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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 14, 1940.
HEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
The fourth annual state-wide meet
of the Georgia Association of Peach
Growers was held in Macon today.
J. W. Shanley, 77, was found beat
en to death and robbed in his small
grocery store near Edison Friday.
James K. Dobbs church editor of
The Atlanta Journal, died suddenly
Tuesday. He had been in poor health
for several years.
A fire believed to have been set by
incendiaries caused more than $1,00(1
damage to the Idle Hour Club in
Atlanta Sunday night.
Prof. S. C . Haddock, superintend
ent of Americus city schools will
take office as president of the Ameri
cus Kiwanis club Jan. 1,
W. J. Wood, pioneer Atlantian,
philanthropist and vice president of
Rhodes-Wood Furniture Co., died
Monday after an extended illness.
Miss Julia Bell Webster of Abbe
ville, was named Queen of the Forest
gnd represented Wilcox county at the
forest festival held in Waycross Tues
day.
Dr. P. L. Watson, 58, prominent
Georgia dentist, died at the D. D.
Smith clinic in Swainsboro Sunday
following a month's illness of a heart
ailment.
A $287,000 contra :t for construcl-
ing buildings for a large iccri.it re
ception center at Ft. McPherson was
won Thursday by the Smith-Pwe Co.
of Atlanta.
Funeral services were held in
Thomasville Monday for P. H. Ward
for 18 years county ag°nt >f mornas
county and a pioneer n pm. ling
better livestock.
Work was launched Monday on the
construction of a "ew concrete under
pass in Waycross it was announced
by L. M. Lifsey, president of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Warren Lott, of Blackshear, was
elected president of the 82nd division
association at the 25th semi-annual
reunion of the veteran's organization
at Macon Sunday night.
Missing since Thursday LeviAdams
67-year-old Webster countian, was
found dead in a creek near his home
a few miles from Perston Sunday.
He had fallen in and drowned.
W. U. Daughtr>v Jr,, tax c^mmis-
Floner of Cooke county, cjjotl at his
i)_~ne Monday after a long ilness He
’•.}•! 81 yean old and a son of Sheric
V-. I. Daugh'.r ;v of Cook county.
Dr. Walter Cocking, dean of the
College of Education at the Universi
ty of Georgia has been elected a
member of the Athens planning board
to succeed C. D. Flangan who re
signed .
Ludwiek-Markovich, 10 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Markovich
of Millen was killed instantly Tues
day night when he was struck by an
automobile on the Scarboro road near
Millen.
Rev. J. A. Smith is beginning his
31st year as agent of the Methodist
home at Macon. He now has the
longest continuous service board in
oiphanage work n tiie entire Metho
dist church.
The past week has been one of leg
breakings in Richland and three
children are now' nursing broken
limbs account of accidents during the
week. All three of the children are
resting nicely.
Two small boys who early Tues
day wormed their way thru an eight
inch opening to become the first es
capes from the Bibb county jail al
Macon in 15 years, were still at lib
erty yesterday.
Georgia State Employment Service
found jobs in private industry for 6,-
590 persons during September, it
was revealed in a report issued Mon
day by Paul V. McNutt, federal se
curity administrator.
Captain and Mrs. H. C. Turner,
beloved citizens of Richland celebrat
ed their golden wedding anniversary
Tuesday. They have been citizens of
Richland since 1919, when they
moved there from Americus.
The Glennvike Junior Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor ho vs3 races at
the track of the Piney Woods Racing
Club Thanksgiving Day and the day
following, Nov. 21-22. Harness and
running races will be stage.!.
T. C. Cain, Chipley, Fla., post
master, was killed Sunday night
when he apparently stumbled and
fell under a train from which he was
about to receive mail. Cain, 59, had
.freen Chipley postmaster four years.
Sidney Lanier boulevard is now
the name of a drive skirting the
Marshes of Glynn in Brunswick. The
city commission passed an ordinance
recently naming the driveway which
circles the city and which previously
had no name.
Officials of the LeTourneau Co., of
Georgia said six-inch shells for the
U. S. Army would be leaving Toccoa
at the rate of eight carloads daily
when the plant is sufficiently en
larged to handle h $1,686,259 govern
ment contract.
D. C. Jones Jr., formerly of An eri*
cus and nov' of Atlana has had to
have his right eye removed A piece
of steel had been in his eye for nearly
”0 years, it wns said. Last month it
began to give him trouble and the
eye had to be removed.
J. C. Stiles announced purchase of
the Georgian at Athens from the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Co., of Greensboro, N. C., for a price
reportedly in excess of $200,000.
Stiles' brothers operate several ho
tels in the Southern states.
According to the Houston Home-
Journal, Perry, Ga., Mrs. J. H. Clark
of Elko has a most unusual mother
cat, a white Persian. In the summer
this white cat had five kittens two
solid black and three snow write in
the same litter. Believe it, or not.
Two outstanding speakers and a
luncheon program of elaborate pro
fessional entertainment are scheduled
for Georgia peach growers as they
gather in Macon today for the fourth
annual statewide meeting of the
Georgia Association of Peach Grow
ers.
The stork put it all over the grim
reaper in Macon county last month.
Ordinary S. F. Hogg stated that the
month of October saw 64 births for
the county to only seven deaths. Mr.
Hogg can recall no previous month
when the birth rate so far outran
the deaths.
G. O. Bailey, superintendent of Tif-
ton primary schools, said Thursday
that an 8 year old girl student at one
of the Tifton grammar schools had
been expelled because her parents re
fused to allow her to salute the
American flag or repeat the pledge
at' allegiance.
The 12th annual exhibition o' the
Association of Georgia Artists oper.s
in Athens Friday with a business
meeting in the morning, and a lunch
eon and evening reception following.
This will be the first exhibition in the
new Fine Arts Gallery of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
The desire of a debtor to “follow
Ihe principles of Jesus” caused W.T
Jenkins, retired Vidalia businessman
to receive payment for a $14.67 debt
recently that had been made 49 and
a half years ago. The honest debt-
payer, a Floridian, said the amount
only covered the principal.
Dr. James Shelly Thomas, head of
the Chrysler Institute of Engineering
was guest speaker of the Columbus
Executives club at its November
meeting last night. Dr. Thomas is
recognized throughout the country as
one of the nation's most capable eco
nomists and one of the most brill
iant speakers
Members of the Dublin tar and
other prominent citizens of Dublin
paid tribute to Judge J. 1.. Kent
Friday in a 50 .minute ceremony dur
big superior court in recognition of
bis 18 years' service as jurist of the
Dublin cireup, which he will com
plete with his retirement from the
bench Jar:. 3.
Letters addressed to Camp Wheeler
plague workers in the office of the or
ganized service in Macon. There isn't
any Camp Wheeler—that was the
last World War. But job hunters and
others send a daily consignment of
letters, wires, etc., to Camp Wheeler.
There will be an army canip in Ma-
on, but not yet.
Retirement of Miss Josephine Wil
kins as president of the Georgia
League of Women Voters a position
she has held since 1934, will become
effective at the close of the league's
17th convention which opened Tues
day in Atlanta. The league's nomi
nating committee has named Mrs.
Fred Scanliug as her successor.
A bill will be introduced during the
1941 session of the General Assembly
of Georgia to authorize t he county
commissioners of Muscogee county to
pay back salary to T. L. Bowden as
judge of the city court of Columbus
according to notice which has been
posted at the courthouse.Records show
that the amount of back salary
sought by Bowden is $2,089 for the
time he served as judge of the court
while his appointment was being
contested by Judge C. E. Britton
some two years ago following the
death of the late Judge G. Y. Tig-
ner.
Gov. E. D. Rivers charged Tues
day that a temporary restraining or
der obtained by an Atlanta contract
ing firm against the state highway
department was a “political lawsuit'
brought by the crowd of Governor-
Elect Eugene Talmadge. “When yoi)
look at the parties and lawyers in
volved” the governor said, “You can
tell it is a political lawsuit."
At Wilmington, Del., the Nehi
Corporation of Columbus, Ga., de
fendant in an injunction action
brought by the Coca-Cola Co. to pre
vent use of the word “Cola” in ad
vertising beverages, rested its case
Monday. Counsel for Nehi offered in
evidence 258 bottles of cola beve
rages of brands different from Coca
Cola and Royal Crown Cola.
The height in nervy pilfering was
reached by one of the petty gang
sters of Statesboro recently. As the
police chief sat in church attentively
listening to a sermon on “crime" the
culprit was making away with a dea
con's auto parked outside. This was
only one incident in a miniature
crime wave that has swept over
Statesboro. All on one Monday the
police department reported theft of
automobile accessories, spot lights
gasoline and other articles; a filling
station was burglarized; and a set
of veterinarian's instruments were
purloined.
FORT BENNING
SOLDIER KILLED
Millen, Ga., Nov. 11—Robert Pres
cott, 39, a member of Co. C, 8th In
fantry, Ft. Benning was killed a
quarter of a mile here Monday when
a ar in which he was riding crashed
headon into another automobile.
Trooper E. B. Deyo, of the state
highway patrol who investigated,
said Grady Jenkins 30, also a mem
ber of Co. C, suffered a brain con
cussion. Jenkins was riding in the
same car with Prescott.
F. D. R. WILL WELCOME
CO-OPERATION OF ALL
Washington, Nov. 9 — President
Roosevelt said today he would wel
come the co-operation of all citizens
during his third term.
In a telegram to Roger Babson,
Massachusetts statistician and candi
date for President on the Prohibition
Party ticket, Mr. Roosevelt said:
“My heartfelt thanks for your mes
sage of congratulation. I shall wel
come your cooperation and the co-
peration of all citizens in giving the
country those four great years' which
you mention. Best wishes for your
continued health and happiness.”
ABANDONED BABY
DIES, STILL UNKNOWN
Macon, Nov. 12—A tiny baby girl
found in an abandoned automobile
at Macon Christmas eve night, died
yesterday in a local hospital her
identity still unknown.
The blanket clad infant, apparently
only a few’ days old, was found by
two startled South Georgia men as
they returned to their car, parked on
Broadway.
The infant was given temporary
shelter at the Macon hospital but
soon afterwards it was discovered
that she had brain hernia. Later it
was found that she suffered from
water on the brain.
J. V. KENNEDY
BECOMES AGENT
Macon, Nov. 9—After 22 years oi
service here, J. V. Kennedy yester
day became Macon depot agent for
the Railway Express Co., succeeding
H. M. Austin, who has been trans
ferred to Columbus.
Mr. Kennedy is the first man ever
to be elevated from the ranks of local
employers to the depot agent's post
When previous vacancies occurred,
outsiders were brought in.
The new agent began as a truck
driver and for the past 15 years has
worked the midnight to 8 a. m. shift
at the office. He was promoted from
the position of money clerk.
PULASKI YOUTH
SHOOTS SELF
Hawkinsville, Ga., Nov. 10—Ru
dolph Hill, 20 year old son of Sheriff
Jim Hill of Pulaski county was in
serious condition at the Taylor Me
morial hospital tonight from a self
inflicted pistol wound, the sheriff re
ported.
The youth was despnodent over his
health, the sheriff said, and shot him
self as he rode in a car with friends
ten miles from Cochran on the Ma
con highway. The bullet lodged in
the lungs.
The young man was employed by
the Princes theatre. He had been
suffering from a heart ailment his
father said.
Senator Walter George
Seen As Successor To
The Late Key Pittman
Washington.—Soft-spoken Senator
Walter F George of Georgia, long-
SATILLA POWER TO SERVE
3,000 MOKE FAMILIES
Douglas, Ga., Nov. 10—When the
additional 165 miles of rural electric
lines tre energized soon 3,0900 farm
families of Coffee and adjoining
counties will have been serviced thru
the Sat’lla Rural Electrification Co-
time friendTn'd confidant "of Seer* j -operative .At present here are 2,-
tarv of Stae Hull, is expected to take BOO farm famil.es in he area using
over the chairmanship of the power electricity thru this project and now
ful senate foreign relations commit- that $122,000 more has been a local-
tee, left vacant by the death of ed the work » expected to be
Senator Key Pittman (D-Nev.). speeded up
George, who was renominated and
re-clectcd to the senate in 1938 de
spite the expressed hope of President THREE STATES
Roosevelt that he would be defeated
stands second in line among the
Democrats on the 23-member com
mittee.
Sen. Pat Harrison (D-Miss.) out
ranks him in service and by senate
TORNADO HITS
por-
and
(By United Press)
Tornadic winds have swept
tions of Mississippi, Tennessee
Louisiana.
Due to disrupted communications
custom could have the chairmanship \ authorities are unable to obtain a
if he wanted it. But to accept it dear picture of the extent of the
Harirson would have to give up his j damage. But it is reported that 15
leadership of the equally important j persons have been injured and scores
finance committee—a step the Mis- 1 0 f homes damaged at Greenville,
sissippi senator's friends said he was Miss.
not likely to take. No senator may | All communication lines to Cockett
hold two comfittee chairmanships. Mills, Tenn., are down. The village
L. Harrison decided to make the j reportedly has felt the force of a
change, then George would be in line tornado. And a driving wind, ac-
for chairmanship of the finance com- companied by torrential rains has
mittee when Senator King (D-L’tah) torn down electric lines and dam-
who outranks him but was defeated
this year, leaves the senate in Jan
uary.
George would not comment on his
possible elevation to the foreign re
lations post other than tosay that he
would be happy to serve under Sen.
Harrison on the foreign relations
emmittee as I have been bappy to
aged homes at Monroe, La.
SULLIVAN APPEALS
FOR SAFER DRIVING
Atlanta—Appealing for more cau
lious driving during the hazardous ;
months of November and December, ,
Safety Commissioner Lon Sullivan |
serve under him on the finance com- j Baid Saturday 145 persons likely I
m lHee. > would be killed in Georgia traffic ac- |
Although the 1938 incident placed , cjjJents in the two-monh period un-
a strain on relations between George | ess specia | care was taken. I
and the president, the senator has j ..j appeal to pedestrians to walk '
supported the administrations gen- facing traffic," he said, “because 139 j
eral foreign policies and has served
as one of the chief legislative con
tacts for Secretary Hull.
After President Roosevelt announc
ed the transfer of 50 American de
stroyers to Great Britain in ex
change for leases on naval base sites
George told the senate that he thought
such important matters should be
submitted to the senate for its in
formation and consideration either
before the action was taken or im
mediately after.
WRECK AT AMERICUS
FATAL FOR ATLANTAN
Americus, Nov. 8—Edward Rogers
Bradford, 42, property supervisor in
the Atlanta office of the NYA was
killed in an automobile accident near
Americus.
He suffered a crushed skull and a
broken leg when his car overturned
after a tire blowout, state patrolmen
reported. Bradford a native of
Brownsville, Tenn., joined the NYA
staff a few months ago.
walkers have been killed this year;
that drivers slow down at night be
cause 230 individuals have lost theii
lives in night accidents and that driv
ers exercise more caution on holidays
and week-ends because 239 persons
have met death on Sautrday and
Sunday this year.
BET MULE HAD HARD
TIME AFTER THIS
Columbus—Officers credited a bay
mule with leading them t o the own
er of a liquor still about five miles
west of Thomaston.
A federal officer T. U. Cone and
State Agents J.J. Moore, D. H. John
son, C.W. Cook and F. G. Spivey ex
plained they raided a still and ar
rested three negroes.
The bay mule stood by hitched to
a sled. The trio declined to name
the owner of the still.
‘‘Giddap mule,” said the raiders
and followed the plodding animal.
When the owner came out to meet
the mule at the barn gate, the
raiders were right behind.
BIG BUCK DEER
LOSES COMBAT
TO AUTOMOBILE
Savannah.—The possibility of hit
ting a cow on Georgia highways at
night is a danger that keeps all mo
torists alert, but Monday night Dr.
J. K. Quattlbaum encountered a new
hazard in an eight-point buck.
Returning to Savannah from a
professional call on a patient near
Springfield Dr. Quattlebaum said all
of a sudden a big buck plunged from
the bushes into tkhe path of his car.
“I was driving 40 or 50 miles an
hour,” the doctor said, “when the
buck leaped into the road. He charg
ed at an angle and crashed Ijead-on
into the front of the car. It all hap
pened in about two seconds.
Narrowly escaping being over
turned, Dr. Quattlebaum stopped his
car. It was not damaged but the buck
had suffered a broken neck and
broken front leg. Dressed he weighed
175 pounds.
While dragging the buck out of
the road, Dr. Quattlebaum said, an
other car came along and sideswiped
him, breaking off part ofthe antlers
UPSON SLAYING
SUSPECT FREED
Thomaston, Nov. 11—Wm. Bill j
Voyers, 22-ycar-old ex-soldier, who
was charged with the hammer slay- •
ing of Mrs. Lou Griffin Sept. 17 at j
her home at Delray, was acquitted j
at 8 p. in. todav.
r I
The jury returned a verdict of not
guilty after three hours' deliberation j
Tiie trial lasted about seven hours
during which time 26 witnesses tes-
titled. Only circumstantial evidence
was presented.
Voyers was arrested Sept. 21 on
order of a coroner's jury and was the
only person held in connection with ,
the slaying. Mrs. Griffin, 72, was 1
found dead in her home in the small
community near here.
SHOT OFFICER ~~
IS IMPROVING
Macon, Ga., Nov. 12—Police Offic
er Albert J. Millirons, wounded Sat
urday in a gun battle with a su
spected negro whiskey runner, was
reported improving at the Macon
hospital yesterday. His condition was
listed as good.
Officer D. W. Wheaton, who suf
fered only minor wounds in the
same exchange of gunfire did not re
quire hospital treatment. He is ex
ited to return to duty shortly.
Hubert Lavender, 40-year-old
Pleasant Hill negro, is being held in
the liibb county jail on two charges
"I assault with intent to murdei
growing out of the shooting of the
two policeman, Lavender suffered a
minor flesh wound in his left side.
I WO SAVANNAH WOMEN
KILLED MONDAY WHEN
'•’HEIR CAR OVERTURNED
Savannah, Nov. 11—Two women
mother and daughter, were killed in
stantly and four other persons, in
cluding a nine-month-old infant, were
■rijured in a wreck Monday afternoon
w ™ nt , y Patrolmen S. C. Scott and
w. M. Sheppard said Mrs. W. F Way
and her daughter, Mrs. W. Edwards
both of Savannah, died when the au
tomobile in which they were pas
sengers left the highway, hit a stump
.md overturned.
Harold Butler, listed by police as
he driver of the car was brought to
£S r h< r tal hHre * a critical
her f °\ ' H ' A> LaVender a ” d
Cent •■ ]'% n" n treated Rt tho
behevp , hoSpital the latter
bel.evedt 0 be seriously hurt.
Telfair^ hospital W “" admitted to f
;>»«>... s:u h uv:;
car drived h W6 n Pafisengers in the
„ d ven by Butler, police said All
ra«le in Savannah.
E. Lhrens; Talbotton^p! ,
Talbot circuit, J. V " k<
Waver]y Hall, W. I),
land, I. C. Walker. “
District missionary B£u 1
Lytle Jones; president If
College, S. C. Oliff. f
Macon District
Silas Johnson, district
tendent; liiibb circuit j j)
Albert D. Hall, assistant 8Uri J
ron circuit, J. c. M. Ward cj
and Mission, A. W. Quilij’ ,1
circuit Gordon King, su , 1
Valley, L. E. Willi ams; gl
cuit, C. E. Smith; ,rwintonj
Infinger; Liberty, R \y ^,
fersonville, J. F. Wilson. "
Macon: Centemiary, c. A j|
Jr.; Cherokee Heights F J| I
Cross Keys, W L. AndersJ
Macon, S. L. King; First str J
Lambert, lngleside, c. R 1
Morrison Memorial, V. jj, Cu J
Mulberry street, George 1
Second street, F . R, Hicks' vj
S. T. Senter; City mission,
supplied.
Perry, Roy Gardner; P- r J
Crowell, J. D. Smith; Robert,!
Bishop; Sandersville, J. r, gj
Tennille, W. R. Smith; Wash-
county circuit, T. A. Mosley”]!
missionary secretary, W. L. J
son; secretary town and county!
D. G. Mann. 1
Executive secretary boardl
Christian education, General
Griffin; secretary of proraoti|
board of missions and church e.
sion, W. F. Quillian; executive!
tary general board of mission!
church extension, T. D. Eilis’ 1
of Methodist home, J. A. Smith]
fessor in Wesleyan College,
Rosser; professor in Wesleya
lege, 1. E. McKellar; missionarl
Korea, E. W. Anderson; missil
to Japan, W. C. Huckabee; miJ
ary to Japan, J. B. Cobb; pro
in Candler School of Technolop
C. Flyod .
Americus District
John S. Sharp, district
tendent, Abbeville, First cj
Mack Anthony; Lee Street,
Rountree; Americus circuit, L.I
Shippey; Bronwood and Smitq
E. . A. Martin; Bronwood and
W. E. Hightower; Cliauncey,
Sampley; Ellaville, R. J Bond.
Eastman, J. F. Jackson; Haw!
ville, J. A. Davis; Helena, E.|
Dowdy; Jacksonville, D. A.
Leslie, J. I. Summerferd;
City, W. J. Erwin; McRae, W.l
Burford; Montezuma, B. A. Pal
Oglethorpe, S. A. Dulith; Pinehj
C. L. Wall; Pineview L. B. M|
cliael; Plains, C. L. Glenn;
James Fiser, supply; Rebecca,
Johnson; Rochelle, Linwood Jol
supply, Unadilla, Theo Parr; Via
J. M. Yarbroaugh; Warwick, H|
Marx; district missionary seen
B. A. Pafford.
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