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ia . C;*: w'' rrr'Wlff ATHENS COTTON? MIDDLING ... 26 2-4c I PREVIOUS CLOSE 26 l-2c Daily and Sunday—10 Centa a Week The One Paper In Moat Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. Daily and'Suniiy^-lO CenfFa Week.'. flTJ .Kfffltf ~~ the weath: Warmer with increasing inoas and possible showers, VOL. 11, No. «' Full Associated Press Leased Wire Serrice. ATHENS. GA- FRiDAt EVENING. JANUARY 5, 1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cento. Sunday. T Hughes 'Open Door’Plan May Be Used to Settle Reparations •5—* -t. i • * 4—4- .4—*■ MANY KILLED IN •M 1 ' 4H 1 ■M 1 -h-4* -T- -T- J. 4 4 yHR RACE WAR 4—4* 4* 4*—4* 4* 4* 4*—4* 4—4- 4—4- 4*—4* 4* 4- 4»—4- J. i a 4-4- 4—-4* 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. KE 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. .13 BELIEF 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 (Turn to Pape Three) 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- (Turn to Page Three) 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. — / 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 (Turn to Page Three) 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 (Turn to Page Tnree)