Week in Georgia recounts multiple accidents and deaths
Georgia recorded six fatalities and many injuries in week of crashes near Griffin. Obituaries note A A Camp death in Winder and Thomas Bardin Hooks rites in Americus. Other items include Atlanta Chamber banquet, missing convicts list, and police training by FBI agent in Valdosta.
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Georgia
Americus
Thomas Bardin Hooks
Sumter County
J. W. Savare
FBI
Atlanta
Valdosta Police Department
Auto Riding Safer Than Staying Home
Atlanta on December 5 Dr I K Boland chairman of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross urges citizens to back the fourth campaign against home and farm accidents He notes that last year 2500 people died in home accidents and 4600 on farms totaling 87000 fatalities and says the home is the most dangerous place for rest and comfort while the farm is the most dangerous place to earn a living.
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Atlanta
I. K. Boland
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Boland
Sylvania Attorney J. W. Overstreet Dies at 72
J. W. Overstreet, 72, longtime Sylvania attorney and former state and national representative, died at his home after a monthlong illness. Mercer graduate admitted to the bar in 1888, he served as Sylvania city judge, two terms in the Georgia legislature, held Rufus E. Lester's unexpired Congress term in 1907, attended the 1912 Democratic National Convention, backed Woodrow Wilson, was elected to Congress in 1916 for three terms, and returned to Sylvania in 1923 to practice law until ill health. He championed Jeffersonian democracy.
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Sylvania
J. W. Overstreet
Overstreet
Mercer University
Rufus E. Lester
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
Two thirds of PWA Projects Under Way Construction Underway
Secretary Ickes announced 63 percent of all PWA program projects were under construction. Of 4,608 projects allotted funds, the total cost runs about 1.05 billion dollars. The act required construction to start by January 1.
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PWA
Washington
Ickes
Santa Will Enter Pen's Front Gate at Tattnall Prison
In Reidsville Georgia on December 6 prisoners at Tattnall state prison prepare for a gay Christmas. The prison publication The Tattler notes Santa Claus will be allowed to enter through the front door. Rules changed to permit gifts of cakes candies nuts turkey chicken cigars tobacco cigarettes magazines socks underwear razors and toilet items and fruits.
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Reidsville
Tattnall State Prison
the Tattler
Santa Claus
Relatives Sought for Youth Held in McDonough Ga
McDonough Ga Dec 5 Sheriff H M Amis said he was trying to locate relatives of a young man named Roy Holcombe 28 five feet seven inches 135 pounds arrested on a Locust Grove citizen report that he acted irrationally. His father Oscar Holcombe said to be from Covington or Mansfield.
Georgia Lad Plans Christmas Wedding to Glamorous Model
One of New Yorks top models described as honey blonde and beautiful will wed Griffin born Ed S Crouch a 1936 Tech graduate in New Yorks Little Church Around the Corner on December 17 The fiancee Miss Ruth Irene McArdle 23 is a Vogue Harper s Bazaar and McCalls cover girl The couple met in New York and will marry before Christmas few details were released
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Atlanta
New York
Griffin
Tech
Ed S. Crouch
R. O. Crouch
Scranton
Miss Ruth
Irene McArdle
New York City
Vogue
Harper‘s Bazaar
McCall's
Rountree Named to State Place
Atlanta December 3 Commissioner of Labor Ben Huiet announced Carl Rountree of Wrightsville as information representative for the bureau of unemployment compensation. He will move to Atlanta January 1 to assume the post. Rountree, once with his father in a Wrightsville weekly, has worked for the Macon Telegraph The Montgomery Alabama Advertiser The Montgomery Journal and the Miami Herald in Ft Lauderdale. He studied at Mercer University and Gordon Institute.
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Atlanta
Ben T. Huiet
Carl Rountree
Wrightsville
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Rountree
C. D. Rountree
Georgia
Macon Telegraph
Montgomery
Ala
Advertiser
Montgomery Journal
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Miami Herald
Mercer University
Gordon Institute
Barnesville
Six Thousand Awarded in Auto Accident in Americus
Damages totaling $6,000 were awarded by a Sumter county superior court jury after a two day hearing of suits for $30,000 against Mrs. John Taylor of Americus. The verdict gave $4,000 to Miss Louise Poole and $2,000 to her father Parrott Poole. Miss Poole sought $25,000 for permanent injuries. The accident occurred August 28 on the Americus Plains Highway.
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Americus
Louise Poole
Sumter County
John Taylor
Parrott Poole
Condemned Negro Testifies in Georgia Murder Trial
Atlanta sent witness Raymond Carter, under death sentence for another murder, who testified in Fulton county court that Richard Smith killed an elderly night watchman last September. Carter said he accompanied Smith to a liquor store before the slaying, but stayed hidden as Smith struck the watchman with a sand-filled milk bottle.
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Atlanta
Tattnall State Prison
Jackson, Ga
Fulton County Superior Court
Raymond Carter
Richard Smith
Smith
T. H. Herd
Carter
Chas. Thornton
Jackson
Herd
Late Georgia jurist Judge Russell remembered for public service
No.1 Paget lawyer and longtime Georgia bar member chosen to deliver Burns Club of Atlanta addresses. He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Appeals, judge on the Western Circuit, and solicitor general. He chaired University of Georgia trustees and led creation of the Georgia State College for Women. He fought U.S. entry into the League of Nations and the World Court in Georgia campaigns.
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American and
Georgia Bar Associations
Burns Club of
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Georgia
Clarke County
University of Georgia
Georgia State College For Women
Judge Russell
United States
League of Nations
World Court
Reynolds to Buy Athens Times Leader
Charles I. Reynolds Jr., former editor of The Washington News-Reporter, announced the purchase of the Athens Ga Times weekly. He succeeds A Belmont Dennis as publisher of The Covington News. Reynolds, a University of Georgia graduate, will be joined by wife Mrs Reynolds, Emily Woodward relative.
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Athens
Athens, Ga
Times
Chas. I. Reynolds, Jr
Washington, Ga
Hair Attends Special Course In Poultry Diseases
Clarence H. Hair of Reynolds returned from Atlanta after a five day intensive poultry diseases course. The program covered sanitation management vaccination and post mortem methods with experts from a major laboratory. Hair plans to use the training to improve local flock health and offers community visits at no charge through E. F. Parr in Reynolds.
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Clarence H. Hair
Reynolds
Atlanta
Hair
America
John H. Copenhaver
D. V
0. J
Mr. Hair
E. F. Parr
Cochran Seeks State Senate Seat in Twenty third District
Political notice by J T Cochran announcing candidacy for State Senator from the Twenty third Senatorial District in Taylor County with election date December 28 1938. He pledges to serve the district and state to the best of his ability and asks for citizen support.
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J. T. Cochran
Judge to suspend Sheriff E L Adamson in Georgia
Jonesboro Ga Dec 3 Judge Jas C Davis announced he would sign an order suspending Sheriff FE L Adamson from office during a hearing on the ouster petition. The move caps a lengthy probe into vice conditions in Clayton county.
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Jonesboro, Ga
Jas. C. Davis
FE. L. Adamson
Glayton County
Rivers to Start Asylum Building in Milledgeville
Milledgeville Ga Dec 5 Construction in the four million dollar building program at the state hospital approved by the Public Works Administration will be started Dec 14 by Gov Rivers. He will also dedicate four new buildings at Georgia State College for Women and inspect the old Capitol building at Georgia Military College.
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Milledgeville, Ga
State Hospital
Public Works Administration
Rivers
Georgia State College For Women
Georgia Military College
Foreclosure Notice in Taylor County Georgia
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation as owner and holder of a deed to Irene Gray’s loan dated February 11, 1984 records a default and will sell on January 3, 1989 at the county courthouse in Taylor County to satisfy the debt secured by land described as 383 84 acres in Taylor County. The sale will convey the land described in the security deed Ira Gray to the Land Bank Commissioner dated February 1, 1934. Deed to purchaser will be executed. Marshall Atty-at-Law representing the firm signs this notice on December 1, 1988.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Farm Mortgage Corporation
United States
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporati Act
Irene Gray
Tafs County Superior Court
Fedo
Cou
Georgi
D.C. Strother
T. Gaultney
J. H. Neisler
Sheriff Sale of John Deere Tractor in Taylor County Georgia
The sheriff will sell on the first Tuesday in January 1989 at the Taylor County courthouse to the highest bidder for cash. Property is a John Deere No 20111 Powell motor, serial 1926, in the possession of M T Gaultney Jr. Levied to satisfy a John Deere Plow Company fi fa from the Taylor County Superior Court. Levy notice given to defendant in fi fa. Dated December 5 1934.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
John Deere
Powel
M. T. Gaultney, Jr
John Deere Plow Company
St. Louis
Superior Court
M. Bone
Georgia Taylor County Public Sale Notice
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in January 1989 before the Taylor County courthouse door during legal hours. Items include one 21 inch left hand Corley Junior ball bearing edger and two inch inserted tooth saws among others. Property levied to satisfy a fi fa in favor of Corley Manufacturing Company against M. Gaultney. notice given to defendant. Sheriff J. M. Bone.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
Corley
M. T. Gauttney
Corley (Manufacturing Company
Gaultney
Superior Court
J. M. Bone
Sherif
Lee Slaying Defendant Treated for Angina
Brunswick December 5 Henry J. Cofer one of two brothers jailed in the slaying of Rev. C. H. Lee Episcopal rector was treated today at Brunswick City Hospital for an insect throat and angina pectoris. Cofer was moved from city jail to the hospital following a conference between defense and prosecuting attorneys ordered by Judge Gordon Knox.
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Brunswick
Henry J. Vlfer
C. H. Lee
Brunswick City Hospital
Cofer
Hopital
Gordon Knox
Torneys
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A. A. Camp
Winder
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Biltmore Hotel
Jack Gamble
Fulton County
Aubrey Smith
Forest Turner
Chief Hornsby
R. H. McLean
M. D. Collins
At-lanta
National Council of State School Superintendents
Screven County
Bryant
Waa
W. B. Gibbs
Brunswick Judicial Circuit
Eighth District
Georgia Experiment Station
H. P. Stuckey
Sanford
University System of Georgia
Earl Walter, Jr
Austa
Princeton University
G. Walter
Princeton
H. T. Cole
Sturck
Bainbridge
J. ©. Harrell
Vada
Carl Vinson
Atlanta Fire Department
J. A. Steele
Bank
Gov. Rivers
Megro
Tom Dickerson
Fitzgerald Friday
Downing Musgrove
Dickerson
University School of Medicine
V. Sanford
Board of Regents of
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Eugene Murphy
Augusta
George Hains
Willeliver
Alton
Floyd Price
Sam Williamson
Robert O’neal
Coolidge
J. W. Mitchell
Justice of the Peace
O’neal
G. R. Hillis
National Child Welfare Committee of the American Legion
Mrs. C
McQuown
J. B. Farr
Pine Mountain
Howard Smith
Tip Top
Warm Springs
Shenandoah Valley
Deep South
Columbus
Coordinating Council
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
George Thompson
Elberton
H. S. Stalnaker
Sylvania, GA
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Pen
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Georgia Lad
Murdreer
Butler
Tattnall Prison
Charles Reynolds
E. L. Adamson
Legal Advertisenen
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, C, B
Marshall, Atty-at-Law
Sheriff's Sale
Sheriff’s Sale
Lee
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