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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 29, 1934.
PAGE EIGHT
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Dates for the official dedication of
Cordele’g new municipal airport have
been set definitely as Dec. 8 and 9.
The Georgia Public Service Com-
tnisison Saturday, ordered all power
companies operating in the state to
show cause Dec. 10 why commercial
rates should not be reduced.
Paul "Zeke” Ellir.gton of Thomas-
ton, veteran of the World War, died
Saturday night in a Thomaston hos
pital from injuries received Friday
ight in an automobile accident in
that city. He is survived by his wid
ow and two children, a brother, Ben
nie Ellington of .Macor., and a sister,
Mrs. Ed Watson, of Thomaston,
Jim L. Gillis, farmer aid naval
stores operator and a member of the
State Board of Control, is the new-
ordinary of Treutlen county, which
he helped his father, the late N. L.
. , Gillis, Sr., to create several years
Freddy Cunningham, veteran tight I ag0 j im (jjnis was elected to the oi-
rope walker and trapeze performer, ' fice to fi) i the ur . eX pired term of his
who thrilled many circus audiences j brother, N. L. Gillis, Jr., who died
with hair-raising heats, died at Au
gusta Friday night, victim of an auto
accident.
Georgia may be added to the ever
growing list of states which have
provided old age pensions if a group
recently.
Contracts for $550,000 worth of
highway construction work were
awarded Nov. 23rtl by the state high
way board. The largest project, pav-
of 4.863 miles in Clayton county,
of state legislators have their way [ an important link in the Atlanta-
about it, says a Savannah news dis- | M"Donough-Macon highway, went to
patch. i the Hardaway Construction company
Georgia hunters have to have dog'. ° r „„ C ?'“ mbus with the low bid of
Who has a dog for sale? Znck Cra- I * ‘
vey, Georgia’s Game and Fish Com-j Candler county finally owns itself
missioner, wants buyer and seller to | Aft. er struggling under the burden of
get together through his depart- j j leuV y debts for many years, the
mer.t. county is said to be finally out of the
red and is considering holding a ceie-
I bration ir. honor of that condition
The erection of a $100,000 court
house at Metter in 1921 contributed
Georgia huntsmen are abroad, par
ticularly this week of Thanksgiving
but no hunter may take more than 20
quail In one day or more than 40 in . ... , , .
one week; two turkeys are the limit >» > ar K e measure to the county s in
fer the season. , debtedness.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. am- i The number of deaths in automo-
bassador to Denmark, and this coun- bile accidents in the United States for
try’s first foreign woman minister, ] 1934 is running about 16 per cent ov-
vrtU speak in Atlanta on Sunday p.m. I er the figures of 1933, it has been
Dec. 2. under the auspices of the At- j shown by state reports compiled re-
lanta Quota Club. I cently. Approximately 24,800 personj
have been killed and 740,000 persons
News dispatches from the national injured in about 600,000 automobile
capital now report that Georgia and accidents during the first ten months
Alabama stand alone among ull the i 0 f the year,
states in classifying as law-breakers .
all persons manufacturing, dealing in | At a special meeting of the county
or possessing beer. 1 commissioners of Macon county, a
committee from the city council of
The State Highway Department has i Montezuma, and other citizens of the
built more than 500 miles of paved i county, held in Oglethorpe Thursday,
roads during the present year, ex- I the commissioners expressed their de-
ceeding any previous year since 1929, I gj re to co-operate in the building of
it was announced last week by Chair- . a non-profit slaughter house where
man W. E. Wilburn. all meat sold in the county must be
Thos. M. -Sea well, for- several [ killed ard inspected,
months co-editor with Claud H. Cook j The first woman trustee of 100-
of the Commerce News, announces year-old Mercer University, Mrs. L.
that the partnership is mutually dis- | G. Hardman, of Commerce, will sit
solved and Mr. Cook has assumed en- j with the board for the first time at
tire control of the paper. its meeting at Macon next month,
, _ , .. , a ,,c she announces. Mrs. Hardman, wife
i Wbl e tW0 . me , f.Jf-ot-ino- oieedier 1 °* tbe former Georgia governor, suc-
legislature were ac\o g J , ceeded her husband on the'board when
divorce laws in Georgia, 168 couples I hjg term ire( , t th recent A1 .
were granted ! llvo £. es d ™ a l bary meeting of the Georgia Baptist
day’s session in Richmond superior con y ention h * *
court at Augusta Monday.
, i Dolores Taylor, three-year-old
Compulsory retirement at the age I daugh ter of Mrs. L. C. Taylor, who
of 66 will face all teachers and oth- resiue in a Moultrie suburb, was fa-
cr employes of Atlanta s public school , tu „ burnea late Friday when her
system under a new board of educa- , clothirff caught while she was play-
tion rule announced . oni ay a t j n g j n lronl 0 p an 0 p en |j re . A sliglit-
wlnch is to take eliect Sept. 1, J . , 0 j aer s j s t er W as in the room with
Purchase of 3,747 additional acres | her at the time. Mrs. Taylor was in
of wooded lands in northern Georgia the yard, and hearing screams hur-
to be audeu to Cherokee ar.d Natalia- ried into the house. But it was too
ia Forest reservations has been au- | late to save the child’s life,
thorized by t,ie National Forest | Miss Ruth Bembry, well known
Reservation Commission in Washing-j young woman of H awkinsville, is
^° n * • making quite a success as a pecan
State fuel oil collections broke all 1 grower. During the present season
P’u.ious re- ords for the month of I she already has marketed between
November, reaching the new total ot eight and ten thousand pounds of
$1,332 624.56 on sales made during choice nuts, and won. several prizes
October according to a report made 1 at the recent county fair. Miss Bem-
Monday by Comptroller General Wm. bry personally looks after the cultiva-
B. Harrison.
Approximately 4,000 tons of pimen
to peppers have been canned at the
Pomona Products Company at Grif
fin within the past several months.
tion, gathering and marketing of her
pecans, which always bring top price.
An old church, shrine of early set
tlers, was destroyed by fire Sunday at
Waynesboro. A combined church and
The Pomona Products Compary is the j fort of Colonial days, it had been re
largest canner of pimento peppers in ! cently restored by the American Le-
1 gmn. Built on land granted by King
George, 11 for an Anglican church, it
had become a Presbyterian house of
worship with the advent of Scotch-
Irish settlers and a Methodist church
under the preaching of Bishop As-
bury.
the world it is said.
Mrs. Ausie Cribbs, 20, of Stilson,
Ga., is in tne hospital .differing from
a gun-shot wound. According to au-
thor.tics, she snot hersell through
the shoulder because of adverse eco
nomic conditions. Her condition is re
ported favorable at the hospital.
The 350,000 members of the CCC
will have 85,000 turkeys on Thanks
giving, CCC Director Robert Fech-
ner said Monday. The average weight
of each turkey will be 12 pounds and
the birds will be bought wherever
possible in the neighborhood of CCC
camps.
Valdosta continues to be one of the
largest south Georgia consumers of
hegs paying around 6c on the open
market. The development of the sau
sage manufacturing industry in Val
dosta to the extent of large commer- j viding a livelihood
cial importance has made this a lead- farmers. Miss Gay
ing hog market. , Georgia relief administrator, said
Police Officer D. A. Parramore of Saturday there were 7,306 families
Boston, Ga., was held up ar.d robbed alread >- in , the government's subsis-
of his pistol, a small amount of ter , ce t . farI "' nff ,? r ° Kram > n tbls sta ‘ e
change and his cigarettes at an early and that tbe ad ™ n ’ strat i° n hopes to
hour Saturday morning by an un- | have a least 10 000 either on the
identified negro burglar who had ? arms or read >' to t0 work *>y Jan -
groken into a store in Boston., it was
reported there Sunday.
Amerieus Baptist will observe the
centennial of First Baptist church of
that city on Sunday, Dec. 12, with a
program. Rev. T. F. Callaway, head
of the Georgia Baptist convention,
will be the principal speaker, and Dr.
O. P. Gilbert, now editor of the Chris
tian Index and a former pastor of the
congregation, will be among distin
guished visitors. Rev. O. M. Seigler,
pastor of the congregation, is in
charge of arrangements.
Idle lands in Georgia are coming
to the aid of the federal government
solving the relief problem bv pro-
for able-bodied
B. Shepperson.
1.
RIGHT TO HAUL BEER
THROUGH STATE UPHELD
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 26.—The right
to haul three-poir.t-two beer through
Georgia in interstate commerce was
upheld bv the court of appeals today
in reversing the conviction of J. D
Walker county superior
A homestead tax exemption law,
similar to the measure recently adopt
ed by the state of Florida, may be
put on the Georgia statute books if a
movement now under way is success
ful. Under the Florida law an exemp
tion of $5,000 is made on all homes
occupied by their owners.
Atlanta will be the first city in tne I Lewis
nation in which a regional office for I court. _
policing NRA codes will be establish-I Lewis, fined $100 and cost or 18
ed, W. L. Mitchell, state NRA com- months in prison for possessing the
pliance director, announced when in- ] >eer * brought his case to the appeal-
formed of the Washington dispatch i late court after the trial court had
containing news of the decentraliza- a new trial,
tio of NRA enforcement. The court of appeals said it was
reversible error for the trial judge to
Dr. II. D. Ragsdale, secretary of refuse to deliver a charge that it
the Georgia Baptist convention for 40 not unlawful to transport three-point
years, is reported “much improved” two beer from Tennessee to Florida
at the Oglethorpe Private Infirmary unlegs the , beVleves beyo „d a
of Macon, where he has been under ,
treatment for a mouth infection for reasonable doubt that the beer was
several days. Dr. Ragsdale is now able possessed in Georgia for purposes
to sit up a while each day, it is said, other than interstate transportation.
Soldier Shoots Mate to Famous Paintiug To Be
Death and Then Turns Seen At Wesleyan College
Gun Upon Himself
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 25.—Private
Thomas B. Starnes, of Service Co
29th Infantry, who shot and fatally
injured his wife, Mrs. Mary Starnes
22, Friday night, ana then shot him
self, died at the station hospital, Ft.
Bennir.g, Saturday morning.
Private Starnes used a single bar
rel shotgun and fired two shots at his
wife in their bed room. One of the
discharges literally shot away th<
left side of her face. Police officials
expressed the opinion that the first
shot grazed Mrs. Starnes as shi
tried to leave the room. Her body wa.-
found on the back porch of their two
room apartment.
Henry White and family, who live
in the apartment adjoining that which
was occupied by the soldier and his
wife, heard the shooting and notified
police. When officers arrived the sol
dier was sitting on the front porch
with a horrible wound on his head
and face. The right side of his face
was shot away, including his right
eye.
A towel was wrapped around the
wounded man’s face and he was taken
to the city hospital by City Officers.
Maj. A. H. Lynn, army surgeon, was
summoned and the soldier was given
emergency treatment. He was later
removed to the station hospital at
Ft. Benning. He made no statement
regarding the shooting.
Investigating officers were told by
members of t?:e White family that
Private Starnes and his wife had
been quarreling for several hours.
They were quoted as saying that they
could not tell the ^xact cause of the
argumnet, but that they believed it
to be over a financial disagreement.
MRS. E. B. LEWIS SUCCUMBED
SUDDENLY AT MONTEZUMA
Macon, Ga., Nov. 27.—Art lovers
will have the opportunity to make an
acquaintance with the Samuel H.
Kress collection of Italian Renais-
sance painting at Wesleyan College
from November 21 to Dec. 11. This
is probably the most complete and
representative group of originals by
old Italian masters ever to be ex
hibited over the United States. The
fire-proof buildings of Wesleyan Col
lege at Rivoli have been selected as
a safe place to show the collection.
Macon is one of the few southern
cities in which these paintings have
been shown.
Included in the 50 or more works
of art are some examples in the tra
dition of each school of painting that
flourished in Italy during the Re
naissance from 1360 to 1550. It is
said that during these years Italy
brought to art the grand consumma
tion of all its vitality and intelli
gence.
Dr. F. J. Mather, Princeton Uni
versity, who is one of the foremost
authorities on Italian art, will lecture
at Wesleyan Conservatory on the
nights of November 26 and 27, on
Italian art. These lectures will be il
lustrated with reproductions of the
paintings on display at the College.
During the three weeks that the
paintings are at Wesleyan, more than
50 civic clubs and organizations
from Macon will take turns in act
ing as hosts to visitors. It is expect
ed that people from all over the state
and even neighboring states will visit
the exhibit. There is no admission
charged either for the exhibition or
the lectures, and the public will be
welcome at all times.
The first formal pre-view was held
on Tuesday night, November 20,
when the Macor. Art Association and
Wesleyan College were joint hosts at
a reception in the college parlors.
Wednesday the exhibit was open to
public.
Macon, Ga., Nov. 26.—Macon rela
tives were advised Monday of the sud
den death of Mrs. E. B. Lewis of
Montezuma. She was the niotner of
Mrs. Pringle Willingham of Macon
and of Mrs. W. H. McKenzie, promi
nent clubwoman of Montezuma. Be
sides her two daughters she is sur
vived by several grandchildren.
AMERICUS AIRPORT
Amerieus, Ga., Nov. 23.—Work is
being rushed toward completion of
Amerieus municipal airport, which is
scheduled to be finished before Jan.
1. This airport is expected to be used
regularly by plar.es engaged in the
proposed Atlanta-Tallahassee-Miami
mail route ^’hich will be inaugurated
Tan. 1, and present plans contemplate
making Amerieus a regular stop for
mail and passengers.
LOWEST STATE JAIL
BID IS ANNOUNCED
Atlanta, Nov. 23.—J. H. Johnston,
Georgia PW'A engineer, announced
Friday that the Struck Construction
Company of Louisville, Ky., was the
low bidder in contracts submitted for
work of building the new Georgia
state prison in Tattnall county.
The company’s bill was $1,083,000,
Mr. Johnston said after opening bids
from several concerns.
PREACHER PREDICTS
EUROPEAN WAR SOON
Macon, Ga., Nov. 24.—Returning
from a six-months’ visit in Alsace
Lorraine, the Rev. Alphonse Barth-
len, of St. Peter Claver’s church a na
tive of that region, expressed the fear
thiit war might break out in Europe
within the next six months.
“They are preparing with feverish
haste,” said he. “Germany is filled
with war hysteria, desirous of re
suming her old place in the sun.
1' rar.ee will never allow enemy troops
on her soil again.”
NEGRESS FOUND GUILTY IN
POISON CASE AT COLUMBUS
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 24.—Trial ol
the case of Lucille Copeland, i.egress
formerly employed at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Haywood Watkins, charged
w ith placing poison in food prepared
at their home and served, was placed
on trial in superior court Friday and
'' as completed early in the afternoon
She was found guilty and sentenced
to serve two to ten years in the peni
tentiary.
Prosecution of the case was con
ducted by Solicitor General A. Jones
Perryman and the defendant was rep
resented by R. Terry as counsel.
MRS. KING, PROMINENT
MARSHALLVILLE LADY, DIES
Marshallville, Ga., Nov. 26.—Mrs.
John R King, 74, member of a prom
inent Macon county family, died Mon
day morning at the home of a daugh
ter, Mrs. D B. Frederick. She suffer
ed a stroke of apoplexy in August
and another stroke about a week ago.
Mrs. King’s husband died about 35
years ago. Before her marriage she
was Miss Mamie Talley, of Wrights-
ville.
BILL TO ALLOW MAN
TO ASK FOR ALIMONY
WILL BE INTRODUCED
Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 24.—Husbands
in Georgia will get a “New Deal”
hereafter if a bill to be proposed by
FT. B. Edwards, Lowndes county leg
islator meets with the approval of
the next legislature. Mr. Edwards
will introduce a bill making it pos
sible for a husband to be eligible to
sue for alimony in ease of divorce on
the same legal level with the wife.
WOMAN AND SON
TA’KE ROBBER
Madison, Ga., Nov. 23.—Chief of
Police C E. Elder said Friday a man
booked as Willis Dennis was held on
a charge of assault with intent to
murder and highway robbery in con
nection with an attempted holdup
nt a filling station near Madison. Ell-
der said the man was captured by
Mrs. Andrew Jones, wife of the filling
station operator, and her son after
the man opened fire when they re
fused to band over contents of the
cash register.
OFFICIAL PRIMARY
VOTE IS ANNOUNCED
Atlanta, Nov. 24.—Carlton Mobley,
executive secretary to Gov. Eugene
Talmadge Saturday announced the
official vote for Georgia representa
tives in the geneial ejection Nov. 6.
The vote was: First district, Hugh
Peterson, Jr., 5,392; Second, E. E.
Cox, 3,369; Third, II. T. Castellow;
4,078; Fourth E. M. Owen, 5,131 and
B. W. Middlabrooks (independent)
240; Fifth, Robert Ramspeck 5,20b;
Sixth, Carl Vinson 3,067; Seventh, M.
C. Tarver 5,229; Eighth, Braswell
I Deen, 4,501; Ninth, B. F. Whelchel,
| 8,491; Tenth Paul Brown, 8,129.
The congressmen will receive their
[commission by Nov. 26.
WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT
BY BULLETS FROM PISTOL OF
ALABAMA BANK CASHIER
Demopolis, Ala , Nov, 26.—Authori
ties Monday interpreted the death of
F. Clements Smith, bank cashier, his
wife and their two small children as
murder and suicide. The motive was
unknown.
The four bodies were found in the
bed room of the Smith home by Ger
trude Robertson, negro cook, early
Sunday,
Mrs. Smith and her four year old
son, Frank, lay on a bed. The mother
was fully dressed. She had been shot
twice in the chest, the boy wearing
night clothes, had been shot once ia
the head
In her crib was the body of Sabra
Smith, 2 months old. She had been
shot once in the head.
Smith, dressed in pajamas, lay on
the floor beside the bed. His head
was pierced by a bullet and on his
forehead was a bruise where another
bullet might have grazed him. A 32-
calibre pistol from which shot had
been fired, lay at his feet.
MISS ORR TO WED
CHARLES M. ROAN,
PALMETTO BANKER
Atlanta, Nov. 21.—The Constitu
tion says iMiss Eleanor Orr of New-
nan, secretary of the state Demo
cratic executive committee, is to be
married shortly to Charles Mosiey
Roan, your.g Palmetto, Ga., banker
and business man.
Announcement of the engagement
is expected within a few days. No
date has been set for the wedding but
it is expected within a short time
Miss Orr and Mr. Roan have been
friends since childhood.
She is the daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. I. N. Orr of Newnan. She Is a
graduate of Shorter college and after
graduation studied dramatics in New
York for a year.
Miss Orr was named secretary of
the state committee when Governor
Talmadge was nominated at the state
convention more than two years ago.
At the recent state convention at
Macon she was re-elected for another
two-year term.
jamin Roan of Palmetto and a gri
son of the late Judge L. S. Roan
the state court of apneals He
graduate of Georgia Military Ac:
my and Georgia Tech.
COTTON GROWERS
TO VOTE DEC. 14
CONTINUANCE OF BANKHEAD
ACT FOR ANOTHER YEAR 10
BE DECIDED BY BALLOT.
Balloting on whether the Bankhead
Act shall be continued in force for
another year has been set for Friday
Dec. 14, and meanwhile information
from Washington indicates it is cer
tain that there will be changes in the
system' next year.
Present indications are that a
minimum of probably two bales will
be allotted tax-free to every grower,
and that there will be less “red tape”
in administration of cotton next sea
son. •
Every grower of cotton, whether
landowner, renter or share cropper,
is entitled to vote in the election,
which will be held by special manag
ers selected by county committee
members. The ballots call for a “yes”
or “no” vote on whether the act shall
be continued.
SCREVEN FARMER
BURNED TO DEATH
to climb into the blazing
again when he was prevent,. i ctUr «
The burned body of the „
thei was found in the ruin,f r! i n<lf *-
house. He had evidently been ■ til(
near the room in which the grami ot
had groped in the smoke K an ls °t
Sylvania, Ga., Nov. 26.—Trapped in
his burning home, W. W. Oliver, 70,
prosperous farmer, was burned to
death at Hilltonia, near Sylvania
Sunday right William Oliver, his 15-
year-old gandson, risked his own life
twice in dn attempt to rescue his
grandfather.
No one but the old man and the
boy were in the house when it caught
fire. About midnight the boy was
awakened by the roar of the fire and
smell of smoke. Flames prevented
him from getting out of his room
through the house, so he jumped thru
a window into the yard.
Concerned about his grandfather,
the boy ran around the house, smash
er 1 in the window of the old man’s
bedroom, already smoke filled. The
boy climbed in the window, called for
his grandfather, and not getting any
answer, searched the room, even feel
ing on the bed. Not locating him the
boy thought his grandfather had got
ten out of the burning building safe
ly-
The fire spread rapidly and as
neighbors arrived, the boy was about
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Roosevelt at Southern Home of Andrew Jackson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ... In hi*
swing through the South to person
ally inspect the government’s huge
Tennessee Valley development pro
jects and a stop at Harrodshurg,
Ky., President F’ranklin D. Roosevelt
paused here to visit * ’ The Hermit
age” stnte owned shrine of the Old
South, tlio home of Andrew Jackson,
built in 1823. Photo shows the lovely
old mansion whore lived the former
President Andrew Jackson. Insert is
of President Roosevelt who has fol
lowed in the steps of other Presidents
in visiting the shrine. The President,
enroute to Warm Springs, made
stops in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Mississippi. r