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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 9; Number 7 Takes Issue With Ellison About God Bishop Beauchamp Also Refers to Youth Savannah, Ga., Jan. 17.—Bishop W. B. Beauchamp, who spoke at Trinity Methodist church last even ing, took issue with Thomas A. Edi son and his recent statement that the word God has no meaning to him. He said when he read the head line on the morning paper of Sa vannah for Saturday and saw the news summed up in “word God has uno meaning foor him,” it was the most pathetic sentence he had ever read and that he would never for get it. “I shall never read a more pathetic sentence that that. To think of a man who has been called an electric al wizard and who has achieved all the other wonderful inventions mak ing such a statement,” related Bishop Beauchamp. He continued that he would like even the great Edison to explain to him where electricity came from and what electricity was made of or where the air came from through which he speaks. “There is not a single solitary thing that the great inventor has accomplished that the great God did not give him the primary elements to work with,” he stated. “The radio like other great inventions has only shown how stupid man has been for the conditions have been in existence for the establishment of them as long as the earth has been made and yet it took all these years for man to find out about the mat ter. “The most dreadful thing that can happen in one’s life is to leave God out of it. I can’t comprehend how Mr. Edison or any other man can look upon the life of the Lord Jesus Christ and the other manifestations all through life and say that there is no God. This would indeed become a dreary world without a God. "I wonder if there is anyone with in hearing of my voice that is with Mr. Edison on this question?” asked Bishop Beauchamp, and then warn ^ad that if there were any that for T^their own eternal safety they had better find a meaning, and the true meaning for the word God. “If you have failed to learn the meaning of any other word you had better learn the meaning of God,” he concluded. His sermon was, as he stated at the beginning, more of a talk to the congregation upon a variety of subjects. The Issue with Edison and his opinion of the word, God, on his eightieth birthday was one of the most interesting of the group. He touched on the youth of the day, however, and stated that he hoped that God would grant this world another day of the old fashioned mother, of the love In the home, and the fellowship of families. CAMDEN DEPUTY STABBED BY BATSON Brunswick, Ga., Feb. 17.—Berry Counnell, a deputy sheriff of Cam den county, is in a local hospital with a serious wound in his abdo men, and H. K. Batson, a young man of this city, is being held charg ed with the stabbing, which occurr ed yesterday at Floyd’s Neck, In Camden county*. The wounded officer was brought to Brunswick last night by Sheriff Chaney who also had Batson in custody. The officer, it was re ported, had lost considerable blood. An operation was performed later in the evening and today it was stated he would recover. According to Sheriff Chaney, young Batson and another Bruns wick young man, Norman Kirkland, cent to Camden yesterday, the lat ter for the purpose of purchasing some hides from Connell. A dis pute arose and the two engaged in a difficulty whereupon, according to the officer, Batson pulled a knife and stabbed Connell, who then took him in custody and proceeded to Woodbine, where he received first aid attention. During the afternoon Batson was given a preliminary hearing and was bound over to superior court. When it was known today that the Camden officer was out of danger, Batson was permitted to give bond. Advertise In The Brantley Enterprise THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Russell King Colled To Last Rest Today Prominent Business Man Answers Final Call. Waycross, Georgia, January 17.— Waycross is bowed in sorrow over the death of G. R. King, prom inently known here and throughout South Georgia. Mr. King, success ful business man, loyal citizen and devout Christian worker, died Satur day afternoon at a local hospital, after an illness of about four weeks Mr. King came to Waycross from Fitzgerald about ten years ago, he and his brother, J. H. King, Jr., organizing the King Brothers Mo tor Company, which has been built up into one of the largest and most successful automobile organizations in Georgia. A Leader Notwithstanding the heavy duties entailed by his many business obli gations, Mr. King always found the time to serve his city and his church. He was treasurer of the Waycross and Ware County Cliamner of Com merce, a director of the Lions Club of Waycross, and secretary! of the Central Dixie Highway Association. He was prominent in the fraternal circles of the city being Past Com mander of the Damascus Comman dery and a member of the Alee Tem ple of the Shrine. Mr. King was a member of the First Baptist church and for many years has served on the Board of Deacons. He took an active part in the work that made possible a new church building and was a member of the Building Committee. Mr. King was characterized by a daily willingness to serve. No or ganization of which he was a mem ber ever delegated to him a task that was not faithfully and well per formed. He was recognized as one of the ablest civic leaders Waycross possessed. Survivors He is survived by his wife, Mrs. G. R. King, byi two young sons, Wil liam and George, by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. King, Sr., of Fitzger ald, by four sisters, Mrs. Lucy King Betencourt, of Atlanta, Mrs. R. C. Priester, of Blackshear, Mrs. Nannie King Orser, of Fitzgerald, and Miss Sarah King, of Fitzgerald; by four brothers, J. H. Jr., of Waycross, Thomas King, of Red Hiss, Georgia, Reese King, of Jacksonville. Florida, and Dr. J. C. King, of Providence, Kentucky. Funeral Funeral services were held Mon day morning at 11 o’clock from the residence on Carswell Avenue, con ducted by Dr. W. M. Rich, pastor of the First Baptist Church. The attendance of hundreds of friends and admirers, many* of whom were from other South Georgia cities, and the profuse and beautiful floral offerings, were a token of the’ love In which the deceased was held In this section of the state. ‘ENGAGEMENT RING AWARD ED GIRL BY COURT Albany, Ga., February 17.—Pos session of a S9OO diamond ring given to Miss Francis Smith by Rufus Hawkins during a six-year engagement was awarded to the young woman by a jury in city court here late Tuesday, Hawkins had sued Miss Smith for the return of the ring, which he said had been given her as an engagement ring and its return to him refused when the engagement was broken. Miss Smith admitted that the ring was given her by Hawkins but as serted that it was not an engagement ring but a straightout gift. The suit was brought by Hawkins after his marriage to another girl and the trial at this term of court w’as the second hearing of the case, the first having ended in a mistrial several months ago. Motion for a new trial was made by the attorney for the plaintiff. Rabbi Wise writes the season’s most effective advertisement for what he declares to be “the most Immoral book of decades.” Don’t mince your words, nor scramble them. In the old days tire trouble was prevented by soaking them in the creek. NAHUNTA, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17th, 1927. SmVey Is Made Brantley Line Plans Now Being Drawn By State Highway Department. Waycross, Georgia, January 17.— The survey has been coompleted and plans are now being drawn by the State Highway Department for the highway from Waycross to Brantley county. Until connecttions can be established with Hicks Street the highway will leave Reynolds street at the city limits and go to the railroad paralleling the railroad to Schlaugh terville. No portion of the highway will be on the railroad right of way. 11 DIE, 21 HURT IN SNOWSLIDE, SAID Heavy rains, miniature cyclones, slight earthsuakes, snowslides and thunder and lightning have visited various sections of California during the past 24 hours. At least 22 persons have been killed as the direct result of the rains and snowslides. Seven persons have been killed in Los Angeles in traffic accidents, the result of h'eavy rains. Two members of the crew of a Union Pacific train were killed Tues day night when the train plunged into a swollen creek about 15 miles from Los Angeles. Twenty passen gers ewre injured, some of them critically. The train plunged through a bridge weakened by) the rains of the past three days. Train Hits Rock. Another accident took the toll of two lives near Congress, Ariz., when a Santa Fe train crashed into a boulder that had been washed down on the track. The engineer and fire man were killed. A snowslide at the construction camp of the Deep Creek tunnel pro ject of the Southern California Edison Company, 75 miles north east of Fresno, exacted another heavy toll, Eleven men are known to have been killed and others are thought to have met the same fate, according to belated advices receiv ed. Relief parties have been sent to the isolated camp In the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The city of Taft suffered heavy damage yesterday when a high wind ripped through the city, stripping buildings of roofs and causing citi zens to seek shelter from flying debris. Trees were uprooted and radio aerials smashed to blds by the gale. Several persons suffered minor injuries. A slight earthquake was regis tered at Salinas Tuesday. It caused no damage. The temblon was also felt In Santa Cruz and other points on the coast, as well as Hollister, inland, and as far north as Oakland. GIVEN YEAR IN ‘SOFT JOB’ CASE Atlanta, Ga., Jan.’ 17.—-Albert E. Sartain, former warden of the At lanta Federal Penitentiary, probably will begin serving soon a sentence in that institution with Lawrence (“Heinle”) Riehl, with whom he was convicted of conspiracy to accept bribes for “soft” jobs in the prison, it was learned Saturday -when word reached Atlanta that the two had lost their case in the Federal Ap peals Court of New Orleans. Attorney Hooper Alexander, who represented the former prison head and Hiehl, said he would confer with his clients regarding an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, the only recourse, but intimated that that move was not likely becarse of the great expense involved. News of the decision was received by Clint Hager, District Attorney, who prose cuted Sartain and Hiehl in the United States District Court here about a year ago, in a wire from Oakley F. Dodd, clerk of the New Orleans court. The former warden faces a sen tence of a year and a day in the institution of which he was lord fo’" several years, and Hiehl faces an 18 monks’ term. McAdoo says he doesn’t seek the Presidency; Al Smith says he wouldn’t refuse. Now let Coolidge tell one. The Nicaragua war won’t be such a strain on newspaper folks if they’ll keep the action around reasonable places like El Bluff. -V Tilson Regrets ^Personal Issue Representative Tilson Says Brother May Be Given Recess. Macon, Ga., February 17. —Judge W. J. Tilson, who is filling a recess appointment as federal judge of the middle district of Georgia, s t aid today that he regretted that Senator W. J. Harris brought the accusation that he (Tilson) was “personally ob noxious” when his nomination was taken up before the senate judiciary committee, stating that he believed this was the factor that caused the committee to make an adverse re port. “My court work here will go for ward until March 4,” said the judge, “but as to what will happen after that date I am not prepared to say.” The Columbus, Ga., term of court is scheduled to begin March 7, but Judge Tilson says that it willjiot be held so far. as he knows as present, unless one of the other federal judges is assigned to preside there. He returned to Macon last night after an absence of 10 days. Reappointment Probable Says Brother. Washington, February 17. —After a call at the white house today Representative Tilson, of Connecti cut, the repulican house leader, said he thought that his brother, W. J. Tilson, might be given a recess ap pointment by President Coolidge as federal judge for the second Georgia district if the president felt that such action would meet the wishes of the Georgia people. He said emphatically, however, that the matter had not come up in today’s conference. FOURTH-CLASS POST- MASTER EXAMINATION Receipt of applications to Close March 9, 1927. The date for assembling of com petitors will be stated In the admis sion cards which will be mailed to applicants after the close of receipt of applications. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an ex amination to be held at Waycross, Ga., as a result of which it is expect ed to make certification to fill a con templated vacancy in the position of fourth-class postmaster at Hoboken, Ga., and other vacancies as they may occur at that office, unless it shall be decided in the Interest of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement. The compensation of the postmaster at this office was 562 for the last fiscal year. Applicants must have reached their twentytfirst birthday on the date of the examination, with the exception that in a State where women are declared by statute to be at full age for all purposes at eighteen years, women eighteen years of age on the date of the exam ination will be admitted. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the post office for which the examination is an nounced. The examination is open to all citizens of the United States who can comply with the requirements. Application blanks, Form 1753, and full Information concerning the reguirements of the examination can be secured from the postmaster at the place of vacancy or from the United States Civil Service Commis sion, Washington, D. C. Applications must be properly executed and on file with the com mission at Washington, D. C., prior t othe hour of closing business on the date specified at the head of this an nouncement. WOMAN’S BUILDING PLAN IS ABANDONED Atlanta, Georgia, January 17.— Miss Lois Manning, president of the Woman’s Division of the Cham ber of Commerce, announces that the division, after studying all phases of the subject, has decided to give up for the present the specific plan which has been under consideration for a woman’s building. The plan, which had been practically settled within the past 10 days, would neces sitate the selling of stock and other commercial operations, and inasmuch as the division is strictly a iivic organization this project has been abandoned tor the present. Pair Held May Know Thief ts Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. —Two frightened boys, cowering in the DeKalb County jail, and a grief stricken father, making arrange ments for the burial of a son who “wouldn’t stay at home,” were the figures remaining in the drama that began with a desperate night in the darkness of a store at Brookhaven, and with the death of a youthful bandit under a policeman’s bullet. O. D. Rowell, a DeKalb County policeman, plunged at 2 o’clock Sat urday morning after three would be burglars who broke into Branham’s Pharmacq at Brookhaven, exchanged shots with them at close quarters sent a bullet through the body of Sam Boyce, 21, of 1327 Wilmot Park Drive, and captured his two com panions, W. B. Cavender, 21, of 159 Berean Avenue, and William Jewell, 19, of 11 Bedford Place. Died Instantly. Boyce died where he fell, in the center of the drug store. His identi ty uncertain for hours, he was iden tified Saturday afternoon by his fa ther, L. N. Boyce, of 416 Berean Avenue, who viewed his body in the undertaking establishment. Efforts were to be made today to establish a chain of evidence which will link up the trio of youths with a series of burglaries which have occurred in Brookhaven in re cent weeks. Facts obtained by law enforcement workers, directed by sheriff J. A. McCurdy, show parallel circum stances surrounding most of the burglaries, and the two youths held were to be confronted with these facts In an incisive cross-examina tion today, Sheriff McCurdy said. Rowell’s exploit came as the cli max of hours of watching in the dark and cold of Saturday morning for the burglars whom he suspected were coming. For weeks the pros perous community just beyond the Fulton County line, on Peachtree Road, had been terrorized by a series of burglaries, and the determi nation to end the reign of terror was strengthened when burglars broke into Turner’s Grocery Store early Friday night. With J. H. Woodall, manager of the A. & P. Store, which was robbed several weeks ago, Rowell waited in the darkness for a return of the burglars. ' Just before 2 o’clock theib vigil was rewarded, an automobile bearing three men stopping before the drug store across the street from the watchers. WINDOW SMASHED. One of the three men ran from the car, smashed the glass of the 'store’s front, then returned to the car, which was driven away! Fif teen minutes or so later the watch ers beheld the car return. Two of the burglars made their way into the store, the third re maining in the car, according to Rowell. The policeman ran arross the street with drawn revolver, and into the darkened store after the two men. He closed with them, one had run behind the prescription counter, and, using this as a barricade, fired three shots at the policemtn. Rowell fir ed once, his bullet penetrating the body of Boyce just below the heart. Sewell, who has only one leg, was taken in the automobile. A quart of corn whisky was found in the car. At the DeKalb jail, Sewell and Cavender told Sheriff McCurdy and jailer Hall that Boyce had forced them into the exploit. In possession of the youths was found a sack with several hundred pennies, taken from Turner’s Grocery Store earlier in the evening. MAJOR BELL TALKS TO RESERVE OFFICERS Atlanta, Georgia, January* 17.— Major M. W. Bell, cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank, addeessed the Atlanta finance chaptee of the Re serve Officers’ Association of the United Slates at a meeting held Fri day nigiJ. His subject was “Pay of the Army.” Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Har vey, president of the chapter, pre sided at the meeting, which was held in the Daffodil Tea Room, 11 North Pryor Street. To cure insomnia, get a job as night watchman. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Husband Shoots Wife And Self Children of Household Believed To Have Witnessed Slaying. Anderson, S. C., February 17.— Despondency over financial troubles and the condition of his own health as well as that of his wife, who had been ill for many months, was be lieved to have caused M. Clyde Brown, well-known Williamston man and deputy sheriff, to slay his wife and then to take his own life this morning at their home in Williams ton. The shooting occurred at 8:45 o’clock and the screams of two little children, apparently witnesses of the tragedy, told neighbors of the kill ing. Mrs. Brown died instantly, with two bullets from the pistol which was used by her husband crashing into her heart. Mr. Brown died about 10:30 o’clock, whilp he was being brought to this hity in an ambulance. The tragedy in the Brown house hold of Williamston came as a most severe shock to the town of William ston, where the family was well and favorably known. The family has wide connections in that section. Mr. Brown is the father of the Rev. Tru man Brown, well-known young Bap tist minister of this county. In ad dition to Rev. Brown, eight other children survive the victims of the tragedy this morning. Oak Grove News. Atkinson, Ga. A great many attended Sunday school at Oak Grove Sunday after noon. Sunday school at 3 o’clock every Sunday afternoon, every body is invited to come join us in praise. Rev. F. H. Harris will fill his regular appointment at Oak Grove next Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night, everybody is cordially Invited to come over to church. There is going to be a sing at Mr. Frank L. Stewarts next Saturday night week, date february* 26th, everybody has an invitation to come an enjoy the sing with us. We are glad to have Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brown with us at Sunday school, they are visiting her mother Mrs. Middleton. We are. also glad to have Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Middleton back again in our vicinity again they have moved back from Miami, Fla., we are glad to have them with us at Sunday school Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Campbell made a business trip to Brunswick last Friday and spent the .day. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Strickland made a visit to her fathers and his mothers also went with them to her sisters Saturday afternoon and came back Sunday afternoon. W. E. DUNWOODY HEAD OF HOLLOW TILE MEN Atlanta, Georgia, January 17.— Election of W. E. Dunwoody, presi dent of the Standard Brick & Tile Company, of Macon, as president of the National Hollow Tile Association at the annual convention of the as sociation, in session in Chicago, was announced by friends here Saturday. Mr. Dunwoody was only recently named president of the Southern Clay Products Association. SNAPPY STUFF After robbing seven members of a Brooklyn club, five bandits forc ed them to strip off their clothing, which was also carried away. A few days after Vaclas Goener of Gary, Ind, told his cousin that he had not washed himself for a year, he was found ded in bed. Police refused to act when Mrs. Caroline Meeton of Chicago com plained that a lodger walked about the house at all hours in his pa jamas. Miss Edith Miller of London sold a rare tract by John Bunyan for enough money to pay for her educa tion. Participants in a wedding cere mony at Porthcawl, Wales, were Miss Pheasant, the bride; Mr. Partridge, groom; Miss Dove, bridesmaid, and Rev. Robin, the minister.