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VOL. 11, No. 69 Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1922.
Single Copies 2 tents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday.
SOLID
FACES
IT
OPPOSITION
HARDING SUBSIDY BILL,
IREPUBLICANS CONFIDENT
ililll OF THE
CII BUM BOOZE
THETOBETRIEO
iVClUEDFOR
111
The Ladies of Our Congress
Moore, Owner of Schoon
er “Su^oss,” and 14
Other Defendants Face
District Attorney.
kVASillNC.TON-—The way was
nre.l for the beginning of tho
the House Thursday over
• administration shipping bill,
on rl^ht of way by the adoption
a resolution brought in by the
os committee Wednesday.
Although the resolution, which
,cried provision for unlimited
aiendment and a vote on final
s.-ap November 29, was adopt-
,1 by .» vote of rOO to 110, housa
idcrs did not believe this could
e taken as an indication of the
up on the measure. On
of a survey taken after
ial skirmish, however, ma
id.is Thursday were pre-
a margin of at least 25
*r tlie hifi- This margin
inied in the face of a vir-
solid democratic opposition
upon at a party caucus
tinel lin-
leinucracs voted in fnv-
resolution and sixteen
s opposed it. One of the
ocrats O'Connor of Loui-
i*r serve* notice that lit*
he bored by the caucus
as he favored the hill.
Defense Would Get Sev
erance, But U. S. May
Try All Fourteen At
One Time.
PENSACOl A. FIs.—C. P. M.‘ >r.
owner of the auxilary schooner.
Success, and funi teen othe* de
fendants charged by the govern •
vnent with «muggliu£ in connoo**.»n_
with tiio wholesale liquor and alien]
a, «J
GEORGIA FARMERS WILL RAISE
MILLION BALES OF COTTON AND
$120,000,000—M’CORD
King George Convenes Parliament
Asking Continuance of Lloyd
George’s Ameliorative Measures
BOTE OF Cl
Dignity and fomp Reign
As King Officially Sets
in Motion England’s New
Government.
rnde her*
th*s country
LONDON.—(By The Associated
ATLANTA, Gq— Declaring that
'uba, are scheduled to bo placed^ Georgia farmers will raise between j Press)—The new parliament will
n trial h» re T hursday in tfre » nNa 900,000 and 1.000.000 bales of cot-1 be aske(I to continue the ameliora-
?d Stato^ district court.
'**r«ratnt officials any,.
br.-e been the main-*
e ; i-lawful Deration®
t: ken olftco on the
west ocas' of Honda. The indict
ments against him and oner
defendants rbarge that tbo •:omra-
band cargoes were br u;rht ftvmj
Cuba and uai.s > rred at sea
I iirliter and faster craft anl lnnJ~
i ings were effected on tin* shored
1 of Chocu'. vhatchco Bay
, southern prrt of *tkaloosa cou 1
By special arr.bgements with!
member* ,*»f alleged ring, the*
'.liens ri err'd to are'sail to liav4
lven smuggled through Apalachi
cola, where t:-oy were plai*t]
aboard trains and 'accor-panied ”4j
orc : of tho-" under indicimeat-fi
Philadelphia.
Defense * ir'-tl it is ‘aid, v.U
*Ek for f cvei':i*c*:s of those * •
(■»!. but the government new enter
»ains hone of trying all of tho de
fendants at once.
which will bring approximately I
tive measures prepared by the
Lloyd George ministry as regards
1120,000,000, including its by-pro-: trade and employment and also to
ducts, cotton seed, Joseph A. Me- guarantee a loan for the restora
C.ord, chairman of the board of the
Atlanta reserve bank rang a rote
of cheer for the farming and busi
ness interests in an address Wed-
inesday right to farmers and bank
ers of northeast Georgia.
The banker said, however, that
2 Ike re*-wiiiie salvation of t£c south
L*nt hqnd, * il (he fanner?
Plant tobacco
the advice given by G.
agricultural dovolop-
lt of the Atlanta, Bir*
and Atlantic railway, at
to South Georgia farm-
ng to Mr. Eunice, every
1 South Georgia who has
land should plant a few
tobacco next year, but he
them not .to plant more
properly be cultivated,
ago fanner, he says, by
only 3 to 5 acros of to-
ill make a greater profit
isually rnaue from a larg-
Here are the two feminine members of Congress arriving In Wasb
lngton. At the left Is Mrs. W. H. Felton, lady senator from Georgia,
nominated to fill* the unexpired term of the late Senator Watson. Th
lady of the House of Representatives is Mrs. Winifred Mason Suck,
congresswoman from Illinois.
NEGRO RELIGIOUS PROBE OEM BE
GRAY, Ga.—Robert Norman.,
of a well-to-do colored farmer
LANCASTER, Ohio.— Through
examination of vital organs of Ir-
Jones county was killed Monday af- ving Henderson and his wife, au-
ternoon when hio head was caught
between tho lever of tho can mi*l
■ some e rlking examples
ir. Eunice from growing
county — J. E. Nipper,
Ga., planted three acres.
30 jHiunds, which sold for
I'.se-i ;>,ioo pounds of fer-
cost of $38.02. The cost
bur was $150. M \ Kirk-
1 plant three acres of to-
ain in 1923. -
county—J. E. Nipi>er,
tla., planter live acres of
in 1922 and harvested 6,000
which sold for $2,140.
s of fertilizer cost $73.50.
county—G. W. Houston,
, Ga., planted flv© acres in
in 1922, harvested 5,000
ndp . which sord for $1,750. Used
‘ick.-, of fertilizer, which cost
- ton. Mr. Houston will plant
icrcs of tobacco again in 1923.
"baeco
where lie was working and the
greas i cup on the side of the mill.
He was feeding the cane into the
mill and must have cither lost his
balance or else the lever caught
him. The entire grease cup went
through the skull and entered the
brain He died in three hours.
POLISH PARLIAMENT
WARSAW.—Final returns from
the recent elections distributed
the scats in the Polish parliament
to be filled by the election as fol
lows. Nationalists 1^3, Catholics
thorities Thursday expected to
gain clues to determine the cause
of the death of the entire family,
including the four small children.
Investigators are working on two
theories, one that Henderson, in
an imbalanced state of mind be
cause of illness, administered the
poison and the other that an ene
my of the family placed poison in
the provisions.
That the six persons met their j
HIONKKK
t'on of Austria, said King George
Thursday in his speech from the
throne officially opening the ses
sion.
The king expressed the hone that
the Lausanne conference might re
sult “in the establishment of'peace
nrd the restoration of security to
• caned ti
eolith can be
the rop idea.”
Any.country that depends upon
one ef'-) rru one crop abur /mi
tho beaker.**be ft wheat. • j-i. < its
01* tnitnir. :tat country is cer:vi*i to
jjfep bnripntpt.
Mi' KTeCo-*? FaMrtbe sir ia?* m be
ing orcat/J' In many p«’ < f
Georgia iy the rapid cuttivr *f ; 1
available timber from the *a-» is
110'hing short of alarming -m-’ lie
characterized it is stor'>*.i;;'.inl
busings policy
n index to the pro
he ! inhabitants of regions which hav
an I reefy* Ay been the scene of so muel:
| suffering.”
TXT OP KING’S
MESSAGE
. Tlvs king spo^e as .follows-:
“My Lords and Members of the
: Hoiise of Commons
“Tho constitution for . the Irislj
Free State£ havii^ been passed by
the house of parliament established
under the IriRh Free States agree
ment act of the lasU session sitting
constituent assembly and it
BIGDEflTH TOLL f
EXPLOSION ST
ALABAMA MINE
With Rescue Work Un
der Way, It Is Thought
That Number Dead May
Reach One Hundred.
Many Scenes of Pathos
As Families Wait For
Dear Ones. Tales of
Bravery Are Numerous.,
NEAR DEATH FROM
ATLANTA. rf Ga.—a ‘ map and a
woman are reported dying and two
other men were seriously injured
Thursday when an automobile in
which they were riding crashed
into a telephone pole on the out
skirts of this City.
A. H: Peek
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Eighty-four
lives were lost and sixty persons
were injured as a result of an ac
cident and explosion Wednesday in
Dolomite number three coal mine
of the Woodward iron company,
according to a statement issued at
noon Thursday by Franx H.
Crockard, president cf the com
pany. Of the injured 35 were re
moved to their homes; 25 In hos
pitals. Work of identification at
that hour had r.ot been completed
k »* it was believed th*re were 38
white dead and 20 white injured.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(By th*
Associated Press)—Following res
cue work which continued through
out the night, .ifficials of the
I Woodward Iron Company, owner*
nazel Breze are J of Dolomite mine Number 3, where
so badly crushed that hospital au- j a dust explosion trapped 475 m n-
thorities say they may not recov- • era Wednesday arternoon an-
er; James Hooks and R. M, Cox I nounced early Thursday that 83
will get well. The latter two j bodies had been taken from the
were thrown twenty or more feet 1 min© and that they feared the total
from the automobile when the | toll of death might reach 100.
crash, occurred! Approximately sixty men were
' MJas - Brezrf-tvhs also thrown I reported to have been injured by.
cieAr Of tWT car, which, it a total the blast and the other men to
wreck, wnile. Peek with -fractured have escaped unharmed,
skull was pinned in the machine. I Scenes of pathos about the mine
FT. WORTH, Texas.—Mistaken
identity led to the publication
Wednesday of an interview on the
Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana, which
erroneously was ascribed to
George Seth Guion, as attorney
general of Louisiana.
The interview was obtained by
a reporter for the Ft. Worth Rec
ord, who formerly was a newspa-j
per man in New Orleans and who;
trig made in tho southeast, toward being reouired by the terms of that
normalcy. Mr. McCord cited fisr- act. that the constitution should
ures for the last three years, show- J come into force by December C,
ing that the high peak was reached next. I have summoned you to meet
in October, 1920, with collections j in order that legislation necessary
through the federal reserve bank 19 tdve effect to that constituting
fell to the low level of #217,000.000 nail to make provisions cousequen-
amounting to $314.000 000 which
in October, 1921. The gain of $?o.-
000-000 for October. 192“, over the
corresponding month last year fur
nishes a business barometer, he do '
dared, that indicates the count rv
os a whole is getting in much bet
ter sjiape.
iiit'ii in new v/iicdua unu v*nu.
said he had known Mr. Guion andi
was positive of the identification.*
It developed that the reporter was
in error as to the identity of the
person interviewed, as it was dis
covered that Mr. Guion had not
been out of Louisiana or made a
statement on the Ku Klux Klan.
S. Ga. Methodists
In Conference
tfal on the establishment or the
Irish Free State may at once be
submitted for your approval.
“taie state of trade and employ
ment canUnues to cause me ,dec.p
concern. Ameliorative measures
prepared by my late government
are being examined afresh, and
vr,u will he asked to make provis
ion for their continuance and ex
tension and to guarantee a loan in
Baptist W.M.U.
Sessions Close
/ —“ j “Negntiatic ns for a settlement of
WAYCROSsS, Ga.—The South j diHirt.M s Ui the Near East are
Georgia Methods' cbnference pre- j nroceeding and it is my hope that
sided over by the Bishop, W. N. j at the o :.f. ronce at Lausanne tho
Ainsworth, convened its second i efforts cf my ministers, acting In
day session her e Thursday with a j e-ovoraticn with our allien may to-
lengthy program to be worked out. suit in the re-establishment of
One of the important events of the peace and the restoration of
conference was Completed
the ; n*v to the inhabitants of regions
opening session Wednesday when which have recently been the scene
the Quadrenniel boards and com- : of much suffering. t
Daring Theft
Of New Coupe
Puzzles Officers
Three Nicely Dressed Men
Walk in Showroom, Se
lect Car, and Then Dis
appear.
'mouth during the night and early
morning hours continued as rela
tives and famTies or miners known
to have been in tr.e mine when the
blast occurred waited expectantly
for news of their loved ones.
Many of these men, it was be-?
lieved, had reached the . surface in
safety through the runway -con.
necting the mine with 4nine.nujn--
her 2, and had re-entered the work
ings to help in rescue work with
out communicating with, company*-
ATLANTA, Ga.—An alleged auto
mobile theft which local police are
Thursday at their wits end over. weir wawn auouu uie mine
occurred here Wednesday, accord- I mouth all night long, refusing to
ing^to police records, ^ben ^hree. quit their post until they learned
definitely of husbands, father*,
officials or relatives.
The anxious relatives, howevet,
kept their watch about the mine
unidentified white men walked in
to an automobile snow room, se
lected a new and expensive coupe
and drove it off.
Oscar Baxley, janitor for the
establishment was handed a card
brothers or loved ones.
Throughout the night j.oyous re
unions o’ccasiona^y relieved the
sorrowful scenes. One little girl
gave a cry of delight as a grimy
bearing the name o? an Atlanta at- miner emerged, his face smoked*
terney by one of the trio who de- • blackened and his clothing beating
fied him to have them arrested. mute signs of his struggle to r^ach
The janitor savc^ he^ asked ^ the : the surface. As the man came out
4.1 * the i ittl g gJrl threw herself Into
his arms and the pair hurried off
before the name or the man coukt
be learned. '.W.
ATLANTA.—The fortieth an
nual convention of the Baptist
death as a result of poison was
expressed by the family physician
who examined the bodies when
they were found yesterday. Hen
6, Witos Party 70. Socialists 41, ]derson had intimated when he was
Radical Peasants 55, Labor 18, first taken ill, police said, that
Communists 2, and Non-Polish 89. outsiders might be responsible.
Thrace, Main Topic At Lausanne;
Turks Demand Plebiscite But
Allies United In Their Refusal
LAUSANNE.—The question of Associated Press)—American and
Thrace, was again before the com- British interests are taking steps to
mission on military and territorial remove their property and person-
matters at tho Lausanne conference nel in the event that tho Lausanne
Ismet Pasha was ex- • conference falls to accomplish its
County—\V*. j. Etheridge.
Xo. 8. Tifton, Ga.. planted
f res in tobacco in 1922. Yield
pounds, which sou Id for $1,*
Total expense of growing 1 Thursday.
15 fortm•io*r.n vof'i netted to .
Turkey’s claim for a plebiscite in tho Near East.
Western Thrace. j The largest and oldest British
The enthusiasm of the Turkish • business house in Turkey began to
delegates for a plebiscite has evi- transfer its $1,500,000 stock from
dently been considerably damp-I tho main stroet of the city to the
ened by the discoverey that Eng- docks so that its goods^ njight be
land, Italy and France are solidly
united against}the claims of the
Turks to Western Thrace.
It was apparent Thursday that
Greece, Rumania and Jngo-Slavia,
in vieW of the opposition to a pleb
iscite expressed Wednesday by the
Entente spokesman, have the
*1,423.
“ en H‘U County—S. H. Wilson,
U^Kerald, Ga.. p;anted three
^ c . m *n tobacco in 1922. His yield
.!- h 1,704 P° und8 which sold for
’■pi. Mr. Wilson used one ton
' • I’Jrtiilxer. cost $28 and expend-
v ‘.. a tolft l for air labor $100. Mr.
1 lon Pant five acres iri to-
UOf '° >n 1923.
-OMPERS REFUSES
WASHINGTON.— Invitation to
with the International
m of Trade Unions in a
: t n » C u 0 J a k° r anti-war conference
International I hearty support of the three great
aerations or - powtre in their efforts to prevent
Turkey from extending her west-
nt ,1 „ wc»* VVIUCIUUTC : 1 U1XVCV t IUIU . .— ~
ie?« * e ,^ ague December 10. was ^ erix boundary beyond the Maritza
Lhi i ted hy . President Gompehs and j river. .....
council of the Amer- ^ ' —r~~~_ mi,
un federation of Labor. CONSTANTINOPLE.—(By The
immediately removed. This action
was a signal for several local firms
to close.
American and British concerns
have chartered large steamers to
earn' away their effects and oth
ers have insured their stock against
looting and incendiarism.
The Near East relief today trans
ferred. three million nounds of re
lief supplies and additional mem
bers of Its staff, together with sev
eral hundred orphans i;o Piraeus
aboard the Belgian steamer Marie
Louise.
Women’s Missionary Union of
Georgia will be brought to a close
here Thursday following the elec
tion of officers for the ensuing
year. The organization voted late
yesterday for a $10,000 budget
for the year in order to increase
its service throughout the state.
Ouster Move On
1 Klan Is Started
TOPEKA, Kans.—That the next
move in the ouster suit brought
by the attorney general of the
state gaainst the Ku Klux Klan
was up to the Klan was the. opin
ion held by state officials here
Wednesday. Summons were for
warded Wednesday to be served
on seven residents of the state
who were named defendants in
the suit.
Former Maconite
Killed By Taxi
NEW YORK.—The Rev. David
G. Wills, president of the Presby
terian Synod of America, former
ly of. Macon, Ga., died^of injuries
sustained when srtuck by a taxi
cab.
CELEBRATES 71ST BIRTHDAY
ROME.—Queen Mother Margue
rite of Italy celebrated her seven
ty-first birthday by cruising for
an hour 1 in a submarine.
mittees were completed and
nounced.
State Nurse Assn.
I “And I pray that the blessing of
-- ¥ j Almighty God may rest upon yr*ur
Meets In Macon; doiiiwmrK
rp«* onened the - * *i*»w
i parliament with all the pomp »v1
MACON, Ga.—Tile Georgia state | ••.erernony a'verdant upon this ;vn
association of graduate nurses • cient forma!ity. Driving with the
oi>ened its sixteenth annual con- | queen in ihi* state coach drawn by
vention here Thursday. More than j ei^hti hcrsfs and attended by
200 nurses from ai parts of Geor- j glittering escort ef life guards the
gja are in attendance and the mtect 1 kti:g parsed from Buckingham Pil
ing is scheduled .0 adjourn late ! (Turn to page 6.)
Friday. The state board of ex-1 ■■ - ■
aminers are also In ses.son
men when they entered the show
room whether they wished a de
monstration.
“Demonstrate nothing—we
taking this car,” one of the trio is
reported as saying. I ONE WOMAN
Whereupon the men got into the COLLAPSES ' • * I
coupe and soon wero speeding I 4 v —
away - _ i An agqd woman collapsed as she
_ ... * I greeted two sons after several
RAILWAY ECONOMY * hours of anxious waiting at tho
ROME.—By the cancellation of! enlrance ' fearlnK that hoth
lost the'r lives. The boys meet
ing rescuers in the mine a8 they
109 trains daily and the elimina
Fi On .,lE'- 1 t 5 ' 000 c fre< \.,? aSSeS ’, Gab J. ie ' were making their way out ami
of w .?. r ^l’ has 'lenriiinK that the workings were
. hction which will mean a sa f G again from poisonous gasses,
hundred million lyre economy • - • -
yearly in the operation of the
Italian railroad system, he an
nounced.
sidering applicants for registration
Soldiers To Have
Part In Program
Commercial Congress Indorses Plan
For Ford to Buy Shoals and Send?
Delegation to Study In Mexico
ATLANTA—Soldiers from nine
southeastern status comprising tlie
fourth corps area will Thursday
take ■ part in the Athletic tourna
ment in, which boxing and wrest
ling matches will be the main fea
ture. The tournament will last
through Friday. The purpose of
the tournament is to stimulate
athletic activities in the army, of
ficials said.
Habeas Corpus Is
y Refused Childers
• DUBLIN.-*(By The Associated
Press)—A writ of habeas corpus
was refused Erskine Child ers,, lieu
tenant of Eamon De Valera by the
master of the robs Thursday.
-
CHICAGO—Activities ot dele
gates to. the Southern Commercial
Congress who adjourned their fif
teenth annual session Wednesday
night Thursday shifted to Mexico
where a representative body is to
spend two weekB in the interest
of trade promotion.
The itiniary of tbo trade -dele
gation includes Sv. Louis, San An
tonio. and Mexico City, where they
are scheduled to arrive Monday
morning. •
At the closing session Thursday
night, the Congress passed a num
her of resolutions including the en
dorsement of Henry Ford’s pro
posal to buy the Muscle, Shoals
nitrate plant from tho government
add the submission to Congress of
the initial trade commission’s plan
for Amortization of the inter-allied
debt and German reparations.
Among other resolutions adopted
had instantly turned back to/aipr
in the search for other men, thuit
keeping their mother in suspense
until they flnaly reached the sur
face exhausted. . .
Stories of heroism coming on'
such disasters began to trickle .Lx
the outside world early Thursday,
morning as the begrimed worker*
came to the surface after leng
hours of work in rhe mine. , .
One rescurer-told of an unidenti
fied mine foreman who assembled
about him thirty workers and soon
fter the blast occurred, ordered-
were recommendations for ;
ternational tariff commission: ad- all to remain with him and work
dition of a department of health; 00 fixl n£ up brattices with.stone*
to the' presidents iatiinet; Atr Ip-' “ d **»“* to shut °« the «"»<!-
ternatioral Of tonkins interests taj 8ure wn r s toTlW tneExplosion;
f ' ur ; h rr,r a r rt ;! zat ' on ? ' vh,,e th,s w ° rk so^p on.
and AlHod and war uebta; pmend- cording t0 tho regcue wo f ker ; on#
ment of the Immigration law, At miner objected to remaining with,
amendment increasing maximum tho reat 0 f the „ en . He Irgned
farm loans from *10,000 to *25.000i S wlth the foreman and flnaI1 ^y_
Extension of cred t to foreign pur in g that he was det9r minea to try
Cha.., of form erne.- 4 I foj . th(( entnnCe b "
chaser of America's farm crops,
nation wide , reclamation plan;
Copstructlon. of the Atlantic-itis*
sisslppi canal: Support of the pro
posed great Lakes waterway and
completion of the Mississipi river
Improvement; Creation of a Fed
eral body to study and make re- 1
commendations for procedure to In.
sure world peace; and the Inclu^
sion of a land grant in any Federal
bonus that may be adopted.
to light his way outward. The
rest stayed behind with the fore
man and completed the brattice ot
stones and canvass. When the
fans were ..started up again the'
air cleared sufficiently to Indicate
that It was safe tojear down the
temporary wall. The foreman i«i
his.men. out The body of the man
who refused to stick with the rant
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