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m Athens Cotton; MIDDLING 28c PREVIOUS CLOSE ....... 2SC HEATHER R .l am,ep " ,th , Dally and Sunday—10 Cents a Week. The One Paper In Host Homes—The Only Paper In Many Homes. The HO ME NEWSPAPER • -'? VOL. 11. No. 124 Full Associated Press Leased Wire. Service. ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 192S. Single Copies 2 Cents Daily. 6 Cents Sunday. smhmmw ALLIES TELL VESSELS NOT TO MOVE :noX—A report that the now demand the wlthdraw- Allied warships from Ismid . t'tdved hero Friday from mtinople. The entrances to and Smyrna harbors are <> have been mixed. Ismid. .1 at the head of the Gulf of is r.G miles east of Coneslan- “Friendships” Not to Be Spoiled By Two Suits. LOS (ANGELES. Cal. — The suit of George Edwin Joseph, New York attorney for $36,000 he al leges is due him from Pauline Frederick, -actress, for ’getting her professional engagements and her counter ault for $46,467, were ex pected to be concluded Friday. On cross a examination Thursday Joseph went over his entire pro fessional bill against Miss Fred erick and denied that one item of $15,000 was added to aid her in re~ ducing her income tax. He also declared be and Miss Frederick had agreed not to permit the Vaults to spoil our great big friendship." lin-ipli*. British and French Naval <tafts now at Smyrna have been instructs to remain In the harbor, while the Allied commissioners h.ive demanded that the Angora Kou-rnmcnt countermand its order fur the departure of the ships. S. FLEETHEADY SUITABLE QUARTERS FORGOVERIH ACTIVITIES CHARTER IS Five Murders ISSUED TO MONROE’S KIWANIS Negro Admits Acts and Is Under Guard. LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Nine tln i lnoughts were steaming south ward Friday in Mexican waters to join the submarine destroyer and train forces which left here ea-.lier in the week for spring bat- tl«’ practice. The meeting will t:ik«* place off Magdalena Bay next Monday tnd the combined forces will (cmtitute the United States battle fle-»t. As the dreadnoughts, the Cali fornia, New York, Oklahoma, Ari zona. Pennsylvania,. Mississippi, X**w Mexico, Tennessee and Idaho sailed out of Los Angeles harbor yesterday crowds lined the water- WASHINGTON (By the Asso ciated Press)—Estimates to pro vide suitable quarters for the housing of government activities Walter B. Hodgson, Coke Tal- madge, Frank Lawler, Pat Lamkin and Golden M. Knight attended the charter presentation meeting of the Kiwanis club in Monroe Thursday qightand upon return ing to Athens gave glowing ac counts of what they termed a great meeting. Over a hundred and twenty-five people were, present and the meet ing was held in the main *niug room of the Monroe hotel, one of the finest hoteleries of any city the size of Monroe in the state, delightful dinner was served. The wives and lady friends of the Kiwanians were in attendance. WACO, Tex. — Roy Mitchell, negro, Friday was closely guarded by county officers following his confession to Sheriff Stegall and county attorney C. S. Farmer last- night to five murders, in and about Waco within the past year. According to offices, jMitqhell confessed to the murdeVs^of.W. F. Driskell, cotton man. May 7, 1922; W. E. Holt, and Mrs. Ethel Dene- camp, January 19, 1923; Gray Skipworth, November 20, 1922 ang Harold Bolton, May 25, 1922. The negro under charges of muz der in these cases also confessed to the shooting and wounding of man and woman in an automobile in May 1922 and to two recent holdups. RESISTANCE IN RUHR IS MORE WANDA HAWLEY* who has filed suit for divorce, making sensational charges against her husband. IRELAND SEEN IN AMNESTY IL BRUSSELS—(By the Associated Press) — Active exploration of occupied Germany by France and Belgium is expected to be under way completely in a short time. Coal is already arriving by rail and water ia ^apite of the rail strike. The technical prelimi naries in connection with working the state forces have been finished and it is announced that Belgian firms will be invited to contract for the lumbering. Foreign con cerns, including American and Canadian companies, will later be charged with the same Delegations from Atlanta, Wash ington, Hartwell, Lawrence vill«.», Madison and other cities of north Georgia were in attendance and J a speaker from each of these: DUBLIN — (By the Associated places responded. Walter B. Hods (Press) — The proposal_for surreu-. son, one of thp most enthusiastic I der contained in Lf ^raB^Athens* club* rentals xww aggregate $2,500,000 i the local delegation (leading Irregulars cannot he con- SoffiT-tTS The house of rep^’The local club felt an esoecial I sldered. sava an official comrnunl- and otl Fro n the rendezevous off Magda l*n:t liay the battle fleet will pro- (••fil down the coast of Central America until it sights the scout* , ing fleet formerly the Atlantic fl-i t. under the command of ad miral H. C. Jones, which will at- t« nipt to block its progress toward * NOT KEEP PACE the (’anal zone. Submarines, destroyers, battle cruisers, bombing planes and all types of National fighting craft "ill participate in th$ spectacular manuevers. sentatives Friday in a joint letter by Secretary Mellon of the Treas ury and Postmaster General Work. “It would seem wise to map out a program covering a period of years" the cabinet officers stalled in their letters “whereby would be provided first in places where the congestion is greatest and where large sums are being paid for rented space in privately owned buildings- The acquisition of sites where n<Jt already owned by the government making of surveys, preparation of plans, etc, will re quire considerable time therefore, it would not be necessary to ap propriate a latge initial amount to commence the work of relief if the authorizations should be made. The local club felt an especial sidered, says an official corarauni pride in the Monroe club because * que issued Friday by the republi- it helped to sponsor and mature can headquarters staff on behalf it to a reality. Jack L. Patterson*of the republican government and’ of the Atlanta Journal and Brew- its army council, erton, the cartoonist of the Jour' GOVERNMENT, DID WILL MAKE ATTACK ON PANAMA CANAL When the last “shot" has-heei find" and one or the other of the epi-wing forces has been “sunk, raptured or repulsed,” the two n.vts will toss their temporary antagonism overboard and will proi-eed together to tne .i?anama where they will make a joint "attack” on the canal zone fortifications: * in the offensive against the <nnal. the 14 inch guns of the snix rdreadnoughts will be pitted against the 16 inch guns of the L'nd batteries. The outcome of !l '' shan: attack is expected to de monstrate the truth or unsound- n -ss of a number of theories held hv the naval experts as to the vulporability of the canal cone. While nal, were in attendance and N .L. Hutchins represented Lawrence- ville, Harry McWhorter, Madison, A. S. Skelton, Hartwell and R. C. Norman Washington. A. B. Mobley was toastmaster and addresses were made by Rev. W. S. Robiscn, who welcomed the visitors, P. S. Twitty, Lt Govern or of the Southern district,. pre sented the charter in the absence of Governor Oliver. 'E. M. Williams president of the club accepted it. Governor elect Clifford Walker spoke on ‘‘Why Kiwanis for Mon roe” and C. W. Reid spoke on the ladies. »Mr. and Mrs. Mason Wil liams sang while other musical features were enjoyed. Because of the failure of the government to. keep pace with its building needs in the larger cities, the post office department should be forced in many Instances to en ter into agreements yor leased quar ters buildings to be especially con structed for the purpose* The rent paid in such 'cases is frequently at a rate to absorb the original costs during the term of the.lease, leav ing the government at the expira tion of the leases with no equity In the buildings . Furthermore, the buildings so leased by the depart ment do not provide space for oth er activities, its appropriations not being available for providing such additional accomodations: Space for this purpose however could be provided or extensions to buildings, constructed by the government. In some cities congestion in the Fed" eral buildings is bad. and Is in creasing at a rate which will re sult in a few years in <he rental of space unless the government provides additional housing ser vice.” ■ '* " r :-i The government o«w is paying - at the canal ' tone Jhe . t throughout the country to- v,cht Mississippi, m which $20,830,000 for housing the 1-0,1 ,h «‘ Naval gunnery trophy last ' ; r by scoring eleven hits ont of : Hints at 10.000 yards in twelve ‘ ° n 'is. will sink the old battle- *“!• Iowa in long range' target Equipped with radio con ro,s " the crewless Iowa wfH b® iont into action and maneuvered ,n,1,, r fire by wireless until she ro,-s to the bottom, full upeea 1,0 ;ul with colors flying. NEW TPAFFIC RULES '’oi-FMBUS. Ga. — A revised traffic ordinance for Columbns vil1 ’ e drawn by the legal aid de partment of Columbus Motor clul) following a request received by the Nation from the city com- DUBLIN.—-(By the Associated Press.)—Hopes for a reconciliation between the Irish Free State gov ernment and at least an impor tant part of the republican ele ment were brighter Friday in con sequence of the developments that led Richard Mulcahy r the minister of defense, to offer amnesty “to all in arms agr.inst the govern ment who will surrender their arms by February 13.” The minister’s proclamation was the result of Liam Deasy’s appeal to other republican leaders to lay down their arms, as he himself has consented to do. Deasy, De- Valera’s chief deputy, is one of fhe irregulars who have been sen tenced to death. A few days ago he signed an agreement for the surrender of arms and men and was then permitted to issue a com- The Monroe club is the newest >munication to several prominent HUNT BURIED MEN 51 Known Dead in B. C. Mine Horror; More Missing More Than 100 Are Believed Dead At Dawson CUMBERLAND, B. C.—Fifty- one coal miners lost their lives when fire damp exploded in the second level of Mine Jtfo. 4 of the Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir Limited)* twq milfes from here Thursday night, it Was estimated by mine .officials after 21 bodies had been brought to the surface Friday, j svork. DUSSELDORF (By the Asso ciated Press)—French soldier^! aided by tanks broke up a demnn- stration at Recklinhausen Thurs day held in protest against the expulsion of. the chief of police. Not a shot was fired. Generally speaking-,tho-Rahr aii-- uatlon remains unchanged. Ger man resistance is even more staunch than ever, while the French are endeavoring to organ ize transportation iby rail anil WANDAHAWLEYIB ifEKING DIVORCE, SENSATIONAL water. The French report that agents from Berlin are canvassing the Ruhr villages and towns ursine the workers to resist anil strike. The military authorities have de cided to arrest all members of the protection police who refuse to sa lute Frehch officers. Food is becoming scarcer and sugar is unobtainable here. The French plan to lift the duties from such foodstuffs as are now tax able. The railroad strike is still com plete throughout the entirs area occupied. Except or a few mili tary trains the Rhineland, Ruhr, Treves, Mayence, - Coblenz and Ludwighsaven oveds are at a com plete standstill; 400 car loads of coal are now in the yards outside Duisberg awaiting transportation to France. Three trains left yes terday. of the clubs in this section and pro {republicans, including De Valera/ Dll/CD nor anitatiou mises to be one of the livest It*{Austin Stack and Liam Lynch,- haa a mamhonhln nf nlimit flftv Aeirino thorn to tnlro n aimilnr 1 ® Ol/IVID Bbl • - LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Failure to provide, brutality > refusal to work, and dissipation of large sums of money she gave him, were four of the grounds upon* which Wanda Hawley, motion picture actress, asked a divorce from Al lan Buton Hawley, in action filed here Thursday. v Miss Hawley alleged she had to make her husband’s living; that he treated her with: contempt; called her a “brainless fool,” swore at her in the presence of others; criticized her personal appearance in public; abused and'injured her by dragging her from an automo bile and told her “it was none pf her business” when she asked him about reports that he waB enter taining men and other women v in their home. • She asked that their Hollywood home, valued at $12,000 be award ed her. Miss Hawley, whose true given name is Zelma, sailed for Europe from New York about two weeks ago. Her husband is said to be in New York. CUMBERLAND, B. C. — Shortly before daybreak Friday morning 28 miners were known to have perished in the Canadian coal col lieries on Vancouver Island near here, after the explosion of fire damp at 8 o'clock Thursday night and that many bodies had been brought out at 4:30 A. M. Little hope was held for the 20 or more others who remained entrapped. Physicians, nurses and all able bodied men in the community were rushed to the mine hut it was. found that air had been cut off from the part of the working in which the miners were entarp- ped. Thus lt was evident that the rescuers would work at great peril, as a deadly gas was believ ed to have permeated much of the mine. Most of the victims were white men, many leaving large families. Cumberland is on Vancouver Is land 120 miles northwest of Vic toria. The population is 1,200. Practically every one went to the miner -Many women,, wives and has a membership of about fifty and already a program of work has been mapped out that means much for Monroe and Walton coua ty. Monroe is a city of hut one faction and that faction is for Monroe and in such a field as this the club will function to its high est efficiency. The club is officered by E. M. Williams, president, John .T. Ay- cock, vice president, L. C. Radford, secretary and treasurer and H. M. Arnold district trustee. The directors are, In addition to the officers, H. B. Launius, W. P. Bell. R. E. Aycock, P. D. Briscoe, H7 C. Cox and J. T. Preston. asking them to take a similar 0f eXCCU "! The forces of occupation have Jus h t what wUM>eDe Valera’s !£ d ™ ore 3 “?f 3 >" °'^ an ‘ I ‘ nK „__u„i • ‘ the river traffic and now main- rC3 R?" 3e “_ the appeal » unknown. __ “Tolerance” apuiisc lu uic appeal is uhwiuwu. . , *r j__ ~ ed three train loads of coal con- don Thursday night on a visit re- „„„ , h „ ported to have considerable politi cal significance. WAR OF EXTERMINATION SAID TO BE FUTILE Macon Man tailing $20,830,000 activities of the post office and treasury departments principally although the veterans bureau and other government departments are occupying rented departments. The Increase in government busi ness In various cities makes;, K necessary tor -more space to con duct that business. The govern ment activities 10 the larger cities showing expansion are the rareel post, rural carrier system, collec tion of direct taxes, enforcement of prohibition and direction of tne Veterans bureau. Elected President of the Sheet Metal Workers. J. W. BLOUNT VISITOR j. W- Blount, assistant general passenger agent of the ^enV-al.of ssl,m - according to an annoy* ^Sm'dty^as'aguertof j. Y. Bruce ATLANTA, Ga.—B fe. VanHou- ten of Macon,, is the president of the Georgia Association of Sheet Metal, makers elected at the organ ization meeting here Thursday. Ojtb.er. officers are J. J. Maier, of Atlania, vice president; S. H. Mon- . $rief, Atlanta, secretary and E. ( C. Pacettl • of»Savannah, treasurer. HONOR. LINCOLN NEW YORK—Ten men who cast their first votes for Abraham Lin coln for president met Thursday at a luncheon party in honor of Lincoln’s memory. Warren Crane, host of the unique gather ing, said he traveled from mmols to New York at a Coj^t of $100 to cast his ballot. signed to Switzerland to cross the Ruhr frontier at Bracken. An other train destined for Holland was cle&red from Friedericksfield. Doctor Ober, the Burgomaster of s The Freemans Journal says thati Duisberg, has been arrested and six hundred prisoners at Limerick have also asked “for the opportu nity to press on their leaders the futility of a war of extermina tion.” ✓ “They do not want Ireland to bo turned into ‘ashes and blood’ to use their own. words,” the news paper says. It describes the new developments as a genuine* effort for peace, Liam Deasy has asked for time to attempt something “for the future of Ireland.” ‘If ,Liam Deasy agreed to fight against the Irish people’s will and desirds that they should now cease, .we may rest assured that it is because he t as a soldier has taken the measure of the hopeless ness of the situation. His peace overture is v *ta act of genuine moral courage.” The article concludes as- fol lows: ‘Nobody will any longer have doubt as to where the responsibil ity rests for the continuance of the struggle. Moreover, the gov ernment will be given a perfect free hand. They cannot again be indicated for measures necessary to put an end to the suicidal war. The man responsible for the war himself invoked it by.the horrid word 'extermination.' ” / jailed by the Belgian authorities. He was expelled last week but returned to assume his duties. The French threaten to place ap embargo on the export of manufac tured articles, steel and iron. They also .threaten to forbid the import ation of iron except from Lorraine. The German industrialists asert that their plants will be forced to shut down ,v within a week if im Ports or Iron ore are cut off. The miners now are receiving, from 12,500 to 15,000 marks a day with a : bonus of 520 marks foi wife and each child. The steel workers wage scale is 1,200 marks an hour wetn into effect yester day retroactive to February i.‘ Magazine Against K. K. K. Is Suspended. CHICAGO — Publication ol Tol erance. a magazine opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, will be suspended pending final disposition ot fac tional differences between its pub lishers it was announced Friday. Libel suits tor damages aggre gating $150,000 are pending against the magazine, one of them, filed by William Wrlgley, Jr., who charged he was designated as a member of the Klan by an article made public by- Tolerance. nlattvea stood at the' mine en trance all nigbt some tearful, otb ers tensely calm. f . DAWSON, N. M.—Bodies of two of the more than 100 miners believed to have been killed in ex plosion of mips number one, of the Phelps-Dodge corporation here had been recovered and search for the others would not be reached until later in the day. When the rescue crews entered the mine they encountered fumes which. seemed to penneat the property and as a result little hope is . entertained that any of the en tombed men will be found alive. „ . As soon as the entrance,' which . had been blocked by the explosion could • be cleared, exploration of the. mine was begun under the di rection of the manager and gener al superintendent. The first-men reached were the motorman and nipper, who were only- a short dis tance inside the mine. Both were dead. One of them was identified as Autpineke Kiriakos. As ' ventilation was restored by construction of temporary stop pings on cross cuts, the rescuers • proceeded into the mine. They . encountered siderable numerous: falls and considerable debris. At . midnight the rescuers had gone approximately a mile under ground but they had not reached the actual working places of the The rescue car of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was due to arrive, here early this morning n'aalef U.' *2 Parents’ Blessing On Morgan - Vanderbilt Wedding Sought. to assist the rescue organization maintained by the Phelps-Dodge corporation here. A large number of people have been congregated as near tha mine entrance as they could get ever since the explosion but there has been no disorder. One hundred and forty-one miners entered the mine Thursday but 19 of them had checked out before the explosion occurred, so that 122 men were in the mine when the accident occurred. The mine was what is common ly termed in this district a "non- unfiPniis” nna* nnrl urn a pvfnnoitmli. NEW YORK — Seeking paren tal blessings on her marriage to Reinald C. Vanderbilt on Febru ary 17, Miss Gloria Morgan has cabled her father, Harry Hays Morgan, American consulate gen eral at Brussels that'she and Mr. Vanderbilt are engaged. She told her father and brother in the mes sage that she and Mr. Vanderbilt hoped to sail on the S. S. Majes tic on {March 8 to join them in Brus sels. Mr. Vanderbilt Is 43 years old. He is the son of Mrs. Vanderbilt and the late Connelius Vanderbilt and came into an estate of $8,000,- 000 when he became of age in 1901 He was married In 1903 to Miss Cathleen Gebhardt Nelson, who di vorced him sixteen years later, al leging desertion. SRie is now the wife of Sidney J. GOldford, Jr. contFnued in* onerotinn* V1 Tha I, «fo T ;^ The. daughter Cathleeu was given ^"of “ttaTSSSj"*^“ed gaseous" one" and was extensively equipped with a sprinkling sys tem. The fire bosses who exam ine the mine on the night pre ceding did not report any unusual conditions in the property. ; The cause of the explosion has not been determined. 'The ventilating can was so lo cated and installed that i^was not damaged by the explosion and to the mother. Mr. Vanderbilt a noted sports man and golo player, inherited also $5,000,000 by tbe will of his brother, the late^ Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who was lost with the Lusitania. , Nei.her Mr. Vanderbilt nor Miss Morgan would give any lnforma- Imtiation Picture Actress Is to Wed Soon Comniandery of KnigH Templars Has New Class* The Godfrey de Bouillon com- mandery of Knights Templars be gan at two-thirty- Friday after noon the initiation of one of the largest classes In its history. The work, will progress unUl supper when tbe local members and the initiates win attend a dinner and then resume the work. An invitation bas been extended to all Sir Kntghts ln the city to attend this meeting, either after noon or night HOP OFF DELAYED DAYTON, O.—Owing to a heavy LOS ANGELES, Cal.;—Coleen . wind which necessitated tbe mov- Moore, picture actress, confirmed ing of the T-2 to the other end of reports that 'she was engaged to ( the field Lteuts. Macready and marry John McCormick, western ( Kt 'ly were ' delayed In their hop representative of a' film dlstribu* t ofl Friday morning. They expect tfon company according to the Los . to be ready for the start In n Angeles Times. i short time, probably eight o’clock, tendance. Uon regarding their wedding plans Isociated Press at 4 o’clock Friday — 'morning said: 'explosion, very little hope is en- For Dead California gressman. {alive.” LOS ANGELES CaL — Masonic »hysT^RICAL° ME toners; services e™ be held Mon- The explosion was cf such fo-ce that it toppled cement walls Which formed the exterior of the edtrer.ee Zenas Osborne, congressman from the tenth California district who died at his home here Thursday after a lingering Illness.. Expectations were that Gov. F. W. Richardson soon would issue a call for a special election to choose a successor to Captain Os borne, who was re-elected last No vember to a full two year .terzii, beginning March 4. TO HOLD MEETING The Classic City Council, TJ. T. C.. will hold a big meeting Satur day night In the rooms of the K. P. A class of twenty five will be Ini tiated into the secrets of the or der and an oyster supper will he enjoyed. The “sample case carriers” of this section are urged, to he In at- Yesterda Combi CIRCULATION OF THE BANNER-HERALD through the intake airway . which is the main haulage roaa and on reaching the surface, demolished the concrete portal. Subsequent ly the' haulage way caved in at Ttbe ‘ that point. The mine had a capac ity of about 600 tons a day. A statement by the Phelps- Dodge corporation here to the As- Masonic Funeral ! permeated the mine following the and hurled Urge Umbers fifty to 109 feet I The explosion was heard all over Dawson and the thud brought a group of anxious wives, mothers , and other relatives to the pithead. Th6 women, some hatless, despite the wintry winds, others lightly wrapped in shawls, some dry lipped and dry eyed, while others , were sobbing and hysterical, waited for some sign to Indicate whether their men folks would be brought from the mine. The, news quickly spread that the miners had small chance to escape alive. Early Friday morning the body ot A J. English was found almost completely buried in the debris. Further on the searchers expect to find his son Albert English, Jr. foreman of the mining shift.