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— A TITOMC TAATT V TT " J% / 1 . THE WEATHER ‘ii > : . • Continued Cloudiness and Rain;. Colder. Tdnlght " . ■ ; *■’■ •** • ' — — — • 4 . ■" ' . ATHENS COTTC ATHENS COTTON MIDDLING ....„_.. PREVIOUS CbOSE ...... 26 5-8 VOL. 11, No-92 ■X 1 *1* •X* ’I* 4—4 4-r4 ' 4—4 4—4 4—4 V x 4-4 4—4 >' 4-4* fj a—4, 4-4 4—4 4—4 . 4- 4 4 4 4-4 4* 4 4—4 4—4 4* 4 4*—4 1923 to SeeMbch d©ratri$#i^^ in Athens IMPROVEMENTS IS Alimony For Men Now Being Urged Women Leaders Sponsor / Latest Idea. • 4—4 ' iSohJiSi |||_^| mfm * V V r V T 1 V imm a .t. % A* A..,A 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 “ * m* of ii 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 I —.1. * _ .. 1 • _ ^ .ALa IaA Lava —LI aI. a LaJh. a*, a A #A,md ...A n AAA _ 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. . Ml .rc ■ -*.*'* - . *e.: **t ,..*., *.*, i 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 (Turn to Page Two) 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-* (Turn to page twoj ... ._
