The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 19

SEVEN THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 25 1938 PLANT HOTPAD PUT INTO USE State Production Of Eggs Is Doim Submarine Patrol Is Booked i At Capitol Starts Monday Naughty Marietta Is Returning Wednesday to Ritz by Request Drop of Nearly Eight Million Under 1 934 Is Seen Implement Will Aid Farmers In Controlling Growth ATHENS Gat Dec 24 you lived on a Georgia faro and ate an egg a day during 3934 you ate 47 of an egg mors than tha per capita production in Georgia There -was only 53 of an egg per dny per person raised on Georgia farm Kenneth Treanor of Tifton and 7 William Fannin of Athena farm management specialists assembled the egg statistics Their report ehowed 1934 production of 22644131 dozen egg The farm population 1393060 This wus a decrease compared with 1929 when 30543473 dozen egga were produced on Georgin farm Milk production however gained during the same period to average 95 oi a quart per day per person ATHENS Ca Dec 21 Now comes the electric warming pad for hotlied on Georgia farms Its purpose is to warm the tootsies of plants through tiie cold season before they are transplanted to the farm fields and Mr on their own I f'nliioiin Georgia extension service rural elect rificit ion specialist snid electric hotbed permit growers to control the rate of plant growth and produce lc-nlthier plnnts Sixty feet of cable laced through the noil of 6 by 6 bed will keep it plenty warm for the winter from just nlovn freezing to 100 degrres Fnhrenlieiilt ns desired Cullionn snid Twice that cable will serve a'C by 12 bed Calhoun said ue of eleetric beat fr the plant beds was gaining faror on Georgia farms Bichard Greene Nancy Kelly and Georye Bancroft are starred in Submarine Patrol a stirring drama baaed on the nary's coming to the Capitol tomorrow and playing Tucadav and Wednesday John Ford noo of grentrxt directors who won the Academy Award in again has done a notable job in directing this story of the navy He directed -such pictures as The Informer Wee Willie Winkle and lastly The Hurricane Fieri" story Submarine Fatrol a $250000 Movie Quia Contest picture is based on the experiences of a bunch of ion" who were placed in charge of the Fleet" a never-be-fore-told-of part of the navy The queer named fleet was called such because it was comimscd of small ships made of wood built fur sliced and slightly armed with little attention paid to anything else In the picture Green is plnccd in charge of the SC 599 and his crew include such actors as Slim Summerville cook Preston Foster Warren Ilymer and Farrell McDonald all seamen The crew is stationed in a port where things are comparatively quiet and they all do their jobs first and then attend to the ship that they ars supposed to man Green falls In love with Nancy Kelly whose father forbids them to see encli other going so far as to punch Greene on the chin After having their marriage deferred several times' by everything from father's orders to navy's orders happiness Is finally theirs Sing You Sinners a hilarious nn-sicnl comedy with lting Crosby and Fied MacMurray comes to tha Capitol Thursday Friday and Saturday In the show Crosby is shown an a young hian who can not seem to hold a job and whose family ia dc-jiemliiig on Fi-cd MacMurray cist as his oldest brother who aupporta them Finally lie goes to Ijoi Angeles where he is successful betting on the horses After getting a little ahead he buys a horse lie tells hie mother who lives in nearby town that he now has a job but when she arrives be haa sold the shop he was keeping to raise money for the horse purchase In the end MacMurray ia able to marry without being bothered by the family and Crosby cleans up on the big rare in which his young brother played by Donald O'Connor rides his horse The cast includes Btlen Drew and Elixabcth Patterson It is a Movie Quia Contest Picture a happiness hook-up for everyone Six new rhythm anngs and the happy musical score Sungs which will add to tha humming reiirrtory of hit-lovers everywhere are An Old Straw Hat by Gordon and Hove: Alone With You Happy Ending and Crack-ly -Groin Flakes by Pollack and Mitchell Come and Get Your Happiness by Pokrssi and Ydlcn and Toy Trumpet with music by Raymond Scott and lyrics by Pollack and Mitchell Charles Starrett in Rio -Grande playing the eiid of the week In Rio' Grande the two-fisted Starrett is seen aa a cowhnnd whu rides to help the young owner of a catte flinch sought by a villaiumi cattle king He arrives to find his friend slnin from ambush and the ranch being cared for by the lovely sister Deserted by everybody but her grinded old foremnn the bewildered girl turns to Starrett for help He summon! some cowboy friends and seta out in gun-lilazing fashion ta capture the killer and to save the ranch Ifank Bell and Pat Brady furnish a major share of the comedy Bell is the loyal old foreman- of the ranch and Brady plays the part of a young con hoy learning ventriloquism by mail Dick Curtis is the menace ti grasping cattle baron who would stop at nothing to add to hia range Crime Takci a Holiday atarring Jack Holt comes to tbe Rita tomorrow playing through Tuesday and featuring Marcia Ralston Holt is cast as a fearless district attorney in one of the best of his recent screen appearance' He is at first unnble to find the head man behind the vice and- racket that is overrunning his city hut by prosecuting an cx-convicr lie ia able to bring the crooks to light The sentenced to be hanged for mnnler is unable to get reprieve and th other crooks take a temporary holiday nntil after the execution Faced with almost impossible situations at tbe end Holt finally cornea out on top and shows thnt crime really doesn't pay The cast includes Douglas Dumhrills Arthur Hold John Wray and Thomas Jackson Naughty Marietta starring the great song tram of Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald will play the Bits Wednesday and Thursday by request Playing Friday only ia Reberra of Bunny Brook Farm with Shirley Temple and Gloria 8tuart Streamlined Farm never know the old farm! Kate Douglas Wiggin's story suggested the merry modern screen play by Karl Tunberg and Don Ertinger A streamlined Radio Center ntovea in down by the old mill stream end NEW FAD John Howard star of Drummond" pictures ia the latest victim of the old penny-collecting craze Howard has several boards completely filled with tha Lincoln-head penny aeries Convenience to tbe power and water supply are factors to consider To insure economical operation tbe hotbed frame must be tightly constructed and well insulated After a shallow pit Las liccn dug the hotbed frame ia built" Pinna end recommendation for ronxtrurting electric hotlied may be obtained from the Agricultural Extension Service Athena Georgia 1IE PLAYED BALL George Raft current starring In rnramount'a Lady's From once tried ont for the Spring-field Mn baseball team but gave up when he found he lacked talent to he anything better than mediocre The I'niversity of Pari was about 1200 by King Philip II ELECTRIC HOTBED USE INCREASING lVccmlier issue of Good Housekeeping magazine with a full page uf colored ait reproductions from the film I'mductiiiu started last' week at the Eastern Service Studios 'on tbe untitled Jleudliner short subject featuring Vincent Lup Back stago with the news reel business provides the subject matter in tbe new Patlie lieilistn titled N'ewa Reel A non-tcehnieal commentary ia handled by Narrator Andre Baruch Flynn in Dawn Patrol Special Christinas Dinner 50c Method of Controlling Growth of Plants Gaining Favor on Georgia Farms Orphan Annie (Continued From Previous Page) ready for market at the proper time for setting them out ne declared also that plants grown in an electric hotbed are generally more healthy The electrification specialist said farmer! could construrt an electric hotbed at home with little expense Thermostat Used specially designed heating he explained of an insulated resistance wire which ia enclosed in a lead covering Sjxty feet of this flexible cable 1 required for a 2-sash bed (G'x6') and must be operated on a 115 volt circuit Tbe cable may also he used in 120 foot lengths provided ft is connected to 230 volt service and this amount will heat a 4-inch bed (S'xl2') A thermostat to control the temperature is used in connection with the soil-heating cable It functions by turning the current on and off and can lie adjuated to maintain any temperatun from slightly a bore freezing to more than 100 degree Fahrenheit Several lengths of cable may he controlled hy a single thermostat should he placed on a well drained aouthern slope with protection from north and west winds ERROL FLYNN is cast as a veteran pilot in Dawn Patrol a story of the-flying corps in British wartime history during a few months in 1915 It is an action-filled pic ture and marks the return of Flynn to the roles which have made him famous in the past Also outstanding in the cast is Basil Rathbone and Donald Crisp The picture plays at the Grand next Thursday Friday and Saturday Salad Fruit Roast Native Turkey with Chestnut Dressing-Cranberry Sauce Frances Teas Au Gratin Spaghetti Creamed Potatoes Ambrosia and Cake Coffee Tea Mflk Western Steaks Chicken Fresh -Visit the Emerson Club for Private Dinners 24 Hour We Phones 6279-6038 (Ttlcgnph'i Ccaifia News Snrlc) ATHENS Dec An electrically-bested hotbed for controlling the growth of plants is rapidly gaining faror Georgia farms where electricity 1 in use Calhoun Georgia Extension Service rural electrification specialist said hers today Calhoun pointed out that electric beds have two definite advantages over hotbed heated by other method Through a controlled heat he said growers can control rate of plant growth thus having plants fignrea take into account all milk and eggs produced on farm including thnt portion sold commercially or nsed for other purposes such as tbe churning of milk for butter and tbe use of eggs fur hatching LAIGHT0N WAS CLFRK Charles Laughton currently starring in to be released for Mayflower Pictures Inc is the son of an hotel owner of Scarborough Eng and began his career as reception clerk for his father's hostelry BRASS RAIL NO 1 BRASS RAIL NO 2 656 CHERRY STREET 311 THIRD STREET naps -him The women of the community sttack the loan shark's gangster buddies with rolling pins protractedly and iu the slapstick manner after which he escapes wins the fight and so forth Jarkie Cooper is cist as Rifle Edwards a newsboy in Newsboys' Home playing Friday and Saturday The story revolves srotind the adventures of the Tough tiny" already well-known fur their previous picture 4 Jarkie ta the Ideder of the newsboys of the home for newsboy kiii-nored by the publisher of the Globe newspniier Iiut he had to fight lor the lit le and he had to fight for a chance to rat just a he had to fight for everything rise he wanted and that action is what makes the show The climax comri in a street fight where Rifle recognises the murderer of hie father who wee killed earlier in the picture The gangster's mob plan to take him for a ride hut the neweboya gang resene him Edmund Lowe and Wendy Barrie give the picture its romantic touch The government reports tbe average annual cash income per person on a farm in the ten cotton states i 9150 compared with 9340 in the other 38 states During 1936 New York Stats had a total of 393MH -unvictions for crimes on all counts vta- ANNOUNCING FORMAL OPENING EGG PRODUCTION LOWER MILK UP Results of Georgia Survey Over Five-Year Period Announced In Athens The Captain and the Kids are featured in a timely cartoon titled The Captain's Christ mas at the Grand Thursday Frida and a day This cartoon is ii color and appro- prime fur the sea- son Yyvyan gives us of her Forecasts Grand the first of the week Miss I on tier covers Styles" iu this release Well-known models appear iu this colored short Miss Donner created revues for Ziegfeld at one time and her ability of show-mausbip in style is not questjpned These winter stylea will cause you to wonder but you'll enjoy it Ilka Chase noted stage actress furnishes the off-screen narrative and her gentle kidding adds a gay note to the commentary If yon missed Popeye Id A Date to Skate you can catch this cartoon at the Capitol the last of the week Oliveoyl on tha akatea is hilarious A novel abort titled Mimics Is booked nt the Rialto theater on Monday and Tuesday This short is high-lighted by the amnxing performance of trained birds from the for East The reel presents animals who imitate man in a number of stunta surh aa seals bulls racing and an elephant playing the harmonica Ona of tha best travelogues produced by James A Fitzpatrick Is Cairo City of Contrast which is dated at tbe Jtialto Wednesday and Thursday This abort ia the first of a new series and ia an outstanding subject both in content and Technicolor A colorful pastel is tbe siwne of tbe pyramids as tourist on camels pass by in the desert The Kipling truism is East and West is West anil never the twnin shnll aeema to hare been happily contradicted by the picturesque jiixtaimaitiun of Oriental and Occidental civilizations iu this Egyptian and cosmopolitiin town of Cairn Our Gang la featured in Men In Fright at tin' JtiitlUi Friday and Saturday Good fun for die youngster with enough gag for the rl-deis make this short enjoyable Al-fnlfn gets mixed up in all sorts of difficulties as he and the rest of the gang visit Darla at the hospital lie is mistaken for a tonsil patient and is rescued by tbe gnng when some laughing gns escapes The members of the gang are veterans in the business of being hospitalized Short News' Merbnbics a new Walt Disney Technicolor short released on Dec 9 is featured in the of Newest V-and Most Modem THEATRE THE BIBB Monday Dec 26 at 12 Noon OUT OF THE FAST (Telegraph's Geer! Xews Service) ATHENS Dec The per capita production of eggs on Georgia farms showed a sharp drop in the five-year period from 302!) to 3934 but milk production increased during tha same period Results of a survey made by Kenneth Treanor of Tifton and William Fanning of Athens farm management specialists for the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service were announced here today The figures based on tha farm census of and 1935 showed an increase in milk production on farms despite a decline in rural population The last official farm census was ntnile in 3935 In 1920 Georgia farmers produced 30543475 down eggs for tbe 1430-lii is people on farm or an average of 70 of an egg a dny for eech lierson In 1934 the production was only 22('i4413l down eggs for the 1393009 people living on farms nr an average of 53 of an egg a lay per i icnion The milk production la 3929 was 14193091 gallons or an average of S7 of a quart a dny for enrh person In 1934 it was 15045267 gallons or an average of 95 of a quart a dny per person The specialists pointed out that the For the Pause That Refreshes CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES to the THE BIBB THEATRE EB IB IB Tbe Christmas and New Year Season brings to mind the gratitude that is in our hearts for all tbe blessings that have come our way In tbe past tbe friends of this organization have made possible progress and a certain amount of pros -perity Through these friendships life has been an enjoyable experience one in which we have i the confidence and esteem of the people whom we serve All we ask is tbe pleasure of a continuance of these fine so that we may' look with a genuine enthusiasm toward the future Upon the Opening of the Beautiful Theater BARBECUE LUNCH 421 Third Street was designed and btiilt by Mr and Mrs Fred Weis to meet modern day needs with a seating capacity of You are cordially invited to visit this beautiful new theatre tomorrow CONGRATULATIONS and BEST WISHES to the WEIS FAMILY Upon the Occasion of Their FORMAL OPENING MONDAY OF THE GREETINGS- WE WELCOME THE WEIS FAMILY AND THE NEW BIBB THEATRE Macon Coca-Cola Bot Cc 416 Oak St Macon Phone 3266 VTilliford Treas BIBB THEATRE To the 400 Block of Third Street May Your Stay Here Be Long and Pleasant Local Union No 507 Motion Picture Operators and Stage Employees Willingham Sash Door Co -j 1 74 i i.