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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 21, 1937.
IndependentCourt
Is Seen As
“Precious Heritage”
barren Grice, Newly Appointed
Associate Justice, Honored
! At Macon Banquet
Macon, Ga., Oct. 16.—Marion
Smith, chairman of the board of re-
penat of the University System of
Georgia, urged members of the Ma
con Bar Association and ranking
state jurists last night to maintain
an independent judiciary as “the
most precious heritage any people
ever received.”
ALBANY BARBER IS
CUT DURING FIGHT
Tom Raines, Prominent Dawson
Business Man and Farmer,
Held Under Bond
Editor’s Note—The incident re
lated in tne following dispatch
is very much regretted by the
many acquaintances and friends
of Mr. Rains in this section.
Albany, Ga.,. Oct. 18.—Tom Raines,
prominent and influential Dawson
business man and farmer, was held
STATE POWER
FIGHT BEGUN
IN GEORGIA
Congress Gets Call
To Meet Nov. 15
Washington, Oct. 12.—President
Roosevelt, after calling a special ses
sion of congress for Nov. 15 outlined
Middle Georgia Officials Oppose ^kUve'progmm^sigiied'tfhelp
agriculture, industry alia labor pro-
Transfer of County
Functions
iMilledgeville, Ga., Oct. 19.—Oifi
ciais of 11 midtlie Georgia counties
banded today in a fight against pro
duce “a balanced abundance without
waste.”
While the current year has, gen
erally speaking been economically
good, be told tthe nation in his tenth
fireside chat,” there ure many
posed state assumption of certain j groups which "Still have less pur-
county government functions.
At a meeting sponsored by the
County- Commissioners association
in county jail here without bond this <,f Georgia, they approved without
morning on a charge of assault with
intent to murder Larry Strickland,
Albany barber, in an altercation at
Buzz Inn, Dougherty county road-
! house one mile south on the Thomas-
Speaking at a banquet celebrating ; yille highway, Sunday night about
111 o’clock, Sheriff Port Tarver stated
j Monday.
the appointment of Warren Grice,
Macon attorney, as an associate jus
tice of the Georgia Supreme Court,
Mr. Smith pleaded 1 with his hearers
lo continue “the American way” of
government.
'Other speakers on the program ot
the Itlle Hour banquet, attended by
■Ibout 125 members of the local Oar
association and attorneys and judges ^ ^ ^ ^
from over the state, were J. E. Hall, j not ^ ^now whether bond would be al-
Sr., Macon attorney, and former Mowed or when a commitment hear
panther of Mr. Grice; Associate Jus- would he held.
dissenting vote a resolution' opposing
assumption of county road systems
by the state, proposed by a special
legislative toax committe.
Also approved was the five-point
legislative program of the associa
tion.
Governor Rivers said last night
Strickland, his jugular vein cut, ■ his administration did not contem-
lay critically ill in Phoebe Putney plate “any centralization or other
Memorial hospital, where attendants plan which will in anywise jeopar-
expressed the belief that he had a dize the county governments.”
chance to live, in spite of great loss
of blood.
A warrant was issued Monday
morning by Justice of the Peaco
Geo. L. Saibados, who said lie did
chasing power and a lower standard
of living than tlhe nation as a whole
can permanently allow.”
The president called for:
1. Crop'control legislation to sta
bilize farm income and the nations
food supply.
2. Wage and hour legislation to
increase the income of low-paid em
ployes and, he said, thereby increase
production of the things they would
buy.
8. Land use legislation, spreading
the TV A idea to other sections, and
providing now expanses of fertile son
to which families in the Dust Bowl
and other poorly productive sections
may move.
-1. Anti-trust legislation “to end
monopoly—not to hurt hut to free
COURT TO HEAR
BANKfCASES
AT COLUMBUS
McLaughlin Takes Demurrers
Under Advisement Fol
lowing Hearing
Gee Samuel Atkinson of the supreme
court; W. C. Turpin, Jr., Mncon at
torney; Eugene Horne, Ajmericus,
Sumter county legislator; V. M.
Lane, attorney; and E. P. Johnson
president of the local bar association.
The chairman of the regents
S. B. Lipipitt, Albany attorney,
has been retained as Raines’ counsel. I
Today he announced invitation of
F. M. Kimble of Worth county,
president, and other members of the
County Commissioners association,
to confer Nov. 1 on legislation lo he . .
proposed at a special November as- legitimate business.”
semlbly session. 5. Government reorganization to
The five point legislative program make the processes of democracy
approved: “work more efficiently.”
1. Fixing of a $1,250 limit on 1 Mr. Roosevelt spoke from the oval
homestead exemptions, rather than room of the White House after an-
the maximum of $2,000.
2. Amendment to the social
Freed on $10,000 Bond
Albany, Ga., Oct. 19.—Bond was ’ curity act permitting county grand
set today at $10,000 for Tom Raines, jury rather htnn state welfare hoard
quoted a motto on a poster of the poininent Dawson citizen charge"! m approval of local welfare
American B;ir Association: “The I a warrant with assault with intent members.
American Way Is Best.” I to murder Larry Strickland, Albany; 3. Steps to assure counties they
“What is the American way?” he | barber, at a roadhouse near here
inquired. “When you get to the ! Sunday night. The accused was ad-
heart of the thing] the answer is: 1 fitted to bail at a hearing this
the part our courts play in the lives morning before Justice of the Peace
of our people.” I Geo. L. Sabados. e
Mr. Smith quoted statesmen as! s - Lippi,tt, representing Raines,
-praising the constitution of the Unit- .waived presence of the defendant
M PtrUnc the .rrmtest single docu- I and hied' a written application for
menf, but denied that it was alto-1 bond on the basis of a State Su-
gerther new. i P. reime court ruling that persons
wil have to pay no more than 10
per cent of social security
trative costs.
4. A classification (intangible)
tax which will not take away this
source of revenue from counties.
nuncing the calling of a special ses
sion of congress at a two-minute
press conference late Tuesday.
He sat at a desk before a seeming
board myriad of microphones, under the
sharp glare of photographic lights
and surrounded by news and motion
picture photographers. For the lat-
adminis- {.er, he later repeated portions of his
speech.
The president spoke more rapidly
Columbus, Ga., Oct. - 20.—Argu
ments on demurrers in civil suits
brought by J. T. Green and other de
positors of the o',Id- Bank of Talbotton
against J W. Jordan, president, et al,
and the American Surety company
and R. E. Gormley, state superinten
dent of banks, were heard here yes
terday by Judge C. Frank McLaugh
lin, of superior court.
Judge McLaughlin took the Two
cases under advisement. The suits
were filed ni Talbot county superior
court.
The suits grew out of the failure
of the bank at Talbotton in- March,
1933, a day before the banking holi
day was declared over the nation by
President Franklin Roosevelt.
Plaintiffs allege fraud -and deceit
on part of defendants in that the
hank was permitted to carry on its
books for years as assets certain al
legedly worthless securities.
Different plaintiffs in the case are
represented- by Judge J. A. Hixon
and Hollis P. Fort, of Americus,
Clarence Thompson of Manchester,
of counsel for the state banking de-
peartmnt and David Parker, of At
lanta, assistant attorney general,
represent Mr. Gormley and the hank.
Subhedge Snow of Martin, Martin
and Snow, of Macon; Mr. Carter, of
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1 charged with less than a capital fel
I ony are entitled to hail by right.
Dr. J. P. Tye, Strickland’s physi
cian, testified that the condition of
the patient, who suffered a severe
throat cut which partially severed
I the jugular vein, had improved.
Asked by M. B. Peacock, represent-
state, if he thought Strick-
. ! land would live, the physician an-
experience living fivvere( i,. “y eSi | certainly think so.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
NOV. TWENTY-FOURTH
“There ure only two new things
that constitute the American way:
■“First, there is the division ot
soverignty. Every man in America
Is a citizen of the state and the na
tion. Cur p.»m>le had experience with
a concentrate-1 form of government, |
«n-’ *hy saw it would not accomplish | mg"the
much. 1
“Then they had
under a loose confederacy, and they
saw that wouldn’t accomplish much.
“They saw, then, that when you
divide the soverignty, somebody has
att.x.s will visit Gainesville
ond- great American way; an inde
pendent judiciary which would have
the pow?r to maintain Hint balance
of isovenlgmty.”
The speaker spoke, of the bill ol
rights and the part it has played in
"tne American way.”
“The fundamental rights of human
beings are made binding on the gov
ernment (by the bill of rights). 'Inc
courts were so organized that any
government act to the contrary couild
he voided.
“For the first time in history,” he
continued, “people put restraints on
themselves .”
Speaking of what he termed the
search lot a “higher law,” lie said
other nations had ".-aid what it
ought to he, but America was the
first to say what it must be.”
The Atlanta atoniey went to the
defense of the courts—mainly the
Supreme Count—and upheld its de
cisions over the course of this coun
try’s existence,
“We have not always been pros
perous. But we haw been more pros
perous than any other people.’,
The beautiful marble memorial in
honor of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt will be erected on East
Broad street between Hall’s new
court house and 1 Gainesville’s new
city hall, it was announced Monday
night by Landscape Architect Pauly
at a meeting of all civic center chair
men at General Chairman Edgar B.
Dunlap’s office. The memorial will
stand at the head of the walk leading
to the south entrance of the court
house and 1 will he located on Gaines
ville’s principal through thorough
fare when the work of broadening
East Broad is completed. Architect
Pauly, who has landscaped the court
house grounds, stated that the me
morial would more nearly harmonize
with its surorundings at this loca
tion than at any other point.
Pierson Aim and of Robert & Co.
presented to the committee the com
pleted drawings for a bronze me-
(laiion- of President Roosevelt, made
by the imint, a replica of which will
He said “the American way” lias be placed in the face of the marble
meant to the people of this country memorial. Mr. Almand stated that
religious liberty, freedom of speech the Georgia Marble Company was
and of the press, of personal liberty now at work on the memorial and
and of private property. And, he would have it completed in ample
said,” it has meant more because time.
of the six-cent gasoline Tax to coun
ties for road building purposes.
Similar meetings to the one today
wil he held in Statesboro Wednesday.
Waycross Thursday and Americus
Friday.
accents and occasional pauses.
He did not include in his program
for the special session his supremo
court reorganization bi.l which was
shelved by the senate at the last
session.
pany. Geo. C. Palmer, of Columbus
and Geo. R. Jacob, of Talbotton,
represent Mr. Jordan and Foley and
Chappell, of Columbus are counsel
for two of the directors, Perryman
and Searcy.
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the courts” the potentiality of which
if not the actions, have always
guai .led against inivanioius of the hill
of rights.
“The most unfair thing that has
ever been said in that connection,’
he continued, ‘was that the courts
have prt leered the rights of proper-
The various committees were given
definite assignments and will report
Monday night what" progress lias
been made in completing the plans
for the celebration. Col. Dunlap an
nounced that President Roosevelt
would spend approximately a'l houi
and a half in Gainesville, tentative
ty, rather than the rights of people.” plans for providing for his arrival at
“Property has no rights. The about 10-30 o’clock on the morning
change is that the Supreme Codrt of Nov. 24 via special train and leav
the United States lias protected the J'jS about 12 noon. It is planned for
rights of corporations. And that’s alm to drive up Main street and over
right a portion of the former devastated
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'Mr. Smith praised the work of purpose.
it is contemplated that President
Roosevelt will speak from a platform
near the memorial. He will be ac
companied, in al probability, by sev
eral members of his cabinet and oth
er dignitaries from- Washington, all
of whom, together with the Georgia
delegation in Congress, will occupy
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Justice Grice, as did Mr. Hall, Jus
tice Atkinson, Mr. Turpin and Mr
Johnson.
In his address, Mr. Horne, who
also praised Mr. Grice, took several
good-natured jabs at him and at the
state courts.
“While I sat here listening to Jus- ,
tice Grice’s remarks, curiosity stifled seats on the platform,
my soul as to what he would say ot As the President will probably
the local judges. 1 guess he said w ' d leave the city immediately after
What he thought.” (Justice Grice |dediecatory exercises he will not
had not mentioned the courts
brief address devoted to expressions
of gratitude.)
At one time he bowed to the new
supreme court member and said:
“I wonder if you weren’t reminded
how infinitely much a judgeship adds
to a judge.”
remain in Gainesville for lunch, but
a complimentary dinner will he
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o’clock. It is expected that plates will
be provided for 200 guests.
Other details of the event will he
completed shortly and announced to
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