Toll in Train Wreck Reaches Forty as Rescue Proceeds
Creek Montana June 20 Bodies pulled from one of America's worst railroad disasters totalled forty with signs the toll could rise to sixty. The Milwaukee Road Olympian Deluxe passenger train plunged when a bridge failed over Custer Creek trapping and drowning passengers and crew. Rescue teams cut through wreckage with torches as bodies lined the creek bank and some were flown to Miles City for treatment.
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Custe
Miles City
Congress ends 420 day session with relief and wage hour bills
The Seventy fifth Congress adjourned after 420 days amid approval of the President's 8.768 billion relief and public works package while enacting a low interest rate loan extension for farmers. Major bills enacted include crop control and insurance, wage hour floors, relief funds, tax revisions, a 20 percent fleet boost, and a 12 billion appropriation for federal government operations.
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Garner
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George Opens Drive July 4 in Vienna Georgia
Atlanta Georgia June 11 Senator Walter F George will officially launch his reelection campaign on July 4 in Vienna his hometown. His return to Georgia has been delayed by pending congressional business but he will make his first radio appeal over station WISB on Saturday night June 26 at 9 oclock EST.
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Walter F. George
Vienna
Congress
Georgia
Washington
WISB
Letter Carriers Plan Convention in Georgia 1938
Georgia Rural Letter Carriers Association announces plans for a large convention with guests including Gov Rivers Senator George and others. Highlights include a special ride price at the Southeastern Fair, radio interviews on WSB and WGST, a three hour junior sight seeing tour, a breakfast at a governors mansion, and a banquet sponsored by multiple firms. Official HQ at the Ansley Hotel with meetings starting July 17 and tickets limited to 875 for members with current 1938 39 memberships.
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F. A. Bollinger
Atlanta
WSB
Ansley
WGST
Sears Roebuck
Rivers
Bona Allen Co
The
Pure Oil Co
Montgomery-Ward Co
Walter Field Co
Georgia Power Co
H G. Hastings Co
Atlantic Co
Primrose Oil Co
Ne-High, Inc
Ford Motor Co
Ansley Hotel
Thos, G. Walters
Georgia R. L. C. Association
Toccoa
Phil Goodwin Hurt Fatally in Car Crash
In a report from Columbus Georgia, Phil Goodwin aged 24, husband of Claire Sasser of Beverly Hills Los Angeles, was killed in a car accident at Wickenburg Arizona. He was en route to Columbus to bring home his wife who had come to Georgia for her father R C Sasser’s funeral. He died Saturday night California time. The funeralized incident stemmed from a collision at a grade crossing that killed R C Sasser on June 3 near McDonough Georgia.
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Columbus, Ga
Phil Goodwin
Claire Sasser
Columbus
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
Cal
Wickenburg
Ariz
California
Goodwin
R. C. Sasser
McDonough, Ga
Southern Railway
Brooks County Sheriff Burned By Potash and Wounded
Quitman Georgia June 18 Physicians attend Sheriff Colin E Clanton of Brooks county after a prisoner hurled potash and water into his face during a jail meal. Clanton shot the assailant fatally wounded in the heart and collapsed. The sheriff, about 55, has led Brooks county for 20 years and may lose an eye.
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Colin E. Clanton
Brooks County
Albert Tidwell
Clanton
Berry Stokes
Pay Murphy
Sam Turner
Dick Jones
Audley Clanton
South Georgian
North Morida
Fire Destroys Large Peach Packing Shed Near Byron Ga
A gasoline-tank explosion near Byron Georgia on Saturday destroyed A. W. Tabor’s large peach packing shed in Peach County injuring J. W. Hester with a broken ankle. About 50 workers fled as fire consumed the shed crates and peaches, with estimated $10,000 in damage. Packing resumed later at a nearby shed run by Jim Hancock.
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A. W. Tabor
Georgia
J. W. Hester
Wellston
Perry
Peach County
Jim Hancock
Tabor
Georgia Baptist Training Union Assembly Opens In Rome
In Rome Georgia June 12 the annual Georgia Baptist Training Union Assembly is set for a five day session beginning Monday. Distinguished speakers include Dr A C Chamblee Forsyth Dr J W Merritt executive secretary Atlanta Dr Geo F Brown Marietta Dr K C White Atlanta Dr Ryland Knight Atlanta and Dr Lucius Pophill Americus. Teaching leaders include Arthur Jackson and G F Tyner Jr Augusta.
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Georgia Baptist Training Union Assembly
A. C. Chamblee
Georgia Baptist Convention
Forsyth
J. W. Merritt
Atlanta
Geo
F. Brown
Marietta
K. C. White
Ryland Knight
Lucius Polhill
Americus
Arthur
Dissents on Methodist Unification at Columbus Sum
June 20 Columbus The Rev A T r u l o c k pastor of St Luke Methodist Church South and 154 members split over unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church South with the unified church A Sunday resolution sought to keep South identity and impound church funds while Trulock dissented saying adjustments with the South Georgia Conference will safeguard doctrines and urged unity and patience among 1600 members until a satisfactory settlement is reached
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Trulock
St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Church South
Methodist Episcopal Church
Soufia
Board of Stewards
St. Like Church
Georgia Train Wreck of 1900 Remembered in Montana
Rescuers search wreckage of Milwaukee Railroad’s Olympian Monday near Miller City Montana as Georgians recall the June 23 1900 disaster when a Atlanta bound Southern Railway train plunged into a washed out culvert near McDonough Georgia killing 89 aboard and ranking as a historic railroad catastrophe.
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Miler City
Mont
Southern Railway
McDonough
Montana
Georgia
America
Mayo Honored for Long Service in Waycross
In Waycross Georgia George Mayo longtime sanitary superintendent was honored at a police dinner at the municipal building. He received a gold plated badge cap shirts and tie as city leaders praised his 28 years of faithful service. Chief Arm Thur Yawn presented the badge on behalf of the department in a gathering of about 40 officials and police personnel.
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George Mayo
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City of
Olice Department
Mack Barnes
City of ‘Waycross
Thru Yawn
Police Department
City Commission
West Pointers Sail South for Georgia Training Trip
The War Department announced a southern training itinerary for the Army's senior class from West Point. Cadets totaling 458 with eight officers will depart July 27 aboard the Chateau Thierry, reach Savannah July 30, travel by motor train to Fort Benning, remain until August 10, then head to Fort Monroe for coast artillery observations until August 16, visit Langley Field to view air corps activities, and return to West Point by August 19.
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War Department
Georgia
Military Academy
West Point
Chateau Thierry
Savannah
St. Benning
Ft. Monroe
Langley Field
Air Corps
Rivers Ouster Act Before Georgia High Court
Atlanta June 21 The Supreme Court of Georgia was asked to rule on the validity of the 1937 28 ouster act used to replace appointees of ex Governor Talmadge. The case comes on appeal from Judge Fas B Park of the Ocmulgee Superior Court. Bell of Milledgeville filed a quo warranto against Jerry N Moore who was named to the State Board of Regents by Rivers.
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Supreme Court of Georgia
Talmadgu
Fas. B. Park
Ocmulgee ‘Superiat Court
Park
ML S. Bell
Milledgeville
Jerry N. Moore
Rivers
Moore
Bell
State Board of Regents
Insane asylum fugitive kills wife in Cool Springs
Moultrie Ga June 18 Sheriff Beard said a man named Angua Tyler about 40 who recently fled a state insane asylum fatally stabbed his wife at their home in Cool Springs and seriously wounded their son Fred 17 who lay in a local hospital with severe neck and shoulder gashes. the wife died shortly after.
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Beard
Angua Tyler
Monday
Cool Springs
Tyler
Fred
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