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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER GEORGIA, JUNE 6, 1940.
PAGE THREE
I Third Hist. R-1* C.
l)H e t at Warm Springs
I In Annual Session
pine Mountain Valley, Ga., May
, Jhe annual convention of the
lrhir.1 District Rural Letter Car-
association and Ladies Auxil-
1 r ‘ y wa , held Tuesday in the recre-
iary
Pine Mountain
Hnnal building of
v Community. G. A. Wilson oi
Valley
I Hamilton P r
esided.
r V Long of Cataula was elect-
,,1 president for the new year and
^ ther officers chosen were J. L. An-
,,, vs of Eastman, vice president; R
|M* Turner of Rupert secretary-
Insurer, and G. A. Wilson as dele-
t0 the State and national con-
vention-
phe convention was addressed by
t;eo. C. Palmer of the Chatta-
I lichee circuit and other high-
I ,phts of the program were:
' Invocation, Rev. B. M. Ketehersid
ll'inc Mountani Valley.
Welcome address, W. T. Bennett,
I project manager, Pine Mountain
1\alley.
Welcome address on behalf of pos-
Ll employes of Harris county, N.J
[Thompson, postmaster, Hamilton.
Tap dancing, pupils of Ruth Chap-
Mear, Pine Mountain Valley.
Welcome address on behalf oi
liural carriers of Harris, Muscogee,
Chattahoochee, Stewart and Marion
|c(junties, R. A. Long, Cataula.
Welcome address on behalf of La
ities Auxiliary for the above coun-
|:,(s, Mrs. J. E. Storey, Shiloh.
Reading, Earline Baldwin, Pine
[Mountain Valley.
Response to address of welome—
1'or the Carriers—W. R. Wood, Daw-
on.
Response to address of welcome—
or ladies Auxiliary—Mrs. W. R.
[Wood Dawson.
Tap dance, Ruth Chappelear and
[Marjorie Treadwell.
Short talk, Ben Vig, Columbus
.edger-Enquirer papers.
Columbus Negro Is
Held After Admitting
Assault On Henning Child
Columbus, June 1—Charged with
attempting to assault a 12-year-old
gill at ht, Benning early Tuesday
John Taylor, negro, was given a pre
liminary hearing- before U. S. Com
missioner N A. Brown Friday and
ordered held for action of the federal
grand jury under a bond of $10,000
Witnesses testified a negro choked
the girl whie she was sleeping with
her mother and also choked Miss
Olive Thetford, who was sleeping in
the same bed. The negro entered a
guilty plea.
The child said that she was awak
ened by someone in her room and
felt a man's hands on her throat.
Miss Thetford testified she was
awakened by the scream and that
some one grabbed her by i.ne throat
and choked her.
The child's mother stated that as
soon as she awakened that she a ' most 5 ™P assable ’ He sat
picked up a pistol lying by the bed cmssed a ’ arga , cre * k by
an dthreatened to kill the man. She holdmg onto 1,nrbs a f d b ™ b ’ „
Unable to find the child, Mrs.
Gergais called the CCC workers
and a search was instituted, with C.
B. Alston, Dr. Hembric, F. C
Brooks, Lt. Jas. R. Cain, Charles
Woolbright, Lt. T. I. Dean and a
j crew of 46 men scouring the thick-
| et for the boy.
1 The all day and all night search
proved futile. About 10 o'clock the:
next morning, whilt the CCC work-
' ers were still searching in the large
wooded swamp lands, the boy came
out of the woods on the public high-
I LITTLE MARION COUNTY
BOY LOST IN SWAMP
ALL DAY AND NIGHT
Americus, June 3—‘Lost for a day
and night in the woods of Marion
county, a 5-year-old boy trudged out
of the bushes and onto the highway
five miles from home Friday, and
was picked up by a passing automo
bile and carried home.
The lad, William Gergais, had a
high fever and was suffering nu
merous bruises and scratches on his
feet and body after his experience in
the woods.
He had left his home in Marion
county, 15 miles northwest of
Buena Vista Thursday morning at
10 o'clock, to gather some wood for
his mother. Upon reaching the wood
pile, the boy filled a sack with wood
and then lay down and fell asleep.
He was awakened, he said by a
strange creature with horns.
Frightened, he ran into a thickly
woodeu” area, consisting of five miles
of woods and swamp land which was
He
said he ran from the room and she
followed him on the porch, firing
several shots in the direction he es
caped. She said her husband, a
sergeant, was on maneuvers at the
time of the attack.
MRS. BURLESON GOES
TO PRISON DESPITE
TAKING OF TABLETS
Allen Chappell In
Race For Public
Service Commission
LEDGER-ENQUIRER PAPERS
REPURCHASE BUILDING
Columbus, June 1—The Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer papers announce re
j-urchase o f the newspaper building
cere, from J. E. Page, who bought
Lhe property upon his retirement
from the newspaper business some
Lars ago. The R. W. Page Corpora
tion thus acquired the structure
erected as a memorial to the late R
RV. Page, who founded the afternoon
taper, the Ledger.
Columbia, S. C., June 3—Mrs.
Mary W. Burleson, 51-year-old di
vorcee under a 12-year prison sen- way five miles from home. A passing
tence for the slaying of her former motorist picked him up and brought
husband's second wife, swallowed him home.
three tablets she said contained
poison just before being transferred WOMEN PRISONERS
today from the county jail to the SOON TO BE MOVED
state penitentiary. 1 TO TATTNALL
Doctors who pumped out her
stomach reported, however, they j Milledgcville, Ga., June 4—Rentov-
found no trace of poison. Later she a! of inmates of the State Women's
was fingerprinted at the penitentiary Prison from Milledgeville to new
and then taken eight miles to the ! quarters in Tattnall county will be-
women's prison. Prison Superintend- j gin about July 15, Capt. J. E. Smith
ent John M. Glenn said the tall, | superintendent, said.
statelv former suffragette leader and
artist told him she took the tablets
before leaving the county jail.
At women's prison she began a
12-year sentence for manslaughter
A circuit court convicted her last
Tuesday of the slaying of Col. R. C.
Burleson's second wife, the former
M-s. Isabelle Reese Knowlton, wid
ow of a Boston lawyer, with a pis
te
S.
Capt. Smith said he had been in
formed that the new Women's build
ing, now under construction at Tatt
nall prison, will not be ready for
occupancy before July 1.
* According to an announcement is
sued recently by the state penal
boaixl, Capt. Smith will be trans
ferred to Tattnall in his present ca
pacity when the change is effected,
a hotel cafeteria here March j Mrs. Smith, who is matron also will
t bo transferred to the new quarters.
• *** . ' ' ^
THE PUBLIC NAMES
Men and products may vie for
leadership, but it is the public that
confers it. . . . And again in 1940,
for the pi,nth time in the last ten
years, people are buying more Chev-
rolets than any other make of car!
TAYLOR COUNTY MOTOR COMPANY
Reynolds, Georgia
Americus, Ga., June 1—Aller
Chappell, of Americus, member ol
the house of representatives from
Sumter county, today announced his
candidacy for the Georgia Public
Sen-ice commission iff the Septemvei
Democratic primary to succeed Jud
P. Wilhoit, whose term expires this
year.
Chappell, an outstanding figure in
state politics for many year3, has
served in the Georgia house and sen
ate for the last eight consecutive
years. He first was elected in 1932,
and since then has sen-ed on some
of the most important committee!
of both the upper and lower houses,
Outstanding among his legislative
work are education, agricultural and
highway. During the 1935 and 193fl
sessions of the general assembly,
Chappell was a member of the state
commission on economy and taxa
tion.
During the last session of the
fibu.se he was prominent on several
important committtees, including the
all imporatnt ways and means com
mittee, and was chairman of the
motor vehicles committee.
Around the Circle
Many Political Figures
To Speak at Griffin
Celebration June 17
By Eugene Anderson
Rev. Geo. B. Culpepper is con
cerned about the widow and widower
situation in Ft. Valley. He also
thinks about the bachelors, and con
cludes that the widowers and bache
lors are blind. “Apparently they
can see,” he says, “but they are
surely blind. They are handsome, in
telligent, of good character, but they
are blind. They are industrious, ef
ficient, proficient, in good circum
stances; but they are totally blind.
Havin'? eyes, they see not. Ft. Valley
has about three score—62 to be ex
act—white widows. Go where you
will; search where you may; investi
gate to your satisfaction, and no
more varied and various and versa
tile company of ladies can be found.
We have beautiful widows, beauti-
fuler and beautifulest widows; plump
widows and willowy widows; viva
cious widows, more vivacious and
most vivacious widows; sedate wid
ows and some not so sedate; but we
have no gay widows. We have wid
ows without impediments and wia-
ows with impediments; blond wid
ows and brunette widows; wealthy
widows, and some not so wealthy.In
fact, Ft. Valley has every variety
of widow known to moral man.
“And yet, with sixty more or
less attractive, attachable, attainable
approachable, approved and appre
ciative widows in Fort Valley, a
dozen blind widowers and bachelors,
daily walk our streets, each looking
for a lone turkey gobbler."
Then he suggests that the wid
owers and bachelors should cheer up.
All they have to do to get one of
these “charming ladies for your very
own is to outtalk her.” It‘s a hard
job he says, but it can be done.
“That's what Satan did when he
fooled Eve."
Griffin, June 1—Hugh Howell.
Abit Nix, Columbus Roberts and Eu
gene Talmadge have accepted in
vitation to speak at the opening ol
Griffin's centennial celebration on
June 17.
Gov. Rivers has been invited to
respond to the address of welcome,
which will be made by David Arnold
president of the Griffin and Spalding
county chamber of commerce.
Georgia's ten congressmen and
two senators have also been invited
to attend the centennial. The talks
start at 11 a. m.
Rehearsals for Wings of Time a
historical pageant, with a cast of 750
are being held daily. This pageant
will be repeated three nights al
Lightfoot park, Griffin high's ath
letic field. Seats for 4,500 persons
are being erected.
Maurie Flynt, Griffin businessman
has been selected to play the pari
of General L. L. Griffin, who found
ed Griffin 100 years ago. Dr. W. F
Melton, Georgia authority on Sidney
Lanier and his writings, will plaj
the past oT Lanier in the pageant.
Lanier once lived here and wroti
many of his works in Griffin.
Three spectaclar halls are sched
uled. The first on Monday night, fol
lowing the first performance oi
Wings of Time, will be a cotton ball
A young woman will be selectee
from among employes in the textile
industry and will be crowned Miss
Cotton queen at this event.
PARKER WITHDRAWS
AS COX’S OPPONENT
Honor Is Given
Columbus Citizen
Mr. J.W. Thomas
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Manager Rewarded as “Co®"
munity Builder.”
Moultrie, May 30—Rep. E. E. Cox
(D-Ga.), a persistent foe of the ad
ministration stood close to re-elec
tion without opposition after the
withdrawal of the only opponent an
nounced so far against him.
Jno. C. Parker, Moultrie attorney
wired today from an Atlanta hospital
that ill health was forcing his with
drawal from the contest for the sec
ond district democratic nomination.
This left Cox unopposed for renomi-
r.ation—the equivalent of election—
with the deadline for entries set for
Saturday.
Parker, speaker pro tern of the
Georgia house of representatives,
underwent an operation earlier this
week.
New York, May 31—J. W. Thorns*,
manager of the Sears Roebuck atone
in Columbus, Ga., has won a place
on the 1940 roll of honor of com
munity builders just compiled t® 1
Chain Store Age, the national bu*k-
ness magazine announced Friday.
The roll of honor is an annua] ci
tation of those chain store manager*
who perform outstanding service*
for their communities during the pre
ceding year. Thomas was on the
1939 roll of honor for his services ns
1938, and cited again this year for
his continued activity.
T. S. Sloan, president of the Co
lumbus chamber of commerce, nomi
nated Thomas for the award and *
host of endorsers followed.
Thomas won commendation from
the judges at Chain 'Store Age for
his leadership in many fields through
out 1939.
The Sears manager served a*
president of the Merchants Associa
tion, and as first vice president of
the chamber of commerce last year.
He was chairman of the chamber’s
merchants committee.
He was also chairman of the city
Safety Council, and vice chairman
of the Co-ordinating Council.
He was a member of the city
democratic executive committee and!
a director of the Kiwanjs club. He
was active as a director in the Boy
Scout, Y. M. C. A. programs. Thon
as was on the board of stewards o£
St. Luke Methodist church and a
sponsor of 4-H Club work.
Chain Store Age has forwarded a
scroll of honor parchment to Sloaa
for formal presentation to Thomas
in recognition of his services as a
community builder. ,
SPIVEY NOT TO RUN
FOR CONGRESS SEAT
GOVERNOR CLOSES
RECORDS TO U. S.
Atlanta—-Gov. E. D. Rivers barred
U. S. postal inspectors from access
to Georgia highway department rec
ords Friday, and told the investiga
tors he henceforth would require the
federal government to submit re
quests -for information in writing.
His action came as the newest de
velopment in a fedreal probe of road
material purchases, which Thursday
state government, today indicted Dr
Hiram W. Evans, Atlanta contractor
and former Ku Klux Klan, and Jno.
W. Greer, Jr., former state highway
brought indictments on mail fraud
and trade restrain conspiracy against
Dr. H. W. Evans, former KIKK wiz-
zard, and J. W. Greer, Jr., an ad
ministration legislative lieutenant.
Visitors from the Land of the Sky
Among the interesting guests al
the reunion of the Bazemroe family
in Butler Sunday, Aug. 13, were Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis M. Baldwin and their
>oung daughter from Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. Baldwin was Miss Veronica Per
kins of Thomaston, and she had at
tended school at the Georgia-Ala-
bama Business College in Macon. At
the reunion she registered as “Polly”
saying it was a nickname her school
mates gave her while she was in
Macon, and she likes it, Mr. Baldwin
is president of Skyline Motors Inc.,
and is agent for the Oldsmobile.
"Asheville is steadily growing in
popularity and in a business way,”
he says. “People are recognizing
more and more the value of the won
derful climate in that land of the
sky.”
STODDARD’S PAPER
OMITS 5th COLUMN
Washington, Ga., May 30—The
News Reporter, Washington’s week
ly newspaper, came out today with
only six of the seven columns on the
editorial page devoted to solid type.
In the space normally devoted to
the fifth column appeared in large
letters the statement:
“We will tolerate no fifth column
here.”
The paper is owned by Adjutant
LIVES OF THREE
SPARED BY RIVERS
Atlanta, May 30—Gov. E. D.
Rivers .today commuted to life im
prisonment the death sentences of
Roy Merritt, 'Griffin textile mill
worker.
Merritt, convicted of attacck was
the first person from Spalding coun
ty ever to be sentenced to die in the
electric chair.
Commutation of sentences was rec
ommended by the state prison and
parole board. Board members told
tlie chief executive their recommen
dation was based on “facts and cir
cumstances” developed at Merritt's
clemency hearing
Swainsboro, Ga., May 3'1—John B,
Spivey, president of the Georgia sen
ate, rumored as a possible candidate
for congress from the first district
said this afternoon that he wouMl
not be a candidate this year.
Spivey had also .been mentioned a*
a likely candidate for governor. Hi*
statement came on the eve of the
June 1 closnig date for candidates
for congress.
Twelve consecutive years in the
general assembly of the state, cul
minating in his presidency of the
slate senate have marked Spivey’a
political career. He said he was not
a candidate for any state office i*
the coming democratic primary.
AUTO FIRMS ASKED
TO BEGIN PRODUCING
AIRPLANE ENGINES
Washington, June 3.—Secret**®
Morgenthau said today that he had
asked five automobile manufacturers
begin or to expand production of
pirplane engines.
The treasury head said inaugura
tion of airplane engine production
was discussed with the Ford, Chrys
ler, Studebaker and Packard compa
nies, and expansion of existing air
plane engine facilities with Generai
Motors.
All five, Morgenthau faid, showed
great interest in the proposals and
have set their engineering staffs t<r
work to determine what, if anything
they can do.
GEORGIANS HONOR
DAVIS IN CAPITOL
Washington, June 4—The one huir-
together with nu- dred and thirty-second birthday cf
merous recommendations, which in- j President Jefferson Davis of thm
eluded a 2,500 name petition from Confederate states of America, was
Spalding county. : quietly celebrated under the domexfl
Rivers following the recommenda-1 the United States capitol Monday,
tion of the prison and parole board I Mrs. C. D. Tillman, of Quitman,
in two other cases, and commuted to j president of the United Daughters
life imprisonment the death sentence : of the Confederacy of Georgia, Tev-
of Eustace Davis, Douglas youth 1 erently placed a wreath at the ’bare
sentenced to electrocution for the I of the statue of the immortal Soo-
shot gun slaying of his stepmother [ themer, which stands in Statuary
i and Euris Hopkins given the death j Hall as the State of Mississippi's
sentence in Coffee county for the
knife killing of Calvin Hudson.
Representative Carl Vinson of
Georgia, chairman of the House
naval affairs committee, Monday
had termed preparedness as “the
surest guarantee of peace,” in a
General J. E. Stoddard and is edit- speech at the dedication of an $85,-
ed and managed by Chas. I. Rey- J OW building named in his honor at
nolds, Jr. the Georgia Military College.
contribution to the galaxy of nota
ble Americans.
After the ceremonies, Mrs. TiB-
man accompanied by her husband
continued to New York for a visit
to the World’s Fair. The Tillmans
motosed from Quitman to Columbia
S. C., where as Mr. Tillman smiling
ly says, he “quit chauffering” for tht
greater ease and comfort of a Pull
man car.