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Savannah Prepares to Welcome U. S. Soldiers From Rhine
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Landing of American
Troops Just Back From
the Rhine to Be a Nota
ble National Event.'
m\ny celebrities
■ TO BE in savannah
COLDEST WAVE
Missing Girl Found In Com Field
Where She Dies From Exposure
BLOOMINGTON Infl..—Mis* Es- summoned aid but when he re-
Speciul Train to Bring
X ewspape rmen, Con
gressmen and Camera
Men. Great Program.
SHINGTON — Direction of
v.tr department, the com
er o the army transport St.
1. which is bringing back the
ion forces trom the Jthir.c,
.i,.»vi ring io reach the light-
• it Savannah Harbor by
o’clock Wednesday morning-
tliogram from the ship re-
.1 during the night, however,
ih.tt it now appeared im-
ildo that the St. Mlhiel would
P^rt on that schedule. T
k nv MNiige said that Judgl.g
r-gress the styp was making
«• time it was gent she 'Would
ea h the lighthouse before 1
k Wednesday afternoon.
thȣr Beck, 26. daughter of James
K. Beck, former sui>erintendent of
schools here who disappeared from
her home here Thursday was
found in •. corn field Sunday, eight
miles from her hetn-^, but died be
fore aid could be summoned.
Miss Beck was found in the field
by Melvin Reeves, a farmer who
was on his way to Sunday school,
when he heard the girl's groans.
After finding the young woman
Reeves went to a farmhouse and
girl
turned with assignee the
was dead, apparently from ex
posure.
F~r several days searching par
ties have hunted for Miss Beck
and 'It was while they were pre
paring to leave town to take up
the hunt that she was found.
Miss Beck recently suffered a
nervous breakdown- and it is be
lieved that her mind had been af
fected. When found she was with
out her hat and shoes and her
clothing was badly torn.
STIFFENS STRIKE BF
RAIL MEN 1
Boyltf^d/nSOFSiW
HORROR OF TIDAL .TEN KNOWN DEAD
GE
PURSER OF SHIP! THRU TIDAL WAVE
Hopes of Settlement Felt
For the Past Few Days
Were Dispelled By Mon
day’s Attitude.
AUGUSTA — The body ot Wil-
liam Cleo Mills, 13 years old son
of William T. Mills, of this city.
mysteriously disappeared
from his home here on January 18
was found floating in the Augusta
canal Sunday. The boy fell into
the canal, it is believed when the
handle bars of his bicycle slipped
and he lost control of the' wheel,
hich he was riding along a path
beside the canal.
FURTHER FRENCH
OCCUPATION SEEN
German Government Re
ported to Be Using All
Available Methods
Against Invasion.
PARIS—The miners if Saar Val-
| ley which produces 9,000.000 tons
HONOLULU (By the
Pressl—Experlences aboard
ONOLULU — (By the Asso-
id'l^ress) — Inhabitants of
1 Hilo island of Hawaii' continued
of coal annually, went on strike
Monday morning.
DUSSELDORF — (By the Asso-
FLORIDA FREE*
Noi-thwest and Central
West Monday Were Re
covering From Severe
Cold Season.
SNOW, SLEET AND
ICE MANY PLACES
POLICEMAN SUNDAT
SAN DIEGO, CaL—Chester Carl
ton, an American negro >yho shot
and killed George
... Monteverde,
member of the Mexican police force
-pt.Ti*.-Juana, at the berder town
Sunday" afternoon, was hanged in
Tia Juana jail Sunday night
Inter-island steamer . Kilauea, • # . f fh lt ciated Press) — New orders from cording to reports reaching the
iipr beam Monday to take stock o£ the results ’ ternational line. Residents of Tia
(Special to Banner-Herald)
A VANN AH, Ga.,—Savannah is
ting on holiday attire to wel-
m* American troops returning to
in-icu from the Rhineland on
MihUl Wednesday. The whole
i. is to jorin savannah, either
person or In spirit, in this wel-
ue. Nor is Georgia the exclu-
«• territory, to participate in the
i is attendant upon the home
■ling. The event is a distinctly
tional occasion,and other states,
national capital, ever^section j
,| l( . country 'Is to bo represent-
i savannah. The railroads
ve offered special rates as ah
e anmodation to the many who
>h to come, special trains will
..pcrated into the city over sov-
il of the roads.
on New York newspaper syndi-
t. is sending a special train to
on from New- York and Wash-
-tmi government officials, sena
ry army officers, and special
11 it >ii ally-known correspondents,
.! motion picture companies,
lale from Charleston, Pat 1 ** I s *
■..I. Beaufort, Brunswick, and
.cksonville there will be special
ats bringing contingents to add
■ Uu- throngs to be here.
which was ttssea on her beam ^ ^ waves whIch swept Berlin to the railroads
ends in Kahului bay, island of th eir strict Saturday afternoon ( Rhfneland and the Ruhr had the
Mnui, Sunday by one tidal wave { w jth an estimate losq of ten or! effect Monday of stiffening the
after'rlghted by the next, were re- twelve lives and property dam- * strike against the French and dis-
lated by Matt Amtson, purser of age undetermined but placed at i pelled the hopes of a settlement
tlie vessel, when arrived in Honolu* j $100,000, in the city alone. | that have been prevalent during
I The known dead included a Child , the last few days.
Befort the first wave, Amtson j and three Japanese fishermen. It I By individual interviews the dis-
said the sea sucked away the wat- was believed, however, that others 1 tribution of money, by promise
er from the harbor, revealing a I perished. Several days probably and- warnighs, the German govern
bottom mud and coral covered with ! will be required to ascertain the ment agents are declared
floundering fish, crabs, lobsters j total damage.
and squid. The first wave caught The tidal wave followed a se-
Kilauea and raised her above vere earthquake which' the obser
ve level* of the wharf, the purser ! catory at Kilauea reported to have
sa?d and if the lines had noi been occurred from 2.000 to 3.000 miles
loosened, he ship would have been away in -« H ""
in the ternational
Juana declared that his body
would bo burned Monday.
It
LAUSANNE CRASH
Desperate Final Efforts
By Allies to Save Con
ference From the Rocks
Avails Nothing.
TURKS REFUSE TO
SIGN PEACE PACT
Ismet Pasha Says Nation
alists Declined to Sign
Because It Meant Eco
nomic Death.
Weather Reports Indicate
Wave May Be Broken
Before It Reaches East
ern Seaboard.
ATLANTA—With northern Ala
bama generally reported as under
a blanket of ice and sleet, wire
communication in the Birmingham
territory -foas in ihSPtW r.atoHi
Men day while coal mine operators
in the north Alabama district re
ported operations considerably
hampered by the storm.
Low temperatures accompanied
the storm which Monday covered
on the wharf. “It was one of the
strangest sights I ever witnessed”
Amtson said. “And there was vir
tually no indication of danger be
fore the wave came flooding in
and then receded suddenly.
Th Klleauea went down until
she settled on the bottom of the
ocean and keeled over against a
hummock and grounded on the
bottom of the bay Vhich prevent
ed her rrom going completely ov
er. For a minute it looked as
though the ship would go ^ com
pletely oyer even then,
Unknown direction.
Persons living in lower hill re
gions fearing a recurrence of the
tidal wave moved to higher ground
with all taeir»possessions Sunday.
Police and firemen patrolled the
affected area.
The following message was re
ceived here Monday from the Is
land of Guam:
the resistance which had begun
to weaken among the local func
tionaries and state employes.
There has been no fredh exten
sion of the strike but instead of
improving as the French had
hoped, the situation remains un
vent coal shipments to unoccupied
changed.
The cordon of the valley to pre-
Germany remains unbroken. Some
attempts have been made through
the use of the private inter-mine
mot known here whether he had | ]Mississippi, Louisiana,
l^kmeTMonCrde" I “e
so^wolae'd T^r Montverae. I ranking.n depth from seven
brother ot George and two other ‘'" ‘nehes. the deetWSt since the
T* ntaa ronnrtPil that thG 1 Winter Of 1917-18.
wTdue PO t r o te adCTe ‘vM Spread ot the snow and ice cen-
accident to Carleton’s
^ m from White River, Ont., along
authoritative centers here to be tnmoiliip^ which he isTsakTtetaave 1 the Atlantic coast through Geor*
doing their nttnost to eneourage „ J
out, M ^ e w^s S 8aidn^wereMjtoppe^d j *tom» boyering^over the _Gul£ of
by a deputy sheriff, who tock their
pistols from them. Torsiro was
said to bo dying late Sunday night
He was taken to a hospital.
but
The seismograph recorded a l tracks and railway cars to send
ery slight earthauake J^hock at coa i through the French barrier
but these were frustrated.
10:43 A. M. Saturday. There was
no tidal wave. Conditions nor
mal.” . ,
It seemed improbable Monday
that a reply would be obtained of
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other large wdve, the largest oi . ine g sa jr eg 0 f inquiry sent to Fiji
the series that lashed the Island j s i an( i 8 regarding earthquake condi
st. Mlhiel is expected
I Tybee bar about *7 o'clock
in«--sday movning. It w^U, by dl
i"ii of the war department
on into Savannah and re-
n here for the entire da y» be*
<\ eked about b o’clock Wed-
’. iy morning at the . Ocean
unship Company’s terminals. It
iss 1200 officers and merf.
uly r.oo o these will remain in
nnah to go at 5:50, except the
"is. to Fort Screven, where
unci Walter T. Bates, who has
n named Commandant of that
. will establish regimental
•lquarters. There are 869 en-
l men; a proprottonate num-
■ f officers and 97 dependents
't:e enlisted men—three meth-
-in law and 21 children being
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shores, lifted the ship up and put
her back on even keel but smash
ed two life boats against the
wharf.
‘The water Tushed by us over
the wharf, over the beach and then
Into the streets sweeping on to
ward the stores and warehouses,
tions there.
H. E. McComb, in charge of the
United States magnetic observa
tory of Ewa Island” of Oahu,^ re
ported that the seismic needle"left
the sheet and failed to record for
20 minutes Saturday due to the
violence of the shock. He said
warn Law .laic. • ( — _ , -
ruining a large quantity of sugar, the seismograph recorded two
awaiting shipment. The steamer
Mahukona was torn from its moor-
lngs and swept out until its drag
ging anchor hit a wharf, the con*
Crete plies of which held and saved
hed.”
The bajr was reported to have
been turbulent for some time after
the last of the gerles of waves,
-ome what similar experiences
were reported by. persons arriving
here from Hilo on the Matson!,
which was tied up In Hilo bay.
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Harding Hopes
To Visit Augusta
heavy shocks and one light
Thursday, February 1st, at 6 P.
Herr Sarter, director of the
Westhalle state mines and a com
niercial director for the Stinnes
interests, is among the latest func
tionaries expelled from the Ruhr.
End Comes As
He Is At Church
The French occupation has been
extended to Offenburg and Appen-
weir, two towns in Baden, pre
sumably as a penalty for German
interference with international
train service between Paris and
| Prague.
j In German quarters it is
«dared this latest move of the
! French has as its real goal the
Kiel bridgehead, opposite Strass-
burg. This would give the French
control of the railways along the
right bank of the Rhine.
AUGUSTA, Ga. —- Congressman
Carl Vinson has notified Mayor
Julian M. Smith that it yflll not
be neceaaary for August* to send
to Washington to Invite President
Harding here as the president has
already written his “that he hopes
. 3 . 111 .ornnlf mo frt
circumstances will permit me 16
stop at Augusta Upon my return
trip from Florida.” The president
last visited Augusta when he was
a Senator. ______
BALTIMORE — Seized with
heart attack as he was attending
the morning service at Grace
Methodist Episcopal church Sun
day the Rev. Albert 1 A. Blchel, of
this city, died a few minutes later.
He was 47 years old.
The service had just opened with
the singing of a hymn. The Rev,
Mr. Blchel arose with the congre-
gaton and his voice was leading
the singing when he suddenly
staggered. He grasped the • pew
in front of him for support and
sank slowly to the floor.
The Rev. Bicbell had been a re
tired minister since he resigned
from the paltorate of the. Metho
dist church at Salona, Pa. .
famous cook dead
AUGUSTA. Ga. "Streets'.’ Glov-
er, negro known throughout tne
south as a barbecue cook died here
Sunday after a brief illness. Glover
has presided at many of the prim
cipal barbecue functions in Geor
gia and South Carolina and^ last
01 DEBT TERMS
Either Gloria Swanson,
star,'shown here, or her husband,
Herbert K. Somborn, soon will file
suit for divorce, say Hollywood
rumors. The couple, who are^pra-
ents 6f a daughter, have been
separated three year?.
LAUSANNE — (By the Asso
ciated Press) — Ismet Pasha, head
of tho Turkish delegation, inform
ed the correspondent Monday
that Turkey had no desire to re
sumes hostilities with either
Greece or Great Britain as a re
sult of the collapse of the Near
East conference, but he emphasiz-
film ed that the Turkish and English
OF
armies were still facing each oth
er in Asia Minor. Ismet said the
Turks would ask the powers
whether they consider the negotia
tions officially at an end.
The impression prevailed among *•
the C9nference delegates that Tur |
key would not be informed offi
daily of the termination of the
j negotiations inasmuch as it was
I generally desired to continue the
[ Mudania armistice, thus avoiding
.the possible renewal of war.
I The entire French delegation
planned to leave for Paris early
Monday afternoon.
The Turks probably will depart
Tuesday. It is believed that the
misunderstanding which develop
ed between the British and French
delegations in the last days, df the
fconftjrence conVSibuted io the
final break as the Turks got the
idea that they could count upon
a support among 'the allies and
obtained more favorable condi
tions.
WASHINGTON — President
Harding Monday prepaid a state
ment to Congress asking for ap
proval of the British debt funding
settlement negotiated by the
•American and British debt com
missions. It was indicated that
he probably would j submit his
PARIS — (By the Associated
Presg) — The failure of the Near
East conference is deplored in
Paris, but is not. taken as too
much of a tragedy. Quoting Is
met Pasha’s remark that he • con
sidered the conference still on,
Petit Parisien maintains that there
Is sHU hope that the conversations j lau sanNE — (By the Asso-
will be renewed elsewhere with [ dated Press)—The collapse of the
more success. Pertina, In the, ^ ear East conference after weeks
Echo Do Paris, attributes the fail (of deUbera£ion that had been liber
ure at Lausanne to the feeble at-. n ii v intornpmpd with lpd
ing gale velocity in the afternoon, jtitude of the Allies last Septem-! g 1 / d Stio n8 of the powere to
! ’ 1 be « r r^? d i 2 Ct °i er iit , , .. j wonder whether Ismet Pasha, (in
“Franklin Bouillon’s diplomacy rGfu8lng to sIgn the treaty wa g
he said emerges badly beaten j trusting in those “incalculable
from the fray. Up to the last mo-i force8 » whose p re8G nce the Allied
ment M. Bompard refused to see J statesmen have felt,
what was passing. Late yester- J RumoPS of a military alliance
day afternoon he telephoned that between Turkey and Russia, em
the signature was certain.” ... .. . - - -
Le Matin declares:
“In view of the clearly pacific
intentions Premier Poincare has
proclaimed lately, it would be sur
prising if he did not- go the limit;
WHOLE SOUTH IS
BLANKETED BY SNOW.
CHICAGO—While the northwest
end central west had relief Mon
day from the cold wave that sent
thermometers to new low levels
for the season, the Southern states
( were suffering from the coldest
j weather in several years attend
ed in some districts by snow, sleet
cr rain. Unusual cold penetrated
as far as i the central portion of
Florida, where freezing tempera
tures or frost were forecast .for
Monday night and Tuesday morn
ing.
Vicksburg, Miss., was covered
with seven inches of snow and
sleet Monday. Street car ser
vice and telephone communication
was greatly demoralized.
Louis’ana and Arkansas were
almost an unbroken blanket
recommendations to * th*? senate
and house Tuesday with an ur
gent request the*, approval be
given without delay.
Meantime congressional leaders
continued in conference over the I grees above (zero in sogie districts,
most acceptable way to \ insure I None cf the southern states was
passage of the authorising legis- to be slighted by the cold wave.
t
of possible concilliatton to avoid
France being drawn into a de
plorable adventure.”
This newspaper, like Pertlnax
is uncomplimentary to M. Bom
pard and says it refuses to be
lieve that the government’s in
structions authorized him to use
the discussion over capitulations
to “give Curzon the pretext for the
snow and Bleet in the northeastra ru P ‘ure he hart Ded seeking for a
and southern sections respective- long time past *
ly. The mercury dropped to 20 de.
lation before Congress adjourns
on March fourth. The measure
is expected to b* brought before
There was little change ' over both senate and house before the
the week end In the general in- ®nd of the week with ail the driv-
dustrial situation. The railway ing force of administration in
workers are being offered cash
bonuses in an effort to revive the
strike. The communists, on the
other -hand are actively eounter-
Ine such moves with declarations
.that the German capltulalsts,
whose refusal to fulfill the French
demands had led to the entire
situation, should suffer confisca
tion of their property.
Would Put End
To Home Brewing
Frierson, Railway
Man, Dies Sunday
$300,000 Gift For
Butler College
INDIANAPOLIS Ind.,—A condi
tional gift of f300,000 by the Rock
efeller general education board to
Butler college of Indianapolis, was
announced hero Monday by |Wil-
U ... iiam G., Irwiri,.-rha'.rman of. the
was called to Detroit to!Butler general' endowment com-
conk a -cue. He made several trips j mittee. The gift is, conditional on
to NfW Orleans to cook barbecues, the raising of $600,000 endowtn^nt
Glover was 04 years old. |fund by Butler.
MACON, Ga.—H.. R. Frierson,
transportation inspector for the
Central of Georgia railway, and
one b the best known officials of
that railroad, died Monday. For
years he was trainmaster of the
Southwestern division and later of
the Macon-Atlanta division of the
Central.
ANNUAL BONSP1EL OPENS
WiNNEPEG—The 35th annua?
Bonspiel opened Monday with 220
teams of curlers from many parts
of the world entered. Last year’
fluence behind it.
Aztec Ruin Now
phatically denied when they came
to the attention of conference cir
cles a short time ago, have reviv
ed am) there are admittedly other
disturbing elements in the, situa-
Ismet informed the corres
pondents that until* he received a
formal notification to the contrarr
he would consider the Negotia
tions as still in progress. In this
connection, it was pointed out that
the Mudinia armistice was to l>e
effective until the conclusion of
the conference called to settle a
Turkish peace, and so some im
portance was attached to Ismet's
statement. .
The Turkish spokesman declar
ed that, the nationalist representa
tives did not sign the treaty- be
cause it strangled Turkey econo-
the Turks
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A strin
gent prohibition enforcement bill
which is designed to prevent home
brewing among other things, was
to be introduced in the legislature
Monday night at the request of
Governor PichoL .
“Not only is the manufacture
sale or delivery or possession, ex
cept when lawfully acquired before
this act goes into effect, of intoxi
cating liquor declared to be unlaw
ful” said Governor Pinchot “but
so is the advertisement, saty manu
facture or possession of any stilt
or any other contrivance .intended
for use in the unlawful manufac
ture of intoxicating liquor.’’
Nine Drowned in
Ireland Sunday
as 252. six American j la Dundrum Bay. county
tered. I when their boat capsized.
It appeared, the forecasters report
warning Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana of prob
able rains, sleets or snows accom
panied by dropping temperatures
Monday. For the majority relief
was predicted Tuesday.
Weather report* indicated the
breaking of the cold wave before
its arrival at the eastern sea
board states. In California sun
shine Sunlay routed the fear of the
citrues growers that their Crops
would 1 bq ruined although Monday
forecast predicted light to heavy
frosts in the'interior.
Monday the forecasters said,
to bring forth rising temperatures
in the upper lake region, the up-
ner Mississippi valley westward to
the Rocky Mountains, with a like
reaction starting Tuesday In the
Ohio valley and the east Gulf
states. General precipitation was
slated for the Atlantic and East
Gulf states Monday night and
Tuesday continuing during Tues
day in the middle and North At
lantic states.
Early Monday Chicago tempera
ture registered 10 degrees above
zero, a rise of nearly 16 degress
in a 24 hour period.
U. S. Monument refuse to accept the .capitulation
GAS GOES UP
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah
automobile owners got an unpleas
ant bit of news Monday. Gasoline
went up a cent a gallon. It has
been ct 20 cents. Monday’s quota
tion is 21 cents. w
WASHINGTON — The Aztec
ruin, near the town of Aztec, New
Mexico, donated to the govern
ment by the American museum of
natural history, is established -a*
a National monument, under a
proclamation by President Hard^
1ng. The pre-historic ruin, which
is thus placed under the jurisdic
tion of the Natonal park service
of the interior department is th*
best preserved of all of the ruins
in that vicinity, an announcement
by the department said today, and
its designation as a National mon*
ument will assure its preservation
to posterity.
The ruin, one of the well known
Pueblo type, is a .large E shaped
Structure of approximately 500
rooms, it was said with the entire
first qtory standing a°d many of
the second floor rooms also in*
tact The ceilings are supported
by large beams, cut and dressed
fcvith stone tools, while the walls
are of sand stono with dressed
faces, and as -examples of pre-his-
toric masonry were said to tike
high rank. Excavation of the ruins
has been carried out during the
last five years by the America]
museum. . ... ,i7tti
BALL PLAYER 6 : iAV.^
DENVER ‘ — George ' Tebeai
widely known in Major and Minor
league baseball circles died of
and economic clauses of the docu
ment as presented by the Allies,
declaring they, could not agree to
be bound by the contracts and con
tracts and concessions of thb for
mer regime.
“ECONOMIC
m
“I refuse to Accept economic
slavery for my country” said Is
met In his talks with the corres
pondents. ‘‘for the demands of the
Allies remove all possibility ef
economic rehahiliatioU " and kills
all our.hopes.”
The formal Turkish reply sug-
eested that Inasmuch as the two
factions were in agreement on 80
per cent of the questions, these
clauses be signed. It maintained
that the Turks should be allowed
to give further consideration to
the problems entailed in a recogni
tion of the obligation of the Otto
man empire, but declared the con
cessions granted by the former
government had been distributed
«o promiscously that to recognize
them would impose a burden the .
new regime could not bear.
Turning to the capitulations
qitestton the Turks agreed to per
mit’the. _ appointment of foreign
legal advisers who * would revise
Turkish liLwy.'but insisted that neu
trals ih'-the world War. rather than
The Hague permanent court of in
ternational justice should choose
diabetes here Sunday'night after a I these experts. ^However,, they
short illness.
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