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Associated Press Service. United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS. GA, MONDAY. MAY 14, 1923.
A. B. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Centa. 5 Cents Sunday.
INTRODUCING AL’S FRIEND “BILL”
THEY’VE BEEN PALS SINCE BOYHOOD
He May Succeed
Floyd Bennett
Final plans are being perfected Monday , for the
flower exhibit that will be held Tuesday at. the Geor-
gian Hotel, sponsored by th’e Athens Garden Club.
Flower ' enthusiasia .will gather
the flowers to be. entered early
Tuesday morning and mlttf have
CITY'S NAME PAINTEO
ON TOP OF BUILDING
Aviators now tlylng over
Athens may locate their poll,
tton. ft there la any doubt, by
reading the name of bo city
.on top of Talmvlge Bros., big
wholesale bunding.
Spurred on by the urge of
Ben T. Epps, pioneer local
Dyer, the Klwtnls club last
wesjt voted funds ter the big
paint nameplate and U was
painted on top of tho building
Saturday. Sunday Mr. Eppa
went up and Inspected tbo Job
and found to bo okolt.
m m
.. homely, generous, democratic.
By NBA Service—
NEW YORK — Cottle puncher,
railroad hand, utility office em
ploye, one-team contractor, and
finally o magnate of big construc
tion enterprises—
That’s the career of A1 Smith’s
friend William F. "Bill” Kenny,
whose very healthy fortune and
homely, generous, democratic per
sonality suddenly have been throat
intp the presidential limelight.
Old Admirer of A1
IB TIE F010 OF
BO TAKEN FROM
S1ES11E JAIL!
Of GROUP OF
GAINESVILLE, Ga. —OP)— A
group of min forced entrance into
the jail bere shortly after mid
night and removed Henry Hood,
negro, arrested Sunday night and
charged with shooting Walter
Merclf.. I® years old. ■ No trace of
ltml „ ti ^, n «r M rs^u^ I - by ' po -
__(UP) 0 J n sn ™im?ni 1 I Merck was slightly wounded
is Jr *T„T. ! m i t f d at 26 t T,. 3 ® "jK* I Sunday after a fcolll.lon between
.. Muir Fait- The poreonalito referred to is blJ aato and O oa containing sev-
l,| > . c| „, o* ' marked by long-manlfcited admi- erll negroeSi The men who re;
llltl, Who flCW 10 Ot. ration for A, Smith and close ss- moyed Hood made so little dtstur-
h n’s Newfoundland, : E0 f. i “?, i , on „' vith “' ra ‘ i bance that flromoh asleep .In tho
n n S, INcwiounuianu,.‘Bill Kenny would ’>0 anything, ume buUd , n g were not awakened
\t the expedition which ' PoUcemen on night duty wore In
another part ot the city at tjte
BOSTON,
ieutenant
expedition .. ^ 0 „ hi , fhlrt for if there
gone to, remove tne was any C aii for it,” smith is quot-
ans - Atlantic aM^C ^ying^^ .3°. ^
remen irom Greenly Is- w h cn the New York governor took
nd, will be brought to hi* f* calion tri P t0 North
oston Monday, en route
a hospital in Washing-
Fairehitd, pilot .of one of the
■ay's two relief planes, was
ken il! after the relief expedi-
■ arrived at SL John's. Brig,
tneral James Fechet, chief of
army air service, who is at
John s, ordered airplanes hero*
remove Fairchild.
Lieutenant Richard Cobb and
eutenant E. ’ R. Qucsada left
StOll I
answick. Qucsada will take
Jrehild's place 1 in the relief
I. while Cobb will bring-Fair-
back to Washington.
MAY LEAVE
JOHN’S, Newfoundland.—
-The two army relief .planes,
Carolina.
Out of his copious wealth, Ken.
. - and
time.
Three other negroes escaped
when the Intruders left the door
open after taking Hood away.
ny has presented 320,000 and
loaned 860,000 more to the Smith-
p re-convention campaign head
quarters, it was testified before a
senate investigating committee in
•New York by George R. Van
Namcc, Smith campaign manager.
/Helped Pay Off PsbL Siorrn, cnatrman or roe repuencan
'W?? fstate committee Issued a statement
NEW YORK G.O.P.
CHAIRMAN COMES
OUT FOR HOOVER
NEW YORK.—(UP)—Coarse K.
Morris, chairman of the republican
i.-yv- — #7 T'lui Zu- . owe comnmico issuea a suutmeoi
fundb topay “ ^ iclt . f r r0 %^\” I Monday declaring himself In favor
prvildentfal eampugn of 1924. of Herbert Hoover tor lbe repute
Kermy gave 825,000, it 'la said,
late Sunday to fly to New y \j e510 H. Jones of Houston,
and Thomas Fortune Ryan of New
York, gave more to this fund.
. It was in his boyhood that
Kenny we* a cowpuncher. This
Was in Texas. Then be went
farther west as a raildoad hand.
In his young mnnhood he re-
turned to Now York and worked
route to remove tho trans-At- jfor the city’s largest eiectrtc light
' ■ airplane Bremen, may leave utility, the Edison Company, at
*13.50 a week. . - , '
He foresaw the. need of street
naving work in connection with
tbs laying of electril light conduit*
and bought one team and a truck
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regub.
Ifcan presidential nomination. [
Morris said he bad Just spent
ten days on a tour ot the state,
sounding cut .sentiment ot dele
gates, and that tpe Secretary of
Commerce was "an overwhelming
favorite”.
Monday for Pictou, Nova
a, providing the bad flying
.ether clears.
JOHN’S, Nova Beotia-—
- One of the- two U. S.
«es cn.route to Greenly Island
jjj tnm m - tob0¥ Dr. Wilkinson In Sermon On Mother Says
M. Monday and headed
Pietou, Nova Scotia. It was
toted by Captain IraJ Baker. Gen-
Fechct’s piano wa* expected
follow shorter.
ean-Up Awards To
Be Made Tuesday
The awards for- tho clean np
npalgo waged here several
ago will be madO Tuesday
leruoon ut '4 o'clock at 'the
utnpkln street school by Mrs. D.
Earnest.
The campaign aroused c'ty wide
terest and the announcement ot
sinners wBt bb nwai'e-l with
' Ihnse who peril-Jpatetl.
them at the hotol’intimc to be
place.before 12 d’cloek.' At that I
hour tho entries will t close nnd '
from *12 until 2 o’clock judges will
award the blue ribbons to the win
ners. -Ribbons will fie' the only
awards made. ■■ j
Good News
It in good news to' flower lovers
tlmt Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin will have
some of her pretty-flowers oil
exhibit, though they will not be
entered in competition. Mrs
Lumpkin lias explained that she Is,
an experienced gardener and prob-j „
ably has an advantage over some 1
of those she hopes tho show will
encourage. Her flowers have been
unusually pretty this spring and
visitors at tho exhibit will have
the opportunity of seeing some of
them.
Open At 2 O’clock
The exhibit will be thrown open
to visitors at 2 o'clock and will 1
remain open until 7; No admis-; *
sion charge wiil be made and 1
everyone who lovoa, flowers is v
urged to attend, men as well as’
women. It is hoped to
from the show this year
for a bigger exhibit next
is also expected that i
prettier flower gardens
encouraged for the city. Athens
has many pretty flower gardens I
and worlds of- pretty flowers al-1
ready. Alany of the flowers do' WASHINGTON—(UP)—Frank
not grow In regular cultivated O. Lowden, former governor of
. Goes Far to Wed
<NEA, -New. York Bureau.)
-ieutenant, Wilmcr Stultz of
iraon, N. J.,, who, was pilot for
rles A. Levine in his Havana i
lit, and has been-designated osj
'j-elief pitot for the Antarctic:
Ition of Commander Richard
l, may succeed the late
MID HI DETE
- BY JACK FROST
It seems that the scries between Georgia and. Tech
probably will determine the Southern Conference
championship this year.
And the march toward the championship will start
down on Sanford Field Friday afternoon when the
two teams will clash in the first of a four game sent--;.'
A second game will be played between the two teams
on the following afternoon while the final gamer
will be played on Grant Field the following week-end.*
With tho approach of the time
ER MATER!
(NEA, San Francisco Bureau.! |
..... Thelma Cluraecjc met Bert W. 1
Bennett ns chief pilot of tha Idivitt, attorney in San Francisco,'
plane. Stultz was pilot of “"d they decided to wed. First
Frances Grayson’s plane, however, Miss Clumock wanted to
iwn, last summer in three un- visit her parents -in Singapore,
c&ssful starts to.cross the At- ^turning from .Singapore, after a
itic. He won his rank as a lp,000-mile trip, -the discovered
,r flyer. j she had to go • a . few thousand
WASHINGTON.— (UP) -Sec-
'•o.ary of too Treasury Mellon’.
set for tho annual series to ta/.o *
on a start it might be well to say*
just a bit about theTecords of ihcr s<
two teams. Neither team has a„
clean sheet in conference cirdc-V*
but both teams have record.? thnC-'
may be callecf pretty good an'lji
records that place them right atr
the the top of tho conference col
umn. 5
At tho present the Bulldogs nr o'
heading tho conference list and/
arc trailed by tho Jackets. Geov- ;
gia has lost two conference game*,
and ti«d one. The Bulldogs 1" it.
one game to North Carolina, an-v
other to Auburn, nnd nlso mndaj
an even count of a battle with the,
Plainsmen, while Tcrh has Io fc
three conference battl's. Tho YeU.
low Jackets have suffered defeat.
gardens .but garland t yard fences Illinois, told the senate campaign
or aro plpced here and there in n investigating committee Monda *
nook or cranny of a front or back that his Chicago headquarters ha.’
y ^SL-.. n „ , , „ Collected 864.700 and apont 800J10U
Practkally all.varieties of flow- up to last Friday,
f??. n 2. w ' n h >o°m will bo on ox- Ixnvdcn said his personal books
mbit Tuesday and. tho Georgian indicated ho. personally, had ad-
Hotel will be the center bfuttruc- vaneed 812,600 although his catn-
tion as Athenians go there to see paign manager's books indicated he
the gorgeous displays.
gave 815,000.
The Lowden expenditures
brought the total camnaign ex
penses listed with the committee
thus far to 8440,184, with Secre
tary Hoover and Governor Al
■Smith leading in the amounts ex-
pended in their behalf.
Lowden said a year ago some
people came to see him about, tho
presidency.
“I could only say I was doing
nothing,” ho nddod. "Later a
little group of frienda asked me
if they could start an organisation
| for me.”
..nw.rn.TT7 . "I told th?m I had no objection,
ALEXANDRIA. La—(UP)—Ap- (becuase my correspondence was
proxlmately 200 armed citizen* and getting a little heavy.”
In this group fere Clarence F.
statement . that Hoover
closest-of all candidates, to tho p-rfdsy afternoon. Hi
standard set f:r tho presidential unt!1 tbnt t j mP both
I ofllce. was taken a* an open en- bc found on theii- req
dorsement of Hoover’* candidacy grounds w
deputies were scouring toe coun
trysldo Monday near Olenmora and
-Long Leaf. In search of two no.
groea who eacaped Sunday follow,
lag.a gun duel l n which William
Buck. Omar M. Cuitor, Galesburg.
Rlinois. and Robert D. Clarke,
now of Los Angeles
“They" are tho only one* I have
™i cl !“an. "offo bootlegger., and f0nICTtcd t0 hav0 act for me.
Frhnk Phillips, deputy sheriff, T bere |, a ] s0 an organization in
shot each other to death during o Nnr York. They didn’t even nsk
my consent Their’s is purely a
raid en the Blackman home.
- The two negroes hunted by the
posse are Georgo Blackman, father
ot William and a btpthor of the
voluntary arrangement.
"Tho Buck group has been car
rying on n year now. I have not
dead man. Two other brothers, b^Vtiv, myself in this cam-
TO COURT
WASHINGTON.—(JP)—The Fed
eral Trade Commission bss docld.
ed to resort to court action to en
force Ita order against the Para.
MounLFamoua PUyora-Lasky Cor-
poratlon. calling on tha concern to root charging violation of the pro
cease Its bloch booking practice ot > hlbltlon law. As they neared the
distributing Dims. Blackman homo,’ Blackman la al
leged to hav* emerged with a shot.
Lee and Sim, were captured Sun.
day night and spirited to an uni
knolwn Jail because ot tho high
feeling against them.
Phillips was shot without warn
ing. three other deputies who wit.
netsed too shooting, said. He and
the other deputies hsd gone to
tha negro's homo to serve a war-
That She Grieves Most When Forgotten
Ascension of Christ Is
Theme of Dr. Richards in
His Sermon At Episcopal
Church.
By Clyde Baeham
(Student In Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism)
"The greatest gift God lies given
gun and tired. The charge almost
Instantly killed the deputy, who, as
he fell dying, brought hla revol
ver into, lino and shot Blackman
through toe heart.
BURN HOU8ES
ALEXANDRIA, La.-(/p)-Seven
houses belonging to relative* ot
jraign. T hnvo referred everyone
to my friends.”
VAN LEAR BLACK
STARTS LONG
AIR TOUR
Weather Forecast
Fair Monday ,
Night and
Tuesday.
Moderate
East Winds.
Swell
He said that no man can be a gen
uine follower of Christ who cannot
appreciate toe genuine values ot
this world. w ,
“Mothers have made all kinds of
sacrifice, but toe true mother doea
not complain,” eald Dr. Wilkinson.
The minister pointed out that
a mother's patience 1* unending
and la often overworked. He earn
that the love of a mother li un
measured, and that the child can
never love toe mother as the
mother loved toe child. '
tOur sacrifice will never reach
the height* that our mother*
reached for . ns," continued the
'"ihvWlIhlaton said the thing
OPPONENTS
CROYDON AIRDROME, Eng
land —(UP)— Van Lear Black,
owner of the Baltimore Sun, start
ed hla second great air tour Mon
day—one which’, wlU take him
more than 37,000 miles before it is
completed.
Ho loft here at 6:23 A- M„ Mon
day for Venice, in tho great Fok-
ker nlrpiant of the Royal Dutch
Airlines, in which he flew 18,000
miles as a passenger last year.
From Venice he will proceed, with
’ ’ ' ~ 'ro and thtnee
Africa.
which causes mother most tears
Is that she Is forgotten.
“All the sacrifice and anguish _ _
and nursing of a mother I* the william Blackman, negro and al
far away dream of a character to • |* a e d bootlegger, were burned
be built.” The minister explained ~
Allowlna
many mothers .
they ought to he,: Dr. Wllktnaon iff, sheriff U. T. Downs announ-
sald It was imposslblo for him to ed Monday.
.... concolvo a mother with children
man. next to Christ, Is mother, and j i„ her home whb does not make
no man can be a genuine Chrletlan religion primary In her home. 421 EMMA
who does not honor bis mother," -The teal mother Is forever ULLlIIin
declared Dr. J. C. Wilkinson In the ) thinking about primary thlnge,”! T2/IRIC AVTD TUM3
Mother's Day service at toe First , a |<i the minister. TlllB V VEIL 1 YYV
Baptist church Sunday morning, i Dr. Wilklneon said that the best |
Dr. WHklnsoq said that the re- aa yone can do tor bis mother Is to (
ally genuine values are personal. bu ||d up » nobl# life. |
—" — "The life ot Christ has made the i
mother capabl* of that unending HUNSTANTON, England.—(IP), bales ot Haters • I
sacrifice so characteristic ot a jtiss Glenna Collett, -the former and (18,729 of lint and 67.745 bates
mother”: declared toe minister in American champion, scored her of ilntore la April a year ago.
The minuter explained. Sunday- night at Long Leaf, near f."™, p",''
that there It a good here by a mob after Blackman »«re«Mtotopa, te Cyre
ers who are_no_t whst had fatally wounded s deputy eber- to Cap-town, South Al
Cotton Consumption
COLLETT
Shows A Decrease
WASHINGTON. —(AV Cotton
District Governor O. A. Pound,
Jackson; District Prosldont, L W,
Harwoll, Brunswick, and A. L.\
Brooks, Atlanta Immediate Past
President of KiwauW, District e!
tl ortla. were here ») • !>>• for a
r-hfrifrce with |nc.-l Klwnnls of.
flciala relative to too state, con
vention that moots hero on Octo
ber 17-18 and 19. An outlino of
too program was drawn up and
adopted at tho mooting. Tho con-
venttsn proper will be on the 13th
and 19th white a largo number ot
too delegates are expected to re
main over tho football game on
tho 20th. A meeting of tho state
officers will take place on the 17th.
Those attending the meeting
here from tho lecal club was Cap
tain J. W. Barnett, chairman ef the
board of directors. Van Noy Wl*r,
secretary, M. N. Tutw/l„r. presl-
dent and tho past presidents at tbo
Idub, Including Chancellor Charles
M. snclilng, Dr. J. M. Pound. «. O.
Arnold, Joel A. Wlor and Chas. B.
Martin.
ATLANTA -tOR— Ahtt Nix ot
Athena. a n attorney, was nomi
nated Monday to bo governor cf
tbs newly formed 69th district of
Rotary International.
Harry Root, Tampa, Fla., wae
nominated tor governorship of the
30tb dlitricL Tbo two nominations
required because of too division
cf the old 39th district, which In
cluded both Florida and Georgia.
EXTEND WORK
ATLANTA.—UP)—Hope for ex
tension of toe work of the Rotary
Club ln Europe was brought to
toe convention Monday by Marcel
Franck, Parle, France, director of
toe International organisation.
“In Europe too extension ot Ro
tary U toe queetfen of too hour,
and a n omon of victory.
Monday's cmlnninnn ul :f linn,
ver by Chairman Georg. K. Morris,
of tha New .York republican state
committee, was viewed hero as no
important fiA-ther old to Iloovir’s
candidacy. S:me cjimrirrs held It
iWas symptomatic of a move of
former "draft CooIltlKo" men to
“get on tbo baud wagon” tn the
wnko of Mcllcn’s approval.
The anti.Hoover group Insisted
that Mellon’s praleo of President
Coolldgo at tbo samo time, showed
tho Secretary Is clinging to tbo
idea of a “draft Coolldgo” move,
moot.
Among disinterested observers,
however, the feeling prevailed that
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effort
ythil
the best of
to get
condition for tho openin'- seriet."
The Builders will s’nr’ the ntc-
pnrntory eampnl’’“ fov Tech Moo-
day afternoon and Cor n - - e
will send h'*s bovs thrmrrh a grir.i
sir*
that will last throng
CTnr
Sinclair Lewis
Marries American
Woman In London
LONDON — (UP) ~ Sinclair
Lewis, noted American novelist,
was married Monday to Dorothy
Thompson Bard, 33, American
newspaper woman. k
Tho r-Tcmony was at Henrietta
Street Register Office, off
Strand, in central London.
Eight Fishermen 1
Drowned As Boat ;
- Fills And Sinks
ROCKWOOD, Me. —(/P)— Eirhti
members cf a fishing party fr'i’qj
Ilrockton, Mass, nnd Snm BuddiiV
of OreonvHle, Maine, were drown*,
ed lato Sunday afternoon when
motorboat tn which Buddln win,
taking them to Tom lkga n Camp,
sprung a leak.
Tho engine stopped and tho boot
fitted with water and sank. ,
Chief Charles Daley of * th«l
Brockton Ur© department, tha
ninth member of tho party front*
that city was tho only ono itaved
and he was so unnorvod Monday
from hla experience that he waq
tho unablo to give a very detailed nari
rative of the disaster. ,
Nationalists Believed
Near Capture Of Tien
Tsin; Pekin Will Fall
SHANGHAI, China, — (UP) — Advance of/the
Chinese nationalist army to the north continued
Monday, and the fall of Tien Tsin. was expected a«
consumed during April . totalled ho said, “As rat wo have rclo.
526,15* bales of lint and 57,611 tlvely few clnba. At to* eame
bales of llntera. tho Census Bu. Urn* to* Bolary apirlt will surely
reau announced Monday, compared be able to Az.ri a helpful Influence
with 681,318 of lint and 61,410 In that area. Tha Ostend conv.n-
March. this year. lion, by awakening tha Interest of
cloalng.
CHRIST THE JUDGE IS
DR. RICHARD’S TOPIC
By Clyde K. Beale
(Student In Henry W. Crady
School ot Journalism) „„„„
“He hath reconciled us to too Do La Chaume.
Father by Hit blood.” declared Dr.
A. G. Richards at the Emmanuel
church Sunday morning. Hla aer-
mnn In part follows:
"Ascension Day marks tho Inan.
|.second victory.of toe day to the Cotton on hsnd.on April 30, was
I British women's golf championship held as follows.
by overwhelming Miss Shirley In containing establishment*. 1,-
I Lamplongh. eighteen years old 597.992 bales of lint and 222374
I English girl, 7 up and 6 to play, of llntera, compared with 1,595.486
' after, having eliminated the do, of lint wnd 229,995 of llntera SB
v ON TRIAL
LAFAYETTE, Ga. -OR— Mr*.
James Gross, of Chjekazuugb, was
fending. title holder Mile. Thlon, March 31, this year and 1,891,137 placed on trial .in criminal court
those who know nothing shout Ro
tary or who were lnd Kerent' to
it, gave • great Impales to ex-
tension on onr continent'
I of lint and .239,437 of llntera on here Monday en a charge ot whip.
I April 39, last year. ping Mlea Bertha Harp, teacher
I to public storage and .a) com- of the Wallaeaylll, school district,
HAND LACERATED ... , ...
R. L. Stone of Benson’s Bakery' presse's, 2',9"21,906 bales cf lint and I tha stuck on toe teacher being al,
suffered'an injury to his hand 63,400 of ifnfers, compared with t Icged to havo been caused by.pttu-
when oauaght in a machine Sun-. 3,610,534 of lint and 64.580 of lint. I Ishment for misconduct admlnls.
gurallon of Christ as King. In Hla da y. His injury was dressed at! era on March 31, this year and 3,. trated to Benjamin Gross, son cf
"(Turn to Psge Six) |tbe General Hospital. . I .{Turn to Pag* «x) v. * the accused woman, by Miss Harp.
any time.
General Chang’ Kal Shek, na
tionalist leader, whose most re
cent engagements have been with
the Japanese in Shantung im>v-
Ince, was reported to be marching
north with little or no opposition
from the northern armies.
The northerners were reported
withdmwtog from their line* of
defense.
It was believed here that, at the
same time with Chian*’* entrance
info Tien Tsin, another southern
leader, General Feng Yu Heiang,
would take hla forces Into Pekin.
In that event, observers believed,
General Chang Tto Lin, the north
ern leader,) would withdrew from
Fokin to Manchuria.
' MADE PLANS
TOKIO, Japan—(UP)-Believ-
teg capture or the northern capi
tal within their g{asp. the Chinese
tal within their gnsp. the Chinese
nationalist troop! already have
made plans for foreign represen
tation. #
Dr. C. C. Wu, who hai'been
delegate to Paris of the southern
government, ertll be appointed
minister to the United States, of
ficial advices said. Wan Ching
Wei will be appointed .minister to
Great Britain.
The nationalists expect Unitv-1
SUtcs support, it wa* learned.
That was brought out at the last
military council of tho national-
WASHINGTON —(UP)—Dent,
ocratic- leaders, encouraged by
their success in adding $24,000,000
more in cuts to the tax redaction
bill, continued th:ir fight on tlie
administration’s revrnuo program
in the senate Monday.
The bill provided for a $2$9.«
000,000 tax cut, as passed by tha
house, $203,000,000 as amended l y
the senat: finance committoi and
$227,000,000 as farther amended
on the floor of the senate Satur-
Reduction of the tax on small
corporations accounted for th: £-t-
dition of $24,000,000 to the tot at
Democrats must rod sufficient
strength, with the help of two ve«
lublicans, Senators Nor beck artef
•IcMasters, of South Dakota, tn
pass an amendment providing fog
i*ts at Tsinan at which General I a graduate«i rate ranging from 9
Chiang Kai Shek, the chief south-J per cent on corporation incomes og
ern leader, took part. 1 ss than $13,<jQ0. ! >
1 -