Georgia Convicts to Have Classes at Milledgeville
Georgia prison inmates will start an education program at Milledgeville after a prison commission vote led by K J Hoke. The state education department will assist by outlining methods and recording progress for potential clemency consideration.
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State Prison Farm
Atlanta
Georgia
Prison Commission
K. J. Hoke
National Council On
Washinton
Milledgeville
State Department of Education
Hoke
Secretary of the Interior
Wilbur
M. L. Duggan
E. L. Rainey
Rainey
Crisp Planning Tour of State for Georgia Senate Run
Representative Charles R. Crisp announced in Atlanta on May 28 that he will campaign across Georgia for the U S Senate after Congress adjourns. He and Governor R B Russell seek the unexpired Harris term with a September 14 Democratic primary.
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Atlanta
Charles R. Crisp
Georgia
United States Senate
Congress
R. B. Russell
U.S
Wm. J. Harris
House
Ways and Means Committee
W. Dykes
Americus
Crisp
Washington
Chicago
Senate
Governor blocks sale of Western & Atlantic rental certificates
Valdosta Ga May 28 Opposition by Governor Russell to selling Western and Atlantic Railroad rental certificates is cited by State Highway Commissioner W C Vereen as causing a Henney Department fund shortage. Vereen says the state board cannot take more mileage until after 1938 due to funds limits and notes the governor’s refusal to consent to the certificates’ sale, delaying mileage and aid projects.
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Valdosta
Russell
Western & Atlantic
W. C. Vereen
Henney
W.B. Conolay
Lownie
Conoley
Ray City
Berrien County
Horn
Edward E Swift Dies After Plunge From Chicago Apartment
Chicago // May 28 Edward F E Swift head of one of Chicago’s first families and chairman of Swift and Company fell six stories to his death from a Gold Coast apartment window. A coroner jury ruled accidental death. He was 68, son of G F Swift the Massachusetts packer who built Chicago’s meat industry. The family chauffeur witnessed the plunge. Brother Charles H Swift and vice chairman said he had been in good health and active in Swift and Company affairs since January.
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Chicago
Ed F. Swift
Graat
Gold Coast
G. F. Swift
Massachusetts
Swift and Company
Louis
Chas. H. Swift
Edward FE. Swift
Exhaustion of Gas Wells Sparks Field Decline
Natural gas fields are gradually exhausted with wells averaging about five years of productive use. The trend signals diminishing output and potential price pressure as reserves tighten.
Common Schools In State Received 7 164 138 For 1931
Georgia common schools received 7 164 188.66 from the state appropriation and the equalization fund in 1931. The total was 8 712 according to a report filed with Governor Russell by State Auditor Tom Wis. The audit shows payments of 4 810 889.76 from the state appropriation and 2 353 249.10 from the equalization fund in 1981 for fuel oil taxes totaling 7 174 288. The equalization fund has added over two million to schools since 1929. General fund payments fell to 4 822 625 in 1980 and were 3 184 000 in 1929.
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Common Schools
Georgia
Stat
Russell Satara
Tom Wism
Bandits Rob 25 In Alabama Store Hold Up Two Shot
Five bandits in a stolen car lined 26 people against a Leeds country store wall and robbed them of about 900 dollars. Two victims were shot for disobeying commands. An arrest followed as Oliver H Venable was taken into custody while attempting to board a freight near the scene. The robbers stole a car from Claude A McGee and forced him to leave Rosa Mims behind, paying 25 cents for her ride home.
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Leeds
Ala
Oliver H. Venable
Claude A McGee
Birmingham
Rosa Mims
McGee
Crisp Wins Marble for Federal Building in Chattanooga
Assistant Secretary Heath informed Representative Chas. R. Crisp that Georgia marble will be used in the Chattanooga federal building. The marble contract, valued around $800,000, will boost Georgia quarries and employ more workers. Crisp, with Senator George, pressed for the award and hopes Georgia marble will also be used in Atlanta’s post office.
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Washington
Heath
The
Treasury de Pea
Representaive Chas
George
Crisp
Georgia
Traesury
Atlanta
Edwards Backs Crisp for Senate Amid Staff Resignation
Savannah May 28 A Governor Russell staff member Chas B Edwards tendered his resignation and said he cannot discuss it until the governor receives it He stated he will no longer serve on Russell's staff and will back Judge Crisp for the U S Senate He cited strong ties to Crisp and his father the late OC G Edwards a former congressman from the first district
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Savannah
Chas B. Edwards
Russell
Edwards
Crisp
U. S. Senate
G. Edwards
Congress
PAVE EVERY ROAD Generating Growth Across the South
A call to continue road building as millions are invested to pave highways. The piece argues paved roads boost farm life and city work, raise property values, and reduce unemployment while linking rural areas to markets. It cites Georgia and the Florida boom as examples of economic potential.
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Georgia
Florida
Fay
Barkwoods
Dixie
Pity Is Akin EARNERS ERENE McClure Syndicate
Terry, a determined life insurance solicitor, pursues Bertram Carr a wealthy bachelor. After repeated rejections she shifts tactic and finally wins him over through persistence aided by a chance meeting at a house party where he asks her to marry him.
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Hind Uttle Wife
Terry
Mr. Carr
Bertram Carr
Bertram
Surface
Joye
Yeoman Seeks Georgia Attorney General Post
M J Yeomans of Dawson files candidacy for attorney general with payment of assessment. He is the third candidate in the race joining Huddleston and Duckworth. Yeomans cites 25 years as a country lawyer and seven years as a Georgia superior court judge, pledging to serve faithfully if elected.
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Atlanta
M. J. Yeomans
Dawson
Judicial Circuit
Yeomans
Messrs
G. A. Huddleston
Greenville
House Representatives
W. H. Duckworth
Cairo
State Senate
Geo. M. Napier
Great Virtue or Plain Honesty in High Society
A gossip writer in an English paper praised a great aristocratic lady for returning a misdirected check, calling it near superhuman honesty. The note questions whether such integrity fits nobility and notes the bourgeois belief that taking what is not owed is forbidden.
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Mayfair
Iady
New York Times
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Mo Henter
Berthiny Carr
Miss Larson
Fifth Avenue
Dawson, Ga
State of
Yeoman
Brunswick
Via
ALB. & C. RR
Rupert
Hotel Lanier
Macon, Georgia
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Ries & Armstrong Jewelers
Cherry Street
Macon
Butler
Tybee
Jacksonville
Tampa
St. Petersburg
Miami
Havana
Cube
Central of Georgia Railway
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