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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 2T.,
News Summary.
Gharles Cooper, Macon roan, made
the second attempt yesterday within
a week to end his life by cutting his
throat. «- * v
Two of the inmates of Pulaski
county jail at Hawkinsville, who
sawed out early Saturday morning
have been recaptured.
Dr. Harley Lutz, tax expert of
Princeton University, returned to
Georgia Saturday to continue his stu
dy of tax systems in this state. He
said he expected to have a report
Toady about the middle of October.
A youthful runaway couple from
Atlanta, their funds exhausted, were
picked up by police in New Orleans
Saturday as they sat in a parked aur
tomobile on a residential street. The
boy gave his name as Hoffman De-
, Witt Hibbett, and said he was the son
of E. A. Hibbett, divisional supenn-
1 tendent of the N. C. & St. L'. Railroad
with headquarters in Atlanta. The
girl was listed at police headquarters
as Hortense Elizabeth Wilson of At
lanta. Both are 18 years old, they
told police. Young Hibbett declined to
make a statement, but the girl, in
tears, told a story of having been
brought to New Orleans on the prom
ise of marriage.
MASONS PUN
HOME COMING
Americus, Ga.—Plans for one of the
largest home coming celebrations ever
held in Americus are being made by
| members of the Americus Masonic or-
KILLED HUSBAND FOR
BEATING, WIFE SAYS
PARKER DECLARED WINNER
OF RACE FOR COMPTROLLER
Unless a contest by Wm. B. Har
rison upsets the official and final re
corded vote, Adjt. Gen. Homer C.
Parker has won out in his seesaw
Waycross, Ga., Sept. 20.—One beat
ing in one night is enough, Mrs.Pres- ^ce“for’comp'troller genera?.
J°n Hicketson is said to have told her i The Delnocrat ic state committee
husband Friday night as she shot him announced Friday afternoon through
*deV to be held in the lodge hall Tues- t0 death, following a break in their Ed Maddox, chairman, and Miss Bes-
*dav Sent. 30 according to official an-’domestic tranquility at their home sie Anderson, secretary, that Harri-
nouncement made recently. 'Invita- near Telmore, in the northern section son, the incumbent, is tied with Par-
'tions are being sent to wives, sweet- of Ware county. ker with a county unit vote of 186,
[hearts and families of lodge members | Following the shooting, which oc- but that Parker has. a popular pirn
Downing slayer
wanted to tin
Americus Normal College began its
fall semester at Americus Monday
with more than 300 students register
ed. This sets a new high for a student
iiody at the normal, being the largest
registration in the history of the in
stitution. j
The forerunner of better times in
textile mills of the Griffin section was
seen in the announcement yesterday
that one-third of the looms inthe Geor
& Kincaid Mills at Experiment and
t Griffin would be put on full time
basis this week.
Baldwin county will become a four-
'vote county effective with the next
election for Representative, according
to the 1930 census figures. The con
stitution of Georgia provides that the
,ix highest counties in population
shall have six electorial votes each,
or three Representatives in the legis
lature each, and that' the next 38
highest counties in population shall
have four electorial votes or two
representatives each in the legislature
Baldwin county jumped to a total
population of 22,076 in this year’s
census which puts it well up in the
.four-vote counties'.
Valdosta, Ga., Sept 19 g ein
ror stricken when he fired shot I
took the life of W. H. Browning
ing station opertor near ValdoL^J
die night of^August 21, Austin
_ berry dropped the gun and started a*
!, !eave when be was told by W. L. Cl |
nearta — — — * u ..v nu ,B „***«. ... . ., -,- ,, - l * ( ne V that if he ran he would be shli I
and an interesting program is being curred at the farm of Fenton Jordan, ra l^ y whicn under the pre- according to the complete conf*®*- t
planned forthe meeting. H^rschel Eve- near the Ricke.son home, Mrs. Rick- vailing rules for handling such an maue by Westberry. 81011
F •-* -** *• »- - « ’ lmmiKKfi pnvps the ndhitnnt. moTiernl n Austin Wetsberrv „nv« iw.. 1
, ho,i V. mat
ridge, chairman of the program com- etson went direct to Dave Sears, her gives the ad 3 utant .8 eneral a -------- ? uys mat aft.* I
mittee of Lodge No. 13 and J,E, Lo- stepfather-in-law, told .him of the* 6 *^ __ t thr “ the ft
ean, chairman of M. B. Council lodge killing, and asked that she be carried I The amended returns from Wilkin- dow and dropped the gun, Allen \w
No. 95, will direct the program and to Waycross to jail. son county, which threw that coun- berry, his uncle, took the gun
. « . mi v. _ .1 _a. ii _ . i. f'tre ttun nwff wnfao fn DowDam miava Shot. IVl rc 1 «U(J
said.
| ing delivered her into the custody of gained also
>y the committee, and screaming from the room. Mrs
Hall and Clinch ebunties inff continued to scream after hTi!" I
i r\t Inin nvnl nnMMnninJ QllOtlrl A 11am \Xfn_i-1 I
Guests and speakers of the occasion Sheriff L. C. Warren. No arrange- on the basis of late mid corrected Allon Westberry ran arounj
will include Grand Master Hugh W
Taylor of Cuchbert, and Grand Seere
tary Frank Baker, of Macon.'
BISHOP CANNON AGAIN
FACES CHARGES
ments had been made late Saturday returns. This puts Wilkinson
fbr a preliminary hearing, but it is in the Parker column.
county , and entered the, house from
understood that Mrs. Ricketson will With the exception of the comp- k°dy oft Mrs. Browning, declares!
ask for a commitment trial. . troller general’s race, all the nomina
Mrs. Ricketson had . been married tions made in the September 10 pri^
before, county authorities state. She mary have been made public hereto-
and her second husband were engaged fore, so that the official announce-
, in some sort of difficulty at. their ment of the comptroller general’s
Dr. C.' home Friday night, and according to race is the only item of vital interest
Spalding county’s new high school
was opened Monday with an enroll
ment of 250 pupils. The building was
made possible thru a county bond is-
tue of $126,000. Dedication services
were conducted by Quimby Melton,
editor of the Griffin News.
Gov. L. G. Hardman Tuesday is
sued a proclamation designating Oc
tober 6-11 as fire prevention week
and called on all clviv organizations
school teachers and business leaders
to co-operate. Fire loss in Georgia
averages $500,000 a year, he said.
The fifty-fourth annual session of
the South Georgia Singing Conven
tion was held at Cordele' Sunday. It
is said to have been the largest at
tended, the most beneficial and suc
cessful convention ever held during
the fifty-four year it has been an or
ganization.
John E. Verner, of Decatur, dis
claiming any party affiliation and de
claring he is to make the race as an
independent, Tuesday, announced he
would oppose Congressman C. W.
Ramspeck, of the fifth district, for
reelection. Ramspeck was nominated
in the Democratic primary Sept 10.
The voting by the county grand
jury of Dougherty county of three-
count forgery indictment against R.
E. L. Spence, Jr., former city court
solicitor, of Albany, who left there in
1927, became known Saturday. Short
ly afterward dispatches from Miami,
Fla., quoted James E. Yonge,''attor-
ney, as saying Spence was associated
with him in that city and would leave
there for Albany immediately.. Yonge
expressed surprise at the indictment
and said negotiations had been in
progress to adjust the matter. The in
dictment alleged that Spence forged
Albany property mortgages, and loan
applications.
T Worrell eider nf the Methodist !* er statement to Mr * Sears, she had in the situation,
J. Harrell, elder of the Methodist severely beaten. After Ricket- 1
Episcopal Church, South, told the spn administered the thrashing he left
newspaper reporters Saturday that hej and went to the Fenton Jordan home AGRICULTURAL
. r, r , i * , , ■_ nnvniTmve to I,r minus
and three other elders of the church and was followed by his wife, officers
had filed new charges against Bishop have discovered. When the woman
1 James Cannon, Jr., with Boshop Wm. approached the Jordan house, Ricket-
N. Ainsworth, Birmingham,
chairman of the College of
of the church.
CONDITIONS TO BE IMPROVED
/
Roberta, Ga., Sept. 18.—The Craw-
1, Ain., son is alleged to have come out of ford County Chamber of Commerce . Brunswick Sent. 26 r,
Bishops the front to meet her, and when he held its September meeting last Wed-lffridaw night ’on the “ml 11 ff.
j threatened ^ repeat thebeatlng^ he nesday night at the Roberta auditor!- 1 about sevin^ miles frVm Tadft^
Austin Westberry in his confession* ,
In a jail in a distant Georgia citv
L.. ,i 1 ■
Austin Westberry was visited bv tU.
nffpovo WVm fnl/1 l*i*« ti •*.
offeers who told him Homer Padgett
had told everything. Parts of Tf
pit’s story were then told to West
berry and he broke down compK
and made a full confession, the fill
going being included in the details* I
not heretofore given to the public
DAVE CHAPMAN IDENTIC
Sept 20.- c
Nature of the charges was not dis-' had given her earlier in the night,she uni. F. E. Bentley, president, presided. Brunswiwick officers a neern
closed by Dr. Harrell; who explained is alleged to have raised a pump-gun Discussion centered around a pro- his name as D ave chapman 36 8
Dick Russell is free of factions,
trades, and midnight deals. Elect him
and end factionalism.—Adv.
that it would be violation of the rules and to have shot him through ',ha bo- posed bond •issue> v for a new school for
of the church for him or.dy. He was killed instantly,
any of the other three (complaining' Mrs. Ricketson is said by officers
elders to do so prior to their accbp- to be the daughter of West Rowland,
tance by the College of Bishops. ; Ricketson was a farmer of the Tel-
Under the rules of the church, how- ,more section,
ever, it is mandatory upon Bishop
Roberta and an agricultural board for
Crawford county.
The agricultural board was formed
with 51 members enrolled. J. W
Hicks was elected chairman and 10
committees were appointed to work
Ainsworth that he call a board of 12 1 Let’s get Georgia out of debt and with County Agent* j. C. Scarborough
out. Dick Russell' will do it. for the advancement of agriculture in
Bishops to investigate the
against Bishop Cannon.
charges keep her
(The Legislature is with him.—Adv.
Crawford county.
Chapman, S6, *a«
promptly identified by Special Officer
R. J. Anderson, of Darien, as the ne.
gro wanted in connection with the«.
cent disorders in Darien which
suited in the death of Chief fy
Freeman, the lynching of Geotn 1
Grant colored, and the wounding i l
two others. The negro is being held t
In the Brunswick jail for safe keep. 1
ing.
Dr. J. W. Rogers, prominent Macon
physician and surgeon, has been made
defendant in an action for $10,000
lamages filed in Bibb Superior court
by Travis H. Smith, of Macon, as tne
result of an operation last February
which is alleged to have resulted in
permanent injuries to the health of
his wife.
Wm. M. Tylejf, for 10 years a resi
dent at the Methodist Orphans Home
it Macon, returned to Macon last
week alter an absence of about 10
years to lay at rest reports of his
death in Cleveland in 1924 and to re
late instead of a two years trip
around, the world in which he engag-
td shortly after the accident which
was supposed to have resulted in his
death.
Judge J. C. C. Black, Jr., of the
city court and^he Juvenile court, of
Augusta died Sunday alter an illness
of .several weeks. Judge Black was
appointed solicitor of the city court in
10U5 and upon the death of Judge W.
F. Eve of tne court in 1916 he was ap-
e iinted to fill the unexpired term. He
ter was elected to the position and
filled it without opposition until his
death.
What does the Cordele Situation
mean to Georgia?
T O MANY people, the situation now
existing in Cordele, Ga., is a purely
local matter in Cordele. On the contrary,
it is of very great importance to the
i of Gei
Wm. B. Harrison, comptroller gen
eral, and one of the candidates for
that otrice in tne primary, nas mailed
to Chairman U. E. .Uaduox a sugges
tion and request that the tied-up situ
ation resulting from . the WilKinson
county incident, which is under dis
pute, be settled by a majority vote
of the Democrats of the state in the
run-over primary to be held Oct, 1st.
No action, it is thought will be taken,
bn the request.-.
Definite plans for the reorganiza
tion of the Georgia State Cnamber
of~€ommerce anil the carrying on of
its'work to the benefit of all sections
of the state were made Tuesday by a
sub-committee appointed by President
W. L. Moore, loilowing the state
wide conference in Atlanta last week.
The program will be submitted to the
executive committee at a meeting
called by President Moore to be held
at the Ansley Hotel tomorrow j>. m.
Four men of mystery who say they
are searching for a sack of gold when
inquisitive natives near Abbeville,
Ga., seek to learn the object of their
work in the Ocmuigee nyer are at
tracting daily attention from many
people. Equipped with a gasoline en
gine and o.her apparatus, the quartet
sinks wooden-boxes into the river and
pumps all water, sand and mud from
the shafts until they have reached
firm ground. This process is being
repeated over and over.
^ishop Warren 'A. Candler of At
lanta, has expressed a willingness ta
negotiate for the purchase of two val
uable relics of John Wesley, the foun
der of Methodism, which have been
discovered at Lungano, Switzerland.
He is acting as a trustee of Emory
university which has a large collec
tion of WesTeyans. The relics'now in
Lugano consist of two Chippendale
^ chairs said to have stood on either
side of Wesley’s bed and at which he
knelt nightly in his devotions.
James H. Moore, 26, formerly as
sociated with his brother in the ope
ration of a filling station at Macon,
was killed by a Central of Georgia
passenger train in the residential dis
trict of Macon at 4 o'clock Sunday
morning. H. B. Benton, engineer, said
that he saw ar. object on the en<j of
the cross ties, blew the whistle and
then stopped suddenly when the ob
ject failed to move. The steps of a car
struck Moore. He sustained a-frac
tured skull, which, caused death.
whole state of Georgia.
Briefly the facts of the situation are
these—
Crisp County, in which Cordele is lo
cated, bonded itself, built an electric
power plant and a few weeks ago went
into business in competition with this
Company’s established electric business
in Cordele. , £
The Cordele authorities immediately
cut! under this Company’s rates, forcing
the Company to meet the cut in an ef
fort to preserve its business and property
investment there. Cordele worked out no
rates of their own based on the cost of
supplying the service. They merely took
this- Company’s rate schedule and cut It
ten per cent. Even this Company’s
widely discussed ‘‘service charge” was in
cluded in the rates Cordele established.
Other unfair competition is being prac
ticed, including threats of boycott and
social ostracism, to force this Company’s
customers to cease -ing business with it
and buy from the municipal plant. '
The issue in Cordele is not private*
ownership vs, government-ownership in
the electric business. The
situation is
that of u legitimate business attacked by
unfpir competition.
The outcome of the Cordele situation
directly affects every Georgian ami this
advertisement is published in order that
you may be informed about the Oordele
situation. ' (
It Impairs Qeorgia's Repu
tation,as a Safe Place for
Outside Investments
The Georgia Power Company is the
third largest property owner in Crisp
County. Its total investment in business
property there is exceeded only by those
of two railroads. With the exception only
of other privately-owned public utilities.
money invested
this Company has more money
in Crisp County than any other two or
three industries in the county combined.
The Georgia Power Company is Geor-
'gia’s largest industry.
■Widq> publicity is being given na
tionally to Cordele’s effort to destroy its
third largest industry. Wide publicity
also is being given nationally to the
efforts of an organized group of agi
tators, elsewhere in the State, who are
seeking to capitalize on the Cordele sit
uation, seeking to force a state-wide .slash
in this Company’s already very low rates.
If they should be successful, Georgia’s
largest industry would be destroyed.
Capital is timid. It seeks security. It
goes only where it feels that it will be
safe. The attitude of the public in a state
or a section toward investments is one
factor which new investors scrutinize
most carefully.
The first question they ask ts—“What
is the attitude of the public toward in
vestments already located there?”
Georgia needs new capital, billions of
dollars of it, ih order to develop its nat
ural resources. At this stage of its de
velopment, Georgia cannot afford to gaid
a reputation as an unsafe place for in
vestment. ^
vantages, and we predict that Georgia’s
future development will far 1 surpass that
of the past. Our industrial experts pre
dict, for example, that Middle and South
> Georgia are due for a development of
their ceramic and paper and pulp re
sources which will equal or surpass the
textile industry in North Georgia.
But if this development is to take
place, electric power conditions in Geor
gia must be right. Just the mere fact
that a power-plant is built does not
bring industries flocking to i commu
nity, as pepple in Cordele have been led
to believe.
' In order to satisfy the demands of
modern industry, electric power must not
only be available but it must be depend
able, it must be abundant, and it must be
available over n wide area in order that
an industry may pick ’and choose the lo
cation which best suits its needs.
The Georgia Power Company alone in
Georgia is capable of offering electric
power service of the duality that modern
industry demands.
Small isolated power plants, such as
the one at Cordele, have little to offer
new industries. The Cordele plant de
pends upon the widely fluctuating flow
of a single stream, and its output will
be seriously curtailed in periods of high
water or low water. It has very limited
Reserve facilities.
Such plants cannot help Georgia grow
industrially, but they can seriously im
pair this Company’s ability to carry-on
thiB work.
Again, industries do not come to a new
section—they are brought.
The expense of thi& Company’s cam
paign to bring new industries to Georgia
is greater than the entire gross income
which Cordele could collect from its mu
nicipal system.
It Diminishes the Qeorgia
Farmer's Hope of Obtain-
. ing Electric Power
Rural electrification is a comparatively
new thing in Georgia, but in less than
two years since this Company first en
tered this field, it has extended service
to nearly 3,000 farm customers.
Extending electric power to the farms
is an expensive job. with very few cus
tomers to the mile of line, it obviously
takes great sums of money bo do the pio
neering work in this field. This Company
was not able financially to attempt it for
many years of its history'. But now the
work has been inaugurated, many farms
already are being served, and many more
farmers are anxious to obtain this aerv-
C.eorgia’s farmers will not permit this
work to be checked!
Cordele has not moved even to extend
rural service' to the farms in Crisp
County, even though every farmer in the
county contributed in his taxes to the
construction of the county-owned power
plant.
But Cordele and the situation it has
created ’ can hamper and handicap this
Company’s farm electrification program
very seriously. It has already done this
to some extent by stirring up hostility
toward this Company in some other
cities.
their own business. But agitators in other
cities are seeking tc plunge their com
munities into similar expensive experi
ments, and taxpayers in those cities vriU ]
be interested in some of the results of J
the Cordele experiment.
Cordele rind Crisp County have mort-l
gaged every piece of property in the I
county in order to buijd an expensive!
electric system. Naturally it will have to I
be paid for. It can be paid for only out I
of earnings by the plant or out of taxes I
In cutting our rites, Cordele established!
rates which, in our opinion as experienced*
operators of electric properties, will not I
even pay the crista. If this is true, cvcnt-I
ually their rates will have to be raised 1
or their taxes increased—or both. I
But, supposing that Cordele should
make- a financial success of its plant, I
what will it have guined by its venture I
into lusiness ? It will have whatevei sat-1
Isfaction there is in having had* its own|
way, but what else beyond this? 4
Formerly Cordele had one electric sys-|
tern. Now it has two electric systems. I
Eventually it will have only one elec.Vic I
system ..•.gain. I
It defies inexorable economic laws fwl
two electric systems to exist side by*
rt.w, innirituKlii /Inctrovc thf other.I
side. One inevitably destroys the otliu.1
And regardless of which system wiw|
out in the end, Gord ie 1b the loser.
/ A community must have wealth m i
dor to prosper, whether its wealth bc»
money or farm crops or buildings or el«
In most cases, the Company has to
wait from one to five yeuis after it builds
a farm'line before it can hope to get any
return on the cost of building tne line.
No business enterprise could afford to
take such a long chance in the face of a
hostile public attitude.
trie power structures. Whether the weali
•_ A_1__ Lli-1-. H iq all
And, It Also Injures Cor
dele and Crisp County
is privately or; publicly owned, it is i
pari of the community’s wealth. A.com-1
munity which .destroys its wealth im-i
poverishes itself.. ’ . I
If Cordele succeeds in its purpose in |
driving this Company out of its city, »
drives out itpShird largest industry, ds
third largest property holder, its tmrn
largest taxpayer. This Company sutlers
by it, of course, but Cordele also I
by having destroyed a hundred ti 100 *?,. I
ay naving destroyed a iiuhui.u .
dollars or more of its community^ejk^
What Cordele -and Crisp County have
done or choose to do in the future is
Electric Rates 23*81 Lower Than
The National Average
The 'average rate of the Georgia Power Company, including charges to
t il classes of customers, is 1.97 cents per kilowatt hour. The national av-
rage is 2.59 cents. CUSTOMERS OF THE GEORGIA POWER COM
PANY PAY 23.8 PER CENT LESS FOR THEIR ELECTRIC SERVICE
THAN THE AVERAGE OVER THE NATION.
Th e average residential rates of this Company and its industrial power
rates are both materially lower than the national average. Its rural electric
rates are among the lowest in the nation.
As a result of reductions in this Company’s rates, our customers have
saved a total of $3,784,468 since 1926 in their electric light and power bills
under what they would have paid for the same service if the rate reduc
tions had not been made.
UIUIO V* UIU1V. VI IIP —J ' , iff
Formerly the citizens of Coracle p
electric bills and we paid taxes. “ , -
are driven out, they will still pay *** 1
bills, but we will no longer pay b* ’ u F
Obviously Cordele must make W 1 ®S"
losses in some way, either by raising
electric rates, or by increasing it?
or by restricting its governmental a
ties for the welfare of the commurn y
or all three. The following it*™,*5. 0 f !
printed from the Cordele Dispatc
September 10, 1980:
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VmihZi ji Depart ">eJ
Sift first
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Cordele Dispatch,
Sept. 10, 1930.
It Reduces Qeorgia’s Op
portunity for Bringing
New Industries Here
The nation has already learned that
Georgia offers outstanding industrial ad-
S.OM Georst* clt<nn> >re ownen
of N Georgia Power Company pre .
ferred etoek. They live In 300 Geor
gia cltic. and towns, and they own
a total of 135,884 shtreo of itoelc.
In addition, nnother Urge group
at Georginn. ore now in proce*. of
becoming •toekholder., taking ad
vantage of thU Company's deferred
payment plan and making monthly
payments on purchases yf’ stock.
COMPANY
wmHHHI
A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE S E R *
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