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Volume L1I, Number 17
PEACH GROWERS
MEETING HERE
NEXT
Emmett Snellgrove, executive
tor of the Georgia Association
Peach Growers, announces that
meeting of great importance to
growers of this section of the
will be held in the Peach
court house at 10 o’clock, Tuesday
morning, April 25.
Sturgest Dorrance, nationally known
merchandising expert, will be present
at the meeting and address the grow¬
ers.
The program for promotion of Geor¬
gia peaches will bt presented, which
will be of much interest to the mem¬
bers of the association and will also
be of interest to those who have not
ojined the association, says Mr. Snell
grove. He urges those who have not
joined the association to be present
for they will be told at that meeting
how important it will be to them to
become members.
This meeting will be one of three
to be held in different sections of the
state.
AMLIE S NAME
IS WITHDRAWN
Nomination to ICC Withdrawn Afler
Communism Charge.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Presi- . o r> -
dent , _ Roosevelt, , i» complying , . with ...
Thomas R. „ Amhe . ’. ; request . ,? that . ,. his
s
nomination a to al the T Interstate a a a Com- «
Commission _ ... be withdrawn, .,, , , has
merce
suggested ... to Amlie . that ,, , , he had , . , been
called „ , Communist „ ... for .. political .... ,
a rea
„
'
“Those . who, , for , political ' .... , reasons
have , called ,, , you a Communist, . . „ the
President , wrote Amlie . ,. in a , letter ,
made , public Monday, „, do not , perhaps ,
'
realize that , . such name-cailmg ,,. ill
serves the ,, _ Democratic .. form of „ gov
ernment which this nation as a whole , ,
wishes . , to continue. ....
Mr. Roosevelt asked the Senate , , for
mallv Monday , to , withdraw . , , the ,, .
nation. He ,, apprised the former ,,
gressive congressman from ,, r . .
of this intent in his letter, dated April
15. ,. The letter added: ,, , ,
“I deeply' regret that a certain type
of opposition should deprive the In
terstate Commerce Commission of one |
as able and as wholeheartedly devoted ,
to the public service as you are.
In asking that his name be with- j
drawn Amlie, on April 7, wrote the j
President that “a reactionary press S
and an unscrupulous political cabal’ ,
seized on the occasion of his nomina-1 I
tion to “transform the pdblic debate.
and , the r, Senate , hearings . over mv con- ;
firmation , .. into . . a veritabie .... witchcraft .. , .. j
^ j „ |
“ '
Amlie added: ,, ,
. J . deeply , appreciate the , confidence! ... I
, have reposed , . , by nominating ...
you in me
me to this . post all ,, the more so since I
I . have , so frequently * , been a critic ... of 1
New .. Deal „ .... policies.
.... It is . unfortuate, . . but . . not ... altogether!
surprising, that such a high spirit, of: 1
responsible . nonpartisanship .. , . should , ,. , be
regarded , , , by timid . , politicians ..... !
as
dangerous , political .... , liability, , .... and , . by a
hysterical , . , press as a veritable , , traf- ,
ticking . , . with . , the devil. , „
.. He Was ... (ailed „ ,, , a Communist ,, . .
The President ^ told Amlie:
“A quarter of a century ago, I, too,
was called to a Communist and a wild¬
eyed radical because I fought for fac¬
tory inspection, for a fifty-four-bour
a-week bill for women and children in
industry and similar measures.
“You are still young and I hope
the that improvement you will continue of social to work and eeo-. for j
nomie legislation under our frame- j
work of government.
“I deeply regret that a certain type
of opposition should deprive the In
terstate Commerce Commission of one
as able and as wholeheartedly devoted
to the public service as you are.
“You and I have often differed on
important issues, but I can assure you
nothing has occurred to alter my be¬
lief in your qualifications to serve as
a minority member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.”
In hearings on the nomination, Am
lie’s economic views were discussed at
length especially as to whether he fa¬
vored public ownership of railroads.
The nominee denied flatly that he
was a Communist.
Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH. Houston. Macon and Craivford Counties, tv here ISature smiles her brightest
POLICE
ESCAPED
Chief of Police G. W. Cochran
ports that he and Officers L. E.
and Boisie Barfield captured
Frederick, Negro, herd last
night.
Frederick was sentenced in
superior court last October after
ing convicted of burglarizing the
lantic Company’s No. 2 plant He
been serving his sentence on the Craw¬
ford county convict gang.
F. I). R. to Ask Fund
To Finance Relief
-
$1,500,000,000 Will Be Sought to Aid
Needy During Fiscal Year.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Presi
dent Roosevelt today indicated that
within ten days he will ask Congress,
which is fighting to pare relief costs
and to scrap WPA, for $1,500,000,000
to finance aid to the nation’s needy
during the fiscal year beginning July
1.
The figure coincides with the one
which Senate Majority Leader Alben
W. Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky,
said would be submitted. The Presi
dent, however, at his press conference
today, did not close the door to chang¬
es in it. He said the $1,500,000,000
estimate was in his budget and while
he saw nothing in the current situa
tion . to force , . . the .. amount ,
a revision,
still is under discussion.
„ Relief .. , Shakeup Cited ,
A sizeable . , cut . m . relief costs and
repeal of deterrent .... taxes have , been ,
, by business , . to , spur trade. , , The
chief , . , executive said ., , he expected , , to ,
next week with heads of the
senate ... and house tax-making . , • commit
tees, , but . other sources indicated , these ,
conversations .. would , , evolve , about con
tmuation ... of present ... ., lev- .
nuisance
les and , proposed . .... freezing ,, of , pay
taxes under the social security
act, rather , than . about , . widespread . . .
re
. corporate rates,
visions m
Administration ....... leaders , at . the , capi
to! , have , informed . , , ,, the President ,, a
'
shake-up the . relief ... operations
m is
virtually ,, certain to be forced ,,■ by a
bloc , , ot „ conservative ... Democrats and
Republicans in both houses.
Objective Outlined
The genera! objectives: Scrapping
of ] WPA; compelling states to bear
a larger share of the relief burden;
providing absolute safe-guards against
politics in relief; increasing benefits
under the social security act to make
it the front line of attack on the un
employment problem, and cleansing of
“career reliefers” from the rolls.
The senate this week will take , up
a bill by Senator James , b. ,, Byrnes :
(Democrat, /T _ . South _ Carolina) , designed , ,
achieve many of these objectives.
_,, The , house appropriations . committee,
’
conducting , . . into .
a sweeping inquiry
Works Progress Administration, . , . . . is
the investigation . .... order
in
to , have a partial . , report of ...... its findings
*
ready . before . ., the new relief .... fight „
opens '
r or the past . 48 , hours .. the group , has
*
, been interrogating .. , leaders . of the
Workers , , Alliance, an organization ... of
relief workers. .. It . demanding . .. 20
is a
per cent increase in VV PA , wages and
a $3,500,000,000 relief grant , for ., the
new fiscal year.
Brown Speaker
at Kiwanis Club
At the regular weekly meeting of
the Kiwanis Club last Friday, J. E.
Bledsoe presented Loufs L. Brown,
w j 10 made a very interesting talk on
the General Economic Condition and
Tax Problems of the State of Geor
g heard j a . Mr. with Brown’s talks deal are of interest always j
a great
and Kiwanians were given much en¬
lightening information in his able dis¬
course on the subject.
The program this week will be
in charge of the program committee.
Masonic Meetin » «
Regular communication of Fort
Valley Lodge No. 110 F. and A. M.
will be held Tuesday night at 8 o’clock.
The Master’s degree will be conferred.
A. J. CULPEPPER, W. M.
T. M. ANTHOINE, Sec.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 1939
Walsh Warns Senate
! Against Meddlin g in
Affairs of Europe
Our People “Want Friendship With
Other Nations, Not Entangling
Alliances,” Senator Says.
WASHINGTON, April 18. — The
people of the United States stand sol¬
idly against “meddling in the affairs
of Europe,” a Democratic leader—•
Senator Walsh of Massacuhsetts,
chairman of the naval affairs commit¬
tee—warned Monday before a sober
minded Senate.
As the State Department measured
the effect of President Roosevelt’s
dramatic appeal to Europe’s dicta
tors for a long-term pledge of peace,
j Walsh took the floor to make vigorous
demand for American neutrality.
“Our people,” he told his colleagues,
J “want A peace, imposing not war.”
man of figure, Walsh
drew closest attention from the Sen
ate. The people of this country, he
| said, “want friendship with other na
tfons, not entangling alliances, and
diplomatic commitments.”
i The State Department, meanwhile,
’ resignedly awaited the reply of Chan¬
cellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini
to the President’s appeal for peace
They expected flat rejection of any
non-aggression pact, or conferences to
bring about disarmament
Officials were consoled, however,
by almost solid support from the re
publics of this hemisphere. Sixteen
communications praising the Presi¬
dent’s appeal have been received from
Latin-Ameriean nations. Canada al¬
so was in the list of nations support¬
ing the plea.
Other developments in the capital
included:
L Hearings on proposed neutrality
legislation opened before the House
foreign affairs committee. Norman
Thomas, President, often told Socialist candidate for]
the committee if Eu- i
rope cannot keep itself out of war,
then nothing this country can do will
prevent it or bring about a victory
for righteousness.
2. Appearing before the Senate for
eign relations committee, also eon
ducting hearings on neutrality legis-!
la tion, Charles G. Fenwick, interna¬
tional law professor at Bryn Mawr !
College, urged a neutrality law wHich ’
would permit the President to narm |
an aggressor in any foreign conflict !
and thus throw economic support of ’• | ]
this country behind the defending na¬
tion.
3. The Navy Department got re¬
ports that the main body of the United !
States battle fleet was preparing rap
idly for its movement back into the
Pacific whence it was ordered sudden¬
ly by Secretary of the Navy Swanson.
Reports of a quick blow by Hitler in
Europe were understood to have im-!
pelled the movement of the fleet to I
its “war” stations.
POLICE WARN
DOG OWNERS '
A large number of dogs in the city
are still without collars and tags,
showing that they have been inoculat
ed, Chief of Police (5. W. Cochran
states. I
He says that all dogs found with¬
out tags will be killed as there is
always the danger of these dogs go- j
ing mad, endangering the welfare of
the people. Those who have dogs that
they value are urged to have them in¬
oculated immediately.
Red C ross Program
Broadcast April 24
In order that the friends of the
Red Cross who can not attend the na
tional I convention in Washington, be¬
ginning April 24, may hear the ad¬
dress of the chairman to the opening
session, this address will be broadcast
over the National Broadcasting Com¬
pany’s blue network and the Mutual
Broadcasting Company network from
9:30 to 10:00 a .m., central time.
On Tuesday, April 25, from 8:30 to
9.00 p. m. the address of tne secre¬
tary of state, Honorable Cordell Hull,
at the convention dinner at the May¬
flower hotel, will be carried from
coast to coast by the Mutual Broad¬
casting system and to Europe and
South America via short wave.
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State Commander to
Be Guest of Local
Legion Post Friday
The regular meeting of the
can Legion will be held in the Mason
ic building Friday night, April 21.
The Legion, with the assistance of
the ladies’ auxiliary, will serve a bar¬
becue.
State Commander Logan P. Kelley
will be the principal speaker. Mr.
Kelley is an excellent speaker and is
informed on Legion affairs. He
is . a very enthusiastic, hard worker
all the interests of the Legion.
Through Commander Kelley’s lead
the Legion in Georgia has
all previous records in mem
and accomplishments this
* ar ’ and it is almost certain that
will have the honor of lead
« the P arade at the national conven -
this year.
Commander E. C. Patterson of the
post, states, that as Georgia is
all other states in increase in
this year, the Third dis
is leading in Georgia and Fort
is leading in the Third dis¬
Other visitors who are expected to
‘ nd this meetinK are A ' B Cook ’
district commander, and F. A.
of Macon, Sixth district
“Fort Valley post is indeed fortun¬
to be favored by a visit of these
gentlemen,” says Mr.
S. Joyner Buried
At Union Church
ROBERTA, April 17. L. S. Joyner,
widely known farmer of the lower |
of Crawford county, died at |
home Saturday of a long illness.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.
Sunday at the Union Baptist
in Crawford county. Elder D.
Hicks will officiate.
Survivors include three sons, Robert
, Daniel Joyner, Fort Valley,'
Walter Joyner of Roberta; four
Mrs. Julia Davis and Miss]
Bushby, Fort Valley, and Mrs.
Patterson and Mrs. Fannie Hud
Roberta.
U. D. C. CHAPTER CON¬
TRIBUTES TO WESLEYAN
Honoring their president-general,!
Dorothy Blount Lamar, the West
Beach, Fla., chapter of the U. D.
sent to Wesleyan College a check |
$25 for the campaign for funds j
repurchase the properties of this |
college for women.
Mrs. F. E. Wallace, president of the
Benton Ellis Chapter of West
Beach, said in announcing the
“Our group feels that the U. D.
of rh- South should not: stand back
a t.nis pioneer southern :
go out of existence. Certainly
organization, whose purpose it is
uphold and cherish our fine south¬
traditions and institutions should
a part in saving this college;' the
in women’s education,
State Patrol Will
Begin to Enforce
New Speed Limit
ATLANTA, April 18.—Don’t let
ln -g e (. 0 hurry faster than 55
miles take you by a state highway
patrolman Monday.
I Safety Commission Phil Brewster
1 announced today he was sounding a
fair warning to all motorists that,
beginning Monday, the state’s new 55
miles per hour speed limit would be
i „i.forced,
Enacted by the 1939 general assem
bly ,the new speed limit replaces the
previous 40-mile limit, which Brewster
said had become unenforceable be
; cause of public opinion against it.
Citing that more than half of the
1939 death toll on the highways could
be blamed in some respect on speed,
Brewster predicted strict enforcement
and observance of the new law would
save ‘at least 200 lives.”
GEO. D. TUCKER
DIES AT BYRON
Funeral services for George D.
Tucker, well-known farmer who died
at his residence at Byron at 10:45 a.
m. last Saturday after an illness of
two years, were held at the Byron
Baptist church at 4 p. m. Sunday. El¬
der A. J. Banks and Elder J. Harvey
Daly officiated and burial was in By
ron cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Ellis Gar¬
vin, Bluette Garvin, Paul Newell, Wy¬
att Rape, Ira Akin and L. W. Hardi
son. Honorary pallbearers were J. B.
McGee, John B. Hancock, H. M. Han
CO ck, L. C. Nowell, Dan Gunn Sr.,
“Doc” Stafford, M. C. Mosley, Clinton
Jackson, Frank Rape and John Grace,
Mr. Tucker was born at Byron Feb.
1 8G1, the son of T. P. Tucker and
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Mrs. Georgia Ann Jarvis Tucker, and
had lived there all his ife. He was
cl member of the Houston County
Board of County Commissioners for
|g years and was a member of the
Sardis Primitive Baptist church,
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Miss Sallie Hardison; two sons,
q l. Tucker, Forsyth; A. P. Tucker,
Macon, two grandchildren, James
Tucker of Forsyth; Miss Nell Tuck
er of Macon; thre esisters, Mrs.
Beulah Aiken, Macon; Mrs. Sallie
R apei Kathleen; Mrs. Emmett Garvin,
Byron; a number of nieces and neph
ews.
iNOrilU iy ,/ I U VUitOr f ISIUH
Praises Country
F. W. Withoft has received a letter
an old friend of Newark, Ohio,
in which the writer declares: “You
have a beautiful country around Fort
Valley. In fact I think it is by far
the best looking section between Ohio
ami Key West.” The writer was C.
H. Spencer, and his statement followed
a recent motor trip to Florida and
return.
JAY CES HEAR
Explains Program of Growers’
ciation, Stresses Importance
of Cooperation.
The regular monthly meeting of
Junior Chamber of Commerce
held Tuesday night at the MeElmur
ray house.
The meeting was presided over
Henry A. Mathews, president, who
welcomed several new members
were voted in at last month’s meet¬
ing. Bennett Higdon was voted in as
a new member.
After the business of the
was completed, Mr. Mathews present¬
ed Emmett Snellgrove, of Macon, ex¬
ecutive director of the Georgia Asso¬
ciation of Peach Growers, who in a
very interesting manner, told the or
ganization how it could aid the peach
industry locally by making the peo¬
ple of this community peach conscious
and interested in one of the most
portant sources of income this sec¬
tion has. He stated that if the people
to whom peaches should hold the most
vital interest took them only as a
matter of course and did nothing to
popular ize them that the rest of the
nation couldn’t be expected to become
very much interested in them.
He outlined the work that has been
done by the growers’ association and
told of the plans that have been
worked out to try to stabilize the in¬
dustry by creating a demand for Geor¬
gia peaches throughout the country
as a whole.
The program, as he stated it, will
call for publicity and advertising
where it will be most effective, which
wiH be of direct benefit to the peach
growers who are members of the
j Georgia Association of Peach Grow
I ers > stressing the fact that those who
: ^ v< doing ’ no1 - Joined when will they see the fully necessity under¬
j so
stand the program that has been
j planned.
| He expressed satisfaction over the
fact that almost 10 per cent of the
growers around Fort Valley were al¬
ready members.
UNEMPLOYMENT PAY
BENEFITS INCREASE
Georgia paid out $72,971,93 in un¬
employment compensation benefits
last week, an increase of over $4,000
over the previous week, Commissioner
of Labor Ben T. Huiet announced to
day.
The payments represented 12,350
checks and brought, the cumulative
amount paid out. by the Bureau of
Unemployment Compensation to $701,
078.71.
Over 15,000 claims were disposed
of during the week, of which 2,673
were initial and 13,296 continued.
Both initial and continued claims
received showed a slight decline, the
former being reported at 2,496 and
the latter at 12,383.
Claims pending were reported at
3,740, representing 1,651 initial and
2,089 continued.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to acknowledge, with
grateful appreciation, the many acts
of kindness and words of sympathy
extended to us during our recent be¬
reavement.
THE FAMILY OF JUDGE M. J.
YEOMANS. 4-20-ltp
Good thoughts, even if they are for¬
gotten, do not perish.— Publius Syrus.
PEACH THEATRE
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Fort Valley, Ga. Phone 333
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Road Board Seeks i
$666,000 to Finish
1938 U. S. Program
$1,600,000 Would Revert to Washing¬
ton, Chairman Warns.
ATLANTA, April 18.—Chairman
W. L. Miller of, the State Highway
Board, said he planned to apply to
Governor E. D. Rivers this week to
release $66,000 in impounded highway
funds for completion of the 1938 fed¬
eral-aid road program.
About $1,600,000 in federal funds
would revert to Washington June 30
unless contracts were let for comple
tion of the proposed program, Mr.
Miller said.
The Highway Board would contend,
he said, that impounded money be¬
j longs to the Highway Department by
virtue of the allocation, and should be
used for needed construction instead
of remaining dormant in a special
fund.
Meanwhile, it appeared likely that
an obscure Paragraph in an executive
order affectm S the Highway Depart¬
ment might involve the state’s road
building program in the wrangle over’
| providing funds for the governor’s
“little New Deal.”
Sources close to the Highway Board
assert a provision inthe order sus¬
pending future highway contract let¬
tings, wherein the governor retain-;
authority to approve individual pro¬
jects if an emergency exists, gives
virtual one-man control of the High¬
way Department to the chief execu¬
tive.
This provision, these sources con¬
tend, would allow the governor to ex¬
ert strong pressure on economy-mind¬
ed legislators by declining to approve
road projects until they promised to
support money-raising legislation to
finance the “little New Deal” pro¬
gram.
BISHOP MIKEIJ;
COMING SUNDAY
Bishop H. J. Mikell will make his
annual visitation to St. Andrew's
Church on Sunday evening, April 23,
at 7:30 o’clock, the new hour for serv¬
ices in the summer months. At this
time the Bishop will preach and ad¬
minister the rite of confirmation.
The members of St. Andrew’s cor¬
dially invite everyone to join with
them in welcoming Bishop Mikell to
Fort Valley,
Cotton Subsidy Plan
Defeat Is Announced
WASHINGTON, April 18.—The ad¬
ministration’s cotton subsidy plan al¬
ready has met defeat, it was under¬
stood yesterday.
Members of Congress told Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace the plan didn’t
stand one chance of running the con¬
gressional gauntlet, it was said, and
his experts have given up hope of
solving the cotton problem which
now returns to Congress for solution.
The plan first met opposition in the
Senate immediately after it was pro¬
posed by President Roosevelt. It was
ignored while another measure was
passed to the House and pigeon-holed.
The Chief Executive proposed a sub¬
sidy program for both domestic con¬
sumption and exports. Chief opposition
was based on the contention that sur¬
plus American products should fee
routed, if possible, to this nation's
needy “instead of to foreigners.”