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m -A : : ■, ATHENS COTTON; MIDDLING -Oc PREVIOUS CLOSE ..... m 20c THE Daily and Sunday—13 Cent* m Week. JSrtablb&td 1822, r\ 11- BANNER-HERALD 1 ) lfc Weak .JS& j, 1/ r—IS Cent* a WeeE Pay the Carrier. f m 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 (Turn to page five.) 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 (Turn to page five.) 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* _