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Athens Cotton: MinnUNG .. — — ». 27 3-4c I'KKVIOUS CLOSE .. 27 l-4c _ . „ u rln Warmer with WEATHER scattered show ers \and clouds. Daily and Sunday—10 Cants a Week. TheriOME NEWSPAPER VOL. 11, No. 119 Full Associated Press Leased.Wire. Service. ATHENS, GAi FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 6 Cents Sunday. 4—4 4*—4 * 4 -I-—-;. •»»—4- 4 4. •I*—4" 4 -4 1 4-4 4-4 ' 4-4 4—4* 4 4 4*—4* ’ 4-4 4*—4 ::7 r » Record Is Broken as Four Are Executed in Arkansas Today SAID TO BE LI; 4 4—4* 4*—4 4*—4* 4*-4* 4*—4* 4"—4* 4*—4* 4*—4* 4* -4* 4*—4" 4—4 4*—4 4*—4* 4*—4 4*—4 4*—4 CORDON IS TOTALLY EFFECTIVE RAIL LINES Ml 1 MEN DIE IN Trie, to "Mash Her;” Banished Cl MIME I ICIIT j! ARKANSAS FRIDAY Execution of Quartette Early in the Morning Marks Biggest Death Toll For One Day. ALL WENT TO i DEATH CALMLY) Murder, Cause of Their Deaths. One Had to Be Pit Back in Chair— Wasn't Dead. l.ITTI.K ROCK, Ark.—Four men convicted of murder were electro cuted at the Arkansas penitentiary early Friday. All faced death calm ly. The men went to -tbe-clectrio chair in the follo*tqg Oilier: Dim- fan Richardson. Ben Richardson, F. 0. Fallen, all convictod of the m;n!t r of Ira Culp, farmer near Wilnmt. Ark, and Will Decord, <orv:< of the murder of Mr. and dr* w. M. Sllsby In Stone c‘»'T.: A i Kansas. I huh of the | murders for which Hi*' men paid the death penalty, "-re revoluting. Mr. and Mrs. Silby were killed with a hatchet nr an axe. Vliile Culp was killed and his body afterward mutilated and partly burned. The execution of the four men r ark* d the largest toll exacted by justice on a single day in the his- torv of Arkansas. bnran Richard, 2D, stepped Into ihe (hair at seven o’clock. De- h'Td was executed at 8:02. Ihinean Richards was brought death chamber several CRASH IN ATHENS Crop Reporting Topic For Session J. C. Doply and Frank Beavers Injured in Wreck Which Occurred Thursday Night. TWO BOYS WERE SENT TO HOSPITAL Herman Jackson, Who Figured in Accident Lent Aid to Boys. Other Car Is Found. ATLANTA — Special problems relating to crop estimating in the South are to be discussed here 4uring the conrerence of agricul tural statisticians or tne Federal farm bureau of agricultural econo mies, convening Friday for a two day session. These experts will devise-plans for the 1923 crop reporting cam paign and suggestion will be asked from each statistician on improve ments in the methods of crop re porting. Live stock reporting, price re porting, co-operation, methods of estimating acreage and losses, pars 'and normals, will be discussed. Among those to address the meeting are Dr. H. C. Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of agricultural economies, W. F. Chandler, N. C. Murray, Chas. E. Gage, H. R. Trol ley, J. A. Brecker, S. A. Jones, members of the Federal crop re porting board. INDUSTRIAL CENTER FEEL FRENCH FORCE No Vamp FRENCH UNMOVED Bright lights were again blamed •r a rather serious automobile wreck here wnich resulted Thurs day night In the injury of two ■ymmr hoyar Frank Beavers and C. Dooley^ aged 17 and 1C who .. Twining, 19, 1 shown here. The Clayde Wyant was brought be- tore a Chicago judge charged with | suspended, sentence j Wyant would promise to leave Chi- attempting to flirt wfefci Vjvian , cago in 24 hours and not return. were struck by a car driven by Herman Jackson as they were re turning from a night school ses sion at the Neighborhood house in East Athens. Both boys were rushed tto the Athens General hospital for treat ment and Friday mdrning Mr. Beavers was reported still suffer ing from the nervous shock and to have sustained a severely brok en arm. Mr. Dooley was notl bad ly injured and expected to leave the hospital during the day. Military Cordon Flung Around Ruhr Appears to Be Checking Flow of Coal Supply. LATE MOVE NO r ECONOMIC AID “Traditional Ame r i c a ri Honor and Appreciation of. Fair Play” Sought'By Labor Unions. STEP TAKEN WITH NO OFFICIAL O. K. Union Heads in Seeking U. S. Intervention Would Avoid Unemployment For Millions. French-Belgian Troops in Control of Main Rail Centers. Important Sec tion Held. JOF mmt She says she does a’ll want to play vamp parts because that en velops the actress in personality.” PARIS — (By the Associated Press) — The French government, it was said at the foreign office Friday, will be obliged to take severe attitude toward the Ger- lan government if it continues to tolerate the molestation of the French subjects such as occurred at Koenigsburg the last two days. The French consulate was the object of the mob attack, the win dows being smashed, while Ger man civilians made demonstrations against French officers attached to tho inter-allied control commis sions. DUS8ELDORF — (By the Asso ciated Press) — The blockade of the Ruhr valley from within was absolutely complete Friday. Not ;le. ton of coal or coke has, "from the Rohr TOURIST BUSINESS DETAILS AFFECTING minutes before the apparatus was SHOWED NO nervousness !’«• displayed no nervousness. wuik.Mi about the chair look- in " at 't and started toward the board where the execution *‘ r was at work. The executioner movi'd quickly away. 'ThMi’t he afraid of me” Richard • not handcuffed, said. ARE AGREED UPON WASHINGTON—Agreement on the last details of the plan for funding Grea'J Britain's war time fr, the United states was re* * woulil as soon have you do It rled by officials as virtually State College of Agriculture Fri- anyone." ' , oy oit _ ,, w j,en I day for the first meeting of the ie apparatus was ready.. & American debt commission district association. 1 tho chair, voluntarily. _ !n w i t h sir Auklan.l — 'ceddes. Tho Brk-en ambassador. IT It was first reported Thursday night that the driver of the car that hit the boys did no stop to \ see what had happened or to pick i the injured up. This was a mis- j take. Mr. Jackson carried the in- (Turn to Page Three) OF P.T.A. FRIDAY 1 'SSffi&Z Of Bad Weather More than flfry women represent ing the twenty-three P. T. A. or ganizations in the Eighth congres sional district assembled at the State College of Agriculture Fri- ; a : pronounced dead In three aeSi „ „. . , „ . ! acting for his government In the -.1. He paIe I concluding negptlations. f - being”In* the chair ^/'^“xeaS'^rs^y, ~»a^? The'undertak- ~ appeared to be 'k slightly and refused to 1 l»odv. The bodv was re placed in the chair and the '(‘applied. •bord was being strapped hair he shouted angrily to ndant: “Look out there. mashing my hand. ‘m the men showed much ' nrt all were able to walk i(*d to the chafr. electrocuted for WH ITE WOMAN’S DEATH “UWIIUA, S. C.,—Thomas »><n. a young negro who last ’ 1 was taken from the Olar ■ a crowd of men and later , ’» r ncd over to the.'sheriff ’•r ucht Id Columbia for safe , n,n " was electrocuted at the* penitentiary here 'Friday for -mi in the crime. . DEFEND TITLE . nf y ^ ORK — Johnny Dundee, ion vv v °rk was to defend his Eii„ p0, ‘ n<1 championship against /lores, nmpino in a 15 H f ,n’!V' ut at Madison Square Gar Friday pight * • derstood to have presented to tha •Mrs. Bruce Carr .Tones, state president, Macon, Mrs. Boyce Fick len, district, president. Washington j and Mrs. W. B. Hudson, president of the Athens council, were all In attendance. Mrs.-Jones n.ale *he main sp6ech of the day nnd told of the work that is being done by :ho organization over the state, its According to An Old Be lief Cold and Disagree ableness to Exist For Six Weeks. commission certain interpertative growth. aims and program, for the "underdtsandlngs” of the^settlcment now year. 'fi provisions, It was hoped ttie com mission would bo In a position af ter Friday’s meeting to submit to President Harding Saturday i’.e recommendations for action by Congress . The. president thus would be able to .place the settle ment# before Congress for ratifica tion 'probably early neat week. Dress Parade of Students/Friday The . third dress parade by the nlversitr cadets will he held off nrilversity cadets will Hgrty Field Friday afternoon and the nubile Is Invited to come pver mthe campus and seethe parade. The entire regiment, from band to cavalry will he in lh>e and as "r5 r °i a wW( ® » oman "® ar 4interesting revitm is promised, an. Bamberg County. JOhn-T* 0 ’:?*" 1 ??*. imn» wb« "hiio seated in the death denied that he had an ac- The meeting began at 9:30 In the auditorium of the State College of Agriculture with .the address of welcome being delivered by Miss Mary Creswell. head of the Home economics department of the college. She was followed by a response from Mrs. Gabriel Toombs, of Washington. Mrs. R. S. Pound, prominent member of the Athens council, was named secretary and treasur er. the only officer named at the meet. The visiting delegates and officers made their reports, the committees were named and then Mrs. Jones delivered her address. in the last 36 hours, the French authorities announce, adding that j the/ measures they put fcito force at midnight Wednesday are total ly effective. The Germans show no disposi tion to contradict the French as to the general effectiveness of tho assays?,— l ™ ~ —r —„ ~ rn* j train oi iony-six loaded coal cars, farm lands is well under 1t JL h disregarding all signals ran the this season of the year, although excessive moisture lias held plow ing in check throughout the region according to the semi-monthly crop report for the southeast, is sued by Z. R. Pettete, agricul turalist statistician- Much of the North Georgia bot tom land that could not be broken last spring has already been put in shape for this season and labor seems sufficient to Tupply de mands, the report shows. In summarizing the condition of the various- crops the following facts are brought! out: Much more interest is being manifest in cotton than last year. General acreage increases seem certain In Florida and parts of Georgia. , . Wheat Is hot making the growth expected except In North Caro lina. OATS, RYE AND BARLEY IN GOOD CONDITION blockage at Horde, near Dortmund, BERLIN — (By the Associated Press) — The tourist business Ip Berlin is sadly demoralized. As a result of the irregjilar railway ser vice and the unsettled condition, Thursday afternoon and escaped niost of the foreign visitors are into interior Germany. AT THE FRANCO-BELGIAN CUSTOMS BORDER NEAR BRA- CHEL—(By the Associated Press) —The great railroad arteries, fed from thp industrial heart of Ger many, are feeling the first gruel ling twists of the troop tourni quet applied by France and Bel gium. Friday the military cordon flung around the Ruhr appears to be 1 checking effectively the flow to unoccupied Germany of coal, her .“economic lifeblood,” but unlike the surgical operation It resembles this latest move of the allies is nov aiding the life of the econo mic bjdy on which it was applied. One of the most important sec tions of the military front is forty kilometer barrier between LUne- nin and Brachel. In a straight line, across the country a cjetach- Oats, rye and barley are in very ment 0 f so idiers Friday holas the ategic points on the main rail- good fcondition in North Carolin; South Carolina, Tennessee anl ^ ay , incs leadlnK out or Dort . Florida but not so good in Central mund toward suCh centers as and Northern Georgia. Irish potato acreage in Florida is being reduced while a larg. , - k COMMITTEES That the-public may know when; are NAMEO there la to be a parade an order been issued by tho Adjutant,] The committees appointed were, - b. L. Burch as follows: ]“Tfme and Place," ’Mrs. tc»*nel enever the flag Is raised on {Toombs, Mrs. M. A. McDoaald tad tb9'pole in front of Moore College Mrs. E. W. Roberts. “Resolutions,” on the Campus on Friday It will j Mrs. Clifford Walker, Mrs. H. W. mmn that a parade will be held jpavne and Mrs. C. C. Wills, by the ROTO Unit Friday, Febru-1 There are twenty; three assocls- ary 2, 1913- " Th T uradS? U “ dh0g 8aW his shad , ow Which means six more weeks of snldi n?* U,er i,? fler 41118 temporary 8 m 1 04 8uns hlne and warmth. Take the groundhog’s word for It. for he knows. Every Feb. 2 he s, been coming out of his winter dugout to learn about the weath- B. I,. BURCH, Adlntaat. ROTC. U. Ga. tlons In this ^(strict and six of (Turn to- Page Tttreo) Vsterday f s Combined But If the da is cloudy, so he can t see his shadow, the ground hog stays out of winter quarters (Turn to Page Three) stock of sweet* potatos is on hand in North Carolina, Increased interest in truck crops is being shown in the weevil in fested territory of Georga and North Carolina and South .Ca r °llna and plans are well advanced. Flor ida is preparing for large spr*ng truck crops> especially watermel ons. The 1922-23 citrus crop will be larger than first estimatda indicat ed. In middle Tennessee, the tobacco crop Is beginning to move freely and the bulk of ‘the crop has been morkted in the Eastern part of the state. The condition of cattle .is Im proving in Florida, fair to good throughout other parts of the re gion. Lambs are becoming plentl- ftil in Tennessee. A decrca8e in Orenburg,. 1 Bremen, Hanover, t Haniburg, Halle, even Berlin self. . The correspondent motor car dr?w up at a lone cross roads on ¥iis line almost within a stone’s throw of BraChel. At the roadside stood a groop of French officers, pouring over a map of the district. Lapping the sides of the highway were the flooded waters of the Emacher river which from this Jrww • ■ n • 1 ■ lK>int wanders down through Dort- £ tlllllC l 4 1T6HCI1 t O leaving the capital while very fe^ are coming-in. International sleeper service has been suspended to Riga, War saw, Paris and London, and the only through trains are those to Vienna. Passengers for Paris are now compelled to go by way of Basel and can take a German sleep Ing car only as far as Frankfort. Travelers to, London are going through Holland. The money famine continues.! As a result the newspapers are urging the government to print 100,000 mark notes in an effort to relieve- the situation which has reached such a stage that the banks have begun to ration cash, giving only so much to each custo mer. The bankers assert that they are unable to obtain from the gov ernment the necessary supplies of currency. There has been such an exodus since the'Ruhr occupation began that the foreign office and the municipal authorities are consider ing a. reduction of the taxes on the non German residents, as an in ducement for foreigners, with the exception of the French and Bel gians, to make themselves com fortable in Berlin. Officials of tourist agencies esti mate that there are still at least 8.000 AmqfHcans In Greater Berlin. Beer is selling at less than one cent a glass. By taking rooms in private houses foreigners In many in stances get comfortable. quarters for a dollar or so a‘ month. They also avoid the eighty per cent pjty tax imposed upon all hotel guests | RUHR FOOD SUPPLY ALARMINGLY LOW J. T * DUS SELDORF, (By the ASso- • .elated Press.)—Many, Ruhr cities (and towns are complaining to the * French authorities that their fo^d supplies are getting lower. The Burgomaster of Resklinhausen has ■■□.formed headquarters that % • people have only enough potatoes to last 10 days. This, vegetable, together with cabbage and other garden products, form the chief diet of the Ruhr workers, few of whom have meat more than once a day. The directors of the four mines in the Dortmund and Getznkirchen district, who were ordered to re sume coal deliveries to France immediately have , been given 24 • hours to obey. If they refuse they will be arrested. The French have made up their minds to remain here until Berlin surrenders, come what may. The inter-Allied .railway sub committee for the Cologne area has reached an agreement with the railway directorate in that dis trict whereby the German railway men will resume work as'soon as the soldiers are - withdrawn. How ever, no trains carrying repara tions shipments will be operated. Coal production continued to de-. crease. mund into the heart of the rich industrial coal regions, ■ hurrying past Essen to Join tne Rhine near Hamburg. The officers paqsed at the sound Invade Ukraine MOSCOW — (By the Associated 'of the motor and looked up to j Press) — Prpof that the French, .give tho new member a discreet greeting as he advanced toward * ~ His ldentiGcatloni estab- nIrZ m , b „ 6r .h‘Ln h0 SaJd aarUv ! rati,faction they by^iarae’sa^o" “ ed to .. teBt ^.regarding Soviet Launches Fight on Fascism MOSCOW, (By the Associated Press.)—The ciommunist Interna tionale and the Soviet unions have proclaimed world wide war on Fascism, and are asking Italian emlgrqritb abroad to. take the lead in every country In demonstrations against the movement their operation* ‘‘Just how does Anyone halt a train determined to keep on go ing?” they were &8ked. Commandant) Bcfin, of the 26th French Infantry and commanding officer of this section of this front laughed. Then he proceeded to explain. TELLS HOW TRAIN MAY BE STOPPED ‘‘Well there are several ways We order the station master to (Turn to Page Three) LONDON — Special dispatches from Dusseldorf to the London newspapers report that Dr. Guetz- ner, president of Rhennlsh Prussia has gone to Berlin for a consulta- ! tion with the government regard ing the food situation which Is causing much anxiety to the Ger man Ruhr authorities. The Times correspondent, how ever, learns from official sources that the food supplies are con siderably more than js generally believed and are laffee enough to feed the population “on rations of i sort” for at least three weeks. It is said that about fifty per cent of the people have In storage en ough potatoes to last them nntQ summer. The question of surplus In the Cologne area also is being in vestigated. it is estimated that these stores are sufficient for two naonths or more unless. the disor ganization of freight traffic in creases. It is believed that floor, canned milk, potatoes, fats and sugars are on hand in ample quanti (Turn to Page Three) together with ■ General Simon Petlura, the Ukranian leader and the Rumanian army, still contem plates military intervention In the, Ukraine Is alleged to have been unearthed in Odessa In the dis covery by the state political police of a new espionage organization. An Odessa dispatch reports the arrest of 40 nersons charged with operating in that district in connec tion with the French Intelligence department, officers of General Petulara and the Rumfinlana third division. . Those taken Into ciisto- dv are alleged to have furnished their Superiors with information regarding the Soviet Army, the military defenses, and the railway transport CIRCULATION Combined of the BANNER - HERALD Was aa follows Tuesday 6,043 Wednesday 5,055 Thursday 5,164 Friday : 5,184 Sunday 4,700 No issue of the Banner is pub. lished on Monday morning. No is. ane of the Herald is printed on Sat urday evening. • bannerIherald ATHENS. GA.' OF THE BANNER-HERALD WAS—* -■|0 5,123 : ‘,i-