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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JULY 20, 1933.
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Mrs. T. A. Kimbrough, who suffer
ed a stroke of paralysis July 3, died
at her home in Talbotton yesterday.
Lowe Braddy, youthful Dublin
photographer, recently pleaded guil
ty to a charge of manufacturing and
passing counterfeit $10 bills.
Eugene Sharley, prominently iden
tified with the civic and political
life of Cuthbert, died at his home in
that city Monday of a heart attack.
Miss Mary Rountree, well known
singer, and Marvin Cox, secretary to
Congressman Homer C. Tarker, were
quietly married at Statesboro Tues
day.
The receipt of a check from J. P- OTTLEY IDENTIFIES
Wiihoit, highway commissioner, for
the amount of $8,733 payable to the
commissioners of Stewart county for
work done on the state highway be
tween Cusseta and Louvale during
the last quarter, has stepped Stcw-
GOTHAM GANGSTER
AS HIS KIDNAPER
Atlanta, July 14.—John K. Ottley,
president of the First National bank
New
art county’s available cash balance Friday positively identified
up to $18,962.03. Last quarter a Wlc police photograph of
payment of $6,236.83 was received
from the highway commission foi
work done by Stewurt county con
victs on state highways.
Edgar Dunlap, prominent Gaines
ville attorney, was notified Friday
of his appointment as agency coun
sel for the Atlanta office of the Re
construction Finance Corporation. He
succeeds Robert Parker. Recom
mended for the post by Senators
George and Russell, Mr. Dunlap was
confirmed and assumed office Satur
day. He has played an active part in
X B. Th~l, ». <«h„ in I.W ^thfJIfln *5. ’SSSU3? eS
of Governor Talmadge, of Georgia
died at a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital
Saturday following an illness of sev
eral months.
Thomas E. Perkins, 38, native of
Lumpkin, Ga., but for the past four
years a member of the New York
Stock Exchange, died in a New
York Hospital Monday after a three
weeks illness.
Hugh Wright, 18-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wright of Adel,
has been admitted to the practice of
law. He is a graduate of the -Sparks-
Adel High school and attended col
lege at Tifton after his graduation.
Campaign to raise $100,000 for
the erection of Georgia Hall at
Warm' Springs is nearing completion
and bids will be asked at once, it
was announced Saturday by Cator
Woolford, general chaiiman of the
committee. ,
The opinion arms stolen from the
military arsenal at the University of
Georgia, were taken for use in Cuban
revolutionary activities and not for
American gangsters was expressed
Saturday by Maj. J. B. Pate, investi
gating the theft.
Burglars entered the home of H.
A. Watson at Midville a few nights
ngo and chloroformed the entire
family and robbed the house. Those
chloroformed did not awake until
several hours after their usual time
of arising the next morning.
Paving completed on route 49 be
tween Ft. Valley and Marshallvflle
has been opened to the public. The
detour was used until' recently, as
the road had to have additional work
after the ppving was done. Many
tourists are using this beautiful
highway now, it is said.
Hon. W. C. Lankford, former con
gressman of the eighth district has
been appointed by the Democratic
administration as attorney general
in the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
t The apnointment becomes effective
today. It pays $6,000 per annum. The
position is an important one.
Governor Talmadge has recom
mended Rayburn Clay, Atlanta bank
er, as one of three Georgians to
serve on a public works advisory
board for this state. The other two
members are to be recommended by
United States Senators Russell and
George. They have not announced
their selections.
Gov. Talmadge Wednesday contin
ued his deep study of the hundreds of
thousands of Words of testimony
taken in the recent investigation into
the official conduct of the five mem
bers of the Georgia public service
commission. The governor asserted
that he was not ready to announce
just when his decision would be
made other than it will be handed
down “soon.’
E. Julian Peacock, Macon druggist
has been named chief Clerk of the
naval affairs committee of the House
of Representatives, Congressman
Carl Vinson, chairamn of the com
mittee announced in Macon Satur
day. Mr. Peacock, a World War vet
eran, succeeds J. C. Lewis, of Sparta
Ga., who resigned to accept a post
with a New London, Conn., boat
company. . ,
J. M. Hughes, of Cairo, was elect
ed president of the Commercial Sec
retaries of Georgia at the closing
session of its annual convention at
Elberton Saturday. J. L. Morris, sec
retary of the Macon Chamber of
■Commerce was elected vice president
and Walter Pike of Columbus, secre
tary treasurer. Next year’s conven
tion will be held in Savannah at a
date to be announced later.
Playing baseball with the boys on
his 40th birthday Saturday, Rev. C.
E. Allen, pastor of the Tattnall
Square Presbyterian church, of Ma
con, broke his leg at Houston lake.
Rev. Mr. Allen was attending the
Presbyterian Young People’s con
fere nee at the lake resort, and in the
day’s recreational program he joined
the young people in a game of base
ball. He took a misstep, his right leg
crumpled, and he fell.
Four prominent Sumter county
white men were lodged in the Sum
ter county jail at Americus Saturday
charged with the murder of Henry
"Peewee" Thomas, a young negro,
near Croxton cross roads late Friday
afternoon. The men held are E*.ve
Mills, Cliff Snider, Douglas Mills and
McKinley Jordan. Warrants were
taken out before Justice J N. Shy,
Friday, charging all four with mur
der.
When Governor Talmadge be
gins his study of the ouster record
against the Public Service Commis
sion, he will have before him one of
the largest stenographic files ever
compiled in a state case, approxi
mately a million words, it is said.
Testimony for more than three weeks
vfcontinuing from 10 o'clock a. m. to
5:30 p. m., has been recorded in de
tail. Sonie night sessions were
paign.
Mrs. Lena Johnson Noel, 40, wife
6f Thomas W. Noel, dean of the
Georgia Tech School of Commerce,
ended her life with a shotgun charge
Thursday at the home of her par
William
station-
criminal
-as the
Delinski, former sailor and
ery salesman with a long
record as the man wanted
leader in the banker’s kidnaping,
The Fulton county grand jury has
returned an 'indictment against
‘‘Grover Collins” as the man who en
gineered the kidnaping of Ottley
which lasted only a few hours when
Pryor Bowen, 17 year old school boy-
released the banker from his -bonds
and blindfold.
Bowen has also been indicted and
JUDGES REFUSE
FEDERAL ORDER
IN ROAD FIGHT
SUMTER FARMER
SHOOTS WIFE
AND HIMSELF
TALMADGE RETAINS CONTROL
OVER HIGHWAY BOARD UN-1
DEK MARTIAL LAW; STATE
SUIT ADVISED.
Atlanta, July 19.—Governor Tal-
madge’s martial law control of the
the State Highway Department was
left undisturbed Tuesday when a
three-judge tribunal in the U. S
Court refused to enjoin him from in-
oowen iiaa u.au . terfering with Highway Cpmmis-
his bond fixed at $20,000. He is still i sioner J. W. Barnett and W. C. Ve-
in j B ;i i jreen, whom he ousted some weeks
Authorities said at the time the 1 ago.
indictment was returned that “Grov-, Judge Samuel H. Sibley, E. M.
er Collins” was not believed to be | Inderwood and Wm. I. Grubb, after
the name of the man but they did a two-day hearing on the matter,
not know his real name and the in-! refused to interfere in the highway
dictment read “whose other names, controversy and declined the inter-
are unknown to the jury.” ]loutory injunction sought by the
Records in the hands of -Atlanta I ousted commissioners,
inursaav ai me nome oi ner our- officers show Delinski to be a native | The three judges also refused an
ents, Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry Johnson, of Gainesville, Fla. He was arrested i injunction, to the Beckham-Lawler
at Bravnier Mo it was learned: at Rock Hill, S. C., last February I Construction Company, seeking to
at uraymer, Mo., it was learneq, ^ ^ R A Hathaway j overthrow the martial law status.
and was charged with carrying con-1 and took under advisement a motion
COUPLE DEAD, SON WOUNDED'
AS RESULT OF SHOOTING
SOUTHEAST OF AMERICUS.
WILUAMS PLEA
OVERRULED BY
high COURT
INSURANCE MONEY
PAYING LOSSES
MOTIVE.
USE in
DEATH
Americus, Ga., July 17.—T. L.
Hendricks, 52, a white farmer, shot
and killed his wife and took his own
life in the Hendricks home on the
Armstead Chappell farm several
miles southeast of Americus early
Monday. Will Hendricks, a son of the
son,
the
Saturday. Despondency over ill
health was attributed as the reason
for her act. Prof. Noel was attend
ing summer school at the University
of Chicago when informed of his
wife’s death. He left at once for
Braymer.
Douglas Bankston, of Williamson,
Monday was held without bond at
the Pike county jail in Zebulon in
connection with the fatal shooting
from ambush late Saturday after
noon of Aubrey C. Daniels, 22 year
old Fulton county dairyman. Daniels
and his wife, accompanied by a
friend, Guy Tudder, of Lakewood
Heights, were on a fishing trip in
Pike county Saturday. While the
Atlanta youth was digging bait a
man stepped from the underbrush
and fiered a bullet entering Daniels'
forehead. He died later at a Griffin
hospital.
Arrangements for the excursion of
the governor’s staff and other Geor
gians to the Century of Progress ex
position in Chicago were announced
Saturday by Col. Sandy Beaver,
chief of staff, through the office of
Adjutant General Lindley Camp. The
train will leave Atlanta at noon on
Aug. 20, arrive in Chicago at 8 a. m.
on Aug. 21, and leave Chicago at 10
p. m., Aug. 25, arriving baeje in At
lanta at 6 p. m. Aug. 26. Round trip
railroad and Pullman fares range
from $25.30 for two persons sharing
upper berth, to $32.73 for one pas
senger in a lower berth. Hotel ex
penses, admission tickets to the fair
grounds, bus trips, sight seeing trips
and a cruise on Lake Michigan are
available at $22.05.
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley, L. W. Robert, Jr., of Atlanta,
assistant secretary of the treasury,
and several other administration 'of
ficials arrived 'in Atlanta Friday
night on their way to Memphis,
where the postmaster general was to
deliver an address. Also in the group
were W. W. Howes, second assistant
postmaster general; Silliman Evans,
fourth assistant postmaster general;
K. P. Aldrich, chief of the post
office inspection division; R. F. Ro
per, executive secretary of the dem
ocratic committee; Maj. A. V. Dal-
rymple, director of prohibition; Maj.
Emil Hurja, special assistant to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
and Harlee Branch, executive as
sistant to the postmaster general.
FRANKLIN TO INSTALL
WATER AND LIGHTS
cealed weapons.
In addition to the Hathaway alias,
authorities said he is also known as
Bob Williams, Dock Green, Grover
Collins and Lewis Collison.
Police records also show he was
arrested in New York on -Jan. 24,
1930, op two charges of grand lar
ceny and abandonment. He was
booked by New York police as No.
1-78-880.
The man enlisted under his correct
name, records show, in the naval're
serve at Jacksonville, Fla., April 13,
1921. He enlisted in the navy there
the same year and wps discharged
for reasons unknown.
His record shows he was born July
15, 1902 at Jacksonville, but police
said that they have information that
he was born at Gainesville In that
state and that his mother is now liv
ing at Miami. , ,
Identification of the photograph by
Ottley followed closely on the dis
covery by authorities of the place
where the missing man resided in
Atlanta.
JOHN W. BURKE, MACON
TELEGRAPH PROOF READER
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Franklin, Ga., July 14.—At a re
cent meeting of the City Council' it
was unanimously adopted to take
the necessary steps to equip the city
with water and electric lights, The
town is within one mile of the Geor
gia Power Company transmission
line and has been unable to get cur
rent from them. The city, contem
plates getting their funds from the
R. F. C. and refunding with a bond
issue. Some of the necessary infor
mation has been furnished and the
balance will be furnished in the im-
mediate future, to get the project in
operation at once.
SWIMMER DROWNS,
HANDS, FEET TIED
IN WAGER EFFORT
Macon, July 15.—John W. Burke,
31, a proofreader on The Telegraph
for the past six years and a member
of one'of the oldest of Middle Geor
gia families, was found dead in his
room at his father’s home in Macon.
His step-mother, Mrs. W. B. Burke
and brother, James, found the body
lying on the floor beside his bed
when they went home shortly before
11 o’clock. He had shot himself thru
the head with a 22 caliber rifle,
which lay at his side.
Mr. Burke left a note addressed
to his step-mother in which he said
he had been ill and despondent for
some time. He had not been at work
since Sunday night'. Relatives said he
had evidently been dead for several
hours when the body was found.
He was born in Shanghai, China,
Feb. 2, 1902, the son of W. B. Burke
a missionary from the South Georgia
Methodist conference for many years
and Mrs. Burke, who died about 26
years ago. His grandfather, for
whom he was named, was the late J.
W. Burke, the founder of the J. W.
Burke company, one of Macon's old
est businesses -and one of the oldest
publishing houses in the state.
MACHINE GUNS ARE STOLEN
FROM UNIVERSITY GEORGIA
Waynesboro, Ga., July 13.—Rube
Morris bet friends he could swim
across Hatcher’s mill pond with his
hands and feet tied and died in the
attempt.
He was stricken with a heart at
tack half way across and sank be
fore those on the bank could reach
him. Several youths enrolled in the
Civilian Conservation corps dived
and recovered his body but efforts
at resuscitation failed. The coroner
attributed death to heart attack.
SEYMOUR RESTORED TO
FORMER HIGHWAY JOB
by the Nichols Construction company
to dismiss the whole proceeding
against Governor Talmadge.
In denying the injunction sought
by Commissioners Barnett and Ve-
reen, the court said that “the ques
tion of the governor’s powers in the
premises are questions of state law
and ought to be decided by state
tribunal.” The opinion also asserted
that the “right to exercise state of
fice and earn its salary is not a
property right within the meaning of
the 14th amendment to the federal
constitution.”
The court held that the remedy of
the ousted commissioners is at law,
and that according to the evidence
submitted at the hearing, the state
courts, are not closed to the com
plaints. I
“The mere proclamation of the
governor will not have that effect,”
the opinion declared, because the
“powers of the superior courts are
as securely founded as those of the
governor.” It was suggested that
the two ousted commissioners had
not sought a remedy in the state
courts. An amendment to the gover
nor's answer had been filed earlier in
the day, acknowledging that the
state courts were open to the com
plaints.
In declining to issue an injunction
in behalf of the Beckham-Lawler
Construction Company, the three-
judge tribunal held that the com-
nlainant’s contract was with the
State Highway department, and that
if it was duly performed, payment
therefor was not dependent upon any
action of the federal authorities.
“The Federal courts are reluctant
to interfere with state governmental
machinery," the opinion state, point
ing out that a de fa°to administra
tion exists in the State Highway de
partment capable of carrving on its
duties and meeting its obligations.
Hearing on the injunction petitions
of Captain Barnett and Mr. Vereen.
ousted member of the State High
way board and the Beckham-Lawler
Construction Company, against Gov
ernor Talmadge, Adjutant General
Lindley Camp and Highway Commis
sioner J. P. Wiihoit, to end military
rule of the State Highway depart
ment, was concluded Tuesday after
noon in Federal court.
Atlanta, July 16.—The t ,,
Williams, South Georgia 1 MettLin!
minister must serve a life term **
prison for the murder of his m
Kaiford G. Williams, a sailor
supreme court ruled Friday. 1
couple, was shot in the back ana derecT'on Lionelv W m1n found , mur -
Reese Hendricks, ‘ another son es- Augusta His Iniurall roati neat
caped injury by fleeing from the I his father insUrance wa » Paid to
home as the infuriated father pourea j investigation hv .
a charge from a 12-gauge shotgun j Kus t a an . Macon^hrnu?* , Ves -*- n Au '
in his direction shortly before he_f he miniver. He was attested 0 "but
took his own life. jj denied he had shot his son. b
The weapon was a borrowed one. Detectives learneil thL . .
Will Hendricks, who was shot in the had telegraphed his^on, on Th at
hack, it is believed, will recover. Af- the New York naw vni-H • at
ter killing his wife and woundinfc home because his sisteAas iH COme
their son, Hendricks opened all win- Young Williams found his S W
dows in the home so he could pb-, was not seriously ill and started fiS
ZZ e u™ y PerS ° n C ° ming t0Ward the ' for dut y- ™e minister drove his son
dwelling. ■ as far as Atlanta, he contended hut
A posse of farmer-neighbors, sum- detectives identified tire tracks found
rnoned by the disturbance of the .near the scene of the murder a, t w.
Hendricks home surrounded the
, .. . . t , the murder as those
of the minister’s car.
The officers also found the minis-
ter had been speculating in cotton
futures and was heavily involved.
He used the insurance money to pay
the losses.
premises, but made no effort to en
ter until the arrival of Sheriff Willis
McArthur and Deputy Sheriff Wal
ter Chappell.
As these officers walked into the
building where HefidricVs lay watch-• The appeal for a new trial was
ing a shot was heard and investiga- Based on the fact that only circum-
tion disclosed he had fired a charge' stantial evidence was involved The
from a shotgun into his head, blow- minister’s speculations and payments
ng out his brains. Hendricks 1b be- of losses with his son’s insurance
lieved by officers to have been de- money did not establish- predomina-
mented, as he was confined for a; tion of murder, defense attorneys
time recently in the Sumter county
jail for observation’ of his mental
condition.
Two persons who saw Hendricks
fire pointblank Into his wife’s breast
told officers who investigated the
homicide that no words passed be
tween the man and his wife before
the fatal shot was fired.
Daniel G. Bickers,
Savannah Editor,
Dies As In Sleep
Atlanta, July 13.—Theft of ten
Browning machine guns, five auto
matic rifles and two 22 caliber rifles
from the R. O. T. C. armory of the
University of Georgia at Athens was
under investigation Thursday .by
Maj. Joseph Pate of Fourth Army
Corps area headquarters.
Area headquarters at Ft. McPher
son near Atlanta received a report
of the theft several days ago and
Maj. Pate was assigned to the in
vestigation. It was discovered Mon
day that the guns were missing
when the R. O. T. C. unit returned
from training camp where they had
spent a month.
A window of the armory had been
smashed. *
COURT AFFIRMS
MAYNARD SENTENCE
Atlanta, July 14.—E. N. Seymour,
Highway Department office engineer
ousted along with four other en
gineers when Governor Talmadge
took over road affairs under military
rule, has been restored to his old
position.
It was understood about the capi-
tol that Seymour was re-employed
in an effort to meet federal govern
ment requirements which have
caused delay in the payment of $10,-
000,000 in ^federal aid funds to Geor
gia. Seymour, as office engineer, has
approved estimated’ and indorsed
checks sent to Georgia by the fed
eral bureau of public roads.
Governor Talmadge and M. E. Cox
sthte highway engineer, declined to
comment on Seymour and Commis
thrown in. The transcript averages I sioner J. P. Wiihoit was out of the
50,000 words a day, it is stated. I city.
Atlanta, July 17.—The Georgia
court of appeals Monday affirmed
the one year sentence imposed upon
W G. Maynard, former prominent
Forsyth ar.d Thomaston man in
Fulton superior court, on a charge
of larceny after trust involving a
$650 diamond ring.
Maynard was prosecuted by Atkin
son and Woodward, Inc., jewelers, on
the charge that he secured a dia
mond ring on a memorandum for
the alleged purpose of taking it to
Thomaston to show to his wife, but
instead took the ring to Macon and
pawned it for $300 to C. H. Jones, a
loan broker.
MACON MAN DIES ON
GALLOWS IN CALIFORNIA
San Quentin, Cal., July 14.—Albert
Fuller, formerly of Macon, Ga., was
hanged at the state prison at San
Quentin Cal., Friday for the murder
of his business partner, J. W.IKipps
in Madera county more than two
years ago, as the result of a quarrel
over Kipps’ wife.
.Fuller, who was 44 years old,
spent his last night sleeping and
writing letters. He was accompanied
to the gallows by a Baptist minister
the Rev. Chas. McIntosh of San
Francisco.
BOLLING H. JONES
DIES IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, July 13.—Bolling H.
Jones, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Fulton National bank,
former Atlanta postmaster and a
leading figure for many years in the
city’s business, civic and political
life, died in a hospital Thursday of
an illness of several weeks.
RUN OVER BY TRAIN,
MAN MARRIES ANYWAY
contended. The supreme court over
ruled the appeal on all grounds.
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-Rome, Ga., July—Having his leg
cut off when run over by a train and
additional cuts and bruises did not
keep Chester Edwards, in a Rome
hospital, from marrying. Edwards
was to have married Miss Mildred
White of Rome, in a church wedding,
but his accident stopped that.
In a hospital room filled with
flowers he and the young lady were
married.
CALLAWAY HONORED
BY MILL WORKERS
LaGrange, Ga., July 15.—Several
thousand persons Saturday took part
in celebrating the fifth annual ob
servance of Fuller E. Callaway
memorial day in honor of the foun
der of a group of Georgia and Ala
bama cotton mills.
Cason J. Callaway, president of
the Callaway group of mills an d son
of the founder, paid tribute to his
father and expressed the spirit of the
gathering when he said it was "pe
culiarly appropriate to honor the
memory of Fuller E. Callaway by
having a good time since he, during
his life time worked unceasingly so
that we may have what we do.”
Mill officials estimated 10,000 per
sons took part in the day’s exercises
coming from the Callaway mills at
LaGrange, Hogansvillp, Manchester
and Roanoke, Ala. Employes at
Milstead, Ala., had their own pro
gram and negro employes of the
mills held a separate program at
LaGrange.
Special trains and buses brought
the out-of-town workers for the pro
gram which started at 9:30 a. m.,
with a band concert by the -south
west LaGrange band. Wrestling
matches, a marble tournament, tennis
matches and horseshoe pitching oc-
Savannah, Ga., July 16.—Daniel
-G. Bickers, editor of the Savannah
Morning ivews since Nov. 30, 1931,
and widely known Georgia newspa
per man, died at his home in Sa
vannah Sunday morning at 10:30.
Mr. - Bickers had been ill from
heart trouble for some months but
had been gradually becoming weaker
since July 3 when he last sat up on
his front porch. Prior to tnat time
for a month he had been able to sit
up a few hours each day, but was
never aole to stand or walk. He had
been in bed since Sept. 18, last year.
The end came peacefully. He just
went to sleep for his last time.
The body will be taken to Gaines
ville and tne funeral will probably be
held there Monday.
Bickers was born at Farmviile,
Prince Edward county, Virginia,
Sept 8, 1875. He came to Georgia as
a lad and since early manhood had
been connected with a number of
Georgia newspapers, both weekly
and daily.
He had known no other vocation,
having been literally developed in
newspaper atmosphere. He was
reared in northeast Georgia and
worked in Atlanta, Ft. Valley, Ath
ens and Savannah. He also saw serv-
ice on weekly papers at Gainesville
and Commerce, and among his
sociations outside the editorial de
partments was his connection with
the Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
Atlanta, in the advertising and cir
culation departments.
In 1898Mr. Bickers, began a week
ly column of verse in the Atlanta
Journal. Later he supplied ' a daily
verse in The Macon Telegraph. For
31 years each day his feature ap
peared on the editorial page of The
Telegraph and attracted more than
local attention. It was while engaged
as a cub reporter on the Atlanta
Journal that he,acted as correspon
dent of The Macon Telegraph and
gave exceptional service in that ca
pacity.
He left the Journal for a period
of activity in weekly Georgia jour
nalism and later became managing
editor of the Athens Banner when it
was under the ownership of Hugh
Rowe. From Athens he came to the
Savannah Morning News as assistant
editor to the late Walter R. Neal,
later becoming associate editor. His
connection with the Morning News
began in Aug. 22, 1918. Upon the
death of Mr. Neal, Mr. Bickers be
came editor.
As a poet, he was as well known
as journalist. He was the poet lau
reate of the Georgia Press associa
tion and also of the Kiwanis Club of
Georgia.
He had appealed in several anthol
ogies, among the most recent men
tion of his poetical efforts being in
“principal poets, of the world,” a
publication of the Mitre Press of
London, England, the secon English
anthology to include his work.
He was married to Mnss Rilla Do
zier and bf this union there are three
children, Mrs. T. A. Witcher • of
Statesboro, formerly Miss Marjorie
Bickers; Charles D. Bickers, now a
student at University of Georgia, and
Emory Bickers, his youngest daugh
ter.
Brother Hightower, local Methodist
pastor, was again out at camp lost
Sunday morning und conducted serv
ices in camp. The message brought
was a good one and if put into prac
tice by everyone who heard it, the
world will be a better place in which
to live. Thank you, Brother High
tower, and come often.
* * *
Col. Munson of Fort Benning,
District Commander of all work
camps in this part of Georgia made
an inspection of camp on last Thurs- •
day. He was accompanied :by Major
H. B. Lewis, District Adjutant. The
Colonel was pleased with the camp
site selected and gave Lieut. Stew
art permission to drill a well for
the camp water supply. Colonel
Munson will inspect cump at regu
lar intervals to check up on hov
things are going throughout his dis
trict.
* *
Work has been started on several
projects in the county. Mr. Barrett
has two gangs clearing fire lanes
and three parties surveying for
others. It won’t be long now until
the boys are all out working in the
woods.
* * *
We had only one visitor besides
our old stand-bys this week. Mr.
Benns and Col. Wallace, the two
stand-bys, both have bee* out. Our
latest guest was none other than
Mr. F. H. “Doctor” McGowan, Mr
Broadbent’s personal representative
in this county. "Mac” declined to
stay for dinner, stating that he was
on a diet. Now remember we want
to see you all out here. Dont he
bashful. Come out and look the
place over.
* * *
Since the arrival of Mrs. Rohrer
on Sunday, the Lieut, of the same
name has become quite quiet. He is
running Col. Wallace a race for be
ing the most hen pecked husband in
town.
* * *
Our space is up, so we will MY
good bye for a week. However, we
are saving up some good gossip >" r
our next week’s column. Your
scribe will now sign off on Station
CCCP78 until next Thursday wMJ
the Butler Herald makes another
appearan.ee. Until then be good
quite careful.
TIME EXTENDED
cupied the rest of the morning.
At noon a barbecue was served. A
pit 400 feet long cooked 300 hogs for
the visitors. ,
A concert and parade by the Bax
ter L. Schaub post drum and bugle
corps and a baseball game featured
the afternoon’s entertainment.
Washington, D. C., July
and
tisfac-
15--™
Post Office department has ■ dcci e
not to retire persons of 30 ye
service under the retirement P
visiohs of the independent offi ,
supply act, who are efficient
physically able to perform sa'
tory service. , . not ».
Under those provisions the dep .
ment is permitted to retire P .
service employes of 39 yea.rs. s er
The inefficient and unable, it
cated, will be retired. . . nl
Joseph C. Mahoney, first ass
postmaster general, in a reply ^
inquiry by Representative Meal
New York, chairman of the t ,
post office committee, address
Postmaster General Farley, w 1 i
“I am pleased to say tha \” fodU
son who is efficient and Pw—j
able to perform satisfactory -e
will be retired on- account of
80 years or more service, tW
“HowevCr, postmasters “ . de
larger offices have been asked ^
termine their personnel requir
under existing conditions an > ^
a surplus exists, the departme
consider retiring 30 year e .
who have indicated a desire
tirement, and the departme ^
also give consideration to
employes who had 30 years ^
service, who are unable ®
useful and efficient service.