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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942.
NEWS SUMMARY OP
JHE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Will M. Booth, Lexington, Go.,
rural letter carrier since 1925, died
Sunday.
Seven typewriters are said to have
been stolen during the week end „ .. , _ _ „ • .
from the Condor Consolidated, Hunt *f r
school near Dublin.
The engagement ol Halllc Caro-
lyn McKenzie, Atlanta Construction
reporter-photographer to Lt. Donnell
E. Carter, former Atlanta Journal
farm editor, was announced in At
lanta. The couple are to be mar
ried Oct. 3 in New Jersey, where
Lt. Carter Is stationed ta Ft. Mon
mouth.
St. Luke Church At
Columbus, Destroyed By
Fire, To Be Rebuilt
Columbus, Sept. 21.—On next Sun-
Talbotton Correspondent, Congressional Convention
Columbus Ledger Recounts Eliminated As An Aid To
Survival Of Election Loss Conserve Gas And Tires
Talbotton, Ga., Sept. 16—A promi-
Americus, Sept. 22—Rep. Stephen
day, Sept. 27—precisely 20 weeks nent Talbot county farmer declared pace, of Americus, who was re-
Two Americus while men, Paul a * ter t * le Mother's Day fire which he would die If Talmadge were not nominated representative in Con-
— Igress from the Third District of
been
pot during the past week accord-[pounds
Ing to an announcement by public Bakery sometime
relations officials.
It's "work or fight" for every able
• bodied man in Griffin and Spalding Columbus Baptist Association will
county, for police officials of both be opened at t he First Baptist
departments have declared their in
tention of
rants.
Freshmen began assembling „ , „ . _ ,
the University of Georgia Monday wjSSH Marion, Harris, Taylor and
for a week of adjustment to cam- Talbot counties, in the Association.
Questions Answered About
When Next Democratic
Convention Will Be Held ~
Atlanta—Will, the State Demo
cratic convention at Macon on Oct.
7 be the last until 1946, or will
another be held In two years as
usual?
So far as could be learned Sat-
uday, no one seems to know or to
have given much thought to the
question. The problem arises be
cause the governor was nominated
In this year's primary for a four-
year term.
But, even though a governor will
■ ^ _ not be chosen again until 1946, a
church of Manchester at 10 o'clock to restore its educational building I need to embalm the body, but des- 'the* delgates^who"otherwise"would , u< s - Senator, representatives in
°f I personally attend the convention. • 00
w uiiu ^ ^ u reduced their lovely edifice to rub-' re-elected. u .„ .......
have been bound over to superior b,e T t *l? congregation of St. Luke! When the governor failed to con-;Georgia without opposition in the
.court on a felony warrant. The men 'Methodist church will launch a cede the election, he voiced the be- 'sept. 9 primary, plans to dispense
Twenty-nine new officers have j are charged with the alleged theft j campaign for ^ $-5,000 to build a ( lief that Gene yet would come
during Wednes
day night of -last week.
The 114th annual session of the
with the usual district congression-
assigned to Wellston Air De- of 100 pounds of sugar and 110[ gr ® at St. Luke's after the war. [through.
uring the past week accord-[pounds of lard from the Americus . pP cn ne , of 4he * >U '*S * und Then Tuesday morning newspa-
drive precedes by one week a re-1 pers announced that the election
sumption of services back on the had been conceded to Ellis Arnall.
old home grounds. I The farmer's daughter, a resident pace's nomination will be ratified
Although unable to secure priori-1 of Columbus, telephoned an under- by Executive Committee Chairman
ties to build a complete new church taker and informed him of the v\'m. H. Young, of Columbus, who
now, St. Luke's has been able to: death of her father. She saw no w jh hold and vote the proxies of
al convention at which the nominee
is officially nominated, according
to word received from Washington.
Instead of the usual convention,
rounding up all vag-1 this morning and continue through
| Friday. There are 39 churches In
at [ Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Merl-
pus surroundings, including
ries of lectures, questionnaires and
a bit of fraternity “rushing."
Gov. Talmadge Tuesday named
two other members to the Georgia
Board of Regents and re-appointed
Harry E. Elliott, 18, son of Mr.! two other members. The new mem-
and Mrs. I. F. Elliott of Atlanta, and , ber Is Wallace Miller of Macon. He
an aviation ratloman, third class, succeds Judge Joe Ben Jackson
in the navy, was killed in action 1 who resigned to run for renomlna-
August 7, the Navy Department tion. Those reappointed are L. W.
notified his parents Tuesday.
One child suffered scalp wounds
and the negro driver of a farm
Robert of Atlanta, and J. Marvin
Bell of Gainesville.
Funeral services were held at
tractor was seriously hurt when a Tallahassee, Fla., Tuesday for Sec-
Concord school bus and the tractor j ond Lt. Chas. W. Ferguson Jr., 22,
collided about seven miles north of a native of Americus who was
and to construct a temporary audi- ignated a suitable casket, one of I personally
torium, both of which will be ready .black. Sims Garrett, Pace's former secre-
by Oct. 4. The undertaker got out his best j tary now living in Columbus, who
Next Sunday, therfore, is a dual hearse and pulled up to the farm j S secretary of the district commit-
red-letter day. I home. Out walked the farmer with I tee> w j jj certify the result to the
It is the last day on which serv- j the inquiry, "What do you want?" secretary of state and the ordinaries
Ices will be held in the Bradley | “i came to get you," said the fu- | 0 f tbe several counties, thus to as-
theater, and the first day of the' neral director. “Your daughter said sure p ace « s name on the official
drive for $250,000, which will be you would be dead today for Gene
launched under the co-chairman-1 Talmadge was not re elected."
ship of W. P. Pike and J. B. Key,[
assisted by 200 men and women of!
the congregation.
Two weeks from today—on Oct.
4—the congregation will resume
worship in its temporary quarters,
with the 11-30 sermon by Pastor Joe
Cook, and the 8:30 sermon by Bish
op Arthur J. Moore. Sabbolh School
Plains early Monday morning.
Proceeds of the Atlanta scrap col
lection should amount to approxi-
killed Saturday when a twin-mo
tored Army plane in which he and
British Cadet Victor Holman, were
flying crashed seven miles north of
estimated Tuesday by conservation
officials of the War production
Board.
mately $17,850 for Civilian Defense M J adl b son Fla ., while on a rou tine
and kindred organizations, It was tHght f ^ m Moody Fleldi Va ldosta.
Twho prisoners who escaped from
Fulton Tower during visiting hours
. . . . ,. Sunday were still at large Tuesday
A decrease of 177 students in the chle£ j a u er pud Foster reported.
Columbus Public school system at ■ Th prisonerSi he said, pried open a
the end of the first week from the' u £ 00r wlth an lron slat G f a bed
number enrolled for the same period during the commotion cause d by
last year was revealed Monday by< gever £ hundred visitors. Four pris-
Dr. Paul Munro, superintendent of | oners were ln the cell, but two were
Bchools ' [caught before getting out the front
F. L. Jenkins, secretary • manager door,
of the Chattahoochee Valley ex-1 c c Milleri pr0 minent Richland
position says indications point to: mt . ichant and citizen has been
the largest number of exhibits in| n;ade the victim of another band
the history of the Columbus event oI - aut0 mobile thieves, it is said,
this year. The exposition will be Lart year| thieves s-.oie Miller's
held Oct. 12-17. car W hich was later found wrecked
Dr. R. L. Carter, 76. prominent j near Moultrie. This week another
Middle Georgia physician, died at attempt was made to E«t Ills other
his home at Peiry recently follow- car, but it being locked, the thieves
ing a short illness. Dr. Caiter had satisfied themselves by taking a
been a life long resident of Hous
ton county and had practiced medi
cine at Perry for 47 years.
Cotton ginned in Crisp county up
wheel and tire.
Lawrence S. Camp, former United
States attorney for the North Geor
gia district, declared today “the so
lo Aug. .16 was more than 2,000 lutjon to the so-called pardon rack-
bales short of last year. The report et * s not depriving the Governor
shews S97 bales ginned from the of the pardoning /power but in in-
1942 crop compared with 2,918 bales augurating a penal system which
ginned from the 1941 crop up to would correct the antisocial ten-
the same date last year. deicesnETAIU EAIONOTNET EA
dencies of the offenders and es-
Sumter county farmers sold 504 pecially youth offenders.”
hogs and 122 head of cattle for a, . _ _ . , ,
total of $12,735 at the sale held! Rev. Joseph B. Johnson, colored
at Americus last' week by Sumter minister who is founder and presi-
Livestock Association. No. 1 hogs dent of “The Aged Orphans indus-
brought 14c per pound; No 2‘s, 13.4c trial Homes of America, Inc. says
and other grades from 13 to 14.6o that he feels sure he would locate
I the institution in Sumter county,
Clifford Vance Williams, 20, is following a survey he has been
Wilcox county's first casualty of the, ma klng in that section. Rev. John-
war. His mother, Mrs. A. O. Daniels 1 son exhibited a long list of names
ot Cordele, has received a message o£ pro minent citizens of Americus
who have endorsed his project.
O. F. Shearer, veteran rural mail
carrier from the Alapha post office
died in the Ocilla hospital Satur
day as result of injuries he receiv
ed an hour earlier when a truck
driven Leon Sirmans and loaded
with pulpwood collided with the
mall carrier's car as he was cross
ing the highway to service a mail
box. The accident occurred at
Lucky Lake bridge across the
Automobile Seizure
By U. S. Government
Now Being Discussed
l , n „ „ „„ . vunr ; Washington,—A renewed demand — —
a4101 5 » .Ri 1 that President Roosevelt be given but and return."
bqllot, as Democratic nominee in
the November election.
"I am moved to this departure by
the stress of the war,” explained
Pace. "Through the use of proxies,
delegates of the several counties—
24 of them in fact—will consume
great quantities of rubber and sev
[congress, a commissioner of agri-
culture, a prison and parole com
missioner, judges, solicitors and
other officials will be elected in
1944.
Should the Democrats hold a
convention for the formality of
nominating candidates for these
offices? If they did, how would th?
delegates be selected? Under the
law the delegates from each county
are picked from among the friends
of the candidate for governor who
carried the county in the primary,
It has been suggested that the
party executive -.committee could
eral barrels of gasoline. They will perform the necessary functions of
be relieved of the necessity of mo- ( the convention in the off years be-
toring from their homes to Colum- [tween gubernatorial nominations,
Bhip at 7 p.
home."
m. also will be “at
GEORGIANS NOMINATED
AS BRIGADIER GENERAL/)
Washington, Sept. 21—Nomina
tions for pormotions of Airr.y offic
ers sent to the senate Monday by
Fiesident Roosevelt weie (with us
ual home address or birthplace of
the officer):
C.lonels to be brigadiu: generals:
Willie F. Heavy, born Ft. McPher
son Ga., and Miller G. White, Ma-
on, Ga. 2
MISS STEGEMAN NAMED
GRIFFIN SOCIETY EDITOR
| such as canvassing the results, cer-
congressional authority to take ov-1 The Third District is the largest, tifying the nominees and settling
er automobiles, and other transpor- in Georgia, geographically. Its 24 contests.
tation equipment for war purposes counties extend easterly from Co-1 The state executive committee, in
came Sunday from Senator Down '' *" “ 1 J ’ *
emphasized “the extreme necessity
of conserving rubber and all trans
portation equipment.”
Meanwhile Rubber Administrator
Wm M. Jeffere was generally ex
pected to announce this week the
initial phases of the program on
which he set to work immediately
upon his appointment, including
possibly some details of the pro
posed nationwide gasoline ration
ing.
Downey announced he would
press for immediate action by the
Griffin, Ga., Sept. 20—Miss Jo- Senate military committee, of which
anna Stegeman has been named ' he is a member, on a bill by Chair-
society editor of the Griffin Daily i man Reynolds (D.-N.C.) to auUio-
News and will assume her new du-1 rize an expenditure up to $5,000,-
ties Monday. She. succeeds Miss 000,000 to pay owners of automo-
Clara B. Hooks, former society edi-1 biles and other equipment the gov-
tor, who completed four years of eminent might acquire,
| lumbus, on the Chattahoochee, thru ' fact, already has canvassed the pri-
D. Calif.) He recalled that the I Dodge county to the western border mary results this year and certified
Baruch rubber committee's report of Telfair—halfway across the the party nominees to Secretary of
state at a broader point; and State John B. Wilson for inclusion
service last June.
Miss Stegeman has been a mem
ber of the Griffin High school fac
ultv for the past year. She is a commandering of automobile would
graduate of the University of Ge8r- " J J ““ "
gia, where she studied in the Hen
ry Grady School of Journalism.
from the Navy Department that he
is missing in action while on duty
with the Pacific fleet. He is an only
son.
The State Board of Regents yes
terday elected Dr. A. M. Gates as
president of South Georgia Teach
ers College at Statesboro. Dr. Gates
who has been acting president, suc
ceeding Dr. M. S. Pittman, ousted
by Gov. Talmadge more than a
year ago.
Governor-Nominee Ellis Arnall j Aiapaha river nearOcilla.
told the Optimist Club Tuesday in j speaking to the Thomaston Ki-
Atlanta that he will go before the wan i s club Tuesday Lawernce S.
Southern Association of Colleges camp, former United States attor-
and Secondary Schools in December ney 0 f r the North Georgia district
and seek to have Georgia's schools de clared the solution to the so--
restored to the association's ac- ca n e d pardon racket is not in de
credited list. priving teh governor of the pardon-
Ed Johnson has been named vice ln g P owe J bat correct
president of the Columbus Junior P e ” al s J'. stel T 1 . ...j.-.i.. t v,„ 0 f.
Chamber of Commerce, succeeding tb e antisocial vouth of-
J.W. Woodruff Jr., who recently tenders ^and especially youth of-
was named persident of the organi-, fenders,
zation to succeed Roscoe Thompson
attorney, who resigned to enter
military service.
Second Lt. F. C. Bacon, former
Columbus Enquirer reporter and
| now an officer in the Marine Corps,
Eighteen divorce decrees were is in the thick of the fighting- on
granted in Bibb superior court Mon-j the Solomon Islands, according to
day. All were uncontested. A jury a letter received at Columbus whicn
returned the verdicts and Judge was passed by the military^censor.
Malcolm D. Jones signed the pa- 1 Lt. Bacon related in this letter that
pers awarding first verdicts to 11. he was the first Marine to land on
couples, total divorces to six, and Guadalcanal Islnad. He declared he
annulling two marriages. [has “bad some exciting and inter
esting times since • leaving the
One of Atlanta's landmarks, the states.”
name of Gen. John B. Gordon, is |
coming down. A wreckage concern | A pretty 17-.year-old girl, Miss
last -week began demolishing the Thelma McDaniel of Atlanta was
42-year-old home of the former [in critical condition at Grady Hos
Georgia Governor and U. S. Sena- j pital Tuesday as the result of in
tor. Gen. Gordon occupied the juries suffered when she leaped
bouse until his death in 1904. from a moving automobile early
[Monday on McDonough Boulevard
The clerk of Quitman county su- Miss McDaniel, who, with a com-
perior court Friday reported a re-1 paniont Agnes Holman, 18, had
check of the vote in the state sen-, been g i ven a “lift" home, jumped
ator's race in the 12th district gave Irom the rumble seat of the car
Dr. Laren .Gary of Quitman, a two when the dr i V er, one of the three
vote Margin over G. O. Kaigler. young m en, refused to stop when
The two previously had been re- he nea *ed her home, according to
ported tied at 247 votes apiece. ' Fulton police.
MOULTRIE MAN LOSES
CASH; NOW BELIEVES
WORLD ON UP AN1) UP
Moultrie, Sept. 20—You can't
make Daniel Russell of Moultrie,
Route 4, believe there isn't honesty
left in the world.
Russell lost a pocketbook contain
ing $143 "somewhere between
Moultrie and Tifton."
Police Officer D. A. Murphy said
Russell began looking for it but a
hay trucker from Ashburn who
gave his name as D. W. Haley had
already found it and brought it to
the local police department. The
bills were intact. <>s
THREE AIRMEN DIE IN
SOUTH CAROLINA CRASH
Columbia, S. C.—Three Army air
men lost their lives in the crash
of a medium bomber at nearby Co
lumbia Army Air Base Saturday.
The plane crashed on the field
as it was coming in for a landing
from a routine training flight.
Staff Sgt. P. P. Conrad. 21, ql
Philadelphia, Pa., was co pilot, he
died instantly. .
The other two ln^ri.icrs of the
crew were Second ui. Titos. M. Mc-
Tier, 24, of Quincy, Mass., who died
at Ft. Jackson station hospital qn
hour after the accident, and Staff
Sgt. A. W. Kaiser, 27, of Buch
anan, N. D„ who succumbed en
route to the hospital.
ALBANY MAN JAILED
FOR KILLING NEGRO GIRL
Albany, Sept. 2*—B. M. Barfield,
32-year-old white Albany man, is
being held in jail here on a war
rant charging murder following the
killing of a 14-year-old negro girl,
Pearl Foster, Jimmie Palmer, desk
sergeant at the Albany police sta
tion reported Monday. The police
man said Barfield had confessed to
the slaying with the explanation:
“I didn't mean to do it" Palmer
said Barfield was drinking and shot
the girl after she entered the build
ing to buy a sandwich.
According to the officers, the
bullet entered the back of the girl's
Hearings on the bill were sus
pended several weeks ago after
President Roosevelt indicated that
be ordered only as a last resort but
Reynolds said he would reopen
them upon Downey's request.
GAS FOR LUNCH TRIP
OKAY IF STORK'S
VISIT IS EXPECTED
south easterly from the southern
boundary of Troup to the borders
of Coffee county.
Congressman Pace will remain in
Washington, following develop
ments concerning ceiling prices
over farm commodities, in which he
and his constituents are vitally in
terested.
4.000,000 MEN NOW
IN AMERICAN ARMY
Washington, Sept. 19—Disclosure
that the Army alone had expanded
to 4,000,000 men was made today by
Maj. Gen. Jas. A*. Ulio, the adjutant
general, in a report on methods
used for assignments of soldiers.
President Roosevelt had said 4,-
000,000 were under arms, but did
not explain whether' the figure in
cluded the navy and other armed
services. Maj. Gen. L. B. Hershey,
Seilective Service director, indicat
ed ' in recent testimony before a
congressional committee that the
strength of the army would exceed
4,500,000 by the end of this year.
on the general election ballot. The
law requiers candidates for state
and national offices to qualify 30
days in advance of the election and
it happened this year that the party
convention was less than 30 days
prior to the November 3 election.
The convention next month may
settle the question or it might dele
gate to the new state committee the
authority to make a decision. Half
of the 120 members of the commit
tee are elected by the cnovention
and half are appointed by the nom
inees for Governor.
MONTEZUMA MAYOR
FIXES SCRAP DAY
Montezuma, Ga., Sept. 19—Mayor
John T. McKenzie has proclaimed
next Saturday as Junk Rally Day in
Montezuma. At that, time, those
bringing scrap to the enclosed yard
in the downtown district may sell
the scrap if they desire or donate
it to the charities of two Montezuma
churches.
Columbia, S. C.—Sometimes a trip
back home at lunch-time can be
more important than conserving
gasoline.
The Richland county artioning
board clerk, a woman, asked an ap
plicant why he included mileage
for going home to lunch every day.
“Well, I just have to go to see
my wife. You see—”
“I don't go home to lunch my
self," interrupted the clerk. “I have'
not driven my car home for lunch
since I’ve been working at the ra
tioning board.”
“No,” the man replied, “but you
aren't expecting a bundle from
heaven at your home just any day
now either.”
The celrk approved the applica
tion without another word.
SUMTER HAS 569 WHITES.
215 NEGROES IN SERVICE
Americus, Sept. 19—Sumter coun
ty is well represented in the armed
service of the nation, selective ser
vice figures show.
Through Sept. 9, a total of 7*1
men had entered the various
branches of the service. Voluntary
enlistments as well as induction
through the selective service act
are included in the report.
Broken down, the report shows
there are 569 white and 215 negroes
In some branch of service. Of this
number, 385 whites are in the
army, 183 of whom volunteered; 154
are in the navy and marines claim
3C, all of whom volunteered.
CHIEF JUSTICE STONE
WILL STAY ON BENCH
AFTER 70th BIRTHDAY
Washington.—Friends of Chief
Justice H. F. Stone predict unquali
fiedly he will continue his service
as head of the supreme court after
reaching the retirement age of 70
on Oct. 11. .
They expect him to remain on. the
nation's highest tribunal as long as
his health enables him to perform
STYLED WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW *
adventUed in Atademmette
Dreizin Dry Goods Store
Butler, Ga.
head near the base of the skull, [ the ardU0U s duties required. His
and she died instantly. physical condition is reported to be
~ * ■" "* excellent.
Police Chief DeWitt Bell said T he law permits a member of the
Monday several taxicab drivers supr eme court to retire with full pay
working for Moultrie for Moultrie a£ter serving ten years and after
company are being held in custody reac hing the age of 70. Stone has
on open charges pending comple- se rved since 1925, when he was
tion of an investigation into a se- name d associate justice by Presi-
ries of tire thefts. Several tires also den t Coolidge. He was nominated
are being kept in police custody, he cnie£ justice by President Roosevelt
Bald. |on June 12, 1941.
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futharltttf Settler:
PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, OF MACON