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October
Over Previous Months
E By YEN GOOD Quimby I N G
Melton
foreign Minister Molotov, of
Soviet Russia, speaking on the
30th anniversary of the Bolshe
vik revolution says that Russia
is just starting on its thirty
year campaign for world power.
a-<2 says that not only in Rus
fia a n d nations that are
"friendly" are the people in
favor of Soviet ideology but that
"millions in other lands who
have been educated also favor
Red doctrine.”
Molotov goes so far as to say
that in Russia the people are
better off than in other nations
and says wherever capitalism
holds the working man is
slaved."
"Toll that to the Marines,
Molotov. Or better try and tell
it t,o the working people of na
tions that believe in Democracy
and free enterprise.
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If you do they will answer:
"Do the working people of
Communistic nations own their
tp.’n homes?
"Do the working people of
Communistic nations own auto
mobiles by the millions?
"Do they own millions of dol
lars of government bonds?
Do they have banking ae
counts?
“Do they own millions of
shares in '
stock in the largest
corporations?
"Do they make enough money
to nay income taxes?
“Do they have the right to
vote their honest convictions in
local and state and national
deepens?
Do they follow a 40-hour a
week work schedule like the
working people of America do?
"Do they get time and a half
for overtime? Do they get paid
holidays, sick Lave, group life
insurance?
"Do they send their children
t i public schools and state uni
vc; snies where they can prepare
for any vocation in life they
choose?
"Do they have the right to
bargain collectively with their
employers?
"Do they go to the church of
their choice—In fact can they
^go to nny^prrh at allX
"Are they respected citizens
of (he community in which they
live? And can they change
jobs when they want to?”
'those are just a few questions
that the working people in A
meriea can ask of Molotov and
if he is in the least honest the
only answer he could give to
is “No." For working
people of Communistic states
are truly enslaved—working for
the state alone—or rather for
the few at the top of the state,
for Communism is In fact noth
ing more n f i w n t p r sh4w—frr
which men and women as well
as children are mere pawns.
SORROW IS DEBATER
AT STATE UNIVERSITY
Charles Sorrow. Griffin, repre
sented the Hill ,Club In the first
debate held against the Toombs
r lub recently, Both clubs are law
elubs of the Georgia School of Law
at the TTpiverity of Georgia.
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fncresse Ranges
From 4 To 30 Pd
During October
Retail business volume in Griffin
during the month of October show
ed an increase over previous months
ranging from 4 to 30 percent, ac
cording to a survey today.
Part of this increase is discounted
by merchants because of higher
prices, but most types of businesses
showed increases after allowing for
higher price tags.
Grocery volume in general is up
with some merchants reporting the
best month they ever had. Furniture
and appliance sales apparently were
higher than September with part of
the increase being accounted for by
more merchandise to sell..
Indications are that clothing vol
ume is only slightly higher than in
September and about 10 percent
over this time last year. Some bus
inesses report September and Oct
ober were about the same in vol
ume of sales but above previous
months this year.
Business volume increases here
also are reflected- by a 40 percent
increase in postal receipts In Oct
ober over October, 1946 according to
fjpures announced by Postmaster J.
Woods Hammond.
October receipts were $10,178.15. as
compared with $7,231.37 for the same
month in 1946. Hammond stated
tiiat, receipts had shown a steady
increase since January. This indic
ates that this month's increase is
nut a flash-in-the-pan.
Building also is showing an up
ward trend with building permits
issued by the city for October reach
ing $137,950. Some $100,000 of this
was for business construction. In
September total permits amounted
to $70,6^0 with slightly less than
naif being for business. Residential
permits remained approximately the
same for the two months.
Approximately $1,070 worth of pro
perty was destroyed by fires here in
October, according to Fire Depart
ment figures. Firemen answered 14
calls in Oatober. Defective wiring
.as the cause of three of the alarms
with unknown causes according for
lour. Carelessness, burning soot and
defective flues accounted for three.
Four-were outside the city.
Marriage licenses issued to white
nersons numbered in October the
same as September £ ’lth 31 be
issued in both mcnf Sixteen 1 1 c ”
.
eases were issued to Negros in Oct
ober and 17 in September.
LOCAL WEATHER
Maximum Today: 54
Minimum Today: 49
Maximum Thursday: 74
School Children Give Pennies, Nickels
To Community Ciiesi; Toial Hits $24,327
School children of Griffin and j
-Spalding—©ounty* have - res
srler.dtdly to the Community Chest
appeal, Mac CheathRm. general
chairman, announced today. Bring
ine their oennies, nickles, dimes
and quarters to school they con
trlbuted a total of $307.77. Several
of the schools have not reported,
Mrs. Gwyn McKneely was
chalrman. Cheatham said he be
tfeved the final school total would
be at least $400.
I In the city system Fourth Ward
led with $72.47 Other city schools
j f wh ,, ch . repor,ed are Th rd Ward
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° rlfln Hlg h and 8am Bal
I ley, $51.91; North Side, $31.40 and
west Griffin, $14.76.
NOV.
Oldest Newsboy
Marries Woman, 35
SAVANNAH, Ga. (TP) — The
oldest newsboy in the world,
93-year-old George L. (Dad)
Howe—is off on another jour
ney—over the sea of matri
mony.
last fall, Dad left here on a
trip to the West Coast, but he
was stricken ill in Lafayette.
La., and returned home with
funds contributed by Savannah
residents.
Now, after a six-months
courtship, he is married to Wil
lie E. Lord, 35.
Roy Harris Charges
Thompson Faction
Assembled 'Mob'
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(TP)—Roy V. Har.
ris, former speaker of the Georgia
House of Representatives, told a
Richmond County Superior Court
today that Governor M. E. Thomp
son "assembled a mob in Macon"
last April which attempted to usurp
illegally the Democratic party
machinery in Georgia.
Opening the second day of liti
gatlon over control of the party,
Harris asserted the Thompson con
vention was Invalid becayse Geor
gia law provides that legal sessions
may be held only in years when
Democratic primaries occur.
Continuing his challenge of the
"onven.ion validity, Harris said
party rules provided that delegates
must be chosen from the friends cf
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Mrs. H. L. Walls, 27,
Dies Al Home Here
Mrs. Viola Christine McElroy
Watts, 27-, died at her home at 203
Bell street Thursday night at 8
o’clock after an Illness of three
years.
Fune-al services will be conduct
ed at the West Griffin Congrega
■ tional Holiness Church at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon with the Rev.
Hoyt S. McGee and the Rev. H. S.
Freeman officiating. Burial will be
in Highland cemetery with Hais
j ten Brothers in charge.
Survivo rs in clude her husband,
SR^E'atts, Mid son* -Jerry
Lee Watts, both of Griffin; par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mc
i Elroy, Thomaston: two brothers,
James A. McElroy, Jr., and Leo
i McElroy, both of Thomaston; sis
j ters, Mrs, McElroy, Pauline Hammock. of Thoni- Miss
i Frances both
1 aston.
in the county system Orrs led
$27.84; Akin, $11.68; and Vaughn^
so cents,
TOTAL PASSES $24,000
Contributions reported today by
headquarters took the total to $24,
j 327.67. This leaves $4,472.33 to bd
relsed to reach the $28,800 quota.
Chairmen of the various com-
mlttees joined headquarters today
in urging all solicitors to make their
I reports as quickly as possible. "We
can make a grand success of the
1948 Community Chest campaign
early next week If all solicitors will
increase their activities and make
theJr reports," Herman Hambrtck,
who 1$ In charge of headquarters,
| said.
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‘BAD GIRL’ SENTENCED TO PEN—Returning to confinement after
hearing verdict of guilty and being sentenced to 14 years in the state
penitentiary for the murder of A. G. "Sliced" Tipton, tourist camp
operator, Betty Gruver, 20. is guarded by Sheriff Joseph Cianey, left,
and Chief Deputy E. M. Farbert of Urbana. 111. Betty told the court
that she was just a “bad girl.”—(NEA Telephoto).
Ex-General Tells Of $70 Million Contract
He Was Ordered To Sign With Hughes
WASHINGTON (A”)— A former
wartime procurement officer testi- j
fied today that top level officials di
>ected him to sign a $70,274,666 con
J * rac ^ w '^ Howard Hughes to build
100 photo reconnaissance planes. i
Albert J. Browning, a lovmer
brigadier general and now a vice
, president cf the Ford Motor Corn
' said the then undersecretary
pany,
j of war, Robert P. Patterson, direct -
| ed him to sign after he had delay
■
, ed action from April 28, 1944, to
j Aug. 1 of that year.
t Browning told a Senate War In- ■ I
j vestlgating subcommittee that Pat
Person ordered him to sign the
Hughes contract “approved by MaJ. ’
j Gen Bennett E Meyers deputy as
! sistant chief of air staff " Myers,
now retired, is scheduled to testify
concerning his connection with the
matter. 1
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Hughes himself was reported
s’eeping in a downtown hotel pre
paratory to 'possible appearance la
ter in the day to answer new evi
dence about his wartime contracts
which the committee is investigat- |
ing.
The lanky Hollywood aircraft do-I
signer and film producer arrived at .
daybreak after an ail night cross- [
country converted hop in his private plane, a j
army bomber.
Unshaven and' sleepy, Hughes';
told newsmen he would wait until
he was asked to. testify before re
"lying to an assertion of .Senator
Williams (R-Del > that Hughes and
his companies owe the government
$3,919,921 'll taxes for the war,
years.
Mr. Vickery, 42 , | :
Dies In Hospital | I
w,lilam Clyde Vickcry ’ «,
d Cd s!rlckland Memorial hos
pltal Thursday ui » hL Ke *' as in
automobile accident Oct. 27 and
, had been receiving treatment in
the hospital since then.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the Second Baptist Church at
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon with
the Rev. C. B. Bullard and the
Rev. Carl Peacock officiating. Buri
al will be in Oak Hill with Kristen
Brothers in charge.
Mr - Vickery was a grocer.
Pallbcifrcrs will be J. D. Stand
ard, J fitta LnPrndc, Clarence John
son, carif McDc'.ienid, Lamar
field, Tom Kitchens and Henry
Yonce.
Survivors include his
Mrs. T. J. Vickery; three sisters.
Mrs. Opal Law. Mrs. Alton Jones
and Mrs Fred Washington; two
brothers, , Lewis Vickery and Ed
ward Vickery. HSML 2-e. All sur
vivors live in Griffin. Edward Vick
cry, he In yer Is Manned ! with
Navy San Francisco.
Mrs. Thompson, 78,
Dies Ai Her Homs
Mrs. Julia Ann Foster Thompson,
78, widow of the late Mr. A. D.
Thompson, died at her home on
Route A near^, Pomona Thursday
afternoon.
Funeral services will be ronduc^
cd the Srri Ijrna Methodist
Church in Pike County at 11
o’clock Saturday morning with the
Rev. Carl Peacock officiating. Buri
al will be in the churchyard with
Pittman Funeral Home In charge.
Mrs, Thompson was born and
reared In Pike County but had liv
ed in Spalding County for the past
13 yeaft.
Pallbearers will be her nephews
Raymond Foster, Amos Foster, Al
ton Foster, Walter Foster, Horace
Ogletree and Homer Oglctrec.
Survivors include one son. Lum
mie Thompson of Columbus, and
three sisters, Mrs. Sailie Alexan
der, Atlanta, Mrs. Ada Langford,
Brantley, Ala., and Mrs. Carrie
Ogletree, The Rock.
Former Stale Chief justice
To Death In
• Bnrhs . .
Some of the folks stranded tn a
New York subway tunnpl walked out
ordered with xmudge. ’Twas a low
down, dirty trick.
We>1 , ^ lhat bafk , n thr pre .
h , storlc ^ womrn wouIdn . t
cven tfII the i r „ tonp a(fe
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A health article states that pain
strikes the body at the weakest part,
Don’t go around complaining of
headaches.
‘Warmongers’ Making
Plans For New War,
Soviet Radio J
This Ain’t Hay: l
i
St's Breakfast
CINCINNATI — (INS) Co
medians may joke about the
alleged hay-like characteristics
of modern breakfast foods, tut
s’.me dey they may have to eat
their words—as well ns the
hay—and like it.
Dr. Waldo Semon, director of
pioneering research of the B. P.
Goodrich company, told the
Farm Chtmurgic Council re
cently that alfalfa may some
day be a highly regarded source
of human food.
’Hens For Harry'
Fails To Phase
Chickenless Days
WASHINGTON (/P) Lines of
the Citizens Food Committee held
f<u * today.: against «n Invading
force of "Hens for Harry" and
Leghorns for Luckman.’
The chickens, in crates of six (o
20 birds, rolled into Washington ti 1
aeliver a literal "squaw" from their
growers against the poultry-less
eggless Thursday part of the Presi
dent’s food conservation program.
Food Chairman Charles Luckman
refused to budge.
While aides here shunted the
stream of fowl to the Salvation
Army for feeding the needy. Luck
man declared n. Los Angeles:
“Any time the Pouitrymen's As
sociaUon or any one else can show
us a better way to save grain than
by , having , poultryless , , Thursdays,
we will be glad to adopt It."
At the White Hou*e, where three
crates arrived addressed to Presi
dent Truman, the only comment
was that the free poultry would
.wind Up on the dinner table at the
army’s Walter Reed Hospital.
One large poultry firm of Mary
land's eastern shore entered a dls
sent from the demonstration in a
telegram to Luckman last night.
Former Griffinite
Dies Ip. Atlanta
Mr. I,. F. Redman, formerly of
Griffin, died in Atlanta
night. ill ,
I j Mr. Hcdfnan, who lived Griffin
esveral , years. Is ...... the brother of , ,, ,
Charles Redman of Jackson and
the uncle of Mrs. Fred Thaxton
Griffin ,1 £ er»iees
held Saturday afternoon.
ATLANTA — (/Pi Chnrles S.
Reid, former
Georgia Supreme Court, plunged to
hts death from a twelfth floor win
dow in his law offices in the down
town Carrier building today.
The body cf the 49-year-old at
torney was found on the roof of a
two-story c< nneotion between wings
of the bul'ding. Hts watch had
stopped at 8:45
F. E Huckaby, an Insurance a
gent with offices on one of the
lower floors of the building, said he
saw a body hurtling by his win
, uow and called police.
William F. Lozier, a law asso
elate of Reid, said he arrived at the
office shortly before 9 A. M. and
| found Reid's coat and hat. A
Russians Celebrate
Red Revolution
With Troop Display
The Fight For Peace
By THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEW?
From Leased Wire Reports
'Vhelally, relations between th<
United'States and Russia were a
bout the some today. Unofficially
they were shakier than ever.
Russia paraded her milltar
might through Moscow’s Re'
Square in commemoration of th
Bolshevik revolution’s 30th anni
versarv today amid renewed crle
1 hat "warmongers" are calling for f
"ampaign against the Soviet Unior
and "making plans for a new im
perialist war.”
Meantime Marshall Plan storn
signals flew over Capitol Hill to
day, but administration leader
credited Soviet Foreign Ministe
Molotov with unwitting but powei
ful aid in their drive for congres
sional approval of a European re
covery program which Russia op
poses violently.
Molotov leveled a radio bast f
the U. S. in which he said the
Russia’s struggle for power “i
Just beginning." The blast pin
pointed for many lawmakers th
j anti-communist color of propose
j stop-gap and long-range economi
; aid,
t "DEFEATED DOWN PURPOSE"
Senator McGrath (D. R. I.)
■hairman of the Democratic Nn
tlonal Committee, said grimly the
Molotov had defeated his own pur
lose if it, was Ms aim to discouragi
imeriran action to help western
European nations outside the Sovi
et orbit stay on their feet.
“Statements of tills kind on!
serve to Solidify the American peti
ole," he declared.
On the Republican side, Senato
Capper of Kansas, n Foreign Rela
tions Committee member, said h'
expects Congress’ answer will b” to
approve the assistance prograrr
whlch Secretary of State Marsha!
will sketch for Senate and Hous
committees Monday.
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onlv one to hit the U.
1 Dr fore So\i t troop,, „ i.i pn
. radlng their might in Red Square
« , br0adcart , w: ’ s , ““ ,
ro< ’ ,ly llt th *' V S ' Rdd Bll,_
aln ' Mosc oi ^ q uoted
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT
ing paper was on Retd’s desk and -
a window in the office suite was
open.
Lozier said Reid told him Thurs
day he Intended working that night
on a ease, but the-e was no In
dication that the former chief r
Justice had been in the office dur
ing the night ills office was in
neat order his fipe and smoking
tobacco placed carefully on hts
desk. Nearby lay a sheaf of. per
sonal bank checks, canceled and
held together by a rubber band.
Lozier said Reid hat} 6een in
jwor health for the past several
months. He spent several weeks in
a rest home recently, and stiU np
pcared in poor health when he
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MAKING POPPIES—A hospital
ized veteran Is pictured above mak
ing one of the 3.000 paper poppies
which the American Legion A ixil
ary will 3ell here Saturday The
<oppy sales will finance the ixtl
‘ary’s charity program.
Raiding Will Play
Here Tonight At 8;
Griffin Game Called
Griffin’s Oold Wave and Spald
mg’s Wolfpack go to the extreme
nds of the NGFA to get oppon
-nts for their games this week.
The Gold Wave travels to Wind
:r for an association game while
he Wolfpack stays home to take
on the LaGrange Grangers at 8.
o’clock tonight: Winder has not
von a conference game while La
Grange has lost only one.
The Griffin-Winder game was
xistponed from tonight until 8 o’
clock Saturday night. Winder re
quested that the game be post
poned because of bad weather.
Coach Jim Cavan Is not expect
ng much trouble from Winder, but
it plans to take no chances. He
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Tii ieves Steal Car,
Truck In Griffin
Thursday Afternoon
An automobile and truck were
stolen here Thursday afternoon
within two hours of eaeh other, po
lice reported today.
The automobile, wl belonged
to Juliaf Duiflius, 503 Sixth,
was stolen from the B ir park
lng lot at 4 o’clock, poll, .bated. It
was recovered at 6:30 P. M. In
Hogansville. Hognnsville police ar
rested Carey Willis Strickland, 23.
LaGrange. He was returned here
and charged with theft of the car.
Thursday afternoon at 6 o’clock
i truck belonging In Mother Furni
ture Co. was stolen and has not
been recovered, police stated.
Police sold only one arrest was
■i'#' 1 " Thursday. State Patrot head
eur-r ( er here and Sheriff Luther
MiddlrU m u k s r ep orted-fin n er ld e n t S 1
or arrests in the tfounty.
^ Briefs . .
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wtRue ^05’ — Freaton 8.
rivr 4 rV. * .Tr nre-'d-mt of the
O'v.rcl* h-.-.et Pn
j I < j.ital ■"'tc at Thursday Oe 'tvet night. "’u T ’lnverstty Hc3
| WARWtNGTON Th" 1 Re-nMI
! ten hleh eo-omand onraWlv ■>*
fisudened todsv all nlnns fo
ieduction '""islntton a* tb« •a**-'''!
! session of Congress convening Ncv.
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PON^* a CP’V ^ n * rr m
4 - P-1
• V»r»e*1*y bombers on
ok'abom 1 pirflelds to ston th**!r
<n p fo>’oi,.r(nn believed nend
~ 1-, H""'h America, a govern
ment official announced today.
timed to work. Lozier sa id.-,———
Reid returned last year from Ger.
many where he served ns a mem
oer 'of the War Trials Commission*
at Nuernbehg. In November, 1945.
he- was presented the Legion of
Merit by Lt. Gen. Lucius D.
deputy military governor of Ger
many.
At the time he was a colonel and
was chief of the property control
branch of the Office of Military
Government in Germany
Reid was chief counsel for Oov
ernor M E. Thcmpson in the liti
gatlon before the Slate Supreme
Court which led to the ouster of
Herman Tnlmadge from the execu
live of lice to which the legislative
had elected ip.m.
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