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Associated Press Service. United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.
A. B. C.; Paper. • Single Copies 2 Cents. 5 Cents Sunday.
HAVAN1, C u b a.—
UP) _ J esident Cool-
j'dgc Mont y Rave Pan-
America a coodwill mes-
age and the world a
vaming < at the Amcri-
an repub! :s will work
ut their vn destihy in
heir own ay.
Honored by iuba with rare ac.
.iaim as he c ered the city Sun.
day over a r e-strewu road, the
American Pn dent Monday, In
ho National, licatrc, told dclc-
aalcs of t'v ly ono American
[countries that M'JBUffl tU«
consiitcra in ■ co-operation,
riendshlp am slinrily” chart tlm
•ourso Of the United Elates and
ithcr Amcrlra ! republics.
He souq dec a warning that
these countrli [must join togoib.
or to work on [their'own destiny
In tbolr own ly".
Many reran i his caution as a
notice to tho league of Nations
[not to interfe I In Fan-Amorican
affairs. 1
Ilo prcaclici ustice. equity and
respect, and n to the Monroe,
jDoc'rlno a nc i vitality.
Diatlnauis B delegates an-
iptauded licait ■ tils good will uU
craaces. • •All
hambAlain off
ON THIfib ATTEMPT
AT RECiRD FLIGHT
CURTISS I ELD, N. Y.—(AP)
—Clarence I Chambcrluin took
off at 12;66 clock Monday in n
bird attempt 5 -shatter the world
induranc® fli it record. Ho was
accompanied ! Roger Q. Wil
liams. The ane tjok off from
;he west end of Roosevelt Field,
winding bac • as it hit a rut
but taking th air easily, climbing
■o 500 feet.
“BIG THREE” IN CUBA
m
OF E
PREDICT TROUBLE
—
HUNT OVER NATION FOR CHILD KILLER
L O N I) O N.—(UP)—
European newspapers, |
featuring an Amreican
Marine Corps aerial!
bombing attack on Nica-I
raguan liberals alongside;
stories regarding Presi-|
dent Coolidgc’s reception
at Havana. Monday, pre
dicted trouble for the'
United States at the Pan-
American Conference.
At the same time anti-
mperialists issued mani
festos attacking the
United States policy.
‘-Vmcrican policy involves asser-,
three” in the Pan-Anicricnn Congress, held at Havana, Cuba. To the left 1 tioa of virtual sovereignty over
is former Secretory of SUtc Charles E. Hughes; center, President Coolidge; right, Secretary of State wfe*-.** toThe^osiUon of
Frank B. Kellogg. a puppet,” the liberal Manchester
Guardian said editorially. It was
added that the United States pol
icy of protecting Amerlcnn lives
and interests was open to inter
pretation ns involving forcible
maintenance of a Nicaraguan gov
ernment favorable to American
interests.
The ideas incorporated in the
Guardian editorial were typical of
then in most British and conti
nental papers.
A manifesto aUnparawraS Unite;
States. policy was cabled to tho
Pan-American Conference from
Paris by the International League
Against Imperialism.
“We protest," the message Haid,
“against the American imperialis
tic policy of persecuting nnd mas-
sacrclng the defenders of Nicnra-
IT ON I
IQGEIIIY
V SERVICE IS BEST ANSWER TO CHURCH
I CRITICS, SAYS DR. TIPPETT; NO CULTURE
WITHOUT CHRISTIANITY-WILKINSON
Divinity of Christ Is Dr.
Cartleage’s Subject; Dr.
King Speaks on Relig
ious Mind.
decided 1
Ga. — (AP) —
rid heavyweight
1 Dover Hall unex-
ht and Mon-
his training
ni, Florida.
i resort last Wed
days visit as the
Robertson, pros
per of the Brook-
ague baseball club,
it is understood
tho guests at Do
ji he announced that
leave Sunday
has been as
'a early depav-
rstood that the
he was going to
where nobody
except on invi
lotographcrs, repor
seekers and others
to Dover Hall to
Um fighter,
plan provided for a
iita but Sunday he
j direct to Miami.
DEATHS
JEN METAL
VOELl
.—Seven
been k
Mast fi
Smeltli
Mveral
Mibmi
Two
after
•everaf
Sarie.—(AP)
ire known to have
an explosion of a
at the Voclklingen
;s Monday in which
en were ’ completely
in molten metal,
ies were recovered soon
blast. Of sixteen men
injured, five died, while
ere missing.
Two wrecks on the Mitchell's
bridge road Sunday night resulted
In injury of f- nr Norn* of
them Was seriously hurt, however.
Will WItchor, a negro, is
charged with driving a car while
nadir the influence of whiskey
following a wreck near the Geor
gia State Teachore College when
his car ran Into one driven by
a tourist. The tuorist was not
hurt. A Ford 'coupe was destroy
ed in tho wreck. Witcher's in-
'•, ' * By Fred Bryant
(Student in Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism.)
“There was never u time in our
history when we needed to give
more practical answers to the
people who criticise the modern
church, ahd the most convincing
argument that anyone can give in
answer to such criticisms is n life
of srevlco for oar Master,” declar
ed Pastor T. W. Tippett of the
Prince Avenue Baptist church at
Juries were dressed at a hospital, j regular Sunday morning aer-
Anothcr wrock happened on the vice
samo road Sunday night In which | „p Qr mon ji stamina, there is no
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Blakeley and | gu b g tjt u t c for the church and it
little daughter* Bennie Lou .were
injured slightly and Elmer Sprat-
*lin also hurt Mr. Blakeley was in
bed Monday with his Injuries. No
prosecution Is planned, Mr. Sprat,
lin agreeing to pay all damages,
it was stated ‘Monday.
TELEGRAPH, PHONE
TO BE EXCLUDED
FROMPROBE
WASHINGTON. —(/PH* Tele-
graph and ttfdQfepri* companies
would bo excluded from the pro
posed senate inquiry Into the fi
nancial and other affairs of pub
lic utilities corporations, - -the
Senator Walsh, democrat Mon
mittco was informed Monday by
Senator Walsh, democratv Mon
tana, author oP tho resolution for
such an investigation.
INTENDS TO PROVE
KIDWELL BROKE
JUROR’S OATH
■ WASHINGTON.—(/P)—Edward
J. Kldwcll. Jr., talkltlve Teapot
Domo oil juror, reaumed tho wit
ness stand In tho Slnclair.Bums
criminal contempt pro—ri&l,
Monday, testifying for the govern,
mont. despite tho announcement
of. tho prosecutor that he intend
ed to prove KldweU irhd violated
his jury oath to the Fhli-Slnclalr
(onspiracy trial.
OFFICIALS THINK
NAVY ENSIGN
A SUICIDE
ANNAPOLIS. Md.—(jP)—Con-
vtneed that Ensign John M. Mil
ler. United States Navy, whose
body was found in woods near
Odenton. tilnryland, after he had
been missing from a hospital In
Washington fer two days, had
committed suicide, county offici
als Monday confined further in-
vestigation to seeking the dealer f jng for God
from tite
will always bo the mouthpiece of
God,” said Mr. Tippett. Ho added
that tho church will continue to
weather the storms, and referred
to tho Bible which says that
‘‘against a church built upon n
rode the gates of holl shall not
prevail.” Tho pastor explained
that ho knew of no other institu
tion set out on such n mission
that had accomplished so much
for society.
Denounces Free Love
Rev. Tippett thinks that free
Iovo and companionate marriages
will destroy the ideals of society.
Ilo said that no nation wuold con
tinue to prosper if such principle. 4
which tend to blaspheme God were
Upheld.
“No one has ever disproved a
single extract from tho Bible
which has withstood the test of
time. It has chartered every sea
and knows every turn, and tho man
who refuses to accept it is lost,”
asserted Mr. Tippett. .
Mr. Tippett accounted for the
members of the churches who are
cold or lukc warm by.saying that
tier are not willing to pay the
price of discipleship which is sim
ple service. Theso people turn
away because they can not stand
to do much for the church.
"JES
OF BIN PARTY
students and, prohibition agents
were to face each other before a
Jury of high school principals here
Monday for a ‘‘showdown” on
charges of adolescent drinking.
Seventy boys nnd seventy girls
CHlCAGO.-^Fj-High ,-haoi ami
occupation _. .
Haiti, and against the United
States political and financial con
trol of San Domingo and Pan
ama.” Professor Albert Einstein,
author of the theory of relativity,
and Victor Basch, president of tho
—all students of Metffll High ■ Lc ajifUC 0 f the Rights of Mon,
Sdipal - wUl defend themselves * the signatories.
against the dry agents’ charges *
that they'were holding a drunken
party at tho Club Bagdad early
Sunday morning when the night
club was raided.
The dry agents declared that
they found more than 200 boys
and girls “very obviously drunk.”
Alexander Jamie, assistant pro
hibition administrator, said some
of the girls were not more than
fifteen years old.,
“We confiscated v twenly-fcix bot
tles of alleged gin,” he said.
DR. WILKINSON
DEFINES FAITH
By Miriam Battle
(Student in Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism.)
“Faith is the only attitude of
acceptance,” Dr. J. C- Wilkinson
declared in his sermon Sunday
morning at the First Baptist
church. “Wo may try to get
around faith, the embracing of
God’s matchless love, by various
interpretations of His grace, but
we show our common sense when
VC acres with God and Ho aays
faith." . .
Dr. Wilkinso n sermon was rela
tive -to his talk last Sunday on
the subject of grace. *
“After God gave us the word.
He left the future development of
grace in our own lives/* the min
ister said, “Because of Ilia match
less goodness to us there is to
Him no difference In mail, wlioth-
he lie of the upper or lower
crusts of society. It is for the in
dividual to work out his own mean-
... ine for God’s word.”
by which The minister then pointed,out
Miller
bought.
Mill'll, had been i-omc of the false interpretation
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CHICAGO’S NEWEST
MURDER HINGING
ON HUNT FOR 4
CHICAGO. —viPl— Tho -white
d'omond’’ murder myatcry, as po
lice now afronk of Betty Cham
bers care hinged Mcnday for its
prow dive mentis upon
the r prehension of two men nnd
two women.
Tho police Want to qu*it!>'ti
Gordon Chambers, who lived for
a short time with tho slain worn,
an as her husband; Joseph Miller
and a “Marion” believed to be Ms
wife and a girl '.chum of Mrs.
Chambers, known as “Rosa’*.
SMITH WILL NOT
DEFEND HIMSELF
ON SENATE FLOOR
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —(UP)— C.
J. Doyle, personal attorney for
Senafor-elect Frau It L. Smith, said
Monday that Smith would net
voluntarily appear on tile floor
of the senate to'defend hit right
to bis-seat
MOTHER OF CHARLES
E.
The bunt for the slayer of 5-year-old Dorothy Schneider of Mount
Morris, Mich., has spread across the nation. The girl’s mutilated
body was found in a pool after .a search that began when Dorothy
failed to come home from school. The picture above shows Dorothy’s
mother and her father (inset), with Dorothy! (left), and her 3-year
old brother, Kenneth.
ADMIRAL HUGHES
TELLS NEEDS OF
NAVY TO HOUSE
Mrs. Thomas J. Martin, mother
of Mr. Charles E. Martin, manag
ing editor of tho Banner-Herald,
•lied In Atlanta .Sunday night at
her homo. 940 Williams Mill
road. Sbo was 77 years of age.
Mrs. Martin was tho widow of tho
late Mr. Thomas J. Martin who
d.’cd at his homo in. Atlanta De
cember 12, last. He was buried
at OnRoden. the told homo of the
Martin family^
Mr. Charles E. Martin was in
Atlanta at the time of his moth
er’s death, going over Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Martin was a member "f
ono of the most prominent fami
lies in Georgia, being a graud-
daughter and tho nearest rclativo
of Captain Samuel Butts, for
whom Hulls county was nam<*d,
She was u sister of the late Gen,
eral Andrew J. West, prominent
Atlanta citizen.
Mrs. Martin was bopn in .lion
roe county and spent practically
her entire life in that section.
After her marriage to Mr. Martin
In 1868 they lived at tho Martin
homestead In Crawford county
until 20 years ago, when the fam
ily moved to Cullcden. m<»\ing to
Atlanta from that ritv tin . \. ;ti -
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. .WASHINGTON.—(jP)—A mini
mum of fifteen cruisers represents
tho absolute need of the navy to
protect American commerce In
time of war in the opinion of Ad
miral Charles F. Hughes, chief of
noval operations, ho \ declared
Monday before the house naval
committee, that this number of
cruisers should always be on hand
in .dvenfc of emergency.
The admiral said that the total
minimum requirements in cruis
ers strength was forty three, of
which number twenty eight would
I l»o required for work with the
[fleet and other assignments.
Hu added that If fifteen cruisers
wore not available. 1t would be
practically impossible for the
navy to afford adequate protec
tion to America'i far-flung trado
routes.
Representative McClintic. detn.
ocrat. Oklahoma, insisted that the
navy should have additional air-
/piano carriers and questioned
Hughes ns to his views regard-
ing this typo of fighting ship oh
compared with cruisers. Tho ad
miral did not discount the value
of tho uircraft carriers hut said
that his recommendations for s
total of forty three cruisers rep.
escuted In his opinion, the mini
mum need of the navy.
!E OF
SMI COLLEGE
r n nuinuiiPiMOTn
r. u. unnuniim u iu
ilccd InvesUcaUnB- committ.v I NATIONAL GUARD
w hich was . xpeeled to report
Monday, would recommend ho bo
allowed a hearing on tho floor.
TWO ARRESTED FOR
ALLEGED VIOLATION
TRAFFIC LAW HERE
Robert Wilson and’Pearl Daven
port, negroes, were arrested Sun
day. One. Wilson, was charged
with driving a car intoxicated. He
drove the car into the curbing
the Southern depot, ft is waters of Mob Jack Bey to pre
stated. Davenport is charged with I Teat a renewal of the “oyster
reckless driving, , _ i war”, - A ^^ ^
WILL PREVENT
“OYSTER WAR”
.GLOUCESTER ^COURTHOUSE,
Va. —(/P)— CItiZ',#J of Gloucester
county adopted a policy oT pa
tient wnitiug Monday as national
guardsmen patrolled the rn-v-h'
near Severan Wharf ami steamers
loaded with soldiers cruised tho
NORTHAMPTON. Maas.—(UP).
Every agency was in use Monday
in an attempt to solve- the mys
tery of tho disappearance of Miss
Frances St. John Smith, attractive
Smith Clolcgo freshman, who has
not been seen since Friday.
The ''girl’s disappearance was
likened to that of Miss Alice Cor.
bett, who disappeared from the
collego on Friday, November-13,
1925. She has never been acen
since.
The day of Miss Smith's disap-
pearance was Friday, the 13th.
Miss Smith, attractive daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. St- John Smith
of Now York, has been somewhat
despondefit over her scholastic
standing it'was said. While her
work was not exactly unfavorable,
college authorities said, she had
worried considerably about it
AUTO ON ’FIRE
C. C. Wall’s automobile, parked
on Washington street, blazed up
Monday morning. The firemen
answered the call. The car was
not damaged considerably, R ■* «
stated.
A hundred or more workers for
the Boy Scout drive will meet at
the Georgian Hotel tonight at 1
o’clock for dinner, final instruc
tions nnd assignment of territory.
Tomorrow they will go out with
the determination of going “Over
the Top” before night. Their goal
is $7,u00, which will not only pro-
idc tho necessary expense of
operating the Boy Scout Council
in Athens, but it will also provide
a week-end camp that will be
available for use by all the boys
of Athens who are Boy Scouts or
Bey Rangers.
There are approximately two
hundred and fifty Roy Scouts, Boy
Rangers and Scout officers in
Athens present and by the end
of 192*, there will be not less
than four hundred boys who will
be reached by this great program
for boys.
At the dinner meeting at the
Georgian Hotel tonight, Mr. F. D.
Chadwick, Regional Scout Execu
tive, in charge of Georgia, Flor
ida, North Carolina and South
Carolina, will be present and make
an address to the? workers.
Mr. H. B. Ritchie, president of
the Northeast Georgia Council,
Boy Scouts of America, will
sign the various teams their ter
ritory and the actual work will
begin Tuesday. A special effort
\.ill l»e made to get a.^ many small
subscriptions to the Boy Scouts
os possible.
VISIT OF 0. S.
HAVANA, C u b a.—
(UP) — Cuba Monday
heaped fresh homage
upon President Calvin
Coolidge, son of the Ver
mont hills.
He trod again the rose-
strewn paths over which
on Sunday he passed while
300 unlocked their hearts
to honor him in the rich
ness and fullness of Latin
hospitality.
Ho had received on Sunday a
reception outdone only by tho
Latins of France and Italy for
Worodrow Wilson in their first
great outbursts of enthuslaHm to
wards him at the end of-the World
war. Cuba openod Its portals to
Calvin Coolidge and bado him u
welcome which amazed his party
and overjoyed the silent man treat
the granito hills of New Eng
land.
Spontaneous and brilliant as
was the Sunday reception, Mon
day’s homage bade fair to eciipae
the first outburst. The President
was to leave before 10 a. m.. the
vast stone palaco of his boat.
President Machado of Cuba, to
speak before the sixth Pan-Ameri
can Conference a uiof £oC&
will and friendship of the uo-call-
sister republics of the American#.
Cuba proclaimed for ttlg ocoto s
sion a national holiday. . r'
And, with all the charm of
I-atln generosity, the nation,
through it* magnificent capital
city, turned out en masse early
Monday to shout again Its wel
comes. strew his pathway with
flowers and say to him In ihfl
fervor of tho southland that it a|b ♦
precitat'd his gesture of goodwill '
in Journeying to a foreign store.
The calendar of the President ;
and Mrs. Coolidge was full. Th*
National Theatre filled early with
Latin and United States who
madn ready to .greet the Presdient .
and his speech/
Thereafter the President’s party
was to motor fen President Macha
do’s estate, outside the city, par.
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FAVORABLE TRADE
BALANCE SHOWN
FOR AMERICA
WASHINGTON. —(UP)—
ports during 1937 totalled $4,866.-
160.000, as compared with M468,-
660.000 In 1936, the Commerce Oe.
purtmerit announced Monday.;
There was a favorable trade
balance of |681.707,000.
Imports fdr the same period
wero $4,184,453,000 as compared
with $4,430,888,000 in 1926.
Imports were $246,435,000
than last year.
AIR PASSENGER
SERVICE STARTED
TO CUBA MONDAY
KEY WEST, Fla.—(UP)—With
sixteen passengers on hoard, two
Fokker seaplanes took off for Ha
vana, Cuba, at 7 a. in. Monday on
the first trip of an airplane pas
senger servico between tho two
cities.
Two planes. General Machado
and Key West, expected to reach
tho Cuban city, 100 miles away, In
i hour.
PROBE COLLISION
HAHNVILLE. La. —(UP)— A
grand Jury probe probably will be
made into the collision at Narco,
near here Sunday between the
Carnegie Steel Corporation tow
boat. City of Pittsburgh and a
launch operated as a ferryboat iu
which seven personH were drown-
RELIEF IRE BEGUN
BEFORE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON —(UP)— Tho
farm relief Campaign began fn tho
house Monday.
Hearings opened before the
house agriculture committee with
representatives of farm organiza
tions outlining an almost com
pletely unified demand for legis
lation based on the equalisation
feo plan of the McNary-Haugen
bill, which was killed by presL
dentlal veto in the last congress.
Representatives of all the na
tional farm organizations except
the National Grange Sunday
agreed to stick by the McNary-
Haugen bill. F. W. Murphy. Min
neapolis, chairman of the legisls-
tlvo committee of the Grain Beit
Federation of farm organization,
announced.
In the senate, a vote on the Me-
Master resolution, advocating equ
alization of tariff plans by low
ering high rates on industrial
commodities, was scheduled tor.
three o'clock Monday afternoon*
The senate debated this proposal
all last |