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Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
Tour Influence In Griffin
Member Ot The Associated Press
M. E. Thompson Hails
Vets’ Cooperation
As Example For State
JL
E V GOOD ENIN G
By Quimby Melton
A man who holds public of
fice either grows or decreases in
popularity with the general
public.
There is no such thing as
“standing still.”
It's either up or down.
Governor Thompson is an ex
ample of a man who is grow
ing. He started out as Georgia’s
chief executive with the avowed
opposition of a group that
thought Herman Talmadge
should have been governor, due
to the write in vote he received
in the general election. The
fight had been bitter. Talmadge
had taken over and had made
his appontments. He was runn
ing things from the Governor’s
office when the Supreme Court
■ ruled that. Thompson duly elec
ted Lieutenant-Governor, was
the lawful successor of Gover
nor Talmadge, who died before
he could be sworn into office.
Not only did Governor
Thompson have the avowed en
mity of a large group of citi
zens, but the Georgia Legisla
ture had “hog tied" him by ap
proving a lot of new things that
cost money but refusing to pass
an appropriation bill to pay for
these.
Never did an incoming Gover
nor face greater obstacles than
Melvin Thompson.
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But the new chief executive
got busy: announced he would
run the state on its income; in
structed the revenue depart
ment, which he had previously
headed, to collect all the taxes
that were due and to see that
no one who owed the state a
dime escaped payment.
He also put into effect econo
mies by making nil departments
get rid of a lot of “dead wood.”
Numerous state employes whose
services could he dispensed with
were hunting jobs.
Increased income began to
come in.
Thompson began to grow in
popularity when it became evi
dent that he was more interest
ed in giving Georgia a good
administration than in building
his personal political fences.
Georgians began to realize
they had a man in the chief
executive’s office who was mak
ing good, despite the handicaps
. lie faced.
Today a great majority of
Georgians are not only willing
to help Thompson make good
on the Job—but many who
viewed his approval by the SU
preme Court with more or less
doubtings, are now "pulling” for
the man in the capltol.
Last night Governor Thomp
son spoke in Griffin at a joint
meeting of the American Lc
gion and the VFW. There were
mere than 500 veterans who
beard him. He captured their
attention at the very start. He
went on to explain what he
hoped to do for Georgia. He
told how he was-visiting over
the state, meeting the people
and finding out what they
wanted.
It was a straightforward talk
—no attempt at oratory—and
(here was a ring of sincerity to
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Says
That Georgia
Is Prospering
I M. E. Thompson, governor
Georgia, Tuesday night praised the
cooperation of the Griffin posts of
the American Legion and the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars in jointly
buying and occupying the Veter
ans Memorial Clubhouse and said
that such cooperation is an ex
tmple to Georgia.
"In Georgia we need to lift our
selves by our own bootstraps, re
duce factionalism and put the good
■‘t all above the good of the indi
vidual or the special group. I see
evidence of cooperation here be
tween the VFW and the Legion,”
! he said.
He said that as governor it has
been his "good fortune to travel
into every part of the state. And I
see evidence of prosperity on every
corner."
After World War I, he said, half
of the 80.000 Georgia veterans mov
ed from the state.
"I am happy that you stayed
with us.” he told the more than 500
Griffin veterans who heard his
address at the Veterans Memorial
Clubhouse. “You are to be congrat
ulated.”
His address followed a barbecue
given by the local Legion Post hon
oring the VFW post. The barbecue
was the result of a bet between the
wo posts as to which organization
would raise the largest amount for
buying the clubhouse. The VFW
won the bet.
He discussed the recent Gover
nor’s Conference in Salt Lake City
and said that wealthy northern
states such as New York are at
tempting gradually to reduce fed
eral grants in aid to states.
"I opposed this," he said.
“Frankly, the people of Georgia
cannot carry the tax burden. Not
yet. Biit. there will come a time
when they can do it. I ride over
Georgia and see the state growing 1
out of poverty into the type state
we are proud of and want it to be.”
"It is people like you,” he told
the veterans, “who will make sure
that the Georgia of the future will
not, be like the Georgia of the past.
Isn’t it great to be a Georgian?"
Opening his address he said, "It
is significant to me that in this
audience are two men who have
honored me by accepting appolnt
ment.o at my hands.”
He referred to John H. Goddard.
t assistant attorney general of Geor
gia who introduced him, and to
Quimby Melton, Jr., a member of
the State Tax Revision Commis
j sion. He praised both of them high
i ly.
'•John Goddard," he said, “is
clean, honest, honorable and cap
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! Enlisted Reserves
i To Be SwOm In
I H“re On Friday
t An officer will be at the Army
i Recruiting station here all day Fri
day to swear in Enlisted Reserve
I Corps applicants, T-Sgt. John
Chalker, head of the local recruit
ing trailer, announced today.
| “All you need to join now is an
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honorable discharge and about ten
minutes of your time. Protect what
you have earned." Sgt. Chalker told
jSpnldine; County veterans.
He said this opportunity is ex
tended to veterans only until the
end of the national emergency.
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GOVERNOR THOMPSON
Torrential Rains
Flood City, Leave
Families Homeless
ERIE, Pa. (A 1 )—A state of emer
gency existed in this industrial
town of 135.000 today in the wake
of torrential rains that flooded the
streets, leaving 75 families home
less and causing damage estimated
at $1,000,000.
The 75 Negro families evacuated
Tuesday from the Franklin Terrace
Housing Project on the east side
of town were housed temporarily
in tlie city hall annex.
Many df the evacuees swam to
safety through 15 feet of water
while others paddled to dry land In
canoes and rowboats.
Ten hours of incessant, pounding
rains Tuesday stimulated flood
conditions not seen here since 1915
when Mill Creek overflowed and 30
persons lost their lives.
The freak flood, Weather Bureau
officials emphasized, was caused
entirely by the unprecedented rain
fall which piled up 9.03 inches to
break all records 4ar any 24-hour
period. m
Telephone service was shutoff in
many parts of the city but electric
power was unaffected.
Damage to business establish
ments and homes was unofficially
estimated by various Red Cross and
Disaster Committee sources at
"about $1,000,000.”
Senator Asks Clark
To Call Off Democrats
On Vote Fraud Case
WASHINGTON UP) Senator
Ferguson (R.-Mlrh.) called on At
torney General Clark today to ask
Democratic senators to drop their
opposition to a congressional inves
tigation into Clark's handling of
Kansas City vote fraud charges.
The Michigan senator contended
that Clark should take this action
“in Justice to himself." The attor
ney general, Ferguson said, “ought
to have the chance to defend him
self on the accusations that have
been made against him.”
Mr. C. L. Edwards
Dies Iri^Atlanta
Mr. C. L. wards. 68, Atlanta,
died in an Atlanta hospital this
morning. He Is the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Edwards.
Mr. Edwards Is survived by his
wife, two sisters, Mrs. J. E. Elder,
and Mrs. F. W. Batchy, and a bro
ther, J, Francis Edwards, all ot
Griffin.
lunernl arrangements will be an
nounced later.
GRIFFIN, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1947
EAST AND WEST GET
READY FOR FIGHT
IN UNITED NATIONS
Scrap Will Come
On Whether To
Admit Albania
Th* Fight For Peace
BY THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
From Leased Wire Reports
The East and West squared off
today for a fight over the admission
of Russian-sponsored Albartla to
the United Nations.
Most delegates agreed that unless
Albania can give assurance of ad
hering to the principles of the U
nited Nations charter her applica
tion for membership will be rejected
for the second time.
Meantime another question seem
ed to face the U. N.
In London well-informed diplo
matic sources said today that either
India or Australia might ask the
United Nations to intervene in the
dispute between the Dutch and the
Indonesian Republic.
Meantime in the Indonesian fight
itself, the Dutch army today report
ed that American-trained marines
moving south from north-coast
beach-heads had less than 10 miles
to go to pinch off 2,400 square miles
of* east Java from the rest of re
publican Indonesia.
The army, in its second communi
que since hostilities started Sunday
night and the first to be specific
on locations, indicated that its mf
torized and armor-protected troops
were pushing deep into Java and
Sumatra on at least 10 fronts, with
resistance “only sporadlcalUy en
countered.”
Other developments in the fight j
for peace today:
JERUSALEM — CtfficiaJ sotttcBt
reported today that the British ship 1
Empire had been sunk in H^lfa har
bor, presumbably by saboteurs,
shortly after disembarking 261 Jew
ish immigrants transported to the
Holy Land from the detention
camps on Cyprus.
GERMANY At least six per- ,
sons were killed and four were in- j
jured today when a mysterious ex
plosion rocked a German police
headquarters building in the Rus
sian zone of Berlin.
GREECE — The United Nations
Balkan sub-commission continued I
today its investigation at Ionnina,
where the Greek army claims to
have routed a guerrilla force which
“invaded” from Albania.
LONDON,^ The British govem
ment sald today that British-Rus
sian trade talks in Moscow have
“taken a turn for the worse and a
breakdown now is rather likely."
CHINA — China’s own economic
reform plan was made ready today
for Lt. Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer 1
who stepped up his fact finding vl-! I
sit by conferring with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek.
Robert Crossfield
Will Address Rotary
Meeting Thursday
Robert Crossfkid of Crossfield
Ice Co. and an expert in food
ervatlon will address the regular
weekly dinner meeting of the
rin Rotary Club at the Griffin Ho
tel at noon Thursday. He
speak on refrigeration and pre
icrvlng foods.
Mr. James Ben Key
To Be Buried Today
Funeral services for Mr. James
Ben Key will be held this afternoon
at 5 o’clock at the First Baptist
Church.
The Rev. Hu UBj^Jndsey^ft Re(^Lynn Rev.
W. P. Rowe j(rd the La
nler will officiate. Burial will be in
Oak Hill Cemetery. Haisten Broth
ers Is In charge of the arrange
ments.
He was a member of the First
Baptist Church.
ROCK SPRINGS HOLDS
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services are now in pro
gress at the Rock Springs Congre
gatlonal Methodist Church with the
Rev. Gilbert Howard,
preaching. Services are held at 11
A M. and 8:00 P. M. Services end
Friday night.
Wartime Credit Curbs Nearin tps#
End As House Rejects Plea wm ♦tar
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FORMER ‘SLAVE 1 FREE — EX-MISTRESS IN JAIL—Dora Jones (left), Negro housemaid a native of
Alabama, arrives in St. Louis from San Diego, Cal if., where her former mistress, Mrs, Alfred Wesley
Ingalls, was convicted of keeping her in slavery. Right: Bitting in her jail cell at San Diego, bfts. Ingalls
0,1 t-h* shoulder of her husband, She Is waiting to be sentenced July 29. (AP Wlrephoto).
1 Mr 111 Wa|(]A|| 11 VjifgC
At Home In Milner
Mr. Stokely Clay Weldon, 56,
died at his home in Milner at 12 30
Tuesday afternoon,
He had been in poor health for
several years and had been confin
ed to Ills home for the past month.
Mr. Weldon, a retired farmer,
will be buried in Milner cemetery
after funeral services are conduct
ed this afternoon at the Milner
Methodist Church. The Rev. T, A.
Edgar and the Oev, George Britt
will officiate and Haisten Brothers
will be in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will he George Wel
don. Philip Weldon. Bobby Weldon.
Louis Weldon. Julian Weldon and
Maurice Weldon.
Survivors Include his wife, Mrs.
Lillie Chapman Weldon of Milner;
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two sisters ' Mrs F E Joy of M1U
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ner and Mrs Mary Bess Colllpr of
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Atlanta; a brother, G. A. Weldon
of Milner; several nieces and
nephews
Rep. Carl Vinson
To Seek Reelection
To Congress In 1948
MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga. ()P)—Rep.
Carl Vinson of Georgia's Sixth DIs
trtet, announced here today
he would be a candJdute for re
election in 1948.
yinson has been In Coner-vs "
Vinson's announcement followed
publication of an Associated Press
story which quoted close friends of
Vinson in Washington as sayini
the former chairman of the Hou^i
N aV al Affairs Committee had told
them he would.retire at the end of
his present term.
Flying Saucers Grow Into
Plates Here
Flying saucers had grown into
fly!ng plates In Griffin today.
lu”r^rPohce DTp^riLnt'stkte
Patrol, Griffin Dally News and
other offices Just before noon today
asking, “What are they? They look
like plates.
They were, plates that Is.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Repub
lican leaders approved today a long
list of proposed investigations, top
< ped by inquiries into rising costs of
living and housing problems
ATLANTA — Charles H. GiUman.
state CIO director, says that of
Georgia's 12 congressmen, only
Fenderson Lanham of the Seventh
District (Rome) "has been found |
worthy of labor’s support in t?f> ‘
ccming campaign." I !
WASHINGTON Huu-nG |
The i 1
Newsprint Oommbtpp held out to i
the nation’s publishers today the
hope of lower newsprint prices and
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Griffin Man Victim 1
Of Spotted Fever !
ATLANTA (/P)— A victim of |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever was
admitted to Lawson hospital Tues- I
day. It was the sixth case reported
in the state this summer.
Grover Travis Moore 32, Griffin
taxi driver, is the victim.
j Rocky Mountain spotted fever is
j transmitted by ticks. The fever is
not dangprous in most cases in this
part of the country.
Manv Mason* To Attend
District Lodge Meeting
Many Masons from Griffin’s two
lodges will attend the 6th District
grand lodge meeting in Macon this
afternoon and tonight. L. C.
WootiHl1 . P RS t master of Meridian
Sun Il0d K p ’ 1* slated to become dlst
!lct maRter. Among those who are
manning on going to Macon are
Woodall. Claude Christopher, O. B.
Turner, Lyndon Patterson, Charles
Crawley. George Vaughan, Jack
Flynt and P. Y. Luther.
— LOCAL WEATHER —
Maximum Wednesday: 77
Minimum Wednesday: 61
Maximum Tuesday: T2
Minimum Tuesday: 59
cardboard picnic plates dropped
from an airplane gliding quietly
° Ver the C ‘ ty ’ N ° flytng saUcers
After the city had been thrown
Into a dither one ot the plates was
found, then another and another,
They turned out to be an adver
Using stunt publicizing the model
City, County Turn
New Leaf; No Crime
Griffin and Spalding County ap
parently have turned over a new
leaf this week regarding arrests, ac
eidents and fires, according to re
ports from the various police agen
' ri rplT1( , n
Afu * r a hl * h mark of 46 areR - s
were made over the weekend by the
Police Department, they stated to
day that only two arrests were made
in the past 24 hours with both of
them being for drunkenness. This
does not count traffic violations.
The sheriff's office hasn't report
ed a serious crime or arrest In sev
erai days and only one serious ac
cident, that being the drowning of
Jack Clark Sunday.
The State Patrol here has not re
ported a serious accident in Spald
ing County since July 18. The ac
cident record in the city shows the
last accident here was on that date
and was of a minor nature.
The Fire Department records in
dicate that the last fire call was on
July 17 Little damage resulted
from this.
i Princess, Philip
Will Have Big
| Wedding After All
j LONDON (VP)—Tlie government
: let it be known today that Princess
1 Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip Mount
i batten will be married In B big pub
j Me ceremony after all.
| Spiking speculation that tlif
w’edding would have to be a small,
semi-private affair because of the
j nation's poverty, a high
ment source said it was now defi
nltely known that the ceremony
would be in Westminister Abfcey
and "certainly won't be on austcri
ty lines.
airplane meet to be held here Sun
day at the old airport st Regiel's
curvo ' The meet U spared
by the Griffin Model Club and is a
statew •jdc affair.
No charge will be made for ad
mlttanee, but today’s flying plates
said they were passes to the event,
GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Haw,
Your Influence ft* Griffe;
Established
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Restraints To Be 1*, M
aw
Lifted Soon From
Installment Buying^
WASHINGTON </P> Denied
specific peacetime authority To
regulate time payment buyto*,
President Truman today faces A
decision on when to lift presalt ,
credit restraints on such items h -
automobiles, refrigerators and ra- -J
di os. ’ ■ WU P M
The President had recommended
that the controls—.imposed by war
time executive order— be continued
for a while with the approval ot •
Confess as a curb against infla- !
tion.
But the House instead approved
bid late Tuesday to end aueh
controls immediately. The voice
vote action rejected a Senate ip
moved measure to continue modi
fied credit restraints ‘o December
1. Neither bill appea > \ likely to
ret any further.
Chairman Wolcott -Mich.)
f the House Banking . mmiUee
told reporters after the house vote:
"It is now up to tlie President to
get rid of the credit controls, as be
said he would do if he did not get
specific authority from Cangresc
ft Is certain the House will not
authorize such regulations. The
'Senate bill 1s dead."
The credit curbs were Imposed
°arly in the war under the trad
ing with the enemy act. Because
‘hat World War i statute ca r r i e s *
no specific time limit, Mr. Truman
-ouid, if he chose, keep the re
straints in force so long as the
House bill did not become law.
But on June 5, the chief execu
tive wrote Marriner 8. Rccles, Fed
eral Reserve Board chairman:
If the Congress does not see fit
to provide the necessary legislative
authority. It is my intention lo
vacate the executive order because
I do not believe that such regUtB i -~
tion should rest indefinitely is
peacetime on emergency or war
oower. after the Congress ha/ had
ample opportunity to conslde. thf
subject. M
The controls now in for:j re
quire one-third down payments,
with Installments running no long
er than 15 months, on automobiles,
stoves, mechanical diswashers,
ironers, refrigerators, washing ma
chines, room unit air conditioners,
radios, phonographs, sewing ma
chines and vacuum cleaners. A 20
percent down payment, with install
ments limited to 15 months, Is re
quired for furniture and rugs.
The bill aproved by the Senate
would extend the controls to de
cCmber 31, with no more than 20
f percent required on down pay
! ments and installments to run two
] years.
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Teach H is Scouts
C. 1^. Wllmans. 82-year-old na
liuraliit and expert on Indian lore.
! will have charge of nature study of
j the And Bov thereby Scouts hangs at Camp interesting Thunder.
an
i story.
Wllmans, whose home Is in Fort
Smith, Ark. started teaching nature
study and Indian lore many year*
ago and attended camps that were
conducted by the father of John
Vantrease, Griffin Scout executive.
In fact it was under Wilman’a to
srtuctlon that Vantrease becam* to
terested in Scouring.
N ° W W1,mans wlD te * ch ta *
camp conducted bv ti on of the
man under whom hi •xt taught
nature study.
Wllmans at one tin mblUhed
a newspaper jn the old Indian TWr
ritory.