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Merry
Christmas!
VOL. 52; NO. 39
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
GEORGIA BECOMING HEALTHIER
EVERY YEAR. SAYS UNITED
STATES SURGEON.
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).—Geor
gia is becoming healthier every year,
but she still must wage great fight
against pellagra, tuberculosis, ma
laria and social diseases, declaied
United States Surgeon General Thom
as H. Parran, who passed through At
lanta recently. Dr. Parran was en
route to Washington from New Or
leans, where he spoke on “Rural
Health.” He said: “The biggest prob
lem we have to face is rural hospit
alization, and the co-ordination of
health and welfare agencies. Social
ized medicine needs much more think
ing done about it before it can re
ally succeed.”
Railroad Buying: The Railway Age
reports in its current issue that rail
way purchases of equipment and ma
terials in the third quarter of 1938
exceeded those in either of the prev
ious quarters of the year. These pur
chases in the first quarter were $98,-
661,000; in the second quarter, $82,-
585,000, and in the third quarter,
$106,343,000. This made total pur
chases of equipment and materials in
the first nine months of 1938 $287,-
589,0C0, compared with $718,322,000
in the first nine months of 1937, a
decline of 60 per cent. The value of
materials and supplies on hand, bas
ed on original cost, and including
stand-by materials, totaled approxi
mately $336,245,000 on Oct. 1, which
was a decline of $47,549,000, or 12
per cent., from Oct. 1, 1937.
Gist Os the News: Rubber gloves
should be part of a rabbit hunter’s
equipment, the state board of health
announced in a special bulletin, show
ing a 28.9 per cent, increase in tul
aremia, or “rabbit fever,” cases over
the state . . Bryan M. (Bitsy) Giant
Jr., recently proved he was the
south’s No. 1 tennis player by de
feating three topnotch players in
straight sets all in one afternoon. He
beat Russell Bobbitt, 6—3, 6—2; Dr.
Kells Boland, 6—o, 6—3; Malon
Court, 6—l, 6—l . . . When base
ball fans come to Ponce de Leon park
next season one of their favorite
athletes will be absent.’Buster Chat
ham, for the past seven years the
star shortstop, will be the absentee,
for he now is with the Fort Worth
club of the Texas league. Meanwhile,
President Earl Mann and Manager
Paul Richards are assembling what
they hope will be another pennant
winning team.
15 Million For Jobless
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).—Geor
gia’s unemployment compensation
trust fund will be approximately fif
teen million dollars on Jan. 1 when
bgnefits become payable it was an
nounced by Commissioner of Labor
Ben T. Huitt.
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6-POUND POTATO GOES
INTO EDITOR’S PUDDING
DOUGLAS. —When bigger and bet
ter farmers are made, Georgia will
make them! The public generally will
learn from this article that Bill Gil
len farms. At least, he thinks so, but
others have their doubts. It must be
admitted, essentially, that Bill’s first
and only venture as a farmer was
quite successful, inasmuch as the po
tato, alleged by Bill himself to have
been grown in his garden, weighed
six pounds. At any rate, it will go in
to potato pudding for the Wood
ward family, who run the Douglas
Progress.
CHICKEN CARRIES
TWO ‘SPARE’ LEGS
TOCCOA. —Along every path we
walk we inevitably run into numer
ous freaks of nature. This time it’s a
four-legged chicken on the farm of
Frank Edwards. The chicken was
discovered in one of the many hatches
at the Edwards farm several days
ago, and has two spare “tires”, Frank
said. Other than having two feet too
many, the chicken seems to be quite
normal.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What nation has been referred
to as the “Colossus of the North?”
2. Why are certain nations refer
y red to as “Latin” Americans?
3. How long has France been in
possession of Tunisia?
4. Is the U. S. constructing a large
liner ?
5. Who is Mi's. Hallie Flannagan?
6. How much is invested in farm
mortgages ?
7. How old is James Roosevelt?
8. How many senators have an
nounced for Roosevelt in 1940?
9. What is the relative air forces
of Great Britain and Germany ?
10. Where is Douglas Corrigan?
(See ‘The Answers’ on Another Page)
Or Nms
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938
Chattooga Board
Increases Funds
For Fire Control
(Rome News-Tribune.)
After one of the driest years since
the forest fire control systems have
been operating in North Georgia, the
Chattooga county board is not dis
couraged. The board voted recently to
increase their budget for this type of
work.
Previously paying at the rate of 1
cent per acre of forest and wasteland
per year, Chattooga county will be
gin in January to spend, through the
division of forestry, 2 cents per acre
per year. This additional money will
provide bigger and better equipment
and more men in the forest fire
crews, it was stated.
Like all the other counties in North
Georgia that have protection systems,
'the Chattooga organization has made
a splendid record based on the amount
of money they were spending, it was
pointed out. During a normal year
the hand equipment used by the out
fits in North Georgia is very effec
tive, but with only two wet months in
the year, hand equipment became al
most useless during the past season,
particularly because it was impossible
to get water to the back pumps, it
was stated.
Christmas Night Service
At First Baptist Church
Program for Christmas night serv
ice at First Baptist church Sunday,
Dec. 25, at 7.15 p.m.:
Processional —Joy to the World.
Prayer.
Scripture Lesson by Rev. J. C.
J ackson.
The Manger Scene, by Elizabeth
Jackson, while “Silent Night” is sung
by the audience.
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,”
by the congregation.
“Dear Little Stranger,” by the Pri
maries and Beginners.
“The Christmas Story” by Rev. J.
C. Jackson.
The Scene of the Cross, by the G.
A. girls.
Benediction.
Toys For Children
WASHINGTON.—More than 1,500-
000 toys, either manufactured or re
paired by WPA workers, will be dis
tributed among under - privileged
children this Christmas, according to
Ellen S. Woodward, assistant WPA
administrator. This toy service is
part of the year-round operations of
the WPA and accounts for full-time
or part-time work by many relief
workers.
Indoor Circus to Be In
Chattanooga Jan. 2-7
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—With al
of its proceeds going to the equip
ping of the new addition to Erlange.
hospital here, “Jumbo,” world’s larg
est indoor circus, will open at the
Chattanooga Memorial auditorium
here on Monday, Jan. 2,*for a week’s
showing.
The large main floor of the large
auditorium will be converted into t
regular “big top” with sadwust, pop
corn, clowns, elephants and evei y
thing that goes to make up a real
circus. There will be three rings and
more than 300 professional circus
stars will be featured in the program
that will be two hours and a half
long-
included in the group will be aeri
alists, jugglers, skating acts, tight
wire performers, elephant and train
ed dog acts, ponies, contortionists,
breath-taking trapeze acts, the small
est midgets in the world and scores
of funny clowns without which no
circus would be complete. These per
formers will include the featured acts
from some of the leading circuses in
the land and who have appeared with
Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bail
ey, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Downie Bro
thers, Sells-Floto, Cole Brothers and
other well known circuses now in
winter quarters.
For the opening spectacle, General
Manager George W. Paige has leased
the title and first number of Billy
Rose’s Broadway hit, “Jumbo.” It
will include beautiful girls in swings,
fireworks fountains, and much of the
beautiful musical score from the
New York success. Among the 300
top-notch performers will be seen Hal
Silvers in a sensational wire act;
Bert Daaro, aerial, contortion and
trapeze; Corrinne Dearo, who does a
breath-taking cloud swing; Wayne
Larey, of the Flying Covets.
Hubbard’s Trained Dogs, one of the
most popular dog acts in America,
has been booked as has the ponies and
elephant acts from the Downie cir
cus. Featured also will be the Royal
Three Rollers, said to be the las
word in fancy skating, and the Uye
nos, internationally known Japanese
jugglers and tumblers.
Appearing in the concert will be
the famous Del Rios of Madrid,
Spain, midget troupe that will enter
tain with an act that is unusual.
“Jumbo” will be presened each
night the week of Jan, 2 with a mat
inee Wednesday and three perform
ances Saturday for school children.
FOREST FIRE LOSS IN
GEORGIA ENORMOUS
OVER 3,781,000 ACRES WERE
BURNED OVER LAST YEAR,
FORESTER SAYS.
More forest land burned in Georgia
last year than in all the states west
of the Mississippi river, State For
ester Frank Heyward said this week.
His assertion was based on figures
supplied by the forest survey of the
Southern Forestry Experiment sta
tion at New Orleans, Mr. Heyward
said.
The figures show 3,781,000 acres
burned over in Georgia forest land in
1937,” the forester reported, “com
pared to 3,352,000 for all the states
west of the Mississippi combined.”
East of the Mississippi, Florida
with 7,85C,000 acres and Mississippi
with 4,150,000 acres seared, had a
heavier flame toll than Georgia.
Georgia voters recently ratified a
constitutional amendment permitting
counties to levy taxes for forest pro
tection against fire, and southern
foresters are seeking to have the
congressional appropriation for ng
tion-wide protection raised from $2,-
000,000 to $9,000,000 a year.
United States Regional Forester
Joseph C. Kircher said southerners
who read of the recent Pacific coast
forest fires “little realize that 90 per
cent, of the forest fire damage in the
entire United States during 1937 oc
curred in the south.”
He reported that $18,728,144 of the
national damage total of $20,668,880
“was credited to the eleven southern
states.”
Baptist South-Wide
Day Os Prayer
The Rev. W. H. Faust, evangelistic
secretary of the Georgia Baptist con
vention, invites the Baptist churches
of Chattooga counity to participate in
the southwide day of prayer for
evangelism, which will be held Sun
day, Jan. 1, 1939, in the churches of
the Southern Baptist convention. It
is hoped that every „ church in the
Chattooga association will participate
in this great movement of prayer
and evangelism.
When there are 26,000,C00 unsaved
people in the south alone it is fitting
that God’s people join themselves to
gether in prayer and in action to the
end that sinners may be saved and
His churches be built up.
Plane Runs Minus Pilot
ELECTRA, Tex.—When his plane’s
tarter failed, H. C. Barrow got out
?.nd cranked. To his surprise, the
plane started to move and continued
buzzing around in circles on the field
jntil the gasoline was all used up.
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Breaks Neck In Bed.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va.—Twist
ing too suddenly in his sleep, Robert
Sturgiss, reporter on the Morgan
town Dominion-News, fractured a
vertebra in his neck. So, even sleep
ing is dangerous.
Homespun Science.
Dr. Cartmel, of Montreal, says that
Einstein’s theory of space is all bunk.
■ With experts disagreeing, the lay
man is forced to rely on a simple
I household definition of space as what
1 you haven’t got enough of in a clothes
closet.—Toronto Daily Star.
Motorists Pay Big Part Os
Cost of National Defense
The famous saying, “An army
marches on its stomach,” was made
by Napoleon to emphasize the need
of adequate food supplies in military
expeditions, according to Neil W.
Printup, secretary. Georgia Petroleum
Industries committee.
Mr. Printup further states “today
an army no longer marches; it moves
on highly efficient motor trucks over
broad highways. Since Napoleon’s
time the mobility of troops has been
increased a hundredfold. All the ar
mies of the world have been macha
nized and motorized.
“A well-developed system of high
ways is now a basic measure of na
tional defense. This is especially true
of the United States, whose frontiers
are far greater in extent than those
of most other nations, and whose men
and equipment at any one point are
insufficient to repel a well-organiz
ed attack. Mobility of troops and
gear is thus of paramount importance
to Amerira’s national defense, and
that mobility is dependent upon an
adequate highway system.
“Despite this importance of high
ways to the security and welfare of
the nation, the building of a great
PER CAPITA INCOME
INCREASES TO $540
TOTAL FOR 1937 IS $69,800,000,000,
A FOUR-BILLION GAIN OVER
THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—The na
tional income in 1937 was $69,800,-
000,000, an increase of $3,7C0,000,-
000 over 1936 but approximately sll,-
000,(00,000 below that of 1929 when
the depression began, the department
of commerce disclosed today.
Per capita income was given as
$540 in 1937, an increase of $44 over
1936. It reached $668, a record level,
in 1929.
An elaborate study of national in
come and corporate expenditures re
leased by the commerce department
also showed that while the 1937 in
come was 14 per cent, below that of
1929, there were compensating fac
tors. These included a drop of 9 per
cent, in wholesale prices and a dif
ference of 15 per cent, in the cost of
living.
With these factors considered, the
department said, the real income in
1937 closely approximated that of
1929. Attention was called to the
fact that the population of the coun
try increased nearly 6 per cent., or
8,000,000 persons during the compar
ative period.
WATCH STOLEN 15
MONTHS AGO FOUND
PELHAM. Fifteen months ago
while Dr. D. P. Belcher peacefully
slept on the night of Sept. 11, 1937,
some one made friends with Major,
the Belcher dog, slashed a screen, en
tered the house, got the doctor’s
watch and apparently made good his
getaway.
Dr. Belcher had just about given up
all hopes of ever seeing his watch
again, when one day an unsuspecting
gentleman in need of a few extra
“herbs” presented the same watch
at the Harris pawn shop in Thomas
ville for which the good man tender
ed him the loan of a couple of bucks.
Then things began happening fast
and furious!
Mr. 'Harris phoned the Thomasville
chief of police and informed him he
had Dr. Belcher’s watch. The Mitchell
officials were notified and the gent
leman who pawned it was called on,
who Arthur Anderson ’ as the
man frobji whom he secured the watch.
The searth was instigated for Ander
son, but to no avail. He seemed to
have vanished in thin air.
And he had vanished, but not of
his own free will, Deputy Sheriff
Casey Jones, had him in the Pelham
jail. He was arrested without the lo
cal police knowing he was being
hunted as the suspicious hoifee break
er.
5 CRASHES; NO VICTIMS.
BINGHAM, Utah. Within the
space of a few minutes, there were
five crashes on an icy curve, but n<
one was hurt. First, Mrs. George Mc-
Donald’s car skidded and overturn
ed. A second car skidded and landed
beside the McDonald car. A coupe hit
the same icy spot and there were
three cars together. Then came a
grocery truck and there were four.
Soon a bakery truck did likewise, hit
the four cars and lifted the McDon
ald vehicle back onto its wheels.
Just In Case.
Rothermere, of England, says there
will be no war, and chides us for
thinking otherwise. Meanwhile, Ger
many and France are dressed for it,
in case he is wong.—Detroit News.
highway system has been accomplish
ed with only negligible levies on the
general taxpayers. These roads are
being built and maintained chiefly by j
a single class of taxpayers—the mo-1
torists. Each year more than one
billion dollars in automotive taxes is i
paid to the states for road improve
ments. Approximately one-third of a ,
billion dollars is paid annually to the i
federal government in levies on au- j
tomotive transportation. During the
past twenty years the amount of I
money paid by motorists to the fed
eral government has about equaled
the federal highway aid granted to ;
the states for road improvement. The j
federal government does not entei :
directly into road construction activ- ■
ities.
“Notwithstanding this great con
tribution of the motorists to national i
security, whereby the general tax
payers are relieved from paying bil
lions of dollars for the builgding of •
defense highways, immense sums of
money are being diverted from ro id
funds to non-highway purposes.
“Providing the sinews of denfense
for the nation, the motorists remain
defenseless! from attacks in the real
by unfair taxation.”
Huge Housing Plan
Will Greatly Help
All Business Lines
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).—Fur
ther advancement in all lines of bus
iness was predicted for Atlanta and
Georgia as wheels were set in motion
for early commencement of work on I
four huge slum clearance projects in
Atlanta to cost approximately $15,-1
i 000,444. Presidential approval recent
ly of a loan of $11,661,0(0 cleared the
! way for the mammoth low-rent hous-
I ing program.
“It is the biggest single favorable
action in the history of our modern
I city,” Charles F. Palmer, chairman of
j the Atlanta Housing Authority, said
lon the eve of his departure for
Washington to close details of the
| huge loan. He was accompanied by |
Philip Weltner, executive director of
the local authority.
The $11,661,000 loan approved by
the president will be matched by an
additional $1,163,000 provided by the
federal housing authority and a bond
issue of $1,429,000 by local sponsors,
already arranged for, making a total
of $14,253,000. The four new slum
clearance projects will supplement |
Tech wood and University Homes in
Atlanta.
Atlanta’s slum clearance program
lis only a part of the huge low-cost
housing in Georgia. Al
ready approximately $7,000,000 have
been earmarked for such projects in
Augusta, Athens, Columbus, Macon,
Rome and Savannah.
Firms Pay 14 Million
In Dividends in State
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).—More
than $14,213,000- will be distributed
in dividends by Georgia companies
j during the next two weeks, a check
up revealed. This amount represents
i the profits of eighteen firms and will
I be supplemented by recently-announc
|ed Christmas bonuses for employes of ■
j a number of the corporations.
Coca-Cola’s payment of $11,877,725
I in dividends on its common and Coca-
Cola “A” stock, much of it in Geor
gia, tops the list of firms. Others ,
I among the top were Georgia Power :
company with $738,000 in dividends .
i and the Atlanta, Birmingham &
[ Coast railroad, $129,507.50.
Farmers Urged To
Plant Cover Crops
ATHENS, Ga.—The Georgia farm
er can increase his crop yield, de- ' 1
crease fertilizer cost, and control .
erosion by planting over crops, ac
cording to W. O. Collins, acting head j
of the University of Georgia depart
ment of agronomy.
“A study of experiments in eleven !
southern states in the use of winter .
and summer cover crops shows that >
the increase in yields resulting from
cover planting ranged from 20 per \
| cent, to 180 per cent.” Mr. Collins
says.
On experimental plats at the uni- -
‘ versify, Mr. Collins points out, there j
| was an increase of approximately 20 I ■
per cent, in cotton yield where two
■ crops of crimson clover had been .
I plowed in as compared with plats <
where only one crop had been grown.
Practically all soil in the south
eastern United States is low in or- ■
ganic matter, Prof. Collins notes, and
he advocates use of winter and sum- ■
mer cover crops to remedy the situa- |
tion.
Workers Loan $35,000
WORCESTER, Mass. Employes j
agreed to lend $35,000 from their
i wages to the new owners of the Whit- |
| tall Carpet mills in order that the
i mill might be reopened and provide
| jobs for 1,100 persons. When inform- i
| ed' by the prospective purchasers, |
: Max S. and Harry S. Warren, that
| $35,000 was all that stood in the way |
lof a federal loan, the workers decid
ed to make the loan.
Gets 9 Birds Without Shot
BELLEVILLE, 111. Flushing a
covey of quail, George Distler raised -
his gun to fire, but before he could
do so, nine of the birds fell to the |
j ground, their necks broken from fly- i
ing into an aluminum-painted tower, |
which was practically invisible in the
! dull, cloudy afternoon.
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Saved From “Death”
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Rushed to a
doctor’s office “bleeding to death,”
Fireman William J. Denney was sav-
I ed from “death” by the physician who I
i simply took a towel and wiped the
fireman’s face of red paint which |
I had spattered him when a paint can j
! exploded while he was fighting a fill
ing-station blaze.
Throws Gasoline On Fire
REDDING, Calif. Six persons
I were burned, one critically, when a
bucket filled with gasoline was mis
i taken for water and dashed on a
small fire. The clothes were burned
from the body of Mrs. Sarah Loop |
before the flames could be extin
guished.
Happy
New Year!
$1.50 A YEAE
STATE ORGANIZES
FOR ITS GREATEST
PARALYSIS WAR
GOV. RIVERS APPOINTS HEADS
OF SECTIONS IN DRIVE
CHAIRMEN NAMED.
ATLANTA. —With the appointment
of executive aides, section and dis
trict chairmen, Gov. Rivers, who is
chairman of the state committee for
the celebration of the president’s
birthday, already is well on the road
to completing an organization that
will conduct the most relentless war
against infantile paralysis ever stag
ed in Georgia.
The governor, through his district
chairmen, is naming a county chair
man in each of the state’s 159 court
ties. Each county chairman will ar
range and supervise programs of
parties and entertainments on Jan.
30, the proceeds from which will be
sent directly to the state treasurer to
be used in controlling the dread dis
ease which has stricken more than
600,000 over the nation.
The organization as set up by Gov.
Rivers for this year’s campaign in
cludes the appointment of L. Thomas
(“Pat”) Gillen as executive director,
and William V. Crowley as treasurer.
The district chairmen will aid the
county chairmen in the organization
of the various counties, and be of as
sistance generally in perfecting plans
for the Jan. 30 celebration.
Under a new nation-wide plan this
year, the governor pointed out at the
organization luncheon, Georgia will
have a greater incentive than ever
before to raise money for the human
itarian cause. For one-half of all the
money raised in Georgia will be re
tained in the state in the hands of
trustees for use in the counties rais
ing it whenever an emergency arises.
The other half will, as usual, go to
the national foundation for research
and experimentation in controlling
the disease.
This means, the governor declared,
that the poor children in the state
will have, as the fund,grows, equal
opportunity to go to Warm Springs,
for those who cannot pay will be fi
nanced by the state fund.
Moreover, this year sees the first
permanent infantile paralysis set-up
in Georgia. «
“Under this.-pewaczjaent Organiza
tion,” the governor said, “I believe
that Warm Springs will become, not
only the orthopedic center of the
United States, but of the world. I
have every assurance that the na
tional committee also is W’orking to
ward this end.”
ALPINE LODGE ELECTS
OFFICERS RECENTLY
At their last regular meeting,
which was well attended, Alpine
lodge, No. 211, F. & A. M„ of Menlo,
elected the following officers for
the coming year:
J. E. Kennedy, W. M.; W. L.
Kling, S. W.; J. L. Alexander, J. W.;
Dr. S. B. Platt, chaplain; George A.
Kling, secretary and treasurer; Jno.
Webster, tyler.
Appointed Officers—J. T. Hall, S.
D.; Scott Cleckler, J. D.; J. T. Clark,
Jr., S. S.; G. L. Watson, J. S.
Dalton Given District
“Gloves” Tournament
The official Seventh District Gold
en Gloves boxing tournament will be
held in Dalton Jan. 3, 4 and 5 at Mt.
View arena, it was announced Sat
urday by Dr. Sam Easley, recently
named director of the annual event
for this section of the state by Oscar
Brock, secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
in Atlanta.
Joe Apperson and Grady Gentry,
popular local fighters, will be in ac
tive charge of the elimination tour
nament here, Dr. Easley stated. The
boys will be classified into two
groups, the “novices” and “open
class,” so that no inexperienced boy
will be matched against an experi
enced fighter, Dr. Easley to have
charge of rating the fighters and
matching them as near evenly as
possible.
Dr. J. H. Steed, Dr. Lloyd Wood
and Dr. Trammell Starr have volun
teered their services as examining
physicians and will check over the
physical condition of each boy before
he is allowed to fight, and it will
also be necessary for the boys to
obtain their parents’ permission to
enter the tournament.
Expect Many Entries.
The event is expected to attract a
large number of entries from near
by cities—Calhoun, Cartersville, Sum
merville, Trion, Rome, Cedartown,
Marietta, etc., and throughout the
counties of Whitfield, Bartow, Gor
don, Cobb, Floyd, Murray, Catoosa,
Chattooga, Dade, Paulding, Polk,
Walker and other counties of the
Seventh congressional district. Entry
blanks may be secured or clipped from
the Dalton newspapers, and must be
filled out and turned over to Joe Ap
person, Grady Gentry or Dr. Easley
no later than Saturday, Dec. 31, to
qualify for the tournament.