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ARCTIC RESCUERS PUSH ON IN FIGHT AGAINST I . \ ills .ij.
Will Double Atlanta-New York Air Mail
DEMOCRATIC CHIEFTAINS
Al Smith Meets Reed; the New National Chairman
INCREASE DUE
TO HEAVY
OVER AIR LINE
ATLANTA, July 13.—(AP) —
Mail planes with approximately
twice the capacity of those now
in use on the Atlanta New York
air mail line will be installed
August 1 . Harold F. Pitcairn,
president of the Pitcairn Avia
tion company which has the
mail contract announced today.
The increased volume of air
mail and new postal rates which
go into effect August 1 make
the change necessary. Mr. Pit
cairn said. The planes will 1 be
of the same tyjj now used
but will have a capacity of 40
cubic feet instead of 20 cubic
feet.
Friends Of Hunt
Confident Of His
Election To Office
v Friends of Judge J. J. Hunt who
are backing him in his candidacy
for state pension commissioner are
muchly encouraged by reports from
over -the state that indicate he will
be next pension commissioner ‘ of
Georgia. Reports from every corner
of the state are to the effect that
the Griffin attorney is leading his
opponent and will be elected by a
nice majority.
Judge Hunt is himself a Confed
X te veteran and despite his ad
ed age is hale and hearty. His
frier^ds have just issued a little
booklet for distribution telling of
his qualifications and one feature
is a statement from the president of
the Sixth District, Medical associa
tion, Dr. W. C. Miles, to the effect
that the judge is in good physical
condition.
Scouts On Camp
See Ben
Local Boy Scouts who are attend
ing Camp Hamil, came into town
Friday afternoon and attended
showing of “Ben Hur,” at the Im
perial Theatre, in a body.
The scouts were accompanied by
Scout Executive Douglas Burnett,
who is in charge of the camp, and
Ernest Carlisle, a councilor at the
camp.
The scouts who are in camp this
week will arrive in the city Sunday
and a new group of scouts will leave
Monday morning for a week's stay
at the camp.
ELLIOTT FAMILY WILL
HOLD ANNUAL REUNION
MCDONOUGH, July 13.—The El
liott family of Georgia will hold Its
sixth annual reunion at Shingle
roof Campgrounds on Wednesday,
July 18 There are several hundred
members of the family that always
reunions.
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THE DEMOCRATIC fight against Herbert Hoover and the Republi
can administration was being planned as this picture was snapped.
It shows the meeting of Governor Al Smith and Senator James A.
Reed in New York where a meeting was held of the Democratic
National Committee. Reed, who had been rejected by the party as a
presidential nominee, was expected to do the heavy bombarding of
the Hoover Camp.
i Kidnaped Miami
Boy Is Found In
■
j Vacant House
i MIAMI, July 13.—(.rp)—Billy Mc
i A Ulster. 4, kidnaped grandson of
| Mrs. E. C. McAllister, wealthy Mi
ami hotel owner, was found un
hurt in a Coral Gables vacant house
at 11 a. m. today. He was found
by Mr. and Mrs. Lay D Galloway
living next door, who heard him
pounding with a bottle on the door
of the closet in which he was locked.
The boy sad a “fat man and a wo
! man’” kidnaped him.
j Only an hour before the boy was
brought home Mrs. McAllister, his
grandmother, had completed ar
rangements for paying the $8,000
demanded for Billy’s 1 return. Her
decision was reported after a sec
ond brazen telephone call to the
McAllister home this morning, mak
ing the proposition that the ab
ductors would return Billy In a car
provided $8,000 in cash was avail
able for immediate exchange and
no policemen were allowed in the
vicinity.
Double AV Execution
State Prison
MILLEDGEVILLE. July 13.—(A*)
The second double execution with
in two weeks took place at the prl
son farm here today when Sam
Gower. 52, and Predis Taylor, Ful
ton county negro, paid death pen
alties for murder.
Gower, father of nine children,
was convicted of the murder of
James Bennefield, Gwinnet epunty
farmer. The bodies of Bennefield
and his ten year old son were found
in their home in December 1927.
Their heads and bodies showed
marks of hammer blows and their
throats were slashed. Taylor
convicted of the murder of W. H
Cleveland, Atlanta filling station op
i erator, shot during a hold up of hi;,
place of business.
FORSYTH GETS WELL
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| FORSYTH. July 13.—A new deep
| well dug by Hamilton and Sullivan,
of Griffin has been added to the
Forsyth water system. The well is
535 feet deep and has a flow of
125 gallons per minute.
uJlIr fi OITAI rlii 7 I \T DAILY NEWS
Griffin Artists
Will Appear Over
W. S. B. Broadcast
The Griffin Rotary Quartet will
sing over WSB, radio bradcasting
station of the Atlanta Journal, in
Atlanta next Wednesday night as
a feature of the night’s program. The
quartet will be accompanied on the
program by Miss Elizabeth Norman,
talented young Griffin violinist, and
Mrs. Philip Cleveland, lyric soprano,
of Griffin.
The Rotary Quartet is composed
of Griffin business men: Minor
Wheaton, E. K Domingos, Lamont
Greshain, arid Wilson Lumpkin.
The local singers together with
Mrs. Philip Cleveland and Miss Eli
zabeth Norman, have been on
WSB programs many times before
and have always met with much
approval by the audiences of the
Journal station. Telegrant from
all parts of the United States were
received by the singers on their pre
vious appearances over WSB and
they have been asked to appear
again on account of the many re
quests Teceived by the Journal.
Slade Makes
Fine Showing In
State Tournament
Ira Slade, young Griffin golfer
who shot a brilliant 78 In the quail
lying round' of the Georgia 8tate
Golf Tournament at Druid Hills,
was defeated 4-2, In his first match
by B. F. Jones, Slade was drawn
out of the championship flight as
there were several other 78 cards
turned ln and only two could get ln
■ the flight. He made a splendid
showing, though, that will be of in
terest to his friends here.
Riley Summers, the only other
■ player from the Griffin club enter
ed ln the tournament, qualified in
the fourth flight but was also de
feated in his first match,
RETAIL FOOD DEALERS
TO MEET TONIGHT
The local Retail Pood Association
will meet tonight at 8 o’clock In the
Chamber of Commerce with Paul
Walker, president of the asso
elation, in charge of the meeting,
All members are urgently requested
to be present.
GRIFFIN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928.
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CHAIRMAN of the Democratic
National Committee is John J.
Rascobi pictured here. He was
chosen as leader of the Smith
campaign at a meeting of the
committee,in New York. Ras
kob is chairinan of the .finance
committee of the General Mo
tors Corporation,
Two Women, Two
Men Burned To
Death In Airplane
CROYDON. Eng., July 13.—(i£P)—
Two women and two men wefre
burned to death in the crash of an
airplane at Purley today. One of
the men was A. Hall, aeronautical
inspection director of the Oroyden
airdrome.
The pilot was badly injured and
sent to the hospital, while another
passenger escaped with slight hurts.
The plane was seen to dive and
then recover slightly and then dive
again and crash in flames. Des
perate efforts were made to get the
prisoners free but the fierceness of
the flames prevented this.
Chinese Want U. S.
Warships Withdrawn
From Yantse River
SHANGHAI, July 13.— (/P )—The
nationalist iorelgn ministry is stated
in reliable quarters to be delivering
notes to the representatives of 25
countries proposing immediate
visions of all treaties with the Chi
nese government whether they have A
expired or not.
It is reported that the nation
alist government also Is drafting
identical notes to Great Britain,
Japan, France, Italy and the United
States requesting withdrawal of all
warships from the Yangtze river on
> the grounds that it Is no longer nee
essary for-the presence of war ships
at the river ports for the protec
tion of foreign lives.
7 Men Electrocuted
At Kentucky Pen
EDDYVILLE, Ky., July 13.—OP)
Seven men. all convicted murder
ers were electrocuted between mid
night and 1:30 this morning at the
state penitentiary here.
Four were white men and three
of them Very young. Three negroes
made up the seven whose deaths in
the electric chair set a record for
Kentucky.
Directors
I \ Building, Loan
Are Re-Elected
The seven directors of the Griffin
Building and Loan Association
whose terms of office -expired on
July 1 were re-eiec .ea for a term of
three years at a meeting of the
stockholders Thursday night. Those
re-ejected include: P. E. Amail, J.
B. Mills, M. M. Emerson. ( T. J. Den
ham, W T. Bennett, J. W. Ham t
mond. and W. J. Carreker.
Other members of the Board of
Directors of the association are G.
J. Drake, J. P. Mason, J. P. Nichols,
Jr., Quimby Melton, B. B Higgins,
Bowden Bagsdale, D R Cumming,
J. P. Persons, J. W. Gresham, Rob
ert Wheaton, J. H. Cheatham. G.
A Nfles, B R Blakely, and B S. j
Haisfield.
The report of Secretary Ragsdale
showed that the association had en
joyed a very prosperous year espe
cially when it is realized that this
is the first year that the associa
tion has been organized. The re
port of the auditor, who has just
completed his audit of the associa- i
tion, shows that the assets of the
organization amount to $17,26.92.
Secretary Ragsdale stated this mold
ing that $6,300 had been received
since Junt 30th, making the total
assets of the company to date 23,-
556.92.
The secretary’s report showed that
when the association was organized
on August 8, 1927 that there was
$65,000 subscribed wjth 60 members
of the association. 'At present, ac
cording t> Secretary R a KsW aiu, . Hw w
are 170 members with $200,000 sub
scribed.
LOCAL FARMERS
ENTERING CORN ,
COTTON CONTEST
The Corn and Cotton contests for
the state are being entered into by
several Spalding county farmers, ac
cording to W. T. Bennett, local
demonstration agent. Mr. Bennett,
who has recently viewed the crops
of local contestants stated that “the
corn contest acreage Is looking well
considering the extended rainy sea- [
son” and that the cotton contest)
crops are "suffering for need of work j j
and sunshine due to the recent heavy
and lasting rains.” ;
The contest, which is sponsored
annually is divided into four groups.
North and South GeorgiaJpeing class^nd dl
vided into separate these
two sections are divided into two
groups each. Low lands and up
lands form the two groups into
which each of these sections of the
state is divided.
The prizes will be awarded in
each group separately and are as
follows: First prize—$200: (second
prize—$100; third prize—$50; fourth
i pjize—$30 and fifth prize—$20.
Bankston Is
j Visitor In Griffin
Georgia-Kincaid
Going To Miistead
For Game Saturday
The Georgia-Kincaid mill team
will journey to Miistead Saturday
where they will meet the Miistead
team. Previous games between these
two teams have always been close.
Several local fans are expected to
accompany the team on its trip to
Miistead.
The next home game for the local
team will be here next Saturday
July 21, when the Ga.-Klncaid bovs
will play the Macon Gas team from
Macon.
Audit Shows
County’s Funds
In Good Shape
Spalding county is in fine finan
cial condition according to a report
of Chas. J. Burke and Co., auditors,
who have just completed an audit
of the county's books. The audit,
company has cleared the books of
the clerk of county commissioner's
records, the tax collector’s records.
the tax receiver's records, and thoj
books of the Griffin Banking com
pany, county depository, as far as
they concern county affairs
The report of the auditors is for
the year from June 18, 1927 to June
18. 1928, and shows the county to
be in excellent condition in regard
to finances.
Spalding, Pike
Boys To Attend
Camp Wilkins
Spalding and Pike county boys are
planning to attend Camp Wilkins
in Athens from August, 6 to 11. The
camp is held annually and Is looked
forward to by the boys as an event
of the summer months.
The camp, which Is held in a
beautiful grove on the State Col
lege of Agriculture campus at Ath
ens, brings boys from all parts of
the state together and promotes a
stronger relationship between the
different counties and the different
sections of the state. The boys, be
sides participating in sporting events
and other entertainment, are shown
through the farms of the state col
lege and are told how crops are best
grown and other Important factors
in farming.
Local authoritles state that thev
approximately 50 or 60 boys
to attend the camp from Spalding
and Pike counties.
Auto Owner8 To Hear
State Association
Speaker On Friday
All automobile owners have been
asked to meet at the Chamber of
Commerce next Friday, July 20, for
the purpose of hearing A. W. Mc
Keancj, executive director of the
I Georgia State Automobile associa
tion, discuss the association and the
values to be derived from member-
’ Trox Bankston, of Covington, for
mer owner of the Covington News,
w ^° * s a candidate for the Georgia:
Public Service Commission was a 1
vlsltar ln Griffin yesterday, Mr. I
Bankston has many friends ln Spald
in « county and is counting on car
rying this county in the state prl
mary.
Mr. Bankston at one time served
ln the legislature from Troup coun
ty and while In that branch of the
state government was chairman of
the railroad committee of the house. i
His friends feel that this experience
In railroad matters qualifies him to
a place on the commission.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy, probably occa
sional showers and thunder
storms tonight and Saturday,
gentle to moderate sooth and
southwest winds.
Upshaw Claims
a Drys” Offered
Him Nomination
ATLANTA, July 13.—</P)—Wil
liam D. Upshaw, former congress
man, said here today that he de
clined an offer of the nomination of
president by the prohibition party
because he did not w.sh to see op
position to the Democratic nominee
divided. Mr. Upshaw said the offer
came from Arthur Burton, secretary.
His refusal was contained In the
following telegram:
"After earnest conference with
some of the wisest, truest friends of
our cause, all of them Democrats
consecrated to the task of defeating
the Tammany candidate, they un
animously urged me to decline the
sacredly high honor of the presi
dential nomination of the prohibi
tion party and continue In my race
lor congress, where they loyal ini
tiative recently placed me.. They
fear any kind of division of the
anti-Smith forces.'
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Miss Merritt , Hurt
In Detroit ^ Accident ,
Brought To Griffin
Miss Nanny Merritt, beloved tea
cher of the fourth grade at the 8am
Bailey grammar school here, arrived
here Thursday night and Is now at
the Griffin Hospital suffering with
muscular bruises and shock follow
ing an automobile accident in De
troit, Mich., recently.
Mias Merritt was riding on a slfht
seeing bus in Detroit as a member
of a party which is touring America
when a car and the bus on which
she was riding collided. Although
not seriously injured Miss Merritt
was carried to a Detroit hospital
where she was treated.
After receiving treatment Miss
Merritt expressed the desire to come
to the Griffin hospital and she left
Detroit, arriving here Thursday
night.
Reports from the hospital are that
Miss Merritt’s condition Is not se
rious and that she suffered only
muscular bruises and shock. X-ray
pictures are to be taken this after
noon to determine the extent of her
Injuries.
YOUNGEST SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT IS
21 YEAR OLD GIRL
JESSUP, 4uly 13.—(IP)—Mis* Eve
lyn Purcell, 21-year-old- school
teacher, will become superintendent
of Wayne county schools September
1 when her father B, D. Purcell, will
go to East Point as principal of the
Central Park school. The young
lady has been selected by the coun
ty board of education to succeed
her father.
MR. AND MRS. SMARR
LOSE LITTLE SON
The friends of Mr. and Mu. R. N.
Smarr are sympathizing with them
in the loss of the*.* yv.,ng ww.- who
died at the Griffin Hospital last
night at 9:30 o’ci'-'.k
Funet il services t‘. r ' held from
the graveside in Oak Hill cemetery
this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev.
M. Latimer Dfficiatrd. Haisten
I Brothers were In charge of arrange
ments
In addition to hto parents he is
survived by his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Jonnaon of Atlanta
and Mr. and Mrs R K Hmarr of
Griffin
THEIR FATES ALIKE
ship. by J. P. Persons, president of
the local chamber of commerce.
Local officials desire to arouse an
interest in this association in Grif
fin and to form enough member
ship here so that Griffin may
represented among the live cities on
the American Automobile Assocla
tlon map, which Is given to tourists
traveling through the state and in
other ways helps to advertise the
state.
Personal benefits are derived from
membership in the association on
account of the state-wide program
that is being worked out for a de
pendable system of highways, fair
legislation, safety education and
general publicity for Georgia.
G. J. Drake, D. B. Searcy, and
John Stevens Manley are among the
Grlfflnltes who are now members of
the Georgia State Automobile as,
soclatlon, which is affiliated with
the American Automobile Associa
tion.
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NEW BRIGHTON, Pa.—Two years
ago the wife of Matt Dreel met her
death by falling from his wagon.
She died two weeks later In a hos
pital. Now Matt la dead, haring met
a similar fate, He fell from his
wagon and lay unconscious ln the
snow for threw hours. He died in
the same hospital to which his wife
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MOSCOW, July 13.—(8
Sparring on relentlessly in
new appears to be a wi:
fight against the Artie, the lee
breaker Krassan has rescued
five more of the crew of
ill-fated dirigible I tall* and wan
pounding on today to make far
ther rescues.
Just a few boor* alter the
rescue of Capt. Alberto Mariano
and Filippo Zappi,
the Italia's walking party, the
Kruarpin crashed through the
Ice flees to reach the Viglieri
group, which for 48 days has
been stranded near Fend Ida
off Northeastiand.
With seven of the 1«
the Italia safely _
Krassan immediately turned
attention to picking up sev*
rescue groups, which have !
come stranded themselves I
kept a sharp look out for
missing party of. Captain 1
Amundsen. * T -A
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The Viglieri group was
up of Lt. Alfredo Viglieri,
F. Behounek, Giuesseppi,
Filippo Troiano and B
Cercrionl. These men w*
the gondola of the Italia
the dirigible crashed
For
The first
ship is to proceed to
land where several
sighed, who have not
tilted aa yet.
Ff-q/euer Aaatolo
were Alpine cha<
were sent In search of
men six weeks ago. Aftei
group Is picked up, the 1
tan will continue hack to
group at Russian fliers.
After Chukhnovsky la
up, the Knuaan will
Virgo Bay, where the pilot
establish a base for fur
flights, in order to
of ^ to aid Amundsen
in the bag of the Italia,
the gondola was turn
Hope for the party of six
carried off in the bag of tin
rtgibie Italia on May 28
since given up for lost,
revived by reports resel
cow indieating that the
of the group Is knows.
General Nobile, now ti
Bay, has seat a to
Is not far from the
cation at the Knuwau.
The Soviet rescue bureau
next search far the
away in the balloon part of
Italia and Amundsen.
ALL-DAY SINGING AT
’MONROE COUNTY CHURCi
FORSYTH, Jiffy 13.—W. D. T1
mond, chairman of the comm!
on arrangements, announces that
all day singing will be held at
Tabernacle church, Brent in N
roe county, Sunday July 29.
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