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'' : * WEATHER FORECAST INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND WARMER TONIGHT. WED. NE8DAY, LOOAL RAINS. VOL. XXXIV. THOMA8VILLK, GEORGIA TUE8DAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBE R 26, 1922. IIWBBMB MffijuiLiuuCr HM.M u run th. New York Showed 6 Deaths From Bootleg Whiskey. New Orleans Was Warmest —No Zero Weather Record ed Anywhere In States. ’ CBr i Chicago, III., Dec. 27.—The United States basked in record warm temper atures for Christmas day according tc reports available. Zero weather was not recorded in any part of the coun try. The highest temperature record ed was at Fort Worth and San Anton io, Texas and New Orleans, where the temperature was 72 degrees. Chicago bad the hottest Christmas in years with the mercury reaching 45 degrees In the afternoon. NEW YORK DRY BUT SIX LIQUOR DEATH8 REPORTED New York, Dec. 26.—While police records show that yesterday was the dryest Christmas in Gotham's history yet six deaths were attributed by po lice to bootleg liquor. Autopsies will be performed on the bodies of five men and one woman today. All the bodies were taken to thb morgue pending a medical examination. NEW YORK FRATERNITY CONDEMNS KU KLltt (By Associated Press) New York, Dec. 26.—Resolutions denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, and calling for cooperation with organisa tions engaged in actively combatting it were adopted last night at the clos ing session of the annual convention of Mu Digma fraternity, it was an nounced today. Fourteen hundred repiv-entatlvei were In attendance. MI KEPT VIGIL OVER MI SI WHS FORCED TO RILL “I Killed My Friend,” Declar es Pretty Divorcee to Louis ville Police, After She Had Surrendered to Police — As serts Killing in Self Defense. (Bjr y Louisville, ICy., Dec. 26. a's story of a quarrel, a shot and her vigil from dusk to dawn over the body of the man she killed was being checked up by police department In vestigators here. *'J killed my friend,” Mrs. Olive K L. Jones, 32, a pretty divorcee, an nounced when she entered police headquarters just after daybreuk Monday. This was the first knowledge of flclals hod that O. L. Black, sales manager for a Louisville automobile concern, had been killed Sunday aft ernoon In Mrs. Jones' apartment Mrs. Jones said that phe fired in self de fense. SAVANNAH MAN HELD BY BALTIMORE POLICE ON CHARGE OF ARSON Joseph Hart, Mechanic, Ar rested for Alleged Responsi bility for Several Mysterious Fires In That City Recently. —Identified by Witnesses. (By Associated Press) Baltimore, Md., -Dec. 26.—With three charges of arson against him, and other mysterious fires under in vestigation, Joseph Hart, a mechanic, aged 24, formerly of Savannah, was yesterday held without bail for grand Jury action by the judge in the cen tral police court here. Hart was ar rested Sunday on a charge of disor derly conducted. As he left the courtroom after pay ing his fine he was arretted by de tectives. Later he waa Identified by a number of persons, who police said they law him in rooms and houses where a number of mysterious fires have threatened the lives of the oo cu pants. TUG AND CREW BELIEVED LOST (By Associated IYcm) Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 26.—A vigor is search for the tug, Cornell, which disappeared Thursday, continued to day, although the vessel, with Its r of eight, was practically given a lost. H. B. Shaver, superintend- of the government flying field here, has planned to assign at least le airplane to f'y over Lake Erie. Tugs, which put into Ashtabula harbor after working along the shore westward from Erie yesterday, and several others tugs were ready I sume the search. The cause of the disappearance ol the tug yet'.remalni a mystery. ED TODAY Famous Actress Now Consid ered Out of Danger—Suffer ed Fainting Spell Recently At Theatre and Relapse Oc curred Sunday. INVADED HOME AND SLEW CHILDREN AS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS STARTED Seattle Police Investigating Record of Man Who Drew Three Pistols and Killed Three Children Around a Christmas Tree. (By Associates Preea) Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26.—The coro ner’s office here Is seeking today to learn something of the history of Emil Neuriter, aged 40, a ferry boat oper ator, who yesterday Invaded the home of D. C. Engel, a woodworker, with three pistols at his command Just as the celebration of Christmas Day was starting, slew three of Engel’s chil dren and then killed himself. The only light shed upon the affair at given by Helen Engel, sixteen year old sister of the victims, who ■aid that Neuriter had made love to her last spring and had been repelled, later writing threatening letters to the family. (By Associate.! Pressi Paris, Dec. 27.—The condition of Sarah Bernhardt, showed further im provement this morning and physi- iald they tentatively considered t of danger. Madame Bern hardt was taken with a fainting spell several days ago and suffered a lapse Sunday. ALMOST MIRACLE HAPPENED IN “DIVINE SARAH'S” ILLNE8S Paris, Dec. 26.--U seemed yester day almost as though that miracle which the medical men Sunday said necessary to save the life of the ‘‘Divine Sarah” hud happened. 'Maur ice Bernhardt, her son, said lust eve ning that the Improvement was so marked that the doctors had permit ted several intimate friends to visit the patient. Reports that Madame Bernhardt was dying spread throughout the city Sunday; following her relapse in the early morning hours, when she suf fered a fainting apell similar to that with which she was first stricken last Sunday during the final rehearsal of the new Gutrey play in which she was to have appeared the following eve ning. . These reports caused her home to be besieged all yesterday by promi nent social, political and theatrical personages, all eager to know of her condition. What she now needs is complete *t for many weeks, her doctors say, but for the energetic sUr the Idea of Inactivity la most repulsive. "Rest? I can't rest—If i did, I would die," she is reported to have told her advisers. Cable messages and telegrams have been received from many countries, including the United States, express ing sympathy and hope for recovery. Discussing hla mother’s condition, Maurice Bernhardt told the Ansoclat ed Press. “We believe she Is out of danger, although at her age it is unsafe to make predictions until she has com pletely recovered. 8he Is still very weak and needs a long rest. All her theatrical plans necessarily n re out of the question for a long time.” Madame Bernhardt’s physicians said yesterday that they would issue communique In view of the change for the better. One hopeful B ig n . they added, was that their patient was again taking Interest in food. MIT BE ABIE TO IDENTIFY ALLEGED LA. Eye-Witness to Mer Rouge Affair May Reveaf Import ant Evidence in Establishing Identity of Murderers of Prominent Men. Bastrop. ^La., Dec. 26.—That the state will be able to establish through an eye witness the Identity of sever al members of a masked mob which last August kidnaped five Mer Rouge residents, Including Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, whose decapitated bodies were taken from a nearby lake last week was the statement of investigators who have been working on the case for several months. Idem tificatlon will be made to secret serv ice men, it waa Mid, through test' mony to be given at the open hear ing8 to begin here January 5lh, of a farmer .whoso home is In the south eastern part of Morehouse parish, who they declare told them he wit nessed the seizure and spiriting away of five men, and recognized some ol the abductors when they lifted theit hoods to drink some water which they had ordered him to bring. Officials Intimated that the fame! Is somewhere in Mississippi under the protection of a federal agent. Those acquainted with the charac- T of the witnesses the state :li are authority for the statement that they will not fear to testify CANE SIP PLANT AN 11 Opened at Lufkin, Texas, Be lieved fay Government Offi cials to Mean New Era for This Industry With Increas ed Consumption of Product. (By A.MCIM.1 Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—With the successful opening Inst week a modern cooperative cane syrup blending and standardizing plant .ufkin. Texas, officials of the depart- lent or agriculture, under whose aus pices the plant was built and whose methods it will use, they feel that the industry has made an important step toward extending tne marxet syrup, which will permit c jrs to greatly Increase their suranc ' acreage of augar cane and will be ot considerable economic value to the South. Holiday Gifts LOOK OVER THIS LIST. Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes, Ivory Mirrors, Combs, Brushes, Picture Frames, Military Brushes, Djer Kiss Toilet Sets, Colgates Toil et Sets, Hudnuts Toilet Sets- Gold-plated and Fancy Single and Double Compacts, Toilet Water and Perfumes, Stationery and Corres pondence Cards, Rubber and Aluminum Hot Water Bottles, Baby Toilet Sets and Baby Brush and Comb Sets. NORRIS’ EXQUISITE CANDIES 10c to$7.50 Per Box JACK HORNER CANDIES 49c and 69c A beautiful line of Xmas and New Year Cards COME IN AND LET US SHOW YOU AS WE HAVE MANY OTHER NICE ARTICLES TO SELECT FROM MASB-MILTON DRUG CO. -A Good Place to Trade.” Phones 105 and 106 Talks About Eating, is, Dec. ,26.—Madame Bar* hardt's condition continued to !m prove last evening, so much no that Louise Abberna, the painter, one of Bernhardt's close friends, said: “The Invalid baa announced her lutcntloni of getting up and taking a light re past in the company of a few friends. You can state that the |g going to do so.” BECKER SMILED WHEN CONDEMNED TO DIE (Br J tetatad I’rcaa) New York, Dec. 26.—Abraham Beck er was sentenced to die during the week of Februray 5th in the electric chair at Sing 81ng prison for the murder last April of his wife, whose body waa found several weeks ngo in a lime filled grave in the Bronx. Becker smiled as he walked from the courtroom after Judge Gibbs had passed the death penalty. all they know. FORMER MAYOR OF MER ROUGE AT JOHNS HOPKIN8 Baltimore. Md., Dec. 26.—Dr. B. M. McKoln, former maydr of Mer Rouge. La., who is wanted, hv Loiilafnna «■»- thoritles for an Interrogation concern Morehouse pariah kidnaping* Is attached to Johns Hopkins hosplt- He said today that he knows noth ing about the kidnaping case, and could give the authorities no infor mation. TWENTY NAMES OF MEMBERS OF LOUISIANA M0B8 IN HAND Bastrop, La., Dec. 26. The probability that the next chapter in the Morehouse kidnaping investiga- tions would be written soon in Mer Rouge loomed strongly here last night. Attorney General Coco’s announce* nent in Markville, La., where he ia pending Christmas that the state ex pected to jail at least six or seven charges of murder in connection with the death of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, is expected to be fulfilled in the Mer Rouge communi* It is believed that many of the men the state suspects as ringleaders of the August mob will be served with warrants before Jan. 5, the date set for the open hearing here. Develop- the hearing may bring about the arrest of others. Federal agents have declared they have the names of 20 members of the mob. ’The state bellevea T. J. Burnett guilty of the murder charge upon which he was Jailed Saturday,” the Attorney General declared yesterday in speaking of the lone suspect held in the Jail at Bastrop. ”We further believe we have the evidence upon which to convict those we arrested," he added. An order was iggued yesterday denying visitors permission to com municate with Burnett except in the (Continued on Page 4) WOMEN WORKERS HOLD MEETING IN WASHINGTON (By Associated Prsss) Washington, D. C., Dec. 27.—More than one hundred national organisa tions or women have been Invited to send delegates to the woman’s Indus trial conference to he held here Janu ary 11th to 13th, the woman’s bureau of the Department of Labor announc ed today. The speakers will include women employment managers, women workers, manufacturers, factory spectors, inspectors, economist and government administrators. THE YEUI JUST PAST Fifty Fires Each Month Are Said to be Due to This Crime —Police and Fire Agencies Are Investigating the Situa tion to Stop Arson. Chicago. III., Dec. 27.—Declaring that what he termed incendiary fires Chicago more than one million dollars annually, John F. Culberson, fire commissioner, announced plans today to crush the alleged arson ring t<\ which he attributed an Increase of fifty fires for each month for the past ilf a year. He declared that all questionable fires would >be investigated by the lompanies, the city fire de portment and the state fire marshal. illOBITIES REPUBLICANS CONFER ON ECONOMIC CONFERENCE PLANS (By AhaocUI BROTHER ADMITS HE DID KILLING Columbus Man Says He Shot Brother in Drunken Brawl, But it Was Accidental. (By i ictaied I Columbus, Ga., Dec. 26.—Prepara tions are being made for the prelim inary hearing Wednesday of Dillard Owens, whose written confession as iluyer of hla brother, Perry Owens, made to the city detectives yesterday afternoon exonerated the other four men arrested at the time of the kill ing. Owens waa killed Sunday night in what hla brother admits was a drunk- brawl at a store In the northern lion of the city. i bis statement Dillard does not make the statement that he fired the pistol, but . he asserts that “la the Ruffle the trigger was pulled Home- COAL FIELD FIGHTS FATAL TO FOUR Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 26. Foul en were killed during Christmas celebrations in the Fayette county coal field Saturday night and Sun day. Oone of the dead ia Frank Hall formerly of Kansas City, Mo., but , lime of his death a mumbet of the H. C. Frick Coke Company’s police force. Hall was shot to death yesterday when he attempted to arrest “Pomp” Allen, a negro, who had engaged in an argument with a number of com panions. Alien fired one shot and Hall, al though fatally wounded, pulled his revolver and killed his assailant. The shooting occurred at Gates a mining camp near here. Ed Lindsay, a negro miner, wns killed in a revolver duel. A third negro was killed in a pitched bnt- tie at Buffington. Rocco Lopenta, merchant, was brought to Union- town charged with the slaying. Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—Sen ate Republican lenders have conferred In an effort to agree on what change* they will seek in the proposal ot Sen ator Borah for an international eco nomic and disarmament conference. A large part of tho Republican membership and a number of Demo- understood to be against Senator Borah’s amendment to the navy bill in its present form. of President Hardin! and Secretary of State Hughes have been sought, hut their opinions have not been disclosed. ONE NEGRO KILLED IN ATLANTA CHRISTMAS Eight Other Persons Injured By Autos as Result ot the Holiday Celebrations. air t Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26.—One negro as killed and another fatally wound ed and eight persons injured in auto mobile accidents aa a result of Christ celebrations, according to police reports. A stray shot fired by a Christmas celebrator caused the fatality, while a negress shot a second negro during a quarrel, according to the police. Six men and two women suffered injuries In auto mishaps. Steubenville Stirred by Death Of Another Enforcement Of- . licet Who Was Found Dead In Polish Quarter of That City. (By Associated Press) Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 26.—Fresh and vigorous warfare on the speak* easies and hip-pocket venders, as well as the higher ups, in Jefferson coun ty’s alleged liquor combine will be launched at once, prohibition officers announced as a result of the slaying at midnight of Charles Blinu, leader of a squad of eight dry agents. Officials admitted that they were baffled by the murder ot Bllnn, whose body, with three bullet wounds in it, was found in a dark alley in a Polish section of the city. Twenty feet away lay the empty pocketbook ot the offi cer. His revolver was missing. Bllnn was the fifth dry agent of Jef ferson county to lose his life at the band.s o' unidentified gunmen. VIOLENT TEMPESTS THREATEN BIG LINERS IN NORTH ATLANTIC Ocean Liners Having Dili!' culty in Crossing as They Are Tossed To and Fro Like Cockleshells by the Howling Waves. (By Aaaocla New York.. Dec. 26.—Violent tem pests In the North Atlantic with howling power, of which ocean liners but flimsy cockleshells have raged through the past week, threat enlng smaller vessels with destruc tion, wrecking the deck equipment ol steamers, driving fast liners out ot their usual lanes, and striking terror to the hearts of hundreds of passen gers, according to wireless reports. Several steamers have reported that they would be one or two days irrlvlng here. NOVEMBER EXPORTS INCREASE Waal (By Aaaocla! ngton, D. C\, Dec. export of the principal food for November showed, with few ex ceptions, marked Increases (vor the totalB for November ot last year, ac cording to an analysis made public by the department of commerce. total out-golug shipments of last month were valued at $11,- 204,731, as against nearly $7,000,000 for November of last year. Dairy products were among those showing decreases aa compared with November of last year. NEW LIVE STOCK RATES CANCELLED Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—Rail roads operating through the south eastern quarter of the United State* were required by the interstate com merce commission in an order today to cancel the new schedules of rates on livestock applying between point* In that territory, which they had pro posed to make effective February 25th, and substitute for those sched ules the others made up In accord ance with agreements reached bo tween the shippers and carriers in * conference with the commission. The new rates for livestock, when shipped In carload lota, will be baaed upon the mileage involved. Two New Sport Shoes Just Arrived Gray Elk with patent leather trimmings. Tan Elk with brown trimmings. These are the very latest and are high grade shoes—not tile cheap, ordinary kind. Price $7.00 Smith - Harley Shoe Co. %Jordon ^nosiEur Gordon Hosiery In both silk and wool mixtures for ladles, men and eh When better hose are made, Gordon will make them. L The Shop oi Quality On the Comer The Original Home oi HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES