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Would Re-Impose Excess Profit Tax
WOULD IMPOSE EXCELS TAX
ON PROFITS OVER TWENTY
PERCENT; REPUBLICANS
POSE AMENDMENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—(By
1 the Associated Press)—A proposal to
S reimpose the excess profits in
§ developed into a stubborn contest
% today in the house.
The proposition, offered by Frear
| a Republican insurgent, of Wiscon
* sin, as an amendment to tlhe revenue
bill, carried rates of ten percent on
the first twenty percent of the pro¬
fits over allowed reductions, and
I fifty percent of the profits over al¬
ii lowed reductions, and fifty percent
| «f the profits above that. The for.
| mer law had rates of twenty and
forty per cent.
The ,same exemption of three
thousand dollars plus an eight per
cent profit would be allowed. Re¬
publican leaders vigorously opposed
the amendmfent.
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IN FINAL TILL
GRIFFIN AND COMMERCIAL HI
PLAY FOR THIRD PLACE IN
G. I. A. A. STANDING; CROWDS
ARE LARGE EACH NIPHT.
Universtiy School for Boys and
Riverside Military Academy will fight
it out in the finals of the G. I. A. A.
tourney here Saturday by virtue of
their wins over Commercial Hi and
Griffin respectively. The two schools
last named will play for third place.
The games were played bfefore a
capacity houtfe of frantic fans who
went w.!d especially in the second
game. The first game between Univer
sity and Commercial Hi was the
only one-sided contest of the entire
tourney, University winning by easi¬
ly doubling the score to the tune of
44 to 22 after sending in all subs dur¬
ing the second half.
Commercial never had a chance
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from the beginning, although they
fought to the finish while playing a
losing game. MeTfin, bt U. S. B., found
no apparent trouble in carrying the
ball into enemy territory and shoot¬
ing at will. He managed Ho gather
eighteen points all by himself, which
is the highest number gathered by
one man during the entire tourney.
The opositio* offered by Commer¬
cial was utterly hopeless. Captain
Hartman’s efforts were hard and best
rewarded, the plucky little leader of
the losers fighting like a tiger, only
to get three field goals and likewise
three fouls for a total of nine points.
Rudderman came next with eight
counters to his credit.
RIVERSIDE WINS.
Griffin High started off at a fast
clip in the first part of the last game
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CHICAGO POLICE
CHICAGO, Feb. 23—(By the Asso¬
ciated Press)—A double murder mys¬
tery involving theories of bottleg
killing, revenge, or domestic trouble
centers the activity of detectives
seeking clues to the siayers of John
Duffy, found in a roadside snow¬
drift at Argo, Illinois, yesterday and
a woman partly identified as Mrs.
Duffy, found last night in an excel¬
lently furnished apartment which
Duffy shared with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
C. Horton.
A search is being made for the Hor¬
tons, who are believed to have left ten
days ago on an automobile trip to De¬
troit and since returned.
Later the woman’s body was iden¬
tified as that of Mrs. Jack Horton
and the identification will only part¬
ly clarify (be mystery, police be¬
lieve. Mrs. Horton is said to have
comie here from Louisville either
or to join her husband.
Horton Is now being sought in
■onnection with double slaying.
Detectives are uncertain as to the
motive. <
TWO FIRES EXTINGUISHED
WITH LITTLE DAMAGE DONE
The fire department was called
Friday afternoon shortly before
three o’clock to the corner of Tay¬
lor and Ninth streets where grass
on fire was threatening the safety
of-several houses. It whs immediate.
!y put out. Saturday morning at
nine o’clock the department was
called to the Ibomle of J. F. Dickin¬
where the roof was on fire.
the flames were extinguished
slight damage.
GRIFFIN, GA., SATURDAY AFY NOON, FEBRUARY 23, 1924.
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Entire Plan Approved This Morning
After An All Night Session by
Chamber of iputies.
PARIS, Feb. 23—(By \ Associated
Prqss)—The Chamber of Deputies ap¬
proved Poincare's entire taxation and
economy plan this morning after an
all night session, by a vote of 354 to
218. The session was the longest in
the annals of the French parliament.
Taken as a whole, the measures
voted are expected to yield more than
7,500,000,000 francs.
AN ACE OF STONE
EXPEDITION HEADED BY PRO
FESSOR ANDERSON UN EARTHS 1
NUMlBER OF OBJECTS, NONE
OF WHICH ARE METAL.
STOOGHOLM, Feb. 23—(By the
Associated Press)—'Discoveries made
in China by J. G. Anderson, a
Swedish 'scientist, establishes in his
belief that China had a stone age,
At Fengtien, the expedition headed
by Professor Anderson, excavated a
cave about eight by 18 feet. In it
were found bones from about 40 hu
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m,an bodies and a large number of
obects, none of which was of metal.
The objects included arrowheads,
stone axes, ibone*awls curious stone
f
rings and a tiny piece of animal
sculpture made of marine, fragments
of remarkable vessels, some with
pressed geometrical patterns and
others /with a polished red surface
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on page five.)
BASCOM TO TESTIFY
President’s Secretary Agrees to This
After Telephone Conversation
With Senator Walsh.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—(By the
Associated Press)—C. Bascrnn Slemp
the secretary of President Coolidge,
agreed today to appear before the
senate oil committee after Senator
Walsh, of Montana, the chief pro
seeutor in the scandal, had called
him on the telephone.
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FOR HIS CRIES
THE BOY WILL BE GIVEN A
PRELIMINARY HEARING BE.
FORE COUNTY JUDGE—DATE
HAS NOT BEEN SET.
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CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 23—
(By the Associated Press)—Frank
McDowell, nineteen year old slayer
of bis father, mjother and two sis¬
ters, will not be examined by the
ordinary insanity commission, but
will be submitted to the usual pro
cediure of trial for a capital crime,
Deputy Sheriff Horton Belcher told
newspaper mien today
It has been decided, the deputy
is quoted as saying that the boy
slayer will be given a preliminary
hearing before County Judge Bird
and later tried in circuit court dur¬
ing the (May term. The date of the
preliminary hearing has not yet
been set.
Talks and Songs Will Feature Ser¬
vices at That Sunday School To¬
morrow Morning.
Sunday morning a missionary pro
gram, which has been arranged by
t^e committee,,will be rendered at the
First Methodist church Sunday
school.
A great deal of interest in missions
has been manifested and this pro
gram is being looked forward to with
great enthusiasm.
It follows, in full:
Recitation—^“Missionary Prayer »>
Miss Vera Pearson.
Vocal Duet—“In The Garden »*
Miss Vera Pearson and James Bishop.
Recitation—“The Little Missionary •»
—Miss Lois Randall.
Talk—“What God Thinks of Mis¬
sions”—W. S. Mixon.
Vocal Solo—Mrs. L. C. Warren,
Talk—“Money’V-Lyndon Patterson.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Forecast for Georgia: Increasing
cloudliuess and warmer tonight in the
'north and west portions. Sunday rain
nnd warmer in south portions.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending at noon today:
Maximum .. 50
Minimum 30
Mean______ 40
ALBANY MAN IN GRIFFIN HOS¬
PITAL AS RESULT OF ACCI¬
DENT OCCURRING AT SPOT
WHERE WOMAN WAS KILLED.
A white man whose name was giv¬
en as W. S. Hancock of South Georgia,
was brought to the Griffin hospital
Saturday morning following an auto¬
mobile accident near Hampton. He is
reported to be only slightly injured.
A mechanic who was riding with
Hancock was also slightly injured.
The accident occurred just the other
side of Hampton near the fertilizer
works where a woman was recently
killed in a similar mishap. The two
men, it is said, were on the way to
Atlanta for the purpose of bringing
back a truck.
Hancock, it is said, resides at Al¬
bany and travels for a harvester con
cern -
Mr. Hancock was reported to be
resting easily at the hospital shortly
before three o’clock. His injuries con¬
sisted of a cut on the left side,
scratches on the face and was jarred
considerably. He has slept most of
the time since leaving the operating
room.
His companion in the wreck, S. S.
Cochran, also of Albany, was only
slightly injured and resumed his
journey.
PERSONAL MENTION
Miss Lucile Manget, Eugene Man
get, both of Newnan, and Lee Hand,
of Senoia, are the guests for the week
end of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Owens, at
their home on Xorth Eleventh street.
From May 15, 1918, to December
31, 1922, the air mail service traveled
five million miles through the air.
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IN DECLARATION OP CANDI¬
DACY COOLIDGE BEQUESTS
HIS NAME BE PRINTED ON
OFFICIAL PRIMARY BALLOT.
COLUMBUS, O.,. Feb. 23—(By
the Associated Press)—Calvin Cool¬
idge formally entered the Ohio Re¬
publican presidential preference pri¬
maries today by filing his declara¬
tion with Secretary of State Brown.
.
Simultaneous with Coolidge’a fil¬
ing, Arthur L. Garford, of Elyria,
also filed with the secretary an
authorization for use of his name
as second choice candidate in com¬
pliance with the Ohio primary law.
In bis declaration of candidacy,
Coolidge diso requests that his
name be printed on the official pri-*
mary ballot
IS HELD AS
HIRED ASSASSIN
ACCUSED OF MURDER OF GIRL
WHOSE SKELETON WAS FOUND
AFTER MONTH’S DISAPPEAR.
ANCE.
ORLANDO, Feb. 23—(By the As¬
sociated Press)—Chjef of Detectives
J. McMahon leaves tonight for
Sulphur .Springs, Florida, to bring
back the negro held there in con
nection with the alleged mupfcr of
Marion Johnson, the twenty-two
year old Orlando girl who disappear,
ed from home in October 1922, and
whose skeleton was found Wednes
day on the hanks of a lake.
The negro is aileiged to have been
a hired assassin and is also under
observation for a similar crime in
Pennsylvania, the officers assert.
McADOO PROVES CHARACTER IR
REPROACHABLE AS SCANDAL
DEVELOPS AMONG MOST PRO¬
MINENT LEADERS OF NATJON.
(By Mrs. L. C. Warren) „ -
(Chairman Woman’s Division of 6th
District of Georgia.)
Firday, February 22, the whole na¬
tion called a halt In business, in school
and in every hamlet to honor the
memory of Washington—that man
who stands out as the first beacon
light of greatness for this glorious
country of ours. Only a few days ago,
not only our America, but every na¬
tion of the earth, sat with bowed
heads and awed hearts when it was
learned thatanother beacon light of
civilization, even greater than the first
had b een snuffed out.
Just men! and yet a world rejoices
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