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Fair and Cooler Thursday Night
and Friday.
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George Willing to Let Mrs. Felton Be Seated in
Reported Engaged
To Chas. Chaplin
Famous Beauty May Be
His Second Wife.
George Says He Is Will
ing to Allow First Wo
man Senator to
Seat One Day.
Have
Mrs. Felton Will Go to
Washington Because
Thousands of Women
Want Her There.
ATLANTA. Ga.—Mrs. W. H. Fel-
tun ami Walter F. George United ;
States senator from Georgia, .will
meet here Friday for a conference
relative to Mrs. Felton being al
lowed to take the oath of office a 1 *
United States senator, according to
reports published here Thursday.
Mr. George, it is said, is willing
to allow Mrs. Felton, who was ap
pointed by Governor Hardwick
as rnited States senator au inter
im to succeed Senator Thomas E.
Watson, deceased, this honor in
order that he may comply with the
requests made by thousands of wo
men throughout the United States.
Wednesday, according to
r. George was in tele-
nmunication with Mrs.
her home in Carters-
ille and he is said to have in-
ormed her of his willingness to
up his seat in the senate for
Kelt'
piv
day.
s reported to l>e
’'reparing to leave today for Atlan
ta where she will meet Mr. Oeoree
Friday, it w expected that shortly
after Mr. George arrives he will
rail at the state capitol to request
bis senatorial commission and let
ter, of credential which Secretary
uf state McLendon says will be il
legal to issue until final elections
’•■turns from fourteen counties in
Georgia are received.
1 LABOR PARTY SHOINSte
SUBSTANTIAL CAINS
1 ENGLISH BALLOT
Heavy Vote Cast in Elec
tion For Parliament on
Wednesday, But Returns
Are Not Complete.
1 O’clock, Conserva-
peJKVStl. ! ATHENS PEOPLE
That in United States L
Royalty
• CONSTANTINOPLE — (By the
Associated Press)— Natlonaist Tu-
key is striving to emulate the Unit
ed States in regard to proh bition.
Rear Admiral Bri3tol, American
high commissioner has received
a request frbm the Green Crescent.
Turkey's National anti-alcoholic ,
league, for copies of the American j
dry laws. t
‘The United States has taken |
the leadership in this high moral !
cause.” says the secretary's letter, j
Letter Mailed to Citizens!
Asking That They At
tend Last Battle'to Be
Staged This Year.
“and •
ire anxious to follow. W
,. T , ,’ Tr .,. T . are now giving free lec:
tives Lg&U With Labor - working mert’ and in t
Showing Up Well. Lady
Astor Is Returned.
LONDON—(By the Associated
Press)—Returns up to one o’clock
Thursday afternoon showed the
standing of the parties in the new
parliament,’ with approximately
half of the membership accounted
fpr, but including tne uncontested
divisions, to be as follows:
Conservatives 177; Liberas (As-
quith) 28; Laborltes 69; National
Liberals (Georgeite) 24! Other par
ties 92.
With 307 seats thus accounted
for out of the total of 615 in thq |
■House of Commons, it was no fllWr* {
possible. ■ even for the experts, to J
to- |
ant] in the
and are making good pro;
ward banishing the drink ev\
“The Koran forbids use of spirit
ous beverages, but tne instruction
is in no wise observed by all Turks
some of whom are fond of cham
pagne and similar
The Sultap, as religious head of
Islam, is a total abstainer.
, to tl „. I Review Shows That Ath-!
schools I enians Have Not Sup
ported Athletics As They
Should Have.
Eleanor Boardmnn. famous film beauty, is about to become the second
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin according to reports from California.
predict tse completion of the next : Popular and Lovable Ath
HO"" ,h *" " ““ Wednesday , ^ Succumbg t()
had
House than
night.
The Conservatives
jority of 47 seats over all other
imrties at that hour but surprising
upsets which were constantly crop
ping up in various constiuences
drove the election prophets to cov-
GIVEN HER FREEDOM! FOR WESLEYAN
Seven ‘Gobs’ Sign
Here Wednesday
MacSw
ice MacSwiney, the j
• of Cork, who died south; W. R. Rogers, secretary,
hunger strike in j and Dr. W. F. Quillian, president
planning Thursday to!of Wesleyan, that the college had
brief rest in Virginia be-' purchased
WASH INGTOX. — Released MACON, Ga.—It was announc-’
from charges brought against her- j c d Thursday by Bishop W. N.
self and eight other women ior j Ainsworth, chairman of the board
men enlisted in the United | P icketin S the B . ritish embassy of trustees of Wesleyan College,
law at the Athens recruit- r***’ ! oldest female institution in the
m,,, Wednesday They are Lor(1 M
\ Kilpatrick, Joe O. bar-| •
ncs vV. Hale, Herschel Par- | *
» Cheek. Joe Dickens. —.^-.--- "in Virginia^ be-* purchased the Flourney tract of
lk Shirley. Ifcre resuming her speaking tour i land at Rivoli, six miles west of
the men were sent to Ar -" j n t ’ n j s country on behalf of the Macon and that within the next
ednesday where they wl11 Irish Republican government. I few years a million dollar plant
n examination. If success- j ;pi ea( jing not guilty to charges ’wiil be erected on the site,
will be sent to Hampton of violating a federal statute d«- I The property, which consists of
| signed to protect foreign repre-)135 acres was purchased for ap-
sentatives in this country from proximately $100,000. Several
assault or violence, Mrs. Mac- months ago Wesleyan College
Swiney and the others received a ! trustees began casting about for
dismissal of their cases after a an available tract of land near the
brief hearing yesterday before U-|city on which a greater Wesleyan
S. Commissioner George H. Mac- could be located.
Donald, who held that the proof were inspected and a committee
did not “measure up to the intent headed by Bishop Ainsworth was
of the law.” ! appointed to purchase the site.
During the picketing exploit Plans for the construction of the
Tuesday which resulted in an new Wesleyan plant have not been
overnight confinement in the concluded, and for the time being
house of detention for Mrs. Mac- the college will remain in its
Swiney and two other of the wo- present buildings on College street
men who refused with her to ac- in Macon,
cept bond, the marchers displayed
LABOR GAINS WHILE
CONSERVATIVES LOSE
for further instruction,
luice is in charge of the Ath-
at 321 postoffice build-
Extensive gains for labor and
numerous losses for the conserva
tives and the national (Lloyd Geor
gian) liberals feature the returns
from Wednesday’s parliamentary
elections as received up to 7 o’clock
Thursday morning.
The poll was remarkably heavy.
In many constituencies more than
eighty and in some cases more than
ninety per cent of the electors vo
ted, a very large proportion being
women. The enthusiasm of the
women was particularly noticeable
in London.
The laborites rally to the polls
showed thoroughness of party or
ganization and a keenness to carry
their men to victory. Their suc
cesses were most striking in the
northern industrial areas, (*spe-
Cially in Glasgow, where seat after
seat fell to their attack.
Several sites The latest figures give their
gains as forty-one against which
they have but five losses. It Is
noteworthy that their triumphs
came in the constituencies were
they were regarded as most likely
alysis Attack.
Plans Incomplete.
The people of Athens are beidg
. —y«d to attend the Georgia-Van-
“ 8 , • ,ler bilt football game here Satur-
j day, the last one of the season for
'Athens. A committee headed by
j Trank Hardeman, prominent cotton
! broker, has mailed out a letter: to
j hundreds of citizens of the city,
urging them to attend this game )
land giving some vital facts con
cerning games in Athens. L
I This letter shows that less than
! 4.500 people witnessed the Virginia |
[ game here, one of the best of the
|r r * r> an dthat the athletic asso-
! ciation lost money on the game,
and what was a further startling
, fact was the assertion that ob-
p 1 jporvers believed that hardly 500
1 unerai Athens people saw the game, the
rest of the crowd being from out
{of the city.
The.admission price scale is only
Mr. Frank Myers, one of the most | what, is In vogue throughout the
popular and lovable men of Athens j south. The best seats In the grand-
died Thursday morning at 11:45 .it j stand are $2.00, not an exorbitant
his home on Jackson street, follow-, price, while others are $1.50 in the
ing a sudden attack of paralysis I grandstand with several thousand
earlier in the day. | general admission seats at $1.00. j
His death is a shock to his rel- I These latter seats are among the
atives and the hundreds of friends j choice ones of the field and the
he had here and over the state fact that they are not covered
where he was well known anl so'makes no difference for a football
liked. For the past two davs V j game,
had been suffering with headaches J
and complaining with a cold ar.cl -
had been away from his place of [
business but Wednesday night he I
planned to ge* up Thursday mom- |
ing and go back to the store and
•hen he attempted to arise tjie
paralytic stroke .came on and lie
never regained consciousness.
CAME TO ATHENS
16 YEARS AGO
CHILE CAUSE ALARM
AMONG' RESIDENTS
Third Shock in Less Than
Week Damages Region
Devastated By 2 Other
’Quakes.
Many Dead in South Am
erica Still Unburied. De
composition Makes Con
ditions Bad.
SANT iag °. Chile.—(By the As
sociated Press)—Strong earHi
shocks were felt at 12:26 o’clock:
Thursday morning In the Capiapo
and La Serna districts, where groat
loss of life was suffered in Satur
day's quake, according to National
Telegraph dispatches.
t he inhabitants of Santiago were
much alarmed early Thursday
morning when a slight earth shock
was felt here, the motion appar
ently being vertical. The tremors
began at 1:42 o’clock.
The director of a private meteor-
ological Institute had forecast an
earth movement at 2 o’clock, duo
to the conjunction of the moon and
Saturn.
MEDICAL HELP
RUSHED TO SCENE
Monarchs present and future arc
ghown in this photograph of King
George and the Prince of Wales
taken as they were walking from
"Buckingham Palace to attend ser-
alee at the Guard/ ^ Chapel across
the park from th* palace.
Dispatches from Copiapo report
the arrival there of a medical and
relief party, bringing a large stock
of food and medicines. The medical
officers of the party found a num
ber of the injured lying in the open
air in the vineyards, as the hospital
which was built in 1848 had been
completely ruined. Other victims to
the number of fifty, mostly aged
. persons, were huddled in a motion
j Picture theatre, lacking proper ven
tilating facilities. The patients ysrafro
j of most of the essentials
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—The jury
which heard the evidence against
Mrs. Clara Phillips, tried for the
order of Mrs. Alberta Tremaine ’
WELFARE IS TOPIC
TT.KING. China—(By the Asso
i i'ress)—Measures for the im
in j — runut UU v v .X ' , 44T-* 1* L
lease of the foreign mis banners decrying the English
ai.uries kidnapped by Chinese ban
ts were demanded by the Peking
vernment Thursday by the Brit-
h. American Italian, French and
vi-dish Ministers, who acted un-
r instructions from their govern
Free State” and demanding the
release as a prisoner of the Irish
Free State of Miss Mary Mac
Swiney, sister of the late Lord
Mayor.
The government
The llv** ministers, presenting a
»>int note, called in person and
‘-formed executive of the Chinese
d Hiblit* that the continued retell*
’ "ti of the missionaries in captivi-
■•>' would not be tolerated by the
powers. The powers. It was said,
"mild he compelled* to act drasti-
'•Hy unless the missionaries were
'■•■leased and guarantees given for
future safety of the hundreds
01 other missionaries in China.
Tlu* note was couched in vigor-
" is language. It declared that the
missionaries were carrying on
’Mr work in the interior of China
under treaties, which had been
violated by the abductions.
Besides the Americans, the cap-
bvc-s now include one Greek, one
f reneh. One British subject, One
Swedist and One Italian. The
French minister presented the mis
sing Greek. The Italian hostage
*"3 Identified as Father Gjimalid,
Jho was captured and taken into
Tonau province where about 10,000
‘uitlaws have been bolding a large
["■ea. The others are all detained
Honan. • ' ~
contended
Train Service
Delayed By Fire
WASHINGTON—Serious conges
the hearing that the statute in- j tion of traffic on railroads to the
voked was aimed to prevent the south* of Washington was caused
“shaming and insulting of a for- 1 Thursday . by the burning of a
eign representative, home, office j hitdgc on the Richmond, Freder-
or servants, as tantamount to the» icksburg and Potomac R. R. near
shaming or insulting of the repre-1 Cherry Hill, Ya., 32 miles below
sentative in persons.” With refer- this city.
ence to evidence presented by the; All through trains of the Atian-
defense, represented by John F. | tic Coast Line and the Seaboard
Finerty, president of the. American
association, for recognition of the
Irish Republic to show that the
British ambassador was not
building at the time of the demon
stration government counsel ar
gued that the banners carried by
the women were insulting to the
ambassador even thought he may
have been absent from the em
bassy.
CITIZENS ATTACKED
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—A party
of citizens were fired on from am
bush here and Jeff Howell of
Buckville was killed an<J Earnest
Wheatley and Newkirk, of Jessie-
ville were wounded. Mobnshipers
or bootleggers are thought to have
fired the shots.
line, as well 4S those of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomag had to be routed over the
Chesapeake and Ohio tracks, bad
ly stalling 4he line and interrupt
ing jiasenger and Jreight schedules
The origin of the Are has not
been dtermined.
He was flftv-seven years old and
was born on September 4. 1365. at
Crawfo^dville. Georgia, and came Meadows, who was beaten to I w
to Athens to 1 live from \ugusta • death with a hammer, was expect- WASHINGTON.—Men. interest-
sixteen vears ago He wa« n mom-| e( ^ *° resume its deliberations ed in the welfare of young America
her of the firm of Chas.' Stern and Thursday. gathered from all parts of the Uni-
Comnany anl :« is hard!* pr'-ha-l When it was locked up for the! ted States met Thursday under call
W » that, another business man in 'night at 0:30 o’clock, Judge Frank of Secretary Weeks to discuss the
the city had so many genuine ;W. Houser instructed that delib- fundamental questious of National
friends ns he did. He was of n orations be taken up again as {strength involved in the mental,
lovable disposition, optimistic and soon as possible after breakfast, -moral and physical fitness of the
thev were regarded as most likely n?vaT/ , j n h-ipiv jnood. H* 1 w;t- a l The jury communicated in no. American people. Practically every
and it is not expected that Thurs- me ^|j er a prominent Georgia way with the court from the time college, school or association that
day’s later returns will show sim- nutinct *t retired at 10:55 o’clock Wed- has to do with education or with
tlnr «r«tna ns thp rural di'«trtpts are ‘ .1 ~ I nhvoinni —nil ...«« ..— .
ilar gains as the rural districts are
heard from.
The conservatives. although
maintaining up to the present their
majority over the other parties,
have already suffered serious loss
es, these being only slightly fewer
than labors gains, but they can
bo*st of gaining eight seats.
The majorities bv which the con
servatives were returned at the Ia^t
elections are also much reduced
whore thev were re-elected, case
of Prime Minister Bonar Law be
ing typical. The premier Wednes
day was returned ovej* the lahoriie
mnd’date In the central division of
CJtn.seow bv 0 margin of only 2.514.
whereas in the previous election
his majority was 12.915.
The rational liberals or Geor
gians also suffered some twentv
lose, to A then
Vis wife, who* was 3* nhic
Stern, a sister c f Mr. M S'.ern Mrs.
Aaron Colon of Athens Mr. Jak*
Stern of Nee* York, and '.is. Sr.rn
Myers of Agusta and one son. Joe
f-.. survive !»f;n as his immediate
fniiilv, while Mr Sam Myers. »**ho
♦parried his wife 5 * sister antiM's
Allen r Pend*e«(»n of Augusta are his
brother one? sister A lari'V num
ber of other relatives survive him.
rl*NERAL ARRANGEMENTS
ANNOUNCED LATER
nesday morning until it was or- j physical well-being was represent-
dered locked up for the night and ed. In his address of welcome Sec-
rumors as to its stand on a pos
sible verdict were few.
Abattoir to Be
Finished Dec. 1
The slaughter house that is be
ing* built by a company of local
market men headed by L. O. Price,
/Hyman Cutler, R. T. Wright, Fred
Cuneo Forms New
Ho was n member of the syna
gogue and 'funeral services wiG M1
pmhablv be conducted from thoro date.
Funeral 'arrangements have-no*'
yet\heen announced, the arrival of
his/brother and bister being* await
ed before any definite a viounju-
ments are made. The interment,
will rnobably be in Oconee cemeto-
_ _ „ . tv however and the funeral services
losses while the independent, or C ,. m : ucifid her<; . Mr . Sam Myers and
Asnuithian liberals made about other relatives from Augusta arc
gains.
German Cabinet llEEN RETURNED
BERLIN — (By the Asociated
Press)—Wilhelm Cuneo, general,
manager., Pf Iffjfi, Hamburg, S. S.
Line has accepted ..the task, of* form
ing a cabinet to auoceed. the* Wirfh 'iryt _
ministry
uounced Thursday
Of the women candidates. Vis-
countess Astor is the only one re
turned thus far. and her victory
was won by a closer margin than
Wcil she was first sent to parliaf
dy Artor lost -many votes
he conpervatiye split, bujt:
uvpected to arrive this afterunor*.
after which the funerai nrringe-
ments will be made public.
MEETING POSTPONED
Chaptdr F will not have have.t’ie
silver tea Thursday afternoon at
Mrs. Wilkins’ as planned,-,, .The
meeting waft postponed *
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of: the- < death • of 0 JIeyuo
Rdn of Mr.- .and. Mrs^r,
G. Bell and Fred Warwick will be
ready for operation by December
first if the machinery necessary
arrives in time to be installed by
This enterprise grew out of a
demand here for an abattoir and
will be operated by these men
with city inspection of all meats
before and after slaughter.- By
next summer a refrigeration sys
tem will be installed and then
Athens will be equipped with an
up-to.date abattoir, insuring pure
meats here..
STRUCTURE TESTED
WASHINGTON.—A volume of
watdr eight times as great as that
which passes over the American
Falls at Niagara was turned loose
, v jn the Panama Canal and allowed
account f to run for two houtfs against clos-
1 .FT I ..Sit...... TI.A Anfinn
t ltji. spillway gate?. The action
wa^ to test the structure and it
Was carried out without damage. 4
retary Weeks said in part:
“National defense is the under
lying topic of this conference. We
are assembled to consider the men
tal, moral and physical fitness of
our people and to plan how we all
can work together more intelligent
ly and effectively to attain our
common purpose—better citizen
ship. We are interested primarily
in the oncoming generations, for
upon them certainly rests the fu
ture of our nation and perhaps in
a lareer sense than we may realize
at this moment, the future of our
civilization and the world.
These conditions, however,
stated to be surpassed by those in
Vallenar, wheite bodies still remain
beneath the ruins their decomposi
tion causing, a serious menace to
the public health. The inhabitants
without food, are living in a con
tinual state of terror, sleeping on
the nearby hills. Breaking of the
pipes has left the town without wa
ter.
The news that President Harding
is sending warships with supplies
to Huasco was received here^wlth
expressions of gratitude oil all
sides.
In snite of the railroad connec
tions to the north, the quickest
J^enns of communication with the
district even in normal times,^Is
bv ''hip and it is believed some
weeks will elapse before it is pos
sible to deliver all the suppplies
necessary to allay distress.
j Much appreciation was express
ed for the offer of assistance from
the American Red Cross but so'tar
ns known no decision has been ta
ken. Announcement yesterday that
it had been accepted apnarently
w*as due to misconstruction of
President Allsdria’s message lot
thanks to President Harding.;
t'fl'ilth is
mental thnt .it can he taken
fij-i,. H-io v of the virility of
a nation. ITist.orv is almost one
continuous example that nations
rnp« to their greatness w*hen phvs-
cially fit and crumpled when thev
became physically unfit. Most of
these tendencies and evils in our
national life, which we are now
nrotestirg against, c^uld be cor
rected, If we looked more to the
bodies of our oeoole. Tn fact our
experience with the draft clearly
Indicated that most of t.he defects
could easily Tie corrected by physi
cal trainin'?- and instruction.
“Sound physical training begin-
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1 GUATAMELA riTY — : EartJl
j sbockfe wore felt throughout the
! Andes regions Wednesday, two dis-
fundi-jtant movements being noted m,
Villa Canales. It is believed the
tremors were connected with; the
earthquakes in Chile.
ALIENATION CHARGED
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Checks
showing payments of money by
Douglas Woodhouse to * Lillian
Hendrik McClellan of Washing
ton, D. C., have been produced in
the trial for $1,000,000 damages
brought by Mrs. Dorrit Stevens
Woodhouse against her parents-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo
E. Woodhouse of New York, al
leging alienation 6f her husband'
affections.