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CIRCULATE IN BEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 40
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT STATE EVENTS
(By Gilreath Press Syndicate.)
ATLANTA, Dec. 20.—The Atlanta
Journal commented the other day on a
recent editorial appearing in the Claxton
Enterprise in which Editor Robert Ma
jors discussed a pictorial article in a
northern magazine which presented a pov
erty-stricken community in the Deep
South.
“Certainly,” Editor Majors wrote, “we
have as much poverty as we can afford.
And until we make up our minds to do
something about it, we shall continue to
have the conditions we abhor to hear
about . . . What we need most is to
wake up to what is going on, and join
hands to eradicate such conditions.”
The Journal’s editorial, headed “Sense
From Sotßh Georgia,” said : “If the south
as a whole would take the attitude sug
gested by this south Georgia editor,
there would come eventua.ly an improve
ment of conditions which by no means
are confined to our section. Everywhere
there are slums; everywhere there are
unfortunates, waifs on the stormy seas
of social disorder and an unbalanced econ
omy.”
For a more immediate result the Jour
nal suggests the discouragement to a yel
low journalism designed to promote sales
by jumping on the South.
THEY’RE BETTER TODAY: “With
today’s better plant and better metiiods.
the American railroads could handle a
1929 volume of business with 350,000
fewer ears than they needed then —-and
the 1929 business was 19 per cent, great
er than that of 1918,” declares the As
sociation of American Railroads. “De
spite lean years of meager earnings and
unequal public transportation policies,
the better railroads of today will handle
the nation’s commerce of tomorrow —
whatever the need may be.”
GIST OF THE NEWS: They’re going
to be snappy looking things next year,
are Georgia’s 1940 automobile tags. The
tags, which, by order of the state legis
lature, will advertise the “Peach State,”
will have vivid red numerals against a
green background ... It cost Georgia
$304,395.55 to operate and maintain her
prison system in the fiscal year ended
June 30, according to statistics just
public. After making three annual pay
ments, the states owes the federal govern
ment $1,343,928.68 on a debt of $1,492,-
000 for the four-year-old white marble
prison in Tattnall county . . . William
V. Crowley, Attlanta banker will handle
the money poured into the party’s cof
fers by Georgia democrats during the
Jackson day dinner to be staged in At
lanta Jan. 8. Major Clark Howell is state
chairman.
Cotton Ginning Report
Qensus report shows that 9,768 bales
of cotton were ginned in Chattooga coun
ty from the crop of 1939, prior to Dec.
1, as compared with 7,108 bales for the
crop of 1938, according to Mrs. Rosa N.
Shumate, special agent.
CORRECTION
In giving the list of candidates for
mayor and councilmen in last week’s pa
per, The News placed R. S. Thomas’
name on a ticket headed by Dr. F. W.
Hall. Mr. Thomas is not running on any
ticket, but if elected will work with any
one of the three elected for the improve
ment and betterment of the city of Sum
merville.
GEORGIA WRITER
HUNTS WAV BACK
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Elmer Ranson, now
a famous magazine writer, was given six
months to live at the close of the war in
1918. He made up his mind to spend those
six months in the most pleasant way he
could.
The Augustan began hunting and fish
ing and living in the great outdoors. Now,
twenty-one years.later, he’s still hunting
and fishing and enjoying life.
WHO KNOWS?
1. Has the republican party ever held
its national convention before that of
the democrats?
2. What official is conducting a cam
paign against violators of the anti-trust
law?
3. Are the Indians dying out in the
United States?
4. What German general, who won
fame in the World war, recently cele
brated his nintieth birthday?
5. When did Norway and Sweden be
beeome separate countries?
6. Who was the youngest man to be
come president?
7. When did the United States recog
nize soviet Russia?
8. Who is the chairman of the Ameri
c , Red Cross?
9. How many European nations have
lost their independennee in the past two
years?
10. How does world trade compare
with 1929?
(See “The Answers” on Another Page.)
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939
ARMY RECRUITING
OFFICER HERE JAN. 11
Col. Daniel D. Tompkins, cavalry, the
recruiting officer for the regular army
for Georgia and Florida, announced to
day that a representative of the army
recruiting service from his office will be
in Summerville Thursday, Jan. 11, 1940,
to accept young men for enlistment in
the regular army.
All young men between the ages g 18
and 35, who are unmarried, free of de
pendents and in good health, should meet
the recruiting sergeant at the post office
promptly at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 11, 1940.
Men accepted will be carried to Atlanta
at government expense where they will
receive final examinations. Those that
meet all requirements Will be enlisted and
sent to the stations at which they select
to serve and those who fail to pass will
be returned to Summerville at government
expense.
It was understood from Col. Tompkins
that he now has available quite a num
ber of very desirable vacancies for service
in the United States with station at such
posts in the Fourth corps area as Fort
Benning, Ga., Fort Moultrie, S. 0., and
Fort Screven, Ga., etc., and also many
desirable vacancies for foreign service as
signments. Col. Tompkins also said that
quite a number of vacancies are now open
in troops of the First divisions, which is
temporarily stationed at Fort Benning
during winter maneuvers now in prog
ress. Men enlisted for assignement to the
First division will remain at Fort Ben
ning with their regiments for the remain
der of the winter, after which they will
go to their proper stations. Headquarter:
of the First division is located at Fort
Hamilton, N. Y., and the troops are sta
tioned throughout the eastern and north
eastern states.
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AND ALL GET AWAY
CANTON, Ga. Ranger Kenneth
Douglas has found a mountaineer who
runs his legs faster than he does his
‘white lightning” distillery.
The ranger recently was attempting to_
catch bird hunters on a posted area when
he stumbled into a liquor still in fu'
operation.
The stiller fled over a hill, he reported.
Douglas yelled for him to come back, ex
plaining that he was only a wild life
ranger, not a “revenooer.”
His pleas failed to impress the stiller,
who put on extra speed every time Doug
las called. \
He stormed into the bird hunters and
set off the alarm.
So everybody was gone and Douglas
was left with a lot of land, birds and
liquor.
PENNVILLE 4-H CLUB
TO PRESENT PLAY
The Pennville 4-H club held its regular
meeting Dec. 15 at the school house. Dor
othy Billman, the club president, called
the meeting to order. Minnie Floyd, sec
retary, called the roll and read the min
utes. It was suggested to the club that a
monthly contribution be made.
Miss Henry discussed how to remove
paint from furniture and refinish furni
ture.
“Jones’ Christmas” was the play pre
sented by the club girls. Those taking
part are as follows: Vera Petitt, Bar
bara Strickland, Mildred Vines. Minnie
Vines, Minnie Floyd, Frances King, Lou
ise Pettyjohn Floyd. Pearlie Mae Coley,
Alma O. King, Mabel Hennon, Dorothy
Billman. The play was written by one of
the club girls, Margaret Kerr.
The entire school enjoyed singing a
number of Christmas carols, accompani
ed by Miss Mary Holland at the piano.
ALMA C. KING, Reporter.
ATLANTAMARKETB
Live Stock
Strictly corn-fed hogs, 180-340 lbs,
$5.20; 245-300 lbs, $4.95; 300-350 lbs,
$4.70; 150-175 lbs, $4.95; 135-145 lbs,
$4.70; dry-fed beef type steers, $7.50-$9;
fat steers, $4.75-$5.25; common, $4-
$4.50; fat cows, $4.50-$4.75; common,
$3.75-$4.25; canners, $3-$3.50; good hea
vy bulls, $4.50-$5; common, $4-$4.25 ; fat
calves, SB-$8.50; medium calves, $6.50-
$7.50.
Poultry—Large white eggs, 24-26e;
medium, 20-22 c; heavy-breed hens, 14c;
Leghorn, 8c; roosters, 10c; friers, 18c;
turkeys, 15-18 c; capons, 18c.
Produce-Apples, Stayman, $1.25-
$1.35; snap beans, $2-$2.25 cabbage,
$1.50-$1.<55; mustard greens. 40-45 c : po
tatoes, l()O-lb sacks, Bliss Triumps,
$2.25: squash, sl-$1.50; sweet potatoes.
80c-$l; turnips, bunched. 35-50 c; turnip
salad, bushel hampers, 40-45 c.
Brazil-U. S. pact to use each other's
ships exclusively is near.
"Federal highway aid covers 17,000
miles in fiscal year.
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Leaders from all parts of Georgia are shown as they attended the Organization Luncheon for the 1919 “Fight
Infantile Paralysis” drive, Saturday, December 16, at Atlanta. Reading left to right, back row, they are:
Tom Bryan, Co-chairman of Seventh District; Cicero Kendrick, Labor Section Chairman; Dr. M. D. Collins,
School Chairman; Ivan Allen, Citizens Chairman; Walter Brown, Chairman Agricultural Section; Scott
Candler, Fifth District Chairman; Andrew Smith, Chairman Fi ■ A District; Seated, left to right: J. M. C.
Townsend, Co-chairman, Seventh District, Margurite Moody, Headquarters Secretary; Governor E. D. Rivers,
State Chairman; Mrs. Robin Wood. Women’s Chairman; and H. T. Dobbs, Executive Director of the Drive.
These outstanding Georgians have pledged unanimous support to the fight, which is expected to be the most
successful in the history of the cause.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
CREDIT ASSOCIATION
Stockholders of the Rome Production
Credit association will hold their annual
meeting in Rome at the post office build
ing on Monday morning, Jan. 15, at 10
.’clock, according to an announcemet by
Ben C. Jackson, president of the asso
ciation.
At this meeting, complete and detail
ed reports will be made by the officers
of the association on its operations for
the yast year, directors will be elected
and other important business transacted.
In announcing the date of the annual
meeting, Mr. Jackson said that it was
hoped to make the atendance of stock
holders at this year’s meeting the largest
in the history of the association. He said
that the annual meetings of the associa
.ion afford the stockholders an opportun
ity to learn every detail of the operations
’ their organization.
The Rome Production Credit associa
tion, which makes short-term loans to fi
lance all types of farm and live stock
,v. j<ioiis, serves, Caioosa, Chattooga.
>.ide. Floyd, Pau'ding. Polk and Walker
ounties, and in 1939 made loans totaling
50,000 to its 372 members.
i ULE HUNTERS URGED
TO BUY LICENSE EARLY
ATLANTA. —“Shop for your Christ
mas hunting license early and avoid the
rush,” was the advice given ‘Holiday’
sportsmen by the state department of
revenue today.
“Division of wild life authorities have
predicted a record sale for the Christmas
season and we don't want any prospec
tive hunter to have to wait for his li
cense.”
License sales so far this season have
been much greater than those for any
corresponding period and wild life rang
ers say that ever more hunters will take
to the field if the state-wide draught, un
favorable to quail hunting, is relieved by
rain, it was reported.
ONE DEATH FOR EACH ONE AND ONE-HALF
BILLIONRAILWAYMILESSETS RECORD
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 (GPS).--Did you
know that today you are safer riding on
a train than you are in your own home?
That’s hard to believe, isn't it? But
statistics have proved it. During the past
ten years, according to the Association
of American Railroads, fatalities to pas
sengers in train accidents averaged only
one for each 1,498.000,000 (approximate
ly 11/’I 1 /’ billion) miles. It would take a
person 2,850 years to cover such a dis
tance, provided he traveled at the rate of
sixty miles per hour, every hour of the
day and night and every day of the year.
Another amazing thing the statistics
reveal is that white the railroads have
perfecting safety on their lines, they
have at the same time been speeding up
their trains. In fact, no other period in
the history of American railroading has
seen such striking gains in the speeding
up of trains as has that of recent years,
the records show. In 1928, except for one
or two short runs in New Jersey, there
was not a single train in the United
States scheduled from start to stop at
NO ANSWER FOR THIS
ATLANTA, Dec. 19 (GPS).—A
South Dakota newspaper asks these
questions:
“Would you taek the news of your
daughter's wedding on a telephone
pole?
“Would you use a hotel register
or telephone directory to tell that
you had enlarged your store?
‘‘Would you put the news of your
wife's party on a billboard or mov
ing picture screen?
“Then why in heck don’t you put
your advertising in the newspaper,
too?”
SIX ARRESTED IN
CREEK POISONING
SYLVESTER, Ga.. Dec. 19.—Six ne
groes were arrested on charges of poison
ing fish in Spring creek, records of the
Flint River district of the division of
wild life revealed here today.
The cases were filed by Ranger Joe
Glawson, who made the arrests after the
negroes had escaped from the scene of
poisoning.
Four persons were accused of shooting
ducks out of season and will face charges
in federal court.
Other alleged violators included a per
son hunting quail out of season and a
squirrel hunter shooting withot a license.
MERGER.
The much-discussed unification of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
i companies will be recommended by the
federal communications commission,
which will propose that the new company
take over the leased wire and teletype
services of the A. T. & T. company in
order to bolster its revenues. Obsolencence
: in equipment of both telegraph companies 1
in the opinion of the commission, consti
tutes a threat to national security in
time of war.
an average of more than sixty miles an
hour. By' 1930. the total was approxi
mately 1.100 miles. In nine years this
mileage has increased almost sixty
times.
During the past year, the study shows,
the number of separate runs operating
daily at sixty miles and more per hour
increased from 864 to 997, and the daily
mile-a-minute performances jumped from
47.087 ito 54,956 miles, an increase of
16.7 per cent. If the mile-a-m.inute per
formances of weekly and semi-weekly
transcontinental and Florida streamlin
ers are included, the figures reach 1.070
runs with an aggregate mileage of 65,-
034, or a 15.5 per cent, rise over last
year.
This places the United States far in
the lead in the amount of high-speed
railroad mileage. In fact, one large Amer
ican railway system, with its 14 '
miles of daily runs scheduled at sixty
miles and more per hour, has more mile
a-minute mileage than the grand total
of any foreign country, the survey re
vealed.
COUNTY UNEMPLOYED
PAID 522.47 DEC. 0
Unemployed workers in Chattooga
county were paid $22.47 in benefits by
. the bureau of unemployment compensa-
I tion during the week ending Dec. 9, 1939,
■ it was announced today. Number of pay
ments was reported at six.
Total payments to Georgia workers
that week amounted to $56,543.14, rep
resented by 8,827 checks which went into
104 counties of the state.
Five hundred sixty-two payments for
$4,707.34 to workers in other states who
i previously had established wage credits
in Georgia, brought the total to $61,-
250.48.
Number and amount of checks mailed
by the bureau ranged from one check for
$2.60 in Wayne county to 2,426 checks
! for $18,327.66 in the Atlanta area (Ful
ton and DeKalb counties).
DEATHS
Odie Cornelius Bloodworth.
Odie Cornelius Bloodworth, 44, World
war veteran, died at a Summerville hos
pital Friday, Dec. 15, after a brief ill
ness. He is survived by his wife, two
daughters, Jessie Mae and Annie; one
son, Freddie; three brothers, L. F. and
R. L., of Trion, and A. B._ of Summer
ville.
Funeral services were held from Trion
Baptist church Sunday by the Rev. E. B.
Shivers. Interment in Trion cemetery.
Paul Weems Funeral home in charge.
Minnie Mae Warren.
Minnie Mae Warren, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dellas Warren,
of Dry Valley, died at a Trion hospital
Friday, Dec. 15. Besides her parents she
is survived by two brothers.
Funeral services were conducted from
Macedonia Baptist church Saturday by
i the Rev. Herliert Morgan. Interment in
adjoining cemetery. Paul Weems Funeral
home in charge.
WITH THE CHURCHES
SUMMERVILLE METHODIST
CHURCH
(Chas. C. Cliett, Pastor.)
Sunday school ait 10 a.m.; Dr. E. R.
Buskin, superintendent.
Christinas message at 11 a.m. by the
pastor.
No evening services.
Prayer service at 7 p.m.
SUMMERMLLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
. (J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.)
There will be a beautiful Christmas I
candle-lighting service at the ejiureh Sun
day evening at 7 :15 o'clock.
The manger scene will be >depicted and
appropriate carols will be sung. An offer- !
ing for disabled and aged ministers will
be taken. The service is under the direc
tion of Mrs. Leon Gamble, and all are
urged to come.
Sunday Services.
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; D. L.
McWhorter, superintendent.
Morning worship at 11 a.m.
Wayside Sunday school 2 p.m.
Pioneer league at 6:15 p.m.
Christmas Candle-Lighting service.
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
$1.50 A YEAR
NEW STATE RECORD
‘ IN PARALYSIS FIGHT
(By Georgia News Service.)
ATLANTA. —The people of Georgia
will unite this year as never before in
the “Fight Infantile Paralysis” campaign
and will stage the greatest “President’s
Birthday Celebrations” in the state’s his
i lory on Jan. 30.
This was the confident prediction made
■ by section and district chairmen, repre
i senting every part of Georgia, who gath
! ered at a luncheon at the Henry Grady
hotel as guests of H. T. Dobbs, executive
director of the Georgia Committee for
the Celebration of the President's Birth
l day.
Principal speaker was Gov. E. D. Riv
ers, who is serving again this year as
chairman of the Georgia Committee for
the Celebration of the President’s Birth
day.
“We have established what we believe
is an enviable record since the Georgia
chapter of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis was chartered,” said
| the governor. “We are glad to be able to
say that not a single application for aid
that has been reported by a county com
mittee has been turned down, and we
hope none ever will be. We already have
: aided seventy-one cases in forty-three
different Georgia counties.
"Now, as we enter a new campaign for
badly-needed funds with which to con
tinue the ‘Fight Infantile Paralysis’ cam
paign, I want to express my confidence
that the people of our state Will rally as
j never before in support of the campaign
I to wipe out this scourge. This is a fight
J for humanity and challenges the support
of every individual of every creed who
I believes in helping his fellow man.”
The reports of visiting chairmen, all
1 volunteer workers, drew the enthusiastic
I praise of Executive Director Dobbs, who
voiced his own belief that Georyia peo
ple can be depended upon to respond to
the appeal for help in the ‘Fight Infan
tile Paralysis' drive.
“These chairmen are not speaking idle
words when they predict that the people
of their sections can be counted on for
support,” said Mr. Dobbs. “They came
to this meeting after having sounded out
the sentiments of the citizens of their
sections, their neighbors. They know
whereof they speak.
"So, there is every reason to believe
that Georgians, who have heretofore es
tablished national records by contribut
ing more pro rata than citizens of any
other state, will unite and set a new rec
ord. It is up to us, people of the state
where the fight against infantile paraly
sis started, to do just that. So, let’s plan
now all of us, to join in the president’s
birthday celebration on Jan. 30 and ev
eryone do his part, large or small, as best
he can. The support of everyone means
a lot.”
INVESTMENTS
The temporary national economic com
mittee is conducting a series of hearings
connected with the investment banking
situation in the country. The committee
seeks to discover the extent to which con
centration exists in the industry, the man
ner in which business is negotiated and
divided, and how far bankng processes
have been adjusted to the provisions of
the banking aet of 1933.
SHIPS.
A survey of ocean transport facilities
to Europe, made by the department of
agriculture, shows available tonnage
about 80 per cent, greater than in 1914.
The American Merchant Marine is near
ly four times as large and neutral ton
nage has made increases in the last twen
ty-five years.
WIRE TAPPING.
The supreme court has outlawed use
of wire-tapping evidence in federal crim
inal trials, regardless of whether obtain
ed indirectly or directly. A section of
the federal communications act prohibits
any person from intercepting any com
munication and divulging its contentts
i without permission of the sender.
CONFLICT, i
The opening hearing of the special
house committee investigating the opera
tions of the National Labor Relations
board, reveals a conflict within the board
I through the testimony of William M.
Leiserson. its newest member, who crit
cized board methods and the w-ork of the
secretary.
PRODUCTION.
Industrial produettion in November
soared to 125 in terms of the federal re
serve board's official index, which com
pares with 119 in 1929. the highest for
any year in the boom of the late twenties.
In March, 1937, the index reached 122.
SAFER AT SEA.
The navy’s bureau of medicine and
surgery reports that fifty-four sailors died
as a result of automobile accidents in the
fiscal year 1989, while only thirty-three
were drowned at sea.
SALES.
Department store sales for November
were 6 per cent, over those in the corre
sponding months of 1938, according to
figures released by the federal reserve
board.