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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 10, 1938.
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SUSPECT IS CAUGHT
IN MACON HOLDUP
Illinois Resident Accused of Forcing
Dunlap Salesman From
Automobile
Macon, Nov. 7.—Armed with a toy
pistol and posing as a prospective
automobile purchaser, an Illinois man
atole a car from a Dunlap Chevrolet
Od., salesman Saturday, local de
tectives who later took him from
Butts county authorities said.
He was listed as Verne Watkins,
29, of Mancheter, 111., and is held in
city barracks on a blanket charge.
Detectives W. H. Burgeron and F.
C. McGee, who investigated the case,
said Watkins came to the automobile
company at 4 p. m. and asked for a
demonstration.
“He was taken out in a car by C.
E. Thompson,” Mr. Bargeron contin
ued, “and driven around a bit. Then
suddenly he pulled a gun on the
salesman and ordered him out of the
car."
When Thompson got out of the cal
Watkins stepped on the accelerator
and disappeared, the detectives said.
Bargeron said the out-of-state man
then drove toward Forsyth, replacing
Georgia license plates on the car with
pnes from Illinois.
At Dew Drop Inn, on the out
skirts of, Forsyth, Watkins stopped
and forced the operator to give him
10 gallons of gasoline at the point of
his Five and Ten Cent store auto
matic gun, the Macon officers said.
Continuing toward Jackson, he was
sighted by Butts county officers who
had received lookout calls from the
Macon police department.
“In the chase, Watkins accidently
drove into a railway cut, thinking it
was a highway entrance,” Bargeron
said. “He drove about a quarter of a
mile down the tracks, then pulled out
at a crossing and ran into another
car.”
Butts county police headed by R,
L. Williams, caught up with the flee'
Ing man at this point, the detective
added, and held him for Macon au
thorities. Mr. Bargeron and Mr. Me
Gee brought him from Jackson to
Macon barrack.
STILES FAVORS
COTTON QUOTAS
BOY SHOOTS BOY
OVER GIRL’S HEAD
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Hnnd-in-Hand Stroll Across Youfh's
Yard Ended by Shooting Blast
In Colquitt
Moultrie, Ga., Nov. 7.—Deputy
Sheriff Homer Phillips said Monday
night Edward Howard, 14,. fatally
shot 17 year old James Thompson,
last night while Thompson was
strolling thru Howard’s yard with a
girl. The officer said he was at a
loss for the motive.
Deputy Phillips said the girl, Lou
ise Seawright, 17, told him Howard
fired from a small scaffold built be
side a chimney of his house near
SigSbee, a rural Colquitt county vil
lage. Phillips said the girl told him
he and Thompson were walking hand
in hand across the front yard when
a charge of birdshot passed over her
head and struck Thompson. He died
about two hours later in a Moultrie
hospital.
The officer said several other young
persons were about the Howard home
at the time but neither they nor Miss
Seawright were able to offer any ex-
planaton.
Phillips said no warrant had been
issued against Howard and he was
placed in the custody of his father,
J. A. Howard, pending completion of
the investigation. The Howard boy
has been too unnerved to make
statement, the deputy said.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
TO MEET IN ATLANTA
Atlanta, Nov. 7.—Annual meeting
of the Georgia Association of School
Superintendents will be held in At-
lan Nov. 18-19 with Pres. D. D. Still
of Buena Vista, presiding, it was an
nounced Saturday by the Atlanta
Convention and Visitors’ Bureau.
More than 300 delegates are ex'
pected and headquarters will be main
tained at the Henry Grady hotel. The
association is composed of members
of the Georgia Educational Associa'
tion who are administrative officers
of state, county or independent units
in Georgia public schools.
I
SEARCH IS PRESSED
FOR TWO CONVICTS
Negro Admits Robbery
In Crawford County
And Implicates Others
Cartersvile, Ga., Niov. B.—R. M.
Stiles, president of the United Geor
gia Formers, Saturday urged Geor
gia farmers to continue the present
cotton program in the popular elec
tion to be held Dec. 10.
“Enemies of the cotton farmer are
telling him that the AAA cotton pro
gram is a failure,” Mr. Stiles said.
“The price of cotton is low and
naturally cotton handlers are urging
farmers to vote against marketing
quotas.
“Cotton is low,” he continued, “be
cause we have too much of it on
hand. On Aug. 1, 1938, we had a car
ry-over of 13,^00,000 ba es.
“What will happen in 1939, with
out marketing quotas? More acres
of cotton will be planted and more
bales of cotton will be raised. And
the price of cotton will go down.
More cotton next year would mean
about the cheapest price the South
ern farmer has ever seen.
“Thinking farmers will co-operate
in the 1939 cotton program. They
will stay within their acreage allot
ments, because these allotments will
be the same for all co-operators,
either with or without quotas.”
TEACHERS IN COLORED
SCHOOLS OF COUNTY
ORGANIZE INSTITUTE
The teachers of Taylor county were
called together Saturday, October 29,
at the colored school building in
Butler, the meeting opening at ten
o’clock a. nr.
The county superintendent was
present and outline to the teachers
the type of work he wished to be
carried out in the county by the va
rious teachers.
The Institute elected the following
ogicers:
R. L. McDougald, President.
J. T. Little, Vice-.Pres.
Pearline Hicks, Secretary.
Helen: Parker, Assistant Secty.
V. O. Terrell, Treasurer.
Florence Henri, Chari man of
Program Committee.
Willie Mae Wycher, Publishing
Committee.
The Institute plans to do an effi
cient and tangible service under the
leadership of the above named of
ficers.
Prof. Beasley, of the N. & I.
School, Fort Valley, was present at
this meeting representing the ex
tension work of the Ft. Valley Nor-
\) canal School for the colored.
Wrightsville, Ga., Nov. 7.—Rossis
aided by dogs searched the Oconee,
Ga;,; section Monday for two long
term convicts who escaped from the
Johnson county prison gang Sunday
after locking two guards and more
than a score of prisoners in the
stockade’s “bull pen.”
The search was concentrated in the
Oconee area, where a light truck
used in the escape was found aiban
doned.
Guard Neiwnan Hall identified the
fugitives as Woodrow Strickland, of
Canton, Ga,, serving a life term for
murder, and) Luther Tatum, of Pied
mont, Alth^serving a 10-18-year sen
tence for manslaughter.
JAIL BLAST LAID
TO GAS ESCAPE
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 6.—Final
spection of the heating system at the
county jail that was wrecked by
explosion Oct. 21, killing- two and in
juring eight others, revealed no fur
ther information to county commis
sioners, it was stated Friday.
G. D. Affleck, city building inspec
tor, reiterated the opinion expressed
previously that there was nothing
wrong with the heating apparatus
and that the explosion was due to ac
cumulated gas in the basement.
The work of razing the old 1 build
ing by county forces was nearing
completion Friday and county officials
are awaiting action on a PWA aid
application to begin rebuilding a new
jail on the same block.
JACKSON JURORS PROBE
SLAYING OF POLICE CHIEF
Macon, Ga., Nov. 6.—A negro who
had confessed yesterday to participa
tion in the robbery of the assistant
postmaster at Gaillard in Crawford
county on Oct. 19^ said his three com
panions in the robbery are negroes
held for the murder of Police Chief
C, T. Thornton of Jackson.
Tjie confession of Charlie Jtnes, 27
formerly of Thomaston, was reported
by Postoffice Inspector H. H. Hudson
Mr. Hudson said the negro confessed
to him and Sheriff H. E. Seagler of
Crawford.
Jones told the officers he was look
out at the robbery he said was com
mitted by Raymond Carter, Charlie
Rucker and Jim Williams, negroes
held in Fulton county jail charged
with the murder of Chief Thornton
on Oct. 26.
Williams was nomed by the other
negroes held in the murder case as
the one who fired the shots that kill
ed Cief Tomtom
Mr. Hudson said Assistant Post
master Milton Reid was held up at
pistol point in his store and post of
fice at Gaillard early at night by
three masked negroes.
The negroes escaped with about
$39 cash, of which $19 was govern
ment money and the rest belonged to
the store. Mr. Reid’s wife, Mrs. Jen
nie Reid, is postmistress at Gaillard.
Mr. Reid was bound and gagged by
his assistants, Mr. Hudson reported.
Carter, Rucker and Williams, Grif
fin negroes, were arrested the day
after Chief Thornton was killed. .
Mr. Hudson said 1 Jones will be
prosecuted for robbery in the state
court, where the maximum penalty
for armed robbery is death by elec
trocution.
’’Electric Eyes“ See
3,000,000 Vehicles
Pass In 7 Months
Talmadge’s Son
Defends Father
Against Society
SAVANNAH HEALTH
LEADERS SUCCUMB
DURING SAME DAY
.Savannah, Nov. 3.—Death struck
tiwice today to leave Savannah with
out an executive in its city health
department.
Dr. V. R. Bassett, health officer,
died at a hospital. He had undergone
operation in Atlanta several
weeks ago. Dr. A. Larson, assistant
health officer, died unexpectedly.
Dr.. A. iMorrison, chairman (1 <jf the
health committee of city council
died a few days ago and no success
or has been named as the health de
partment was leFt without a top
executive;
HOME TIGHT-WIRE
IS BEST OF ALL
TO SUMTER GIRI.
Americus, Nov. 4.—Pauline Howell
of Americus will do her tight-wire
walking act before home folks next
week for the first time since taking
the circus “sawdust trail” four years
ago.
She will be the featured perform
er at the Sumter county fair.
After the Hagetiiback-Wallace cir
cus closed this summer, Miss Howell
began, playing at fairs in eastern and
middle western parts of the country.
And fairs, Miss Howell says, “are
much more fun and _ offer a more
varied life than the circuses.
“In a circus you go through youi
act night after night and in, the same
routine, live with the same circus
performers. In the fairs you put on
your act sometimes indoors, some
times outdoors, meet different per
formers and live more to yourself.
ELLAVILLE LAND
SALES ARE MADE
Jackson, Ga., Nov. 7.—Indictment
returned at Jackson Monday charged
five negroes with the slaying on Oct.
25 of Jackson's Police Chief C. T.
Thornton. The joint indictment nam
ed Charles Rucker, Raymond Carter,
Jim Henry Williams, Lucius Adkins
and Mattie Adkins.
Jackson, Ga., Nov. 7.—A grand
jury called at a special term of Butts
superior court Monday began an in
vestigation into the slaying of Police
Chief C. T. Thornton, of Jackson, on
Oct. 25.
The five negro defendants charged
by officers with complicity in the
slaying, Charlie Rucker, Raymond
Carter, Lucius Adkins, Mattie Ad
kins and Jim Williams, were brought
to Jackson from Fulton Tower, At
lanta, Sunday.
Eilaville, Nov. 5.—An important
land sale occurred in Eilaville when a
fix acre site of the Alexander Bros,
l umber plant was purchased by H.
W. Hogg, financier. Two vacant lot?
adjoining the lumber plant were sold
to Dr. L. G. Stewart and Miss Matti6
Lee Rigsby. M. J. Arrington pur
chased 1 a four room house and the
lot on Which it is situated near the
lumber plant. The property sold be
longed to the etate of the late T. J.
•Livingston.
Another sale occurred recently in
Schley county was that of the land
belonging to the estate of the late
Clayborn Majors, colored, considered
one of the best farms in the county.
J. O. Smith bought 742 1-2 acres of
land .belonging to the estate for ap
proximately $3,600. The farm lies 19
miles nqrth of Eilaville, within one
mile 1 of the Atlanta-Tallahassee, Fla.
highway.
All of the above property listed
was sold to the highest bidder by the
Johnson Land Co., of Atlanta.
School of Defeat
Defeat is a school in which truth
always grows strong.
More than 3,0000,009 passengei
cars, trucks and buses have been
registered by 12 Automotive Traffic
Recorders, the “electric eyes” of the
Division of Highway .Planning of the
State Highway Board, since the me
chanical counting devices were put
into operation about seven months
ago, 0.*T. Ray, state director of the
division, announced in Atlanta this
week. Seven of these recorders tally
passing traffic on paved highways and
five on unpaved “farm-to-market”
roads, and each of their totals gives
a clear picture of the traffic pattern
for the particular type of vehicular
artery on which the machine is lo
cated.
The recorder located at Red Oak,
a few miles below Atlanta on the
highway to Newnan, is leading the
list in the total number of vehicles
registered, with 840,812, and the
others located on paved highways fol
low in this order: Cartersville, 656,-
809; Perry, 344,960; Midway, 295,550
Statesboro, 275,268; Covington, 268-
968 and Naylor 116,732. Totals for
the five placed on rural roads in
clude Sale City 64,148; Thomaston,
58,896; Hazlehurst, 55,580; Davis-
boro, 51,884 and Brookton 1 14 056.
During the 28 weeks the recorder
has been in operation at Red Oak
the number of pasing vehicles has
averaged approximately three per
minute for 24 hours each day. The
electric eye” records traffic by
means of two parallel beams of light
which are directed across the road
way onto a photo-electric cell. When
;m automobile or a truck cuts across
both rays a record' is made on a
time chart similar in appearance to
an adding-machine tape.
Engineers of the Division of High
way Planning, who are surveying and
mapping every public road in Geor
gia, have completed their work in
105 counties, comprising a total of
approximately 67,000 road miles.
Seventeen field parties are engaged
in this phase of the statewide survey
and their work will result in the
preparation of new and comprehen
sive county maps, more complete
and more accurate than any hereto
fore drafted.
“The first year's work at the 54
truck and bus weighing stations
scattered throughout the state has
been brought to a conclusion,” , said
Mr. Ray, “with 65,221 vehicles
weighed, well above the quota of 60,-
000 set at the beginning of the 12-
month period. Our field forces found
the truck and bus drivers of Georgia
extremely courteous and cooperative.
The second to realize the value of
the survey we are conducting and
made every effort to make easier the
gathering of the data we require.”
Another phase of the highway sur
vey, -known as the Blanket Count, is
being conducted at 14,000 intersec
tions on main and county roads—un
paved a well as paved—in the state,
and work has been completed in 35
counties, it was announced. This sur
vey calls for a careful census of
traffic from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. each
day for one year and also gathers
data as to a vehicle’s place of own-
erhip, the origin and destination of
the trip and the purpose of the jour
ney.
Another major branch of the Di
vision of Highway Planning, the fi
nancial surveys, is determining, thru
a painstaking study of the receipts
and expenditures of the various units
of government within the state,
whether the present sources of in
come are sufficient to maintain prop
erly Georgia’s present system of
highways and to build new’ highways
In keeping with increasing traffic
demands. The financial survey, whose
accountants are visiting every coun
ty, municipality and school district
in the state, also will ascertain the
registration fees and fuel taxes paid
by each type of motor vehicle owner
and what proportion of these are
paid by urban and rural residents;
the annual roadway costs for the va
rious types of surfaces and the av
erage life of each type. The five field
accountants of the division have fin
ished their work in 76 counties of
the state, said Director Ray.
The statewide survey of traffic and
highway conditions is being conduct
ed in cooperation with the U. S. Bu
reau of Public Roads, with the fed
eral government bearing approxi
mately 80 per cent of the cost.
Athens, Ga,, Nov. 6.—Because they
dicided to put his father's picture
back in the trunk after all, Herman
Talmadge has come to the defense of
Ids father, the former governor. Her
man) returned his literary key and
in a letter denounced the Phi Kappa
literary society of the University of
Georgia for their action several
weeks ago.
The University’s century-old so
ciety staged' a heated debate as to
whether the picture of its former
member, Eugene Talmadge, should
grace the wall with past-distinguish
ed Phi Kappas. The ‘nays? won and
back went the picture to the trunk.
Now Herman has written: “I am
returning this key because I do not
care to have anything to do with, or
to keep any tokens of remembrance
of any organization which will take
tile narrowminded action that your
organization did with reference to
my father who, while a member of
your organization;, served as its anni-
versarian and an officer of the so
ciety.”
Herman also pointed out that “in
1934 my father received' the greatest
majority of votes ever given any
governor in the history of the state”.
While in college, young Talmadge
resigned from Phi Kappa and joined
Demosthenian. He added, “there is no
doubt in my mind about my having
made a wise decision.
“The only regret that 1 have is
that my father, my grandfather, and
my great-grandfather did not see
their error in belonging to your or
ganization while they were in college
and do the same.”
WARRANT DISMISSED
IN BURNS ARREST
Joneborso, Ga., Nov. 6.—A war
rant charging “Pee Wee” Burns, no
torious in Atlanta police circles, with
assault and battery of Dr. J. R.
White, Atlanta physician, had been
withdrawn Saturday, Sheriff E. L,
Anderson reported.
The assailant, first thought to be
Burns, has been definitely identified
another man, Sheriff Adamson
said, but declined to name .him be
cause he has not yet been arrested.
SLAYER OF CHILD
DECLARED INSANE
Woman Who Put Former Maco
Couple’s Baby in Furnace Ig
Sent to Asylum
Columbus, Nov. 8.—A (Muscogee
county superior court jury Monday
declared Mrs. Lucile M. Adams, mid
dle-aged Columbus widow, insane
shortly after she had been indicted
for the murder of Priscilla Ann Turn
er, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. Turner Jr., former Maconites.
The Turner child died' Oct. 28 of
burns received, Columbus officers
said, when Mts. Adams thrust her
into a -bed. of live coals in a heater
in the Turner's apartment.
Circuit Judge C. F. McLaughli:
ordered Mrs. Adams committed at
once to the state hospital at Milled^,
ville. The woman was brought into
court on a stretcher. She has been
confined to the city hospital in Co
lumbus since the Turner child’s
death.
Mrs. Adams’ attorney, L. L. Davis,
entered the insanity plea after her
arraignment on the murder charge
lodged against her :by the Muscogee
county grand jury earlier in the day,
Two physicians, one called by the
state and one by the defense, testi
fled she was mad when she placed the
infant in the coal burning heater,
Mrs. Turner told officers she left
the baby with Mrs. Adams, her land
lady, at the older woman’s request.
She had just stepped out of the room
when she heard the child’s screams,
she said.
LAND SALE
-Two lots of land numbers 187 and
199 in the 12th district o f Taylor
county containing 202 1-2 acres each
more or less and located about eight
miles outh of Butler on highway 19,
known as the W. R. Henry place.
Land well timbered. One of lots ex
tends to White Water creek.
If interested in purchasing this
tract of land at -eighty cents an acre
please communicate with me at once
L. S. HAMBY, Conyers, Ga., 41. 3.
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