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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GBORGIA, OCTOBER 13, 1938.
WALLACE SCORED
BY PACE FOR 1939
FARM PROGRAM
Congressman Asks Presidential
Intervention in Tentative
HOSTESS INSISTS
THAT SHE KILLED!
HERGUESTJWONDAY
Receipts Show Big
Gain In Schools Of
Georgia This Year
1939 AAA Plan
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Americus, Oct, 7.—Representative
Stephen Pace today scored Secretary
•Of Agriculture ‘Wallace .. in “protest’!
against the tentative payment for
1930 farm program which will cut
the cotton subsidy from $12 per bale
to $0 per bale and expressed a “hope
that President Roosevelt will see fit
to intercede in our behalf.”
The tentative program which cuts
the cotton farmer “now in desperate
condition,” and then doubles the
benefit of the wheat farmers, who arc
already receiving from “two to ten
times” as much as southern farmers
was criticized as "unfair.”
“I cannot understand the recent ac
tion of the department of agriculture
in reaching the benefit and subsidy
payments on cotton for the 1939 farm
program”, the recognized cotton au
thority of the house of representa
tives declared.
The tentative program will run as
follows. Cotton, 1.8 to 2c a pound
plus a price-adjustment payment of
1.8 to 2 cents a pound on normal
yield on each acre in the farm allot
ment. Wheat, 16c to 18c a bushel,
plus price adjustment payment of 10c
to 12c a bushel. Tobacco about the
same as this year on most types. Po
tatoes, about 3c a bushel.
Representative Pace was “surpris
ed” that “they would do this in view
of the fact that the cotton farmers
are facing one of the most critical
conditions they have ever known, the
fact that our cotton acreage has been
cut one-third, and the fact that we
have an enormous surplus of cotton
on hand.”
He said that “for this year the
cotton farmers are to receive a bene
fit payment of 2.4 cents per pound or
$12 per bale, while the wheat farmers
will receive 12c a bushel.
“The recently announced program
for 1939 plans a 25 per cent decrease
for the cotton farmers, while the
wheat growers will receive a 50 per
cent increase—as unfair and unbal
anced situation.”
Comparing benefits of the two sec
tions of the country, and pointing
out the lack of consideration shown
for the South, he said:
“Already the farmers of the West
are receiving in benefite payments
from two to ten times as much as
the farmers of the South and this
change will further increase this in
equality. Georgia has a population of
1,405,944 and up to June 1937, re
ceived in rental or benetfit payments
a total of $32,549,811.89, while Iowa,
Secretary Wallace’s home state, with
a farm population of 967,979, receiv
ed a total of $114,794,863.34 and
Kansas, another wheat state, with a
farm population of only 703,748, or
one-half as many farmers as Geor
gia, received a total of $120,480,900,
which is four times as much money
for one-half the number of farmers."
Praising the president for his
terest in the South, and its problems
Representative Pace asserted that"he
has recognized the South as the num
ber one economic problem of the
country. The report of the president’s
committee points out' that the aver
age income of Southern farm people
is only $186 a year as compared with
$528 for farmers outside the South
Toombs Sheriff Says Three Witnesses
Saw 16-Year-Old Youth
| Do It
Lyons, Ga., Oct. 10.—Mrs. Anijiu
Stewart Wilson, 45-year-old wife of
a tenant farmer, baffled Toombs
county authorities, tonight with jhqj
insistence she sljot to death 24 jeal
old Henry Knight, guest at a party
1 at her farm house last night.
Sheriff R. E. Gray caid he was
holding four persons including Mrs.
Wilson, on charges of murder, but
three eye-witnesses said they were
looking in the farm house window
when Junior James, 16-year-old
farmer worker, sent a full load from
a 12-gauge shotgun into Knight’s
side.
James, another guest at the Sunday
night party, is one of the four in
jail. Others are Kelly Wilson, hus
band of Mrs. Annie Wilson, and Cole
man Stew’art. Mrs. Wilson’s 18 year
old son by a former marriage, Sheriff
Gray said.
The officers declared that the
Knight youth held a knife in his dead
hand when investigators arrived at
the farm house six miles north of
Lyons after the slaying.
He said stories of witnesses indi
cated James did the shooting altho
Mrs. Wilson continued to insist to
night that she shot her guest be
cause he “grabbed her close.”
Sheriff Gray said Mrs. Wilson told
him she grabbed a -gun placed it
against Kight and pulled the trigger.
“I don’t believe this story,” said
the sheriff, "because we did not find
any powder marks on Kight’s
clothes. I have three eye-witnesses
who said they saw James shoot
Kight. They were standing outside
the house looking thru a window.
My investigation shows the shot
was fired from a doorway into the
kitchen and the gun was about 12 or
14 feet from Kight. The shot tore
him up pretty badly.
The Kight house is a three-room
structure. All those attending the
“kind of a drinking party” were ten
ant farmers, the sheriff said.
“James denies that he did the
shooting,” said Gray, “and Wilson
said he was in another room and
ij^iew nothing about it except that he
heard the shot. The Stewart boy
said he was lying across a bed and
didn’t see who fired the gun.”
The Toombs officer said Mrs. Wil
son was not related to James but
that James was her husband’s first
cousin.
“It has me puzzled,” said the sher
iff. “It looks like they all got to
gether and made up the story and
put the knife in the dead boy’s hand
to make it look like Mrs. Wilson, shot
him in self defense.
“But we are continuing the in
vestigation and I’m sure we’ll have a
lot of developments within the next
24 hours.”
HUGH HOWELL
SAYSTALMADGE
SOUGHT ‘TRADE’
‘Sell-Out” Democratic
Convention
Atlanta, Oct. 10.—-State school re
ceipts increased $6,501,044 from the
calendar year of 1036 to the fiscal p ormer Georgia Governor Charges
year ended June 30, 1938, according
to an audit of the State Department
of Education filed Saturday 'by State
Auditor Zach Arnold.
The; state’s contribution to com
mon education, increased fr9m $7,948-
137 tt< $14,132,567, a ; net gain of $6,-
.l&4,4fift,n m., Ii ■
. The (federal contribution increased
$332,724.
Outlay payments, for
ibulj^ins, .ctjC., grew from $8,076
$1,190,610.
Increase in maintenance expenses
of. f thq. (jei/firtjpient was attributed in
most part to establishment of the
textbook division at a cost of $48,572
and expansion of the vocational re
habilitation and vocational education
dipisions at costs of $26,294 and $14,-
861, Respectively.
Substantial increase appeared in
payments of grants to civil divisions,
due to expansion of the vocational
education program and to increased
pay for teachers for a seven-month
school term. This increase amounted
to $5,140,172 bringing the total for
these purposes to $13,033,404 for the
1037-1038 fiscal 1 year.
Pulton county schools received
$828,1,30 for teaches’ salaries and
equalization fund during 1937-1938
fiscal' year, while Atlanta schools re
ceived $596,226, out of the total of
$12,426,628 spent for these purposes
and administration.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Former Governof
Eugene Talmadge and' his formeij
"Henchman. No. 1,” Hugh Howell;
engaged in a bitter controversy Fri
day over the recent Democratic state
textbooks, 1 convention, after Mr. Talmadge had
COLLEGE BUILDING
TO COST $66,310
Atlanta, Oct. 10.—Contract for
construction of an auditorium-gym
nasium at Abraham Baldwin Agri
cultural College, Tifton, Friday was
let to Coit Somers Co., of Vidalia, on
a hid of $66,340.
The building will serve both the col
lege and the Coastal Plain Experi
ment Station and will accommodate
2,000 persons.
CHILDREN DIE AS FIRE !
bESTROYS THEIR HOME
GAINESVILLE PLANS
$1,000 STORM GIF!
Gainesville, Ga,, Oct. 7.—Following
receipt of a telegram asking for a
special donation of $1,000 to assit ir
the recent disaster in New England
and at Charleston, the Hall county
chapter of the national Red cross-
through its executive committee, har
voted to underwrite the amount,
which is immediately available. The
Then he charged Wallace of going ; annual roll call comes next month,
against the committee’s findings by ar 'd it was decided not to put on a
“reducing our benefit and subsidy , special drive now, but add the amount
payments.” ' to t ' le sum to be asked at that time.
“I am protesting, violently, to Sec- ] The local chapter has been quick to
retary Wallace, and hope we can get ' respond to any call which has come-
the president to intervene in our ibe- I more especially since the disaster ot
Americus, Ga., Oct. 9.—SeVen ne
gro children were burned to death
Saturday night when fire destroyed
their home''on the Hooks mill'eroad in
Sumter county. Another was serious
ly burned. -1;
The dead: Clarence Worthy, 8;
Bertha Ola Worthy, 6; Jessie Mae
WoYthy, 5'!' Eula Mae Worthy, 2:
Rosa Bell Worthy., 1; John Edward
King, 6; and Charlie King, 3.
Their parents, the Rastall Worthys
and the Clyde Kings, were in Ameri
cus at the time of the fire, origin of-
which was unknown.
Annie Kate Worthy, 10, was taken
to a hospital here with dangerous
burns. '
to decided not 9* carry his fight against
| U, S. Walter George any further.
While Secretary of State J. B. Wil
son has been under tre impression
that deadline for entries by inde
pendent candidates was midnight
Thursday, he said he had found that
they can qualify until midnight Sat
urday. The law requires them to
qualify at least 30 days before the
general election, which falls on Nov.
8 this year.
Chas.A. Jilcs, Atlanta lawyer qual
ified for the Senate Thursday and
Alex S. Mitchell, Upson county farm
er qualified for governor. Elijah Ful
ler, Savannah lawyer, had' qualified
for governor previously.
The main plank in Jiles.’ platform
is a $15 pension every Tuesday for
the aged, .blind and crippled.
The three planks in the Mitchell
platform are “reduce taxes, encour
age business, and beat Rivers.”
Mr. Talmadge charged that Mr.
Howell “sold the Talmadge crowd
down the river” at the Macon con
vention. Mr. Howell replied:
“On last Tuesday night, before the
convention Wednesday, Eugene Tal
madge told Tom Linder, his former
executive secretary and one of his
closest friends, that if Hugh Howell
would fire all the delegates from 18
counties and let Talmadge have these
delegates, Talmadge would support
Hugh Howell for governor in 1940. I
refuse to do thi because he was ask
ing me to do something I had no
legal or moral right to do, and he
knew it, ibut Talmadge was offering
to support me for governor in 1040
if I would comply with his request.
“Parctically every vote that Tal
madge got in the convention was
cast by a Howell delegate.”
MISS BERRY, 72,
HAS FESTIVAL
half,” he said.
HON. J. S. WOOD PUBLISHES
CARD OF THANKS TO VOTERS
To the People of Taylor County:
It 'being obviously impossible for
me to see or communicate with all
the people in your county personally,
I take this method of expressing to
you my deep gratitude for the splen
did majority you gave me in my re
cent effort to ibe elected Attorney
General. It being my first statewide
venture, I feel that the fact that I
carried an equal number of counties
Mt. Berry, Ga., Oct. 9.—Climax of
the celebration marking the 7'2nd
hirthday anniversary of Miss 'Martha
Berry, founder and director of Berry
Schools, Inc., was reached Friday in
a special reception for senior classes
of thp high school and college.
, Thp reception was held in the pic
turesque home of Miss Berry, “The
Hopse of Dreams,” overlooking the
campus of 25,000 acres.
All students were given a half-hol
iday for the annual picnic, square
dance, baseball game, band concert
and grand march of the student body
in review.
Scores of congratulatory messages
from all sections of the United
States were received by Miss Berry.
SENTENCED MAN IS GIVEN
30 DAYS TO MAKE CROPS
Waycross, Oct. 10.—George Wilson
charge^ with manslaughter in con
nection with the fatal shooting of
Cuyler Johns in Charlton county on
May 5, and who entered a plea of
guilty in Charlton county superior
Rome, Ga., Oct. 7.—The site fot cour t p 0 lkston several days ago,
the new prls’ school recommended by haa been g. ran , te d 30 days to gather
his crop and arrange his business af
fairs before reporting for prison
ervice, bond being fixed at $1,000. He
was sentenced to serve one to five
years.
Wilson shot Johns through the
body several times at Racepond, on
the W aycorSs-J ackson vi 1 lo highway
1036 when the Red Cross did such
fine work aftei - the tornado.
ROME SCHOOL
SITE IS SELECTED
the City Board) of Education and thr
avisory bond commission has been
submitted to the Rome City Commis
sion.
The property will cost $28,000. In
cluding five .purchases to form an ob
long strip facing the northeast side
of the street and’ frontage of aboui
ns the incumbent was indeed a high | 385 feet. The two-story brick build- May 6. Johns died
personal compliment, and to those of | in? to be erected will have 10 class-
you who joined in this expression of rooms, library and laboratories and
confidence I am conscious of a deep i will accommodate about 700 pupils.
sense of appreciation, which I yet
hope to have an opportunity to com-
ensate in efficient service.
Sincerely yours,
John S. Wood.
The total cost of the high school is
expected to be about $160,000. Bid?
will be received by the city Oct. 20.
in a Waycross
hospital the following night.
Johns told authorities the affair
grew out of an argument over a
quantity of whiskey. Wilson, who hid
in the woods for a short time and
later surrendered to Sheriff J. 0.
and construction is expected to starl ' Sikes of Charlton county, contended
Oct. 31. ^he fired in self-defense.
Cotton Production For
State of Georgia Is
Below That Of 1937
Atlanta, Oct. 11.—Georgia cotton
production, as indicated (Monday by
the State Crop Reporting Board, U.
S. Department of Agriculture, Athens
should reach about 866,000 bales
(600 pounds gross weight), or , 42
per cent below the 1037 production
of 1,500,000 standard bales.
Yield of lint cotton per acre was
placed at 197 pounds, compared with
the 1937 yield of 270 pofihds, 228 in
193 and the 1 five-ye&r average of
239 pounds.
Reported condition of the crop is
56 per cent of normal lowest Oct. 1
condition since 1932. Acreage for
harvest as previously estimated is 2,-
104,000, which is 21 per cent less
than acreage harvested last year.
This report is based on informa
tion from crop correspondents and
ginners from over the state, and
taken into consideration extent of
weevil damage, probably yield per
acre, per cent of crop ginned to
date and other factors.
Weather during most of Septem
ber was a continuation of the dry
conditions prevailing over the
greater part of the state since early
August. This checked some damage
by the boll weevil at the' time of the
September report but heavy injury to
late cotton had already occurred.
With such a dry fall farmers 1 have
had a chance to keep up more nearly
than usual with picking and the
early maturing crop is being harvest
ed in good shape. Picking in the sou
thern part of the state is practically
over with many fields being pastured
or the stalks plowed under. In mid
state territory it is nearing comple
tion and is over one-half done thru
most of northern Georgia.
Bureau of Census report on gin-
nings shows 570,000 running bales
ginned prior to October 1, as com
pared with 882,000 to the same date
last year.
Col. Sam Tate, 78,
Marble! Magnate,
Dies At His Home
ESCAPES, WEARING PRISON
CLOTHES CAUGHT IN MACO
Macon, Oct. 11.—Macon police d
livered two escaped convicts to Jon'
county authorities Monday after
turing the pair walking along °t|
streets Sunday night in Macon
dressed in regular prison clothes
The prisoners were listed by Sere
Julian Wood as Clyde Irvin, wbi
man serving a misdemeanor set
tence, and Willie Miller, negro f e l on
prioner.
Jones county officers said the t\\
—both trusties—^sekped 'late Sunda
Policemen B/H.'Raley And H. ,
Pittman recaptured the men ear
Sunday,night, ;:
Sergeant Wood said t’..ey ||
wearing the gray work camp clothe
“IF I WERE FARLEY,
I’D DO SAME”—P. d.
Washington, Oct. 11.—Preside
Roosevelt said today if he ire;
chairman of the Democratic Nation;
Committee he would have said th
same thing Farley had, namely, th:
he would go down the line for
Democratic nominees in the no
election regardless of whether the
were liberals or conservatives.
Farley, last week, spurned" the id(
of supporting any liberal Republics;
or other non-Democrats in this fall
campaigns.
“All the primaries are over and „
the conventions are over and I’m g
ing to support the nominees of ti
party,” the Democratic chairman d
dared.
TIIOMASTON MAN
KILLEI> IN CRAS
MAN FOUND GUILTY OF
KILLING OWN MOTHER
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Indicted and tried
for murder for the alleged slaying of
his elderly mother, George Shoemak
er 36, of Atlarita, was found guilty
of involuntary manslaughter late Fri
day by a superior court jury. Judge
Hugh Dorsey reserved sentence until
Monday. The penalty is one to three
years on the public works.
Testimony was offered to show
that the defendant struck his 79-year
old mother, Mrs. Retty Shoemaker,
on the porch of their home Aug. 11,
and that she died two days later.
In his arguments to the jury, As
sistant Solicitor General Q. Arnold
described the defendant as “the
meanest man in the world.”
In his own defense, Shoemaker
said he had been drinking, but that
he was “sure” he had not struck his
mother, “as I was always kind to
her.”
RIVERS AND CAMP
MEET IN CAPITAL
Tate, Ga., Oct. 11.—Col. Sam Tate
78, former chairman of the state
highway board, died at his'hame
here Tuesday afternoon as..;!# sister
and a sister-in-law sat nearby.
Death followed many months of fail
ing health.
As a manufacturer, banker, post
master, church man and champion
of education, Colonel Tate was known
throughout the South. He had been
active in many fields of service, in
cluding the state goevmment, and his
philanthropies were manifold.
Thomaston, Oct. 8—Joe Sraiti
young oil firm employe at Thomasto
was killed and his father Clauc
Smith critically injured in a truck
automobile collision two miles nort
of Thomaston Saturday night,
Sheriff Grady Meeks said lie
holding G. T. Smith, driver of th
Thomaston transfer truck, in connee
tion with the accident. He said wit
nesses indicated the truck driver
at fault.
Joe Smith was killed instantly. Hi
father was taken to a clinic when
late Saturday night his critical con
dition was reported unchanged.
Joe Smith, ah employe of the Gul
Refining Company at Thomaston,
survived by his father, mother, and
Jwo sisters, all of Thomaston.
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Washington, Oct. 10—‘Governor E.
D. Rivers and Lawrence Camp of
Georgia, called at the White House
Monday, but declared their missions
were unrelated.
Gamp, district attorney at Atlanta,
was the aministration’s unsucessful
candidate for the senatorial nomina
tion in last month’s Democratic pri
mary.
Rivers and J. L. Gillis, state Dem
ocratic chairman, said they asked
the president to approve a $7,000,000
lease grant application for PWA
funds to make improvements! to the
state hospital for the insane at Mil-
ledgeville.
Camp,the next caller, declined com
ment on his conference with the
president explaining there was
“nothing special” in his visit.
While Camp was in the president’s
office, three friends who accompa
nied hirh to Washington waited in a
White riouse lobby. They were K. A.
'Campbell, Marietta; W. A. Ward, Jr.
Atlanta, and Zell McGee, Elberton.
Camp said he knew nothing of the
source of reports he might receive a
federal judgeship.
Rivers and Camp said they did not
come to Washingtgn together and
“just happened” to meet at the
White House, where they chatted in
an anteroom.
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