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WEATHER FORECAST PARTLY CLOUDY ,TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE. Staiin ©mcs enterprise. AOYERmna forms nil A. M. DAILY c>nw *f Copy R*e*lv»d after 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. 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