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CIRCULATE IF (BEST
SECTION OF FORTH
GEORGIA
VOL. 53; NO. 14
NEWS AT A GLANiE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA. June 20 (GPS.—Georgia
stole the show at the New Yrk World's
fair last week. According t> news dis
patches sent back home, our state put on
the greatest show of any <f the thirty
three commonwealths tha have state
buildings at the fair. New York papers
were high in their praise of Georgia day
when the Georgia building wis dedicated.
The attendance for the da; up to the
hour the Georgia building w.s dedicated
had gone well over 100.000.
As the result of lack of a sate appro
priation, the building was ereted along
the lines of a Southern home. The struc
ture is of red brick with lage white
columns forming a portico. I was built
with private donations and fruit the pro
ceeds of a button sale. Georgit's building
on the court of states easily is the most
popular exhibit among the forty-eight
states, yet it is one of the east preten
tious, is the statement that,comes back
home. Everything for whicl Georgia is
famous is on exhibit in the building.
And our state was not vithout repre
sentation in Gotham on Ge>rgia day. A
deelgation of some 2,0(10 Gorgians were
on hand. Headed by Gov. Rvers, the del
egation journeyed to the far on a spe
cial train. Much of the credt for the sue
cess of Georgia day goes t< Jere Moore,
chairman of the Georgia New York
World’s Fair commission.
Graduation Day: School is out ....
and throughout America, hundreds of
thousands of American bers and girls
are being handed diplomas. Ipon they will
be guiding the affairs of his great na
tion —helping to make it ai even better
place in which to live and to work. The
American railroads are piiud to have
had a part in the schooling of these boys
and girls, says the Association of Amer
ican Railroads. Railroad tales have play
ed an important part in tleir education.
For example, about 29 edits of every
railroad tax dollar goes te the public
schools—providing sufficieit funds to
educate approximately 1,3(0,000 children
each year.
Gist Os the News: Geogia quota for
the Civilian Conservation corps' July
enrollment period is 654 .. . Thirty
eight foreign-born Georgians will take
the oath of allegiance to the American
government in federal coirt here next
week. They are seeking tieir citizenship
papers . . . The “population” of the At
lanta federal penitentiary gained 185 per
sons from April 15 to Muy 15 when the
total jumped from 3,118 to 3.303 pris
oners . . . The Atlanta Constitution last
Week began its seventy-sectnd year in the
service of the people of Atlanta. of Geor
gia. and of the south . . . Julia Small,
Toombs county negress wio makes her
home at Lyons, has just pissed her 115th
birthday . . . Seventy-two touring Geor
gia teachers are on a 9.f00-mile motor
trek which will take their to San Fran
cisco and back.
Home-Coming Day At
Berryton on June 25th
The Berryton Baptist diurch is having
a Home-Coming Sunday, Jane 25. We are
expecting visiting singers and preachers
from many places.
The program will open at 9;30 with
songs by the choir.
Prayer by Rev. Floyd Higgins.
Songs by the Berryton trio.
Welcome address by tlm pastor, the
Rev. Wallace.
Songs by the Johnson sitters, of Shan
non.
Talk by the Rev. Ed Smith.
Songs by the Berry ton cuartet.
Songs by William Evans, of Chatta
nooga.
Songs by the Johnson sisters.
At 11 a.m. the Rev. Dewey Adams, of
the Hughes Avenue church, of Chatta
nooga, will deliver a
Lunch at 12 o’clock. ™
At 1 o'clock, there will songs by
the choir and the Berryton Quartet and
other visiting quartets and singers.
The Rev. William Sisk, qf Lupton
City, Tenn, will give a talk al 2 p.m.
The remainder of the time will be used
by having solos, duets, trios, quartets and
class singing.
All quartetts and good singers are es
pecially invited to come and bring their
friends.
A good time is expected by all and ev
ery one is invited to come and join us
in this great Home-Coming.
BUNGLING BURGLAR KAYO 1
SELF; CAPTURE IS EASY
CAMDEN, N. J., June 20.—An intru
der in Harry Pettit’s home helped cap
ture himself.
Letting himself down after climbing
through a window, he stepped on a table
which up-ended and knocked him to the
floor.
He started to get up. bumped his head
against the kitchen sink and was knock
ed unconscious.
ONE TWIN BORN AT HOME,
ANOTHER MILES AWAY
MACON, Ga., June 20. —Twin sons
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson
today in different parts of the city, miles
apart.
Infant No. 1 was born at the Johnson
home in East Macon shortly before 4
o’clock this morning.
Mr. Johnson and son were driven
across the city to Macon hospital, where
infant No. 2 was born about an hour
later.
She Snmnfrrinlli' Nms
50 Per Cent. Gain
In Railway Buying
Shown In 5 Months
ATLANTA, June 20 (GPS).—Pur
chases of equipment and materials by the
American railroads from the manufac
turing industry in the first five months of
1939 are estimated at $232,520,000, com
pared with $156,253,000 in the same pe
riod last year, an increase of 50 per
cent., according to figures compiled by
the Railway Age, and just made public
in Atlanta.
Compared with the purchases of about
614 million dollars made in the first five
months of 1929, however, it represents a
decline of 381 million dollars or 62 per
cent. These purchases in the correspond
ing part of 1936 were 275 million dollars
and in 1937 were 452 million, the decline
in 1939 as compared with 1937 being 48
per cent.
Equipment (locomotives and cars) or
dered from manufacturers in the first
five months of 1929 amounted to $207.-
500.000; in 1937 to $147,000,000; in
1938 to less than $13,000,000, and in 1939
to almost $40,000,000. Purchases of ma
terials in the first five months of 1929
amounted to $406,000,000 ; 1937 to $305,-
000.000; in 1938 to $143,500,000. and in
1939 to $192,600,000. Purchases of fuel
in the first five-month period of 1939
were $118,500,000 as compared with the
five-month total of $99,000,000 in 1938.
If purchases of equipment and mate
rials should show as large an increase
throughout 1939 as in the first five
months, they would amount to about 600
million dollars—much less than in 1936
and 1937. but more than any other year
of the depression since 1930, it was
pointed out.
Grocers Hit Sales
Tax; Extra Session
ATLANTA. June 20 (GPS).—Geor
gia's 10,000 grocers have made up their
minds on two things-—they don’t want a
sales tax and they see no necessity for
the Georgia General Assembly convening
in extra session.
Resolutions opposing these two move
ments were adopted by the Georgia Re
ail Food Dealers’ association at the
closing session of its nineteenth annual
convention in Atlanta last week.
They asked Gov. Rivers instead to
•study the report dt' the economy commit
tee, and put its recommendations into
effect. The resolution said in part that
“it is evident that a sales tax, particu
larly on foodstuffs, will work a hard
ship on a citizenry already burdened by
iiunerous and excessive taxes.”
M. Blank, of Atlanta, was elected
president of the association to succeed J.
W. McDonald, of Augusta. Other offi
cers elected were: Lester Grady, of Ma
con ; W. J. Carreker, of Griffin; H. V.
Henry, of La Fayette; A. J. Orsini, of
Savannah, 'and J. W. McDonald, vice
president ; Mrs. Audrey S. Hargett, sec
retary and treasurer (re-elected), and
Rev. F. L. Church, of Atlanta, chaplain
(re-elected).
Jobless Compensation
Checks Hit New High
Unemployment benefits amounting to
$85,213.32 were paid out by the bureau
of unemployment compensation the week
ending June 10, the largest weekly
amount since payments were started in
January, Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet announced yesterday.
The new record, he said, was due to
inclusion of business for Saturday, June
8, in the week's report. The day was ob
served by the bureau as a holiday. The
previous largest amount paid out in any
week was slightly over $84,000 for the
week ending April 3.
RAILROAD TURNS, SUES A
MOTORIST FOR $935 DAMAGES
READING. Pa., June 20.—A railroad
today sued a motorist for damages to a
locomotive and three coaches. The train
and Nathan Fink’s car collided last
ear. The Reading company placed the
damage at $935 and said Fink failed to
aeep his car under control and did not
med the whistle.
Files Own Tooth To Escape
Dentist, Dislocates Jaw
ASTORIA, Ore., June 20.—Terrified
at the prospect of going to the dentist.
Otto Ritterbush opened his mouth wide
and tried to scrape down a jagged back
ooth with a file.
He went to see a physician instead.
Yep, dislocated jaw.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What state has the largest farm
income?
2. How fast is a modern destroyer?
3. What do the initials “TNEC stand
for ?
4. What is nylon, the synthetic fibre,
composed of?
5. How much does Finland pay on her
war debt?
t>. Was Austria, before annexation to
Germany, self-sufficient in regards to
food?
7. How many federal prisoners are
confined at Alcatraz?
8. How does the national income now
compare with 1929 and 1932?
9. How much gold have foreign coun
tries “earmarked’’ in this country?
10. When did the U. S. apply quotas
to immigration?
(See "The Answers" on Another Page.)
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939
HOUSE ECONOMY
REPORT T 0 GET
RIGHT OF WAY
SPEAKER PROMISES IT WILL BE
CONSIDERED IF EXTRA SES
SION IS CALLED.
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 20. —Praising
the fiscal survey of the house economy
investigating committee as "a great
service” to Georgia, Speaker Roy V.
Harris Tuesday pledged the committee’s
recommendations would have “right of
way in the house" in event of an extra
session of the legislature.
Addressing the Georgia Pharmaceutical
association, in convention here, the stocky
presiding officer of the Georgia house de
clared :
"I do not believe that you could find
ive more capable, honest or courageous
nen in Georgia than these five members
of the house who composed the economy
committee.”
The committee, headed by Chairman
Wilmer Lanier, of Augusta, recently
completed a 500-page report in which the
investigators contended all existing state
services could be financed without new
axes if statutory changes were made to
tighen revenue collections and “peg” al
ioations.
Estimate “a Little High.”
“I am afraid,” observed Harris, “their
stimate as to the amount of revenue to
be produced under their plan is a little
too high. However, I believe that the
budget can be almost financed if the leg
dature sees fit to adopt their recommen
lations as to diverting the increases in
illocated funds over the amounts pro
luced in 1938, and providing for the in
crease in present levies in accordance
with their recommendations.”
BROOME WINS TRIP.
Middleton (“Bill”) Broome, local deal
-r of the Georgian-American, has won one
f the seventeen free trips to the New
York World’s fair, offered by the news
paper to its dealers and carriers outside
Atlanta.
INSURANCE.
’ The first investigation of life insur
ance since 1906 is being conducted by
iie temporary National Economic com
mittee. which recently received testimony
in regard to the activities of nineteen
life insurance companies which write
ibout 94 per cent, of the group life in
urance in the country. Conducted by th”
ecurities and exchange commission, th
iquiry is expected to show considerable
idence of price-fixing and other forms
f anti-competitive arrangements, affect
g many departments of life insurance,
rome Frank, chairman of the SEC,
ikes it clear that the approach is ob
ilive and that no conclusions have been
ached as to the social or economic
ghtness or wrongness of the activities.
BRIEFS; VERY BRIEF.
Manufacturing decline caused more
han half last year's 11 per cent, drop in
national income.
Navy's newest destroyer, the Ham
mann, makes 39 knots in test; believed
record speed.
Crop predictions are made by machin
ery : 300,000 crop reporters may be dis
placed
Assessed value of property in nation
off $24,311,320,000 between 1932 and
1937. federal report says.
Nation’s wheat crop is forecast as small
est production since the drought year.
1936.
Senate votes $800,000,000 more for
slum clearance, extending program to ru
ral areas.
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Speed boat races by Georgia’s ace thrill artist in this “Sport of
Sportsmen” will alternate with the Motorcycles and Race Cars at
Lakewood Park, in Atlanta, on July 4th, this year, according to Mike
Bentou, President of the Southeastern Fair, which is sponsor of the
July 4th celebration. Imagine a day packed with automobile time
trials beginning at 11 A. M., 3 Auto Races, 3 Motor Cycle Races and 3
Speed Boat Races interspersed, beg.nning a.t 3 P. M., and followed at 8
P. M„ by the famous “MISS ATLANTA” BATHING BEAUTY PARADE
IN THE GRANDSTAND. Annual Independence Day Fireworks Cele
bration at 9:30 P. M.
PRESIDENT EVADES
BLUNT QUESTION AS
TO A THIRD TERM
TELLS REPORTER TO STAND IN
CORNER—SAYS COURTS CAN
CELLED FIRST TERM.
WASHINGTON, June 20.—While
third-term talk continued to come from
the inner circles of the New Deal. Presi
nt Roosevelt parried today a bluntly
worded question from a reporter as to
whether he would be a candidate again
n 1940. He told the reporter to go stand
n a corner.
It was the first time since the specu
lation over the third term reached its
resent proportions that the issue had
men laid squarely before the president
if a press conference.
Meanwhile. Solicitor-General Robert H.
ackson made a speech before the Ameri
can Business Clubs here which was re
garded as another boost for the third
term id<a. The Washington Star said he
told the businessmen that there should he
no talk about a third term for Mr. Roo
evelt because there is no third term re
lly involved.
“The first term was cancelled bf the
ourts,” Jackson said. He went on to ex
dain that the administration was not al
lowed to make any of its experiments in
ocial welfare and economic improve
ments during the first Rooseyelt term.
Summerville-Menlo
Road Work To Start
This Friday Morning
Work will start Friday morning on the
Summerville-Menlo road, accolding to
Ledbetter & Johnson. contractors, of
Rome.
The road will be left open to travel as
long as the public will co-operate with
he contractors, obey the signs and drive
;owly.
About three months will be required to
omplete the work, it is said.
MENLO GROUP PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES.
“Lord, give me a vision,
A vision of Thee,
Lest people should perish
Who live around me.
A vision, I pray Thee,
A vision of love,
To win those around me
To heaven above.” —Selected.
SERVICES FOR JUNE 25:
Menlo:
Sunday school 10 a.m.
Morning service at 11 o’clock. A con
gregational meeting will be held after
the service, for the purpose of electing
some new elders and deacons.
Pioneer league at 6:45.
Evening service at 7:30. Message by
the pastor.
Alpine:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Young People’s league at 7:30 p.m.
Beersheba:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Young People’s league at 7:30 p.m.
Cloudland:
Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Young People’s league at 6 p.m.
j
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday school at 9 :45 a.m.
Morning worship at 11 o'clock, “Look- I
ing Into a Mirror.”
Training union at 6 :30 p.m.
Evening service at 7 :30. At this time :
the Daily Vacation school will hold its
commencement.
Fellowship club Tuesday at 7 :30 p.m. i
Prayer meeting 'Wednesday at 7:30 ;
o’clock p.m.
POLAND GETS HELIUM.
Poland's application for 220.000 cubic
feet of American helium to inflate a
stratosphere balloon for flight late in the .
summer has been approved by Secretary
of State Hull.
Freedom of Press
Prime Essential,
Asserts Wallace
WASHINGTON, June 20. Every
American “ought to stand unceasingly on
guard" to see that freedom of the press
■s preserved in America. Secretary of Ag
riculture Henry A. Wallace had declared
I today in an address to the Alabama Press
association at a dinner given by the Al
| abarna society in Washington.
“We recognize, of course, that our
I newspapers have faults,” he said. "But
probably never since the birth of our na
tion have we appreciated the freedom of
! our press so much as in the last few
years, when we have seen the press in
country after country lose its freedom
I and become the mouthpiece of a single
all-powerful individual.”
However, the secretary pleaded for a
greater understanding on the part of
newspapers of the problems facing the
country at present.
”... Too many newspapers have
dealt with the programs attempted by
this administration without regard to the
economic background which made these
irogram-s absolutely necessary,” he said.
He also urged the newspapers to snow
greater interest in the agricultural prob
ems of the nation.
Boy Scouts Hold
Meeting Thursday
By CHAS. GARRETT.
The newly-organized Boy Scout patrols
held their third meeting last Thursday
night. After the dues were collected and
three new members were enrolled, we
practiced marching, after which games
were played and a rope-tying ontest held.
Then T. J. Espy, Sr., an ex-Scoutmaster,
gave us a very enjoyable talk on scouting
which everyone enjoyed. The Crow pa
trol won the attendance contest with only
one absentee; the Eagle patrol had three
absent.
The committee from the Lions club who
is looking after the Scouts is composed
of E. Pesterfield, John D. Taylor.
F. W. Broome and James Matthews,
HERE AND THERE
CLEVELAND, O.—Speck, a spaniel,
emlrarrasses his mistress because he is
too zealous a retriever.
Instead of limiting his retrieving ac
tivities to an old shoe, or a ball. Speck
lugged home a 6 by 9-foot porch rug. He
vanished again and reappeared with a
smaller rug.
His master and mistress. Mr. and
Mrs. Hazel Richardson, tried to track
I down the rugs' sources by canvassing
houses in their neighborhood. They were
unsuccessful in the search. Finally, they
took the rugs to the local police station.
Speck, meanwhile, was on his way
home with a large bottle of peanut but
ter.
HAS TO TEAR UP HIS HOUSE
TO REMOVE FISHING BOAT
CHICAGO. —Fishermen will be inter
ested in knowing what happened at Nich
olas Folgers’ house in suburban Berwyn.
For eight months Folgers and his two
sons worked in their basement to build
a boat, and the job was finished. They
proudly called the neighbors. One visitor
commented :
“A fine job. but how are you going to
get it out of the basement?”
The question was logical, for the boat
was considerably wider than the base
ment door. So the Folgers had to remove
a large section of the basement wall.
THIEVES STEAL BOTH
CHICKENS AND FEED
ROME. Ga.-—Floyd county officers
are seeking thieves who raided three or
four places in the Armuchee community,
stealing eighty chickens and enough corn
to feed them for a while, in addition to
looting a clothes line and some garden
patches.
Sheriff M. E. Horton said he received
a report that the hardest hit lin the burg
larizing foray was Ernest Taylor.
Apparently deciding the stolen chickens
would need plenty of feed, the burglars
took four or five bushels of shucked
corn, officers said. Not satisfied with
stealing this large amount of stuff, the
thieves ruined a potato patch and tore
up two or three garden spots, Sheriff
Horton sai.d
Officers believe that there is some mo
tive of revenge or else "pure downright
meanness” involved, because of the van
dalism committed in addition to the
thefts.
LIGHTNING KILLS WOMAN,
BAKES EGGS IN APRON
FORT PAYNE, Ala.—lt was blowing
up a big storm and the sky was growing
black, but Mrs. Minie Neely had more to
do than look at the sky.
Mrs. Minnie Neely was gathering eggs.
When you’ve lived 41 years and had
nine children, you just don't have time
to worry about a darkening sky. But the
chickens w’ere worried. They scurried
around and ducked inside the chicken
house.
But Mrs. Minnie Neely went on gath
ering eggs and putting them carefully into
her apron, gathered up to make a bag.
It began to rain then, big splattering
drops, and Mrs. Minnie Neely decided it
was time to get back in the house. There
was a lot of thunder and commotion in
the heavens.
So. Mrs. Minnie Neely headed back to
the house. Just then the skies split and
the world lighted up as if 10.000.000.000
electric lights had been turned on.
They found Mrs. Minnie Neelv's bodv
halfway to the house. The eggs were still
clutched in her apron and they weren’t
broken.
They weren’t broken because the thun
derbolt that killed her had baked the
eggs, baked them hard in the shell.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
SUMMERVILLE LIONS
INSTALLS OFFICERS
AT TUESDAY MEET
H. M. WOODS, ELECTED PRESI
DENT TO SI • CEED THE REV.
J C. JYCKSON
H. M. Woods was installed as president
of the Summerville Lions club at it«
I regular meeting at the Riegeldale tavern
Tuesday. June 20. He succeeds the Rev.
J. <’. Jackson, of Summerville. Other of
ficers installed were as follows: E. C.
Pesterfield, first vice-president ; the Rev.
G. G. Ramsey, second vice-president; W.
E. Turner, third vice-president; Herbert
Gilkeson, secretary-treasurer; J. R. Bur
gess. lion tamer: G. J. Boling, tailtwist
i yr. and James Matthews. Gordon Allen,
| Elgin Ballenger and Roland Hemphill
directors.
i The Summerville club reported a splen-
I did year with a good increase in mem
bership and many projects accomplished.
! the most notable of which were the sup-
■ plying of free lunches to the under-priv
ileged school children and the organiza-
1 tion of a Bo.v Scout troop.
The retiring president was presented
• with a beautiful past-president’s button
i in recognition of his services for the past
| year.
JUNE 30 DEADLINE
FOR EXTENSION OF
LICENSES STRESSED
Commissioner Phil Brewster reiterated
today his warning that there will be no
extension of the deadline for renewal of
drivers' licenses beyond June 30, leaving
only twelve more week days in which
: Georgians may secure licenses for the
I next twelve-month period.
“We are going to abide strictly by the
drivers' license law this year." the com
missioner said, “and any person who
does not have a valid driver’s license aft
er June 30 will be subject to arrest. All
j licenses expire on June 30 unless they
I were issued since May 1.”
Nearly 200,000 Georgians have already
received their renewed licenses, the de
partment said, and 100,000 more are now
I in the process of preparation.
“During this rush period it takes a'»out
1 two to four weeks to prepare and issu» a
i license after the application has been
i mailed to the department of public sate
| ty. The clerks are working overtime to
I send every person’s license as promptly
las possible,” Commissioner Brewster
said.
| Renewal of drivers' licenses began on
| May 1. at which time it was announced
I that persons with old licenses can renew
them by securing an application blank
at a service station, enforcement office,
>r at one central location in every com
munity. Persons who do not hold a
Georgia license must apply to state
troopers and stand the required examina
tion. This examination will be required
of all persons who do not renew their
licenses before the expiration date, since
the old license becomes invalid at mid
night on June 30 and the driver would
not, therefore, be licensed to drive in
Georgia.
"The procedure is the same as last
year, the driver gets an application blank,
fills it out and mails it with the same
amount of money, $1 in money order or
cashier’s check to Box 1741, Atlanta, Ga.
rhe only change is the requirement that
ill persons who are not holders of a li
cense apply direct to the troopers at the
time they visit a county seat or at any
patrol headquarters and receive the ex
amination,” Commissioner Brewster said
Tornado’s Death Toll In
Minnesota Reaches Nine
MINNEAPOLIS. June 2ft—Every
available state agency was at work today
to provide relief for scores of persons
left homeless by a tornado that ripped
'hrough eight small Minnesota towns
Sunday, killing nine persons and injur
ng more than 190.
At least 190 private homes weie
wrecked by the twister, which struck in
he rich farm area twenty-five miles north
and west of Minneapolis.
Property damage was placed near the
81,000.000 mark.
MATTSON BOY’S KILLER
IDENTIFIED AS DESPERADO
HAYWARD, Wis., June 20.—Ray Ol
son. sharpshooting killer of two sheriff’s
deputies, has been "positively identified"
as the kidnap-slayer of 10-year-old
t'harles Mattson, it was announced today
by Sheriff George Seehuetter, who for
three days has led a 400-man posse thru
the wilds of northern Wisconsin in a grim
hunt for the slayer.
Sheriff Seehuetter’s statement was
made before he led his men once more
into the fastnesses of the Big Moose
Lake country forty miles east of Hay
ward after Olson for the third day had
hided his heavily-armed pursuers by
laying an elaborately false trail through
he forest.
Fleeing Auto Cracks Up,
Detective Saves Bullets
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 2ft —A ’
auto collision saved Detective Harry
Nesbit some bullets.
He and Detective Ralph Parr were
pursuing a car they suspected of being
stolen. Nesbit was about to shoot when
the ear crashed into a truck.