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THE BUTLER HERALD. BITTER GEORGIA, JUNE 13, 19>40.
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Corsicai Malta, Suez and Dji-
' ' , w erc displayed everywhere,
i'l"! \rowdc cheered Mussolini to a
" he delivered his momen-
frenzj> as Jlt
lous message. ... ,
Mussolini said: “Our decision has
,i communicated” to Britain and
yrnice and “we are going against
1h ' e decrepit democracies.”
“Now,” he « dded - “ we are ready
( face all the risks and sacrifices
war.” ... . .
The hour of destiny has armed
. r l)Ur fatherland,” Mussolini said.
We are going to war to break the
haina that tie us in the Medi
terranean.”
The premier spoke in a strained,
nwerful voice. About 80,000 persons
whv crowded into the Venice palace
H uare and side streets.
Salutes Hitler
laid Mussolini.
W'e salute the fuehrer of Ger
man.!. Facist Italy Is on her feet and
prepared to strike.”
The Allies, Mussolini insisted,
should not have rebuffed “the peace
offers of Hitler. But all this,” he
added, "is a fact of the past.”
Mussolini then shouted:
“W'e shall win and we shall give a
long period of peace and prosperity
to Italy and the world.
“People of Italy: To Arms!”
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this nation and at the same time we
■will harness and speed up the use i
j 0 f those resources in order that we |
ourselves in the Americas may have
equipment and training equal to the ]
[task of any emergency and every
defense. j
“All roads leading to the aecomp- ,
shment of these objectives must be j
cpt. clear of obstructions. We will
ot slow down or detour. Signs and
goals call for speed—full speed
head.” [
Mr. Roosevelt brushed aside the
ecrecy surrounding his communica-
ions with Premier Mussolini of ;
taly to relate how the government
ad tried to swerve Italy away from
>ar.
He said he had proposed that if
Italy would refrain from going to
jar, he would be willing to ask as- 1
uranees from “the other powers
mnetrned” that they would execute
faithfully any agreement made to
Effect readjustment desired by Italy.
“Unfortunately,” he asserted “the
ihief of the Italian government was
unwilling to accept the procedure
suggested."
The President said, too, that he
had expressed his administartion's
willingness to try to cooperate with
the Italian government when the
appropriate occasion arose from cre-
ution of "a more stable world order
through the reduction of armaments
and through the construction of a
more liberal international economic
system."
But the choosing to preserve what
it terms its “freedom of action” and
to fulfill what it states are its prom
ise to Germany, Mr. Roosevelt said
Italy had "manifesetd disregard for
the rights and security of other na
tions; for the lives of the peoples
those pations which are directly
treatened by the spread of the war
an had evidenced an unwillingness
to attempt to achieve its aspirations
by peaceful means.
"On the tenth day of June, 1040,
in this university founded by the
first great American teacher of de
mocracy,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “we
send forth our prayers and our
hopes to those beyond the seas who
are maintaining with magnileent val
or their battle for freedom.”
Discussing further his communica
tions with Mussolini, the president
said:
"1 made it clear that in the opin
ion of the government of the United
States any extension of the hostili
ties in the region of the Medi
terranean might result in a still
greater enlargement of the scene of
the conflict in the near east and
Africa, and that if this came to
pass no one could foretell how such
greater the extension of the war
might eventually IJeCiome."
“Once more the future of the na
tion and of the American people is
at stake, the President declared.
"We need not and we will not ip
any way, abandon our continuing ef
fort to make Democracy work with
in our own borders. We still insist
on the need for the vast improve
ments in our own social and econo
mic life.
“But that is a component part of
national defense itself. The program
unfolds swiftly and into it will fit
the responsibility and opportunity
for every man and woman to pre
serve our heritage in days of peril
. . . “the love of freedom is still
fierce and steady in the nation to
day.”
Mr. Rosevelt termed “an obvious
delusion” the belief that the United
States can “safely” be permitted to
become a lone island in a world dom-
Playing With Gun Ends
In Tragic Death of
Small Marshallville Boy
Marshallville—Tragedy ended the
game with the gun Thursday.
James Daniel Bryant, 5, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eildredge Bryant is dead
and his little cousin and playmate,
Josie Belle Brewer, 7, is broken
hearted. A shot fired accidentally
from the pistol in her hands ended
the hoy's life. The pistol had been
taken from a wall in the home by
the children.
“Let's get the gun and have some
fun," the little boy is said to have
remarked.
The little girl climbed onto a chair
and got the pistol, she said later.
They carried it to the porch and be
gan to play. Each thought it was a
toy pistol, unloaded.
Mrs. Bryant, standing a hundred
yards away heard a pistol shot. She
ran to the house, found her son mor-
* tully wounded but still on his feet.
He remained standing until he
slumped in his mother's arms. He
was dead.
The children were playing at the
home of the Beakley family.
From there the Bryant child was
taken to the Montezuma funeral
home. There members of the family
gave their version of the shooting
as they had pieced it together. They
said that there was no ill feeling be
tween the children. There was no in-
ouest.
inated by the philosophy of force.
“Such an inland,” he said “may
be the dream of those who still talk
and vote as isolationists. Such an is
land represents to me and to the
overwhelming majority of Ameri
cans today a helpless nightmare of a
people lodged in prison, handcuffed,
hungry, fed thru the bars from day
to day by the contemptous unpity-
ing masters of other continents . . .
“Let us not hesitate—all of us—to
proclaim certain truths. Overwhelm
ingly we, as a nation, and this ap
plies to all the other American na
tions, are convinced that military
and naval victory for the gods of
force and hate would endanger the
institutions of Democracy in the
westenr world—and that equally,
therefore, the whole of our sympa
thies lie with those nations which
are giving their lifeblood in combat
against those forces.”
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Reynolds, Georgia
John B. Wilson
Says U. S. Can
Keep Out of War
America Must Give Allies Every
thing They Need for War with
Exception of Soldiers.
Savannah, June 10.—John B. Wil
son, Georgia Secretary of State, said
today he believed the United States
could keep out of the European war
only by furnishing the Allies with
everything possible in equipment and
supplies.
“I believe the Allies are going to
win,” he said, “but the only way they
are going to win s for the United
States to give them everything pos
sible in the way of equipment and
supplies.”
Mr. Wilson is in the city making
final arrangements for the annua!
convention of the National Associa
tion of Secretaries of State, of which
he is president. In this connection he
had a conference with Mayor Thom
as Gamble. The convention opens
Wednesday.
A candidate for re-election this
year, Mr. Wilson said he hoped for
endorsement, of the people in an over
whelming manner, as was the case
in 1936.
That year Mr. Wilson, in a race
with Phil Cook, Atlanta attorney,
carried every county in the state.
“I was told by H. M. Stanley, sec
retary of the Georgia Press Associa
tion, that was the only time except
one other in the history of the state
a candidate with any opposition car
ried every county," Mr. Wilson said.
The only other time was when Mr.
Stanley was elected commissioner of
labor some years ago, Mr. Wilson
said.
Only opponent announced against
Wilson in this year's race is J. S.
Hall, Atlanta attorney, whom Mr.
Wilson defeated in 1932. In that year
Mr. Hall carried about 23 counties,
the secretary’ said.
J. P. Miller Named
Executive Editor of
Savannah Papers
Savannah, June 11.—Herschel V
Jenkins, president of the Savannah
Morning News and Evening Press
announced thefollowing appointments
effective Tuesday:
J. P. Miller, executive editor Sa
vannah Morning News and Savan
nah Evening Press.
John L, Sutlive, editor and man
aging editor of the Savannah Eve
ning Press.
J. J. Cook, city editor, Savannah
Evening Press.
Mr. Miller, who as executive edi
tor will have supervision over the
editorial department of the two
newspapers, was vice president and
managing editor of the Morning
News. He joined the organization in
January, 1904, as reporter, coming
from Nashville, Tenn. He has served
successively as assistant city editor
and managig editor of the Morning
News.
Jno. L. Sutlive succeeds his father
the late W. G. Sutlive, as editor and
managing editor of the Savannah
Evening Press. Mr. Sutlive has for
20 years been city editor of the pa
per, having been advanced to that
position from telegraph editor, which
position he filled following service
as a reporter.
Mr. Cook, who succeeds Mr. Sut
live as city editor, has been connect
ed with the paper for over 20 years.
He served as reporter and telegraph
editor and during the past several
years has been assistant city editor.
CIVILIAN PILOTS
TO HAVE PROGRAM
Americus—Col. Wallace B. Shef
field, area civilian chairman Tuesday
announced that state chairmen for
the civilian pilots training program
in the U. S. Army Fourth corps area
would be appointed next week.
Sheffield has just returned from a
Chicago conference with Col. Frank
Enox, national director of the pro-
gram, a cog in the national defense
setup .
He said he was being “swamped”
with nominations for civilian heads
for Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennes
see and Mississippi.
Soon after their appointment,
Sheffield said, the state chairmen
will be called for a conference in
Atlanta to discuss their duties. The
state heads will form an executive
board for the corps area.
State of Georgia Has
129,402 Persons Heady
For Defense Jobs
Atlanta, June 12—Georgia has
plenty of qualified workers to carry
out this state's part of the national
defense program, Labor Commission
er Ben Huiet said Tuesday, and
pointed out that there are more
than 65,0(10 skilled and semiskilled
craftsmen in the state who are act
ively seeking work.
Registrations at the 31 local of
fices of the public employment set
up show a total of 129,402 persons in
Georgia immediately available and
anxious for work. Mr. Huiet said
the 65,000 skilled and semiskilled
workers could be utilized in many
capacities for production of air
planes, tanks, munitions and other
war materials.
He said the skilled bracket em
braced 17,598 white men, 3,871 white
women, 3,377 negro men and 81 ne
gro women—a total of 24,931 per
sons. The skilled group included 7,-
■547 farmers, 2,138 carpenters, 1,436
painters, 943 mechanics, 478 brick-
layers, 359 machinists, 300 engineers
and 42 draftsmen.
The most obvious shortage is of
workers in the tool class, die mak
ers, draftsmen and airplane me
chanic classifications. Mr. Huiet said
however, such gaps could be filled
with trained workers in closely al
lied trades.
He illustrated by saying that al
though there are only 20 airplane
mechanics registered for work, there
are 732 automobile mechanics on the
lists, who could perform most kinds
of mechanical work.Draftsmen could
be made of well-qualified engineers.
In the semiskilled class there are
39,578 registered, of which 20,861 are
white men, 7,319 white women, 9,-
144 negro men and 2,254 negro wo
men. As to occupations they are
classified as: truck drivers, rough
carpeters, firemen, tractor operators
and fishermen.
Professional workers on the lists
number 3,464 and there are 6,398
clerical workers on the rolls. In the
latter group the classification is:
clerks 1,341; stenographers, 1,008;
bookkeepers, 583. Listed as profes
sional workers are 733 teachers 297
foremen, 121 hotel and restaurant
managers and 107 construction su
perintendents.
Common laborers were reported at
28,356, of which 24,594 were men
and 3,762 were women.
Classified according to their in
dustry, the workers listed in the em
ployment office figures are: agricul
ture, 24,397 men and 1,015 women;
mining, 9-11 men and 20 women; con
struction, 13,915 men and 109 women
manufacturing, 24,503 men and 14,-
911 women; transportation 3,815 men
and 217 women; trades, 11,172 men
and 4,945 women; bank, insurance
and real estate, 874 men and 260
women; service, 6,3.59 men and 8,-
28.5 women, and unclassified, 6,496
men and 7,068 women.
W. G. Sutlive,
Savannah Editor
Dies At Home
Widely Known Newspaperman
Expires Thursday Following
Long Illness.
Adjutant General
Of Georgia Outlines
State Defense Plan
Atlanta, June 10—Adjutant Gen
eral John E. Stoddard Saturday an
nounced a plan for home defense in
Georgia in case there should be a
declaration of war involving this na
tion.
The state would be divided into
six districts, he said, with a com
mander for each district appointed
by the governor.
Sub-commanders would be named
for each county.
District headquarters, Stoddard
said, would lie: first, 'Gainesville;
second, Atlanta; third, Augusta;
fourth, Macon; fifth, Albany; and
sixth, Savannah.
Purpose of the corps would be
three fold, the adjutant general said
to assist in the preservation of peace
and good order, for protection of vi
tal installations and public works;
and for the supervision of activities
of aliens within the state.
County commanders would be au
thorized to accept the voluntary ser
vices of white male citizens, in good
physical condition who are more
than 35 years of age, of excellent
character, and commonly recognized
as loyal and patriotic citizens in
their communoties.
Preference would be given to mem
bers of the American Legion or oth
er veterans' organizations, under
the plan.
Members of the corps would re
ceive identification cards and insig
nia, but would be without police
power, and without authority to car
ry firearms unless deputized by a
law enforcement agency.
Savannah, Ga., June 7—W. G. Sut-
live, editor of the Savannah Evening
Press, died at his home in Savannah
Thursday night after an illness of
several months.
Sutlive was bom in Eufaula, Ala-,
in the late 1800‘s. He began his ca
reer as a youthful printers devil on
the Clayton (Ala.) Courier and had
been in the newspaper and printing
business ever since.
Whe Pleasant A. Stovall, later U.
S. Minister to Switzerland, organiz-
ed the Savannah Press in 1891, Sut
live was the first person he hired.
Sutlive remained with the newspaper
until his death—49 years.
In 1937, he was praised by HaJ
Stanley, veteran secretary of the
Georgia Press Association, ns "the
most outstanding- editor in the
southeast.” The occasion was pre
sentation t.o Sutlive of a pin as an
emblem of 60 years service in Geor
gia journalism.
Three of his five children followed
him in the newspaper business. They
are Jno. L. Sutlive, assistant man
aging editor and city editor of the
Evening Press; W. K. Sutlive, own
er and publisher of the Hlackshear
Times; and Carey R. Sutlive, former
ly telegraph editor of the Brunswick:
Times, now secretary of Rep. Ben
Gibbs of the Eighth Georgia district.
The other children are Chas. M.
Sutlive and Mis s Josephine Sutlive.
New Type of Plane
Motor is Ready For
Market Inventor Says
Americus.—An internal combustion
engine, which its inventor claims
would revolutionize the transporta
tion business, and which would make
it possible to fly a plane from here
to Europe and back without refuel
ing, is now ready for the market,
after 10 years' work by a former
Americus city engineer.
W. R. Walker, graduate of Geor
gia Tech, former city engineer, and
no wretired, claims that his ma
chine has been tested successfully
and that it changes from the old ac
cepted principles of this class of
motor in the following respects:
1. Seventy-five per cent reduction
per horsepower in weight.
2. Fifty per cent cheaper in con
struction.
3. Seventy-five per cent increase
in efficiency in consumption of fueL
4. Burns crude oil, kerosene, gaso
line, or any other motor fuel.
5. Explosion with every revolution,
of the shaft.
6. No crank shafts, but a straight-
through shaft, and other features of
superiority.
An expert mechanic has said that
an engine the size of a double fist on
this model could propel an automo
bile.
Mr. Walker has submitted the de
vice to both the United States ami
Canadian governments, he says.
Public attention was called to the
Walker invention Wednesday by his
friend F. W. Edwardy, following fil
ing a $10,000 damaye suit recently
by a group of Atlanta capitalists in
terested in a somewhat similar in
vention. Mr. Edwardy urged the cap
italists, now wrangling over a law
suit, to come to America and see
and invest in a machine that he
claims is a 100 per cent improvement
over the device in which they are in
terested.
YOUNG GEORGIANS
ENLIST IN ARMY
Atlanta, June 11.—A group of 6t
young Georgians were sworn into
the U .S. Army Tuesday, the larg
est since the Atlanta recruiting of
fice was established.
“Georgia's response to the army's
call for men has been very gratify
ing,” said Col. D. D. Tompkins, re
cruiting officer for Georgia and
Florida. He added that in recent
weeks his office had averaged about
30 enlistments a day.
War department orders have au
thorized him to enlist an unlimited
quota for infantry duty in the Pana
ma Canal department and to fill va
cancies in the 83rd Field A rtilleiTi
and thme 8th Infantry at Ft. Ben-
ning. i