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ATHENS, GA.. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1938.
INCREASES OVER KIKCStlNKSS
Dally tad Sunday—13 Cents a.Week.
A. (I. C. Paper. Single Copies 2 Cents.
S Cents Sunday.:
Packages Left In
'Auto Invite Petty
Thefts, Chief Says
Chief Beusse again warns shop
rini
pefa tfbout leaving package* in
cam. parked down town. At this
times of the year there it always
a lot of petty thefts and taking
packages from autos is a favorite
’e<pralv court
morning won Judge
Iveavcr of. Macon. pr<
pmong* the officials /
<br.;the session of/ne court
W. A. Bootle, /ting dis-
attovney; Walto/J* Grace,
Bstant distinct atto/ey; George
IjVhitc, cJerk; Saif Purvis, U.
|marshal; E. *F. flifton, chief
m- Buindial; /. L. Dent,j
; crȣr; Edt/ml Swinson,
kry- to Judia/ Beaver; and.
"i uada Dost/r. clerk to the'
i attorney/
Bases involving violation of the
leral f pi*rh/6iLion law were
U fhnt. Bur win Fields was
leaded, to/. three months im-
jotJJxmt for violating the pro-
atjh Iayr, Pope Manders was
M/f60; -Johnny Johnson, sen*
ej to two months imprison-
Jerry Starke, fined $100;
: V. Fcrgdrson, sentenced to
Rnonths imprisonment; Henry
»q*r. fined $50; Will May-
(rlffined &0; Sarah Statum,
#$25; Priiicc Kv Erwin, fined
T. f). A. Pittnnn, given a
fiationary sentence: John
bs,* fined $100, all for viola-
•f the* prohibition law.
wocim Riving her name as
erne Palmer and residence as
■JdC, *vas fined $200 for vio-
m of-the prohibition law. Joe
te, driver of. the automobile
rh tne Palmer womnn said she
wrating, was fined $200,
irper C..Hawkins, who was
f up on the Tfitul and was
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■WASHINGTON* —(A*)— Congress
assembled anil prepared Itself in
short order Monday fo rthe three
busy months ahead and for tho
special session Herbert Hoover has
promised should It be necessary for
farm relief.
Meeting after a six months recess
the two branches were rapped tto or
der by /Vico President Dawes and
Speaker Lomrwbrth. They wrtit
through the formalities of getting
themselves officially organised a'nd
then adjourned tint!! Tuesday when
the annual message of President
Coolidge will be read. Tho adjourn,
ment was out of respect to those
me ml tiers of tne senate and house
who died during the recess.
^Stores will be pleased to have
amers leave packages until
ers are ready to go home
I It is unsafe to leave anything
t value in automobiles.
IlCJt DRIVE IB
El !I«!B; TO
OPED DRIVE OR TRESIUV
GEORGE W.
i CRAWFORD DIES
INAUANTA
EAST AND SOUTH
ON HIGH WINDS.
Hrs. George W. Crawford d*ed
itcrday at the home or her
lUghter, Mrs. S. O. Smith in At*
Jrta. after an illness of severa!
[onths.
Mrs. Crawford was Mis.-: Dora
ehn, before her marriage to the
• Mr. George W. Crawford. Shi
born in Madison county, but
ltypd in Athens ihlrt-/-f.»'e
year*, where she wa* i member
of the Prince Avenue Baptist
Church. She is survived by her
Monday night marks the fdrmal opening of the
Y. W. C. A. maintennace campaign when the team
workers and committees gather at a supper meeting
for final instructions before taking the field Tues
day. The budget for 1929 necessitates a goal of
$8,264.35, and the campaign leaders are of the opin
ion that Athens can easily afford this amount and
will give it for her girls.
With “All Together for Athens
and Her Girls'* as a slogan, a
lar.re number of prominent men
and women of the city will ask
the citizens to support an organ
ization that has proved itself an
important part or he community
life. This has been designated as
“Girls' Week/* and with the
team workers willingly giving
daughter Mrs. S. O. .Smith, two i their time and effort, it is cx-
2° n i J* G * Crawford, and pcctcd that every citizen will do
L. P. Crawford and three grand
children, Miss Margaret Sm.lh
add George Smith *f Atlanta and
Mias Janolle Crawford of Athens.
The funeral will bo held Tiw i
(NEA Washington Bureau).
Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, is shown
as he hangs the gavel that opens the ‘lame duck” session of .Con
gress. Important measures, such as farm relief. Muscle bhoals.
the Kellogg Pence Treaty and others, arc scheduled for disposition
at tho^ short session.
!l P Pill IPTiniU ATHENIANS IN GROUP URGING
VASrflNGTON. —(UP)— Ai
aso of world cotton produ. -
of; X0.7 per cent in 1928,
in reports received by
rUhited States Department'of
ricidture from foreign coun
.Monday.
i.044 090 Sor the saimr'Vountries
orld profluctieve’Tn 1927
F fHIWIWU/.
luntrie. reporting gave csti
itcs of lliolr crop, 1^7,319.000
Ms of. 478 pounds liet againdt
Ajl- Ijjcrauf In atreago planted
was reported.
'rum wh.i'h reports
Mid 72,7*13,000 acres
this year com-
»red vkfi 66,004,000 In I927.B
Tho t< il world acreage in 1927
us 13,8 1,000 and the reports in-
icate at ncroave ol 10,2 per cent.
|P£ ER PUND IS PLACED ON UNHID
PRi;S ALL-AMERICAN TEAM; MIZELL
IWIS PLACE AT HALF ON 2ND TEAM
Cent* Pund
(i'uan Gibson ..
lack, -DoUfls ...
,nd/f»ssler . *.* •
Harpjtcr
itrong ....
[alff'aglc ....
ul.’l k—Carroll
ClSlCAGO.-^A 1 )— The mercury
hud a sinking spell over the north-,
tares that prevullcd in Montana and I
west Monday uud sub-zero tempera* i
tho Dakota overnight were riding
cast and south on winds of gale
force. •
The frigid wave was attended by
»ow ilurries and heavy fall wus re-
(Milted a beu t Duluth; Minnesota.
helping the
Young Womun’u Christian Asso
ciation to carry out its program
for 1929. The fiscal year of- the
. v w, t Association runs from January
mprning at 11:39 at Pleasant to January, eo a pledge made
m county, this week is not due until 1929,
T. W. Tippett of the Prince | which means that unpaid amounts
enoe Bapti« ehareh offic.atme. I KubKribcd last November will
following nephews wjil' not be past due for another
as pallbearers, and are iiik-, month.
. j n making out the budget for
1929 the finance committee made
every item as small aa possible
to carry out an effective pro
gram. Hence, it is essential that
the goal be reached if the organ-
. . . .. ftmctk>n as it should
* to met at McDominn-ltrulge j
n o'clock: Messrs. R. W.
j P. L. Glenn, John Sorrell*,
ton Crawford, A. D. Weir and
Dillard.
lin il>i ’ BEATH TAKES EZRA — —“ »
OUTLAW WAR BETWEEN NATIONS
if Ijtin, Ui’iycralty of
John D. Mosr, manufuc-
Nineiy-Scvcn Percent of
National Council. Nat-i ong thc Uc0lyi . mkm]xn ,t
lonal Economic League lh( . Council arc, Ilowdre Phinky,
Favors Senate of U. S. newspaper publisher, Augusta;
Judge (». Ogden Persons, Forsyth;
Approving Pact.
Ninety-seven per cent of th^
gue, including five prominent At!i-
nans, favors ratification by the
: enate of the Kel’og;'-Briand
Treaty for the renunciation of war
instrument of national po!-
..!»mark;~Norrii Dakota, .war the
old Kpot o; the Uni cd Htatcs MdAf
day with, a temprature of 8 degree
below zero. .' j
BAPTISTS MEET
MONDAY FOR
CONVENTION
MEEKER, AG^D
PIONEER
every person will be seen in tl
allotted time, December 3-7, and
that all subscriptions will be in
at tho last meeting Thursday eve
ning.
Thc following is an itemised
list of disbursements:
General Administration—
CONSOLIDATE VOTE
IN ELECTION OF
LASTSATURDAY
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II
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' LONDON. — (UP) —
Thc King of England lay
gravely ill today. His
heart weakened under
thc strain of his lung in
fection and oxygen was
administered to bolster
his strength.
. SANTIAGO. Chile*—<#)—Pres* lllirei
idem Ibanez Monday wa„ on the Salaries Secretaries,
-nredUn* relief measure j I Girls’ Work, Health
ftr the surviviire of an earthquake Education and Rocrea-
which devastated a iarne area 1601 tion *3,000.00
miles to. the eouth of Santiago. | Conferences 300.00
K. A. Pound, state school super
visor, HokoSniith, Atlanta; W.J.
Vereen, Mbuitrie. manufacturer; u» t mlnlstere and laymen ttom than 400 injured.
Hi- \[f oodru.I, financier Dr. i^- r (j.-«.rtrln and other stateea l»cqan ar- _ Martial law was established
THOMASVTLLE, OA-, -iA 1 )— Bap-
A casualty list compiled from
various -unofficial sources, placed
the death toll at 230 with more
membership af the National Coun- tyu ‘.ian, president AVe*lcyan Co.- riving here MoMnday in preparation Talca and Industrial city of 30,090
oil of the National Economic Lea- lege, Mueon: H. M. Atkinsb.i, f 0r tj*© 107th annlversarj* of the persons which apparently bore the
Cnairman of thc Board, Georgia Ovorgia ltuptlnt Convention which brunt of the quake. Official ad-
Power Company; .iarold Hirscn, open* with un evening ncsalon Tucs- vices fro mthWc said that onlv*
Atlanta; John W. Grant, Atlnnla .,1,,,. 10 per cent of the house* were
financier; Dr. C. C. Harrold, Ma-1 Although no regular meetings' habitable.
c . on . ; Hastings, Atlanta; n rc achedulrd !>cfoiv Tuesday night, i Refugees arriving from Taira
Judpe iWilliam H. Barrett, Au-1 u is t'xpected that numerous com- estimated that the damage there
yht wu, go into session in tho would amount to about $,12,000,.
Contingent Expenses
250.00
Thc five \the iian-r who are
members of the Council are: I)r.
U. P, Brooks, dean of thc Univer
sity tf Georgia .School of Com
merce, Andrew C. Erwin- Secre
tary Southern Mutual Insurance
Company, Harry Hodtr^on, manu
facturer, Prof. \V. D. Hooper, pro-
gusta; Preston
Arkwright,, 1 m i t ',
7
\Vith'l ^4 v i ct ‘ ani ^ assistance of coaches, and officials from every
ction i thy .country, the United Press’ .AU-Ameriean Elevens for
2$fttW aqied today by Frank Getty, United Press sports editor.-
m seb ion represents a concensus of opinion of more than 100
idiron tjicrts who have seen these players, and others accorded
norab nention, in action this season
FIRST TF.A
FIRST TEAM
Poeiti -Name —School
Tackl Pommerenging .. Michigan
GunnfRobesky Stanfoitl
...-, Georgia Tech
Minnesota
Washington and Jefferson
Ohio State
, Carnegie Tech
... New York University
.... ...... ’Army
........... Washington
SECOND TEAM
Gua wBrown
—School
Minnesota
Pittsburgh
... Florida
. Princeton
Vandcrbilf
Tac! i-Nowack .... .... v .. ...... Illinois
End 'ranklnn .... < -.ML Mar;/»
Qua rv-Williams ^
Half ck—Mifc<dl .. GoerttaTT^h
Half rk-rBuitker 'pliant*
FsIIA^Seull ...Penn.
Posi nr-Namc
End l$rnn
Tac f Hibbs
Gua ganders ..
Ctn iV-Moynihan
Guif-LMeMulIen .
THIRD TEAM
. —Schbul
B*rea
.. Sf. M. U.
Ni4tro J Dsme
, ,.T NetgSsku
Uidfrbilt
Oreg on Aggies
^ Detroit
president Georgia l ower Company
Robert C. Alston, Atlanta attor
ney; Mills B. Lane, Savannah,
banket; Clark Howell, Atlanta,
newspaper* publisher; Bolling H.
Jones, Atlanta; Sanders McDaniel.
Atlanta; Louie D. Newton, editor
Christian Index; Orville A. Park,
Macon lawyer; j. J. Pelley, presi
dent Central of Georgia Railroad;
Edgar Watkins, Atlanta lawyer^
Ilato T. Durham, Lee Ashcraft,
Atlanta.
Executive Council
The Executive Council of thc
National Economic League fol
low!
John Hays Hammond, mining
engineer; William Allen White,
Editor The Emporia Gazette;
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> OF Mill Mil
morning and nfternoon to complete 000.
reports to be of.'cred during the con- ‘
vention which continues until
Thursday afternoon.
COMPANY TO BUILD
IT THOM. 61.
CHATHAM, Va. —(UP)— A
shorting affray said to be the r:
sultiof a family ifed was blam^i
for (the death of one youth and
thc [critical wounding of another
at a country dance in Pennsyl
vania county early Sunday morn
ing.*
Lfster Brandner. was kil'ed
and his brother, Vaden, is in a
hospital here at tho coin*, of
death from w*ounds said to nave
been, inflicted whoa Ha* Ciihf«!
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP>—A spe
cial dispatch to tho Atlanta Jour
nal from Akron, Ohio, Monday
said it was learned from authori
tative sources that the B. F. Good
rich Rubber Company will Imme
diately invest between $3,000,000
and $4,000,000 nt Thomaston, Ga.,
taking over a 32,000 spindle tire
and factory mill now operatod by
thc Hightower interest# in that
plucc, and practically trebling its
opacity. ■_
DR. PARK SAID
TO BE RESTING
EASILY MONDAY
H.idqturUr.—
Janitor—Wages f
Insurance
Printing and Office
Supplies .............
Postage
Telephone and Telegraph
Light. Gas and Coal ....
denning Supplies ..
Returns for the election held in
thc county Saturday for Treaa-
orcr, justices of thc peace and
Bailiffs were consolidated Monday
at nopn.
In sento of the districts no an-
nouncements were made for jus
tices and Bailiffs and the old of
ficials continue in office. Follow
ing are the figures:
For Treasurer:
Crane .'.374
• Smith 864
Tuck- 607
For bailiff, 216th District:
Huff 1212
Kinney 611
Strickland ........1112
Huff and Strickland wet, ciect-
fl^isIS'Xi^/wiVo^pcieWtf
justice of the peace and received A “*
1562 votes.
In ihe 218th district F.. K. Greer
was named bailiff and in the 220th
R. E. Carter was elected justice
and R. E. Johnsonian.! J. H. Glenn
bailiff*. H. E. D'dnlap and F. D.
Tuck-also received votes for 4ail-
iff
J. P. Nunnally was re-elected
Justice in the 211st and W. B.
Xunnhtiy was elected bailiff.
R. M. Todd was elected Justice
in the 219th an! H. C. Hall bailiff.
FENN, INJURED IN
^WRECK, SUCCUMBS
Anxious subjects crowded about
the palace gates, the few hun
dreds there representing thc mil
lions in tho British Empire who
shared their vigil from thc ends
of the earth.
Thc Queen bravo!:,- faced anx-
ioura during the night with her
d *“8 ht ". Princess Vary, at her
side. The PrLve-ef Wales, heir
to the throne, raced home JYom
Africa on the fastest cruiser iti
the British navy.
Four of the most expert medi
cal men in Britain waited on the
King, staying with him most of
the night.
At 11 a. m., an attendant hur
ried across the court yard of
Bucknigham Palace toward tlm
gates, bearing an official bulle
tin.
The news he boro was encour
aging, and the formality that
surrounds thc throne was broken.
He could not wait to post his
news and as he neared the gates
ho called to the waiting throng:
“There is a slight improvement
^SUNDAY NIGHT
100.00
25.00
COBDELE, Ga.—<47—Dr. R. E.
Farit, head «f the department of
English at the University of Geor
gia, injured in an auto accident
neer here Saturday, was reported
Monday to be resting well. His
Injuries are not considered seri
oua.
GEORGIA PASTOR
DIES MONDAY IN
FLORIDA
SON OF FAMOUS
POET CALLED
BY DEATH
fire with a revolver in .after a week of illness,
of a crowd of panic- “■
dancers.
>s being held in ihe
join -.n a i hargo of mtir-
fired at William
r, father of tho two young
said, but went wild,
ng was attributed te
hleh has existed bv-
Gibson and Rrandm-r
. Florida families) for several month*.
FRESHWATER, Isle of'Wight.
—(AP)—Baron Tennyson, son of
Alfred Lord Tennyson, ia dead at
the age of 76 years.- He suc
cumbed to congestion of the lungs
TECH TICKETS OX \
SALE AT COSTA'S
Approximately 206 tlabels
Approximately
for the Georgia-Tech VBHHN
on sale at Costa*! cafe. These
tickets will be joa sale until
.Thursday and may bo -purchas
ed by any one desiring them.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fit.—OP)-
Rev, H. F. Harris, native of Geor
gia, noted minister of the South
ern Methodist Church Conference
endi active in the ministry for
the ;pnst 22 yeers, died suddenly
here Monday morning, death being
attach.
61.years old.
Repairs—
Improvement and
Repairs
!$ 815.00
Activities—
Finance Committee ..
.8 25.00
Membership Committee
. 100.00
Girl Reserve.
. 200.00
Publicity
26.00
Contacts ..
60.00
Bills Payable-
Heating Plant Note ..
8100.00
...8 700
Interest on Camp Note.
. 480.00
National and Foreign
Work
278.00
Campaign Expenses .. .
360.00
.Total
21,818.00
38,264.36
CORDELE.—Fred E. Fenn, ?j
years old. died Sunday midnight
from injuries sustained In an au
tomobile crash here Satjrday.
Dr. R. E. Park nnd R. M. Soule,
of Athens, were alec inlurcd in the
same accident. Their injuries are
not considered serious.
Funeral services nnd interment
for Mr. Fenn will be conducted
here at 11 o'clock Monday morn*
Jng.
"Thank Godl Thank God!’’ scv.
oral cried.
It was understood that Sir
Stanley lfcwett, surgeon and
apothecary to tho King, v.-as in
touch with the conditions at tho
palace during the entire night
and that ho apparently had been
assure his associate,
Lird Dawson of Penn, that the
crisis in the Kings illness had
passed—nt any rate, momentar-
Thc latest bulletin said:
"Tho King had three hours
since the Inst bulle-
J rature is now 992.
ght improvement in
his general condition.
“Stanley Hcwctt.
"Dawson of Penn."
Thc previous bulletin had been
issued at 12:10 a. m. and said:
“The King had some sleep dur
ing tho last three hours. Bariy
consultation confirms thc opinion
expressed in the lest bulletin
that in spite of improvement in
i no icing i
quieter sleep si:
tin. His temper:
There is A sllgt
Murray Soule, who was driving
the car that struck the Fenn au
tomobile when it drove into the
mein highway from a blind road,
reached Athens Sunday. He was
not seriously injured. Dr. Perk
remained In Cordele but expects
to be out this weak, it was stated
Sunday. -
SEVERAL SOUTHERN GRID STARS ARE
HONORED BY HENRY L. FARRELL IN
HIS ALL-AMERICAN TEAM FOR THE NEA;
PETER PUND MAKES FIRST ELEVEN
LONDaXrHXV^ta^ey Bali
man of the naval affairs commit
tee of the United States house of
representatives, that thc latter':
proposal for a conference on naval
affairs by legislative committees.
Was "interacting" but that he
would not express a definite opin-
ion on it -because the United Staf-’
os government had not been con-
suited.
•TAV ON THE FARM I
HOLLYWOOD.—A disrountging
bit of news for the farmer boy
and girl who would be a scintll.
iathur movie star: In the Central
:/Casting Company there are 11,000
I dailty applicants for jobs as ex.
lira*, pf this number, only NO
are hired and the average earn.
- Ipgs rarely exceed IS5 ( week.
Ill' I1E.NKY L. FARRBLI.
NBA Service Sports Editor.
There is one thing unfortunate
shout thc business of picking Sn
All-American football team aside
from the futility of trying
name eleven men out of eleven
hundred who ere the best players
in the country.
Thc unfortunate thing is that,
while the All-America teams are
treated with scant seriousness by
the public at Urge, the selections
nrc taken most seriously by thc
young athletes themselves.
The footbpll writer who travels
around extensively meets some of
tho finest hoys in the world. Val
uable friendships are established
and it is no pleasure to sit-down
at a typewriter and writs a good
friend nnd a young man you ad
mire extremely out of a
that he would give a part
boys in later years who had been
named or omitted from the teems
that *he manufacturer of thie
piece had to pick in his line of
routine duty.
his lung, anxiety concerning tin*
strength of his heart persists^ -
"Stanley Hcwctt.
“Dawson of Penn.
« "E. Farquhar Bnzaard.
“L. E. H. Whitby/’
ON WAY
JOHANNESBURG, South Afri
ca.— (UIM—It was reported from
Rhodesia that the Duke of Clous-
ter was expected to reach VMori“
Fails Monday. He probably will
remain there two days, arriving
nt Bulawayo on Thursday anJ
leaving for the eouth the sernq
day cy mail train.
SPEEDING iHOME
LONDON!—(UP)—The Prince
of Wales and his younger brother
were speeding to the bedside it
their father, thc King of England.
Monday.
Wales was on board the cruiser
Enterprise, making nearly M
knots an hour ns it forged up the
East African coast for Sue* a*,
tho 'Red Sea terminus of the Sues
Canal. fvi
The EntorpMle left Dar-Es-Ss-
am Sunday at 10:30 a. m.
The DtOjt Mail raid it under
stood that the South African gov.
[ emmont had approved of the pro-
the depar
The point is illustrated in tholpoud to delay the departure of
sc of Al la*8man, the Naur the ma.! steamer Balmoral Castle
Yolk University tackle. He is
one of thc finest tads that ever
stopped into a shoe. * lie has
every characteristic of n gentle
man and a sportsman and he is
a great football player. Bat ha
is not'on the Grit team. He may
never know that he wasn't and
co:tainly wouldn’t care much If it
happened to be brought to his
attention. But it is painful to
leave him off. And the aame ap
plies to Pommerening, the Mich
igan tackle.
But, you may be asking, what
: with ' *
in the event thc Duke of Glow cm-
ter failed to arrive at Cape Town
Friday.
FEARS INCREASED
LONDON.—Id’J —Fears of iu*»-
pending calamity v.hicti had Kn.<*
ped the British pjllic throughout
the tught, aftqr H was lunrn?.i
that King George had been given
oxygen nnd that his long illness
menaced his heart, were somewhat,
allayed by the doctor* report is
sued 3Ionday morning, th«* report
said that the King's condition wna
/
has this to do With the business at ’ slightly improved.
^HtMtiv^^Sr^r bis | band. And the answer ia nothing. | Yluie remained in ■ _
hide to have. You may laugh at jit ian’t exactly an aHbi_bccauce j Mlnd.htfwcvCT L a cant! BrUml
pub!:-*
mat nan;. iw nui>i wuiunu ~
the idea that anyone can have hist All-America teams canf bo all-l the King wna flghtl
feelings hurt by the opinion of anlbied, Tho process of picking anlurith the issue stil’
dieted expert. We laughed at 1 All-America team is similar tf>j
the"idea until we met • lot o( the (Turp to Page IVttJ
.