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\ OL. 11, No. 83 j '• Full Associated f&ess Leased Wire Service.
‘ATHENS, GA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1922.''
Single Copies 2 Cental Daily, i Cents Sunday.
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MYSTERY IN SHOOTING OF FORMER ATLANTA GIRL
of
Patrons Urged To
Mail Packages
Right Away I
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Police Declare That They
Have Failed to Decide in
What Planner She Met
Death.
MAY HAVE BEEN
AN ACCIDENT
Believe That Pistol Was
Hers. But Some Think
That Her Employer Did
Fatal Shooting.
RICHMOND, Va.—With no def-
iuiis motive established, for the
killing of Mrs. Thelma Richardson,
stenographer, formerly of Atlanta,
“Wrap securely.” >
“Address clearly.”
“Put the sender’s name In upper
loft hand corner/”
And— • i
'“.Mail early.” * )
That’s the slogan that Christmas
shoppers \vho have packages to
mail should adopt If they want
their gifts to be handled rapidly
by Undo Sam’s mall boys this year.
Postmaster Paul Smith says this
is a creed that would facilitate the
handling of the big -Christmas mail
quite a bit if only the public would
heed It. Do not wall until just be
fore the 24th to mail your packages.
Send them now and put a “do not
open until Christmas” seal on them.
T* O EXTRA
TRUCKS ON
Two extra government truck
have been put on to handle the
Christmas mail in Athens and de
liveries'will be made promptly. De
spite the fact that the local fOrce
has been greatly affected by sick
ness tne sending and receiving r.f
the already her.vy mail has been
greatly affected by sickness the
sending and receiving of the al
ready heavy mall has been handled
handled without delay according to
Mr. Smith. One day last week as
many as eight employes of the post
office were absent, due to sick-
Gv, who was shot to death late ness.
Monday at tlie home of Thomas AH of which should mean to you
Pollard, real estate an dinscrance *° follow the postman’s in
.. i cpTimmr vnnr I’hrlufAitau n-nll
aaa. local "''dee early Wednes- I sen( H n & your ChristmSg mail,
day were w orking on the theories '
which may solve what they now..
consider a mystery. ? I
At the same time they admitted
they had failed to'establish a mo
tile authorities said today they
IHTMBiM
had not ascertained the'exact man*
r ia which the young woman waB
thot.
The body of Mrs. Richardson,
tceompanied by her brother, Wil
liam Pierce Ham. will be shipped
from here Wednesday to her At
lanta home. Mrs. Richardson was
"ly Miss Thelma Ham,
police are thit .Pol
hrd shot the girl, following a
PHILADELPHIA.—Among the
hoBt of tributes to tbo~ memory of
John Wanamaker, merchant prince,
_ religious leader and philanthrop-
ittuigbtcr ot Mrs. Belle Ham, who let, which confirmed to pourj'into
resides In the Georgia city. | this city Wednesday from all sec-
Tke theories under consldera- tions of the country, this one stands
out as unique:
“He was always at wqrk on
time.”
With these seven words,« Mr.
Wanamaker’s first office boy.
George Stull, summarized the se
cret of the world-renowned mer
chant’s success. The one-time* of
fice boy who swept out, ran er
rands, delivered parcels and grad
ually learned to do more Important
routine work for his employer, now
is superintendent ot the store.
Since the Ucat’f ot Mr. Wauania-
ker Tuesday, thousands of letters
probably believing that sfao
"as a omit to kill him. Or that the
stenographer was shot accidentally
during a struggle for possession
“* the pistol, which the police say
«as her property.
' ■'.M.UJl'EV, Cuba.—(By' Tho
■V'siul&ted Press)—Search was
nntimti.il today in the ruins of the
ustrdii sugar Central, wrecked
yeeterdav bv a boiler explosion for
*»: bodies believed still to be hid-
“I beneath the wreckage from
*™eb cloven dead and fifty injured
«w r< n»ved Tuesday night
”he death here of two of the
">'"r.ii has brought •'>. toll of ,a-
'aitiics to. 19 While some of the 26
-enously injured brought from
' cspetlis. the little town In which
ckcil Central i» located,
ate expected to die. The remainder
Injured are being cared for
being
•" Cespetles. Most of the victims
a'" Spaniards.
Nearly 100 men were at work in
""'lea, the boiler room when the
tWoslen occurred, blit none of the
ik,* ,uu,( l Btat0 what caused
ne tragedy, although It is believed
" Hue been accidental.
'ho Central is owned hv the
t, !n l; an > a central Azucarcra, -an
.but iv 1 'iot, has leased the mills
to ik c,n con >P»ny With headquar-
' tsar Plantations Operating
"It a a . headed by G. Hi Houston.
■ tugetlier With Col. E. A.. Eads.
' l lr, 'sldent and other officials
- t'Zptv ted to arrivo today from
U'ana. in a special train. . The
; Hit is laulcd at $4,000,000. The
rt-suhing from the stoppage ot
the
al's operation is expected
f greater than that caused to
plant', machinery by the ex-
lon itself.
Red Cl
ross Is In
Annual* Session
TURKEY DI8
IS BITTERLY f OUGHT
Stewart Named
Savannah Mayor
Angora cfovemment Hos
tile to Plan Which Would
Make Her Assume Obli
gations.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Mayor Murray
M. Stewart was nominated’ for
mayor yesterday by 8 majority over
James M. Rogers, according to
complete returns filed Wednesday
morning.
PASHA AGGRESSIVE
OVER THIS POINT
He Declares , Non-Turks
Have ^Always Been Safe.
Ambassador Childs
Makes Address.
LAUSANNE:-r-(By The Associa
ted Press)—Turkey refused at tbq
Wednesday session of the Near
East co*”' srence to assign any spe
cial part of Turkey as a national
OF ATTY. GENERAL
WASHINGTON. — George
WIckersham, former attorney gen-
oraland Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, were the principal wit
nesses summoned to appear before
the house judiciary committee
MEETING F RID AY
‘Tiger WomanV’ Daring Escape
Citizens Will Be Given
Another Opportunity to
Approve Res olutions,
Voted Down.
pommE MAKES
CLEAR ATTITUDE OF
FRANCE Q« DEBT
NIGHT RIDING IS
OPPOSED IN WRIT
Demonstration of K. K.
. K. Alleged to Have 'Tak-
1 en Place in City Near
Here.
He Intimates in Interview
That Ruhr Valley Not t<?
Be Seized, But Other Ac
tion Seen.
(Special to the Banner-Herald)
WINDER, Ga. — Another moss
meeting of Ctlzens of Winder and
Barrow county Is scheduled to bn
Wednesday in continuing hearings held at the court house here next
on the impeachment proceedings
home for Armenians. Ismet Pasha brought against .Attorney General
declared this would mean a new Daugherty by Representative' Kel-
attempt to dismember Turkey. lar, republican, Minnesota.
Their summons was requested by
LATI6ANNE— (By tl»e Assocint
ed. Press)—The 'Angora delegates’
to. the Near East, conference are
vigorously «£njjaiins the J^a_pf.
the powers to write tho question'
ol m'porltltes into the troatv
whlch It is hoped will be drawn up
here. Israet Pasha and his eisso-
Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for
Mr. kellar, to be heard on the first
specification taken up at the oped- ,
ing of the hearings Tuesday ot the t-ppeni ii-rinsi
fourteen snhmitted in the Minne- RESOLUT ON
repreaentative's charges
Friday morning ot 10 o’clock,
when another* effort will be made
to have a majority or the citizens
In attendance’ endorse a resolu
tion that has been drawn up for
adoption and' which was voted
down last week when 57 mem vett
ed against it while 37 voted for it.
•COPY OF THE
against the attorney general. Sum
mens of several other witnesses,
copy* of the resolution :'s as
elates, fearful that International i , n '? 1 - ad l n S Chairman McChord of the
interstate commission also had
been requested by Mr,. Ralston for
today, to be heard on the second
specification of the three which the
committee agreed yesterday to take
up first. %
The second alleges failure by
Mr. Daugherty to enforce the rail
road safetv appliance laws.
The sepclficatlon which was still
before the committee today relates
to the appointment by JMt. Daugh
erty of William J. Burns as chief
'regulations will be Imposed upon
'Turkey which will oblige her to
protect foreign Nationals living
w r thin her borders, believe that
such conditions would be an in
fringement on Turkish soyerignty
and a slight to her honor.
Ismet Peisha has never been so
aggressive as !#ii his attitude on
this issue, which in the session
Tuesday challenged the attention
of the (world when Ismet declared
, aL muiaui «l. DU1UB HB CUU3L
y xrlti 1 of the bureau nf investigafion of
^ tcr the department'of justice.
the. affairs of the minorities. Samuel Gompers, president of the
SAYS NON TURKS
ARE SAFE ARMENIANS
The Turkish statesman contends
that the "'Armenians in ThJicey
and telegrams of condolence have " “ U V be i^rf«oThappy If S
of”a SlvSe cifizen ’\n innovlfion «" 14 “ Jfe
in thf^Tm of aiv A erts“r TS road “ “ c,ear ^ Turttey ^la
which Mr. Wanamaker was one of
American Federation of Labor,
frankly told the house judiciary
committee today that the execu
tive committee of the federation
had authorized the employment ot
counsel to; assist Representative
Kellar, republican, Minnesota, in
prosecuting impeachment pro
ceeding ngalnst Attorney Generali
Daugherty;
the first big leaders, was the pub
lication Wednesday ot eulogies of
the merchant’s life in connection
with the advertising ot his princi
pal department store competitors.
Philadelphia’s .. schools will be
closed tomorrow and the Wanama
ker stores have been closed since
yesterday morning, will remain so
until after the funeral.
Announcement of the honorary
pallbearers will he made Wednes
day. 1
Mr. Wanamaker’s body: will lie
always bo a havehf for non-Tur
kish races which behe&ved them
selves and subscribed to Ottoman
laws .and Ideals. Ho also assert
ed that the Greeks in . ConstanU-
„ - (Turn to page 2.)
No Trace Found
' Of Small Boy
JUNCTION CITY, Kans.—Al
though searohers continued their
, . . efforts throughout Tuesday night
jn state in Bethany Presbyterian , by light of lanterns, no trace had
church, of whlch.he was one of the been fouap early today of Marvin,
founders, from ven o’clock until five year old son .of Mr. and Mrs.
noon Thursday. Thousands are ex- - George Koepke, here. The boy was
pected to. pay their last respects lost late Sunday and the search
at his bier. The Interment which - opened for the third day today,
will take place Thursday afternoon neighbors and friends, who persist
in the family mausoleum in the in the hunt were further from a
temteryof St James, the Les. and tangible clue than when they start
will bo.prlvate. . l ed. .
Bodies In Session In Washington, D. G.
WASHINGTON —• Representa
tives of* the l farmers . cooperative
marketing associations wtero heard
Wednesday by the Senate banking,
committee at Its hearing in term
credits legislation. Tho commit
tee room was a ,( to crowded with
prospective witnesses, representa
tives of the agricultural and the
grange organizations', members of
m i..iu HAnwti land fwv'isitrv
ton, tobacco, rice and other com
modities. He recommended tot
farm credits an adaption of the
Federal reserve system to permit
. A.SI 11XGTOW—National offi-
tot" 0 . r , llle American Red Cross,
the I c ris ' nK tlie general board of
h J uc V ty ’ assembled here Wed-
dificnJ’ their an “ u al mooting to
Ija# 8S t,le larger problems of ro-
X ,- na ° r S«inization. Presi-
in ‘ f , .{ ardmg. of the organization
lets im u President Coolidge had
a invited to speak. *
th© farip loam board njid treasury
officials. Because ol the Increas
ing number of persons who desir
ed to g!ve their \i0ws before a bill
is reported, Chairman McLean
said extension of the hearings -ap
peared probable.
Opening of the* Federal Reserve
system to farmers by extending
the time limits cf f its Joans was .
urged by Aaron Shapiro, general piro and he
counsel for cooperative marketing laws cooperative
associations of producers 0 f oot-. of far.ms also
■
loans to farmers’.extending over
their production, or turnover peri
ods. - » •
“We are against any new system
of agriculture banks,” said Mr.
Shapiro. ,‘ We desire to make the
present federal reserve system
available ,to farmers to tap the
normal supplied of credit and mar
ket the federal reserve funds avail
able to fanners and cooperative
associations that will put them on
ED WE
WASHINGTON.—(By The Asso
ciated Press)—A request that
President Harding geek to broaden
the scope of thp naval limitation
agreement so as to include a lim
itation on construction on smaller
types of war vesselB and on mili
tary and naval aircraft, is included
in the annual naval bill as report
ed Wednesday by the house appro
priation committee.
Under the bill as brought into
the.house the-president would be
asked to open negotiations with
Great Britain. France. Italy and
Japan for an agreement which
would limit ruture building of all
surface and submersible types of
war-craft having a tonnage of 10.?
000 *or less and - on all classes ot
army, and navy aircrafts.
Postal Receipts to
Equal Those of ’21
•The postal receipts for the Ath
ens office will reach the 1921 fig
ure before December 31, so Post
master Paul Smith states.. Last
year the receipts totalled about
$86,000 and they will not fall be
low this figure for the current year
which Mr. Smith says is a splendid
record.
Tuesday the postottice handled Its
greatest amount of treasury stamps
and Athens people are preparing to
dustries/* ^ ^ ^
The Lenroot,-.
approved in-the.
ersou Vbill .was
by-Mr. Sha-
gh state
tired on January first into cash or
exchange them tor otfher govern
ment securities.
It is estimated that $100,000
aaociations worth of these stamps are held in
used- [ Athens. •
'wt
follows:
“Whereag, The practice ol J
*5rdght riding” by bands cf masked
men, either as members of a secret
order or otberyjlRe, and the acts |
■that flow from such practice, we {
deem to be lawless and crime- j
breeding, subversive of lives and i
good order, frightening to women
and children, disturbing to all ele- I
ments of society, demo al zing to i
labor and causing the immigration.j
of laborers and others^ to the in- I
Jury of farming and busirifees,
Premier Says He Will
Not Declare Plans From
Housetqp. No Action Be
fore January 5. ;
A graphic illustration of the way t an 80-foot fall in going up o>; ,ue
caus'ng men. to arm themselves
.Clara Phillips,, convicted of the cornice, then climbed down a drain
for protection of their homes aanl
property, leading to crime slang
ing from the frightening «f inno
cents to the high crimes of arson,
murder and lynoh'ngs.
“Wherefore, bo It resolved. That
we most earnestly condemn the
said practice of “night riding" by
bodies .of masked xnen’icr woment
and the crimes that attend or* are i
cloaked under such, practice. !
“That we deplore the crimes 7
that have been commuted hy mask j
ed men in our community" our t
interviewers Tutsday night, say
ing that he would speak either
spontaneously or in reply to in
terpolations on .“the fresh’ post
ponement of the occupation of the
Ruhr” on which Leon Daudet and
others have given notice. 1
“I never said I thought of occu
pying the Ruhr, or taking such se
curity,’’ the premier told his ques
tioners. “I do qot know exactly
which we would choose. If we did
we should be very careful not to
cry it from the house tops."
“This however, is certain: What
ever action we decide on will not
involve the calling up of a single
man. What is no less certain is that
brutal murder of Alberta Meadows, ’ pipe to an adjoining building ,
escaped from the Los * Angeles thence through a roof door to the t* 1 ® Ume.for threats without acts
county jail. Cutting the bars Of her street and tho waiting auto of a has passed. We have fully resolv-
cell. she scaled the roof of the jail confederate. Inset shows Mrs Phil- i ed t0 BCt> even aIone and even if
as shown by the dotted line, risking lips.
SEEN FOR GEORGIA
CHICAGO.—Winter’s first cold
vave that has given the northwest
individual assistance iat all times.
DEMAND
UNMASKING
tetfctte and country-, either 1 under
the pretense of lawful warrant, c; - *!
of regulating the conduct scf indivi- j
duals and the'community. I uui ^
u P? n a^ 1 of f lc ®T a i several days and has extended to
of the law to redouble their efforts j region sub-zero temperatures for
to apprehend all v-olators of the | the Atlantic coast and as far south
.law. pledging them our united and as the southern tip of the Pacific
* coast and the extreme southern
‘ Florida peninsula, continued Wed
nesday with slight relief to some
• sections.
_ i Weather forecasters predicted
"That we call upon all officers’ colder weather for the Atlantic
of the law who have taken any states with the exception of the
obligation Uni a secret order ol*'oth Florida peninsula, another disturb-
erwise, liy which they are l>omvl 1 ance on the California coast and a
to protect or connive at infrao continuation of the sub-zero and
tions of the lawt by any ong, in vio near zero temperatures in the
lation of the constitution and northwesti plains and middle-^west
laws Of' the state and the United states.
States, to either withdraw from In Chicago the temperature early
sucht order or to* resign if om af- Wednesday registered. 8 degrees.
Ac®-. above zero with a moderate wind
“That we call • upon our law(Turn to page tpro) -
makers, both city and, sfiate to —— ^ -1 - -
enact such legisloilon as will make J
WOMEN TOLD GA.
before January 6. if the reparations
committee pronounces In favor ot
a fresh moratorium for Germany.”
NO LOSS OF
I TIME 8EEN
“In any caso we cannot take any
step beloro January 5, it is wrong to
speak of postponement. We post
poned nothing and the fact that we
are'ad journing continuation of our
j discussions to tho beginning of
Athens women were urged at a I ne3tt ..“““ti 1 Involves no loss, ot
Tuesday to aid it^reS'mh^GMr-1 U Theatmosphere for the prelim-
gm’s tax system which* “is in Poli- | tS'fn^TtuXn^tt
Acceptance by the women of | ^ ^^'.be^Petl^PaF"
Athens of their, responsibility in ^ ’or ^ss supports the
elared Dr p'd Wl T’ de : SXuJSent, pointing out that.pre-
Hbn d H */* S;iib;- M hf he r? n ? nd I mior Poincare did not come back
Hon. H. J. FuUbright, state tax f rom London e&pty handed; At- .
commissipner who spoke to the i tention is also called to the fact
w. £ luncheon m that France obtained from her al-
. r^ e1 ?* lies Concessions which while not
Our government is in the hands complete, are none the less most
of a few politicians, Dr. McPher- important, notably Britain’s new
[Sgn declared. He said women could attitude toward the inter-allied
.debts which could hardly zhave
been hoped for after her refusal
even to consider the question six
months ago. * ’ j
play an -important part .in, j^acing
the state government 013. a better
basis. “If the right men are put
on efty and county boards,” a for
ward step^ would be made. “You
. JTurn to page-two)
it a crime tor nmsKed bodtes of j Clemenceau Saik For France Today
cabinet Agrees
WITH POINCARE
men or women to be and appear
on our streets and thorcajghfai*es.
“That we call upon all good citi
zens to join us in a new allegianco
to { our constitution, and laws, state”
and federal, and uledge ourselves
add ‘.c^nmiun^ty to better o1>ser
XEW YORK — Satisfied that he t repeating liis p^a for American
has accomplished his mission in ' cooperation.
vanco and enforcement bt; lav/ and | America, Georges Clemenceau. frenCh* T^GER^ r ‘
" Clemenceau f-und
good, order.
) sails for home Wednesday on tb»S
; “That we call upon the good French Liner Paris. He was up
men who are members of 11,ry
^ret Zer ustr ^uiso SS. u8ual roaa.-to nan a plane
none cals the features of the wear- f ” n ’ h0 steamer's deck and wave
er to Change their ritual so ns to (fai-ewdl to the country he wishes
lialy aside said masks in thejh- pub- ; to join with France in working
in the day out Europe’s aftelr the war prtob-
llc'appearances ei ;
or in the night, and request such 1 . , .
orders to publltdy deny till connec * *> ems -
tion with, the Crimea tluit; have V Tueadaft* night he delivered his
been} committed by sue!) .bodies^ final address in America—the brief
and condemn the same.” ; eat of all his American speoches-^
/ ! at a dlnfrei* arranged by the cam-
COO CLUCKS” • ! mittci for devustedl France he
DEMONSTRATE -prefaced his remarks by the state
. ment “Why should I speak? I am
An alleged demonstration «if the , tired, r am old, and I wtant very
K. K. K. of this section is qUeg- 1 mucli to cm tn “
(Turn to page twoi
m
({ . . HHIHHHVmtrprlses
aboard thfe Pari$ where he’ spent'
the night—twenty-five live terra
pins.- the gift-of Bernard M. Ba-
cructh. He expressed a fondness
for turtles some Cme ago a!nd Mr.
Baimsh ;sent to his South Carolina
estate for them. -
The Paris will sail at U B*. m.
Clemenceau spent Tuesday 'fore-
boon on his train writing letters
of thanks to persons'who made his
trip possible-
Among those to whom he wrote
were Charles' M. Schwab, who
loaned the private car Bethlehem
ami W. W. AtterbuTyv of the Penr.
sylvan ia railroarfk who arranged
the ti-ansportation of Wb 5,000 mile«
jaunt.
'
Tho French cabinet Wednesday
morning approved the attitude ta
ken on tho reparations question by
Premier. Poincare at the recent
meeting of premiers in London af
ter hearing M. Poincare's report in'
the meeting. It also expressed
agreement with him regarding
declarations to be made rin the
chamber ot deputies on Friday.
when it is expected, the govern
ment will be called upon to
to an interpellation.
Premier Poincare it is ft ._
will ask the chamber for a
hand in the reparations
tions with the allies and for like
freedom regarding the seizure ‘
such pledges as are permitted
der ihe treaty of Versailles
settlement is not reached by ~
tiations before tho next ins
of Germany's debt is duo
ary 16.
The premier told his
of the cabinet that he had
back from London
that the differen