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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 15, 1942.
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WESLEY
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Woodson
and family of Thomaston, visited
Mr. and Mrs. Janies Royal Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Maxwell
and aughters, Virginia and Sylvia
were Wednesday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Sugfcv'
Mr.-and Mrs *ouis Spinks of Co-
lurAbus vlSit-id Mr. and'Mrs; W. A
Spinks Sunday.
Mr. and M s w -.'drow Amos and
son spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs .W. A. Jarrell.
Miss Mary Frances Gilson spent
Saturday p. m. in Thomaston.
• Mrs. Win, Maxwell and Ja .in
ters and Mrs. R. M. Suggs visited
Mr anu Mrs. J. A. Heath Wednes
day.
Mis-: MTug-ret Smith entertained
a number of friends at her home
Saturday night with a prom party.
Miss Elsie Heath of West Point;
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Heath during the weekend
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Heath spent
Sunday with Miss Berta Perkins at
Central.
First Class Seaman John Smith,
of the U. S. Navy, is spending sev
eral days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Rufus Smith.
Taylor Mill News
Dublin Nurse Found
Dead At Hospital;
Suicide Verdict Rendered
WESLEY
Mr. C.L. Robbins and Mr. Gobern
Stutts of Rizenzi, Miss., and Sgt. Er- M and ™ IS - % & Roberson and
nest Robbins of Lawson General children of Columbus spent the
Hospital, Atlanta, spent several ' veak end a " d Mr - and Mrs - c ’i W '
days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Roberson of Thomaston spent Sun-
X. A. Robbins. day »th Mrs. W. H. Roberson and
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Barron of Miss Ruby Roberson.
Thomaston, spent Sunday with i ' Miss Dorothy Windham spent the, Woodard, 25, the
Miss Bessie Downs. , week-end with Miss Amie Jean strange Dublin doctors’ leiftfc, was
Mr. and Mrs, R. M. Suggs visited Underwood. | found dead at Hicks hbsmtftl this
Mrs. Wm. Marwell of Talbotton' Mr. and Mrs. Milard Underwood afternoon
Thursday, I and Carol spent the week-end with
’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson of Mr.and Mrs. U. S. Underwood.
Thomaston, were Sunday guests of | Mrs> j w wlndham has return
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilson. 1
Dublin, Oct. 8—Miss
Miss Nontlhe
\yofnati in \\\e
ot's' eti'so, wai
Taylor County Teachers
Attend District Meeting
In Americus Friday
The schools of TaylorCounty wen
given a holiday Friday that‘ a
as
many teachers as might find it pos
sible to do so could attend the
Third District group meeting of
Georgia Education Association held
der
i Georgia Education Association held
The former head nurse, Held up-! a t Georgia Southwestern College at
sr bond as accessory in one of the Apiericus. More than 700 educators
ost bizarre cgses eve^jeeprdec
. ed from the hospital in Macon. Her : ^ Ilddl< ? ^° 0 ^[ a ' , t-w
Mrs. Mae Riley spent the week- frlends are lad P she lg back home W,been found lying across her , nR xyas usual( alS0i as the tuach
! and hope she will cbntinue to im- bed “ the hlcks . "WW , t«r» nj
end at her home in Butler.
Mr. and Mrs. Will b’raddy and Mr.
Windham wishes to| At a coroner's inquestiiconduct
■ Hinnlf thp Woman's Club and ed by O. D. Knight at the Adams
with Mr. and Mrs. W J. Braddy. Elen's who wer6 To kind to rcmem-1Funeral this afternoon the
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Heath spent 1,1 ifiT Jury rendered a verdict that she
and Mrs. Lige Parker spent Sunday k
appeared to be inspired with
acriotism and anxious to do their
part in the winning of the. war.
Prof. J. E. Mathis, superintendent
of the Americus schools
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Judge T. Hicks Fort
Passes Death Sentence
On Two Columbus Negroes
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Mrs., W. J. Gilson and Miss Lou- Macon and hope to see him ou t U en on a hospital chart and ad-
ise Gilson of Midway, spent Sun- real soon. , ! dressed to her mother, Mrs. , S. F.
day with Mr.-and Mrs. Hugh Gil- ■ Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Payne spent Woodard of near Rentz, stating
son. ! Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ithat she was taking her own life.
1 Mr. S. T. Allen of College Park, i Windham. |The note was long and dealt with
spent several days last week with I Mrs. Massey Wilson’s funeral was personal matters, it was reported. _ _ _
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Heath. .held at Mt. Olive Saturday at four And although full text was not |Walter Maynard, of Amrieus, with
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.' 0 . clock p< m . g be was a sister of given out, the nurse is said to have. Mrs. Paul Hodges at the piano:
of the G.E.A., was present and ad
dtpssbd the meeting on the subject,
Education for Total Vic-
The meeting opened Friday morn
ing with group singing, led by Mrs,
M- Suggs included: Mr. and Mrs,; Mrs B> Fi Windham,
Robert Suggs, Mrs. Henry Shealy
and little Mary Shealy, of Thomas-
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Willie Suggs of ^ aT1 y
Reynolds; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Max
well and daughters of Talbotton.
Mr. T. A. Robbins spent Tuesday
in Thomaston.
written that she was worried about'
„„ p p Rnrmw Rpttv ill health, the disgrace of the past
wrnmin-ene !nd Teanltte faring and the impending trial.
WHlniorenejand Jeam jI She wrote that she presumed there
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J-1 uld be « more of lt »
S. Barrow. | n , Charles Hicks, under $1,500
ReV.. Mack Anthony, pastor of the
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W HILE soldiers, sailors and marines war on Axis
gangsters overseas, we at home must be vigilant to
preserve the liberty we’re all fighting for. -
To insure democracy in America, we must pledge
complete support to our law-enforcement authorities—
the Guardians of the Home Front—in their War on the
criminal minority. #
Georgia’s $10,000,000 beer industry does its share—
aiid more! It keeps watch on the state’s beer retailers,
sends an immediate, cleatl-up warning to the occasional
law-breaker. If this warning is ignored, the offender is
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JUDGE JOHN
532 Hurt Building
S. WOOD, State Director
w Atlanta, Georgia
First Methodist Church of Americus
gave the Invocation, and Dr. Peytor
Jacob, president of Georgia South
\jvestern, made a short talk of wel-
, dome.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Harris and robbery and peace bond. in the I Ralph L. Ramsey, secretary of the
Taylor spent the week end in But- grange case of the Dublin phy- Georgia Education Association, read
l ler with their parents, Mr. and Mrs s i c i abSi was reported to have found the announcements and gave a rev
George Harris. |the nurse at 5:30 p. m. and to have port on the policies program,
Mrs. Velma Hinton and Howard notified Sheriff Coleman. However, I ; An address on "Teacher Retire-
Hinton spent the week end with Mr. | he was not called as a witness at | me nt,” was given by W. H. Mo
und Mrs. Dewey Johnson. ithe hearing, . Gregor, secretary and treasurer of
Rnrrnw and Nell Hin Hearing testimony brought out the Alabama Retirement system,
mn ir snent the werk-end^th that the nurse had kept a chart pn. TOlpwing the address by Dr. Judge Fc
ton Jr., spent tne weex ena w n herse if and this was displayed at Haskew, Dr. F. N. Parker, professor passionate manner to both degrees
Mrs. Ora Barrow and family. the inquest. It showed that she had emeritus in the Candler School of telling them that a jury had con.
1 Cplumbus, Oct. 10—Visibly moved
by the solemnity of the occasion,
Muscogee Superior Court Judge T.
Hicks. Fort’yesterday sentenced two
negroes to die in the electric chair
at the state penitentiary on Oct. 23.
Both had been convicted of mur
ders.
.Before pronouncing sentence on
the pair, Raymond Dowdloll and
Ost Allen, Judge Fort stated it was
his painful duty to take such ac
tion, but that he was acting only
as a humble instrument in the
hands of the law.
"In the Book of Books are these
sure your sins
and ‘What a man
he reap" Judge
Fort declared. He told the two ne
groes that the sentences were being
pronounced as punishment for
wrong doings and as a deterrent to
others. "Human life is dear, only
God gave and only God should
take it away except under certain
conditions,” Judge Fort stated.
The jurist expressed the wish that
every man, woman and child could
’eyton have been present in the court
room yesterday when the sentences
Were pronounced. He said he be
lieved the scene would stay the
hands of some who might be tepm-
ted to take life.
Jufige Fort was acting in a role
new to him. For years, one of the
outstanding criminal attorneys in
the-state, he served as counsel in
250 capital cases and not one ci his.
clients paid with his life:
Fort talked in a most com-
Miss Louise Kite spent the week, taken som e medicine; and entries Theolgy at Emory University, spoke sidered well and good all the evi
id at her home in Macon. were regular until 8 a. m. today. on “Teachers in Total Victory." dences in their cases before deciding
The roll call showed that prac-
l JJtU. 1 MUMi-if In + n Aiofrlrtt,
they must die for their crimes. He
explained that the supreme court of
a$ represented, after which the | the state had reviewed each case
end at her nome in Macon. jwere regular
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell and family There was no testimony introduced
of Musella visited Miss Jeanette J to show that she .had been seen tdcally every county in the district
Mitchell at the Teacher's Cottage since then. {-wa| represented, after which the
Saturday 1 The jury did not attempt to place ..Meeting adjourned for lunch. and decided the verdicts of th low
s«Tt Leonard Windham of Idaho’the time of her death. Dr. A. TV .f; Theafternoon session convened ater, courts were just. He finished
Is snendine some time with rela- .Coleman, county physician, testified 2: 30 o’clock, with the elementary each sentence with, "May God Have
Hves VTavlor Mill that her death was due to poison j. scbool group meeting in the audi- Mercy on Your Soul.”
lives lmiayior m l. -Ibut did not state the kind pf PQi- torlum-gymnasium and the high Dowdell was charged with fatally
Mrs. G. L. Windham and Leonard i gon Nq autopgy was ordered. . school group in the college libtary. | cutting Mattie Pearl Thompson,
Windham spent Friday night in Co-1 Miss Woodard was under bolid as j Mrs. Rachael B. Sutton, of the negress, in Feb., 1938, in Columbus.
lUmbus. [ the a neged “feminine voice" which ; university of Georgia, presided over He was arrested in New York in
Mrs. Alice Barrow has returned bad called Dr. Wm. C. Thompson to i fheelementary group. The theme of November, 1941, tried, and sentenc-
home after spending a while with'the Fred Roberts hospital. There he' the discussions was “What Children ed to death by the late Judge Geo.
relatives at Taylor Mill. I was met by Dr. Hicks and taken tol and p aren ts Can Do Through the ,C. Palmer. The case was appealed
Pvt Shelley Swafford of Gaines-Ithe Hicks hospital, Dr. Thompson Schoo i s to Help Win the War.” An to the supreme court which affirm-
vllle.S. C., spent the week end with had charged at an earlier hearing, Address was given by L. M. Lester ed the sentence. ~
relatives and friends here. I He' had remained at the Hicks V61 tb e state department of educa-1 Allen was charged with killing
o„lte a number of our citizens at- hospital until 8:30 at the point .of a„ tl ori on the subject, "Action - Is De,.!sallie Tarver, negress in February
Quite a number of our citizens at ot ttmps n nd had only be.en„^y r ,a»a» a nanel discussion was 1942, in Columbus. After he was
sentenced to djfe by Judge Palmer,
ithe case was appealed to the su
preme court. (
Because the /cases were reviewed
by the supremfc court, it was nec-
tended the ordination service for §un
Mr.’ John M. Cox,
church. Mr. Cox was
to the pastorate of the Taylor Mill, .7 b j g s t ra nge imprisonment
Baptist church. | an the night of June 6 but no
Mrs. Opal Cobb several days with charges were filed until Sept. 11
relatives in Taylor Mill. t w hen Dr. Hicks made other threats
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown Bartlett to him. v „ Q .
and Brown are spending, the week | At a preliminary hearing on Sept
with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Posey. 118 charges against the hospital op
Mr. Jessie Windham and family ^ bb 0 e rb \ d n d e ^
whSMn^MrG.'B 6 Shabby indimidatlon and a peace count.
Dublin Girl, Thirteen, Who
Disappeared Last Week,
Is Sought By Mother
Dublin, Oct. 10—Police have been
asked to help locate Louise Hall, 13
Miss Clyde Windham of Panhan-! Sulc j de vote For Dublin Nurse Is . W ho disappeared at Dublin Thurs
die spent the week with relatives
here.
Mr. J. C. McDaniel of Wellston
spent the week end with his family
here.
Disputed by Brother-in-La^,,-*
Dublin, Oct. 12—Raymond Mc
Afee, Lakeland, brother-in-law of
Miss Nontine Woodard, has charged
d , Ay n afternoon, according to her
ih'tfthter Mrs. Minnie Hall.
Miss Hall is a pupil at Johnson
Street school, which she attended
as u&ual yesterday. After school she ioiu uw> „
returned home, left her books ly- n be trial, he said, "God will.overtake
essary that they be resenntenced.lt
was the first time in years here that
two have been sentenced to die at
the same time. They will be con
fined in the Muscogee county jail
until Oct. 19, when they will be
taken to the state prison.
When asked if they had anything
to say before the sentences were
passed, both negroes protested they
had cut the women only after they
were attacked by them and they in
turn were wounded.
. Dowdell charged “lies had been
told against him.” In referring to
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Blair and that the Dublin nurse was murd „„
Bryant Douglas of Macon, spent the ed last week and did BBHfSjPv ln ® 9 n a bed in the house and - verythlng ,
week end with Mr. and Mrs. Frank suicide, it was reportedheretoday. walked away. So far as has been Allen all _ —
Simultaneously, the Georgia Bu s learned she was last seen walking W0lnan a ft e r she cut him. ‘‘I'm not
lift 1 Vick Parker of Macon spent i reau“orTnves"tigation a , nd toward” the downtown section Mrs: 1 ;™“ justice,"
relatives at Taylor General J. Eugene Cook of Dublin Hall sald she understood thdt two gald
,?, d y superior court launched a probe in- men saw the child about 5 o clock, i solicitor General Hubert Calhi
he
V-— FOR VICTORY, BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS ■
Sunday
MiU -
Mrs. Jewel Barnes and Sue spent
last wkeek in Rupert.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Rogers spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Downs.
Mrs. Odell Smith and Mrs. Min
nie Cofield spent the week end at
Ft. Benning with their sons, Messrs
J. C. Smith and Woodrow Cofield.
Mr. Frank Kimble visited rela
tives and friends in Tayloj Mill.
PRAYER MEETING
Prayer meeting will be held at
the home of M[r. and Mrs. Cofield
Friday night at which time Miss
Louise Kite will be the leader. Mr.
John Cox led in the place of Miss
Kite who was unable to attend last
week.
MR. EWING VISITS SCHOOL
Mr. Ralph Ewing visited the Tay
lor Mill school Friday. The boys
and girls were glad to welcome
him here. He left a victrola and
some records for the school to en
joy. Monday was an ideal time for
the entire school to listen to Little
Black Sambo's Jungle Band. Every
one, even the teachers, forgot "Blue
Monday" with such a delightful
program.
GIRL. RESERVES
The Girl Reserves met Saturday
night/ The meeting was called to
order and the roll was called, fol
lowed by business session. Christy
mas cards were given out to be
sold. Everyone is urged to buy
early and to buy from the girls,
Stationery is also sold at the same
time. After the other business was
discussed the girls checked honors,
Miss Kite led the devotional and
the meeting was closed with the
Girl Reserve Prayer.
Calhoun
icribed as weighing I |. ev jewed the cases briefly before
. dark brown hair, - sen t ences we re passed. The two
room a, BBS — andiwas wearing a lifht | negroes> whlle a p parent ly laboring
and a verdict of “suicide by poison bluish-gray dress, red socks and tan i under mental stralnSi - - -
was returned by the coroner's jury.oxfords. She h&s'a scar on the left of the cour troom:at a
A/rioc Woodard was under bond in arm> caused by-a. burn some years
JVXloo * . J..A1 t Jn4lnn r«i 1 ~ 1/nnu’n hv
superior .....
to Miss Woodard’s death. L She,
The nurse was found dead in abut
room at Hicks’ hospital Thursday da j
the alleged robbery-by-intlmidation
of Dr. W. C. Thompson, by Dr. Chas.
Hicks case.
OFF WITH THE OLD
LOVE. ON WITH THE
NEW. HER MOTTO
Athol, Mass.—The former Fannie
Abernathy, 67-year-old seamstress;
can’t make up her mind.
First, she married Tennyson B.
Dodson.
She divorced Dodson and mame.d
Henry O. Willard.
She divorced Willard and remar
ked Dodson.
Today she is honeymooning again
—with Willard. They were remar
ried during the week end.
■ .hk . iiTf io avt.n-
IF YOUR NOSE
"ciosEis m*
IFURPOSE
MEDICINE
Here’s mi
good news ..,
your nose "closes
I 1 up" tonight and
makes breathing difficult, put-3-pur- •
pose Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril. ■.
Va-tro-nol does 3 important things. •
It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2)
soothes irritation, (3) mheves tran
sient nasal congestion. It brings more
comfort, makes breathing easier, thus
invites sleep •.. And remember, it helps
prevent many
colds developing if
used in time. Fol- ViCKa
^directions in VA .| R0 . M0 |
agq. ghe is sometimes known by
the. nick-name of “Pete.”
Anyone knowing anything which
might aid in locating the child is
asked to communicate immediately
w#jv the Dublin police department.
YOUNG MACON DOCTORS
REACH OVERSEAS BASE
Macon, Oct. 11—Lt. Chas. C. Har-
roid and his cousin, Lt. Chas. H.
Richardson, of Macon have arrived
at an overseas destination, accord
ing jo a cablegram received by their
ptffehts. Lt. Harrold ia the son of
Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Harrold ahd Lt.
Richardson is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. C. H. Richardson.
The two young medical officers
are members of the Roosevelt hos
pital unit of New York City. The
: cable did not indicate to which
front the medical unit had been
sent.
SHACKLES COLLECTED
FOR "MILITARY" NEED
' Pittsburgh.—Police Superintend
ent Harry J. Scott announced Sun
day night nearly 200 Pittsburgh po
lice officers have donated their per
sonally purchased handcuffs to the
government for “probably use ■ in
Bhgcklffig Axis prisoners." ~ ;
Scott said he made a personal
appeal 'for the donations after re
ceiving an “urgent request for the
quartermaster's office in Washing
ton.” He added that the request
said the handcuffs would be-used
on Axis prisoners “but did not
specifically say German war pris
oners in Canada.”
walked out
steaidy pace.
RIVERS' SECRETARY
UNDER INDICTMENT
Atlanta, Oct 9—A Fulton county
grand jury today indicted Downing
Musgrove of Homerville, Ga., one
time secretary to former Gov. E. D.
Rivers and a former state comp
troller, charging embezzlement ol
$66,119.
The true bill was for the same
amount contained in an indictment
returned some time ago against Riv
ers which also charged embezzle
ment.
TALMADGE RAISES
SCHOOL BUDGET
Atlanta, Oct. 13—Gov. Talmadge
Tuesday completed approval of
budgets for the present quarter Of
1942 by increasing the educational
budget and reducing that for the
highway patrol.
Teachers' salaries approved for
the ,.present quarter amounted to
$6,460,000 compared to $5,352,703
for.tjre same quarter last year: The
budget for the vocational education
division was raised from' $249|327 a
year; ago to $293,775 for this quarter
qnd l: that for the vocational rehabili
tation division was increased from
$25,811 to $79,260. .
The sum of $299,005 was set aside
for the purchase of textbooks com
pared to $189,419 a year ago.
The budget for the Department
of Public Safety was cut from $179-
583 requested to $165,120. This is
$20,000 less than the department
spent in the last quarter of 194L