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Hell Broke Loose,
Kaiser Declares
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By Quknby Melton
A reader writes:
“There are two full moons
this year In August. How in
frequently dees it happen that
there are two full moons In
one month?’’
Thanks for calling our atten
tion to this “infrequent" occur
ance. Refrence to the calendar
shows there will be a full moon
next Friday, Aug. 1, and again
on Sunday, Aug. 31.
The moon is the earth's only
satellite, and it revolves around
the earth from west to east at
an average speed of 238,862
miles ln a period of about 29.5
days—thus about once a month
there is a new moon followed
by first quarter, second quarter
and full moon
The moon shines entirely
from reflected light, and its
phases depend entirely on is re
lative position with regard to
the sun and the earth.
The moon has been likened to
a giant mirror. When th£ moon
is between or nearly between
the sun and the earth, its dark
(unilluminated side) is towards
the earth and we have a new
moon. It Is then seen as a
small crescent, either late in Hie
afternoon ln the west or early
in the morning in the east.
As the moon moves out from
between the earth and sun it
grows larger and Its illuminated
side becomes more exposed to
the rays of the sun and we have
progressively larger moons cul
minating in the full moon.
The diameter of the moon is,
according to scientists who have
measured it. 2,163 miles. This
diameter is a little more than
one-fourth that of the earth.
It’s average density is about 60
percent of that of the earth. It’s
average surface is about one
rtxth that of the earth.
There are mountains on the
moon as high as 20.000 feet. The
moon is covered with craters,
some of which measure 100
miles across.
The mountains and craters
cause shadows on the moon that
result In one seeing “the man
in the moon” and If one looks
hard enough at the moon he
also.
can find a “girl ln the moon"
The moon eontorls the tides
of the sea and also has a di
rect effect on the weather. The
two equinox storms, om in the
spring and one ln the fall, are
directly the result of the posi
tion o.’ the moon.
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The moon has been the In
spiration for many wierd tales
and also for songs galore. Kate
Smith’s theme song 1: When
the Moon Comes Over the
Mountain and barbershop
quartettes have long “harmon
ised" on ijhlne On Harvest
Moon,’ “Carolina Moon Keep
Shining" and others.
We want to thank our readers
for calling our attention to the
fact that there will be two full
moons this month. For this ln
teresting bit of information
gave us an Idea for a Good
Evening column—and very oft
en sultable Ideas are mighty
hard to find
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NEW SALEM BAPTISTS
PLANNING HOMECOMING
New Salem Baptist Church, near
Vaughn. ls planning a Homecoming
Sunday on Aug. 10, the pastor, the
Rev. Troy Hollingsworth, announced
todav. In prepa r ation for the event
he requests that all persons who
have cemetery lots ln the church
jard clean them before Aug. 10.
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Kaiser Testimony
Says That Navy
Reversed Itself
WASHINGTON (/P) — Henry J.
Kaiser testified today that he sent
a brief note to the late President
Roosevelt and got a wartime con
tract to build small aircraft carriers
after top navy officials previously
had rejected his offer.
The wartime industrialist told
the Senate War Investigating Com
mittee of this incident after saying
he “didn’t recollect" when asked
whether he went to the White
House in connection with contracts
he secured to build cargo-carrying
airplanes.
The committee is seeking facts
regarding some $40,000,000 worth
of airplane contracts awarded to
Kaiser and Howard Hughes, air
craft designer and film producer.
On the “baby flattops”—small air
craft carriers—Kaiser told this
story:
He talked with the late Marvin
McIntyre, • secretary to the late
President Roosevelt, about building
he aircraft carriers.
McIntyre was “very available" '
and when the navy rejected Kais
er’s plans “by a vote of sixteen to
nothing” he consulted McIntyre.
McIntyre told him, Kaiser said, |
that if Kaiser would “write little ;
a ,
letter of about four paragraphs" ;
‘hat McIntyre would “lay it on |
he chief's (Jfesk.”
Kaiser said ihe next day re
ceived a call from Admiral Emory
3. Land, then directing ship con
traction.
“Admiral Lar. i stfd ‘What the
heH have you been doing?’ ” Kais
•r continued.
Kaiser said the letter to Presi- ,
lent Roosevelt caused top navy of
Totals to “reverse” themselves.
“I got an order for one hundred
aircraft carriers,” he said. “All hell
iroke loose. They did not want
dreraft carriers. They wanted de- I ,
stroyers. I told them I could not
mild destroyers. Finally they can
plied orders for fifty." j
Kaiser said the navy did not
vant to call his ships “aircraft
carrier” and at first “wanted to
;ive them to the British" but final
'y “turned the heat of hell on us to
'reduce more of them.”
The navy reversed Itself,” he
continued. “It was wonderful.”
At the outset of the hearing,
Kaiser protested there has been a
him.
Supermen! Plants 1,000 Trees
Allen Fulford Wins
Forestry Contest
Alien Fullord. president of the
Ipalding Future Fajmers of A
nerica chapter, the district winner
a the F. F. A. forestry contest,
von a trip to a forestry camp ln
’armvllle, Va„ and is attending it
his week.
Fulford won the contest, which
s sponsored by the Seaboard rail
road, by planting 1,000 pine seed
luga, constructing one and a half
nlles of fire breaks, marked five
icres of timber for selective cut
ting, owns and operates portable
'ire fighting equipment and erected
dgns for fire prevention.
The forestry camp he is attend
ing ends August 3. Herman Nelson
s the vocational agriculture teach
ei here who supervises the F. F. A.
here.
Fulford won the contest ln com
petition with F. F. A, members of
all the chapters ln the Fourth Dis
trict. Boys attending the camp ln
Virginia will learn the latest for
estry practices.
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FLAG AT HALF STAFF FOR MRS. TRUMAN—The United States flag
flies at half-staff in front of the post office at Grandview, Mo., as the
town mourns the death of its most distinguished resident, Mrs. Marti*
E. Truman, mother of the President. She died there in her cottagb
home Saturday at the age of 94. (AP Wirphoto).
TIRED PRESIDENT TRUMAN LEAVES
MOTHER'S GRAVE FOR WASHINGTON
GRANDVIEW, Mo. —(.4*)— Tired
and a little drawn, President Tru
man left for the White House to
day, leaving his mother in a flower
laden grave shaded by trees from
ihe hot Missouri sun.
Ihe presidential plane left for
„ Washington, , where pile of legisla
a
tlon, crowded through in the closing
days of Congress, awaited Mr. Tru
man’s consideration.
Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman, 94,
who said her son could “do any
thing just a little better than any
one else." was buried Monday in
Hill cemetery at Kansas City,
beside the unmarked grave of the
President’s father, John A. Trum
man.
The President and his family sat
in the kitchen of her little house ln
C' ,ran dview and others filled the
d ' n ' n 8 room and parlor, while the
Rev, Welbern Bowman a near
neighbor, read a simple 20-minute
service. There was no eu
because, he said, "she would
not have wanted a eulogy.”
Tire vitality cf the President was
by his sorrow.
He admitted to friends that he
was “tired,” and those who saw him
while the last rites were recited over
The Weather
FORECAST F O It GEOR
GIA:—Partly cloudy and rather
hot tonight and Wwlnesdav.
— LOCAL WEATHER —
Maximum Today 79
Minimum Today: 67
Maximum Monday: 92
Minimum Mqndav: 70
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SPALDING WINNER — Allen
Fulford, 8paldlng FFA member,
who won a trip to a Virginia
forestry camp, la shown above
with the tractor he uses to cut
fire lanes and the portable fire
equipment he keeps handy for
forest blazes.
GRIFFIN, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947
the casket said that tense facial
j lines “really showed his grief.”
Only 37 persons, kin to the Tru
man's with few exceptions, were
present as the final words of com
fort were spoken—“The Lord Is my
Shepherd,” and. “The days of our
years are three , score and ten.
, Martha Truman's years, far be
ycnd that span, had seen ciyil war
tare on the Missouri-Kansas border
when she was 10 years old. The fi
nal resting place of the peppery Ut
!!f Southern sympathizer was near
a nionument to Confederate army
dead ‘ to PPed by a facif£
north
The modest Interment would have
suited her too, friends said, because
there were no “luss and feathers.”
Sixteen cars, Including the black
hearse bearing the flower laden
casket, made up the funeral cortege.
The graveside ceremonies were brief,
three or four minutes in all. The
cemetery was closed to non-partici
pants.
Thirty floral pieces were banked
beside the trpp-shaded grave though
Ihe Truman's asked that no flowers
be sent. One—an upright wreath of
roses and gladiolas—bore a ribbon
Inscribed “members of the United
States Senate."
• Briefs . . .
BY From THE GRIFFIN Leased Wire DAILY -Vnorts NF.WS [
ATLANTA Harvey Kennedy,
Barnesville, may retain the office of
mayor whiie serving as judge of the
Flint Judicial Circuit if the city
barter does not prohibit it, Attor
aey General Cock said in an “un
ifii.lal opinion” today.
ATLANTA — Fulton County at
torneys asked dismissal in Federal
Court today of the $50,000 damage
V, and an injunction petition of
Paul Refoule w-io seeks protection
against further questioning in the
murder of his socialite wife.
ATLANTV — Extensive oil opera-|
tions in, ti e Southeastern states !
vlthtn tne next year were indicated
•odr.v in a nearing before the Geor
gia Public Service Commission when
* ;lght oil well cquinment concerns
-.sked to come tn'o the state.
BREST, France — Officials re
ported 15 dead and at least 422 in
jured here roday from the explosion
and fire that wrecked the nitrate
laden Norwegian freighter Ocean
Ilbeitv Monday.
Bobby Banks Leaves
Miami For Cuba
Bobby Banks, Griffin, left Miami
Beach, Fla., Sunday morning for
Cuba along with 14 other Royal Am
bassadors of Georgia Baptist
Churches to visit the Bcptlst Mis-
sion- field In Cuba.
The group |* accompanied by
1 their director, Olendon McCullough.
and Luciano Marquez, Havana,
Cuba. .
Since arriving ln Miami last Wed
nesday, the group has toured Miami
And has been deep-sea fishing.
They visited the Baptist Mission
work ln the 8emlnole Indian Reser
vation as guests of the Flagler
Street Baptist Church. The group
will stay ln Cuba 12 da vs and will
return to Atlanta August 11.
Majority Of U.N. Delegates Line Up
With U.S. On Balkans Guard Issue *■*«» t'Si
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Griffin Schools Fill
leaching Staff Except
For One Position
Three new teachers have been a<J
ed to the staff of the Griffin Pub
lic schools for the 1947-48 term, E.
A. Crudup, superintendent, an
nounced today.
He stated that the position of
bandmaster has been filled and a
Thysics and chemistry teacher and
an eighth grade English teacher
have been secured.
L. W. Shelton, who comes here
from Macon, will be the bandmaster.
He has had 18 years experience in
music and holds a B. S. degree from
Northeastern Missouri Teachers
College. In aadition, he has done
graduate work at the University of
Michigan and at Northwestern Uni
versity.
Physics and chemistry will be
taught by C. G Stevens, who comes
here from Mars Hill Junior Col
lege, Mars Hill, N. C. He formerly
taught at Gordon, Barnesville, for
four years. Stevens is a Mercer gra
duate and has done graduate work
at K.mory University.
L1Ua E Gos3> new eighth grade
tea „ her uught Junlor Wgh
schoo] jn D , )than A)a
from 1926 t0 1941 she is a gra .
., uaU> o{ A , lburn and was ln ^ ust
Grove last year.
T}ils Ieavcs on]y the position of a
Latln-Spanish teacher to be filled, j
0rudupaa id
Union Baptist Church
Will Have Revival
Starting On Sunday
Revival services will start at the
Union Baptist Church, located on
the Jackson road, Sunday morning
nt II o’clock with the Rev. Wiliam
Heard, Copperhill, Ttnn.. bringing
the messages.
The services will run through Fri- |
day, August 8. Services will be held
at 11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. each
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Griffin Marine,
Iowa Jima Vet,
Receives Honor
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PARISS ISLAND, S. C. — Ma
rine Technical Sergeant Char
les A. Huff, 30, veteran of the Iwo
Jima engagement, was chosen as
‘he representative for that cam
paign to participate in a ceremony
re-naming 24 streets on Parris Is
land
The ceremony, which was preced
ed bv a 21-gun salute, was held to
name the streets to commemorate
World War IT engagements in
which Marines oarticioated.
Sgt. Huff is the son of Mrs. W.
p Huf{ 720 Meriwether street. He
lg man -i e< i to the former Marian M.
puttie.
Mr. J. P. McCall
Buried In Athens
Funeral services were held Mon
,, ay afternoon for Mr. J P. McCall.
74 fat h C r and grandfather of Orlf
I Unites, He died Sunday after a
long Illness.
Survivors from Griffin are Mrs
Walter G. Orr, daughter; Mrs. H. A.
Gains, granddaughter: and Sandra
and Terry O&jnes, great grand
children.
It’s Gonna Rain For 40
Hearken to what the Old Folk
i
"It it rains on the first day of dog
days It will rain for 40 days."
Monday was the first day of dog
It rained. i
It rained .29 inch in Griffin, ac
cording to Mrs J. M. Mathews, lo- |
cal weather observer.
She said lt wasn’t much rain
little more than a quarter of an !
inch. 1
But the old folks say lt was.
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‘WIIERE’S MOMMY?’ Four
year-old Patsy Guiles kneels in a
children’s shelter at Philadelphia
and prays for reunion with her
mother. Policemen found the child
wandering alone in the streets.
They are now searching for her
parents. (AP Wirephoto).
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JERUSALEM —(/D— The British
hange H three Jews today ln de
fiance 'of a Jewish underground
threat to retaliate with the execu
tion of two BiitUh hostages and
“bathe the Holy Land with blood."
A British mil'tary announcement
said Meir Nakar, Yacoub Weiss and
Absalom Habib were put to death
beween 4 and 5 A. M. in Acre pri
sen on Palestine's north coast for
their part in the May 4 break (here, ;
In which 251 prisoners were freed
and 16 persons were killed. j
A Jewish underground source said
Monday night that Irgun Zvai Leu
mi, to which tlje three belonged,
had tried British Sergeants Clifford
Martin and Mcrvin Paice and con
demned them to death for being
members of a force “Illegally occu
p yin g Palestine” and “conspiring to
3 pp re . s . s the rightful citizens of
Pa i ei tine.” The sergeants were kid
napf , d July 12 a t, Natanya.
Tills source said that, while Ir
gun Commander-ln-Chief Manach
em Beigln had confirmed their
sentences, lt was unlikely they
would be executed until the final
disposition of the case of our three
soldiers.”
City, County Again
Spend. Qlliet Period
With Only 6 Arrests
Griffin and Spalding County
stent another comparatively quiet
74 hours with only six arrests re
ported ! by poll'’? and one fire by
j Bremen, No accidents or serious
crimes occurred here.
Firemen were called to a
fire outside the city Monday at 314
N-.rth 17th street and reported no
damage, The six arrests made by
, police were of a minor nature
no one Injured.
enough to bring showers for 39 more
days, or until dog days end.
And It was enough to bring some
relief to parched crops, gardens and
lawns and flowers—and enough to
bring relief from a blistering sun
and to bring weather cool enough
tc make sleepe-s pull up a blanket
durtng the nlght
The rain was the first here since
July 19, Mrs. Mathews said There
..... little spell of rain about then _
was a
but, all In all, It was less than an
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Governmenl Spends
Near Figure Truman
Estimated For Year
WASHINGTON (;p) — Adminis
tration budget experts said today
that despite congressional cuts, I
federal spending this fiscal year!
will run fairly close to the $37,-
5P0.000.000 estimate outlined by
President Truman last January.
It may even exceed that figure
when all the items are toted up
next June 30, these analysts told
a reporter on the stipulation that
they not be named.
They said the main reason for
• his Is that Congress voted a num
ber of appropriations—chiefly for
foreign aid—which were not figur
ed in when Mr. Truman drafted
his budget estimates.
The analysts’ demands for an
onlmity was underscored by the fact
that the battle of the budget Is
still raging unabated on Capitol
Hill.
Chairman Taber (R.-N. Y.) of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee—sparkplug of the Republican j
economy drive—came up with his \
third set of figures ln three days
Monday night. And Rep. Gore (D -
Tcnn), self - described “watchdog”
of GOP, promises In the House to
trim the budget by $6,000,000,000.
countered with his party's third
compilation.
Taber contended In a radio
speech that total savings to the
treasury “as a result jjf of the the opera- (
tions of the first session 80th
Congress” amount to $4,403,700,000. j
He added that ln addition the law
makers rescinded $2,684,000,000 in
previous appropriations,
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Marine Recruiters i
To Be Here Saturday !
A United States Marine Corps re
rruitlng team composed of Sgts.
Sam W. Lee anld Fred H. Hale will I
be at the Post Office Wednesday j
through Saturday to Interview ap
p'lcants for en’istment in the Ma
rine Corps. Marine Corps Head- , ,
quarters recently announced that
men over 17 may now enlist ln the
Marines without consent of parents
or guardian. *
State Patrol HaS
.... Unclaimed • 1 Licenses •
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The Grifin office of the State
Patrol has several unclaimed Geor
gia drivers licenses which were
mailed to applicants but which were
returned, Sgt. H. C. EnglNh an
nounced today.
Sgt. English said that those who
issued license but have not receiv
ed them should contact his office
since those returned to him were
l for drivers in this area ^
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HY HAL COCHRAN
It’s smart to drlvVslowly through
some villages. The officials may be
broke.
In an Ohio city 20 divorces
were granted in one week—
| making the score untied.
The time your welcome lasts de
I pends on how you use It.
inch
Mrs. Mathews said that on July
l 8 total rainfall here was .11 Inch,
<-n July 17 It was .36 inch, on July
18 lt was .20 Inch and a little mlz
zle fell on July 19 that measured an
infinitesimal .04 Inch.
The cooling effects of Monday’s
rain could be seen ln temperatures
hRrp The ma * lmum Monday was
92 aUd the ' I0 - Thp ma *'
mum today on Mrs. Mathews’ ther
moIPCter was 7D and the mlnlmum
J 67.
GRIFFIN - HIT
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Security Council
Heads For Showdown
Between U. S., Reds
LAKE 8UCCE88 — (JP) — A ma
jority ot the delegates of the United
Nations Security Council irwwtft
their support today to an American
proposal for ar 11 -nation commie*
slon to stand guard over the Bal
kans, , CSlH
As t ^ le counc i headed toward an
lmm * nent showdown between Rus
Jia 60(1 the United States over the
Balkan problem delegate after dele
gate announced support of the A
merican plan.
But Russia continued the sUenos
she maintained throughout Mon
day’s session. f M , - .
U. S. Deputy Delegate Herschel
V. Johnson opened the first of two
council sessions today by insisting,
that the proposed commission
should be composed of 11 members.
He made it clear he would fight all
attempts to set up a similar com
mission.
With the possibility that a vote
may soon be near on the er*'re A
merlcan plan, the que^'-ni upper
most in delegates' mind was:
Will Russia veto or t ;n from
voting on a U. S. prepot . estab
llsh a “watchdog” commit, on over
the strife-torn borders of the Balk
ens?
The way for a vote on the A
mer j can propose 1 appeared to have
been cleared Monday when the
council tentatively accepted a «*- I
res of minor amendment* to the
u. 8. proposal.
Other developments ln the fight
for peace today:
WASHINGTON — A 40 percent 3
cut in the State Department’*
“Voice of America" oversea* broad
casts was announced today_
INDONESIA — Dutch
authorities, busily extending their
hold on the rich resources of Java'
and Sumatra, today reported seal*
tered instances of republican sabo
* a K e in oil field areas and else
where but said that the general
situation was "developing faVorab
iy'
PHILIPPINES - President Man
lei Roxas made It clear today that
the Philippines Republic Is In ;m
pa thy with Indonesians in aelr
struggle with the Dutch “as w, all
other colonial peoples who are tight
’"g for independence."
CHINA — Representative* of the
Democratic League told Lt. Oen.
Wedemeyer todnv that the Chinese
people are bitterly opposed to any
foreign assistance which would pro
long the civil war " whether lt come*
from the U. 8. or the Soviet*.
GREAT BRITAIN Authorita
live sources said today that Great
; Britain might reduce her armed
forces and dip Into her gold and
dollar reserve as emergency m*a
sures to meet the prospective winter
crisis
barnesville preacher
TO HAVE SERVICE HERE
The Rev. David MaVtln, supply
pastor at the Barnesville Presby
tertan Church, will conduct the
mid-week prayer service at the
first Presbyterian Church here
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. The
public Is invited to attend the ser
vices.
A tanka-Bound Cow
Winn Her Revolt
SEATTLE — opt — A young Hoi- J
eteln cow apparently and had to wanted negotiate no j
part of Alaska
a high dive into Seattle’s Elliott 3
\ Bay to prove lt.
The 1,400-pound bovine, one of a
shipment going to Ketchikan, Alas
ka, broke from a loading crate,
thundered down the d -ck and went
over the end of the v i arf.
J The brusied and ling cow
thrashed around ln th iter un
til she was towed along- e a ship
and hoisted back onto the pier in
j cargo net. She was loaded in a
tnjck and uke nback * her
tur , at Renton, Wash. |
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