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S.W AXXAH. Ga. (By the Asso*
, Press.)—'The transport St
Mih.il with the American troops
:r< ii. ifimany arrived at Tybee
i-.ir tt l? o'clock. Conveyed by the
u \ciuio Cutter Yamacraw and the
Met '.alley she proceeded to quar
• Revenue Cutter YamacraW
Governor Hardwick of Geor
number of congressmen afld
f fleers aboard, left her dock
o'clock to meet the St. Mi-
official congressional com.
•f five Senators and five
smtatives was not aboard
• tv's train was scheduled to
t in : ir. Wednesday morning.
n after the Cutter sailed the
I '’auley left with a part* of
■ •per men and camera men
•ft the ship uet Tybee.
llnlf an hour after reaching
-‘.uarantino the St. Hlhlel still was
detained. It was believed
• !rr quarantine officers had ds-
ovore.l sickness aboard the trans
■ orr - d'daying her departure.
At 12:45 o’clock the transport
win was underway, having been
ties red by quaratine officers,
at quarantine the Congres
New Contract For Mildred
One look at this picture and y ou've guessed why they’re so hap-
py—Harold Lloyd, film comedian, and Mildred Davis, his leading
lady, are engaged, with the nuptia l date set for the ve y near future.
PAMSIEN
PACTS ARE SIGH
WASHINGTON—A treaty ' of
peace and amity, eleven conven
tions and thtfee' protocols were
slgnedi Wednesday at the final
plenary session ot the central
American conference in the hall of
, — the Americas at the Pan American
H party aboard the cutter . union. Secntxary -*f State Hughes
v and newspaDer men on *
McCauley hoarded the
were voclfelcusly greet assembled December 4 at the in
vita tion of President Harding, con
gratulated ttt? plenopitaries of
Guatamala, Elsavador, Honduras,
SKIPS COLLIDE AT
SEAA1 SAID TO
BE SUING FAST
HOPE TURK!
TO SIGN
TREATY
GONE
CONSTANTINOPLE (By the AS-
sicoated Press.)—The Turkish
commander at Smyrna has inform
ed the commanders of the Allied
warships that he has orders to en
force their withdrawal if they do
not comply with the Turkish ordei
to leave Smyrna.
LAUSANNE — (By the Associat
ed Press)— Ismet Pasha and the
principal members of the Turkish
conference delegation left Iau-
Jsanne for Angora at seven o’clock
j Wednesday morning, a secretary
remained behind. Several journa-
I llsts accompanied the party.
George Tchitcherin, the Russian
foreign minister, was to start
Wednesday night for Moscow.
Thus after seventy nir.:* days of
_;s Plan
Their Fla. Trip
ST. AUGUSTINE. I Fli*. — Ac
cording to tentative arrangements
made with a local hotel, president
and Mrs. Harding will r-ach St.
Augustine March 20 to spend n
week following their lnuseboat
cruise sjown the East coast, on
which they will start early In
March. The President is planning
to journey to Florida, leaving
Washington shortly after adjourn
■rnent of congress on March fourth.
It is stated they will not stop at
"St. Augustine on the way S*uth.
toasIassSly
FOR $100,000 TO
The legislature will be asked
at its next session to appropriate
$100,000.00 to be added to the
$50,000.00 already contributed by
Clarke county to build a memorial
dormitory on the Georgia campus
to John Milledge, the donor of the
>*v th<* noughboy8.
Arrival of the transport at thb
ci,v limits was announced by the
booming of two brass cannon. The
»5iion. captured from the British
; (t 'wktown. Va., and presented
j* 1 rhatham Artillery In 1790.
by (Jcorge Washington, were fired
bv a special crew of members of
, i'1'atham Artillery, who serv-
‘. ,1 in ‘Hat unit in the Civil and
Spanish American wars. A salvo
!wV bat,er - v of ^nch 75’s fol-
Th<> boom frohi the cannons was
n , for the fineinK of “Big
" ,krt :I huge fire bell in the cen-
‘*f the city. Immediately al
most every bell, whistle and siren
n [no city added its blasts to the
'••loom.- for the troops. The
m.'rii. y of sounds continued 5 min-
the transport, her rails lln-
• with cheering doughboys and
0,r (Jormaii war brides,'passed
U P nver to her dock.
, 1145 the transport was
1 of the Seawall,. still 12
Y , off bar. The cutter
• anim raw and tug McCauley are
porting the St. Mlhlel to fybee
Discover Plot to
Down Fascist!
~ FBy the Associated
on ' As a result of the numer
. i ,irrpc! t^ of communists and
l i( , , rs throughout Italy the po-
, nave gained irrefutable evi-
they Hay, of a vast plot for
"fn„;;'n t rthrOW ° r ttle / Facl , tl gov-
Sunshine Was
Greeted Here
"unshlne that greeted
. Wedne»day morning,
pi,. ' , K ,hfi past f «w days of un-
, ■ ni weather came as a wel-
ir,' „ ™ ln » and afforda a break
,j„. '“V slx «'eekB of additional
h 0 , ' , flln> rasted by the ground •
tin.,, len , " e saw his ehawod on
M I,,,™ 1 , 1 ' 1 °f tie month and retlr-
Th " a wln ter quartern again.
— of the 800111 wa * “*
in th,. ,orl uuate. even as It were,
day, ” ea ther of the last several
of ,}.’ " 10 *5 °f the other sections
ln» i, “ u ”uy” south were shiver.;
*i>il»' ! r * 8n “? p . ot lee and snew
o,,r on,y dis '
|.!r*M^ror i Th^»&”
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Col
lision between the passenger liner
Wilhelmina and the steam Schoon
er Sierra, seven miles off San
Francisco lightship, and about 25
miles from this city, was describ
ed in wireless message received at
. . *:30 o’clock Wednesday morning,
presided and in summing up the . j^th 8 hips backed awav leaking,
results of the conference which 1 A t ug was star ted from San
Francisco within 20 minutes after
the vessels called for help. The
Sierra shortly after the collision,
began sending S. Ov. S. messages.
committee of Nations’’ nothing hair*
been accomplished. However, Jio
one apparently wants what one
diplomatic called “a patched up
peace.”
Nicaragua a^d Costa Rlca on the | Thp wilbeilmina replied: “I ani
leaking also but will stand by.’
The Wilhelmina, owned by the
Matson Navigation company was
inbound from Honolulu. • The num
her of passengers she carried has
not been learned at daybreak, but
she has often taken from 200 to
300. The Sierra is believed t<
have a crew of from 25 to 30.
At 4:57 the Sierra spoke: List
ing 45 degrees and sinking fast.’
The Wilhelmina asked whether
the Sierra could make it to the
lightship. The schooner replied
that she could not proceed be
cause her engine room was flood
ed. At 5:15 A. M., she added
“heeling fast” The Wilhelmina
continued to stand by.
success of the negotiations and re
iterated the friendship of the Unit
ed States for those nations.
The heads of the five delega
tions D. Senor Don Francisco
Sanchez Latour of Guatamala:
Senor Doctor Don Francisco Marti
nez Suarez; of El-Salvador; Senor
Doctor Don Alberio Ucles, of Hon
duras; Senor General Don Emilino
Chamorra, of Nicaragua; and Sen
or Llcenciado Don Alfredo Gt(h_
sales Flo of Costa Rica -expressed
confidence that the agreemhts
reached would bring the desired
results and voiced gratitude to the
American government for its ef
forts and hospitality.
SUBMIT BOUNDARY
DI8PUTE TO U. S.
After the forma! signing of the
treaty, conventions and protocols.
Secretary Hughes announced the
decision of Guatamala and Hondu
ras to submit their boundary dis
pute to President Harding for ar
bitration. This decision was de
scribed by Senor LaTour as the
“first practical result of the con
ference.” ■ Dr. Ucles expressed
gratification over the agreement
t$r arbitration of the disputle with
Guatamala.
Costa Rica refrained from sign
ing the convention and began with
certain restriction*, free trade be
tween the signatory powers.
The Aiherican delegation joined
the other five in signing only one
of the conventions, that estab
lishing interntaUmal commissions
of inquiry afnd a protocol declar
ing the full sympathy of the United
States with the convention ^ntfcred
into by the other five governments
for the establishment of an Inter
national American tribunal, and its
willingness .to. designate 15 Ameri
can cltisns fof service qn the tri
bunals to be created in accordance
with its terms.
Other conventions signed by the
five delegations dealt with the un.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — The
submarine R-fi. known among sail
orsof the battle fleet as the “Hoo
doo” ship, was exoected to reach
San Pedro, Cal./ Wednesday from
Mare Island, near San Francisco,
whence she starfed Tuesday. Fear
for the safety of the craft, express
ed Tuesday night at the Los An
geles harbor base, was due to a
misapprehension that she left
Mare island last Thursday and
was long overdue.
The fc-6, it was explained at
Mare Island, was delayed by an
accident to her propeller. The
R-6 sank in the Los Angeles har
bor September 26, 1921* with the
loss of two lives. Since that time
she has undergone numerous re
pairs.
Ship Is Disabled
By Heavy Gales
MARSEILLES — The American
freighter Winnebago reported by
ceaseless negotiations in an ef- ?“ n< ? red f of acres ot land when
fort to establish peace in the Near ,ns titut!on was established as
East and restore Turkey to “tha . ® state college In the world,
committee of Nation**’/The money .voted by the people
of this county is now in the bank
and work on the John Milledge
dormitory will begin as soon as the
grading for the building and the
arranging of the landscape in con
formity with the Leverett plan gets
under way.
NO APPROPRIATION
IN OVER 20 YEARS
Candler Hall was the last dormi
tory built on the campusi with mon
ey appropriated by the legislature
and this building was erected over
twenty years ago, when Allen D.
Candler was governor and it Is
WAGEBATTLE
AS ‘PROHf
MEN RAID
STILL
PARIS — (By the Associated
Press) — Even tenacous optimists
admitted Wednesday that the pros
nects of signing the Lausanne
treaty between the powers and the
Turks apneared to have receded
into the distant future.
Ismet Pasha, it seems, had an- - ... —
other change of mind almost be. Mat thet state will realize that
fore the train bearing the French s . ince University has grown
delegation homeward from Lau- " *" *
sanee was out of sight, abandon-
ing the conciliatory attitude which
so impressed M. Bompard. This
further manifestation of Turkey'
facial changes of front have had
an exaggerating effect on Lord
Curzon the British foreign secre
tary and even on friends of Tur-
kev in France.
Therefore, when the British gov
ernment declared that Ismet must
put into writing the text of the
calusen on which he and the Allies
were in agreement together with
a detailed plan concerning those
to be reserved for annexed con
ventions further asserting that the
economic questions ought to be
settled at once.
Premier Poincare has tended to
indorse this view point and com
municated it to Ismet.
HE GIVES SHORT
VERBAL MESSAGE
five delegations dealt wun we un- wlrele«« Wednesday that she had
location of Protective J«™s for, been disabled by terrible gales
workmen, and laborers. tn» prac- ■
tice of the Liberal professions, the
preparation of projects of electo
rate legislation, establishment of
stations for agricultural experi
ments and animal industries, re
ciprocal exchange of central Amer
ican students, extradition, estab
lishment of permanent central
American commissions, and limlta-
tJftUuOfc am*3,mejHs. h maw *7.
, Tht. treaty-iotePesce and amity
signed by. : the. five, power® contains
the provisions of the similar treaty
negotiated bore in 1907 which have
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by terrible gales
while In a position between the
South Coast of Ireland and Ush-
ant. The vessel requested Imme
diate assistance.
The distress calls of the steam
er Winnebago -were relayed Tues
day night to Eastern seaboard , of
the United 'States by other ships
o»’itheq Atlantic. The freighter, is
awnedxby the American transports
tihn fcompdny. and has been used
by the American relief administra
tion for carrying food supplies to
Russia.
since that time from-an enrollment
of less than 400 to over 1400. such
a dormitory is badly needed to
take care of this Increase in at
tendance.
The woman’s building was not.
erected out of funds appropriated )
by the state.
WASHINGTON — One man was
in a hospital here with a bullet
wound. In his head, and his two
score of companions, alleged boot
leggers, were still at large and uni
dentifled Wednesday following
their three hour gun battle with
15 prohibition enforcement agents
in Prince Georges county, near
Walnut, Md., late Tuesday.
The wounded r man refused to
give his name tiefore lapsing into
unconsciousness. 1 In the seizure
of three stills, one of 1,000 gallons
capacity and a great quantity of
corn whiskey after the defendants
had taken to the woods when their
ammunition gave out, the authori
ties say they have shut off one
of the chief sources of Washing
ton’s * bootlegger • liquor supply.
The raids were conducted by Wash
ington officers under the direction
of Lieut O. T. Davis.
When the enforcement agents,
armed with riot guns and 45 cali
bre revolvers arrived and seperat-
ed into two groups to make the i
raid lookouts were said: to have
given the alarm at which more
than a score or more left the stills
and began firing. They then back
ed off, it wps said to meet on a
line of defense which they held
for more than an hour. Breaking
from there the fighting then waged
over a mile of opea fields and wood
ed ravines for two hours or more,
during which the bootlegger force
almost doubled by reinforce
ments, before its members escap
ed into the woods. The wounded
man is believed by the officers to
have been struck by a bullet from
one of his own men.
Female Friends ■-
Now Only $10.00
NEW YORK.—Strange men in
New York who dislike to attend
the theatre and dinner alone may
now obtain desirable companions
from an agency just opened. The
fee is ten dollars.
Advertisements state: “If you
are a stranger, if you enjoy good
company, if you wish to spend a
pleasureable evening, we will in
troduce you to a young lady of
intelligence, 1 good to look upon,
with a pleasing personality, who
will be a jolly dinner and theatre
companion. In calling us state
preferences as to types and spec
ify desired accomplishment.’ This
is an invitation to only the well
bred man seeking a clean even
ing’s entertainment.”
The agency which reports a
good business says it requires the
strictest social references from its
young ladies. They must sign a
contract, agreeing among other
things, to abstain from liquor and
refuse to allow their clients to
escort them home.
One newspaper sent a reporter
to the agency posing as an out of
town merchant. The reporter’s
story Wednesday indicated he had
found that the agency’s represen
tations were correct.
2 MORE
PLACES
It Is also believed by those in
terested in the erection of tbe
memorial dormitory that the state
will want to have a part in the
building of this memorial, since it
cannot feel less grateful to the
donor of the land than is Clarke
county. The money voted here ^ or , mo< ' 1 L lc atl° n _ °f the debt
will only erect a small building, |' unt ‘"JK laa [ permit final ap-
one wing of what ie contemplated i pro J a J, of tl ' a * UPt, ! nB agreement
and If the amount to be requested !~ ec . an . y negotiated with Great
is granted a memorial buildine was Announced at the
Mr. Kontx Was Indicted on four
counts. The first charged mur
der of one of the workers named
Hunter; the second murder in
showing a reckless disregard for
human life; third murder in vio
lation of the state law prohibiting
, a 8 P«d of more than thirty miles
WASHIN G T 0 N. — Persident j *,'‘ m ‘ lar , ch "? e f v*>' at 'on of
Harding decided at the last min- ^ore th.n »e apeedl "«=
ute Wednesday to present to con- more than
gress in person his message ask- f
FOR MURDER, HE
FACES $90,000 SUIT
ATLANTA, Ga..—Jack Kontz.
son of Judge E. C. Ko n tz, who
several days ago caused the death
of two workmen of the Georgia
Railway and Power company when
he crashed Into them while they
were welding the car tracks on
Peachtree street, was Tuesday In
dicted by the Fulton county grand
jury for murder.
It is claimed by Kontz and his
father that the incident was pure
ly accidental.
BS9EN—(By the Associated
Press)—The German information
bureau announces that the French
hav?a occupied Lennup, a Rhenish
textile city, as well as Krebsoego
and Berglschborn. two smaller
towns near by.
The extension of the French oc
cupation to the Wupper valley -was
accomplished by about 900 soldlfers
the Germans assert. The French
traveled in lorries, starting Tues
day noon from the British occu
pied area.
The population had been expect
ing the -French for several days,
it appears, and 90 far as the Ger
man reports indicate there was no
trouble of any kind. However, the
actual arrival of the troops caused
considerable excitement despite
the fact .the local authorities an
nounced last .week that the occu
pation was quite likely to take
place within a few days. The pop
ulation of the Wuppier valley num
bers about 500,000. Most of tho
workers are employed in the tex
tile industries. 4
According to* the saipe source,
the French advance is apparently
part. of. an encircling movement
which will include the occupation
of Elberfeld an Barmen, both of
which are textile centers. L6nnep,
a city of 15,000 p«rson» is 28 miles
southeast' of Dusseldorf. Iron and
steel goods are also manufactured
there.
BRITAIN MAY BE DRAWN
INTO RUfiR AFFAIR
LONDON.—(By the Associated
Press.)—There are signs of a re-
awakening of the anxiety recently
felt here when it seemed likely
that arrests in the British Rhine
land zone would involve Great.*
Britain in the Franco-German dis
pute.
The present uneasiness is .dne
to the possibility of a strike in the
German railway workers in tho
Cologne area, which it is feared
will follow an attempt by the
French to move coal trains from
Damage suits to the •ext'ent of the Ruhr; into- France across that
$90,000 have also been filed by the territory. There is already a
families^ of the deceased men. (strike on part of the roads admin
istered by the Cologne director
ate bnt hitherto only lines within
the French and Belgian zones
have been affected.'
France, it is understood, has
made inquiries here as to tha \
British government’s attitude in
the event the strike is extended
to the whole-area, and Great Bri-
The latter, however, put nothing
in writing. Instead he gave a ver
bal message to Count Massigli.
secretary-general of the confer
ence for transmission to the pow
ers which appeared Wednesday to
have created an entirely new situa
tlon. Ismet declared that Turkey
was 8till ready to sign eighty per
cent of the treaty clauses but ask
ed postponement of the final enact
ment of the others, including those
covering. the economic and finan-
cial questions. Ismet expressed L l ne .S™ 101 ”* commutee nope to
the desire to consult xvith^ A^gom. ? ove «o?»trurflon of
He said the Mudania armistice ^ mo“£ ttc
the Mudania
would continue inasmuch as the
memorial building
with two wings and a main front
will be erected to accommodate
150 students.
Georgia alumni and friends have
subscribed over a million dollars
for the expansion of the Univer
sity and the state is expected to
do her share towards taking care
of the natural growth of the instltu
tion. It has been pointed out
what North Carolina is doing for
her University and it is believed
that Georgia will not fall so far
behind that accommodations that
sufficed twenty years ago will not
be enlarged.
The building committee’hope to
negotiations at Lausanne had not
officially collapsed, and expressed
his readiness to resume the discus
sions at the suggestions of the
Allies. .
Th^ position ol the Turkish dele
gation was summarized here as
follows:
‘The whole treaty should bb
subjected to fresh examination;
all questions unsettled at noon
last Sunday or just previous to the
break, should receive further con
sideration; the economic clauses
should be seperated from the
treaty;It is not for the Turks to
define the conditions under which
the^ might sign the treaty, bnt
rather for the Allies to do so.
meanwhile, the Turks wait for the
powers to take the initiative.
. \
e - epidemic
STURGEON BAY, WIs. — All
schools and' public, places have
® losed her® due to an attack
of influenza.
time the legislature meets anyway,
so If the money is appropriated
the entire project can be construct
ed at once.
$100,000 Damage
In Memphis Fire
White House that he would ap
pear at a joint session of the sen
ate and house at one o’clock.
In addition to asking for amend
ment of the funding law, the
president was said to have decid
ed to make another request in his
message that the administration
shirking bill be brought to a vote
in the senate before the present
congress goes out of existence on
March 4.
APPEALS FOR
SHIPPING BILL;
Congressional approval of the
war debt funding agreement nego
tiated with Great Britain was re-
audeted by President Harding
Wednesday as “a committment of
the English speaking world to the
validity of the contract”
Coupled with this approval the
president - added in ah address at
1 joint session of the senate and
house; congress should enact into
law the administration ship bill
because, “it is as Important to
avoid losses as it Is to secure
funds on debts.”
Ample time for action oq both
a I these measures. It was declared
^ ers by Mr * Harding, remains before
MEMPHIS, Tenn-—Fire of , un
known origin discovert ;1
building occupied by the
Paper company and the southern | the present congress goes out of
Wa,v, ‘ %T “ 4 w * L * 0 existence on March 4, and either.
Edible Nut company here about
o’clock Wedpesday morning, caus
ed a loss which was estimated at
approximately $100,000.
Only slight damage was suffer
ed by Stedge and Norfelt. cotton
firm In an adjoining building.
SHIP B(LL WOULD
“T. B.” SOCIETY MEETS
The tuberculosis .society will
meet Thursday morning at 11
o’clock in the Chamber of Com
merce rooms. Important * matters
will be taken up.
he said, was fit to be recorded as
a chapter of great achievement.
The president made no specific
recommendation as to the form
the action of congress bn the
Rritfsh debt should take, leaving
It to the leaders in congress tp de
cide what method should he adopt
ed to amend the present law! so as
to permit consummation of the
agreement recently reached by the
American and British debt com
missions.
WASHINGTON — The farmer
more than any other group in
terest in the country will benefit
by the Immediate passage of the
shipping bill now pending In con
gress, Senator Jones, of Washing
ton who hps charge of the bill in
the senate, declared in address
here Wednesday before the conven
tion of the National Merchant Ma
rine association.
Emphasizing the dependence of
the American fanner on foreign
markets. Senator Jones declared
that if “foreign ships alone are
available to take his crops the
farmer must' await with pleasure
or conscience and he must pay
such freight rates as they see fit
to charge.” the shipping bill he
said by “equalizing the difference
In c6et” of American and foreign
ship operation, would mean* for
the farmer American transporta
tion instead of foreign transporta
tion.
“The high shipping rates which
the people had to pay before Ameri
can ships were bullf’senator Jones
said “went largely to alien ships
owned or controlled by great
trusts over which we had no con
trol. If we had built a merchant
Marine, our farmer and business
men would have been saved hun
dreds of millions of loddars that
went into the coffers of these for
eign ship owners and would have
saved hundreds of millions ol tax
burden.
“We want a ^erohant- mariner.
The farmer, the biiBine^s man and
the laborer agree to *this;’tattdnthe
measure we urge ' is a concrete
proposal to establish what we all
want.”
tain is said to have replied that
that point would receive consider
ation. ,
Meanwhile the French advance
into Hesse and Baden is regardde
here as likely to lead sooner
later to the British garrison at
Cologne and a recurrence in some
quarters of the demand for the
withdrawal of the troops.
J NEWARK N. J.r-An organiza
tion of Newark bootleggers is re
ported engaged in a frantic search
for a “strong-arm” who “doubled
crossed” them by disappearing
with a ship load of whiskey from
the Bahamas in which they planned
to realize a profit of $250,000.
About three months ago, 7 group
of pan organized a pool to bring si
great shipment from the Bahamas
to Newark. j.In order fo insure i>r® ;
tection it is said, it was decided to
.let-two Jif^the “strong arms’ in on
I the deal and on© was detailed to
accompany.the shipments from tho
Bahamas to Newark.
Two hundred and thirty thous
and dollars was contributed by the
men in pool and a committe was
delegated to go to the Bahama Is
lands, buy ,the liquor and charter a
ship to bring it to New Jersey.
When the ship neared Sandy
Hook the vessel left in charge of
the “strongarm” while arrange
ments were made ashore for tlio
receipt! of the liquor. Messengers
sent tc instruct the captain how
to get the vessel Into the Newark
“aVifafind It gone. Several days
motor boats erdisod about- search
ing* for'it but to no avail. At last
a report reached the partners that
fhe ship had docked in a Penn
sylvania port and unloaddc hei
cargo.