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AAt A 5 et ot - ATHERS COTTON: ’ MIDDLING®, ... .18 7.8 PREVIOUS CLOSE " "18 7.8¢ | VOL. 98.. NO, 284, < Christmas Shopping Gets Underway In Aihens < | TO FIGHT WEST FOR SECRETARY OF INTERIOR A SPLENDID DISPLAY OF GORDG O XNAS 5 1% ATHENS STORES T 0 ATTRACT BUYERS Althoneh Christmas is two weeks away holiday shopping has commenced here and is daily picking up in velume, with in ercasing’ numbers of Northeast'Georgians com ing ‘here onw missions for Sgrta (Maus, Atheng’ stores have opened their toylands early’ with a large as sortmeént of presents for children, emphasis be'ng p'aced, it seems, on mechanical toyvs for boys. How. ever, the old ll'ne of boys’ pres enis such as footha'ls, guns, bicy cles, are still popular. Much more attention is being paid to construct've’ toys this wvear than ever belore, it fs indicated. Window ' displays for the vari ous stores are very attractive, with wear'ng apparel in the men’s and women’s shops attracting much a'tention. Articles of c'oth ing always appeal as Christmas gifts and the early shoppers are already, taking® home bundles to be hidden’away until Christmas Bve, A A 0 . Household furnishings, articles that' kill - twe birds with one stone by fi'ling a long-felt need of the home and passing as a Chr st mas gift for the husband or w'ie and sometimes both, are also be ing bought. for Christmas deliv ery. Atheng merchanis ‘have invited shoppers in the c'ty and out of town to vig't their stores early in order that they may see the var jed collection of toys for chi'dren and the splendid line of Chr'st mas goods for children and grown people, GANGSTERS MURDER DA AS HE RIDES I ITO FRIDAY CHICAGO.—(#)-—Gunmen rip pled whetgun shells into a car in South Chi=#zo Heights early Fri day to kill. Thomas Scan'on, less than fiveh ours after the village chief of police fell a vietim of as sassips. Scanlon' was shot in the head ag he rode in Adam Soderberg’s car on the Lincsln Highway. Four men waved flashlights, signalling Soderberg to halt but he disre garded their commands. Soder burg, who was not injured, said he relieved the men had planned a hold-up. U 5. HAVY PLANNING GOODWILL TOUR TO SOUTH AMERICA WASHINGTON. =(UP)~—Pres. tdontwloct, Heover's goodwill tour to Sotith’ America will be fol'owed by a similar visit of American sea fofces, the Navy Denartment has announced. Ratt'eships, des'‘royers, cruisers and submarines w’'ll be sent on the Sonth American cruise from the ecombined Atlantic and Pa oific fleets which will mass in Pa e'fic waters, in January to test the defénse of the Panama Canal. The war game will mark the greatest concentrat’on of United States sea forces since the Pana ma maneuvers of five years ago. » I ——— e - PEARSON DIES BALTIMORE, Md. —(#)— Ed ward J, Pearson, recently vetired president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, diqd at Johns Hopkins Hospita! THE BANNER-HERALD Daily and Sunday—l 3 Cents a Week. 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SRR LR ,& SR e G \\\‘ oA AR SR N N e I T PR N iRN s : RPR£ O 3 i R e - 5 3 e ‘New faces and old were seen in legislat've halls as offic’al Wash ington greeted the opening of the 71st Congress. Abcve are shown Representative John Q. 7Tiison of Connecticuf, left, Republican ma jor ty leader, welcoming Speaker N cholas Longworth. Below are Senator John Thomas of Idaho, le.t, successor of the late Senator Goodington, and Senator Otis F. Gienh, ct I:lisoig, taking the place of Senator-elect Smith, who was unsetaed. Y.W.C.A. Drive Total Reaches ss,4oo,With 652 Subscriptions In The Y. W. C. A. maintenance campaign closed officially Thursday night with a report of subscrip tions amounting to $5,400 as a result of the three days’ solicitation. That the team members have worked diligently is evident by the large number of subscriptions secured, there being a total of 652 gifts reported. feh e e T Because of illness among team members -and prospects a large number of Assoc:ation friends have not “een solicited, but some of, the volunteers bhave offered -ic see them later and obtain theix subseriptions. This will probably tnerease the total by a substantial sum. The faithfulness and willing spirit of the teams was one oLt cutstanding features of the cam pa‘em and was evidence that the Yeaders of the community believe in the' ¥. W, C. A. A summary of the reports (Turn to page two.) ' HUSBAND OF DEL RIO IS DYING ' IN BERLIN . BERLIN, Germany. — (UP) — Jaime De Rio, husband of Dolores Del R'o, movie s‘ar, was believed to be dying Friday. - Doctors said he probably would not survive the week-end, H's condition became grave when in fection set in after an operation. e s ™™ FALLS FRIDAY ATLANTA.—(#)-—-A light flur rv of snow, disappearing before it veached the ground fe'l here Fri day. Snow was not peneral +hroughout the section, however, according to the ‘weather Dureau here. * Moderately low temperatures prevailed at all sections excent those along the guif and in Flor sda, ¢ ATHERNS ATTEND UNIVERSITY DAY PROGRAN FRIDAY A number of local University of Georgia alumni will go to Atlanta during Friday and be theve for the game Saturday and to attend the alumni dinner and entertain ment at the Biltmore hotel Fridan 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 private entertainments in Atlanta. | Chancellor S. V. Sanford, Dean S V. Sanford, Harold Hirseh, | pregident of the Alumni, Gordon Singeton, president of the Atlanta Alumn: chapter and others will “Tura to Page Two) e G U. D. C. SUBJECT MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—(®)— Mrs. J. L, Beeson, wife of the president of the Georeia State College for Women here and chairman of the U. D. C. Histori cal Essay committee has announ ced that the subject for the es-| savs in the prize contest this year will be on the su-iect of Benja min H. Hill. The essays last year were on Alexander H. Stephens. The awards for the best essays are camuoships for hoys and girls, | Further details of the essay contest, onen to Georgia’s hun wireds of thousands of ¢chool chil—} dren, wi'l be ammounced at an oy date, .oo T 0 ATHENS, GA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 RESISTANCE POWERS OF KING SERVING M WELL T 8 HES FIEKT FOR LIFE LONDON —(#)—King = George's powers of resistance Friday were serving him well in his batt%e with these severe and persistent illness whicn attacked h'm more than a fortnight ago. His illness, how ever. was still causing anxiety to his subiects and to covntless wel!- wishers throughoui the world, Several vecent medical bulletins and esnecially one shortly before noon Friday indicated how we!l his powers of vresistance were gserving him. A The bulletin reported heé was ma:ntainizg his general strength to the holstering up of which some restful sleei, that he had during the night dourtless contributed. Radiccardiagraphs of King (George aguin were tak-p at Buck ine-am Palace Fridav afternoon. It was understood that the ob ier -+ -ha x-rav investigatior was to study the right side of the ¢nest wuere (ne. iniecticn has becomez localited and defined. A 'Red Cross radiograpkis car on:fit was used for the process it being connected to the King's bedroorr by means of a cable, the ear st__ding in the Palace yard. INFLUESZA. HERE - - LD BT CASES IBE OO NCREISE [ Although the type of Influenza }in Athens is mild. aceording to ! reports reaching the Board of i Health the number of cases has increased. The law does not re quire physicians to report cases of Inf uenza but general informa tion in possession of the Health Department indicates a larger }number of cases than last week. | Up to the present time no deaths in Clarke county have been rdported to the Health Depart ment and there is not likely to e any if each person will go to bed as soon as the first symptom appears and stay in bed until their physician permits them to get up, says, Several families are keeping { their children home from school for fear that they may catch the . digease. Under the close school { inspection made daily by the }:oachc‘r or nurse the child is less apt to catch the disease in school than when playing with other [chi?drcn on the street. | et e ‘ 1 IHUNTINE CIRL WHO i I “CANTON, Ohio.‘——(liP)-—Police‘ and county cffic.als Friday launch od a search for a girl who called ! ißemard Fearn, 35 years old, to the porch of his home at Waco lThursduy night, and kii'ed him. Five shots were fired into Fearn’s body. Before he died, he | told h's wife he did not know the| girl, who, it was learned, calmly hosvdad a Canton bus and disap peared. ’ Fearn died in his wife’s arms, Sheriff G'bson was called and questioned Mrs. Fearn. ; TFearn was dining with his wife and their 9 year old daughter! lwheu somebody rapped on the front door. Mrs. Fearn answered the knock and the younz woman, deseribed py the wife as “the f'apper type” asked for Mr. Fearn. Then she 'St("h;d down off the porch. i As Fearn appeared she fired. | Wavn fell with five founds in/ his L:ody. The girl ran out of the yard and down the road, Mrs., Feam, {said, A few wminutes later she (Turn to Page Twe) , Established 1882. |GREAT TEAM OF . ATHENS HIGH | ' HONOREDBY LOCAL MEN The Athens High School feutkzll team, undefeated in their last sixteen games, which record brought them the unof ticial state high school foot -3!l champoinship last year znd again this seascn, are o be the guestr of a group of Athens busijessmen at the JGeorgia-Tech game in Atlan ta Saturday. The team, Coach Wed Brown and the student mana geér, wili wcave Athens Satur day morning, as the guest of the local men, in ap_nreq'atiou ~f the great work done By the y'ayers and Coach Brewn in bringing two successive titles to the city. The players mak ing the trip will totai 18 in nuniber, eN W v 1 W i EPPS BRIDGE OPENED The newly built Epps bridge, ~,a-= Middfe Oconee river, was spefed” for trafrne ;mw 1 ".‘ It is a modexrnly constructed stesl bridge with conerete foundations and one of the most substantial bridge in the county. The tocal lengcth of the bridge is' 182 feet with a clear. roadvway of 18 feet which is ample for two vehicles o pacs. The| concrete and founda tion work was dohe by the county forces and' the steel work was done &y ‘the Austin Brothers Bridge Company, oi-Atlanta. The bridge is of the “rivetéd through” truss type designed to carry two fifteen ton trucks, The bridge i modernly equipped and the latest in bridge biilding in every re spect. The work was done under the supervision of County Engineer Homer Nicholson, who is one of the outstanding engineers of the country. H. H. Bussy was in charge of the work for the bridge company. | . The former bridge at this place was a wooden structure. About a year ago, it caught fire and was completely destroyed. The origin of the fire has never been discov ered, but it is believed to have zeen of an inendiary characir. The county commissioners are to be congratulated on the buiid ing of this splendid bridge. With its conerete foundations and steel equipment, The county officials have saved money for the tax pay ers, who ave indeed fortunate in having officials of the high tync of character and business qualifi cations of Commissioners J. H. Griffeth, J. M. Hodgson, R. G. Davis and Tate Wright, clerk and county attorney and Homer Nich olson, county engineer. HEAVY SKIRMISHES REPORTED ALONG BOLIVIAN BORDER ASUNCION, Paraguay.—(UP)— The newspaper La Razon said Friday that ser'ous skirm'shes oceurred on the frontier Thursday between Bolivian and Paraguayan troops. The paper published the fol lowing report: “Obeying ordes to establish an advance post north of Fort Gal pon ‘n corder to Dbetter protect Paaguayan territory, Paraguayan troops went on a m'litary mis. gion which proved that the Bo livians had established a fort with'n Paraguayan terrifory. It was occupied by numerous sol diers wunder the command of a capta'n. “On the Boliviang being Invited to withdraw, they refused and opened f're, whereupon the Para guayans retaliated” = Daily and Sunday—l 3 %‘e a Week, ——-———_“é)_ b Sl Sl Launching Christmas Drive Vs R s & e A € ialsi et Ps O 3,{” R T e R A o S el i R 3 ve ;34“":\ SRR &)K 1’» B o S o SIR SRR s s g % o cuy o N ¢BRt o s i S Foe BLy i T 145 B ;{.;::-_‘,_._9;“ g e %% e S Tani i s< A e T CTRE eR 8 4 -4 ! R s § B EEEIRDY BB OB 3 W £ R g St Gbl A % Fi &g e, ?fl“’fl"@'w set G 4 B DR ’-.-fi’fig;fl.’:‘w:b SN RN s R "R e gt 07.2 RA PR 4 bR o 4 S =L v,:-‘ S ARB 7ok o 4o et TR SR SRR LTtWA < o B : i SSRPR oB P A s ePPS 3, . S PR :; B £TNLR A ¥ RAN ¢ 4:' % R ¢ s ;,"%".Z::;,_ : ol X '}’\ ' S ,"j:-"?;‘CZ'; sB X R R 1 R e ™ LR el -G R : % % L’/ R R R TR m » % A %Sy My e ::“*'»'»f»"""r"-ffiff.' 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Dr. Ken da.l Emerson, managing directer 6f the organizZtion, s presenting the sh p model with the assistance of little ; Jacquelyn Krah, chi.d nealth crusader, Dress Reform Orders in Afghanistan Instigating Revolt; 1,000 Are Dead Rebels Opposing Change In Dress Say Reform Qutrages Islam and Ko ran. Wholesale Slaugh ter Follows. KABUL, Afghanistan—(UP)— More than 1,000 rebels have been killed near the recent insurrection in Afghanistan, it was announced Friday. The positions of the rebel tribesmen were bombarded by plane from time to time and the rebe's d’'spersed. Important operations to enc'rcla the rebels were continuing Fri day. ¢ The Shinwari tribes have been in revolt along the eastern fron tier border'ng on Ind'a because of the modernization program in cluding dress reform laws in3i. tuted by ing Amanullah. The revolt was caused by th? famatic’'sm of Mullahs or prests hostile to King Amanullah’'s re forms, They claim his orders were contrary to the spirit of Is lam and ‘he commands of the Ko ran, When the King persisted in enforc'ng the reforms, he incited the tribesmen to revolt, At the outset the government tried persuasion but f{inally was forced to send three regiments to the reg'on of Je'lalabad, where the tribesmen sget fire to a build ing. voal i GEORGE URGES TARIFF RISE ON JUTE YARN | WASHINGTON. —(#)— An in | crease in the tariff on jute, jute |yarns and peanuts will be pro ipuse:i by Senator George, Demo erat, Georgia for the prospective *tarifi' rev,sion measure, | “A tariff of five cents on jute and jute yarns”, he said Friday l“wii" result in an increase of one cent per pound on American | grown coiton. In round numbers e will mean about $75,000,000 per vear to cotton farmers.” ! e e I ROOSEVELT FARM RELIEF PLAN 1S BRINGING LETTERS | WARM SPRINGS, Ga.— () — | 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 States, he isaid here Fyiday, -- . o y A.B.C.x %, Singlo Copies 2 Cents. 5 Cents Sunday. (NEA Washingion Bureau). ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA IN BATTLE WASHINGTON . —(#)—Arizona and California resumed their bat tle over Boulder Dam Friday in the senate while the house plug ged aong with the Treasury post otfice hu! with its always atcend aut flurry of prohibition talk. Committees met in various sec tions of the two big capitol of f.ce buildings but no very defi nite legisiative projects were put underway 1y them. Bride of Few Weeks Is Killed; Husband Shot FORT WORTH, Tex.— (#) — Mrs. Tom B. Owens, Jr.; bridge of a few weeks, was shot to death as she sat in an auto on a high way several miles west of here Friday, | Her husband, Tom B. Owens, Jr.,, son of a prominent cotton ‘hroker of New York, with offices here, was brought to a hospital with bullet wounds in his body, which jphysicians said, probably would prove fatal. . WITNESS TELLS OF DRDERS RECENED FROM ADAIR FIRM GAINESVILLE, Ga—{#)—The insurability feature of Adair bond transacticns and al'leged misrep: resentations by officials of the defunct Adair Realty and Trust Company of Atlauta, 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 jdent of the Adair Realty Com pany, said in the latter part of January. 1927, the same year in which the Adair Company was plunged into bankruptey, he was called to Atlanta and advised by, Fvans E. Erwin, one of the four defendents, that the company was in a bad financial state and that the insurance would hayve to be discontinued. Kauffman said he returned to St. Louis and issued these orders to his salesmen, - HHE WEATHER: i Cloudy with- raln Friday night " and probably Saturcay. CONNECTIONS WITH LT CAEEK LEASE IND SAMUEL INGULL T 0 BE FIGHT BASIS WASHINGTON— (UP) — Preliminary or gainzation work finally done., Congress and its committees began to func tion today. The outstanding feature on ihe Senate side was the scheduled ap pearance of Secretary of State Kellogg before the Foreign Rela tions committee to explain his treaty, signed by fifty-nine na tions, renouncing war. The Seere tary was to face a mixed gather ing of friends and belligerents. Arother bloc was being organ ized among Senators to contest confirmation of Roy 0. West, prominent Republican leader oi Lnicago as rrasident JCoolidge's choice for Secretary of Interior, They are getting ready to start thewr fight when the Pu.lic Landa Committee takes up the nomina tion Saturday. They intend to use particularly West. <onneection with the Sait Creek Oil lease nul+ lification and any part he had in the primary campaign of formez Liinvis, who was denied a seat n the Senate because of contribu tions received from Samuel Insull, the Ilinois public utilities mag nate. West formerly was closegx zllied with Insull, § The fight on the Senate floor over the Johnson Boulder Dam bill was Deing continued with littls change of line-up, although advo cates of the measure were expend ing confidence the bill would be passd, The chief topic in the corridors of the lower House concerned what should be done about farm reiief. Chairman Haugen of the agriculture committee was trying to revive sentiment for the od equalization fee system, but he has had little success thus far. Some mem'ers 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 hus failed so far to take root. Most of the farm bloc in the House as well as in the Senate want to wait and handle the farm oui along witn the tariff in a special session next summer, So they can use the turiff as a lever on the eastern bloc to push along the farm bill. Arrangements of proceedings for opening of tariff hearings Ja nuary 7. Sub-committees of the ways and means committee are Leing orgamzed to arrange indi vidual hearings on the various schedules, R The committee spent this fore noon on the bill embodying the $25,000,000 Austrian debt settle« ment. Little opposition is ex pected. . On the House floor, the Treas ury and Postoffice department ap« propriation bill was pushed along toward adoption. It is the first of the twelve government suqfl_v bills, Wets are contesting the Prohibition appropriatiobns bur the bill is expected to pass without much revision, 3 A short conference of House and Senate radio devotees was on, attempting to irom out a program of radio legislation for the . Numerous minor radio bhills are being considered. : WAR DEPARTMENT TO MAKE FLOOD CONTROL PROBE WASHINGTON. ~— (UP) -~ An investigation by the War Depari. ment progress in carrying out the tlood control aet will be made soon by the house flood control committee, i Chairman Reed sa‘'d Friday there has been general dissatis. faction of General Jadwin, chief of eng'neers, in carrying out proe vis‘ons relating to diversions, but otherwise ~ progress im: trof work has béen ropor&éd”gq@» satisfactory, : i