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ATHENS, GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928
A.B. (
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&*f Christmas Shopping Gets Underway In Athens
A SPUD DISPLAY
OFDOgiNIS
IS MENS STORES
Althonirh' Christmas is
two weeks away holiday
shopping has commenced
here artl' is daily picking
wp in volume, with ip-
creasing numbers of
NorfheaatiOeorgians com
ing here on missions for
Ss-t" r r Ai»*.
Athens’ stores hare opened their
toylands early' with a large as.
aortmCnt ofpresentH for children,
• emphasis be'ng p’aced, It aeema,
on macbanteal toys tor boys. How.
erer, the old I'm ot boys' pres,
onts such as'footba’ls, guns, bicy
cles. arc still popular. Much
more iattetiUon Is being paid to
construct'vd toys this year than
ever be.'ore, It li Indicated.
Window" dlbplays tor the vari.
ous stores ate very attractive,
with wear’ng apparel In the men's
nnd women’s shops .attracting
much attention. (Articles ot c'oth.
lag always' appeal As Christmas
gltu and the early shoppers are
‘ already, taking home bundles to
be hlddennawar unt'J Christmas
atone by tfllng, a long-tett need of
the home and passing as a Chr at.
maa gift for tho husband or w'fs
and sometimes both, are also be.
lng bought' for' Christmas deliv.
ery.
Athena merchants have Invited
shoppers In the c'ty and ont ot
town to vls't their atorea early In
order that they may see the ear.
led collection of toys tor cbl’dren
and the splendid line ot Chr'st-
maa goods for children nnd grown
people.
GIG® MURDER
As Congress Went to Work
OF KING SERVING
HI III IN HIS
FIGHT FOR LIFE
LONDON.—(tf 1 )—King George’*
powers of resistance Friday were
serving him well in his battle ivitfo
these severe and persistent Illness
which attacked h m more than a
fortnight ago. His illness, hotfr«
ever, was still causing anxiety-to
hit subjects ami to coiyitless well
wishers throughout thir world.
Several recent medical'bulletin*
and especially one shortly before
noon; Friday indicated how
his powers of resistance were
serving him.
The bulletin reported hi';-war
maintaining his general strength
to the bclsicring up of which some
restful sleep tlmt he had during
the night douLtless contributed.
Radiccardiagraphs of King
George attain were takv at Buck-
in*** am Palace Friday afternoon.
It was understood that the ob-
Icsc -♦ -K ft x-nv investigation was
to study the right side of thu cnesc
wuete ihe-tmectkn has become
localised and defined.
A ' Red Cross rad«ograpki» car
was used for the process
GREAT TEAM OF
ATHENS HIGH
HONORED BY
LOCAL MEN
i
Launching Christmas Drive
Hugh School
r.ll team.' undefeated in
ir last sixteen games, which
reoerd brought; them the unof
ficial state hi gh .school foot-
Ixgir champoinship last year
rad again tWo season, are to
be the gnestr of a group of
Athens busilesstnen st the
,n AU,n '
'■ > The . teem. Coach Wed
Brown and tie student mana
ger, will icave Athens Satur
day morning; as the gneat of
the local ■*<«, in appreciation
•’f the great work done ftr the
t'ayera'and Coach Brown In
htmilng two succnslvr titles
to the city. The players mik
ing the'trip will total 18 in
EPFS BRIDGE OPENED
WITH
SILT CREEK LEASE
A1 SAMUEL INSULL
TO 8E EIGHT BASIS
WASHINGTON—
(UP) — Preliminary or
ganization work finally
done. Congress and its
committees began to func
tion today.
The outstanding feature on the
Senate side was the scheduled np-
pcar.mce of Secretary of .State
Kellogg before tho Foreign Rela
tions committee to oxp’aln his
treaty, signed by fifty-nine ns-
tions, renouncing war. Tho Secre
tary was to face s mixed gather
ing of friends and belligerents.
Another bloc was being organ*
lied among Senators to contest
it bring connected to the King
bedrodtt by means of a cable, the
car st—.dmftin the Palace yard.
■ BE LATEST DESIGN.
I- 1 ?' -f ■■■-
New faces and old were seen In leglalat’ve halls as otfic’ol Wash
ington greeted the opening of the 71st Congress. Above are shpwn
Representative John Q. ’ulson ot Connecticut, left. Republican ma
jor ty leader, welcoming Speaker N cholas Longwortb. Below aro
Senator John Thomas of Idaho, le.t, successor ot the late Senator
Goodington, and Senator Otis F. Gienh, cf i::isois. taking the place
ot Senator-elect Smith, who w&s unsetaed.
Y.W.C.A. Drive Total
Reaches $5,400,With
652 Subscriptions In
( r <&EA Washington Bureau).
Accepting tho ordinal model If the o'd-gailecn wh ch Is pictured on
th.-* 1928 Christmas seals, Mrs. Calvin Ccolidge here ls/rhown opening .
the annual drive of the National Tnbcerculos ■ Assoplat on. Dr. Ken- ioSimation of Rov O
ds:i Emerson, managing director 6t th* organis^lon. fa presenting Iirominent Republican 7 leader ot
the sh p model with tho assistance^ of little * Jacquelyn (Krah, chl.d <l niCa g 0 us trvudcnt sCooIidce’s
health crusader. . ^ \ choice for Secretary of Interior.
—i 1 * I They aro getting ready to start
gm^ m ’ _■ .*,* I their light when the Pur.lie Lands.
Dress Reform Orders -. l «n- 1 a3ggff%gssLsrss:
.. - r • ; ■ ' _ I purticulacly West*. connection
* “t Afghanistan Instigating SEr-SSI
-r— • , SW* JWWylf • _ _ _ Ft.sk L >m:lh A
D/s.mits i nnn aro noan 1 who was denied a seat in
bridge frith; concrete foundations ItvVvllv JLIV ir V r%* W 1/wClii^ thn Senate because of contribu-
and one of the most substantial J • ' I jjpna received from Samuel Insull,
bridge m the county. The total- - ■— . „ _i “ ,e H*lnms publu- utilities mo*-
lengfh of the bridgi u^i82 Rebels Opposing Change* A RI70NA AND Sift -JH* for !? er, y *•» cl ™ [ y
: with it clenLr. roadway of 18 feet . n rr
[which is ample for two vehicles toi In Dress Say Kcionn
*"*■ Outrages Islam a_nd Kp-
Although the type of Influenza
fn Athens in mild, according to
reports reaching the Board of
Health the number of cases has
increased. The law does not re
quire physicians to report cases
ot Infuenza but general informa
tion in possession of the Health
Department indicates a larger
number of cases than last week.
Up to the present time
la in Clarke county have been
Health Depart
The Y. W. C. A. maintenance campaign closed ^ to th# „
officially Thursday night with a report of subicnp- m ent and there la not. likely to
tion* amounting to $5,400 a* a result of the three '-e any it each person will go to
uun* • Jr, ’ . • . I I bed as soon as the first symptom
day*' solicitation. That the team member* nave 0 pp ear!1 and stay in bed until their
worked diligently is evident by the large number of r^'cinn permit, them to get up,
subscriptions secured, there being a total of 652 gifts
reported.
i'iSx _ h,d PI “"* <, |SMtsr^sszf&s;
HUSBAND OF DEL
RIO IS DYING
' IN BERLIN
SOUTH ftMERICfl
BERLIN, Germany. — (UP) —
Jaime De Rio, husband ot Doiores
Del R'o, movie a'ar. waa believed
CinCAtoO—W—Gunmon rip
pled shotgun shells Into a car In
South Chlxfiro. Heights early Fri- .
day to Will Thomas Sean’on, less Because of Illness among team
than flveh omn after the srlllsge mombera and prospects a larg.
chief of police fell a victim of as- number of Association friend!
sasalhS. hare not ’icon solicited, but some
Kchflion was' shot in the head of. tho volunteers have offered Ic
a he rode ill Adam Soderberg’s see them later and obtain their
car un the Lincoln Highway. Four substrlptions. 1111. will protab.y
men waved flashlights, signa'llng '.ncreate the total by a aucstant a'
Sederberg to halt but he disre-,*um. The fa,thfulness and willing
gtirdod flirlr commands. Soder* spirit of the teams was one of t. *
burg, who war not injured, said outstanding features of the cam
*• believed the men h«d planner' ™ th<
sl-mf
in the V. W. C. A.
k * summary of the reports
(Torn to page two.)
A number of local University of
Georgia alumni will go to Atlanta
dur.ng Friday and be there for
the gjyne Saturday nnj to attend
the alumni dinner and entertain
ment at the Biltmcre hotel Friday*
evening. “Georgia Day” will be
centered in At’anta this year and
the dinner at the Biltmore hotel
will be the main event, followed
by a number of dances and privat-
entertainments in Atlanta.
WASHINGTON. P**e«- to be dying Friday. • | ■ Chancellor S. V. Sanford. Dean
ilsAfc* Hrnvefs goodwill Doctors said he probably would S. V. banford. Harold Hirsch,
tour to Kitftta'America will b« i not snrvlvo the weekend. H'i
fol'nwed by a .Imllar v'att of condition became grave when In.
tectlon set In niter an operat on.
Several families are keeping
their children home from school
for fear that they may catch the
j disease. Under the close school
inspection made daily by the
teacher or nurag the child is less
1 apt to catch the disease in school
| than when playing with other
(children on the street.
CANTON POLICE ARE
HUNTING 6IRL WHO
KILLED MAN. FLED
ran. Wholesale Slaugh.
ter Follows.
KABUL, Afghanistan.—(UP)—
tron work wli dbhe by the county
forcea and/ the steel work was
done iby the Austin Brothers
Bridge Comoany, ox- Atlanta. The
bridge is of the “rivetW through”!
tru«i» type designed to carry two!
fifteen ton trucks. The bridge ir More than 1,000 rebels have been
modenUy equipped and the latest U1Ied nMr lh0 m „ t Insurrection
Lpect? * 0 ' * ^ n '. tB Afghanistan, it was announced
The ujprh was done under the^ Fr,l ®* !r *
supervision of County Engineer The positions of the rebel
Homer ftlieholsan, who is one of tribesmen were bombarded by
the outstanding engineers of tho plane from time to time and the
country. ,H. H. Busay was in robe's d'aperaed.
charge of the work for the bridge! Important operations to enc'rela
company, i the rebels were continuing FH-
The former bridge at this place day.
waa a wooden structure. About a The Ehlnnar! tribes have been
year ago. It caught fire and was In revolt along the eastern frou-
completely destroyed. The origin tier berder'ng on Ind'a because
of the fire Jina never been dlscov- of tbe modernization program In-
ered, but it la believed to have eluding ansa reform laws ln3:t.
’ eon of au incndlary charaUr. tuted by lng Amanullah.
The county commissioners nr. The revolt waa caaasd by tm
to be congratulated on the bund- fanatlc'sm of 'Mullahs or pr'ests
ing of this sp)endul bridge. With. igmtj], to King Amanullah's re.
. - .... (orB)< T|)eJf ajaij, h |, orders
were contrary to tbe spirit of Is
lam and the commands ot the Ko
ran, When the King persisted (n
enforc'ng the reforms, he Incited
the tribesmen to revolt.
At the outset the government
CALIFORNIA
IN BATTLE
X* concrete foundations end steel
equipment. The county officials
have saved -money for the tax pay
er*. who aro indeed fortunate in
having officials of tho high tyn<
of character and business qual.fi-
< at ions of Commissioners J. H.
Griffeth, J. M. Hodgson, R. G.
Davis nnd Tate Wright, clerk and
county attorney and Homer Nich
olson, county engineer.
HEAVY SKIRMISHES
American sen forces, tbe Navy
Pengrtmant has announced.
Hatt’eehlrs. des'royera. cruisers
and submarines w'll be sent on
tbe 8oath American cruise tram
tbs combined Atlantic and Pa
cific fleets which wl'l mass in Pa-
c'fic waters. In January to teat
tha defense otthe Panama Canal.
The will mark the
greatest concentrat'on ot retted
Statu sea forcea Blnce the Pana
ma maneuvers of five yeare ago.
- PEARSON DIES
BALTIMORE, Md. —M>>— Ed-
wari 'J. Pearson, recently retired
prevldeut cf the New York. New
Haveh and Hartford Rsilroad.
dW^at Johns Hopkimr Hbsp|ta) jhar. along the gulf and In Flor
FLURRIES OF SNOW
FALLS FRIDAY
IN ATLANTA .
ATLANTA.—V/P,‘—A light flur-
rv of *now, disapiiearing before it
reached the ground fe’l here Frl-
(iny. Snow was not genera!
♦hreuehnut, the section, however,
according to the weather bureau
here.
Moderately law temperature?
prevailed at all sections except
CANTON, Ohio. -(I P)—Police
and county cffie*a!s Friday launch
ed a search for a girl who called
Bernard Fearo, 35 year* old, to
the porch of his home nt Wtco
Thursday night, and kii’ed him.
Five shots were fired into
president of the )Al uwn 5» Gordon Fearn's body. Before he died, he
S'ng’etcn, preside*!* of the Atlant i j told h*s wife he did not know the
Alumm chapter and others will
(Tara to Page Two)
U. D. C.'sUBJECT
MILLEDGKVILLE, Ga.—<JP>-
Mrs. J. L. Beeson, wife of the
president of the Georgia State
College for Women here and
chairman of the U. D. C. Histori
es’ E? say committee has announ
ced that the subject for the cs-
5j"'s in the prize contest this year
will be on th*» sur'lect of Benja
min II. Hill. The pssays last year
were cn Alexander H. Stephens
The awards for the best essays aro
ccmnahips for boys and girls.
Further details of. the essay
contest, onen to Georgia’s hun
dreds of thousands of rchool chil
dren, wi’l be announced at an
earljr date.
WASHINGTON^—VP)—Arizona
and Guiiferni* resumed their bat
tle ever Boulder Dam Friday in
the tfsste while tbe houae plug-
gad uong with tha Treasury post-
otfice bill with ita always attend
ant flurry of ‘ prohibition talk.
Committee* met in various sec
tions of tha two big eapitol of
fice buildings but ao very defi
nite leglgJAttve projects were put
underway tty them.
Bride of Few
Weeks Is Killed;
Husband Shot
FORT WORTH, Tex— VP) —
Mrs. Tom B. Owens, Jr.; bridge of
u few weeks, waa shot to death
as the sat in an auto on a high
way several miles west of here
Friday.
The fight on the Senate f!o>r
over the Johnson Boulder Dam
bill was being continued with little
change of lme-up, although advu-
cates of the measure were expend
ing confidence the bill would ho
Tho chief topic in the corridors
of the lower House concerned
what should be done about farm
rciief. Chairman Haugen of tho
agriculture committee was trying
to revive sentiment for the o.d
equalization fee nystem, but he
has had little success thus far.
Some memters of the committee
want to cable President-elect Hoo
ver to ascertain certainly whether
he will call an extra session of
Congress, but this move too has
failed so far to take root.
Most of the farm bloc in the
House as well a3 In the Senate
want to wait and handle the farm
otu along witn the tariff in a
special session next summer, so
they can use the tariff as a lever
on tho eastern bloc to push along
the farm bill.
Arrangements cf proceedings
far opening of tariff hearings Jan-
iieV'husband, Tom B. Owcn.,i™Y L, 'LL*
Jr., son of • prominent cotton ' imii
broker of New York, w.th offices
here, was brought to a hospital Tju” ,h<!
with bullet wounds In his body, I
tried persuasion but finally waa whle h »SrieiaM **3 nrolibly The committee spent this fore-
fur.ed to send three reslment. to J!L.bi JSaS?" “ ' |m>l) “ >ly | noon on the bill embodying the
the ret'on of JeTalabsd, where
the tribesmen set fire to a build-
ins. va!!#
GEORGE URGES
TARIFF RISE
ONJUTEYARN
WASHINGTON. —VP)— An in
crease in the tariff on Jute, Jute
yarns and peanuts will be pro--
posed by Senator George, Demo
crat, Georgia for the prospective
tariff rev.sion measure.
“A tariff of five cent* on Jute
and jute yarna”, he said Friday
“will result In an increase of on*
rent per pound on American
grown cotton, in round numbers
His will mean about *75,0)0,000
per year to cotton farmers."
_ ASUNCION, Paraguay.—(UP)—
girl, who, it was learned, calmly Tbe newspaper La Rason said
hc-d-d a Canton bus and disap-. Friday that aer'ous aklrm'she*
p earc d occurred on Um frontier Thursday
Fearn died in his wife's arms. 1 betw*e« Bolivian and Paraguayan
Sheriff G-bson was called and troopa.
questioned Mrs. Feam. The paper published tbe fol-
Fearn was dining with his wife lowing report:
and their 9 year old daughter! “Obeying ordes to establish “ i n/\AOPirpi
when Komehcdy rapped on the advance poet north of Fort 0*1-1 fllliyNf.Vr.I.l
front door. Po# Zn order to better protect
Mrs. Feam answered the knock Paaguayan territory, Paraguayan
and the young woman, described troopa went on a m'lltary mis-
by the wife a? “the Tapper type” slon which proved that the Bo-
csfced for Mr. Feam. Then she ltvians hod established a fort
stewed down off the porch. with'n Paraguayan territory.
TELLS OF
CEI
FROM HR FIRM
*25,000,000 Austrian dolt settle-
Llttle opposition is ex-
As Keam appeared she fifed
v .—n fell with five founds in his
body.
The girl ran out of the yard
and down the road. Sirs., Fearn
waa occupied by numerous sol.
dlera under the command ot a
copU'n.
"On tha Bolivians being Invited
t» withdraw, tbay refused —*
said. A few mbratea later aba*opened Fn, whereupon the Para-
CTtaR t* PW grams retaliate#,"
FARM
RELIEF PLAN IS
BRINGING_LETTERS
WARM SPEiNGS, Ga— VP) —
Franklin D. Roosevelt's expres
sions of farm relief as pertaining
to New York state, have brought
him hundreds of letters from
throughout the United Statea, he
aaid her, Frida/. . ,
GAINESVILLE, Ga.-GP)—The
Insurability feature of Adair bond
tranaaetlons and al'eged misrep
resentations by offieiaU, of the
deAmet Adair Rralty and Trust
Company of Atlanta, were dealt
with here Friday ot their trial on
charges of using the mails to de
fraud, . Officers and agents of the
St. Louis office of the Adair Re
alty and Mortgage Company were
the chief witnesses.
C.'L. Kauffman, manager of the
St Louis branch and a vice pres
ident of the Adair Realty Com-
nariy, said In the latter part of
January. 1927, tha same year in
which the Adair , Company was
plunged -Into bankruptcy, he was
ra’led to Atlanta and advised by
I On the House floor, the Treas
ury and Postoffice department ap
propriation bill was pushed elong
towsrd adoption. It Is the first
of the twelve government supply
bills. -Wets are contesting the
I Prohibition appropriations buz the
bill la expected'to pass without
much revision,
A rhort conference of House
and Senate radio devotees was on,
attempting to iron out a program
of radio legislation for the session.
Numerous minor radio hills aro
being considered.
WAR DEPARTMENT
TO MAKE FLOOD
CONTROL PROBE
WASHING TON. — <UP) — Aid
Investigation by tha War Depart
ment progress In carrying out tha
flood control net will be tnsdn
soon by tho house flood control
committee.
Jy Chairman Reed sa'd Friday
Frees E. Erwin, one of the four I there has been -"nrral disretu-
dofendents, that the company waa fkeitou of General Jadwtn, chief
in a bad financial state and that - of eng'neera. In gsrryia* out pro.
the Insurance would have to be ■ vta'ons relating to diversion", hut
discontinued. Ksuffmarf said he otherwise progress In coutrcf
returned to St Louis and issued I work has boon reported
these orders, to his salesmen, i saSWaetotz, 1/