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THE HITLER HERALD, mm,HR, GEORGIA, MAY 23, 1940.
HEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGAI
Saturday night the Thomaston fire
department answered their first rail
unce April 17, breaking the city's
reconi of 32 fircless days.
Mrs. Pauline YVelser, Waycross
was elected grand chief of the
Pythian Sisters of Georgia at the
closing session of the 34th annual
session held at Macon last week.
Columbus Roberts, Georgia com
missioner of agriculture, announced
yesterday his appointment by Sec
retary Wallace as a collaborator for
the U. S. department of agriculture.
p. Ellis Griffin, prominent man- j
uaeturer, owenr and operator of the |
Muscogee Handle and Lumber Co.,
died Tuesday at a Columbus hos- ,
pital.
Funeral sendees for Thomas Wat
son, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hill
"Watson, of Ft. Valley who died at i
Ft. Myers, Fla., were held at Fort
Valley Sunday.
General improvement was reported
Tuesday in the condition of Chancel
lor S. V. Sanford of the State Uni
versity system, who has undergone a '
■evere illness in recent weeks.
Fire destroyed the Mclnvale home
a Dooly county landmark last week.
The house was believed to be well
over 100 years old. It was occupied
by Mr . and Mrs. Vaude Ingram.
Tire Greenville, Ga., hotel, which
has been closed for a year, has been
reopened under new management
with L. E. Portwood as proprietor. |
The interior has been renovated.
Postmaster R. G. Hudson says the
Blue Ridge post office took first ,
place for the United States bonds
sold by third-class post offices in the
state, and ranked seventh per capita.
C. Roy Morris, Jr., 32, an Atlanta
-bank teller, was in fair condition at
at a hospital Tuesday after killing
his wife and attempting suicide. His
wife, 28, died after being shot four
times.
Four Georgians met death in high
way accidents over the week-end,
one of them being fatally burned in
a flaming overturned car, a survey
.Monday by State Patrol officers
showed. »f|
H. Dixon Smith o.f Columbus, lead
er of the last Georgia general as
sembly, has qualified as a candidate
to succeed himself and announced
for president of the senate if he is
elected.
Tom I!. Richardson, supervisor of
a Farm Security Administration pro
ject at Lexington, Ga., was injured
totally Monday when his automobile
jjutd a milk truck collided near
Eatnuton.
The Georgia Supreme Court de- DUBLIN MAN S BODY
dined in a decision Friday to sane- TAKEN FROM RIVER
tion efforts of a contracting firm to | ...
enjoin use of the Swninsboro Metho
dist church pending settlement of the
contractor’s claim of $8,085 owed on
the building.
Da-
of a
here
Dublin—The body of Buford
ley, 26, was found snagged
trotline in the Oconee river
Saturday.
A coroner's jury reported he came
to hisdeath by drowning. He had
dispapeared Thursday while on a
fishing trip.
FELTON IS FIRST TO SHIP
PEACHES FROM 1910 CROP
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Honoring its World War air hero,
Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll
Hunter, and celebrating the comple
tion of its $750,(MX) airport, Savan
nah Monday dedicated Hunter Field
climaxing the observance of Aviation
Week in Savannah.
The Georgia Basket and Lumber
Company of Fort Valley, which has ) iag been made business manager of
Ft. Valley—The first 1940 poaches
—Mountain Rose—went northward
Tuesday from the Mossy Hill farm
of W. H. Felton of Macon.
The half bushel was shipped by
NOTICE
LEGAL SALR
Notice is hereby given, in accord
ance with the rules of the State
the A. .1. Evans Marketing Agency Democratic Executive Committee,
J. T. WEBB MADE NEWS,
TELEGRAPH BUSINESS MGR.
to New York.
The fruit bore good color and was
of normal size.
Mr. Felton said he expected to
ship 300 to 400 bushels of Mountain
Rose by the end of the week. Most
Macon, Ga.. May 20—J. Tom Webb | all varieties are late this year.
been in operation for 15 years has
been sold to George Wheaton of
Griffin. He is connected with the
Wheatons at Griffin who operate a
! similar business there.
A coroner's jury returned a ver
dict of accidental drowning in the
death of Buford Daley, 20, whose
body was found snagged to a trot
line in the Oconee river near Dublin
last week.
The 13th annual convention of the
Associated Master Barbers and Beau
ticians of Georgia convened at Ma
con Monday with approximately 100
members of the joint organization in
attendance.
J. F. Baggett, 05, supervisor of
track for the Central of Georgia's
Macon division, died at Eufaula,
Ala., Friday night. Funeral services
were held Sunday at Griffin his for
mer home.
John C. Parker, speaker pro tem
of the Georgia house of representa
tives and a native of Moultrie said
he planned to qualify for congress
man from the Second district, op
posing Represeentative E. E. Cox.
Four persons, including Bill But
ler foreman, of a wrecking crew on
a section of the P. L. Hay
building located at Macon, Ga.,
were injured Monday when it gave
way and pitched them into the base
ment.
President Roosevelt yesterday sent
to the senate for consideration,'
among a number of other nominees
affecting Georgia postmasterships,
the name of Mrs. Sadie W. Sutton
for reappointment as postmaster at
Shell man.
The sheriff’s office in Atlanta was
called by the sheriff of Sweetwater
County, Wyoming, Monday to aid in
the identification of a youth, found
dead near the railroad tracks west
of Rock Springs, Wyo., May 2. The
youth was described as about 23
years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in
height, weighed about 140 pounds,
medium complexion and light brown
hair. He was roughly dressed.
Macon's population grew 7.2 per
cent during tlie last 10 years ac
cording to a preliminary census re
port released Saturday by W. A.
Bums, district supervisor. The fig
ures for this year are 57,793, a gain
of 3,90-1 over the 1930 census
When the sheepskins are passed
out at Mercer University June3, an
Atlanta father and son will he in the
receiving line. They are Rev. Samuel
F. Lowe, 49-year-old pastor of the
Inman Park Baptist church, and his
21-.vear-old son, S. F. Lowe Jr.
Walter Moreland of Thomasville
heads the Young Men's Conference
of Georgia as president for the com
ing year. He was elected at the clos
ing session of the organization's
sixth annual conference at Moultrie.
Moreland succeeds Leon Phillips of
Atlanta.
Congressman B. Frank Whelchel
Saturday paid his entry fee and
qaulified for re-election to congress
in the September primary. He was
recently acquitted of charges of post
office graft. His candidacy has been
endorsed by the Ninth district demo
cratic executive committee.
Following an epidemic of burglari
es in Americus during the past few
days, a white man listed as Wilson
1 Ryals Jr., has been arrested on a
charge of attempting to burglarize
the home of an Americus resident.
Pending further developments, he is
l.eing held in the Sumter county
jail.
Thomaston peach growers an
nounced that this year's peach crop
would be about the same as last
year's in Upson county, in spite of
the fact that approximately 75 per
cent of the crops were killed by the
cold. They were killed by two cold
spells, one in January and one in
April.
The annual Rally Day of the home
demonstration and 4-H Clubs of Ma
con county will be held in the school
auditorium at Oglethorpe tomorrow.
Team demonstrations will fill the
morning and at the afternoon ses
sion a style show for the girls and
the home demonstration clubwomen
will be held.
the Macon Telegraph and Macon
Evening News.
Mr. Webb, who litis been in charge
of the circulation department, will
continue in this capacity with his
added duties as business manager.
CONVICTED SLAYER
PAYS WITH HIS LIFE
FORT VALLEY GROCER
SUFFERS LEG FRACTURE
Macon, May 1«—W. J. Braswell,
For tValley merchant and a Peach
county farmer and dairyman, was
admitted to Middle Georgia hospital
for treatment of a fracture of the
upper leg.
Mrs. Braswell said her husband
_ -j •„ n u r. , suffered the injury when scales fell
Retdsville—Robert Brown negro l ^ „ gcuffle ^ men
| convicted of the slaying of Keeling ^ n R disturbance outside the
that the time to qualify as a candi
date in the democratic primary elec
tion to he held on September 11,
1940, for nomination as Representa
tive in Congress for the 77th session
from the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia, will expire at 12
o'clock, noon, central standard time,
June 1, 1940.
Democratic Executive Committee
Third Congressional
Georgia.
By: W. H. Young, Jr., Chairman.
FOR LETTERS OF DISMISSION
GEORGIA—Taylor Countv
By virtue of the power 0 f „
tamed in a deed to secure ,i !
Alex Searcy and Ralph s!’
John L. Brown, dated
1930, and recorded in Deell nj
lingo 697, Clerk's Office t.H
perior Court, will be so u J
Court House door of t, 1v i
in Butler, Georgia 0 ri UJ
Tuesday in June, same beii,..
1940, the herein described fill
the property of Alex SnnSS
Ralph Searcy, between 'hi'
hours of sale to tile high^i
bidder for cash, the follLhia
scribed property, to-wit- “
All those tracts or parcflo
situated, lying and hej n “
County of Taylor and Stat/o?
, . j sna, situated, lying and hein.
District of | Fifteenth Land 8
Thompson, Jefferson county merchant . the ^ ^ inside chasinga
was electrocuted Saturday at Tatt
nail state prison.
Warden E. B. Henderson s.iid
Brown made no statemnt as he went
to his death in the electric chair.
COLUMBUS COUPLE
CLEARED OF CHARGE
negro employe and
ties.
throwing bot-
TRANSFER OF PRISON
TO TATTNALL SCORED
Columbus, May 18—Columbus po
lice have released Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Hutcherson, held since the slaying 1
of J. T. Lambert, 26, at the Hutcher- I
son home.
The police investigation was con-1
eluded after a coroner's jury return-1 p ‘ rolK)Sed site of the women's prison
Milledgeville—Transfer of the state
women's prison fromMilledgeville to
Tattnall county would be a serious
mistake, an employe of the institu
tion who declined to he identified
said Thursday.
Biggest difficulty, he said, would
he in keeping the men and women
apart. He said lie had heard, the
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Whereas Thelmon Jarrell, Admin
istrator of the ' estate of P. C.
Watson, deceased, represents to the
Court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully
administered the P. C. Watson es
tate. This is therefore to cite all
liersons concerned, kindred and credi
tors, to show cause, if any they can
why said Administrator should not
he discharged from his administra
tion, and receive Letters of Dismis
sion on the First Monday in June,
1940.
L. T. PEED, Ordinary.
. ... D ‘strict J
county and being -sixty-tw!I|
acres, more or less, „tr q,,. 1
east corner of lot No. igo
"• acres off the souUm V( ,,Jt
(8)
FOB DISMISSION FROM
GUARDIANSHIP
ed a verdict Mrs. Hutcherson shot
and killed Lambert in belief he was
a burglar, entering her home while
her husband was at work.
82N D’S VETERANS
LAUD DEFENSE PLAN
was within one mile of the men's
prison.
“Those buidings should he five
miles apart,” he added.
DEADLINE JULY 25
FOR SCHLEY ENTRIES
Macon, May 20—A resolution EUaville—July 15 has been set as
“heartily and unanimously” endors- the dead line for entering the legis-
ing President Roosevelt's defense ' lative race in Schley county, accord-
program went to the President to- ; ng to an announcement Friday by J.
day from veterans of the 82nd DiviR-
ino.
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Whereas, A. J. Cotney, Guardian
for Mrs. Lois Grace Parker has ap
plied to me for dishcarege from his
Guardianship of Mrs. Lois Grace
Parker, this is therefore to notify ail
persons concerned, to file their ob
jections, if any they have, on or be
fore the first Monday in June next,
else A. J. Cotney will be discharged
from his Guardianship as applied
for.
L. T. PEED, Ordinary.
of lot No. 179, containing j n ,
gregate seventy (70) acres J
less. ‘ ’ 14
Also, two hundred twentil
(228) acres, more or loss loll
the Old W. J. Wilson PiaJ
composed of the .following i.T
wit: Eighty (80), acres, more J
off the Bast side of lot \' CI J
ir.g numbers one and two I
division survey of said lot- J
(60) acres of land in the!
west corner of lot of land Xj
also the West one-half of |
179, except two acres off tin*
east comer of said lot. *
The indebtedness owing t 0 iL
dersigned is represented by J
of promissory notes am*
$1,000.00 principal plus intere.
January 25, 1939. Default
been made in the payment of
nebtedness secured by said j
secure debt, the power u
therein contained has becon:t|
ative.
Proceeds from the s
applied as directed in said I
secure debt proper deed of
ance will be made to the i
or purchasers at said sale i
vided in the deed to secure 4,
This the 8th dav of May J
JOHN L. iiiid]
Fort Valiev!
CHAS. C. STONE, ' 1
His Attomey-at-Law.
C. Rainey, chairman of the
i tive committee.
Copies of the resolution, adopted | The county executive committee
at the veteran's semi-annual meeting adopted the same deadline for enter-
Sunday, also were forwarded to > j n g a s the state committee. The
Georgia's senators, Walter F. George I present member of the legislature
and R. B. Russell.
GUERRY SUCCESSOR
CHOICE IS DELAYED
Atlanta—Gov. E. D. Rivers is not
expected to appoint a successor to
the late Judge John B. Guerry of the
court of appeals until later this week
attaches of his office said Monday.
Judge Guerry, a resident of Mon
tezuma, died of injuries received in
an automobile accident in Virginia
on Thursday.
The governor was
Monday for dedication
building.
from Schley county is J. 0. Smith, j
farmer and business nmn, residing
in EUaville. It is expected that Mr.
Smith will have opposition .
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liainbridge
f a public
Entrance fee for C. D. Rountree,
editor of the Wrightsville Head
light, Monday was rejected by the
16th senatorial district committee.
Rountree said he would qualify with
the Johnson county committee re
gardless of what is done in Treutlen
county, which is claiming the right
to name the senator this year.
Schley county's homecoming week
has !>een scheduled for July 28 to
August 3,acording to Charles Wal
August J.acording to Charles Wall
chairman of the home-coming asso
ciation J. E. Stewart will represent
the commissioners und M. J. Arling
ton the couneilmen in helping to
stage the event to be held at Ella-
ville.
J. D. Wooten, 36-year-old Albanian
committed suicide Monday morning
at his mother's residence, Coroner C.
W Thomas reported. Wooten, an hon
or graduate of Emory university and
the University of Georgia law school
shot himself in the right temple with
a pistol the coroner asserted, hav
ing been in poor health and in a de
spondent frame of mind for some
time.
Judge Joseph T. Grice of the At-
latie circuit of superior courts states
that he would t>e a candidate for
congress this year. His decision was
announced after several weeks of
consideration, and was made at the
lime in order that others who are
considering making the race may
know his intentions. Judge Grice
said he was flattered with offers of
support throughout the First dis
trict, and was led to believe he could
win the nomination. However, he
said, there have been protests
against his leaving the judgeship
which term runs through 19-11, and
he felt his first duty was to the cir
cuit which had been so loyal to him.
•1 AM AMERICAN”
DAY PROCLAIMED
Atlanta—Gov. E. IX Rivers
called upon Georgia to join in
Industrial Life Business of 50 Leading
Companies January 1, 1940
has j
ob-1
serving tomorrow as “1 Am An
American Day.’
The governor's proclamation cited
a congressional resolution of a few
weeks ago setting aside the third
Sunday in May each year as a time
to honor those citizens who have at
tained their majority in the past
year or who have ltecome naturaliz
ed in thatperiod.
GAINESVILLE OFFERS LAND
FOR PLANE MANUFACTURE
Gainesville, Ga., May 19 H.
Estes, president of the Chamber
Commerce, Saturday telegraphed I
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
War Woodring:
“We offer 500 acres of land suit
able for airplane manufacture, with
adequate railway, highway and oth
er facilities. Far from any other
country's border of the western
hemisphere and located in the foot
hills of the southern Appalachians,
we feel our location would be ideal.”
TWO MORE FATALITIES
AT ARMY MANEUVERS
Camp Beauregard, La., May 20—
1 lie 12th and 13th fatalities in con
nection with the army maneuvers in
this area were recorded with the
deaths of Privates Eugene Flauraud
and Andrew Kasarda.
Private Kasarda, of Tltroop, Pa.,
died of injuries received when a
car overturned Friday night. He was
a member of Bat. C, 36th Field Ar
tillery.
Private Flauraud. jf Battery G,
62nd Coast Artillery, Fort Totten, N.
Xdrowned Sunday while swimming
in the Red river.
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Prudential, N. J.
John Hancock, Mass.
Western & Southern, O.
American National, Tex.
National Life & Acci., Tenn. _.
Life Ins. Co. of Virginia
Monumental Life; Md.
Ixmdon Life, Canada
Life & Casualty, Tenn
Peoples Life, D. C.
Industrial L. & H., Ga,
Sun Life, Md.
Home Beneficial, Va.
Commonwealth Life, Ky.
Colonial Life, N. Y.
GULF LIFE, FLA.
Home Life, Pa.
Continental Life, D. C.
Liberty Life, S. C.
Washington Natl., 111.
Boston Mutual, Mass.
Knights Life, Pa.
Durham Life, N. C.
Pilot Life, N. C. ■
Interstate L. & A.. Tenn. . __
Carolina Life, S. C.
Supreme Liberty, 111.
Eureka-Md. Assur.
Texas Prudential
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Pennsylvania Mutual
Bankers H. & L., Ga._ ~
Kentucky Central
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Afro-American, Fla.
Imperial Life, N. C.
Reliable Life, Mo. I
Industrial Life
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Life in Force
Jan. 1, 1940
19.19
- $7,615,140,345
$—35,176,410
- 7,433,816,288
—207.670,561
- 1,683,930,012
—107,840
607,513,335
29,529,097
541,806,720
53,462,261
461,327,583
37,440,680
- 338,194,262
16,115,090
230,401,830
18,868,797
189,659,496
-7,880,668
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15,634,829
111,657,876
16,316,323
- 105,070,816
12,351,368
94,871,563
4,345,342
89,929,144
7,618,730
82,378,260
4,868,737
81,980,381
528,002
80,068,937
3,561,987
71,825,750
4,654,526
71,278,103
11,778,352
69,767,154
3,758,266
68,668,585
5,446,196
65,704,583
12,386,620
60,426,924
8,293,228
60,038,758
2,087,402
59,139,402
6,686,452
56,942,585
6,182,600
49,627,971
5,076,753
4,5,710,371
2,400,609
44,532,924
2,466,574
43,678,332
4,856,371
41,670,627
5,929,585
38,076,425
8,404 939
35,285,137
3,434,540
3i] ,595,978
3,773,353
31,299,608
827,062
30,500,616
2,436,747
29,990,704
1,564,917
27,291,901
4,099,718
37,112,69-1
375,178
26,922,336
3,698,753
25,356,129
214,125
22,848,252
1,062,901
22,405,492
1,670,580
21,959,297
1,924,259
21,859,323
1,684,494
21,384,752
1,2191 />29
21,863,846
1,106,466
20,478,998
2,883,483
20,299,322
793,883
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Oulf Life Insurance Co.