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Alabama Mine Death List Reaches 53 Friday
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DAILY AND SUNDAY.
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VOL. 9J, NO. 280 Aaaoelatrd Praaa Sarriea. United Praia Dispatches,
ATHENS. GA„ FRIDAY. DECEMBER II. 1923.
A. B> C Papal. Single Coplaa 2 Caata Dally, i Caata Sunday.
Chinese Fire On International Train
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Coolidge Likely To Approve Russian Recognition
NO CASUALTIES ARE
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FORECASTS
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WASHINGTON.—
(UP) — Senator Borah’s
action in holding his res
olution providing Russian
recognition on tne senate
table instead of burying
it in committee was inter
preted here Friday
meaning that he adminis
tration has an open mind
on the subject and is
moving slowly toward
Russian negotiations.
Though Russian recognition js
“IF WAR IS FORCED ON
US, WE ARE READY TO
FIGHT”, SAYS BRITAIN
WHAT CONGRESS
DID FRIDAY
SENATE — Not in sts&ion.
'Privileges and election commit
tees meet on Nye appointment.
BOUSE — Continued consid
eration of tax redaction bUl.
Y.M. C. A. Sets
Dates For Its
Fund Campaign
“England Will Fulfill Her
Duty,” British Colonial
Secretary Says in Con
nection With Mosul Oil
Wrangle.
GENEVA. —(UP)— “If war in
forced on to us. England will main* 1 annual campaign frr maintenance
ta*n hor rights as sho has always i funds January 8 to 14, W. T.
done," declared British Colonial 1 Forbes, general secretary announ.
Secretary L. C. M. S. Amery, In an cea. |
C.
around the conference.
exyltuthre Interview with
United Press Friday.
He was discussing t*hn delicate
situation surround*ng the League
of Nation efforts to reach a deii.
sion as to future control of the
oil district of Mosul.
“The British government.'* he ’ the fiscal year. The fiscal
continued, “Is not pursuing an ag- began Ncvember 1, and the assoc!
gresslve policy, is not seeking fresh ( atlon is two much In arrears on
The directors are planning
raiso $15,000 for the year’s work
which has begun. In connection
with this the directors have sent
a letter to members asking that
they adv&nce as much money aa
\ possible on their subscriptions for
•* — “—* V‘“
territorial responsibilities, nor
not imminent, it is much nearer' l)ut~tr^war Pt, foj , ce«r os^a re*
than a. year ago ,whaa former Sec
retary of State Hughes dictated
foreign policy, according to per
sons close to the White House.
While Secretary Kellogg opposes
Russia, President Cooltdge is dc.
termining the policy and .ho leans
towards Borah’s position, it was
said.
Secretary Mellon and others, in
cluding former Governor Good
rich, of Indiana, recently returned
from Moscow, are known to have
told the President that It Is about
time to face the problem “realist*
.Ically” bj meeting the Russians
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Kills CLUB
HITES LIST
salt of reaponaillitlea. already as-
stfmedT "she will lalfilUter-dnty,”
he said. >
Attempt Made To
Overthrow Govt.
OF Bulgaria
ATHENS, Greece.—(UP)—So-
fin report, Friday declared there
had been numeral!, arret, and
? eW ******* ~ ClahTwere nominaUd far tta pres-
“rTmiiiimiiMhiiL o crthrovt Idency in the “primary" Thursday
RESCUE CREWS ARE
STILL AT
EFFORTS TO
OUT THREE OTHERS;
nmimToiiiii i Tbe photo shows the three wnm.-n members of the congress. Th y are, left to right. Mrs. Mary T.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— | Norton of New Jersey, Mr,. Florence P. Kahn of California, and Mr,. Edith Rogers of Mnsiachnsette.
(AP)—With a death list!
- 54 - h ”»CONGRESS IS NEARLY READY TO
TAKE UP CONSIDERATION OF
HUGE TAX REDUCTION BILL
Four members of the Kiwanis
State Department Was
Unwilling To Take
Steps To Protect
Panama Canal
WASHINGTON.—(UP)—Plans and schedules of
foreign owned air companiw which have obtained
control of airways surrounding the Panama Canal
were detailed-' by Major George W. Strong of the
army general staff at the Mitchell courtmartial
Friday, a
Strong declared that a French
company had ootaincd exc
air concessions in Guatemala and
a German concern had “tied up”
the best Central American io
United States airways with bases
in Key West, Cuba, Mexico and
Colombia.
These concessions were let after
the United States failed to act
on the resolution of the air serv-
nublic when Lieut. Colonel Chris-
ia« Bach, chief of the historical
section of the Army War College,
read translations of official Ger
man was communications.
According to the reports 911
out of 5,144 allied planes brought
down during two years or fifteen
per cent were destroyed by anti
aircraft fire.
ice to obtain an exclusive airway* I Bach's evidence was aimed
to Central America for the pro-
tection of tho canal, it was said.
Strong was cflled by the prose
cution to prove that the War De
portment was not to blame for
the failure to securu these air.
He testified that tne State
Department had refused to co-op
erate with the War Department lit
obtaining concession from Mexico
because cf fear of endangering
Mexico’s neutrality.
Germany's secret records to the
effect of her air forces were made
Mitchell s statement that anti-air.
craft gunnery was ineffective.
PROPOSES BILL
WASHINGTON.—Tho first act-
ion towards improvement of avia
tion in the new congress was
taken Friday by the senate 'com.
mercc committee in ordering fav
orably reported the Bingham bill
to provide government supervision
of commercial flying.
The bill would establish a bu
reau of aeronautics in the com
merce department under supervis
ion of a new assistant secretary.
The bureau would regulate issu
ance of pilot licenses, restrict fly
ing planer and supervis* develop,
jment of aviation fields,
1 It was written by Senator Bing-
! ham, republican, one of the mem
bers of the President’s alrcraf*
{board. It will be submitted to
(the senate Monday ns the first
| bill on the calendar.
Sir Galahad Boys
Meet Saturday
The Order of Sir Galahad will
meet Saturday morning in the
office of Secretary W. T. Forbes
of the Y. M. C. A. for the pur
pose of beginning its work for
the fiscal year. Boys eligible for
the Order are invited to attend
the meeting.
when the club met at the Holman
hotel. The nominees are Will
King Meadow, Robert O. Arnold,
Dr. J. M. Pound and Dr. H. M.
Fullilove. The rule is to vote on
the two obtaining the highest
number cf votes in the primary
but three of the nominees tied
Thursday so tho club must select
a president from four nominees.
The nominees for first vice-
president were, Robert O. Arnold,
Will King Meadow and those for
second vice-president, M. N. Tut
wiler, Will King Meadow and Dr.
U. H. Davenport.
The nominees for directors from
which the club must select seven
follow: E. E. Lamkin, J. B. Bar
nett, M. L. Manne,.T. H.' Mcllat-
ton, C\ E. Martin, Joel A. Wior,
M. J. Abney, Blanton Fortson* J.
C. Jester, R. 0. Arnold, J. M.
Pound, W. L. Erwin, E. M. Hell,
W. O. Payne, Walter B. Hodgson.
Fifty members of the Club were
voted on for director.
Champ of Ring
been definitely determin-j
ed, rescue workers were;
Friday making final ef-f*
forts to remove three!
bodies remaining in Over-]
ton Mine No. 2, which
was partly wrecked by an
explosion of gas Thursday
afternoon, \ f
The bodln remaining In the
mine are thoae of two white men
and onr negro miner. Thu bodln
of the white men me penned be
neath a boulder. Of the bodiej
already removed, forty three arc
negroes and aeven whltt men.
Rescue crewa worked patelently
throughout the night Thursday
but progreu eras retarded by ad
verse conditions within the pit.
Fire, gas and debris met the
workers at every turn. The fire
was not of dangerous character,
however, and the gaseona condi
tion lightened towards daybreak.
It v—. expected that th, latt
body entombed would he removed
before nightfall.
No More
Mine officials belitve that the
death list will not past fifty
three..
Wearied watchers kept vigil
about the pit mouth through a
night of sorrow for the little min
ing community. The color line
was obliterated, unite and negroea
were united in a common grief
a.id each tried to assuage the oth
er's Ion. Rain began falling at
daybreak but women, hoping
against hope, to find their loved
ones yet alive, never moved from
their stand at the gnard-Ilnea.
As tha morning wore on, the.
aun came creeping through the
clouds but it brought no ray of |
hope to the silent throug of
J"*'*'* "S 2*^2? *22 W*-Smith" of, New York,
now ud then* elopadwdth Ann Han, 18, a year or Mt- v'ernon lodge of Maaons at
now and then. ago. . The romance becant* known the annull meaUlXf Thursday night
when a child w©a horn* This is He 8Ucceedi i*. pop* B . Holliday,
the second ejOTement in the Smith Carlton Thornton waa elected
family, Al Smith, Jr., eloping senior Warden and Will Kins
TEIN TSIN FRIDAY
PEKIN.— (UP) -Chi
nese artillerymen Friday
fired on the International
Train, en -route to Tien
Tsin from Pekin with
American and European
passengers, including the
widow of former Ameri
can Minister Calhoun of
China, and Tiffany Blake,
representative of the Chi.
cago Tribune.
There were no casualties a
only one window was smashed.
The train backed up after th©
firing and several passengers pro
ceeded afoot across a damaged
bridge, subsequently obtaining au
tos with which they went through
the battle lines and reached Tien
Tain. The train has not been re
ported at Tien Tsin even twentf
four hours its departure J*.
spite the fact that the stretch 11
only 70 miles.
Intermittent fighting is tupntt
cd northwest an in southern Tien
TIE ALLOTTED FOR Want!$20 - 000 ’ 000
SOLONS TO GO ON
WASHINGTON.—-(UP)—Nearly
ready to begin actual consideration
of tho $325,000,000 tax reduction
bill the house Frldty faced a bar.
rage or abbreviated speechs on the
measure.
All members of the ways and
means committee, having com
pleted thslr address on the reve
nue measure. Chairman Green and
Representative Garner, ranking
democrat, gave cut small allot*
m*nts of time to members who
want to go on record for the mead-
ure. Virtually all of th© dobftte
will be favorable to the bill, al-
. USE TROOPS
} TIEN TSIN, Chins.—(UP)—
Railway service from Pekin Tien *
Tsin has been suspended and Brit- 1
ish, French nnd Japanese guards 1
nre reinforcing the railway which 1
lias been broken a^several places
near Tongshan, ft was announced
here Friday.
18 ADOARD
PEKIN, Chir..\ — Eighteen
American passengers were -on
board the International ; Train
which left for Tien Tsin wttjt a
detachment of American infantry
•as a special guard.
| They included Mrs. Calhoun,
J widow of former minister Caihoqn
■ and Tiffany Blake and Mrs. Hlakf
of Chicago.
| The train reached YartgtbiO.
; Friday morning. Four miles to
: tho south General , Li Ching^i
troops fired upon it.
Ir
ATHENS WILL
^ rnd J° co,,,r r ie * t * 20 - .reV’vft’Lttn”? £
000,000, charging that the com
panies have banded together and
refuse to.buy. radio inventions.
Arthur Smith, 18, son of Gov-
A I V«... V..t
Rev. Janies William Howard, 86,
Columbus, Ga„ preacher, claims
the ill-southern marrying record.
He ha, performed 2,016 marriages.
Saved By Mala
One negro miner owes hij «>•
cape to his mule. When tho gas
was worst and conditions appear,
ed darkest for the entombed men,
oot through the opening of the
pit shot the care and then the
balence of a big fat mu)e. Cling
ing hard to the mule’e tail wae a
negro worker who had become
blinded temporarily by the blast
and took this means of saving
himself. He said ha knew the
mule would “get out If then wae
any getting out.”
The mine ie the property of the
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
and is considered by federal and
stats mine officials one of the
best equipped in the Alabama
mine fields. The blast did not
wreck the Alabama machinery and
this aidad the rescue parties In
the work of exploration. .
The cause of tha blast bas not
been officially determined and 1
probably never will be learned
positively. Some of tho workers
think it was caused either by a
miner striking a match of by a
windy shot.
shout two years sgo.
Farmers Meet
Endorsed By
C » • ■ night, the nswly fleeted master an-
O IT! Ill 1 t t 66 nouncing that these appointments
. would bo made public on SL Johns
The State College of Agricul-1 n!,ht *
Organization of the Publicity
Committee of the Chamber of
eK nn .V «r<ti in-™ * ,u * wwr AWK«miu /». i; csocii- Commerce wag perfected at a meet-
ilUraUons® nK^,be^, U gq den. Boeton inventor, if suing six * n S Thursday nixht. A. B. Dayl*
alterations. . .-r .. ’ rn ' * ion’U chairman and M. Mdi Born.
stein vice-chairman; K. A.*’LoWt
was elected secretary. .
The committee decided to ask
tho county to plac* a rock - en
trance at each of the main high
ways into Clark© ccunty and wJJI
ask the city to place markers at
the city limits.
It was a’so decided to-lsstjeii
booklet pointing out Athene «M
Clarke county advantages, the rat
io health work In tho couaty
and agricultural possibilities.
The Publicity Conurjttee Is com
posed rf the following:
A. F Davison. Chairman. David
Michael. M. M. Bernstein. Earneat
I.owe. J. F. Hammett, K. O. GHlev,
W. T. Co’lins. W. W. Hayes. E. D.
Stone. H. J. Stegeman* B. C. Amlelr
Chos. Mart<n; B. R. Blood worth. R.
F. Morgan, FSm Funkeratein. Mr*.
M. A. IUIe. Mrs. Baugham. C. A.
r*f.r«on. . Ttolnnd Save. Hertnaa
J. K. Patrick h
Elected To Head
Mt. Vernon jLodge Students Balk At
Military
J. K. Patrick was named'nuaUr
Meadow wae sleeted Junior War.
dun. J. O. Quinn waa named
succeed himself ae secretary and
\Y. A. Capps waa re-elected treas
urer. The appointive officare
were not announced Thursday
turc Committee of the Chamber _1 * .
of Commerce has organised with '-'Ol. UlCKSCn At
W. W. Reits ns secretary. C. D.
Flanigan is chairman and the se
lection of a vice-chairman ha*
been postponed.
The committee will recommend
University Friday
Thomas J. Dickson, chap
lain. U. 8. Army, retired speaker
to the Board of Directors that it in the Unlverelty of Oeorgia Chapel
aid in every wey possible to mak - Friday. Colonel Dickson served
the annoal Farmers’ Conference with distinction In the First Divt-
at th* Agricultural College a sue- ilon throughout tho World War aa
ease. It wiU he held the week o', chaplain of tbo Sixth Field Ar-
25th. Individuals are Hilary. From Athens Colonel
urged to Invite their friends in Dickson goes to Alabama, where
this section to visit them during he has speaking oppointments at
that w«ek and attend th* confer- th* University of Alabama, and in
cnee. | Birmingham,
Training
NEW YORK. —(UP)— Demand
of students at the College of the
City rf New Y’ork for abolition
of compulsory military training has
been rejected by the faculty.
Tho vote was 54 to 16 with 39
faculty members not voting.
Tito students have not as yet
given up their attack, however.
the death of antagonism to com- .. L- , „ . _
pulsory military training is shown Stela. L. O. Pledger, Hovt nehert-
by the refusal 1 Friday of “The •* ,n - R - Pbllllns. D. Ii. Nlchol- an
Campus."-student newspi per. To. »n. Howard WAX Venn. J.
new. of fke
Peace. R. K. patllli>.;S. C. Moon.
President Sidney E. Metes wrote Harry Mnnntn. D I ilnd. • -
letters to the editors of “The Cam-1 » '
^, , M.’«-m« w S^'No Trace Found.
tary training, in which tho students
ted 2.032 to 345 for abolition.
Both of the president's letters
were Into tho editorial wastohask
et of “The Campus."
Resolutions condemning the fac. "missing b
ulty action will bo Introduced hy n-(tit ‘twe-ti
delegates from tho school at the b-en, adrift
National Undergraduate Confer without e-il
euro on the Wort dCourt at Prln..ef tho wind
ectoa next Sunday. [Sunday.
Of Missirte Barge
TAMPA. Fla. —iFP)— .The
trc.ichoroiis Gulf Friday still re*
tft h™ uo s«v truce** the
Altnmeha. 'iVBtdk
we men «hoard ta*
ft the Florida eo©af
r power at th© merer
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