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i ol.. 11, No. 90 Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA„ FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1922.
Shifts Copies S.Cents Daily. I Cents Sunday.
C I Slain Woman Toldl
1 Ui “Kneel to No Man” I
An Allied Commission to Study European Economics Now Seems Probable
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TWO DEAD .BONES FOUND M
II EUROPE IS
Jealousy May Have Caus- j
ed Atlantan’s Death.
Proposal So Far Has
Been Discussed Only
Outside of Official Dip
lomatic Circles.
IT S. PARTICIPATION
NOW SEEMS LIKELY
Cuno Says Germany Does
Not Favor Proposed Mis
sion. Hughes’ Brief
Statement.
WASHINGTON—The question of
Wn- riia extending aid toward the
solution of the economic troubles
os Kin - ' 1 ! - has been brought sharply
lo the front with the emerging of a
1 lan under which an American
coumUsic.n would determine what
Ceriiinny should pay the allies in
Th«» proposal so far has been dis-
tjsined outside the formal channels
,.f diplomacy, but an understanding
in authoritative circles has beeu
developed through an exchange ot
\iev\„ that the United States and
Great Britain and Germany are wil
ling to assent to the creation of
stun a commission. Premier Poin-
car** of prance now has the plan
before him and is expected, to make
a decision when ho has concluded a
series of conferences with Indus-.
t leaders of France and Ger
many.
WASHINGTON
ONLY HINTS
Front the beginning of the pres
ent discussions official of the
Washington government have been
unwilling to do more than hint that
a wav was being sought to render
aid toward a European settlement
;nd so far have refused to discuss
iht- plan for an American commis
sion Secretary Hughes Thursday A
night, however, issued a brief Jerious midnight errand , _
statement which avoided any men- j hom .® of Thomas Pollard, 32, ; comber 11, Mrs. Richardson intend-
tion of details and said that the J®? 1 *} 1 * rea * e J tate d ® a i e, [ and so * to go to the theater. But, spurred
‘ go\ ernment” had presented no cIa * ’which resulted in on by her jealousy and the un-
■ proDosals” on the subject. | Oeaih to Mre. Richardson from r signed note she had received, she
Tin- method of sounding out all , a revolver shot. .decided to “have it out” with Pol-
thos,* directly interested before any | „ 01 °! ns P° lice court hearing for ■ lard, police believe,
definite - proposal” is submitted POUMa. | A shot was heard. Mrs. Richard-
with. the full force of government; .■}“*• Richardson came here from I son dropped dead, shot through the
authority is a familiar one in nego- j AUanta. Ga^ sijc yoars ago and en- ; breast
lions of great delicacy. The secre
tary's statement recalled an asser
tion several days ago by a White
House spokesman who in discuss-
ine the American attitude toward
Europe said it would-not he proper
to display on the stag©' all that
was taking place behind the scenes.
CHRISTMAS CHEER
SPREAD IN ATHENS!
kunt Dinah Sets
Style In Blouses !
Beauty Damaged
the conrt house.
MRS. THELMA H. RICHARDSON AND THOMAS POLLARD.
RICHMOND, Va.—“Do not kneel lice say. -
to ™ aa " I Blit only a few weeks ago, police
This advice, written by an un- say, Pollard’s love seemed to cool
known hand In an anonymous letter: iviesnwliile, Pollard, police allege,
to Mrs. Thelma H. Richardson, Z4, sought the companionship of an-
steuographer, sent her on a mvs- 1 other woman, a choir singer
terlous midnight errand to the i On the night of the shooting. De
fined Pollard’s employ. She ineti-1 Pollard says the young woman
tuted, divorce proceedings against j who, he claims, previously had
her husband and was granted an ; threatened him, pointed a pistol at
absolute decree in September. him and that she was accidentally
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.—David j
McDowell, taxicab driver of Annlg- j
ton, Ala:, went before the court at j
. , Talladega Thursday and confessed I
Many 'Organization Are he;was responsible tor the deatmSoldiers Are Dispatched
Doing Charitable Work!' °t John w. Dial, whose body was; After Guards See Un-
Among Unfortunate of ‘ * he o mld ?' e of the ro ^i known Parties'Prowling
° ' • |near Oxford several days ago. ; U,. . , 0
^Ity. j Charles Dial, a brother of" the { ® L&KG,
Christmas! - tills ; ^ ra e™ d : kidnapped"men
are already seen; the finding of Dial's'body, suspect- | ARE being hunted
. : ed ot the killing, were released:! . ,
Citizens Who Have Dofte ! The ease had been involved in i Believed That Work of
Nothing So Far Are i ^t^t s, heTOre e th™d e eath lt of S jo 1 imi Justice Dept, in Search-
Urged to Become Active j X™*^ {£1 mg Dead Bodies Would
At OllCe. ' * ■ I to the arrest of the two men. | JD6* Halted.
MER ROUGE, La. — It w*s re
ported here Friday morning that
the bodies of the two missing men,
believed to have been the victims of
[hooded men last August, had been
brought to the surface! by fisher
men in' LaFourch© lake 12 miles
I { | from here. A ptf I jtary detachment
| PARIS.—-An inquiry into the i !■» automobilsa was 'immediafcly
story of a-Mine. Liotardy that she | dispatc ^® d the'pie©©,
was the sole legatee of the estate I MUR ROTTGE, La.—The entire
Miss Lillian Fair Heller of l National Guard company which bss
Miss Phillips, secretary of the
local Red Cross, says the people
of the city have been wonderful
in contributing for Christmas
cheer offerings and dozens have
requested namfes and' she is
highly pleased with the respons
es received.
The main thing now is coal,
wood, clothing and shoes and
anyone. who can afford these
necessities kindly.telephone hep
-iUBUga Rea Cross office Jr
I t
CLAIM TO ESTATE!
-Edna* ^•sciiogton, film- ceauty,
h*ff entered suit fc£. $t«,500 against
^Norman -Manning -for alleged dam
age -to her beauty. >*Her nosegwas
.... . .... Wgto».'W A” accident whUe
, estimated at SlOO.OOlkOOOrf* 8 ® 0 -on duty hare whilo the lakes la jjannfailg’a car:
_ ;has revealed Mis* Heller’s will in j surrounding ^ lifer Hougo wore
r . . , onirff «- o-irAndv < iB ^ >ar * s and has resulted in I drags ® d search for the bedr
Christmas spirit Is afready ram- the disinteaU ot fraud chtrf!CS ' ies of two mee who. were Wd-
pant In Athens and hundreds of brought against Mme. Liotaidv by na ' ,p ® d by a band of masked men
instances of spreading gjod cheer a banker who advanced her 15,000 ““ w “?
-mi. . |:iot been seen since, was ordered to
“RUM PIPE LINE”
mm DENT U S,
MISSION INVITED
Lqve appears to have existed be
tween Pollard and his stenographer
for the last two or three years, no-
shot when he sought to wresf the
weapon from her, according to th
story police say he told them.
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR IS RAZED BY FIRE
QUEBEC’— The fire which de
stroyed the historic (1,000,00 Notre
Dame church early Friday is be
lieved to have been Caused by an
,_ COLUMBIA, S. C.—Frank M. Jef-
i n J!"" n waToffleiiuy denied lords was electorcuted at the South
Imv , ,1; v ,hnt Chancellrl Cano or 1'i’aroUnu state prisen here this
am other government official hed morning for the murder last May
suvn-stsd the aDoolntment of an j of J. C. Amette, his business part-
All), i, ,11 commission! to invest*- ner. ’me current was applied only incend nry, according to Daniel
- ■ v mWs ee^omJc cOTdl- once, being turned on at 10:20 Do.-rain. chief of the provincial pe
(rmam 8 econ i dood at lice, who said he had received a
letter informing him that ^the edi
fice would be burned on Defc'wnber
28, First reports s&id the blaze
was caused by, a short in the elec
tric wiring. ,-d* ,
messenger boy turned in the
hlarm when he noticed smoke dssu
ing from, the edifice. Firemen were
unable for a * time to locate the
seat (of the blaze so dense was the
sqioke inside the- building. Later
if, was found the flames had start
ed.-between!*-the ceiling and the
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“Christmas basket” headquarters
of the Red Cross, the Elks, the
Banner commissary and dozens of
other smaller organizations are a*?
astir in the work of assembling the
fifts and securing the names of
those to whom the baskets are ti
be sent And in addition +.0*11 this
there is the private activity that is
going on. old servants being re -
membered, a needy family here and
there has been heard about and
truly it seems that everyone will be
remembered In Athens this year.
Surely the old slaves and faithful
nugroes will not be forgotten.
But this should not slow up the
interest of .those who feel that
iiiair Christmas will not be a suc
cess unless they do something for
someone else. Someone +hey may
not know personally, perhaps, but
something for someone.
TELEPHONE «
ANO FIND OUT
Those who are entertaining this
| feeling but who are not In touch
with anyone to know who to help
and where to send their offerings
should telephone to the Red Cross,
th© Elks or to those individuals
who are always in a position to
know where there is suffering aud
need.
Tbwe gn<»d Fouls live in every
Neighborhood and are always well
known to all the neighbors.
t »Cooper Lake early Friday, wh-an
+n 18“ ard8 Stationed there discovered
LafFn J tho’wm number of men moving about In
Bating the wRh Mme. Lintaidy the shallow water of the lake and
said that she met Miss Heller at | fired upoa them .
BRITISH PRESS
COMMENT
| M JON — considerable ea“
is manifested by Friday morn-
newspapers im their discus-
of the proposal for an Ameri
COLUMBIA, S. C.—'While Frank
M. Jeffords preparedJ:o l inarch to
the death .house In the South .Caro
lina state prison-to pay the penal
ty for, participation in the killihs
liir iu ^ f of his business partner, J. C. Ar-
mmisr.'ion’trvlsit Germany.' nette. Ira Harrison confessed slay-
Som,. „ f , ho „.i Pers bringing fo.r->| er Arnette ITJjlay ’lay in jfnmfa
eml-cfficial denials **-'-*■'
•re.ti Britain has received ’ muse
less accepted the proposal and
* a rn against putting fkitlt in
"thcsf Amerfca-ni canards.” '
hi m.nrters where 'It Is admitted
Bs probable that Germany Inlated
><Uoh a proposal the idea Is receive^
* ilh a strong suspicion of Teu-
ton.
JJNWISE, writes r; r / -.
0r »E EDITOR
h would b© vary unwise” writes
!' 10 Anaucial editor of the POST
allow these constant rumors
i American intervention to divert
■ t<nti°T from the one undoubted
,. ct of the situation, namely that
r>ext cash installment of t* 16
that! hospital reprieved by Gov, Harvey
and his sentence stayed .by the
courts. Thfe Governor late Thurs-
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CHRISTMAS TREES
BEGINNING TO LIGHT
V
Nice and that the two became
great friends. Eventually she
said, Miss Heller informed her
that she would make Mme. Lio
tardy her heir on the condition
that she look after several animals
in which the testator was interest
ed.
Miss Heller died August 21,
1921, on the yacht “Old Chap” in
the Mediterranean Sea.
Mme. Liotardy said that the
will was .ip a Paris bank but that'
she had been unable to get/formal
proof of Miss Heller’s death, al
though she had applied to the dead
woman’s sister. M. Bogg advanced
Mme. Liotardy 15,000 francs, but
on her alleged failure to pay that
sum he filed a charge of f£aud.
An inquiry was started and the
will was found.
Mme. Liotardy then repaid the
money and M. Bogg withdrew the
charge. :v -1
Two More Fifes
By Pyromaniacs
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Two mbre
fires Friday were attributed to
pyromaniacs which . have burned
mbre than 35 barns in southeast
ern Pennsylvania, Delaware and
New Jersey. A co-operative feed
‘mill at Dublin, near Doylestown,
Eight men had been stationed at
Cooper Lake which was partially
dragged Thursday and they had
been given instructions to fire on
any persons seen about the lake
who could not give an account of
themselves. Shortly after 1 o’clock
several men were seen some dis
tance from the shore wading about
*n a shallow spot. They paid no a‘
T IN BLAZE
NE^V YORK—Deputy Fire Cbl'ef
John F. O’Hara and 12 firemen
were injured Friday by falling wals
while combatting a blaze in Brook
lyn that damaged the Auto Baby
carriage company’s plant and five
adjoining dwellings.
O’Hara was directing the firemen
Stegeman and 1 WpbSrijff
Conference in Columbus January 3
George C. Woodrutf. newly elect- coaches here and .-when he takes
ed football coach at the University lis basketball team to Colembua for
and Herman J. Stegeman, now head a game th» ’third will confer with
of all athletics at . the University,
will hold a conference on January
3 in Columbus when gll the plans
for next fall will bo gone into and
the -Question of two assistant
coaches discussed.
Mr. Stegeman leaves Monday for
Teparah ons is duo January 15th j tlie meeting of the National Ath-
'nat it behooves the Allies to ) lotic Board in New York and will
I? 1 ** to a definite' conclusion in hlso attend the rational .cvnchfs:
; meantime regarding the course ; ir.eetlna and while on this trip .will (loyal of. all former University men
10 adopted unless Germany ore- i attempt to line up some men. who * and has never lost Interest in any
Coach' Woodrhft
’-Kid" Woodruff stated over long
distance to the Eanner-Herald Fri
day afternoon, that “he would giro
all. that he possessed to the Geor
gia .cause'. 0 He'fs one of the most
> adopted unless Germany pre-i attempt ^ ... IS _. -
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.: v„_! Pa., was destroyed with feed from
# Christmas trees have already he mft u v n . *v, p forms in the reetnn
gun to usher in the Yuletlde season many 01 me rarms ln tne reBlon ’
and many have been held Jn, all
sections of the city. Sunday acnool
classes have given them and In*
vlted other children to _ them,
church guilds, missionary organ!
rations, school classes, fraternities
and similar bogles Of men, women
boys and girls are playing Santr.
and let it ,be hoped that no one
will be missed who should be re
membered.
9T. MARY’S
TREE ENJOYED
many of the farms in the region.
State troopers said the blaze had
every appearance of incendiarism
A barn at Radnor, on the grounds
of Arthur J. Fox. was damaged’era--
Iy today .hut was saved by prompt
work Of flremep.'Oil soaked rags
were reported to have been found
in the hay lptfc y ’ ' •'
1 Dead* 1 Hurt Ipi
| Ohio Family Feud
STFTTPFWn J.E. O.—Bov J oil -
25, Is dead,- his brother WiJ-
,. (Che of the : largest apti: wrelng*y ....
most appreciated trees-already to j.Haiti. ^32, :■severely) wounded r and
pass out the packages^to the’eager. James Pearson,'50, is being hunt-
little fellows was that at St'Mary’s
Sunday school, down on Oconee
■tree* nud which was held Thurs
day night
More than seventy-five bright
eved kiddies eagerly watched the
dolls, the footballs, the handker
chiefs. the workbags and th« fruit
and nuts as they were lifted from
the beautifully decorated tree and
handed out as each little 'one’s
name was 'called.
ed by deputy sheriffs and West
Virginia state police to face a mur.-
der charge as the result of a fight
which ^came as the climax of a feud
between the two families existing
for many weeks. The battle was
staged near the Ledson farm at *
o’clock this morning on the hill
e*»8t if Weirton, W. Va., across the
river from Steubenville. V
T ...... FAVORABLE REPORT
And their eyes did sparkle and WASHINGTON.—Favorable re
faces brighten as each cried out
to the other, “Oh. look what I got;
what did you get?”
One little fellow was craw for
a football and It wan too bad that
Santa or the godmothers, of chil-
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t'ntion to orders to surrender given j w *i en startled cries of spectators
warned him that the front wall
was falling. He dived through a
window in <an effort to escape hut
was pinned by wreckage. Asa s-
tant chief Smoky Joe Martin and
two policemen rescued him.
The last rites were administered
as he was rushed to a hospital.
Physicians said his condition was
serious.
More than fifty families were
driven from their homes, by th,
by guardsmen, according to a re
port to the officers of the company
here. Several shots were fired at
them and the men disappeared. It
Is believed they made their escapo
in a boat through one of the bayous
opening into the lake.
TWO REPORT TO
HEADQUARTERS
Two of the guardsmen were sent
to report to headquarters here.
io report io Headquarters nere, ******* m«ju uuums. uy tne
making'the eight mile trip, bn foot,! 11 *? 3 ’ the origin of which is undeter
much- of the way through a dense mined r The damage was estimated
swamp. They arrived at Mer Rouge J*nore than $100,000.
soon after three o’clock. The. entire •
militia company was at once sent Qa1£ I-
to the spot making the trip as far l^CidlS© IS
aspossible In motor trucks. / • » i n n/t
Up to five o’clock Friday morn- V^lStllTlCCl tSV IVlcHl
ing ho report had been received - *
aSS-KSSF
shot and killed on the por
Irwin’s store two’ weeks ago.
SERVES 7 STATES
Intelligence Agents Dis
cover Bootleggers Syn
dicate With Big Patron
age. : .’?v{ - j
two otherTbooze
lines destroyed
Train Porters . Dispensed
Drinks Por One Ring.
Others Did Large Ex
press Business.
NEW ORLEANS, La.—IntelU-
genee agents of the bureau of In
ternal revenue who have been con
ducting an investigation Into prohi
bition violations here for' several
weeks have discovered a new “rum
pipeline”with headquarters tar New
Orleans and branches in seven
states, it was learned- Friday.*
The “line” which is said to be
operated by a syndicate of, boot
leggers with a regular schedule of
shipments, hap been in. ^operation.
for several months and has trans
ported .-millions of dollars’ worth of
liquor, federal agents said. J
Two other “rum rings,” one of
vhich established a receiving sta
tion in Chicago and specialized on
train porters carrying suitcase lots
and the other operating by means
of express shipments, transporting
cases of liquor in un cases as^oH
as trunks haveneen disbanded as .
a result of Investigation by fad-
eral government agents, the au- •
thorities claim. ,
The new syndicate, it is ctarg?d,
employs agents at regular salary
who travel between New Orleans
and branch stations scattered
throughout Texas and centralized
In other states in Chicago, St. Louis
Kansas City, Cincinnati, Memphis,
Nashville and Birmingham. Each .
agent, federal agents said, poses as
a traveling salesman and carries
large “sample cases.’’ ; • *
Reports are on file here, they
said, of agents who engaged state
rooms and traveled with as many
as four trunks,. each containing .
from fifteen to thirty cases of li
quor- -
Arrests -may be expected soon,
the federal men* announced.
«d it has been named as the spot
where the bodies of the two miss-
‘ug men, Major Watt Daniels and
Thomas Fletcher Richards, might
•^visible have beeb thrown by their
kidnappers, according to reports
rtiade by private detectives.
"'“Divers worked at this lake sev
ere! hoars Thursday and part of I* V • tJ. MOKUAN
was Magged..^The dragging was to' PREACHES SUNDAY
>ve been coirnleted Friday. Da- UKIIUAI
""rtmant of Justice agents who are
of the- opinion that an effort was
made to remote the bodies of the
two men by the party which was
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Irwin claimed self defense, tes
tifying that Downey came to his
store and threatened to kill him,
and made an act as if to draw a
•gun when he fired in self, defense.
REV. P. C.'mORGAN
Dev., p. c. Morgan! who is at
home for the ’Christmas holidays,
will preach at the Central. Presby
terian church next/Sunday mornlr,.
at U o’clock. H
Settlement of Turkish Straits , . ,
Problem Not Going Smoothly
port was ordered.hy the senate In- “ This rtaae It clear that Turkey’s
terstato commerce committee:on ..ccenfeeee ••
thh capper “truth ln fabric” bill to SSKSS-^, tb ‘ • >ro , posaI ta ap ‘
require manufacturers • of ■ woolen aa I n t6rnatlonal commission
earments or cloth to mark the per
centage of wool and other materials
contained in their product.
LAUSANNE—(By the Associat
ed Press) — The Impression that
settlement. of - the Turkish Straits
problem was not progressing as
rapidly as bad been anticipated be
came general Friday following the
statement issued by the Turkish
delegation.
The modifleations _of the original
project for control of the'straiti
-asked by the Turks include sn un
derstanding that the International
oomtniss'on shall hawe n > Jurisdic
tion whatever over the So-Called
zones'of the demilitarization In the
region of the Straits. y
The Turks furtlmrmore have •de
manded a pact b'ywht^h the AlfleS'
“WWnawmi comm.ee.ou guarantee that the safety t nd neu-
to control depended upon aocep- trallty of Turkey will not be Jeopar
tance by the Allies of certain condi dized and that' there be no aggre-
| tions demanded by the Turks. gresston against Constantinople.
STUDENT ARRESTED
ON BIGAMY COUNT
Shellie L. Barden, formerly of
Thomasvllle, Ga„ but until Thurs
day a rehabilitation student at the
State College of Agriculture, was
taken back to his old home by a
deputy- sheriff Thnlsday night,
charged.with bigamy.
Barden is said to- have a wife and
one cMldinThfomasviUe arid has
married a second time' since com
ing to Athens.
The records of the ordinary
show that ■ pn February -12 of this.
year lie married . Mi** Cynthia E..
Pledger of this, 'county, and they
have bpen .Hying together since, ic
■eates; until the warrant .came for
hls-araest from Ttiomasville.
Bardendtd not deny that he had
a wife and child ln south 'Georgia
when apprehended by the local po
nce, who arrested him Wednesday,
bnt said she left him and that he
married here.
$2.50 Gold( Coins
Go Up In Price
^ASHINGTON—A brisk demand
for two anq a- half dollar gold
pieces for Christmas gifts has put
a, premium on the coin which Is
heoojning scarcer every year. Some
banks sold them Friday for $2.90
and $3.00. . (j