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II. No. 75
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ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY EVENOIG, DECEMBER 1, 1922.
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Single Coplea 2 Cents Daily. S Ceuta Sunday.,
Secret Plans Pro^es^m Bloc and
II SENATORS MEET
WITH Lft FOLLETTE
Tiernan And
Wives 1 and 2
Former College Professor
and His Wives.
; eK i„n "Behind Closed
Poors" to Be Held At
Capital Friday When
Ideas Are Talked.
OPEN SESSION FOR
800 SATURDAY
La Follette, Republican,
and Huddleston, Demo
crat, of Alabama, Head
New Party Move.
WASHINGTON—The names of
thirteen .senators and twenty-six
irp.esenifttivea. serving and eiect-
•d hud been announced as rnier-
tri.iih' to participate In the.. Pro*
greas.ve coi.iereuce called by Sen
ator LaFollette renub'-lcan, Wis
consin, and Representative Hud
dleston. Democrat, Alabama, to
meet • behind closed doors” here
Friday to discuss legislation.
Although there had been) no
announcement of the legislative
proposals to be taken up the cou-
fert-nce was expected to adopt re-
solut.ons outlining a definite pro
gram lor tho progressive “bloc**.
Tik sec: ot conference was preli
minary to a public session here.
«cturday ot Nattona? progressive*
T.an accomodations for &00, which
B t'oiOete.l to take up the program
adopted Friday. Both meet.ngs
.(e being held under the auspices
the people’s legislative service,
'vmch win tender r dinner Satur
day night to the progressive sena-
ntatives and governors
u. ng.
Bight republicans, four demo-
buhs and one farmer-laborlto
were on the list of senators for to
«-iys conference while nineteen
'♦•publicans and seven democrats
">re on the list of representatives,
v number of members of congress
in addition to those announced are
^peeled t o attend.
LIMITS OF m
j Must i, Explain Why
' He-Dismissed Prohi
Violation Cases
Faces Gallows For.
Killing His a Wife
Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, above, re ling another man witu neing the fa
cently became the bride of John P. i ther of her child. However, the
Tiernan (lower right), former Notr judge who had granted the Tiernan
e Dame law professor, who was the divorce set the decree aside upon
star witness for his wife, Augusta T ' hearing of the second marriage, an
iernan (lower left), in a suit charg- d Tiernan returned to fils first 1 wife.
u ALLA, Waafi<—James
b .Vshotmy, convicted Qf kilUng
eituriy bride for her money,
on ike gallows at the
. 1 ‘!' r ( 'int«*ntiary here Friday. The
Mhbntiarv authorities would not
'mmojit on the report from Seat-
* :at Mahoney had dictated a
Mission to hi8 attorney. .
PRICE TO DISPOSE IROCKEFELIER DIED
OF
Senate Leaders in Con
ference With Wallace
and President Harding
Perfect plans. 1
TULSA/ Okla.—Still maintaining
that the ‘^people don't want/prohi-
bition, ,r? but"taking a slightly differ
ent tack; in his defiance of the gov
ernor and the attorney general's
.rtment, County Attorney W. F.
Mee t in g„°f P^anization
DEMOCRATS LEAD
SENATE FILIBUSTER
Farm Loan Plan Is De
signed to Aid Agricultu
ral Causes With More
Finances.
day to explain his dismissal of
the cases ^gainst alleged liquor law
violators.
Mr..King said before the confer
ence his course of action would-de
pend- upon the outcome of his talk
with, the qeventy-four year old dis
trict attorney of Tulsa county, who
said he welcomed the visit of the
attorney general and would give
himevery assistance in his investi
gation;
WASHINGTON—The adminis
tration had ready Friday a defi
nite program of legislation for the
financial relief of farmers formu 1 *
lated in agreement with senate
leaders on both the agriculture and
banking committees and to be
pressed with their support at the
short session of congress, epprov^
ed at a conference Thursday be-i
J. R. MAi, GlJtil
OF HOUSE. DIES
WASHINGTON.—Death Thurs
day night ended *the legislative
•tween President Hamms Seerfc, satis; oft Representative James R.
tary Wallace ana raieen repuoli- Mann, of the second Illinois"dis
cs n senator::, headed by Senator
Lodge majority leader, and Sena
tor ' Watdun of Indiana, who has
been making an active survey of
the question the program contem
plates ut.hzation of the Federal
farm loan board »s the agency for
extension of larger and more lib
eral credits, botn as to Interest
rates and time, to meet the pres
ent agricultural necessity.
It is proposed, by use of the
giant of the
ttict, long rated as
house.
Returning here two weeks ago
for the opening of the special ses
sion of congress, Mr. Mann, who
had served his people for upwards
of a quarter of a century, took
part in the preliminary work of
the house. A week ago, however,
he was forced to stay at nome be-
FOR COMING YEAR
Mexican Singer
Has Won Fame
A n n u a 1 Membership
to Be Held At Baptist
Church Tonight.
SPfcCIAL DELEGATES
TO MAKE TALKS
Detailed Account of What
Has Been Done By Body
in Athens Will Be Re-
' lated.
farm loan board as the medium, of cause of a cold. It wtls not until
government relief to make it avail- Thursday afternoon, after pneu-
able to the thousands of small farm m0 nia had developed, that his
ers who ne$d it ana who in the I condition became alarming. Early
opinion of those at the confer- fin the evening he rallied, but
euce, have-not shared as^have the there was a change for the worse
4 " **"'• * l> “ as the night wore oh. Shortly fie
grain and cattle producers and the
credit relief afforded by the war
finance corporation because of
the limitations under which it has
operated.
WOULD INCREASE
'LOAN LIMIT
1 ■ y 5 - Mahoney was beaten ta
her body stuffed into a
, , J NEW YORK,—Members of his
PARIS. (By The Associated f am ily Friday attributed the death
press)—France's coBtly merchant Thur8day nlght of william Good-
marine is soon to be disposed of, deU Rockete iler, son' of the-late
trunk ***w -{the under-secretary ot the William Rockefeller.lUid'nephew of
The trunk was recovered from’Thura daylight prior to its ratifica- John D. Rockefeller, to a cold con -
Uk(1 Vnion in Seattle more than a tion- of a plan for tfie disposal of traded at the Yalq-Harvard toot-
bf!n a *°‘, Mahon ey had previously the fleeL The books will be closed, 0 al) game last Saturday,
sntr ■ * r arrest ta Seattle on *he said, with a deficit of one billion Avery Rockefeller, a freshman at
fcis i! n - t,1!lt he had knowledge of francs. Yale, said his -uncle had contracted
M'lfo’
mysterious disappear
ance against him was
ilMp. 1*).
‘inomsiaiitial.
Ji!™"- 1 ' the trial and appeals
Z, oy maintained he was inno-
Library Given to
T allulah School
_ a , « cold soon after the party left
There remaln four iwaaenger ^ Ya]o ,a wL Last Monday M r.
vessels andten frelgmere. all of RockefeIlor i eft hIa 0(fic0 and
which are still Incomplete, but the complalnlDg oI a ohlU and his pby-
Specifically the plan proposes an-
increase in the maximum loan
limit of the. Federal farm banks
from 1910.00Q to 925,00$, amend
ment of the farm ?oan act to pro
vide for the rediscount of agricul
tural production and marketing
liaper, with a maximum cred.t peri
od of three years, and creation of
fore midnight with his wife and
his physicians at his beside, the
veteran . of many congressional
battles died peacefully.
News of Mr. Mann's death was
a shock* to the house, for few of
his most intimate friends knew of
his illness beyond the statement
that he ,had been confined to his
home by a' cold. O nthe eye of the
house ebate Wednesday on the
shipping bal, Mr. Mann wanted to
get odt of Ded and -go there to be
counted on its side.* He was told
to stay at home and that while his
wise counsel would be helpful,
there were votes enough in sight
a division n tbe farm bank sya and ; he _ would be ired> But hia
tom to deal specincady with this thoughts were constantly ou( the
* * °L ^ work fl> e house, where his 1 rec
ord of service through thirteen
oluntary creation of live stock,
and agricultural associations to
deal primarily. with live stock
loans also is proposed.
consecutive terms—26 years—had
earned for him* the reputation
The annual membership meeting
of the Y. W. C. A. of Athens will be
held Friday night at the First Bap
tist church and -will be one of the
largest .attended and most enthusi
astic meetings ever held here by
those interested In'the “Y. w.”
A special program has been ar
ranged by Mrs. Frank Lipscomb,
chairman of the occasion.^ and
BpeclaT’ reprewhuravesMram
South Atlantic field will be in at
tendance and give short talks on
the work of toe prganuauon ail
over .the country. \
These visitors are well known io
Athens and both have been here
before, either'ah visitors or as Sec
retaries. miss Ebertna Koelofs and
Miss Ada StaTkweatner are the
two being sent here for the meet
ing and they will have a promi
nent part on the program.
S Definite plans tor-1923 will be
worked out at the meeting Thurs
day night and practical demonstra
tions of tho work that is being ac
complished will be seen. The
Girl Reserves will have a part on
the .program and different mem
bers will tell of something that uas
been done during the current year.
Mrs. Russell Everett, formerly
Miss Ruth Vick, the secretary, will
be in attendance and give a detail
ed account of the work In Athens.
Mrs. John R. White is president of
the Y. W. c. A, now and will make
here report Friday night.
Athens became Interested in tha
Y. W. C. A. many, many years ago
but it has never been supported
here as those interested in it be
lieve it should be and at tho meet
ing Friday:night an effort will be
made to elicit sufficient support to
enhble it to carry on a greater work
in 1923.
Tho program Friday night gets
under way at 8 o’clock and the
committee in charge is planning
A ft e r Fierce Struggle
Thanksgiving Night At
City Hall, Fed era 1
Troops in Charge. .
AERCE INVECTIVES
HURLED AT RULERS
Initial Plans Were to
Stage Peaceful Demon
stration, But Labor Join
ed and Became Violent.
Ravdluttons and cactus' are not-
the ony things .Mexico produces.
Here's Senora Esperanza Iris,'
beautiful operatic star, who has
won fame not only throughout
Mexico but also ip Europe and
South America. All Mexico City,
from President Obregon down,
paid her homage upon her return
from Europe recently. .
U. S. HAS PART IN
CULTURE OF NEGRO
MOSCOW—v(By the Associated
Press)—The third Internationale
has adopted a resolution declaring
that, the United states is destin
ed to play an important part in
the struggle of the African race
for Liberty and that inasmuch as
America teday is the centre of the
negro culture of tho world, it is in
that country that the communist
campaign to bring freedom to the
negroes of pll countries should be
concentrated.
MEXICO CITY. Mex.—(By The
Associated Press)—federal troptfa
guarded a badly battered municipal
building Friday while 'the city
counted the' casualties, of a pitched
battle between the' police and a
mob which attempted to storm the.
building Thursday night. The death
list as a result of the fighting stood
"Ij at sevehteen Fridaj', while eighteen
(’are known to have been seriously
wounded and. three slightly hurt.
Tiff city, after a night of wild ex
citement found- Its main plaza be
fore tho muntctpal building a sham
bles of broken glass, timbers and
stone—^evidence of the anger of
the mob which forced its way Into
the building half an hour*after tho
police rifles had taken their-toll.
The trouble, which lasted for
more than six hours, started when
a crowd marched to the city hall *.
protest against the aldermen, who
are held resbOnsible for conditions
leading to the w&ter famine. The.
demonstration was Intended 1 by the
labor onions that organized It as a
peaceful protest and several hun
dred .persons paraded the down
town streets before proceeding, to
the hall-to voice their sentiments
against the city government. These
Protestants were reinforced'along
the route and w£ien **■,« -municipal
building was reached *>*e crowd •
numbered more than 2,000. *,
INVECTIVES HURLED
AT ALDERMEN
DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER
BEING CONTINUED
government has . r . ec ® lv ®^ a “ n a d ' slcian ordered him to bed. The 111-1 . Witk b “ th ?Mes indicating
ceptable offer for them irom kio ae neaB developed into pneumonia and Rawed determination to keep up
Janeiro. - — - - -- ----- — - -
1 a r ncr * riead a 1 d *» «>? best for Xe largest iMeUng ever held
informed man on details of gov- and every member of the orgahiza-
emment that ever sat in either tion and those j ntere3ted Us
branch of congress. He was sent work a „ expected to be on' hand
back for a fourteenth term by the at that hour,
people-of his district in the elec- * ‘ ■
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Ellen Ott-
> Mrribf library will bo a mem-
oriai
, of the Atlanta Woman’s
Grl -‘ater Tallulah Fans in-
Wbool tn honor of Mrs..
"-ork for the Woman’s
11 announced here,
tliih ; 1,c0al)e was one of the
"“•11 !S rnnounced here.
. club offered to coqtrlbute to
memory at the recent, federa-
“"uug m_Athens through a
M the
“1 Hie
J 11 *' a as
ibrary will become a token
leem In which Mrs. Mc-
Oman's club- preceding Mrs.
tit, k" ’'' ltar r «ad before the extfcu-
meeting here Mrs. Ottley
,, . by Wednesday .his condition had the tight oVer the Dyer -antl-
The secretary recalledl that dur- become critical. At hi* bedside last lynching bill, there was no pros
ing .the disastrous perlou oi gov- n |_ bt were several members of his pects of a break in the Democratic
—enatine ... filibuster when the Senate con-
- , . ..; - vened Friday after the holiday ad-
Fcr several years ptior to 19H i™""* 1 *-
i—” — . uigUL ncie auvciax uiuuiuuia ui uio
ernment control, xef®®! 8 family not'Including his wife, who
27,000,000 fr^bes had been rented at , g ln y Europc ■
five, francs yerly. , add ® d Fcr several years ptior to 1911,'
hlB administration had^fmreted out when he re slgnedr Mr. Rockefeller
and recovered 600.000^00 francs wa8 presldent of BeTa ral oil com-
due the fleet admlnfstrauon by va- paniea of New York. Since then br
rious persons.
Atlanta to Be
. personal gift from het-
; * 1.‘ Mr - Ottloy of *500, anoth-
Seuw trom Mrs. W. B. Prtce-
Uta a ," < ’ a graup of friends of
J. “ atI n ‘Mrt *600 which will be
rented by iMrs. ottiov and
nad withdrawn from many, of his
boslness connections. At-the time
of his death he was listed on the
„ , _ board of directors of only-Seven
Air Mail Stop | C0 M ° r R0CkefeUer was born in this
city In 1870, He . was graduated
trom Yale - in 1892 and toured
abroad some time hefoye he entered
the Rockefeller offices:at 26 Broad-
wag to be schooled in corporation
management under the Standard
Oil methods. A short time later he
married Elsie Stillman, daughter to
James Stillman, president National
City Bank.
After his retirement trom active
business in 1911 Mr. Rockefeller
spent mnch of his time at bis home
in Greenwich, Conn.
ATLANTA. Ga.—That Atlanta is
certain to be;made a station on the
United States air mall route as
sodh as the Atlanta air board puts
■the newly acquired field in shape
was the statement of Van H. Bur-
gin. Atlanta aviator, who has Just
returned to Atlanta from the sec
ond national Aeronautical Congress
at Detroit. •
Dy Wrs ' Ottloy anil
Han"" 1 ? le >'. Mrs. Ottley is chair-
Taiia"'b ‘ t L’ ) ?. ar ' 1 ot t rust ees of the
vhlth
ten- ’“**«*«■ clue na
®“-wlde attention.
Chilean Cabinet
To Quit Friday
SANTIAGO, ChiUS—(By the Asso
elated Fres)—The Chilean cabt-
net is expected to resign Fridaj.
It is understood that. President
Alessandri intends to request the
remain in office until
Falls Industrial school
h.i'** ** a mountain, school for eo**.uun
a. ; institution, founded bv ministry to ren
J.® Women’s club, has attracted the exchange of ratifications on the
joyrnment.
Whether the filibuster would be
broken by the end ot tho extra ses
sion was the question arising out
of the situation Friday. Demo
cratic senators said they .were fbltl.
fled with a number of new moves
to prevent the Dyer-bill from' being
tion last month.
MINORITY LEADER
ONCE IN HOUSE
Minority leader in the house du-
TWO PAGEANTS
TO BE GIVEN
' Two Interesting pageants will be
given Friday night, one_by the Girl
Reserves of. the organization and
ring the eight years of democratic another by members of the Univer-
control, Representative Mann saw. slty Y. W. C; A. membership,
the speakership go to Gillette oil The Girl Reserves pageant will
Mnee«iAWnpA**n . Wfknn * Uin noefrT rATUDSPTlt ' thft T'ri n tv rrlrtb f'n
Massachusetts ' when ' his party represent the “Blue Triangle 1
again came into power there, but be ; characteristic of “Inspiration,
il the failure "of his‘party in cau-' Co-operation, Recreation and Ed-
cus to select him as speaker, left Rcation/' About thirty-five mem-
any tinge of bitterness with the bera of the Reserves will partici-
SsSSp^ne 8 Tte'e P a ‘-
’saw am, ’indication of it. Declin. Th
the fight 6n his side had only .■"/‘then the proffered leadership
— - y oe of the majority, Representative
Plan to Save Funds
In Transportation
ATLANTA, Ga.—Plans to save
the railroads and .shippers millions
of dollars in transportation losses
- "were discussed at ft conference of
He is survived besides his widow .claim agents and other railroad of-
by four sons, William A., Godfrey [ficials of the southeast at a meet-
S., James S., and J. Sterling Rocke- jlng which has just been held iri At-
feller, and a daughter. Miss Almira Tanta. More, than halt a hundred of
G. Rockefeller.» the leading claim agents of rail-
in the southeast were In at-
BOUDOIR CA!» jtendance.
Educational films denionstrat
jTacna-Arca protocol.
) A perky little boudoir cap may;ins freight handling methods were
be fashioned easily of organdie! shoWn dcring the meeting. Perish-
witli ah upstanding cuff across Sable freight handling vas the main
the front of silvercioth- J topic for discussion.
Mann thereafter continued to ex
ercise a power equal to if not
greater than that of the speaker
himself as chairman of the com
mittee of committees, which con
trols the make-up . of the house
committees.
Counting on his strength for a
possible house upheaval when the
republican majority was cut to
less than a score in the last elec
tion; his friends again set to
work in his behalf, but the Illinois
member, who months before had
declared he never would accept
the speakership, or the leadership,
quickly ended the move when he
heard of it, by reiterating what
he ^pid then. It was understood
that services would be held at the
iatter’s home in Chicago.
the University girls will be of un
usual interest and tvHI be repre
sentative of student' co-operation
and will portray the spirit of
Christian womanhood, by MIsd Nel
lie Mae Bowen, spirit of the crowd
Annie Cannady, spirit of ma
ne made things (or a queen'in
disguise) MissiNellie Gilland, spirit
of hand made things( an old-fash -
ioned girl), Miss Gertrude Smith,
light of understanding, Miss Mar
guerite Beal.
These two pageants will be the
main features of the entertainment
Friday night.
The resolution «va» drawn up'by
a special commission of the Inter
nationale* appointed to consider the
negro question. One member of
the commission was an American
n|gro who has been very active
in championing- the cause of his
race.
The resolution which was adopt
*ed without a dissenting vote, de*
Clares that the negro question fias
.become a live issue in connection
with efforts toward a world revo
lution and that the communist In
ternationale. recognizing it as
such, calls attention , to it as a
problem which must be dealt with.
The. resolution pledges the mem
bers of ; the Internationale to
strive for the equality of negroes
and whites and for the full politi
cal and social freedom of the Afri
cam race.
“The communists Will use’ oil
their power and influence with
trade unions,” . it continues, “to
admit, negroes as members Ilf ~oth
er efforts fall,. the v Internatibna)e
will organize, special negro unions
to further the cause/*
The resolution asserts that the
Civil, war: m the United rstates was
merely a struggle, between- the
Capitalists of the North and South
for rule. ,
Yelling invectives against tKeSJr
dermen tfie mob gave emphasi^jto
Its words by hurling stones and
other missiles. When one leader
suggested that the hall be entered
,the demonstrators made a concert-
led rush forward. The police fired
AMENDMENT CARRIES
MELBOURNE, Australia. — In
the Australian legislative assem
bly Friday, an amendment to li
quor licensing bill providing for a
countrywide poll after a stated
period instead of local option, was
carried, 62 to 19.
Freak Weather on
Thanksgiving Day
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Interrupted
wire communication, delayed train
service, half a dozen persons in-
j'ured, and damage which probably
will run into several hundred
thousand dollars was the toll re
vealed Friday as the result of
freak' Thanksgiving weather in
Minnesota, North and South Da
kota and wesetm Wisconsin.
furniture wrecked. A line ot hose
which the fire department was able
to bring into play despite, the water
shortage, was successful lu hold
ing back the -crowds outside.
SPORADIC ATTEMPTS
ARE CONTINUED C
over the heads ot the crowd whtth.
however, did not check Its course.
The police fired pointblanfc with
deadly effect \ -
The demonstrators retired car
rying the dead and injured/ w
• But In,’half an hour they re-
turned and several of their num
ber breaking windows, entered- tin-
hall and . set fire to its contents.
Valuable doptunents, some ot which
dated hack several centuries, were
tossed into the streets and the qlty;
records were given to the winds.;
By this, time federal troops Had
arrived hut th.e-Intruders were.not.
ejected before the building *baa-
been fired in many places and the'
Several sporadic attempts ta edn-
tlnue the demonstration were-made
in the succeeding hours,'bit when
the demon'strants returned to tha
attack they found a cordon of rtsM?
era! hundred soldiers before the
building and contented themselves
with Jeering and! hooting. * ,
Thus baffled In their attempts to
re-enter the hall, several small
groups of citizens marched through
tho streets committing minor dep
redations. . -i~w fi
They called on nil the newspaper
fftces and .hooted and yelled before ,
the residences of the city officials.
The residences of all aldermen
were also under tho protection of
federal troops.
It was said Friday that the city
election scheduled for next Sunday
would he postponed in view of -
Thursday night’s occurrence and
the suggestion was made In many
quarters that the federal govern
ment take over the city adminis
tration temporarily.