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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 25, 1943.
"Who Killed Mary Fagan" I Dr. louis Small Denied
Question Of Wide Interest, Bail By Gov. Amall
May Come Up Once More Tending Court Ruling
Noted M. E. Minister
Died Suddenly Sunday
Darien Presbyterian
Church Will Celebrate
H. F. DIXON DIES
AT ELLAVILLE HOME
Atlanta, Nov. 21—A retired i Eastmarii Ga ( Nov . 22—Dr. Louis
Following Griffin Sermon Its 100th Anniversary
Griffin, Ga., Nov. 22—Rev. M.M.
Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 21—Harry F.
MOULTRIE WOMAN
DIES FROM SHOT
Moultrie, Ga., Nov. 20—Mrs
s. J.(
Dixon, prominent citizen in this urday ^Sgtft° U of W ^.>? ead Sa *
section of the state and cashier of wound and Sheriff 3
- — ” W.HV* UHCiiu 1. V g
Darien, Ga., Nov. 23—Rt. Rev. the Bank of Ellaville, died sud- said the woman apparently iqj
Maxwell, 40, superintendent of the j okn Moore Walker, bishop of the denly at his home here Saturday herse,f aa 1110 ras . ult of despond
Georgia Jurist promised Saturdayl G> Small , former New York phy- G nmn“di^i^of the Methodirt ™ A ZZwill deHve he night from a heart attack. He wa^s over the suicide recently of
“after certain persons are dead Rician, must remain in jail until c h Urc h and described by Bishop diacese Atlanta, will deliver tm. 5g y ears 0 ] d . sister in Cairo, Ga.
to clear Leo M. Frank of the mur- | completion of appaels to the state j Arthur Moore as “one of Georgia's principal address at the services ^ ^ j s surv i vec j b v jjjg w ife Mrs ^ ^ u °t ed woman's 13-y ea .
...... - , , - - - “ T '*' ! >t+te T.PP Williams nivnn- His ? ld daU g hter 38 Saying the Sh( ^
der for which he was convicted
supreme court on legal jurisdic- j e ff ect i ve younger leaders,” died which will be held at Darien on NettteLee* ' winiams ^Dixon- 'hrs ° ld dau 8 hter as sayin
tional questions arising from ha- ; unexpectedly Sunday at his home the evening of St. Andrew's Day, mother Mrs Lillv Dixon- a sister ing occurred shortly
mr nnc nrwwHItirrs fiiincr nr I J inuuiier, ivirs. L,iny XJIAOII, a sisier fnthpr nrP s Vf wj h nn , n ,
and lynched following one of the| beas ^ rpus proceedlngSi Superiorj in Griffin,
nation's sensational trials 30 years Goui t Judge Eschol Graham ruled I mg dPa th was attributed to
after
I Nov. 30,
, in commemoration of the Mrs. H. W. Hogg, all of Ellaville; , Priday abom
nniversary of the founding a brother, Eugene Dixon, and two ... „ n e J hcr rn °'h
ago.
“I am one of the few people who
Monday. I heart attack whteh came soon atl-' looth annlverea ry of the founding - ”T“ « grabbed up a single
Judge Graham denied an appli-|cr he had delivered a sermon as of St. Andrew's Episcopal church „ K shotgun and pulled the
know that Leo Frank was inno- 1 cation for bail and ordered the guest speaker at the First Baptist in Darien.
the armed forces overseas, and
Jimmy Hogg of Ellaville.
Lewis told
digger
practically the sair»
cent of the crime for which he ' DodR ° count y sheriff to continue church in Griffin. I Rt. Rev. Middleton S. Barnwell, I ’"u/niZ 6 m «nh» story, Sheriff Beard said. Mrs. w
.as convicted and lynched," wrote holding him In Jaih of the dlocasa of Georgia, ^^^d of d?m“om " »« M
70-year-old Arthur G. Powell, for- New York seeks the return of 1*1?** ^st i Wi “ al A S0 deli , ver an addre f' , Bank of Ellaville.
mer judge of the Georgia court of' Dr. Small on the claim that he Georgia conierence in Atlanta last st. Andrew's was organized un
appeals in a book “I Can Go Home has been convicted there on one j week and had been reassigned to der tbe direction of Bishop Stephen
Now.” The book was published by charge of conspiracy and nine , PO- st ° f superintendent at Grif- E11 i 0 tt in 1843, and a church edi-
the University of North Carolina charges of abortion, and sentenced i , also was elected last week fj ce b u jit in Darien that year. This
Press. 1 to serve from three to five years, as a delegate to the Methodist building was destroyed in 1862,
“I know who killed Mary in prison.
Phagan, but I know it in such a' New York
claimed Dr. Small
general conference. i when the town of Darien was
A native of Elbert county, Mr.| shelled and burned b troops, and
Maxwell joined the North Georgia the present edificei modeled ^ter
way that I can never honorably forfeited a $12,000 appeal bond, con{eren C ^''in^l924'' H^fTiW^wed
make the information public as came to Georgia while his ease with the Homer circu it, ”hen the ^
long as certain persons are living was pending In the New York su- | Jonesboro drcuit for three vears
- - • I expect to write down what: cine court, which affirmed his ; bf , F „. t Fnd fills 1 Plans are now “roP 1 ^ for the
I know and why 1 know it, seal conviction. V.«* r° r „ ' celebration of the centennial.
II up and put it away, with in
structions that it is not to be
opened until certain persons ane ektradition . M eanwhile~a warrant, yea'rs.
“ l ° " ”"‘ 1 ' * s " At that time he was transferred
to the superintendency of the Ath-
The Frank case created a na
tional sensation back in 1913 and
a motion picture centering around
it was made several years ago. ,. . . . ... ,. ..
Powell said in an interview S‘ ni 1 p * d *?, arrest hlm t 0 " thc ' N , ew
the Covington circuit for two years T piI T
Dr. Small resisted extradition,! and the First Methodist church ai B sdop Walkei and Bishop Barn-
but Gov. Ellis Arnall granted the Griffin for four and one-half JY o1 ! are c ^P ected to arrive in
j Darien on the afternoon of the
30lh and, with other visiting
charging Dr. Small with practic
ing medicine without a Georgia
license had been issued, and when
Georgia highway patrolmen at-
that he could not be compelled to
testify before a grand jury now
because he received his informa
tion in his capacity as an at
torney.
Powell, now a practicing at-
ens-Elberton district. After six
months here, he served at La- (
Grange for four years, and then Andrew s.
became superintendent of the Evensong,
Grifiin district for a year. He was
reappointed to the latter charge
Friday. He was former president of
the Exchange - Club of Griffin.
Survivors include his father,
clergymen, will be entertained at
dinner at the Altamaha Inn by the
wardens and vestrymen of St.
York fugitive warrant, the Dodge
county sheriff took him in custody
on the Eastman city court war
rant.
New York contended this action
was friendly to Dr. Small and J.
tornev in Atlanta was one of the Faughan, agent for New York
organizers and first judges of the started habeas corpus proceedings Pev - Johri Maxwell, of Stockbndge
court of appeals, sitting on the in Dodge county superior court.
bench from 1907 to 1912 when he Judge Graham refused to take |
retired to private practice. He was jurisdiction, saying the Eastman 1 [pa CoildtV HptfF'lli
engaged in private practice at the city court had jurisdiction. Buton! l “ , ' c vwuieij ircillflll
time of the Frank trial. appeal the state supreme court re-
Mary Phagan lived in nearby versed him. A motion for rehear-
Marietta and worked in a pencil ing on that decision is pending
factory in Atlanta. She was slain Judge Graham said, and he de-
Aprii 26, 1913—Confederate Me- clined to grant bail pending a de-
morial Day—and Frank, who came cision.
from Brooklyn and was secretary j _■
of the crime, was accused of the _ aim Ml I
crime. His trial was postponed rOUTllI Yldt LOfNI
Several times because of high feel-
ing against him. ' DllVe Will COltilNie
conducted by Rev.
Frank S. Doremus, vicar in
charge of St. Andrew's, with ad
dresses by Bishop Walker and
Bishop Barnwell and special mu
sic by the vested choir, will be
wife, four daughters and a brother held at 7 p. m.
A reception, with the Woman's
Auxiliary in charge, will be held
M. J. Akridge, prominent residpr
of Sales City. n
“It is a good thing to give thanks”
I N NOTABLE INSTANCES in Bibli
cal history the thanksgiving of
individuals and groups has been
accompanied by remarkable demon
strations of divine control. It is re
corded in the sixteenth chapter of
the Acts of ttie Apostles that Paul and
Silas, when cast into prison, sang
praises unto God at midnight. Sud
denly, in an earthquake, "the founda
tions of the prison were shaken:
. . . the doors were opened, and
every one’s bands were loosed.”
Health with Key to the Script ures -
says (p. 2). God is not mov^d t)y
the breath of praise to do more than
He has already done, nor can |L
infinite do less than bestow all g 00 H
since He is unchanging wisdom arid
Love.” Our thanksgiving does not
change God, but the attitude of p n j se
and gratitude lifts our thoughts to
Him, and hence changes human he
liel's, freeing thought from the heavk
ness of fear, doubt, and disease, and
letting in the light of spiritual n n .
derstanding. From this spiritual basis
Then “the keeper of the prison” took
Paul and Silas into his home, and, j the power of God is recognized and
listening to “the word of the Lord.” j acknowledged as supreme in even
be “rejoiced, believing in God with I detail of our daily living
However, Frank was convicted
and sentenced to death, Powell
wrote, with the mob in the streets
around the courthouse, grumbling
for vengeance, “howling for his
blood.” Frank was not in court
when the verdict was received—
**lhe judge and his counsed were
afraid to have him there lest he
toe lynched.”
The ease was carried to the U.
S. Supreme Court without success.
From Jan. 18 To Feb. 15
Washington, Nov. 21 — The
Fourth War Loan drive with a
goal of $14,000,000,000, will begin
Jan. 18 and run until Feb. 15,
Secrtary Morgenthau announced
Sunday.
The three previous drives raised
Sleeps in Woods And
Lives Upon Herbs
immediately after the services.
NEW LICENSES PLATES
ASSURED FOR MOTORISTS
Atlanta, Nov. 14—Southern mo-
i torists were told Sunday they can
I look forward to new license plates
Albany, Ga., Nov. 22 Hes j or t^eir automobiles in 1944.
known as Annanias—not because j Eniott Npwell) ma nager of the
of any talented gift of deviating, m>B regionai facilities depart-
from the truth such as character- | ment explained that the material
ized the Biblical celebrity—but to make the tags will
come from
because Lee county folks don t i excess stock piles not needed for
know him by any other name. ! war production.
He's a negro. Small of stature, other items on which manufac-
wizened, grey. One would guess j ^ ure can ^ resumed by use of ex-
he is about 65 years of age. His s tocks include metal slide
home is in the forests of Lee coun
ty, first one secluded place, then
another. During the day time he
roams the peanut fields, gathering
goobers to eat. Possibly crows are
blamed for robbing pecan trees
when in many instances, it would
be Annanias. Farmers report mys
terious .forays on their -tater
patches.
It is a pathetic case and one
fastners, buttons, hooks, eyes and
other small civilian products.
nil his house.”
This is but one of the many proofs
of ttie power of God that have come
and are ever coming to the human
family through enlightened thanks
giving. The Psalmist declared
(Psalms 92:1), “It is* a good thing to
give thanks unto the Lord, and to
sing praises unto thy name, O most
High.”
The spiritual thought which ac
companies true thanksgiving is a
mighty power for good. True thanks
giving is based on the truth that God
is All, and that all that really exists
is good. The creation of God, Mind,
Life, Love, is spiritual and good. God
is All, and His ailness is demonstra
ble. Should we not Dll our moments
and hours with sincere thanksgiving
that divine Love is present and
available? The ailness and power
of God refute the material contention
that evil is real and powerful.
God is the infinite Father, and man,
as the child of God, is perfect and
free. God is not influenced or
changed by our thanksgiving and
praise. Mary Baker Eddy, in the
following passage in the Christian
Science textbook, “Science and
It is right to be thankful for the
blessings that appear in our every
day human experience, for our
friends, our home, our church, ou
supply, and our opportunities. Am
in expressing our thunks, let us re
member that the blessings received
by one are equally available to the
whole human family, in our trui
selfhood we are the heirs of God
and our heritage is one of freedom
abundance, dominion. War, disease
and disaster are experiences in the
dream or life in matter; they neve
touch the real man. Therefore we
are grateful, not merely for a per
sonal sense of freedom from evil
but also for the great fact tha
in ail the realm of reality there
no sickness, no aggressive evil,
sulfering, loss, poverty, disaster. The
practical result of such thanksgiving
is 'protection from the evils tha
claim to dominate human affairs
It is indeed “a good thing to giv
thanks,” to identify ourselves with
that which is upright, good, and true
The demonstration of health, har
mony, and abundance, is the untural
outgrowth of a grateful heart,-,
—The Chrixtian ttcienve Monitor. 1
Finally, a petition for clemency more than $50,000,000,000, and
was. filed with Gov. John Slaton— each exceeded its goal,
cow an elderly Atlanta attorney 1 The Treasury had said State
like Powell. On Slaton’s last day War Financing Committees have 1 that Lee county authorities should I
in office, June 30, 1915, he com- been strengthened and expanded, j investigate. Homeless, with no one
niuteri the sentence to life. Powell and millions of volunteer sales-| to care for him, this old negro is
wrote that Slaton "told Lie ids men will carry' the campaign to|a veritable hermit, existing on
privately that he wo'i’.i have every individual investor in homes! what Mother Nature provides. He
j^-anted a lull pardon, :f he had und plants throughout the nation, j has been run away from so many
not believed that in a very short i Major emphasis will be placed 1 colord homes in the county that
while the truth would come out.” on the $5,500,000,000 quota for in- he now never approaches any;
Powell said Slaton did not dividuals. During the period from
■*T«dge the issue by granting a j an . 18 to Feb. 1 only sales to in-
reprieve and throwing the matter dividuals will be reported to the
never asks for “something to eat.”
In a way, he presents a hazard.
When he builds camp fires at
«nio the lap of the incoming gov- Treasury. Sales too ther nonbank- night to lay down by, it is seldom
emor,” and that he also recog- ! ing investors will be included ini he extinguishes the flames when
nized "that unless he let Frank the reports beginning Feb. 1.
be hanged he would forfeit all his
political popularity and am
bitions.”
Flank was taken “at 11 o'clock
Morgenthaii explained that this
arrangement will not preclude
the acceptance of subscriptions
. , . . . . . „ „ from other nonbanking investors
on a night m mid August 1915,” at any time>
from the prison farm at Mi Hedge
triiie “by a party of mask’d men
In motor cars,” wrote Powell,
“carried northward 165 miles to
an oak grove two miles from the
courthouse and public square'* in
Marietta and “hanged with a new
hemp rope to an oak tree.”
Slaton himself was threatened
Taylor Smith Named
Editor Macon News
Macon, Nov. 22—Taylor M.Smith
. . . „ , managing editor of The Macon
by mobs,( and the National Guard j\j ews f or ] as t year and a half
became executive editor of the pa
per Monday.
Smith came to the Macon Tele
graph almost three years ago aft
protected his home.
“Intimateas I am wdth Jack
Slaton, I have never discussed this
fact with him,” wrote Powell, “but
I am quite sure that I know he
knew that Frank did not kill Ma-
ry poweU a wrote that Slaton later Times-Dispatch
at Miami Beach told him about ' ouni , P ..
the night on which he decided to weekly ^ Plications,
commute Frank's sentence:
“I worked downstairs in my
library till 2 o'clock in the morn
ing preparing a
he leaves on one of his forays,and
on one occasion, flames from one
of his camp fires spread to adja
cent woodlands and did consider
able damage.
BUENA VISTA BOY
MISSING IN ACTION
Buena Vista, Nov. 21—Technical
Sergeant Emmett Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Jones of Buena
Vista, has been reported missing
in action, the message received
recently by his parents from the
war department reading “Missing
in action over New Guinea since
Nov. 6.”
_ ^ , GEORGIA GAS TAX
or experience on TTie Birmingham 1 RETURNS PALL OFF
Age-Horald, The Richmond (Va.) j
T h e Louisville
, Atlanta, Nov. 23—Receipts from
(Ky.) Courier-Journal and several (Georgia's six-cent a gallon gaso
line levy fell off about $80,000 in
the first month since revaluation
of “A, B. and C” ration coupons
He later
swapped from The Telegraph to
the afternoon News.
... In new capacity, Smith will but tbe j^g was far jpgg than
— b - statement and have charge of the news staf cf bad been prcd i c ted by Gov. Arnall
drawing the order. When I went P a P er . as wt ‘B as direction o and g ta te Auditor B. E. Thrasher
upstairs, Sallie (his wife was edl l? ria * P a *? es ’ f I November returns from the tax,
waiting for me. She asked me Jack Tarver left as editor of I lie based on collections in October,
“have you reached a decision?’ New s to become associate editor cf amoun ted to $1,566,035, the motor
— - - -- - The Atlanta Constitution this
*Yes’, I said. ‘It may mean my
death or worse, but I have ordered week
the sentence commuted.’ She kiss
ed me and said, ‘I would rather be MARIETTA AIR FIELD
the widow of a brave and honor- TRAGEDY IS PROBED
able man than the wife of a cow- |
ard.”
fuel unit of the state revenue de
partment reported Tuesday.
An additional $7,000 is expected
before the books close.
'LOW SEX STANDARDS'
SHIPS HONOR 2 GEORGIANS
Marietta, Ga., Nov. 22—Air field ! ATTACED BY CHURCHES
' officials are investigating an acci-1
i dent which occurred Saturday at 1 New York. Nov. 21—The Federal
the Marietta Army Air Field in Council of the Churches of Christ
been hon- which Hubert M. Hathaway, 34, of in America tonight appealed to
A fountain treat that tastes just
right. Sure . . . because it’s made
right while you watch! Pepsi-Cola
syrup is measured accurately to the
“syrup line” on the glass. Then m
goes ice—and sparkling soda to
bubble it up to the brim. 10 ounces
tail and lull of flavor!
Two Georgians have
ored by launching of Liberty Tarrytown, N. Y., was killed and “molders of public opinion” to join
ships named for them: Dr. Chas. four others injured. in a nationwide program to reme-
H. Herty, Georgia's famed scientist Three soldiers in the accident, dy what it called a “widespread
who was instrumental in develop- whose names were not disclosed, lowering of sex standards.”
ing the South’s pine pulpwood in have been released for duty. The The organization expressed con-
dustry and Gen. J. B. Gordon, fourth, a civilian, is being treated viction that the essential strength
Georgia’s outstanding military tig- in a hospital. and well-being of the nation de-
nre in the War Between the States. Hathaway was an employe of pends upon the home and called
Last week and CampGordon at Au- the Western Electric Co. His body for the upholding of the highest
gusta, was officially dedicated in was sent to Tupper Lake, N. Y., standards of sex behavior” as pri-
boaoT of the general. for burial. ( mary to national welfare.
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PEFSI-COU COMPAHY, LONG BUND CITY, N. YJ
nUttlCUSED BOTTLER: p ®J*i-Cola Bottling Co* Macon. Ga.