About The Athens daily herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1912-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1923)
a jsn s. Avri r-'>. :> *'T^'.>‘j*"- The Weather: . With a rising temp«ra- r a r ture Dally and Sunday—10 Cent* a Week The One Paper In Most Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes.'' Dally aad Sunday—10 Cents a Week ' Athens Cotton: MIDDLING 27 1-2e PREVIOUS CLOSE .......... 27 1-4e 1 '.I No. 107 Foil Aasodated Press Leased Wire. Service. ATHENS, GA„ WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Dally. - 5 Cents Sunday. LEADERS FY NEW FRENCH ULTIMATUM World's Greatest Self Made Boy DEBT PARLEY HALTS Several Witnesses in La.’ Trial Say They Saw; Machine With Two Heidi A; Prisoners. CHURCH VISITED BY HOODED RIDERS Grav Testifies He Joined Han "to See What It Was/' But Resigned. Further Testimony. BASTROP. La. — E. N. Gray, | test.ilc'l ill [It he joined the ’ Ku Klux Klim to 'see what It •• i.ut later resigned, was on list further examination stale attorneys Wednesday in open nearing injuiry into the idr.ai*plng of Watt Daniel and. hard and other alieg- banJ operations in Morehouse Parirti .after ,occupy- witncfA chair for two hours the afternoon session of tho ling Tuesday. ;,.;rly a zen other witness- including Fred L. Carpenter, •ish sheriff, were to be called to testify during the day. Seabrook Takes I Office Jan. 22 OFFICE ADVICE SAVANNAH, Ga.—Judge Paul Seabrook is expected to assume the office of mayor of Savannah Jan- “2, without further efforts _ payt of counsel for his op- j potient in the recent election Murray M. Stewart, following the refusal of the restraining petition fildd by iMr. Stewart at a hearing before Judge It. G. Dickerson, of AD DEBT PARLEY .. „ Indications Point to Dif-! ,h |re P ptiu™" a? ou^wth ferences Among Mem- ! t h « elecUon contest, sought to re- ] » _ „» strhin Mr. Seabrook from entering DGFS AS to Question 01 •. office and to show cause why Mr. Interest Rate. Stewart should not be mayor of Sa- Ivahnah. T\Trj/~iTT'rjrjT/-vxrC! a dp I it is'generally believed that what AKe< is considered one of the bitterest / BEING GUARDED ei Both British and Ameri can Members Are Hope-; ful For a Solution of Debt Adjustment. GIVEN 01 YEAR John Mines , Pleads Guilty to Grand Jury Indict ment and Accepts Sen- etnee. LIGHT PENALTY ASKED OF JUDGE Involuntary Manslaugh ter Was Technical Term For Charge. Defense and Prosecution Agree. XI.IV BI WEEK Bit HUNS MAKE REFUSE TO DELIVERIES, PREFERING JAIL French Ultimatum Threatens Industrial Leaders With Court Martial and Prison. Germans Pay No ... Heed to French. With Latest Berlin Move, Next Action Is Put Squarely Up to Government of France. ...... WASHINGTON — Negotiations between the American and Brit ish debts commissions had come to a halt again Wednesday while the British awaited further in structions / from their government, j These were expected in time for j the next meeting which was sched { uled for Thursday after adjourn- \ ment of Tuesday’s meeting with- \ organization of the Young Men’s out ?u accord having been. reach- ; Christian association is practical- ed between the two commissions ! ly ready for the opening of the can- aa to u-ini8 of settlement of Great ! vass. The dates of the canvass are The current expense campaign John Mines, negro truck driver, indicted Monday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in con nection, with the death of little | Reynolds, Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Smith, on Novem her 15, 1922, when the lad was run down and killed by a truck driven by Mines on South Lump kin street, plead guilty to the charge In the indictment Wednes day morning and was sentenced to one year’s time in the chains- gang. Britain’s *war debt to the United States. While the points of difference be gan, boy film star, is reported to more. Young Coogan today is worth, tween the commissions continued Gray’s tlmony Va« halted have turned down a contract which and JjW°1‘ j to be carefully guarded Wi-ci-iea- ntarlly Tuesday by a'pro- iade by W. H. Todd, a Ba strop attorney, against Certain lines of quest lor. lag because of a « newspaper rttff jj s&id indicated that Gray might be named as a defendant in a crimi- Judge Odum ' ruled .or could be required to questions that might involve ateiuents of a possible Inertial- ttinK i G ay took the witness stand at- r u halt dozen other witnesses lestitied ::s to the various inci dents inltraubled Morehouse dur- the past s’»x months, including bi.Ut.mei.is of two witnesses to a visit said to have been le to a church near Mer Rouge _- n i.i nmnirA him ti anr. nnn a venr well that nets him. nearly $4,000 a ^ay by members of both, lndlca- would assure him $1,600,000 a year day. Still he’s a regular boy, say tions were that they were con fined .hugely to the question for several years. The reason: his parents. BY BLAZE WHICH THREATENED CITY BALTIMORE. Md. — A relK-ti- bl,ck robed and black-hood- ! tion of the conflagration of 1901, ed delegation, who gave warning ! when practically the entlre^down- fc U» attendant, at the service then in p. Kress, against any at tempt t« disturb public worship. T ht* two wi mosses, G. W. Walk er and G. \Y. Hayden, said the delegation declared they spoke in the name of tho “vigilante com mittee 1 u n ,i asserted that they re united Dr. R. M. McKoin, for mer Mayor of Mer Rouge and a man name I Kirkpatrick ms mem bers cf the party. SAW CAR WITH 1W0 PRISONERS Gray testified that he was seat- 4nteseB$.gate-- A rate of three.perithgrwill report the result*? *)f ’heir cent was reported, to haveTjeerT wnrvess and select new names;to suggested by the British comrnis- be seen by the following day. tion and also approved by Brit- I Mr. John White Morton, pro?I- EXCITEMENT WITH E Monday. January 22, through Fri day. January 29. .The workers will nssemble for a atttper conference Monday, January PLEA ENTERED BY AGREEMENT .The plea was allowed 23»t 6:30 o’clock at the Y..M. C. A. i court on a statement of the then each day thereafter they will j State’s attorneys in the Cas& in meet'for a campaign dinner at 2:001 Solicitor Dean was esalated o’clock at the “Y” building where “>e matter by J. D Bradwell and - - - W. L. Erwin, and Judge Bradwell ish cabinet in considering the ne- s d^nt of the National Bank of itii- grtiations Monday. While the j ens, who is general chairman of British are understood to have been able to show that this was about the average rate on govern ment loans in normal times, some members at least, of the Ameri can commission are represented as feeling that it falls too far be low the rate now paid by the this campaign, announces he fol lowing team captains, with their workers: ' Team No. 1—Cant. J. ^V. Barnett. American government cn money • Messrs. »M. J. Abnev. Will King borrowed and advanced to Great Britain. • Hope of an agreement in princi pie before the end of the present HARRISON, Ark. — Harrison Wednesday assumed its normal at mosphere after two days of intense SSwitto^T however^oSrinues town section of this city was de- excitement, the result of “armed t b ® expressed by members of stroyed. was threatened by lire action" by citizens gathered here, both comSlws ThTre was said early Wednesday when two live- from a radius of 160 miles in which ! b- a possibility that British story brick buildings in the heart on* man was lynched, another of the clothing and . warehouse | wounded during a “round-up” of “““d fext SaTurday the origtn- dlstrlct were destroyed. The loss alleged strikers and more than 200 J da , e ® ta „ d for their derar- was estimated at approximately i persons were forced to leave the ] a ““cord Lm nit S£Eh ,500.000, partly covered by maur- I community by a committee of 1,- . before that date r ance. They were no casualties. The causo of the die has not been determined. The dre started in a building at the ' comer of Lombardo anil sharp Streets.. shortly' after 1 a. m. within a short distance from the 1904 disaster. The building occupied by the dry Boo ls 000. Further trouble was not ex- pectcd to follow the “clean-up” of in. ,. _ _ persons believed to be guilty of jtstloll r rench Near’Their Home M on the notch of a home near a and clothing firms off the Weur- reed , ’ _ . I _Al, Dents cnmTVIf,V FlirSIt IlVOtll’ or to have had knowledge of the bridge . burnings and other depre- I dations along the line of the' Missouri and North Arkansas j railroad which precipitated the PARIS — A presidential deerc* demonstration. I published Wednesday declares The body of E. C. Gregor, al-!that hereafter all Frenchmen in Meadow, B. F. Hardeman; Frank Holden. Eustace M. Stevens. .Dr. J. P. Proctor. Andrew C. Erwin. Dr. Wm. L. Moss. Team No. 2—Capt. C. W. Crook. Messrs. S. J. Moss. Harrie Dows. Wm. L. Erwin. Hampton Rowland, Frank Hardy, Robt. Hancock, L. O. Price. Team No. 3—Capt- A. G. Dudley, Messrs. L. F. Edwards. Td. L. Hen- dren, Fleetwood Lanier. Ralph Hodgson; D. D. Quillian, T. H. Do rter, Jr., C. >1. Snelling. Team No. 4—Capt, H. H* Gor don. Jr., Messrs. F. A. Lipscomb, J C. Wilkerson. E. L. Hill. J. M. Pound. Harry Hodgson, F. J. Oit. DUESSELDORF, 5:30 P. M.—(By the Associated Press.)—It was officially announced by General DeGoutte Wednesday after noon that the military operations of the Ruhr occupation now are completely finished. DUESSELDORF.—(By the Associated Press.)—Represents-' tlves of the German magnates failed to appear Wednesday morn ing before the control commission sending word they had decided to obey the instructions of the Berlin government instead of the i rench orders as to coal deliveries, thtis placing the next move >l.iurely up to the French occupying authorities. A Reuter dispatch from Essen filed Tuesday, says that ac cording to reports from German sources four of the Ruhr indus trial leaders, Including Hen* Thyssen, were told by the French authorities at Duesseldorf to consider themselves under, arrest after the magnates had reiterated that they would only obey orders from Berlin. > in presenting the-eanSr-statedrthaP} 1 *--^ he and his associates represented | | Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who were not prosecuting the negro .in a spirit of “revenge., vindicativeness or from a desire that a heavy sen tence be imposed.’’ but felt that sopie penalty should be paid by the defendant as an example to others in the hope of curbing the evil of speeding and the reckless driving of motor vehicles. ASKS THAT MINIMUM SENTENCE BE GIVEN Judge Bradwell stated that an agreement had been reached be tween the Solicitor General and the defendant’s attorney, Wolvef M. Smith, that the negro be al lowed to enter a plea of guilty to the charge, and asked the cotlrt to impose the lightest sentence possible under the law. This Judge Fortson did, making it one year in rite gang. Ruhr valley coal operat rs had before them , Wednccday the French ultimatum that If de liveries w.ere not resumed Wed- nesday morning vtho. military .au- I . thorities would take such meaa- ESSEN — It is intimated that French circles in Essen are find ing the situation perplexing but feel that even should the mines cease operations temporarily the burden of suffering would fall upon the Germans, while the oc cupying forces Cwuld continue ap plying penalties until their de mands were met. Meanwhile the French authorities are taking steps to control the movement of coal and have established control- ing stations at Essen. Werden, would take such meas ures as we.-e deemed necessary.” The attitude of the German magnates, however, seemed to bo epitomixed in a remark made by Herr Thomas, representative of the Stlnnes interests at Getchen- chen. He said: S» far as was k Indicated in ad vices reaching this city Wednes day morning, not a chunk of re parations cool o r coke was being sent to France or' Belgium ,by any of the Ruhr mines, it was reported that in soxne instances shipments intended for south Germany were being diverted westward by the occupation authorities. it was* said that deliveries to Italy we*e continuing. FRENCH ISSUE ULTIMATUM hen he saw an automo- 1 well Pants company, Furst Broth- j jeged striking shop worker, was the military services who&e faml- ith two men apparent b held prisoners by blackliooded (Turn to Page Six) AFTER CHRISTMAS Folks Don’t Stop Living Just Because Holiday Gifts Are All Bought. Lois Koes into catc |,- n tt trade rhiring the hoUdlya. Rnt' S r ' S *' t an<1 pr °I > * r ’ "hy s|„k- dm vn just when *»* nwd for continued effort? * n d=y time people «re -tty to buy anyway, that’s true. odvertiBiny to , B«t thi, don't J'rir topping. enually true: They ,. needing merchandise ™ the Christmas gifts have company and the IlopklnS i found Tuesday morning hanging lies suffered during the war or Army and Navy supply .company. •'from a railway trestle. Gregor Is who have brother’s under arms Vanned by a high wind the blare said to have, resisted attempts of will be stationed so far as poasl- .pread to at> adjacent baiidlug the “committee of 1,000"—an lhves- houslng the, Joyner-Witz ermpany j tlgating body of citizens—when manutacturers of hats. they sought 1 Monday night to ques tion him regarding the Identity of ALL AVAfLABLE ! persons suspected of carrying on APARATUS CALLED a campaign of sabotage. Gregor Is said to have opened fire when Call- The flames had made sue t headway that six alarms, calling out all available apparatus wery sounded. Firemen were greatly handicapped by the cold ami while efforts were being made to cheek the flames several fires of minor characted were reported .... A. ...a' .... Oka. elt r 1 ed on td surrender. Later he wsb captured by a posse and hanged from the trestle. brakeman named Green, an employe of the Missouri and North Arkansas, was shot In the arm. His injury is not serious. h-,. k vnrisimas fought and given, b'eryhody cats. -Tcrybody wears clothes. b'rfvhMh uses fumiutre. to,. y !* odv h:ls onc or non '«"»* »f relaxation. V"/ not to sirertlse is Tha, : y a is usi "S anything. '."me hasn’t happened yeL , h . '" mo J not to advertise .is thi,"/ 011 dont want to sell any- i' u "?" in ' you ’ re “ot in that !“ s t now. rihtps iH-oplc need urging. T . n s time to urge. *'th this' *°k ap P*» I to people is A! i «?5 S ^ e y*re interested in the TIME. €u can reach them through THE banner-herald different sections «f the city, ne cessitating the sending of appa ratus there. When it was seen that the two buildings could not te saved, the- firemen concentrated their efforts on the surrounding buildings, mostly warehouses, which wera slightly damaged At a a. m. the department off!- dais reported the flames under control, Although most of the ap- poratus was kept in readiness- in fear the .blase may break out again, as the buildings contained much inflammable material. HI8TORIC pOLLEQE RAZED BY FLAMES BALTIMORE, Md!—Only the gray granite walls of Rock Hill college at EUlcott City, near here the last of the notable Howard county Catholic lnstltuflons remain standing Wednesday as the result of the fire last night, which de stroyed the administration bnlldin. . (Turn to Paae Six) FURNISHES BOND . FOR MANY STRIKERS ble near their homes. BE THRIFTY This Is the Way Captain English Succeeded. By CAPT. JAMES W. ENGLISH Who started with $50 after the Civil War and worked his way up until, at 89, he Is millionaire head of a chain of loading banks ATLANTA Ga.—I knew tho post war days would be rough and I put by every cent I could rake and scrape in the Shortly after the capture of Gregor. George W. O’Neal, local hotel owner and capitalist, who Is said to hi\ve furnjshcd bond for many strikers charged with sabot age. was taken from his home and whipped. Night Marshal Rasp, whd was accused by. the committee of being a strike >|tnpathlzer, also was flogged ond drderhd to leave town: E. D. Stephens, a former en gineer wanted by the committee, was not located. Governor McRae, who had been appealed to r for troops, borrledly sent a joint message to the legisla ture asking for authority to dis patch troops to-the affected dis trict. and if necessary declare mar tial law. Beth houses of the gen eral assembly immediately author-. uuo.ucoo juugmenz e tzed the governor to act and the I make crest progress, troops were ordered to entrain. Thrift is the greatest asset a Later advices from Boone county person ran have. With 'it. uncross officials stated that tho situation is certain. Without It .success is (Turn to Page Six) ’ usually impossible. army. After my discharge I worked hard and a'little of what I earned I saved. It was mighty lltUe, did I week and soon I began to see how even a little money, thriftily saved could be.tUDU od over ‘ business. Thrift G. Eckford. Team No. 5—Capt. M. S. Hodg son. Messrs. W. R. Bedgood. Mike Costa, n. H. DuPree. J. C! Jester, j E. E. Lamkln; T. H. Nlckersoj. Ablt Nix. Team No. 6—Capt. D. C. Bar- row. Messra. Aaron Cohen. XT. H. Davenport. Thos. P. Green. Walter Hodgson. F. J. Lawler, Jas. W. iMor- ton. M. J. Maynard. Team No. 7—Capt M. O. Nichol son. .Messrs.. J. D. Applewhite. J. II. Bullock. Ned Cohen. A. W. Do zier. H. H. Hlrton. Fred McEntire. G. A. Booth. Geo. Thornton. Team No. S—Capt. C. H. Phinizy. Mesara. Hugh White. Max Michael. Billups Fhtnlzy. E. H. Dorsey. Sr. Joel, Jno. B. Gamble, E. R. Hodgson. Team No. 9—Capt. Robt White. Messrs. Joel A. Wler, Rhodes, chas. E. Martin, Dave Paddock. T. W. Baxter. N. G Slaughter, C. N. Walker, S. V. San ford. . Team No. ID—Cart. J. J. Wilkins, Sr.; Messrs. James White. Coetcblna, Jack Wilkins. J. Warren Smith, E. L. Wilkins. J. H. Hubert, H. iM. Rylee: .ENGLISH taught me business judgmenL and business judgment enabled me to en. which will also direct the use of rolling stock. It is considered significant that although announcements posted _ . . . . at Railway stations in the Ruhr This Is the first cose docketed ; district indicated that more than In the superior court in Clarke 20.OOO rail trucks had been dis count/ where the defendant was pa tched within 24 hours, none has held in connection with a death , jet been returned: It is reported ,-aused by an automobile accl- the Berlin government has order- dent, and the sentence was the | ed that coal care be not rcturn- Muolheim, Bottrop and OberW ties and the operators, General Simon said to the Germans: tlrst imposed under the law in that connection. It was also the first trouble Mines had been involved in. He had been driving for the Athens Engineering Co„ for the past five years, and is reputed to havo been good worker, and a reliable em ployee. CIVIL BU3INE88 BEING TRIED Disposing of this case. Judge 'Fortson announced that the court would switch to the trial of civil cases and continue working in this branch until adjournment, which will probably be taken af ter Thursday’s session. % Some of the jurors empaneled ed to the Ruhr. “We have not summoned you here for a; discussion but to trans mit to you the orders of our gov ernment. If you do not seo fit to obey them, you will be prosecuted before a court martial, condemn ed and imprisoned." for the term were excused and tre e from it. If the German mine owners re fuse to carry out the French in structions the Krupp, Stlnnes and Thyssen properties will be the first to suffer under the new sane linns or penalties as they are the richest in Germany and their uwnera are the leaders in indus trial welfare. * In view of the incidents that have occured at Bochum, martial law is being enforced more strictf ly there than blsewhere. A press censorship also has been estab lished at Bochum and other places which thus far have been The industrial leaders filed out of, the room without uttering* a word but once outside of the con ference hall, they made no secret of their determination to go to jail rather than submit. two new panels formed to serve in civil matters. The first ease called Wednes day morning was a divorce <pase. Identify Skeleton Found in Atlanta The woman’s division. Major. Mrs. Annie P. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson was one of the act ive and efficient workers In all of the campaigns held In Athene dur ing the war. and will make a splen did leader for this work. She has a son In the work of the boys’ de partment and has first-hand knowledge of the Y. M. C. A. work In the “Making of Men.” Mrs. Johnson's captains will be: Team No. 11—Captain. Mrs. Ralph Hodgson and team No. 12, Mrs. Rohqyt McWhorter, captain. Mrs. Hodgson, as Miss Isabel (Turn to Page Six) ATLANTA — Five negroes ere held at Decatur In connection with the Identification of a skele ton by particle* of clothing found near McDonough' road several miles from Atlanta several days ago at that of “Red” Malone, a crippled negro who had diaapp-ar- ed several months ago. Officers believe the man was Slain because of alleged informa tion given officers concerning bootlegger operations. The skelet n was Identified by “Mammy” Ella Purcell, residing m Atlanta os that of her son. At Bochum, the population has been notifled by the occuping offl clals that troops will act without warning against any action direct ed at the French troops or offi cials. even if it be only whistling or shouting- Probably no single feature of the actual occupation Is attracting the Essen crowds so much as the new French book shop established in requisition quarters in the heart of the city. The walks in front of the shop window. are crowded by curious onlookers. Conditions throughout the occu pied area continued quiet this morning. Brownie, the canine star, has been laid up with a case ot dis temper. Special scenarios' are being prepared for him. Certain gags are written for him, as for all comedians, and he rehearses them before they are filmed. Thirty-two labor leaders, repre* senting all the districts and all the trades in the Ruhr, lfictudins the Catholic socialists and com munists syndicate of miners, roal- road men and steel and Iron workers, were Introduced. D.'. Oroetzncr, Prussian governor of Dussledorf province acted as their. spokesman. General Simon told the labor leaders France .was the friend of the working man| The 'German government he declared wA re. eponsiblo for tha recent event3 and was willing to sacrifice .the working men to its Imperialist policy. It had permitted the food stocks to become depleted and (Turn to page six) last’s Week’s ^ - CIRCULATION Combined . of the BANNER-HERALD Was as follows Ty« da J’ 4,890 Wednesday 5,087 Thursday 5,109 Friday 4,032 Sunday ; 4,550 No issue of the Banner is pub lished on Monday morning. No is sue of the Herald is printed on Sat urday evening. BANNER-HERALD ATHENS, GA. Ye s terday f s iCombined CIRCULATION OF THE BANNER-HERALD WAS’ 5,051 Copies
