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1 u- 1' Weather 16 Pc&es'rpn Fair Today and Thurs day; Warmer -. 3 J World, State and Local ? News Daily) lit I' ; p.-. FOUNDED A. D. 1867-YOL. CXNo. 78. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29,: 1922. OLDEST DAIIiY n THE gTATE ? till n n i H i! M if i . f n vi n h ;. n r n i ,iv 3nnr : CleMenc Sailed A Packed Auditorium in Chicago Hears the French Statesman in a Pathetic Appeal to America UNLESS HELP COMES FRANCE MAY DISAPPEAR Athens was a Democracy, he States, But She Disappeared; If France Disappears the Peo ple will Mis$ Something Which Brought Light to the World; He Tells of Germany's Prepar ations for Another War, Giv ing Figures as to-Guns Found Secreted by the Allied Com mission CHICAGO. Nov. 2S-(By Associated Press.) Standing- with outstretched arms before an audience that packed the auditorium, Georges CJemenceau t?day pleaded with America, to-save France from possible extinction, Fatiently seeking to explain away the charees of militarism and impe rialism brought against his. country. the old Tiger declared tnat Franee sought only peace, but that-war "was being forced upon her. ' If France does not get the help that she needs," he declared in emotion, she may perhaps disappear.. Athens was a democracy, rvery' great and very fine. But she disappeared. - And - if France were to disappear I believe that some i'ay the people" would begin to look around axid ask' if something had not disappeared that had brought light to the world." .'.'- 'i. , The aged premiera audienc .hng P his every word, tnUrrQptijig iin.tK ,o .live him back behind Joi Psjc Ing device whicKf would carry'nljs we4k voice througjj the bis house. He was interrupted by frequent-, outbursts of applause. - . Clemenceaa took for his -text the epi taph that he read last week on Grant's tomb in New York "Let us have peace." . ' "Since the world has been, he "con tinued, "it has always -been the .f edg ing in every man's 'heart 'that he j wanted peace.- But Generals Grant, when he uttered those famous woras. knew very well that before there could be peace there must be war. .. ... "It is a great pity that was-' Is so cruel; that it brings with it bloodshed and things we hardly dare think of now. Nevertheless that was really a beautiful and inspiring . timet when men were ready to Rive .their lives for a sreat cause, when they , were ready to die for a world a world -which-represented the finest and most exquisite part rf human- heart and thought. "Bui that is done. The -war is Jover. Peace ha3 arisen. It is .now. our. mis sion to reason with and convince: oth ers. We must approach autocratic power in some way or other and con vince that power that it should, get behind our cause. ' , r "Therefore, let opinions speak Iet reason with each other, discuss with ech other, even curse each other, if that be necessary, but step by step, thruusrh unerasing efforts, let us strive to achieve what moves the world truth, justice, liberty and . right. Assorting- France had been Continu ally called" militaristic and imperialis tic, the Tiger declared lie nad deter mined to give some official figures to show why France felt . that she must rraintrun a large army t least, until she could obtain guarantees of her safety from the United States and Great Britain. He repeated the figures he 'had pre viously given concerning France's war losses in killed and -wounded and In deastation of her homes, factories . r nd mines. ' Then he plunged Into the subject of srni? and munitions, which he declared bad been hidden awnv in Germany for thf next war. - . v- --v "1 have said, on very good authority and in this I have been criticised i-Ai almost every day in Germany we fin i inns, machine guns, guns of every rlescrj-.tion." he asserted.-"! - have 'rioted two or three authorities on that, ad I have been told that that ,vas a lie. I did not know I was lying, ' 'it if it Is necessary, I will-bring my irfrmants, all honorable gentlemen, to hoar witness, and we will then know who is speaking the truth. "I have written .this- dot?!,. . and I have the whole docume. ' printed. However, I want to read a few. lines to you. This is official; ' ' " a . One hundred and "fifty, cannon. the in5'; also 343 howitzers, enough to "i'iip one army corps, have been dis rr.vered by the allied commission In -rmany. That is one . fact that J quoted, and it was denied. Thirteen arge field guns were ttnfarthed Janu i5. 1D22, and 3,00vof the smaller fieri nieces have" been uncovered .and 'narked. . -. ' "Multiply that by 50 and you, have pomr idea of what hag. been fopnd ' In -rniany by the inter-allied commit fj' -n since July, 1921., The Germans rave bepn getting this large amount of rmament, don't you think, for the pur, 7f destroying us? It certainly, la for any peaceful operation. - ir-eir finances have been depleted 'r t'-ie purpose of destroying'us.They 'h,e not naid lis an A w ViaA - Vn ha pay our own obliffatione. Go -nrougrh the schools of .German v . and 'U will find that tVls-v 'arm t.onlno- 1al'"ed Of the Prnrh . n mm 'oois and colleges and-; universities not find -one man. who (Continued on Page Seven.) t . - - i i : ' . "" '' 'J'" i " j' i ' i i' i . , -. " ' . i. -.-!!, . ... .t U'l :i.:-i''-ix: .-i hA,,'h.hk-t eau Mbads to Be 3?rom ACTION OF FRANCE SHOULD BRUSSELS' REPARATIONS MEETING FAIL, UNCER TA IN PARIS, Not. 28. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Wat acUon Prance totenda o take with respect to -German reparations. In the event Brnssela ; conference falls . through, is. not of flclally disclosed, although details of the sapposed plan of the government are pub lished very folly by the Paris news papers. , T Two important meetings have been held, "one yesterday at JEIysee palace, at -which President Miler and presided, and those present in cluded Premter Polncare, Lonia Barthou, President of the. repara tions commission. Marshal Poch, various, cabinet ministers and ex perts, and the other, a full cabinet council today. ' An official communique issued after the cabinet council merely aaysi ."M. Polncare Informed the cabl ent about the meeting held yester ublicans to Rep Anti-LynchinM Face of Demipcra Ufe;ision is Reached -at Party ShaU Not .Pass WILL HOLD SENATE IN SESSION THANKSGIVING Under Leadership "of Harrison Filibuster Starts Immedia- , tely After Opening Prayer ; WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. Republican members of , the senate, after a four hour filibuster waged by; the Democrats and after threats from the Democratic side-of continued obstruction, voted In caucus tonight to continue-the fight in the Dyer anti-lynch'ing bill. A f further decision was reached by the. Republican senators to hold the senate in session on Thanksgiving day a- most "unusual occurrance if such, action was found necessary . to break Democratic opposition. .The- vote r on continuing the fight for the-Dyer bill, which . naa been passed y. the house,, was Understood to have leeri 24 to 15. . JThe Republican caucus brought a father ''. turbulant 7 day at the senate wing of the capitol for Democratic aenators acting in accord with a stand taken several days ago Jn party cau sus, showed immediately upon the con vening o the senate that they proposed to block the anti-lynching bill in every ( possible way, Led from the floor by Senator Harri- ; son of Misspi, the Democrats started; what they frankly conceded to.be .a; filibuster the minute the chaplain con eluded the morning prayer. The tactics included objections to the usual course of dispensing with the "reading of the journal, numerous quorum calls, and' presentation of amendments to yester- Lday's journal on which invariably aye and nay votes were demanded. Senate attaches characterized it as the "most scientifically conducted fili buster", carried on in the senate in years and as proof of this it was cited that only after signs of yielding had "been seen on the Republican slde .did t)re Democrats permit yesterday's jour nal to be approved. This process -usually consumes about 30 seconds, but today it required four hours and might have taken longer, for when the sen ate adjourned Senator. Harrison had ..n his desk a dozen or so amendments to the journal which he .had prepared to offer. .. " ' Not alone did the Democrats show by their tactics that they were Unaltera bly opposed to, consideration of the Dyer bill, but through - their leader, Senator Underwood, Alabama,- said so plainly. Senator Underwood, taking the floor" in the floor in the afternoon, , m i o m-ltir nn fi r that the Dem I Ola uijviij crats had determined to permit the transaction of no Dusmess, not even me confirmation of nominations, until the Republicans agreed to abandon the an-r ti-lynching measure which he, charac terized as "a'force bill pure and.slm- "We are not disguising what Js be- ' ing done on this side; of th chamber." j -,iA th Democratic leader. "We frank ly teli you" that we are endeavoring to prevent consideration or the Dyer till: If tbi ' bill becomes , a law, It ; will threaten the very .fabric of our gov ernment, x But it will never become a law-and you gentlemen. On the Repub lican side might, just as 'weU, admit it now and. give up the fight.;-- Paced with the threat ? and further notified of the de.termlnatIon v of the Deraperats who carried j their obstruc tion tactics into ,an executive session , - (Continued on Page Sevens ; v " Extinction day at Klysee palace, with regmrd to which the most inaccurate in formation has been published." The foreign office, taking cog nisance of these reports, has au thorised the Associated Presa to make the following, statement. " "The Information given in "the French newspapers this morning relative to the discussion at Klysee palace yesterday is very inexact. As , a matter of fact no decisions were taken in regard to what ac tion Prance would take if she fail ed to obtain satisfaction at Brus sels. "What actually took place at yes terday's meeting and at today's cabinet session was an exchange of views In preparation for the Brussels conference. There was no question of the cabinet n-rvlng its approval to the plan this morning, as reported." . The foreign office would disclose no details of the two meetings. Continue Fight -on Cape pear to Gro w Opinion is Expressed by Manson ai iock ana mm Jlearing ' w at Fayetteville (Special' to the Star FAYETTEViLIjr:, - Nov; ;2?.---Confi aepce mat a very heavy volume of freight business vroulcT be' handled on the Cape Fear river with a minimum depth of eight feet of water assured. was expressed by Capt. W., C. Mancon, manager of the New York-Wilmington- Fayetteville Steamboat company, at a hearlrig held here this afternoon be tore Capt. Oscar. O. Keunez, of the dis trlct engineers .office, for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of the need andr commercial practicability of a third lock and dam in the CaDe Fear Uain: Manson's statement was perhaps -ve moai signuicanr of. those made, by a number of organizations and individ uals vitally interested in . the success vi me move ror a tnira' lock.' Hie com pany now has a boat operating regu injr ueuveen ayettevllle ' and Wil mington, and the- manager declared mat me ousjness nandled by - the steamer nad been good from the be ginning and is increasing constantly A strong statement -of the -necessity iui- me new iock ana dam to be built aDout 15 miles below. Fayettevllle and of the benefits to be derived from the resulting eight foot stage of water was made by R.-M.-Horsburgh, secretary' of the Fayettevllle chamber of commerce, while papers along the same line were submitted by the shipping committee of the Wilmington chamber of com merce, the North Carolina Fisheries commission, the-port committee of the Wilmington Rotary club and the North Carolina Waterways association. urai statements of a similar trend were made by a number of leading business men of this cltv. of whom ?.bqut 75. attended the hearing. Marked nterest was manifested' by those, in at tendance, and there can be no doubt that the hearing fully accomplished the purpose of Captain Keuntz to pro vide an opportunity for a clear state ment of , the commercial Importance of the third lock, "for which congress has provided a preliminary survey. " A 8tenogranhic record of the pro ceedings, will be forwarded to Wash ington. ' Wilmington's delegation to the lock and dam hearing at Fayettevllle, con sisting of 'Capt. O. O. Keuntz, Capt. R. . C. Merritt. Louis - T, Moore, Capt. W. C. Mans on and M..M.' Riley, returned to the city at 8 o'clock .last night, en thusiastic over-the indorsement of the proposal at the Fayettevllle meeting. Brlefa were filed, by, the local cham ber of commerce, the waterways' com mittee 'of the "local Rotary club and the Fayettevllle chamber of commerce. ' Secretary Moore also read a letter from the North Carolina Deeper "Wa terways' association, ' heartily .'approV-. ing the plan..- ' . . ' s '. 4' , .VETE'aAivS, REPRESENTATIVES V. Ff Williams; head of the co-operative veterans'? bureau of eastern North Carolina, ? arrjlved yesterday,- -Laccam-panled by; Claude C-- Sloan, representa tive of the southeastern section of -th-j state.' VThey will be here for some, time in connection , with the work: of .their department, and will be, located. In the custom hquse- r . . ' ! : , '. . CHANGES INlolllPPINGfBILt E li More lah "4a Amendments : Of -fered jpuring the Day, Less Than a"I)ozeii Approved ADVOCATES JPREDICTi C03VIF0RTABLE MARGIN Republican Readers Believe Sub sidy. Measure Will go Through on Final ;;Yote Today WASHINGTpNov:; 28. Radical changes la ' several . provisions of the administration - shipping ' bill, - all of them. proposeaMy i Republicans,- were made today , byf?, the house r - as it ap proached. a; final vote on the measure. More than i two I score ' of amendments were of f ered out less than a . dozen were appro ve..tv'i'-i5 In quick succession amendments pro posed; by ..Democrats hostile to the legislation ."were rejected. Practically J a ,-ot mem f came ' from, four Demo cratic members "of the:merchant marine committee Representatives I Davis, ' ot TennesseerHardy and Briggs, of Texas, and Bankhead, of; Alabama; friends of the bill, encouraged hy their success in turning , back; , the Democratic attack, predicted they would have a cofott able margin onthe; passage vote, sche duled for not llater than 4 p. ; m. .to morrow, -''ifff "V 'j-.' --V . . . r i.': Among the". important changes made in the measure ".during the day was 'an amendment . bjr- Chairman : Madden, of the appropriations, committee,- making it necessary forcongresa each, year .to authorize payments from- the merchant marine t f und to. operators of r American ships- i;Jxvrti-?3i T't.ri -i At the suggestion; of Representative Edmonds, Pennsylvania,-ranking: Re publican on the-: merchant .marine com mittee, .the house decided not to make government aid available to industrial concerns suclv as Uhe r Standary v Oil eompapy if or ne .operation of . vessels carrying,their own -products.. The- bUV as -.mended.'' permits -- suclt i companies, however' toreceive::-aasistaco --foT transporting Virgoes ot other .shippers. As 1 expected., ipresentative . Bank- ter v any '- operator- whose ships carried liauoir.- .-TThe, supreme cburL r'it; was pointed, out. might Tdeelde that Ameri- can siilpa 'oufideth tVree. mile Unit-were- not' subject io tbev prohibition law, and .the Bankhead amendment was-i offered tomake' dpuply sure disbar ment of liquor from-American vessels.: Mr. "Edmonds- quickly offered. a .sub stitute, for : the - Bankhead '; admendment narrowing, .its scope - to, provide 5 that ships should not receive government aid for -voyages on . which .llqiior was carried. After brief discussion ths EdmOnds substitute was adopted,- 58 to si. -. : ; : r . " ------ There. was a general assault on the provisions of the bill relating to the powers of the shipping boards but they remained intact until one section, stipu lating that, the" general accounting of-, fice was not to review the board'sde termination of the amount of compen sation to. be-paid! .was eliminated,' at the suggestion .of- Representative Graham. Republican, Illinois, by a 52 to 46 vote. . Another amendment: approved, made sailing vessels of 500 - to. 1.000 gross tons eligible for Eovernment. . Mr. Madden's amendment providing an annual congressional check on the payments of .compensation was 50f- fered. ' ,- ' - - . - , ' after Mr."' 'Davis . lias" attempted .- o strike out the Provision creatihg a merchant marine fund from which'.pay ments. "would" be made. ' r - The Madden amendment retained the merchant marine 't nnd ; section In . th bill, v but required : that no payments were to oe 'maae- to -operate naving contracts with the government until congress- had authorized them. There was a difference or. opinion - among house members to fits probable" ef fect, although it was generally agreed that it did' away with a permanent apr Dropriatlon, afforded a check on r ex penditures and- probably .would remove on of the features -consiaerea oajec tionable by members wavering in their stand on the measure. - Representative McDuffie. Democrat. of Alabama, supported an amendment which he said; would prevent railroad owned steamship lines from competing with 'private owners through the Panama. - canal. Mr. McDuf fie read letters ' into the record -from ship own ers in Mobile and others,- ' -i House .measures- were appealed -to . d- President Gompers of the - American Federation olf Labor t n letters sent out during the day to defeat the bill. Ex pressing the opinion - that It would place -a ' tremendous- drain on tne treasury without effectively, rehabilita- tMitr tha American 'mercnant : marine. Mr. Gompers j declared that labor de- nounced tne .Dili. as av jrauu, v,u bery and wholly .indefensible." MADE IN THE HOUS BiircJifii Continued To Permit Further Investigation BRISTOI Vfc-Tenn.,5 Nov. 28. (By the Associated, Press). After a brief preliminary ? hearing. In which . wit nesses described the scene which met their eyea early Sunday, when raking among th 'smouldering ruins of . the Ben.Burchfl.eld : home herdw they found the charred bodies of .live person?, ."be lieved to have been murdered as they slept, Ben Burchneld, estranKCd hus band of! one. of. the : victims , and step father of another, was sent bacic to the Sullivan eounty.Tennessee. aii, iate today.'.to ,7awalt Invest'lf?11 rD.y' Jhe crand- lunr of ' the charges of ' iHnrder and f . arson Sthat f have been placed against him. ''X";',S' Burchfield'dld not tell his story, dur ing the , hearing today. The defense POLICE AND m PIT killed mm m WOUraiN BATTLE Clumh; ;ce Patrolman and ; Onvdit Wounded But Are Expected to Recover ONE OTHER BANDIT IS TAKEN PRISONER Only . One of Four Remains at Large and Posses are Scour ing Hills For Him COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 28. (By the As sociated Press.) From the recesses of a stolen automobile, four bandits ear ly this morning-shot, two Columbus policemen, killing one of them. Tonight, one of the four bandits had been shot-dead, two had been cantured following gun fights with police posses and one was still at large. The dead are: . Patrolman Granison P. Koehler. . A bandit known to his pals only as "Bill." The "wounded are: - Police' Corporal Roscoe O. Friddle, of the Columbus force. - James Martin,. 35, one of the bandits, Who attempted suicide when amout to be captured by a posse. "The' dead bandit was found in his gang's abandoned . automobile this morning near West Jefferson, 15 miles west of Columbus. He evidently had, been struck - by . bullets fired by Cor poral Friddle, as the police officer lay injured on a; side walk emptying two revolvers atthe bandits fleeing car. Two of the bandits, Martin ! and Ltoomize 'Cummins were captured this morning fallowing a gun fight in the woods near Lilly Cha'pel a bout 2( miles southwest of Columbus. . The fourth member of the gang, described by., Cummins : as being. Kdward Lewis,, a-notpriou's postoffice robber, was still at large, . Cummins told" police: that Lewis .was the member of the gang' who J had shot the two . policemen. V ; f IVWhen the posse of "VCbj&mbus . police of fice.fss closed .in on ' Martin he ; dra- maticaii . Scores of Columbus and Springfield JloII cemeii. and d eputized . c 1 1 ize ns were scotrf tng the woods J.pd illls sdutltwest of Columbus tonight for the -one miss ing bandit: "'Tp. ej ..Werr : neing aided by huge torcnes- and -searchlights manipu lated by members of the Columbus fire department, .v ;.-r-- The four bandits . started the battle with the officer's" this morning after they hacT been arrested at the request of Cleveland authorities for having stolen the car in which they were rid ing. They opened fire on the officers with a "gttn'-ta'ken from. - under the cushion of-the car while the police pa trol was being called. -- They sped away after killing Koehler . and Corporal Friddle, lying on the ground, fired a fusilade at them from two pistols he had taken from them. Three of the bandit's were seen late today to enter a farm house about three quarters ofa mile east of Lilly Chapel. The police were notified , and quickly surrounded the house, and opened fire. The gun fire was returned, and many shots-were exchanged. The bandits ran out of the back door -ofr the house and two j of them disappeared intb; the woods. . The third, Cummins,, fell, - injuring his knee and was captured. . Police, say . he made j a complete confession. . , -. .- In a confession -to authorities, Cum mins, is said to have declared that the men formerly were employed by a de-, tec.tiye . agency, as mine guards in the Pittsburgh mining district. They were en route from Cleveland to South In diana, he said, to rob a bank there. County Superintendents , of Schools in Session RALEIGH, Nov. 28. With Dr. E. C. Brooks, superintendent of public in struction, presiding, the superintend ents of county schools in many of the counties of the state - met' in the hall of the house of representatives tonight as a preliminary . to the thirty-ninth session of the Teachers assembly, which . convened . today. With the general subject-of- s school law. and needed revision set for their discus sion, the. superintendents tonight, de voted their .attention to the Question of the -powers, duties and responsibili ties of the cdunty boards of education The first business session of the as sembly will be- held tomorrow 'after noon at 5 o'clock when Secretary Jule B. Warren will make : his first annual report to the organization. " ; ( v offered no witnesses. Burchfield, how ever, made a; brief statement to news paper men, in which he declared that he 'had, nothing to do with It." ' J'l liked old man Smith and, consid ered him one of the.besj, frjepds JJiad,". urchfield ; aid. "" "I have no Idea who Cpuld have killed 'Mt.' Smith'. and the others," he added. ;'' c h..: jsoi . oiiiiiH, - Bon-in-iaw - or J. W. Smith, one the victims, told of the condition of the five-bodies when he ex amined them soort Vaf.ter.-the fire- Was extinguished. Collins declared that the skull : of each' of the 'five victims had v (Continued on Page TwoJ . - ; . i MatiniiiTT nnintaii m irniti'.f i hi. i r rnrnrjiK i run. v r.n.iiiiii I j PhyslcaArisv.sa,yVMartlit-orUd 1 will live. . - C ' :-i - : r'-Rliioty Action Follows tE&rnh S n -r-le : '-'. " -'I - i "C" 7-Ti -e-v- uj r ive jreetz y yimtsrejm Over PtvtestwfMBfflfish Minister Findley Notifies He is Leaving Athens; C ber of Financial Control Stays at Post. THE FIVE MINISTERS CONVICTED. Charged With Knowingly Concealing From the Danger Involved in the Return of King Constantine to the Throne; Endeavored to Consolidate Throne to Enjoy 4 Offices Under Him, it is Charged? : ( ATHENS, Nov. 28. (By the minister, F. C. Lindley, has notified the ureekf government that; :;rt Great Britain has broken off relations 'with-GreVce'-Wd''tnatVnei,:; leaving Athens tonight. j. xx. xjeuuiicit, xritisn niemoer oi tne tmancial control,; re-! - J mains here. - - ' W GRAND JURY MAKES HO INDICTMENT IN HALL-MILLS CASE Reasons Given ' by Foreman as "Sufficient and Controlling" For Non-Action ; ' j 3I AIN; RECTOR'S WH)pW PRESENT TOR TERPICT the Associated . Press,)-r-f'Qrr reaeonp ,whlcj .seemj?, t? M-Aafl(4AetndJ controlllngr, the grand jury.took -no action -fn ""'the i' Hall -Mills murder case and laid-thef matter' over. This does not mearilhecessarlly that the matter can not be. taken up again by "this or a subsequent grand jury.' ; I -With these. words-Foreman GIbbaoif. the Somerset country, grand jury, latej today made Known tne ract tnat no in dictment had i. been, returned In one of thfr most .mysterioua slayingsthatPhas faced the" country in many years." ' For five days special deputy Attor ney Generay Mott had been presenting evidence to bolster his theory . as to who killed Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and- his choir, singer, Mrs. 'Eleanor R. Mills -on the Phillips farm the night of September 14. Today a ; day . re plete with drama the prosecutor pre sented his star witnesses and' then, settled back to await the - jury's decision. , i Outside the jury room some one widow, who had - rushed ,to.i the court house this morning pearing before the' grand had not been granted ' . She -received the dec received all other ' developm case soticallyi. with scarcly a trace of emotion. A slight biting of i the lips a little tug at her handkerchlef.vthat was all that - showed the stress under which she must have been 4ahoring4 , She received here j first word of the jury's decision from a reporter. Corar ing out of the jury room, ne naa nan ed a piece of paper to ler lawyer, Timothy N.'Pfelffer, of New.Tork, who thrauehout the. day, had been seated In the court house with, Mrs, HaJL. and J her confident, Miss Sallie Peters. ; lie at once communicated the message to. his client. '" -;" Then, while Foreman Glbbs was is suing his formal statement, Mrs.5 Hall rose. Assisted by her attorney and friend, she passed from the .foyer-in which all day she had subjected" her self to the stares of the curious and made her way to her car. , . ; .: Mr: Mott, appointed to direct the . In vestigation because of criticism of the manner. In which: it had been handled In the early stages, pinned his hopes to ko ntnrv told him by Mrs.. ------ -i n son, the quaint cnaracxey w peared ' in the mystery 'drama under the caption of "the pig woman." : The. woman farmer whose 'story was that "she, had stumbled across the double 1 shooting while pursuing, on mule-back, thieves who had been rob bing her corn fields was the next to the last witness . called today. She was ushered Into the jury room, pass ing Mrs. Hall and her party.1 . ! But Mrs. Gibson was not the -Only witness on whom Mr. Mott counted. He called before the jury, a surprise, witness, Charles. Alpaughav- jitney driver, from : Spmerville. The - state maintained that his testimonyregard- ing a machine he had 'seen stanaing would serve to corrqborate the -ldentl ficatlon of Mrs. Gibson. c - , $ t , --. v Foreman - Gibb declined to- enlarge on his formal statement and, Mr, Mott ala . maintained, strict silence, , sq that some doubt remained in' the jninds .of jiewspaper men as to whether the Jury actually : had balloted, as reported, or had tacitly agreed not to consider the case'': further. " Hty-ff1 -Where do I stand? said Mr- Mott in reply , to persistent auestiontng.- i,It appears'to me as if I were In, some thing -of a state of -suspended 'anima tion. .-.' -v ; -ir. Attorney Pf.eiffe4 - representing Mrs. '. r-v (Continued on Page Two.) ; - ,juryand P?ZtotU? mmmm' Government arid 5 Say ia-'Oavji:vi EXECUTED OF HIGH TREASON 5 Hi Public Hhe11lil Associated Press.) he BritislSWi - '? "M'jfll : : :--L:'i::.:?mM ATHENS, - Nov, 28. The official an-) &hl .-1U -u nouncement issued: today .fter the ex-'"': ! eClltton nf tllA TVii-ntci - "crci. -. : l.-feWij .: "The r sentence of;; the .courtartfelf ;&J; '!! was delivered- this morning. Messr6s.f uuuiuiris, isatlHZZls, uneotOKlS, JrTOtO-i. : papadakis. StratOaJ andx General Had-iK i .i jahestis -were condmnedlo"; death ;aridivt i J were executed this -morning. it; -jV-'lr'i'lV wcie BeuienceQ :.tp ,penai, servuuae ror.;, life. The military ; defendants :ivppS - alsp ; sentenced, jtb? degradation, and-, tyejlij following fines, were? imlicted:: v;::";L.&vli Gounarls-20D,0.00'idraehmaB:-Strato 355.Q00 drachmas r.Proto&apadakis. S0Ow;k,'U. OOOBalfazzls, -y4,( t,Q00,m f) r Ooudasv2e0000drachm?." j -i ? :t trsv&a.j sweroeBt.py,.,, tne-,; court v 1 : martial, which condemned to death thr il V i ormejpf i jaalUlstersr iHnsti okhox'easoa'i il .kpowJnglyOnCealgaar frWt.tjbejQpi i!ti tae -aan rr-invoived . tax Kin : do hs tan-? K a t ne'artuiitoJjJhV althouglvjCreece was bl-eakih g '. Vawayi ''Mi frpWneraIifacs most'-; 'iof? - -conSoiidatfe Constantine' s ! ! "By" terroristic methods,' -tcthe state t, ment adds, "they stifled all public opin i .M- ion -"' contrary- tq';them,' arranged with i 1 :,; : General Hadjanestig ia pretendedi of- V ')' ' fensivei - agaihst;;? Gonstahtiriople i and hi hp: f ensive t and'-; tne'tUajse'f.'':tflie4 Greek H t "' 1 1 front in Asia Mihdir; thus'deliberately i1t'jl.:ii 1 aenvering ;a. large part or; tne army o i ,j ' it the'- enemy's hands vh": v4-;'i.i i $ M A"Tnev . tnererorer5were iconv.ieteo. 4n a i1 j i ll accordance with several ar articles -of the;:, of conspiring f-?it IV; i military and pftnal codes to commit high ttreason.' . LONDON, Nov.;28.A'dJlspatch to the J '- Dally,; Express from "riAthens i 'asserts ; luai nBiui e.siii5 j.vi r,jaxivi9.pi, utictui, t ir ;)f. the "fjrin "luadi3retieral;5Hadpanestis was - solemnly ;c degraded. :"Hi$ tmedajs and tJie insignia of i his. rank : we-re cut " to- all i the men; before thev werA. shot Their in.the hope of ;ap: :;"ZZZ2rl? Mi il-i- : access. ; v--u. i- kr.'-iiif'i.TAa.f i isiortas'she nTriymMmiA ents in the r"'- , jjeccurer sciemency for; the con km a ,i demncjrnen iup itoXthe last v,mbraenti:)5 &Ml Mpnday; evening w:henl already", w9-4HfiiiP!:i an: open secret that r sonie of the accused j . i men would-be sentenced:; to death. He, : aiso.,vistted;,therevoiutlonairy chiefs: M'f 5 ; Colonei:plastras aXMJlghtJ;v llv ;m. j ,;ri:iiAUSANNE;r:;NovA2?;(By lAssocik-fS'l fl rtedPjess.JTTheCRewsoo'tnhe exe6utlonl; ipjiS-:'f il -excitement amog ?.; the -- delegates ? to the -r-.'.iaasann9L'.-eonferen'Ce-!,tonight' i prmet rreraier v.enizeiQB, .01 ureece,1 dented-himself to?: the newspaper?'men.i'! ! The ' other . Greelti delegates tsald that; ';;'." ! ) - without jofflclai Information; they :were;; Ml uK uiuiDie. tOr ..say-wnethejr-the;; executions lr$j.ty$ $ wnuia -aae ny-,en:cct . on ine : position , ox.-;tne Greek deiegatioiu: ! . 'Thftlhewa reached -tnostXo JheVdele I d gates while ; they . were-' havin dinner i, and- cast;gJ6pm,:Qyerrthe:entlre; personal A nel of, the.conference;: s . v- .iltp-.-A-? ,l r The-various delegations had 'followed I v thjetrlar 6t the former wtnisfers;lth:i great " interest, :,Tne : relegates, tonight ); ; werej aimpst'HnanlmptttilnTexprissihg the .belie f ; -that : Greece had - commi tted r v i a greaf error In Inflicting thia: extreme y, penaity'in.wnat,vwas4 characterized -as; a''!dectdedlypoUtlct:.rJaUt::tet! rj Vi rTLiUCIIIlCU ' " - f t I OuKKuKWKlani!:!: - , -. ' "'5f -l . mm, -The, board of.) aldermenr.todsdpptedla ;esoiutlon i-J p i flnnroviTiff- ?f h f titanA - -tn Iron' IrArr ta vnt- 'AYml- iLA ' Enright to dflve rtheKu dEtltta K-iux " W9.a-4't 111:1 :.Av..i-?S--;r.l"V,f tf f I-". irom tne cityT.?;.::-rx"::4 tfvyKi.aftsftft -. xne resolution uescrinn th an . a :' i r 1 1 L ' : L : ' - '. . ----- : - -5 -I- 4 . ra menace- wnicn "has ? seourtfedrAthe"'S-!i.:j Vst--)-. uain ,na west 01 .jihb- country,;; naa at ; p 7$ I lastreacnea tne city of; New .York and .-."'- a. Is endeaydrlng-to work" havoc and dis--m n- i J ti: ' aster: in, eviT:mHU"''fH;; Other 1 terms applied to the klan lnS-.;-0jf 'Jii tne1 TmvimioiiByr&x9X.l-ji- "An : outlaw rirariizatlon'and a "nestof scavengers and profiteers.".. As - :; to the pffesentTlsltuation. the! resolutionty; -; tald that the klan'thrbughone ot' i Us c " s vv;i.itjr ucciareu r wits; jb- - -v tention otthatf organization: of: captur-ri. In s:the city.' I . -y . :---: .- 7 ( - p. - fi mm MM r I V? 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