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ELECT NEW COACH TnS AFTERNOON
X)Idest Lawmakers Visit President
U.S.
m REVEALED
London Dispatches to the
Associated Press Clarify
Methods Seeking Our In
fluence on Debt.
FRENCH ATTITUDE
IS EXPECTED NEXT
If French Officials Offer
Xo Objection, Revision
of Reparations May Be
Expected. . •
FOR MUSSING MEN
Expert Diver Has Been
Employed to Aid in Hunt
For Bodies of Louisiana
Men.
TWO KIDNAPPED
BOARD !
NOW IN SESSION
. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two ,
undergraduate committees, one J
made of academiq students and
the other representing the Shot- | ,
field Scientific school have been yj T
chosen at Yale University to work H. J. btBgemail KeSlgned
toward cooperation in the student j Monday to. Accept Pl*0-
fessorship of Physical
State and Federal Forces
Combine in Attempt to
Solve Alleged K. K. K.
Work.
WASHINGTON — (By the Asso
ciated Press) — German tavertures
through informal channels for
American intervention to obtain a.
revision of German reparation*
schedules reported hx I*>ndon dis
patches of the Assolcated Press
tu:uw the first.. definite light on
the moth'-d by whic*> American in
fluence s being ditawn into n new
attempt at tinal adjustment of the
\exing roparutionB problem.
The next step to be looked for
c.bvously is an indication of the
French attitude toward the German
making ready Thursday for his ^re
present situation and estimate ber
Here are shown the oldest members of each party In the present
Congress visiting President Harding. They are,' left to right, famous
“Joe” Cannon, the oldest Republican, and his less well-known friend.
Congressman Charles M. Steelman of N. Carolina*“the oldest Democrat.
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LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Roscoe
(Fatty) Arbuckle. comedian, was
rapacity to jmy %s a basis for a
new Reparations treaty.
There is reason to believe that
previ us government reports from
Berlin are of a character justify
hope that if the French should
Prove agreeable to the proposed
p!;n for leparations reviS-on, no
insurmountable objects would re
main in the way cf an agreement
as to the specific amount Germany
Could and would pay.
A stumbling block to such an
agreement up to this time, offi
cials here and in Perlin are under
stood to have felt, has been the
lack of :i channel for informal pre
liminary exchange 'of views be
tween Paris and Berlin*. Bdtish
agencies hardly could offer their
services, as Great Britain is. tJ-o
holy committeed on reparations
views in opjx>sltion to the French
imsitiAn to be effective in liegotia
lions to the Par s government.
As the proposal approved by .the
*'un„ government is seen here, it
represents employment of Ameri
can tinanic&l and governmental
entry Into motion ^pictures after
January 1, while members of the
Los Angeles district federation of
women’s clubs- announced they
could “not recede from their oppo
sition” to his plans.
After Will k. Hays, head of the
motion picture industry announced
here Wednesday that Arbuckle
might have another chance to
make good the Los Angeles district
federation adopted resolutions af
firming a previous onej opposing his
reappearing in motion pictures.
Mrs. J. C. Urquhart, president of
the district, stated that although
Arbuckle, at his third trial at San
Francisco had been acquitted of
causing the death of Virginia
Rappe, screen actress, the testimo
ny was "of such a character as to
bar him forever from appearing
before a decent, self-respecting
public.”
JESUP, Ga.—Traffic^wan again
about normal today on the Savan
nah division of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad fallowing a wreck
between AUenhurst and McIntosh,
Ga. t early Wednesday night, result
ing in forty persons being nijured,
none seriously, when seven Pull
man cars of passenger train No. 83.
southgound, letf tne rails and turn
ed over.
All of the injured were brought
here for first aid and later taken
1.0 Jacksonville. Physicians say on
ly one of the injured will need
hospital attention. The Pullmans, it
v as said, were turned over cn their
sides and men, women and children
were thrown into a tafcgled masj
inside the cars.
SEVEN IN HOSPITAL
AT JACKSONVILLE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Eight
persons among the forty injured
Wednesday night when seven Pull
man cars of the Atlantic Coast
Line’s Palmetto Limited, south
bound, turned over near (McIntosh,
I MER ROUGE, La. — Search of
the bottom of- Lake Lafourche for
the bodlea of Watt Daniels and
Thomas Richards, missing mem
bers of a party of five Mer Rouge
citizens who were kidnapped by
masked men on the right of Aug.
24, while returning from a good
roads meeting at Bastrop, will be
gin Thursday by divers linger.:the
protection and with* the assistance
pr a detachment or company- *G,
Louisiana National Guard, which
arrived here yeBterday morning
from Monroe.
Lake La Fourche is a deep body
of Water 15 miles Southeast of Mer
Rouge.
State authorities and detec&ves
sent here sevens! months ago to in
vestigate the disappearance of
Daniels and Ricliards would not
affirm or deny reports that the
bodies of the two men had been
located, but it was reported that
they had intimated they have reas
on to believe that the hooded band
which kidnapped the missing men
killed them and threw their bodies
into the lake. Two iron wheels of
an old farm wagon which was ly
ing ion the banks is, said to have
disappeared the night of' the kid
napping and it is the belief of the
authorities that these may have
been used as weight - to hold the
bodies beneath the surface of the
water.
BEFORE BOARD
body to bring about a greater re
spect for the prohibition laws.
The appointment of the commit- J EduCSlttOn,
tees it'waB tfaid was the Result of *
a meeting held Tuesday at the re- !» g\r\ \ t nAiffii MiTL 1 !?
quest of President James R. Angel Ll/LAL LliiillJlll ILL
FOUR MONTHS AGO ^ the T^S!.'7^
university attended the meeting
and heard a discussion of the sub
ject by M. Angel. The develop
ment of student opinion against the
Use of intoxicating drinks was said
to be the object of the meeting.
•It was understood the two stu
dent committees vr'U have authori
ty to act in specific cases. • _
Chief of Police Smith, in a state
menf to the Yale Daily News, re
marked about the decrease in stu
Peggy Sues Her
Father-in-Law
Large Number of Athen
ians Urge That Stege-
man’s Resignation Not
Be Accepted.
The Athletic board! of the Unlver
sity of Georgia meets Thursday
afternoon at four o’clock and the
session is expected to last for ah
UUirKCU ttUUUl, iUU uwreuse 111 DlU- . . . .. . ... _
dent arrests. He said arrests otj ^ ^ ^ M»«^n o«r
students 20 years ago averaged | to ® * J? UeB * on up
about two hundred a year, while ,
now It is rarely that a stutter.* Is
arrested. Chier Smith's only sue- . nilttee Monday morning Coach H.
gestions were that fewer false J : Ste ^ n » n ', h o ®? d « 0ach
alarms of fire be turned In around > JJJJJj®
the University and thM studanU g* phy
sical education; at the, University
Mrs. Peggy Lewis Lanier, Atlan
ta (Ga.) beauty, has just, brought
suit against he rfather-in-law. )>r.
J. D. Lanier, Macon fOa.) physi
clan for alleged alienation of her
husband’s affections.
ADVANCES MADE
BY WAR FINANCE
CORPORATION AID
Reports to Congress Indi
cates That 41 Per Cent
of Money Lent Farmers
Has Been Repaid.
ORDERLY HANDLING
OF CROPS POSSIBLE
Impossible to Estimate
Aid to Live Stock Indus
try, Annual Message
Avers.
----- carrying away-traffic regula-
tjjjlps 9 Xitom/the„streqfc^ijg-. ■*/
I can truthfully say,” she de- Ga., were in a hospital here Tfcurs
dared, “that the club women of I day. Only one, a Miss Madden,
this country will not commend any | whose address was not known to
Arbuckle films and I do not think;the hospital authorities, was re-
any -film will succeed without our : garded as seriously hurt. She was
commendation.”
Arbuckle, who was barred from
,V“ ''into harmony 11 &JSWE
.hut a view U ™ln offlc.il ! Schcnck. producer, it was announc-
rs in Berlin is that on un- . ed -
reconsideration of. G^r- j
: to pay wttild ! - SE FAXTY 'S
II'H f'K-uro to be not as e- j OPPPSE fatiy &
« might be expected from RETURN TO SCREEN
« estimate to the Frencl’ j LIVINGSTON. Mont—Clergymen
Hies as to what reimburse- herCi lnforme(1 that Roscoe Arbnck-
must receive feom Per- « 0 v... a een given a chance to come
i-.:- damages Inflicted during .—. 1 n onM -nive Pattv
chamber of
COMMERCE
veh
sitme of the chamber of
inic-rc«> of the United States in
shaping of the inew proposals
‘•Uustment of th6 European
kl ‘. it was learned Thursday
Vs hack to the executive discus-
1 the subject by directors of
(, 1 amber with President Juli-
Ua,ne » stt the Galveston meet*,
f the hoard last month. En-
i-roRRiise of success in btilnsr-
a compromise repara-
developed at that
■arrant a grant
back In pictures, said “Give Fatty
a Chance.” Rev. S. R. McCarty,
i'sterial Association added that the
president of the Livingston Min-
organization would not ask motion
future theatres to, bar new Ar
buckle productions.
suffering from a broken arm and
various other injuries.
The accident occurred on the Sa
vannah division and railroad offi
cials here said they had no Inform
ation concerning it other than the
injured of whom the majotity only
sustained bruises and slight cuts
were brought to Jacksonville. The
wreck occurred on >a section of
track were trains several times ex
ceeded 100 miles an hour, and
where on one occasion a speed of
two miles a minute, the world’s
record, was attained.
WENATCHE, Wash.—Pictures
showing “Fatty” Arbuckle will not
be permitted to be exhibited in
Wenatchee, according to Georgv
Seaman, chairman of the motion
picture censoring committee of the
city council.
WALLA WALLA,
coming allegations in the specifica- i board.
EXPERT DIVER
HA8 ARRIVED
An expert diver employed by the
state authorities, arrived here
Wednesday night with his diving
equipment and will start to work
this morning to explore the lake
bed.
Capt. W. W. Cooper iw command
of the troops here will take a de
tachment of his men to the scene
to protect and assist the diver and
his helpers.
Offla’al information received by
Governor John M. Parker that
threats had been made against re
presentatives of the state who
were investigating the kidnapping
of Daniels and Richards, was one
of the many unconfirmed reports,
circulated here aa the reason for
the sending of troops to this place.
land
selecting < & 'ia&6S8or, if fhe
signatfOfi is acepted, will be the
main tdpic dfeCOSSed.
LOCAL COMMITTEE
TO APPEAR
Wednesday at noon a number of
Athens’ alumril and friends of the
il 1
University met in a called 1 mass
WASHINGTON.—Questioning of, tl ? ci « ty hall and pro
half a dozen department of justice! tested the resignation of Mr. Stege
officials called as final witnesses! man a resolution was Passed
In the impeachment proceedings j and addressed to the board re-
brought against Attorney General i questing that he he retained as
Daugherty by Representative Kel- j coac h- Bob McWhorter and Dave
ler, republican, Minnesota, was • PaddJock, all Southern football play
expected to be completed Thursday! ers, Morton Hodgson, all South-
to bring to an ehd the public hear- • ern baseball player and promin
ings on the charges involved be- 1 ea t football player and Herrit
fore the house judiciary commit-! Pound star * basketball player,
tee. The department officials were! were named as a committee to
summoned to be questioned con- i place the resolution before the
tions called by Representative Kel
ler which were not touched upou
before his withdrawal from the
case.
That is was found no evidence on
which to base an impeachment pro-
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What effect this will have wn
the board’s action is not anticipat
ed. Several of the out of town
members of the board who were
here at the meeting two weeks ago
are not expected to be here Thurs
day afternoon.
Clemenceau’s Visit to U. S. Nets
$20,000 to American Fellowship
WASHINGTON.—(By The Asso- financial assistance for the Amer
ciated i’ress)—Former Premier lean tour were refused because of
Clemenceau’s visit added $20*.000 the ample provisions of his con-
to the American field service fund tracts The Ityger suggested could,
fellowships, Stephen Bonsai, who ’jf willing, help toward his great aim
managed the tour, announced
Thursday. The amount is the sur
plus Of money received from lec
tures and newspaper articles.’ by
tuo Tiger, alter defraying the ex
penses of the trip.
The war time premier, it was
explained, was unwilling to accept
by contributing those Tunds to the
remaining after the cost of the tour
had been deducted warf said by Mr.
Bonsai to be due to the co-opera
tion of M. Clemenceau’s friends in
cutting the expenses of the trip,
explained, was unwilling to accept Railroad rates were reduced, a pri-
financial assistance for his mission | vate car was loaned to the party
and his own means were inade- l and other economies effected.
- WASHINGTON.—The American
farmer hqs demonstrated that when
properly financed he can weather
the worst economic storms, the war
1 finance corporation declared in. itB
j annual report sent to congress on
* Thursday. The report set forth that
J 41 p^t* cent of the money advanced
to the agricultuial industry had
j been repaid either in advance of
maturity or when due.
H Advances by the corporation say,- •»
ATJxANTA, Ga.—An outline of j ed the industry many millions of 1
Adjutant General Pope’s verbal re-1 dollars, the report declared,^ ex- * f
port-on m« investigation oi the fplaining that the corporation's of- i
With. * Winder,. manmade public Wed- Proved a^benaflclal. In the restor-
e «. nesday by Governor Hardwick. ation or confidence as In tie actual 1
Adjutant General Pope went to j pouring of cash into spots where i
county a cour“houBe B Jst MdayThe; cre ^t was lightest. The loans had 1
meeting was held at the instance I made it possible for thousands of I
of Mr. Woodruff and others to pre- j farmers to handle their products in
sent a resolution denouncing law-j an orderly manner it was added/
f,t«nd la “ d confidence instilled in them
through the knowledge that money
was available acted as a stabilizer
the value of which the report said
could only be estimated.
IMPOSSIBLE TO
received warnings not to attend
the meeting. The resolutions pre
sented by iMr. Woodruff was voted
down, but one of somewhat similar
import was adopted.
General- Pope reported to the
governor that the meeting appear
ed to him to have been thoroughly | fu H-Y^ eTstI m'atf
organized in advance by members eoi.mate
of the klan and that klansmen ap
peared to be overwhelmingly in the
majority.
There were something like 600
men present from ill parts of the
county.
REMARKABLE
SPEECH
“It is impossible,” the report
continued, "to estimate the, fuii
effect of the aid given by the cop- .
poration to the live stock indus
try because calamities that were
averted can never be measured." 1
"It is generally recognized, how
ever, that by providing as it. did fi
nancing for more than 6,900.000
Mr. Woodruff delivered one of j head of live stock, the corporation
the most remarkable speeches he [checked the demoralization in the
ever heard. General Pope said. industry, gave the stock, mehl a
Duke Ross, a Winder lawyer in, breathing spell, stabilized the mar-
front of whose home there had been I ket and turned the tide away from
a demonstration by men wearing | disaster toward recovery and re-
u ji/1 toho tha I pnnstniptfnn " ' ' '
Man uniforms, did not take the j construction.”
matter seriously. General Pope said. ] The effect of the corporation’s
He seemed to treat It humorously. | activity on the live stock Industry
General Pope said he did not he-1 was typical of that on many other
lieve there would be any assault j phases of agriculture, it was added,
unon Mr. Woodruff, and he be-1 and satisfaction with the assist-
lieved the situation was quiet and ance rendered has been expressed
contained no elements of danger, to the corporation in countless
He said the mayor, chief of po
lice, sheriff and other authorities
offered him full co-operation and
expressed themselves as being glad
he came.
Vfays.
ALL FARMERS
•RE HELPED
The threat. It was said. oam e from I quale, so he accepted lecture and ] The mgePs arrival in stance
persons In Morehftuse Parish. writing contracts to pay his way. Wednesday recalled a nresentment
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The superin
tendent’s oftlce of the Atlantic
Coast Line railway today gave out
the following official list of those
injured In the , wreck of the Pal
metto Limited Wednesday after
noon near McIntosh, Ga.
A. J. Stancliff, Ware ford. Pa.,
sprained back and heck.
James T. Leonard, New Yorlf,
slt”M Irreretlon In forehead.
Mrs. Hattie Benedict, injury to
- , Pny his way. | Wednesday recalled a presentment
_ . _ _ . He expressed the deslre that any ; h0 ha d voiced that he would die in
Readv To Contract 1 *«•»**». tn .? em ° T y °f this country. Mr. Bonsai observing
iXCOliy t D vOnUaCl his student years in the United! his happiness upon completion of
to .? e f t J? w8h i? s wld ch are his second address at Chicago, his
RnfflBg other things to stimulate last formal engagement before sail-
frtondshlp between France and . ing for home questioned Mm as to
America 'through the education m. hia emotion and M. Clemenceau,
< ? untry of you ° K men from i telling of Ms presentment
Roumanian Oil
LONDON.—Ronmania, possess.k1
of large areas of undeveloped oil the other.
Wash.-rPic-
tures showing Roscoe Arlfuckle left side. -
will continue to be barred hero. Miss Jenevie SIbert. T1 usvills,
according to'Mayor B. F. HilLU’The Pa., shock.
power to Mr. Barnes by th« ! 8en tj m ent against Arbuckle hra not David'C. Uncles, ’20 Fi'erside
• iK»we r to Mr. Barnes by the changed here and I see no reason J Drive. Now York, laceration
be “* l* # S3Sf i 5^ & 249 W. 107th
street. New York, contusion of nose
ls "f similar business organize Hilbltod,” he declared.
1 in Germany Is not known but j L
uses and ElUott Goodwin, I t MILWAUKEE,' WlS.—’’The mere
general of the chamber I sngvrstlon of the return of Ar'-
. ,Dr, rr '.(i at gre a t length with 1 buckle to the films Is an outrage
Mrs. Ella H. Burns, Cameron,
Conn., bruised.
Mrs. A. R. Dodge, stiffness of the
s,s.vat. icusui wiui i DUCKie to tue mum *■’
vi J lry Hughes last week their and Insult to the public. Rev. G.
..the ‘™ hr °hi'rtng with the many , F. Behener, secretary of the Mil- neck. •
, “ e .r tncld.nts that served to make waukee Federation of Ministers, | Mrs. Ruth Briddle, contusion cf
" :, r that the Washington gov- said when he learned Arbucklei right knee,
moment had before it some pro- again will be shown in motion pic- Mrs. Edward Teats, Clearmont,
(Turn to page two) Itures. I (Turn to Page Eight)
’ands. is ready to give contracts to
foreign capital, and consequently
American, British. French am! Bel
gian interests are taking notice.
The Independence Roumaine an
nounced recently that a well known
constructton comrany of New York
had made an offer to the govern
ment for state oil lands In exchange
for ah undertaking to snpply the
state with all petrol and derivatives
necessary for internal consumption
at a very low cost Other similar
offers have been made to the gov
ernment by other interests and ac
cording to an official announcement
’’they all will be considered.”
There are at present several of
the largest oil companies of the
Tnitod States, England ard TIoU; nd
interested in Roumanian oil prop
erties. and production 13 increas
ing steadily.
; France that death wonld overtake
The American field service wiysjhim In the, UMted States explain-
organlzed and directed by Repre- [ e d: "I was strald, If that were so,
sentatlve A. P. Andrews of MasSa- that I should not be able to finish
chusetts- to enable young Ameri- my task here. But It ls ended now,
etas to do ambulance work In! and I don’t care two pins."
France before the United States
had entered the war. It was in rec
ognition of this that M. Clemenceau
TOUCHES HIS
HUMOR
selected as 1 the beneficiary of his
J 1 ®. ^5f rican HeI , d service m. Clemenceau’s American tour
fund- fellowships, organized after wafl replete with Incidents which
too American field service had touched Ms sense of humor,
been disbanded at the end of the I According to Mr. Bonsai ho was
war, to perpetuate the names of the ! not offended by congressional, pc-
J? y , cr ?? t ns , a hko 'litical or newspaper attacks, but
0f f^larships. to send enjoyed and welcomed them. The
eac i country to uni " , onl y incident he resretted his man-
versities of the other. aeer. said, was what ho oharaMer-
; ager said, was what he cUaracier
’ized as the desecration of the tomb
'of Lincoln during his pilgrimage
| of reverence there when photog-
i raphers created considerable dis-
Various agencies whose offers of | (Turn to pa*e two)
FINANCIAL AID
WAS REFUSED
“Large as is the number of ad*
* ! vances made by the corporation, 1 *
jihe report said, ‘It falls far short oi
On arriving in Winder, General 1 indicating the number of farmers
Pope said, he was met by a man who benefited from them; for even
wearing boots who introduced him- \ 'hose farmers who have had no fi- r
self by name and said he was a
klansman and offered him assist
ance In making his investigation.
The man explained that he was
wearing hoots because of the cold
and rainy weather. This man, he
said, introduced him to various of
ficials. The chief of police offered
to take hjm to see any people. in
Winder he wanted to see, and the
sheriff offered to take him to see
any people in the country outside
of Winder. He said be spent a busy
day interviewing citizens. •
On returning to Atlanta, General
Pope said, he was met at the sta
tion by a man introducing himself
as the publicity representative of
the klan, who related to him a de
tailed account of his movements in
Winder and told him the klan
wonld appreciate a “clean bill of
health/’, if he felt justified in so
doing from his investigation:
Strawberries
nancial assistance, directly or in
directly, have nevertheless beju
aided by the general improvement
in the credit situation.'
The report added that the gradual
decrease in the number of applica
tions for loans further reflected
the general benefit which the co:-
poratlon operations have had i ;
the agricultural credit situatfoh.
Advances for agriculture and livii I
stqck purposes totalling 9433,447.- -
00 0*” 37' states had been approved i
up to November 30. Of this 3182,-
860,000 went to 4.400 banking in-
Rfjt.utinns. 377.761.000 to 113 live
stock loan companies, 3172,827,000
to 32 co-operative marketing- as
sociations. -
Barnett Elected
Kiwanis Head
At the meeting of the Kiwanis
A«. AA A Raw Thursday J. Willie Barnett
At «pl*UU OOXjwas elected president of the club
- J jfor 1923, succeeding Chas. E.
MOBILE. Ala.—Strawberries sold.Martin, and E. E. Lampkin was
here in the market Thursday for elected vice president. The races
*1. - - * -- for these two offices have been
enlivened during the past week by
one dollai a’ box. This was a record
breaker for the fruit in this part
of the United States.-made possi
ble by the mild ■winter that has
prevailed so far.
• ••
much humorous publicity in the
newspapers and all the city be*
came interested in the outcome. '