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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1933
Page
2
Taxpayers angry at what they call sophomoric behavior at the City College of New York hurled overripe tomatoes at left wing student demonstrators. The dispute over instructors and dress led to a street clash and a student general strike as tensions flared.
Savannah district ends milk war as prices return to normal. Joseph Pitchler of the Better Milk Co operative League of Savannah announces new price scale: quarts 18 cents, pints 7 cents, wholesale to stores 10 and a half cents per quart.
Americus Ga June 7 Mrs Myrtle Massey held in Sumter jail with her father and brother in law in the Padgett slaying case. Deputy Walter Chappell says Massey drove the car to and from the crime scene and that the father W D Arnold instigated the killing while Jack Hicks was the shooter. All deny involvement.
Washington June 7 Hearings in Atlanta June 14 on a proposed milk trade agreement centering on Georgia were under consideration by officials of the department of agriculture. An application was filed by Fred Bridges with Farm Adjustment Act administrators. Messages from Governor Talmadge and Senator Russell urged expedited hearings amid an existing emergency claim.
Treasury reports June 5 receipts of 15,147,003.15 dollars and expenditures of 40,012,941.37 dollars leaving a balance of 318,367,759.33 dollars. Customs duties for the first five days of June amounted to 3,792,663.64 dollars.
Police recover six week old girl abducted a week earlier by a woman described as a lady in white. The child was discovered in the residence of Virginia Rogers, wife of a city welfare department employee, after Rogers claimed she took the infant to help it receive medical care.
A fatal car crash near Waukesha followed by a campus slaying and a death by self infliction at Milwaukee Downer College. Leonard Nelson, 29, killed himself after a man Gustave Peterson, 27, was shot dead. Alvin Neilson, 21, died from crash injuries. Two injured: Jeanette Roszak 17 and Erna Neilson 19.
The Treasury urged the public to subscribe about one billion dollars to fund a large recovery public works program. Secretary Woodin invited small investors to participate with subscriptions as low as ten thousand dollars and reserved the right to accept them. The issue includes five year 2 percent notes and nine month certificates, aiming to finance maturing debt and public works.
New York June 7 Fifty years of meritorious educational service were recognized with a Columbia University medal for useful or exceptional service. Dr Lawton Bryan Evans of Richmond County Augusta GA received the award at Columbia’s 179th commencement exercises from Dr Nicholas Murray Butler. The citation praises fifty years as Georgia state school superintendent and a strong reputation for public service.
Local gossip covers visitors from Albany Clearwater and Lake Alfred including Mr G G Buchanan and Mr B F Megahee. Socials note guests at Braswell home and Florida trips of the Houghs while Beaty Contest at Rose Theatre showcases thirty two contestants for Thomasville fairest girl.
In Birmingham Alabama June 7 battle lines form over the prohibition issue as repealists and anti repealists organize. Anti Saloon League officials from nine southern states plan a Dixie centered meeting with F Scott McBride and Bishop James Cannon Jr. expected. A statewide rally in Homewood notes Alabama may be first to vote July 18. Mississippi groups unite in Jackson to push repeal and legalization of beer.
Macon Georgia on June 7 real estate dealer Thomas W. Stokes learned his daughter Juanita won a Wesleyan Conservatory scholarship. Moments later W C Livingstons daughter Martha was announced as a Wesleyan College scholar. Both families received staff kudos.
Ten orphans from Macon Georgia travel by train to New York for a two week Catskills vacation as guests of the Edwin Gould Foundation. The group, selected for deportment and scholarship, will visit a Gould home in the Bronx and then proceed to Windham on June 17.
The passage notes medals reserved for alumni who have shown distinction and public spirit, recognizing an administrator and an orator among notable contributors to the institution.
Atlanta announces a campaign to enforce the automobile tax law with the appointment of special deputies across Georgia. The drive cites many 1932 tags still in use and lists appointees including Harbour Sugar Valley Smith Bremen Tucker Kingston Cobb Watkinsville Bailey Griffin Candler Flanigan Midville Jones Macon Kinney Fort Valley Pope Dublin Sealey Cuthbert Thompson Albany Judson Fitzgerald Johnson Young Broxton Smith Guyton Irwin Ludowici.
Brunswick Georgia June 7 J A Harris general manager of the Georgia Industrial Home Macon awoke to see a negro escaping through a transom with $50 from the guest’s trouser pocket. Harris sounded the alarm as the thief slid away pursued by a hotel employee. David Pugh later said the thief disappeared before police questioning. The man is held in the city jail.
In Atlanta a series of cases testing the new beer ordinance began in criminal court. Jim Falk, Central Avenue operator, was acquitted last Friday. Fourteen defendants appeared before Judge Jesse M. Wood with pleas of not guilty. trials scheduled across the week.
Pecora presses counsel with pointed questions as stock transfer details are examined. The exchange highlights ongoing scrutiny and the legal process surrounding the transfers.
In a Senate inquiry into J P Morgan and Company tied to the Van Sweringen railroad empire, O P Van Sweringen disclosed that he and partner Mo had invested one million dollars in 1916 to begin transportation ventures. He described forming general securities and Geneva securities corporations to transfer stock to holding firms to exploit income tax exemptions.
Atlanta reporters say thirty south Georgia counties will return 7,000 convicts from road work to state custody within days as highway funds are tied up by Governor Talmadge. About 3,000 felons and 3,500 misdemeanants plus 540 department workers face reassignment amid funding disputes and stalled payrolls.
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