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VOL. XXXIV. No. 12.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA 8ATUR0AY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 2, 1922.
95.00 PER ANNUM
TWO MILLIONS LOST
FIDE YESTERDAY
1800 Persons Made Hornless,
500 Thrown Out of Work,
And One Death as Result of
Fire Which Razed Towru—
Plan Relief for Sufferers.
New Bern, N. C.. Dec. 2.—Property
damage estimated at two million dol
lars and loss of of employment to tire
hundred persons, with the destruction
of homes of approximately eighteen
hundred persons, with one fatality,
was the toll of the fira that swept
through the town ynserday.
With the approach of dawn firemen
finally had conquered tho flames and
were replaced by soldiers who guard
ed the heaps of household goods scat
tered over the town. The may.tr has
called a mass meeting to take action
toward reliering the sufferers.
MORE THAN THREE HUN
DRED RESIDENCES BURNED
New Bern, N. C., Dec., 2—Sweeping
before It more than three hundred
residences, an overall factory, two
churches, stores, a tobacco warehouse
and other structures, the fire which
yesterday destroyed more than a mil
lion dollars worth of property here
wns virtually under control at 1
o'clock last night.
A savage fire, wherein the local
fire companies backed by fire fight
ing forces from Kinston and Washing
ton. N. €., were pitted against the on
ward sweep of the flames, has been
waged since shortly after eight oclock
this morning and although still burn
ing, o'flclals last night expressed hope
that further destruction would be
slight.
The area of the rated district last
night stretched tor halt a mile from
the western boundary of the city
the Neuse river. The churches de
stroyed, and most of the home
those of negroes.
Fire started at the Roper Lumber
Company, about 8:30 oclock thli
ing where the yards and buildings
were destroyed. More than 300
were thrown out of employment.
While the flames still were raging
at the mill, an alarm was turned in
from the western section of the city
where fire had started in the negro
district. Firemen, being occupied at
the lumber yard were unable to Im
mediately respond to the second call
and It was not until a halt hour after
the alarm had been turned in that the
first hose was stretched.
By that tlmo five houses were in
ruins Fanned by a high wind, the
flames gained great headway In a
short space, and soon negro families
assisted by hundreds of volunteers
were hastily removing what household
effects they mlghL The Increasing
headway of the blaze, however, forced
them to abandon their effects to the
furnace.
Belching a column of sparks and
amoke of great Intensity, the fire
swept onward, unchecked until it had
reached the white section, where pro-
UNCLE OF NEGRO SOUGHT
BY TEXAS POLICE SHOT BY
OFFICER WHILE RESISTING
ARREST AT HOME TODAY
Wife of Sheriff Mayo Had
Been Attacked by Negro
And Sheriff Himself Killed
Uncle of the Assailant Who.
Drew Pistol on Him.
(By /
Corsicana, Tex.. Dec. 2.—Terry
Grayson, negro, uncle of L. Johnson,
negro, who was sought In connection
attempted attack on the wife
of Sheriff Mayo, of Freestone county
Thursday night, waa shot and killed
this morning by Sheriff Mayo, accord-
ig to a telephone message here.
The sheriff is said to have called
gt the A. T. Grayson home
where Johnson waa reported to
hiding. .Grayson, according to
port, appeared and levelled his pistol
at Mayo, who shot and killed him
atantly. A posse of three hundred n
continued the search for Johnson this
morning.
LIVESTOCK SHOW IN CHICAGO
(By >
Chicago, Ill., Dec. 2.—The twenty-
third annual International livestock
how opened here today with more
than ten thousand head of blooded
cattle, horses, sheep and swine to
be judged for honors during the
week's showing. Stockmen from all
parts of the United States and Can
ada, with a sprinkling of foreign visi
tors are present.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
MEETING IN SAVANNAH
(By Auwtated Press)
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 2.—The South
east district of the Christian Endeav
or Union began Its convention hers
today, which will last through Sunday.
A number of out-of-town delegates are .
present. E. A. McWhorter is presid
ing as Presidont. ✓
DAIL MEMBERS ARE
THREATENED WITH
KIDNAPING TODAY
MOULTRIE CHILD FALLS
IH 0PEH ORATE AMD DIES
FROM EFFECT OF BURNS
Moultrie, Ga.. Dec. 2.—While
trying to recover a toy she had
dropped In tho fire, 31 ary, three-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Tucker, was severely burn
ed and died a chort time later.
The child In leaning over lost
her balance and fell into an open
LYNCHING BILL IN
FJCE0FFIL1STB
Republicans Taking Cogni
zanee of Effort to Prevent a
Vote and May Abandon it
For Confirmation of Nomi
nations Pending.
(By Assoc!.-.'
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 2.—Federal
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes le't
this morning for a personal survey *>!
enforcement conditions In the South
which will take him ns far ns New Or
leans and will include visits to prac
tically every Important Southern city.
He Is expected to take up with the
director* of several Southern states
the question of prospective changes In
the organization.
Washington, D. C. t Dec. 2.~Wlih
tho extra session of Congress fast
drawing to a close Republican Sena
tors today took counsel among them
selves as to mesns to bring ti» an end
the Democratic filibuster aga'ns! the
Dyer anti-lynching bill, so as to ob-
confirmation of about fifteen
hundred presidential nominations.
Abandonment of the Dyer bill was
considered at a conference of Repub
lican leaders, but no docislon wat
reached and arrangements were made
Republican caucus lato In the
PARIS BAKERS SHUT
DOWN AND PEOPLE MAKE
RUSH FOR BREAD RATION
(By /
I Pres*)
London, Dec. 2.—Every member ol
Dali Elrean has been warned to take
special precautions for safety during
the week-end In consequence of a re
port that plots have been uncovered to.
kidnap them, snys a dispatch t
Dally Mail from Dublin.
Tho correspondent adds that It is
believed that the round-up of suspects
during surprise searches in Dublin
yesterday, which was a part of the
government's plan to foil the kidnap
Ing plot, was completely auccessfui.
(By Associated Press)
BOMBS THROWN IN BELFAST
(Continued on Page Kvght)
Belfast. Ireland, Dec. 2.—Bombs
ere burled into the home of Dr.
Thomas Walsh, professor of Pathol
ogy in Galway University and chair
man of the Urban Council. The mis
siles shattered windows and tore a
large hole In the wall.
It Is believed the demonstration Is
i outgrowth of Walsh's refusal to
permit the Council to discuss the re
cent executions In Dublin.
Paris, Dec. 2.—A majority of the
baker shops in Paris and suburbs clos
ed at noon today In compliance with
the decision of tho master bakers' as
sociation to cease production of
bread as a protest against the official
refusal to allow an Increase in price.
The government Immediately order
ed a judicial injutry with a view t<
prosecution o' the association.
A scramble for bread, which trad!
tlnnally is the most important article
of food In France, with both rich and
poor, began eaily this morning, with
men and women hustling from the
shops to their homes with bread under
tbefr arms.
HIKES COMING SOU
TO LOOK OVEO TOE
Will Make a Thorough Re
port on the Enforcement
Plans. — Assistant Director
Of Enforcement in Georgia
Has Resigned.
my I
AIXEH, S. C.. MAN LIVED
SEVEN DAYS WITH STEEL
LINK IMBEDDED IN SKULL
tny ,
Aiken, 8. C., Dec. 2.—After Hv-
In?; seven day* with a two-inch
link of a steel chain Imbedded in
his skull, J. D. Moore, of this city,
is dead In a local hospital.
Aiken officials say tho tenacity
with which 3Ioore held to life un
der the circumstances Is the most
rcmarkablu in their experience.
HEADLESS SKELETON
FOUND NEAR TREE WITH
ROPE DANGLING NEARBY
IN NEW JERSEY WOODS
GREEKS REVOLT IN
ISLANDS ID RAISE
IDE BRITISH FLAG
GEORGIA PROHIBITION
OFFICIAL HAS RESIGNED
Atlanta. Ga., Dec. 2.—Neufield T.
Jones, assistant prohibition director
and head of the field forces In the
of Georgia has resigned, effec
tive Decomber 5th, to enter private
business, It was announced today. His
withdrawal from the service has been
accepted by Commissioner Haynes.
STROMBILO CEASES ERUPTION
Rome, Dec. 2.—Eruption of the
volcano Strombollo, which began on
Wednesday, ceased Friday. No fatal!
ties have been reported.
Protests Against the Execu
tion of the Greek Lenders
Few Days Ago is Said to be
The Cause of the Latest Dis
order There.
(By 1
Home. Dec. 2.—A serious Greek
counter revolutionary outbreak has
occurred In Petras and Mlssnlongh!
the Gulf of Floras, In Western
Thrace and on tho Island of Corfu,
where the British flag is reported to
have been raised as a result of the
Indignation over the Greek executions
aays a message received from Athens.
Hunters Near Atlantic City
Find Gruesome Spectacle
And Authorities Are Trying
To Solve Mystery of Death
Of the Victim.
MISS STONE WILL
DIE FROM POISON
SELFIDMISTEREO
(By >
Atlantic City. N. J.. Dec. 2.—The
county authorities today are trying to
solve the mystery of the headless
skeleton of a man found In a kneeling
position against a tree from which
dangled a thick rope In the woods 14
miles from here.
The discovery was mado by thrt
hunters.
The authorities arn proceeding c
the theory that the man was taken 1
pot by a band of men seven
hs ago and hanged.
LIGGETT ARRANGES
FOR 1923 LEGION MEET
(By /
n Francisco, Cal.. Dec. 2.—Lieut.
Hunter Liggett, retired, former
commander of the First American
in France, has been named
chairman of the local committee for
the 1923 national convention of the
lean Legion which will bo held
IS TIERNAN CRAZY?
JUDGE COMMITS HIM
FOR AN EXAMINATION:
PROGRESSIVES IN
WASHINGTON LAY PLANS
FOR FUTURE ACTIVITIES
(By /
(By AaaocUted rr*«
Chicago, 111., Dec. 2.—John P. Tier-
an. former professor of law, at Notre
Dame University had not been com
mitted to the Cook county Psychopath
ic boflriUJ early Utfar on a writ of
committment issued by County Judge
Rlghoimer last night, and the where
abouts of Tlernati and his wife and
threo children are unknown.
Tternan telephone his wife at the
home of her sister. 3Irs. Frances Pu-
Washington, D. C-, Dec. 2.—More
than one hundred Progressives from
all parts of tho country are here to
participate In an open conference dl
mission of Progressive legislate
alms and purposes with nearly tv
score Senators and Representatln
who met yesterday to form another
unofficial bloc In Congress to further
these alms during the present and
next session of Con
The morning session of the confer
SIMPLICITY MARKED
FUNERAL OF MANN IN
Trained Nurse Acquitted of
Killing Cincinnati Corpora
tion Lawyer Recently, Tries
To End Own Life in New
York HoteL
X,w York. Dec. 2.—MI,. OlIvU P.
Stone, acquitted slayer of Ellis Gay
Klnkend. former corporation counsel
of Cincinnati, who tried to end her
U fe by swallowing poison last n«ght.
was somewhat Improved today, but
her condition is still regarded critical
She told hospital physicians that
her ad was prompted by failure to re
cover her license as a trained nursj
and becauso she brooded over killing
the "only person 1 had to live for.”
TAKES POISON IN N. Y. HOTEL
WASHINGTON TODAY
ihington, D. C., Dec. 2—Slmpllci
ty marked the arrangements for the
funeral services in the hall of the
House of Representatives, for Jamc<
R. Mann, of Illinois, whose death on
Thursday night ended a legislative ca
In that body of more than a quar-
iski >
-ssive opinion.
soon as he learned the corn I exposition of Proi
Mr». Pulaski, who assarted II I KILLING RESULTS FROM
her belief that Tlernan Is unbal
anced mentally.
.Mrs. Tlernan gathered her children
hurriedly and iert the Pulaski home
In a taxicab to Join husband, and
since them all trace of them has been
QUARREL OVER RIGHT OF
ROAD NEAR BUFFALO
KELLER’S CHARGES
AGAINST DAUGHERTY
ARE BROUGHT FORTH
(By /
r r YOUR HOME tWf
«ome room—maybe youn or
die kiddies, living room, dixw
Ing room or kitchen—where
you’d like to change the
color of the woodwork.
That’s the place and job for
(What’s more, you can have
your favored color scheme
►—mahogany, walnut, moss
green, cherry, light or 'dark - ^
oak or any of fix pjfiajfcfi ' A_
^namely, TOi
Come In rad let u» tKcrn J
you what you can do with it,
We’re tin FIXAIi (ton.
ishiiigton. D. C., Dec. 2.—A state
ment o.' formal charges by Represen
tative Keller, setting forth fourteen
peclflc grounds on which ho seeks the
Impeachment of Attorney General
Daugherty, has been submitted to the
House judiciary which meets Monduy
i consider the charges.
Representative Keller sent a letter
Chairman Volstead, declaring th<
Dec. 2.—A quarrel
, between motorists over the rlght-of-
WILL TEST TIERNAN'S SANITY I way 0 „ a road near hcrp „ Ba||J bv
Chicago. Dec. 2. A test to determine w n ncgBe8 to bo the reason for the
the sanity of John P. Tlernan, former shooting early today In which
Notre Dame law Instructor, waa or one man wa , mied an(1 a Scrgenn*
dered last night by County Judge 0 f police on the New York Central
Rlgehelmer on the petition of Mrs Railroad force, waa shot in the abdo-
Frances Pulaski, sistor of Mrs. Tier mcn .
ter of a century.
After the services, which will be tht
first conducted In the hail of the
House, since that honor
Champ Clark in 19;i, the body will be
taken to Chicago by his widow and o
Congressional escort, for burial Mom
400 MADE HOMELESS BY
FIRE IN CANADIAN TOWN
Terre Done. Quebec, Dec. 2.—Four
hundred persons are homeless as a
•suit of a fire which last night wiped
lit the entire lower part of this city,
destroying moie than seventy-five
residences and store buildlnrs, indud
Ing the town hall and postofflee. When
the fire fighting apparatus nrrlved
from Montreal, twenty-five mil
a large section of the tow
been mowed down by tho blazi
York, Dec. 2.—Olivia Stone, •
trained nurse of Cincinnati, who last
acquitted of the murder ot
Ellis Guy Klnkead, Brooklyn attorney
and former corporation counsel of Ci»
clnnatt, yesterday attempted suicide
New York hotel, by swallowing
poison.
ras taken to Bellevue Hospital
where her condition was reported as
critical.
Moaning that she wanted to be left
i administer an antidote, and
I police del
ambulance attendants arrived that the
portion wns forced down her throat,
Tho condition of the room was evl
dence that the nurse had boon in vio
iriog the hours she lay
alone after taking the poison. She had
suffered several hemorrhaagos. accord-
g to tho doctors, and was In a state
' coma from loss of blood when she
as found.
She rovived somewhat before being
taken to the hospital, pointed to a let-
nd said It contained an
cxplantlon of her act and naked the
police to deliver It to Miss M. Dorman
girl reporter for a Brooklyn newspw
Per.
statement made by Dr. I
James W. Hall, allenlet, that Tlernan | RUSSIA HOLDS DISARMAMENT
mentally umound. .ml the chart, CONFERENCE WITH STATES
made by Mrs. Pulaski that the pro
fessor had ''hypnotised" bis wife and
’prevented her from carrying
pwn will," Judge Rlgehelmer signed
papers for Tiornan’s commitment
the Cook county hospital for obsen
Deputies were then sent
specifications "net out and I am pro- * Mrc b for Tlernan, who
pared to prove Daugherty guilty of c **° yesterday with hie wife following
serious misconduct In office, the auctioning off of their household
alued premier AuvJ th r; , 1 jrr.r„ n, it u r“La
MEET IN B0L0GNEI granted a divorce as a result of the
I voiding of the decree after he had
(By Associated Press) voiding of the decroe after hi
Paris, l»ec. 2—Whether a meeting 'rled again at Crown PoinL
allied premiers to discuss in ad- j .
vance of the Brussel's conference, the! twee n Premier .Mussolini of Italy.
reparations and allied war debts que» ! tn d Prime Minister Bonar Law. it was
lions, shall be held In London. or Bo! ; .said at the French foreign office this
ogno Is a question to be decided be- morning.
confer
which officials belle'
Impor
leetlng
Severnl times she dciared that "a
woman In Cincinnati Is responsible
for this," and that this woman “hat
hounded me nnd and caused ine to be
barred from my profession."
The police opened the letter. Al
though they refused to divulge the
text, they asserted that the nurse
named the Cincinnati woman who
"drove me to suicide'' and concluded
with this request:
my certificate of gradu
ation as a nurse from the Cincinnati
i Hospital burled with mo in Potters
j Field, and I don't want my people to
(pbject."
program on the second day of his vli
to 8t. Louis. A public reception, .1
tomoblle parade and delivery of hit because I loved him
fourth address to cement closer rcla-, MJlg stone
tlons between France and th«
shot
found by a hotel
for the 1
icfore Ills departu
held for the purpose of bett
iatlons between Russia and tl
boring states, opened hero today.
In addition to the question of ro
duct ion of armies In Russia and bor
der states. It Is expected that neutrali
sation of the Raltlc settlement ot
il zones and frontiers will be dls
TIGER CAPTURES ST. LOUIS
St Louis. Dec. 2.—Georges Clemen
:eau, war-time premier of France,
vho ts touring the United States on
good will expedition, faced a busy
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_
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v '
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— From—
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The Original Home of
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