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■Jr** ~3i - WEATHER FORECAST CLOUO.Y TONIGHT AND THURSDAY ADVERTISING FORMS CLOSE NINE A. Mi DAILY CfeMflM tff Cepy RiMhud after mat VOL. XXXIII. No. 301. THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY A^TERNOO N, NOVEMBER 1, 1022. 35.00 PER ANNUM IB MED TO CILLCOfMCETO SID ILL WORLD WARS Massachusetts Citizens Peti tion White House to Seek Meeting for Purpose of Out lawing War as an Institu tion in World Affairs. 1 Pres.) Washington ,D. C., Nor. 1.--Presi dent Harding was asked In a petition presented at the White House today on behalf of nine thousand Massachus etts* residents to call a conference of all civilized nations for the purpose of outlawing war as an Institution and the codification of international law. "THEN EXPLAIN THOSE LETTERS,” WORDS HEARD BY MRS. GIBSON WHEN RECTOR KILLED New Brunswick, N. J., Nor. 1.—In her first Interview, Mrs. Frances Hall denied that ahe was in any way con nected with the slaying of her husband and Mrs. Mills, and denied that she it the scene of the murder. U. S. CRITICIZED IN MEXICAN CONGRESS FOR CLOSING N.Y CONSULATE (Dr Associat Praia) Mexico City, Nov. 1.—The United States was adversely criticized and a vote of confidence In President Obre- gon, was proposed In the chamber of deputies last night, In discussion of the situation resulting In closing or -the Mexican consulate In New Yoik. The vote failed because of lack of a quorum tout It was apparent tbe suggestion was well received by the members. MEXICAN CONSULATE REOPENED New York, Nov. 1.—The Mexican -consulate which was closed Friday as a protest against the action of the courts in issuing a writ of attach ment on property in connection with a suit brought by the Oliver-Amer ican Trading Company was reopened today. MORE TESTIMONY OFFERED New Brunswick, J?. J-. Nov. 1.—In w her account of the Hall-Mills murder i on g gray coat Mrs. Gibson told the authorities. It was learned today, that a few mo ments (before the shooting she heard of the women on the scene ex claim, "Then explain these letters." The shooting followed a few moments of heated argument, she said. TRYING TO IDENTIFY ANOTHER MAN IN CASE New Brunswick, N- J., Nov. 1. — Maintaining that he felt confident the story told by Mrs. Gibson, would stand up, Attorney Mott, continued today his efforts to identify the man whom sba described as being tbe murderer of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills hts choir leader. According to Mrs. Gibson, witness es have been found to corroborate the statement that a woman wearing *s at the murder Caae.Went/to thi O’CIoek Last Ni Verdict Wa$ in , Aitemoon.—Defi Court in PrAyer. Finger print experts and police photographers from Newark ai route here to make pictures and dia grams of the murder scene and exam ine the clothing of the victims. was revealed today that Mrs. Gibson has been approached by a who urged her to keep quiet and make more money testifying for the defense. AE61RITER UlICTEO GIRL IS MS BEEN TAKEN General Murguia Who Came Into Mexico Commanding Eight Hundred Rebels Has Been Captured and Impris oned Near Durango City. r Associated Press) CHRISTIAN PEOPLE URGED TO KEEP TO LAW (By Associated Press) Mexico City, Noy. 1.—General Fran cisco Murguia, arch enemy of Presi dent Obregon for many years, was captured yesterday with a little band of followers by the federate neai Durango City. Two months ago, Gen. Murguia re-entered Mexico from his hiding place across tbe border, lead ing eight hundred troops. LEAGUE WANTS U. S. TO TAKE PART IN JUDICIAL ELECTIONS 1 Press) Geneva, Nov. l.Informal negotia tions have been going on for some time between the League of Nations Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.—An ap peal "to all Christian people to exert every Influence to socure the impar tial enforcement of all tews," was is-j and the State Department In Wash- sued by tbe federal council of the ington to make possible American Churches of Christ In America today, j participation in the election of Judges It Is high time for the Christian J for the permanent court of Interna- forces to unite in support of tbe con- tional Justice, said League headquar- stltutlon as the foes of prohibition are tors today, united for the defeat of the constitu tion, the statement concluded. N.Y INCENDIARY IS BELIEVED CAPTURED (By Assort. New York, Nov. l.-Joseph Presto- monad, was arrested early today as he ran from the ftllwajr of an uptown apartment where a fire had (been start ed. Police believe the arrest may aid in solving the mystery of two fires recently In which twenty-two persons lost their lives. TASSE FROM WRAP OF MRS. LINCOLN RESTORED (By Associated Press) Selmer. Tenn., Noy. 1.—J. W. PurvI- ance, has sent to Lincoln’s tomb, at Springfield, Illinois, a tassel from the opera cloak worn by Mrs. Lincoln on the night of the President’s assassina tion. The tassel was given oy a maid in the Lincoln household to Malcr Thompson who gave it to Purvtenie forty years ago. JustReceived 100 lbs SMOOTH JORDAN ALMONDS We are now selling them lor Forty Gents the Ponnd Get yours before they are all gone for they wont last long at this price. Remember Only 40c the Pound MASH-MILTON DRUG CO. ”A (tod Pirn to Tm|1* Phones 105 and IN' • ' - ’ Muskegon Sensation Settled When Little Eleven Year Old Victim Finds Way to Farmer’s Home After Being Left in Woods by Captor. (By Aswctst Muskegon, Mich., Nov. 1.—Rosalie Shanty, aged 11, who was kidnaped Sunday as she came from church was found wandering in the woods near Dublin last night, according to telegram received here. According to the police, the girl as abandoned by her abductor and had wandered In the woods until she retched a farmhouse where she Riven shelter. A posse Is searching the" woods near Dublin for the abduc tor who enticed the girl away in an automobile Sunday. STIL1DEU0 (By J ITALY BACK TO NORMAL WITH YOUNGER CROWD NOW IN CHARGE OF POUTICS FORD US PUIS TO Statesboro, Ga., Nov. 1.—The Jury deliberating on the verdict In the case of the Re^f Elliott Padrick, trial charged with slaying his wife and her mother, had not reported an agreement this Afternoon. Delibera tion by the Jury' started at nine oclock this morning. Padrick admit ted the doable filling, pleading in- Rome, Italy, Nov. 1.—Italy wi the road back to normalcy today after an exhillrating week that saw the younger generation rise to power and overthrow tbe older politicians. The chief topic today Is wh»t the fortune of the new cabinet will be when it goes before the chamber of deputies. It developed today that Mussolini is sent a reply to Coant Sforza who resigned as ambassador to Paris, re proaching hi mtor his action and ask ing him to retain the post. CARRIED OFF BY STRANGER Muskegou, Mich., Nov. 1.—An alb day search yesterday failed to reveal the whereabouts or 12-year-old Rosa line Shanty, the "swimming girl,” who disappeared after attending Sunday school last 8unday. City and county officiate, aided by Boy Scouts, combed the nearby resort districts without finding any trace of the girl. Tbe authorities declared test night they believed the girl was taken away nan who had witnessed her fancy swimming exhibition at a local beach last summer and had either become Infatuated with the child or planned to train her for a circus or stage career. Officials in Chicago and other cities ere enlisted In the search. Many residents, however, expressed the belief that the girl was spirited away by a degenerate and feeling was ► high that officials took steps to rert order should the man be found. Rosaline, who appears much older than 12, and who was unusually attrac tion, was Induced to enter an automo bile driven by a man who had asked boys to point out to him "the swimming girl.” As the car sped away from the church the girl began to cry, and the man was said to have told her she would “never see her home again.” Previously the same man bad driven to Rosaline’s home and asked her moth permission to take her out for din ner “with a little girl she knew st the N. D. POLITICS BADLY MIXED (By AisoeUi 1 Press) Fargo. N. D.. Nov. 1.—The scrambl ed condition of North Dakota politics was shown today when two Republi- congressmen seeking re-election endorsed the candidacy for the Unit ed States Senate an anti-Non-Psrtisan hurt this morning at the Wllmott sta- and Democrat, according to an an- tlon, 38 miles north of here when a nouncement by the Independent Asm*- locomotive on the Trinity and Brazos elation today. Valley freight train exploded. EVIDENCE FINISHED YESTERDAY Statesboro, Ga., Nov. l—a few min utes before 11 o'clock last night Judge Park finished his charge to which Is trying Elliott Padrick for the murder of his wlfa and mother-in-law. and ordered the Jurors to bed. He structed them not to consider the ct last night. Conrt adjourned until 3 (’clock this morning. The Judge’s charge was an exhaus- re one. He went into the usual ques- >ns of law bearing upon murder cases and dwelt at length upon the insanity feature which has been injected by the defease. He told the Jurors to ac quit the prisoner If they doubted bis sanity at the time of the tragedy, but If they were convinced from the evi dence that the young Methodist preach er was in his right mind when he kill ed his 'jjroung wife ,and her mother a few months ago, then they should con vict him. The Judge said ltbs within the dis cretion of the jurqrg to say whether mercy should be shown the prisoner, and explained that If mercy were rec ommended the Judge has no alterat ive bnt to sentence the accused to Ilfs Imprisonment. n There were no incidents of particu lar Interest during the night session- The preacher-defendant appeared to dose a part og'lfiS’time arguments were being made, and showed only occasional flashes of interest In the proceedings. The closing speeches were made by Attorney Pierce for the defense, and Col. A ,M. Deal, for the prosecution. Before the time for tbe court to me yesterday morning the house i packed with curious spectators that it was necessary for the sheriff make a passage for tbe witnesses ie Elliott-Padrick murder trial to i their rooms. Although many spectators remained it back of the court house good look at the young minister who on trial for the murder of his moth- ’-in-law, Mrs. Mamie Lou Dixon, they missed the opportunity, for Padrick fcas brought to the court room long before court opened. He had a comfortable pillow In his chair and laid his head back and ap peared to be sleeping more comfortab ly all through the proceedings. ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U. 8. RE8IGNS Rome, Nov. 1.—Vittorio Roland! Ric ci, ambassador from Italy to Washing ton, has presented his resignation, de- be free to pick his own envoys. The daring that Premier Mussolini should Berlin and Paris ambassadors also resigned. GARIBALDI BACK IN THE THOUGHTS OF ITALIANS Rome, Nov. 1. The triumphant the way to Borghese Park as the Fas. cistl troops, abroad early, proceeded op Pincian Hill from Tivoli Santa Marinella and other placet on the outskirts of tbe city where they bad been camping for the past three days. "It is a Flsrfsmo sun>” said a sturdy young blaek-shirted peasant from the plains of Piedmont as he led the Piedmont contingent Into Borghese Park, where 15,000 Fas. cisti representing all the provinces of the kingdom from Northern Ve.ietla and Lombardy '.o South**n Cnlabarm and Sicily, asrembled. With military precision they form- ed and automatically fell into the places assigned to them dark visaged youths, with set, determined faces, upon which shone the light of victory all wearing the ubiquitous black shirt But the rest of their equipment varied from skull caps to soft felt hats and steel helmets—some of them were without hats and nondescript trousers, multi-colored socks and shoes that ranged from Komi. Piov. i , no *»p b " ot » d ““ d "f P u "r- Thqr entry of Fucl.tl troop, into Home' “™ cd ■>"'* ? lth ridi ”* 7” p * yesterday was the apothesls of an “ bludgeons. One man from Italy’s bloodless revolution. SOFT COIL ms Thirty Thousand Acres of Coal Lands Reported to Be In Process of Purchase bv The “Flivver King” for Fif teen Million Dollars. iBy Associated Press) Pittsburgh, Pa., Not. 1.—More than thirty thousand acres of coal land, containing 180,000.000 tons of bituminous coal, are Involved in a deal which Is reported In process of negotiation between Henry Fqrd and the Wayne Coal Company, of Pittsburgh. The price is unofficially estimated at fifteen million dollars. BULGARIA'PL1S TO TREAT WITH BALKAIVS Old Romans who witnessed the try of the soldiers of the King of Italy into the capital of his newly welded kingdom on Sept. 20, 1870, wept for joy and vowed that Oct. 31, 1922, will forever mark a great epoch in Italy's national life. For in 1870, they said, Italy was born; to-day she has been saved from Bolshevism. The younger generation, which In few days accomplished this tremen dous change in Italy's political aspect will look back upon their youthful leader, Benito Mussolini, as those vet with dimmed eyes yesterday recalled Garibaldi. The day broke clear and fine, with ie of Italy’s brightest suns lighting Anacona swung a baseball bat. 1 Briskly they swung into line to the tunes of innumerable bands, the Ro man contingent leading the way along the Pincian Hill road to the Piazza del Popolo to the Porta del Popolo. The army of the people entered the kingdom's capital through the gate of the people Into the people’s square then marched down the Corso Um berto, Rome’s main street, lined with flags. Every window was filled with Romans cheering some showered upon the passing black shirts, while those in the streets saluted straight-armed from the shoulder and hand extended: toward the west. Straight through the heart of the Premier Will Visit Rumania And Jugo-SIavia in Order to Get Thracian Matter Set tled Amicably.—Bulgaria is After Outlet to Sea. (Dy 1 Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 1.—Premier Stamboulisky of Bulgaria, will leave Friday to confer with the Rumanian cabinet in Bucharest and the Jugo slav government, urging them not to oppose the autonomy of Thrace or Bulgaria’s effortto obtain an outlet across Thrace to the sea. (Continual! on Page 4.) BLACK HAND LETTERS PRECEDED BOMBING HOME LENINE SPEAKS IN PUBLIC YESTERDAY •By i Moscow, Nov. 1.—Premier Le- nine spoke publicly yesterday for tbe first time since bis prolonged illness, before the workmens and peasants’ parliament. The vigor of his speech indicated that he has recovered his health. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES KILLING ONE PERSON (By Associated Press) MISSOURI TOWN IS SEAftCHEDFOR VICTIMS OF RECENT TORNADO Hundreds Are Going Thru LLOYD GEORGE HAS SORE lllit CAN(XLS SPEAKING DATES The Ruins of Buildings to See if More Were Killed or Injured and are Embedded Therein. Webb City, Mo., Nov. 1.—Hundreds are searching the ruins for the bodies of persons who are believed to have been killed In the tornado which swept this city early today. A woman is known to have been killed and fif teen persons injured. The storm | for Lloyd Gi •truck In two place*, and thirty houses were demolished. Physician Advises Him To Take Rest and Bristol Ad dress is Called Off.—Rest Essential to Recovery of Full Strength. Chicago, Ill. ,Nov. 1.—Wrecking of the Collure home here by a bomb yes terday, revealed tbe fact that a num ber of black hand letters addressed to her father had been Intercepted by the daughter. The bomb was thrown because Collure failed to pay ims demanded in the letters. MRS. HARDINQ BETTER AFTER COLD AND RELAPSE igton, D. C„ Noy. 1—Mr.. London.^Noy!*]^—Lloyd*oLorKe h.a ‘ sa “ “ «“ Whtt “ T , j— . * ueorge has todajr t0 haTe rec0 yered from the t..t,.oped a sore throat and on the slight relapse which she suffered a advice of his physician ha. abandon- ,. w dayi ag0 and la able agaln to Dg tJ ” ng **®" e ” t _ 8 at _ Bristol J .it up for brief periods during the mrrnw l. - dajr Her re j apie wfl8 due to a gold physicians said. DEAD IN BATHROOM, BULLET THRU HEAD found doai his apartment through his he SEAMEN CHARGE GROSS INDIGNITIES San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 1.— letter to President Harding, made public by Andrew Furuseth, President of the International Seamen’s Union, he charges that American sailors are being driven off the seas, because they bad refused to work, eat and sleep with Chinese coolies, and sug gested that tbe administration at tempt to solve the problem. Something New for Women Patent Leather One Strap Welt Sole Pump, Low Rub ber Heel. Very Low Price $^.00 Now 1 Smith-Harley Shoe Co. POLITICAL CHIEF8 UNDECIDED. London, Nov. 1.—Tbe chieftains of the Conservative party under Bonar Law and the National Liberals under Lloyd George still were undecided to day whether they should spread war 1 against one another’s candidacies in i ST. LAWRENCE CANAL ASSURED (Br Associated ; Chicago, Ill., Nov. 1.—As soon as Canada consents to the United States project for tbe St. Lawrence river- Great Lakes to the ocean waterway, the work will be undertaken. Senator Townsend of Michigan declared in an The Hand of a Master Tailor Is seen In the fall and winter HART 8CHAFFNER k MARX, KIRSCHBAUM, and F1TFORM Overcoats and 8uits, which we aw now displaying. The master craftsmen who fashioned these advanced styles spared no efforts to meet the super-critical de mands of those who believe In the value of distinctive clothes. 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