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1923 Council Takes Reins of City Government Tomorrow at Noon
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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-
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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
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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
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