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Labor and Conservative mem
bers of the House of Commons
Joined Thursday In approving |
the North Atlantic Treaty 333
to 6. The Communist members
and four “extreme left wing
Laborites” voted tqainst the
measure.
Churchill, Conservative lead
er, and Bevin, Laborite leader,
both hailed the agreement as
a pact that would “safeguard
against war.” They both de
nied it Is ‘an aggresdve thing"
despite the clamor of Russia
and other red governments tb
that effect.
Confirmation of America's
part In the pact is now being
considered in Congress and red
leaders In Americas subversive
organizations as well as “ex
treme leftists,” such as Henry
Wallace, are shedding crocodile
tears over the possibility that
*4 Uncle 8am will approve the
agreement.
They know that Russia does
not want the agreement for it
would bind Western Powers to
gether to halt agreement.
The treaty was signed in
Washington last month by re
presentatives of the United
States, Britain, Prance, Nor
it way, Denmark, Holland, Bel
gium, Luxembourg, Italy, Por
tugal and Iceland. Belgium and
Canada have officially ap
proved the action of their re
A presentatives.
Here in America both Demo
era ts and Republicans have
ballad the pact aa a "guaran
tee of paaee” while reds and
fellow travellers, to pink, are
raising tea earns hue as to
England.
It’s tha Sneup.
For the paett People who are
loyal to their governments and
really want peace—
Against the pact: People feho
are wlOtog to sabotage their
homelands to serve Russia and
her communist Ideology.
There can be no "lukewarm”
position on the North Atlantic
pact.
Attention "young whlpper
mappsn;”
•> Batter be eareful how you
•dust tha coattails” at some
older person as you speed past
him hi your Jalopy.
Up to Pittsburg, a 73 -year
old retried attorney was nearly
> hit by a ear. He leaped to the
side of the ear, dragged the
driver out from behind the
wheel and proceeded to give
him a beating.
The driver of the ear was a
33-year-old youngster
The retired attorney M years
ago went three rounds ln the
ring with the great John L.
Sullivan.
Both tha former boxer-attor
ney and the “young whipper
snapper” were hailed Into court
for fighting and disturbing the
peace.
Omaha Lawyer Named
Secretary Of Nary
WASHINGTON —m— Francis
ratrick Matthews, Omaha lawysc,
teas named secretary of the Navy
today.
Tha White House announced
that Matthews, 62, widely known
Catholic layman, has been picked
to succeed John L. Sullivan.
Sullivan quit recently with a
Mast at Secretary of Defense John
son for halting work on the Navy’s
super aircraft carrier.
Mrs. Gearhart EisIeV
Arrested; Hubby Flees
WASHINGTON — (IP)— Mrs. Ger
hart Elsler today was rearrested
for deportation while the Justice
Department laid plans to bring her
husband back from his flight across
, the seas.
*The Weather . ..
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA
—Fair weather, a little warm
er tonight and continued warm
Saturday.
LOCAL WEATHER
Maximum Today 75
MlnlmumToday54
Maximum Thursday 76
4 Minimum Thursday 51
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Explosion
Blocks
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Chemical Explosion
Blocks Holland Tunnel
From N. Y. To N. J.
NEW YORK —(/P)— Thirty per
sons were oveicome when drums of
chemicals exploded on a truck in
the Holland Tunnel today, filling
the two-mile underwater highway
with carbon disuphide fumes.
The series of exp'oslons, touched
off when fne big trailer truck
caught fire, halted all traffic In the
heavily traveled tunnel under the
Hudson river.
Vital communication lines were
disrupted. Other vehicles, stalled
behind the truck, caught fire. Walls
and celling of the tunnel were
damaged badly.
Manhattan Borough President
Hugo K. Rogers said at noon after
returning from a trip in the tun
nel that 10 or 13 trucks still were
smouldering there. Rogers said
the damage was so heavy that the
tube might have to be closed down
for “the better part” of a month
The heavily travailed highway,
connecting New York and New Jer
sey, Is a mam link In transconti
nental traffic.
The accident occurred In the
east-bound tube at 7:48 A. M.
IEST)., at the heighth of the early
morning rush hour.
The blast knocked out telephone
service to New England and the
west. The American Telephon
and Telegraph Company were af
fected.
T?ie chemical drums began ex
ploding while the truck 16-ton
trailer vehicle—was near the Jersey
city side of the tunnel The flames
spread rapidly to a dozen other
trucks. Motorists blocked by the
barrier of flames and acrid fumes
deserted their ears In the tubs and
fled to safety.
Talent Show
Is Planned
Here In June
The talented and gifted amateurs
of Griffin and Spalding County will
perform for the benefit of the af
flicted at the Griffin and Spald
ing County Talent Night program
Friday, June 17.
Melvin Bradley, chairman of the
sponsoring American Business Club
committee, said today that he Is
now accepting entries for the talent
show to be presented ln the Grif
fin High auditorium.
Prises will be awarded to the win
ners by tht merchants ln Griffin
and the American Business Club.
ITie classifications of the entries
will be announced later.
Bradley has asked that all per
sons interested ln entering the con
test contact him either by mail or
telephone at his office at the First
Baptist Church.
Money raised by the show will
be used by the ABC club ln the
national project of assistance to
■ spastic” children.
Latest
News
DETROIT Hfl— An anth-/
orlttstlve source said today ■"
the Ford Motor Co. "flatly re
fuse*” to open 1948 labor con
tract talks until Its workers
end (heir present strike.
The source, who declined use
of his name, said Ford has In
formed the CIO-United Ante
Workers of Its stand.
WASHINGTON —(Ah— The
House Armed Services Commit
tee unanimously approved to
day s bill to boost the pay at
members of the armed forces.
The vote was 38 to 3 after
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) read
* letter from Defense Se cre tary
Louis Johnson spproving the
• measure and stating that the
Budget Bureau, speaking for
the Preaid cat, has no object
ion.
The bill, estimated to east
*40fl,000,S«« s year, probably
will ge before the House for de
bate late Uito month.
Russia Veils Threat
Of Restorting Block
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THREE MAIDS OF COTTON compared notes as they
met in Memphis, Tenn., where several hundred persons
attended the Maid of Cotton Luncheon and Style Show.
The Maids are (left to right): Gwin Barnwell, 1946 Maid •
Sue Howell, 1949 Maid; and Hilma Seay, 1947 Maid.
(NEA Telephoto.)
Mary Needs Home II
Here In Griffin
j * By ROBERTA BECK
( If any indl'Wual can be typed .t
: probably is the adolescent girl, in
variably dressed in, sweater and
skirt, with r fondness for prolonged
telephone conversations and may
be a budding interest in the op
posite sex, he isn't easily disthi
guished from her teenage sisters.
Mary is different She doesn't
fit so easily into the class. Maybe
she’s as pretty as the next one.
but you can’t quite account for the
hurt look in her eyes. She isn’t
going with the teenage set. She has
no place to go
Mary needs a temporary home
with foster parents in Spalding
County. She needs love and affect
ion and security in family life. She
needs fun and adventure and the
satisfaction of personal achieve
ment. She reeds the wise, friendly
understanding of warm-hearted :
adults. I
Through the Boarding Home
Program of the Spalding County
Department of Public Welfare,
Gladys Heath, child welfare work
er, hopes to find that home not
only for Mary but for the dozens
of Spalding County children Ilk*
her—children, both colored and
white from all ages from Infancy
to adolesceuce, who need temporary
homes. Their own parents may be
111—or they may hava experienced
the break-up of a home, desertion,
flagrant abuse or neglect.
A boarding home is a home which
has been approved by the Child
Welfare Division of the Georgia
Department of Public Welfare and
which receives payment from the
department for care given the
child. The care of the child Is paid
for at a monthly rate by the de
partment which also has the fin
ancial responsibility for -clothing,
medicaf and dental care and In
cidentals. Foster parents don’t need
to be "highly educated” people but
rather couples who love children,
have a happy home life! good
health, adequate space for a child
and sufficient Income to maintain
the family group without consider
ation of payments made for board
The foster parents must be under
60 years old and must remember at
all times that the chl'd will be re
moved from the home at some fu
ture time. It Is important that the
boarding mother never entertain
the Idea of adopting the child or
keeping her permanently with her
The foster parents must be willinf
for the natural parents to visit the
honie and must cooperate with the
ehlld welfare worker In supervising
Griffin, Go., Friday, May 13, 1949.
the ebild.
Mary Ramsey, child welfare
worker with the State Department
of Public Welfare, will visit the lo
cal department Monday to take
applications from prospective foster
parents and discuss the program,
According to {he 'department, "As
foster parents you give a unique
and essential service to our agency
and to children, a service which no
member of the staff can give.”
Job Hunting
Seniors Are
Offered Help
All high school graduates who
are not going off to school or col
lege should contact t”e local State
Employment Service and fill out an
application If they want a Job.
L. H. Beck, manager of the local
employment office, sa.d today that
It would be to the advantage of the
local school boys and girls to re
gtster with hi* office If they want
, b ,
A A complete ....... file to kept 4 on all pgr
sons registering and attempts are
made to place them in the type
work they desire, Beck said.
"If the students want local em
ployment we screen the city ahd
tell the employers of the persons
registered," the local manager
saltJ
There Is no charge for the ser
vlce.
When there Is no demand for the
type work desired on the local la
bor market, the state labor market
is contacted, he said. If necessary
the local employment office can
make contact anywhere ln the na
tion to place persons in a desirable
Job, Beck explained.
Horses From Six States
Entered In Show Here
Plans for tha Annual Griffin
Horse Show are taking shape ra
pidly and entries from six states
already hava been received.
Entries have been received from
Alabama, Oeorgla, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Florida and Tenn
essee, Mrs. Napier Touchstone, cha
irman of the show, announced to
day
i! Ward She also of Charlottesville, announced that Va, Forrest will
Judge saddle ho rs e s , hunters and
Jumpers and that J. H. Noblln of
Telahatchie, Miss, will Judge wol
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The World Today
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russia and the Western powers still argued today over
whether all tha barriers in tha Berlin blockade have been lifted.
And Russia veiled a threat that the blockade may be restored.
The Russians charged tha West with "evading the lifting of
their restrictions under invalid pretexts." A Western spokes
man promptly labelled the charge a "lot of nonsense."
The Rucngnwincurred Western wrath Thursday by refusing
to allow trucks from West Berlin to travel to the Western oc
cupation zones without obtaining permits from the Soviet mil
itary or the Russian-hacked German Economic Commission.
Early today, however. West Berlin police said they under
stood such trucks now need only an order from the West Ber
lin government.
Western observers saw a veiled Soviet threat to renew
blockade in a Russian presa statement that "the (blockade)
agreement cannot be fulflled by the Soviet side alone."
They Want It
But Don’t Want
Us To Know It
WASHINGTON — Wt — House
members today pondered the pos
sibility that they might have to
stand up and be counted on a pro
oosal posai to to boost roost their tneir own own exnense expense
money In the face of oud demand*
for economy.
Not a voice was raised In oppo
sitton Thur Jay as a bill to boost
members' allowances for clerk hire
and communications tailed through
tht House. But afterward It ran
Into some storm clouds.
Several House members protested
indignantly that they hadn't been
told the bill was to be voted on.
A single objection would have
blocked passage—and they made'It
very clear that they would have
ob i 6cted - There were fewer than
the 100 blU la *^ P assed kcrs on thi floor whM,
‘
It faces nr apparent trouble In
the Senate, for each body of Con
gress respects the finanrial ar
rar.gements made for the other.
TL* House didn't object, for in
stance, whan the Senate voted Its
members $l0,000-a-year executive
assistants.
The House measure would -give
each membei $500 a year for com
munications expenses and an extra
$3,000 for clerical hire They n6y
hsve no flxtd communications al
. .otment , .■ and , top , of 0 for den:
a *. o
hlre.
Most lneen.-ed of *he lawmakers
Who found vut about the bill
late were Reps Keef: > R-Wls) and
Church (R-Ill), both members of
the Appropriations Committee.
Both served notice that they will
| take some action when a money, bill
financing the new allowances cpmej
befor * the hous *’ '**?'*. ta *
'" wvth or 80 UnlMS mohey » ro "
vided ln such a blir, the tonsure
passed Thursday to rlmost mean
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Keef * Intimated * ba t he will
f * r * n ame ”wmcnt *o knodk
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“We will stand Up and be count
ed on this,” he commented.
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DR. CHESTER BONOFF OF BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., hoard « violent traffic collision
in front of hb borne and non oat to Invostifo f o. Ha found Ms father, Dr. Kar] Bonoff,
57, daad in tha street (right). Sorrowf ul ly the'eon bends over Ms father’s body. At
I^ft. Allan R Rabin, a In Dr. Bonoff* ear, Has in the street seriously injured.
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Child Swallows Dime
Instead Of Ice Cream
ATLANTA —(JP)— Mr*. Mar
guerite 8. Jordan of Milledge
vllle left a dime on the kitchen
table for her five-year-old dau
ghter, Sandra, to get an ice
cream cone.
Sandra swallowed the dime
instead of the loe cream, and
ended up in an Atlanta hospt
tel.
The State Patrol rushed the
little girl and her mother here
Thursday afternoon.
Doctors said the dime was
lodged in Sandra’s esophagus,
and It was removed with for
ceps.
She’s getting along fine to
day.
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Pleads Guilty
To Selling
Filthy Books
i Walter Kalt, East Point man ar
rested Wednesday for selling ob
scene booklets and - pamphlets to
local children, pled guilty Wednes
I day before Judge Chester A. Byars
I j of ... the Griffin _ .... Superlon _ , Caurt. _ .
Kalt was fined $350 ad given a
112 month probationary sentence. He
I paid the fine and was released.
! Under probationary sentence
j« I obscene he is ever matterlal caught he again will with have the to
serve the 12 months.
The formal charge brought aga
inst the man was "unlawfully, will
ingly and knowingly bringing and
causing to be bought into this state
for sale, or exhibition and sell and
{offer to sell obscene and indecent
books, pamphlets, papers, drawings
» ftd pictures and did possess the
same w ith Intent to sell, expose
and circulate the aame.”
.The pamphlets, booklets and pic
tures have been turned over to tht
Federal Bureau Of Investigation for
study ' U 11 18 proven thst he tr * n ‘
s P° rted tbe nvaterial ov f r * *****
line he will be subject to federal
: charges.
, whgn ^ ^ m
)or slm> , by the Grimn Polloe
p((r , mera he had thf obscene ^t.
, frjaJ ln ^ auW mobile Several to
stances have been known where the
publications have been found ln
the hands of teenagers and stu
dents in the local schools
| lx>cal Physician Urges
— Equalized .. Medicine
Griffin and Spalding County need
an equalized program of medicine
j and not a socialized program, a lo-
1 cal physician told the members of
the American Business Club Thur
,sday.
■ The theory of socialized medi
■
clue Is wonderful but the practice
u detestable, the physician said. He
charged that a federally adminls
I tered program' would tend to pro
duee a mediocre medical program
for the nation, cost three timea as
much to adminlsted and be a det
flment to the art ol medicine.
Spalding High Names
New Band Majorettes
Evelyn Ogletree was elected drum
majorette for the Spalding High
School Band Thursday Other ma
jorettes elected to serve during the
coming year are Ernestine Bolton,
Willie Bolton, Janet Ratliff, Max
lne Putman, Mary Ann Seago and
Patsy Collins.
Any such step, however, would b«
s matter of policy for higher auth
orities than the Russians In Ger
many to decide.
Meanwhile, fresh food shipments
from the Western zone were pour
lng Into West ___ , Berlin ,, without , , . in- ,
terference from the Russians. Rail
shipments of food and coal also
were moving smoothly.
The Western Allies approved with
regwvati0IM nlght the
new West ... German federal , , repub
lie's draft constitution. This gives
ALSO IN THIS STORY:
Commies creep closer to Sha
nghai;
Labor party loses heavily In
England.
them s trump card for use in the
May 33 Paris talks with Russia
seeklng a golution to the entire
German situation.
, Tbe Americans. British and Fren
ch a j $0 ordere< i an interim peace
treaty f or the western occupation
*ones' *5.000.000 Germans to come
into force tbe day the West Ger
j man Wvwnment takes office.
! In London, labor and Conservative
members of the House of Commons
poined Thursday night to ratify
the North Atlantic Treaty by 333
t0 6 - Foreign Secretary Ernest Be
vin and Opposition Leader Wins
ton Churchill poined in hailing the
pact.
| china’s communist forces crept
closer to the great cRy of Shang
hai today, despite stout Nationalist
resistance.
One battle raged about 25 mUes
southwest of the city, centering ar
ouud Ule village of Sungkiang, on
the Shknghai-Harigcha* railroad,
Another developed to the-northwest,
around the village of Tainsang,
near the banks Of the Yangtze riv
er. The hearest red lines appeared
to be about 30 miles from Shang
hal.
At lake Success. Russia accused
the Uhited States and Britain of
making a “dear’ to keep control of
strateglc parts of Italy's 6ne-time
i African empire.
* Rrif-tn Britain . s s T Labor , hnr Partv Party w lost heav
u * tod W ln returns ,rom bI « clt *
! elections, continuing a trend *°
ward the right begun last month
in eotm t y council balloting,
BrIUsh PrtM Association returns
from 381-of the 430 boroughs which
j voted for councilmen Thursday sho
wed Labor suffered a net loss of
( 437 seats, while Conservatives chal
| ked up a net gain of 526.
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Congress Roundup
WASHINGTON —<ff>— A
dan who split with tha
claims that communist
lice are operating to this oountry.
Kirill Alexeev, former commer
cial attache at the Russian Embassy
In Mexico, said their headquarters
Is the Russian Embassy in Wash
ington.
Their main Job, he told the Sen
ate Judiciary Subcommittee Is to
direct spy activities. And at lor
spies, he charged that all Soviet
diplomatic officials have a “spy re
sponsibility."
Many of the diplomats from Rus
sia's satellite countries also have
this seme "spy responsibility.* he
said.
Most of this testimony out
Thursday In a public hearing, which
Alexeev’said cramped his style. To
day he was called bade to tsB aO
he knows and nama names behind
closed doors.
The c omm ittee Is studying a MS
designed to bar Immigration gates
to subversive aliens, and to gel
rid of those already hot. Om wit
ness Thursday — behind
doors—was a mystery man sailed
"Mr. X.” Whet ha sold, and who
ha Is, is stUI a s e cret
The Senate Iteelf continued He
on a District of Columbia
sales tax, already pas s ed fay the
House. And tha was adjour
ned until Monday.
But oommlttess in both bodioo
were aotiva:
A Army nontenant dae
bribed fay earlier a
n*M**V fii top
witness baton tha Armed Services
Subcommittee investigating the
Malmedr Manana trials.
He wae William R. Peri, former
Vienna attorney .and later an Am
erican citizen. Witnesses said he
originated a mock trial procedure
that forced confessions from storm
troopers being tried for killing (J.
8. prisoners of war.
Also, they said, he era* a ring
leader ln using "third degree” me
thods to get confessions from Nazis.
Tbe oommlttee to trying to find
out If the Germans, guilty or not,
got fair trials.
Veta Air Opinions
Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee gave veterans
of the two World Wars their chance
to say what they think about the
North Atlantic Pact. About 80 per
»°ns remain to be heard between
now and the next Tuesday dead
line. Today's list Included spokes
men for the American Legion, Am
erican Veterans Committee, the
Amvets and the Jewish War Vefc
erans.
The bill would boost the pay of
men ln service an average of 14
percent. Biggest Increase* would
go to admirals and generals, and
taper off to about three percent
for the next to lowest enlisted gr
ade. The bottom enlisted grade
would not get a raise.
| Pretty Girl Slaying
Evidence Goes To Lab
RICHMOND, Va. — (0) — Evi
dence ln the Roanoke, Va., church
slaying of pretty, l«-year-old Dana
Marie Weaver was under labora
tory examination here today.
Meanwhile, in Roanoke Jail. Lee
Scott, 18-yc?r-old husky school
mate ol Dana Marie, awaited a
Juvenile court hearing on a char?6
of murder In the death of the girl.
She was slate to the kitchen of
Christ Episcopal Church Sunday
night.
Earthquake Shakes
Los Angeles Today
LOS ANOBLES —CAP>— Lot An
geles was shaken early today by
an sorthguake that startled resi
dents oat of bed but apparently
caused no damage.
The tremor was s distinct one,
being fait the hardest to dttes th
roughout the Bon Gabriel and Ban
Fernando valleys.such os AKadena,
Pasadena, Burbank and Glendale.
Long Beach, scene of a disastrous
quake to 1933. sold there was a gen
tle rumbling there.