of of of Ron 1 OBITUARIES THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES: CHATTANOOGA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938. TRI-STATE NEWS HARRY M'FARLAND DIES IN HOSPITAL Lived Here More Than Fifty Years--Formerly Served as Township Official. Harry: L. McFarland, 77, former official of the township of Missionary Ridge and a resident of Chattanooga for more than fifty years, died in a hospital yesterday afternoon following short illness. Mr.
McFarland, a native of Ohio, was at one time prominent in the business and civic life of the city. He was formerly manager of the Chattanooga office of the Bell Telephone company, later engaging in the insurance business. He was a member of the Pilgrim Congregational church, Fidelity Lodge 558, F. and A. Keystone Lodge 208, R.
A. and a charter member of Park Lodge 75, Knights of Pythias. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. A. M.
Day, of Chattanooga, and Mrs. W. G. Saunders, of Detroit; a son, J. E.
McFarland, of Fort Thomas, and four grandchildren, Archie and Nellie Ruth Day, J. C. McFarland and Edith Ross Saunders. body is at the Page-Hancock Puneral home. Funeral plans will be announced.
James Allen Pettigrew. James Allen Pettigrew, 77, died at 7:40 o'clock Sunday morning at his home Fayette, Ga, Surviving are his wife; three sisters, Mrs. Amelia Pettigrew Dunn, of La Fayette; Mrs. A. Pettigrew Rosser, of Chattanooga, and Mrs.
Alice, Pettigrew Dunwoody, of La Fayette; brother, the Rev. William Pettigrew. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at Center Point Baptist church, Rev. the W. L.
Mavity and the Rev. W. W. Cash officiating. Interment in Center Point cemetery, Pallbearers will be the nephews, Ira Pettigrew, Jesse Pettigrew, Luke Pettigrew, William Pettigrew, Ray Pettigrew, and Julius Newsome.
In charge J. Avery Bryan company. Mrs. Bessie Baumgardner. Mrs.
Bessie L. Baumgardner, 38, wife of George E. Baumgardner, 2608 Lockwood avenue, died yesterday afternoon in a Chattanooga sanitarium. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Marguerite and Georgia; five Clyde, Charles, Lewis and Nathan Baumgardner, of Chattanooga. and Robert Baumgardner, of the United marine corps; her parents.
Mr. Mrs. W. DeSha, of states, Birchwood: four sisters, Mrs. W.
M. Rogers, Mrs. W. A. Pendergrass, Mrs.
Ernest. Birkholz and Mrs. Luther Cartwright, and three brothers, Clyde, Richard 1 and Frank DeSha, all of Chattanooga. Funeral services will be held at the Chamberlain Avenue Baptist church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. A.
A. McClanahan, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. Pallbearers will be Carl Pendergrass, Frank Richey, Ray Scarbrough, R. A.
King. John Daugherty and John Frantz. The pallbearers are requested to meet at the Page-Hancock Funeral home at 3 p.m. Mrs. John K.
Tipton. Mrs. John K. Tipton. owner and operator of the Tipton Tourist home at 2011 McCallie avenue, died at an early hour yesterday morning in local hospital.
Surviving are her husband, John K. Tipton; two daughters, Mrs. Marguerite Adamson and Mrs. G. G.
Hughes; three sons, John, Frank and Kenneth Tipton; one sister, Mrs. W. M. Burrell: one brother, J. W.
Cunningham, all of Chattanooga. Funeral services, conducted by Russell Betts, reader, First Church of Christ Scientist, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the Turner-Williams Funeral home. Interment will be in Forest Hills cemetery. Pallbearers are R. H.
Burger, F. B. Englehardt, Thomas Hilton, L. H. Bull, J.
W. Henry and C. T. Howland; arrangements by TurnerWilliams funeral home. Jesse Eldridge.
Funeral services for Jesse Eldridge, 76, prominent Hamilton county farmer, who died Saturday afternoon. will be held at his Soddy home at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, the Revs. J. W. Davenport and J.
E. Hixson officiating. Pallbearers will be W. M. Varner, Willis Quinn, J.
D. and G. C. Eldridge, W. R.
Clift and Judge Roark. Interment Presbyterian cemetery, Coulter in charge. Deaths ADAMS-TOM, Daisy. ALEXANDER-OLIVER Chattanooga. BAUMGARDNER-MRS.
BESSIE, Chattanooga. BEATY- 77, Jamestown, EISENBERG-HARVEY Chattanooga; GRIFFITH-MRS. CLEMENTINE Chattanooga. HOLCOMB-MRS. MARGARET, HiXson.
KNIGHT-ESTEL, Rock M'CLANAHAN-ALEX Birchwood. MULLICAN-MRS. LICETTA, 83, near McMinnville. STOWARY- 61, Jamestown, Tenn. TIPTON-MRS.
JOHN Chattanooga. TURNER- 68, Jamestown, Tenn. Page-Hancock Ambulance Service McCallie at Beech 2-1164 CHATTANOOGA STUDIO Successor to See A. P. Colvard, Ino the FINISHED largest disple MENTS In Chattanoos MONU 1246 Market St.
F. W. Wichman, Mgt. Phone 6-8844 DIES AT HOSPITAL HARRY L. M'FARLAND.
JUDGE CHAMBERS DEAD AT. LEBANON Was Leading Figure in the State's Legal Circles for Half -Century. LEBANON, Jan. 9 Judge William Richard Chambers, former dean of Cumberland university law school and for more than half a century a leading figure in Tennessee legal circles, died at his home today. He was 78, The last of the pioneer instructors who made Cumberland's one-year law course nationally known, Judge Chambers held degrees from Vanderbilt and Cumberland universities.
The latter also conferred upon him the honorary doctor of laws degree in 1925. Although he maintained an office in Nashville until 1920, Judge Chambers became affiliated with Cumberland in 1920 when he was named professor of law. He became dean in 1924, continuing in that office until May, 1933. He retired from his professorship in December, 1934. Judge Chambers was a member of Tennessee's house of representatives, 1897-1899, and of the state senate from 1899 until 1901.
JOHN GRUELLE, WRITER AND CARTOONIST, DIES MIAMI SPRINGS, Jan. 9 (P). -John Gruelle, 57, cartoonist and writer, died at his home here today of a heart attack. He had been ill several weeks. Survivors including the widow, Mrs.
Myrand two sons, Worth and Richard." Gruelle came here from Norwalk, Conn. Funeral services were set for tomorrow, with burial plans to be announced later. who drew a page of comics for the New York Herald Tribune showing the character, "Brutus," was born Dec. 22, 1880, at Arcola, Ill, He began his career as a newspaper cartoonist in 1899 at Indianapolis, where his political sketches appeared in the Sun, the Star and the Sentinel. Later he created political sketches for the Cleveland (O.) Press and for a syndicate.
Gruelle was the winner in 1910 of a $2,000 award offered by the New York Herald for the best comic character to be used in a feature, and continued to that full pace paper until 1921. His work had appeared the New York Herald Tribune since 1928. Gruelle was widely known also for his writings. "Raggedy Ann," best known of his books, sold more than 3,000,000 copies. Mrs.
Clementine C. Griffith. Mrs. Clementine C. Griffith, 80, daughter of the late Rev.
Samuel W. Hyden, pioneer Methodist minister, died at the home of her son, Ralph C. Griffith, 1312 Duncan avenue, at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Mrs.
a Griffith had been a resident of Chattanooga for the past twentyfive years and was a lifelong member of the Methodist church. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. George W. Martin, of Chattanooga, and Mrs. J.
W. Kizer, of Maryville: four sons, Ralph C. and Loyd Griffith. of Chattanooga; Roy, of Lenoir City, and Fred Griffith, of Philadelphia, fifteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild; one sister, Mrs. Nora Parham, of Knoxville, and one brother, Maurice Hyden, of Knoxville.
Her body is at the Smith Funeral home. Short funeral services will be held at the Smith chapel at 9:30 a.m. today, with the Revs. Frank Hamilton and Joe E. Hampton officiating.
Another service will held the Friends church at Friendsville, at 2:30 p.m. today, the Rev. E. H. Ogle officiating.
Grandsons will act as pallbearers. Interment in Friendsville cemetery. Mrs. Margaret Holcomb. Mrs.
Margaret Holcomb, 78, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Rawlston, near Hixson, Saturday night. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs.
Rawlston, and one son, 1 E. W. Holcomb. Funeral services will be held fromthe Hixson Methodist church at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, the Revs. M.
M. Youngblood and Henry Dawson officiating. Active pallbearers will be G. W. Holcomb, T.
J. Holcomb, C. H. Holcomb, F. Hixson, Olin Hixson and Arthur Adams.
Honorary pallbearers will be Mrs. W. A. Hart, Mrs. Leona Rogers, Mrs.
Carrie Jackson, Mrs. Albert Polling, Mrs. Louise Gooden and Mrs. Sallie Vandergriff. Interment will be in the Hixson cemetery.
The body was removed to the home of Mrs. Rawiston Sunday afternoon, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral. Coulter's in charge. Wade Sheltman. LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan.
9 Wade Sheltman, 79, president of the Franklin Printing company, died in a hospital here today shortly after suffering a heart attack while walking to church. A native of Christiansburg, Sheltman came here in 1881 from the Lynchburg Daily News, where he had been employed as a printer. Seven years later he founded the concern here which he headed at his death. Mrs. W.
A. Sadd. Funeral services for Mrs. Carolyn Terry Sadd, wife of W. A.
Sadd, who died Saturday night, will be held at A Covering News in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia ALABAMA TO VOTE MAY 3 AND JUNE 014 Many Candidates Expected to Seek Positions on Democratic Ticket. MONTGOMERY, Jan. 9 Alabama general state democratic primaries, which promises to attract bumper crop of candidates, will 1 be held May 3 and June 14. Six hours after the state executive committee fixed the dates yesterday, State Representative Chuncey Sparks, of Eufaula, announced for governor on platform pledging "economy, a death of a 2 per cent. sales tax, reduced d.
automobile licenses, and "merit system" for state employes. At least nine others were mentioned as prospective gubernatorial candidates, including former Gov. B. M. Miller, of Camden; Frank Dixon, of Birmingham, a 1934 State Commissioner of Agriculture R.
J. Goode, of Gastonburg; Senator Dixie Graves, of Montgomery; Collector of Internal Revenue Harwell Davis, of Birmingham, and Jeff Beeland, Greenville merchant and Anti-Tax association president. State Senator James A. Simpson, of Birmingham, and State Representative R. F.
Hamner, of Selma, have announced for lieutenant-governor. Five congressional candidates already are "in the field." The state will elect a governor, long-term senator, all congressmen, a new legislature, two supreme court justices, two public service commissioners, all constitutional state officers and several county authorities this year. Democratic nomination is tantamount to election in state races. 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the residence, 840 Vine street. The Rev.
Charles W. Sheerin, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Battle McLester, rector of Grace church. Interment will be in Forest Hills cemetery.
Mrs. Sadd, a native of Connecticut, came to Chattanooga as a bride fortyeight years ago. She had been an invalid several years. Mrs. Licetta Mullican.
Special to The Chattanooga Times. M'MINNVILLE, Jan. services for Mrs. Licetta' Mullican, 83, widow of A. G.
Mullican, who died at the home of her son, Eli Mullican, in Dibrell Friday night, were conducted from the Bluff Springs Church of Christ at 2 o'clock today and followed by burial in Webb cemetery. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Champion Goodson, Warren county pioneers. Survivors are three sons, Shelliah, Eli and Roy, all of this county, and a brother and two sisters.
Royal W. Robertson. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9 W. Robertson, '46, a leader of the bonus marchers who tramped into Washington in 1932 and camped before the capitol, died last night in the Cedars of Lebanon hospital.
An autopsy was ordered to determine the exact cause of his demise. He was native of Rochester, N. Y. The widow and a daughter survive. J.
D. Crawford. SELMA, Jan. 9 D. Crawford, 74, resident of Mobile and Portland, died here at 4 p.m.
today of pneumonia. He was a native of Wilcox county. Funeral arrangements will be announced here Monday. Henry L. D.
Lewis. NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (P). Henry Llewellyn Daingerfield Lewis, former member of the board of the New York Stock Exchange, died today of coronary thrombosis at Merriefield, Hewlett, Long Island. Born in Piedmont county, Virginia, he was a great-great-grandson of Betty Washington, sister of George Washington, and of Col.
Fielding Lewis. Herbert L. Manson. ATLANTA, Jan. 9 L.
Manson, 71, retired insurance executive, died at his home here today. He was born near Macon, and attended Mercer and Vanderbilt. He entered the insurance business at Columbus, lived in Atlanta for forty-five years." Luman Capenter. Luman Capenter. ATLANTA, Jan.
9 (AP). Luman Capenter, 65, auditor for the internal revenue department, died at church services in suburban Kirkwood today. Death was attributed to a heart attack. He was a native of Benton Har. bor, Mich.
DEATH NOTICE. DEATH NOTICE. ADAMS-TOM, 60, died suddenly at Daisy, Sunday morning. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Schleif Adams, and one son, Walter Adams.
Funeral services will be held from the Union Springs church, the at Revs. 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, R. C. Camper Arthur Howard conducting the services. Pallbearers will be L.
A. Moses, C. A. Plumlee, C. A.
Levi, J. H. Dowler, W. P. Gann and Earl Plumlee.
Interment will be in the Levi cemetery. The body will be removed to the residence on the Browntown road at 9 o'clock Monday morning, where it will remain until the hour of the funeral. Coulter's in charge. ALEXANDER-OLIVER TENNYSON, infant of Mr. and Mrs.
O. T. Alexander, died Sunday. Surviving are his parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
0. T. Alexander, and Mr. and Mrs. R.
R. McCallie. Funeral services will be' held at p.m. today at the Bryan Funeral home, the Rev. R.
R. Ghormley officiating. EISENBERG-HARVEY 66, died at his residence, 108 East Second street, Sunday night after a short illness. He was a member of the Baptist church and of the Alert Bible class of the First Baptist church. Survived by wife, two sons, Paul and Fred, of Chattanooga; two sisters, Mrs.
Rebecca Hicks and Mrs. Martha Purkey, of Mooresburg; five brothers, Tom, of Cincinnati; Nell, of Athens; Will, of Rutledge; Sam, of Summer- U. S. Chemists Say Corn Likker Of Southern Hills Gets Worse By the Associated ATLANTA, Jan. The fabled moonshine of southern hills and swamps, in spite of the tall tales told about it, makes a poor showing in the test tube.
And, government experts say, "it is getting worse every day." S. W. Holman, chemist at the Atlanta office of the federal alcohol tax unit, has been testing moonshine for fifteen years. Of the modern crop, he says: "Call it mountain dew, white lightning, white mule, Georgia, Carolina or Alabama corn, or what you will, it is loaded with stuff that ought to be used to make paint and embalming fluid. "And I am talking about what shows up plainly in analysis.
There are peculiar odors and flavors of which we get only a trace. These, no doubt, come from cockroaches, chickens and small animals falling into the mash barrels and sometimes from a shovelful of barnyard manure tossed in to hurry up W. D. Hearington, alcohol tax unit district supervisor, explains the decline of moonshine thus: "We keep so hot after them they can't make good liquor. Most of them are shiftless and ill-informed, anyway, and would not do much better if we let them alone.
Many of the good distillers ers have found legitimate employment." Holman says the skull-popping quality of modern moonshine comes largely from the "heads and the first and last parts, the still run. The heads, he explains, are charged with aldehydes, closely akin to formaldehyde, a substance used in ville, and Jasper, of Great Falls, S. and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Mooresburg (Tenn.) Baptist church.
Interment Mooresburg, Tenn. Coulter's in charge. -Funeral services for Estel Knight, 34, who died Sunday morning at the Rockwood hospital, will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the Concord church, with the Rev. R. L.
Davis officiating. Interment in Concord cemetery. Vaughn Vaughn in charge. M'CLANAHAN-ALEX 77, died at his residence near Birchwood at an early hour Sunday morning. He is survived by his widow; one son, Clarence McClanahan, of Soddy; one brother, John McClanahan, and a sister, Mrs.
Tennessee Johnson, of Birchwood. Funeral services will be held from the Birchwood Baptist church at 2 o'clock. Monday afternoon, the Revs. T. J.
Latham and J. N. Monroe officiating. Active pallbearers will be Coulter Roark, John Allison, Gerald Samples, Athel Brown, Evans Allison and Paul Bischop. Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Dixon, J.
W. Allison, Walter Bischop, Bill Johnson, N. W. Roark and J. A.
Roark. Interment will be in the Baptist cemetery, Birchwood. Coulter's in charge. MORGAN-Funeral services for Miss Catherine Morgan, who died at her residence at Morgantown, Saturday, will be held from the Vine Grove church at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, the Revs. E.
F. Wood and Ralph Cline officiating: Interment in the Cove cemetery, Coulter's in charge. RHEA-Funeral services for Walter M. Rhea, who died at his residence, 2302 Dodds avenue, Friday night, will be held in the chapel of the Coulter Funeral home at 10 o'clock Monday morning, the Rev. Hobart Goolsby, officiating.
Pallbearers will be. Barnett, Walter Reno, Dave Barrett, Charles Watkins, J. W. F. Mason and Troy Chattanooga King.
Interment Memorial Park, 'Coulter's in charge. COLORED. M'CRAY-MRS. LUCY, wife of Mr. Fred McCray, died, 614 West Eleventh, Sunday morning.
Survived by many relatives and friends. Funeral announced by Hardwick. MOORE-Funeral Grady Moore at St. Mary's Baptist church today, 1 p.m., Rev. Roberson officiating, Bailey Davis in charge.
FLOODS, STORMS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN TURKEY ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan. 9 floods and snowstorms took many lives today in scattered sections of Turkey, Twenty peasants, mostly women, were drowned when the Gediz and Menderes rivers overflowed in the region east of Smyrna. Six inundated villages were evacuated by rowboats. Snow marooned many villages. At least eight persons were reported frozen to death around Sivas and Erzebum as extreme cold swept northeastern Turkey.
The Red Cross sent aid to the afflicted areas. HISTORY OF TENNESSEE HELD LESSON TO EUROPE ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9 Oliver C. Carmichael, chancellor of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, suggested last night "European nations which liberty" take a lesson from discredit, history of Tennessee.
Speaking at the forty-third annual dinner of the Tennessee Society of St. Louis, Dr. Carmichael declared "this threat to personal freedom today constitutes a menace to civilization greater than war." "Probably no other state," Dr. Carmichael said, "has throughout its history such an emphasis on personal liberty, the characteristic ideal of American life To Investigate Aliens. SOLVAY, N.
Y. Jan. 9 Con- demning "privileges extended aliens that are not extended to citizens," the Geddes town board has ordered each noncitizen on the welfare department rolls be investigated "with a view of having said aliens on relief deported to the countries of their The purge order was a result of the recent WPA ban on work relief for aliens, which resulted in increases in the town welfare rolls, Supervisor Charles R. Tindall explained. Press Feature Service.
Here's S. W. Holman, federal chemist, in his office with samples of poison moonshine such as he has tested for fifteen years. embalming fluid; the tails, with fusel oil, an ingredient of quick-drying paints and varnishes. But illicit mountain and swamp distillers, seeking big profits, keep at it with furtive vigor.
In an average month, in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, investigators will seize mash and liquor equivalent to 10,000 gallons of spirits, wreck some 350 stills and make 450 arrests. "Some the outfits," Hearington, "are extremely crude- -made of old' oil drums, make-shift boilers, gasoline cans or almost anything that comes to hand." COUGHLIN OFFERS 4-POINT PROGRAM Radio Priest Returns to Air, Urging Labor Factions Make Their Peace. DETROIT, Jan. 9 Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin, returning to the radio today for the first time since the ordainment of Archbishop Edward Mooney, presented a four-point program for the solution of national ills. Speaking over an independent network of sixty-three radio stations, the radio priest advocated Americans "cease sniping at our democratic form of that 8 policy of "strong industrial organization" be adopted by ail classes of society; that the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization "terminate" their quarrel; and, lastly, that "we stand together at home free from entanglements abroad." "Labor, Capital Need Each Other." Asserting that "capital needs labor" and "labor needs capital," Father Coughlin said "it is unsound for the industrialist to deprive the laborer, through coercion, of those sufficient funds to purchase the finished products of factories; it is' unsound for the financier or the capitalist to deprive the industrialist of productive power; and it is equally unsound for the laborer, even though he suffers economically, to entertain the theory that his ills will be cured by withdrawing both the financier and industrialist from the web of society." Advocating rival union leaders settle their dispute or "submit to an impartial, fair-minded, understanding committee of citizens." Father Coughlin likewise called on labor also to assert itself in the management of its unions. "In each instance (labor and stockholder) there is an obligation to preach the gospel of co-operation and to select leaders will work wards peace and prosperity for all," he said. PROTESTANT PASTORS FREED BY THE NAZIS BERLIN, Jan. 9 a little publicity.
as possible nazi authorities today quietly informed some fifty Protestant pastors paroled over Christmas that they need not return to jail. Since those paroles, thirty-one other pastors not freed for mas had been liberated in small groups, so that only thirteen of the original number imprisoned for opposing nazi church control remained in custody. The thirteen included the militant Rev. Martin Niemoeller, the most challenger of nazi authority over the church, held since July 1 without trial. There was no word of what was to be done in his case.
From Catholic pulpits a pastoral letter from the Rt. Rev. Konrad von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, bishop of Berlin, was read, urging parents to send their children to pa Catholic schools. Potatoes, Fish, Ham To Be Germans' Diet BERLIN. Jan.
9 fish and ham today were designated as the principal items of diet for Germans this year by a food ministry broadcast. These foods largely will replace bread, butter and other meats which housewives were ordered to use still more sparingly. Eggs, too, would be scarce, the announcement said, and the people must depend more on the regular products of German soil such as turnips, apples and curd cheese. Prof. Hans Reiter, president of the federal health board, In an official order urged also that the people be weaned from liquor and tobacco by drastic restrictions.
Imports of these commodities cost the country 148,000,000 marks (about $59,644,000) in foreign currencies in 1937. Although the state also gets rich revenue from both liquor and tobacco. Reiter argued that public health was more important. He said the 30,000 acres devoted to tobacco should be planted in cereals and predicted government action in this direction. GEORGIA MAY DROP CHAINGANG SYSTEM 'No More Sweat Boxes' Rule Laid Down- Penal Program to Enter New Regime.
ATLANTA, Jan. 9 (P). Georgia's much publicized chaingang camps are undergoing a process of evolution as part of a campaign to reorganize the state penal system in accordance with federal standards. "No more sweat boxes or whipping" is a rule laid down under the new regime. Even the name "chaingang" would disappear, to be replaced by the term "public work camp" if eight bills sponsored by the administration of Gov.
E. D. Rivers become law. Already approved by the Georgia senate, seven await house action. The two key bills in the program would revise the setup and functions of the present state prison commission.
One would establish a new board of penal administration to have full authority and supervision over all prisoners and prison activities; the other would abolish the prison and recreate it under the name "state prison and parole commission" with the duty of handling all parole and probation matters. State Senator Lee Purdom, one of the authors of the bills, said job of the administration board would? be to "keep the prisoners in the prisons and keep them at work." "Ways and Means Committee." "It's a kind of ways and means committee," he explained, formulate policies for the whole penal system and see that' they are carried out." This board would consist of five citizens appointed by the governor with senate approval for overlapping serve without salary, but terms of five years a each. They would would be paid $7 a day while atending periodic meetings of the board, probably once a month. The proposed prison and parole would relieve the governor commission, the work attendant upon considering parole petitions. The commission would handle all parole cases except where capital offenses were involved.
The governor would retain his power to commute death sentences and to grant stays of execution or pardons. Under Georgia's present system of indeterminate sentences a prisoner 1S paroled upon completion of the minimum term if he has a good record. However, Purdom said, supervision of parolees has been inadequate. The new program calls for a close check by commission inspectors on the activities of prisoners on probation. The revised system, Purdom explained, centers about the new state prison in Tattnall county, completed last year with federal funds.
It is 8 modern prison plant, located in fertile south Georgia farming section, with some 6,000 acres suitable, for cul. tivation. 8,000 Convicts in State. The prison will accommodate about 3,000 convicts, but so far only 500 have been sent there. Georgia now has approximately 8,000 convicts in all state institutions and county camps.
"We expect to raise enough on the prison farm eventually," Purdom said, "to feed all the prisoners except those in the county camps, and to supply also the state's two principal asylums. "Later, we plan to operate a textile mill and, with cotton grown on the farm, furnish bedding and clothing for state institutions." Other industries already in operation or contemplated at the Tattnall penitentiary include the manufacture of motor vehicle license tags, highway markers, concrete culverts, and covers for the state's free school books. A printshop handles some state printing and a projected dehydrating plant will permit the preparation of large quantities of dried vegetables. With regard to the chaingang camps, Purdom explained that the new penal administration board would set up standards of housing and feeding which the various county convict road camps would be expected to meet. Regular inspections would indicate whether proper conditions were being maintained.
"Solitary confinement and moderately restricted diet will be the only forms of punishment allowed for unruly prisoners," he said, "and the cells in which they are confined will be large enough for a man to. move around without discomfort. "Light leg irons will be used only in extreme cases. We're trying to adopt a general practice of plenty to eat, warm place to sleep, and full day's work with necessary rest periods. "When all the proposed changes are accomplished, federal officials have assured us Georgia will have one of most modern penal systems in the United States." DEATH TOLL OF DISORDER IN TUNIS RAISED TO SIX BIZERTE, Tunis, Jan.
9 (P) -Armed soldiers and police patrolled the streets today as the death of one of the wounded in yesterday's battle between Tunisian nationalists and troops raised the death toll to six. Quick action of the French colonial authorities in sending reinforcements to Bizerte and arrival of the Moslem caid, who appealed for calm, kept the city quiet. Quick trials were planned for the dozens of persons arrested after the riot which grew out of a demonstration against government expulsion of labor organizers. 3 Found Dead in Blaze. EL CERRITO, Jan.
9 (P). The charred bodies of Mrs. Effie Mae Long, 54, and her two children, Florita Mae, 12, and Charles Edwin, 14, were found in ruins of their one-room cottage after its destruction by fire today. An autopsy was ordered to determine the cause of death. J.
Vance Porlier, deputy district attorney, said a number of notes, all addressed to "Jack." were found in Mrs. Long's automobile. One said: "You will not give a kiss and squeeze to save the life of a womanthe life of woman that loves you better than life." Hill Goes to Capital; May Be Senator Soon MONTGOMERY, Jan. 9 (P). Representative Lister Hill, nominated five days ago by Alabama democrats "promotion" to the senate, left for Washington today without publicly saying whether he expected to resume his house seat and await formal election April 26 or ask, even indirectly, senatorial appointment.
Gov. Bibb Graves, who said in the national capitol last week he would appoint Hill "as soon as he's ready," was scheduled to leave for Montgomery today, executive mansion servants said. The governor said his wife, Dixie, who has been serving temporarily since elevation of Hugo L. Black to the supreme court, would resign as soon Hill notifies the chief executive "he's ready." Some astute observers took the view Hill considered the governor's remarks an invitation for to ask the appointment, which the governor said in a pre-election statement would be made when definite results were known. Hill, running as an ardent supporter of the new deal, defeated two opponents overwhelmingly.
$400,000 PROFIT SEEN ON DEMOCRATS' DINNERS NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (P). -Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley said tonight that returns from the Jackson day dinners indicated the party would make a profit of more than $400,000 on them. The Washington dinner, one of many held throughout the nation yesterday, yielded more than $100,000, he said.
Guests there paid $100 a plate, while in New York the cost. was $50 and elsewhere $25. The national committee will receive three-fourths of the money, which probably will be more than sufficient to retire its $200,000 indebtedness. 15 ALABAMA PAROLEES ARE STILL UNREPORTED MONTGOMERY, Jan. 9 Fifteen Alabama "Christmas parolees" have set a new ten-year record of pledge breaking, the state convict deAll of "most worthy" prispartment today.
oners who won two weeks of holiday freedom on good behavior records, and pledged themselves man to return, were due back week ago. The deadline was extended fortyeight hours in the hope some were being held up by adversities and would straggle in, but Hamp Draper, convict department chief, said today fifteen still were out and unaccounted for. Seven who failed to return a year ago set a new record, and Draper estimated today "not more than twenty," including last year's seven, had broken their "word of honor" to return since Gov. Bibb Graves started giving Christmas paroles in 1927. 0.
E. S. Installs. to The Chattanooga Times. WHITWELL, Jan.
elected officers of the local chapter of the O. E. S. have been installed by Mrs. Lura Hoge, past grand matron, assisted by Miss Cecile Walker, marshal; Mrs.
Mattie Farmer, grand chaplain, and Miss Reita Bess Farmer, grand organist. Oticers installed were Mrs. Gertrude Hooper, worthy matron; Raymond Hooper, worthy patron; Mrs. Elizabeth Condra, associate matron; Cecil E. Hudson, associate patron; Mrs.
Katherine Hudson, secretary; Miss Cecile Walker, treasurer; Mrs. Eva Farmer, conductress; Mrs. Myrtle Duke, associate conductress; Miss Maurine Rogers, marshal; Miss Reita Bess Farmer, organist; Miss Evelyn Lyon, Adah; Miss Gladys Tate, Ruth; Mrs. Wynnie Umbarger, Esther; Mrs. Eudora Rogers, Martha; Mrs.
Carrie Terry, warder; L. L. Farmer, sentinel. POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS GAIN AT M'MINNVILLE Special to The Chattanooga Times. M'MINNVILLE, Jan.
Postal receipts at McMinnville exceeded the receipts of last year by approximately $1,500, the largest gain noted in the past several years, according to W. G. McDonough, postmaster. The total amount received, at the McMinnville office for postage during the past year was $21,585, more than enough to pay the salaries and operating expense during the year. All months of 1937 except December showed a substantial gain over the previous month in 1936: December's quarter was about same as the previous year, being the first time in four years it has failed to gain.
Bricks Injure Firemen. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9 A crumbling chimney showered bricks on the crew of fire engine company in a burning house here tonight and injured three firemen, one seriously. Seven members of the family of Andrew Edwards, Negro occupant, had been awakened and led from the three-room house. Weather Strip 2c and Up Will Save Coal and Colds! STOVALL Hardware 711 Cherry Co.
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