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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1931
Page
2
The article catalogs diverse items from the Times-Enterprise issue, including weather jokes, local political remarks, and road project discussions. It covers highway bids, county road work financing, gas tax allocations, and state and county coordination on road paving priorities.
Work has started on the Thomasville Moultrie Road grade, under a state contract to grade about sixteen miles from Thomasville to the Thomas County line near Coolidge. Approved work includes fence removal and right of way clearing before actual grading and construction.
Thomasville Georgia June 9 1931 regular session with all members present. Petitions from Rev Robb White classified paupers referred for attention. Deputy Sheriff H A White killed in line of duty. $150 burial aid proposed and then referenced to chairs for consideration. Road matters and financial plans discussed with insurance and courthouse improvements approved in part.
Ardmore Okla June 18 The murder trial of former deputy sheriffs W F Guess and Cecil Crosby for the slaying of Emilio Cortes Rubio cousin of the Mexican president and Manuel Garcia Gomez was set for June 24 by District Judge John B Ogden. The county attorney said the Cortes Rubio case would be tried first. They are free on 25000 bond.
The bodies of Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez, killed by a deputy sheriff in Ardmore Oklahoma, arrived in Morelia under government escort. Thousands gathered at the railway station in an orderly scene. officials attended while the boys' parents stayed home. Funeral services are set for tomorrow.
Washington reports 1931 Russian cotton plantings at 16,178,000 acres, up 60.9 percent from 1930 and 8.7 percent above the published 1931 plan. Carl Williams, cotton member of the farm board, warns Southern growers face ongoing competition from Soviet farmers in the world market. U.S. reports expect a 10 percent cut in American plantings as the farm board urges large reductions to clear the domestic surplus.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Powers, 74, was sentenced to life imprisonment after a second murder conviction in the insurance plot slaying of James W. Parks, an 18 year old printer. Prosecutors aimed to re-sentend Earl Manchester to death as the actual slayer.
Java's native architecture rooted in age old Oriental farms is rapidly being modernized with new business and apartment construction in Batavia.
Representative Dan Chappell of Dade county and two Miamians were freed of possessing 12 quarts of intoxicating liquor at a hearing before U S Commissioner R B Marsh in Tallahassee. Customs patrolman H G Dietrich had found the liquor in Chappell's car en route from Miami.
Arnold Hill of New York City warned at the Urban League conference that unemployment is driving negroes toward communism. He said white and black workers are divided along a widespread battle line from New York to Seattle.
The commissioner dismissed the case, labeling it highly peculiar and suggesting it appears framed due to the absence of probable cause for a search.
In Manchester England a photograph of Princess Elizabeth appears on mercerized lawn handkerchiefs as part of National Cotton Week efforts to boost cotton sales. The initiative leverages royal recognition to raise interest and purchases for cotton products.
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