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MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN 6E0R6IA
Judge Bascom Deaver
Rules That Rent Control
Practice Is Invalid
A milk cow sale will be held at
the Cuthbert stockyards, Sept 9.
The Georgia Fox Hunters’ Asso
ciation will hold its 1943 annual
meet at Americus Oct. 18-21.
J. W. Thacker, 33, former j
Americus young man, died Monday
night in San Antonio, Texas, where
he had been residing for some
time.
Bids for construction of an in
firmary building at the Augusta
Veteran's hospital will be opened
by the Veterans Administration on '
Oct. 19.
Rev. W. G. Crawley, 72, finan- j
cial agent for the Methodist Chil
dren's Home and for 52 years a
member of the Georgia Methodist i
Conference, died Tuesday.
The minister, Rev. J. W. HughesI
who married them, Tuesday night
helped Mr. and Mrs. J. Riley Bar- j
ron, of Hapeville cut the big wed- J
ding cake at their 50th annivers
ary.
Mrs. C. Z. McArthur, Ft. Valley
died Tuesday at a Macon hospital
where she was rushed after having
suffered a stroke of paralysis early
Tuesday afternoon in a Macon
store.
An election will tje held in Pu
laski county today to determine
whether the liquor stores will con
tinue to operate under the present
plan, or whether the county will I
be dry.
Albert Lee Stewart, cotton mill 1
worker, Friday was under sentence
to die in the electric chair follow- j
ing his conviction in Upson Su
perior Court on charges of crimi- j
nal attack. |
Dr. Nolan E. Rice, head of the
biology department at Middle
Georgia College, Cochran, has re
signed to accept a position with
the Carolina Biological Supply Co.
Elon College, N. C.
Dr. Geo. C. Raymond, 59, well
known in druggist circles for the
past 40 years and at the time of
his drug license the youngest grad
uated ,pharmacist in the state,
died Friday at Chauncey.
Funeral services for Cpl. Maoma
Ridings, member of a Warm
Springs, Ga., family, whose slash
ed body was found in an Indian
apolis hotel room last week will be
held at Wram Springs today.
Miss Betty Bowen of Tifton was
chosen queen of the annual To
bacco Ball held at Tifton recently.
A graduate of Tifton school this
spring, Miss Bowen was voted the
most popular girl in the senior
class. I
Macon, Aug. 30—United States
Judge Bascom Deaver Monday
ruled as “invalid and unconstitu
tional” the rent control section of
the Emergencv Price Control Act
of 1942.
Judge Deaver handed down the
decision in the Middle Georgia Dis
trict Court in the case of J. W.
Payne vs. J. H. Griffin, both of
Thomasville, Ga., in which Payne
had sued Griffin for damages on
grounds Griffin had charged an
above-ceiling rent.
The jurist held that Congress
had delegated too much power to
the rent control agency for setting
prices. This resulted in rule by
regulation of a Government agen
cy instead of by law, making the
rent control section unconstitution
al, Deaver said.
Under the Rent Control Act, a
tenant may sue for damages if a
landlord violates the rent ceiling.
Two or three cases involving the
rent control section were before
the jurist, but he wrote one opin
ion covering all of them. He said
that in case his ruling is appealed
he assumed the appeal would go
directly to the U. S. Supreme Court
rather than thru the Circuit Court
of Appeals.
Judge Deaver said he believed
the act had been held unconstitu
tional by a district court in Indi
ana, but that the Supreme Court
dismissed that case without ruling
on constitutionality of the law.
Fourteen-Year-Old Bride
Seeks Divorce On
Non-Support Charge
Macon, Ga., Aug. 31—A 14-year-
old child bride filed suit for divorce
against her husband in the office
of the clerk of the Bibb Superior
Court Monday on grounds of non
support.
The suit was filed by Helen
Rampley against J. W. Rampley
and the petition charged that
Rampley had never contributed to
ward her support. The couple were
married according to the suit, Aug.
7, 1942, when the bride was only
13 years old. It was further stated
in the suit that Rampley was sen
tenced to a 15 year term in the
penitentiary “for an offense in
volving moral turpitude whies he
is now serving.”
Infant Girl Recovering
Following Operation To
Remove Belt Buckle
Eleven officers and enlisted men
of Ft. Benning were injured and
more than 40 escaped unhurt when
a five-ton trailer van, utilized as a
buso for military personnel, trav
eling between the post and Colum
bus, overturned Tuesday.
The state board of prisons, which
last week einvestigated charges of
cruel treatment at the highway de
partment's convict camp near Car-
tersville, was requested by Gov.
Ellis Arnall Tuesday to report its
“findings, recommendations and
actions.”
Pfc. W. O. Butterbaugh Jr., 29, a
member of Co. F, 48th Armored
Infantry Regiment of the Seventh
Armored Division at Ft. Benning
was fatally injured Monday night
during a mishap at a temporary
prisoner of war encampment near
Americus.
Helen Owings, 4-H Club member
of Gore community, Chattooga
county, is state winner for 4-H girls
in the $25 war bond drive—she
sold 4,177 $25 bonds. She will re
ceive a free trip to Savannah to
take part in the christening of the
S.S. Hoke Smith scheduled for
some time in September.
Georgia farmers now employing
prisoners of war to harvest their
peanqt crops are highly pleased
with the results they obtained
Monday, the first day the prisoners
were in the field, according to
reports received yesterday by Maj.
Paul Hines, chief of the Labor
Branch, Fourth Service Command.
The ashes of W. W. Blalock Jr.,
were buried at Christian Hill
Church Sunday afternoon near Ab
beville. Ten soldiers from Turner
Field fired the last shots over the
grave. The ashes were brought to
Georgia by an Army officer from
California, where Mr. Blalock died
in the crash of a flaming plane in
May.
More than a hundred boxes—the
first gifts for soldiers from home
since their capture—were started
from Atlanta Tuesday on the first j
lap of their journey to American |
service men now in the hands of
the Japanese. “Think what the i
boxes will mean to those men.For,
almost two years they have not I
received a single item of any kind j
from the United States,” Col. Geo. |
S. Clark, one of the last men to I
escape from Bataan, said. I
Atlanta, Aug. 29—Sped to At
lanta from Anniston, Ala., in a
state patrol escorted car, eight-
months old Peggy Joyce Bryant
was reported “doing nicely” Sun
day after an operation to remove
a small belt buckle from her
throat.
The Alabama and Georgia state
highway patrols cooperated to
clear the way for the car bringing
her to an Atlanta hospital.
The infant was operated upon
at 2 o'clock Sunday morning and
the buckle removed from her
esophagus.
The child is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Bryant of
Anniston, Ala.
Cupid, Not Business
Gets Columbus Teachers
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 27—In spite
of the reported nation-wide short
age of teachers, all positions, ex
cept one the Columbus schools, are
filled for the next semester.
Dr. Paul Munro, superintendent,
said Thursday that matrimony
rather than war industries had
claimed the greater number of his
teachers who had resigned. How
ever, Dr. Munro said, that only a
few Columbus girls are training
for teachers and that most of his
new teachers were from out-of-
town. Columbus girls, he said, are
1 choosing work at Ft. Benning in
| preefrence to teaching.
MINE STRIKERS GET
SUSPENDED SENTENCES
Pittsburgh, Aug. 30—Suspended
sentences of six months each and
a probation period of three years
were imposed today by Federal
Judge F. P. Shoonmaker upon 27
miners who pleaded no contest to
charges of violating the Smith-
Conally anti-strike law.
“I am lenient with you because
you may have been misled in your
actions,” the court commented as
the defendants, first to be prose
cuted under the War Labor Act,
stood before him.
Three of the 30 originally in- j
dieted in connection with what ■
United Mine Workers’ officials |
claimed was a “wildcat” strike m
western Pennsylvania's soft-coal
fields between June 23 and July 13
were unable to appear due to in
juries suffered recently.
The three are to appear Oct. 11 to
enter their pleas.
Pearson, Columnist,
Called Chronic Liar
By Pres. Roosevelt
Washington, Aug. 31—President
Roosevelt Tuesday denounced Drew
Pearson, newspaper columnist and
radio commentator, as a chronic
liar in his columns and accused
him of bad faith toward his own
country because of his recent .ut
terances questioning this country's
position toward the Soviet Union.
Mr. Roosevelt's blistering re
marks about the capital columnist
were touched off by a question as
to w'hether Premier Stalin of the
Soviet Union was anxious to ar- !
range a tripartite conference.
The President did not refer to
Pearson by name, but referred to a
statement by Secretary of State
Cordell Hull Monday in which Hull
accused Pearson off monstrous and
diabolical falsehoods” in his re
ports that Hull and other key State
Department figures were opposed
to Russia and wanted to "see it
bled white.”
HEADED FOR ARMY. GOOBER
STACKER MAKES $10 A DAY
Americus, Ga., Aug. 31—There's
money in shaking peanuts and in
stacking the goobers. Many hands
make $4 to $6 a day, but what is
believed to be a record was made
by Leroy Cobb, negro worker on
the Fred Bartlett farm near Leslie,
when he stacked 425 stacks in four j
and a half days or almost 25 acres.;
Cobb followed a side delivery I
rake. He was paid 10 cents a stack j
which netted him $42.50.
Monday Cobb reported to Ft. I
Benning for induction. 1
County School Supt.
Gives Official Notice
Of School Opening
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
All of the White Schools and
three negro schools, Butler, Rey
nolds and Potterville, will open
Monday, Sept. 6th. All schools will
operate on one-session for at least
two weeks. The Butler and Rey
nolds white schools and all three
colored schools will open at 8:30
a. h. and close at 2 p. m. each day.
All other white schools will open
when buses arrive in the morning
and dismiss when the buses arrive
from the high schools in the after
noon.
Five hours will be spent in the
class rooms which will leave only
thirty minutes for recreation.
Seven of the white schools will
have a longer school day and will
have more than thirty minutes for
recreation.
Done by order of the Taylor
County Board of Education in call
meeting this August 31, 1943.
W. T. RUSTIN,
County School Supt.
Maoma Ridings, WAC
Corp., Native Georgian
Is Found Slain
SOLDIER IS SLAIN,
WOMAN ATTACKED
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 28—Sgt.
Kendall Scharnweber, of Rochester
Minn., was killed and his woman
companion assaulted and stabbed
near Columbia Friday night by an
unknown assailant. The woman
wa sreported in a serious condition
at a Columbia hospital.
The assailant fled in the wom
an's 1939 convertible coupe.
Scharnweber was stationed at
Ft. Jackson.
Indianapolis, Aug. 28—The lace
rated body of a Camp Atterbury
WAC—Cpl. Maoma L. Ridings, 32,
of Warm Springs, Ga.—was found
Saturday night in a downtown In
dianapolis hotel.
Slumped in a rocking chair on
the balcony porch of an apartment
! Mrs. Mae Little, mother of slain
I Cpl. Maoma Ridings, spoke of her
' daughter in the dazed voice of one
1 who cannot grasp the enormous
perversity of chance.
“I can't believe it, Mrs. Little
said. “Nothing like this has ever
happened to us before. We're a
good family. I know it's true but I
can't believe it somehow. I suppose
I just haven't realized it.
“She was a good girl—so proud
of being in the WACS. She gave up
a good job in Washington to join
the service at less than a fourth of
what she was making.
“She wrote home often,” Mrs.
Little went on. “I heard from her
just last week. And when she was
home in May she looked wonderful
in her uniform—so proud and
fine.”
The body of the slain girl was
expected to arrive in Manchester,
eight miles from Warm Springs
yesterday. Funeral lservices will
probably bq held today at the
Warm Springs Baptist church.
A coroner's jury Tuesday held a
man identified by the coroner as J.
S. Conine, of Cheyenne, Wyo., came
to his death by falling from a train
near Mattox, Ga., Saturday.
Sixty Are Injured
In Train Wreck
Wayland, N. Y., Aug. 3q_ .
least 25 persons were killed ani
many persons injured MonrU,
Chief Dispatcher A. H. H
Laughlin said, when the Lack
wanna Limited passenger train nl
Delaware, Lackawanna & Wester
railroad collided with a freight
gine. n '
Unconfirmed but reliable report,
said as many as 60 persons wZ
injured, many badly. The dean
and injured were speeded in am
bulance and private motor cars in
hospitals in Dansville, Horneli
Wayland, and Genesco.
Danville hospital attaches, sev
eral hours after the wreck, ex
plained that they were too busv
to compile a list of victims.
The accident occurred about
half-mile from the Wayland rail
road station when the freight
pulled out Of a siding. The two
locomotives collided, there was an
explosion and cars of the Limited
were tipped over and strewn along
the right-of-way.
Walter Baird, Wayland under-
taker, said he understood at least
30 persons were killed.
The limited was en route from
New York to Buffalo when the
dreck occurred.
Two planes, one of which was
piloted by H. A. Stone, of Savannah
were Tuesday credited with the
sinking of a 50,000-ton Italian
transport of the Conte Di Savoia
class as it lay at anchor at Bag-
nara in Southwestern Italy.
Hj
Butler, Qeorgia
Phone 89
SUGAR
5 Lbs
34c
10 Lbs
67c
Tuna Fish . .
. Can 39c
Prunes . . .
. . Lb 15c
Raisins . . .
Box 15c
White Karo Syrup
17c
Meat Sp
ecials
Pork Sausage .
. . Lb 35c
Pork Ribs . .
. . Lb 21c
Pig Liver . .
• . Lb 23c
Stew Beef . .
. . Lb 20c
Skinless Weiners
. . Lb 29c
Oieomargine . ,
. Lb 19c
Pork Chops . .
Lb 29c
Mixed Sausage .
Lb 27c
A Good Supply
of Western
Branded
Beef
Pork and Beans
Kelloggs Corn Flakes
Potted Meat . .
Salt
Matches . . .
Tall Sardines . .
Lard ....
Crisco ....
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Snowdrift . . .
1 Lb Sulphur . .
Pine Tar . . . 1-4 Pt 10c
Lydia E. Pinkham Compound 98c
Epsom Salts 5 Lbs 25c
Wine of Cardui Bottle
1000 Saccharin Tablets
100 Bayer Aspirins
Can 15c
Pkg 5c
. Can 6c
3 Boxes 10c
3 Boxes 11c
. Can
4 Lbs
3 Lbs
. 3 Lbs
3 Lbs
15c
75c
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73c
10c
89c
$1.25
59c
Our furniture store will be opened
sometime next week. Watch for our
opening. A complete line of new furni
ture. No second-hand furniture. New
low prices on new furniture.
Buy Your “Back To School Supplies” At Doyel’s
Tablets
Pencils
Ink
• i
• • •
6 For 25c
2 For 5c
5c to 15c
Fountain Pens .
Note Book Paper
Crayons . .
. $1.00
6 For 25c
Pkg 5c