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VOL. XXXIV. No. 32.
TH0MA8VILLE, GEORGIA FRIDAY AFTER1V0W** DECEMBER 29, 1922.
INCREASED STRENGTH
1923 Starts Out With Opti
mistic Prospects. — Novem
ber Business Conditions for
1922 Show Indication of In
creased. Production.
<nr Associated Praia)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Stock
taking ot the nation's domestic bust*
ness for the past year gives
Ing of satisfaction’ 1 as to the progress
made, the Department of Commerce
declared in the end of its yearly
statement, and from this day’s posi
tion, it added, "there are no serious
obstacles in sight which should hin
der further advances" In the early
The optimism born of the accom
plishments of the past months which
many officials of the government
gard as a remarkable strengthening
•of the economic fabric is evident
throughout the statistics.
Details of the statement which not
ed production of manufactured com
modities average fifty per cent larger
than for 1921.
Washington, D. Dec. 29—Novem
ber business conditions represented a
continuation of the upward trend in
production and greater employment
•of labor which in some localities
ported nearing the scarcity mark
and generally a healthy tone in trade,
according to the monthly survey made
public by the Federal Reserve Board.
Contrary to tho usual situation at
this season of the year, the Board
found production in the basic indue
tries increasing, a condition that had
proceeded almost uninterruptedly
since July last year, when produc
tion was lower than at any time la
recent years.
BILLION DOLLAR CREDIT FOR GERMANY
TO BUY IN THIS COUNTRY PROPOSED
(By Associated Prtss)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Exten
sion of credits to Germany up to a
maximum of one billion dollars for
use in buying foodstuffs in the United
States is proposed in a bill introduced
by Senator Bursum, Republican, New
Mexico, and referred to the finance
committee.
The bill would authorize the Secre
tary of the Treasury to pay American
producers of foodstuffs for commodi
ties purchased by the German govern
ment and also pay for the transpor
tation of such products. Germany in
return would place bonds as security.
HUBS SHOVEL
SNOW IN NEW YORK
Greatest Covering of the Year
Is Being Digged Out By
Thousands of Workers To
day*—Ice and Sleet Follows
Snow.
(By Associated Prsaa)
New York, Dec. 29.—Thousands of
volunteer snow-handlers were called
HIE AGAIN
FACES A BREAKUP
Lord Curzon Goes to Paris in
Short Time for Conference.
—Turks Are Told What the
World Demands They Must
Do By Allied Delegates.
(By Associated Praia)
Lausanne, Dec. 29.—Marquis Curzon,
the British foreign secretary and head
SARAH BERNHARDT
IS MUCH BETTER
No Organic Trouble Found
In Examination—Noted Ac
tress Ate Luncheon Today.
(It. rr.»>
Paris, Dec. 29.—Madame Sarah
Bernhardt, was distinctly better* to
day. She was able to leave her bed
and have luncheon with members of
the household. Physicians, it was
announced, have found no evidence of
•organic disease or chronic illness and
have come to the conclusion that the
recent collapse of the famous actress
was due only to over-exertion and
BAXLEY MAN GRANTED
BAIL ON MURDER CHARGE
(By Associated Press)
Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 29.—Granting
of bail and agreement to hold the de
fendant on a charge of murder for
the Glynn county superior court were
the results of a conference held by
Hobo Arrested in Florida Gty
May be Noted Draft Dodger.
■Finger Print Identification
TALUHE POLICE MER ROUGE CASE COMPLETE ID
BELIEVE THEY DAVE Ml ARRESTS ABE EXPECTED SOON
Forty-five Were Involved in Plot, it is Stated, But Not
That Many Participated in the Kidnaping Which Re
sulted in Death of Two M em—Dr. McKoin Denied Ball
In Baltimore and Officer is Enroute for Him. — New
Phases of Case Discussed at New Orleans.
c aaTyt Li a t (Bjr Associated P»»s*> I These troops were stationed there to
Sent to Washington for Con-1 i>., d.c. 29.-Bh.rtff FYei (loW d0WD , outbr€>k , mon ,
firmattoru
storm of the season. The blizzard ot
snow and sleet, which starting yester
day under moderate temperatures b»
came over night an Icy gale whick
threatened to paralyze all transports-
The storm took a toil of hundreds
or Injured. All night ambulances were
bringing pedestrians with broken
arms, fractured legs and cracked
skulls who had fallen victims to the
treachery of the Ice covered streets.
STORM SWEEPING THE COAST
(By Associated Press)
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 29.—A
storm that has been sweeping the
middle and north Atlantic coast was
reported today by the weather bu
reau to be centered east of Cape Cod
and moving east and northeastward.
Several stations, the bureau said, re
ported a wind velocity of 60 miles an
hour. •
BREWER LEMP
A SUICIDE VICTIM
St. Louis Man Shoots Self
Twice in Heart. — Father
Sister Were Also Suicides
IBr A.Mcl.t.d Pre..)
St. Loull, Mo.. Dec. 29.—'William J.
Lemp, 54, president of the William J.
Lemp Brewing Company, committed
suicide today by shooting himsel!
through the heart In the office of the
brewery in the southern section ot
city. This was the third suicide to
the family ot the famous
here next Sunday for Paris, where he
will remain until Tuesday of next
week, for the purpose of conferring
with Prime Minister Bonar Law in re
gard to the Near Eastern situation.
Lausanne, Dec. 29.—The Near East
peace conference stood today on the
verge of {allure and danger ot break
ing up facing it from several causes,
chiefly the contest over ownership of
the Mosul oil fields and the question
of capitulations the allies stressing
the capitulations Issue and taking
firm stand against subjection of for
eigners in Turkey to Jurisdiction
Turkish courts and insisting that spec
ial courts with foreign judges sitting
in them must pass upon casei
which foreigners are involved.
LORO CURZON TELLS
TURKS TO FORGEt IT
Lausanne, Dec. 29—Ism«*t Pasha has
failed to persuade the United States
and the European powers that Turk
ish laws and Turkish conrts afford
adequate protection to the life and
property of foreigners residing
Turkey and the Near East con fare
Rtaudg in grave danger of breaking up
on this jaostion. t
Europe and America insist that
special courts, upon which foreign
ers in Mustapha Kernel's republic.
Ismet Pasha declares that such courts
would ibe an infringement on Turkish
sovereignty. In fact, he reiterated this
declaration so often at today’s stormy
meeting of the commission on capitu
lations that Lord Curzon retorted:
“I beg that Ismet Pasha wrap up
. v. . t . , and place carefully away i n a cup-
Drew.™ hi. father and ,l,ter having thl , que<tloB Tqrkllk , ovor .
taken their own lives.
the SUte and defense Attorneys
Baxley today in connection with the
case against S. H. Carter, cotton bro
ker, who Is held as a result of the
death of Miss Alma Crosby, school
teacher of Appling county, subsequent
to an alleged illegal operation,
amount of the bond allowed Carter
>e announced later, it was t
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Lots of- people eating it—
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only country which enjoys sovereign
ty; many other powers than Turkey
submit questions to international trib
unals without fear of impairing their
sovereign rights.’’
Ishmet had declared that Turkish
laws and Turkish courts were the
equal of any in Europe so often, Lord
Curzon continued, that he had actually
come to believe it.
"But the Important thing Is not what
tbo Turkish delegation thinks about
Turkish Justice,’’ added Curzon. "bnt
what the rest of the world thinks
about It. England’s King George IV
convinced himself that he led the
guards at the Battle of Waterloo, but
nobody else ever believed it, and his
tory does not record it.
“The plain truth Is. Turkish laws
are based on Moslem law and were
drawn by Moslem jurists and theolo
gians. The Judges are uneducated,
poorly paid and dilatory. The same
is true of the police, and the whole
mechanism of Turkish Justice is de-
'e. Under Turkish courts for
eigners can not conduct business in
(Continued (
> S)
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 29.—The
police here are holding a man that
they believe to be Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, the draft-dodger.
The man, who was arrested us a
hobo, on a train, asserts that his
name is Bill Jones, and that his
home is in Erie, Pa. The police
have sent his finger prints to
Washington, In an effort to Iden
tify the man, and will hold him in
Jail here pending the investigation.
Bergdoll has been In Germany
nearly a year, according to his
mother, who resides in Philadel
phia, but was recently reported os
having left Germany In preparation
to making an effort to re-enter the
United States.
MURDER LITTLE GIRL IN
BROOKLYN CHARGED TO
BOARDER IN HOME WHO
OWNED THREE PISTOLS
Postal Clerk Who Has Police
Record is Held While Body
Of the Little McCarthy Girl
Rests Where Her Christmas
Tree Stood.
(Br Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 29.—A little satin
coffin containing the foody of I
year-old Theresa McCarthy stood
day on the spot where her Christmas
tree had been. With her heart pierc
ed by a bullet from a .22 calibre pis
tol, she was found dead in the Brook
lyn home of her mother late Tuesday.
Benjamin Prentervllle, clerk in the
Brooklyn post office un£l a boarder at
the fMcCarthy home who admitted to
the police that he owned a pearl hand
led .22 calibre revolver is held on a
charge of homicide. He told the po
lice that he became frightened when
he saw the girl’s dead body and
threw away that revolver and two
others he owned. The police say that
Prentervllle has a police record.
PRENTERVILLE HELD
FOR CHILD’S MURDER
New York, Dec. 29—Benjamin Pren-
derville, a clerk in the Brooklyn gen
eral postofflee, last night was arrested
charge of homicide in the slay
ing of 10-year-old Theresa McCarthy,
lose body, with the heart pierced by
.22 calibre bullet, was found in her
Brooklyn home last Tuesday.
Prendervllle had been taken in cus
tody earlier In the day on the strength
affidavit by Mrs. Anna Nell, the
little girl’s nunt, that tho postofflee
clerk, who boarded at the McCarthy
home, possessed several weapons, one
of them a .22 calibre pistol.
Police asserted that after several
•urs of grilling, during which it was
disclosed that the prisoner had a
criminal record, ho acknowledged
owning such a gun. He is reported
kept it In a baby carriage at
the McCarthy home.
Confronted by experts from the
igue’s gallery and finger printing d*
partments, the postal clerk is said by
the police to have broken down and
admitted he concealed his record to
get into the civil service; and that he
kept three pistols at the McCarthy
home; that he attended a Christmas
party there at which he brought out
(Continued on page 8)
Carpenter of Morehouse parish today
declared there will be arrests in- the
Morehouse kidnaping investigations
upon the return of federal investiga
tors who were in New Orleans yester
day attending a conference with state
official!
The sherifr said he had no official
information but understands that the
chain of evidence la complete and
pects to have warrants in the n
few days.
Carpenter said that while fbrty-five-
citlzeus might be involved in the plot
he did not believe this number
actual participants in the kidnaping of
Mer Rouge citizens and the deaths of
WAtt Daniels and Thomas Richards.
'He declared that the survivors of the
kidnaping party Informed him there
were no more than eighteen or twenty
in the masked band.
TWO CONFESSIONS
MADE IN LOUISIANA
Bastrop, La. Dec. 29—Forty-five
persons were implicated in the More
house kidnapping and murders of last
August, according to two confessions
reported late today as delivered by
representatives ot the Department of
Justice to state authorities at New
Orleans.
tate legal office at New Or
leans declined to comment upon the
lubject stating they would neither
deny nor affirm it.
hold down a possible outbreak among
the citizens of that community who
are in hostile camps and are also as
signed to assist the civil authorities
In making arrears.
At New Orleans today behind* dosed
doors the Governor of the state, the
Attorney General'* bis staff of legal
assistants and tine four Department
of Justice men were mapping out the
future course In the* Investigations in
the death of the two men (believed' to
have been victims of a mob.
What took place at the morning se*
sion was not disclosed. At its cons
elusion the Governor announced he-
would leave for Baton Rouge e
would not attend the night session.
It was known that volumes of c
dence was gone over by the conferi
and the discussion was lengthy.
Friends of Dr. B. M. McKoin, former
mayor of Mer Rouge, were disappoint
ed today when they learned he had
been denied bail at Baltimore where
under arrest on a charge of
murder in connection with thi
His friends Had promised' to put up
any amount of bond necessary. A
fund Is being raised in this and ad
joining parishes 1 to bo used in de
fense of the physician.
In the meanwhile a deputy sheriff
armed with a warrant charging Mc
Koin with murder was en route to
Baltimore. Poor train connections
caused him to ba delayed In reaching
Baton Rouge where he is expected to
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BETUIOFTHE FLEET
TOCOrailOPLE
The confession will not be made ■ pick up the extradition papers. This
public, it waa regarded here, until. deputy arrested T. J. Burnett, former
the open hearings begin at Bastrop In i deputy sheriff, last Saturday and
January. | placed him in the- Bastrop-JslI.
Jt was stated that the signers of the
confessions have been granted Im
munity by the state and are being
secreted along with other witnesses
and will be called upon to testify.
never, it is regarded here as
probable the arrests of some or all
len named will take place before
the open hearing begins.
One indication that the state is pre
paring for some activity is seen in
rder issued today to the national
guard company at Mer Rouge to be
prepared to move at short noticed
Sheriff Carpenter said today he exr
d that McKoin would join Bur
nett in the parlsir jail here by Tues-
clay. The Jail is being guarded by
state troops. |Machine guns are train-
ed on It
District Judge Odom announced to
day that action upon the applicitlm
for a preliminary trial mad* by Bur
nett would not be taken until
week. It is regarded as unlikely
No Statement Issued From
Government Offices Regard
ing the Move.—Turks Have
No Reply to the New Move
Ready.
London. Dec. 29.—The hasty rw
tarn ot the British fleet to Constant!'
nople from 'Malta attracts wide attea-
tion here. Nothing was forthcoming
from official sources to explain the
move, but the obvious assumption was
that it Is connected with the uncom
promising attitude of the Turks at
Lausanne and is everywhere adopted,
srs are still many foreigners in
Constantinople and dispatch of th*
irships is regarded as a necessary
precaution in view of the possible at
titude of the Turks in the city in rent
there Is a breakdown in the Lausanne
negotiations.
SULTAN GOES TO MECCA
TO LIVE UNDER EGYPTIAN
CONTROL SAYS REPORT
(By Associated Press)
Malta, Dec. 29.—The former Sultan
Mohammed Sixth, of Turkey, it ia un
derstood, will leave for Mecca next
Monday to board a British warship.
He will presumably be landed at Jed
dah, a port of Mecca on the Red Sea.
Shortly after the flight of Moham
med from Constantinople on Novem
ber 11th. to escape threatened trial by
the Turkish Nationalists, a dispatch
from Cairo announced that the King
of Hedjas had invited him to take
sanctuary In (Mecca, where he waa
promised treatment In keeping with
his rank.
COLUMBUS OFFICIALS
PUSHING INVESTIGATION
(By Associated Press)
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 29.—The inve*
THREE PERSONS KILLED
IN WAYCROSS WHEN
AUTO HIT TRAIN
hearing to which he is entitled under ligation Into the alleged bomb plot
the law will be held prior to the hear- against prominent city officials, which
lD g*- I was unearthed here last Wednesday
1 by local police, will be vigorously
j Tatum. Will Broach and Jack Swan., pnsht!dt sard Walker R Flournoy golt
Two of the men ware thrown from the[ cItor g CDer al. in a statement made pub-
• car by the terrific Impact and the'|j c today
'other remained in the machine, which I
badly torn up. A bottle of whls-
was found in the car and those ““*/
v , . .. . .... a conference here uu >. u * u «, •»
nearby state that the odor of whiskey , . . * . , ' ’
.. .. . .kJ - rtlc6 11 <» be decided in what
manner tho investigation would pro-
The solicitor general, together witli
eity and county officials, was to hold
during the day i
Warm?.' j,er- »“■ h'nml.take.bl. .. they neared the I
killed and on. eerlouely in- “•"•■>« “•«°*’ 10 "; CondnctorB.n l A cordon or police tod .tertir.
jored here l..t night .hen an ontorao. \ depart., .ere .gam placed around th.
I homes ot five city commissioners last
Bight. Guards were also placed around
the Dlmon Court apartments and the
factory of the National Show Case
bile crashed into an engine of the At- °* tbe * ra,n ,nto wb,cb
lantlc Coast Line at a crossing in Th « men were 8,1 wel1 known about
the suburbs of the city. The dead are Waycroas, where all lived. They were
Matthew Tatum, aged 37; Isaiah Ta- leaving the city In the car at a rapid
aged 24, and William Broach rale of .peed and probably railed «».! Company, .blch .ere eald to hay,
aged 25. Mice Constance Hemfty, 16. obaerve the train or mlacalcnlated the been marked for destruction by tho
who .1,0 ... a poasenget In the car from „ „„„ j
seriously injured and was taken •
to the Coast Line hospital here. -
It was said the automobile appar-
ing.
CONDUCTOR BEN HUBERT
WAS IN CHARGE OF TRAIN
Three men were killed last night In
Waycross, when a car ran Into the
Coast Line passenger train from Jack
sonville, No. 66, as it was crossing
Gilmore street, coming into the city.
The car hit the engine near the cylin
ders, and three of the occupants were
killed. One little girl in the car was
seriously hurt. The crash cgme
with terrific force, the auto running
at a speed of about thirty miles per
hour. The dead, are Messrs. Math
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