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THE
DaUy and Sunday—IS Cent* a Week.
Dally and Sunday—13 Cents a Wank.
Associated Pres* Service. United Press Dispatches.
ATHENS, OA,
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1928.
A. B. C. Paper.
Joke Is On the Joker—If It Is a Joke—
—PHONES POLICE OP THEFT—,
And Jester Rides in Wagon Instead bf On
. —SAYS IT WAS ALL A JOKE—
Train, As He Informed Police He Planned
El
Ellle Matthews was arrest
ed Saturday on what he calls
a joke but the police have a
(Efferent idea about the mat
ter. Saturday morning some
one smashed a platjggdpdow
glass at the FickeraSwelry
company and took inex
pensive rings tbi
display. PatroDSgi/ Allgood
was at the endjyjthe street,
having a kngaftfmt, and the
window 8ma/j£vevaded him
and nothinwpffe was heard
of the rountil shortly
before irfETtzlock Saturday
morning ^^n the telephone
rang at headquarters and de
tective Charlie Seagraves was
asked for. The call officer,
told the inquirer that Mr.
Seagraves wasn’t there and
asked if he could do anything
>i .* -kt xr ■ l for him and the person talk-
d lit New York ing said that he was Allie
N W YORK—(UP)—
Mor than 24,000 children
Sat* day stormed the
Brojlway office of Ed-
wariW. Browning', the
note adopter and child
fane r, to get a share of
the ountain of toys he
had j|led up to insure that
no
shoid have a giftless
Chrfmas.
Matthews and that he was
the person who tnroke the
Pickett widow and took those
rings* He also added that he
was leaving on the train that
was about due then.
Officers rushed to the 8.
A. L. depot and sure enough
there was Ellie,* ticket in
hand and ready for the train.
He didn’t catch it but was
rather given a ride to police
headquarters where he im
mediately denied taking the
rings, stating the telephone
call was a joke he was play
ing on the police department.
He didn’t have the rings but
the police are holding him.
.'Ti.ev are also*holding Arthur
Matthews, colored, a suspect.
The rings were valued at
less than $100 it ta stated and,
were not taken from the w»n-
dow at nights.
TBLO TO REVISE
RATES Oil CAS,
ALL ROADS LEAD TO BETHLEHEM AS CHRISTMAS NEARS
AND P1LGR1MMAGE OF CENTURIES IS REPEATED
O, Little
Town of Bethlehem
O, Little Town of Bethlehem,
How still we Me thee liel
Above thy deep and dreamles, sleep
The r lent star* go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
Tho hopes and fears of nil tho years
Are met in thee tonight.
,
For ChHst is bom of Mary,.
And, gathered all above,
While morta-'s sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love. ,
O, momng star,, together
Proclaim the holy birth 1
And praises sing to God the King
And peace to men on earth.
The! rowd Was so great that,
a staoede broke cut. A'jout 30
childrfi were shoved through a
. plate Jjisa. window and about 12
were d and injured. One child
was turn to a hospital.
LasUyear Daddy Browning
playcdfianta Claus to thousands
©f chii-en, „ giving away dolls,
(fire efines, teddy bears Which
'wouldplay arias from operas
and gier toys.
He tfcidcd to play Santa Claus
to'KejjYcrk children again this
year. m
palatial suite of offices
just dve Columbus Square, one
of thdmiscst sections of Bread-
way, | gathered together his /*p\ Showered
750,<XH presents; twenty six as- — Oliuwereu
Santa clauses and then additional manifestations
F nVATiniH IQ SEARCH IS STARTED
L U VK 11UII lu F0R BRUNSWICK
AUTO DEALER
RIOSATIIRBAY BY
Tl
BRUNSWICK. Ga. —VP)— An
ATLANTA — (AP) —
The Georgia Power Com
pany was ordered Satur
day by the State Public
Service Commission to re
vise its residential rates
on electricity so as to ap
ply a uniform schedule to
all territory it services,!
and to change its rates on i
gas to equalize the cost of!
service to four, suburban
cities with that in Atlan
ta.
Chairman James A. Perry said
the revision would mean a saving
to consumers .of
Extensive search was underway | $500,000 annually, -divided about
Saturday for U- A. Edwards, lo- equally between users of gas and
cal auto dealer, who left here electr.ctty.
Friday alone in a small speed The order, which is effective
boat for a duck hunt and failed with meter* readings of January
to return eyly Friday night and 1929. would place all of the near,
he had expected. His destination ly 200 cities and towns served
was Jointer’s, 4 miles from here, by the Power Company on the
and all creeks near.y were being same electric rate for home pur.
WASHINGTON.
(UP)—Civil war between
two factions of southern
democrats over cotton
'legislation is- expected to
break out in the senate
after the recess when the
Caraway bill, to prevent
sale of cotton in future .
markets is called up for
debate.
Tho measure will come up oftef
te naval bill at Hi treaty «re din.
posed of.
It has tho approval of the
culture committee and a pro
from tho republican Peering
mlttee that it, win bo fHI|
finished business nn
Sona'ior Smith, democrat,
Carolina, and Senator Km
democrat, Louisiana, who
taken part In filllbus
have killed nlml‘nr bills before, a
combed for trace of him.
RIO DE
JANEIRO —
with
poses and wouid give Decatur,
Hapevill-:, East Point and College
Park the same rate on gas as At
lanta.
— _ in a chair to wait for the _ _ . , . , .
crowd He did not have to wait of friendship by Brazil
"\wn a’ line started form. 'for the United States,
Broadway. By 8 a. m.
Hnnounced time
Hgtel
J Tor the Herbert Hoover Saturday
L’PbbdTdm had the most strenuous
. j Clocks over on (jOth
sand then two blocks up
.flflSES crew< - *****
Oocks over on 60th day of his whole South
ASSISTANT COACH
AT UNIV. OF GA.
thri
CHATTANi
The Chattnnoi.
Thom
furnished when hi* that rrank xnomi
„„ . .'STw., , " coach of the- University
im» in meir ...... There ** * ‘P**'* 1 J° lnt ” 11 - tandoga. hns accepted an , I— —.
others carrying their in- * icn of congress snd at a eallsd to become backfltld coach at the of the present aqd duly
• ^ * Mm I la |W a| fj U _ - J —te tased on lighting current
which shows that for: 15
hours the new charge w.ll
E» -
were husl _
[chins in their an
ogsln !
The order, which follows a
riss of hearings, prescribes the
new maximum electric rate ached-
ule as.follows:
Current for'feildentUP fighting,
cooking, heating, refrigeration
and other sn)all residential pow
er: service charge, <141 per
month for meters of 10 ampherea
and <2.32 for meters over 10
ampheres; plus nn
CA.jrenn._W. &$>*•**
the ;
A j expected to take
* the tfpht on (he Caraway bill.
Sm’th is the author of u
measure introduced’ last ye
lowing an ex ensive lnves
of the co'ion market which
es clone federal/ regulation
changes but not their abolition,
contends ho.exchange perform
usef jI economic func ion,
Caraway considers them
havens for gamblers who
* from the pMucer*.
\Vhlle this fight proceejs
floor of the senate. Hmitb
a’d of Senator Helflln.
Alabama, is expect^l ro rontl
! sniping at the Aqrkul
menis crop r. porting r
whll
w mm ups Bn
llstwod in front oYT chesty banquet room of the presidential Columbus. Ga., csrly this week, fn At’h’eni”o7"*ijl5.'’" Above Is ths little'town of Bethlehem as it ■ apppars today, the prrow poirtt'ng to the Church of the
Lter whose vocabulary end palace Saturday night furnished Thomas has a .ivs year con- Kcr 30 kiiowat houfs 82.50 Nativity, traditional site of the manger where Joans.Cbr'st Was bom. Below is a-cloe.1 up of this hat- — —
Jiess of vo:ce denoted Test . elim.r tract '" r ^ h thc University of Chat- svsinst the rate in Athens of lowed spot within the church as tour.sts see it. At theright is the little door tothe church, built low ( WASHINGTON.—1
whereas hUmanT * £££L „ ak }«•««« ■»* *.«!«»••« *• he <2 70: fer 60 kiiowat fcfo.JMO „ « toJtafl. out the roving cattle. It is from this ht,,orie “““• Ham S. Varc. -enator-el,
H res,denes pot far Betwe * n * ime » Mr. Hoover took the largest pa d an S. I. A. A against the rate In Athens of <4; of Bethlohem” peal forth their happy tidings each Christmtl - mortw* • „ \ K Pennsylvania, wa« sunuw
P5th end Perk avenuee. . r ‘ d * 01 *1»*2 “•>«« h »n auto- coach. His team won the Assoc, u.c rlHJ kilcwat h-urs <6 against I , —^—— | tho Reed spe ini elrrt.ons ii
seashore and <"«on foot, all championship this <9, for 160 kiiowat homri, <6A0 “ ' -
* ext
Squ fy Gi
urd: f ni|
TOWn UP laay. ■i/nuuv uwv uc ttiii/cmcu uugc ns... _
the Street on urchin crowde greeted-end cheered him Mr. ami Mrs.H. J. Rowe, and Inf-ol Minister ‘
weary of standing >nd he answered very salutation when Coach Thomas was shown WfCal minister
and moving It ths with waves, cows and smiles. the press dispatch frsm ths Chat- T flat Pall Trt
oat ons foot every I 1 t SD 00 **. N . ew .‘ Saturday to the 10 Uet Call 10
Jeffersonville
l;Tfl
1 earned. He did not have through mountains and vallevs yBar ' Thoma S contract has three <13.05; for 200 kiiowat hours. <8
a cdje about any of the things th ,“*.c moun ‘* in * *"‘ l ™J lry '- years to nn. but the Naws store against the rave in Athene 817.10.
his ' ife—the blonde “Pesehes” A * ,l,e ,t * rt of lhe » ut0 rido <lecl»rod local authorities would | if epolied to customers using
Hect in—m.ght have said about' the President- elect made a mr.g- •‘~ J '•-twocn him and the combined service for lights, cook,
his f fts of nonking ganders. He* rffjceht gesture by dismissing Georgia change. ling end refrigeration, the new
did ot care adout anr of tho t«e_ seeret service guards w.th o AS HEBE I rate would be 81 greatur than
thinti said at thc time he edoA. declaration that he needed no Coach and Mrs. Thomas, are shown in the ifhoYe comparison,
ed fare Spas, only to find out protection from Brasilians. Ev- spending the Christmas holidays |
she Has a grown up lady. erywhere that he appeared huge here with^ Mrs. ^Thomas parents
H out on thi
got 1 little wc
in 0 cold and . _ .
twei v °minutaV °"* ^ ® Very ! Replying fo President Wash- iff«”t“"that he had”accepted an
B iwning insisted that he ington Luis of Brasil at the offer ai backfieid coach at the
itei i wifh 750,000 toye and a* banquet In the NattKul Palace University, stated that no offer
the' oor* were closed at 5 n. m Saturday night, Mr. Soovtr esil had been made h.ro by the ath-
Broin.ng assured ail that the that public opinion betweaa the letic board. He stated, though jEPFEltSONVTIXE, Ga. — <
dJTtwJTapes xata ^
d la., vm Madison ha*»Py- l that * 8 wl »cre v «le matter now Church have filed
dv said Sat- 1 ., -, . .. . 4 . . stands. It will be recalled that proceeding against their ^
B y saia “Nobody eould fail to be moved Thomaa was connected wl:h the tho Rev . W. J. Vallew, In the
by the hundreds or thousands ol University of Georgia coaching of u pe | t | on tor injunction In eupe-
smiling men and women and joy- ,taff before going to Chattanoo-, roar: charting tlmt he baa lg*r ... ,
ASfNTCIA VlfTIM IC fal W 4 "" wh “ ' incd y “ r g»- Dr. S. V. Ssnrord, faculty nore.t for more than a year th.lr [ ■ Tfl<on _L h,t o. de,p i t *_ 1 , S *1'
Al lililfUlA V1L1 lUl lO streeti in demonstrations of the chairman of athletics, stated that no j ce mat hU services no longer | ®Pt»ry of Agriculture J«rdlne s
feelinlr they have towards my the annual meeting of the board were requited. I ■ en * t * ^ or ^
countrymen \ Hoover said. would -.e held about January The minister has refused to va- »«Uolc passage of the new Me.
“No language can interpret thc tenth for the purpose, of attend-Ira o the parsonage on the grounds 1 Nary-Haugen farm bill, there
overwhelming way * of sentiment ing to many official matters. Itfcat ho has not been paid what fcsi^aa HWIe hope of enacting ma«
* •-’» | — - due h!m. |J« r *1
"" ““ “ A petition odds that despite ] house
jtho pastor contract* has ter-
MANY FLOCK TO Pi
LITTLE CHURCH )“ .
Them-k./SIBP UNTIL AFTER
gating committee in a let
public Saturday, to appear *|
ropaliy before it on Janui
The letter reviewed
WASHINGTON. —(UP) — A
•metal nuion of congreu from
16 to tha middle of July
aabling tariff reviaion and
raliaf waa advocated Satur-
by Rapreientatlvc John
' nty lea
major.
leader of the
0 iCE AGAIN,WITH
FAMILY AT HOME
N FORSYTH, GA.
BETHLEHEM
twenty centuries, all roads
have led to Bethlem on
Christmas Eve.
Every Christmas Eve a
strange, ‘motley proces
sion jams the six mile’ 1 Washington _ cap) - with
stretch of highway that^;^^,^^
r€8CnC9 from Jcrusslcm *nd Closed up idtop for tht hoL
J, day apd closed up shop
to the little tjown where w»y period.
Jesus Christ w:
jjg born in! House and senate met perfunetn-
jrlly. transac ed a little j routine
place! -responsibility for
its report upon senators
titstored in 1927 against
elution providing for
tion cf tne Committee’s
SAVANNAH MAN
KILLED AS TW(
AUTOS CRAS1
savannah, ; i
ry Gerken. well known
man. here, was killed es
urday when his auto »
mSYTtt Ga- — </P) — A
straigcr among home-folks, Tom
Scot! Goolsby, 22 year old am
nesia v.ctimj Saturday night
struggle! to penetrate that blank
wall^cf.hpt memory as childhood
playfiateg greeted him with the
they have extended to us 1
, FLU MENACE LESS
!«*■« kb
BE OUSTED AS HEAD
“Mnd of funny to me; cvery-
body knows me and I don’t know
an,-Mdy". ho aaid with a perplex,
ed air after a day in which scores
of person, who had known him
from, infknoy called to see him.
TM trip home wa, planned by
the jnuth’s patents. Dr. and Mrs
R. f. Goolsby, who recently lo
cated hint in Tyler, Tcxs*. after
he hail been missing a year and a
half in hope that familiar sur
rounding, might strike a respan-
chon! behind the veil that
cloud* the test.
Goaliby declared Saturday
nighUthat the atory hie parent-
had told him regarding hfa lit’
prior to the time that he woke ur
on the waterfropt at New Or
leans a few daya after he disap
peared from Macon on July 23
1927, -must be true. But ho in
ants that he doesn't remember .
thing trad, wouldn't know that D-
and Mrs. Gooie'y were his par
ents if they hadn't produced Mr
pictures and established their
i proof.
fluenza attacks which raached
epidemic proportions boro two
.weeks ago were reported- on the
nr nil lllTinni inniU WftRe »^may In Southern callfor.
OF □ALVATIDN HBiis^sr-isar uk ^^ uve *
I Ileal li department figures * the
number of cases reported. Friday as
103, the lowest since, ths peak .of
KVXV YORK ~ The New 800 1» one day/last week. The
York Timet said Saturday that
Evangeline Booth. chief <
•cutive of the Salvation Army
‘he United States was to sail
secretly for England on the
Olympic early Saturday on
journey which may end in the
•emoval of her brother, General
Orambwell Booth as International
read of the army and her elec-
ion. ’
A reform element within the
salvation Army which for eight
/ear* has been seeking to per-
uade General Booth to give up
*it automatic rule, saya the
line*, haa caused the calling of
be high council of the Army ir
'.onden on January.-8. to deddr
bother General Bodth should Ik
•moved on the grounds •'/. an
Tttness to continue his duties
reneral Booth it 72 years old on:
tome year*.
POCKET eo RULE'
BY SARGENT IS
KEPT SECRET
min la tijd ho persistently refuse* to
inove/vAnoiher mlnisu r, 8. R Wing-
tto# of AthenH. has been called 4»
fill,the pastorate when the dispute •
Is fettled.
"V
ner. a , ;
Mr. Fltxhenrywak tn rautL.
Miami to spend the holiday*.
Wilson Envoy k
Taken By Death
At Ind
Four Horsemen Are
To Play Next Week
r • feSouthGtovgia B[C0VE RY RATTLE
during.
crcFy
The Four Horsemen Orchestra,
Athena Own” will p!ay
Chris mas week In aeof*'y
section of South* Geotghfc^
The domninl I* so grant for this
well known burn* of^huslc-makera
that they, are no( a|ne to supply all
the offers made th them. They ex
pect to i>biy nearly every section of
tho Soutliem portion of the statu
nex'. week, and they have turned
down several offer* to play on the
trip.
the manger. 'business with a corporal guards of on* driven > y \V. J. Fit
In it are European and members on the floor and called lrColombu*. Ohio and Mi
American tourists, native tho .ir miea with urgent The car coBlded »t a .t
,, , , Avlehe, for a Merry Christroa* and
Svrmns in their quaint «a TO y x™ Tear.
^ , Old Testament a-aVh mnrl-1 Tho houM .toed around Ju»i a
IM of enacting m«- « ,n K“™> ,n “ a |half huur. long enough for Bopre-
»* legislation in th« | cm aatomoblles and mule- .rnu. Ivu McGregor, Of New York,
between January V when j____ wn0 . nnu hnirtrnrs to “V «dleui-he roe- .to the New
« w-convene,. nml March i ; "UROns, Duggan. York „, Rto rJpren , 0
4, when the'present session andt- and priests—all retracing lil» «ucce«or m ttecount. couimlt-
I the \route-that the three
f W1SC mex! pf thc cast, led bouse thut U was losing a stulwart
f by a star followed nearly,JSJTSiS
1-2000 years 0J?O. JrioodinK Christmas spirit, Heflin of
TtiAw SM ,L. » *. ’Alabama had a clerk read an culog-
ChririmaL Ev" in hP '-riL
Church of J the Nativity at Bcthio,; ' * ^ ,h ' T
hem—a. queer, huddlcd-tcgcther!A ‘" 1 ,he 8tory of
church said to cover the exact >
t ite ©f thc manger in which
; Christ was born-
The road • etween Jerusalem
and Bethlehem hasn’t change!
much *n the intervening years. To
LONDON.—(A 1 )—King George !>0 ■ 5are > j* ““'if of »«Pha|l
took another feeble step towurdxt adapted to the nutomcblk
health Saturday and hia doctor. I■«"<! policed by traffic officers,
onnonn-ed that only or.e bulletin! whereas it was a dusty affair cf
would be issued Sundav j wh!tc *tones in the daya of thc
That waa taken u an indlca-1 Gos ™ ls: ,. but the •un-ound.ng
tkm of nn added degree of con ! f™"tryside. with rolling pastur
ANOTHER STEP IN
Big dances and other amusements
will be the principal Items on the
program for the Athenians.
WASHINGTON. — (*■> — An' ^ he pa.t two or mrre Tea™
opinion by the Attorney General the Pour Horremen have played the, Pah
on the controversial pocket Tet °IljrHe , rWee°tatwt.i^Blvan r
(Uestion whifh ha, an important |8t«mahlp Berrice betweui Bavap-
waring on th* retoed Mutele y ° rl h
Mil — ;
The visi*. of the doctors Sat
urday again were comparatively
abort. All of the medical men
t**t)arted early except Sir Stanley
Hewett, Uf», as a matter cV pre-
Irnds and barren hills, looks much
the same as it did in BFolical
times.
"The Christmas Eve Procession
On Christmas Eve it !* jam-
'wod front end to end by the pro*
cession. The pilgrims cover it*
entire- length, moving slowly
emotion,'continued to sleep at the] through the scenes that, to n
Senator Frasier of North Dakota
topped It off with a poem en Itled
“Chrisrmas llella* llrookhart of
Iowa made a speech on co-opt?ra.
tlvo marketing and after tha 1 they
all went Into executive session and
confirmed <1itve nominations o tt
Interstate .Commerce commission.
Both houses will be back on th
job on January 3. -
GOVERNOR TO VISIT
COFFIN ESTATE
THURSDAY
ATLANTA, Ga. _<AP)— Gov.
H«. Lord Dawion of Penn Christ.»n, are the tnoH Mcredi.mor L. o. Hardman ot Georgia. *» OSjaWH
unoianaw, ;
INDIANAPOLIS,
Joseph II. Shea, mi
IChile durinp the odminist
of l*resi(iiWilsnn,
day at the Methodist Hos
NOT
COMMISSION
TO REPEAL LAW ,
FOR COTON
ATLANTA, GA.. —(AP)— '
Public Service CommlMvion 8a
day declined to repeal fts
for substitution of wagon _
for roll cotton at Augusta
The decision < ani«* out
bearing held Thursday on the |
tion of tho Augusta Cotl
for repeal of an
sued several weeks ago.
te-copiigned taken u th
wfll be
uatU Sunday.
(Turn t« Pag, Ffvu
I VWI1
Coffin to spend next of Angusla factor-
with I ders when It. was c
Island^*w4*h
tvernor ap<l s Mr«. Hardman fubstituf-ncr the I
■ y will leave Atlanta for the i wagon eottoOr
Coffin Island *stA-c Thursday night. I at t!*v tftfotlga j
signed_the evening bulletin which jtraveT now in autos, lorries and {Howard
••M: on donkpys and ett bicycle*. Out Friday a* CofflA’a - guesr
M The King hod a quiet day and) through the Jaffa gate, near President Coolidge on 8ipelo
there it no change *n hi* progress which the crucifix,on Is believed|The governor and,Mrs. Ha
xophone; Harria Crook, banjo; to report No further bulletin j to have taken place,_wind* the I probab!y will leave Atlanta for the [ wagon
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