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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 17, 1936.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Funeral services for Rev, W. P
Allison, 83, of Brantley, Marion coun
ty were held Saturday at Providence
church.
LaGranye police are seeking a
9vhite man accused of beating into ir.-
E. C. Goodwin, proprietor of an ' Trial of Mrs, Ethel Peeiples, ol
Allunta grocery store, was slugged Chatsworth, on a charge of slaying
ard robbed of an undetermined her infant daughter, Lanr.ie Faye,
amount of money by two negroes was postponed Friday in superior
who entered his store .Saturday , court, until January 22, on account
Goodwin was admitted to Grady hos- of the illress of her grandparents,
pital for treatment of severe scalp Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Tyler, of Chats-
lacerations received when one of the worth, summoned as defense witness-
negroes struck him with a pistol. es The woman allegedly administer
ed a dose of poison to her daughter
J. M. Wilkins, 89, prominent Cand- last April. The defense claims gen-
ler county farmer, was found dead of oral insanity,
a bullet wound in his head at the gate
of his homein Aline .community Sun. , Suit for $1,000 on a life irsurance
R. M. Mathews prominent Thomas-
ton man, has been elected president
of the Flint River Council, Boy
Scouts of America, for 1935.
sensibility Mrs. B. Bartlett at her day n j Kbt A 22-caliber rifle was by policy has been filed in Bibb county
borne Saturday night. his side. Sound of a shot attracted superior court by Langley C. Johnson
the attention of his family shortly against the Metropolitan Life Ir.sur-
after Mr. Wilkins had gone outside er.ee .company. The plaintiff alleges
the house, saying he was unable to , that the money is due him as bene-
sleep. | ficiary i amed in a policy on the life
I of R. L. Johnson, who died last Dec.
T Q A Tiiiv 89 rmvfwirrnte Funeral services were held Friday 22. It is alleged that although a
. v,,'’ h rnCm.l f nr m f° r Jut *8e John M. Stone, prominent premium due on Dec. 6th had not
^ lin . F uT ^ h V residenc e in Marietta citizen who died as a result been paid the 31-day period of grace
er, (lied Friday at h,s residence n injuries receiv(H | Tuesday night had not expired.
DeKalb county, after an illness of six when J he wap 8truek by an am . bu lance 1
years. sak , to have ibeen driven by J. P. A drive in congress by Senator
B Whitlev Kincaid, 65, of At- Owens, of Cartersville. The judge, ' Russell of Georgia to exempt all cot-
larfa dir' 1 i, a hospital Mondav from who was 86, had been a prominent t° n growers of three hales or less
« e eff M tS wm' POiSOn, 'd WhiCh 1 eheved MM* *” ^ C ° Unty Sl ' ,Ce i Jotton controPact^ swUtly^SoTon
Henry McWilliams said was believed 1892. 'strength Friday in Washington. The
to hare been taken iy i s . . Superintendent W. H. Hardeman of I outlook was such that the Georgia
Representative J. R. Terrell, Jr, of ; be Consolidated Textile Corporation, I Sei ator predicted tiiat while Presi-
Troun countv, announced Friday he union division, at LaFayct'e, Ga., has dent Roosevelt favors exemption of
Would introduce a bill providing for announced that the mill will reopen ’ only the two-hale growers, he be-
local distribution of state automobile today after having been closed sin.ee lieves Mr Roosevelt would not veto a
tags in the coming session of the last September because of a workers’ three-bale amendment.
Winlaturp strike. About 400 workers will be em- j
ueorgia legisia ur . r i oy ed on two shifts, he said, and the ! A restaurateur cannot be held lia-
Austin Brothers Bridge Company, payroll will be approximately $24,000 hf e f° r liquor being in the restaurant
of Atlanta will begin within a few a month. I ne does not know it is there, the
days construction of a bridge over .. t _ Court of Appeals ruled Saturday. Mrs.
Potato ,-reok on state highway No. I nder a consent verdict, Sam M. B. Rhoddeniberry, of Blackshear,
74 about two miles west of Thom- Bearden, negro, was sentenced to | was convicted of a charge of possess
ion. life imprisonment Friday for fatally | ing or controlling intoxicating liquors
shooting hi.' sister, Etta Beasley, on ! in the restaurant she operated. She
James H. Hart, Ellaville postmas- o.ct. 14, in her home in Atlanta. The said she did not have any knowledge
ter, stifles that the gross receipts of jgro, charged with murder, appeared I of the presenre of the liquor there,
that office were 20 per cent more for before Judge G. H Howard. Testi- Several defense witnesses said she
the quarter ending December 31, 1934 mony showed he shot his sister when did not know the whisky was there,
than thev wele for the same period she lying in bed, reached for a dime
ending 1933. j that he had dropped.
Rober L. J. Smith, 73, prominent | Americus Methodists will celebrate
Commerce citizen and northeast the founding of First Methodist con-
Georgia attorney, died at bis home gregation at Americus March 24,
Monday. He had been in failing with a great home-coming and series
health for some time and suffered a 0 f meetings continuing all day. Bish-
stroke last Thursday. j op W. N. Ainsworth will be invited
. , , , .. ,, , . to deliver the sermon at 11 o'clock
A bill to amend the Bankhead cot- on tbat date ^th Rev Bascom An
ton control act so as to provide that tboTly be j ng asked to deliver the eve-
allotments shall be made by county • • at ? 0>clock .
committees elected by cotton farmers
tremselves was introduced Monday j Troup county is one of two counties
by Senator R. B. Russell, Jr,
One negro was burred to death,
another was burned about the head
in the state to enter the national
health contest being conducted joint
ly by the United States Chamber of
, , , . „ . . . ... Comment and the United States
f .nd hail to flee in his night .clothes Health Service . Thirty coun .
12 a fire # that destroyed a house at beg were eligible but Troup and
the rear of the old Southern depot i j en kins were the only two to enter.
Macon early Tuesday morning.
Approximately 158 counties in the
United States have entered.
Seventeen Ameri,cus merchants
noon, except Saturday, during the
months of January and February.
Grocery stores are not among those
in the agreement and these will con
tinue to remain open until 6 o’clock
as at present. The early closing
Charged with killing Ed. Norris, a
trarage proprietor, at Camilla, Ga.,
Saturday right, a negro listed as h ^ d a g reemen t to close
Bert. Jones was turned over by Jack- h . 5 o’clock each after-
sonville, Fla., police Tuesday to
Sheric Baggs of Mitchell county, Ga.
Columbus court officials, Judge C
F. McLaughlin, Solicitor General A.
Jones Perryman and R. O. Perkins,
court reporter are in Hamilton this
week w..ere court convened Monday agreement became effective last Mon-
morning. Two weeks are allotted for day.
the term. | p) ry Georgia furnished the United
The current statements of Grady States with $151,4 <1.30 of the na-
coui.iy’s t.iree barks—Cairo Banking tional total of $374,506,232, collected
Company and Citizens Bank of Cairo from liquor taxes for 1934, the first
and Mercha ’.t' and Planters’ Bank full year after repeal Special taxes
at Whigham—f how that d posits in collected from brewers and beer deal-
thesc institutions have doubled dur- ers furnished the largest percentage
ir.ir the nasi vear of state total with $66,470, according
to figures released Morday by W. E.
Macon police are holding a man Page, Georgia ,collector of internal
who has confessed to being one of revenue,
tvo persons to hold up W. W. Har-
rell, assistant manager of the Union Last rites were conducted ^Friday
Bus Terminal at Columbus early on at fde residence for John L. lye, Sr.,
the morning of November 14, secur- 75, distinguished * 1 Atlanta lawyer and
ir.g more than $560. i a former vice president of the Ameri
can Bar Association, w:.o died
Mrs. Mary Nellie Denson, 33, shot Thursday afternoon. He had been ill
ard killed herself at her home in At- about five months. Mr. Tye was one
lanta at 10 p. m., Sunday as her hw- of the most able ar.d widely known
band L. M. Denson, who had sent barristers in Georgia and was senior
h" to her room after an argument member of the law firm of Tye,
with a neighbor, stepped through the Thomson & Tye.
door to speak to her, police reported. 1 _ , _ _
i John T. Day, vice president and
Liquor distillers now must have assistant cashier of the Merchants
their names and license numbers and Farmers Bank, of Milledgeville,
lilown into bottles which contain their died at his home in that city Sunday
product because of latent regulations following a short illness Mr. Day
The cost of transporting children
to and from school, amounting to
$1,706,758.34 in Georgia last year,
could be reduced in some counties, in
the opir.ion of Dr. M D. uollins, state
school superintendent. “I am, of
course, in favor of transporting
school children, and it has become
necessary ;i: Georgia because of con
solidations of schools in rural areas,
but transportation service should be
rendered economically and ought not
involve too great a drain on the
school budgets,” Superintendent Col
lins said.
Soon after she left the dinner ta
ble where she was seated with her
sister, Mrs. C. A. Henson, members
of the family heard a shot in their
bedroom of the Heixon home in At
lanta, Saturday afternoon and found
Miss Lizzie Rumph, 22, who has
been employed in the Exposition Cot
ton Mill, dying, a bullet wound in her
right temple. Miss Humph, members
of her family stated, had been griev
ing for several days over ill health,
but had seemed in good spirits at the
dinner table.
At the banquet meeting of the Co
lumbus bar association held at the
Ralston hotel Thursday night, which
was attended by 44 members of the
Columbus association, majority ap
proval was given two proposed bills
expected to be presented before the
Georgia legislature at its approach
ing session. One of the bills would
provide for incorporation of the
Georgia bar and the other would pro
vide for the .creation of a state com
mission or council that would fix
rules of practice, pleadings and pro
cedure in the courts.
LOG KILLS FARMER IN FALL
.Royston, Ga., Jan. 14.—M. n.
Wright, 32, wellknown farmer of
Hart County, was instantly killed
Saturday when a huge log broke
loose from the chain which held it
and bounded down a steep hill and
struuck him. Mr Wright was assist
ing in dragging los to a sawmill when
the accident occurred.
THOMASTON MASONS ELECT
MISS E. RAULERSON,
MACON NURSE, DIES
Macon, Ga., Jan. 15.—Miss Esther
Raulerson, graduate nurse, died in a
Macon hospital Tuesday after an ill
ness of three days following an at
tack of pneumonia. She was nursing
e. pneumonia patient when she was
stricken.
Miss Raulerson was born in Pience
county. She graduated at the First
District Agricultural College in
Statesboro, and from the Middle
Georgia Hospital Nurses’ draining
school in Macon in 1918.
GEORGIA ASSEMBLY
ASKS CONGRESS TO
1*AV SOl.u1y.US BONUS
Atlanta, Jan. 16.—The Georgia
House ol Representatives by a vote
oi 81 to 61 luesuay auopteu a reso
lution memuranzing congress to paj
the soldiers’ bonus bill in lull imme
diately. me leaoiution was mtrouuc-
vd by Representative Jake Joel of
Clarice.
ine resolution provoked debate on
the Hour of the house.Representative
Johnston oi Lpson moved lor a roll
cal vote, but tins motion lost. He then
calleu tor leconsideration.
ELLAViLI.E HAS SI OR SIGNALS
Ellaville, Jan. 11. — They have
suspended three traluc lignts on the
mam tnorougnlare ol nUavihe A
genuine red auu green stop and go
bignul hangs over the intersection ol
State llignway Routes Twenty-six
and Thiee while a couple oi red
lights, Hashing on and oil something
like 26 times per minute, are sta
tioned one block up and down on
Route Three to warn the approaching
motorists. Proving that the light is
r.ot to merely display Christmas col
ors, the disregard ol the signal car
ries a fine.
FRANK LANIER DIES
AT AMERICUS HOME
I Americus, Ga., Jan. 12.—Frank
Lanier, 71, prominent Americus and
Sumter county citizen president of
the Americus Grocery Company, a..d
■ brother-in law of former Congressman
Charles R. Crisp, died at his home
here at 11:15 o’clock this morning,
! lolloing a heart suffered earlyattack
following a heart attack suffered
early Friday morning,
j Mr. Lanier was well Thursday, at
tended a movie ami listened to a
radio program until late in the even-
| ing, beir.g stricken after midnight.
FORMER WESLEYAN
STUDENT KILLED
Thomaston, Ga., Jan. 11.—Morning
___ Star lodge No. 27, of the Masons
of the Internal Revenue Department was a native of Social Circle, Ga., | this week elected^officers for 1935^a
which are now to be Strictly' enforced and came to Milledgeville 30 years
according to information received in , ago. He was treasurer of the three
Atlanta. j Masonic orders in his home city and
_ , _ ,. had been active in the affairs of the
Camps of the Civilian Conservation Masons for many yea rs.
Corps will be replenished by 147 re- ,
cruits from this section of the state j The United States Navy Depart-
who left Macor Friday to serve an ment was asked Monday by Senator
enlistment period in Georgia camps. Russell and Congressman Carl Vin-
The men were divided into three son to establish a naval aviation sta-
groups, all of which left for various tion at Brunswick. The senator and
sections of the state. congressman obtained trom Rear Ad-
. , „ , .... , „ , miral E. J. King, chief of the Bureau
A half-billion dollar grade crossing „£ Areor.autics, a promise that lie
elimination program was advanced in wiu shortl send men to inapect a
official quarters in Washington lues- site in Gly nn county which is pro-
day as a key plan in the aduninistra- ^ fop the naval base
tioi>s effort to remove 3,5V)0,000 from
the relief rolls. Plans for elimination Motion for a new trial in the case
of 5,000 crossings with this sum have of Thurmond Anderson, under sen-
been worked out by railroad en- tence of two to four years in the
gineers. state penitentiary from Talbot coun-
_ , . - ty, was denied on hearing m Colum-
Two Cherokee county farmers sen- bus Saturd before j U( i ge C . F. Me-
fenced for cutting down trees on La hlin . Anderson Was tried and
church Property lost them fight to eonvicted at the last fall term of
escape the chaangang in a derision Talbot rior court for assaul with
last week by the Court of Appeals intent to murder in connection with
G. B. and Jeff Huey were sentenced tbe
Claxton, Ga., Jan. 11.—Miss Ina
I Edwards, 30, was instantly' killed ar.d
i her sister, Mrs. C. E. Ovens and the
latter’s daughter, Eleanor Ovens, 12,
were injured when their automobile
was in a collision with a Seaboard
Air line west bound passenger train
at the Duval avenue crossing at Clax
ton Friday night.
I Mrs. Overs, driver of the car, was
badly bruised about the face and
body, and suffered a dislocation of
one hip The little girl had her right
leg broker, in two places and also
fractured her right arm.
GEORGIA POSTMASTERS
NAMED BY PRESIDENT
Washington, Jan. 10.—President
Roosevelt Thursday sent to the sen
ate for confirmation the following
names of postmasters in Georgia: Da
vid F. Burton, Adel; Nora L Smitn,
Ashhum; John G. Butler, Blakely;
Norma W. Hawes, Elberton; Andrew
J. Daniel, Franklin; John W. Ham
mond, Griffin; Morgan Thompson,
Hawkinsville; Rosa L. Lindsey, Ir-
winton; Emmie J. Newton, Nahunta;
Mrs. Lyte R. Tucker, Oirilla; Thorn-
well Jacobs, Oglethorpe University;
Otis A. King, Perry; Mamie E. Foun
tain, Ray City; Clyde S. Young, Re
becca; Gertie B. Gibbs, Ty Ty, and
Daniel M. Proctor, Woodbine.
follows: W. M. Nottingham, W. M.;
C. B. Short, S. W.; G. S. Wheeless, J.
W.; R. S Chatfield, treasurer; J. R
Davis, Jr , secretary; W. D. Rogers,
tyler; W. A. Johnson, S. D.; Frank
Andrews, J. D.; Cecil Kersey, S. S.;
J B. Downs, J. S.; John A. Thrus-
ton, chaplain.
MACON PAPERS NAME
ADVERTISING HEAD
Macon, Ca., Jan. 14.—Alan M. Ma-
Donell, of the advertising staff of the
Macon Telegraph and the Macon
News, has been appointed local ad
vertising manager of both newspaper
to succeed the late Ed S. Dunham, it
was announced today by Roy I. Neal,
advertising manager.
D1MON BECOMES NEW
MAYOR OF COLUMBUS
Columbus, Jan. 9.—J. Homer Di-
mon has succeeded H. C. Smith as
... . ... .. „ i mayor of Columbus. Dimon was
to 12 months for destroying 20 trees rear^Geneva^last^unu^er ‘ wh T^the ! dected tr ' ayor . for 1935 , by th< r , c . ity
in the yard of the Baseomb Metho- „ di ®”TuJ cJqnmbnl I ‘-^mission at its annual organization
dist church. 1 trading of the Columibus-Macon high- meeting iwe ntly. The new mayor has
1 way from Geneva t0 Talbotton was lcen 0 * thfc city OOItlmiss ion since
A 40 per cent dividend to de- i unuer way. 11922 when that form of government
positors of the defunct LaGrange Oscar Newton, for a number 0 f I supplanted the aldermanic system.
Banking and Trust Co., will be paid years chairman of the board of the Fo rnine > ears he was mayor,
n February, bringing total Payments Federa} Reseve Bank of Atlanta, has
to 75 per cent. I hree thousand de- been t de C ted governor of the bank,
positors will share in the latest pay- succeedi the S Iate Eu K . Bla(Ck
W1 'L total approximately Ml , New “ n , s election b , by the board
$300,000, procured as a loan from the of directors of the reserv ; bank
RFC on assets of the closed bank. | , ubject t0 approval by the Federal
A gift of $18,000 to the University Reserve Board of Washington. Be
ef Georgia School of Medicine by Mrs 8'mning his career at tile age of 18
John W. Herbert, of New York and ar |^ assistant cashier of a cvt
Augusta, Ga., was announced Tues- ^ slissi PF bank > Mr. Newton be- | have reC eived sums of money varying
day at the rffice of the board of re- ™ e a director of the Federal Re- , ;n amount f rom five cents to $4. The
gtnts of the university system of ”ve Bank in 1920 and Fad been fed- money usually is accompanied by an-
higher education. The money is to be oral reserve agent sincei 192u. He is a ] 0nvTO0US rote s reading “I owe you
used for equipping the new Milton , farmer president of the Mississippi this » or -this is to pay for something
Antony wing of the college. I Eankers ; Association, 1 j stole ^om you a long time ago ”
PROMINENT GEORGIA WOMAN
| KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING;
i TWO OTHERS ARE HURT
i Claxton, Ga.„ Jan. 12.—Miss Ina
i Edards, 30, a graduate of Wesleyan
College and formerly a teacher at
Annapolis, Md., and Bayard, Fla.,
was killed in a grade crossing acci
dent here last night.
Her sifter, Mrs. C. F. Ovens, and
Mrs. C\ens’ 12-year-old daughter.
Eleanor, were injured. Railroad au
thorities reported the Seaboard Air
Line west-bound passenger train was
puling into the town to make itsus-
ua sta*icn stop when the accident
occured.
Miss Edwards was born in Caxton
and had been llliing here for ten
years. Surviving are her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. Edwards, and two sisters
j Mrs. Ovens and Miss Mary Edwards.
KEY DEFIES ASSEMBLY
ON LIQUOR STORE
GRIFFIN FORGETS FEUD WITH
MACON BY REMOVAL OF SIGN
Macor., Jan. 12.—The Macon-Griffin
l'eud, which dates to the time a sign
was erected in Griffn at the injunc
tion of State routes 3 and 7, direct
ing southbound traffic away from
Macon, seemed over Friday night.
Mayor Heibert Smart said Griffin’s
recently-elected Mayor Harris has as-
;ured him the sign will be removed,
just happened to run into Mayor
Press Institute Planned
For Feb. 20-23 At Athens
Session At University of Ga.
Athens, Ga., Jan. 12.—The annual
Georgia Press Institute will be heiu
ut the University of Georgia at Ath
ens Feb. 20-23, John I’aschall, man-
, . aging editor of the Atlanta Journal
Harris with a mutual friend in. the i and chairman of the institute com-
Dempsey lobby,” Mayor Smart said, mittee. announced Saturday.
"and we gol into a friendly conversa- | Program features will include ad-
tion. I asked him vwien he was going dresses by widely-known newsipaper-
to take that sign down-—and he said , nien and educators, round table di9-
he’s already ordered it removed.”
NEGRO FALLS DEAD
IN TRACKS AFTER
BOAST ON HEALTH
cussions of newspaper problems and
entertainment for the visitors.
Discussions will be held on features
and columns, advertising, correspond
ence and correspondents, make-up
and typography, NRA regulations,
k 1 editorials and the editorial page, job
Macon, Ga., Jan. 12. Just “j* printing, overhead costs and'photo-
finished the boast that he had not had „„,i ,-n,
doctor “for 40 years,” Shelton
Brigham, negro, fell dead Friday.
Brigham, who was about 55, had ar-
ived in the city from Chicago ano
was talking with another negro, ac
cording to evidence brought out at an j
inquest before Coroner L. H. Chap
man. Just as he finished the remark '
on his good health, the witness said I
he grabbed is forehead and fell over. !
He was dead when he reached the '
Macon hospital. !
GEORGIA DRY LEADERS |
MAP OUT CAMPAIGN ,
graphs and illustrative material.
A large number of Georgia edi
tors will be invited to lead and par-
i tiripate in these discussions.
I Speakers at past institute sessions
1 have included Arthur Brisbane, C. G.
| Bowers, Drew Pearson, co-author vi
| ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round;” M.
| E. Pew, editor of Editor and Publish-
I or, and many others.
The institute is designed primarily
to assemble members of the Georgia
press, students of journalism and
others interested in hearing discussed
matters of importance to the profes
sion.
I Members of the institute conwnit-
Mavon, Ga., Jan. 9.—Advocates oi tee include: M. L. Fleetwood, of Car-
Ihe Georgia prohibition law have i tersville, president of the Georgia
mapped their campaign for a referen-1 Press Association; J. E. Drewry, dl-
dum on lepeal, with the vote to be rector of the Henry W. Grady School
conducted on "our own terms—the ] of Journalism at the university; Miss
county ur.it basis.” Emily Woodward, of Vienna, former
A resolution urging that the ref-1 Georgia Press Association president
erendum be conducted on that basis and founder of the institute; W. K.
was adopted by about 150 persons Sutlive, of Blackshear, vice president
meeting at a rally in Macon after the of the association; Mrs. Edna Daniel
subject hail been considered for three 0 f Quitman; Roy McGinty, of Gal-
h °Mrs. yary S. Russell of Atlanta,! bou "' f S ’. Hardy °* Gainesville and
head of the Georgia W. C. T. U., told H - M Stanley, of Atlanta, association
the meet ug that Gov. Talmadge had . secretary.
said a referendum was certain to
come before the legislature.
ELLAVILLE AUDITORIUM TO
BE DEDICATED THIS MONTH
No. 1
From
Page One
Mrs. M. E. McCord, city policewom-
j an said that several years ago she
Ellaville, Ga., Jan 10.—Plans for 'had docketed against him a charge of
the dedication of the new high school operating a disorderly house in Roff
uuditorium were made at a meeting Home lane. In 1931 he was charged
of the P. T. A. held in the auditorium with other young people with disturb-
recently. An interesting program will ing public worship, but the charge
be arranged for this occasion which | was finally dismissed,
will include music, readings and oth-j Thompson’s wife,' formerly Daisy
er interesting numbers. State School Lee Moore of Atlanta, is being held
Superintendent M. D. Collins will be 1 also. In a statement to Chief Ben T,
asked to make an address and assist Watkins Thursday she had revealed
in the dedication,, which will take . her husband’s identity, through which
place about the middle of January, j a long criminal record was brought
The board of trustees of the Ella- to light.
ville high school will co-operate with | Meanwhile, police authorities in
the P. T. A. in malting the event onie ’ other cities became interested in the
of the most notable that has ever nc- , case.
curred in the history of the school. ! Through # photograph appearing
in The Telegraph Thompson was
WOMAN APPARENTLY I identified' in Valdosta as the leader of
nn-Aii vinr nniTR« a group which recently robbed the
DEAD NINE HUGKt> iValdogta Gag Company of about
1 $700. Valdosta police said the identi-
Quitman, Ga., Jan. 15.—After ex- fi ca tion was made by Sammy James,
lstinp nine hours without any ap- sales manager, and a Mrs. Porter,
parent heartbeat or pulse, Sirs. M. F. cashier.
Stokes of Cairo is recovering. Rela- Detectives also suspect that the
lives had given her up for d,ead and three persons held at Macon may
were arranging for her funeral when have robbed a bank in, Jacksonville
she revived. , early last week.. It is reported that
“She was gone,” said her brother, two men and a blond woman particr-
R. P. McGregor, of Quitman, “so far p a ted in that hold-up and the de-
as medical skill or science could scription of tbe V-8 Ford in which
know and to us, there was not one they made their escape tallies with
possession
sign of life.”
Mrs. Stokes was just about to un
dergo an operation when she lapsed
into the coma.
Her first words on reviving were:
“I never expecter to see you in
life again.”
ATTORNEY
LEO M.
WHO DEFENDED
FRANK IS DEAD
Atlanta, Jan 11.—John Lewis Tye,
the or.e in Thompson’s
when arrested at Macon
Keiling however, denies that he ac
companied the Thompsons to Jack
sonville, that he was not with them
until they came to Macon last week.
The three were arrested 1 late
Thursday afternoon after Call Offi
cer John W. Long was informed by
a friend that new roomers at a Ma
con rooming house had acted suspi
ciously. He relayed his information
to Detectives E. L. Foster, G. C.
Sr 75, the Atlanta lawyer who was Britt, John L. McSwain and W„ H.
defense attorney in the famous Leo Bowden who had been working on, the
Frank case a number of years ago, case a ft er mo re than $1,300 had been
died at his home in Atlanta Ihursuay t aken from the Luther Williams
after an illness of five months. , bank> mos t 0 f which was recovered.
Tye was one of the states best ; Police learned Friday that Thomp-
attorneys and was senior i son and Keiling were among convicts
member of the law firm of l ye, ; wbo on November 6 overpowered
1 hompson and Tye. At one time he guar( ] s a t the DeKalb county prison
was vice president of the American Qr ,^
Bar association.
“CONSCIENCE” FUND GROWS
AT TWO GEORGIA POINTS
Macon, Ga., Jan. 14.—Macon's con
science-stricken mystery man (or
woman) is still paying off.
Within the past few days at least,
seven individuals and business houses
Atlanta, Jan. 16.—Atlanta is going
to have a liquor store whether or no,
Mayor Key advised the Georgia
Legislature Monday night.
Speaking at the Fulton county
delegation’s dinner at the Atlanta
Athletic Club, Mayor Key said:
“If yob repeal the law, we are go
ing to have a store—
“If you don’t repeal it, we're going
to have it anyhow.”
The mayor said that criminals "are
•leaping a golden harvest under the
! dry law and repeal would take a big
burden off the taxpayers.”
I Mayor Key said that in spite of
the prosperous look of Atlanta’s sky
, line, “our citizens need relief from
I the tax burden because many of them
j ere glad to be two or three jumps
ahead of the sheriff.”
camp and escaped. Thompson was
serving a maximum of 40 years for a
series of robberies and Keiling three
to five years.
Friday they admitted that Thomp
son’s cav was stolen on Nov 27 from
the Floyd Williams Dry Cleaning
company in Jacksonville and Ke!;-
ing’s, a Chevrolet sedan, on Dec. 27
from the Paulk Motor company in
Gainesville, Fla.
The two men are being held 1 in
communicado in separate cells while
Chief Watkins hopes to connect them
with a number of crimes at Macon
and elsewhere since their
from the chain gang.
Although he defended Frank, who
was taken from the state prison farm
at Milledgeville and lynched in Mari
etta by a mob after having been g.v-
en a prison sentence, Tye primarily
was a corporation lawyer.
BANDITS, FLEEING SCENE
OF HOLD UP, KILL WOMAN
Alma, Ga., Jan. 14.—A woman
identified 1 by sheriff J. H. Thomas
as Mrs. Martha Buchanan, residing
near Baxley, Ga , was killed and two
ether persons seriously injured in the
crash of two automobiles, one of
v.hiich Sheriff Thomas said was oc
cupied by three men fleeing from an
attempted grocery store robbery in 2
Waycross, Ga.
Sheriff Thomas said the car of the I chicks reaching maturity per bun-
three men collided with Mrs. Buch- I fired baby chicks placed in the
anan s autoboile 1 about six^ miles 1 brooder house. He attributed this
from here shortly after midnight. 1 success to buying good 1 baby chicks
Mrs. Buuchanan’s son, George, and j from reliable breeders, sanitation,
his wife were seriously injured, the I an d general efficiency of the poultry-
sheriff said. They were taken to a I me n of the county,,
Waycross hospital. This was one of the best agricul-
The three men were taken into | tural meetings ever held in this
escape
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custody and placed ir.i the Bacon
county jail here. Sheriff Thomas said
they gave the names of Irvin Sayer,
Richard Garrison and “Tootsie” In-
gener, and their home, address as
Hyattsville, Md.
Sheriff Thomas said the men told
him they were the ones who attempt
ed to rob the Waycross store shortly
before the automobile crash He said
they also told him the car they were
driving was stolen in St. Augustine,
Fla.
The three will be held for Way-
cross officers, Sheriff Thomas said. Ills, poultry yard.
county and Miss Anderson and
County Agent Daniel desire to ex
press their appreciation for the fine
attendance at the meeting. Indica
tions are that there will be a sub
stantial increase in laying hens in
Taylor county this Fall. Mr. A. E.
Guinn, expert local breeder and
hatcheryman, states that he has
practically booked all orders he can
handle and regrets that he does not
have a plant with twice the hatching
capacity of the ones now in use at