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...Atlanta, Ga...
...crew deserted and the Algic went on to Victoria, Brazil, without them. Denied shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three-man board swiftly passed...
Chunky 36-year-old "R.S." Evans is deeply tanned from the polo he plays frequently and well, when. not traveling on business. Born in Bartow, Ga., he went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped...
...Daughter of the American Revolution should end a Fourth of July oration with a burst of praise for George III her audience would be justifiably startled. Last week in Macon, Ga., Mrs. Walter D. Lamar startled a convention of the Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with an indiscretion no less dramatic. Climaxing a rhetorical eulogy of famed Rebel Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Lamar said: "Let the world know the wisdom, the kindness, the justice of the great and only President of the Confederate States of America-Abraham Lincoln...
...Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren County folk had "fired guns into the air" to discourage the Glascock raiders. This looked like a good folksy...