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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER. GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 18, 1943. jas. 0. McGehee, ninent Columbus Succumbs nhus Ga, Nov. 13—Joseph McGehee, prominent Colum- ♦tnrneVi died at a Columbus M ' t last night after a short KpCphee, who had been ac- engaged in the practice of lt Columbus for more than 20 had been in ill health for time but in recent months he much improved. He was tn the hospital Tuesday aft- where his condition be- critical Thursday. McGehee was born Dec. 9, in Greenville, Ga., the son 0 McGehee and Mrs. Evelyn U ahlin McGehee. His father /number of years ago. Mrs. he e resides in Columbus. McGehee served in the Navy 18 He was a graduate of niversity of Georgia, having eh an A. B. degree in 1920. ok a postgraduate course in t Emory University. ,j n (T to Columbus in 1921, he rt the office of Judge Frank ley where he practiced law nber of years. Later he en- a law partnership with Jno. under the style of Mc- and Odom. For the past years he had practiced in- ally. Mr. McGehee, who nephew of the late Judge nk McLaughlin, was widely throughout this section. He member of the Charles S. in Post of the American and was a member of the ke Methodist church, where ght a Sunday school class, iving are his wife, the for- liss Ellene McDonald; two ers, Marilyn and Ellene ee; his mother, Mrs. Evelyn ee; a sister, Miss Mary Mc- of Columbus; and a broth- M. McGehee, Charlotte, N. PAGE THREE Two Thomaston Girls ;Wms National Honor In Educational Grdes From Thomaston Times: Two of Thomaston‘s girls away at college have been honored and recognized nationally by being selected to go into the 1913 edition of Who's Who in American Col leges and Universities, a book in which only outstanding students are recognized. Doris Croom and Elsie Kelly are the girls to bring honor to themselves and their own. Elsie Rally is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kelly and -is in her senior year at Bessie Tift. She has been outstanding in her schol astic work as well as in many other school activities outside of the class room. She was elected to the national sorority of Alpha Psi in her freshman year. She is now editor of the Campus Quill, the campus newspaper, and has been president of Studio Players since her sophomore year. When j there is radio work or radio acti vities for the school, she is always on the program. She is majoring in speech and looks forward to graduation when she will seek ; work in the field of radio, j Doris Croom, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Croom, has won Recognition for her work at Mer cer in and out of the classroom. Some of her outstanding accomp lishments are: She is radio ex tension director for the university, j business manager of The Cluster, 1 campus newspaper, president of her dormitory, president of Alpha Chi Epsilon social sorority, vice- | president of the Baptist Student Union, university organist. Since entering Mercer in 1‘40, Miss I Croom has served her school on i many occasions. Music is her ; hobby, and she is expected to make it her life work. American Aviator With Left Leg Cut Off By Japs, Returns Home Bainbridge, Ga., Nov. 14—A U.S. flier whose left leg and right heel were deliberately cut off by a Japanese Zero's propel lor as he parachuted into the Pacific Ocean was given a hero's welcome on a visit to his parents at Bainbridge. Lt. Samuel Logan of tile U. S. Marines, 22-year-old Kansan, last saw his parents when he enlisted in June, 1941. The family later 1 moved to Bainbridge. ! Army public relations here made public additional details of the previously announced story of the young soldier, holder of the Pur ple Heart medal. On his second flying mission in the Southwest Pacific, Logan ran into a band of Jap Zeros, fought them until his plane was riddled and he was forced to ball out just outside the harbor of Russell Is land. , As he drifted toward the ocean, one Jap dove at him with his plane, trying to rip him to pieces with the propellor. Logan twisted desperately but the Jap succeeded in slicing away part of his left leg and his right heel. He landed in the water and was picked up by an American rescue party. TWO DOUGLAS CAMP CONVICTS CAPTURED BY CITY POLICE OF EASTMAN DeMargery Plans To Stay Real Estate Dealer In Bahamas Despite The Tells Of "Shooting' Jisy's Recommendation Quail Without Gun Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 12—Al fred de Marigny quietly defied today the murder trial jury which { recommended that he be deported from this British colony—and at ' the same time cleared him of the charges that he murdered his pretty wife's father, Sir Harry Oakes. "I'm staying in Nassau,” he told reporters who had written about his 22-day trial in the Bahamas Supreme court. With him as he talked at his Victoria avenue cottage was his wife, Nancy, radiant with happi ness on the first day of freedom her husband has known since he was arrested July 9. Appearing rested and dapper in a jauntily-checked jacket and light tan trousers, de Marigny was thoroughly enjoying himself. Sheafs of congratulatory cable grams came to him during the day and he was acclaimed by crowds on the streets. De Marigny said he was “tried 10 per cent for killing Sir Henry Oakes and 90 per cent for marry ing his daughter.” He commented the Oakes slay ing “was something out of my conception, it has 20 or 30 angles”. “It could have been for black mail, or for many things,” he added. “None was investigated. When I was arrested the case was closed.” stian Science on-Sermon and Body" is*the subject json-Sermon which will be Churches of Christ, Scient- roughout the world next Golden Text is: “Know ye it your body is the temple Holy Ghost which is in you ye have of God. and ye are ur own?” (I Cor. 6:19). ig the citations which sc the Lesson-Sermon is the ng from the Bible: thou has been our dwelling in all generations” (Fs. Lesson-Sermon also in- the following passage from hristian Science textbook. « nad Health with Key to :riptures” by Mary Baker “Sooner or later we shall hat the fetters of man's fi- pacity are forged by the i that he lives in body in- )f in soul, in matter instead it.” “Soul, or spirit, is God igeable and eternal; and oexists with and reflects lod, for man is God's irr- pp. 223, 120.) NEGRO WANTS TO PAY DEBT MADE IN 1908 ft TO END YEAR SURPLUS CASH >n, Ga., Nov. 13—The city of will wind up the fiscal f 1943 with money in the but Mayor Chas. L. Bowden telling what the balanee minute people find wo noney to spend they want spend it,” the Mayor ex- in former years, Macon's ‘xecutive said, a part of the ; W |H be applied to the ization of the city's bonded nd the remainder will be for postwar needs. SEASON. FEW S FOR quail ha, Nov. 13—Georgia hunt- ce the country's longest season with one of the s shortest shell supplies the season opens Nov. 20 lends thru March 1, Chas. director of the game and mmission, said today. u * hunting begins on that Ir rabbits, turkeys, raccoons Possums, Elliott announced, ? trapping season opens on bearers except beavers and Opening of the dove sea- 5 been postponed until Dec. VOTES HIKE isabled VETS h'ngton, Nov. 16 — The uesday unanimously ap- a 15 per cent increase in s for disabled veterans of odd Wars I and II. The 1 vote was 341 to 0. 31 '• which now goes to the affects more than 362,000 ^ Provides proportionate b / weet increased living death benefits to families h service-connection dis- Macon, Ga., Nov. 14—A Georgia negro, now making his home in- New York credits Father Divine with causing him to want to pay a debt he made 35 years ago un der an assumed name . In 1908 S. H. Haddock was a merchant at Haddock, Ga. He loaned a. negro man of that sec tion some money. Years, passed and he never heard from the man. Twelve years ago this month Mr. Haddock died. Last week a letter went tot he Haddock post office for the late Mr. Haddock. It was forwarded to his daughter, Mrs. Dons Wesley, who is principal of the Pearl Stephens school in Ma con. In the letter the negro explained how the debt was contracted 35 years a>»o andhis desire to meet his obligation. BIG THANKSGIVING EATS PLANNED FOR SOLDIERS Eastman, Ga., Nov. 11—Eugene Reardon jpid Charlie Head, two of the convicts who shot their way out of the Coffee county prison camp at Douglas Sunday, killing one guard and wounding another, Were captured here last night by Chief of Police H. C. Shiver and Policeman W. B. Hitchcock. Reardon is serving a life sen tence for murder and was sent up from Richmond county while Head is serving d sentence of 8 to 10 years for assault with intent to murder in Muscogee county. ' The two stole an automobile in Alma and drove to McRae where they tried to secure some gasoline. State Patrolmen Cpl. H. L. Beatty and Trooper J. J. Wilkerson be came suspicious of their actions and investigated, but failed to catch the men. They notified the police at Eastman who barricaded the highway leading from McRae to Eastman. The second car they stopped hadthe two men in it. At first the men denied their identity but when the state patrol men arrived they were identified at the -jail. It was stated by Cpl. Beatty the convicts would eb taken to Tattnall prison. Chief Shiver and Patrolman Hitchcock were commended by Patrolman Beatty for their courage and efficiency in capturing the two men. Atlanta, Nov. 14—Soldiers at Army posts and camps in the Southeastern states will have ample opportunity to prove their knife-wielding abilities Nov. 25— not to mention forks. The Fourth Service Command announced today that Thanksgiv ing menus provide a pound of tur key per man for the main event, plus dressing and gravy, cranber ry sauce, mashed potatoes, butter ed peas, corn, tomato and lettuce, celery, pickles, hot rolls and but ter, pumpkin pie, apples, grapes, candies, nuts and coffee. An no ration points neded. "WITNESS" ON BOND UNDER DRAFT CHARGE FIRST CONCRETE CARGO SHIP PASSES ITS TESTS Tampa, Fla., Nov. 16—America's first self-propelled concrete cargo ship, the David O. Saylor, Tues day completed its first trial run and was accepted by the U. S. Maritime Commission, members of the trial board announced. The ship, built by McCloskey & Co., shipyard, made the trial run in the Gulf. After the trial the board officially gave its approval and the ship was si t , 1 to the Maritime Commission. FOREST FIRES COVER 608 ACRES IN GEORGIA Macon, Nov. 16—Georgia forest fixes for September - numbered 36. consuming 606 acres, District For ester Paul Groom, of Macon, re ported. He said this was the second -best record for the month among 11 1 southern states in Region 8. Out I of 6,573,904 acres of ‘ protected forests in the state, the percent j burned was 1.43. Georgia has had 2,269 forest fires since Jan. 1, wifft 94,009 acres of timber destroyed, Groom said. Americus, Ga., Nov. 15—Leon D. Slappey, whose veracity is un questioned, is responsible for the following story that should make good material for Believe It or Not: Slappey, who is a real estate dealer, said that while showing some farm property to a prospec tive purchaser a few days ago, a covey of quail wa3 flushed. Al though he had no gun, he went through all the movements of an armed hunter, picking out a single bird, taking dead aim, and “jull- ing the trigger.” At the instant of the make-believe “shot,” the sound emnating from his own throat and lips, a wad of feather fell from the bird as if a load of real lead had penetrated its body, and the quail fluttered mortally wounded, to the ground. Mystified at the incident, Slap pey investigated and found that the bird had flown into a barbed wire fence which had all but dc- feathered the Bob White. ARNALL SPEECH FROM N. Y. WILL BE BROADCAST Atlanta, Nov. 15—A distinguish ed delegation of Georgians plan | to go to New York next month to hear Gov. Arnall deliver the prin cipal speech at the 58th annual dinner of the New York Southern Society. The affair will take place at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on the night of Dec. 3. Arnall will be the first Georgia Governor to address the New York Southern Society in many years. In fact, the records show that one of the last of the great Georgians to speak before this organization was Henry W. Grady, editor of The Constitution. Gov. Arnall's program for re- I forming the prison system of the 1 state has created widespread in- , terest throughout the north. It also has made him an outstanding political figure in the Democratic party. On account of these fac tors, the Southern Society plans to arrange for the broadcasting of the Governor's speech. j Two Men Killed, Ten Others Injured In Ala. Hotel Fire Sunday Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 14—-A two-alarm fire at the Morris hotel historic landmark in downtown Birmingham, killed two person* and injured 10 others today. The flames, brought under con trol by firemen from seven sta tions after a two-hour, fight, wen confined to the fourth and ftftfc stories, gutting most of the room* on those floors. J. M. Cohen, 50, operator at n. Birmingham jewelry store, and C. B. Klnnon, 46, employe of a Bir mingham billiard parlor, were suf focated by smoke which filled the* rooms they occupied. Assistant Fire Chief L. H. Penn said the fire, of unknown origin, broke out in a janitor supply room on the fourth floor and spread rapidly through that floor and th* one above. An estimated 50 ooca- pants of the two floors, cut ofHT from stairways and elevators, left the building by way of fire es capes. EIGHTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD NEWSBOY HALE, HEARTY Arlington, Ga., Nov lj.—Joe SL Mansfield Sr., one of thp oldest citizens of Arlington, was hale and hearty Tuesday as he celebrated his 87th birthday. “Uncle Joe” as he is affection ately known to his firends Is the* agent for four daily papers in Arlington and despite his agm spends at least two hours deliveries on foot each day. Hot has a boy for deliveries among: the more widely separated sub scribers. Nov. 1, also marked hi* 20than niversary as a newsboy. 55 ARMY INDUCTEES HURT IN BUS WRECK Macon, Ga., Nov. 13—A leader of the Jehovah’s Witness sect was under $1,000 bond today after an arraignment hearing before U. S. Commissioner Mrs. M. G. Martin on a charge of violating selective service statutes. The Witness, Claude W. Pilcher, was arrested by local officers on order of his Los Angeles, Cal., draft board which charged that he failer to report for induction in the Army last February. Sympathizers who arranged bond for the cultist maintained that Pilcher was an ordained minister and not subject to induction. CHICKEN MAURAUDER KILLED WITH BRICK Columbus, Nov.—Mrs. H. A. Johnston finds that people do not really need shotgun shells to kill a chicken thief. She finds a brick sufficient. She heard a confusion and squawking in her back-space chicken run about 1 a. m. She went to investigate, picking up a brick on the way. She hurled that at the center of disturbance and struck a large ’possum, which she finished off with anohter blow or two to the skull. This is supposed to be the thief that has stolen 14 chickens of late about the Johnston home. B AND C COUPON VALUES CHANGED Washington, Nov. 11—The unit value of B and C gasoline coupons issued beginning Dec. 1 will be changed to five gallons, the OIA announced Tuesday, but empha sized this will not mean more gas for motorists. The present value of supplemen- tary coupons of these types is two gabions in the East and Mid-West and three gallons in the Far West. The new five-gallon coupon will be issued with the designation B- 2 and C-2 on their face. .As the present B and C and B-l and C-l coupons run out, they will be re placed by the new higher-unit value coupons. In the meantime, outstanding coupons issued before Dec. 1 will continue with current values A books are not affected under liie new arrangement. SIMPLICITY Long the keynote of ele gance, the simplicity of this pretty pumps makes it in good taste everywhere. The roomy walled toe .... elasticized binding . .. and low walking heel assure you an abundance of comfort as well. In black or Army Russet smooth leather .. also in black gabardine and suede. DREIZ1N Dry Goods Store BUTLER. GEORGIA FIVE NEGRO SCHOOL BUILDINGS BURNED - Atlanta, Nov. 13—Five wooden buildings used for junior high school classrooms at the Booker T. Washington high school for negroes- were destroyed by fire yesterday 'a* short time after all students had been dismissed to attend a football game. Business manager T. W. Clift estimated the loss at $50,000, . and said it was covered by insurance. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 16— Fifty-five Army inductees wera injured, five seriously, Tuesdajr afternoon when the bus on whicH they were riding crashed into a bank bordering a highway near Chattanooga. There were, 59 men on the bus. Highway police said the acci dent occurred when the cranlc shaft broke, throwing the bus out of control. • Army officers said the men weee- en route to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,, from an induction center in Ten nessee. AT FIRST SIGH OF A c use 666 666 TABLETS. SALVE. N6SE MOW Taylor County Motor Co, Reynolds, Georgia