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ATHENS, GA-, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 12, 1922.
Single Copies 2 Cents. Dally. 5 Cents Sunday.
Believe Britain Would Sound
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IEKCHWHTTD
IF AMERICA
L CANCEL DEBT
Leading Correspondent
Says U. S. May Be Ap
proached on Subject, in
.Near Future.
NEW CONFERENCE
BEGINS JANUARY 2
Britain May Make Dis
creet inquiries of Wash
ington As to Attitude on
Reparations.
l.uNHQN—<By the Aaociaied
Press)- The belief that Great Brit
;un intends to souhdiout the Amei*i
tin government's willingness to
lake <ome action with-reference
to Allied debts .IS the possible can
collation of the French debt, is aa-
Mired lay the Daily* Teleiropws
pert.
The French tlelegatioh to tho ad
>mrnoil*pnemi*‘r’s conference wa,s
represented Monday night (as k hold
u* that the British might ap-
pfuach the united States by the
..anuaay 2 meeting of the premiers
to ascertain whether America
would he willing to consider eith
er cancellation of the French debt .
or isr ilcipation in a conference for l
rorsiderat.on of such a step.
In this connection the. Tele-
shuph's t-oirespondent says: ‘It
is the intention, of the BritiBh Gov-
(Cnmeni (tending resumption of
the ittter-all.ed conversations*. to
make disciet inquiries in Washing
ton. either through Ambassador
Haney ur Ambassador Geddes,
respecting ihe attitude which the
Amer.can treasury would be inclln
ed t., talk towards its European
«ehturs other than ourselves . if
# »a«l after Great Britain has defl-
* nitely decided to remit the French
and Italian debts to this country-”
UNSOLVED
JOHN WANNAMAKER,
wotW famous merchant, who
died'early Tuesday at his town
house in Philadelphia from the
effects of a serious cold.
CHRISTMAS SEAL
WORKERS TO MEET
Public Gathering Will Be
Held At the Christian
Church Tonight. Several
to Speak.
MRS. BROACH CHM.
BALES COMMITTEE
Miss Chloe Jackson of the
State Health Board to
Speak Here. „ ,Workers
Are Anounced.
Last Income Tax
Payment, Dec. 15
Well, this is the last one—
for u»*2 anvway.
That last payment of income
tax. That final installment is
clue in the office of the internal
-revenue collector on December
{5, not one day later.
* When, this payment is made
/and your income) reaches the
f taxable point for the - current
year there will be no more pay*
ments until the final date for
filing the new report, which is
about Mary 15, next. •/
Anyway its something to get
that' 'last payment oft the check
book^ even if it and Santa Claus
do como along the same month.
DAY’S STUDY FAILS
TO DISCLOSE MOTIVE
i Camp, Benning Officers
Seek Motive for Death of
1 William S. Hart, Ser
geant From N. Y.
Few pictures of General Pershing have been taken which show him
out of uniform. Here is America’s military hero with Mrs. Potter Palmer
at the Bal Fantastique at which the Chicago Four Hundred raised $30,000
for charity. The present Mrs. Potter Palmer Is the daughter-in-law of
her famous namesake of a generation- ago.
An enthusiastic • meeting of 'the
anti-tuhereulosls seal workers Is
expectedjfor tonight when a public
meeting Is to be held at the Chris-
♦fan church and interesting addres
ses delivered by 'Miss Chloe Jack,
son, from- the State. Board .of
health office In Atlanta, Dr. .Du-
Free and others here who -are In
terested fn Aher Sale of the
and the prevention of this disease
that la taking the Uvea of 3700
Georg'ans yearly.
MT(j. W. E. Broach Is chairman
MIDDLE WEST
JlLTjj. YV. cj. uiuuvu is unauuiau
of the sale committees apd she j
has worked out her different com
mittees to carry on the work of ,
selling, the seals In Athens. They
have been on sale at many bust* l
[ ness bouses for some time now but ,
MILITARY FUNERAL
GIVEN DECEASED
His Body Was Found in
Secluded Place. He May
Have Been Dead Since
December 2.
COLUMBUS,’• G a.—Early Tues-
day the mystery* surrounding * the
killing of Sergeant William, S.
Hart, fifteenth tank battalinon,
Fort' Bepntag, whose body with a
hc-le in the head, wae found in un-
dej*hru$h Sunday morning, whs
still as far-from being" solved, as
when the special army-board be
gan the investigation. immediately
CHICAGO—A high 'wind brought
ue 'first severe cold_ weather to
(the states of middle west Tues
day while the northwest for the
second time this winter was In the
grip of aub zero temperatures. .
Cold fcave warnings were issued l Tuesday morning they were to
-7 ♦Kfh Mi'aoiViii. I convene again at 10:30 A. M., at
leys dnd fmecastera Predicted the j , “f n ^. lon thl8 d ‘ y all summer hard at work
-eid weather “n the uoAhweS. ***♦
body.
An entire day was spent ^Mon
day by the examiners in, probing
the mystery, Without any result.
When Arrested At Sta-;
tion in Casper, Wyo.,
She Shows No Surprise,
and Goes to Jail.
SHE REFUSES TO i
TALK WHEN TAKEN;
No Identification of Any:
Kind Found on Her Per
son. She Wants Dark"
jDell and Solitude. ' ’ ;
PHILADELPHIA.—John Wana-
maker died at his home here at 8
a. in. Tuesday.
The world famous merchant and
former postmaster general passed;
away at his town house, 2023 Wal
nut street. He had been confined
there since eariy In November with
«to the .investigation immediately a faeavy cold contracted at his
after the tlndhig. of-piersergranra’ country Osteite. “LyudeuUmst,’ 1 - at
Jenkentown, near here. He was 84
years old. - - '•■■■'■ 1
Mr. Wanamaker was active in
his business affairs up to the time
he was stricken. He spent much of
last winter in Florida, and was in
• CASPER, Wyo.—A woman who is-
said by police to answer nearly ev
ery detail of the official description
of Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted,
and escaped Los Angeles murder
ess, and who is also said to bear-
a strong resemblance to published'
photographs of the “hammer mur
deress'” occupied .a cell In the
Camper jafl this morning awaiting
identification. She refused to as-'
sist the police In any way in solv
ing the puzzle of her identity.', ,
Arrested within/wo blocks of tho-
railroad station where she had en
tered a taxicab Immediately after
getting off of a train'that had just
'(■rived from Billings, Montana,
Monday night, she betrayed - no
surprise at being taken into cus
tody, according to the officers. Slid
asked few questions concerning her
arrest and answered none. She was
held for investigation.
CANNO’rxbCATE, ~ '
MAN WITH HER
' f beginning Wednesday additional
I booths will be placed at prominent
places* down town and every body
in the city given the opportunity
I of buying the seals to be used in
stamping Christmas mail.
wniiia «uirA&fi eastward today pre- ! ‘•‘mt'the young non-commissioned surcease from duties' of hsi office
? a »® to hls aeath to or not for a day at the seashore. He was
A man who accompanied her
from the train entered another
taxicab which followed a differ
ent -route from that taken by the
COMPLETE LIST
OP THE WORKERS
COVINGTON, Ky.—Preparations;
to mass 600 prohibition agents,
equipped with bombing planes* and
machine guns for an onslaught‘.on
The members of the different
for booth and sale committees are
1 wr-c ....—
OXFORD, Miss.—Counsel
Miss Frances c. Birkhead were un- ! given b.elow, an# Mrs. Broach un
decided early Tuesday whether an us that all of these, along with the
appeal would be taken In her suit
for $100,000 against Lee M. Russell to®, Tuaadad
e»—* w. — — for ?10U-Ugu against Leo m. uusseii
the mountain stronghold of Bob! governor of MlssisstppL A jury In , ni * ht e , to^ all toew“ricers
Ballard’s band-of Menifee county j<he federal district Court here lathf®®®*^* 1 * h ® WjS? f 0 T tlS w-
moonshiners are being made, by l yesterday returned a 1 verdict in fa- mornlng^M9^o clock for the p«r_
federal authorities, according to Ivor of the defendant attar only 28 i 1 ^?^i
three ofHclals who returned to J minutes of deliberations. n^’tei
Covington, from Mount Sterling C, M. McNeil, chief counsel for 1 committeemen are as fol-
, i\fond«v Tb»" had been a part of ■ Miss 'Birkhead, would make no|* ow f : ^ *■-
the posse of fifty prohibition agents | statement as to further action. , S i r0 S t worl ff”' ,JJ ace T mb ®^ jJJJ*
wbowere repulL? attar R, E ; Duff, _ Mta Birkhead. <Tormer_atenogra-1 ^ DC members Mrs Isruta J«hn
•‘‘rt-nch sour
uniikehi’
refers t
IVinC.tir
the fact that Premier
* st;e€s ng the words
ieht£" in his cummun-
ening, implied that
ruled to settle her own
sol.citing aid from*
Side of the Atlantic.
exception of this iso-
ement the Iiondon. news
is morning, almost as if
>n consent, refrain ffQnt.
once to current reports
ilutions covering the pos
f America’s becoming a
: in the settlement ot)
Of the cent
TT'hflo the
hO|H. (1 , , |-
netary troubles,
on the adjournment
•« nee is rather doleful.
* >y spapers try to biuiid.
tact that the conven-
be renewed, they tio
fear that the impoesi-
rmonizing . the allied
sain be manifested in
near Slate Creek.
The three officers; Elmer Correll,
tion and the otfier impairment of 1 wa y-
^health as. the result^of an alleged D. A.. R.
r operation'whlctf declared the gov-
James Weed and W. C. Huddleston ernor had connived at
said the war department would be Thirty-four witnesses were ex
appealed to for two bpmbing planes. a mined during thte seven days* trial
anu a number of machine jnins for 0 f thecase. Because of his, failure
otherwise it wou|d be impossible to’ to respond to summons bv coun-
drive the moonshiners from the 8 ^i f or the plaintiff, a citation has
caves and natural barricades. _ I been issued for Theo G. Bilbo, for-
Belief that moonshiners of ,otn-^ mer governor, and it is expected he
ej* -districts were constantly rein- b 0 required to appear before
forcing thoqp entrenched in* the! jpdge E. R. Holmes who presided
Slate Creek section was expressed over the case‘just closed, at' the
by Correll. > April term of the court
MEMBERS
Mrs. E., Jj. Griggs, chairman.
Mrs. Frank Lawler, Mrs. Golden
Kn’hgt, Miss Frances. West Miss
Rachel Griggs, Mrs. F. Brown,
Mrs. Lucy Leah Mathis., Mrf. Juli
us Talmadge, Mrs. R. J. Hancock,
Mrs. v J. S. SStBwart; Jr.
(ceded, however by rising tempera- , .
rthr^rpS
-hTM 4 £zss.'x& !~£3«S£S
i e „ d g^ - S'K Z SZS:
cold wave -continued to hold m ' Y *?. t®® cakt.
Montana, as Miles C ty recorded A r ' ^
the lowest temperature last night. tne "eceasea. ,
a reading of 27 degrees below; zero, j
Throughout the cold wave sec- j
tion reports indicate a high wind |
made thb oold more intense* j
A dropping thermometer, weath
er forecasters announced, heralded (
the arrival of the cold w.ave in Mis .
ouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, giv- |
ing those states their first real j
winter. The mercury wag expect* |
ed to reach ten above early today J
and continue its downward pro- j
gress until near zero tonight^ •
HIS STENOGRAPHER
•RICHMOND, Va. With the
formal arraignment In police court
Cold wave warnings have'-been | Tuesday of Thomas 'Pollard, real
issued for Ohio. -Kentucky, west estate man on charges of murder
Virginia, western Pennsylvania. | 'i 1 connection with the killing at
Eastern and Northern New York, «• home Monday night of Mrs.
whstefn Tennessee, and extreme ’ Thelma ' Richardson, • his sten'o-
Northem Mlssisslpp'- Colder RtaPhtr, the police hope to’estaB-
weather was predicted olso for a niotlve for the killing and
Colorado and western Texas, at--. | clear- up certain phases ft the case
R. i» Woodrliff, prominent citizen
of Winder and Barrow county who
was visited by a number of persons
sdvefal nights ago said to-be wear
ing tTlo jpgalla of tho Ku Klux Klaij
Jl'xcTiox CITY, KshB.—Two
men, a unit "of cavalry
Hi ley, and two airplanes
^'roti Monday night of flhd-
Koepke, five year old
—r. and Mrs* George
• Ju Ration Cl^r, - missing
i,. Sunday. The men who re
turned from a 26 hour search aa-
Trom
de^p;.
m
WAS FOREMAN
_ . iio,i, a nour Bear^a ««- xwf jury
ii was their belief that the OF.THE JURY
> was not ir. the area searched
I lc h extended lor. bi * *
, n all directions from
BarroW Man Who Was Visted By
^Masked Men Not Molested Lately
court of Barrow county' and he be-
lfeves-this Is the cause of the Klan
visit to his -place.
It was at that sessjon of . the
court that JildgS Blanton Fortson'
stated to the. - stae^g chaS ta
long-disfjpce: telephone thtCJury olCth^ question of -night
oe; telephone
mornihg* < that he had n6t
lested- further by masked parties.-
Several days ago -Mr. Woodruff
wrote Governor Hardwibk of a vis
it of the Ku Klux Klan to«his home
where they exhibited an emblem
that ho believed to be an indication
that it was about, to strike. In the
letter he called upon the governor
for protection, stating that he ex
pects no protection from the local
authorities. He added further that
the first man who stops in front
It is also alleged ihat on the
same night the demonstration, was
mado in front of Mr. Woodruff’s
home that a similar fne was made
in front of the homojoT Duke Ross,
a prominent* attorney of Winder
who- lives just a Jlock • from Mr.
Woodruff. Mr. Rosi was one of the
•'ttorneys interested in the case
where some Barrow county men are
of his home in a mask will be shot being sjied^or ^W^^amages jjy
dead.
c„7- ci.nuns irom
"■uevea by some that
c been kidnaped.
some negroes who had been at
tacked and dfiven from their homes
it is alleged. /
Mr. Woodruff says there were
-about eighteen in the party that
Mr. Woodruff was foreman of the visited bis homeland that he did nc‘
grand jury that indicted several | see them, having^retired before the
•Alleged Klansmen for night riding j ^islt was made and he was inform
jat the last session of thp superior
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Mrs.. John R. White and 6i^ht
xyork,ers.
LUCY COBB
P. T. A..’ ; - j
Mrs. J; - i>.‘ Braswell, chairman.
Metsdames Rufus Crane, H. B. Buif
netL D.-W. Rytiher, Howard Scot£
and George ^Storey:
BAXTER STREET
F. T. A. • '
'Mrs. Dan’ DuPree, chairman?
Mesdair.es Harrie Dews, Arthur
Booth. W. B. Steadman, Harrj’
Hodgson, Alex .Hergrove, Mrs.
Shelnutt, P.’ P. VanN.atter. Miss
Virginia Van Natter and - Mrs.
Paul L. Smith.
COLLEGE feVENUE
P. T. A. /
• Mrs. R. K. Fowler, chairman,
Mrs. James L. Brown,*M’ss Brown
Mrs. Audrey Harris, Mrs. Max
Goldman. Mrs. J. Dornblatt, Miss
Olga Dornblatt; Mrs. Foster, Miss
Nellie Foster, Miss Cooper.
Mrs. W. M. Saye, chairman. Mrs.
R. S. Wilson, Miss 1/ucy Kirk.
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componied by snow. A drop in the I wh ch‘ failed of solution'during the
mercury was announced for' parts'! investigation wh ich lasted through
of Utah;, Arizona and New Mexifl «*ut the nights . ^
co. I Early « l Tuesday detectives work-
in Chicago, a high win?, made • in » ort the 'case p&zz they bad. Vir-
*the cold more apparent. Dulyth. (ually^ established that thV jgirl
M um., reported zero tempo'atures
and a blizzard with a 68 mile an
hour wind driving on Lake Super!*
k Bed with a pistol which shf
carried; with her on the trip to the
Pollard home and that' the shoot
ing? followed a brief struggle ip
froijt ofjthe house. Mrs. Riohard-
Kop • h: 1 dgono to the Pollard home,
tlie officers a&sert,w ith J. Mosby,
.West, presumably for “an under
standing” with Pollard. After a
few m'inutes, conevrsa.tion the
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always an early riser and was usu
ally in his mercantile establish
ment before its doors were opened.
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by
his son. Rodman, a resident of New-
York City, and two daughters Mary
B., wife of Barclay H. Warburtom
and Elizabeth, wife of Norman Mc
Leod. both of Philadelphia.
After Mr. WaUnamaker was
'brought to his town home he did
not improve'and about two weeks
ago his condition became such as
to cause! anxiety. A week esq
however, Mr. Wannamake? show
ed such marked improvement that
his physicians ceased issuing bulle
tins. At 5 o’clock Tuesday morn-
ingr’ he was seized with a violent
cough'ng spell his physicians stat
ed which resulted in extreme heart
weakness. ’ Major H&rburton&’ Mr.
Wannamaker’s ' son - in law, noti
fied the As oicated Press that Mr.
Wlipnamiaker died peacefully at 8
A- J»®.. *
Mr. Wannamaker became uncon
scious p,t midnight. When his
Corrdit'on became grave durifcg the
night all th^ members of the fam
ily were summoned and all were
present with the exception of Rod-
man Wannamaker, who arrived
too lrite. -
The Wanamaker store here amj.
the one in'New York were not*
opened a notice appearing on the
doors that the stores would remain
closed untH^ further notice. The
funeral day will be announced 1 lat-
who -spent his entire life in Phil
adelphia and was always one of its
When the woman was taken to
the police station the police were
unable to find anything by which
to identify her. They could not even
find her ®**Hroad ticket to show
where she boarded the train.
Among the few requests made by
the woman after her arrest jvere
one that She be put in a dark cell
and another that.no one bo per
mitted to - visit her.
The arrest was made by two mo-
torevcle-DOltcemen who had been
detailed tc\ medt the trains from
Phillips was reported to have been-
Billings every : pjght since Mrs.
seen in Idaho Falls, Idaho, recent-
ly,J ■ ' -- . .
Mrs. phiUlpd was conviefed of
having murdered Mrs. Alberti
Meadows in Los Afigeles by beat
ing her to death with, - *:-®nmerJj
Flagging TrainlMSS
Proves’ Fa t al a
CORDELE, Ga.—When he at-. I
tempted to flag an A. B & A. pas
senger train with , a lighted news-
er.
The dea{h of Mr. Wanamaker,
leaders In civic movements, was
received, with sorrow by all classes
of citizens.
Mr. Wanamaker’s life was. insur
ed for more than $3,600,000, he hav
ing been one of the leaders among
the heavily Insured men of the
country.
George B. Warren, 73, was struck !
by the train and fatally Injured,
paper at Musselwhlte's Crossing,
Turkey and Greece Argue As to Which
Mary panott, the eo-ycar-oirt Is Responsible For Smyrna Disaster
negro, woman t who was struck by •; J
the Seaboard vestibule train Mon- jb t —:— lj ■
day morning, was reported at St. I LAUSANNE.—(By The Associa- through military necessity. Hd de-
Mary’s hospital, as “holding her ted ^P^ess)—The debate between
own" Tuesday morning. She lost Tqrkey and Greece over the ques-
both legs about the knees and was tion of which nation is responsible
bruised in the face when the en- for the tragedy of Smyrna coritin-
crinA s'tniMr bor anil tho hpfirv rtrlv- HP!) tr» fnrm n dnmi'nnnt iqqno sit
dares that the real crime v of 'the
Asia Minor campaign was the ac
tion of the Turkish troops in mur
dering and shooting Greek resi
dents, sacking homes and deporting
hundreds of thousands of desti
tute human beings.
If Turkey exacts reparations,
from Greece, AL Venizelos says j
he will present a hill for the hor-i
rors and injustice suffered by the
Greeks. The" question of the Otto-
gine struck her and the .heavy driv- pes to form a dominant-issue at
ing wheels passed over her body, the Near East conference. Ismet
The old woman is said to have Pasha says he is quite willing that
been picking up pieces of coal the treaty which the delegates hope
along the track, about 150 feet to frame shall provide 'for a system
from where Pulaski street crosses of payment to the allied nations for
the track, and was talkfng to a ne- the damages their nationals suf-
gro man ancl despite frantic blow- fered in Turkey during the great .
ing by the engineer failed, to get: war but that on the other hand he I man debt is developing as a dan- j
off the track and the negro man will insist upon reimbursement by ger point in the negotiations and j
attempted to pull her off but. she ' Greece for the losses sustained by I the bitter Turkish-Grecian dispute!
stepped back and was struck. She tLe Turks in Asia Minor at the!which * s based on something more'
alleges that she was pushed in hands of the retreating Greek army, f than a question of money, is serv-
front of the train by the negro, Former Premier Venizelos insist- ing to make settlement of the whole
whom she says she does not know, ed that the Greeks burned jnly i problem difficult.
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The Mystery of. Ins
And Outs Y
With llelen Duff locked in a
room,in the Duff home a big
share of the tiiqp, and
With Tom Duff out practical
ly every evening on a mission
known on.ly to hijnself,
The situation in the Duff
family had become somewhat
tense., '* ; JiS
Both the actions of Tom and
Helen smack of mystery!
What .is the solution?
Danny Duff wonders! Olivia
wonders! Wilbur wonders—
*- And you’ll wonder too, if you
follow the “Doings of the
Duffs” dally in
THE HERALD