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THE HITLER HERALD, BUTIRR GEORGIA, MAY 2, 1010.
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Roosevelt Gets
Georgia Without
Holding Primary
Ladies Pick 72 Delegates; Those
Chosen Promptly Urge h. D. R.
To Seek Third Term.
Talmadge Requests
Legal Ruling On His
Gubernatorial Candidacy
| Man Confesses
To A Murder
Of Macon Wife
Atlanta, Aipril 25—Georgia's Dem
ocratic executive committee today
elected to tlie party's national con
vention 72 delegates who promptly far as to seek out the law
urged President Roosevelt to run for eligibility.
Atlanta, April 20—Eugene Tal-
madge asked Attorney General Kllis
Arnall today if he was eligible to
qualify as a 1940 candidate for gov
ernor—a move generally considered
as equivalent to a gubernatorial an
nouncement.
The jet-haired former governor
has all but announced himself in re
cent issues of his newspaper, The
Statesman, but he had not gone so
his
Tearful Box Worker Retracts
Original Version of Bedroom
Slaying.
a third term.
By naming the delegation itself,
the committee ignored appeals for a
presidential preference primary, one
of which came from a group em
bracing advocates of Vice President
Gamer and outspoken anti-New
Dealers.
Committing themselves to support
Mr. Roosevelt should he seek re-
election, the delegates empowered
New Deal Gov. E. D. Rivers to cast
Georgia's 24 votes for them at Chi
cago as a unit and as directed.
As Georgia's Democratic national
committeeman, Rivers presented to
the delegation a resolution of alle
giance to the President which said
•“it would seem as unwise to deprive
ourselves of the asset of ou: army
and navy or air force as to deprive
this nation of the asset of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.’
The document was sign i 1 y Riv
ers, National Committewoman Vir
ginia Polhill Price, State Committee
Chairman J. L. Gillis and the dele
gates after its adoption.
“We know the President is not a
candidate for renomination,"said the
resolution, “We know he will not ac
cent that nomination if it he ten
dered unless it should conv under
such circumstances as to make :t an
imperative duty.”
The President now at the Little
White House in Warm Springs is to
receive the resolution from a dele
gation committee, possibly the en
tire delegation, "at his convenience. I
Already pledged or claimed tot
him were 276 of 328 full-vote dele
gates previously selected elsewhere
in the nation. A total 1,0114 are to be
chosen for the convention peoing Ju
ly 15.
Organizing, the delegation elecled
as chairman Maj. Clark Howell, edi
tor and publisher of the Atlanta Con
Btitution; vice chairman, Zach Ar
nold of Ft. Gaines who also is com
mittee vice chairman; as secretary.
John Greer, Cordele publisher and
as treasurer, W. V. Crowley, Atlan
ta banker.
E-digar I). Drnlap, 'hue nun of the
presidential primary committee ,-eek
inga preference ballot ,» irie .-4 re,
tendered a 25.OPO-name petition, but
ty a swift maneuver of the commit
tee he was prevented from making a
15-minute speech for >v i • i ho asked
time.
Accompanying iVuniup to the hotel
roof committee session were W T.
Anderson, Macon publisher and mem
ber of the presidential committee,
an C. J. Block, another Macon com
mitteeman.
Immediately after convening th
committee quickly voteo itself into
erecutive session, allowing before
hand a 10-minute recess for subrms
sion only of primary petitions.
“Aren't you going to give me tune 1
to make a talk pn this petition," Dun
lap asked Chairman Gillis a I the
latter replied the committee had vot
ed otherwise.
“But there are 25,000 names there"
Dunlap protested.
House Speaker Roy Han is said,
“We'll read 'em all, Edgar.”
Dunlap sought vainly to have a
member of the committee a.-uc for un
animous consent for his talk, then
retired from the hall with other
members of his organization.
Dunlap's committee's petition, a
foot thick volume tied up with leath
er thongs, was shoved beneath file
table where committee officials pre
sided. No one would say what would
happen to it.
Dunlap also submitted several
thousand cards mailed in to his head-
qaurters requesting a primary. They
too, were shelved.
The committee adopted a resolu
tion commending the President, lhe
national administration, and the
Democratic party, introduced by
Erecutive Editor Ralph McGill of the
Atlanta Constitution, serving as
proxy for the Constitution Publisher
Clark Howell, who is in New York
on business.
Maj. Howell yesterday wired Gov,
Rivers, urging Georgia Democrats
appeal to Mr. Roosevelt to seek a
third term “because better than any
one else, he knows how to keep us
out of war and because he is better
There were rumors last week the
Democratic executive committee en
acted a rule which might bar Tal
madge but on Saturday House Speak
er Roy Harris, who helped draft the
regulations, said no part of the reg
ulations would bar Talmadge or “any
Democrat who wanted to run.”
In releasing his letter to Arnall,
Talmadge's only comment was,
“Might as well bring them out in
the open on this.”
The attorney general would not
comment on the request which came
direct from Talmadge. The latter
said he knew that official opinions
on state law must be requested by
the governor but added, “I am also
informed that in any matters of gov
ernment and party rulings, the at
torney general does give opinions on
the law governing elections and pri
maries.'
Since he had headed the law de
partment Arnall has rendered “as a
service to the people” opinions that
while not binding upon anyone,
serve as a matter of information on
the interpretation of the law.
Since Talmadge began to loom as
a taken for granted candidate for
the governorship months ago, specu
lation was revived as to the effect
upon him of the constitutional pro
vision that a consecutive two-teim
governor is not eligible for election
again until four years have elapsed
since he left office.
If Arnall agrees to rule on Tal
madge's request, he probably would
nail down this long-contested ques
tion.
Bridegroom Siain
By Father-in-Law
After Elopement
Latter Blames Fiylit on Argument
Over Catholic Re-marriage on
Date of Wedding.
Ill Georgia Veterans
Will lie Treated In
Other State Hospitals
equipped by far than anyone el-e to
serve as head of our nation during
this period of great world strife.”
The resolution introduced by Mc
Gill said the President's leadership
‘is enabling this country io main
tain the Democratic ideal and the lib
erties and rights of the individual
through the peaceable solution of our
social and economic problems in
marked contrast with the leadership
of Europe where failure to solve the
same problems brought dictatorships
loss of liberty and war.”
Another resolution adopted extend
ed the committee's sympathy to the
national committeewomen for the
loss of her distinguished husband,”
Judge R G. Price of Louisville City
Court, who died yesterday.
Georgia’s 72 delegates, although
bound the unit rule, technically rep
resent one-third of a vote each. Had
48 been chosen, the routine procedure
would have been for 24 to go as full
vote delegates and the others as al-
ternat es.
Macon, April 27—A tearful 33-
year-old box factory worker con
fessed early yesterday to the Thurs
day night ax slaying of his ili-y^ai
old wife and a short while later was
charges! by a coroner's jurv with
murder.
He was John W. Hortman, who,
according to his own confession,
crushed the head of h's wife, l.essie
the mother of three children, with
the blunt end of an ax.
Sheric's Deputies O. L. Harris and
Walter Waldorn obtained the con
fession Thursday morning after
working on the case all night.
Hortman first said a masked in
truder had entered the bedroom
where he and his wife were sleeping
and killed her but later changed his
version of the homicide nnd said ho
wielded the lethal ax himselt.
"We went to bed about 3 o'clock”
he told the officers, “and about 11
a man came to my door and my wife
got up and went to him. They
thought I was asleep hut 1 beard
them talking and planning to meet
each other the next day. I guess 1
just went to pieces. 1 gathered the
ax and hit her, then tried to hit
him, but he was running away so I
threw it at him.”
The stained ax was found by officers
on the front porch of the neat iit'le
cottage tin Montpelier avenue. It had
crashed through the glass pane in
the front door.
At the inquest, called later in the
morning by Coroner Chapman, neigh
bors told of hearing the crash of
glass and, a short while later, dies
for help. Theyfound Hortman on t ie
l»ed beside his dead wife when they'
i reived according to testimony, and
called an ambulance. The woman ap
parently died instantly, officers said.
Hortman blamed his wife's infi-
ufclity for the tragedy but neigh
bors said they had observed no mis
conduct on her part and had seen no
evidence of marital discord in the
Hortman home.
Hortman could give no clue as to
the identity of the man he saw at
the door.
"I couldn't help doing it,” he said
"all 1 can do is hope for forgive
ness."
Mrs. Hortman was born in Craw
ford county, the daughter of W. 0.
Dickson and Mrs. O. L. Andrews
Dickson and had made her home in
Macon for eight months. She was a
member of Dickson Methodist churcn
She is survived by her husband J.
W. Hortman; two sons, J. W. Jr., and
Landis Hortman and a daughter,
Joyce Hortman of Macon; her par
ents; four sisters, Miss Arlee Dick
son, Lizella; Mrs. Frances Bryant,
Msr. Odessa Thorpe, Mrs. Nellie Lee
Hartley of Macon; two brothers, T
O. and Marion Dickson, Lizella.
Way cross, Ga., April 28—A story
of the slaying of Jimmie Hinson, 25
y ear old dine and dance place opera
tor by his father-in-law of less than
a day unfolded Sunday at a coro
ner's inquest.
A. B. Herndon, who identified him
self as a Macon peanut vender and
I arking lot operator, testified he shot
Hinson today in self-defense after
the latter first agreed and then an
grily refused to return to Macon and
"talk over with a priest” his mar
riage to Mildred Herndon with a
view to being re-married in the Cath
olic church.
The 16-year-old daughter, a pretty
blonde, told the jury she and Hinson
were married at 2-30 a. m., in Per
ry, after making a late date at Ma
con where she was employed as a
bakery clerk. She said she did not
know the name or denomination ot
the officiating minister.
Herndon said his wife awoke him
early in the morning and informed
him their daughter had slipped away
and married. They set out at once
for Hinson's roadside establishment
about two miles from Wayeross.
Herndon, a Catholic, said he and
Hinson had “a very nice talk" and
the latter agreed to see the priest,
only to change lids mind and exclaim
“1 don't want to hear any more
about it” after the two went up to
his bedroom.
He took out a pistol and started
towards me with it,” Herndon con
tinued. “I took it away from him
and shit him.”
Macon, April 29—Georgia's list of
265 World War veterans who are
awaiting hospitalization will be re
duced to 80 within 10 days, State
Veteran's Officer C. Arthur C heat
ham said here last night.
Mr. Cheatham, who had just re
turned from a 14-state conference of
service officers, veterans' administra
tion officials and hospital heads in
Memphis, said Georgia situation will
continue acute and that more facili
ties are needed.
The 80 veterans will receive treat
ment at the marine hospital in Sa
vannah and at veterans's hospitals in
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Columbia, S. C. and
Lake City, Fla., he said. He added
that Georgia's overload of ailing vet
erans is made up totally of whites
and that facilities are adequate for
negroes.
A 60-bed addition to the Atlanta
hospital is being rushed, he reported
an dprobably will be ready for use
June 1.
Cheatham said the arrangement
for other hospitals to assist with
Georgia's load was worked out at a
en.ference attended by John Slaton
Atlanta, regional manager for the
veteran's administration; officials
from Washington, himself and others
from adjoining states.
He explained that Georgia's over
load of ill veterans is accredited “to
the fact that Georgia had more men
n the war per capita, than any other
state in the Union” and that the
veterans hospital facilities in
state are not as complete as
smaller neighbor states.
Several
Georgia Lawyt
To Gather Soon]
State-Bar Association \\j|
Its Annual Session , n f
May 23.
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the
SUMTER SELECTS
GOP DELEGATION
MONTEZUMA HIGH
RETAINS TEACHERS
Americus—Sumter county Repub
licans meeting at Americus Saturday
flayed the New Deal, avocated a two
party system in Georgia and elected
ilelegates to the state and district
GOP conventions and officers for the
Sumter county organization.
William Tietjen was elected dele-
Montezuma—The entire faculty of
the Montezuma High school was re
elected for the coming school year
at a meeting of the board of trus
tees Friday it was announced today
by Supt. C. E. Stevenson.
Mr. Stevenson, who is completing
1 is fourth year as superintendent of
tie schools was re-elected several
weeks ago.
METHODISTS ASKED
TO PRAV FOR PEACE
gate to the state convention with W | Atlantic City, N. J., April 26—
A. Dougherty as alternate. Mr. 1 Methodists were asked Fridav by
Dougherty was named district dele- their church's General Conference 1o
gate with W. W. Wilson as alter- j K0 without dinner Sunday, June 2.
nate ’ -I ad pray for the speedy termination
Mr. Wileon was named Sumter 0 f war and the establishment of a
chairman and Mr. Tietjen was named just and lasting peace,
secretary. | More than 700 delegates to the
Only three men were present at conference voted to fast this Sunday
the first session which opened at for the same purpose and called up-
noon but plans were discussed for on the church's 7,866,000 members to
another meeting later to draw up observe June 2 as a day of self-deni-
Macon, April 27—More
Georgia lawyers will come
May 23-215 for the 67th
ing of the state bar associai
ret ary J. Ii. Harris said ti
The convention will be
an address by association
J. L. Tye Jr., of Atlanta,
lt-ature an address by j,
Houston, Texas, federal
istrator and well known
an publisher.
Other speakers will include
Lucien P. Goodrich of (; r ^.
Redfearn, president of the
State Bar association; S,
Dublin attorney and
referee; A. A. Lawrence,
attorney; Earle Norman,
Wahington, Ga.; R. 0. ![ c ]
Georgia law school, student
resentative of the junior
the association, and Hatton]
ners, Dallas, Texas, l a *j
chairman of the judiciary
of the national house of
tives.
Judge Samuel H. Sibley
circuit U. S. Court of Ap
act as toastmaster at the
tion's annual banquet.
Entertainment scheduled
a barbecue and luncheon at
Park, a dance and a lunchet
Idle Hour Country Club, a;
for wives of the delegates,
wnich will follow the annua!
and a golf tournament.
New officers will be elected
convention and absentee bt
already been sent out. On
are the names of Wm. Y,
of Newnan and William llutt
Ridge as candidates for
dency, and Paul Akin, Cat
and W. W. Alexander, Thi
as candidates for the vice
cy. Other nominations may
at the meeting.
Thus far, Secretary Harm,
tant Secretary Be lining
and Treasurer C. J. Blc
Macon, have no opposition.
Tye is an unopposed candii
election to the house of deli
the American Bar Associati
tsl
resolutions.
al, fasting and prayer.’
Turner Nelson Williams, i
known Marion county farmer,|
his home in Buena Vista
Sunday. He had been in
health for several years,
was the son of the late Wra.l
liams and Arcadia R. Williij
Marion county.
yti£
Callaway Recommends F. I). R.
Atlanta, April 25—Gov. Rivers re
ceived a telegram from Cason Cal
laway, LaGrange textile manufac
turer, saving the Democratic execut
ive committee "should immediately
endorse President Roosevelt for re-
election and urge him to accept re
nomination.”
The telegram came from Kingsport
Penn., and gave the governor Calla
way's proxy in today's state execu
tive committee session.
it authorized the governor to “af
fix my signature to any resolution
offered endorsing the President for
re-election and committing the Geor
gia delegation to urging him to run
and to his support.”
No Comment
Warm Springs, April 25—In the
seclusion of the Little White House,
Mr. Roosevelt undoubtedly was in
formed of a meeting of the state
Democratic executive committee at
Atlanta in whiih a pro-Roosevelt con
vention delegation was selected and
voted to cast Georgia's 24 voles for
a third term.
Temporary White House offices,
however, presented no official indica
lion the President was aware of
events in Atlanta. Acting Presidential
Secretary W, D. Hassett said Mr.
Roosevelt plans no more appoint
ments during his vacation here, in
dicating the victorious Georgia New
Dealers will not come here to report
in person on their success in climb
ing aboard the third term band
wagon.
Roberts, Talmadge
And Howell Appear
To Re Sure Candidates
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Atlanta, April 27.—Once it held
promise of a dozen contestants, but
today Georgia's gubernatorial con
flict appeared to be narrowing to
probably three or four candidates.
You may write in three of them on
your ballot now—announced candi
dates Hugh Howell and Columbus
Roberts, and taken-for-granted can
didate Gene Talmadge.
The fourth may be one of these,
Abit Nix, W. L. Miller, J. B.Wilson
Jim Gillis or he may be a hitherto
unmentioned dark horse.
This dark horse may be given the
limelight as the choice of the Geor
gia delegation at the democratic
national convention in Chicago.
This possibility appears to hinge
upon whether the nation's nomina
tors pick the president, if he makes
himself available. Then, it is con
jectured at the capitol, the Crackei
delegates would pick theniselves
Roosevelt follower and announce him
as their choice for governor.
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Flat Shoals Primitive Baptist
church, of LaGrange, oldest Primi
tive Baptist church in southwest
Georgia, that has seen continuous
sendee, will observe its tilth anni
versary next Sunday when members
and former members from several
states will assemble for home-com
ing day exercises.
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