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WEATHER FORECAST Moatly Cloudy Tonight and Thursday. Probably Rain Thursday. Not Much Changs In Temperature. 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 SHOP EARLY FOR XMAS AND GET WHAT YOU WANT GIFT SUGGESTIONS OF HIGH QUALITY MERCHANDISE LOOK OVER THE LIST CAREFULLY Men’s pure LINEN Hand kerchiefs, 35c to $1.25. Men’s fine Cotton Hand kerchiefs, 15c to 35c. Men’s all Silk Neckwear, beautiful patterns 50c to $2. 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