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MUSICAL PROGRAM AND
FINE ADDRESS FEATURE
THE ROTARY
Delightful in every feature was
the barbecue Friday afternoon at
the Country club given by J. P.
Nichols, Sr., to the members of
the Griffin Rotary club and a
number of invited friends..
In the absence of Mr. Nichols,
who is ill in an Atlanta santitai
ium, his son, J. P. Nichols, Jr.,
was in charge.
At six o’clock the guests as
sembled around the tables in a
pretty grove at the lake, where
the elegant barbecue and Brun
swick stew was served by a
her of Griffin’s brightest and most
popular young ladies. It was
well prepared and beautifully
served.
After enjoying the splendid re
pa st the guests repaired, to the
club rooms, where a brief musical
program was rendered by Mr.
Aldine Combs, M iss Mary Leila
Patterson, and Miss Elizabeth
Norman, Mr. Burton Slade also
took part in the program, favor
ing the audience • with a number
of sketches on canvas. The pro
gram was greatly enjoyed, as
evidenced by the frequent encores
as the numbers were rendered.
Dr. Jones Speaks.
Judge Wm. H. Beck introduced
Dr. Ashby Jones, pastor-of Ponce
de Leon Baptist church of At
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lanta, as the speaker for the eve
ning. He said the only two rc
quests that Mr. Nichols made in
giving the entertainment were
that Mr. Jones should deliver an
address and that Dr. L. M. Lati
mer should introduce him, but on
account of a tonsil operation Dr.
Latimer could not speak and he
had been assigned for the first
time in his life to substitute for a
preacher. He introduced the speak
er in a few well chosen words.
declaring that he was a worthy
son of' a noble sirfe.
Dr. Jones at once engaged the
attention of his audience witn his
words of eloquence and wisdom.
He spoke on the Rotary wheel
and Americanism, His address
was considered one of the best
ever delivered at a Rotary club
meeting.
The Rotary wheel represents
every interest in the community,
he said. Rotary stands 1m Amer
ican ideals and for Democracy.
He urged the members to live up
to the high principles ot the or
ganization, declaring Griffin could
not build a big town without a
Rotary club. All of the things
for which Rotary stands were dis
cussed and praised by the speak
er.
In the course of his audress
the speaker paid Woodrow Wilson
high tribute for the part that he
played in the late war for free
dom of the world and declared it
we have no -place in Europe today
we had betrayed the millions of
boys who went across to fight
and die in the memoriable con
flict.
Asking pardon for a personal
reference, he said he was born
in Lexington, Va., where sleeps
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson. He was reared in Rich
mond, Va. His father was a
chaplain in Lee’s army and after
wards chaplain at Washington &
Lee university. His .home was
a rendezvous for the Southern
Confederacy, he said. He said he
was 21 years old before lie knew
“dam Yankee” was two words.
After the war he went on a cat
tle ship with his brother to
Europe and told of an experience
. in raising the American flag on
board the ship, remarking that he
went abroad as a Virginian and
returned as an American.
He closed with a beautiful per,
o ration and was loudly appiau^rl
as he - took his seat, showing
that his address had made a pro
found impression arid was ap
preciated by his audience.
The Rotary club last Sunday
presented to Mr. Nichols a Rot
ary pen in token of their appre
ciation of him. It was intended
to present the gift at the barbe
cue, but Mr. Nichols’ illness
changed the plan. The club sent
Mr. Nichols a night letter expres
sing to him appreciation for the
fine entertainment that he had
prepared for the members. Cordial
greetings were included in the
message and the hope expressed
that he would soon be entirely re
covered from his illness.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
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One of the mosc successful
years in the history of the
tin High school is drawing to a
J close with examinations sched
uled for most of the remaming
| period.
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j The seniors finished their regu
I * ar r ' PS 3 work Wednesday and
! j J^ nur?c ve been * a ^ ailt Ending * Friday. examinations, The
< M 1 s • tbe thre?- clases
w,1 < conl P le * e their work
ant * W *M have examinations
day. Wednesday, and Thursday.
In the grammar schools, class
work and examinations will take
up the time of the teachers and
pupils through Friday, when
school will be formally closed for
the summer.
Annual Debate.
One of the most interesting
events of the Commencement sea
son in Griffin is the annual de
bate between the Demosthenian
and Athenian Literary Societies
of the High school, Thc Athen
ians won the fall term
and the rivalry now is unus'ually
intense.
The debate will tak’ place at
the Auditorium Thursday night
at 8 o’clock and the subject will
be “Resolved: That the child ! a
bor amendment should be
fied by the stats.” Bill
and Welborn Persons will, be the
Demosthenian debators and will
have the diffirmative side of the
question. Miss Annie McElveen
and James Knox wjl! represent
the Athenians and the negative,
Baccalaureate Sermon.
The Rev. Malcolm R. William
son will preach the baccalaureate
sermon at the Auditorium Sun
day morning at 11 o’clock, and the
Commencement exercises will be
held there Monday night at 8
o’clock. !
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Body of Brooklyn
Girl Is Found
Far From Home
(By The Associated Press. >
NEW' YORK, May 2a. — The
body o r Florence Kane, 30. with
he)- skull crushed, was found in
her skull crushed, was ofund in
a vacant lot a half block from her
home in Brooklyn early todayt
Two diamond rings remained on
the girl’s hand, indicating that
robber/ was not the motive for
the killing.
PUBLIC INVITED TO
OFFICES TONIGHT
0. w. 'ibiey, manager for the
Brookville, 1 ' -Fla. sales organiza
tion, announces a special program
for tonight at headquarters of
the concern on Hill street. An
orchestra has been engaged for
the evening and a splendid pro
gram will be rendered.
Mrs, Sibley is enthused over
Rrookville, Fla., and the reception
that has bean given his organiza
tion here. Already a large num
ber of lots have been sold and
prospects are that Griffin people
will own a great part of the sub
division within the next few days.
TO OBSERVE NATIONAL
HOLIDAY SATURDAY
The portoffice will observe na
tional memorial day Saturday,
The windows will bs open for
one hour from 9 to 10. Two
deliveries of mail will be made
in the business section and only
one in the residential districts,
while the ruial carriers will take
a fuii holiday.
TWO ARE FINED FOR
DRIVING TOO FAST
G. I
A. Pennington, of Forsyth,
Ga., and G. O. Fryer, of Indiana, |
Were arrested Friday by County |
Officers Brown and Woodruff on |
charges of speeding, They were ,
each fined $25. I
GRIFFIN. GA.. FRIDAY. MAY 29. 1925.
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ing, 81, of Marion, 0., father of the late president, made his calls,
has been sent to pasture, In her place has* conn a flivver,
1 jjj. 0 a horse,” says Dr. Harding, “but one has to keep up to the
! NAVY \m\ ; PI Lfllld jlN*\ T lt> 0
OIL LIDS
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(By The Associated Press.)
NEWPORT, R. I., May 2d.— the
nav y department has already made
P lans t° administer naval oil
reserves in View of such decisions
as rendered by the federal court
in Los Angeles yesterday, deelar
in - void the Elk Hill leases and
contracts to the Doheny oil in
te «sts, Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur said today.
Doheny To Appeal
To T U- Hlg hcr U Court
(By The Associated Press.)
LOS AN GELES, May 29.—
Branded by the federal court as
trespassers on the oil lands of
the United States, the Doheny
oil interests today prepared to
carry to a higher tribunal the
decision handed down yesterday
Judge Paul J. McCormick ot
dering them to give up for Cancr*’
latior. their leases in naval oil
rcse’ve No. 1, of California, and
their contracts for the. construe
tion of oil storage facilities at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Recover 32 Bodies
From Mine Blast
(Bv The Associated Press.)
COAL GLEN, N. C„ May 29.—
The ill-fated Carolina Coal com
pany’s mine here, the victim of a
series of fatal explosions Wed
nesday. today was fast releasing
its dead. Rescue crews have
brought 32 bodies to the surface,
to be identified, the identity of
only two remaining in doubt.
CROP CONDITIONS
GOOD IN DECATUR
BAINBRIDGE, Ga., May 29.—
Crop conditions in Decatur county
are said to be in the best in
years.
Cot tdn is in beautiful condi
tion and the fields are as clean
as can be, as the farmers took
advantage of the dry spell and
worked out all grass. The boll
weevil is under control, the coun
ty agent, Dr. D. E. Sawyer, hav
ing given that part of the farm
program his especial attention
for several weeks. .More ars3n
ate has been used up to this
time than ever before.
Corn is reported above the aver
age, and tobacco, in its second
season in this section, is exceed
ing all expectations.
DR. EAKES TO ADDRESS
METHODIST BARACAS
Dr. J. H. Eakes, will speak
to the Baraca class of the First
Methodist church Sunday morn
ing. The class meets at 9:30
o’clock. B. H. Moore is the
president and Lloyd Baxter is
secretary. It is expected that Dr.
Eakes will be greeted by a large
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Mrs. J. D. Mahaney, t of Colum
bus, is the charming guest of
Mrs. Alex Gossett at her home
on South Hill street.
! Agreement
Reached
|0n In Motecco French Policy
Today
Threat ened Political Crisis is
Averted.
i JBy The Associated Press.) ‘
I i ARI.S, May 2!).—An accord re
' the French policy in
Morocco was reached today by
the government and the socialist
bloc of the chamber of deputies
when the government adopted the
socialists order of the day for
today’s - Chamber consideration of
the Morrocan question. ’lhis
agreement formally averted me
previously threatened politi'-al
crisis
.Scout Council To
Meet Monday P. M.
The local Boy Scour Ucur.e.
wil 1 meet at the Chamber ,f
Commerce Monday afte>- noon at
5 o'clock for the purpose if speed
‘ ,1£ ' U I' campaign and layiu;
P'ons for organizations Mer
than half the quota a sired ret
has been raised and the com), it
tees are still handling ihe card
system for further subscription
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LUNACY COMMISSION
APPOINTED TO STUDY
MRS. GUY BOWMAN
(By The Associated Press.)
W. ATHENS, Ga., May 2i). —Judge
i W. Stark, of the Superior
court, today appointed a commis
! sion of local physicians to ascer
tain the mental condition of Mrs.
Guy Bowman, who recently killed
Guy Thurman, prominent business
man of Statham, near here. Thur
man killed Mrs. Bowman's hus
band last fa „ an(J her attorn
j claim tht she was mentally un
i balanced by brooding over his
; death,
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; GERMANY FULFILLING
REPARATIONS DEMANDS
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS, May 29.—The repara
'ions commission officially nn
nounced today that Geramny was
faithfully fulfilling reparations
.'■ngagements under the Dawes
plan. This decision will be co.n
municated to the counc: oi am
humidors tomorrow.
| ■ EVANGELISTIC MEETING
TO BE HELD IN FORSYTH
- (Bv Ti Associated
I FORSYTH, Press.)
| Ga., May 29.—The
third annual convention of th
Georgia association of Evangelists
club will be held in Forsyth be
ginning Friday, June 5th, and
run through June 7th. There will
be a most interesting program at
Forsyth all through the conven
tion and quite a number of eiti
zens of Barnesville and Lamar
county expect to attend some of
the sessions, The Forsyth Chain
ber of Commerce will open the
convention Friday evening, June
5th, with an old fashioned barhe
cue.
Dr. 0. G. Kendrick, of Talla
hasee, Fla., arrived in Griffin
Thursday, called here to the bed
side of his father, the Rev. W.
U. Kendrick, who is critically ill
at his home on the Macon road.
J. W. Carter, of Zebulon, made
business trip to Griffin Friday.
BOY WITH FOUR OTHERS > i
IN AIRPLANE SINKING IN STORM
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SAVED BY SKIPPER WHO STICKS
The following interesting article
from the Detroit Free Press, will
be of interest to many Griffinites,
as Jack Henslee, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Henslee, who made
Griffin his home until recently,
is the Corp Henslee mentioned
throughout, Mr. Henslee is in
the air service at Mt. Clemens,
Mich.
(By HAROLD V. WILCOX.)
i When fires of the Army Air
Service are aloft alone and their
planes go out of control, they
are at. liberty, instantly to leap
overboard to safety with their
parachutes.
This code of ethics, how-ver,
forbids an av viator to abandon his
plane in midair under any cireum
stances when flying with pas
sengers, until after his - cornpan
ions have jumped with their aerial
life preservers. *
If for any reason the paseng
ers iaii to take refuge para
chutes the flier must remain with
his ship, do what he can to bring
it to earth in safety and ultimate
ly share the fate of his comrades-.
The story of aviation records
few finer instances of this loyal
ty to passengers than ihe forced
landing Capt. Henry Pascals made
with a twin-engined Martin bom
ber last month near Unionville,
Mich., when the aileron controls
of his huge plane collapsed while
he was ferrying four enlisted men
and 1,400 pounds of military
freight from Oscoda to Self ridge
Field.
One of tlie soldiers was riding
in the nose, two were in the rear
cockpit behild the bomb racks,
and Corp. Henslee-, the mechanic,
was beside the pilot. It was not
practicable to get the passengers
overboard with their ’chutes, so
Capt. Pascals remained with them
and fought for their lives, while
the control wheel spun aimlessly
in his hands.
The thrilling story is simply
told in the captain’s report to the
chief of the Air Service.
“Regardless of the heavy -load,”
reported Capt. Pascals, “I exper
ienced no difficulty in getting
off. The air was so rough and
gusty that I at once decided to
take no chances in crossing Sag
inaw Bay between Tawas Point
and Fish Point, a distance of
some 40 miles, where, due to the
very weak ice, a forced landing
would require the Government to
pay several Army insurance
claims and lose one perfectly good
bomber and some 1,400 pounds
of valuable cargo.
Tossed Like Leaf.
“Close to the shore the ice was
sufficiently thick to serve as an
excellent landing field, so I fol
lowed the western shore of the
bay to the lower end, where 1
crossed and turned the nose of
ship directly into the gale towards
home.
“All of this time 1 was forced
to fight sudden gusts of wind
which kept forcing down one wing
and then the other. For all its
great size and weight, the plane
was tossing about like a ’leaf.
a xt ei ... ( _ oi p. ms
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iclf could see the two men in
j the rear cockpit, but from the
occasional glimpse I caught
of the man in the front cock
pit I judged that he was sick.
“The ground from a few miles
north »f Self ridge Field to Sag
inaw Bay is very rough and,
to the smallness of the few fields
| sufficiently forced landing level might for landing, easily a
re
suit in a serious accident. I
had been flying over this route
almost daily 'for 10 days and
think i must have thought of this
hazzarrt in a subconscious way
several times before. Now it
was not a subconscious thought
at all.
Hits Rough Spots.
“About five miles south of
Saginaw Bay we hit some unus
uaily rough spots in the air, three
in rapid succession. I must have
had about 1.20C feet altitude when
I sensed, rather than felt, the
ship slip to one sid:. I observed
one wing down at an angle of
about 45 degrees.
“This had happened several
times before during the fight and
1 thought nothing of it. 1 im
mediately gave the wheel a turn
to bring the wing back to hori
zontal.
“But this time th" turn of
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When you want to scratch your
j head, just try this stunt of Tom
Onzo, 73, a former circus clown,
now traveling through Ohio, who
offers $100 to anyone who can do
the trick. Onzo, despite his age,
challenges any one to compete
with him in a walking contest.
the wheel brought no correspond
ing response from the wing. The
plane continued to slip downward
on its side.
“I grasped the wheel Harder
and gave it another turn, hut
still nothing happened to check
our vapidly increasing descent.
Then I knew something was radic
ally wrong.
“I gave the wheel a spin and
then sat there in the cockpit for
a second, amazed because the
wheel revolved crazily through my
hands withoir. chocking in the
least the fall of the big bomber.
a t While there is altitude there
is hope,’ an Army Air Service
maxim tells us. I immediately
kicked the opposite rudder. Then,
although my aileron control had
failed totally, ’ managed at last
to level the bomber by ‘gunning’
the engine on the low side and
throttling the engine on the top
side.
“As any sort of a crash meant
demolishing the no-e of the plane,
1 made a sign to Corp. Henslee
to get the sick soldier out of the
front cockpit.
“Henslee did his work well, for
a moment later 1 s iw the sick
man was seated beside me in
Henslee’s lap.
The high and exceptionally
rough wind was forcing me to
gun and throttle first one engine
and then the other in order to
, |< ee p bomber level, and I knew
, mU8t , hanc; , a forc€( , , anf)inK
w ith,ni t delay
I . <We were just n „ rth of a vil .
I , ^ we Iater foun(J to be Union .
viI ] e) Mich., and over land that
' appeared to be an intricate lace
[ work of small hills and gullies
i dotted with, endless trees and
charred stumps.
>• The plane had nosed down and
! wa« falling rapidly, even though
| it was more or less on even keci.
| By wonderful luck I suddenly saw
I j three small fields soaring up to
meet us. They lay end to end
and their combined length seem
ed to be about 1,250 yards.
Busy Pilot,
“Each field was fenced, and on
the northern end were several
trees which would force me to
put the bomber into an even
steeper dive if I were to set her
down just over the first efnee. I
couldn’t possibly stop in one
field, but I know that with my
heavy load I could probably roll
through one fence at least with
out doing much damage to the
1 rslanc unless the fences were
; much stronger than they appear
ed from the air.
“1 was a busy pilot between
figuring distances to a mat.ne
matical certainty and gunning and
throttling the two 4 engines in
GR1EFIN FIRST
Invest your money, your
talent, your time, yoor
influence in Griffin.
VOL. No. 54 —No. 80.
The American Legion Auxiliary
will sponsor the sale of "Buddy
Poppies,” in Griffin Saturday, for
the benefit of the disabled veter
ans of the world war.
Mrs. Davis Williams is chalr
man in charge of the drive and
she will he -assisted bv a commit
tee composed of several mem
bers of the Auxiliary and a num
h r of young girls.
Saturday is National .Memorial
Day for all the federal soliders
of ft] 1 wars, including the Span
ish-American war and the world
war. Each year on this day pop
pies are sold, the poppy being
the flower that bloomed in Flan
ders Field and being always rem
iniscent of the stirring days of
the wmrld war.
The “Buddy Poppies" are made
by the disabled soldiers in the
"VSrTous hospitals. Some of the
men are so severely injured that
they are only able to put the
stickers on the poppies, but each
man in the hospital has some lit
tle share in the work.
The idea of selling the poppies
was originated by Miss Moina
Michael, of Athens, Ga., the auth
or of the answer to “In Flanders
Field. For this idea, she has
been nominated for a $5,000 na
tional award for public achieve
ment given by the Pictorial Re
view.
In addition to selling tne pop
pies, a committee composed'*^
Mrs. Ed Scales, Mrs. Will Maddox
and Mrs. Wilbur Brown has been
appointed by the American Legion
to decorate the graves of the
soldiers of the world war in the
Griffin cemetery. *
Griffin people arc urged to re
member the work done by th»
disabled soldiers and do their bit
tomorrow in the drive, made only
once a year, for ehpl for them.
ROBERT HARRIS WINS
BRITISH GOLF TOURNEY
(By The Associated Press.)
WESTWARD HO, England,
May 29.—Robert Harris, of
Dundee, Scotland, today won
the British amateur golf
championship, defeating Ken
neth Fragley, thritten up and
twelve to play.
turn in order to keep the fall
ing ship level.
“It seemed to me in those busy
seconds that I needed many more
than two hands and two eyes.
a Stdl, I remember that just
then I glanced around and saw
Corp. Henslee sitting there be
side me with the sick man in his
lap, chewing gum and apparently
not at all excited. s
Reverting my attention on the
task in hand, I cut my switches
and managed to set the bomber
on the ground just over the firat
fence. 1 had iots of speed, but
the ground fortunately was very
level, about the only level spot
wthin miles around. The plane •
rolled along, crashed through the
second fence as though the bar
rier were made of paper, and
..topped just short of the third
ff ‘ nc P
Our ears had been full of the
roar of the engines and the
whistling of the wind through the
struts and the sudden quiet was
almost stunning. We seemed to
have dropped into another World
—as, indeed, there had been an
excellent prospect of doing a
moment before.
“I unbuckled my safety belt
and parachute and began an im
mediate inspection to seek the
cause of our trouble.
I found that the four steel
pins that hold the gear to the
main control tube had sheared
cleanly, allowing the control wheel
to spin without regulating the
ailerons. The fence di? little dam
age—a few rips in the fabric and
:i broken aileron horn was all.
u I called Selfridge Field by
telephone from a nearby farm
house, and a small pl^ne brought
up the repair parts that after
noon. We finished the flight th
Selfridge Field the next day*