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President Truman, speaking ■
at the Dimond Jubilee convent
ion of Shriners, said that com
munism may have made some
“temporary triumphs" but that
even in those countries where it
was strongest there are evident
signs of “tension and conflict
that are increasing.”
This being true, the President
said "communism will either
destroy itself or abandon its at
tempts to force other nations
Into its pattern.”
He said he was most optimis
tic that the world “may yet be
organized for peace without a
* war."
Amen Brother TTuman.
We hope you know of what
you are talking.
The President said there are
two things we must realize: v
1 - The importance of main
taining a strong and table
American econ~m
2 - The importance of insur
ing that the hard-won economic
recovery of other free nations
does not revert to^ “stagnation
and despair." ®
Then he added “one of the
most foolish things we could
do is to slash out appriorations
for European recovery-. “He
holds, and rightly, that we have
too much invested in European
recovery to lose the benefits
by being “penny wise and pound
foolish."
He. also, strongly denied that
war between the democracies
and communism is “inevitable.”
"I am optimistic as I took to
the future, because I believe in
the superior attraction for men’s
minds and hearts in the demo
cratic principles which have
i been tried and tested in free
nations, and which now are
winning the allegiance of men
throughout the world."
The President's speech was a
statemanlike one and one that
should bring pleasure to all who
believe “God's in his Heaven,
all's right with the world."
Officers Find Pistol
On Man At Truman Talk
CHICAGO — UPy— A 38 caliber
pistol was found in the pocket of a
man seized by police Tuesday as he
loitered at a gate to Soldier Field
. where President Truman addressed
the Shrine convention
Policeman Robert Gat* seized
William Lofton, 36, after, he said,
he noticed a bulge under Lofton’s
jacket. Mr. Truman arrived at the
stadium later, entering a gate at
the opposition end of the field.
Reds Say West Caused
, Italy To Break Treaty
LONDON, — UP) — Russia ac
cused the Big Three Western pow
ers today of getting Italy to violate
the terms of her peace treaty by
Inviting her to sign the North At
lantic pact.
Hie Moscow Radio said that in
notes to the United States. Britain,
France and Italy herself, Russia
has charged that Italy had violat
•, ad the terms of her peace treaty
when she signed the Atlantic docu
ment by invitation . of the Big
Three.
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WASHINGTON —iTPj— a closed
conference on U. S. relations
Britain and Canada in the
field set off a new wave of
today on Capitol Hill.
The joint Senate-House Atomic
prepared to meet with
military and atomic leaders
in a hush-hush sequel to the Blair
House meeting last Thursday night.
In calling today’s session Commit
tee Chairman McMahon iD-Conn)
partially lifted the secrecy veil by
saying that 16 state, military, con
gressional and atomic leaders at
the Blair House session had dis
cussed with President Truman the
■continuing problem" of U. S.
British-Canadian relations in the
atomic field.
This brought out a score of ques
tions, including these:
Does the administration propose
to share fully the nation’s post
war atomic secrets and “know how”
with Great Britain and Canada?
QUESTION IS,, “HOW?”
Will such a step, if undertaken,
be done through executive agree
ment, or by action of Congress?
Is there a "squeeze play” on in
volving the nation's uranium sup
ply—the life blood of the atomic
enterprise?
Senator Hickenlooper iR-Iowa)
the present atomic energy act,
passed in 1946, bans this nation
from sharing its atomic weapons
secrets with anyone.
Both Britain am Canada were
given full a/cess to the wartime a
bomb development.
FDR AGREEMENT
That agreement was entered into
by executive agreement between
the late President Roosevelt and
former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill of Great Britain, setting
a precedent which one Democratic
Senator said is available to Mr.
Truman should he see fit now to
act on his own.
The principal supplies of uran
ium available to the U. S. are con
trolled by Britain and Canada.
Other congressional develop
ments:
FARM BILL — A Democratic
Republican coalition bent on de
feating the administratioon farm
bill appeared gaining new strength
as House debate opened on the pro
posed three-crop trial run of dir
ect farm subsidy payments. A vote
is expected Friday.
FIVE PERCENTERS A new
congressional demand for probing
into reports that "influence’’ is on
sale in Washington to firms seeking
government contracts, came fr.om
Senator Mundt (R-SD).
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY—
Chairman Connaily (D-Tex) of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee told reporters that pact foes
"don’t have a chance” of winning
their fight to write a no-arms-ob
ligation clause into the 12-nation
treaty.
The Senate is due to begin voting
Thursday on proposed reservations
to the pact. The final vote on rat
ification will follow.
Van A. Bittner Dies;
W as CIO Vice President
PITTSBURGH —iff)— Van A
Bittner, who looked like a school
teacher but led some of the most
far-reaching organizing drives in
the American labor movement, died
Tuesday night at 64 The CIO vice
president died at Mercy Hospital.
He had been a patient there since
July 7.
Latest
rVews
SANTA FE, N. Mex. —«V
H. Tracy Snelling, missing pub
lic information director at the
Los Alamos atomic project, to
day appeared voluntarily at
FBI Headquarters In Dallas,
Tex., the Atomic Energy Com
mission announced.
Rodney Southwlek, acting in
formation chief, said he had
no further details until a re
port was received from the FBI.
“He may be taken to a hospi
tal,” Southwick added. “We'll
see what tjie family wants.”
knelling, -37, has been miss
ing since Wednesday, Search
was started for him Saturday
after receipt by his wife of a
letter.
LOS ANGELES, — (Jp)— Gan
gster’s bullets today cut down
gambling czar Mickey Cohen
and three other persona — in
cluding a state-appointed body
guard for the dapper hood
lum — as the party left a sm
art Sunset Strip Cafe.
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Angie Claridy
Griffin Girl Seeks
Miss Title
Angie Claridy, popular Griffin
beauty and singer of statewide
fame, will be entered In the Miss
Georgia division of the Miss Amer
ica contest bv the local Jaycee-ettes
-A University of Georgia graduate,
Miss Claridy has toured the state
as the feature singer of the Univer
sity Glee Club and has a double
mjor in piano and voice.
The Griffin beauty has received
wide acclaim for her talents in
cities and towns throughout the
state. She was a guest; star, of the
1948 Atlanta "Pop” Concert and
expects to return to the Fox stage
again this year.
Although Griffin’s big sister city
tries to claim Angie as theirs, she
was reared and received her early
education here and studied music
locally under Mrs. Frank C. Ellis
Sr., her aunt.
The Georgia division of the Miss
Truman Blasts
Soviet Union
CHICAGO, — UP],— Struggling*
democracies had President Tru
man’s assurance today of United
States leadership to provide
"enough force” to maintain peace
in a world he said Is endangered by
broken Russian promises.
With the United Nations charter
signed and the collapse of Japan,
he said, the peace for which the
world had prayed "Didn’t come—
it didn't come."
"For we found that we had an
ally, an ally whose habit it is, and
whose habit it has been since 1917,
to make agreements for the purpose
of breaking them," he declared.
“Now it is absolutely necessary
that we assume the leadership
among the democracies of the
world, so that there will be enough
force in this world to maintain the
peace.” i
Mr. Truman's remarks were de
livered off the cuff at a Shrine
dinner at the Stevens Hotel Tues
day night following a formal ad
dress earlier in the day at Soldier
Field. At the big lake front sta
dium he reported apparently In
creasing "tensions and conflicts”
behind the Iron curtains.
Griffin, Ga., Wednesday, July 20, 1949.
Probers Eye K
State School Office
ATLANTA, — (AP) — A State- Senate investigator re
today the State School Department is under study in an
loss of almost $250,000 in property.
Senator Willis Smtih of Carrollton said he and two other
of a Senate subcommittee would go over School De
records “today or tomorrow."
“I expect everything is all right,"
added, "but I want to make
State School Superintendent M.
Collins said he would welcome
investigation and that all pro
could be accounted for.
The reportedly missing property
under a surplus commodity dis
Flash!
ATLANTA, _ (AP) —
Gov. Herman Talmadge’s
four point, $21,500,000 tax
program cleared its first hur
dle today when the Georgia
House stamped approval
on a two cent beer tax in
crease after four -hours of
stormy debate. The vote
was 136 for and 51 against.
program in which the
receives supplies from the
government and passes
out to schools, Smith said.
Senator H. R. Garrett of Quit
man, chairman of the Finance
which launched the Sen
ate investigation Tuesday, said af
ter a closed session that a charge
such a loss was discussed.
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook outlin
ed his investigation into the charge
Garrett said.
Collins said he had not been in
formed that his department was
under investigation for misuse of
4 H’ers Win
Contest Prizes
Representatives of Spalding
County in the Northwest
Fourth District Achievement
ing in Carrollton returned home
today with an armful of
I for their performances
Calvin MeBroom took second
place in the district junior public
speaking contest and E-la Francis
Hand received an award of excell
ence and fourth place in the senior
dress review. •
An award of merit went to Mar
jorie Howard In the Junior dress
review. Vele’a Futrai received an
award of merit in the muffin con
test and Mer.'ine Dean received an
award in the yeast bread contest.
David Brooks took an award of
Merit in the livestock pest control
demonstration and Dora Jane Fut
ral took an honorable mention in
the better speakers contest.
America pageant will be held in
Columbus August 4-5 when the
state beauties parade in both bath
ing suits and evening dresses. Each
contestant will have an opportun
ity for a three minute recital on
Friday. Aug. 5.
Local persons desiring tickets ’o
the pageant may secure them from
the office of Ordinary George Imes,
Jr., in the courthouse.
The wii\n?r of the state contest
will be sent to the Miss America
pageant in Atlantic City, N. J.,
where she will compete with state
winners from all ov-r the nation.
The Jaycee-ettes, sponsoring or
ganization, is paying the expense of
Use entry in the state contest.
Cupid Is A Cop In Spalding
Wiry Detective Mends
Broken Homes Here
Cupid is a cop in Spalding Coun
ty
He wears a police revolver hy his
side and a badge on his chest.
He has a bag of tricks that af
fect reconciliations in broken homes
and he’s the man who sees that
when there are no reconciliations
the father supports his abandoned
children.
He's Detective Sergeant Jimmy
Hayes who doubles as Probation
Officer for Spalding County courts.
Hayes is a wiry fellow who Jias
made quite ? record for himself as
* detective since he graduated from
the FBI Academy in Washington.
But he was talking about his Job
as probation officer, not detective.
He said that on? way to get a
feuding wife and husband back
under the same roof is for the
husband to make payments for
support of his children directly to
the wife.
"This way,” he smiled, "they get
together often and lots of times
they solve their problems.”
ANOTHER TRICK
Another of Hayes' tricks is purely
economic. 1
“Some men set tired at paying
surplus property. He offered to
throw his records open to the gen
eral public.
School Department books show
ed that since 1945 the state has
received a total of $7,727,974 in sur
plus properties. These were alloca
ted to the state by the Army and
Navy at no cost except transport
ation and handling fees, Collins
said. I '
Collins said the School Depart
ment has records which show all
items received and how they were
disposed. The commodities includ
ed all kinds of equipment and sup
plies for lunch rooms, shops, and
other school functions, and even
some buildings.
Food Handlers
SchoolPlanned
A food handlers school, under the
sponsorship o’ the local and state
health departments, will be held in
Griffin July 26-28.
The school will be 'ree to all food
handlers in the city and county.
During the three days, also open
to the Negro food handlers, ther“
will be lec’ures, demonstrations and
modes.
Bill Hanell, local sanitarian, sai l
that instructors from Atlanta will
be brought to the meeting to be
he’d in the Chamber of Commerce
meeting room.
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The Griffin post of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars today offered to
pay half the cost of an oxygen tent
for the local hospital.
Frank Lindsey, past commander,
said members of the post's execu.
tive committee agreed this morning
to pay for half of the oxygen tent
provided funds for the other half
are secured.
Members of the executive com
mittee first read of the
need for the tent in the
Daily News Tuesday night.
Eric Barton, superintendent
the hospital, issued the plea
estimated that an oxygen
1 would rost "about $630."
"We need an oxygen tent badly
board bills for themselves at
same time. So lots ot them go back
to their wives where all they have
to do is pay the bills and suppori
the family instead of having <to
support the family and tnemselves
in separate residences.'It’s cheaper
under one roof."
Hayes has seen dozens of couples
reunited since he took over the dut
ies of probation officer a year ago.
Other bases haven't been as sue
cessful. He says that an average of
12 pay the money to their wives
through his office. These of course,
don’t include those who pay direct
ly to their wives,
who pay directly to their wives.
The paymerts average from $3 to
$15 per week, he said.
Currently 1? fathers are making
payments through Hayes’ office.
They are the fathers of a total of
28 children. One of them Is the
father of seven.
Forty eight others convicted of
various crimes and serving suspend
ed probationary sentence* are re
porting to hts office The offenses
range from assault with Intent ’o
murder to drunkenness and
Issued Daily Except Sunday and entered as second class matter
at the postollice at Griffin, Ga„ under act of March 3, 1879.
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Plane With 32 A board
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Crashes Into Homes k
SEATTLE —(API— An air transport
with 32 persons aboard crashed
into five houses Tuesday night in
a takeoff from Seattle’s Boeing
Field.
The coroner's office .eported many
hours later that six bodies had i
been found in the wreckage of the
twin-engined C-46 and the debris
of the wrecked homes. The search
was continuing.
Miraculously, most—if not all—
of the persons aboard the Chicago
bound, non-schedule plane escaped
with their lives. Most of the vict
ims were believed to have perished
in the houses.
The corner’s office said two of
the six bodies had been tentatively
identifield. The names were not re
leased immediately. Coroner’s offic
ers said none of the *ead had been
identifield as having been aboard
the plane.
The president of the operating
company, Air Transport Associates
Inc., said he did nor think any of
those aboard were xiUed.
A failure of one of the engines
was blamed for the catastrophe.
The plane, unable to gain suffic
ient a'titude quickly, hit power lines
above he Georgetown district in
Seattle's south end. Then it plum
meted into the houses below, carry
ing death and destruction with It.
Cutting the power lines threw
the area into darkness, broken br
the eerie sputtering and flashing
of the dangerously dangling wires.
j right now,” Barton said He point
; ed out that it could be used at
Strickland Memorial Hospital and
moved to the new Grlffin-Spalding
Hospital when it begins operation.
City Official
Is Convicted
Of Bribery
| AUGUST, Ga. — UP) Civil
Service Commissioner Homer L.
Baston today faced a three to five
year sentence for bribery.
ancy.
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
When a man is.convicted of ab
andonij^g—hist Jlufe and children in
Spalding County he usua.ly is given
a suspended sentence and ordered
to pay a certain amount for the
support of the children.
"This is better than
him in jail,” Hayes said. "This way
he is fulfilling his duty to society,
His work unproductive and he sup
ports his family whether he likes
; it or not. A man in Jail can’t
sup
port his family.”
He said that occasionally a man
absolutely refuses to pay for the
support of his children. Such a man
is sent to (all. '
"But that doesn’t relieve him of
his responsibility to support the
children when he gets out. If he’s
sentenced to 12 month.*, he probab
ly won’t serve more than eight since
he’ll get some time off for good
behaviour. So when he comes out
he still has four months suspended
tentence to serve—and that doesn’t
mean he’ll be through In four
months. The suspended sentence
hangs over Ms head until the child
ie 31 ohd or it Mg Meporttog."
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Atlanta Teenagers
Steal Cop’s Jeep
ATLANTA— UP) — Thrss teen
agers, jallei early today on sus
picion of auto larceny, "stole
the w; ong jeep,” Captain a U
Sikes aai. !
The jeep belonged to the
captain.
Driving home about midnight
after getting off duty at police
headquarters, Capt. Sikes not
iced three boys removing a ttre
from a Jeep.
When he stopped to investig
ate, he related, he noticed that
the Jeep -.As his own property,
Ask
Of Safety Laws
The Griffin Junior Chamber of
Commerce has' asked state and loo
al law enforcement officers to
tighten the enforcement of state
and city laws designed to promote
safety on the highways and In
every day living.
This more rigid enforcement will
be carried out during Ssafety
Week to be sponsored by the Jay
cees in the city and county the
first week in August.
Wally Mussleman, chairman at
the Safety Week planning oom
mittee, said that the more detailed
enforcement will be *o educate the
public on the law designed for
their safety and the safety of
others. The chairman pointed out
that the proper knowledge and ob
servance of the laws would greatly
benefit all concerned.
A group of State Patrol troopers
will be brought down from Atlanta
during the week and will team up
with the local police and sheriff’s
office in an automobile tnspecton
campaign.
Plans have been made for law
enforcement officers to spot check
automobiles passing through the
city and county and give windshield
tickets to drivers whose cars pass
the safety inspection. The cars will
be inspected for rroper brakes,
lights, windshield winers and other
operating devices designed for saf
P ( y
State Head
Of Exchange
Speaks Here
Joe Pruett, Macon, state president ■
of Exchange Clubs of Georgia, told
j the Exchange Club of Griffin that
"closer unitv among the 36 clubs
j Georgia will result in stronger
; individual clubs and n better com
j munities in which these dubs fun
! ction "
Pruett, recently elected to head
Exchange in Georgia, is a long time
j member of the Macon club and has
j served as president, and secretary
j i of that organization To date he
has visited 16 of the 36 clubs and
j intends to visit ah r.» them before
j Pnd of thp year
Two past slate prf dents at
the meetlng Wlth p ruPU .
They were Hugh Hill, Macon, and
Luther Bloodworth, also of Macon,
BloodW orth wg , elected state presi
when ^ gtate convention was
hrtd in mft Hf dlFplay .
^ oM oopy ^ ^ 0rl{fin
News that told of his election m
mi eight column headline. Allen
Banders, state secretary, also at
tended the meeting.
Sanders, who served during the
war as a chaplain and who is a
Methodist minister, told the club,
"Exchange and. the other service
clubs bring together men ot all
Tkith and denominations. The ser
vice clubs wipe out denominational
lines and p'-omote worthwhile pro
ject. The clubs serve people at all
Mbt end at 41 actors.”
A Richmond Superior Court jury I
returned the verdict of guilty Tues- 1
day after a trial which brought
charges of wholesale police payoffs.
Baston was released by Judge ;
Grover C. Anderson on $2,500 bond f
after Defense Attorney John F. j
Hardin filed a motion for appeal.
Solicitor George Hains said one
of seven other defendants, who also
are charged with bribery, would go
on trial today but he would not say
which, one.
Baston, owner of an Augusta bar
ber shop, was convicted of accept
ing $500 from Police Sgt. I. W.
Richardson as protection for Frank
. weathersbee, Sr., liquor store oper
ator and one of the defendants,
Richardson testified in Baston's
j two-day trial that he made payoffs
j to the two commissioners and to
his two superior officers.
j He asserted that “everything I
j did Baston.” was on orders of Wilson and
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1 Savannah Lmei Urders
i Crackdown Oil Gamblers
SAVANNAH, Q«. -VPy- Poliee
Chief Truman F. Ward has order
ed his men to arrest all gamblers
1 no matter how big “
Ward said he had been told in
effort was oeing made to bring or
ganized gambling back to Savan
j nah.
j "Approximately 100 men on ths
, police force have done nothing ap
parently In the way cf apprehend
ing gamblers," the chief said and
added:
"Unless I get the full cooperation
of my men it will he my duty to
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