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ATLICINTA., A~
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 during
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 been foreced to suspend
publication
Newspapers in Minneapolls, Buf
falo, Pittsburg, St. lLouls and many
smaller places have raised the prices
of their papers.
Some of the most successful news
papers in the United States, whose
paper contracts explre within the
next six months, will he able to con
tinue business only by foregoing all
zroflt.s. In some cases the inevita
le losses on their business will have
10 be financed by loans or mortgages.
Bome paper manufacturers whose
Aaectual cost for labor and supplies has
rruled not more than $3 a ton,
ve Increased prices to their regular
customers $26 a ton. The sltuation
18 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
lishers, under which large publish
ers would rellnquish 5 per cent of
thelr 1917 quota to the smaller pub
lshers, met with {mmediate opposi
tlon. The large publishers declared
they were being made the victims of
manufacturers who, by converting
machines now on wall paper and
‘wrapping paper back to making news
rflnt. could solve the shortage prob
em within a few days,
The plan proposed would provide
that the § per cent turned back by
the large establishments would bhe
apportioned among the small pub
lhggrl 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
uflgturoru and jobbers were named
to continue conferences with the
Trade Commission this week in an
effort either to perfect the plan pro
posed or to work out some other ac
ceptable plan.
&untiom Sent Out.
The publishers’ committee will be
']n today to send out questions to the
newspapery ascertaining the needs of
the small publications and learning
4f the large publishers will agree to
divide up a part of their paper.
In Saturday’'s meeting the large
rublluhern argued that an Increase
n production would be a simple
matter if the manufacturers display
ed a willlgness to co-operate, In
this they were supported by the small
publishers.
Both classes of publishers, too, in
misted that prices were heyond rea
son and assurance was given by the
Trade Commission that a temporary
distribution plan, if carried out,
would not stop the commission's in
vcltmtlo‘}of that subject,
Commissioner ' Davies declared the
commission belleved that print paper
‘Was a public necessity and that prices
now charged for it wer extortionate.
On the committee of publishers to
meet this week with the Trade Com
mission, . P. Glass, of Birmingham,
Ala., and L. B. Palmer, of New York,
‘were named to represent the larger
blishers, and A. W. Dunn and J.
‘urmond Hoover to represent the
mall publishers, Manufacturems will
2 represented by J, Boyd Potter and
T. Houyk. The jobbers will name
A committee later.
It was brought ought that although
the cost of production—as disclosed
by the Trade Commission’s investiga.
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tlon—has remained about stationary
in 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
iftern in that mille next year qguote
prices at.the rfactories 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 additior to a
surplus accumulated. Manufacturers
opposed every suggestion that produc
tion be 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
u:xy?ng its members were hopeful the
Trade Commission and those con-]
cerned were about to find a solution
of the situation.
The Trade Comission Is in a posi
tion already to flx the responsibility
for the shortage, said Commissioner
Davies In announcing that the inves
tigation would continue, whatever ar
rangement {8 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 gub
lishers asking that the conference’set
tle questions of price and production
)u well as of distribution.
| Statement |ssued.
The statement of the larger publish
ers declared the opinlon 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
lielty of complaints on their part will
Jeopardize their supply of paper, and
it earnestly is desired that the in
vestigation to fix the responsibility for
this condition be hastened. We fall
to understand in what manner normal
economlic forces have heen the sole
causes of bringing about the present
apparent, shortage, and we feel con
strained to ask the Federal Trade
Commission to induce news print
manufacturers to confine their efforts
to supplying the legitimate needs of
newspaper publishers—their normal
consumers—rather than to diverting
abnormal tonnage into temporary
channels.”
Smaller publishers asked the com
mission to glve a flat price for news
paper print, in addition to planning
equitable distribution. They desired
the commission to prevent discrimina
“(;l in price, except as covered by
difference in freight hauls. Paper un
der thls 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, C. T. McNair, M. J.
Beanlon, Alexander Smith, P, T.
Dodge, George H. Mead and George
Cahoon, Jr,
Large Publishers—F. P, Glass, Bir
mingham, Ala.; Emil Scholz, A. A.
Mecintyre and 1. B, Palmer, New
York; R. L. McKenney, G. A, and E.
H. Baker,
Small Publishers—G. H. Hosmer,
Denver; J. H, Zerbey, Pottsville, Pa.;
H. J. Blanton, Paris, Mo.; L." C.
Crampton, 1.. E, Peremich, Ernest G,
Smith, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and H. B.
Varner, North Carolina.
Jobbers-—-Joseph T. Allen, Roches
ter; O. A. Millew, Columbus; 8, L.
Wilson, St. Louis: David Lindsay,
Philadelphia; P. A, Leslie, Minneapo
lis, and D. D, Culbertson, New York.
‘Bible Agent’ Fraud
Reported to Policel
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In using the Bible in carrying out a
scheme whereby he nicked numerous
farmers and residents of Hamp(un.‘
Ga., each for exactly $6.75, a man who
said he was J. M. Cooper has lost
their friendship, |
In exchange for perfectly good
notes for the sum mentioned, which
he promptly discounted at a bank, the
note signers received neatly pre
pared receipts and promises -of mo
rocco-bound Bibles,
Then (‘oo{wr disappeared. And they
want him back,
“We'll gladly furnish the money to
bring him back, if only youll ecatch
him,” they said In a letter reaching
Atlanta police headquarters Monday.
439 Seasick After
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Hard Trip to U. 8.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Battered by
60-foot waves In a hurricane off the
Irish coast, the American liner New
York arrived here today from Liver
pool with 439 seasick passengers
aboard. Six were under the care of
the ship's doctor. Mrs. Samuel! Hall,
of Pittsburg, who was hurled down
a companion way, was removed to a
hospital,
Staterooms were flooded, two ports
were smashed In and everything
movable on deck was swept over
board,
Among the notables on board were
Maxine Elliott, the actress, and Mrs.
‘A. Saunderson, daughter of the late
‘Juhn D. Archbold.
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Georgia Cavalryman
- Is Dead on Border
_ Captain M Elmurray, of the Waynes
boro militia, whoge arm was broken
when his horse fell op him at the Mexl
can border, was at the Hotel Ansley
Sunday n!(hl on his way home to spend
a furlough.
While ‘IQ"P he recelved a telegram an
nounclng the death of his orderly, Pri
vate J. D. Gordon, of Troop R, t)eor“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
Blies hospital
Stole Their Xmas
Automobiles Early
Two more Atlanta automobiles
were missing Monday, according to
reports at police headquarters,
They were a five-passenger Stude
baker, belonging to W, C, Shepard, of
No. § Bingham street, and a new
model Ford, helonging to J. F. Geé. of
No. 264 Capitol avenue. The factory
number of Mr. Gee's car was 1368742,
He offers a suitable reward.
'FOWL ROBBERY!
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/800 BIRDS GONE
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NEW YORK.—A fowl 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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! BAYONNE, N. J.—At the point
| of a revolver a man held up
I (Charles Barello, a coal dealer, in
his place of business, fllled a
bucket with coal and fled.
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CHICKEN POCKETS NEXT.
CHlCAGO.—Exhibits of the
Chicago Designers’ Assoclation
reveal a novelty in the shape of
immense 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
I to hold a chicken,” the design
ers say,
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E PLURIBUS UNUM.
LACROSSE, WlS.—Mrs. FEm
ma C. 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
erected 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
by theater managers.
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OSBINING, N. Y., Dec. I~—~Two
youths, the eldest of whom is barely
out of his teens, volunteered today to
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, linstead 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, Sing 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
would not make it a very happy
Christmas for their mothers. So
they'd rather, they sald, die tomor
row, so their funerals will be out of
the way before that day.
Father Cashin carried thelr re
guest to Warden Moyer, who, after
some hesitation, acceded to it. The
priest carried back the message to
them, and tomorrow mdrning, at 5:45,
he will accompany each on the long
Journey “through the little green
door.”
Students Get Fat on
7 Cents Per Meal
BEREA, KY.. Dac. 12 —Tn grder to
show that the cost of living has not
reached every part of the country,
Berea College, In the Kentucky
mountalns, 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
weight, and that the boarding hall
made a net gain of $859.49, ‘
In explaining this record, Wllliam
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 to re
duce expenses. To offset these omis
sions 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
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Cheyenne Hotel Fire
CHEYENNE, WYO., Dec. 18.—8 ix
persons are known to be dead as a re
sult of the fire that destroyed the
Inter-Ocean Hotel here last night.
l}-‘rnm the ruins of the structure today
were taken the bodies of Mrs. R. A.
White, of Bayless, Cal., and three of
her small children. The body of an
other child is still under the smolder
ing wreckage. Roy White, the hus
band and father, became confused
when the fire broke out, and leaped
from the third story. He was caught
by wires and electrocuted, his shrive
eled body falling to the street shortly
afterward.
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Brunswick to Have
5,000-Ton Dry Dock
BRUNSWICK, Dec. 18,.—At a meet
ing of the officers and directors of
the Brunswick Marine Construction
Corporation, held 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
coastwise saillng and steam vessels,
and will be used as an adjunct to the
steam hoist marine railway already
owned by them.
‘Buffalo Bill' Near
Complete Recovery
DENVER, Dec. 18.—~Colonel Wil..
lHam F. Cody (Ruffalo Bill), who has
' been In a serious eondition at the
‘home of his daughter In this city as
& result of a threatened attack of
pneumonia, is near recovery, His
physician sald today that he would
be out agaln in & few days.
——FOr NATUAINTZA OOUINILALY—
S ey e e e
Striking street car operatives Mon
day were discussing the atdtude of
the church in labor troukbles. They
had neard 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,” sald Dr. Wilmer.
“The old systems of feudalism and
slavery were abolished because they
failled in this respect.
“The church is the preserver of the
principles of righteousness in dealing
with social and economic problems. It
is beginning to assert itself in this
respect. I disagrée with those who
think only of ‘heavenly streets' and
‘manslons’ and care nothing about
conditions in Atlanta.”
Dr. Wilmer quoted some of the
principles bearing on soclal and eco
pomic 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
cupational diseases and mortal
ity.
For the right of all men to the
opportunity for self-maintenance;
for safeguarding this right
agailnst encroachments of every
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 concillation
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 llving wage as a mini
mum in every industry, and for
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 product of
industry that can be devised.
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Drug Addict, Sane,
Must Stand Trial
Thomas B. Klmbroufih. a young man
living at No. 106 Summit avenue, a drug
addict, Monday was declared sane by a
jury before Ordinary Thomas H. .)ye{-
fries, and, as a result, will have to stand
trial on a misdemeanor accusation in the
City Criminal Court, this charge havin
been preferred against him severafi
weeks ago,
The writ of lunacy was taken out by
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 victim of
the druf habit and explaining that he
uses dally eight grains of morphine. He
sald he was under the influence of three
grains while he was making his state
ment,
VasonPays $750 Fine
For Stabbing Felder
or stabbing re |
The account of G. K. Vason, former
assistant doorkeeper of the House of
Representatives, with the criminal court
had been closed Monday with his pay
ment of the fine of $750 for the stabbing
of Attorney Thomas B. Felder last Au
xust in the New Kimball House. This
ne had been assessed Saturday by
Judge Ben Hil when he commuted the
crlson sentence that had been given
‘ason on his conviction in court. .
The sentence was reduced to the fine
on the plea of Attorney Felder, following
mises said to have been made to him
g';'oVuon that he would hereafter lead a
sober life al\g refrain from becoming in
volved in di iculties, and on the appeal
‘ol the trial jurors and friends of Vason.
GIFTS AT MENTER'S
SI.OO Down—sl.oo a Week
Remember the first payment 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' Suits, Overcoats, Sweaters,
Shoes.
Women's Coats, Suits, Furs,
Dresses, Walsts, Skirts, Sweaters.
Millinery, Shoes,
Men's Overcoats, Suits, Sweaters,
Trousers, Raincoats, Hats, Shobs. We
do as we advertise We gladly open
adccounts with people in East Point,
College Park, Hapeville, Kirkwood,
Smyrna, Decatur and Marietta, Ga.
Menter, 71 1-2 Whitehall street, up
stairs.—Advertisement.
Rh ti
is completely washed out of the system
by the celebrated Shivar Mineral Water
Positively guaranteed by money-back
offer. Tastes fine; costs a trifle. Delly.
ered anywhere by our Atlanta Agents,
Coursey & Munn Drug Store, Marletta
and Broad Streotas.
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CIGARS
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Large Assortment
Btown & Allen
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Branoch at Terminal Station.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Fernod, the
great Frenchman, painted a picture,
one of the figures of which shows a
boy with a lighted cigarette in his
mouth. The painting, valued at
$20,000, is the property of Mrs. George
M. Reynolds, the wife of a Chicago
banker. Shsa 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,
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 ready 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
Of Ideal Church
What a church should be was told
Sunday by the Rev. Dr. J. Wade
'Conkling during his sermon at the
Unitarian Church, in which he urged
making the church, in a collective
sense, more beautiful. Describing 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, ang where those who enter
desire to be what they find there, be
cause of what the church people are.”
County Police to
.
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
banquet Thursday night, at which they
will be the gwests of Chief George Ma
thieson.
Membets of the County Commission
and their wives and the two members
elect—Charles R. Turner ang W. M.
Poole have been invited.
Arrangements for the-affair 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 officlals.
Aged Man Victir
. In Auto Collisi
FITZGERALD, Dec. 18.—F. Andrew
Greenway, 63, formerly of Tattnall
County, died from injuries received
in an auto accident last night. Gyreen
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 occu
pants in the road. Greenway was
caught under the car, and received
fatal internal injuries. His son-in
law, Elbert Smith, and Mr. McGahee
escaped 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 year.
E. E. Treadwell, chairman of the Red
Cross Society, 18 in charge at Decatur.
He is assisted by committees of women's
civie orgunlznt?'onu,_headed by Mrs. L.
B. Lesesne, Mrs. C. F. Mayes and Mrs.
W. A. Gasnell.
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 Monday preparations were un
der way for a big conference of offi
clals of the Georgia Bankhead As
sociation which, it was announced,
would be held in Atlanta not later
than February 1.
~ Chairman Oscar Mills, of the Coun
ty Public Works Committee, who,
with Dr. T. R. Whitley, of Doug
lasville, is referee for the Georgia
end of the highway, instructed Coun
ty Engineer Tom Wilson, secretary
of the Georgia Association, to at
once communicate with the five Geor
gla vice presidents with the view of
obtaining reports on the situation in
each of the flve Georgia counties
through which the highway will pass.
This information will be in hand and
will be considered by officlals 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 €obb
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 wiil be but a short time
until Atlantans ecan tour to Birming
ham and Memphis over a splendid
boulevard,” he said.
South Sidé Baptists
outh Sidé Bap
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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 Chuyrch.
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 foliow.
Farmers Urged to
Plant Long Staple
Recent bulletins of the Department of
Agriculture urge farmers to plant more
long staple cotton seed. They point out
that the supply of long staple cotton is
much below the demand, especially of
1 3-16 to 11 inch staple. This is re
flected in the large premiums being paid
for such cotton. Prices of extra staple
cotton are Yargexr than ever before in the
history of the country, according to the
Department of Agriculture.
Binder Picture Frame
Manufacturing Co.
Framed Pictures, Picture Molding,
Frame Shop Sundries, Stock ready
for Immediate delivery.
86 N. PRYOR STREET
Readers of The Georgian and American have five day
in which to finish their Christmas shopping.
They will spend nearly a Sixth of a Million Dollars :
Day on their final gift selections.
They will act on the suggestions of Georgian adver
tising!
You have five advertising opportunities less—Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—i
which to claim your share of this profiiable Christma
patronage.
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GEORG AN-SHBSAMERICAN
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(By International News Service.)
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 erergetic ad
vertising campaign during the past
week. Last year the vote was 46,000
for and 31,000 against liquor. It 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. Yestér
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
atlon that it does not save in other
ways by going “dry.”
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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 truck is for the Consolidated Gro
cery Comfmny. with headquarters in
Jacksonville,
The White Hickory products are well
known all over the South, for the com
l%tmy has been manufacturing White
ickory wagons for thirty-eight years.
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 changeqd in
any way to take care of the manufac
ture of motor trucks.
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Counties Careless of
n "Is Ch
Igers,’ Is Charge
A letter from a resident of a small
Georgia town asking Government ald in
breaking up illicit distilling there, be
cause the local authorities refuse to
take a hand, has been made public by
;;:. C. Yellowley, revenue agent in charge
ere,
He sald these requests were becom
lnf common and reiterated remarks con
tained in a statement issued early last
week, scoring officials 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 a
fund being raised for aged and des
titute negroes of the city and county,
At the meeting, which wa- ad
dressed by leading negro educators
and ministers, it was declared there
is dire need for funds.
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AMERICUS, Dec. 18—Th fivat
statemert from an attorney connentes
with the Wade case came today frqn
Judge J. A. Hixon, associate coypgy
for the State with Solicitor Jule g
ton and Harry Hawkjns, wle; .
commented on an article in a )
afternoon newspaper, which sai| that
friends of W. I. Johnsen, specia] Igent
of the Central of Georgia, and unde
indictment for murder, said he (Joh,.
son) was being done an injustice pe
cause of an alleged alibi which p
had.
“1 know nothing and care nothip,
about the indictment against Johns,
for chicken fighting,” said Judge Hiy
on, and referring to the alleged
he said. “I comsider it unpreceder ted
that six officials of a railroad came
to Americus to stop criminal pro. |
cedure against Johnson, But tp
State met the statements of the raj.
road officials with an offer to consider
the alleged alibi, if they would put it
under oath and have it sworn to by
Johnson, which was refused.
“We went to Savannah to see the
books of the railroad quoted in ths
alibi, and were denied the privilege of
seeing them,” said Judge Hixon. “The
State has evidence to show at the
trial that Jchnson was in Americys
on the night which Walter Wade was
murdered,” continued Judge Hixon
‘Railroads and newspapers can not
stop the trial of Johnson, indicted for
the murder of Wade, through allega
tions that he is being done an injus.
tice.” 1
Judge Hixon only is associated i
the cases charging murder against siy
defendants, and the matter of indict.
ments against Dr. C. K. Chapman ang
Johnson for cock fighting is said to
have been handled by Solicitor Felton
who had nothing to say about the
, natter.
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