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- — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. J WIN SIGHTS AT FAIR i City Folks and Home Comers Combine to Make Big Crowd. Ideal weather and Griffin and Home-Coming Day combined to bring out a monster crowd at the fair today. The grounds began filling in the morning and in the early after noon indications pointed to a rec ord attendance. The crowd was as happy as it was large. The fair spirit radi ated in old-fashioned style. The Rotary and Exchange clubs attended in a body and helped en liven the day. Practically all business houses were closed. Blue Ribbons Awarded. Awarding of the blue ribbons and an unusually good racing pro gram contributed toward making Griffin day a success. A number of former residents Day. Breaks Contract. The officials are delighted with the results and their only disap pointment is the fact that Miller Bros. Shows fell down on their written contract, forcing a smaller carnival to take the place of the 25-car attraction. The fastest horses entered at the Southeastern Fair are here, as well as others from larger fairs in the 'fast, competing for the ' $3,000 in purses. The agricultural exhibits are elaborate and the canning exhibits, under the direction of Mrs. Myrtle S. Sibley, Home Demonstration Agent for Spalding Couhty, are worthy of much larger fairs. The judges will award the cannin ing premiums today. Poultry Exhibits Fine. Prof. W. C. McCoy, judge of the poultry exhibits, declared the poul try building to be filled with bet 4 - ter fowls than any previous year. The fireworks displays put on by the Newton Fi r ew o rks pany of Chicago reveal new fea tures in pyrotechnics. Today’s Racing Program. The racing program for today includes a 2:12 trot and a free for-all pace. 2:12 Trot. Pat Harmon ....... Bert Wallace Clay Simpson..... Armstrong Miss Fortune .......S. Van Wood Hammond Free-For-All Pace. Melbert ......... Bert Wallace Red Cress Hammond George M. ..... Midvo And others. Griffin to Meet . Commercial High On Gridiron Friday The Griffin high school football team will play the team from Commercial high school of Atlan ta in Griffin Friday at 3:30 o’clock. The game will be played at Lightfoot Park. Commercial high has a good team and Coach Taliaferro urges the people of Griffin to attend and help support the local eleven. NEWS GOES TO NEW 7-COLUMN SIZE The News today goes to its enlarged size—seven columns instead of six—and in the / future it will be published in this form. This! adds eight columns of matter to the paper and gives room for our increasing volume of .ad vertising matter without cur tailing the space devoted to ' • V. j ■ ■ fT-vf TAKES PLEDGE WHEN WIFE ABBREVIATES LOCKS :S ; :S :;Xv: 9 Wm m &$$$ : !^S mm S; :-S >S Si ■V When Randolph Page, air' mail pilot, came winging home to Ornalia from Chicago, he found his wife had bobbed her hair.] Page doesn’t like bobbed hair. So he avowed he would neither shave nor have his hair cut until his wife’s hair is long again. This shows how he is keeping his promise. GIRL RECOVERS AFTER REMOVING 1200 ARTICLES FROM HER STOMACH Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 16.—■ (By the Associated Pre ss.!— Mary Doe, 15-year-old 'girl, in whose stomach last month were found 1,200 metallic ob jects, including coins, • metal washers, safety pins, cruci fixes,-■ chains, brooches and bolts, has completely recov ered. Cotton Deliveries Were Heavy Here During Last Week ha The number of bales of cotton received in Griffin during the last week was 1,141 compared to 1 612 for the corresponding week fi)st year. Total deliveries for “the 1925 crop amount to 4,398 bales as against 3,482 bales up to this time last year* Following is the official report for the week ending today, com piled for the News by J. W. May nard: -------•— -------—^- 1024 1925 612 Received 1,141 392 Shipped T 306 3,249 Stock 3,016 Received 3,482 to date 4,398 29.00 Middling 22.25 *— ------ * SCLEROSIS REVEALED IN j PHARAOH OF EXODUS New York, Oct. 16.—Examina tion of the Egyptian mummies has revealed that the Pharaoh of Exodus had aterio-seferosis, known as hardened arteries, while Rameses V suffered from a skin affliction suggestive of smallpox, Prof, G. Elliott Smith, Egyptol ogist of University college, Lon don, said Wednesday night 1ft an address at the Academy of Med icine. Cancer, rheumatism and mastoi ditis were common 4,000 years ago, Professor Smith declared, although, of thousands of human bodies unearthed, only one case of gout and one of leprosy was discovered. Tuberculosis was ex tremely . rare, while rickets, he said, was entirely absent. One mummy found in the pyramids had suffered from cancer. news. Owing (to a number of ad justments Nfh*# had to be made in jng the size of the paper, The News will be issued late this afternoon. Within a few days, we hope to have our organization run ning so smoothly (hat there will .rarely be (occasion for de - .......... GRIFFIN, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924. Hfe AGAIN WINNER OF Farmer Who Won Cham pionship at First Fair Takes 1924 Ribbon. ' The $250 gran championship was awarded to E. M. Shackeford, 'for farm products at the fair, many times winner of the blue ribbon at previous fairs. Second place was won by D. L. Patrick; third by Lon Beckham and fourth by Mrs. J. N. McElheny. All had excellent exhibits, dis playing practically everything grown in the southeastern states. The displays Were varied and the judging was close, D. L. Patrick also was a suc cessful contender at the South eastern Fair. E. M. Shackleford, winner of first prize, displayed 57 ribbons won at fairs since 1912, 45 of which were first prizes. He won the first grand cham pionship prize at the opening fair a dozen years ago. ' Davis Heads For Chicago to Deliver Series of Speeches Aboard Davis Train En Route to Chicago, Oct. 16.—(By the As sociated Press.)—John W. Davis, democratic candidate for presi dent, went out of western Illinois today and is headed again for Chicago; 1 .. He is scheduled for a series of speeches there, extending until Friday evening, when he expects to depart for St. Louis, Illinois and Missouri. As regards to the charges against former Attorney General Daugherty and George B. Lock wood, secretary of the republi can national committee, made in his Quincy speech, Davis said he viewed it as a “closed" incident, saying he would not retract or add to his previous pronounce ments. .LOEB-LEOPOLB VERDICT SCORED BY PRESIDENT OF TENNESSEE SYNOD Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 16.— Dr. John Royal Harris, president of Cumberland university, Leba non, Tenn., who is attending the annual conference of the Tennes see Synod, Presbyterian church, U. S. A., in session here, declar ed last night at a fellowship dinner that the verdict in the Leopold-Loeb murder trial at Chi cago was a miscarriage of justice and that the slayers of young Franks should have been “hanged as high as Haaman.” MRS SWINT, OF ORCHARD HILL WINS CANNING PRIZE Mrs. A. G. Swint, of Orchard Hill, won first prize in the la dies’ canning exhibit af\he fair. Mrs. A. W. Edwards won second place and Mrs. Marguerite Du pree won third. Mrs. Henley Par ham was awarded fourth prize; Mrs. R. M. Mitchell fifth and Mrs. Ralph Jc^nes sixth. Evelyn Taylor was awarded first prize in the Girls’ Canning Club exhibit. Myrtis Clark won second place; Nan Brooks third; Pauline Rhodes fourth and Emma Du pree ,fiifth. WEATHER FORECAST For Georgia: Fair Thursday ex , cept possibly showers in extreme south portion Friday; little change in temperature; moderate north east winds increasing Friday. _ Temperature for 24 hours ending at noon Thursday: Maximum 85; minimum 56; mean .70. Didn*t Know She Was.in Beauty Contest Until Awarded FirstPriz^ S:j vB , x : :v I I ■ ■ MIm didn't know!sh« wag entered in a beauty untll.sb* contest pat on >n) Karpfval in Butler Cbunty, Kansas, **• • as the winner. She is 10. Chinese Fascisti Defeated; Many Killed. Hongkong, Oct. 16.—(By the Associated Press.)—The volunteer corps of Canton, known as Chinese Fascist!, was by forces of the “Red Army," composed of laborers, after a cn the streets there for two days. Fire, using $7,900,000 damage, and a large number of persons killed or burned to death, are reported from the h ties. 400 Drowned in Russia. Moscow, Oct. 16.—(By the Associated Press.)— Four people were killed with the inundation cf two native villages by a rise of twelve feet above the level in the river Amur. Child Welfare Conference Meets. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 16.—(lly the Associated Press.)—The South ern Regional Child Welfare Conference get under way her this morn ing and will continue through Friday.*"'Representatives from other southern states besides Georgia and Tenjiotss'ee arc attending. Army Men Drowned in Auto Plunge. Norfolk, Ocl. 16.—(By the Associated Press.)—Two army men were drowned early today when a sedan in which they were riding plunged through a-bridge railing into >ixteen feet of water in the Elizabeth river. D SUFFERS AS RESULT - Spokane, WasA., Oct. 16.—* . . Curran paid with his life for a joke yesterday. Riding in an auto- |hove Gives Triumph Kaiser's Worst Enemy a Over Exile of Doom ... ! : v a M ;, m ■> v / k’v, m <:■:< > V ; '■';! •a. H •> : m fi r~> J v 41 GftAND L \\ II OUCHES? PRINCESS AND HERWOINff THE PLEADED WITH THE KAISFfi? The wont enemy of the former kaiser of Germany, Prince Max of Baden (left) triumphed over the exile of Doom .when PMhcess Mttfc cf Baden married Priuge Wolfgang of .Hesse (right) favorite nephew of the emperor. Wilhelm called down a «htte njxm the boose of Baden forever in 1018, after accusing jftfioee Max of betnying Germany into the hands of the Repubiic- JSSSSSf* SHvenT-y Si' C. Tifartin^ i L eyes and the car went over a foot embankment, kiHing instantly. Martin and passenger in the car were > hurt. & •• Sin FUNDS OF THREE PARIS To Analyze Reports Be fore Probing LaFol lette’s Charges. Chicago, Oct. 16.—(By the As sociated'Press.)—Precise informa tion as to the funds collected and distributed by the three major political parties, republican, dem ocratic and independent, was sought today by a special senate committee on campaign expendi tures. Under preliminary agreement by a majority of the committee, the reports will be analyzed care fully before the investigators turn their attention to the charges by Senator Robert M. LaFollette that the republican or ganization is collecting large slush funds for use in doubtful States. G. O. P. Fund Over Million tional a total of $190,535 and has ex pended $155,063, John M. Nelson, campaign manager told the inves tigating committee. The repub lican national organization has re ceived gross contributions of $1,- 714,317 up to October 10, W. V. Hodges, the treasurer, testified. Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City attorney, acting as the personal representative of Senator LaFot lette, will present documents and other data upon which the Wis consin senator based his charge. The precise nature of the ma terial in the possession of Mr. •Walsh has not been revelled pub licly or to the members oft he committee. Democratic Manager Testifies ..Lincoln Dixon, manager of the western democratic headquarters, the first witness called, said his division was not in the business of collecting campaign contribu tions. All its funds, except $5, democratic h leader in Illinois, on October 7, had come fJ on the The total, he placed at $32,500. democratic national committee. Dixon explained the $5,000 pay ment by Brennan by saying that at the time there was a shortage of funds in the western division. The $32,500 total given, the wit ness added, does not include the rental of the western headquar ters here. That is paid direct by the national committee, he added. The funds expended by western headquarters go for payroll and expenses of speakers. Chairman Borah wanted to know if Mr. Dixon knew of any funds being underwritten for the democratic party, <* I regret to say that I do not,” Dixon replied. The witness was excused. The LaFollette-Wheeler nation al organization has collected a to tal of $190,535 in its presiden tial campaign and expended $15, 062, John M. Nelson, campaign manager, testified. In a prepared statement read to the committee Congressman Nel son said the contributions had been received from approximate ly 72,000 contributors. Many $1 Contributions. Aside from zhe advances or contributions made by National Treasurer W. T. Raleigh," Mr. Nelson said, “there has been re ceived one contribution of $5,000 and three contributions of $1,000 each and the remaining contribu tions are in smaller amounts, mostly in sums of $1. *< The committee has out no standing -obligations except for printing and suplies, the amount of which, when deliveries are com . pleted, will not exceed $36,000, Any further statements desired . • : .\Vy., & A'Sjl *K CO Is 127 Lightest Bat Gri Is Griffin will continue under a bo* commissioners and In the special electiox the provision of for a change to was defeated | 127 to 22. There was very litt in the election ai believed to have beed ever cast in a di *v*v +**' The managers of tl at noon today and the returns of the results as to Rj fading in Washington, (Jet. lfiJ Press,)—8km* of South Carol make another effort |j session of congri actioft in fcfj to the cotton fa trading in | The amendment! asserted, would to thrde majoi group carrying which could be ! BANDITS CO] MINE OFFICIAL 1 PAYROLL DOW] Springfield, 111,, Oct. fj of John Stamper^ who, when approaching in t Tovey, Christian count the mine cage and. sou of $05,000 this morn The mine is one of t the Peabody Coal Compi pays in cash, and this w been the last cash pay other mines in the distr checks. The miners were paid in the mine. mmmfm CUBA-FLORIDA PL. LIQUOR LINE EARTHED; 10 AR Chicago, Oct. 16.—( Associated Press.)—T< charged with heading ganization importing’* from Cuba to Florida plane and later die throughout the MiddU were arrested here tod by the committee will j cheerfully furnished.’' H Mr. Nelson said each ganization collects its 01 for state use and that th al organization contriSi* ing to the state bodies. Replying to questions 1 man Borah, Represent* son said his organiza originally made a budge tional expenditures, bul had varied • so that no now is paid to it.' u “It ranged origi way from $500,000 to $ he said., ' The witness told th tee he had bought fi»*n lections and expenditure organizations but hao ai them. This Fs - largely % have a shortage rat] » - excess of funds, he' -* VOL.