Chain Gang1 Source of
Bitter Denunciation
Dalton, Ga.—The chain gang!
^ubject to bitter denunciation from
outside sources, and spirited defense
by Georgia authorities. What is it
really like, seen through the eyes of
one who merely gies to see?
About thirty miles south of here
la the Whitefield county chain gang.
It is fairly typical; some are better,
some worse.
Parked along the road among the
scrub pine, stands a row of great
wagons, square, like those in which
a circus keeps its pacing animals.
A lattice of steel bars forms the
sides. Within each cage-on-wheels
twelve men are confined. Six bunks
are along each side, three deep, end
to end. In these, after long hours
of back-breaking work on the roads,
often chained to each other, men
sleep in the same sweat-begrimed
clothes in which they have worked
all day. A heavy canvas curtain
which may be unrolled to cover the
barred sides of the cage is their only
protection against weather.
In each cage is a narrow cut-off,
above a metal tub suspended just
beneath the cage. That is the only
sanitary arrangement.
Once a week, on Saturday night,
these men get a change of clothing
and a chance to bathe in a stream
that runs some 100 yards from the
convict cages.
Beneath a scraggly pine tree
stands a curious wTooden contraption
with a row of holes in its face. This
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Meridy Hill, de
ceased, notice is hereby given to all
persons holding claims against the
estate to present them to the under
signed within twelve months from
this date or this notice will be
plead in bar of recovery. All per
sons indebted to the estate are
notified to make immediate settle
ment.
This February 4. 1933.
J. K. TAYLOR,
NOTICK
State of North Carolina,
Alleghany County
In the Superior Court
P. L. Choate, Adm’r. of J. T. Lynch,
deceased,
vs.
Cleopatria Lynch, Bealey Lynch,
John R. Lynch, Emerson Lynch, Ar
vita Lynch Haverty, Izetta Lynch,
Pearl Lynch, Ruby Lynch, Hazel
Lynch and Juanita Lynch, heirs at
law of J. T. Lynch.
The defendants above named, and
especially the non-resident defend
ants, will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court of Al
leghany county, North Carolina,
which action is to sell land in which
the defendants claim an interest to
create assets to pay indebtednesses;
and the said defendants will further
take notice that they are required
to appear within thirty days after
the service of this summons by pub
lication and answer or demur to the
petition of the plaintiff, or the re
lief demanded will be granted.
This the 14th day of March, 1933.
A. F. REEVES,
Clerk Superior Court.
Sidney Gambill, Atty. 4-6
First Step Toward Banking Reform
President Roosevelt, with Secretary Woodin of the Treasury at Iiis
side, signing the drastic banking bill by the Seventy-Third Congress dur
ing the first day of the extraordinary session which was called to meet
the financial crisis.
is the stocks, like those you have
seen in pictures from 300 years ago.
But these are an improved model of
stocks, not like the simple pictures
in your history book.
These stocks are authorized by
the state prison commission as one
form of punishment called on its
books “restricted movement.’’ The
convict sits on the sharpened edge
of a board, hands and feet stretched
out before him and locked in holes
between two other boards. An hour,
punishment, which is inflicted by
the camp warden on any prisoners
who do not work hard enough on
the roads, or who break discipline
in, camp.
To sustain them during the day
of “from sunrise to sunset” on the
roads, prisoners at this camp get
molasses for breakfast, and dried
beans or peas with occasional tur
nip greens as a treat, for dinner
and supper. Fat pork is occasion
ally provided.
These cages in Whitfield county
camp meet all the requirements of
the state prison commission for liv
ing quarters “when not in perma
nent quarters.” The rules provide
for substantial buildings for “per
manent quarters,’’ but this county
has never had any.
This is the chain gang as seen in
one of its camps which appears
typical of most of the 150 main
tained by the state of Georgia.
8 DEAD, MANY HOMELESS
The second flood within a week
rolled relentlessly down the broad
Ohio river Monday night, pouring
yellow water into more than a score
of towns and cities and over many
thousand acres of lowlands in four
states.
Members of the Confucian Society
in China do not believe in divorce;
the wife is subject to her husband’s
authority throughout her life.
MAY .AYOTT) SALKS TAX
Possibility that the North Caro
lina legislature may not impose a
generol sales tax was seen Friday
following the action of the House
in lopping SI 0,000.000 from the
general sales tax was seen Friday
debate the body voted 53 to 4 3 to
adopt the Bowie substitute for the
committee bill, which would have
appropriated §83,000,000 for the
next biennium
Visitor: “Well. Joe, how do you
like you new little sister?”
Joe: “Oh, she’s all right, I guess
but there are lots of things we
needed worse.”
NOTICE
North Carolina,
Alleghany County
In the Superior Court—Before the
Clerk
Cleopatria Lynch, widow of J. T.
Lynch, deceased,
vs.
Bealey Lynch, John R. Lynch, Em
erson Lynch, Arvita Lynch Haverty,
Izetta Lynch, Pearl Lynch, Ruby
Lynch, Hazel Lynch and Juanita
Lynch, heirs at law of J. T. .Lynch,
deceased.
The defendants above namO’d, and
especially the non-residents of the
defendants, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior Court
of Alleghany county, North Caro
lina, which action is for allotment
of dower in the lands of J. T. Lynch,
deceased; and the said defendants
will further take notice that they
are required to appear within thirty
days after the completion of this
publication, and answer or demur to
the petition of the plaintiff, or the
relief demanded will be granted.
This the 14th day of March, 1933.
A. F. REEVES.
Clerk Superior Court.
Sidney Gambill, Atty. 4-6
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