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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
8
Atlanta. Gov Talmadge protests solicitations for a memorial fund to obtain a picture or plaque in his honor. He tells friends not to contribute and not to place placards until after his death.
First Lieutenant Follett Bradley Jr. of the U S Army Air Corps was killed in a training flight accident in northern England two days ago. The embassy reported he had been in England about a month as a military observer. his father is Brig. General Follett Bradley stationed in Puerto Rico.
Americus June 19 Lawton Le Seur Jr. is well again after a moccasin bite while fishing in the Flint river. The snake struck his finger as he reached for fish. His father Attorney R L LeSeur cut the wound applied a tourniquet and sucked out the poison while Mrs LeSeur drove them to a Leslie doctor. The physician gave snake bite serum.
In Thomasville Georgia Howard Cone 24 confessed to killing and decapitating Roy Marion Tucker 28 after an all day drinking party. Cone held on murder charge and to be tried at the July term of the superior court.
The Griffin mill near Dovedown ends a four week idle period as up to 150 workers resume work on Tuesday after a conference reportedly settling the dispute and awarding a five cent a dozen raise. Twenty people were jailed during protests. Davis Williams says the strike is practically settled.
Elizabeth New Jersey June 19 Mr and Mrs George Champlain were married at St Marys R C Church after a courtship of more than 50 years Their relatives note the bride Miss Mary Crowe a dressmaker had long prepared a trousseau but gave it away in pieces The couple both in their sixties had been steady sweethearts since school days before the century turn.
Atlanta June 20 Governor Talmadge asks three members of the state board of regents to quit amid the fight over W. D. Cocking a Georgia University of Education dean. The move targets Sandy Beaver E. O. Hunter and M R Bell two of eight regents reelecting Cocking despite Talmadge opposition. Talmadge cites a 1937 law limiting alumni on the board as tension rises over alleged advocacy of racial equality. Bell and Hunter voted on Cocking's reelection. The dispute highlights broader clashes with educators tagged as foreign born and Talmadge vows to use budget powers if needed.
Albany June 19 Mrs W M Farlow of Albany won half of the first prize in a North Georgia Review contest from Clayton. The event, titled Do you know your South, tied her with Miss Eunice Thompson of Wesleyan College for first place, the judges awarding a $250 prize to be split evenly.
The Treasury offered 511 million dollars of Reconstruction Finance Corporation notes for sale. They carry 1 percent interest and mature April 15, 1944. Of the issue 300 million is sold for cash and the rest exchanged for old RFC notes due. Morgenthau oversees the sale with cash used for defense lending and RFC purchases.
Columbus Ga June 21 The Lanham bill HR4545 would provide 150 million dollars for schools sanitary improvements hospitals and recreation centers in defense areas. Senate and House passed the measure announced from Washington Friday. If signed by the President Columbus could receive about 2 million dollars for local improvements.
Dyar Massey head of the University of Georgia news bureau in Athens has been offered the executive secretary post with the Greenville Community Chest. A Greenville High School alumnus of 1934 and UGA graduate of 1937, Massey has served as secretary to the Alumni Association and as an assistant in the school of journalism. He would succeed Fred L. Huffman, who left for Charlotte Community Chest as executive secretary.
Americus reports Howard Bucknell III, son of a U S diplomatic service member and grandson of Mrs. N B Stewart, has left Americus for Annapolis to enroll at the Naval Academy after an appointment from Congressman Stephen Pace. He studied in Switzerland and attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria Virginia.
Atlanta reports that the Fourth corps area shows 1 317 100 soldiers in Army training centers. It leads the nine corps areas with 48 300 men in camps across Tennessee North and South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. Fort Bragg North Carolina hosts 60 000, Camp Blanding Florida 50 600, and Fort Benning near Columbus 44 300.
U S Consul at Tahiti G C Cobb on sick leave travels from San Diego to Americus with plans to visit his sister Mrs N B Stewart and Misses Sarah Martha and Elizabeth Cobb within weeks.
Leesburg report says Night Marshal Edgar Dyer was shot in the side by his own pistol after striking a prisoner with the weapon. Chief W. J. McDaniel said Dyer remained in serious condition at an Americas hospital.
Work underway on a new Reeves Funeral Home site in Roberta. The A J Danielly residence is being remodeled into a modern chapel with about 75 seats as Mr and Mrs Wilson Reeves plan to relocate the business.
The notice instructs individuals to report to the nearest Local Board on the upcoming Tuesday for registration. It emphasizes stating the state of employment, business location, and any additional information to be written on the questionnaire. It advises studying questions and bringing correct answers.
From the pulpit of Temple Baptist Church in Detroit Governor Talmadge of Georgia told about 1400 worshippers that laws have failed to bring happiness and prosperity. He urged decentralization of industry and homesteading unused land as the path to save the country, saying it was homesteading that built America.
Athol Massachusetts reports Herbert D Boutall 69 and his 19-year-old wife welcomed an eight-pound boy on Thursday. The couple who wed in 193% when she was a high school sophomore also had a daughter born in May 1940.
Abbeville June 23 Mr and Mrs Emmett B Stubbs died at their Savannah home within two minutes of each other both victims of heart attacks Mrs Stubbs believed to be shocked by his death Their funeral was held Monday in Savannah
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