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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 6, 1938.
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
The annual spring flower show
will' he held at Milieu community
house, in Millen, May 11.
As Andrew Kuflfrey, 13, of Atlanta,
leaned over to tie his shoe lace he
lost his balance and fell, breaking
his right anm.
A prison camp guard and two ne
groes were killed by lightning "in Ful
ton county Monday during a hard
wind and rainstorm.
The mysterious and serious beat
ing of a 26-year-old woman in
shanty in Atlanta was being invesiX-
gated by police Tuesday.
The Bar Association of the South
western Judicial Circuit Friday
elected Representative A.A. Marshall
of Macon county, as president.
J. P. Dykes, 68, Bleckley couilty
warden and former county commis
sioner, died at a Macon hospital
Monday following a heart attack.
If you run across the guy who
made famous the quotation: “U _ is
the woman who pays,” just show him
this clipping. During the past three
years a total of 229,228 w-oen fans in
Atlanta and vicinity'have been ad
mitted free to Ponce De Leon Park
to see the Crackers .play on Tuesday
and Friday nights,
FIRST PEACHES SHIPPED
FROM SUMTER MONDAY
Americus, May 2.—Sumter county’s
first peaches were shipped north
Monady. E. P. James, who has an or
chard and farm on the River road
sent a half dozen baskets of Mayflow
er peaches to Chicago. Mr. James
COLUMBUS PEOPLE
GAIN LARGE SUMS
FR0MC.0FGA.R.R.
With the new parking regulations reports the peaches are of excellent
in Americus going into effect this quality, but he has a short crop this
week, the Junior Chamber of Com- year,
merce has mailed 6,000 courtesy -
cards—allowing out-of-town visitors
unlimited parking time—to boxhold-
ers in the Americus trading territory.
A two-hour parking limit will be
placed on the downtown business sec
tion this week.
Colquitt county tobacco growers ex
pect to begin curing the earlier por
tion of the 1938 tobacco crop not later
than June 1. Continuation of present
weather conditions was expected to
permit some tobacco to be moved in
to the barns the latter part of May.
This would be an earlier start than
last year, when blue mold and cold m
March and April set back the crop.
PACE IS EXPECTED
TO ANNOUNCE SOO^
Americus, Ga., April 29—Con
gressman Stephen Pace is expected
to announce his candidacy for re-
election from the Third District
within a short time.
“I am, of course, hoping that i
may be returned to Congress without
opposition,” the representative said
in a letter.
OLDEST GRADUATE PLANS TO
ATTEND ANDREW PROGRAM
It provides An Annual Payroll at
Columbus Alone of $1,09,000 for
619 Employes
, Cuthbert, Ga., April 29.—Mrs. Sal-
■ Police officers of LnGrange and ; jj e a Buchanan, 98, oldest graduate
I neighboring cities of Western Goor- | 0 f Andrew College, plans to come
Jas. P. Dykes, 58, Bleckley co nvtv gia and Eastern Alabama, will to Cutihbert from Dallas, Tex., to at-
Cochran) warden and former county gather in LaGrange May 16 for the | tend the commencement program.
commissinoer, died Monday at a Ma
con hospital following a heart attack.
For the first time in the history
of the Americus Fire Department,
members of the force will be sent to
the state fire school in Atlanta this
week.
A Laurens superior court Tuesday day, Altuough not nnisneU in every
acquitted Isom Harden land Willie detail, the pustor, Rev. J. U, Garrison
Hall, Rockledge farmers, of a charge announces tne church auditorium and
tne Sunduy school rooms are ready
for use. Tne building committee
hopes to have the building finished in
every particular by tne end of the
year. Tne building is of brick con
struction and adequate in every re
spect. Itev. W. M. Davis, a former
pastor, was selected to preach the
initial sermon.
first of a series of lectures to be pre- I she is a sister of O. P. Anthony,
sented by outstanding men in the j third president of the Cuthbert
field of crime prevention and detec- j school, and was a member of the
tion as a part of the two week police I c ] ass G f 1857,
training school, Chief of Police J. E.
Mathews announced Monday. THOMASTON SHOW
me urst services oi tne new J TO open FRIDAY
Mti^s cupust cmucn were held Sun-
of murder in the death of John Mc
Lendon, a neighbor. S
Entrance fee for candidates foi
Representative in the General As
sembly from Montgomery County
was set at $50 by the Democratic
executive committee meeting in Mt.
Vernon Monday.
Jno. C. Bennett, 27, the youngest '
Mayor llnziehurst has had, fines, law
brcuikersaout five times as much as
the average in the past and is work
ing for a reduction in taxes and
water rates.
Georgia high school students will
gather at the University of Georgia
May 5-7 to compete in literary, mu-
su-.al and athletic contest at the 21st
annual meeting of the Georgia Hi'gl
school association. j
The sawmill of the Millen Lumber |
Co., valued at between $12,000 and |
$16,000, burned 1 completely Saturday
morning at 2 o’clock, Only t.i • metal
pieces of machinery remain. There
was no insurance.
A slip of the foot Tuesday oaused
Walsa Bartlett, 28, of Atlanta, to re-
cei'-'> severe burns about the head
Kashita, historic Indian village at
Ft. Benning, is to be developed to
preserve its value to archaeologists
and historians. Twenty boys from the
CCC camp at the Ocmulgee National
Monument at Macon will leave May
23 to work on the project. It was to
Kashita that General Oglethorpe
went in 17-bO. It was known as a
“peace town.” General Singleton,
commander of Ft. Benning, has
shown keen interest in the Kashita
project, ipnrt of which is located on
the government reservation, near the
air field.
EXCHANGE CLUBS TO MEET
Thomaston, Ga., May 2.—The Thom-
aston Garden club will hold a flower
show Friday at R. E, Lee 'ball rourt.
All citizens of Upson county may
compete for the ribbons and' prizes
offered. The receiving committee will
list exhibits Friday from 8 a. m.
until 10:30 a. m. The show will be
opened to visitors from 2-30 p. m.
until 8-30 p. m.
THIEF USES HOOK
TO SNAG TROUSERS
an dback. Bartlett, a florist employe, I T f un ®
-Griffin, Ga., April 29.—The 13th
annual state convention' of Georgia
Exchange Clubs will be held in
H.
fell into a five-gallon jar of acid at an
At'mvta (Tru-g store.
Temporary classrooms were estab
lished in Millen Monday for vocational
Btua'onts cl me Millen High school.
The vocational structure, valued at
$2,000, was destroyed Sunday by fire
of undetermined origin.
Dan Parks, 35 year old negro em
ploye oi the Atlanta Health Depart
ment, was instantly killed when
struck by lightning during a sudden
thundershower Monday. Parks had
sought refuge under a iree.
E. F. Simgster, 32, of Griffin, was
killed Tuesday when his produce truck
crashed :nto a guard rail on a bridge
near Tampa, Fla. His brother-in-law,
Ed 'Connor, 17, was reported in “fair”
condition in a Tampa hospital.
Miss Aimmie Chappell of .Sumter,
Ga., won the Sweepsteaks prize in the
Annual 1 Sumter county flower show at
Americus Saturdey. She won four
first places, while Mrs. J. C. Logan
of Plains, Ga., took three first places.
Fifty-five men went back to work
■at the Swift Cotton Oil Mill in Ma
con Tuesday after a two months’ lay
off. Work tor at least two weeks was
in sight and future operations de
pend on the flow of cotton seed, it
was stated.
A spurt in building activity during
the last month brought issuance of
$69,726 in building permits in Au
gusta, according to reports from J.
Browning, building inspector. This
was an increase of $40,000 over the
preceding month.
In the general presentments of
the Stewart county grand jury for
the spring term of the Stewart su
perior court the body recommended
tlie abolishment ol tne county con
vict system and working the roads by
hired public labor.
. Filing 30 feet to the ground from a
tree ini which he was working at
Clarks to li Monday, A. W. Ingram,
electric power lineman of Atlanta
was taken to the Emory University
hospital for treatment of cuts, bruis
es and' a hip injury.
When liquor sales began in Atlan
ta recently, after 22 dry years, po
licemen were told this: “Don’t try to
arrest a man if he turns up a bottle
and drinks it right before your
eyes. That’s legal now. But if he
takes a drink in an auto and drives
off, nab him. He’s violating the law."
Former Mayor Jas. L. Key, who
seven years ago became the first
public official in this section to con
demn prohibition and predict repeal,
saiw his prophecy come true last week
when he purchased the first bottle ot
liquor to be sold in Atlanta. He said
“I don’t want this to drink. I’m buy
Img it because it marks the end of a
historic period of debauchery and' had
conditions brought on by the bootleg
era.”
Beck, Jr., secretary of the state or-
ganidation announces.
UNIVERSITY R. O. T. C. UNIT
GIVEN HIGHEST RATING
Athens, Ga., May 1.—The Uni.
versify of Georgia R. O. T. C. unit
has been ranked “excellent,” the
highest ratinb possible, according to
information receive by Col. H. E.
Mann, commandant of cadets.
PEACHES SHIPPED
Montezuma, Ga., May 2.—J. B
Easterlin, shipped eight and one-half
bushel baskets of peaches Monday,
makfing the sason's first shipment oi
the fruit from this section. The
peaches were the Mountain Rose va-
rietv and were expressed to New
York.
R. N. ENGLISH DIES SUNDAY
Atlanta, May 2.—A fisherman who
snags the pants of sleeping victims
though open windows, removes tne
cash and then tosses them back,
gave police a new worry Monday.
He made three catches of about $10
in the northwest residential section
in his latest foray. Police are hunt
ing a fellow who has a fish pole with
a hook at the end.
AMERICUS LADY
BREAKS LEG
Americus, Ga., May 2.—Mrs. L. R.
Towson, French teacher at Georgia
Southwestern, broke her left leg just
above the ankle when she fell down
the stairs at tlft First Methodist
church Sunday, She was walking
down the stairs after teaching a Sun
day school class when she fell down
one step.
Columbus, Ga., May 1.—The Cen
tral of Georgia Railway, whose lines
have operated in and' out j>f Colum
bus for 82 years, constitutes one of
the city’s major assets.
Providing a payroll for 619 Co
lumbus employees that amounts to
more than $1,000,000 a year, it plays
an integral part in the life of the
city and is prided by Columbus.
The Central of Georgia and Co.
iunibus have grown up together and
as one has prospered so has the oth
er. Columbus .means much to the
Central and the railroad Lnewise
means much to Columbus.
The Central payroll in Columbus
amounts to more than $90,000 month
ly, virtually every cent of which 1:
spent in the city. The majority of
Central employes are home owners,
and in addition to swelling the trade
channels, their earnings also help to
increase the tax till.
Today the Central of Georgia is
offering Columbus the best railroad
service in its history. In passenger
sendee it .features fast air-condition
ed trains at low one-way and round
trip fares.
In freight transit it offers a fast
service. It does a tremendous pack
age ear business out of the city,
from 85 to 100 such ears leaving
daily for Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
northern and mid-western points.
Improvements in freight service,
enabling speedy deliveries to distant
points has- resulted in a large in
crease in business handled' out ol
Columbus. Package car shipments
totaling 17,000 cars in 1932, have
risen rapidly and a total of 24,296
moved out of the city during 1937.
Columbus is the largest package car
center in the southeast.
Columbus officials of the Central
of Georgia are C. Baldwin, superin
tendent; T.P. Wade, division freight
agent; S. C. Harris, district passen
ger agent, and W. E. Dillard, local
agent.
HOSPITAL DAY SET
BY RIVERS MAY 12
Atlanta, April 30.—Governor Riv
ers Saturday proclaimed May 12 hos
pital day in Georgia.
He issued another proclamation in
viting Georgians to display the U. S.
flag May 8, Mother’s day, “as a pub
lic expression of our love ancTrever
ence for the mothers dl our state and
our country.”
Of hospital day he said: “The
citizens of Georgia are urged to
honor the profession' so important to
our health and well-being, and to
visit and inspect hospitals in order to
become acquainted with the great
work they are doing.”
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR H. N. RANDOLPH,
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apart
keeping with the day set
honor of our mothers.
The evening service at the Bap
tist church was called off because of
the revival then in progress at the
Methodist church.
U.
S. FAR FROM WAR,
MOSELEY DECLARES
Columbus, Ga., May 1.—“We are
further from war today than we
have been in .10 years,” Maj. Gen.
George Van. Horn Moseley, comman
der of the fourth corps area, said
Saturday as he addressed the open
ing session of the 12th annual con
vention of the Georgia department.
Reserve Officers’ Association, at Ft.
Benning.
PARKER IS HURT
IN AUTO WRECh
Americus, May 2.—Roy N. English
young Oglethorpe, Ga., man died' at
the city hospital, Americus, Sunday
after a short illness. The body was
carried to Oglethorpe for funeral
services. Mr. English was a well-
known young man, with many friends
in Macon county.
TRIAL MOTION HEARING WON
BY YOUTHFUL COBB SLAYER
Marietta, Ga., April 29.—Superior
Judge J. H. Hawkins said Saturday
| he would hear a motion June 4 for a
new trial for youthful S. J. Wheat,
convicted and sentenced to die in the
electric chair June 10 for the murder
of aged' W W. Cape, Mableton store
, keeper.
FIRST PEACHES ARE
THREE WEEKS EARLY
Macon, April 29.—The first peaches
of the season were on their way to
the New York market Friday, three
weeks ahead of normal.
The shipper was O. J. Bateman
of Byron, Ga., who sent three crates
to a New York produce 'house. The
fruit is of the 'Mayflower variety.
MRS. HORNE ELECTED
TO HONORARY POST
(Montezuma, April 29—Mrs. J. R,
Horne, Montezuma woman, has just
been notfied of hei selection as an
honorary vice president of the Bessie
Tift Alumnae Association, of the
Bessie Tift College in Forsyth. As
Mi§s, Cordelia Hornady, Mrs. Home
made a brilliant record' at Bessis
Tift, then the Monroe FemaleColIege.
Mrs. Horne was first married to Dr.
T. E. Chambers of Montezuma and
she has two daughters from this
marriage, Mrs. Geo. McLendon of
Montezuma and Mrs. S. B. Liggin of
Montezuma, with whom she makes
her home.
Moultrie, Ga., April 30.—Hospital
attendants reported Saturday that
J. C. Parker, speaker pro tern of the
Georgia "house of representatives
from Colquitt county, was in a seri
ous condition from injuries received
in an automobile accident. Parker’s
car overturned near Moultrie. He
suffered intesnal injuries.
AUTOMOBILE TAG MAIL
ORDERS ARE UP TO DATE
Atlanta, April 30—Marcus Mc
Whorter, state director of the Mo
tor Vehicle Division, said Friday his
department was up to date on handl
ing mail orders for license tags.
He reported the total sales thru
Wednesday at 399,723, as compared
to 400,168 for the like date last
year.
RIVERS COMMENTS ON PLANS
GOLDEN WEDDING
(From Herald Files of 1926)
R. E. (Dick) McCrary and his wife
Easter, celebrate their Golden- Wed
ding Dec. 30th. This couple married
Dec. 14, 1876 and have lived happily
for 50 years. By their upright and
honest living they have -won the con.
fidence and esteem not only of theii
own race but the white people also.
The invitations were limited on ac
count of the recent illness of the
wife. The celebration was set for
Dec. SOith so that the children from a
distance can he with them. '
JOURNALISM STUDENTS
EDIT LAVONIA TIMES
Atlanta, April 30.—Funeral serv
ices for Hollins Nichols Randolph, 6R
former Atlanta attorney, who died
suddenly of a heart attack Friday at
his home in Washington, will be held
Sunday in- Washington.
Mr. Randolph had practiced law in
Atlanta nearly 40 years taking
prominent part in- many civic proj
ects and serving as counsel .for va
rious public agencies.
He left Atlanta in 1934 to become
a member of the legal staff of the
RFC.
Author of the congressional act
authorizing the sale of 5,000,000
Stone Mountain Memorial coins, he
was former president of the Stone
Mountain (Memorial Association. He
was a lineal descendant of Thomas
Jefferson Memorial' Association.
MISS MATHIS NAMED
QUEEN FROM
georgJ
ElizJ
Americus, April 30.—Miss ,,
beth Mathis of Americus has ^
elected Georgia’s Rhododendm
Queen for the South-wide festiv?
Asheville, N. C., in June. al
The new honor is another is
series of 'beauty selections the
Americus blonde has won. This 1
the second year she was chosen n ,
of the prettiest co-eds at the r I
versity of Georgia, where she n|
outstanding member of the apnl
class. She won the title of “jr
Southwestern” when she attend
Georgia Southwestern college. w as
beauty queen at the Americus hi
school, and was a .winner in *i
State American Legion beautv
test.
COLLINS CLOSES ~~
SPEAKING Toil
Atlanta, April 29—State Sck
Superintendent M. D. Collins w 0Un
up an intensive week of speaking
gagements and school visitations
South Georgia Friday.
On Tuesday Dr. Collins delivi
the Confederate Memorial Day
dress at Fitzgerald and also si
to the Odd Fellows, Lodge theiJ
Wednesday he spoke at Lymv
Argyle and Midway; Thursday
addressed crowds at Homerville,
Pont and Fargo, and Friday
spoke at Cecil, Adel, Lenox and
Water.
In addition to these public
dresses, the state school head vi
ed schools in Heard, Ben Hill, ClinJ
Cook and 1 Upson- counties.
Lavonia, Ga., April 29.—The sec
ond annual student edition of The
Lavonia Times was published Friday
by six journalism students from the
University of Georgia.
Assisting in editing the pa,per were
Nancy Branyon and Margaret Beas
ley, Atlanta; Dean Nowell, of Au-
o-usta; Ralph Rice, of Woodland;
Lynne BTannen of Athens, and Ed
win Rogers of Ashbum.
PISTOL MISHAP
KILLS GIRL, 10
Atlanta, April 30.—Gov. Rivers
said Friday that -he is not trying to
“put anything over on anybody” in
withholding formal announcement oi
his future .political plans. “I will an
nounce my political plans in ad
vance of the closing date for entries
in the state primary on June 1,” th<
governor said. “However, I intend to
wait just as long as the proprieties
admit.”
COLLEGE 4-H CLUBS
TO HEAR ANDERSOh
Athens, Ga., April 29—W. T. An
derson, editor of the Macon Tele
graph, will be the principal speaker
at the Georgia Inter-Collegiate 4-H
Club conference to be held 1 at Camp
Joy Cljff Saturday and 1 Sunday.
At least four junior colleges in
tihe state will send representatives to
this two-day meet and a delegation
from the University of -Georgia 4-H
Club will -be present. The University
Club is snonsorintr the meeting.
H. H. Pavne. Maysville. who is in
charge of the meeting said that Miss
Fimmie Nel=nn and A. S. Bussev,
assistant 4-H Club leaders for Geor-
tria, -will direct the activities of the
meeting.
Dublin, Ga., May 2.—Wounds in
flicted with a pistol, accidentally fired
by a sister as several children played
Sunday in a home at Orian-na proved
fatal today to Ruth Ricks, 10.
The girl, shot with a pistol taken
from an old trunk by -her 8 year old
sister, Doris Ricks, as the two played
with three other children at the Ricks
home, died Monday at a 'hospital. Al'l
the children saidthe shooting was ac
cidental.
$12,000 SAW MILL
BURNS AT MILLEN
Millen, Ga., April 29.—The saw
mill of the Millen Lumber Co., own
ed by W. A. Wasden and valued at
more than $12,(KJ.O, was destroyed
by fire Friday.
Operation in the planing mill and
manufacturing plant will continue
with the stock of lumber now on
hand. A temporary mill will be
erected for immediate use and the
permanent plant will be rebuilt, _it
was announced.
PLANE LANDS IN TREE;
PILOT ESCAPES UNHURT
Statesboro, Ga., May 3.—C. Dobbs,
Statesboro airplane pilot, miraculous
ly escaped dea’h or seriou'. injury
Tuesday when he made a perfect
three-point landing—In a tree at the
ed'"e of the airport.
The pilot came out of' a tail-spin
too cloee to the ground, according to
spectators, and' when his motOT
eo,:]p4 ho proceed into the tree. Al-
tTinro-b Hip plane was demolished.
TVIKhs r 1 ' n-l.p.l opt; of the wreckage
pp,i the ground without a
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