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VOLUME XXXIII.
E. D. RIVERS TO SPEAK
HERE ON WEDNESDAY
TO ADDRESS VOTERS
OF THIS TERRITORY
CAMPAIGN ADDRESS WILL BE
HEARD BEGINNING AT
10:30 A. M.
Hon. E. D. Rivers, of Lakeland,
formerly of Cairo, a candidate for
Governor in the September 9th elec
tion, will address the voters of
Southwest Georgia in the interest of
his gubernatorial campaign at Cairo
next Wednesday morning, Sept. 2nd,
beginning at 10:30 o’clock, central;
(Cairo) time.
Mr. Rivers has thousands of per
sonal acquaintances and friends ol
long standing throughout this sec
tion and he will doubtless be heard
here by a large crowd.
He is recognized as one of the
state’s most brilliant orators and
will discuss the issues of the cam
paign in a frank and interesting
manner. Because he has been shown
by various polls and other tests of
sentiment to be well in the lead
among the candidates for the gub
ernatorial nomination, he has been
made the victim of bitter attacks by
his two opponents and he is expect
ed to answer the charges that have
been made against him, as well as
outline his policies.
His speech will be delivered at
Davis Park, unless bad weather forc
es use of the Courthouse.
Colquitt Rally Today
To Draw a Big Crowd
A big political rally at Colquitt, in
Miller county, today, Friday, begin
ning at 10:30 a. m., will likely draw
a big crowd.
Editor S. Marvin Griffin, a candi
date for Congressman, will speak, as
will his opponent, Cong. E. E. Cox.
Mr. Cox will follow Mr. Griffin.
Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
Speaker E. D. Rivers and a number
of other candidates are expected to
speak there, also.
Big Griffin Motorcade Next
Wednesday.
Friends and proud neighbors of S.
Marvin Griffin, of Bainbridge, a
candidate for Congress, will form
a motorcade next Wednesday morn
ing to escort him to Tifton where a
barbecue and rally will be held in
his honor. The line of cars will
leave Bainbridge early in the morn
mg and will stop in Cairo ten min
utes, from 8:05 to 8:15. Gaining
momentum all the way the caravan
expects to roll into Tifton about
noon.
Stops along the way listed by
those in charge include Climax,
Whigham, Cairo, Thomasville, Cool
ie, Moultrie, Norman Park and
Omega. i
On the return trip the Bainbridge
ears expect to visit Ty Ty, Sumner,
Poulan, Sylvester, Albany, Morgan,
Edison, Arlington, Damascus an< *
Colquitt. • j
Plans of the committee are t°
have the motorcade stop at least
^ ve minutes in every town.
All the voters of the Second Con
cessional J°in District are invited to
the group and attend the bar
becue.
QUANTITY OF LIQUOR IS
SEIZED HERE.
Aight Policemen J. W. Thomas
an,i Cliff Strickland last Monday
,
seized a quantity of moonshine
■Wor which was said to be about i
eighty gallons.
The seizure was made ... in the east- . . i
tern Pai ?! th<? dty N ° an ' eSt WaS
mado a - f the HqUOr| !
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Mrs. it.T .7 UCrory - spent several. ,
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E. D. RIVERS
of Lakeland, formerly of Cairo, a
candidate for Governor, who 'will
address the people of this section of
the state in the interest of his guber
natorial campaign next Wednesday
morning, at 10:30 o’clock, central
(Cairo) time.
Mr. Rivers is regarded as one of
the state’s greatest orators and will
doubtless be heard here by a large
crowd. Various polls and other tests
of sentiment have shown him to be
the leading candidate for Governor
in the campaign which ends with the
Sept. 9th election.
TONG OIL PLANT IS
VIRTUALLY ASSURED
C. OF C. DIRECTORS MEET HELD
HERE ON LAST TUESDAY
EVENING.
It was revealed at the regular
monthly meeting of the board of di<
rectors of the local Chamber of Corn
merce, held last Tuesday evening;
that the tung oil extraction plant is
virtually assured for Cairo.
The special committee working on
this project reported another visit to
Cairo by Messrs. Baxter and Nay, of
New York City, a feW days ago. It
was stated, also„tha ta lease has been
executed for building accomodations
here and that steps will be taken,
probably next week, for a local cor
poration to be set up to operate the
plant. No local backing will be re
quired, other than the contracts al
ready obtained by the Chamber of
Commerce for the marketing here of
the tung nuts from approximately
4,000 acres of trees in this territory.
The machinery for the plant is now
under construction and it is under
stood that the plant will be finished
in plenty of time to receive this
year’s crop of nuts. The plant will
be located in the old tobacco ware
house here. The committee Was voted
thanks for its work on this import
ant project.
The immediate launching of cam
paigns to build up and exploit the
county’s markets for farm products
and increase and improve the produc
tion of. livestock in the county Was
planned. Plans for a wholesale mar
ket for farm produce were consider
e<1 Mr! S
J. M. Hughes, who recently re
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was heartily welcomed as a citizen.
Upon motion, Mr. Hughes was named
co director to fill an existing vacan
n sidld ^ice President J. S. Weathers pre
at ^aves the meeting with Secretary
at his post. Much en-S
*Wi«n was e /->ncetl in the work
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Mrs. A. S. Shaw, and daughters, !
Fannie and Mattie Lou, of j
4del were the guests Wednesday:
of their son and brother, Mr. J. H.
here . They were
Z p „ route home from a visit of seve
days in Florida. Kathryn and
Rvrnn B>ron Shaw bnaiA, o J ' Cairo, w ' accompanied
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lhe man who wandereth oat of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUG. 28, 1936.
10 COUNTY SCHOOLS
TO OPEN SEPT. 4TH
SUPT. ESKEW ANNOUNCES NEW
PLANS FOR HANDLING
BOOKS, ETC.
County School Superintendent W.
R. Eskew announced Thursday that
the following Grady county schools
are to open next -Friday, September
4th: Cairo, Calvary, Central, Elpino.
Midway, New Home, Pine Park’
Reno, Spence, Whigham, and possib
ly Wayside. The high school pupils
going to Cairo and Whigham from
the rural schools Will go to the
school in their district on the dis
trict school bus and from there will
be transferred to the high school
they attend by a bus from the dis
trict, Superintendent Eskew said.
Four free school books will be is
sued to all pupils in the first six
grades, he states. Books to be furn
ished free are reading, writing, arith
metic and spelling, These books
will be issued to the pupils by the
teachers of the various schools. A
list of books pupils will need in ad
dition to those furnished free will be
given to the pupils by the teacher
and if the pupil is not able to secure
these books locally second hand from
other pupils they can most likely ob
tain them second hand from the of
fice of the County School Superin
tendent or they can also be obtained
new from the office of the County
School Superintendent.
Chason, Live Oak, Pawnee, Tur
key Creek and Woodland schools are
not to open, it is understood, until
Friday, October 2, when the term
begins which is to be financed by
the County Board of Education. The
eleven schools that are beginning
September 4th are financing the ex
tra month from their local taxes.
Mr. Eskew says much enthusiasm
is being manifested by the people
all over the county in connection \vith
schools and it is believed that the
ensuing school year will be one of
the best in the history of Grady
county. It is hoped that finances
will be provided so a normal term
may be operated.
Vacancy On Cairo Faculty
Filled.
Supt. John S. Herndon, of the
Cairo Schools, announced Thursday
that with the filling of a high school
faculty vacancy this week plans are
virtually complete for the opening of
the local school on next Friday,
Sept. 4th. Miss Sarah C. Camp, of
Whitesburg, Ga., was elected this
week to teach mathematics in the
high school to succeed Prof. Chessie
Rehberg, of Cairo, who has resigned
to re-enter college.
There will be a faculty meeting
next Thursday, September 3rd, at 3
p. m., at which time all members of
the faculty are expected to be here.
Pupils will be marked absent unless
they attend school the opening day,
(Continued on Fourth Page)
Division Kiwanis Meet
Here Set For Tonight
The regular meeting of the Cairo
Kiwanis Club was not held Tuesday
at noon on account of the division
Kiwanis meeting which will be held
here tonight, Friday, at 7 o’clock, at
Hotel Grady.
The following clubs will be rep
resented at that meeting: Thomas
ville < AJbany, Americus, Sylvester,
Dawson and Cairo. The program
Will be under the direction of the
Thomasville Club. An attendance of
at least 75 Kiwanians is expected.
Singing Convention to
Meet Here On Sunday
^he Fifth Sunday Singing . . Conven
tlon Wl11 meet at the hl & h school au
ditorium in Cairo next Sunday,
ust 30th, it was announced last
week. The convention will open at
9:30 a. m.
Leaders say approximately 1,000
people from over six or eight coun
ties ties in in Georgia Georgia and and Florida Florida will will at
tend.
L. L. Lovett,'of Bainbridge, is thej
president of the convention and
Woodrow Long, also of Bainbridge,
fa secretary.
This convention was scheduled to
meet here a few months ago, but
that meeting was switched to Bain
bridsre
DISTURBANCE
11 NEGROES IN JAIL
NEAR RIOT SUNDAY LEADS TO
A BUSY COURT SESSION
HERE MONDAY.
A Sunday afternoon disturbance
in the southwestern part of Grady
county, about twelve miles southwest
of Cairo, landed eleven Negroes in
jail last Sunday night and led to a
busy non-jury session of City Court
Monday that consumed almost the
entire day. Officers described the
Sunday afternoon trouble, at the res
idence of Mr. J. Will Sanders and the
Pleasant Hill (Negro) church, as a
near riot, but it was quelled before
threatened serious proportions were
assumed.
Sheriff Odus Alligood and Deputy
Johnny Williams, when summoned
about 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon,
made such a prompt response that
they reached the scene just in time
to check the outbreak before gunplay
(Jeveloped. They succeeded, with as
sistance, in rounding up the eleven
Negroes alleged to be leaders.
Several Negroes alleged to have
been drinking precipitated the dis
turbance as the church meeting was
breaking up. When some of the al
leged trouble-makers repaired to the
premises of Mr. Sanders, nearby, he
exercised his right as a citizen and
placed two of them, one man and one
woman, under arrest, and summoned
Sheriff Alligood. Officers reported
that others plotted a forcible freeing
of the pair, but that they arrived in
time to prevent the effort, although
one Negro man is said to have
threatened to shoot Mr. Sanders with
a shot-gun which he brought into
play.
•Following are the cases that de
velopd Monday as a result of the
disturbance:
State vs Abe Willis, disturbing di
vine worship, alleged to be one of the
leaders. Plea of guilty. Sentenced
to serve 12 months on chaingang.
State vs Leo Babb, George Mc
Griff, Essie Mae Read, Ben Grant,
Jesse Maxwell and Moody Andrews;
disturbing divine worship. Pleas of
guilty. Sentenced to serve 6 months
on gang or pay fines of $40.
State vs Ed Roberson; disturbing
divine worship. Verdict of guilty in
non-jury trial. Sentenced to serve
six months on gang or pay a fine of
$40.
State vs Wallace Flagg, Willie
George Willis and James Borden;
disturbing divine worship. Jury trial
demanded on pleas of not guilty.
Bound over to October term of City
Court under bonds of $200 each.
Other cases called Monday were:
State vs Leola BroWn; simple lar
ceny. Verdict of guilty in non-jury
trial. Sentenced to serve six months
on gang or pay a fine of $25.
State vs Idean Pease; simple lar
ceny. Verdict of guilty in non-jury
trial. Sentenced to serve six months
on gang or pay a fine of $25.
State vs Read James; simple iar
ceny. Plea of guilty. Sentenced to
serve six months on gang or pay a
fine of $40.
State vs Ether Barrett; having liq
uor. Plea of guilty. Sentenced to
serve four months on gang or pay a
fine of $20.
State vs A. H. Holman; public
drunkenness, etc. Plea of guilty.
Sentenced to serve four months or
pay a fine of $25.
State vs Red Powell; violating
“Peeping Tom” law. Bound over to
October term of City Court.
State vs John Garrison; simple
larceny. Bound over to October term
0 f City Court.
G-Men Nab Walker L. Hudson,
Wanted Here.
Walker L. Hudson, self-styled
United States geodetic engineer, and
wan t ed j n Grady county on two mis
demeanor warrants, was caught Wauchu-! sev-,
era j days ago by G-men in
la> F!a .; and entered a plea of guilty
to a charge 0 f impersonating a Fed
eral officer when arraigned before
United States Commissioner Paul
g ‘ ' Pinkerton, at Tampa.
Hadso Hudson n was was apparently apparently making making
elaborate c!*bcr? > '“ r plans ,n ’' a for * nr a * mythical survey snrvev
pav ty when he was arrested because
0 f suspicion. It developed, however,!
that , ie had also impersonated a Fed.
eral officer in attempting to cash a
check, which was found to be worth- ;
less. He was bound over to the Fed- j
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GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County
the hub of its sugar cane, coliard seed
and tung oil industries, the original
diversified farming section.
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GOV. EUGENE TALMADGE
who addressed a crowd from several
counties in Davis Park here Tuesday
afternoon in the interest of his cam
paign for the senatorial nomination.
He came here from Valdosta and
spent several hours here after the
speech with friends, going to Al
bany to spend the night.
PEANUTS OPEN HERE
WITH NO. ONES $70
WIGHT HARDWARE CO. OPENS
1936 SEASON; COTTON
EASES OFF.
Wight Hardware Co., here, opened
the 1936 local peanut market Thurs
day with a quotation of $70 per ton
for Spanish number ones. The hot
dry weather of the past few days has
caused peanut picking to become
rather general on the farms of this
section, and large scale marketing is
expected to begin in a few days,
probably by the first part of next
week. Other buyers here will active
ly enter the market as soon as mar
keting assumes sufficient propor
^ ons -
Fred Carroll, of Farmers Peanut
Co., said Thursday he 'would enter
the market Monday for dry peanuts
and urged growers not to attempt
to sell their peanuts until they are
properly cured. He said he would
pay $70 for Spanish number ones at
the opening.
Weather this week has been quite
favorable to cotton harvesting, also,
and the local gins have been busy
all the week, With several hundred
bales ginned. The cotton market has
eased off from the quotations a week
ago, however, and local middling was
worth only 11 %c per pound Thurs
day afternoon. However, the local
cotton seed market remains firm,
with an advance of $2 per ton during
the week. Cairo buyers were paying
$32 per ton for the seed Thursday.
PASSES TUESDAY
Mrs .Mattie Andrews Dies At Home
Of Daughter Near Cairo.
Mrs. Mattie Andrews, of Reno,
passed to her eternal reward at 5:30
o’clock last Tuesday afternoon, Aug.
25th, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Hattie Walden, a short distance
southwest of Cairo, following a ce
rebral hemorrhage. She was born
ln Alabama on Feb. 9th, 1852, and
was 88 years of age. She has resid
ed in this section for many years and
had a host of friends to mourn her
passing.
She was a loyal member of the
Tired Creek Primitive Baptist Church
and her long life was one of much
usefulness.
Funeral and intermen -ere at
Tired Creek church Wednesday m
charge of Elder L. Z Palmerand toe
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Survmng are four sons, W. H, J.
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daughter, Mrs. Hattie ... w Walden.
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NUMBER 32.
ATTACKS NEW DEAL,
RIDICULES RUSSELL
CROWD ESTIMATED TO NUMBER
3,500 TO 4,000; TOM
LINDER SPEAKS.
Governor Eugene Talmadge brought
his campaign for the senatorial nom
ination to the people of Southwest
Georgia with an address to a large
crowd from several counties at Dav
is Park in Cairo Tuesday afternoon.
It was one of the largest political
gatherings ever assembled here and
a battery of loud speakers carried
the speech and other proceedings to
the crowd efficiently, with the shade
trees affording at least moderate
comfort for the people.
The Governor continued his bitter
attacks upon various policies of the
Roosevelt administration, especially
the farm aid and finance measures
of the New Deal, and ridiculed his
opponent, Senator Richard B. Russell,
Jr., for his record in office. He ad
vocated a program of lower taxes,
extensive curtailment of Fedeial ex
penditures for all purposes, legisla
tion to keep the government out of
business, and of “co-operation 'with
the administration when it is right.”
“Most of you have signed up in
the new Federal soil conservation
program; my wife did,” he said.
“Well, have they told you how much
benefits you will get? No, they
haven’t. They’re waiting to see
where it will be needed most. Elecf
Talmadge to the Senate September
9th and the conservation benefits
will flow freely into Georgia between
then and the November general elec
tion, so that you farmers can get
some of the money you’ve lost
in this processing tax deal,” he de
clared.
He reiterated a charge :>f gross
discrimination against Georgia in
distributing the benefits derived from
the processing taxes, asserting that
Georgia has paid about forty mill
ions in processing taxes while re
ceiving only about thirty millions in
benefits. He recited figures show
ing how some states had received
considerably more in benefits than
they paid in processing taxes,
He charged that Secretary of Ag
riculture Wallace, of Iowa, “whose
appointment my opponent approved,”
j s a Republican and classed Secre
tary Harold Ickes as “a renegade Rfr
publican.” He declared that th«
“brain trusters” in Washington art
responsible for the passage of nutn
erous unconstitutional laws and plead
for a return to the Constitution. Re
ferring to a charge that he had re
ceived aid from the Republicans ia
his nation-wide fight on New Deal
policies, he said: “I am a Democrat.
I’ve always voted the Democratic
ticket. But I wear the Democratic
party as a badge, and not as a
chain.”
He continued his attack on the
Roosevelt social security legislation,
declaring that Negroes in Georgia
would receive most of the old age
pensions. He said old age pensions
would cost the tax-payers of Geor.
gia $2,250,000 a month and that this
would mean too great an additional
tax burden on the people.
In characteristic manner, he ridi
culed his opponent, Senator Russell,
particularly for the alleged expend
(Continued on fourth page)
RUSSELL MOTORCADE TO
MOULTRIE.
Grady county supporters of
Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
formed a long motorcade to Moul
trie for the Senator’s rally there
last Tuesday afternoon. The Sen
ator spoke in Moultrie at the
same time his opponent, Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge, spoke in
Cairo.
The ’caders went in two groups
and estimates of the number of
cars varied considerably. More
than two hundred Grady county
cars were counted at the rally,
some said. Others said not more
than a hundred cars went from
here.
The Moultrie crowd numbered
about 6,500, according to the most
generally accepted estimates.