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Athens Cotton: 1 X^^osk-::::Uli WEATHER Fair and Cold. Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week. VOL. 1!, No. 122 F0U A,Md>ted Wire. Serriee. The One Paper In Moat Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. ATHENS, GA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1928. ^ 4 i lie h y ivi E NEWSPAPER •i*—-2- -S' —fr *^ r * ^ ’ I " + *-+ ‘I—H» ■!-•? fjj Savannah Welcom^sU.S.SoldiersZs T r GALA DAY AS DOUGHBOYS ARRIVE HOME S.W AXXAH. Ga. (By the Asso* , Press.)—'The transport St Mih.il with the American troops :r< ii. ifimany arrived at Tybee i-.ir tt l? o'clock. Conveyed by the u \ciuio Cutter Yamacraw and the Met '.alley she proceeded to quar • Revenue Cutter YamacraW Governor Hardwick of Geor number of congressmen afld f fleers aboard, left her dock o'clock to meet the St. Mi- official congressional com. •f five Senators and five smtatives was not aboard • tv's train was scheduled to t in : ir. Wednesday morning. n after the Cutter sailed the I '’auley left with a part* of ■ •per men and camera men •ft the ship uet Tybee. llnlf an hour after reaching -‘.uarantino the St. Hlhlel still was detained. It was believed • !rr quarantine officers had ds- ovore.l sickness aboard the trans ■ orr - d'daying her departure. At 12:45 o’clock the transport win was underway, having been ties red by quaratine officers, at quarantine the Congres New Contract For Mildred One look at this picture and y ou've guessed why they’re so hap- py—Harold Lloyd, film comedian, and Mildred Davis, his leading lady, are engaged, with the nuptia l date set for the ve y near future. PAMSIEN PACTS ARE SIGH WASHINGTON—A treaty ' of peace and amity, eleven conven tions and thtfee' protocols were slgnedi Wednesday at the final plenary session ot the central American conference in the hall of , — the Americas at the Pan American H party aboard the cutter . union. Secntxary -*f State Hughes v and newspaDer men on * McCauley hoarded the were voclfelcusly greet assembled December 4 at the in vita tion of President Harding, con gratulated ttt? plenopitaries of Guatamala, Elsavador, Honduras, SKIPS COLLIDE AT SEAA1 SAID TO BE SUING FAST HOPE TURK! TO SIGN TREATY GONE CONSTANTINOPLE (By the AS- sicoated Press.)—The Turkish commander at Smyrna has inform ed the commanders of the Allied warships that he has orders to en force their withdrawal if they do not comply with the Turkish ordei to leave Smyrna. LAUSANNE — (By the Associat ed Press)— Ismet Pasha and the principal members of the Turkish conference delegation left Iau- Jsanne for Angora at seven o’clock j Wednesday morning, a secretary remained behind. Several journa- I llsts accompanied the party. George Tchitcherin, the Russian foreign minister, was to start Wednesday night for Moscow. Thus after seventy nir.:* days of _;s Plan Their Fla. Trip ST. AUGUSTINE. I Fli*. — Ac cording to tentative arrangements made with a local hotel, president and Mrs. Harding will r-ach St. Augustine March 20 to spend n week following their lnuseboat cruise sjown the East coast, on which they will start early In March. The President is planning to journey to Florida, leaving Washington shortly after adjourn ■rnent of congress on March fourth. It is stated they will not stop at "St. Augustine on the way S*uth. toasIassSly FOR $100,000 TO The legislature will be asked at its next session to appropriate $100,000.00 to be added to the $50,000.00 already contributed by Clarke county to build a memorial dormitory on the Georgia campus to John Milledge, the donor of the >*v th<* noughboy8. Arrival of the transport at thb ci,v limits was announced by the booming of two brass cannon. The »5iion. captured from the British ; (t 'wktown. Va., and presented j* 1 rhatham Artillery In 1790. by (Jcorge Washington, were fired bv a special crew of members of , i'1'atham Artillery, who serv- ‘. ,1 in ‘Hat unit in the Civil and Spanish American wars. A salvo !wV bat,er - v of ^nch 75’s fol- Th<> boom frohi the cannons was n , for the fineinK of “Big " ,krt :I huge fire bell in the cen- ‘*f the city. Immediately al most every bell, whistle and siren n [no city added its blasts to the '••loom.- for the troops. The m.'rii. y of sounds continued 5 min- the transport, her rails lln- • with cheering doughboys and 0,r (Jormaii war brides,'passed U P nver to her dock. , 1145 the transport was 1 of the Seawall,. still 12 Y , off bar. The cutter • anim raw and tug McCauley are porting the St. Mlhlel to fybee Discover Plot to Down Fascist! ~ FBy the Associated on ' As a result of the numer . i ,irrpc! t^ of communists and l i( , , rs throughout Italy the po- , nave gained irrefutable evi- they Hay, of a vast plot for "fn„;;'n t rthrOW ° r ttle / Facl , tl gov- Sunshine Was Greeted Here "unshlne that greeted . Wedne»day morning, pi,. ' , K ,hfi past f «w days of un- , ■ ni weather came as a wel- ir,' „ ™ ln » and afforda a break ,j„. '“V slx «'eekB of additional h 0 , ' , flln> rasted by the ground • tin.,, len , " e saw his ehawod on M I,,,™ 1 , 1 ' 1 °f tie month and retlr- Th " a wln ter quartern again. — of the 800111 wa * “* in th,. ,orl uuate. even as It were, day, ” ea ther of the last several of ,}.’ " 10 *5 °f the other sections ln» i, “ u ”uy” south were shiver.; *i>il»' ! r * 8n “? p . ot lee and snew o,,r on,y dis ' |.!r*M^ror i Th^»&” SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Col lision between the passenger liner Wilhelmina and the steam Schoon er Sierra, seven miles off San Francisco lightship, and about 25 miles from this city, was describ ed in wireless message received at . . *:30 o’clock Wednesday morning, presided and in summing up the . j^th 8 hips backed awav leaking, results of the conference which 1 A t ug was star ted from San Francisco within 20 minutes after the vessels called for help. The Sierra shortly after the collision, began sending S. Ov. S. messages. committee of Nations’’ nothing hair* been accomplished. However, Jio one apparently wants what one diplomatic called “a patched up peace.” Nicaragua a^d Costa Rlca on the | Thp wilbeilmina replied: “I ani leaking also but will stand by.’ The Wilhelmina, owned by the Matson Navigation company was inbound from Honolulu. • The num her of passengers she carried has not been learned at daybreak, but she has often taken from 200 to 300. The Sierra is believed t< have a crew of from 25 to 30. At 4:57 the Sierra spoke: List ing 45 degrees and sinking fast.’ The Wilhelmina asked whether the Sierra could make it to the lightship. The schooner replied that she could not proceed be cause her engine room was flood ed. At 5:15 A. M., she added “heeling fast” The Wilhelmina continued to stand by. success of the negotiations and re iterated the friendship of the Unit ed States for those nations. The heads of the five delega tions D. Senor Don Francisco Sanchez Latour of Guatamala: Senor Doctor Don Francisco Marti nez Suarez; of El-Salvador; Senor Doctor Don Alberio Ucles, of Hon duras; Senor General Don Emilino Chamorra, of Nicaragua; and Sen or Llcenciado Don Alfredo Gt(h_ sales Flo of Costa Rica -expressed confidence that the agreemhts reached would bring the desired results and voiced gratitude to the American government for its ef forts and hospitality. SUBMIT BOUNDARY DI8PUTE TO U. S. After the forma! signing of the treaty, conventions and protocols. Secretary Hughes announced the decision of Guatamala and Hondu ras to submit their boundary dis pute to President Harding for ar bitration. This decision was de scribed by Senor LaTour as the “first practical result of the con ference.” ■ Dr. Ucles expressed gratification over the agreement t$r arbitration of the disputle with Guatamala. Costa Rica refrained from sign ing the convention and began with certain restriction*, free trade be tween the signatory powers. The Aiherican delegation joined the other five in signing only one of the conventions, that estab lishing interntaUmal commissions of inquiry afnd a protocol declar ing the full sympathy of the United States with the convention ^ntfcred into by the other five governments for the establishment of an Inter national American tribunal, and its willingness .to. designate 15 Ameri can cltisns fof service qn the tri bunals to be created in accordance with its terms. Other conventions signed by the five delegations dealt with the un. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — The submarine R-fi. known among sail orsof the battle fleet as the “Hoo doo” ship, was exoected to reach San Pedro, Cal./ Wednesday from Mare Island, near San Francisco, whence she starfed Tuesday. Fear for the safety of the craft, express ed Tuesday night at the Los An geles harbor base, was due to a misapprehension that she left Mare island last Thursday and was long overdue. The fc-6, it was explained at Mare Island, was delayed by an accident to her propeller. The R-6 sank in the Los Angeles har bor September 26, 1921* with the loss of two lives. Since that time she has undergone numerous re pairs. Ship Is Disabled By Heavy Gales MARSEILLES — The American freighter Winnebago reported by ceaseless negotiations in an ef- ?“ n< ? red f of acres ot land when fort to establish peace in the Near ,ns titut!on was established as East and restore Turkey to “tha . ® state college In the world, committee of Nation**’/The money .voted by the people of this county is now in the bank and work on the John Milledge dormitory will begin as soon as the grading for the building and the arranging of the landscape in con formity with the Leverett plan gets under way. NO APPROPRIATION IN OVER 20 YEARS Candler Hall was the last dormi tory built on the campusi with mon ey appropriated by the legislature and this building was erected over twenty years ago, when Allen D. Candler was governor and it Is WAGEBATTLE AS ‘PROHf MEN RAID STILL PARIS — (By the Associated Press) — Even tenacous optimists admitted Wednesday that the pros nects of signing the Lausanne treaty between the powers and the Turks apneared to have receded into the distant future. Ismet Pasha, it seems, had an- - ... — other change of mind almost be. Mat thet state will realize that fore the train bearing the French s . ince University has grown delegation homeward from Lau- " *" * sanee was out of sight, abandon- ing the conciliatory attitude which so impressed M. Bompard. This further manifestation of Turkey' facial changes of front have had an exaggerating effect on Lord Curzon the British foreign secre tary and even on friends of Tur- kev in France. Therefore, when the British gov ernment declared that Ismet must put into writing the text of the calusen on which he and the Allies were in agreement together with a detailed plan concerning those to be reserved for annexed con ventions further asserting that the economic questions ought to be settled at once. Premier Poincare has tended to indorse this view point and com municated it to Ismet. HE GIVES SHORT VERBAL MESSAGE five delegations dealt wun we un- wlrele«« Wednesday that she had location of Protective J«™s for, been disabled by terrible gales workmen, and laborers. tn» prac- ■ tice of the Liberal professions, the preparation of projects of electo rate legislation, establishment of stations for agricultural experi ments and animal industries, re ciprocal exchange of central Amer ican students, extradition, estab lishment of permanent central American commissions, and limlta- tJftUuOfc am*3,mejHs. h maw *7. , Tht. treaty-iotePesce and amity signed by. : the. five, power® contains the provisions of the similar treaty negotiated bore in 1907 which have (Turn to Page Two) by terrible gales while In a position between the South Coast of Ireland and Ush- ant. The vessel requested Imme diate assistance. The distress calls of the steam er Winnebago -were relayed Tues day night to Eastern seaboard , of the United 'States by other ships o»’itheq Atlantic. The freighter, is awnedxby the American transports tihn fcompdny. and has been used by the American relief administra tion for carrying food supplies to Russia. since that time from-an enrollment of less than 400 to over 1400. such a dormitory is badly needed to take care of this Increase in at tendance. The woman’s building was not. erected out of funds appropriated ) by the state. WASHINGTON — One man was in a hospital here with a bullet wound. In his head, and his two score of companions, alleged boot leggers, were still at large and uni dentifled Wednesday following their three hour gun battle with 15 prohibition enforcement agents in Prince Georges county, near Walnut, Md., late Tuesday. The wounded r man refused to give his name tiefore lapsing into unconsciousness. 1 In the seizure of three stills, one of 1,000 gallons capacity and a great quantity of corn whiskey after the defendants had taken to the woods when their ammunition gave out, the authori ties say they have shut off one of the chief sources of Washing ton’s * bootlegger • liquor supply. The raids were conducted by Wash ington officers under the direction of Lieut O. T. Davis. When the enforcement agents, armed with riot guns and 45 cali bre revolvers arrived and seperat- ed into two groups to make the i raid lookouts were said: to have given the alarm at which more than a score or more left the stills and began firing. They then back ed off, it wps said to meet on a line of defense which they held for more than an hour. Breaking from there the fighting then waged over a mile of opea fields and wood ed ravines for two hours or more, during which the bootlegger force almost doubled by reinforce ments, before its members escap ed into the woods. The wounded man is believed by the officers to have been struck by a bullet from one of his own men. Female Friends ■- Now Only $10.00 NEW YORK.—Strange men in New York who dislike to attend the theatre and dinner alone may now obtain desirable companions from an agency just opened. The fee is ten dollars. Advertisements state: “If you are a stranger, if you enjoy good company, if you wish to spend a pleasureable evening, we will in troduce you to a young lady of intelligence, 1 good to look upon, with a pleasing personality, who will be a jolly dinner and theatre companion. In calling us state preferences as to types and spec ify desired accomplishment.’ This is an invitation to only the well bred man seeking a clean even ing’s entertainment.” The agency which reports a good business says it requires the strictest social references from its young ladies. They must sign a contract, agreeing among other things, to abstain from liquor and refuse to allow their clients to escort them home. One newspaper sent a reporter to the agency posing as an out of town merchant. The reporter’s story Wednesday indicated he had found that the agency’s represen tations were correct. 2 MORE PLACES It Is also believed by those in terested in the erection of tbe memorial dormitory that the state will want to have a part in the building of this memorial, since it cannot feel less grateful to the donor of the land than is Clarke county. The money voted here ^ or , mo< ' 1 L lc atl° n _ °f the debt will only erect a small building, |' unt ‘"JK laa [ permit final ap- one wing of what ie contemplated i pro J a J, of tl ' a * UPt, ! nB agreement and If the amount to be requested !~ ec . an . y negotiated with Great is granted a memorial buildine was Announced at the Mr. Kontx Was Indicted on four counts. The first charged mur der of one of the workers named Hunter; the second murder in showing a reckless disregard for human life; third murder in vio lation of the state law prohibiting , a 8 P«d of more than thirty miles WASHIN G T 0 N. — Persident j *,'‘ m ‘ lar , ch "? e f v*>' at 'on of Harding decided at the last min- ^ore th.n »e apeedl "«= ute Wednesday to present to con- more than gress in person his message ask- f FOR MURDER, HE FACES $90,000 SUIT ATLANTA, Ga..—Jack Kontz. son of Judge E. C. Ko n tz, who several days ago caused the death of two workmen of the Georgia Railway and Power company when he crashed Into them while they were welding the car tracks on Peachtree street, was Tuesday In dicted by the Fulton county grand jury for murder. It is claimed by Kontz and his father that the incident was pure ly accidental. BS9EN—(By the Associated Press)—The German information bureau announces that the French hav?a occupied Lennup, a Rhenish textile city, as well as Krebsoego and Berglschborn. two smaller towns near by. The extension of the French oc cupation to the Wupper valley -was accomplished by about 900 soldlfers the Germans assert. The French traveled in lorries, starting Tues day noon from the British occu pied area. The population had been expect ing the -French for several days, it appears, and 90 far as the Ger man reports indicate there was no trouble of any kind. However, the actual arrival of the troops caused considerable excitement despite the fact .the local authorities an nounced last .week that the occu pation was quite likely to take place within a few days. The pop ulation of the Wuppier valley num bers about 500,000. Most of tho workers are employed in the tex tile industries. 4 According to* the saipe source, the French advance is apparently part. of. an encircling movement which will include the occupation of Elberfeld an Barmen, both of which are textile centers. L6nnep, a city of 15,000 p«rson» is 28 miles southeast' of Dusseldorf. Iron and steel goods are also manufactured there. BRITAIN MAY BE DRAWN INTO RUfiR AFFAIR LONDON.—(By the Associated Press.)—There are signs of a re- awakening of the anxiety recently felt here when it seemed likely that arrests in the British Rhine land zone would involve Great.* Britain in the Franco-German dis pute. The present uneasiness is .dne to the possibility of a strike in the German railway workers in tho Cologne area, which it is feared will follow an attempt by the French to move coal trains from Damage suits to the •ext'ent of the Ruhr; into- France across that $90,000 have also been filed by the territory. There is already a families^ of the deceased men. (strike on part of the roads admin istered by the Cologne director ate bnt hitherto only lines within the French and Belgian zones have been affected.' France, it is understood, has made inquiries here as to tha \ British government’s attitude in the event the strike is extended to the whole-area, and Great Bri- The latter, however, put nothing in writing. Instead he gave a ver bal message to Count Massigli. secretary-general of the confer ence for transmission to the pow ers which appeared Wednesday to have created an entirely new situa tlon. Ismet declared that Turkey was 8till ready to sign eighty per cent of the treaty clauses but ask ed postponement of the final enact ment of the others, including those covering. the economic and finan- cial questions. Ismet expressed L l ne .S™ 101 ”* commutee nope to the desire to consult xvith^ A^gom. ? ove «o?»trurflon of He said the Mudania armistice ^ mo“£ ttc the Mudania would continue inasmuch as the memorial building with two wings and a main front will be erected to accommodate 150 students. Georgia alumni and friends have subscribed over a million dollars for the expansion of the Univer sity and the state is expected to do her share towards taking care of the natural growth of the instltu tion. It has been pointed out what North Carolina is doing for her University and it is believed that Georgia will not fall so far behind that accommodations that sufficed twenty years ago will not be enlarged. The building committee’hope to negotiations at Lausanne had not officially collapsed, and expressed his readiness to resume the discus sions at the suggestions of the Allies. . Th^ position ol the Turkish dele gation was summarized here as follows: ‘The whole treaty should bb subjected to fresh examination; all questions unsettled at noon last Sunday or just previous to the break, should receive further con sideration; the economic clauses should be seperated from the treaty;It is not for the Turks to define the conditions under which the^ might sign the treaty, bnt rather for the Allies to do so. meanwhile, the Turks wait for the powers to take the initiative. . \ e - epidemic STURGEON BAY, WIs. — All schools and' public, places have ® losed her® due to an attack of influenza. time the legislature meets anyway, so If the money is appropriated the entire project can be construct ed at once. $100,000 Damage In Memphis Fire White House that he would ap pear at a joint session of the sen ate and house at one o’clock. In addition to asking for amend ment of the funding law, the president was said to have decid ed to make another request in his message that the administration shirking bill be brought to a vote in the senate before the present congress goes out of existence on March 4. APPEALS FOR SHIPPING BILL; Congressional approval of the war debt funding agreement nego tiated with Great Britain was re- audeted by President Harding Wednesday as “a committment of the English speaking world to the validity of the contract” Coupled with this approval the president - added in ah address at 1 joint session of the senate and house; congress should enact into law the administration ship bill because, “it is as Important to avoid losses as it Is to secure funds on debts.” Ample time for action oq both a I these measures. It was declared ^ ers by Mr * Harding, remains before MEMPHIS, Tenn-—Fire of , un known origin discovert ;1 building occupied by the Paper company and the southern | the present congress goes out of Wa,v, ‘ %T “ 4 w * L * 0 existence on March 4, and either. Edible Nut company here about o’clock Wedpesday morning, caus ed a loss which was estimated at approximately $100,000. Only slight damage was suffer ed by Stedge and Norfelt. cotton firm In an adjoining building. SHIP B(LL WOULD “T. B.” SOCIETY MEETS The tuberculosis .society will meet Thursday morning at 11 o’clock in the Chamber of Com merce rooms. Important * matters will be taken up. he said, was fit to be recorded as a chapter of great achievement. The president made no specific recommendation as to the form the action of congress bn the Rritfsh debt should take, leaving It to the leaders in congress tp de cide what method should he adopt ed to amend the present law! so as to permit consummation of the agreement recently reached by the American and British debt com missions. WASHINGTON — The farmer more than any other group in terest in the country will benefit by the Immediate passage of the shipping bill now pending In con gress, Senator Jones, of Washing ton who hps charge of the bill in the senate, declared in address here Wednesday before the conven tion of the National Merchant Ma rine association. Emphasizing the dependence of the American fanner on foreign markets. Senator Jones declared that if “foreign ships alone are available to take his crops the farmer must' await with pleasure or conscience and he must pay such freight rates as they see fit to charge.” the shipping bill he said by “equalizing the difference In c6et” of American and foreign ship operation, would mean* for the farmer American transporta tion instead of foreign transporta tion. “The high shipping rates which the people had to pay before Ameri can ships were bullf’senator Jones said “went largely to alien ships owned or controlled by great trusts over which we had no con trol. If we had built a merchant Marine, our farmer and business men would have been saved hun dreds of millions of loddars that went into the coffers of these for eign ship owners and would have saved hundreds of millions ol tax burden. “We want a ^erohant- mariner. The farmer, the biiBine^s man and the laborer agree to *this;’tattdnthe measure we urge ' is a concrete proposal to establish what we all want.” tain is said to have replied that that point would receive consider ation. , Meanwhile the French advance into Hesse and Baden is regardde here as likely to lead sooner later to the British garrison at Cologne and a recurrence in some quarters of the demand for the withdrawal of the troops. J NEWARK N. J.r-An organiza tion of Newark bootleggers is re ported engaged in a frantic search for a “strong-arm” who “doubled crossed” them by disappearing with a ship load of whiskey from the Bahamas in which they planned to realize a profit of $250,000. About three months ago, 7 group of pan organized a pool to bring si great shipment from the Bahamas to Newark. j.In order fo insure i>r® ; tection it is said, it was decided to .let-two Jif^the “strong arms’ in on I the deal and on© was detailed to accompany.the shipments from tho Bahamas to Newark. Two hundred and thirty thous and dollars was contributed by the men in pool and a committe was delegated to go to the Bahama Is lands, buy ,the liquor and charter a ship to bring it to New Jersey. When the ship neared Sandy Hook the vessel left in charge of the “strongarm” while arrange ments were made ashore for tlio receipt! of the liquor. Messengers sent tc instruct the captain how to get the vessel Into the Newark “aVifafind It gone. Several days motor boats erdisod about- search ing* for'it but to no avail. At last a report reached the partners that fhe ship had docked in a Penn sylvania port and unloaddc hei cargo.
