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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938.
PUTNAM CO. JURY
FREES HORTON ON
MURDER CHARGE
No Bill Returned on Charge He
Murdered Well-Known
Lawyer
Eatonton, Sept. 20.—After two
days of deliberation the Putnam
county grand jury Tuesday found a
no bill against N. D. Horton, Putnam
county commissioner, who was
charged with the murder of R. C.
Jenkins, prominent attorney.
Horton was released from the
Baldwin county jail this afternoon
and could not be reached for com
ment. Baldwin -County Sheriff W. L.
Harrison said Horton told him he
was “mighty glad” to get out.
No other parties involved in the
eases would comment including so
licitor general of the Ocmulgee cir
cuit C. S. Baldwin.
Baldwin said he had "nothing to
•ay,” at this time.
When questioned as to legal proce
dure in such cases he said a second
grand jury is permitted to investi
gate a charge. If the second grand
jury returns a no bill the case is
finally dead.
The law provides for the release
of the person held on a warrant if
the first grand jury fails to indict.
Horton had been -held in the Milledge-
ville jail since Jenkins died in Bald
win Memorial hospital several days
after he was shot in front of Hor
ton's automobile agency and service
station.
R. C. Whitman, Horton’s attorney,
said following the shooting that his
client fired on the attorney in self-
defense.
City Policeman J. W. Clements
said Horton called him the night of
July 15 and told- him he had “just
shot Jenkins.” Jenkins, with a bullet
through his abdomen, was rushed to
the Milledgeville hospital where he
died July 18 after giving a statement
to his wife and Solicitor Baldwin
charging Horton shot him when ho
was unarmed.
Bad feeling, the statement said,
came as the result of a damage suit
against Horton in which Jenkins rep
resented Horton’s opponents.
Horton, 32, has ibeen a member of
the Putnam county commission for
about a year. Shortly before the
shooting he was injured in an acci
dent and he remains slightly crip
pled..
Immediately following Jenkin’a
death, S. T. Wingfiela, Eatonton at
torney and brother-in-law of Jenkins
swore to a murder warrant against
Horton.
JOHN G. HERRING, 48,
OF TIFTON, DIES IN'
ATLANTA SUN. NIGHT
Editor of Tifton Gazette Succumbs to
Unexpected Attack While in
Atlanta
Tifton, Ga., Sept. 18.—John G.
Herring, editor of the Tifton Gazette
since 1023, died unexpectedly of a
heart attack in an Atlanta Hotel
room late Sunday night, relatives
at Tifton were informed.
Mr. Herring, 48, had retired for
the night and complained of being
ill. He collapsed and was pronounced
dead a few minutes later.
Mr. Herring was bom in Worth
county and moved to Tifton with his
family as a boy. His father became
editor of the Gazette in 1898 and he
succeeded- him in that capacity upon
his father’s death in 1923.
Mr. and Mrs. Herring left for At
lanta Friday on a short vacation
trip.
A brother, L. B. Herring, died of
a heart attack at his home iri Lynch
burg, Va., eight days ago and was
buried at Tifton last Wednesday.
Survivors include his wife, the for
mer Miss Ruby Hewitt of Washing
ton, D. C.; seven children, Jack Her
ring of Athens and IMiss Lois Her
ring of Rome; Paul Herring, Sue
Herring, Reuben Herring, Tim and
Eunice Herring, all of Tifton; his
mother, Mrs. J. L. Herring of Tifton
five brothers, L. R., T. N., H. E. R
S. and N. P. Herring, all of Tifton;
two sisters, Mrs. R. E Martin and
Mrs. A. W. Coleman, both of Tifton.
TWO PERSONS
DIE IN FLAMES
AT COLUMBUS
Tragedy Occurs in New York
Hatters Building on 12th
Street
ALBANY PLANNING
MAIL CELEBRATION
New Post Is Sought for Largest
Airplanes
Albany, Sept. 19.—Although Al
bany is in suspended status as a stop
on the new airmail line, from At
lanta to Tampa, service on which
starts Oct.8, arrangements have been
made for first-day service by the
Eastern Air Lines, which has the
contract.
The Albany port is too small for
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 21.—Tragedy
stalked the heart of Columbus Tues
day at 6 o’clock p. m., when flames
gutted the building of the New York
Hatters, 115 Twelfth Street, snuffing
cut the lives of two women and in- the huge Douglas liners to be used
juring two firemen who were copi- 0,1 the route, but Capt. Eddie Rick-
batting the blaze. enbacker, president of Eastern Air
The dead are Mrs. W. W. Williams Lines, has written Walter Bro.wn,
Pace. Mrs. Williams’ husband owns secretary of the Albany Chamber of
manager and operator of the Artisti! Commerce that he will send a small-
and operates the hat shop, over er ship here to pick up the large ac-
Carroll County Police
Help Doctor Give Boy
Anti-Rabies Serum
which they lived.
City firemen, in reconstructing
the events leading up to the ‘blaze,
stated that a negro employe of the
cumulation of mail sent here for first 1
flight handling. I
Plans by the city of Albany and
Dougherty county are under way to
cleaning company was at work in provide an entirely new airport here
the rear of the place, adjoining the that will ‘be big enough for the larg-
back door downstairs. They said that est ships that fly. An option has been
the negro told them that his head obtained on a tract about a mile
struck a wire just above him, knock- south of the present port that is
ing it against another wire and caus- large enough to iprovide mile-long
ing a spark which ignited a blaze runways. A topographical survey is
which spread swiftly. being made of the tract and on the
The firemen discovered a barrel of basis of the report the engineers will
solvent in the rear of the building make, the government will decide if
downtairs,. Which they said had ex- it can go forward with the project,
ploded, adding to the intense heat WPA aid is expected on the under-
which was generated. taking.
W. J. Ridley, o f the fire company,
Carrollton, Ga., iSept. 18.—A 20-
year-old 1 , 125-pound Carroll county
farm boy, apparently made mad by
the first effects of hydrophobia, Sat
urday fought doctors trying to ad
minister the serum that will save hia
life.
Bitten Sept. 10, the boy, Newt Max
well, refused for nearly a week to
take anti-rabies serum until Thurs
day night, when his actions became
strange and his father, S. C. Max
well, called upon police to help.
Deputy Sheriff H. R. Lambert and
City Officer W. B. Lambert, after a
long struggle that required the use
of the punishing “wrist-twister” and
handcuffs, finally brought him to the
Carroll county jail.
There he was given four serum
shots Friday, officers quelling his
frantic struggle as best they could
while Dr. W. A. Aderhold used the
needle.
He would have ibeen dead within
another four days if the shots had
not been administered, the doctor
said.
Quieting him by force and hypo
dermics, the doctor administered
more shots Saturday and will give
one each day for the next 21 days.
CRASH KILLS OHIO
WOMAN TOURis
HIGHWAY PARKING RULING
IS GIVEN BY SUP. COURT
Horton was held without bond un
til Tuesday. He was bound to the
grand jury last month at a prelimi
nary hearing before a justice of the
peace which featured testimony that
the two men 'became embroiled in an
argument and the shooting followed.
A bystander was slightly injured by
a screw driver held by one of the
men.
Atlanta, Sept. 16.—The Georgia
supreme court ruled 1 today the law
requiring a motor vehicle to park at
least eight feet from the center of a
highway must be obeyed where it is
at all possible.
The supreme court reversed the
Georgia court of appeals which up
held dismissal of a damage suit in
Pierce county after the trial judge
had instructed the jury it was im
possible to -park eighht feet from the
center of the highway on a road only
12 feet wide.
The supreme court cited testimony
of witnesses that there was a wide
space in the road 176 feet ahead of
the place where a truck stopped' to
change a tire and' the driver should
have gone on to that wide spot in
spite of a tire blow out.
The suit was one brought by Mary
B. Kelley against O. F. Davis, owner
of a truck and' R. W. Locke, truck
driver, for personal injuries sustain
ed when a passenger car hit the truck
was treated for a severe laceration
of -his right arm, He was standing
at the top of a ladder in the rear of
the building, outside in the alleyway
while firemen inside were groping for
the bodies, when a window near him
was smashed, the glass cutting him
to such a degree that it was ncces-
DALTON FALL IS FATAL
TO UNIDENTIFIED MAN
Dalton, Ga., Sept. 39.—An
identified white man, apparently
about 25 years of age, fell io lus
death here Sunday night from the
saryfora number of stitches "to be raiUng on ‘^ G^on street viaduct
taken in his arm.
Macon, Sept. 16.—Mrs. Alf
Sholtz, of Foratorio, Ohio, died p
day in a Macon hospital as result
injuries suffered' in an automob
accident on the Macon-Perry w
way.
Her husband, Alfred', driver of
car; a son, Amandus, and two daue
ters, Charlotte Sholtz and 'Mrs. p.
Wintz, were seriously hurt.
State troopers said the Sholtz v
sidenvipedi another car after it w
believed Mr. Sholtz fell asleep at t
wheel. Occupants of the other c
were uninjured. The Sholtz f am
was en route to Ohio from Florida
FORMER SLAVE DIES
AT THE AGE OP l
-Live
Bull
Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 20.-
pool Hazzard, last of the
plantation slaves, is dead.
He was 112 years old, accords
to a slave inventory taken, from
old plantation records which, in
listed' Hazzard as 25 years old.
He was one of the best knoi
characters of McIntosh county,
tracting attention chiefly by a
of oxen which hauled' him about
highways.
Hazzard served with the confcde
at forces in the Civil war. As a sla
he was an oarsman for the planl
tion, thus escaping field work.
iMaj. Pierce Butler who died in
was Hazzard’s master at the planl
tion.
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WHAT DO MOVIE STARS
DO FOR THEIR TEETH?
Lieut. O. E. McLaughlin of the fire
company, was overcome by the
heavy smoke and fumes, and was car
ried to the hospital also, where he
was given first aid treatment and ad
mitted.
His body struck the railway tracks
below. !
Passersby found the man lying on i
the railing and called policemen, but i
as an officer approached, the man
rolled off the railing, falling about
30 feet. He was dead upon reaching
a hospital. |
The man was described as weigh-
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DAUGHTRY TRIALS
WILL START AGAIN
RUN-OFF IN 35TII __ __
SENATE DISTRICT
Jonesboro, Ga., Sept 16.—Walter
Estes, Rex manufacturer amassed an
aproximate 200-vote lead over his
opponent in the race for the 36th
district’s senate post but fell short
of a. majority, and run-off will be
necessary, complete votes showed
here Friday
He will oppose W. W. Wells, oil
company executive of Forest Bark,
in the run-off.
COUPON —
Not Viewing With Alarm
But POINTING WITH PRIDE
Sylvania, Sept. 18. — Eighty-tjwo
new jurors have been drawn and
summoned to appear in resumption
of trials of defendants indicted
connection with the slaying of Char
lie Daughtry, wealthy Screven county-
planter, last September.
Superior Judge William Woodrum
said Joe Newton, Blooming-dale mer
chant, and his son, Ralph, probably
would be brought to trial.
Earlier Lonnie Lanier, Osborne
Newton, and John Burns were con
victed and sentenced to life imprison
ment while Albert Cobb, Savannah
lawyer indicted as an accessory, was
acquitted.
Lanier, Newton and Burns have
asked hew trials.
T. J. Evans, defense attorney for
S. E. Davidson, Mountain View real Joe and Ra , ph Newton> said he did
estate man, was eliminated. not expect them to ask S(jparat e
The vote was: Estes, 718; Wells, j g
529, Davidson, 412. | Aaron Nelson, negro who has been
Under the rotation system of , a princi , prosecution witnesa
nam.ny senators^ itjx Claytoncmm- the previous trla]lSi is the seventh
man. under indictment. He also is
ty’s turn to elect. Henry county
also embraced in the district.
14 CAUGHT IN RAID
ON CLUB AT MACON
Macon, Sept. 18.—In a raid on the
Wagon Wheel Night chib, River road
sheriff’s officers arrested 14 persons
awaiting trial.
Judge J. T. Grice of Glenville is to
preside at the Newtons’ trial.
GEORGIAN FOUND SLAIN
—PISTOL LYING NEAR BY
N OW that the shouting and the tumult of
the primary are over, maybe we can
gerjn a word edgewise.
Some of the candidates in the races just
ended saw fit to make the Georgia Power
Company the object of their oratorical at
tacks. It’s an old Georgia custom that open
season on our Company arrives when the
campaigns begin. With something that might
be called “political license,” candidates
make statements about us which probably
even they, in calmer periods of die year,
would admit are foolish.
Champaign, 111., Sept. 18—Edwin
and dispersed 1 other occupants for Beers, 34, of Athens, Ga., a con.
dancing on Sunday. | struction engineer at Cbanute Field,
County Policeman J. C. Calhoun, Rantoul, IB., was found shot to death
participating in the raid, said a man in his room at Rantoul Saturday. A
known as J. L. “Nubby” Simpson was bullet .wound, which Coroner R. C,
taken on changes of operating “a Shurtz said he believed was self-in
disorderly house and gambling flirted, was- in his head and a 22-
house.” He was released on $500 caliber target pistol lay beneath the
bond. body. He was engaged in construc-
Thirteen negroes were lodged in tion work at Chanute Field.
the county jail on a charge of gamb- (
ling, the officers declared. Mr. Cal- Fast color Wash Frocks that are
houn said more than 200 negroes bound to be Fall “hits”, priced dur-
weer sent home for dancing after ing Dieizin’s Harvest Sale at 98c to I
Saturday midnight. . $1.89. Sale begins Friday, Sept. 23. 1
Ancient Strategy Fails
But we are not viewing with alarm. We
are pointing with pride, for the campaign
just ended brought forth LESS of such at
tacking than any race in many years, and
the attacks were more trivial. “Utility bait
ing” is definitely going out of style in Geor
gia— not from any love of us on the part
of the office-seekers, but because the results
have proved, not only in this campaign but
in many others, that unwarranted attacks on
the “Power Company” no longer get votes.
Several years ago, it seemed that a candi
date needed only to make inflammatory
statements against us and the whole public
became inflamed. This time, nobody became
inflamed. The same old verbal bombshells
were tossed out but they fell flat. They were
. duds. It is significant that all the candidates
who resorted to “utility baiting” this time
were defeated. This does not mean neces
sarily that people voted against them be
cause they attacked us, but it does very defi
nitely indicate that attacking us has lost its
old magic. If it brought them any votes at
all, in addition to those they would have
gotten anyhow, it brought them very few.
Everything that was said against us in this
campaign stemmed out of a single noxious
seed — the strange theory that we OUGHT
to be attacked just because we are a power
company and a big business, without regard
to whether we are a good one or a bad one.
It was a straight-out appeal to prejudice,
and the voters rejected it. Georgia people
still retain their traditional habit of com-
monsense and straight thinking.
These Facts Stand Out
Especially do we point with pride to the
fact that not one single attack, by any can
didate in any race, was made on us about
the tilings that really matter. Nobody denied
that our service is good and our rates are
low; that our payroll of $8,000,000 a year
stimulates business activity all over the
state; that our taxes of $3,000,000 a year
pay a big part of the bill for public edu
cation, health, safety and all other public
benefits; that our service to 545 Georgia
cities, towns and villages and our 4,000
miles of rural lines have given Georgia na
tional leadership in electrical progress; that
this Company is one of the most construct
ive agencies in Georgia working for our
state’s advancement and welfare. And no
body even intimated that we are not “A Citi
zen Wherever We Serve.”
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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