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The Forsyth County News
VOI 25—N0.7.
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Chevrolet Built 64 ( 594
New Cars and Trucks
in January 1933.
Chevrolet built 64,594 new cars and
trucks in January for the largest sin
gle month’s production since July of
1931, W. S. Knudsen, president and
general manager of the company, an
nounced here today.
The figure exceeds by 2,500 units a
preliminary estimate made ten days
ago. The January total compares with
52,465 units in January of last year,
and with 40,056 in December. Produc
tion held at a steady rate of 2,500 cars
a day for most of the month, with half
the company's assembly plants oper
ating six full days a week, Mr. Knud
sen stated.
Of the January total, 55.400 units
went to domestic dealers, and the re
mainder into the Canadian and over
seas markets, Mr. .vnudsen said.
Despite the high rate of operations
for the domestic market, no overac
cumulation of stocks in dealers’ hands
resulted, due to the heavy demand for
new 1933 models for immediate deliv
ery. By the end of January dealers
had,' delivered at retail about 55,000 of
the new 1933 cars which were first
announced December 17, Mr. Knudsen
stated.
Operations will ease somewhat in
February, a normal seasonal trend
with the company, but the total pro
mises to run at least to 50,000 units
on present schedule setups, Mr. Knud
sen declared. Last year’s February
total was 42,000 units.
Thcf increasel plant op3ratio:i3 are
in line with the expanded program
which Chevrolet has embarked on for
1933 over last year. The company ex
pects to sell from 450,000 to 500,000 ,
cars this year as compared with 378,-j
000 in 1932, Mr. Knudsen said. He:
added that he expects the industry |
generally to do better this year than
last.
Factory payrolls are now about j
34,000 men, with an additional 23,000 !
working for the Fisher Body Corpora-1
tion exclusively on Chevrolet-Fisher
bodies.
Accident Deaths to
Show Drop in Year
Just Ended
CHICAGO, Feb. 12—(AP) The 1932
accident total for the United States
will show a decrease from 97,415 in
1931 to about 88,000, the National Sa
fety Council estimated Monday. The
new accident death rate figure will
approximate 70.5 per 100,000, the low
est since 1922.
The accident totals for both years,
1932 estimated on the basis of com
plete returns from more than half of
the country, will be: Motor vehicle,
29,500 for 1932, as compared with 33,-
740 for 1931; other public accidents,
18,000 and 20,000; home accidents,
28,000 and 29,000; industrial accidents
16,000 and 17,500.
North Dakota with 8.8 per 100,000,
led with the lowest motor vehicle
death rate; Nevada, with 6C.7, Cali
fornia with 39.9, and Delaware with
35.0, were at the other end, Medford,
Mass., population 64,300, was the lar
gest reporting city to go through the
year without a single automobile
death.
Kccsevelt Will Read
Message In Person.
WAHINGTON, Feb. Jl_(P)_Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt has indicated to
Democratic congressional leaders that
he plans to deliver his first message
to congress personally at the special
session in April.
Plan for his appearance before a
joint session of the senate and house
already have been discussed. The ses
sion is to be held in the house cham
ber.
Representative Woodrum (Demo
crat, Virginia), probably will be plac
ed in charge of arrangements. Indi
cations are that if the congress meets
on April f2, Mr. Roosevelt will deliver
his message on the following Monday.
The late President Coolidge was the
last President to deliver an annual
message to congress in person, but he
dropped tne practice in his last ad
ministration.
President Hoover addressed a joint
session of congress on George Wash
ington’s birthday anniversary on Feb
ruary 22, 1932, but his annual mes
sage was always read by the secreta
ries of the senate and house.
President Wilson and Harding both
delivered most of their annual mes
sages personally to joint sessions of
congress.
Pershing No Better;
‘Well Run Down,’ Is
His Own Statement
MIDLAND, Texas, February 13. (P)
General John J. Pershing, confined to
a hotel here three days by bronchitis
and laryngitis, told a visitor Saturday
his condition was unchanged. He ex
pressed the opinion that he was “well
run down.”
He said he had no immediate plans
for continuing his vacation trip to
Arizona, interrupted early in the week
by news of the illness of his brother,
James Pershing, who died Thursday
in New York.
NOTICE
At the present session of t*he Gener
al Assembly I will introduce a bill as
follows:
A BILL.
To be entitled an. act to amend an
act of the General Assembly of 1927
approved August 6, 1927 (acts 1927, P.
181) entitled An Act to provide for
holding three terms of the Superior
Court of Forsyth County, and to pre
scribe the time for holding the same
so as to reduce the number of terms
from three terms a year to two terms
a year; to prescribe the time for hold
ing the same; and for other purposes.
JOHN D. BLACK, Representative
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HUNTING SEASON IS
EXTENDED TO FEB. 28
Georgia’s quail season will not close
until February 2Sth, Peter J. Twitty,
Commissioner of Game and Fish, an
nounced Monday. Passage of an act
by the legislature brought about the
change, as the quail season usually
closes on February 15th.
Basket ball games Friday night at
the Gym. Two games—Marble Hill
will play Cumming Boys.
Savannah Marks Bi
centennial of Ogle
thorpe’s Trip.
Bishops Lead Memorials,
Sundial Is Unveiled
by Colonial Society
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 14— (API-
Two hundred years ago a little band
o£ colonists, led by General James
Oglethorpe, dropped anchor off the
wild savannas of anew country and
called it Georgia and Monday the
state they founded celebrated its bi
centennial with prayer and tribute.
The celebration began here Sunday
with memorial services at Old Christ
Church which was founded the day
Oglethorpe and his followers clamber
ed up the Yamacraw Bluff to the site
they named Savannah and held pray
er. Six Episcopal bishops took part
in the services.
They were the Right Rev. Henry J.
Mikell, of Atlanta; Bishop F. F. Reese
of the Georgia Diocese; Boyd Vincent
retired of the southern Ohio Diocese;
John D. Wing, of southern Florida;
Albert Thomas of South Carolina, and
Albion Knight, coadjutor of New Jer
sey.
The Society of Colonial Wars un
veiled a sundial in Johnson square
honorin'; the memory of Colonel Wil
liam Bull, of South Carolina, who was
l friend of Oglethorpe and helped the
colony in its early days. Churches
and patriotic societies throughout the
state observed the celebration.
Savannah and Augusta divided the
spotlight in the celebration Monday.
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion planned to plant memorial trees
in the Oglethorpe Square and Augus
ta was to start a three-day pageant
Monday.
TOP PRICE OF $7
FIXED FOR SEATS
AT INAUGU.
STANDS OPPOSITE PRESIDENTIAL
COURT O FHONOR DRAW
GREATEST DEMANL
A top price of $7 per seat will be
charged for space in the inaugural
parade stands along Lafayette Park,
opposite the presidential court of hon
or, it was announced by the Inaugur
al Committee in Washington.
These stands, it is stated, will seat
about 10,000 persons, and the demand
for them has been greater than for
any others.
The committee has fixed the scale
of prices for those across the street,
'adjoining the court of honor and the
stands for distinguished guests at $C
and $7.
OTHER TICKET PRICES
Tickets in stands elsewhere along
the line of march will be sold as fol
lows:
In front of Riggs Bank and the
American Security and Trust Cos., at
Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue,
$5.
On the north side of the Treasury
Building ?4 and $5.
In the park space on the south side
ofg Pennsylvania avenue, for Four
teenth to Fifteenth street, $3, $4 and
$5.
In front of the District Building,
33, $4 and $5.
In front of the National Theatre
and the Southern Building, $2.
All stands except those where the
lowest price of $2 will be charged
will be covered and protected from
the weather.
MRS. HARRIET N. SUTTON
PASSES AT AGE OF 95.
Mrs. Harriet Neal Sutton, widow of
the late Dr. Miles Sutton, died Febru
ary 8, 1933, at the age of 95, after a
brief illness at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. ft. G. Clement, with whom she
had resided for several years.
Mrs. Sutton was a life long resident
of Forsyth County, having been born
in Cumming. She held a government
position as Post Mistress at Big Creek
around fifty years.
“Aunt Harriet,” as she was known
to the community at large was known
and admired by a host of friends. Her
passing will be greatly mourned.
Funeral services were held at Shar
on Church, February 9, 1933 at 2:30
o’clock, with Rev. D. M. Nalley offi
ciating. Interment was in the Sharon
cemetery.
GUMMING, GA., FEBRUARY 16, 1933.
COLLINS GOES
AFTER R. F. C.
MONEY
ATLANTA, Feb. 16th, (SPB)—Aid
of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration for the common schools of
Georgia is being sought this week in
Washington by State Superintendent
of Education Maury D. Collins.
South Carolina last week obtained
a loan of $3,000,000 for her schools
and Supt. Collins acted immediately
upon receipt of this information.
Collins’ Washington trip climaxed
a week of intensive activity on the
part of 159 county school superintend
ents who met with Collins this week
to map a plan of action for obtaining
needed revenue to keep common
schools open this year.
Collins plans were applauded at the
meeting, and a legislative program
was agreed upon through which the
school board will ask the Legislature
to act to keep schools open.
Supt. Collins also announced that
he will not stop until some relief has
been obtained for teachers, some of
whom have not been paid since last
April.
HOUSE APPROVES
GENERAL INQUIRY
INTO JOB SELLING
2 Senators and 3 Members of Lower
Chamber to Compose Committee.
A. general investigation of alleged
job selling in the Department of Ag
riculture was assured Friday when the
house of representatives, by a vote of
111 to 8, concurred in a senate reso
lution by Senator Sisk, of Elberton,
calling for a probe of “rumors and re
ports” regarding sale of jobs in the
department since the advent of G. C.
Adams as commissioner of agriculture
Comparatively little debate preced
ed the vote on the resolution, but it
was stated by advocates of the pro
posal that Commissioner Adams "we
oiiies” an investigation of the charge
against the administration of his de
partment.
Representative Stokes, of Twiggs,
raised the only voice against the re
solution, declaring that the house is
spending too much time on fool reso
lutions.
The departmental probe will be con
ducted by a committee of two Sena
tors and three members of the House
to be appointed by the respective pre
siding oflleers. The committee has
full power to compel attendance and
examine witnesses and documents,
just as a judicial body has that au
thority.
A move was made Friday to abolish
an outworn rule of the house, prohib
iting smoking on the floor during leg
islative sessions. The rule has been
on the book3 for many years, but is
never enforced. Sporadic references
to the rule at every session impelled
the rules committee Friday to bring
in a resolution, striking the anti-smok
ing provision from the rule book. The
matter will be voted on by the house
The Departments of
Georgia Contribute
to the Bicentennial
Mr. J. Woodley Gosling, of the art
staff of General Electric Company,
prepared and presented to the Bicen
tennial association a map, this map
has been hanging in the Carnegie
Library in Atlanta. On this map is
many historical spots of Georgia,
schools, colleges, Marble Quarries,
Mill, WSB Radio Station, The Capitol
Also are shown the chief products of
Georgia.
The Department under the direct
ion of Eugene Talmadge as commis
sioner the last issue of the depart
ment’s quarterly “Georgia—Her re
sources.” Year Book of the Empire
State of the south 1932. State De
partment of Agriculture, Eugene Tal
madge Commissioner, This book is a
delightful exposition of the history
and progress of Georgia.
Another department of the state
has contributed impressively to bring
ing the attention of the world to Geor
gia’s History and resources that is
The state librarian Miss Ella May
Thornton, has prepared and is using
on envelopes of the library the follow
ing material: On the left face, Bi
centennial 1733-1933.
State of Georgia, Glorious, In the
mighty past,
Effective, In the momentous present
HELPING OTHERS BY
HELPING YOURSLF.
Sometimes we wonder whether good people get
tired of hearing us talk about saving money and
putting their money in the bank.
If we are persistent, Tt is only because we know
how much it means.
The man and woman who know how to save
and who have some money in the bank, are real
assets to the community. They represent the sta
ble independent citizens who travel through life
fearlessly but conservatively.
The money they deposit in the hank is financial
insurance for them in time of need. But it goes
still further. That same money makes possible
the loans which the hank can extend to business
and industry. These loans in turn expand busi
ness and give employment to men and women in
the community.
Truly they are contributing citizens who, in help,
ing themselves, also help others.
Bank of Cumming,
B. P. Roper, President
Outstanding, natural resources
Rich in scenic beauty.
Gracious in climate.
Impressive in social progress
Alive in high purpose.
Georgia State Library Atlanta.
ON THE BACK:
Georgia’s seven wonders
Long swamp Marble vein, Pickens
county.
Amicalola Fall, Dawson County.
Talluah River (Jorge
Jekyl Island forests.
Okefenokee swamp
Stone Mountain.
Georgia’s most historic spots.
Battle fields of Chicamauga and
Look Out Mountain.
"Worsmsloe” the Jones-Derenne Es
tate.
Tumlin Indian Mounds, Bartow
County.
Milledgeville (Old State Capitol)
St. Simons Islands.
University of Georgia, Athens, ga.
Savannah (Yamacraw Bluffs.)
DEATH CLAIMS
EMMET ELZEY
On Monday evening February 13, at
10, o’clock the spirit of Emmet Elzey,
quietly and gently took its flight
from earth and returned back to its
Maker.
Up until about a year ago, he was
the picture ot health, young strong
and stalwart, just entering young
manhood, with prospects of a happy
useful life before him. But Gods
plans were otherwise.
Ho was stricken with a malady
which the sKili of the best physicians
could not arrest or combat. For six
months he has been in bed, and was
carried several times to a great hos
pital for special treatment. His fam
ily exerted every effort in his behalf,
doing everything possible to save his
life. But gradually his strength fail
ed and his life ebbed away.
Our community is sorrowing with
his family over his passing but we
feel the deep assurance that he is safe
on the other side.
He was a member of Longview
Sunday School, and three years ago
at a glorious revival conducted by
Rev. VV. J. Mangum at the little school
house, we witnessed his happy and
complete acceptance of Jesus as his
Saviour. He united with the church
of his choice and has lived up to hiß
profession.
His body was laid to rest in Concord
Cemetery on Wednesday morning,
there to await the final transition and
his loved ones have the memory of
his quiet obedient, exemplary life to
beckon them onward and upward un
til they shall all be reunited.
A FRIEND
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SI.OO PER YEAR
NEGRO BOY ADMITS HE
WRECKED TRAIN AT BRE
MEN BY PUTTING ROCK
ON TRACK
While railway officials were inves
tigating a suspected plot in the wreck
ing of Southern Railway train No. 40
near Bremen Tuesday which caused
the death of one man -and grave in
jury to another, a 9 year-old negro
boy w.io lived near the scene of the
disaster confessed that he placed a
rock on the track and sent the en
gine hurtling to. its demolition, ac
i cording to Bremen officers.
I Shortly after James M. Cox, of East
Point, the engineer, had died of scald
ing by water and steam, railway men
issued a formal statement they were
convinced that the wreck had been
planned and deliberately executed.,
After taking Cox and W. A. Goree,
of Birmingham, the fireman, to a Villa
Rica hospital, they started an investi
gation.
Chief of Police Henry Swint, of
Bremen, said he found footprints at
the point where the engine left the
rails and followed them a mile and a
half to the home of Henry Lee Lowe,
the 9-year-old negro boy. Jack Davis,
secretary to the mayor, quoted the of
ficer as saying the boy readily con
fessed to placing the rock but explain
ed only by saying, "I don’t know why
—l’m sorry."
Later the boy is said to have told
Sheriff L. J. White that he placed
the rock on the track “jes to see do
train wreck.”
The boy was carried to jail in Bre
men where he was held on charges
of manslaughter.
Railw'ay men said they were sure
that a rock had been placed on the
outer rim of a 6-degree curve. The
engine, they said, left the rails and
ploughed over 100-rail lengths of
crossties before the pilot wheels
struck a switch, threw it and crashed
over on its side into a muddy ditch.
First repor.ts had said the train left
the tracks as it struck the switch.
Though a mail car and one passen
ger coach were pulled over by the en
gine. none was tiurt beyond a shaking
up, railroad workers said. Goree was
not expected to live. Passengers on
the train praised the pilots for remain
ing at their posts until the engine
crashed.
A relief train was sent to the scene
of the wreck about one and a half
miles west of Bremen—and passen
gers and express and mail were trans
ferred and brought on to Atlanta.
Later a freight pulled the two derail
ed cars into the Southern yards, but
last reports said the overturned lo
comotive was still on its side by the
tracks near Bremen.
MAD DOG NOTICE
MAD DOGB are in town, this is notice
to all owners of dogs that EFFECT
IVE NOW. All dogs must be put up
for a period of 21 DAYS or killed, this
Is ordered by City ordinance.
ROY P. OTWELL, Mayor.