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PACK EIGHT
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
The Republican state convention
will be held in Fulton county court
house, Atlanta, May 18.
Sunday was open bouse day at the
new $200,000 municipal building re
cently completed at Thomasville.
Miss Jennie Evans, 72, Ft. Valley
sister of Hon. Albert J. Evans, died
Fridav the result of a fall received
two years ago.
C. W. KiHebrew of Augustn, was
named president of the Georgia Elks
Association as its annual convention
cloned at Augusta Tuesday.
Hospital aids at Washington Mon-
daysaid that Senator George, who
has been under treament for a severe |
rold, was greatly improved.
Mrs. Helen Williams Coxon, of
Ludowici, Long county representative
for three tenns, has qualified foi
senator from the second Georgia dis
trict.
Mrs. Helen Wm. Coxon, Long I
county representative for three I
terms, has qualified for election of
senator from the second Georgia
district.
<k>v. Rivers returned to his otfice
ir. Atlanta Monday from a short va
cation at Cottonwood Springs, Ala.,
and a brief fishing trip off the Flori
da coast.
A young farm worker, G. C. Wil
lis Jr., was fatally injured near Gray
Friday when a tractor he was driv-
■mg overturned and pinned him be-1
neath it.
William J. Tucker, 88, for 1-1 years |
postmaster at Tucker, died Thursday I
night. He and Mrs. Tucker celebrat- j
ed their 04th wedding anniversary
last week.
J. H. West, Columbus school prin
cipal, has been elected president of
the Columbus Education association
succeeding W. H. Trammell it was an
nounced Tuesday.
H. W. Blakely, operator of a farm
at Sylvania, was forced to have 75 j
hogs and 12 cows inoculated Monday |
after a dog, apparently mad, ran j
wild among tin animals.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
will address the national association
ol nee ret;; l ies of state at Savannah
in June, it' international affairs do
not interrupt his plans.
Five solid carloads of tomato
plants have gone forward from
Moultrie this week, express company |
officials announced. New Jersey was 1
destination of ali of them.
Thomasville's new $200,000 munici
pal building, which has a 1,600-seat
auditorium, as well as accommoda
tions for the fire ami police - depart
meats, was dedicated Monday.
Morgan Blake, Atlanta Journal
welfare director, spoke to the Young
People’s Department of the First
Methodist Church, Thomaston, at
the annual banquet on .May 7.
Up to April .’’0th, 409 farmers in
Btewart county representing 244
farms have received *2:5,851 in soil
conservation checks for their coope
ration in the 1939 AAA program.
Miss Mary Murray, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Murray, has won
first honors at the Buena Vista high
school and will give the valedictory
speech on the graduating night May
17.
A fine arts exhibit of prints, made
directly from the original canvasses
and representing the world's most
famous master paintings are on dis
play at the Dawson city school this
week.
Charlie Collins, city editor of the
Athens Banner-Herald for about a
year and a half, has joined tile staff
of the News at Femandina, Fla. He
is a graduate of the University of
Georgia.
Mrs. P. F. Ba.insen, 67, wife of a
former state vterinarian, mother of
one Atlantan and sister of two oth
ers, died at her home in that city
Wednesday following a lengthy ill
ness.
Five hundred Atlanta Schoolboy
Patrolmen Tuesday were in a high
stale of excitement over prospects of
leaving to attend the national con
vention of safety jiatrolmen in
Washingon.
Students at Agnes Scott College
got their fingers smudged Monday
but established what they described
as a record of being the first girl's
college in the South to open a finger
jprinting bureau.
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, MAY 9, 1940.
Henry Frank Willis, Lamar coun
ty's sole remaining veteran of the
War Between the States, is observ
ing his 94th birthday Sunday at his
toric Union church, which he joined
:n August, 1865.
Trial of Howard and Juek Rober
son, brothers charged with murder
in the pistol slaying of Abbeville's
police chief, S. J. Rhodes last Febru-
I ary 25 began Monday in Wilcox coun
ty superior court.
Back taxes on the vast estate paid
in full the Radium Springs Resort
and adjoining lands south of Albany
have been dosed for an indefinite
period Manager G. F. Alford Jr.,
announced this week.
Retail sales in Georgia during
March gaised 11.3 per cent over
March, 1939, und 22.3 per cent over
February. Sales by 361 independent
Georgia merchants totaled $5,394,-
136 during March.
The May meeting of the State
Board of Regents will lie held at
Athens Friday in connection with
the annual livestock and equipment
day, Chancellor S. V. Saaford an
nounced Tuesday.
The Eighth District Postmasters’
and Supervisors’ .Association will
hold its annual spring banquet in
Waycross tonight at the Ware Ho
tel, it is announced by A. O. Johnson
Waycross postmaster.
Jas. A. Jepson, p8-year-old Atlan
tan, has been accepted for service
with the Canadian Royal Air Force
as a gunner. Said Jepson: “I wanted
to see if this is a private war or if
anyone could get into it.”
Boh Jackson, Greensboro, and
Frank Gunn, Crawfordville, were
elected University of Georgia cam-
I us leader ar.d se dor class president
for the school year 1940-41 by uni
versity students Friday night.
John H. Daniel, 52, Atlanta motion
picture projectionist, was killed and
his wife seriously injured when
their automobile crashed into a tele
phone pole on the Roosevelt highway
a mile south of Palmetto early Mon
day.
Double funeral services were held
at the Femandina (Fla) Episcopal
church Friday for Mr. and Mrs. E. T
Kline, who died of injuries received
in an automobile accident on the
Coastal highway near Brunswick
Monday night.
The new Armory which houses Bat
tery H, 214th Coast Artillery' (anti
aircraft), Georgia National Guard,
was dedicated at Columbus this week
the 16th anniversary of federal rec
ognition of the Calhoun division also
was celebrated.
The large bust of General James
Edward Oglethorpe, founder of Geor
gia, has been presented the people of
Georgia by Eric Underwood, London
barrister. It will be unveiled at cere
monies at the state capitol in Atlan
ta late in May or early June.
Georgia delegates to the three-day
national convention of the prohibition
party opening Wednesday at Chica
go are expected to vote for Roger
W. l’abson for president and C. A.
Watson for vice president as candi
dates in the November general elec
tions.
Establishing an all-time record
for Georgia, the FHA received 516
applications for insured mortgages
aggregating $1,939,400 in April, a 13
per ctnt gain over the previous
month. The previous high month was
August, 1938, when 505 applications
were filed.
Talbotton consolidated schools will
hold their final exercises for the
scholastic year on Monday, May 20
in the school auditorium. On Sunday
morning, May 19, Dr. Josiah Crudup
of Mercer University, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon at the Bap-
ist church.
•One census enumerator in the city
of Brunswick believes she lias enu
merated the oldest person in the 8th
district, and probably in Georgia.
The enumerator was startled when
she asked an aged negro woman,
Annie Higginbotham, her age, and
the woman said she was 123.
Contract for construction of power
lines in Baldwin, Jones and Putnam
counties with main office at Mill-
edgeville to cost $119,006, lias been
let to L. T. Barber of Moultrie, Pro
ject Superintendent F. S. Batchelor
Jr„ announced. The project calls for
about 216 miles of power lines.
H. L. Eskew, Griffin hotel owner
and operator last week purchased
Hotel Upson at Thomaston, building
and fixtures at a figure reported to
be approximately $80,000. Askew is
expected to assume active control
and management of the hotel on
June 1, when the present lease ex
pires.
Outstanding Georgia high school
newspapers and editors were hon
ored at the Henry Grady School of
Journalism of the University of
Georgia in Athens Friday when win
ners in the 13th annual contests of
the Georgia Scholastic Press Asso
ciation were announced by Director
John Drewry.
L. S. Ellington, 44, prominent Up
son county businessman, died at his
residence in Thomaston Mondaj
night. He was a World War veteran.
He owend nnd operated Ellington's
Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor at
Thomaston. He was an active mem
ber of the Grace Primitive Baptist
church of Thomaston.
S. N. Brown of Ft. Valley, census
enumerator ut Cordele is charged
with embezzling while connected
with Waycross division of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation, according
to newspaiier reports. It is charged
he failed to turn in collections, Mr.
Humber said. Brown was indicted on
12 counts .for sums totaling $196.
Forty-seven new members were
received into the church during the
revival series at the First Baptist
church in Americas, which closed
with baptismal services Sunday
night. Twenty-four )>ersons were bap
tized Sunday night. Four more are
to be baptized. Nineteen were receiv
ed by letter.
Macon ranked third in Georgia in
volume of U. S. Ravings bonds sales
ir 1989, Postmaster W. A. Patillo an
pounced Monday. Macon sales were
surpassed by Atlanta, which placed
first, and Savannah, which was sec
ond, both of which are larger than
Macon. Macon bond sales amounted
to $291,075.
Miss Florence Isaac Holmes, 96,
of Athens, a teacher in the public
schools of Columbus for more than
60 years, died at an Athens hospital
Mondav alter an illness of a few
days. Miss Holmes retired as a
teacher at Columbus at the age of 88
and moved to Athens soon after,
having resided there for the past six
years.
The second district democratic ex
ecutive committee will meet in Al
bany tomorrow to adopt rules for
the congressional primary, set a
closing- date for and make other ar
rangements for the election. E. E.
Cox, of Camilla, member of house
rules committee, is the second dis
trict representative and has beenfoT
16 years. Ro far he has no oppo
sition. ■»
Joseph A. Martin, of Savannah,
formerly of Thomasville, was ar
rested on a federal warrant in the
the latter city Sunday charged witii
conspiring to kidnap Wm. H. Rice
and transport him across the state
line from Beaufort, S. C., to Savan
nah. At a hearing befote U. S. Com
missioner Hansell Watt in Thomas-
ville he pleaded not guilty, but was
unable t make bond of $2,500, and
was committed to the Camilla jail.
State Welfare Director Braswell
Deen declared Tuesday "there is not
a word of truth in any statement'
made by anybody that there is waste
and extravagance in the administra
tion of the state department of pub
lic welfare.” He issued a written
comment upon the charge of Super
ior Judge Jackson to the Baldwin
county grand .jury Monday recom
mending abolition of the state wel
fare department. It is one thing to
make a statement and anohter thing
to prove it Deen said. The record?
ths department and the auditor's
report stand as permanent records
against imaginative statements.
U. S. SENDS $1.65
OWED TO VETERAN
SINCE WORLD WAR
Glennville—The U. s. Treasury
Department has a lot on its mind,
hut found time to send Lucius Ken-
nedy, World War veteran a check for
$1.6.) it has owed him since the war
ended.
Allowance for traveling from Cen
taur, Ga„ to Savannah should have
been $9.80, but the government had
sent Kennedy only $8.15 at the time
the Treasury Department wrote. En
closed is the balance due.
VETERANS HOSPITAL
PLANS OPEN HOUSE
Atlanta—Annual observance of Na
tional hospital day on May 12 at
Veterans' Administration Hospital
No, 48 here this year will also cele
brate the 116th annlversaryt of the
birth of Florence Nightingale.
Hospital Manuger J. M. Slaton Jr.
said rqien house would be held for the
public from 2-30 to 5 p. m.
FITZGERALD POSTAL
APPOINTMENT MADE
Fitzgerald—-J. J. Pryor Monday
was named acting postmaster for
Fitzgerald, pending senate confirma
tion, effective as of the close of
! business Friday, May 10.
I Mr. Pryor takes the place of W. A.
Adams, who resigned as of that date
to accept a position as inspector with
the Federal Surplus Commodity Ad
ministration.
Mr. Adams has received his com
mission to appear in Washington
May 15, to begin the new service.
GEORGIAN KILLED BY TRAIN
UNCLE IS HELD FOR PROPE
Ashburn, Ga., May 3.—A coroner's
jury today was investigating the
death of Arthur Keebler, 28, who
was struck by a train yesterday two
miles from Ashburn, Sheriff Alex
Story said.
Sheriff Story said D, C. Carroll,
uncle of Keebler, was being held in
jail pending completion of the in
vestigation.
The two men were walking on the
track and Keebler was carrying- his
4-year-old boy, when the train was
heard, Carroll told the sheriff. He
said he grabbed the child out of
Keebler's arms and jumped out ol
danger. Keebler was truck by the
train and killed instantly.
ALBANY REBUILDING
HITS MILLION MARK
DEATH IN ASHBURN
TERMED SUICIDE
Ashburn, Ga., May 4—The core
ner's jury investigating the death of
Arthur Keebler returned a verdict
of suicide, Sheriff Alex Story said
Friday.
C. D. Carroll, uncle of Keebler,
who was with him when he was killed
and was held until the coroner's in
quest was completed, was released i
when the verdict was given, Sheriff
Story said.
The coroner's jury found that Kee
bler came to his death by jumping
in front of train No. 26 of the Sou
them railroad, committing suicide.”
I
RELATIVES OF ROBERTA
MAN BEING SOUGHT
Roberta—Efforts are being made
to locate relatives of Charles ,M. i
Bailey, 77, who died here last night i
from injuries suffered in a fall!
four months ago.
Mr. Bailey was living alone on the
Macon road when the mishap occur-1
red. Since the accident he has been
given a home by the county at Ro-1
berta.
Friends said they understood Mr. j
Bailey is survived by a sister, Mrs. j
F. J. Smith, St. Petersburg, Fla., and j
a nephew, C. B. Smith, Atlanta.'
Their addresses are not known. The:
body is at the Webb Funeral ho life
Albany—Although much of the de
struction of Albany's disastrous
February tornado has been repaired
building goes on apace in the area
swept by the twister. Many buildings
have been completely restored, oth
ers are nearing completion, some
have just been started and a few, due
to sales and other delays, have not
been touched. Altogether more than
it million dollars worth of permits
have been issued and more are to be
issued.
What the dollars-and-eents meas
ure of the Feb. 10 loss was will prob
ably never be known, hut when all
the permits have been issued by
Building Inspector D. W. Brosnan,
some estimate can be had of the
building losses.
T E AC HERS R E N A MED
IN SCHLEY COUNTY
FIRST DISTRICT EDITORS
TIGHTEN PUBLICITY RULES
Swainsboro, May 6—-Editors of the
First Congressional District voted to
close down on publicity for political
candidates who use other forms of
advertising to the exclusion of news
papers..
Acting on a resolution offered by
Jim Coleman of Statesboro, business
manager of the Bulloch Herald, 25
publishers bound themselves "not to
print any canned free publicity sent
from the office of a candidate for
election, or from any publicity agent
concerning a candidate, when such
cadidate or his supporters are using
the radio, direct mail, or any other
form (xf paid avertising to the ex
clusion of newspaixers.”
Ellaville—S. A. Manning, chair
man of the board of trustees of
Schley County high school, announc
ed Thursday that the following
teachers had been re-elected for the
1910-41 terms:
E. M. Palmer, superintendent; W.
R. McDonald, Abbeville, principal;
high school teacher: Miss Nellie
Lamar, Fort Valley; Miss Ruth
Cheney, Macon; Miss Carolyn Cur
ry, Mt. Vernon; Grade teachers:
Miss Elizabeth Tillman, Americus,
first grade; Mrs. Mildred vStanfield
Ideal, second; Miss Willie B. Wilson
Butler, third; Miss Flo. -McGouirk,
Carrollton, fourth; Miss Geraldine
Knighton, Belevolence, fifth; Miss
Marjorie Lanier, Soperton, sixth;
Miss Elizabeth Ross, Gray, seventh;
Mrs. John Lindsay, Ellaville, music
teacher.
DRUNKEN DRIVERS
MUST SEE MOVIES
LEE INSTITUTE
CEREMONIES SET
fhomaston—R. E. Lee Institute
will graduate 130 boys and girls from
high school on Tuesday night, June
4.
Dr. M. S. Pittman, president of
South Georgia Teacher's College at
Statesboro will be the main address
at the graduating exercises.
Miss Pearl Traylor has been se
lected valedictorian of the class, and
Miss Lillian Gulledge will he saluta-
torian.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
on Sunday, June 2, at 11 a. m. in the
high school auditorium, Dr. Wallace'
Rogers, pastor, First Methodist j
church of Griffin, Ga., will deliver
the sermon.
-Macon, May 4.—Drunken drivers
arrested in Macon Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday have an unusual sen
tence coming to them from Judge C.
A. Baldwin of the city court and Re
corder G. M. Nottingham.
They will be sentenced to attend
the showing of a motion picture
short subject, Drunken Driving, at
the Capitol theatre.
rhe movie is a gruesome illus
tration of what happens to the driv
er who has been drinking,
“I understand the picture is un
usually effective,” commented Judge
Baldwin, “and I feel it will be of
great benefit to everyone, particular
ly those who have made a practice
oi driving while drinking.”
Hie movie is a feature of Safety
Keek, sponsored here May 5-12 by
the Macon Safety Council.
STUDENT AIRMEN UNHURT
WHEN PLANE “PANCAKES”
ATLANTA DEFENDANT IN
825,000 DAMAGE SUIT
Atlanta, May 8.—The City of At
lanta was sued for $25,000 damages
in Fulton superior court Tuesday for
persona! injuries allegedly suffered j
by Mrs. Eddie King, 71-year-old I
dresmaker last June 25.
While walking in tin- neighbor-1
hood to visit a sick friend, she J
stumbled on a concrete Having block
faultily placed, and fell, suffering;
head and other injuries that have!
prevented her from working at her j
occupation since, she charged. j
Statesboro, Ga., May 3—Wesley i
Sherman, 19, was shaken up a bit
today, but apparently was none the ^
worse for a 50-foot fall taken by the !
plane in which he was entering his j
16th hour of instruction.
Sherman, one of 10 Georgia Teach- ^
ers’ College students learning to pi
lot under the CAA training pro .
gram, went up this morning f or
spins and stalls. After he ha.i satis
factorily demonstrated his ability
high off the ground, the motor of
the plane stalled and made a "nan
cake" landing. Sherman crawled
from the cockpit and walked away
without assistance. Larry Dobbs in
structor, estimated damage at $300
RADIUM springs
RESORT CLOSED FOR
INDEI1INITE PERIOD
Albany, G a „ May 6—With back
j.xes on the vast estate paid in full
the Radium Springs resort and ad
joining lands south of Albany have
been closed for an indefinite period
Maager G. F. Alford Jr., announced
Monday,
The resort was developed by the
B ’ (: ’ Collier . New York c-api-
Mist, and Thad Huokabee, of Al
bany.
Opened April 16, J927, the resort
"a* attracted thousands of visitor
annually. Resides the golf course,
he estate includes a main lodge
trapshooting club, bridle paths, resi-
(.cnees, a game preserve and other
1 acuities.
With lands 0 n both sides of the
ln,t river, the Radium Springs es-
;< ® ° W ®f delin quent taxes from
! 0 the P res ent time. They were
; !l,d ln Tull over he weekend by a
■eimesentative of the Barron Collie,
.Supervised by J„ e Kirkwood, one
r f . thl country's leading golf pro .
was knit’ i th °- C ' hampil,nshi P course
Boston W y tileS & Van Kl *et oi
menu ha!?^! ° Utstandin * toi 'nia-
6 575 v ' 3een P la >'ed over its
«,a75-yard stretch.
.SENATOR GEORGE || 1
AT NAVAL HOSPITAL
Washington, May 5—a is
George (D-Ga.) said to,,,'?'
suffering from a severe f
would remain at naval |
few days. He went there v
for a check-up.
Dr. J. E. Paulin of All,
who stopped to see th,.
1 • . seiu
Ins way home from Boston
George's condition wa*
No. 1
F'l'oin
P ‘B.> 1
plain the program as it Waj
ago, as it is now, and lls
for it to be a year from „ 0
are looking for an interesting
a« a profitable meeting,
program, your meeting, - lnd
looking forward to y ou M
terested citizen to be pre*,,
meeting.
We are expecting t 0 have
the best WPA library pro
the state but we can accoirn
only thru the co-operation
general public.
LEGAL ADVERTISE)
FOR LETTERS OF Dis«j
GEORGIA—Taylor County
Whereas Thelmon Jarrell
istrator of the estate of
Watson, deceased, represent,
Court in his petition, duly a
entered on record, that he hj
administered the P. c. W
tate. This is therefore to
persons concerned, kindred ai
tors, to show cause, if any 1
why said Administrator shot,
be discharged from hi s admj
tion, and receive Letters of
sion on the First Mondai
1940.
L. T. PEED, Ord!
FOR DISMISSION ri!l|
GUARDIANSHIP
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Whereas, A. J. Cotney, (
for Mrs. Lois Grace Parker
plied to me for dishcarege
Guardianship of Mrs. Lois
Parker, this is therefore ton
persons concerned, to file it
.lections, if any they have, 9
fore the first Monday in Ji
else A. J. Cotney will be dis
from his Guardianship as
for.
L. T. PEED, Ord
LEGAL SALE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
By virtue of the power of
tained in a deed to secure
Alex Searcy and Ralph
John L. Brown, dated Ji
1939, and recorded in Deed
page 597, Clerk's Office, T
perior Court, will be sold I
Court House door of Tayli
in Butler, Georgia on
Tuesday in June, same lieii
1940, the herein described
the property of Alex Sei
Ralph Searcy, between
hours of sale to the highest
bidder for cash, the folio
scribed property, to-wit:
All those tracts or pares
situated, lying and beig
County of Taylor and State
gia, situated, lying and heis||
Fifteenth Land District
county and being sixty-
acres, more or less, off the |
east coiner of lot No. 1$J
(8) acres off the south-wall
of lot No. 179, containing
gregate seventy (70) acre!
less.
Also, two hundred t*
(228) acres, more or less,
the Old W. J. Wilson F
composed of the follow
wit: Eighty (80), acres, moit|
off the East side of lot .V
ing numbers one and I'
division survey of said lot;
(50) acres of land in thi|
west corner of lot of lam
also the West one-halt 0 _
179, except two acres olf tk|
east corner of said lot.
The indebtedness owing
tlersigned is represented by 4
r| f promissory notes -
$1,000.00 principal plus int
January 25, 1939. Defall
been made in the payment
debtedness secured by sn- 1
secure debt, the power
therein contained has bed
ai ive.
Proceeds from the sale
applied as directed in sa
secure debt proper deed oi
unce will be made to the
nr purchasers at said sal
filled in the deed to seciin
This the 8th dav o' M'l
JOHN L-
Fort Vail
CHAS. C. STONK,
His Attorney-at-Law
HOTEL LAI
Macon, Geof#*!
Conveniently
Excellent Cafr|
Rates $1.5t>aP d