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ATLANTA., Ga.—
aULUTION OF SHORTAGE
UF NEWS PRINT SOUGHT
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-—-News
print paper has cost for many years
from 840 to SSO a ton. Under the
increased demand for paper durlog
the war, with importations from
Sweden cut off, American and Cana
dlan paper manufacturers have ad
vanced prices to S7O, SBO and In some
cases to $125 a ton.
More than 200 country newspapers
having no contracts with manufac
turers have heen forced to suspend
publication
Newspapers in Minneapolls, Puf
faio, Pittsburg, St, louis and many
smaller places have raised the prices
of their papers
* Bome of the most successful news
papers in the United States, whose
paper contracts expire within the
next six months, will he able to con
tinue business only by foregoing all
profits. In some caseg the inevita
ble losges on thelr buginess will have
1o be finahced by loans or Mmortgages.
SBome paper manufacturerg whose
actual cost for labor and supplies hag
increased not more than $3 a ton,
have Increased priceg to their regular
customers $25 a ton. The situation
is being Investigated by the Federal
Trade Commission, which will soon
publish a report on it.
Relief Plan Proposed.
: A plan proposed and apparently
favored by the Trade Commission, the
manufacturers and the small pub
lighers, under which large puhlluh-‘
ers would relinquish 6 per cent of
thelr 1917 quota to the smaller pub
lishers, met with Immediate opposi
tion. The large publishers declared
they were being made the vietims of
manufacturers who, by converting
machines now on wall paper and
wrapping paper back to making news
l:rlnt. could solve the shortage prob
em within a few days,
The plan proposed would provide
that the 5 per cent turned back by
the large establishments would be
apportioned among the small pub
lishers at the average contract price
charged the large publishers. This
would be between 3 and 4 cents a
pound. The jobber would receive, in
_addition, about 1 per cent for hand
ling.
.« Committees of the publishers, man
\ifacturers and jobbers were named
16 continue conferences with the
Trade Commission this week in an
Q“;&ort elther to perfect the plan pro
rcud or to work out some other ac
_weptable plan,
s &uutionl Sent Out.
.+ The publishers’ committee will be
’ today to send out questions to the
4 spapers ascertaining the needs of
- Ihe small publications and learning
As the large publishers will agree to
_divide up a part of their paper.
. In Baturday's meeting the large
rublllhorn argued that an increase
n production would be a simple
,gtmr if the manufacturers display
¥ a willingness to co-operate. In
_ this they were supported by the small
Ypublishers.
~ Both classes of publishers, too, in
sisted that prices were beyvond rea
mnd assurance was given by the
Commission that a temporary
distribution plan, i carried out,
- would not stop the commission's in
~vestigation of that subject,
Commissioner Davies declared the
commission belleved that print paper
was a public l\fl‘rnuy and that prices
now charged for it wer extortionate,
‘4 On the committee of publishers to
“meet this week with the Trade Com
kmlol\. F. P. Glass, of Dirmingham, |
! and L. B. Palmer, of New York,
were named to represent the larger
_publishers, and A, :'A Dunn and J.
. ond Hoover to represent the
i publishers. Manufacturers will
i ;pmemrd hy J, Boyd Potter and
e~ . Houyk. The jobbers will name
committee later.
It was brought ought that although
“cost of production —as disclosed
By the Trade Commission's investign
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tlon—has remained about stationary
’m the past six months, prices to the
large publishers have been advanced
from 2.15 cents to an average of 3.10
cents on 1917 contracts, with an added
item in that mills next year quote
prices at the factories instead of at
the place of delivery,
A prospectus issued by one manu
facturing concern was presented to
show that the manufacturer, endeav
oring to sell stock in his mill, claims
a profit of sls a ton on paper manu
factured this year, in addition to a
surplus accumulated. Manufacturers
opposed every suggestion that produc
tion Qe increased by putting on news
print work machines that now are
turning out other classes of paper.
The committee representing the
smaller publishers issued a statement
saying its members were hopeful the
Trade (‘ommission and those con
cerned were about to find a solution
of the situation.
The Trade Comission Is in a posi
‘hnn already to fix the responsibility
for the shortage, sald Commissioner
Davies in announcing that the inves
tigation would continue, whatever ar
rangement is reached at the present
conference to relieve the situation.
This declaration was called forth by
requests presented by representatives
of both the larger and smaller pub
lishers asking that the conference set
tle questions of price and production
as well as of distribution.
Statement Issued.
The statement of the larger publish
ers declared the opinion of paper con
sumers generally to be that there ex-
Ists some manner of control by man
ufacturers of paper prices and distri
bution. The statement said:
“Many publishers feel that the pub
licity of complaints on their part will
Jeopardize their supply of paper, and
It carnestly is desired that the In
vestigation to fix the regponsibility for
thig condition be hastened. We fall
to understand in what manner normal
economic forces have been the sole
causes of bringing about,the present
apparent shortage, and v‘e feel con
strained to ask the Federal Trade
Commission to induce news print
lmmufm‘h{v-rn l\g confine their efforts
to supplyifg thé legitimate needs of
newspaper publishers-—their normal
consumers—rather than to diverting
abnormal tonnage into temporary
channels.” |
Smaller publishefs asked the com
mission to give a flat price for nowu-‘
paper print, in addition to planning
equitable distribution. They desired
the commissipn to prevent discrimina -
tion in price, except as covered by
difference in frelght hauls. Paper un
der this plan would be distributed, to
be sold for cash on delivery., A basis
for determining apportionment would
be the amount of paper used by each
paper in 1916,
Committees in Session,
The committees meeting with the
Trade Commission are:
Manufacturers E. W. Backus,
George W. Mead, . T. McNair, M. J.
Scanlon, Alexander Smith, P. T.
Dodge, George H, Mead and George
Cahoon, Jr.
Large Publishers—F. P, Glass, Bir
mingham, Ala.; Emil Scholz, A, A.
Melntyre and L. B. Palmer, New
York: R, L. McKenney, G, A, and E.
H. Baker,
Small Publishers-—G, H. flonmor.
Denver; J. H. Zerbey, Pottsville, Pa.;
H. J. Blanton, Paris, Mo.; L C
Crampton, L. E. Peremich, Ernest (3,
Smith, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and H. B,
Varner, North Carolina,
Jobbers —Jogeph T. Allen, Roches
ter; O. A. Miller, Columbus; 8. L,
Wilson, l?l. Louis; David Lindsay,
Philadelphia; P. A. Leslie, Minneapo
lis, and D, D, Culbertson, New York.
‘Bible Agent’ Fraud
Reported to Police
In using the Bible in earrying out a
scheme whereby he nicked numerous
farmers and residents of Hampton,
G, enchefor exactly $6.756, a man who
sald he was J. M. Cooper has lgst
their friendship,
In exchange for perfectly good
notes for the sum mentioned, which
he promptly discounted at g bank, the
note signers recelved neatly pre
pared receipts and promises of mo
rocco-bound Bibles, f
Then Cooper disappeared. And they
want him back.
“We'll gladly furnish the money to
Lring him back, if oenly you'll cateh
him,” they sald in a letter reaching
Atlanta police headquarters 'fonday
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439 Seasick After
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Hard Trip to U. 8.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18~ RBattered by
bo.foot waves in a hurricane off the
tluh coast, the American liner New
ork arrived here today from Liver
;pnnl with 430 seasick gunnur
aboard. Rix were under the care of
‘thr ship's doctor. Mrs, SBamuel Hall,
of Pittsburg, who was hurled down
A companion way, was removed to a
hospital,
Btaterooms were flooded, two ports
were smashed in and evervthing
movable on deck was swept over
board,
- Among the notables on board were
Maxine Eillott, the actress, and Mrs.
A Baunderson. daughter of the late
John Do Archbold. ‘
Georgia Cavalryman
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Captain McElmurray, of the \\'namo»l
boro militia, whose arm was broken
when his horse fell on him at the Mnlv'
can border, was at the Hoted Ansley
Sunday night on his way home to spend |
" mrlnufi,
While here he received a telegram an
nouncing the death of his orderly, Pri
vate J, ". Gordon, of Troop B, tmr‘u
Cavalry, whose body was sent to his
old home for burial. Gordon died after
old home at Hinesville for burial. Gor
don died after an operation at the Fort
Bliss hospita!
Stole Their Xmas
Automobiles Early
Two more Atlanta automobiles
Woere missing Monday, according to
n!;;‘fl- at pol!c; headquarters,
ey were a five. passenger Stude.
baker. belonging to W, . lim-rq; of
No. § Bingham street, and a new
model Ford, belonging to J. F. Gee. of
No. 284 Capitol avenue. The MO7
number of Mr. Gee's car was 1368744,
He ten A suitable reward.
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' FOWL ROBBERY!
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| Freaks of the News
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1800 BIRDS GONE
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NEW YORK.--A sow! robbery
was committed when thieves en
tered Valentine Loesch’'s bird
store and stole 650 pigeons and
150 canaries, value at $1,500.
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| SERVEID HIM RIGHT.
‘ BAYONNE, N. J.—At the point
of a revolver a man held up
| Charles Barello, a coal dealer, in
his place of business, filled a
bucket with coal and fled.
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CHICKEN POCKETS NEXT.
| CHlCAGO.—Exhibits of the
i Chicago Designers’ Assoclation
| reveal a novelty in the shape of
| 'mmense pockets In the suits of
| women next spring. “Chicken
pockets” they are styled—not re
ferring to the wearers, but “be
cause the pockets are.big enough
to hold a chicken,” the design
ers say. \
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| E PLURIBUS UNUM.
LACROSSE, WlS.—Mrs. Em
ma (. Van Sickle will be buried
today In her private cemetery in
| a corner of her farm where her
five husbands were laid away
Over each grave is a tombstone
¢rected by Mrs, Van Sickle’s own
hands. |
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WHERE WILL IT END? |
CHICAGO.—Add to the high
cost of other things the cost ‘of
~ girlle shows. Announcement is
~ made that beginning this week
. the prices of seats in bald-headed
- rows will be $2.50 instead of $2.
| Chorus girls are getting $25 to
‘ S3O a week instead of the former
$lB and S2O, is the reason given
i by theater managers.
\Lads Summon
} of Mothers
(By International News Service.)
OSSINING, N T DU l.—~Two
youths, the eldest of whom is barely
out of his teens, volunteered today tu
give up three days of their lives in
order that Christmas Day may not
be such a mockery for their mothers
Both the boys are convicted murder
ers, and they will die at dawn tomor
row, instead of next Friday, as sen
tenced, "
Charles Kumrow, 20, who killed a
tugboat captain in Buffalo, and Stan
ley Millstein, 19, who shot a police
man in Utica, explained it all to
Father Cashin, #ng Sing’s sympa
thetic comforter, as they sat in their
cells in the death block,
If they are executed Friday, they
sald, their bodies would reach their
relatives on Christmas Day, and it
'Wwould not make it a very happy
Chrigstmas for their mothers. So
they'd rather, they said, die tomor
row, #oo their funerals will be out of
the way bhefore that day,
Father Cashin carried their re
quest to Warden Moyer, whé, after
some hesitation, acceded to it. The
priest carried back the message to
them, and tomorrow morning, at 5:45,
he will accompany each on the long
Journey “through the little grnen‘
door.”
7 Cents Per Meal
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BEREA, KY. Dac 18 —Tn order to
show that the cost of living has not
reached every part of the country,
Berea College, in the Kentucky
mountains, is responsible for the
statement that its 1,400 students are
fed at a cost of 7 cents per meal,
that they gained “several tons” in
}wfixm. and that the boarding hal
made a net gain of $559.49,
In explaining this record, William
Goodell Frost, president of the col
lege, refers first to the economy of
numbers, some 1,400 students being
in constant attendance in the five de
partments, Another explanation is
the fact that most of the students are
accustomed to plain fare, so that they
almost -unanimously choose to go
without tea, coffee and butter (o re
duce expenses. To offset these omis
slons the balanced ration has been
introduced, on the assumption that it
is just as important for students as
for “any other live stock.”
Family of 6 Die in
~ Cheyenne Hotel Fire
CHEYENNE, WYO, Dec. 18 —Six
persons are known to be dead as a re
sult of the fire that destroyed the
| Inter-Ocean Hotel here last night.
IPrnm the ruins of the structure Mday\
were taken the bodles of Mrs, R, A,
l\\‘hnr. of Baviess, Cal, and three nli
her small children. The bpdy of ah
!n'ht‘r child is still under the smolder- ‘
i"" wreckage. Roy White, the hus
band and father, hecame confused
’nh-n the fire broke out, and leaped
from the third story, He was caught
by wires and electrocuted, his shrive
lolo‘d hody falling to the streey shortly
| afterward
ick to Hav
Brunswick to Have
5,000-Ton Dry Dock
BRUNSWICK, Dec. 18— At a meet.
ing of the officers and directors of
the Drunswick Marine Construction
Corporation, haid here Saturday, it
was decided to erect at once a 5.000.
ton dry dock at their plant here. This
dock will accommodate the largest
constwise salling and steam vessels
and will be used as an adjurct to the
steaim hoist marine railway already
owned hy them,
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Buffalo Bill' Near
DENVER, Dec. 10.—~Colone! Wil
lHlam F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), who has
been In a serious condition at the
home of his daughter in this city as
& result of a threatensd attack of
preumonia, is near recovery, Hix
physician sald today that he wouid
be out agaln In a few davse.
-THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN—
Striking street car operatives Mon
day were discussing the attitude of
the church in labor troubles. They
had heard the special sermon by Dr.
C. B. Wilmer at St. Luke’s Church
Sunday morning, dealing with mod
ern social and economic problems.
The union had recelved a speclal in
vitation to the service, and it was
well represented. -~
“The test to be applied to any or
ganization’s right to exist is whether
it renders better service to society
than individuals,” said Dr. Wilmer.
“The old systems of feudalism and
slavery were abolished because they
failed in this respect. ‘
“The church is the preserver of lho‘
principles of righteousness in dealing
with social and economic problems. Ili
is beginning to assert itself in this
respect., 1 disagree with those who
think only of ‘heavenly streets’ and
‘mansions’ and care nothing uhout‘
conditions in Atlanta.”
Dr, Wilmer quoted some of the
principles bearing on social and eco
nomic problems agreed to by 30 Chris
tian denominations. They are: \
For the regulation of the con- ‘
ditions of toil for women as shall
safeguard the physical and moral
health of the community. |
For the protection of the work
~er from dangerous machinery, oc- |
~ cupajional diseases .and mortal- |
ity. ;
For the right of all men to the |
opportunity for self-maintenance: ‘
for safeguarding this right |
agalnst encroachments of every 1
kind and for the protection of the |
workers from the hardships of
enforced unemployment,
For the right of employees and
employers alike to organize for
adequate means of conciliation
and arbitration in industrial dis
putes,
For the release from employ -
ment one day in seven, .
For the gradual and reasona
ble reduction in the hours of la
bor to the lowest practical point,
and for that degree of leisure for
all, which is a condition of the
highest human life.
For a living wage as a mini
mum in every industry, and #er
the highest wage that each in
dustry can afford,
For a new emphasis upon the .
application of Christian principles
to the acquisition and use of
property, and for the most equi
table division of the produc® of
industry that can be devised.
B oA s et
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Drug Addict, Sane,
Must Stand Trial
Thomas B. Kimbrough, a young man
living at No. 105 Summit avenue, a drug
addict, Monday was declared sane by a
iury before Ordinary Thomas H .i‘eb
ries, and, as a result, will have to stand
trial on a misdemeanor anecusation in the
City Crimina! Court, this charge having
been preferred against him several
weeks ago.
__The writ of lunacy was taken out hy
Kimbrough's sister, Mrs. Jack Moore,
who told the jury her brother is Insane
‘when not under the influence of drug
Kimbrough made a statement to the
Jury, confessing that he is a vietim of
the drug habit and explaining that he
uses daily eight grains of morphine, He
said he was under the influence of three
grains while he was making his state
ment.
VasonPays $750 Fine
For Stabbing Felder
The account of G. K. Vason, former
assistant doorkeeper of the House of
Representatives, with the criminal court
ha(v been closed Monday with his pay
ment of the fine of $750 for the stabbing
of Attorney Thomas B. Felder last Au
fi"" in the New Kimball House. This
ne had been assessed Saturday by
Judge Ben Hi'l when he commuted the
{\rlmn '«-n(emzs that had been given
Yason on his efnviction in court.
The sentence was reduced to the fine
on the plea of Attorney Felder, following
melses said to have been made to him
)y Vason that he would hereafter lead a
sober life and refrain from becoming in
volved in difficulties, am‘nn the appeal
of the trial Jurors and friends of Vason.
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GIFTS AT MENTER'S
SI.OO Down - SI.OO a Week
Remember the first payvment gets
the goods at Menter's and also re
member that sensible gifts are tak
ing the place of frivolous ones this
year Shop early Read this list of
what SI.OO down and SI.OO a week
will buy.
Girls’ Coats, Sweaters, Fur Sets
Boys' Sults, Overcoats, Sweaters,
Shoes,
Women's Coals Suits Furs
Dresses, Walists Skirts, Sweaters
Millinery, Shoe
Men's Overcoats, Suits Sweaters
Trousers, Raincoats, Hats, Shoes. We
do as we advertise We gladly op«
Accounts with people In Kast Point
College Park Hapeville Kirkwood
Smvyvrna Decatu and Marietta, Ga
Menter, 71 1.2 Whitehall street P
stalrs Advertisement
Rh ti
Is completely washed out of the system
by the celebrated Shivar Minera: Water
Positively guaranteed by money-back
offer Tastes fine, costs a trifle Delly
ered anywhere hy our Atlanta Agents,
Coursey & Munn Drug Store, Marietts
and Broad Streets
CIGARS
The Gift Appreci
ated by MEN
Large Assortment
Brown & Allen
21 Whitehall
Branch at Termina! Station.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Fernod, the
great Frenchman, pafnted a picture,
one of the figures of which shows a
}m»y with a lighted cigarette in his
(mouth. The painting, valued at
|::“,ufln, is the property of Mrs. George
M. Reynolds, the wife of a Chicago
’hanknr. She recently loaned it to
Arche Club, which has quarters in
' Abraham Lincoln social center, and
it was displayed on the walls of the
room in which Rev. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones is accustomed to delivering an
ticigarette lectures, i
When the Rev. Jones beheld the
picture his wrath was great. He de
clared it must come~down or he |
would not lecture. Then one of the
club members called in an artist. He
painted out the cigarette with a prep
aration which will easily come off
when Mrs. Reynolds gets read_\"to‘
take back her work of art. The min
ister is appeased and the moral tone
of Lincoln center unhurt.
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Dr. Conkling Tells
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Of Ideal Church
What a church should be was told
Sunday by the Rev. Dr. J. Wade
Conkling during hfs sermon at th;
Unitarian Church, in which he urged
making the church, in a collective
sense, more beautiful. Desecribing the
proper church atmosphere, he said: |
“It should be the atmosphere where
men and women, strong and true,
meet men and women, true and
strong, and where those who enter
desire $0 be what they find there, be
cause of what the church people are.”
County Police to
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County policemen and their wives and
practically all members of the force who
are in the benefit class Monday looked
forward with pleasurable interest to a
‘h,mqn»-t Thursday night, at which they
' will be the guests of Chief George Ma
| thieson,
| Members of the County Commission
\:md their wives and the two members
elect—Charlegs R. Turner ang W. M
| Poole have been invited.
Arrangements for the affalr are being
made by Chief Mathieson and Chair
man W. Tom Winn, of the County Com
mission. It will be held in one of the
| big downtown hotels, to be selected by
the two officials.
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Aged Man Victim
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~ In Auto Collision
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| FITZGERALD, Dec. 18.—F. Andrew
|fi;rw-nw;|_\, 63, formerly of Tattnall
' County, died from injuries received
li“ an auto accident last night. Green
way was riding with W. D. Hinson in
'a Ford when they ran into a delivery
wagon on North Sheridan street. The
car turned turtle, throwing its ocecu
pants in the road, Greenway was
caught urder the car, and received
fatal internal injuries Hig son-in
]}.n\. Elbert Smith, and Mr. McGahee
'o'si',npul with slight bruises.
Seals in Decatur
Decatur's volunteer workers engaged
in selling Red Cross seals returned to
their task light-heartedly Monday. Al
ready they had equaled the 1915 record
of 20,000 seals, with which number they
led the South. They expected to boost
the record materially this vear.
E. E. Treadwell, chairman of the Red
Cross Soclaty, is In charge at Decatur.
He X 8 assisted h?’ committees of women's
civic organizations, headed by Mrs. I,
RB. Lesesne, Mrs. C. F, Mayes and Mrs.
W. A. Gasnell. )
Readers of The Georgian and American have five days
in which to finish their Christmas shopping.
They will spend nearly a Sixth of a Million Dollars a
Day on their final gift selections.
They will act on the suggestions of Georgian adver
tising!
You have five advertising opportunities lelfi—Tues
© day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—in
which to claim your share of this profitable Christmas
patronage.
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GEORGTAN LA MERICAN
“The Newspapers of the Home”
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The onset of winter has failed to“
diminish in the slightest the enthu- |
siasm over the proposed great Bank
head highway,/ which is to connect
Atlanta and Memphis, by way of Bir
mingham, and which ultimately will
become a transcontinental highway,
and Menday preparations were un
der way for a big conference of offi- |
clals of the Georgia Bankhead As- |
soclation which, it was announced,
would be held in Atlanta not Intur‘
than February 1.
Chairman Oscar Miils. of the Coun
ty Public Works Committee, who,
with D T. R Whitley, of Doug- |
lasville, is referee for the Georgia |
end of the highway, istructed (‘oun-‘
ty Engineer Tom Wilson, secretary
of the Georgia Association. to at
once communicate with the five Géor
gla vice presidents with the view of |
obtaining reports on the situation in
each of the five Georgia counties
through which the highway will pass.
TEis information will be in hand and
will be considered by officials prior
to the Atlanta conference, at which
further definite steps toward the
building of the highway will be taken.
The five highway counties in Geor
gia are Fulton. Cobb, Douglas, Car
roll and Haralson. Dr. W. L. Gil
bert, County Commissioner, 1s the
vice president for Fulton. <
Interest among the highway en
thusiasts was further increased Mon
day by announcement that Cobb
County already has started work on
its link of the highway. A splendid
road is being built from the Mayson |
and Turner bridge at the *Chatta
hoochee River to Austeell. |
From Austell is will be continued
to Lithia Springs, where Cobb joins
Douglas County. |
Fulton's portion of the highway,
from the city to the Mayson and
Turner bridge, already has been built, |
and the completion of the Cobb |
County section will leave but three
counties to finish the highway in, this
State, ‘
Referee Mills Monday declared
that the highway all the way to Mem- |
phis is assured. !
“It now will be but a short time |
until Atlantans can tour to Birming
ham and Memphis over a splendid
boulevard,” he said.
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South Side Baptists
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To Hold Big Reunion
A home-coming and roll-call day,
which every former pastor, teacher and
member of the church and Sunday
school will be urged to attend, will be
held Sunday, January 7, at the South
Side Baptist Church ]
The former superintendents and
teachers will be guests of honor at the |
Sunday school, and the former pastors
at the church service All will give
brief talks A roll call of all members
will follow. !
1
Farmers Urged to
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Plant Long Staple
Recent bulleting of the Department of
Agriculture urge farmers to plant more
long staple cotton seed. NT'hey point out |
that the supply of,long staple cotton i
much below the demand, especially of
1 3-16 to 1% inch staple. This is re
flected in the large premiums being paid |
for such cotton Prices of extra staple
cotton are larger than ever before in the
history of the country, according to the {
Department of Agriculture,
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BOSTON, Dec. 18.—Billy Sunday's
fight to make Boston dry came to a
dramatic wind-up today. The city will
vote tomorrow on whether the saloons
are to go.
No campaign against the liquor in
terests in years has so stirred Boston.
The license men, fearing a swing to no
license, have waged an energetic ad
vertising ca/npai;.:n during the past
week. Last year the vote was 46,000
for and 31,000 against liquor. 1t is
predicted that over 90,000 votes will be
cast in tomorrow's city election.
Slightly over 97,000 votes were cast in
the city in the last election. Yester
day Billy Sunday addressed 25,000
men in the Tabernacle, lashing Demon
Rum in a spectacular manner, Over
3,000 men “hit the trail,” led by for
mer Governor Eugene Noble Foss, who
has publicly announced that he will
file a bond for $1,000,000 to reimburse
the city for every cent it loses in tax
ation that it does not save in other
ways by going “dry. i
N A b ekl
Tampa, Fla., Concern
Buys Atlanta Truck
That Atlanta's manufactured products
are in ever-increasing demand is shown
by the announcement of the White Hick
ory Wagon Manufacturing Company that
it will ship a White Hickory 1-ton motor
truck to Tampa, Fla., during the week.
The trueck is for the Consolideted Gro
cery Company, with headquarters in
Jacksonville,
The White Hickory products are well
known all over the South, for the com
pany has been manufacturing White
Hickory wagons for thirty-eight vears.
The manufacture of mofor trucks has
but recently been engaged in. The de
mand for these trucks already is great
and enlargement of the truck factory
will be required soon, it is said. The
company has a capacity of 15,000 wag
ons a year. This output will be contin
ued as it is and will not be changeq in
any way to take care of the manufac
ture of motor trucks.
.
Counties Careless of
i & "Is Ch
Igers,’ Is Charge
A letter from a resident of a small
Georgia town asking Government aid in
breaking up illicit distilling there, be
cause the local authorities refuse to
take a hand, has been made public by
E. C. Yellowley, revenue agent in charge
here,
Ve said these requests were becom
ing common and reiterated remarks con
tained in a statement issued early last
week, scoring officlals of many counties
for failure to help Government officers
stop moonshining,
.
Drive Renewed for
Aged Negro Fund‘
Spurred on by A meeting held Sun«‘
day afternoon, members of a cam- |
paign committee Monday were mak
ing renewed efforts to increase al
fund being raised for aged and des- |
titute negroes of the city and county,
At the meeting, which was ad
dressed by leading negro educators
and ministers, it was declared there
is dire need for funds
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AMERICEOS, "Dec. 18.—T S
statement from an attorney con, ¢
with the Wade case came to f
Judge J. A. Hixon, associate S¢
for the State with Solicitor J F
ton and Harry Hawkins, w
commented on an article in a
afternoon pewspaper, which sa )
{riends of W. I. Johnson, special sz
of the Central of Georgia, and ¢
indictment for murder, said he (Joh,
son) was being done an injust
cause of an alleged alibi wt
had.
“I know nothing and care 1
about the indictment against Jo
for chicken fighting,” said Judge
on, and referring to the alleged
he said. “I consider it unprecede
that six officials of a railroad
to Americus to stop criminal
cedure against Johnson, Rut
State met the statements of the
road officials with an offer to cons
the alleged alibi, if they weuld 1
under oath and have it sworn t«
Johnson, which was refused.
“We went to Savannah to see
books of the railroad quoted in
alibi, and were denied the privilege !
seeing them,” said Judge Hixon. ‘1
State has evidence to show at t
trial that Johnson was in Americ
on the nizght which Walter Wade w
murdered,” continued Judge Hix
‘Railroads and newspapers can
stop the trial of Johnson, indicted f
the murder of ‘Wade, through alleg
tions that he is being done an inju
tice.”
Judge Hixon ,only is associated
the cases charging murder against
defendants, and the matter of indi
ments against Dr. C. K. Chapman
Johnson for cock fighting is said
nave been handled by Solicitor Felt
who had nothing to sav about
natter, %
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