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The Weather: lir oilh a rising temperature. Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. The One Paper In Most Homes—The Only-Pafeer In Many Homes. Athens Cotton: MIDDLING 28 l-2e PREVIOUS CLOSE 28 l-2c VO!.. 11. No. 113 Foil Associated Press Leased Wire. Service. ATHENS. GA, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 25. 1923. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday. . 4—4 4—4 4. 4—4 4-4 4-4 4—4 4—4 -T- ,T, T t T t f. T f T t T. 4 -t. ' .9. -V. ■ -V- -V- „ rTt -Tt VJ ; * v V V V * V a V V " V 4. "1 UHR IS PARALYZB) BY RAIL STHKE 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 (Turn to Page Three) 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- (Turn To Page Six). 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 (Turn To Page Six) 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, (Turn To Page Six) / 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 (Turn To Page Six) / 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 (Turn To Page Six) 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' CIRCULATION ! Combined, '.] of the BANNER - HERALD , Was as follows : ‘Mi Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday ..-..:5,05a ... 5.00S ... 5,107, ... 5B7S -.-14,800 No issue of the Banner is pub lished on Monday morning.- No is- sne of the Herald is printed bn Sat- uriday evening. BANNER-HERALD ATHENS, GA. ‘ ) TON OF THE BANNER-HERALD WAS——* 5,055 Copies