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Gloom Hovers Over Add. ms Dead Are Buried
SI KILLED IIALL
Big Death Toll Reached
When Lives of Many
Miners Are Snuffed Out
in Explosion.
many are injured
Sixteen Dead Bodies Not
Yet Identified. Gloom
Spread Over Entire Dis
trict By Shock.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(By the
Associated Press)—The Blrmlns*
ham district Friaay prepared to
lay to rest the first of Its eighty
four dead whose lives were snuffed
out Wednesday by an explosion of
coal dust in Dolmltf -Mine No. 3
; the Woodward iron company,
? xiten miles west of this city.
The dead belong to the district,
:,,r vi-.tually every settlement and
<::>• .» represented j n the casualty
list and graves were being dug to
day in nearly every little cemetery
no:ween Birmingham, Bessemer,
Cnsle.v and the mine.
Sixteen of the victims in an un-
ERSKINE CHILDERS, AID
IB EMON BE VALERA
SHE MAKES NEW PICTURE
EXECUTED EARLY
IT
18 NEW BILLS
LONDON.—(By The Ass •dated
Press)—Premier Bonar Law Friday
introduced in the house it com-
DUBLIN.—(By the Associated
Press.)—Erskine Childers, chief
lieutenant cf Eamon De Valera,
mons the hill putting Into effect j was executed here Friday,
the constitution of the Irish Free He was executed at 7 o'clock
State and the free seat “Const*- Friday morning for having had an
quential provision bill.” ; automatic pistol in his posses-
Both measures received their! nion> is announced in an offi-
iirst formal icadintr. icial bulletin sriven out by tbo
When Prime Minister Bonar Law Duueun given out oy
moved that the government ho cm* J National, avmy.
powered to take all the time of the T ='— /n * S1 '
Ide
Erskine Childers, a lieutenant
commander in the Irish republican
army and one of the right hand
men of Eamon De Valera, was
placed on trial before a military
tribunal in Dublin on November
17 on ,the charge that he., had a
part* tho 75 bodies there for house of commons, which occurred j pistol in his possession when ar
il. had not been identified ear- Friday afternoon, was cahi* -1 by 1 rested at Wicklow by Free State
rid ay. One' waa a white man i tho'.« goyen>pn?.*it by * X forces on November 10* JElie trial
the other fiftfeen negroes-» 103 against the labor! 13 opo >si-| lasted . two days. Childers, who
iiieation of some of the ne- [ tlon. jwaa 52 years of age, appealed
night
house for government business .dur
ing this session the labor*tos op
posed it The prime ministt-r’e mo*
cstubl.ehment in Besser j tion, however, was carried hy a
Thursday and Thursday vote of ZZ?. to 135.
worked unceasingly to | The first, division in the new
>:ri'ca was declared very imposs'--
i-.'c because the faces were
burned almost beyond recognition.
At the mine wher© the only evi
dence visible of the disaster was
ilie charred wood wont of the con
crete tipple tired ©y the blast as
i n* flames spouted from the slope,
Defense Fights
Move of U, S.
I through counsel for a writ of ha
beas corpus which was denied
{Thursday by the Master of the
Rolls. He then appealed to the
court of appeals for Southern
LOS ANGELES. Cal.—A con
tinued attempt at justification was
otild bo resumed Monday.
MANY WILL
RETURN TO WORK
I’-ny of the miners burned by
explosion or disabled by the
were being made with the the defense Friday at
ticctntiott that coal production tr [ al , n tke tin ted States dis
trict court of eight railway bro
therhood men charged with con
spiracy in connection with the
Abandoning of trains at desert
po’nts.last summer. I
This attempt was begun late
, . ... i Thursday after the government
damp declare that as 8ted „ B cn3e . w i[h Jo hn Bannon,
th< 'V ero able to resume vice preslden t of the Brotherhood
»<.-k they will return to the mine, pan™, trainmen, as the last pro-
t had oecn in operation since 1882 ™ u y n „ witness.
Without a serious occ dent unUl | me defense began the lntroduc-
woanesday and tho disaster then Uon of e xi den ce des gned to prove
m , 'i circumstances observ- the defendanU we re justified in
a Otlj twice before in this coun- thelr walkout because of unsafe
rj according to records of local work j ng conditions.
,' :: experts. Tuo mine is what, j Ackerly, an engineer em-
» Known as gas free and to pre- 1 p j oyed by the Santa Fe Railway
ra.jhe accumulat'on of coal dust wag the flrat defense witness. He
, IH ' r dangerous element. Its toM of thwe occasions when he
I 1 "™ 1 inclubes an automatic operated Engnes he believed un-
iZ* ,. r ? y8tem which constantly Ba fe. Ackerly admitted his sympa
. d:>mp * A Btrin * of coal thles were with th e defendants.
““M being hauled up the tipple • °
toono, dropped 800 feet down
Incline and the Impact when
reached the bottom created
‘ouds of coal dust. The crash
c'e'ed a high tension electrie
"Wo and the flash ignited the ox-
l-talve dust.
Eighty-two of the 47B in the
w>ne were killed outr'ght by the
Plosion or asphyxiated by the
dier damp, a pd or the 60 burned
r overcome by the gas, two died
hours later.
Pershing to Meet
Geo. Clemenceau
John J ' Per *
(•<„„ he among those to greet
F-.Z' *. Cll?m enceau, the “Tiger of
(Ip'v”?,'. ,,n hl3 81x1711 here Mon*
vy, , att " n ' 0 °n it was ' announced
new »„«? e3cort fr00 » 1,18 122nd
ard , rt ! ery , 8 motorcycle squad
wn” ro bfatoons of mounted police
ra«„ c ? dnct tfce "Tiger” and his
(i the train to the rest-
,..m . of p8| mer Potter, where he
Two Sessions of
Catholic Parley
Italy. Mourns .
Premier's Death
proponent of an Irish republic and
strongly opposed ratification of
the treaty setting up the Irish
Free State on the ground that it
HOW SIX MEMBERS OF
MET DEATH IS
PROBLEM FACING OHIO
ide of Pmlomar” a
3 released.
Mrs. White Made
- ■ Normal Trustee k
1 Mrs. Julia Ashton White of Ath
ens has been appointed by Govern
or Hardwick as a member of the
board of trustees of the State Nor
mal School, togeinn- with four oth
er prominent women of Georgia.
Ireland. Childers was an ardent^ Announcement of the appoint-
meant “absorption of Ireland in
ments were made public by the ex
ecutive offices in Atlanta Thurs
day.
The women were named on the
the British empire.” He was de
feated last June in the elections
for the South Ireland parliament,
receiving fewer votes than any
other candidate in the whole elec
tion.
Early in the next month he was
reported to be organizing a band
of insurgents in Dnblin Hills and
later in the summer commanded
the band of irregulars who cut
the cables in Valentina harbor.
Childers was educated at Trini
ty College, Cambridge. He served
in the European war as a lieuten
ant-commander of the Royal Navy
Volunteer Reserve Battalion and
won the distinguished service
cross for - his service with the
anti-submarine forces.
Childers was the author of sev
eral books. Among them were
“The Framework of Home Rule;”
“Volume V of the Time History of
the South. African Wr-r;” “In the
Ranks of C. I. V.,” end “German
Influence on British Cavalry.”
Childers was captured on the
board by the governor in pursuance
of his policy to appoint only wo
men on the boards of schools In
which the majority of students are
girls.
Following are the appointments
announced by the governor:
_ Mr*. Howard McCall. Atlanta, to
succeed Mr. H. Y. McCord. Atlan
ta.
IMrs!. Anne Freeman John.m, to
succeed J5. S. Griffith. Floyd coun
ty-
Mrs. Ira E. Farmer. Me O if tie
county, to succeed W. H. Fie-.dug,
/.uvusta.
Mrs. W. W. Stark. Jackson coun
ty to sneceed her husband. Judge
W. W. Stark.
Mrs. Julia Ashton White, of Ath
ens, to succeed Mr. E. J. Bondnr-
anti of Athens.
ROME.—(By The Associated I morning of November 10 at the
Press)—Italy mourned Friday the
passing of Baron Soninno, who was
twice her premier and her foreign
Minister ddrlng the world war.
Death came last night after an
apoplectic stroke earlier in the fhe soldiers rapped on the door and
was arppRted hv a mala. The ser*
News that the Baron had been
stricken came as a surprise, for
only' a few days ago he was seen
on the streets apparently in the
best of health. Word of his Illness
brought anxlons inquiries Horn
many state notables, including King
Victor Emmanuel.
home of a relative, Robert Barton,
situated in a wooded and pictur
esque section of Wicklow. Two col
umns of national troops surrounded
the Barton bouse at dawn. One of
was arrested hy a maid. The ser
vant was thrust aside and a de
tachment of the expedition entered
the house.
Childers was found in an up
stairs bedroom. He s attempted to
draw a pistol but waa overpowered.
He wa staked to Wicklow Jail and
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Police Hunt For Man Who Had
, Machine For Making Dollars
V. 1-.L ^YX'OTON’.—Two sessions
CniiL".® - Pr,da F hy ’the National
Catholic Women, now in
bBre -- Two programs
“ne on “immigratoin.”
hana T ^ akBra ,nc,8 d>nK V. W. Hus-
tlon\ d I 9ctor general of immiara-
Thomas F. Mniholland.
ntw ctor of York, and the
tHpZ,? 8 “Problems in Rural Bis-
wi’h sneakers including
Sasaw*
ATLANTA. Ga.—The police Fri
day are in search of the alleged
owner of a buzzing machine guar
anteed by him to reproduce crisp
one dollar bills just as if they
camo from a government mint. M.
Ellis, a Macon fruit dealer is aia.
ing the police in their search for
a man who Ellis claims represent
ed himself as L. oavis. wanted as
tho perpetrator of the flim-flam
game.
Princess Dagmar
Married Thursday
COPENHAGEN—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Tho marriage of
Princess, Dagmar, youngest sister
of King Christian," to Lieutenant
Joergen Castenskjold was cele
brated Thursday. The ceremony
was performed in the church at
the Castle Fredensborg, cj ' -if the
summer residences of the .. jiish
king, by the Very Rev. Dr. i ; «angcr,
the Royal ConfeSsionalist.
Winder Man Is
LANCASTER, O.—(By The Asso
ciated Press -Lancaster * people
Friday were looking to Columbus
for the. next scene in the death
tragedy of cue Henderson family
;here. Whether Irving Henderson,
his wife and their four children
died of poisoning, or were asphyx
iated by fumes of a gas stove, was
expected to be disclosed by the re
sults of a series of investigations
under way at Columbus Friday.
Examinations of the ’vital or
gans of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson
analysis of food found op tbe Hen
derson table for the fateful Tues
day evening meal,’ and an investi
gation 'under various conditions
of a stove used in the Hendersop
living room* were actions upon
WASHINGTON—Delayed since
the opening session of congress on
account of the senate taking ac
tion on the case of Mrs. Rebecca L.
Felton, ex-woms.fc-senator, the of
flee force of Senator Walter F.
George, of Georgia, Thursday re
ceived credentials and started offi
cial duties. ,
Records filed .with the disbur
sing office snowed that Louis C.
Russell, of Winder, Is private sec
retary of the senator. Miss Sarah
Ofr., of Dublin, secretary to tbe
lat© Senator Watson, is act ng in
the capacity of confidential secre
tary; The two other members of
the office are Miss Lucille Morris,
of Marietta, and Frances Dart, of
Douglas.
ficlals hinged .
Authorities here are marking time
pending the result ot the research
work in Columbus, which may not
be announced before Saturday, or
the first of the week.
The local officials admit they
TRIAL SHOWS THAT
ALIENS WERE BEING
PENSACOLA, Fla—The trial ot
Captain Benjamin Edmondson,
launch operator of Pensacola, and
Louie Ying, alias “Quan Yick,” of
Philadelphia, charged with smug
gling aliens into the United States
from Cuba, will probably be con
cluded late Friday in the United
States district court hero.
The defendants’ trial was com
menced Thursday after ' C. P.
Moore, owners of the auxiliary
1LJL
TO ALLOW DEBATE
ON MINE OIL
Two Days Remain, in
Which There May Be
~ and
Speeches For
Against Harding Plan.
5 SPOKE~THURSDAY
Democrats Assail Meas-
I 4 j
ure Calling It a “Mon
strosity” and Other Bit- j
ter Names.
WASHINGTON.—The Bouse wat
convening an hour earlier Friday to
give more time for members, desir
ing to speak during the remaining.!
two days of general debate on tbe
administration shipping, bill before
the measure is laid before the
house for amendment for three
davs beginning Monday.
The measure was defended and
assailed in a total of, five speeches
delivered on the floor Thursday,*,
with Chairman Greene of the mer-.
chant marine commission. Which
framed it. and Reoresehtatlve Ed
monds. of Pennsylvania, ranking
Renublican' member, , making tbe
Principal arguments in its support.
The committee chairman dwelt on
the broad benefits which he believ
ed would' accrue to the country
through opemtfon of the legislation
while (Mr. Edmonds went into
schooner “Success,” and purported detailed explanation of the bill and
answered numerous questipna on
Hardwick Urges
Proper Observance
Of Thanksgiving
Chocolate Fed
Turkey Is Sent'
Harding
CHICAGO.—A (orty-one pound
Illinois:turkey, fattened on choco
lates and other delicacies, a
Thanksgiving gift to president and
Mrs. Harding Thursday awaited the
arrival of Monday noon when it will
start the journey to the White
Armed with a warrant, Ellis ap-
■whtch tho owner claimed, accord
ing lo Ellis, was a new devise for
reproducing bills. The Macon mer ™ xo tne ' VJUlB
chant who came to Atlanta to buy , Ho88e 18 8 specially prepared mo-
frolt, was tola that If he put a 811 “L*™?" . • _
bill in the machine, twh 81. bills ! T}l 8 the gift of-the
.would be produced. ' (Harding Girls club at Morris and
Ellis said ha produced his rol. j Company, packers.
put it in the machine, a buzzing
sound was heard, whicn EUls said BURNS
Davis told him was me re-oroduc- BALTIMORE. Md.—Firo which
er in action. He also added that' broke out ab ont midnight in the
the box would automatically un- ' woo<3s neap Towsoa, Baltimore
lock when the buzzer quit buzzing.
peered at police headquarters late -While the buzzfr was at its high
Thursday where he charged that • est pitch, Davis, said Ellis excused
Davis had won his confidence and-himself for a moment. The buzzer
then excused himself for a mo-1 ceased and on examining the box
ment” with $1,100 of Ellis’, raon- ] Ellis found it was empty. Te turn
pv ed the machine over to tho police
• department.
STORM WARNINGS
Ellis ana Davis met nere ond a *.u*w*. ings^remahiedri
short time later navis produced Ellis said ne would orohably re- ,h„ ^tlnnUc roas^al nnd^L'rth
- strange appearing machine, turn home fruitless. , Cape Hatteraa. I an d north
county was sfcil burning Friday
morning hut It was believed by
the fire fighters that danger to
dwellings and other property had
passes.
‘
ATLANTA.—The people of Geor
gia are called on to observe
Thanksgiving Day next Thursday as
a day of prayer and thanksgiving in
a proclamation; issued Thursday by
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick.
Tbe state canitol will be closed in
observance of the day. -
Following Is the proclamation:
"Wnerea8, The president of the
United States of America in ac
cordance with immemorial custom,
has, by his proclamation, designat
ed the 3.0th day of November,,1922,
as a day of public Thanksgiving,
on which we are expected to (refrain
from labor and in, church and home
return thanks to Providence ‘for
the varied evidences of divine fa
vor, and the many blessings which
our people have been permitted tp
enloy.’
Therefore, I, Thomas W. Hard-
vtfck, .governor of the state of
Georgia, do, by this proclamation,
likewise name Thursday, the SOtb
day of‘'November, as a day of
thanksgiving and prayer, and call
nopn the people of this state to
to have been the ring lender in the
conspiracy and four others plead
guilty.
The government backed up its
■contentions of having unearthed
one of the most systematic organ
izations for ; smuggling' Chinese
'-uallens into the United.States by us*
'MrFrtc6 .lilfafr Di
M. Richardson, who testified be
was a traveling agent in the busi
ness of arranging for the humnn
cargoes. He sgid he collected $500
per head for three different lots
of iChine8e smuggled into. t.his< characterized the bill as
have 7un Into a blank wall in their I country from Cuba after they had I Ptrosity” and asserted it meant .
that concerns onerating ships-for
♦heir own benefit, such as tho
Standard Oil Company and the Uni
ted Fruit Compapv would he hand
ed four or five million dollars an
nually out of the treasury just for
tbe nriyilege of hauling their own
Stuff. , ■ "V
The Democrats furnished a sur
prise In electing a Republican rep
resentative. N^lsOhrof'Y^fscopsin.
to lead off. the opposition m a *
speech in v which he warned Re
publican .leaders that If they would
“hold- the,partjcJLogethAt.tbpy must,
ro'out to the masses and not to- *
the sbio profiteers.” Representative,
. Bankhead. Alabama. Democratic
member of the merchant marino.
commission, following Mr. Nelson.v
“mon-l
efforts to find d criminal motive j been delivered by him to Louie
No suspicious persons have beenjYIng’s place In Philadelphia,
seen near the Henderson home they I. The schooner “Success” was used
say apd thetfe is no evidence to sup- to carrv the Chinese from Cuba to
port anv advanced theories that
the family might have been done
away with by enemies of Hender
son who was a non-union employe
at the Pennsylvania shops.
In disposing of the theories that
the deaths might have been caused
(Contniued on Page Six.)
a certain point oft the Florida coast
where, according to the testimony
of c. B. Lourcey and Dan Atwell,
who claimed, to have been in- the
■employ of Cantain Edmondson, they
used one of Edmondson’s fast boats
to transfer the aliens from the
schooner to land.
Turk Nationalists Impose Rules
On Foreign Institutions There
render thanks to Almighty God for
His mercies to us.
It Is ordered that the state cap-
itpV be closed on said day.
. Ini witness .whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused'the
executive seal to be attached.
. Done at the capitol In the city of
Atlanta, this the 22d day of No
vember, year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred twenty-two. and
of thp independence of the United
States one hundred forty-seventh.
HEAVY SNOW
OLEAN, N. Y.—Train and trol
ley service was crippled Friday by
the biggest November snow fall in
the history of the cjty. The storm
developed into a bnzzard and more
than four inches of snow laready
has fallen.
finfd< for speeding
CHJQAGO.—yracob S. Coxey, who
gained fame as a leader of “Coxey
army,” was on his road to his Ohio
home Friday, minus $15 as a fine
was arrested in Evanston.
' on a charge
LAUSANNE— (By the Assoc’af-
ed Press)—Turkeys spokesman at
Lausanne conference herring of
the arrival of American mission
ary representatives here, expressed
the hope that American philaphan-
tropic ajfd 1 educational 1 instruc
tions would not be needlessly
alarmed by the advent of the new
reg’me in Turkey. The Kfemalist
agents explained that there was
no disposition to drive out Ameri
cans especially tnose engaged in
educational and charitable under
takings. /
It was pointed otn, however, that
Turkey saw no reason why foreign
institutions, whether educational
or industrial, woud be dealt With
differently than Turkish institu
tions and that if Turkey’s schools
and factories path taxes, theft for-
eien ^establishments should also.
The Angora delegates .declared
that there "'should be no spec’al
.Privileges for foreigners in Tur
key ard insisted that it should he
also understood that all schools,
whether fo^eitm or Turkish, should
teach the Turkish language.
The problem or Thrace and *he
western boundary of Turkey still
occupied the attention of the con
ference Fr'day. The sub-commls-
elon of the full • commission on
.territorial military questions, ccm-
'pri8ing a group of experts, wa3
wrestling with the boundary ques
tion. The establ'snment of a de
militarized zone on both banks of
the Maritza river, which seems , to
be the boundary favored by tha
great powers, it one of the topics
of discussion in the sub-commis
sion.
Legal Battle May
Follow “Rescue”
COLUMBUS, Ohio.—(Bv Tile'As
sociated Press)—Possibility hat "a
legal battle in Ohio conns r'aht Sj
provide a aeqael to the spectacular ,
“rescue" : of fourteen former ir -
mates of the Ohio institution for
the feeble-minded from tho bunk-
I heuse of a strip mine near Turtle
I creek, pa., earlv Thursday was br
ine considered here Friday. .
Declaring that thp f«n-* •• i—;
had been inveigled 1 away from the
Institution and put to-v.-orb at the
TfllilP friT* llttln nhta. 1 anil . "
With Grey Skull Cap On One Side
Of Head, Clemenceau Writes Speech
BOSTON, Mass.—Georges Cle
menceau, war premier ! of France
was up at dawn Friday' putting tha
finishing touches on/ the second
formal address or bis American
to.ur which he will cmiiver at four
o’clock this afternoon !n . Treraont
Temple. >/
Seated before hlg/ invaluable pot
of cold tea! with htg battered gray
skull cap on at a.(rakish angle, ho
worked for more /han an hour on
his notes at a small table in the
home of F. L. Hlgglnson, Jr. What
he does with t tM» notes after .he
has prepared them no .one knows.
He never refers! to them when he
is speaking but/ he always makes
Refreshed by j bis night's 6leep
the Tiger appeals even,more Jugi-
lant Friday thorn he was Thurs
day over the Enthusiastic recep
tion given him iy Boston and oth
er cities between here and New
York.
He declared _that even If his
mission” of wmn’ng American
hearts for France failed—which he
confident it ^ould not—he al
ways would treasure the memories
of the welcome he had on this
‘last mission of h:s life.”
SPEECH ON
ALL PROGRAM
There was nothing on the Tig
ers program for Friday except tne
speech. L^ut what ho would do no
one in his party rould say. Yes
terday he declared he had wanted
to seo junker Hill, ever since,his
visit to America 57 years ago and
it was not improbable that he
would sufnmon Cot. Stephen Bon-
zal, tour Conductor, rnd demand to
be taken there immediately. Fan-
ouil Hall; the. ‘‘Cradle of Liberty”
was another point, he hoped to
visit.) Ho has been invited to two
football games in Saturday—-the
Brown-Dartmouth game at Caih-
bridge, and the Yale-Harvard
Fame at New Haven. He wants
to see both but it Is uncertain he
will be ^*ble to attend either.
The Tiger’s Interest in Ameri
can universities, keen from the
start was greatly augmented yes
terday when he «aw and heard
cheering sect’ons from Yale and
Brown In action as he passed thru
New Haven and Providence, it
makes me think o? the old days
when I wa* a school boy,” he said.
.... ", -
mine for little pav and under un
satisfactory conditions,’ repre- L •
sentutives of the Ohio welfare d c -
nartment with Pennsvlva ita rt lbV
swooned down on the wori.nsj,
bundled the h-.ys into autom
•>nd whisked them over the slate '
line into Ohio before co irt artion .
to detain thim mieht be started:
Mrs. Felton Takes
Honorary Post
1 WASHINGTON.—The national
woman's party announced Thurs
day that Mrs. W. H. Felton, of-
Georgia. first woman senator, had;
accepted the post of honorary* -
chairman of, its • .political council
formed recently with tho object of
bringing about equal participation
by women and men in all political
offices.
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Jack Daw in
Hoopland
■'.r
•Tack Daw’s jump from an air
plane is only the. start of the
thrilling experiences the little
adventurer has in, the next
Jack Daw story,
JACK DAW IN
HOOPLAND!
He lands in a hoop tree,
meets all tbe funny people
who are made out of hoops,
and sees things that can only
be seen in this strange place.
This adventure starts today.
Start reading it now and travel
with Jack through Hoopland!
Read It in Today’s
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