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\TIIENS COTTON diddling 27 5-8c I• r -' ious Close 27 3-8c A CONSOLIDATION OF THE SUNDAY ISSUES OF THH ATHENS BANNER AND THE ATHENS MKRAr.n •PHI • THE WEATHER T .Cloudy and warmer 8unday. ' VOL. 91, No. 17 Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service. ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY MORN *11 i * j_-~ JG, JANUARY 14,1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. . 5 Cents Sunday. french agree to PMW advance FOR GERMAN COAL lillUB II OK OIIH Agreement Is Reached At Woman Flogged By Texas Mob Says Daughter COTTONIUIIiSTir JIG. COLLEGE HERE This Conclusion Was Reached Following Survey of Conditions in This Belt. Seven - Year - Old Child Saw Disguised Man Drag Mother From Hotae. PEANUTS LEAD ALL CASH CROPS HOUSTON, Texas.—Aided by 7 Conference Held At Es- Ch»'« “ ld ^ i T /■$ nave seen a mob of 15 or more sen Saturday. Is German - Victory. SO PER CENT CASH ADVANCE PAYMENT Twenty-five Directors, Representing Twelve Rhine Mines, Allied Commission, And Engin eers Attend Conference. ESSEN'.—(By The .'Associated Press)—M. Coste, Fhonch Inspect or general of mines and bead of Hie Industrial mission In tbe Ruhr Saturday assented Ini principle to the German mine owners demand for rash payments on coal deliver ies to France and Belgium and the owners expressed their readlnees to resume deliveries Monday If sat isfactory terms were arranged with the individual mines. The mine owners demand 80 per cent advance cash payment every ten tlays, the balance being paya ble within three days after ac counts for deliveries are rendered. Tho situation was discussed at- a conference at which approximately 25 directors, representing 12 mines on both sides of the Dhlne were present as well as the allied com missioners and civilian engineer. L No military officers attended tho I \ conterence. .Obviously, referring to. the ro- ‘ 'NWo'oIienca the sitting by n«K- hue why tho mine operators had changed a system of long years .standing. Tho question was not answered ' and - Frits Thysson, brother of August Thys- sen, speaking for the directors present called attention to Gen eral Dcvigue’s announcement at Friday’s conference that the or ders ot the Berlin government no longer applied to the Ruhr dis trict. Herr Thyssen declared that the German law still gov crne.l the Ruhr, and as the fed eral commissioner had ordered that no more payments should, be made t,y Germany for repara tions the coal mines could not make deliveries. E. C. Westbrook’s Report Shows'Which Crops Aid ed Farmer Most, Valua ble Advice. disguised men drag her mother from home, ent her hair and whip her authorities expected Ssturday to come out In the open with their investigation. The whipping wafc administered to Mrs. R. H. Harrison, 30, a widow the night of January 6. she admit- Success of farmers In ted to officers, but had been kept [ special crops last year, secret until Friday, when rumors | ■ The report of the survey was r r t^' , atea ' ^ A ' An “ and - si - made public Saturday by E. C. ♦ fcJSPJ? al8 ° wa \ Westbrook of the State College, taken out by the disguised men. ’The survey will prove of vast Despite the boll weevil, cotton must not be entirely abandoned by Northeast Georgia fanners, is the conclusion reached by tho State' College of Agriculture following a survey of the Piedmont section for- the purpose of determining tip growing Lausanne Conference Making No Headway; Doubt Expressed Reaching Peace Settlement LAUSANNE — (By the Associated Press.' 1 — The voice of far away Angora, was heard Saturday through the mouth of Hassan Bey, who has just re turned from the capital was So discordant to the al-' lied representatives that many of them are wonder ing whether the Near East conference will ever get anywfhere after all in the matter of peace. Ismet Pasha, who backed Has- WILL BE GREATEST ' HELD IN 16 YEARS Lanier Must Pay Wife Alimony Is Ruling Of Judge Macon Man Ordered To. Pay Wife $40,00 Per Month And Attorney's Fees. The child was the first to see the mob members, one of Whom knocked on the door of the Har rison homo at Gooae Creek, an oil town, 35 miles southeast of Hous ton, about 9 p. m. She told her mother that the caller was ‘‘dressed all In white.” Later the victims of the mob told how two of Its members wore the garb of women lalthougb obvi ously they were men, while others dressed as circus clowns,.come dians and other odd characters. Mrs. Harrison, when Interviewed by newspaper men refused to de scribe the alleged assailants other than to say they were disguised. Armand also failed to throw light on the identity of the fifteen or more men. . • At least one of tbe mob mem bers la expected to be Identified by the little girl. She told Deputy Shortff Hamilton she wbuld know one of thorn. Armand la confined-to his.bed, his back lacerated by many lashes Sheriff T. A. lllnford. wlio was said to havl fall, denied that the Klan had anything to do with the affair. SImlldr cases previously had been reported In which residents of Goose Crook were taken from their homes and whipped, but few of those who return covered with bruises are willing to talk. Armand said Mrs. Harrison had KEICHSTAG VOTES ITS SUPPORT BERLIN—(By The Associated Press.)—By an overwhelming vote of 283 to 12 the Reiachatag Saturday registered its approval of the Govemment’a attitude to wards the Franco-Belgian invas ion of the Ruhr, thus according to the non-partisan cabinet, headed hy Chancellor Cuno parliamentary support of sufficient calibre to asture it freedom of action t ao far as the consent of tbe political parties is concerned. Despite the unanimity of the na tional sentiment which la being vouchsafed the government, tbe the situation growing ont of tbe presence of armed. French forces in parts of Germany previously unoccupied, is conisdamt V very serious one, and nothing is aug- ecsted ns to what line of further action is at the governments dis posal. DARK HOUR The feeling in political circles in this connection was reflected in an expression'by a well known demo- vatic leader who said:' "Germany has- arrived at the entrance to a dark, a very dark, tunnel.” , . Ho referred NOT only lo' pos sible reaction from Paris to the (Jerman official attitude, the Ger- "un government considering the treaty of Versailles abrogated, but also was of the opinion that the internal situation was frajight with grave danger. 'iince the coal syndicate eliml- ■ r ed itself from the further con ir«l of the Ruhr mines output, the independent owners and operator* * ,a ' tacticly agreed fry iFrailge ■’ d Belgium against cash pay ments, as they ate no longer able t'> hulj Germany financially 4c- countable for their deliveries. Of ficial quarters an not intervening m this situation inasmuch as it was not certain in Berlin tonight been 111 several days and ho had gone to her home with fruit only a few minutes before the masked mob had arrived. benefit to farmers who are look ing around Tor guide to selection of special money crops in 1923. , Peanuts lead all other ’spfcial crops in yielding cash income, it was found. Soy beans, the Mung bean, alfalfa, broom corn, tobac co and truck crops helped the farmer secure cash to supplement that obtained by growing cotton under boll weevil conditions, Mr. Westbrook reports. The farmers, many of them at [least, experienced difficulty in marketing their extra crops. Some of them lost money on green Ibcans while others made aa high as $400.00 per ache. Irish pota toes, Pimento peppers and Eng lish peas were also grown at prof it. Th« tobacco crop did not come up to* expectation!. MANY NEW CROPS GROWN “Many crops,” reports Mr. Weatbrobk,” were tried out with varied success, most of the crops were not entirely new to the farm MACON, Ga.—Judge H. A. Matthews In superior court Satur day aftornocta ordered Sydney Un- ler to pay hla wife (nee Pr“ Lewis, of Huntington, W. Vail a month alimony, beginning March 13, and $160 attorneys fees, paya ble in six months. He gave Lanier sixty days In which to make the first payment In order to get a job. “It has been shown,” said Judge Matthews, ‘‘that the husband haa bo property and therefore hone can be attached. In case of non-pay ment the only recourse will be Im prisonment.” Hearing of tbe petition of Mrs. Lenler consumed the entire day. It was the' first salt to come to n hearing, growing out of the mar- ri»*e of Lanler.and Miss Lewis In Atlanta on November 6. it devel oped during the hearing that tho couple had not lived together but In connection with the case iMrs narted shortly after tho ceremony. Dr. J. D. Lanier, of this city, ask Ing $60,000 (Or alleged.alienation <>f the affections dt her young hus- Sessions Will Begin At Agricultural College on January 22 and Will End January 27. WITNESS SAYS HIS BROTHER WAS WITH NIGHT RIDING BAND Augusta, Man Shoots Wife And Daughter son Bey, could neither, be threat ened or cajoled Into, seeing tho fiimndal questions affecting Tur key as the Allied delegates want-, ed him to ace them. He said the Turks had been making conces sions and sacrifices ever since tl»y came to Ladsanne, and that ir was now about time tho Allies rccriprocated. As sonie of the Allies feel they have gone far enough in the mat ter of conciliation they did not •seem to know whether to accept this as a serious declaration hut Ismet laughed outright for tho first time sinco the inauguaration of the conference and most of the, European diplomats got the.im pression that ' Uuatapha Kernel Pasha’s favorite'general was hav. ing his little joke. Cf&teBR. TOGETHER From being split asunder by the Paris reparations ’ differences, France ami England seem to bo working even eloacr together at Lausanne,:- apparently with the supreme object. of settling the peace In the Near East as soon aa possible so they' may be free to concentrate on the greater prob lem of, the reconstruction of Eu rope as a whole. The Turks who are good physcliologists immedi ately scented his policy and are not disposed-to harry. The conference leaders, hoping NOTED EXPERTS TO ■MAKE ADDRESSES IWife Of Former Conduc- Railroads Are Offering Reduced Rate and Hun dreds Will - Be in Attend ance Here. 525sra* Bernstein Again Appointed To Ga. MD THE6IINISELF TO BE COMPLETED In a very short time, according to the rapidity with which the poles ere being erected, Athena will hn*e a ‘‘great white way.” Great interest In this work 1* being taken -by the citizens, and when the light* are turned on for the first time It is expected that the whole copulation Will turn' out-- to witness the flrat flash of the bright lights. Expression* from different members of the populace indicate thft this advance In the history of the Classic'City Is one worthy of note, "or coupe, this step should have taken place years ago,” remarked one prominent cltlsen Saturday, “but,” he con- tinned, “it -la a bard matter to convince all the merchants con cerned. of the necessity of such proposition, a good many of them have to be jihown before they will believe thet It It a pro gressive step.” ATHENS GREATLY ADVANCING From recent reports completed Athens appear* to be advancing by leapt and bound*. Thla re cent). step In’ lighting Clayton street and College avenue proved that the city is progressing. The most modern type of poles ,nd light* ard being used. The poled being of ornanientnl Iron about fifteen feet. high. On" top ot these will be a 'cluster of the newest type of high power street lights. NEW YORK — Harold Van Al- •teln, member of the vaudeville team of Van and Emerson, who Friday night shot and killed Miss Marion MacLaren, of the Musical troupe. "The Five MacLarens” wounded her brother, Hugh, and then shot himself, told police Saturday ho killed the girl be cause she bad broken 1 their en gagement to -tie married and re fused even to talk to him. Van Alsteln Is under arrest In Bellevue hospital on a hpmlcido charge. His aelf-InfUcted wound Is not serious physician* sdid. Hugh MacLaren, brother of the dead girl, alio was hurt only slightly and left the hospital af ter hla Injury, a .fleah.. wound In the-left shoulder, had been drees- Mr. M. M. Bernstein of Athnn haa beon re-appointed to tho State Board of Embalmers by OoVernw Hardwick. The term Is for five years. -Mr. Bernstein lias just return ed from’ a meeting of the' board at which time twenty-two appli cants were examined. Tbe other members of tbe board are, H. AL Patterson, Atlanta; W. D. Platt, Augusta; J. Freeman Hart, Ma con; Nathaniel LcMaster, Amer ica*. Mr. Bernstein Is s graduate ot the Cincinnati College of Em balm ers t*ud i the Reonaurd Training School, for Embalmers of New York. He is a member of the New York Embalmers As sociation. tbe South! ’(Carolina Embalmers Association and tbe toedrgla Embalmers Association. He Is also an honorary moznber of the Sanitation Club of Amer ica with headquarters |n New York. . ed. I am not sorry I shot her” Van Alsteln told police. "I loved her and she drove me Insane by her refusal to even talk to me. The only thing I regret la that I did not kill myself. Please don’t tel) my dear old (Pother her boy la a murderer.” • Mist MacLaren. dining with her brother, hit wife and her two sitters, after the evening perfor- mence at a vaudeville theatre, arose when Van Alsteln entered the crowded cafe. Threading hi* way past crowded table* be walk ed to her table and began shoot ing. Massachusetts Man , 9 To Get Money For Confederate Bonds Deputies Capture Escaped Convict meeting of the full commission on economic and financial questions to act ‘‘on the report of the sub- commission concerning the Otto man debt,’ war damages and the expenses of the Allied occupation of Turkey. TURK COMMISSION MAKE REPORT This rub-commission rocom- _ E -- - t - *Yiould lie apportioned territories dctnche-1 from Turkey, surh as Syria, Mbsopotoniia, th i Kingdom of the Hedjas, Palestine end Albania hut the Turks insist ed that all debts incurred by Tur key during the war should alsoj bo distributed among the so-called succession states. These debt3 they said, were incurred for tjio good of tho former Turkish Em pire, including those parts now. de tached. , Commenting on Saturday’s de velopments, one of the Allied spokesnten remarked. "It all seems a hopeless tangle.” The sixteenth annual Farmers’ Week and market conference will begin at the State College of Agriculture here Monday aft ernoon, January 22, and win con tinue through January 27. i This promises to be the most successful of all the conferences yet* held and will be attended by large number . ot progressive farmers, bankers and business men. The sessions will be in the Agricultural auditorium. ,. . Redueed railroad.rates over all the railroads In the state have been granted for'the conference and-In Addition to-those who wlll come here via. rail, hundreds are expected! to mhke automobile trips here for the various pro gram*. Some of the nation's most eminent experts have been secur ed fnr'the week and every day will offer a program of‘.equal-im portance to farmers. Cooperative marketing will come In for much discussion. This has boen given the O. K. by Dr. Soule of the College and wIlL be discussed at length. ' -. r, , tor In Dying Condition. ^Husband Was Drunk, Is Claim. LOUI COMPLETE PROGRAM is published j v 2‘ Tho complete program of the week is an follows: ' .... PROGRAM Sixteenth Annual Farmers' Weak ' and Market Conference Geor gia State Col lags f Agricul ture, Athene, Oeorqia, January AUOUSTA.—Mrs. Cora L. Metts is at the hospital here In a dying rendition and. her ten-year-old daughter,. Mary, is suffering from a slight flesh wound on the leg as the result' of an attack upon them Saturday morning at the Metts home - by James G. Metts. Mrs. Metts' husband. xgjSiSV Metts, who is 61 years old and a former conductor on the.Southern Railway, Is said by the police to have been drinking heavily and go ing to his home early Saturday drew a pistol and - began firing up on his wife. Although wounded, Mrs. Metts fled Into the street, bet husband following and firing the remaining two cartridges in tho pistol at her. Mrs. iMetts sought refuge at-a neighbor's home and was sent from there to the hospital. The melts lived in a fashionable residential, section. ‘ . * Wbeu Wfry. the daughter, tried to. protect her mother, sho is Raid to have been fired upon, the bullet glancing her leg. Guy a 14-yepr-old son', followed the father into tho street when his mother fled. Picking up a vase In the hallway, the hoy : ran to his father In the street and crashed It against Melts' head, The blow staggered Metts, who Is said to have fallen'to the sidewalk. Recovering, he fired again at his-wife. One Witness Tells of Be ing Seized And Lectured By Black Hooded Gang. GoCO-SKIPWORTH CONFERENCE IS OFF Another Declares On Stand Anxious To Leave Community On Account of Klan Activi ties. iMetta is held without bond on a r BASTROP, La,—(By Tho Asso ciated Press)—Testimony of three witnesse—one naming his brother as having been recognized as a member of a black hooded kidnap ping band, tho other seized and lectured by. tho black-hoods, and the third telling of his anxiety to leave the community because of JTu Klux Klan activities—with the collapse of plans for a conference between A. V. Coco, state attor ney general and Capt. J. K. Skip- • with, klan leader, finished Satur day's thrills in tho state's investi gation of masked band depreda tions in Morehouse parish. Fred Ccbb. who halls from Texas, where he suys "njen fight square,” told of beipg seized by flvo hooded men, one of whom ho declared was charge of- assault with Intent to j Laurie Calhoun, named by other murder. | witnesse as a klansman. Cobb said Mrs. Metts was ‘scheduled to ap- he * a8 taken t0 the woods and pear before Judge A. L. Franklin in I K*ven a*lecture by the men who ac- su peri or court Saturday to ask al-1 CU8 ®d him of misconduct, imony and the custody of her chll- Walter Campbell, town marshal dren. 8he was granted alimony of ahd superintendent of the light and $90 a month several weeks ago by ! wa ^ r plant of Mer Rouge, named Jhdge Henry C. Hammond, but j J 1 * 8 brother, A. D. Campbell, -.:c. MEETINATUNTA;. Military Parade Oii Herty Field ? been recog Waste Paper Is Used In Helping Salvation Army Will Col lect Old Newspapers And Magazines In Ath ens. ' Roosevelt Walker, profeesor of English at tho .University of Geor gia, will preside at the initial sea The combined divisions of the University of Georgia R. O. T, C. gave Its first parade tor the. year Friday evening on Herty .Field. The good- weather allowed a large crowd ot spectators to see the performance. With the sky cloudless and the sun shining brilliantly, .breeaea from the west kept the matchers cool and put life even Into the banners and flags. This- demonstration wa* to 1 August 1 as having boon a member' | black-hood,-fl kidnapping party which stalked the roads about Bas trop a week previous to tho dis appearance ot Richard. The kidnapping of Richard and Danb-1 was the culminating art which brought about tho present Investigation. slon of tho Georgia Association of. *www.u.uw, ... w Teachers of English to be held in teach the boys to drill under the Atlanta at the Hotel Ansley Janu- eyes of the ipectntora and still to *ry 18 and 20. assembling teachers k#p cool. They responded D Tr> MaaJ from preparatory and high schools. quickly to tactical orders from reopie in liccu an over Georgia, and from the| their commanders «nd ai * body DRAMATIC SCENE University of Georgia, Emory, Mer- moved with the precision of a Oglethorpe Universities, Ag- smooth-running war machine. “ * V/tiiw mmnnnlM nf Infnr PERRY, Ga.—Sheriff's deputies, who are scouring this and anr- Kn(lxn clarence Lever of the rounding counties for ten negroee BoCl> , sendee Department ot who escaped from jail hare early ,. the salvation Army, Arrived, to Friday morning, Saturday found 1 “toaS Batwday toght to direct jhe most notorious negro of the lot, L campa uni hero to oolleet old P 11 ® | newspapers and magazines. These old newspapers and magazines ate used by the Army liuclus Mallory, hidden to of straw. iMallory was' convicted of the murder of an aged negro woman at the April term. Hla case was ap pealed to thd supremo -court. He was found today-Within two mile* ot the scene of the crime Sheriff Chapman reported that he had no, trace of the other nine negroes, although he believes most of them at* still in Houston county. Lee Jackson County Man Perfects Invention For Ford Automobile M. E. Murphy, ot Talmo. Ga.. to Jackson county, has had unasnal success with an Invention for Ford care which he has had patented. Mr. Murphy applied for hla patent hat the French authorities in the' , n ’ JuIy ^ j t was granted Jan/ newly occupied area would enter into such an agreement. Just now th* government is giving serious consideration to the The Invention is a cross member hraco for Ford cars and iMr. Mur phy baa luanufucfmcd and sold adoption of emergency tfconomic one thousand sinco July. An adver- measure* calculate,! to meet the tlsement explaining the use of the sudden -torn in' the situation device Is published elsewhere in throughout Germany. the Banner-Herald today. r ATLANTA. GaS-Abnei Squlgglna. of Worthington, whose letter to Jefferson Davis, addressed as president of the Con federacy and containing a Georgia gather with a request that Preal- confederate war bond ot 3600 to- dent Davis pay the amount ot the bond and accrned interest, was for warded Friday to Attorney General Napier here will have hla request complied With. Attorney General Napier Satur day prepared a registered letter tofre forwarded to Mr. Squlgglna— If Mr. Squlgglna can be located— which will contain $800 to currency, the amount of the bond and ac crued Interest But tbe currency Is Confederate currency. Though state of Georgia la not bonnd to re- torney General Napier declared Saturday he bad made np hla mind that “no citizen of Massachusetts could aver say of Georgia that she allowed even the dead ashes ot an (Obligation to go unredeemed.” SATURDAY IN WASHINGTON Representative Monterey, cf New Mexico, died suddenly at bis home after arising from a tick bed. .The senate pasted the agri cultural appropriation bill car rying 373,878,000 and the post office, appropriation bill car rying $686,000,040. Secretory Hughes, It was an nounced. plans a visit to Sgn- tlago, Chile, at the opening of the Pan-Americau conference on March 26. Exports of corn for the ceml year ending November 1, 1922, tho department of commerce reported, showed a 40 per cent increase over the previous year Import* of *319,000,000 in Oc tober, the Aral month under tbe new tariff law, against $289.- 000,000 for September, were re ported by the department of No liberalisation in the term* of the law providing for set tlements of debts of foreign nations to tbe United States will be asked at this time. Presi dent Harding and Republican house-leaden vere said to have decided at White Honse conter- to give employment to seedy people who are engaged, to sort- in# thftm- Doa$ year the Bodal service Department of the Army to At lanta served over J*,000 meals, furnished 11.008 day’* work and l2,ooe lodgings . to unfortunate people, mostly from small Geor gla; cities, who were stranded in Atlanta. Expenses were JWd from the sale of the old papers. The work of the Army In col lecting the old newspapers and magsslnpa Is two-fold; It give# work to unfortunate people and th wait is made Into paper, thus aiding In conbervatlon of forests. The united States government states that the newspapers thrown .away In Chicago every year would. If conserved, spare 9* acre* per day of 100-year-old spruce which go Into making pulp. Ensign Lever will speak at the City Hall tonight. Veteran* of the Spanirb-American War are especially invited as the ensign Is chaplain for Georgia of the United spantah War Veterans. . Those having old newspapers are requested to. call the Salva tion Army and they will be tent for ellhe$ Tuesday or Wednes day. ■ nes Scott College, Wesleyan Col lege, Shorter College,: Beetle Tift Institute, the State Normal school.' G. N. and l C., and many'other In stitutions. The aeulon Atlanta Is de signed to Improve the teaching ot English and to correlate Intelli gently end effectively the work ot secondary schools' with the col leges and universities. Among tbe prominent speakers betides Prof. Walker will be State Superintend ent ot Education M. H. Parks, Miss Anne Belle Horne, Miss Mathtlde Parlett, Mias Ida Melso and others. REGAINS FIRST PLACE EXCELLENT-PROGRAM 18 ARRANGED Mias Mathilda Parlett of Colum bus, who baa been the prime mover to this enterprise, and her associ ates, have, prepared a program which will pe ot solid value to all who attend. The public ichoot per sonnel of Atlanta will be hosts. The meeting* will be held r.t the roof garden of the Hotel Ansley. The program fpllows: Friday, January 19, 3 P. M, Leon Braddock added pathos and a dramatic? Beene to tho day’s pro ceedings. Braddock, a farmer, who said ho has lived all his life in thla section and by “tho sweat, of my brow have socurcd a home, a farm of eighty acres, sevon mules and an auto," told of his anxloty to sell his property at a reasonable price and leave to seek more peaceful fields for himself and bis wife nnd four children. Tills, ho aald la due to a raid on Ills homo by ‘‘unmasked’’ men led hjt Cap- Four companies of Infantry . ... . formed the head of fhe column I tnln Sklpwitli, who accused him of and was followed by three com- | maWngr liquor, panics pf motor transport. The Ju8t as Hta rear of the column waa brought up to a-vepr commendable man- ner by the cavalry troops. H la tho object of the military department to have u parade every Friday evening, when the weather permits. Just as state's attorneys were about to name the hour for tha conference requested hy Capt. Skipwlth to discuss Ku Klux Klan affairs, the klan leader announced early Saturday afternoon to tho Associated Presa that as far ns ho was concerned there would be no conference. Captain Skipwlth said that th- withdrawing of his request for tho Interview with Attorney General Coco was due to state's attorneys Friday, January 19, 3 P. M. Mr. Roosevelt Walker, presiding. Relation of Dramatics to Oral English—Mias Annlbet Horne. Reports from representative* fry counties. Report ot Committee on' Mini mum Essentials. Friday. January 19, 8 P. M. Greetings from Hon. M. M. Parka, State Superintendent of Ed ucation.- i f- Chairman’s Address—Miss Ma tblide M. Parlett Address—Dr. W. F. Melton. Differentiation or , Courses in EBgUsh for High School 8tndento —Miss Ida Mellon. Saturday, January 20, 9:90 A. M. Business Meeting . Adoption of Copstltutlon and By- Laws. V Reports ot Committees. GLASGOW.—World returns of ship building for 1(22 show that Britain has regained first place to tbe ouput of tonnage with 1,042,- 691) tons, Germany being second with 631,1 So tons.-Figures for the United Stales are given as 259,747 tons for 1922 as compared with an output during 1919 of 4,760,000 tons. ONi KILLED IN WRECK TOLEDO, Ohio.—One man wa* killed anirseveral injured when a Baltimore A Ohio passenger train rnnnlng on the Pierre Marquette tracks crashed into the rear of a freight train one ml!<* north of the Ohio-MIcklgan state line Satur day. • ' Dr. Aahby Jones, tastor of the pence ds Leon Baptist church, Atlanta, will be the guest ot tho Athens Rotary . Club at' its .week ly lunebeon Wednesday at the Georgian hotel and will make the main address of the day. :Dr. Jane Is one of ' the most eloquent speakers to the south aqd has appeared here many times and a large crowd always greet* him with enthusiasm and the Rotartans will have a large number'-of additional gueets at Urn Wednesday luncheon, each member to Inrite someone to ac company him to the luncheon. This -wiU be one of the ban- | ner meetings of tbe season for tbe Rotary Club and a hugs at tendance fa expected to be placing witnesse* on the stanU m -'dig Into the activities of the klan.” "If they care to go about II in this manner I can see no good to be derived from , tho conference with Mr. Coco,” said Captain Skip wlth, known as tho exalted cyclops Of the Morehouse klan. Attorney General Coco declined to comment on Captain Skipwlth'* decision. He expressed surprise at tho klan leader’s withdrawal, how- Jenkins New Head Baptist Council At a supper held at the Y. M. C. A. Friday night, John W. Jen- kin* of the -University of Geor gia faculty, was elected president the First Baptist church council. AJrlt Nix was elected dock, secretary. Many matters of Importance to the council and the chur.-h af Alleged Bootlegger Arrested Saturday CoIHrCiurter, a young.negro mart,' was arrested Saturday and lo.lg.-.l In the Clarke county Jail on a w ar rant charging possession of wills- Carter was .caught measuring whiskey In the bach rodm of a ne gro barber 'shop on Washington and Hull streets, it la said. He wa* In the back room with the door locked when county and city po licemen broke through tho door and nabbed him. Carter was tin- shine boy In the barber shop. He had been -accustomed to sell - Ing whiskey by the drink, it is said. m 8TEAL LIBERTY BONDS BATON ROUGE, La.—A 'safe to tho store of Bridges & West at Norwood, La., was blown open ear. ly Saturday and $30,000 in vice president, aid Dave Pad- bonds, $1,000 in cash and other se- dock, ftpr.rcfnrv. ,-iirlilou lalrm, Tha a. _ curltlca taken. Tho robbers put mattress nround the safe to s fhe sound ot the explosion large were discussed at the sup-j did a clean Job. They escaped P«r. _ an automobile. lad^iVifini iVuffi