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w y 'WICE AS MANY CARRIERS .Deliver the Herald into the homes of Athens than deliver any other .PPROXIMATLY TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE IN ATHENS read the Herald than rtead any other iewspaper. MR. MERCHANT, Herald readers read Herald ads and patronize Herald advertisers. Iiey’ll read your store news in the Herald; talk it over with you next day in the store, and they’ll THE lo this every day. SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO HOMES OF THE ATHENS IN THE HERALD'. local cotton 13 5 *8c. HERALD VOL. 2. NO. 138. ATHENS, GA„ THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1914. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. $5.00 PER YEAR lLIONAIRE* UK HELD FOR URGE RANSOM (Bv Associated Press.) Angeles, Cal., January 29.— Lewis Clark, a millionaire of . Washington, is being held ..,tn near Los Angeles, accord- ,n anonymous letter to a news- The letter is signed “The Mailers." It demands $75,00(h Clark disappeared from Santa arly two week? ago. It believed that he committed sui- jumping into the ocean. The |lire are investigating the letter. relatives of Clark say they are filing to pay the ransom if they arc vinecd he is really being held. IND STILL JUDGE PRICE LAYS FNIES ON THE DRIVERS This Morning's Session of Police Court Netted the City $19 in Fines from Folks Who Had Driven Unwisely on the Streets of Athens—Looks Like They Can’t Catch on to the Rules of the Road. IlL CREDIT BILLS PRODUCED IN BOTH njfton, D. C., January 29*— administration rural credits bill introduced today. Senator letcher preaented.tha eonale ipiasure |ii Kopresefitdtive' Mdss (he house Both were members of the Imnu.ssion which Investigated rural Europe. The bills would |tablish a bureau of farm land banks treasury department. Such could be organized by any foup of farmers in any state. They uld have ‘ power to issue bonds, loan to farmers, receive [id pay interest on deposits. Loans >t exceed 50 per cent of the of improved land owned by the “City business” by insti- would be prohibited. $500,000 FIRE (By Associated Press.) ^Manchester, N. H., January 29.— Merchant* Kchange building, the important block in the center the city, was burned today. The 56 is more than half a million. Traffit Ordinance. An ordinance to regulate and con trol traffic in the city of Athens. BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Ath ens and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, that on and after the first day of January, Nineteen Fourteen, the following rules and regulations shall be ef fective in the City of Athens, in respect to all vehicles, either horse or motor power, including motorcycles: 1. All vehicles shall drive to tha right and keep on the right hand side of the street. When passing vehicles coming to ward you, pass then on the right of the street going in the same di rection as you arc going, pass them on your right or to the left of the vehicles being passed except when such vehicle is a street car. 2. When turning from one street into another street to the right, turn the corner as near the curb as possible. When turning from one street into another streat to the left, circle around the center of the two intersecting streets. - 3. All vehicles on each side of the street shall be headed in the same djrjjcfion, yehidei shall be re- quired ‘to atop, wnefc~ stopping at *ide walks so that the side walk shall be on the right hand side of the vehicle. No vehicle shall stop or be left in front of the entrance to any office build ing, theater, hotel department store, or other place where conges tion is liable to occur, longer than is necessary to deliver or take on occupants or merchandise intended for or from said building and the driver shall then drive off to give way for other vehicles. All vehicles shall stand single file parallel with and as near the curb as possible, except when unloading or loading, when if said vehicle is drawn by horse power, said animal shall be turned ai\d headed in the direction of traffic. I CHARGES IN TARIFF LAWOR ITS ADJUNCT (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., January 29.— The present session of congress will see no change in the tariff law or its adjunct, its income^ tax law'. Oscar Underwood so announced today, re ferring to proposals recently submit ted to the ways and means commit tee, of which he is chairman. The administration leaders believe the new law should be given time to demon strate its worth before being altered. Bills recently introduced strike prin cipally at the “collection at the source” feature of the income ta». In the Forum of Judge Brand For Feh. On account of there being so much misunderstanding as to the traffic or dinance, especially as to driving on the right or left aides of the streets, the above extracts from the traffic ordi nance is published. Judge Brand of the superior court who has been at Watkinsville all tho week presiding at court, ran up last evening, and returned by motor car this forenoon. The grand jury is in session there. Several civil matters are engaging the attention of the court this week. The following is a schedule of __ for hearing Tn chambers for February in Judge Brand’s court: Friday, February 6—Poe Dee Mfg. Co. vs. Ga. Railroad Co. Moss & Co., vs. Ga. Railroad com pany. The above concerns a suit for dam ages for burned cotton some months since, mention of which has been made in The Herald. ; Saturday, February 7—Griffith vs. Griffith, suit for alimony. Saturday, February 28.—Pugh vs. Southern Ry. Co. This case concerns a suit for $2,000 damages to person and property in which the road, was granted a verdict. Motion is now made for a new trial. In this case Mr. Roy Strickland, Jr., a young bar-, rister has been complimented highly by the older members of the bar for his splendid handling of the case. A meeting of the basketball com mittee at tho Young Men’s Christian Association last night, for the pur pose of organizing another basketball league, was enthusiastically attended. The work of the past season was dis cussed, and the various playing mem bers of the association re-classified, so that in this new league a quality of basketball may be expected that will be very fine indeed. The first team of the/Young Men’s concluded its play for 1914. Great dif ficulty has been experienced by the games. For this reason, and the ex tremely large guarantees neqpsary, was considered best .to organize another league composed entirely of Athenian players, who, after all, are •s good and, as jias been demonstrated, GOETHALS to accept COLONEL GEORGE W. GOETHALS, By executive order President Wilson names (he canal builder first gov ernor and abolishes the canal commission. Army and navy officer! will be in charge of the administration of the canal. There will be four teams in tins league, captained by such skillful players as Aiboh Wood, Jude Liddell, Coach Cummings and Prof. Brock. These four teams will play a double header each Friday night beginning January 30 and' continuing for aix months. GOVERNSHIP OF CANAL ZONE ftDAMS MARKET xtra Specials for the week i eneh Green Spinach, Car ets, Beets, Oysters Plants, 'Pring Turnips, Green ieans, Bell Peppers, Squash, ’ e "' Irish Potatoes, Turnip alad, Cabbage, Fresh To- latoes, Egg Plants and weet Potatoes, Fresh Coun- jy Butter, Eggs, Hens and ryeis. Everything in the grocery liije at cut prices. r y us on just one bill of roceries, and if you are not 0 evinced that we can save 0,1 money don’t try us any 'm e. We have just received , ’ ai T° shipment of Snow ’ ed Rabbits from the Blue With one exception (a plain Jag case) every case at the police tribunal today concerned that oft told of ordi. nance—the traffic. It seems that the people of Athens can not or will not observe the rules of the road, judging by the many cases, day after day that come before Judge Price. Lately the auto folks have been more observant of the ordinance, but the horse and mule power vehicle drivers day after day drive to the right when they should drive to the left, and drive to the right, and get caught by the cops. You can't fool the Athens police when it comes to the traffic regula tions, and it looks as if the cops have eyes in the hack as well as front of their heads when the drivers go wrong and probably no city of its size in the United States enforces its traffic laws as strictly as Athens, and so it is that you hear of very few accidents. The city this morning reaped $17 in /ines from folks who had violated the traffic regulations, all paying up promptly. The following is the list: JUDGE THOMAS WILL DINE ATHENS BAR AT ' n L v 18c each. Dr. T. E. Jago ...$2.00 Sam Carter ... 2.00 Cleveland Calleway ... 2.00 Flem Johnson ... 3.00 L. Costa ... 2.00 C. H. Tappan ... 1.00 E. I. Smith, Jr. ... 3.00 Mrs. W. L. Wood ... ... 1.00 Total in fines .... ..$17.00 Doesn’t the millionaire who hes The Athens Bar Association will be the guests of Judge George C. Thomas at a dinner to be given at the Georgia Hotel tomorrow evening at 8:30 o’clock. Covers will be laid for upwards of fifty persons. The oeca. sion is the annual meeting of the bar association. After the dinner the re ports of the retiring officers will bo heard and the election of new officers taken up, and any other business of the association taken up that may be necessary. Judge Thomas, it is certain, will make this one of the most memorable gatherings of the Athens Bar Associa tion. * There, will be 170 first-row balcony seats for those who cbm* firat to oe- --governor of the Panama canal JUDGE REFUSES TO PERMIT WIFE TO COLLECT MAN'S PAY Chicago, III., January 29.—Mrs. Richard Collins of.3034 West Taylor street wanted to collect her husband's wages from 'fci* employer. She brought him into court on a charge of nonsupport. “He earns $2.75 a day, and four times in two years he has kdpt $5 out out of his wages,” the wife told Judge Uhlir in the court of domestic rela tions. “I’ll give him 30 cents a day 10 cents for car fare, 15 cents for lunch, and 5 cents for beer—if you let me collect his wages.” “No .madam,” the judge replied. Your husband has been supporting cupy them. In order to cover a bas ketball deficiency incurred by the first team during December, a small ad mission lee ol ten cents will be charged for these games. The games begin promptly at 8:30. 'The line-up of the teams and their schedule follows: Business Men—Albon Wood, cap tain; M. Vonderau, F. Brooms, Ben Tuck, J. C. Hutchins, P. Slack, Joel Wier, J. M. Dillard. Seniors—J. Liddell, captain; Arch Duggan, P. Bramblett, A. Cox, E. D. Kenyon, U. G. Bennett, Jim Kelly. Business Men—D. R. Cummings, captain; Ben Link, F. Lanier, C. Ken yon, Conrad Hadaway, Billy Hooper, Herman Stein, J, Paine. Students—P. F. Brock, Glenn Bond, Curtino Kytle, Joe O’Farrell, Jack Allen, L. L. Hendren, Will Erwin, C. A. Fowler. Schedule. January 30—Liddell ve. Cummings. Woods vs. Brock. ’ February 6—Brock vs. Liddell. Cummings vs. Wood. February 13.—Liddell jn. • Wood. Brock ve. Cummings. February 20—Liddell vs. Cummings. Woods vs. Brock. February 27—Liddell ve.. Brock. Woods vs. Cummings. March 6—Liddell vs. Wood. Brock vs. Cumpiings. Official referee, Dr. W. W. Brown. (By Associated Press.) Washington.— The preaident today sent to the senate its nomi nation of Colonel Goethale to be zone, effective April 1. Washington, D. C., January 29.— Colonel George W. Goethals will ac cept the governorship of the Panama Canal Zone. Secrets»y Garrison so announced today.. It is intimated that his acceptance was unqualified. “I not able to give,out terms of Colonel Goethals’ acceptance now,'” said the secretary,' but it warir a whole com plete. When the president sends the' nomination to the senate I shall prob ably be able to make a more interest ing statement.” HE SAW IT IN THE HERALD; ' SAW THE POSTMASTER; SAVED TWO WEEKS TIME ON THE WORK Story of a Herald News Story That Carries a Moral for Ad vertisers Especially — Man From Portland, Me., Read Lo cal Article and Lost No Time in Seeking the Advertiser for Bids. JAPAN MM NOT PRESS DISPUTED LAND MATTER Tokio, January 29—The understand ing here is that Japan will not press the controversy with the United States over the California alien land legislation if assured that there will be no further enactment along the same linee. If other states follow the lead of California in the matter, or if California adds other disagreeable features to the laws, it is thought that it would be a serious menace to the traditional friendship of the two coun tries. MAGICIAN AT Y. W. C. A. One of the attractions of the sea son will be the earning of “Reno,” the magician, February 2, at the Y. W. C. A., 8:30 p. m. This is a special entertainment for the school children although the par ents and othrr grown-upa will enjoy it, too. Reno always produces the most wonderful tricks and he keps hie au dience in a goo-i humor all the way V • J „irl tnn-c she has ,’ OU well enough, I think, and it woo'd t through. ■ T Of othcr^um,^ him to hav. you ^Beaote the Y. W. Here’s tn instance where The Athene Herald got fn some quick work yesterday, bringing two people to gether to transact certain business that prior to the issue of the paper it was thought would take some weeks, and it may not be amiss to mention that this kind of thing is a habit with The Athens Daily Herald. A word to the wise, eh, you adver tisers. THE HERALD’S STORY. Here’s the story: The Herald of yesterday printed on the front page a news story beaded: MANY IMPROVEMENTS AT POST OFFICE ARE PLANNED “Postmaster Rucker has sent out notices for bids on the contract for screening the entire postoffice build ing. “These bids will be opened on Feb ruary 16th. This is a splendid con tract for some oni, and it is hoped a local firm will get it. "Notices of the specifications have been sent to both local and foreign firms.” SOUGHT THE POSTMASTER. In this good city yesterdsy was Mr. H. A. Torbett of the E. T. Bummee Co., of Portland, Me., a firm which had been sent specifications for tha screening a few days since. Mr. Tor- bett's attention was called to the ar ticle in the Herald. He at once sought Postmaster Rucker at the postoffice, but postmaster had gone home. Mr. Torbett was not to (o daunted. He wanted more tight on the work proposed, so he called on Mr. Rucker at his residence; the speci- fications' were shown the bidder-to-be, and he at once wrote to his firm. He had found out what he desired weeks before he would probably have been informed on arrival at Portland, Me,, and the firm can get to work on the figures for the work just that much earlier. The Herald will help you in a news way and in a business way. See?. While the of then of Uncle 3am sought for a 12-gallon keg of corn liquor, alleged contraband, at the place of George Wilson in Jackkon county a few'days since, another keg of corn was being abducted from the place in a buggy with a fast going mule attached, and the latter keg has never been captured by the„officers,' The abductors of the corn ware overhauled, however, and have bten given a preliminary, and are out on bond of $100 each to apear later bef- fore the U. S. court. George Wilson and Memphis McDaniel are the defendants. They had been suspected of having contar- band liquor for sale at the heme of Wilson. Officers went to tihe place.! Iff a bed was discovered a keg’ of ettn whiskey. The officers unwit to the barn tn look for a 12-gallon keg, ittd started back to the house lo get Ah* one-gallon keg, when they discsveiiR it being carried away in a buffgy by the above two named defendants. A chase ensued, and the men were ar- ' rested, but when eaught the- one-gal lon keg was not .ta be.fnuqd...-/ , - ;Vi wsei-i u l ’- ■*•*-</. j j j Washington, D. C., January After a brief funeral eerviee at 'j home here, the body of former Sena'ti Cullom was started today for Sprjfig- field, Ills. It will lie in state at the Illinois state house. ! ,/ MUCK-RAKING, MUD-SLINGING, SHAMEFUL FARCE, DECLARES JUDGE CALLAWAY OF THE SPEER PR0BE--N0 LEGAL EVIBENCE (Special to The Herald.) Savannah, Ga., January 29.—Judge E. H. Callaway, one of the leading lawyers and public men of the* state and associated with Judge A. J. Cobb. Hon. W. M. Howard and Judge A. O. Park, as counsel for Judge Speer, in speaking of the congressional “inves tigation' 'of Judge Speer declares: “None of th etestimony taken,” said Mr. Callaway, “is admissible in a court of either high or low degree, to say nothing of an impeachment trial. Not a scintilla of the evidenre so far tendered can reflect upon 'Judge Speer’s personal or official character when all the facts surrounding this evidence are taken into consideration. The committee has let down the bars and is gathering in the personal opin ions and hearsay testimony of dis gruntled lawyers and litigants. “Regardless of the rate under which these hearings an held, they are 8 shameful farce . It is like saying to Judge Speer’s enemies ,*Hia hands an tied; now go ahead and lay what you ploaie about him; malign him and vilify him all you want to, for he will not he permitted to defend himself even by the introductiea at rebuttal evidence.* SENATOR HOKE SMITH < ' PUSHES FARM MEASURE. Washington, January 29.—Early enactment of agricultural extension legislation was forecast yesterday when the senate substituted for the pending senate measure the Lever bill just passed by the home. This was dene at the request of .Senator. Hoke Smith, author of the bill, <whd acceded to the suggestion of Senator. Simmons, that the 'Immediate yeirly appropriation for disseminating aftrv, cultural information should be in-* creased from $300,000 to $600,000. . ^ THE HOLLAND 164 ft Clayton St. (Upstairs) Tha beat service for the busy business man or University stu- . dent. No long wait far the eate. The dining place of those who expect most in service from a cafe. Here yon se lect from a menu affording foil choice of the season’s choicest viands—and each item is served in a manner most enticing and appetiz ing—that’s the WHY ef its popularity. . - > -- - * Completeness of cuisiae- sad courtesy to ail la the motto el the’Holland folka. ■ ^ _»t. Regular meals 56c. Breakfast 7 to 8; Dinner 12 to 2:$«; Sap per S to 7:36. Merchant's Lunch. 2 to 2:30, 35c.