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EIGHT NEAR DEATH AFTER SCHOOL
TROOPS ARE
TO SCENE
Ambassador- Harvey to Bri
tain, who is now at the White
House in conference with Pres
ident Harding and Secretary of
State Hughes.
No Explanation Given in
Connection With Dis
patch of Cavalry Unit to
Bastrop.
MISSING MAN
NOT YET FOUND
Meager Bits of Informa
tion Say He Has Escap
ed Captors and Is Hid
ing. Trial to Begin.
liAUSTUOP, La. — The move
men! of additional state troops to
Pal'strop t«> join the four com
panies already stationed here and
;,t Mer ltougc. the efforts to lo
cate Harold TeGKerstrom, carbon
' plant tinio-keeporrVhOete'niyStetti-
ous il'.sjppeanuice has furnished
HUSBAND WHILE
THEY ARE RIDING
Mrs. Paul L. Eberle De
clares She Took the Life
of Her Wealthy Mate in
Defense.
SHE FIRED FOUR
Old Council Dies Hilt
Nov Begins Its Work
Every Member Present As
Old Body Ends Its Rule.
Reports Are Read
Then.
New Council Hears May
or Thomas’ Address. R.
T. Dottery Elected May
or Pro Tern.
The 1922 city government died
at 11:35 Wednesday morning and
QHHTQ AT xilTVf i noon the new administration
OnUlo A1 ililTl came into being. But two chang-
| cm in the personnel of the coun-
Their Adopted Son Was cilmaplc body became effective,
in the Car With Them. T T ““
Pistol Found on Dead
Man’s Body.
DES -MOINES, IA. — Contending
Wallace Bell succeeded J. L. Me
Leroy from the Fifth ward and J.
H. Rucker succeeded Paul H. Con-
ollyj from the Third, neither of
which stood for re-election in the
fall primary.
When the clerk called tho roll
of the old members every seat was
that she fired in self defense and { occupied and the body immediately
.jsntion in tne investiga
tion by the state and federal
agents into masked band opera
tions. and the beginning Friday of
an open hearing by thfc State At
torney mode up Tuesday's develop
ments in the .Morehouse Parish.
The cavalry detachment. 40 men
with full horse equipment of the
second squadron eighteenth vegi-
niont ia uisiana National guard
armed lure early Wednesday
aboard a special train from Jen-
nir.ps. Military officials declared
they knew nothing of the reasons
f<-r sending additional troops. One
suggestion however, was that the
cavalry might be used to aid civil
auth cities in making* predicted-
arrosts. Kains of the last week
have put some of the roads in the
l’arish in such bad condition in
some sections it is practically im-
ver them in auto-
HARVEY IS GUEST -
OF THE PRESIDENT
AT WHITE HOUSE
biles.
cannot find
HISSING MAN
The
whereabouts of Teegor-
s trom still is said to be unknown
b» the corps of investigators who
have been searching for a clue of
his movements after he is alleged
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| that of her adopted boy of 2 years
Mrs. Paul L. Eberle, was under
arrest Wednesday charged with
hiving shot and killed her husband
a widely known stock broker. The
killing occurred Jo an automobile
on the road near Oskaloosa.
•Yfis. Ebcrerle was released on
began its last session at 10 o'clock
promptly and the routine business
was gone into.
* A few special committees were
heard and then the reports fbr trfft'
past year were read. The- only
special committee of note report
ing was the street cofnmittce.
which acted favorably on the peti-
$25,000 bond. She was removed | tion to change the name of Tal-
latfr to a hospital In a state of’ lulah avenue to West View Drive.
collapse.
Eberle was at the wheel and his
I matie pistol four shots taking ef-
WASHINGTON ( — Ambassador, in his head and neck •
Harvey was the guest of President | Mrs. Eberle then went to a farm
the modern woman
*he is a business wo-
'IAN. SHE MAKES 80
\EM OF ALL PURCHASE
T'-'BE IN RETAIL STORES.
•'IK IS AN ASTUTE, CLEVER]?’®,,"
buyer. SHE RUNS HER *
HOUSEHOLD STRICTLY ON AI
HI SINESS BASIS. . ;
.,„ S,| K IS CONSTANTLY INI
*1 <'H WITH THE STORES!
•' N ,!> THEIR OFFERINGS.!
THUoi ch THE ADVERTISE-:
INK SHF, KNOWS THE LOW- •
Harding at the White House Wed
nesday on his first visit to Wash
ington since going to his London
post.
\ Since his arrival Monday night
from New York vhen he vis taken
directly to the White House, col.
Harvey had made no r.tjilem-.'.t in
the purposes connected with his
visit. Broadly however,-he comes
to lay before the president ami his
advisors in personal conference the
result of his close obesrvatlon of
the economic ami ocher problems
of Europe from the advantageous
l»iint of his London post.
His visit, perhaps significantly
coinrides with the adjourned meet
ing of the Allied premiers now be
ing held in Paris after the Lon
don' conference in an effort to
reach an accord on tile vexing
•problem of Germany reprntion.
Colonel Harvey’s presence here
at this time, it is suggested, affords
direct means of putting adminis
tration officials in It.'I nate touch
with all the background of dflvul-
nnn.Wllfl aU UOLaf,M/m™ ^ .
I opments as they take shape at
the Paris confenjpen to wntcli they
are known to be giving closest at-
house and told of her act.
Mrs Eberle last • night declared
a moment before the tragedy her
husband had turned and said
“You and the baby will never
reach Oskaloosa.”
She further stated her husbanl
had repeatedly threatened her life
When examined at the hospital
Eberle was found to have a revol-
Another “Union”
For Sportdom
Captain Barnett, as city engin
eer. made his annual report which
was full and complete and showed
great activity in street paving,
sewer improvements and splendid
work by the water works during
the past year.
Election of R. T. Dottery- as
mayor-protem. for 1923 and
strong endorsement of the police
department in Mayor Thomas’ an
nual address featured the first
qaeeting of the new city council at
* ion Wednesday.
“Athens has a splendid police
rce. I know of no city with one
\y better,” the mayor declared.
!he recorder also has demon
strated his eagerness to serve the
<fty by standing behind the mayor
and council.” The chief of police
and recorder together with
Investigation of Fire At
Lanett, Ala., School Late
Tuesday Is Now Under
Way.
Premier Poincaire of France
who will ask that the confer
ence on debt adjustment come
to an immediate end if the
French proposals are not ac
cepted.
YOUNGSTERS BREAK
RANKS AND RUN
Broken Spines, Crushed
Bones Result of Small
Tots Not Stayihg in Or
derly Fire Line.
NEW YORK—Dr. Miller
of-VersailWsV
The British delegates to the Al-
LANETT, Ala.—Three children
were at death’s door, doctors said
end five more were In a serious
personnel of the police force were condition when' school authorities
heartfly Poised by the executive, started their investigation Wed-
iif«'.the sew,, year much better | , . , „ °!
morally than it was one year ago. l Ilre " hicn completely destroyed
He referred to closing four places! the Lanett school here Tuesday at-
where whiskey was sold and of ternoon resulting In a general
deporting, nineteen undesirable stampede among the students,
characters during the last year. | _ Ma J>’ Hamrick, Essie May We’-
In praising the police force he I llon ’ 6 anci , kate Pearly Peppeis, 12
cited Die fact that no arrests for 'V ere bfdly trampled upon in
drunkenness were made last fall Sj® ™ 811 * or the ex |ts wher
on a day when thousands of peo-, *'‘® " r ® alarm wa f I 1161 '
Die were here for a bie circus and recover y was graVely in dobt it
rte county fair and again on h.M?,^ ^
Christmas day. “It appears pro-!?** , intpmni ' hruisu
Wbition has been a success despite 8ld U e J** their Mmes on the ilst
the charges it has failed, the; Leonard Weldon, 9; Gordon
mayor said. j Thomas, .19; Lewis Stillwell, 6;
Councilman Dottery of the First Loren Dennis, 9 are also suffering
Ward was unanimously elected, from the effects of the crush that
mayor pro-tern. He has served j occurred near the main entranc?
aB a member of council for several • 0 f the school building. Doctors - r
report for the year and stated! years and his unanimous election «ay they will recover, but on their “ ake a thorough tryout of his {freely forecast. Doubt was, * ex-
that It was the best ever made i is recognition of his faithful serv-j bodies today were bad bruises, tho theory that the volite ray appa-j pressed that the statesmen would
during his six years of service on ice and the hicrh reerard in which result nf hein* .mdn. ratus may be made an effective ■*»— j—*--■-■
the board. He thanked council
profusely for the cooperation giv
en the board during the year and
Dr. J. C. Mc*c?nney. chairman
of the Board of health, made the
EDISON ENGINEER
WILL FIGHT BOLL
WEEVIL IN SOUTH
FRENCH WOULD END
SESSION IF THEIR
PLAN IS REFUSED
Differences B e tween
France and Britain So
Great That Immediate
Termination Forecast.
tion Forecast. 1
TO HEAR FRENCH
PROGRAM THIS P. M.
British Delegates 'Willing
to Consider French Pro
posals If Courtesy la. Re
ciprocated.
PARIS.—(By the Associated
Press.)—The Cabinet Council of
French Ministers Wednesday
morning instructed Premier Poin- ,
came to move in the conference
Wednesday afternoon the adoption
S. • ^ renc ^ reparations plan as
the minimum acceptable to France. •
In the event the meeting does not
accept that plan, Premier Ppin-
caire was directed to ask the, con
ference to register formally the
* ack of agreement among the
Allies. The council whfeji met un-
der the chairmanship of President
MiJIerand decided unanimously
that the,British reparations plan
aUhe treaty.
Hutchinson, for man years chief, Hfj, an . informat
engineer of the Thomas A. Edison 'T® t !" es , da > r morning prac-
laboratories has been selected to v decided to ^accept the
lead a new crusade against, the reparations plan as a basis
boll weevil in the citl'.m fields of p. discussion provided Premier
the south. The post was tendered _, a ^reed to discuss the
Dr. Hutchinson by the American
cotton association which in con
nection with an Atlanta Ga., organ-
nation has undertaken to raise
$2,500,000 to fight the weevil
Dr. Hmchinson says the ammu
nition to l*e uk«*i this year would
chiefly calcaeium arsenate
British plan. In this way Prime
Minister Bonar Law would seek
to place the burden of responsi
bility for a break up of the con
ference on the.shoulders of Pre
mier Poincaire.
The atmosphere of gloom at the
foreign office Wednesday .mom-
spiayed on the cotton bio3soma fn ing was as ,Ieep if not deeper than
time to sterliz-i the eggs and kill j Tuesday night, and an abrupt end
the wee..»s He eipects also to| 0 f the dremiers* conference wn«
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ice and the high regard in which, result of being caught under the
he is held by his colleagues. jfeet of their classmates.
Five new councilmen were |
sworn in following opening of the j WERE ON SECOND
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!FLOOR.OF SCHOOL
x NEW YORK—Another “Union"
hr.s>.appeared in the ranks of sport
dura.: It is known as the “Asso
ciation of . Automobile Aces” and j
its members are among the great
est automobile drivers in the
world. A charter has been ap
plied for and officers will be elect
ed at the first meeting of the or
ganization to be held at the Motor
show in Madison Square Garden
next week.
ARTIST HELD IN
JEWELRY THEFT;
Athens Colleges
Opened Wed’sday
J The University of Georgia-, the
KST HtlCES. THE BEST QUAL-! State Normal School . ami Ujcy
ITliis ANI) THE NEWEST! Institute all b^gan their
KOMMODITIES. LONG BEFORE! «P r lnB serais AVedneaday mommf’. _
SHE 1 F WFS tuij nniTRF cnal class room work being taken . j . . •
' SHOH»ING^ E mp^ E SHE!w» are “ wns dr0 PP? d *?>? , U is ‘, he pl& ?.°/ the a83 ? ct ? tlon
iuv t. v 25S* Christmas holidays. to appoint a high eommlsaloner
No exercises marked tho open- for automobile racing with power
ing of the terms. to.settle..-iU disputes.
A novel angle of the n-?w asso
ciation is that it is the first or
ganization to be formed by mall..
Acceptances to join the associa
tion have been received from Tom
my Milton speed king of the last
three years; Jimmy Murphy, win
ner of the French Grand Prfx;
J\alph De Palma, former Champion
and record holder; Ira Vail of
Bi^oklyn, and a dozen others.
KNOWS EXACTLY wilAT iSS Christmas holidays.
'' AXTK, WHERE TO GET IT
'Ml HOW MUCH TO PAY.
MIE BUYS MERCHANDISE
O* ESTABLISHED REPUTA-
'°M IF IT’S CLOTHING, SHE
I'MlWs HOW WELL . IT.
i'HOLLD WEAR AND WHAT
I ik STYLE SHOULD . KB.(IF
• IS A MIISICai. tvqtditmvvt
A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT,
KHi^hNOWS WHAT TO EX-'
Bandit Queen Caught Because All Her
Gang But the “Sheik” Had Cold Feet
I’Kkt IN TONE AND WORK- ’> dlt queen, one who ruled the band
V'SHU'. IF IT’S A'VACUUMland directed the “work” for tho
SHE KN OWS WHATj,„f nerfect techinque
' X1) OF SERVICE IT SHOULD
CHICAGO—A .dew kipd’’ of ban* Ea«I to'steer him! But that -Tommy
- guest was yellow. One uiglit wj
er^ writing to pull a stickup and
faclalniitlon ot p®^®' techlnaun
LIVE. n SHOULU I rather than for gain, was intro-
ASK HER AND SHP Will !duco-I to the public Wednesday by
TELL YOU IT MYR TO RPAB th3 P° llce of Evanston.
T1 !-? --
'"KK SAVE YOUR < TiMRi w ” u,d y °" r ' ' hS aB - ’
HELP V EFFORT - IT WILL
Eat wtiTBn.
A\h ??.TI ER ’ SLEEP BETTER
AAD LIVE BETTER, ■ ■ >
She'is Eliz#hoth Sullivci:. bob
bed haired and -2t. whose mother
operates a con.eetionfiry.
“My gang didnt have the nerve
tlwf was the troubl'T,*" **ho saiuj
sheik, C-len, wf& O.K.. ^ut’1*and ;Koy.'Green.
ho got cold feet. 1 stuck my gun
at his head ard said:
“i'll blow your hrains out If you
try tc quit nrw. That brought
hi in across nlrt,fct.
“Glen started me on thla stuff.
I’d r* out with him and wait x in
the cur w!dl<* ho pell id stickups
nut i»e didn’t kn w how to work
tfccni sal too'-' chin,** Then we
sriiexed the rest of «h« gang and
fiii fiver Sipmc ifwliiobl")
• , fP*oj$s theatres. and. a
. ondx, 0 «i;Ji*°nuis holdups
w-r^ Mfigk tb T c m-lice say.
•icing Gleii^Kenley, Connie Wohl
POLICE HUNT TWO
All 'o{ the children injured and
ratus may be made an
agency for exterminating tho pest.
MERGENCY CAMPAIGN
TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL
ATLANTA, Ga--Emergency ac
tion against the boll weevil to save
as large a portion of the 1923 crop
i those participating in the stampede • as possible by uniting cotton pro
: were assigned to classrooms lo-iducers and manufacturers, Feder-
I rated on the second floor of the i al and State agricultural hereaus
COLUMBUS MAN
NEW YORK — Despite the
statement of Mrs.'Irene Schoel-
kopf. wife of S. Hugo Schoelkopf,
Buffalo manufacturer who was
held up and robbed of jewelry
said to be valued at $500,000 ear
ly Monday morning as she le’t a
New Year’s eve party that she eld
not want Frank Barret Carman,
artist host at the watch jiarty ar
rested, Carman still was Doing held
by the police early Wednesday:
Carman was arrested Tnoaday
night on a charge of “acting in
concert with two men fn ro bine’’
Mrs. Schoelkorf.
According to police Mrs. Schoel
kopf said a man grabbed he.' In
the haUway if. the floor beneath
Carman's fifth floor apartment in
number 64 West 52nd street as
she was leaving a party In bis
apartment Aided by anothor man
sho was bound and thrown on a
bed in the fourth floor apartment
and stripped of her jewelry, she
she. said. Recovering after the
•men fled, she ran upstairs and re
ported the rohhory to Carman.
Pol' 0 ®. *®Id the apartment Into
which Mrs. Schoelkopf was drag
ged and robbed was sub-let to two
m-;n by Carman and he has fur
nished their names. Thev say the
rohle.rIy was planned carefuUy In
COLUMBUS, ita—Police wore
searching here Wednesday for two
unidentified masked bandits who
Tuesday night held"up T. H. Ever
ett bookkeeper for the Key &
Townsend Grocery Company, while
he was at work In the company’s
office, locked him In a vault anil
escaped w'th approximately $1200
partly In cash.
Everett was almost suffocated
building. When the fire alarm -t I and
rooms on the lower floors m&rcLed '
jwere rang the children In t'e
-in order out of the building. The
{teachers in charge of those
stairs experienced greates diffi
culties.
I Their charges ranged from 6 to
12 years of age. The teachers
lined tho children up iu their
rooms but when they opened the
doors and the children sighted
the smoke pouring up from th-
floor bolow* they broke ranks and
even decide to hold another confer
ence.
The British plan' for the solu
tion of the reparations problem is
regarded by the other conferees
as impossible and it is thought it
cannot serve as the basis for the
discussions.
' Premier Poincaire it • was un
derstood has ■ decided to break. np
leading scientists of;the conference at once if the
America in a concerted campaign j British insist that the conserva-
against the insect pest which is tions focus on their proposals
thvuotanlmr tho nrlutono.) nf tho
threatening the existence of the
cottc.n industry was announced j SPAN BETWEEN FRENCH
| AND BRITISH GREATER
Wednesday by the aui*» lean Cot
ton Association, through ii§ see- \
retary. Harvie Iordan. The conferees as Ma*;« ^
The boll weevil campaign which» ma rks in shnurlnv -fkfj 6
involves the immediate raising ofl^IS S ±* i "?„ t I l ' e _ lr J hands
i-olves the immediate raising of at ii" j
fund o, $2,500,000 will have its
a iuna oi *z,ouu.uuu win nave us nrw< pj on ; „j ’ : 7 ~r—~
headquarters in Atlanta and will, P (Turn'to Page^FIve)' * >rev "
be national in its scope. From of
fices in this city will be directed j
there was a wild rush for the stairs ■ a movement of tremendous impor-
vhen ho was release J from the
vault by a locksmith. Hq said
that ide holdup occurred during
!hr> «arly part of the night an^I
ho hammered on ths doors of the
vault :or more Umu two Mous h^-
The teachers failed in their ef- ’ tance not only to the^ South but to
forts to. check them. At the foot : all of the extensive industrial, com
of the steps the children became [ mercial and .financial interests
clogged in a mass. They fough: (throughout the world that are of-
and trampled Upon each other un- | fected by the ‘production of the
til they finally reached the open i world’s leading staple
. air * ! Tfc«* vital, certain*y
be rescued.
Twn men pasVnc by the grocery
estaMi'tiiment beard faint han»r
c'tnris;'noises and • tiled po-
Police WedUes* morning, ^etv
continuing their investigation jii-
lo the robbery of the Key &
Townsend grocery, company cash
box. which 'wad looted Tuesday
night by .insetted bandits about te,i
o’clock and 260 in cash taken.
vital v certainly of a woild
The teachers and older students! cotton famine within _ -
rushed into the burning structure J which would upset the American
year
and dragged the badly injured to
a place of safetly. A few minutes
later the entire bnilding was con
sumed in flames.
School officials announced Wed
nesday there was 1200 students at
tending school Tuesday. They say
a complete check of the student
body had J> e <?h made and no child
had -bera*- reported missing v
The drigin' of the fire is still
undetermined.
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balance of trade and cause wide
cpread suffering in tho cottcn bolt
and manufacturing centers .has,
made It vitally important that the'
largest possible crop be produced
iu the south in 192?» Mr. Jordan
stated' For that reason the cam
paign li r^?3 f » ih« ne'tssarv funds
will be st*vt»M at once and the
work of education - and research
will he gotten under way at the
earliest possible t date; ,
HAVE YOU LOST
ANYTHING
TODAY?
Then let the Ban
ner-Herald find it for
you tomorrow. There
a r e c omparatively
few hdmes in any sec-'
tion of Athens that
do? hot take either the
Banner or the Her?
aid, ;
Romance Begun At
Atlantic City Ends
When Paralytic Weds
. NEJW YORK—Henry Clay ?on-
ailvanee and was ooa of ilio dev- noil, 36, a paraltic for life iold
eresj r,n record. • Miss Normal King, 21 last summer
■Boll, Mr. Scboekt-:' who Is 62 at Atlantic City, where he was at-
and Ws wife 20 years yo n„- ,r. told i tending the Elks convention, if lie
police they considered Carman In- were a regular m-\a lie v'niid run
noeent. , I away with her.
• Mr. Fchoelkopf sai.l he and his* Miss King replied he would,not
had known Carman f-r -2|n.’ed lo do that—he was ’ iegulav
... n l. osH ’ Cilolnil In
Wlf.
yoars end that the artist a young man” enough for. her. Seated in
m.i:. of 30 accompanied them to this wheel chair Tuesday * night
Pans last year na dancing part- j Fennell was married-to Miss ICiug
ner ci Mrs. Sr. ,-sltv : | at the Madison Square Hotel.
Interesting Facts Revealed In Report
Made to Final Session of Council
Some interesting facta are' to bo
gleaned from the reporta made
to Mayor and council by different
city officiate at the l&at meeting
of the 1922 administration.
That of City. Engineer Barnett,
follows:
Building permits for the city
during the past year reached the
total of 3823,145.00 and according
to Wards was as follows, new
huildlngrand additions: First ward
$43,670,00; Second ward, l86.670.Qij; 1
T«5d t wars, $155,105.00; Fourth
ward, $24,795.00 and Fifth ward,
$13,175.00. The new construction
ot this amount was $270,075.00 -«d
the additions amounted to $53,070.-
00.
In addition to the permits the
report showed a great amount of
paving, sewer and waterworks im
provements; and taken as. a whole
the report was one of the ; most in
teresting ever rendered -in coun>
■cil. . .vL.ih...-ip- .
It was showed by the report of
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| y BANNER-HER-
j ALD WAN T A D
■ comes pretty near to
reaching every pair
of eyes in the whole
city of Athens. Put
all these eyes to help
ing you in the hunt
for any article you
may lose and, the
chances are that you
will find it.
TRY A WANT AD
IN THE
BANNER-HERALD
• AND YOU’LL GET
RESULTS.
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