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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
6
Co. E. Morse of Culloden appointed city marshal by Roberta city council. The report lists various Georgia items including indictments, health updates, court actions, and local developments across the state with multiple named people and places.
Cairo Georgia July 29 harvest under way with local buyers predicting $100 a ton peanuts this season for Spanish No. 1 and about $90 a ton for runners. They estimate a roughly ten percent acreage reduction from last year and foresee strong prices returning after years of lower values.
Talbot County’s new jail, costing 17500 dollars, was turned over to officials. The first inmate, Ben Starks, a Black man accused of housebreaking, praised the facility after transfer from the old jail, noting the hot baths and improved conditions. Sheriff J H Ferguson supervised the move.
Thirteen new infantile paralysis cases were reported to the state health department, bringing Georgia total to 221. Atlanta area added three cases to reach 65 in the city, Fulton county 17 in rural area, DeKalb county one, with Swinnett Crisp and Upson counties also affected at multiple cases.
Flamingo Truck Lines filed a federal petition seeking 6500 damages after a February 1941 crash in Roberta Georgia. Defendants include J O Cannady and Mrs Earline Glover of Louisiana and Walter Tobias of Massachusetts. The suit alleges a defendant vehicle ran a red light, causing Flamingo’s truck to collide, burn, and kill the driver.
In Dothan Alabama on July 27 Sheriff A Turner of Terrell County Georgia and two private investigators were named as defendants in a $5,000 damage suit filed in U S District Court. The suit alleges the men coerced a confession from Wash Palmore that he killed Curtis Warren of Donalsonville, an oil distributor. Co-defendants include Sid Howell and Clarence May. Howell, a Blakely Georgia resident, is a former Early County sheriff.
Smithville July 26 The local board of trustees announced that J. G. Pryor the Smithville High School superintendent has resigned effective immediately. He will become superintendent of Ft. Gaines High School and has held multiple local leadership roles including president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and head of the Smithville Lions Club.
Washington orders freezing all stocks of raw silk and limits manufacture to last week levels due to threatened shortage from unsettled Far East conditions. It bans delivery or acceptance without OPM authorization and restricts milling of thrown silk to prior week totals. Officials estimate 53,000 bales in public warehouses and 35,000 more in mills.
The Georgia Press Association outlines plans for its 1941 convention to be held August 21 to 23 in Toccoa at Hotel Lake Louise. The three day program is under preparation with no divided sessions and a large attendance anticipated. Otis Brumby of Marietta is expected to become president with a new vice president to be elected.
Ernest Ewing of Cordele has been serving with the British Air Forces for three months and writes fondly of his treatment by English people. He ferries lighter planes from the factory to the fighting front though his exact duties are restricted. He rooms with G A Robertson, a former CAA instructor, whom he met in London.
New York woman Mrs Havis Hudgins Claycomb seeks custody of eight year old Consuelo Hudgins from Mayor Leon M Blair of Marietta. The governor declined to intervene citing lack of authority. Habeas corpus hearing set for August 20.
Sylvania Ga July 27 Deputy Sheriff Corrie Lamsey said Alfred Morgan Jr 22 a state highway department employee died early today from a gunshot wound to the head. He was found sitting at the steering wheel of a car on a side road two miles south of Sylvania a pistol in his hand and a note beside him. The note’s contents were not released Morgan whose parents live in Sylvania had recently worked in Augusta.
Marion Fitzpatrick, a Black man from Dublin, pleaded guilty to larceny from the house for selling a diamond valued at 300 to 400 dollars for seven dollars. Judge R E Camp sentenced him to one to three years in Laurens superior court. The diamond was stolen from Mrs Thomas Gibson, police recovered the stone after Chief J W Robertson traced Fitzpatrick to Macon.
Washington hosts an all day conference with AAA officials and peanut growers and trade representatives to discuss the Pace bill marketing quotas and peanut parity pricing. Rep Pace says the group agrees on setting parity at five dollars per 100 pounds of current market price, with quotas and penalties outlined for excess edible production.
Valdosta July 27 The Stevens Southern Contracting Company of Jacksonville Fla started today the test deep water well at the Army Bombardier Base. The project costs about 1987 dollars with six wells planned to supply full water needs.
Elberton mayor Ben I. Sutton pleaded guilty in his own court and fined himself for leaving a car three days in a 30 minute zone. He paid the fine in cash and praised Policeman Hal Fortson who issued the ticket.
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