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VOL. XXXIII. No. 211.
, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA TUESOAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER IT, 1(22.
$8x0 per Annum
THIRTY THOUSAND
ARMENIANS LEAVE
JIIPLE BENIN
Way to the West is Clogged
By Thousands of Human
Beings, Leaving to Avoid
Possible Turkish Massacres.
—Situation Appalling.
(By Associated Press)
Adrianople, Oct 17.—Thirty thous
and Greeks and Armenians have pass
ed from this city to the West since
Saturday, and the road between here
and the Marltza river is an unbroken
line of men, women and children,
carts, cattle and camels.
Through a steady downpour
rain, they are plodding doggedly
ward their unknown destinations, drir
•en forward by the nameless tear
which has gripped the whole popu
lace of Eastern Thrace, since the gov
-emment’s bulletin, were posted Sat
yrday, announcing the terms of the
Mudanla armistice, which provide for
occupation of the province by
Turks within forty-five days.
Members of the allied mission
ttoned here declare the extent of the
refugee exodus Indicates that the
Turks upon their entry will find
Eastern Thrace almost unln>.w.«ed.
The procession has been orderly
but misery, already extreme, and
pneumonia will claim many victims If
the present Inclement weather
tinues.
HUSBAND CHARGES WIFE
WITH MURDER OF TWINS,
WOMAN IS IN JAIL
(By Assorts (•<* Pp#m»
Hammond, Ind.. Oct 17.—Mrs. Ha-
xel McNally, young wife of Frank Mc
Nally, aged 56, in jail here, emphati
cally denied today that she was the
Enother of twins, whom her husband
charges that she murdered. Failure
to find the twins or the bodies, and
McNally's admission that he never
actually saw them, led the police to
believe that McNally was the victim
of a hoax.
UNIONISTS MAY DESERT
PREMIER LLOYD 0E0RGE
(By Assoc 1 *ted Proas)
London, Oct. 17.—A meeting of;
the 'Unionists on Thursday will be of
great Importance and Is almost cer
tain to bring the political crisis
head. Until Its decision, whether t
will break up the coalition or stand
by the Premier, Lloyd George,
known, the situation Is not expected
to develop materially In any direc
tlon.
Constantinople, Oct. 17.—Lloyd
George's Manchester speech on the
Near East, summary of which reach
ed here last night, has created a fu
rore among the Kemallat followers
The phrase In which the Kemalists
are compared with “warlike animals"
particularly displeased the National
ist delegates.
FIVE BANDITS ARMED WITH
SAWED OFF SHOTGUNS
MAKE BID LIQUOR HAUL
(By J
! Press)
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 17.—Five
bandits, said to be armed with
sawed-off shotguus, bound and
gagged three guards at the Rug
by distillery here, and oscapjd
with three truck loads of nhls-'-
key estimated to be worth fifty
thousand dollars, according to
the police.
RAINY WEATHER MAY HOU) DOWN CROWD AT
THE POLLS, LITTLE INTEREST IS MANIFESTED
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17.—Reports of
rain end unfavorable weather condl
tions in various parts of the slate,
and ap*.thy on the part of voters, indi
cated a light vote In me special pri-is being cast) in the special primary
-niarjr.Xor the nomination of a sucies-1 here. Heavy clouds threaten
downpour of -rain, and county roads
pelted. Little Interest li
this section]
!aU0U8TA
Augusta, g£, Oct. 17.—A small i
San Francisco Gets the Next
Meeting of Legion by Accla
mation. — Belgian Delegate
Thanks America for Aid in
War Times.
(By t
Orleans, La., Oct. 17. —
American Legion, in annual conven
tion here, today heard Samuel Gom-
President of the American Fed
eration of Labor, (ell of labor's alms
nd aspirations, and what It belli
its rights and duties are.
Mr. Gompers and Judge Kene
Mountain Landis, supreme commis-
Toner of baseball, received a noisy
welcome from the "Buddies" when
they entered the convention hall.
"Belgium will never forget what
America did,” declared M. Jeanue.
president or the Belgian vetersm
Neither will she ever forget wba
irmans did. Germany must pay
for the damage, not as a ni**ans
but In simple jus'ice.’
•sor to The late United States Senator
Watson, and state pension commission-
succeed tne late juage John
Llpdsey.
GEORGIA BALLOTS ON NEW
U. S. SENATOR TODAY
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17—Under cloudy
skies and rain falling in several
tions, Georgia voters today are <
ing their ballots in the special Demo
cratic primary to nominate a succes
sor to the late United States Senator
Watson.
Each of the Tour candidates, Gov
ernor Thomas W. Hardwick. Sea
born Wright, John R. Cooper and
Walter F. George, made last minute
claims for the support of the “loyal”
■fifty thousand followers of Watson,
and expressed confidence of being
nominated. All four expressed oppo
sition to the Li
> almost Impassable.
8AVANNAH
Savannah. Ga.. Oct. 17.—Voting
the Senatorial primary In Chatham
county Is light, and little inti
shown. Numerous workers
polling places trying to get the voters
out are meeting with -but little
cess. The weather is fair and wa
COLUMBUS
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 17.— Rain begnn
falling here this morning. Little
terest is shoWta In the primary and
voting was slow during the nw
ALBANY
Albany, Ga., Oct. 17.—An ■
tionaliy light vote is being cai
Dougherty county today. The i
cx„r«»•«. oppu- «■ '■ not unfavorable but lack
of Nations and terest an <l »Pqtby on the part of »he
Orleans. La.. Oct. 17.—I
Francisco, wus awarded the 1923 <
vention o‘ the American Legion, by
acclamation.
COTTON GRADES
CHANGED IN MEMPHIS
Memphis. Tenn.. Oct. 17.—Cotton
warehouse receipts Issued during the
current year by the Terminal Corpor
ation are being checked by federal In
vestigators sent here from Atlanta at
the request of the President of the
Company who charges that the grad
es of cottou named In the negotiable
certificates, have been altered In
hundred cases.
BRITAIN SUGGESTS “
PRELIMINARY MEETING
TO PEACE CONFERENCE
Paris, Oct. *7*—'The British govern
ment has suggested to France and
Italy the Immediate calling of a
lirainary conference in London,
which experts would prepare the
nomlc and financial clauses of the
Turkish peace treaty. The
government has accepted uni
point delegates.
limilar foreign alliances.
ATHENS
Athen. Ga., Oct. 17.—Following
heavy rain last night, weather coni
tions today were ideal for tbe Sen
torinl primary, but a light vote Ib e
voters In the t
» is indicated.
MACON
I Macon, Ga., Oct. 17.—With rain tail
} ing steadily the roads outside the city-
are almost impassable and early indl-
j rations were that less than fifty
cent of the vote will be cast.
REAL ISSUE IN LIQUOR
RULING IS BEING TESTED
(By Associates Press)
few York, Oct. 17.—Wbethn: the
re presence of liquor cn foreign
vessels, conies within tbe scope of the
eighteenth amendment, is the real is
sue In Daugherty's dry ship ruling,
.lie White Star Ltne counsel argu'd
oday (before Federal Judge Hand,
o tbe validity of tbe ruimg
BRITISH MAY AGREE
TO PROHI REGULATIONS
HOOVER OPPOSED TO
CANCELLATION OF DEBTS
■ DIRIGIBLE
H DESTROYED B¥
FIREATSA1ANT01
Enroute to Washington, Diri
gible Which Made Trans
continental Flight Has Acci
dent at Hangar and Goes up
Flames.—No Lives Lost.
(By Associated Press)
San Antonio, Tex.. Oct. 17.—The
army dirigible C-2, which recently
completed a transcontinental flight,
and had reached San Antonio
way back to Washington, was
pletely destroyed by fire today while
preparing for a flight over the city.
members of the crew t
hurt, one seriously.
The big ship was being taken
the hangar, and the wind threw it
against the big door at the entrance,
ngers heard a hissing
few minutes Ister It Ignited, go
ing up In flames. The bag burned
and the car dropped to the ground,
throwing the passengers to
Toledo, O., Oct. 17.-
made by thi
Repudiatii
United 8tates
to the allied and a-isoclated no*!
during the war would undermine
whole fabric of International good
faith. Secretary of Commerce Hooi
er, a member of the allied debt con
mission, declared lest night in an ail
dress here. He added, however, he
did not believe any public official,
either in the United States or any ot
er country, could or should appro'
their cancellation.
“The loans are In fact debts owing
to our taxpayers,”. Mr. Hoover sab
“They were made at the urgent re
quest of the borrowers and under theii
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 17.—Nego
tiations between the British embassy
the State Department looking to | solemn assurance of repayment. Tb<
release from custody, oi vessels j loans were Individual to eacn nation,
of British registry seized by the pro | They have no relation to other na
hibitlon forces outside the three mile 1 tions or to other debts. The Amer-
limit, are expected to take a definite! lean taxpayer did not participate Ir
form as a result of the refusal of the reparations and acquired no territur)
Brtish government to enter Into an j or any other beueflts under the treat)
lenient which would permit red- j as did our debtors. There Is no ques
proca) autberity. j tlon as to the moral or contractual ob-
The United States suggested an ligation,
agreement, proposing for supervision! “With the exception of some minor
American and British shipping ‘ amounts, perhaps, five
ile the Internationally accepted convinced these debts can ibe repaid
limit of jurisdiction which would aid i in some reasonable period of time
the American authorities In enforcing without realization of tbe oft expresi
Syrup Corks
New Shipment Just Arrived
We Have AU Sizes
Pints, Quarts and Gallon fiottles
Our Prices Are Right
MASH-MILTON DRUG CO.
“A Good Place to Trade.”
Phones 105 and 106
and liquor
British government opposed It on the
ground that It was an undesirable
precedent to be established.
Great Britain, however, offered to
co-operate In every wuy ronsljtenl
with fixed policies to assist ir • orb
ing the activities of smuggle •> along
the Amercan coast.
In the conversations looking to re-
iel* alleged to have be«n
seized on the high seas, the British
representatives here are known *c
have differentiated sharply between
the eases on the ships captured oi
aide the three mile limit which hi
sh.ii'
an established contact with
by the use of small boats, and those
against which no such evidence lay.
JAIL BREAK AT LOS ANGELES
(By Assocluled Pmn
1.0* Angeles, Cal Oct. 17—Herbert
Wilson, a farmer evangelist, convicted
le murder of Herbert Cox, during
attempted jail break several
months ago, today escaped from the
county jail with two other prisoners.
ed undue strain on the debti
tries or the threat of a flood of good:
ftom debtor countries In such quar
tity as would endanger employment
of the factories and workm-
United States.
“The proposal for futher postpone
ment of payment of Interest for
tain number of years arise from the
belief that certain countries cannot
physically make these payments at
the present time without undue strain,
or that the postponement or interest
would tcontribute to general economli
stability and the more rapid recovery
of these countries In which
would benefit The British do not
make claims for such assistance from
us and are arranging their payments.
“The proposition, therefore, narrows
Itself to debtors on the continent. Our
annual payments from the whole
our continental debtors would amount
to a totul of about 1350,000,000 pel
year for interest and amortization
The debtors, omitting the possible
five per cent, that Is hopeb
ill be found thut respei
Many Government Experts
Were Amazed at the Speed
That Was Attained at The
Mount Clemons Meeting for
Airship Contests.
Mount Clemens, Mlch.,° Oct. 17.—
Aeronautical engineers and army and
navy experts came here a week ago
prepared for surprises, but none ex
pected to see a human being plunged
through space at the rate of nearly 400
feet a second. Lieutenant R. L. Maugb-
iveled c
at the i
which Is
ability
burden upon them from 2 to 12 pe
Hit. of their governmental Income.
“If there he some of these coun
tries who should be relieved of thi
al payments for a few years It
lal payments for a few years It
r to promote economic
there needs to he a de
of the facts in respect
»yer and to Congress. ‘
r would naturally con«i
* are other things of vastly lurger
dimensions than the postpone
>0.000.000 a year which mil*
advance before economic prosperl-
can lie secured In Europe. Far eco
oiic stability requires tba*. (her-
ist be such political and economic
id just ment between the
Europe as will bring abo
mosphere of peace in replacement of
FIFTEEN HONORED DOLLARS
IN FIVE DOLLAR BILLS
8R0UND UNDER TRAIN
(By Associated Prtss)
Auburn, HI., Oct - 17.—Fifteen
hundred dollars In five dollar
bills lies ground to. bits along tbe
Chicago^Alton Railroad, or baa
been secreted iby Auburn real-
dents, according to road officials
Checking the twenty, thousand
dollars which feli under a train
when the automatic mail crane
mutilated a mail bag-
CREEK ROUSTS
E
Venizelos in London Refuses
To Discuss Athens Reports
That He is to be President
Of New Government, But
Says He Will Retire Soon.
(By t
•sphere of war.
“There must be rearrangomer
couomic boundaries .if Europe
rill give the hope ot economic i
a| of slates which can be save
only as a guarantee of p
-ontrlbutlon to the balan
ot budgesta and the cessation of i
erica has dealt with Eu
the past few years In term
n. We hare always given
ever received. No one can deny
> are capable of great generoui
charity. We want to take part In mak
Id. but it must bi
Tear that sacrifices and charity from
America do not themselves brltii
about a cure for those evils whtcl'
annual payments vary in their’ gnaw at Europe's economic life.”
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FOB MEN ONLY!
Sale of Cheney’s All Silk Neck
wear, $ 1.50 to $2.50 Values, For
Friday and Saturday We Will Sell
These Ties at 95
SEE WINDOW DISPLAY-ACT QUICKLY
Smith 8 Harley Shoe Go.
17.—Former premb
lelos, of Greece, declined to di
reports from Athena that a R<
publican movement was on foot '
Greece with the object of making
Venizelos President. He declared he
s irrevocably determined to retire
private life as soon at the Turk
ish peace treaty is signed.
GREEK ROYALISTS AROUSED
OVER PLANS FOR REPUBLIC
hens. Greece. Oct. 17—The catu-
a to make Greece a republic,
which was launched directly after the
Paris of the new foreign
minister, Nicholas Politls, a promt
’enlzelist, has strongly aroused
the Royalist newspapers.
Himera declares the Greek
lople will overwhelmingly oppose
(public at the coming elections,
nd thatthey would distrust a repub-
■ided over by Venlzellst.
Other royalist organs defy the Ven-
to go openly befoto It
sponsors of a republic.
APOSTOLIC FORMS
ARE NOW ADVISED
As Best Means of Unification
Of Churches by Disciples of
Christ in Convention.
MIDI GO
California Scene of Unuxual
Incident When One of Klan
Puti Miniature Klanxman
On Stand With Speaker and
Leaves the Edifice.
(By Assorts ted Prase)
Oakland, Cat. Oct. 17.—While
Thomas Le* Wool wine. Democrat
ic candidate for Governor, waa
denouncing .the Ku Klux Klan at
a public meeting here, a man
arose, walked to the front and
set a small statue of a robed and
hooded Kiansman at the speaker's
feet, which was the signal for
about 150 men to leave the ball in
an orderly manner.
FIFTY THOUSAND WORTH OF
WHISKEY IN CHICAGO ESTATE
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, HI., Oct. 17.—Whiskey val
ued at over fifty thousand dollars,
and securities, worth sixty-nine thous
and dollars are Included In the estate
of the late Richard Tracey, hotel own
er, whose property is the stake ttr
which two women, each claiming to
be bis widow, are fighting in tbe pro
bate court
(By Associated Press)
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 17.—A uniform
world religion could bo established by
all denominational churches return
ing to (he forms and ritual of the
apostolic times. In the opinion of
members of the New Testament Con
gress. an organization composed of
members of the Disciples of Christ,
expressed at the Symposium here
SWEEf POTATO RATE
MAY BE REDUCED
™ I
Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 17.—Relief | n the
way of reduced rate* on sweet polito
shipments from Georgia to*points in
the East and Middle West have been
promised hy E. M. Price, rate expert
for the Georgia Public Service Com
mission.
WIFE OF MURDER RECTOR
AND HER BROTHER AGAIN
EXAMINED IN JERSEY
(By Associated Press)
New Brunswick, N. J.. Oct. 17. —
Mis. Frances Hall, and her eccentric
brother, Willie Stephens, were todav
brought to the court house for further
minatiou by the authorities inves
tigating the murder of the Rev. F(l-
ward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
Charlotte Mills, daughter of the slain
woman, was taken from a high school
to the court bouse by a state trooper.
COMMUNIST ON TRIAL
AT ST JOSEPH, MICH.
(By Associate* Prsss)
Joseph, Mich., Oct 17.—Twenty
alleged Communists, charged with
plotting the overthrow or the United
States government by force, were ar
raigned today in tbe first test ot
Michigan's anti-syndicalism law, a
Sixteen of the twenty men were ar
rested on August 22nd, when the au
thorities swooped down a wooded
glen near Bridgeman, and interrupted
what the government charges was the
national convention of the Communist
party of America.
COAST LINE TO DOUBLE TRACK
(By Associated Prsss)
Wilmington. N. C., Oct. 17.—Con
tracts for double-tracking the Atlan
tic Coast Line railroad from Bennett.
8. C., to Doctortown, Oa., have been
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