Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, March 30, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVolume 22 W. C. H. PRESENTS Os ACT PLAY They have a program in store for you that you can’t afford to miss 8:00 o’clock Wednesday evening, April 4th, 1934, at the High school auditorium the Wheeler County High school will present their one act play, under the direction of Miss Hartley, for the High school district meet The play is entitled, “Grandma Pulls the String,” by Oscar Wilde. The cast of characters include, Ruby Thompson,Millie Weitmon, Lois Pope, Mary Elarbee, Robbie Simpson, and Billy Owens. The play is very enjoyable and full of many good laughs. In it alone, we feel sure you will get your money’s worth. Besides the one act play, we are having the declamation con test between Fred McDaniel and Jack Seigler, to see who will represent the school at States boro April 19th. In addition to these two selections we have other attractions in store for you. First, girls’ chorus and dance, by Louise Barlow, Marjorie . Pul’en, Sara McDaniel and Jose phine Pierce, coached by Miss Thomas. Second, song and dance hit, impersonating two little darkies, by Rebecca Clark and S. I. Bul lard. rn Grd, vocal solo, by Mrs. J. S. Ridiey. The pupils are working hard to put our school over in a big way. Show your appreciation by coming out and support them. A small admission fee of 10c for adults and children will be charged to pay the expenses of taking thesecontestents to Gray mont Summit, Georgia, next Friday, April 6th, where they will contest against 14 other schools. Come, help your school and at the same time enjoy yourself. Superior Court Convened Monday The spring term of Wheeler superior court convened Monday morning. The grand jury was organized by elcting Mr. C. M. Jordon foreman and Mr. J. D. McDaniel bailiff. The Judge gave his usual charge to the body, after which they began their delibera'ions. The body recessed Tuesday after noon to convene next Tuesday. The civil docket was taken up and a number of cases disposed oL ’ Next Monday morning ti e criminal docket will be taken up, and As expected to run for a couple of days. Nine CWA Workers Dropped From Payroll With no definite plans for the future relief employment, the remnant of Wheeler county’s CWA workers, nine innumber, was dropped from the payroll this week. At present there is nothing in sight, but it is thought tnat an other set up will be inrugurated soon, but how soon, no one seems to know. The direct relief, in a limited way will continue, it is understood. All of the material at the school building to complete the gym nasium project is on the ground, which will be completed, it js said, but work on this project is suspended for the present. GRANT OF SBOO,OOO : FOR GA. TEACHERS A grant of sßoo,ooofor the pay . mentof the salaries of the com । mon school teachers of Georgia for February and March was - announced in Washington Wed . nesday by Harry L. Hopkins, director of federal emergency relief. A telegram to Georgia relief administrator from Mr. Hopkins stated the fund was available and check will be for warded to Atlanta as soon as Governor Talmadge sends official requisition for the fund. State School Superintendent Collis stated that this sum will enable the payment of all teach ers in full for February and March, and that at a later date an additional fund will be asked for to pay teachers who serve in April and May. As a result of the grant the teachers of the state next week will receive checks of from $l2O to S2OO each for their work dur ing the past two months. Nobody’s Business Agricultural Dope By Gee .McGee Fertilizer season has arrived, that is—in the^outh. Funny thing about a farmer; he might become too poor to buy meat and bread and shoes and clothing, but he always gets enough cash to pay for as much guano as he wants, plus plenty of chawing and spitting tobacco. Fertil zer, commonly called guano, is in the throes of the N. R. A. and the Code. Everybody who makes it and everybody .ho handles it are in the same boat as to prices, terms, time or delivery, methods of payment, amt how it smells. The Code schedule is something like this: I—ls1 —If you pay cash before you get it and haul it yourself, you may de duct 1 percent from the March price, and 75 cents per ton for the use of your wagon or buggy or truck, as the case might be. 2 —ls you don’t pay for your stuff before midnight on April 15th, the price is 1 per cent higher than it was the night before The cash price on 8-3-3, is 1 percent higher than it was the night before. The cash price on 8-3-3, for instance, is 20 percent off the time price, but nobody sells any on time, meaning —on credit, yet the Code names such a price. 3—To arrive at the .Tune Ist price, you multiply the “fall price” by the number of times your heart beats per minute, deduct the size of your hat, add the length of your gallusses, if you wear any, divide the result by your bust measure, and run the figure 4 thru number of acres rented to the government, and there you are. 4—To determine what ingredients compose your formula, sift half of the sand out of a 200-pound bag mixed goods, pick out the 2 pices of fish scrap, dust off the 3 ounces of ammonia that is found sticking to the tag, dissolve the acid phosphorous in i a pint of cold water, put the sand back , I into the bag, and weigh the remaider on a set of post office scales, and you j will then know exactly what you knew ! before the undertaking. > ’ s—We5 —We advise the farmes to grow too । much cotton and corn and wheat this [ year so’s there will be such a large surplus that the government must keep on feeding nearly everbody. Use all the guano you can buy and borrow, kill every boll weevil and wheat fly I and corn borer you can find, and do ! everything else in your power to de t feat the efforts of Mr. Roosevelt to j help you, and we guarantee that the depression will last longer than you will. (Selah). 1 Poultry s Can use some heavy hens, 8 fryers and turkeys each week H. K. Murchison. ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1934 !U. S. BANS EVICTIONS IN COTTON REDUCTION Washington, March 26. —The government today served notice on cotton producers throughout the South not to evict tenants on the ground that reduced cotton acreage no longer made their work necessary. The warning was contained in a routine notice being mailed out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. It stated merely that cotton producers receiving rental payments under contract with the government for cotton acreage reduction would be checked on information contained in the certificates of compliance. A vital detail in these certifi cates is the statement by the producer as to the number of tenants maintained last year and the number for the current 1932 season. While investigation shows that tenants have been discarded by porducers under contract, rental payments for the second install ment will be withheld by the gov ernment, it was learned. Fear thatcurtailment of cotton acreage would lead to wholesale eviction of Southern farms. « EASTER CELEBRATED ON NEXT SUNDAY Next Sunday, the first day of April and also Easter. Appropri ate exercises will be held in all of the churches, and it is hoped that the weather may be favor able to those having Easter clothes, while with some this matter will not interfere, as those clothes worn for several seasons will be very likely pressed into service. After Easter farmers look farward to good weather, when all crops may be planted. Easter comes early this year, and we need not bee too sure that cold weather has left for good, but it is worth taking a chance and put ting seed in the ground. Quite a number of our farmers are planting watermelons or are arranging to do so. The severe cut in the cotton acreage leaves a lot of good land idel if not planted, and the prospects for a fair price for the melons is very good, and farmers, from past experience, may expect a better price for their melons than almost any thing else. Meeting at Court House Next Tuesday There will be held at the court house in Alamo next Tuesday, April sth, at ten o’clock in the morning, a meetingof those who may be interested in gardening and poultry production. There will be state extention workers on hand, and it is hoped that all will attend, as we believe that it will be a very interesting and instructive meeting. The above subjects should be very interest , ing and important to every farm , er in the county. The county agent has received ■ instructions that the cotton con tracts must be completed at once and forwarded for payment. > Eevery person who has notturn ■ ed in his acceptance must do so ’ at once to get his contract con ! sidered. • I Seed for Sale Poultry feed, Gipsy wheat, 10c , per pound. H. K. MURCHISON, Alamo, Ga. THESENJIE PASSES AMENDED COTTON BILL The senate yesterday approved the application of a75 per cent tax upon the value of all cotton in excess of ten million bales that may be ginned from this year’s crop. The measure would bring the first important taste of com pulsory crop control the country has had. The senate vote was 46 to 39, but several of those who voted for it said they did so with mis givings, despite the approval given the proposal by President Roosevelt. The principal changes in the house bill were: Limiting the life of the bill to one year. Making the period on which the allotment to the states and counties are to be made by the secretary of agriculture the ten years ending January Ist, 1934, instead of five years. Providing that any person who raises only 6 bales is exempt from the tax. Levying the tax at gin, instead of at the time the cotton is sold, and rais ing the advalorem tax 75 per cent instead of 50c. The bill will go back to the house for approval or rejection. CHECKSFORTOBACCO START FORTHESOUTH Washington, March 26.— Checks for eight and a half mil lion dollars were started toward the fluecured tobacco belt Mon day to pay farmers for cooperat ing in the production control program. The checks will cover rentals for acreage taken out of produc tion during 1934 and equalization payments to growers who sold their crop last year before the government secured an agree ment for higher prices, payments will be made to 105,000 farmers and it is expected three weeks will be required to complete the task of writing and mailing them. J. B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco division said 97 per cent of the flue cured growers had signed contracts to reduce acre age this year. The government’s program calls for a3O percent reduction in the 1934 acreage. North Carolina farmers will receive a total of $5,231,000 of which $3,221,000 represents rentals for 1934 and $2,010,000 equalization payments on the 1938 crop. South Carolina growers will receive $1,612 of which $447,000 is for rental payment and sl,- 195,000 equalization. Georgia farmers will be paid $1,288,000 —5258,000 in rental money and $1,010,000 in equalization pay ments. Virginians will receive $348,000, all rental payments, Florida growers will receive - $96,000, $26,000 in rentals and the remainder in equalization. Get Your Rat Trap I have on hand a good many government rat traps and several , pounds of squill poison. Anyone wishing to use either or both may get same by calling at my , office. , W. G. PULLEN, Dist. Supervisor. Rev. J. C. Collum and wife, of Acworth, Mrs. O. F. Collum j and mother, Mrs. Gaddy, of Mcßae, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hartley last Sunday. FOUR PERSONS JAILED ON ARSON CHARGE Sheriff W. H. Adams Monday revealed the amazing confession of Edward O. Uunderwood, 19, Cecil Sapp, 20, and Ralph Dominy, 24, in which they admit burning the Ritz theatre, and alleged that John W. Peck, Jr., of the Rose theatre, hired them to set fire to the rival picture house for $150.00. Sheriff Adams has been work ing almost night and day on the case since last Wednesday, and the first arrest was made Wed nesday night in Macon when the Sheriff found Underwood, regist ered under a false name, at the Hotel Gordon, and took him to the Macon jail, where he is still being held. Cecil Sapp was ar rested early Thursday morning by Atlanta police under instruc tions received from the Sheriff Wednesday night. Dominy was arrested Friday night and carried to Macon, but was returned to the Laurens county jail this morning. Mr. Peck was arrested late last night and carried to Macon. His attorneys, Burch and Daley im mediately started action to get him released. Mr. Peck denied any knowledge whatever of the affair. Judge J. E. Burch said that a committment hearing for Mr. Peck will be asked immediately, mean while Mr. Peck, will pre sumably, be held at the Bibb county jail. Sheriff Adams quoted written confessions he said Dominy. Underwood and Sapp have sign ed, in which they alleged that Peek, who has lived here three years, coming here from Syla cauga, Ala., where John W. Peck, Sr., heads a string of motion picture theater operated in Georgia and Alabama, hired them to burn the Ritz. —Dublin Courier Herald. Dr. A. C. Baker, conducting revival services in the Baptist Tabernacle church in Macon Sunday afternoon, in a sermon to “men only'*, is published as saying “Macon is placing her fortune on the market and we are allowing drunkenness to fill our streets,” he said. He con tinued, “The biggest sin for any man to overcome is immorality. It is sin of the age. Civilization is safe as long as our women go i right, but when the moral of , womanhood breaks we are gone.” Continuing he said, “One man in this city with apartments in । Cherokee Heights ruined five school girls in the last six monthsi It is these demons of hell that 1 need to be placed on an island to themselves. W e cannot place the blame on one sex,” he said. “These girls come out of a night clubs under the influence of whiskey or just out of a show where they sa w a picture of a love story ending with marriage, but a baby born.” . Child —God gives us our daily 1 bread, doesn’t He mamma? Mother—Yes, dear. 1 Child —And Santa Claus brings ' the persents? Mother—Yes, dear. Child —And the stork brings - the babies? Child —Then tell me, mamma, , just what is the use of us having i papa hanging around? —Ex f change. 8 Next Sunday is Easter, the first day of April. Number 6 .SENATE OVERRIDES PRESJDENTS Washington, March 28.—Overrid ing the objections of President Roose velt, the senate joined the house late today in voting to enact more liberal veterans’ and federal pay legislation than the chief executive was willing to accept. By 63 to 27, just a little more than the two-thirds margin necessary to to overthrow the recommendations of the president, the senate wound uj> a long day of debate by putting the legislation on the siatute books. The house vote yesterday was 310 to 72. The two votes marked the first ma jor defiance by congress of the presi dent. The roll call found 33 republicans, 29 democrats and one farmer-labor member voting to override the veto. All those voting to sustain the president were democrats. A roar of cheering and applause rose from the galleries as Vice Pres ident Garner announced the bill had passed over the veto. “Sixty-three to 27, the bill is pass ed,” Garner said. The senate had to wait several min utes to continue with its business, while the galleries were cleared. It recessed immediately. The overriding means that approx imately $90,000,000 to $100,000,000 will be returned to World War and Spanish-American War veterans an nually without review of their cases to determine whether their disabili ties were of service origin. The presi dent had held out for temporary res toration of these veterans to the rolls pending review of the cases to elim inate the underserying. It also means government employes who had their salaries cut 15 per cent by the economy act will get back 5 per cent, or $26,000,000, as of Feb ruary Ito July 1, and another 5 per cent for the next fiscal year, or about $126,000,000. Debate at Glenwood. On Friday nigbt, March 23, the debates of Glenwood, Lyons, Vidalia circle were held. The subject for debate was, Resolved: That the Uunitd States should adopt the essential features of the British system of radio con trol and operation. It was held in the High school auditorium. Doris Montford and Clyde Faulk upheld the affirmative side, The opponents were Wal lace Henderson and George Mc bride, of Lyons. The decision was two to one in favor of Lyons. At the same time Glenwood’s negative team, Carolyn White and Alene Joiner opposed the Vidalia affiirmative team, Mar garet Mathews and H, A Dean at the Vidalia Methodist church. The decision was two to one in favor of Vidalia. The winner in this circle will , compete with the winner of the 1 other circle of this district. The debates are a part of the annual competition between High schools in connection with the ' District meet. Large Rattler Killed Booker T. Wooten, colored, while plowing in a field on the “Vanishing Farm,” owned and operated by Henry G. Mauney, killed a large rattle snake Wed nesday morning. It had crawled out of a gopher hole and enjoying the sunshine when discovered by Wooten, who lost no time in end ing its existence. The snake measured fourard one half feet, having nine rattles and a button. It was o f the ; daimond back variety. This is : quite early for snakes to be com ing out from their winter quar ters, where it is said they remain • through the long winter without 'food.