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f « : DAILY MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. 3 PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM THE COUNTY JAIL HERE; OTHERS STAY PUT ;V Negroes Use Ladder To Exit Through Roof of Building. Three prisoners in the Spalding county jail escaped last night. With the use of a ladder they made their exit thi-ough a ventila tor in the roof of the building, and then unlocked the jail door. Five other prisoners made no at tempt to escape. The escape was made sometime during the night and was -not known until early today. Negroes Those gaining liberty were “Kid” Stone, negro, who was given a twenty-year sentence for breaking into Persons-Hanimond’s store sev eral years ago and who was re . cently paroled; Brown Bivins, ne gro charged with making liquor, and “Sweet ’Searcy, negro, charged with forgehy in connection wlfh an attempt to pass a check on J. D. Touchstone at the Merchants and Planters Bank several days ago. Desperado Stone, the long termer, is re garded as a desperado. He has been in several difficulties and tried for different offenses since being paroled about six months ago, hjs latest escapade being an altercation with J. W. Hood on December 22, in which he cut sev eral gashes in Hood’s face. Order Received An order was received from the prison commission this morning to the effect that Stone ha’d violated the terms of his parole and an order sent to have him returned to County Warden Randall at the county chain gang to serve the Te mainer of his sentence. ELEVEN WOMEN TO HEAD COUNTY SCHOOL WORK DURING 1925 Atlanta, Dec. 31.—Eleven wo men have been designated heads of as many county school systems in Georgia, according to announce ment at the. office of state school superintendent. All have previ ously served as teachers, several in the Same counties in which they have been elected to serve as su perintendents. They are Mrs. Zada Dozier Walker, Crawford county, Rob erts; Mrs. Kate Bradfield Brown, Henry county, McDonough; Mrs. S. W. Avera, Oglethorpe county, Lexington; Miss Phoebe M. Broad rick, v Whitfield county, Dalton; Miss Ethel Turner, Atkinson coun ty, Tucker; Miss Mfcry Hansard! Elbert county, Elberton; Miss Vi olet Tucker; Rockdale county, Con yers!; Miss Annie Brumby, Polk county, Cedartown; Miss Edith Proctor, Camden county, Wood bine; Miss McArthur Jones, Early county, Blakely; Miss, Nina Cox, Turner county, Ashburn. Former Empress Says Son Will Yet Be The Ruler of Budapest, Dec. 81.—Further evi dence of a reawakened Hapsburg movement in Hungary is contain ed in a letter sent from former Empress Zita to Count Albert Ap ponyi, as the representative of the Hungarian Legitimists, in which she thanks all those who sent her Christmas gifts and says with con viction that her son, "King” Otto, will be reunited with his father land. The letter, written in Spain, fol lows: H Dear Count Apponyi : “I am overwhelmed by the many gifts sent to the King and me as tokens of the goodness of heart and the loyalty of the Hung arian people from all parts of the cotra- * Pupils Are Urged By Officials To Register Friday and Saturday. See here, children. Holidays are nearly spent. And soon it will be back to the books. J, The°fcity and county schools will open Monday when the spring term begins. Preparations Made Preparations have already been made by school authorities for the opening day. Even during their brief vacation they have been busy getting everything in readiness. Superintendent Lester, of the city schools, announces that his of fice in the High school will be op en Friday and Saturday for the registration of pupils. He states that $7 will be charg ed for High school pupils and $1 will be required for the grammar school. Requested to Register It is requested that all pupils register before next week, as this I™ 11 greatly facilitate Preliminaries | and aid materially in speeding up school work from the start. Large attendance and satisfac tory results marked the winter term in both the ci i y 4nd countv schools> and it ; g expected that there will be a much larger atten dance at the spring session begin ning Monday. i PREACHERS’ INSTITUTE OF GRIFFIN DISTRICT HELD HERE TUESDAY At the Preachers’ Institute of the Griffin district, held at the Methodist church here Tuesday morning, reports wdre made show ing that the prospeets for the conference year were gratifying. Representatives were present from all charges in the district and others present included Dr. C. C. J arre i] j 0 f the Golden Cross en rollment; Dr. S. D. Wiggins, con ference missionary secretary; Dr. E. F. Dempsey, educational worker, and the Rev. A. M. Pierce, editor of the Wesleyan Christian Ad vocate. Dr. J. H. Eakes, presiding elder, was in charg^ of the meeting. ATLANTA PRISON WARDEN WILL SOON BE NAMED Washington, Dec. 31.—Attorney General Stone will decide within a.few .days on the name of a war den for the Atlanta penitentiary to succeed A. E. Sartain, deposed warden and lately indicted by a federal grand jury. try and from all social strata. “Here, in the distant, foreign l»nd, 7 feel doubly the warmth of our subjects and the loyalty of their loving hearts, which, I-be lieve is directed not only toward the widow of their King of bless ed memory and his orphan, but is t harbinger of thdr faith in Hun gary’s future. “Their King grows up in this indomitable faith—a faith which trill reunite him in the’ dear Fath erland with his beloved Hungarian nation. “I beg you to communicate our royal gratitude to all those who have sent gift* and manifestations of their touching loyalty. “ZITA." • , GRIFFIN, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1924. Hobart Fire May Doc jn Frame School Houses m. - r T n * M mm . m ■■V ——. m gEl i-- * >; •F.-a lllifl III II : )y WM The little frame schoolhouse. may be doomed by the fire which destroyed the Babb’s Switch school near Hobart, Okla., and burned 33 to death, A movement nation wide in scope has been started to pre vent repetition of such disasters, 1 he ruins of the school are seen above. Below is photo of thc a school taken sometime before the fire. Inset is a photo of Mrs. Glenn Hill, teacher, who died heroi cally in the flames. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXTENDS NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS TO ALL CITIZENS OF CITY AND COUNTY Gives Horoscope of the New Year and Urges Business Men and Citizens Generally To Co-operate More Completely , For Great Achievements During 1925. I j (By C. C. Thomas, Secretary-Mgr.) As the old year passes out and the new is ushered in, the Griffin and Spalding County Chamber of Commerce desires to extend a Happy New Year’s greeting to every business man and citizen of the city and county. Shakespeare has truly said that there is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. It is equally true that there are tides of opportunity in the affairs of every city and county, which taken at their flood lead that city of county on to a greater physical development in which its citizens find a higher plane of health, happiness and contentment. Such a tide in the affairs of yourselves and myself, as citizens of Griffin and Spalding County— such a tide of opportunity in the affairs of our city as a municipal ity and of our county as a great community, now confronts us. Shall we take it at its flood or shall we let it recede unrealized, leaving us and our city and county floundering in the uncharted mo rass of shallows and undeveloped hopes ? Vision of the New Year Let no man becloud the vision' of the New Year’s opportunities with his experiences of the old year just passing out. If the business man has made a success during the year passed aftd accomplished all those things he has sought, then may he enter the new year with renewed vigor and courage for the accomplishment of greater things, but, if ou toe other hand, failure or lack of success ' has been 4 his ^cperience, then’ as the part of wisdom let him madej/get profit by the mistakes he has a real vision of his new year^B op portunities and redouble efforts to bring to a happy fruition his fondest dreams of success. The same opportunities that pre sent themselves to the individual citizen for progress and develop ment are also presenting them selves to our city and county as a collective body of citizens. lounty Has Wonderful Opportunity Of all the counties in the grand old state of Georgia, there are none that can excel our own coun ty of Spalding- hi fertility of soil; healthful climate; auspicious sea sons or superb citizenship. Her history is a record of sturdy de velopment by her sturdy sons of toil along all lines of agricultural expansion. The fact that within her confines has been located for! years the Georgia Experiment Sta- j tion, where men of science tickle | her soil and make accurate tests | for the guidance and information of our sister counties, is but con clusive evidence of her eternal fitness for great agricultural de velopment. Spalding county has great op portunities for the coming year and the horoscope of the new year should have a vision of a more economic production of crops; a greater production of food prod ucts; a larger production of hogs and beef cattle and a development of the dairying industry. The county has now a great opportun ity to provide a new, modern and well equipped school house in every school district in the county so that the children throughout the county, even in the remotest' section, may have an equal advan tage in acquiring a common school education. Griffin’s Sp^d Future There is no one who can gainsay the'fact that the city of Griffin has a splendid future before it and wonderful possibilities for devel opment during the coming year. With the splendid record made in the past; with her seven success (i ful cotton mills and two bleach cries in operation; with a $650,100 cotton mill m being erected and another one now in process of or ganization; with two hosiery mill* uccessfully operating; three whole sale houses doing splendid busi ness; two buggy factories operat ing on fuli time; the largest pi mento packing plant in the world; one of the largest proprietary medicine factories in the South; a J sash, door and body factory; a i paper box factory; a large canning factory and five safe, sound and successful banks, the city has laid a business and industrial founda tion upon which she can build a great and teeming textile and bus iness center in the future. One of the most essential insti tutions for the growth and devel opment of a city and county is a live, up-to-date, progressive news P a P er ’ which not only disseminates the news, but which stands fo.' progress and development and joins whole-heartedly with all of the other forces of the community in workin * tor tbe common uplift Griffin and Spalding county are fortunate in having just such newspaper -and one that is going the limit in co-operating with the Chamber of Commerce in progres sive development. Opportunity for Trade Expansion Griffin is geographically in the center of a large trade territory and logically our business men should grasp the opportunity dur ing the coming year to expand their business so as to reach to the farthermost sections of this territory. Instead of vast throngs of people going to Atlanta daily from this great section to trade, they should be invited to Griffin and by proper and legitimate ef fort and publicity through our newspaper, even by personal con tact, by and through the direction of our trade expansion committee, be induce^ to make Griffin their trading matt. That our merchants have just as good quality of goods, with equally as large variety of stocks, and with prices even cheap er than can be found in Atlanta, is true, and it only remains for our business men- to grasp the op portunity, gefbusy along Fo-oper ative lines and make all roads lead to Griffin from this great undevel oped trade territory. County Fair opportunity Sould be Enlarged Another to enlarge Griffin's scope of influence and County tijhde relationship Fair activities is to expand the in so as to terest and take in the counties ad jacent to Spalding. Instead of hav ing our annual fair to consist sole ly of local county exhibits and at tendance, let us invite our sister ‘counties to join with us into one big annual fair, with exhibits and visitors from every angle of the compass, which will not only in sure the success of the fair an nually, but which will also have the effect of making Griffin the so cial and business center of the great section which surrounds us. Action Needed But action is the key to oppor tunity and the answw to responsi oility. Action is the duty anb P r > v >lege of those of us who have the understanding and 1 the convic tion - G?t us act and act promptly in so arousing public conviction based upon understanding that the city ship shall float,upoi)'the flood tide of opportunity into/the haven and there take its rightful place (Continued on Page 4.) ‘ COTTON MILLS HERE TO START YEAR WITH OWNERS OPTIMISTIC TELEGRAPH BULLETINS 0 *—«*■ JUDGMENT AGAINST LOEB REVERSED. ..Lansing, Mich., Dec. 31.— (By the Associated Press.) — The judgment obtained in Charlevoix county court against Richard Loeb„ convict ed slayer of Robert Franks, was reversed by the state su preme court today. The case revolved about injuries alleg ed to have been sustained Au gust 5. 1920 by James Frank lin O'Brien when struck an automobile Loeb was driving. FIRPO AGREES TO FIGHT GIBBONS. ..Paris, Dec. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—Luis Fir po accepted terms tonight from from the National Sport ing Club for a fight with Tom my Gibbons for a purse of $60,000. The date of the fight was not settled as Gib bons has not yet signed, but it will probably be in February. ASKS TROOPS TO OUST OFFICIAL. Denver, Dec. 31.—(By the Associated Press.) —Governor W. F. Sweet today issued a proclamation calling out the national guard to remove W. V. Roberts, civil service com missioned from office. BANDITS ROB STATE BANK. Kansas City, Dec. 31.—(By the Associated Press.)—The Kaw Valley state bank was held up and robbed of more thap $11,000 today by three men. YOUTHFUL ROBBERS BUSY IN ALABAMA. Mobile, Ala., Dec. 31.— (By the Associated Three youths less than 18 years^ old were charged with two burglaries here early to day, followed by the daring hold-up of the manager of a gasoline filling station and in less than two hours after the crime were under arrest the police on charges of burg lary and highway robbery. WOODMEN LODGE, 370, TO INSTALL OFFICERS HERE THURSDAY < The Woodmen of the Camp No. 370 will hold a public installation of officers n ‘8ht at 7:30 o’clock in its hall on North Hill street, The Woman’s Circle No. branch order of the Woodmen, also hold a public installation give an entertainment for the Woodmen. Chancellor S&uly reports a large attendance is expected and an evening of entertainment promised. Bill Bryan’s Skull Like That of Neanderthal Man, Says Plant Wizard Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 31.—Lu ther Burbank, noted plaint pathol ogist and scientist, in a/discussion of "Science and Religion” at the Federated church, criticised the tivities of it Fundamentalists” sgainst the theory of evolution. Referring to “efforts being made to prevent the teaching of scien tific truths in the schools,” Mr. Burbank said: “Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against grav ity, electricity, and the unreason able speed of light, and also should introduce a clause to pre- VOL. 53—No. 158 All Plants Running Practically On Full Time, With One On Extra Shifts. The new year will find the cot ton mills of Griffin running on full time and the milt owners optimis tic over the prospects for 1925. This has been rather a hard year on the textile plants, but brighter times are believed to be dawning, officials said. The Georgia-Kincaid Mills, five in number, with two bieacheries, are running five days in the week. The Kincaid Mil! at Experiment, is running both night and day shifts. Optimistic Superintendent Cheatham says ho received a number of oilers during the holidays and Hlat the mills will run practically on full time during the winter season. He is very optimistic concerning the future and believes 1925 will be a much better year than 1924. Secretary Daniel says the Rush ton Mills are running on full tima and has sufficient orders to keep them going for an indefinite peri od. He confidently expects a better year in 1925. Fall Time Secretary Rogers says the Grif fin Mills are also running on full time. Some of the machinery is at present idle, but it is expected that it will be started soon. He is very much encouraged to believe business with the mills will be bet‘ ter next year. The seven cotton mills in Griffin give employment to about 2,250 operatives and have a weekly pay roll of approximately $32,500. ( weatherforecast ) For Georgia—Unsettled, possibly rain tonight and Thursday colder. Temperature for 24 hours ending at noon Wednesday. Maximum 42 Minimum 40 Mean---- 43 Rainfall _ 1,52 inches Market Reports (Over Parsley, Slaton & Co.'i Private Wire.) ■m New Orleans Cotton i i ! Trev iOpei»;Highl Low ICl’setClose iOpen High Low Jan. 24.30 24.61 24.35 Mch. 24.40 24.60 24.43 May 24.88 24.72 July 124.71 24.73 24.75 New York Cotton [Open)High] Prev Low Cl’se [Close Open High Low Jan. 24.10 24.34 24.16# Mch.\ 24.48 24.67 24.50 May * 24.84 24.98 24.84 July 24.93 25.11 24.97 Griffin Spot Cotton Good middling 24.00 Strict Middling 23.76 Middling 23.50 vent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or j any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invent construced or used for the dis covery of truth.” Referring to William Jennings Brysn, the speaker said: “Mr. Bryan is an honored friend of mine, yet this need not prevent the observation that the skull with which nature endowed him visibly approaches the Neanderthal type. Feeling and the use of gesticula tion and words are more accord ing to the nature of this type than investigation and reflection.”