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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 29, 1942.
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Dublin Negro Kills
Estranged Wife After
Fire Fails To Get Her
Dr. D. R. Anderson,
Former Wesleyan Pres.,
Dies In Virginia
Macon, Oct. 25—Dr. Dice R. An
derson, 62,former president of Wes
leyan College, died In Fredericks
burg, Va., yesterday, according to
an Associated Press dispatch. Dr.
Anderson was a member of the fac
ulty of Mary Washington college at
the time of his death.
The Virginia educator was presi
dent of Wesleyan for about ten
years, leaving Macon in 1941 when
his contract was not renewed by
the board of trustees. He came to
Macon from Randolph-Macon col
lege where he served as president.
Dr .Anderson was born in Char
lottesville, Va., and received his A.
B. degree from Randolph-Macon and
his Ph. D. degree from the Univer
sity of Georgia.
He taught at the University of
Chicago and Richmond college be
fore going to Randolph-Macon Wo
man's college as president in 1920.
He held this post until 1931 when
he went to Wesleyan as president,
remaining there until 1941. ... . , c
He served as president of both W. 1. LlUb opOflSOFS
Hallowe'en Carnival
books on political history and long
had been active in Southern Meth
odist affairs.
November st Deadline
For Hailing Parcels
To Oersea Soldiers
Dublin, Oct. 27—Sheriff I. F. Only ten days remain to get the
Coleman said today he was hold-, Chirstmas shopping- done for gifts
ing on a charge of murder a ne- that are to be mailed to soldiers
gro youth who allegedly set fire overseas, the postofflce deportment
to a house Sunday night in which.warns. Packages mailed after No-
his estranged wife and four other vember 1st will have little chance
persons, including three children, | of reaching men abroad by Decern-
were barricaded and then shot his ber 25th,
wife to death as she and the oth
ers ran from the building.
The negro, arrested several hours
later after bloodhounds had been
put on his trail,Is listed as Rob
Williams, about 19, of near Rentz.
Sheriff Coleman said the youth
borrowed a shotgun and walked
five miles to the home of Coot
Fuller, on the O. D. Brannon place
about two and half miles from
Rentz on the Dublin road, where
hisestranged wife, Zinnie Lee Wil
liams, about 21 had been staying
with Fuller and his wife and chil
dren.
Friday Nite, Oct. 30
The Postmaster at Butler advises
Georgia To Use
Metal Strips For
1943 Auto Tags
Atlanta.—Georgia will use one
inch steel strips across the top of
1942 automobile tags to designate
1943 tag purchases, W. L. J oiner,
director of the motor vehicle di
vision of the state revenue depart
ment, said Monday.
The WPB has given permission
for the use of steel already on hand
Sailor Son's Dying
Message Delivered To
Bulloch County Parents
Governor Talmadge,
Attorney-General Amall
Clash Over Ballot
Local High School
Sponsoring Hallowe‘en
Popularity Contest
The Senior Class at Reynolds
High school is sponsoring a Popu-
larityCo ntest, the winner of which
is to be crowned Queen at the Hal-
lowe'en Carnival Friday night, Oct,
30th.
A Queen is to be selected from
represntatives from nigh school, the
one receiving the most votes: Two
attendants will be chosen from rep
resentatives from the' grammar
grades, the two receiving the larg
est number of votes.
Votes are a penny each and must
be in by not later than Thursday
night, Oct. 29th.
Each merchant has selected one
representative from high school to
sponsor for Queen and one repre
sentativefo r attendant.
A ballot box for each candidate,
where votes consisting of money
may be cast, will be at the follow
ing stores:
Aultman's: Sue Livingston; Pa
tricia Jones.
N. L. Halley's: Aurelia Sawyer;’
Barbara Tillman. ,
J. T. Barrow's: Carol Bdrrow
Elaine Windham.
Powell’s Market: Sara Pool; Joyce
Coolik's: Doris Goodrum; Babs
Bond.
E. T. Shealy's: Lois Saunders;
Constance Barrow.
Whatley's Pharmacy: Virginia
Butler; Sue Fain.
Goddard's: Hilda Weaver; Rose
Waldroph.
Taylor Motor Co.: Jean Livingston
Sylvia Swearingen.
Underwood's Store, Taylor Mill:
Betty Anne Underwood.
Mclnvale's Store, Taylor
Marsdelle Crook.
E. F. Parr's Store, Crowell: Wilma
Montgomery.
Jesse Byrd's Store, Crowell
tha Joe Byrd; Betty Worthen
Mrs. Willis Saunders’:
Saunders; Shirley Trussell.
The Woman’s Club of Reynolds
will sponsor a Hallowe'en Carnival
Friday night, Oct. 30th. Everybody
invited. >
There will be ’ contests of all
kinds, fish pond: weiners, penny
pitching, pies, cakewalk, and a
plate supper at Harry's
The supper committee: Mrs. R. L.
Beall, Chairman, Mrs.-Nell Lucas,
Miss Marian Hodges, Mrs. J. D.
Smith and Mrs. E. H. Griffith, will
serve a 50c plate consisting of
chicken and derssing, cream pota
toes,, English peas, buttered, rolls,
Waldorf salad and coffee with
sugar. Call one of this committee
and reserve your plates by Wednes
day,the 28th, if possible.
Weiners will be sold by Mrs. R.
R. Brewer, chairman, Mrs. Hugh
Windham and Mrs. Leonard Cooper
that there has been some confusion j 0 ma k e strips one inch wide and 12
regarding the regulations as to size
and weight of parcels to be mailed
to Uncle Sam's fighting men.
Although "shoe box size’’ has
been widely publicized as correct
for overseas Christmas packages, a
shoe-box is not a satisfactory con
tainer, the postmaster said. Proper
package is a heavy double-faced
corrugated box.
Weight limit is 11 pounds, max
imum elngth, 18 Inches, and max
imum length and girth combined
must not exceed 42 inches.
“We cannot make any exceptions
to these rules” the postmaster ad
vises.
Food not to be Included
Mailers are advised that both the
War Department and Navy Depart
ment have stated that no food
should be inclosed in parcels mail
ed to members of the armed forces
overseas, not only because crumbs
or other matter escaping from the
parcels attract vermin, but for the
further reason that the armed forc
es are amply supplied with food.
‘Excess’ Peanuts
Must Be Crushed
For Oil, AAA Says
inches long, colored to harmonize
with the 1942 red, white and blue
tags.
The strips will bear the numerals
1943 and the name of the state ab
breviated to Ga. The WPB has been
asked to permit the stamping of a
serial number on each tag strip so
that it cannot be transferred from
one car to another.
Eatonton Youth, 19
Gets Life Sentence
In Farmer's Slaying
Gray, Ga., Oct. 24—Ennis Key, 19
year old Eatonton youth, was con
victed last night of murdering Har
ris Jones, a Jqnes county farmer,
and sentenced to life Imprisonment
on a jury recommendation for mer
cy.
He was the third defendant to re
ceive a life sentence for Jones’
death. Earlier in the week, Mrs. El
sie Simmons and Ernest Fuller
were convicted with mercy recom
mendations.
Defense attorneys contended in
each trial that Jones was acci
dentally killed when he walked off
the rear of a moving truck in which
he was riding with the trio on the
Penny Pitching: Mrs. Guy Clyatt for vegetable oils by requiring that
and Mrs. Guy Windham. | allexcess peanuts—that is, all pea-
Contests: Mrs. Lawrence Cook | nuts not produced on allotted acre-
An order prohibiting the use of
1942 "excess” peanuts for any pur- - . . .
pose other than crushing for oil I Gary-Eatonton highway the night
has been issued by the Commodity | of July 19.
Credit Corporation, Dan O. Harvill, | Solicitor CT S. Baldwin charged
AAA county administrative officer, Jones was murdered for his mon-
announced this week. ey'”
The order, Mr. Harvill said, is 1
designed to help meet war demands
Statesboro, Ga., Oct. 19—An Atlanta, Oct. 26—Flopped into the
American sailor made a trip from a tops of Georgia’s ordinaries Tuesday
faraway post in the Pacific to de- were conflicting instructions from
liver a message to a mother and Gov. Talmadge and Attorney-Gen-
father in Bulloch county from a son cra l Ellis Amall about whether the
who was burled at sea. The mes- Noth 3 general election ballot should
Bage was: "Tell them I stuck to my llst Frank Hooper, Jr„ as a demo-
post of duty." eratic candidate for a Fulton su-
The message was delivered by a perior court judgeship,
sailor (whose name and post are 1 Don't amend the ballot . . . Recog-
withheld by request) to Mr. and nize no democratic nominee for the
Mrs. Frank Dickerson, whose son post ... it's too late under the law.
had met death while in the dis-1 Those were instructions sent ordi-
charge of his duty. j naries by the governor.
A previous message from the j pi ace Hooper's name on the bal-
Navy in Washington had said con- i 0 t in the democratic column . . .
ditions were such that it was im- .Follow the instructions of Secretary
possible to send the body home for 0 f State John Wilson; they "are le-
Interment and that a funeral at sea gaily correct and sound.” So said
was necessary. I Amall, the governor-nominate, in
Recently a young man, wearing telegrams to ordinaries. Superior
the uniform of his country, ap- court judges are elected on a state-
peared at the Dickersons' country w ide basis
'r 1 Ho °P er > an Atlanta attorney,was
you Rearing a message, he said. I nominated Saturday by the stale
went >V tn h hbi 0 pnrt b - r 1 V « n w 03 him h nB ht democratic executive committee to
r^naht hu me 8Ucceed the late Judge John Hum-
fought his manly best at his post ph r i cs f 0 r a four-year term begin-
of duty; I saw him when he re- £ lng Jan . 1( lg43 /
celved his mortal blow; was with T .. . ,
him during the warning hours ^an an hour earlier how-
which brought his brave life to a ever > Ta .madge swore in Bond Al
dose; I held his hand as he came
hack to consciousness for the last At
few minutes and as he opened his »PP° n ‘e d Ms tor-
o "tm“ 8““* A ‘ mon<1 “ SffiSlgJSS
S my p™„ d K “„°d P ?°r,S «-» Ml" T
my best—that I stuck to my post of Tho totter to Wilson today, the
duty.’» (governor said that under the con-
Young Dickerson was a gunner st Jtution he had theright and the
on ah American vessel and, accord-1 duty , a PP°* n t a successor to
ing to reports, was the last man to Humphries, who d.ed last Thursday
leave his post. The sailor who de- after winning renomination in the
livered the message was home on !® ept> p pri ™ui y ’oA e ? aUS< L. the •^ ur s ! :
furlough and though his home was ; h . ad dled witw n 30 days the general
far away from Bullocji county, he ele ction.
made his way here to deliver ihe 1 He added that a successor cannot
and Miss Mildred Cauthen.
Guessing Contest: Mrs. R. E.
Aultman.
Fish Pond: Mrs. B. E. Flowers and
Mrs. D. W. Harp.
Cake Walk: Mrs. Henry Hobbs,
Mrs.Jack Heath nad Mrs. Hoodman
Come, join in the fun!
MRS. ROOSEVELT
NOW IN LONDON
London, Oct. 23—America's first
lady has arrived in London to visit
the first family of England.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
met at the station today by King
George, Queen Elizabeth and many
other notables. Sheha d arrived in
Britain earlier by plane.
The arrival of the First Lady was
supposed to be a strict secret, but
I the word leaked out and a huge
•crowd was at the station. Many
l American soldiers were in the
Mill: throng.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be a guest at
Buckingham Palace and plans to
visit American Army camps in
Britain.
Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied
by her v secretary, Miss Malvina
Thompson.
Mar-
Jane
Inspectors See That AH Equipment
Is Present and Accounted For
The defendants intent to appeal.
age—be moved into oil channels,
Allotments were set up Tor estab
lished growers to provide peanuts
for the edible market.
“Any person who wilfully violate
a provision of this order, or who
furnishes false information to the
CCC,” Mr. Harvill said, “may be
prohibited from processing, selling
or otherwise disposing of peanuts of
any kind. In addition, the offense
is subject to punishment by fine or
imprisonment.”
Cotton Stored On
Farm Eligible For
Loan, AAA Advises
The Commodity Credit Corporation
will make loans to producers on
1942 cotton stored on the farm, H. A.
Sealy, chairman of the County AAA
committee, announced this week.
Mr. Sealy's announeemnt was
coupled with disclosure that Secre-
tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wick-
ard has been given presidential au
thorization in increase CCC cottton
loan rates one cent a pound above
perviously-announced rates for all
grades, staples, and locations.
Application for farm storage cot
ton loans must be made thru the
county agricultural conservation
committee, and loans must be se-
cured by chattel mortgages, Mr.
Sealy said. The county committee
will have farm storage structures
inspected before loans are made.
Producers must agree, if the loans
are not repaid, to deliver mortgag
ed cotton to an approved warehouse
designatedby the CCC. They will
be paid a storage allowance of 10c
a bale per month on cotton de
livered to CCC in satisfaction of
10 ln S addition to the rate advance
ment of cotton, increases have been
authorized on tobacco, rice, and mar
kepting quota peanuts. No ^creases
have been authorized in the loan
rates on wheat or corn.
The new loan and purchase rates
on quota peanuts will be: No. 1
Southeaster Spanish, $141 a ton,
and No. 1 runner, $127 a ton.
TALMADGE PAPER'S
LISTS STOCKHOLDERS
message of a dying comrade.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED
IN WADLEY SLAYING
CATHOLICS ASK UTTER
DEFEAT OF AXIS BLOC
Macon, Oct. 26—Nothing short of
complete subjugation of the enemy
will be acceptable, the Catholic Lay
men's association said in a'resolu
tion approved at its 27th annual
convention this week.
The resolution expressed confi
dence in the president and leaders
of the army, navy and air corps and
peldged the fullest measure of ma
terial and spiritual support of the
association in the war effort.
BURGLAR FAKES PANTS
AND ALL IN SERIES
OF ROBBERIES AT AMERICUS
be chosen by the voters until the
1944 general election. In support of
this, he cited a supreme court rul
ing in the case of Ross vs. Jones—A
case that he said raised the "identi
cal question.”
Wilson, besides certifying Hoop-
nomination to the governor,'
wrote all the ordinaries directly
Louisville, Ga., Oct. 24—Judge R.
N. Hardeman, of the Superior Court er * a
of this county, has granted a mo- wro
tion for new trial in the case of the Saturday that the^'should
{state -Vt. M ar vm Dixon, and admit- Atlanta attorney in the Democratic
ted the defendant to bail. ' | column on the ballot. He said he
Dixon was one of the quartet ac- had been advised by Amall that it
cused of the murder of W. Clyde was hls duty { 0 do this .
Smith, filling staion operator at | j n his telegram to the ordinaries
Wadley on Jan. 9. Dixon has at all Amall said Hooper's name should
times maintained he was innocent be p i aced on the ballot as the
but was given a life sentence last democratic nominee “in order to
May> . , , , , comply with the law”and declared
Judge Hardeman in hls orderJ^at the case of Ross vs. Jones cited
stated that he could satisfy his b Talmadge is . n ofin point
“conscience only by a grant of this u 4-u tv ,„
Americus, Ga., Oct. 23—Mose Law
clerk in the Americus post office,
“lost his pants” a night or two ago
but not in the manner one might
think.
The burglar was not content with
just the pants, so he took along
the coat ancl vest, as well. In addi
tion to the clothes, other articles,
including a quantity of groceries
were pilfered from the postal
clerk's home.
Returning home from a social call
with his wife, Law was just in time
to hear the intruder close the rear
door in his hurried exit.
CCC TO MAKE LOANS
ON 1942 PECAN CROP
THROUGH ALBANY GROUP
Washington. — The Commodity
Credit Corporation announced Mon
day it would make loans ranging
from 6 to 16 cents a pound on 1942
orchard run pecans, assuring grow
ers at least 75 per cent of parity on
this year's crop.
This will be the first time in ten
years that pecan growers will be
assured of this percentage of pari-
ity, a price calculated to give them
a purchasing power for their crops
equal to that of the 1909-14 base
period, the CCC said.
The loan program will be operat
ed thru the American Pecan Grow
ers Association, Albany, Ga., and
the loan rate will be determined by
the size, yariety and grade of nuts
motion.”
HUNTERS ARE URGED
TO SALVAGE SHELLS
Atlanta. — Communique to hun
ters: ... no ban on hunting but
The law under which, the
tive committee acted provided"
in the event of the death of a party
nominee prior to the general elec
tion the vacancy in nomination may
be filled in a manner determined
by the proper party authorities.
J. L. Duckworth, chairman of the
(1) save your discharged shells for state democratic committee, issued
salvage; (2) if you bag a deer,
trim off the fat and turn it in; (3)
when you shoot waterfowl save the
down feathers. *
The regional office of war in/or
a statement in which he said that
"it appears that the Governor of
the State has taken i* upon himself
without any authority of law, to
exert every effort to prevent the
mation said 2,000 tons of- brass , people .of Georgia from selecting
from shells may be reclaimed this a superior court judge by casting
year as salvage in the scrap metal their ballot in the general elec-
Atlanta, Oct. 27-Two non-resi
dents of Georgia appear in the lat-
of stockholders in the
Governor Talmadge's
est list
Statesman
R OUTINE inspection of equipment is just as. important in the Coast
Guard as it is in the Army on the Navy. Here Robert Eckenrod,
Chief Boatswain’s Mate; Arthur D. Higgenbotham, Coxswain; and W. R.
Thomas 2nd Class Boatswain, check sea bags in the barracks. The
bottle of milk isn’t routine equipment, but it is important in keeping up
a Coast Guard’s health and stamina.
weekly newspaper. They are George
Niles, of New York, and R. D. King
of Miami.
Other stockholders listed in tne
report required by postal laws are
Eugene Talmadge, Atlanta; John
Whitley, LaGrange; J. Candler, At-
lanta; Meyer Regenstein Atlanta,
Rhodes Perdue, Atlanta; M. B. Col
lins, Atlanta; Geo. B. Hamilton, At
lanta; Tom Davis, Meigs; W. E.
Wilburn, Atlanta; Zach Cravey, At
lanta, and J. B. Daniel, LaGrange.
Gov. Talmadge was listed as pub
lisher and editor; his son-in-law,
W H. Kimbrough, as managing ed
itor, and his executive secretary
Miss Elsie Ray, as business man
ager.
TIRE QUOTA FOR
GEORGIA INCREASED
caiiiitoign.
No estimate was made on the
possible amount of feathers and
fqt that might be collected.
The OWI said the feathers are
wanted for use in sleeping bags
and pillows for the armed forces.
talMadge calls on
YOUTHS TO ENLIST
Atlanta, Oct. 27—Gov. Talmadge
issued a proclamation urging 18
and 19-year-old youths and other
citizens to enlist in the Army, es
pecially for services requiring spe
cialized training.
Proclaiming this week as Army
Week, the Governor said youths
and other volunteers now have “£
rare opportunity” to choose special
izqd Army service “which may be
denied to them if they delay en
listment.
He asked the Mayor of every
Georgia city, Chambers of Com
merce, churches, and other organ!
z’ations to co-operate in the pro
gram.
BOWDON BULLETIN .
PRINTING CHRISTMAS
EDITION IN OCTOBER
Atlanta, Oct. 28—The OPA Tues
day announced aji increase of ar-
tion quotas for grade 2 new tires
and recaps for the month of No-
vember. A total of 1,090,206 recap
tires or recapping services will be
available in November as com
pared with the October quota of
939,940.
tion.
Should it not be valid, he said no
harm would have been done. ’He
added that “no fairminded loyal
democrat” could question the “fair
ness of this method of procedure.”
Duckworth said the ordinaries ai*
dutybound to list party nominees on
the ballot when they are porperly
certified by .party officials and the
secretary of state.
FORMER POSTMISTRESS •
DIES AT WAVEHLY HALL
Waverly Hall, Ga., Oct. 26—Mrs.
Mary Hardison Whitehead, 65, wid
ow of A. H. Whitehead, died yester
day after an extended illness.
Mrs. Whitehead ertirea several
years ago after serving for 36 years
as postmistress of Waverly Hall-
Survivors include two sons, Dr. P.
A. Whitehead and Howard White-
head, of Atlanta,and a daughter,
Mrs. J. B. Thompson, of Waverly
Hall.
GEORGIA DISCOVERS
NEW SHELL JACKET
Bowdon, Ga., Oct. 24—This year
the Bowdon Bulletin is going to
publish two Christmas editions for
the first time in the history of the
newspaper.
The Bulletin is going to have its
regular Dec. 23 holiday issue and a
sperial Christmas-in-October edition
It is dedicated to boys in foreign
service and should reach them by
Christmas Week, as mothers who
have sons across say it requires ap
proximately two months for them
ELLAVILLE COUPLE
MARRIED 52 YEARS
Ellavllle Oct. 25—Mr. and Mrs. jj 0 reC eive the home, town paper,
E W Strange celebrater the 52nd The edition contains special ar-
anniversary of their marriage tIcles b y Maj. V. D. Whatley, Mrs.
Wednesday, Oct.'22, at their home. h. M. Bird, postmaster, and a spec-
Mrs. Strange is the former Miss 4^ pa ge of greetings from Bowdon
Lucy Callier of Thomaston and
Columbus. Miss Mary Hornadyand
Mrs. H. J.Williams, a cousin, are
the only attendants at the Strange
Callier wedding still living.
friends and firms.
Suggestion for the early Yule-
tide publicatioon was made by L.
P. Beck, local businessman and for-
Montezuma, Ga., Oct. 24—Shad-
burn Marshall, Montezuma young
man who took his doctorate in
metallugry at Massachusettes In
stitute of Technology last year, has
developed a blend of strengthened
steel that can be utilized for jacket
ing ammunition.
Brass, which is an alloy of cop
per and tin, has been used for this
purpose for centuries, and the use
of steel is aninno vation. When the
shortages of cooper and tin forced
the government to look for a sub
stitute, Dr. Marshall was assigned
to the research job, and after six
months presented his findings.
It is reported that after January
this steel will be used almost ex
clusively in the manufacture of
some types of ammunition.
Marshall.is a graduate of the
Montezuma schools and of Geor
gia Tech. He worked in Middletown
I Ohio, before taking postgraduate
mer Carroll County representative, jwork at Massachusetts Tech,