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griffin first. ent ye*t * y°«r your hwe, money, your influ- taf. your ence «n Griffin. ^^^ e ^of ^smciaie ^rFr^ 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. 1 •** ■0 si Vi M ,*■ i .: ’! < | >• > li I / i I l \ f imr Mjifemk I M. •>&: ; i * $ % r x : : m: -■% '■ <w. : : I 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 ki.AFPEK FANNY SAYS: “V - f re oca.u. *. pat. art MA MSVICt we. A swimmer doesn’t need a art licam* to get ducks. | 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. j * mm mm i v. x x : x *1? M ••Xv 1 1 ' <■ ; , mm. / tJU «T1 ■ : V 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.' - 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. % 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 — —— •i Established i 'MBit t . Y'4*^ SEVEN MEN m LOST FOR 48 DAYS SAVED (By Associated Press) [Copyrighted. 1928] 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 , 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. | LITTLE JOE V Q MEfiNBODN UW-UM6 lo fS US lb eolu siDers ~ or a r* i n —r 1 RCCOGZD. \\ ' 1 *» ] * r& ’