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VOL. 52; NO. 48
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Feb. 13 (GPS).—Ain’t it
Peachy? The state senate thinks so any
way, because that august body passed a
bill, by a vote of 36 to 3, authorizing the
motor vehicle department to advertise
Georgia peaches on the 1940 automobile
tags. The measure introduced by Senator
M. L. Dunn, Jr., of Zebulon, was adopt
ed after some objections were raised on
the grounds that peaches do not consti
tute the principal crop of the state. Aft
er suggestions were made for advertising
granite, tobacco, peanuts, pimientos. pe
cans, cotton and bedspreads the bill was
amended. The senate finally decided to
try advertising peaches first and then
turn to the other products in later
years, the selection of the product to be
advertised on the tag being left in the
discretion of the revenue commissioner.
An Unfair Practice: “It is granted
that railroads do not get all the breaks,”
declares the Waewick (N. Y.) Dispatch.
“Their back has been broken by motor
transportation. The railroads are heavy
taxpayers. Their proportionate share
goes into the building of superhighways,
heavy bridges, over which their competi
tors (the motor transportation service)
rolls, which service does not help to pay
the railroad taxes. That is an unfair
business practice.”
Gist Os the News: An average of 52.-
000 needy families were kept from go
ing hungry in Georgia each month dur
ing the last fiscal year. Food for these
needy families was provided by the sur
plus commodities division of the state
welfare department, with the federal
government providing the funds for pur
chase of food surpluses valued at $3,-
881,690.89, from farmers and process
ors . . .Atlanta’s population for 1939
showed a gain of 2,000 over 1937, ac
cording to the new 1939 city directory.
Greater Atlanta showed a gain of 6,000.
The government census gave the 1938
figures as 294,000 in Atlanta and 420,-
000 in Greater Atlanta . . . The Atlanta
Crackers have been awarded nine Sunday
double-headers for the coming season,
which formally opens at Ponce de Leon
park April 14, the 1939 schedule reveals.
County Agent Advises Care in
Selecting Lespedeza Seed
County Agent O. P. Dawson this week
advised Chattooga county farmers to use
the utmost care in the selection of les
pedeza seed for planting.
Pointing out the danger of obtaining
seed from fields which were infested with
dodder last year, he said this weed is
difficult to control, once it becomes es
tablished.
Dodder, sometimes called love vine, is
a serious menace to some field crops, par
ticularly legumes. Although starting
from seed, dodded soon attaches its ten
tacle-like vine to other plants and, there- |
fore, lives the life of a true parasite.
“The best precaution against dodder,”
Mr. Dawson suggested, “is to buy good
lespedeza seed from a reputable dealer.
Jt is a good idea to get seed which ha
a strict guarantee, backed by the state
department of agriculture.
“Farmers should also be careful to
purchase only those varieties suited to
their particular needs and adapted to lo
cal soil and climatic conditions,” the
agent continued. “The Kobe and Com
mon varieties of lespedeza are well adapt
ed throughout the state, while Korean
thrives in the upper Piedmont and moun
tain sections of Georgia. Because of an
abundance of Korean seed, however, this
variety is selling for a lower price than
Kobe and Common seed.”
Further information on the varieties
best adapted to this county may be ob
tained from the office of the county
agent.
Revenue Troubles
Confront Romans
ROME, Ga. —On the heels of an audit
' report which showed the city spent $72,-
898.10 above the income last year, local
officials today sought to determine whe
ther to increase the tax rate or curtail
service department operations.
City Manager Sam King announced
he and the city auditor are preparing a
tentative budget for 1939 operations, to
be submitted to the finance committee of
the city commission.
Present city operations cannot be con
tinued with revenue from the present
twenty-mill tax levy, Mr. King said, so
the municipality is faced with the alter
native of either raising the rate about
. 2% mills or else cutting operating expen
ditures, probably reducing wages or per
sonnel of the police and fire departments.
A special five-mill tax for flood con
trol, levied in 1938 only, brought in
about $59,000 in revenues, but purchase
and clearance of right-of-ways on the
federal project cost the city more than
$lll,OOO, the audit report revealed.
Officials pointed out that another proj
ect pressing for more city revenue is
paving of the North Second avenue link
in State Highway No. 1, which parallels
a section of the levee system here. How
ever, some of the city commissioners are
reported to be advocating a program of
wore restricted during
Stow
Heart To Remain
With Body of Pope
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 10.—The
heart of Pope Pius XI will be en
tombed with his body and not, like the
hearts of many earlier pontiffs, have
a separate resting place.
The custom of removing the heart
and other internal organs of popes on
their death and placing them in an urn
was discarded with the death of Leo
XIII in 1903.
Reus X, Leo’s successor, decreed that
his heart was not to be removed aft
er death, and the practice has not been
revived.
Urns containing the hearts of twen
ty-nine popes are sealed in the choir
walls of a small church in the center
of Rome, that of Sts. Vincent and An
astasius.
Army Conducting
Campaign to Enlist
75,000 Ex-Soldiers
The United States army is conducting
a campaign to enlist 75,000 ex-soldiers in
the regular army reserve, who are under
36 years of age, physically fit and who
have served continuously in the regular
army for at least one year, announces
Major-General S. D. Embick, Fourth
corps area commander.
Five hundred former soldiers residing
in this corps area were enlisted during
January, bringing the total enlistments
accomplished up to 1,400. Each of these
men receive an enlistment allowance of
$8 three times a year. Checks are being
mailed daily to reservists, and all form
er soldiers are urged to avail themselves
of the opportunity to be a “Modern Min
ute Man” in the military force ot the
United States.
An enlistment in the regular army re
serve will in no way interfere with civil
occupation. No demands will be made
upon the reservist’s time as he will only
be called to active duty upon an emer
gency declared by the president of the
United States. Enlistments in the re
serve will be in grade held at time of last
discharge from the regular army.
Former soldiers who desire enlistment
in the reserve should address a letter or
postal card to the commanding general,
Atlanta, Ga., stating such desire, >nd
Fourth Corps area, post office building,
special arrangements will be made im
mediately to accomplish their enlistment
in or near their home towns.
1939 Outlook For
Georgia Farms
Data prepared by the staff of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension service
on the 1939 outlook for Georgia farms
is as follows:
Peaches.
The outlook for peaches to be market
ed as fresh fruit during the period from
1939 to 1943, appears to be generally
above average in any major producing
area, however, marketing difficulties
are likely to develop and low prices may
be expected.
The average annual production of
peaches in the United States during th-,
next five years is expected to be some
what larger than during the past five
years when production averaged about
fifty-one million bushels. The production
of peaches for the fresh fruit market has
averaged about thirty million dollars dur
ing the five-year period, 1933-1937, as
compared with about thirty-three million
bushels during the five-year period,
1928-32.
Watermelons.
The 1939 watermelon acreage in the
second early group of states, which in
cludes Georgia, South Carolina, North
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
and Arizona, is expected not to exceed
the acreage planted in 1938. The pros
pects for 1939 in the states within this
group are somewhat mixed, due to the
varied success experienced in 1938. Re
turns in Georgia and neighboring south
eastern states were disappointing in 1938
and it is likely that the acreage in 1939
will be about the same or possibly less
than in 1938.
Sweet Potatoes.
The acreage to be planted in sweet po
tatoes in 1939 is expected to be about the
same as in 1938. Most of the total sweet
potato acreage is in the southern states,
and the acreage planted in this crop us
ually varies with returns from cotton the
previous year.
Feed Crops and Live Stock.
The production of corn in Georgia in
1938 is estimated to be in excess of fif
ty-five million bushels, as compared with
forty-eight million bushels in 1937, and a
ten-year, 1927-36, average of thirty-eight
million bushels. The production of tame
hay in Georgia in 1938 is estimated at
approximately 650,000 tons, as compared
with 575,000 tons in 1937, and only 284,-
000 tons for the ten-year, 1927-36, av
erage.
Hoover charges New Deal waste in
fight on latest “political demons,” the
power industry.
A. F. of L. backs NYA vocational
training, with advisory board to assure
labor standards.
Germany announces she will build up
to submarine parity with Great Britain
und«F pacts.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939.
FINE PROGRAM FOR
STATE PRESS LEADERS
ATHENS, Ga., Feb. 14 (GPS).—An
excellent speakers’ program, including
several nationally known figures, has
been arranged by the Georgia Press in
stitute, which opens its annual meeting
in Athens Friday, Feb. 24.
In conjunction with the institute’s
meeting, the Georgia Collegiate Press as
sociation will hold its annual banquet at
the Henry W. Grady School, of Journal
ism. of the University of Georgia, and
President Jere Moore has called a special
meeting of the Georgia Press association
on that day.
Among the speakers on the institute’s
program are: Ham Fisher, creater of the
comic character, “Joe Palooka”; Dr.
George E. Gallup, of New York City,
founder and director of the American
Institute of Public Opinion ; Merryle S.
Rukeyser, of New York City, nationally
known syndicate writer on economics;
Douglas C. McMurtrie, of Chicago, noted
authority on typography; Arne Rae, of
Chicago, newly-elected secretary of the
National Editorial association, and oth
ers.
Lamdin Kay, director of Radio Sta
tions WSB and WAGA, of the Atlanta
Journal, and George Fort Milton, presi
dent and editor of the Chattanooga
News, will address the college editors.
Georgia Health Gains
In Three Years Cited
The past three years have brought
more improvement in public health in
Georgia than any ten previous years, Dr.
T. F. Abercrombie, director of public
health, reported.
Thirty-three counties had health de
partments at the end of 1936. Two years
later found fifty-four counties thus
equipped, affording vital service to 400,-
000 more Georgians.
In 1938 the state health department
undertook an expanded program. Despite
a deficiency in revenues, a number of
major achievements were recorded. The
number of cases of communicable dis
eases and the death rate from these dis
eases declined to an all-time low.
Death rates from typhoid, malaria,
diphtheria and tuberculosis reached the
lowest point on record, Dr. Abercrombie
said. Fewer mothers died in childbirth,
fewer infants died and there were few
er stillbirths than ever before. Georgia's
program of malaria control has been
judged the best developed in this coun
try, said the health director.
In 1937-38, home visits by nurses sup
plied by the health department approxi
mated 40,000.
Protect Your Forest
From Fires
On Sept. 1, 1937, your county board of
roads and revenue saw and realized that
something had to be done to protect our
timber of Chattooga county from th
destruction of forest fires, so they de
cided that only and right way would so
this board to vote a county-wide timbei
protection organization, which we oper
ated under the name of Chattooga Coun
ty Timber Protective association. This
was a separate unit from other counties,
but this year we operate with other
counties, which required a different set
up.
We are operating this year with the
department of natural resources, Geor
gia division of forestry.
Through this office we receive 40 per
cent, reimbursement, on every dollar this
county' pays into this organization. So,
after all you land owners are taxed to
pay for the protection—that you receive
for your timber; without your help it
will be impossible for us to keep fires
out of your forests.
During the past month I have visited
every school in the county, and at least
90 per cent, of all the boys and girls
pledged me their help in preventing for
est fires in Chattooga county. Will you
help to prevent forest fires by using ev
ery precaution known to you?
Take care of your forest and your for
est will take care of you.
B. F. GRIGSBY,
Chief Ranger.
People of Surrounding
Towns Invited to Attend
Celebration in Rome
An invitation has been received by
Mayor Walter C. Sturdivant from the
City of Rome for the city officials and
citizens of the community to attend the
celebration Wednesday, Feb. 22, (Wash
ington’s birthday), upon the completion
of the levee system which will protect a
large portion of the city from flood
damage.
There will be a parade, music by army
and high school bands, soldiers, school
children, patriotic organizations.
Congressmen, senators, the governor.
2 FAT CATTLE SHOWS
BOOKED FOR ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Feb. 14 (GPS).—Atlanta
will have two fat cattle shows this year,
instead of one show as in the past, it
was announced by the live stock commit
tee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce,
sponsors of the program.
The spring fat cattle show will be held
in Atlanta April 18 and 19. While it
has been decided definitely to hold a fall
show, the date and other details of this
event have not been worked out. A sub
committee, headed by R. F. Davis, was
appointed to study the dates of scheduled
shows throughout the state so that the
Atlanta fall show will come after the
various county attractions are over. Win
ner in the various events will be brought
to Atlanta.
FREIifCARLOADING
SHOWING ACTUAL GAIN
ATLANTA, Feb. 14 (GPS).—Bearing
out earlier predictions, freight car load
ings showed a gain in the first four
weeks of 1939 over the corresponding
period last year—the first substantial
increase noted ip some time, according
to statistics of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads, just made public by At
lanta railway executives.
During the first four weeks ending
Jan. 28 loading of revenue freight to
taled 2.302,464 cars, compared with 2,-
256,717 cars in the same period in 1938.
a gain of 45,747 cars. This year’s total
however, was below the four-week period
of 1937 when 2,714.449 cars were loadeel
with revenue freight.
The early gain serves to substantiate
the prediction of the thirteen shippers'
advisory boards that there would be an
increase in this line of railroad revenue
during the first quarter of 1939. The
shippers’ body estimated a gain of 9.9
per cent, over the first quarter of 1938.
Lindbergh Reward
Money Spent In Year
Nine persons shared $21,500 out of the
$25,000 reward offered for the arrest
and conviction of Bruno Richard Haupt
mann, who Was electrocuted for kidnap
ping the Lindbergh baby.
A year after the money was distribut
ed most of it is gone—some of it into
homes, furniture, and bonds, and the
rest for sick expenses, pleasure, a taxi,
or purposes unknown.
Cecilia Barr, theater cashier who tes
tified Hauptmann gave her a Lindbergh
ransom bill, spent most of her SI,OOO to
pay for a seven-month illness.
Charles F. Cody and William R.
Strong, bank tellers who identifieid a
ransom bill passed by Hauptmann, each
got $2,000. The former spent some of his
reward for an illness. Strong plans to
build a house.
Discoverer of the Lindbergh baby’s
body, William J. Allen, colored, spent
his $5,000 with a free hand. He’s now
a laborer in Philadelphia. Joseph Per
rone, taxi driver who identified Haupt
mann as the one who gave him a ransom
note to deliver to John F. (Jafsie) Con
don, bought a new cab with his SI,OOO.
Millard IVhited, who placed Haupt
mann near the Lindbergh estate, is miss
ing along with his SI,OOO. Nothing is
known, either, of the whereabouts of
Amandus Hockmuth, who also got SI,OOO
for giving information similar to Whit
ed’s testimony.
In five hours John J. Lyons, service
station attendant, spent the SI,OOO he
was given for reporting a ransom bill he
received from Hauptmann in buying fur
niture. Walter Lyle, station manager
who noted Hauptman’s car number, in
vested his $7,500 in government bonds.
Altmeyer urges changes in social se
curity law; he would include 6,000,000
more.
Watch for Tutton’s ads for greater
savings for you each week.
PROJECTS.
In four months of last year, WPA
workers completed 1,800 projects to ex
tend or improve sewers and 600 for im
proving water supplies, according to a
report covering publicly-owned utilities.
and legislators, mayors of surrounding
tdwns have been invited to attend this
gdla occasion.
This is the first step in a system which
will protect the entire valleys of the
Oostanaula, Etowah and Coosa rivers
from immense losses which occur prac
tically every year.
Anyone wishing to go to Rome for this
gala occasion should go by tfie Rome
Chamber of Commerce, where they will
be given a badge entitling them to spe.
rial considerations,
Assembly Approves
Cleanness of Capitol
ATLANTA, Feb. 14 (CNS).—The
house of representatives of the Geor
gia assembly likes the newness and
cleanness of the capitol, achieved dur
ing the interlude between sessions
through the co-operation of the works
progress administration. The WPA
project was sponsored by the state di
vision of parks.
In the course of the work, the orig
inal beauty and dignity of the capitol
was restored and the lighting, heating
and ventilating systems were thor
oughly reconditioned.
In addition, the WPA did consid
erable work in improving the executive
mansion, and conducted a property
audit at the various state departments,
cataloging every item of furniture be
longing to the state.
A house resolution, introduced by
Mr. Flanders, of Emanuel county, ex
pressed the appreciation of the legisla
tors to the federal agency for its co
operation in the restoration and re
pair of the public buildings.
Spring Conference
Parents & Teachers
Meet in Cartersville
The spring conference of the Seventh
district division of the Georgia Congress
of Parents and Teachers will be held at
the Market Street school auditorium in
Cartersville, Friday, March 3, at 10
o’clocw, with Market and Douglas Street
Parent-Teacher associations as hosts.
Mrs. W. L. Garnett, of Rome, district
president, will preside over the business
session. Reports will be made by the
fohr zone vice-presidents.
Committee chairmen will also give re
ports of the varied phases of work.
Mirs. James S. Gordy, of Columbus,
state congress president, will speak on
the program. Mrs. Percy F. Powell, of
Gadsden, Ala., National Congress Foun
ders’ day chairman, and Mrs. Charles
Center, of College Park, past president
of Georgia, will be in attendance.
Prominent educators throughout the
district will also attend. Delegates and
members of the more than seventy-five
local units will represent the Parent-
Teacher membership. Exhibits will in
clude publicity record books and articles
made by Parent-Teacher members. Each
association may enter ten articles in the
creative art exhibit, and Mrs. J. B. Hos
mer, state art chairman, states that the
best of the articles will be selected and
sent to the state convention in April.
Reservations for lunch are being made
with Mrs. Fred Knight, of Cartersville.
$8,976,829 Road Bonds
Voted By State Senate
ATLANTA, Feb. 14 (GPS).—A reso
lution proposing a constitutional amend
ment to authorize issuance of $8,976.-
829.70 in state highway refunding bonds
has been adopted by the state senate. The
vote was 43 to 1. The resolution, if
adopted by the house, will go to the peo
ple for a statewide vote.
Chairman W. L. Miller, of the state
highway board, who urged senators to
pass the resolution, said he favored the
plan because it would enable the highway
department to match $9,000,000 addition
al federal funds over the period of the
next three years. He further said pass
age of the bill would allow the state
catch up on its road work by 1941, or
sooner.
The highway department now is pay
ing out $2,650,000 a year on refunding
certificates due the various counties in
the state for highway construction. The
proposal would have the federal govern
ment issue bonds to cover these payments
for 1939, 1940 and 1941.
Chevrolet Sales For
January Show Gain
DETROIT. —Continuing the advance
that has been apparent ever since intro
duction of its new’ 1939 models, Chevro
let sold 51,966 new cars and trucks at
retail in January, W. E. Holler, general
sales manager, announced here today.
This compares with 29,469 units in Jan
uary, 1938, and is an increase of 12,5 6
units, or 31.7 per cent.
In the same month. Mr. Holler an
nounced, Chevrolet dealers sold 114,375
used cars, or 8,925 more than in Janu
ary, 1938. Combined new and used car
sales for the month were 166,341 units,
as compared with 14.,919 a year ago.
For the past three months, Mr. Holler
pointed out, there has been a steady rise
in the monthly percentage of increase
over sales for corresponding periods in
the 1938 model year. In November, the
advance was slightly more than 6 per
cent.; in December it was 25.4 per cent.,
and in January, 31.7 per cent.
Generally improved business condi
tions, plus the public's enthusiasm over
the 1939 Chevrolet, featuring new type
knee action and the exclusive vacuum
gearshift with steering column contro’
is credited with the sharp upturn, Mr.
Holler said. “The heavy volume of used
cars,” he said, “is especially gratifying.
It shows that in spite of the increased
new car business, this end of the deal
ers’ operation is under complete'control,
so that dealers are in splendid position
to aw new enrs and trucks.”
$l.&0 A YEAR
12 MILLION PROFIT
IN STABILIZATION
FUND IS REVEALED
WASHINGTON. —Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau revealed today that
the government’s two-billion-dollar ex
change stabilization fund has made a
profit of $12,000,000 on its operations
since 1934.
In a letter to Senator Lodge (rep.,
Mass.) Secretary Morgenthau, for the
first time since the fund’s creation, dis
closed the result of the complex opera
tions by which the treasury seeks to
maintain stability of the dollar in inter
national exchange.
Morgenthau assured Lodge that the
fund has been used solely for stabiliza
tion purposes. This was in answer to
rumors in congressional' circles that the
fund had been utilized to finance foreign
purchases in the United States.
The fund was established through the
$2,000,000,000 paper profit arising in
1934 from devaluation of the dollar. To
date, the treasury has used only $200.-
000,000 of this amount for the funds
transactions.
Lespedeza Most
Valuable Legume,
Polhill Declares
Many farmers are planning to sow les
pedeza during February or March on
fall-sown oats and other small grain to
provide more effective erosion control,
according to De Vaughn Polhill, camp
agronomist.
This practice is much more desirable
than following oats with cowpeas and
requires considerably less labor, Polhill
explained. When cowpeas follow gram
the land has to be plowed about the first
of June when other crops need work;
and frequently dry weather at that time
makes it impossible to get peas planted
in time. All that is necessary in sowing
lespedeza is to run a drag harrow over
the land after the lespedeza seed is sown
so as to scratch the seed lightly into the
soil.
The lespedeza will give good cover for
the land after the oats are harvested,
Polhill pointed out, and being a legume
will add nitrogen to the soil to incret.se
<he production of succeeding esoos ■
Many farmers have found it desirable
to leave the lespedeza on the land two
years. This enables them to harvest a hay
crop the second year and still have good
protection in the lespedeza stubble the
second winter before the land is turned
for other crops.
Chevrolet Leads
Sales In Georgia
DETROIT, Feb. 14.—Georgia’s au
tomotive registration figures for the year
1938, made public today, show Chevro
let in first place in the state, as in the
country at large.
Chevrolet, the figures reveal, register
ed 8,896 passenger cars and trucks in
Georgia in 1938. This represents 37.9 per
cent, of the state’s total passenger car
registrations in the low-price group, and
37 per cent, of the truck registrations in
Chevrolet’s weight classification.
This showing in 1938 gives Chevrolet
leadership in five out of the past eight
years for passenger car sales in Georgia.
Intternal Revenue
Agent In Summerville
Tuesday, March 7
March 7, a representative of the in
ternal revenue department will be in
Summerville from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and
Trion from 8 a.m. to 12, noon.
The following internal revenue offices
will be open, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., every day
except Saturday—B a.m. to 12, noon—
from Feb. 20, 1939, to March 15, 1939,
inclusive:
Atlanta, Augusta. Columbus, Macon,
Rome, Savannah and Valdosta.
International Paper plans to sell $500,-
000,000 utility interests and quit the pa
per field.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the cost of a modern de
stroyer?
2. How many persons get hunting li
censes in a year?
3. Do insects instinctively know when
winter is over?
4. What percentage of the nation's
railroad mileage is involved in reorgani
zations?
5. Have funds been voted to extend
the activities of the Dies committee?
6. Is Germany in serious economic
straits?
7. Is the ice receding in the polar
regions?
8. How much scrap iron has Japan
bought in this country?
9. Can a wife be compelled to testify
against her husband?
10. What is the strength of the Span
ish government army under Gen. Maja?
(See “The Aww" on Anotiw F»ge)