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EULEHNMENI WWW—”WWW!
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By Quimby Melton
Griffin and Spalding County
people will be called on Oct. 15th
to make their annual contribu
ti ns to the Community Chest
Fund. Last year $35,000.00 was
raised and used wisely in fin
ancing the activities of organi
zations approved by the Com
munity Chest.
This year the goal that has
been set is $28,190.00. The de
crease is due to the fact that
the total amount to be raised
for the War Fund has been re
duced to $6,000.00.
Last . year’s" campaign was a
success because more than 8,000
people contributed to the Com
munity Chest. Large business
concerns and individuals. who
v.ere able made large contribu
tions and individuals and small
er business concerns made con
tributions in proportion to their
ability.
The fact that 8.000 persons
made donations to the Com
munity Chest speaks volumes
in pr:of that Griffin always
“has a heart.”
Every person in the com
munity will again be given a
chance to contribute to the
Fund.
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The Community Chest was
organized last year to combine
as many “drives" as possible
into one big campaign. This
eliminated “drives" almost every
month in the year and enabled
persons to make one gift and
be through with it.
The only organization which
is not included in the Com
munity ChMt financing is the
American Red Cross. This great
organization always conducts
its campaign separately. And
Griffin always responds in a
s’.lendid way to its appeal for
funds.
Well, MacArthur has done it
again.
This time he has issued a de
cree that establishes freedom
of speech, press and the right
to worship as one sees fit to the
pimple of Japan.
His edict is in fact one that
gives the Jananese a mngna
carta, just like the one that
broke the old feudal system in
England years ago and set the
stage for democratic govern
ment, not cnly in England but
throughrut the world.
The magna carta of England
was the forerunner of the Amer
ican Declaration of Independ
ence and the American Consti
tution.
MacArthur is demonstrating
not only that he is a good mili
tary leader but also a good stu
dent of government.
This war has brought to the
ferefront two great generals,
who have the unusual com
l ined talents of winning a war
and - then handling governmen
tal affairs In equally effective
manner, They are MacArthur
and Eisenhower.
Fortunate a nation with two
such men.
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B a b i • * it os
imartor'n we
give 'em credit
for. As soon as
they land in ,
Nits world thay \m
set up a awful /a.
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MacArthur Decrees
In Government
Both Local High
Schools To Play
At Home This Week
Spalding-Cedartown
Game Tonight
At 8 O’Clock
Both local high school football
teams will play at home this w-eek.
Spalding High will meet Ceaartcwn
tonight and the Griffin Gold Wave
will face the Gordcn eleven Friday
night. Both games will be played at
Lightfoot Park and will begin at 8
o'clock.
When the Wolfpack players go on
the field tonight they will be pitted
against a strong Cedartown team
which has three overpowering vic
tories to its credit so far this sea
son. The Spalding b:ys plan to give
them their best, hoping to topple
Cedartown from the winning list.
This week the Spalding boys have
been polishing up the rough spots
which have shown Up in the two
games they have played. Fans may
expect to see much aerial play on
the part of the locals, and the boys
have been cautioned t; guard a
gainst any roughness which mignt
inflict penalties.
Kenneth Barfield, star tackle, will!
act as captain in the game tonight., I
111 regulars will be in the starting
line-up with the exception of Kin?
who is ill. King’s guard post will
be held down by Crowder, who saw
luite a bit of play in the Decatur
rame.
Griffin vs. Gordon Fiitlay
The Griffin High team has bem
hampered by injuries to several
members, but will be at full strength
Friday with several changes in the
line-up. Jack Lynch, 145-pound
quarterback who was injured in
the Lanier game, will be back. De
raney who has been slowed by a
sprained ankle will be in the game
at the tackle p:sition. Kenneth
Hunt, captain, has been shifted to | J
the center post,
D. D. Lyle has been shifted from I
tailback to fullback and Thacker
has moved* from wingback tail- i
to
back. Rowe, who played quarter- 1
back last Friday, will be at wing
back.
The Gordon team opened its sea
son last Friday night with a game
with R. E. Lee, Thomaston. They
were defeated 14-0.
Cubs Show Strength
'n Winning First
DETROIT.—(/P)—Chicago’s smash
ng 9-0 victory over Detroit in the
irst World Series game has caused
betters to shift their odds overnight
from the Tigers to the Cubs. Apr
National League followers are even
beginning to talk cf Chicago win
ning four straight games.
Since Chicago knocked Lefty
Newhouser, ace Detroit pitcher, out
f the box they now feel that with
this 25-gamr-winner of the regular
season stripped cf his mFIn they
can glide dewn the road to the litlc
The two play in Detroit again
this aftcrn'cn and Friday. Then
the scene shifts to Chicago, .
Wednesday 54.637 shivering fans
paid $221.883 00 to see the gamo.
Of this the players share received
$113,160.33, the commissioners of
fice $23,282.45; the two leagues $37,
,720.11; and the clubs $37,720.11.
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GRIFFIN, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1945.
Gives Jap People
Real Magna Carta
In Latest Move
TCKYO.—(/P, — Gen. MacArthu
j decreed a revolutionary
Cartg for Jaran today, ordering
Imperial g:\-ernment to remove ai!
bars to freedom of speech, religion
and assembly, disband the brutal,
still-active "thought police;" and
release their 3.000 pclitical prison
ers by Oct. 10.
He also demanded removal from
office of Hems Minister Iwao Ya
mazaki.
MacArthur meanwhile offered n.
comment on Russian demands for a
four-power control government, to
replace his rule in Japan.
Orders went out amid rising cla
mor by Japanese for release of pris
oners arrested by “thought police”
for voicing ideas that weren't in
agreement with the pre-surrender
government. Prisoners have been
ctr.fined for years in fetid jails
from the southwe*WFft tip of Japan
to the northernmost home island of
Hokkaido, sometimes called “Jap
an’s Siberia.”
Yamazaki, who heads the "thought
police," blandly denied any know
ledge of the prisoners in an inter
view with the Asscciated Press to
day. He did admit that his men
still were on the job. and said they
were being especially vigilent a*
gainst any Japanese daring to advo
cate elimination of the Imperial
House, overthrow of the constitu
tion, violence against Americans cr
the Japanese government."
Yamazaki explained in the inter
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Shriners Planning
Big Celebration
Here October 18
The Shriners are coming to Grif-;
fin.
Thursday, October 18. has been
selscted as the date for Yaarab
Temple. Mystic Shrine to stage a
special visitation to Griffin. Head
ed by Potentate Dr. Ben
dorf, 250 uniformed Shriners fro:.:
the Atlanta temple, will visit Grif
fin and put cn a spectacular parade.
This is one cf several visitation
trips the Shiners are making
'Ills area of the state. The local
Shrine Club, headed by Sam Wil
son, will sponsor the visit.
In addition to a parade and
which the Shriners will stage
town, a barbecue for Shriners am
-.n Invitation dance are planned.
The Shrine orchestra will play for
,he dance. The uniform“d Orion
•a! Band will furnish music for the
parade.
CPL. THAXTON GETS
HONORABLE DISCHARGE
T-5 William D. Thaxton, cf Ex
periment, received i
his honorable |
discharge Tuesday a: Fort M.-Phcr
son. Cpl. TThaxton served f r 41
months in the Pacific and partici
patedfir campaigns in N w Guinea
ind In the Philippines,
He wears the Combat Infantry 1 -
man badge, the Asiatic Pacilic I
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theater ribbon with three
stars, the Philippine Liberation rib
bon with one battle star, the Amer
ican Defense ribbon, and the gooi;
k-nduct medal.
Cp! T.iaxton is the son of Mr. ijn,i
Mis. W. T. Thaxton.
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griffin kiwanis honor editors Wright Bryan, edi
tor of the Atlanta Journal and 1 war correspondent who spent* *ouui
months in a German prisoner of war camp; and Quinibv Melton. Jr.,
veteran of the New Guinea and Philippines campaigns, who is to
become editor of The Griffin News on his retirement from the
Army, were honored by Griffin Kiwanis Club in connection with
National Newspaper Week. This Atlanta Journal picture shows, from
left to right: W. A. Giejjorv. president of tlie local club: Virgil Y.
C. Eady. district governor of Kivvani.s. Wright Bryan: Quimby Mel
ton, Jr., and Quimby Mel: Sr., publi her , f The • New-.
Luxury Taxec May
Remain In Force
WASHINGTON.—(/p)—A
administration drive to hold
beacetime tax slashes f~ $5 00:
“('o cast touht• toi v rn a n
rrducticn -In big wartime (':<( i
vies.
Tin' excise issue, involvi'ng r-h
•bines as liquor, luggage, jewelry,
fur coats and Unstick, cam- be
fore the' House Wavs atvl Meane
Committee along with a showdovr
on repeal of the 95 tier cent ex-7?
profits tax on c-rporations.
There apparently wore enough
votes to eliminate the excess ir
lew and thus ease corpo-.ite
burdens bv $2,555,009,000 In 1946.
rt „ w „ r „ r wr ,. p n , fi,.
nftte „ R ^ uW i can5 s . f .. fur .
•her evts for corporations as well as
a bigger saving for in-'i" : nis
'ban the $2,509,000,999 voted Tues
r ,„, -. This a lo- 11 ’ HE
lion above what .Secret
Trea „ lry Frcd M vin ,
commended.
As a result Vinson made i„i
trip to Capitol Hill late ves- rday
fer n private talk, with Dm stir
ccmrn | t!r ,, members. Aftrr.w;r s it
I appeared ...... ... , the ,, committee mi pass
ovrr anv action now- lo-ktr vnrd
a reduction In excise rates
Vinson hed suggested Ju' as
•lie date fer re*fr I’l
nre-war Hve’s H« f
*i r n would “eve 517.
oro.ooo in 'the la«t half cl
Bv skipping !tv“. th
would more than cffsrt the $1 •. -<00,-
l ri.F. ASF TI'KV TO PICK I (i .111
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Used To Coincidence
LAFAYETTE. Ind T|- hn rd
B. Mantle, discharged v-i<: -i
a firm believer in pohieloe- He
was sent overseas i n Fri ’ the
13th. returned Friday, April 13*h
and was given a medical discharge
from the Army. July 13th When
he applied recently for an Ii. liana
automobile license he^jfas given
the same number he held
before he entered the service in
11944s
Episcopal Church To
Observe Communion
World Wide Communion Suhdav
will be observed Sunday mo: nine
C.-tcber 7. 11 o’clock at St.
OeirEi-'s Hi 1 - -opal Church'. F.vr 11
mrinber-S- ipged to dittand.
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SEAMAN KE' I Y ON
SHIP NEAR JAPAN
ON THE UF-.S BON HOMME
RICHARD OFF JAPAN (Delayed <
—Joel B. Kelly. Sr., seaman, first
class, USNR, husband of Mrs. Dor
othy C. Kelly. Experiment, Ga., is
serving on this aircraft, carrier,
which lias been assigned to duty ns
P nr l if the V. S. occupation fleet.
For 45 days preceding the
of the. war. the vessel •-mined up
and down the .Tapanes- roast as
tlic 3rd Fleet staged 13 ail- raids
sh'd five bombardments . n she Jap
home i.-lands and fired hei
onlv cnee.
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c nT W D. NIXON
IS EN ROUTE HOME
staff Set-gram -w, Ii I,Shorty.
Nixon is cn route home after set
lr.R in the It. ia-But ma-Cii.na
Theater < f Operations for 20 mmiihs.
1 « Krflul fi * to-i-a Inc? - a i • which' his
motlur, Mr-- Pearl Nixon ol (inf
fin. lias received from him.
v»/n l 1AM E. PEEPLES
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
i or: i f win w Willi -m !
f“ . p 5 - . rt( -.tie. A. G: it fill Ga., 1
been i ol 10 nil-. i ):! m I r
i c * ilri.il t ilie
ir'r h'-re an; ounred today.
IMF M> III INKS
Seieral n ember or the Fp.t)
(i rays, Griffin's own headquart'-i
imoahy of the 30th Infantry D,:vi
1( n' Have (ed 11' ei
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->f rharg'- 'l .> • :
P'i i ,-r fire ,
THE WEATHER
FORECAST FOR (GEORGIA:
Fair anil eoniinued rool tonight
and Friday, increasing cloudiness
and not much rhange in tem
perature.
COMMUNtYX-CHEST FUND .
CAMPAIGN TO OPEN HERE
OCT, 15; $23,000 SOUGHT
Globcslsr Back In
USA; Will Reach
Washinglcn Tonight
HAMILTON FIELD. Calif. i/P;—
The r un'Vthe-v.-orH flight of the
ii.’i-iv Air Transport Command ,
roared up t the last lap today.
landing here ai 2:19 A M. faelfi'
Time <5:10 A M. E. S-f i
after a 12 hour and 49 minuti
fljttht from Hr,noli lu. -
The g: a'-stcr plane eorid ■ have
made i p>: It “lo3fed“ through
the starry Pacific sky rather than
spoil San Francisco reception plans
by coming in early.
Washington. 2,500 miles to the
last is the i,ext and last stop or.
fl! hi that I a rtf ci it? 4 V M. <E
g, g 'September 23 from the Na
ti nal Airport there.
rT I , hr st*vr.n in n ana rnr. wamai
who th( , journ ,. y ,. xp *. t t0 b ,.
sa} . inB ), c ;i 0 the-Washington
i 1 homefolks and telling w how it feels
to see the world through a window
in a week abmr a P, M <E. s
T i: tonight.
ATC’s original plan called I r.r
I turning to Washington at 12 mid
night 1 1. s iter a 151-hour
.’(ill!) a round the world near its
greatest circumference, » distant ■
Di more . I.han 22.009 miles
If'-rc. In'.brief, are statr-Ucs up t
lime of arrival tit San Francisco:
Miles !:• - -l.-ih '29.812’
Elapsed time 129 hour- 59 mil
Uil’K,
I.lvi: liliv 103 hours, 29 mil:
lies.
Or und tinu Jo i cur
rites.
U lias been ail expel lore- tTi i
nobody who made the trip regrets-•
Free Haircuts for GIs
nocttFUTF.n. N H Barber
Bernard Mortimer , ; I , i R ches
:er didn’t think bovine war bonds
was enough t do f. i the war
effort, i*i he offered P give free
haircuts to i ervieeme.i in in? in
Rochester,
He clipped and clipped and by
V-J Day had given 618 servicemen
free haircuts.
BUY VICTORY BONDS!
GRIFFIN FIRST
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Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin!
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To Settle
Strikes In Coal
Mines Increase;
115,000 Off Jobs
WASHINGTON. — i/P>— Presi
dent Truman this afternoon will
Issup an executive order for
government seizure of oil prop
erties affected by a 15-state
strike of CTO oil workers.
The order was to have been
issued at noon, but Charles D. I
Ross, press secretary, reported j
shortly after that hour they I
would not be issued “for at least
two hours. "
There was no explanation- said' jT” J
the delay. Ross had a
seizure orders were being
up fellowing failure of govern- ,
ment attempts to settle the
strike of 43.000 workers through
arbitration of wage demands.
BY HAROLD W. WARD
WASHINGTON.—i/P) — Ppggli
Truman made ready today to I
’he nation's strike-crippled oil W
Hnerles as the government’s first’
major attempt at a postwar
settlement ended in failure.
Labor Department efforts to
striking ClO-oil workers and biff
refinery companies to terms over
wages collapsed late yesterday.
Promptly. Charles G. Ross, White
House Press Secretary, announced
“the government will take over the
struck oil companies" today.
Seizure was a last resort to re
‘urn the refineries to operation.
There was no let-up. meanwhile, |
'n labor fquabble.s confoudlng re- j
conversion.
Another 25.000 of Jchn Lewis’ I
bituminous coal miners walked out
vf slerdav. bringing the total to U5,
090. The estimated 675,000-ton
daily loss in production represent*
about two-thirds of the nation’s j
output.
Government officials had looked
•n settlement bv conciliation of the
oil workers' strike for a pattern. But
that pattern was a gloomy one to
day. , 7-3
The union wanted a 30 per cent
uav increase to offset looses in earn
ings when the work week is cllt
fron 48 to 40 hours. Secretary Of
Labor Schw<‘ll r, nb:ich. after seven
days of conciliation conferences in
Chicago and Washington, proposed
a temporary compromise at 15 per
cent An arbitrator was to make the
final settlement.
Acceptable t« I nion
This was acceptable to the union,
but cnlv one of the ten eomp>anies
i "reed to the proposal without
'■•tripgs That was Sinclair Oil Com
pany Other firms attached so
many conditions that Schwellen*
bach 7-ctieeded to reporters he could
not consider them as acceptances.
The labor si-eretary, weary from
hl“ day and right struggle, to settle
i» ricr TI’PV TO ptr.r TW<I
lATIf O^H.VlF. HOME:
GETS ARMY DISCHARGE
C rn Hiram W iJack) Oglivie,
Fxn*’riroei:t. is home after five years
i- the Armv. 18 m-mths of It spent
over.-i-as in tin Euroiiean Theater
of Operations. Ur received his hon
orable discharge at Fort McPherson
Tuesday t
He lot Griffin with the Spalding
Lit-lJS ITts—m • rtirr-rt-'-Mi ' s. 0:
Chnmbli t Experiment.
Oglivie wears lh< ind conduct
medal, bronz'- star medal. American
Defense ribboR; apd the. Eurcpean
Afrlca-Middle Umiein pet-vice rib
jixm with one silvcr',s|r,c. The sil
star indicates five major eng4ffe»f
ments. ' Vi I
BUY VICTORY BONDS I
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Griffin and Spalding County’s 1945
Community Cheat Fund campaign
will open Oct. 15th with $28.19000
set ns the goal for the drive. This it
several thousand dollars less than
last year’s total since the War. Fund
, otal has been cut this year to $8,
T03. Last year's budget was $35,
900 and was raised when mere than
individuals made contribu
tions.
Walter Graefe, who Is chairman
of tile 'Community Chest board of
trustees, w-ilLact as; chairman of th<
campaign.
Organizations that, are linancef?
through the Community Fund are:
Bey Scoots. Girl Scouts, Salvation
Army. Cancer Control, Infantile
Paralysis Contrrl, Tuberculosis Con
trol. So'-inl Services, War Fund, and
the Colored I ibrary. $200.00 was
contributed from the Fund to this
library last year.
Storm Damages
u Historic . . _ TreCS
At University
i 1 ATHENS, Ga.—Recent winds did
severe damage to some of the his
I uric trees on the University Ol
Georgia campus, according to Roy
IP wden, superintendent <>1 eampu:
grounds.
Leveled to tiie ground was a .giani
red that-had strod near the Pin
Kappa l iteral-. .Society building lot
150 \ a i s, It was fortunate that
the tree was blown in a direction
oppr sin- Bum .Phi Kappa or i
would h a v*- era •-he'd into the nhcieiu
building.
An tiler Ill tree that was “«rl»
ou, -■imaged was a 200 year-old
o.ik that stands near Milledge Had
I .'ii.s tr had its top virtually shorn
,i cuting a min storm two week
It was the second oldest tret
ai the University campus.
ft: nc very old elms, planted bv
Bcrckmans, noted horticulturist o:
Augusta, were uprotted. One ul
'I.ese lell against “NCW TyTi
ni,w the Phaimaev building, knock
ing out Several windows Several
elms near the library were blown
down, along with a blooming Allan
thus tree that was something of a
“curiosity' with the grounds crew
■ itu-e this tire is barred from
eity park systems, including At
lanta’s. because of the unpleasant
J arema ol its flowers.
Established 187!