THE MACON TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1939 SEVEN 10TORIST IS SHOT IN FOILING HOLDUP Hitch-Hiker Flees When Pistol Is Discharged in Scuffle With H. J. Hilliard Local police last night were search ng for a well-dressed" hitch-hiker who, earlier in the day shot Hilliard. 32. in 811 attempted Hold near here.
Mr. Hilliard said he picked up the at Lorane while en route to Macon, he was to visit his mother. and at Wilma church he Trove on a side road to inspect some property. There he said. the man pulled Mr.
Hilliard's pistol from a rocket of the car and ordered him "stick 'em up." He said he grappled with the roband in the fight the gun was red shooting Mr. Hilliard through he left hand. After the shot the itch hiker fled. Mr. Hilliard then drove to the Wesleyan pharmacy, Rivoli, and telephoned the sheriff's office.
At the Macon hospital he received emergenex treatment and it was disclosed the bullet had not fractured any hand bones. The man was described by Hilliard as about 35 years old, weighing about 140 pounds and was wearing A gray hat and blue suit and gloves. Mr. Hilliard is a former employe of the Georgia Peach Growers' Exchange and has been living in North Carolina recently. DURDEN IS FACING MURDER CHARGES Bibb Farmer Indicted for Slaying Negro Who Formerly Worked on Place The county grand jury ves terday indicted R.
C. Durden. Bibb farmer, for murder and returned true against four other persons charged with lesser crimes, The murder charge against Durden out of the shotgun slaying of Walker. A Negro who once worker Durden, during An altercation at the white man's farm near Franklinton. He is at liberty under bond.
Two indictments each were returned against James Mason and Leon Brown charged with robbery and Bennie Smith was indicted on one robbery county. True bills charging him with cartying a weapon illegally and with shooting at another were returned 4,011181 Cleveland Robertson. CONFERENCE HELD BY FARM LEADERS Program for This Section Will Be Worked Out at Series of 0 Sessions Twenty-two farm men and women from Bibb county met with tural Agent D. F. Bruce yesterday afternoon in the first of a series of meetings to work out a farm program for this section.
The farmers and wives of farmers were invited to the conference by Mr. Bruce and Miss Frances C. Lowe. co county home demonstration agent. Persons attending the meeting will serve as farm leaders in the agricultural program, said Mr.
Bruce. Seeond meeting will be held in the federal building at 2:30 p.m. Monday. "For the next conference each committee member will figure out five farm problems and possible solutions and the entire group will study each set," he explained. From the suggested problems a 8 long-time program will be mapped for.
Bibb county. "if the program is applied on the farm in A practical method." the explained, "it is expected to inagent the net income and raise the crease standard of living for the farmers." Job Compensation Business Better: Distribution of Checks to Unemployed Causes Pickup Number of applicants for claims under the unemployment compensation program has "picked up" since the first, were distributed last week, Martin, local employment pffice service manager, said yesterday. He reported greatest number of claims are being filed this week in Jones by former workers in the canning plant. closed since the pimiento season 1 ended last fall. Mr.
Martin said employers of plants "covered" by the program are eligible for benefits if they worked at all last year. W. H. Shiver and Miss Juanita Ross from the local office are receiving claims in Jones county. Mr.
tin said all checks are mailed directly to recipients from the Atlanta office. Facing U.S. Rum Cases Mrs. M. G.
Martin, U. S. commissioner here. yesterday ordered Frantou. Macon Negresses, held for trial Middlebrooks and Mollie Hampin federal court following arraignment ea charges of alcohol tax law violatica.
TLe women were arrested by City Motorescie Officers D. W. Sapp and W. Carter in Craft's alley. The officers testified they found a gallon of tax-unpaid whisky in a car occupied by the women.
Both were released under $1,000 bonds. F. JOE BISHOP IS IN HOSPITAL F. Joe Bishop, county commissioner and city building inspector. is der observation in the Macon hospital.
He entered the institution Sunday when he began feeling ill effects from a recent fall on the steps of the county courthouse. CHINESE GRADUATE OF MERCER STILL THINKS JAPS WILL LOSE Lincoln Wong Suffers Loss of Possessions But Says Invaders Will Pay A letter describing the hatred which the Chinese hold for the Japanese invaders and showing determination of the former to emerge victorious in the Far Eastern conflict has been received Mercer University. Postmarked at Kowloon, Hongkong, the letter was written to Dr. Spright Dowell, Mercer president, by Lincoln Wong, first Chinese graduate of the institution. "You all must be very much surprised to get this message--a message from an alumnus who has gone through the fire in an inferno and who has taken his being alive as Godsend." was the introductory senof the letter.
Of the capture of Canton, a Chinese stronghold, by the Japanese, Wong "I conld not believe the fact that Canton fell into the hands of our enemies in nine days' time. When I left Canton I noticed nothing in disorder: everyone went about his own business as usual, regardless of the all-day long bombardment. to convince that because of Soon I gathered, sufficient evidence military tactics, our armies had Orderly retreated and put the city's waterworks, electricity supplies, and all the government factories out of repairable condition, either by planting dynamite and blowing them to powder or setting them on fire. Japs Got Supplies "The work was hastily done and I should say poorly done, for at least we ought to burn the city ashes like the Russians did at Moscow when Napoleon and his armies advanced to that very spot. But lo, what we have done -we have left billions of dollars worth of medical equipment, valuable books, and vears of good behind.
Our enemies never expressed their thankfulness on getting these fresh, supplies. Not even a thank you. Those ungrateful brutes In A subsequent paragraph, Wong described the occupation of Canton by conquerors. "Canton was swarmed with Tapanese gunboats and junks at the river's brim. Every night Japs took away valuable and useful war suppliesmedicines, medical equipment, scientifie apparatus, etc.
They put the martial laws in effect at night, thus letting 110 one know of their evil deeds, Of course their alibi would be for military purposes. Among the ruins. I lost 6,000 volumes of my life-collection of books, old and new. Chinese and foreign: my whole fortune is lost. for my fortune is the collection of books.
Yes. everything I left in Canton is no longer in the house I lived in. Gone are my diplomas, master thesis, and other doeuments of personal value. But I am not sorry for it. I hope to make the Japanese pay one day (the day when we win the war).
You may think I am dreaming, Wait until but dreams hear often from come true. you me again." Wong entered Mercer in the fall of 1927 and received his bachelor of arts. degree in the summer of 1930. He married Miss Agnes Mok, who gradluated with a major in dramatic arts from Wesleyan Conservatory here in 1935. They now have a two-year-old son.
Secky. Wong taught school until the war closed his institution. How's Your HEALTH? A NEW ATTACK ON INFANTILE PARALYSIS An entirely new and ingenins attack on the problem of infantile paralysis offers promise for the future. Stanley, of the Rockefeller Institute, and his co-workers have strated that certain viruses lose their disease-producing powers when subjected to the effects of X-rays but retain their powers to induce resistance: or immunity. This technique applied to the virus-cause of infantile paralysis may give 119 811 effective Vaccine against the disease.
Up to the present time we have labored under the dilemma of either employing a modified but living vaccine, which is ever likely to cause the disease (paralysis) in those vaccinated, or dead vaccines which have proven to be of very value. Stanlev's findings, however, promise to cren up the seemingly blocked avenues leading to the production of a safe and effective immunizing agent. The idea of bombarding viruses with X-rays, and thus altering their discase-producing powers, 'is in itself quite enchanting. And yet the practice is in keeping with established techniques. The living-virus now in use, those for example of smallpox and of hydrophobia, a are also composed of modified viruses.
In the case of smallpox the modification of the virus is effected by its implantation and growth in the body of the calf (hence the old name cow pox). The virus of hydrophobia or rabies is modified by exposure to chemicals. The altered virus is incapable of inducing disease, but is still capable of causing the individual vaccinated to develop resistance or immunity. Up to the present time (Stanley's work has not gone beyond the promise stage) we know no method for modifying the virus of infantile paralysis so as to render it both safe and, effective. Beyond this there is nothing to rethe contrary, test of export as representing, progress.
On perience has exploded some of our hopes. There seems to be little value in the zine sulphate nasal spray which--it was thought--would prove an effective chemical bar to the entrance of the virus of infantile paralysis into the human body. (Tomorrow- Whooping Cough Williams Receives Pastors' Welcome At their weekly meeting yesterday Methodist ministers welcomed the Rev, L. E. Williams, released from an Atlanta hospital recently after a throat operation.
The ministers talked about revivai services which will be held this spring, CADETS PROMOTED IN LANIER ROTC Several Change Ranks in MidYear; Thomas Becomes First Lieutenant Cadet Carl Thomas was promoted to A first lieutenant from A second lieutenant in the Lanier for Boys ROTC in the general order published yesterday by Major 0. S. Robles, commandant. Other promotions are: To be second lieutenants, Carl Chapman, Hugh Johstono, Francis Starr, Herman Hatton, Lee Smith. Drew Calhoun and Jeff Tutt.
To be master sergeants, Billy Hemingway, Billy McCowan. Spencer Cork and Allan Northington. Sergeants Named To be first sergeants, Edward Keen, J. P. Holmes, George MeCranie.
Joe Genone, Denny Hobbs, Tom Winchester, Leon Harper, O. H. Nichols and A. T. Green.
To be sergeants. Bill Little, William Burns, Gervis Crawford, Lonnie Davis, George Hunnicutt, Ed Jones, James Johnson, Martin Meadows. William Turpin, Henry W. Richter, William Fisher, George Massenburg, Jasper Hogan, John Hemingway, Theo Volk. Homer Key.
Charles Beacham, Calder Clay, Julian Davis. Louis Smith, Billy Orr, Eugene Brundage and James Williams. To be corporals, James Grier. George Murphy, John Thomas, NelSOn Rodgers, Charles Stewart, Paul Moody, Lucius Greene, E. H.
Cheatham, Henry Kirk, Sandy Andrews, John Blount, Carl James and Alfred Gledhill. Promotions in the band were L. A. Denson to second lieutenant, BilWilcox to first sergeant, Arthur Nims and Robert Wynne to sergeants and C. J.
Fowler to corporal. FIVE SCORE FINISH WORK IN SCHOOLS February Graduates to Receive Their Diplomas at Exercises Next June One hundred and two students graduated from Bibb county schools at the close of the first semester for the current year, Walter P. Jones. school superintendent, announced yesterdar. Of that number 45 were boys who graduated from Lanier and 57 were girls, graduates of A.
L. Miller High school. They will receive diplomas at annual graduation exercises at the close of the last semester next June. The first school term ended last Friday and the last semester opened yesterday. Seven On Honor Roll One boy and six girls made records entitling them to the honor roll.
They were Louise placatherine Grimes. Elaine Ledford, Marjorie Lifsev. Gwendolyn Ann Nottingham. Minnilu Rogers and Lina Maitland Solomon and Samuel Edwin Sapp. Graduates from Lanier: Albert K.
Abel Elmer P. Andrews, John L. Arthur, Samuel 1. Bass, James M. Bentley.
Charles David Brazzeal. Asa Burroughs, Browne Ruffin Chestney Isaac Cohen, Thomas Elvin Colbert Berry, Wiley Coleman Jr. Lorendo William Henry Crowley, Andrew Cumbie William Clement Cunningham, Angus Burr Domingos Seymour Driggers, Jasper Gre-1 gory Elmore Herbert Fowler. Harris Gill. Charlie Frank Griffin.
Robert Cornelious Hardy John Hardeman Heard, James Knight Hogan Jack Wilson Howell. Clif ford Aubrey Joines, George Thomas Jones. Halford Lang. David Ashley Lanier, Wallace George Lumpkin. William Herbert Mabry.
James Stovall Magee Wade Wilson Marsh. Harry Clinton Matthews, Willian Franklin Peavy Jr. William Daniel Pope. Harry Carlton Potts, Jack Coleman Ramsey, James Coleman Ray. Samuel Edwin Sapp, Dickerman Lovick Sanford, Louis Chambless Schell Robert Lee Spiller, Elton L.
Wall. W. H. Watson Jr. Edward Lee Young.
Graduates from Miller: Jean Bernd, Mada Brown, Eloise Mary Brantley, Ola Elizabeth Bullington, Dorothy Manning Calhonn. Willie Bernice Collins, Marion Couey, Lillian Beatrice, shaw. Kathryn Davis, Pauline Dockery, Annie Margaret Eckels, Virginia Fincher, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Catherine Louise Grimes, Katharine Carolyn Hanco*ck. Louise Antoinette Handley, Agnes Heath. Mary Lee Irby, Martha Kaderly.
Margaret Jones, Sidney Marise Laurence, Elaine Ledford, Marjorie Lifsev, Grace Edna Martin. Anne Loudell Mathews. Marjorie McCord. Florrie Mae McCullough. Maude M.
MeDonnell. Ruby McGinty, Dorothy Dunwody McManus, Doris Anne Miller, Alice Mitchell, Lula Mae Moulton. Gwendolyn Ann Nottingham, Juanita Odom, Eva Ruth Odom, Nettie Mae Patterson, Sibyl Phillips, Ora Pope, Kathryn Virginia Raines, Virginia Redding, Gladys Reynolds, Elsie Elizabeth Roberts, Minnilu Smith. Maitland Solomon. Rogers, Mary, Evelyn Schell, Pauline Camille Spruce, Ellen Stevens, Lora Austine Thompson.
Eleanor Reese Vance, Nettie Lucile Warren, Linda Thomas Weller, Roselyn Elaine White, Charlotte Ruth Woodruff, Carolyn Virgin Young, Sarah Elizabeth Young. Gatliff Service Led by Williams Funeral services for Benjamin F. Gatliff. former Macon police officer who died Saturday night after an illness of several months, were held in the chapel of Hart's Mortuary at 3 p.m. yesterday.
The Rev. W. Worth Williams, pastor of the Mable White Baptist church, of which he was a member, officiated and burial was in Juliette, Pallbearers were W. S. Stripling, H.
J. Bowden. J. T. Avant, J.
W. Burden and W. G. Evans. Mr.
Gathff was a native of Monroe county but had made his home in Macon for 25 years. He was a police officer and detective in this eity for 12 years, and had been engaged as a contractor since from force, Negro's Identity Remains Mystery Elderly Man Struck by Automobile Dies of Injuries Coroner Lester H. Chapman said last night he had been unable to identify an elderly Negro killed in a highway accident at the foot of Dunlap hill on the Jeffersonville1 road early Monday morning. The Negro was hit by an mobile driven by C. F.
Frasuer, of Gordon, during a blinding rainstorm. officers said. Meanwhile the coroner prepared to bury another aged Negro killed in a similar accident on the Perry road earlier in the month. The coroner said the Negro's body had been held in a local mortuary while efforts were made to identify it. Mr.
Chapman said the Negro. was believed to be Charlie Morris of Dooly county, but identification was not definite. TRICE IS BURIED, REPORTS AWAITED Funeral Services for Slain Young Man Held at Thomaston; Clues Sought Efforts to find clues in the mysterions slaving Saturday night of Zack T. Trice Jr. continned last night following funeral services for the victim yesterday afternoon.
Services were held at the home of Mr. Trice's parents near Thomaston and burial was in the Trice cemetery. George Stoves and the Rev. J. Seaborn Winn of Macon officiated.
Pallbearers were Prentice Harp. Summers Noel. Jack Bentley, Sidney Tidwell, Charles Lines and Derry Minton. Mr. Trice was shot to death in a hold-up at the Sinclair Refining Company office on Hammond street just about dark Saturday, He was assistant manager.
Police still had not heard last night from ballistic experts in Washington on a bullet taken from Mr. Trice's body and 8 pistol obtained by county officers soon after the shooting. Three suspects and a Negro employed by the Sinclair company are being held pending the investigation. MERITS ACCORDED AT LANIER DRILL Scores of Cadets Are Cited for Neatness at Weekly Inspection Here By WALLACE RICHTER Col. James Pappas, Lieut.
Cols. John Miller, Ernest Saloom and Albert McElmurray, Capts. Merrill Trawick and Duncan Walker and First Lieut. Billy Miller are Regimental Staff officers who received merits for neatness at the Lanier for Boys inspection yesterday. Other officers who received merit are Capts.
Ernest Killett. Jesse Cobb. Richard Waxelbanm. George Kahdy, W. J.
Cousins. Billy Dodd. Addison Webb and William Saloom, First Lieuts. George Davis and Calvin Worrill. Second Lients.
Billy Pope, Ardell Hollis, Eddie Farr, Felix Roberts, Henry Shinholser and John Dennis and First Sergt. Joe Genone. Other cadets of the ROTC cited are Kenneth Powell. Benny Griffith, Lucius Green, Paul Holston. Tom Hartley, Marvin Becker.
Malcolm Dixon, James Berg, Dan McManus, Eugene Chambliss, Randolph Ragan, William Moulton, Joe Genone, Franklin Tutt, Albert Lines, Horace Strayer, Howard Bailey, Dewey Hunnientt, Frank Smith, Graham Pearce, Billy Malone, Henry Jarrett, George Head, Jack Weath-1 erly. Joe MeGoldrick, Roger Simons. Stewart Holt, Marion Wood, Everett Hanco*ck, Claude Reid and Charles Gavin. Key is Neat Company B. Homer Key, Charles Beacham, Wallace Richter, John Hemingway, Ed Muecke.
William Sutton, Amason, Jack Holiday, James Carter. Ostell Odom, Eugene Brundage, Luneal Mosely, Henry Harden. Ernest Mason, Stuart Schwartz, Calder Clay, Winship MeLean, Perry Coley and Harry Newberry. Company Billy Higgison, Paul Ross. Fletcher Hanson.
Richard Hanberry, Cleveland Schell. Kenneth Stevens, Charlie Dye. William Vance, Lovick Corn. J. S.
Murrow and W. 0. Brown. Company D. John Reeves, John Roberts, Billy Sheftall, Richard Bryant, Smith, MeLucas HardeLewis, Scott.
J. R. Simmons, man, Charles Brooks. James Johnson, Bill Gideon. Roy Duncan, Warren MeDonald.
Jack Watson, Phillip Crutchfield. Quentin, Garrett. Alex Scarborough, Bateman, Herman Pell. Fred Smith, Bill Richardson, Fleming Childs, Jimmie Thomas. Walter Israel, Claude Shelverton, John Thomas, 0.
C. Beasley, Dennis Rich. Bernard Lindsey, Prentice Knight, Earl Moseley and Lawton Finney. Company Edward Minshew. MeKibben Lane, Edward Dennis, Albert Bentley, Roy Ricks, George Lindsey, Leonard Kaplan, Earl Pearce, Williamson, Ben Lyles.
John O'Conner, Ben Stewart, Billy Sandefur, Jasper Hogan. Sandy Andrews, W. S. Stripling, Elmo Simmons, Richard West. Don Beaty, Ralph Durr.
Rabun Wood. George Forbes, Theo Volk, Rudolph Smith, and Fred Lindsey. Company Berkeley Cheney. John Sheehan, Roy McCowen, James Wright, James Edwards, Leroy Peaco*ck, A. R.
Wellons. James Matthews, Jack Horne, Murrell Woods. Holloway, Billy Fisher, Bobby Stevens. John Broom. Ed Corr.
Raymond Smith. Francis Robles, Joe Gaultney, Albert Jennings. Roberts Pendleton. Hayes Trawick, Olin Griffin and Jack Collins. Non-commissioned officers of the non-ROTC cited are.
John Heard, Sam Crossley, George Farmer. Edgar Barksdale. Dick Wade, Eldred Bloodworth, Allen Johnston and William Donovan. Cadets of the hand who received merits are Russell Willman and (Charles Deaton, Sunday School Workers Gather in Macon Today DR. W.
H. FAUST Georgia Baptist Sunday school officers and workers will assemble at the First Baptist church at 10 a. m. today for the fourth statewide conference. The meeting will begin with reports on southwide, statewide and a3- sociational work and will continue through tomorrow morning.
Program today will include addresses by Southerl Baptist Sunday school officers and departmental conferences led by associational heads. N. Barnette of Nashville. associate secretary of the Southern Baptist Sunday school administration department T. W.
Tippett of Atlanta, Georgia Sunday school secretary; Harold E. Ingraham of Nashville, southern secretary, and T. L. Holcomb, executive secretary of the Sunday school board in Nashville, will speak this morning. Faust to Speak Mr.
Barnette and Dr. Tippett will give reports, Dr. Ingraham will make an address on Enlargement for Evangelism. Dr. Holcomb will speak on Bible Teaching for Evangelism.
William P. Phillips of Nashville. secretary of the young people's and adult departmental work, will lead one of the group conferences this afternoon and speak later this evening on Everyday Evangelism Among Young People and Adults. Dr. W.
H. Faust. Georgia secretary of evangelism, is listed as one of the speakers for tonight. His subject will be Evangelism. Mr.
Ingraham's and Dr. Holcomb's addresses will precede adjourment for a luncheon at noon. The group will reassemble for departmental conferences at 1:45 p. m. Conferences and Baptist workers who will conduct them include those for general associational officers led by Mr.
Ingraham and Dr. Tippett: for associate superintendents in charge of training, N. R. Drummond and Dr. Tippett; associational adult RABID ANIMAL ATTACKS DOGS Dozen Pets Bitten Before Police Stop Foray A maddog was reported to have bitten about 12 dogs in several neighborhoods yesterday morning within two hours before being shot by police at Forsyth street and Hardeman avenue.
The dog, black of mixed breed. is the second maddog reported here within a week. The other was in Ingleside. A local veterinarian said there are 30 dogs in his hospital at 659 Broad" receiving inoculation against rabies. Half of them are being treated for bites from the Ingleside dog.
He advised all dog owners to take precautions by having their pets inoculated. The incubation period is from 7 to 30 days. BIRTHDAY PARTY IS SUCCESS HERE Crowd at Auditorium Entertain- ment Is Estimated at From 12 to 15 Hundred Between 12 and 15 hundred Macon and Middle Georgia persons combined charity, with, auditorium pleasure last party night in ob At servance of the president's birthday. High and low and old and young gathered in the big horseshoe of the balcony to listen and look and others just as varied in origin mingled on the big floor. Abe Lyman and his celebrated Californians furnished music for dancing.
In addition, a program of short speeches and a program of local talent were presented. A feature was Gov. F. D. Rivers.
who came here with Mrs. Rivers and party to help make the party a success. While General Chairman Stanley Elkan said an estimate on income was impossible, unofficial observers figured the "take" would run more than a dollar per person. All connected with the party dubbed it A success. Exams Are Slated By Civil Service The United States civil service board will conduct competitive examinations to fill positions AS junior professional assistants in 22 departMiss Julia E.
Greene, civil ments. service secretary at the local post office announced yesterday. Existing vacancies range from administrative technician, agronomist and economist to forester and statistician. Full information can be obtained from Miss Greene at her office in the post office building. GEORGIAN GETS FORTUNE NEW YORK, Jan.
30 (P) Trust funds totalling $1.235.000 in New York city bonds were bequeathed by Charles Frank Pope in will filed today. The value of his estate given formally at "more than 000.7 A bequest of $30.000 outright was made to the Rev. Karl Reiland of Lindale, Ga. SUBURBAN VOTERS WILL MEET TODAY Association Will Hold Session on Mezzanine Floor of Dempsey at 4 P. M.
Members of the Suburban Voters' Association, formed Saturday to combat a proposal for extension of Macon's city limits, will hold their second meeting on the mezzanine floor of Hotel Dempsey at 4 p.m. today. District chairmen designated the last meeting are expected to turn in the names of persona signed to a petition asking. Bibb legislators for A hearing on the proposed amendment to the city charter. Leagne members contend the legislators have no right to bring them into the city limits without a referendum.
J. E. Heard. Lynmore place, is president, and H. T.
Conner, Ingleside, secretary of the organization. Bibb legislators have promised members of the league they will give them A hearing on the proposed bill, which bad not been drawn when the association was formed. MR. AND MRS. WONG KIWANIS TO STAGE ANNUAL PROGRAM Burlesque District School Will Be Feature of Club's Entertainment The Macon Kiwanis club will entertain with its annual Ladies' night program in the Walter Little room of the Hotel Dempsey at 7:30 p.m.
today. Features of the program will be a burlesque district school. with members of the club and their wives as pupils and O. B. Newman, recently elected vice president, as the teacher.
Harry Schofield. director of the Little Theater, assisted in rehearsals for the school. A quartet Mercer University will sing, accompanied at the piano by Lee Wood. Presidents of all other civic clubs and their wives will be guests. Another guest will be Joseph Shaw.
Atlanta, past district governor of Kiwanis. A dance will follow the dinner and program, it was learned from HalT. Anderson, recently-elected president. NEWELL DETAINED IN DEATH OF WIFE Funeral Services for Mrs. Winnie Millions Newell to Be Held Here Today YORK.
S. Jan. 30 (P)-Robert Newell. 35-year-old cireus performer, was ordered held for grand jury ACtion by a coroner's jury today after an inquest into the death of his wife. Mrs.
Winnie Newell also A circus performer, here last Saturday night. The jury returned A verdict that the 33-year-old acrobat "came to her death from A broken neck and an injury to the spine." Newell, who was arrested after the finding of his wife's body in her trailer home on the winter quarters lot of the Barnett Brothers cireus. made 110 statement, but witnesses quoted him as having said Mrs. Newell suffered her injuries in a fall. W.
Rogers, owner and general manager of the circus, testified that Newell and the latter's engaged in a discussion in Rogers' trailer, and then went to the trailer, whence. he said, there immediately came sound of a commotion "like some one was being hit or was falling." Newell, the owner told the for jury, had not been with the circus several months. "The first I knew of his being back." he said. "was when I went to trailer and found Bob and Winmy nie there. Bob seemed be excited.
when Winnie told him 'Come to trailer and we'll talk it my went outside and in a few seconds Newell rushed back into my trailer and struck me a glancing blow. "Winnie came in and grabbed him. They then went to her he trailer started nearby. to When in the doorway cursing me. In a minute or less I heard a commotion like someone was bein ghit or was falling." Rogers said he summoned eireus and upon finding Mrs.
unconscious or dead, notified employes, officers. woman's body was sent to Macon, for burial. Funeral Here Today Funeral services for Mrs. Winnie Millions Newell. who died in York.
S. C. January 28. will be held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 3 p.m. today.
Dr. A. C. Baker, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church. will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers will he Thomas Epps, Wilbur Epps, G. H. Parker, C. D. Littleton, Sam Nipper, and Dallas Ross.
Mrs. Newell was born in Macon and attended public schools here. Survivors are her husband, Robert Newell; 8 daughter, Mary Francis Holley; parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Millions; a brother, W. T. Millirons; a sister, Mrs. Gretchen Hambrick; grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Millirons, all of Macon, and several uncles and aunts. She was a member of the Bellevie Baptist church.
Moody Institute's Work Is Outlined Baptist ministers heard E. L. Wolslagel of Chicago describe of the Moody Bible Institute yesterday. fie represents the institute and spoke to Baptist ministers at their meeting yesterday. at the First Baptist church.
Sibley Burnett of Nashville, outlined plans for daily vocation Bible schools next summer. He said the goal is to hold a school in each association and have accurate 'reports sent to the state office. W. P. PHILLIPS supervisors, W.
P. Phillips, assisted by J. Fred Eden Jr. Associational young people's superintendents. A.
V. Washburn, assisted by Mrs. T. W. Tippett: associational extension superintendents, Herman L.
King and Miss Susie Eubanks: intersuperintendents, Mary Virginia Lee and Mrs. Richard Misty Parish. Junior superintendents, Mrs. J. J.
Heard: primary superintendents, Miss Mildren Crowley: beginner perintendents, Miss Blossom ThompSON cradle roll workers. Miss Louvenia Littleton, and Vacation Bible school leaders. Sibley C. Burnett. N.
R. Drummond, associate secre: tary of the educational department in Nashville, will open the afternoon assembly program with a talk on Forward in Training. Andrew Allen of Nashville, elementry department secretary, will follow. speaking on What Manner of Child. Other takers this afternoon include Miss Lee on Winning Intermediates, and Mr.
Phillips. A dinner conference for associational Sunday school superintendents is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Night Session Planned Tonight at 7 o'clock the departmental conferences will re-convene in classes similar to those scheduled for this afternoon. W. Merritt.
Georgia Baptist executive secretary-treasurer, will open the assembly in the First church auditorium at 8 p.m. with an address on The State Mission Board in Evangelism. Later Dr. Faust will speak, Frank co*ckran will talk on Testimony Concerning an Associational Evangelistic Program, and Roland Q. Leavell on The Southwide Baptist Revival of 1939.
Sunday school workers from 68 Baptist associations in the state are expected to attend the conference, which has been arranged by members of the Georgia and Southern Baptist Sunday school boards. SCOUTS ARRANGE FOR ANNIVERSARY Varied Activities Planned in Observance of Organization's 29th Birthday Boy Scouts of the Central Georgia council will observe the national Scout anniversary week Feb. 8-14 with local programs, hikes and the annual rally Feb. 9. A radio broadcast br President Roosevelt and Dr.
James E. West. national Scout secretary, will mark the 29th birthday of American Boy Sconts on Feb. 8. The council-wide rally scheduled for Thursday week will be the 20th annual indoor program.
Last year about 5.000 persons saw the rally and A crowd, estimated at several thousand not be seated in the Macon auditorium. Church Attendance Arranged Feb. 10 will be observed as school day for Scouts and troops are planning to present programs at several schools. Window displays, posters and Scout demonstrations will be arranged in downtown sections. Feb.
12 has been designated as Boy Scout Sunday, when troops will attend church and church school services in uniforms Evening services in a number of local churches will consist of programs related to Scout work. Special hikes And campfire exercises will mark Scouts to the Woods day, Feb. 13. when troops will honor parents Scouts. Troop parties will climax the week on Scout Fun day Feb.
14. Principal event of the observance will be the rally in the auditorium. with Scouts from more than 30 troops participating. Only boys registered as Scouts Feb. 1 who are under 18 years of age are eligible for the rally.
Various Events Arranged Entry blanks will be filed at the Scout headquarters before Feb. 6. Events scheduled for the rally include an inspection of troops. equipment race, wall scaling. knot tying and pyramid building.
In addition to the points awarded in the events the troops will be judged on monthly reports made since last April. Scores for monthly reports will be based on percentage of troop meetings held. percentage of attendance, rank, percentage of troop perceutage of Scouts advancing, 111 ship going 011 hikes and camps and the general troop efficiency. "By the system for this year the rally will include than commore petitive events. said Carl Sullivan.
Scout executive, "and the troops will receive recognition for work done throughout the year." CHASSIS BOUGHT FOR ARMY POST Adjutant George Bivins of the local Salvation Army post announced the purchase of a truck chassis yesterday to fit the school bus body donated by A. C. Luce of the Bluebird Body Company in Fort Valley. The chassis is a 1937 Chevrolet. It was.
bought at a local motor company "at a reduced rate," according to Adjutant Bivans. The new bus, which will accomodate 30, replaces the trailer that has been used for transportation and from Sunday school and meetto ings. It will be reads for use by Thursday. Training School Sentences Given Boys Will Spend Five Years in Washington Federal Judge Bascom S. Deaver vesterday sentenced two juvenile federal law violators to five-year terms in the National Training School for Boys at Washington and imposed sentences on two others.
Given training school terms were James Luke Bennett, charged with burglarizing the Canton post office. and Thomas Payne, charged with violation of the Dyer act concerning interstate transportation of stolen automobiles. Both cases were from the Athens division of the Middle district court. The judge ordered Marvin A. Pugh of Upson county to serve four months in the federal prison camp at Montgomery, Ala.
for violation of probation sentence and Edmund Jackson was placed on probation for an offense in connection with the Dyer I act. Probation Office Gathers $5,520.10 More Than 200 Persons Get Leniency During 1938 Bibb county probation officers collected $5.520.10 from persons serting probation sentences in 1938. the year-end report of Probation Officer Harry E. Nottingham revealed. During the year 221 persons were placed on probation and 11 probation sentences were revoked.
In 1937. persons who were placed on probation numbered 116 and $3,321.05 was collected. J. Harry Burns, deputy clerk of court and assistant probation officer, said 7.360 fine payments have been received by the office since it WAS established in 1933. PHILLIPS RITES SET FOR TODAY Former Macon Resident Dies in Jacksonville, Fla.
Funeral services for Algy Lee Phillips, former resident of Macon, who died in Jacksonville, Saturafter An illness of several months, will be held at the graveside in the Liberty cemetery at 11 a.m. today. Elder Henry Swain will officiate. Mr. Phillips was a native of Pierce county, but had made his home in Macon from 1892 to 1916.
Since leaving here he had been associated with the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company. LAWSON, AUSTIN CAUGHT IN RAID Federal alcohol tax agents arrested two Bibb county Negroes in A raid 011 an unregistered whisky distillars about nine miles Northwest of MAcon yesterday afternoon. The Negroes, Stephen Lawson and Robert Austin. were ordered held for trial in federal court when arraigned before Mrs. M.
G. Martin, United States commissioner, here. They went to jail on failure to furnish bonds of $1,000 each. Officers said A distillery and quantity of tax-unpaid whisky were confiscated in the raid. Criminal Calendar Is Drawn by Long Solicitor Oscar I.
Long of City court has assigned 50 criminal cases for trial Monday and Tuesday of next week, court officials said yesterday. Judge Cecil A. Baldwin said no civil cases will be tried in February due to the short time until the regular court term unless A sufficient number of requests that cases be taken up is received. Reserve Recruits Brought Up to 33 Thirty-three ex-regular soldiers have enlisted in the regular army reserve corps at the reerniting station Staff Sergt. Paul L.
Dever said yesterday. Of the number, five were natives of Bibb county. four of Laurens county. and two each of Twiggs, Spalding and Peach counties. Eighteen other counties contributed one each.
The reserve is organized to serve as re-enforcement for the regular army in time of war. Felton Wood of Route 1. Ocilla, enlisted in the reserve yesterday, Sergeant Dever said. Wood served three years in the Sth Fiel dartillery at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu. Hawaii, and was honorably discharged in Brooklyn.
N. June 17, 1938,.
