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■4 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. '*• f • tMM 10 NIECE PROVES Had Slashed Breasts and Wrists to Save Life . 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 ■: 1 Middling______ 22.50 4 . Assistant Secretary of Treasury Says Income Tax Is Inquisition Boston, Oct. 27.—Expressing belief that the federal income M 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 f 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 ' : .7 1 ■ , IMW wk ■-: 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. / 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 ■ 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. — ^ BARING OF INCOME TAX SECRETS EMBARRASSES NOTABLES, PARTICULARLY MOVIE SATELLITES $7,V35;/<>9 m 9g645 $U73 t ?Z7 % v H vv 5to ' § ■t • • .. toft .V Sl'iS* ; : .y .•"to to".; : .to ft: .toft to toft: .ft 'I, : ... 7 ■ 'ft 1 toft. ft ; A. -to - toft SB&s Pfei&jd ft IS V 7:7 m ■ft: Wi IPIII / 90,300 to. ■ L V ■. I :. ,, % ■* X- ■ wm X ' Imm Mi# w/ , ff v . fa* ,s .......11 ■ .!»•; ■ % VX-. ...;X r : y ■><x X.v - ’ll ;lX:;;X •X 3 # *87,000 m. t /7.000.000 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. » 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 f 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. M. 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. VOL. 53- 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 •. 1 , 1 See Revi. 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. ■ 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 (Continued on Page Five) 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 V •' 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 \