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VOL. 96, NO. 99
Associated Fitn Service. . United Press Dispatchet,
ATIIENS, GA-, SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1928.
A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents. 5 Cents Sunday.
DOUBTFUL DELEGATIONS ARE MENACE TO HOOVER
Kansas Youth Confesses Murdering Family Gf Seven
» fit If
I SLEW
i FIVE BROTHERS
110ERS CLAIM
HE WILL IN VET;
SMITH LOOKS LIKE
WALK-AWAT VICTOR
EL DORADO, Kan.—
(AD—Owen uberst, 17
year old farm boy, has
confessed that he shot and
killed his parents and his
five brothers and sisters
at their farm near Burns,
the night of April 20,
County Attorney Stanley
Taylor announced Satur
day.
After slaying members of the
raiully,. Oberat s<jt flro to tho farm
house In an effort to destroy evi
dence of the crime. The confession
related that be had planned tbo
deed only two hours before it was
carried oat. -
He "Just got mad” at his father
because he would not allow him
to use the family auto. Oberat
raid. He Insisted his mother had
'nothing to do with it” nud that
o planned and carried out the
killings unaided.
The killings took place about
p. in.. April 20. the contesalon
stated. Obertt. admit 1 '** h*' 1
Iran hoeing trouUt .uM-nialHn-
r. william F, Oha»t thr .mom.
time, and tlnally decided to end
all by disposing of the family.
Ills father being' away from
home, tho boy got tho family rifle
called the younger children, Her-
bcrl, C-, Hugh. 10; Italpb. 14. nml
Edllh, 8, Into the gltchcn and be-
jn shooting. He shot his mother
and other sister. Dorothy, as they
ramo into tnn room to learn tho
cause of tho children's ‘screams.
He then waited for his father to
come back and shot-hint.
The confession says Oberat pour-
i kerosene over the bodl.s,
thonged his clothes, threw a light.
I newsoapsra Into the, house and
left In the family auto" Tho tire
was discovered after the whole
house was ablase.
The seven charred bodies were
not found until about midnight as
nelthbora seeing tho family car
none, supposed tho Ohersts were
away for the evening.
The above Is Petor Lee, ono of
Aubum’s diamond aces. Lee is
playing his first year on the var
sity and may get the call In one
of the games Monday or Tues
day.
CORPORATION OF
TO 8E PASSED
BY
PHILADELPHIA. —The
World's flight endurance record for
seaplanes waa bettered by T hours.
"" minutes, 41 seconds Saturday by
e I’N.12. which landed at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, after a
night of ae hours. 1 minute and 14
seconds. ,
The old record, was 28 hours, 36
minutes end 27seconds.
Lieutenants Arthur Gavin and
CeutSoucek, piloted the PN-13
With a crew of two, J. C. Proloy.
aviation mechanic, and B. F. Day-
ten. who is associated, with the
Wright Aeronautic Company.
FARMER DIES
GRIFFIN, Ga.—(AV-Joel Turner
Da Hard, 34, Whit* county,, farmer.
>IM Friday night of bums'Vecalved
Thursday afternoon when the boil-
■ of a small sawmill exploded
his place, about 4 mile* .from
Weather Forecast
B. A. V. TO MEET
11-12
SHEP1IEARDSVILLE, Kj.—(IP).
Ono woman was shot to death and
three other women end two men
were wounded seriously Saturday
1n what ottlcera believe Wae a ro-
vengo attack , by moonshiners
whose! otfja recently |had been
raided hy prohibition agents.
Mrs. Kale Drowning was shot
down as she fled from her home
at nrownlngtown settlement, about
seven mllos from hero, utter the
building had been act afire- Three
sisters and two sons -of the. sis.
tors nlso were shot as they fled
from tho burning building..
Tho throe wounded slstcra, Mrs.
Droning. Lon Andie and Mandy
were taken to the home of neigh.
condition Saturday.
The two men reported were Fete I
min Dan Hrownlng.21 and 23 years
old. sons of Mrs. Lou Drowning.
.They had not been seen slnco tho I
shooting nnd officers ore working
on tho theory that they were taken
captives by the attacking party,
WILKINS REFUSES
INVITATION TO
MAKE TRIP
Here la Clifford “Cush” Wood,
the best Auburn.turn to offer in
the hutting line. Wood is sure to
start for the Tigers against tile
Bulldogs Monday or Tuesday, lie
is playing hia last year.
GREEN IIA-RDOR, Spitsbergen
General Umberto Nobile has in
vited Captain George Wilkins to
accompany hint on Ilia three trips
In the Italia to Greenland, the
North Polo nnd Nicholas II Land.
But Captain Wilkins has refused,
It became known hero Saturday.
Captain Wilkin* Is working day
and night on his new hook, do.
scribing hie polar trip and is writ-'
Ing it himself on n typewriter, hop.
Ing to get It ready prior to his
departure. Thle was accepted here
na the bails for refusal,
In the ' meantime the weather
, conditions were Increasingly unfa.
", . \ ... -I vorable for the flllht of the Italia
Thj annual stale convention of ^ tt snowstorm from the north.
west prevailing Saturday. , j
ttv- Disabled American Veterans
will;fie h-'td i.t Athe.et May 11th
and 12th- 'Reporte recciv:d by the
local convention eommittej indi
cate that c!oio_,to 200 delevates
nnd visitor! will be in attendance.
The Joe Brown Connally chap,
ter is being assisted in entertain
ing the 'convention by the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary, of which
Mrs. Horace Iloldcn is ptestdent,
nnd by the city of Athens.
-Former Senator Hoke Smith,
who was chairman of Military Af
fairs during the World Wer, will
deliver on address at the Friday
morning session on “America in
the War.” Other speakers include
Hon. John M. Slaton, Jr., Regional
Director, U. S- Veterans Bureau,
Dr. A. M. Soul? and Sergeant
Samuel WoodflO, an outstanding
h:re of the World War ■
Representative! of the U. S.
Veterans Bur.au. Georgia State
Servic? Office and Disabled Vet
erans Liaison Office will ibe.in at
tendance at the convention. An
office will b? established in the
Holman llcltel, convention head
quarters. .
All veterans and visitor* attend
ing the convention nre requested
to register upon their arrival. As
a preliminary- the local chapter
will entertain all visiting veterans
at a smoker Thursday night. The
first session will open at th? Uni
versity chapel, Friday mcmitig,
May 11th.
another try
CHICASHA, Okla. - (API
Monday (air, joe Hart, local ,'iusineis man and
former army aviator, hepped off
Sure Saturday in bis Ryan myno-
•:.a«e for ano.hu acte.ap. to »*-
tahilah a new world's o.vmrance
flight record. Tiio official time
uf the tak-ort was aunsuncetl us
9:38:30.
BITTEN BY DOG,
MAN’S WID6W
SUES ROAD
Gladys Johnson, tiled aul
perior court here Saturday against
the Seaboard Airline Railway, ask.
ing $60,000 damages for herself
and two minor children. Lots 3,
and Fred 1, Mm. Johnson's bus-
band died In April, lest year, of hy.
drophoble.
She alleges In her petition that
the disease was contracted by her
husband while working on the en-
glue. Negligence hy the company
Is alleging In allowing the dog on
the machine- ' • — ■ 1
UNDERSENTENCE
OF DEATH, MAN
FEARS A COLD
ATLANTA!—DP)—Harold Ham
mond, sentenced to die on Msy IS
for the murder of Mm. Lottie Belle
Ingram, refused the rites of bap
tism Safuidsy after he hid re
quested immersion.
The convicted men, who main,
tains that he fa Innocent and that
something will turn up to prevent
his execution, changed bis mind
for fear that he might contract s
cold.
VISITORS IN
With all the eleven.par
ticipating churches re
porting large attendance
with numerous additions
to . the membership, the And here is “Maggie" McGhee, tjpan, of the Auburn hurlei
grand old man of the dugout fof the Ttgern. Il the oth$
Simultaneous Revival Ghee will he :;cnt into the fray. He will be kept ready to try and
Campaign will officiftUl*\ heavy Georgia batter.;. Incidentally, McUhti's hoipe town
IRIU close tonight. Most of the’ t;,,nrdl1 '
J vi^Itinjf 'preachers closed! = . - ' ■ mm m*
I their series Friday night, i EllgfllGefS I~l0p6 TO SuVC
NEED MORE ROOMS
L W. Nolron, who is chair
man of the housing committee
for a number of conventions
that meet her* this year. Is
anxious to secure rooms out in
town for a number of gueite,
especially tho Odd Fellows con
vention, which meet* here on
May 22-24. If you :have an
avai'ahlo room, call 1971 and
give .Mr.' Nelshn’ the’, informa
tion ho want*.’
The D. A; V. convention hers on
May 11-12 opens four big conven
tions that will meet in .Athens
during May. Following the Dls-
shied Veterans will be the Lions
:lflba of the state, which meet
,iere on May 17-18, the week-end
jf the G-orgia-Tech baseball se
ries. Following tills meeting will
be the Odd Fellow*, with the en
campment on the.22nd to the-24th
and to close the month will,be the
furniture dealers of tho vtate on
the 29th and 30th., *
Athens has • large number of
conventions for the year and oth
er* will be the American Legion
in July , and tho Kiwmnia of the
state In October.
Of the convention? In May, Hie
Odd Fellows will bring, the larg
est number of viaitora to the city.
The American. Legion convention
the first week in July will assem-
ibleivevera! hundred vereterans of
the World War hero and the Kl-
wanla meet will bring at least 200
members of that club here.
Tho Georgia-Tech week-end of
May 18-19 will bring another over
flow crowd to the city while the
usual commencement crowds in
June are expected to he large
again this y-nr. As a curtain rais
er to tho Georgia-Tech gamee will
be a golf match played here on
May J7th by Bobby Jones and
Table Rock Cove Dam;
No Lives Are Lost
•Some peoplo como to church j
with a pitchfork instead of a rake; |
and what tho preacher paya is
pitched over to other persons rath- J
er than taking it in their own
lives, declared Dr. Ralph Gillam.■
of Decatur, at the Central Presby. j
terian church, Friday evening. I
"Lot tho wicked foraako their {
u«pd for his siTrmon. He declared; GREENVILLE, SL C.—(AP)-~Hope of saving the dawks
.““TT.VqTeSlo^iow wS Table Rock Cove dam, 31 miles north of here, grew Ku u G t& uct,d
ca n get rid of it, ho said. * Saturday when engineers succeeded in opening the
Hood pipe thus^taKing the pressure off the breaks
I which developed under the dam late Friday,
WASHINGTON.-
(UP)—A block of two
hundred and eighty-three
uninstructed and doubtful
delegates to the Republi
can National Convention
has been selected in pri
maries and conventions
thus far, the United Press
weekly tabulation showed
Saturday.
The growth of this doubtful
group overshadowed the gains
made during the work by Secre
tary of Coitimerco Hoover, leading
republican candidate and Governor
Alfred E. Smith, of New York,
leading democratic candidate.
Hoover is chown to have 294
delegates against 197 for former
Governor Lowd-n, of Illinois, but
the cabinet member must get at
least hull of tms douotl'ul group
if he expects to win the nomina
tion. His campaign manager*
claim he will uoum more than
e California result, coupfcd
with oth-r events during tho week,
made Mmth’s race look like a
wuik-uv.ay . He now has 518 dele-
with 7ol necessary for th>
lauon. No one else his more
republican tabulation fol«
lows:
UOOVTS.R
In*.ructcd ...
Uninstruct-d •
LOW DEN ....
Instructed ....
Uninsirucicd .
CUKI is
instructed ....
Uninstructed .
BORAH
Instructed
COO LI DUE ,
Instructed
Unin&rucfc
NOKKIS ...
.H*?
sins, bccauso no one can forsake
them fdr us", Dr. Gillam aald.
"Thorb aro two steps every man
must take before he can enter tho
gates of Heaven,” he said. They
are: Confession, and honestly for
saking all evil sins. If a person 1
Is honest enough to confess his
sins God will forgive them," ho
pointed out.
" 'L6t the wicked forsake their
sins' applies to those who aro not
all* they ought to be, whether they
aro members of the chttfch or non
members; and to those who know
their duty and aro not performing j
It," said Dr. Gillam. I
The thro? ways of confession, as
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The gate to' tho drnin-nipe was
, opened by means of a long key
taken to tho wyne from Gre nville
Instructed ..
, w *»«... uig-uviuu structed
nnd tH:* flow of water out of the
j dam was immediately increased,
tructedc - *
Uninstructed and doubtful-
Necessary to nominate,
The Democratic Lin--up*
SMITH
STILL DOUBTFUL
(By Assodatcd Preie)
Dliparity of reports from Tai
nan, Shantung province, as to
whether anti-foreign demonstra-
tfone there had affected other
than Japanese left doubt Satur
day at to the real character of
the fighting' which took place
Watts Gunn in the intereat of the I there Friday between Japanese
Olympics, troops and Nationalist forces.
JAP GOVERNMENT
ENDS MORE MEI
TO BATTLE FRONT
TURNER DIES
•LAGRANGE, Ga. —OP)— Judge
\V. \v. Turner, 84, former judge of
city court here, and n life-long j
resident of LaGrange, died sudden, that ten Japanese
Jy Saturday at his home from heart I killed and thirty-three wounded in
trouble, t , k fighting there.
TOKIO;— (UP) —The govern
ment decided Saturday, it i« un
derstood, to dispatch a Itrgt
force' of supporting troops to
Shantung Province, China, where
Japanese soldiers are feeing a
Nationalist army.
Late.-t reports from Tainan are
soldiers
All communications with the
city had • been interrupted with
the quieting, of the Japanese wire
less station there. It le from this
itetian that moet- news of the
fighting hod been received. And
there was much speculation as to
what happened to it.
The Standard Oil Company at
Shanghai was probing the condi
tion of Itr employees at Tsinan
following reports from Nanking
that foreigners other than Japan
ese had been armed also.
Nationalist headquarters, how
ever, notified the British Foreign
Office that the British consul-
general and other British resi
dents of the city are alive and
are safe, while the American con
sulate at Shanghai received ft
disnatch from Tsinan, dated 11:00
Friday, the time of tho resump
tion of the fighting in the foreign
settlement, saying that Americans
had not been harmed.
WASHINGTON —(AP)— The
$36,000,000 tax case involving
profits of th, sale of the stock of
the Ford Motor Company by for
mer minority iStoekholders, was
decided Saturday in favor of tho
stockholders by the board of tax
appeals. ■
Using tho case of Senator Coux-
ens, of Michigan, as n basis, th,
board held that tho commission
er of internal revenu? was not
justified in aa-essing an addition
al tax or. the profits, but that be
was in his authority in re-opening
the case utter it had been onco
closed by a formey .commissioner.
One of the main contentions of
Senator Cougens, who is on? of
tho principal (beneficiaries under
the dcciiion, along with the Dodgo
estate and seven others, had been
that the commissioner was ex
ccoding his'.authority in re-opon
ing the ease and that ho was b.ihg
persecuted by the Treasury De.
pnrtmcnt. ' 1
“It seems to be agreed that
even a ‘clos'd’ care could be re
opened if gross error or ‘error in
calculation’ wore discovered,” tho
board held in the opinion. “This
can only mean that tho commis
sioner may. at any time, entertain
the idea of re-opening, and may
examine the ease to d'terminc
whether such error has been com*.
milted.''
FLIES TO ATLANTA
Ben T. Epps, pioneer local avia
tor. fief over to Atlanta last week
to inspect tho big Texas company
plane, which was on a visit there.
He mad? tbs trip over In en even
hour, and maintained the same/•president of tho company,
speed on the return home. Hcl The mlllB will represeal an In-
landed at Candjer Field. _ . vestment of $5,000,000,
___ Instructed
swelling the South Saluda Creek HITCIIOCK
below th- dam to bank full pro- B J5JSS£ t ®. , i. *
portionv. I'OMEI.K.NE
Water still poured out of tho sw»hk C ®
break around the pipe where seep- r*«tnict<v4
ago startqd the fir:t leak. Torrejits gFOI’GE '
also came ou of Hi lnsu i instruct d
Vnrel!.' 1111 ? ^ ^ nln!t ructcd and doubtful ,,
™.! he '7*' The local Hoover-for-Preaident
ikroii”»k cscapin(? committee in n tatem nt claimed
h ™* h seopag. leaks. 438 Jel gat6s Saturday night and
While engineers itill believed asserted that the “false alarm
the dram pipe was broken at some that Mr. Hoover could not cony
point und r the huge dirt dam, the middle-w. -stem states against
they hop-.d that the opening of the Smith has been most effectivaly
flood gates had Created auch a stilled by a strong prot.st from
current tint all Impediments would newpapers ar.d public men.!’, from
be washed out and the lake lowor- ;tho middle west.
,cd through this hob without fur- ~ ' 1
thcr break,.
The valley, below , the dam ivns
quiet and deserted. Everyone in
the possible path of tho water,
should th- dam break, had moved
to tho Mlb.
On .hilltops and mountainside,
th? refugees set up temporary
abodes. There was no suffering
and no aid was asked.
Thousands of otters of aid came
1o headquarters hero and at tho
Chamber of Commerce and tho
city administration.
City officials announced that
even should tho dam not break,
the city will suffer a great losq
slnco the dam already had been ac
cepted and had cost between $L-
r,60,000 ami 12.000,000. It will nec
essary to re-bnlld a large part of
It, regardless whether any other
SIX PRESIDENTIAL
DISPLAY EXPENSES
damage la 'dope.
About-26# persons, residing In
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EASTERN COTTON
MILL IS MOVING
TO WAYCROSS, GA.
WAYCROSS, Ga.—(j^P)—Tho Troy’
Cotton Oflil -Wallen .Manufaclury.
Inc., of Fall River, Mass., will
hioro Its wills to Waycro u at tiw
completion of negotiations for n
suitable alto. It was announced
here Saturday by B. H. Hamilton,
WASHINGTON— (UP) —Six
senators ami a representative who
are presidential candidates* were
summoned Saturday by the twnate
campaign expenditures investigat-
|*Y committee to appear Monday
to testify regarding their contri
butions and disbursements.
Those summoned include Repub
lican Senators Borah, Curtis, Nor-
ris v and Goff; Democratic Sena
tors Walsh, George, and Repre
sentative Hull.
The committee decided not to
call Secretary of Commerce Hoo
ver until he returns nt xt w««k
from a trip. It decided also to
go to Annapolis, Md., Wednesday
to take the testimony of Gover
nor Ritchie, und tentatively de
cided to go to New’ York later ia
week to hear Governor Smith.
Senator Reed of Missourt'TfH*
not yet answered the commirf#*
questionnaire and wiU not * M|
called until he does*
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