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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ASKED
TO VOTE FOR THE TAX
EXEMPTION AMENDEMNT
Local C. of C. Prepares
Appeal at Request of
Other Bodies.
An appeal to the people of
Georgia to vote for the proposed
amendment to the constitution to
exempt certain manufacturers and
industries from taxation for five
years has been prepared by C. C.
Thomas, of the local Chamber of
Commerce, at the request of other
Chambers of Commerce and civic
bodies throughout the state.
Copies of the appeal willJbe
sent to all newspapers through
out the state to stimulate inter
est in the amendment.
The article in full, follows:
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION
BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF
GEORGIA.
(By C. C. Thomas, Secretary,
Griffin-Spalding County Cham
ber of Commerce.)
To the people of Georgia:
At the general election to be
held on November 4, the voters
of Georgia are called upon to ex
press their wishes in respect to
eight amendments to the constitu
tion of the state. Among those
submitted for your consideration
is the proposed amendment to ar
ticle 7, section 2, paragraph 2, of
the constitution to exempt certain
manufacturers and industries
from taxation for a period not
exceeding five years.
Majority of Votes.
This amendment provides that,
<< Any person, natural or artifi
cial, a resident of this state, who
may, after January 1 , 1924, build,
equip, establish or enlarge a plant
for the manufacture or process
ing of cotton, wool, linen, silk,
rubber, clay, wood, metal, metallic
or non-metallic mineral, or com
bination of same, creamery, or
cheese plant; or for the produc
tion or development of electric
ity may, as fBTRtch building, en
largement or equipment, be ex
empt from county, incorporated
town or city ad valorem taxes for
a period of time not exceeding
five (5) years from the date of
the beginning of the building,
equipment or enlargement of such
plants, provided, same shall be
approved by a majority of the
voters in such county or town or
city desiring such exemption.
The ratification of this amend
ment merely gives the right to
each county and city to make this
exemption after a majority
people of the county or city have
voted in favor of it and is pure
ly a local option law.
Dr. Stovall Author.
The question before the voters
of Georgia on November 4 is
whether they will ratify it and
allow counties and cities to make
this . exemption if they see fit.
The author of this bill is Dr. A.
S. J. Stovall, of Elberton, Ga.,
and its purpose is solely to aid
ufacturing plants and stimulate a
in bringing to Georgia more man
greater industrial development
permitting a county or city or in
corporated town to make 'this ex
emption if they so desire.
Practically no publicity has
been given this proposed amend
inebt ajid very little discussion of
that which has appeared has pro-
Married Girls Under Sixteen %
Ordered to School in Chicago
Chicago, Oct. 23.—All married
girls in Chicago under 16 are to
be compelled to attend publje
school, says W. L. Bodine, super
RETAIL GROCERS ADVISED
TO USE NEWSPAPER ADS
Cincinnati, Oct. 23.-—Grocers
of the future will have to use
newspaper advertising to sell
their goods, S. H. Rouster, a
speaker, told delegates to the
Ohio Retail Grocers and Meat
Dealers’ association today.
tt The retailers will have to de
pend on newspaper advertising
to movd their goods from their
shelves,” Mr. Rouster asserted,
as the model?) family gets its
news from the newspapers and
not from the market places as in
the past,”
BOY KILLED BY
EXPLOSION IN
KENTUCKY MINE
Madisonville, Ky., Oct. 23.
—(By the Associated Press.)
—The bpdy of Paul Wheeler,
a 19 year old miner, was re
recovered from the Hart Coal
Company’s mines toddy,
where a gas dust explosion
last night entombed at least
15 miners.
Tw|> others are missing and
are believed buried under a
fall of slate.
Fourteen of the entombed
men escaped last night.
BIG DIRIGIBLE
MAY AGAIN FLY
Shenandoah Expected to
Pass Over Atlanta at
3:30 a. m. Saturday.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 23.—The
navy dirigible Shenandoah, early
today, was approaching Texas on
her return voyage to Lake Hurst,
N. J., from the Pacific coast.
It is expected to arrive at Fort
Worth about 4 o’clock this after
noon.
The ship will take on 200,000
cubic feet of helium there tonight,
according to schedule, and prob
ably .will depart eastward again
tomorrow morning.
For the second tune tne “mon
ster of the <Lfr” will pass over
Georgia.
At the present speed the ship
will probably fly over Atlanta
about 3:30-o’clock Saturday morn
ing.
ceeded upon an erroneous idea of
what the law is. -
County and City Only.
In the first place it is stated
that the proposed amendment ex
empts new manufacturers from
state taxes,...... ^
Such is not the case inasmuch
as the exemption is only for
county and city taxes and has no
reference whatever in respect to
state taxes.
In the next place it is urged
that upon ratification of the
amendment the exemption, per se,
becomes a law and forthwith all
new manufacturers will becom?
immediately exempt.
This is not true, inasmuch as
each county and city will have
to submit it to a majority vote
in their respective counties or
cities or towns before such ex
emption can be made.
Again it is urged that it would
not be fair to the industries al
ready established and paying
heavy taxes to bring competing
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intendent of compulsory educa
tion of the Board of Education.
While Mr. Bodine admits that
he dislikes to have to force hus
bands to get their young wives
off to school each day, he says the
man who marries a wife of school
age is the one who is responsible
for her attendance.
Explains Law.
The law, Mr. Bodine explains,
provides that every person having
custody of a child between the
ages of 7 and 16 is accountable
for the child’s regular attendance
at school.
He holds that when a man takes
the cuatondy of a bride under 16
he ia the “person” responsible.
Ten brides of 14 and 15 years
were last week compelled to give
up housework and return to school.
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GRIFFIN GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1924.
OFF COMPLETELY
Forces Are Said to Have
Been Defeated Inside
the Great Wail.
Shanghai, Oct. 23.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Peking was sud
denly cut off completely from tele
graphic communication with all
outside points this morning.
The announcement from Shang
hai of the cutting off of Peking
follows closely on advices and spe
cial dispatches from Mukden that
the forces of the Peking govern
ment had suffered serious setbacks
at the hands of Mukden troops.
An all-night battle launched by
15,000 Peking troops resulted in
the Mukdenites turning off the left
flank of the Peking troops and
their pressing the right flank upon
prepared mine fields, the explosion
killing thousands.
The Peking forces are also said
to have been defeated inside the
great wall and on the Jenol front.
AF LINE CREEK
Another varied program has
been prepared for the city-county
community meeting to be held at
Line Creek Monday evening start
ing at 7 o’clock.
These meetings have been in
creasing in popularity and a ca
pacity crowd is expected to attend
Monday. »
Griffin automobile owners who
will furnish cars for the band are
asked to call Frank S. Pittman, at
822.
The program follows:
Band concert, 7 to 7:30, by the
Georgia-Kincaid Band.
Meeting called to order by Rev.
John F. Yarbrough.
Song, “America,” led by E. K,
Domingos.
Invocation, Rev. L. M. Latimer.
Music, Georgia-Kincaid Band.
Address of welcome, W. M.
Spear.
Music, Harmony Four.
Address, C. C. Thomas.
Solo, Eugene Rogers.
Moving pictures, three reels.
Address, W. T. Bennett.
Music, Georgia-Kincaid Band.
Address, Mrs. Myrtle S. Sibley.
Music, Harmony Four.
Benediction, Rev. M. R. Wil
liamson. e
WARM SPRINGS
Warm Springe, Oct. 23.—Sever
al hundred people gathered last
night at the Warm Springe hotel
and gave a tremendous ovation
to Franklin D. Roosevelt, candi
date for vice president on! the
ticket of the democratic p irty
when James M. Cox ran for pres
ident.
Mr. Roosevelt will return to
New York Saturday, but will re
turn to Georgia later to spend
about two months, he stated.
Big Dinner.
A big dinner was arranged and
guests were received by invita
tion. Mr. Roosevelt has made a
large impression on the citizens
of Meriwether county during his
visit of three weeks and no per
son : who has ever visited this
resort has received a greater
mark of respect. •
Guests were assembled in the
dining room of the hotel and Mr.
Prison Life Putt Its Mark oa Loeb
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Prison life has already marked the' millionaire murderers, Rich
ard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., as these photos show. Contrast
the photo (in the center), made at the time of their arrest, with
those jost made in the Illinois prison at Joliet and sent to the
•• ■ (galleries” in the police bureaus in various cities. Loeb
V Leopold below.
Beginning Today on Page 5
« THE EVIL SHEPHERD 99
Oppenheim’s Latest Mystery Novel
You IViU Enjoy This Story
The Evil
Shepherd
By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
There about is the no people false glamor
in an
Oppenheim he the tale. Generally
presents worst side of
theircharacter first. He shows
how they drink and carry on
[the scene is England not
America] just as normal
folks do in some countries;
and then by ' slow degrees 9 he
, begtns . to reveal | their , , better
sides. The final result is a
pretty likable, clean lot of
folks who are more devoted
to outdoor sports and healthy
living than they are to dissi*
pation. And the author has
the genius to fit these people
into romantic, even heroic
roles, without making them
either priggish or immora j
and without destroying their
naturalness and reality.^“The
P„;l r.vil ohepherd is a lively,
„ _ charming, thrilling tale.
CASHIER SHOT
WHEN BANDITS
ARE
Chicago, Oct. 23—(By th-> As
sociated Press.)—Stephen Kovao,
cashier, was pro bably fatally
wounded in an exchange of shots
in which bandits who invaded
an outlying state bank today were
driven off by employes.
Roosevelt, while remaining seat
ed, spoke for an hour and a half
the political situation being giv
en special emphasis in his re
marks:
The New Yorker reiterated his
confidence*in the election of John
W. Davis, democratic candidate
for president. f
•. A big victory for the West Vir
ginian was predicted,
When nominated he did not
think Davis had a chance, but
now he is firmly convinced that
he will be the next chief execu
tive, Mr. Roosevelt said.
ON PROHIBITION
IS CRITICIZED
A Famous Lawyer Says
Nation-wide Scandal
Still Exists.
Washington, Oct. 23__A state
ment declaring .. a nation wide
scandal” in regard to prohibition
enforcement “still exists” and
that President Coolidge “ha*
proved he will not put an end
to it' was issued here last night
by Samuel Untermeyer, New
York attorney.
The letter from Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, assistant at
torney general in charge of pro
hibition enforcement, to the Law
Enforcement League of Philadel
phia last July on the enforcement
question, and the league’s reply,
were quoted by Mr. Untermeyer
in drawing the conclusion that
President Coolidge has “used his
power to prevent the people from
learning the facts. >»
More Lawlessness.
“After 14 months of President
Coolidge as the law enforcing ex
ecutive of the government, this
nation wide scandal still exists, H
the statement said. “It was bred
and is breeding more lawlessness,
corruption, crime and more
ery than any other one thing to
day.
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Although he Is nn Englishman
and makes hls home exclusively In
hls ™ vn c ®J u,t 7. he mav bf>
an International novelist, , foi he un
doubtedly has as many readers in
America as across the sea; In fact,
ls about as greut '»
tl ,
oitr native writers,
If the average British novelist
were as wise as Oppenheim in the
tostes of hls public and did not fill
his books with so much about tea,
tennis and domestic infldelitied, he
might also be popular at home
and nhroad. Oppenheim is modern,
enough, especially when treating of
the modern girj, but he sticks most
ly to the old standbys of love, ro
mance, adventure and mystery; and
*? a proof that it pays, may be
rlte(1 the fact that he Is author of
seventy novels, probably an no
equaled record.
PHYSICIANS SEE
EARLY RECOVERY
FOR JOHN EMERY
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 23.—
(By the Associated Press.)—Ph>
sicians today predicted the spedy
recovery of Colonel John G. Em
ery, former national commander
of the American Legion and vet
eran of several major engage
ments in the world war, who was
shot yesterday by Chedell Simp
son, the husband of Emery’s
stenographer.
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KIWAMAN 8 TO MEET
AT ALBANY IN 1925.
Rome, Ga., Oct. 23.—Albany
was selected As the next conven
tion city of the Georgia district
of Kiwanis International at the
closing session hare yesterday af
ternoon.
Macon whs the winner of the
attendance cup.
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HERE TH
FAR EX
Considerable Sta]
in Fields and PI
Is Progress!)
'■ISi
Griffin has received 1,4£
bales of cotton this year tl
year.
The price one year ago
cents per pound for good it
while today the same
quoted at 22 cents. 0
According to the ofl
report as tabulated es
the News by J. E. Mayna
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fin received for the
today 875 bales, as co
382 bales for the ©
week last year. ' >;.0 f
The shipments for 1
were 252 bales, against
The stock on hand in
ous warehouses was 3,®
against 3,078 bales.
The total receipts for the
were 5,273 bales, against
bales last season. (
Farmers have had r
two weeks of favorabli
for marketing the crop
have taken advantage <
portunity.
There is still consider!
in the fields and pickir
In six months a fearless pres
ident, not afraid to remove de
partment heads and other officials
failing to do their plain duly In
office, would end this scandal and
again restore respect for the con
stitution and laws of the law.
DAVIS ON LAST
LEG OF DRIVE
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Aboard the Davis train en
route to Cleveland, Oct.'28.—(By
the Associated ress.)—With but
one more formal address, that
scheduled at Cleveland tonight,
John W. Davis is on his way east,
completing the last leg of two
weeks final campaign in the mid
dle west.
The train passed outside Indi
ana early today, headed for Cleve
land, and thence on to New York,
where the final drive of the per
sonal campaign will be started
Saturday.
WEATHER FORECAST ]
For Georgia: Fair and continu
ed cool tonight and Friday. Light
to heavy frost in the north and
central portions tonight, Tem
perature for 24 hours ending at
noon today: Maximum 6 T; mini
mum 37; mean 52.
Church Built of Materials From
Dance Hall, Saloon and Brewi
Denver, Colo., Oct. 23.—A com
munity church and its parsonage
have been built out of timber and
materials from a once notorious
gambling resort and dance hall
and from an erstwhile brewery, at
Durango, Colorado,
% Free Methodists.
The church, built by a Free
Methodist congregation, recently
was dedicated.
Its altar rail was made out of
part of the bar of the old days.
The foot rail of the bar has
been converted into the hand rail
of the steps leading into the
church.
Bible on Bar.
A Bible now rests on the polish
ed walnut where liquor used to be
placed, for part of the bar itself is
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gressing rapidly.
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THE SANIT
Mount Vernon, ILL., Oct.
Lawrence M. Right, fora
odist Episcopal minister
12 miles south of here
tried in circuit court to
ber 29, not for the muni
wife, Anna, and Wilford She
with whose widow he
jointly indicted on two char
of murder, but to test his san
This ruling was made yes
&*y by Judge J. C. Kern, w
Higllt’s attorney requests
sanity trial before a jury.
His arraignments on the it
der charges will be postponed
til the sanity trial is decided.
* Meantime the judge also
nounced no action would be \
in connection with the rnotio
a separate trial of Elsie Sw<
In granting Hight’s m<
Judge Kern declared he ,•<* I,;
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rather have a jury decide w
er the defendant was sane
take the responsibility himt
—
GRIFFIN SPOT
COTTON
Good middling 22:50. '
Strict middling 22.25. "
Middling 22.00.
the pulpit,
The altar was cons!
other parts of the bar.
The church rests on a
tl^n of stone, heavy timbers a:
iron beams Aaken from both £
dance hall the brewery.
T^e^rindow sills and l|ll|
were made from the heavy
bottoms of huge beer vats.
Site of Old Brewery.
The 1 building occupies .h. ,
of the old brewery.
It is situated at the foot o
bluff.
The parsonage of the presk
elder of the district, built oi
the office of the brewery, s
nearby at the top of the bln
Winding stairs lead upward
an old brewery coil hi used
hand rail. ^
The church seats 700 pent