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Athens MIDDLING ~ 28c j.UKVlOUS CLOSE .. .. __ 28c WEATHER JK^JS^SSi. Daily and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. The One Paper In Most Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. The HOME NEWSPAPER 5i - Mil11, No. 120 Full Associated Press Leased Wire. Service. “n—S®® ATHENS, GA., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1923. Sincle Copies 2 Cents Daily. 5 Cents Sunday. •I—4- 4 -4 4-4 4 4 4 4 •r—v v *1*- -4* —*!• ^ 4* Savannah Prepares to Welcome U. S. Soldiers From Rhine "I* *1* —*1? —*jo V^»j* »J*— Ip - Op . *J« >Jo. *Jo ap *p *5* «|> 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. th»£r 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 ~ ", ’ . - lUiU 1P1H/ » UU,U «• 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 (Turn to Page Five) 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. ARE YOU INSURED? r i gainst Travel Accidental . Ii» member The Banner-Her- ;t, d insures yon free if you, n regular reader. Inves- "gate today. It coats you Untiling. 1,883 Readers of the Banner-Herald ! ’ rt ' insured free by the Ban- 1 r. Herald in the sum of •;i 000.00 each—a total of i'1.883,000 worth of Insurance ngaiiut Travel Accidents is carried by the Banner-Herald to protect its regular readers. Call Phone 75 And Ask About The Banner-Herald’s - Free Travel Accident ^ Insurance Policy. 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. umt in in group OX fflMBbaa