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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence, In Griffin
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
E YEN GOOD IN G
By Quimby tylelton
Everyone wants to see Con
gress curtail unnecessary spend
ing, balance the budget, start
paying off the national debt,
and reduce taxes.
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But the plan of Congress to
cut off some six-million dollars
from the proposed budget of
President Roosevelt seems to
be going a little too far.
For instance one of the ex
penditures that wlU be elimi
nated is that of school lunches.
Under this program millions of
school children were served
nutritious lunches at school.
To many of them this meant
the difference between ’scant
fare tad a balanced daily ra-
tion.
.America has no greater as
set than her children. And well
fed children mean healthy
children, and healthy child
ren mean healthier minds as
well as bodies. A healthy mind
Is the best way to combat juve
nile delinquency. A hungry,
underfed child often grows In
to an adult that becomes a law
breaker.
To coritinue the school lunch
program will pay dividends,
even in dollars and cents, In
years to come.
Let the school lunch pro
gram alone, gentlemen of Con
gress. If you don’t you’ll even
tually rue the day you stopped
it.
Two Georgia Legislators
have filed a petition with the
Secretary c.f State to Incor
porate “The Democratic Par
ty, Inc.” “The Democratic
Party of Georgia, Inc.,” and
“Georgia Democratic Party,
Inc.,” having been informed
by the official that there are
no such named corporations In
Georgia. This opens the way
for granting the charter.
The t wo legislators, Dick
Kenyon, of Hall County, and
George Ramsey, of Stevens,
have both been consistent op
ponents of Governor Tal
madge. 1
This move will be watched
with interest.
If the charter Is granted It
will mean that the present
State Democratic Executive
Committee will have to find
some other name than “demo
cratic” under which to operate.
All of which means that a
second party can and will be
organized In Georgia and those
who join it will not have to be
considered “bolters" from the
party.
It looks as though the pre
sent party leaders in Georgia
may have overlooked a bet.
They may find themselves
“behind the eight ball” and
be forced to present their can
didoes under the name of
“Jeffersonian Democrats” or
something else.
Politics sometimes takes a
strange turn.
House Committee
Opposes State
Liquor Stores
ATLANTA —(A>)— Opposition to
State operation of liquor stores
was voiced last night by the House
Temnerance Committee.
A bill to establish state operated
liquor stores and a bill to permit
counties to vote on the beer sale
cmesttnn whenever 35 percent of
the registered voters in the county
call for a referendum are pending
in the House. The Temperance
remittee approved the county
option plan for the sale of beer.
The committee announced op
ro'-itton to the state liquor store
bill after hearing, among others,
rovid Meyer, Atlanta wholesale 11
quor dealer, ^declare liquor Is al
ready paying one-third of the
states income, not including city
an’ county ta xes.___
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FORECAST FOR GEOR
GIA:—Bain tonight, colndy
and slightly colder Friday.
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Hdntosh To Speak
At Annual Banquet
Chamber Commerce
Meeting Scheduled
For Friday, Feb. 28
Editor Henry McIntosh, of the
Albany Herald, will be the princi
pal speaker at the annual Chamber
of Commerce banquet here on Fri
day night, Feb. 28. McIntosh
known throughout the South as
one of Georgia's greatest editors
has long been a booster of the
state. He has served his state a r
chairman of the State Planning
Board and the southastern stater
chairman of the area National
Planning Board.
The annual banquet will be held
In the Spalding High cafeteria and
will be in of Mrs. J. N.
Bell, who served the banquet last
year. The banquet will start at
7:20 o’clock.
John Mills, president, and Bob
Burns, secretary, of the Chamber
of Commerce were elated today
when they received confirmation
from Editor McIntosh that he
would Come to Griffin and speak
at the banquet.
“We could have searched the
South and found no finer speaker
than Henry McIntosh.” said Mills.
“In addition to being a pleasing
speaker he is a man who loves
Georgia and the South and always
has something worthwhile to sug
gest in the way of an improvement
program. ft
Much of the growth and develop
ment of 'the city of Albany has
been attributed to McIntosh by his
fellow townsmen.
Mr. Joe A. Carter
Dies This Morning
Mr. Joe Anders Carter, <4, died
this morning at his home oh Sear
cy Avenue after a lengthy Illness,
Mr. Carter was born in Henry
County. He had made his Jiome In
Grifftn for llfty years and was
employee of the Dundee Mills
forty-five year.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Bell
Grant Carter; one son,
Carter; one grandson, Michael
Carter; one sister, Mrs. Henry
Huckaby of Experiment; one bro
ther, Harvey Carter of Macon.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon at 2:30 at the Sear
cy Memorial Methodist Chuch
with the Rev. Lynn Lanier and
Rev. J. H. Lane officiating. Burial
will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Hals
ten Brothers, funeral directors, arc
in charge of arrangements.
The following will serve as pall-
bearers: Pete Crumbley, James
Bowden, W. E. Bethune, Willie 1
Orant, Jesse Jones, and George |
Cox,
WELL BABY CLINIC
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR WEST GRIFFIN
The West Griffin Well Baby
Clinic will be held Friday
noon, 2:00 o’clock in the office of
the Thomaston Mills. Mothers in
West Griffin are urged to bring
their babies for a checkup.
The fastest passenger train run
in the United States is a train be
tween Kenosha, Wis„ and
“an, 111., at an average speed of
85.4 miles an hour, start to ston,
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Youth Held For Posing As A Girl And
FAIRVIEW. Mass. —UP)— A 17
year-old youth, who allegedly
^ successful iy enough as a girl
^ ^ B domesUc in a
wcalthy „ New York home and as a
"Cooch” dancer in a carnival, to
day was held in $10,000 pending
extradition to New York on Jewel
theft charges.
State Police Detective Herbert
Hales said the youth, booked as Al
bert H. Cook, of Fairview, admltt
ed orally the theft of $25,000 worth
of jewelry frem the home of K. A.
Zllkha, New York City, while ser
VlnK “ a domestic last August.
Police Chief Norman D. Shurt
leff quoted Cook as saying that
flew to Chicago with the
and on one occasion hired a prl-
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‘GET WILLIE GREEN DOWN HERE’—CIO President Philip Murray
{above), Testifying Before the Senate Labor Committee In Washington,
says: “You get Wtllin Green down here so he and I can sit down With
this committee and work out an agreement right here.” His suggestion
for a conference with William Green, President of the American Fed
eration of Labor, came after he had been asked questions about Juris
dictional Disputes between the CIO and AFL. (AP Wtrephoto).
Griffin High Loses
Game To Thomaslon
The Griffin High boys’ basket
ball team lost to a strong Tho
maston quintet. 27 to 23 Tuesday
night in their second game of the
Fourth District Basketball Tour
nament. The game was played in
the Callaway Auditorium in La
Grange.
At the end o( the, f irst half the
Thomaston team led the' Griffin
boys 12 to 11. When the - third
quarter ended Thomaston had
scored twenty points to Griffin’s
j seventeen. After an exciting fourth
quarter the Thomaston team was
out in f rcnt 2 3.
Ogletree led the scoring for Grif
fin wlth eight points, Others who
scored were Ferris, Thacker, Vir
dPn Lynch and Duncan ’
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This was Thomaston’s second
: victory In the tournament. Tues
day night they downed the Spald
ing flve by a score of 42 to 23
I They will play in the quarter
finals of the tourney tonight.
^ Griffinite's Sister
Dies In Atlanta
Funeral services were held this
morning in Atlanta for Mrs. Joe
Danneman of Atlanta, sister of
Een Schwartzberg of Griffin. Mrs.
Panneman died Wednesday morn
ing.
Rev. SmiFh Preaches
‘At Ringgold Sunday
Rev. Max Smith of Johnson Bi
ble College, Kimberlin Heights,
Tennessee, will preach at the regu
lar service at Ringgold Christian
Church Sunday at 11 o’clock. The
public is invited to attend the
vice.
BARDELL KILLS LIFTER
LEWISTON, Me. — M— Lifting
a 140-pond barbell while lying on
back, 19-vear-old Thomas O
Gagne dropped it and the weglht
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vate detective to protect him and
the gems while he went to a dance,
The chief «P°rted that the jew
«*> Pawned in Chicago. New
Yor 'h Boston and southern cities
and that as far as he knew they
had not been recovered.
He said that the youth told him
that he donned a wig, filled out
figure with false forms and roam
ed the Atlantic Seaboard as a glr',
for six months, sometimes using
the name of a cousin and high
school girl friends.
Shurtleff reported that Cook
said he Jblned a carnival in Ten
nessee as a "Cooch dancer” and
stayed with the show until It got
to Lake City, Fla., where he
switched back to male clothes and
returned to Fairview recently.
4-Year-Old Boy
Accidentally
Kills Mother
PONTIAC, Mich. — (JFh- Four
aware that he had accidentally
killed hLs mother with a shotgun
blast yesterday.
The boy’s mother, Mrs. Loudene
Hargraves, 23, was shot in the back
by -the charge from a .410 gauge
shotgun which Jerry had removed
fn>m a closet.
Her husband, Clyde, was at work
In the Fisher Body Plant at the
time of the tragedy. He told po
lice the kept the gun to hunt small
game and for target practice.
Neighbors heard the shot and
(giyid Mrs. Hargraves In the kitch
en. She was dead on admittance
,to the hospital.
300-Pound Gvosv
Oueen Dies; Subjects
Storm Hospital
PHILADELPHIA — (jp — Maf-v
George, the 300-pound “Queen of
the Gypsies,” here, died on an oo
erating table—and a score of her
angry subjects stormed through
Stetson Hospital corridors in hys
terical grief.
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BY HAL COCHRAN \
It’s "our own fault when boot
leggers have fifty-two clean-up
weeks while we have only one.
A New York doctor says
there’s nothing to worry about
if your youngster has flat feet.
Especially if be wants te grow
up to be a policeman.
We don’t have to aiun til «nv
particular season to can a certain
Congress Will Probe
Sale War Surpluses
WASHINGTON — (IP)— Senate
and House investigators laid plans
'or a $150,000 joint Inquiry Into
disposal of war surplus which cost
billions of dollars.
“This is not going to be
dead horse investigation,” Senator
Ferguson (R-Mich.), told a report
or. “We are dealing with the fu
*UTe billions In surplus property
hat must be sold.’
Ferguson will head the Senate
Expenditures Subcommittee which
will collaborate with a House Ex
penditures group in the joint hear
‘nrs.
The investigation mo'-ed a sten
"loser yesterday when the Senate
Rules Committee approved a $100,
000 fund to pay the Senate's share
of the expenses. Chairman Rizley
(R-Okla.), of the House Sub
committee Is asking $50,000.
Chairman Aiken tR-Vt), of the
Senate Expenditures Committee said
he Is particularly interested In war- j
time property and poods which the
Army, Navy and other
departments have so far failed
for sale by the War
Administration.
He said he had seen one photo
"raph of 1,000 army automobiles
“In an open field that are report
ed rusting away.'
Aiken declared the 5150,000 fund
will be well spent. “We could save
a good many times this amount
every day by getting the tnvestlgn
*lon underway," he said ln an
interview.
Methodist Campaign
Showing Results
The campaign to raise $17,000 to
purchase a new pipe orcan and
msge changes 'in the auditorium of
the First Methodist Church had
passed the $12,000 mark with
many worked '
yet to make reports
This was announced at the meet-'
i n g of the workers last night after
regular Prayer Service,
George N. Murray is general
| chairman of the campaign. Be
fore the campaign got underway
gome $5,000 had been collected.
The next meeting of the campaign
workers will be held Sunday night
after church services, •
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King Ell Oeorgia and the late
queen recently were recognised tri
bal leaders followfhg reconciliation
of three Philadelphia Gypsy clans.
Police said the Gypsies were
startled by the unexpected death
Wednesday of their 37-year-old
queen. Dr. Joseph O. Keezel re
ported she died of an umbilical
hernia a few mlntues before com
pletion of an operation.
After police halted a second
demonstration ’ In the hospital, lob
by, the Oypsles—garbed in bril
ManMy*uuluiu! robes—retreated to
the street where they chanted a
centuries-old mourning service.
According to cuetom. the tribe
will mourn five weeks for the dead
quean.
Orchestra Orqonized
At Griffin High
A seventeen-piece orchestra un
der the direction of Alfred Heil
man has been organized at Grif
fin High School. Members of the
orchestra are now practicing re
gularly the repertoire of approxi
mately ten orchestrations. They
expect to be ready to play for so
cial affairs at the school during
I spring.
The saxophone section Is corn
posed of the
Wvnne. tenor; Doug Aiken, tenor;
Charlie Crawford, alto; Alfred
Heilman, alto: Jimmy Murray,
baritone. Plaving In the trumpet
section are John Simms, Donnie
Grissom, Jack Langford, Dee Sul
lins and Ray Simonton.
Trombone players are Charles
Newby, Paul Westmoreland, Bob
bv Douglas, and Ernest Carlisle
Charles Dickinson plays the bas*
horn and Jimmy Skrine plays the
f,T-, 'tr’s Marie English Is pianist.
School , Bands
Plan Concerts
Concerts will be presented by
the bands at two of the city
schools, Alfred Heilman, director,
announced today.
The first of the concerts will be
given by the Third Ward Band on
Friday night, February 28.
On March 6 the Griffin High
Band will present a program com
posed principally of novelty num
bers.
Further announcement will be
made later regarding both con
certs.
Griffin Girls Play
CdllCOrd Tonioht
The Griffin High girls’ basket
b '‘" iP * m wUl plRV the Concord
ln ft Rame at Zebulon tx>nlKht
•t 7:30. In a game played earlier
tn the season Griffin girls de
feated the Concord girls.
SINGING IS PI ANNED
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The Lamar County singers will
have a singing Sunday afternoon
| at Lisbon Baptist Church, located
«lx miles from Woolsey. The pub
uc i» invited to attend.
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ENGLISHMEN TOIL TO CLEAR SNOW—English workmen shovel snow
from a British railroad right.of-way into coal cars which will dump
their loacji In valleys along the line. The snow Is being removed to
avert slid*! onto the tracks and Gooding when the thaw comes. As the
result of deep drifts blocking railways and preventing transportation
of coal, many English households have been without fuel since Christ
mas. Some people are reported burning bannisters and picture frames
to
• Briefs
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BY THE GRIFFIN NEW*
FROM WIRE .REPORT8 •
WASHINGTON Congress de
bated budget. Indications are that
p -million dollars will be lopped off
Truman request.
WASHINGTON — Head of in
dependent Telephone Workers Un
ion threatening strike in April, ap
peals to AFL and CIO to Join In
new drive against labor curbs.
LONDON — Prime Minister At
tlee announced that Britain would
definitely turn India over to In
dian rule by June 1948.
Freight Engine
Jumps Track Near
Hampton Wednesday
A Central of Georgia freight en
gine Jumped the track one mile
west of Hampton Wednesday
afternoon about 4:30. No one was
Injured In the accident.
Traffic on the line was delayed
for about four hours while the
other track was cleared. Several
trains were routed on other lines.
Griffin Parade
Phonograph Makes Comeback; Collecting
. Favorite Records Is Hobby Of Griff inites
BY ROBERTA BECK
Tim Edison patented the phono
graph 69 years tigo this week—the
music’s been going round and
round ever since.
The phonograph, once threaten
ed by rudlo to give way entirely,
staged a terrific come back In re
ent years to become one of the
most popular forms of entertain
ment, with today's recordings In
cluding everything from nursery
rhymes, lectures,, and poetry, to the
inevitable “Open the Door Rleh
hud. 1 ’ The icvival, of course, creat
ed the almost universal hobby of
record collections such as those of:
.The Travis Shacklefords whose
'-las-ical and semi-classical col
lection includes complete sym
phonies arid operas, ballards, most
of the Strauss waltzes, OalH-Curcl
and Paderewski recordings, and an
original Caruso recording of "Ce
leste Alda.” „
Warren Elder whose 1300 records
feature, not the modem Jive,, but
the ^syncopated music of such old
timers as BIx Beiderbecke. Paul
Whiteman, and Louie Armstrong.
GRIFFIN FIRST S&r
Invest Your Money
Your Talent, Your Him,
Your Influence, In Griffin
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Issues Statement
In Signing Bill
ATLANTA —OP Herman Ttfr
madge In signing the white pri
mary bill today issued the follow j
Ing statement:
“I have today signed the whit*
primary bill. Thu legislation mi
the number one plank In my fa
ther’s platform before the pe
of Georgia last summer. One I
dred and five counties, by t
vote, approved this legislation,
was adopted unanimously b f the I
Democratic Convention in MaoMp] I
last October as the number ope
plank in the party platform. It wag I I
approved by Jhe House of Repre
sentatives and the Senate by more
than two to one vote. I am happy I
that this legislation has now be- I
come law, as I considered It a man,* j I
date by the people of Georgia. ....
’’The restoration of the whit* 1
primary Is no indication of flHKjl any
unfriendly attitude toward bW j
gro population.' The Negro people
should have the same protection
under the law aocorred white peo
ple. They should have good
schoola, the opporunlty to work,
the protection of the health laws,
the right to earn a living and to
educate their children. Negroes
who are qualified to vote will be
permuted to vote but not in our
white primary. This attitude 1*
not at all inconsistent with our
demand that the Democratic par
ty of Georgia be allowed to make
its own rules and regulations and
to choose Its own membership. 1
“The white primary Mil does not
disfranchise Negroes, nor does It
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Congressman Plans
Prohibition Drive
WASHINGTON — (/P) Rep.
Bryson (D-SC.), who sought^ vain
ly to outlaw hard liquor during the
war, served notice today he will
renew his campaign for national
prohibition.
What he needs right now, he told
a reporter, Is a good reason.
“The reasons which furnished
the cause of action for my former
legislation no longer exist,” Bryson
declared. “I sought to outlaw
liquor during the war, period In or
der to conserve scarce materials
and to use the manpower In more
effective work.
“Now that the war is over, I
must find a new cause of action."
CRIMINALS KILLED
CHICAGO — Police machirie
cun fire killed Elmer Pierce, noto
rious Milwaukee ex-eonvlct and
murderer In an ambush at a deser
J ted suburban elevated Westchester railway at station midnight. in
contain any prohibition against
them "participating In general ele
ctions, The necessity for this legis
lation was Drought about by a de-
clsion of the United States Circuit
Court in the “Primus King Case. ’
This able decision by Judge Sam
uel Sibley pointed out a way In
which the Democratic Party might
restore andn retain Its white pri
mary.
“Our love for Southern tradition*
and Southern history demanded
legislation of this nature but this
alone does not constitute our de
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World Day Of
Prayer Proaram
Planned Friday
The World Day of Prayer will be
observed in Griffin with a service
Friday afternoon at 3:30 In thd
Barara Room of the First Metho
dist Church. The five central
churches of Griffin are sponsoring
The Gordon Futrak whose
lection is classical but includes
novelty records as-well.
Leon Westmoreland whose vari
"d collection presents every type of
music classical, semi-classical,
ocular, hillbilly. -
Morris Westmoreland whose col
’notion is imilar to his brother
leorG) with whom lie started ool
'netfng, but features piano select
ions.
Peithaps the teen-agers.....who
love their music canned, sweet or
hot, and served from a platter—
contributed thq^greutest boost to
recording popularity. The kids
w'ho drop all available nickels In
■he Juke box to hear such tunes as
these disk hits which are tops, lo
cally (from Juke box collectloas):
"All By Myself," Anniversary
8ong,” “Oh But I Do," “Managua
Nlcoragua," "You Broke the Only
Heart That Ever Loved You,” "Old
Lamp Lighter,” and "Buttermilk
Skies.”
"Money, we really don’t need
that; we’ll make out all right let
ting the other guy feed that Juke
box Saturday night,’
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the service.
The Rev. Hugh T. Holland, min
ister of the First Christian Church,
will deliver the principal message
on the topic “The King’s Highway.”
A special murical selection will be
presented bv a trio composed of
Miss Nell Caldwell. Mrs. Z A. Mas
sey and Mrs Robert English. Mrs.
O. N. Ma’hls will be tty accompan-
1st.
Tho World Day of Prayer will be
observed throughout the world.
Everyone tn Griffin and Spalding
Houruv is urged to join in the ob
servance by attending the service
planned here
FIRF. DEPARTMENT GETS
CALL THIS MORNING
The Fire Depart men* answe*ed a
call this morning at 8:04 to the
heme of Mrs. A. 8. Murray, 328
West Taylor Street, where a de
fertivc ras stove was smoking.
There was no damage, according to
the re"ort of thej Ftre Peoa r *me*it.
EDISON’S HOME GIVEN
TO FLORIDA CITY
FORT MYERS. Fla. — MP)’—
Seminole Lodge, the Edison home j j
here for 61 years, has been given
to the city of Fort Myers by Mra,'|
Thomas A. Edison, widow of the I
famous inventor.