Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, October 06, 1924, Image 1

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Clean Up, Paint Up Edition MEMBER,ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEW YORK WINS THIRD GAME AS 4 WASHINGTON PITCHERS ARE POUNDED Manager Harris Sends in Bunch of Hurlers to Stop Giant Attack; Fielding of New York Club Is BriDiant. Score by innings: R. H. E. Washington 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1—4 9 2 New York 02 11010 1 x—6 11 0 Polo Grounds, Oct. 6.—By the sociated Press.)—The Senators invaded the stronghold the New York Giants here this ternoon intent on smiting the champions of the National hip and thigh and making them it. The brilliant victory of the can leaguers yesterday at the tional capital made them a host friends in the alien Polo and today Washington was the vorite in the betting. McQuillan and Gowdy was battery fbFd;he~GIants and and Ruel for the Senators. FIRST INNING. Senators: Liebold sent out, Frisch to Terry. Harris sent a long fly to Young, Rice was given base on balls. Goslin -was thrown out first by Frisch. Giants: Lindstrom struck out, tak ing a third called strike. Goslin took Frisch’s lofty fly. Young got a line single into left field. Kelly was out at first, Harris to Judge. One hit. SECOND INNING. Senators: Judge singled over the middle bag. Bluege hit into a dou ble play, McQuillan to Frisch to Terry, Lindstrom took Peck’s grounder and threw him out. hit. Giants: Terry cracked a single In to right. Wilson fanned. Bluege took Jackson’s grounder and threw to Harris, who dropped the ball. Terry scored on Gowdy’s single to left, Jackson going to third. Gow dy was out stretching his hit, Gos lin to Harris. Jackson scored on a wild pitch by Marberry. McQuillan walked to first. Lindstrom also walked. Frisch was hit by a pitched ball and the bases are loaded. Y'oung fanned, Two runs, two hits, one error. THIRD INNING. Senators: Ruel was given a ticket . to first. Marberry forced Ruesl, McQuillan to Frisch. Leibold fiied out to Wilson. Terry made a nice running catch of Harris’ foul, No runs, no hits, no errors. Giants: Miller went to third for Washington and Bluege went to short as Peck’s leg was injured. Kel ly got a Texas leaguer to center. Terry singled into right, Kelly go ing to third. Kelly scored when Wilson hit into a double'*play, berry to Bluege to Judge. Jackson was a victim of strikes, One run, two hits. Senators: Rice was given a pass to first. Frisch made a wonderful catch of Goslin’s high fly, racing bank to center field to catch the ball. Judge slashed a hit into left for two bases, Rice going to third Bluege got a base on balls, filling the bases. Rice scored on Miller’s sacrifice fly to Wilson; Judge held second. Ruel got a basl on balls, The bases were filled. Tate batted for Marberry. Ryan went into the box in place of McQuillan. Judge scored when Tate was given a ba.se on balls. Wilson took Leibold’s foul. Two runs, one hit. Giants: Russell went into the box for the Senators. Liebold gather i*d in Gowdy’s long fly. Ryan got a home run into the held stand. Rice made a wonderful one handed catch of Lindstrom’s drive, crashing into the concrete stand- Frisch pushed a single over second. Goslin took Young’s hoist One run, two hits. FIFTH INNING. Senators: Harris knocked a lofty one to Kelly, who raced in behind G k DAILY second to make the catch. Frisch threw out Rice, Frisch robbed Goa lin of a hit for the second time, go ing out into right field to take the Gose’s Texas leaguer. Giants: Kelly slashed a hit intc left for one base. Bluege took Ter ry’s skyscraper. Wilson forced Kel ly, Harris to Bluege. Miller took Jackson’s high fly. One hit. SIXTH INNING. Judge lined out to Kelly. Bluege was a strike out victim. Miller scratched an infield hits. Young came in and made a shoe string catch of Ruel’s seemingly safe hit. One hit. Giants: Gowdy’s hot smash went Gowdy scored on Lindstrom’s double. Frisch fouled out. Harris threw out Young. One run, one hit, one error. Senators: McNeely batting for Russell, McNeely flied out to Wil son, Leibold was given a base on balls. Harris whiffed. Rice’s grounder went for a hit. Leibold went to second. Frisch took Goslin’s sounder and threw him out. One hit, Giant’s: Martina went in the box for Washington. Kelly struck out. EIGHTH INNING Senators: Judge went out to Ter ry unassisted. Bluege shot a single into left. Miller kalked. Ruel was thrown out at first, Bluege going to third and Miller to second. Shirley batted in place of Martina. Bluege scored when Lindstrom fumbled Shirley’s grounder, The official scorer threw gave Shirley a hit. Frisch out Leibold. One run, two hits. Giants: Speece went in the box for the Senators. Jackson scratched a hit tqward third. Jackson *tole sec ond, Gowdy going to second.shdrul JaLo^TcoL/wh^ Spence thfew out Ryan at first, Gowdy going to second. Leibold took Lindstrom’s fly and Gowdy went to third. Gow dy was out at the plate, when Speece took Frisch’s bunt and toss ed to Ruel. One run, two hits. NINTH INNING. Harris’ Texas leaguer fell safely in left field. Rice popped to Lind strom.Goslin beat out a bunt, Har ris going to second. Judge singled to right, Harris going to third and Goslin to second. Ryan was taken from the.....box. Jonnard_* replaced Kyan. Southworth \went into center field in place of Kelly. Harris scor ed when Bluege got a base on balsl. Jonnard was taken from the box his pbee being taken by Watson. Miller fouled to Lindstrom. Lind strom took Ruel’s grounder and touched third, forcing out Judge. E AT COONEY FAIR Thursday, October 16, is known as Home-Coming day at the Griffin Spalding County Fair. All former Griffinites are espe . lnl,lted . . CU \ y to come to Griffin and visit the Fair and see what since leaving here. The Chamber of Commerce is pre paring special Home-Coming invi tation cards to be mailed out to for mer residents of Griffin. Those who have friends and relatives that Wh ° are ^ f m n m can procure , mVltatlon . cards announcing f H * ” and ^ mailed ready ‘ Fajr ££ a * success, Mke everyone Thursday one of who can possibly go to the fair grounds are urged to do so. Pri marily, Griffinites should boost Home-Coming day. It is the people who now reside in Griffin that make it a growing city and if the visitors who are expected to come to Griffin by special invitation are to be favorably impressed, they should find an enthusiastic crowd at the fair, 1 said C. C. Thomas, who added that the Chamber of Corn merce is backing the movement and desires the co-operation of the city. GRIFFIN, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1924 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES EVERYONE TO CLEAN UP, PAINT UP “The Chamber of Commerce desires to impress upon all citizens of Griffin the importance of Clean Up and Paint Up week, which begins today. “Just as individuals are judged upon first appearance by the neatness of their dress and the favorable impression that a well dressed man or woman makes upon a stranger, just so a city. Every community is judged .by the nicely painted business houses and dwellings as well as by its $lean ^Streets “ Not and onl its well kept parks. I y does il; impress the stranger within our gates and creates a most favorable impression for Griffin, but it positively produces a better feeling among our own citizens and puts genuine pep” into the people, thereby stimulating business. “In order to accomplish the results desired it is necessary that every citizen of Griffin co-operate with the Clean Up and Paint Up committee of the Chamber of Commerce and do their part individually to make the week a success. Every merchant and business man can assist by putting a fresh coat -of paint on the front of Ibis store and brighten up hi s show windows; house every owner (who can) should make it a point to paint their houses during the week or start the work and finish as soon as possible; every house keeper should arrange to have a thorough cleaning up of the premises by collecting up all garbage, cutting the lawns and generally beautify the premises. “If all of the people will co-operate, in this work and do his or her part, then the work will be a success and Griffin will be the cleanest and prettiest citty in Georgia. • "This is what the Chamber of Commerce wants and calls upon every citizen to co-operate with it in bringing about these results. “CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. "C. C. Thom as, Seer eta ry. ” ilCAL WARFARE TO VISIT STATION General Amos A. Fries, chief the chemical warfare service the United States army, will Griffin Tuesday to inspect the of the corps of assistants here on the boll weevil poisoning signment. J. E. Mills, chief chemist of chemical warfare service laboratories, Edgewood Arsenal, ar rived Sunday. Mr. Mills’ visit is for the purpose pfarganing th*- -Wb weevil investigation to be conducted in the chemical laboratories of the Georgia experiment station during the winter months. Messrs. Walker, McQuaid and Sachs have beep on location at Ex periment for two months, coming immediately after the investi gation was authorized and the ap propriation insured for the work through Senator Harris’ efforts. This project is financed from ar my funds, the chemical warfare ser vice being authorized to use not to exceed $25,000 of their own funds for the work. Director Stuckey, of the Georgia experiment station, has provided every facility to expedite boll wee vil studies. Laboratory space ha* been provided in the chemistry building under the direction of F. H. Smith, agricultural chemist.-" To date several hundred poisons have been tested out on weevils. Although this project was taken up almost, at the. end of the cotton growing season the chemists have obtained encouraging results al ready. Operations during the winter will consist mainly of the prepara tion of tables classifying several hundred poisons to show relative toxicity toward the weevil. Selection of the Georgia station as location for the work is due to representations mpde by the staff and by Senator Harris showed the many superior advan tages of the Griffin location, and of the station’s equipment, both of per sonnel and physical facilities. SLATON CARMICHAEL DIES IN NEW ORLEANS Slaton Carmichael, well known and prominent young business man of Jackson, employed as a traveling salesman for a large mercantile es tablishment, died in New Orleans Saturday night from a severe attack of asthma. G £ . He was well known in Griffin and prominently connected here. He is survived . by his mother, Mr,. D. Carmichael; three sisters, Mrs. Ruby TO OBSERVE FIRE ION WEEK Coincident with Clean-up and Paint-up Week throughout the coun try i3 Fire Prevention Week and Chief Powell, of the Griffin fire department, and his men are busy inspecting the 200 fire hydrants and getting them in good condition. They are also doing fire prevention work in the way of posting 400 posters in the business district Chief Powell’s appeal follows: To the Citizens of Griffin: Allow me to call your attention to America’s fire loss for 1923. Amer ican fire losses in 1923, according to estimates of the acutrial bureau amou n ted to $508,000,000. This sum reduces to a daily average of $1,- 3921,780; to $57,990 an hour, and to $966 a minute. Such figures as these have never been recordded before in a normal year in this country or any other country. They also state that if the loss reports tabulated by the actu rial bureau during 1923 were plac ed one upon the other, they would rise to a height of 592 feet, and overtop the New York Times build ing. Will you help to save our city, by being careful at all times. Respectifully, J. J. POWELL, Chief of Fire Department. Wynne Praises ( Prompt Work of Fire Department The lire department was called at 10:25 Sunday night to Wynne’s dewe lvy store on North Hill street, where the building was filled with smoke, caused by a burnt out elec tric motof. Mr. Wynne complimented the department on way they went into the store and handled the fire, ^*’bou't prompt work on their part f ft mi * ht have developed into a dis astrous fire, he said. Singleton of Denver, Mrs. J. M. I .each of Jackson, and Mrs. W. F. Malaier of Atlanta; one brother, Ober Carmichael, his wife and one son. Fufteral services will be held in Jackson tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Revival service began Sunday at the Second Baptist church with Rev. Howard W. Morris, of Atlanta, preaching. Services begin each even I promptly at 7 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend, CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN IN CITY STARTS WITH FULL HEAD OF STEAM Griffin Citizens Urged to Attend Rehoboth All those going to Rehoboth for the city-county community meeting tonight are requested to meet at the Chamber of Commerce at 6:30 o'clock. Rev. John Yarbrough urges every body to attend this meeting. The program committee of the rural re lations committee has arranged afi interesting program, hel says, and expects the people of Griffin to back them up. “The purpose of these meetings is to create more friendly spirit among the people of the city and county, and unless the residents of Griffin attend, the work will be of no con sequence,” declared Dr. Yarbrough. “The weather is now clear and the meeting tonight should be at tended by sufficient numbers to the rural relations committee that the city is really in favor of the work undertaken,” he said. Frank S. Pittman, who is in charge of the program, is in need of several cars to carry the Georgia Kincaid orchestra to Rehoboth and asks that those who can furnish cars be at the Chamber of Commerce at 6:30 o’clock. Christian Church i Revival a Success, The Says Rev. Dr. Cull revival services, which clos ed Sunday night at the First Chris tian church, were the meet success ever held in the city, according members of the church. The Rev. S. P. Spiegel, of West Point, who conducted the is well known in Griffin, having preached the baccalaureate sermon the high school this year. Dr. Spiegel also directed the singing. When asked regarding the ser vices, Dr. Cull, pastor, made the following statement: “The greatest meeting ijhe Chris tian church has ever hadrbast night people were turned away from the door. A large number of addi 0 tions to the church was received and Dr. Spiegel won the hearts of all his hearers with his masterly sermons and musical ability. The en tire audience voted for him to come back for another revival.” BALLARD INFANT BURIED. Helen Ballard, aged 21 months, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Ballard, near Zebulon Saturday morning. Besides her parents, she is sur vived by one little sister, Betty Bal lard. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. Jack Wright officiated. Interment in the Kendrick cemetery. Frank S. Pittman, funer ad director, in charge. Four Boys Arrested Here as Auto Thieves A Ford car stolen ;n Cartersville, Ga., was captured in Griffin last night by Officer Atkinson. Four young boys, giving their names as William Henson, Ed Evans, Harry Wilson and Jack’ Da vis, are being held in jail pending trial in court. The boys denied stealing the car, but investigation in Atlantha re ported the car stolen in Carters ville. They started to Florida to spend the winter, declared the youngest of the 1 boys, who talked freely to the officers. Preserves, canned food a#d several suit cases of clothing, most of which was new, was found in the car* Clean Up, Paint Edition iw® VOL. 53—No. 60 Inspection Will Be Held Middle of Week by Committee. Griffin’s Clean-up and Paint-up campaign is under way with full i steam. , | “Make Griffin the brightest city in the U. s. A.,” is ttte slogan. Under the auspices of the Cham ber of Commerce and other civic agencies, and with the co-operation oi the city officials, the campaign promises to be the most successful of its kind ever attempted in Grif fin. Many persons were noted today cleaning off their yards. Several business houses already are receiving new coats' of paint. Paint dealers ’ and painters an nounce a flood of orders. The city is preparing to take care of all rubbish and will put on extra trucks tomorrow. be -hehL the middle of the week under the 'direc tion of the Clean-up and Paint-up committee of the Chamber of Com merce. All persons who have de iayed putting their premises in per fect order will receive a hint to do so. Few slackers are expected," said C. T. Elliott, chairman of the Cham ber of Commerce committee. “The people seem just as intent on a gen eral clean up and paint as we do.” Every pastor in the city yester day made an announcement from the pulpit calling attention to the campaign. The matter is being placed before all the school children and they will be taught the importance of cleanli ness as well as urged to do their part toward making Griffin a spot less city this week. Popular Minister Leaves for New Work in Hawaii The Rev. Henry A. Willey, for the past six years rector of St. George’s Episcopal church, left Monday after noon for San Francisco, from which point he and Mrs. Willey will sail Wednesday, October 15, for the Hawaiian Islands to engage in mis sionary work. The Rev. Mr. Willey came to Grif fin in the late winter of 191B from St. Phillips’ Cathedral in Atlanta, where he had been assistant rector. The St. George's church has grown and developed under his capable di rection until the membership is great ly increased. Mr. Willey has been recognized as one of the most forceful speakers throughout this section and his loss will be keenly felt not only in Griffin, but in all the parishes of the state. Mrs, Willey has been organist for St. George’s church for a number of years and directed the work of the choir for some time. The congregation of the church ’ presented the Rev. and Mrs. Willey a purse containing several gold pieces in appreciation of their work here. Two large congregations were pres ent at the last two services at St. George’s Sunday, over which the Rev. Mr. Willey presided. He and Mrs. Willey will be en gaged in missionary work in the Hawaiian Islands, with headquarters close to Honolulu, for five years. Seek Higher-Ups In Liquor Deal New York, Oct. 6.~(By the Asso ciated Press.)—Higher ups in the three cornered liquor smuggling con spiracy that catne to light with the capture of the British steamer Trewr ler Frederick B. last Saturday Were s °Wf ht by federal officials today. The Beareh for men financially in* terested in what dry agents said had New v York, Montreal *m«fgHng and Lon- Plot don as its three main points of in terest.