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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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