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rm A TIE STANDARD SOUTHERN. NEWSPAPER HE CO'WSTU ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE ATLAK VOL. No. 155. Entered at Atlanta P.

O. Am Secoad-Claaa Uail Matter. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1925. PUKf RT IN ATLANTA OSLX NEWSPAPER Sinrle Copiea: nll Be: Hiib4h inc. DuUf aad 8undr.

Weekly 20s; Homily fOc. How Here's Record-Breaking Tech2 Georgia Crowd Looked From the Air i 1 ('l 11 1 I mi. 'IIP I- the The south's greatest football crowd massed in the great concrete bowl at Grant field Saturday afternoon is shown here as it looked fr-om the cockpit of an "airplane. Gan you find a vacant seat in the big bowP Note teams fighting down close to the goal post at the left. The remarkable photo was snapped from the, airplane of Pilot Beeler Blevins by Staff Photographer Francis E.

Price as the two circled over the stadium. two Found GOLDEN TORNADO DEFEA Stephenson TS Murder GEORGIA FOOTBALL fFIGHT PLANNED TO REINSTATE LA. DAVIDSON ITALY TENDERS $5, 0 0 0, ChQ CHECK ON DEBT Guilty of TEAM In Second SCORING FIEL OA 'em WOMAN uID tTUVyUUIItill'lCIULFCIIUUlltC Big Crowd Sees Georgia Blade RARE SPORTSMANSHIP MARKS GRID CLASSIC Shattered by Tech's Bludgeon Verdict Carries Life Sentence In Indiana Penitentiary For For Leader cf Ku Kiux Klan. Order on Italian Treasury For Debt Installment Given as Proof of Sincerity, Volpi Says. buypension ot Fireman 'B; Chairman of Fire Committee.

TICKET 'SCALPING' MENACE AROUSES OFFICIALS OF CITY BY TROLLEY CAR MAY LOSE EYE TWO BODYGUARDS RELEASED BY JURY IKE WILLIAMS' TOE GIVES TECH TEAM VICTORY OF 3 TO 0 Colorful Crowd of 33,000, Larges To See Southern Football Game, Jams Grant Field Stadium. FREE SPEECH ISSUE RAISED BY FRIENDS SIGNED AGREEMENT PUT INTO TREASURE Speculation in Tickets to Satisfactory Settlement Davidson Is ChargedWith Insubordination As Re Baseball and Football Mrs. Bonnie Talent Believed To Be Suffering From Fractured Skull. Nine Hurt By Autos. Is Hailed by Italian! there where only utter daring could hope to succeed.

Georgia's attack was a revelation to southern lovers of football, and her defense was effective beyond the hopes of air who realized tlje fierceness of Tech's smashing' offensive. But a snpple wrist cannot hope to win against the overwhelming force of brawn so Geprgia found herself beaten into bloodx submission and forced to bow to defeat. Tech's motif of play was a crashing drive against Georgia's line and ends, and though she won by a narrow margin one that easily might have been bigger she sent her heavy backs plunging intot the Georgia line with a rugged persistence that was inspiring. In this writer's opinion, it was Convicted Murderer of Madgre Oberlioltzer First Scowled, Then Laughed At Jury's Verdict. BY LOYI) A.

W-lCiOIT. Grant Field, November 14. Thirty-five thousand wild-eyed fans-s-compos-ing the greatest crowd that ever attended a football game south of the Mascn-Dixon line this afternoon sat in the great Tech stadium and saw the most brilliant football blade-in all the sonth match itself against Dixie's most powerful gridiron bludgeon. And, in keeping with common-sense practice but contrary to all. the 'time-honored rules of fiction as exemplified by the Merriwell boys and the Horatio Alger heroes the bludgeon won.

"The rapiers flashed forth from, a scabbard of crimson and black, and for -nearly. twd'and a half hours a gasping, mob looked on in its glittering point flashed her4 where least expected and all Games Allege Charges to Mayor. sult of Publication of Statement Saturday. Press as Victory for Mussolini and Fascism. 5 PERSONS TREATED AT GRADY HOSPITAL 3 Th Issue of free speech raised in Ft i i 1 1 1 OPEN AIR THEATER PASSAGE FORECAST GEORGIA'S ATTACK SURPRISE TO TECH 'l B'fflr Mitchell- Saturday lade fair to Washington, November -14.

UP) The treasury tonight held a signed agreement for the funding of Italy's war debt to the Us; ted States, and an order on the Italian treasut-y for- $5,000,000 as the first find a. ronnternart in the ranks of the Atlanta municipal jrovPrnmeut fol Continued on page 8, column 2. Noblesville, November 14. D. C.

Stephenson, former grand drag-oinf-the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, today was found guilty of second degree murder in connection with the death of Miss Madge Oberlioltzer, pretty young social worker of -Indianapolis. The vtrdict carries a life sentence in the Indiana state penitentiary. Earl' Gentry and Earl Klenck, Stephenson's henchmen, who were in-tliet'csls jointly with him in connection lowing suspension by the fire committee city council of K. A. Davidson nn plinrpps of insiibtirdination.

Injuries Received in Series of Automobile and Bicycle Accidents in the City Saturday. payment under the terms of the pact. President Coolidge1 affixed his' sig Purchase of-10 New. Motor Trucks1 Also Will Come Up at Session. r.

The definite offense with which Bulldogs Near But Penalties Deprive Them of Crossing Goal Line of Tech. Davidson is charged is that, as chair nature to the document not long after Secretary Mellon and Count Volpi, head' of the American and Italian commissions respectively, had put FRANCE ANXIOUS TO REOPEN PARLEY TO FUNDU S. DEBT LADY ASM READY TO STUMP- WORLD TO DESTROY SUBS wiih Miss Oberlioltzer tioatn last their names on the agreement. Count a few hours later man of the referendum committee ot the city firemen, he made public a statement criticisfrij? council's official nction in recent expenditure of public funds. His suspension was announced Kv Itilm-miin ftur Tlnfillfa flllirmriTI of handed over the as he called it.

as proof of "the sincerity of pur pose of his government Jn the settlement. He assured Mr. Mellon that he terms granted by the Amevicans had established a bond friendship "never to be forgotten by ray (r the fire committee. 1 1 Will Ask Reinstatement. Jl? Two councilwen Saturday night is-i sued formal statements in which tbey 'hotly criticised the fire committee for BY GEORGE CONGDON.

Football fandom of the south waited nine years for a Tech-Georgia game. Saturday, with 35,000 thrill thirsty fans jamming the immense Grant field stadium, that spectacle broke gloriously as Tech's Golden Tornado swept with its full fury into the teeth of Georgia's courageous Bulldogs and found victory by the scant -margin of a 3-ro6 score in ita spring, were found not guilty. The jury returned the verdict shortly before 5:30 p. m. today, after deliberating without recess since noon.

Miss Oberlioltzer died 29 days after she was alleged to have been abducted and assaulted by Stephenson and his henchmen last March 15. Indicted Vndcr Old Statute. The indictments were returned under an old Indiana statute, holding the three men responsible for Miss Oberholtscr's death on the ground people, and paid tribute to the fair ness with which the problem had been treated by the press and public. Check to Show Good Faith. ita action and announced they would leiul a movement in council Monday Mrs.

Ronnie. Talent, T.O, of CS Walton street, was seriously injured and may have suffered a fractured skull wiien she was struck by a street car Saturday afternoon at Tatnall snd Nelson streets. She also received a severe laceration over the ear md may lose sight of her right eye, ac-covdi'ag to physicians at Grady hospital where she was taken. Mrs. Talent was rushed to the hospital immediately after the accident and physicians pronounced her serious.

Several ligaments jiear the right eye were cut and doctors said that the eye may have to be removed. Three Are Injured. Albert Prickett, of 193 Davis street, Frank Roberson and a young woman companion, whose name police did not learti. were slightly bruised Saturday Tn making the initial payment now, Painleve in Doubt As To Most TactfulManner To Adopt for New Debt Conference. Brit-Vessel Start Them.

Tragic Fate of ish Under-Sea Arouses Her To Crusade 'Against although it is not due until Jnne 0. Introduction of ordinances making ticket speculating or "scalping? in Atlanta as applied 'to football and baseball games, will be one of the features of the meeting of council Monday, it was learned at the' city hall Saturday. The proposed ordinance will be necessary to check this custom because present' city ordinances apply only. to', theater tickets, it was learned. Mayor Walter A.

Sims expressed approval of such an ordinance, declaring that ticket speculation on football games has reached a point Where it is a nuisance and should be made ii-lawful. When steps recently were taken to stop the practice it was discovered there was no city ordinance prohibiting it. Numerous complaints were registered with members of council and with the mayor Saturday as a result of "scalping" of tickets for the Tech- 1920, Count Volpi declared he was only carrying out the purposes of his government to show that it intended that they failed to provide her medical to reinstate Davidson and clear up any doubt that may exist cofacernin? th right of a city employee to criti-; cise the public acts of his superiors. A third councilman announced that i publication of Davidson's card had caused him to decide to fight the ref-t rendum movement. He defended living up to the agreement.

"The obligation of the Italian gov. aid after she had swaiioweu i io jin a Hammond, Indiana, hotel. eminent is the obligation of its peo ple, said the Italian finance minis ter. "It will be observed it will thundering attack. The glory of the victor in this classic-of gridiron history, the step nearer the top of the southern conference and a year's possession of The Constitution Tech-Georgia football trophy go solely to Tech.

To Tech and -Georgia alike goes credit for. a greater victory than that which is written in figures. Tech and Georgia, after a lapse in athletic relations, have come together splendidly on the Paris, November 14. C45) Premier Painleve and Foreign Minister Briand are anxious to reopen the debt conversations with Washington, but they are greatly in doubt as to how this Plymouth. England, November 14.

OP) Lady Astor, moved by the tragedy of the sunk, with 68 men off the Devon coast, told an audience of Plymouth women today that she Continued on Page 4. Column 3. could tactfully and effectively be done. PEACHTREE LEASE The question is being examined with utmost care by the responsible officials of the finance minister and foreign office.1 The intention 'was to send Senator night when the coupe in which they were riding overturned at West Peach-tree and Kimball streets, after colliding with a wagon. The wagoM was owned by Seymour Herbert, of 252 AVilliams street.

He also was slightly hurt. None was in- Continued on Sport Page BRINGS $400,000 Special deputies were on guard in the courtroom to prevent a demonstration when the verdict was returned. Spectators during the last few days of the trial had manifested considerable anti-Stephenson sentiment. When the verdict was read, Stephenson scowled and then began laughing scornfully, apparently desiring to impress the prosecutor with the fact that he fiad pot succeeded in getting a verdict of first degree murder and a recommendation for the death penalty. Prosecutor William II.

Remy seemed pleased, however, and for a few minutes he was the center of a throng of spectators who were congratulating him. The crowd paid little attention to Stephenson, who seemed to have lost interest even in the victory of Ivlenck never fail. There was no doubt. Count Volpi added, that the Italian parliament will ratify the agreement, and he therefore turned over the first payment under the agreement's provisions so that there would be no delay in operation of the settlement, provided it is accepted by congress. Mellon Is Hesitant.

Some hesitancy was shown by Secretary Mellon in accepting the order, but Count Volpi immediately assured that the payment was made without regard to the fact that it was not yet required. It was the first' time such a payment had been made in any of the eleven debt agreements thus far negotiated. The Italian mission left Washington tonight for a visit to Niagara Falls for an inspection of the hydroelectric development there Count Volpi explaining that he nronosed jured sufficiently to be taken to a it i i-. tee: The Weather, FAIR. Georgia game.

Reports were received that speculators swarmed in hotel lobbies and on the streets and sold tickets in large numbers at highly advanced prices," although it was announced several days ago that all tickets for the game had betfa sold. Passage of an ordinance accepting for the city of Atlanta an offer of the Atlanta Municipal Opera company to Mrs. Blanche Mecaslin and Milam investigated the accident aud arrested Prickett on a charge of drunk and operating an automobile. S. K.

Howell Injured. S. E. Howell, 27, of 614 Chatta- Lhoochee avenue, was treated at Grady Washington Forecast Georgia Fair in southeast, rain in-north and west portions Sunday; Monday fair and colder in the interior; showers on the coast; moderate to fresh southeast and south winds. Sells Harris Street Site To Ernest Rhodes Company For $100,000.

Berenger to Washington in place of M. Daeschner. This plan has not been wholly given up, but instead of replacing Daeschner, the idea is that Senator Berenger might be sent as a special ambassador. It is understood, however, that he does not agree with this; his wish is to 'be ambassador. M.

Daeschner, it now is said at the foreign office, will not be recalled, or if so, not at an early date. Mme. Daeschner, who has been in France, ia preparing lo return to Washington almost immediately. PARIS PAPER HEARS build an outdoor stadium in Piedmont park, in which to present light opera next summer; was predicted at carrying back to Italy all available information respecting this phase of hall Saturday. This ordinance was hospital Saturday afternotm for severe lacerations about the head which he told doctors he received in an automobile accident.

He did not state where the accident happened and police had no report of it. Accident Victims Better. Five persons were treated at Grady hospital Saturday afternoon, following injuries received in automobile and bicycle accidents, according to police. Local Weather Report. temneratnre adopted two weeks ago, but a motion was "quite ready; to go 'around the world 'and try to" rouse the women work for the abolition of submarines.

1 1 Interviewed afterward. La4y Astor said she had made.no plan for such world tour, but added 'T would go the world five times over if I thought I could do anything; to iiersuade the nations of the world to abandon submarines and poison It was the. horro of submarine warfare and the tragic fate of the crew of the M-l that gave roe the thought expressed at the woman's meeting: "America and England agreed at the Washington conference to abolish the submarine," but France refused. It is impossible to do anything in this direction, however, with Russia outside the Russia is the great problem which confronts the world and Europe in particular today. Russia has such a lot of poison gas.

"If Germany enters the league, things will be better, but with Russia outside it would not be very practicable for the women of Europe and America to call for. the abandonment of submarines and gas. The soviet is delaying the world's peace." Lady Astor struck the keynote of her speech today, with- the demand, "Scrap submarines!" She urged the women of all countries to unite in and Gentry. A deputy led aim out of the courtroom and back to the cell to reconsider was made by council 71 53 62 Ixwest temperature he has occupied while awaiting trial. Mean temperature man Harry York, who is oppsing the measure, which caused two weeks' postponement of' the -final ratification Klenck once served as a deputy sheriff in Indianapolis, and he and Further evidne of the phenomenal increase in activity in real estate circles of Atlanta, enhanced 'values, and the trend of the business district northward was given Saturday jn announcement cf two new deals, involving an outlay of One is a Ions term lease by Samuel Kothbers, prominent Atlanta merchant, of a store at 233-235 Peach of the bilk Members of council voted overwhelmingly in favor of the meas economic progress.

DEBT SETTLEMENT SEEN AS MUSSOLINI VICTORY. Rome, November 14. iP) Count Volpi's debt- funding success at Washington is "a victory for the fascisti regime and will rapidly produee incalculable benefits for declares the extreme fascisti newspaper L'lm-pero today. This is the keynote of the jubilantr Gentry were the center of a group of ure. It provides that the opera asso OF.

NEW U. S. OFFER. Paris, November 14. W) Le Jour' nal today says American Ambassador ciation can build the stadium and that Liilhan Uabbey, i.

of Aorth Moreland avenue, was injured, but no details of the case were filed with police nor with Grady hospital attendants. Charles Ableman, of 1S3 Capitol Normal temperature 52 Rainfall in past 24 hours, Excels since 1st of 2.31 Total rainfall since Jan. 1, 31.84 7a.m. Nn7p.m. Drv temperature 5." OS Wet bulb 47 51 52 Relative humidity 47 Reports of Weather Bureau Stations.

the city will repay the company in Herrick is reported to have submitted three annual instalments. to Premier Painleve new debt-fund -tree street lor a consideration ot '-Another measure which is believed ing proposals "much more favorable anu me ojuer a purcuase on. Harris street between Peaehtree and Sprin streets for Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Continued on Page 2, Column 5. i Temperature I Raia STATIONS A il STATE OF WEATHER.

I in li Mr. Kothlerjr acquired control of the Peaehtree street place now occupied by he Kelly-nriuefield company, throuch 17 p.m. nigh 'Never Again' Is Attitude FED UP ON HOLLYWOOD, SHE WILL STAY EAST than the last." DENIAL OF NEW PROPOSAL IS MADE BY WINSTON. Washington, November 14. (A) The treasury has sent no new proposal to Paris in connection with the negotiations for funding the French officers who congratulated them profusely on their good fortune.

Evervone in the courtroom, save the defense attorneys and the former klan dragon himself, seemed satisfied witlKthe verdict. There was no unusual" demonstration in the courtroom. Will Ask for New Trial. Floyd Christian, one of the defense attorneys, announced an attempt would be made to get a new trial or appeal the case to another court. The trial was held here before Judge Will Sparks, because the defense feared a fair jury could not be obtained in Indianapolis, where Stephenson and Miss Oberlioltzer were well Almost two weeks were required to obtain a jury even in this county due to the wide publicity that had been aiven Miss Oberholtzer's death and ATLANTA, clear ltirminghflin.

clear Keenan L'hamters. commercial real Buffalo, 4'linrieeton. clear estate brokers, 1 lie lot fronts feet 'on Peaehtree and is 130 feet deep. Mr. liothberg and his agents did not announce the length of the lease nor the Of Sheik's Wife to Marriage Chii-aco, cloudy and a negro, were knocked down on Woodward avenue, near Rawson street, by a coupe driven by A.

-T. Judge, of 17 Ilobson place. Mrs. Abbie Flynn. of 341 Virginia avenue, was knocked down on Whitehall and Alabama streets by Edgar Ozmer.

13, of 17 East avenne. who was riding a bicycle. Patrolman J. F. White, who investigated the case, reported that Mrs.

Flynn was crossing the street against a red light. None of the cases were considered serious by Grady physicians, and after treatment the patients were allowed to return home. Reports from the bedsides of four victims-' of automobile accident on Friday night- we-e that they were showing improvement. Miss Nellie Richard, of 277 Hill street, and Eugene Williams, of 22 support of this improvements planned on the newly 1 acquired site. The lot is in the same block with .01 .00 debt to- the United States.

Under Secretary Winston declared tonight, when advised of reports from Paris that Ambassador Herrick had made new propositions to Premier Painleve, that negotiations were still open, but that no steps had been taken by 'the American debt commission since it submitted the five-year temporary funding arrangement to former Finance Minister Caillaux and the French mission. 71 7fi 44 72 42 3S 7 44 -70 44 72 $0 74 7 7S f.8 4i 2 7l "Wl 7 2 4 78 SO 7 n.1 wt 2 4 C4 4l 2H Mi T2 rs at nd 31 CM 7 8 CS 54 3l 40 60 Ht) an 4l i 2 72 58 MS New York, November 14. (A) "Never again," is Mrs. Winifred Hud-nut Valentino's attitude toward further -matrimonial venture. All artists should be unmarried, she said," and added i "children and domesticity are incompatible 1 with a career, -r that's all." Valentino complained.

tha It had taken Rudolph, who departed to FUNERAL. HELD TODAY FOR SUBMARINE DEAD. November Burial service will be held tomorrow for the 68 officers and men who- went to their death in the English channel, prisoners of the M-l, the submarine which dove into the sea, never to rise again. The hull of "the sunken submersible will be their casket, the ocean tHeir the new J. Alien store, almost au-Jjiss the new 10-story building which he Whitehead Realty company will egin for the Xorris Oandy company December 1 and is barely a block north cf the new store of the DuviFon-I'axon-Htokes company, affiliated with jie K.

tl. Macy company. George Harrison, of the Ward jtVijfut agency, handled the sale of the 'inrris srreet site by Mrs. Blanche If. Iecaslin to the Ernest L.

Rhodes com- lenver. clear T)e Moines, cloudy Oalveoton, clear Hatteraa. clear Havre, clear Jacksonville, clear Kanaaa City, wow Mempliia. clear Miami, cloudy Mobile, fit. clily.

Montgomery, clear New Orleans, fit. cldy. York, clear North l'latte. clear Oklahoma, rain Phoenix, clear Pittshureh. clear Raleigh, cloody San Francisco, pt.

cldy. St. Lonia. rain Halt J-ake Clry. clear Savannah, clear p.

cldy Toledo, cloudy clear Waanincton, clear Before sailing on the Leviathan, Valentino said he had concluded that in his profession it was best to remain single. "To generalize on women is dangerous to specialize on them is infinitely worse," "he when asked to give his general view of women. ne said that after establishing a residence in Paris to facilitate his wife's divorce suit, he would visit his family in "Italy. Asked if he his wife, Valentino- said: "It is no' longer a qaestion of love. It is a question of pride." Haygood street, are the most seriously hurt of the four.

The other injured are Eugene Black, of Hunter the political prominence of Stephenson. One of the most dramatic moments in the trial, which lasted five weeks, came four days ago when Stanley Hill, Miss Oberholtzer's sweetheart, took the witness stand to testify against the men he held responsible for her destruction. Hill testified he introduced Madge td Stephenson at the inaugural banquet given last February for Gover- street, and Miss Ollie Neely, of 1)57 I.ee street. Richard received a fractured anr. ine lot tronts muieet on liar i.n auuuniiijr cuapiain wiu a i Newspaperman Dies.

Cincinnati, Ohio, November 14. C4) C. Henry Motz, business manager of The Cincinnati Times Star, and one of the most widely known newspapermen in the country, died suddenly at his home today. He was 50 years old -and had been with The Times since 'he was 14. day for years to develop his lack of appreciation for her ambition to become a motion-picture star io- her own right.

She said that fhe would remain in the east to make the f-is street and an apartment house is skull and internal injuries i iow -located it. This is $1,000 a i Hams bov also suffered a .00 .00 .0 funeral sermon and a prayer over the-spot where the sailors lie, and comrades of the British fleet -will stand at attention as gun salutes boom a If r.4 mnt foot and is considered a splendid skull and serious bruises. The Black rice for the location, according tor I boy had both legs broken and Miss pictures, because she was "fed no C. r. too -J Meteorologist, Weatiicz urea a.

eauy oiucmis. i was only slightly. hurt. Continued, on rse. 2,.

Column 8. farewell across the channel tides. on Hollywood." 1.

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