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PACK EIGHT
TIIH BUTLER H13RALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 16,
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
William B. White, 70, outstanding
Augusta business leader, died Tues
day.
Damage estimated by firemen at
$16,000 was done by three fires
breaking out at Valdosta Sunday.
Georgia's supreme court Tuesday
affirmed three death sentences for
•rurder and a 10 t ■ 10 year sentence
for rape.
J. C. Stranger, 65, city treasurer
of Fitzgerald, died of a heart ail
ment Monday. A daughter and two
sons survive.
j. C, Strange, 66, city treasurer,
af Fitzgerald, died of a heart ail
ment Monday. A daughter and two
sons survive.
The state school board met at the
Capitol Tuesday to complete the
jrurchase of textbooks for the next
school term.
A total of 312 women will receive
riegrees and diplomas from G. S. T.
C., Milledgeville, at graduation ex
ercises June 9.
City detectives at Macon Tuesday
sight held an 18-year old Macon
youth charged with theft of a bi
cycle he rode from Macon to Colum
bus.
Appointment of Harry N. Horton,
formerly of Macon as a pilot with
the Great Silver Fleet of Eastern
Air Lines was announced Monday by
Capt. B. V. Rickenbaker, president
of the lines.
Elbert Sanders of Pembroke, a
junior at the Georgia Teachers Col
lege at Statesboro has been elected
editor of the George-Anne, student
publication of the college for the
year 1940-41.
A. O. Johnson, Waycross postmas
ter, has been elected president o(
the Eighth District Postmasters ami
Supervisors* Association, effective
July 1. He will succeed A. G. Wil
liams of Jesup.
Department Commander Hoyt C.
Brown will be the principal spcakel
at the annual convention of the
Third Area of the American Legion
nt the McKenzie Country Club at
Montezuma Sunday afternoon, May
26.
Savannah's first case of smallpox
in 12 years has just l>een discovered
it was announced this week by Dr.
C. C. Hedges, city-county health of
ficer . The last reported ease to the
| health department was in May ol
! 1928.
Elmo Hester, 15, of CutlVbert was
announced Sunday as winner of the
American Legion's essay contest. He
"kill receive a scholarship to Ogle
thorpe University and a cash prize
for his essay, ’^he .States And
Americanism.
YOUTH WILL FACE TRIAL
KOR slaying of father
Milieu, Ga., May 13—Sevouteen-
year-old Robert Iiewis, confessed
slayer of his father, Ixrvett R. Ix-wis
was among the defendants slated
for trial as Jenkins superior court
convened today.
Young Lewis with his sister, Irie,
13, were arrested after the shooting
April 6, but the girl was released
two days later after her brother's
confession.
WOMAN HANGS SELF
Top price of $300 for a cow and
$260 for a bull were registered Mon
day at the 12th annual auction sale j
of the Georgia Jersey Cattle Club i
in Athens.
Representative Carl Vinson of the
6th Georgia district, qualified for re- [
election Saturday with J. C. Lewis, |
secretary of the district executive j
committee.
An illness of only a few days
proved fatal to Jas. 1! Huff, 80, re
tired Columbus banker and promi
nent business man, who died at his
home Tuesdaj.
Walter W. Andrews, 51, farmer
and merchant of the Millhaven sec
tion of Screven county, was shot to
death Monday by Tom Johnson, farm
hand <jn the place.
Establishment of a detention ward
as a means of handling drunks at
Grady hospital, Atlanta, is being
I ionned, l>r. .1 M. Beeler, superin
tendent, announces.
The Georgia Supreme Court Tues
day dismissed S. C. Epson's quo
warranto suit to oust from office So
licitor Preston M. Almand of the
City Court of Athens.
Appointment of Benjamin E. Har
rison ns Postmaster at Miljedgeville
has been confirmed. The Millcdge-
viile postoifice has recently been
granted first-class rating.
Mrs. J. F. Troutman, 72, of Fort
Valley, died early Friday in an At
lanta hospital. She was the mother
of Frank Troutman, prominently as
sociated with the Coca Cola Co.
A sawmill owned and operated by
T. J. Hughey, situated just within
the city limits of Forsyth, was
burned Monday. The loss was about
$1,000, not covered by insurance.
C. D. Rountree, Wrightsville pub
lisher, and C S. Claxton, Johnson
county representative, are possible
candidates for the state senatorship
from he 16th district it is said.
'lire city of East Point Monday had
purchased an option on a lot where
it is planned to erect a new $36,000
lire hall, S. D. Kidd, chairman of the
council's fire committee announced.
Nelson Shipp, editor of the Colum
bus Sunday lg>dger-Euquirer, will
deliver the principal address at Me
morial Day services at the Ander-
Kinvilie National cemetery, on May
30 .
L. T. Nix, 18, and Chesley Brain-
ley, 20, Atco mill workers riding a
motorcycle, collided with the rear of
a truck near Cartesrville and were
killed Thursday, state troopers re
ported.
Funeral services for Mrs. J. A.
Chapman of Hopewell community
Schley county, mother of J. C.
Chapman,Ellaville business man.were
held Monday at Hopewell Methodist
church.
Carolyn Webb, outstanding Plains
high school student who won the
state essay contest at Athens, used
as her subject “A Comparison of
Social Life in the Present Day South
with That Depicted by Margaret
Mitchell in Gone with the Wind. Miss
Webb will receive her degree from
-Plains high school in June.
The condition of Virgil O Bryan,
46 year old Americas district agent
of the Gulf Life Insurance Co., who
was injured when his automobile
crashed into a fence at Sniithville
Saturday night was reported as un
changed Sunday.
Atlanta. May 12—Miss Jessie
Cook, 60, hanged herself from the
joists of the basement at her resi
dence today, leaving a note asking
that her body be given to a medical
college, Patrolmen L. D. Cody and
C. W. Cartwright reported. The of
ficers said she had stood oil a box
while tying the rope and then kicked
the box away. A negro janitor dis
covered the body.
HOLLEY INDICTED;
TRIAL OPENS TODAY
Louisville, Ga.—Wade Holley, Au
gusta policeman, will go on trial in
superior court here Tuesday, charg
ed with tile slaying of a Louisville
filling station operator, W. L. Beck-
um.
Holley was indicted Monday by a
Jefferson county grand jury. The
shooting of which he is accused oc
curred March 28 in an argument ov
er repair of an automobile tire.
SOUTH CAROLINA GIVES
$5,000 TO HF.RTY PLANT
PEXERSON ENDOUSES
W A TER W A Y M E A S U R K
Atlanta. — Representative Hugh
Peterson of the First Georgia dis-
Irict Saturday expressed the hope
that President Rooseveil would sign
the rivers and harbors authorization
bill, which provides $281,000 for de
velopment of Savannah harlwr,
Gladstone Williams said in a special
dispatch to The Atlanta Constitution
a few days ago.
Peerson is n high ranking n,ember
of the rivers and harbors commit
tee.
CORDELE WILL MOVE
CONFEDERATE STATUE
FOR S YFETY’S SAKE
Cordele.—To make Cordele safe
for automobiles, the old Confederate
monument is going to be moved to a
new stand.
Removal of the old soldier from
the main street was part of a safety
drive recommended by City Manager
J. R. Brown.
Proposed new sites include the
CDC chapter house lawn and on the
grounds of the new Memorial club
house.
MAN-MOUNTAIN DEAN
SAYS HE WILL RUN
AGAINST WHELCHEL
AMERICUS UPHELD
IN LICENSE MGHT
The Georgia Peach Growers Ex
change estimates 5,972 carloads of
peaches would lie shipped from the
state this season, most of them by
rail. It said most varieties had been
retarded about two weeks in growth
by the cold spring.
Funeral services for Mrs. L. B.
Lott, 72, known as Mother Lott over
a wide area, was held at the First
Baptist church, Americus, Saturday
Mrs. Ix>tt, Sunday school teacher and
Baptist Association leader, died Fri
day after a long illness.
Columbia. S. C., May 10—Gover
nor Maybank announced Friday that
the state had sent a $6,000 contribu
tion to the Herty Research I abora-
tory at Savannah.
Tlie 1939-40 appropriation bill au
thorized the contribution, but pay
ment was conditioned on like contri
butions from other sources. These
having been made, the state sent its
check, Maybank said.
ENTRY FEE PAID
BY JUSTICE GRICE
Americus—The city of Americus
won the first step in its legal battle
to enforce a license tax ordinance
ngainst alleged “Semi-wholesale
gasoline dealers.
Superior Judge W. M. Harper su
stained the city's demurrer and dis
missed the bill of equity filed by
four gasoline companies fighting the
tax. Judge Harper ruled the courts of
equity could not have jurisdiction as
the case in its present form is a crim
inal procedure. He gave the com
panies until May 20 to file an an
swer before the ease is returned to
recordors's court.
DRIVERS LICENSES
DEADLINE TO STICK
SULLIVAN ADVISES
Atlanta, May 10—Man-mountain
Dean, the bewhiskered grunt and
groan artist, says he will run for
Congress. Dean, whose real name is
Frank Leavitt, sent word of his poli
tical intentions from Hollywood
where lie is doing a picture.
Dean said he would run as Ninth
district congressman opposing Frank
Whelehel. Political observers recall
however, that Dean ran for the leg
islature two years ago but withdrew
(he the campaigning got hot.
ILLNESS FATAL TO
TALBOTTON L\DY
Atlanta—Safety Director Lon Sul
livan said Saturday there would be
no extension this year in the period
for renewing drivers licenses, alii
that anyone failing to renew his 11-
cese by June 30 must stand a rigid
examination before obtaining a per
mit.
Sullivan said the renewal period
opened April 15, allowing drivers 75
days to make applications for re
newals—two weeks longer than last
year.
About 40,000 drivers licenses al
ready had been renewed, tii
tor said.
TALMA DUE TO SPEAK
AT IDEAL SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
SHERIFF CONVICTED
OF MANSLAUGHTER
IN OFFICER’S DEATH
Mucon, Mny 14—yjl|.
Kitchens, of Twiggs coin,,,
convicted here tonight |,y
Superior court jury 0 n a <*,*
voluntary manslaughter.
The sheriff was accused of
V connection with the slay
lust December of B. F. in *
constable from JefTersonv.V
county seat. The jury wlij c )i *
ed Kitchens recommended t
sentence be fixed at from on e
years,
The sheriff also faces a ^
assault with intent to
murder j.
nection with the shooting
Bridges in the same incident, r
time Bridges was Kitchen's
Judge A. M. Anderson,
Kitchens to continue under
pending sentence tomorrow.
LEGAL ADVERTISED
dire
Newell J. Smith was appointed
and sworn in Tuesday as judge of
the city court of Louisville to suc
ceed the late Rufus G. Price. No
action has yet been taken in the ap
pointment of a successor to Judge C.
Frank McLaughlin of the Chattahoo
chee circuit.
The Muscogee Red Cross chapter's
quota of $4,000 for European relief
was accepted unanimously Tuesday
by members of the board of direc
tors at a called meeting held in the
office of the organization in Colum
bus. The quota was set by national
headquarters.
Atlanta, May 14—-Justice Warren
Grice, of the Georgia Supreme
Court, paid his $250 entrance fee
Monday and qualified as a candi
date for re-election. He has no an
nounced opposition, altho it is re
ported that State Revenue Commis
sioner Grady Head may oppose him.
Justice Grice was appointed to the
high tribunal by Gov. E. D. Rivers.
He succeeded Associate Justice Mar
cus W. Beck, who retired.
Talbotton, Ga.—-Miss Virginia Per
sons, one of the few women railroad
executives in the United States, died
Sunday night at the age of 64.
A daughter of the late Congress
man Henry Persons, Miss Persons
was president of the Talbotton lail-
road. She also was vice president ol
the Peoples Bank and the owner of
large acreages of farming laud.
Surviving are a brother, J. I’. Per
sons, Atlanta; and two sisters, Mrs
Euler Smith, Athens, and Mrs. K. H.
McGehee, Talbotton.
WOMAN FOUND SHOT
DEAD NEAR DECATUR
Montezuma, Ga., May 13.—Ex-
Governor Eugene Talmadge will de
liver the commencement address at
the graduating exercises held Friday
evening at the Ideal school auditori
um, Superintendent Gardner an
nounced today.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered May 19, at the school build
ing by Rev. Henry Stokes, pastor of
the Montezuma Baptist church.
Commencement activities began
Friday evening of last week with
the presentation of the Senior Class
play. The presentation, a 3-act come
dy, is full of swift and entertaining
action, and a good attendance is ex
pected.
notice
Notice is hereby given, j n
ance with the rules of the
Democratic Executive Cob
that the time to qualify as a
date in the democratic prima
tion to he held on Septenf
1940, for nomination as Kepr
live in Congress for the 77th
from the Third Congressional
trict of Georgia, will expire
o'clock, noon, central standi
Juno 1, 1940.
Democratic Executive Co®
Third Congressional Digtif
Georgia.
By: W. H. Young, Jr., ft
FOR LETTERS OF DiS*
‘ MOTHER’’ OF CITY
DIES IN AMERICUS
Bids have been advertised for the
paving of State Highway No. 1. be
tween Lumpkin and Cuthbert. One
eonti act to be let is from the Ran
dolph county line to Lumpkin in
Stewart county. This is a distance
of about nine miles nnd includes a
bridge at Pataula creek.
Atlanta and state police Tuesday
intensified their search for 16-year-
okl Syble Eason, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. J. Eason, who left home
the night of May 6. The girl, a
former O’Keefe Junior high student
v.as believed to tie a victim of am
nesia, her parents said.
Americus ranked third in sale of
U. S. saving bonds by Second Class
Post Offices in Georgia during 1939
according to information received by
Postmaster Chappell Monday. The
Americus oft’ice sold $50,437 worth
of the bonds last year. Waynesboro
was first and Thomson was second.
Miss Kate Rogers, well-known his
torian of Chattahoochee county, is
the new postmaster of Cusseta. She
relieves P. C. Brown, who has been
acting postmaster since the death of
her sister, Miss Sara E. Brown, who
served as postmaster for the long
period of 44 years. She died Oct. 8,
1$I39 .
Hon. Stephen Pace, representative
in Congress from the Third district
returned to his home at Americus
Sunday bringing Mrs. Pace and their
daughter, Miss Martha, home for the
summer. They made the trip by mo
tor. The Congressman is in good
health and in good spirits, despite
the gravity of governmental affairs
in Washington, due to the danger
ous foreign situation.
Americus, Ga., May 10—Just two
nays before Mother's Day death
claimed 72-year-old Mrs. L. B. Lott
the “mother” of Americus.
Having as her philosophy of life
the serving of others and intking
sacrifices f or the happiness of
f riends, “Mother” Ia>tt had helped
many young people obtain an educa
tion and had contributed largely to
ministerial education and to foreign
missionary funds.
She was a Johnston, S. C., school
teacher before moving here 31 years
1 go. She had been teacher of a
woman's Sunday school class at the
hirst Baptist church, leader of the
Business Women's Circle and had
served as superintendent of the
Friendship Baptist Association W.
M. I 1 , for 10 years.
Two sons, J. W. and L. S. Ixrtt,
prominent Americus business men,
and a daughter, Mrs. P. G. Moss of
Andalusia, Ala., survive her.
LUMPKIN FIRES CAUSE
FEAR OF “FIRE MANIAC”
Decatur.—A woman identified
DeKalb County Police Chief J. T.
Dailey as Mrs. Ethel M. Cheek, 36,
of Atlanta, was found shot to death
near a parked automobile in a
clump of woods off Henrice road
here today.
The chief said police were sum
moned by a man who said Mrs
Cheek forced him at pistol point to
drive him to the isolated spot where
she shot once at him and then turned
te weapon upon herself. The mail's
name was not announced.
KIDS, TOTALING $1,066,067
FOR ROADS ARE OPENED
Atlanta, May 12—The state hi
way board opened bids aggregating j™~ vv as h!
POSTCARD REACHES
RAY AFTER 2-YEAR
VOYAGE IN BOTTLE
Macon, May 14—A postcard sealed
in a whiskey bottle and thrown into
ti.e Pacific wean 700 miles west of
Honolulu nearly two years ago has
found its way back to Maj. J. E.
Ray, U. S. Army, now stationed on
duty at Macon.
On June 2, 19<J8, while en route
from the Philippines to his new as
signment in Macon, Major Ray ad
dressed a penny post card to his
small son, Master John Edward Ray
I-'ederal Building, Macon, care oi
Maj. John E. Ray.
He put the card in a quart whis
ky bottle, sealed the cap of the bot
tle with candle wax, and tossed it
overboard the U. S. transport Grant.
Yesterday at the post office he
found the card, mailed from Ozette
Wash,, on May 5, 1949, by R. C.
Price, Ozette, who said he found the
bottle 20 miles south of Cape Flat-
GEO-RGIA-—Taylor County;
Whereas Thelmon Jarrell,;
istrator ot the estate
Watson, deceased, represent!
Court in his petition, duly
entered on record, that he k
administered the P. C. Wal
tale. This is therefore to
persons concerned, kindred 1
tors, to show cause, if any t-
why said Administrator
be discharged from his ad*’
tion, and receive Letters 0:
sion on the First Monday
1940.
L. T. PEED, 0*
FOR DISMISSION FRO
GUARDIANSHIP
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Whereas, A. J. Cotney,
for Mrs. Lois Grace Parker
plied to me for dishcarege t
Guardianship of Mrs. Lois
Parker, this is therefore to m
persons concerned, to tile tk
jections, if any they have, on
fore the first Monday in Ja-
else A. J. Cotney will be dl
Guardianship
110 m
for.
his
L. T. PEED, Or'
$1,066,067 yesterday on 10 con
structing projects, and announced
that contracts would be let aftei
the bids had been rechecked for er
rors.
It was the first letting in which
Chairman W. L. Miller hail parti
cipated since his return to the high
way board on April 22. He sat with
Board Members Herman Watson and
J. I,. Patten and J. T. Marshall, fed
eral highway engineer for Georgia.
SHOE DEALER PAYS
FINE FOR CALLING
PROTECTOR "SKUNK”
Lumpkin, Ga., May It.—Lumpkin
citizens were greatly disturbed to
night over the possibility that a “fire
i maniac” was on the rampage in that
city, following the third mysterious
fire there in four days. All three
houses caught from Hie inside and
gave evidence of having been set
afire by some prowler.
Saturday evening at 8 o’clock a
house belonging to Mayor J. M.
Hobbs caught fire and burned. The
building was empty and was stored
with amterials with which Mr. Hobbs
was preparing to repair it. He had
postponed insuring it until the re
pairs were made.
The other two buildings—a storage
barn of A. P. Fort, and the home of
-Mrs. Fred Singer—were burned or
damaged by fire Thursday night.
Neither was insured.
Augusta — Joe Bolgla, Augusta
second-hand shoe dealer, was fined
$5 for dontempt of court and severe
ly reprimanded by Presiding Judge
Gordon W. Chambers after calling
State Wildlife Ranger Ed Friend a
skunk in Richmond city court Thurs
day.
Bolgla, charged with 'lis son. Ben
Bolgla, with buying furs without a
license, was on the witness stand at
the time of his costly outburst. Fol
lowing questioning he was asked if
he had any question he wanted to
ask the ranger.
“Yes,” he replied, “I have a few
questions I‘d like to ask the skunk.”
Judge Chambers immediately
stopped proceedings and reprimand
ed the defendant for his action and
warned that “use of abusive langu
age against gentlemen will net be
tolerated in this court.”
At the bottom of the card Mr.
Price added a post script;
Send a drink in the next one.
No. 1
. row
Page 1
that ho is such a man, and his record
both in public and private life testi
fies that he keeps his pledges. Thus
it would seem that the grave stake
every clear-thinking citizen lm s in
the solution of the present emer
gency should make the active launch
ing of Mr. Howell's candidacy an
event of highest importance.
No. 2
From
Page 1
available to any person throughout
the county.
lhe public is invited to visit each
of these projects during next week
and see what tile government is do
ing for the county.
One of the initial attractions foi
Achievement Week will be the din
ner given next Monday evening by
lhe P. T. A. at the local WPA lunch
room. The public is cordially invited
to attend. Tickets will be 25c each
and are on sale at the Welfare Of
fice. Please get your tickets not
later than Friday—tomorrow-
order that the P. T. A. may know
how many guests to prepare for. In
connection with the dinner, an in
teresting program is being prepared
for the entertainment of the guests.
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 JW
1939, and recorded in Deed
page 597, Clerk's Office. Ta,
perior Court, will be sold be
Court House door of Taylor
in Butler, Georgia
Tuesday in .111 nb, same being
1949, the herein described 1
tlie property of Alex S®
Ralph Searcy, between t*
hours of sale to the highest
bidder for cash, the folio*
scribed property, to-wit:
All those tract 0 or pare™
situated, lying and beinf
County of Taylor and Stale
gia, situated, lying and M
Fifteenth Band District
county and being sixty-t
acres, more or less, oil tlie
east corner of lot No. 1*0
(8) acres oil' the south-"'™
of lot No. 179, containing«(
gregate seventy (70) acre*!
less.
Also, two hundred M®
(228) acres, more or less,
the Old W. J. Wilson r
composed of the following
wit; Eighty (80), aires, m®
off the East side of lot My
tog numbers one and t
division survey of said
(50) acres of land 111 ‘ ■
west corner of lot of 181 ,
also the West one-hal «
179, except two acres oil v
east corner of said lot.
The indebtedness i 1 "' 1 ' 1 -.,
dersigned is represented ■
of promissory notes
$1,990.99 principal plus',,'
January 25, 1939. Deft®,
been made in the pnynie
debtedness secured by •“
secure debt, the
therein contained has h
ative.
Proceeds from the
applied as directed ' .
secure debt proper deeo
unco will be made to ' .
or purchasers at said
vided in the deed to C, ‘ L ,
This the 8th day V-
J Fort
CHAS. C. STONE,
His Attomey-at-1-*"’
sal* j
, said