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THE PAPER WITH A QUALITY PURCHASING POWER FOR THE ADVERTISER. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED WIRE THE FREE PRESS GIVES YOU THE BIG NEWSJ3EFORE ANY OTHER PAPER. VOLUME 19. ILL. THURSDAY JANUARY 12.

1922. GAR LIN! AS MUCH ASBIGFi Plans Being Completed for Pep Meeting at the Christian Church Next Tuesday Soon to Be Set'm Motion for Stock Sale. What They Think of the 'Interurban Mr. Huffman, of the Huffman and Under- tiaking establishment Says: "I believe in the Interurban extension so greatly that I am personally working for the success of the Monday so we can jthe there and talk it over with them." Mr. Walter B.

Matthews of the Carbondale Cone and Candy Co. says: "I f.sel as though an Interiurjjan from Carbondale to 'Herrin would be one of the best things we could do for our town. Personally I am willing to help all I can to secure this line and am satisfied we can put it over if every one will try. Robert W. Davis of the Carbondale Free Press says: "I don't believe that the.

people of Carbondale really' realize what this IriteVurban line from Carbondale to Herrin would mean for the town. It is a thing that will take lots of hard work to put over- Dirr believe 'if every citizen of Carbondale will get (behind the thing and talk it up if they are hot able to buy stock that it will go over. I am going to do all I can to help ENGLISH KING FORGETS IRISH SHORTCOMINGS Aninest Granted All Offenses Prior to July When Truce Was Signed. By Associated 'Preso Jan George has a general amnesty to politi- ral ofi'enres 1 committed 'Ireland tn, the operation ot the truce last July it was announced today. The release 01' 'prisoners will begin i at once.

The proclamation also says "It is tllio King's ronfidont hope that I this act of oblivion will-aid in estab- Hshir.g relations of friendship -and good will between the people; of Great Bnlain and Ireland-." given out iu DuMin last night showed that 1,010 persons wiho i probably would come under the class- ification of political prisoners were i still in confinement. FARMER TELLS ROBBERY STORY AFTER SEMI-COMA Gov. Neff of Texas Declares Martial Law in Oil Fields Near Austin Says "Flagrant Violations" of Law- Cause. OPINION DIFFERS ON DISPOSITION OF BATTLESHIPS! "The interurban from Carbondale to Herrin is the biggest industrial which has. offered itself to Canbondale," it was fle- riared Tjy A.

S. for several head of the Merchants' Association and one of the leading and progressive citizens and business men of the -city when -he com mented on the proposition of setting behind the sale of stonk for the extension "It will mean as much to the City of Canbondale as a la.rse factory," Mr. Johnson said. He then spoke of the importance the building ot the li-ne 'from several vifr-w (points with regard to benefits to the city. The campaign for tfoe sale of stock will ibe underway with! underway stock.

The big meeting will be held at-the Christian church Tires- day evening' instead of the Methodist as announced yesterday. It will 'be this ga ''-jring, a pe-p, "meeting it has been, where things will -ho made ready to set into motion the stock sale tin a few, Vs. Plans are -TOW srway loa. Ag to the sale of'the Proposal to Render Crafts Useless Lost Yesterday in Parley. By Associated Press 'WASHINGTON, Jan.

Difference of opinion regarding rules for the -disposition, of prescribed ibat- tles'iiips remained to be settled lUy the "big five'" today when they resumed their revision of the Naval limi- tatioli treaty. Agreement cm this pact was expected without prolonged debate, However, and with tihe entire text of. the treaty annexes, embodying a chart, disposed of. The delegates had hoped to have a treaty and ready for public discussion a plenary session Saturday or Monday. On the (Tivestion of rules for dis- posing of prescribed battleships the proposal American, delegates today suggesting vessels toe rendered entirely useless failed yesterdaj' to receive the assent of Great and i whose delegates suggested Knit ships, after being dismantled, i might be used as hailbor guards or training vessels.

By Associated Press AUSTIN- Jan. law at Mexia, Texas, and the. sur- vuundmg oil Jields was proclaimed today by Governor Neff. Martial law Sucame effective at o'clock this interning under the procla Brigadier General Welters of Houston will assume command at Mexica and has power to call on such Texas National Guard forces as may he necessary to enforce the law. Texas rangers have ibeen on duty in the Mexia oil day when in cooperation with iother officers they inaugurated a clean nip campaign among alleged saloons, and gambling resorts.

Also the "flagrant violation ot law, highway robbery, open gambling, nd selling of liquor are some of the reasons given by the Governor in hi3 proclamation. Mexia is an oi! town one hundred miles south of. Local officials at -Mexia, the Governor said; were either "unable or unwilling to maintain and enforce the law" an'd that there is emuiinent insurrection, tumult, rioting, and of breach of peace. Jonesboro Man Awakes From Half Dream. and Relates Details.

After passing through a ssmi- doma. state for four remembering only vaguely the manner in which he was -rendered in this when, a friend "pretend" beat him on the Ihead with a club and him of $130 or more in tlie country near 'his home at Jonesboro last Saturday told "the story today, for the first time. Jroa.ni'en several liloirrs, half remembering what had happened to 'him. finally wandering to a farm house, and told enough oi! his story, (relatives them -to feel that they knew what had to him. He was brought to the hospital Sunday afld not until today was Hi-is inind clear entough to tell his story.

VARSITY TAKES TRIMMING FROM HERRIN ELKS 5 Ullin Constable Falls Under Train; Brot Here on Clues to Smith's Stolen Car In the disappearance of Civile Smith's Ford touring car from, in front of the Bartlh. theatre Monday night, the car seems to 'be gone tor good. After tour days not a. clue has been found. Mr.

Smith said this morning he feared the car had been taken to the coal fields and he wtouid -sea it again. It. was insured but lie said he would rather have "the car. auto -was (between and 10 'clock in the. Though Mr.

Smith the switch in his pocket, the thieves managed to sivb- stitute -one and get away with the Albert White, TJllin constable, is in the. hospital here as tilie result of injuries suffered when, he fell under passenger train No. 24 about 5:30 this at Wetaug. The wheels of the trai'ii crushed his right leg and were forced to amputate it above the knee. His condition, while serious contains signs of recovery.

White was standing on the platform 'between the coaches of the train when the train started to pull out of Wetaug, reports at the J. office say. He was visiting with seme friends and forgot to get oil. Just as the train started to move he jumped off and fell the wheels. says he remained on the train looking for a man to arrest.

ILLINOIS WEATHER Pair tonight in extreme south, prcfbaibly light snow this afternoon and toniglht in north and central portion-. Rising temperature Generally fair. Mrs Dickey, Former Resident, Buried Wed. Ray Brewer Tilden last night where she the funer.i of Iher mother, Mrs. Maggie Dickey, former resident of Carbond-ale, leaving liere about a year for Elgin where she died Monday.

She was employed in the state hospital there at the time. Her death Hollowed a ibrief illness with a trouble of some standing. The body was brought to Tilden. Mrs. Dickey came to Carbondale a few years ago.

Just before she left she was maid and dining room at the Roberts Hotel. leaves four children, Ray of this. Miss Ella, and two yiounger sons, and iSs.ni. ARREST NEGRO AT MURPHYSBORO WHO MOLESTED GIRL, 17 Charley Jefferson, a DTOWIL negro, 22 years old, arrested by Deputy Sheriff A G. Davis and Mice Officer Hairy Poirson Tuesday afteni.o'on and was identified by Miss Opal Weaver, a white girt 17 years of age, ar.d her cousin, W.

M. Weaver, the negro that handed Miss AVeaver a note ab'out a month ago asking her and her "little girl friend" to meet the negro and his friend that according to the Republican-Eva. "Mr. Weaver said that he and a man friend had Miss Weaver and Miss Anna Mae WJiitacre, 10, walk along Hanson street between Eighth and Seventh that night saw two negroes cross over to the girls and as the two white men appeared the negro identified as was saying: "Well did you get my note?" Mr. Weaver says lie stepped up saying: "What's going on I'nere?" and Jefferson said: "Ain't I got a right on the street," and.

as Weaver stepped between Jefferson the girls the negrio said: "Look ont don't get too close to nie." lAs Jefferson told the white man to keep away from him Weaver says he noticed the of a revolver in Jef- hand, the barrel in a -coat pocket, and the muzzle pointing toward him. "Then drrew nnv Smith Wessc-u and pointed it at the r.egro," Weaver "and-lie and left there." A story in another intimating that the negro cowed him was 'without any foundation of fact or truth, and tihat the negro, whom Weaver identified Wednesday as Jefferson was the one that got "away from there. Weaver's friend, both say, was not armed. CRIPPLED TRANSPORT WITH YANKS MAKING HEADWAY By Associated Press Jan. A radiogiram from the transport Cnook said she -was crippled tout was making headway 360.

miles east of New York. The transport is carrying American soldiers from tie army occupation in. Germany to American. Normal Primed for Cape at Gym Tomorrow Night for Fight. The Herrin Elks team last inp'xt defeated tlic Normal ba'slc-et buyers, 2213 The Maroons beforfe Xmas beat i the miners hert in a hot contest, better shooting.

And that is what won for the Herriu boys last ilight. The floor work was about even up as it ha'd been in the previous contert but the Elkg were more for- i Innate in hitting the hoop. Grain was the demon scorer-for the the big center popping in six baskets i from all angles and ali distances. I Barnhill dropped in two. Hutton and Dawson dropp.ed in one each.

The Normals scattered their scoring. Valentine got two. Brooks, Chance, Allen ur.d Carter one each. The game was again a rough one but the best of spirit prevailed. As the same here there was too much guarding from behind.

Brooks 1002 Chance 1 1 fl' 0 Huffman, 0 000 Allen 1 0 0 0 Carter 1 010 Valentine 2 000 Huffman, 000 NORMAL Dawson 1 010 Chapman 0 000 Grain ...6 000 Barnhill 3 0 0 "0 Cocke 2 -'0 0 0 Hutton 1 000 Referee, Hawkins; scorer, Maxey; i timer, Letaf The Normal boys will take on the Cape Girardeau tossers in the local gym tomorrow night The Capes are one of the fastest aggregations "in these parts this winter. The team from last year is. all Kiehn-e and Van Meter the two boys who were chiefly responsible for the lickings -administered the Normals i last year. The lost no games this' year. Perhaps the best team defeated was Central College quintet'who were taken in 34 to 29.

Central finished near the top in the Missouri College Conference last. year. One the fastest games the year should result when" the two sets of teachers get together in Friday night's toss test. Senator Willis of Ohio, Scores Newfeerry Election as Dangerous to Democratic Goc inent for Such Large Expenditures. By Associated U'ress WASHINGTON, D.

Jan-. Senator Willis of Ohio is among the btful class in the senate attitude Inn the Senator election contest He said the expenditure of large sums of money was d-angeirous to the of free government and tihat the spending of such large inns' of by relatives in the Newberry campaign in 1918 with or without his knowledge w-as questionable A day of unalbated 'Criticism in the Newberry case prevailed today with the outcome of the case was uncertain Predictions are ''being held in abeyance with final decision resting with a half dozen senators who have not disclosed their -attitude. "The Other Town Is the Same Kind You Taylor "Loyalty is. one of the best things in the next to service," dh'arles Taylor Harrisburg, district governor of the Illinois Rotary Cln'bs, told members of the Carbondale Rotary Club in his official visit to the club at its regular weelcly luncheon Tuesday. "A man who says Cailbondale or Harrislmrg is a poor town, that the are slow and the like, will same -kind of town and the same kind ol: people in any town he may g'o to," he said.

Taylor, 'frankness, sinceri- tty, his straight from die shoulder manner of thinking and talking, inspires 'confidence and affection. He told and reviewed the principals' of Rotary. Declared service is greatest cf all but. 1'ew virtues. ITaylor told of an interesting piece of Rotary in Chicago 1 a ifew days ago.

said one of the biggest bankers in the city of Chicago to a member of the club, at the luncheon hour a friend in the clirb. He was told to ihave luncheon. My wouldn't be honored; for the price a me'al, he told his fellow us your story," said six or eight iother Rotariaus "all about it" As they grouped themselves about the banker and heard the tale of the straits he was in I was asked how he i needed. Checks piled in miti! was on the following, day able to swing a deal, a huge bank merger and save his ibanlc from destruction aiid loss. Charlie Taylor said 'that service is Rotary.

He told of Rotary bringing one back to the sentimental values of life, of taking a wealthy business man from the city back to his home in the country and there enjoying life, home, mother and the things'of childhood. He complimented the Carbondale Rotary club for its work the past year, its service, attendance and the like. The local club was well toward the top the list in the state, scoring 10 out 23 points on which clubs are graded At the same time he criticised the club for some, of its shortcomings. it Over Angl French Pact Brings Crisis In Cabinet Puts the Question of Anglo-French Pact, of Postponement of Germany's Reparations and France's Participation in Conference Squarely Up to the French Legislators-Accept Them or Leave Them, Briand Says in Bluntest Terms By Associated Press. PARIS, Jan.

Briand resigned today. Premier Briand put the Anglo-French pact, the question of postponement of Germany's reparations 'payments an France's participation in the Geona conference squarely up to the chamber of deputies this afternoon telling the deputies in the bluntest terms to take them or leave them. The premier first placed the question of the British pact. "You have been complaining for three years of not being called upon to share keeping French shores. I am bringing you what you have been demanding for three years and it is up to you to say whether, you want it or not." Premier Briand at'the close of his speech said the United States had agreed to participate in the Genoa conference.

Previously it had been announced the who arrived here this morning, would speak in the chamber of deputies with the full- support of the cabinet behind him. The 1 cabinet meeting was concluded at 1 o'clock after a two hours' session. M. Briand convinced the cabinet, it is learned, that the Anglo- French pact was the best thing obtainable in the favor of establishing French security. It was' added that the entire cabinet was behind the pact.

Premier Briand said he made a lengthy address when he granted the German government 'an extension on the payment of reparations, explaining his action at the Cannes conference. The entire French cabinet goes out of office with Premier Briand. President Millerand accepted the resignation of Premier Briand and his cabinet. The war minister and former President Poincare of France are among those prominently mentioned to succeed the premier and to form a new government. Wood of Cairo has appealed to'Col.

C. R. Miller of the state department of. public works for aid in repairing the Mound City road out of Cairo, which is declared to be utterly impassable. -Lack of prcper (Trainage has caused the trouble, Mayor' Wood said.

LIKE BOMB AT CAPITAL. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 12.

The resignation of Premier Briand of France was received with almost bombshell effect in conference circles, the action being considered likely to- have great effect on decisions already reachd or about'to be reached. Hardy, Murphysboro Bank Head, Resigns John Hardy, well known Southern Illinois banker and for macy years of the City National of Murjfaysboro, one of the loldest and soundest institutions in the county, has retired, it was an- rjoivnced at the meeting of the stock Tuesday evening. He will -be succeeded of the institution Col. E. A.

Wells. REPORTS FROM DEPARTMENT SHOWS ONLY TWO HANGED By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan Reports that only two military executions took (place at Is-Sur-Tille during tihe war were ordered entered before the senate 'committee investigating the charges that American soldiers were hanged in France witlhout trial. All iBormer officers who served at Is-Sur-Tille contradicted the testimony of soldiers that men were ihanged -without trial. I. C.

Conductor, Known Here, Brother of Slain "Ted" Warning, an I. C. 'conductor from East St. Ij0.uis-, who has been going through Carbondale £br several years on freight runs, is a brother of Mrs. Riclrwine wlio was slain.

with her father-in-law, 74, an invalid at their home in East St. Louis witfa robbery as the apparent motive. The body of the woman was found on.the dining room table in the house with a bullet hole through the body in a nude condition. The body of the aged man. was found in the Ibasement of the Richwine home..