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ATHENS, QA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1920.
Leader Of Mine Unions
Orders Strike Stopped Oh
President Wilson’s Appeal
President Appeals To Min
ers To Fulfill Contract
For Own Sake.
ARREST PROFITEERS
E
HARDWICK-WATSON
ON AUTO. TAG FUND
BE
Judge Cobb Orders Post
ponement From Today
To September 18.
Tennessee Miners May
Strike Because Owners
Pay Too High Wages
(By Atioclated Press.)
Indianapolis,. July 30.—In compli
ance with the wishes of President
Wilson, President Lewis of the United
Mine Workers will issue a mandatory
order Ipstnjetlng all striking ntlnern
ol Illinois and Indiana ,to return to
work, it was announced here tonight.
WILSON APPEAL8 TO SELF-
* RESPECT OF STRIKERS
Washington, D. C., July 30.—Presi
dent Wilson, through the United Mine
Workers of America, tonight appeal-
Atlanta Legion Post Ap
points Committee To Or
ganiZe Opposition.
(Special to The Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga., July 30.—At a meet
ing held here yesterday evening At
lanta Post No. 1. American Legion,
appointed a special campaign com
mittee to Immediately arrange for an
active ‘opposition over the entire
state against the Candidacies of
Thomas E. Watson for the United
States Senate and Thomas W. Hard
wick for the governorship.
The Atlanta organization of ex-
service men will nlso make a direct
to striking mine laborers In nil- appeal to every similar organization
nols and Indiana to return to work.
Inequalities in the existing wage' '««»« canoiuates operated to
seal* held by strike leaders to be that great work for which the
the cause of the walkout which has
< losed most of the bituminous mines
in these states, may exist, the presi
dent said.
He adde.d that he would not reconi-
In Georgia, on the ground that both
these candidates operated to block
men
offered their lives, and that their po
litical war-time records should be pre
sented in clear manner to, the voting
jipople of the state.
“it is not so much a question of
l^O ANSWER FILED
Fight Is Between Small
Counties And State High
way System PJan.
Hearing on the petition of ButtH.
Haralson. Berrien and other South
Georgia countiea. for mandamus to
force the State Highway Commission
to apportion the automobilb tag tax
fugd among the counties of the state
Madison County Tax
Returns Show Value
Has Nearly Doubled
Old Free State Is Cominq Into Its Own
With More Than $5,000,000
Realty Valuation.
No Jury Business In
City Court Of Athens
Until September 13
No jury trials will be held l n **"'
i lly Court of Athens until the third
Monday in September, It was decided
yesterday at a meeting of the Athens
liar and Judge J. D. Bratrlwell. The
kii cunt terra calendar until that time
will consist only of minor cases
which can be heard by the Judge
* itliout a Jury.
The first three days of tho week
l eginning with the Becond Monday in
-' ptf-mher wil be devoted to the trla
of criminal cases requiring a Jury
and the remainder of the week will
he used to dispose of all Important
civil business which Is ready for trial
»t the time. Motions will be heard
UHrtay, September 10th.
The appearance docket will be
called Tuesday, August 17th.
(Special to The Banner.)
Danlelsvllle, Gn., July 30—The tax
digest for Madison county has been
made up and returned to the tax col-
'ector here, and It shows that there
Is on the tax digest for this county
taxable property to the amount of
$5,019,334. w
The digest shows for last year tax
able property to the amount ol
?2.872 002, making an Increase in the
•usable property for this county
• his year of $2,147,332, nearly doub
ling.
The tax collector last year collected
taxes o nprnpert.v not on digest to the
amount of $79,000. The old Froe
State Is coming up on Its taxes, and
this showing is a good one. -
Mexican Rebels Get
Yankee Doughboys To
Handle Machine Guns
mend correction of any Inequalities' £° IIt,c * . wlt * 1 *! ays ’Trammell
until tho Rtriknrs returned but thflt *’Cott, who beids the committee, ns
when t^ydMhe'woummvltea Join. I !?'* * I Wh ,"‘’
scale committee of operators and] llie American Legion
miners to meet Snd adjust such In-I 1vr,re tflPr In 1 ranee to
in p.ist j stop tho Germans these two candl
' president Wilson issued his appialj ^ home doing everything
■4 Vf rn'lfceuTof32
coal situation by Secretary of Labo., ^ ^ wor( , flKht)ns for
Wilson. rnnnrts which our met) were being killed. We
The l‘ r fVat , r mme lLorer» par '> r <’ pUrtKod to uphold the Constltn-
« Bt | k mi mi. hn l ho™ received' llon of the United States, and in this
iAilarly In Illinois had hcen recelvjd Blt , |at|on W(1 arp , to work to that
by him “With a feeling of regret and (ml ^ tho on( , that t £,, 0 men not go
sorrow. ,| . j not Into public ofiice on the records which
j;
time to mine coni In accordance with
the terms of thel existing contract
would result in buffering during the
coming winter, hut also because It
was In “violation of tho terms of
/our solemn obligation; impairs your
good name, destroys confidence which
Is tlie basis of all mutual agreements
and threatens thfe very foundation of
fair Industrial relations.”
TO PROSECUTE PROFITEERS;
UNIONS THREATEN STRIKE
BECAUSE WAGES TOO HIGH
Knoxville, enn., July 30.—Service
of warrants against fifteen coal oper
ators and brokers of Knoxville,
charged with violating the Lever
Act by profiteering, will begin Sat
urday, It was sajd today.
At a meeting 'of officials of tho
United Mine Workers today It was
said that unless, certain mines quit
paying above the union sale, the
union wilt call a strike In them. It
Is claimed the large mines are losing
workers to small mines and new
mines which, without contracts, can
sell coal at top, price and afford to
pay miners higher wages.
MINER PRESIDENT UNAFFECTED
BY WIL80N’S APPEAL
Springfield. III.. July 30.—President
Farrington, of the Illinois Miners
Union, had little to say tonight about
President Wilson’s appeal.
“I don’t think mneh of It,” was his
comment. He recently said the mill
ers were “about fed up on appeals
from the president.
*«»«-• tr.
CHRISTENSEN ASSAILS LEAGUE'
AND APPROVES SUFFRAGE
Mew York, July 30— Parley P
Christensen, Farmer Labor party can
dldate for president, In discussing in
ternational affairs here today, declar
ed that tho League of Nations is
"nothing more than an attempt to es
tablish an International bankers
Soviet.” , _
Referring to the attempts of Cox
and Harding to persuade the Ton
nrsscc legislature to adopt the fed
eral suffrage amendment. Christen
sen said, ’ll Cox and Harding cant
get ratification, I’ll g° down and try
the rebels myself."
(By Associated Press.)
Calexico, Calif.. July 30.—Scvera’
American ex-service men have gone
into Lower California to man twenty
one machine guns for Governor Can
lus forces, according to reports fron
across the border.
REBEL GOVERNOR RECRUITS w
YAQUA MAVO INDIANS
Aguaprleta, Sonora. Mex.. July 30.—
It was reported hero today that Gov
ernor Cantu's scouts are attempting
lo recruit Yaqua Mayo Indians.
Open Shop Defended
By Commerce Chamber
Of The United States
/•
• By Associated Press.)
Washington. D. C.. July 30.—By an
overwhelming referendum vote, the
membership of the chamber of com
merce of the United States has adopt
id a platform on Industrial relation/
whlch, among other things, declares
for the right of open shop operations
In Industry and for making labor or
ganizatlons the same as organization-
of employers. legally responsible for
Iheir conduct and that of their agent.^
FLORIOA CATTLE DIPPING LAW
IS HELD CONSTITUTION At
rBy Assoelatsd Press.)
Tallahassee. Fla.. July 30.—Revers
Ing the circuit court of Escamhlr
county, Florida, the supremo noon
today upheld the validity of the stab
compulsory cattle dipping law.
on the basis of post road mileage,
was yesterday postponed py Judge
Andrew J. Cobb until September 14th.
The hearing was originally set for to
day.
The petition for mandamus arose
out of the IIel,t that has been waged
in the legislature during Its present
session to secure distribution of the
fund and to break the power of the
State Highway Commission, headed
by Dr. Clinrles M. Strahan, of tho
University of Georgia.
After the opponents of the commis
sion had won the first pitched battle
In the lower house this week, whpn
the Knight resolution, directing dis
tribution of the fund, was passed, the
counsel representing the counties who
petitioned in the Clarke Superior
Court for a judicial order to the same
effect as that they are trying to em
body In a legislative order, they
agreed to postponement of the hear*
Ing of the petition untfl after the
legislature has adjourned and Qnal
disposition has been made of the
pending legislation.
Although, on tho original court or
der, an answer to the petition for
mandamus should.have been filed by
attorneys for the Highway Commis
sion on July 28th, the answer has not
.vet been received 111 tho Clarke 8u
perlor Court.
Both sides In the controversy are
row resting on their oars and letting
the fight run Its course In the legis
lature before taking it up actively
In tho courts. It the Senate should
pass the Knight bill, as Is consid
ered probable, and Governor Dorsey
*-hould sign it. as Is considered less
probable, the action In the Clarke Su
lierlor Court would probably be drop
ped by the attorneys for the' peti
Honing South Georgia counties.
If, however, the bill Is stopped
r'ltfier In the Senate or In tho gov-
ernrtr’s ofiice. Its proponents will prob
ably make an aggressive fight In the
courts for an order requiring the
treasurer of the slate to distribute
the funds nmoag the counties.
The line-up on the question Is the
small counties, off the main arteries
of highway travel, against the large
counties and those on the main ar
teries
The/plans of the State Highway
Commission are to establish a system
of state highways that will servo the
etate as a whole to best advantage
and from a backbone for the general
highway system. The state highways
would, of course, not run through
ovory county, but only between the
most Important points—at least such
would ho the case for -several years
until the Income from automobile tag
• ax becamo large enough to provide
s tate highways to reach every county.
Tho representatives of the counties
that would be left off the main high
ways oppose the entire state high
way system and the plans of the
Highway Commission and demand
that the fund of nearly two million
dollars, large enough to do effective
work, If concentrated, be split up Into
156 little driblets of money to be
spent by the county boards of com-
uissloners on all the roads of all the
ountles Vn the state.
Advocates of the Knight hill hold
that the state highway system Is un
'air because, since the auto tag tax
fund has Aims from all the counties
•he money should be spent Imme
dlately In all of them. ’
Tts opponents say that the tax was
•evled for the purpose of establish
ing a system of state highways under
i state highway commission, and that
to apportion It among the counties
would simply destroy the whole plan
md leave Georgia’s highway problem
•n as bad a fix as It was before the
additional taxes were levied. They
mint also to the fact that Georgia
will lose the Federal aid for high
ways if the Highway Commission Is
made powerless.
Cox Confident fl(JJ0 COMMITTEE
He Will Win
* Election
.Tells HomcfolM So At Big
Demonstration to Cele
brate Nomination,
WHIRLWIND RACE
Harding Demands That Cox
Take Explicit Stand On
Nations League.
Chairman Denny States 54
Are Needed; Thirty-
Eight Promised.
Athens Chamber .
Of Commerce Is
For Auto Plant
NEEDED ALL MORNING
(By Associated Press.!
Dayton, Ohio, July 30.—Belief that
he will be elected president was ex
pressed by Governor Cox li> an ad
dress at "Tho Homecoming C'elebra
tlon" here today over his nomination
for president by the Democrats,
After ho hid stood two hours undet
a burning sun reviewing tine parade of
civic, fraternal. Industrial and other
organizations, variously estimated
from eight to twelve thousand, in num
her, the crowds stormed the reviewing
stand an-1 Insisted on a brief address.
The governor bad not Intended tq
speak but made two brief talks, pre
dieting his election and jocularly In
vltlng the crowd to visit him In Wash
Ir.gton.
The parade was the crowning event
of a non-polltlcal demonstration In
honor of the first Daytonian ever
nominated for president and a half
holiday was declared.
“Hello, Jimmie!” was shouted by
hundreds of paraders. “Three cheers
for Jimmie" and “HI, Jimmie: I'll see
you I nthe White House" were other
greetings.
The governor, waving a soggy
handkerchief, applaiidlng each group,
ponded in kind. V"Hellq, Buck"
Will Take Tourists From
Georgian Hotel Through
Farming Section.
World Fire Chiefs
To Meet In Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga., July 30.—Information
-as come to Atlanta from the annua)
■invention of the International Asao-
iation of Fire Chiefs, In session at
"oronto. that Frank Reynolds, of Au
usta, has been elected first vice pres
-lent and the 1921 convention will be
-eld In Atlanta. The attendance at
hese conventions Is always upward
•f 1,000 bends of municipal fire do
lartmentt.
and "Hello there, P;t»" were among
the greetings Cox yfrnuted bock to
his fellow-townsmen . ' .
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TO WAGE AGGRESSIVE FIGHT
FOR COX AND ROOSEVELT
Washington, D. C.. July 30.—Sens
tor Hai-rison, of Mississippi, chnirman
of the Speakers' Bureau of the Dem
ocratlc National Committee .announc
ed tonight that the "most aggressive
campaign In the history of American
politics" will be conducted In behalf
of Cox and Roosevelt He said that
not a town or hamlet In the disputed
states would be overlooked.
HARDING ASKS COX TO
EXPLAIN LEAGUE POSITION
Marlon. O., July 30.—Senator War
ren G. Harding prefaced his "front-
porch campaign" tonight with a state
ment asking Gov. Janies M.. Cox for
specifications of the Democratic
stand on the League of Nations and
charging that "certain powerful Inter
national Interests “are concerned In
President Wilson's foreign policy and
Is preparing to finance liberally the
Democratic campaign."
JIM HAM LEWIS WILI.
RUN FOR GOV. ILLINOIS
Springfield, III., Julyl 30.—Forme!
United States Senator James Hamlltor
Lewis was drafted at a caucus ul
Democrats from every county In th>
state here today as their candidate foi
governor.
New Subscriptions To
Be Accepted At Old
Rate Until Monday
After Monday All Subscriptions Will
Be $6.00 And Unpaid Subscrip
tions Be Dropped.
The few subscribers to The Athens
Banner who have not yet paid up
their past-due subscriptions and paid
In advance for their paper will be
•zlvon today and Monday 111 which to
get things straight at the old rate of
$5 per year. After Monday all re
newals will bo at the new rate of 16.
The Banner cordially appreciates
the way In which the large majorni
of Its subscribers have hastened to
settle their back accounts and pav
in advance. Other affairs have prob
•ibly prevented the few who are still
In arrears from settling up and The
tenner wants to give all its old
friends as ample opportunity an pos
rible to take advantage of the old If
rate.
After Monday the circulation list
will be revised as rapidly as possible
nd those who have not paid will be
Topped. This course Is necessary
because the unprecedented cost of
white paper and Its extreme scarcity
an tie market make It Impossible for
The Banner to carry over until ■
later date any subscriptions not paid
up.
The Banner's representatives have
called on as many of the subscribers
a they could, hut have been unable
•o see them all. so the circulation
department requests all who have not
'teen seen personaly, cither to call at
• he office or make remittances by
mall. Remittances matled'up to Mon
day night will be accepted on the $5-
a-year bails. After Monday night all
ubscriptlbns will be ft a year, and
strictly on a cash In-advance basis.
The announcement yesterday from
the Little Rock, Ark.. Chamber of
Commerce that the Profitable Farm
ing tour-will bring to Athens next
Tuesday 151 men Instead of tho 115
original!y planned, led to Immediate
expansion In the plans of M r. W. C.
Denny, chairman of the automobile
committee of the Athenj Chamber of
Commoirce. It had been originally
planned to secure forty-three auto
mobiles in which the visitors would
bo apportioned three to each car
with a local driver and one local
“conductor.” The larger party will
call for at least ten ctjrs more than
at first thought necessary.
Mr. Denny has assigned six cars as
thfe quota of each member of his com
mittee and himself has secured
twelve. Reports -were made last
"lehl on tho success met by the com
mitteemen in raising their quotas.
Thirty-eight cars had been secured
at the time Mr. Denny made his re-
ort to the Chamber of Commerce at
its meeting yesterday ,afternoon.
Mr. Denny stated yesterday that
the Chamber of Commerce would ex
pect each promised car to be at the
Georgian Hotel at 8 o’clock, promptly.
Tuesday morning, full of gas, oil and
water and ready for an Immediate
start. The citizens who furnish their
cars wifi also be expected to drive
them or to supply n driver, as the
Chamber of Co-tmieree will be-unable
to secure special drivers for so large
a number of cars.
The trip through tho agricultural
section around Athens is expocted to
bo over by 2 o’clock and all cars
whose owners need them will be re
leased after tho return to the Geor
gian Hotel. Some'cars will he re
tained to take tho visitors to the
State College of Agriculture in the
afternoon and, to take them back to
their Pullmans in the ovenlng, after
tho preptram at the Octagon.
The cars secured yesterday by Mr.
Denny’s committee are as follow*
Chairman W. C. Denny: Athens
Overland Company. Overland five
passenger; Standard Motor Company,
five-passenger Essex; Denny Motor
Company, four-passenger Cole Eight;
Fowler, four-passenger Cole
Eight; A. G. Dudley, five-passenger
Franklin; Miller & Co., flve-passetiger
Paige; Grlffeth Implement Co., five-
passenger Velio! Bell-White Motor
.Co., five passenger Franklin; Athens
Buick Co., five-passenger Bulck; Mo
( lor Sales Company, flvopassenger
Ford; J. W. Jarrell, Jr., ftvo-passen
ger Columbia; H. D. Jarrell, five-pas-
sergor Bulck; Frank O. Miller, five-
passenger Paige.
* J. O. M. Smith: M. W. H. Collins,
five-passenger Allen; J. O, M. Smith,
seven,passenger Bulck.
Jones Yow: Golden Knight, seven-
passenger Packard; I. P. Ingram, five-
rassenger Dodge; H. O. Epting, five-
passenger Dodge; Jones Yow, seven
passenger Packard.
M. J. Abney: W. W. Scott, five-
passenger car; H. P. Lawrence, five-
passenger Bulck; M. J. Abney, seven-
passenger Nash. ’
J. H. Downs; T. W. Morton, five-
passenger* Oldsmoblle; Martin Brotl)
era, five-passenger Chalmers; Lawler
Motor Company, five passenger Stude
baker; Athens Truck Company, gve
passenger Dodge and Ford.
Harry Hodgson; Garnett Daniel,
five-passenger car; Mr. Crimes, five
passenger car; Luther Tolbert, five
passenger car; Mr. Harper, flre-paa
senger car.
B. F. Puckett: City Garage, five-
passenger Allen.
Jonas Purcell; State College ol
Agriculture, seven-passenger Buick;
Kcely Grier, seven-passenger Cadil
lac; T. R. Crawford, seven-passenger
Cadillac; M. T. Plttard seven-passen
ger Cole: Earl Broach, five-passenger
Nash.
James W. Morton: No report.
E
Special Auto Plant Commit
tee Makes Favorable Re-
* port; Is Adopted.
ESTABLISHED ,B3>
I. G C. Asserts Tie Ups In
Atlanta Freight Yards
Hurt Situation. ,
(Special to The Banner.)
START WORK AUG. 31.
Flanigan Says Committee
Thinks Plan Feasable And
Great Benefit.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce
yesterday endorsed by unanimous
vot,> ' Une project of the Red Diamond
of the Interstate Commerce Coinmla
slon which has charge mt the car
situation for all the railroads has
mad--, complaints that consignees In
Georgia, particularly in- and around
the city of Atlanta, are largely re
sponsibly for the car shortage.
The complaint Is made that large
numbers of cars are tied up In the
yards nt the principal points In
Georgia, standing unloaded for days,
when Immediate nttentlon should be
given to the relief of those cars, In
order that they have disposition as
empties for tho movement of other
freight.
In respect to the condition In tho
Atlanta yards, the I. C. C. has notified
'he terminal comn^ttco In Atlanta
*hat there la being held at this point
at least a thousand loaded . freight
cars, with a record average of nine
Jays’ demurrage agalnat-them, or ap-
-roxlmately a total of 10,000 car days
of idle time.
Particular attention la directed to
he laxity In respect to gondolas and
ill open freight cats. On account of
the delay In unloading such cars as
will be available for movement or
coal, says the commission, there may
he trouble In placing supplies before
the winter-demta-ia bswda.r-'-
The commission directs that all
loaded freight cars should be releas
rd within forty-eight hours after ar
rival at destination, and gives diroe
lion that the carriers and all rail
road authorities operate to that end.
Locally, the statement Is made that
one of the greatest offenders In the
state Is the city of Atlanta Itself,
which has standing on the tracks,
with accrued demurrage, earn enough
'0 aggregate n total of 294 car days.
't la understood that the commission
will now decline to order empties
■ent to Atlanta fqy movement of man
ufactured goods at this point, until
he yard condltlofc hero hero been re
lieved.
It should not bn taken, however,
• hat this Is n condition wholly pecu
liar to Atlanta, since the complaint
applied generally to tho principal
-hipping point* In tho state, except
•hat it is more pronounced in At
lanta.
Williams Defends.
Putting Brakes On
Credit Of Business
Motors, Incorporated, to establish
plant In Athens for the manufacture ot
automobiles. Tha endorsement fol
lowed the rending by 'Mv.’C. D. Flani
gan of the report of the special com
mittee appointed at the last meeting
of the Chamber to Investigate the
plan* presented by Captain W. H. Sea-
brooks and Hr. Frank J. Hyland.
Work on the plant will begin August
31st It the plans are put through.
Mr. Flanigan, who was chairman ot
tha committee composed of himself,
Mr. John J. Wilkins, Captain J. W.
Burnett, Mr. J. M. Roberts and Mr.
A. E. Davison, reported that the com .
mittee had investigated the project
thoroughly and found that It seemed
reusable and that If put through, it I
would mesa virtually the entire chang-
InZ of the character of the city of Atle
ens.
"Athens has always been,” said Mr.
Flanigan, “mainly an educational cen
ter. Opr business has been based
mainly on agriculture with cotton
mills and fertilizer plants as tho prill
qlple other industries. This plant
would mean that the city would be
come In addition a real Industrial cen
ter.. It would mean a great'deal of
■njitey vrfha eny. ~ ')
“Th* proposed automobile plant,”
continued Mr. Flanigan In his report
to tho Chamber, ‘‘would bring $o Ath
ens largo additions to bar population
9>:d would brlhg a rhus ot skilled me
chanics, well paid and nble to demand
the bottor things In life, who would
be an acceptable addition to our citi
zenship.
"The committee recommends that
the automobile plant project be en
dorsed by the Chamber of Commerce,’'
concluded Mr. Flanigan.
After a brief statement from both
Mr. Hyland and Captain Seabrooke,
Judge J. J. Strickland moved that tho
Chamber of Commerce accept the re
port of the committee. The Vote to
accept was |inanlmous.
A further motion was carried that
ITosldent J. W. Jarrell, Jr., appoint
a committee to launch drive ta so
cure the subscription in Athens to the
amount of stock the city must sub-
lifrihn in nrrlor tn »a» th. u.
Negro Assailant Of
White Woman Caught
And Was Identified
'Sy Associated Preu.)
Miami, Fla., July 30.—A negro giv
ing bin nfime as Herbert or Henry
Brooks. 24 years old. who was ar
rested today, charged with an attack
on a 55-year-old white woman, wa*
Identified tonight by the victim as her
assailant.
"I’m positive this is the man.” she
oaid when he was brought before her.
“but I don’t want to say so when I
realize wbat tho consequence* will
be.”
Brooks was held In the connty jail
(By Associated Preu.)
Washington* D. C., July 30.—Assert
ing that while the application by the
Federal Reserve Banks of brakes on
credit had a "jarring effect on some
nervous systems," Comptroller of
Currency Williams announced to
night that general business conditions
throughout tho country afford abun
dant reairons for "confidence and en
bnragement In the future."
Fire Threatens New
Orleans Warehouse
(By Associated Preu.)
New Orleans.. La., July 30.—Fire
discovered. In the Appalachian Ware
house, covering a city block here,
called all tho fire apparatus tonight.
’Clamt-s appeared, spreading In two
directions.
The warehouse was filled with
Mexican hemp, dynamite, oil and
ether Inflammable material and If de
stroyed the loss would be around
$1,000,000.
Two hours after tho fire started
firemen appeared to be muking but
little progress.
Small Negro Killed
By Heavy Auto Truck
Fatally Injured when struck by* an
H. H. Hlntoh truck, as he stepped
off of a wagon on Hancock avenue,
near the Hull street crossing, a small
negro boy died a few minutes after
he reached the hospital, where he
wcyi rushed after the accident. While
testimony ot eyewitnesses Is conflict
>ng It se<-ms that his death was due
to the boy’s own negligence In not
avoiding the truck, which he appar-
-ntly did not see as he climbed 'off
the wagon.
ngribo in order to get the plant. Mr.
Jarrell stated that he would appoint
i be committee after some consldera-
jtlon.
Tho people ot Athens are to sub
scribe $1,000,000 worth of stock In a
15,000,000 corporation. According to
conditions specified in'the report of
Mr. Flanigan’s committee and adopted
hy the Chamber of Commerce, the en
dorsement carries with It the agree
ment that the majority ot the board of
directors shall lie Athens men and that
the plant shall be built In Athena.
A contract form to be used In tbe
campaign for the 11,000,000 worth of
stock, drawn bv Attorney H. Ablt Nix
cud presented at the meeting yester
day, specifies that the contract shall
not be binding unless the general offi
ces and plant of the Red Diamond -
Motors, Inc., arc located tn Athens and
actual construction on*the plant absll
have begun on or .before August 31,
1920.
“A committee of men in whom we
have th«y utmost confidence has looked
into thill proposition and found It all
right," declared a member of the
Chamber of Commerce as the meeting
was breaking up after adjournment.
“What we have got now is a chance
tD put across something for Athens
bigger than anything we ever thought
about before. But It la still only a
banco end It la going to take aonm
hard' work to do it, and that mighty
quick."
Railroad Rate Raise
Reqdest Be Decided
Next Week, Promised
Washington, D. C„ July 30.—De
cision Is expected early next week by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
on the applications of the railroads
for a general Increase, in freight and
nassfenger rates.
UNIONS POSTPONE ACTION
ON WAGE RAISE AWARD
Cleveland. O., July 30.—Although
•be heads ot four big railroads broth-"
erhoods today dlscusaod several as
pects of the recent wage award to
which they object; formal
postponed until another
fortnight hence.
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