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THE HIIT1.BR HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1942._
NEWS SUMMARY OF
IKE WEEK IN GEORGIA
to
W. D. Parrish, 61, well known
Adel business man, died Sunday.
Edwin Burnell, 94, native of
England, died Sunday at his home
in Crawford county.
Rev. W. K. Dennis, superannuat
ed member of the South Georgia
Conference, died Sunday at Miami,
Fla.
Tire thieves, growing in number
and frequency of their acts, nabbed
three automobiles at Cordele Sun
day night.
The board of trustees of the Ogle
thorpe consolidated school has re
elected O. H. Hixon, superintend
ent for another year.
Gov. Talmadge will be guest
speaker at the father and son ban
quet of the Tifton chapter of the
FFA tomorrow night.
After a session of only three
days the Talbot superior court ad
journed Wednesday afternoon of
last week until March 30th.
J. S. Croxton, president of the
Citizens National bank and of the
Montezuma Klwanls club, is at a
Montezuma hospital suffering from
pneumonia.
The McDuffie County grand jury
has recommended that WPA pro
jects at Thomson be discontinued.
The jury also criticized "laxity” in
pardoning powers.
-James Ward, 23, of Columbus,'
died at a hospital Sunday night,|45
minutes after he was injured in an
automobile accident on the Seale
road in Phenix City.
Wm. T. Turner, chief engineer
and steward at the Fulton County
jail for 20 years, died Sunday from
a pistol wound in the heart while
Cnroute to a hospital.
A. B. Pope, executive vice presi
dent of the Atlantic company and
a director of the National Associa
tion of Ice Industries died in At
lanta Monday. He was 44.
Lt. Com. L. H. Chappell, of Co
lumbus, brother of Mrs. Herbert
Birdsey, of Macon, has been award
ed the Navy cross for “specially
meritorious” conduct in action.
Mrs. Eula T. Meyer, widow of
Confederate veteran T. A. M. Meyer
died at her home at Richland Sun
day. She was 93 years old. Her late
husband was one of Richland's
founders.
Judge Geo. C. Palmer, Solicitor
General Hubert Calhoun and R. O.
Perkins, court reporter, will go to
Cusseta Monday for the semi-an-
anual ferm of Chattahoochee su
perior court.
Don Johnson, connected with the
Thomas ton Bleachery,. of Thomas-
ton, before being called to active
dutywith Army Quartermaster
Corps, has been promoted from first
leutenant to captain.
Members of the Cordele BPO
Elks organization, with prominent
nationaland state lodge leaders
Tuesday afternoon dedicated their
new Lodge Home at Cordele with
colorful and impressive ceremo
nies.
J. M. Neese, Columbus youth,
charged with murder in connection
with the slaying recently of a fel
low prisoner in the penitentiary
was sentenced to life in prison in
Coffee superior court in Douglas
Monday.
Second Lieut. Wm. R. Wright, of
Highland Park, 111.,was found dead
in his quarters at Ft. Benning Sat
urday, the fort public relations of
fices reported with a wound caused
by a 45 calibre service pistol in his
left temple.
Norman E. Elsas, of the Fulton
Bag and Cotton Mills, will serve as
president of Associated Industries
ofGeorgia for 1942, Nominations
Chairman Stuart Broeman said
Tuesday ip disclosing results of the
election, conducted by mail.
The annual state convention of
the Daughters of the American
Bevolution, will be held in Macon
March 23-25. Mrs. Wm. H. Pouch,
president ge neral of the organiza
tion, and several other national of
ficers are expected to attend.
Anxious parents and grandpar
ents Monday awaited news of 14
year-old Doris Fiendly who disap
peared in Atlanta Saturday after
she left home to look for work be
cause she was “tired of living in
Aragon,” a small mill town.
W. C. Edwards, 84, prominent
Toccoa citizen and former legisla
tor, died Thursday afternoon fol
lowing a short illness. He was one
of Toccoa's most influential mer
chants for many years, later be
coming a furniture manufacturer.
The beaten and bound body of
Mrs. P. W. Williams a pretty 22-
year-old Atlanta married lady,
mlssingfrom her home for nearly
four months was found yesterday
in a small metal trunk in the
Basement of an Atlanta residence.
Georgians had sent Uncle Sam
$6,380,104 as his share of their
earnings by the • close of banking
Hours Monday—and Internal Reve
nue Collector Marlon H. Allen es
timated’ Tuesday's mail would
bring three to four million dollars
more.
Sixty-eight textile mills in four
southeastern states, including 11
Georgia mills, will participate in
the production of 36,000,000 yards
of cloth for Army uniforms, it was
announced Tuesday by Col. C. R.
Alftmte, Fourth Corps Area quar
termaster.
May 27th has been set by the
Atlanta City Council as the date
■set fOp-a special election to fill the
uneXpired term of former Mayor
Roy LeCraw, who resigned to ac
cept active service as a major in
the Army Chemical Warfare De
partment.
Miss May Michael, for 13 years
secretary to the presidents of the
South Georgia Teachers' College at
Statesboro, was fired Monday by
A. M. Gates, who had been presi
dent of the emasculated institution
since the ousting of Dr. Marvin
Pittman by the Board of Regents
last year.
Lt. L. G. Hill Jr., 23, of Daniel
Field, Augusta, parachuted to safe
ty Sunday night when the plane he
was piloting crashed and burned in
Little river swamp 10 miles from
Milledgevdlle. The young officer
said he was forced to bail out of
the ship when caught in a violent
wind and rainstorm.
Georgia's "teacher problem" is
bad and getting worse—and you
can take Assistant State School
Superintendent J. I. Allman's word
for it. The shortage of teachers, at
tracted to other positions by high
er pay and better opportunities, or
lost to draft, will be even greater
than anticipated, he said.
Thousands of WPA workers in
Georgia are being transferred to
war services to bolster the state's
war efforts, says State Adminis
trator H. E. Harmon Jr. Construc
tion projects which will serve the
armed forces will be concentrated
upon, but, because of their nature
they will receive no publicity, he
added.
R. J. Lewis, clerk ofthe courts,
had filed suit in Colquitt superior
court Tuesday against Colquitt
county board of roads and revenues
to recover $1,200 which he alleged
Was paid “under duress” on the
basis of a “false report of auditors
to the commissioners” after a check
of the fine, and forfeiture records
in the derk's court.
Rumors have been circulating
for some time now in Georgia and
Washington political circles to the
effeetthat Lawrence Camp, U. S
District attorney in Atlanta, would
oppose his long-time ally, Senator
Richard Russell, in a race for the
senator's seat in the coming pri
mary. But now Mr. Camp comes
out and disavows intentions to be
come a candidate.
Approximately 10 per cent of the
NYA activities in Georgia will be
eliminated by an order, national in
scope, issued in Washington ban
ning any non-war programs. It
was estimated by Georgia NYA
Projects Director C. H. Parker that
90 percent of the existing effort of
125 units, employing 5,000 boys
and girls, was devoted to national
defense and would not be affected
by the order.
Ben T. Huiet, Georgia Commis
sioner of Labor, J. E. B. Stewart,
former head of the Georgia State
Unemployment Compensation Bu
reau, and Marion A. ..O’Connor, for
mer official of the Georgia Labor
Department, Monday were indicted
by the Federal grand jury in At
lanta on charges of violating Sec.
208 of the U. S. Criminal Code,
which covers political solicitations
and contributions by persons paid
from the Treasury of the United
States.
Charges of hit-and-run driving
and driving while under the in
fluence of intoxicants face Mack
Lattimore, Macon negro whom of
ficers say confessed he drove the
car that struck Rev. and Mrs. C. E.
Means Sunday night as they left
the Ingleside Methodist church at
Macon. Mr. Means is being treated
at the Macon hospital for a frac
tured right leg, fractured collar,
bone, concussion, and bruises and
lacerations. Mrs. Means suffered a
fractured pelvis and bruises and
lacerations.
Ft. Oglethorpe Soldiers
Plead Guilty In Fatal
Shooting Of FBI Agent
Bristol, Va.—"Guilty" was the
sullen plea of James Edward Tes-
terman, 22, of Cllnchburg, Va„ and
Chas. Lovett, 21, of Philadelphia,
Pa., when they were arraigned be
fore a U. S. Commissioner in Bristol
Saturday on charges of shooting to
death. II. J. Tracy Jr., an agent for
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Friday at Abingdon, Va.
Testerman and Lovett were
brought before U. S. Commissioner
Thomas Crabtree at a brief hearing
and were bound without bond to
the united district court grand jury
which will convene at Abingdon on
April 13.
The two privates who the FBI
reported, bashed a guard over the
head at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., seized
(pistols and ammunition and latei
: kidnaped a Tennessee taxlcao
[driver, were transferred to jail at
| Lynchburg, Va.
I Seriously wounded in the clash
(with Testerman and Lovett was
Charles Tignor, another FBI agent.
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Cordele, March 13—Cordele's mu
nicipal airport, originally a $200,-
000 project, will be more than
doubled in size. Present runways
will be lengthened and additional
runways constructed, according to
unofficial advice just received by
City Manager G. B. Wilkes.
It is expected that the field will
be used as a primary training
school which will call for the erec
tion of hangars and barracks.Work
on the project has been slowed up
because of the wet weather but is
now under way again.
JURIST WANTS SOLONS
ON FIRING LINE
Wrightsville, March 17Sugges-
tions that “just compensation to a
majority of the members of both
houses of congress would be $21 a
month,” and that such congressmen
be required to serve immediately in
the front ranks of the Army were
contained in a charge to the John
son county grand jury Thursday.
Congress is paid to look out iof
the nation, Judge Camp said, and
yet it “sat silently by for 10 years
and watched a savage nation pre
pare to attack us. Our own Rep
resentative Vinson is a healthy ex
ception to most of this body,"Judge
Camp said.
FEDERAL FUNDS BAN
rfOLDS UP HIGHWAY
280 TO RICHLAND
Richland, March 15—Although
federal authorities have issued or
ders holding up federal aid to all
newly contemplated paving pro
jects in the state highway that‘ate
not In connection with defense oii£
lets and highways, thus holding up
the completion of route 280 froth
Americus to Richland, all of which
will soon be completed with the
exception of one mile between the
Webster county line and the city of
Richland.
New efforts are being put forth
showing that this one mile is es
sential to defense programs and
asking the federal authorities to
aid the state in completing at
least this one mile of paving into
Richland.
CCC FORCES LEAVE
FIVE GEORGIA CAMPS
Atlanta, Ga.—Five Georgia CCC
camps were no more Saturday as
the corps streamlined its activities
and abandoned, disbanded or reor
ganized everything not connected
with the war effort.
Camps abandoned were at Suches
Soperton, Lafayette, Marietta and
Gainesville. Their enrollees were
transferred for work in building
military roads, parachute landing
fields and other defensive activi
ties.
C. A. Coffin, State Welfare De
partment CCC director, said that 5U
enrollees have been retained at
the Gainesville camp to operate a
central repair shop there.
He said the changes were in ac
cordance with a national plan to
completely change over to war
work.
TWO ATLANTIANS SEEK
MAYOR LeCRAW'S POST
Atlanta.—D. L. Johnson, presi
dent of the Georgia Federation of
Labor, and City Councilman J. A.
White said Saturday they would be
candidates to succeed former May
or Roy LeCraw, who has reported
for active duty with chemical war
fare service of the Army.
City council will meet Sunday to
set a date for a special mayoralty
election. Until then city affairs will
be directed by Mayor Pro-Tern Geo.
Lyle.
LeCraw's term, of which he had
served 14 months, ended Friday
when his resignation was accepted
by council. However, he worked
Friday to complete pressing busi
ness. For the last day's service, Le
Craw was paid $21 by Mayor Pro
Tern Lyle, who wrote a personal
cheek for the regular per diem
wage.
xt 1 From
NO.l Page
the influence of his life and work
in the community without a brief
study of his home and family.Mrs.
Joiner, a civic leader herself, grand
in all her attitudes, stately in her
appearance, is the mother of his
three fine children. Jimmy, the
older son, brilliant in high school
and in in college, now a senior at
Emory University, has already
passed the Georgia bar examina
tion. The daughter, Eugenia, win
ner of many prizes, including a
$600.00 scholarship, is now a stu
dent at Wesleyan College in Ma
con. Thomas, the younger sop, is in
the local school making good. So,
in being busy with others, he has
not neglected to maintain high
standards in his own home.
His home is situated on a spaci
ous lawn near Reynolds. It is sur
rounded by magnificent trees and
luxuriant growth of shrubbery nad
flowers. It has an air of the old
South. It overlooks a two hundred
acre southern farm where may be
heard the grunt of the swine, the
lowing of the cattle, the cackle of
laying hens, and the hum of mod
ern machinery. Here is displayed
the never-to-be-forgotten southern
hospitality, and from here he fra
ternizes with the various clubs and
lodges of Reynolds and nearby
cities, where people covet his pres
ence and personal charm and the
enrichment of his conversation.
No. 2
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Page l
forces, mainly the Navy and Ma
rine Corps as both of these branch
es of the service are still depend
ing upon the volunteer system
rather than the draft for their men.
That only the remaining 10 per
cent were being called from the
farms through the draft or Selec
tive Service System.
One result of this conference was
the definite conclusion by most of
those present that our most urgent
and immediate need is for an over
all Director or Administrator of all
manpower in the nation; someone
to bring order out of the present
chaos and someone to classify the
respective importance of different
types of employment. The produc
tion of adequate food and floUr to
feed and clothe our own armed
forces, our own people and millions
in other parts of the world is just
as important and necessary as the
production of implements of war.
However, there is some doubt that
the War Production Board has
ever fully appreciated that fact
and certainly no consideration is
being given to it by the contrac
tors and manufacturers who have
Government contracts. If they re
ceive a large contract and need
additional workers they go out and
take them wherever they find
them, regardless of the importance
of the work in which they are then
engaged and usually through the
inducement of increased wages.
While it may not fit entirely into
our democratic system ia does ap
pear that the critical national
emergency will require the estab
lishment of some man or some
board which can say that this man
is best adapted for this work or
that work and should not be dis
turbed. General Hershey feels that
the Selective Service System itself
is not adequate but, of course,
realizes as we all do that the plan
suggested will be difficult to en
force and will meet many objec
tions.
One immediate need is a change
in the policies of the U. S. Em
ployment offices. They do not ap
pear to understand or give propJj
consideration to the critical short
age of farm laborers. They are cer
tifying farm workers every day,-,
leaving the farmers without suffi
cient help to make a crop. One far
mer operating several plows wrote
me that every man on his place
had left to take work on the Well-
ston Air Depot Project and every
one of them had been certified by
a U. S. Employment Office as be
ing out of work. We are working
on this and hope the situation can
be corrected.
Now as to the other parts of the
Resolution.
I do not believe this war can be
won by merely working 40 hours a
week. Such an idea contributed
largely to the fall of France. We
had a bill before Congress two
weeks ago to modify this limita
tion in defense production but only
62 of us voted for it. However, the
President has the authority in
most cases to suspend those limita
tions and it is hoped that he will
soon see the imperative need of
doing so. This law was enacted at
a time when there were millions
of unemployed and It was for the
purpose of spreading employment.
That condition does not exist today
but on the contrary, we ar are fac
ed by a critical shortage of work
ers. I am satisfied that the over
whelming majority of wage earn
ers of this nation are ready, and
willing to work any reasonable
number of hours necessary to win
this war. To permit them to do so
would not only mean an enormous
contribution to national defense
but would result in considerable
savings to the government and the
taxpayers.
Neither can this war be won
through refusalto work by those
engaged in defense industry. I
recognize, the right of workers Jo
organize, to bargain collectively
and to improve thoir working con-
ditlons and standard of llvine, just
as I recognize the right of those
engaged in agriculture to organize
Improve their standard of living
and secure equality of treatment
However, I do not think that either
of these groups or any other group
or any other citizen of the United
States.should, in the hour of his
country's greatest peril, seek to
exercises these rights for unjusti
fied and selfish gain or should in
the slightest degree delay or im
pede the defense and protection ot
this country.If in the present emer
gency any should seek to do so
they should be regarded with the
same degree of disloyalty as would
be visited upon a member of our
armed forces should he fail to do
his duty. I canhot believe that so
cial security is' more important
than national security. I cannot
believe that a, labor union or a
farm union is more important than
the American union.
On December 3rd we passed in
the House a bill to eliminate
strikes and work stoppages in de
fense production. This bill pro
vides that any and all disputes
arising between labor and man
agement be settled without stop
page of work'and through the es
tablished machinery of arbitration
and meditation. No loyal American
worker can object or has objected
to the bill, altho a few organizers
whose patriotism is subject to se
rious doubt have denounced it.
However, I regret to report that for
over three months this bill has
been lying in the Senate and no
serious effort has been made ,to
call it up for consideration and
passage.
The WPA was created to provide
useful employment for those able
to work and unable to find work.
At the present time there is a job
for every man who wants to work
and I see no need for the continu
ance of that agency, a heavy bur
den on the U. S. Treasury, except
possibly in a very limited degree
to provide defense work for needy
women who have no means of sup
port and no source of employment.
We have other agencies to provide
for the aged and for those unable
to work.
The CCC was established to pro
vide useful work and training for
young men who had no employ
ment and no means of support.
With the farm labor situation as it
is and with the training schools
available for industrial workers,
there is little need for the contin
uance of this agency.
I would not favor the abolish
ment of the Welfare Department in
so far as it is helpful to the aged
and those physically unable to
work, but I certainly favor the dis
continuance of all benefits to those
who are able to work and refuse
to do so. The quicker that is done
the better it will be.
Unemployment Insurance was
intended to provide limited pay
ments to the worker which sick
(which should be continued) or
for the time between the period
when he loses his job and is able
to find another. Certainly this
service should maintain a con
stant check on the beneficiaries to
see that they are not using it in
this emergency in' order to prac
tice idleness when there is so much
work to do.
The resolution recites that it is
believed that the heads of some
of those agencies are encouraging
able-bodied men and women to
accept benefits so as to provide
excuses for the continuance of
such agency. If such a practice is
discovered it should be reported
immediately and I believe prompt
and appropriate action will be
taken.
It should be remembered that all
of these agencies are operated un
der funds appropriated by Congress
in the spring of 1941, a year ago
and for the fiscal year ending next
June 30th. The Congress now has
no control over those funds and
how they are expended is entirely
within the control of the President.
But we will soon consider appro
priations for these agencies for the
next fiscal year beg| nm ,
first and I can assure ,
many of them will eitherT
tlrely eliminated or their ap ,
will be severely modified
stricted.
General Hershey said that
the problems on the farm
with regard to labor has boo,,
to the insane patriotism of th<?
on the farm. That it app ca J
they were ready and ea :
serve their country and refui
ask for exemption or dpfe rm !
to file appeals. Yet they shou
told that when they work In
field they are having a g rca ,
and an important part i n thl
rying on of this war and
should not feel that merely bo,
they do not wear the uniform
are not contributing toward
defense of their country.
We are npw fighting f 0
very existence. This glorious
our lives and everything We
dear is at stake. The cost of
tory is going to be terrific, i n
in dollars, and in resources
cost of defeat would be a thoi
times worse. No true Aim
who understands the issue at s
will complain of any sacrifice
quired of him. Up here we are
ing everything in our p 0 w e ,
get ready for the offensive,
battle line is so long, the
sary men and material aii
great, and the enemy is so
prepared,-that it Is going to
time to assemble our full stri
power. Every hour we lose i
that much more cost, that
more lives. It is no time to
or talk of rights and privilei
the time is here for every man
do his duty.
We cannot win this war
business as usual, with plea
as usual, with comforts as i
with taxes as usual or with
as usual. We people at
should have but one aim and
purpose, that is to show
predation of the suffering
sacrifices now being experie
by our boys out on the far
battle line by not only being
ing, but wanting to and loo
for the opportunity to make
real sacrifices and undergo
real suffering ourselves in ord
send them the guns and tank!
planes and ships and re-enf
ments they need so bad!
work should be too hard an
hours should be too long for
who truly appreciates the blei
of American citizenship and
terrible price our boys must
to preserve it.
Sincerely yours,
Stephen Pace, M.
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