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1923 to SeeMbch d©ratri$#i^^ in Athens
IMPROVEMENTS IS
Alimony For Men
Now Being Urged
Women Leaders Sponsor
/ Latest Idea.
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City Engineer Barnett
Says Laying 1 of New!
Lines Will Be Completed I
in Spring.
PAYING PROGRAM
FOR NEW YEAR
Ne\v School Buildings,
Bridgets, etc., Run Total
to Be Spent in 1923 Into
Thousands. '
Plans for public Improvements in
Athens for 1923 embrace more con
struction than has been under way
lu re in many years and will sur
pass the figures of 1922 by many
thousands of dollars.
.Many of the projects are already
under construction while others will
he started with the coming of the
Sewer improvements to the ex
tent of $30,000, the amount voted
in bonds this year has already beenJ
started and this work will be com
pleted in the early 'spring, ac
cording to Captain Barnett, city
engineer. The work was bgun on
l'.arber street and carried out that
street to the Marks jitfofcerty where
it cuts back to the Southern Man
ufacturing company's section and
then after covering the areas in
tlu* vicinity of Hiawassee, Lenoir,
Naeoochee, Satula, Buena Vista,
lioulevard and Boulevard extension
misses Prince avenue from Geor- (
pia avenue and extends, out the ‘
Mitchell's bridge read to Holman’s.
This is the main project and is
of tho most extensive ever un
dertaken by the city in one season.
other sections to have sewey
connections are University Drive
extension off Mllledge avenue and
Pulaski extension.
Over two miles of sewerage will
he laid and in putting this in a fun
nel over a thousand feet in length
will be cut through the Maries prop
erty in getting from Barber street
across to the Southern Manufac
turing company.
Nothing but local labor is beinfe
used on this work and Captain
Pamett has direct supervision over
The paving program for the new
year is not an extensive pne, but
some important work will be done
on the streets pf the city. Mllledge
avenue will be paved to ‘the old
city limits, which means about two
additional blocks out the Whitehall
road and an additional block will
b»» paved on Broad street in the
down town section, from Lumpkin
'<» Hull, completing the loop to
Hougherty street.
Another important stretch of
lwving that will be laid will be on
Madison avenue, beyond the River
direct bridge, connecting with the
countv paving which will extend
«>’it tho Danifelsville road several
miles. The Jeffrson road vdll also
i"> improved out by tile Normal
> hool to the Jackson county line.
TWO NEW BRIDGES
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
MRS. ALTIa ESTES MUNGER, WHO BELIEVES IN ALIMONY FOR
MEN. BELOW: MRS. CHARLES TIFFANY (RIGHT) AND EUGENE
A. JOHNSON.
By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT;
NEW YORK.—Alimony for .men. j
Women may s9on be paying it
if the views of some of their laed- j
ers become more popular.
“Why not?” asks Alts Estes.
Munger, national organize’/ and ex
ecutive secretary of New York Ci^y
committee of the National Wo
man’s Party. “There was never
anything*sentimental -about .all*
money. It was destgnoxl merely to
: keep a divorced pertion/ ironv be
coming a charge of the state.
“In the midple ages it was always
the woman Who was in danger of
becoming the charge; But nowadays
a woman is self-supporting. And if
she divorces i> husband who is a
paralytic, for Instance; it behooves
Tier to nay Ms alimony.'
•Physical disability is the only
excuse for any person—-man or wo
man-accepting alimony. . <
“Any 'woman who is healthy,
pble-bodied and unencumbered
in addition to the sewer, work
nd the paving will be the work on
l" two new bridges across the
,,r, ee river, one of which, the
liver street bridge, is now under t-
obstruction and will be finished B 6 me reconipefcBe. U
ritfcln the next four weeks if the
•thcr permits. The second bridge
"ll he built at the Oconee street
^ing and will be a handsome
With the care of young! children
should be ashamed to compel a
man to carry her about like a sack
of meal.”
NOT EASY FOR
THE WOMAN
Bjit Mrs. Charles Tiffany, chair
man of the Borough of Manhattan
League of Women Voters, Is not
quite as hard on the women. v
“It is not possible,” she says .“for
a woman who has been married a
number of yea** to plunge immedi
ately into business and become self
supporting.
n “Freqpeijtlv ah* hes.gWen,. the
best vests ‘.of- liter Ilfh to her httme.
For those yeara she .is entitled to
rnnAninAYICP * '• - 1£ •
TQ RUSSIAN GiRL
< rete structure and will be builtL^jct cheerfully accepts Jiis popt-
during the spring and summer. The
”’ v *r street bridge is a steel struc
ture.
Tr, this construction must be ad-
d'd the two new school buildings,
,,r ° on Chase street that is now
J ‘ inn built and the’other on Lumo-
v '" Ktre^t \hat will be built in the
■ l»ring. These two buildings will
approximately $80,000 and are
being built on the same jllan as 1
1V ”* s ’°wArs «re being laid, with Jo-.
ral tabor and local supervision.
All of this public construction
We win mean the expenditure of
hundreds of thousands of dollars
l*"} 'n addition to this will he the
building activitv of the University
I would, interpret .'that recom
pense in terms’ of alimony.”. „.
? Both women have Cssiime^, of
course thatthe newly-freed bend-
marital obligation^, outlined in the
roncludlnsr instructions of the di
vorce court judfee.
But a sadder view ip taken by
Eugene A. Johnson, warden, who
for nine years has presided over
the destinies of the famotis Ludloy
street jail . alimony, club, \ where
those who' would rather stav In
iail than pay alimony serve. their
sentences.
“I’ve seen them come.” s^ys
Johnson, “as mpny aS’.PO at a time.
Sometimes I ; look at them in nity,
hnt. then T snv to myself: fWell. a
“Rut I’ve known women to go oijt
NEW YORK.—Sir Derrick Wern-
l)er, son of the late Sir Julida
Wernher, who was said to have
made more than $50,000,000 in the
South African diamond fields ahl
Mis » Ramanov, a young
Russian, were njj
weeks ago, thd^
ted Wednesday. Both he and his
bride denied rumors phe is of royal
blood. •WSMtw:-"
Sir Derrick who *gid he was in
tho advertising business first at
tracted public attention when his
father publisheM||4teypt and con
tinental newsphp^fs; he would, pay
no more bills for the young man.
The son was said to have accumu
lated debts totdllftig' $200,000 ,&t
Eton and Oxford and $376,000 more
at the races in France.
When Sir Julius died It was
learned he had left his son $6,000 a
year until he reached 30. years,
when the annuity whs to be in
creased to $12,000. Sir Derrick said
he was a “poor” mam He met Miss
Romanov socially.' two years ago.'
The wedding was performed at St
George’s church. He* declined to
say the exact da|e Of the, cermony
which he said was witnessd by q 1
small group of friends..
Baldwin, .rChancellor:. of,
‘the British Exchequer,
.i Heads Official: .Delega
tion En Route to U. S.
ADJUSTMENT IS
PURPOSE OF VISIT
Mr. Baldwin Says Pay
ments to U. S. Cut Big
Hole in British Budget.
Tone Friendly.
LONDON.—OBy The Associated
Press.)—The British financial mis
sion to Ihe, 'United States headed
by Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of
the exchequer, .sailed for New
York Wednesday' morning on the
liner Majestic. Besides the chan
cellor the party includes Mrs. Bald
win and daughter; Montag C. Nor-
man, governor of the Bank of Eng
land; Rowe Dutton, financial ad
viser and P. J. Griggs of the treas^
■ury. •- v...j
It is expected that the mission
will returh about the end of Jam
cary. * *
MR. BALDWIN’S
STATEMENT
Mr. Baldwin’s statement fol- :
| lows: ’
f <4 My mission' concerns our I. O.
U. held by the United States and
is a delicate one. We are in the
position, pf debtors. We must
tread warily. Nevertheless, I hope
to persuade the\ United States
government to come to a perman
ent settlement of our debt to Am
erica of something like 856,000,-
000 pounds.
<‘At present a law of'congress
provides this must be repaid
within 26 years at four and one
half per cent interest. This would
mean an annual payment by Great
Britain of between 60,000,000
pounds and 70,000,000 pounds, a
very heavy item in our budget.
We hope to fund this debt and
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Two Million Dollar
Gifts For. College
~h
cedar Rapids, ifew
gifts of' lI.m.OOOi'i
leg® ;)>ijjp9Qlcme,
Ipwai emb from the
tion board, and the
Rockefeller foundat
pounced .h e r© today
W. A. Jessup* of th
through W. R. Boyd,
the finance committed, of the state
board of education. >
The money wil) be used to build
a new hospital and laboratory and
equip them, it was, announced.
The next session of the Iowa le^is
islature will be asked to appro
priate $450,000 annually for the
hext five years tn mak£ the entire
amount for the hospitals $4,500,000
The gifts from the two founda
tions will be available as soon as
the legislature accepts the plan,
Mr. Boyd announced. '
dm of
IN FI
CLEVELAND O—Search of Lake
Erie for the tug Cornell In an'ef
fort to solve the mystery sur-
Air of Mystery Surround
ing Slaying of Man in
Her Apartment Becomes
Greater.
husbandTwill
STAND BY MATE
Several Discrepancies Are
Found in Woman’s Story
—Piece of Wire May
Feature in Case.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—yhe air of
mystery surrounding the shooting
of O. L. Black, In the apartment
of Mrs. Olive L. Jones, a divorcee,
had been Increased Wednesday
by facts uncovered hy 90l.ee de
partment lnvestig^tOta. Mra. Jones,
who claims she ..fired in self-de
fense, faces a charge of murder..
Officials declared : important
points Jn tHe tvoman’s account of
the tragedy, had been contradicted.
Entering, police headquarters
NH TIKES
get the burdeh- of interest eased,
secretly two but of course the last word is’With
degrootn admit- Arm>r,W vT. . ,
Mr I >UU‘ri
“If we can effect a settlement
rounding the disappearance -• M 'e j early Monday morning Mrs. Jones
vessel was continued Wednesday, told officers she shot Steck late.
,, ... . Sunday afternoon following a
Finding of a life boat containing Quam { an4 watc hed all night over
the frozen T body of Michael Pathos body, unable to summon cour-
one of the eight members of tho .age to call police.
crew/dlspeUed any belief that the | TSe wop)an appartntly waa In
Cornell is safe. The yawl and its h er usual cheerful mood between 11
contents were picked up Tuesday o’clock Sunday night.
Ten miles west of the point where gaW wriiu am mxon, 19. who accom-
the boat was located sevral' float- panle4 Clara, the 17-year-old
lng oil cans were sighted. A slight 3 aug b te , ot Mrs. Jones and C. H.
film of oil covered tho water. J Tn,,. 8 of Cincinnati, her divorced
A message received by the Great husband, home from a picture
Lakes Towing company, former 1 8how . Mrs. Jones declared lollow-
ownors of the Cornell, stated that j,g her surrender she was In a hys-
the crew of the tug Charles A. tori cal condition during the night
Potter saw what they believed was j and falnted several times.'
the Cornell three miles off-shore 1
between Ashtabula and Conneaut, Investigators also Intimated that
Ohio, Thursday night. This la the'the discovery of a piece of looped
only record of the Cornell having wire outside the window near
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Dr. McKoin Arrested. in. ?
Baltimore, Where It De- 7
, velops He Is Not a Gi!,ad- !
uate Student.
HEADMITixiKING
K. K. K. METHODS
Air of Tense Expectancy
Grips La. Towns Involv
ed in Famous Case. Their ■
History Recalled.
BALTIMORE, Md.—A writ of
habeas corpus for Dr. B,. M. Mc
Koin, former mayor of Mer !
llouge? La„ arrested here Tues- -
day on a charge of murder, waa
obtained Wednesday. i
BALTIMORE, Md. —. Dr. B.
McKoin, former Mayor of -Her
Rouge, La., who was arrested
here Tuesday at the request oC
Qoi-.v Joh^n 1* ,yalker.' of Louisi
ana that he be held for murder In
connection with tile recent mur
der and Kidnapping caSes at More
houee Parish. La., will be arraign
ed in police court Wednesday.
Advices from the Governor's office
..at Batfn Rouge Tuesday night
: f stated that a' requisition on the .
PARIS.—(By The Associated Governor of Maryland for the re
press)—Madame Bernhardt’s > con-! turn of Dr. McKoin to Louisiana
dltion took another turn for the would be isued immediately*. - Dr. .
worse Wednesday. Physicians as- | McKoin has retained W G. Camer-
ertbed it to the fatigue following | on as his attorney and announced
her activity Tuesday when '
arose from her bed, partook of sol
id food and received many callers.
Her household Is again depress
ed, although Madame herself Is just
as confident as ever she will re
cover.
SHE IS A HEADSTRONG
PATIENT, NURSE SAYS
• -
These orders are clear, said
been slated since she left here vfhich the body was found was con- household.
m, ■ mitnii #aw Dnffaln I olJomR ImnAptanoa Till! nilrn .1 _ • . ,, *
Thursday for Buffalo.
stdered of Importance. The wire,
(together with ’marks believed to
] have been caused by shoe nails in-
, dlcatod a possibility Black was
‘ shot In another room from the one
' in which thq pody was found &nd
raised Or lowered through the win
dow. It was' said.
iMrs. Jones’ former hnbsand de
ft a red Tuesday that prior to the
on such a matter, we shall set an ; {shooting plans had b4en made for
whiS, P mighf^U’be 8 anNEW ORLEANS. La.-Four per- % on”?™'?. H? roUeroted”.;
- - m, * nt weu 60 “ sons—two men and two women— statem’ent that he would stand by
are being held by the police here | Mrs. Jones throughout the case.
Wednesday In connctlon with the
hold-up and robbery of five mes-
for the settlement of even greater
problems than this' one—interna
tional problems.
“If I am successful I hope Am
erica can see the good result of
my mission will be kind enough to
favor the much more important
mission which Mr. Bonar Law is
shortly to undertake, (the word
“reparations”'was here parentheti
cally inserted by newspapers) and
which is more difficult than mil
sengers of the Drovers’ National; S62itllG to PftSS
Bank of Kansas City, Mo., on De
cember 12, in which the highway*
men are .reported to have obtained
697,000. '
'fhc men gave their names to
the police as George Wilson and
Jim Corerty and said the two
mine. .* women were their wives.
Borah’s Plan For International Parley
O. P. Senators
:■/’ sb-tsaH -ilia
WASHINGTON.—More than a
score of republican senators In
Informal conference Wdnesday Be
fore the senate reconvened decided
to oppose.)the amendment‘offered
by Senator 'Borah, .-republican, Idaho
tb the naval appropriation blil
which would request President
Harding to call an "international
“It is of supreme important to I The arrest was made Tuesday
Europe that America should have|night at a hotel,where they were
a say in the many perplexing j said: to: have been registered sev-
(Tarn to page two) - .era! days. A handbag contained 68.-
300 bellevedt, by ’the police to be'a
Pt^*Of|fto OTtg^^^iId-up was
of. the couples* SoineCof the phek-
agesi’-df money" the police stated
were seale/and ho-» -tamps ot th*.
Federal Reserve bank 'of Kansaa
City. A lhgre amount of loose notes
■was- bundled up in-* page of .a
-Ransas city newspaper.
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PRISONERS ' ! hi soil ’!
SAY LITTLE
♦o call an international conference,
to consider methods of. restoring
sound business .and* financial condi
tions and to seek agreement for
further limitation of further-naval
■construction. - -T’. v /°
After a week of conference ad
ministration leaders admitted that
they could .support the proposal in
conference and disarmament con-tits original form and negotiations
ference. .' were proceeding lor additions to
The whole field of American re- make it acceptable. Meanwhile a
iatlonships to Europe, particularly
as they involve the problem of eco
nomic rehabilitation and disarma
ment was opened up to debate In
the senate .when work was resumed
definite break had developed with
in the ranks of senate irreconcil
able group of which Senator Borah
has been a leader since the League
of Nations fight. Senator Johnson,
on the nival appropriation bill af-! repr”ltcan. California and others
ter the holidays. . taking the position that a confer-'
Tho immediate question which I ence like that proposed would em-
P.u Js,» chore .mil she J n° immeuiate question wnicn ence lute mat proposed would em-
n reason for (loin- if brought the troubles of the Euto-,1 broil the United States hopelessly
doi'btless has a reason iw noin„ u. ■ . r.,
powers opce more . to front in European politics.
,. e senate floor was an amend-1 In some quarters it was expeet-
rhi;rit.'to the naval ijili introduced by ed that the vfews of .President
ff Georgia and the private cop 7 -nd sernh floors rather than.take
'traction that will he started in 1 —■ f „( ^1,Those womejl 1>" uurouuceu nyiea mat me views oi . presiaent
all ot whicT should ffvo Ath ^rr iv reaneJ’ - 'Senator Borah, republican. Idaho, Harding would be made known in
♦as a 'busy year indeed. | h * m> re9pct - jend requesting President Harding l (Turn to page two)
Whep the prisoners were taken
to police headquarters they had lit*
tie to say. Coverty said he was
tending bar in a Kansas City sa-
lodn>at the time of the robbery and
came to New Orleans on Decem
ber 15 to play the races.
The trail of the, quartet was said
to have been picked up through
the shipment pf a trunk to New
Orleans by one of thpm. v
. Accord!^to the police several
hundred dollars are said to have
been spent each night in cabarets
by the suspects and they are said
to have plunged heavily on the
races. One of them purchased an
On Fatty’s Work
he will fight any attempt t6 ex
tradite him.
Mme.
governess of the
roundly scolding
the butler for permitting the cor
respondent; to enter the house
“but, Madame insists upon seeing
whomsoever she pleases.” %
The elderly nurse, who is at
tending tho actress, said:
“Madame is a very headstrong
patient." . /
The physicians -■ have ordered
Contrary to* reports that Dr. Mc
Koin was taking post graduate -
course at- Johns Hopkins Univer
sity—Brady institute. University’
officials declared McKoin had-no .
official connection with the.Jn-
stitution and tliat lie was "a guest
of Dr. Hugh Y. Young, Headuol the ;
Brady institute. Dr. W. .
superintendent of the 'hospital
said: .iS ZSa
“His work was in corxnhctl6hC
with private patient's of Dr/Youpg-.'
and was carried on in Dr. ^Rung’s 1 .
private office at the Instituted *
Dr./ McKoin- Tuesday denied
knowledge^ relative to the murd?ir
a no %.• uuyaicutiis - u»ve oraerea . - * r _ ,,, '■ r .~r
flmt the_doorbeU.be disconnected ^^^223
SATTLE, Wash.—The morality 4
of each Roscoe ATbuckle motion
oicture will determine whether it
is shown here, the Seattle board
of theatre censors has decided. Tho
board determined not to pass , on
the fitness of Arbuckle to return
to motion .picture work.
and that the telephone receiver be
left off the hook. All calls must
originate within the house, with
constantly ringing bell might an
noy the patient The doctors do
not conceal their admiration for
Mme *Bernhardt*s courage, declar
ing she is “the most wonderful-
woman.” .
- Two more doctors were calllh in
Wednesday morning besides Frof-
esssor Obypier© and Marot, and at
ter a long consultatio they issued
tl/e following instruction to mam-
bers of the household:
“The undersigned physicians in
sist upon absolute necessity of
letting no one enter the sick room.
“Labbe, Desnos, Obyssiere,' and
,Marot. V
Britain Informs Turkey That Mosul
Qil Fields Will Not Be Abandonee'
■i LONDON — (By the sAsociated
Press) — A reutera dispatch from
Ldusanne says:
“There is serious danger .of. the
Near : East conference becoming
abortive if the Turks persist 'in
their present methods.’
LAUSANNE —; (By the Asso
ciated Press) Through Foreign
Secretary Curzon. Great Britain
informed Turkey Wednesday that
the British never will abandon the
Mosul oil fields as requested by
the Turkish delegation and that
no prolongation of the Near East
conference can influence the Brit
ish government to recede from the
Dositlon it has faken on this •mat
ter.
The British had taken; pledge to
ed in a letter sent by Lord Curzotf
to Ismet Pasha, head of the Tur
EHM
HHHHI
expensive automobile, it was said, kish delegation covering tho for-
navine cash lor it. mal reply of the British delegation
e
to the Turkish note of Sunday
last which’insisted Mosul belong
ed to Turkey. * ;
Lord Curzon. sa«d \n that, lettei
that the British government had
expelled the Turks from.the Mosul
fields.
The British had taken pladge to
fr^0 the Arabs from Turkish rule
and the government of Arak an*d
England since then had repeated
ly givem her .word thav the Arabs
wou|d not-be interfered with..
Lord Curzon added that Great
Britain had given her solemn
pledge to let no fortign power take
any part of this territory and she
would steadfastly adhere to her
promise. ; n
The foreign • secretary’ sal.d^ how
ever, that Great Britain waS 1 pre
pared to have her experts meet
the Turkish experts to define the
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whose, mutilated' bodie.s were ,
found i n Lake LaFourche. He said, I
however, that the men were on .
“the bad side”—the side of boot
leggers, gunmen and others of bad
repute. . ♦
He also stated Tuesday that ^I-
though he was not a member of
the Ku Klux Klau. he praised
their methods fin helping rid .Mer
Rouge of its lawlessness,
EXPECTANT AIR ‘ I - v* -'
IN BASTROP, i-A. ?
BASTROP, La. —.There was an !
air of expectancy here and around
Mer Rouge early Wednesday as«
Department, of Justice- agents, and
representatives of the ris-'
newed their activities in the -Morfe a
house kidnap’pii^r case- and widen
ed their efforts to run down the
perrons responsible for the-dyna
miting ofnear-by lake , which
rave up .Bodies of tw^ttoem i
identified as Watt Daniels und
Thomas Bichards, abducted by
-naeked. tnob last August ■ It iisa
declared * thgt additional
.vere Imminent.* .. .**,..*■• * ’ -■ ■■■
Secret service • meir are report- 1
ed W have located* the'place whore *
the dynamite, said to have boon
1>500 pounds was sold, and ’somo !
of the men suspected of being im- ■
plicated iq the dynamiting are unr •
der surveillance: The, investigat- .
ors indicated arrests may occur-
soon . i ; ,|
-The aTrest in Baltimore.Tucs- •
day of Dr.. McKoin, former mayor
of Mer Rouge at the request of
Governor John M. Barker, caused
considerable excitement among
the town's population. . Little
groups of citizens gathered in pub
.lie* places 1 and on the streets tq
discuss the case and the Probable
ner^' move*of the authorities.
,. Morehouse. Parish and the town'
of Bastrop'which are in the lime-*
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