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CIRCULATE IN iBEST SECTION OF NORTH GEORGIA. VOL. 53; NO. 21 NEWS AT A GLANCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS IN GEORGIA ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (GPS).—Now that another Baptist World Alliance congress has been written into history, Atlanta has returned to her every-day routine of living. But that was not true during the seven-day convention, which was the largest single gathering Atlanta ever at tempted to entertain. Atlanta had her hands full in taking on this tremendous undertaking. Had it not been for Ponce de Leon park, the home of the Atlanta Crackers, it could not have been achieved in the same successful manner, according to those in charge. In giving credit where credit is due, Morgan Blake, sports editor of the At lanta Journal, and an ardent Baptist leader, nominated Poncey park as Atlan ta’s “Public Blessing No. 1.” Writing on the subject, the popular sports writer said: “It can safely be said that Ponce de Leon park is the ‘Mecca’ for the state of Georgia. More Georgians go to this park during a year’s time than any other spot on earth. During the all and early winter the prep school football games are played there, sometimes four a week. The negro college teams hold many of their big games there. And in spring and summer the Crackers pack ’em in. And when the Crackers are away the Black Crackers have their home games there. Then just ended was the Baptist World Alliance, where at one time or other dur ing the week were at least 100,000 people from all over the world. Most of these were, of course, Georgians. No baseball park in the world is so close to the hearts and affections of all the people is Poncey park. And we are under eter nal obligations to Earl Mann, president of the Crackers, and to the directors of the Atlanta club for their glorious co-op eration and generosity. Use of the ball park meant rearrangement of the South ern league schedule.” NO PROFIT HERE During the first five months of 1939. Class I railroads had a net deficit of $90,080,000 after fixed charged, compar ed with a net deficit of $164,282,000 in the same period last year, according to the Association of American Railroads. In May, 1929, the same railroads had a net deficit of $18,594,090, compared with a net deficit of $25,277T»'i0 in May, 1938. During May, 1939, these railroads had a net railway operating income before fix ed charges of $25,101,000, compared with a net railway operating income of $16,- 666,000 in May, 1938. GIST OF THE NEWS After going for two consecutive months without a single traffic fatality reported within the city limits, Atlanta was still going strong as August got under way. The recently-enacted 25-mile speed limit law is attributed as one of the biggest factors in setting this remarkable record . . . Georgia joined the nation last week in saluting the army air corps on the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of military aviation in the United States .. . National Guard officers whose girths are inclined to heroic proportions must whittle their waistlines if they wish to serve Uncle Sam. Several Georgia of ficers, now overweight, are busy reduc ing . . . Mrs. J. J Hughes, of Atlanta, is a mother at 14. She recently gave birth to a nine-pound baby girl. The hus band is 23. HOME-COMING AT NEW HOPE, N. Sunday, Aug. 27, will be home-coming day at New Hope, N., Baptist church. All friends and former members of the church are urged to attend. The pastor, James P. Craft, will preach at 11 o’clock. The Rev. E. B. Shivers will preach at 1:45 p.m. There will be dinner on the ground. This service will start our revival, which will continue for one week. Everybody come and bring well-vlled baskets and help us start our services right. GARRETT CEMETERY. Everyone interested in Garrett ceme tery please come Saturday, Aug. 12. Bring tools and lunch so that we can stay until cleaned off. —Mrs. Joe Eleam. CEMETERY NOTICE. All parties interested in any way in Perennial Springs cemetery are request ed to meet there next Monday, Aug. 14, with proper tools for cleaning off same. J. H. ECHOLS. WHO KNOWS? 1. What is the extent of our commerce with Japan? 2. What is the nine-power treaty? 3. What new governor and his wife recently announced that no drinks would be served in the executive mansion? 4. Is the Irish Republican army sup ported by the Irish government? 5. Who is Harry E. Yarnell? 6. Who was the. “most valuable” col lege football player in 1938? 7. How long was it between the assas sination of Archduke Ferdinand in Ser bia and the beginning of the World war? 8. Where does the food stamp plan operate? 9. When did unemployment reach its peak? 10. What percentage of new automo biles are in the low-price field? (See “The Anewere” on Another Page,' Snintttunrilk Ntw SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 Subligna High to Open Monday, August 14th Subligna High school will open Mon day, Aug. 14, at 9:30 o’clock. All pat rons and interested individuals are cor dially invited to attend. There is yet some uncertainty as to the number of months schools will get this year, hut we are opening with faith that the legislature will meet again soon ami provide sufficient revenue to carry all schools through their full term. The following constitutes the faculty ; oi Subligna school: Grammar School —Miss Aleta Baker, Miss Frances Cochran, Miss Etta Cash, Mrs. J. H. Hyatt, Miss Katie Ruth | Cheek. There is yet another teacher to be elected for the grammar grades. High School —W. H. McNair, Mrs. Georgia Ward Hunt, J. H. Hyatt, prin cipal. ASSEMBLY SESSION LOOMS NEXT MONTH ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (CNS).-An emer gency session of the general assembly to be held about mid-September loomed as a probability this week. Spokesmen close to the state administration expressed a belief that the assembly would be called to meet either on Sept. 12 or Sept. 19, with the latter date generally accepted as the more probable at this time. Gov. Rivers admitted that the call was under consideration, but did not commit himself to any definite date for the emer gency meeting of the solons. Other developments of the week in cluded : 1. The statement by Gov. E. D. Rivers that he had written to all members of the general assembly, asking their opinion as to whether a Session of the assembly should be held, what date would be best, what revenue measures were most fa vorably considered and what attitude th< member would take on the payment oi the expired appropriation balance for the common schools, amounting to four million dollars. In informed circles this was regarded as primarily a feeler to de termine what date would be most auspi cious for the extra session, which is in evitable. 2. Issuance of another ‘executive or der’ stopping all activity of the state highway department, except the mainten ance of roads on the state system. Be hind this order was the announced de cision of the governor to permit a surplus to accumulate to the credit of the d partment, with a view of seizing and di verting it to other state purposes in the event new revenues were not provided Since it is the custom of the depart ment, following good business practice, anticipate revenues in the letting of co tracts, it is unlikely that any apprecia ble accumulation of reserves will lie po* sible until November. 3. Announcement that the state de partment of labor would receive no mon ey from the federal government for the payment of salaries until Georgia amend ed its laws to conform to federal require ments. The bill to amend labor depart ment laws was lost when opponents of Commissioner Ben Huiett attached a ri der that would have stripped him of au thority and then failed to pass the amended measure. 4. Announcement that federal grants, from the social security board, would be denied Georgia for old-age pensions, aid to dependent children and aids to the blind and crippled, unless Georgia made more adequate financial provision for its public welfare program. 5. Announcement that many school systems in Georgia would be unable to open this September unless assurance of payment in full of the state's appropria tion for schools was given before that time. 6. Several counties, preparing to re turn their convicts to the state, held up their plans awaiting decision on the emergency session, anticipating the pass age of some legislation along the lines of the “All-Georgia Plan” presented by Dr. R. P. Kennedy, president of the Citizens’ Road League of Georgia providing for reimbursement of counties for lost reve nues and containing adequate anti-diver sion legislation to protect the counties and the highway system. Nation’s Best Farm News Service Gives Local Readers Facts The Georgia Farm News Service, se lected by the American Association of Agricultural College Editors as the best in the nation, furnishes news and features from the state's farm front for regular publication in The Sum merville News. The Farm News Service is issued by the Georgia Agricultural Extension service. It covers every phase of the federal and federal-state farm pro grams now operating in Georgia, in cluding the agricultural adjustment ad ministration, farm security administra tion and soil conservation service. Readers of The News will continue to receive accurate, up-to-the-minute information on these agricultural agencies in the future through the same Farm News Service that has been se lected for this high award, 1939 COTTON CROP IS HALF A MILLION BALES UNDER 1938 GINNINGS TO AUGUST 1 AMOUNT El TO 137,076 RUNNING BALES, COUNTING ROUND AS HALF. WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Based on a i condition of 74 per cent, of normal on Aug. 1, the United States will have a cotton crop this year of approximately 11,412,000 bales of 500-pound gross weight, the crop reporting board estimat ed today. The indicated yield of lint cot ton is 223.7 pounds per acre for harvest. Simultaneously, the census bureau re ported that ginnings to Aug. 1 amounted to 137.076 runningbales, counting round as half bales, compared with 157,865 bales for 1938. The board said that if the indicated production of 11,412,000 bales is realiz ed, the crop will be 531,000 bales less i than the 1938 crop and 2,388,000 bales less than the ten-year average (1928-37). In the Carolinas and Georgia, the prospective yields per acre this year are higher than in 1938 and also above the ten year averages, in Alabama and the states adjoining the Mississippi river, this year's expected yields are less than the high yields of the last year, but are still above the ten-year average. Yields in Oklahoma and Texas are indicated to be less than in 1938, also less than av eraged. Farmers Advised Not To Burn. Straw Stacks Farmers who burn straw stacks not only destroy valuable live stock feed but they also destroy large amounts of fer tilizer elements along with mulching ma terial which might be widely used in ero sion control and moisture retention on farms, according to Arthur S. Booth, technician of the soil conservation serv ice in the Chattooga county work unit of the Coosa River Soil Conservation district. Mature horses, cows and sheep which are merely being maintained, can live | chiefly on straw roughage, for in every i 1,000 pounds of oat straw there are ten ; pounds of crude protein, 426 pounds of i carbohydrates and 9 pounds of fat. Straw spread over pastures and used as mulch on gullied and galled land is an excellent moisture conserve! - , accord ing to Booth, for every 1,000 pounds of oat straw contains 885 pounds of dry matter. Straw spread upon the ground and then plowed under, furnishes valuable fertilizer elements, as in every 1,000 lbs of oat straw there are 5.8 pounds of ni trogen ; 2.1 pounds of phosphoric acid and 15 pounds of potash. In view of the value of straw for the farm, it can readily be seen that burning or destroying straw is a waste of useful material, Booth points out. PROFIT. The stabilization fund, recently ex tended by congress, has operated at a profit of $17,524,096 since its creation in 1934, according to a treasury report, cov ering operations through March 31. SETS OWN ARM. LANSFORD. Pa. —Noticing that his arm looked crooked after a fall. Johnny Knipper, 13, gave it a jerk. Later a phy sician examined the arm, found it to have been broken, but perfectly set by the jerk. HERE AND THERE MANY TOED CHILDREN BUDAPEST. —For several generations almost every child belonging to a Hun garian peasant family in Kecskemet has been brought with too many fingers or too many toes. The two youngest off spring are reported to have had twenty six toes between them. FIRE CHIEF GIVEN TAG FOR PARKING NEAR A FIRE PU G NEW HAVEN Conn. —Patrolman Jos eph Dolinski saw his duty and he did it. The officer tagged the official automo bile used by Fire Chief Lawrence E. Reif for—of all things—‘being parked in front of a fire' hydrant. KITTEN SITS IN TREE CLEVELAND, Ohio. —Residents tried for three days to find Alice, a kitten, whose cries they could hear but whom they could not find. Finally Alice was found in the top of a 70-foot poplar tree in what apparently was a combined hun ger strike and tree-sitting performance. Firemen rescued the animal. SHERIFF. INKEEPER SLAIN; GIRL JAILED RUSK. Texas. —A running gunfight reminiscent of frontier days ended in death on the highway recently for Tex as’ youngest sheriff, Bill Brunt. 29. of Cherokee county, and Isaiah (Red) Creel, 43, tavern owner. Myrtle Stanley, wait ress in Creel’s tavern who was shot in j the leg. was held on a murder charge, j Sheriff Brunt had been pressing a cam I paign against bootleggers. CONGRESS RISKS JOBS OF 20,000,000 ON BET BUSINESS WILL BOOM COALITION ALSO GAMBLING WITH WELFARE OF 1,500,000,000 IN BET ON NO WAR. HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Aug. B.—Presi dent Roosevelt asserted today that a co alition of congressional republicans and democrats had gambled with the welfare of 1.500,000,000 people in rejecting his neutrality program and with the liveli hood of 20,000,000 Americans in scut tling the lending and housing measures. At his first press conference since the congressional session ended, the president said a solid republican minority and 20 to 25 per cent, of the democrats in con gress had : (1.) Made a large wager with the na tion, on neutrality, that there would be no war until sufficiently long after they returned to Washington in January' for them to take care of things : and Bet On 3.000.000 Jobs. (2.) Wagered that private industry and business would take up the slack occasioned by dropping a million WPA workers this year and by closing out next spring a PWA program which had been providing 2,000,000 jobs. It was a combination of republicans and robelious democrats which forced ad ministration leaders to postpone until the next session efforts to obtain senate action on neutrality and, in the house, prevented consideration of the lending and housing measures. If It Loses War Wager. If this coalition loses its neutrality wager, Mr. Roosevelt declared, it may affect a billion and a half human beings. That, he added, is pretty important. If these legislators were wrong, he continued, they have tied his hands an he has practically no power to make ar American effort to prevent any outbreak of war. He said that was a pretty seriou responsibility. As for the lending and the housing programs, he said, WPA rolls would be cut from 3.000.000 to 2,000,000 by next spring and the PWA program, giving em ployment to another 2.000,000 individ | uals, will have ended. With dependents. 'he said, the individuals involved total I 20.000,000. I If business does not take up the slack, he said, the country must place the re sponsibility for their condition on the congressional coalition. Tn shirt sleeves at the desk in the li brary of his Dutchess county home, the president remarked repeatedly that he hoped the two bets were good ones. And he emphasized time after time that if the bets were lost, the responsibility rested 100 per cent, on a solid republican minority pluS about 22 per cent, of house and 25 per cent, of senate demo crats. The chief executive indicated, howev er, that he was not planning to carry the neutrality and lending issues to the na tion. AIDS JAPAN. The policy of subsidizing cotton ex ports may save Japan from four to ten million dollars, depending upon the amount of cotton imported. Under the ex port-subsidy policy, cotton buyers abroad will be able to purchase the ray fiber at prices about $7.60 a bale under domestic quotations. FHA cuts the interest rate on small home loans to 4% per cent, from 5. p LONG-TERMERS ESCAPE PRISON LAVONIA, Ga. —Franklin County Or dinary Bob Harrison reported two long term convicts escaped from a prison camp mar Carnesville after one had “played hookey” from work, feigning sickness. Those who escaped are Bob Roberts, 40, and Eiiimitt Sanders, 39, both con victed on felony charges. Roberts, slipping away from the in firmary, met Sanders at a new pick-up truck, property of a guard, near the camp entrance. They fled in the vehicle, motor of which they had wired so as to enable them to crank it without a key. TRUCKER TAKES TIME OUT TO MARRY—ONLY A MINUTE BLOOMISGTON, Ind. Matrimony was all in the day’s work for William Richard Baugh, 28, a truck helper. He and 18-year-old Mary Bohall stood on the back end of a truck while Otis Crismore. freight rate clerk and part time justice of the peace, performed the ceremony-—in one minute. Baugh kissed his bide and went back' to work. She went home. IT ISN’T THE VALUE. JUST THE PRICIPLE SAVANNAH, Ga.—Police had two good reasons for investigating a stolen car report here last week. They wanted to determine “why” as well as “who.” The report: One sedan. 1926, model T, i state license number none, city license j number none, value $lO. To date no reward had beep offered 'for recovery. State Market Measure To Be Offered at Meet ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (ONS). —A meas ure to create a state market authority, which would be empowered to erect an adequate state farmers market in Atlanta will be offered at the emergency session of the assembly. The measure passed the regular session of the senate, but failed to get to a vote in the crowded final ses sion of the house. Under the direction of Commissioner of Agriculture Columbus Roberts, the At lanta Farmers’ Market now is earning a substantial profit and supporting the mar kets in various other Georgia towns. The profit could be increased if facilities were adequate, and would enable the erection of two additional markets in other places every year. The department of agriculture already owns a site for the market, it was point ed out, so that ependitures, most of which would be furnished from federal funds, would be confined to the erection of buildings. Cost of the planned plant would be close to the $1,000,000 mark, and the market would be one of the most important outlets for the products of Georgia farmers. abermbie issues TYPHOID WARNING Warning that this season of the year is typhoid fever time in Georgia, Dr. T. Abercrombie, director of the state de partment of public health, urges immun ization against the disease which ean be prevented by proper vaccination. The health director pointed out that outbreaks of typhoid fever have occurred in several sections of the state, and al though none of them are serious out breaks, there should be no typhoid fever at all since it is preventable. “Unless immunization against typhoid fever is obtained by those who have not already been vaccinated, we are faced with a probable increase in typhoid fever this year,” Dr. Abercrombie said. In addition to vaccination, adequate sanitary conditions and provisions for proper disposal of human excreta are essential in the fight against typhoid fever, the health director stated. “Where typhoid fever develops, special attention should be given the proper care of the patient for weeks after the fever is over, in order to prevent the disease from being carried to others,” Dr. Aber crombie advised. DEATHS Mrs. Lula Gaines. Mrs. Lula Lee Gaines, 64, a well known and beloved resident of Chattooga county, died in Trion hospital Wednes day morning, Aug. 2, at 1 o’clock, after a lingering illness. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ida May Garner, Mrs. Myrtle Ra mey, of Trion; Mrs. Maude Canada, of Menlo; four sons, Raymond, of Trion; Jessie and Gordon, of Summerville, and Lloyd, of Rome; five sisters and two brothers and several other relatives. Funeral services were conducted from the South Summerville Baptist church Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock by the Rev. Gus Reed and the Rev. E. L. Wil liams, of Chattanooga. Interment in the Alpine cemetery, with Trion Department store in charge. Susie Bagwell Scoggins. Susie Bagwell Scoggins, 83, a life-long citizen of Chattooga county, died at her home in Summerville Monday at 2:30 p.m.. after a long illness. Mrs. Scoggins was well-known throughout the county and leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss. She is survived by her husband, W. W. Scoggins; three sons, Austin, of Summerville; Arthur, of Rockmart, and Berry, of Atlanta; six daughters, Mrs. W. A. Shropshire, Mrs. W. E. Dunawav, Mrs. W. C. Godwin and Mrs. A. G. Berry, all of Summerville; Mrs. W. M. Campbell, of Atlanta, and Mrs. J. D. Selman, of Armuchee; one brother, J. W. Bagwell, of Stevensville, Tex. Funeral services were conducted from Pennville church Tuesday at 3 p.m. by- Elder J. W. Cooper, of Rome, and Rev. L. H. Reavis, of Summerville. Interment in Pennville cemetery. Paul Weems Fu neral home in charge. SMITH DELANEY SCOGGINS. Smith Delaney Scoggins, 93, one of Chattooga county’s oldest citizens, died at his home near Subligna Friday 7 at 3 p.m. He is survived by two sons, W. A., of Subligna, and J. W., of Texas; two daughters, Mrs. John Wilson, of Sublig na, and Mrs. T. H. Wilson, of Texas. He is also survived by forty-three grand children and seventy-one great-grandchil dren. Funeral services were conducted from Bethlehem Baptist church by Rev. B. H. Howard. Interment in adjoining cem etery. Paul Weems Funeral home in charge. FALLING SCAFFOLD KILLS MAN. NEWARK. N. J. —Climbing a scaffold to inspect the work which a painter was doing on his home, Morris Abelowitz was instantly killed when the scaffold fell to the ground three stories below - . A pea nut vender who was passing through the alley underneath was seriously injured by the falling scaffold, STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS. CLASSIFICATION OF RAILROAD FREIGHT TO BE SIMPLIFIED ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (GPS).—They’re ; planning to make it simpler—and in some I instances cheaper—for shippers to trans- I port their commodities by rail. This is expected to be done by simplifying the I classification of all products of industry j and the rules which determine the appli i cation of the various classifications. The work of “recataloging” the com | modifies already is under way. Out of I this work is expected to come a condens !ed consolidated freight classification ap ! plicable to all sections of the United ! States that will be more easily inter ! preted and applied by shippers and bet ter meet the requirements of the public and railroads alike, it was pointed out by Atlanta railway executives. Under the general direction of the traf fic advisory committee of the Association of American Railroads, the huge task of I simplifying the classification of the whole j varied and complex list of articles of America’s commerce is being carried ■ through by a special subcommittee of i three. The subcommittee is holding ses sions in New York and Chicago. Changes which affect the shippers’ charges are to be docketed for public hearings to be held in New York, Chicago and Atlanta at dates to be announced later. The present Consolidated Freight Clas sification, a 500-page book w’hich lists and describes the 15,000 different classes into which commodities are grouped for rail shipment in the United States, is the result o the ever-increasing diversity in American commerce. While in one book there are still three general classi fications. namely (1) Official —from Illi nois to Maine; (2) Southern —east of the Mississippi river and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and (3) Western, evervthting west of those territories. It is hoped to m ke the classifications the ■ same throughout, the United States, which may result in lower freight cost. GARRETT CEMETERY. All those interested in cleaning off the i Garrett cemetery are requested to come early Saturday. Aug. 12, with tools. | Poultry Raisers Are Warned c r Cholera ATHENS. Ga.—“ One of the most common ailments in poultry flocks in Georgia during August is a condition labeled as cholera,” Frank Mitchell, head of the University of Georgia poultry de partment, s'aid this week. “But often,” he continued, “conditions lead poultrymen to believe the flock in fected with cholera when there is no such occurrence.” Frequently conditions of this kind are due to eating molded feed or dead car casses. or possibly being exposed to un sanitary conditions, Mitchell said. When cholera, a bacterial disease of poultry, appears in the flock, it is highly fatal. Indications now are that we do not have as much cholera as is reported. It is proved, he concluded, to be a good | practice w-here such an outbreak occurs to fasten the birds in a house that is ! clean and give them green feed and wa | ter. A teaspoonful of castor oil to each adult bird will be helpul. If a clean I house is not available the house used by I birds should be cleaned, disinfected, and moved to a clean range. NOTICE. All farmers interested in soil conser vation are invited to go on tour of coun ty and Rome area Saturday, Aug. 12. I Please meet at county agent’s office and ; be ready to leave at 8 :30. We expect to I get back to Summerville by 1:30 or 2 | o’clock. VICTIM HIS SON OMAHA. Neb. —As a rescue squad i raced to a beach near here recently, John |J. Ostronic remarked to a friend. “I I wonder who the victim is this time.” It ■ was his son. Robert. 17-year-old univer- I sity student, who had drowned while | swimming with a friend. La Guardia declares that it means sui- ■ cide for the South to lure industries with I cheap labor. WPA Will Send Dismissals To Half A Million Workers WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Dismissal notices soon will be going out to half a million relief workers. Their discharge is mandatory, under the relief act which orders furloughs for all who have been on the WPA for eight een consecutive months or more. WPA Administrator Harrington had held up dismissals, hoping congress might relax the regulation before adjournment. But congress failed to act and he has no oth er alternative but to resume dismissals. The first batch of dismissal orders probably will go out today. Officials pre dict that reductions will continue at a rapid pace until a low of 1,700.000 is reached in October. This saving will help officials spread their funds through the I winter months, when relief rolls will rise 'again, $1.50 A YEAS