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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 16, 1946.
MEWS SUMMARY OF Adjt. Gen. Marvin Griffin Death Strikes In
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA Qualified as Candidate for Strange Ways For
Atlanta—Joseph Sherrard Ken
nedy, 67, a vice president and mem-
iter of the board of the First Na
tional Bank, died Monday night.
Lieutenant-Governor
Georgia Children
i Adjutant Gen- Atlanta, Ga.,May 7—Dealh struck
eral Marvin Griffin, of Baumridge in strange ways in Georgia over
V'ho has been campaigning as a t ^ e anc j jt s victims were
candidate for Governor for several p^jidj-pn
weeks, qualified as a candidate) . ' . . , . , ,,
for lieutenant governor Thursday At Dalton a big oak tree fell
afternoon an nine-year-old Barbara Jean
i Shortly' before Mr. Griffin’s Wells in , Crov ' n M,J1 Parl <- T*? e
Montexuma—Fresh Ga. peaches withdrawal from the Governor's apparently sturdy tree stood with
were shipped from Montezuma race, Hoke O’Kelley, of Logans- ( in o0 feet of the V,e s horne<
Monday to New York by air. It is ville, paid the required $500 and ’ One-year-old William
an experiment to test the practical- brought the number of qualified Nelms got hold of some kerosene
entries in the gubernatorial con- in his home at Tifton, drank it,
test to five. and died.
General Griffin issued a state- 1 Near Macon, Nimrod Center
ment in which he said ne had Crosby, 13-year-old Twiggs county
originally planned to run for lieu- boy was fishing in a clay pit,
tenant governor but changed his walked into water over his head
mind when the people of his home and drowned. He couldn’t swim.
Two Negroes Given
Death Sentence In
Leesburg Tuesday
Atlanta—Dr. L. N. Huff, Atlanta
optometrist, has become the sixth
■candidate for the $2,000-a-year, part
time job of Lt. Governor of Georgia.
ity of such shipments.
Americus—John Filmore (Phil)
Suber, 50, died unexpectedly at a
physician’s office here Monday
afternoon. Although in ill health
for several years his death came
as a shock.
county
ernor.
urged him to run for gov-
Leesburg, Ga., May 8—A rob
bery-murder December 30, 1945,
which netted only $22.00 in cash
culminated in a death sentence for
two negro men here Tuesday, as
Judge W. M. Harper, of the Lee
County Superior court, sentenced
John Burns, 22, and Willie Steven
son, 17. negroes from Plains and
Smithville respectively, to die in
Truman the electric chair June 17, 1946.
According to testimony in court,
Burns and Stevensons killed Lucius
Thomas, 75-year-o!d Smithville
negro, on the night of December
30, with an axe. Stevenson alleged
ly planned the murder and attract
ed the old negro’s attention, while
Burns is reported to have commit
ted the actual murder.
Manchester—One man w-as killed
and another injured in an auto
mobile accident on the Atlanta
highway between Warm Springs
and the Warm Spring airport
late Monday night.
EMILY WOODWARD
PRAISES GI IN JAPAN
At Rome the body of nine-year-
old John B. King, missing for 24
hours, was found in a sluice not
lar from where it empties into
ihe Coosa river. An inquest is to be
held.
Covington—May Belmont Dennis,
Covington publisher and a candi
date for Lt. Gov., will continue as
President of the Georgia Press As-
Athen, Ga., May 14—Miss Emily ;
Woodward, founder of the Georgia '
Press Institute and who has re-
after a tour of Japan with a 28-
member American Advisory Com-
. . „ , mission of Japanese Education, ex-
sociation until the press group p]oded lhe
rumor that American oc-
convention in Augusta.
Atlanta—The case of the “fake
and false” handbills distributed
cently returned to the United State during the Jimmy Carmichael rally
at Moultrie Saturday is one step
nearer solution with the discoveiy
that 10,000 of them were ordered
from an Atlanta printing shop.
JOINS JOURNAL STAFF
Sanford—Ten children,. 32 grand
children, 14 great-grandchildren
and many other relatives and
friends joined J. A. Stone in cele
brating his eighty-second birthday
here at the home of his son, A. L.
Stone.
Vienna—Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor
of the First Methodist Church in
Atlanta, will be the principal
speaker at the Americus district
Conference of the Methodist Church
to be held at the Unadilla Church
on May 28 at 10 a. m.
cupational forces in Japan are as a
whole rowdy and constantly com
mitting acts of maliciousness in
a speach before an audience of
students of the University of Geor
gia Hanry W. Grady School Jour
nalism.
j Said Miss Woodward, “The mis-
i sionary spirit has manifested it-
' self everywhere our boys have gone.
They are succeeding in instiling in
the people of Japan the spirit of
democracy. Most of them have done
a wonderful job in improving re
lations between the reces.”
Atlanta, Ga., May 10—Mark Tem
ple, an editor and writer on the
Atlanta staff of the Associated
Press for the past 18 years, resign
ed today to join the Atlanta Jour
nal’s Staff.
Temple recently has covered the
State Capitol and state politics for
the AP. Before joining the AP,
Temple worked on newspapers in
New Jersey and New York.
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ATLANTA
STATE PEACH LOSS
FACED FROM COAL
Macon, Ga.,
OF S6.000.000
STRIKE
Pelham—Pelham’s Farm Produce
Auction will have its formal apen-
ing Monday May 20. The auction Macon, Ga., May 9—Georgia
market will have its packing sheds peach producers faced loss of an
in the New Georgian Warehouse on an estimated six million dollars to-
the Dixie Highway and will be day as a result of the national coal
managed by Joe Spend and Harry
Frosteg.
Macon—Dorothy Rozier alias
Dorothy Gibson, charged with de
serting her crippled four-year-old
son, who allegedly died of starva-
strike, and resultant rail freight
embargo.
While peaches were not in
cluded in the list of banned items
for freight transportation, being
perishable, C. H. Bateman, one of
the state’s largest peach producers,
lion, was sentenced Monway to said the crop was threatened de
serve three years in the state prison cause of the inability to obtain
on a voluntary manslaughter containers.
cnarge. | He explained processors have
been obtaining containers from
Columbus— Innocent trespassing the American Can Company,
resulted in tragedy for Benny Myers which has been forced to cease
5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. operations.
Phillip J. Myers, who drowned in He said peach growers depend-
the Municipal Swimming Pool ed upon processors to absorb about
early Tuesday afternoon after he 3,000 carloads of peaches annual-
and his sister, Clara Belle Alice, ly, involving a value of approxi-
had crawled under the pool
to play inside the enclosure.
fence wately six million dollars.
Atlanta—Governor Ellis Arnall
Tuesday called upon all Georgians
to participate in “1 Am an Ameri
can Day” proclaimed by President
Tiuman for next Sunday. "It is an
occasion for recognition of all who
by coming of age or by naturaliza
tion have become citizens of our
common country,” the Governor
said.
Tifton—The fourth death in one
family since Mrs. George Henry
Hogan and her nephew, O. B. Gibbs,
22, both of Jacksonville, died in an
early Sunday morning automobile
collision oceured Tuesday afternoon
when George Henry Hogan died in
a Jacksonville hospital from in
juries received in the same col
lision.
ARMED MEN TAKE $7,300 IN
TWO GEORGIA THEFTS
Lavonia—Twenty years of poli
tical promises are about to come
true for Lavonia. For the State
Highway Department is about to let
contracts to pave two sections of
Highway No. 59—one 20-mile sec
tion between Carnesville and Com
merce, and another seven-mile stc-
tion between Lavonia and the Tu-
galoo River.
Gainsville, Ga. May 12—Three
armed men robbed an aged store
keeper-farmer at Carl of $7,000 he
had hidden in a clock early today,
attempted to loot a Dacula filling
station, then drove on to Lawren-
ceville and took $300 from a station
there, the State Patrol reported. ;
Sgt. Eugene Hollis of the Patrol,
said the men, all young and neat
ly dressed, gagged the storekeep- 1
er, Johnny Pierce, and left him 1
tied to his bed as they fled,
i Hollis added that the robbers
seemed to know where Pierce !
had hidden his money, received
from the sale of a farm. He said
investigators were working on the
| theory that they were residents of
this district. I
j The robbers drove from Carl
to Dacula and tried to rob Filling I
Station Owner Will Towler but
Towder ran them out of his place,
the patrol officer related,
i At Law-renceville, he said, they
robbed Alton A. Williams, owner 1
of a filling station and store, and
his 16-year-old son, Dayrl, of $300.
Macon—The graduation address
at Wesleyan College’s 127th com
mencement on May 27 will be made
by Dr. Raymond R. Paty, President
of the University of Alabama, ac
cording to Dr. N. C. McPherson. Dr.
Lester Rumble, Pastor of the St.
Mark's Methodist Church, Atlanta,
will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon on Sunday, May 26.
DR. B. H. HOWARD
DIES AT DAWSONVILLE
Athens—Dr. Sam L. Akers, dean
of Weslyan College in Macon, is
the new district governor of Geor
gia Civitan Clubs. Dr. Akers was
elected Monday night at the closing
session of the club’s annual con
vention which also featured an ad
dress by International President
LeRoy A. Sauer, of Dayton, Ohio,
and presentation of awards.
Dawsonville, Ga., May 9—Dr. B.
H. Howard, 69, Dawson County’s
only physician, died at his home
here Thursday morning. Dr. How
ard was born in Lumkin County.
He graduated from the Atlanta
School of Medicine in 1909 and had
practiced medicine here for 37
years. His wife is the publisher and
editor of the Dawson County Ad
vertiser.
Dr. Howard was a member of the
Dawsonville Methodist church and
of the Masonic order.
FATHER OF NEGRO POET
SUCCUMBS AT LUMPKIN
Valdosta—Time was when a far-
Lumpkin, Ga., May 6—Monroe
Sanford Flanagan, 83, father of the
., , ,, , | Negro poet, Thomas Jefferson
mer could hardly give okra away. jFlanagan> and himself
a song-
Now, its bringing South Georgia writer, died here Sunday,
farmers as much per pound as their ■ The old man w-as a pioneer
famed tobacco crop. Murray How- farmer. He died on the farm where
ell got 40 cents a pound for his he was born, having acquired it
okra at the state farmer’s market from the estate of George Brown,
here Tuesday. And housewives re-| w ho once owned his grandparents,
port okra selling for as high as 90 He had been active in the Meth-
cents a pound in some grocery odist Church and educational proj-
t tores . ! ects.
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