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if VOL. LXXIII NO. 47 COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1921 ESTABLISHED IN 1848 MAY REACH AGREEMENT 0AL DISARM! EMGE TOD IT CO R AY BUSINESS WILL STANDSTILL TO OBSERVE THE DAY THANKSGIVING TOMORROW WILL BEi A UNIVERSAL HOLIDAY THROUGHOUT COUNTY. LONG HOLIDAY FOR THE CHILDREN School This Afternoon Commenced a Four Day Recess for the Pupils and the Children Herald Office to Be Silent Entire Day With the banks closed, the postof flce observing Sunday hours, no issue of The Herald and nearly all of the business house's ehut tight tomorrow promises to be one of the most gen erally observed holidays ever known in Columbia. About the only diversion here aside from services which will be held at practically all of the churches, will be the football game between Central High School ( and Lincoln County High. . , Hut as usual hundreds of Maury countians will go to Nashville to see the great contest on Dudley field be tween yandorbilt and Sewanee and many others will go to the fields and forests in the adjoining counties to shoot the fostive quail which is not protected as, it is, in this county. Schools all over the county recess ed this afternoon until next Monday morning, jipd tho pupils and faculty will have four whole days to enjoy life free from the worries of books and lessons. Services will be held at some time during the day at practically all of the churches of tho city! This will also be true qf.the churches of the county for in many of them there will be brief services. Annually Thanksgiving day comes to be more generally observed in this section. A few years ago practically no business was suspended for tho tn tire day except that of the banks b it each year saw" more and more firms closed until the business houses wlio do not make some observance of t' e day are rather tho exception. Many and many are tho turkeys that have yielded up the ghost in Man y county in order to adorn the tables of folks in town and country. Ihc com paratively hfgh prices at which ti keys have been sold have not appn ently diminished the sales locally. UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN UNABLE TO AGREE UP UNTIL PRESENT. BRITAIN PLANS REDUCTION Sweeping Cuts Will Be Made in Per sonnel of Royal Naval Forces. Many Captains and Will Be Demoted. Commandcfo (By United Press.) WASfHNGON, Nov. 23. The world may know today whether definite agreements for the limitation of naval armament will be reached by to arms limitation conference. , With the naval exports of the Unit ed States, Great Britain and Japan deadlocked over the Nipponese insist once on a navy seventy per cent as groat as that of tho other two pow ers, instead of sixty per cent proposed by the United States, the conference itself sitting as a committee, was to take the question up. , , CATINA LIKELY feBEFQRE APPEAR THE GRAN D JURY WILL-ASK THIS BODY TO INVES TIGAT.E CIRCUMSTANCES SUR 'ROUNDING TRAGEDY. NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS TODAY Belief Grows, However, That Maury Cecil, Victim of Shooting Must Have Been Temporarily Unbalanced Re sult of Recent Heavy Losses. (By United Tress.) LONDON, Nov. 23. Further steps in naval retrenchment, iu accord with the movement of the limitation or armament is the plan of tho British government, it was learned today. The sweeping reductions in the personnel of the royal naval force is said to in clude the demotion of sixty captaius and 210 commanders. - .'. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov.. 23. Japan has decided to roccde partly from her hitherto insistent stand that she be allowed to increase by ten per cent, her capital ship tonnage, over the program . for arms limitation. This changed attitude of Japanese delegates was verified by high authori ties as the naval armament committee of the arms conference met to discuss the situation. Admiral Kato was expected to an nounce the Japanese decision in to day's.., meeting. N .' ... i. i EXPECT BIG CROWD WILL SEE CONTEST CENTRAL HIGH READY FOR HARD GAME WITH LINCOLN COUNTY BOYS HERE TOMORROW. Funeral Maury , Cecil Thursday Cross Bridges The funeral of Maury Cecil, who was shot and killed at the general merchandise store of Harbison & Ca tina at Cross Bridges at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning will be conducted at Ui o'clock on Thursday morning at the ioks Bridges Methodist church by the Kev. Mr. Brown, pastor of the church. Interment will be In tho church yard. The body will loavo the undertaking establishment of Oakes & Nichols at : o'clock. Tho following cousins will serve a3 pall bearers: Dr. Otcy J. Porter, Henry A. Torter, Joe F. Por ter. Sara Harlan. Austin Harlan and U. J. Harlan. It is expected that tomorrow's game between Central High School and Lin coln County High on the Pillow Park grid will be one of the most largely attended games of the season. Both teams are said to be in good condition and will put up a real fight. The Turkey Day game will afford Columbia fans the last opportunity of the year to see the high schoolers in action, as the season comes to a close with tomorrow's fray. There have been no new develop ments in the killing of Maury CecLj by Louis Catina at Cross Bridges on Tuesday morning. Catina has not been arrested, and it is not thought that he will be. It is understood, how ever, that ho Is preparing to appear bofore the grand jury to make a state meht, which it Is believed by those fa miliar with facts surrounding the shooting, will exhonorate him from blame, and that "no effort will be made to secure an indictment. Col.' John W. Cecil stated that he was ready at any, time to go before the grand jury and tell what he knew of the case. The shooting continues to be large ly the topic of Conversation here, and as usual many silly rumors have been placed in circulation. Those wiio went to Cross Bridges immediately after the shooting, or wore there at the time, are" agreed that the report carried in The Herald on Tuesday aft ernoon was correct. The general im pression seems to prevail also that the dead man must have been tempo rarily ' unbalanced. It is argued that no sane man who had just threatened another's life would return only par tially clothed and unarmed to his place of business after he had been ordered to keep away from the prem ises. Quite a number of those who knew Mr. Cecil well havo recalled queer actions of his during the past few wee'ksT" and it Is believed that constant brooding over heavy losses on worthless oil stock dethroned his reason. GRANDSON GENERAL . LEONIDAS POLK DIES W. D. GALE, PROMINENT f-OR THIRTY YEARS IN INSURANCE CIRCLES, PASSES AWAY. ANNUAL FAT CATTLE SHOWAT NASHVILLE MANY MAURY COUNTIANS WILL ATTEND THE BIG EVENT AT THE CAPITAL CITY. .Invitations have been received by a number of local stockmen and farm ers of this county to the annual din ner to be given at Nashville on De cember 7 at the annual fat cattle show. This dinner will bo given to the members of the Tennessee Beer Cattle Breeders Association. The din ner will begin at fi:30 o'clock and will be given at tho Chamber of Commerce. The anual Nashville fat cattle show always attracts a great deal of inter est here and many Maury cnuntiaiu attend. It Is said that the exhibit here will be more numerous than ever before. IMPORTANT CASE CIRCUIT COURt iflEplC. 2 1 ST CASE OF MISS MINNINE PENNING - TON AGAINST BANKHAS BEEN RE-SET FOR THA" TIME. SEVERAL CASES DISPOSED OF Jury Brings In Verdict for Central Auto Company J. H. Kannon Loses Suit Against Louisville and Nash ville Railroad Co. The case of Miss Minnie Penning ton, against the Farmers & Merchants' Bank of Mt. Pleasant, one of the most important civil cases set for the No vember term of circuit court has been re-set for trial on December 21. It is ox per ted that several days will bo con sumed in the trial of this case, and it will probably be the last cause taken up before the Christmas holidays. The easo was at first sot for trial on Tues day of this week, but it was found it would be impossible to gJ into trial at tlat time. j Up until this time the aae of state against Patrolman Jake Staggs, charg ed with murder, and possibly the moat important criminal caso pending has not yet been set by Judge Turner for trial. However, the Judge has stated that there should be no kleiay in tak ing the case up as soon as other caus es pending on the docket ahead of this case could be disposed of. It is expected that Christine Wil liams, colored, charged with shooting former Deputy Sheriff Floyd McKis siek at Mt. Pleasant, will also go to trial at the present term of court. In. the case of Central Auto Com pany against the Chalmers Company of Tennessee the jury returned a ver dict of $295.00 for the plaintiff. In this case the Central Auto Co. was suing for commissions alleged to be due from tho Chalmers Company on tho salo of cars. Tho jury returned a verdict for the defendant in the case of J. II. Kannon( against Walker D. Hines, Mr. Hines having been director general of rail roads at the time a fine horse belong ing to Mr. Kannon was killed in 1!1S. Mr. Kannon sought to recover $:!0i for the loss of tho animal. , Judge Turner has reset several cases on the civil docket, among them being those of Mrs. Francis Brady vs. W. J. Gilbert and W. J. Gilbert vs. Francis Brady. These cases will be caled on November ::0. The case of Horace Rainey vs. J. W. Gillespie will go to trial on December 20. This morning one of the bad chock charges against W. L. Gofld was noll ed. The case of state against Claude Norris, charged with abandoning child was set for December 23 by agree ment. December 1G has been fixed as non jury day. - SPLENDID HERD CHAPMAN COWS h WILL BE SOLD DISPERSAL SALE OF ONE OF FIN EST LOTS OF JERSEYS IN THE ' COUNTY NEXT MONDAY. LONG FAMOUS AS PRODUCERS Seventy-Five Head of Pure Bred Heif trs and Cows to Be Offered to the Dairy Interests of Maury County on Long Terms. On next Monday at 1 o'clock at Moore's stables Col. Joseph A. Chap man will soil seventy-live head of the finest purebred Jersey cows and heif ers ever sold in Maury county. The entire herd will be sold as Col. Chap man has recently decided that because of his numerous and varied business interests it is impossible for him to longer devote that time to his exten 3ivt farming interests that they re quire. The cows and heifers that will go into this sole are producers and, from producers. For many years this dairy lias been one of the largest and best in this section of the sta(o. The herd has boon carefully culled and while the cows are not registered they are all purebred Jerseys and the individ uals are all good. This sale will givo tho rapidly expanding dairy interests of Maury county a raro opportunity to buy on time cows of demonstrated worth. It is expected that the sale will be largely attended and that the results will he satisfactory because the. dairy interest has been one of the few for the fanners of this county that during the past year or two baa produced any real returns. The terms are most lib eral as twelve months time will be extended to tho purchasers. The sale will begin promptly at I o'clock. In addition to the cows and heifers two fine Jersey hulls will be sold. Special to The Herald. NASHVILLL', Tenn., Nov. 23. W. D. Gales, prominent insurance agent died here this morning after a long ill ness. He was a grandson of General Leonidas Polk and one of Nashville's most esteemed citizens. He was treas urer of Christ's. Episcopal church for over thirty years, serving until his health began to fail a few years apo. Ilin wife, two sons and a sister, Mrs. Frank G. Ring, utirvive him. Pfificess Mary To Marry Commoner King Announces President Bans Medicinal Beer; Signs Bill Today (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Presi dent Harding today signed the Camp bell-Willis bill, which puts an end to the manufacture of medicinal beef. Medicinal beer regulations were pro mulgated about a month ago and sev enteen breweries granted the right to manufacture tho pro-prohibition article. Architects To Begin on Plans State Memorial Special to The Herald. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Nov. 23 Ar nold W. Bruuner, Cass Gilbert and Don Barber, three of the leading architects of the country, with offices in New York have been selected by il'ie state memorial commission to compete with three Tennessee architects on plans for the victory memorial and capitol annex to be erected here. . Tho New York architects will visit Nashville tshortly to inspect the site. All drawings nius.t be in the hands of Dr. Warren P. Laird, supervising arch itect, prior to February 1. The three Tennessee architects to compete for this work are , Krtward Dougherty, Nashville; It. H. Hunt, Chattanooga; Charles O. Pfeil, Memphis. GANGSTERS QUIT BELFAST STREETS (By United Press.) BELFAST, Nov. 23. Gangsters and gunmen withdrew from tho streets of Belfast today and ominous quiet hung over the city after five days of terror. Hurried preparations were being made this morning by. police to prevent a re newal of the outbreak. A check up of th casualties being made has run the estimate of dead to nearly two score. FOURS, PLOT TO STEAL COVER FROM LONDON B .... . :f. . . , ; , , , ARRACKS MACHINE GUNS AND RIFLES DIS COVERED IN HOME OF PROMI- NENT SINN FEt-NER. TEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED Plot Believed by Authorities is Have Been Widespread Adds to Tense ncss of Already Critical Irish Situation. (By United Press.) LONDON, Nov. 23. A widespread plot to steal government munitions from barracks in and around Iiondon wa. believed to have been uncovered here today by the arrest of six civil ians and four soldiers. It was reported that six machine guns and eighteen rifles, stolen from harrackB have been recovered from tho home of a prominent member of the "Roger Casement Sinn Fein Club" In London. WELL FILLED BASKETS : FOR POOR FAMILIES MORE THAN A SCORE ARE BEING REMEMBERED BY THE KING'S DAUGHTERS TODAY. Twenty, odd heavily laden . baskets or big boxes of good things to eat arc being distributed this afternoon to as many families by the King's Daugh ters. The circle was divided into more than a score of committees and each committee charged with the duty of preparing a box of food for some poor ,fani ily. tin the city, Tho commit-, toes' are functioning with the result that one of tho most substantial dona tions ever made to tho poor will glad don their hearts tomorrow. These boxes contain moat in liberal quanti ties, fruits in abundance, all kinds of vegetables, preserves, flour, meal, su gar and various and sundry articles of food. The. members of the King's Daughters have entered into the distri bution witli hearty good will and they are delighted at the results of their labors and it is doubtful if tho recip ients of their favors receive as much pleasure from the donations as the givers have gotten. SPECIAL SERVICES .... FIRST METHODIST (By United Press.) LONDON, Not. 23 All England to day hailed Princess" Mary and. her "Commoner" fiance. Viscount Las celles, son of , Kail Hare wood. Their engagement was announced last night in a statement issued at Buckingham Talace by the King and Queen. The fact that the iitle of Viscount is "mere courtesy" of the King and that the prospective bridegroom is really an ordinary cemmonpr seemed to pleas"! th'' newspapers and public alike. A VERY PLEASING THANKSGIV ING SERVICE FOR FIRST METH ODIST CHURCH. Dr. W. B. Taylor, pastor of the First Methodist church, has announced a special thanksgiving fcrrice for Thurs day morning at JO o'clock. 0 .J MISS SMITH'S POPIL GIVE TO, THE POOR Pupils of Miss Carrie Smith's pri mnry department of the Columbia In stitute today made handsome contri butions f good1 things to eat and sub stantials for the relief of the poor children of the city. The littlo folkU were asked by Miss Smith to bring their contributions this morning to the school and they did this with hearty good will. The result was an exceed ingly large assortment of everything that will gladden the eyes and tempt the appetite of the children. Distribu tion of the gifts- was made this after noon by Miss Smith. Wildcat Still Taken Tuesday Near Rockdale Ono of the biggest and best copper stills captured in Maury county for months was brought into Columbia this morning by Deputy Sheriff W. Mv Fitzgerald, Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, and turned over to County Judge Whit thorne. The still was in full blast when captured late Tuesday afternoon by officers W. R. Liggett, W.M. Fitz gerald and W. A. Matthews in a dark and deep hollow just beyond Rockdale furnace. The four operators of the still escaped, carrying with them the worm. Mr. Fitzgerald said the men ran when they noted the approach of the officers' and that several shots were fired at the fleeing moonshiners, but none of them are thought to have tak en effect. The officers lire was not re turned by tho shiners. The still was placed on the court house lawn this morning and attracted much attention. It bore evidence of much service, and was contsructed of copper throughout, and was one of the very best pieces of still workmanship seen lfero in a long time. It is not known how tho "Wildcat ters" discovered the approach of the officers. Several other stills have been captured recently In this same section. Officers estimated that there wai on hand yesterday at the still at least 700 gallons of beer and mash. This was destroyed and the still rendered useless. COURT ADJOURNS FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY JURIES DISMISSED UNTIL MON DAY WHEN GRIND WILL BE CONTINUED BY COURT. Circuit court was adjourned this aft ernoon until after the Thanksgiving holidays, and will next be in cession on Monday morning. Judge Turner excused both the grand and trial ju ries until that time. . The grand jury returned a, number of true bills found since its last report. Splendid pro gross is now bein made by the jury and It, is. believed that Us work will be completed shortly. MANY MEMBERS FOR RED GROSS IN FIRST DAY DRIVE FOR FIFTH ROLL CALL OPENS MOST AUSPICIOUSLY IN THE CITY. EXTEND CAMPAIGN IN COUNTRY Banks Have Been Authorlied to Ac cept Members and Issue Receipts Any Time Before the First of De-' cember Many Voluntary Responses Additional reports received by Chairman Ulna H. Fostor, oi the Red Cross roll 'call drive,' indicate " that the campaign, in tho city Tuesday where it was pushed by the block chairmen was successful to a high de gree On many blocks, however, the chairman did not act but Is out to day making the canvass. Very few re ports have been received from the country districts. ' The booths operated up town by the young ladies had highly successful days and many members and, contribu tions were received. Speakers have presented the cause of the Red Cross in public gatherings with success. Dr. W. B. Taylor, pastor of the First Methodist church, this morning made a strong appeal to the pupils of the county high school, and Miss Addison has presented the "greatest mother of them all," to the pupils at the Co lumbia Institute.1 - Chairman Foster has afranged with the banks to accept membership fees and issue receipts and buttons to any- 'one applying before December 1. lAn extension of the campaign has been mado in some portions of the county until December 1. Due to, the Thanks giving holiday and the election cam paigns it has been impossible for some of the women canvassers to get about in the rural districts. If they can make their campaign before Decem ber 1 it .will be satisfactory to tho com mittee. The voluntary response of many of the people in the city and county has been very gratifying. Many have re newed their membership without solic itation, knowing the great vajue of the Rod Cross as an agency for good. Will Not Distuss Foreign Debt At Arms Conference (By United Vreas.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The Unit ed States will not ftlow the introduc tion of the foreign debt or other finan cial questions to enter Into the arms limitation conference, high adminis tration officials said today. VOTE ON NEWBERRY ' CASE AFTER JAN. 1 (By United Press.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 23 An asree mtnt to vote on tho Newberry case after January 1 was reached today in the senate. Walsh Attacks Method Passing Revenue Bills SPECIA SI. L SERVICE EIERS' CHURCH (By United Press".) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. "Revolu tion is bred by the legislative system which permitted a small group of sen ators and representatives in secret se:!sinn to rewrite tho tax bill," Sena tor. Wakh, of Massachusetts, declared! today in the senate during a bitter at tack on the conference report on th? revenue bill. Special Long Session tomes ress - . .. . sf To Close Tonight The service on Thansgiving Day at St Peter's Episcopal church will l;e at 10:30 a. m. The offering will be given to the Church Home in Memphis. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Congress awaited the fall of the gavel today which ends the special session called by President Harding for the primary purpose of revising the tariff and. tax legislation. The much discussed tat bill will be the last piece of legisla tion to flash under the wire as the set sion closes. The senate rotes on the conference report on the measnre at I q clock this afternoon.