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NEWSPAPER
ATHENS, GA., TUESDA^f EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1923.
Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday.
EFFORTS MADE TO
WRECK THE TUF
8EATFAIT1IN
FUTURE HELB BY
HOUSE
Fundamental Bus i n e s s
Conditions in This Dis
trict Pronounced to Be
Sound and Firm.
ROBBERY SEEN IN DOUBLE MURDER
]Her “Ideal” Smile
Wins Beauty Prize
FA
“Shimmy Queen” Gets A Divorce
ENOUGH work to
keep labor busy
Conditions Nearer Nor
ma! Than Since War Re
ported in Wholesale and
Retail Circles.
ATLANTA—(By die Associated
*«,$> — Improvement during Do-
trmbt'r. with a steady increase in
confidence and faith in the future
beginning of the new' year
less conditions in the state*
coaprising the sixth fedoral re
district. is reflected in the
monthly business review issued by
officials of the Federal Reserve
ink in Atlanta.
The report covers buslnnss end
gricultural conditions in the dis
tiki composed of the states of
Alibiin'.a, Florida, Georgia, Loulsl-
m, Mississippi and Tennessee. •
Fundamental business conditions
i the district are . pronounced
oend with no indicafioh at pres
at of any tendencies which would
bring about adverse developments.
Building and constructions pro
rates including highway- projects
iv? gone forward steadily and
employment is seen sufficient to
large amount of labor busy
tor months, according to the sum-
wry of conditions.
NEARER NORMAL
CONDITIONS
Conditions nearer normal than
the outbreak of the world
*r are reported in retail and
hol.sab* circles and merchants
* maintaining a very optimistic
it is pointed out.
TL transportation problem,
»hiih has been showing improve-
»id still not to have at-
WuhI satisfactory proportions,
CHANGES WILL BE
IDE
Viola Dana to
Be Operated On
Branch of Rosemary Fun
eral Directors to Be
Opened in the Old Marks
Residence.
NEW GROCERY CO.
FOR BROAD STREET
Miss Maria Price Will
Run a New Tea Room.
Februay 1 and March 1
to See Several Changes.
Jk? lumber shipment situation is
“Proved while manufacturers re-
w a tendency in their line for
waning during the holidays, al-
in comparison with the
period in 1921, the output
,iovs an increase.
Agricultural conditions through-
?* ,he entire district are shown
“proved with the farmers recelv-
larger tlnancial Teturns from
wir crops, this situation causing
“Pavement in the financial stand
of the district.
J a summarizing the conditions
“jrvvi w shows the following:
.J ht ‘ volume of retail trade in
w district was reported nearly
*I* r vent greater for December
}’**• Savannah being among the
* cities showing a decrease.
ftRgtegate sales of whole-
groceries firms during De-
is SLrsysri? cWch. -a 5e EC/t‘S^Vd'rS
Many business changes, em-
* racing several new enterprises,
will become effective hare Febru
ary 1st and March 1st.
one of the largest oi Chese Is
K^e. opening of a branch >|ere flf
the Rosemary Directors, a large
corporation with headquarters in
Wilmington, Del., and distributing
points in Atlanta and Savanbah
j for Georgia This firm has leas-
; ed the old Marks home at Abe
\ western extremity of Washington
street and it is now being put in
shape for their'occupancy. The
company expects to have a lull
line of equipment here and the
' parlors opened up by March first
accoiding to M. G. Dearing <of Er
win and Company who is handling
the Athens end of the transac-
action.
LOG ANGELES. Cal. — Viola
Dana, motion picture actress, ex
pected to undergo an operation
for appendicitis in a hospital here
Tuesday.
MONEY ID JEWELS
HEATED CONTEST
AS Y. W. DIRECTORS
Police Find That Dead
Man Had Big Roll and
Woman Wore Jewels
Very Valuable.
ALL VALUABLES
HAD BEEN TAKEN
“Th. battle of the ballots- is on | Bodies Were Found in
Tuesday at the Y. M. C. A. wher»»
a heated election of membership
on the board of directors is being
conduced at tbe “Y* W,” offices.
Tho balloting began ini the morn
ing at nine oclock and will ccn-
Counrty. Both With Bul
let Wounds. Woman
Thought Attacked.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Although
I inclineq more strongly than ever
General Weigand and
Minister Le Foucher
Saved When Engine
Makes a Trick Stop..
GERMANSDENY 1
WRECKING MAN
Coal Shipments to Inter-
Shipm
ior of Germany May Be
Stopped Feby. ; l. More
Germans Deported.
PARIS — (By tho Associated
Press).— The Trench'foreign of
fice declared Tuesday there was
no truth In the report (printed
Tuesday morning by a Paris news
paper) that twenty Germans had
been killed by a clash with French
troops at Boppard near Bingen.
There had been np such trouble
at Boppard as reported it was
stated, the Burgomaster was ar
rested for resisting the orders of
the French military authorities,
but there was no rioting.
✓<;
BERLIN — (By the Associated
{ Press) —• Germans beyond the
• Ruhr. Tuesday had the assurance
. of their hero Fritz Thyssen that
NEW YORK — A “smile con- their brothers -in- all* hut isolated
V
Another new business that
j opens on Fefruary first is tbe
W. I. and George M. Abney 1 Gro
cery company. This firm will be
located on Broad street, occuriy-
ued
Gilda Gray, shown here, known testified she received $1000
as the “shimmy queen” of a New week when playing but only $1 a | store formerly occupi
as iuv Du*u*u..jr '1 r ... _ . T, 'by the Sol. J. Boley and company.
York musical review, was sranted week from her hubby. John Cor-1 Xhe stock ia n „ w an „ the
a divorce In Milwaukee -when she ecki. when living with him.
PRIEST HELD AFTER
TEEGERSTROM IS ON
IS HE UTS
IS SHOT TD DEATH FOR KIDNAP TRIAL
•loots of the bu fines will i.e opsn-
J on th ? nu>rrl*.g of lebtuary
first. A linek of groceries and-
heavy feed stuffs for retail and
be carried N ln stock-
tfnue up until 7 in the evening. | (Q the be)lBt that rel)beIy waa the test .. waa j, eld here recen tl y and | occupied' zones do not Intend'to
Tho voting all day has been | motive which prompted the shoot- c-inrenre MeOali-e of tho cast of lT!p '' , *° French-Belgisn pressure;
brisk. ing to death ot Mrs. Rttth McEl- ciinrinc Vine ^"Stored 1 , ° 8t8a < 1 ’ ^ey constitute a “com-
promjnent Athetfc- wj wain Tucker, aged 20, and Duncan here won the prize ’ , pact unit In Heir determination to
rave h«n nominatd ana-V?l»& • 8 ®L 9 ?™M* M.V;, tot fftoanta, write
held. Ka.. whose bodies were found d | n „ or a j ready celebrated beauties I .C • "• ta * ei ® 0 ® t made public at
on a country road near Memphis cabarets and staco and there tirni! wh, ' n attempts to eon-
early Sunday morning, officials ° f er ?a'greatri.anvof to en 7-so T ' , ' !n,< ‘ atfl with Essen werefalling .
waited word from Mayfield as to ^ a ?the wtoncrT /ntltlsd tn enn ■ dec,ared that the Ruhr was mani-
Wl.ether anyone In that city could “itatale hSStt on "ctore over! mou " In -supporting- the govern-,
have felt an enlmltv towards Wal- I meat's policy. Herr Thyssen nues-
from this list six will be named
on the board. Those for whom
bailors many be polled are as fol
lows: ;
Mrs. Alice Adams, Miss Annie
May Bell, Miss Ina Cooper, Mrs.
Lon Dudley. Mrs. Frank Raide-
tragedv. Officials refused to dis-
I effect a customs ring that would
UO[ 1 serve thelp mirnnnn aivl aaM that
close ,the particular angle on which i named „ eaBen « a i 'narticina- ! 8erve the,r purpose and. said that
Hm., ,1-01*0 hoolnv thoir InveoHirfl- .. ... P. ^ < ■ Strancrerfl could hnrdlv tin no fn
man, Miss Mary Lyndon, Miss | they were basing their investiga- j tlon In the test It
Tee Kamensky, Mrs. Julie Hodg
son McNeil, Mrs. 'G. M. MacNi-
der, Mrs. Robert McWhorter,
Mrs. J. Warren Smith, Miss Fran
ces Talmadge.
ERI^.
Miss Marla Price will scon open
a tea room in the place vacated
several months ago by the Cooper
barber shop on Clayton atreet.
Repairs are pow under way ami
this new enterprise, should soon
be in operation .
The Bradberry-Ower-s company
Pa. - Sophie S'-ymano-1 MONROE, La.-HaroU; Teegcr- ha9 leased the comer ztore for-
wskl. a servant in the parish house strom, timekeeper at the Southern
of St. Caslmer’a Polish Catholic carbon company plant at tSpyker.
Wi.
increases being shown In all
ivT” " K 'x-lnts. Jacksonville
a " increase of 24.4 per cent
I, n m, ”‘ r 192 -’, OTC r the figure
"Dw-enihcr 1921. the largest In-
u nt any city reporting. The
r ° r the district over De-
& >? 2 » '« 10-4. The largest
in wholesale drygoods of
vhp." as teported by Atlanta,
[ ”'t 'hms claimed 77.7 per
|ii„. Kr epter lnisiness. the average
t 41-a over December 1921.
I?s S A R c, ative buying
" h ARDWARE
^Porting. 4 r ’ P ° rcent » flnnS
Ra los by eleven whole
^ firm, Rhow an , ncreaBe of
fceEr T" 1 over the preceding
••Is, by-c S ' le “-' whil ® *®v® lture
**' 1921
. r *-m
'• 1982
; wholesale firms in Decern
ar< . increased by 30.4 per
rn rs nroduced in Georgia
r " estimated to bo worth
•tease' i, l y 211.609.000 an In-
Uif 15,," f sbniit 334.000.000 over
than Considerably more
>» 4»e .?.1°' 000 ° f thte increase
fcrrrnJ L h ® ootton crop acreage
On, Sr' 169 eorn cron and peach
1» R,l0 " , !ng increases,
i movements. Savannah
22-090 hales in December,
58,836 bales in 1921.
nts fo r Savannah were 31,-
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iched roe Douaiog ,u | agents and state authorities follow ning to move -across 4he street on
with Mary wojewock, the j n hj3 disappearance on the night Clayton, to the old New York cafe
approached the building in com
pany with Mary Wojewock. th,
housekeeper, Monday night arid
the Rev. Father Dambinski Is be
ing held In the police station await
ing the result of an Investigation.
The girl was shot three times thru
^Farther. Dambinski was taken in
to custody shortly after tho shoot
ing. The police say they found
him in bed and that while at first
he was unable to give a clear ver-
slonof the shooting, he afterwards
told them the girl had been killed
by accident. . _
According to tho housekeeper,
she and her assistant returning to
_ J search Svas .instituted by Federal
the house shortly after midnight
found the front door, wide open.
They entered the darkened hall
way and saw the form of a maa
J - -» 4i—*" from the
moving toward them
nearest room. She screamed
“burglars” and ran to the porch.
Immediately, she said three shots
were fired.
The 'police^ declared they had
found a pistol in a desk near Fath
er Dambinski*8 bed. The empty
shells war* found in the front
room - on the first floor.
mystery in an ad
appears in the “agony co
London ^ .'newspaper.*
".Tanf—-
eld riot wrt ndr
lwys thnkng t u. Mt m
6:30.
of December 29, was 'back on his
old Job Tuesday. He was arrest
ed late Monday and released on
3500 bond for his appearance as a
material witness at the grand jury
Investigation in March into More-
liousu Parish kidnapping activities
which resulted last August In the
death of Watt Daniel and Thomas
F. Richard. iMer Rouge citlzenB.
Teegerstrom was taken into ens
tody ut Spyker after he had sud
denly appeared in Monroe earlier
in the day in almost as mysteri
ous a manner as. he departed from
his bonk house at the carbon
plant shortly before the. beginning
of. tbe open hearing at Bastrop.
When he arrived here Teegerstrom
told of having visited Elderado,
Ark.. Alexanderia, Baton Rouge
and other places -h>.. Louisiana
which he would-not nhriurT He de
clared that he was "not kidnapped
and not forced to leave Spyker, but
left “beeanse I felt I ‘ ( -#as doing
the right thing. I did it for my
.friends.”
RAINBOW BY MOONLIGHT
CROYDON, Eng. — John Chi
says he saw a brilliant rainbow in
- -• - Plfl .. Figure Jn Scotland in a year. Four were
Vry lvng wsh. Pin. r « ul „„ rl 513 were IS.
it out for yourself.
-BOYS AS BENEDICTS
. _^ASGOW J— Marriage 0
hoys under 19 have heen^ recorded
jn Scotland in a year.
16. 52 were 17 and 313
merly occupied by thd Peoples'
Bank and will open a retain and
wholesale place there.
Patrick’s Pharmacy Is plan-*
stand arid this place is being fix
ed up for drug store pusposes.
On February first the Central
cf Georgia commercial offices will
be moved to the new place on
Washington street In the White
White Filling station.
Other busines changes, includ
ing several new enterprises, are
being planned for Athens and
many of them will be made during
Following 4ho close cf the
ballot box a dinner will be enjoy
ed by the membership of the or-,
ganization in the club rooms and
the affair will be one of the bright
est features of Y. W. C. A. aco
(Vivifies of the year. An interest
ing program has been! arranged.
The program opens with “The
Hymn of Hie Lights,” the associa
tion song, sung ensemble. Rev.
Mr. Hill of the Presbyterian
church, will ask the blessing. Then
thfee minute addresses by former
presidents of board who arc, Mrs.
Frank Lipscomb, Miss Millie
Rutherford, Mrs. Watson, Mrs.
James White, Sr., Mrs. T. J. Woof-
ter, Mrs. John R. White.
Miss Elberta Roelofs, the na
tional town secretary of the south
ern division of the Y. W. C. A.,
will give a short talk.
Miss Nora Fortson will give a
talk, “Our Camp,” and Miss
Frances Forbes a talk, “What the
Y. W. C. A. Means to Us Girls.”
Mrs. John R. White, the presi
dent of the board, will preside.
The annual report of president
and secretary will be read and
the report of the resuli of the
election will be given at the end
of the dinner.
“Follow the Gleam” wMl be the
closing song..
the early spring.
2 HAVE SAME FIANCEE
LONDON — Two men called at
the registrar's,.office within 24
hours and secured.licenses to wed
the same girt. Though she’d. Men
engaged to No. 1 two years, she
married No. 2. No. 1 has the li
cense for consolation.
FIND L08T TREASURES
LONDON — Janitors cleaned a
lot of rubbish 1 from a forgotten
corner of the basement of the
British museum. They found It
was art treasures dating from the
first century, A. D., worth,thous
ands,
r NO CHICKENS FOR HIM
LONDON — Thomas Holmes, 80
advertised for a wife. Replies
from women and girls of all ages
overwhelmed him. He selected a
widow of 70. They’re married
now.
WHY DAY & MARTIN
ARE QUITTING
BUSINESS
If you pick up Dickens, yon re
call . that Mr. Pickwick had bis
boots polished with Day & Mar
tin blacking. Day &. Martin was
a real company, famous for gen
erations.
Now it is selling . out---anitting
business. Its managing director,
with a* troubled look in his eyes,
explains: “We failed to keep up
our advertising.”
It was advertising that “made”
Day & Martin. But, like many
other concerns, it thought that)
once established, it no longer
needed publicity. The public dies
off and new public is forever com
ing on the stage. This new public
naturally has to be reached by ads,
else it will not know of the adver
tiser. Even when it knows.
strangers could hardly hope to ■
operate the mines or railways suc
tion at Mayfled, but declared that i tv’ot*the**smiTeon whTrff th«f Indies I vf”'” 1 ” w
they were skeptical of toe result | wer0 p i e( jged to base their declsi- ce9stu * ly '
Locally toe officials, baffled at; on not on , h which ^ •
every turn declared they based Nevlr?helere.^is eIsy 2| R B M _ A ^:" I ? p O R T E D
toe r principal hone for a solution t0 se0 wha t an advantage a pretty f T0 BE 8LA,N
in the sifting of the robbery the- contender naturally began with. | ...
i At any rate, toe picture shows P „ A ? I L'~. (By ‘J? e , As ”°i^*!3
a comnetent board of experts’, A,Jl eI Uw
idea of what the ideal smile is.j i U » I ia B ha^he«m 1 btnte,H t in W » I !. t ^iS5^
It might not be uninteresting to ™, 3 ^ 8 ^ench troons at ewirt
• trv a comnarison with it in a mlr- * w . Franco troops at Goppara
When last seen alive in public,; ror lust ?„ see i, ow maI , ot h e r 0T, ' , f1 ' B "®®®>'®cement that Gen-
nt a Ruhurhnn candy store late | ^1,' J K**° 888 h °h 0 ?hi nk ihnv i 8ral We| W®<l and Minister of pub-
Raturday night, Waller is said to j co uld have performed ■ creditably' lic worIt8 Le Troucher had gone
have produced a large roll of bills agalnst h Miss P McGuire if ^tey'd Xatton e |rf»h° thlfTL th ® H ° hr
in payine for refreshments. The been entered in the competition. w,,h
couple then drove away in an auto T
“ money they carried and CCJin MTin riPT
jewelry Mrs.. Tucker was knownj| riln JUr 11rjjn I
to have had in her possession were :
missing when the bodies were',
found hy a milkman Sunday morn j
ing. Each had been shot in the
back of the head. Waller’s body
was in the automobile while that!
of the voune woman was lying in
a field twenty feet from the car.
A discharged cartridge was found
in the tonneau of the automobile \
and is being held as the most lm- \
portant clue. j
There was some evidence that
Mrs. Tucker hsd struggled for her j ciat^TprcR's)' — Fea’r "of 'what
life and the theory 8,10 “ a «. might result from an abrupt ter-
neen attacked has not be\;n aban- 1 mi nation of the Nea,r East confer-
rjoned. Police Surgeon John R- j ence here Wednesday when the
Drake, who made the only official; Allien formally present their treaty
examination declined however to to ^ Turkish delegation, is ap-
PARLEY WILL BREAK
1L!
LAUSANNE — (By the Asso-
entertain the belief
NEGRO CLERK WAS
QUICKLY RELEASED
A negro employee of the candy
store, where acquaintances of the
couple last saw them alive was
Questioned late Monday but estab
II shed a satisfactory alibi. He was
released. No other suspects have
been taken into custody.
Waller, a traveling salesman,
was engaged to be married t<
Miss Peggy Wright, a friend o
Mrs. Tucker. Miss Wright It de
situation with tbe Belgian govern
ment. were leading topics of pnllc
discussion here Tuesday morning.
The Goppard Incident was re
ported by the Echo De Paris which
asserted that the firing resulted
from a demonstration by Nation
alists In protest against the arrest
of the city’s. burgomaster. \ i-*\
General Weigand and M. Le-
Troucher, who Recently returned
from a visit to Dusseldorf. have
gone to Brussels to arrange for
concerted action with, the Belgian
government, it is'said before talk
ing a definite step as to the estab
lishment of a customs barrier in
the Ruhr.
This move It now appears will
require more preliminary work
than has been anticipated. .To
make it really effective it is be
lieved tho French will be obliged
to extend their line to FrankforL
The railroad and postal services
parently having a temporizing in- ar o^ in be tak n nver immediSSS
fluence at this critical stage of
art ?rSSrk°to prevent"“wed“s- j ah ^c*rtflcWs
^rin a i"o e ?an P =°tr nt ^
The treaty draft contains sev-j Th „" hn !
oral clauses to which toe Turks . h |_ h .1 “S??’? 1 !?®
Have expressed their unalternable IS.
opposition. Whether they will SfSJlSSESPftJiStaf
take a stand whibh will enable a
continuance of the conference
among, the experts after a tem
porary adjustment remains to be
;seen. ^
| Apart from the unconfirmed ru
mors of troop movements, one
DUSSELDORF — (By the Asso
ciated Press) — An attempt # to
wreck the train on which* General
Wefgand and Minister of, Public
works Le Trencher were l traVel-
Dusseldorf from Paris is re-
to have occurred at Duern
C. Chalmers^ a shipidmz ^erit for 1 .aSSag! evening. Other Incidents
a local concern. They did not Uve yenlzetoTis tod .uhiert Son- ! of " ahot ”" e - ®" ch ®« «>e wreck-
Si'tsa.^s.'Ciarja:
rsr* “ - - i i —'r.
..E,'™:3BKV3SS2“* ***"■'■ *
Hn. Tenn.. several years ago. She
had eloped with him while a stu
dent at a woman’s college In mid
dle Tennessee.
rr:u ,Xl.rr?nlrnn constantly 1 1,er '923 court year Monday
totgcU JIttcMy. unlrea .MQMMtyUy | victory in love sets
reminded. Advertisere should keep Mri G A Adam wlu meet s
STIFFER OPPOSITION
NEW YORK—Mrs. Molla BJnr-
stedt Mallory. National women’s
tennis champion, who started off
‘ " with
over
stlffer
3,500,000 INSECTS
LONDON — The keeper of toe
Natural History Museum here
says he.has toe entomological de
partment specimens of 3,500,000
Insects, Including cooties.
MUSSOLINI'S BIRTHPLACE
7 e ,, ftuuai. Will meet Bimer
in.mind the fate of Day & M«™®v|pnooeiUon Tuesday in the second" ROME — Fiscisti of Prei
| round of the invitation indoor [where Premier ..BcnitQ. $Hussi
If- your patrons need a remind;
er, phone 75 and a Banner-Her;
ad-man will call.
tournament of the heights casino jwas born, will buy the house where
in Miss Ceres Baker, of East Or-1 he first saw. light and convert it
ange, N. J. i into a national monument.
passengers was halted In time to
avert striking an obstruction plac
ed on the tracks. General Welg-
ahd and M. Tetroucher proceeded
to Dusseldorf by automobile.
German trainmen at Duern as
sert the Incident was uninten
tional and that the obstruction
was a part of a wrecked car which
was smashed up In a rear end col
lision Monday morning.
General Weigand and M. Le-
t;rnii6het .had 1 a • long conference
Monday 'eyehlrig’ with General De
Goiitte. M.‘ Cd£te and other occnna-
uph 1 onfctsfls’ and 'Inter the Minis
ter left for Brussels to ask the
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