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HIGHLIGHTS
IN THE NEWS
for the
WEEK -
GOVERNOR RIVERS TO
SEEK SECOND TERM.
ATLANTA, May 28.—New Deal
Governor E. D. Rivers announced to
night he would run for a second
term, foregoing the race for United
States senate in which two foes of
certain Roosevelt administration pol
icies are entered.
The Georgia chief executive said
his campaign ‘would be
“Complete the state program of
progress and remain 100 per cent,
loyal to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.” Rivers has sponsored a
“little new deal” program in Geor
gia.
Thus far two candidates have
qualified for the senate race—in
cumbent Senator Walter F. George,
who has opposed certain new deal
legislation, and ex-Gov. Eugene Tal
madge, bitter Roosevelt foe, who was
defeated two years ago when he ran
for the same office against Senator
Richard B. Russell.
Gov. Rivers’ decision assured a
three-cornered contest for the guber
natorial nomination in the state’s
democratic primary Sept. 14. Already
qualified are Hugh Howell, Atlanta
attorney and formal political ally of
ex-Gov. Talmadge, and J. J. Mang
ham, Bremen business man and one
time chairman of the state highway
board.
Nomination in the democratic pri
mary is tantamount to election in
Georgia.
5 MEN ACCUSED
BY U. S. IN
HUNTSVILLE FRAUD
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Five men,
including the mayor of Stevenson,
Ala., were placed under bonds rang
ing from $2,500 to $5,000 a few days
ago.
The warrants were sworn out by
J. A. Roche, special agent for the
F. B. 1., after five months of un
dercover work on the part of fed
. eral agents.
The hearing was scheduled for June
28 for Claud E. Spivey, 43, of Scotts
boro; Walter Marcus Allison, 44,
mayor of Stevenson; Gordon Foster,
27, and George Lee McCutchen, 57,
both of Scottsboro, and Roy J. Mc-
Cormack, 47, of South Pittsburg,
Tenn.
Warrants, held by Shelby Phillips,
United States deputy marshal, stated
that between Oct. 1, 1937, and Janu
ary, 1938, the defendants “did con
spire to and did actually devise a
scheme for the purpose of defrauding
the United States government and in
furtherance of such scheme unlaw
fully and did make use of cotton pro
ducer loan note agreements, and also
in furtherance of such scheme did
make use of the United States mail.”
CARROLL FREED IN
SWEETHEART SLAYING
Donald Carroll, 16, was freed “by
reason of insanity” of slaying his
sweetheart, Charlotte Matthieson, 18.
The trial, involving the elemen
tary sexual problems of high school
youths the duties of parents in
educating their children for mixed
companionships, ended at 6:34 p.m.
yesterday amid such a jubilant up
roar that Judge Thomas Downs clear
ed the courtroom and threatened spec
tators with jail sentences.
THREE MAJOR AUTO
CONCERNS INDICTED
Three major automobile concerns,
it w<|£ revealed a few days ago, faced
federal grand jury indictments
charging conspiring to violate the
Sherman anti-trust law as govern
ment attorneys, “satisfied” in a sec
ond attempt for action, planned ear
ly trials of the cases.
United States District Attorney
James R. Fleming said last week he
and his staff of assistants were
“pleased with the results” of the in
vestigation. They said it was the
largest trust investigation since the
Standard Oil prosecutions in 1910.
The government had failed in its
first attempt to get indictments
against the motor companies. A Mil
waukee grand jury, making an in
vestigation, was dismissed Dec. 17,
1937.
Each indictment, Fleming said,
elleged that the companies con
spired toward “stifling and inter
fering with interstate commerce
for promotion of monopoly,” and
that their action caused “irrepara
ble damage” to small automobile
finance companies.
NOTABLES INDICTED
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of
the board, and William S. Knudsen,
president, were named with seventeen
other individuals in an indictment
against the General Motors corpora
tion, the General Motors Sales cor
poration and the General Motors Ac
ceptance corporation..
The Ford Motor company, the Un
iversal Cerdit corporation and divis
ions, Edsel Ford and twelve other
persons were named in another.
The third indictment included in
its charges the Crysler corporation,
the Chrysler Sales corporation, Dodge
Bos, company, De Soto Motor corpo*
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VOL. 52; NO. 13.
22 SENIORS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS MON. NIGHT
Fifteen Candidates In Race For
The Various County Offices
Races For the Various Offices Promise to Be
Lively—Several More Expected to Enter.
B. E. NEAL OPPOSES MOSE E. BRINSON
Eleven Aspirants in Races for Board of Com
missioner of Roads and Revenue.
Fifteen aspirants are seeking the
various offices in the coming demo
cratic primary set for Sept. 14.
Thomas A. Cook, former sheriff of
Chattooga county, has announced as
a candidate for representative in op
position to Ross Thomas, of Trion, in
cumbent.
B. E. Neal has announced for state
senator from the Forty-second Sen
atorial district, composed of the coun
ties of Chattooga, Floyd and Bartow,
opposing Moses E. Brinson, who an
nounced several weeks ago.
In the commissioners’ races, all of
the present members of the board
have announced for re-election. All
have opposition.
J. L. Alexander opposes George W.
Agnew for the Alpine, Dirtseller and
Teloga districts.
J. C. Williams, of the Trion dis
trict, is opposing F. A. Justice, and
P. A. Morgan has announced against
Homer B. Hix, from the district com
posed of Dirttown, Subligna and
Haywood.
Rowland B. Wheeler has announc
ed for commissioner, opposing C. S.
Fowler, present comomissioner of the
Summerville district.
Clyde Stephenson and W. W. Cook
have announced for the board in op
position to John B. Vaughn, of the
Lyerly district.
Baptist Opposed To
Merger of Churches
Proposed Union Plan Is Deemed
Dangerous But Co-Operation Is
Pledged With Fellow Christians.
Overwhelming disapproval of the
proposed organic union of all Chris
tian denominations was voiced by
5,000 representatives of southern
Baptists in Richmond, Va., in recent
session.
Organic union under present condi
tions, said the outspoken report
adopted by the annual convention,
“is impossible with Baptists,” though
they “rejoice in our spiritual union
with all who love the Lord Jesus in
sincerity and truth.”' ..
Furthermore, the report declared,
the southern Baptists “would issue a
fraternal warning to our brethren of
every communion of the danger of a
man-made union. It would constitute
a powerful monopoly fraught with
many possible perils for the world. It
would be too carnal to be safe. Such
an advantage and such power would
be too much for human nature.
“By our very principles we are au
tomatically separate, ecclesiastically,
from all other people, and we cannot
help it, unless we stultify our con
sciences or renounce the truth, as we
are given to see the truth, a course
no Christian would wish us to take.”
The declaration hastened to add,
however, that “we would look with
great favor on the union of those
bodies whose ecclesiastical policy and
principles will enable them, conscien
tiously, to symbolize together. This
would greatly simplify the problem
and constitute an important step to
ward Christian fellowship.”
Go-operation with “our fellow
Christians and our fellow citizens,
whether Protestant or Catholic, whe
ther Jew or Gentile, in every worthy
effort for the moral and social uplift
bf humanity, as well as for the equal,
civil and religious rights of all men
in all lands” was pledged.
SETTLES 10,447 DISPUTES.
WASHINGTON.—In the two and
a half years of its operations under
the Wagner labor act, the National
Labor Relations Board reports that
it has disposed of 10,447 labor dis
putes, involving 2,116,338 workers.
LOST—On June 1, rubber coat, near
top Taylor’s ridge. Finder please
return to T. F. Gordon, Summer
ville, Route 4.
ration, the Plymouth Motor corpora
tion and the Commercial Credit com
pany and its branched. Walter P.
Chrysler, president Os the firm, and
seventeen other individuals were also
named.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938
OLD-AGE INSURANCE
QUERIES ANSWERED
By Joseph R. Murphy, Manager of
Bureau of Old-Age Insurance, Ten
Forsyth St. Building, Atlanta.
(Whenever the term “wages” is
used, it refers to wages for services
performed after 1936, and before
the age of 65 in included employ
ment.)
Q —l plan to teach school after I
graduate this spring. Can I qualify
for old-age benefits?
A—Your salary as a teacher in a
public school, in a state university,
or in most private nonprofit educa
tional institutions cannot be counted
in the computation of federal old-age
insurance retirement benefits. How
ever, you might work in some other
employment—business, commerce or
industry—during the summer, or the
year round later in your life before
reaching age 65, which will qualify
you.
Q—What is meant by “excepted”
employment? I am told that farming
is “excepted.”
A—Do not be misled by the words
“excepted employment.” Generally
speaking, all employment in com
merce and industry comes under the
act. No person is excepted; only cer
tain employments are excepted.
Q —l am a salesman and will soon
be 65. Will I have to retire to re
ceive an old-age benefit?
A—A person must retire from an
included employment in order to re
ceive monthly retirement benefits,
which will begin in 1942. However, if
you reach 65 before 1942, you will
not have to retire to receive a lump
sum payment.
Q —-I want to buy a federal old
age retirement policy for my wife.
She is not working, except at home,
and so does not have a social secur
ity card. May I buy a policy for her?
Please give me information on the
rates, etc.
A—.‘Federal old-age insurance ben
efits are not purchasable. They are
payable only to employes in covered
■ employments who meet the specified
; requirements.
Q —-Is the family of a man who
died recently entitled to anything if
he was not working at the time of
1 his death? He was a garage me-
- chanic and had not worked in about
six months. He had a social security
' card.
A—His family . is entitled to a
death payment equal to 3 1-2 per
> cent, of his total wages for services
- at the garage or other covered em
ployment since Dec. 31, 1936. His
! widow should write or call in person
' at my office for an application for
’ a lump-sum death payment.
• Cases to Be Tried At
' June Term Court
i The following cases have been set
. for trial at the June term, 1938, of
city court of Chattooga county, to
, convene Monday, June 6:
Turner Green, Paul T. Chandler, N.
’ C. Carroll, Roy Price, Harvey Ellam,
r Jack Watson (three cases), George
. Barlow, Bill Scoggins (two cases),
' John Cantrell, Carlise Caldwell (two
’ cases), M. A. Graham, Herman
Hodges, Jud Wigley, Roy Lawson,
Earl Howell, Robert McClendon,
Hugh Faust, Jr., Blair Gullion, Paul
Byars, V. L. Veatch and B. Veatch
i (four cases).
’. All cases in city court of Chattoo
1J ga county, that have not been dispos
t ed of are subject to call and trial at
- this term of court.
J. RALPH ROSSER,
Solicitor-General.
r
e F. D. R.
President Roosevelt recently noti
fied correspondents that he would
- have nothing to say about state pri-
- mary contests, even if there are er-
- roneous claims of White House sup
’• port.
i
o Will buy your eggs in trade. &H-
Crawford,
Seeks Second Term
IHF 1
gFS&k JIB
Gov. E. D. Rivers, who announced
last Saturday that he would seek a
second term as governor.
SURVEY OF 36,000
MILES OF ROADS
BEEN COMPLETED
ATLANTA, Ga.—Beginning of the
eighth month of the work of the di-1
vision of highway planning of the ;
state higway boards finds the state-:
wide road and traffic survey well!
advanced, with 36,000 miles of roads |
surveyed and inventoried and more ■
than 40,000 trucks and buses weigh
ed, W. L. Miller, chairman, an
nounces.
Planning division engineers, who ,
are surveying and mapping every I
public road in Georgia, have complet- !
ed their work in fifty-two counties of ,
the state and are surveying and in
ventorying an average of twenty!
miles of road each day, it was an
nounced. Their work will result in the
preparation of new and comprehen- i
sive county maps, which not only!
will be more complete than any here- j
tofore drawn but which will reveal
any discrepancy that might exist be
tween the actual mileage of all roads I
in the state and the current estimat
ed total of 103,612 miles. These maps
will be used in the future planning I
of highways in the state, Mr. Miller
said.
“Origin and destination studies,
which have been carried on at the
planning division’s fifty-four truck
and bus weighing stations since
March 21, have shown unusually good |
results,” Mr. Miller asserted. “Os the |
vehicles passing the various points |
of operation since this phase was
launched, origin and destination re
turns have been received from 10,-
951, representing 25 per cent, of the
total. This is a very satisfactory av
erage and one that indicates that
the Georgia motorist is anxious to
co-operate in any movement design
ed to improve the highways over,
which he rides.”
Another phase of the highway sur
vey, known as the Blanket Count, is
being conducted at 14,000 intersec-1
tions of main and county roads—un
paved as well as paved—in the state.
This survey supplements the origin
and destination investigation, and
involves not only a acreful census of
traffic from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day for one year, but also gathers
information as to the vehicle’s place
of ownership, the origin and destina
tion Os the trip and the purpose of
the journey. And in making a fair
distribution of the cost of highways
in the future between urban and rur
al taxpayers will be one direct re
sult of the correlated origin and des
tination studies, Mr. Miller said.
The third major division, the fi
nancial surveys, is determining, thru
a painstaking study of the receipts
and expenditures of the various units
of government within the state,
whether the present sources of in
come are sufficient to maintain prop
erly Georgia’s present system of
highways and to build new highways
in keeping with increasing traffic
demands. The financial survey, whose
accountants are visiting every county
and every municipality in the state,
also will ascertain the registration
fees and fuel taxes paid by each type
of motor vehicle and what propor
tion of these are paid by urban and
rural residents; the annual roadway
costs for the several types of sur
faces and the average life of each
type, and the relative use of the va
rious highway? of the state by its
resident.
Dr. Charles E. Wood, of Marietta, <
Delivers Inspiring Address
Rev. S. H. Dixon Preached to the Seniors
Sunday—Special Music by Miss Pitts.
DIPLOMAS AWARDED BY. L.C. TURNER
The Grammar School Presented Its Closing
Exercises Friday, May 27, at 12 Noon.
HOME HYGIENE REPORT
FOR LOCAL RED CROSS
Splendid Report Has Been Turned
In By Mrs. M. I. Marks and Mrs.
Minnie B. McEntire.
A splendid report has been turned
in by Mrs. Maude I. Marks, chair
man of our local home hygiene com
mittee, which each and every one of
our citizens should be proud of and
should know the work that Mrs.
Marks has completed.
She was instrumental in securing
for us one of the most efficient and
well-trained nurses in the state to
carry on this work for a period of
two months. Mrs. McEntire was well
qualified forr this work and has for
the past two months rendered a most
helpful service to our county. Mrs.
Marks and Mrs. McEntire have been
tireless workers and have practically
covered the county in immunizing
children and grown people of dread
ed diseases.
I, as chairman of our local Red
Cross chapter, wish to express my
thanks and appreciation to both Mrs.
Marks and Mrs. McEntire for their
splendid, unselfish efforts expended
in this helpful work.
The following is a report showing
some of the work that has been done
in this county for the past two
months: There were twenty-two
schools worked; 1,202 typhoid serums
given; 700 smallpox vaccinations
given; 110 diphtheria vaccinations
given; fifteen school talks made; ten
group talks made; 1,684 health pam
phlets distributed. Several families,
having crippled children, were vis
ited and arrangements are being
made to place some of the children
in Warm Springs and Scottish Rite
hospital.
I feel that the county has been
greatly benefitted by this work and
we as citizens of Chattooga county
should be thankful that we have such
an energetic, tireless worker as Mrs.
M. I. Marks.
MOSES E. BRINSON, JR.,
Chairman, Red Cross.
Tennessee Agrees
To Driver Pact
Controversy Over Licenses Be
tween Two States Ended By Mu
tual Agreement.
The controversy over drivers’ li
censes for motorists traveling fre
quently between Tennessee and Geor
gia .has been settled in an agreement
between officials of the two states,
the Chattanooga Automobile club an
nounced Tuesday.
Mrs. Fleddie Donaldson, secretary
of the auto club, received a letter
from Commissioner Phil Brewster, of
the Georgia department of public
safety, telling of the agreement.
According to terms between Brew
ster and Tennessee State Highway
Chief Joe Boyd Williams, automobile
owners of the two states may drive
unmolested in both states, providing
they have state drivers’ licenses from
the state in which their cars’ license
plates were purchased.
The conference and agreement
grew out of reports that highway
patrolmen in the Chattanooga area
recently tried to force Georgia mo
torists who drove in Tennessee to
purchase Tennessee drivers’ licenses.
Presbyterian Church
Preaching at 11 a.m.
Sunday school at 9:45.
Wayside at 3 p.m.
Young People at 7 p.m.
Holiday Notice
The undersigned banks will observe
Jefferson Davis’ birthday Friday,
June 3, 1938, and will transact no
business on that date:
Farmers & Merchant? Bank,
Bank of Trion.
$1.50 A YEAR
Monday evening, at the high school
auditorium, twenty-two seniors re
ceived their diplomas, twelve being
honor graduates which is very un
usual. Miss Dorothy Harlow, first
honor graduate, was valedictorian.
She also received three other honors,
including two medals. Miss Drucilla
Sizemore, second honor graduate, was
salutatorian.
Members of the 1938 senior class
are James Adams, J. T. Hankins, Er
nest Sitton, Junior Sitton, Elmer
Smith, Charles Turner, Betty Beav
ers, Dorothy Elrod, Kathryn Eubanks,
Mary Frances Gaines, Dorothy Har
low, Grace Hill Holbrooks, Kathryn
McConkey, Hallie Martin, Henrietta
Murphy, Irene Parker, Eulon Ratliff,
Drucilla Sizemore, Eleanor Thomas,
Inez Whitley, Kathryn Yancey and
Elsie Mae Fulmer.
Miss “Dot” McConkey and Chas.
Turner received medals for being the
best all-round girl and boy in the
senior class.
The senior scholarship medal was
presented to Miss Dorothy Harlow;
the junior scholarship medal to Joe
Charles Favor. The sophomore schol
arship medal to Josephine Crouch;
the freshman scholarship medal to
Willie Mae Jones.
About ten received perfect attend
ance certificates. Supt. Dillard pre
sented the awards and L. C. Turner
presented the diplomas.
Dr. Charles E. Wood, of Marietta,
gave a most inspiring address, stress
ing the important of “individaul ini
tiative.” It was one of the best ad
dresses ever delivered in Summer
ville.
A very inspiring baccalaureate
sermon was delivered by the Rev. S.
H. Dixon, of Rome, Sunday morning
at 11 a.m. at the high school audi
torium.
On Friday at 12 o’clock, the sev
enth grade pupils were awarded cer
tificates at the school auditorium.
On Friday evening, a selected cast
from the senior class presented a
very enjoyable play, “Aunt Tillie
Goes to Town.” Miss Virginia Dillard
coached the play. “Aunt Tillie,” act
ed by Kathryn Yancey, and her maid
by “Bud” Beavers, were unusually
interesting characters.
From California
Oakland, Calif., May 20, 1938
Summerville News:
After leaving Menlo on the “Scoot
er” at 2:45 p.m. on May 1, we en
trained on the Southern R. R. in
Chattanooga at 11 p.m. on the same
date, arriving at Mineola, Tex., May
2. Visited oldest brother there; vis
ited another brother, J. Houston
King, at Mt. Vernon, Tex. On May
6 we arrived in Abilene, Tex., where
two sons reside; from there to Post,
Tex., where oldest daughter and
youngest son reside. (At all of these
places I have lived in the past.)
Leaving there May 12, arriving in
San Francisco, Calif., 6:30 a.m. the
14th. Visited another daughter. On
the 15th at 7 p.m. we were at an
other daughter’s in Oakland, Calif.,
where we are still seeing the wonder
ful sights anti scenery, (natural and
artificial); meeting and renewing old
acquaintances and friendships. I will
not attempt to give in details all
the thrilling experiences that has
been ours since arriving in Califor
nia, but will venture to give a few at
the risk of being considered exagger
ating the real truth.
The rolling waves of “White Caps”
on the Pacific beach, the many va
rieties of curios in the “Golden Gate
Park” (almost all types of living
creatures), including the carcass of
a dead whale eighty-three feet long,
a cut of a redwood log thirteen feet
in diameter twenty feet above the
base of the tree. Crossing the "Gold
en Gate” bay on the new bridge four
miles long. Going in a car through a
tunnel under a tributary of the Gold
en Gate bay, with the mighty ships
of commerce (foreign and local)
plowing above us as we traveled un
der ground.
My wife’s physical condition seems
to have materially improved, and she
says she is having the time of her
life.
J, W, KING ft WIFE.