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■■'"■’■ i "iTl’il i;ii' f i.i.iM||^ffi|fpt^''l^|t||^| >ltiaf "~'''“*'*‘ - ■■ - -^-- • :, COTTON: MIDDLING 28c PUE' IOU8 CLOSE 25%e Dtlly and Sunday—10 Cent* ■ Week. XU'Om P»p*r la Heat Hmui—'ThaOnly Paper I* Many Home*. Dafly ad*Si5By—10 C«rt8 a WaeE. J "*! r 'WEATHER 1 . ' WW !X T Fair with continued cool. ", 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 | •5*—+ *fr—4* ❖ 4* «fr 4" *F—*fr 4r-ri> i 4H* -M- 4—4* N 4—4* M 1 / 4 •fr- 4’ 4- 4« -M* 4-—4« 4» -4» 4.- 4. 4.. 4. 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 (Turn to Page _Five) .. “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- (Turn to Page Five) 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 _. - (Turn to page two) [would be acceptable aa assistant( (Turn to Page Five) .: 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- (Turn to Page Five) 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 (Turn to Page Five) 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
