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F?.ir with little chrng? in ttm*‘
T .• Saturday,-
partly cWidy and warmer.
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ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1928.
LONDON—(tfPJ—Ad-
diticnal explosions of tras
mains in the West End
and Central London dis
tricts early Friday did
further damage apd en-
dangered the foundations j
ABOARDIT. S. S.
UTAH —\(\j P) — The
Utah, carrying President
elect Hiiwbqrl Hnoyer
hoirc-y.r'I «ln, his South
Amcrfcari .lo^r, Friday
was jns< outside the outer
barbtrf limits' of Dio" dc
Jatiirc—the la*t\cftf that
Mr. Hoover will ^islt, on
hi« *r'n befpre-returning
\ V '' ,
ADO LEAD— HOOVTO BATfe ..
The ship will drop ■ anchor 'n
tb„ olrturesquo liarbar, a\ 2:00
. p. m. ' \
*r~-* "milAor*! ^ stood
by off the roast d«rln*r pl-ht
I TTfah ♦« n«cort her
* »p»o the harhnw. Cn"t*»n\C. R.
Tra'n of the Ut**b w*r?le««erf the
r —M, n-»sl/'M «A'-» n t'"lM
during the »J*ht to f^e Vt-t- «**'r
AvwdH^<M«>h1il FHohy.-
The Utah stemmed at i*t%*»**§ |
.pe, the n'feht In
clelr, warm wnth*- «•»***
^ a*i *.• ♦»»«» ywn«*she>w of the
nnrtd r '»* , r"S ear’* T>,"rad-v »'”•>*
in ne*iHn'«t<»n rf **•» —e»4
r -#«-d«**s*w^s»f ftmrrrtir* |pV , h has .
been prepared hr the^w^ an
jr^-emment 4n honor of )|fj. Hoo- |
V °Mr. Hoover V»l Je
w*Vo"»*d *t the dorks by Presi
dent ‘Weehtnvton I -«f *«*• ?
V’ee Pres'deot. MeUo Vienna, nffl-
a* th** w»wn*e and chamber
of den M t'ei» and other governtnen-.
teeaMInn at Onanelmra P»»^< -
wvm, the.JtovemfA.Ot—t“S. «;
/ . . . .a_ ..... *l...tc4* h'n at*V
WASHINGTON—
(UP) — President Cool-
> idge signed the Boulder
Dam Bill at 10:20 a. m.
Friday. >
With this act the famous, meas
ure, carrying $165,000,000 becanjs
a law. Under it there will be
construction of a giant dam on
the Colorado r.ver to water the
valley* iT th** far southwest, con
trol the floods and create water
poweii
The bill provide* for construc
tion of a f*i>0 foot dam at either
Black ;r Boulder Canyon in the
Colored* river as an irrigation
flcod control and hydro-electric
Project. * .
| Signature cf the hill by Preal*
I dent CoclHge ends a fight which
has proceeded in congress for
eight years.
Arizona has been the main op
ponent of the legislation, claim
ing that Calif min would receive
more than a fair share of the
tenefit? at the expenses of states
further up the river.
By the terms of the bill, the
Secretary of the Interior is given
au'hority to proceed with idon-
structicn of the dam as soon as
he obtains contracts for sale of
water and hydro-electric power
rights sufficient to asaufd amor
tization in fifty years and. jx%
socn after a period of six months
as six interested states ratify th«
Colorado U'ver contracW
The contract provides for dis
tribution cf water among tht
several states which adjoin tht
river.
of buildings in the i dis
trict.
Seventeen petaoOs, Including
t.. —Imrr
•even who wero gaesed, were,him
In the exp'oiona which liegan
| Thu,-a,lay and coplinuedr «t (Inter
val!, fnr twenty hour*, after tb.
.v—veosa* vale for twentyjxrara. oftpr tb-
flrst main hnrif;
An explosen of an electric (>y-
■ ; nemo oh which To-ahr”"
wiwk'm. In a manhole, canted the
tint main to buret.
i | Storekeepers and thoie living In
. 'the detrl-t who had been oril- riMl
PfcUf | to evaendte when it VM“*»
• . | » ,h~' th.-Hrl'd n *s mlaht collope.-,
1 I IJ minted thronghont the night with
. hundreds who came to view tin-
havoc. Workmen with gee maske.
In Wellesley made every eflort .to stop the
f’ow of gas wh'ch leaked li»m
tt-e mains and threatened to cx-
iplode If 't camo Into contact with
any light. '
The gas fumes can tyo ameled
for many blocks. Pedestrian.-:
obeyed the rigid orders of pol'ce
not to smoke.
Traf.'lc was diverted to the
Aged Colored
Woman, Dies
Aunt Nancy Upson, age 80.
who was one of the few colored
women of, AtIRna torn in ante
bellum days to survive until the
Nearly Hundred
Living Trees Now
Seen Over tAhens
present, died early Friday morn-
m:: at X:2S.
Funeral servicea will .to held
Sunday afternon at 2 o’clock at
the First A. M. H. chuirh, of
vMr.ch show arn-devoted member.
"■ ::.l 1:. K. K 'l.tan will offiei.
WASHINGTON. — m — En
dorsing , the new MeXary-lIaurjen
farm marketing bill, Secretary
Jardl.ie Frlduy mote a le-.tyr'lo
Senator MeNnry, lepubl.-an, Ore-
gen. urging its enactment, at this
Siislol. in order to ma’tr .it, ap-J
plicdble to the 1929 crops.
“I. am, /irmly of the opin.on"..
tlu-, Seeretnry wr te, ‘-that this
biirprovides the basis for n sub
stantial and permanent Improve.
went nl tb s, our b islc Industry. I
do not believe that the relation of
other needed - legislation to this
measure Is such as <n iecevslta'e
its delay, pending the enactment
or prolonged consideration of
such legislation. Since It would
pwjuire lin e time to put the pro-1
BERLIN. Germsty.^-H UP)—A
revengeful woman, abandoned by.
tiaffle congestion after the then-
tres had dosed, was unprece-
dsntsd.• - .--I,
This Princess Thestre, where the
Amer cans. Fred add Adel* ASy
talre. are starring Iff '"Funny
Race,- was in the center Of the
effected dtstr'ct and was dosed
Thursday night.
' trees dre abhtxs In Christmas
lights ’.nr the dty w.th oth
ers makipg their spbcnrnnce
nigh My and batcra Christmas
evi , next Monday, every sec
tion cf the dty will ha
b .ghtened With them.
Many-people Tide over the
dty every night now to see
.those - that are burning and
the kiddles are having the
time of. their l.ves, especially
those who are realising for
the first time something
a-nut Christines, its trees,
gifts ate- Older youngsters
see dangling from every tree
some toy or gift that they
trcusnrh and hope to find on
their own Christmas tree
Tuerday morning.
New trees noticed Thurs
day di»ht were at' Mies Hat
tie Bell’s, Aaron Cohen’s 11c-
Dcrmsn-Bridget’. Charles G.
Eckford’s and Dr. J. A. Hun-
mentt's, Sr.
The community tree down
town was at. its height of
beauty Thursday plght. Miss-
’ing branches had teen .placed
on the tree at Min places and
set res of varLcolured lights
were burning. The tree is
being admired by all who see
it anl will burn throughout
Christmas -weok.
would
nthan last dune.
‘ It fevopled an amuing plo'
whereby a gan- boarded the Le
viathan as-members cf her crew
and rifled "her mail sacks whilt
the was at, sea. •,
The clue to the mystery, which
occupied the attention of the po.
lice in New York, Berlin. Ant
werp and Vienna as well as Scot
land Yard and' tifs United States
and Gcnnah federal postal inspec
tion servicos. was furnished l^f a
woman in Antwerp, Belg.um.
She said that for three years
•he had been the iweetbeart of
Walter Ringer, alios Ling, re
cently a stoker on the Leriathin
1 NEW YORK. —tA’t— George
Graham Wright, who made m.l-
lions by outsmarting the race
track and stock markt-t sachem,
had it iioprcssc i on him for the
feurth time Friday that he could
not outsmart the force*; of law
! and order.
Convicted f using the mads to
defraud investors in Idaho cop
per rteck, whose value he had bal-
Ioned by the agency of his prueds
/>—_i.i ,v., e t The Wail Street
Iconoclast, ho was sentenced to
lou.- years in Atlanta Prison anl
fin#»d $5.00U«
Walter G. Yoraton, of Botgc,
Idaho, president of the Idaho
Copper Corporation, who «if
ccavicted with Wright, waa gen-
t'"crd to nine menths in West.
cnester County prigon.
WASHINGTON—
(UP)—A Christmas ar
mistice prevailed in con
gress Friday. But adher-
ants of the anti-war
treaty and proponents of
-mZ ** j n. i m Zrt omcimw oi me in states snow
it» they accused Ringer cf being *«..«. tof.!-.
ts^ssss-
'sss
Ringer, police ssidr 'bought a war 80.798 669.
public house tor sailors in ant- The votee not accounted for in
werp with 70,000 francs, part of the tever and Smith columns
the proceed, of the robbery, and went to minor parties. Norman
apparently intended to retire to a Thomas, socialist candidate, re.
life of ease. „ Before he conld te celved ihe majority of these
taken'into cdibcdy he disappear- votes, polling 287A36. Foster,
cd. Police here eaid Antwerp an. Workera Party candidate, got 48..
tfioritlrs let Him gat sway on a 228 and Beynolds, Socialist-labor
technicality. - got 21,181. -
• States of the once tolid south
' recorded. 3,004,145 votes for the
KlfiS COIITION r»-SsirM
ver and Mr. 8m,th.
nmgliiun mnor Hoover polled 1406,488 £f these
the naval cruiser bill were
glaring across the senate
ais'es, ready to sume
Nice? Naughty?
MAIL MUST REACH sco ? “ jSJSLJP up
DESTINATION NEXT a ^Wd? and ends of ^the legisla-
M0NDAY TO INSURE MASS'S
HOLIDAY DELIVERY senatonTaiS'^iiwentatives nw
departing for their homes, leav-
You should mail your Christ- ing on the leaders on guard to
— __ 11 r_ A.i / s. l. J- .... Itmnnrtnnt mat.
The. newly invented automatic
simplex telCgranh machine ha;
revolutIonised the telegram busi
ngs insofar os supolanting all
telegraph inatruments now >n use
as well' as the ooeratcr*. Thif
new invention Is being installof
In nil the important offlcra if
the Western Union Telegraph
company. The machine Is' oper-
I nted with n key board similar Ic
n typewriter, and red-ices the cost
of operating expens is to a mini
mum, Instead of fhe employment
of telegraph operators, girls w.F
1- used to operate the machine,.
These machines will be connected
»-c*a th. -ecciv'ng office and ar
fast as the operator types th,
rae-save at the sending office .1
is duplicatsd. It is sstl that the
new machine Is net only a greu*
le' or and expense aaver. but tha*
its operation .s more perfect than
the oM system in preventing er
rors. '
• 'Ignite a eo—plime't*. has been
paid to Mr, Thomas' H. Jackson
tverator m the io.-tl Western
Union office, by the cff.cials of,
that company in selecting him a« * v .„... 8 „
end the instructors for the new public can hell
machines. There were only four I preparing pact
for the State cf Georgia, and hie I are brought to
appointment cornea an a recogn,'-, Fallowing ini
tiun of his worth, ability and long 1 promptly and p
daughter, Jlrs. Robert Hollaman,
Carlton: two sons, Mourn. B.
Banka and Mr. C’allle Banka of
Carlton; three sisters, Mias Car
rie Powers and Mies Susie Cun
ningham of Carlton and Mrs.
Mary Gunter ot Point Petor.
Mrs'. Banks was a sister*to the
late Mr. John Cunningham of
Lexington.
Mrs Banka, until her illness,
was an active mender of the
Baptist church and a valuable
member of the community In
which pUjeo each a large part
She was born in Oglethorpe
county and had livid at Carlton
for a number of yean. SW leaves
many frieffds to mourn her death.
let.n from Buckingham Palace on
the King, one of the shortest yet
Issued brought the satisfactory
news that ho had pasted a rest
ful night, calculated to help th<
building up cf hto strength from
the exUema exhaust.on caused by
his grave illness.
The bulletin, taken In the
light of Thursday’s long report
by the King’s doctors was felt
to indicate that there was nothing
appreciable to add tq what cn the
whole was considered a favorable
situation.
The bnlletjn read:
‘.The King has had a restful
night There is no appreciable
change to be noted".
While the doctors were attend
ing hia Majesty in the -'cb
room the council of state, which
was named to act for the King
during hto illness, held a short
pricy council in another part of
tho Palace.
Prince George, returning home
from hto sea station at Bermuda
arrived at Southampton Friday.
NEW YpRK. —(UP)— Joseph
Unger, arrested at Buffalo after
E ilice seised 12,000 000 in nareot.
■ in the Grand Central Station
Friday ordered hto attorney to
enter a plea of guilty on the vari
ous charges growing out of. that
HOOVER TO STAY
AT PENNEY HOME
AT BELLE ISLAND
WASHINGTON —(UP)— The
palatial mansion of J. C. Penny,
chain store magnate, located on
Belle Island, FIs., has* been ac.
cepted aa the home ot President
elect Hoover daring hto stay in
tha south upon his return from
bis goodwill tour to South Ameri
ca, .republican nat.onal headquar
ters said Friday, _ i lr ,
(NBA NEW YOF1K bureau.)
Bank UOteft and 'nnirilc note*—
neither ato any my*tery to demld
Felix Warburg, bou of Ki*Ux M.
Warburg, intumaMoivi! ’banker
nn»t philanthropic. fl«'s picture*!
here as ho. practiced for hia firnt
professional appearance as a *cella
soloist with the Philharmonic Ore
chestra la N'«w Y<?rk». .
Deccrj»*in«r the nrjr California
State Library at Sacramento Is
this statue by Etyvrard Field- Ban-
ford; Jr. it !■ called *In»p'ratlon”
and *t has Inspired oceans of com
ment. Some any It is art* others
aay.ft la Indecent.