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ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING .. .. .. .. 19 Ide PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. 19 1-4¢ VOL. 96, NO. 203 ’1 AM FOR P LIS ,AL SfMITH\ I PRESIDENT Some people base their op position to Governor Smith ¢n the ground that he has all his life been associated with the New York city democratic organization known as Tam many .fiifll, The popular no tion of Tammany’s vicious ness Qgfies from the fact that Tammany is a DEMOCRATIC organization while most of the great metropolitan dailies are REPUBLICAN; and also to the fact that most of the writers on goverament are Republican, Hence they take great pleasure in denouncing Tammany Hall. What are the facts? The September number of a great magazine carries an article by a professor =f Government at Columbia University, locat ed in New York City. This article describes the organiza tion of Tammany Hall and seeks to appraise its charac ter., Tammany is simply the machine which controls the city government of New York. It happens for historical reasons . to be demoeratic. Every other city in the Union has a similar organization— some democratic, some repub lican. The only important difference between Tammany and all the others is that Tammanv_is. by for the best of the.lot. = B o The writer above ref arred to eays that unquestionablv New York is the best governed city in America. True, there have been times when Tam many was controlled by venal men, like Tweed and Croker, but that day has passed. If one compares the city govern ment of New York with that of Chicago or Philadelphia, for instance, the comparison will be altogether to the ad vantage of New York. Per haps the most significant thing about Tammanv, a cir cumstance that sets its apart from other city governments, is that in New York there is no alliance between vice and crime and government, as there unhappily is in other cities, Tammany in no way protects or levies tribute on the lower world. The worst that can be said of Tammany is that it is wastefnl. We in the South have the very best of reasons for sup porting Tammany Hall and its candidate. In the dark days of Reconstruction the only, friends we had in the North were the Tammany Hall politicians. For years they did everything that was humanly possible to lighten the burden of the horrid re construction measures en forced- on us by Congress. FASTERN DRIVE AT NEWARK, N. J. WASHINGTON —(AP)— Her hert Hoover will speak at Newark, N. J., on Monday, September 17. This will be the first campaign utterance of the Republican presi dential candidate in the east. The address, which will deal largely with questions affecting Jabor, probably will be delivered in the First Regiment Armory, and will be broadcast through a nation-wide hook-up of radio sta tions, Hoover expects to leave Thurs day on_ a fishing trip on Chesa peake Bay. He surprised his of fice force again Tuesday by ap pearing at his headquarters at 8 a m. He immediately began cleaning up a batch of mail which had accumulated over Sunday 30 as to have his desk clear before beginnig a round of conferences with party leaders. ANOTHER FLIGHT LONDON — (U P) — British wireless stations Tuesday inter cepted a message from the French wireless station at Ushant, telling of the departure of the airplane, Yellowbird, on a “cross Atlantie flioht. The announcemeni said the %lizht would be by way of Cave iniste, Spain, the Azores, Hali fax and thence to New York, g ATI ot ‘ B L L "Sk - e T > “ : . | . . - ERA LD @ ‘ iRy @ ! & 4:, T il %, o 3 y eek. #7 Dally and Sunday—l 3 Cents a W Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. 1 [ Eastablished 1853 ™WFTHOm PDaily and Sunday— Asgociated Press Service. United Press Dispatches. Woman Ofticial Gets Jail Sentencf GEORGIA POLITICS THROWN INTO UPROAR MRS, KNAPPS PLEA FOR SUGPENSION OF GENTENGE [5 DENIED BY MY JUSTICE ALBANY, N. Y—(UP) —Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, former republican secretary of state, was sentenced to thirty days in jail by Justice Calla ghan in supreme court Tuesday. The first woman to be elected to. high office in New York state had been found guilty last May on a charge of larceny growing out of her administration of the state census fund in 1925. Sentence was deferred until Tuesday because of Mrs. Knapp’s physical condition at the time of her convietion. Justice Callaghan said he was convinced that “justice would not be served by a suspension of sen tence.” He denied at thea cutset = mo tion by ratrick C. Dugan, counsel for Mrs. Knapp, for a new trial. Mrs., Knapp sat quietly at the table before the judge as her coun el followed the motion for a new trial with a plea for a suspended sentence. A similar plea for suspended sentence was also made in behalf of Attorney General Ottinger, “y Special Prosecutor George C. Me dalie, Medalie’s plea was denied by the judge in the following statement: “I have no desire to add to the humiliation of the defendant, yet I deem it my duty to state the reason which leads me to impose a prison sentence. The records furnish indisputable proof that funds amounting to $27,604.18 were improperly paid by the state on false certification by the defen dant. Of that sum, at least $17,- 408.03 was wrongly received by the defendant and probably a to tal of $24,175.82 is traceablv di rectly or indirectly to her. Al though the grand jury returned only 12 indictments, there was ample evidence to justify at least thirty. The grand jury, however, in its wisdom evidently felt that no good purpose would He served by making other indictments. ? - | 5 4 NEW YORK —(UP)— Because he believes the country is well managed now and does not need a change in management, Alfred T. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, favors the election of Her bert Hoover as president of the United States. Sloan made it emphatic that he spoke, not as president of the mo tor corporation, but merely as a voter. He did not mention any plan to resign. In the statement Sloan also said he favored prohibition because it had ‘increased efficiency, although he admitted there were defects in the present enforcement program, BIGGER PROGRAN [o PLAWNED FOR Y BY DIRECTOR Plans for the mést active pro gram ever put on by the Athens Y. M. C. A. are being made by Dr. Glenn Gentry, new physical director of the Y, and Rey Gray son, boys’ secretarv, there. Dr. Gentry, who is highly qualified in physical work, intends to make the athletic program at the Y bigger than ever before, and (Turn to Page Three) First 1928 Cotton | Bale Is Brought To Athens Today | Indications that cotton gins will lsoon be working at full tilt and that warehouses will be busy weighing and storing the annual lcau of cotton were rought to the community’s attention Tuecday as | the lirst bale of 1928 cotton to put . in an appearance in Athens was 'orcught mmto town. The bundle oi white fibre was raised on the farm i of W. M. Wood, of Morgan coun , ty, and was shipped by A. M. Par | ker, of Madison, Ga. It will be . sold here Wednesday morning. It - was received at Miller & Com pany’s warehouse. Plans for the biggest year in the history of Clarke county schools were discussed by the County Board of Ldueation Tues day at a meeting held in the of fice of Superintendent T. N. Gaines, The Tuckston and Centerville schools, which have been absorbed. by the Gaines school, will be dis continued, and the two school buildings were sold to private buy ers this morning. WilYis Johnston bought the Tuckston, and H. L. Flanigen purchased the Center ville building. The sale was con ducted by the sheriff on the steps of the courthouse and was made by public outery to the highest lbidder. < Other matters of a routine na ture were discussed by the board at its meeting. The outlook for the coming school year was con sidered unusually bright. Four trucks will be used to transport county children to and from school in place of the one bus which was used last year. By this means schools which formerly bad no means of transportation for pupils will be cared for. A very large enrollment took place al the opening of county schools yesterday. Winterville school, the largzest in the county, had the big gest enrollment in its history. About 195 pupils were enrolled, and it is expected that the figures will jump te 250 during the year. A good enrollment was recorded at Gaines Consolidated school, and it is expected that the student body will increase to 125. Ipen ing exercises were held at the school yesterday. Talks were made oy Superintendent Gaines, mem bers of the local board of trus tees, and the Rev. B. F. Mize, pas tor of the Tuckston Methodist church. D. B. Nicholson, student (Turn to page five.) RALEIGH, N. C. —(UP)—Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, New York renewed his attack on Governor Alfred E. Smith here Monday night in the first address of sev eral included in the South. Before three thousand persons who packed the city auditorium, Dy, Straton pictured the Democra tic presidential candidate as “a ty pical product of Tammany.” He called on Senator Walter F. Meorge, of Georgia, and former Secretary of the Navy, Josephus paniels, “to see the light and come over to the only side that will save the Democratic party. How they can ca'l upon their fellow Demo crats to vote for Smith in order to ‘save the party’ is beyond me.” For more than an hour, Dr. Straton read the legislative rec ord of Governor Smith while a member of the New York general assembly. He claimed it showed “he had consistently voted for those measures favorable to the saloon, the liquor interests and those who made money from gam bling and legalized vice.” " He concluded his diseussion of the record with “I think that Smith deserves great credit for being the man he is, having been the child of Tammany for so many years.” | Straton is scheduled to speak in Atlanta Teusday night at a rally of “Hoover democrats.” | Two Chickens—One An Ostrich W 4 B '2; 2 2 s Pl oAR L g i e T R O o g ) » S A R SR 3 \. e R G Y S 20 os o S R e S R R 1 G i R e gz e . *%}fi; ewo e i P PR : % s . i : ~ i .‘:; & 5 7 }E;_t *l i g s 8 . i RN & R R 3 s 8 -} b‘ R b RBRLE 5xY32 g P : 5 ; : i o Qs ey (G ’ Con E e ’ 3 o B B S RS ¢ e P BB 5% i T S o i R e ey i W: T R A : T e G s % 4‘;' S ; e i 2 RS R 3 : : 2 i 535 5 A R S M’j{ P R R 3£eT o B e R Bo aF FoNGE . 8B g R D N T, 22 | SEER R (52 5 . - ,RR R e { ¢3T¥ o R T ; B e e B B R i G ’/' oot g 7_'::':.::»_/ ’ & e it : B T R e e B R G 3 S : R e v @ R 3 3 e S e e voORRG S S, o S Bt N gyt % RO S e R B 3 ,?;" R R l} e Dy o 7 R R RS TR N s e e e g % RS Re R SRS S ¥ L W e %4 é ; R e P SRI Cio g}« B Kt /-"» 2 i : B S R R, o SRR R : % safi o (s S L Te e g B R SRR R R s R SRR S SO R T THGEss e 000 e ',.:;’::fi?-“é;f.,:;_:..,,; E L . % B e 52 B R R e ,:1:».5?//-;11' (// 4"?[ 7 ; 5 e 7 B B G /’ % S ; S Ry B B '//g 5% e Ve e L SRS BRI R + 2 SR B R o ’g’ig R it i* ’;”ff it e R o N e R AL R | g T T N G : o e :Sgk| i % R R A ST R S B, : R R S RO e i R o ey R M g ; AR i R i T e | T R S RSB R D et R v e i ! R % e(e e s 3 O R R R R s 3 B R R ~.«;;?r 3 »;‘W 7 eO - e s o I e s 0 s ) iR R ,‘,x«*%»@*‘%:‘\g».m’;.," s so K as” i @————-—-—— e S ————— - ” —— i (NEA Lcs Angcles ‘Bureau.) Youth is interesting wherever you find it. The baby ostrich and the pretty young miss above add to the attractions of the Los Angeles County Fair optaing September 18 in Pomona, Calif. The ostrich is cnly a week old but alveady is as Lig as a turkey: Report Of “Partial Audit To Board Shows No Shortage In tAccounts Of Clinton Carnes OFFIGIAL ~ BAPTIST BOARD MELTS N CARNES CASE ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) —The Executive Committec and the Home Mission Board of the Sou thern Baptist Convention met here Tuesday in separate executive ses sions to consider the situation brought about by the mvsterious disappearance on August 15, of Clinton S. Carnes, treaiurer of the Home Mission Board. Officials said it was planned later to have the two bodies meet in joint session. Dr. George W, Truett, president of the convention, said 2 state ment probably would be issu I at the conclusion of the sessions. An audit of the books of the Homeé Mission Board has been underwa+- for several days and a report on the audit is expected to be presented Tuesdey. Auditors in a partial report to the Board said no shortage nor ir wregularity had tbeen discovered, but that it would require some time to complete the work. This report was submitted orally to the Home Mission Board which imme diately thereafter went into joint session with the Executive Com mittee of the Convention. e ——— Special Campaign Looms For South WASHINGTON. — The latest pronouncement of Senator F. M. Simmons, of North Carolina, against the democratic presiden tial ticket is regarded here as ac centuating the democratic prob lem in the Southern states and the determination of the national leaders of the party to put on a special campaign in Dixie to ac quaint its people with the merits of the Smith candidacy. ‘ ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928. Young Madison Ceunty ; Farmer Wants Debate On Al Smith In Athens J. H. Wilkins, 26, young Madi son county farmer, notified The Banner-Herald Tuesday that he has challeaged Tate Wright, chairman of the Clarke County Young Men's Democratic League, for a debate on, “Why Vote For Alfred E. Smith?” on September 22, in Athens or anywhere else. Mr. Wilkins says he is for Hoo ver. —— e — . Dupdee Hunnicutt, Jr.,, wins the handsome silver loving cup yresented by the leader: and aldes of the Athens Y. M. C. A. camp. The many friends of Dupree are congratulating him upon winning this handsome trophy. During the whole summer at camp, the boys have been compet ing aguinst each other in the point system contest, each on striving to win more points than the others. Poits were awarded for participae tion in all athletic events, religious nervices, social events, hikes, ca noeing, swimming, and in fact, every phase of camp life. Th 2 boy winning the greatest number of points for the whole eight weeks, won the handsome silver loving eup. This cup is awarded for general proficiency in all lines of camp life, Dupree” Hunnicutt, Jr., won the highest number of points, 687, and the cup is hia. Charles Chitty. of Fort Gaines. Ga., was runner-up, with 681 points, and was awarded a camp emblem, | The third +'ace was won by Prince Gordon with 615 points, and fourth place vy James Turner of, Tamva, Fla., with 587 noints and fifth place went to Morton Hodgson, Jr., with 583 points. This cup will be on displav I'ri day night in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A,, during the “Open Houge” occasion, beginning at 8 o’clock. -1 PEPHRE T 0 HETAN 00,516 SN i THEY CAN Sup JULIANEHAAB, Greenland — (UP)—Physically fit, = aithough they spent two weeks wandering ithrough ‘ittle known parts of Greenland whi'e they sought Mt. Evans, Bert Hussell and Parker Cramer Tuesday made plans to proceed to the Greenland Coast. The pilots of the airplane “Greater Rockford,” which was forced down August 19th, on the Sukkertoppen ice arm, expect to proceed to Holstensborg shortly. Hasse'l znd Cramer arrived at Mt. Evans, the destination of their flight from Cochrane, Ontario late Sunday night, They were fatig ved, cold arnd in meed of food. Every since their plane landed on August 19th, they had been beat ing a weary way through the un known Greenland passes, seeking t 0 4 Der Mugwy Their food had been limited to small portions of pemmican, But neither was hurt with thé forced landing made. and their plane, a trim Stinson-Detroiter, was un rliar?‘aged, when it was forced to and. » & They had attempted to fly to a at landing field that h;: keen provided at Mt. Evans, where the Universitv of Michigan now has an expedition, but in some ma wer lost their way. But their fuel supply was exnau. ted wund thev lud to start afoot toward the University expedition—ths cnuv | «r+n on Greeniand that they“ knew. | sn theyerenched the expedi sanday night, according to advices relayed to julianhay. thes were given food and within a short time rallied sufficiently to tell of the hgzardous two weeks they had s_r)efi; wandering about Greeniand. However, they immediately, made pluns to ldave for Holsten borg by motor-boat, where it is possible they will await a ship to carry them whack to the United States. oL " E (‘ | ALBANY, N.' Y.—(AP)—Gov ernor Smith is not worrying over the poiitical situation in New York state. In answer to ques tioning he told newspaper men Tuesday in his first conference with them sinee last Friday that republican claims as to the way this state would line up in Nov ember meant little to him at this season of the year. Asked if he took any stock in repcrts that many “Smith repub licans” who had supported him on his gubernatorial campaigns would be weaned away from him in his race for the presidency, the democratic nominee saul: “Republican ¢laims dor’t mean anything to me. This is the sea son of thc year when they claim everything on earth. There i nothing new in that. There is as much to that claim as there has been to all others they have made. None of them was ever right. They are entitled to all the comfort they can get. I'll be the last one in the world to dis turb their peace of mind.” The candidate .said he expected tr have a definite program for his speech making tour in a cou ple of days. But that he would be in Albany at least for the re mainder of the week. | e e I Atlanta Council ‘ Member Resigns ATLANTA —(A P)— Charles M. Ford, member of the Atlanta city council, whose impeachment was recommended by a special in-‘ vestigating committee in a report completed last Saturday night, of fered his resignation Monday be fore the report was submitted to the council and the resignation was accepted. A revised report omitted al!l recommendations con cerning impeachment, A. B.C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents. § Cents Sunday. Peeples Pians Court Actzfig | To Force RestorationOf His Name On State Party Ballot JOHN COOLIDCE 1 ' | YET, HE SAYS CHICAGO.—(UP)—. ,hn (‘,ool-i idge, son ¢f President Coolidge,| has no job at present. although! he has several offers, he told' newspaper men when he arrived here Tuesday. Young Coolidge reached Chicago at 8:35 o'clock a. m., from the summer white house at Brule and leit at 10 a. m. for New York. Coolidge refused to answer the many questions directed at him! by reporters regarding a report that he is to be marrvied this fall. He posed for pictures at the re quest ¢f a small army of photog raphers. He said he had been offered al number of jobs and was consid ering all of them, but as yet had‘ no idea which he would accept. | “I have no idea what I want to do,” he said. : ‘ | “Would you.like.tp be a news paper man?” he was asked. “1 dem’t know,” he said. *“I never tried it and don't know what ‘it is like.” : i e e - SPEAKS IN ATHENS | g WEDNESDAY P.M.‘ Senator E. D. Rivers, candidate for the democratic nomination for governor against Govarnor L. G. Hardman. is scheduled to speal in Athens at 8:30 Wednesday night. No place has been designated for the address, Hut it is thought that Senator Rivers will speak from the platform on the eorner of Col lege avenue and Clayton street. Senator Rivers will also speak at other towns in this section Wed nesday. delivering his last address sefore speaking here at Royston at 3:30 o’clock. | j ' ATLANTA — Vigorous action toward purging from the list of democratic candidates the mames of those candidates who have‘ openly stated they will not sup port thé democratic national ticket as wel' as the state ticket, was taken Monday, when a sulcommit tec of the state democratic execu tive committee voted unanimously to drop James H. Peeples, of Can on, Franklin county, as a candi- | date for u place on the public ser vice commiission and recommended| to county and state senatorial and congressional democratic execu tive committees that they take similar action in similar cases that may be brought before them. The name of Mr. Peeples will be dropped from the ticket, his en trance fee of $l5O will be return ed to him and county democratic cxecutive commiltees = were in structed ‘ta remove his name from the offieial ballot in the primary of September 12, in resolutions adopted by unanimous vote of the subcommittee members, It also was the sentiment of the committee members that the state democratic executive committee, while. recommending to county, state senatorial and congressional committees that they take similar action where it was shown that candidates are opposing the demo cratic mational ticket, the state committee retain appellate juris diction in such cases. It was stat ed by the subcommittee that it would leave these matters to the county, state senatoria! and con (Turn to page five.) THE WEATHER: Mostly Cloudy Tuesday /I and Wednesday. < 't ) St SR y 4 ‘) CANON, Ga.—(AP)-Janiel H. Peeples said Tuesday: ’f planned to start court proceeds | ings to force restoration of hig§ name to the democratic, te' ticket as a candidate for Pub-¢ lic Service Commissioner fram | which it was ordered stricken{ | Monday by the Demoeratiet | Executive Committee be '7 e | l Peeples would not supper Zg’: temocratic presidential Eandi=* dates. * P He said the elections subs | committee of the state demo< cratic committee W!m!htofli’ | the action in Atlanta Mo'nd_gyk “has deprived me of my righes as a citizen.” oo LRI ! “I felt that T could not con scientiously support Governor | Smith,” Peeples szid, “and when 1 became a democratié candidate for office I did not know that T would be forced to support him. I feel that as a I private citizen I have a right to vote and every voter % | the right to take part in election even to becoming a candidate. When I wastde prived of this right I was de -5 prived of the right of every E citizen.” AR ATLANTA, Ga.—(UR —State politics in Gege gia, with the demoeratic primary but a week off, were in a flurry Tuesday as the result of two de velopments on Labor Day. Action of the sub-committee of the State Democratic e Committee in banning m (Turn to page five.) -« ‘T i gl | AR A ‘ ! 5 ——ra- LR MACON, Ga.--(AP)—A jehx that State Senator Ed 'D.;lfi declared, behind closed doors, that “he would vete for the ncgro in Georgia rather than fer A! Smith,” was laid to the ) F natorial candidate here by Pope F. Brock, local attormey, who follow-' ed the state senator upon th - trum in a speaking program ‘ Central City Park in the aal Labor Day celebration. A. S. Chamlee, of Bartow coun+ ty, who quit the governor's race recently, is authority that the re mark was made at a closed meet ing in East Point last fall,’ Mr. Brock continued, “and I have it upon good authority that he mada the same statement at Aupgusts and Sandersville, behind closed doors.” ¢ ‘ : Arraignment of Mr. Rivers for “treason to the basie prineipls of democracy,” in heading the sena tors’ hloc of highway reform, and alleged pro-Holderism were of high voints in fthe address which ° directly followed the state sena tor's own sbatement that “hé owed noe obligation te the chairman or any member of the highm’!;m‘ mission.” o 'wq | Defend Smith Candidacy. . A gathering vof several hu composed predominantly of local (Turn to page three) * ,