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DESPITE RAIN
Business Houses Open Tonight.
Holiday to Be Observed
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Christmas eve!
And belated Christmas shoppers
awoke to find a hard rain had
set in during the night and was
continuing today.
But despite the unfavorable
weather the stores were thronged
with shoppers and judging from
the fine holiday trade that has
been enjoyed by local merchants
there will be Christmas presents
for every man, woman and child
in Griffin.
Shopping Continues.
Christmas trading is expected
to continue until the stores close
tonight.
Many entertainments in various
churches for the children have
been given.
Generous.
The charitable institutions have
been generous as usual and bas
kets of Christmas cheer have been
sent to children in all parts of
the city.
After the mad rush in the stores
today it will all be over except
in the homes tomorrow when citi
zens will arise early to watch the
little folks as they rush to the
Christmas trees.
Holiday Tomorrow.
Tomorrow all business will be
suspended and Christmas day will
be spent in the usual quiet way.
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Chicago, Dec. 24.—(By the As
sociated Press.) — The coldest
Christmas in recent years for
Chicago and zero weather for the
western and middle states was
promised today.
Plenty of snow is predicted to
accompany the temperature drop.
A new cold wave is coming on
the heels of last week’s bitter
cold spell, attended by increasing
velocity that might reach blizzard
proportions by Christmas nigmt,
observers said.
Low temperatures will prevail
for several days ‘with continued
snows, according to predictions.
RUNAWAY BOYS START
ON JOURNEY HOME
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H. M. Moore, of Grove
Ohio, arrived in the city this
“ ornin &. coming for his son and
ree ot er school boys picked up
here last Sunday night after hav
mg run away from home. Mr.
French Soldier Finally Gets Revenge
On Hun Officer Who Mistreated Him
Brest, Dec. 24—In the railway
station of a small village of Mor
bihan, Brittany, a number of carts
full of sweet Breton applies des
tined for the German market were
being loaded on railway trucks,
*hile a German fruit merchant
stood complacently watching the
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work.
Suddenly a Breton peasant,
dark eyed and stockily built, left
his horses and strode up to the
German.
(4 Are Ober-Lieutenant
you X
■ who was In command 'of camp X
< during the war?’’ he asked.
“Yes,” .was the answer.
it And I soldier X,”
am shouted
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WILD DUCKS SHOW
GRATITUDE FOR GOOD
MEALS AND SHELTER
Kingsville, Ont., Dec. 24,
Interesting data on how birds
of a feather flock together
and how they return year af
ter year, in the course of mi
grations, to any port that will
provide them with protection
and food in a storm, haa been
obtained by Jack Miner, nat
uralist, at his bird sanctu
ary here.
Mr. Miner caught 17 wild
mallard ducks in a net, and
ascertained that six of the *
older birds had already been
marked with his aluminum
tags bearing various verses of
Scripture.
One bird was at least six
years old, having been mark
ed in 1918. All the birds were
supplied with new 1924 tags.
DR. TRIE ELECTED
OF LODGE HERE
The annual meeting of Mecca
Sanctorum No. 21 of the United
Order of Splendor and Perfection,
Playground of Odd Fellowship,
was held in the old opera house
last night, with M. J. Daniel, past
Supreme Monarcus, presiding.
The election of olficers resulted
as follows;
Dr. A. H. Frye, grant hyastytee.
0. H. Weaver, vice grand hyas
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C. E. Mote, registrar and col
lector of shekels.
J. A. Jarrell, venerable friar.
Appointed Officers.
J. L. Vinson, grand monitor.
J. P. Jennings, grand chief
guide.
1. F. Perdue, grand herald.
Otis Hilliard, grand high exe
cutioner.
Banquet.
After the election a banquet
was served at the Hotel Griffin,
Those present were W. C. Suits,
J. M. Peurifoy, E. E. Worsham, L.
Hightower, C. L. Nelson, W. T.
Atkinson, J. A. Jarrell, Otis Hil
liard, Sidney Brooks, R. A. Peel,
J. R. Nance, A. J. Shockley, Dr.
A. H. Frye, Caldwell Daniel, M. J.
Daniel, C. E. Mote, A. F. Bunn,
0. R. Simonton, C. A. McDonald,
S. L. Farmer, I. F. Perdue, H. E.
Chappell, J. H. Rogers, G. F. Hen
derson, W. H. Slidge, J. P. Jen
nings, Rev. J. F. Yarbrough, E.
C. Stem, H. M. Collier, O. H.
Weaver, W. J. Moore, L. L. Park
er, J. L. Vinson, J. M. Shockley.
Moore, with the four boys start
ed the long journey to Ohio in a
about noon today.
Secretary Thomas, of the
ber of Commerce, is spending the
holidays with his family in At
lanta.
the Breton peasont, a strange
light in his eyes, “and we’ll set
tle it right here now. *>
Before the German had time to
run the Breton was on him, punch
ing him right and left and knock
ing the German all over the vil
lage square.
So sound was the beating he
gave the German that onlookers
had to drag him away, but none
was in sympathy with the loser
when they realized that the
French ex-soldier was paying
back months of hardship and ill
treatment.
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DEATH PENALTY
ASKED BV STATE
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Los Angeles, Dec. 24. — JThe
prosecution in the case of Kid
McCoy, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Theresa W. Mors, closed
in court late yesterday with de
mands for a verdict of first de
gree murder, punishable by death.
Court adjourned over Christmas
and Judge Charles S. Crail will
read his instructions to the jury
early next Friday.
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Deputy District Attorney C. W.
Ostrom closed the arguments for
the state, declaring that “McCoy
roue and rake,” inflamed by liquor,
fired the shot that killed Mrs.
Mors because he wanted to live
on her money and with her chang
ing attitude saw his meal ticket
« slipping away. »>
The defense maintained that the
death was suicide prompted by a
triangular motive involving smug
gled gqms belonging to her which
had been seized by federal agents,
the action of her divorced husband,
Albert A. Mors, and brooding over
her relations with McCoy, with
whom she lived.
RAILROADER INJURED
IN FALL FROM CAR
Richard Gammon, of Cedartown,
suffered a lacerated scalp wound
and a sprained elbow* this morn
ing when he fell from a box car
in the freight yard here.
Gammond was at work on top
of the car and slipped on a wet
beard.
Neither wound is serious and
he is able to be out.
. POLICEMAN KILLED
New Orleans, Dec. 24.—(By the
Associated Press.) — Jacob Uhle,
traffic policeman, was shot and
killed this morning by a bandit
who robbed the Frenchman street
branch of the Marine Bank of
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9,494 BALES GINNElX '
IN SPALDING COUNTY
UP TO DECEMBER 13
Spalding county has ginned 9,-
494 bales of cotton, counting round
as half bales, to December 13, as
compared with 4,637 bales to the
corresponding date last year, ac
cording to the official tabulation
of the bureau of census.
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CLOSED AT 10:30
An amendment to the pool roora
license placing the closing hour at
10:30 was passed on the first
reading at the meeting of the city
commissioners la*j; night. There
is no limit on the closing hour at
present.
Annual license ordinances were
adopted for the year 1925, being
the same as in force during 1924.
The licenses will be due and
payable on the first of Jjmuary,
it is announced.
The ordinances will be jraST!sTi«r^
in The News within the next few
days, City Manager Bridges stat
ed.
The meeting was presided over
by Chairman Tyus and Commis
sioners Nichols and McDowell
were present.
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POISON PASTOR GIVEN
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WOMAN GETS 351TEARS
THE NEWS WILL NOT
APPEAR TOMORROW
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The News force will ob
serve a holiday Thursday,
therefore The Daily News
will not make its appear
ance.
LIQUOR ROW IN
IN ONE DEATH
Thomaston, Dec. 24. — George
Jarrell, about 23 years of age, of
East Thomaston, said to be ad
dicted to drink, is in the qpunty
jail charged with having killed
Raymond Parrott here early Tues
day morning.
Parrott is claimed to have been
a desperate character, and he kill
ed a man a few years ago in Man
chester, Ga., it is cliamed.
Drinking Heavily.
Jarrell and Parrott had been
drinking heavily during the night,
it was stated.
Jarrell is said to have claim
ed that he had been subjected to
a beating earlier in the evening
and had been thrown into a ditch
by his assailants.
Later, it is charged, Jarrell went
to the home of his brother-in-law
and stole a shot gun and some
shells, Returning to the place
where the other young men with
whom he had been associating
during the night were on Main
street of East Thomaston, it is
claimed, Jarrell shot Parrott
through the left lung. Parrott
died almost instantly.
Bystanders Hold Killer.
Bystanders held Jarrell until
officers and doctors arrived,
Jarrell is unmarried.
Parrott is an older man and
leaves r his wife.
CAL PUTS FOOT DOWN *
ON SUGGESTIONS FOR
INAUGURAL RECEPTION
Washington, Dec. 24!—President
Coolidge put his foot down yes
terday on suggestions for an in
augural, reception.
He doesn’t object to a ball held
in connection with the inaugura
tion provided he does not have to
attend.
The president believes that
those who like to dance
be permitted to do so, but ho doea
not eare- for dancing, and conse
quently wm not aftencr any halls
where he might be expected to
participate in that pastime.
i AM. LODGE i
B. H. Morgan was elected wor
shipful master at the meeting of
Griffin Lodge 413, F. & A. M.,
last night. He succeeds E. B.
Jones.
Other officers elected are as
follows:
J. J. Powell, senior warden.
T. N. Roberts, junior warden.
C. A. Byars, secretary.
R. M. Blakely, treasurer.
Lee Middlebrooks, senior dea
con.
L B. Welden, junior deacon.
F. B. Crocker, senior steward.
C. G. Rogers, junior steward.
Rev. W. J. Ballard, chaplain.
J. H. Nolan, tyler.
W. P. Boggs, F. B. Crocker and
E. B. Jones, trustees.
KIMBROUGH
MAKES ADDRESS AT
OFFICERS’ MEETING
Macon, Dec. 24Z—Col. Blanton
Winafeie * A., at an enter
by the Macon Officers’
Association in his honor at the
Hotel Dempsey last night, pointed
out the peril of not keeping up
the national guard,
(< Our country is not so safe, »>
declared Colonel Winship. >< In our
midst there are dangerous people.
In some parts of our country,
however, the elements are danger
ous only to the enemy of Ameri
ca, and that applies to our sec
tion.
Lieut. Col. J. M. Kimbrough,
Jr., of Griffin, showed that the
citizen soldier is provided for in
the constitution of the United
Spates, dating from the time that
document was first promulgated
by the constitutional congress.
Robert Sawtell, of Des Moines,
la., a former Griffinite, arrived
here last night to spend the
Christmas holidays with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Saw
tell,\on South Hill street.
Aged Physician Celebrates End of
21-Day Fast by Walking 12 Miles
New York, Dec. 24.—Dr. Wil
liam Z. Kumler, 65-year-old re
tired physician, celebrated the
completion of a 21-day fast yester
day by walking 12 miles. Some
where along the way he stopped
and had his beard reduced to a
neat Van Dyke.
ii The fast made me feel so much
younger I decided I would look
younger too,” he said.
He does, quite aside from the
Van Dyke.
A girl might envy the sparkle
in his eyes and an athlete the
steadiness of his hand.
His cheeks were ruddy from Ms
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VOL. 53—No.
Prosecutor Makes Dramatic
Appeal to Impose die
Death Penalty. .
Mt. Vernon, 111., Dec. 24.- —
(By Associated Press.)—The
jury trying Lawrence M. Ffight
and Mrs. Elsie Sweetie early
today returned a verdict of
guilty.
Hight was given life im
prisonment, while Mrs. Sweetin
was given 35 years in the peni
tentiary.
The defendants received the
verdict sileiftly and made no
display of emotion.
Notice to ask for a new trial
was given.
Dramatic.
Prosecutor Joseph Allen ended
the state summation against Hight
and Mrs. Sweetin late Tuesday
with a dramatic flourish when be
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leaned over the jury box and
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“You agreed to impose the death
penalty if we proved them guilty.
I now ask you to inflict that
penalty! M
Pleads Two Hours.
Attorney Allen pleaded with the
jury for two hours to send the
defendants to the gallows.
He told how the husband of
Mrs. Sweetin “had slaved on a
farm, had worked in mine pits in
order to furnish a home for a wife
who put poison in his dinner
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Children Show Fright.
As he paced the floor in front
of the jury the children of the
accused woman looked at him with
pale and frightened faces.
Right's two daughters took
seats beside their accused fathe^
as tMb attorney began his ad
dress.
They wept.
Hight himself stirred uncomfort
ably in his chair.
Mrs. Sweetin showed no emo
tion.
[ WEATHER FORECAST )
For Georgia: Rain in the ex
treme south and rain possibly
changing to snow in the north
and central* portions tonight. Much
colder tonight, cold wave in the
west portion. Thursday generally
fair and colder.
Temperature for 24 hours, end
ing at noon Wednesday:
Maximum j> 47
MIiilmum :-—
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Mean ..._______.... 38
Rainfall, 2.60 inches.
long walk in the nipping air.
Fasted for His Health.
Dr. Kumler, a practicing phy
sician many years in Hamilton, 0.,
undertook to fast as a health
measure.
He said he had no intention of
attempting to make a record, but
meant to begin eating when the
craving for food returned.
It leaves after the first few
days of fast, he said, and appears
again when physiological cleans
ing attendant upon a fast has been
completed.
During the first five days, he
said, he went without water or
fluid of any kind.
For a few days he intends to
eat very lightly.