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^t t—rr ** f .-*■'■ * » -* • * * ••...•• • • - ' * ' • • • • » * * ** r t—v v-v vv ; 1923 Council Takes Reins of City Government Tomorrow at Noon OLD COUNCIL TO HOLD ML MEET Held in Slaying .t- -». ■A 1 'A 1 •X* •!• ■!• -t. -f. 4. i i i i' ,y t , .T, |% T P *.. V Tr ^—-j- +-4" +—t -y. ' -y- 4 . 'AT • TO REID REPORTS 1922 Members Will Meet* At 10 O’clock and Will i Be Followed By Newj Council At Noon. 2 NEW ALDERMEN TO BE SWORN IN Capt. Rucker and Wallace Bell Are New Members. Audit of City Books Is Now Under W.ay. The old council, that Is the 1922 membei-s, with the mayor, will hold its final session of the year Wed nesday morning, convening at the city hall at 10 o’clock when re ports for |the past year will 1m heard and adopted and all the bust ness of 1922 closed. Immediately following this ses sion the new council for 1923 wil meet at noon and tb» two new members will be inducted into of- flee. Ml ^embers-are captain - J iJrl “DIXIE FLYER” FAST TRAIN WRECKS 10 INJURED. 10 I Movie Actors to Ask 48 Hr. Week FASTTRAIN WRECKS : “Dixie Flyer,” Tourist i Train Between Chicago ! and Florida Derails Near I Macon. TEN PULLMANS LEFT THE TRACK Mrs. ouie Jones, iwomis mm iWas Running 30 Miles An without buii i>> Louisville, (Ky. i Hour When Accident police following the shooting to d.-ath in her apartment of Oscar L. Occurred. Injured in Ma- Bliiek ’(inset).' wealthy automobile: C0n Hospitals, salesman. Charles Jones, her di- j vorced husbuid, rushed to he* Mde, MAC0Vi Ga _ Tw0 , cr8 , in s are and declares he 11 re-niarry her ir. , . . , ■?. “ - • * eported seriously injured and eight others hurt as the result ot the , cleared. Rucker from the third'ward Wallace Bell from the fifth, elected to succeed Paul H. Coholly and J. L. McLeroy, respectively, who did not offer for re-election. Both of these new members are well CHICAGO.—Preliminary wheels known citizens of Athens. Captain j 0 f ^e law-making inachia-.ry cf 1,’ii. ter uervpd ns mf.tnuistor dUf- ' . ...... .. treat Rucker served as postmaster dur- ' oral states in tbo middle west i soini; into action were hf»r<r Tues- He ha8 already seen former service j uay as the legislators held i.iu in council and is thoroughly ac- j cutes to name candidates for the quainted with che affairs of thej offices of the house and sennte or iiy. Ho is one of the most popu- . *nitinl session. SSu.'SW ! *1 ‘7- I 1 'Those who were (njurod S^SSTbST* be,oro t,,e co,,n ' IBSSSSTf^USS; ££& and has been a resident for a long members were saia to maim uu ® thrown tn*o a hIIp n« th#» time of the now’section of the city eflual number of votes. There ap- j 3™ AJl!f, Dixie Flyer, a -northbound, lourist train enroute from Jacksonville, Fla., to Chicago, jumping the tracks six miles from here early Tuesday. injured have been taken to a local hospital Two baggage cars, one mail car* l day coach and a dining car turn ed over. Ten Pullmans left the track but remained upright The engine left the rails but did not turn over. The train crew said the train was making about ( 30 miles an hour when it left the rails. There were approximately 150 passengers on beard the train. 7 Those in the Pullmans are said | io have been severely jostled but were not in need of hospital at ten- a of the now’section of the city egual number of votes There ap- j Deins .urown m.o a puc sn in when the incorporate U y- peared io be a contest in the dem- icoaches left tue .racks ant turned its were extended and knows thor oughly the needs of that section. ocratic ranks over leadership of, ov ®L the party in the house. NEW YORK — Motion picture i actors today began an effort to get a 48 hour week for themselves. Through the actors* equity asso ciation of which many of the stars of the screen are members, a plan soon will be placed before Will H. Hays, arbitrer of the movies call- | ing for a standard contract embody * ing the hours of limitation of work Troubled for principal players. SEVERE PENALTIES Heads British Mission Morehouse Is; ! Hardened By Tragic I I Happenings. Starts 1923! « With New Mystery. ! A STATE WITNESS GONE SINCE FRIDAY HARRISBURG, Fa. — Governor He Disappeared Friday, Was Seen Sunday. Is Son of Wealthy Man. Think Him Kidnapped. Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of tho' British exchequer, Is shown herd with Mrs. Baldwin as they sailed for the United States where the chancellor will head the financial mission which will attempt to make a iwmmwnt settlement at th* debt England owes to America. _ ...... «, Q mh«rc nf th« BASTROP, La. — Troubled Sproul told the members or the L . , , , , ,, ,,, i i.M.i.tnro Tn.^r. ^'“rehouse; hardened to the thrills! Pennsylvania legislature Tuesday# .. . , . . . , “It is a patent tact that prohiol- .by its series of tragic happenings.} Hon enforcement laws federal and.; started the New' Year with another j state are not working well iig mystery to solve —the disappear:* i Pennsylvania.” The uovernor whqn ance G f Harold Teagcrstrom, son j goes out of office' ?n two week** of a wealthy gas and oil field oper and delivered Mb' final mesas Jr; recent time kee-ter at Suyker j the legislature in person said J,V. Orrbon nltit and regarded ] some people are inclined to blame j as a prospective witness in the El CHICAGO — Newspaper public! remains that in other states, which have the kind of laws which these critics demand, the results are no better. “In New York and New Jersey, where the type ot laws which are desired here have been enacted," Governor Sproul said, “the disre gard for prohibition is certainly fully as much in evidence as it is in Pennsylvania, which have had prohibition tot years, there has beeiv much more illicit trade in intoxicating liquors than before the passage of the Federal enforcement act. Here In Pennsylvania our law has worked very w*ell where local prosecuting officers are in sympathy with it. In all actions however convic tions, have been most difficult to v>imnt» stnto ^ „ - . masked band depredations | ty - ,hrouKh news stories and paid 01 WILL WATCH WAR DEBT SESSION 1 S.INFLUENCE” Diplomatic Barometer Was Inclined to Take Upward Spurt As Allied Heads Met., FRENCH-BRITISH DIFFER WIDELY Ha-.nony Expected ta rrevail. Germany to Of r fer a Plan. So Will Great Britain. The wreck occurred at Rivoli, a Xt-Jhltenion City, M9-. Oak Hun- j flag sta«on| TOe train bad just se „ t lment seems SITUATION IS date Hr speaker? No Sndidste Irom I *t left the rails. The engine plowed The Martin Auditing company, oi j the republican ranks was announc- • S’} 1 * witrf’l ,t! raponsl^forthe m«an?!tholr caucus would « a JSF5»- Wednesday. This audit will show The .awmakers ot Tennessee , A 1^.., the financial status of the city. | TuesJar.vore prepara. .0 consider Mayor Thomas states that for the!their 1923 urogram: calUng _for h» first time in 119 years the city reform acd e onomy. the platform lie gins the new year with a balance 'upon which Austin Peay was elect- in the bank. This does not mean, ed governor last Novemlmr after however, thrt the city has n*float- two years of republican adminls- ine indebtedness. tration. . . .. The regular monthly meeting of Strength ot the farmer-iaboritoa mission will was ,e«P?cted_to be_revealed Tues- the fire and police commission will .was eapecteo to ne revemeu . ue»- Tuesday nlahTandtae carl M. Iverson, farmer-Iaborite. ports of the chief of police ahd fire department will be heard and fl ea transmitted to council. No unusual developments ire ex pected from the meeUngs Tuesday uisht and Wednesday and In all probability but few changes will bo made in any 'of the personnel r ' t no eity hall employes. Mayor Thomas will name h's uew committees either, at the meeting Wednesday or next week probably at the initial meeUng of the year and but little change will be shown in many of the committees. CONDITION CALLED WASHINGTON.—The comptroll er of tho currency issued a call for 'he condition of alt national hanks at tho close ot business Friday De. comber 29. T. LARRY GANTTS DAILY CALUMN Appears in both the Banner and Herald. Col. Gantt writes for both the Herald and the Banner, a separate article each day for each paper. • opposed W. L. Nolan, speaker for the last session. For tho first time In the state's history, four women ocru-f d seat' ta the house of rep- rtsentatlves. Labor legls'atton loomed as the meet promising thing foi Oklaho ma .-gialatore at Oklahoma city. Kiev ton of officers >«&' considered merely as a f-lxa"Vj>f select!01s had teen made previously all.with the reported arowal of Covern'or- , Elect W-ltnn. „ ; • T. H Mathers, a republican, was "r»"vded thn speakership of the Neh-;nka house, which goes into initial session at Lincoln tomor row. Charles L. Saunders was named candidate for president pro tern of the senate. Mrs. J. A. Kitchens, 36, Sylves ter. Ga., injuries serious. Jack Fanlkner, S, Wuycross, Ga... injuries serious. W. H. Smallwood, 36. 361 Fair SL, Macon. J. R. Liles, Americus, Ga. Mrs. J. R. Liles, Amertc a, Ga. Miss Elisa Liles, Americus, Ga. /T. F. Payne. Griffin. Ga. Miss Gertrude Butler, Waycross, Ga. The negro porter was also in jured. He was taken to the Macoa hospital. Northcliffe Left About $25,000,000 Xo man is in closer touch *ith the farmers and busi ness men in Athena trade ter- titer, than Col. Gantt. He is doing a great work for the • aurieultural interests of the Athens district in the dissemi nation and exchange of indi vidual' experiences of present renditions. No column in .the Bans ner-Herald is more closely read by a larger follow ing than the daily column Of T. Larr, Gantt: LONDON — The Dally Express understands that the estate of the late Lord Northcliffe is valued at 5,600,000 pounds. -1 Takes a Swim In Ice Water Just As New Year Begins MOST DANGEROUS This situation, he said, "is most discouraging and dangerous, and it is particularly menacing in a free land.” "Bootlegging has become a bus! ness of astounding proportions,” the Governor declared “and un doubtedly much of the banditry and ether crimes whicA are now which culminated in the* recent advertising w& 8 endorsed ifi kidnapping and slaying of two citizens of Mer Rouge, Watt Dan iels and Thomas Richards. Department of Justice agents sent into Lousiana to join iorc.es with 3tate officials in solving :he PARIS.—(By.. The.. Associated Press) — Premier Poincare, of France offered at.Tuesday’s confer ence of allied leaders a proposal for a reduction of German reparations to fifty billion gold marks. . The French--plan' offers a * .year-.moratorUim- but - it. «i ■" ■ * - productive guarantees to insure PARIS.—(By The Associated STSSSSi^ jT’ 8 "** Press)—Myron T. Herrick, Anieri- Under the French plan fhe class pub j can ambassador to France, has ar- *C bonds would be used to extin lie statement Tuesday by a com- rived in Paris from Cannes and Cflui,h the Interallied debts, mittee representing the Chicago with Roland W. Boyden, the Am- church Federation. | erican representative with the re:- “The most • effective way to arations commission, ' -will watch reach the crowd and interest them tayftafy , i" th.- church is through the dally iwspaper in cities of 250,000 or •er, the report said. , other exerpts from the com- DaDlels and Richards and other I masked band, operations centered Ehren in states J»tn ei energies Tuesday m an .ef fort to locate the missing, man. Thus far the trial has not been InitteCT announcement said: ha^ learned as Io the reusonstar 11 «*>» in doilarh to advertise, his Uisappearauco has net lK‘en' One metropolitan church increns- i'.*- : Cf»» J. | ed itk loose Collection to $22,000 _ ■ »n two years. Certain other -smal- BEEN KIDNAPPED . j Cr ( .}uu*ches showing a prepor- One of the investigators who tionute in c r ease. bad charge of the. lorndQr into ‘Advertising lifts tn e standard tho disappearance pf Tegerstrom of 1)n . aCh ing and aervfce and helps stated Monday night to newspaper to make KOod and come up to the men he had positive information | ndve rti8ing that the Carbon worker was kid- j Mi , ro2lnC8 Sl *„ d Urge sums in na PP e “* x taking page advertisements in the Teegerstrom disappeared from j ne>vspaper5 . lt r , ay8 or th€y the company plant Friday nlgnt I , voul(1 „ ot rto after he responded to a mysterious, ^ term ». with the summons from the outside. Sun- , bv occesionallv fur- day according to information; L “ „ r brought to the Sheriffs . office | J^Jing news which does mot es- here, . he appeared at the home • tlctdar church 5 * P SS&fEJST ' .-nouncement, put watch to be tifrned over to a broth- harrassing the country have their ' er who lives at Lamkin and NEW YORK!—Phillip Nursbaum, of New Rochelle, roll :wed his cus^ to.M, ^lilted eight years ago. of ushering in the new year by swim- mini* in the iev \va*ers. : of T.onR Island sound. As the bells tolled in 1923 he plunged in at Hudson Park near New Rochelle and swam for •20 minutes alone. Leaving M&Con at 6:30 o'clock, twenty-five minutes late, tho train proceeded to a point about six | miles from Macon when the wreck occurred.^ . With exception of the engine and the tender the entire train left the track, five sleepers, dining car. two day coaches and | the baggage car. The cause of the wreck bad not been ascertain ed .at 10 o’clock. Mrs. Kitchens and the Faulkner boy were both sereverly injured and may not recover, but atten dants and surgeons st the Ogle thorpe infirmary were-unable t6 give any ^detailed information of their injuries. Ambulances, surge ons. and nurses were rushed to the scene of the wreck, and first aid was administered. Between 75 anj 80 passengers were aboard the train. The day coaches carrying about 25* lassenl gers. railroad officials said. When the cars left the track the train was separated into three sections stopping about a hundred feet apart. The engine and ten der were in 'one section, the bag gage car. day coaches and diner wore in another section, and the sleepers remained on the road CHICAGO ANO FLORIDA CHICAFO AND FLORIDA CHICAGO.—The Dixie Flyer is a fast train operated between Chica- (Turn to Page Eight) genesis in the school of. outlawry fostered by the illegal trade of intoxicants. We are rearing a fine brood of criminals which it will require stem measures to suppress.” "Education and patience may bring a cure,” he declared. The only way out that is now in sight, he added, "is a careful and con- sciencioua. enforcement of the law by the authorities and severe pen alties for disregard of duty on the part of officials and an awakened public appreciation of tho peril by our people which will make law- breaking disreputable. DRAWN FOR COURT Judge Blanton Fprtaon ha* drawn a new grand jury -for the January term and has decided not to summon the old jurors who served at the October term as was announced Monday morning when he drew the petit jurors for this court. The grand jurors drawn to serve are *s follows: H. E. Martin, W. H, Kytle. A. C. Hancock, c. H. Newton. R. E. Wil liams, J. B. Thornton, W. R. Tuck. M. G. Michael. Otho Brown. J. R. Mealor, W. H. Simpson. W. W. Puryear, S. L. Autrey. ATS, Nichol son, J. M. Rogers, W. C. Thorn ton, Edgar Levy, R. j. Hancock, w. c. Pitner, Wm. s. Calloway; J. W. Thomas. A. W. Dozier, R. Bramblett, H J. Rowe, .lanu-s Myers. Harvey Stovall. Geo. H. jHulme, Jrf Peeples, Whitehead, L. M. Leathers. ke/s to the company’s offl announced he was leaving. Since then all trace of him has (Turn to Page Eight) lbe attractive feature, first.’ The committees report was its and t on the National publicity conference held here on October 31 attended by more than 400 ministers from 11 states. developments closely during the premiers’ conference and keep Sec retary of State Hughes well in formed of the pifogress made. Al though the United States is with out an observer at the premiers’ meeting it is in eio** touch with the French foreign office and the visiting delegation and will be kept, informed through the usual diplo matic channels and the reparations observers, so that the state de partment in accordance kith in structions given will be able to fol low events closely. It was reiterated Tuesday that although the attitude of the Amer ican government would be one of watchful waiting any definite en- dlcation that the conference was breaking mp might.provoke some expression from Washington. It was said in American circles just before the opening of .the con ference that the indications were that a compromise’ would be reached, preserving the allied ac cord on reparations. Such a com promise, it was thought, might take CLARA PHILLIPS’ Chinese' Girl Is Back Home And Says She Will Marry PARIS — (By the . Associate Press) — The 'diplomatic meter, seemed inclined to take an. upward spurt Tuesday as state men of Great Britain, France, I and Belgium gathered for. the i iousjy awaited conference premiers which will grapple more with the reparations pr lem. The atmosphere was less pessimistic than after the \ rupt termination of ’ the Loud conversations last month. Although-there is a wifle < gence of viewpoints, between the French and as to how and when shall meet her obligations; first signs of a movement .to*! them into harmony appear • a result of what LeMatii “The invisible* pressure of . can opinion.” ggl /f GERMAN PROPOSALS KEPT SECRET * * The nature of the - prop which Karl Bergman tho Gei __ financial expert, is bringing the'- premier^’ consideration 1 been kept a carefully gua cret in Berlin, but it is the linetaf strictly economic puar- aa 1Ikily chancellor Cuno. fill tees in return for a moratotf- um for Germany and probably in clude an* agreement pn a reduc tion of the total indemnity. Search For Negroes Who Killed 1 Officer And Wounded Four, *ns to the &«thIt , G«L_ municatlon cliould be sul SAPULPA, Okla. — Oftlcers an,i' named a maximum amount whic it would ba possible for < to .'.pay. Herr Bergman, it is said, ft u. sirious of reading the proposa to the delegates bat it is no garded likely that the confei will admit such a procedure , WASHINGTON. — Mildren Wen. , 17-year-old Chinese girl of this armed citizens were scourlps the city Who has twice thwarted family h,1 *y country. North of here early ..Ians • for her marriage to George j Tuesday for four negroes who kill- LOS ANGELES, Col. — Keuewr t|Nun Lee, New York University stu -1 one policen(jn and wounded . ' . .. i..' (Ion# .hi- lllftannoneinff foil r others Mondjiv 1 lit. when ed search for Mrs. Clara Plinup^i'tftnt.-by . disappearing from her four others Monday nisht when e. ranu — —-—. —■- the officers went to the negro dls- “Hammer-murderess” who escap- •m . the, Los Angel* _ f 5th; centered Tiies dajp. aroirnd a note *founa aLqtit feet from a*'cabin In a lonely place near Los Angeles, where sheriff deputies ’Motfrfay 1 night wefe,' Con- vinccil she had hidden’ for: at feast fplt daya a|W Her. Steak. The note weighted down by a rock and partly concealed in brush county, night after an absence of a week home here, returned again Alonday with a New Year’s resolutions on her lips , "not to do it any more.” The young. woman’s engagement ring still glittered on her finger and she told reporters the wc Ulicg "probably will take place in the spring.” In a written statement revealing she had been staying with school on the trail leading, tp the cabin. I friends here during her disappoar- rekd: "Clara: Will see you Wel-Y ance * M,as Wen said she left home nesday night For God’s sake, be I 011 both occasions because “she did careful.” Officers said they would I™* ' va »t to get'married and.leave compare the handwriting of the note with that of a perSon under suspicion as having aided Mrs. Phillips in escaping. The mes sage was written in masculine hand on the margin of a newspa per and officers say they regard ed it as -authentic. It was announced frr-m the Sheriffs office Armour L. Phil- her mether.” Benson, Veteran, Dies At Augusta AUGUSTA, Ga.—Sergeant Berry G. Benson, 80 years old ahd for lips, the murderess’ husband had , many years a conspicuous figure at purchased groceries at a store near t Confederate reunions .throughout the cabin, daily.-the four days fol- ti-e south, died here Monday night his wife’s escape Tknd an- after a brief Illness. A sculptured ian called for. them and- pre likeness of the eetoran - stands on t sum ably delivered thciii., !afr the ■ the r *»)nfederat.e moaument in the cabin. - i reart the city. Sergeant Benson A re-questiomng of Phillips was escaped from prison at Elmyra, N. Planned, the officers said. j y., during the civil war. trict in response to.'a-mysterious telephone call. . ' A telephone call was received by the police Monday night reporting trouble at a certain address in the negro district. Five' officers were sent , out to investigate. * They found no disturbance'and institu ted a search. Without .warning they Were fired: upon'ahfli Patrol man S. E. ^ Brambley fell dead. His four companions were : woifhd- ed. The nekroes escaped and it is believed they obtained a motor car and drove north. They are armed with rifles. They left hind a large quantity of ammui tion. ; £e- tuni- Mr. M. N. Pledger Dies Tuesday P. M. , Mr. M. -N. Pledger, one of the* oldest and best known*citizens of Athens, died .Tuesday afternoon.' He is one oLthe pioneer citiz. lear to make orical explnnati. unnecessary. French circles ,-ard such a move as an m Germany's part to give 1 ■iiresentative a place on the bates.' It is planned to call of the reparations coml consultation only when tlon arises of fixing pen< defaults in payment in was regarded, however probable this queston niii at the outset of the coin- inasmuch as Tremier was known .to be'der' * futing the chartta missions recenur vote I Germauy-s lnvojunt.i her timber payments etl quietly and by surpi this vote Great Britain c: only dissenting ballot. FRENCH WANT SECURITIES France went into tne con* Dveu determined to ask guarantees the shape of the resources of t Ruhr valley, that Germany w fulfill her reparations obligati Great Britain according informed circles was that a moratorium and a in the,total bill .were .1 a solution of,the v >roblem. Premier Poll converaatl (Turn t
