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Fair, and Continued Coot
VOL. 11, No. 44
Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service.
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1922.
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U. S. to See Indian Beauty
ESS WftY IS
m OPTIMISTIC
Annual Report of De
partment of Commerce
Expresses Satisfaction
With 1922.
farmer received
MORE THAN IN 1921
Manufactured .Commod
ities 50 Percent Larger
Than in 1921; Review of'
Business.
WASHINGTON.—Stock taking of
tin 1 nation’s domestic business for
tint past % five years gives “a feeling
of satisfaction” as to the progress
tiado, the Department of Commerce
t oclared. Friday In an end of the
year statement and from this day’s,
position, it adaed, ‘there Are no
serious obstacles in sight which
should hinder further advances” in
the new year. • ■ - 4.
Optimism, born of the accom
plishments of the past months
which many officials of' the gov
ernment regard as a remarkable
strengthening of the economic fab
ric is evident throughout the sta
tistics and details of the state
ment which noted that the pro
duction of manufactured comthodi-
tifs averaged 60 pay cent larger
than in 1921. The farmer received
approximately 17 per cent more for
iiis nroducts than in 192l!
“The unsettled conditions in for
eign countries, particularly in Eu
rope. however,” the statementiCpn-
tinued, “are still depressing our
trade and, to some extent, have no
doubt kept the prices of agricultural
products below the level of other
commodities. But within the past
two months this latter condition
lias been relieved to some ex
tent.”
E XPORTS ARE
DOING WELL
While dealing only briefly ”-ith
i >t-ign trade, the review said Am
erican exports had dropped lo per
« < nt as compared with last year,
l»ut the comparison was on a basis
°f 11 months and/ in addition rep
resented a long climb from a poor
according to officials. Im-
J-orts to September ’2, when the
ru'w tariff law was effective, were
sliehtly above last, year atfd indi
cations are, it was stated unoffi-
< hilly, that the year’s total may ex
ceed last year’s imports by a small
margin.
The total volume of building, or
dinarily a measure of, the country’s
business health, was 62 per cent
hu ger in the first 11 months of this
y ar than in the same period last
>‘*ar, and the prediction was made
that the full year’s record will ex-
• 1 * d that of 1919. The 1922 con
tracts for 11 months also repre
sented a much greater expenditure
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’{Letter From Harding ;L
timating That He Want;"
ed a Free Hand Dooms
Amendment. 1
BORAH HIMSELF
, ADMITS DEFEAT
Believed, However, That
Debate on Measure In
Senate May Go Over
Holidays. ■
WASHINGTON — Confidently
predicting its defgjit administra
tion leaders hopec) for final dis
position by the senate Friday of
the list of Senators* prepared to
economic conference. although
the Hat of Senators. prepored . to
\ apeak on the'amendment made a
I vote doubtful* With the. possibili
ty pf a delay joy$r ’the New ear’s
holiday. Included among the half
dozen senators. to speak on the
'proposal Friday, Senator Borah,
j who presented it as amendment tq
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Hasty Moves Made
By British War
Ships Unexplained
■ London.—(By The -Associated
Press)—The hasty return of the
British'fleet to Constantinople from
Malta attracted wide attention here,
the obvious, assumption that it is
Sources to explain the move. But
Noting is forthcoming from official
Concerned with the uncompromis
ing attitude of the Turks at Lau
sanne is everywhere adopted.
There, are still many foreigners
in Constantinople and the warships
are regarded as a necessary pre
caution in view of the possible at
titude of the Turks in that city in
tlie event there is a break-down in
the Lausanne negotiations.
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COLUMBUS PLOT
COLUMBUS. Ga.—Investigation
into the alleged' bomb plot against
ilty officials or Columbus which
Was unearthed here Wednesday b;
the police win be vigorously pushei
said Walker R. Flournoy, solicitor
general. In a statement made public
British Refuse to Aban
don Oil Fields, and the
Turks Declare They
Own Them. , r
RULE OF ALIENS IN
TURKEY PROBLEM
British Oppose Demands
of Turks in This Respect.
Turks See Invasion of
Sovereignty:
LAUSANNE — (By the Asociated
Press) —, The Near East peace
MACON, Ga.—A hew colonel of
the Georgia regiment ot Infantry,
national guard, will he named In
Macon on January 8, It was an
nounced here Thursday afternoon
after orders Tor the election had
■.been received from the adjutant
general. ^
The colonel will succeed Dick
Russell, who was elevated to brig
adier General last month.
Major Ben'J. Fowler, judge ad
vocate. add Lieutenant ParksHun-
ter. of . the. Quartermaster’s staff,
will conduct the election.'sixty of
ficers of the regiment will parttci
pate. v .
xw.lo in military circles in M- -
con Indicates that Lieutenant Colo
nel L. C. Pope, of Dublin, now serv
ing a$ adjutant general, with resi
dence in Atlanta;-(Major Charles
Cox, commander ot the Atlanta
battalion,-and Major Felton Whit
aker of ;Macon.' are: the leading
candidates tor the .'position.
OUT OF SNOW
r ' the naval appropriation bill, plan-
year. may have t.heopportunlty of fmstlng upon ttej nea £ make another addr(jsa Ie .
‘imuii ». *»«,. —j Highness, the Maharanee of „ivi„«- Mtonsiveiv to President
.wife ot the Maharaja, of Tatar). The Maharanee, who was selected recently,
he tndla s most beautiful .woman, expects U> visit this country.., —; I
CITY SCHOOLS WILL
The city schools will open the
1923 term on Monday. January 8,
thus giving the pupils one of the
longest Christmas holidays in many
years. - „ ,*, .
All of the. colleges , open early
next week but dile mainly to the
great numberdn the city suffering
from colas ona ,mU<t attacks of in
fluenza the grammar and thigh
schools will delay their, openjhgs
until the second w«ek. ,in January.
Superintendent Boitd .has re
turned from ajjhort holdipjr, trip to
South Carolina Sadt Is, preparing
now for the . 1923 session.. He is
expecting a Slight increase in" at
tendance after Christmas, due to
the fact that some-pupils will en-
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MONROE La.—Sheriff Fred Car
penter of Morehouse parish, Fri-
•day declared there will be arrests
in the Morehouse kidnapping in
vestigations upon return of fed
eral investigators who were in New
Orleans Thursday attending a con
ference with state officials. J
"I have no official word of any
action of any kind,” said the sher
iff, ‘‘but I know there are to be
arrests on the're turn to Morehouse
of federal investigators. I have no
.warrants as yet but they are to
be placed in my panels within the
next few da/’s, as I understood that
the chain of evidence has been
completed. I have no; reliable in
formation relative to'the confes-
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plying extensively, to. President
Harding’s letter read in the sen
ate yesterday In which the execu
tive virtually asked for the amend
ment’s defeat.
With a dramatic turning in the
senate fight over the proposal
reached in the reading in the sen
ate Thursday of the president’s let
ter to Senator Lodge of Massa
chusetts the republican leader,
Thursday not only were administra
tion leaders predicting its defeat
Friday, but, upon the present
status of the battle, spectators of
the amendment were' doubtful
about it. They were understood;
however, to be still endeavoring
to gain support for it among
doubtful members. Senator Borah
himself on the floor Thursday said
he expected the amendment to be
thrown out.
Ships In Distress
On Stormy Sea
NEW YORK. — The steamer
Mountour.from Boston for Norfolk,
was waterlogged and in distress
Friday In a terrific gale off Cape
May, radio messages picked up
here said. Her position was given
as 60 miles southwest of Five
Fathom Bank light*
live city commissioners, the Dimon
causer, chiefly the contest over
the ownership of -the Mosul fields setipUB injury of her husband.
ahd\ < SS^%<Ste e “ , iir , hdirr I™*"**capitulation. whQ.iis aiding in
eontttence probably .Friday at, ; The Al^es are stressing the the investigation,^ iarmer will he
bereachSStaTESr taking a ag.{arrested, charged*wlth murder in
gation trill be continued. | stand against the subjection ot ( connection with the death of Mrs.
A cordon ot; policy and sheriirs I foreigners in Turkey to the juris- James B. Chapman. Mrs. Chap-
deputies tL,aln Thursday night were d lotion o f(he Turkish courts and
placed around the homes of the listing that support with foreign
judges sitting in them must pass
First Severe Blizzard of
Winter Came Thursday
Night Wrapping City in
Ice.
HOSPITALSARE
REPORTED FULL
Falling Signboards and '
Ice on Streets Threaten
> Lives. Damage Runs' In
to Thousands.
NEW YORK.—Thousands of vol
unteer snow handlers were’called /
Friday to help dig NeWj York city j
out of its first Dig <*torm of the j
season—a blizzard of Hnow and
sleet which, starting Thuraday on-'
der moderate temperatures, became f
overnight an lev gale which threat
ened to paralyze transportation.
The storm took Its toll of hun-.
dreds of injured who had fal|en
victims to the treachery of the ico ■
covered streets. .Most hospitals
were crowded to capacity.
At least two persons are report
ed to have been killed in falls. The
wind reached high velocities. Com
bined with the unaccustomed bur-
I Acedrding to District Attorney
MARSHFIELD. WiS.—As a result
of an' Investigation conducted by
oonferemSe atood Friday on.tho jWP* "W* ^ <**•
■ ■ dais, a. narrest is. forecast for Frl-
. ty., .... w . , f .
court apartments and the factory
of the National Showcase Company
said to have been marked for de
struction. The police reported early
today that the night passed .quietly.
The police were silent Friday as
to whether any arrests of those
suspected of being members of the
party who met in a cemetery and,
according, to the police,* formulated
a plot to bring about wholesale
destruction of property were to be
'made. The authorities, however,
claim they have the names of every
man who attended the meeting.
• The Muscogee grand jury called
into 'special session Thursday to
investigate the alleged plot ad
journed after a two-hour confer
ence without returning any indict
ments. No announcement was made
when another Session of the grand
jury will be Held.
Canary Whistles
“Yankee Doodle”
• ST. LOUIS.—A canary bird,
which whistles “Yankee Doodle”, ns
true as any human whistler could
hope to accomplish,! is attracting
attention at the annual St. Louis
poultry and bird show.
man was Injured, dying later, when
she, with her | husband, a member
of the county board of supervisors
upon cases wblch foreigners are i and a drain commissioner', opened
'—’—' ' a package containing the bomb on
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. chap
man died Thursday morning.
According to authorities the man
who will be arrested Is a land-
owner In the district of which Mr.
Chapman was drain commissioner.
He, Is known to have had trouble
with Chapman over the latter’s
activities in i having adopted the
Mill Creek drainage project
involved.
The Turks are strongly resist
ing what they declare to be the
Invasion ot Tuntlsb soveriguty
that would thus be brought about,
but their delegates insist.lt Is not
the question of capitulations that
presents the gravest danger of a
conference failure.
The stress which the allies .aye'
placing on the capitulations ques
tion, the Turks assert, is to mask
their strong Interest in the rich oil
fields involved in the' dispute over
Possession ot the Mosul fields,
which the British insist they nev
er will surrender and which the
Turks are as firm In declaring
their tnalin table property.
The delegates however have not
given up hope that an adjustment
finally will be reached. Today the
allies were awaiting further word
from the Turks regarding the
foreign courts xiuestlon which Is-
met Pasha asked for time to con
sider and presumption being that
he would seek Instructions from
Angora.
ATTACK ON OFFICERS
FROM AMBU8H .
' STEVENS POINT, Wis.—Tlie
second attack of violence in this
section of the state and closely
following the sending ot a bomb
{package to a prominent county of
ficial' -In Marshfield, occurred
Thursday when unknown assailants
-amUushed any auto {loaded jyith
deputy sheriffs and a dry agent I the tracks clear.
as it was returning from a series of! —«
liquor raids near here. Tho at-| fl nr in 4
tackers hid ’ in bushes alongside
the' road and fired several rifle
shots into the mfichine as ;t passed. I
Tho attack is laid to friends of
moonshiners and is believed to
have been staged to frighten <-in
ner*.
lines, street car transmission ca
bles, < kifs ot buildings and-largo .
trees.
PEDESTRIANS . i. ' fj
ARE ENDANGERED
Lives of pedestrians In some sec
tions were endangered by falling ►
signs, tumbling chimneys and
smokestacks. Thousands' of dollars
worth of damage was believed to
have heed suffered on Long and
Staten Islands, where numerous -
small craft were washed ashore.
Alopg the water front the toll of
damaged billldings was reported .
heavy. - V 3 i
Citv officials were out .early Fri
day in'a personal’canvas of the
Bowery soup kitches, ‘‘flop houses”
and “bread lines” • recruiting snow
shovelers with which to augment
the force of 24,000 advertised, for
Thursday, night. *
Throughout the storth some 6,-
0Q0 .reinforcements armed witn
shovels, labored with the city’s.
snow engines, hut the mechanical,
plowh were unable to do more; £bau :s
keep the thoroughfares passable.-^
Street adn elevated car lines were
partially incapacitated; despitfK
brave efforts of night crews to keep
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD
WEEK’S CHIEF EVENTS TOLD SIMPLY
nmmmM i
noi.I.AR’S BUYING Europe ifigy-IeafflAl
I'OWER INCREASED ted States to-decide -
i - - . mafiy must pay-^wgr damages tp
With pre-inventory and- stock the. allies,, ,. >jtp.ar.j .
"'nrance sales now in progress in The -p<>ace, .treaty. ,y -. fixed
Il'f Stores of Athens, with values- amount
greatly reduced, the -purchasing been gej
i","-cr of the dollar is increased
Hpproximately fifty per cent.
.WW'V!laiwwr. “
ut-ttio agreengwnt hasn't
The wise merchant is clearing
lui shelves, regardless of cost,
thus reducing the labor and ex
pense incident to stock taking, add
incidentally converting into cash—
m most cases without profit—
■■tecks that he otherwise would be
forced to carry over to another
teaEos,
- , n _„U.,that .ft ta abso
lutely impossible: France saya. It
ipn’t, England isn't sure.
’ tin:' O’
EUROPEAN m
FINANCIAL TANGLE
This uncertalntv is the worlds
principal ailment today.
The tnte-ested countries could
make up their minds what to do
about a definite sum. The'Germans
would know where they stood—how
T . . ... ' ,, much they must turn t>ver to the
The wise shopper will take »d- a m es and how much they could
vantage of the reduced cost of -ta, f or themselves. The allies ..“proposal” to another government
these end-of-the-season values, J -would know what to count on. [unless It knew positively that the
thus making a dollar do the work But as it Is no country can do i “proposal” would he accepted. If
or a hollar and a half under ordi- anything that calls for money or; one were made and then had to be
nary conditions. . • I credit ■ because none ,ot them lias .refused it would- be-very embar-
tion.pt all rpartlea concerned. How-ved it-made.
ever. It’s a-very .ticklish situation
to raix-Jnto.;*
That there’s a.plan afoot for-an,
American cqmmlsalon to attempt a
settlement is, not much more than
motor, but itis a rumor that there
is '-fairly;.good: reason to believe to
founded-pn facHyaome fact, at any,
rate. ,. o,-,' ' ■■ ) ....
-. i< fiwaa isMbSjR tn.fe-aVii-
DELICATE MATTER
TO HANDLE
•A 1
True, Secretary ot State Hughes
denies that the government has
made any. such “proposal” to Eu
rope.
• That no out-and-out “proposal’
has been made doesn’t mean much,
however. It isn’t to be expected
that this government would make a
As high a financial authority as
J. P. Morgan has said the first
thing to do Is to reach such an
agreement He didn’t say the loan
would follow, but he did say that
no loan could be managed other
wise. . : .. , !
There's no doubt that the Ger
mans and the allies both are hope
,n, um 11 mi ■.■■t—WMMW L. f! fill the loan would -comar^OMteSi,'
Some of these sales are now in or can get, or keep. , ( ,tornational “proposals" aren’t made for that matter, are American busi-
Progress,. Others are preparing to 1 ' So, . naturally,, tpisiness stands.,offhand, instead, some individual ness men. because Europe's trou-
start. .TVatch the advertising col- still.'.,Y. - - a . - v .. Pt sroup of sufficient Importance! Mea'Cannot but have an effect on
umns of the Banner-Herald and ‘ If.the United’ States, a^ a disin-ito-Ve trusted, unefficiallv inquires this side of the ocean, as well as
>>e advised as to these extrao'di- ! terested outsider, equld settle this [of other people “in, the know" how in the Old World and whatever
nary offerings. . {difficulty, it would- be the, salva- a certain proposal would be receiv-1 helped the latter would help this
This Is ,rs far. as anybody, sup
poses matters have progressed' in
connection with - the financial -dif
ference ot opinion r between t Ger
many and the allies.
' -Secretary Hughes 'doesn't - - say
some such informal > - conversation
; hasn't • started and ■ London . dls-
patches eay that “well Informed
circles”, there i believe that it i has,
. The next thing would be for Ger
many to raise a loan to-begin pay
ing off the money.
QUESTION OF
LOAN TO GERMANY
country too.
> As 1922 draws to a close, men
prominent in American' trade af
fairs naturally are talking a goo)
deal about-prokpects,tor next year.
Almost without exception the
’peak very- hopefully. . They do hot
United States Senator Borah,
who, of all public men ln tne.cs-ty..
try, has been most emphatically-sit
against any American interference
In the affairs of foreign countries,'
has surprised everybody'- by,- pro
posing, as part of the naval bill;In
congress, some provision -f or. Pres-
manufacturers and' merchants,
though they may make the 1 most
of them while they last, dont like
them. But they do look for a steady,
safe development of the country’s
prosperity. \,
BUSINESS
OUTLOOK GOOD
The holiday business is reporteh
In many leading <- '• ”.ng
been the largest In years. Thto to a
war preparations, by land- and sea.
BORAH
CHANGES SIDES?
Borah says these preparations
are going right ahead and he de
clares he’s afraid of them, as he
considers that they lead toward
wars.
Benito Mussolini, the new pre
mier of Italy, has caused a sensa-
„ ; . ---- — — tion among statesmen by proposing
clear sign that people have plenty action to abolish “bloc government”
or money and are confident of good In his country.
to come. , The idea Is this:
1 Tllf . re . aI "? ys is , ? Period of vull-1 Most European conntries'have so
i us .L after chrlstmaa - It’s ex- many political parties that, after an
pected this season, as usual, and (election, their variouB parliaments
Yritl worry nobody. All business' generally include a lot of little
men are sure that it won't Inst too [groups, no one of which is stronger
long, and all indications ure llial than all the others put together.
It won t happen. I This means that nobody has a par-
. ,. majority,'ahd the only
way the administration can do any
thing is, to 'comhfne. Its strength
with tho strength: of some other,
group. .'Natnfally. these cgmbina-
ttons are always In; danger of gointf
to .pieces .and the administration
consequently never feels- sate for
i minute. '• r ' . , / .
r: ■ '■ '
SEEKS TO END .-
BLOG RULE ' <,. ' ' : '
Mussolini's [plans is to give tEe
government or administration party
three-fifths of the parliamentary
votes, •whether It has that many
elected members or not.
The proposal verges on the rev
olutionary. It has the advantage of
making for "strong government"
but certainly is In disregard of the
rights of big groups of voters.
At Lausanne. Switzerland, the
conference on the* - Tnrko-Greece
war settlement continues-to cause
a good deal of anxiety to- Wbry-" service.
body. The rest difficulty'to -''that
three or four different'groups-are
struggling each for advantages over
the others, while the Turks
quite successfully "playing both
ends against the middle.”
WAYCROSS, Ga. — Three per
sons were killed and one serious- ,
ly '.injured here Thursday night.'
when an automobile crashed' into
the engine of t the Atlantic Coast
Line train. Number 66, at a street j
crossing in the suburbs of the city.
The dead: Matthew Tatum, 37:
Isaah Tatum, 24; • and William *3
Broch, 26. . V - . - r - --i
Miss - Constance Hemby, aged
16, who was also a-passenger. in
the car. was sertbuklyiinjured and I •
taken to the Atlantic)Coast Line
hospital here. - -.... , *.• -A
. The. train was Northbound .from
Jacksonville ahd accordins to rail
road .officials today, hail crossed - -
toe;- streef' when . the. .automobile
Collided vOlth the'.,engine or ten-. '
der. Tbs. car was completely I
wrecked. , " re
Meyer Chairman
Interstate Bod^ : |
WASHINGTON.—Balthasar H.
Meyer became chairman of the In
terstate Commerce Commission
Friday for a term of one yepr.
He was appointed to the com
mission from Wisconsin by Presi
dent Taft and assumes the chair
manship in accordance with a poli-
cy among members of the com-
mission on a basis of seniority in
, boriiniisSidner Chas. C'. MeOhord,
whb'd has' beieri 'chairman for the
past yejfr, Will continue as a com
missioner having been reappoint- 1
ed'for another' term by Presidet
Harding.