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ATHENS COTTONi Middling ..... ..'.. PREVIOUS CLOSE .. ... 20 V Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday. Continued warm both days. Dally and Sunday—13 Cent* a Wee*. Dally and Sunday—13 Cents a Week. VOL. 96. NO. 176 Associated Proa Service. United Preua Dispatches. I ATHENS, GA, SUNDAY,. AUGUST 5. 1928. *A. B. C. Paper. Sinsle Copies 2 Cents. 6 Cents Sunday. Rally Qf Young Georgia Democrats Is Called - | fr- 1 , h*-* —4*^ * Mystery Shrouds Fate Of Polish Flyers TO I ID SEW, THE SUITE'S Calls Conference Of Rotary Chiefs Here This Week A conference of presi dents, secretaries and chairmen of program committees of the Rotary Clubs of Georgia will be held here Wednesday and Thursday, it was unnoun- ‘ ced Saturday by Abit Nix, district governor for Georgia of the Interna tional Rotary Clubs. This is the first conference of club president and secretaries «:nce Mr. Nix was elected gover nor of the Georgim Rotary chfbl. lie recently attended a meeting of the district governors In Chicago, 1 fori .. ... 'annually fo!.|^'il lowing the meeting of nil the. die. I fur trlct -governors of Rotary ' " International organisation. The eo(ifer:tlce will discuis the program of work for the Rotary clubs of the itate during Governor Nix’s incumbency. The twenty- five elutes in Georgia will be rep resented by their presidents, sec retaries and- chairmen W pro- S 'am committees, bringing to thene one hundred or more of the state’s leading citliens.. Among the prominent men who wil attend the conference, will be: R. T. Arnold, Jacksonville, imme diate past district governor for Georgia and Florida; Porter Pier- pont. Savannah, formsrly dletrict governbr; Dave Clark, Charlotte, member of the International com mittee on extension. Among the prealtknti of clubs (Turn to page six). EXPECTED TO DIE AFTER HIDE J'JJ’llittfe Hope Held That Airmen May Be Safe As Gas Supply Limit Ends , ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.—(UP)— Senator-elect, W'llfam 8. Vare, serionsty ill at his summer home hare, has token a turn for the worse and , may die at any time. Dr. Elwood Kirby, attending phy sician, announced Saturday night. Dr. Kirby said the republicau leader, who suffered a stroke this week "might live until morning*’. He emphasized the word “might". TIME IS UP By Associated Prqas Foryt-tight hours have passed since the Polish rtans-Atlantic flyers, Majors Idzikowski and Kubala hopped off from LeRmrget Field. They carried fuel sufficient for continuous flight of forty- eight hours. This means that at 11:40 p. m. Saturday, eastern standard time, they had passed the forty-eight hour mark. Each heur, therefore, puts a heavy strain on the small thread of hope to which friends of the expedition still cling. ICES fACUITY “Wl.w.tnrt („W,IIW oi'Ltary CIulu _ NEW YORK.—(UP)—Nearly two days out on FITNFRAI CCRVIfFS their flight from Paris to New York, which they liEiluu. OE.iv Vl hoped to complete at dusk Saturday, Majors Louis Idzikowski and Kasimir Kubala of the Polish air force, had been unreported late Saturday since mid night Friday. At that time a plane, assumed to be their’s, flew northward over the horizon after cir cling the British steamship Amakura. FOR MR. MALLORY THIS AFTERNOON Funeral services for Mr. Walter Mallory, prominent Athen'an nnd sr;,-wm i^Xete? &&,, unc,ruin4 - - me n mi I no uis. . Georgia, who has calleil a! afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from '.he trlct-governors of Rotary in the conference of presidents, cxcre- First Presbyterian church by Rev. [solution. tarics, chairmen of program I El inn F. Dempsey of Oxford. .Vr DENVER DOCTOR HELD ON CHARGE OF WILL FORGERY committees of all the clubs In Mallory died Friday afternoon aft- here Wednesday or an illness of more than a year’s Georgia to meet and Thursday. Y TD START FLIGHT TD 1 WASHINGTON— (DPI — Uett- tenant Dleudone Costde, French aviator, is “about to start from France on a flight to the United States,” the Wsr Department was Informed Saturday by (Mhjor Georges Thennult, assistant mill- [tliry tataches Tor aeronautics of I the French embassy here, DENVER, Coin. —DPI— 'Mr, W. | Costs, -will-use a Breueguet air. duration. Mr. MaVory wax » member of the Methodist church but the terv. ices will be conducted from the Presbyterian church on account ot hfjpatrs at {the First Metboilltt church. Pallbearers will be Messrs. How. oil C. Erwin. Andrew C. Erwin. Arthur Burch, George Deadwyler, Thomas H. Dosler, J. M. Howell, B. S. Dc/bbs and Ab't Nix. Hon orary pallbearers will be ofiicUls of the county. McDorman-Br'dges. ers progress warn intensified btj- enus: 1 the position at which the ship reported them was 240 miles northeast—directly towards Great Britain—from that at which tho steamer Artec had reported sighting an airplane two hours and twenty minutes earlier—at 9:40 p. m„ eastern standard time Friday. Both these position* were In midtoeean, north of the Asores Is. landi. It was hoped that the positions given by one of the steamers might have been gabbled in trails. Dr. W. F. Hollingsworth yester day announced the new members of the faculty for Lucy Cobb In stitute which opens its 1928-29 session on September 12. Several new teachers have I been added to the faculty. The announcement of the additions fol lows: “As announced at the recent commencement of Lucy Cobb there were aeveral resignations from the faculty because of mar riage and for other reasons. AH vacancies have, been filled and the friends of the institution will be interested in knowing the names and the acholutlc record of the now members -of the faculty for ; next session, which will begin on September 12th. “Miss Katherine Klein auccecds Miss Timberhrke a» head of tho dopirtment of English. ills* Klein Is an A.B. and A.M. gratia Murder Suspects IS CALLED TO PUSH FOB PARTY LEADERS Following the hammer murder! of George W. Simmons, at Lake! CHy, Fla., police were seeking thS 1 " - --■ - couple, Mr. and Mrs. F.. Booth, who have been charged by a coroner’s jury with the crime. Simmons was the 78-year-old grandfather of. Mts. Booth, tvhTT ate of the University of Kan***- She has niajored in English and f 0 ® 0 ^ he had stalled OF TOBACCO SOLD Ili GEORGIA LAST WEEK | Education, and hat. mlnorad History and Social Science. She i> moat highly recommended by eminent 'educators and others who hove known her work. “Hiss Rachael Crook succeeds sT | NOTEBOOK OF DR. MALMGREN SAFE, NOBILE SAYS ROME. Italy.—UP)—Many scien tific observations. Including the notebook of Dr. Finn Malmgren noieuocx oi ur. r*ni» ma.iugicu, Swed'oh scientist, who sacrlticed DENVER, Colo. —(IP\— Mr, W. I Coates will-use a Breueguet air-, himself In older *“ better the D. Eordhpm. prominent chem'.t. plane, powered, with a «M _ home | chance, of ".embem “t the and physician of title c ty. was or. mated'Sa{; - -Inga on the requea: of Denver officials who announced charges would b- filed accusing the physician ot forging a wilt under trh'cb he w»t made beneficiary of hts dead wlte'a es tate, about 31.000,900. power Hlspano engine. The ship expedition, werre coved from the is pointed red nnd carries nl ra., dirigible Italia dlavter off Spts. ■ This was revealed bv General low will DC oy way r.n- Nob’lo In an (purview published In Isterre,. along northwest coast of the FsiCtot nhfajhpar,O Mhlllt' Spain and then over teh Axores The route Coatee ex pec:» to fol low will be by way of Cape Fin Islands, to Halifax, Sill MESSAGE WAS ME The leader of the expedition ad ded that If he were to return to the pole be would employ a dirigible of the same type as the Italia. ntiulon and that it was not wue, closed Sstnrriay with total axles ,a. o-i,-a -i-i— d„ for the 4hrH d(lyI „ f 1016i60 » that the Polish airplane—liar, iialck Pilsudtki (Marshal Pilsud- ski). named for the director of Poland,- had ’ headed back from ita course toward* Europe. Radio' stations which both massages' confirmed to the United Press, however,-that there had hern no error In the bearings ai transmitted by them. Tht first messages reporting the progress of the plane—60th messages were taken aa referring to It, as no other trana-Atlantle plant was In the air—was from the steamship Artec and was re layed by the steamer Port Hunter. It said: “Biplane passed this morning, latitude 44 degreet, 22 minutes, north, longitude 24.08 west. Di- (Turn to Pag# Eight) pounds for an average price cl 113.70 4-10 per hundred pounds. This was $6.25 under the aver age tor the rrat week last ttea-i son and general dissatisfaction was expressed w«sr ernwers but hopeg wen held for better prices next week. IS SATISFACTORY VALDOSTA. Oa.—ira—Tobacco sales for the ft—' —“f the local market totalled 861,383 pounds fur which 3111,783.27 was paid for an average price of 13 cento per pound ,’n view of the large quantities ot law grade to bacco sold - *he week, this average was considered fairly sat. lafactory. l! Will Mlit Powen as head of the De- arfmtnfc of Mathematic*. MUs ANOTHER ROCKET CAR GOES TO THE SCRAP HEAP HANOVER, OERMANY —</P) — Another of Frits Van Opel's rocket cars has como to grief. The car Bak IV, was ranking Ita first teat on a railroad track from Htfrgwde! to Celle. and was de railed at the name spot where teh 1 III Crook .received her fi. S. degree at Auburn College, Auburn, Ala., and • has nearly completed her work for htr. Master’s Degree at Auburn and at Vanderbilt Uni versity. Miss Crook la most high, ty recommended at a teacher of Math, and for several years was assistant superintendent of schools at Waycross. Ga. “Mist Lueile Hamilton succeeds Mlsa Garrott as head of the de partment of Ancient languages. Miss Hamilton attended Chlcrgo Collage and received her A. B. de gree from Brenau. She haa done graduate work toward her Mas ter's Degree at Columbia, Chica go and Georgia Universities, and hu had aeveral years experience as a succssful teacher. “Mrs. John E. Drewry succeeds Miss Sarah Kelley oa teacher pf high school and college science. Mrs. Drewry la a graduate of Lucy Cobb and of the University of Georgia. She ho* partly cora- plpted the work for her Master’s Degree .in science and has had professional work in education. “Mill Elizabeth Padrick suc- fTurn to Page Sin) to accompany the nowly-mttrrioil couple on their honeymoon. Ill-Silli GROUP MEET AT ICON LEGIONNAIRES TO MEET TUESDAY AT HOLMAN ATLANTA.—(fp)—All "dry anti. Smith democrat!’’ were invited to attend an organisation meeting or "anti-Bmith Democrat*’’ at Macon on August 9 in a formal call 1*. aued here Saturday by E. J. Fnr. reater, Bapt/st minister, and Mr*. Marvin Wiliam*, president of the W. C. T. U. The call followed announcement of the Macon meeting by Biahop James Cannon, Jr., from Richmond Va., Friday. •Recently at Aaheville. a confer ence was held of anti-Sraith dem- ‘iwrata’V the call laid. "The pur pose of the conference wag to con- a'der how the dry antLfimtth democrats might beat -serve the South at‘ this particular time. It was decided that the most effec- (Turn to Page 8lx) URGES THAT YOUNT, . DEMOCRATS OF 8TH \ • DISTRICT ATTEND ' Chas. E. Martin, member of tho Central Committee of the state-wide young m;n’s demo cratic organization, urges :is many young democrat <>f tli«> 8th congressional district at can attend the meetings in At lanta Wednesday. < special!'/ those who are interested in furthering the interest of the national nominees in the No vember election. Any young Democrat who considers him self included in the call issued below will be wslcome, Mr. Martin states, and request* those who contemplate atU*nd- • ing .to notify either him or R. J. Ilejmolds, 313 Palmer Jiuiltl- ing, Atlanta, by noon Tuesday. ATLANTA, Ga.—Plana for a state-wide rally of younif democrats, for the: purpose of organizing « Young Men’s Democratic League of Georgia, which will conduct an aggressive campaign in behalf of Alfred E. Smith and Jos. ept T. Robinson, the dem ocratic nominees, were announced Saturday by an organization committee appointed at a prelimi nary meeting held in At* lanta a week ago. The rally will be held at th* Anlcy Hotel roof garden at T- 00 o’clock Wednesday evening, Aug-* u*t 8, nnd - will be attended bYi \ A young democrats fro meverycow^ gressionnl district. In addition to ; those to whom personal invitation* -f have Oeen issued, a general invi^ tntien is extended through tfca ’ press to all democrats front 21 ta *10 years of age, who are interest-'.'^ cd in the success of the democratl ticket, and who feel concern® over the present political situatio in Georgia, to attend the meetin and becom-a charter member the organization. The organization committee (Tum to lPago Toro) NEW YORK—(UP)—Democrat ic national ‘ headflnarters made pobVc hero Saturday night eecret proceedings of the democratic natfoni* ^nyalttoo at Houston, designed to ahoir that Governor Alfred 8mUh’« modification *tund, u not a **repndlation’ k of the pro hibition plank, a* Interpreted by Ita drafters and understood- by the convention. A atenographlc report of parts nf the prohibition plank debate in evocative acsslon la ll!t *pvtb 1n a fetter w^Den by Senator Key R'ttman of Nptada* who waa cha'r- * itlfoni man of tl itorm committee, to c,f Revlewa. An editorial In Shaw's mwazlne declared that Smltkt aasaaica to I lie Houston coBreotlon repeating h'* advocacy of moil'flrstlon waa ••a bold and sweeping repudiation ot the platorm.’’ . This. Pittman declare,, an “er ror”, . Publication of the secret ses*'on record '* regarded as forerunner of a campaign along this line to modify dry, and keep them In line. Pittman takes exception to the edltoi'al: statement that Senator Carter Glass ot Virgin's, author ot the plank as finally adopted, and other drye who were, opposed to Smith, declared the platform to be ATLANTA — Present opposition cumstancee, be the prerent incum. RaHl“Neft%te ,, mUron"juiie »■> » t»nd M.rae<or highway pur. bent. One rocket exploded the wrong wuy P—• b “‘ * ■‘TOf*** to | The chtet executive reiterated a »ni3 the Halt IV waa wrecked. ■ uc " * P ,an 10 *"• *" e previous statement that he will Ttwswaa ...... m. mwimifini Further *tate. If more money ia needed, af* . . . _ - were poitponed .Ipdeflnltety. | rer ^.hw^y jejmrim^ 1. ^L ^tldent. end tk. what 2,000 DROWNED IN i:“orT , o“ u S , aM n ;r ,r c.^; , *7*7 „....Trnn for reelretlon In the Democrat*: “ * h » nominal head of the Dem. FLOODS, CHINESE 537 *«• - ™*\r , ,L c ^7he‘:,.r^»p h '.T^ REPORTS STATE ruUvedeSI^!d n *ttat t me' h hWlV»y ‘<“'»‘«i™e tha“ wouU Iw free from BHANGHAT —VP)— Chlnere re- tituatlon In Georgia, presents one'“J"'"**™* by maenine. or m«. port, from Tsinan, state that of the outstanding tesue. of. teh about 2,000 person. In the town, campaign and th.t th. iprerenc s ‘.w 0 ,.**, bellev. It would be for of the Tawen Hlver, o tributary of chairman of the etate highway - * ' The Alley R. Fleming poit of the American Legion meets next Tuesday night at 8:30 o’clock at the Holman Hottl. It Is announc ed in tht notice, tent out thnt there will be a discussion of con- vention finances, the savings fund and eketio for offices held. W. L. Erwin ia commander of the post end O. J. Tolnaa i« adju- FAST PASSENGER TRAIN HELD UP BY HIGH WATER FMMM Kin I ENDANGER WASHINGTON Jl Ml, KELLOGG DU Dr. Albart Shaw, editor of fterlew “lels (Josephus Daniels of North mont“o r f*t n h d o ^fThe Tawen^mvTr. 'a trihuury'oj ZZZZ •TWC’ «35S5 the brat .nteres. of the uareyer. mont of the l«th amendment nnd hav( ^ drowned In board la holding office -In defiance ““TjV 10 ™'‘‘ fl L.*u b ° nd 5* the Valstnad Act . a fIotK j f aus ^| by the overflowing of the expreaaed will o( the people the proceed* ef which would b® of teh Tawen River, a tributary of of th® atate.” He declared that. If «*P«nded by the highway depart, ihf Yellow River- . reelected he will under no dr. mtnt M at present constituted and i^’ I cumstances reappoint Chairman org»n!*ed,” he said. TROPICAL (VISITOR [John N. Holder. # I The governor declared that he BASSETT, Nebr. —(UP)— No-! “If reelected, I will appoint the favored a complete reorganization ticing a commotion among the moat capable, efficient and - con-, of the highway department chickens and pigs oh h«r farm, eclentlou* Georgian I can find aijthronghont. He also review* the the Volstead Act**. "No such-declaration waa maio by Senator Ola** or by Mr. Dan- Carolina) or by anybody oi*e who wot a member of the platform comnsRt*#”. Pittman *a‘d. "And no »nch construction was ever given to such planks, either in the .committee or on the floor of the convention’’, 4 a miKCTis Ttnu uin on nwr iinn, . —... *...» —— — Mrs. A. B. McCann investigated chairman of the etg,te . highway Incidents In his laet fight with the end found a small alligator trying .board,- Governor Hardman aald,} state re not. concerning the ap. to get a chicken dinner. j'Buch nominee will, under no dr-] (Turn to page, ala.) COFFEYVJLLE, K*. —(AP) The Missouri-Pacific passenger train No. 118, the “Rainbow Spe cial .” Little Rack to Kansas City, was reported water-bound at Ar- nola, near Wagoner, Oklahoma, Saturday. The train, which wa» due here at 6:00 a. m„ had not arrived at nine o’clock. Reports to division offices of the road here said a clondburst was exneriaaeed Friday night in the section where the rtaln I* ma rooned. Tracks of the Frisco and Missouri - Kansas-Ttxas railroad at the same riolnt, were also re ported washed out, - - J . . .... WASHINGTON.—(UP)—With the terms of mysterious Franco-British naval accord still und closed, it was revealed Saturday for the first til that American officials arc “seriously disturbed the probability” that the agreement involves vli American interests and perhaps endangers the Was ington naval arms treaty. Secretary of Statu Kellog indf- ‘ catrd his concern when ha sug- gested the question was too deli cate In character to permit him to dieouss It publicly at: this time. He said he could not make known hi* opinion of the agreement until he hod hod an opportunity to consult President Coolldge on the matter. Kellog will seek. If not openly demand, an explanation Chinese Statesman , Meets With League Of Nations In < agreement when he gbea to Paris .ho; this month to sign the renunciation j Be] of **r treaty, # i, GRNEVA —{Pf — ! of Nations Saturday the new nstfonaHst j*i China when it accepted lhe i ntlon of Sao Ke Alfred! minister at ■ ! Ml ill"