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DR. CARSON’S
RESIDENCE
DESTROYED
Fire Razes Country Home
While Family Was
Away.
Fire, starting about 5:30 o’clock
Sunday afteronon, completely de¬
stroyed the country home of Dr. M.
F. Carson.
A call was sent in to the fire de¬
partment, but the firemen could do
little toward saving the house on
account of the inadequate water
supply.
The family was not at home at
the time, the call being sent in by
persons who saw the smoke.
Those reaching the home first
found the roof blazing. Apparent¬
ly the fire started in th e ceiling.
Defective wiring was thought to
be the cause.
A one-inch pipe line was the only
w-ater source available and the fire¬
men could only help by carrying
out furniture.
Most of the furnishings on the
first floor were saved, with the ex¬
ception of some silver in the • but
• ler’s pantry.
Mrs. Carson’s jewelry, including
her engagement and wedding rings,
was lost in the fire.
Dr. and Mrs. Carson arrived home
as the fire had just about destroy¬
ed the home.
Insurance covered part of the loss,
about $7,500 being carried.
McADOO BACK FROM
EUROPE; WILL CONFER
WITH JOHN W. DA.VIS
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Washington, Sept. 22. — William
G. McAdoo is expected to conf:;r
with John W. Davis, the Democratic
presidential candidate, in New
York after his arrival today aboard
the Leviathan, it was announced by
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the democratic national committee,
in making public a radio greeting
sent by the nominee Sunday, to the
Californian. r
Mr. McAdoo also is to consult the
democratic board of strategy at
New York with reference to the
speaking tour he i3 to make across
the continent for the party’s ticket.
Mr. Davis’ message to him ex
pressed “hearty welcome from my
self and throngs of your western
friends who have recently honored
with with every expression of their
confidence, being assured your spldn
did co-operation means victory in
November. tr
BENNETTS READY FOR
TRIAL; FRIENDS SAY
THEY ARE INNOCENT
Rome, Ga., Sept. 22.—W. H. Ben¬
nett, division freight agent of the
Southern railway, who is charged
jointly with his wife, with the mur
der of their aunt, Miss Augusta
Hoffman, in Chattanooga nine years
ago, has authorized the statement
that he and Mrs. Bennett have com
pleted their investigation prepara
tory to their defense and that they
are ready for trial. They were in¬
dicted Saturday by the Hamilton
county grand jury. Friends of the
Bennetts in Rome, where they have
lived almost five years, still main¬
tain confidence in their innocence of
the crime.
WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia—Local thunder show¬
ers Monday; Tuesday fair and cool¬
er, with moderate south winds.
Temperature for 24 hours ending
at noon Monday:
Maximum ’....... 91
Minimum ........69
Mean .................. 80
LATE TELEGRAPH NEWS
SHANGHAI TROOPS HOLD LINE
Shanghai, Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—After battering at
the Chekiang defensive lines since daybreak, the Kiangsu artillery was
unable to push the Shanghai troops back in the fighting which was in
progress today between Hwangtu and Kiating, 15 miles west of Shanghai.
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FIRE IN MINE PREVENTS RESCUE
Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—L. F.
Rain’s coal mine near Spring Canyon, Utah, in which five men were en¬
tombed by an explosion last night, is on fire and the rescue of the im¬
prisoned men alive is believed impossible, according to word received here.
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FLIERS LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA
Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—With Lieut.
Lowell Smith in the lead, the three army world fliers hopped off at 7:28
o’clock this morning for San Diego. The sky was clear and there was only
a slight breeze.
BANK PRESIDENT DIES
Thomasviile, Ga., Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—William Harri¬
son Rockwell, president of the National Bank of Thomasviile, died in a
local hospital at 10 o’clock last night. His illness was brief, an operation
for appendicitis yesterday revealing his critical condition.
MARINES READY FOR CHINA
San Diego, Cal., Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—The fourth
regiment of marines, based here, are being held in readiness for duty in
China, it was announced today. Although no definite word has been re¬
ceived, it is believed, that the regiment may be taken across the Pacific in
the transport Argonne.
M’GREGOR GROWING WEAKER
Warrenton, Ga., Sept. 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—Major O. E.
McGregor, state pension commissioner, who is critically ill, is gradually
becoming weaker, his physician stated today.
PREACHER
CONFESSES
TO MURDER
Admits Placing Poison in
Wife’s Coffee to Re¬
lieve Suffering.
Mt. Vernon, 111., Sept. 22.—(By
the Associated Press.)—Rev Law
■ rence M. Hight, Ina pastor, con¬
fessed at 4:10 o’clock this morning
to P oisonin 8 his Wife and Wilfond
Sweeting.
In a statement to the officers,
Hight declared the murder of his
wife was prompted to relieve her
suffering.
According to his statement he
placed poison in her coffee the
morning of September 10. -v-^===.~
Hight was questioned from 9
o’clock last night until 4 o’clock
this morning. A few minutes later
he confessed.
He claimed to be temporarily in¬
sane at the time.
He admitted poisoning Sweeting
July 27, but denied undue familiar¬
ity with Mrs. Sweeting.
50,000 Are Guests
At Wedding At
Legion Conclave
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More than 80,000 persons
looked ott and the wedding march j
was played by a 8,700-^ .ece band i
when Mias ftnth Blanche Mas
ters married Erling Maine, ad¬
jutant of the American Legion
post ing’ the at legion’s Winnebago, Minn., dur¬
national coavcu
tion in St. PauL
GRIFFIN, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1924.
EXPECT LARGE
CROWD AT MT.
ZION MEETING
Motion pictures, band music,
songs, violin solos, addresses ’n
everything will be on the program
tonight at the city-county commu¬
nity meeting to be held at the tab¬
ernacle in Mt. Zion.
Promptly at 7 o’clock the band
concert will begin and at 7:30 the
meeting will be called to order by
the Rev. John F. Yarbrough, the
chairman of The rural relations
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Rev. B. L. Betts will deliver
the address of welcome.
. The Mt. Zion meeting will be the
third held an the county and it is
planned to hold a meeting in every
community in the county to pro¬
mote a more cordial relationship
between the residents of Spalding
county and those of Griffin. '
The first two meetings drew ca¬
pacity crowds and it is expected the
tabernacle at Mt. Zion will be fill¬
ed tonight.
Automobiles will leave the Cham¬
ber of Commerce at 6 o’clock and
all citizens of Griffin are urged to
attend.
Figure This Out
Munich, Sept. 22.—By the Asso¬
ciated Press.)—The recent weddings
of Karl Braun, 25 years old, and his
father have started an endless chain
of relationships which has got be¬
yond the reach og genealogists, and
culminated in Braun becoming his
father’s father-in-law.
Young Braun married a widow
of 45 with grown up children. Short¬
ly after his father, 50 years of age,
narried the 24 year old daughter of
yond the reach of genealogists, and
■‘hat as a result of the two weddings
young Braun became his father’s
father-in-law and that his wife' s
daughter became her mother’s moth¬
er-in-law and the step mother of
her own lather.
WOMAN AUTO DRIVER
COMMITS SUICIDE ATFER
MACHINE KILLS MAN
Berhn ’ Sept - 22.—Upon being in
^ orme d that a pedestrian whom she
had run down in her high powered
car had fed from the effects of his
injuries, Frau Anita Huettmann,
wife of a well known banker from
Valparaiso, Chile, committeed sui¬
cide by shooting.
DAVIS SAYS
PEOPLE ARE
DISSATISFIED
Declares All Signs Point to
Sweeping Democratic
Victory.
New York, Sept. 22.—Returning
here last night from a 5,000 mile
campaign through the west, John W.
Davis, the democratic presidential
candidate, declared “that all signs
point to a sweeping democratic vic¬
tory in the coming election. *’
I return to the east confident of
success,” he said, U Privilage has
won its last battle. We are laying
our cause before the American peo
pie and they are responding nobly.”
Mr. Davis said everywhere he
went in the west all those with
Hvhoiri' he talked brought the same
message—“that the great silent
vote which has turned every election
in the past when the American peo¬
ple came to a cross road, has made
up its mind this year to turn to
the democratic party as the only?
possible avenue of relief.”
• i The people fully realize, tT he
said “that the choice lies only be¬
tween continuing the present dis¬
credited republican regime c or in¬
stalling the democratic administra¬
tion in its stead.”
Asserting that in all the states
he had visited—West Virginia, Illi¬
nois, Indiana, Wyoming, Nebraska,
Colorado, Kansas and Missouri—he
had foond the democratic party in
tact and undivided. Mr. Davis said
its members were working together
in an “absolute unity of purpose
and with ao interest I have never
seen surpassed in any campaign.”
People Dissatisfied.
Everywhere that I have been, I
have heard the same story, he add
ad, “and it has come to me from
tnen regardless of previous party
affiliation—it is that of dissatis
faction with the service rendered, or
rather denied, by the government
during the last three and a half
years . ---1-----------
“The farmer resents the deception
that was attempted by the republi
can party in placing an utterly in
effective tariff duty on his products;
he resents the artificial increase in
the price of all the things he
buys; and he is convinced that there
is no sincere purpose on the part of
the republican party to take any
steps in his interests.
<< The laboring is longer
man no
deceived by the cry of republican
prosperity and feels keenly the ris¬
ing cost of living.
u The exposure of corruption in
Washington made a far deeper im¬
pression on the public mind and
the moral sense of the country than
the leaders of the republican party
are willing to admit. They have not
been forgotten and will not be for¬
given.
U I found, that in the
moreover,
middle west—contrary to the im¬
pression which prevailes in some
quarters—the people were deeply in¬
terested in the foreign policy of the
government and entirely out of
sympathy with the timid evasive
course which the present admin¬
istration has pursued.”
NEW FUNERAL CAR
ADDED TO EQUNIPMENT
OF HAISTEN BROS.
Haisten Bros., local 7
funeral id
rectors, have added a third funeral
car to their already well-equipped
establishment.
Combination gray black is the
color of the vehicle which was made
by the Mort Company, Bpeciahata
in funeral cars and ambulances.
Preach First
Sermon Tonight at
Christian Church
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Dr. 8. P. Spiegel, who will con¬
the revival services at the
Christian church, will preach
first sermon at 7:30 o’clock to¬
The revival will continue for two
and was started yesterday
Dr. O. K. Cull, pastor of the
church, preached two ser¬
mons to large audiences.
STORY
OF MEANS IS
RIDICULOUS
Roxie Stinson Denies Giv¬
ing Testimony Inspired
by Wheeler.
Cplumbus, O., Sept. 22,—(By the
Associated Press.) — Miss
Stinson, one of the senate
tee’s star witnesses in the
tion of the administration of Harry
M. Daugherty, former attorney gen
today characterized as “redic
ulous” the purported
from Gaston B. Means, former de¬
partment of justice agent, to
*>er Attorney General
which Means repudiated his testi
mony.
*Miss Stinson, the divorced
of Jesse Smith, whose name figured
conspicuously in the senate
tigation, denied a statement con
tained in the Means repudiation
that she, like himself, had
testimony “inspired by Burton
Wheeler, prosecutor” and denied
coercion had been used >n obt lining
her testimony,
Wants Another Probe.
Aboard Wheeler Special to
ington, Sept. 2?.—Senator
announced today that Gaston
Means called him last night
long distance telephone and
that the special senate committee be
called together again that he might
present evidence to prove even
grosser corruption in public
than he exposed last spring..
Wheeler said that Means told him
that he had dealings with
Coan, employee of the
national committee, and with Daugh
at Columbus prior to the
repudiation.
BOY ADMITS KILLING
AUNT AND ATTACKING
CHILDREN WITH AX
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 22.—Chase
a negro sdspected of killing
Mrs. Lina Wessinger with an ax,
and seriously injuring her three
children, was abandoned to¬
by a posse after Asbury Wes¬
14 year old nephew of the
confessed the crime.
Three other negroes held in con¬
with the ax slaying were re¬
The boy first told authorities that
negro killed his aunt and attack¬
the children. Later he admitted
struck his aunt while she was
the cow.
VOL. 53—NO. 49
STORM TOLL
IS HEAVY IN
WISCONSIN
Total Dead Placed at 30;
Property Loss Is
Large.
St. Paul, Sept. 22.—(By the Asso¬
ciated Press.) Sweeping across
Wisconsin and Minnesota several
terrific tornadoes took a toll of 19
known dead with unconfirmed re
ports late Sunday placing the total
dead at 30,
The brunt of the storm was felt
at Thorp, Wis., where 11 persons
are known dead, while reports say
the total in that section will reach
22 .
Property losses in the Thorp sec¬
tion will aggregate several hundred
thousands of dollars.
A heavy rain and hail storm with
a high wind preceded the tornado,
which lasted only a few minutes.
The twister covered an area of be¬
tween 10 and 12 miles.
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Children Killed
Couderay, Wis., Sept. 22—(By As¬
sociated Press,)—Two small chil¬
dren are dead, their mother dying
and six others injured as the re¬
sult of a cyclone which passed over
this section between Couderay and
Lexington Sunday afternoon.
The two small children of Mrs.
Joe Patrice were killed when the
home was carried 400 feet by a
twister.
POLICE HERE .tf
ASKED TO NAB
NEGRO; GET 4
They can’t get through Griffin.
They have tried it and failed;
speeders get caught and runaway
boys are nabbed off the tijpin.
In the wee small hours of Sunday
morning the police received a wire
from Forsyth to take a small negro
boy off the train from Macon.
Police on duty at the station
boarded the train and instead of
one, they found four. The oldest
appeared to be about 12 and the
youngest about 8.
They were escorted down to the
Big Jail” to await the arrival of
their parents.
The boys had tickets to Atlanta
and were leaving home, they said,
to go to the big city where they
could make more money.
MANY PRIZES GIVEN
BY FREEDMAN DURING
TRADE EXPANSION SALE
Prizes awarded by Freedman’s
Department Store during its big
trade Expansion Sale, went to J.
G. Pulliam, Milner, Route 1, fattest
boy, and Jim Miller, Griffin, boy
with the most freckles.
In the baby contest where a com
piete outfit was to be given to the
fattest baby under 2 years, on ac
:oiint of so many attending, three'
prizes were awarded, first going to
3. G. Brooks, Griffin, Route A;
second to C. M. Massett, Bleach
ery No. 1.; third to the child of
Mrs. J. G. Marshall, Griffin.
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AUTOMOBILE STOLEN
FROM DR. WEBB CONN
A new Hudson coach, belonging
to Dr. Webb Conn, was stolen Sun¬
day night in front of his home at
the Marion apartment.
The theft was not discovered un¬
til this morning.
A bag of instruments was in th£
car.
Poliee are working on the case.