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ruling 25 3-8c fUEVlOl’S CLOSE 25e Daily and Snnday—10 Cents a Week. 'f^T- The OnaPiper In Most Homes—Th# Only Paper la Many'HoKei. ^ paHy~a£limiUy—10'Centa ■ WeeE. ' * leather; * Continued cloudiness and showers 'with low temperature VOL. 11. Nh. 82 Pull Associated Press Leased Wire Service. ATHENS, GA-, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 12, 1922. Single Copies 2 Cents. Dally. 5 Cents Sunday. Believe Britain Would Sound 4* ^ 4" 4* »fr—-eje »Je eje *Je eje arations closely resembles v—<• ^^ * V V .» « 1 A 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 (Turn to page two) 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. (Turn to page two) 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 (Turn to page 2.) 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. . ‘ 1 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
