Newspaper Page Text
PAGE EIGHT
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 3, 1933.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
A jury in Haralson county will
hear Barnett’s suit against Mangham
Aug. 23.
The public works board for Geor
gia opened office in the state capitol
building in Atlanta yesterday.
Prof. J. Alton Hosch, of the Uni
versity of Georgia law school has re
signed to practice law at Gainesville.
More than a dozen towns in Geor
gia reported yesterday the reception
of their first bale of cotton for the
South Georgia tobacco farmers are
expecting to realize about six and a
half milion dollars from their crop
this year.
Six persons were killed in Georgia
during July in automobile accidents,
while riding on the running board of
machines.
Thomas W. Phillips, negro letter
carrier Albany post office, committed
suicide yesterday by drowning in the
Flint river.
The Georgia relief commission, the
state’s agency for distribution of
federal relief funds, will hold a ses
sion in Atlanta today.
Frank C. Wright, 38, one of the
State’s most widely known lawyer i
died at his residence at Gainesville
Saturday of heart trouble.
Mrs. S. E. Mayo, wife of a popular
mail carrier, of Richland, is said to
be critically ill at the Plains hos
pital. Mrs. Mayo is the daughter of
the late H. E. Elder, of Richland.
The edge of a road caved in and
their automoble turned over Monday
near Blue Ridge and brought death
to Mrs. R. W. Randall of Ft. Myers,
Fla., serious injury to her husband
and a tragic end to their annual sum
mer vacation in the North Georgia
mountains.
Friends throughout the state of
Col. J. J. Bull, of Oglethorpe, will be
glad to know that he is improving
after an illness at the Americus hos
pital.
Formal application for a loan of
fl,000,000 to build a new and modern
state prison in Tattnall county was
made to the federal government yes
terday by Governor Eugene Tul-
madge.
Lorie Mangham, Jr., 8-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Mangham, of
Barnesville, is desperately ill at the
borne of his parents, * suffering from
effects of the bite of a mad dog, the
animal being a household pet.
All departments of Oglethorpe
University were closed Tuesday out
of respect for J. T. Lupton, Chatta
nooga philanthropist and benefactor
of the university, who died Monday
in Brevard. N. C.
Joseph Lyons, 19 year old Jackson
Ga., high school athlete, died at the
Ft. McPherson hospital Friday night
of injuries received in a cave-in while
working on a civilian conservation
corps project at Clayton, Ga.
Mayor James Key of Atluntu, has
approved restoration of a five per
cent pay cut for Atlanta school
teachers retroactive to April 1. City
officials said this increased the
teacher payroll for the year by $85,-
000.
Misses Alice and Grace Jarrell who
held their mother and elder sister
pri=orycrs without food for ten days
and barricaded themselves in their
home at Jecksoi Monday were ad
judged insane by a lunacy commis
sion.
Her skull fractured Thursday when
her father plnvfully tossed her into
the air and failed to catch her, Mary
Catherine Staten, 6 year old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ten Staten, died
Friday night »t Hamilton Memorial
hospital in Dalton.
Establishment of n branch of the
Home Owners Loan corporation in
Albany was approved Tuesday by the
home loan board at Washington,
Frank Holden. Georgia manager, was
notified and Holden said it will be
opened in the next few days.
Only five persons were killed in
week end accidents over the south as
an unusually low number of mishaps
were reported. Two were killed in
Georgia and three in Arkansas. Au
tomobiles killed three, a gasoline ex
plosion one and electrocution another.
Clarence Higginbotham, alias Clyde
Howell, wanted in Birmingham for
the murder of William Lambert, ra
dio singer, was caught in Sylvania
this week, where he was playing pro
fessional baseball. He was returned
to Birmingham, where he will stand
trial.
Verner Babb, formerly assistant to
H. P. De La Perriere, the former di
rector of the of the state relief agen
cy has been made assistant super
visor of the state highway forces, and
Arlie Tucker, another former aide to
De La Pierrere, is supervisor of
compensation at the Highway De
partment.
Assurance of Washington authori
ties that a new bridge across the Oc-
mulgee river at Macon and a number
of other highway and bridge projects
inthe Sixth congressional district will
be ncluded in this state’s $10,000,000
government-financed road and bridge
construction program has been _ re
ceived by Representative Carl Vinson
it is learned.
Homer C. Parker, congressman
from the First district, has advised
all the young men in the district who
have applied to him for an appoint
ment at West Point that there will
be a competitive examination to de
termine upon the successful appli
cant. This examination is planne.I
for Statesboro Saturday, August 26
at the court house.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F Comer, re
siding at the Georgia Southwestern
College, Americus, received a mes
sage Monday announcing the death of
their son, Oscar Lyons Corner, which
occurred at the Hines hospital in
Hises. 111. Mr. Comer had been a pa
tient at the hospital since the 15th of
last September and for the past three
months had been considered critically
ill.
A cotton control conference in At
lanta today, tomorrow and Saturday
with Secretary of Agriculture H. A.
Wallace and C. A. Cobb, cotton ad
ministrator, attending has been an
nounced by J. Phil Campbell, director
of agricultural extension service in
Georgia. Mr. Cobb is scheduled to
speak today and Secretary Wallace
Saturday, along with Senators Walter
George and Dick Russell
Sumter county’s first bale of cotton
for the season was weighed at
Americus Monday. The bale was
ginned at the McLesky Cotton Oil
and Peanut Mills gin, weighed 637
pounds and was warehoused at o'.ie
Commercial warehouse. The bale was
grown on the farm of Ernest Stat-
ham, near Cobb, 20 miles from
Americus, and was sold to Reuben
Daniels. The staple graded middling
and was sold f° r 12 1-2 cents a pound
The bridge over the Altamaga
river between Blakely and Reidsville
one of the issues between Governor
Talmadge and the old state highway
board, was opened to the public Tues
day. This bridge has been closed to
traffic since May, 1932. At that time
the state highway board bought the
bridge at a cost of $35,000 and im
mediately closed it for repairs which
have since ben made at a cost of $5,-
000.
Two hundred fifty-five Georgians
will leave Atlanta Saturday on the
Ford special for Detroit, a trip spon
sored by Ford dealers in the Atlanta
branch territory. This trip was given
to purchasers of Ford cars by the
deales and includes a trip to Dear
born, Mich., where the mammoth
Ford operations are carried on; with
a special sightseeing tour through
Menlo Park. Then they will receive
their new Fords and head for Chica
go and the World’s Fair.
The Cusseta Primitive Baptists
celebrated their 100th anniversary as
a church organization Sunday, July
30th, with a home-coming day for the
benefit of those interested. The
church was established at Cusseta
PEPPERTON MILLS OFFICIAL
AT JACKSON LOSES LIFE;
OTHERS SERIOUSLY HURT
Jackson, Ga., July 30.—T. M. Had-
away, Pepperton mills official, was
killed outright, and George Smith,
Folvilla cotton buyer, was fatally in
jured in an automobile collision at
Jackson Saturday.
William Beasley, Jackson negro,
said by officers to have driven the
second car in the collision, also was
injured, as were Will Price of Jack-
son and a Mr. ' Roberts of Indian
Springs.
ATLANTA PAYROLL
TAKEN IN HOLD-UP
Atlanta, July 28.—Two white men
levelled guns at two others carrying
a $2,900 payroll on a downtown
street in Atlanta, forced them into a
doorway and escaped with the mon
ey.
The money was being taken to
Montag Brothers, Inc., to meet its
weekly payroll. R. X. Levy, cashier
of the firm, and Clyde Swafford, an
employe, were returning to the com
pany’s office with the cash in a brief
case when the robbers pushed thru a
crowd on the street and accosted
them.
CRISPS FIRST BALE
IS SOLD IN iCORDELE
Cordele, Ga., July 28,—The first
bale of new cotton for Crisp county
was ginned and sold in Cordele
Thursday. It was grown by Mr. C.
W. Southwell, ginned by Greer and
Malone and brought to the Cordele
Compress warehouse where it was
sold at the market price.
The price paid was 16c per pound
the premium being made up by the
following: Cockrell and company,
Pustau and Rapp, G.. H. McFadden
company, Bashinsky, Case and Co.,
and the Cordele Compress warehouse.
The bale weighed 435 pounds.
BOOTLE AOPPOINTED ACTING
DEAN MERCER LAW SCHOOL
Jno M. Greer Named
As Assistant Counsel
Of Home Loan Group
Formal notification was received
Friday of the appointment of John
M. Greer, of Oglethorpe, Ga., as as
sistant state counsel for the Georgia
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation,
which will administer the federal
home loan act in this state. He will
be associated with Judge E. S. Ault
of Cedartown, state counsel for the
corporation.
Mr. Greer is the son of Judge R.
L. Greer, piesiding for many years
in the City Court of Macon county,
and well known throughout that sec
tion.
For about nine years he was sec
retary to Congressman Charles R.
Crisp and made headquarters in
Washington the greater part of the
time.
Recently he completed a term of
service as associate counsel with
Henry Breckenridge, former assis
tant secretary of war, in the official
investigation of the Akron disaster.
Mr. Greer has assumed his duties
with the Home Owners’ Loan Cor
poration at the general offices of that
organization in Atlanta.
Talbot CouBty Family
Macon, Ga., July 28.—W. A. Boo
tle, former U. S. District attorney
for the middle Georgia district, has
been appointed acting dean of the
Mercer University Law school, suc-
ceding Dr. J. A. McClain who has
joined the faculty of the University
of Georgia Law school.
Dr. Spright Dowell, president of
the university, announced the ap
pointment Thursday.
Bootle received his A. B. degree
from Mercer in 1924 and the LL. B.
the following year. He practiced law
until his appointment, at the age of
27, as district attorney in 1928. Suc
ceeded in that post recently, he re
turned to the practice of law.
From Talbotton New Era:
Fond memories were revived when
a family reunion was held at the
home of Mrs. W. H. Barnes Saturday
noon. Mrs. Barnes has been an Inva
lid for three years, and has recover
ed sufficiently from a fall to walk
and her children and grandchildren
had the pleasure of seeing her sit
once more at the head of her table
and invoke a blessing. She has the
distinction of having all seven daugh
ters and only son present on the very
enjoyable ocasion.
The daughters are, Mrs. C. W,
Moore, Mrs. Annie Moore, Mrs. W.
A. Blythe, Mrs. E. P. Williamson
Mrs. W. E. Butler, Mrs. E B. Ed
wards, Mrs W. E. Greene; and Mr,
W H. Barnes.
Mrs. Barnes attended LeVert Col
lege in . Talbotton and remarked
when informed of the passing of’Mrs.
Kimbrough that a good friend was
gone and said we occupied the same
desk.
This day will be long remembered
by those present. Just as every one
was leaving the old “home” the sweet
old song, “There’s No Place Like
Home” began to come in over the
two radios in the cars and it was un
usual that this music should be heard
just at this time of parting.
New Cotton Control
Plan To Follow
Through Year 1934
A cotton production control pro
gram to cover next year’s crop and
possibly that of 1935 is taking form
as farm administrators, heartened by
the response of cotton growers to
this year’s plan, move ahead with
their plans along the whole farm
front.
Formal activity in drafting the
new cotton program will begin as
son as distribution of about $100,-
000,000 to more than 700,000 farmers
in 16 states has been completed. The
STATE COURTS
MUST SETTLE
Road dispute
WASHINGTON
NOTIFIES
GOVERN]
CAPITOL op*
CISION TO WITHHnm ..
000; SOLONsTs^mS^
Atlanta, July 31 *
nouncement that federal P !r •"
"° u ‘d a K w «‘t settlement 0 the
gia highway dispute in
before turning over $10,000 000^
federal road funds reached An ?
■ Monday as the state tirpnnra,!
bulk of these payments for agree- j legal" battle on behaff -
ments to cut the output of farms of ernor Talmadge’s highwav L f , Got-
this year’s growing crop from 25 to pointees. 8 ay aoari ' >P-
60 per cent will be finished in three T . o nnn , ln ._„
complete? * W ° m °” th8 **" ** ^! ?_ u _ re . a “ ° {
| ton and said the bureau had not
Producers and representatives of ! asked the attorney general ",
the cotton industry will be consulted United States for*- 8 <" era of
me couon umusuy wm ue tunouiwj-, united states for a rulino. A
in drafting the new plan, but it was position of the $10,000,000 roadVl*;
reported by authortative sources, f or Georgia. Bureau fuiKl
that administrators already have. however, that Governor tJL 8 ?" 1 '
come to an agreement on many fun- might have appealed direct ta.?
damentals. attorney general or that member.
The chief of theseis that they in-1 the Georgia delegation in eohvr, °
tend to enjoy the principle of the might have asked for a ruling tv
...l.mlnHii jAmnoli/i ullnf mnilt nltin tie tl/lrln,l fUnl >(. ... it. • . * II6
voluntary domestic allotment plan as
far as possible with a prospect of
another campaign this fall to obtain
agreements from growers to cut next
year’s crop and giving Secretary
Wallace an option to require those
agreeing to make a substantial re
duction again in 1935.
Payments would be based entirely
added that it was their understand’
ing that the justice department mad
rulings in such cases only
asked to do so by the federal ace"'
directly involved.
Governor Talmadge said after 1
return from Washington last
that the matter had been referred t
Attorney General Cummings
on the principle that growers will re-, Washington. The governor exiZ,
ceive “parity” prices based on pre-1 confidence the money would be fv
that portion of coming shortly. The chief execut
JACK M. FORRESTER
TAKES UP NEW WORK
war averages on
their cotton required for
consumption. Only farmers agreeing
to reduce their acraege a given per
centage would be entitled to these
payments.
’ A parity price is one designed to
raise the purchasing power of the
farmer’s dollar to the same level it
had during the pre-war period.
This plan would abandon both the
option and the leasing elements that
went into this year’s program, which
administrators regarded of an emer-
gency nature. Farmers w.ho signed
contacts in this year’s acreage re
duction campaign are to receive
either cash .payments for retiring
from production a proportion of their
crops or cash payments and an op
tion to buy specified 1 amounts of
government-held cotton at 6c a
pound, 6c below the present market
price.
The new plan will bear many re-
semblaiv.es to the wheat program,
on which administrators will concen
trate next with what they call an
“educational” campaign, some of
whose methods will be reminiscent
of Liberty Loan drives.
domestic was'notln AtTantrMonday, e but U f”
prise was expresed at his office cot
ceming the Washington announce
ment.
Richland, Ga., July 28.—Jack M.
Forrester, a Richland attorney who
was recently appointed secretary to
the Georgia Public Service commis
sion has started his new work.
Mr. Forrester has been a leading
law practitioner at Richland for two
years, going there from Americus
where he practiced law for five years.
He was a graduate of the University
of Georgia law school, 1926, and a
native of Leesburg.
Eleven months ago he married
Miss Dorothy Lowe, a popular teach
er from Buena Vista. During Tal
madge’s campaign for governor Mr,
Forrester was an adent campaigner
for him.
Hearing At Columbus
Talbotton Bank Case
The Association of County Com-
misioners of the Fourth Congression
al District has called upon United
States Senators Walter F. George
and Richard B. Russell, Jr., to do
100 years ago. Elder A. J. Laney, of
Columbus is nastor. The church inso-1 $10,000,000 federal aid highway
Columbus is pastor. The church inso- ■. . ■ - ... , - ..
far as the best records available I 2?^ -n-trni Kl»
show, has been continually in service L of the
for the last century and its member- Geoigia Highway department.
Mrs. Annie Curtis, 74, mother of
George T. Curtis, auditor of the At
lanta postoffice, died at her residence
In Thomaston, Sunday after an ill-
ship is strong and loyal with prayer
ful hearts that it will continue for
the next century.
Editor J. M. Anglin, of the Stew-
art-Webster Journal, with his wife
and son, Leonard, left Lumpkin Sat
urday for Nashville, Tenn., where
they will be joined by another son,
John M. Anglin, Jr., and from Nash
ville they will go to Chicago and
spend several days at the Century of
ness of four years. " She was the ! Progress Exposition. From Chicago
widow of the late Mr. A. H. Curtis. I they will continue their journey to
prominent funeral director of Thom-1 Canada and return by way of Wash
aston. I ington City, where they will spend
_ ...... , several days with a brother of Mr.
For the first time since 1928, the I Anglin. They expect to be gone on
annual convention of the Georgia 1 trip f or a couple of- weeks or
more.
Education Association will be held in
Atlanta when it gathers there for its
69th session in April, 1934, it was
announced Saturday, following a re
cent meeting of its executive com
mittee.
Governor Talmadge renewed his
fight on freight rates in his address
at Douglas Tuesday, charging they
remain at levels of World War times
while wages of labor have reached
“the low ebb of 30c a day and hogs
have gotten so cheap they are not
worth stealing.”
Announcement was made in Atlan
ta yesterday that the executive com
mittee of the Georgia Newspaper
Alliance of Accredited Weeklies had
completed arrangements for the op-
‘ • ' “ a. I.
ening of central offices in Atlanta,
K. Starr was elected managing edi
tor. The organization will handle for
eign advertising for its members.
Miss Janet McDonald daughter of
Judge and Mrs. T. W. L. McDonald,
Merchants and business men of
Montezuma are manifesting their
willingness to conform to the pro
gram initiated by President Roose
velt to aid in the economic recovery
of the country and, in a meeting held
in that city Monday afternoon, vol
untarily obligated themselves to re
strict the business hours as follows:
During week days from 8 to 4:30
o’clock and on Saturday’s from 8 to
8 o’clock, effective August 1 and con
tinuing thru December 31, unless the
rehabilitation program throughout
the country shall in the meantime be
changed.
Macon employes began to feel tan
gible results of President Roosevelt’s
New Deal movement Tuesday, the
first day for hundreds of local work
ers under codes of the National Re
covery Administration that provide
shorter work hours and higher pay.
Workers and their bosses will meet
With Georgia’s general state funds
nearly $2,000,000 under 1932 for the
first seven months of the year, and
tax digests from various counties
showing decreases in valuations,
posibilities of a further cut in state
Rpproprations were being discussed
Tuesday at the capitol in Atlanta
General funds collections for the yeai
of 1933 through July amounted to
$4,240,810.16, as against $6,032,
459.28 for the same period of 1932
and $6,784 552.52 for the first seven
months of 1931, according to a report
by State Auditor Tom Wisdom made
to Governor Talmadge.
The State Board of Control has
postponed the election of a superin
tendent of the Academy for the Blind
at Macon until a new committee can
make a recommendation, it was an
nounced Tuesday by Mrs. Lucy R. D,
Ficklen, secretary of the board. G. F.
Oliphant is the present superinten
dent. At a recent meeting of the
board the affairs of the Academy for
the Blind were turned over to a com
mittee consisting of J. E. D. Shipp
of Americus, chairman; W. L. McEl-
murray, of Waynesboro, and E. E,
Lindsey, of Rome, and this committee
will visit the school before making
any recommendations.
of Abbeville, has accepted a position 1 in the Macon auditorium at 8:30 to-
as private secretary to Judge Max ! night to hear details of the campaign
McRae of the highway board. She j which will be launched Friday morn
belongs to one of the old families of 1 ing, with a block by block canvass of
South Georgia and is a grand- : the city by squads under command of
daughter of the late W. J. Barton, a Chas. L. Bowden, city alderman and
well known Baptist minister of South a colonel in the NRA campaign or-
Georgia. | ganization.
Tom Linder, executive secretary t
the governor, said he was “under t
impression that the whole matter h
been referred to the United State
attorney general.”
GOV. TALMADGE ISSUES
PARDON TO MAN WHO
SLASHED FRANK’S THROA
MORE THAN 1,006
STRIKE AT ROME
Columbus, Ga., July 30.—Hearing
on injunction proceedings against C.
B. Euwards and O. D. Edwards, of
Talbot county, brought by the state
banking department in charge of
liquidation of the Bank of Talbotton
which failed to open its doors for
business just before the bank holiday
was declared early in March, was
heard Saturday in Columbus before
Judge C. F> McLaughlin.
The injunction proceedings were
brought on the grounds of ; alleged
fraud on part of the defendants, in
that it was claimed that they knew
the bank was insolvent last Decem
ber, less than three months prior to
the closing of the bank, when C. B.
Edwards paid a note secured by
lands for O. D. Edwards, at the
bank and had same hypothecated. On
failure of plaintiff to submit proof of
this knowledge on part of defendants
the proceedings were dismissed.
The state^banking department was
represented, at the hearing by J. W.
Arnold, of Athens, former republican
candidate for governor, as counsel
and the defendants were represented
by Clarnce Thompson, of Manchester
The hearing was attended by a num
ber of Talbotton people, men and
women, interested in the case.
Rome, Ga., July 31.—The $4,000,-
000,000 plant at Rome if the Tubize-
Chatillon corporation was idle Mon
day night as the management sus
pended operations pending settlement
of a strike in the viscose spinning
department.
The shutdown affected approxi
mately 1,400 workers.
Workers in the viscose spinning
department called the strike Mon
day night after expressing dissatis
faction with the present wage scale.
The strikers contended the wage
scale is contrary to the NRA code
and charged that the wage of some
workers was reduced when the code
went into effect.
GOVERNOR TALMADGE WILL
RUN AGAIN NEXT YEAR
Atlanta. July 31. — Talmadge
against the field again in 1934.
That was what the political crystal
gazer said Monday they saw follow
ing Talmadge’s opening gun in the
campaign fired Saturday before a big
Oconee county home coming crowd at
Watkinsville.
The governor didn’t mention seek
ing re-election in the fall of next
year but he called on the voters to
Bend him a legislature that would en
act his measure. The next regular
sesssion of the assembly is not until
January of 1935 to inaugurate the
next chief executive.
GRIFFIN NEWSPAPER
TURNS SOMERSAULT
Atlanta, July 31.—Bill Creen, 1
term murderer, who slashed tl
throat of Leo Frank, central figure i
one of the most sensational cases i
Georgia criminal'history, is free.
Governor Talmadge pardoned tl
aged and ill convict after he hi
spent 20 years of his life on tl
state prison farm at Milledgeville.
Creen cut Frank’s throat a in
days after the latter came to tl
farm from Atlanta and only tl
timely work of a physician saw
Frank’s life.
Frank was convicted and sentence
to hang for the murder Mary Fatal
Atlanta stationery plant emplove
His sentence was commuted by Johi
M. Slaton, then governor.
About six weeks after Creen'i at
tack and -before the wound had com
pletely healed, a mob stormed tl
irison, removed Frank and carrie
lim to Marietta, near Atlanta
lynched him.
For his deed, Creen spent sevc
years in solitary confinement.
Creen for years was a famili
figure at the entrance to the hi|
wire fence surrounding the 'mai
buildings at the Milledgeville stat
farm. He was a trusty.
ALBANY EDITOR GOES
ON ADVISORY BOARD
Atlanta, Aug. 1.—The Constitution
in a special dispatch Tuesday from
Washington said administration of
ficials had agreed in the appointment
of Henry McIntosh, editor of the
Albany Herald as a fourth member
of the public works advisory board
for Georgia.
The original program called for a
three man board. It was understood
vigorous protests were filed by Sena
tor Walter F. George and Represen
tative Eugene Cox aghinst failure to
give the southern part of the state
represenation on the board.
Mr. McIntosh’s name headed the
list presented to officials for con
sideration by Senator George and
Representative Cox also had urged
his appointment.
The three members previously
lected are Rayburn Clay, Atlanta
banker; Arthur Lucas, Atlanta busi
ness man and T. J. Hamilton, Au
gusta editor.
DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS
NAMES WILL BE LISTED
ON P. O. CORNERSTONE
President Roosevelt Tuesday
nounced through General Hugh -S
Johnson, national recovery adminis
trator, the names of nine prominent
citizens of Georgia whom he has
called upon to direct his recovery
program in the state together with
the names of seven other citizens
who will be in charge of recovery in
the Atlanta district. The state re
covery board will be composed of J
H. Freeman, of Newnan; Milton L.
Fleetwood, Cartersville; Victor Allen
Buford; W. D. Anderson, Macon; S.
J. Faircloth, Quitman; J. L. Burdeau
Savannah; Fred Hollis, Pelham; W
C. Jefferies, Columbus and Steve
'Nance, Atlanta.
Griffin, Ga., Aug. 1.—The Griffin
Daily News, which a week ago an
nounced it would “put the back page
on the front page if the president
said to," did just that Tuesday. All
regular editions appeared with the
pages reversed.
Of course the president had not
ordered it printed that way but The
News went on the blanket code of
the presidnet with Tuesday’s issue
and carried out its statement of a
week ago just to prove how strongly
it was backing the president.
Quimby Melton is editir and pub
lisher of The News and has 'been
supporting the president and his re
covery plan since it was first men
tioned.
When Paul Johnston noticed sev
eral days ago that the cornerstone
of the federal building being erected
at Thomaston carried the names of
Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the
Treasury, Ferry K. Heath, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and Jas,
A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Ar-
chitect, officials under the Hoover
administration, he enlisted the co
operation of Mayor Hugh Thurston.
R. E. Hightower, Jr., and J. C. Jones
Jr„ to secure official ruling that the
corner stone carry names of present
Democratic officials. This matter was
taken- up with L. W. (“Ghip”) Rob
ert, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, a close personal friend of
R. E. Hightower, Jr., and authority
was secured to make the change.
The replacement cornerstone, ther-
fore, will carry the names of Wm. H
Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury
Jas. A. Farley, Postmaster General
Lawrence W. Robert, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, and Jas,
A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Ar
chitect.—Thomaston Times.
No. 1
From
Page One
to co-operate. Already, ove L
civic organizations have enlisted
the campuign that is being waged
make the NRA insigna a necessi
trademark on all merchandise.
Asking the persons he picked
volunteer their services, Johnson »
the following telegram to each:
"President Roosevelt has dran
you as one of the nine members (
the state recpvery board for
state of as explained in 01
tin No. 3 of July 20, 1933.
“He has requested you to volumi
your services without compensati
in this great drive for national
habilitation. ,
“As a member of this board
duties will be to get every patr
American citizen, employer and
sumer to co-operate in this prog
“Please wire acceptance lmnieuia
and you will receive further m-t
tions." x , „ L . a.
The boards, under bulletin
will advise with the recovery a
istration and pass upon such m
as are referred to them. The
board would meet at the call 0
^Although officials had atte “>j
tabulation- of the number
ployers who have signed the s
ments, the stacks of telegram
evidence of widespread respon
the appeal. . 4
Supplementing the general,
to raise purchasing V 0WJ 4 e *' ,
employing more than 4,000, »
put into temporary effect tn
pending final hearing u P on JJ' uire I
estimated the code would re<l
employment 'of 1,000,000 m
A separate code to cover
cent stores was laid before th ^
ministration calling for g ^ a „
ing hours and lower wages c0(
provided in the other r ®.
but there was no indicati - . tier
exception would be mat *® .i v t
Johnson has said sp f. c '„„ louM
no large group exemption ^
made and -the only deviat ^
president’s agreement woi« h#vg
favor of industries whi ^
mitted codes that . we J® aI 5d ft
satisfactory on their face ^
be made effective pen S 0 *
Referring to retailers
eluded in the code for_ a „ t sh
of the dry goods, depa m {ttfI ,iti
food, clothing, ffj Shoe sa ^ ltheyr
dealers, one official limit
all come under the 40-hour
cept food dealers.”