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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXX > NO. 46
R. C. CARMICHAEL
JAILED FOR KILLING
OF GRADY WHITE
FATAL SHOOTING IN SARDIS
COMMUNITY SATURDAY
MORNING.
Mr. Grady White, well known
Early county farmer, was shot and j
instantly killed by Mr. R. C. Car-j
michael on Friday morning of last i
week, the fatal shooting taking'
place in the rear of the home of'
Mr. Carlos Branch, in the Sardis,
community.
According to Mrs. Branch, who
was the only eye witness to the
shooting, Mr. White had been to a
pasture near the Branch home to
feed his hogs. On his return Mrs.
Branch suggested that he wait a few
minutes and she would send Mrs.
White some vegetables for dinner.
Mr. White was sitting on the back
steps while Mrs. Branch was gath
ering the vegetables, when Mr. Car
michael came into the yard with a
shot gun and inquired where he
could find Mr. Branch. Upon being
told that he was at a nearby sawmill,
according to Mrs. Branch, Mr. Car
michael went on around to the
other side of the house, where it is
said he entered the house from a
window, came on through the hall
way and nearing the steps where
Mr. White was sitting, fired one
shot which pierced the heart, pro
ducing instant death.
Mr. Carmichael is said to have then
gone to his home, where Sheriff
Howell found him a little later and
brought him to the Early county
jail.
Mr. White, who was 40 years of
age, leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. Carmichael will be given a
Commitment trial' today (Thurs
day), and The News understands
that, he will enter a plea of self de
fense.
SCOUT NEWS.
The Scouts met last Friday night
for the first time after the camp.
We talked about another camp which
will be at Benjamin Hawkins camp
at Macon on July 28. We played a
few games and the meeting closed
until next Friday, when the next
one will be held at Blue Hole, where
we will eat supper. We want to
meet on the court house lawn at
2:30 Friday afternoon.
NED HOLLAND, Scribe.
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Conntß Jftws
U. S. IS ASKED TO PAY
SOUTHERN SLAVE OWNERS
Under Meosure Introduced by Rep
resentative Larsen, of Georgia.
Washington, D. C. —The long
quiescent claims of persons whose
slaves were freed by Lincoln’s eman
cipation proclamation for property
losses sustained under it might be
brought before the court of claims
under a bill introduced by Repre
sentative Larsen, Democrat, Geor
gia, according to an Associated
Press news dispatch.
In introducing the measure, Larsen
said that he had no monetary inter
ests in the proposal, that his parents
“never owned a slave or resided in
the South until after the Civil War.”
The measure would confer juris
diction upon the court to pass upon
the claims. Under it American
citizens who were owners of slaves
would be required to present proof
of the value of their slaves “without
reference to loyalty during the war
period from 1861 to 1865 or prior
or subsequent thereto.”
In a formal statement, the Geor
gian said passage of the measure
would “only do justice to a class of
citizens now residing in every state
in the nation whose rights have al
ready been too long delayed.”
“Decisions of the court, both
state and federal, can be cited where
in slaves were held to be property,
and while Mr. Lincoln undoubtedly
had the right to deprive the citizens
of such property upon the grounds
of military expediency or necessity,
still there is no reason why a person
thus deprived of property should
not be compensated for it,” Larsen
said.
“Many of those who were thus
deprived of property were either
women and children, or persons de
crepit from age, or temporarily re
siding in foreign countries who nev
er raised a hand or uttered an un
kind word against the federal gov
ernment during the dreadful war.
And, again, many who did fight
against the nation were forced to do
so.
“The constitution provides that
I no person shall be deprived of prop-
I erty without due process of law,
J nor private property taken for pub
lic use without just compensation.
My sole purpose in seeking legisla
tion is to obtain that legal adjust
ment of rights for American citizens
which we do not deny to citizens of
foregn countries, even though alien
enemies.”
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1930.
USE OF SEINES AND
NETS IN FISHING
IS PROHIBITED
COMMISSIONER TWITTY CALLS
ATTENTION TO IMPORTANT
PROVISION OF LAW.
“Fishermen who are expecting to
catch fish at any time in the near
future except with hook and line had
better save their money and not in
vest it in seines and nets”, according
to a statement issued by Peter S.
Twitty, State Game and Fish Com
missioner.
“In some counties, the impression I
prevails that seining and netting will'
be permitted after July Ist, but such]
is not the case. The General As- :
of 1925 passed an Act pro-!
hibiiing the use of seines and nets,
for a period of five years. This term
will expire on August 26th of this;
year, but the same Act gives the;
State Board of Game and Fish the
authority to extend the closed period
and otherwise, regulate or prohibit
the use of seins and nets at all times.
Acting under the authority of law j
and on advice of the Attorney-Gen
eral, the State Board of Game and
Fish, at its annual meeting on May
6th last, adopted an order prohibit
ing the taking of fish from any of
the streams of Georgia by means of
seines, nets and similar devices, sqch
order to be effective for a period of
twelve months from August 26, 1930,
or until the General Assembly itself
can take further action in the
premises.
“This Order passed by the State
Board of Game and Fish under au
thority of the General Assembly has
the same force and effect as law,
and fishermen of the State are put
on notice that it will be rigidly en
forced. All game wardens, deputies
and other employees of the State
Game and Fish Department are in
structed to prosecute seiners and net
ters and confiscate all seines and
nets used in violation of the law.
“While the present law prohibit
ing seining does not expire until
August 26th, announcement of the
Board’s action in extending it is made
at this time in order that those who
are looking forward to seining will
not spend their good money for seines
and nets that they cannot lawfully
use.
“In my judgment, seining has
caused more destruction to our fish
supply than anything else. Just a
few years ago, the supply of fish in
our fresh water streams had become
alarmingly scarce. This year there
are more fresh water fish in Geor
gia than there has been in twenty
years or more. Nothing has done
more to bring back our fish supply
than the law prohibiting seining. We
can never hope to conserve our fresh
water fish as long as such unsports
manlike methods as seining and net
ting are practiced.
“We invoke the interest and co
operation of all true sport fishermen
in our efforts to enforce the law
against seining. With our Depart
ment’s limited funds and personnel,
it is humanly impossible for us to
efficiently enforce this law in all sec
tions of the State, but if the real
sportsmen and other good citizens of
every county will discourage and de
nounce the practice, it can be re
duced to a minimum.”
EFFORTS BEING MADE
FOR BUS MAIL SERVICE
An effort is being made to get
mail carried on the Columbus bus
that leaves here in the morning at
six, and returnes at six each even
ing. This mail would be a great con
venience to the people here and all
up and down the G. F. A. We used
to have mail that way but the train
was annulled and now it takes as
long to send a letter to Columbus as
it does to New York. The business
men up and down the line are inter
ested and this service is needed. Con
gressman Cox has signified his will
ingness to aid in the establishment
of this mail and it ought to be done.
Petitions will be circulated. We have
only one mail a day north and that
is in the afternoon at 4:30 which
really is not serviceable.—Bainbridge
Post-Searchlight.
Such a plan would greatly faciliate
• mail service for Blakely to and from
jail towns on State Highway No. 1,
and the efforts to secure the bus mail
service should meet with the approval
i of the business men of this city.
BUILDING PERMITS
SHOW INCREASES
IN RESERVE AREA
MANY DECLINES REPORTED IN
OTHER BUSINESSES
DURING MAY.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Decreases were
reported in most lines of business for
the month of May, compared with
the proceeding month and the cor
responding month a year ago, ac
cording to the monthly review of
agricultural, industrial and financial |
conditions in the Sixth Federal Re
serve District.
The volume of retail trade de
clined 2.7 per cent in May, compared >
with April, and averaged 5.7 per
cent less than in May, 1929, the re
port said. For the five months of
1930, January through May, sales
at retail have averaged 8.1 per cent
smaller than during that period of
1929. Sales by wholesale firms in
the district in May were 4.1 per
cent less than in April and 13.9 per
cent smaller than in May last year.
Debits to individual accounts at
twenty-six reporting clearing house
i cities of the district were 2.8 per
cent smaller in May than April, and
12.2 per cent less than for May,
1929. Savings deposits reported by
, seventy-three banks in the district
were approximately the same as a
month earlier, or a year ago, and
loans and investments of weekly re
porting member banks declined 10.5
millions between May 14 and June
11, and were substantially less than
a year ago.
Building permits reported from
twenty cities increased 8.5 per cent
in May over April, the review said,
but were 44.2 per cent less than in
May last year. Contracts awarded
in this district, however, increased
74.4 per cent in May over April, and
were 12.9 per cent greater than in
May, 1929.
Production of cotton cloth by mills
in the district was less than 1 per
cent smaller than in April, and out
put of yarn decreased 6.1 per cent.
Production of cloth and yarn were
16.8 per cent and 12.5 per cent, re
spectively, smaller than in May last
year.
Production of coal in Alabama was
smaller than in May, 1929, but in
Tennessee the output was somewhat
larger. Pig iron production in Ala
bama increased slightly in May-over
April, but was smaller than in May
last year.
Receipts of turpentine and rosin
at the three naval stores markets of
the district were said to have in
creased seasonally in May, and were
greater than for May in most of the
other recent years.
Weather conditions throughout the
district have not been entirely fa
vorable, the review said, but reports
of the United States Department of
Agriculture indicate better prospects
than a year ago for potatoes, citrus
fruit and peaches.
LYNCHING RECORD FOR
FIRST 6 MONTHS OF IS3O
According to the records compiled
at Tuskegee Institute in the Depart
ment of Records and Reseearch,
there were 9 lynchings in the U. S.
during the first six months of 1930.
This number is 5 more than the
number 4 for the first six months of
1929; 4 more than the number 5 for
the first six months of 1928 and is
the same number for the first six
months of each of the years 1925,
1926 and 1927. It is 4 more than
the number 5 for the first six
months of 1924; 6 less than the num
ber 15 for the first six months of
1923; 21 less than the number 30
for the first six months of 1922 and
27 less than the number 36 for the
first six months of 1921.
Os the persons lynched 1 was
white and 8 were Negroes. The of
fenses charged were rape, 5; mur
der, 1; bombing house, 1; . slaying |
landlord in altercation over debt, 1
1; attempted rape, 1.
The States in which lynchings oc
curred and the number in each
state are as follows: Florida, 1;
Georgia, 1; Mississippi, 1; Oklahoma,
|1; South Carolina, 2; Texas, 3. I
BETHEL ENCAMPMENT AT |
BLUFFTON JULY 14 TO 18
Eighth Annual Session Promises To
Be One of Best.
The eighth annual encampment of
Bethel Baptist Association will be
held at Bluffton on July 14th through
the 18th—a five days’ meeting.
The program as arranged for this
encampment includes some splendid
teachers and preachers, and it is
believed the encampment will prove
one of the most fruitful yet held.
Rev. J. C. Grimes, of Shellman,
who is director for the week, an
nounces that the encampment will
open on Monday afternoon at two
o’clock.
Tuesday will be B. Y. P. U. Day;
Wednesday, Layman’s Day; Thurs
day, Sunday School Day; and Fri
day, W. M. U. Day.
Speakers on the week’s program
include Mr. R. Elton Johnson, of At
lanta; A. Scott Patterson, Madison;
M. L. Lawson, Cuthbert; Miss Mary
Christian, Atlanta; and Rev. W. Ral
eigh White, Albany. Rev. C. C.
Kiser, of Pelham, will lead the song
service, and Rev. F. G. Cocks, of
Blakely, will have charge of the twi
light devotional each evening at 6:00
o’clock. A feature of W. M. U. Day
(Friday) will be a beautiful pageant
directed by Miss Mary Christian, of
Atlanta.
The encampment offers five days
of religious entertainment and edu
cation. All churches within the
bounds of Bethel Association are ex
pected to take part in the work and
to contribute money and food stuffs
for the occasion.
The printed programs are just off
the press and are being mailed out
this week.
FISHERIES EMPLOY
132,000 PERSONS
Annual Catch Amounts to More Than
Three Billion Pounds.
Atlanta, Ga. —-Speaking of fishing
—and the subject is apropos now
with Georgians vacationing—there is
at the present time over 132,000
persons employed by the U. S. fish
eries, local officials of the commerce
department announced here recently.
Os this number 128,000 are commer
cial fishermen and 4,000 are persons
employed in transporting fishery
products from the fishing grounds'
to market.
The annual width is said to amount
to more than three billion pbunds,
valued at one hundred and sixteen
million dollars. Os this total annual
yield 2,662,000,000 pounds consist of
edible fishery products and 428,-
000,000 pounds consist of non-edible
fishery products which are manufac
tured into commodities used in the
arts and industries.
The production of gold fish for the
past year was said to be valued at
one million dollars.
Forty years of study of and experience with medi
cines, together with a real desire to help his fel
lowman, has qualified Mr. Balkcoin to give you
valuable health hints.
At this season you need
Rexall Sarsaparilla Tonic
to purify your system
Rexall Iron and Cascara Tonic
to sharpen the appetite
to enrich the blood
to strengthen the nerves
A Wonderful Combination of Health
Builders
Balkcom’s Drug Store
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PULL FOR BLAKELY
—OR—
PULL OUT
$2.00 A YEAR
NEW CONSTRUCTION
IN STATE EXCEEDS
FIGURES FOR 1929
BUILDING PERMITS INCREASE
SUBSTANTIALLY OVER
PREVIOUS YEARS.
ATLANTA, Ga.—New awards for
building and engineering projects in
Georgia during May totaled $6,788,-
700 according to F. W. Dodge Cor
poration. In the preceding month
construction contracts were valued
at $3,943,000, while in May of last
year the contract total was $8,516,-
000. For the year to date construction
contracts let in Georgia amounted
to $26,350,000. This was a slight gain
over the total of $25,977,000 report
ed for the first five months of 1929.
The May contract record showed .
the following distribution: Public
works and utilities, $2,713,000; com
mercial buildings, $2,030,000; resi-.
dental buildings, $1,227,100; indus
trial buildings, $229,200. All other
non-residential building contracts’-
were valued at $133,300.
For Atlanta the May contract to
tal was $2,401,100 as against $1,329,-
800 for the previous month and
$2,877,600 for May 1929. For the
year to date contracts for new con
struction in Atlanta totaled $11,141 : ,-
400. This was a good gain over the
corresponding total of $9,694,500 for
the first five months of 1929.
The May record for Atlanta .
showed commercial buildings at‘/sl,-
772,800, residential buildings, $516,- >
300; and all other buildings and con
struction including public works
$112,000.
BOYS OFF TO CAMP
WILKINS JULY 14
Early county boys will leigve for
Camp Wilkins on July* 14'tli and re-.
turn home on the nineteenth. We
will meet on the court house lawn,
north side, at five o’clock and leave
shortly thereafter, so be sure and
be prompt. Each boy must have a
lunch for the day. The rates are
the same as previously, $7.00 for
the week.
Each boy must have a blanket (if
wanted), two sheets, soap, towels,
tooth brush, blue overalls, blue shirt
and also a red bandanna hanker
chief is desirable; arrange the bag
gage as compact as possible. Don’t
i forget the bathing suit.
Mr. Justice, a very capable driver,
will handle the truck.
Those who are planning to go to
Camp Wilkins must notify me not
later than July the tenth. Don’t for
get this date—l must know by the
tenth.
Camp Wilkins has a better time in
| store for the boys each year,
j. Hurry and make your reservations,
boys, and let’s go.
COUNTY AGENT FUQUA.