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SISTER OF WATSON
LOUDSF.D.R, RUSSELL
Augusta, Aug. 11.—The Au*
gusta Chronicle reproducesan
interesting letter from the Syl
vania Telephone from a sister of
the late Thomas E. Watson, Mrs.
Julia Watson Cliatt, in which she
shows that her home in Thomson
was saved through the federal
government.
She pays tribute to Senator
and calls upon her friends to j >in
her in supporting him for the re
election to the senate.
M rs. Cli ttt's letter is as follows-.
“Sylvania Telephone,
Sylvania. Ga.
Dear Editor.”
“I fee! so grateful to our Presi
dent and to S-nator Richai d B.
Russell, Jr, for the part they
took in saving my home and other
property, that I am asking that
you give enough .space in your
valued paper to permit me to
publicly express my apprecia-
W/y home at Thomson, Ga.,
was under mortage and fore
closures were about to be begin,
which would have taken the roof
from my head. The property
which I owned near by which I
acquired through the generosity
of my dear brother, the late
Senator Thomas E. Watson, was
in a similar situation.
"I made many attempts to ob
tain loans through the usual
channels but met with no suc
cess.
“Senator Russell was informed
by me of my unfortunate situa
tion and he advised that the gov
ernment had made provision for
such case as mine through the
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
and the Federal Housing Cor
poration.
“My application for loans was
forwarded to the corporation and
the loans were obtained, thus
rescuing both my home and my
other property from the sheriff 's
hammer.
“Permit me through the
medium of your paper to request
my friends to jain with me in
supporting President Roosevelt
and in aiding Senator Richard B.
Russell, Jr., in his candidacy for
reelection as United States sen
ator.
“The latter is being opposed
by one who does not believe tbat
a government is a humane insti
tution and capable of aiding .its
citizens when in dire distress.
"I know that my late lamented
bother, Thomas E. Watson,
would be pleased had he the
knowledge that our humane
President considers that govern
ment is a living thing and inter
ested in the welfare of the gov
erned.
“How I wish I had some way
of informing my brother ’sfriends
in Georgia how earnestly I wish
and pray for the reelection of
both Senator Russell and Presi
dent Roosevelt, who has always
been loyally supported by Sena
tor Russell. They are two of the
best friends the common people
ever had; and how vigorously I
know my dear dead brother
would support them if he were
now living, and save the income
tax, which he first wrote into a
national party platform, and as
well his beloved rural free de
livery which is almost entirely
supported from that source.
“Mrs. Julia Watson Cliatt.”
Closing Date Came
With Only One Candidate
The closing date at 12:00 noon
Monday for the qualifying of
Representatives of this county.
Mr. J. Mcßae Clements was the
only one qualifing for thia office.
Wheeler (County Bagk
ROBINSON WINS BY
T»ONF MAJORITY
Little Rock, Ark,, Aug. 12. —
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, ma
jority leader and a New Deal
stalwart, was n easy victory in
yesterday's Democratic primary,
partial returns indicated today.
Robinson ran as a New Deal
candidate. His opponent charged
that he had “Tied himself unto
the tails of the Roosevelt aimini
stration.” Cleveland Holland was
second man in the race.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
of Arkansas, Democratic leader,
and the veteran Republican Sen
ator Wi liam E. Borah, of Idaho,
built up big margins over oppon
ents with Townsendite backing
while in Florida .U. O. Andrews,
bearing Townsend Club indorse
ment, won a Democratic sena
toral nomination.
In the slowly mounting Arkan.
sas returns, Robinson obtained
a better thana two to one margin
over the combined votes of two
rivals.
YOUNG WOMAN
KILLED NEAR MCRAE
Mrs. J. W. Mills, a bride of
several weeks, was instally killed
about 9 o’clock Friday night at
her home on Judge Eschol Gra
ham’s farm near Mcßae, with a
gun in the hands of an unknown
party.
The story told by J. W. Mills,
the young womans husband, is
that they heard a noise among
the chickens in the yard and
that he took his gun to investi
gate. His wife followed, so he
states, and as they reached the
yard she called to him that
“someone is standing behind
that bush”, whereupon she drop
ed to the ground mortally wound
ed, the full load of shot and the
wadding from the gun lodging
in her shoulder and neck. He
says that he picked his wife up
and put her on the porch and
then walked to the home of Mr.
Lloyd Stevenson, about half a
mile away’, where he called aphy.
sician and spread the alarm. Dogs
from the convict camp were cars
ried to the scene of the murder
but would not pick up the trail.
A coroners jury, composed of
R. R Stevenson, J.G. Patterson,
H.H. Kemp, Troy Webb and E.V.
Nicols, recommended that the
husband, J. W. Mills and his
father, Bryon Mills, be held on
suspicion and coroner W.B. Har
rell issued a warrant for their
arrest. W. B. Mills was carried
to Alamo jail and J. W. Mills
placed in jail here.
The coroner’s jury began
investigation of the case Satur
day and adjourned over to Mon
day afternoon. Solicitor General
M. H. Bowyer came here to con
duct the investigation, but they
did not complete their labor and
adjourned again until Friday
afternoon.
According to sheriff John B.
Walker, young Mills came to the
jail Sunday night and asked :
to be locked up, as he was |
afraid that his neighbors would i
do him violence. He was kept in
jail that night and liberated the
next morning, but the sheriff
states that he told him that peo
ple thought he killed his wife,
but Mills stated that he did not
but rather thought his father
did.
Both of the men are being held
until the investigation has been
completed.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mills
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, August 14, 1936
RUSSELL RALLY
AT COURT HOUSE
? >
9 t
SENATOR RICHARD B. RUSSELL
In the interest of the candidacy
of Senator Richard B. Russell,
Jr., all voters are cordially in
vited to attend a Russell Ralley
at the court house in Alamo
Tuesday August 18th., 8:30 P.M.
At this meeting a Russell for
Senate Club will be formed.
Mr. J. T. Heath Looses Barn
One of the barns on the farm
of Mr. J. T. Heath, was burned
on Thursday night of last week.
HL loss was practically all of
his farm tools, and some lint cot
ton. He detected the tire just in
time to save his truck and after
the truck was pushed out the
flames had covered the entire
barn. He stated, that through
the help of his neighbors his
stock barn was saved by keeping
same wet. An estimate of around
seventy-five dollars worth of
plow and plows tools were de
stroyed.
Ail Old Negro’s
Ernest Prayer
A sprucy nezro preacher call-
ed on a good old brother, to pray,
the old fellow offered Hie follow-
ing prayer
“0, Liwd, give thy servant
this morning Hie eyes of the
eagle, and the wisdom of the owl,
connect Ills soul with Hie Gospel
telephone in the central skies,
luminate his brow with de sun o
Heaven, pizzen his mind wid love
for de people, turpentine his
mugination, grease his lips wid
possum oil, loosen his tongue
with the sludge h immer of thy
power, lectrily his brain wid de
lightnin’of de word, put petual
motion in his ahms, fill him plum
full of dynamight of Thy glory,
noint him ail over wid de kero
sene oil of salvation and sot him
afire. —Amen. —Irwinton Bulletin
were held Sunday miming from
Vilula Baptist church near
Rhine, in Dodge county, con
ducted by Rev, S. J. D. Hall,
assisted by Rev. Mr. Burnam.
She was the daughter of Mr. I
and Mrs. John T. Howard of
this county and was 19 years of
age. She was before her marri
age to Mr. J. W. Mills June27th,
of this year, Miss Myrtice How
ard.
Surviving besides her husband
-and parent are three sisters,
j Misses Beulah, Alma and Vivian
Howard and a brother, Ralph,
I Howard, all of this county.
She was buried in Vilula ceme
! tery. —Telfair Enterprise.
Messrs Hugh Hill, Jr., and
; Merrille Gross are spending this
j week in Indian Springs, attend
| ing camp meeting.
PENSION BODY LEADER
TO STUMP FOR RIVERS
Hahira, August 11 —W. W.
Webb, president of the Georgia
Old Age Pension Association,
announced here today that he
would stump the state in behalf
of E 1). Rivers, of Lakeland, a
candi< ate for governor.
Colonel Webb will speak Satur
day at Newnan. He said here to
day that he planned at Newnan
to answer William Schley How
ard, who spoke at the Coweta
county seat last Saturday.
The Georgia Old Age Pension
Association has given its full and
unqualified indorsement to
Speaker Rivers,’’ Colonel Webb
said. “Its clubs in 123 Georgia
counties arc going to vote foi
him solid because we believe that
be is the only candidate for gov
ernor who will see to it that the.
old folks of Georgia participate
in President Roosevelt’s pension
program.”
Colonel Webb is beyond 80
years old out he has a strong
speaking voice. He makes the
annual speech opening the Hahira
and Adel tobacco markets and is
widely known over south Geor
gia for his civic leadership.
FOUR FROM MCRAE
HURT IN WRECK
Macon, August 12. —Sis per
sons were in local hospitals this
afternoon with serious injuries
as a result of three automobile
accidents.
Four of the injured were in
the same car, which crashed into
a telephone pole on Houston road,
four miles south of the city.
The occupants of this car, all
from Mcßae, are listed as;
Mrs. Hugh Stanley, fractured
arm.
Mrs. Wiley Williams, broken
arm and severe cuts.
Miss Marjorie Nell Stanley,
cuts and bruises.
Miss Helen McLean, fractured
shoulder.
Passing motorists brought
Misses Stanley and McLean,both
14 years ot age to the Macon
Hospital.
In another accident, Sidney
Darley, suffered a possible frac
ture of the skull when struck by
a grocery delivery truca near his
home.
The sixth victim was booked
as Bubber Green, four year old
negro, who was struck by a car
and sustained a fractured leg
and lacerated scalp.
A defect in the steering gear
was blamed for the Houston
road accident by Hugh Stanley.
—Telfair Enterprise.
When Al Speaks
When Alfred E. Smith speaks
in Boston against the party which
has so highly honored him and
against the man who thrice spon
sored his nomination in Demos
cratic conventions, he should be
escorted to the platform by ’Gene
Talmadge,introduced by William
Randolph Hearst; the invocation:
should be pronounced by the
Reverend "Share-the-Pelf”
Smith and the benediction by the
ReverenP "Papa” Caughlin. The
band should play "You Can’t
Pull the Wool Over My Eyes,’’
with a "blues” intermezzo.
The decoration should be yel
low.—Tampa (Florida) Tribune,
TALMADGE ‘READ OUT OF THE PARTY’
BY TARVER IN CARTERSVILLE ADDRESS
Seventh District Congressman, Speaking of
Russell, Terms Governor a Deserter
of Democratic Principles.
Cartersville, Aug. 11. —Mal-
colm C. Tarver, Seventh Georgia
district congressman, has issued
a statement endorsing Senator
Richard B. Russell, Jr., for re
election, in which he declared
that he had no personal interest
in the race, had always got along
well with both Russell and Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge, but
that “my interest in the welfare
of the people of my state,’’ made
it necessary for him to speak.
I am a Democrat. I have many
good friends, both in and out of
congress, who are Republicans.
I respect them and they respect
me. But if I were to go to one of
these Republican friends and tell
him that I had decided to desert
the party that had honored me
for many years and aid in the
election of a Republican president
he would hold me in contempt.
We respect opponents who fight
fairly and under their own flag.
Nobody has any respect for de
serter. No man has any respect
for a man who tries to stay in
one army and at the same time
stir up disloyalty to its general
and create dissention among its
enlisted personnel.
The Governor of Georgia, hon
ored by the Democracy of his
Rate, has attacked the incum
bent Democratic administration
more violently and moreviciously
than any Republican public
speaker whom I have heard or
read about. If, during the last
two years, he has ever uttered
one word of praise for President
Roosevelt or the Democratic con
gress, I have never beard of it.
Even a very great majority of
the Republicans in congress have
voted for some of the so called
New Deal measureres, and there
is hardly a man of prominence in
the Republican party today who
would not say some word of
praise for some of the things
which have been accomplished.
The Republican platform itself
does not condemn them all. Os
all the enemies of Roosevelt, the
Governorof Geeorgi almost alone
has failed to give utterance to
one single word of praise of the
national legislative program, or
to advance for the consideration
of the people of the country as a
Democratic governor one single
reason why the Democratic party
should be returned to power.
Under these circumstances, it is
for you to say whether he is sup
porting Landon or Roosevelt. In
my judgment, if he should be
nominated in September as the
foe of Roosevelt, the psychologi
can reaction throughout the
country would be that Georgia
had turned against the Presi
dent. If that is the Governor’s
purpose, in common honesty, he
ought to seek nomination at the
hands of the Republican party,
and not of the Democracy of
Georgia.
I find in the history of the
South the record of the burdens
that the Republican party has
laid on us from the time of the
War Between the States down to
the present time, and I find in
that record nothing that could!
justify a Southern Democrat
deserting his his party standard
in its time of need. Besides that,
I believe that Georgia ought to
have two senators in Washing,
ton. We are entitled to two. Let
me tell you what I mean. I have
Number 26
GOOD CW FOR THIS
MR ESIIMTEB
Quite a number of bales of
cotton have been ginned this
week, although the rains have
held up picking for the past few
days, it is estimated that there
will be a bountful crop of cotton
this year as all indications point
that way. It was first thought
that the crop would be short in
this and adjoining counties owing
to the long dry spell that we had
a few weeks past, but as in most
cases we get everything we need,
just in time. Our tobacco farm
ers are busy marketing their
tobacco and are all well pleased
with the prices they are now re
ceiving for their tobacco.
We had a caller in the office
yesterday and he stated that he
was from a county where the
main crop was tobacco and that
he had seen the time, not many
years ago at the tobacco ware
houses where the farmers who
had carried their crop to market,
farmers standing over their
their tobacco as the auctioneer
would auction off their years
Work at prices that the farmers
knew would not feed and clothes
bis family until he could make
another crop. He stated that he
saw them stand by and shed
tears, tor fear of their family’s
needs back hame. Back in those
days tobacco sales looked as
though there was a funeral in
session, Today it is more like a
good old time picnic.
never heard a Democrat mem
ber of congress speak of Tal
madge excep to resent his atti
tude toward the national admin
istration. Os course, all of them
may be wrong and he alone may
right. Even the Republicans in
congress privately consider him
as a joke. His views on national
questions, such as reducing the
budgettoabillion dollars when it
takes that much to run the army
and navy alone, or repealing the
federal income tax by which
those who are best able to bear
the heaviest burden of federal
taxation, so far as I know are
not shared by any man Demo
cratic or Republican, in public
life today.
So far as repealing the income
tax is concerned, he apparently
does not know that all revenue
bills under the constitution must
originate in the house of repre
sentatives, and if you sent him
to the senate he couldn’t even
introduce and have considered a
bill to repeal the income tax law.
Send a man with his lack of in
formation on national questions,
his hostility toward his on party,
and his anicosity toward the
President to Washington, and he
eoulden’t accomplish anything
at all for the state of Georgia.
You are entitled to two senators,
two men who can work for and
accomplish things for Georgia.
I If you hire a lawyer, you employ
lone you think can win your case.
<lf you hire a senator, you want
one who can do the most for yon.
Who would you rather have
speak for you in the Democratic
congress and to a Democratic
President— Eugene Talmadge off
Dick RosaellY