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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1934
Page
3
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Bank leaders argue that expanding industrial and commercial activity is the nation’s top economic need. They cite rebuilding, home renovation, and rail modernization as powerful drivers of jobs, wealth, and purchasing power, stressing banks will finance sound, normal lending at low rates to support business confidence and local prosperity.
Washington dispatch reports Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, asserting that government bonds were the only investments to suffer as little as bank deposits during 1931 to 1933. He estimates depositors in closed banks recover about 65 percent on average, while bank stockholders lose all. He argues deposits should not be paid with taxpayers’ money.
The annual meeting of The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston highlighted a push for better healing and unity. Key leaders reviewed growth in publishing, field expansion to Australia, Africa, the Philippines, and Europe, and emphasized use of The Christian Science Monitor for guidance and democratic ideals.
Rev. B. H. McHan, pastor of Silvertown Methodist Church in Thomaston, was struck by lightning while driving from Atlanta. He escaped serious injury though glasses shattered, facial burns and chest and knee burns occurred. His car left the road but no serious damage or injuries to passengers. Alton Harvey helped reach Thomaston.
Georgia launches statewide TB control with 12 district nurses funded by PBRA. Clinics in every county use X ray exams, led by Dr H C Schenck with Albert Tinsley as technician and Margaret Patterson as unit nurse. About 15 000 Georgians will be examined yearly, with 10 percent whites and 13 percent negros found infected or suspected.
Albany news reports Miss Caroline Hazard of Peacedale Rhode Island donates 10000 dollars to Georgia Normal and Agricultural College and Negroes of Southwest Georgia for a library. City commissioners approve about 200 dollars yearly for maintenance and county commissioners plan matching funds. The city names the highway Harvard Drive in honor of Hazard.
George F. White new States court clerk for the Middle district of Georgia received a $5,000 bond for John E. Whitley from the First National Bank of Atlanta. The cashier’s check was endorsed by Charles H. Cox and filed in Macon. Whitley faces 70 NRA construction code counts based on information by federal authorities. trial set for November 5 in federal court.
Americus Georgia July 27 concern is voiced for a party of Georgia tourists now in or near strife torn Austria. In the party are Mia Frank Harrold and Miss Martha Marshall. They were slated to be in Bolzano Italy Thursday when news of Chancellor Dollfuss assassination reached Americus. It is unclear if the travelers were halted or redirected to avoid the disrupted area. Mrs Harrold is wife of prominent Americus cotton factor F P Harrold. Miss Marshall is daughter of T O Marshall, leading Americus attorney.
In Hazelhurst Georgia on July 28 W J Royal died in a hospital after a transfer truck operated by Atlanta Florida Lines Inc on a Jacksonville to Atlanta run struck a moving freight train. His companion Bill Tadlock was seriously injured. The wreck required cutting the cab free and damaged a freight car. The crossing has seen prior fatal crashes.
Atlanta July 28 Tom Linder of Hazlehurst wrapped up a busy week in his bid for Georgia farm commissioner speaking before large crowds at Lyons Marietta Millen and Swainsboro. He plans four weekly talks for six weeks, touting farmer status and pledging strict fertilizer law enforcement and fertilizer inspection for farmers.
Georgia awaits federal aid for education as State Superintendent M. D. Colling told Athens PTA there will be about 69 000 a month for unemployed teachers next school year. Speakers discussed home school community roles, with emphasis on child welfare and teacher wages.
A letter claiming a murder by Raiford Grady Williams in 1931 and signed by Joe Heath was found at a beach resort near Charleston before Sheriff Whittle declared it a hoax. No body was found and a $100 reward was posted for the writer’s arrest after Williams sought executive action.
Three prisoners Harold Thacker Clyde Browning and Harold Wright escaped a state transfer guard near Barnesville using a hairpin to pick handcuffs. They overpowered the guard S W Thornton and a prisoner driver, took the pistol, and forced a return to the road before authorities quickly organized a posse recaptured them.
The 1984 Lowndes county tax digest records a value reduction of about 249000 dollars, compared with a more than one million dollar shrinkage in 1983, indicating a easing tax assessment trend.
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