Georgia News Summary of the Week Highlights
R J Butt 61 mayor of Blairsville died Monday. Savannah yards launched its 100th ship. Georgia reports first cotton blooms and peach shipments total 962 carloads through Tuesday. Early tomatoes fetch 6.00 per bushel in South Georgia. Southern Stages Inc buses resumed after a week idle. A golden wedding for Mr and Mrs Arthur J Toole of Dublin May 29. William A McDuffie 89 attended a golden wedding in Atlanta. Dry weather aids crops. heats up farm prospects. Columbus firm wins 1,666,347 contract to rebuild Maxwell Field runways. Bruce Hall named editor of the Masonic Messenger in Georgia. Bellevue Macon pupils send Mother's Day note to Mrs. Truman. First Rocky Mountain spotted fever death in Georgia, a four year old girl in Atlanta. Policy clash over prices and wages prompts nostalgia for the “good old days.” Mrs T S Lacey retires after 20 years teaching French and Spanish. students give cedar chest with silver dollars. Jack Roy Greene, 36, Americas, sentenced to electric chair for assault. to die June 29.
First Indoor Tulip Show in U S to Be Held in Atlanta
The Atlanta Tulip Show Association will stage the first indoor tulip exhibition in the United States at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta on April 13 to 15. Led by Mrs. J. J. Nicholson, the Tulip Study Club helped plan the event featuring five tulip gardens, white dogwood trees, and extensive exhibits in Taft Hall.
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Atlanta
Municipal Auditorium
J. J. Nicholson
Tulip Study Club
Ommy Club
Atlanta Tulip Show Association
Nicholson
National Tulip Society
Taft Hall
Fees Suspended On Trucks Carrying Georgia Peaches
Atlanta June 2 Governor Arnall suspended license and registration fees for out of state trucks aiding a bumper Georgia peach harvest. The executive order expires July 15 and follows a recommendation by Agricultural Commissioner Tom Linder. Deliveries to out of state markets continue under reciprocal agreements. Arkansas, Mississippi, and other neighbors are involved in market inspections and diplomacy as Georgia farmers' market activity expands.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Arnall
Tom Linder
Tom Bailey
Mississippi
Georgia State
Chronicle Sale by Paper Firm Told at Augusta
Augusta Chronicle will be acquired by Southeastern Newspapers Inc a local company. H A Moore of Charlotte N C will serve as president. The Chronicle Publishing Co owned by W S Morris and Florence Morris will publish under lease and Morris remains publisher with no personnel changes.
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Chronicle
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Augusta Chronicle
Southeastern Newspapers, Inc
Superior Court of
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H. A. Moore
Charlotte
N. C
Chronicle Publishing Company
W. S. Morris
Florence Morris
Southeastern Newspapers,Inc
Morris
International Paper Company
Masquerade Over For Sailor Who Dressed As Woman
Raymond Russell Clark, a 31 year old sailor, had posed as a woman for ten months at Little Creek Naval Station. He was arrested in Wheeling on a desertion charge and held pending shore patrol arrival. Clark admitted his identity after officers knocked on his door and was taken to Ohio County jail.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George Gonter
Gonter
FBI
Raymond Russell Clark
Little Creek Va
Naval Station
Clark
Ohio County
Arnall on Speaking Tour Across Cities This Month
Gov. Arnall plans a speaking tour through Louisville Cincinnati and Detroit late this month with stops June 25 in Louisville and addresses in Rome Macon Vienna and national governors conferences at Mackinac Island. He will travel while out of office delivering statewide talks and preparing Georgia freight rate case evidence in Washington June 12.
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Atlanta
Arnall
Louisville
Cincinnati
Detroit
Mackiniac Island
Berry
Rome
Macon
Woodmen of the World
Vienna
Bailey
Georgia
Tom Linder
Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Sumter man sentenced to death for January assault
Jack Roy Greene alias Booty Greene, a 36 year old Black man and escaped convict, was sentenced by Judge W M Harper in Sumter Superior Court to die in the electric chair on June 29 after a 28 minute jury verdict charging a 65 year old Sumter county white woman was assaulted on January 31. Greene was captured days after the alleged crime by Sheriff Jack McArthur Assistant Police Chief W L Autry and City Patrolman Dave Jordan.
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Jack Roy Greene
Sumter County
Americas
Booty Greene
W. M. Harper
Sumter Superior Court
Jack McArthur
W.L. Autry
Dave Jordan
Greene
Georgia
Maj Cohen Portrait Unveiled in Athens Hall of Fame
In Athens Georgia memories of Maj John S Cohen rise as a portrait replaces a 1942 photo in the Hall of Fame of the Georgia Press Association and the Henry Grady School of Journalism The gift comes from his daughter Mrs Jean Bienveau and her children to honor his leadership at The Atlanta Journal from 1917 to 1935 and his journalistic advances.
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Athens
John S. Cohen
Atlanta Journal
Hall of
Georgia Press Association
Henry Grady School of Journalism
University of Georgia
Jean Bienveau
Mary Ellen O. Gresham
Julia Orme
Germaine Bienveu
Maj. Cohen
Hall of Fame
Committee On Selections
Georgia system to graduate 962 this year
Georgia's seven senior colleges will award diplomas to 777 students and junior colleges 185. Over 100 senior college graduates will enter military service. Women outnumber men at the University of Georgia and several state teachers, women's colleges report varied totals. Georgia Tech graduates 153 men, and the UGA Medical School has four women among 120 graduates. Milledgeville campus graduates 141 women, Valdosta 45. Five men and 12 women complete college work at Statesboro Teachers College.
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Associated Press
Georgia
University of Georgia
Georgia Tech
University of Georgia Medical School
Georgia State College For Women
Milledgeville
Georgia Women’s College
Valdosta
Georgia Teachers College
Statesboro
Two U.S. Agents Slain in Okefenokee Ambush
In the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Waycross Georgia two Fish and Wildlife Service patrolmen Bryant Crews and Joe D Martin were killed by buckshot while investigating a fire in Cane Creek area. Both bodies were found Sunday morning by fellow officers.
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U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Am Bush
High Cane Creek
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Bryant Crews
Joe D. Martin
Hopkins
Martin’son
Luther Carter
Crews
Martin
Draft Ellis Arnall Forces Quit Fight
Georgia General Assembly adjourned after the House factions opposed to the “draft Arnall” plan declined to seek reconsideration of the constitutional amendment. Senate had backed the amendment but the House failed by ten votes, ending the special session goals.
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Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Arnall
House
Senate
Vineville Church Loses Dr Sammons After 17 Years Service
Macon June 4 Dr J Ellis Sammons pastor of Vineville Baptist church for 17 years tendered his resignation at yesterday morning service stating the church needs a younger man for postwar period The resignation takes effect Aug 1 and a committee will consider filling the pulpit Sammons has served in multiple Georgia cities and led the church since 190? Born Putnam County he graduated Mercer University 1900 and Louisville Theological Seminary 1902 He is survived by his wife Martha Wal ton and two children Everett Sammons and Mrs William Snow
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J. Ellis Sammons
Vineville Baptist Church
Sammons
Vineville
Rome
Griffin
Brunswick
Decatur
Old North Georgia Baptist College
Morganton
Putnam County
Mercer University
Mercer
Louisville Theological Seminary
Martha Walton
Reynolds
Everett Sammons
William Snow
Gregory Responds to Harris Challenge in Journal
Atlanta Journal political writer C. E. Gregory answered Speaker Roy Harris' challenge in an editorial page article published yesterday in the Journal.
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C. E. Gregory
Atlanta Journal
Roy Harris
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