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mamam WEATHER FORECAST MOSTLY CLOUDY AND COOLER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. PROBABLY LOCAL RAINS. VOL. XXXIV. No. 14. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1922. SS.00 PER ANNUM KEILIS1S REFUSE FREE T01MHMED One Hundred Ready to Sail Held up by Turkish Authori ties Who Declare They are Turk Subjects and Must Get Turkish Permission. Constantinople, Dec. 5.—-The Kemal- ist police have confiscated the pass ports of a hundred Armenians as they were abont to board ships for Greece. Italy and France and refused to per mit them to embark. The Armenians In every case, carried French protege passports. Turkish officials declared they were Ottoman subjects and must have per mission from Turkish passport offi cials. POPE MAKES INTERCESSIONS Lausanne. Dec. 5.—Representations were made to the Near East confer ence today, by the Holy See, on behalf of the Christians in Constantinople. Monsignor Maglone Nuncio, of the Catholic church or Switzerland, pro ■ented the communication to the presi dent of the conference, asking that] action be taken to prompt the various Christian populations in Constantino ple, whose situation, the communica tion stated, bad become most alarm log. INAUGURATE IN JANUARY AND ELECT BY PEOPLE IS THE NEW PROPAGANDA Agricultural Bloc Wants Di rect Selection While Amer ican Bar Association Asks For January First for Inaug uration Date. I By Associated Press) Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.—Adop Ion of a constitutional nnyndment to have Presidents Inaugurated Congresses convene In January after election, was advocated today be.’f the Senate Judiciary sub-committee by Senator Ashurst, author of such an amendment, and William Lowell Put- Boston attorney, on behalf of the American Bar Association which has endorsed the plan. Under th* proposed amendment the present Baal session of congress would be abandon ed. PROGRESSIVE BLOC VICTORIOUS Washington. D. C., Dec. 5.—J here of the now Progressive blc Congress won their first legisli victory today by obtaining from the Senate agriculture committee, a orable report on the resolution amend the constitution to provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President. mPRIWTOBE-“ m FIFTH CATHOLIC FIRE IN CANADA Quebec Scene of Conflagra tion—Fifth of Kind in Past Few Weeks. (By Associated Press) Quebec, Dec. 6.—The Sulpiclan church, seminary and priests dence was destroyed by fire here early today. The gTeat monastery of the Trapplst Monks nearby was not touch ed. This is the fifth fire to occur within Catholic Institutions In tha Dominion In the last tew weeks. CLEMENCEAU PAYS (By l 1 ITess Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.—George* Olemenceau paid his respects to President Harding today, arriving al the White House three minutes tx- for the hour of ten, at which time the, President was to receive him. H-* was ushered immediately Into the executive offices where the President greeted him. The Tiger, looking pale and jaunty, was wearing his high hat for the second time since his arrival He was presented by French ambassa dor Jusserand. CLEMENCEAU IN WASHINGTON Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.--Georges Clemencau was np before daylight this morning, eager ter hla first glimpse, by daylight, of the capital, where he ex pects to put In, during the next four days, some stiff blows In behalf of an AFTER ROT BAHTS Youths Form Gangs and Prey Upon Children of Wealthy Parents, Taking, Watches, Money and Other Valuables From Them. New York, Dec. 5.—The police of this city have declared war ou a hand of boy bandits who prey on children of well-to-do parents. In Central Park. Numerous reports have been made re | centiy of gang holdups, in which the victims lost wrist watches, small amounts of silver change, foreign pos tage stamps, and other object! ured by boys. The police arrested a fourtee-year- old boy after the young robber's vie- RESPECTS TO HARDING " m SIMMONS AND ROBINSON WANT TO BE LEADER (By AsM>7lat*.| Press) Washington, D. C.. Dec. 5.- -A con test appeared certain between Sena- Simmons of North Carolina, and Robinson, nr Arkansas, for the De mocratic Senate leadership In the Congress to succeed Underwood of Alabama, who Is to retire because of III health. Friends of both Sena tors have begun an active campaign in their behalf although pelther have formally announced their candidacy. HELD DECEMBER 21ST Executive Committee Meets And Promulgates Rules for City White Primary, Fixing Assessments, Hours of Vot ing, Etc. The mass meeting last night was more meeting than mass, as far as! the 785 registered Is concerned. There were less than thirty present when Roscoe Fleetwood called the meeting to order as a member of the present executive committee, and announced that the meeting was ready to proceed. Mr. Fleetwod was made chairman and E. R. Jerger, secretary, of the meet ing. The former committee was nominat ed and no objections being raised, were unanimously reelected, committee consists of J. T. Culpepper, R. G. Fleetwood, W. II. Platt. Harrj Wycbe, Miss Louise Hayes and Mrs. J. W. L. Yates. Dr. Culpepper could f>a present last night Illness and sent his regrets forced absence. Mr. S. W. Davis Introduced rules for holding the primary and these rules in accord with those that have governed primaries for seve back. The date was fixed for tbe twenty-first of December. This wa done so as not to conflict with thi December term of the city court. En tries must be made for all offices prior to 4 o'clock of the eighteenth, which is Monday. The termer ruling against signal lotting was ruled out. Judge Hop- ns objected to it and was supported In the objection by Mr. A. J. Stana- ind. The vote was carried over- helmlngly. no objections or opposi- on being raised. This permits a oter to cast a ballot for only one r any number up to eight, for alder tan and one up to four for the school The rules promulgated for mary are as follows: In and by virtue of Its authority, the Exectulve Committee of the city of Thomasville. promulgates the follow Ing rules for tbe governance of the white primary. The primary election ter the nomina tion of a mayor, treasurer, clerk, mar shal, sexton, eight aldermen, and four members of the school board, shall be held on the twenty-first day of De cember. 1923. The poll* shall lie open at the city hall and the court house precincts of the city of Thomasville at 8 o'clock a. in., and shall clot TODAY WITH CONSENT OF ENGLISH KING Historic Meeting in Wales Today When Dali Eirean Members Go to Meet Timo thy Healy, New Governor General. (By Associated Press) Holyhead, Wales, Dec. 5.—An his toric meeting occurred here last even Ing. It was between the first presi dent of the Irish Free State and the the first Governor General. William Cosgrave, president of I)all Klreann. accompanied by Richard Mulcuhy. minister of dofen.se in th« provision al cabinet crossed from Dublin to greet Timothy Healy, on his return .rom London, where he hud been in connection with his appointment to the i i Dublin together this AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT A REALITY FOR IRELAND London, Dec. 6.—An autonomous government tor Ireland today lacked only the formal assent of King George i the Irish constitutional bill. The Anglo-Irish treaty expires to morrow when the provisional govern- will ceass to function and the Free State government will officially take charge. The first meeting of the Dali Eire- in lower house has been fixed ter 5 [•lock Wednesday afternoon. Arc Said to Have Captured All Officials and Are De manding One Hundred Thousand Dollars' Ransom For Each One. (By Associated Tresi Tien Tsln, China, Dec. 5.—Reports received here say that Chinese bandlti have taken control of Tslngtud In Shantung, the Klachow port, whose stormy career In recent war diplomacy vas to culminate today, in Its return o China, after twenty-four years o{ illen rule. The entire population is eported to be fleeing. The bandits, according to tbe tele gram, demanded one hundred thou sand dollars ransom ter delivery of the government officials held by them. WEALTHY All MAN KILLED BY ROBBERS Mystery of Death of Joseph Lanus in Chicago Said to Have Been Solved by Con fession of One of Seven Men Arrested as Suspects. Chkii(£%1 A .’r»c. l *6.-^Ti? surrounding the slaying of (•anus, wealthy automobile d November 24tb. has been so lice said today, by the conf« Laurence llefTernan. one of s< sons under arrest, tlint the victim was shot and killed In an attempted cording to the police \ Heffernan and three ot to rob MnuK in his gi ed him when Lanus d and fired. There shall be an officlul ballot and only that ballot shall be tallied by the managers and clerks. This ballot shall contain the names of nil candi dates. who have signified their inten tion to become a candidate for of the aforementioned offices, either in person or In writing, to the chair- understanding between France and the ' man or secretary of this committee by United States. |e o'clock of Monday. December 18th, dusk yesterday when he sp, and paid an assesment as follows rived and he obtained only a glimpse Candidates for mayor, |5.A0. of the city. [N YOUR HOME tfcre’i I some room—maybe your* or ^ the kiddies, living room, dit*. ing room orkitchen—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 six plgasing enamels. Come in and let tu (110111 MASH-MILTON DRUG “A Good Place to Trade." Phones <05 and 106 Candidates for marshal, $5.00. Candidates for clerk, $5.00. Candidates for treasurer, $5.o<>. Candidates for sexton, $1.00. Candidates for alderman. $1.00. Candidates for school board, no fee. The assessments are made for the purpose of paying the expense of hold ing tho primary election, following the precedent of all state and county pri maries. No charge Is made for the school board, In view of the fact that members of the hoard receive no sal ary. Registered voters of the city whose surnames commence with the letters "A" through “L" shall vote at Precinct located at the court housu. and whose surnames begin with any EIGHTEEN BELOW ZERO REGISTERED IN WEST, COLD HEADED SOUTH Northwest and Plain States in Throes of Extremely Cold Weather, and . Other States Report Low Temperatures— Warmer Tomorrow. (Ilv Assoritlsd r.-sst Chicago. Dec. 5.—Winter today made Its first determined onslaught of the leuson hy spreading a trail of sero emperatures through the Northwest md plain states, causing a decided drop in temperature ns far south as ns In the Southwest, and Tennes- in the central Area, elena, Mont., with a temperature around eighteen below xero. was re tried the coldest place In the coun- ry. Sub zero temperature was re corded throwghowt Montana. North Dakota, and parts of Minnesota. I the track, followed by three coaches A continued drop in temperature Is which predicted for today and tomorrow la all of the southern states. 24 PASSENGERS HURT IN WRECK NEAR OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Dec. 5.—Twenty-four passengers on a Wabash train which left here for St. lands last night, e or less seriously hurt, and nearly hundred others were considerably shocked and bruised, when the crack through train was derailed by an un n cause near Shenandoah. Idaho last night. The train, which was trav eling at forty miles an hour, had just ted a bridge, when the tender left MARSHALL KILLED BV NEGRO AT UNION CUV CITIZENSHIP TRAINING DISCUSSED BY WOMEN negro, when Yates entered a negro I house to which he was railed by reas I on of a disturbance. One negro has : been arrested by the | for Bailey. CLARA PHILLIPS MADE ESCAPE FROM JAIL AND HAS NOT BEEN FOUND Famous Hammer Murderess Leaves Cell and Gets Away In Auto. — Fur Found Near Los Angeles Believed Hers. —Sawed Out of Jail. (By Associated PrwM Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 5.—Clara Phillips, convicted and sentenced to ten years In prison for the hammer murder of Alberta Meadows, escaped from the woman’s section of the coun ty jail here early this morning by sawing the bars, using several steel saws to effect her escape. Her escape was discovered several hours afterward by a matron. The authorities believe the woman was aided by other Inmates and escap ed in an automobile about two oclock In the morning. Sho had (been in the county Jail ponding her appeal. MR8. PHILLIPS MAY HAVE ESCAPED BY WATER lx»ng Beach, Cal., Dec. 5.—A simitar to that worn <>>y Clara Phillip* luring her trial and believed to ha •een 1n her possession at the time ier escape from the Los Angeles •ounty jail, 2 miles from here, ound today in an abandoned ant bile here. The authorities have i n active Investigation on theory that the woman may have put to sen In a motor boat or may be in hiding here. TURKEY IB EUROPE firMipeiice Indications Point to Resump tion of Warfare in the South west Unless Some Change of Vital Importance Comes In to Being at Once. (By Associated Press) Lausanne. ■ Dae. I.—Turkey and Eu rope have apparently drifted so far apart on tha great issues of the Near East conference, that pessimists have a fruitful field for their unhappy prog nostications of the complete collapse of the conference and a resumption of war In Southeastern Europe. Such a culmination of the conference could easily be argued as a strong possibili ty, but such an argument based on a reasonable hypothesis, would leave out the very important fact that Europe needs peace. PRESIDENT HARDING BREAKS PRECEDENT So Far He Has Failed to Send Message to Congress as Cus tom is.—Comes Later. (Bv Associated Press) Washington, D. C.. Dec. ^.—Presi dent Harding -broke a precedent to day by permitting the second day of le now session of congress to pass ithout delivering the annual me*- )g reeportlng on the "state of the union.” outlining the administration’s imendatJons for legislation, vas said at the White House that no date has-been fixed for the Presl- t's appearance before Congress, that It was expected he would de- r th emessage before the end o! J'luehurst. N. C., Dec. 5.—Training (By A Shod* led Tress) for citizenship will be one of the prit> Union City, Tenn.. Dec. 5. David c i p j a j topics to he discussed at ths \ntes, night marshall, was shot *nd iOI)en | n g session here tonight of tha HIM 1.1. l«.t nl.ht br Jowpli B.U-J so.the.it,r. fount'll ot Fcter.tctl Women. Mr*. Alonzo Richardson, of Atlanta, j supply bill: Oa., chairman of the citizenship train-1 , Ing federation, will make the principal] nddress. Mrs. J. E. Hays of Georgia. ‘ president of the council, and Mrs. UNIONS OET INTO i Sydney Cooper, president of the North POLITICS IN MASS, froim. Washington, D. C., Dec. 5—-Congress put “off the old and on the new’’ today with the ending of the special session which had been called primarily to consider the shipping bill, and tbo con vening of tho regular statutory Decom er session. The charge In congres* Iona] fashions was made within ten ilnutes, the extra session, begun eeks ago, adjourning at 11:50 o’clock nd the new being called to order high noon. e routine sessions winding np the special session and opening the developed little business and drew small crowds. Formal surrender of the Senate Republicans to the Democratic filibuster against the Dyer antl-lynch- Ing bill ended the tie-up and allowed onfirmatlon of about 1,700 delayed lomlnatlons before the final gavel of he special session, but the nomination of Pierce Butler, St. Paul attorney, to tocl&te Justice of the Supreme Court failed and went over until the »w session through opposition of Sen- ors La Follette. Wisconsin; Norris, epnbllcan. Nebraska, and others. Receipt of tho annual budget was the principal business of yesterday's islon. The usual committees called President Harding and notified him of the assembling of the new session. advised definitely when the President would present his open- lage. It was believed tbe Presi dent would address Congress In Joint lesslon Wednesday, with a message dressing the administration’s desire or enactment of the shipping bill, all business by March 8 and avoiding farm credits legislation und the annual an extra session of the New Congress the hope of clearing up next spring. PUBLIC LAND MEASURE DISCUSSED IN CONGRESS - (By -Associated Press) Washington, D. C., Dec. 5 —Heap Ings were begun today by the House public lands committee on the bill to authorize the government to develop id conserve n supply of helium, a on-combustible gas used in lighter ion air flying craft. Chairman Kahn of the military com- Ittee. sponsor of tbo measure, said ) had the unqualified endorsement of president Harding, the War, In lor and Navy departments. BANDITS STOLE SIXTY BARRELS OF WHISKEY (By Associated Press) Teorla, Ill., Dec. 5.—Officials into* tlgutlng the theft of sixty barrels of whisky from the Liberty Yeast Cop poratlon at Peking. Illinois, by twen ty-live bandits, tod^y connected the raid with an unsuccessful one on the American Distiller)’ here on No\*em ber 21st. (By J rhlll. Mast labor wn* an open participant I municipal election here today. Shoe Workers Protective Union ed actively for the re-election of or Flanders, who I* an avowed S 1st and for the election of two labor men to the board of ahlcrn with • d going through “Z" shall vote at Precinct No. 2. located at the city hall. the c LOST MONEY AND THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 5.—Mrs. Marion l.otx, formerly of Detroit, died In a hospital here early today of poison she took with suicidal Intent, last Thurs day. The loss of money In a broker age firm, which recently closed Its offices here. Is believed to have been the cause of ber act. 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