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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 29, 1942.
1
MEWS SUMMARY OF
IKE WEEK IN GEORGIA
In a city election at Americus
yesterday Hon. H. O. Jones was re-
cictcd Mayor without opposition.
Frist Lt. H. T. Critz, 25, of Stark-
ville, .Miss., was killed Saturday in
the crash of his fighter plane near
Toccoa, Ga.
Sumter county F. F. A. won nu
merous honors at the swine exhibit
held in connection with the State
Fair at Macon recently.
Geo. Charles Rogers, former At
lanta Postmaster, died Monday at
St Petersburg, Fla., where he had
been making his home for the past
ten years.
The J. B. McCrary Corporation of
Atlanta has been awarded a con
tract for $398,941 for construction of
extensions to the sewer collection
System at Pascagoula, Miss.
Mica, mined in huge quantities
near Macon to assist in war, brings
$10,000 per ton is told in a featured
article to the daily press by J. C.
McAuliffe, of Milledgeville,
Two of seven convicts who over
powered a guard and escaped from
the Colquitt county work camp
Sunday had been captured Mon-
daya nd returned to the stockade.
Miss Cornelia Daniels, of Still-
more for three years home demon
stration agent of Macon County,
has tendered her resignation and
plans to go into Government serv
ice.
The highest total of deposits ever
attained by an Augusta bank was
reached last 1 week by the Georgia
Railroad Bank with $20,216,811.67,
according to President C. H. Phin-
izy.
Ten Georgians were among the
408 dead, wounded and missing
listed on the Navy's casualty list
covering the two weeks ending Oct.
15, which was made public this
week.
Sixteen Americus merchants have
signed an agreement to observe
Wednesday afternoons of each week
as a holiday. Other merchants
were expected to sign the agree
ment yesterday.
Columbus Lions have inaugurat
ed their annual campaign to collect
old toys to be refurbished into ob
jects of Christmas joy for under
privileged children. City firemen
maintain a “toy hospital."
Miss Carolyn ' Clark, sophomore
student of Wesleyan College has
been electedsecretary of the Y.W.C.
A. by the student body of the col
lege. Miss Clark is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Clark of Smith-
ville.
More than $150 in cash prizes will
be awarde in the third annual
Sumter County 4-H Club calf and
fat cattle sale to be held at Ameri-1
cus today. Fifty boys and girls are
expected to have calves entered in]
the show.
Election of Karen Owens of At
lanta, as president of the Future
Teachers of America at Georgia
State College for Women and Fran
ces McKee, also of Atlanta, as a
committee chairman, was announc
ed this week.
Mrs. J. G. Edwards, 50, was
ldlled and her husband seriously
injured in an automobile-freight
train collision at the Cuthbert
street crossing in Blakely Tuesday
They were returning home from a
trip to Birmingham.
Judge O. T. Gower has directed
the Crisp county grand jury to
make a man-power census of the
county to ascertain the available
supply of workers and the number
needed to meet war production
needs on farms and In industry.
Bobbie Wildev Jr., 17-year-old
school boy of Cedar Crossing com
munity in Toombs county died with
in an hour after he had received ac
cidental shotgun wounds in his
side while hunting in a field near
his home with two young compan
ions.
Upon motion at a recent meet
ing of Demosthenian Literary So
ciety, University of Georgia, a
piece of wood from the world fa
mous Athens tree which owned it
self and which recently collapsed,
will be secured to be turned into a
gavel.
Home-making Education Teach
ers from the high schools of Craw
ford, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon
Peach, Pulaski, Schley, Sumter and
Taylor counties will meet the af
ternoon of Nov. 2 at Montezuma
high school for a discussion of
teaching practices.
Lt. T. J. Burke, 26, son of John
Burke, of Dorchester, Mass., died
Friday from burns received in the
crash landing of his plane near Ft.
Benning. The public relations offic
er said Burke was returning from
Birmingham, Ala., where he had
piloted Lt. O. K. Marquardt of Up
per Montclair, N. J., post war bond
officer who is in a hospital with
<*evere burns but will recover.
Shadburn Marshall, Montezuma
young man who last year took his
doctorate in metallurgy at Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology,
has developed a blend of strength
cncd steel that can be utilized for
jacketing ammunitiona according
to reports coming from Montezuma.
The S. E. Cohen Department Store
doing a flourishing business at
Jcsup for forty years is dissolving
and retiring from business. The
founder, the late Mr. S. E. Cohen
was mayor of Jesup several terms
and was held in high esteem
throughout his section.
Rev. R. H. Forrester, pastor of the
Leesburg Baptist church over a long
period, and having recently tender
ed his resignation, through the urg
ent solicitation of members of his
congregation, has withdrawn same
and has consented to serve the
church as pastor for another year.
Senators George and Russell, both
of Georgia, were among the Demo
crats voting against referring to the
military affairs committee an
amendment to the ’teen age draft
bill outlawing liquor in and near
military and naval posts. The Sen
ate yoted to referthe amendment to
committee by a vote of 49 to 25.
W. O. Martin, founder and head
of W. O. Martin Co., Atlanta, ac
countants died Sunday after an ex
tended illness. He was one of the
first auditors and accountants In
Atlanta and one of a small group
permitted to practice before the in-
come tax board in Washington, D.
C.
Atlanta's A. J. Hartley, attorney,
and president of the Georgia Jus-
tlcves and Constables, Association,
is Attorney General Ellis Arnall's
newest assitant. Hartley was ap
pointed by Arnall to fill the unex
pired term of E. J. Clower, who re
signed to become an officer in the
Navy. The term runs until mid-
January. The new assistant is a na
tive of Augusta. He is 41 years old.
Columbus, the home of one ol
the Army’s most important insti
tutions — Ft. Bennlng’s Infantry
School participated in the observ
ance of Navy Day Tuesday of this
week. Tuesday night there was a
program at the Army-Navy Y. M.
C. A., with Mayor Ed Murrah
presiding. The principal address
being delivered by Lt. Com. Edwin
Phillips, U.S.N.R., of Auburn Ala.
Jno. A. Mitchell Jr., 45, prominent
Columbus citizen, was found dead
in bed at his home Sunday night
several hours after he .had com
plained of feeling as if he were tak
ing a. cold and had gone to his
room. A physician, summoned by
Jrls mother who discovered the
body, expressed the belief that
death had been due to a heart at
tack. Mitchell had been dead sev
eral hours, the doctor said.
Georgia Democrats were urged to
pile up a huge vote for the party
nominees in the Nov. 3 general
election, in a statement issued Sat
urday by Chairman Duckworth of
the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee. Chairman Duckworth said
that every faction of the Democratic
party in Georgia ought to unite for
an overwhelming vote in order to
discourage future opposition by
other parties and independent can-
TIRE QUOTA FOR
GEORGIA INCREASED
Atlanta, Oct. 28—The OPA Tues-
iy announced an increase of ar-
m quotas for grade 2 new tires
td recaps for the month of No-
mber. A total of 1,090,206 recap
es or recapping services will be
ailable in November as com-
red with the October quota of
9,940.
jjule Felton, Sr.,
Is Appointed Judge
Oglethorpe City Court
(Macon County Citizen)
, Jule Felton, porminent Montezu
ma lawyer, this week accepted an
appointment by Gov. Talmadge as
Judge of the City Court of. Ogle
thorpe, to fill the unexplred term
left by the death of the esteemed
Judge R. L. Greer, who died a few
days ago.
This is the second judgeship to
be held by the Montezuma Felton
family, as Jule W. Felton, oldest
son of Jule Felton, is Judge of the
State Court of Appeals nad is now
entering his second term, having
been unopposed in the recent pri
maries.
The elder Judge Felton is one of
four children born to A. C. Felton
and Cellie McFarlane Felton of
Spalding commqnity, near Monte
zuma. His brothers are A. C. Felton
Jr., of Macon, Love Felton of Ideal
and his sister, Mrs. Myrtie Felton
(F. E.) Adams of Montezuma.
He was admitted to the bar when
only 17 years old, graduated from
Mercer University and took a post
graduate course at the University of
Virginia. He was solicitor of the
City Court when it was organized
in Oglethorpe in 1907, and held that
office through 1918.
He was then elected to Solicitor
General of' the Southwestern Cir
cuit and held that office from Jan.
1, 1919 to January 1, 1930, a period
of ten years, serving with distinc
tion and dignity.
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 Jones 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
Gary-Eatonton highway the night
of July 19.
Solicitor C. S. Baldwin charged
Jones was murdered “for his mon
ey.'
ELLAVILLE COUPLE
MARRIED 52 YEARS
Ellavllle, Oct. 25—Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Strange celebrater the 52nd
anniversary of their marriage
Wednesday, Oct. 22, at their home.
Mrs. Strange is the former Miss
Lucy Callier .of Thomaston and
Columbus. Miss Mary Hornady and
Mrs. H. J.Williams, a cousin, are
the only attendants at the Strange
Callier wedding still living.
JUDGE HUMPHRIES
DIES AT ATLANTA
Atlanta, Oct. 22—Judge John D.
Humphries, senior judge of the Ful
ton County Superior court, died this
morning at his home in Atlanta.
Judge Humphries, who was 9, had
been ill for some time, but he was
so improved recently as to be able
to return to his offices.
He had just been nominated for
a new term in the recent democratic
primary.
H. G. Hastings, Dean
Of U. S. Seedmen, Has
53 Years Of Service
POSTAL EMPLOYE
DIES IN SUMTER
Americus, Ga., Oct. 26—J, M. Har
rison, 58, employe of the Postal
Telegraph Co., for 35 years, for the
last 12 years station lineman at
Americus, died in a hospital here
Sunday following an illness of a
few hours.
Funeral and burial Tuesday at
Crawfordville. The widow, three
children, three brothers and two
sisters survive.
The defendants intent to appeal.
BURGLAR FAKES PANTS
AND ALL IN SERIES
OF ROBBERIES AT AMERICUS -
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 and 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, variety and grade of nuts.
TALMADGE PAPEH'S
LISTS STOCKHOLDERS
Atlanta, Oct. 27—Two non-resi
dents of Georgia appear in the lat
est list of stockholders in the
Statesman, Governor Talmadge's
weekly newspaper. They are George
Niles, of New York, and R. D. King
of Miami.
Other stockholders listed in the
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-
Atlanta, Ga.—In Harry G. Hast
ings, the H. G. Hastings Co., Atlan
ta, can now claim the oldest seeds
man in the United Staes serving as
the head of his own buslness.When
Mr. Hastings finished his 53rd year
in this position Oct. 1, he broke the
previous record held by the origi
nal David Landreth, of Bristol, Pa.,
who served for 52 years as head Of
that well-known firm.
I But it is not through this, interest
ing record that Mr. Hastings ranks
among the foremost citizens of At
lanta. It is rather because of the
public service he has rendered his
city, county, state and nation that
he holds the respect, esteem and
admiration of his fellow citizens.
I Since he came to Atlanta in 1899
from Interlachen, Fla., there has not
been a major public movement
waged in this territory which has
not had his full support and active
interest. He has served as vice pres
ident of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce, was one of the founders
and for five years president of the
Southeastern Fair, is a director of
the Ruralist Press, and has served
on innumerable committees work
ing for the advancement of Atlanta
'of Georgia and of the South.
Mrs Smith, Of Tiffon,
Weds Sheriff Smith
Of Wilcox County
Abbeville, Oct. 20—Mrs. Tj J
Smith, likes the name of Smith as
well as the duties of a sheriff's
wife.
The marriage of Mrs. O. L. Smith
of Tifton to Sheriff T. J. Smith of
Abbeville on Tuesday, Oct. 20,
makes a unique story all its own.
Mrs. Smith, a former resident of
Abbeville for more than 25 years,
lived here as the wife of the late
O. L. Smith sheriff for Wilcox coun
ty for 10 or more years. At his death
she was elected to fill his unexpir
ed term, and ran in a county elec-
jtion for sheriff—with Mr. Smith,
jher present husband, as one of her
opponents. Both were defeated by
L. W. Pearce.
This year Mr. Pearce resigned the
office of sheriff and ran for the of
fice of tax collector for the county,
and in a recent election, Mr. Smith
was elected sheriff of the county.
Now, since her marriage, Mrs.
Smith will return to the Wilcox
county jail to reside and take up
the duties once more as a sheriff's
wife.
During her first husband's ad
ministration, Mrs. Smith's present
husband served as his deputy. Al
so, they were married on the date
of her first wedding anniversary.
Crawford County Youth
Is Given Life Sentence
In Death Of Rufus Dent
.GREENVILLE ATTORNEY
{APPOINTED TO OFFICE
WITH GREENVILLE OPA
Greenville, Ga., Oct. 23—Judge G.
A. Huddleston, mayor of Greenville
'has accepted a position in the le-
Roberta, Oct. 24-Nelson Wade,' ^Idopartment oftheOPA with
17, was sentenced to life imprison- headquarters in Columbus. He will
ment for the slaying of Jtufus Dent I 1 ®}®'?Jtnn'in'nhniof
in a Roberta service station fire.
The case went to the jury at 2-30 *|) e ™ pl ° ”
p. m. and the young defendant * he H° me Guards and has large
showed extreme nervousness in the farmln * interests. He is well known
three hours while the panel was as a law practitioner, and has
out. When the verdict was returned aaf v ed aa Judge of the City Court
he cried. of Greenville.
His sister, Mrs. J E. Eade, wife
of the companion of Nelson on the
night fire was set to the service
station, fainted when the decision
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h “ -hanks again for the Herald.
brother throughout the trial.
Nelson had been indicted for
murder at the March term, Craw
ford superior court, but had turned Butler “H&aia
state's evidence in the trial of his n r
cousin and brother-in-law, J. E. Dear Mr ' Benns:
Until “the rising sun” is set.
John J. (Joel) Peed.
Camp Young, Calif., 10-7-1942
iSi a ie, e whef he tU is ne u d nde r r 0 Hfe Re sen-' ha^madTa changeof station^The
fence, to testify against the young
er Wade.
Georgia Supreme Court
Hands Down Unusual
Decision In Chamber Case
Atlanta, Oct, 23—The Georgia Su
preme court, Friday ruled that a
man can be convicted as a principal
in the commission of a crime with
out being present when the crime
was committed.
The high tribunal's ruling was nl
reply to a question certified by the
state court of appeals in the case
of Bill Chambers, a Banks county
filling station operator, who was
given a two to three year roadgang
sentence in the Habersham superior
court for the burglary of a gasoline
filling station.
Two men charged with stealing
45 gallons of an anti-freeze prepa
ration from a Cornelia filling sta
tion sold it to a station operated
by Chambers. Altho Chambers was
not present when the material was
taken and was not at his station
when it was delivered there, the
supreme court held that he had con
spired with the men who did the
stealing.
THREE GIVEN LIFE
IN FARMER'S DEATH
Gary, Ga„ Oct. 24—Ennis Key
19-year-old Eatonton youth, was
convicted Friday of murder in the
death of Harris Jones, a Jones coun
ty farmer and sentenced to life
imprisonment on the jury’s recom
mendation for mercy.
He was the third defendant to re
ceive the life sentence for Jones’
death. Earlier in the week, Mrs.
Elsie Simmons and Ernest Fuller
were convicted with recommenda
tions for mercy.
THIEF MIGHT CHANGE
HIS WAYS IF HE SEES
WHAT HE HAS STOLEN
copy of Herald arrived via old ad
dress one week late, but still good
news to me. We are here in the des-
|ager.
Macon, Oct. 27.—If a thief will
examine the contents of a suitcase
stolen at Spiller's restaurant yester
day he may mendhis ways.
Rev. Arthur Lee, negro minister
from Barnesville, told detectives
that his suitcase was missing from
the negro department of the res
taurant.
Contents included a book of ser
mons, various religious tracts and
papers, articles of wearing apparel
anda marriage license.
Jury Inquiry Into
Hicks Case At Dublin
Has Been Potsponed
In the trial he declared that Nel- . „.
ert where the temperature exceeds
son Knew Dent was In the service , » T . * j
station whan the two sc, tlte to '“I'S, "o W .n™i
““■——————— the best training sites in America
for desert war-fare. We think after
a run thru the paces here we‘11 be
plenty set for anything the Nazis
have to offer down in Egypt or
[Africa.
We have had a couple of dust
storms since we arrived here, and
Dublin, Oct. 24—Dr. Charlie ° nl y °„ ne sb °wer of , rain - the T f j rst
Hicks, physician held on two counts s * nce March the natives say. Its a
in connection with one of the most lon 2 wa Y t0 al }y town that s any-
bizarre cases in Middle Georgia his- wa y s , bl S enough to accommodate a
tory, will not be tried at the Octo- division of soldiers, and transporta-
ber term of Laurens superior court. *' on facilities are not too good, so
The reason is that the October g uess I’ 11 have to invite Ann Sheri-
quarterly term, which was to con-. dan out to dinner with us some
vene Monday, has been postponed. Sunday soon. And you bet shell
All cases on the calendar will be, 00 ? 1 ®- .
carried over to the January term. ’ * n conclusion, Mr. Benns, let me
Dr. Hicks, under armed robbery thank you again for the continued
and peace bonds totalling $1,500, is * av °* ,® T „ aad _ u ”_!__ t a
charged with having spirited Dr. W
C. Thompson to the Hicks hospital
and by threats with a firearm, to
have secured an eventual payment
of $1,000 and all of Dr. Thompson's
stock of drugs.
Miss Nontine Woodard, nurse at
the Hicks hospital who was under
$300 bond as the alleged “feminine
voice” which called Dr. Thompson
to the rendevous, was found dead
in her room at the hospital Oct. 8.
CUPID SHAKEN BY RUMOR
GOVERNMENT TO RATION
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 24—Fall al
ways has been the “marrying sea
son” in Lancaster county, home of
the “plain people” sects, but the li
cense buerau wasn't prepared for
what happened Friday.
Six clerks were kept busy an
swering telephoned requests for ni-
formation, as many calls coming in
from women, as from men.
Someone had started a rumor
that the government was going to
ration marriage licenses.
great big “V” is all ours, smooth
sailin'.
Very truly yours,
Tech Sgt. Ed. M. Childree.
Dear Editor of Herald:
I wish to express my thanks and
appreciation for sending me the
Taylor county paper, “The Butler
Herald.”
Here where T am located—about
four thousand miles from home—
the Herald is the link that binds
all of us old-timers together, who
are doing our bit for Uncle Sam
and the good ole U. S. A. We all
know that we can depend on each
other to the last ditch and then
some.
I like this Army life all-right but
still “there's no place like home.”
I'm getting along fine at present.
I wish to extend my thanks
again for the paper and I hope I
will continue to receive it in the
future.
Yours truly,
Pvt. Richmond L. Cox.
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