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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)