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ATHENS COTTON: MIDDLING ,26 l-2e I i'KEHOUS CLOSE 26 3-4e THE WEATHER: Continued clear with a temperature. riling VOL. 90 No. 308 Associated Press Dispatches ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1923 Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday. SMALL PACK PLANT FOE ATHENS IS AIM OF PROMOTERS OF ABATTOIR YOU MAY LEAD THE HORSE TO WATER, BUT— LARRY GANTT’S DAILY COLUMN Negroes Are Coming Back By T. LaRRY GANTT .1. d. I ’rice, who has travel i p ,l ,i! over Georgia and seen par- ms irom other States, tells mo i hat negroes who have moved to i:,i North and other sections are beginning to return home. They cannot Stand tho cold climate up North and after the new wears ,rr get awful homesick. Mr. Price has seen letters from these , xodustlng darkeys to their for mer employers, begging thorn to .end a tlekct to get back and they w jit manage to live on the road „ go hungry If necessary. The prediction is that before planting time you will see many of these darkeys coining back South. A gentleman who has travelled over the North and West says he hna witnessed the impositions practiced on these negroes by sharpers. Thousands of these ne groes have died In the Northern climates ft om pneumonia and tuberculosis, contracted there. These negroes have also found n deeper seated precudice against them in the North than in the South. There may be no Jim Crow laws, hut tho darkey certainly met with Jim Crow treatment. There are always labor troubles up North and it is a face con- 11ilt between the blacks and the slaughtering whites. Socially the negro is much a re available farther away from tho white peo ple of the North than they were in the South. They have friend ly contact witli the whites. WTO SIT ill Better Health Protection Will Result Since Ani mals For Food Will Be Inspected By Expert. BUSINESSWILL BE BIG ASSET Plant Is Owned By Ath ens Men Who Expert To Develop It Into Packing House. CASKhTS RETURN News from South Carolina re- ells bow returning caskets from Philadelphia and- other Northern cities'' tells "the story St‘hsgroW who have succumbed to thu rigor t>f Northern winter. One negro relumed to Greenwood, 8. C„ a few days ago and told how be had drawn <21 In cash after a long period of labor and so anxious was ho to get back home an t fear ful that Home one would steal hlg m ney beforo he could buy a tack It that he sat up all night watch , ing his money and In the morning shook the snow of Philadelphia from bln feet and heuded South ward. lieturning negroes tell how the wages of those who And work look big at first, but when they pay for house rent, coal, and the ne- mwities of life at the end of the week they cannot make ends meet. -And many cannot find work and have to wander penni less among strangers. The work ing classes of the North look on ibis coming among them of South cm negroes with Utter 1 enmity* and it is sure to end in a race flat conflict. it Is thought that the exodus of negroes Is about over and not- so many aro now leaving. Mr. Grlf,- fith. ut Arnoldvitte. tells mo that his section Is about strlppod of negroes and land owners are hunt Ing whiten to take tbeir place*. Mr. Claude Tuck has only ono negro on his farms, and it Is the same with many other large farm ers. Hut the news from different counties is that these negroes are beginning to drift back home and is believed that by crop time many will return. Mr.' Morton Hodgson tells me that one of the negroes who left,him and went North has come bhek, and dooubt- If's others will follow the exam ple before winter ends, reports are that sharpers up North are playing on other guileless South cm darkeys and ridding them of “hat money they have. t 1 PECAN nursery Mr. Frank Lipscomb is prepar ing to inauguarate a new and very 'mportant enterprise in Clarke county, n pecan nursery. He is now P 1 -anting l4,ty)0 (nuts (and when [my sprout and get large enough will employ a skilled nursery man to bud twigs from his finest Mu trees. Mr. Lipscomb has now Liu pecan trees set out and he will 'very year enlarge his grove. Grafton trees cost a dollar or more ia h, ami the most reliable nur- i-iiio* have about sold out their g " k. Mr. Lipscomb will start bus*. I with 14,000 grafted trees of ih" host varieties of pecans and gradually enlarge his nursery. As fine pecans can be grown in the country around Athens as any- when- in the South, and Mr. Lips- <0| nb has in his grove the best ran'T-sheli varieties of pecans and lJ| > mend his nursery to any sixe. s > < t'ESSFUL minting Mr. Morton Hodgaon and a (Continued On Page Six.) Establishment of a small pack ing plant in Athens is the aim of owners of the abattoir which opens for business Monday, it was an nounced Thursday. The abattoir is now complete and the owners will begin slaugh tering animals for food purposes next Monday. All animals slaugh tered at the abattoir will be in spected before they are killed and after. The Board of Health has a regu lation which requires that all meat offered for sale in Athens must be inspected before and after slnugh- ter and now that facilities for | animals in large lots e the ordinance will be rigidly adhered to, it is stated. MUST BEAR INSPECTION Persons who either sell meat at a market orpeddle it on the streets must have it inspected and house wives will be warned not to pur- TiyfooohrtnQo Parish Was chase any meat which does not MO.enOUSe rariSfi Vvas bear the stamp of the city health 1 Maintaining Its Status ^‘"cRy bigan plans umt year, Quo Thursday Under for supervising slaughtering of Army Rule, animals for food by employment' NEW KIWANIS OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED HERE THURSDAY DIFFERENCES 1 CAUSE OF BREAK ORIENTAL DANCER SUED CORNELIUS New President Declares City ^ Needs More Industries; Return To Weekly Luncheons For 1923 British Experts Sat Up Half Wednesday Night Preparing Memorandum For French. HOPE HELD FOR LATE SOLUTION Although Everything Pointed to Collapse, Some Were Optimistic Over Continuance. PARI8.—(By The Associated Preaa)—The allied reparations con ference here broke up ehortly be fore 7 o’clock Thursday evening. “It is an' amicable rupture,” said a member of the British delegation as he was leaving the conference. I “We are going horns Friday morning. France goes ahead with out us.” PARIS.—(By The Associated Press)—Collapse of tbe reparations conference, perhaps Thursday af- tenjoon, was generally foreseen i nursday. The British experts sat up half Justice of Supreme Court Vacates Annullment of Her First Marriage to 1 Adair. HER MOTHER ALSO HELD FOR PERJURY Found That She Lived With First Husband a Year and Not 3 Hours As She Said. / NYACK. N. Y.—Miss Evan Bar- rows Fontaine, danoer, and her mother, face Indictment for perjury In connection with tbe dancer’s $1,000,000 breach of promise suit against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, son of Harry Payne Whitney. Justice Tompkins, of the state « win L of a veterinarian, Dr. Harold Hodgaon as chief sanitary officor. A municipal abattoir was at first proposed, private citizens offered to build a plant which will be privately operated but at the same time all meats will be killed un der the supervision of the Board of Health representative. The establishment of the abat toir, which is located on the Geor gia railroad near the wholesale BAR8TROP. La. — Morehouse Parish maintained its status quo early Thursday under control of civil authorities but with addi tional military forces on hand and the state adjutant general on the ground ready to act under direc tion of the Governor in any situa tion that might arise in connec tion with the states investigation of masked band depredations wbich Is expected to result In district, will insure the citizens of sensational disclosures and wholo Athens’ much better protection sale arrests, from sale of undesirable meats than ever before, it is declared. ready stationed at Baatrop, the Parish seat and the village of Mer Rouge, resulted In an air of ex pectancy and reports of impending action by the military to take ov er the police power* of tho Par ish. Going hand in hand with the fa cilities for better health protec tion is the plan of the abattoir owners to develop a small pack ing plant. At first the plant will be undertaken on a small scale but it is believed that a big concern can be built up here since tacili- tics for handling food animals are better than'before. THOMPSON* IS MANAGER The abattoir will be under the direction of Will Thompson, an Athens man, who unders.artda the business. It has a lapacity for slaughtering about twenty-five bead of stock each day. The jtens arill hold at lcaat three cnrloads of kittle. They will be kept there awaiting inspection and slaugh- slaughter. , _ „ _ The plant has loom for a re frigerating plant Iwhtch will be installed in the summer, mean while the storage of tho Atlantic Ice and Coal company on Oconee street will be used by the abattoir. The officer* of the new concern, wbich promises to bnng maty hundred* of dollars into Atohna an nually and give to the ct.y much batter health protection, nre -L Cutler, president. Bob Wright, vice president and L. O. 1-tee, secretary and treasurer. Nearly Irow market nan in the city is interested financially in the com pany- , Majestic Bearing British Debt Body, Reaches N. Y. Late . new YORK - The WWte Star Liner Majestic. bear ' n *. th bers of the British debt commis sion arrived at the entrance to the sramur-aw "^Mutant* Secretary *of the Treat j sheriffs' force* had no'tiding of wJJI^orth 1. to go down the , the missing mea so far as known. H ry ^“h' rerenue cutter Manhat- It is the belief of Investigators ^ Met the commission which I Teegerstrom was kidnapped ton to groet the cm stanle> . Expected warrant* for the ar ia headed by _ ™. nH.i.h rest for the men alleged to have been Implicated in the iter Rogue kidnapping bad not been issued early today. How soon The coming of Col. L. A. Tombs. Teg O’ My Heart , Fine Picture At Palace Theatre By JOHN E. DREWRY ' Athens is the first Southern city in which ”Pef? O’ My Heart” fea turing Laurette Taylor has been shown, this spectacular screen masterpiece being the Thursday and Friday offering at the Palace theatre. This picture was shown In Boston, Mass., Christmas day. at wa mUHnn dollar theatre in that city, and now ,It is' running in New York, No other Southern city besides Athens has been able to secure so early, a booking. In connection with this picture Buster Keaton As shown in a very laughable comedy. “The Electric House.” Jimmie Blsnop*s musi cal program Is excellent. Saying something about the pic ture in detail. There was an Indistinguishable quality lf» Peg’s rougish glance, in the sweet music of her laughter, in her quaint, uncultured man nerisms. that m«ti6 you love this seventeen-year-old Irish miss in stantly. When Information came THIRTY OR MORE tho night, preparing the memoran-'.upreme courti ln „ U stalnlnri. .._ — . .. -- * “ charges of fraud made by Whitney and vacating the annullment of the dancer’s marriage to Sterling Adair, of Waco, Texas, ordered the district attorney of Rockland to take all records ln tbe suit before adjutant general of the Louisiana | at^ Tm*”} National guard and the arrival of | £ r „ a detachment of cavalry to rein force two companies of infantry and a machine gun company al- her relations, the snobbish Chlch- esters, she didn't suspect what misery was In store for her. That she was unwelcome was soon ob vious enough. Of the entire house hold, only Jerry—her guardian- had a kind word and a cheering smile for her. Her sunny disposi tion found itself out of harmony with the cold surroundings, and del. Tombs denied such action } ^LTc E happiness. Then came the most has been decided upon. “I am here as tho ranking mili tary representative of the Govern or to take such action under his direction as the situation may warrant" Col. Tombs said. “As conditions present themselves they will be met adequately. Thu* far no action has been taken which which would place the Par ish under control of the military and reports to the contrary are In correct." 1 Col. Tomb* wotjld not comment further on reports current, which Included one that a proclamation of martial law had been prepared and only awaited promulgation to make It effective. Attorney General A. V. Coco, who will conduct tho open hearlne Into masked band operations, chief ly among them the kidnapping and alleged slaying of Watt Daniels and those of the Richards. Mer Rouge citizens left New Orleans accompanied by an assistant. He was expected to reach here this morning to prepare for an Initial investigation tomorrow. The question' of a preliminary hearing for T. J. Burnett Carbon plant worker under arrest on a charge of murder *n connection with the death of Richards and Daniels is held !n abeyance until the arrival of Mr- Coco. Attor ney* for Burnett were in frequent conference today. Search for Harottr Teegestrom. time keeper at the plant where Burnett wos employed when he disappeared la*t Friday night, con without result.. Depart ment of Justice agents and the Joyful moment <-t her life—and Jerry’s. She listened enraptured as he told her how rich she was; and how the Chlchesters actually dopended on iher; and. finally, how dearly he loved her—hi Metro's "Peg O' My Heart." by J. Hartley Manners, starring the celebrated actress Laurette Taylor. * TO BE HELD TODAY Seaboard Air Line Night- watchman Will Be Tried On Warrant Charging Murder Of Paul Smith. Committment trial of Harvey missing persons were known while estimates of the number l"st run as high as 30 when rescue parties resumed Thursday their search of the wreckage strewn waters of the Cowlitz river into which the old suspension bridge here, bear ing scores of women and men col lapsed at,five o’clock Wednesday night. From 60 to 100 pedertrulns, one truck and at least 10 passanger automobles were on the bridge when It fell. The structure gave way In the midst of a trafic Jam caused by a stalled Car. Most of the persons on the bridge were thrown Into the swirl Iqg river and many were picked up by boats'or swam ashore. Af ter darkness efforts to recover bodies were futile. Of those rescued two are bellev ed fatally injured. Six others were taken from the water seri ously hurt. The missing Include Ben Barr, county commissioner elect. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Huntington, pion eer residents of Kelson and uev- eral employes of logging camps. Early Thursday there was a rush of frantic relatives seeking some word of lost loved ones and a constantly growing list of mis sing persons was expected. Th» exact death toll may not be known for several days aa the swollen waters of the Cowlitz and the Columbia Into which It flows about two miles below the city, may twirl tbe bodies of the vic tims many miles. The bridge connected ear.t and west Kelson. A cable support buckled and the bridge threw trucks, autos and wagons and their passengers into the torrent, swol len by recent floods. Many leap ed to safety as the span sank. Hao the bridge collapsed a few (minutes earlier the toll would nave been greater- During the — , afternoon workmen hod been mak H. Seagraves, Seaboard Air Line. ing repairs on the draw which railroad night watchman charged was partially raised at times. dum for distributing among the del egates but according to the Excel sior the note was only an answer to Premier Poincare's objections to the British plan. At the same time there were fresh Brlttshi ob jections to French proposals. There I was no Indication Prime Minister Bonar-Law Intended to grant the | sweeping concessions necessary to l make possible the continuation of | the discussion. Hence the general I opinion was that the meeting [ Thursday afternoon would result, j ln the break-down of the negotla- I tions. There was, however, still an In clination among some observers of similar conferences to hope that some development of the solution might be found to avoid a rupture. Tito foreign editor of Le Matin re called Thursday there was once KELSON, Wash.—(By the Aaso 1 just such a deadlock between Lloyd elated Press) — Names of eight George and Briand over the Sile sian question and that the same Just As Traffic Was H e a v i,e s t Wednesday Night, Bridge Over Cow- litz Caved in. Retiring President Pre sented With Gold Ki- wanis Button. Resume of Work During 1922 Shows Much Progress. Captain J. W. Barnett was in stalled as president, E. E. Lamkin, vice president and a new board of directors began its tenure of Seri vice at the Kiwanis Olub meeting Thursday. Captain Burnett succeeds Charles E. Martin aa president and E. E. Lamkin succeeds Joel A. Wier as vice president. ' In his address to the members of the club the new president de clared it shall be the purpose of the club this year to aid in bring ing more industries to the city as well as continue its activities in behalf of improved civic condi tions. RECEIVED WITH ENTHUSIASM Captain Barnett’s address Was received with much enthusiasm by members of the club who saw with him the necessity of the communi ty bestirring itself toward de velopment of its manufacturing industries as well as .agriculture. The new president announced that a committee will be appoint ed shortly which will be charged with working along the line refer red to in his address. At the next meeting of the club all members will be requested to-make sugges. tions regarding the needs of the city. Captr.;” Barnett was followed by “Pat” Lamkin, the new vice pres- the grand Jury with a view of In-'Went who also spoke enthusiaati- dicting the dancer and her mother, [roily of the clubs opportunity for "A gross fraud has been perpe- rendering greater service to the trated on the court,” said the Jus- c, ty every year, tice, “and rank perjury has been The retiring president was pre committed by both the plaintiff and i sented with a gold Kiwatiis button her mother. j by the club, Dr. S. V. Sanford Marquis Della Torreta who is sit ting as Italian representative at the present conference found a way ont*>f the itPomma by inducing the parties to refer their arguments to the League of Nations. DENIES THAT BREAK IS NEAR It was pointed out that The Bourse did not seem to believe a breakdown was Imminent and that the market was firm throughout Wednesday's session. There was plenty of activity ln foreign ex change, with very slight modifica tion of rates. Sterling rose moder ately. Little justification for an opti mistic view was generally held and It was thought that the reparations question might be put by France Into the hands of Marshal Foch, who after January 16, wonld pro ceed to execute judgment on tbe defaulting debtor. A suggestion that the terms of tbe French plan he submitted to Germany In tho form of an ultimatum previous to >nv action on tbe Ruhr found little support. The French press continues to hold Its moderate and liberal view of tbe proceedings. Before the British delegation left Its headquarters Thursday for the luncheon given by President Millerand In the palace of the Fly- sec it gave the impression that the reparations conference might continue for another 3* or 3< hours. Miss Fontaine who Is now said to be specialising ln oriental dances in San Francisco, obtained her an nullment on the ground that she had lived with bqr husband three hours, whereas the records showed they bad lived together a year af- j., v ter their mdrrlage, the justice said. "“Kill Y Adair died after his wife obtain ed the annulment and subsequent ly she brought her suit against young Whitney. making the presentation address. He praised Mr.' Martin for his in terest in civic affairs and his wil lingness to serve on any commit tee which was workilng for the best Interest* of the city. LUNCHEON Announcement was also made that the club-will return to the weekly luncheon plan, meeting born December 14, 1920, whom she said she was going to name Cor nelius Whitney. She was appearing in New York cabarets when she met young Whitney, known as "Sonny.” That was In March. 1919, when he was a student at Yale. A prominent position In the suit every Thursday at 2 o’clock. The was occupied by her^ Infant son [attendance prize was given by E. . . " “ E. Lamkin and won by Dr, H. B, Ritchie. The Ladies night committee was appointed and plans for holding this big event will begin at oime. The committee is composed of Walter Hodgson, Charles E. Mar tin, Joel A. Wier, E. E. Lamkin, Golden Knight, Coke Talmadge and Mack Howell. A resume of the clubs activities during 1922 was made showing that in addition to taking part in organization of several new dubs in this section it aided in bringing to successful fruition many- move ment* for the upbuilding of the city and county and launched tho movement for the White Way, Abattoir and Playground System, all of which, with the aid of tbe (Continued On Page Six.). FEARING A BREAK WHY ONE FIRM BELIEVES IN ADVERTISING ■ - TWO PARTNERS WERE bE- BATING THEIR ADVERTISING POLICY — PLANNING THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. THEIRS IS A RETAIL STORK WHICH SPENT IN ONE YEAR *12,000 ON ITS ADVERTISING WHICH WAS 5 PER CENT OF THEIR YEARLY VOLUME. A WASHINGTON.—Official Wash ington continued to give closest at tention Thursday to the threatened break-up of tbe reparations confer ence of allied premiers at Paris, with Ambassador Harvey, sum moned here from London by the stats department, atlll on the ground tor the conference with officials In tbe Important task of feeling their way toward some meant of American helpfulness In th tf ,, . t K?m 0 haa been an* leelslon ' FA,R EXPENDITURE IN THEIR reached*or ?£.Jtake?w i nsult LINE OF BUSINESS. !Tc* presumed confer . IN GROWTH OP SALES THE* The member* would not en ces with President Harding Wed - with murder of Paul Smith, yard- master on the same railroad, will be held in the court houses Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Judge Milton Thomas has re quested Justices Joe Nunnaily and Thomas A. Holbrook to preside with him at the hearing. Mr. Sea- graves will be represented by John B. Gamble and George C. Thomas while the state will be represent ed bv Austin Bell and Wolver M.I °win* to Survivors told almost identical stories of the snap and crash or the falling structure, the sudden plunge into tho racing river and the battle for life In the muddy current. To swim ashore encum bered with heavy clothing, was a test to be met only by the strong est and most adept. say this Indicated a chance for the better. Despite this refusal to express an opinion tbe Intimation of a pro longation of tae conference gave rise to a feeling that the situation was Somewhat brighter. The another day or a day and a half continuation of the conference for it was pointed out would in itself he a hopeful sign. GERMANS SOUGHT TO VOID REPARATION AND CLEAR RHINE BANK Premier Polncalre sent a cable message Thursday to Ambassador Jusserand ln Washington asking him to Bee Secretary of State Hughes In connection with the statement to the Associated Press that Baron Rosenberg, tho Ger- nesday at the White House where he is the president'* guest, or hi* meeting later ln the day with Sec retary. Hughes, there had been no indication Thursday of what these were. Col. Harvey refused to discuss any questions relating to toreign relations. The senate come* Into the sphere of developments again Thursday with signs of another approaching storm of debate, cen- Exploration of the wreckage was j tnn n Foregn Minister, on the Ger- not attempted Wednesday night. | man truce proposal of which Pre- a fear bodies which Smith. PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE Baldwin, chancellor for the British ^r-TpUnned to bring th ^ p * r ‘ ty w New York on the outer Manhattan in order *® h n early train for Washington, There will be a Preparatory Ser vice in the Sunday School room of the First Presbyterian church to night, Friday, at 8 o’clock; and all the member* of this congregation issued eoriy uaw*. „„ .are urged to attend. This service they would be those in authority j is preparatory to the Communion here declared the?! could, not '*•>•'. 'Service on Sunday morning. ' * - might be caught among the tim bers would be released and car ried away in the dsrkneas. This was begun with daylight ard an endeavor was also made to grap ple for submerged automobiles in which bodies might be held. The estimates of the number of rescued from the river was 60, J. F. Hamilton, a construction en gineer, a wltneaa or the dissster commented: , : •( ; -• •’ mlcr Poincaire contend! showed that the principal object of the non-war pact proposed by Ger many was to obtain the evacua tion of the Rhineland without pay ment of reparation*. Premier Polncalre’e message atk ed Ambassador Jnsserand, In tak ing up the Rosenberg statement With secretary Hughe* to make the following.observation*: rpirett ). That the object Oer- • . (Continued On Pag* Six.) COULD EASILY POINT OUT. THE HOME-COMING OF THE *12,000 WITH A FAIR AND REASONABLE PROFIT IN ITS TRAIN. FOR THESE TWO PARTNERS THAT EXPENDI TURE WAS A PROFITABLE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT.-.- ONE'OF THE PARTNERS SPOKE UP: “JOHN,” HE SAID, “WE HAVE A CASH PROFIT IN THE BANK FROM THAT *12,000, BUT WR _ HAVE A GREATER INTANGI- hrlng this time around the pro- ULE PROFIT BY FAR—IT IS posal by Senator Robinson, 'lento- PILED UP FOR US IN THE crat, Arkansas, to authorize the MINDS OF EVERY MAN AND president to appoint official Am- I WOMAN IN THE CITY, erlcan representatives on the rep-.. | S REFLECTED IN THE arntlons commission to aid in ad- , JUKtment of .he reparations tangle there. Senator Robinson was ex pected to apeak in the senate Thursday on his resolution present ed Wednesday but whether another | Ul vna general debate on the reparations n,nus and connected questions would de velop before the foreign relations committee bad presented its report on the resolution appeared uncer tain. Chairman Lodg4 of the senate foreign relations committee con ferred with President Harding at the White House during the morn ing. It la assumed that the diaens- ■ton touched on this Robinson reso lution and other phase* of the Eu> ropean situation. ATTITUDE OF OUR BANKERS. “IT IS PRESENT IN THB MINDS OF THE MANUFAC TURERS WHO BELL Ua IT IS WORKING ON THE AND PURSES OP EVERY ONE OF OUR CUS* TOMERS.” “WHY,” HE CONTINUED. “THIS BUSINESS, BECAUSE’ OF THE ADVERTISING WE HAVE DONE, IS WORTH *12,. 000 MORE THAN IT WAS BE FORE WE BEGAN.” BANNER-HERALD READBRS BELIEVE IN ADVERTISING. - BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, lii- ga. ‘ •