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MIL. II, No. 76
FnD Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1922.
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. S Cents Sunday.
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SPECIAL SESSION
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REM BEGINS
Athens Girl to
Play For World,
Miss Morris to Be Heard
Over Radio.
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DAUGHERTY
Success of Democratic Fil
ibuster Makes It Possi-
!.]i* to Consider Harding
Nominations.
SENATE TO TAKE
H» SUBSIDY SOON
New Congress Will Be
Asked to Confirm Ap
pointment of Butler to
Supreme Bench.
LEAD SPECIAL SESSION... . .—
WASHINGTON — The nomina
tion of Pierce Butler, st. Paul at
torney to b<> associate Justice of
the supreme court failed of con
firmation by the senate Mond.iy In
Civ close of the extra soaafion and
a ,e-nomination in the regular ses-
•_u>n was made necessary. Sena
tors LaFollette, republican, WIS-
corsn and Morris, Republican,
Nebraska, objected to immediate
confirmation and forced over the
nomination.
The senate confirmed the no.m’-
nation of F. G. Boatwright to be
Fedeial district attorney for the
southern district of Georgia.
Among nominations falling ws
Clar*; E. Akin, to be postmaster
at Rutherford, Tenn. His nonfina--
tion was rejected by an objection
of Senator McKellar, democrat, of
iennessee.
WASHINGTON—With the sen
ile in< t t UK at ten oclock for the
:ii.:il sitting ( ,f the extra session to
vnsid.r confirmation of upwards
• . :: thousand presidential nomlna-
t.iitis, both houses made the for-
w.A jump Monday from the Special
tu the regular session, the last of
tin* '.Tth Congress. The house.
With no last minute business of
importance to consider, was meet
ing at ll o'clock and both bodies
"ere prepared to adjourn sine die
i '••bahly shortly before noon.
When the regular session be/-
tens bus.ness of the initial meet
ing was expected to he confirmed
I " the usual formality of appoint
ing a joint committee to notify
the President that the new ses-
Muti has convened and awaits his
» f the nominations to be con-
siden-d hy the senate Monday,
m:ui e possible by the passing of
the democratic filibuster which
•wised the death of the Dyer bill,
tii'‘ nv>st important was that of
Hem* Hutler, of Minnesota, to be
n associate justice of the supreme
As its next husmess of impor
tune to begin the regular session,
the senate takes up the shipping
’ ll just passed by the house,
•robahly on Wednesday. The house
"ill get down to work on the varl-
• ns nporopriation bills which sub-
"•mmittees have been whipping in-
shape during the special session.
TELLS congress how
to REDUCE EXPENSES
'Vasi 1!\t,TON—President Hard
• n - in transmitting the annual
f "i‘ral budget for the next fiscal
,J - flankly told congress Mon-
•h y that whether mere was to be
tty material reduction in govern-
ATTORNEY GENERAL
I
Athens radio fans who tune in solo will be broadcasted at the
with Station KYW, Chicago; Mon- request of Lyon and Healy, big
day night at 9 o’clock will have Chicago music publishers. Miss
the pleasure of -fstening to this Morris is now in that city pursu-
charming Athens girl whose violin , ing her studies.
TIMOTHY HEALY WILL
THREE DAYS LONGER HEAD IRISH STAT E
TOKIO.—(By The Associated
Press)—Japan’s control of Chinese
LONDON—(By Ihe Associated
Press)—The appointment of Timo-
territory which is to cease with thy Healy *as the. first governor gen
the evacuation of Shantung on De
cember 5 was delayed three days
prived of money and jewelry while
Washington conference at the re
quest of China, who was unable on
December 2 to take over the ad
ministration of the restored prov
ince because of lack of funds and
equipment • f
China sent gendarmes and civil
guards to Tsingtao in Kiachow but
according to Japanese officials
eral of the Irish ftpe State is now
regarded as a certainty. It is un
derstood’ the post was offered to
him sometime ago and that its
final allotment to the .Veteran
champion of Irish'Autonomy de
pended only upon hia acceptance.
That acceptance aocording to sev
eral of the best Informed corres
pondents in Dublin, has now been
given and tbe consensus of opini
on today was the announce
ment ‘‘tiie King *ias been pleased
He Says Certain Radical
Leaders Would Intimi
date Him From Doing
His Sworn Duty.
KELLAR ANSWERED
IN DETAILED REPLY
Minnesota Representative
■ Who Demands Daugher
ty Impeachment Would
Look At Records.
Washington—Formal reply
} to the charges filed against him
with the house judiciary commit
tee by Representative Keller, re
publican of Minnesota, had': been
’ prepared by Attorney General
• Daugherty for presentation to the
1 committee when it met Monday in
I executive session to consider the
1 Kellar resolution demanding the
• Attorney general’s impeachment.
• Answering categorically the fbttr
* I teen. specifications submitted in.
I the Kellar charges. Mr. Daugher
ty's reply, as summarized in a de
partment of justice statement pub
lished Monday, declared in refer
ence particularly to Mr. Kellar’s
demand for access to department
documents, that it showed to be
arrayed behind the move for his
impeachment 'certain radical lead
ers seeking to sex^re notice upon
every future attorney general that
if he dares enforce the laws of the
United States against such or
ganizations he does so under the
penalty of attempted impeachment.
“Joined in the move with them,
he asserted, "where the profiteers,
the grafters, the so-called war de
frauders who sought by unconsclon
able and unscrupulous means to
gain knowledge of what those
charged with bringing them to
justice have secured as a result of
the most painstaking, faithful and
earnest efforts possible on the
part of the Attorney General and
those associated with him.
"Wherever consistent with pro
tection and government's interests
and those of individuals who have
they were unarmed and China re- ! to anoint ', will Immediately folu
qulred Japan to supply them with Ilo wthe declaration of ” ia .
rifles, revolvers and machine cuila.; ty s assent to the Irish bill, which
Complying with the request Japan | will P«*J »“d flnal read-
is sending the equipment fc'dtn this ins in the house or i^ords tonight.
country.
In view of these unsettled con
ditions Japan is sending two de
stroyers and sixty civil guards to
protect the new Japanese consul
ate to be established on- the evac-
, nation of Japanese troops wjiile
ruptures and in taxes In ( Great Britain and the United
* would depend largely statGg each are sending a gunboat
there was to i>e a cur- J guard the interest* of, their na-
| 1 **r expansion of federal
lines of research, improve-
' 1,1 l»e«*n directed. '
big the estimated govern-
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UnUZyWflS GOOD1UBGED**
GOOD _
tionals.
According to the
agreements payments for railway
concessions were to be made in
cash .but (According to' ah bfficlal
Of the Japanese foreign office, Ja
pan is so anxious • tq Irtish - her
hands of the entire enterprise that
she has agreed to accept treasury
notes instead of cash.
The regulations which China has
promulgated for the administration
of Shantung transgress, according
to the Japanese foreign office, Ja
pan's rights under the treaties with
China, but in the hope of smooth
ing out all ■ difficulties . this mat
ter has been * settled through the
usual diplomatic channels. ,
The appointment of Healy is re
garded sympathetically here.
•TimS* sharp tongue "with which in
the past he has sometimes goaddd
his opponents in the House of»Com
mens, has been forgotten by the
present, generation and although it
was recalled today by parliamen
tary writers, there memories were
brought upon by the and
stress was laid streag was laid
Washington I ro ther upon Mr. Healy’s un
questioned cleverness and 38 years
of exigence In parliamentary life
Jim fitting him for the new post. It
is believed a majority-of his‘Own
country will extend him a hearty
wejconjt.
Members of . the, Irish govern
ment. including /fceVln^O'Higgihv
minister of honie affairs, who is
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Two Students Die
United States, welcomed the dele
gates of the other five nations in
the name of President Harding,
but did not amplify cue program of
this conference as already outlin
ed in the invitation sent out from
Washington.
"The government of the United
States, said Mr. Hugnes, "has
ambition to gratify at your ex
pense, no policy which runs, coun
ter to your national aspirations,
and no purpose save to promote
the interests of i*ace and to as
sist you in such manner, as you
may welcome to solve your prob
lems to your own proper advan
tage. The interests of the United
States is found in the peace of this
hemisphere ami; the fdnservtUm
of your interests.’*
- The heads . of each of the five
WATEUVTLM:. MC-TWO stu-;D.; J. E. Clawson, s. s: Haro- Amer i can deletions responded:
dents were burned to death in a Lmerson, J s.. K, L. Chambl.ss, j Francisco Rancher Stour, siieak-'
fire early Monday In the N">>-1 < "1 ' I'.U'l 'in. Al\;i Greer. . ccrctary; j | ns for Guatemala: Francisco Mnr-
leae huildlUE on the < olhr Cofleso | W. A. V ra "' Tr0: '" u '''' . tinea Suarez for Salcador; Dr. Don
campus. The bodies were so badly This is the seventeenth year that Alherto Uc|0B for Hon<Iurng- >ta , u |.
burned that immediate Wentificn-j Mr.^BraBB has been elected Treas- |- n0 chamoray for Nlcarajua, and
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New Officers For
x Masons At Gray
GRAY, Ga.—Sincerity Lodge No.
430 F. & A. M. met in Gray Friday
evening' and elected the following
officers for.the coming year:
Princess Hermine
- Makes Kaiser Take
5 v ; Walks In Public
Dorn ; — (By the Associated
Press)—The hand of Princess 'Her
mine continues to be felt in the
activities of Dorn castle and its
chief occupant. The former Em
peror, at the insistence of his wife,
it beginning to abandon his clois-
t red existence and to walk abroad
a nong the villagers. The townfolk
8 lowed keen curiosity the first
t me Wilhelm was seen strolling
through the streets accompanied
by his dog.
A motion picture operator who
secluded for a fortnight in a near
by farm building in the hope of
surrepitiously filming the forpier
Kmeror, abandoned his vigil and
10ft for home only the day before
the Ka'ser first appeared in the vil
lage.
CIO SAYS GERMANY
T PAY DEBT
» BERLIN—(By the Associated
Press)—Chancellor Cuno in a
* Speech before the Press Union
Sunddy declared that'nothing more
could be done regarding repara
tion than was Indicated in his note
of November to the reparations
commi8lon. It was a question of a
debtor unable to pay his debts be
cause he had already given all he
had, and a creditor who wished
to extort what he considered his
due. The only way out was to
open a discussion between the
parties concerned.
An agreement with France ought
to be reached. Germany had al
ready made known the utmost
it could do and. could therefore
not be influenced by ultimatiurs
or—threats. Thee government
would endeavor to find a way to
overcome,
gigantic.
However there appeared to be
Judications that France was be
ginning to fiel the need of peace
and a roil :vderstanding.
The Cnno government oas devo
ted the pa3t week to protract »d
daily cabinet sessions, hut neither
the newspaper? nor the Reichstag
leaders have been initiated into
the character of Its deliberati. is.
WEEK END SHOWS 57
VIOLATIONS
MADALYNNE OBENCHAIN,
whose .third trial in connection
with the shooting of J. Belton
Kennedy, her sweetheart,, was
scheduled to begin* in Los An
geles Monday.
This Number Represents
Largest Toll of Arrests
Since Campaign Began
in This City. 1 •
340 VIOLATIONS FOR
MONTH NOVEMBER
Residential Section of the
City Closely Watched By
Officers. No Tail Lights,
Chief Offense, i ■
reposed confidence in it," Mr. Yet, despite he uncommunicative
Daugherty said, "the department
or justice stands ready to meet Mr.
Kellar’s demand for access to
documents. To do so m certain
important matters now in prepara
tion for presentation to the proper
tribunals," he sid, "would be high
ly injurious to the interests of the
people."
Just fifty-seven varieties of
traffic violators had their names
entered on th^ police blotter over
the week-end—Saturday and Sun
day. Theae two days were the
busiest of the present busy sea
son for the officers ' who are
rounding up all traffic violator!
and haling them into court for. dif
ferent infringements of the Ordi
nances regulating traffic in the
city of Athens.
Most of these now being appre-
hended- are for- ho can lights and
the traffic men,. Messrs. McKin
non and Martin, state that a few
drivers still brave the streets with
bright lights that will have to be
dimmed.
RESIDENTIAL
SECTIONS WATCHED
The residential section is being
closely watched am* those who
which became daily i P. * h * lnl °< lle ,, of tile block
from the wrong side of the street
or who for convenience, park on
the wrong side of the street will
have cases made against them.
Since Judge Thornton announ
ced a raise in the price of speeding
but few have seen fit to go faster
than 20 miles outside of the fire
limits,* and get caught Wit there
are many who seem ignorant of
the regulation requiring them to
slow down to twelve miles inside
the fire limits.
official attitude, the iPress of all
party shades maintains an at
titude of gehero'ua waiting- toward
(no i:c a chancellor, allowing that
ho j»au bis colleagues baba locu
project, d fi.t* a domestic
t*'rnjkiloin>l uM nation which Is not
orlv t j.ughl with all sorts of
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Conference of Central American
Republics Opens At Washington
WASHINGTON—With the Unit- Jose Andrus Coronado for Costa
ea States not orey acting as host j Rica.
and Bponsor, but taking tbe part (appreciate U.-8. *'
of a full qarttclpanL the confer- ' INITIATIVE
cnee of cent:mi American repub- i
Ucs began Monday in the Fan-1 All of tbe Central American
American Union amid mutual ex- j sneakers expressed appreciation
presslons of commence that lti m :nm«.e .ao co-uera-
discusslons' would Inaugurate a t|on towar<lfl p^e *nd stable gov-
new era of central American Peace ernnJem ln Central America .and
an l*^ >lllty '. Ur- Uble» for Honduras indicated,
Secretary Hughes as Presiding | that he and hi8 collegues hoped to
officer of the conference and head , make . the con f ere <ice a stepping
of the delegation representing the gt towar «is "the re-establish
ment of the country of our father*
in the form of a'political and Fed
eral unit." The question of return
ing *‘to thp union with the coun
tries' which formerly constituted
the Federation of* Central America,
or at least .with two or more of
them," Dr. /ucles said "should re
ceive first consideration" at the
conference under the general ;to-
visions of the invitation. •
"This is a matter upon which it
is to be hoped that the delegations
of Guataiqela, El Salvador. Nicara
gua. and" costa *Rlca will agree*-’
Dr. Ucles said, “for as in the case
of the United States of America
we realize that only through fed
eration can the separated stateb of
the Isthmus find a solution of
their problems; only in union Will
they find the formula of heir man!
rest destiny."
HUGHES AMPLIFIES
HIS REMARKS
In addition to t(ie nomination, of
treaties >vhich will make effective
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There ts no letup in the cam
paign against traffic violators
and there will be none, Chief
Beussee announces, as long as
there is any tendency to disregard
the law.
340 CASES DOCKETED
FOR NOVBMBER
A total of 340 traffic ordinance
cases were docketed in police
court during the mbnth of Novem-
There were 450 cases dock-
Iber.
eted for every infringement of the
law and this moans tnat all bnt
110 were caused by motor drawn
vehicles.
Verily gaaoline has succeeded
alcohol as *a .replenisher of the
.municipal coffers.
The 340 cases were divided as
follows;
No tail lights, 29.
Bright lights, 34.
Cutting corners, 14.
Turning in middle of block, 1L
Reckless driving, 12.
Speeding, 15.
Violating parking ordinance, 4.
Failure to register at city hall,
221. ' »
HIGHER NUMBER IS
EXPECTED THIS MONTH
During December the number of
traffic violators ypll surpass the
number of November. Last month
the campaign against owners of
cars who failed to register at the
city hall was on and this cam
paign brought forth a maj'ority
of the cases, but this month a gen
eral campaign is on against viola
tors of all traffic ordinances, such
as speeding, no lights, no tail
lights, cutting corners, turning in
the middle of the block, parking
where prohibited, passing street
cars. Already during December
the number of cases docketed has
ALLEGES AN ILLEGAL
OXFORD, Miss.—Interest in the
calling for trial Monday in United
States district court here of the
suit of Miss Frances £. Birkhead
for $100,000 damages against Gov
ernor Lee M. KusselU of Mississip
pi, centers ixi cue move to be made
by attorneys for the defense.
The suit which is scheduled to
begin Monday is the third filed by
Miss Birkhead against Governor
Russell. AH three have-alleged se
duction under promises of marriage
and the bills also allege the gov
ernor connived an illegal operation
as a result of which Miss Birkhead
declares her fcjalth was perma
nently Injured.
The first suit in the United
States at Jackson was thrown out
on grounds of lack of jurisdiction,
the court holding that Governor
Russell’s residence was in the nor
thern district The second suit, in
the state courts was withdrawn and
the present action was filed on
election day in September and ser
vice on the governor was obtained
when he came here to vote in the
primaries.
The. state legislature at its last
session also considered the charges
Against Governor RusbcII and a
'special committee recommended
that no action be .taken until a ju
dicial decision had been rendered
in the case.
Excitement From
Killings Lulls
NATIONS FEEL THAT
r
1ST CRITICAL ONE
Turks Demand Control of
Dardanelles, But Allies
Are Vigorously Oppos
ing This Request.
GREECE AND TURKEY
AT DAGGER’S POINT
Inhabitants of Greece
Flee First Here and
There Utterly Broken
Up. Much Anxiety.’
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ted Prqss)—All delegates to the
Eaa t conference approached
the day's.suston with the convie- i
‘' on the critical moment of
the discussions was at hand. The
delegates were to make their first
appearance at the conference at)
this session.
Minister Tchitrfrchin and M. Ra«'
kovousky have been In close *vn-
sultation with the Turks fop the
last two days and there is evi
dence of great uneasiness among
the other deegations as to .rhat
may come out of Monday's session
as a concrete result or consulta
tions between the representatives'
of these two countries who have
come to Lausanne In the guise of
TURKEY WOULD
CONTROL STRAITS
1!; j
Turkey wants tbe straits open
to Turkish warships alone, but -
Europe and America desires the
waterway free to naval craft of
the entire world. The treaty of
Severes for which Lausanne mast
find a substitute, opens the straits r
to merchantmen and .wambtra of
all the powers. In peace and arsr.
Is permissible unless authorized In- P
the leagues of nations. The treat- e
ty also provides for an interna- '■]
tlonal commission of controL ’
A hot controversy ts being waged
as to whether the Greeks h Asia •
Minor have been ordered out by .
the Turkish and whether it la real- H
ly necessary that thev leave Tur
kish soil. Ismet Pasha con ends ’
that the Angora government never
ordered the Greeks to leave fnd
challenges tbe production. -it“n;- -j
ficials proof that snch orders were •'
ever issued. M. Venlzeloos and tj
his associate*’on the Greek dele-
cation assert it Is impossible for ■
the Greeks to live ln Asia Minor -N
saying the Christian population .
is forced hv circumstances ito -
leave regardless of whither offi
cial orders are issued, lhaoiuch
as there Is no dace or shelter tor
the Greeks If they departi
WOULD DISCOURAGE
MIGRATION OF 30000
Rear Adimral Mark L- Brl .'ol.
one of the -American obeservers at
the conference and Americar'kigli :
commissioner at Constantinople. 1
togther with many other foreign
officials in Turkey, has endeavor- .*
ed to discourage 1 a helter skelter J j
emigration of tbe 30.000 Gr^K '
ugees who are now gathered at
Samsun and other Black sen. porrs
clamoring for ships to carry.
ANDALUSIA. Ala.—Excitement Greece. Greek officials appiirent-
over the killing of Hosea Brogden. I ly want these nationals to leavo
planter of the Happy Hollow dla-
trict. and the subsequent kiling of
George Teague, negro, alleged slay
er of Brogdon, by a posse of citi
zens. had somewhat subsided Mon
day, according to reports received
here. f'
' Two sons of Teague were. re
ported in hiding, but It was stated
that the vengeance of the posse
appeared to have been spent follow,
ing the mobbing of the elder Tea
gue an<l officers believed the trou
ble had qpded. Brogdon had car
ried the negroes to a festival on
Saturday and while attempting to
act as peace maker among the
reached several hundred and the leagues and other negroes involv-
campaign is just getting under ed in an argumen?. was said to
way, so the police department an- have been attacked by the elder
nounces. j Teague and his son, Essie Teague.
Jand Frit-Jot Nansen has avV.'-i
America to convoy the Greek ships
which will be sent to get thorn.
This request has not been complied
Wttk bv the United States. -
Feeling runs so high between
the Moslem and Greek delegation:*,
that it Is difficult to accept th -
statements of either side .-without
liberal allowances because of tho
bitterness or tbe charges and coun
ter charges. The Turks insisit
that the Greeks are unnesessarily
paisky while the latter retort that
wholesale massacres nd persecu
tion make life absolutely insup
portable to Christians in Moslem
territories.
Six hundred thousand Greeks
have already fled to their native
shores from Asia MinOr - and
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