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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
DEFENDERS
OF SHANGHAI
WIN BATTLE
Push Back Invading Forces
And Strengthen
u Lines.
.-Shanghai, Sept. 20.—(By the Asso
) ciated Press.)—In an engagement
which started at daybreak, the rein¬
forced Chekiang troops on the front
between the Shanghai-Nanking rail¬
way line and Kiating, pushed the in¬
vading troops back, strengthened
their - lines and regained positions
near Hwangtu, fifteen miles west of
here.
Chang Claims Success.
Tokio, Sept. 20.—(By the Associ¬
ated Press.);—In a communique is¬
sued in Mukden, Chang Tso Lin, the
Manchurian leader, claims decisive
.success over the forces of the cen
tral government of Peking at Jehol
north of Peking and on the Chihli
border, between Chinchow on the
Peking-Mukden railway in Manchuria
and Chaoyang in Chihli, according to
press dispatches received here.
Chang also says his second and
fourth armies 'which are crossing the
Chihli border captured large quanti¬
ties of munitions at Fuhsinsin, a
small border village.
British Ships Endangered.
Tientsin, Sept. 20.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) — Shankhaikwan, the
border town on the
railway, was shelled Friday morning,
according to a correspondent, several
civilians being killed or injured. Ap¬
peals have been made to the Ameri
can and British consuls to protest
against the shelling of civilians. >
One of Chang Tso-Lin’s airplanes
dropped a bomb the same day at
Chingwangtao, in Chihli, a few miles
from Shanhaikwan. The bomb fell
between two British steamers anchor¬
ed off the breakwater.
Dr. Cull To Preach
First Sermon At
Revival Services
The Rev. O. K. Cull will open the
revival services at the First Chris¬
tian church tomorrow by preaching
two sermons.
Dr. S. P. Spiegel, who will be in
charge of the services, has been de¬
tained and will not arrive until Mon
day. He will preach his first sermon
Monday night at 7:30 o’clock.
The revival will continue fo| two
weeks and services will be held each
night at 7:30 o'clock.
A special choir, assisted by singers
from other churches in the city, will
furnish the music, which will be di¬
rected by Dr. Spiegel.
Dr. Spiegel is well known in this
city, having preached the bacca¬
laureate sermon to the(fr924 graduat¬
ing class of the GriffiiAhigh school.
Advisory Board
Of Salvation Army
Elects Officers
Officers were elected at a meeting
of the advisory board of the Salva¬
tion Army held last night at the
Griffin Hotel. They are: W. H.
Beck, Sr., president; E., F. Travis,
vice president; E. P. Bridges, secre¬
tary; C. M. “Powi/r, treasurer.
Three new members named at the
meeting are. Mrs. R. R. Evans, Mrs.
Cooper Newton and Dr. J. F. Yar¬
brough.
Rules for the government of thh
board were adopted and a report
read of the work done so far by the
Salvation Army since its arrival in
Griffin.
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Miss Irene Ward.
London, Sept. 18.—Women are
learning the ways of politics fast in
England.
When Miss Irene Ward, Conserva¬
tive candidate for parliament, was
challenged by the Labor party about
her knowledge of conditions among
LATETELEGRAPH NEWS
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WILBUR AGAIN VISITS WHITE HOUSE.
Washington, Sept. 20.—(By the Associated Press.)—Secretary Wilbur,
whose western speaking r r was cut short when he was asked to return
t Coolidge, visited the white house today and
at the termination of an interview with the president announced that
a
special board would be appointed to investigate the relative importance
of air, submar i n e and surface craft in th e ns vy
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WORLD FLIERS LEAVE FOR EL PASO.
Love Field, Tex., Sept. 20.—(By the Associated Press.)—With Lieut. Low¬
ell Smith, flight commander, leading, piloting the Chicago, the world fliers
took off ■Tor JJ-Paso, 645 miles away, at 6:40 this morning.
SCAFFOLD VICTIM TO BE BURIED TODAY
Hazlehurst, Ga., Sept. 20.—(By the Associated Press.—Conforming to
his wishes expressed before stepping on the gallows yesterday afternoon,
the body of Warren Waters, aged 56, executed for the murder of Mar¬
shall T. E. Kersey, will be buried in the Oak.City cemetery today.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE OUT TO WIN.
Topeka, Kans., Sept. 20—(By the Associated Press.)—Making his slo¬
gan “Free Kansas from the Ku Klux, William Allen White, Emporia edi¬
tor, in a statement issued today in connection with his independent candi¬
dacy for governor, declared he is in the race to stay and win.
YOUNG MURDERER GRANTED REPRIEVE
Springfield, 111., Sept. 20.—(By the Associated Press.)—Governor Len
Small today granted a 90 day reprieve to Bernard Grant, Chicago youth
awaiting the death sentence penalty. The reprieve is dated to January 16.
11 WARRANTS IN TAR AND FEATHER CASE
Frederick, Md., Sept. 20—(By the Associated Press.)—Warrants have
been issued for the arrest of 11 persons indicted for complicity in the
tarring and feathering of Dorothy Grandon at Myreaville, Frederick coun
ty, last July. She was accused of having received the attentions ot mar
ried men of that place. Twenty persons were indicted but nine are still at
large on $2,000 bond each.
WATCHMAN AT EATONTON
HELD I OR III RGLAR)
Eatonton, Ga., Sept. 20.—Eaton
ton's series of mysterious burglaries,
extending over many months, have
been cleared up, according to county
officers.
H. Lawt Byars, night watchman, a
quiet, sober, steady, unassuming man
and quite prominent in church work,
is burglaries. in jail, accused He is of alleged a long chain of j
to have
been trapped in a drug store here
early this morning by Reuben and
Eugene Whitman, formerly of
GRIFFIN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 .
working people, she donned overalls
and went down into the coal pits at
Ellington to investigate and study
the environment in Which miners toil.
selves Labor good party members proved by them¬
sportsmen accom
panying her on her first tour of tht
pits.
<anta, and was captured after a
number of shots had been fired, wak
ing up the whole town,
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VAI.DOSTANS TO VOTE
ON CITY BOND ISSUE - ”
FOR 8270,000 FUND
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 20. An elec
:; on for October 31 has been called
by the city council for the purpose
of voting on * bond issue for public
improvements in this city, The
amount of bond'issue to be voted on
totals $270,000.
DAVIS PLANS
TO FIGHT IN
EVERY STATE
Tells /ndiana Audience He
Will Not Concede
Anything.
Gary, Ind., Sept. 20.—A declara¬
tion of intent to battle tt: m every
state in the union »* a renewed as
sault on “privilege on government, tf
and a vigorous appeal for devotion to
those “fundamental principles of hu¬
man equality, personal liberty and
popular sovereignty," were predomi¬
nant in the opening address here last
night by John W. Davis in his cam¬
paign in Indiana.
Did Not Concede Any State.
Amid cheers Or*
from an audience of
several thousand gathered in this in¬
dustrial center of northern Indiana.
Mr. Davis declared he did not con
cede any state to the adversaries of
the Democratic party.
it I want the word to out,” he
go
said, “that there are no lost Demo¬
cratic battalions cut off from head¬
quarters. It is not in mortals to
command success, but in 48 states
of the American union we propose
to do better—we propose to deserve
it.
Democrats Devoted, Consistent.
Appealing for devotion <3 to the prin
ciples . , of equality, liberty and
sov
ereignty, Mr. Davis said he had come
to his audience as a Democrat, be¬
cause he believed that the Demo¬
cratic party has followed with more
devotion and consistency than any
other organization “these great doc¬
trines that are so essential and so
fundamental if this country is to
endure. )>
To Discuss Freight
Rate Discrimination
At Meeting Here
Letters asking many Georgia and
several Alabama towns to send rep
resentatives here to attend a freight
rate discrimination meeting October
8, have been sent out by the Griffin
and Spalding County Chamber of
Commerce.
The rates are on all roads south
of the Ohio and Mississippi river
fork and the discrimination is in
favor of Atlanta, Augusta, Macon
and Columbus.
Towns requested to send represen¬
tatives here are Newman, Fort Val¬
ley, Covington, Conyers, Cordele,
Culloden, Eastman, Dawson, Cuth
bert, Elbertson, Athens, West Point,
Washington, Woodbury, LaGrange,
Waycross, Brunswick, Madison, Se
aoia, Barnesville, Thomaston, Monte¬
zuma, Linnette, Ala., Opelika, Ala.
The meeting is the direct result
of work done by the transportation
committee of the Chamber of Com¬
merce, of which W. L. Graefe is
chairman. Wade Hutchinson is traf¬
fic manager of the committee.
The result of the meeting will be
presented as a petition to the inter¬
state commerce commission in Wash¬
ington.
HENRY COUNTY DELEGATES
TO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
AT MACON ARE NAMED
Henry county delegates to the
Democratic convention at Macon, Oc¬
tober 8, have been named and are as
follows :
. Paul Turner, A. G. Harris, David
Arnold, Mrs. David Arnold, A. C.
Norman, E. M. Smith, Ralph Turner,
Mrs. Ralph Turner, A. G. Combs,
J. D. McCullough, C. C. Fargason,
T. J. Brown, H. C. Hightower and
H. J. Turue.r
ROME RAILROAD MAN
AND WIFE ARE INDICTED
FOR MURDER OF AUNT
HOT SPRINGS
IS VISITED
BY TORNADO
Demolishes Church And
Damages Hotel;
One Injury.
O’
Hot Springs, Sept. 20.—A tornado
dipped to earth here late yesterday,
demolishing the St. Luke’s Episcopal
church and unroofing a portion of
the Eastman hotel. No fatalities
were reported.
The twister swept in from the Hot
Springs National Park, dipped into
the city and then passed over Hot
Springs mountain, northeast of the
city.
In addition to wrecking the church
and damaging the Eastman hotel, the
wind destroyed the cottage home of
Mrs. G. A. Bates, damaged the Glen
wood hotel and scattered automo¬
biles about the streets. Numerous
buildings were slightly damaged.
Only one injury was reported. Elza
Skilleren sought protection from the
wind and rain by standing against
the brick walls of St. Luke s church.
When the building collapsed, skill¬
eren was buried in an avalanche of
debris. He was taken to a hospital
where it was said his injuries were
not serious.
Mrs. Bates was in her home when
the tornado tore the roof and walls
of the little cottage from the foun¬
dations.
Only the floor was left with Mr*.
Bates slightly bruised, standing
among the wreckage.
The Eastman hotel suffered the
heaviest property damage. The roof
was torn from a portion of the build¬
ing and the interior was flooded by
torrents of rain. The hotel’s power
plant was hard hit, the wind demol¬
ishing one wall and the roof of the
boiler room.
BOY SCOUTS TO MEET
MONDAY AFTERNOON
Boy Scouts of Troop L will meet
at the Chamber of Commerce Mon¬
day at 5 o’clock.
All Scouts who are not members
of troops in Griffin are invited to
join and all boys between the ages
of 12 and 18 are especially asked to
attend the meeting with the inten¬
tion of organizing a new troop.
Welcome Services ~
For Salvation Army
Here Tomorrow
The Union Services of welcome for
the Salvation Army to be participat¬
ed in by all the churches in the city
will be held at the Methodist church
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock and
will be presided over by Dr. Leon M.
Latimer, pastor of the First Baptist
church.
Music will be furnished by a ehoir
and selections will be rendered by
Ensign Fuller and others.
Welcome to the Salvation Amy
wii! be expressed by P. Y. Lather,
Methodist/church; J. P. Nichols,
Baptist church; J. L. Algood, Chris¬
tian church; J. Woods Hammond,
Presbyterian churcbf** Rev.' ii. A.
Willey, Episcopal church; Col. L. P.
Goodrich, city of Griffin.
A response wil be made by En¬
sign S. M. Surts.
WEATHER FORECAST
l or Georgia—Unsettled, probably
thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday.
Temperature for 21 hours ending
it. noon Saturday:
Maximum' _____ .82
Minimum _____________
Mean____________________ .76
Rainfall. .14 of an inch.
A shadow, 50 miles long, thrown
by Mount Ranier, recently fell upon
the city of Tacoma, Washington.
VOL. 53—NO. 48
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Finding of Skeleton in July
Led To Arrest of
Couple.
Chattanooga, Ga., Sept. 20.—(By
the Associated Press.)—Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Bennett, of Rome,' Qa., were
indiefed by a Hamilton county grand
jury this morning for the murder, at
Miss Augusta Hoffman, a spinster
modiste, their aunt, who disappeared
in 1916.
w. H. Bennett, district freight
agent for the Southern railway at
Rome, and his wife were detained
July 24 and were taken to Chatta¬
nooga in connection with the finding
pf a woman’s skeleton in a shallow
grave beneath a house undergoing
_
repairs.
They were detained on investiga¬
tion by authorities of reports that
Miss Augusta Hoffman, an aged
aunt of Bennett, had occupied the
house in 1916 and about that time
had mysteriously disappeared.
Spectacles Clew.
The finding of a pair of gold
rimmed spectacles in grave bearing
the trade mark of an optician at
Knoxville led the officers to that city,
where they recovered a letter written
W Mrs. Claude Parker, of State Col¬
lege, Pa., sister of Miss Hoffman.
Miss Hoffman was at one time at¬
tached to the establishment of Mrs.
Molly McGray, milliner, here, and it
was through the latter that the de¬
tectives received the clew which they
believe has established the identity
of the victim.
According to their theory, Miss
Hoffman, who had procured a con-
3iderable sum of money, was prepar¬
ing to leave for Knoxville, her for¬
mer home, and was killed on the eve
of her departure. ♦
Questions Evaded.
Questions propounded in letters by
detectives were evaded, it is said, one
answer being that Miss Hoffman had
suddenly married and gone to New
York. Another was that the « >man
and her husband were in Santa
Mexico. /
Benefit I
Supper
To Be Given By
Band Tonight
The Georgia-Kincaid band will give
a benefit supper at the band hall at
mill two tonight, starting at 6:30
o’clock.
The merchants of Griffin have con
tributed the refreshments for the oc
casion, which consist of chicken, fish,
or oyster dinners^, barbecue and other
delicacies.
The money derived from the bene¬
fit will be used to purchase uniforms
for the band.
A good band is an excellent asset
f° r Griffin and to show their ap
preciation of it the citizens are urged
to give the benefit supper their sup¬
port and help a worthy cause.
LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
OF GRIFFIN FROM THE
GEORGIA-KINCAID BAND
This is the final announcement of
our supper to be given at Band hall,
East Griffin, tonight.
Although the weather looks un
favorable, don’t hold back for we
are prepared to take care of you.
Fa ad concert begins promptly at
6:30 o’clock. Supper to be served
from 6 o’clock and continue as long
as the people desire.
Thanking you in advance for your
kindness, we remaih, The Georgia
Kincaid Band.