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SIX KILLED WHEN BANK BUILDING COLLAPS ip
BIG RED MEN RALLY WILL BE
HELD WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT
LODGE HALL IN
Hardman Signs
Requsition For
Pension Money
ATLANTA, /|:ig. 28.—UP)—
Governor Hardman today sign
ed a requistion on the state
treasury for $281 788 covering
quarterly pension installments
of $50 for more than 7,500 Con
federate veterans tr widows of
the veterans.
New Witness To
Dyal Has Murder
Been Found
JESUP, Ga., Aug. 28.—(/P)—A new
witness to ine paying of Ernest Dy
al. young member of a prominent
South Georgia family for whose
death W. B. Aycock, former Wayne
county police chief is under prison
sentence, has been found officers
here have been told.
The witness is L. P. Norris, of
Paulding county, who is said to have
seen Dyal shot to death as he sat
beside his bride of a few weeks in
an automobile near Jesup.
A hearing on an extraordinary
motion for a new trial for Aycock
has been postponed for September
by request of the state. Judge J. A.
Thomas granted the postponment.
Aycock is under sentence from twel
ve to-fifteen years for Dyal’s death.
singing
AT SUNNY SIDE
The annual* singing will be held
at Ttrzah Baptist church, at Sunny
Side, on Sunday, Sept. 2. Many j
prominent singers and pianists j
from throughout Middle Georgia j
are expected to be pre-,in: l
Everybody is cordially invited
attend and contribute to the sue- j
cess of'the annual singing.
Warren Rebekah
To Meet Wednesday
Warren Rebekah Lodge No. 65,
will hold its regular meeting Wed
nesday night at 7:30 at the lodge
rooms on N. Hill street. Many out
of town visitors are expected to be
on hand and degrees will be confer
red on a large class.
All members are urged to attend
the meeting.
Passenger Steamer
Rams and Sinks Tug
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—(fl 5 )—The
passenger steamer Chester W. Chap
in, of the New England steamship
company rammed and sunk a lug
in Hell Gate off Digmars Cove, As
torla. A fireman of the tug was
reported missing, The other ten
of the tugs crew were rescued by a
motor launch.
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A booster open meeting of Red
Men will be lit Id ct Die Georgia
Kincaid hall at Experiment Wed
nesday night. August 29, at 7:20 o’
clock. AU men and women inter
csted in the Red Men ‘are urged
and invited to attend.
Officers and past officers of the
Great Council of Georgia and Great
Coueil of the United States will be
present and present the principles
of Redman ship.
A chaitei isi ias a ieii y eei *
started for a tribe and council of
Pocahontas. This list will be
at the meeting ... Wednesday . , night . .
fer all and women of ,, high . , mor
men
•7 at character who , desire , . „ to affiliate ,
American . frater- ... .
with the oldest
nity, organized by the fathers of
America.
M. J. Daniel, Past Great Sacem
and at present chairman of the com
mittee on judiciary of the Great
Council of the United States will
preside, and short speeches will be
made by Past Great Sacem, E. H.
Griffin, great keeper of Wampum
of Georgia; Past Grand Sacem. W.
;H. Beck, all of Griffin; Judge T.
Jefferies, Past Grand Incohone of
the great council of the United
States; Past ’ Grand Sacem Walter
C. Hendrix; Past Great Sacem F. F.
Smith: Past Great Sacem C. C. Gil
bert, great keeper of records
Georgia; and Great Sacem of Geor
gia, John C. Cook, all of Atlanta.
Health Officers To j
Vaccinate School
Children Wednesday i
fir. W. C. Humphries, county and
city health ofifeer, announced this
morning that his office would be
open Wednesday afternoon, from 2
to 5 o’clock to vaccinate school chil
against small pox. All chil- j
dren entering school for the first
time this fall must have a certifi
cate of vaccination befjrc they can
matriculate. Only small pox vac
will be given on Wednes
day afternoon.
All day Saturday Dr. Humphries
will be in his office to vaccinate
children against small pox and to
give .typhoid and tox'i anti-toxin
treatments.
Melon Shipping
Season Ends, Over
30 Cars Shipped
The local season for shipping
water melons to outside markets
closes today, according to John
Harlow, aset. Spalding county dem
onstration agent and agent for
Pike county, who with W. T. Ben
nett. Spalding county agent, has
been supervising the shipping of
the local melons.
During the season over 30 cars of
melons raised in Spalding and
nearby counties have been shipped
by the local agents to the
markets, he says.
Agent Harlow states that big
melons had a much better market
than the smaller ones and
the farmers to prune their melons
as this causes larger melons,
The difference between the prices
paid for large melons and small
just goes to show what prun
Ing will do, and I urge all melon
growers to start this practice/’ he
states.
Retail Food Dealers ‘
liril Will Meet a Tonight .
The Retail Food Dealers Assoc la
tion which was organized in Griffin
during the early summer, will meet
tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the Cham
be rof Commerce. Paul H. Walker
president of the n.sociation and
R. L. Duke is secretary.
The meeting tonight is of lmpor
tance and a full attendance of mem
bershlp is desired Many of the
leading food dealers in Griffin are
i members of the food dealers asso
elation.
GRlfFIN, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,1928.
I South Georgia
Farmer Killed
By Robbers
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BLACKSHEAR. Ga„ August 28,
</P)—The badly mutilated body of
Ira Byrd, Pearce county
who has been missing since Satu
rday afternoon, was found last
night in a pine thicket near
Bristol by officers searching for
him. jjis head and face had been
beaten in by some blunt instru
meat and his body was nude. Byrd
(seen had $500 on his person when last
Saturday, having Just sold his
; tobacco crop. Officers said he had
hidden the money in different parts
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■ of his clothing , . and that his as
i sailant stripped . him . to get ... It.
i No arrest has been made. An
| j inquest was ordered for this after
j noon.
Credit Exchange
Plans Advertising
j Campaign For City
j The Beard of Directors of the
Grifin Credit Exchange held an in
j teresting and important meeting
I Monday at the Chamber of Com
merce. The members of the board
are: M. F. Smith, John H. Morrow,
j C. D. Randall, Paul H. Walker, and
phll Archer. R. L. Duke is secre
tary.
It was decided to put on a sys
tematic advertising campaign for
the Credit Exchange. Present plans
are to run a series of advertise
ments each month urging the peo
ple of the community to pay their
debts promptly and thus maintain
a good credit rating,
Several applications for member
ship, which had previously been
made to the secretary, were approved
by the directors and other business
of routine nature was considered.
The work of the previous nine !
months of the credit exchange was
revised and several important rec
ommendations made to the secre
tary.
History Of Exchange
The Griffin Credit Exchange be
gan operation on the first of last
November with a membership of
57. The exchange now has over T>
members and plans are to increase
that to 100 at an early date.
The organization now has 50.000
credit ratings on people trading
in Griffin. These reports are read
to be given to members whenever
called for. The exchange is also
doing fine work in maintaining an
accurate record of the responsibili
ty and limitations of the prospec
tive customers of its members,
which insures the ■nernoers aga.ust
financial loss by sxtrnding cr?dit
to unreliable or insolvent appli
cants. #
GOVERNOR OF NORTH
DAKOTA PASSES
t BISMARCKE, N. D„ August 28 —
1 (/P)—Governor A. G. Borlie of
North Dakota died here this morn-
1 ing of heart disease, from which
the governor has been oritically
111 for the past three days.
SENATOR TOM HEFLIN SAYS
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN HAS
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LALOLLETTE, Ala, August 28. |
_(^-Senator J. Thomas Heflin
^ h ° me f ° r » brief r ** t
took occasion to fire a verbal vol
ley at John J. Rascob chairman
of the Democratic national com
mlttee, for telling'"Republicans that
they can step over and vote for
Smith for president without chang
Ing their politics or their Identity
as Republicans."
"John J. Raskob, of New York,
Republican and at present chair
man of the democratic
' committee, is telling republicans
they can step over and vote for
Smith for president without chang
ing their politics or losing their
identity with the Republican
EX-CONVICT
RUNS WILD;
KILLS FOUR
SACRAMENTO Calif., Aug. 28.—
j </p')—An orgy of murder that lasted
several hours and left four
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men dead and one wounded was
ascribed by police here today to
the insane jealousy of a former
convict over the affections of his
estranged wife and the custody
j of his little daughter.
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: The suspected slayer. Percy T.
Barnes, 35, a railroad employee.
calmly surrendered and asserted
j ! his innocence when surrounded by
a ^ of 0 „ lcers at Stockton,
j south . of . here . ........ late last night, af- ,
ter they hqd followed a trail .of
murder for several hours in tli
direction.
Heavily armed Barnes denied he
lhad done the killing and declared
that he was not aware that he
j was in Stockton. The victims were :
! Charles E. Curtis, brother-in-law
of Barnes; Charles Klein, another
brother-in-law; Len Gerhart,
Barne’s cousin by marriage, and
Clarence Muncy, who had been
visiting at the home of Mrs. Delia
Barnes. The wounded man was
M. H. Larkin, president of a trans
portation company who was appar
ently an infiocent bystander.
Witnesses said Barnes started
trouble by going to the home of hsi
wife and on.finding Muncy there
engaged in a quarrel with him.
quarrel was cut short when
Muncy dropped with a bullet near
his heart.
Then Barnes apparently went to
the Curtis home where his daugh
ter is being kept until the clearing
of the divorce case. He is said to
have demanded the little girl. The
next instant Curtis fell dead with
a bullet through his heart.
The police, who by this time
were searching everywhere for the
former convict traced him to a
point near the state fair grounds
where Gearhart was found with
a bullet through his head. Before
Gerhart’s body was placed in the
morgue, Klein was found fatally
wounded on the highway toward
Stockton. Larkin, passing in an
automobile, had seen Klein and
another man arguing in the road.
Suddenly the other man drew a
pistol and shot him twice, Klein
sighting Larkin’s automobile, begged
to be taken to a hospital but was
cut short by his assailant who,
with an oath, turned tthe gun
on the motorist who managed to
make a getaway with the dying
man in spit of having received
two wopnds in the shoulder.
FRENCH ARMY PILOT
TO TRY ATLANTIC
NEW YORK, August 28.—(#*)—
Dledonne Costes, French army pilot
who recently flew across the south
Atlantic, apparently will try to
fly from Paris to New York this
week.
A cablegram from the French
j government relayed from Washing
ton to Mitchell Field asked that
arrangements be made for the re
ception of Captain Costes this week.
Party, Heflin said. Last week
appealed to the republicans in
to for do President that - He cctizen ° rganlzed committee, ; s t m ^
Addressing the republicans present
he said:
“'I think there are a great many
republicans who are willing to give
up party affiliations. This Is the
class of citizens among whom the
new committee will work. ’
Heflin continued that Raskob
“Has completely committed him
self to the position that It Is right
j | and proper his for a her voter of the for party the
to cast or vote
head of the ticket of another party
without giving up party principles
or party affiliations."
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Here, in the event of victory for the national Democratic ticket, are (the future First and Second
Ladies of the land. Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, right, and Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, wives of the candi
dates, are shown at a reception in a New York hotel. There they had their first taste of the social
activities that the presidential election may bring them, for they met 2000 women who thronged the
great ballroom.
REPUBLICANS
FACE LARGE ■
U. S. DEFICIT
SUPERIOR, Wisconsin, August
28.—(/P)—Concerned by estimates
compiled by the Bureau of Budget
forecasting a treasury deficit of
$94,000,000 at the end of the cur-
rent fiscal year President Coolidge
intends as soon as he gets back to
Washington to take vigorous meas
ures in cutting expenses.
He will appeal this to the heads
of all Departments m government
bureaus. Likelihood of a deficit at
the end of the present fiscal year
probably will affect budget esti
mates now being compiled for the
fiscal year 1930.
During his stay at the summer
White House over a week end
Major General Charles P. Summer
all, chief of the staff, reported
very satisfactory conditions in the
army to President Coolidge.
General Summerall pleaded with
President Coolidge, however, for a
strengthening of the aviation de
fense at the Panama Canal. Pre»i
dent Coolidge thinks it would be
( abvisable to do this under the
five year program authorized by
Congress in 1923.
Secretary Kellogg, of the State
Department, has advised Presi
dent Coolidge that Latin America
diplomatic representatives in Wash
ington have signified the intentions
of their countries to adhere to the
anti-war treaty signed yesterday
in Paris.
U. S. Feminist
Leader Held By
French Police
RAMBOUILLET, France. August
28.—(yP)—Boris Stephens, American
feminist leader,' and three others
of a group of feminist who appear
ed at the gate of the president's
chateau today in behalf of equal
rights movement were held in cus
tody at the police station for sev -
eral hours for failure to have
tity papers.
They were released at 3:30 this
afternoon after all the statesmen I
who had lunch with President Dou
mergue had gone.' The women had
sought a ten minute audience with
the president’s guests who yesterday
signed the Kellog-Briand renuncia
tion of war treaty. The plan of the
feminists was to discuss with them
a for an International treaty
establishing equal rlgh‘s for men and
women. '
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Mrs. A. J. Allen, of Atlanta, is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs
Frank Oalssert for several days.
Miss Myrtle Belle Durham, of At
lanta, was the attractive guest of
Miss Evie Epps, for the week-end.
Griffin Boy, Serving With
Marines In Nicuragua, Writes
Letter Telling of Hardships
Rev. Wilson Walker
Resigns Pastorate
E. Griffin Church
Rev. Wilson Walker, for the past
three years pastor of the East Grif
fin Baptist church, has resigned,
his resignation has been accepted
by the board of deacons. During
hie term of office «t the E. Griffin
church it has been built up in mem
bership and influence and Rev.
Walker’s resignation was accepted
by the board of deacons with regret.
Rev Walker has received several
calls from other churches and dur
ing September will decide which one
he will accept.
Conduct* Revival
Rev Walker has recently com
pleted successful revival services at
Oakland church, In Henry couhty
and at Williamson. At the Oakland
church six persons joined on pro
fession of faith and at the William
son church ten joined
Scout Honor Court
Will Meet Tonight
The Court of Honor of the Grif
fin Council of the Boy Scouts of
America will meet tonight at the
Chamber of Commerce at 7 o’clock
for the purpose of examining local
scouts who are candidates for ad
vancement In rank or for' merit
Badges. A full attendance of the
members of the court of honor is
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asked by Douglas Burnett, local
executive.
The members of the Court of Hon
or include: K. P. Mooney, John H.
Morrow, 8. O. Bailey, John H.
Cheatham, M. D. Wynne, P. E. Ar
nall. Dr. F. H. Wilson, Dr. U M.
Latimer, and Prof. J. H. West.
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COTTON REPORT '
NEW ORLEANS COTTON i
Open High Low Cloee Close
Jan. 1811 18 49 18.10 18.44 18.10
Mch. 18.15 18.53 18.15 18.50 18.21
May 18.50 18.50 18.20
July 18.38 18.08
Oct. 18 03 18.40 18.05 18.34 18.08
Dec. ^ 18.13 18 49 18.12 1843 18.17
NEW YORK COTTON
Free.
Open High Law Close Closa
Jan. 18.56 18.90 18.56 18.84 18.55
Mch. 18.61 18.97 18.60 18.89 18.60
May i860 1895 18.80 18.91 18.59
July 18.49 18J8 18.49 18.99 18.49
Oct. 18.72 19.07 18.72 19.02 19.75
Dec. 18 62 18.95 18.82 18.90 18.82
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SHELBY. N. C„ Aug. 28,
Six were known to have fee*
ed and several more were
when three buildings in th
ness section of the town o
here today. Several
known to have been in the
and are also missing. Zm
The known dead are: 'v.
Miss Ora Eskridge, an en
of the First National Banl
Blanton, a farmer and his son
Guy Green and Alex Hoyle,
in the First National Bank a
unidentified white man.
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As construction crews worked del
pertly to clear the tangled wreck
age it was feared that the death to
would increase when the basemM
of the collapsed buildings wei
cleared.
A construction crew engaged t
excavating under the buildings wa
still unaccounted for and little pcs
sibility of their escape was seen.
The collapsed structures are
First National Bank, a grocery si
and Hadley’s TSiylotu Shop. 1
of the injured, as hasty check b
cated, were employes or custon
of the bank. ,
I Hospitals crowded with t
persons were unable to give
curate number of those brou
It was thought it would lik
late today before the exact
ber of casualties could be rev
The buildings that collapse
the First National Bank, whi
in temporary quarters, Goode
eery Store and a tailor she
cause for the collapse was
immediately. Workmen wed
to have been excavating und
The marines are having a hard
time in Nicuragua, according to
Pvt. J. B. Dingier, Griffin youth
who is with the United States Ma
rines in the 8outh American coun
try. in a letter to THE NEWS re
cently.
Private Dingier writes of how a
relief expedition came upon six Ma-
rines, beaded, ragged and bare
foot, in the wilds of Nicuragua in
serious circumstances. He tells of
how the men obeyed one, who was
the leader as he measured spoon
fuls of syrup carefully and gave it
out of the others. Each man got
two spoonfuls, he writes.
The men had been marooned for
months in the jungles and had
been eating the same canned fare
since being marooned. When res
cued by the party, they seemed to
hardly believe that they could be so
fortunate. They stammered their
welcomes hoarsely. Three of the
men were shivering and burning
alternately with malaria.
The men were American marines,
Dingier writes, but no one would
have recognized them as such since
their uniforms were ragged and
they looked more like savages. The
men were rescued, he writes, by
the relief expedition which had toll
ed over miles of the Coco river on
the east coast of Nlcurugua to
bring supplies and replacements.
The marines, Dingier writes, are
situated in small detachments in 73
outposts throughout Nicurugua. They
are to remain until November in
accordance with President Adolfo
Diaz’s plea to the Onited States for
insurance of a peaceful election.
The mere presence of the marines
maintains peace among the war
ring factions in the country.
The outposts are as isolated from
each other as If situated In the Ar
tie regions, the local youth writes.
He also states that during the dry
season the marines scorned all ob
stacles when daily marches and the
whine of bullets, often from an en
emy ambush, gave thorn plenty of
action. But at present they are in
and according to Pvt. Dtng
ler, there is nothing that a marine
hates more than Inactivity.
"It is generally believed in the
United States that Sandlno is giv
ing us lots of trouble and harassing
us.” Dingier write*, “but we are un
able to find him. In fact we would
be glad to give him a chance to
harass us. if we could only find
him.”
Brigadier General Logan Feland
is at present In charge of the ma
In Nicuragua. There are now
4.000 marines hi the country and
1.000 more are noe entering. Gen.
Feland is very confident of future
success*,, order has already been
restored In moat of the principal
town, and cities, and states "We’ll
capture Bandlno in the end.”
Esi > in
bullii.r' T s. ' :
George Blanton, acting '
dent of the bank, escaped
nor Injuries as did
ridge, cashier. Clarence Mfiffl,
cashier, received a broken le§
bad cuts about the head, h
injuries are said to be sesioai
Two other clerks are said to
buried in the derbia bul
thought to be attve. A 1
ley, proprietor of the
was missing. ,
Four bank clerks were
ed for but it was thought j
that they were in the cnowd
the scene. One physical
through a dangerous sectb
hanging walls to treat a Mi
lahau and another bank cb
were pinned under twiste
and brick.
Others of the exca vatln
are missing.
Construction gangs from t
of the city are working to c
wreckage and extricate tlx
alive.
$750,000 Sub
For Bryan
PAYTON. Tenn., Aug. 27.—1
total secured in the national mo
ment for establishing a Christ
university at Dayton, Tenn, w
memorial to William Jennings B
an. has already reached $750,0001
is steadily growing, according
Malcolm Lockhart, national dii
tor of the Bryan Memorial Unis
sity Association, which is build
the university.
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