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ATHENS COTTONJ
! MIDDLING 19c
PREVIOUS CLOSE ...... 19c
THE BANNER-HERALD
Daily and Enndav—1.1 r*nfa •
THE WEATHER:
Partly C'.c-jdy Sandsy and »«*-•
day. Colder Stmda> Night gqd
Monday.
VICTIMS OF T. B.
IN UST STAGES TO
GET PM OF
CLARKE CROUP
Efforts of the ' Clarke
County Tuberculosis As'
sociation this year will be
centered upon victims of
the malady who have
reached that stage which
makes them unavailable
for hospitalization, it was
decided' at the annual
meeting of the organiza
tion Friday afternoon.
M. G. Michael, treasurer of the
association* was elected president
to succeed Dr. Linton Gcrdine.
Mrs. E. R. Hodgson, Jr., was re
elected vice-chairman; II. M.
Heckman, secretary, and J. L.
Sexton, treasurer. Mr. Heckman
succeeds Mrs. J. F. Tibbetts. Mr.
MVh«c! is a member of the board
of directors of the famous Heb
rew Tuberculosis Sanitarium at
Denver and is one of tli<> most
enthusiastic members of the
Clarke county association.
The association will carry on its
work in behalf of undernourished
children, it is stated. This pro
gram was added last year to the
work of the association and its
results have* been very helpful.
While the health program in Ath-
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ROME MANlOLLED
BY YOUTH; CUT
JUGULAR VEIN
ATHENIAN, TESTIFYING BEFORE NAVAL
INQUIRY INTO S-4, DISASTER, SAYS
EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WAS DONE
TO BE OPENED HI
(NEA Service, Bort'n Bureau.)
Rear Admiral Fran!; H. Brumby of Athena, directed the S-4 rescue
operations at Provincetown, Mass. Here he is on the Falcon, flagship
of the salvage fleet, with his aide, Lieutenant Ralph F. . Sk.vlstead
(right). '
BOSTON, Mass. — (AP) — Everything humanly
possible was done to save the six men trapped in the
torpedo rodm of the submarine S-4, Rear Admiral
Frank H. Brumby testified Saturday before the naval
court of inquiry investigating the S-4 disaster.
'‘The condition of 4he sea was
Ml
CHAMBERLAIN AND
WILLIAMS TO TRY
AGAIN ON MONDAY
FOR AIR RECORD
MITCHELL FIELD. X. V. —
(UP)—Undeterred by their fall,
lire to create a new world rec
ord for endurance flying, Clarence
D. Chamberlain and Roger Q.
Williams /announced Saturday
night that they would try again
next week, starting at dawn Mon.
■ . <loy '
With sixteen teams or- a short time after they had
B-ani7pd and the rifv of, bcc “ forccd t0 ,nnd wlt!l nImosl
Kanizea, C,ly , > 52 hours Id tho air behind thorn.
Athens divided into SIX-1 the two aviators were back at
teen districts, the Boy. ' bo lh r ' c1 '! '" rcqtlnK reialr wor! ‘
scouts 01 America are; They brought their Bellcnca
ready to launch their, n!0n0I, J» nc tQ '” ,h B L.=:°- 4:17 p -
drive for $7,000, begin- (Turn ’"-£«« Fow)
ning with a dinner to be NOTORIOUS BOOZE
held at the Georgian Hotel
Monday evening at 7:00
o’clock.
H. B. nitche. Chairman of the
Campaign, feds confident that the
people of Athena will respond to
the needs of the Boy HcouIh n(
Athena, providing not only the
necessary running expenses tfer . .
1928 tut enough money to build 'Atlantic waters cmbul dramatical-
a camp near Athens that may be Iy off Nantucket Shoals Saturday
used for afternoon V‘ike« over. ! when it caught fire and was sunk
night hikes week-end camps and-by coastguard gunfire,
for general camping during the i Seven members of the crew,
such from the tiraV\ he'said" summer months for the hoys who - trapped on th? «burnIng two-mas-
RUNNING VESSEL
ENDS CAREER
SILVER DOLUR FOR VOLUNTEER
FIREMAN WHO RANG BELL FIRST
IN OLD DAYS, CHIEF McDORMAN
SAYS “LOOKING RACK" SAT.
BY DAN MAGILL
Back yonder in the days of the Volunteer Fire
.Brigade m Athens the first member who rang an
alarm bell after the initial yell was sounded was pre
sented by the city with a shiny, sil7er dollar, Chief
George W. McDorman told me yesterday while he
was looking back over his fifty years of service with
$1,800 per year.
“And,” the chief continued hi,
remarks, “as a consequence, nous
of tho boys hollered -fire’ until he
cot his hands on the bell cord."
In those days church bells had ex
tra ropes,hanging outside In or
der that a volunteer fire fighter
tv,o I r "" ch !t without loss of
BOSTON, .Mass. —|LP)— The time and «, give his comrades in'
adventurous career of the Gaspe- part , of thc cit the , d
1C hisherman, pdrhaps the most Ho- nowp . i t waa -glad news’* to th-
er tonoua rum-runmne schooner in boy a. ieeauso most of them l£
“ —iong:d to tho Volunteer; for tie
fun there was fighting fire. Chief
McDorman himself, enlisted for
the sport. He had plenty of sur
plus energy—ar.d still has— so iho
athlfitlc tournaments conducted
' ar t* nen t here.. The fifty years ended January Marine Corps airplane
I; ’ w " en t«e Chief was retired on a salary of squadron that attacked El
FORTY REBELS fW
MANAGUA. Nicaragua.
— (AP) — Forty rebels
were killed Saturday by
• that diving would not have been , cannot alford to take advance tor, were taken off b\ the coast- by the volunt e r departments in
undertaken at oil except to try ] ot 'he camps lu the mountains. ; guard destroyer^ McCall. vahious Georgia cities attracted
to save life.” ! F. D. Chadwick National Hoy j Coastguard officials hero w^re him, and others like him. Th'.i
That he conferred continually Scout Representative. In cliargelcf advised that all members of th" too. fire fighting was great sport,
with a staff of experienced m\. ■ Georgia. Florida, North Carolfoa ,ercw appeared to have been aav-1 The Chief denied he ever was
vase and submarine* officers and and South Carolina will he (tie '«L bu t on- man, who might conscious of his best girl looking
SS-S? “‘ea srz\ »• W _orgafl"fevebeen in_the /nsrfneo. worn. on whan he heaved a bucket
GADSDEN, Ala.—(/P)— Jot* Mc-
Bumott, 17 years old, who severed
tho Jugular vein of Ulll Cagle, ?4,
his brother in law, In a tight
near Cedar Bluff, Alabama, late
day launched plans for construc
tion of a $100,000 temporary build
ing In which the uext Democratic
nominee Acr President will he
pflmed.
In announcing that ho had
wired the committee’s decision to bo used In future cases with sub-
that the temporary building would
accommodate about 25,000 persons
instead of the 0.500 .which tho
present Houston auditorium can
mmki
CIVIC CENTER ‘
HOUSTON. Texas. —(ff)— A
large area, fire blocks from the
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aged and the crews alive. I be
lieve that gadgets might enable
very material assistance to
sent down In such an event”
Thursday afternoon, was prepar- Mayor Oscar Holcombe of Hous- s marines which aro nt tho bottf
lag Saturday to furnish ton ohairman Jess H. Jones, sudd witH the compartments uintom-
bond. Th^ body of-Caglo tvas^ - «ta m " *
taken to Home, Ga., for burial Sat
urday.
MARINE MAJOR IS
OFF FROM MIAMI
FOR NICARAGUA
MIAMI, Flu—(AP)—In a three
motored Fokker monoplane, or
dained for use by Marine force,
in Nicaragua, Major L. M. Bourne
and two flying males, • "took off
hero Saturday morning at 0:35
o’clock, evtleru standard time, on
n projected 1,200 mile hop over
water and rough country for Man
agua, capital of the Central Am
erican country.
Alimony Granted
In Dooley Divorce
T £ 1 Ya«f ftrdav : amQ‘iorida,’ to'jlanagua, Nicara-
Trial I esieraay „ uat a distance of 1,100 miles at
[5:33 P, M„ thc Navy Department
Divorce was granted both par- j announced,
ties yesterday liv Plnrko county | The huge tri-motored . Fokxcr
Superior court in tho case brought monoplane, manned on tain flight
hy Callie Dooley against Sidney by Major I. M. Bourne, Licuten-
Dooley. Permanent and tempor- ant J. F. Platcha and Sergeant B-
ary alimony waa granted to Mrs. F. Belcher is to bo used in fight-
Dooley. Claud Mahatfey waa nt- ing the Nicaraguan rebel i’ader,
torney In tlie case. Tho charges Sandino.
were brought on the grounds of i Thc plane left Miami at 5:,
cruelty. ' *
NICARAGUA SIT.
WASHINGTON — (UP) - A
Marine corps airplans completed
! the Hirst non-stop flight from Ml-
'But the final decision was * Hotel Monday' night
mine and the responsibility.” tho , 1,10 ' V|1 J
admiral declared. • 1 ' T — *
( Step by step Admiral Brumby
—, ■— , \ roriowed tho various oDerationd
WASHINGTON——ThA^am- f of. tho rescue ship from t'oeem.
mlttee on arrangements- for llui-I-ber 18, wl**n snip Fat-
democratic national convention at, con reached th#* scene of tho col-
Houston, Texas, In Juno, Satur- » lislon to December 23, when at.
’ tempts.at rescue were given.up
and salvage operatloiiH began,
"All divers have received eon.
federation and not one could he
used on the S-4”, he said. “One
device brought O our notice may
given final hi
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innr soi/n
mi«
GRAND
MS
WASHINGTON. —(UP)— The
‘Jj*” j senate was the branch cf congress
; which worked Saturday, remaln-
I ing in session at work on small
bills and on tho tariff question
while tho house sat back, wait
ing for its committee storehouses
Admiral Frank K. uromuy was to furnish material on which it
born and raised In Athens. He 1 c(m !il legislate,
was an honor graduate of tho | T[l | 8 a t a to 0 f affairs Is a ro.
University of Georgia amt later j ve rsal of tho plcturo of recent
attended the Naval Academy, weeks, tho liouso hitherto having
Upon finishing his course at the refused to lose any time while
Academy promotion came rapidly i t j, e senate found Itself compelled
to Admiral Brumby. I ; 0 adVurn because of an empty
Last summer Admiral Brumliy I ra ie ni i a r.
-was promoted to the rank ho now j u ut . although tho house Itself
holds. A few days after hia pro.! waa f nac ,ive. its naval commit-
motion, he paid a visit to his two ( je. voted almost unanimously to
sisters here. Miss Anno Bramhy , t i, a f t ho big naval program
dean of women at tho University i ]a | d before it hy Secretary Wil-
of Georgia am! Miss Mary Harris , lnm should specify a time In
Brumby.
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Spotlight Turns For Moment To
Woman Who May Be The«First
Lady Of The Land” As She
Lays In Hospital Bed
By Hortense Saunders
NEA 8«rvice Writer
NEW YORK.—A possible can-
didato for “first lady of tho land/'
Mr*. A1 Smith went to a New
York City hospital fer an appendi
citis operation the other day. and
for once, through no fault of her
own, found bers-df squarely In the
■totlight. *
Ordinarily, Mrs. Smtih succeeds
»» well in making herself incon-
■trtcuous as her husband does In
gaining attention* She Is "the
governor’s wife" rather than the
"flrtt lady of New York." Yet
Mrs. Smith is a very alert and
wcll-tuformed member cf the
Smith household.
But Always in the Background
Whenever Governor A*! makes
« speech, it safely can be assumed
Smith evidently Is "old-fashioned”
WARDEN LAWES IS
FORCED TO TAKE
TEN DAY REST
NEW YORK —(AP)— Warden
Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing pris
on, was on his way to rBfan
Beach Saturday .for a ten days
rest, his «nerves shattered by the
ordeal of thi executions of Mrs.
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd
Gray, Thursday night.
Ho went on the advice of his
physician, his secretary said. The
warden has long been oppos*:d to
capital punishment.
Ill's friends said he was also
worried because somebody in the
execution chamb.r took a photo
graph of Mrs, Snyder as she was
sitting in the electric chair. The
photograph was prominently dis
played in pictorial newspapers.
May Organize New
Search For Plane
Of Mrs. Grayson
that hia . wife !» somewhere hi the
audience. She i* s member of
several Democratic organiztalons.
She knows what problem* are be
ing thrashed out in both state end
national politics-tills though no
one ever has heard Mrs. Smith
“talk polities” publicly. _
Despite very modern clothes 0 [ f oari waa ordered Saturday by
ul a modem background. Mra.
NEW YORK —(AP)— Organi-
xation of a new search for the
airplane Tho Dawn-and its party
M. A. Moilc, .friend of Mra- Fran
ces Grayson, who, with her pilot.
omilll UUUIIIW/ — — I
at heart, 8he believe* her “«»- navigator and motor expert was
band fa » superior being. 0 lost on the first leg of a project-
doesn’t need her advice-ss to run- : <c j trans-Atlantic flight last De-
ning the state. She Idolizes her cem ber 23.
children and addte* her grand- \ Mosle wired funds to a reme-
Children. sentative in St. Johns, Nova Sco-
One can't imagine Mrs. Smith tia, on receipt of a cablegram de
making a speech, or reading a 'daring that evidence pointed to a
paper in a Browning club, cr T an ding -ry the plane in an inactg.
marching In a suffrage parade, jsible valley near Heart’s Delight,
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.Nova Scotia»
which tho ships were to build and
also should contain no authority
for *lo* President to suspend
building without the consent of
congress.
U’hl'e the senate deliberated
and tho littuse committees went
ahead, a letter arrived from
President coolhlge asking $470,000
more for tho development of air
ways.
Although the house was Idle,
Representative Dickinson, repub
lican. Iowa, drew up a resolution
calling for •an investigation of
the loaning of money by Federal
Reserve member banks to stock
holders. U
next week.
4 of the other *boya might have, but
I didn’t,” he declared. But 1 have
OPFR \ IS d° u,!) t s about that. It stems
4 to mo that so handsome a young
kST PROM n,an as Chief McDorman must
•*,»have b:cn, must have had any
.number of sriris and it i* ce
’ilia- th.y wtrt, to the fire*,
riously doubt whether he was en
tirely oblivious of tb.ir presence
at the. fire. You see, that was 60
years ago. Anyhow, Mrs. McDor
man was in the room and the
Chief probably didn’t want to get
into trouble.
Elected Chief
While the Chief enlisted hock
in 1877 for the *port in fighting
fire and 'jecame a stoker in Jan
uary of that year at a salary
of 1^50 per year. In two or three
years he* became an engin'
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MERCER SATURDAY
• MACON, Oa.—fJP)-*-For. what Is
believed to bo the first timo.in the
south, grand opera was broadcar*
Saturday night. Verdi's II Trova-
tore as presented in the Municipal
Auditorium hero by thc Sart Carlo
Company-closing a week of. opera,
went no the air over WMAZ,. Mer
cer University broadcasting sta
tion, beginning at 8:15 p. m.
Additional Units Of
Virginia Guard
Ordered Out Sat.
RICHMOND, Vaf —(AP)—Two
additional units of thc Virginia
National Guard will be ordered
Saturday to proceed to Gloucester
county to aid in preserving peace
in the Mob Jack Bay aection where
illegal dredging is threatening an
“oyster war,” Governor Harry F.
Byrd said Saturday.
The governor was fit conference
with high officials of the national
guard, shortly before noon to de-
Ch/pote, stronghold of
General Augustino San-
; (lino, the squadron’s com- L
; | mander, Major “Rusty”
j Rowell, reported on re
turning Saturday night.
Tho aviators hid 5,000 feet in
thc air behind clouds and dived
d wn when opportunity offered ta>
drop bombs, fire mathino gutia
and even thrown hand grenades.
'Mi's frt be’.'rved hero to be the
first time hand grenades were
ever used from airplanes.
El (I’topoto Is nearly twenty
”*IIoh northeast of QuilalJ, which
Marines recently capturod from
tho rebel general In tho Costliest
battle since they came to -Nica
ragua.
General Sandin' 1 had two anil-
aircraft guns which peppered
awaV at tho r lanes which wire
also targets for rlf'o firo. Otte
phi no was struck twice by bttl*
lots which almost bit the pildt.
One observer said he saw eight
rebels killed.
Major Rowell had engine trow.
Bateaus .aral
riilory. The airmen were elated
over Saturday’s expedition 1 Whin
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HOOVER 11 SMITH
EAR OUT IN LEAD
WASHINGTON —(UP)— Both
partks, each with a Jrmlnant
TWO YOUTHS AWAIT
ELECTRIC CHAIR
IN DEATH CELLS
cide what troops would be ordered j candidate far out in the lead, aro
out. Company K of the 183rd In-1 now h.aded down the stretch in
fantry at Norfolk, was ordered out their internal pre-convention bli-
late Friday and was to board the (ties. The republicans will oring
Commodore Maury, flagship of theltheir’s to a finish at Kansas City
state’s oyster fleet at noon -for j on June 12; the democrats at
transportation to Mob Jack Bay, • Houston, Texas, on June 28.
just north of the York River. • I Hoover is out in front in the
republican field and Smith In the
vn/A tarn DC CPI TC lh democratic, with some possibility
1 WU ME.N tvEOV/ULU of both running into troul.lc
Activity of the democrats hero
has diverted attention from th-
republican situation, hut so lar
has appeared on the surface, there
ha* been no change. Lowdrn’s
friends arc active in Michigan
and in the Dakotas especially.
Senator Curtis of Kansas, has per
mitted friends in New York to
start activities for him. Hoover’s
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FAR OUT TO SEA
BY CANADIAN BOAT
MOTORIST KILLED
NEAR ROME WHEN
CAR OVERTURNS
ROME, Ga.—(AP)—A motorist,j
reported to hnve been identified
as Joel M. Thompson, was killed
Friday night when his auto left 1
th* Dixie Highway near here. I
The machine lay in a ravine.
The man apparently had been
dead for several hours.
TORY H EM
1
BABY DIES FROM
BURNS RECEIVED
IN BATHTUB SAT.
Discovery of sypUffis
nurses snd cooks a»*
as workers at dairies
plying Athens with-;,,
last year formed oni of
thc major contributions to
public health, a service
rendered by the ba£ter{«-
uau AecAcciuATrnl 1 ?.*'**! labor atory under
MAN ASSASSINATED direction o f Miss Louipl
BY WOMAN WHO story it was Iearn ** ***
SHOOTS SELF
COLUMBIA, S. C.—(AP)^-
Scalded when she accidentally fell
into a bathtub of boiling water at
her home Friday, Elinor Rhame,
two years old, died early Satur
day.
NEW YORK —(AP)—' Bring-
plans to intrduco It ing two men she picked up from a
i small boat thirty-five miles off
Palm Beach, Florida, tho Canadian
steamer Piorrer, will tiodk here
late Saturday, her Captain an
nounced by radio. ' ’ /
He gave no details of the res
cue.
MEXICO TO RAISE
NO NEW ISSUES
AT CONFERENCE
HAVANA, Cuba —(AP)—Mcx-
uim „ A wo Has not intention of nrtsent-
MACON. Oa. —(/P)— James a. . iaauets to tne Pan*
Swain, sentenced to die In tlie A * ; * £nr,fW - n rc. Scnor Julie
. . . . , , -« American Conference, Senor Julio
electric chair on January 18. for G>r< .. ident of thc j Ie!clca „
the muni, r of J. Walter Johnston d(4 ati( £ toId intcrv icv.- e ni Sat-
aatl Wad* Johnson, aentenced to urd on Ws a „ iva , hcr0 from
be hanged at Gray, Ga., on Jan- Mexi ' r | fv
iiarv 90 nn ai*«nb Inti nee.l « *» iex,CO y 11 *'
R A. JUHAN
Activity in real estate circles
has been given r.ew impetus by a
movement inaugurated recently
iry the Athens Board of Realtors
to hold a co-operative auction sale
in this city at an early date.
Individual members of the
board and representatives of the
several agencies are working at
present upon securing a large
number of listings that will be in
cluded in the sale, and have se-
—— cured contracts from owners wh*”h
BRUSSELS, Belgium —(AP)— | include some of the most desirable
Slight earthquake were felt in business and residence property in
u „w« *«««..,Belgium Saturday, the first be-[Athens.
This is the third time these two ing registered about midnight and j The trend In values has been
prisoners have »>een confined iu jtbe second between thre? and four steadily upward for tl^ pas*, sev-
th. death cella. ••'♦lock. ‘ .(T“™ » p, «« p «« r )
uary 20, for an attack fcn an aged
Jones county woman, were placed
in the death . cells here Satur
day.
The death watch was establish
ed at noon and the prisoners were
be kept In solitude until the exe
cution dale arrives.
Both have petitions for com
mutation of sentence resting be
fore Governor Hardman but he
has not yet acted upon them
EARTH SHOCKS ARE
FELT SATURDAY
IN BELGIUM
REALTORS SIT
PeOPERTY SMS
terday.
The bacteriological testa made
during the year, since April, 4927,
.fumed up one hundred and thirty-
four cases of syphilis, gntay * ot
thes? nurses and cooks an«‘ daisy
.workers. Only one case waa duh
before April, 19*T, tat
r. In 1925 tw«pt)rtWU
iiiiv.s oi syphilis were reported
BELGRADE, Jugo-SIavia,—
(AP)—Advices from Skoplje re
port the assassination .of Velimir
Prelitch, legal adviser of the
Skoplje prefect, by a Macedonian j that y
woman, flora Bulj'eff. (cases of
The woman then shot herself,'and in 1920, fourteen cases. Urn
dying later. (Turn to page fir*.)
What Is The Biggest Worry Of
The Wealthiest Wonan In oAtti
The World? It Is That Herl
Husband Doesn’t Enjoy Meals 1
By Allene Sumner
NEA 8ervlco Writer
Copyright. 1928. NEA Service. Inc.
BATTLE CREEK. Mich.—Mrs.
Henry 1 Ford is probably tho rich-
<*Ht woman on earth, and the
tho troubles cf tho ordinary wife
and mother are not her troubles.
But she has ono worry, and all'of
tho Ford millions can’t ’ help her
solve It. It is this—
Henry Ford never seems to en
joy a good moolf
Mrs. Ford told- mo so herself, i
while Honrv ocea-io!i*illy ‘nrn -d a '
sheepish eye on her, as If ho were
protesting. "Oh. come now. I’m not
as bad as that.”
"I envy women-with husbands
who enjoy good square meats,
said Mrs. Ford. ... .. i
"Just about the only canto for J
complaint that I’ve ever had with j
Henry is that he eats glad roost
beef or brojed whltefish or baked
beans or custard pudding as U. it
wore ho much sawdust. He’ll go j
through the motions of eating, but i
uith the attitude that it’« so much
waste time and bother, and I k
hi* mind's back in the pTght;
“IIow I sometimes envy Women '
who ci:n bns'le around in a check*
«-d ginvham aj ron in th«lr sunny
lit*le kitchens, beating up UiJi tiut ;
that for their husbands’
th. i- eves i,|«t shining aa they
can hardly wait to hoar him-agy, |
‘Yum. yum. thla taste* llke'wMl*
"Whv. Henry Ford C
.“muck hi* Ups over a
ITur* t* P*n-j
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