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snHBi The Weather: Continued falling weather with I, dn>PP' n K temperature. ; 7 , .{ H -10 Cents s Week. Hits One Paper In Most Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. Daily asd Sunday—10 Cents a Week. ! Athens Cotton: MIDDLING 28 l-2e PREVIOUS CLOSE 28c VOL. 11. No. Ill Foil Asaoda ATHENS. GA., TUESDAY EVENING/JANUARY 2J, 1923. , Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. S Cents-Sunday, j ian! mm&m speaking m atoms •5* v—^ -M 1 9 ^ d-4 *—l- -T, t ? a .?. .t. aTa ,T, aTa JLJL V V * i "T V “ V i> V V V French to Completely Isolate Ruhr Valley Soon •£■—-M 1 ■M 1 +-4 -V. .V. V V IMPORTANT TESTIMONY IN IES1STMCE SEEN , Here’s Montreal’s Prettiest 165,000 German Workers in Occupied Region Are Reported on Strike Since Early Tuesday. BRITAIN’S POLICY IS “HANDS OFF’ England Will Not Inter fere With Nor Aid the French. League May Take Action. i-ARIS — i By the Associated Press) - The complete isolation of the Ruhr Valley, the absolute severance of its communications with the rest of Germany, was an nounced in government circles Tuesday as the next step in the French struggle against German resistance, if that resistance con-. tinues. RERUN (Bv the Associated Press i — since Tuesday morning ti.ooo employes of the Stinnes verks. nnd 100.000 of the Thyssen wrks in the Ruhf region have been on strike, according to in formation obtained by Ruethers Tuesday afternoon. LONDON - (By the Associated Vssi — The British government has instructed its military reprc- '♦ntntives on the Rhino not to in- the n^rosts and ex ration of German officials being Tarried out bv the FYench. At the tim. the Dritish are instructing vot to co-oi>ernte with the French such op. rations or allow them- r!v. s to become involved in any incidents of this nature. The possibility that tlie league f riHtions will endeavor to end the ‘tramml situation in the* Ruhr is ariii discussed by a section of the res Tuesday, although rather "hh the hope than with, the ex- iMation that such intervention vi» materialize. It is now declared that' Hjal- xsr Rranting. the Swedish .repre- '7'tative on the league council. *ill <‘erfainlv raise the question of F* Ruhr at the meeting of that >n Paris on January 29, hut fear is expressed that develop- ANXIETY BECAUSE OF “Love Match” Reports That French Are Extending Their Activi ties to 'Cologne Alarms English Press. SEVEN GERMANS COURT MARTIALED French Ready to Reply to General Strike in Ruhr. Berlin Told What May Be Expected. That’ climate in Canada surely brings out the glow in feminine cheeks. Gaze on Miss Helen Morgan in snowshoes and winter out ing attire. She’s been selected a s Montreal’s prettiest girl in tbo winter festival beauty contest. / , |^nts in the meantime may put ;» matter beyond the reach of any Wuenco that the league might «»MANY sounds A PROTEST BEnu\ —- (By the Associated !r ss) The German govern- ~* n ’ has instructed Its diplo- *M r representatives at Paris, j-ondon. and Brussels to protest r “‘' ent doi-rees of the Inter-Al- J. Rhineland commission regard a* the distribution of coal and ’’i'm at'dn of the coal tax and ls bm's duties. The note .’eclares “! l,1 V distribution "ocree to extend to the Phi' PROBE OF DEATH IALLE6ED ATTACK 1 GIRL 1Y BE TO LOS ANGELES LONDON — (By the Associated Press) — The anxiety so wide spread here regarding the danger ous situation in the Ruhr, is em phasized by. reports that the French are extending their.activi ties to the Cologne area. News ol the Freneh order for the expulsion of German- officials Jn. the .British , zone reached London too late lor mnch comment in thr morning newspapers but in the few criti cisms anpearing there was annar- ent a disquietude over the pros pect that British forces In the Cologne area might be drawn into a fresh conflict with the Ger mans. The call for withdrawal of Brit ish troops which was raised in some quarters when the FVench first went Into the Ruhr, again comes into prominence Tuesday. Withdrawal is seriously discussed as among the Ateps which Great Britain may be forced to take in order to avoid becoming Involved In a menacing situation which, j the majority of opinion here in sists, this nation must keep out .PROBE SENSATION TO BE MAIN IDALLARD AND ESS1 Prof. J. H. Wood and Prof. W. C. McCoy De liver. Main Addresses At Morning Session. POSSIBILITIES ARE GREAT IN POULTRY Interest Tuesday Center ed in Testimony of Tee- gerstorm, < Brother of Man Missing. WHAT HE SAYS ,IS IMPORTANT Principles Are Laid Down By Experts. Much Inter est Is Shown in This Phase of Meeting. Another Surprise in the Hearing Promised For Wednesday Afternoon. Trial Nears End. Tuesday morning was devoted mainly to the descussion of poul try and poultry products at the Farmers’ Conference in session at the State College of Agriculture. The twq main addresses on the program were devoted to this fea ture. Prof. J. H. Wood, of the college delivered a strong address on “Poultry Marketing” and Prof. W. • I. McCoy spoke on “The Country. These Speakers, Officials, Sound Notes of' Optimism in Their Addresses. Both State BARROW PRESIDES . AT THIS SESSION Many Notables Appear on Program Tuesday Giving Valuable Infor mation to Meeting. SEETLED PRIVATELY of. SAN DIEGO, Cal.—Investiga tion of the death of Fritzi Mann, dancer, had veered Tuesday, to Los Angeles where local detec tives followed a clue whose un raveling they hoped would throw light on the manner in which the girl died on the night of January 14, at a nearby beach. Detectives were reported visiting the film colony in the hope that they would find a man reported to have taken the pretty young wo man to dances at a resort near LoS Angeles. Dr. Louis _ with | granted until February 23. LOS ANGELES, Cal—Belief grew Tuesday that the $200,000 damage action brought by Mrs. Ethel E. Clark, as the guardian of her daughter, Dorothy Clark, dancer, against Herbert Eawlin- son, motion picture actor, would be settled out of court. Mrs. Clark charged that the ac tor attacked the dancer in an apartment in New York in 1920, when the girl was only 15 years old. The mother, regarded as an The comment thus far has teen emphasized in asserting ;hat Great Britain must maintain in thv neu trality of the Cologne district. A report thst die French had ordered the explusion of German finance officers In Cologne reach ed London In an iUssen dispatch to the Times. tetiv-i tile important witness by both - sides, was too ill Monday to appear in ur 1.0U.S L. Jacobs, Camp! court at the opening session of Kenney hospital physician, held *" 8 >and a continuance was for a time in connection with i granted until I - - omnetonep andthe j Miss Mann’s death,, was released j Jnnge J. lerry Wood, of the from custody Monday. DUESSELDORF — (By the Associated ‘ Press) — The Ruhr see-saw halted momentarily Tues day while Germans and French awaited for news from Mayence, where Fritz Thyssen and six other industrialists were on trial before a French court martial charged with refusing to obey the orders of the control commission. French general beadauarters be- lived that conviction r and imprison ment of the magnates might mean the calling of a general strike throughout the Ruhr. Workers in the Tbvssen plants at Essen, and Muehlehetin, who recently, declar- B^STROP, La. — (By the Asso ciated Press) — With the open hearing into the alleged opera tions of the K. K. K. in Morehouse parish nearing its conclusion and attaches of the office of the State Attorney General declaring that tho few remaining sessions may r . n .„ # o __ develop sen»atfogil t - : te«t.tjpj>ny, in-. what remote, terest in..Tuesday*#.i, proceedings was centered on the scheduled ap pearance of Clarence Teegerstrom, brother of- Harold Teegerstrom, missing time keeper of the South ern Carbon company’s plant at Spyker. i Teegerstrom disappeared the 'night of December 29 and h!s i whereabouts was declared Monday j night by officials to be unknown to them. His father testified that ! Clarence had received a note from The engagement of the Duke of Harold on January 12th and Clar- York, second son of King George ence was to be questioned Tues- and Queen Mary, to Lady Eliza-1 day concerning this note, beth Bowes-Lyon, youngest daugb-' Rumor was rife here late Mon- ter of the Earl and Countess of day night that Teegerstrom had Strathmore, has been officially, been treated at Swartz, a station announced. Above are shown the j on Iron Mountain Sallroad about duke and his fiancee. Y.M.C.A. CANVASS FOR FUNDS BEGAN NIGHT 10 miles south pf here, and that he had 'tween tn concealment there since he disappeared from Spyk- pp A rietnehment nf novolrw op- " ‘ Poultry Breeders’- Association.* Hon G. F. Hunnicutt, editor of the Southern Cultivator presided at this session. By the addresses of these two experts some of the great possibili ties in poultry raising in Georgia were shown. According to Prof. Wood Georgia imports. $20,000,000 worth of poultry and eggs annual ly and at the same time loses a million dollars every year of our 6wn products in thiB line on ac count of improper methods of marketing. He urged : co-opera tive and collective marketing of P°ultry by growers-wlio are some-, 'hat remote, Croup, .trade- centers. New York and -Florida are th* two best egg markets In the world,** ihe stated an^ wholesalers are looking .for eggs -for these; markets but at the present time Georgia eggs are off color and not graded properly according to size and are therefore undesirable, this expert told the conference. Mr. Wood laid down three princi pies tj be remembered in educat ing the producer and consumer towards better producing and sell ing eggs in Georgia. First, Educate the consumer on the different qualities in order that he will purchase the best and not the cheapest. Second, Educate dealer to buy and sell on quality basis instead of having same price for all A detachment of cavalry ac companied by T. Walmsley. assis tant attorney general who left here last Monday night for Swartz in an effort to locate Teegerstrom. who was reported hiding in a cabin near there, returned early Tuesday without having found any trace of the missing timekeeper. "f the new inter-allied »n at Essen, wbil# the fes seek to divert Ger- • ’Hues from legitimate t<> Allied powers. John IN the newspaper - form of merchandise adver- ,s coual to. or a snhetitute » spa per advertising.** lbe message recently 0 a gathering of some 2,000 nrnoration officials William Worthington who direct- ed Sessue Hayakawa in his first pictures, returns to the screen as an actor after an absence of six years. He is cast in “Red Lights. superior court, as a preliminary to granting the continuance from the bench said, “it would be desir able if a settlement ccrfild be reached out of court.’’ The actor has denied the charges. Thomas Dixon, Author of “Clansman,” Vigorously Condemns Modem K. K. K. W codon, of Chicago. ®n!y to tell why: advertising not WiV-ll Ihe goods but lallj helps build good-wilL , '“.paner space should be eontinuously through the I lirit' S f’ asm <*dic advertising ae- 1 "lulls |lr,Kluce only spasmodic "Jjeepinj: everlastingly at if tmio n as ’-‘ s * faith . in y°. u r insti toed ■■" Ur service and in your ... s that is eventually transfer nm,J* the While through the in- ZZ" and persistence of your ■"ouncnientso f*nw' wil i is blli,t on the s»«s- »vi“ *»d vonfidencc of those U r.. KU v h “ ve * er ™^ from day •»««" • ' our newspaper adver- ftkUth Tk’* T0,, 8 chance to es- hi^ by providing custom ja S to yonr resources this NEW YOOK —-Thomas Dlaon, author of “The Clansman vigor oualy condemned the modern Ku Klux Klan in an address Monday night and declared it had stolen thi Uvery of the original order. He was one of several speakers at . r^etine called by the Ameri can Unity league to disease wuys “1 y . rombating the hood and means for combating the 6d H°e r ?a" n ; when the modern ago he declined an invitation to ."/YSi dTsgLYse ■Mfthoy dared To” in a secret oath boundordertoday under civilized guard, the end w^s -«.&^hPsi'ea.and The original klan was- founded as a weapon against a corrupt and intolerable tyrany by the bravest and noblest men of the south, he said, bat the precipStion of the negro races by the modern klan is inhuman. The’ klan assault upon the foreigner ‘is the acme of stupidity and inhumanity.” he said. "We are all foreigners except the few Indians we haven’t killed. “Our fathers blazed the way tbroueh' the wilderness for the trembling feet of liberty. They built a beacon on.these shores, flashing its rays of hope to all the J a* tbntattWh- Qholl wn oppressed of the'earth. Shall we, their sonsr meet' the huinblef tnnni martial law. reached the their sons.-meet tne mimoie lmmi- ••We have alr e8 <l> .-"“'Vd «aml grant of r-today with a-.mask and riot and bloodshed hf s , r( jttled ' dagger 1 and' push Him back Info 1 .. l. ire if (Me lo 1 rtft npr ni»nt AmoH- unless the promptly we martial law. a IT ^ aCVUUUJ. liOUIttr* ed that they would strike their employer was not released bold up their action until the results of the trial should become known. The French are ready to reply to a general strike with the -om- plete isolation of-the Ruhr and the Rhineland from the rest of Germany. The control commitsion it was said, will bend every ef fort toward getting coal ont of. the basin and shipping It to France, where it is,'already .needed, leer ing the Germans to operate Ihe railroads and feed the miners and the population. If* j’cTmsm, t*M “If Berlin wants the Ruhr to starve, it’s her own business” one official of th<\ French headquarters told the newsnaper correspon dents last evening. “If any * one starves in the Ruhr it will not be the French. The Germans heve chosen their battleneld. We will fight them to the finish.” .General Denvlgnes expressed the oninion that the Ruhr valley was the scene of the last battle of the war. “If we win this” he said, “we shall have peace for fifty or 100 years. If we lose, all our sacri fices of men and money during the war will have gone for naught.” - The communists and the organlz ed nationalist syndicates are flnd- w* -v.-* little in common, and around per cent Ameri-jRochmund the former are gradual- ™ j CTuf . n tQ pafle At the luncheon Tuesday a total of 218 subscribers and $3,759.50 was reported, bring ing the total up to 294 sub scribers giving $7,703.00. $11,- 000.00 is the goal. Teegerstrom’s testimony is re garded as vital to the alibi set up for T Jeff Burnett, whom witnes ses have testified they had re- coenized as one of the masked party which on August 24 kidnap ped Watt Daniel and T. F. Rich- The campaign to 'raise the main- ‘°* h 0 e tenanee fund-of $11,000 for the V? citv ymf A formally l»c-. December 21. One witness has gan Tuesday^ morning^'when ^» t he S& dozen of canvassers began ‘ he ' 0 f the c»rbon company where he rounds, calling upon the people of was eim q ove <j # Athens to respond to the call j Associates of the Attorney Gen- that the splendid work that is be- ! eral Monday night they ex- ing- done by the “Y” will not suf-; rect°d the hearing to be concluded fer. . . bv Wednesday night unless some Seventy-three workers, assem- thing unlocked for develops. The bled at the Association building i transcript of the testimony, which Monday night and after making will not be completed for several preliminary arrangements startedJdavs after adjournment, will be Third, Educate farmer to mar ket only best and consume small and extremely large eggs at home. In order to carry out this pro gram, Mr. Wood said it would be necessary to pay attention to the quality of the eggs, their cleanli ness, grading and packing. Speak lng of quality he said freshness of course was the first thing consid ered but also mentioned color and size being necessary also. He said, in reference to cleanli ness In eggs, that they should nev er be washed but rather nest and hens be kept clean and the soiled eggs consumed at home. In speaking of grading'he said large size eggs should average 24 ounces to the dozen. Those averag ing less than this should be sold as “pUllet” eggs. White eggs are worth more than brown eggs. He went Into the importance of packing the eggs so they wdvld carry well, insuring them against breaking upon delivery. After finishing with eggs Mr. Wood went Into the marketing of (Turn to- Page TWo) the rrand jury. This It was stated will consume ♦en days or two weeks. It Is not known whether the case will be nresented to the present grand biry or whether it will be given to the, new grand jury which sue- eeeils it the first week In March, in anv event a considerable lull in the proceedings will follow the ad journment of .the hearing, it was said. S393S.50. FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM After listening to the stories of different ones connected with and interested in the Y. M. C. A. every worker left the building de termined to raise his or her quota of the necessary amount and to do it as quickly as possible, feeling that this is a work that cannot be allowed to drag in the city. They heard about the camp near Tal lulah, about the special work be ing done by Mr. Weems, by Mr. Jones, by Mr. Quillian and by Mr. Forbes, the general secretary. Tuesday the canvass began and the public-spirited people of Ath ens are urged to respond to this call. The work is too well known to need amplifying at this late date. It must gp on and its success depends upon the people of Ath ens. the workers realize that. "The canvass wil run into the y/rt*k until thearoaunt is nrisc l and every day: tiro; oxlockjlive -mor-inv—f workers will assembe'ttl-'lne nersiat that M. C. A. for the- dally luncheofi'| ieia (1 t,^ r (Turn to Page Two) jbere to testify. Officials eonductinK the hear- in« declare they expect to spring a surprise at the opening at the Wedneadav afternoon seaslon and intimate that it will eclipse any* thin* that haa occurred hereto fore. tn anmo quarters it is believed ♦hat Harold Teegerstrom will he the surprise witness for In spite of the fafit.that.the state’s repre- declare they not jren.w, hip,whereabouts unofficial he is being to be brought “I pledge you, Doctor Soule, my best efforts toward get ting the state legislature of Georgia to provide sufficient money for her state Agricul tural College. Furthermore, I am here to offer you. my heart and hand in token of full co-operation with your institution.” These were the words of Hon: J-- J. Brown, Georgia State Commissioner of Agri culture, in an address deliver ed before an audience of more than 800 farmers and busi- nss men at the noon session of State Agricultural Confer ence here today. “Partisan politics, so far as they concern the farmer, are dead,” continued the speaker. “The great business interests, not-.only of Georgia but of the nation, are aroused as never before, and partisan cliques and affiliations, I believe, have made up their minds that every institution which receives money from the hands of the public must get ’ together in a spirit of full co operation for the benefit of the farmer and laboring man.” Two prominent state house offi cials. Hon. J. J. Brown, commis sioner of agriculture, and Hon., N. L. Ballard, state school com- , missioner-elect, addressed the 12 o’clock session of the Farmers’ Conference Tuesday. Chancellor Barrow of the Uni versity, presided over this meet ing. Mr. Brown, whose home is in the neighboring county of Elbert, sounded a note of co-operation of his department with-that bf the college along with outlining some of the problems facing the Geor gia farmers today and what the department of agriculture is doing to help solve these problems. He said that the impression that somehow had gotten abroad that there was friction between his department and the College of Agriculture and stated that this was erroneous, that he stood for the utmost co-operation between^ the two great agricultural agen cies of the state. His address was received with enthusiasm and brought forth repeated applause. SCHOOL COMMISSIONER OUTLINES POLICY COL. GANTT RAISES WEATHERMAN’S IRE Just about the time T. Larry Gantt, feature writer for the Banner-Herald, comes out talking about our change in climate and comments on the warm winters, especially the present one, old man cold and snowy blast opens all his win dows and blows down upon us sheets of ice, sleet and snow that make only the coal bar ons smile. Athens got her first real Commissioner-eletet Ballard of the state school board, spoke on fha HVn.J O.L..1 the “Need of Our Public School System” and outlined some of the main problems- now facing the system in Georgia. Mr. Ballard does not take office until June and it will be after that time be- _ fore he gets his department or-’ ganized along the ideas he has in mind. At the afternoon session Dr. J, Phil Campbell presided and ad dresses made by Hon. George A, Maloney of the U. S. Bureau of * Entomology and Hon. Ira V{. Williams, of the state bureau of entomology. County agents also enter into a discussion led .by Hon. H. E. Savely, extension.field agent of the U. S. department of agriculture. Tuesday night Hon. Roy Neal, editor of the Savannah. Morning News, gives an address on “Func tion of the Daily Press in Solving Rural; Problems,” while ! other prominent speakers dre on the program. “ 1 ( Following is the program for taste of Winter Tuesday when “ cold rain turned into' - (Turn to Pago Two) misty snow" and fine sleet, I which soon began to form* icicles and clothe all the trees and shrubbery in an ermine of glassy whiteness. The ther mometer is hovering around the hard freezing point and it looks like that “cold spell” to kill the boll weevils and the winter germs is upon us. And— The order is, turn off the water, alcohol the radiator and get out the extra blank et*: and see about the coal bin because the coldest weather qf the winter is upon us, REMEMBER THE DUMB ANIMALS The Humane Society haa call- ed • attention to the treatment of the dumb animals during the present cold weather and urge that horses and mules used for drayage and the like be not left out in the sleet and snow un covered. " . * . There*? an ordinance against inhumane treatment of such animals and. they will be watch ed now.