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The Jackson herald
By John N. Holder.
HEYWARD J. PEARCE
GUEST SPEAKER
OF WOMANS CLUB
Avery rare privilege was enjoy
ed by the members of the Jefferson
Woman’s Club on Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. J. C. Alexander
when Dr. Heyward J. Pearce, Jr.,
Vice-President of Brenau College and
teacher of history in Emory Univer
sity, spoke to the group, his subject
being the “Virginia Dare Stones.’’
The first of these Stones was
found in North Carolina in 1937 and
since then, there have been 37 oth
ers discovered totaling 3000 lbs. and
varying from 50 to 150 lbs. and
containing messages from Elinor
White Dare to her father, John
White, who was the first governor of
Virginia.
Dr. Pearce, who was Professor of
history at Emory University at the
time the first stone was discovered
took up the search for the remaining
ones and, together with his father,
Dr. H. J. Pearce, president of Bre
nau, is responsible for the collection
of the 37 others found since and
these are now in the museum at
Brenau College.
The speaker told something of
events leading up to these written
messages; how in 1585 Sir Walter
Raleigh sent out a colony consisting
of 108 men who landed on Ronoake
Island, off the coast of North Caro
lina. After their departure, Raleigh
prepared supplies which he sent for
ward without waiting to hear that
they were in need. But before these
supplies reached them the Indians
became unfriendly, the stock of pro
visions ran low and when an English
fleet approached the shore, the
colonists persuaded the commander
to take them back to England.
The next year a company of fami
lies was sent out by Raleigh with
Captain John White. These also
settled on Roanoke Island. To avoid
the trouble which the former colony
had suffered Governor White sailed
to Englana for supplies, but Spain
and England being then at war, he
was unable to return. Even the
ships sent out by Raleigh did not
reach them. Governor White was
absent three years and "when he did
return he could' find no trace of the
eolony ho had left, except the word
“Croatan” carved on a tree, which
probably meant that the settlers had
fled to the friendly Croatan Indians
farther South.
Until 1937 no one had a clue as
to the fate of this Lost Colony, his
torians having given it up as an un
solved mystery. One day a man
riding aong between Raleigh, N. C.,
and Norfolk, Va., tired of riding,
stopped his car and rambled off into
the swamp. He saw in the muck of '
earth a rock projecting, with writing
on one side and a cross on the oth- j
er. For weeks a number of people ,
tried to decipher the writing but i
failed, it being written in Eliza- j
•bethan, so after 2 months he carried ;
it to Emory College where geologists ,
and historians voted it an incredible j
find and translated the inscription,
finding contained a message from
Elinor White Dare to the father, i
John White, telling of the deaths of
Annias Dare, her husband, and of
her daughter, Virginia, who was the
first white child born on American j
soil.
Dr. Pearce told of the long and
strenuous search for the remaining
rocks which were found in various
places along the trail which Elinor
Dare and her 6 remaining compan
ions took until she reached the Cher
okee tribe on the Chattahoochee in
Georgia, all containing messages to
her father, whom she stili hoped
would return and search for her and
her companions.
The last stones found told of her
marriage to an Indian Chief and of
her daughter, Agnes, and in one mes
sae she beseaches her father to carry
the child back to England, should he
find her.
The lecture was most interesting
and the club was privileged indeed
to have first hand information about
, these stones which cleared up a his
torical mystery that has been closed
for over 300 years.
Iwo other enjoyable features of
the program were the piano solos
rendered by Misses Amye Lott and
Sara Ann Marlowe.
A snort business meeting was held
before the program, with Mrs. J. D.
Escoe presiding. Mrs. Carl Legg led
the ciuu collect and salute to the
The minutes of the February
SINGLE COPY sc.
LONDON GETS WORST
RAID IN MONTHS
Masses of German Bombers dump
ed hundreds of high explosives on
London Saturday night in a raid
reminiscent of the heavy air attacks
of last fall.
Direct hits were scored on a pop
ular night club crowded with danc
ers, and a public shelter. Soldiers
and sailors on leave worked with
regular air wardens to extricate the
dead and injured under skies bril
liantly lighted with flares dropped
by Nazi airmen to light their way.
Pedestrians were killed and wound
ed.
From June through February the
official toll from raids stood at 24,-
371 killed and 35,373 injured. But
last night’s w T as the first severe raid
in many days.
Turkey continued defense prep
arations; its leaders made ready to
state the country’s position next
week. Yugoslavia’s own future still
undefined, though government
quarters said Foreign Minister Alk
uder Cincar-Markovic might go to
erchtesgaden or Berlin next week
to sign with the Germans a treaty
>f friendship and consultation —c
nd of “benevolent neutrality.”
In Rome, Italian editorial spokes
uert indicated that Axis charges
hat President Roosevelt had tried
l o “intimidate”. Yugoslovia would
be used to bring Yugoslavia into
>ser affiliation w r ith Germany and
Italy.
When the allegation was first
made Friday night United States
rate department officials said they
s ad “never heard of it.” Saturday
he President’s secretary, Stephen
"arly, added that the report coincid
d with Nazi infiltrations in Yugo
slavia and were of the same kidney
's those that came out of Poland af
?r Germany’s occupation.
Meanwhile an open letter to
' dolf Hitler, published in a Greek
'cwspaper, said an army of “Free
' •eeks” will fight is the death
rainst any German invasion from
the east just as they have fought
the Italians in the west, and hinted
that the Italians must withdraw
from Albania if they desire peace
with Greece.
WILHITE DAMAGE SUIT
ON TRIAL IN ATHENS
Trial of a $15,000 damage suit
brought against the Eveready Cab
Company by D. T. Wilhite began in
Athens Monday in city court and is
expected to require two or three
days before being completed.
Mr. Wilhite is suing for damages
allegedly received in a wreck in
which an Eveready Cab was involv
ed on the Jefferson road.
A jury was selected of R. L.
Christopher, L. W. Cooper, Paul H.
Robbins, Warren Lanier, E. N.
Whitmire, Sr., Joe H. Booth, W. E.
Duncan, John B. Williams, J. Lamar
Laßoon, Luther H. Bailey, Sr., W.
Paul Skelton and Clyde M. Basham.
Judge Arthur S. Oldham is pre
siding. Mr. Wilhite is represented
by A. C. Wheeler of Gainesville;
Henry W. Davis, Jefferson; John L.
Green and James Barrow, Jr., both
of Athens. Attorneys' for the Cab
Company are William L. Erwin, Abit
Nix, H. A. Birchmore and Howell C.
Erwin, Jr.
R. S. Johnson and Miss Elinor
Johnson spent Sunday in Dahlonega
with Miss Roslyn Johnson.
meeting were read by Mrs. Ralph
Ellington and adopted.
After adjournment tho hostesses
Mesdames J. C. Alexander, W. C.
Smith, W. D. Holliday, Haar.s Bard,
Charlie Drake and Miss Joyce Storey
served cream and cake.
Those present were Mesdames J.
C. Alexander, W. C. Smith, W. D.
Holliday, Haans Bard, H. B. James,
J. N. Smith, Stanley Kesler, C. H.
Legg, T. T. Benton, H. L. Garrison,
J. D. Escoe, Ralph Ellington, J. L.
Harris, Byrd Martin, G. W. West
moreland, H. W. DavLs, H. I. Mob
ley, A. S. Johnson, A. M. Hardy, M.
M. Bryan, J. H. Aderhold, J. N.
Holder, A. B. Elizer, E. H. Crook, ,
Nat Hancock, C. E. Hardy, Guy
Strickland, Jack Bennett, G. D. Ap
pleby, J. W. Y. D. Maduo ,
I. W. Wheeless, Misses Sara Dadi -
man, Joyce 'and" M.rybeth Storey,
Amy Lott, Sara Ann Marlowe.
JEFFERSON, Jackson County, Georgia.
DEADLINE FOR
INCOME TAX RETURNS
NEXT SATURDAY
The deadline for income tax re
turns is Saturday, March 15.
Officials are predicting that collec
tions would reach a record total of
$1,000,000,000.
In Maroh last year, collections
were $565,000,000. But this year,
exemptions have been lowered, tax
rates increased, and better business
has provided more taxable income
than the country has seen in years.
Early returns, while far from con
clusive, have stimulated guesses of
high collections. In the first few
days of March, collections were 89
per cent ahead of the similar period
last year.
About 15,000,000 Americans are
expected to file individual income
'tax returns, and about 3,500,000
corporations are expected to file
corporate returns. About 100,000
of the corporations also will be re
quired to file excess profits tax re
turns.
Of all the returns, as many as
half may show no taxable income,
but the taxable ones will be by far
the most numerous in history.
Principal change in the income tax
■this year was the reduction in per
sonal exemptions. The family head
who used to deduct $2,500 can take
only $2,000 now. The single person
who had a SI,OOO exemption can
claim only SBOO.
Two Persons Taking
Treatment For Dogbite
Two maddogs were killed this
week by Chief Pettyjohn, but not
before they had bitten two people,
the daughter of Mose Qualls and the
small son of Mr. Carlyle. These are
under a Jefferson physician’s treat
ment wilh Pasteur seriums. The
heads of the dogs were sent to At
lanta to the Ft ate Department Of
Health for examination and they
were found to be afflicted with
rabies.
Mayor H. IV. Davis and Council
rave order, some weeks ago for all
dog owners to keep their canines
confined and not allow them to run
at large. Some have not obeyed
these orders with the result that
Chic" Pettyjohn has been compelled
to put same to death. He again
warns all people not to let their
dogs run on the streets because he
must caiiy out orders of Mayor and
Council. These orders are issued
to protect people from being bitten
by a dog that might have rabies.
For any one to be bitten by a
maddog is a tragedy and a disaster
and everything possible is being done
by city officials to prevent this.
Block of Marble Cos.
Sells For $240,100
The thirteen thousand, one hun
dred eighteen and one-half shares of
stock in the Georgia Marble Com
pany owned by the late Col. Sam
Tate, were sold before Judge J. H.
Hawkins, of the Blue Ridge Super
ior Court,- at chambers in Marietta
Saturday and brought $240,100,
which was $18.30 per share. Its
par value is SIOO per share.
The high bidder was Granger Han
sell, of Atlanta, who represented a
group composed of C. A. Evans,
head of the investment banking firm
of Clement A. Evans & Company, of
Atlanta; James D. Robinson, Jr.,
viee-prt ident of the Trust Company
of Georgia, of Atlanta; B. F. Cog
gin r; and T. A. MeGahey, of Atlanta,
Eugene A. McCanless. of Canton, and
certain officers and directors of the
■Georgia Marble Company, and cer
tain creditors of the late Col. Tate.
The stock was first offered for
sale in separate blocks and the total
bid for the blocks was SIIO,BOO.
Then it was offered in one block and
brought the price first mentioned,
$240,100. The Reeves Marble Com
pany, of Atlanta, was the only oth
er bidder.
RECORDS OF OLD AGE PEN
SION3 PROBED
Atla ! tf..— State Welfare Director
Brick Miller announced Thursday ap
pointment of special investigators to
begin probing records of all persons
b.w.\ . old age pensions of S2O or
>•" r month.
He f-rM the inquiry later would
he broadened to take in persons
drawing from $lO to S2O a mouth.
CAPTAIN GUNN TELLS
OF STATE UNIVERSITY
AVIATION SCHOOL
Jefferson Rotary had its usual
meeting Tuesday at the Harrison
Hotel. Being engaged in the court
room in Athens this week, President
11. W. Davis was absent and Past
President John C. Turner presided.
Seven members were absent, but
some attended a Rotary banquet in
Athena Tuesday night.
The guest speaker was Captain C.
B. Gunn, head of the Aviation De
fense Training School of the Univer
sity of Georgia. This school has been
in operation since September and
has a hangar 120 by 120 feet, twen
ty-two planes and several hundred
students, who are in training for
aviation. Already one hundred and
fifty young men have been licensed
as pilots. Three will soon graduate
with the title of second lieutenant.
This school has grown in not only
numbers but in importance since
its incipiency last year.
Captain Gunn’s lecture was very
much enjoyed.
The guests present besides Cap
tain Gunn were Young S. Skinner,
J. P. Scraggs, Young Davis and Mrs.
W. D. Holliday.
Rotarians were glad to see £ota
rian W. D. at the luncheon.
For some weeks he has been ill, but
his health is much improved.
PENSION NAMES
WILL BE PUBLIC,
TALMADGE SAYS
Governor Talmadge said Monday
he would publish the names of all
persons receiving old age pensions
in Georgia despite pressure emanat
ing from Washington to pursue a
contrary course.
Although he declined to say def
initely when such action would b*
taken, he intimated it would be soon.
Federal law prohibits the publica
tion of the names of the pensioners
•and considerable behind-the-scenes
wrangling has been in progress be
tween the State Welfare Depart
ment and the federal officials over
this point. •
The Governor and the senators
agreed to amend the administration
bill, which at present provides for
abolishing county welfare boards
and for supplanting them with a
county director appointed by the
state welfare director with the ap
proval of the Governor.
In the Senate last week consider
able opposition on the grounds it
would take control of the welfare
program away from the counties.
Under the amendment agreed to
Monday the county boards would re
main and appoint local directors,
but the Governor would be empow
ered to suspend any board member
or director and to discharge him af
ter a hearing held within 10 days
days of the suspension.
Another section agreed to at the
request of the Governor would em'
power the Chief Executive to sus
pend or dischare any employe of the
State Welfare Department under
similar circumstances.
The measure also would require
that all eligible applicants receive
an old-age pension and would cut
the contribution of the counties to
the welfare program from 10 to 5
per cent.
MRS. MARY EBERHARDT WHEL
CHEL DIES IN GAINESVILLE
A
M -s. Mary Ebcrhr.irdt Wjielcjiel,
widow of Dr. J. E. Whelchel, died at
Gainesville, Ga., March 9, 1941. She
is survived by three dauhters, Mrs.
John F. Finger, Gainesville, Ga.;
Mrs. John Vousden and Mrs. S. A.
Darnell, both of Atlanta; two sons,
D. P. Whelchel, of Atlanta, and
John F. Whelchel, of Orangeburg,
S. C.; two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Davis,
of Jefferson, and Mrs. W. C. Apple
by, of Atlanta; one brother, Dr. B.
B. Eberhardt, of Gillsville, Ga. Fun
eral services were held Monday af
ternoon at 4 o’clock from the resi
dence of her daughter, Mrs. John
F. Finger, Gainesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Groover of
Atlanta and Mays Brock of Athens
were guests Sunday of their mother,
Mrs. C. O. Brock, at her home on
Danielsville street,
Thursday, March 13, 1941.
TALMADGE’S FIRE,
HIRE TIME NEARS
Atlanta.—Close on March 22nd
of one of the dullest sessions yet
held by the Georgia general assemb
ly is expected to be the signal for
the beginning of headline-building
events.
Gov. Eugene Talmadge has been
waiting until the end of the session
to start in on a long list of job ap
plications.
He came into office with the
■pledge to “fire three and keep one”
of the 8,500 employes on the state
payroll when Gov. E. D. Rivers’
term expirod.
■Such a bombardment of applica
tions for jobs came with his inaugu
ration, however, that the governor
announced repeatedly “no hiring”
until after the session.
That time is drawing near, just
another week and the Georgians who
want state jobs haven’t forgotten.
The trickle of applicants and visitors
is growing. Around the executive
offices in the caprtol, there is a feel
ing that the flood is yet to come.
Thus far the major changes have
been in department heads. These
newcomers retained some experienc
ed personnel to do the necessary
work until they could learn their
jobs. Other changes were made
gradually, a few here and a few
there. The Talmadge special—he
said he would fire so many state em
ployes it would take a special train
to haul them away—'filled its pas
senger list slowly.
There are possibly some depart
ments that haven’t even been touch
ed by the Talmadge men who, the
governor holds, are quite as capable
as the Rivers men.
“We’ll really get going when this
assembly gets out f town,” one
Talmadge executive declared.
The reason for the administration
delay until the assembly adjourns is
the fact that many state employes
have friends and relatives in the
general assembly. Discharge of only
a comparatively few employes in
that category could easily arouse
enmities that couldn’t be healed in
the legislature.
And -friendship of the general as
sembly, at least until it adjourns, is
vital to Talmadge’s purposes. He
has been voted virtual control over
state finances in house bill number
one. He wouldn’t care to have it
repealed.
Under this bill he can transfer
departmental surpluses into the
governor’s emergency fund and use
state revenues for any state purpose
he designates.
This is such drastic control over
Georgia fiscal affairs that no effort
was made at this session to write
an appropriations billi,, except for
Roy Harris’ suggestion that the as
sembly write into law Talmadge’s
finance plan for paying the state out
of debt.
This the administration declined,
with thanks, preferring to operate
under emergency powers.
John Franklin Glosson
Called by Death
John Franklin Glosson passed
away Friday at his home on the
Brockton road, about 3 miles east of
Jefferson. He had been in ill health
for several months and his death
was not unexpected.
Mr. Glosson was 57 years of age,
a son of the late William and Tem
ple Hamey Glosson. He was held in
high esteem and his passing has
brought sorrow to a host of friends.
Funeral services were held Sun
day morning at Galilee Christian
church by the pastor Rev. Randolph
Cochran of East Point and inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Surviving are his widow and
several children, who have the deep !
sympathy of many friends.
MRS. STEPHENS DIES
IN MORGAN COUNTY
Mrs. Lillie Mac Stephens, wife of
Howard Stephens, died on March 4
in Morgan county and was buried at
Sugar Creek Baptist church ceme
tery or March sth.
Mrs. Stephens was 27 years of age
and was a native of Jackson coun
ty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Ma rlow.
A husband and five small children
were left to mourn her untimely
death.
Vol. 66. No. 3iX
SENATE PASSES
BRITISH AID BILL
BY 60 TO 31
Washington.—Worn down by thro is
weeks of oratory and dispute, the
senate Saturday night finally post. 1
the lease-lend bill authorizing Prei i
dent Roosevelt to mobilize industr I
America and throw its products in*
to England’s battle against Gtr
mony.
Then it sent the measure to t’ o
house with a request that the latt •
concur in the series of administra
tion-approved amendments which h I
been added. All indications v/<. )
that the house would agree to do
so on Tuesday, or by Wednesday *;
the latest, with the bill going to ti o
White House immediately then-aft-- e
for President Roosevelt’s signatui
The vote on final passage, 60 to
31, found the senate in easy go in*?
good humor, despite many day.) t
frazzled tempers and personal ani
mosities.
The opposition, clinging obdurate
ly to its view that the bill meu >
war, was simply worn out by re
peated demonstrations of the ad
ministration's numerical superiority.
As the bill stood when passed ’./
the senate, it authorizes Preside t
Roosevelt, acting through the W. r
and Navy Departments, to:
Order the manufacture of v. r
materials, in government araemds
or private commercial factories ai I
“sell, transfer title to, lease, lend •
otherwise dispose of” these produc's
to countries whose defense he “deems
vital to the defense of the Unit- I
States.”
But, specifically, the manuf&ctu i•
of the defense materials in questi-
would be limited, in terms of nrou
ey, by a provision, added in t! >
senate, which administration spokes
men said would retain for congit s
a complete and always current cc-i •
trol of the program. This limits tr
ders for the production of war ma
terials to the extent to -which c<ra
• gross later approves appropriation
or authorizes the signing of oo i
tracts.
To make the money control cora
plete, another limitation reeAr
the extent to which war supplies el
ready in the hands of the Anr.y uj l
Navy may be used. These thin , >
may be transferred to England' -•
others to a maximum “tatluc” f
$1,300,000,000. There was exLra
sive debate on word “value"
meant and administration leaders fi i-
ally put in a provision that t' o
“value” of the articles should be de
termined by the heads of the de
partments or agencies immediut* '/
concerned.
The bill furthermore, would per
mit the President, subject again No
later appropriations, to order the re
pair or reconditioning f the “de
fense articles” of su< i nations a
England, Greece and China, and to
communicate to these government,*!
information on defense and defense
equipment.
The terms and cor: 11 ....t; and r
which guns, tanks, pi. / sand Lh r
war- supplies shall b> turned over to
these governments is by . to "the'dis
cretion of the Preside i.v Jib ii-
Ihortiy to enter into - t,r.. ; -.*•.
June 30, 1943, and tire idufu; m-at f
contracts is limited ;o July 1, 19. b
In addition, the Pro.a deni is requ
ed to make a reort < n the progr*. u
to congress every 90 days.
The senate’s debate concc ned ■*, •
self for two weeks and three de/s
with the broad gen-era uties uf the
foreign situation. In to >
contention of the foes . id • mens
ure that it held grave daaver 1
involvement in war, its ad vocal i
contended it was the most certr’n
method, in an uncertain word 1 1-
nation, of keeping the United Sta ,-j
at peace.
DICK. POTTS SHOOT 1 :
EARL PORTER
A shooting affray < >
the past week-end res. iced i I ■>
death of Earl Porter and tr :
of Dick Potts, accused of t m r
der. Potts was placed in t; . co, -i
ty jail to await trial fc-> the r, h r \
He is a son of Mrs. J. D 1
the late Mr. Potts of C-. r.-i . .
claims he .shot Porter in del . ..e 1.1
his own life.