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ATLANTA, ua.—
JULUTION OF SHORTAGE
UF NEWS PRINT SOUGHT
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—News
Pprint paper has cost for many years
from S4O to SSO a ton. Under the
increased demand for paper during
the war, with importations from
Bweden cut off, American and Cana
dian paper manufacturers have ad
vanced prices to S7O, SBO and In some
cares to $125 a ton,
More than 200 country newspapers
having no contracts with manufac
turers have been forced to suspend
publication
Newspapers in Minneapolis, Buf
falo, Pittsburg, St Louls 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 expire within the
next six months, will he able to con
tinue business only by foregoing all
profits, In some cases the inevita
ble losses on thelr business will have
to be financed by loans or mortgages,
Some paper manufacturers whose
actual cost for labor and supplies has
increased not more than $2 a ton,
have inereased prices to their rvxulnrl
customers $26 a ton. The situation |
i 8 being investigated by the Federal
Trade Commission, which will soon
publish a report on it
b Relief Plan Proposed.
= A plan proposed and apparently
favored by the Trade Commission, the
manufacturers and the small pub-
Jishers, under which large publish
wrs would relinquish 5 per cent of
Rheir 1917 quota to the smaller pub
mou, met with immediate opposi
., The large publishers declared
they were being made the vietims of
Jmanufacturers who, by converting
machines now on wall paper and
‘wrapping paper back to making news
rlnt, could solve the shortage prob.
m within a few days,
The plan proposed would provide
that the 5 per cent turned back hy
the large establishments would be
;pporuoned among the small pub
shers at the average contract price
eharged the large publishers. Thlul
‘would be between 8 and 4 cents a
pound. The jobber would receive, in
‘addition, about 1 per cent for hand
ding.
* Committees of the publishers, man
ufacturers and jobbers were named
10 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 ahn.
uestions Sent Out.
~ The publishers’ committe. will be
&!n today o send out questions to the
: paperg ascertaining the needs of
} small publications and learning
1f the large publishers will agree to
divide up a part of their paper.
~ In Baturday's meeting the large
publishers argued that an lm‘rfin-ei
production would be a simple
“ ter If the manufacturers display
-8 a willlngness to co-operate. In
they were supported by the small
‘publishers.
~ Both classes of, publishers, too, in
sisted that prices were beyond rea
mm assurance was given by the
’ Commission that a temporary
distribution plan, If carrled out,
would not stop the commission's in-
Vestigation of that subject,
Commissioner Davies declared the
commission belleved that print paper
Was & public necessity and that prices
now charged for it wer extortionate,
~ On the committee of publishers to
meet this week with the Trade Com
w‘, F. P, Glass, of Birmingham,
Ala, and L. B. Palmer, of New York,
were named to represent the larger
, , and A. W. Dunn and J.
| d Hoover to represent the
publishers, Manufacturers will
) Wtfll by J. Boyd Potter and
’ . Houyk. The jobbers will name
& committee later
It was brought ought that although
et 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 2.156 cents to an average of 2.10
cents on 1917 contracts, with an added
stem in that mills next year quote
prices at the factories instead of at
the place of delivery. |
A prospectus issued by one mann
facturing concern was presented to
show that the manufacturer, endeayv
oring to sell stock in his mill, claims
a profit of 815 4 ton on paper manu
factured this year, in addition 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
smualler publishers issued a statement
saying ita 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 fix the responsibility
for the shortage, said Commissioner
Davies in announcing that the inves
tigation would continue, whatever ar
rangement I 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 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 sald:
“Many publishers feel that the pub
licity of complaints on their part will
\y-oxmrdlzn their supply of paper, and
1t carnestly is desired that the in
vestigation to fix the responsibility for
thls condition be hastened. We fall
to understand lin what manner normal
economie forces have been 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
misslon to give a flat price for news
paper print, in addition to planning
equitable distribution. They desired
the commission to prevent discrimina
tion in price, except as covered by
difference in freight 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 19165,
Committees in Session.
The committees meeting with the
Trade Commission are:
Manufacturers —E. W, Backus,
George W. Mead, C. T. McNair, M. J.
Scanlon, Alexander Smith, P T
Dodge, George H. Mead and George
Cahoon, Jr,
Large Publishers—¥, P, (llass, Bir
mingham, Ala.; Emil Scholz, A, A,
Mcintyre and L. B, Palmer, New
York: R. L. McKenney, G. A. and E.
H. Baker,
Small Publishers—. H. Hosmer,
Denver; J. H. Zerbey, Pottsville, Pa.;
H. J. Blanton, Parls, Mo.; L. C.
Crampton, L. E. Peremich, Ernest G,
NBmith, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and H. B.
Varner, North Carolina.
Jobbers—Joseph T. Allen, Roches
ter; O. A. Miller, Columbus; 8. L.
Wilson, St. Louis; David Lindsay,
Philadelphia; P. A, Leslle, Minneapo
lis, and D. D, Culbertson, New York.
‘Bible Agent’ Fraud
Ible Agent’ Frau
Reported to Police
~ Reporte
In using the Hible in carrying out a
scheme whereby he nicked numerous
farmers and residents of Hampton,
Ga., each for exactly $6.75, 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 a bank, the
note signers received neatly pre
pared receipts and promises of mo
rocco-bound Bibles,
Then Cooper disappeared. And they
want him back.
“We'll gladly furnish the money to
bring him back, if only you'll eatch
him,” they sald in a letter reaching
Atlanta police headquarters Monday.
439 Seasick After
.
Hard Trip to U. 8.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Battered by
bo.foot waves in a hurricane off the
Irish coast, the American liner New
York arrived here today from Liver.
pool with 439 wseasick 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 Elllott, the actress, and Mrs,
A. Saunderson, daughter of the late
John D, Archbold,
Georgia Cavalryman
~ Is Dead on Border
Captain MeElmurray, of the Waynes
boro"v:llnu. whose nyrm was broken
when his hon:.l:n t'm'gl.m.:l't:\o:l:‘x.l
can border " ote n
tu'v‘i'dck!“n:"fil on his way home to lpo.‘
a furl "
wuht.n he recelved a telegram an
mactn”clo death of his orderly, Pri
vate J (mnn of Troop B, J“"h
Cavalry, wh body w sent to his
old“oun for hurial (k:ou died after
old home at Hinesville for burial. Gor
(‘on died after an operation at the Fort
hospital.
Stole Their Xmas
Two more Atlanta . automobiles
were missing Monday, according 16
reports at police headquarters,
They were a M-u-n:::udo
baker, belonging to W, C. rd, of
No. & Hingham street, and & new
mode! ~ belonging to %¥. Gee. of
No, 264 ';munt avenue. m
number Mr, s oAr was 1
He .a l& reward,
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'FOWL ROBBERY!|
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800 BIRDS GONE
PARA A A AP AR AANANAEINAN
NEW YORK.—A fowl robbery
was committed when thieves en
tered Vaieniine ILoesch's bird
store and stole 650 pigeons and
160 canaries, value at $1,500,
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SERVEID HIM RIGHT.
BAYONNE, N. J.—At the point
of a revolver & 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
Chicago Deslgners' 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 eriough
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
erécted by Mrs. Van Sickle's own
hands. i
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WHERE WILL IT END? |
CHICAGO.—Add to the high |
cost of other things the cost of ‘
girlie 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. |
(By International News Seryice.)
OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. IL—Two
youths, the eldest of whom is barely
out of his teens, volunteered today to
Eive 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, g 8 sen
tenced,
Charles Kuxqrnw. 20, who killed a
tugboat captain in Buffalo, and Stan
ley Milistein, 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 bodles 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 said, die tomor
row, so their funerals will be out of
the way before that day.
Father Cashin carried thelr re
quest to Warden Moyer, who, after
some hesitation, acceded to it. The
priest carried back the message to
them, and tomorrow morning, at 645,
he will accompany each on the long
Journey “through the little green
door.”
Students Get Fat on
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
mountains, is responsible for the
statement that its 1,400 students are
fed at a cost of 7 cents per meal,
that they galned “several tons” in
weight, and that the boarding hall
made a net gain of $569.49,
In explaining this record, Willlam
Goodell Frost, president of the col
lege, refers first to the economy of
numbers, some 1400 students being
In constant attendance in the five de
partmentis. 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
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
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Cheyenne Hotel Fire
CHEYENNE, WYO. Dec, ll‘-~Blxl
persons are known to be dead as a re
#ult of the fire that destroyed the
Inter-Ocean Hotel here last night,
From the ruins of the structure today
were taken the bodles 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 oMcers 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
constwise salling and steam vessols
and will be used as an adjunct to the
steam hoist marine rallway already
owned by them, i
‘Buffalo Bill' Near
uialo ear
DENVER, Dec. 18.~Colone!l Wil
llam F. Cody (Buffalo Rill), who has
been In a serlous condition at the
home of his daughter In this oit as
A result of a threatened an{ of
poeumonia, is near recovery. His
g:nlnhn sald today that he would
Out agnin in & few days,
-THE _ATLANTA GEORGIAN—
Striking street ecar 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 Bt. 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
falled in this respect.
“T'he church is the preserver of the
principles of righteousgness in dealing
with social and economic problems. It
Is beginning to assert itself in this
respeet. 1 disagree with those who
think only of ‘heavenly streets’ and
‘mansfons’ and care nothing about
conditions in Atlanta.”
Dr. Wilmer quoted some of the
principles bearing on soclal 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
cupational diseases and mortal
ity.
For the right of all men to the
opportunity for self-maintenance;
for safeguarding this right
against 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 lelsure for
all, which is a condition of the
highest human life,
For a living wage as a mini
mum in every industry, and for
the highest wage that each ine
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. Kimbrough, a young man
ll\'lns at No. 106 Summit avenue, a drug
addict, Monday was declared sane l?' a
iur,v before Ordinary Thomas H, Jef
ries, and, as a result, will have to stand
trial on a misdemeanor accusation in the
City Criminal Court. this charge hIVIII’
been preferred against him severa
weeks ago,
The writ of lunacy was taken out by
Kimbrough's sister, Mrs. Jack Moore,
who told the {ury 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 dqu habit and explaining that he
uses daily 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
The account of G. K. Vason, former
assistant doorkeeper of the House of
Representatives, with the eriminal court
hax been closed Monday with his K‘y
ment of the fine of $750 for the stab ing
of Attorney Thomas B. Felder last Au
gust in the New Kimball House. This
fine had been assessed Saturday by
Judge Ben Hill when he commuted the
Vrmm sentencg that had been given
yason on his (',hvk‘tlon in court.
The sentence was reduced to the fine
on the plea of Attorney Felder, following
romises sald to have been made to him
‘:y Vason that he would hereafter lead a
sober life and refrain from becoming in
volved in difficulties, and on the appeal
of the trial jurors and friends of Vason.
GIFTS AT MENTER'S
§I.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, Sults, Furs,
Dresses, Walsts, Skirts, Sweaters,
Millinery, Shoes.
Men's Overcoats, Suits, Sweaters,
Trousers, Raincoats Hats, Shoes. We
do as we advertise We gladly open
Accounts with people in East Point,
College Park, Hapeville Kirkwood,
Smyra, Decatur and Marietta, Ga
Menter, 711.2 Whitehall street, up
stalrs Advertisement
Rh ti
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s completely washed out of the !&uom
by the celebrated Shivar Mineral Water
Positively guaranteed by money-back
offer, Thastes fine: costs A trifls. Deliv.
ered anywhers by our Atlanta Agents,
‘l'ullrl»\ & Munn Drug Store, Marletta
| and Broad Streets,
CIGARS
Theted by MEN <"
Large Assortment
Brown & Allen
21 Whitehall
Branch at Tesminal Station,
Cigarette Cut
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by Preacher
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i CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Fernod, the
great Frenchman, painted a picture,
one of the flgures 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. She recently loaned it to
Arche Club, which has quarters in
Abraham Lincoln soclal center, and
it was displayed on the walls of the
room in which Rev, Jenkin Llo_vd‘
Jones {s 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 1s appeased and the moral tone
of Lincoln center unhurt.
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Dr. Conkling Tells
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 afld women, true and
strong, and where those who enter
desire to be what they find there, be
cause of what the church people are.”
County Police to
s
(‘ount{ 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 guests of Chief George Ma
thieson,
Members of the County Commission
and their wives and the two members
elect—Charlegs R. Turner and 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 twe officlals.
Aged Man Victim
. In Auto Collision
FITZGERALD, Dec. 18.—F. Andrew
Greenway, 63, formerly of Tattnall
County, died from injuries received
in 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 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 brulges,
Record Sale of .
Seals in Decatur
Decatur's volunteer workers engaged
in selling Red Cross seals returned to
thelr u-‘ light-heartedly Monday. Al
ready they had equaled the 1915 record
of 23000 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 Boclety, is In charge at Decatur.
He is assisted b{ committees of women's
civic organisations, headed by Mrs. 1.
B. 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 lefi—Tues
day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—in
which to claim your share of this profitable Christmas
patronage.
AN S A
GE RS .xwxifiw;’?l'l‘)%;;' 28 :‘; 'r' AN
“The Newspapers of the Home”
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,
:wlth Dr. T. R. Whitley, of Doug
lasville, is referee for the Georgia
end of tha highway, instructed Coun
ty Engineer Tom Wilson, secretary
of the Georgia Association, to at
once communicate with the five Geor
gia vice presidents with the view of
obtaining reports on the situation in
each of the five Georgia counties
through which the highway will pass.
This 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.
South Side Baptist
To Hold Big l{)eu '
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 SBunday, 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 Pasmrs
at the church service, All will g‘ve
brief talks. A roll call of all members
will follow.
Farmers Urged to
Recent bulletins of the Department of
Agriculture urge farmers o plant more
long staple cotton seed. They point out
that the supply of long staple cotton is
much below the demand, especially of
1 8-16 to 1% inch staple. This is re
flected in the large premiums being pald
for such cotton. Prices of extra staple
cotton are larger than ever before in the
histery of the country, a« cording to the
Department of Agriculture.
Binder Picture Frame
Manufacturing Co.
Framed Pictures, Picture Molding,
Frame Shop Sundries, Stock ren?y
for immediate delivery.
86 N. PRYOR STREET
Billy Sund
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Endsßoston’
Lnasbosion s
- LiguorFigh
Liquorright
| {By internationai 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 energetic 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. Yester
day Billy Sunday addressed 25,900
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 ether
ways by going “dry.”
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Tampa, Fla., Concern
Buys Atlanta Truck
That Atlanta’s manufactured products
are in ever-increasing demangd is shown
by the announcement of the White Hick
ory Waion Manufacturing Company that
it will ship a White Hickory 1-ton motor
truck to }l)‘ampa, Fla., during the week.
The truck is for the Consolidated Gro
cery Comrany. with headquarters in
Jacksonville,
The White Hickory products are well
known all over the South, for the com
{mny hag been manufacturing White
lickory wagons for thit;*v-eixht vears.
The manufacture of md¥or 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 15000 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. ~
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Counties Careless of
2 'ls Char
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.
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 fallure to help Government officers
stop moonshining,
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Drive Renewed for
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Aged Negro Fund‘
Spurred on by a meeting held Sun- |
day afternoon, members of g 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 was ad
dressed by leading negro educators
and ministers, it was declared' there
is dire need for funds.
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AMERICUS, Dec. 18.—The firg
statement from an attorney connecte
with the Wade case came today fron
Judge J. A. Hixon, associate counse
for the State with Solicitor Jule Fe)
ton and Harry Hawkins, when I,
commented on an article in a Maco;
afternoon newspaper, which said that
friends of W. I. Johnson, special agent
of the Central of Georgia, and unde,
indictment for murder, said he (John
son) was being done an injustice he
cause of an alleged alibi which |
had.
“I know nothing and care noth ng
about the indictment against John:
for chicken fighting,” said Judge Hix
on, and referring to the alleged alil
he said. “I consider it unprecedente:
that six officials of a railroad cam.
to Americus to stop criminal pre
cedure against Johnson. But ¢t
State met the statements of the rail
road officials with an offer to conside
the alleged alibi, if they would put i
under oath and have it sworn to b
Johnson, which was refused.
“We went to Savannah to see th:
books of the railroad quoted in th
alibi, and were denied the privilege of
seeing them,” said Judge Hixon. “The
State has evidence to show at the
trial that Johnson was in Americu:
on the night which Walter Wade was
murdered,” continued Judge ' Hixon
‘Railroads and newspapers can not
stop the trial of Johnson, indicted so
the murder of Wade, through allega
tions that he is being done an injus
tice.” 4
Judge Hixon only is associated in
the cases charging murder against six
defendants, and the matter of indict
ments against Dr. C. K. Chapman and
Johnson for cock fighting is said to
have been handled by Solicitor Felton.
who had nothing to say about the
"matter.
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