at Ilf.- Thirteen
LIST INCREASES
Thnraday, found. moil of -the
Bulldogs expected to return • *-
■embled on Sanford Field going
through thetr dally workoute.
Among those who havo returned
recently are Bobby Hooke, half
back; Pete Herndon, guard on last
rear* freeman team; U. F. John,
eon. quarterback; Roy Jacobson,
guard; aien Bradley, end; Leon
Grayson, end; Fat Thom peon,
auard; George Matavle. guard;
Henry HUI. halfback; Back Wee.
ver. guard; Sidney Cox. full beck;
H. O. tBarron, halfback; Henry
palmer, end; Owen Thomaeton,
tackle; Herbert Rlngel, guard;
Collbie. halfback: Pete Herndon,
guard, and Hertla McCrary, full,
kaokr v* ‘ •
Although there hae heen a large
number (o return there are etllt a
number of candidates expected
eacdi dav. This number includes
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Flying Beauty
Will Attempt
Lindbergh Stunt
■ DETROIT —fUPl—Both Elder,
flying beauty who hopes to dupli
cate Llndhergh’e New York to
Parle flight later In the mont'i
left Ford airport early Friday for
Lakeland, Fla., on a non-stop trip.
Her narlgator. Captain George W.
Hamentan. was with her.
After further, flying tecta there.
Mice Elder propaaea to return to
Booeavelt Field. New York, rla
Wheeltnc. W. V«. fluelnesa-men
of Wheeling aro becking her trana-
Allantic effort.
Scudder Corner
To Be Improved
Workman are busy improving
front to . Scudder** jewelry
store, now occupied by the-W- A.
Capps Co, successors to C. A.
Scudder. Tho entire front of the
building, which Is at the corner
of Clayton and College, will be
improved. ^' *,
Work has also started on the
foundation for a new building on
West Clayton street, another au
tomobile place
made by officers as they are so
weak that physicians will not al
low them to bo questioned. Nono
aro fully conscious. It Is report m
Tho stiootinjr Is said to have oc
curred when Sousa Is said to have
shot his wife and ften turned on
Spradley. tho two engaging in a
gun battle.
Quenlinc, daughter of Sprad-
Icy, stated to officers that she was
arioep with Mrs. Sousa at the time
Sousa shot his wife. She could
tell nothing of tho affair
war -4»mrados and bosom
friend of the sialn officer, becamo
tho center of a large group Of
friends who embraced them Im
mediately after the verdict,was
read. After'personally thanking
the Jurors, the widow announced
her Intention to remain in Green
ville and "do all possible to find
tho slayer of my husband-’’
Townsend, standing next his
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learned Friday.
Tho information came from a
source especially close to Gover
nor Donahey, a man who frequent,
ly consults with him regarding po.
Utical mancuvor*. Tho informa
tion was givon after It was learn
ed that Donahey bad advised one
prospective candidate for tho gu
bernatorial nomination that ho
would pot seek re-election for a
fourth' term.
“I know my limitations", Dona
hey has repeatedly answered those
wbo have sought to force him into
e open.
This strategy, in tho view of
many observers, has strengthened
tho Ohio executive as & potential
compromise candidate-
This move by Donahey will not
change hla status as a possible
promise candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomina-
Plan 8e«rch
HARBOR GRACE. N. F-~Po»t.
ponlng temporarily their planned
flight to Windsor England, C. A.
Schiller and Phil Wood Friday
were to begin search for the miss,
lug planes Old Glory and the Sir
J^Un Carling and the five missing
fliers.
Both aviators said they believed
there still was rhanco of rescuing
the missing men-
Wood and nrnilier planned't®
continue their search for several
days, searching by daylight ‘and
returning to Harbor Grace at night
to refuel and to sleep.
They would search, they mM,
until the fliers had been found Off
all hope lost of their being found.
Wood believed that Tully and
Modcaife succeeded In crossing
most of the Atlantic and wept
down near the Irish coast* Iff
recalled the plight of Harry Han
ker, whsoe plane fell in the acd
near the Irish coast and HnWtBMf
tlon.
Rapid City Is Idle
To Tell "Cal”
Good-Bye
MIN IS KILLED
ST.’LOUIS —W— Gang war
fare broke out again here Friday
with the killing of Alphonse Pain-
zolo, ontorious Italian gunman and
the wounding of a fourteen year
old boy hy-stander, who changed,
to be within range of bullet* fir
ed from an automobile Into a pool
room.
Palazolo loitering about the
pool room was kfued instantly.
Tho boy, Emanuel Caprano, was
shot in the back. lit waa playing
ball in the street when hit bv a
stray bullet He told the police
there were four men in tho au
tomobile from which the shots
ere fired.
The assassins apparently were
•med with sawed-off r.hotguns
i there were fifteen or more gun
shot woundad in Palazolo’s body
from head to foot■ A police guard
was thrown about a store room
next to tho oeena of the shooting
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RAPID CITY, S. D. — UP) —
With a hUKe demonstration thnt
brought out what loomed to be
the whole town of Rapid City, the
Blark Hills xald farewell Fridny
to President and Mr». CooIIdge.
Frrra the doorway of tho high
school, where he hus had his pri
vate offices durinjr the summer,
the president looked down upon a
jjreqt thronK of Rapid City citi-
„ j» end toft them he regretted
“this pleasant ,nd remarkable
nier- w»s ended.
Ercry shoo, office, industrial
plant end mill has eloeed so thnt
their employees could attend the
demonstration, turning itself over
to the farcw.n meeting. Those
who have been attached to tho
Whit- House for many year* de
clared the farewell demonstration
was unparalleled In their recollec
tion..
Small Boy Dies
At Home Of
Parents
wiltle ?r».re Fowler, yonnf eon
of Mr. end'Mr*. B. K. Fowler, died
-• the home of hie parent! at 189
No-men erenne At about 12
o'clock.'noon. Thnraday.
Funeral services ward held at
tha Prospect church and interment
la the Prospect cemetery Frl.
*nv morning at eleven o’clock.
Bernstein Brothert funeral home
'"■nta’yotia* child Is eurvtved by
Ite parents end grand parents.
He wes a etnart little fellow and
friends of tho family sympathise
Warren G. Harding lu 1920, pur.
sued similar tactics, filling his
declaration as a candidate for re-
election to the senate before the
start of the Chicago convention
which nominated him as tfoo
standard bearer of tho republi
cans.
Ths Democratic national con
vention will be held after the tlmo
expires for filing the declarations
of candidates for the Ohio pri
mary.
Donahey
draw his declaration for senator
should be nominated for president. |
Donahey persists, however. In
his insistence that he will not bo
a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination. Ho has
repeatedly refused to sanction
lu his behalf.
was rescued.
looking for a report*
said Wood, “saying that MedcoUu
and, Tully were picked up within
uuu juii; "uiu piWKCa up WIUUS
a cduplo hundred miles of Ireliatf
or Southern England”.
Wood, who was the lost man to
speak to Bertaud before Old Glory
took off said the latter expressed,
every confidence In the succeof ofe ■
tha flight
the flight.
"Our machine is perfect
ourselves are in the pink of col
tion; we will welcome you In
land. Old jTop," Wood quoted
taud as tolling him a minute
fore the heavy Fokker monoL
began to taxi down the runway,
the start. The Royal Wlndu.
fliers said Bertaud then a Ut
minutes before Old 01 ory startatf
that he would follow a course
much farther south than
steamships have searched. —- ***
“Bertaud told me", said WttoC'
“that he would take a 117 dafKlfc
course, and I am surprised
their reported track should be
far north. It Is possible, of COOISO*'.
that they changed thetr comm'
passing over NewfoundlObd
and have taken a more northas^.
The plane Is to start the oetoal
search from as near as posoiblo
given by the ships and follow A
oulil tie al.k* ... with. i t ; irr 1 lB »» h « diameter o( one IW^f
ilred miles or more.
*
ELK HILLS SUIT
CLEVELAND. O. —(UP)— Tho
United States government has re-
celved thirteen million, nlno hun
dred thousand, five hundred, seven
dollars and eighty cents In settle
ment of tho Elks Hills oil reserve
suits against companies owned by
E- L. Doheny, according to a mes
sage received here by Frank Har
rison, Cleveland, from Owen J.
Roberts, Philadelphia attorney In
charge of tho government’s suits.
Harrison Is associated with
Roberts In the prosecutku of the
Cose, r w
The payment was in accordance
with a decree of tho United States
Supreme Court, handJd down May
10. Harrison said.
Payment was made in the
v. United States District Court in |
whh theih in tbe loss of their lit- I Los Angeles, according to Roberts
tie son, --- I telegram. —-
CERTAIN CARLING IS LOST
LONDON—(FP)—As dawn end
f*Hrlv forenoon arrived end paved
Friday without nows of the moa-
oplane Sir John Carling, now over
due twenty-four hours, It was esw*
tain thnt the plane was no longer
in the air. The Carling was gpe-
sumed to have fsllen Into tho tin.'
Two young Canadian aviators.
Captain Terence Cully and L!?l-
tenaut James D. Medcalfn Ml
Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wri<
uesday morning on an attempts*!
flight to Ixondon. Estimates varttd
as to the time the plane conM
have remained in the air bvt tb«
maximum of forty hours vronld
have brought the plane to land or
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Furnishings For
Hotel Going In
Old Commercial
After being vacant for a number
of years the hotel, formerly knrwa
a* the Commercial hotel at the
comer of College avenuo and
Broad street bur which I* to ba
re-named and operated by Mr*.-
Roberta Morton, again has window
curtains fluttering and shows,
signs of occupancy. The place la
being furnished end wlU he opened
in a short time hr Mrs. Morton,
who was here this week from
North Carolina, where she boa »•
immer place : 4
The place has about
lineal ga. o&JI