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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, MAY !>, 1910-
II. S. Jury Finds
Rep. Whelchel
Is Not Guilty
Representative Cleared of Job-
Sales Charges Along with Grady
Jons.
Andersonville Negro
Woman Relieved of
Large fash Sum
Gypped of $1,115.00 by Shrewd
Negro Man and Woman; Police
Searching for Guilty Culprits.
I The Tri-County News. Americu®,
j relates the following regrettable in-
| lident, the victims being indormant
Gainesville, Ga., May 6—Rep. »• ; negroes:
Frank Whelchel (D-Ga.), was ac- j “Tuesday afternoon, a negro man
i^iited bv a federal court jury Mon-1 and his wife, using the old style
day, along with a rural political policy racket, gyped Alice English,
leader, of government charges that negro farm woman, of $1,115 in cash
Macon Will Get
New 14-Story
Skyscraper Soon
Downie Brothers Circus
Sold at Auction In
Houston Texas Thurs.
State Secretary
Wilson Will Ask
For Re-election
General Motors Deal
Are Located In All
Parts of United Sta
Macon, May 2—The spangled glory
that once was Downie Brothers cir-
Insurance Firm Plans Biggest' «». a Macon-owned and »Pe™^J"'
I fetitution, had vanished .vesterday
Building in Macon to Cost Half through a foreclosure proceeding in
Million Dollars. *%?<££ Sparks, Macon man
— and former operator of the show
found himself without a tiger or a
tent to his name. Animal by animal,
property by proi'erty.the show went
from the auctioneer's block to the
Detroit, May 4—New
o m,
tourists travel in the Anw
Political Field Narrows As Miller 1M» "ere predicted in Det roit
by officials of the Au 4 -
Hints He Will Run for Office of ufacturers Association
Governor.
he conspired to sell postal jobs.
“I expected to be acquitted be
cause I had faith in the fairness oi
the people of Georgia.' the 44-yeai
aid north Georgia congressman com
mented after the verdict.
’“That goes for me too,” echoed
H. Grady Jones, Pickens county com
missioner, whom the government had
accused as go-between for the alleg
ed job sales.
The jury, composed chiefly ol
and escaped .
“Alice runs a small farm, accord
ing to highway patrolmen, near An-
dersonville. Recently a son died at
Valdosta, and she was beneficiary in
his will for $1,000. In her home she
ihad $115 in cash.
"Sometime ago, the son dropped a
second life insurance policy for an
unannounced sum.
"Tuesday afternoon a negTo man
giving the name of Loren, accom-
■mountain farmers and small-town 1 panied by a woman he said was his
business men, deliberated over 14
hours before returning the acquittal
on all accounts of two indictments.
(Scarcely 60 people were in the
usually-crowded federal court room
when the grave-faced jury filed in to
to the box to return the verdict.
As the clerk read the decision in
the principal case, involving Whel-
rhel and Jones, defense lawyers
gripped the congressman's hands and
shook them silently.
There was no expression from the
spectators, who were cautioned earli
er by Judge Underwood that the
verdict ‘‘must be received in perfect
silence."
Judge Underwood made no com
ment on the jury's verdict and ob
served.
‘,You are excused for the balance
of the term.”
Federal prosecution, headed by
Assistant U. S. Attorney General O.
John Rogge and District Attorney
Lawrence Camp, received the verdict
without immediate' comment also.
Throughout the night there had
been unconfirmed rumors the jury
stood 10 to 2 for acquittal,
Later Assistant U. S. Attorney
Genciai O. J. Rogge said:
“The government can do no more
than develop the facts and present
thorn to a jury that represents the
people. Their decision is final since
the government has no right of ap
peal.
The acquittal verdict was returned
on five counts in the principal in
dictment, which had accused Whel
chel and Jones with conspiracy to
roll appointments, and on a sixth
count—a «i pamte indictment—which
charged Whelchel alone with con
spiracy.
Whelchel,
wife, visited Alice English, They
knew of the dropped policy and also
that she had collected $1,000 on the
other life policy. The pair informed
Alice they could collect on the
dropped policy if given the cash.
What other persuasive methods were
used are not known here.
“Alice fell for the old policy rack
et, came to Americus, withdrew $1,-
000 from the Americus postofTice,
added her home cash of $115, gave
the sum to the negress, and then be
came suspicious.
“Luckily she took down the 1940
Georgia automobile tag number from
the Buick car driven by her filchers. | parkway which will afford a better
hut will be sold soon.
Mr. Sparks sold his show, billed
as the biggest truck circus in the
world, in the spring of 1939 to W.M.
Moore, Texas, hut the new owner
had difficulty meeting the payments
hue Mr. Sparks and following the
Macon, May 4—Construction <>f
Macon's largest building, a $500,000
14-story office structure for the Bank
ers Health and Life Insurance Co.,
will begin Monday on the site of the ••‘to'est bidder.
. . .. A small nucleus of the show-
present home office building opposite
the city auditorium.
Demolition of the old buildings on
the site will be begun by A. K.
Adams and Co., Atlanta contractors
who exi»ect to complete the propect
by May 1, 1941.
“The undertaking indicates the ut
most confidence in the future of Ma
con and of Georgia,” declared P. L.
Hay Sr., founder and president of
the company.
The building will be situated in the
triangular block bounded by Cherry
Street, Cotton Avenue and First
Street, the heart of Macon's business
district.
The present five-story Bankers
building, constructed in 1924, will be
changed so as to become an interga!
part of the new structure, which will
include the ground floor, 10 office
floors and a three-story penthouse,
giving a total of 14 floors with a
vertical height of 152 feet.
Tlie Cherry Street frontage of the
building will lie dropped back 36 feet
.from the position now used by build
ings on the site, making room for a
Atlanta, May 6—Secretary of
State John B. Wilson, heretofore re
garded as a certain candidate for
governor, Saturday announced that
he will seek re-election to his pres-
mains in Little Rock, Ark., stranded ent office,
on its way from Houston to Macon i At about the same time Chairman statement.
by officials of the Autonu.hiij
, , , ion ’ author!
statistical body for the i
Nearly 60,000,000 Americans' 1 ,
taking to the highways durin.
organ!
the
summer months,
believes.
Unsettled conditions abroad
bined with expanded facilit^
accommodations in the
tional parks and other tourist
cas, were cited as reasons to
W. L. Miller of the State Highway
Board, declared that it looks as if
he will be compelled to carry the is
sue between himself and Gov. Rivers
to the people of Georgia.
There have been uersistent reports
for several days that Mr. Miller
19.39 season the show began to col- would either run for governor him-
Then she notified DeputySheriff Lott
Jennings and he and others summon
ed the patrol.
“Tag number, description of car
and the two negroes was broadcast.
Sergeant Adams hopes troopers will
be able to locate the thieves within
a day or two.
"However, there were no favorable
leports late Wednesday.”
iMissippi Governor
And Newspaper Editor
Engage in Battle
Jackson, Miss., May ,3.—Gov, P. B
Johnson of Mississippi and Editor
Frederick Sullens of the Daily
News, bitter enemies for years,
fought and rolled on the carpets of a
crowded downtown hotel lobby last
night until pulled apart.
Both emerged from the scrap
bleeding, but neither apparently was
| hurt seriously. Sullens suffered head
lected to congress first j cuts which doctors stitched.
view of the Macon auditorium, which
is located across the street west of
the proposed skyscraper. Another
parkway of approximately 2,600
square feet is planned on the Cotton
Avenue side of the structure.
“The structure will be of rein
forced concrete, the exterior being
faced with gray colored brick and
stone. Tlie windows, spandrels and
mullions will be aluminum, which
will afford a contrast with the ma
sonry and will accent the vertical
shafts extending from the third floor
level to the tower, according to W.
K. Dunwody, Jr., architect.
lapse.
Fnially Mr. Sparks’ corporation
was forced to foreclose. Back pay
ments had been defaulted and Mr.
Sparks had learned that the show's
animals, once his pets, weren't get
ting proper food and attention.
Under the sale Mr. Sparks got
nothing back in the way of a circus
except its name, but he said yester
day he does not plan to start a new
circus venture under the Downie
name. He has retired and lives quiet
ly in a downtown hotel.
UNCLE ED, NOW 93,
STILL LIKES “FUN"
“This has been rightly
'Travel America Year',” the
A. announced. ‘‘It seems a saf
diction to say that a new-
high mark will be set by
ists this summer.
“Next to bis own interest-
trip, the motorist’s chief eonce
for his car,” adds Ed Hednei.
ional director of service for
let» “Once the tourist leav
home town, the service
presents itself in a new light.
always
Baxley, Ga., May-
like a little fun.”
The philosophy of Uncle Ed Ken-
edny thus expressed oftentimes by
him was demonstrated as late as
Saturday on his 93rd birthday anni-
self or manage a campaign for his
former colleague on the Highway-
Board, J. L. Gillis, of Soperton.
Mr. Miller and Mr. Gillis praised
each other at the recent county com
missioners’ meeting in Atlanta, and rolet owenrs, however, need h
Mr. Gillis at that time announced qualms along this line us tin
that he was seriously considering a the Americas Now,’ for
gubernatorial campaign. 000 dealerships from coast t#
The announcement was regarded, provide expert, favtory-trait
as a feeler for public sentiment, as supervised service,
will be tbe statement given out by "Chevroet'v national s rvi<*
Miller Saturday. The general impres gram annually reaches in
sion is that the one who gets the ( 27,000 mechanics, all of w
best reaction will be the candidate : access to factory method.
with the support of the other.
Mr. Gillis has one strength and one
tory approved tools and eqi®
The standardization of servic
weakness that Miller does not pos- b *”* br0U S bt about ‘ta
sess. The strength is the reported , country-wide training system
personal endorsement of President , motorist’s insurance against
Roosevelt and the weakness is hos 1 chanical clouds on the travel
inability to make martial law a cam
paign issue, since he submitted to I
military control of the highway de- |
j partment and was a beneficiary of it
for some time.
U. S. HOSPITAL AID
SOUGHT IN CARROLL
in 1934 announced immediately after
bis indictment last March that lie
would seek reelection in the Sept. 11
state democratic primary.
8.3 BOYS ENROLL FOR CAMP
SLATED AT PINE MOUNTAIN
The registration list for the an
nual Summer Camp for Roys op
erated by the Young Men's Christian
Association at Pine Mountain camp
in the Pine Mountain National Park
has been swelled during the past
week, aecrodin-g to Bob Eubanks,
Boys’ Secretary- and Camp Director
of the Y. M. C. A.
Eighty-three boys have register
ed to date and more than a hundred
have asked for places. Camp opens
.Tune 3rd and continues thru July 1.
Four weeks of camping. Two session ] the encounter .
or two weeks each session. The first j His only thought according to Mrs.
session begins June 3rd and contin-1 Scott Dickson a daughter, seemed to
ues thru June 17th. The second ses- ' be:-"And here I am scooped on my
sion begins on June 17th and con- own s tory.”
tinues thru July- 1. All boys planning j
The 60 year old governor, who re
tired immediately to
mansion, issued no statement but
friends said on his behalf that John
son “caned” Sullens because the edi
tor has harassed, persecuted and em
barrassed the governor and his fam
ily since 19.31.
The 63-year-old editor said the gov
ernor, “surrounded by a bodyguard’
hopped from around a hotel pillar
and made a vowardly- a*tempt to as
sassinate him from the rear by hit
ting him on the head with a heavy
cane.
Carrollton, Ga., May 5—The sur
geon-general of the United States
has Carroll county's appeal for a
Ifortion of the pending national hos
pitalization bill that would set aside
.310,000,t!O0 for the establishment of
medical centers on a self-liquidating
federal-aid basis.
Commissioner Hamp Chappell ad
vised Dr. T. B. Parran that Carroll
the executive j county will vote on the question of a
small tax levy for the maintenance
of such a community hospital, and
niso will decide on the primary bal
lot next September whether the
county almshouses shall be convert
ed into a medical center.
The recently improved almshouse
has only seven inmates, and is re
garded as conforming in part to re
quirements of an institution that
would provide medical care for the
indigent.
Loss of Scoop Worries Editor
Jackson, Miss., May- 3—Erederiik
Sullens, 63-yaar-old editor who suf
fered head cuts in a fight with Gov.
Paul Johnson in a hotel lobby yes-
TWO JUDGES AND
COM MISSION ER AWAIT
APPOINTMENT
Atlanta, May 4—Three more im
portant appointments are awaiting
to attend are urged to register im
mediately in order to be sure of
jilaees on this year's camp roil. The
Y. M. C. A. camp is open to all boys
who are interested in camping. It is
not conducted for boys members
alone bv
T,e • J° r the boy ‘ S 0f <r' olumbua ’ ; trucks today as the last of-the 40,-
Ihemx City, Girard and R Ben- non soldier „■!,
lung.
FITZGERALD POSTAL
APPOINTMENT MADE
terday, was carried to his room after Gov. Rivers’ choice ami they will
bring to more than 60 of the total of
his selections to lie passed upon by
the 1941 state senate.
Probably the first o r the three
pending appointments to he made will
lie that of a successor to the late
Rufus G. Price of the City- Court of
Louisville for a four-year term.
Next may come selections of a
judge to replace the late Superior
Judge C. Frank McLaughlin of Mus
cogee county. Prominent Columbus
attorneys mentioned as prospects in
clude William Leonard, Willis Bat
tle, Wm. De L. Worsley and Joe
Peavy.
The statehouse post open for ap
pointment is that of Chairman of the
Georgia Industrial Commission, va-
GREAT BENNING
TENT CITY IS NOW
A GHOST TOWN
Columbus, Ga., May 7.—Columbus
resounded to tlie rumble of army
000 soldiers who have inhabited the
Tent City folded their tents and
moved to the Sabine Valley.
What yesterday was a r i‘y teem
ing with life and feverish ac'ivity is
today a Ghost City. Srtnr.s are
Fitzgerald—J. J. Pryor Monday emptied, wooden frames ire ail that
versary when he smiled and joked | Mj]ler would 1k . al)le t() howl his
with a gathering of approximately head off about the iniquities of mar
tial law, having been kept out of the
highway building and his own office
200 at his birthday dinner at his
home II miles from Baxley.
Uncle Ed is Appling county's only
living veteran of the Civil War.
it was the '20th dinner to assemble
a group of Uncle lid's relatives and
friends from paints in Georgia,
Florida and Alabama.
Though he now spends most of his
time reading and listening to the ra
dio, the veteran remains alert. As
late as three years ago he “had a
ride in an airplane.” Until recently
he drove his own car.
A native of Bryan county, Uncle
Ed relates that he enlisted in Co. D.
22nd Ga. Battalion. He recalls that
one of the most fervent pray-ers he
ever uttered was during the fighting
at Bentonville, N. C., when he was
a young soldier.
Uncle Ed is regular in church at
tendance. He is a member of Ten
Mile Creek Baptist church, where a
new- pastorium mas dedicated Sun
day by Columbus Roberts.
for weeks by national guardsmen
under orders of Gov. Rivers.
Miller and Gillis were closely as
sociated in the highway board for
three years, then became estranged
when Gillis took the term held by
Miller on the board. He later was
ousted by- courts. However, Miller
has since declared that Gillis was
tricked out of office.
The statement issued by Miller
follows
“As 1 have preciously announced, J cas, across the peaceful and
I prefer to fill this position umno- borders, the tourist can be
lested and to render the taxpayers of of readily-accessible senice
the state the service to which they manned by- experts fully
are justly entitled. ! to handle his every senice
“However, if 1 am defeated in this |
program by continued executive or- ] A young farm worker, h.
ders and manipulations from the l lis Jr., was fatally injured
Governor's office, I shall be forced ! Friday w-hen a tractor he
to carry the issue to the citizens and i big overturned and pinned
taxpayers of this state.” neath it.
I zon.
“Cehvrolet dealerships in
country and all major islands
western hemisphere safe pi-
tourist's travel pleasure,
neighbor nation of Mexico,
I ample, are 39 Chevrolet se
i tions, as well as some half
dred General Motor?! senice
i quarters. Canada has 125 C r
j dealerships plus another 200
I stations where Chevrolet
| may be obtained.
| “Virtually every South
country affords Chevrolet
from the Guianas all the war
to the southermost tip of
Likewise, such resort spots
ha, Jamacia, Haiti, the Doin'
| Republic and other islands, off
facilities.
“Wherever he goes in the
-I LOWEST PRICE IHISTOI
6 &*. Vt. Sty*,
cated by pension retirement of long-l
was named acting postmaster for remain of the tents that made up the I time chairman Hal Sta
Fitzgerald, pending senate confirma- city of 40,000 men.
tion, effective as of the close of 1 The evacuation of Tent City began
business Friday, May 10. j Sunday when the Sixtn Cavalry
Mr. Pryor takes the place of W. A. ' pulled out. Monday tlie outward
Adams, who resigned as of that date movement was scattered. Tuesday
to accept a position as inspector with the roiling began at dawn and con-
the Federal Surplus Commodity Ad- ; tinued until the last lent was folded
ministration. and the last truck had moved.
Mr. Adams has received his com- The men w-ill tak'e part in the
mission to appear in Washington maneuvers to be staged in thy S'l-
*ay 15, to begin the new service. i bine Valley in Louisiana,
inley. Retire
ment pay is $150 a month. The job
pay* $4J6 a month, has a four-year
tenure, must carry senate confirma
tion.
Bending appointment to the indus
trial board, business will be executed
by the other two member.!, w-ho con
stitute a quorum, and others in ex
ecutive capacity. The other two com-
misioners are A. D. Tucker and Har
ry Monroe,
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