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PART OF HEALTH
OFFICER'S SALARY
Commissioners Take Ac
tion Monday Night;
Budget Urged.
The movement to create a
Spalding county board of health,
under the Ellis Health Law, re
■ceived impetus last night whei
the City Commissioners voted to
pay one-fourth of the health of
fleer’s salary and to provide lab
oratory equipment.
County Commissioners are ex
pected to take final action on the
project at its regular meeting the
first Tuesday in November.
Already Approved
The Ellis Health Law, a state
enactment, already has been ap
proved by two grand juries and
only awaits action of the County
Commissioners to place it into ef
fect. \
C. L. Elder, chairman of the
County Commissioners, met with
the City Commisioners last night
•when the proposition was discuss
ed at length. a
In voting to defray one-fourth
of the salary of the health officer,
the City Commissioners added a
proviso that at least $5,000 be
expended to cover the salary and
expenses of the health official. It
was agreed that a competent
physician could not be obtained at
a less figure.
Three Persons
Under the Ellis Health Law,
the health board would consist of
three persons: the chairman of
the County Commissioners, the
County School Superintendent and
the foreman of the grand
1 They would serve without, pay.
Action endorsing the movement
was adopted last night by the
City Planning committee of the
Chamber of Commerce. The fol
lowing report of the sub-commit
tee on Health and Sanitation, of
which Dr. Webb Conn is chairman,
was approved by the committee:
Report
“To the City Planning Committee:
ft Your sub-committee Health
on
and Sanitation, having been ap
pointed to meet and consider of
the plans best suited to preserve
and conserve the health of Griffin
and Spalding county, and to make
report of its doings and findings,
beg leave to submit the following
report:
“(1) T/e find that the city and
county are in need of a well-or
ganizod and adequate health de
partment, under capable manage- !
ment and operated under proper
discipline.
No Action Taken
ii 2) We ajso find investi
upon
gation that the Ellis Health Law
has already been adopted and ap
proved by two grand juries and is
the law now in force in Saplding
county, although no action has
been taken by the County Board
of Health, created by the Ellis
Health Law to carry out its pro
visions, except that a budget v^as
made out by them a few years
ago and presented to the County
Commissioners, but no action has
been taken by them.
Ideal Health Law
“( 3 ) After careful considera
tion of the Ellis Health Law and
its provisions, your committee
feels compelled to say that it con
aiders this law as an ideal health
law.
Upon conference with the
Uity Commissioners of the city of
Griftin we found the Commission
ers willing and glad to co-operate
i with the
county authorities in put
ting in operation an adequate
health department and were will
ing to bear their part of the ex
pense, therefore
Recommend $5,000 Budget
it We recommend that
your com
mittee through the Chamber of
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4,843 BALES OF
COTTON GINNED
UP TO OCT. 18
There were 4,843 bales of
cotton, counting round as half
bales, ginned in Spalding
county from the 1924 crop
I prior to October 18, according
to the report of the Bureau
of Census of the United States
Department of Commerce.
Last year, prior to October
18, only 3,124 bales had been
ginned.
GREAT BRITAIN
VOTES TODAY FOR
London, Oct 29.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Great Britain’s
voters went to the polls today to
chose a new parliament to replace
that dissolved at the instance of
the laborite prime minister, Ram
sey MacDonald, on October 9, fol
lowing an unfavorable vote in the
house of commons.
While some laborites still ex
press confidence that the result
would show the people favorable
to their remaining in power, the
general opinion is that the gov
ernment would be repudiated.
The respective strength of the
parties in the new house, however,
was a subject on which no politi
cal observer would venture to
give a public prediction.
WILL BE FOUND
Atlanta, Oct. 29.—Governor Clif
ford Walker Tuesday wired Clem
L. Shpver, chairman of the na
tional democratic campaign com
mittee, that there was no doubt
that Georgia would be found in
the Davis column after the vote
is cast next Tuesday.
The governor’s wire was in re
ply to one from Chairman Shaver
asking for the prospective out
come of the presidential race in
Georgia.
Contributions to the democratic
national campaign fund from
Georgia mounted to $8,813 on
Tuesday of which total $6,700 al
ready has been forwarded to
Jesse H. Jones, of New York, na
tional finance chairman, by Victor
Allen, finance chairman for Geor
gia.
Optimistic Tone. • A'A i
Mr. Allen stated Tuesday that
he was much encouraged by the
generally optimistic tone in the
letters which accompanied checks
he received and said it was evi
dent that the people were now
realizing that the dutlook for
democratic victory is bright.
Mr. Allen stressed the impor
tance of prompt remittance of all
funds collected for the campaign,
as there is now less than one
week remaining in which to con
vert some of the do'ubtful states
to the democratic banner.
Commerce petition the County
Board of Health, now created un
der the Ellis Health Law to make
up budget of $5,000 for the em
ployment of one health officer and
clerk, for the carrying out of the
Ellis Health Law.
<< We further recommend that
the Chamber of Commerce peti
tion the City Commissioners to
make an appropriation of $2400
for the salary of a competent
Sanitary Inspector, who shall be
under the jurisdiction of the
County Health Officer.
<< We feel that this budget is
sufficiently large to begin the op
eratiop of the Ellis Health Law.”
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BULLETINS
CANDLER COUNTY
WINS FIRST PRIZE
Savannah, Oct. 29.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Candler county
took first honors in -awarding of
the ribbons for county exhibits at
the Georgia State Fair. Tattnall
county was second, and Liberty
third. The others entering exhibits
in the order of their excellence
were Effingham, Coffee, Ware,
Screven and Telfair.
NO TRACE FOUND
OF MOULTRIE MAN
Columbus, Oct. 29.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—No further trace
has been found here of the man
believed to be J. L. Bryant, miss
ing Moultrie business man. A
man named “Bryant” is said to
have told a policeman early yes
terday that he intended to pro
ceed to his home in Moultrie at
daybreak.
CHINESE GENERALS
REJECT PEACE
SUGGESTIONS
Peking, Oct. 29.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Efforts to arrange
for a peaceful understanding be
tween General Wu Pei Fu, depos
ed head of the central govern
ment, and General Feng Yu Hsi
ang, the “Christian general, »» were
reported being made today by
friends of General Wu, but the
prospect of success was considered
doubtfuL
Both Wu and Feng are report
ed to be rejecting suggestions.
SLUSH FUND PROBERS
SUBPOENA LABOR LEADERS
Washington, Oct. 29__(By the
Associated. Press.)—The. senate
campaign fund investigating corn
mittee subpoenaed W. H. Steed,
district chairman of the United
States association of railway em
ployes, and Otton Blaudt, presi
dent of the shop crafts, both of
Chicago to appear here to testify
regarding “bribery of labor lead
ers ”
3 KILLED WHEN
GAS TANK EXPLODES
—Vancouver, Oct. 29—(By the
A ssociated. Press.)—Three were
.
killed when a gas tank exploded
in a Canadian Pacific railway pas
senger train west of Farron today.
G & G SHOE COMPANY
TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS
The GAG Shoe Company store
was closed today in preparation
for the opening of its sale tomor
row. The store is going out of
business and selling out its entire
stock at reduced prices.
NEW YORK PREACHER SAYS
JONAH-WHALE STORY TRUE
New York, Oct. 29.—The story
of Jonah being swallowed by “a
great fish” and then disgorged at
the eftd of the sea monster’s jour
ney is true in ever detail, the Rev.
John Roach Straton, formerly fo
Baltimore, pastor of the Cavalry
Baptist church, said in his ser
mon.
The part of the sermon concern
ing the physical possibility of the
Biblical event was given over to
incidents reported by scientists
and fishermen “to show that all
science Is not on the side of un*
belief.”
Doesn’t Describe Fish.
The speaker did notary to de
scribe the kind of fish that figured
in the rescue of Jonah
He merely sought to show that
there were monsters of the deep
capable of swallowing a man
without dismemberment or serious
injury, and, so, capable of return
ing him to his more accustomed
environment.
What Bible Says.
The Bible, Dr. Stratton point
ed out, does not speak of Jonah’s
rescuer as a, whale, but as a
*4 great fish, Use of the word
whale in connection with the ma
riner, he said, was an aecommo
dation to the popular mind. »>
Supporting his argument for ac
ceptance of the tale as record of
of a thing that actually happened,
Dr. Straton referred to an inci
dent reported in 1758 in which
a sailor, swallowed by a shark,
was said to have been freed when
MOULTRIE MAN
DECLARES HE
WAS KIDNAPED
Moultrie, Oct. 29.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Telling a tale of
kidnaping, robbery and hardship
suffered Monday and Tuesday, J.
Lr Bryant, member of the city
council, returned to his home here
last night, it was reveiled hare
late today.
Mr. Bryant, owner of an auto
mobile service station here, re
lated details of his being kidnap
ed by two men when he carried
them a tire in response to a tele
phone call Reveral miles from
Moultrie.
He says he was held prisoner
Monday and Monday night and
until nightfall Tuesday.
He says he was handcuffed and
blindfolded almost immediately
after being seized and driven away
in an automobile.
He was later tied to a tree and
threatened with death if he didn’t
come across” with the combina
tion of the vault of the Moultrie
Banking Company.
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PROTEST CIRCUS
POSTERS IN THE
HEART OF CITY
"Screaming circus posters
should be confined to barns
and should not 'embellish’
Griffin’s business district,”
says the City Planning Com
mittee of the Chamber of
Commerce.
One of the duties of this
committee is to help beautify
the city.
At its meeting last night it
took a decided stand against
the posters which decorate
the sides of several buildings
in the heart of the city.
A resolution requesting that
this practice not be permitted
in the future was adopted.
STAFF VOTE HELD
The project for consolidating the
Griffin and Spalding county school
systems under one system must
await a constitutional amendment.
This was made known last night
at a meeting of the City Planning
Committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, when the sub-commit
tee on schools reported the re
sults of its investigation into the
plan to merge the-two systems.
The entire state must vote, of
course, on amending the constitu
tion.
the shark was attacked.
Narrates Similar Incident.
He quoted a whaler who report
ed having seen a man crawl from
the throat of a dead whale. ,
A German scientist who report
ed finding the body of a horse
whole in the stomach of a “sea
dog” also was quoted.
Then Dr. Straton brought his
historical material up to 1891, and
referred to an article in an Eng
lish paper in which fishermen told
of rescuing a man who had been
swallowed by a whale and revived
after the whale’s stomach had
been slit.
Fish Weighs 30.W)
His having seen a tun weigh
ing 30,000 pounds was brought
into the sermon as evidence of the
size to which creatures of the sea
may grow.
From this the deduction was
made that if there are such crea
tures, Jonah’s story was true.
CARROLLTON MAN
WILL AGAIN HEAD
GEORGIA MA S ON S
Macon, Oct. 29.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—Dr. James D. Ham
rick, of Carrollton, was re-elected
most worshipful master of the
Masonic grand lodge of Georgia
at the closing session of the 138th
grand communication.
Sixteen hundred Masons attend
ed the meeting.
Other Georgia grand lodge offi
cers elected were: J. L. Richard
son, Atlanta, deputy grand mas
ter; A. G. Miller, Waycross, senior
grand warden; R. L. Cox, Monroe,
junior grand warden; F. V Jones,
Thomasville, grand treasurer; F.
F. Baker, Macon, grand secretary.
No change was made in the per
sonal of the appointive grand offi
cers.
City Commissioirers
Order Extension of
Sidewalks on Taylor
\
Sidewalks are to be laid on
Taylor street from Thirteenth
street to the city limits.
The city commissioners last
night ordered this extension, the
cost to be borne by the abutting
property owners.
City Manager Bridges was in
structed to suggest other side
walks that might be included in
the present project and to draw
plans and specifications.
c WEATHER FORECAST j
For Georgia—Fair tonight
and Thursday. Littlo change
in temperature.
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SAYS A
MUST BE
FARMERS’
Davis Declares
Voice Should Be
at White Ho
New York, Oct. 29
Associated Press.)—In
statement outlining
sues, John W. Davis
day that unrest on the part <
nation’s farmers will -contini
til their voice is listened to <
White House and in Congresi
the same attention given the
of the banker and the indust]
Make Dollars Equal*
The outstanding economic
lem of the hour,” Mr. Davis
‘‘is to make the purchasing
of the farmer’s dollar eqs
that of the manufacturer’s &
It COOLIDGE
NAPOLE
20 WA
Kansas City, Oct. 29.—<
James A. Reed, of Missoui
for several months has bi
of the political Vtii
arena
protracted illness, last
the platform at conven
In his first public addn
prior to the democratic
convention and
glance to the national
democratic tickets.
“I have been silent ill
as
idge,” Senator Reed ss.it
hls address, “but for
reason. *1 He
compelled to speak at
because of a “solemn mm
duty .... even at
Legislative Waterloo
Characterizing Coolidge
“Napoleon of about 20 leg
Waterloos,” he declared th
ident “has harkened to
tionary element of the
party which has reprei
St&hdpatiam of capitalism."
He criticized the president
his siiendg and asserted that M
candidate for the pretkk
should possess the intelligence
comprehend and the boldness
and frankness to speak upon
public questions.
Senator La Follette, indepem
candidate for president was al
ed to as a “republican red."
WILLIAM GODWE
DIES TUESDAY
8 NORTH CARO!
William Godwin, well know
Griffin, died in Godwin, N,
Tuesday night at the
his sister.
Mr. Godwin, who had been!*
failing health for some time, was
a resident of Lawtey, Fla. ! x
Several years ago he was rum
■
ried in Griffin to Miss Annie Lo
Talley, the daughter of Mrs, Al
gernon Talley, and sister of Mn
Bruce Montgomery.
Their wedding at the
Methodist church was fo
by Mr. a and reception Mrs. Montgomery. at the hota^ ^
•
His wife and two young chil
dren and a daughter by a former
marriage were at his bed 31B side
when he died.
Funeral services will be hek
Godwin Thursday afternoon,
rial will be in the family bt
ground. 1 i-iM
To Introduce Bill.
It is planned to have a bill pro
viding for such a vote be intro
duced at the next session of the
Legislature.
The project is tq create a county
unit sys^ffi of schools, under one
-fifibagement and with a uniform
tax rate in both the city and the
county, and opening the city
schools to county students with
out tuition expense.
RAINS PLACE SOIL
OF GEORGIA IN
GOOp CONDITION
Washi ngtqC" Oct. 29.—(By the
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raKSH Georgia:
Heavy frosts Thursday and Fri
day over the central and northern
division, stopping all further
growth of cotton remaining in
the fields.
Dry, clear weather most of the
week, followed by beneficial rains
placed the soil in good condition
for plowing and sowing winter
wheat.
Oats and rye are making better
progress. The bulk of the cotton
is out except scattered fields
mostly in the north. Staple was
improved by the dry weather.
Peanuts are mostly stacked.
PROGRESS MADE
FOR SYSTEMATIC
CITY DECORATIONS
Plans of the American Legion
to arrange for uniform decora
tion of the business district on
November 11 and similar occa
sions, were endorsed last night by
the city planning committee of
the Chamber of Commerce,
The Auxiliary plan is to drill
holes in the sidewalks a few
inches from the curbing in front
of every business house, then pro
cure flagstaffs and flags to be set
in these holes.
Reports from members of the
Auxiliary state the merchants
called upon to buy these sets have
responded freely and they feel
pure every merchant will buy one
of the regulation flags, 4x6 feet,
with * 12 foot varnished staff.
The city commissioners passed
an ordinance at their meeting last
night permitting the boring of
holes in the sidewalks for the flag
staffs.
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GRIFFIN SPOT HI
COTTON
(From Parsley -Slaton <
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