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VOL. XXXIV. No. 21.
THOMA8VILLE, GEORGIA WEDNE8DAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1922.
$8.00 PER ANNUM
FEDERATION IS Hi
B
Had Hired Lawyer to Assist
Representative Keller in His
Procedure Against Daugher
ty, Labor Chief Tells House
Judiciary Committee.
(By Associated Press)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13—Samuel
Compere, president of the American
Federation of Labor, today frankly
told the House Judiciary committee
that the executive committee of the
Federation had authorized employ
ment of counsel to assist Representa
tive Keller in prosecuting the im
peachment proceedings against Attor
ney General Daugherty.
KELLER WILL PRESS HIS
RIGHTS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.—Notice
has been served on the House Judici
ary committee by Jackson Rah
counsel for Representative Keller in
the impeachment proceedings agains
Attorney General Daugherty, that hi
would insist on his "rights" before the
committee, even if he had to go
fore the House of Representative!
FARMERS APPEAR BEFORE
SENATE COMMITTEE
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.—Repre
sentatives of the Farmer's Co-opera
tive Marketing Associations,
heard todny by the Senate banking
committee at a hearing on the farm
credit legislation. The committee
room was crowded with prospective
witnesses and representatives of agri
cultural and grange organizations,
members of the farm loan board, and
treasury officials.
TWO OUT OF FIVE
PLANES SEARCHING FOR
MISSING MEN CRASHED
El Paso, Tex., Doc. 13.—Three of
the five airplanes which left San An
tonio Tuesday morning to Join in the
search for the missing aviators, Col
onel Marshall and Lieut. Webber, ar
rived hero today. Tho other two
planes crashed on their way here. It
was announced at headquarters of the
twelfth observation squadron.
MILLION WORDS AND
$100,000 SPENT IN
HALL-MILLS MURDER
MYSTERY REPORTING
New Brunswick Newspaper
Estimates This Amount Ex
pended by All Papers in Ef
forts to Keep Tab on Devel
opments of Noted Case.
(By Associated Press)
New Brunswick, N. J. Dec. 13.—
Newspapers are estimated to have
ipent more than one hundred thous
and dollars in maintaining about eigh
ty reports and feature writers here
during the last three months during
the Investigation of the murder of
Hall and -Mrs. Mills. A news
paper here has compiled a list from
figures submitted toy hotels, restau
rants, taxi companies and other agen-
es. That figure Is exclusive of tele-
-am and telephone expenditures.
Telegraph offices estimate the total
number of words on the murder sent
• the i
i at i
) that
> mil-
Shantung Evacuation Will be
Speeded Because of Chinese
Statements That Japs Were
In League With Certain of
Bandit Forces.
(By An.oclatcil Pres,)
Tokio. Dec. 13.—Japan In the proc
ss of relinquishing the Klaochow
iasebold to China, expects to com-
| plete the withdrawal tomorrow. The
Japanese cabinet, resenting charges
'nun Chinese sources that the Japan
ese troops are encouraging Chinese
bandits at Tsing Tao has decided not
to remain in control of that port until
December 20th, as China had
ed.
lion.
CHILE INVITES TO THE
PAN-AMERICAN MEETING
AT SANTIAGO IN MARCH
Santiago, Chile, Dec. 13.—The Chil-
in government has sent invitations
all American nations to participate
a Pan-American conference to be
ild in Santiago, March 20th.
BRAZIL WILL ATTEND
SANTIAGO CONFERENCE
de Janeiro, Dec. 13.—The Brazil-
(overnment has authorized
statement to the effect that there
> reason of any kind to prevent B
I’s attendance at the Santiago ci
rence. The declaration was made
result of rumors from Washington
that possibly Brazil would not be rep-
resented at the meeting.
WANT NAVAL AGREEMENT
TO INCLUDE SMALL SHIPS
Washington, D. C., Doc. 13.—Ro-
lest that President Harding se
-oaden the scope of the naval limi
tation agreement so as to Include lim-
on the construction of smaller
if war vessels and on military
val aircraft, which are Included
annual naval bill as report*
today by the House appropriate
committee. ,
RED-CROSS MEETING IN
WASHINGTON TODAY
MORE CARS LOADED WITH
COAL THAN EVER BEFORE j
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.—Nation-
Washington. I). C.. Dec. 13.—More al officers of tho American Red Croi
loaded with bituminous comprising tho general board of the
coal last Mondoy, than on any day In society, assembled here today for the
the last three years, the total being j annual meeting to discuss the largei
<5.886 ears, according to reports filed j problems of tho relief work of tho or
by the railroads with the car service | ganlzatlon. ,
division of the American Railway As-1 President Harding, as president of
soclatlon, which said it had i
of the dally loadings prior
years ago.
i record | the orgunizatloi
three ‘ ConlidKo. have l
j tho meeting.
New Line of Candies
CHOCOLATE COVERED NUTS AND FRUITS, 49c POUND
ASSORTED CHOCOLATES 49c POUND
CHOCOLATE COVERED CORDIAL CHERRIE8, .. 69c POUND
Good as any Dollar Candy at half the prlce.A trial will convince.
49 Cents
Sold only at Jack Horner Headquarters.
MASB-MILT0N DRUG CO.
"A Good Place to Trade.”
Phones 105 and 104
POINCARE STANDS FOR
RUHR OCCUPATION AS
COLLECTING MEASURE
i Tells Interviewers France is
Ready to Take Measures
Necessary to Securing Pay
ment of Reparations From
The German Republic.
(By Associated Press)
Paris, Dec. 13.—Premier Poincare
at the resumption of parliament d<
bate on the French foreign policy wi
announce that the government retains
the right to use a free hand in selzlr
securities for the German debt. Ho*
ever, he will not specify what this s
curity will be.
The premier made this point clei
to interviewers last night, saying that
he would speak spontaneously oi
reply to interpellations on the "fresh
postponement of occupation of
Ruhr," of which the deputies have
given notice.
TURKEY AND RUSSIA
STILL FIGHTING THE
ALLIED PLANS FOR THE
STRAITS SETTLEMENT
Russian Still Playing Role
Of .Chief Protestants at the
Conference. — Lord Curzon
Warns Ismet Pasha Against
World Enmity.
(By Associated Press)
Lausanne, Dec. 13.—Turkey refused
at today’s session of the Near East *
conference, to assign any special part
of Turkey as the national home for
the Armenians. Ismet Pasha declared
that such action would mean a new
attempt to dismember Turkey.
Lord Curzon warned Ismet
there would be no sympathy any
In the world for Turkey if the confer
cnee broke down on the question
minorities.
After a long and unsatisfactory dis-
he entire question of minorl
eferred to a subcommisj
MISSISSIPPI FOLKS WANT
PROTECTION ON RIVER
ishington, D. C., Dec.
‘ntatives of t
low
—Repr*
isisslppl
Valley continued today before the
House flood control committee, their
pleas for the government to take more
energetic steps to relieve them of the
frequent overflowing of their lands
by waters from the Mississippi river.
CHALLENGE ISSUED
FOR HORSE SHOE
PITCHING CONTESTS
Miami,' Fte!!" Dec.'^iV—BUir Nuna-
aker, aged 17, has issued a chal
lengo to any youth In tho United
States for a series of horse shoe pitch
ing games to be played hoio for the
hamplonshlp of the nation.
ATLANTA BANKERS BUY
GA. GOOD ROADS BONDS
(By /
Lausanne, Dec. 13. — Tho Angora
delegates to the Near East conference
are vigorously combatting the plan ol
the powers to write the question ol
minorities into the treaty which it is
hoped will be drawn up here.
Ismet Pasha and his associates arc
fearful that international regulations
will be Imposed upon Turkey which
will dbllge her to protect the foreign
nationals living within her borders
and they believe that such conditions
would be an Infringement upon Tur
kish sovereignty and a slight to her
Lausanne. Dec. 13.—Bolshevik Ru»
sia is keeping up the same pace In the
way of protests at Lausanne as she
set at the Genoa meeting. The Ru»
sian experts yesterday walked uncere
moniously out of the meeting i
was discussing the Dardanelles and
Bosphorus as a protest against allied
exclusion of the Russians from import-
t period of the Straits' negotiations.
Later the Russians sent notification
Russia's unalterable determination
abandon none of her rights In the
gotiatlons over the Straits wblcb
octly affect her vital Interests.
WES IT THE GITES
OF DOME DRIVEN BY
THEKECOLO
Cold Wave of Unusual Inten
sity is Reported Throughout
The Country and Some Are
Found Dead From Freezing.
—Conditions are Serious.
■es, desperate from the lack of
iave descended from the moun-
o the plains and are seen al-
t the gates of the capital.
STEWART ELECTED
MAYOR OF SAVANNAH
BY SMALL MARGIN
By Eight Majority He Wins
Out in Heated Political Con
test in That City Over His
Opponent James M. Rogers
In Yesterday's Primary.
(By Areocl^d Tress)
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 13,—Mayor
Murray M. Stewart, was nominat
ed by a majority of eight, over
Jamea M. Rogers, according to
complete returns this morning
from yesterday’s election.
CLMENCEAU LEFT
FOR FRANCE TODAY
“HE WAS IE
One of the Significent Testi
monies Sent to Relatives of
John Wanamakcr, at Phila
delphia Home Today, by his
Former Office Boy.
<Uy Associated Tress)
Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 13.—Among
the host of tributes to tho memory ol
John Wanamaker, merchant prince
and religious lcador, and philanthro
pist, which continued to pour Into the
city today from all sections of the
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 13.—Good
illlion dollars for the construction of' "He was always at work on time,
ruusewny from Brunswick to St. 1 With theso seven words, Wanamol
Imon’s Island, have been purchased i er’s first office boy, George Stull, suit
y Atlanta bankers, according to an ■ nrarizod the secret of the merchant’
imouncement today. success. The c
(By Associated Tr-ts)
York. Dec. 13.—His speaking
ended, Georges Clemenceau,
war-time premier of France sailed for
home on the steamship Paris today,
declaring he would return again, "but
only as a ghost."
The aged statesman who closed his
strenuous tour with a short speech
before the American committee for
devastated France last night, appear
ed to be in fine health and rare good
humor as he took his place on the up
per deck. A number of notalble
Frenchmen and Americans were at
the pier to see him off.
THE TIGER MAKES HIS
FAREWELL ADDRESS
New York, Dec. 13.—Surrounded
by friends of France, in a hall
festooned with the intertwined flags
of America and his own land, Georges
Clemenceau lust night came to the 1
end of his “peace mission” and took
leave of the United States.
He appeared in the grand ball room
of Hotel Pennsylvania, before 1,300
members of the American Committee
for Devastated France. Immediately
after he had spoken he motored to
the Steamer Pnris, on which ho sails
hack home today.
The Tiger of France received ova-
(Continued on Pago 8)
MINE WORKER LAWYER
CLAIMS HE WILL PROVE
MEN ARE ALL INNOCENT
OF HERRIN MASSACRE
In Argument Before Marion
Jury He Declares All of the
Five Accused Were at An
other Place When the Gener
al Killing Took Place.
M?r!en, Ill., U«c. 13.—Testimony to
how that the five men charged with
murder in connection with the Herrin ,
mine killings had no part in the ri
ing but were elsewhere at the tlr
was promised by A. W. Kerr, ch
counsel for the Illinois Mine Work*
In opening his statement to the Jt
in the first of the mine riot trials hi
today. The five men are charged with
the death of Howard Hoffman, o
outbreak.
State’s Attorney Duty, declared he
OF CUB1 SUGAR MILL
Total Deaths May Exceed 30,
Reports Indicate —Twenty-
Nine Seriously Injured and
Dozen Others Believed Still
In the Smoking Ruins*
(By >
resa)
pro*
plot between the union miners to kll
the non-union men, in outlining hi:
ease to the Jury. He described th*
detuils of the rioting from start t*
finish.
CONSOLIDATE WAR
AND NAVY DEPARTMENT
IN ONE CABINET HEAD
(By Associated T.-eia)
Washington. D. C. p Dec. 13.—Con-
lolidatinn of the war and navy de
lurtments in the Department of Nat-
anal Defense, designed to function
inder a cabinet member with asslst-
nts In charge of the army and navy
espectively. has been definitely rec-
mmended to President Harding, by
Walter F. Brown, head of the comml*
sion appointed to prepare a plan of
nmental reorganization.
Havana, Cuba. Dec. 13. — Deaths
from the boiler explosion which
wrecked the Estrella Sugar Central at
Cespedes. last night, may exceed thin
ty. according to reports today. The
condition of half of tho twenty-nine
who were seriously injured, is said to
he critical.
With fifteen bodies recovered al
ready and the death of two Injured
persons, it is believed that a dozen
more bodies are in the smoking
ruins.
MANY PERSONS DIE
IN BOILER EXPLOSION
Camaguey, Cuba, Dec. 13.—Search
today was continued In the ruins of
the Estrella Sugar Central, which was
resterday by a boiler explos-
lx bodies believed still hid
den In the wreckage from which eler
id fifty Injured were remov
ed during the night.
The death of two injured brought
the toll of fatalities to nineteen, whlls
26 Injured brought from Censpe*
dea, the little town in which the Cei>
tral was located, are expected to die.
Most of the victims were Spaniards.
SCHOOL BUS IN ACCIDENT
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 13.—
Fourteen crippled children be
tween the ages of eight and four
teen years, were Injured when a
school bus of the Board of Edu
cation was struck by a one man
trolley today. The bus capsized.
Two of the children were so bad
ly hurt they had to Pje carried to
NAVAL BUDGET REDUCED
Wash In i
D. C., Dec. 13
ed personnel during the
beginning noxt July firi
i. which is the same as at present
led in tho navy budget, carrying
il of some $293,000,000, which Is
j approximately half a million dollars
(less than last year was reported to
DISASTER IN SUGAR MILL
NETAR CAMAGUEY, CUBA
Havana, Cuba. Dec. 13—One huiv
dred workmen were killed or injured
yesterday in a boiler explosion which
wrecked the Estrella sugar mill neat
Camaguey.
Thirteen bodies had been recovered
up to 7 o’clock last night, and forty
injured persons were being cared for
in Camaguey. Most of the victims are
Spaniards.
Two of the sugar central's big bat
tery of boilers are reported to have
exploded simultaneously. At least
twenty-five of the men employed la
the boiler room are thought to have
been buried under tho wreckage of
killed by flying debris.
Two of the forty men Injured,
brought on a special train to Cama
guey, died after being placed in a hos
pital. Others of the wounded are said
! to be In a critical condition. A de*
—The; tachment of troops from Camaguey,
fiscal h un dreds of volunteers from nearby
, sugar centrals and from this city,
were working last night to remove vio
tlms from the ruins.
The Estrella Compania central Azi*
carera Is an American corporation
which has headquarters In Havana.
SOCIALISTS ADJOURNED
(By Associated Press)
Cleveland, O.. Dec. 13—Delegates
he second conference of the Progre
Ivo political action, were leaving f<
heir homes today to perfect state o
ganlzatlons for the nomination and se-
I lection of candidates either through
{"primaries of the old parties," or by
! Independent political action," as set
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Men’s Smoking Jackets,
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Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs,
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Ladies' Hand Bags
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The very latest in Beads
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