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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence, In Griffin
Member Of The Associated Press
E VENIN GOOD G
By Quimby Melton
April is an interesting month.
Easter usually occurs during
April, though sometimes it is
observed in the last of March.
Easter is the first Sunday after
the first fttll moon after the
vernal equinox.
This year Easter Sunday is
o next Sunday, April 6.
April 1 is always “April
Fool’s Day,” and as a result of
this the first week in April has
been designated as “National
Laugh Week.”
On April 2, 1902, the first
movie was opened, in Los An
geles; and the first U. S. Mint
was established in 1792.
April 3 is the anniversary of
the starting of the pony ex
press in 1860, and Washington
Irving, American author, was
born April 3, 1822.
The United States entered the
first World War April 6, 1917.
National Sunday School Week
is April -<-13.
Louisiana joined the Union
on April 8, 1912.
The Philippines were trans
ferred to the United States on
April 11, 1899.
The first printing press was
set up in America on April 12,
1693, and Port Sumter was fired
upon on the same day in 1861,
starting the War Between the .
States. President Roose'velt died
at Warm Springs on April 12,
1945.
Thomas Jefferson, third Pres
ident of the United States, was
born on April 13, 1743, and the
American flag with 13 alternate
red and white stripes and the
union of stars flew at Washing
ton for the first time on April
13, 1818.
Abraham Lincoln was assas
sinated on April 14, 1865. The
steamship Titanic was sunk on
April 14, 1912.
Wilbur Wright, inventor of
the airplane, was born April 16,
1867.
The San Francisco earthquake
and fire was April 18-19, 1906,
and Paul Revere’s famous ride
was on the night of April 18,
1775. ^
The Spanish - American War
began April 21, 1898. James
Buchanan, 15th President, was
born "April 23, 1791.
America’s first newspaper, the
Boston News-Letter, was estab
lished April 24, 1704.
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th Presi
dent, was born April 27, 1822.
Maryland entered the Union
April 28, 1788. James Monroe,
5th President, was bom April 28,
1758.
Washington was Inaugurated
as first President on April 30,
1789.
Cancer Education
Drive Opens Today
In City And County
A cancer control education drive
to be conducted in Griffin and
Spalding County during the month
of April opened today, Mrs. J. M.
Cheatham, county chairman of the
Georgia Division of the American
Cancer Society, announced.
The education drive will be held
here at the same time that similar
drives, both educational and finan
cial. are being conducted through
out the nation. A financial drive
in Spalding County is not necessary
as the local quota is provided by the
Community Chest.
Plans have been made for talks
to various groups and on the local
radio station. Literature concern
ing cancer will he distributed
through various mediUms.
Mrs. Cheatham has appointed the
following to work with her i
persons i
in the drive: Mrs. Ernest F. Car-1
lisle, women's organizations; W. A I
Gregory, _ _ mens , organizations, . „
Ed Willis, schools: Miss Eleanor
WBlkerJ publicity; Mrs, John Mor
row, radio; Mrs. R. O. Crouch, Jr.,
industrial sections; Miss Martha
Reid, county group*. A. O. Touch
stone will direct all work among
the colored people in the city
county.
IN
Impossible For Hitler
To Be Alive, Companion
Of Last Declares
By UNITED PRESS
Editor’s Note: This is an eye
witness account of the last days
and hours in the underground
air raid shelter of the Reichs
chancellory in Berlin. It Is told
by Hanna Reitsch, noted Ger
man aviatrix. It has been set
down in the official record of
the War crimes trial, and ap
proved by Robert H. Jackson,
United States prosecutor. The
hitherto secret document was
obtained by Capt. Robert E.
Work, chief interrogator of the
|U. S. Army Air Corps in Ger
many after the surrender.
"It is completely impossible that
Hitler is alive today. I am con
vinced that the Hitlef I left behind
in the bunker was physically unable
to have' gotten away. Had a path
been cleared for him from the bun
ker to freedom he would not have
been able to use it.”
These are the opinions of Hanna
Reitsch, noted German aviatrix and
captain in the Luftwaffe, who spent
the last days with Hitler In hiding
in an underground shelter in Berlin.
This is Hanna Reitsch’s story of
those last days:
At the very end Hitler had no
intention ,of living. Only the hope
that General Wenck’s army was still
intact stayed his nand from suicide.
Hitler, is dead! The man I saw
in the shelter could not have lived.
He had no reason to live.
Hitler the idealist died and his
country with him because of the
tn competence of Hitler tha-aeMter
and Hitler the statesman Never
again must such a person be al
lowed to gain control of Germany or
of any other nation.
(Strangely enough, Hanna does
not seem to hold Hitler personally
responsible for many of the wrongs
and evils that she recognizes com
pletely and is quick to point out.) 1
Hitler ended his life a criminal to
the world, but he did not begin that
way. At first his thoughts yere
only of how to make Germany again
healthy. He became a gambler. Each
new success made the enthusiasm of
the people greater and this gave him
the necessary support to take the
next step.
CHARACTER CHANGE
The end result was that Hitler
himself underwent a character
change that transformed him from
an idealistic benefactor to a grasp
ing, scheming despot, a victim of his
own delusions of grandeur. with
I was ordered to the bunker
Lieut.-Gen Ritter 6 von Greirb ^
that Herman Goering ^reS
h*d
Von Grein to assume command of
th iL.k uftwaf * e '
The scene was touchingly . . . . dram- .
atic. There Were tears n t
ers eves as he told of Goering.
treachery. head sagged and
face was deathly pallid. His hands
shook uncontrollably and a paper he
carried fluttered J* dldly
Later that evening Hitler
m "£nna. r m belong to those who 1
>pu "Each of,
will die with me.” he said.
us has a vtal of poison such as this.
for our bodies to be found by them.
Will vou please so inform Von
0r e
hiZTbut^^he ( Hanna begged g Hitler thiThis to save
Is sald death!
neressarv tor the “honor of the
country ) ... . |
the 27th of Apr,, the
barrage bracketed the chancellory
The splattering of heavy shells and
rectly above the air raid sneuei I
tightened the nervous strain of
everyone so that here and there
•'»eo sobbing came through the
doors. !
The next morning I was intro
duced to f the the other flrSt occupants tlmB thelF andj
identftv ° r |
Dr. Goebbels was insanely Incensed
over Ooering’s treachery. He strode
about his small, luxuriously fur
ilshed quarters like an animal,
torlng vile Recusations concerning
the Luftwaffe leader and what he
had done.
Frau Goebbels was a very
woman whose control, which was
most times strong, did break down
and then to pitiful spasms of
wr-epinsr. Her main concern was her
children, and ln their presence her
manner was always delightful and
cba 5 ry ’
There were six Goebbel children:
Hela, 12; HUma, 11; Helmut, 9;
Holde, 7; Hedda. 5; and Helde,
They were the one bright spot
relief ln the stark,
bunker.
Eva Braun (Hitler’s mistress)
HARTLEY ASKS FOR
VOTE ON BILL TO
HIT PHONE STRIKE
Bill Would Block
Threatened Strike
Of Phone Workers
WAHINGTON — (JP) _ Chairman
Hartley (R., N.J.) called the House
Labor Committee together today, for
a vote on his "urgent" bill to block
next Monday's threatened Title
phone strike.
House leaders, however, regarded
the measure as considerably less
urgent than Hartley. They conceded
that chanees for passage in die
House alone this week are slim be
cause of plans to recess Wednesday
for an Easter holiday from all im
portant business.
One top Republican said privately
he thinks there will be no
nlcations tie-up. Organized lkbor
Is smart enough to know, proportions he $aid,
that a strike of serious
at this time might boomerang, r
Congress is bent on tightening up
labor laws to curb strikes, and he
said a walkout of any kind On a
national scale might lead to a much
tougher bill.
But Hartley told a reporter:
“I think as chairman of the com
mittee I have an obligation and a
responsibility to get a bill ready for
consideration on the floor
would let the government stop a
telephone strike.
“If the committee, the
or the House do not want to support
me. the responsibility will be
theirs.”
His bill would let the government
get an order from a Federal court
to halt the telephone strike—or
other involving public health, safety
or Interest. It would be effective
only until July 31.
• Barbs . . .
BY HAL COCHRAN
We're sneaking up on beautiful
spring—when a young gal listens
to or sloshes through slush.
A slap on the back for people
who raise seeing-eye dogs.
Every Utter bit helps.
“Pork prices Hit New High”—
headline. Will the pigs
keep quiet and let us do the
squealing!
Service Planned At
Presbyterian i Church
A service preparatory to Easter
Sunday will be held Wednesday night
at 7:30 at the First Presbyterian
Church. Rev. Leonard W. Topping,
paSt ° r ’ * ln charge ° f the
service - The publlc ls lnylted to
attend.
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ADOLF HITLER
Criminally incompetent . . . ’’
mained studiously true to her posi
tion as the "show-piece” in the
fuehrer's circle. Most of her time
was occupied in fingernail polishing,
changing of clothes fpr each hour
of the day, and all the other little
feminine tasks of grooming, comb
ing and polishing.. In Hitler’s pres
ence she would rave about the “un
grateful swine" who had deserted
their fuehrer.
Martin Bormann moved about
very little, keeping very close to his
writing desk. He was recording
“the momentous events in the bun
ker for posterity.”
Adolf Hitler’s manner and phys
ical condition sank to lower and
lower depths. At first he seemed to
be playing the proper part of lead
ing the defense of Germany and
Berlin.
On about the 20th of April, at
what was probably the last Hitler
war council, he is said to have be
come so overcome by the persist
entlv hopeless news that he com
pletely broke down in the presence
of all the gathering.
He never recovered, physically or
mentally, from that collapse.
(Hanna tells of a suicide council
to discuss methods of self-destruct
tion and expresses belief that the
plans were followed. She planned to
take poison and blow her body to,
bits with a grenade.)
On the 29th the greatest blow of
all fell. It was a telegram message
that Himmler had contacted the
British and American authorities
through Sweden to propose a capit
ulation. Hitler raged like a mad
man.
(He ordered Von Grein and Hanna
to leave the b ™ker to muster a last.
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life was spared.
(She c , aimg ^ the Qn , y reagon
she has remained alive' is for the
sake pf truth; to te „ th truth about
Gpering . <the shanow snowman," to
teU thp truth at)out Hltler "the
crlminal incompe tent,” and to tell
the German people the'truth about
the dangers of the form of govem
that the TO Reich gave
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^OT v^^tingwll BE HELD TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the V.F.W.
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fII____ Home Owners P___ Expected < j * To Spend f J
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Spalding County’s non - farm
home owners wlu spend n estt .
i” , R ,,= !!. non ™ !? !I, f'
ernlzatlon work during 1947. 1
At least a third and probably
m ° re than hBlf ° f aU dwelIlngs ln
the county wU1 ^ lmproved re
paired this year, according to estl
mates released by the Tile Coun
c n of 01 Amer America Ca>
"Increased supplies of building
materials and easing of restrictions
should make possible a record vol
ume of home modernization
throughout the country," said F.
B. Ortman, chairman of the coun
ell’s Residential Construction Com
The county’s 4.754 single-family
homes will account for most ex
pendltures, the study revealed.
p a j n ting Is the most often wanted
improvement, with about a third,
aU owners planning to redeco-
GRIFFIN, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1947
King George Of Greece Dies
Suddenly Of Heart Ailment
City Purchases New
1000-Gallon Pumper
For Fire Department
Griffin’s city commissioners ac
cepted a bid ror a new 1,000-gallon
pumping engine for the Fire De
partment at a special meeting
Monday .night. The American La
France Co. was low bidder with
$13,000.
city Manager Jack Langford
said that it would be 250 days be
fore the new engine could be de
livered. In addition to buying the
new engine, a bid from the Sea
grave Co. was accepted to furnish
a new motor for the City’s 750-gal
lon Seagrave pumper. This bid was
for $2,000.
The purchase of the new pump
big engine is in keeping with the
recommendations that Fire Chief
Ely 3 Simonton made to the city
commissioners after the Wlnecoff
Hotel fire in Atlanta. The recom
mendations, made at the first
meeting of the commissioners In
January Included: A new 1,000-gal
lon pumper, 1,000 feet of hose, five
additional men, a full time Inspec
tor, a sub-station, a chief's car and
a wage increase.
Since these recommendations
were made, the city has acted on
five of these requirements. The
ne w hose has been purchased, two
fire captains hired, the department
has a full-time inspector, and the
wage rate increased.
Chief Simonton stated, “I am
very happy over all of it, and the
splendid cooperation the depart
ment has received from the city
officials." He said that the new
engine gives the department a tot
al pumping capacity of 3,350 gal
Ions per minute, only 150 gallons
Per minute below the rate recom
mended by underwriters. The un
derwrlters advise 3.500 gallons per
minute for a city the size of Grif
fin.
The new motor will be installed
in the Seagrave engine some time
next week, depending on delivery
date. In addition, the truck will be
overhauled and new brakes install
ed t h»s truck was put in service in
»1. but is completely modern.
j The new engine will have a hose
! capacity of 1,600 feet, and is com
modern in every respect,
Chief Simonton stated.
The fire Department answered
one call in the last 24 hours—a
frame dwelling at the coumAf farm,
no damage was reported.
Spelling Tests Will
_, Be Given —. To T r Seniors .
The standard speling test, given
to Seniors in high schools through
out the state, will be taken by mem
bers of the Senior class at both
orlffln High and, Spalding High
Wednesday. The test is a list of|
K
The tesU here win be « lven by
prlnflpals of other high schools in
TV ri| . L , f r e Wollet i Drinctoal ^ p !
of SpaldlnK wlU in' g0 * to ^ 8clcs n
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glve the teat( and j j C ordell,j ;
prlnclpa i at Grimn H igh, will go
to Mllnpr
LOCAL SCHOOLS PLAN
SPRING HOLIDAYS
Schools for white children in both
the city and county will be closed
Thursday and Friday for spring hol
idays. The schools will open for
classes as usual on Monday, April 7
The Jack and Jill School of Play
will also be closed for the holidays.
DEAN’S S LIST
The names of three students from
appeared on the dean’s list
at West Georgia College, for’ the
fan quarter, according to Dean L
® Roberts. They are Polly Griffin>,
James Overton and Matthew J ;
Y.U., To
dent must make an average of 87
or above.
"‘° ,^ n e na and ^ Do " Ro th / * Possett Harrlson , of Zeb ° * f
Hampton were also on the list.
home exteriors or some room
f th )nt mtenor. | ri M At , least t one out out or, f
dwelllngs needs carpentry
and large numbers will
have waterplpes repaired, bath
coo™ tiled or showers installed
during the year, according to the
report.
As evidence of the Increase ln
building supplies, Ortman pointed
out that floor and wall tile volume
is expected to hit an all-time high
this year. "Stepped-up
of materials meaas that the con
struction industry can both build
record numbers of houses and do
the repair work neglected during
the war,” he said.
Home repair expenditures in the
county are part of a $54,705,000
modernization program being un
dertaken ln Georgia this year, ac
cording to the study.
The Weather
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Wednesday.
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Minimum Tuesday: 51
Maximum Monday: 67
Minimum Monday: 44
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BRITISH SOLDERS SEEK ARMS IN PALESTINE—With mine detec
tors. British soldiers' seek an arms cache in a field near the former
Syrian Orphanage in Jerusalem which was converted into a barracks
where terrorist forces recently made a "commando” raid, Arms were
found in a cave at the bottom of. the hill.—NEA Telephoto.
Spalding Football
Teams Play Tonight
Candldates for the 1947 football
team at Spalding High School will
play the 8enlor Class team In a
game at Flynt Field tonight. The
game is scheduled to begin at 7:30.
Members of the two teams have
been practicing in recent weeks and
are in good shape for the game
night. Stars of the 1946 team
play their last high school football
game, and stars of the 1947 team
may be spotted in the play.
Members of the Senior team will
be Shivers, Watkins, Holloway, Mc
Abee. Akin, Barfield, Warner, M.
Brooks, Donehoo, Dillard and Jones.
Other Seniors who will play are
Durham, diggers, G. Brooks and
Batea.
Lineup for the 1947 team will be
Harkness, Brown, Crowder, Norton
Gaddy, Griffin, Martin, Hawkins,
Ogletree, Crawford and Stevens,
Substitutes will Include Fulford,
Porter, Hubbard, Johnson, Willis,
Harwell and Graham.
Admission to the game will be 25
cents for students and 50 cents
adults.
Seniors
Present Play
Aoril 18
Members of the Senior Class of
sliding „ )gh Schooi will..present
the comedy "Black Cat” on Fri
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^ 0ol l ’ > r „ a , torl “ u „ ' " 8
students who will take part ln the
ay are Kather i ne Au itman ’ Euva
line „ lKhtower . Qw innetta Nixon,
Donna Snl(jer , Wllma chappe ^ „. Ray
Man((ham ^ ^ Mc .
Abee , Bobby Jones and Milton
Brooks Kpnnpih Barnpid wm servp
•(« stage manager.
The play is directed by Mrs. E. A.
Nealv member of the SpaldinB * Hh , h
School . . faculty.
City Commission Favors Sunday
Chairman
"The City Commission has no
control over whether Sunday ase
ball Is played here or not, because
j the baseball park is outside the
city limits," said Chairman W. E.
H. Searcy of the commission this
morning. “But speaking for the
other commissioners, I say publicly
we favor Sunday baseball. 1
Chairman Searcy made this
statement today in reply to a let
ter which he had received that
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BY THE GRIFFIN NEWS
FROM WIRE REPORTS
WASHINGTON — Truman okays
seven-month extension of sugar ra
tionlng "with reluctance.” Says he
may ask longer curb.
MOSCOW—Secretary Marshall re
ported determined to tell Russia’s
Moletov that unless the Soviet is
willing to compromise reparations
demands the stalemate on the pro
posed unification of Germany is
hopeless,
WASHINGTON —John L. Lewis
and his 400,00 soft coal miners
week of mourning for Cerfralla
mine dead.
WASHINGTON—The House
Panking Committee voted today a
10 percent across-the-board Increase
]n rent ceilings.
DCDOtCTS PrCSCHt
Program Wednesday
At- Kiwanis Meeting
Members of the Griffin High
sohtx'l debating team will present
program at the regular meeting
of t he Kiwanis Club of Griffin on
Wednesday at 12:15, at the Rain
ty v,- club. The debaters are Bar
bara Ann Futral, Annette Ham
mond, Janet King and Howard Wal-
lace. i
The subject for debate is "Re- |
solved: That the federal govern- I
ment should provide a system of free
medical care available to all Citi
public expense.” ,
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PFC. HOOD IS IN
XAC1 “mpS" , mor'c ov™° cdact pre
seph M. Hood of Griffin, Oa. is
now participating In the Army's
special alnter testing operation,
Task Force Frost, which is now in
progress at Camp McCoy. He.
Hood, a member of Service Battery
ih ; yj Ar 7 ,rpr ; Pipid Artu *
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i lery Battalion, is aiding in the 1 re
tainment ,uLlv of properly functioning
I lines for the Task Force, his
job being that of truck driver.
was unsigned but said to be writ
ten "for 50, 150, or 200 young
girls and boys of this city who
want their voice heard."
A copy of the letter also was sent
to the Griffin News,
In this letter the writer also
came out In favor of Sunday mov
les end Inferred that the city corn
mlssloners were responsible for
Griffin not having Sunday movies,
In this connection Chairman
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Death Comet At
Critical Time In
Nation's History
Athens (JP )—King George rl at
Greece died suddenly today of
leart ailment. * s,|
King George was returned to the
Greek throne last Septemebr after
a plebiscite. He was 56. .
The king, twice exiled from, his
country, returned to Greece -after ]
m election decided upon continu
ance of the monarchy.
The death brought a new angle
into the question or American, aid
to Greece, now being debated in
Washington.
The king died at the height of a
critical period In his country’s his
tory—at a time when a United Na
tions Inquiry commission was in
the Balkans studying his nation's
charges against her three neigh
bors — Albania, Yugoslavia and
Bulgaria. r
The Greeks have charged her 1
neighbors with encouraging bloody
guerrilla warfare In the north and
with having territorial ambition*
directed against Macedonia and
Til race.
Yugoslavia. Bulgaria and Al
banla, on the other hand, have j
charged that Greece's border
troubles stemmed from suppressive ,
tactics of the Royalist government.
Prince Paul, third son of the
late King Constantine and a
brother of George, Is the heir to .
the throne.
The king became George II of
the Hellenes After his father abdi
rated in 1922. Three months later
he was ousted by a revolution. He
spent the following 13 yean ln ex
He, living on $5,000 a year in Lon*
don
He recouped his throne ln IBM
and decreed a dictatorship. He fell
before the Nazi invasion ln 1942,
went to London to spend the re
maining years of his exile before
the postwar plebiscite put him
back on the throne.
FFA, 4-H Members
To Compete Again
|f| Poultry ContOSt
Spalding county FFA and 4-H
Club members will participate in
a poultry contest sponsored by the
Orlffln Dally News for the third
consecutive year.
There are 25 members in each
club who have received 50 chicks
each of one of three heavy breeds
—New Hampshire Reds, Barred
Rocks, or Rhode Island Reds. In
addition, each boy reclved 25
pounds of starting mash donated
by the Griffin Orocery.
Each contestant will be judged
u. .wa,
wlth cash Pri*s totaling $40 to be
klven to those doing the best job.
C. E. Johnson, assistant county
S, ^re * HWh
the supe™
Participants are required to show
'S *a counT »
Rhow nex t fall Th» be-t trlog wm
r— Urn r>rS totallTLST 00. K\\
chicks and prizes, forjh.s contest
are donated bv the Griffin Dally
News
Searcy said this morning, "We are
not responsible for the city not
having Sunday movies. The state
law prohibits this —■ but should
they start up here the commis
sioners, as far as I am concerned.
will not Interfere with the shoW
ings.”
INVITED TO MEETING
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