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VOLUME 9; Number 15
Three Georgians
Die In Accidents
Grade Crossing Tragedy Kills Two
Young Girls.
TIFTON MAN DEAD
Man and Woman Seriously Injured
in Fatal Wreck.
Calhoun, Ga., April 14. —Miss
Idell Smith, 14 and Miss Dorothy
Phillips, 16, were killed with in a
few hundred yards of their home
last night when a small automobile
was struck by the South bound mail
section of the Dixie Flyer at a grade
crossing here.
Mary Phillips, 10, was sitting be
tween her sister and Miss Smith
but jumped to safety just before
the crash, escaping injury.
/The only eye witness was the little
girl who leaped for her life and she
stated today that the car had gotten
over the track safely when Doris,
who was driving, became excited,
lost control and the automobile roll
ed back onto the tracks.
Both of the girls were well known
here and were High School students.
Car Lefaves Road
Cordele, Ga., April 14. —H. R.
Surrett, 24, of Tifton was instantly
killed this morning when an automo
bile he was driving went into a cul
vert on the National Highway at i
Wenona, fivemiles South of here.
Surrett’s brother and the latter’s
wife were severely injured but for
tunately a small child of the couple
escaped from the wreckage unhurt.
THE PEOPLE’S VOICE
You can talk about your opera
house
And its classic atmosphere,
With its high admission prices
And its elite without peer.
Where the debutantes and social
lords
Assemble through the year;
But in the radio the common folk '
rejoice,
Because it is for them the people’s
f voice.
You can brag about theatres smart
Where Shakesperian thespians
strut,
And play the latest highbrow art
From the days of old King Tut.
Where the tickets cut your roll in
part
And they wear the tux and long
Prince Albert cut;
But in the radio the common folk
rejoice,
Because it is for them the people’s
voice.
You can have your fashioned music
halls
And your Broadway cabarets,
Where the leisured sons of wealth
Pass their perfumed hours in
rich plays.
Or the vaunted palaces of dance.
With its formal and exclusive
ways;
But the radio is the democratic
choice,
Because it is for all, the people’s
voice.
^The radio belongs to no particular
class —
It is for the rich and poor alike,
you know;.
It doesn’t cost a cent to the atten
tive mass,
And it comes right home without
o formal show.
It brings the most aristocratic art
In music, song and drama, where
it Ought to go.
|to, the radio is now the world
wise choice,
Because it is, for rich and poor
the people’s voice.
—Robert E. Lee.
Language of Arms
A ponZ-skin-covered arm protrud
ing from a collegiate looking car
ahead of you means that the driver
is:
1. Knocking ashes off his cigar
ette.
2. Going to turn to the right.
3. Telling his date to quite smok
ing all his cigarettes:
4. Going to turn to the left.
5. Pointing out where his boot
legger lives.
6. Goint to back up.
7. Telling his girl, yes, he’s sure
her date passed out.
8. Saluting a passing collegiate
car, or going to stop.
—Mink.
She Wantlen (Enterprise
Special Exhibit Os
Victrola At Bradshaws
Quite a number of people are be
ing attracted by the beautiful, .vic
trolla that is on display at Bradshaw
Music Company in Waycross. This
particular victrola is equiped with a
special attachment that will play 12
records without stopping.
This is a marvelous invention and
is worthy of attention. Mr. Sam
Bradshow who is manager of this
musical concern invites you to call
and see this victrola in operation.
MRS. A. C. BRANCH
PAID LAST TRIBUTE
Ludowici, Ga., April 14. —Mrs.
Arthur C. Branch, wife of Dr.
Branch, of Ludowici, who died in
a Savannah hospital Saturday after
a long illness was laid to rest in
Elim Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. J. B. Raybon, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Glenn
ville, conducted the services at the
grave.
Mrs. Branch before her marriage
was Miss Sue Nell Gross, of Glenn
ville, daughter of Mrs. F. R. Gross
and the late Dr. Gross. She was
a member of the Glennville Baptist
Church.
Mrs. Branch is survived by her
husband, her mother, a brother, Ned
Gross, Glennville, and two sisters,
Mrs. Tom Bagley, Hinesville, and
Mrs. Sam Smith, Glennville.
EXIT NUDITY FROM
GOTHAM NIGHT CLUBS
New York, 9pril 14.—Exit nudity!
Enter the well-dressed —even if thin
ly-clad—night club!
And again the blue-coated, brass
buttoned members of New York’s
finest carry off all honors.
Last Thursday night District At
torney Banton, spurred on by the
affixing of Governor Smith’s signa
ture to the stage “padlock” bill,
issued a warning to the night clubs
and cabarets along Broadway.
“Nudity must go!” declared the
District Attorney.
Friday he gave the popular en
tertaners of the night haunts 72
hours to buy some pearls and other
articles of wearing apparel.
Saturday night, when the jazz
bands began to moan and the night
life of Manhattan got well under
way, members of the force wandered
through the well-known pleasure
palaces. They rubbed their eyes
with amazement.
The “clothes and more clothes”
ultimatum had been obeyed, even if
it wasn’t given a great big hand.
The spotlights revealed silk and
more silk.
Sunday night they found the same
law-abiding entertainers still smil
ing and dancing a la Banton.
The gay white way has become
a reality!
MISS JOYCE BOOTH
Bainbridge, Ga., April 14.—The
body of Miss Joyce D. Booth, 15, who
died Friday in a local hospital after
a short illness, was taken to her
home in Carrabelle, Fla., Saturday
for interment, Miss Booth was a
daughter of W. W. Booth, agent of
the Georgia, Florida & Alabama
Railroad at Carrabelle, and Mrs.
Booth. While in Bainbridge, the
family were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
E. G. Brooks.
REDFIELD ADDRESSES
ANDERSON STUDENTS
Anderson, S. C., April 14. —Wil-
liam Redfield, former Secretary of
Commerce under Woodrow Wilson,
famous war president, spoke be
fore the student body of Anderson
College Friday night. He discussed
“Our Government,” dealing at length
with the commercial, industrial and
social questions.
Have Your Copy Reserved
The new edition of What Every
Young Girl Ought to Know has
been renamed, we understand, W T hat
Every Young Girl Knows by This
Time.
—Princeton Tiger.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Jones of Way
nesville visited relatives here Sun
day.
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PAID FINAL TRIBUTE
NAHUNTA, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14th, 1927.
Insect Damage
Tobacco Severe
By J. M. PL’RDOM
Assistant Agricultural & Industrial
Agent Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company.
In one of my recent articles I made
a mistake which I want to correct.
I stated that the cutworm is the
larval form of the June Bug. Ac
cording to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, “Cutworms are
teh young of a number of species of
brown hairy moths. About midsum
mer the full-grown cutworms bur
row into the ground to change to
pupae which soon transform to
moths. The moths lay their eggs on
the leaves of grass. The young
worms feed on the grass during fall,
and in winter burrow into the ground
for protection. In the spring the
worms come out of the ground and
attack almost any young plants they
find at the surface. They food at
night, cutting off the stems close
above the roots, and hide away under
loose earth or rubbish during the
day. Later in the season they climb
the stalks at night and feed on the
leaves.”
In my previous misstatement about
the parentage of cutworms I did
not intend to slander our old ac
quaintance the June Bub. I had
been misinformed on that subject
myself. My main purpose, however,
was to call attention to the fact that
we could expect cutworm depreda
tions until midsummer, and this was
correct. The only trouble appears
to be that a good many people paid
no attention either to the June Bub
part of my article or to the advice I
gave to prevent cutworm damage.
Necessity Os Protecting Young Plants
The whole insect tribe appears to
be up in arms this spring, and deter
mined to eat up our little tobacco
plants about as fast as we can get
them safely planted in the field. The
truth is there is practically no grass
or weeds for them to feed on, and as
they must eat they naturally come to
the tobacco plants, and they like the
tobacco and like to stay in the moist
ground where we have watered it.
Gresshoppers, crickets, beetles and
cutworms all seem to be afraid they
won’t get their share. I was in one
field last week where some enter
prising crickets were actually cutting
down the stalks and carrying the
plants into their caves some four or
five inches below the surface where
they could eat without being disturb
ed.
The only way we can stop such
damage is to feed these hungry in
sects poison. The poison bait which
I have previously recommended is
good for this purpose, and it has the
big advantage that it can be put out
in windy weather. In case one is
very much pressed for time and
doesn’t mind using an excess of it,
it can be broadcasted. (Os course it
will kill chickens too If they are
allowed to eat it.)
In the case of tobacco that has
been set out two weeks or more I am
using a dry mixture consisting of
cornmeal and arsenate of lead, 2
pounds or arsenate of lead to 25
ponds of corn meal. This mixture if
sprinkled on the plants will kill all
of the insects mentioned and will
also kill budworms. It cannot be
successfully put out in windy
weather.
In view of the difficulty most
people are having to get a stand of
tobacoc on account of the dry
weather, and also the slowness with
which plants are growing, a little
trouble expense incurred in giving
these insects a dose of poison will
be a good investment, especially this
year.
FOR SALE
Velvet Beans, N. C. and Spanish
Peanuts. Seed Peas and Portor
Ricor Potato Plants.
W. H. ROGERS, Lulaton, Ga.
NOTICE OF (TTY TAX RETURNS.
In compliance with the Charter of
the City of Nahunta, Georgia, all the
property owners and tax payers of
said City, are hereby notified to make
their tax returns in accordance with
■said Charter on or before June 1,
1927.
This 14th day of April, 1927.
A. S. MIZELL, Clerk.
Confessed Kidnaper
Tells Frank Story
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 14.—1 n
the game of crime, one of the most
popular of the present day pastimes, 1
perfect play is required o nthe part 1
of the criminal. ]
His adversaries, law and order, can 1
blunder, can misplay almost at will; 1
yet so'great is vheir advantage that
their many miscues will be erased 1
when the final count is made. But i
the criminal, be he th master mind
of some outlaw band or the vilest 1
and most obscure sneak thief, can i
slip but once. ]
Because of such a lone misplay i
Lewis Willis and his youthful broth- ’
er, Arthur, negroes, today are view
ing the cold bars of a Chattanooga
jail with the even colder prospect of i
gazing on other bars for a consider- 1
able length of time, while one of the ]
most sensational and daring kidnap- <
ing cases ever attempted in the south i
is solved, instead of being relegated
to the realms of mystery.
All are too well acquainted with i
the history of this famous and ex
traordinary cases in the Tennessee <
city to have details repeated. But the ।
character of the one who played the
leading criminal role, his motives, his
plans and his feelings while com
mitting this twentieth century Char
lie Ross, his subsequent reactions and
lastly, that fatal slip may be of in
terest.
By Whitner Cary
Lewis recently confessed to the kid
naping of 2-year-old Virginia Jo '
Frazier, daughter of City Commis- ‘
sioner Fred B. Frazier, and is being .
held for trial in the Chattanooga jail, '
In introducing the principal crim
inal the correspondent will take you ,
to the county jail in Chattanooga.
The hour was late, almost midnight
and, although it was a bit unusual to
see prisoners at that hour, the cour
tesy of Sheriff Tom Selman permitt
ed Lewis and Arthur to be seen. A
word from the sheriff and Lewis,
who was in the first cell, arose froir
his cot? shook slumber from hisaax- r ,
lids and, in the most apologetic man
ner, as if he regretted even this slight
delay, came toward the grating.
Lewis has personality. This may
seem strange, but it is true neverthe
less. Lewis also has brains. One
was convinced of that after the first
dozen words had fallen from his
low-pitched, pleasant voice. And
about all else, Lewis is an actor of
no mean ability.
If the surroundings were different
and you met Lewis in some employ
ment agency or at the back door of
your home you would feel an instinc
tive desire to hire and trust him. For
if there was ever a personality of
politeness, respect and withal a cer
tain whimsical humor it was in the
occupant of that cell of the Chat
tanooga jail.
Lewis was as free with his conver
sation as he is accused of being with
other people’s children. Never was
there the slightest hesitancy on his
part in answering the many question?
fired through the opening between
those two-inch bars Friday night.
Why did he take the child? "Well,
sir, it was this way, I had thought
a lot about kidnaping from reading
and from the movies, (Lewis had
gone as far as the seventh grade in
school and as far east as New York
in his wandering,) and I just thought
I would try my hand. How did I'
happen to pick on Mr. Frazier? Well,
I wanted to find a man with money
and in looking over the city I saw
hisname on a lot of signboards as
having houses and lots for sale and
I just naturally concluded that he
must have money/’ Lewis further
added that he planned the job about
two week? before he attempted it.
Lewis told how he slipped into the
Frazier home the night of the steal
ing, how he went to the child’s room
about 6 o’clock and took from the
bureau certain little articles that
cculd be easily recognized as belong
ing to her. These, he said, were to
be used in his future communications
■ with the father as evidence that he
really had the child. With a calm
ness that be’ied his age the negro
related that he did in the basement
of that hor..>>o until the silence of mid
night gav ; him an opportunity t >
t steal back up the stairs and escape
. with the child.
f A trip back to the basement, a blan
> ket hastily snatched from a bed and
i he was away to the attic in his own
, home which for five days acted in the
duel role of nursery and prison for
little Virginia Jo.
With the child safely hidden in
Sixteen Killed
By Raging Floods
Kansas City, Mo., April 14.—Tur
bulent rivers eweeping over their
banks in Oklahoma and southeastern
Kansas had caused heavy loss of life
tonight and inundated valuable farm
lands.
Sbrteen persons are known to have
been drowned and three others are
reported missing.
Many families have been forced to
flee from their homes. The waters
are receding somewhat in Oklahoma,
but the flood danger continues acute
in southeastern Kansas, where the
Virdigris river is rising rapidly.
No Rain Predicted.
First hope was brought to the
stricken territory today in publica
tion of weather reports. No rain is
predicted for the week-end, so the
excessive rainfall of the past week
may have ended. t
Chief damage is in Oklahoma,
where heavy rains turned placid
streams into raging currents, near
Rockyford the Washita river swept
out of its banks and fourteen Mexi
cans—members of two families —
were drowned.
LUDOWICI HI SCHOOL
ON ACCREDITED LIST
Ludowici, Ga., April 14. —The
local board of education of the Lu
dowici Consolidated High School has
announced the re-election of Super
intendent G. B. Crawford for the
school year 1927-28. Mr. Crawford
has served the school as superin
tendent since September, 1924, and
marked progress has been made in
the school during this time, an
nouncement coming this week that
the Ludowici school has been added
to the state’s accredited list by the
School Accrediating Commission of
Georgia.
At the opening of the fall term
of school, the new grammer school
building will be in use, as will the
'present building, which will have
been entirely renotated by that
time. The new building and the
work on the one now in use will be
completed at a cost of >25,000,
which is being accomplished through
a bond issue.
Advertise In The Brantley Enterprise
that musty attic which excluded the
prying eyes of strangers. Lewis be
gan the diplomatic negotiations with
the father that were finally to bring
that frantic parent to the designated
spot with the correct amount of san
som money.
During those five days Lewis and
Arthur, his 14-year-old brother, alter
nated as nurse for the little girl. Ac
cording to Lewis she cried butlittle
and when sobs would begin, a com
mand to “shut up” always brought
the desired result. He was emphatic
in his denial that either was given
her at any time, giving argument to
the theory advanced when three bot
tles of this fluid were found in his
home.
That Lewis and his brother were
plentiful providers of food was pro
ven by the appearance and health of
little Virginia Jo. Lewis however,
was lacking sadly as a wardrobe mis
tress since the same night-gown that
Virginia Jo wore on the night of her
abduction, was the garment that
covered her little form on the Sun
day night she was left on a minister’s
doorstep.
“Lewis, were you afraid to meet
Mr. Frazier when you had made the
appointment to bring you the
money?”
“No sir. I was not a bit afraid. I
knew r that Mr. Frazier wanted his lit
tle girl back and that he would keep
his promise to me not to bring any
officers along.”
Then followed a description of the
broomstick scene, when with a hand
kerchief partly covering his face, he
received the package of bills from
Mr. Frazier and quickly turning,
made his way home. He stated that
he did not stop to count the money
but noticed that the currency was
made up in packets of >SOO each and
that there were enough such sheaves
to make up the amount.
With the money in his pocket, he
fairly flew over the ground to his
home where he got his prisoner ready
for the return journey, he said. Then
although the hour was still early and
hs way led along streets fairly well
traveled, Lewis carried Virginia Jo
>1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Highway Body
Lets 4 Million
In Road Work
125 Miles of Paving, 200 in Grad
ing, 12 Bridges Awarded At
Saturday Meeting.
Atlanta, Ga. April 14.—Contracts
for approximately >4,000,000 worth
of road and bridge construction in all
sections of Georgia, providing for
about 125 miles of paving, 200 miles
of grading and top-soiling, and com'
struction of 12 bridges, were award-’
ed by the State Highway Board
Saturday after a two-day session in
which bids were received from con
tractors and road builders froom all
parts of the South.
The 46 projects for which the con
tracts were awarded call for stretches
of pavement which will complete the
linking of the Atlanta-Asheville
Highway in North Georgia, and
provide for the completion of a hard
surfaced road on all of the main
highways from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
to the Florida line, byway of At
lanta.
It was also announced by Chair
man John N. Holder that contracts
for 19 additional projects, costing ap>
proximately >1,500,000, will be
awarded at another meeting of the
East Point offices.
Fourteen Bidders.
Fourteen Atlanta contracting
and road-building concerns were
awarded contracts which amount
to >997,691.04, according to the list
of awards. Some of the awards Tor
projects have been withheld by the
board until further discussions as to
the type of paving or road work is to
be used, it was said.
to the minister’s doorstep, rang the
bell and vanished into the night.
With the money safe and his for
merprisoner home, Lewis felt safe;
adn safe he would have been, in all
probability, if he had not made that
one lone slip—Lewis spent some of
that >3,3333. Not a great deal, but
enough to bring into their hands
some of those bills, every! one of
which had beed carefully records by
serial numbers. Being a devout
reader of the paper, Lewis kept up
with the march of events and when,
on Tuesday following the return of
the child, he learned that the money
had been market he decided to go
into other fields and convert his
wealth into less incriminating securi
ties. To that and armed with >l,-
000, he boarded the train for Cincin
nati and, in the few days he made
that town his headquarters, used
many of the tell-tale bills in the pur
chase of shirts, ties and other gaudy
luxuries of his race.
.. rloe etashrdetashrdQt
Lewis then made his second big
mistake. He returned to Chatta
nooga. Why? Because, according to
him, he had transgressed the law a
short tme before and was out on
>I,OOO bond. But those two da:ys
between the tme of the child’s return
and his trip to Cincinnati had proved
his undoing. Those few accusing
bills that his newly acquired wealth
had enabled him to spend, had done
the work and an alert drug clerk
had already communicated with his
enemies. And so it was but a few
hours until his dreams of golden
castle and a life of plenty had been
changed into one of a hard cot and
iron bars.
“Did he intend to harm the child
I if Frazier had not come across?”
Not a chance. He never intended
to harm a hair on her head and if
the money had not been produced,
he was just going to take the child
back.
This gave rise to the question as to
I just why this youthful and dramatic
kidnaper demanded such an odd sum
as >3,333. Accordingto Lewis, he
fixed an odd amount to further im
press Frazier.
That about sums up Lewis. Os
Arthur there is little to say. He
says little, has nothing of the per
sonality of his older brother or as
pleasant a manner. He evidently
, was under the complete rule of that
brother, who admits as much.
With the end of the interview,
' Lewis was allowed to wander back to
I his hard cot and his dreams. That
[ those dreams are not the rose-tinted
1 hallucinations of a few days ago,
goes without saying, for justice, hard
cots and iron bars are wonderful
destroyers of pleasant hopes.
