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CIRCULATE IN BEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53- NO. 16 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA ATLANTA. July 4 (GPS). —If you are one of those persons who don't think a good living can be made on a Georgia farm, then you had better talk to J. M. Pace, a small truck farmer near College Park. On his 25-acre farm, Mr. Pace, with a sl3 mule and plenty of ambition, i is showing Georgia farmers what they | can do if they try. He went to the modest farm about three years ago when it was a virtual wilderness. He cleared the land and began , growing corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, sweet potatoes and other vegetables. To day, that farm is blossoming in truck farm products of all kinds. He has beans growing on vines ten feet high. He set | out 30.000 tomato slips on about twelve acres of land which are now producing big red tomatoes. If the season is good. Pace figures he ought to realize a total of $2,000 from his entire crop, with expenses amounting to only $l5O. He works his sl3 mule with the aid of one helper at a salary of $3.50 per week. Pace attributes his suc cess in truck farming to hard work and the use of cattle fertilizer. He has bought only one and one-half tons of commer cial fertilizer since he began tending his farm. He has plenty of cows and hogs. 2.000 To 1: If the railroads never in spected their rolling stock, if locomo tives had defective brakes, if cotter pins in driving wheels and other parts of the mechanism were allowed to wear out and fall out. and there were wrecks and peo ple were killed, the general assembly couldn’t assemble fast enough to pass laws to require the railroads to put their engines and coaches in first-class mechan ial condition. And yet there are two thousand automobiles to every train. — From the Dillon (S. C.) Herald. Gist. Os the News: Thirty-seven Geor gians became full-fledged Americans last week when they received their final citi zenship papers in federal district court I here. In all, eleven nations were reprc-! sented in the group . . . The state wild , life division has been allotted $20,180 for wild life restoration by the federal 1 government. Georgia must contribute one- ; fourth of the cost of projects approved by Uncle Sam . . . Infielders took their chances on rye—ltalian rye—for the ■ first month of the baseball season at Ponce de Leon park, but if Groundkeep er Warren Granade is successful in an experiment he is conducted, it will be straight Bermuda for future Crackers. The Atlanta team has more than thirty five home games yet to be played .... Elias Nour, mountain climber, contends there is an under-rock stream of water which gurgles close to the surface of the topmost portion of Stone Mountain. ITALIAN SILK. 1 The import of Italian goods into this country may be reduced by the imposi tion of counter-vailing duties if officials conclude that the exports from Italy are being subsidized within the meaning of I the tariff act of 1930. There are no po- | litieal motives back of’ the inquiry which has to do with Italian silk. Persons who grow silk worms in Italy are guaranteed a fixed price for their raw silk by the Italian government usually in excess of the market price. The treasury must de termine whether this is artificial en couragement that amounts to an export bounty. Lf . Last year, the United States exported 70,800,000 cases of canned fruit, which set a new record ’ despite growing com petition from other nations. The' export trade helped the growers and packers of citrus fruits in Florida, Texas, Califor nia and Arizona apple growers through out the nation ; dried fruit industries of California, the Pacific Northwest and New York; and canners in many other states. Third-term demand declared rising: polls by anti-New Dealers show the pres ident leading the field. Long becomes Louisiana governor as Leche quits; former L.S.U. head is ac cused of embezzling. Battleship North Carolina will be launched in the spring. WHO KNOWS? 1. How many persons live on the farms of the U. S.? 2. How many miles does the “average" automobile travel in a year? 3. What was the largest federal def icit? 4. How many consecutive games did Lou Gehrig play? , 5. What is the gasoline consumption of the Atlantic Clipper on her flight across the ocean? / 6. Have the Dionne quintuplets ever been spanked? 7. Who is the oldest member of the house of representatives? 8. What is the extent of U. S. invest ments abroad? 9. With what nations does Japan trade most? 10. What is the strength of the Ger man army? (See “The Answers” on Another Par* ) Summmnlk Naus Objection To Mate’s Night Work Illegal Cause For Quitting Objections of a wife to her husband's employment at night was held as no good cause for his quitting work in a decision of the appeals referee of the bureau of unemployment compensation released to day. Affirming a determination of a deputy in disqualifying a claimant for unemploy ment compensation or six weeks for leaving work voluntarily without good cause, the referee held: "When an individual is legitimately employed, the objection of his wife to his hours of work, whether day or night is not good cause for his quitting work." The claimant testified he had been married about a year and that his wife objected to his being out at nights, al though he was making a living. He told the referee he walked so much in connec tion with his work that his feet became sore and that he was unable to purchase a car. He terminated his employment without any other work in view, it was shown. INTANGIBLETAX RULING IS GIVEN ATLANTA, July 4 (CNS).—Stocks in domesticated corporations in Georgia are not subject to the state’s intangible tax. a ruling by Judge E. E. Pomeroy on an appeal by Tax Commissioner T. Grady Head declares, affirming a previous de cision of the state board of tax appeals. Stockholders in Georgia corporations do not have to pay intangible tax on their holdings, and domesticated corpora tions —corporations formed outside Geor gia that subsequently transfer to this state —occupy the same position, the rul ing holds. Affected are holders of stock of Rich’s, Inc., Atlantic Steel corporation. Conti nental Gin company and several other large companies, with many holders of stock scattered throughout the state. Georgia Income To Top 42 Million State income of $42,422,672.08 up to June 20 in the closing fiscal year was reported last week by Auditor Zach Ar nold. The fiscal year ended June 30 and Ar nold plans to issue a financial statement about July 8, he said. The auditor said a recent news story appeared to attribute to him a report that state income for the year would to tal $34,335,332.20. On the basis of those figures. Repre sentative C. 7. Guyton, of Effingham county, issued a statement that the re port “from capital sources” on state in come was “raisleading.” Arnold wrote Guyton that state reve nue could not be determined by mutiply ing by ten the total receipts of the stab ilization fund. This is because the fund does not put a tithe on all state income, several funds coming into the treasury being exempted. He said the figure of $34,335,332.20 apparently was arrived at by multiplying stabilization fund receipts by ten. “Our records show that as of June 20 the total state revenue from all sources, including funds received from the W. & A. (Western & Atlantic railroad) rentals sold, amounts to $42,422,672.08,” Arnold wrote Guyton. Many Doctors Going To Radium Springs ALBANY. Ga., July 4 (GPS).—The stage is set for an interesting scientific program for medical men from three j states —Georgia, Alabama and Florida — | who will gather at Radium Springs, near Albany, July 11. 12 and 13, when the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Chat tahoochee Valley Medical association will be held. Some 200 doctors are expected | to attend. i The Dougherty County Medical society will be host at a barbecue, and other en | tertainment includes a golf tournament, a dance and a bridge party for the worn | en. The .W J. Love Memorial address will be delivered by Dr. M. S. Davie, of Dothan. Ala., president of the Alabama State Medical association. Officers of the C.V.M.A. are: Dr. John S. Turberville, of Century, Fla. president; Dr. Guy J. Dillard, of Colum bus, Ga., first vice-president; Dr. C. R. Bennett, of Eufaula, Ala., second vice president, and Dr. Frank K. Boland. Sr , of Atlanta, secretary-treasurer. BELATED RECOGNITION IOWA CITY, la.—Dr. Leslie Powell, of Des Moines, recently received his block letter from the University of lowa in recognition of his services as a football player in 1910 —just twenty-nine years late. Just a matter of oversight, offi- I cials explained. BATTLESHIPS I The 35,(XM)-ton battleship. North Caro lina, now being constructed in the Brook lyn Navy yard, will probably be launch ed next spring. A sister ship, now under way at the Philadelphia Navy yard, will probably slide into the waters next year ftlse. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 GEORGIA FARMER WILL REPRESENT SOUTHERN REGION A Georgia farmer, 8. E. Statham, of Sumter county, has been selected to rep resent the southern region of the agricul tural adjustment administration on the national farm and home hour program to be broadcast from Washington, D. C., July 11. Statham will speak for farmers of Al abama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Ixnt isiana. Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. These states com pose the southern region under the fed ral Triple-A farm program. Five state AAA committeemen. one from each of the major agricultural re gions in the nation, will take part in the broadcast. The subject of the program will be “Agricultural Problems That Farmers Are Solving With the Help of ‘he AAA.” The program will be carried in Georgia by Station• WSB. Atlanta. The broadcast will be a feature of th° meeting in Washington on July 10. 11 and 12 of AAA committeemen from ev ery state. Farmer suggestions for the 1940 farm program will be presented and con sidered at the national meeting. Farmers from Maine, Oregon, Ohio and Kentucky will represent the other re gions. Ga. Farmers’ Gardens Valued At $7,000,000 ATLANTA. July 4 (GPS).—Georgia has approximately 200,000 farms on which are maintained home garden val ued at $7,000,000. it was revealed by Prof. R. L. Keener, of the University of Georgia horticulture department, in a report to the board of regents. The in structor urged development, of a seed in dustry to supply pure, acclimatized stock for these gardens. “Georgia is blessed with climatic con ditions which permit the growing of crops at seasons when they cannot be grown in other truck-growing sections,” Mr. Keener said. “This reduces competi tion and enables Georgia growers to get better prices for their products.” FIRST COTTON BLOOMS. The first cotton bloom reported to The News this season was brought in Friday, June 30. The bloom was brought in by J. H. Howren, of near Holland. Blooms were also brought in by Logue Williams, Route 2, Summerville, July 1, found June 29. Hamp Brewer, Lyerly, Route 1. reported a bloom June 30. And James Lively, living on Miss Cora Gam ble’s farm, brought in a bloom Monday, which he found on June 29. HOGS CAN BE ‘PROSPERITY BUILDERS’ OF THE SOUTH ATHENS, Ga.—Hogs can become the great “prosperity builders" of the south, M. P. Jarnagin, head of the University >f Georgia animal husbandry department, declared 'in an address ait the auction ale of the Georgia Swine Breeders’ as sociation in Macon on June 29. "In the great farming sections of the middle west,” Dr. Jarnagin said, “hogs have won the enviable nickname of mortgage lifters’. They have paid off more mortgages than any other farm en terprise." Other sections of Georgia should fol low the example of the southwest por tion, the largest center of the commer cial swine industry’ and the section with the largest percentage of farmers with a labor income above $1,500 a year, the college of agriculture professor continued. Dr. .Tarnagin advised reorganization of cropping systems to give an abundance of cheap%-grown foods, careful attention to sanitation, and the selection of good foundation breeding stock as requisites for a successful hog industry in the state. He closing by saying that “there is no danger of over production. Georgia needs 1,660,000 more hogs annually. When she supplies all of her needs of pork and lard we will realize a degree of prosperity never before attained.” United States foreign trade showed a gain in May over April: export balance was $46,757,000. Army reveals success of tests with new field gun, hurling 100-pound shells fifteen miles. German press gloats over the plight of Great Britain in Far East and negotia tions with Russia. Scouts Met Last Thursday, June 29 On Thursday, June 29, the regular meeting of the Boy Scouts of Summer ville was held in the Sturdivant gym. After the salute to the flag, a snappy drill in marching was coached and given by an ex-army man, J. JI. Teddar. After this drill, those tardy were run through the belt line to impress upon them the necessity of being prompt. Then games were played and a discus sion of the lesson, “The Foundations of Scouting,” was given, after which we had prayer and were dismissed. <UAS, GAHRETT, StTll)* INDUSTRIAL CREDIT COMPANY TO OPEN HERE ON JULY 15 An announcement of interest to tfte lo cal industrial population is the opening on July 15 of the Industrial Credit com pany, under the management of Clayton Peacock. Jr., of La Fayette. The company offers a new service for the financial accommodation of working people, making advances of “ready cash” for emergencies against their earnings. No outside endorsers or co-signers requir ed under the plan, which provides needed amounts ranging from $1 to $25 on the worker’s own signature. A number of local people are interested in the new financial concern, and the services offered will fill a long-felt need for extending credit facilities to the sal aried worker and wage-earner. Garden Club Will Give Broiling Party The Chattooga County Garden club will sponsor a broiling party Thursday i evening. July 13, beginning at 6:30, at Dr. Hair's cabin. Gije your family a treat and come out to the cabin where you can enjoy a real chie’en plate for only 50 cents, or re-! serve a table and entertain your friends and enjoy the cool atmosphere and a | good dinner. Your presence will help the garden club to beautify our town and highways. LOWER EXEMPTIONS. Reductions in income tax exemptions . are favored by Vice-President Garner, 1 who relieves they will make a new group of citizens conscious of the effects of def icit spending and result in pressure on congress to balance the budget. The Tex an would slash exemptions for married couples from $2,500 to $1,200 and for single persons from SI,OOO to SSOO. GUERNSEY SOLD. A registered Guernsey bull has recent ly been sold by the Trion company-Rie geldae farm to T. Edison Gingrich, of Lancaster, Pa. This animal is Riegeldale Mck Arthur 271462. according to the Amerian Guernsey Cattle club. Peter borough, N. H. Bank Clearings Show Increase (Ry Georgia News Service.) ATLANTA. —According to the Clear ing House association figures, bank clear ings for June were $26,900,000 more than for June, 1938. This is the eighth month ly increase in succession this year. The statistics showed that June’s total was $232,500,000 as compared with $205,- 600.000 for the same month last year. BARTER. The agreement between Great Britain and the United States by which 800,000 bales of American cotton will be ex- i changed for 175.000,000 pounds of Brit ish and Dutch rubber, provides that these commodities cannot be marketed for sev en years unless a war intervenes. WRECKER RESCUES HORSE. ALTON, Ill.—-It required the services of an automobile wrecker to pull the j 1.500-pound mare of Virgil Hoffstetter | from the bottom of a forty-foot well, into I which the animal had tumbled. The lat- i ter appeared none the worse after being I pulled from the well by a hoist chain. ENDS ‘RAC K SEAT’ DRIVING POPLAR BLUFF. Mo.—Lester Mas singham knows one way to get rid of a “back-seat” driver. Recently, he caught a huge king snake and locked it in his ear with the windows closed. The snake , disappeared and although he practically tore the automobile to pieces to prove to his wife that the snake was gone, she refused to get in. Summer Examinations On Saturday, July 15 The summer examinations for those who failed NOT MORE THAN TWO subjects will be held in the high school building on Saturday, July 15. beginning at. 9 o’clock. This includes the FIFTH through the ELEVENTH grades only. No examinations will be given after this date . FRANK G. DILLARD, Supt. Executive Committee Meets Here July 11 The executive committee of the Chat tooga County WOman’s Missionary union will meet with the First Baptist church in Summerville July 11 at 3 p.m. This is the quarterly meeting of the commit ) tee, and we would be happy to have any member of the churches of the associa tion to meet with us. The officers of each of the societies I will meet with the committee. MRS. THOS. J. ESPY, President MISH ,MINNIE JUSTICE. S.-T Tomatoes Grow On Potato Vine TALLAPOOSA—The Rev. Rol lins, of this city, is a veritable Lu ther Burbank, it is indicated by a peculiar specimen found in his gar den, which should be called the “po mato." Upon the root of this strange plant were found several large Irish potatoes, while upon the vine two clusters of tomatoes were found flourishing. ATTY-GEN. ARNALL VICTOR IN LAW SUIT (By Georgia News Service.) LA GRANGE, Ga. —Attorney-General Ellis Arnall was victor in a test case tried here last Saturday involving the right and title to the office of attorney general of Georgia. Judge Lee Wyatt, of La Grange, judge of the Coweta superior court circuit, dis missed the quo warranto suit brought by John S. Wood, of Canton, against At torney-General Arnall. Wood based his claim to the office on the fact that he received 3.500 votes out of approximate ly 32,000 cast in the June election. Judge Wyatt in his order held that there was no merit to the claim of Mr. Wood and that Arnall was legally and constitution ally entitled to the office of attorney general. Many well-known lawyers appeared in the case. The entire membership of the Newnan Bar association represented At torney-General Arnall. Here and There FAMILY MAN CHICAGO. —Ernest Berry, a milk wagon driver, hopes he will be permit ted to adopt the baby girl he found on the doorstep of a grocery while delivering milk. Berry said the new-born babe would be a welcome addition to his family. Mrs. Berry and six children. ATLANTIAN VICTIM IN ‘CLOTHES SWAPPING’ ATLANTA. Kelsey Robison late Thursday night was compelled to ex change his good clothes for an old, worn and ill-fitting suit, he told police. Mr. Robison said two men accosted him near the corner of Hunter and Washington streets and compelled him to go with (them beneath the viaduct, where they ordered him to exchange clothes with one of them. FLYING NURSE BUSY ARVIN, Cal.—“ The Flying Nurse.” rather than just “Registered Nurse,’” is the title to which Miss Frances Shields is really entitled. She is a home service nurse covering a large surrounding ter ritory by airplane. ATLANTIAN KILLS SELF IN ESTRANGED WIFE’S VIEW ATLANTA. —In the presence of his estranged wife and several friends, R. J. Williams, 62. a former ticket-taker at Atlanta’s famed Cyclorama. ended his life by firing a bullet into his head after first threatening his wife. ■Williams called at the home of his estranged wife and asked to talk to her alone. They Walked to the rear porch, where he asked that they be reconciled. When she refused, he seized a piste® «nd threatened to shoot her. but she knocked it from his hands and screamed, she told ! police. Her screams brought some friends, who were visiting her, running to her side. Williams then picked up the pistol, wit nesses told police, ran into the yard and fired a bullet into his head. He was pro nounced dead upon arrival at a hospital. KELLYS, KELLEYS HAVE THE LEGION SITUATION IN HAND ATLANTA—The Kellys—with and without a second “e”—had their day at the twenty-first annual convention of the Georgia American Legion posts and the nineteenth annual gathering of the worn , en’s auxiliary here recently. Logan Kelley, of Buford, retired as I state commander. Mrs. J, Pat Kelly, of Valdosta, was elected president of the 1 auxiliary. Her husband. Pat Kelly, defeateel Lo gan Kelley in a race for the post of na j tional executive committeeman. Logan I Kelley last year succeeded Pat Kelly as i state commander. I If that isn’t enough. Legionnaires I elected Kelly Bowman, of Barnesville, as commander of the fourth area. "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” the | Legionnaires sang. CARTRIDGE EXI’LOOES IN GEORGIAN’S PIPE FORT GAINES, Ga.—F. M. McKis ; sick. 81. filled his pipe, lit it and stretch ed back comfortably in his chair to tell a circle of friends all about a recent trip to California. Suddenly there was an explosion. His hat blew off and his pipe bowl disap peared. Part of the mystery was cleared when he found an empty .22-caliber cartridge shell, still hot from being touched off by the heat of the burning tobacco. McKis sick was uninjured. The other part of the mystery—bow the cartridge got into bls tnbftcco pop ch f* unsnlwl. STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. COUNTIES RETURNING CONVICTS TO STATE AS CONTRACTS END ATLANTA. July 5 (CNS).—The tan gled maze of Georgia state finances was no nearer unsnarling as the state enter ed the new fiscal year. A summary of re ceipts and expenditures for the period disclosed that a deficit of approximately $8,500,000 existed, of which the greater part was represented by the unpaid bal ance on the common school appropriation for teachers’ salaries. The governor continued his one-man rule of the highway deartment, relaxing his control only to permit “emergency local purchases” by the maintenance di vision. Development of the week included : 1. Seven counties, including Bibb with its large force, turned back all their con victs to the state; other counties made partial returns of convicts as their con tracts with the highway department ex pired. 2. The board of penal administration held a hurried meeting to consider plans for assuming care of 4.000 prisoners ex pected from county camps. 3. The board of manager of the Asso ciation of County Commissioners made representations to state officials that withdrawal of highway work from the counties, as ordered by Gov. Rivers, would unbalance further county budgets. 4. Julius McCurdy, chairman of the commissioners’ legislative committee, de fended the commissioners' endorsement of a sales tax, reimbursement of counties for lost revenues and continuation of highway work without diversion of road funds to other purposes. 5. Attorney-General Ellis Arnall de clined to rule on the authority of the director of the budget, an ex-officio po sition held by the governor, to take con trol of the highway department. Such a ruling was requested by W. L. Miller, chairman of the highway board, who de scribed. in a speech during the week, his acceptance of the position when pledged a “business operation of the de partment free of politics.” Most serious aspect of the situation was the crisis in county affairs, with the attendant possibility that. 4.000 pris oners would be dumped back into the state's lap. Diversion of highway funds from the building and maintaining of roads in the state would be disastrous to county finances. leaders of the local self-government units declared. Despite the appeal by the commission ers for an early session of the general assembly, observers believed that Gov. Rivers would noit recede from his de mand that the legislators assure him that they would pass a revenue bill before he issued a call, while leading legislators believed such an assurance premature unless legislative control, through a non partisan budget commission, over state finances was made part of the revenue program. ATLANTA MARKETS Live Stock Strictly corn-fed hogs. 180-240 lbs. 6.75; 245-300 lbs, 6.50; 300-400 lbs, 6.25 dow’n: 150-175 lbs. 6.50: 145 lbs down. 5.25 down ; sows and stags, 180-400 lbs, 5.75; 400-500 lbs, 5.25 down. Few gross fat steers and heifers bringing 6.50-7.50, mostly 5.75-6.25; fat cows, 5.25-5.75; canners. 3.50-4.50; good heavy bulls, 5.50-6.00. Produce Butterbeans. snaps, 80; cab- 1 bage, 1.75 per cwt.; cantaloupes, 50; ■ corn 1216-15; okra, 1.40-1.50; onions, 80-1.15 per 50 lbs; peaches. 75-1.00 for *4 bu.; sweet potatoes, 2.25 per cwt; to matoes. 1.25-2.50 per crate; watermelons, . 15-20 ea.; carload shipments. 150-275 f.o.b. track. Poultry | Large ungraded eggs, 16-17; medium. 14 ; large graded and candled white eggs. ■ 20; medium. 17; heavy hens, 14; Leg- ■ horns. 10-11; friers, 16-20; roosters, 09; . ducks, 08; geese, 06. . 10 PER CENT. f Representative Martin, of Massachu . setts, republican minority leader, would reduce all appropriations made by con gress by 10 per cent, excepting only those . for social security, relief and fixed obli , gations. He says this will save $500,- s 000,000. 5 Identical postage stamps, issued by s Canada and the United States, to com memorate the royal visit and the 125 p years of peace between the two coun tries, have been suggested by officials in both countries. Hitch-Hiking Hen i Rides On Bumper t - DALTON. —A speed-minded hen stow s ed away on the bumper of Dr. J. E. - Bradford’s auto recently, remaining un ruffled in spirit though not in feathers, i as the doctor’s car sped along at fifty e miles per hour. The plucky fowl kept to v her roost while Bradford took in a show. - despite the amused chuckles of passers by, and there she remained while the doc s’ tor returned home. This is the only case h known to Daltonites. wherein a c|j|c|(eri has token qp $1.50 A YEAR