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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JUNE 13, 1940,
Annual Yankee Service 3 Million in Famed Gems
Honoring Confederate Dead Recovered From "Fence'
Sceduied For Last Siiday
| Chicago, June 10—Army investi
gators, using code words, a lie de
tector and secret telephone calls
recovered $3,000,000 worth c
, is stolen German crown jewels froi.
Confederate Decoration Day, dm an unidentified Chicago fence a
You thought, as 1 did, rh. t was arranging to dispose
April
(Sunday’s Macon Telegraph)
^ou didn’t know that today
.ib. them, it was revealed tonight.
At the same time, Maj. John
Rural Letter Carriers
Recall Old Days As Service
Observes Its 50th Birthday
i SCREWWORM FLIES
I REACH STATE LINE.
1 REPORT DISCLOSES
you
Decoration Day was
Well, it is and it isn’t __ - -—- uuin, ^
In Ohio, the United Daughters Evans, Sixth Service Command
of the Confederacy are holding provost marshal, said he had
memorial services for the Conl'ed- heard about a published “rumor”
crate dead at Camp .Chase Ceme- that a U. S. Army general was
tery in Columbus, today. And to a involved in the case nut said he
Yankee a soldier of the Union Army hid not know whether it was true,
in the War Between the States, ol. 'Ihe jewels were recovered after „
William H. Knauss must go the Col. *h W. Durant, 35, and his wife | r , ’
credit for daring to honor the Con- WAC Capt. Kattneeri B. Nash Du-’ . that animal, it seemed, was “a
federate dead against whom he and rar >t, 34, had been seized in Chi- T^kht until the wind blew. Ihe
his connades had fought. eago and confessed the theft from vvp both started jumping,” sai
Screwworm flies have now reach
ed the Georgia-Florida line, Cole-
[man, county agent, reported this
Macon Ga., June 9—Dean of the! week, urging Taylor County farm-
ural letter carriers out of the Ma- i ers observe their cattle and other
•on Post Office is Ellis Kitchens,; livestock daily and to treat any
vho has been “carrying the mail” cuts or wounds promptly,
or forty years, though he has I Reports from W. G. Bruce, etomo-
orked out of the Macon office legist, Federal Bureau of Entomo-
unly about 15 of those. logy and Plant Quarantine, disclose
Kitchens likes to recall the that the screwworm flies, which
horse-and-buggy days of rural free stai t p d migrating northward, from
delivery, the mud, the swollen ldp * r over-winter area the latter
creeks whre a horse would have P art of March « have now reached
to swim to get through, and the !dp Georgia-Florida state line, Mr.
time when he drove a “Montana Coleman revealed.
j “Screwworm infection is vey ser-
ious if allowed to gain a foothold,”
hen the county agent warned. "Protec-
saici ,ive treatment consists of covering
all cuts and wounds on livestock
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At Camp Chase there had been cautioned that it would take a only ten years old, for this week
nrior,n me tbo captured Con- complete inventory to establish marks the 50th anniversary of the
~ prison for the captured Con- complete inventory to
federates and one is reminded of whether any of the loot was gone, establishment of RFp
Andersonville, where the men of Durant reportedly threatened to It was in 1891 that Postmaster
t h e Northern Army suffered expose the fence it he does not re- General Wanamaker in his annual , SETS U. S. RECORD
- i, „ turn fho intrnlc? U., .. ...... *
CALLAWAY $52,000
FOR CHAMPION BULL
. ii i- uui Liiu-iii i in y ouiicieu icm-c u nc uura nui ic- teener
greatly as prisoners of the Con- turn the jewels believed by Durant report first suggested rural de-
federaev. when he reads Colonel 1° be missing. livprv
federacy, when he reads Colonel 10 be missing. livery, but it was not until i8yt> j * , . .,
Knauss’words of introduction to his Evans declined comment on a that the first experimental rural nnn ° na f 0 ™ "tgh price of ;
Story of Camp Chase. report that Durant was being re- delivery service was established at . , aS - P , „ by fuller E. Cal-
“Prisoners of war did not die turned to Chicago from Washing- Charlestown, W. Va., the home of ia ’f y Jr ” ot DaGrange, for a bull
amid the roar and crash of bat- ton. where he is held with his William L. Wilson, at that time ‘be auctions held at the farnour
tie, where soldiers go to death wife, but informed sources said it the Postmaster General. Silver Trust Ranch at Fort Worth,
with heart ailame and blood on was possible Durant might be re-1 Congressman James O’Donnell' P f sidGn J. of
Mr. Callaway
. i (.ongressman James O Donnell
fire but heartsick and weary, they turned here tomorrow in an effort of Michagan first introduced a bill ,5. SnL hv
sank to rest far trom home, far to obtain jewels which the fence authorizing rural delivery in 1892 r "J 3rmcd by
from the shrill of fife or the beat still might hold. but it failed to pass. It was Thos. TueSday ’
of a drum.” I Evans, who revised the value of E- Watson of Georgia who finally Thp Purchase was that of the 5-
Colonel Knauss found the old the stolen gems from $1,500,000 to proposed the amendment to the Y ear -old “Real Silver Domino the
Camp Chase cemetery a scene ol $3,000,000, said the fence had the Post office Department Appropria son of the international
“unutterable loneliness and shame- jewels, including rubies, diamonds t j on gpi which actually set aside champion “Real Silver Dollar the
ful disorder.” Gates w'ere down and and emralds hidden in a dime in- f un ds for this service. 52nd.” The $52,000 bull is a deep-
Today more than 30 thousand bodied, slioit-legged, thick-fieshed
rari ammo ,mtk „ tt,. i
HONEST G
the place was overrun with briais the-slot locker in the Illinois Cen
and weeds and bushes: the piace “al railroad station at Chicago. Irural” Carriers in^the"nation'Tnd rpd animal with'white face. He has
had become a “resort for the ani- Me said the Durants, arrested at . ,’ won championship honors at sev-
mals.” The many graves of the the LaSalle Hotel last Monday, at amon S them arp S1X mpn - ln ad ; oral national shows, ti was said
Confederates who had died in Camp Drst professed ignorance of the dition to Kitchens, who leave from , T r ,, , . ’ , . ‘ ,J C '
Chase prison were scarcely to be theft. Then they were taken to the the Macon post office each clay on to Georgia « a !
found. Chicago office of Prof. Leonard the seven routes . was said Y ’
And many Confederates had died Keeler, lie detector expert, and
in the prison camp. Lack of rations given lie detector tests
and physical hardships contributed After hours of questioning Mrs.
to the deatn rate, said prominent Durant made damaging state-
Coluinbus people. Anudisease look m cnts. Three days later Durant
a terrific toll; cholera and smail a l s ° began to “talk” and poured
pox claimed many victims. The win °ut a story of the whereabouts of
ter was abnormally cold in 1865, ihe vast fortune in gems,
with a mean temperature for Jan- Col. Durant. Evans said, asked
uary of 19.8 degrees. Southern men permission to telephone the fence,
were not accustomed to such weatii- Army investigators escorted him to
er, and many deaths were attribut- a public telephone w'here he made
ed to the cold. a secret telephone call. The fence
From Gcwoer, 1864, through Ap- arranged for another call. He said
ril, 1865, there were 1,611 deaths, he would call a loop restaurant at
In the first four months of 18b5, 8:30 p. m. Friday.
1,210 prisoners were claimed by Durant was escorted to the res-
death. taurant that night, Evans said and
Colonel Knauss w'as imbued with ihe fence called on schedule and
what lie called a “moral obligation revealed that the gems were in the
to see that the Confederate dead railroad depot locker,
were cared for. In 1868 he had Durant reported back to the in-
made a pact with an ex-Confeder- vestigators and was escorted to
ate guide in North Carolina when ih e depot. The jewels were in a
he was on a business trip South, shoe box in the locker. When
Finding that he and the ex-Con- Durant opened the box he report-
federaie guide in North Carolina, edl Y exclaimed;
had fought against each other and “We’ve been double-crossed. The
had both been wounded at Freder- biggest gems are gone!”
icksburg (Colonel Knauss haa lost ( When Mrs. Durant began to
a legi. Knauss and bis former ene- "talk," Evans said, she revaled
my became fast friends. Each a- th at some of the jewels were at
greed to assist comrades of the tJlp home of her sister in Hudson,
other whenever it was possible. Wis. She gave Lt. Fred N. Her-
So Colonel Knauss Went into bert, Cincinnati, Ohio, in charge of
action at Columbus at Camp Chase the criminal investigation in Chi-
cemetery. He hired a farmer to ca 8°- a letter with a code word—
clean off the grounds that Spring "cemetery”—for her sister.
1894, a few Irionds of the South
placed flowers on the graves.
As memorial uay of 1865 drew'
near, the colonel invited a small r . -
group of ex-Confederates who \|7P Ol Bread LOdVM
were living in Columbia to meet W,CIIU LUOTCa
at h s rea estate office and plan
a program. They arranged to have
the .,iv,unus giuubed and cleaned,
The trees trimmed and the gates re
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Bakers Ordered to Cut
By Agricultural Dept.
Honest government means that the money paid in taxes by our citizens will be spent to
support public services. There will be no extravagance to hide the waste and theft of the oeop'e s
money There will be no return of the day of an asphalt monopoly, of a schoolbook ‘trust’ of
roads that crumble I of inferior materials. There will be no backbreaking load of debt
created in the ne- - — age on Georgia's future for you to hn-e to reoav
with interest. ‘
• l G c° d I government means th ° f Georgia will continue to merit the respect of our neighbors
in the South and of our fellow citizens throughout the Nation. It means that State government
will provide the best services that the State's income permits, and that Georgia will solve every
prob em whether governmental, social or econom ic. in an orderly, a dignified and a lawful man—.
Check the items below in which you are interested, and see just what Jimmie Carmichael's plcch*
of oood government and honest go,&.».nient" means to you and to our Stale.
C. Washington, May 27—The Agri-
Three days before Memorial I C T Ul ^ ur „ e De P art ment tonight ordered
~uy. the speaker, who had , S ’ Bakers to cut the size of bread
agreed to talk at the program, Joavps and rolls 10 per cent by
changed their minds. They refused ^ eiK .> effective June 1. The order
to go on with it because of the JS designed to enable this countiy
sentiment against the South which lo continue its heavy wheat and
had been stirred up by the annuuii- ff° ur exports to famine areas over-
cenient of the ceremonies. seas and to stretch out short, do- j
First formal program was held in mes tic bread supplies. The action
June, 1896, and the audience of 56 was taken through an amendment I
persons was orderly and puiet as f° the war powers act.
Knauss began: 'Die depaitment did not say what
“We will commence these humble effect it will have on bread prices,
exercises without apologies other *f an Y-
than to say we wish to pay respect Prices presumably will remain
to some unknown dead, who were fhe same, however, since ORA an-
American citizens and who died in nounced previously that bakers
a cause they believed was right.” making such reductions voluntari-
For the service in 1897 flowers ly would not have to cut prices,
in quantities came from all parts The new loaves must be 10 per
of the South and shortly alter- cent smaller by weight than bread 1
ward, Souther state contributed 10 and rolls produced by the same
trees to be planted in the cemetery, baker on March 15, 1946.
ln 1898 the Confederate Glee Club Most bakers who did not reduce
of Louisville, Ky., sang at the Me- sizes when they recently were re-
morial exercises, and with each quested to do so voluntarily, said
succeeding year, the day became they were afraid of violating con-
m ? re JS£° rtant ; l .. Dieting state laws requiring bread
In 190_, an Ohioan, VV. P. Har- to be of certain weights. Officials
rison, contributed the money for a believed the new federal order
stone arch which now marks the will supersede state law.
final resting place of the Confed- The department said bakers who
erates. the first tribute of North- do not believe they can cairy out
erners to the men who were once the order, may appeal to the pro-
m^n r t VVhl ? the monu ' duction and marketing adminis-
washed ri^v der inT S rU h, tlOI | 1 guard tration by June 10. If the admin-
^ a d ni £ht because istration believes the baker can.
thrarch.' 6 many threals 10 blow U P comply, he must make the cut.
Camp Chase cemetery is now ——
under the supervision of the Quart- fragrance, Yankees and Rebels, a-
ermaster Corps of the War Depart- like, will gather to pay tribute to
ment and the graves of the Con- their bravery.
federate dead from 14 states are Confederate Memorial Day in
marked with marble headstones. Ohio is observed on the Sunday
Over these graves today, a voliey nearest to the birthday of Jeffer-
will be fired, flowers will give off son Davis, June 3.
■ ; aniM'i ■
VFOR GEORGIA TAXPAYERS: There will be no new except to corry cut existing
pledges to education, without c vote of the people. There will be no State debt created;
Jimmie Carmichael will not leave $35,961,630.38 for his successor to pay. State services
will be maintained at a high level by prudent, vigilance and efficiency.
VFCR GEORGIA FARMERS: An expanded system of State Markets, all possible support
to proposals to include labor costs in determining parity, encouragement of industries
that utilize our home products are part of Carmichael's plan.
^ FOR GEORGIA WORKERS: Protection of their interest in the reconversion period,
expansion of Georgia industry to give employment at the newly acquired skills devel
oped during the war, a continuation of Georgia's fight against freight rate discrimina
tions so that employment can be assured are part of Jimmie Carmichael's program.
VFOR GEORGIA VOTERS: The laws that safeguard the ballot box in primaries and
elections will be retained; the laws requiring proper qualifications for voters will be
enforced. The county unit system will be saved from machine politicians and their
predatory allies. A Presidential-preference primary will be assured.
VFOR GEORGIA YOUTH: For the young men and women of Georgia, including the
State's veterans. Jimmie Carmichael oromises a State government of which they need
not be ashamed, a program of progress in keeping with their vision of the South's
Empire State of Tomorrow.
This is a program in whicn every Georgian has a stake, jjhe future of Georgia map
depend upon your vote. His not yet too late to make your yoke heard for yourself
andjor good government. Until July 5th (except .V F u lfon county) you may yet
REGISTER TO VOTE ON JULY 17th.
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League of Georgia composer! of citizens who believe th*t Jimmie Car
michaei’s election means honest government and good go.eminent for
CARMICHAEL'S
PROGRAM *
i
ECJCAT.ON: Living wages for aa> ■
teachers, including a pledge to pey a
i minimum of fifty per cent increase in sal 1
, aries. An expanded schorl library service |
A guarantee of continuat on of the school
lunch program, k’o dictatorshio over edu *
cction to cause the discrediting of our I
colleges. A building program for the Uni
versify System. *
HIGHWAYS: No roads built of inferior '
materials by .avorite contractors using I
"monopoly asphalt" that sends up soon
bubbles. Preference for the rural hiqhwov
system. Fair and non political administro •
tion of the agency, with ollocation of fundr ,
for projects on a basis of their value to the
public. |
HOME RULE: Enactment of legislation that 1
will let the people of Georgia s counties |
and towns manage their local affairs in
their own way. I
AGRICULTURE- Expansion of the Stote *
Formers Market System and odvocacy of a I
fair method of determining farm parity to
assure Georgia farmers a living income. *
INDUSTRY; Encouragement of industries *
based upon Georgia's natural resources •
that can utilize the newly acquired skills ol .
Georgia workers. A continuation of the
fight for fair freight rales for Ihe South. •
HEALTH: Adequate support for the health •
services. Disease does not recognize city |
limits or county lines.
WELFARE: Within the limits of Georgia's
means, all possible assisfa-ce to old cine *
pensioners, dependent children the crippled I
and the blind. A revision of the law on old
to dependent children to liberalize its no- ’
Visions. Strong advocacy of a "floor'' for •
Federal participation in old one assistance. ,
O'JR STATE: An Administration that will .
be decent, dign'fied and honest, that will
safeguard Georgia s interests, protect Gcor •
P a s traditions, and keep Georgia out of ,
cebt. 1