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VOL. 11, No. 42
WEATHER:
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COOLER WITH RAIN,
COTTON:
MIDDLING
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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
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Fear Drives Thousands From
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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.
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