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MEMBft.H~ASS0CtA1ED PRESS. ■ BSwS ®cfl , IN PIKE corn Polls Manager Stabs Brother Of Candidate to Death ? In Vega Store Henry Harvel, 50, farmer of Pike county, was stabbed to death by £,. A. Hooten, 45, also a farmer, during a dis pute over a school trustee elec tion at Vega, near Meansville, Thursday at noon. The killing took place in *fhe store of Clarence Hooten, son of the slayer. Harvel was stabbed in the heart and was almost instant ly killed. Joe Harvel, brother of Henry Harvel, was a candidate for school trustee. Hooten was one of the poll managers* How Dispute Arose The dispute came up over an attempt by one of the hangers-on at the polls to induce a neighbor to vote for Harvel. Hooten is said to have advised to the contrary, whereas the brothers, according to reports, started toward Hooten, who whipped out his knife, and stabbed Henry Harvel. Hooten Calls Sheriff Imediately after the killing, Hooten telephoned Sheriff Morris at iebulon and told him of the kiling. Hooten then stayed at the door until the sheriff arrived to take him to the county jail. Plead Self Defense Hooten will plead self defense. He is a married man. The Harvel brothers are bach elors, living near Vega. Bond had not been arranged for Hooten at noon Friday and he still in jail at Zebulon. —rt is" ought the examining trial will be held next week. '-------% Cotton Report [ (From Pursley-Slaton Co.) New Orleans Cotton Open Ill) 1 High | Low |Cl’se [Close Prev Jan. 23.25 23.25 22.80|22.85 23.35 Mch. 23.48 23.49 23.05|23.08 23.58 May 23.04 23.64 23.23(23.27 23.75 July 23.42 23.42 23.03 (23.03 23.55 Dec. 23.30 23.30 22.78122.84 23.37 New York Cotton Open | High | | . | | CI’se( | Prev I Low Close Jan (23.35123.38(22.95 22.95 23.48 Mch. |23.CX23.65|23.25 23.28 23.75 May |23X 5(23.85(23.47 23.50 24.00 July |2X48|23.54|23.21|23.25 23.65 Griffin Spot Cotton Good middling 22.50 Strict middling 22.25 Middling _____ 22.00 r PRESIDENT pOOLIDGE CASTS VOTE BY MAIL Wf dington, Oct. 31.—President Ccfeliage voted yesterday, using an r dinary v.hite house pencil to ma ; the ballot which he later mriled to Northampton, Mass., his home voting place. , t ---- War Waged Over Hickory Nuts In Quiet New York Village New York, Oct. 31.—A dispute over ownership of hickory nuts which fell outside a fence border ing the public highway, but were borne by a tree growing on pri vate property, caused more ex citement than the quiet village of Kent, N. Y., had known for years and led to the arrest yesterday of one of its most prosperous citi zens. It also resulted in a compound puncture of a New York lawyer’s automobile tire, inflicted by an angry farmer with a shotgun. . Held To Grand Jury. Nelson Rogers, of Kent, was arraigned before Justice Steinbeck and held for the grand jury on a technical charge of assault, fol lowing his arrest by Sheriff Se cord. Bail, set at $500, was fur- U& ■ ':» ill : M v §r ' & *?‘V • = 0 TON TO ' MOTHERS’" I ORIAL ARC H | 1 ' : £:-iv m I’ rr/. y. __ JLs9k The Womans’ Universal Alli ance, of which Mrs. Clarence Crit tenden Calhoun of Washington (above), is president, plans to erect a Mothers’ memorial statue in Washington, D. C., from de sign submitted by W. Clark Noble. HE WAS DRIVER New York, Oct. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—A man de scribing himself as Richard O’Hara, a New Jersey driver, was taken to Bellevue Hospital today after he had walked into the po lice station declaring that he was the driver of the wagon which carried the bomb used in the Wall street explosion in 1920. The police questioned him in the hospital, where he was under going treatment for alcoholic pois oning. .. , He says that he was conscience stricken and “wanted to make a clean breast of it. ft DAUGHTER WEDS SON OF SUPREME COURT JUDGE TO PROTECT MOTHER Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 31.—In order‘to protect her mother in the enjoyment of a legacy under ths will of her grandfather, Miss Francis Osborne, of Cambridge, agreed to a civil marriage with Richard Wait, son of Justice Wil liam C. Wait, of the supreme court, it became known today. Marriage intentions already have been filed at the city hall here. Wait is a graduate student at Harvard. Protect Her. The will of Miss Osborn’s grandfather provided an income to be paid to the girl for her life time and to her husband in the event of her death. This income, Miss Osburn has used to support her mother. She said that her marriage at this time would protect her moth er in that the income would lie paid to her husband in the event of her death. nished by his wife, Rogers was arrested in a war rant procured by Haverback, of Tarrytown, a lawyer. According to Sheriff Secord, Rogers admitted firing at Haver beck’s car, but declared he did so only after an altercation when the lawyer stopped under the hickory tree and ordered Roger’s children away from the nuts they had gathered. Ahuses Children. They protested, the father said, adding that Haverbeck became abusive and threatening when the farmer appeared on the scene. At the hearing, Haverbeck denied this saying he ha5 re-entered his car and was driving away when Rog ers fired on him without provo cation. . GRIFFIN . GA., Y, OCTOBER 31. 1924. - - s == v GRAPff -- ---- - v SLUSH FUND PROl&ftS TO ADJOURN UNTIL AFTER ELECTION Washington, Oft. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—Activities of the American Federation. of La bor in behalf of LaFolIette and operations of Grundy co its collections of republican funds ip Pennsylvania were farther in quired into today by the Washing ton section of the senate cam paign’ fund committee. After to day’s session the hearing will be suspended until the election is over, when a full committee, which has b?en divided for several days between Washington and Chicago, will assemble again to pursue the inquiry. LATE WIRE , BRITISH LABOR CABINET TO RESIGN. London, Oct. 31.—(By the Asso ciated Press.)—The laborite cab inet, headed by Premier MacDon ald, after a two hour session this morning is understood to have de cided to remain in office for a fews days and then resign before the assembling of a new parlia ment. ■> MANY “RECRUITS » FLOCK TO DAVIS New York, Oct. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—In a state ment setting forth democratic views of campaign issues, John W. Davis explained his reasons “for a spirit of optimism out standing today in democratic camps.” Mr. Davis summed up what he said was “cumulative evi dence of the last few days” and took the occasion to express his gratitude “to associates on the party ticket for a well defined movement which is bringing *o many recruits to our ranks.” INVESTIGATE DANGERS OF “LOONEY” GAS. New York, Oct. 31.—(By the Associated Press.) Thirty-six persons are under observation or treatment in hospitals and eight others in homes as New York City and New Jersey health offi cials joined today to investigate the dangers of ethyl “looney” gas, manufactured by the Standard Oil company's plant at i, N. J., which has alread psed five deaths. PEACE REIGNS S IN CHINATOWN New York, Oct. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—Peace reign ed today in Chinatown. The two weeks armistice between the On Leong and Hip Sing tongs became effective at midnight last night. The truce was effective throughout the nation, according to an an nouncement. G. O. P. CONTRIBUTIONS NOW TOTAL $3,700,000. Chicago, Oct. 31.—(By the As sociated Press.)—The republican campaign contributions total $3,- 700,000, William Hodges, national party treasurer today told the Chi cago section of the senate cam paign fund investigation commit tee. 1 IN IS COUNTY A giant still and many smaller brothers were seized in a series of raids just completed by County Officers Woodruff and Brown and Revenue Officers Harris mid Mi lam, of Atlanta. The raids netted a total of 3,- 750 gallons of beer. i Largest SUU. One of the largest stills ever captured in this section was lo cated in the Line Creek section. —■ sss= APPRECIATION To the Good People o£ Griffin, Spalding and Neighboring Counties, Greetings: It has now been four months since the new publishers as sumed charge of die Griffin News and Sun. We want to thank the public for the very great measure of patience and good will manifested during this period! It has been a Very trying time for us. Coming into the community erttire grangers and into an entirely new held nat urally made the situation difficult at the beginning. Then the plant was moved from its crowded quarters to its present location next to the court house. And the moving of the plant was a bigger job than we had anticipated. Not so much the mete moving, but the re-ar rangement, in order to make a satisfactory working plan. And the formation of an efficient organization to carry on the business according to our plans has taken time and many shifting#. Oftentimes the paper has been late on account of one thing and another. One piece of machinery would give trouble and then another,! causing vexatious delays. Oftimes delay would be caused by “breaking in" a new man, in one depart ment or another. During all of this time our city subscribers, who were af fected most by these things, have been patient and loyal, kind and complimentary, giving all the while assurances of ap preciation of whaj they could see were our earnest efforts to render good servijse. fifth We start the month in fairly good shape to give good service. Hereafter, barring some unforseen accident, the paper will be issued early enough every afternoon to reach all parts of the city delivery before nightfall. PROGRESS MADE During the past four months, the new publishers have add ed the following features: (1) Serial stories by well known authors. This feature is enjoyed by most of our subscribers. Most of these stories that we publish in serial form sell in book form at 75 cents to $1.C0. (2) An. up-to-date picture service, featured by the metropolitan Association, dailies. This is furnished furnished by the Central Press the same as tbs big papers. We have installed a complete stereotype department and not only furnish this splendid picture service for our read ers, but serve Pur advertisers with the very latest adver tising ait service. _ (3) Miscellaneous features of interest to women, in cluding authentic style illustrations and articles. (4) A fsurly well-rounded editorial page, covering the the cream of the world’s comment. (5) Recently’ the the paper has been enlarged to seven columns to page, giving it a more attractive and sym metrical appearance. It will be our aim to continually improve both the mechan ical appearance and the contents of the paper, as well as the general service pertaining to delivery and other departments. CIRCULATION INCREASE GRATIFYING The increase in circulation is very gratifying to us. During the past four months, the circulation of the Daily HAS IN CREASED nearly 700. Most of this increase is within the qity of Griffin and immediate suburbs, such as Experiment, East Griffin and West Griffin. That the twe&hav.. paper is giving aatisfac tion is attested b# The fact that we a *<*>, once the paper enterd the family circle. This increase has been secured by sporadic efforts and voluntary calls, the new pub lishers preferring first to get the organization working smooth ly and then push the circulation systematically. We are now about ready for a steady campaign and hope within the next four months to have the Daily, News in almost every home in and around Griffin. The increase in the SEMI-WEEKLY has been likewise en couraging. More than 700 new subscribers have been added since we took charge and they are coming in now at the rate of 50 to 75 a week. Before another four months rolls ground, we hope to have 2500 to 3000 bona fide Semi-Week ly subscribers in the territory tributary to Griffin. By giving the people of Griffin, Spalding and neighboring counties still better, service in the future, we hope to deserve and receive their continued and multiplied good will and patronage; likewise to give the enterprising merchants of Griffin a medium, always available, for carrying their mes sages into the homes of nearly every family located within a radius of the trade territory naturally tributary to this splendid city. Griffin merchants are fully abreast of the time with re gards to stocks carried and are able to supply the needs of all classes. We desire to express our very sincere apprecia tion of the very liberal patronage accorded The News by the business men of Griffin and it will be our earnest and con stant aim to co-operate to the limit with the business interests of the city to the mutual advantage of all concerned. We are seeking to lay strong and deep the foundation for a newspaper that will command respect and confidence; that will be a real asset to the community; that ultimately will ren der a reasonable profit to the publishers. To this end, we invite continued co-operation from the people generally and our business men and advertisers, with the assurance that we shall do everything that could be reason ably expected of us to promote the general interests of the community and, in so doing, best promote our own The New Publishers. It had a capacity of 100 gallons with a 50 gallon boiler. It had six vats for beer, two of them 14 feet long, holding nearly 3,000 gallons. The operators escaped on ap proach of the officers. Three other stills fell into the officers’ hands. These stills were within a few hundred yards of each other and grouped around a central loading point, evidently used jointly by .the moonshiners. Two* hundred gallon tin cans were found at the loading point. Another still, a small one, with four barrels of beer, also were located by the raiders in the Cab ins district. WILL MANUFACTURE DOLLS IN MONTEZUMA Montezuma, Oct. ma has a new industry just begin ning operation to be khown as A, and R. Peter Rabbit Doll pany. Some shipments have ready been sent to Atlanta and samples have been sept to ern concerns. The dolls put by the company are very tive and are expected to sell TOMBSTONES TO MARK PLACES WHERE FATAL AUTO WRECKS Chicago, Oct. 31.—“One was killed here.” As gentle reminders to motor ists that Chicago’s speed toll is too high, big blue signs with these words, inscribed will be placed on lampposts throughout this wherever traffic fatalities have occurred. The mayor’s safety planned the “tombstones” and Boy Scouts will put them up. HUSBAND OF SLAIN WOMAN HANGS Belvidere, N. J., Oct. body of Frank Thomas, held jail here as a material in the slaying of his wife, Grace Thomas, was found in his cell in the Warren jail here today by Warden He had hung himself hy his penders. The body of his was found in an abandoned mine near Oxford on Tuesday. BRITAl SI BY X'X »* Rod” Chinese forces accuse the British Moral b of having harbored Cl in lam Pak (above), bead of the merchants' volunteer corps, and some of his fellow officers in the fighting with, the “red" forces The consul de nies it. n s ■ SAY LABOR IS A u 11 London, Oct 3L— By the Asso ciated Press.)— AH the London afi ternoqn newspapers except the Liberal “Star,” which frankly de plores the conservative i be cause etlwt on I iral P art y, today acclaim tie defeat erf the MacDonald government, but warn the conservatives that labor “ “ Ver * SW* „ „„ Standard calls tention to the fact that labor poll ed a larger vote than ever before but says that the opportunity is now presented to MacDonald for one of the strongest governments of modern times, “setting it to a work which will render obsolete years hence the idea of class war upon which socialism depends for spiritual energy. CRAZY NEGRO RECAPTURED Sylvester, Ga., Oct. 31.—Leon Johnson, the negro who was con rfdered crazy and broke jail here a few days ago, has been recap tured and seems to have recovered from his crazy spells. He has several charges against him for burglary and will probably be tried in superior court here next week. r WEATHER FORECAST V. For Georgia: Fair Friday. Sat urday partly cloudy and partly warmer; moderate to fresh east and southeast winds. Tempera ture for 24 hours ending at noon Friday: Maximum 77; minimum 30; mean 63. * Reporting 22,600 Killed in Year, Hoover Calls a Traffic Conference Washington, Oct. 31.—Secretary Hoover has called a -national con ference on street and highway safety, to meet in Washington December 15 to 17. The purpose will be to obtain better organiaztion and co-opera tion of the activities in the reduc tion of traffic, accidents, and a representatives of police depart ments, insurance companies, safe ty councils, chambers of commerce labor unions, automobile associa tions and other organizations from all parts of the country, will attend. Important Question. n The importance of this lion,” the secretary said, no emphasis beyond the statement of the facts brought by the statistics committee, prised of eminent 'v'oL'“”’"5T-«'Kx M /• ' 9 1 Colonel P. H. Brewster. 78, oldest practicing lawyer In Ck fit, died at his home in Coll Park Thursday afternoon after illnesB of several weeks. He ’ a brother of Judge B, D. Brews Of Sunnyside, Colonel Brewster’s death cai after a rally which gave his fai ily and large circle of frien hopes that he would survive the m illness.^^^n Brilliant y Record. . Recognized as one of the mart ... brilliant lawyers at the Georgia bar for the past 53 years, 29 of which were spent in Atlanta, Col onel Brewster leaves a record that is outstanding in the annals of Georgia history. m His record as a Confederate sol dier, student, lawyer, legislator and jurist is abundant evidence of his rare personality and brill! Mj achievements. He Is survived by three sons two daughters. Si Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the College Park Methodist ^ with burial in the College cemetery. Honorary Escort. An honorary escort of ji the United States courts, the au , preme court, the court of appeals, superior courts, the city court of Atlanta, the criminal court, mu nicipal court of Atlanta and the juvenile court and an escort from the Georgia Military Academy at tended the body to the grave. GIRL ASKS $30,0C BECAUSE ICE C TASTES LIKE York, . New Oct. 31.—E' tastes alike to Ella Read, 11, so she told Justice Lewis and a in Brooklyn supreme court ye day. til Miss Read, through her mothei Mrs. Martin G. Read, has ills suit against Dr. Alexander A L Vigne. v-’.; 11 They say that when Dr, La Vigne removed Ella’s tonsils her sense of taste also mysteriously vanished. Ella’s attorney asked her what sa an ice cream soda tasted like. K m “It’s cold and just like water, M - said Ella. On further questioning she couldn’t tell whether it tast ed like a pickle or not. All victuals are the same to her, said Ella. . Dr. La Vigne filed a general de nial of the charge that he is re sponsible for the loss of EOa’s tasting apparatus, and will offer a defense in support of his dental. Fumigation of an Atlantic liner recently cost $5,500. who, after canvassing local, mu nicipal, state and national infor mation, arrived at the conclusion that in 1923 not less than 22,000 persons were killed, 678,000 in* jured and $600,000,000 of property damage incurred in traffic acd dents. r . Increase of 80 Per Cent. “This represents an increase oi 80 per cent in the last sevei years. Of the accidents, about 81 per cent were due to automobih traffic. “This is a national loss so palling as to warrant the n complete consideration and ef at drastic remedy.” ■; The secretary has had ei special committees at work g ering data and making oth< paratbns that the coni might be successsful. ■ X':\ ;