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ATHENS COTTON:
MIDDLING 19 'Me
PBEVIOUS CLOSE .. 19 l-8c
THE BANNER-HERALD
Dally and Sunday—IS Cent* a Week.
IrtabBihcd 1S»
D*BJ Ml Mnday-lS C«tl I Week.
TIIE WEATHER:
Cloudy with probable showers
Sunday. Monday cloody. Rain ia
north.
VOL. 93, NO. 228
Associated Press Service. United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS, GA. f SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1928,
AB. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents. S Cents Sunday.
"Sfie Isn’t Worth Saving—Lets Not Kill Her”
FORMER INMATE OF INSANE ASYLUM
KIEL FATHER, SON i JACKSON CO.
Local Teacher Is
Winner Of $1,000
Education Prize
Mils Florene Young* member of
tho Georgia State Teachers Col
lege, has won an award of 81,000
In cash oftercd by Joseph E, Avent
of the department of education,
University of Tennessee for sub
mitting the best list of oxcellut-
cie- and errors In teaching and
managing.
The contest began last Septem
ber and closed in Decembtr and
was open to any one connected
with educational .work in the Unit-
Undersea Boat
' PROVINCETON, Mass. -(AP)
Six more bodies of numbers of
tte crew of the sunk.n subma
rine S-4 were recovered by div:rs
in the eyi^ineroom Saturday. This
brought the number of bodies to
thirteen.
i TW0 GEORGIANS
| WASHINGTON —(AP)— The
1 » rv n. t of f . 0Ur roen taken Ir0m tho
Trial of criminal caaea will be S-4 Saturday were identified as
begun tomorrow morning at nina those of Lieut nant Commnndar
FOI) TRIAL IN CLARKE
SUPERIOR COURT
JEFFERSON, Ga.—
ed States. Three prizes were of-'o’clock in Clark. Superior court. WiBUtn"c8iny, Cbrry' chaaik QhnCiff „'j*t.i.
fered, 21,000 for the first prize Judge Blanton Fortson will pre- Jdd.. Lieut. Fred Henrv O'Shicids , , Cr . AvUIDerson and hi*
r *-’i * ,nr> ■" “— J ■" A *' J - Tho civil calendar was dis- of Atlanta, Georgia: Carl Harold deputies, augmented by a
I of loot week. Solicitor Gen. Thompson, of San Francisco and . nnsse of ritfonna of Inch.
H.nry H. West will conduct James Johnson White, of Rock- 1 P 01 Citizens Of J8CK-
son county, late Saturday
d 1100 as second and third side,
prizes. posed
Miss Young Is a graduate of
Wlnthroo College and Columbia
University. She received notice
la«t week of her award, accompan
ied by the check.
...
the prosecution.
One murder case will be
that charging
Pompano Invites
Governor To Mind
His Own Business
POMPANO, Pin. —(AP)— At
nn indignation meeting Friday af-
t moon, the city council passed a
resolution expressing resentment
at Governor Martftrs thrrat to
send state militia here to break up
what the chief executive said was
threat:n d gambling at the race
track. He was invited to keep
hands off.
A copy of the resolution was
sent to Governor Martin by tele-
. tried, rfm*
with the murder onus'* wlf.*!°MrV Littleton Charge*
Clco Knowles on Christmas day. i 1 t c «T i it *
Ho was bound over by the coroner’s i U. 5, Lawless In
Jury and indicted by th. grand
Jury last week. Robert Willing,
ham, a negro, wns al'o Indicted by
the grand Jury for murder of his: J. .
wif', but he escaped directly after WASHINGTON .... ,
the shooting took place and has —Charging that Harry F. Sinclair
nr- ■’»». e—r-honded. has "bwn the. object of most 1-iw-
Tho grand Jury returned the fnl- less conduct of the government”
lowing indictments last week, the M»ltln W. Littleton Saturday ask.
Sinclair Oil Case
tTar>
Twenty Are Drowned hs
Rages In London;
Jefferson Girl Is
Struck By Car And
BY ALLENE SUMNER • ” , O*; , <
(NBA Sdrricto Writer—Copyright. 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) • ,
Woman’s inhumanity to woman is supposed to be proverbial and universal. Which is exactly why no ro „.i„ Mk .. th , eoT(rnor
smart defense attorney takes a chance with a woma n in his jury box when another woman sits in the to “refrain from pfertrayin? our
prisoner’s seat. Which is also why, of course, everybody expected that the_sisterhood of the country .&^ving Un .‘£a °!»w*vtoK
would band itself together to insist on the death chair for Ruth Snyder, convicted of the murder of her community.”
husband and sentenced to die on January 12. But the sisterhood fools us! '■>_ |
■■■■■■■■■■ \ ('uc>ti(inn;J. - c -.uMnit tori to several of th c .::.try^sje|dinp women . |JJC|X( I CiVD Vlf«
^ ‘ 1 * r i— Vi-n in rfey NCA STTvicc, inc.,* brings iorih irr? inii’ir»ijinf* vawi tho**; aaiUVJ|Al4 ^UUdbCUa itaL m#x« U« cneera anu
women unauimsusly want Ruth •Snyilf.;* sKu\\n the same mercy, no gt nm amp AAA j to coionei tnarJaa
more and no less, that is shown her partner in crime, Henry Judd Il/IYC ' ^IXJ.VVU
Grow the little ‘ rabbit man” who helped her wield the sashweight and ntimv rmm ii»« i*y-r reached here hi the
_ a - ■ ■ _!»_ _■ picture wirr. y TO SMl l H FUND Spirit of St. Louii at l&l E. M.,
Flood Races In Londons .‘■ N .° ! vf pitai , runi,!hme . n u tfor . anj !! ,:,dy-, i ote , vea ? :i;:h ‘ itrocious ’ con - ^ BrrwarrShi* *)»■
rlUUU ■■■ “ temptlbie murderer, as these two," runs tho almost unanimous opinion WASHINGTON. —(ff)— Samuel ‘.Tween M ,Meir.nd San Jo?o “ wl ’*" »h- eoUldod with th- car.
_ _ _ , . _ , _ of these f»mou» women who desire Govcnior At Smith to commute nmltl. m mta,lre Chicago ^ 0 to2ra 2Ed tmi^ ?’’» we- immediately rv.hed to
Mafa Deaths Expected a Cny 0 fc lmpri!onmom ' wfcj« mnmc <*m* aman Jc - ray
ITIUl C I#vaui9 fcApCV^vU ?! ad ,.!l h ?.US at hla own request t.o all effort to l, r g Cit throng ever to gather in “
Amehta Galn-Curel, primn donna. . ~ [ I purga himself of contempt told Saa dole, was at Sabana Airfield
‘•Tno qutatlon is not what to da with Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray,! ,h# «en»t« "lush fund committee td witness Llnduargh’s arrival. He
who are entitled to the same consideration, no more nnd no Iesa, as Saturday that his total contrlbu. wn , greet.d wlh wild acclaim.
other offenders, but what to do with tho law. - — - 1 -- - -
niirht were hunting for
West Weir, age 40, who is
said to have murdered a
youth by the name of Mc-
IJougal and his father
I Saturday afternoon.
(AP) • It wns stated that ths McD'ugal
boy. about seventeen years old.
and Weir had spent the day hunt.
Ing. Aa nlrht came and the youth
did not return home the father
went to Weir's hrme to find out
wh^ro th" hoy was.
A Bon.ln.lnw of the elder Mc-
Domral. worfclnn n»*or the Wotr
homo, ei'd thnt whon tho f.ithor
arrived Weir, uslna a shotrnn, tho
weapon used to murder the boy,
m"' ! bn fnthor.
The charge nf ‘h* shotntn hVw
tho ton of the McD^ugal boy's
hp"d off P waB snld.
The double Maying took place
o- b. leading from Jefferson
to NlchMson. near what is known
rh<‘ PMder M^hanvon place.
Gravely Injured,
T.- . ■•"-r-y-.j though
Mildred Wilhlt-, a child llvl— ‘ **’» "mT?’' 1nT Wj" h ' 1 ’ » ot J
td Justice P.. L. Siddons to ex
punge th’ »rand jury pr-«cntmcnta
In which Sinclair, W. J. Burns and
five .associates wore declared to
have conspired to obstruct justice.
I Tbt rbnrires rr> made as tho
pesvlt of the jpry's invn«tu*atiou
of the shadowing of the Teapot
Pome conspiracy jurv bv Burns
detectives employ'd by Sinclair.
The bodies of the statu patp-bf*
brought to Jefftraon at
# efter b*itig struck by
’atanuara ^ ,,c th ® strictv 0 f Jeff**i
Abnormal Tides,. Whip
ped By Heavy Gales,
Meet Outgoing Rush of
Waters and Trap Hun
dreds.
LONDON —(AP)—Overwhelm-
«d with itnrtling ludaennew, 20
perioni were drowned in tho Lon.
oon »r:a curly Saturday when the
noet d.vaztatmg floods in the Wa
tery of modern London swept'tho
Thames river over its banks.
The water poured over tho rlv-
«r banks at sev.ral places when
an abnormal tide, whipped by a
heavy gale, met floodwaters pour
ing down from the interior early
Saturday,' The rush of water was
•o sudden that hundreds of per
sona Bleeping in basement room.-
«re driaen from their teds, r.t
least twenty brine trapped and
drown,d with tho possibility that
tbaro may still bo more vtctima.
The port of London authorttla*
!»aued a warning ‘ Saturday that
• repetttlsn-of the. devastating
Thapiea flood ta possible during
th- next few days. ‘
The tides will be of increased
height until Tu-sday and as
storms are forecast nnd - flood con
ditions from Christmas snows
Prevail tn the Themes valley, the
danger to London continues.
NOT IN MODERN SPIRIT -
■ Thj Idea of crmital punishment is to mo abhorrent and not in keep-
• RE
SUBJECT HERE
World Traveler to Lec
ture At University Wed
nesday on “The New
South America.” .
NEW RECORD FOR
SATURDAY SET
BY EXCHANGE
NEW YORK.—(/PI—A now Sat.
urday record for total sales was
established In the New York
Stock Market Saturday, tho »g-
gregiate reaching 11672,000 shone.
■ The former record of-l.MP.jHI
shares was made oil Decambe • J7,
ira, h
■The Saturday geaalon is, two
hours. t ;.. e
GEORGIA MAN IS ;
IRETIRED; FROHl „
CUSTOM COURT
tlona In the Illinois primary elec- Never before in the history of
tlon tn 1928, amounted to 8237,. ! the capital have such elaeorate
925. preparations be-n made to receive
Of this amount 8125.000 was is visitor,
riven to tho campaign fund of | The principle streets were lined
Frank L. Smith, who was noml- wl ‘ h banners. So were the plazaa
nated and elected on the,repub- c VOn v.hiclen Were dreued in
cogntUon that tho taw itself does not conform to ”« e « « n i" e . " pan ; greting aigns
xt^sh:: trsr’cff2d„ , K' -» U | „ «.
«tv I Ing a further hearing before tho | tiarn tojMur t
WOIN HRS LITTLE
the highest ideals.
Inconceivable that Christ ... .... ..... .. . . .
Elsie Janie, octrees: I |p * a further hearing before the j
“I don’t feel I am qualified to ait In Judgment, hut I do not like’ *»' aw""
capital punishment,” "“' later with cfflctala of the state
' . ’ I 10
Wf>ir had previously spent
time In the Insane asylum and 11
Ih thought here general’y that the
murder* were the result of a m«tt-
tnl disorder which seized Walr
made, but the extort of her ' while he and the McDougal hoy
Inhirf’t pot ac<”irnt«*lv deter- 1 w^re hunting.
mWd. Hcapital officinl* Mated j It waa not thought that Weir
that iKr skull was not fractured. fTurn tn Pane Fnwrl
PROMISED COMPLETION OF FOUR GREAT
HIGHWAYS IN GEORGIA DURING 1928
CONTAINED IN HOLDER’S REPORT
ATLANTA —(A P)— Comple- ’ jmv.d roaoa
tlon of “four great paved high- (trading and other aurfecing wen*
America’s ‘'foremost woman of tho year”—Eva Lo Gallienne, actress
and theatrical producer:
“I do not bcllovo in capital punlahmcnt for anybody at any time. 1
Kathleen Norris, writer:
“1 hivo followed the Snydcr-Gray case carefully in tho newspapers
and appreciate its atrocious features, but I cannot feel thut the oxecu-
tion of the man and woman by tho state jyould bo anything more than
murder in a different nnd particularly cruel form.
“Tho idea of punishment or revenge by killing is long outdated by
Startling facta regarding : th-
South Amirican continent will bo
'fought out iy Edward Tomlinson,
brilliant publicist and world trav-
•l«r. who is to give his enthralling-
ly intereitirg lecture. “The New
South America.” before the atu-
«nta t-d faculty of tho Univer-
“ty of Georgia, Wedrv:sday, Jan-
<«y it.
Brazil, states Sr, Tomlinson, is
“ targe ns the United Stnt-s, plus
siyrher Toxas. Tscna-Arics, over
*kieh Chile and P ru have been
wsnuting for so many years, is rot
* mer- .not on the m*p. but has
™oot half the ares of th- state
of Mu's-ohusetts. Argentino, the '82OO.OOJ 1
(Tins t* Pago Two)
WASHINGTON,!—(tP)—President
Cooirdgo has granted tho request
of WUltam C. lAdsmson to be
retired os a Judke of the United
Stains Court of Chtcms Claims ct
Now Ycrk. I
wns eligible for
_ ho had reached
!e was. the au'hor
Adamson act re.
labor and a for-
thc house from
Government Would
Spend $4,283,726
At U. S. Airports
(WASHINGTON.—GP>—KxpendL
turcs of *4,288.728 for now con-
structlon . at army air stgUon
would bf authorised under tho
James bill reported Saturday by
the house military committee.
LEVINE TOLD HE
MUST PAY DEBT
TOGOVERNftlENT
1 .WASHINGTON.—(.1*—Charles
A./L*vlno. who crossed ill-- At-
lmillc In a plane with Clarence
Chamberlain, has been notified by
the Department of Justice that nil-
lost hs aottleo tho goreromem a
claim grewtej out of the sale of
aurplus war materials, hly eisa
win Le brnafht Into tho filcral
c»urt>.
'It !* understood that tno
partn.ent has offered to settle for
't.'iou.OS” wbil- Levine's attorneys
are offering flOO.OOO.
mental and medical care. My own rceomracndatlon would be for
life term, or, better still, an indeterminate sintencc."
Gloria Swanson, actresc:
“I do not believe In capital punishment. Two wrongs do not make n
right."
, | WONT COMMIT THF.MSEI.VEK
Leaden' of women’s organizations, such as Miss Bell* Nherwin of
the National League of Women Voters: Miss Lena Phillips of the
National Federation of Business Women’s Clubs, and Mrs. John Sher-
man of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs, refused to com
ment on tho question on the grounds that tt'was outside the work of
their own organization.
Even women in public life avoided the question. Congresswoman
Florence P. Kahn sidestepped with a plea that she was “unqualified to
express an opinion.’’
Prominent women Judges and attorneys raised the pica that it was
“unethical” to attempt to dictate to Governor Al Smith what to do.
■ Ruth Hale, president of tho Lucy Stone League and president of the
League to Abolish Capital Punishment, made it very clear that her
belief that Ruth Snyder should escape the death chair waa positively
coupled with • similar belief that Gray also should escape.
t HATES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
“My Interiat ta motivated by the atrengost equal rights belief as
well as a hatred of capital punishment,” said she.
“If Governor Smith must respect the laws of tho state and send
these two to the chair, I would certainly, if I were Al Smith, go
drown myself in tho Hudson River, rJW
*T think that of all criminals Mrs. Snyder (a tho most contemptible.
Then is not a thing about tho woman worth saving. The fact that she
ta a woman only makes her lower and more dcrpicnhle. But I wouldn’t
adrocate the death chair for a worm.”
i urge his right to the seat.
Jewish Community
Center Memorial
To Meyer Stern
An overflow crcwrt waa Tran
ent last evening at the Synagogue
for the dedication exerciser in
cident upon tho Installation of p
pipe organ. So large was tho
crowji that mi'Mtlonal rbalrg had
io prer'ded. to - take rare of
*h® neonlf*. The service was very
Impr^seivo Tho musical part of
the program was furnished by
a Chi
! ways leading from state border to
(state border/’ during lu2d, and of
Hueh Ifodeson and a Choir com-
OF E
DEATH IN ELECTRIC
IT
nrted for 1927, as well aa
miles of bridg a, the entire state
,a paved highway system sieving a $$ 4 °g&V nUllln * " “* *
! every section of the state within The total amount of roads con-
thre« yeari, was forecast here structrd to date oa the stata aid
Saturday in th* annual report of „ yat em was reported aa 4.000
Chairman John N. Holder to the miiev, in round numbers, 1,211 of
the*. b«*njr pnved. To^al amount
(Turn to Pago Four)
state highway ’boards
Construction of 590.8 miles of
OSSINING, N. Y.- _ ,. ,
(UP) ^ Nearing a hur ; gns .
FRENCH REPLY TO KELLOGG PROPOSAL
TO “OUTLAW” WAR, GIVEN OUT IN AN
ATMOSPHERE CLOUDY WITH DOUBT
v
WASHINGTON —(AP) cellation tie
tween the
. , nited State*
„„ „ KIC0 . France continue with pnettaal
posed of Kate B'ake llodeson, Lll- rfed execution, S hurried ,ion” was given out Saturday at n . !suran « ‘‘•V. 0“ Ro®. «=it»a-
Han Smith, David Michael un1
vArmand Eyler.
Mrs. Edgar Levq, vice president
cf the Sisterhood, road a state
ment’in behalf of that organlz*-
prison funeral, a . hasty tho data d.-partm-nt In an atmos- ”7° n »t! l l'be"s l ureo^ed r 'by F m nlrw
interment a* required by ttZuCT Tn |' e c r ace a,rra:n,ent o£ thl * cha ~“
ment in bohalt oi mat organs law, a day ghort of tfte de- artt-wy^dtotaretlon to th. pow-, The not* mad. public Saturday
•Ion dcd’ca’lng tho organ to Mrs. I rent interval reserved for^if* HLS™, the « multilateral inter. Jt-
Simon Michael lie Ttce«|dent Id non-feloug, Mr*. RUth'wMSre tatf'tt. Xumtt °aXta.l«” TsT^.a."^
tcoen on 0 - - - BrOWn Snyder wept help- SS^ t ?*eaua' h the Kella*. n m°n : e , ll i, nK , i nlem * lion * 1 dlsputea,
Iesslv in her ..Sins: Sinfi uS5«TScfc w« ‘JZmX’SiZ
ttlem nt of ’‘diffsrfucea
ATTORNEYS FOR GEORGE REMUS LIKELY
TO RESUME EFFORTS TO FREE HIM MON.;
PROBABLY WILL FILE HABEAS CORPUS
LIMA. Ohio.—(AP)—The effort of George Remurt, former
bootleg king and acquitted wife stayer, to obtain hla release from
thr slate ta-spltal for the insane here mev he resumed Monday
with the riling of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, it was
indicated by hi, attorneys Saturday.
ilia counsel refused to discuss details of the plans for carrying
on the fight which went against Remus in the courts of Clneinnit),
other than to Indicate the habeas corpus action might he started.
Itemus came here Friday night after he had been declared Insane
by the probate court at Clnrinnati and the common pleas court
there had refused him a writ of habeas corpus.
He was permitted the freedom of the institution bat -as wider
the observation of hospital alienists.
she has rendered in raising funds
for the organ.
An appesl by iho Pr—Metfl -f
tho Conrreeaflon M. O. Michael tn
lltt the remaining mortgage on the
Kvnagorue met with oioellont re
sults. fho whole amount being
pledged to be nsld up In five an.
nu-*‘!-*»*llmonts.
The family of Mrs. Sfmon Mich.
a»l rlodged 1’self to pay tho |1.-
500 itlll owed on the organ.
Mrs Mycr Stem pledged herself
to build a Community House ad.
Joining the Synagogue In memory
of her husband Mr. Myer Stern
The Community House will bo
knnwn an 'The Myer Stern Me.
morlr' *• nnd will provide Sabbath
school rooms, a study for the Rab
bi, and an auditorium.
Only Seventeen More
Bodies Remaining
Ih Sunken S-4
deathhouse cell Saturday. la N a £ r ^;, ( dlpIonultk diKUI .
nigni. Islons of the arbitration and can- tween them. 1
She found no words to
nature may ariao be-
Sne found no word* to 7 —
I georgiarepubucans are hopeful I
Realization has come. The ! THAT CO0LIDGE WILL BE DRAFTED:'
I WOMEN FAVOR L0WDEN, HOOVER 2ND 1
and ’ Henry Judd Gray
went on trial for murder
ing her husband, Albert
Snyder, hare deserted
her.
They have lelt her nothing, not
even tho fine flowing phraf
about p.'nance and readiness to
meet God which come from the
little man who will almost cer
tainly follow her to the chair
PROV7NCETOWN. Maas. —HIP) Thursday nlrht. . , , ,
—Working swiftly with the aid of “I feel bad—I fed swfal bad.
a'moot perfect weather. d<ver> Sat- was as near aa llrty Snyd'r cauld
urday removed ten mors bodies cores to dsteribl-g tho personal
from the wrecked hull of tho horror of her position.,
sunken submarine S-4. i There se-msd bit one hope that
Th* bodies of seventeen of th» sh. will escape death—through in-
crow or forty yet remain to be re- i terrentlon by Governor Sautlb—
covered. (Tarn to Page Poor)
ATLANTA, Go—CAP)-—Georgia republicans will meet tn cow-
ventlon here on March 3 to elect four delegates to the national
republican convention at Kan«as City on June 12.
Selection of the convention dale was made Saturday at a celled
meeting ot the state central republican committee. Koacoe Plckntt,
chairman, presided. * , *
"Draft Coolidge,” was the prevailing sentiment among th* dele-
gates in informal post-session talk. The Georgia delegation Mhely
will, go to the convention untnstructed. Mr. Pickett said, adding
that he could make no prediction where the Georgia rote would bo
cost.
Sentiment has not yet crystallzed. he dectared. although Lewdeu
and Hoover were receiving much discussion among tho voters.
Women delegates virtually were agreed that tho party should,
find un« way to draft Coolfdre-for another term. Next to tim 1
President they liked Lowden and Hoover, although there waa i
talk about Dawes. TO
The stabe central committee will meet here again on March %t
the Ay before the state rouveotUa, to transect 1
tlon business. _ .
