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jBsfi "-7 _ It; , i ■ 1 7 tg B TSl -ii,v ■7,: , ■ * ■■ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. f Former Head of Schools In Griffin Loses Mother And Father. News of the deaths at McCul lers, N. C., of the father and mother of Prof. J. A. Jones, for - mer superintendent of the Grifffin schools, was received today: At the close of his father’s fun eral his mother was stricken with paralysis and died within a few days. Superintendent Here 13 Years Prof. Jones was superintendent bf the Griffin public school system t&V thirteen years. He resigned last year to take a year’s vaca tion. He still continues his resi dence here and left the city only a few weeks ago. Hundreds of friends will regret to hear of his great sorrow. Writes News of Bereavement “The Christmas season has been one of greatest sorrow and deep est grief to me on account of my sad bereavement, J* said Prof. ones, in a letter to The News. “I want my Griffin friends to know .about it, for I feel sure of their sympathy and their prayers in this hour of trial. ' << Father died Sunday night, De cember 14, and at the close of his funeral Tuesday mother was stricken with paralysis and never was conscious. She passed away the next Sunday night, just one week after father’s death. This double affliction was .almost unbearable and the fact that there had never before been a death in the family made it all the harded to bear. “I am glad that I took this year off, for it has enabled me to be with my dear parents dur ing their last days and watch by their bedside in their last mo ments.” GIRLS' SERVICE CLUB WILL GIVE PROGRAM AT BAPTIST COTTAGE The Girls’ Service Club will have a specia Njjrogram, “Follow ing the Star,” at the’ Baptist j Cot tage tomorrow night at 7 o’clock, to which the public is invited to attend. The College Group, composed of the college girls in the club, will have charge of the program, with Miss Emory Drake as leader. The program follows: Five Roads Leading to the Star. 1. The Bible Road—Douglas Montgomery. 2. The Prayer Road—Maggie Holman. 3. The Service Road—Gwendo lyn Williams. 4. The Smile Road—Julia Woodruff. 5. The Faith Road—Louise Carver. Solo—Louise Kesler. Steve Wallace spent Monday with friends in Covington. Chicago’s Prettiest Girl Is Saved From Potter’s Field by Blind Woman Chicago, Dec. 29,—Angelita Cuccinello, recently picked by Ru dolph Valentino from among 10, 000 contestants as Chicago’s pret tiest girl, was saved from burial in Potter’s field last night when Mrs. Daniel J. McGarity, blind wife, paid a debt of gratitude by providing a fine coffin heaped with flowers. Otherwise poor, Angelita was TOKIO FEELS EARTHQUAKE Tokio, Dec. 29.—(By the Asso ciated Press.)—Earthquake? of average intensity were felt aver- in Tokio tonight. The shocks’ age duration was twenty seconds. DID THIS WILL BRING ABOUT DEATH OF ORPHAN MILLIONAIRE ON WEDDING EVE III THE NAME OF OOD. JJtER. I, WILLIAM McCLlNTOCK, being of sound and disposing mind and aonory. do aaxo, publish and declare this my last Will and Testeaont ■¥fr\ First. I de&iro that aU ay debts, IF any thera ba, shall be paid out of the first funds available fop such purpose and at the earliest’ possible aoaent oon sistent with the proper conservation of ay estate* Second, i give and bequeath to Nr aff ianood OOUitit^ wtfo, ISABELLE POP®, the sum of EIGHT THOUSAMD (98,000.00) per annua for the of tar* the of tore her lif#« hod • I, make this bequest as a token affsotion I have for her, and as a propor proteotio* fob her until such time as our marriage shall be * consummated. The arranging fori and the manner the' ff asking the payments of this bequaet, X leave to discretion of ay Executor hereinafter n eaed. Third.- I give, devise and bequeath to ay footer father, WILLIAM P. SHEPHERD, ell the rest sod residue of ay property of vhatsodvor dosoriptKwi both real and personal, of shioh I may die possessed* or to which I may bo entitled. X make this bequest for the benefit of ay foster parents sis a token or ay V>V% and aff cotton ror then, and as a 'nark of appreciation me,'during of the years of ear# that they have given which time they have in nil ne A bean all that parents could bo to at. J, do not male s special, bequest t.o ay beloved, foster,'* that’ mother, JULIE M. SHEPHERD, khowltfg full veil through this bsquest she viu’obtain all the benefits thereof without the worry and ears ‘ i* nl to.possession of itself. the property m WILLIAM fourth i . X novo and appoint ay foWtor father. D. SHEPHERD to bo the Executor of this ay * last Kill and Testament! carrying'out imposing on hia the saerSd duty of ay wishes and dwsiro* in tho bequests above mentioned. 54S Tbs above <tocua*nt, idenWisd consisting of two'pesos ,>ir * Praporly fry the testator's signature on tho margin of each, was. oil this th* w!*rT McCLlNTOCK twtapv ****** ****• *w!*rtd by WILLIAM WflrSQM to bo hie last »m and in our, prssshee, who in his prssenos, and in the aontionsd »» witnesses to his signature ^ ^ to tho ebovo Will, - • 4 1 PILED William D. Shepherd (at top), U. wife, and (below) William MeCIlatock; and « reproduction the w0 » in.whicfc Mctfi4todCiPJ^a*>^ SfcevfcenL STORY OF FDRCED 1 OF HEAT James Curtiss Leaves Atlanta Hospital But Has Not Returned Home. The condition of James L. Cut tiss, 33, of this city, who on Fri day was reported seriously injured at the Grady Hospital in Atlanta, from alcoholic burns, was improv ed late Saturday to such a degree that he left the hospital, but he has not yet returned to his home here at 336 North Eighth street. Curtiss, who at first told doc tors he was held and that eight cans of hot “canned” heat were poured down his throat by two unknown robbers, later declared' he was not responsible far the first statement, because of the ef fects of the alcohol extracted from the canned heat and used as a beverage by him. “I was robbed .while under the influence of the drink, which I di luted with water,” Curtiss is quot ed as saying Saturday morning “I had drunk the extract before and it never hurt me. The rob bers took about 911 in money and all my clothing.” Curtiss is a painter by trade and an overseas soldier in the late war. He resides here with his wife and two children. Washington, Dec. 29.—(By the Associated Press.) — Secretary Weeks approved today the plan for the reward of the army world fliers, which would advance Cap tain Lowell H. Smith 1,000 files on the promotion list and Lieuten ants Wade Nelson and Arnold 500 files each. Weeks explained that the pro posed advancement was the great est ever given in peace time and comparable to the promotion giv en General Pershing in the time of war. Sergeants Ogden and Harding, lieutenants in the reserve corps, would be appointed officers in the regular army in reserve grades. 108 PERSONS BURN, 7 50 HOMES RAZED, IN TOKIO BLAZE Tokio, Dec. 29.—A fire in a pri vate institution for the insane here latel sat night is feared to have resulted in a serious loss of life. Out of 343 persons reported inmates of the institution, 108 are declared to be missing. Thirteen bodies had been recovered today. Fifty other residences in the vi cinity of the asylum were burned before the flames were subdued. CHEMIST, HEIR TO FOSTER SON'S FORTUNE, INDIG NANTLY DENIES ACCUSATIONS OF FOUL PLAY TO KEEP LEGACY FROM BRIDE. Chicago, Dec. 29.—-(By the Associate^ Press.) — While state's attorneys awaited furth fer reports of the doctors who examined the exhumed body of William Nelson McClintock, the “millionaire orphan,” Wil liam D. Shepherd, the foster father and chief heir of the dead youth, made plans for a legal vindication and the ulti mate disposal of the fortune. He said that he would seek in dictment of his "traducers.” By Central Press Chicago, Dec. 29.—Was William Nelson McClintock, orphan mil lionaire, murdered ? Police are seeking an answer to the ques tion. When McClintock, who came in to possession of his millions in April, when he attained his major ity, died after he had obtained a license to wed Miss Isabella Pope, the doctor diagnosed the illness as typhoid fever. The body was buried and the case seemingly closed. The will he left behind, drawn up by W- D. Shepherd, his foster father, left the estate, estimated at between $2,000,000 and $3,000, 000 to Shepherd. In the document there is a clause giving Miss Pope an annuity of $8,000, but no pro vision is made for a trust fund to make this annual payment. Seven cousins began a contest. Somebody whispered that omnious word, poison! Police began to be interested. Had the marriage, for which Miss Pope had th4 license and was prepared to consummate in Mc Clintock’a sickroom, been perform ed, she would receive, even in the absence of a will, all personal property and onc-half of the es tate, about $600,000 in all. The remainder would have gone to Mc Clintock’s cousins. Shepherd would would have received nothing. Shepherd in Spotlight. The latter is in the center of the spotlight in the present inves- called by her friends rich in a sunny voice. That she lavished on the blind woman who needed sun ny voices. Three days ago Angelita was killed by a motor truck as she stepped into the street to board a street car to return to work from which she long had been ab sent because of illness. Old friends seemed to have for gotten but Angelita was remem bered when a Christmas card she had mailed Mrs. McGarity just before she died was received yes terday. —- Mrs. McGarity’s effort to find Angelita led her to the morgue where for three days the body had lain unclaimed. \ — •— "■ '* * ............. 1 1 i " 1 ' 1 .. ...........■■■ ■• - GRIFFIN, GA.. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1924. tigation. Shepherd first came in to the circle cast by the ill-star red McClintock fortune in 1907 af ter the death of William McClin tock, the father, in an automobile accident. The romance of Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd was a pattern for- the one Isabelle Pope planned for her self and dying fiance. For Shep herd was ill and it was feared would die when he and his wife were married in Kansas. Mrs. Shepherd, who lived in Salina, Kan., had met Mrs. Mc Clintock when the latter was a college student. When Mrs. Mc Clintock and her husband moved to Chicago the two women kept up an acquaintanceship. It was not long after that the drug bus iness conducted by Mrs. Shep herd’s father ran into financial trouble and carried Shepherd, a partner, with it. After the failure of the drug business Shepherd went to Texas. Mrs. Shepherd went to Indianap olis, to the home of her husband. Passing through Chicago, she saw Mrs. McClintock. Two weeks later she came to visit Mrs. Mc Clintock. The visit brought an in vitation to remain. A Weakly Child. Shepherd was sent for. The friendship between the widow and the two who had come into her home grew quickly. Shepherd, it was said, began more and more to be given charge of the family af fairs. I Then Mrs. McClintock died in 1909. Mrs. Shepherd, with Alex ander F. Reichman, an attorney, were made co-guardian of the 6 year old child, Billy. The boy was a weakly child, al though he grew stronger as he became older. His “foster par ents” saw to it that he had medi cal care. Several times he was taken to laboratories by Shepherd that he might be examined. Last April McClintock came of age and released his guardians. It was then he made the will which gives the bulk of the es tate to Shepherd. =- --------- 6-STORY FALL FATAL TO GRANDDAUGHTER OF GENERAL GRANT Safi Francisco, Dec. 29.—(By the Associated Press)—-Mrs. Fan ny G. Purdy, 34, daughter of U. S. Grant, San Diego capitalist, and grand-daughter of General Grant, former president, fell or leaped to her death yesterday from the sixth floor of the St. Francis hospital here, where she was a patient. MW CASE 1Y STILL AT ODDS 1 FOURTH DAY Loa Angeles. Dec. 29.— (By the Associated Press.) — The jury of nine women and three men which since last Fri day has been deliberating the case of Kid McCoy, former pugilist, charged with the mur der of Mrs. Theresa Mors last August, spent the third night under lock and key at their hotel, after the foreman re ported to the court that the jurors stood 10 to 2. No state ment was made as to the divi sion. NEW BOOKS AT A number of new books have been received at the Hawke’B Li brary the last few days. These books are the latest out, and the list contains both fiction for grown people and interesting sto ries for children. npa. rite g List t-x n. roiiBws n________ * _ . The Divine Lady, Barrington. Priceless Pearl, Miller. Time Worn Town, Fletchkr. The Clouded Pearl, Ruck. The Green Hat, Arlen. Hopalong Cassidy Returns, Mul ford. The White Monkey, Galsworthy. The Devonshers, Willsie. Porto Bello Gold, Smith. Prellil Girl, Wells. Redcliffs, Phillpot. The Passionate Quest, Oppen heim. Masquerading Mary, Sampson. Saint Martin’s Summer, Ejabati ni. The Little French Girl, Sedg wick. J U. S. PAYS $117,175,741 J IN YEAR FOR COSMETICS s. r The nation spent more than $117,175,741 for its perfumes, cosmetics and toilet preparations last year, figures made public re cently by the census bureau show ing an increase over 1921 of ap proximately $26,000,000. The total in that year was $90,756,063. The figures revealed that $425,- 102,073 was spent in 1923 for d rugg ists' preparations pf all kinds, including cosmetics, patent medicines and compounds, as com- TRAFFIC HALTED ON MISSISSIPPI BY ICE FLOES i Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 29 .—(By the Associated Press.) —River traffic as far south as Helena, Ark., was suspended today as a result of ice floes which blocked the Mississippi and forced a doz en packets and other craft to the banks. , Dispatches to steam boat oper ators reported that the river was virtually frozen between Cape Gi rardeau and Hannibal, Mo. [ talks BY WIRELESS j PHONE TO ENGLAND j v Atlantic, Mass., Dec. 29.—What is believed to be the first two-way wireless telephone communication between amateurs in England and the United States occurred when Sheldon S. Heap, amateur radio operator here,, communicated with and heard B. B. Clapp, Warwick Road, Coulsdon, County CurAy, England, it became known today. The work was done on compara tively low wave lengths in the neighborhood of 100 meters, Mr. Heap said. The English station used more power than the Amer ican, sending on 1,000 watts, as compared with slightly more than 450 employed here. The signals were received with such strength that the phones coudl be placed on the operating table and copied perfectly, Mr. Heap said. TRINITY COLLEGE’S NAME NOW DUKE UNIVERSITY Dutham, N. C., Dec. 29.—(By the Associated Press.)—The board of trustees of trinity College to day voted unanimously to change the name of the college to Duke University, thereby enabling it to receive the benefits of the recent endowment of Jas. B. Duke, mil lionaire power and tobacco mag nate. Mrs. Ralph Jones spent Mon day with friends in Macon. Divorce is Rarely End to Love, Wife’s - Affection Lasts, Says Judge V_t, San Francisco, Dec. 29.—Di vorce does not necessarily mean that husband and wife have ceas ed to love each other; in fact the contrary often is true, in the opinion of Judge Thomas F. Gra ham, known locally as the great reconciler. Judge Graham has been hearing divorce cases for ,24 years. ti It has been my experience,” he said recently, “that love is not al ways dead when a woman sues for divorce. I believe that 99 per cent of the women who get divorces leave the court room with heavy hearts. They Jove the men they have divorced. “I believe that when a once loves a man she never VOL. 5%. m, , M f FI TO 3 ■ Tex., With $100,000 Conflagration, Latest Victim Sag Denison, Texas, Doc. 29.—(By the Associated Press)—Fire, be lievod to have been started by robbers, destroyed nine buildings at Pottsboro, near here, early to day, with an estimated loss of 9100,000. Overturned safes in some of the m burned structures indicated that they had been looted. $ The robbery and fire resembled the work of the men who recently looted banks and business houses at Valley View and Paradise, Tex as. In each case, the business dis trict was fired late at night after the^safea were blown, the robbers escaping. WOMAN. 100, BURNS TO DEATH AND MAN, 95, COMMITS SUICIDE Philadelphia, Dec. 29,—A cente narian vii $ burned to death and a nonegenarlan committed suicide here yesterday. - McKIBBEN GIVES BOND T. J. McKibben, cigar manufac- ; turer of Vaughn, against whom a peace warrant was issued Christ mas day by his son, Roy, and who ia alleged to have snapped a shotgun at Sheriff Freeman when he went to make the arrest, was released under $100 bond today action « pared with $341,472,204 in 1921. The manufacturing census is tak en every two years a/. the fig ures represent the wholesale prices of the goods. X Market Reports (Over Parsley, Slaton Sc €•.*• Private Wire.) # New York Cotton open. Close. Prev. Close. Jan. J24.48J2A43J24.32 May Mch. J25.40J25.14J25.06 J24.90J24.82J 24.72 . Jul. J25.40j25.24j25.17 Griffin Spot Cotton \ Good middling—24.00. Strict middling—28.75 Middling—23.50 r A (WEATHER FORECAST V—--- More rough weather. Griffin is experiencing another cold, drizzly day today. ■ And rain is predicted for Geor gia tonight and tomorrow. Somewhat warmer weather is scheduled for tonight. Temperature for the twenty four hours ending at noon today: Maximum Minimum 32 Mean _____ -----38 to love, even though she may tes- * ik tify bitterly against her husband, "A man does not have the pow er of expression of love that a woman has. Yet that .love is there and it endures.” The judge expressed pity for the wife “who sUys at home nights waiting for her husband to come home for dinner and he does not come until the dinner is cold; spoiled, in the opinion of the wife. . And .there never was a wife who did not take pride in the dinners she prepared for her husband, The tardy husband inflieta a form of cruelty on his wife that causes her more suffering than the lash a whip. She has a good ground for divorce."