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MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGA!
Georgia now has about ten thous
and members of the schoolboy pa
trol.
1 An informal dance for the benefit
of the American Red Cross will bo
given at the Ellaville gymnasium,
Thursday, June 6 at 9 p. m., with
music by Jinx Jennings' ten-piece or
chestra. Admission is $1.00 pel
couple.
Miss Alice Applewhite of Macon
was awarded the class scholarship
More than 2,000,000 persons in f or highest standing in the sopho-
Georgia have been given library | more class at the commencement ex-
r.ervice since the inauguration of the treises at Uandolph-Macon Woman's
WPA library program in 1936. i College Tuesday. The scholarship
. .. . carries $300.
The Georgia State Association o1 |
Housing Officials was formed in Sa- , Three persons, one white woman
vannnh Saturday. Brown Nicholson . and two negroes, have been bound
pf Columbus was elected president. ! over to the next regular term of U.
! S. district court at Dublin within
G. Wilbur Sweat, 46, died of pneu-1 ^ ^ gevel . a , daySi Migs Jessie
monia at the home of his sister,Mrs. Ra]dwjn) L t s Commisioner, an
nounced Monday.
The date of the Fourth Annual
Ledger-Enquirer Soap Box Derby, to
be conducted by those newspapers
in cooperation with the Muscogee
Motor Co., Chevrolet dealers, has
T. M. Sineath, at Adel Sunday. He
was a prominent attorney at Way-
croes.
During the past few days the
bright leaf tobacco crop in Florida
and Georgia has been carefully sur
veyed and is reported to be in ex- , been get fgr tbfi afternoon of the last
cellent condition. j Thursdav in July.
Putnam county dairymen Monday ! John wnliam Y oung Jr., 24, son
sold 51 cull cattle for $1,096 in the j of Mj> and Mrs . j w . Young of
ftrst of a planned series of monthly , At)antBj was fatally in j ure d Satur-
sales under the direction of the 1 ut-, day n when the automobile he
nam county farm board. was driving plunged over an em-
A pennanent home for members of bankment at the Coosa River bridge
the Georgia highway patrol, station- ( near Sylacauga, Ala.
ed at Dublin, was one step nearer
realization Tuesday with a $600 cash
pledge by the City of Dublin.
GEORGIA CRUSHERS
HEADED BY TAYLOR
Savannah—E. G. Taylor of Moul
trie is the new president of the Cot
ton Seed Crushers' Association of
Georgia.
In line for the presidency next
year is U. F. Stewart of Savannah,
elected vice president Tuesday. J. R
Nunnally of Monroe is the retiring
president.
The board of director? will select
next year's convention city later.
NO TRACE OF YOUTH
MISSING IN SWAMP
GEORGIA, JUNE 6, 1910.
COLUMBUS MAY REJECT
STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE
NEWNAN HERALD AIDES
BUY PAPER FROM FORD
It is learned that 161 of the 169
counties of the state have taken
steps to qualify for library allot-
Thirty-five Georgia school teach- nients, showing that the state hoard
cr 8 will leave Atlanta Sunday on a ' of education has struck a popular
and the New! chord in its effort to establish or
trip to Washington
York World's Fair sponsored by the
Georgia Education Association.
Mavor C. L. Bowden of Macon an
nounced Tuesday night plans for a
$460,000 project for concrete run
ways at Herbert Smart airport has
been dispatched to WPA for action.
curred about 10 o'clock Sunday night
caused much excitement and turmoil
among the citizens over a wide
area.
build up school libraries.
Abbeville, Ga., June 4—No trace
of young Frank Lancaster of Fitz
gerald had been found Tuesday by
searching parties in the Ocmulgee
river swamp here.
The youth rented a boat Sunday
and failed to return. The boat was
found. Friends of Lancaster came to
Abbeville from Fitzgerald to help
with the search, fearing he may have
been lost in the thick swamp.
LEDGER-ENQUIRER PAPERS
REPURCHASE BUILDING
Columbus, June 1—The Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer papers announce re
purchase o f the newspaper building
here, from J. E. Page, who bought
the property upon his retirement
from the newspaper business some
years ago. The R. W. Page Corpora
tion thus acquired the structure
erected as a memorial to the late R
W. Page, who founded the afternoon
paper, the Ledger.
Columbus, Ga., June 2—The city
board of education has notified the
county board that unless satisfac
tory adjustment is made of an in
debtedness of over $16,000, county
high school students will bs denied
admission to the city high schools
next year.
The $16,000 is for tuition due the
:ily for county high school students
The debt was incurred over a year
ago when the state fell short in its
allotment of funds to operate the
county schools.
HENNING ROAD PAYING
BEING PUSHED BY PACE
Columbus, June 4—Chairman T. G
Reeves of the Muscogee county com
mission Monday received a telegram
from Congressman Steve Pace in re
ply to his letter urging federal co
operation in the movement to have
the second or lower road to Fort
Benning paved.
Congressman Pace advised that he
has taken the matter up with Dis
trict Highway Engineer Snead, sta
tioned at Montgomery, Ala., and will
push the effort for certification of
the road for federal aid.
BABSON SAYS U. S.
WILL GET INTO WAR
Newnan, Ga., June 2—H. G. Ford
owner of the Newman Herald the past
four years, yesterday announced sale
of the 74-year-old paper to V. D.
Armstrong and G. M. McNabb, its
advertising manager and news edi
tor, respectively.
Armstrong, a native of Oklahoma
served on newspapers in Atlanta,
Miami, Seattle, Tulsa and Konowa,
Okla., before coming here several
months ago. McNabb, a native of
South Carolina and for 14 years a
resident of Georgia, has been con
nected with the paper since 1937.
PARALYZED YOUTH EN 1)S
BRILLIANT COLLEGE ( akj
Athens, Ga., June 1 \ .
four year experiment bocarr,.'
velous reality to Bruce Wilde*
ston, when he received a c „||*
gree Friday evening along wi ?
other graduates of the Unhw
Georgia.
Stricken with a rare f oni)
cular paralysis seven
Wilder hardly lost
achievement,
o!
yean
his desir.
although denied
ability ever to walk
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
LEGAL SALE
again, te.
ward is a degree from
Grady school «of
then
An 8-year-old Atlanta hoy, lost
in the Chattahoochee National For I GEORGIA MAN QUITS
cst, near Woody's Gap, for more than ITALIAN FRONTIER
10 hours, was found unharmed Sat
urday night after an organized
search by more than 100 CCC boys
un dscores of north Georgia moun-
A heavy explosion at Columbus t taineers.
from an unidentified cause, which oc-1 A Fuhon county jury has awarded
$315,000 to a Florida woman. The
winner is Mrs. Idella Nisbet of Jack
sonville, who was given the sum af
ter suing the trustees of the Jesse
Parker Williams hospital. The sum
Jesse Hall, Atlanta
World War veteran,
lawyer
qualified
ano
f OJ I was the largest ever given by an
secretary of state. He and John B.
Wilson, the incumbent, are the only
ones announced thus far for the po
sition.
Funeral services were held in At
lanta yesterday for J. M. Mallory,
68, retired general industrial agent
of the Central of Georgia railroad,
who died at his home in Savannah
Tuesday.
Georgia's public rvenue from alco
holic beverages during 1939 totaled ]
$3,816,847. according to the annual
report of the Distilled Spirits Insti
tute, Inc., recently released in
Washington.
James Harold Waters, 18, who
received his diploma from States
boro High school Friday, died early
Monday of injuries received in an
an automobile accident near States
boro Sunday.
A man listed as Frank Jacobs is
being held in the jail at Nahunta in
connection with the death of Wesley
Harper at Hortense, Ga., Saturday
night, Brantley County Sheriff Earl
Raulerson said.
Renovation of the Richland Bap-
tist church was completed Saturday
and services held in it Sunday. Ad
ditional work in the Sunday school
annex will be completed in the next
week it is said.
With $2,700 already raised, more
than $200 above its goal in the cur
rent Red Cross drive, Athens was
said Tuesday' to stand at the top of
the list of Georgia cities completing
their campaign.
Georgia's national guard of 5,100
men is ready to move should an
emergency arse and the state mili
tary department has a recruiting
plan ready, Adjt. Gen. J. L. Stod
dard announced Tuesday 7 .
The body of a man who was run
over by a box car in Columbus Sat
urday, was identified Monday by rel
stives from Union Springs, Ala., as
being that of Dick Clark Ison, a res
ident of Union Springs.
The body of Awtry Bond, 31-year-
old naval officer, who was killed in
an automobile accident in Honolulu
May 22, will be taken to Macon for
interment, his aunt, Mrs. W. F. Hol-
le, of LaGrange, said Tuesday.
■Georgia Tech has received infor
mation from Washington that the
Guggenheim School of Aeronautics
at Tech is expected to train 45 young
men as art a tors during the summer
officials of the school revealed Tues
day.
Atlanta jury.
Representative Carl Vinson of
Georgia, chairman of the House
naval affairs committee, Monday
had termed preparedness as “the
surest guarantee of peace
speech at the dedication of an $85,-
(100 building named in his honor at
the Georgia Military College.
The 1940 census will show- Griffir
f. city of 13,1-52 persons, a prelimi
nary report showed Saturday. The
1930 census showed Griffin with 10-
'.’-21 population. The gain over a 10-
year period is approximately 30 pet
cent. The preliminary census count
for Spalding county showed 28,337
population. The 1930 census for the
county showed 23,495.
Menton, France.—All Americans
and other foreigners were removed
from this area Monday as French
civilians finished packing their pos-
ressions and began leaving homes
throughout this zone touching the
Italian frontier.
Kata Darrah of Atlanta, Ga., was
the last American to leave in a
caravan sent by U. S. Consul R. E.
Millard.
BANK IS ROBBED OF
MORE THAN $4,000
Acworth, Ga., May 29—Five sus
l.ects are being held in the Cobb
county jail after the holdup of the
Acworth Banking Co. A bandit held
up the cashier, forced him to open
the vault and safe and locked him
I n the vault before escaping. The
ioot was estimated at around $4,
000. The robber was described as be
ing dark-skinned. The five men held
were arrested in a Marietta restaur
ant shortly after the hold-up.
FARLEY PROMISES
OLD MAID STAMP
Deland, Fla., June 3.—Economist
Roger Babson predicted Monday that
(he United States would lie in the
current European war “24 hours af
ter the general election” in Novem
ber.
Babson, also prohibition presiden
tial nominee, told the graduating
class of J. B. Stetson University
that war materials, including planes
would be loaded “and ready to move
the moment the presidential election
is over, regardless of wdio is elect
ed.”
He said the United States might
possibly supply air pilots to the Al
lies, but he was confident of an ul
timate Allied victory over Germany.
GAINESVILLE INS (YU I IONS
RECEIVE $5,000 LEGACY
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Will be sold at the court house
door in said Taylor County on the
First Tuesday in July, 1940, the
same being the 2nd day of July, 1940
within the legal hours of sale to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
Fifty (50) acres of land, more or
less, in the south-west corner of lot
No. One in the 15th land district of
Taylor County, Georgia. Said land
levied upon and to be sold as the
proeprty of Mrs. L. W. Garrett's
heirs to satisfy tax fi fas for the
following vears: 1938, 1984, 1935,
1936, 1937, 1936 and 1939, in favor
of Mrs. Belle Garrett, transferree
Said property to be sold as the
property of of Mrs. L. W. Garrett,
defendant in fi fa.
Tenant in possession notified.
Property pointed out by plaintiff.
This the first dav of June. 1940.
J. M. RONE, Sheriff,
Taylor County, Georgia.
ELECTION TO BE HELD JUNE 29
FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES
journalism, (vi
of a physical and mental
over tremendous odds.
Seated in his wheel chair
has made an enviable college
because of his natural flare f w
ing, pleasing personality
namic will to do what
would be impossible.
He graduates at the normal i
21, a model student, never)
been scored for scholastic or»
ance deficiencies . Instead his
place him high in the class staa
aid
many j
SISTERS ARE HELD
IN KNIFE SLAYING
Millen—Sheriff Roy Johnson said
Monday night two sisters Cora Lee
and Willie Maude Vickery, were be
ing held in the Jenkins county jail
after the fatal stabbing of Rastus
Mixon Sunday night. The man was
slain with a pocket knife after he
slapped one of the sisters, the sher
iff said.
FORT VALLEY HAS
HAIL, WIND, RAIN
Ft. Valley.—Hail, wind and rain
came to Ft. Valley Monday after
noon, but a check soon afterwards
disclosed that the hail was confined
to the city section and peaches were
not hurt. Damage in Ft. Valley was
negligible.
Hard rain fell in some farm s
lions, where farmers said it
needed badly.
GEORGIA AVIATOR
AVOIDS CRACK-UP
Indianapolis, Ind., June 3—Chester
Kitchings of Atlanta, who left the
Municipal Airport at Indianapolis
Sunday with four passengers.in his
plane, returned and made a perfect
“dead stick" landing because a brok
en oil line threatened to set the ship
afire.
I. J. Dienhart, airport superintend
ent, told today of Kitchings' re
markable handling uf the plane. The
oil line broke about 25 miles.south
of here. A radio call to the airport
brought advice to the pilot to at
tempt a return to the field.
Preparaions were made for a crash
landing, hut Kitchings brought the
ship down safely. His passengers
were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith,
Harold Bishop and Edward Pyron,
all of Atlanta.
Asheville, N. C., May 30—Miss
Blanche Loftain, who helped enter
tain at a luncheon for Postmaster
General Jas. A. Farley, says he
promised a stamp honoring old
maids..
Miss Loftain said she mentioned
the issuance of postage stamps hon
oring many groups and individuals
and pointed out that none had been
issued for spinsters.
“There will be", Farley answered.
WERBEK SUMMONED
IN BIRD DOG CASE
Gainesville, Ga., June 3—A gift
of $5,000 by the late Felix Jackson,
former financier an 1 philanthropist
of this city, to “some civic or char
itable institution in the City of
Gainesville, has been announced by
Walton Jackson, local civic leader
and one of the heirs, lt was directed
his children make the sole’t'on, and
they have chosen to give $1,000 each
to the Gainesville High school li
brary, the Hall County Memorial
Library, the Brenau College Libri
and the First Presb.vterinn and C
tial Baptist churches. Walton Jack-
son, in making the announcement,
offered to contribute an additional
$1,000 to Brenau College's Library
in the event the institution would
raise $2,000, thus giving it a $4,000
endowment. It was stated that the
school was expected to accept the
offer.
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
There will be an election held in
all School Districts in the County on
Saturday, June 29. 1940, for the pur
pose of electing Trustees to fill all
vacancies on the local hoards of
trustees.
Said election will be held at the
same place and in the same manner
that other elections are held in the
various School Districts of the coun
ty. Only qualified voters wiil par
ticipate in said election.
Returns will be filed with the
County School Superintendent Mon
day. July 1. 1940, for consolidation
by the County Board in regular
meeting Tuesday, July 2, 1940.
Done by order of the County Board
of Education this June 4, 1940.
W. T. Rl'STIN, Superintendent,
Taylor County Schools.
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Macon, June 1—More than a dozen
well-known figures in national base
ball, including Bill Werber, the Cin
cinnati Reds’ third baseman, have
been subpoenaed by federal court
officials at Macon to appear in fed
eral court in Athens next week tc
testify for the government in a case
charging H. M. Ford of Lavonia.
with usnig the mails to defraud bird
dog fnaciers, it was announced by
the district attorney's office here
today.
FORT BKN'NTNG
TROOPS RETURN
Columbus, June 3—After an ab
sence of several weeks, Ft. Benning
troops which took part in the Third
Army maneuvers in Louisiana re
turned to the army post Saturday.
The troops returned by way of
Phenix City. Alabama state high
way patrolmen guided them through
that state and Muscogee county and
city police escorted them to the
fort. Military police lined the route
to keep the way clear as thousand?
of trucks transported the men and
equipment from the war games.
With the exception of two small
units, all of the troops that took
Part in the maneuvers havje return
ed. The troops traveled in four se
rials .
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All Parts of Country
ft-
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and Business Life of the Nation.
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