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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. When Louis Trotzier Skims Over The Surface of Lakewood, Atlanta, July 4 fc IjfaL a. X ißb:, ? Bio t l - I jS W • < I- ***** l- ... •*•’’ ... , I' __ -a - < . g.- •* • t - — "I. - - - j? L ~~ 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.