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ATHENS COTTON:
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VOL. 96, NO. 206
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AL SMITH
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| PRESIDENT
* FRANK A. DENNIS
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Dmans Democratic Advisory
?;77;"', Eighth District, Eaton
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:f;,.‘ Idm a mother; a member of
the W. C. T. U,, a former mem
_ ber of the State Executive
of the Baptist Womans
_‘Missionary Union and I am for
;*ernor Alfred Smith be
h &am a Democrat.
: fii bel'eve in the principals on
& Which the Jeffersonian Party
: was founded.
i 1 believe in a government
_Of the people, for the people,
'w the people,
- 1 believe in the soverign
pight of each siate—a decent
.Hzed goverument. For a
‘ loyal Daughter of the Con
* federacy to vote the Republi
“gan ticket would be to repudi
gg:,!;te every moral right of her
grandfathers to have fought
%fitbe war bhetween the states.
3 As a woman I owe to the
~ Democratic Party a debt for
having established and held a
~ white supremacy in the South.
. The cont'nuance of the Dem
- oeratic Parly in power in the
«,‘lme safe guard that southern
. womanhood has aga‘nst the
?%;rlging of certain unpleasant
“econdit'ons, social, economic,
e e
Jam el as political. :
& ',;\Governor Smith be
s #heichoice of the Dem
beray ~gdp vention as nominee.
5 P nf-;’Afl a 4 Democrat
g o o g
het' the agriculiyral intel
ests of fi;e south and to devel
op our water power wigely.
Our financial conditions of the
next four years depends on
our -electing a Democratic
President.
The defeat of the Sheppard
Tewner Maternity bill by Re
publican admin‘stration has
meant the death warrant of
thousands of mothers and
babies. Governor Smith prom
igses his aid in a:l measures
pertaining to the status of
women.,
1 do not agree with Governor
Smith on the Prohibition ques
tion but if Pregident Wilgon
could not prevent the passage
of the Volstead act, 1 do not
believe Governor Smith as
president could modify it,
To refuse to vote for Gov
ernor Smith because of his
difference in religious connec
tions is to admit onesgelf lack
ing ‘n the chiefest of Christian
Virtues—that of tolerance.
SUPERIOR, Wis.—(AP)—John
Coolidge expects to go into the
railroad business, making his
start in the freight department of
the New York-New Hawven-Hart
ford railroad, it was learned Fri
day.
Although President Coolidge’s
son has not as yet closed with any
definite position, it i 3 understood
that he has made up his mind to
take up such a job unless unfore
seen circumstances should arise.
He expects to be stationed in
Hartford, Conn. |
It is understood here that the ex
act date when John is likely to |
start on hiz new duties depends tn{
a larpe extent uporn what p‘anS|
he will develop after meeting Miss
Florence Trumbu'l, daughter of|
the Governor of Connecticutt. He
will' probably be a guest of tho‘
family for some time in Maine,
where Governor Trumbull has |
been spending the summer. 1
NEBRASKAN IS
COMMITTEE AND
NOMINEE IN ONE
OMAHA, Nebr, —(UP)— Occu
pying the dual role of notification
committee and nominee, Dr. Hen
vy Hoffman, aged Omahar, Thurs
duy night notified himself that he
hae be:n nominated as presiden
tial candidate on the Progressive
ticket, and then in an address to
an audience consisting of three
epsual onlookers and several
m reporters, accepted the
leadership of the new party.
Daily and Sunday—l 3 Cents & Week., ™
Associated Press Service. United Press Dispaiches.
POLICE HOARD CLUE OF CARNES’ TRAIL
President C odlidge To Abandon U. S. Isolation Po l’C)’
STATEHOUSE CANDIDATES LAUNCH TIRADES
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ATLANTA, Ga—(AP)
—With . the democratlc;
primary less than a week
away, gubernatorial can-)
didates are launching a:
tirade of accusations at!
each other. Both Gaver.
nor L. G. Hardman, in
cumbent, and Senator E‘l
D. Rivers, were accused,
Thursday night of being.
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disloyal to the demeocratic
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party by oppmgmj
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Ol ielory - n :?”,,v. 1y 4 30»';.-‘
er’s headquarters, the Senator aci,,
cused Hardman of “playing botly
ends against the middle.” Rivers |
charges Governor Hardman with!'
political double-dealing, and saysi
Hardman’s answers to charges!
that the Governor’s ‘rother at:
Commerce, and one of his mana-!
gers, are supporting Hoover, is |
“lamentably weak and unconvinc-i
ing.” :
Hardman managers assai‘:edl
Rivers support of a bill introduced
by Rivers during the last session
of the Georgia general assembly,,
which “would legalize gambling in'
cotton futures in the stvate.",!
Hardman cites a Tetter from Chas. |
S. Barrett, president of the Na-,
tiona! Farmers Union, in which he!
denounces the bill as nothing buts
a “scheme of the New York and|
New Orleans stock exchanges to |
legalize gumltling in our state.” |
The Bi:b County Hardman club!
again asked Rivers for an answer
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. —(AP)
—Testimony of a 5-year old boy
has led authorities to issue a war
rant, charging his father, E. A.
Vaughn, ot Columbia, S. C., with
the murder of his wife, whose
bruised body was found in a pub
lic comfort room of a local hotel
Thursday morning with a -belt‘
tightly drawn around her neck.
Billy told officers that his fath-‘
er had been drinking Wednesday |
night and that he attacked his
mother. On the lad’s testimony, !
Soicitor W, T. Seibels said he
would hinge his efforts for an in-J
dictment against Vaughn.,
Vaughn was arrested Wu!nes-l
day night on complaint of the
hotel munager that he was bois-|
terous and intoxicatgd. He was |
released early Thursday morning
and re-arvested after his wife’s
hody was found. He denies hav
ing been a party to her death.
A coroner’s verdict of suicide
returned shortly after the body
was found was changed following
an investigation, to death from
strangulation. Bloody clothing
worn by the woman and blood
staing in the room she and her
husband occupied, led officers to
selieve that she did not take her
own life.
Vaughn said he and his wife had
been separated and that she join
ed him in Chattanooga. From
Chattanooga, he said, they went
to Atlanta, then Birmingham, and
from the latter city came here,
He gave his occupation as waiter.|
THE BANNER:HERALD™
Col. E. A: Schiller, Executive
Of World’s Greatest Theatrical
Company, Visiting In Athens
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COLONEL E. A. SCHILLER
Celonel E. A. Schiller, New York, vice president of
Loew’s Incorporated, is visiting in Athens Friday and
will remain here until Saturday afterncon when he
returns to New York. He has been on a tour of the
Southeast, visiting Leew’s various theatrical holding
centers in this section.
Col. Schiller was formerly man
lager of Loew’s for the southeast
with headquarters in Atlanta, but
‘due to his superior knowledge of
| he theatrical -and moving picture
business and atility developed
through a life-long devotion to
the business was promoted several
years to New York and made an
¢xecutive. Since going to, New
' York he has been interested in
promoting Loew’s interest not
only throughout America, but has
‘made several trips abroad to es
tablish the business in foreign
| countries.
| Loew’s is now recognized as
the wrold’s most far-reaching the
atrical and moving picture busi
rcgg, operating extensively over
the United States, and in Canada,
Mexico, Cuba and many European
countries, and Mr. Schiller has
"een one of the leading figures in
the great expansion that took
p'ace prior to and after the death
o’ the founder of the company
Marcus Loew,
It has been mainly through Mr.
Schiller’s interest and connection
that the Palace theatre is install
ing the lates innovaion in the mo
vieg—the “‘Movietoneé” and the
*Vitaphone”—for the added.en
tertainment of the patrons of that
theatre. Athens is said to be the
smallest city in the country favor
ed 8o soon with these innovations,
inventions that are revo'utioniz
ing the moving picture business
ard making presentations more re
alistic, The Palace will celebrate
its fall and winter opening on
September 24 and 25 with Al Jol
son in the “Jazz Singer,” the fin
ost “Wkie” st bet Soogput g
GERMANY CANNOT
DISARM FURTHER
IN ARMED WORLD,
SAYS CHANCELLOR
| GENEVA —( AP) — The
League of Nations will be a
failure itself if it fails to
sclve the proslem of disarma
ment, said Hermann Mueller,
chance lor of Germany, in an 1
address before the assembly
Friday afternoon.
Her Mueller prefaced this ‘
with a statement that Ger
many could not indefinitely
continue disarming while oth- J
er nations have the right to
| build up powerful military
| and nava! machines.
The Chancellor won ap-~
plunse when he said that nev
er in the history of the world
have conditions been more fa
vorable to peace. The applause
increased when he assured the
assembly that his government
would adhere to the policy of
friendliness laid down by Gus
tave Stressemann, secretary
of foreign affairs and ex
pressed in principle in the
Kellogg-Briand pact.
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COSTLY GUM WAD
CLEVELAND.~Three suits,’ to.
talking $1565,000, were filed in Fed
eral Court here recently because of
a wad of gum. Mrs. Myrtle Booth,
Jher hughand and a baby daugh.
ter seek damages because Mrs.
‘Booth fell down the stairs when
her heel caught in chewing g\lml
~on the stair-tread of a Youngs
town,o., dime wstore;
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ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928,
MEssiGE T 0 SENATE
OV KELLCGE PEAGE
PAGT EXPECTED 10
END HRISTORIC STAND
WASHINGTON.—
(UP) — When President
Coolidge sends the Kel
logg anti-war treaty to
the senate for ratifica
tion, he will accompany it
with a message in effect
sounding the doom of the
historic American policy
of isojation, it was re
ported in official cireles
Fridav.
: Despite Secretary of State Kel
“logg’s warning that the paet ,I§ust
not be used to drag the United
States into Europe’'s quarrels or
pol'tics, it is believed the treaty
m%y/il] explain that hence-
Ao . !ikim Jnited Sta %m%«fim«
sider - iteelf. morally bligated to
jo'n With Burope in specific at
tempts made to avert threatening
warg. It is the president’s opinion,
according to these reporis, that the
Kellogg nact sets up the diplomat
ic machinery necessary for such
cooperative peace cfforts,
Unquestionably the mesgage will
make it clear that the treaty in
no sense binds the United States
to a definite course of action or
binds it to go to war under any
circumstances. ™~ that extent, at
leagt, 't wag sa‘d, the United Stat
es wili continue to hold itself of
from Eurgpe.
The president’s stand is report
ed to have been influenced by
the widespread American inferests
and investments throughout the
world.
These interests would be af
fected by almost any war, no mat
ter where it gccurred and for thig
reagon, the president is said to
believe, the United States would
find it a matter of vital concern
to itself to join with other pow
ers in peacefu attempts to pre
vent war when one threatened.
Such atterapts probably would
take the form of discussion
through regular diplomatic chan
ne's between Washington and
other capitals. ' The discussion
would be expected to lead to the
adoption of a peace program to
be gubmitted to the disputing na
tions. Should the peace efforts
fail, the, United, States, of course,
reserves the rieht to take what
ever further action is considered
necesgary to its own interests,
The decision reached by this
method would not have the legal
force of decisions which the Lea
gue of Nations Council could ren
der under simil»» circumstances,
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CHATSWORTH, Ga. —(AP)—
Eula Elrod Thompson Friday was
sentenced to die in the electric
chair at the state prison farm at
Milledgeville, Friday, September
21. having been convicted of com
plicity in the murder of Coleman
Osborne, a Murray county store
keeper. |
This was the second time Mrs.‘
Thontpzon has heard her death
sentence pronounced, the first hav-|
ing been automatically stayed by‘
appeal to the high court. When
the conviction was upheld the wo
man was sent back to Chatsworth
for re-sentencing.
The woman’s attorney has an
neunced an intention of taking the
case before the Prison Commission
in a plea for elemency.
¥~ Dally and Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. '
COALITION OF REPUBLICANS AND
ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS UNDERWAY
IN FIVE STATES OF SOLID SOUTH
H o 0o v er Headquarters,
However, Under N¢ De
lusions As to G. O. P.
Chances of Carrying
Them in November.
BY PAUL R. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON — A plan con
solidating Anti-Smith Democrats
and Republicans of the South Le
hind a single group of Hoover eleg
tors is heing. worked out in five
southern states, according to word
Friday reaching headquarters of
Herbert. Hoover, Republican presi
dential candidate. :
The movement is entirely in the
‘hands of southern Democrats op
posed to Governcr Alfred E. Smith
the Demoecratic nominee, and the
Hepublican national committee is
spending no money, to. promote the
project, it is said officially.
The scheme ig designed- to pre
vent split of the anti-Smith vote.
Under -the electora! system, a
Lalot is east—not for the presi
dential eandidate, but for the
elector who ig pledged to that can
didate. - If the, anti-Smith demo
crate put ane slate of electors in
the field againit the regular Re
publican slate and the regular
iDemocratic slate,. the vote would
be split. Ly ]
But under the consolidation ar
rangement, toth the anti-Smith
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Georgia, Notih Carolina and South
Carolinay Friday were mounting
becauge of heavy rains, {
in INolth Carolina some{ low
| farmland was reported inundated
and thousands of bales of cotton
damaged in (flpoded warehouses
at Rockingham and elsewhere.
While the threat of more rain
‘hung over Georgia's two rivers of
/the state were well above flood
, stage and roads in the northerul
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ONEONTA, Ala. —(AP)— Ed-‘
par Moses was acquitted of a
charge of murder in connection
with the slaying in April, 1926, of
Lilly Cobb, negro woman by a mob
o” which the state charged Moses
was a member, The jury receiv- !
ed the case at 4:80 o'clock 'l‘hursv‘
day afternoon and reported at
9:556 a. m., Friday. !
Four other men including John
Wade, reputed former Cyclops of
the Oneanta Klavern of the Ku
K'ux Klan with the state attempt
ed to link with the slaying were
grantad bail pending their trial
on murder charges. Wade’s bail
was fixed at $16,000, and that for
Joe Harris, Enoch Evans and By
ron Hurst, other defendents at
SIO,OOO each. Counsel for the
men immediately set about at
tempting to raise the bond for re
lease of their clients.
The state charged Moses was a
member of thé band that went to
the Cobb home with the intention
of flogging her during a series of |
such attacks in this section of the
state. The motive for the alleged
intended attack was never defi
nitely brought out. In the melee
following their arrival, the woman
was Killed and her husband escap
ed. He has not been located.
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ALBANY, N. Y.—Governor Al
fred E. Smith will open his presi
dential campaign in territory
claimed by: the enemy beyond the
Missgigsippi » the week after next
by tackling: at the outset the three 1
issues he has made dominant—]
farm relief, water power and pro
hibition. 1
He will deal principally with the
farm ‘question in his first address
at ‘Omaha, Neb., the center of the
wheat ‘beit. on September 18. He
will digcuss the water power is
sue, with particular emphasis upon
the Bolder Dam project in his
third spee%: at Denver, Col., Sept,
22. Coloradd being one of the seven
states involved in that monster
water power, irrigation and flood
control project.
The Democratic candidate also
wijl talk generally of other cam
paign ‘issues, including prohibition
in these two speéeches, and the
second one at Okliahoma City,
Okla., on September 22. He is
expected rather to emphasize his
intention, if elected, to enforce rig
idly the 18th Amendment and Vol
stead Act, inp discussing prohibi
tion, leaving more detailed discus
gipn of his modificat’on program
ito hig appearances in the wet
eastern states.
Within the npext few days, Gov
ernor Smifh. expects to make
public his itinerary for the week
fo¥owing his Oklahoma City ad
dress. He will not return east
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Dry Agents Are
Ordered To Keep
~
QOut Of Politics
WASHINGTON — (UP) —Ex
plicit instructions to refrain from‘
any participation in the political
campaign have been telegraphed
to all federal prohibition agents
and administrators, Assistant Sec
-letary of the Treasur¥ Seymour
Lowman, disclosed to the United
Press Friday.
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The Board of Directors of the
Athens Young Men’s Christian
?s.mcia'.tion will have “Open
' fiouse,” Friday night at 8:00, the
Euccasion being planned to intro
dvce two new employees, Dr.
(ilenn Gentry, physical director,
‘and Roy Grayson, boy’s secretar.
The entire membership of the
Aisociationt is cordially invited to
e present, both men, young men,
and boys. :Also the parents of the
'members of the boy’s department.
Especially are the young men of
the community invited, the young
men who work in the offices,
banks, stores, and places of busi
ness in general., All parents who
have sons who hould be members,
tut who as yet have not affiliated
themselves with the “Y" work, are
urged to be present with their
boys and see a demonstration of
the work the “Y” is doing for our
‘boys, young men and men.
Also all other citizens of our
community who would like to get
first hand information as to the
work the “Y” is conduéting will
e cordially welcomed.
_Remember the hour-8 o’clock,
Feidhy nighte, oDI )
THE WEATHER:
Generally Fair Friday Night
and Saturday. e
CARNES 15 SOUGHT
I HCHMADAD: FUNG
MASED BY HATWEL
CHURCH FOR BOARD
ATLANTA, Ga—(UP)
—Detectives, private and
otherwise, Friday were
hoarding information
which they hope would
lead to a trace of Clinton
S. Carnes, missing treas
urer of the Southern Bap
tist Mission Board, whose
disappearance led to the
discovery of a $1,000,000
shortage in his accounts.
Although ‘there were puhlicly
}revea]ed no actual clues to hig
[whereabout, Atlanta police had
- communicated a request to Rich
~mond authorities that a w&'&cg%fl
kept for Carnes” there. Private
~operatives also were' believed to
be centering thir invstigfiti(ma of
Carnes’ whereabout in the Rich
mond area, although they had no
information to give out.
Meanwhile the first eontribution
from a church to a propoged fund
to rehabilitate the Home Mission
Foard, which has announced itself
unable to pay current sali#ies be
cause of the shortage was revealed
when the Baptist church of Hart
well, Ga.,, sent $250.00 %0 . the
Boeard. .
From Releigh, N. C,, came a
statement that actual assets of
the Board as tentatively ‘estab
lished by a hasty audit we;'g‘gg,-
000 agains liabilities of $2,425,-
425,581. The statement was+issued
by ‘Dr. Charles E. Ma% gen
cral secretary of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carclina. .
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OKLAHOMA CITY, " Okla.—
{(AP)—Earl Rowland of Wiehita
Kansas, again set the pace for the
Class A. trans-continental . racers
on the Wichita~Oklahoma City leg
bringing his Cessna A mononlane
zcross the finish line at the muni
cipal air field here at lfl:flw?%w
[*riday. U
Robert Duke, of Pittsburgh: fly
ing an American Moth, continued
to hold second position. Reowland
tecok off for Fort Worth, the ninth
control pint, soon after landing, ¢
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POSTPONE CLASS B
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y-+
(AP)—On accunt of unfavorable
weather the Class B racers of the
New York-Los Angeles Air Der
by were again postponed Friday.
Weather permitting the planes
will attempt to get away Saturday -
morning. Mgl
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IGeorglan Killed © '
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By Lightning; His
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Wife Is Injured
MOULTRIE, Ga. —(AP)—=' L,
‘D). May, Colquitt county farmer,
was killed by lightning Friday
morning, while standing in a ¢
bacco barn on his farm, 1&%
from Moultrie. His wife. who was
near him, was probably fatally
ijured, and a haif dozen others
who had so;:ght shelter in the b :
irom a shower, were Heverely
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