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VOL. XXXIII. No. 294.
. THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1922.
HM nn ANNUM
STUDENTS IN FREE FOR 2
ILL FIGHT USED I
LOS 1GELES MIX UP
Party Being Staged When
Rival University Students
Use Gasoline Bombs and
Make An Attack That Re
sults Disastrously.
(By Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Cal., OcL 20.—Over
score of college students were Injur
ed, one possibly fatally as a result
or burns from “gasoline bombs" from
blows on their heads and bodies In
riot following a “Pajamerlno" party
on the campus of the University of
California.
According to students, they gather-
ed for the "Pajamerlno” party when
over fire hundred young men, said to
be students «t a rival university,
rived in automobiles and attacked
them with “gasoline bomba," rags,
and bottles filled or saturated with
gasoline. A fight followed in which
clubs, iflsts, bricks, torches and any
other weapon handy was brought In
to play.
HOSPITAL HEAD IS
CHARGED WITH PETTY
GRAFT IN CHICAGO
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, 111., OcL 20—Charged with
petty graft. Dr. Arthur Gammsge has
been suspended aa superintendent of,
the municipal contagious disease hos-
pllst. An investigation la alleged to
have disclosed that the L. C. Smith
Tj+perwriter was pJd a salary In
the name of “Elsie Smith, that money
obtained from the sale of barrels i
credited to a “Mr. 8tave," and the i
of the hospital cook was .carried
the books as Mr. Eatum."
!8 MINNEAPOLIS Ml
I1ICTEDF0U BIG
GDI THEFTS
ED El
Special Federal Grand Jury
Orders Arrest of Prominent
Men, Including Bankers and
Newspapermen for Alleged
Participation.
... <By Assocta.ad Praia)
Minneapolis, Minn., OcL 20.—Twen
ty-six Minneapolis residents, includ
ing bankers, bond salesmen and
three or four newspapermen, have
been indicted by a federal grand Jurv
charged with Implication In nation
wide bond thefts, Lafayette French.
United States District Attorney an
nounced today.
The indictments were voted by the
special grand Jury late yesterday and
serving of the warrants was started
today.
chargod that nearly halt a mil
lion dollar* worth of stolen bonds
were disposed of here, and the bonds
alleged to have been a part of th*
and a half million dollar maii
robbery In New York In October 1921.
IGHT MBS KILLED Bi
IIOKUMII
E
Gas Explosion Caught Thir
teen in Shaft and Those Not
Killed Suffered Serious In
juries.—Rescue Workers on
The Scene.
ID AGOG OVER THE
CH1GES III CHET
EXPECTED NEXT WEEK
WOMEN COME TO RESCUE
OF SAWDUST TWINS
MOTHER
SET DATE FOR NEAR
EAST PEACE MEETING
Paria, Oct. 20.—The Near Eastern
peace conference date baa been ten
tatively aet for November 13th at
Lausanne. The preliminary confer
ence which It had been proposed to
hold In London was abandoned after
France had refused to approve Lon
don as the meeting place.
PADRICK TO 00 ON TRIAL
FOR DOUBLE MURDER
(By Aseoclated Press)
Stateaboro, Ga., OcL 20.—The
Rev. E. L. Padrlck, charged with
the murder of hla wife and moth
er-in-law on June 25th, will go on
. trial Monday. The defense is ex
pected to enter a plea of insanity.
MORE HOMESTEAD LAND
Hammond, III., OcL 20.—Tw-
cage women who knew her as a child
today went to the defense of Mrs.
Hazel McNally, who la accused by her
husband or killing the twin babies he
ere born to her last Decernin'
Tbe maternity hoax with which
Mrs. McNally says she decclvod her
friends and relatives by “mothering"
two dolls, if true, Is a repetition of
a similar deception she worked when
sixteen years old, tbo women said.
VILLA DRIVEN FROM
RANCH BY BANDITS
El Paso. Tex.. OcL 20.—Fran
cisco Villa, former Mexican ban-
diL was driven from bis ranch
at Canutlllo. In the state of Du
rango, Mexico, by rebels under
Rosallo Hernandos Tuesday, ac
cording to reports given out by
sympathizers of the Murgui rebel
lion.
SULTAN’S EMISSARY SNUBBED
(By Associated Press)
Constantinople, OcL 20.—The Sul
tan's government has been soundly
snubbed by the first dignitary of the
Turkish Nationalist government
arrive here alnce Muatapha Kemal
Pasha’s army consolidated
strength of the Angora government
•by the victory over the Turk*.
omlng have been classified under the
atock-ralalng homestead law and des
ignated for entry In tracts of
, the Interior Department
In New Mexico, Washington and Wy- nounccd today.
Syrup Corks
New Shipment Just|Arrived
We Have All Sizes
-FOR-
Pints, Quarts and Gallon Bottles
Our Prices Are Right
MASH-MILT0N DRUG CO.
"A Good Place to Trade.”
r ‘i ’ ■, Phones 105 end JOt
McCurtaln, Okla., Oct. 20.—Eight
m were killed and four badly horn
ed by the explosion of gas in the Pro
gressive coal mine here today.
FIR8T REP0RT8 INDICATED
ONLY FOUR LIVES LOST
McCurtaln, Okla., Oct. 20.—Two
miner* are known to hare been killed
seven others entombed In pits of
Progressive coal mine here. Tho
other four of the thirteen u»n In tbe
when tbe explosion occurred
have been rescued, but are suffering
turns, and their condition Is
believed serious.
The explosion did not Ignite the
mine in the opinion of rescue work
ers who were forced to come
surface (because of the bad air.
The Braddlsh work was demolished
by the blast, rendering it Impossible
to send fresh air Into the mine.
FREDERICK THOMPSON
TO MANAGE AGE-HERALD
Shipping Board Appointee as
Soon as Practicable Will
Take Over His Purchase.
(By Associated Press)
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 20.—Freder
ick J. Thompson, of Mobile, who with
ssoclates purchased tho Birming
ham Age-Herald, announced this
morning that he would assumo control
the paper as soon as he could be
relieved by President Harding as a
member of the United States Ship
ping Board.
EMPEROR WILLIAM
BETROTHED IN HOLLAND
Amsterdam, Oct. 20.—'The civil
othal ceremony of former emperor
William and the Princess of Reuss
occurred this morning, says a
from Doom.
BIG MAIL ROBBERY
MYSTERY SOLVED
(By Associated Press)
Council Bluffs. In., Oct. 20.—Postal
Inspectors believed that with the ar
raignment of forty-one suspended poa-
clerks on charges of thefts from
the United States malls, tho insidi
story of the second big mall robbery
here within two year* will Oe learned.
Six of the forty-one postal clerks
suspended here yesterday, for oiler
ed pilfering of the mails, enters t
pleas of guilty before United States
Commissioner, and were bound
to the federal grand Jury.
FRENCH DECLARE
NOV. 11 HOUDAY
(By Assoe'atad Proas)
Paris, Oct. 20.—Hereafter Nov
ember 11th, etch year, will be a
legal holiday In France, under
the name of Victory Day, under
the terms adopted by the Senate
and Chamber of Deputies.
1EORG1A HOG RAISING
CHAMPION A GIRL
(By Associated Press)
Atlanta, Ga.. OcL 20.—Mia*
Louise Duncan, aged 15, of Roy-
ton, declared champion hog rais
er In the Georgia Pig Clubs, will
be given a tree trip to the Inter
national Stock 8how in Chicago.
Bonar Law Rapidly Filling
Position in New Cabinet of
Which He Will be the Head
—French Consider Change
Victory for French Policies.
(By Associated Pres...
London, Oct. 20.—The Conservative
party organizers were busy today
ranging a meeting at which a leader
will be elected to succeed Austen
Chamberlain. The selection of Andrew
Bonar Law Is a foregone conclusion,
and as soon as the party’s vc
been registered he will be In
tlon to begin the formation of
Inet to succeed tbe resigned Lloyd
George ministry.
Rumor will be overworked In the
next few days filling tbe various cab
inet posts. Some political writers al
ready have started speculations,
number giving greater prominence
of Lord Salisbury than
might be expected in view of his pre
vious political activities. It is believ
ed In Conservative quarters that the
cabinet will be completed before the
id of next week.
Andrew Bonar Law appeared to
be making rapid progress in forming
cabinet to replace the fallen coal!
in government This was evidenc
ed by the announcement that Marquis
Curzon and the Early of Derby, both
of Influence and experienced cab
inet ministers, have agreed to serve
in any capacity.
Meanwhile, Lloyd George bereft of
his rank ns prime minister, but stir
giving evidences of retaining full In
domitable courage and the fighting
spirit whclh has characterized his
thirty odd years In political life. Is
making his way along the first stage
of his trek “Into the wilderness,
WILL Rl
116 PIM
BE MOVED SDOII TO
IE
W. H. Baxley to Bring it tc
This City From Waycross
To Take Care of Truck to be
Grown by Farmers.—Meet
tag Yesterday Afternoon.
Mr. W. H. Baxley, of the Waycrosa
Packing Plant, states that be will
move the plant to Thomasville to be
gin the next season. This decision
was the result of the meeting held
yesterday afternoon at the City Hall,
ere were about a hundred citizens
and farmers present at 3 o’clock. M.
M. Cooper was made chairman of the
meeting, aptlng for President Frank
was planning the moving of his pack
ing or canning plant to Thomaavllle,
by reason of the fact that he conld
not get the stuff to can at Waycross
and desired to be closer to the pro
ducing centers of the truck and fruits
that he used. He asked nobody to take
any stock of any kiud In the enter-
BRITON8 CLOSELY WATCH
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 20.—Devel
opments in the British political sltua-
following tho fall of the IJoyd
George government continued to hold
close attention In both the governmen
tal and diplomatic circlet here.
tside of the immediate effect al
ready felt in postponement of the
omlng of the British debt commii
slon, the possibility or further results
said to bo guaged only In the
light of developments and the success
or Premler-deslgnnte Bonar Law’s ef
forts to form a new cabinet.
Paris, Oct. 20.—The dominating
note in the French press comment on
the fall of the Lloyd George cabinet
1s that the change cannot fail to
make the negotiations for settlement
of Europe’s problems easier. To S;
majority of tbe papers. It la looked,
upon as a victory for France.
WASHINGTON'S VIEW .
OP CABINET CRISIS
Washington, D. C., Oct 20.—Fall
of the Lloyd George government
gripped the attention of official circles
here yesterday, both governmental
and diplomatic although no direct
(Continued on page 8)
U. S. MARINES LAND
IN VLADIVOSTOK
Government Cannot Guaran
tee Safety to Foreigners who
Are Advised to Leave.
(By Associated Prsss)
Vladivostok, Oct. 20.—American
and British marines were landed here
to guard the consulates of the
nations, the legislative assembly of
the Priamur government refusing t<
accept responsibility for protection o
foreigners, and General Dleterlcb ha:
ordered all civilians to leave Vladl
vostok for China.
BA WARNS
HUES ABOUT IE
EAST PLA
Foreign Minister Tchltcherta
Says the Tendency to Ignore
Russia ta This Matter Will
Only Serve to Further Com
plicate Situation.
(By i
•toss)
Moscow, Oct. 20.—The reported re-
sal of the powers to take into
slderatlon Russia’s most elementary
and Just demands, I* far from
tributlng to consolidation of the
eral peace and creates conditions
which are likely to bring about a seri
ous International complication, says
note addressed to Great Britain and
Italy by the 8oviet foreign minister
M. Tcbitcherin.
STATE CONVENTION
PLANS DISCUSSED
Atlanta, Go., Oct. 20.—Preparatlc
for tbe state convention In Macon
October 28th, were perfected by the
Democratic executive committee
here today, which decided to adopt
the rules of the old committee tempor
arily, and a committee was named t<
ft amendments to these rules,
'ending contests growing out of re
cent races for Judgeships In the Way
cross and Brunswick circuits, were
erred to a subcommittee of seven
hear evidence and make recommen
datlons to the state convention.
POISONING DOG
CAUSES MURDER
DerIdder A La r . l *Oct. I 20.—Follow
ing a quarrel over the poisoning
of a. dog. R. E. Welbom, a large
land-owner In the Beauregard
Parish, was shot and killed, and
E .C. Holbrook, lawyer, was ar
rested charged with the shooting.
TRANSCONTINENTAL
AIR FLIGHT POSTPONED
try of the
ih debt commission
Robert Horne,
chancellor of the exchequer in the
effect of the change in the British
ministry fourthor than additional - - , .
lay in the British debt funding was to have tailed for the United
negotiations was expected to b* ap
parent in relations between
United States and Great Britain,
The London cabinet crisia
of possible future complications for
all other governments. Including the
United State* however, and a clear
understanding of what is ahead, it
ms said depended very largely on tnc
rogress made by Premier-Designate
Law in his attempt to fonn a new
nbinet.
Tho immediate result of the crisl*
lready felt in Washington is the post
- moment of the coming to this coup.
chancel 1 ... — — ,--- v
Lloyd George government. Sir Robert
* ve aailed for the United
eek ago, accompanied by
Norman, director of the
Bank of England, hut the cabinet
crisis was then impending
parture wns delayed on that avconnt,
Preparations for discussion of the
problem of refunding the British war
debt to tho United States through is-
suea of long term British securttca
(Continued oa Page Eight)
Our Stock Of Children's Shoes Is
Co t plete This Fall
We have the kind that Will give rest service to Soya and Girls going to School. They are made
properly and will fit the fe it aa they should be fitted while they are growing, thus avoiding lll-ehapod
feet latar on In Ufa.
A child** foot should have proper attention, should bo carefully fitted with shoes, care should be tak
en not to fit them too short, yet not too large. As we sea It fitting children's shoe# la a great re-
tpo risibility. We feel that we are capable of taking this responsibility. Send your children te us for
shoes and we believe that you will be pleased with the results-
Smith=Harley Shoe Co.
MEN HELD FOR MURDER
CONVICTED IN COURTS ARE
TAKEN FROM JAIL IN TENN.
AND THEN SHOT TO DEATH
Mob of Between 25 and 50
Men Overpower Sheriff and
Take Men Convicted of
Manslaughter to Vacant Lot
And Riddle Them.
(By Associated Press)
Nashville. Tenn., Oct. 20.—I
Hartley, and his son, George, who
were recently convicted of manslaugh
ter In connection with the killing of
Connie Hartley, Ed'e nephow, In Ben
ton county last February, were taken
from the Camden Jail Inst midnight
and shot to death in a vacant lot two
hundred yards from the Jail.
Reports from Camden atate that tho
mob numbered between twenty-five
and fifty men. with their face* black
ened and that they approached the
rpowered Sheriff Powers, and
took the Hartley's and marched them
-acant lot where their vodlea
riddled with bullets. The mob
then disbanded in an orderly
GEORGIA EDITORS IN
ATLANTA AT FAIR
(By Associated Press)
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 20.—Georgia edl-
rs were guests of tho Southeastern
Fair hore today, sharing honors with
Governor Hardwick, his staff and oth-
ofllclals. Atlanta newspapermen
welcomed tho editors and entertained
them at luncheon.
IWSLEY OF TEXAS
ELECTED HEAD OF
Dallas Mar. Will Head This
Organization, After Spirited
Contest. — Convention Ad
journs With Conclusion of
Today’s Session.
New Orleans, La* OcL 20.—Alvin
M. Owsley, of Texas, was elected Na
tional Commander of the American
Legion today at the close of the
fourth annual convention.
The vote was a* follows: Owsley.
574; "Bill" Deegan, New York, 251;
Joseph Thompson, Pensylvanla, 205.
LEGION ADJOURNS TOOAY.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 20.—Th#
fourth annual convention of the Am
erican Legion will conclude Its ses
sions late today following the pre3en>
tlon of reports of several commlt-
es, and election of officer*.
After a night spent In caucuses,
which served only to complicate the
ilbllitiea of the outcome, friends
of the various candidates for nation-
mder of the Legion, continu
ed efforts In behalf of their choice,
causing * statement to be made that
the contest would be the most Intense
the Legion’s history.
CHICAGO DISTRICT
ATTORNEY SEEMS TO
BE IN LIQUOR PLOT
(By Associated rrensl
Chicago, Ill., OcL 20.—Special in
vestigators authorized by tbe federal
Department of Justice to Inquire Into
the recent conduct of the office of
the United States District Attorney at
Chicago, reported that “there Is not
the slightest doubt that since the pa.t-
of the eighteenth amendment
there has been traffic in intoxicating
liquors, organized on a large scale,
and protected by bribery and corrup
tion.”
(Hy i
t Press)
'go, Cal., Oct. 20.—I.ieuten-
John Steady and Oakley Kelly,
aviators, probably will not at
tempt their proposed non-stop flight
from this city to New York, until the
period
MRS. PHILLIPS CALM IN
“HAMMER MURDER” TRIAL
Los Angeles, Cal., OcL 20.—Mrs.
Clara Phillips faced trial today for
the murder of Mrs. Albert Meadows,
with “remarkable calmness.” her
Jailers said. She Is described by them
'most uncommunicative woman
that ever went before a Jury here."
She has steadfastly refused to dis
cuss the charge that ahe beat Mrs.
Meadows to death with a hammer.
The session was taken up with ex
amination of talesmen.
WABASH TRAIN WRECKED
BY REMOVING RAILS
(By Associated T
said.
‘Williamsport. Ind* OeL 20.—Belief
Is expressed here that the removal of
rails caused the wreck of a Wabash
November 1, they Eastbound passenger train near here.
causing the death of three persona.
(it
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complete line of Ladled Glove*
ever displayed her*.
Kid strap wrist Gauntlets —
In black, white, brown, gray
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Two Clasp Kid Gloves In aH
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The Shop of Quality On the Corner
.
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