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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
IN CITY MY
Messenger Boy Knocked Un
conscious ; Young Girl
Receives Bruises.
Prank White, Western Union
messenger boy, and son of Ed
White, of Sunny Side, was se
mously injured about 6:30 o’clock
last night when he was struck
by an automobile driven by Clar
ence Barron, bookkeeper for the
Gresham Manufacturing Com
pany, formerly of Thomaston.
The accident occurred at the
intersection of Solomon and Sixth
streets. Mr. Barron was driving
south on Sixth street and the boy
was riding down Solomon street.
Unconscious,
The injured boy was picked up
unconscious and carried to the
hospital by Policeman Sauley and
Mr. Barron. He received a ter
rible blow in the head as ha fell
to the pavement.
He regained consciousness late
in the night and was reported
resting well this morning.
Young Girl Injured.
Sara Slade, 12 years old, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Slade,
was slightly injured yesterday af
ternon when she was struck by
an automobile driven by Banks
Pursley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Pursley. The accident occurred
at the- corner of Poplar and
Eighth streets.
The girl had been attending a
• party at the home of Mrs. Hens
lee and was crossing the street
to get in a car. She did not see
the approaching machine and
young Pursley did not see her, ac
cording to reports, until after
he had knocked her down. One of
the whels passed over her leg.
Young Pursley stopped the ma
chine quickly, it is said, avoid
ing a serious accident.
CIRCUS OF THEIR pWN
HELD BY YOUNGSTERS
OF CITY YESTERDAY
Speaking of circuses—
Griffin children had one of their
own yesterday when they turned
out en masse for the opening of
Toyland at the Griffin Mercantile
Company.
When the curtain arose at 2:30
o’clock on the “Dolls’ Circus, ft
every able bodied child in town
must have been there.
• A couple of traffic cops would
have come in handy. Youngsters
overran the place, inspecting the
hundreds of things Santa Claus
has prepared for them.
Teach Gospel by Newspaper Ads,
Evangelism Body Urges Churches
Washington, Nov. 15.—Newspa
pxr advertising by churches
throughout the Country is urged
as part of the campaign “to call
people to the churph,” in a state
ment issued by the Commission of
Evangelism of the Federal Goun
cil of Churches.
Co-operation by business offices
of newspapers to make the
BRIDE OF MONTH
ACCUSED OF HELPING
MAN DROWN HUSBAND
Muskogee, Okia., Nov. 15.—Thel
ma Millsaps and George Man
warring are charged with murder
of the former’s husband, Thqpdore
Millsaps, in warrants issued here.
The couple are accused of chok
ing Millsaps to death and throw
ing his body into the Arkansas
river near here in an alleged
swimming party last August. At
that time Manwprring and the
girl, the latter a b^ide of a month,
reported that Millsaps had drown
ed.
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GIRLS IN CHOIR
STRIKE AS PASTOR
RAPS BOBBED HAIR
Washington, Nov. 15.—
Bobbed haired girls in the
choir of Mount Vernon Meth
odist Episcopal church have
quit because Rev. Burke Cul
pepper, evangelist, temporari
ly occupying the pulpit, de
nounced bobbed hair and said
it was against the teachings
of the Bible.
*4 The girls are a little peev
ed,” Choirmaster Deane Shure
admitted, “but they are not
going to quit the church.”
Meanwhile Reverend Cul
pepper is going to fight bob
bed hair to the finish, choif
or no choir.
“I don’t say you will go to
hell if you bob your hair,”
Rev. Culpepper said in his
last sermon, “but -I do say it
is unscriptural. You old mar
ried women who take up the
fad ought to be ashamed of
yourselves. It’s not so bad
for a 16 year old, but it’s
a disgrace for you older wo
men.”
GEORGIA VETS
10 GET BONUS
AS XMAS GIET
Atlanta, Nov. 15.—Each of the
12,500 Confederate pensioners in
Georgia will be paid a special
Christmas pension bonus of $25
it was announced Friday by for
mer Governor Nat E. Harris, new
ly inaugurated pension commis
sioner.
The state revenue department,
under the direction of Commis
sioner John M. Vandiver, has been
waging a vigorous campaign for
more than a month for collection
of the state tobacco tax, so as to
make it possible for the veterans
to receive the pension bonus.
The pension commissioner ex
pressed certainty that total col
lections for the year would ex
ceed the $562,500 minimum ne
cessary to cover the payment of
$250,000 already made to the
Alto sanitarium and the $312,000
necessary to make the $25 bonu 3
pension payment.
The difference in the amount
actually on hand and the amount
assured for the full year may be
covered by a special loan, the
commissioner said.
BROOKHART WINS BY
SMALL MAJORITY
Des Moines, la., Nov. 15 .—Whu
the official canvass of the sena
torial vote completed in all but
two Iowa counties and Senator
Smith W. Brookhart lead Dan
F. Steck, his democratic opponent
by only 755 votes out of the total
of more than 894,000.
advertising effective has been
asked by the church organization.
In Addition To News.
The advertising will be placed
by local churches or church or
a pH will be in addi
tion to church items printed in
1 the news colum; IS.
Dr. Charles L. Goodell, secre
tary of the commission, explained
that since “news columns cannot
as a rule carry the straight gos
pel message,” its “place is in the
advertising columns.”
In this way, he said, the church
can reach people who never enter
the church.
<< They are the people, many of
them friendly to the church, but
indifferent, that we want to reach
in this campaign,” he added.
Wonderful Opportunity.
“The church .has never realiz
cd the wonderful opportunity of
the advertising columns.
Too often it has been satisfied
with using them for mere an
nouncements of service and
though this has its place and is
worth while, the church must
realize its greater task of using
advertising for the story of sal
vation. ft
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GRIFFIN. GA„ SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1924.
MAN SAYS
Declares Solicitor General Boy
kin Should Step Down
From Office.
Savannah, Nov. 15.—Declar
ing that Savannah cotton and
business interests were in perfect
sympathy with the Atlanta Cot
ton Exchange its grievance
against the manner in which the 1
raid against this institution was
said to have been conducted by
Solicitor General John Boykin and
officials of his office, E. A. Cutts,
head of the cotton firm of that
name, and past imperial potentate
of the Mystic Shrine, expressed
wonderment Friday because the
business and civic organizations
of Atlanta had not stepped for
ward to lend their moral support
to the exchange.
Outrageous.
‘1 am speaking, >1 declared Mr.
Cutts, 'in the name of my com
pany, which is a member of the
Atlanta Commercial Exchange,
and which occupies an office in
the Exchange building. I feel
that the name of the
has been put up in shame before 1
the eyes of Atlanta, the south
east and the whole United States.
The insinuations of the solicitor
general that it is a gambling in
stitution are outrageous.”
Mr. Cutts declared he had the
highest regard for the local in
stitution, even though he admit
ted it had been instrumental in
bringing important cotton busi
ness to Atlanta from Savannah.
“The Atlanta Commercial Ex
change is an institution that has
grown in great favor not only in
Atlanta, but in my home city and
in every place where cotton is
handled,” he added.
Mr. Cutts was bitter in his ex
coriation of Mr. Boykin, declaring
that the solicitor general had
gone too far, and that he should
step down from his present posi
tion.
IS INDICTED ON
Savannah, Not. 15.—Rev. R. H.
Folmar, pastor of the Fourth
Baptist church, was indicted by
the federal grand jury, which ad
journed last night, in connection
with moonshining operations on
land alleged to be owned by him
in Bryan county.
Mr. Folmar has been here about
a year. He came to Savannah
from Bryan county.
;
It is understood his indictment
is in connection with an alleged
leasing of property used for
moonshining purposes.
Mr. Folmar, whose church is lo
cated in the southern section of
the city, was told by an Associ
ated Press representative of the
indictment being returned.
He said it was the first inti
mation he had received of the
proceedings. He has not yet been
served with a warrant.
“It is malicious prosecution
purely,” he said, There is ab
solutely no truth ( in the charge
that I have been guilty in any
way of violating directly or in
directly the national prohibition
law. I had a man on my place
in Bryan county two years ago,
a worthless character, who was,
through my efforts, caught moon
shining and he has, I understand,
made statements tending to con
nect me with his unlawful enter
price.
WIFE SLAYER MEETS
DEATH UNFLINCHINGLY
Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 15.—
Harry Diamond, of Gary, Ind.,
met death unflinchingly in the
electric chair at the Indiana state
farm at 12:04 yesi ‘y
His execution wait in expiation
Farm Commission to Diagnose
and Prescribe for Farm Ills
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No such radical recommendations as price-fixing or the essen
tials of the pending McNary-Haugen bill arc expected to be made
by the commission appointed by President Cootidge to study the
agricultural situation and make suggestions to congress concerning
fanh relief legislation. Robert D. Carey (lower right) of Wyo
ming is chairman. The other members are: O. E. Bradfute (upper
left), Illinois; Charles S. Barrett (lower left), Georgia; Louis
jTaber (upper right), Ohio; Ralph P. Merritt and Fred H. Bixby,
California; R. W. Thatcher, New York; W. C. Coffey, Minnesota.
TELEGRAPH n
BULLETINS
JUDGE ADVOCATE OF
U. S. ARMY DIES.
Washington, Nov. 15.—(By the
Associated Press.)—Major Gener
al Walter A. Bethel, judge advo
cate of the army, retires today
after a continuous service record
of more than 39 years at his own
request because of failing eye
sight. He will be succeeded* by
Col. John A. Hull.
ANOTHER AGED
ELK DIES,
Lynsttwr*, ”fny tfrtin
Associated Press.)—W. C. Baker,
retired railroad man of Mt. Au
burn, N, Y., died last night at the
Elks Home at Bedford from the
effects of cider drinking Monday.
The death list now totals eleven.
DEACONS AFFIRM
FAITH IN PASTOR.
Savannah, Nov. 15.—(By the
Associated Press.)—The board of
deacons of the Fourth Baptist
church today issued a formal
statement affirming their faith
in the innocence of their pastor,
the Rev. R. rf. Folmar, indicted
yesterday by the federal grand
jury in connection with moonshin
ing charges.
MRS. HARDING STILL
IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
Marion, Nov. 15.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—After a fretful
night during which Dr. Carl Saw
yer never left the bedside, Mrs.
Warren G. Harding was still in
a critical condition today.
Lapsing into a coma last night,
her condition seemed dangerous
ly alarming, but she revived an-’
went through the night with in
termittent periods of rest.
COUNTY OFFICERS
DESTROY ST!LL,
NEAR ORCHARD HILL
A moonshine still was destroyed
near Orchard Hill Friday night by
County Officers Woodruff and
Brown.
It was located east of Orchard
Hill, half a mile from the Lamar
county line, r
The worm had been removed
before the officers arrived, but six
barrels of mash and the boilers
were destroyed along with a five
gallon jug of moonshine.
for the murder of his wife, who
was shot to death while motoring
between Gary and East Chicago,
Ind., in February, 1923.
WOMEN GET EXTORTION
LETTER SIMILAR TO
ONE IN FRANKS CASE
Chicago, Nov. 1.—-(By the
Associated Press.)—Two men
are held and another is
sought as the alleged insti
gators of an extortion plot
which threatened the lives of
Mrs. Amanda Huehl, formerly
prominent in the Eastern
Star order, and her 70 year
old mother, if they failed to
pay $10,000.
The letter was modeled af
ter the Leopold-Loeb let
ter and was received Novem
ber 1 by Mrs. Huehl at
Lynchburg.
GEORGIA m LEADS
NATION IN GAIN
Atlanta, Nov. 15. Georgia
leads the entire country in gain
in farm wealth this year, accord
ing to the statement of P. R. Bo
meisler, of New York, vice pres
ident of the Georgia association,
in address Here before the Atlanta
association of Credit Men. The
increase was 46 per cent.
Pigs.
The value of pigs raised in this
state this year shows a gain of
13.6 per cent in value, as com
pared with a general decline of
5.9 per cent in the country as %
whoie.
Ten thousand new dairy cows
were added to the state’s wealth
and great gains were made in
volume of butter and cheese prod
ucts.
Georgia’s tobacco crop averag
ed around 800 pounds to the acre,
while in North Carolina it was
only 500 pounds to the acre.
Diversification.
“Diversification is the real se
re ^ success,” said Mr. Bomeis
ler> “ No one system can
thw-farwse* rid*
three-ply program can always
provide him with cash for his
needs.”
Cow, Hen, Hog.
He commended the cow, hen
and hog program sponsored by
the Georgia association, and de
clared it is largely responsible
for Georgia’s great increase in ag
ricultural wealth.
Many North Carolina tobacco
growers are planning to move to
this state to take advantage of
the cheap land which can be em
ployed to advantage in growing
tobacco, he said, He called at
tention to this year’s crop,
amounting in value to $6,551,659.-
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AT BESSIE TIF1
Forsyth, Nov. 15.—A typhoid
situation, which did not reach the
proportion of an epidemic, but
which caused some alarm at the
college, has subsided, with no new
cases reported in more than two
weeks, it was announced last night
by President Aquilla Chamlee, of
Bessie Tift Collegt.
The situation has been brought
under control, according to L. M.
assistant^ ioard sanitary engi
neer of the State of Health,
Dr. Chamlee asserted.
Only Four Cases.
Of ten cases reported, only four
were actually pronounced typhoid
cases, Dr. Chamlee said.
Three cases were reported ty
phoid after the students had left
the college for their homes and
one case of the disease was de
veloped prior to coming to the in
stitution, he added.
Six students were under ob
servation, these being merely sus
picious cases, the educator con
tinued.
SLEUTH CAPTURED
WIFE’S AFFECTION
INSTEAD OF THIEF
Chicago, Nov. 15.—-George Ford
was indignant when burglars
robbed his Oak Park home last
April, but he is move indignant
now, for his wife is missing and
Ford believes that the police de
tective he summoned to capture
the burglars captured Mrs. Ford’s
affections instead.
Simultaneously with Mrs. Ford’s
a-yp-*arai;ccr -l the handsome de
jetive, Sergeant Thure Lindhe,
also disappeared.
Ford says that his wife took
a
her jewels and a new automobile.
Mrs. Lindhe, wife of the detec
tive, wants her husband back, but
Ford announces that “there is no
forgiveness” and that his wife
“canot come back even if she be
pents.”
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WEATHER FORECAST
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For Georgia—Fair in south, rain
in north portions Saturday. Sun
day unsettled.
Temperature for 24 hours end
ing at noon today:
Maximum 77
Minimum 57
Mean ... .....67
Red Cross Workers Nearing Goal; ss
55 Members Are Added Fri
The goal of $500 in the annual
Red Cross roll call has been near
ly reached, according to announce
ment made this morning by Mrs.
W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., chairman,
who stated that with the close
of last night’s drive, $381 had
been raised. •'
Friday’* campaign resulted in
55 additional memberships, It
was conducted by the Woman’s
Club with Mrs. A. d’Antignac as
chairman, assisted by Mrs. C. B.
Thomas, Mrs. Robert Wheaton,
Mrs. N. J. Baxter, Mrs. E. H.
Davis, Mrs. George Niles and
Mrs. A. S. Gossett.
New Members.
Following is a list of the mem
bers secured:
B. M. Jackson, Jack Jackson,
L. Baxter, J. D. Parker, J. R.
Webb, Howard Burnett,
Jessie Mitchell, D. E. Williams,
Mrs. Alex Gossett, Ben McKnight,
Wilson Matthews, Mr. Edwards,
(Experiment), j! G. Woodruff, J.
SALE Of t
,
Griffin
ly for Boys* Product.
Highest 30.25.
Approximately $6,000 was real
ized at the Boys Cotton Club aoc
tion sale here Saturday morning
The highest pries paid era
30.25 and lowest 23 cent*.
The sale was’ co
“Pink” Traer aa auctioneer, as
sisted by “Tap” Bennett and El
mer Griffin.
The bidding was lively and
most of the cotton was sold to
Griflin business men, although an
Atlanta firm purchased a number
of bales. !
Marvin Beckham, son of A. L,
Beckham, was the “champion” of
the ciub, having brought in the
largest bale, weighing 554 pounds.
Hill stret from Taylor to Bank
Alley was roped off during the
sale and all traffic was diverted.
Boys Conspicuous.
The cotton boys occupied con
spicuous places on the bales of
cotton lined up on the street.
Mr. Griffin will aggregate the
sale and each boy will receive the
same price for his product The
exact figures had not been com
to JW press. b, u» .. a. a™* raw
The cotton coub was backed
the Chamber of Commerce, 1
was under the supervision
<1 Tap” Bennett, county agent
-
mer Griffin interested the bai
of the city in financing the boys
The complete list of
ers, the exact sum
amount of cotton
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will be published in
News. 4
MACON LAWYERS HURL
INK BOTTLES AT EACH
OTHER DURING COURT
Nov. If "TIM
of the most prominent m<
the **acon bar, came to
yesterday morning
course of a trial in Bibb super!
court.
Witnesses to the cls*h stat
that Felder objected to questio
put by Smith, implying that
was suggesting the
Smith insisted that be was do
ing the best he could, which
brought the remark from Felder,
“I don’t believe it. tt
Witnesses say that the lie wa
passed.
The men were hurling lai
books, ink bottles and usir
fists when other la wye
court attaches rushed in a
arated the combatants.
Judge Jones fined each
participants $25 and obta:
apology from each.
A. Burnett (Rover),
Dr. Marcus Carson.
Alex Gossett, Y. S. B. Gray, 1
H. Davis, Miss Carrie Kell, Mn
A. D. d’Antignac, W. H. Conno'
T. R. Maddox, C. H. Westbrool
Earl Mitcham.
Mrs E. F. Carlisle, John Fu
tral, E. L. Phillips, Willie Mad
dox, W. H. Taylor, Bryan Burks,
Miss Amelia Walker, George
Pursley, Paul Cole, Mrs. Rob
ert Walker, Mrs. Elizabeth Cope
Watt. '
Mrs. Green T. Dodd, J. W. At
derson, Dr. J. C. Owen, Mrs. Sole
Drukenmitler, Solon Drukenmille
Dr. M. W. Gable, W. C. Weldel
C. W. Mcleroy. JpJ
D. D. Kaheely, Mrs. J. E.
ry, Mrs. J. A. Burnett, Dr. E. R.
Anthony, Jr., J. O. Futral, T. J.
Purdy, J. B. Worthington, J. E.
Miller, Miss Roasie Bell Newton,
“Pink” Traer, Charles Thomas
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The Girls’ Service Club, wi
Miss Sara McDowell as eba
man, has charge today. 1