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VOL. 11, No. 43
Foil Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1922.
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Steel Magnate
Mrs. Francis W. Elijah,
Fiction aAd Scenario
Scribe.
She ‘Mothered Dolls toSatfefy Httshand*s Ambition to Be Mh^
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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
