Y W C A Campaign Surges in Athens on Thirteenth Day
Nearly 150 workers pressed the effort in Athens raising about $13 000 for local and war work, despite snow and wind. Leading captains and business leaders sustained enthusiasm at a 1 30 luncheon, with Mrs Welch and the National Bank each donating $500 and the Athens Savings Bank adding $500. The Laura Rutherford chapter hosted the luncheon. officers reported strong daily subs and totals as the drive continued.
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Athens
Laura Rutherford
Welch
Billups Phinizy
Drew Cox
Fred Morton
W. F. Watson
Association
Attempts To Install Wireless Stations In China Frustrated
German interests faced obstacles as Telefunken wireless stations planned across China were blocked. The report lists daily and total submarine subscriptions by battalions and companies, including the Ladies Brigade and various regiments, totaling hundreds of subscriptions and thousands in funds.
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China
Associated Press
London
Daily Mail
Tientsin
Thrift Stamps As Tips For Waiters
New York December 13. Thrift stamps as tips to waiters were proposed by promoters of government coupon sales and reportedly adopted by several restaurant patrons. The idea aims to boost thrift stamp purchases while rewarding service at eateries.
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New York
Helmsman Held Over Collision That Sank Mont Blanc
John Johansen helmsman of the Norwegian steamship Imo was detained as a German spy suspect and turned over to military authorities after the collision with the Montblanc caused last Thursday’s disaster near Ferret Halifax.
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Examination of Officers in Regular Army and Guards
Washington December 13 all general officers of the regular army and national guard are being examined by medical and efficiency boards to determine the advisability of sending them for service abroad Secretary Baker says this step is needed due to unusually severe conditions of the service in this war.
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Associated Press
Washington
Regular Army
National Guard
Baker
Tess of The Storm Country at Colonial Tonight
The Margy Southwell Stock Co presents Tess of The Storm Country at the Colonial tonight. Miss Southwell, praised as the peer of all in the role, leads a strong cast in this beloved pictorial and dramatic success. Bargain tickets offer 35 cent seats for ladies tonight from 7:30 to 8:30 p m, exchangeable at Palmer's Drug Store Friday evening.
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Colonial
Tess
Mary Pickford
Miss Southwell
Sterling
Palmer's Drug Store
Talk of Taxing Their Own Incomes Once More
Washington December 13 The house ways and means committee will take up Saturday legislation to amend the war tax laws so that members of Congress will be subject to the new war excess profits tax on incomes of six thousand dollars or more.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Italiane Sink Two Austrian Battleships
Italian torpedo boats torpedoed two Austrian battleships in Trieste harbor on the night of December 9. The report was received in New York by Commander C Pfister of the Italian navy.
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New York
Trieste
C. Pfister
Eee
Food Administrators Work to Stabilize State Prices
Federal Food Administrators Dr. A. M. Soule and John E. Tal madge Sr. meet daily to curb grocery costs across Georgia. Retail sugar reached eight dollars sixty cents per hundred pounds, while cash deliveries in Atlanta show eleven cents per pound and ten cents for cash and delivered. The officials credit ongoing conferences and directives with saving Georgians millions and maintaining stable prices for flour sugar and other staples.
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A. M. Soule
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John E. Talmadge
Talmadge
Gainesville
Dr. Soule
Goal Sold to Negroes at Rate of 79 a Ton
Fuel Administrator reports a federal case will be filed against Will Willoughby of Rock Spring street for alleged flagrant violation of coal sale rules. He allegedly mixed coke with coal and sold baskets of coal to Negro families at about $22 a ton equivalent during a coal shortage. Possible city and state charges also loom.
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W. F. Dorsey
Will Willoughby
Rock Spring Street
Willoughby
Friendly Spirit Toward Austrians But Closely Watched
Washington December 13 Attorney General Gregory said Austro Hungarians would be treated in a friendly spirit not subjected to rigid restrictions on Germans. The public should not assume these enemy subjects are not to be carefully watched and promptly dealt with if hostile activities are suspected.
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Associated Press
Washington
Gregory
Sixth Trial Convicts Man After Compromise Offer
Abingdon Va Dec 13 James Can ter once offered a three year compromise for pleading guilty to the 1915 murder of Mrs Maude Wilson near Bristol was convicted today in circuit court and sentenced to life imprisonment. This was his sixth trial. A new trial motion was filed again.
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Associated Press
Abingdon
James Canter
Maude Wilson
Bristol
Georgia Lawyer Rebuked by Chief Justice in War Registration Case
Washington report says Chief Justice White rebuked J Gordon Jones for Albert Jones who faced Georgia war registration conviction. The lawyer argued unconstitutionality of bringing men to a war without public sanction. the chief justice called the statement unpatriotic and the attorney apologized. Also a job ad seeks a salesman for machines and an accounts collector in Athens for Singer Sewing Machine Co.
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Associated Press
Washington
White
J. Gordon Jones
Albert Jones
Georgia
Athens
Singer Sewing Machine Co
W. R. Tindall
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American Railway Engineers Killed by German Bombing
A brief notice reports American railway engineers killed during German aerial bombing. The fragment also urges readers to feed birds during harsh weather, noting snow has reduced food. it calls on families to scatter crumbs and feed for birds, stressing their value to farmers and children.
Means Jury Requests Faster Argument in Means Case
Concord North Carolina December 13 The jury trying Gaston Means for the murder of Mrs Maude King tonight asked waiting judge Lane to speed up the argument of the case The request came at the close of the second day of continuous addresses by state and defense Five more speeches are to be made
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Associated Press
Concord
N. C
Gaston Means
Maude King
Suuge Lane
Pneumonia Epidemic Reduces Camp Wheeler Roll
Macon Ga December 13 Lieutenant Colonel Duncan announced that 140 base hospital patients will be moved to Fort McPherson tomorrow as the pneumonia epidemic ends. The deaths today include William Traylor of the 106th engineers and Willie Young of the 121st infantry.
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Associated Press
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Duncan
Camp Wheeler Base Hospital
Fort McPherson Hospital
William Traylor
106Th Engineers
Willie Young
Japanese Official Linked With Plot
In San Francisco on December 13 an unnamed Japanese government official was linked to a plan to incite a revolution against British rule by testimony in the trial of thirty one alleged conspirators.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Vosburg Arrest Not German Spy Says Military Authority
Halifax authorities state Louis Vosburg also known as Henry French was not a German spy after relief steamer arrival. A physician assessed Vosburg as temporarily unbalanced following examination.
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Associated Press
Halifax
Louis Vosburg
Henry French
Beaton
Vosburg
Sister of Dr. Jago Dead in Toronto
Dr. T. B. Jago of this city received a telegram announcing the death of his sister Mrs. J. A. Alute at her home in Toronto Canada. She was sixty, wife of a prominent physician in the Dominion city. Survived by three daughters and one son in the trenches in France. Death occurred Saturday December 8.
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J. A. Alute
Toronto
Canada
Dominion
France
British, French, Italians Hold Teutonic Offensives
In France British French and Italian lines resist renewed German attacks with reinforcements from the Russian front. American railway engineers are reported killed by a German air raid behind the British front and two US soldiers wounded and hospitalized. Submarine menace persists but not mastered, per the first lord of the British Admiralty.
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Cambrai
Bullecourt
Quant
Caurieres
Verdun
Chaledino
Export and Bunker Coal Prices Fixed
Washington reports export and foreign bunker coal prices fixed by the fuel administration at 1.35 dollars per ton above domestic prices. Heertoforest sold at domestic sale figures. The raise is to assure American producers profits previously taken by foreign dealers.
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Washington
The
Fuel Administration
United States
Chamber of Commerce Directors Meeting Tonight
The Athens Chamber of Commerce announces a regular directors meeting this evening at o oclock at the directors rooms on the eighth floor of the Holman building. All board members are urged to attend.
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Athens Chamber of Commerce
Holman Building
Direct Action Discussed At Woman's Suffrage Meet
Direct action in next year's congressional elections if federal suffrage fails this session was urged by the executive council. Mrs Catt opened today's convention with an open message to Congress as Seeman conducted Scale at the annual gathering of the Woman's Suffrage Association.
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Washington
Executive Council
Congress
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