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10 NIECE PROVES
Had Slashed Breasts and
Wrists to Save Life
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of Little Girl.
San Bernardino, Cal., Oct. 27—
(By Associated Press)—Mrs. T.
H. Kelty, of this place, who,
while lying injured recently at the
bottom of a canyon, slashed her
breasts and wrists to keep alive
with the blood her five-year-old
niece, died last night as the re
sult of injuries and exposure.
Just a week ago, the automobile
'in which Mr. and Mrs. Kelty and
their little niece were riding,
plunged over a cliff into a gulch
300 feet below.
Hidden from view by shrubbery,
they could not be seen by passers
by. i > .
Kelty died after 12 hours of
suffering.
The child suffered only a broken
f
arm, but was menaced by starva
tion and thirst.
I OF SLUSH FUND
WILL BE QUIZZED
By Associated i-ress.
Washington, Oct. 27.~Add!tion
al information regarding the or-
4 ganization
and methods of two
score and more collection commit
tees working to raise funds in
New York for the Republican na
tional committee, was sought to
day by the senate fund investigat
ing committee.
Guy D. Emerson, chief of or
ganization and operation, is one
of the main witnesses called in
connection with this phase of
lnqUlry '
Many other witnesses are on :
hand and the committee expects
to cover considerable ground in
the first of the three or four ses
sions remaining until after elec
tion November 4.
GRIFFIN SPOT
COTTON
(From Pursley-Slaton Co.)
Good middling 23.00
Strict middling 22.75
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Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Says Income Tax Is Inquisition
Boston, Oct. 27.—Expressing
belief that the federal income
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exercises a power of
into the private affairs of
Eliot Wadsworth, assistant
tary of the treasury, in an
4* prepared for delivery before
annual meeting of the
Industries of Massachusetts,
<< in due course, as the nation’s
penses are reduced and the
debt liquidated, it should be
sible to obtain sufficient
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by other forms of taxation. ff
True Meaning.
“I wonder if we understand
true meaning of the power of
bureau which centers in
ton—how~much the individual
zen yields in personal freedom
such a power, and how far
strong hand of government
forced itself into puf personal
fairs?” he asked. ii As time
by, there will be in the Bureau
Internal Revenue a record of
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POSTPONE MEETING
AT LINE CREEK ON
ACCOUNT OF ROADS
to.' to i
A postponement of the
Uty-County meeting, which
was to have been' held in
Line Creek district tonight,
was announced today after
the people living in that sec
tion said the roads were im
passable.
The entire city of Griffin
should turn out at these meet
ings and help make them suc
cessful,” declared Rev. John
Yarbrough, chairman of the
rural relations committee.
We will not attempt to hold
a meeting with the conditions
unfavorable, but at the next
meeting, we want the entire
city to help us. *»
NEAR HAMPTON
SUNDAY NIGHT
Mrs. Charity Turner, 75, widow
of the late M. T-. Turner, died at
the home of her sister, Mrs. B. C.
Bright, near Hampton, Sunday
night at 9 o’clock.
She is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. W. N. Adams, Decatur, Ga.;
five sons, G. V. Turner, Moreland,
Ga.; T. N. Turner, Lakeland, Fla,;
L. E. TumeY, Fielddale, Va., and
J. P. and M. S. Turner, of this
city; two sisters, Mrs. B. C. Bright
and Mrs. R. H. Moore, of Hamp
ton; two brothers, N. Barnett of
Hampton, and G. V. Barnett of
Atlanta. 1
Funeral services will be , held j
from Mt. Carmel Methodist church l
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, j
Rev ‘ 8 - D : Cherr y officiate ,)
Rev. John F. Yarbrough
sisting. Burial will be in the
church yard with Haisten Bros, in
charge.
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THREE KILLED IN
AUTOMOBILE CRASH
IN ARKANSAS
Little Rock, pet. 27.—Walter E.
Simmons, 30, garage employee,
Miss Viola King and Miss Mabel
Tiner, local young women, are
dead as the result of an automo
bile crash early yesterday morn- J
ing a few miles from Littin Sock. I
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Simmons and Miss King died ;
soon after the accident, both hav
ing suffered many crushed bones,
and Miss Tiner died last night
without being able to tell how
the crash occurred.
income and financial status of
every citizen, rich and poor alike.
Good or Harm.
The mere fact that such in
formation is in the files places
federal government in a position
of trust which involves unusual
possibilities for good or harm. It
is not difficult to understand its
cash value to an unscrupulous
competitor, an enemy. Already
there is agitation that this infor
mation shall be made public, al
though when it was obtained there
was a general understanding that
it would be confidential.
Many Suggestions.
u There are many suggestions
now being actively advanced for
placing further authority in the
hands of the federal government,
all involving additional expense,
some a federal subsidy. It is my
sincere belief that we are moving
too fast. This country is too
large to standardize from Wash
ington and there is danger in
every move toward Centralizing
power there. »*
GRIFFIN, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1924.
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Some notables and the income tax they paid in 1923. Above (left to right), President Calvin Cool
idge, John D. ftcckefeiier,*Jr., and below, his father;,!. ri©CTK?nt Morgan, A. W. Mellon, secretary of the
treasury. Center: Jack Dempsey, pugilist; Jackie Coogan, fihn player;'and (right) Poll Negri, film
player. Belov.: Douglas Fairbanks, his wife, Mary Tickford, and Charlie Chaplin in a group; John D.
Davis, Dcmocraiic presidential nominee, and Henry Ford.
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Washington, Ott. 27.—While the
capital ij dll 'in a turmoil over
the question of whether income
figures, made available to the
public by a recent law can be pub
lished in the newspapers, a mat
ter which an anrevoked clausa in
the old law prohibits, notables
whose income tax payments for
1923 have already been published,
are Teltihff f5eir displeasure be
known.
Some Are Distressed.
Plainly, some of them are dis
tressed. Not that there is the
slightest suspicion that any of
them are guilty cf having filed a
fraudulent return, but because, for
the first time, an idea of the ac
tual income of many of them has
been broadcast.
The figures show, judging by
their 1923 incomes, the wealth of
Henry Ford and his son is great
er than that of John D. Rocke
feller and son, and that John D.
Sr., has transferred most of his
wealth to his son.
Ford, Sr., paid an income tax in
192d of $2,247,946.10, and his son
gave the government
The Ford factories paid an in
come of $14,449,643.04. Since the
only owners of the Ford factories
are Ford, Sr., his son and Mrs.
Ford, the Ford income tax pay
ment can be called $17,000,000.
( Rockefeller, Sr., handed over
only $124,266.47, while his son,
John D. Jr., paid the government
a total of $7,435,169.41.
DIES AT HOVER
SUNDAY NIGHT
Mrs. C. P. Protho, 64. died at
her home at Rover, several miles
from Griffin, Sunday, flight at 12
o’clock, following a long illness.
Mrs. Protho, the wife of one of
the most prominent farmers and
peach growers of this section, was
Morgan’s Return a Surprise. |
One of the surprises was that
J. Pierpont Morgan, head of the j
international banking house, paid'
only $98,643 income tax in 1923,
only about $S,000 more than Jack
Dempsey, pugilist, whose federal
assessment was $90,300.
Of the presidential candidates,
Davis pa id the largest amount,
S'Sl.COO; Coolidge hanuca over a
check for $6,643.ui, and La Fo’
lette’s income tax was $641.40.
Coolidge’s tax will be larger
this year. He did not begin to
draw the $75,000 presidential in
come until August of 1923.
Doug Pays Large Sum
Among the many motion picture
notables whose incomes have been
variously reported at from $1,
000,000 to $10,000,000 and up,
Douglas Fairbanks was the only
one to pay more than $100,000.
The government got a total of
$225,749.04 of the profits Doug |
got from “Robin Hood,” and other
pictures on which he drew divi
dends in 1923. His wife, Mary
Pickford, paid the surprisingly
small total of $2,444,09. She, like
Fairbanks, does not get a flat sal
ary in the movies, but draws a
share of the profits of the pictures}
in which she appears. 1
Other Film Stars !
The federal tax paid on their
f|928 incomes by other film stars
were:
Pola Negri, $14,681.39.
Jackie Coogan, $505.95.
widely known throughout this part
of the state.
Besides her widower, she i" sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs. H.
E. Hill of Rover and Mrs. W. E.
King of Cutthbert; two sons, H.
W. and T. W. Protho; and one
sister, Mrs. G. .T Wheeliss, o\
Thomaston.
Funeral services will be held
from the home Tuesday morning
at 10 o’clock, with the Rev. O. K.
Cull, pastor of the First Christian
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church of Griffin, «officieting. Burial
will be in Oak Hill cemetery, with
Mr. nnd Mrs. Jack Coogan, $4,
William S. Hart, $22,654.56.
Lew Cody, $1,000.30.
Harold Lloyd, 22,662.30
Tom Mix, $J5,356.50.
Rupert Hughes, $11,937.01.
Cecil B. DeMille, $741.55.
Will Rogers, $5,966.01.
Barbara Lamar, $1,854.16.
Antonio Moreno, $15,349.03.
Charles Chaplin, $6,863.03. . „
Constance Talmadge, $10,450.05
Thomas Meighan, $51,200.
Richard Barthelmess, $30,000.
Lillian Gish, $773.
Notables.
Payments of notables were:
Andrew W. Mellon, treasury sec
retary, $1,173,987.85.
E. H. Gary, steel man, $473,000.
Charles M. Schwab, steel
$29,000.
Wm. Wrigley, Jr., chewing gum
king, $1,154,420.
Eddie Cantor> comedianf $6>500
William G. McAdoo, $11,150.76.
Mrs. McAdoo, $1,323.12.
Charles G. Dawes, republican
vice presidential candidate,
269.
Rufus Dawes, brother of Char
les G., $3,124.
chRrks A> C omiskey, owner of
tois Chicago White Sox, $16,723.
A' Jolson, $45,000.
Alice Brady, $18,000.
Otis Skinner, $12,600.
Charles Evans Hughes,
tary of 3tate, $3,600.
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Frank S. Pittman in charge,
j ed The following men are
to act as pallbearers:
Touchstone, J. H. Glazier,
Gaissert, O. T. Morejand, J.
Burnett and C. II. Westbrook.
FREE FOR ALL FIGHT
RESULTS IN
Moultrie, Oct. 27.—(By the
sociated I^ress.)—Lonnie Kent
killed and two men injured in
fight in which five men
ed near Berlin, Ga., last
No details are available.
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STATE
PROSPECTS FOR WINTER
NOW
CROWDER
DIES AT GRIFFIN
Mrs. Sarah Henderson Crowder,
28, wife of Carl Crowder, a prom
inent farmer of near Griffin, died
at the Griffin hospital Sunday
afternoon at 5 o’clock, after an
illness of only a few days.
Besides her widower, she is sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Nancy
Gable Henderson, of Brooks, and
five sisters, Mrs. J. J. Malone,
Brooks; Mrs. Tommy Goodin, Grif
fin; Mrs. P. E. Arnall, Griffin;
Mrs, Edward Wrinkle, Atlanta,
and Mrs. Lloyd C. Putnam,
Brooks.
Funeral services were held from
the First Methodist church of
Griffin this afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Rev. John F. Yarbrough officiated.
Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery
with Haisten Brothers in charge.
The following brothers-in-law
acted as pall bearers: J. J .Ma
lone, P. E. Arnall, Hugh E. Crow
der, D. P. Crowder, R. B. Crow
der and Marvin Crowder.
GRIFFIN RECEIVES
FIRST RAIN IN
ABOUT 3 WEEKS
The first rain that has fallen in
Griffin and vicinity for about
three weeks started late Saturday
night and continued all day Sun
day and part of Sunday night.
The forecast for today is “clear
ing and slightly warmer, ft while
Tuesday is supposed to be fair.
Farmers in this section were
greatly in need of the rain as the
ground had become hard and in
terferred with digging potatoes,
plowing ground and sowing seed.
4 U. S. DISTRICT
ATTORNEYS FIRED
Washington, Oct. 27.— (By the
Associated Press.)—Four
States district attorneys have
asked to resign and six
have resigned since last
the result of failures in most
stances to enforce the
laws, Attorney General Stone
today in reference to charges
lax prohibition enforcement.
Notes Cast Up By Sea 7 Years Ago
Used as Evidence in $100,000 Suit
New York, Oct. 27.— Messages
found in a bottle cast upon the
Orkney Islands seven year ago
were admitted in evidence last
week during trial of a $100,000
suit brought against Charles W.
Morse and others by Mrs. Ade
laide G. Nelson, of Philadelphia,
whose son, Lawrence, with 29 oth?
er sailors, went down with the
steamship Frederick and a cargo
of war munitions in January 1917.
Altogether there were 10 mes
sages in the bottle. The only two
offered as evidence—one written
in English and one in Spanish—
were admitted over the protests
of counsel for Morse.
Says Ship Was Rotten Hulk.
Attorneys for Mrs. Nelson
sought to show through the tes
timony of witnesses and the cor
roborative testimony of the bot
tled notes that the Frederick was
! a rotten hulk when she put to sea
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Prosperity Business *
Conditions. I
The cotton mills of Griffin ex
to operate on a full time
throughout the winter.
This important information, ver
today by officials of the va
industries, carries a gratify
message to employees of th#
as well as to the butinat*^*
of Griffin.
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Prospects Bright.
Every mill is now running full
time. Officials state that pros
pects for winter and spring bus
iness are very bright and condi
tions generally improved.
John Cheatham, president of the
Georgia-h mcaid Mills, told the :
News that all of their five mills
and two bleacheries, which have
been running only three days a
week, are now operating full time,
besides night runs. *t y
Others on Full Time.
The Griffin Manufacturing Com
pany is now running full time, de
clared John H. Rogers, secretary
and treasurer. :■ W
“We hope to continue full time >,v
or practically full time through- ft#
out the season,’” Mr, Rogers an- m,
nounced.
The Rushton Cotton Mills are
operating 50 hours a week,
mill was running only four days
a week until two weeks ago.
Through Winter Mentha.
M. J. Daniel, secretary of the
Rushton company, stated
indications are that they will con- : .
tinue full , time throughout the
winter months. x?4li
Resumption of full-time opera
tion of the mills is expected to
prove a strong stimulant to lo
cal business.
Merchants interviewed declared
that there had been a marked in
crease in their sales the last two
Saturday since the improvement
in cotton mill conditions.
Business Revival
With heavy deliveries of cot
ton and with the payrolls of the
mills increased weekly by thou
scands of dollars, Griffin should ill
see a revival of prosperity bus
iness conditions such as it has not
witnessed for four or five years.
Another factor in improving
business conditions will be the
new $650,000 mill to be construct
ed by W. F. Ingram and associ
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and that her sinking was due to
unseaworthiness A' -V
and not, as the
defense maintained, to a German
submarine or floating mine.
The message, penned in English,
with letters blurred and water
stained, read:
«* Dan Watson—going down on
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the S. S. Frederick within half an
hour. Last call. Notify Daniel
Watson, 505 West Tenth street,
Austin, Texas.”
It was signed “Bob Watson, his
loving son. *> Robert Watson was
recorded as a member of the
Frederick's crew who perished
when she foundered.
WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia: Fair tonight and
Tuesday. CouSer in the south and
east portions tonight. .Tempera
tore for 24 hours ending at
Monday: Maximum »5, i s to*
49; mean 57; rainfall \