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l The Weathqr: \ .-^11:cloudinew with •w"*, 8 '" 1 '.,.. thrsoehont sibte tttU- VOL 11 Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. The One Paper In Most Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. Dally asd Sunday—10 Cents*Week. Athens Cotton: MIDDLING ■ Me PREVIOUS CLOSE 27.1-2c No. 108 Pull Associated Preaa Leased Wire. Serripe. ATHENS. GA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1923. . Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Snnday. 4* '*2* fr ■ t *1* ■i-4 4* **fr *1* +—•b ■i*-^ 4* *3* ■{* _ <■ ♦ ■h-4 4* 4» 4* ~ 'I* 4* ■H 1 ,T, sTs I I T ’4 1 * V *i* *1* •J* *X* •i® *1* ®l® *1® •X* Great Interest Shown in FI BRITISH HR DEBT SETTLEMENT Question Is, Can Adjustr ment Be Made During This Session of Congress Now Near Its End? i By Vote of 56 to 2 Chicago Refuses to ! Have Members of K.K. K. on Pay Roll I CHICAGO.—By a vote of 56 to acting a3 chairman of the coun- 2, the city council was on record jcil’s committee Wednesday de- i Thursday as opposed to retaining {dared during the council's ses- membcrs of the Ku Klux Klan on i sion that a policeman had threat- the city pay roll. iened his life for his activities The vote was taken Wednesday against the secret order. He said when the city council was asked * 10 , would , divul K° ‘he facts later, . . .. . refusing to name the policeman, to order the suspension of Wil-| John P. Garner, one of the two liam H. Green, a city fireman, and dissenting aldermen referred an alleged member of the Klan. Green recently had been ques tioned by an ladermanic investi gating commission regarding his alleged connections with the or ganization. At that time he de clared he had resigned from the SOUGHT TO AVOID DISASTROUS STRIKE COMMISSION TO SAIL SATURDAY Mam * Robert J. Mulcahay, London Papers Have Lit^ ! tie to Say, But General Tone Is Optimistic. So lution Expected. I WASHINGTON.—The American J and British debt commissions were I prepared to suspend negotiations j with Thursday’s meeting, owing to the decision of the British that the conversations had reached a stage making desirable a personal report to ttcir goyernmentjbeforethe con-> tinuation of efforts toward an igreeim'iit on the refunding of Great Brituin's war debt to this (ountry. For that purpose the British commissioners will sail from New York on Saturday with the time and manner of the re sumption of the negotiations then resting with the London govern ment. The decision of the British debt lomndsRion to take this course is attended by no signs of lessened confidence among either commis sion that an agreement for settle ment of the debt will be reached. The question now arising is 'tether an agreement in principle on terms of settlement can be inched in time lor formal action on it by congress at the present session, which has only six weeks «*> ran. The American commission- fn were still extremely hopeful th»t this could be done and thus i v e prospect of an alternative delay of a year or more, in view of Pres ent Harding's present determina- l ' on to call an extra session of ,hf n <*w congress be avoided. the alleged klan activities in Mer Rouge, La. “A friend of mine who just came back from Louisiana tells me that he met Skipwith and Dr. MacKoin and that they are a fine lot of people,” Aldern^an Garner said. “The whole trouble dbwn alderman 1 there is politics.” brief comment 1N BRITISH PRESS London—(By The Associated mss)—Th 0 suspension of Great ^tain's debt funding negotia tes with the United States is ^nmpntPd on briefly in the press Thursday. The disposition, how- * r . Pr ’ is t0 treat the situation, in no u, '“‘ pessimistically. Morning Post contends edl- nally that if the American offer . regarded in the strict light of Mess, it may well be considered frien,1, y proposal. Nevertbe s Great Britain is bound to take ” . ac<oul ‘t how heavily taxation " presses British industry and m»/ real o rifices the country has ' p ln °rder to maintain its l w«c , fS? ,CIAL LANGUAGE *"SA\\ .—The Silesian local Pollkfu Passed a biU making °fficial language. .s NEW YORK,—C3y. The j Associa ted PressO—Coal operators and un ion miner chiefs, preparing to enter conferences Thursday which, they hoped, would provide a basis for negotiating peacefully wage scales for 1923, were mutually agreed that “a nation-w id a coal strike this year would be disastrous to the public.” When the five months’ strike of both bituminous and anthracite miners was called last April 1, they pointed out there were millions of tons of coal in reserve. Now the reserves have been exhausted and even with every mine operating, people with means to buy fuel are shivering because there isn’t any to be had. If, when April first rolls around again, there is another strike the effect will be 'immediate and disastrous,’ was the way one union official put it. WILL TRY TO AGREE With this in prospect, both the miners* representatives and the mine owners declared Thursday they would exert every effort to agree speedily upon a basis for fixing wages and working condi tions in the bituminous field before April 1. The workers’ delegations from Ohio went so far as to de clare “there will be no strike this MEMBERS OF BODY OF HOODED MEN Much Lively Testimony Was on Slate For Thurs day’s Session !of Kidnap Hearing. LAST TWO~DAYS HAVE BEEN, “DRY” It Has Been Brought Out in Trial That Two Slain Men Were Seen in Truck, Gagged. Harding Seems To Be Improving Week Hill ML Children Severe Critics of Music This Is What Marie Tif fany, Opera Singer, Says. WASHINGTON.—Continued im- provement in President Harding’s grfppe attack was looked for Thurs day by Brigadier-General Sawyer, his personal physician. Signs of relief from the indisposition which confined the president to his room Wednesday were noted before his retirement Wednesday night No engagements were to be made for Pit)gram Arranged For thn hronldont , Thiir«<lnv. hnwavpr. x ® . _ SPEAK IN ATHENS the president Thursday, however, it'W&fc indicated, unless his condi tion, showed marked improvement The complete rest and putting aside of official cares which had brought improvement in Mr. Itording’s condition Wednesday night were expected to enable him to throw off the indisposition 1TI01IAL THEATRE VERGER INVOLVES INY PHY HOUSES NEW'YORK;—Control 1 oft th« majority of the theatres in the United States showing legitimate 1 G ^f ra ,\. A ‘„Y; Co ?°' enterprises, and not those of New York city alone, was thought to be one of the aims of the proposed merger of the interests of the Sbuberts and A1 Erlanger and perhaps several of the independ ent theatre owners:* Confirmation of rumors that the deal was pend ing was obtained Wednesday night from both Mr. Erlanger and Lee Shubert. The plan is said to involve ap proximately $60,000,000 and calls for sale of part of the stock to the public. It is estimated that the Shuberts and Erlanger al ready control about four-fifths of the theatres of the country, ex clusive of motion picture houses. by quickly. Annual Dividend Declared By Mill The annual stockholders Manufacturing company was held Wednesday afternoon. The usual dividend was declare dand officers for the year were elected. S^raS president' - !)! «E, J. P. Tiblgtte again.heads the BASTROP, L*l — (By the Asso ciated Press) — With seventeen prospective • witnesses on hand to testify the state was ready early Thursday to present dVidence tending to establish the identity of members of the black-hooded band which kidnapped Watt Daniel And Thomol RichardyppremM ..u _ County-DM! ►" — dsda assisted by the "citizens' eourt” continued Thursday investi gating bridge . burnings and other depredations on tb4 Missouri and North Arkansas railway, and the lynching of C. E. Gregor, an al leged striker, after the Indictment Wednesday by the Boone county grand jury of 25 former Missori and North Kansas employes. Judge Shinn of the circuit court announced Wednesday night that warrants were in the hands of the sheriff for service on the twenty- five, indicted men. However, only twb arrests had been made up*to early to day Sheriff Shaddox stat ing his deputies were unable to lo cate the others named. Everton citizens Wednesday brought eight men to Harrison to be questioned by the grand* jury and “citizens’ court”. They were placed in jail to await action of the questioning bodies. The exodus of strikers and fami lies to “other parts” as requested by the ^committee of one thousand continued Thursday. „ I company, which is the largest bus- United Mine Workers of America, iness concern in Athens, as presi- Is here to head the delegation of T « Last’s Week’s CIRCULATION Combined BANNER .‘herald 100 union officials and members of the general policies commission of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica. The operators are equally well represented. Coming here at the In vitation of Mr. Lewis after the re cent failure-of negotiations at Chicago they have named as their spokesman Phil A. Penna. secreta ry of the Indiana Coal association, who also has been named chair man of the Joint conference. It was revealed Thursday by the union delegates that the expressed 'purpose of the recent conference was to decide whether future wage contracts should be based on the "central competitive field, or sec- tionally or nationally, it was ex pected to develop far more signif icance. ^Niav ?*esd a ’j: J!S* • Sunday as follows C'r o f the Banner is . n, „ f ''""day morning. No ia- ‘4n: i JLT ,dUprint ? d<,nS * t - bannerEherald , ATHENS. GA. , Yesterday’s Combine Miss Rutherford Speaks At Normal Miss Mildred Rutherford of Athens wiU be the principal speak; _ er a t the exercises in honor o. -- 5’12? I Robert EL Lee’s birthday _to be 5 '® 95 held at the State F orn “* Friday, it was announced Tues day. The Cobb-Deloney v the Unitea Confederate- Veterans will fee the guests of .the school. and after the memorial exereises in Pound Auditorium at 12.00. dinner will be served the veter-, ans at 1:30. 4,890 5,087 4,550 pnb- On the list of witnesses for Thursday were Jewell Harris, Hoi ly Rogeis, Jchn Hood, William H. Holman, Max Broadnax, oilie Spencer. 'Henry jon’es, W. D. Pipes, Marion • Hickett, “Cud” HiCkett, A.. P. Wimberly, J. M. Wimberly, j. H. Jones, J. H. Kind- William J. McDonald, C. Wagsdale and T. Y. Harp. The names o< several of the men scheduled to take the stand have, been mentioned repeatedly in testimony since the hearing started. Thursday’s session therefore fol lowed two uneventful days of “dry” testimony has all indica tions of being a lively one. HIGGINBOTHAM ON THE STAND When court receSsed Wednes day, J. d. Higginbotham was on the stand. The witness is the town marshall of Bastrop, who (Turn to Page Six) BE THRIFTY Hoover Sees National Progress Thru Thrift. Agricultural Session Is Most Elaborate Seen in Many Years. HUNDREDSWILL BE IN ATTENDANCE Conference Gets Under Way Next Monday and Will Run Daily For an Entire Week. Interest is growing daily in the big Farmers’ conference that be gins at the State College of Agri culture Monday afternoon -and continues through the , entire week. The program is the most elab orate ever arranged of the many years the ccnferChtiGs have been held and . will bring to Athens the leading experts of the South on practically every phase of agricui ture. The opportunity offered the farmers, especially iu this section of the state whete they can come and attend with small expense, is a rare one and hundreds are ex pected to take advantage of the lectures and demonstrations. GERMAN OPPOSITION IS REPORTED TO BE GREATLY STIFFENED Mine Operators Said to Have Decided to Do Their Duty to Berlin^ Troubling French. GERMANYHOPES FOR U. S. MEDIATION Deliveries Being Made to Every Nation But France. Only Ready Coal Seized. To Work Forests. ESSEN — (By the.. Aisociateti ! Press) — The French military au- | thorities today instituted court martial proceedings against six Ruhr coal magnstee, whose names were withheld. They were charged with **K0Tusing to obey the orders of the military author* ties in th© territory under stAte of siego” the magnates have not MARIE TIFFANY BY MARIAN HALE “Children,” says Marie Tiffany, Metropolitan Opera soprano, who has just introduced Sortg recitals ^takehiTAo' cMitody. especially for the little ones as an innovation in the world of music, “are the severest critics a singer ever faces. ‘Yet they’re well worth pleas- he tale told in music. It I - whi?h Oer , .. . ,, be the only nations to which Ger- y many refuies to make reparations J ^liveries. lor It Is declared here BY HERBERT HOOVER U. S. Secretary of Commerce, who, as U. S. Food Adminis- tr ?,5? r daring the war, saved millions of Europeans from starvation. WASHINGTON. — The dent. J. M. Hodgson was renamed vice president and C. H. Newton elected secretary again. t R. R. Hodgson was named treas urer and two new members were elected to the board of directors, | H. H. GGordon, Jr., . and B. F. Hardeman. •• , This company is one of the Progress of _ our country depends largest manufacturers of cotton u P° n individual savings of products in the state and has en-l our _ people, for when all is said joyed splendid business since itj and **’“ was founded. It is reported that 1 ~ the outlook for the new year is bright and that tbp mill will con tinue to grow and prosper. whole Superior Court Tries Civil Cases The superior court continued to grind away on civil business Thursday morning and several cases were disposed of. As soon as the civil docket Is cleared the session will end. The case, against John Minos who was. sentenced to serve one year In the gang for the killing of young Raynolds Smith who was run down by an automobile was the bnly criminal case tried. I Court will hardly last longer Chapter of than through Friday. VETERAN DEAD SAVANNAH, G*. -r Major J. J. ftaudry, a retired officer In the ©ttlonal guard of Georgia , died T hursday morning. done the p rovements our homes, our farms, our goods, our roads, railways, factor ies, etc., are the net saving, that one generation hands on to the next, and our progress is mark ed by what -we have saved, and improved during: our generation. However rujtal as this' fact may HOOVER be, to me thrift has a more inti mate personal value. Saving is the only road to personal inde pendence. ' I had a guaranteed in- come, independent of anybody, for a couple of months when I had saved 3160. { was independ ent for a year.when I had saved 31*500. I had the courage to take the risks in tVying for a better job the minute I could see a year ahead. Smith Attends P. O. Conference Postmaster Paul Smith goes to Atlanta* Friday to attend the two days conference of postmasters and to represent the local office. Dr. Work, postmaster general, was exnccted at the convention but will be unable to attend on account sickness. His first assist ant, Mr. Bartlett, will be in at tendance and represent the depart ment in Washington. A number of Athens business ( men and civic leaders have been (extended an invitation at the in stance of Dr. Work- to attend the convention and help work out some of the problems that now face the department and to insure closer cooperation between the postoffices and. the publci. The conferences in Atlanta will be held at the Baptist tabernacle. A banquet will be served , at the Georgian Terrace, \ -BERLIN.—(By 'The Associated Press)—general stiffening- German resistance in the face*' of' French ultimatums is indicated.bar ing,” she continues, “for the boy.the Berlin newspaper correspond- . ; is father to the man, and the lit-jent in Ruhr. The mine operators* tie girl is mother to the' grown! workers and labor leaders are rop-*: j woman. j resented as standing together In a , “A concert for children must be.d®^ 8 ! 011 their duty by, Gor- ] mjtSW in t0 ; y usic h0U i r tr a ^ 00 and appear^ ’ should little ones' Sh n , nldb „ e * PKL 0 * th j! thatT shipments to Great Britain, tio " ° f ^ Ver L.- ?. nd Italy, Poland and Jugo-Slavia ,wilk when our great artiste realize I not be , nte ted _ their duty as educators as well as entertainers, then we may hope for the development of the sym pathetic type of audiences which every artist dreams about.” PARIS — (By the Associated Press) — After, a meeting of'the French cabinet Thursday ft waA stated in official quarters that-tiiq policy of passive resistance adopt ed by the Germans was regarded as of great danger to the peace of Germany. i Continuation of the presept .atU^ de of the Berlin government and e Ruhr industrialists, it- was said, gave rise to fears that tfid Nationalist spirit may be aroused to such a pitch as to provoke seri ous trouble. ^ ’ It was pointed out that reaction had already been felt in upper. Silesia, where secret series^ane-rda ported to be exerting great "efforts to bring about strikes. V The French policy in the*PWftr,. it was emphasized, is to faeffithte the Industrial activity ISu?|hd' Ruhr rather than to place stacles ln the way, as charged*by the Germans. 1** Among the list of prominent visitors scheduled to come here are founa such experts as: J. E. Con well, president of the Georgia Cotton Growers* Co-operative Association who will speak at, the first meeting Monday, Hon. B. S. Talley, Dr. A. M. Soule, Dr. M. P. Jarnigan. Prof. J. Phil Campbell, George A Maloney of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, H. E. Sevo ly of the U. S. Extension Field Agents department, |L M. Strip- lin, secretary of the S. E. Fair, J. F. Jackson. Agricultural agent of the C. of Ga., Railway. Roger Mil ler of the Macon chamber of com merce, H. P. Stucky of the Geor gia Experiment Station, Dr. L. G. Hardman, Major. H. P. Hunter ot the Georgia Bankers Association and many others including a num her of women for the conference relative to home economica and home life. FULL DAY SESSIONS TO BE HELD ^ The meeting will be held in p __ the mornings, afternoon and ^t j modifies on which capable data! for night; the morning sessions be- 1 November and December tab avail- ginning at 9:00 o’clock and con UPWARD TENDENCY SEEN IN WHOLESALE DECEMBER PRICES /! ' • ! ' * ’ WASHINGTON.—The general level of wholesale prices ln De cember showed no change from the November average, although the tendency was upward, the de partment of labor announced Thursday. An increase of 11 1-2 per cent over the level of Decem ber, 1921, was shown, • however, farm products leading with *>n ad vance of 20" 3-4 per cent. Of four hundred and four com noon sessions lag! while the night sessions begin at 8 o’clock. ESSEN.—(By The Associate^* able, 170 advanced in price last Press)—The Ruhr valley coal' om month, 70 declined and the remain- | erators who thought for a- time der were unchanged. Appreciable Wednesday night that the FreffclT increases' were recorded in certain were to take over the mines Thurs-r. farm products, including corn, oats day morning, fonnd themselves still j rye, wheat, hogs, lamb, cotton seed in possession of their propertied 1 flaxseed, milk, peanuts, onidns and Thursday and learned that * only. potatoes, the group as a whole . advancing approximately 1 1-2 per Thursday at 72 o’clock Governor t cent, while cloths and clothing Elect Clifford Walker will deliver: averaged about one per cent hlgh- the main , address (of the day and ] er than in Noveknber. is expected to outline in a mea*> j Chemicals and drugs increased ure some of the policies of his *«2 1-4 per cent end house furnish- Dress Parade By College Students The second dress" parade 'held by the University ot Georgia mil itary regiment will, be held on Herty fild Friday afternooft at 6:15. All the different units, cavalry, infantry, M. T. C. , will be repre sented. The band will play also. The public is invited to attend the parade ' fyy the officers In charge and especial attention is called to the place, Herty field. . forth coming administration in so much at it will touch on the farm ing interests, of the state. Mr. Walker has accepted the invitation to be present and his ing goods 1 3-4 per cent, while a small increase also was noted in food articles. Fuei;aud lighting, on the other hand averiged almost 1 per cent and metal 1 1-2 per cent address will be one of the most; lower In December than in No- interesting of the entire week Dr. .• vember. * ’ Building materials and L. G. Hardman will preside at; commodities listed as miscellane- this session. • ... * ous. remained stationary. Dr. -Soule will be a prominent • As compared with the preceding figure 4n all the sessions and wiU > December’s prices, building mate- direct the entire, conference. It rials last month showed an advance of 17 per cent, metals of 16 per has be£n mainly' through; his in fluence that so many prominent men have been brought to Athens and he Will devote practically bis entire time during the week % to the conferences and the entertain ment of the visitors and distin guished guests. cent, fuel and lighting 8 1-2 per cent and clothing 7 3-4 per cent No declines were noted in food ar- furnisbing goods and miscellaneous commodities, all making small va ried changes. ' coal mined and above ground came under the revised requisitioning; or*- der of the French. The magnates also learned that they faco, court-, martial instead of actpal arrest as a result of their refusal to deliver coal' to France. . ^ , The economic commission., .to; reaching its final decision on the policy to be followed, concluded that because of ‘the shbrtagffJJQff. technical experts It would bo bet ter to requisition only coal ready for delivery and to return to France all shipments intended for German domestic consumption** > £ It was also said that certaiii na tions, notably the United States and Great Britain looked .with dis favor upon the term “confiscation” as it had been applied to the French Ruhr valley policy by the Paris press. tides, chemicals and drugs, house. -» What' attitude labor would take til the event the mines were seized also cauBed the commission serious w (Turn 'to Page Six) . 1RCULATI0N OF THE BANNER-HERALD *5,098 Copies