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ATHENS COTTON J
MIDDLING 19 H
TIIE WEATHER;
Increasing Llondinc
PREVIOUS CLOSE
Night. Friday Cloudy.
Dally and Sunday—1J Cents a Week.
Discord Threatens Jackson Day Dinner
‘I VOL. 96, NO. 1
Associated Press Service. United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS, GA„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 1*. 1928.
A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents. S Cents Sunday..
“ITS A LONG WAY TO NICARAGUA”
“PEACE” FEAST
. Washington—
(UP)— Governor A1 Smith, ot
New York, has sent Chairman
Clem Shaver of the democratic
Mtlonal committee a letter to
be read at the Jackson Day
“harmony” dir.ner Thursday, it
was learned Thursday morning.
Its nature was no: rev ali u.
Smith had declined liie invita*
I tion to attend, and there had
I been epeculation that there
would be no message from
him.
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HITS AT SYSTEM OF
'‘First Lad/' of New York in Hospital
A combination advertising plan for local business
houses and agricultural and industrial developmental
project was outlined for Athens at a meeting at the
Holman Hotel Wednesday night. The meeting was
sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce which has
approved the plan.
S. B. Talley nnd E. H. Dutchcr,
representing tho Exhibit Park
Company, of Atlanta, explained
WASHINGTON. — (UP) — A
croup of democraUc senators, in.
nnential in tho party, has de
rided to remain away from tn<
Jickson Day peace banquet hero
Thursday night.
Just how large the group will
bo will not bo known until tho
prty leadera gather, but tho nnm-
her of thoso who have privately
•»lil they would not appear, la auf-
ficlent to Indicate that all may not
bo as peaceful aa it scem3 on
the surface, rmny.
Democratic leaders from varl-
aectolna ‘of the country con,
tinned to arrive Thursday tor tho
dinner and the subsequent moot.
Ing of Ulo democratic national
commllteo to select the next
Juno convention site.
They were talking of harmony,
of tho candidacy of Governor or
.11 SMIh and of Son Francisco,
Cleveland and Detroit as possible
convention sites. Tho two con.
troverslal subjects of Smith nnd
tho convention sites wero only prl-
vttely discussed becauso nobody w ww HP
•eemed to want to put any files tho details of the plan, after which
hi the ointment. lit was favorably discussed by
Th# buzzing aroun- tho senate MrJi s , y. Sanford,-representing
lhdlj»t.dUto«ga» th0 Aflwmr Woman’, club, Mra.
ptnjr leaders nro not satlsneu n s R Wnods A S
22* th0 "! Jkrkirfj' p. ^".nd t 8.
Z nZd'^ va. infomred ’Watson. All “.med to thtok tho
hy an authority In a position to plan one offering „51f
known, that several months ago, men a iplendld advertliing medl-
- urn as well as being of education
al value.
As outlined .by Messts. Tnllcy
and Dutchcr, tho plan calls for
purchase of five hundred fo:t
frontage with a d.pth of about
fifty teet on the main highway,
and the construction of a small
brick exhibit hall thereon. Th:
grounds will bo landecapcd and
the exhibit hall will contain local
agricultural and industrial prod
uct*. An attendant will be em
ployed 15 answer inqulircs of vis
itors ar.d to show them the vari
ous exhibits. Billboard* of an at
tractive design will bo built on
each sldo of tho exhibit hall and
advertising spaco sold to local mer
chants and others at $6.99 per
month. Tho Exhibit Park Com-
nanvs pays'all expenses attending
purchase of the land, election of
the hall, and beautification of the
ground and maintenance.
' (NEA Service, Washington Bureau.)
That’s what these 400 Leathernecks of tho 11th Regiment sang as they boarded tho U. S. S. Oglala
at Newport News, Va., with the prospect of action against the bandit Snndino’s men ahead of them. At
the right is Colonel Hebert Dunlap, their regimental commander.
PLAN TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN AN
EXHIBIT PARK OUTLINED WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AT MEETING OF CITIZENS
m mich,
MEMPHIS. Tenn. —(/P)— It re
quires years to becomo a bflek-
J layer or a golfer but ono can ou
ter the legal professional by a
’ much shorter route”, Silas H. ,
8trawn, president of the American I
Bar Association, has observed. '
{ Mr. Strawn, here to address the
Memphis and Shelby county bar
Association cited the case of
Bobby Jones, golfer and lawyer
“Bobby Jones spent twenty five
years becoming n champion golfer
but ho was made a lawyer after
only a brief terra of study’, ho
said.
. “I do not now of his qualifi
cations but the system that per-
rrils him to become a lawyer In
such a brief tlmo cannot-fall to
permit the unqualified to enter
the profession.”
Clayton, Georgia,
Bombed From Air
W i t k Editorials
(Turn to Pate Five)
MRS. COOUDGE IS
ON VISIT TO HER
mother
NORTHAMPTON. Mass^-(AF)
—Mr*. Calvin Coolidge arrived
from Washington at 9:30
Thursday morning to visit her 78-
TM? old mother, Mrs. Lemira
Goodhue, who has been ill from
wtoenza at Dickinson hospital
»»ce December 1.
WOULD ALLOW
WAR VETS MORE
TIME TO TAKE
UP BONUS
WASHINGTON —(AP)
•-World War veterans who failed
Friday, The 13th,
Most Certainly
Unlucky For
This Man
WINNIPEG, Canada — (APj-
Earlcs Nel.on, the "dark strang
er." who is to bo hanged here
Friday—Frisny tho 18th—for tho
murder of a I Vinnipeg woman, will
lie the thirteenth person to walk
up tho thirteen stairs to death on
tho scaffold of the provincial jail
here.
CENSUS BUREAU
GIVES FIGURES
ON COTTONSEED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (AF)—
Ruth h:uer, Alabama’s Hying
flapper, had oeen “avenged”
Thursday fry officers of the JLuOth
squadron for tho four-year old
; (scandal which Clayton, Ueorjpa,
officials revived against her Dy
11 arresting her on a musty indict-
COLON, ranama-(APi i -Com- i l | ”;“‘ when shc rccen f l1 ' v,sited At "
For half an hour Wednesday
a big P-X plane, carrying two lieu
tenants of the lotul squadron,
roared over the little hairnet in
Georgia while the officers "bomb*
cu” me vilJogo with copies of at
editorial recently printed in tne
Birmingham Post.
Wednesday morning the plane
took oil from Roberts Field, pilot
ed by Lieutenant Furman
ohe wild i-icutenant hnntr a**
RuCz in the obsewers cockpit.
Lieutenant Ruts had a uoaon
neatly packed bundles of the X J
editorial in his cockpit, lue putnt
was stripped as lor war-time ac
tion. in Atlanta the piano stop
ped for re-fueling. Both officers
declined to tell field officials tnere
thj reason for tho flight over
Georgia.
pleting tho last leg of his Cen
tral American flight, Colonel
Charles Lindbergh landed safely
at Franco Field, about 11:30
Thursday morning. IIo had hop
ped off from Camp Lindbtg^h less
than cn hour freforc.
Ten thousand cheering specta
tors greeted him when he came
circling ov^r tho field und in the
* ‘streets of Colon through which
he-passed almost the entire popu
lation of CO,000 welcomed him.
TIFF DISCUSSION
Tbs expenses, of course, come
from the billboard advertising rev
enue. The company will build tho
Park when twenty billboards have
.... .been sold on a two-year contract.
to convert their goverr.ment it.-;he maximum number of billboard*
"trance before tho time expired is thirty. The attendant is usuab
n eral months ago, would be given ly one living in the neighborhood
“ether chance to do so under a of the park, and her duties make
Jen of Representative Beck, repub- it possible for her to earn money —
Wen, Wisconsin. He proposed to supplementing the nominal salary bodies recovered from the euima.
'•rtr.il. Without mtdical exitminn- paid by the company, it a* M. vine S-4 Wednesday Included
**“. the conversion of policies up ed, such as typing, compiling mall- Henry Hany Brown, fireman, third
Jnly 2, 1929. t (Turn to Paso Seven) 1 claw, Fitzgerald, Ga.
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Cot-
tonsecd, crushed in tho five month
period bztween. August ‘ to De
cember 31, totalled 3,730,090 tons
compared with 3,413,034 tons in
the same period a year ago, the
Centos Bureau announced Thur.-
Cottonseed on hand at mills on
December 31, totalled 992,049 tons
compared . with 1,303,681 tons a
year ago.
IDENTIFY BODIES
WASHINGTON —(AP)
—Identification of the fifteen
SING SING WARDEN FAVORS LIFE TERMS WITH CONVICTS
EARNINGS AIDING DEPENDENTS OF MURDERED PERSONS
^EDITOR’S NOTE—This article t of the Individual to society for the problem; that many crimes, even
rjelndt* the snmmary ot Warden wrong that hae been done? This capital crimes, are tho results of
2J* E. Lawn’ views on capital conception of punishment is baaed malaiUuitmenU of the person ar.d
At heed of Sing on tho old belief of retaliation—on not of any evil that is .r urn ani
the Mosaic law of “An cyo for on which cannot bo cured. Aa a gen-
eye’’—and if wc are to follow this oral proposition, I do not believe
old Mosaic law, why not with equal that cnine is a dlsoaso any more
logic follow the Biblical injunc- than that smoking, drinking or
tion, “Thou ahalt not kill"? This other habits arc diseases. Men
o»,o,i,s rn» theory of retaliation is not used commit murder for manv different
n. To have been retained so long in fixing punishment for other reasons, becauso of de.active or
-er system of penology, capi- crimes. The balancing of that warped, mentality, lack of eduta-
P«nlshm:nt must have to an- Scaling with capital crime. i tion, lack of home end religion*
** r to have some justification, and his Creator. ’ [training, lack of moral s:nse, lack
.. Us see whether it is realty Capital Punishment Not a of self-control.
‘•ary, whether it has ever Solution. ) In tho second pla-e. Is the death
•ny measure of success in i Th® light of modem ncnologv of the murderer necessary a* a
*Ith capital crime. beginning to demonstrate that measure of public raf tyT Must
first place, is death n'ces- (capital punishment is r.ot a solu- we admit that we kill because we
ry ,n ord:r to balance the debt, tion, but an avoidance of the realj (Tarn to pogo five.)
prison, Lawes will officiate
l «*«ctrocutionb of Judd Gray
Roth Snyd.r.
to BY LEWIS E. LAWES
warden of Slagging Prison
WASHINGTON.—(JP\—Big navy
and littlo tariff men had tlio floor
Thursday In congress.
Agreeing with Britten of Illi
nois, that tho navy must bo morr
Ihati a paper one. Secretary Wil.
bur laid before the houso naval
committee, a plea three billloi
dollar buUdlng program. Chairman
Butler said Wilbur’s consent ir
tho remark that tho United State:
did not have a first class navy
would shock the country and ask
ed him to bo prepared to deflnr
this phrase mcro clearly nexi
week.
Senator Nyo, a North Dakotr
republican, touched off the tariff
discussion again In tho senate
declaring tho farmers would pul'
industry down to their lovel It
order to get a fair balance.
Meanwhile tho heuse itself tooV
up Its third big supply bill, tba*
covering tho activities Qf tho In
terior Department whih* !♦* nav.-'
committee approved over demo
cratlc opposition the joint resr.
lutfon authorizing no S-4 i'i\.
gallon by a special President!.?’
commission.
Will Rogero couldn’t help wax
Ing humcrous at a serious media-
of tho flood control commit to*
and declared Unde Sam oueht ♦ •
us© some of tho money Andy Mel
Ion had “skimped’' together to pa*
the relief cost.
Governor Dern of **♦•*♦ urge''
postponement of action on Boul
der Dam legislation until onethr*
effort had been made to get th'
Ithern Co’ornclo River ha*!*
tes toeo'hor on a compact. P-
fore a similar ccmmlttee In th'
sens**. Senator MeNnry vrr*
dontlon bv the government of t!’
DeBchnte Irrigation project In cei:
tr&l Oregon.
SQUADRON OFF
NORFOLK, Va. —(AP)—Under
perfect flying conditions, the VT-9
squadron of the scouting fleet air
craft forces droned »wuy from
the Hampton Roads naval air sta
tion for Charleston, South Caro
lina, first stop on its annual win
ter hop for Guantanamo.
ARE INCREASED BY
v
TRAGIC TRAIL FOR
PAIR WILL END JUST
AFTER ELEVEN PJ,
ALL EFFORTS FAIL
MUST DIE
NEW YORV —(UP)— Ruth
Snyder and Henry J”dd
must die in the electric chair
at Sine: Sing prison shortly af-
t**r eleven o’clock tonight.
Their attorney* failed today in
r v#»rv move to circumvent 4*»-
cution and no nossible legal
loophole remained.
# (NEA Service, New York Bureau.)
Physicians forecast swift recovery for Mrs. A1 Smith following an
operation upon her for appendicitis, in New York City. Here is Mrs
Smith alone (upper photo) and with her husband, who moved his
office from Albany to New York City to be near his wife while she
was in the hospital.
Little Hope Held
For Aviators Now
50 Hours Overdue
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
—(AP)— More than 50 hours
overdue, Captain Hood and Li:u-
tenant Montcrief, New Zealand
aviators, missing on a flight from
Sidney to New Zealand, Thursday
were sought by land und son.
Observers feel that th re is lit
tle hope for the safety of tho men.
Three Persons Are
Missing In Fire
■ At Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO —(AP)
Three persons were missing after
a fire which destroyed a b-ildinj:
and the navy ars-nai on Cotras
— .— . .bland W>dncvday. Th* btdldUg
—Rebel casualties were Increased contained hemp, a Hut- gasoline
<fter u shnrp skirmish between a and som* ammunitiion. Five
ombat patrol of United State* were injured,
larinuti nnd follower* of General
kuguatino Sandino, near Cujo,
I’uesday, it was announced Thurs-
Fivo rebels were killed. Nino
'there were killed In a bombing
aid the same day near Quilali, it
vm aunouo.red preTtourty- - Captain, u. S. Marine Corp. Flier
nd t"c Marine pitrel .“e^ded
n taking tho town of San Albino
vithout opposition, it was an-
lotmced. .* TT-
MANAGUA, Nicaragua.—(UP)
CIS ATTACKED BY
KURSDAY;
IS
COLUMBUS, Ohio. — (UP)—
Two girls were attacked by a
•'ripper” and slashed with a long,
slender kr.ife, here Wednesday
night. They were in a hospital
Thursday,; where their condition |
was, reported as serious.
A third girl, sister of one of
those attacked, was on tho verge
of a nervous collapse.
The man first attacked Thelma
Weaver, 13 year old high school
girt. Shc was going to her home
on the west sldo when ho sud
denly pounced epon her. He
snatched her arm and stabbed
her in the beak, she said.
OSSINING. N. Y.—
fUP)—Mrs. Ruth Rrown
Snyder awakened Thurs
day—the day that was to
have been her last on
earth—with a chance of a
few hours, or even days
more of life before sKe
goes to the electric chair.
Justice Aaron Lcvy.Ja
New York Wednesday
night, grafted the Queens
' ousewife a stay of ex,e-.
cutioi* until 10 a. m. Fri
day. At that time, attor
ney for the state most
show cause why her li(e
should not be preserved
until she can appear as 4
witness in a suit involving
the $95,000 insurance
icy of her husband, Albert,
for whose death she
boon sentenced to die. " ;
Should this order, which waa-
dellvered to Warden Lewli Vi *
T.nwou «»r*ly Thursday, be HmH'
ored. it may mun that -ilaMg
Judd Orny. Mrs. 8nyder’s Mtfiu
niour and aide in killing AJhan
Snyder, also will have • few*#HK
hours moro of life. r«li4i-
Warden Lawes early Thufifiy
was uncertain what actios, he
would take ajid would maloi DO
statemont on the matter.
Whilo the order does not In:
cludo Gray, Warden Lawes daid
early Thursday that “the matter
of thn time of his (Gray’s) execu
tion will be given considnrsttati*
The two were to have beeij.J^*:
Into the depth chamber HlngJjLJK
11 o’clock Thursday night XlCpar
for the brutal murder o&Jbs^
Snyder’s husband-
The condemned womahV^y#
yenr o!d dnuchter. LorralnsSSUL
(Turn to page flTc-U'
STAY 0VERRU&
ALBANY, N. Y^-(AP)—
Attorney General Albert OftUfttl
ger Thursday announced
he had ruled that the stay «
execution issued In behalf m
Mrs. Ruth Rrown Snyder Wad*
nesday night by Supreme €tpft'
Justice Levy, was not bimliii«
The order, he ssid, does not On
as a stay of execution.
The ruling was anitouqggd
orally by the attorney gen
who said that he could not
“exact quotes’* until his foi
written opinion wss ready.
The text of the opinion M
said probably would be nidi
public later.
MARINE AVIATOR TELLS HOW NICARAGUAN REBELS, HIDING
IN MOUNTAINS, FIRE AT PLANES WITH AMAZING ACCURACY
BY H- DENNY CAMPBELL
Hen esptcUllv lor Ban
Herald and NEA Service.
Crumple n picca of paper and
throw it on tho floor. There you
have Nicaragua as American ma
rina flier* see the countiy from
th* air. It ia a country of pro-
WASHINGTON.—(UP)—Major nouncc j U p S and downs. Its top-
- ». Bourne and .two companions 0Krap hy Is sprinkled with wand r-
00k off from Anacosta Naval Air in „ h an J, c f troops, volcanoes and
tation hore nt 6i35 a. m. Than- (),<, pumpiest air a flier ever cx-
'■y inra huge tri-jnotored Fokker p< r tepced. _ HL
."noplane for Mnnayua, Nicara-j The American flr'rt in Nirnra* Tin 1 the dnrk-*kinned natives !mv had less-than firht .
:ol. Rua wen t there e*r"ctin* little er;can shot. Ask any marble officer a^d eomtnir equally clou hr.
They expect to tum i'oe pla*o no trouble. Nicarar'm.s eoold now o- d"t v th-.e. Tak: my case, gasoline tank,
or to Uni tod States Marines no t shoot, they t'-eueht: osnecinl- for instance. When I reported this inch
'» firrhting the Nlceraquan rebel ly wer- they unable to hit an air-j On- dsv I was flvino over a fMaJor Ross RoweU. who )r" ”
Mere than onco have they seef-11 saw a man run out from a
fed at stories that tho Nicaraguans turn suddenly and shoot atr jo*
—especially the r n b?Is or bandits »plane. I reported this on return-
—aro expert marksmen. At first jing to headquarters, but tbor xjifh'
wo flew at altitudes ranging from fleers considered it a joke. WNs-
• — • * c h'
200 to-1000 feet. W-t sought such'
Information as observation of the
terrain yield.
Occasionally wc heard “furry
uoisoj"; at other times w« siw
individual rifl;n> n roirt ri r .‘s in
onr direelYnn and shoot, but did
not conrect th* two.
Can They Shoot? They can.
to hit with a rifle bniiet art
plane speeding 90 miles au hoftT
2000 feet above ground? - .
Two days later I circled ’ ifi#
anme snot at rather low altltsAi
to see if th* fellow would fir* <yi
me a train. Sure enough he drjflua .
hn’o through on©. wing, mtMMfg’
nief, General Sandino.. _ _ |plane in flight!
[shaek in the vicnity of Matagal(a* j