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| HERE ’N j THERE 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. —o— 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. She Sinnmrruillr Npuis 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 ® Hi w" W > Y r . '■ f F W W ’*. ‘ ; < f l WZ , I 7*4 -IF “ t.i pt 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. See Page Four 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 See Page Four 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. 1835 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