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Thursday, December I 1. 1924.
FIVE MEN KILLED
AS NAVAL PUNE
DIVES INTO SEA
San Diego, Cal., Dec. 11.—jw
officers and enlisted men attached
to squadron No. 2 of the battle
fleet air squadron were killed and
three others injured, probably
fatally, when the huge twin
motored H-16 type seaplane, in
which they were engaging in
aerial target practice, nose-dived
1,200 feet into the sea yesterday
^'morning.
The accident was the worst in
the histpry of naval aviation.
The plane was flying at a speed
of about 85 miles an hour when
a right vertical turn was at
tempted.
The ship at that instant was
.about 1,200 feet above the ocean.
Either the controls jammed or
■ope or more of the wires running
to the rudder and ailerons snapped.
The plane, weighing more than
a ton, went into a spin, plunging
with terrific speed toward the sea,
finally crashing in the surf.
Splinters from the wrecked
plane covered the sea for several
hundred feet.
It is believed that all five men
in the forward cockpit were killed
instantly and not drowned as the
recovered bodies were horribly
mangled.
GRIFFIN BASKETBALL
QUINTET TO PLAY IN
FT. VALLEY TONIGHT
Ten basketball players will go
to Fort Valley tonight for the
game between the Griflin Athletic
Club and the fast Fort Valley Y.
M. C. A. quintet.
Those making the trip will be
Kirkland, Sachs, Byrd and Bailey,
forwards; Wallace and Searcy,
centers; Burnett, Cumming, Gold
stein and Guinn Powell, guards.
Jim Powell, one of the best play
ers, ih disabled and will not be
be able to accompany the team.
‘ Later in the season -a—return
game with Fort Valley will be
played at the Griffin Athletic
Court.
This is the first game for the
local players, who have been mak
ing e^llent progress in practice
and promises to be one of the best
teams ever developed in this sec
tion.
They plan to open their home
season here next week, the exact
date and the opposing team to be
announced later.
BEQUEATHS $1,50®,000
BY EIGHT-WORD WILL
Pittsburg, Dec. 11.—A will filed
yesterday contained eight words
and disposed of an estate valued
at $1,500,000. The will, that of
the late John Andrew Beck, fi
nancier, read: it All my belongings
I leave to my family. ”
NOTICE.
All officers who have been re
cently elected, including justices
of the peace, constables, etc., are
required to meet in the commis
sioners’ room at the court house
at 10 a. m. to be sworn as re
quired by law.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
ELEGANT residence for rent.
10 rooms, closets, cellar, garage,
barn, cow hous.e, etc., 6 to 8 acres
of land attached. Can deliver at
once. Price $50.00 a month. Ad
dress K. L. M,, care of News &
Sun office.
FOR SALE: Large paper shell
pecans. 35c and 40c per pound.
Phone 370.
FOR SALE: Three H. P. Inter
national engine. Ralph M. Jones,
photie 312.
FOR SALE: Crepe Myrtle
bushes and young sycamore trees.
Call 166.
STATE AND COUNTY
taxes are due
Books close December 20. In
terest and cost charged after De
cember 20.
T. E. NUTT, ’iax Collector
Sand Clock Was Wrong
Probably there is only one place
In the United Kingdom where the
sand glass Its stlU used for timing
purposes, says London Tlt-Blts.
In the house of lords a sand glass
—» squat, podgy-looklng affair
reposes on the clerk’s table, and is
used to- indicate the three minutes
allotted to a member during which,
after the declaration of division, ha
is entitled to record his vote.
A few years ago a inember chal
lenged the correctness of the glass,
and upon a test being made he was
found to be right, the sand being ac
tually all down in two and three
quarter minutes. Hts vote was al
lowed and more sand was put in the
glass.
Penurious Philanthropist
A widely known bunker in .•in
Eastern city is looked upon as a
great Is philanthropist and his nobie. name
a symbol of all that is
Strong men stop on street comers
to extol his virtues. Yet I had some
correspondence with him several
years ago about buying a house he
was handling for an estate and
when the (leal was closed he
charged me for every stamp he had
used on letters he wrote me. I In
sist that a man who watches pen
nies that closely cun’t be such a
lovely character as his neighbors
suppose.—Kansas City Star.
Nature’s Own Filter
Natural turf has been proved to
be a most efficient filter for sew
age. Experiments in Prance have
shown that three or four cubic
meters of sewage can be purified
daily by one sou a re meter of turf.
He—Do you know, I envy the
birds.
She—So do I. They’re so gay and
free, can fly here and there, and—
He-t-And have only one bill the
year round.
Aid to Forest Rangers
Forest rangers carry an instru
ment called a sling psychrometer
for determining the relative humid
ity of the air and so learning when
forest fires are most likely to oc
cur.
Timely Suggestion
Customer—This is our wedding
anniversary. What wculd you sug
gest for our dinner?
Waiter—Well, sir, on nur anni
versary my wife and I had warmed
up scraps.
Not as Good as It Seemed
"Good news," said the laughing.”' office boy.
“I hear the art editor
■ But that was not a comic draw
ing," sighed the artist-in-waiting.
—The Humorist.
For Goldfish Fanciers
Goldfish will not breed in small
iquariums.
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GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Expression Actually
Invitation to Death
I The origin of some common ex
pressions is always interesting, and
whether the following is authentic
or not is an open question. When
in ancient days tiie weaving indus
try of Halifax, England, was a cot
tage craft—a farmer’s family work
ing on clumsy handlooms—the
‘■‘pieces’’ used to be spread out on
the hillside, and were therefore pe
culiarly liable to theft.
Particular crimes led to particu
lar remedies, and a custom, which
had the authority of a local law,
grew np, that anyone convicted of
stealing cloth to the value of 13
pence halfpenny was liable to im
mediate execution, a drastic law
which naturally safeguarded the
cloth Industry.
Punishment was carried out, not
by hanging, but by a sort of guil
lotine. This was the Hal.lfux glb
bet law, the name of which is prS^'
served by a still standing street In
the town, while thd actual knife of
the gibbet may be seen in the lord
manor rolls office at Wakefield.
Halifax thus acquired a reputation
among thieves and vagabonds as
the last town In England desirable
to visit. And to tell anyone to go
to Halifax is equivalent to bidding
him to ‘‘Go hang!"—Chicago Jour
nal.
When Pillory Was Used
The use of the pillory for the
punishment of evil doers wns only
abolished In England during corn
paratively recent times, and was
In active operation In June, 1837.
The peculiar form of punishment
has a venerable history, and was
known before the Conquest, in the
form of an instrument of torture
called the stretchneck. The pillory
was usually dedicated to fraudu
lent dealers, sellers of sham gold
rings, or counterfeiters of papal
bulls, until star chamber tyrants
made it a political weapon, where
by many a noble heart was tried
and tempered.
Curious pleas have sometimes
been put forward in support of the
reprieve of notorious criminals. One
of the strangest was that on behalf
of George Iluloff, an Amerieun
school teacher, who was convicted
in 1870 of a series of robberies and
murders, Ids own wife and daughter
being among the victims. For cold
blooded cruelty Ids record would be
bard to beat, but Iluloff had his
other side.
He was an ardent philologist, and
had been engaged for years on the
invention of a universal language.
No one could attempt to palliate
his crimes, but a widely signed pe
tition was presented to the governor
of Virginia for his reprieve on the
ground that as bis invention, if com
pleted, would be of the utmost bene
fit to mankind it would be criminal
folly to extinguish such a light of
learning. ' The governor thought
otherwise and Iluloff was duly
hanged.
□od6e Brothers
NEW
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The following prices of Dodge
Brothers Passenger Cars became
effective December 1st, 1924:
Roadster . , » . . $ 855.00
Touring Car 885.00
Type-B (Business) Coupe 995.00
Type-B Sedan .... 1095.00
Type-A Sedan .... 1245.00
4-passenger Coupe . . 1375.00 |
f. o. b. Detroit
All Passenger Cara are now
equipped with balloon tires.
T. J. Bailey, Dealer
114 W. Solomon St., Griffin, Ga.
Phone 643
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