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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
RED CROSS NEEDS
TO REACH GOAL
103 Added Saturday When
Girls’ Service Club Con
ducts Drive.
The sum of §103 was the result
of Saturday’s campaign for mem
berships in the Red Cross drive,
conducted by the Girls’
Club. ♦
Miss Sara McDowell, chairman,
was assisted'by Misses Catherine
Wolcott, Martha Baker, Ruth Til
ley, Nell Bridges, Miriam John
son, Evie Epps, Myrla Bowdon,
Catherine Rogers, Catherine Weav
er, Nora Ethel English, Dolly
Broojks, Catherine Sams, Marjorie
Bodges and Lieutenant Andrews.
This, with previous contribu
tions, brought the total to $484.
The campaign Monday was con
ducted by the Red Cross Chapter.
The drive by the negroes is
ing conducted by the Broad street
Cabin, Episcopal and Springhill
schools and reports will be made
later.
Following is a list of those tak
ing memberships Saturday, headed
by H. V. Kell Go., with $10 and
J. H. Cheatham, §5.
Harvey Wilson, J. M. Graves,
G rantl a nd B a rnes , Miss M arian
■Gresham, Bolis George.
Lieutenant Andrews, Salvation
Army; J. T. Nunnally, I. E. Hais
ten, R. B. Couch, J. H. Ward, Sr.,
Miss Lillian Turner, E. P, Bailey,
P. B. Crouch, Charles E. Newton,
Sara McDowell, J. C. Edwards.
Miss Pauline Goldenberg, W. G.
Milam, Mrs. Walter Binford, W.
H. Newton, Mrs. G. E. Newton,
Miss Margaret Newton, Charles
Newton, E. S. McDowell, Milton
Daniel, Jr., Julian Gaissert, Mrs.
J. T. Freeman.
Mrs. Milton Daniel, Mrs. E. H.
Hallyburton, Lee Freeman, W. A.
Davis, F. W. Bailey, Mrs. Homer
Wilson, W. T. Murphey, Robin
Wheaton, J. A. Evans, Jack Gre
sham, Jack Paige, Mrs. E. P,
Bridges, W. B. Griffin.
Miss Blanche Bailey, W. P. Hen
derson, Rev. Malcolm Williamson,
J. W. Hammond, Douglas Davis,
J. R. Powell, J. H. West, J. R.
Lindsay, L. D. Gray, Miss Lucile
Vance, L. C. Henslee, E. F. Travis,
Mrs. E. F. Travis.
Mrs. I. E. Haisten, Guy Haisten,
W. L. Joiner, Mrs. W. C. Miles,
Miss Elizabeth Coats, Miss May
Whitlow, P. H. Cahoon, J. E. Bay
nard, Adair Chunn, O. N. Mathis,
J. G. Dawkins, J. O. Gill, J. L.
Bridges, Mrs. A. C. Griffin, R. M.
Welden.
Joe Cumming, E. S. Westmore
land, W. A. Brooks, J. P. Manley,
Mrs. J. J. Woodruff, Mrs. H. W.
Barnes, S. C. Mitchell, Jr., J. R.
Girls’ School Invaded and Tresses
Trimmed by Louisiana Freshmen
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 17.
Three hundred Louisiana
University freshmen, whose heads
were shaved by upper classmen,
went on a rampage and before
things had quieted down had in
vaded the Baton Rouge high
school, dragged* students and
teachers from the rooms and cut
the hair of three women instruc
tors, a number of girl students
and scores of boys.
Annual Event.
The wholesale shearing process
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at the university was an annual
even., but the invasion of the
high school was something not on
the fixe<^ program.
The freshman visited the high
school last year, but confiined
their activities to yelling and in
terrupting the classes.
Members of the high school fac
ulty, in anticipation of another
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Franklin D. Roosevelt literally
lived in hot water in a bold and
brave effort to “come back” both
physically and politically.-----------
At Warm Springs, Ga., in Oc
tober, at a time of the year when
one w ould not expect to find a
young millionaire, prominenij Dem
ocrat and a man of the world, he
spent many hours a day in the
pool fed by the warm springs.
u I had to spend as much time
as I could in the water,” he ex
plained. “I turned fish-man. The
doctors had a theory that exercise
of all the muscles in swimming,
steady warmth and sunshine would
build up the nerves' in my legs
ag ** n ' I don’t tfernk 'that the
water of the pool had any mir
aculous healing powers, but it un
doubtedly possessed some medi
cinal properties. »
Collapsed in 1921.
The collapse of Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1921 from the attack
ATHLETIC CLUB WILL
STAGE BASKETBALL
GAME HERE TONIGHT
The Griffin Athletic Club will
meet at the Athletic court tonight
at 7:30 o’clock. President Gum
ming urges business men and oth
ers interested to attend.
There will be a period of calis
thenics, followed by a basketball
game.
Byrd, Mrs. Zol Ison, L. D. Wal
lace, Miss Martha Baker.
Dr. Webb Conn, Mrs. Webb
Conn, Miss Matilda Lawson, Miss
Maude Shackleford, Miss Lena
Yarbrough, W. C. Jackson, Miss
Maude Cumming, Miss Aline Cum
ming, Miss Catherine Randall.
visit, instructed pupils to remain
in their seats.
Invade School.
The freshmen invaded the
school and finding doors locked in
some instances, proceeded to force
them.
Girls and boys were dragged
out of their seats, many of them
in tears, and taken into the halls
and school yard, where freshmen
armed with scissors and clippers,
went to work on them.
Five of the teachers were sur
rounded, but two of them waded
through the freshmen ranks,
throwing their captors aside in
man-fashion.
Hair Not Ruined.
The female victims were not
treated ruthlessly, their hair was
not ruined as one of the girls
termed it, but the teachers of the
boys was butchered so badly all
of them had to visit barber shops
and have it clipped to the scalp.
GRIFFIN, GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1924.
of paralysis was regarded by po
litical writers at the time as
calamitous to his career in public
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The Republican landslide of 1920
had defeated him for vice-president
as it had James M. Cox for presi
dent, but politically it was not a
death blow. He was young—under
forty.
Admirers Stunned.
His admirers were stunned when
word came that he had been
stricken in the epidemic of infan
tile paralysis which s%vept New
York state in 1921.
He was ill for three weeks. In
those three weeks he was trans
formed from a stalwart man in
the prime of life to an almost
helpless cripple.
The disease had paralyzed both
legs.
But now he’s coming back,
physically, and he’s confident he
can come back politically, too.
3 ALLEGED SHORE
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Three persons giving their
names as Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Flory and Burton Meehan, were
jailed here Sunday by Sheriff
Freeman and Officers McGhee and
Brown on charges of cheating and
swindling.
It is alleged that they “fleeced T>
Huckaby’s store and Snider’s store
at Experiment out of $5 each in a
clever money changing scheme.
It is said they purchased small
articles and gave a ten dollar bill
in the meantime asking for
change for a five.
In the confusion they are alleg
ed to have short changed the two
stores.
Travel in Truck.
They were traveling in a Dodge
truck, and are said to have oper
ated a similar seneme at Mur
phey’s stand on the Dixie High
way and at Hampton.
Chief of Police Copeland, of
Hampton, and several merchants,
were here Sunday and are said to
have identified the three persons
as the same who worked , at
Hampton.
They will be prosecuted in
Henry county after they are tried
in Spalding, officials said.
At the commitment trial before
Justice of the Peace W. H. Tay
lor Monday morning the woman
was turned loose, while the two
men were placed under bonds of
$400 each, flailing to make which
they were returned to jail.
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jj SHOWS ACTIVITY
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Prices for Contracts Advance
T Materially During the
Past Week.
New Orleans, Nov. 17.—During
the past week the cotton market
has gxperiencad active trading
both in spots and futures, and
I prices for contracts have advanced
j materially.
j The January option, for in
stance, which traded as low as
22.50 immediately after the issue
of the last government report on
Saturday a week ago, advanced to
24.98 o aiEr iday last, a gain of 248
points. Prices eased off but very
moderately from the high point
reached, January finally closing
Saturday at 24.69.
The government’s last forecast
had but little to do with the ad
vance which has taken place, as
the crop figure given was rather
in line with expectations and many
traders are firmly convinced that
the yield will ultimately turn out
in the neighborhood of 13,000,000
bales.
Active Trade Demand.
The real cause of the advance
was due to the active trade de
rnand which has sprung up for
contracts based largely on the big
advance in stocks and grains, but
mainly on indications that the con
sumption of American cotton will
increase enough during the present
season to absorb the greater part
of the available supply and leave
no burdensome carryover at the
end of next July.
October Consumption Gains.
This confidence in an increased
consumption is* base^ on the many
evidences of revived activity by
American mills and the greater
demand for American cotton in
foreign countries as evidenced by
the large increase in exports SO
far this season compared with last
season.
That the American mills were
again actively employed was made
evident by the Census Bureau’s re
port issued Friday, which showed
that October consumption by do
mestic mills had reached 532,629
bales of lint cotton, or practically
100,000 bales over the preceding
month of September.
RED CROSS SPEAKER
WILL MAKE SEVERAL
TALKS HERE TUESDAY
Dr. Greene, of the lecture de
partment of the Georgia division
of the American Red Cross, will
spend Tuesday in the city.
He will visit the schools here
during the morning, take lunch
with the Exchange club at noon
and in the afternoon at 3:30 will
address the Woman's Auxiliary
of t h e American Legion at the
home of Mrs. Bartlett Searcy.
Market Reports
(Over Pursley, Slaton & Co.’s
Private Wire.)
New Orleans Cotton
: ! Prev
OpenjH igh! I,ow ICl’selClosc
Jan. 24.75 24.88+24.16 24.18 24.69
Mch. 25.00 25.15 24.41 24.42 24.96
May 25.30 25.39 24.67 24.67 2fi>.25
July 25.01 25.07 24.50 24.50 25.05
Dec. [24.75 24.86 24,15 24.15 24.69
New York Cotton
II I High] I I | Prev
Open I Low lCl’seiCiose
Jan. 24.90 24.95 24.25 24J25 24.80
Mch. 25.25 25.26 24.61 24.61 25.10
May 25.56 25.57 24.92 24.93 25.40
July 25.33 26.34 24.92 24.93 25.40
July 25.33 25.34 24.75 24.78 25.20
Dec. 24.65 24.76 24.03 24.03 24.58
Griffin Spot Cotton
middling ■, 24.25
Strict middling___________ 24.00
Middling 23.75
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BRITISH EMPIRE HAS YIELDED
LEADERSHIP OF WORLD TO U. S.,
DECLARES FORMER AMBASSADOR
London, Nov. 17.—In a lecture
describing the United States as
one of the great stable empires
the world, Sir Auckland Ged
des, former British ambassador
to Washington, told an audience
of 3,000 in Westminster Hall how
profoundly American thought was
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influencing the United Kmgdom
and to an even greater extent the
British Dominions.
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Cites Arms Parley.
The far flung British Empire,
Sir Auckland said, has yielded the
leadership of the world in many
respects to the compact empire
of the United States. He cited
the Washington arms conference
as an example.
The former ambassador’s ad
dress was the first of a series of
Page memorial lectures, given in
memory of the former American
ambassador to Great Britain,
Learned Lesson 150 Years Ago.
The Earl of Balfour, as chair
man of the meeting, introduced
Sir Auckland, and Premier Bald
win, as a guest, moved the thanks
I TELEGRAPH BULLETINS
MRS. HARDING
RESTING QUIETLY.
Marion, Nov. 17.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Although Mrs.
Warren G. Harding is resting
quietly this morning, her compli
cations are more marked, Dr. Carl
W. Sawyer said today in a bulle
tin.
FARM COMMISSION
BEGINS WORK.
Washington, Nov. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.)—The commis
sion appointed by President Cool
idge to inquire into agricultural
conditions began their work at a
meeting at the white house today.
MANY INJURED WHEN
OLD BUILDING BURNS.
Chicago, Nov. 17.—(By the As-i
seriated Press.)—Women and chil
dren trapped on the upper floors
of the Monroe Apartment, which
was built before the World’s Fair,
were carried down ladders by fire
men today w'hen flames raged.
Many were knocked down in the
rush to escape.
U. D. C. DELEGATES ARE
ARRIVING IN SAVANNAH.
Savannah, Nov. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.)—All trains ar
riving here are bringing delegates
to the United Daughters of the
Confederacy convention. The vis
itors are being entertained in
WIDOW OF NOTED
NEW YORK HOME
Highland Falls, N. Y, Nov. 17.
—(By the Associated Press.)—
Mrs. Frances F. Morgan, the wid
ow of J. Pierpont Morgan, died
last night at her home here.
Mrs. Morgan, who was 82 years
old, suffered a stroke ten days
ago, followed by pneumonia.
Efforts were made to prolong
her life until the arrival of her
son, J. P. Morgan, from Europe.
He is expected to reach New York
Friday.
Funeral arrangements will be
held up until his arrival.
She is also survived by three
daughters, Miss Anne Morgan,
Mrs. Juliet Hamilton and Mrs.
Herbert L- Satterlee.
FIRE TRUCK HITS
TAXI; SIX HURT
Chicago, Nov. 17.—One fireman
was killed and six persons, includ
ing three firemen, were hurt yes
terday when a fire truck collided
with a taxicab.
of the audience, which American
aTnlmsnwioi’ Kellogg seconded.
Premier Baldwin asserted the
proper solution of the question of
Anglo-American relations meant
the peace of the world.
“The greatest lessoa we as a
country ever learned, we learned
from America 150 years ago,
said he.
Taught Management.
u She taught us how to manage
our colonies happily. As does not
always happen, we got a second
chance to learn while the world
was young enough to permit of
colonial expansion.
I always think we English
people, in thinking of America,
ought to remember what it was
that drew people of our stock
overseas to America. First, it
was to obtain complete freedom
of conscience; second, to make a
new start, and third, to be quit
of Europe. y*
Sea Must Be a Highway.
Concluding, the premier said
that the sea must be a highway,
not a separator.
formally today with trips to Tjr
and other resorts. This eve
the division presidents will
at dinner Mrs. Frank
of Americus, Ga., the
president general. The opening
wiil be held tomorrow.
COMMODITY PRICES
SHOW INCREASE.
Washington, Nov. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.) Wholesale
commodity prices showed a mark
ed increase in October over the
preceding months, according to
the labor department. The In
dex level increased from 148.8
for September to 151.9 for Oc
tober, due mostly to an increase
in the price of farm products,
and clothing.* '
RAILROAD INSU..A/XF
CERTIFICATES AUTHORIZED.
Washington, Nov. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.)—The Georgia
Southern and Florida railway to
day was authorized by the inter
state commerce commission to is
sue $1,280,900 equipment trust
certificates for insurance on lives
and annuities to be sold at not
less than 96.5 per cent par.
DESTROYED PROPERTY
TO BE REBUILT,
Jersey City, Nov. 17.—(By the
Associated Press.) — The imme
diate reconstruction of the Erie
Railroad Company's water front
property, which was wiped out by
a $1,506,000 fire last night, was
ordered today by J. J. Mantell,
vice president and general man
ager.
Lloyd George Denies Clemenceau
Challenged Him to Pistol Duel
London, Nov. 17.—Publication
of a book written by H. Wick
ham Steed, former editor of the
Times, entitled “Through Thirty
Years," brought from David Lloyd
George a strong denial of a pas
sage in the volume which related
that during the peace conference
at Versailles Premier Clemenceau,
of France, “accused Lloyd George
so flatly of repeated inaccuracy of
statements that Lloyd George
seized him by the collar and de
manded an apology, and after
President Wilson had separated
them Clemenceau offered Lloyd
George reparation with pistols or
swords. »*
“Stupid Invention. ♦*
The former British Premier
characterized the Steed account
today as a “stupid invention,
which contains not the slightest
basis of truth.”
In reply, Mr. Steed said: “I
should naturally not have pub
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MEMBERS H l * ■
TO GET $50, ?
Griffin Banks Will Pro
vide Shopping Money Early
in December
Approximately $50,000 will* be
out here early in December
two banks to Christmas club
who have been saving
by bit each week throughout
year.
E. H. Griffin, of th
Bank, announced that I#
bank would pay out about
and J. P. Nichols, Jr*
the Griffin Banking Company,
his bank would expend
or more in the saving*
department. f ‘
Banks that handle Christmas
savings have a number of ways in
which the money may be paid into
the bank during the year for
until the next year. The
scale of payment each week varies
according to the plan chosen by
the depositor.
Pennies Will Start It.
Some scales start at the bot
tom with a few pennies deposited
the first weeks and the amount
increased a little each week.
Others prefer the plan of starting
with a larger amount of deposit
and gradually diminishing each
week. Still others make regular
weekly payments of the same
amount each week, such as 50
cents a week or more.
Not Missed.
The little amount deposited each
week does not seem like much at
the time and is really not missed,
but when December comes, and
the stores are filled with thing!
for Christmas, the money
a large amount -and people
der how it is possible to have so
much without ever missing it.
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Tom Power, of the Newton Coal
& Lumber company, had a narrow
escape in an automobile accident
Sunday morning about 11 o’clock
at the comer of Hill and College
Streets when a car in which he
was riding was struck by a city
truck driven by a negro.
Power’s coupe was turned com
pletely over, but he escaped in
jury except for a few scratches.
The negro driver was not hurt.
The truck was badly damaged
and was carried to a garage for
repairs.
The top of the coupe was
slightly damaged.
lished a story of that kind without
having verified it in advance from
persons who were present. f*
The author added that he bad
no intention of entering into a
persona] controversy in the mat
ter.
Mr. Steed, as editor at the
Times, engaged in special propa
ganda work for the Lloyd George
government during the war. Later
he was in charge of the Time#
staff at the Bari* peace confer
ence.
c WEATHER FOl
For Georgia— Fair tonight, Tues
day pertly cloudy. Rain and
warmer in the northwest portion. ■
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ing at noon Monday:
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