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ATHENS COTTdN; jODLlNG'— 26 l-2c DEVIOUS CLOSE ..... 26 5-8c •'v» v Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. . The One Paper In Most Homes—The Only Paper In Many Hoihes. DailyandSupday—10 Cents a Week. • ■ ■ -* ■- THE WEATHER: Fair, and Continued Coot VOL. 11, No. 44 Full Associated Press Leased Wire Service. ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1922. Single Copies.2 Cents Daily. 5 Centf Sunday. 1922GoQdrfear)1923tabeJjkeater, 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 '44-4 4-4 4—T. 4* 4- 4 4 ♦ 4—4* 4—4 2 4-4 4 . ( . n Lausanne Peace Parley Faces Failure 4-4 4 4 4* 4* . 4^-4 4 4 4*—4* 4’—4* 4*—4 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 (Turn to Page Eight) ’{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$r ’the New ear’s holiday. Included among the half dozen senators. to speak on the 'proposal Friday, Senator Borah, j who presented it as amendment tq V Hasty Moves Made By British War Ships Unexplained ■ London.—(By The -Associated Press)—The hasty return of the British'fleet to Constantinople from Malta attracted wide attention here, the obvious, assumption that it is Sources to explain the move. But Noting is forthcoming from official Concerned with the uncompromis ing attitude of the Turks at Lau sanne is everywhere adopted. There, are still many foreigners in Constantinople and the warships are regarded as a necessary pre caution in view of the possible at titude of the Turks in that city in tlie event there is a break-down in the Lausanne negotiations. EOF COLUMBUS PLOT COLUMBUS. Ga.—Investigation into the alleged' bomb plot against ilty officials or Columbus which Was unearthed here Wednesday b; the police win be vigorously pushei said Walker R. Flournoy, solicitor general. In a statement made public British Refuse to Aban don Oil Fields, and the Turks Declare They Own Them. , r RULE OF ALIENS IN TURKEY PROBLEM British Oppose Demands of Turks in This Respect. Turks See Invasion of Sovereignty: LAUSANNE — (By the Asociated Press) —, The Near East peace MACON, Ga.—A hew colonel of the Georgia regiment ot Infantry, national guard, will he named In Macon on January 8, It was an nounced here Thursday afternoon after orders Tor the election had ■.been received from the adjutant general. ^ The colonel will succeed Dick Russell, who was elevated to brig adier General last month. Major Ben'J. Fowler, judge ad vocate. add Lieutenant ParksHun- ter. of . the. Quartermaster’s staff, will conduct the election.'sixty of ficers of the regiment will parttci pate. v . xw.lo in military circles in M- - con Indicates that Lieutenant Colo nel L. C. Pope, of Dublin, now serv ing a$ 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- (Turn to Page Eight) LI 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- (Turn to Page Eight) 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.