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, ATHENS COTTONi jffiDLING PREVIOUS CLOSE .... ATHENS, GA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 192S. merits to Court to Decide j Savannah Mayor SAVANNAH, Ga.—The courts! will have to determine who is to' be the mayor of Savannah during the next two years. This became evident very early Tuesday when the balloting began to elect a may or in the regular election following Dies When Both | Legs Are Cut Off j Vote Taken Tuesday Indi cated That France Be lieves Germany Has Will fully Refused. TROOPS ARE NOW ATLANTA, Ga. — Franklin M. Chatman, sawmill worker is dead from injuries received Monday when both legs were almost sever ed-by a'huge circular saw. It Is said Chatman's clothing became entangled in Ihe machinery which threw him into the air, then al lowing him to fall across the saw. A fellow worker nearby was un • able to save him. ON GERMAN SOIL Route via Crawford, Lex ington, Washington and Thomson, Is Given At- tention. Evidence Is Put in Shape For Prosecution of Band of Black Hooded Raid ers. Vmerican Observer At Session Declares He Thinks Burden on Ger many Too Heavy. TWELVE WITNESSES WERE TO BE HEARD Father and Kinsmen of 1 One of Slain Men on 1 Stand. Identity May Be j Proved. WILKES COUNTY INITIATES WORK Sand and Clay Road Or dered By Wilkes Com missioners. Continuous Good Route Seen. WASHINGTON. way wf masked hand depredations in Morehouse pariah, several «pOfc. stootf guard- TucBdprht. tlic vtlandl ton home neary Mer ' Rouge' and' ; later two soldiers were assigned : i to guard duty in that section. The anonoymcus telephone mes- [ sage was received at the head- ! quarters of Justice agents direct - j.ing the assembling of evidence in j the inquiry. ; Miss Hamilton had expect- Partsh. „ | ed to testify that certain More- j house parish men had been some : months ago forced to leave the 1 leave the Parish. forceas a breach of the Versailles peace treaty and as “use of might against a defenseless people." The German government for the time being, is Wholly stressing the American aid in transmitting' offi cially to the French government! Secretary Hughes* suggested plan, ; as disclosed Monday, the. Washing- ‘ as disclosed Monday, the. Washing- ]! ton government Tuesday could only j await results. As formally brought | to the attention of the Paris offi- | cials prior to the premiers* meet- j *" — * “ presumably! Jusserand, I suggestions j legal aspects of 'France’s attitude as based on her treaty prerogatives .and has not decided the line of ac- . tion it purposes to adopt in the extent the French invade the Ruhr. “France," continued Cuno, “is trying to cloak hey contemplated action with the appearance of jus tice, in that she spreads sanctions and pledges which are supposed to have basis in the stipulations of the j Versailles treaty; yet, even as mon strous as this Instrument is, it does not go so far as to permit the al lies optional impfgnment;tapon Ger man sovereignty or wilful encroach - Secretary „ , —_ , which also were outlined in his, New Haven speech, involve no time , limit, It was said authoritatively and the plan thuii still Is before the French government. The pre liminary reply; already received here is regarded as inconclusive and still leaving the door open to possible acceptance. There were growing indications Tuesday that despite action of the senate in the resolution express*- “* ~ that American PARIS — (By the Associated Iress) — The reparations com- mission Tuesday voted Germany in wilful default in hep coal de • liveries. The vote was three to or? sir John Brandbuty, the British member casting the nega tive Ballot. The discng^ion over the default' question lasted one hour and thiee quarters, n part of which time V,1S taken up by the British dele- KJ-te in Riving hia reasons *hy he dered the default should not declared. * ir Jchn explained he was un- a>le to vote for the proposition hecau.se he felt that this action f°V he matter out «f the hands of the commission and placed it under the jurisdiction ot tho gov ernments. H e believed the ques- «n c ° u ld well have been handld . the commission in view of tho ''ireuinstances surrounding thd de- v l e . ry of ooal »>y Germany last uiuu cuciu,. i am suing [U uu ngul ' as God gives me the vision ot the I right, and in this, should there be {tor the present any misunderstand- 1 i ing In our forces. let those things ■ remain without agitation for the I present until we have whipped in the fight against our common en emy. Then we can. adjust affairs I within our ranks.” 1. In the course of the meeting, ac cording to the paper. Goblin Bush announced: “We will soon form a committee to visit Catholic churches in uni form and show them how strong we are.” Hollywood gossips think they see a possible match In Mary Miles Minter, screen star, and GastonGlass. ; of Watt Daniel and Thomas Rich ards. state’s attorneys Tuesday re- sumed their open hearing investi- fi ; the opinion that American f n at w° ““i'S, troops should- be withdrawn from ■ Morehouse parish with an event dozen witnesses on the list expect- el to be called before the court, day ended. That some ot the witnesses to he heard -might be' able to identify members of the band was regarded | as a possibility. None pf those ex- {amined during the first two days : of the' hearing could name any of ! the hooded raiders. I The present investigation was [ undertaken under the direction of Governor John M. Parker, who has been quoted as asserting that Rian murderers were responsible for the deaths of Daniel and Richards. ui «v mui uauuam- ment on German territory. MOST SEVERE METHOD KNOWN “As a pledge to their demands n under -the treaty or as security for There will be called a meeting at Lexington shortly IumKiAg*' to wards this end. Oglethorpe’s high way from Athens to Lbxiujctou the "Rhine,” officials believed this j d 2 ze ° wltnesses on the list expect- course. at the present time involv- • ed such possibilities of misunder- j standing as to make it inadvisa ble to follow. (Turn to Page Five) LONDON — (By the Associated , Press) — Frederick Bywaters, hanged in Pontovllle prison at; nine o’clock Tuesday for-the mur der of Percy Thompson qn Octob- er 4, last ■ Mrs. Thompson was hanged a few minutes later In Holloway J jail. By waters, who made an^ eleventh hhur attempt to save' Mrs. Thompson by a ••confession” met his death calmly, * so far as t reports indicated. .* Mrs. Thompson had to be car ried to the scaffold. She collap- ( eed Monday everdng and was in'; the care of physicians throughout j the night. j Both the condemned met death * with protestations of. innocence, j Bywaters maintained that Mrs. ( Thompson had had no part in the : Meet Jack Daw’s New Friends BOYDEN gives his PERSONAL VIEWS W. Hoyden, American caiiIf Pnla,IVB wlth 0,6 comffitslon . ! " l « give hi, views, made lie » * talement pointing ont that «»Ua,w 8 e . Xpr< ‘" in * “* P*™ 00 * 1 ,|,l! s learned authoritatively ilril, !' ,nok the vlew th * t wUle Zactually existed In Ger- 0041 deliveries for 1929, the “Oder which the default speeki d 9uch that !t required the.f, 1 00nsi <>cratipn. He decUred inefi'°‘ als , ln Wnd Germany, e ? a - w8 _re too great, a RICHMOND, Var—Development of vocational instruction in the public schoola ot the south, with particular emphasis upon the teach Ing of agriculture and home econo mica Is scheduled as the theme 1 for the regional conference to be I held here this week by delegates I from 12 southern states under the » ot voca- RECESS BECAUSE OF HOLIDAY The hearing was resumed Tues day after a recess since Saturday, made necessary by a state holiday Monday. . J. L. Daniel, father of Watt, who began his recital ot the Incidents on the night of August 24, 1 last, when Daniel and Richards were kidnapped, was expected to .resume the, witness stand Tnpsday. Dan iel Saturday told of being carried into the woods and lashed with a leather strap by tho same hand which kidnapped his son and Rtch- . Daniel was called to testify after two pathologists.'Dr. Charles Du val add Dr. John Lanford, had de clared that their examination of the headless and mutilated diddles of the men showed that they had bori tortured before they were killed and thrown into Lake La '165,281 round bales, counted as half bales. 28,498 bales ot Ameri- can-Egyptlan and 5,065 bales of Sea-Island, the census bureau an nounced Tuesday. • To January 1 last year glnnlngs totalled 7,882.856 running bales, including of 28,348 round bales counted as half bales, 30,240 bal«B 'of Ameriean-Egyptlan and 2,106 bales- ot sea Island. Glnnlngs to January 1, by states follow: Ala bama 816,388; Arizona 36,692; Ar kansas 999,202: California 23.611: Florida 27,311; Georgia 730,589; Louisiana 243,R12; Mississippi 980,994; I Missouri 184,487; North Carolina 851,269; Oklahoma 622.- 356; South Carolina 608,031; .Ten. nesseo 378,890: Texas 3,092,458; • •a., i t. • ar SSO All ctotnu auspicies of the board tional education. The first session of the confer ence opened in the hall of the House <of delegates this morhing killing of her husband and insist-'' ed that he had slain Thompson lh- self defense. The woman, in her last Interview with her family as- and the formalities of opening the series of discussions. A joint -.session of agriculture and home economics *111 be h&d Thursday.' - . • . ■ • Delegates from Georgia and Texas will report upon home econo mica work in those states, while .delegates from Arkansas and Ten- and Brother luitted of Charge Of Murder Tuesday murder^ in connection with , the killing of Lee Troup, a negro. Chief of. Police .Gordon Frpst and his brother Grady, were acquitted, when, given iL Preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace, I. II. Hall, secretary H. J. Reynolds and Benjamin Gillis Monday afternoon. The defendants claimed that they were attempting to arrest Troup at Soperton on Chrlrtmas day when he resisted and showed light. The evidence showed that Troup was shot, by bath defen dants. Warrants were obtained by the dead map’s relatives for the two white men. ; This is an, introduction'to tho qn4*r people , whom Jack ..Caw htee'ts'in. liis next adventure: Jack Daw on Icicle Isle Above, in the picture, is one of the Freezies; at the left, 01’ King Blizzardo, ruler of- the Freezies; at the right, Jack Daw himself, and below, one'of the snowmen. The first chapter of this new Jack Daw adventure is on the comic page today. ’ , j nessee will tell of the work they are dolnr along agricultural lines. Training in child care, home making and negro education are three of the most important sub jects listed for consideration of tho women delegates attending the meeting of the home economic forces. General discussions of health work and state programs for im- provpment of home conditions, es peclally in the rural communities WliAT FIGURES SHOW ; jpw*| Figures compiled- by Dr. Wil liam H. Guilfoy of New York city, covering kn average portion of‘its population, show an interesting trend of improvement in reference to deaths due to cywhosis of the liver, a disease attributable' in 95 cases oui, of every hundred direct ly to the use of alcoholic drinks. In 1910 there were reported 1,400. deaths from this disease; in •/. u aci *on oy the French rra«* - uv -' ... ■-foment were purely specula- publisher, opened tile annual con- ’ I' was impossible to give vention of the national ailverUsing on*' inform atlon concerning I commission of tho Associated Ad- lt f'ratl°n of that kind. French, I vertislng Clubs of the ''°f' d - ; 1 "' 1 Italian engineers are J portont matters of department 1 - act on dort ’ 11 * as 8aid - ready | ic# were discussed at an all daj , ( ‘ 01 orde fs from, Paris tod it I executive session. , 00 “reret that they would be | The delegates are to be recaivei (Turn to Page Five) I by President Harding tomorrow. K. P. MEETS IN MACON MACON, Ga.—Officers . ot tho grand lodge, Knights j>t Pythias, will hold a conference' In Macon January 30 to discuss plans look ing for the betterment of the or- d 1T; f as said - The Brand lodge , hold its annual conclave in Macon May 16.