Newspaper Page Text
slightly cooler
Saturday
ATHENS, GA„ FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 192J.
I Fulton’ Co. Gives
Ga. Tech $10,000
French-Germans
Fight Side By Side
ATLANTA, Ga. — An appro
priation of $10,000 :o Georgia
Tech for 1923 has been made by
the Fulton county commissioners.
'At that timo n number of other
appropriations were made, impor
tant among which were donations
of $5,000 to the Grady hospital
for repairs and improvements;
$2,400 to the Atlanta Cnvention
bureau, and $50 a month to the
Boy Scouts.
LONDON.—(By The Associated
Press)—The curious spectacle of
the French and Germans fighting
a common enemy on the frozen
shores of the Baltic is expected
from Friday's developments of the
topsy-turvey European situation as
a result of the Lithuanian advance
on Memel.
The Memel police;, composed for
the moat part of Germans and the
French* tropos entrenched in the
outskirts of ,the city, will resist
the Lithuanian raiders, according
to advices received here. The Brit
ish government has associatod it-
iself with the French in protesting
l to Lithuania against the advance
on Memel and the a - British, cruiser
has been dispatched thither.
Testimony Offered At
Trial Places Beginning
of Intolerance With Ku
Klux Start.
DADE, MAYOR, IS
i HEARD ON STAND
I How Masked Men Flog-
| ged, Tortured and Even
j Killed, Related in Sworn
Statements.
French and British Navy
to Be Sped to Scene
This Was the Feeling of
the Administration As
Expressed After Ruhr
Occupation.
GERMANY DEPLORES
Where Disorder Is Said
to Exist.
LITHUANIANS HAVE
REACHED MEMEL
Shots Reported Exchang
ed. Memel Is Territory
Internationalized By the
Versailles Pact.
J BASTROP, La.—Robt. t. D.lde.
; mayor of Mer Rouge Friday named
Dr. BL M. McKoln, Capt. J. K. Skip-
’ with, Kelly Harp rod Ed Ivey as
'members of a Ku Klux Kian . band j
(which held up and-disarmed Watt ]
• Daniel, W. C. Andrews and Harry;
Neelis, Mer Uougo citizens, near
PARIS — (By the Associated
Press) — The French and British
governments ' are preparing to
send warships to Meme!. the for
mer Bast Prussian territory on
the Baltic ’ internationalized by
i V 10 -Treaty • oL_Versailes* with, the
purpose. of maintaining order in
NEW YORK.
-President A. W.
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Uni
versity, in a letter to Roscoe
Conklmg Bruce, prominent negro
BERNE. — (By The Associated
Press)—German Minister to Switz
erland Friday handed the foreign
minister a copy of the note pro
testing against the occupation of
I the Ruhr by French J
I graduate of the University pub
lished in the New York World Fri-
jdSy defends the exclusion of “negro
Istudents from freshmen dormito
ries.
.SSSSiti*
OMPSON
WASHINGTON.—Senator Har
ris. democrat, Georgia, Friday re
quested President Harding that
calcium arsenate, used- to fight
the cotton boll weevil be placed 01
the tariff free list under his di
rect authority given in the new
law.
WAS BORN IN
SAVANNAH, GA.
Dr. Gordon was separated from
his wife several years ago and sbe
now lives in Florida. Born in Sa
vannah, Ga.. Dr. Gordon was grad
uated from the Univerity of Vir
ginia and for several years prac
ticed law at Huntsville, Ala., later
studying, for the ministry. He was
assistant rector of a church in
Louisville, Ky., for five years, and
of Emmanuel church in Boston for
one year. He then went abroad,
having charge of the American
church in Geneva tor a time and
was' later assistant rector of St
James' church, North Cambridge.
Returning to this country he went
to New Bedford. Mass., where for
almost 17 years he was rector of
the Grace-Episcopal church, com
ing to the fashionable St Barthol
omew's church in' New York from
New Bedford. He held a degree In
law from Columbia college and
that of Ph. D. from Harvard.
At the direction of Dr. Parks, his
(Turn to Pago Five)
IUv A. G. Richards, rector of the
Episcopal church will speak at
the regular meeting for boys at
the Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock.
He will apeak on "Tho Road to
Succeaa*.
.All boys are cordially invited to
this meeting.
Crissinger Made
Head of Reserve
STORM WARNINGS.
NEW YORK.—The local weather
bureau has ordered storm signals
hoisted along the aeahdard from
Boston to the Virginia Capes. .
PEACEFUL TOWN
PRIOR TO THEN
The conditions which existed in
Mer Rouge, Bastrop and the entire
parish of Morehouse prior to the
alleged reform measures enforced
by Dr. McKoln while mayor of
Mer Rouge, was considered as be
ing peaceful by the present mayor
of Mer Rouge, Mr. Dade.
On the heels of these reform
-measures came the organization of
the Kian, which resulted in the
dove of peace taking night and
(Turn to Page Five)
EARTH 8H0CK FELT
SANTIAGO, Chile.—A strong
earth shock was felt last evening
from Ransagua to Copiapo. No
damage resulted.
REPORTED ARRE8TED
BERLIN.—Count Gether von dor
Schulenburg, a supporter of Dr.
Joseph Smeetz, the Rhineland sep
aratist ' leader, was reported here
Friday to have been arrested by
An airman moving at nearly
100 miles an hour was passed
easily by swallows in full flight-
The Vatican library, in Rome,
contains <4.000 manuscripts and
about 250,000 printed volumes.
German police while in occupied
territory.
Yesterday’s
Combined
eve fieures Inrlude l.OOftextra <T 1 *' Ban ?J r purchased by the Northeastern Bank of Commerce for distribution among farmers,
contained relative to conference of bankers here Wednesdsy to discuss farm ing problems.)
on account of the news
Coast Lands Much Liquor
F
Betty Compson
Is Not Engaged
Thinks Woman Can’t
Have Two Careers.
An Interview.
■h-4 (■—t t^ 4 , -4‘ 4* 4* 4*—4* 4*—4*
4—4- 4—4> 4*—4* 4—4* 4*-4*
Thousands of Cases, of
Smuggled Intoxicants
Reported Landed in U.
S. Thursday P. M.
411 VARIETIES AT
VERY LOW PRICES
Bootleggers Express No
Fear As They Send
Stuff to N. Y. and Other
Large Cities.
WASHINGTON — An imme
diate rei-ort was demanded by
inhibition officials here from the
Xrw l-rsfy headquarter* con-
«ei iug dispatches printed in Fri-
,iaj morning papers describing
t!„. extensive landing of smuggled
, , . . „ the New Jersey coast.
GREAT RUM
tLEET BUSY
HIGHLAND. N.*J. - By' tho
ASSuCiated I’reM) — The F**
IW-tiett -of- -fid— v.wl.tS,' iWJa^SA- 4
...i.'Thursday off Sandy.
Hunt while tile New York dry
uv .,j s^ti.uiruh was being TCO r "
ai.Uvd was still standing off the
Mil-row channel light ship. Frl-J
,, )t ie.uiy i r business as usual.
'While prohibition force® were
ukdiig to New York four small
i..,is iaptuml Thursday night
tti.U attempting to lanfi liquor
imm the Motherships, the rest of
:he welcoming fleet fifty were
: 41 lug pack and forth between
■he nun-ca. riers and shore.
Aith ugh observers ashore e®tl
mated that thousands of cases
i.aa been landed Tnursday night,
IV rum fle.'t presumably hailing
!r m the Halunuis had a vast
M.uk Mill to iiiSposi* of to bidders
Hitting - in * o»n this resort and
- tiier places along the coast.
Liquor landed Thursday night
>*.iS reported to have been sent by
tor truck to New York. Pblla*
drlphia, Washington and other
cities.
ALL VARIETIES
f-OK SALE
Whiskey, gin. champagne and
v.ire offered for sale and
BETTY C
By JAMES W. DEAN
NEW YORK—(Special to Bah-
the village of Gallion, La., several
months prior to the kidnapping and
murder of Daniel and Thomas F*
Richard last August
Dade also testified that in one
Ku Klux Klan raid in which lie
ner-Henold)—I dropped into the
Ambassador to pay my respects
to Betty Compson before sbe re
turned to Hollywood JO start
work In •‘The Rustle of Silk.*
There she was, writing a letter
and right away I thought of the
stories 1 had heard *uboUt the
young fellow who went all the
way to Hawaii when Betty was
there filming “The White Flow
er” last month, and of the reports
that she would marry soon
“Now tell me, honest Injun. Bet
ty, are you engaged?” I asked. j u*u« w CO iaui iau mm op
I certainly am not engaged !St . Bartholomew’s Episcopal church tions of the black hooded band was
Bruce’s recent request that a
room be reserved in the freshman
halls for his son who is preparing
to enter Harvard, was denied. Pres
ident Lowell’s letter says:
I am sorry that you do not
the attorney general’s staff and
said that the klansmen’s request
would be granted. It !s probable it
will be held immediately
j Capt., Skipwith Is said to have
I requested the conference *n order
NEW YORK.—The motive for the j to go into full details of tho opera-
apparent suicide of Rev. Dr. Percy *‘°“ of Morehoqaa Xian tlnve
J. . . . . . 'Its organization and at i**e same
j Gordon, former assistant rector of, time t0 establish that the opera-
Ts OTe l' ,laCk “““'.feel the reasonableness of our po-
5 sition about the freshman (lormito-
I ries. It is not a departure from the
on confirmed the report that Capt. ! pa , st ’“ ”j f “ se to The^samc
Skipwith had made overture. to ^."we^T'S, Ui^coK
man the same opportunities for ed
ucation that we do the white man,
but we do not owe it to him to
force him and the white into social
relations that are not or may not
be mutually congenial.
and I do not contemplate mar
riage ndw,” she answered. But
she blushed-
•I don't believe that a woman
can have two career®,” she went
on ‘And a woman cannot make
a good wife while sne is pursuing
£ P sa-e anu another career. I shall not marry
h» r
en con.,K»tnioi has developed unui * three
ihe skippers of the Rum,only husband not three
‘tip
As thr bootlegger runs along-
his power boat, he scans
Mens hung ove. the side of the
mother ships and decides from
whl.h he win, purchase. The
siuns i n (orm the bottle fishermen
that Scotch whiskey or suen and
. M: h brand may be had at $45 to
I four. I shall not marry until tl
' meet a man who means the whole
of life to me and to whom I shall
be eveiything. • .
“Of course, there are some wno
•can have both a career and a hus
band, like Mary Pi-Word. it must
be wonderful to live such a life,
but all of us are not so fortun-
ate.”
<lnoted at $35. Cham-
i * Kn *“ W;iK higher. The sea takes
' the appearance of a bargain
«untcr. The visiting flotilla
* ’ ho f*-'*gs of many nations
™ crews are of all races,
e \(N$eis mo loaded f the gun
with liquor.
fn 7!* five lh «usand cases in
a * , a,ul one boat” declared
Irr.uJU? * haired runner; who
. * ht ' hl » boat safely past the
cuar-i and reventue craft
to Pa 9© Five)
j
We would give him freely op-1
P'frtunities for room anji board
wherever it is voluntary, but it
seems to me that for the colored
man to elaim that he is entitled to
have the white man compelled to
live with him is a very unfortun
ate innovation which, far from do
ing him good, would increase a
prejudice that as you and I will
thoroughly agree is most unfor
tunate and probably growing.
“On.the other hand, to maintain
CIRCULATION
Combined
BANNER .‘herald
follows
: 4,682
4,677
:.... 4,718
4,872
4,330
Tuesday
Vdiusdax
Tkursda, '
I'id.v ;
s «Bdav
fchtd Banner is pnb-
K ”' 'if Ihe „ nnd j' ly . mornin *' No to-
1,1 1 ? er »W to printed on Sat-
e 'cninR.
BANNErTheraLD
'thens. ga.
LOOKS BETTER
OFF THE SCREEN
Betty Compson is one of those
unusual persons Ivho appear to
better advantage 'off the screen
than on. Moat of the movie play
ers have two distinct personali
ties and as a rule their keener,
more attractive selves, are- evi
dent on the screen. The earners
may be unkind to certain *yPf 3
of beauty, but it often to. silen-ly
charitable In the matter of re
producing , varying degrees of. In
telligence. .
There is a certain piquancy to
Betty Compson, a, auickcplos en
thusiasm and n , franknfess of
speech and manner which be-
apeak a lively inieilect Sbe is
_pno of the few stars .of, the screen
who would not jqse pretlge by
personal appearances. (Many or
them have lost prestige by appear
ing in person before audiences.)
Judged by ordinary standards
Betty Compson, is not beautiful.
There is something more attrac
tive In tho alight Irregularity of
her feature, than “ the ta«es_ °f
some stars who have doll faces.
(Turn to P«ge Five)
whose body was found Thursday I pot under the supervision of the
in a bath tub in his apartment in i Kian.
the Hotel Wolcott, remained undis-1 ___
covered Friday. There was a bullet | BASTROP. La.—State's attorn-
wound in his right temple and a | e ys digging into the Morehouse
revolver with one empty chamber | parish tragedy—the kidnapping and
lay beneath Ills right hand. ! slaying of Watt Daniel and Thom-
The cotents of two letters found 1 as Richard—had before them Frf-
near the body and evidently written j day the testimony of nearly two V11 vlll „ vllw t ... ...
shortly before he had shot himself | score witnesses dealing with dif-jthnt compulsory residence in the
were not made public. One of the ferences between the peoples of the freshman dormitories—whicS has
ietters was addressed to Dr. Light-, t*o principal towns, Bastrop and, proved a „ eat benefit in breaking
on Park®, rector of St.. Bartholo- Mer Rouge, dating back for years up the social cliques that dW such
mew and the other to Dr. Gordons and starting, according to several..i n j U nr to the college—should not
son, George, an under-secretary of with the drawing of a line between l, established for 99 1-2 per cent
the American embassy in Paris. I factions favoring and opposing the!?? ™
Dr. Gordon, who was about €0 ; Ku Klux Kian.
years old. resigned from St. Bar-j Robert L. Dade, mayor of Mer
tholomew’s about six month ago. Rouge, told the investigators at
Thursday’s session of the open
hearing, now in progress before
Judge Fred L. Odom, that “before
the Kian came everybody in Mer
Rouge were like brothers but now
there is a strained feeling. Uhder
the regalia of the Kian there has
arisen a condition in this parish
that Is intolerable.”
Dade, and Hugh Clarke were the
principal witnesses at Thursday’s
sessions of the court hearing®.
Clarke, still a klansman, testified
that the Kian is four hundred per
cent strong.
Thus far the story of the differ
ences as placed in the record goes
back only a few years and revolves
largely aroiind the administration
of Dr. B. <M. McKoln as mayor of
Mer Rouge.
Soon afterward he sub-let his New
York apartment and sailed for Eu
rope. Only a few of his close
friends knew he had returned to
America. They said he had seemed
nervous and apparently not bene
fited by the sea voyage.
favoring and opposing the! 0 £ ^ s t U( jents because the re
maining one-half of one per cent
could not properly be included,
seems to me an untenable posi
tion.”
view oi me advance oy tne Liinu
nians I
Dispatchers received! by the
French foreign office Friday indi
cate that the Lithuanian Irregu
lars who crossed the frontier
fatty in the week have reached
the outskirts of the town of
Memel and exchanged shots with
the German guard.
Great Lumber port at. Mi*mel
which has been under authority
of a directorate composed of Ger
mans since the signing of the
treuty of Versailles has no other
milltury protection than a couple
of hundred of French noliders,
part of a battalion, sent there
during the negotiations of 1919.
While the Germans are dominant
in the town, the Lithuanians are
of far greater number in the cutly
ing .districts and there are fears
in French circles that the Irregu
lars may overwhelm the local
fcico and create a difficult situa
tion.
HAVE MADE I
A ?ROTE8T
The French and British have
made a diplomatic protest to th§
Lithuanian government at Kovo-
no. The reply was that every ef
fort was made to prevent the Ir
regulars from crossing the fron
tier.
Latest reports however indicate
that a rather strops force has not
only succeeded in crossing the
frontier. bu4 ho» reached the
town. The movement is regarded
here as the result of well laid
plans, the object of which accord
ing to the French, is to balance
the Polish occupation of Vilna by
taking possession of Memel.
Final disposition of Memel has
been under discussion by the Al
lied council of ambassadors whlcn
thus far has been unable to reach
a conclusion. The ottgina! plan
was to create a vTebiscite and let
the people vote on ,whaich they
desired to become a ' Part of,
Lithuania or Poland.
Lois Weber, Movie
Producer Divorced
LOS ANGELES. Cal. — Lois
Weber, motion picture producer
and founder and head of the Lois
Weber productions was granted
a divorce from Philips Smalley,
June 24, last. In the Los Angeles
superior court, one day after she
filed her complains but know
ledge of the case became public
only Thursday, according to the
Los Angeles Examiner.
K. K. K. MEETING8 BARRED
SALEM, Mass.—The city council
voted unanimously Thursday night
to prohibit all parades, meetings
and demonstrations on the part of
the Ku Klux Kian in this city.
New directors for the Chamber
of Commerce have been sel€<fte1i
for' 1923. The election was con
ducted according to the provisi
ons cf the constitution an« by
laws, that is twenty-eight names
of members were nominated ar.d
then votes were taken on four
teen of this number.
Those elected tv serve are: J.
W. Jarrell, Jr., James White. H.
W. White. Mrs. James Y. Tal-
madge, W. L. Erwin, J. M. Bii-
iio>r. G. Harold Hulme. D. F. Pad-
dock, Miss Katie Palmer, Frank
A. Hclden, Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, B.
R. Bloodworth, Sol J. Boley and
H. O. Epting.
The committee to conduct the
election was composed of Messrs.
C. S. Compton, E. R. Bridges and
J. M. Harris.
Two women were named on the
board.
At an early date next week a
meeting wil| be called > of the
board and the officers for the
year selected, including president,
vice presidents and a secretary.
After the officers are selected the
body wjll organise for the year’s
work and outline a policy to be
followed. t
Harris Asks That
Calcium Arsenate
Be Made Tax Free
sociatetl Press)—All of the facto
ries will close next Monday mora
ine from 11 to 11:15 o'clock in
protest against the occupation. The
committee directing the demon
stration represents all political
parties. Railway traffic will Btop
for ten minutes at the same hour
The ringing of church bells and
the blowing of factory whistles will .
voice the city’s Indignation.
The forty thousand employes of
the Krupp plant went to work Frl- •
day morning^as usual, according tc
information officially supplied to
the French economic mission In
Essen by the German authorities.
Strikes are reported at Brocham,
Bruther. .The percentage of strik
ers is small, it is declared.
The French have moved their
outposts to Gelsenkirchen, three
miles northeast of Essen and to.
Velbert, five miles to the south
east ’ N J I
U. S. SEES NO
CHANCE TO AID
WASHIN GTON.—Developments
the reparations crisis in which
furtnkr complications lcjom 'with
the declaration of Germany that *
she is not in a position to make ac-
tual ^ reparations to those powers
participating in the Ruhr occupa
tion, found the American govern- .
ment Friday apparently still .w : th-
out hope of any immediate oppor
tunity for helpfulness in the- situ
ation.
A coursy declared to be the
friendliest in sentiment toward
7 rance as well a s the other allied
lowers has been and will continue
o be followed by the administra-
ion,, it was said in awaiting any
mssible opportunity to aid in the
djustment of the reparations cri-
is. In the meantime it is the ad-
ninistration’s purpose, it was au
thoritatively sai dto avoid any ac
tion that might further complicate
matters or lead to needless misun
derstandings. Jt. wps reiterated that
there was no present intention of
recalling Rolapd ..Bfcyden, Ameri
can unofficial observer on the rep
arations commission, despite agi
tation in congress ^ for his return.
THINK VERSAILLES
TREATY VIOLATED
Holding the Ruhr occupation to
be ♦’in -contradiction .with the
treaty ,o£ Versailles) and interna
tional law*’ the German govern-,
nicr.t in a formal protest left at tho
state department late Thursday by
Dr. Otto Weidfelt the German am
bassador, declared that as long as
the alleged violations obtained
“Germany is not in a position to
make actual reparations to .thoste
powers who have brought about
this state of affairs. The German
(Turn to Page Fjive)
ATHENS COTTON
|*EMorsclose-';:- 27 use
Foil Associated Press Leased Wire Service