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COTTON U25 3-8c mlDDL PREVIOUS CLOSE 25 3-8c - KSi2 P«Uy and Sunday.—10 Cents m .Week The Ona Papa In Host Homm—Tka Only Paper la Many Homes. DsilyTSTSSEday—10'Centa aWreS. '* WEATHER Cloudy With Showers. Colder . Weather v Snow *■"* * r ~* • '*r+'. *-*j. •*—<* +-* +-* *-* .j—fr *-* +-* 4_ : /' . I ; A—«^. *_* • ... SEVERE COLO WAVE HIM SUFFERING >15- ***»*■■: FEU OVER iTION In Many Eastern, North ern and Western States Snow and Ice Halt Daily Routine. Florida is not- NEW YORK — Aparently deli rious from pneumonia. Frank C. Themes, a merchant from Hamil ton, Bermuda. * leaped f rofrt'a win dow in his room o»a the tenth floor of "the Ro-jel Pennsylvania, Friday and was killed. He had been ill at thp hotel for several days and was. In charge of a nurse. Papers in his poorA .Showed him to be a member of the SCot> t'sh Rite Masons in Savannah. Ga. No Official Explanation As to Why He Is Sum-! da£ moned, “Except For!{g” Consultation.” < — REPARATION IS AN ACUTE ISSUE MACON Ga.—A pill which lodged in the wind pipe was fatal to the J. H. Pyles, at Berlin. Ga., .Thurs- Immedlately after <t ,M :lls- .covered the child bad swallowed a.... rr ; the pill a physician was soieraoned Whitewash Atty. Har- : but the child.dled before he arrlv- ALBANY, Ga.—Frank C. Thoffla AFFECTED BY ^AVE a tenth story window at a hotel Lumber Yards Guarded in N. Y. Because of Coal Shortage. Accidents in Chicago. CHICAGO.—Heavy precipitation, either snow or rain in portions of virtually every stat* $|XCept Flor ida in which a particularly heavy snow fall in fao lower lake region markon the progress of winter over. th«* United States. about one-half incli <and thi sons wart 1 killed and two Injured Thursday in automobile' decitfehU. Dozens of persons were injured, ships crashed in the harbor and ft fuel 'unine threatened as a result of N» \v York’s first heavy snow storm this year. Extra police were placed on guard at lumber yards to keep the c old sufferers from de- ph-tinR the yards. While temperatures were higher in the eastern and southern states it remained unusually cold In the northwest region and colder from the upper Mississippi valley south- n. stward to Colorado and the Tex as panhandle. Sub-zero tempera* ttnrs were predicted for Nebraska Iowa and South Dakota where It vas forecast that the thermome-* ter would drop to ten below. Thurs ‘ It Appears Certain That America Plans .S o m e Participation At Brus sels Parley.' . where he ,was ill with pneumonia, was formerly a resident of Albany. Mr. Thotna was a native of Aus tria, hut for twenty-five years be- tore the world war had resided in England and was a. ■' naturalised British cittidn. When the war be gan the British government, tak- Kd,td“e czme to* Ameriia ,l6e n called home for consultation, with hTB wlfe. He Uved In Albany'at tbe Aroer can em- during the war and was an active. d liberal auses. He left here- LONDON.— (By the ASSolcated Press) — Ambissador Harvey has tor t< auses. He left hero abouf :s ago with Mg Wife W& to-mi ne in Bermuda. lie will not be nccompalir-ed PSfig Tjqrvey. fcrhn. will_ leave the iweceedtng dny thr a-yfsit to j M adorf ar- WASHINGTON.—:(By Tho Asso ciated Press)—Although state de partment officials confirmed Fri day the London announcement that, Ambassador Harvey had been ball ed home, "for consultation** they Believed That This Tabu lation Caused Committee to Urge Harding to Make Steps. WASHINGTON.—(By The As sociated Press)—A tabulation ob- — talned Friday in riava; circles show- .. . -—. -- —/J'iL Arur the relative positions of tub torney gem jL '• British, American and Japanese Voting to go on wjth the.hearings ‘ 'i| despite Mr. Kellar’s withdrawal tbe committee planned to put liim un- gtetirii. _ navies In cruiser and submarine strength, apparently, shed light on Procedure As Method to' “Whitewash At ry Daugherty.” hearing"will be CARRIED FORWARD MembeVs, of Committee Sa||He .Had Planned to L&eture to Them: • Re fuses to Take Oath. WASHINGTON.—Characterizing the proceeding before the house j judi clary committee as a bare-1 faced atftmpt to ."whitewash Harry [• n Daugherty” RepresentatiTO Kei- j lar of! Minnesota has refused to; assist further In presentation be fore that committee of his im peachment charges against the at torney general. the situation which led the-house der oath today and call upon him to appropriations committee to pro- give all the information upqn whlch pose that President Harding nego- he based his : charges pt “high , date an international agreement to declined to make any explanation I check competitive building in these las to specific matters Secretary'types. I Hughes desired to discuss with him ed M ^«e7^ wrmen.^and'childreh^ouroeye'd'Fri- jlngton dsy in automobiles of every fleL l aratlons dlfflcul^r^as tte ImOTt ^cription, horse drawn vehiclesand j S W aid toward settlemeut that It could properly extend, tfr View of these official utterances, the expectation is that the ambassador's visit will have a direct effect WthUt situa tion. . liamson county court house to at tend the third day’s session of the trial of five men In connection with tho Herrin riot. - . "N Before the court "opened the lit tle town square, of which the brick court house is the center,' was black with, mud bespattered vehicles. Yesterday more than 500 persons Arrival of tho cold wave was aC- rmianloil b'y a light ® no *** , 1 | J? were crowded into the court room torthern Nebraska _and 1 and several hundred more were re fused aamiasion because every Svidjable lnchof ™ng TSSlSTS possibiuty of American was taken up.. Among the spectators ,n BOme ^ orm 1,1 were t scores of women, some of Dakota while 12-inch Isnowfalls »ere reported at Chadron, Nebras ka and the Rosebud territory in South Dakota. " *''. '• Sleet covered a large Dart of Kansas and northwestern Missouri, where the weather continued cold* Oklahoma reported a drop in the * np rcury from winds blowing across 1 ho Texas border. Below free*- iK temperatures were exfxicted. . YandsVthe /morning' of the f th ,Llr ,n ,^‘!,'^ised h a 1 tragedy, the state was prepa red to- ur.v.st tn near sere.promised a],.„ mnn, n,M,tir. de- bmporary and slight relief from AMERICA MAY PARTICIPATE It appears certalp that the state department has seriously conatd- them with children In their arms or tueging at their skirts. Following the testimony df sov- proposed economic anu financial conference at Brussels, which was -rejected hv the alUed statesmen, but for which It has not been pos- erel vribnesses wHopoTutedoit v.blcto make deflnireplans because ♦hrre of the defendants as men'. the split over -German ^repara- .bSfrmd .seen with_weapons^n daalt with political matters in Buy the below zero temperatures preva lent for several days. Oregon was covered with an almost'unbroken blanket of snow which -hindered traffic. Continued cold was fore- ^?t for ihe Puget Sound country. Two inches of snow fell in Seattle, 'J’ashiuston, yesterday. Rfcin along the California coast was predicted. Snow flurries with falling temper- *'iur*s were predicted for New Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Colorado 5>nu western Texas. Colder weather ** 8 announced • •. for fhe .; Rocky ‘jountam states.., Brcckenridge, ; Mlnn -. "eported a lS-inch snowfall ho-t nigh* Legion Auxiliary Tho woman's auxilin Affit-rk-an Legion. Mn. Johnson ' (ommandrtaa.’' will. ? ‘"‘ln’rlam part in tho entertain- ? ,,f the delegates and visitors here next summer for the ■invention of the American R tate v , Legion. m m 1 , a !‘ ‘ arl T date a Joint meeting V I.eglon and Ailxliiary will be held. n,,., , former being invited to " 1,h iho Legionnaires, and-'at ” wln 8 definite plans of co- tP' “ n V;! 11 be discussed. Auxiliary was organized here himmer and has worked with on several occasions al day to Introduce more evidence de signed to shoty that the twenty non-union victims of the riot had been shot do.wB after khey surren dered under promise .of safe con duct out ot (he county. Sell Whiskey In • < Augusta Prison AUGDSTA,' Go. — “Once a boot legger.- , alwfays a boot-legger." some modern Pbilosqphcr has, said, and that this as a true maxim was revealed' here Thursday, when GaJty Whittle, Janitor,’ discovered *' liquor selling ring within the tort dries of. the. Jail. Three negroes , . . one of them a rtrusty;' kna_an | Qfgyp MeetUlgS rope American participation might conceivably have been possible al though not on any basis that would involve cancellation of allied in debtedness to the United States. The ambassador will be the logical channel for any Informal exchange of vteWs between the al lied and American governments during' the interval before , the council of premier* reassembles af ter New Year's. • In the absence of an official ex planation, the Impression gained currency that Mr. Harvey had been called to Washington in connection with the situation as to German reparations, now threatening a rup ture between Great _Britain. and France. have 'been To Have Meeting ^ i. r..prisoners, according to Jailor Whit tie. who said l\e expected to;lm r . plicate several white men in the rink. . - v vv*J! - 1 / -V. '... 40 Homines and 8 Chavaux Planned Jhe if 1 S-M.U1, l,le Legion ready A movement is on. loot among some ot the Legionnaires of Athens to organize a ”40 Hommes and S Cheveaux” chapter here. This is an auxiliary to the American Legion __!j j- *i.„ **t xxorion’s Tilaveroiind’* anp is the "Legion’s playground so to speak. It Is necessary to have 15 L«e- members and On Marketing . WASHINGTON — Group moet- The figures credit Great BriGiin Crimea t and misdemeanors” against MRS. LOTTIE CLARK AND GEORGE O.',BAKER Mass Meeting ‘Held ift Barrow County Court Ho,use Friday Attended ' By Three Hundred. CITIZENS WILL BE LAWFUL AS ‘ALWAYS’ Adjutant General Pope ahd Several Aids Repre sent State of Georgia At Gathering. CORRESPONDENT WIN PE (J, Ga.—The Woodruff motion that was defeated here at a mass meeting last week follow- i? 8 2. 8 d, «Pl»y» made by-the Ku Klux Klan before the homes of Duke Ross, prominent attorney, and k. L. Woodruff, business man, was again .defeated at a. second mass meeting of about 300 citizens of -Barrow county in session here Fri- day mornin* .About twenty-five °^blrty negroes ^yer'e in theuaudi- I The Woodruff motion was moved for passage but never, came to a vote, a substitute, motion feeing Placed before the gathering- by D. Fleming Thompson, local hardware merchant, and ..thjs motion was adopted on a yea and nay vote. GIST OFStwe ~ resolution % i --The amendment motion in suh- Mr. Daugherty.., - . . . , i j: —- — .— ic mw ,icvutvor'-m uanu, *** hu \**£* a . b “" et head - with 45 light cruisers of the first Thursday as a dramatic climax to tbftu.gn>oefNltnge.,came ; • - . , 0 ,,V a n dnmntlri rllmnr to WMltri’S decision. OAKLAND,' Cal.—Into the code,#' found Baker revolt, tt'harid. if lMll.Htt.-n la... f-.nn-r-- TtaUnr h.tt ! itnttAInc . U.l .1 .v. Une, built or projected, and aggre gating 205,480 tons, the United States with ten ships building, 76,-/ 000 tons, and Japan with 11 ships built and II building and projected fhe third day ot the hearings. He ' It concerns the, penalty that had prepared a statement to read should be mfeted uut to the "love to the committee but he never got th|or tll6 home wrecker. ' the opportunity. Several members' ■ . , _ wanted him nut under oath, while £ disputed question this: aggregating 10L4W* tons. "in'adcU-1 others wanted to .know If It was his t0 answer i self on. trial, made himself judge, antra irfi i an ' J ur y <a»d accused arid Hnally ho TO sir DOWN I reached a verdict. It was the death to have 13 light cruisers of the*tee. second'line. 60,230 tons, neither the United States nor lagan being cerdlted with any ships In this classification. GREAT BRITAIN'S SUBMARINE In fleet submarinea Great Britain la credited with 6 of the Arab Une 11,280 tons, 6 of the second, line, 7,204 tons and two building or pro jected, 3,800 tons; the United States with three of the first Une built, 3,218 tons, none of the second Urie, three building 6.716 tons and 6 additional authorized but not un der contract; Japan with no fleet pf. submarines built hut three un der’construction, 4,500 ions. In the first Une submarines other than fleet submarines. Great Brit ain is credited with 42 bntlt 42.730 tons and six building, 5,550 tons.; the United States with 59 built, 37,- 120 tons. 34 building, 29.575 tons; Japan with 27 built. 23338 tons, and one program of sixteen build ing, 18,480 tons and a seeond band ing pjrogram ot 28 vessels “tonnage unknown,” while the tables showed decided American Inferiority in light cruisers, the United States has a distinct advantage tn first line destroyers with 259 built against 178 for Great Britain and 54 for Japan. Six new destroyers are - given on the British building program, none on the American and 38 on the Japanese. , penalty. Refusing to be put under oath! Such Is ihe astounding’sequel to Mr. KeUar replied , to “ “ L that he might lecture To that he added demanfs be heard. Chairman Volstead re- ker.” Naming *‘g man .named Ba peatedly broke .into the general ker" as corespondent \Clark dl- hubbub. to order.Mr. KeUar to “sit voiced his wife at Fresno. That put under oatn - oucu is uit- astounding sequel to to the inquiries a triangle that, involved Mrs. Lot- ire the memijers./f"'B. Clark, her husband, Leo demands that he' Clark, and “a man named Ba- But first Baker haQ'penned a de cision in the case ot Baker-the “love thief vs. Baker the Man. Baker the Man hiid won—and to all men and women he i left a warning and a sermon. Here, as he penned it, was'Baker’s self-imposed death sentence;' “The man. who' steals another man’s wife is the greatest,thief of all. He .must pay. .1 am the ‘man named Baker* and I have decided to pay in fulL .Will someone please tell Mr. Clark I dm sorry for any pain I have caused him. I loved well but foolishly. “What more can one In my position say? It all comes down to this: We who cheat-some one- else must pay. I am glad to 7’ “• ims been broadcast- fourcotners of the state that Barrow county is the habitat of citizens who disregard law and or- Y? ereaa 14 las al8 ° reported that a state of lawless- ' ness Is now exlaUng and that lives are being threatened and that ther-, “ of any threats and no foundation to the reports and be it resolved that these are false re ports, which are derogatory to Bar row county and her, citizens and tn at they be condemned as un- A second paragraph pledged the,, support of tho people gathered to an enforcement of the law, “as we have always done."’ "We. pledge ourselves to-the support ot.all the gw®.' and .vote confidence in our officials Who have always been able to core with lawlessness.” GET AMENDMENT TO MOTION statement In front of Mr. Vol- /-tea(I end dramatically announced T; that if .he could not read it to the I rommikee he was through with -1 the proceedings. Then- he stalked from the committee room which had been thrown into an uproar. Meantime Chairman Volstead had ordered the clerk to issuo a sub- ; poena for Mr. KeUar so that-liei might bp placed under oath and , questioned: The summons later was Lausanne ■_ , . , , , (By the Asociat served.on Mr. Kellar in his office ed P.0S3) — European diplomats where he was’preparing to give to'.hqre believed that the admission ’ ewspaper correspondents copies Of of Turk'-y -'to the League of Na the statement which-the committee ,tiohs will impart new vigor and a would not hear, together with cop- now meaning to that organization. ies of a letter from Samuel Unter-' Frtsri the ‘beginning of the Near meyer of New York advising him E :is t cctlference' the Turkish iead- to take the course, he had. Dr. Clark Becomes ■ New Chancellor of American College NYASHNGTON — Dr. Lucius 'C, tlons handling the same commo dities. followed hy another general session, devoted to the general sub ject of cooperative iriarketing fi nance and rural credits legislation, formed Friday’s program for the meeting here of the National court* can University in the presence of educators from all sections of the county. The installation was con ducted by Bishop William Frazier McDowell, president of the boiard of Education of the M. E. church. sel of farmers cooperative market i $250 FoiT CftDtllfC ing association. * * v K . For .tbe group discussions the J program included mootings of the j American cotton grower*^ ex change. the American tobacco grow j lqs ANGELES, Cal. — A re- Of Clara Phillips So ““'I rendere d invaluable as- | El o nn ^ r es as charter _ eonvtnM ; n . addItIo n to the Legion Jt ig Sieved that this number will! ers’ exchungo. the grain associa-| | 2 50 for the capture of j also hoi.i 4* 0r ° , Auxiliar y wil1 be . secured at an early date and j tions and dairy, perishables, wool j Mrs. Clhra Philips, “hammer mur- Athen.■ .:* J, 3 nnnua * convention in tUat before the convention meets ; and other cooperative groui>s. The , deress” who escaped from the . 41 lue same time next .Tulv - ^ - - - h-L u * ar K e number of its mem- rs OVer ihn L ..„.„ ...is, v- -.a .Where. over the state will be expect?. here next summer tbe organization 1 problems of each commodity' group |Lo» Angelei county Jail December will be functioning ia apple pic | were l|sted for dteouzsiplni by lead- Uth has beert offered by Sheriff' order* | er* iafthe movement. J Wuliam I Trager* $40,000 Released Here Friday P.M. Forty thousand dollars was loosed in Athens before two o’clock Friday, or were available to be loosed.. . This amount was being paid out bv the Copimercial' Bank as its Christmas savings funds for the year and the depositors found themselves in possession of handsome sums-of Christmas money and most of them found relief also from Santa Claus worries. i As this money became availa ble Athens' merchants smiled because-it meant hundreds and hundreds of purchases between now and Christmas eve. But the merchants won’t.get all this money because many wise savers left nest eggs in the bank for a nucleus for a similar have stressed their desire to ,. - w^stjernizo their country, and Euro T-ipe&n,statesmen are convinced *hat . whole cooperation by Turkey In j tho league’s affairs would prove an J important step in the maintenance . of a ge'rierhl ]>eaee. :.{>*« The r thoroughly, o-cidehtal aspect | of the nrr^o^ity of the Turkish dele account for 1923 so that another fund: will be asquqed $exl y^t. • gates has impressed every one at tending- the conference. ‘'Some -[ members of the delegation remain I loyal to the' Fez but generally ; speaking; ‘ tWe men fromJ'Angpra j and Cbnstant&nbple present an ap- , peatance as smartly western as • that of any of the European diplo- j mats. Several of the Turk'Sh. dele gates are here with their wives, 1 who are fashionably gowned in the ( latest Parisian modes. A foreigner who engages a Turk , in conversation* will learn Sooner <v Vtor during their chat that TurkeS’ first of all wants com plete soverignty over the Ottoman territory, and that secondly she seeks western culture. If she Joins the league, which step Ismet Po.«ha y«sterdi»y said she would seek to • take if peace was signed i .hern Turkey can wtelk into Europe . by :the front door and make iherself i at home. FILLS OFF BRIDGE By ^maneuvering and a subtle knowledge ol parliamentary lav. W. H. QUUrterman, prominent at- toraeY, who was presiding, sue • needed In getting an amendment to •.his substitute, motion adopted and this amendment was as follows: *. further resolved that all masked night/riding be con demned.” • . ' i It was esUmated that when the yea and nay vote was taken that fully seventy-five /per cent of the, Inpn vntori “voo *» ...i. i„v. .1 . ... • —j— • 5 -loan voted “yea," which made the -MACON,.Ga.—At a local hospital meeting a decided Ku Klux victory where they were, brought early Fri- clnce the'Original motion was losr day morning following qn accident t0mpIetely ' r near Marshallvlllo when an auto mobile of (which they were' occu- Pknts ran off a-bridge'-over'the Central of Georgia railroad. It Was announced'that iflss Otlirlam lams of Jackson, Ga., and Miss Eliza beth Benton,- of Monticelto-High- school, teachers, of Macon, wore In a serious condition. Troy c. Davis, driver ot the JU-tated car, and a Macon attorney; was not badly. In jured. ■ ; Miss Sams was the most serious ly injured. She received a fracture OPENS MEETING' WITH PRAYER .. i.,B./McWhorter, editor of a lo cal paper, opened the meeting and stated tltat it had been called to pass on a, resolution' that had been previously defeated by' - a mass meeting. HtyiptrodUced Rev. W. It. Buchanan ^bo prayed for Divine guidance in tbe tactions of the mee.tjngjQfisal'fT •; W- H.*Quarterma ntben took tbe floor,and recited the fact tliqt the eyea of, the state were on Barrow i county and the reported acts of at the base of the skull and was j nr r* -.v^sys W ut badly* cut about the-mouth and! violence committed there. He stat- body. She v w’as also pjaralyzed; |«^*.tba£ he had nothi»g personally Miss Benton sustained fractured against the Ku Klux Klan but when right wrist, scalp wounds’and suf-! certain acts were-committed in its fered 1 considerable from shock. Davis and the young women were returning from a business trip to Montezuma. As they neared the bridge one of the automobile lights went bad, it was said, and the car plunged through a railing on the bridge and fell thirty feet. Three men passed over the bridge and discovered the injured. CHARLOTTE BUYS PLAYERS CHARLOTTE, N. C.—The Char lotte. South Atlantic association club has purchased Outfielder Car lisle from Atlanta and -Catcher Deufel from Moline, Thjfee Eye league, it was learned Friday. name and under, its'•guise that it failed to live up to the principles for which it was created. In a passionate appeal he urged the. Woodruff motion \>e adopted and called upon every red blooded citizen of the county to condemn night riding by masked people who were cowards and afraid to show their faces. When he finished Mr. Thompson then introduced his substitute mo tion which was adopted. R. L. Woodruff and Duke Ross both addressed the meeting,' Mr. Woodruff failing to heed reported threats warning him not to at- (Turn to P«a« Three) .. •
