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GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money,
Your Talent, Your Time,
Your Influence In Griffin
Member Of The Associated Press
Giant Clearance Sale
With Prices Slashed
Will Be Held Tuesday
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By Quimby Melton
The Eightieth Congress ad
journed Saturday night until
January—unless the President
should call an emergency ses
Sion before 1918 comes in.
It has been a stormy session
and early in its life the muchly
talked of “tamwork" with the
White House faded into the
land of nowhere. It was the
first Republican controlled
Congress Ir, ^ decade and
a half and now the various re
presentatives and senators have
gone home to find out from
their constituents what they
think of what they did and did
not do.
Left unsolved until next year
are such important controver
sial Issues as
Universal Military Training;
Long-range housing;
Military cooperation with La
tin America;
Minimum wage boosts; !
Loyalty checks on government
workers; .
Reduced income taxes.
When the congressmen get
back home they will especially
think on taxes, labor and gov
ernment spending. Those three
items are certain to be issued
in the 1948 presidential cam
paign.
They'll also have to answer to
their constituents as to why liv
ing costs continue to soar. And
there will be many varied ex
planations. The Democrats will
say the Republicans are res
ponsible because they killed
OPA. The Republicans will say
the .. _ Democrats responsible
are
for this reason or that.
There were at least three
times when the rift between the
White House and the Congress
came out in the open.
Once when the President ve
toed the Taft-Hartley Labor
Bill and Congress turned a
rotind and overrode the veto.
And again when the President
twice vetoed, the Republican
sponsored bin to cut income
taxes some M 000,000,000 Both
times the presidential veto was
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Mrs. Davidson 1$
Buried Here Sunday
Mrs. Annie Jenkins Davidson,
former Ortfftnlt.e. was burled in
Oak Hill cemetery here Sunday
afternoon.
The Rev. Zach Ilayes officiated
and Pittman Funeral Home was ln
charge of arrangements. The D. ,A.
R. of Haddock, Ga„ where Mrs.
Buvldson lived at the time of her
death, conducted final rites. A
mong other survivors was a sister,
Mrs. Emma Davidson, Haddock.
5GT. ;»OY PATTERSON
ARRIVES IN GERMANY
Fl-Bn’t.. Roy T Patterson, Jr. re
cently arrived in Germany and has
fcepn assigned to the 42nd Air Re
pair Squadron. Oberpfaffenhofen
Air Depot, Oberpfaffenhofen, Ger
many. the Army announced. Before
entering the services In February,
1946, Patterson attended Griffin
High School. He is the non of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy T. Patterson, 8r„ 620
West. Broad street and Is a veteran
of 15 months In the ETTO.
I 29 Leading Stores
Will Stage Huge
Soles Here Tuesday
From shoes to brass!ers; from ra
dios to galvanized iron tubs; from
dresses to jewelry. from furniture to’
j hardware, from almost anything to
j anything else one will find Mid
j Summer Clearance prices in 29 of
leading stores of Griffin Tues
day. ;
And the values that are adver
Used today on pages 4 and 5 are
just a sample of what the thrifty
buyer will find in these stores—for
because of lack of space ..no store
can advertise more than one or two
of the special items they have spe
cially priced for this mid-summer
carnival of values. i
The merchants must make room
,
for new fall and winter merchandise 1
that already Is arriving. So they
are saying “out they go” on much |
of their sumraei merchandise and a |
lot of odds and ends they want to
move -
The merchandise they are espe
cially pricing is good, clean stock, !
not worn or soiled goods. The Mid
Summer*‘Clearance event is not on
* a clearance sale for these mer
charts but a good will gesture to the
buyers to demonstrate that Griffin i
merchtnts are more than willing to
share with their , customers. . !
It will pay everyone to carefully
read the two page adverstisement of
go
every one of the stores and shop a
i round for the items that wi'l be spe
daily priced but which cannot, be
advertised because of lack of space.
Tuesday will be a big dav for
} shoppers. ,
Especially those who visit ail of
i the stores and find the specials that
! are offered,
j The Weather
j j FORECAST FOR GEOR
GIA:-I\utl.v cloudy and warm
tonight and Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER
Maximum Monday: 86
Minimum Monday: 70
Maximum Sunday: 88
Minimum Sunday: 68
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Approximately 75 persons enter
ed the all-day model airplane meet
held Sunday by the Griffin Model
Club and high point honors for the
meet were taken by Merritt Davis,
Atlanta,
Griffinites took six prizes away
f rom the meet, but failed to place
first in any event. Charles Hopper,
Griffin, placed third in the Class B
event of free-flight gas models He
also won a gas motor for the best
crackup of the day.
Kenneth Grubbs, Griffin, took
third-place in the hand-launched
glider event and Bobby Douglas
copped fourth place in the same
event,
John Sims, Griffin, placed sec
ond in tow-line gliders with Johnny
taking fourth place in that
event.
The m eet was sponsored by the
chapter of the National
Aeronautical Association, Pomona
deducts and Randal, and Blake,y,
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The Griffin Model Club is plan
to enter a meet in Macon la
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City, County Hove
p ree Qf Violence
Griffin and Spalding County had
another weekend void of any seri
eus accidents, crimes or fires, ar
fording to reports of officials.
Police made 32 arrests over the
week-end with three of them being
for possessing non-tax paid whiskey
and the rest being for disorderly
eonduct and drunkenness. No seri
ous crimes, injuries or accidents
j were renorted in the city, j
The Jfire Department went
1 through the weekend without ant
wertng a single call. Sheriff Luth
er Mlddlebrooks stated no serious
! crimes or accidents occurred in the
county. No accidents were report”.i
by the State Patrol on highways in
Spalding County.
President’s Mother, To Be Buried Quietly
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EISENHOWER BIDS PATTERSON FAREWELL—Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower. army chief of staff <center'. bids farewell to Robert P, Patterson ■
(right) at the airport in Washington as Patterson leaves for his Cold
Spring, N. Y„ home after retiring as secretary of war. At left is Ken
neth C. Royall of Goldsboro, N. O., Patterson’s successor. <AP
Hr. H. H. Jester To
Be Buried Tuesday
Mr Henry Harrison Jester, a
memb er of the Merchant Marine
who was a native of Griffin, will be
buried in Oak Hill cemetery Tues
day afternoon after funeral serv
ices are conducted at Pittmau’s
CIl apel at 2 o’clock.
The Rev Back C. Hay*,
officiate. Pallbearers will be
Jester, Clarence Jester,
ner Cook. C. A. Bedsole, Ruben
and and Jim 7 im Plunazee.
He died Friday at the U. S. Ma
hospital in Baltimore, Md.
Exchange Club To
Have Ladies Night
Tuesday Night At 7
The Exchange Club will hold
Ladies Night Tuesday night at the
Rehoboth Woman’s Club, one mile
East of Orchard Hill at 7 o’clock.
T,lp regular meeting at noon Tujs
day will not be held Dinner will
be served by the Woman’s Club
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S°r!Al. SECURITY AGENT
BE HERE ON TUESDAY
A representative of the Macon
Social Security office will be at
the Griffin employment office
Tuesday at 10 o’clock to con uit
with anyone desiring information
on social security problems
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GRANDVIEW, Mo.—Mrs. Martha E. Truman, mother of the Presi
dent, will be buried quietly this afternoon on a shadowed knoll ln
i Kansas City in the same lot with her husband.
The ceremony will be simple and private, as the pother and her de
voted son had agreed previously. Services will be forfthe family alone.
She was a devoted mother and the unusually close companionship of the
President and his mother ia well Illustrated by these pictures. The tale
I ls t°ld that her parting admonition at the end of his visits was always,
• Briefs . . .
BY THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
From Leased Wire Reports
averted DENVER Sunday A night major when disaster a fire was at |
Rocky Mountain arsenal seared
chlo’ine gas storage tanks before it
was brought J under cont’-ol.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark- Bap
lists from 45 countries will open
,. lit
BERLIN - nullities have i
formed the Russians that, five Get
man ‘minister-presidents P in the So
vlet or . cupatinn zone wllJ be un .
cand ‘ datea f0 / i
future central pmernmenl „ of Ger- I 1
many because of a “malicious"
charge that the Western occupying
noWers hav i nurtured factsn.
House Committee
Urges Retaining
Thomasviile Hospital
WASHINGTON —tfPi -The House
Appropriations Committee voted
Saturday to approve a PlO-bed vet
cians hospital at Tallahassee, Fla ,
and to recommend that the Veter
ahs Administration continue opera
tion of a 100-bed institution at
' r homasville, Go.
Previously, Congress authorized
a 200-bed hospital at Tallassee to
cost $1,300,000, but the House stipu
lation that no construction be start
ed until Its Appropriations Com
mil tee h:-.d investigated and ap
proved.
Dutch Capture Vital
Coal And Oil Regions •
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Order Java Ports
Roaring Political
Fight In Senate
Ends 80th Congress
WASHINGTON </P)-Sign posts
pointing toward teamwork with the
White House on world affairs,
slugging matches on domestic prob
lems and hot 1948 election issues
stand out along the rough road the
80th Congress traveled to iis own
half-way mark.
The first session crashed to a
se in Sundays _ , , early , hours. u
djouinment until January -
,n ess President Truman or Re
publican leaders call an emergency
session sooner—shot off a raucous,
roaring political scrap in the
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song fest'.in bating *
Weary members now are
a path home to find out what the
M op,« thw, o. this H
lined" Congress, this first Repuh- j
ca 7’“ e and a half Congre« in a de- j ,
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for a president all
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Held on tie hook until next win- :
were such measures as univer
*’ 1 , mlll .... <ary training, long-ran^
military cooperation with
Latin America, a minimum wage
i boost for the lowest paid interstate
workers and loyalty checks on gov
emmeni workers.
It was a political battle royal in
i the Senate that kept Congress on
i the J° b on a Sabbath for the first
time since 1929.
Democrats had succeeded in
blocking a Rennbilr ^hip for a
fullscale investigation into At
torney General Clark's luin.-lllm/
vote fraud charges ItflEansas City.
Senator Brewster iR.-Mc i tried
to get even l-y preventing approv
aI ot the nomina Uon of Philip b;
Perlman of Baltimore to be
lieltor general, top-rank spot under
Clark,
Tempers were raw and faces
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“Be a good boy, Harry," „
She followed hts activities closely in the newspapers and on the radio,
1 llittfining to every broadcast of his speeches. Her biggest moments came
when, despite her 94 years, she went to the polls and proudly cast her
vote for him.
Saturday she died.
President Truman remembers her admonition "Be a good boy. Harry."
j United Nations
Balkans Decision
E xpected Tuesday
The Fight For Peace
BATAVIA, Java (/P)- Dutch, mil
itary headquarters announced to
,, day sweeping new successes in
eastern Sumatra, reporting the
capture virtually intact of vital
coal and oil regions more than 100
miles from the jumping off point
of Dutch troops at Palembang.
The advances were announced!
| as the Netherlands navy ordered
lhe Java l*" 1 * uf Cheribon; Pro
iolinggo and BanJ.oewangi opened
immediately to normal trade in an
effort to get great stores of cap
tU red raw materials moving to
world markets. I
. In two separate . communiques,; , ,
^ Dut “ ptU f " r ‘ lha ' lh ^
?, " ° b£!T ^ aUlcracl , ^ 80 m es
Assam coal
mlles> 20 mlles further to the solHh _
wegt .
The Dutch said they had captur
large quantities °< arms ln the i
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ground on thp roatl to Sekajoe, v .
wne 92 miles northwest of Palem- ;
bang |
Other developments today in the
fight for peace:
UNITED NATIONS—A consen
sus of delegates indicates that a
| far-reaching decision may come j
Tuesday on the Balkan problem 1
and with it a test of the United
Nations' powers for effective action
in the peaceful settlement of dis
PUtes j
PALESTINE—British naval fore
ps Rsrort( ' d lnt ° Haifa harbor to
day KmaU vessels jammed with
aPPfdkimately 1.100 uncertified
Jewish immigrants and immediate-1
ly transferred most of them to
wa,,in ? British ships for deporta
,ion to Cyprus.
MARSAILLE, France — French
authorities said today that nearly
1 000 of *' 500 Jews cruising off
shore in three British deportation
ships after being turned back from
Palestine were ill or needed medi
cal ,
care.
GRIFFIN FIRST
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Your Influence In Griffin.
Established
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Aircraft Experts
Offered To Est AH'
Kaiser-Hade Planer
WASHINGTON — (JPi A wap
ttine government official's private
dl »ry notation that aircraft experts
'"anted to “undertake to eat 1 * alt
planes produced by Henry J. Kaiser
held top billing for today's opening
of public hearings by a Senate war
investigating subcommittee,
The committee called Merrill Q>
Meigs, former deputy director Of
H-e War Production Board’s Alr
cra ft Division ’ as It* first witnese
Chairman Ferguson (R-MI e h.)
&ald the long-pending Inquiry til
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aimed at finding out why the gor
^ment spent >40.000,900 on con
fracts wlth KaUcr and Row »^
Hu * hes f °r P*™ not yet in use by
Meigs, In testimony taken at
earlier hearings is said to have re
ported a strong belief within the
WPB that Kaiser’s plai for a super
cargo plane was not p seal as a
wartime venture.
Citing estimates that would
take 52 months to build such a
plane. Meigs added that Kaiser had
rreated ... auch . * P ublic ,, dem *nd for ..
to ° ffaet then 'P«valent sub
»narlne Klnklnux ? it finoiiv " W woo “ de
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a ^ h.
Consulting a diary he kept during
that period, Meigs recorded the'
following observation after a con
versation with Donald Douglas, alr
cra ft builder:
“I have never seen Kaiser but all
1 hi people who know anything a
bout aircraft say they all want to
undertake to eat all the airplanes
he ever will build."
Ferguson charged that
"White House pressure” was exert
ed to force award of the contract
over the opposition of the Army and
Navy.
Adm. John H. Towers, former
chief of the Naw’s Bureau of Aero
nautlcs, has been summoned to tea
tifv on that service's views. Ka.ser
wil l get his chance to tell his dde
of the story Tuesday.
Meantime, U was revealeo hat •
the committee received secret ses
sion testimony from John Meyer,
publicity man tor Hughes’ enter
prises, disputing contention* tlj£t
Flllott Roosevelt might have ram
med “down somebody's throat’Gt
reconnaissance plane contract given
Hughes after he and Kaiser dropped
theft association.
Meyer, reported out o( the coun*
I trv, is being sought by the com
mute* for testimony at Wednesday’s
| hearing,
Harvey Kennedy Is
Named Flint Judge
ATI-ANTA —m Harvey Ken
nedy, mayor of Barnesville and
chairman of the "Aroused Citizens
of Georgia," has been named judge
<f the Flint Judicial Circuit, suc
: f ceding Judge Ogden Persona,
i signed.
LIBERTY CHAPTER OES
WILL MEET ON TUESDAY
l iberty Chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star will meet Tuej
day night at 7:30. All officers ana
members are urg«J to attend.
TAI,MADGE CRITIZES
LCVEJOY, Oa. — Retention at
"Md WUUa-ns as secretary of the
'eorpia Pres* Association while'
t-n boldine a full-tltne state My
brnueht renewed crlticLim .
Herman from
Talmadge that Williams
•devote* 10 ttine to the elate."
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