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. Investigate Today! To Regular Subscribers of tm c Tf ••»*-»*M.O $1,0C0 Accident Policy Free* > . V.„ • ■ ■ : ‘ ■ ' .V | ^ Dally and Sunday—10 Cent* s Week. The On* Paper In Host Homes—The Only Paper In rfaiiy BomM: ■ '* 1 ' Dally and Sunday—10 Cents * Week. WEATHER- MS ' FAIR AND COOLER. COTTON: MIDDLING . 23 l-8c PREVIOUS CLOSE . i ... 23 3-4c VOL. 11, No. 43 Foil Associated Press Leased Wire Service. ATHENS, GA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1922. Slncle Copies 2 Cents Daily. S Cents Sunday. ■!•*+ +•+ 4»4i 4.14. 4.04.. 4-»4- 4>»4 ❖•4* v** +•+ 4.04. 4.04. 4>*4> 4**+ t-5* *•* Writer Marries Steel Magnate Mrs. Francis W. Elijah, Fiction aAd Scenario Scribe. She ‘Mothered Dolls toSatfefy Httshand*s Ambition to Be Mh^ ' • *4.' 4.04. 4.»4. 4 l, + t’4 1 ■i 1, + -F*4- 4>«4 > 4-*-!* 4*»* 4**4. 4>«4* 4*«4* 4>*4* 4>*4> 4.04a MORE LOVE LETTERS REVEALED IN PROBE Explains He Was So Anx> ions to Have Little Ono in Home That Trick Was Played. BUT HE SAYS SHE NURSED BABIES Court to Determine Whether There Were Ever Twins in Family and If they Were Killed. HAMMOND. Ind.—Accused by her middle-aged husband of mur- lierinp the two babies, twtlns, which fce said were horn to her last De cember, Mrs. Hazel McNally, 24, faced tjiul Wednesday claiming the missing twins were nothing more than cleverly constructed dummv dolls, “mothered by her until last April to satisfy her hue- land’s ambition to be a father.” Both Prank McNally, the hus band. and his estranged Wife as serted their claims would be proved hv witnesses called to tes tify at the trial. In support rif her claim Mrs. Me Nallv declared she told her hus band after their marriage In April 1919. that she had undergone an operation at GGreen "Hay, Wis., in 1919, which made it Impossible for her to i become a mother. ‘•On one occasop.” Mrs. McNally said, “we lhsfered an advertise ment offering to adopt a child, but nothing came of it. Finally his desire to be a father became so ncme that we contrived the hoax. Court House Surrounded By Throng of Persons Curious to Know What Is Happening. arrests"may be MADE WEDNESDAY Another Series of Letters Interchanged By Slain Rector and Choir Lead er Revealed to Public. ^PftSWS, I9E0R6E WILL RESIGN! Criminals to Confess NEW YORK.—Criminals can bo forced r to tell-the truth regarding their offenses while under the in? fluerrce of scopolamine anaesthe- : tia, or it's i| ii-3 bqtften known, “twilight sleep,” according to Dr. E. E. House, Ferries, Texas, phy sician, who has asked the endorse ment of the medical association! of the southwest .'or a proposed! experiment on a thousand prison-I Pnlitipal PtnQiQ in TCr»<y- ers in the Leavenworth, Kansas ^FlSlS m XUIlg- periitentiary, to demonstrate his land Has R e R C h e 1 Dr. House has been experiment- Height and Tensity Fo'f* ing with the anaesthesia for fivei Tc TP.vnoptori years he told members of the As-1 A » IbXpectea. sociation and declared in that pe- • — yiod. during which he had tried the UNIONISTS WILL “twilight sleep” method of secur- i lumipm w*ttttv»cit^ a v ing evidence of a number <?f alleg-: MEET THURSDAY ed criminals and others in hia own I attempt* to^rob^the mind ‘of a pts! Reports Have It That St0 H” d ii r noi' V see.f,ng permission,! Lloyd GeOl’ge Is to Quit h^ told the convention here, to! If Party Does Not SUD- go to Leavenworth prison and car- v F « Mrs, Frances W. Elijah, fiction and scenario writer and famous war worker, has left for a honeymoon in South America, following her mar riage at New York to A! N- Diehl, Pittsburg steel man. Mrs. McNally said she passed (he hint on to neighbors and as the time approached to announce the birth, went so far as to en gage a nurse and then purchase two skillfully constructed dolls. She said she kept the “twins” hidden from neighbors' until last April, when she and her husband e roulated the report that they had sent the children to Chicago. Mr*. McNally said she left her husband September 22 because she fonld no longer bear his under handed tricks and his habit of doing hateful little things. All of his wife’s story. McNally said is the desperate defense of a woman who has done away with her children. He said he had seen her fondle and nurse them* One of the witnesses summoned "’as M,s. James Griffiths, a nurse and a former neighbor. McNally said .Mrs. Griffiths would testify that the twins were flesh and blood. Mrs. McNally declared that Mr:<. Griffiths would have to ad mit that the two forms were only dolls. Mrs. Julius Latzko, another neighbor said to have seen the turns, was called to testify. in . — Savannah and Atlantic New Orleans, Is Scene of Train Telescopes Overj Many Festivities For Trestle bringing Death j Ex-Service Men. Elec- to Engine Crew. j, tion Will Come Next. SAVANNAH. Ca>'Three men I new ORLEANS, La.—(By the are dead, Engineer 3. H. Graham, j Associated Press)—To the tunes Fireman Cecil Cook- and a negro ; that sent them from the training brakeman, Ike Campbell; a Savan- j camps to embarkation points and nail and Atlanta freight train is I f ore i gn battle fields, members of still burning at noon Wednesday [ American Le glon. *0,000 strong, it'^ri'^ffeld,^. a? 6:15° o'clock ] ‘ h “ “ °* NeW °T tnfiri^north Zm^.annah" ,et; Trl afternoon the activities scoped over a small trestle which j of the convention will be centered haa been washed out by recent j on ono point—the widely scattered rains. j delegates and visitors brought to- The bodies of the three had not J ge ther in a common purpose From been recovered up until noon and . ^ he an a hotels, where mirth there was little pi-ospects of reach- , haa prevailed, from tho convention The dialed 0 remains of Fireman i hall, from copjmon, rams and state Cook could be seen by the relief headquarters where politics and workers but the terrific heat pre- policies are being discussed vented them from coming within through the midnight hous, will and l any reaching distance ow the body, j come the visiting host to impress. The Savannah and Atlanta rail- lhe ij V i ng by their unity and honor way sent a relief train out from j Lho dead on tho fie i a c f battle. ^“"was^eportod” Thofr ltfo«s! ,e5s ‘*P°rtant anrnng ,he » NEW BRUNSWICK — Officials [conducting the investigation into the murder of' tho Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of the ^Epis copal church of v St. John, v-jiThe Evangelist and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, pn September 14 were at the court house early. Wednesday. Willie newspaper ‘*nen again were barred from 'the. courthouso it was understood, that prosecutor Beekman of ‘ Somersec county and - his associate began at once con sideration of stenogiaphic copies statements taken Tuesday Irom relatives of. the slain Rector, including those ot Mrs. "Francis: Hall, his widow, and her 'two* brothers,'' Henry and "\yillle Ste vens. None of the officials or detec tives would offer any prediction as to what may be expected Wed nesday. STS semie however, could be of! events of the little avail, since the oil from morning session at the GhoU street the turtled engine had spread over" ' the water into which the train was dumped and the flumes were leap- CURIOUS PERSONS AT COURT HQUSE Crowds of curious persons at tracted there by persistent ru mors that two or more arrests may be expected at anytime,- gathered about the court house to wait developments. A second series of the letters said to have been written by Mrs. M.Ils to Hall, was made pub- lip Wednesday by the authorities .Unaddressed and unsigned letters are filled with terms of endearment. In them the minis ter is often referred to “sweet adorable babykins*' They speak of a “love nest” of a woman’s dreams of “true love" port Chamberlain. LONDON.—(By the Associated^ I^ress.)—The British political fever has now reached its height, and there is every indication that the maximum temperature will be maintained for some days. Every body is guessing as to when the crisis wi}l pass and the future re- main^ obscur? pending Thursday’s unionist meeting which is expect- 1 ed to give the key to the problem. On anti-coalition newspaper, the' Daily' Mail, Wednesday attributes to - Prime Minister Lloyd- George the definite statement that he will resign if the unionist meet- » TMrtr-six additional names were i declares against Austen ddded Tuesday by Chairman G. E. {.Chamberlain whose outspoken ad- Maddox of the state Democratic hesion to the premier has aroused executive committee, bringing th? strong opposition in the party total of this committee up to 110. j ranks. J. H. Dozier, one of the original Cliff Walker for governor men of the state and prominent in the af fairs of both of his races, of Ath ens, was named as one. of the new members of the committee. He will tr.E. Maddox, Chairman State Executive Com mittee, Announces 36 Additional Names. HARDWICK GIVEN DEFEAT BY 1 Former Justice of Ga: Supreme Court Goes to U. S. Senate Succeeding Late Tom Watson. McGREGOfTnEW PENSION OFFICER George Received Total of 304 County Units, Car rying 125 Counties. Gov. Hardwick Carried 28. ATLANTA.—(By the Associated Press)—Walter F. George, former justice of the state supreme court with: a total of 304 county unit votes was overwhelmingly nomi nated as ^successor to the late United States Senator Thomas E. Watson in Tuesday’s special pri mary, according to complete unof ficial- retains complied by that lanta Constitution Wednesday. Mr. Lloyd George’s statement is said to have been made at a private meeting Tuesday night of the liberal ministers and under- probably also^et a place on the secretaries None of the papers f.ub-commlttee, the body of the or- \ nearest the premier nor any ■ganiarttton fthat' really runs the;other, confirms' this or professes committee. J. W. Wansley, of to know exactly what passed at Franklin county, Greene Braselton j the meeting, although all agree of Braselton were others of this ( that Lloyd-George received gen- section named. J. B. “Tobe” Dan-! eral cordial support, iel was named vice-chairman. j A number of promipent Watson ipup vrnvn found amotg tte.new addltlols BgjgSVB LLOYD^,^ found among th 6new additions and among the most generally ■known over the state for their ae Whether or not the premier tivities along political lines, John made the declaration attributed to G. Valentino, of Savannah, J. A. t him, some of the best informed Hollqman; of Atlanta, and .wash- j political correspondnets believed ingtan, L. P. Marquardt, of Allan- wiU re9ign if Mr chamberlain Boykin^ot ^?colnton \V. D. Yee-' is ^ d “!™- . K wo “l d ‘ h „ e " ^ mans. A number of women were U P to the king in accordance with placed on the list. Mrs. T. F.i political precedence m this coun- Qreen of Ath^s, is already a try to invite the conservative member of the committee, her dn- ipprtv to try its hand at forming a pointriient having been made at cabinet. Marguerite da. La,, Motto, fem- iR-iiie - lead ifr “Shadow* and in “THO 'Famous l)(ra. Fair/ INC OF The victory of George marked the second defeat of Governor T. -W. Hardwick within-. as •. /,-manyr. months and, according to political observers, 'shoved that the Wat son block of voters, estimated at - 50,000 at full strength remained < intact and voted almost solidly for the former court justice.' . . - - ^ Of the 160 counties in the sate<t George carried 125, giving him 9B more convention votes:than the 208 -mm required for nomination!, accord- - 11 ing to the Constitution’s compila- , J tioris. GoGvernor Hardwick carried 28 counties with 76 unit votes; Seaborn Wright 7 counties with 22 unit votes and John R. Cooper, none, the newspaper’s figures Giant Aircraft Was Ig- 6howed - GEORGE FAR IN LEAD Mr. Gantt Suggests Law Requiring That Deeds Re Given For Cars Just As For Land. By T. LARRY GANTT riH- stealing of cars seema to as (hoi-ouchly organised a buai- [ ' " - was horse and negro steal- '"f 1,1 *he days of John A.' Mur- : 1 “ml Kang; Athens appears to a (tuitful field for these scoun- ''t 1 '’ 8 - But the stealing and selling ' motor cars can he greatly les- i( not ended , by a simple nroccFs. Ut thfi legislature enact > law requiring, when the sale or 'rans.or of a motor car is made, 11:11 Ole purchaser t'e given a < : “ tl fro m the seller the same as S“" lhe transaction a tract of land, “■pure his deed to be witnessed Z ? county officer and a record imulo of the sale, with number. ’"'<e and all particulars. And the county seal Impressed on ™' deed, if the car is traded or !!“■ lel the same formsllty be hone through. Before a' car is i, ." !j rrcd this deed must go with ' to the purchaser. If a pdrty buys fr °tn a stranger without ver- S ln h «‘he seller’s title let him •SI* * 4 . as particeps crlmlnis. If h« 1 , R was enacted it would US almost. impossible tol sell a car. for a thief could not •M,™ **"ge both, a deed and seal. JjK'tt a car is stolen, the Ing high into the nir. The small trestle washed out The small trestle washed out is within a few yards of the Siklngficld station. Engineer Graham passed through Springfield at an early hour Wednesday morn ing and it was not known then that the trestle had been washed away by the swelling rains .of Tuesday night. ■ . The crashing train brought out citizens of Springfield at the early hour and although they attempted to reach the three men, spreading flames started by the overturned engine prevented their aid. Turks Not Allowed To March Through Constantinople CONSTANTINOPLE.—(By the Associated Press.)—The Brntsh authorities in the interest of pub lic safety have declined to permit the Turkish nationalist gendar merie to march through Constan tinople Wednesday a sthe Turks had planned. The-order produced keen disappointment among the exuberent Turkish population which had made preparations on a vast scale to welcome the Kemal- ists. m Charged With Killing Negro was placed in jail I)e r o Tuesday night charged with' killing Gordon Ware, a negro laborer, during a gambling game staged in sp out* Aisc^embly-hall -where policies -fresh | the conventions, from committee rooms will be tlirown in the hopper. “Tomorrow comes the fireworks were the closing words of Com mander MacNider at Tuesday’s session. nited Tuesday As It Left Hangar. Several Were Hurt. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, board of inquiry Wednesday be gan an inquiry to determine causes of the explosion which destroyed the army dirigible C-2 Tuesday^ just as it was starting with* eleven passengers on an exhibtiion flight over the city. The 192 foot dirig ible,-which had completed a cross country flight from Langley Field, Va., to San Francisco, was on its homeward voyage, is - a complete wreck with no salvage possible. » Eight of the passengers were injured when they jumped 15 to The reception .accorded by the delegates to committee reports is expected to have considerable bearing on the contest for Na tional officers. Many large and influential state delegations are jthe fence,” it is learned wait- ii)g to ace what developed. They have, no candidates and are not proposing any trades. The “Bonus’ convictions of as pirants for the honor of National comnuuHjer are subject to con- Biderable scrutiny by many pf. the delegates, It' ia reported; • •The; annual parade of the Amer ican Legion starts at 2 p. m. Places will be acoorded state del egations in the orde? <J et ermined by their membership increase du ring the past year. \ . If the meeting gives Mr. Cham- 20 feet just before the ship’s hy- : her lain anything approaching j drogen ignited. .strong support, the premier, it 'is j Major H. A. Strauss, command- Definite reports of the popular vote in 71 counties gave George 27,914; Hardwick 19,026; Wright, 7,063 and Cooper 400 it was stated. Inclement Weather in almost every section of the state caused a very light vote to be cast. Hardwick’s defeat yesterday was worse than in his race for renomination as governor last month. . *C. E. McGregor, who a,cted as Watson’s spokesman a short, time before the latter’s death and spoke throughout the state in the interest of WatsOn’s opposition to the rehohiination of Hardwick as governor, was nominated state' pension commissioner over a field of four other candidates, accord ing to the Const!tution’8 returns.! The state Democratic convention me®ts October 28 to confirm the •results of yesterday's primary. The convention nominations ar® considered equivalent to election MAJOR OWENS MARSHALL • Major Allison Owens of New Orleans will be marshall of the day. Leading the parade will be the “guard of honor” comprising four men each from the navy, ar my, marine corps and National' guard. At the reviewing stand front of the City Hall, the parade wll halt while the reviewing 1 ; of? f jeers and distinguished'. ' guj of the Legion take, th^Ij*/places; in the staxd. Passing the Cenotaph in front of the custom house, in ireet. the marchers will has onlv- to “rerort The I g» mBun * Dr”" «u,itoT tom Canal .treat CriS r pi M "n) Where I "ear New Holland. ‘ < C °“ i " ued on ^ Fourt seem today, x x x I want to lie. x x x and rest hours. Oh! you Sweet adorable babykins of mine. The note i left yesterday was crumpled but I had to hide it in my purse as I met him.” . - x I’d build a waiting love nest x x x x. People would mean nothing. I’d rather watch the bugs and ants as they crawl along* Don’t yon love to watch an ant as it creeps along, honey? “And Darling sweetheart—x k x. I long for your love to lit the pUre 48 we make-fit, tojc then it Is truest to nature x. x -x. WRITING IN SWEETEST TONE8- “I know I’m a crazy cat, “Charlotte talks x x x then Don asks questions, then annoys, so how can I write*” “Darling mine, didn’t you feel me purring x aC7x blissfully contended? and close to you too? My sweetheart, true heart, I could -™8h you. Oh, I am Wild tonight” On© time I told you I hated your work—I hated your parish. I guess it is because I am jealous of ft because it must come first in my life. Not because of conven tions, but because you lova it so. Oh, I ki\ow it. because you are a true priest—born for it. f l£*1 have the greatest of all bless fcig«—s •, noble man’s deep, true, Hemal love and my heart is his ; — my life is his—all I have is hi3 x , x. i. I am his forever. , "I will hate the winter nights. Then I dream of curling up in a (Turn to page 7.) apd desires and moods qf a wo-. man’s loved and loving without {the Macon Tonvention. the conventions. ' j Excerpts from the letters follow; COMPLETE LIST Dearest, Dearest Boy, wasn’t 11 OF ADOPTIONS “:T‘°*“7 r 'ir happy to find a stKct mUT fori - 1 reiterated, will advise the wngto cr of the C-2, was expected to I {q the-general elections November I didn’t expect you would risk? Vice-chairmen, J. B. Daniel, La-[dissolve parliament and this being testify he believed the. accident *7. leaving one for me yesterday? I Grange; M. L. Ledford, Cairo, done, will appeal to the country' was caused by fabric pulling out ■ such delicious eclaires." i Committee from state at large: j on a coalition ticket. {of the envelope as the big ship' “My Darling, how well you 1 tSSSS® 1 \ Thus if these P r °P hete be cor - started from the Brooks field han- tirwt mS* e Smd ro?deFe? M?s : Bet-* rect the dissolution of parliament. g a r. This in the opinion of some ,t for' He R Cobh Car?olton* M> s‘ Wil- seems imminent in either case, as 1 officers, implies that the fabric * it is not supposed the conserva- j used in constructing the dirigible, tives could carty on without the 1 was not up to standard, prominent and tried leaders who' would quit the government with Chamberlain, if he resigns. To a foreigner one of the strangest features of the British will be the absence from the col umns of the principal daily; news papers of reports on the activities of the labor party, notwithstand ing the announced intention of (Turn to page 4) lie Burke Van Winkle, Atlanta; Mrs. C. E. Turner, Macbn; Mrs. Louis M. Peeples, Cartersville; Miss Maude Mobley, Social Cir cle; Mrs. W. R. Knight, Quitman; Mrs. J. H. McGee, Lawrenceville; Mrs. Isabella S. Jordan. Aiicv-- ta; Mrs. O. F. Paxon Abbeville; T. L. Howard, Donald; John G. Val entino, Savannah; P. D. Rich, Col quitt; S. J. Slate, Columbus; J. P. Hogg, Buena Vista; J. A. Hollo- mon, Atlanta; L. P. Marquardt, At lanta; J. R. Hicks, Macon; M. D. Womble, Thomaston; W. E. Wood. Dalton; E. D. Cole, Cartersville; • J. W. Wansley, Carnesvill3; J*. II. Dozier. Athens, Greene Brasel ton, Braselton; R. G. Price, Louis ville; J. H. Boykin. Liiicolnton: T. L. Pickron, Folkston; W. D. Yeo mans, Waycross; R. I. Stevens, Dublin: J. D. Shannon. Jefferson ville; O. E, Collum, Atlanta. Faithful Negro Gets Property! •< , | 21Bth District AIKEN. & O—The will of the Athena ........... late John David Bowers, ' retired }JG7thra*trict physician or this county, filed for district probate here Tuesday provides p£yearif ! among other substantial- bequests 1219th District that Betsy Benton, faithful ne^rolCreek ...... servant in the doctor’s employ for ?20th District thirty years; is to receive 1001 Winteryille ....... acres of land for her life tinie.J Also, she is to select' any mule ’ • • • • • she desires on the farm, one brood Kenney’s sow, 50 bushels of corn, kitchen 1407th District utensils of the home and $50 in Major Strauss’ estimate of the value of the C-2 was $70,000. It originally cost the government $270,000. in the most expensive as well as in the most serviceable pelts. Short ermine coats are “most smart wheh worn with: silk sports' skirts of vivid colors. WOMAN HELD IN SCHLATTER DEATH Consolidated Vote of; Clarke County (OFFICIAL) 5 « a 34 695 9 278 59 6 0 0 37 8 -^ 5 0 40 0 ■ - — 613 109 ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A woman sgfd to have been in attendance at the death of Frank Schlatter, who be came nationally known a quarter of a century ago through his claims of power to heal, was sought Wed nesday by police, and a coroner’s inquest was ordered to determine whether a mystery was .involved or a hemorrhage Induced by pneu monia wa3 responsible . for death. Schlatter died in a room ing house here Mob day night The wqmen fold a physician she..was the aged healer’s nurse and that she was leaving to visit p. spiritu alist in st^Lot«’s county. ,, M-s. Agnes Schlatter, a lectur er for a church publication, came here from Kansas City last night and declared she believed her husband had met with foul play. She safd he had a fpllowing of spiritualists who opposed his con templated confirmation iinto the Episcopal church, of which she is a member. ‘ NEGRO BOY SHOT m HARLEM, Ga.—Brown Broofcg 7,' son of Edgar Brooks, of pania, was shot and instantly killed late Tuesday by V sey, 9, at the home of^ near here when the stumbled and a shotgu 1 carrying fell
