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ATHENS. GA- FRiDAt EVENING. JANUARY 5, 1923.
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cento. Sunday.
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Hughes 'Open Door’Plan May Be Used to Settle Reparations
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Civil Investigation of La, Atrocities Begins
| All Actors Are
Not Spendthrifts
ATTORNEY GENERAL A. V.
COCO of Louisiana is heading
State of Louisiana Begins
Civil Investigation of
Alleged Masked Activi
ties There.
HEAVY GUARDS ARE
THERE FOR SAFETY
Only One Person Held So
Far on a Murder Charge.
Coco, Solicitor, and
Judge Odom Presides.
BASTROP. La —Legal represent
atives of the Htate of Louisiana
VVt .,e ready Friday for its inquisi
tion under civil process Into
masked band doi-redations in More
house parish, but with s/tate troops
standing by to step into the gap .it
time should any emergency 10 WED SCOTTISH
^.crise to warrant the assumption
the probe at Mer Rouge, La.,
into the murder of two and
ether outrages hy masked
bands.
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Indications Friday Were
! That She Could Count on
j Support of Belgium and
j Maybe Italy.
WOOD AND COAL
i MAY BE BASIS
If Germans Are Behind in
Payment of These Phys
ical Coercion May Be
Resorted to.
Four Are Killed
And Several Hurt
In Train Wreck
PfilNCE OF WALES
the military of the police powers
of the parish. The hearing Will
at this o’clock Friday morn-
Bastrop, parish seat, was quiet,
but with an air of suppressed ex
citement. A detachment of cavalry
is stationed across the roadway
from the parish court houst/a ma
chine gun unit is on guard at the
court house and a machine gun de
tachment is guarding the parish
prison and a company of infantry is
encamped within a stone’s tlif jw
of the court building. At Mer Rouge,
headquarters of a detail of depart-
vnt cf justice investigators who
have assembled evidence which Is
•*'!»«»♦« to result tn sensations 1
disclosures and wholesale arrests,
another infantry company and a
cavalry detachment is on duty.
With this background everything Is
in readiness for the open hearing
into masked mob operations at
whose door is laid the responsibil
ity for the kidnapping and slaying
of Watt Daniels and Thomas Rich
ards and other outrages of lesser
importance.
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j PARIS—France, free to handle
‘ the reparations question accord -
| ing to her own formula turned
! Friday to the taak of making Ger-
, many pay. The French govern-
| ment apparently has the support
| of Belgium and is less certain of
j Italy's aid.
j Premier poijicalre will discuss
(’Belgium cooperation with Pre-
l mier Theunis before the latter
I returns to Brussels Friday eveu-
| ing. He also planned to have a
( talk with Mr. Bonar Law prior to
i the British Prime Minister’s de-
parture for London. It was
LONDON — Although the Daily J derstood, however, that the Lau-
New, in asserting Friday that - th<S
LACLEDE, Mo. — Wrecking
crews were busy Friday /Clearing
the wreckage resulting from the
head on collision early Thursday
night of two Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy freight trains bttyeen
Meanville and Laclede, Mo., in
which four trainmen were killed
and several injured.
The dead:
B. N. Barclay, 60 engineer of
the train No. 83; B. F. Erdman 52
engineer of train No. 72; B. W*
Birmingham, 30 brakeman No 72;
N. R. Wilson.* 30, fireman. No. 83.
Clyde Moling, fireman of number
72 and Ernest Wood, brakeman
of number 7^. suffered broken
legs.
More than 500 feet of track was
torn up.
The cause of the wreck was as
cribed by reailroad men tp a mis
understanding by the crew of No.
83 of the movements of train No.
72.
BRITISH BODY TO
ADJUST DEBT NOW
IN CAPITAL CITY
WASHINGTON.—Members of the
Ruth Roland, a Financier
With Dun and Brad-
street Rating.
BARRICADE MADE ?
BY NEGROES BEING
BE SETTLED THRU
U. S. Government, With
Break Up of Paris Con
ference Pins Hope in
State Secretary.
ALTERNATIVE TO
FORCED PAYMENT
British Deny That U. S.
.Called An International
Parley to Meet At Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON.—The American
government, with the break up of
the conference of the allied prem
iers in Paris, appeared Friday to
be pinning its hopes for a settle
ment of the reparations crisis
largely upon the adoption by the al
lied •governments of -the nlan sne-
£»ited by Secretary Hughes In his
recent New Haven *•’#» och.
Put forward as an alternative to
attempted forcible collections it.
Germany should the crisis reach a
point regarded here as now meas
urably approached, Mr. Hughes’
proposal would refer the rspara-
tio? s question for advisory econt-
inendatins both as to tho amount
.Germany can pay and the method
[Armed Negroes Hold
j House Which Whites
Tried All Night to Enter,
But Failed. , •
ATTACK ON WOMAN
BEGAN THE TROUBLE
All Fla. Stirred By Race
Warfare. Thousands
Rush to Scene of Bitter
est Fighting.
the engagement of the Prince of a It iB -e^.-ded here as probable Wa *bington to take up. with Am- . .
w r to the daughter of a ^
ttoh peer wlil be announced with- as^ba... ^-*£,£*5 ; Great Britain's,var-t.me debt of j free ol
TRIAL FOR DEATH
BE PAUL
By JAMES W. DEAN
**NEW'-iYokic—Impres8inir
that all movie actors are profli
gates generally exists. The pub
lic believes that with most of the
studio folk it is "eas$' come, easy
A. V. Coco, state attorney gen
eral. and his corps of assistants are
tore lo conduct the Inquiry. Imme
diately after the arrival of Mr. Coco
yesterday he announced the ap-
roimnent of Howard Warren, state
c **nator. of Shi'eveport, as hia spe-
« '•l Mr. Warren will act
in enniunrtion with Mr. Coco and
T. s Wnlmsley, G. S. Gyon and
1’a il a. ^ompayrac, assistant at-
l °rnev generals.
•'r. Coco would not venture an
estimate of the time which might
be required to complete -the Ives-
ilgatirr Ho Indicated that the
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ith- * as the basis
in two or three months, mentions Germany the .‘J®” 81 ”* 1 ; more than four billion dollars, were j That 'Secretary Hughes’ sugges-• »rhe commitment trial of Har-
no uau.es. n live, Pa.ticu.ars ' 2 £ j g"". ** m"-
which indicate it refers o dy , deliveries of w<wd. In a. few days,, of ^ fund , DK pro blem preparato- j in event of an emergency was the denng Paul L. Smith at the Se a -
Elizabeth Bowes-L>on. the -2 ( it is confidents y i ry to the formal discussion which | onlv authorized comment on the board depot on the night of Dec-
«TXo re d “ UBMer ° f the E! "‘ If"! * her SSrSt^S-r* 884 " nder W 1“ n enr^ 31a *’ ***
tb„ I'rtnces betrothed has ptoied her of the commission is said to , Baldwin, chancellor of the ex- mission with the sanction of the W. Milton Thomas, J P. Nunnal-
was shot dead at the time
r .. |, oomn ij _* PrinfAsq I V'.i , . . _ , ' , i lucre iiau ijeeu uu utucuti Bwiu* repaniuuuB —v . n by Scajfravcs, who admits
both was a bridesmaid at Princess J deliveries and Germany’s request ment as to what program the
th ”' , " nc ?'? i a C |™t T„ ,l,y ,S i ^ er ° f i h ? eommlssion is said to , Ba i dwln . chancellor of the ex- J mission with the sanction of the W. Milt.
> dlatlnguiahed Wft jn asetoto and | have advised President ®»rth°u. chequeri and Montagu C. Norman.! government if invlte.1 to do so ly andM
one ^ ‘ ! he wl " n . ot attend_ lhe meettnc Kove nior of the Bank of Enel.ind, With the t.resent moratorium on Smith
HHdeLaid at Princess of?.* ^ be . en no 0,HcIa . 1 8tat °- reparations payments not oxpl.V.K alleged 1
!r n ;,. a mia8ion «* prepared to present t
tish residence of Glamis castle ia
ip Fir Far8hire, one of the most
famous bayonal seats in Britain.
It is noted among other things for
its mysterious sealed chamber re
puted to hold a secret which has
never been revealed to the public:
This mystery is disclosed only to
the heir of each succeeding earl.
The present earrs ancester upon
whom the Baronetcy was confer
red upon the 15th century' was
Patrick Lyon, a ScotWho was one
of the hbstages giveA England in
1424 the ransom of King James I.
■ I . , , .... _ _ iiubbiuu was prejinreii i
♦m l: 1 T . hl ! d * cl,,on . '■ h ' ld I? J'* nc1 ' a basis for discusaion.
»IT. le . 8 a ? “ n j ndl ' atio " ‘ h , at i Members of the American com-
Britain intends to sustain pom mission also declined to discuss the
situation.
p&rticipatlng ln the affairs of the
commission.
The presence or absence of the
un’iil januarv 15. there ii» believed ; the killing, and who was cleared
to *o© yet time for a decision abroad .on January 1st by the coroner’s
to examine the possibilities of the : inquest but who was immediately
American suggestion. (arrested and committed to jail on
I a warrant sworn out by F. G.
CONFERENCE IN 'Strother of Howell’s Station, a
WASHINGTON DENIED brother-in-law of Smith.
As to the advisability of seek-
ink any changes In the debt fund- -
ing act to give the American com- LONDON.—(By The Associated j BEGINS WITH
mission more latitude in the nego- I Press)—^The Berlin correspondent. LIVELY TILT
tiatlons a difference of opinion of the Central News says ho *
innBAN 9a nrnroll Ko9n-nnn tonne. 9ham. a —all IrifATTDPll SO 111* CO that
Wolver M. Smith and Austin
appears to prevail between tr©ns- from a well informed sourc*
‘ In accordance with thei t_ u» .u... u. u.c
made by the British on Wednesda; abgence f Solicitor Dean, who is
. • rnment m- T .i r. ’, ¥ *.
I the commission.
taking losses
BEFORE
INVENTORY
Athens merchants are now
r« during their stocks by con
ducting pre-inventory sales.
'I-my of them are prepared to
lake leases in pre-inventory
in tomorrow’s shopping
rather than write them off in
inventory.
Saturday’s week-end shop-
sinx in Athens will. be“HU-
tinrtly favorable to the cn»-
iumer. Saturday is perhaps
the one day in the year when
your dnllar will stretch the
’arthest in the stores of Ath-
ens.
NOT PROMINENT
IN PUBLIC LIFE
The Earl of Strathmore has nev
er been prominent in English pub
lie life, although he Is well known
socially.
It is recalled at the time of
Princess Mary's wedding the gos
sips chose, either of two of the
bridesmaids as a wife fur ■ the
Prince of Wale, Tneso were
Lady Rachael Cavendish and the
Queen's niece, Lauy Mary Cam-
Lrlde. The former was the favor
ite. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
was not then in the running so far
as popular rumor went-
If Friday's guess proves correct,
it is certain publfc opinion will
generally endorse the satisfaction
$>y the newspaper that
the t Prince of Wales has chosen a
British girl Instead of making a
foreign alliance dictated hy “reas
ons of state.”
The Dally News recently pub
lished a report that the Prince was
to marry an Italian Princess. The
report was officially - denied.
Thousands of dollars will
"T spent in Saturday’s shop-
in Athena and many of
these dollars wdl be gnkfld
hy the store nArs In tonight’s
Herald.
Ho we say.— '.
Before Too Shon in the
Stores of Athena Tomorrow,
bhop First, Tonight in
THE HERALD
pointed out inaSMuen as the ma<
pority decision on timber default j Reports persisted Friday that thejthe'lTnUed States government m- ^“and JohnBrGamWe”and"jidre
must only be confirmed at next first step by the foreign delegation, tends to call an international con- q Thomas renresented the
week’s meeting to become opera- w0 uld be to attempt to establish* I ferenoe in W* shine ton next we©k ^’ Thomas represented the
tlve. Sir John Bradbury east the 1 the confirmation of the
only dissenting vote on the ques- J commission and as a basis
tion of the default
If Germany Ja officially declar-.
ed to be behind In her coal de
liveries. only the physical mani
festations of coercion would be
necessary. .These steps it is be
lieved will no doubt involve the
military i ocupation of at least part
of the Ruhr Valley.
It appears rather uncertain that
“the polite disagreement” between
France and Great Britain will be
limited to. the reparation ques
tions.
Nothing could be more fatal than
to imagine, says The Journal, that
France could for instance trail
behind the British at Lausanne.
France’s policy, this newspaper
says is based on freedom of ac
tion and cannot be divided into
compartments.
French opinion echoed by the
press remains moderate. It is the
expression of hope that the cor-
diale will be resumed ns before
the war with each party maintain
calculations the approximr.to nnnu
al amount Great Britain can pay.
establish I ference In Wnshireton next
American I to consider the reparations dead-j Immadiately upon the caU of the
cte annul The mrresnoncent pointed • u. | case one of the liveliest tUtB ever
GOVERNROR TO AID’ ,
IF NECE88ARY *
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Gov
ernor Hardee of Florida, when
informed by the Associated
Press early Friday of the out
break at Rosewood Immediate
ly made efforts to get 1 a touch
with tho authorities at Rose
wood to determine whether
store order. The calling out of
troops would be necessary to ro-
the units of the Florida National
Guard depends on how serious
the civil authorities view tho
situation, the governor said, w
Any number of instances might
be given to upset this belief. Per
haps Ruth Roland furnishes the
best instance of business sagacity
among tho women of the screen.
Ruth Roland owns one of the
highest-priced business concerns
in Los Angeles. She builds
bungalow courts, apartment hous
es and knows quite a bit about
negotiable securities. Any bank
~'bTTER'cREEkf Fte.—(Ey T®*®
Associated Press)—Two white iron,
two negro men and one negro wo
man are known to be dead while it
is belief ed there are many other
casualties as a result of race trou
ble Thursday night and early Fri
day at Rosewood, 12 miles from
here.
With the exception of three
buildings, the entire village was
burned by a mob shortly after day
break, according to available re
ports here.
ROSEWOOD, Fla.—(By The As
sociated Press)—Hundreds of cit
izens were early Friday preparing
on the Pacific Coast would extend ! to renew their efforts to smash a
credit to her. Her rating in Dun
and Bradstreet Is the very high
est.
8TARTED AT
$25 A WEEK
When Ruth started with the
Kalem company, more than 10
years ago, she received $25 a
week, but she put part of that
away; each week. Each week since
she has invested part of her sal
ary, which is now many times $25.
“I saved for many weeks to buy
a diamond ring.”' Ruth says. “I
finally bought one weighing one-
half carat. It looked like a head
light to me, but nobody paid any
attention to it. Then I saved for
bigger things. When I had $500
I bought a lot for $750—$10 down
J
ed.
WOULD END ELECTORATE
LANSING, Mich.—A resolution
calling upon all other states to join
frith Michigan in a demand for
amendment to the federal consti
tution to abolish the electorate col
lege and. provide for election of
presidents by direct vote of the
people will be introduced in the
Michigan legislature at the behest
of Governor A. Groesbeck. it was
announced at the governor s ofoce
Friday.
PEKING.—(By The Associated
Press)—Governmental mandate to
night reappointed as premier of)
China Chang Shao Tseng who had
resigned'December 30 and in tho
reorganized cabinet named as for
eign minister Soa-Sze, minister to
the United States.
Premier Chang will serve concur
red tlv as minister of war.
C. T. Wang, the acting foreign
minister, becomes minister of jus
tice. *
The new cabinet is a compromise
between the party of President U
Hung and that Tha Sun. the power
ful military leader, whose head
quarters are at Paotlngfu.
The eo !|355^ n ‘ D ^ n I^ n witnessed in a justice court here
time to save the French from j developed when Attorney Smith
n^Siritvof taklne eeoaraic action. 1 announced that Ms client chal-
The Britiah fo?eton office Fri- longed the right of Juztice Milton
day. afternoon denied it oa l .e- Thomas to sit on the case since
quested the United States to call his father. George C. Thomas, was
i.n intprnationnl :orf*r*»uce on rep- one of the attorneys, charging that
"rations as reported'bv the central father and son were associated in
News correspondent. . | the practice of law as a partner-
I jship and all fees were divided
BRITISH PAPERS (equally. .
COMMENT ON BREAK This challenge brought forth
some heated arguments- and L,
It was said some apprehension is
felt lest the gap between the two
countries widen In view of the
character of the disagreement
All. the newspapers pay homage
to the sincerity of Mr. Bonar Law,
although they deplore that he al
lowed himself to be persuaded too
easllv hv his financial expert,
, Sir John Bradbury is singled ont
as the villain, of the piece and
seems to have inherited the unpop-
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Both Foreign Minister Alfrd* Sze
and Minister of Justice C. T. Wang
received their colleger educations in
America. Mr. Sze received a deeree
of master of arts from Cornell Uni
versity. Mr. Wang la a graduate of
Yale.
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CLOTHIER DEAD
MONTCLAIR. N. J.—Frank S:
Turnbull, president of Rogers,
Peet & Companv. New York cloth
iers, died here Friday.
LONDON—The Dally Telegraph
supporting the government, says;
"It will be recognized in neutral
states and with special, clearness
ln the United States In taking the
stand he has token at Paris
Premier Bonar Law has been fight
Ing the battle qf every people to
whom general prdttdation and
settlod internal conditions are ob-
Jeets of supreme Importance."
naiiv Chronicle says If tho
The Daily Chronicle nays ’•
French occupy the Ruhr they will
act in isolation. Doubtless pres-
sure of outside opinion will be
exerted. Americans will not be
disposed to permit the.floating of
any loans, and of course, shall not
remit the French -debts when
French money is being wasted
ruining Europe.”
The Daily News fears very re-
erettnble snd very serious changes
in Anglo-French relations and
torsees, besides the. obvious ef
fect on the Gorman economic
situation peril for French' flounce
and .French prestige.
The Times declaring that the re
■cult will bo received . with rerl
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Dennis Penny, young attorney for
merly associated with Thomas
and Thomas in his practice, Was
put on the stand to verify the con
tention of the state’s lawyers.
Some amusing chatter passed be 1 -
tween the witness and Judge
George Thomas and everything
from flattering compliments to
the lie was passed around before
a ruling was finally made by the
three justices, who conferred, that
W. Milton Thomas was qualified
to sit on tbe case.
barricade behind which 26 or more
heavily armed negroes are making
a stand here in a small but Two
white men are known dead, three
wounded and a score or more of
blacks are believed slain In'the
fighting which took place early
Thursday night
Deputized posses and citizens,
said to be numbering in the thou
sands were pouring into this vil
lage early Friday morning. Many
cars heavily laden with armed men
have arrived, some coming .from a
distance of about 76 miles..
All night long citizens surround
ing the hut kept up a heavy fire
and ,at Intervals volleys < of lead
were fired from behind the barri
cade. At the first break of dawn
the whites were proparing to rush
the house from all side. Author
ities believe unless the negroes will
n-j . . , H1CB UCUC7U UU1UBB LUO UCRIVCB W«*
“ d ,10 a “ ^ ) „ haU , surrender “they will he smoked
paid a Rood many jten-dollars I ou *..
learned I still had $760 to pay.
I didn’t know much about interest.
At an early hour the number of
«rr *u . , a . - , nogTC* dead could notibe estimated
I still own that lot and it has « but the hut ig t0 ^ riddled *
1 " c r eaaad co “ aiderably ln ' alue I with bullets from Its flooring to tho
Since then I have bought and sold j
many lots. After I had accumu
lated a little capital I began mak
ing automobile loans.
“There ar© many clever busi
ness men and women in pictures
who would have made big success
es In business had they preferred
such a career.' We’re not all
spendthrift profligate empty-
heads.”
23 Dead In Crash
Of River Bridge
■KELSO; Wash.—With the num
ber of known deaths in the disas-
ter caused by the collapse of
The dead white are. Henry An
drews, superintendent of the Cum
mer Lumber company’s sawmill,
and Boley WUkeroon, of Sumner.
The wounded are: A man believ
ed to be R. J. Odom, of Jackson
ville. employqed at a box factory at
Otter Creek. y—-i , - ’
Senheus StudstlU, of Rosewood.
Warner Kirkland,.of Rosewood.
The bodies of Andrews and Wil-
kerson lay all night where tliov
STATE OFFERS
4 WITNESSES
After Ithis tilt, which consumed
over half an hour, the first wit
ness was called by the state. The
witness was J. B. Thurmand who
testified that nc was in the sit
ting room of the depot-when the
shooting took place, beard the
shot and in three or fonr minutes
fell. No ono was able to venture,
so hot was the firo from behind the
barricade, to rescue them. Andrews
hrldee her. ,eavea a w,,e and three children
to r two 5TMrt7S5„,“S£2 : a d n " n wllken,on B wlfe and flve chn -
‘*ltor^Ktod Bt a°‘ 1 “ar 2 Ji. ■ , ,1 The hut was in total darkness
died th A 4" Jur « 1 throughout the night but efforts of
°- the citizens to creep up on the bar-
McDonald died of Injuries Thura- j ricade m - et ^ a flre . Th „
It.. t , negroes seemed well suppplled with
,moiled w^|^Jj^c^!2hot“ nltl0n ’ “° nt ° f “ be ‘ nS bUCk ‘
Sheriffs and their deputies ft
compiled with difficulty.
by employers’ of transient labor
continued to add names of men
who had failed to reappear for
work.
Up to Friday morning none of
the bodies had been recovered
the sidewalks He also testified i Portland Ordered to tadqtate
that he heard someone exclaim, i the finding of the dead in the
(Turn to Pago Three) Cowlitz river.
neighboring counties arrived hei
rounding towns have been plai
during tho early morning while
tile meantime negro villages In s\
under heavy guard and martial la
wns warned. At Sumner and Broi
son armed men are patrolling tl
streets. No real outbreaks other
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