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Hull Reminds
Os Obligations
In Kellogg Pact
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Secre
tary of State Hull today made a dra
matic plea for world peace and in
solemn tones warned aggressor na
tions that “not even a victory can
gain from war.”
Surrounded by reports from Europe
that the Nazi-Czech crisis was ap
proaching a climax and from Asia
that Japanese war planes were bomb
ing helpless civiian popuations, Hull
penned a note reminding the world
that ten years ago today 63 nations
signed the Kellogg-Briand pact out
lawing war.
“This pledge has been assumed by
and is binding on 63 nations,” Hub
declared, in observance of the tenth
anniversary of the pact.
Japan now is engaged in a sweep
ing invasion' of China, Germany
has massed troops ear the Czecho
slovakian border. Both Germany and
Itay have aided General Framco’s
Insurgents in the Spanish civil war.
Reports from Europe today cause,
considerable anxiety among state de
partment officials, especially over the
Nazi-Czech situation.
“The Tragedy of Today”
‘Today,’ Hull said, “is the tenth
anniversary of the signing of the
Kellogg-Briand pact. On August 27.
1928, the representatives of the Unit
ed States, the German Reich, Bel
gium, France, the British Common,
wealth of Nations, Italy, Japan, Po
and and Czechoslovakia assembled in
Paris, declared that they were ‘deep
ly sensible of their solemn duty to
promote the welfare of mankind,’ vol
untarily renounced war as an instru
ment of national policy and pledged
themselves that the settlement or
solution of all disputes or conflicts
should never be sought except by pa
cific means. This pledge has been
assumed by and is binding on 63 na
tions.
“It is the great tragedy of today”
he continued, ‘tlfat although modern
experience has demonstrated that not
even a victor can gain from war,
nevertheless in certain parts of the
world strife and conflict are bringing
untold misery to millions, and in oth
er parts the idea of warfare is being
actually glorified.
“Governments and peoples cannot
be unmindful of their obligations and
thteir responsibilities, for on the ob
servance or non-observance of the
solemn pledges miade ten years ago
depends the preservation of all that
is valuable and worthwhile in the
life of each and every nation.”
Hull’s message was made public
shortly after distributing reports
were received that Dr. Joachim von
Ribbentrop, Germany’s foreign min
ister had summoned all Reich am
bassadors and ministers from North
and South American posts to Berlin
to ascetain what action the New
World would take in event of another
European war.
The Inter-State
Fair
CHATTANOGGA, Tenn.—“ Bigger
and better” than ever before, the
Chattanooga Inter-State Fair will
open its gates on September 19, un
der the management of Joe Engel,
the “South’s premiere showman.”
In addition to what promises to
be the largest dispay of agricultural
products, boys and girls club exhibits,
women’s exhibits, poultry and stock
exhibitions, Engel has arranged a
number of innovations for this year’s
Inter-State Fair.
The Johnny J. Jones Exposition,
“Mighty Monarch of the Tented
World”, will provide the midway at
tractions. Giving two performances
daily, will be a free grandstand show
featuing the Four Sensational Wish
ards and a comic act, “Elmer’s Crazy
Cow,” Each night there will be one
of the greatest displays of firewalks
ever witnessed in this section.
For the lovers of horse-racing,
Manager Engel has provided four
days harness racing which will bring
to Chattanooga some of the best and
fastest race horses in the circuit.
innovations of the 1938 fair will
be a pigeon show with entries open
to all; a rabbit show sponsored by
the Chattanooga Rabbit Breeders’ As
sociation, a feature of which will be
a displty of fine rabbit furs. Inter
esting to hundreds of collectors will
be the stamp exhibit arranged by thte
Chattanooga Philatelic Society. New
also will be the amateur photography
contest which will be divided into
two classes —novice and advanced.
In Warner Park, which has been
spruced up for the thousands of fair
visitors expected, will also be Held
at the same time of the fai the
mammouth “Drums of Dixie” celebra
tion, hailed as one of the biggest
events of its kind in the South.
President Franklin Roosevelt has
accepted an invitation to witness the
“Drums of Dixie” eventt which will
be held on the 75th anniversary of the
bloody battle of Chickamauga. More
than 2,000 people will take part in
the ten day historical pageant with
Cherokee Indians coming here for the
events. A ticket to the celebration
will also admit one to the fair, both
of which will be held in Warner Park
at the same time.
An increased premium list will find
more cash money being offered in
premiums and purses by the fair as
sociation than ever before. The
premium book contains 64 pages ev
ery one of which is of vital interest
to people who produce things and
hlave something to exhibit in compe
tition for cash awards. A premium
list will be promptly mailed by writ
ing Mrs. A. T. Atwood, secretary,
Inter-State Fair, Chattanooga, Tenn.
There will be community exhibits in
which all counties in the Chattanoo
ga area will cjjjnlpete, women’s sew
ing, canning and cooking depart
ments, a flower Mww opefr to all; »
SnmmiTinllr Nms
VOL. 52; NO. 25.
News At a Glance
About People,
Things In State
ATLANTA, (GPS)— Georgia, and
particularly Atlanta, again has re
ceived a national honor. One of the
eight new warships of the American
Navy will be christened “Atlanta,’
President Ropsevelt has decided. It
will be the third warship bearing the
name of Georgia’s capital. Although
many officials haven’t released speci
fic plans for building and launching
tne vessel, the light cruiser will cost
about $20,000,000 and will be com
pleted in about three years. The
new U. S. S. Atlanta will be about
8,000 tons and will make between
35 and 40 knots. The ship will be the
second of modem type to bear the
name. The former cruiser Atlanta,
a 3 'OO-ton vessel completed in 1886,
was tne first of the modern steam
Navy. Her career ended on the junk
heap in 1912. The first Atlanta was
a Confederate steamer, which was
badly damaged and captured on July
17, 1863. President Roosevelt’s de
cision to name the new cruiser “At
lanta” came after Congressman Rob
ert Ramspeck requested that one of
the vessels to be constructed under
the Navy’s billion-dollar building pro
gram be named after the Georgia city.
WINNING FRIENDSHIP: “The
railroad continues to give swift travel
convenient travel and safe travel,”
declares the Fort Faifield (Me.) Re
view. “In comparison with the safety
on the railroads, automobiling is an
extremely hazardous business, with
aviation still more so. The railroads
by their reduction of rates, by the
air-conditioning of the cars, by quick
schedules, and by safety, have made
a great comeback during the past
few years, and people are more friend
ly to them now than for a generation
GIST OF THE NEWS: Georgia
cities of under 25,060 population may
participae in the federal housing
clearance program in future, it was
announced by George B. Hamilton,
dhairman of the Georgia Housing
Authority. Several larger cities in
Georgia already are organized to
participate in teh federal housing
progam. In Atlanta Charles F Pal
mer is chairman of the Atlanta Hous
ing Authority . . . Georgia Tech has
the largest enrollment in its history,
according to reports. In fact, present
indicates are to the effect that there
are more students registered than
there is space. Officials of the
school are considering a plan to send
out an emergency call to all persons
within six blocks of the campus, who
have rooms for rent to students. . .
Bishop Warren A. Candler, “the grand
old man of Southern Methodism,” last
week celebrated his eighty-first birth
day.
EDITORIAL ODDITIES: “You
will have a better opinion of bill col
lectors if you pay your debts prompt
ly,” says the Alma Times. . . . The
Covington News has this to say:
“The generous talker usually is the
kind who would share his last dol
lar with you if he ever had a dollar.”
. . . .“No woman can be happy in a
house that is so built she cant change
the furniture around every week or
two,” declares the Cochran Jounal. . .
The Tri-County Review at Chipley
makes this suggestion: ‘We think a
very appropriate theme song for the
unlucky politicians would be, “I Can
Dream, Can’t I?”. . . Says the Tatt
nall Journal at Reidsville: “You
Can’t fool all the people, but a can
didate is satisfied if he can fool 51
per cent of them”. . . .The Georgia
Crackei’ at Hazlehurst decides that:
“Nothing worries some people like the
absence of worry in others.” . . . .
“Man formerly broke the horse; now
the auto breaks the man’, states the
Dallas New Era.
Peach Crop
To Continue
MACON, (GPS) —The Georgia As
sociation of Peach Growers, formed
earlier this year, will continue as a
permanent oganization, it was de
cided at a recent meeting of the di
rectors in Macon.
The directors specified the agency
will operate entirely for peach grow
ers and will have as its pupose the
pomotion of the Georgia peach in
dustry in every phase. Wilmer ]V[.
Dickie, of Musella, is president, and
G. Emmett Snellgrove, of Macon, is
executive secretary.
The reunion of the graduates of
Lyerly High School will be held Sun
day, September 4th at the auditorium
All graduates and their families are
invited. Bring a picnic lunch.
Third District 4-H Club boys and
girls department; sewing exhibit and
cooking and canning exhibit as well
as a cooking demonstration each day
in the woman’s building.
There will be a special department
for Future Farmers of America. The
coloed people of the section will al
so have their department in the fair.
Os interest to poultry raisers of
this section will be the poultry show
in which prizes will be offered or both
best pens and best individual birds of
all strains.
The needlework departments hor
ticulture department and all other de
patments of this year’s fair, should
prove interesting to farmers and
thteir families as well as all others in
i this section of Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia,
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938,
School Children
Enter National
Prize Contest
Mr. C. M. Tutton, of the Tutton
5c and 10c Store is hoping that the
interest school children are taking
in thie $6,600 contest which he re
cently announced, will not cause the
kids to neglect their studies.
“We had no idea there were so
many school chidren in our comm
unity,” said Mr. Tutton, “until they
heard about this contest and swarm
ed into our store for their entry
cards.” i
The contest is a nation-wide com
petition in which school childen all
over the United States are invited to
submit nicknames for the “Onward
twins” whose pictures are used to
advertise ‘Onward’ school supplies.
This merchandise is sold in Tutton S
5c and ICc Store, which makes it pos
sible for the contest to be announced
to school children of this ommunity.
Summerville
Public Schools
Opens Today
Yep, school opens today, and all
you parents send your chidren over
to register or better still come with
them yourself.
It has been estimated that there
will be around 175 and 200 pupils in
high school this time.
By the way, football hjas been
started since August 22, so all you
fellows interested in football hurry
up and come on out so you can get
a good uniform.
Kicking, passing and blocking have
been the program so far. The boys
are looking better everyday and they
are planning on a vey successful
season.
Coach Farmer is planning to have
?. hard charging line and a fast
backfield. So all you peope interest
ed in football, come on out and see
the games because we are going to
have a good many at home. Come on
out and have a good time and show
us this is your school as well as ours
You know and we know that if
there is a good crowd yelling for
them the boys are going to play bet
ter football.
So come out and get the spirit in
your blood and yell until your heart’s
content.
Meat Packers
Optimistic
ATLANTA, (GPS)—The outlool
is bright for profitable operations in
he meat packing industry in the first
half of the 1938-39 fiscal year ac
cording to a study appearing in
Poor’s Industry and Investment Sur
veys, it was pointed out in Atlanta.
Conditions are more healthy; sup
flies of livestock are increasing; in
ventories are low, and the trend of
ousinesis is upward. Furthermore,
orofit margins are being broadened
through a better quality of livestock
owning to the market, the survey
showed.
HOLIDAY NOTICE
The undersigned Banks will observe
Monday, September sth, Labor Day,
as legal holiday and no business will
be transacted.
Farmers & Merchants Bank,
Bank of Trion.
RE-ELECT GOV. E. D. RIVERS
FOR GOVERNOR, SEPT. 14
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(Paid Political Adv J
HERE MONDAY
■ I I
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Senator Walter F. George *
Senator George will come to Sum
merville September sth and stay for
a few moments and possibly speak
here before going on to Trion for his
11 o’clock address.
Many of the citizens of the Coun
ty will meet the Senator at the Coun
ty line and form a motorcade to es
cort him to Summerville and on to
Trion.
If you are interested in entering
the motorcade with your car or in
person in some other car, communi
cate with Miss Bulah Shropshire,
committeewoman of the seventh dis
trict or Mr. K. K. Blalock at Sum
merville, or with Mr. Grier, at the
Tr’on Depatment Store in Trion, for
definite information.
Our citizens welcomes such a dis
tinguished visitor.
Revival at Berryton
Baptist Church
The Berryton Baptist church will
k egin a revival Sunday, September 4,
which will continue about two weeks.
’he Rev Hobart M. Linkous of
••
Chattanooga will assist the pastor,
Rev. Dewey Adams.
The Berryton, Stephenson and
Summerville quartettes will furnish
special singing.
The public is cordially invted to
attend.
Farm Outlook
‘Fair’
ATLANTA, (GPS)—The general
agriculture income outlook for the
last half of 1938 is “fair,’ but because
o lower prices is not quite as good
as the same period last year, accord
ing to a forecast received in Atlan
ta. The foecast was made by the
American Steel & Wire Company,
subsidiary of the United States Steel
Corporation, from Chicago.
The income, the forecast said, will
be more evenly distributed because
parts of teh country that had little
marketable livestock or crops in this
peiod of 1937 will have more to sell
this year.
$735,594 Okayed by
WPA and PWA in Ga.
ATLANTA, (GPS) —An additional
I $735,594.50 will be spent in Georgia
i by the WPA and PWA on twenty
’ four new projects, according to latest
) annoucements.
Authorization for expenditure of
$468,866.50 to consummate a Works
i Progress Administration program
was announced by Miss Gay B. Shep
person, state WPA administrator. It
involves eighteen projects.
Miss Shepperson also announced
the resumption of road projects in
Jefferson, Johnson, Burke and Henry
: Couties which had been temporarily
suspended owing to lack of suitable
labor.
At the’same time, Secretary Ickes
! in Washington, approved six more
Georgia projects, with total estimat
-1 ed construction costs of $326,728, ac-
■ cording to H. T. Cole, regional di-
■ rector of the Public Works Adminis-
I tration. The federal agen allocated
$148,760 in grants.
Fewer Car Deaths
In June Than in
Past Two Years
■—-
ATLANTA. —Death from auto ac
cidents were fewer in June of this
year than in any month since 1935,
the State Patrol records revealed to
day.
There were 44 persons killed this
June, which total is 24 less than last
June and 33 less than June 1936. In
February this year deaths were down
to 51, which was the owest total
for any month since 1935 until the
I June record.
National Safety Council estimates
I place th/j saving in dollars and cents
I during the first six month this year
| at over $2,500,000.00 for Georgia peo
ple. There were 55 less killings, 1,-
| 700 less injuries and 8,250 less wrecks
; during the six months from Jan
uary through June than during the
| same period in 1937. The two and
a half million dollars saved would
have gone to pay doctor, hospital,
funeral and repair bills and wage
i losses for injured if the reduction had
| not been made.
Georgia’s traffic accident bill in
1936 was more than $48,000,000. It
I was just as high in 1937 but at pres
j ent rate of reduction and acident
j bill will be several million dollars less
in addition to the lives saved, injuries
prevented and grief, suffering and
anguish avoided.
“We must redouble our efforts this
last six months,” Commissioner Phil
Brewster said, “so that we can pre
vent at least 200 deaths this year.
If everyone will cooperate we can
not only save 200 lives but save the
| people millions of dollars just like
I the June reduction did.”
Crossing Accidents
Far Below Last Year
ATLANTA, (GPS)—Fatalities re
sulting from highway-railroad grade
crossing accidents during the first 5
months of this year totaled 500, a
decrease of 164 compared with the
, corresponding period in 1937, accord
ing to statistics compiled by Safe
ty Setion of the Association of Am
erican Railroads, and just made pub
lic by Atlanta railroad eexcutives.
In the first five months of this
year, 1,683 persons were injured in j
such accidents, compared with 2,229'
in the same period in 1937. Accidents
at the highway-railroad grade cross- j
ings in the five-month period this I
( year totaled 1,409, a decrease of
| 513 compared with the first five i
| months last year, the records show. ;
In May alone, there were 126 fa
talities resulting from these accidents ,
a decrease of six compared with May I
: 1937. Persons injured totaled 245,
I compared with 374 a year ago. High
; way grade crossing accidents in May,
■9BB, totaled 2227, compared with |
316 in May, 1937.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Brown and
: family spent the week-end at Valley .
! Head and Fort Payne, guests of
i relatives.
Recruits for Marines
MACON, Ga., Sept. I.—Forty-five
i is the quota of enlistments allotted
to the U. S. Marine Corps district
recruiting headquarters at Macon for
September, Major J. M. Tildsley, of
j ficei in charge, announced.
The requirements call for young
men between 18 and 28 years old,
64 to 74 inches in height, single, with
iat least an eighth grade education,
I of good moral chiaracter and in ex
. cellent physical condition.
Application forms will be mailed
on request of young men in this
area desiring service with the Ma
i rne§, Major Tildsley stated
Chattooga
Singers to Meet
Here Sunday
FALL MEETING OF SINGING
CONVENTION TO BE HELD
AT COURT HOUSE
The regular fall meeting of the
Chattooga County Singing Conven
i tion will be held at the County court
' house here next Sunday, Sept. 4, and
! the officials of the organization state
i that singers and song leaders from
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama will
i be present.
The Daniel Quartet from Boaz, Ala.
which proved to be one of teh favor
i ite quartets at the May meeting of
; the convention, will again be here,
and, besides taking part in the sing
ing on Sunday, will give a concert
at the court house Saturday evening,
Sept. 3.
Officials of the convention state
j tljat they expect this to be one of
the best meetings ever held and a
■ record-breaking crowd is expected to
attend.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS
ELECT W. R. WILLIAMS
DALTON, Ga., Aug. 28.—W. R.
{ Williams, of Trion, has been elected
' as high priest of the Seventh Dis
| trict Royal Arch Masons for the com
ing year to succeed D. E. Penning-
I ton, of Dalton
Other officers of the district are
Percy Hixon, Rossville, king; Paul
Gillespie, Dalton, scribe; W. E Huff,
Rossville, C of H; J. W. Dunn Trion,
P S; W. L. Denson, Dalton, Royal
Arch captain; J. W. Whiteside, of
! Rome, master third viel; Jack Hardy,
of Calhoun, master second veil; C. A.
Edwards, of Cartersville, master first
veil; D. H. Wollstein, of Rome, chap
lain; H N. 'Wade, Rossville, secretary
I and Frank Winfrey, of Rome, senti-
■ nel
Birth Certificate
Required in State
ATLANTA, (GPS) —Have you been
bom? If so, can you prove it? Fail
ure to find your birth certificate may
cause you to lose your job, or lead
to other difficulties, acceding to an
article in the August issue of the
Journal of the Medical Assocation of
Georga. Many industries now are
requiring their employes to record
such information and furnish proof
of their statements, the article said.
Some cities and counties now re
quire a registered birth cetifcate be
fore a chid can enter school, and
some states require a certified birth
certificate before a person can ob
tain a drivers license. A birth cer
tificate is necessary to establish age,
parents and place of brth in order
to secure aid from welfare organiza
tions for crippled and dependent,
children and other social security
benefits. Birth certificates also must
be shown when requiring passports
to other countries.
Georgians born since January 1,
1919, should have no difficulty in es
tablishing records of birth. Since that
i time the State Bureau of Vtal Sta
tistics has functioned regularly. Any
person desiring to obtain such infor
mation should write the Bureau of
Vital Statistics, State Capital, At
lanta, and enclose a self-addressed
stamped envelope for a reply it was
pointed out.
SECURITY BOARD
DIRECTOR RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Frank
Bane, executive director of the So
cial Security Board, resigned Tues
day, effective November 1.
Bane is leaving teh board to be
come executive director of the Coun
cil of State Governors at Chicago
He has served in the past as Vir
ginia’s commissioner of public wel
fare and as drector of the American
Public Welfare Association.
NEW EAST-TO-WEST
SPEED RECORD SET BY
SEVERSKY IN 10
HOURS’ TIME
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.—Major
Alexander P. de Seversky, builder
o warplanes for teh United States
army, established a new east-to-west
transcontinental speed record as he
flew a fast monoplane from New York
to Union Air termial, Burbank in 10
hours, three minutes ,three seconds.
The war-time Russian flier left
Floyd Bennett field, New York, at
6:30 a. m. (Atlanta time.)
Making a perfect landing, Major
Seversky taxied up the runway and
was greeted by Jacqueline Cochrane,
I holder of the three-kilameter speed
record so women. She will fly the
Seversky plane to Cleveland next
Saturday in the Bendix trophy dash,
i opening event of the national air
I races.
Seversky’s record against adverse
winds shattered the mark of Colonel
; Roscoe Turner, made several years
ago. Howard Hughes holds the west
to-east record of 7 hours, 29 minutes
“I don’t know* what speed I aver
aged,” Seversky told newsmen as he
1 stepped from the plane “I think I
went more than 300 miles an hour at
times My altitude ranged from 6,000
to 16,000 feet I was testing the plane
under verying conditions and I know
now what it will do in that Bendix
, race. I didnt have txj'pixps it today”
Severskys’ official landitlfc time here
wm 4;4Q.07 d. mi
$1.50 A YEAR