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SEHS1IK
WE III EVENTS
HI AG. MEETING
Body of Slain I Conference Grows in Popularity and
Dancer Found, Great Good From It Is Foreseen
Clad in Undergarment,
9he Lay on Beach Dead.
Professors Smith and
Broach Show How Beau
tiful Terraces May Be
Constructed.
DISCUSS POTATO
CURING HOUSES
Women Will Be in Charge
of Program Friday.
Many More Topics of In-
*—forest Slated^*-**-— ; -—
Dirty politics at .the Kimball
house are forever dead so far as
Covcrnor sleet Clifford M. Walk-
ef is concerned.. Addressing the
agricultural conference here to
day at noon the governqr elect
said:
As far as I am concerned, I am
going after the Invisible property
interests if I never have another
office. This state has been cor
rupted for many years by a dirty
lobby which had ita headquarters
in the lobby of the Kimball house
n Atlanta, but the skids havs
been placed under them.
"I appeal to you to get your
r epresentatives to see to it that
these people are buried foraver.”
Referring to the tax situation
in Georgia he declared that the
reduction must come about with
in the city and county. “Your
county, your municipal, and your
special taxes are infinitely large
compared with state taxes, which
could hardly be decreased/' he
s»'d. **lf all state taxes but those
absolutely essential to the main
tenance of our state institutions
were dropped, only two dollars
»er thousand, would be saved to
the tax payers.”
On account of a very important
business engagement in Atlanta,
Mr. Walker returned directly to
the Capital city after delivering
his message in Athens.
Practical demonstrations and
of a practical nature
he Thursday morning /
or the Farmers' confef-
Piof. Stuckey of the Ex
it Station presided,
first demonstration taken
that of terracing with
Guy L. Smith and
in charge. This demon-
consisted in practical ex
on how land should be
s <» as to best conserve
he rainfall and at the same time
I'rtserv,- the land and keep it
‘•oni washing. One of the most
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THOrSAXDS OF DOLLARS
" I I. UK SPENT
In week-end shopping in the
''"res of Athens Friday and
Saturday, it is safe to say
, a large portion of these
seek-end dollars will be gold-
to in their week-end shopping
>> the store news and busi-
a ^ announcements in Fri-
aa 'e lianner-Herald.
■-,.1 copies daily of the
'T't-Herald are circulated
'".Athens alone—few hornet in
lUe i ,re "Ithout either the
... n, ' r , m the morning or the
, ' ra ' d the evenings. Only
out of the 3,273
h the Banner and the
ucpj?-'**» than 6 per cent.
KL YOU SH0P IN THE
ST ®£*» 0F ATHENS
ld.
Yesterday’s
Combined
By T. LABRY GANTT
Wednesday a cold, dlsa-
greebale day and the ground cov
ered with snowi Every limb and
twig and weed was pendant with
icicles or coated kti ice. It was
sech weather that you would
think it might take a very strong
magnet to draw one from shel
ter and fireside. But whew the
Farmers’ Conference met f«(he
room was well filled. I saw far
mers come into town all drawn
up with cold, who Said they could
[not afford to miss a single ad
dress or a day from the Confer
ence. I never saw the people, not
only farmers but every on>e else
take such an interest in a gath
ering. Every one is convinced
i.fciat this Conference will and
must result in very great benefit
and start farmers off right on
their next crop. And best of all
else it brings the bankers, mer
chants and farmers and people
generally near together, and they
now better understand the situa
tion. It is conceeded that this
Farmers* Conference must be
made a permanency and meet at
least twice every year. It is pro
posed that another be held in
August, or some time next* sum-'
mer # after crops are laid by.. I
spent Wednesday among the
county agents, for they are here
from all over Georgia.
The old reliable Georgia Itail-
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IIP HEARING lit
COMES TO CLOSE;] FOR VACANCY ON
IS
Judge Edward T. SanfoTd of
the United States District
Court of Eastern Tennessee,
who has been appointed to the
United States Supreme Court
to succeed Justice Pitney, Mr,
Sanford was bom at Knoxville,
Tenn., in 1865. He was educat
ed at Harvard. He has served
as assistant district attorney
general of the United States
and as vice president of the
American Bar Association.
Attorney General Coco in;If Harding’s Nomination
Winding Up Investiga-i Is Confirmed Tennessee
tion Boldly Attacks Ku; Will Have Two Men on
Klux Klan. j High Tribunal.
THEIR SILENCE i HARRIS PLEASED'
IS ALSO SCORED [ WITH NOMINEE
Defense, Including Iden-; While He Is a Republican,
tified Members of Hood-! He Comes From South
i ed Band, Attack Legali-i and Is a Distinguished
ty of Probe,. I Man.
©ASTROI*—(By tfcO IASso(fa- |
tea Press)—The states open ! V, ASHINGTON (By the Asso-
hearlng here into (he so-called j clatcd P™»> - Edward T. San-
‘•Morehouso hooded atrocities" in- ] ford. United States district Judge
vcstlgatins floggings. 1 deporta- i for the eastern and middle dis-
tions. kidnappings and the death | tricts of Tennessee since 1908.
of two men. was concluded Th ,rs. was nominated Wednesday by
day. . 'bid of having seen two 1 President Harding to be associate .
Since -January 5 justice of the supreme court to fill I
Leon Jones, cf Moselle, Miss., r 1 "" vacancy caused by the retire-
u- last and only witness Thurs- mcnt ot Ju8tl<:e p “»«y-
day, told of having ge seen two
cars with masked men near Lake
IIS0RG1
OF UTILITIES Gill
A NEIAI IMPETUS
LaFourche the night Watt Daniel
and T. F. Richard were kidnap
ped near Bastrop. Two bodies.
Judge Sanford is a recognized
authority In the legal profession,
which he entered in 1888. after
receiving degrees at the Univer
sity of Tennessee and Harvard.
This is a favorite pose of Fritzi Mann, 20, San Diego and Long Beach (Cal.) dancer and cabaret
oerformer. whose dead body, clad only in an undergarment, was found on a lonely beach,.near Torrey
Pines, Cal Police are not able to decide whether the case' is one of murder, but they have established
that the dancer and an unnamed man rented a bungalow near the beach on the nii-ht preceding the
finding of the body. Miss Mann was well known to many in the motion picture world.
featured
I*rofes«(
Broach
Oration
Mbitinn?
terraced
BIRMINGHAM; Ala.— Birming
ham’s long list of axe murders
Two Executed
For Having Arms
WATERFORD, Ireland — Two
men named O'Reilly and Fitzger
ald, residents of Cork were execut
ed at the Waterford infantry bar
racks Thursday. Both had been
found guilty of possessing arms.
20 Killed When
Building Falls
BERLIN — Twenty persons aie
and assaults was added to Wed- reported killed and many serious-
nesday morning when Lnlg Gitel- jy injured by the collapse of the
laro, 42, and his wife. Josephine, top story of the Tageblatt building
32, were found by a milkman with Wednesday. The editorial and
skulls crushed and in unconscious mechanical ' departments ot the
(Torn To Page Six) newspaper were bodily damaged.
WIFE WITH THEIR
111
SENTENCED TO DIE
FOR KILLING WIFE,
MAY BE RE-TRIED
* MEMPHIS, Tenn.’ *■— Evidence
on which John W. Hudson, Jr., of
White Haven. Tenn., was convict
ed for the slaying of Mrs. Hattie
B. Ferguson last February and
sentenced to electrocution by a
jury in criminal court, may be
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identified as those-cf Daniel and He is a former vice president of
Richard vflwe found floating in the American Bar association, and
iJjhe lake on December 22. served as an assistant attorney-
Before adjournment of the | general of the United States un-
hearing Attorney General Coco , dcr President Roosevelt He is a
made the statement to the court republican and is 57 yearb old.
“Id
concerning outrages in the Parish
charging the Ku Klux »v»un w*-**
responsibility for them.
The Attorney General declared
that s ince the adver.*t of the
Klan in tne parish there had aris
en "A condition of disorder and
lawlessness, which had riper.’ed
into a supercession of constituted
authorities by the K. K. K., and
the establishment of • a. govern-
erraent of its own.’ The Parish, he
added, “was on the brink of riot
and bloodshed,’ wher.» Governor
Parker sent troops here and Ini*
tiakfed the investigation. Mr. Co
co, declared that while it might
be conceded many klansmen did
not actcally participate in acts of
lawlessness “they never the less
may be deemed responsible there
for by reason of their silence and
action.
ATTACK LEGALITY
OF HEARING
Judge William E. Barnett,
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nomination, if I confirmed,
ill give Tennessee two members
of the highest courts and will re
store the political balance of six
republicans, and three democrats
4-hich obtained when President
Harding took office. The other
member from Tennessee is Justice
Reynolds, a democrat,, appointed
by President Wilson.
Judge Sanford, who is a native
of Knoxville, Where he Ebw tives,
is the fourth member of the coprt
to be named by President Hard
ing. Justice Pitney's retirement,
authorized by a special act of con
gress because of physical disa
bility. became effective January 1,
and it was indicated today that
senate leaders would seek action
at once on the nomination of
Judge Sanford so that the eourt
can proceed to imffcrtant pending
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Main Rail Lines on EacH
Side of Rhine River Tied
Up. Express Trains Are
Stopped.
TWO FOODSTUFF
TRAINS ALONE MOVE
General De Gottee Told
Telfegraph Operators
Will Strike. Jail Sen
tence Threatened.
DUSSELDORFF.—(By the AS-
socaitcd Press.)'—Virtually the
entire railway system of the Ruhr
valley. and, the occupied territory
immediately- adjoining was par.
alyxed Thursday by a strike o£
the railway men.
The disorganization of public
utilities, which has _ been slowly
spreading throughout the Ruhr
since the beginning of the Fraqco-
Belgian occupation, thus received
a great impetus.
/ The main rail lines on both the
right and left banks of the Rhino
are tied up along a stretch of
nearly fifty miles between west
to the north of Duesseldorff and
Cologne and southl to this city.
The Paris-Berlin and Warsaw.
Paris expresses are stalled JhSIhe
Duesseldorff station. Two trains
of foodstuffs from Holland repre. .
seated the only movement by Tail
into the interior of the Ruhr dur
ing the morning. .
In addition, the telephone:y and
WASHINGTON—(By the Asso- telegraph employes of the postal
elated Press) — The machinery service informed General De Got-
ot the Federal government has tee that the operators would
been set in motion to ascertain strike at midnight. The French
whether any foreign embassies, comm ander rep^a with , . threat
and legationa here have brought i.i—t “
Into the_ country excessive ship- JJjJ* the Ieaders wouW be «««>
The mobile crew ot We tele'-
graphers, which customarily fol
lows President Millerand and hit,
official tours has arrived in Dues
seldorff and is ready to take over
the service in the event ‘of a
strike. -
ments of liquor which later was
diverted to the bootleg trade in
the National capital.
As a result of recent disclosu
res by the Washington police who
charged openly that some foreign
envoys are using their diplomatic
immunity - to supply bootleggers,
the treasury department has sent
a memorandum to the state depart
ment which is understood to call
attention to certain unusual shlp-
pents of liquor coming to the em
bassies and legations here.
While no federal protest con
cerning the shipments was made,
high treasury officials said Thurs
day that several shipments in re
cent weeks were ot such magni
tude as to attract the attention of
prohibition enforcement officers.
Tbe treasury was represented as
believing that more liquor was
coming in than was “reasonably
required by the staffs of the for
eign representatives here.
America Cancel Debts to Europe? Expert Says No!
By CHARLES P- STEWART
As might "have beeh expected
the Franco-German trouble h
getting' afound to a point now
whore European diplomats are be
ginning to bint that the whole
thing could be fixed up if the
United States would cancel a lot
of the war debts due to her from
the Old World powers.
At any rate, dispatches from
across tbe Atlantic are saying ‘ re
paration experts”. are workingmen
a plan to settle the entire question
—on the supposition that America
forgives England half of what the
latter owes to her—that is.that
she wipes out a. couple of billion
dollars in obligations.
This kind of talk starts so na
turally as almost to hint that the
Ruhr invasion may have been stag
ed to some extent with a view to
scaring the United States into mak
ing financial concessions, as the
only, means ot averting another
vorld conflict
But will the United States fall
tor such a program?
It doesn'ti seem very - likely.
Americans have been pretty balky
hitherto whenever it has been
suggested that It would be a good
idea for them to give up any or
all of-their war claims.
By a curious" coincidence there
was a British mission, headed .by
Chancellor of the Exchequer Stan
ley Baldwin, In Washington, dis
cussing the question of war debts,
{ust when the. Ruhr Invasion oc
curred.
This mission has gone home
now. The negotiations are said
not'to haye broken down. On the
contrary, It’s understood the Brit
ish commissioners, having found
out. how Americans feel about the
indebtedness matter, returned to
London to talk it over with their
own government.
If. by any possibility, the Frenth
really did . think their Ruhr ven
ture would prompt the United
States to make financial sacrifices
and the United States doesn't-do
it, the Indications are that France
has undertaken a pretty serious
contract.
For In that case France posi
tively MUST get her money out
of the Germans by her present
method, or the Germans will fair
ly well have proved that they
aren't ABLE to pay It and then
area i aslz io pay it. and tnen
France NEVER will get anything.
French government hasn’t said it
will go as tar as Berlin, it neces
sary, but individual Frenchmen In
high government posts have said
The Frenoh occupation of Ger
man territory now covers the en
tire region which the . Versailles
treaty permits them to enter and
there were some Bigns that al
ready they might have gone, far
ther than that but for English
and American and perhaps Italian
disapproval.
They have . “requisitioned." as
they call it, considerable coal al
ready dug, but steered clear of
the word “confiscation,"' having
— _. _ been warned, it ia said.' that • It
^they’ve got to go ahead. The would create a bad Impression in iture intervention.
>•
'he United States and Great Brit-
itn.
They have made arrests ot Gel
’lian industrial- leaders and held
them as ‘'political prisoners.”
The German owners, refusing to
eroceed with production, the
French began taking possession of
mines, but this started a strike,
tt remains to be seen how the in
vaders will deal with this diffi
culty. They show a disposition
to treat the workers gently.
GERMANY PROTE8TS.
AGAIN
The German government con
tinues to protest *
It's, protested again, to the United
States, but still with no prospect
of getting even an answer.
It’s said to -have a “confidential
faisslon” to England, trying to se-
“ The English
government Is keeping as^juiet as
the American, bnt Hugo Stlnnes
s reported to have obtained a
IIO.OOO.OOO credit In London .to
bny crab now that hit Ruhr sup
ply’s cut off. to keep his factories
TOing. It this is true, while It
isn't the same thing as English
tOverument action, it's a pretty
itrong card for the Germans.
Italy’s said to .be working on a
franco-German compromise plan.
She certainly Is very unenthuslns-
tlc over what France has done.
The masses ot Germans are not
raising much commotion, con
sidering how much trouble they’re
in.
There have been a tew smalj
clashes with the French .and two
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Turks to Receive
Peace Pact Soon
• ^ a
LAUSANNE — (By the Asso
ciated Press) — The Allied draft
of the peace treaty with Turkey
will be presented to the Turks
next Wednesday and ■ the AlUed
delegations will leave two days
later, it was announced .hy the
British delegation Thursday after
noon. If fhe Turks have not sign,
ed by that time the Allies, will
leave one representative to
■ply Information to the
delegates.
NEW SUIT8 • —
Smart three-piece costumes of
twin show variations of the swag
ger box coat, and are trimmed
with soutache braid and lined with
figured silk.
Last’s Week’s'
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