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MEET TONIGHT
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The Spalding County
League will hold their second
at the #
county court house
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he league are urged to
as important business will be
up. Frank Gaissert, president
the local Democratic league will pre
side at the meeting.
The meeting tonight will be
first meeting of the league
the committees in the various dis
tricts of the county were appointed
and one of the purposes of the
meeting is to get these
organized.
Plans for the future work of
league will also be discussed and
adopted' at th <3 meeting tonight!
Any persons interested in the work
of the league are invited to at
tend tile meeting.
l4 The committees of the various
districts are as follows:
Griffin District—J. W. Hammond,
chairman; Dr. H. J. Garland. Toni
Ruff, B. R. Blakely, W. H. Connor,
Dr T I Hawkins, J W Gresham,
W L Grant, Herschel Holloway, E
A. Scales. L W. Russell, N. H. Bai
ley. and J. R. Thaxton.
The Women's Committee - ^ the
Griffin District is composed of Mrs
Alva Moore. Mrs. A. P. Patterson
Mrs. J. W. McWilliams, Miss Lena
Yarbrough, Mrs. H. T. John
son, Mrs. L. P. Goodrich, Mrs. E. F
Carlisle. Mrs J Harry Rogers, Mrs
Ruth Brooks. Mrs. G. J. Drake, Mrs
W, E. H. Searcy, Jr , Mrs Quimby
Melton, and Mrs H P Stuckey.
West Orrs District—L. J. Gaissert,
chairman. E F. Travis J. A. Bur
t nette, W. C. Maddox- and C. W.
Wright.
East Orrs District—C. C. Hunter,
chairman, J. W. Mashburn. E. G,
Simmons, E- 'L. Daniel, W. E. Si
mon ton
Cabins District—G, W. Patrick,
chairman, J, Michael Walker. J. T.
Bostwick. T. T. Henderson, L. W.
Pullin.
Union District—R, O. Maddox,
chairman, Y. S. B. Gray. H. F.
w man. G. B Wesley. W C. El
Mount Zion District— J W. Touch
stone chairman. J. D. Thomas. H. C.
Blanton. J. H Crowder, -J. Hill
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Aiken District—Albert Swint.
chairman T. J. Miles. W. W. Duke,
J. B. Bell. W H. Kincard. T M
Whatley, E. E. Ogletree, J W. Coop
er. C. L Goddard.
Line Creek District—J. A. Putman
chairman, C. E. Sansom, J. D. Biles
L. M. Cook. Paul Lee.
Upper Africa District—J. A. t)ar
sey, chairman. W. T Minter, Jack
Patterson, Q. A Waldrup, Y. T.
Jackson.
Lower Africa--Jessie Smith, chair
man; Otis Snyder. Ira Green H. C.
Huckaby, R. A. Stewart and Perry
Burnette.
FATHER, W. B. WATSON
PASSES SUNDAY
p. l. Watson, of Moreland. Ga ,
died at his home late Sunday
after a brief illness.
Mr. Watson has been a
visitor in Griffin as the guest of
children Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wat
son. and his friends here made dur
ing his visits will be grieved
hear of his death.
The funeral will take place
day morning in Moreland.
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Here is a scene fro mthe flood that in five southeastern states took a toll of eleven lives and several
millions of< dollars in damage. The photo shows the state highway at Mt. Holly, N. C., inundated by
the overflowing Catawba river and a tributary. Crop s, roads and rail lines suffered most here, for the
e rush of water and prevented serious damage t 6 chain of dams along the Catawba held against th
I buildings.
LOST IN ATTEMPTED
ROCKFORD-STOCKHOLM
CHICAGQ,. August 20.—(^Pi
Growing anxiety was felt today for
the safety of Bert Hassell and Park
er Cramer, good-will flyers from
Rockford, 111,, to Stockholm. Swe
den after mdre than 30 hours had
elapsed since the-last radio signals
from the aviators halrt been heard.
The plane was last heard from
Sunday morning at 4 o'clock Chi
cago daylight time, when a Madison
Wisconsin, radio operater intercept
ed signals sent from the plane, then
| flying from Cochrane. Ontario, to
(Mt Evans, Greenland. These sig
nals indicated the flyers at that
time were 75 miles off Cape Chid
ley. flying over Davis strait and
had completed - ■ ... about . 3-4 of the ,.
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1,600 mile trip from Rockford,
to Mt. Evans.
As hours continued to pass with
out any word from the aviators, the
more optimistic ventured the
ion that the Rockford flyers
reached Greenland -and made a for
ced landing in which 'event days
might elapse before they could make
their way to some point and com
municate with the outside world.
The flyers in their big monoplane
"Greater Rockford" left Rockford
Thursday making the hop to Coch
rane without incident and started
the second leg Saturday at noon
after which there were infrequent
slKna j s f rom the plane until Sun
day morning.
Hassell's wife and three children
at Rockford anxiously awaited some
word of the aviators but Mrs Has
sell insisted that she was certain
that her husband had reached
Greenland. "Planes that fly as
long as his don't stop suddenly.” she
declared.
Funeral Services
For Lennox Boyd
Are Held Sunday
Funeral services for Lennox Boyd
popular' local youth who was drown
! ed at a local swimming pool Fri
day afternoon, were held from lllc
; Hanlelter Methodist church Sun
day afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Rev
erand J. G. Lupo. Rev. J. A.
and Rev Knight officiated with
Frank S. Pittman, funeral directoi
I in charge of arrangements.
I Following the ceremony, inter
ment was made in Oak Hill ceme
tery with a group of young
former friends of Boyd, acting ns
I pall-bearers.
I of the
Boyd's drowning was one
.•;addest deaths in the city in some
time and has cast a pall of sorrow
over the entire city. Boyd was one
of Griffin's most popular young boys
and his funeral services- Sunday
! were attended by hundreds of form
er friends and relatives.
’ He is survived by his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. John Boyd - two sisters,
Evelyn and Mildred Boyd; and
with Frank S. Pittman funeral di
Boyd. and James Boyd. The entire
city sympathizes with the bereaved
family in the passing of such a
i splendid and popular young man.
GRIFFIN, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1928.
East To West
Trans-Continental
Flight Is Completed
CURTIS FIELD, N. Y.. August
20.—t/P)—The first transcontinental
non-stop airflight from the west to
the east was completed here today
by Art Gobel and Harry Tucker,
who crossed the country from
Angeles to New York in their
Lockhead Cega monoplane in 18
hours and 58 minutes.
Their plane the "‘Yankee Doodle'"
landed at 11:04 a. m. eastern day
light time beating by 7 hours and
42 minutes the record made by Lt.
0 n A. MacReady and Oakley
j Kelley, who made the east to west
transcontinental hop in 1923.
I Leaving Mines Field, Los Ange
I les at 12 : 06 Pacific coast time yes.
terday afternoon, Goebel piloted
the plane across New Mexico, swung
j over Wjchitaw, Kansas, winged
over St. Louis last midnight and
crossed Columbus. Ohio, at dawn
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| Goebel, who won the dole
to Hawaii was at the controls
i throughout. Tucker, Santa Monica
sportsman who backed the flight,
rode as a passenger.
Wm. Vandevender
Is Reported As
Out Of Danger i
William !
Vandevender, who was !
caught in a shafting at the Pomona j
Products company plant here last i
week, is reported by attending phy
slcians to be out of danger and re
covering rapidly.
He will leave the hospital in the
next few days, ^according to the
physicians.
It was at first thought that Van
devender had suffered a fractured
skull, but X-rays taken following the
accident dispelled this idea.
Vandevender was injured when
he was caught in the shafting at
the plant and thrown around and
around by the belting going over the
wheels. He was stripped of all his
c l°fhes by the belting,
He has been in the employ
the local company about 2
coming here from his home in
Woolsey, near here, He is employ
ed as a machinist at the plant.
| Griffin Boy To
I 1 Receive Emory
| University Degree
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William Thomas Hoard, of Griffin,
will receive a degree of Bachelor of
Phllsophy at the summer convo
cation exercises at Emory Univer
sity on August 24 which will grad
uate a class of forty-six it has been
announced by President Harvey W.
Cox.
This is the third convocation
at the university this year and
bring the total number of 1928
ory graduates up to 276.
Attempts To Kill
Sleeping Detective
CHARLOTTE, N C„ August 20.
(/Tb—F. N. Littlejohn, city detec
tive and central figure in the , in
vestigation of the activities of S.
W. Daniels, fortune teller, accused
of murder, was attacked as he lay
asleep in his home here today by
an unidentified person.
Police, who made known the at
tack said some kind of gas or acid
had been used. He was temporarily
blinded.
Littlejohn was asleep in his
roorn on the first floor of a room
j in hy S house burning when sensation he was about aroused his
a
eye. As he breathed the fumes
he gasped for breath. He managed
to get out of the room and a call
was sent to the police headquarters.
No reason for the attack other
than possibly spite because of his
i recent activities could be assigned
by either the victim or the police.
He recently became widely known
through his activities in the "love
powder" - cases here. He obtained
confessions from S. W. Daniels,
fortune teller that Daniel had sold
poison to a number of men and
women who were having domestic
difficulties.
Mrs. Eleanor Jump
j Dies This Morning
Mrs. Eleanor Jane Jump, wile of
J J. Jump died at the home oi
her son, J. B. Jump, in East Griffin
this morning at 11:40 o'clock alter
a week's illness. She .suffered a
stroke of paralysis a week ago and
never rallied, being moved to the
home of her son immediately after
wards.
Funeral services will be held
the home of her son this evening
7 o’clock. Rev. Guy Scott will
ciate. Interment will be made in
East Griffin cemetery
morning at 9 , o'clock with
Brothers in charge. In addition
her husband and son, two
sons, J. T. Jump, of Milan, Ga.,
W. J. Jump of Bessemer City. N.
one daughter, Mrs. N. J. Graptham
Vienna, Ga.. and one brother. J. W
Walker of Ryan, Ga., also survive.
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Tobacco Sales
Total 7 Millions
In Three Weeks
ATLANTA. August 20 —OP)
Tobacco during the third week
of the Georgia Bright Leaf auc
tion season ending last Saturday
amounted to 22.172.118 libunds and
brought an average price of 14 63
per pound or a total of $3,252,720.37
the State Department of Agricul
ture reported today. The figures
cover all but one of' the state's
markets. Metter having failed to
report thus far.
This brought the total sales for
the season, to date to 50.261,928]
pounds for a total value of $7,058.- |
if.8.45 or an average price of 14.051
cents per pound compared with
35.033,899 pounds for a value of
$7.275 073.11 an average price of
20.77 cents., per pound for the
same period last year. .
Compared with the average
price of the previous week which
was 14.08 last week’s average price
rose .55 cents per pound.
Marcus B. McWhorter, statisti
cian of the state bureau of mar
kets, who prepared the reiiort, ex
pressed the belief that the figures
from Metter probably would swell
the total aggregate cash yield so
far this year beyond that of the
corresponding period of 1927.
Season Lengthened
MOULTRIE. August 20.—(/P) —
The closing date of the Georgia
Tobacco marketing season has been
moved up from Aug;- 24th to Aug.
31st it was learned here today..
Funeral Services
For W. T. Kilgore
Sunday Morning
Funeral services for W. T. Kilgore,
prominent Spalding county farmer,
were held Sunday morning from the
Congregationalist Methodist church
at Pomona at 10:30 o'clock. Rev.
Davis officiated at the services and
interment was in Oak Hill cemetery
with Srank S. Pittman, funeral di
rectors in charge of arrangements.
Death came to Mr. Kilgore at
his home near Pomona early Fri
day morning, after a brief illness.
Surviving the deceased are his
wife, two daughters. Misses Susan
and Elbe Kilgore., five sons, J. V.
W. R . L. T„ P. A , and E G Kilgore
and one brother. E J Kilgore, of
Pomona
City Band Gives
Enjoyable Concert
Sunday Afternoon
Several hundred persons heard
the concert by the Griffin Muni
cipal Band Sunday at the monu
ment at the intersection of Hill and
Solomon streets. Although a drizz
ling rain was falling at 4 o’clock it
stopped long enough for the con
cert which began at 5 o’clock.
The band, under the direction of
Captain A. Franceschini. gave many
| interesting selections which were
1 accepted enthusiastically bv the
J large audience,
War Department
To Aid Flood
j Victims In S. C.
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L WASHINGTON, August 20.—t/p)
At jhe request of Senator Blese of
South Carolina, who reported a
rious flood menace in the Broad,
Catawba, Saluda. Congaree and tri
hutary valleys in South
the War Department has directed
Major General R. P. Davjs,
rnanding the Fourth Corps Area
Gcorgia to take necessary action
to extend relief to the flood suf
ferers under the provisions of the
army regulations.
Marine Plane On
Way To Nicaragua
BEDVILLE. N. C , August 20 .
(fl ‘)—Lt B Frank Sclnlt. Marine av
j iator, ferrying a big tri-motored
| transport airplane to Nicaragua
use of the Marines there, hopped
j off from the local airport here at
' 12 o'clock noon for Jacksonville
He landed here at 9:30 o’clock
for refusing and waited more
two hours for weather reports.
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Here is the scene of Governor Alfred E. Smith‘r formal notification
of his presidential nomination by the Democrats. The site is the
state capital building in Albkny The photo shows the stands that
are being erected on the capitcl steps, where the Governor will de
L, i. liver his speechof acceptance.
HOOVERS PROHIBITION
VIEWS TO SPLIT PARTY
SAYS UNIVERSITY HEAD
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NEW YORK, August 20,—
l AIM Hoover’s views on prohi
* bition and a i»*vai.....program as
«.e.t forth in his speech of ao
ceptanee are rejeeted by I)r.
Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia Univer
sity and life-long Republican,
Mr. Butler breaks th<^ silence
on polities that he has main
tained since the Kansas City
convention. He expressed confi
dence that millions of earnest
Republicans are in agreement
with him.
Referring to prohibition the
letter says:
"What wish to make en
tirrl.v plain is that no candidate
of m.v party for president can
commit me or countless others
like me to any surh doctrine or
any such policies."
In regard to Mrs Hoover’s "accept
ance of the time-worn but wholly
false argument that what he de
scribed as adequate preparation for
defense" is a factor in co-operation
in the maintenance of peace" Mr.
Butler writes Tlfe contrary is now
the well demonstrated fact.”
Mr. Butler .describes the 18th
Amendment as "an alien and un
naturalized invader of the Consti
tution" saying it must!be
if the Constitution is to be pre
served
"Anyone who is opposed to
repeal of the 18lh Amendment
also op|K>sed to that process of
tuatory obsolescence that Is
called nullification and" Mr.
adds, "must then be in favor
their only alternative which is
continuance of the present reign
lawlessness, debauchery, and
ment made crime"
Dr. Butler describes Hoover
"accepting the formula of that
band secutors of aglt^rs. which _ calls lobbyists, itself the and per
saloon league, when hp speaks
nullification as if that were
heard oi an a horrid thing"
Tlie letter adds:
i "The process of action which is
now fashionable to call nullification
j is the accepted nud usual way by
any free people and partic
American people have got
(ten rid of laws they did not like
, or that are offensive to their senses
i of justice and right"
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| VENIZUELOS PARTY IS
virTnoiraic VICTORIOUS IN im ATHENS .Tunuc
! ATHENS, Greece.. Aug. 20. -(/Pj
J Followers of Premier Zenizclos were
victorious in yesterday's parlimen
tary election. It is probable* they
will occupy 170 of the 250 seats in
the Chamber of Deputies
THE WEATHER
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Local showers tonight and
Tuesday. Gentle- southwest
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C. Of C. To Hold
Annual Meeting
On Friday Night
The annual meeting of the Grif
fin and Spalding County Chain
her of Commerce will be held at
the Griffin Athletic Court Friday
night .August 24. at 6:36 o'clock
A barbecue dihner will be one of i
the features of the meeting.
' The election of officers for the
coming year, the review and re
IKiris of work done during the past
year, and the outlining of plans
for the ensuping year will be taken
up at the meeting Friday night.
Ail members of th" Chamber of
Commerce and any persons interest -
ed in the work of the local body are j
requested to attend the barbecue.
The officers, whose terms of office
expire at the meeting Friday night,
j include J. P. Persons, president; H.
F. Goldstein, vice president; P. E.
Arnall, treasurer; A. C. Griffin and
D R Cumming. directors.
Elks To Have ’Cue
At Hall Tonight
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Griffin Lodge No. 1207, Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks
will have a barbecue at the lodge
| rooms on South Hill street tonight
at 7 o'clock. All members of the
1 local organization are urged to be
present.
| Following the barbecue, the regu
; lar weekly meeting of the club will
be held L. 8 . Patterson, exalted
; Ruler, will preside at the meeting,
"Pap" Andrews has been obtained
to look after the barbecue, which
affirms the fact that excellent meat
will be served The committee in
charge of arrangements for the
1 barbecue is composed of the fol
wlngtnembers j „ Goddard . w.
j L Goldstein Wilson Lumpkin.
j Williams, Ernest Hulsey, and Carl
I Huckaby.
Well Known New j
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In Liquor
NEW YORK, August 20.—(/p)—
.Socially prominent New Yorkers
suppoenaed in connection, with re
rrnt nUdfi “ n ^ n kgl ‘ t
gathered th the Federal ,
for questioning by
grand Jury.
An attorney was there for Wll
ham B Leeds, Jr., of Oyster Bay.
Young Leeds was in Europe.' Hen
r y uterhart, the lawyer, said, ad.
ding that the subpoenas had
left with the Leed butler,
Leed “might return," 'll N.
Morrison, the special assistant at
torney general, who is to conduct
the prosecution as Mrs. Mabte
Walker Willebrandt's representa
tive Insisted .
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SMITH GAINING
IN SOUTH SAYS
RUNNING MATE
NEW YOR^C, August. 20—<7P>— M
An optimistic report on condition* n
in the South was brought to New
York today by Senator J. T. Robin- |
son. Democratic vice-presidential |
nominee, who said upon his arrival ®
here from his home in Arkansas , |
that Governor Smith's popularity
is rapidly growing throughout that 1
section.
The senator declared' that "some J |
dissatisfaction exists but it is now •
dear that this will be more than il
offset" by what he described as an -
awakening in the Democratic ranks I
of the South
"Since my last visit to New York %
a! the time of the national com-" |
mil tee meeting in July,” he said, “I
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have conferred with many proml
nent Democrats in home state ®
my
and from various parts of the South. M
Some dissatisfaction exists but I
it is now clear that this will be
more than offset by an awakening §1
on the part of many Democrat* who J
are in the habit of accepting sue
cess of our party in that part of
the country as a foregone conclu- JJ
sion and whose interest Is being
quickened by the Republican threat
to invade the South and by the
threat of revolt of a few Democrat*.
• The people of the south are be
coming better acquainted with the
records of the head of the Demo
cratic party, Governor Smith'*
popularity is rapidly growing. Th*
people are anxious to hear him.”
Klan Head Files
New Petition In
Fight For Freedom
LaPORTE, Indiana, August 20.—
imprisoned _
UP )—David S. Stevenson,
former grand dragon of the Indt
ana Ku Klux Klan, renewed his
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fight for freedom today by filin*
a new petition for writ of habeu*
corpus before Judge John Rite her.
in circuit court here.
The 4 ..dge immediately ordered
forthwith return on the petition and
instructed that 8 tevenson be
brought before him tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock for a hearing.
The former Klan leader U in the
state prison at Michigan City serv
ing the sentence of a life term for %
the murder of a young girl in Ham
Ind., three years ago.
Negro Is Caught
Pouring Liquor
In Water Bucket
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' the cork floating on the top ol
1 the bucket "
| So believes Charlie Nutting, negro
j who was arrested Saturday by Offl
I C ers HarrLson. Putman, and Cha*-
1 tetn. on charges of possessing li- i
quor.
According to the officers, when
(they approached the house on 4th
I street. Nutting "got wind” of their
coming ancl immediately started
pouring the whiskey that be had
into a large bucket half full of
j water.
] However, the officers got there in
1 time to confiscate some of the Whl*
] key and Nutting was brought Into
lown where he was lodged in the
Jail
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Miss Julia Maloy is spending
a week in Atlanta as the guest of
her aunt. Mrs. A. T. Cottongim.
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