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. i 18 ,'[m f ■ ' Invostiaat* Today! To Regular Subscribers of "•'I $1,000 Acc»«Jent Policy Free. Pail; and Sunday—10 Centa • Week. The One Paper In Moat Homes—The Only Paper In plaujITAHS. 1 r ~~~' Daily and Sunday—10 Cento a Week. VOL. 11, No. 42 WEATHER: r COOLER WITH RAIN, COTTON: MIDDLING . 23 3-Jc GOOD MIDDUNG — . 22 U.c FnU Associated Press Leased Wire Service. ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1922. Sinyle Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cento Sunday. HEW U. S. SENATOR *•4 4*4 4*4 +H 4**4* 4»4 4.** 4.04. 4.04. 4.04. 4*04. 4*«4* v*4* 4»4 4**4* 4**4 4**4< 4**4* 4*4 4*4 4*4 Fear Drives Thousands From •4. 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 CRUCIAL TIME FACES Eastern Thrace, Now Deserted ga. votersselegt! 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4»4 \ Seeks Stage Honor When Terms"'of Armistice Were Posted,, Great est Exodus in All His tory Began in Earnest. THEY PLOD THRU RAIN AND MUCK Unknown Destinies Face People Who Fear Turks and Leave. Said to Be Pitiable Sight. CONSTANTINOULE — (By The Assorted Pfess)—Se nous conditions exists in thrace, which the Mudania Armfjs^ic ai lenient proyid- rd should be evacuated by the. Greeks within 15 days* it is revealed by a British official ftatement issued Tuesday. -The population of Eastern Thrace is undoubtedy in a disturbed state** eaye the s\a*jenj?nt!. “A^hfrugH sno concrete cases of serious dis orders are reported* the allied Ngenerais feel that tWi _ So « time when every one. itfjduld keep his head and nob" ICnd himself to panic.*' HAS CROSSED IS As It Was Being Taken From Hangar in San Antonio Early Today, It Is Ignited. ONLY ONE PERSON BADLY INJURED Famous Aircraft Had Crossed America' and Was on Return When Fatal Accident Comes. Young Wife Denies She Is Mother Of Twins ADRIANOPLE.—(By the Asso ciated Press.)—Thirty thousand Greeks and Armenians have pass ed from this city to the west since Saturday and the road between here and the 'Maritz river is an unbroken line of men, women and children with ox carts, cattle anc} camels. Through a steady downpour of rain they are plodding doggedly toward their unknown destina tions, driven forward by the nameless fear which has gripped the whole populace of Eastern Thraee since the government*, bulletins v/erc posted Saturday announcing the terms of the Mu- dinia armistice which provided for occupation of the province by the Turks within 45 days. Memliers of the Allied missions stationed here declare the. extent | Mosely-WIUiams So is just 23. of the refugee exodus indicates that the Turks upon their entry will find Eastern Thrace almost uninhabited. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—The ar my dirigible C-2 which recently completed a trans-continental S it and had reached San Antonio ts wiy back to Washington, burned Tuesday morning while beingMxken,from its hangar at iiight^er Si jjr^Severaf of the crew were hurt, oite seriously. Just how the accMAit occurred r.lmy.illil ImmJiapiml ut nn early kcTiu™! Jjfe aS Thel-ind torw it up against one i i fill! uiniin at the en- traijee. Passengers heard the hiss ing of the r gas and a few moments later thei gas, for some unknown reason,. became ignited, going up n! to the concrete floor. . stage record to match her war rec- ° r She’ll have to hustle, too, for she has been decorated by a number of countries. . , Belgium gave her a war medal, made her a member of the Royal Order of Queen Elizabeth and a Chevalier of Leopold II. France gave her a Red Cross "memory medal” and the Croix de Guerre. . . Tli e Albanian government creat ed a title for her iu that country and she is a duchess. Police ambulances and emer gency cars rushed to the scene a few moments after the report came and doctors left the city immedi ately for the scene of the accident. HAMMOND, Ind—Mrs. Ha zel McNally, young wife of Frank' McNally, 55, factory worker of South Bend, in jail Tuesday emphatically denied that she was the mother of twins whom her husband charges she murdered. Failure thus far to find the twins or their bodies and McNally*s ad mission that he never actually saw them led the local police to the belief that McNally was the victim cf a hoax. • McNally claims his wife vis ited a physician and that he ..saw two bundles of blankets., wnich he was toici contained the babies supposed to have been born last December. No record of the births has been found. REGIME Her Voice Aids Inventor Mate m Mrs. de Forest Has Beau tiful Soprano Voice. SUCCESSOR! TOM ARREST EXPECTED Unionist Meeting to Be Staged At Carlton Club S f Much Importance ust Now. SPECULATION AS TO ITS OUTCOME Some See Vote of Confi dence For Chamberlain and Coalition, While ^Others Do Not. ‘^LONDON.—(By the Associated Press)—The meeting of Unionists c&lled for Thursday at the Carlton' jclub will, be of great importance It is almost certain to bring the tical crisis to a head. Until its .whether to break up tne or stand by Prime Minls- Probe Sifts Back Again |?er Lloyd George^s known, the to Slain Rector’s Wife. Arrest For Grime. ~ pected Tuesday. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.— Having obtained postponement of the projected handing over of ihe inquiry into the murder at Eev. Edward Wheeler Hail, rector of the Episcopal Church /of St. John the Evangelist, and his me Rvangcnsi, ana nis cnoir teaa- .ha was r ,qr. Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, totter as city authorities and county off-: and that member. £the kp^q.qt'soA.mani and. the Unionist peers who are members at the government. Thus it will not be representative or the entire vat* ■ - v.t , - nation, ot this arrange- t when Austen Cham berlain was elected In March, 1921, to lead: the Unions In commons In to Andrew Bonar-La.v. chosen .to succeed the SEVERAL * PASSENGERS WERE IN SHIP And she la starting her new ct reer being a humble maid In new show fin Broad way : Her real name 1‘UOCKSSION IS ORDERLY The procession has been orderly, but the misery of the refugees is already extreme and pneumonia v *'ill claim many victims if the present inclement weather con tinues. The American in charge <T the Near East soup kitchen at the railway junction on the east * v idc of Maritza declared. “In all my experience I neve" imagined such a pitiable sight as the marih from Adrianople in the driving rain. Every refugee ar- t'ivid soaked to the skin, /With a wagon load of bedding floating in water.” 1‘erhaps never in the eighteen hundred years of its stormy his tory has Adrianople witnessed icenes. Validity of Attorney Daugherty’s Ruling Now in High Court. May Go to Supreme Court. When on Saturday the - Greek NEW YORK.—(By the Associa ted Press)—Wet and dry forces face each other Tuesday before Federal Judge Learned Hand in the first pitched battle between feder al prohibition enforcement author ities and foreign and domestic steamship lines over the validity of Attorney General Daugherty s '^The Calendar of Judge. Hand’s In the car of the dirigible at the time were members of the crew and several passengers. They es caped death but first reports said several were burned seriously and one had an arm broken. The di rigible was completely destroyed by the flames. The passengers in the car and their injuries: Major H. A. Strauss, command er, bruises, not serious; 'Major John MacThompson, injuries un determined' but thought not of v| - tal character; Captain Jeffrey Montague, practically unhurt; Captain Nelson Walker, bruised on face; Ben Baines, San Antonio, A. Anderson, body bruised; Ser- reporter, arm broken; Lieut. A. A. gcunt C. B. Albright, broken leg and bruises. Other passengers were not in jured: S. Deane Wasson, reporter, i Houston; O. E. Holden, San Anto nio newspaper man; E. D. Alexan der, San Antonio newspaper man; Samuel Cardenas, newspaper man. cials were prepared Tuesday- morning for a busy day’s work. They were to question during the day Willie Stevens, brother of Mrs. Frances Hall, widow of the slain rector, and a maid in the Hall home. Persons close to the prosecutors of both Somerset and Midlesex counties, who have been in charge of the investigation predicted that a man and a woman would be arrested on charges of first degree murder before the day closes. L • ,1 Contents of letters purported td have been written by Dr. Hall to Mrs. Mills, and which have been guarded carefully previously were said to show beyond a doubt that the rector and singer were accus tomed to meet in DeBussy’s Lane, near the old Phillips property where the dead bodies were found. of tlio whole party in fact the leadership of the party has been vacant since Mr. I Bonar-Law retired because of ill health. „ court was cleared for the hearings authorities attempted to re assure the people by stating that the Turkish gendarmie would not arrive for 15 days, the Christian inhabitants simply refused, to be- li' ve them. Nearly every Chris tian family in Adrianople gather ed up all they could carry, either ( ' n their backs or on ox-carts and were off. of temporary injunctions • returna- ble Tuesday, restraining enforce- 'a. m.I Sep- ment authorities from putting In- «e»s, *»•, » —*,„ _f_ BISHOP AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, Ga.—Rt. Rev. Mi- >huel J. Keyes, bishop designate °f Catholic diocese' of Georgia who is to be consecrated Wednes day in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, reached Savannah Tuesday morning from Washing ton. San Antonio FIRST PLANE TO CROSS CONTINENT CHICAGO.—The C-2 was the first craft of the dirigible type to complete the transcontinental tnp over the United States. 'Starting from Langley Field, Newport to effect the rules forbidding Am- erican and • foreign ships leaving oort after October 21 from carry ing liquor under seal into or out of American ports. • Thd government forces were pre pared -to present arguments to show cause why they should not be per-- manently enjoined from putting In to effect the provisions of the Daugherty ruling. Attorneys for the steamship companies were prepared for a bitter fight. It was stated by representatives oLboth fac 1 iV.i. mn «»np orklnt thf- tember 14, the airihip made air history by flying to Ross Field, Arcadia, California, with but • six sixteen fled before the raid- stops enorute, reaching^ the I n-1 ers arrived. Three men, including cific coast en route at 6:68 a. m., iff i Foster of steel strike fame, September 23. v ‘ -V I tvrro lotos* sl*MiitoH ot rhiaoisn tions that no matter what the re sult of the hearings the test cases would be brought before the Uni ted States supreme court Action by enforcement agents against either shins is at a standstill, according to H. S. Stuart, acting collector of . * . . . _ 1 a.IJ hnd haotl ln. EVANGELIST E8CAPED 0 . MIP —" ■ , LOS ANGELEa Cal—Herbert t i, e port who Said had bcenln- Wilaon. former evan&lisi con- i structed to mark time by the treas- r! ctQd „ ot • th e murder, of Herbert ury department. Cox during an afttempted jail (of French vessfels brake severalmonthsi ago. > escap-; their usual nation of wine today, from the county jad here; forei-n vessels **^ *\\ ]ll n “ t '^ 1 Tuesday. Two other prisoners.on board, either to sill It outside nlRo escaped, • (Coninucd on Page Four) Alleged to Have ' Plotted Against U. S., They Now Face Trial ST. JOSEPH, Mich.—(By the Associated Press.)—Twenty al leged communists charged with plottting to overthrow the gov ernment of the United States by force will be arraigned Tuesday in the first test case of Michigan’s anti-syndicatalism law, passed as a war time measure. Sixteen of the twenty men were arrested August 22 when authori ties swooped down on- a wooden glen near Bridghman, and inter rupted what the government charges was the national conven tion of the communist party of America. Between 70 and;80 radicals bad been in. attendance at the meet: ing in the .wild dune country along the’shores of Lake Michigan, , the government agents 'claim, but ail Four Candidates in Race For Office At Washing ton, All of Whom Are Confident of Victory. LIGHT VOTE IS BEING POLLED Both in A thens, and Throughout State, There Is Not Such Heavy Bal loting Reported. The forecast at one o'clock was that less than one-third of the vo ters of Clarke county would partic ipate' in the primary election being held Tuesday for the nomination of ' a successor to Thomas E. Watson in the United States senate and . for John W. Lindsey as state pen sion commissioner. Less than 600 votes had been j polled in the city of Athens pre- I cinct up to that hour out of over 2,800 qualified In the city. It was predicted that the total In the city would hardly reach 1,200 and that less than 250 would vote, in the country precincts. HARDWICK AND — CLARKE LEAD The beautiful goprantf voice 'OT Itra. Lea do Fori husband greatly In'perfecting his new.talking motion toys. D, Forest to a radio pioneer. Accordingly it is declared, Mr. Chamberla/.n is not answerable to the party as a whole and only feeiH called upon to explain or defend his declared fuith in the premier to the commoners and his ministe rial colleagues. While It is agreed everywhere that the meeting will lead to events of * utmost- consequence, op’nions are much divided ae to exactly what ted as ju*t .conceivable , tbut a tern porary truce may be patched up but No General or Other Of ficers Admitted to Exer cises He Conducted on Royal St., N. 0. ; ^ _ NEW ORLEANS.—(By the Asso- 1 happen Thursday,.It is admit-jeiaied , Press)—A solemn snn- I am liiftt rnnpnivfihlo (hid q tprn - bronzed youth in olive drab, an noboSy piaces mnch faith ln this ** a carefree an- outcome. • : gle over one ear, stood in the mid- The alternative views are. first, die of Royal street Monday night,, that Ml ChambMlatn(a defense of W hile crowds of American Le^on -“***■ v * iwnue i.ruwus oi American* juu^iou fheretm backed n « R will bf by i visitors;, home ward boundfrom the Lord Birkenhead., and Sir Robert .French fete in Jackson square. Horne and perhaps other ministers, I valked, slrolfed or marched by as will bring linn a.rote'of cqntldenfe I their fancy dictated. It was a eare- ^ the-’meet- ® ut the French fete log wm°dectara against adherence SXiddlfof^Rtoalrtre'eTHe w’m holdimr tn the latter PYiioptntion dently had the matter on his minu support itVcontandVJtatprec- fnTrkfttngTmp^hen tlcailv half the constituents rep- L irs L''jy Den tlctlly half the constituents rep resented by Unionists have declar ed against continuance of the coali tion and will look to their repre- of the unionist members do not sentative8. to stand by them. It is a fact, however, that many intend to seek re-election to par liament and may prefer to adhere to the coalition ticket. BUSY Cotton Receipts Being Checked MEMPHIS, Tenn.—C o t t o n warehouse receipts issued during the current year by the Memphis Terminal Corporation are being checked oyer by federal investiga tors sent here from Atlanta bji request of W. G. Turner, presi dent of the warehouse company, who charges that grades of cotton named in the negotiable certifi cates had been altered in hundreds of cases after the certificates had been issued by the warehouse com pany, which is licensed under the federal warehouse act. were later arrested and extradited. at Chicago East Athens Baptist Church Revival Is Of Great Interest Considerable interest is being shown in . the revival at the East Athena Baptist church which be gan last Sunday evening. Rev. W. M. Sen tell, pastor of the Oak land City Baptist church in At lanta, is conducting the revival, and large audiences are listening with great interest to his sermons. Services are held each evening at 7:30 o’clock, with the song service heg nning at 7:15 o’clock: The public is cordially invited to attend all of the services. , Speculation Is ^busy as to what -^• fonrfw • will follov/ the meeting's decision, whichever way. k goes some ob- Servers suppose that if Mt. Cham berlain gets his.vota.of confidence Mr. Lloyd-George wilL take ad vantage of this encouragement to dissolve parliament and arrange for an immediate election.' On the other hand, If the Union ist leader Us turned down by the meeting he Is expected to resign, being accompanied, in ■, this step, by some of the coalition Unionist, cabinet members, notably Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and Sir Robert Horne as chancellor of the exchequer. Such a result would lead to a brer.k-up of the cabinet. Whatever happens, accentuation of the existing cleavage in the Un ionist party is foreseen, leading, perhaps to the formation of a new party consisting of tye supporters of the coalition in both the pres ent parties. 1 he learned to regard his commis sioned superiors with natural sus picion and sergeants and corporals as their'active agents. “Thisa buck private’s conven tion.” said. the solemn one. ougbta know; I ns the ranking buck private in the A. E. F. I’ll tell • 1 a ' v the worldo. This convention rm Rgy Nf*10TtnOl* IQ holding here is the buck privates’ A vwlgliwr 15 convention. No officers admitted. Throw ’em out.” He,paused to glare around hatefully■. for anyone who looked like a major-general—or a second Ueutenant.1 None appeared It was apparent from appearanc- es around the polls^ at tne_<sou|:t fe ' . was loading in .the face for gena« tor and that Jihn W. Clarke, the present iqcumbent, Was leading for >, pension commissioner. There was . but little activity antong.the friends - ot any candidates oilier- than- Mf. Hardwick's. His workers, wearing Hardwick ribbons, appeared iit toe i Foiling places as soon as the doors opened-and are working tirelessly for the success of the former sena- ' tor. Judge Walter F. George’* friends are also active but not so much as those supporting Hard wick. It was claimed that fully three out of five votes cast during the first three hours the polls r.-ero open were for Hasdwick. Kennesaw Mountain Lan dis, High Baseball Offi cial, Also Speaks There Wednesday. NEW ORLEANS.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—Samuel Gom pers, president of thp American Federation of Labor, is here to address the national convention, of the American Legion. Mr. Com pels reached \cre late Monday night. Kennesaw Mountain Lan dis, high commissioner of baseball who arrvied Monday, will address fKra T —; ; " • * One surprising feature of the election here is the absence of the women voters from the polls. It was thought that they would turn out in almost as geeui numbers a? w (lie previous election bat up tiii - til t*r.e o'clock y t*?o percent* myn voters far butiiumbe^^jiats wt men. This n;*y swing during^tne akornoon, however. George’s nds claim that he has gjeat , rkreiiSth among lue women \ ATLANTA, Ga.—(By the aAo- elated Press)—Georgia voters ware casting their ballots Tuesday in i' special democratic primary to noin r inate a successor to the late UnL ted States Senator Thomas E. \Vat* son. -*•■-.« Each of the four candidates, Gov- the Legion tomorrow. w 4ww vrtOTI1 , n The Gompers speech was awited j ernor^Thomas^W 'hardwick’ with more than ordinary interest, i born Wright, John R. Cooper and Whether as the spokesman of or ganized labor in the country he would make a pre-nouncement on the soldier bonus fight was a sub ject bf speculation, as was the possibility that a plea in behalf of labor’s attitude in the recent na tion-wide coal strike, ’and the partially settled railway shop men’s strike. and be resumed his addyess of wel come to himself and bowed* in ac knowledgement of the Well chosen words. . * ; ! • ' *'v v * ’ / giving No knotty problem of soldier bo nus Tihabilitation ve^ed the comrade.'It was a large moment— one had been promising himself .for a long fine—one he had dreamed about id chilly French cowsheds— while the good looking nurse he lik p d was dancing with Colonels and captains. The time had come when he could safely tell *all corporals, top ser- geanttf, military police officials, re^'mental and corps commanders where to head in. * And he did. None said him nay. Aerial time-tables, prices and time of all air lines, have been published in Germany, t , , “We' will conclude by singing ’ a little ditty,” said the buck pri vate. “You may all join me. friends. ere’li be no generals there; There’ll be no generals there; Jin Heaven above, where all i§ love, Rev. R. E.. Neighbour, for years a ■ resident: of Athenb and former pastor or* the Tabernacle Baptist churth, is in t)ie city and is broaching twie& daily at the Prince Avenue Baptist -churchi. in the attemoon at four and m the evening at eight. These services Walter F. George, expressed confi dence in being nominated. . . ■ Tuesday’s primary is ' K being watched with Interest by political observers, for not only will *it de cide who shall be the state’s next senator, but also it will determine, whether the Tom Watson block of voters, which is said to have ev erted a controlling influence in Georgia politics for, many years, will remain intact or be split intp factions. , In his campaign statements Gov-’ ernor Hardwick declared many. . - Watson leaders had assured him of Preaching Here tho'.r support owning to the form ing similar to those of the f&tfe senator. George said Watson, Qnjy a short time before his death, en dorsed him as “a man for public”of? f(ce.” -- Cooper asserted he was the "only mil continue/through Thursday Watson man in the race,” whijo night. I WV’ght had-as his campaign man- Rev. Neighbour is an eminent lager State Senator James Byken Blb’| scholar, a putpiUeer s J-ength and chaym, abd’* the Prince Avenue Baptist congrega- eion invites the people of Athens to join t;hem in the services and hear Mr. Neighbour. He brings a clear-cut gospel message to his audiences, and the meetings are beingl argely attended. There’ll be no generals SECOND VERSE "There’ll be no colonels there. • With military exactness on do tlie line to corporals. Then he called it a day. was one of Watson’s recogniz ed lieutenants. Mrs. William H. Felton, the first, woman U. S. senator, wjll end her term when the nominee of the spe cial primary is electet in the gener ation on November 7. She ai ©lection on lypvemoer <. one publicly endorsed the candidacy of Governor Hardutick, who appointed her. ; In addition to the senate race, a nominee for state pension commis sioner will be selected today..There are five candidates for the office: C. E. McGregor, a former Watson leader: John W. Clarke, J. E. Dent, .T. C. Butt and John Stone. The of fice was made vacant bv the death of Commissioner J. W. Lindsey. (Turn To Page Twq) :
