Newspaper Page Text
ATHENS CO’fTON:
MIDDLING 26 5-8e
FRIDAY'S CLOSE 26e
Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. The One taper In Most Homes—THe Only’Paper In Many Homes.
Daily and Monday—10 Cents a; WeetT"
VOL. 11, No. 91 Full Associated-Press Leased Wire Service.
. ATHENS, GA„ TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1922.
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cento Sunday.
4—4
4-4 4-4
4. 4*
i »
*i* *1* *1* *1*
*-*
•I* *1*
-T- .T.
* V
.V. . v. y .
* i 1 V
-V-
V V
Former Savannah Man Held in Baltimore on Three Arson
^ —4 4—4 ^-4 4—4 ^-4 4—4 4—4 4-4 4—4 4—4 4—4 4—4’ 4—4 4—4 4—4 4—4 4—4
COLUMBUS MAN
ANOTHER STAGE ROMANCE
SHE SLEW VICTIM
After Watching His Body
All Night, Mrs. 0. L.
.imies Goes to Court Vol
untarily.
v\YS SHE KILLED
IN SELF DEFENSE
hlack Feared Mrs. Jones
Would Go Back to First
Husband, She Declares
on Stand.
ton
Beauty to Wed
f itawy* * m
When Testimony Is Intro
duced in Court in Janu
ary, Solutions Will Be
Reached.
2 OF 5 MEN TAKEN
WERE DROWNED
! Old Man Who Gave Drink
to Masked Band Will As
sist Courts and State in
Probe.
New YORK — While police re-
ccfdB show Monday was the “dri- j
eii*’ Christmas in New York’s his- j
tory. six deaths were attributed
by-police'to bootleg liquor. • ! .
Autopsies will be performed on Dillard Owens 111 SWOHI
thp bodies ot the Six-five men I g tatement to Court De-
.oiTSVlLLE, Ky. — A woman’
rv »*f a quarrel, a shot and her
il from dusk to dawn over the
ly of the man she killed was be-
checked up by police depart-
nt investigators here .Tuesday.
I killed my friend" Mrs. OliVe L.
• years old pretty divorcee
nodriced' when she u \
v headquarters *3ust after day-
■ ai Monday. This was the first
timatioB officfals had that O.
sHles manager for a Louis-
H, automobile company ha<l been -——— y
Sunday otternoon in Mr,. e 0 Wet n , a
.■ >on 1 -innrimpnt. 1 . . . .. . .. .
.. ‘.lo^Tsiw she fired in sell] laborer in a Chicago packing plant
.se. Black, acording to her ~~
BASTROP. La. — That tne state
will be able to establish eye wit
nesses to the identity of several of
the masked mob which last Au
gust kidnapped five Mer Rouge
residents Including Watt Daniels
and Thomas Richards, whose de
capitated bodies were taken from
a nearby lake last week, was the
» statement Tuesday of inveatiga-’
I tors who have been working on
010 ■SSgeJSI'Severgl.months,
jnno, ,.,o„ou. | The Identification will ba
■ever, Wetmore is Just learning the I the sw . rSt servlCo mcn saldi
packing business “from the ground j testimony at the open hearing or-
1 up” at present, as some day he . per by Judge Parker to begin here
I inh " u the millions of his . January 5th of a farmcr whoso
i f “ ther ’ Frank °- Wetmore, Chica- home ls near oakridge. in the
go banker. Pictures show the en- I southeastern part
anfa one woman Tuesday.
th> bodies were taken to the mo r-
gde pending the medical examina
tion.
^Threat of prohibition authori
ties to make the .city as dry over-
the holidays as the eighteenth
amendment contemplated for the
whole .year had its effect so far
as public drinkiDK was concerned,
police reported. For the first time
within the memory of oldest at
taches of the West Side CoU r t, not
a .defendant was brought to bar
there on* a charge of intoxication.
. Bellevue hospital reported only
12 persons suffering from alcomol-
fsm : were treated there Monday.
That is the lowest number for
Christmas day in the history of the
Institution. . 'j
Minor raids were made by pro
hibition agents, liquor being con-
ted in several of the places
ed; '
dares That Hg Killed
Perry Owens.
TRAGEDY OCCURRED
AT DRUNKEN BRAWL
DETECTIVES NAB
HIM REFUSING TO
ALLOW HIM BAIL
Joseph Hart Faces Three
Counts For Starting
Blazes. More Charges
Are Likely.
Four Others Arrested, In
cluding a Woman, Who
Face Trial on Lesser
Charges.
AS WARMEST VET
COLUMBUS, Ga.—Preparations
wefe going forward here Tuesday
for the preliminary hearing Wed
nesday morning of Dillard Owens,
whose sworn confession as having
been the slayer of his brother,
,Perry Owens, made to city detec
tives Monday afternoon exonerated
j the other four arrested at the time
I of the killing.
Perry Owens, was killed Sunday
' * J ^hui* in wfrnt.hls^ brother Dillard
[•T store in the"Hbrthehi section of
the city. Another brother, John
The beautiful Hon. Joan Alice*
Katherine DIckson-Poynder is soon]
to marry Lloyd George’s former!
private secretary. Lieut, dol. Sirj
Edward Grigs. Miss Dickson-,
Poynder is the only child of Baron!
Islington. Sir Edward was private 1
military secretary to'the Prince oC
Woles when the latter visited tht
United States. _
MANY LIVES WERE
THREATENED, SAID
Man Had Just Paid j)i
Fine For Disorderly
Conduct When Re-ar
rested. ' / Iff
BALTIMORE, Mil. — with three
charges of arson against him, and
other mysterious fires unaccount
ed for, Joseph Hart a mechanic,
34 years old formerly of Savannah,
Ga., was held without bail for '<
grand jury action by Magistrate
Stanford in Central police court.
Hart was arrested Sunday on a
charge of dirorde r ly conduct. HQ
was fined $10 and costs. As he
left the court room he was arrest
ed by two detectives. Ho was
identified by a number of persons
.who the detectives say saw him In*
I Jhe rooms and houses- where a
number of mysterious fire? threat-
:iC.b$VjLAND, Ohio.—A vigorous, j etyjd the lives of occupants,
search for the tug Cornell, which Hart is accused of firing three
gaged couple.
CHICAGO — Throughout the
United States* all previous au-
Mo re house i thenic records for warm tempera -
# vwaa „ disappeared Thursday, was contip-1 houses in North Calvert street, ah
Owens, a soldier and a woman were ued Tuesday though the vessel with j within a block .of etch other. His
arrested along with E. T. Sykes,! its crew of eight, practically was j wife and child now live in Pitts«
proprietor of the store where the! given up as lost Monday'night. H. j burgh, Pa.
killing occurred. They will be tried B. Shaver, superintendent of the
Wednesday morning also, on minor [ government flying field, planned
police charges. j to assign at least one airplane to
Deep regret was expressed for i fly over Lake Erie Tuesday. The
Parish, who they declare told them j ture for Christmas day were brok the killing of his brother in the j tugs Tennessee and T. C. Lutz,
.lint of the Lagedy became angry
iiun he vearned her daughter
■lara 17 was with her and her
ivoiced husband, C. H. Jor.cs, of
iminnati, a Louisville & Nush-
iII,. maggage master, wos to visit
ier daughter. Black feared Mrs.
ur.es declared, that a reconcillia-
i, m between the divorced couple
upild he affected through the
isits of the father with Clara.
\\he n Black reached for r- Pistol
j he witnessed the seizure and spirit
j ins away of the quintet and re-
1 cognized some of the abductors
| when they lifted their hoods to
’ drink water.
SAYS HE RECOGNIZED
MEMBERS OF PARTY
weapon first and fired, she fc»M.
All night long sbo kept the death
wairh. Clara returned from a pic-
tui. show and Mrs. Jones had the
u. r l sleep with her, unaware of
thu presence of the body in tire
i* cm, tho motlier said. Jones it
WHS said here filed suit for divorce
lour vears ago naming Black co-
lvspnndcnt. Later the petition
was withdrawn. Mrs. Jones then
iile«l suit, charging cruelty and lion
support. By consent, it was said ^ UIU *. v -
not^ Contested^ Jones j jj ve ^ Moon’s^ house, close to the
*'**’*• store, and Moon’s mother alleges'
One murder featured aboqt the SEATTLE, Wash. — The coro-
" Christ- j Tier's office here *Wan seeking Tues
mas day. Charlie Moon,
who operates a smell store on east ! tory of Emil Neur^er^a feiryboat
Broad street, near Elberton street, *' w “ '* J
was found dead in the middle of
his store room about 10 o’clock
Monday night.
He died from the results of a
gunshot wound in his left breast
end had evidently been dead for
two hours when found.
Police believe that Cliff Early,
a young negro who iip until Satur
day night was delivery boy at E.
H. Dorsey’s, did the killing.
yesterday N he would do any-
possible to help his former
Mrs. Juries was Charged
murder.
To Photograph
Every Drunk Man
Brought To Trial
I >KS MOINES, la.—johp B. Ham
''ill. chief of police, announced
I’uesday every drunken maxr*who
v brought into police headquarters
i- >e;.fter will be photographed.
W hen the offender has become
> er again he will be presented
■vith a picture of himself so be
nay know just how: he looked
\ i.ca lie was brought.to the jail. .
Hammond hopes ths "pbture
are" will . be A. Potent’ weapon
■ gainst drunkness, ; 1
Eighty intoxicated men ' spent
»’hrjrtinus eve in the city prison.
that he came to his room between
8 and 10 o’clock' Monday night,
packed all his things as if legating
and then came back in after a
few minutes. Moon was shot with
his own shot gun which was at the
house and. it is believed that when
Early came back to the house ne
procured the gun with which the
dead man way killed. Moon's
mother heard the shot but said
there was so much Christmas
shooting .that she didn’t pay any
attention to it.
operator, who Monddg^ttnvatled the
home of D. C. Engel, a woodwork
er with three pistols just as the
The farmer according to informa
tion the Investigators declared
they have in hand, was held up by
tho band on the Mer Rouge-Bas-
trep highway the night of the kid
napping and commanded to go to
a nearby rai.ch and get a bucket
ater for the thirsty band. He
celebration of Christmas day was | obeyed and when he retU rned he
starting, slew three of Engel'i
children and killed himself.
was directed to take a seat on
log. He is said to have declared
The only light shed upon the . he rec0 g n ized several membeis ot
holiday’ tragedy was given by
Helen Engle, 16-vear-old, sister of
the victim of the suicide who said
that the 40 year old slayer had
made love to her last, spring, had
shot at her when she repelled hts
advances, and afterward had writ
ten letters threatening to kill her
and her family.
Funeral arrangements were be-
IrJ^ made for the three Engle child
ren. The surviving members of
the family are the parents, Helen
and a brother Eme , 't 15. who escap
ed with Helen through a window,
after Neuiter had announced his
intention to kill Helen and “you
all.’
Ruhr Affected
By Money Issue
Sarah Bernhardt
Is Doing Nicely
ARIS — (By the Associated
ss> — The condition of Mme
rah Bernhardt showed further
movement Tuesday morning
i her physicians Bald they ten-
ively considered her out of dan
The
asserted that if the • ac-
remarkable recovery con
tinued there was a possibility She
•night appear in the new Guitry
I'lny as planned/ .
Mme. Bernhardt was taken with
J fainting spell during a dress re-
nearsal of the play several days
:,u, ‘ and suffered a relapse Sun
day. ; -
Moon was found by Jere Fields,
negro, who went,to the store to
buy some smoking tobacco about
'clock, r.nd tho dead negro was
sprawled out in the middle of the
floor and Fields, thinking he was
drunk, kicked him to awaken him
and upon finding him dead rushed
out of. the house -yelling and the
police were, soon notified. Moon
had a 38 caliber pistol 1n his pock
et.
In the stove room was found
automatic rifle while the shot
gun' with which he was killed was
standing in a corner neaT the door
with a blank shell in. it. Almost
gallon of Corn . whiskey was
ifound under a counter. /
The police are looking for Ear
ly and it. is believed that he did
the killing and has left the city
entirely.
FRENCH BLUE AND BLACK
A three-piece costume designed
fbr a proplhent motion ^picture ac
PARIS.— Ono of, the questions
attendant upon possible action'in
the Rhineland is that- of the mon
ey supply says The Matin. The
experts are at aMoss to decide
hether in the event that the
Ruhr basin is aeparated from the
rest of Germany by a . customs
barrier, jt will continue to receive
paper money fro** 1 Berlin. It Is ad
ml tied (hat the' introduction of
foreign money: into France would
raise serious difficulty. Delibera
tions on this subject, are continu
ing the newspaper adds.
the band when they raised their
masks to drink from the bucket
The investigators declined to dis
close the present whereabouts of
the farmer but It was intimated he
was somewhere in Mississippi un
der the protection of a government
officer. It was ptated he would
be produced when wanted.
callable signed statement given to the city which put into Ashtabula harbor
detectives at the county Jail Mon- 1 after»Working along the shore
' .. . ... . - fsnn, Pein ,
Santa Claus returned to his my- , day afternoon by Dillard Owens,
thical home in the cold north with I Earlier •- the day Dillard gave a
out experiencing zero weather in > verbal confession to the authori-
any part of the country. ties which differed but little from
The highest reading Monday was , the signed document of the after-
recorded at Ft. Worth Texas, noon,
where the thermometer register- j
ed 78 degrees. Kansas City re- SAYS WHISKEY
ported a temperature only 10 de- • CAUSED ACT*
grees lower, the warmest Christ- j
mas ever officially recorded there. | ‘‘It there had not been whiskey
Residents of Chieagoj were givenj in us I would never have got in
the hottest Christmas in years this trouble,” the statement says. “I
with the mercury reaching
five o’clock in the afternoon. Ex
ceptionally high temperatures pre
vailed over the entire state of Illi
nois, «Missouri and Kansas.
NORTHWEST
WAS 'WARMER
never thought of killing anyone in
my life, much less my brother, and
I would not have done it for any
thin^ in the world if it hadn’t been
an accident. I had rather be in his
fix than mine.”
Iff his signed statement Dillard
Owens never makes the definite
statement that he fired the pistol,
hut asserts that ‘‘in the scuffle the
trigger was pulled somehow.”
- /, .
In his statement the prisoner at
the county jail said that whiskey
was the cause of an argument be
tween John and Perry Owens. Ac
cording to Dillard Owens he and
westward from Erie yesterday and
several other tugs also were ready
to resume the search.
The cause of the disappearance
remains a mystery. No report of
any defect in the boat has been
made within recent weeks, accord
ing to Captain Thomas W. Gould,
United States inspector of hulls,
who said the boat was pronounced
seaworthy last August.
Repairs were made to the fire
box last Wednesday, according to
Captain Thomas Johnson, mechan
ical superintendent for the Great
Lakes Towing Company, former
owner of the tug. A small' leak de
veloped, he said, but it was prop
erly repaired.
William Nantell, of the engineers
of the tug worked until late Wed -! ocrats
BE
WASHINGTON — Senate re
publican leaders conferred -Tuesday
changes they will seek in the pyu-
changes they will sek i n the pro
posal of Senator Borah, republi
can*, Idaho, for an international
economic and disarmament-con
ference. The proposal is embodied
in an amendment to the nival-ap
propriation bill w’hich - is ti> come
before the senate Wednesday,
when it reaasembes after ther
Christmas holiday.
A large part of the rspubllcan
membership and a number pf jdfjim-
understood
luiuiug iu utiiaiu uwoua tie auu : - ... _
Mrs. Perry Owens hid the liquor j have reached Buffalo Friday, a e
and Perry and John attempted to weather was clear with but mu
find it. It is stated that John ac-! wind.
In the Northwest, visited recent
ly by cold waves that sent tho mer
cury to 36 below above zero
temperatures were' maintained.
Towns in Montana and North Da
kota that reported temperatures
fr^m 20 to 30 degrees below zero
during the cold waves, yesterday
recorded readings above freezing.
In Birmingham, Ala., weather
officials said all previous records cused Peny of hiding it and the
in New Orleans next Thursday of ■ f or wa rmness on Christmas day altercation followed. The statement
those conducting the inquiry. The • we re broken. says that John asked him for his
coroner’s inquest over the bodies j Highest temperature readings eun but tha * ho w °uld not give it
of Daniels and Richards and the • Monday in the Eastern states rang to hlm * Di *lard tried to separate tho
. — ~ ed from 40 degrees at Boston to 66 i b r°t bers » according to the state-
at Atlanta. Ga. Gulf States an- ment * u being asserted that he
nounCed high readings from 66 de- » was hurt at the time. The confes-
grees at El Paso and ^Galveston.« 8ion then tells of the scuffle be-
Texas, to 78 at San Antonio. Texas I ‘'V, een Dtltart and Perry and the
and t New Orleans. Tod readings I Bring of the pistol,
for the Hast Central states were ’ , , . , “ , ,
reported from 34 at Escanaba. Ebert Acknowledges
Mich, to 68 at Memphis, Tenn.. 'A moriesn Present
west central states from 34 above American i resent
at Devils Lake, N T>„ to 72 at I
Oklahoma Glty, Okia, mountain I ^ BERLIN.—President Ebert, in l
states from 34 degrees at Salt Kale Christmas communication cordial-
City, Utah, to 68 at Phoenix, Arlz. *” —’t-o-UJ—A
Pacific states from 42 degrees at
Spowane, Wash, to 62 *t San Die
go. Calif. Canadla weather bu-
reaus announced from zero at
Winnepeg to 38. at Toronto a nd
Calgary. .
nesday night making repairs to against the Borah amendment iu
get the boat in readiness to sail its present form. The vtews of
- ’ v Prr ’ ‘
The tug left Thursday ! IIu Shes and otUr administration
noon for Buffalo where it was to be j officials nas been sougnt but senu
delivered to representatives of a j ( ors who ^ avu talked with them
c tls.*v> intended tO ...in * ^
Syracuse firm* which intended to
use it on the Erie canal..it should
report of the New Orleans patho-
ligists who conducted the autopsy
will be discussed.
Christmas dinners were served
Monday to the troops stationed
here and at Mer Rouge. Officers
of two companies of militia here v
and newspaper men were enter
tained at a ‘ dinner given by the
chief of the department of justice
conducting the investigation here.
ANOTHER WITNESS
WILL .TESTIFY
Women Invited
To Convention
WASHINGTON.)—More than 100
national organizations of women
have been invited to send delegates
to a women's industrial conference
January IX to 13, the Woqien'a Bu
reau of the department of labor an
nounced Tuesday. The speakers
will include employment managers
tress' is'of black velvet‘with a’^ nc ^ women workers, manufacturers’ 'were kidnapped for questioning in
^nneeflon with a crime and again
blouse of French blue, ornamented I nn( * ‘ factory inspectors, public
with blue-headed tassels. The'' hea,tl1 experts, industrial statists
jacket is lavishly < trimmed with i cians - i economics and govornmcht
blue fox. * •,administrators. Mrs. Mary Ander
son is director ot the bureau.
A report that the farmer, who
said he had hid in the brush w|th
the mob and gave his name as
Bery Wheatstone was being secret
ed at Baton Rouge alons with an
other state witness could not be
verified from Baton Rouge Tues
day.
Another witness is reported as
having been removed to Texas to
wait the hearing.
Those acquainted with the
character pf the witnesses- the
state will call sure authority
the statement they will not fear
to testify to all they know. It was
this spirit of defiance to f he robed
and xnaked men that is believed to
have led to the death of Daniels
and Richards. Both fought the
t men openly between the- time *hey
■in ‘August since when they were
Renew Search
For Bergdoll
FOG HAMPERS
AIRMEN
ERIE, Pa. — Airmen searchins
the far reaches of Lake Hrie to
day for the Tug Cornell which has
what opinions 5
rill not dl&.:kse
were expi eased
Senator Lodge of Masachusetts
the republican leailer of tho sen
ate, was said to oppose the amend
ment as it stands, although he
and other leaders' It- was
said would be wiling to give it
been missing for five days with
1; acknowledged private financial
relief from the United States 'for
the benefit of the German children
and invalids and needy, the re
ports rcceied to date indicate that
the' foreign funds for this cause
far outstrips those of last year.
The New York Staato Zeitung
alone collected $45,000 for Germany
and $15,000 for Austria, these sums ___
ed-korr at' widely "separated
** points.
her crew of eight were hampered
in their work by a heavy haze and
fog. Marine men here who have
followed the hunt for the boat
since she disappeared last Thurs
day expressed the belief that the
Cornell had burned and foundered,
pointing out tnat the tug, which
had not been used for two years
was very, dry when she was put to
sea.
The disappearance of the Cornell
recalls the fate of the par ferry
•boat Marquette and Bessemer No.
2. She left Coueaut harbor on
December 9, 1909 with 32 men
aboard and was never seen again.
A week later nine members of the
crew, frozen to death jvere found
In a lifehoati
Bodies of thp others was wash-
SEATTLE, Wash. — Search for
Cleveland Bergdoll who escaped
lil May 1920, while serving © five
year sentence Jor desertion from
the u. S. Army, and who had been
roponed on a German vessel
bound for the Pacific Coast was
set afoot here Monday night by ti
report he had been seen .In a res
taurant. Jj. S. Hamilton, proprie
tor told police one of* three- men
who ate in his cafe .looked very
much like published pictures' 6f-
npyer seen alive again, according \ Bargdoil' and. bore scrutiny'un
to thofee said to be informed. 1 easily.
600,000,000 marks and 100,000,000
marks. Street collections in.Chica
go and Philadelphia netted liberal
sums.
Other generous contributions
were received from South America,
Norway, Holland and Switzerland.
GRID-STAB DIES
YPSILANTL Mich. — Bernard
*cirk. star University of Michigan
football nlaver, and chosen as an
.”11-American end this year, died
■ ■'i-;viiiuiii.ii u. cuu luia jchx, uicu
Saturday morning at a hospital
here from injuries received in an
automobile accident last Sunday.
1 Kirk’s skull was fractured.
$200,000 Worth of
Bonds Are Stolen
PARIS — American archaeolo
gists have offered a guarantee ot
$26,000 a year for 14 years towards
the expenses of excavations in the
ruins of Carthage, says the Echo,
but acordtng to the Savant, Er
nest Babelon, the government has
decided not to accept the offer be
cause of the. official red tape in
volved, -
tlieir support if It were limited iu
sco"pe. Those who want to see
the language of the proposal chans
—** Curtis,, of
ed included Senators
-- .^w.uwvu uuuaiucD VUTUB, {
Kansas, Smoot of Utah and- Wat
son of Indiana. Most of the-re
publican irrecopcillable groups '
were said to be against the amend
_ tsmeua
ment as written or any similar pto.
vision likely in their opinion - to-re
*' ~ ' tininl
suit in European entanglements.
Greeks Will Not -
Accede, Reported
LONDON — Aq Exchange tele
graph dispatch from Athens gives *
premier Gionatas as authority for t’
the statement that the. Greek
government has no thought f of
acceding to the Turkish demand of "
wihdrawal or the Greek Patriarch ‘j
from Constantinople even) if the -
Allied Po'wers accept the Turks
viewpoint as expressed at the Lau
sanne conference.
The premier said his government
co-sidered the question a national
ore upon which no Greek minis
try could give way.
CATHOLIC CHURCH BURNS
PAWTUCKET, R. I.—Worship
pers in St. John Catholic church
Saturday discovered fire in the
basement and alter the firemen
bad fought the blaze for two hours
little more than the shell of thq
edifice was loft - ' . 8