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The American Legion will meet
at 8 o’clock tonight (Thursday)
at the American Legion Hall in
Summerville.
Pfc. James W. Hurley, of Sum
merville, has arrived for duty at
Guam, according to an an
nouncement made by Maj.-Gen.
Francis H. Griswold, command
ing general of the Marianas-
Bonins Command and the 20th
Air Force.
He will be assigned in Guam—
headquarters of this command.
In a hotly contested game in
Rome last Saturday the Chat
tooga All-Stars, of Summerville,
defeated the Tubize team by the
score of 6 to 5. William Philpot
was on the mound and George
Woods behind the plate.
The Tubize team comes to
Summerville Sunday for a return
game, and a large crowd is ex
pected at Legion Field to see
this game.
Dorothy Denton, of Chicka
mauga, niece of Mr. and Mrs. J.
S. Johnson, of Summerville, was
one of three students at Berry
Schools and College to wn a
prize for the best essay on the
Life and Work of Martha Berry.
The prize was awarded by John
A. Sibley, chairman of the board
of trustees.
Miss Denton is a student of
journalism at the college.
The annual picnic of the Chat
tooga County Farm Bureau
Chapter will be held on Aug. 11,
it has been disclosed.
A farm machinery demonstra
tion will precede the picnic and
program, at which time various
prominent persons will speak.
Efforts are being made to se
cure Senator Richard B. Russell
and H. L. Wingate, Georgia Farm
Bureau president, it was stated.
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the contributions- of
textile industries at Trion, Sum
merville and Berryton, three
prizes will be awarded county
winners in the Five-Acre cotton
contest, County Agent J. B. But
ler states.
The first prize will be S6O, the
second, S4O and the third, $25.
Nine farmers have entered the
contest, Mr. Butler said.
Riegel Textile Corporation,
Trion, contributed SSO, while the
Summerville Manufacturing Co.,
Montgomery Knitting Mill, of
Summerville, and Berryton Mills,
Berry ton, each contributed $25.
Waymond (Guy) Head, of
Summerville, is out on bond fol
lowing his arrest Friday night on
charges of driving under the in
fluence of alcohol, after his au
tomobile was wrecked near Crys
tal Springs.
Head escaped with minor in
juries when his automobile went
out of control. He was picked up
by a Rome taxi operator and
brought to Summerville, after
the taxi driver reported his cab
was almost struck by Head’s car
He then followed the automobile
and saw it crash, the cab driver
said.
Chattooga County law officers
have not been notified of any ar
rest in connection with the theft
of the late model Jeep Station
Wagon, property of J. D. Parris,
of Summerville, which was stolen
from in front of the Summer
ville Manufacturing Company
Friday, it has been disclosed.
The station wagon was recov
ered in Gadsden, Ala., eight
Lours after having been report
ed stolen in Summerville.
The stolen vehicle was found
by the Gadsden police out of gas
and undamaged, and was re
turned to the owner.
In announcing summer activi
ties for the children of the Geor
gia Baptist Home, operating at
Baxley and Hapeville, J. L. Fort
ney, manager, states that 40
children will attend Camp Pin
nacle, Baptist Camp at Clayton;
160 will attend Camp Shingle
roof, McDonnough; and other
smaller groups will attend Atlan
ta Day Camps, Baptist Training-
Union Week at Mercer Universi
ty, Ridgecrest, Ridgecrest, N. C.,
while many individual children
will go with friends and loved
ones on many private vacation
trips.
Six patrolmen from the Hape
ville location went to Washing
ton, D. C, as guests of Atlanta
friends. Three high school sen
iors from the Baxley situation
had a trip to New Orleans. One
boy from Baxley and two from
Hapeville attended Boys State at
College Park. Perhaps the out
standing event, however, is a
trip for one of the boys to Mexico
as a guest of the Royal Ambas
sadors of Georgia.
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VOL. 63; NO. 24
GRAND JURY WILL
NOT MEET JUNE 21
Judge Claude H. Porter, in a
statement to The News yester
day, declared that he had not
called the Chattooga County
Grand Jury for a special session
on June 21, as had been previ
ously announced.
“I have not said I’d call one
and I have not said I wouldn't
call one,” the Judge said. ‘‘How
ever, there definitely won’t be a
Grand Jury session on June 21.”
Judge Porter said that he did
not see any reason to rush the
calling of a special session and
that he didn’t know where any
one got the idea there’d be one
on June 21.
Sol.-Gen. Glower had stated
that he would seek to oust Chat
tooga County Sheriff A. H. Glenn,
who has been sentenced to 18
months for violating liquor laws,
when the Grand Jury met.
He said that he was asking
Judge Porter to call a special
session to settle this matter as
well as to act on the Brown mur
der case. Mrs. Ellen Freeman,
sister-in-law of the slain bride,
is held in jail without bond pend
ing action of the Grand Jury.
COAST GUARD
AWARDS MEDALS
Commodore Norman H. Leslie,
commander, 7th Coast Guard
District, has announced that the
American, European - African-
Middle Eastern, and Asiatic-Pa
cific campaign medals will be
ready for distribution on June 1.
1948, to all eligible ex-United
State Coast Guard and ex-Unit
ed States Public, Health Service
personnel who served with the
Coast Guard during World War
11.
These medals may be obtained
by appearing in person at U. S.
Coast Guard Recruiting Station
located at Atlanta, Macon, or
Greenville, S. C.
With discharge certificate form
NAVGG-533 “notice of separa
tion from the United States Na
val Service-Coast Guard,” form
NAV G G 2742 “disenrollment,
temporary members of the Unit
ed States Coast Guard,” and
othe official proof of eligibility
for these awards if a personal
appearance is not practicable.
A written request inclosing
such proof may be addressed to
the Commandant (PMM) United
States Coast Guard Headquar
ters, Washington 25, D. C. The
Navy Occupation Service medal
and the China Service Medal
will not be distributed at this
time.
WATER SPORTS TO
BE EMPHASIZED
AT WINNAPESAUKAH
Lake Winnepesaukah begins
on Sunday, June 20, a week of
emphasis on water sports and
activities, beginning with a gala
display on Sunday afternoon and
evening of expert swimming, div
ing and boating, according to
Mrs. Minette Dixon, manager.
At 10 o’clock each morning,
from June 21 to June 26, Red
Cross instructors will be on hand
to give free swimming lessons to
all who wish to enroll.
Lake Winnepesaukah and the
American Red Cross are co-op
erating with National “Learn to
Swim” Week. Each swimming
season brings many fatalities
from drowning from all over the
nation. Everyone should learn to
swim in order to protect him
self, and to help others in case
of need, Mrs. Dixon said. The
pool at Lake Winnepesaukah is
always supervised by expert and
efficient life guards.
READING CLUB
IN PROGRESS HERE
Approximately 35 Chattooga
County school children have en
j oiled in the Vacation Reading
Club, sponsored by the Chattooga
County Library and Bookmobile,
according to Mrs. J. L. Hender
son, Librarian.
When the child has read 10 se
lected books, he or she has earn
ed a certificate from the State
Library Commission, and it will
be presented following the open
ing of school, Mrs. Henderson
said.
The Reading Club is county
wide, it was stated, .and books
may be borrowed either from the
Bookmobile or the Library, in
Summerville.
It was begun at the closing of
the schools and will continue un
til the schools re-open.
Any school child in the county
wishing to participate in this
club may do so by contacting the
Librarian, or the driver of the
Bookmobile.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948
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MRS. ELLEN BROWN FREEMAN is led from the courtroom to her jail cell follow
ing Thursday's preliminary hearing in which her case was bound over to the
Grand Jury. She is accused of murdering Laura Katherine Brown, her sister-in
law, on July 26, 1947.
‘Clean Up Your I
County/ Glenn |
Tells Clower
Sheriff A. H. Glenn answered
Sol.-Gen. E. J. Clower’s charges
of last week by stating that
“Clower should clean up his own
county first.”
The aged' Chattooga County
sheriff stated that he had ‘‘good
information” that there are 20
bootleg joints and illicit sales of
liquor in Floyd to one in Chat
tooga.
The bitter feud between the
sheriff and the Solicitor General
began on June 5, when Clower
charged the Sheriff with “fail
ure to co-operate” following the
vast raids on the county’s boot
leg joints, led by Clower and
carried out by the State Patrol. I
After Glenn was sentenced in
District Federal Court last week
to 18 months in prison for vio
lating Federal liquor laws, Clow
er made a 15-minute radio broad
cast in which he called for.
Glenn’s resignation as sheriff.
“I said I was not going to re- ,
sign,” he said, “and I’m not. i
That’s all.”
His case has been appealed to;
the Circuit Court of Appeals fol- .
lowing the refusal of District ;
Judge Robert Russell to grant a
new trial here.
A report last week stated that
Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson had
asked a ruling from the Attor- j
ney General as to whether
Thompson can remove the sher
iff from office.
Clower had disclosed that if
Glenn would not resign he would
pursue all the ways open to re
move him from office.
Glenn stated that the “whole
thing was for political purposes,
and if it wasn’t for knocking
him out of fees on cases that
have accumulated since the So
licitor’s administration, in which ;
he hadn’t co-operated and would i
not come up and prosecute, what i
else is it for?”
The sheriff said that there are
four towns in Floyd County with
a combined population greater
than the whole county of Chat
tooga, and “the Solicitor had
better clean up his own county
of 270,000 before he comes up to
this county of 35,000.”
Statement
After a conference with his
attorney last week, the Sheriff
made the following statement:
I am advised that I cannot be
removed, except after a public
hearing. I will welcome such a
hearing. I will not resign. I have,
as every man has, a legal right
to appeal from the judgment of
the 1 United States Court, and
this appeal has been perfected
and will be prosecuted with the
utmost diligence for the earliest
possible decision. Should the
judgment of that Court be af
firmed, I will resign, but I do
not intend to let Mr. Clower force
me to abandon the right that ev
ery American citizen has to an
appeal from the judgment of
the trial court.
I cannot see where anything
has occurred to stir up Mr. Clow
er at this time that he did not
know or could not have known a
year ago. I was mdicted in May,
1947. The Government files would
have been completely open to
I Mr. Clower as to all that they
had with respect to me in the
Government case. Mr. Clower. for
some reason unknown to me, but
possibly known to himself, de
liberately took no action to
wards what he now terms a hor
rible condition for over twelve
months and then on the eve of
his election comes out with a se
| ries of acts and conduct never
I known before in the history of
| the Solicitors of this Circuit. I
I leave it to the people to judge
why, in the view of the fact that
he is up for election for the first
time in his life by the people to
a public office.
I am advised by my Attorney
that I have an excellent chance
; of a reversal by the Circuit Court
j of Appeals of the United States,
I in which I was recently found
i guilty. I am only pursuing my
legal rights. Mr. Clower seems to
j be fully capable and competent
lof enforcing the law in Chat
| tooga County, although there are
I many, many cases untried by
him, which I have urged him to
try in the City Court of that
County time and time again and
which he will not try. He seems
to think that only I can be guilty
of neglect of duty and not be
himself. The people of my county
and the Judge of the City Court
know of the accumulated busi
ness in that Court, which should
have been disposed of by Mr.
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Big-Time Contest Winners |g
Meet At Cloudland Hotel
If you’ve never been lucky in
contests, and you’d like to see
someone who has, drop up by
the Cloudland Park Hotel some
time this week and meet a group
of jolly persons who have won
up to SB,OOO in prizes.
Enjoying a post convention
conclave house party at the hotel
this week are 59 members of the
National Contestors Association,
which had its annual convention
at Chattanooga, Tenn., last week.
Several of the contestors have
won cash prizes, some automo
biles, w’hile others have won re
frigerators, stoves, airplanes,
washing machines and watches.
The oldest of the group is 73-
year-old Mrs. R. L. Spain, a de
mure, silvery-haired lady, who
discloses that she’s won SB,OOO in
prizes since making contesting a
hobby in 1941. Mrs. Spain is from
Tulsa, Okla., and she recently
won a $5,000 contest.
“They tell me it’s some kind
of a record that I’ve won top
prize in three judging agencies,”
she said.
Two sisters at the house party
have each won an automobile.
ROTARY CLUB HOLDS
s “LADIES NIGHT”
“Ladies Night” was held by the
j Summerville-Trion Rotary Club
■on Friday evening, June 11, at
| Riegeldale Tavern, with M. E.
Brinson as master of .ceremonies.
Alvin C. Cooper, of Bainbridge,
was the principal speaker of the
j evening, giving an illustrated
I talk and entertaining with tricks
, O. L. Cleckler led the invoca-
1I tion and N. B. Murphy gave the
i welcome address.
The ladies were presented gifts
s by the club. Approximately 20
’ persons attended.
ZAHARIAS, WHITE
FEATURE WRESTLING
IN CHATTANOOGA
j Babe Zaharias vs Tarzan White
’ j will be the main event at the
; wrestling matches at Engel Sta
' dium, Chattanooga, Tenn., on
Monday night, June 21, accord
' ing to Cowboy Luttrall. promoter
"White, a really big time, all-
American wrest 1 er, is a former
University of Alabama All-Amer
ican football player,” Mr. Lut-|
trail says, “and Babe, the Cry- !
ing Greek, from Cripple Creek,
Colo., is one of the roughest in
the game. The National Wrest
ling Association lists him as one
of the first 10 wrestlers.”
Massey, always popular in '
Chattanooga, according to Mr.
Luttrall, is expected to dish back
some rough stuff to Lee, who is
known for that sort of play.
“Black Widow Spider” Galento
is most unpopular in the Tennes
see city, while his opponent, Ross
has made a great hit there in the
past, the promoter says.
“Duggan and Ward are both
new faces, never having appear
ed on the mat here before,” ac
cording to Mr. Luttrall.
i Mrs. Fred Prentice, of Chatta-
J nooga, Tenn., was the winner of
r a Nash, while Miss Grace Wil-
■ liams, also of Chattanooga, won
) a Chevrolet recently. The two
i women were in charge of the
week’s visit at Cloudland.
i The group of “contest hobby-
L ists,” representing 16 states, are
: school teachers, farmers, pho
, tographers, secretaries, house
i wives, in addition to many other
. occupations.
* Miss Williams states that the
■ husbands of contesting wives
• have formed a “Chaffeur’s Au
, xiliary,” to accompany the
. group.
There are even contestor
■ schools, believe it or not —, and
i the Shepherd School, of Phila
i delphia, Pa., is represented by
i Wilmer S. Shepherd, Jr.
i Then there is a contestor’s
r magazine, “Wynmor,” which is
published by Johnny H. Myers, of
I Oil City, Pa. Mr. Myers also was
> at the house party, and he was
’ a recent winner of an airplane.
Mrs. Meleta Beck, of Culbert
' son, Neb., was elected president
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Ellen Freeman
Is Bound Over
To Grand Jury
PUBLIC HEALTH TOPIC
AT ROTARY MEETING
The public health program and
the function of the county health '
unit was discussed by M. Schu
bert, of the State Department of
Public Health, yesterday at the
weekly meeting of the Summer- j
ville-Trion Rotary Club, at Rie-|
geldale Tavern, Trion.
Mr. Schubert was introduced ;
by W. A. Kemp, County Sani
tarian, who had been presented
to the group by Fred Aired, pro
gram chairman.
Visitors included T. L. Mc-
Mullin and W. H. Steele, both of
Anniston, Ala., and W. W. Hixon,
of Alexander’ La.
MOTORISTS WARNED
CONCERNING U-TURNS
Motorists in Summerville are
warned to make “U turns” at
the intersections instead of in
the middle of a block, Police
Chief W. M. Whaley said this
week, stating that this rule will
be “rigidly enforced” beginning
Friday.
These turns should be made at'
the intersection of First Street
and Commerce, Washington Ave
nue and Commerce, Georgia Ave
nue and Commerce and Rome
Boulevard and Commerce. Chief
Whaley said.
“We ask for your co-operation
in this matter, in order that
traffic accidents may be avoided.
Any person violating this rule
will be fined from $1 to $5.”
The double parking rule also
is to continue to be strictly en
forced, according ■? Chief, Wha
ley.
“Th®, traffic on Highway 41
will be turned through here
when they begin repairs on that
higl{way, which may be in the
near future,” the Chief said, and
“this will add much to our traf
fic problems. It is up to us to
abide by local rules in order to
prevent serious accidents here.”
Cemetery Corporation
To Request Funds
For Improvement
Letters will be sent to surviv
ing relatives of persons interred
at the Summerville Cemetery, in
the near future, requesting do
nations with which to keep the
cemetery cleaned and have it
improved, according to Mrs. John
S. Cleghorn, Secretary of the
Summerville Cemetery Corpora
tion.
“It will be of interest to many
to know that the corporation
has made gratifying progress,”
Mrs. Cleghorn said, stating that
volunteer workers had been
through the cemetery making a
list of the names of lot owners
and of families and individuals
buried there.
“It is hoped that every citizen
of Summerville and many who
live out of town and are inter
ested, will respond most gen
erously to these letters when
they are received,” Mrs. Cleghorn '
said.
“There is much work to be
done and expenditures will be
heavy this first year, but much
less in the future. With earnest,
determined effort from every- j
one, we can make this hallowed ’
spot in our city very beautiful
and peaceful.”
The secretary stated that it
was “with deep appreciation and
profound respect for our good
colored citizens'* that the cor
poration acknowledges the first
contribution to be made to the
treasurer, $25.01 from the mem
bers of the Colored Baptist
Church, of Summerville.
The charter has been granted |
the recently organized Summer- I
ville Cemetery Corporation and |
a meeting was held recently for
organization.
J. D. Hill was elected president,
Miss Beulah Shropshire, vice
president; D. L. McWhorter,
treasurer, and Mrs. Cleghorn,
secretary.
By-laws were adopted and
plans were made to raise money
for the general improvement.
M. E. Brinson, Mrs. O. A. Sel
man and Mrs. C. S. Fowler were
named as members of the Board
of Directors.
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CIRCULATION
THIS WEEK
$1.50 A YEAR
! Mrs. Ellen Brown Freeman, 25,
I formerly of Summerville, held in
, connection with the year-old
! slaying of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Laura Katherine Brown, 20, of
j Summerville, was bound over to
I the Grand Jury without bond
Thursday at the preliminary
hearing before Justice of the
j Peace Levi McGraw and Notary
. A. E. Strange.
The Grand Jury has not been
called for a special session on
Monday, June 21, as had been
previously stated in various
newspapers and on the radio,
Judge Claude H. Porter told The
News late yesterday. A statement
had been made to the effect that
the case would be turned over to
the Grand Jury at that time.
The small courtroom was filled
almost to capacity Thursday,
with approximately 1,000 curious
spectators eagerly listening to
the trial.
The arrest of the young wom
an at Hogansville approximately
two weeks ago was the first step
in the solution of the mysterious
murder of the attractive bride in
July of last year. Mrs. Freeman
was represented by her attorney,
Mack G. Hicks, of Rome.
Only three witnesses were pre
sented by the state during the
hearing. Prosecution was led by
Solicitor General E. J. (Sandy)
Clower.
GBI Investigator C. D. Sim
monds told of the events leading
to the arrest of the Hogansville
woman, stating that he had been
; on the case since the murder.
! Mr. Simmonds told the court
j that Mrs. Freeman had testified
earlier in the case that a “big
man” killed her sister-in-law as
the two women and several chil-
I dren slept in their small bunga-
I low home
The next witness was the Rev.
J. A. Smith, Baptist preacher,
who lived approximately 100
yards from the scene of the mur
der.
“I was awakened in the night
by the screams of a female voice,
calling ‘help, somebody come,
they’re after me with a gun;
they’re going to shoot me.’ ”
The Rev. Mr. Smith said he also
heard other indistinct voices,
and then a shot, however tiff
hesitated to go to the Brown
home, until a neighbor, Mrs. R.
D. Mosier, came by running in
that direction. He stated that
tne four members of his family
were awakened by the screams.
The Baptist preacher stated
that the accused woman, the
children and some neighbors
were sitting on the porch at the
time he arrived, and Mrs. Free
man told him to get Mrs. Brown
to the hospital “quick” and “not
to let her die.” The preacher said,
however, that the shooting vic
tim already was dead, her body
lying face down in a pool of
blood.
Mrs. Freeman did not become
hysterical until some time after
the law officers came, he said.
J. B. Stephenson, County sur
veyor, the final witness, declared
he heard Mrs. Freeman make
the statement, “Lord, her blood
is on my hands,” and that he saw
a small spot of blood on one of
her hands.
Attorney Hicks stated that
I anyone was likely to get blood on
j their hands if they attempted
to aid anyone whose clothing
was saturated with blood, and
i that the statement was not a
' possible admission.
The blonde-haired defendant,
dressed in a pale green, yellow
and white figured dress, sat be
tween her husband, Albert Free
man, who attempted to console
her, and her aunt.
Throughout the trial, she sob
bed and became hysterical at
the end.
She made no statement Thurs
day, but had previously declared
she was innocent.
Red Cross Swimming
Lessons Offered Here
Swimming classes for begin
ners will be taught at John’s
Pool by Red Cross Instructor
Brooke Pierce, at 11 a. m. each
Monday, it has been announced.
This class will be for beginners
only, however, it is hoped that
a class for advanced swimmers
and those interested in life sav
ing can be organized later.
The only fee is for admission
to the pool for the 14 lessons.
Instructor Pierce stated