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GRIFFIN FIRST Invest Your Money, Your Talent, Your Time, Your Influence In Griffin Associated Press 8 8 Ol £ 1 if- C ■< Of IS. E * s *i • Griffin Police' and the High way Patrol have checked ! ‘ihore than 3,000 automobiles in *con- - nection with the Junior fcham ' bet's Safety Week fc^mpaign. But they kre just about half through. For there are 3.000 more automobiles that should be cheeked. The boys who wear the uni form are ready, willing and an xious to check every car in this community, because a check will reveal any deficiencies in the automobile's mechanism and will result in safer driving here. . Last night as Good Evening went to the ball game he not iced the automobiles parked at Tiger Park. About one in every 10 automobiles had the inspect ion sticker pasted on its wind shield. The other nine bore no such sticker. Don't put off having your au tomobile inspected during this Safety Week Campaign. Speaking of the ball game. There's a man in Griffin who rarely misses a ball game. And he always brings his family along with him. He and his girls have a swell time whoop ing and hollering. When the Ti gers win they are elated. When they lose their morale is about as low as the bottom of the ocean. Now yesterday was his birth day. He knows all the players and is popular with them. They lea rned it was his birthday and promised him a doubleheader win as a present. They won the first game last night 2 to 0. sc oring Griffin's first shutout victory of the seasdn. And they were Med up with Tailassee 1 to 1 when rain halted the second game He's told .the boys he'll set tle for a double victory over Hew nan Thursday night when the Tigers meet the league lea ding, pace setting Newnan Br owns. i Who is this fan? Earl Chap pell. —+ — Speaking of baseball— George Tomasic. who started out the season as chiefly a re lief hurler, came through last night with a one-hit game and held the Tailassee Cardinals to a goose egg score. This gave the locals their first shut-out vic tory. Tomasic and Ebetino, who also figured ehiefly as a relief pitcher at the first of the sea son. are now as good pitchers as the team has. Oxygen Tent Is Ordered Griffin's Swickland Memorial Hospital has placed an order for an oxygen tent and it is expected to arrive hi the near future. The Griffin Lodge Elks and the Griffin post of the Veterans Foreign Wars pledged the amount to pay for the t«nt. Each will pay half of the estimated cost of $630. The tent ic badly needed now and K will be transferred to the new Griffin - Spalding Hospital when it ie completed. • Barbs ... England has, a post office on wheels, but the letter paper Britons use continues to be stationery. German dentists make cavity fiU lkigs out of artificial silk. What the world needs m a drill made out of It There are more than 70(X) trotting horses in the country We wonder how many racking horses there are i*n the race tracks. *The Weather . .. FORECAST FOR GEORGIA Considerable clo udiness and con ers tinued scattered nd warm thunder- show- with % storms tonight ... and Thursday. Local Wrather —Maximum to- V'-, day 80, minimum SHOWERS today 70, Maximum Tuesday 83. minimum Tuesday 70. Rainfall Tu esday .88. GRIEEIN DAI LYWNEWS Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. T T P and NEA Ser vice. All the local news that happens. Telephotos and Wirephotos. W-M fe/iW' Vvy/- & ’ l'. r 4 / 8 V I JI i I > 'y%: y; ' -•’'tTi i ;'l y; 11 m Vi. a -j U : < .vNki, ROY MIFFLETON KISSES his pretty wife in their home at Washington in the same sort of way that cost him $10 for kissing her in public at Mayo Beach near Galesville, Md. The beach resort has a rule against public kissing and the owner’s wife voiced her objection to the Miffleton kiss. Roy objected to her objecting. Then the police came and Miffleton was arrested. Magistrate Norman Hazard fined him $10 for disorderly conduct in arguing with the resort owner’s wife. The Miffleton children, Ed die (left), 12, and Arlene, 6, agree the beach kiss was just like the home kiss. (AP Wirephotm)_ Tito Tells Balkans: 4 Quit Stooging For Russia!’ f World Today The By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Premier Mai shall T:to of Yugos lavia is beckoning other Balkan nations to walk out from Russian Domination. In a speech gt Skoplje, capital of Cugoslav Macedonia, Tito pre dicted Tuesday that Bulgaria and ALSO IN THIS STORY: Dutch, Indonesians order cea se fire; C. S. chiefs confer With Bri tish. Albania would quit the Moscow led Cominform. and he offered Yugoslavia's help in such a revolt. Tito has been a bitter foe of the Communist International Informa tion Bureau since June 1948. This was his most defiant speech. It was j the first time he has called on j neighboring communist nations to' join his revolt against the Kermiin. j Tito said the Burlgarian people ultimately would ignore the "slan ere against Yugoslav's and extend their fraternal banc} lo us and we will help them remove watever in dividuals have so far put obstacles in the path of the creation and preservation of brotherly relations.” He said this statement also applied to Albania. There have been recent purges among comunist leaders in Albania and ulgaria. The men ousted were charged with "Titoism"-which has replaced "Trotskyism" a.s the mod prn communist heresy. Yugoslavia -------------- Starling Thursday In GPFIH DAILY HEWS "HIGH GRADING" I r/ / - * </ A w* / ji / fi ** . ^C| O s > 0 N ’ i Q ** "High-graders" are crooked employes wlio steal from gold mines. Mike McTaig suspected these goings-on al the Dark Angel mine, and when Mike tried to find out how thieves carried »IT 20 tons of ore a day he found danger and romance. Read CLIPPED ANGEL By Clive GrierSOn Cornish would like to control all of Maced onia. now split three ways between Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Indonesian Republicans and the Dutch today issued cease-fire or ders to become effective at mid night next Wednesday. Thus a conflict which has been waged since —Please Turn To Page Eight Kiwanis To Paint Buildings At Fair Ground Members ,, of the Kiwams . will arid the finishing and coloring touches to the three fair buildings they have erected at the Fair Grounds this year. Three buildings with 17,000 squ are feet of floor space will receive their respective coats of paint from s paint club composed of members of the Kiwanis Club. The Rev. L. W. Blaekwelder. past president, head of the paint committee. Members of the Kiwanis Club who can get Saturday or a part of Saturday off will dor. clothes fit for any painter, take their brushes and proceed to add a little color to the county fair g-ounds. Those who can’t make it m Saturday of this week take their turn at it on Wednesday of next weelr. A horse show ring will be erected thus week for the mule races and bicycle r^ces that, will be. held at thp county fair. Since a building is not complete without a coat of paint, the Kiw anis Club will undertake the job. Next Year they are planning to build just 9 s many more buildings at the fair grounds ss were bui't this year. Byrd Retains Helm In Va. RICHMOND, Va. — (/Ft— Quiet conservative John Stewart Battle, a state senator with 20 years of legislative experience, captured Tuesday's four-way Democratic mary election for governor and proved again the potency of the Virginia political organization head ed by Senator Harry Byrd. . The 59-year-old Charlottesville lawyer won the party nomination that means election in November with 23,000 votes to spare on the basis of near-complete returns from the state’s 1.768 precincts. He swept the field—capturing seven of the state’s nine congress ional districts. And in so doing he heat back his nearest competitor, Franc's Pickens Miller, the anti organization candidate and former Army colonel ,who posed the first ,serious threat to the organization’s supremacy tn the last 25 years. 3, 1949. Million Buck Hooch Ring In Griffin While State Win ked — Redwine A million dollar bootleg liquor ring flourished in Griffin and throughout North Georgia “apparently under state protection." Revenue Commissioner Charlie Redwine charged in Atlanta to day. Redwine said an Atlanta wholesale firm, in only six months, sold the $1,000,000 in liquor to dry counties "all over North Georga. ’ It was a far he said. His agents raided the firm last Friday, Redwine said, and seized ( more than 1,000 sales slips giving , names, dates and amounts of il legal sales to bootleggers, social clubs and others. Redwine made the evidence pub- ■ lie today even as he turned it over to Fulton County (Atlanta) Solici tor Paul Webb for legal action. Courthouse officials said the case would go to a grand jury. The commissioner's charges cov ered part of the regime of Former Flynt i Solicitor General J. J. Jr., of the Griffin Circuit went to Atlanta this afternoon to get \ from Solicitor General Paul Webb of the Fulton Circuit a list of those in Spalding who purchased liquor for resale in this dry county. Revenue Commissioner Red wine has turned the list of pur chaiers in dry counties over to the Fulton solicitor General for grand jury action. Solicitor General Flynt will present the matter to the Spa'ding grand jury at October term, he said. Gov. M. E. Thompson and his re venue commissioner, Downing Mus grove. Thompson and Musgrove quickly denied any know ledge of the affair. Redwdne said state agents have told him they were "under instru iCtions” t not to bother .. the ring. And he quo(ed the operator of the wholesale firm as testifying the State Revenue Department appro ved the dry county operations "be- ! cause they needed the revenue.” PLANT NAMED I Redwine names the wholesale pi an t as the Richmond Wholesale Liquors, Inc., under a license to R. jw. Best of Augusta. State law per wholesaler to sell only to a licensed retailer. | He showed a stack of sales slips covering the period between June 14, 1948 and last Jan. 5. Red-win" said he closed the firm on Jan. 5 and has been investigating it every since. Redwine became revenue commis sioner when Gov. Herman Talmad ge swept Thompson out of office last Nev. 15. It took him six weeks to get enough evidence to close the wholesale firm. Redwine said. j Musgrove replaced Glenn Phillips las revenue commissioner under Th —Please Turn To Page Eight j Congress Plans Major Aid Overhaul Of Arms WASHINGTON — i/P)— The ad ministration’s $1,450,000,000 arm - for-Europe program today seemed in for a major overhaul by Congress A House Republican commented "The bill will be so changed when ( we get through with it that even its mother wouldn't recognize it." The bill has no mother, but two men said to have helped draft it were called before the House For eign Affairs Committee today for testimony. Committee sources said the pair Army Maj. Gen, Lyman Lemnitzer and Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner of the State Department “know all the answers." and the committee mem bers indicated they still had plenty of questions. FIVE PERCENTERS — Law ma kers investigating reports of the use of influence in getting govern ment contracts turned their atten tion, to the manufacture of Army uniforms. A House Armed Services subcom mittee called on Stanlup J. Cum- '" " City Has Laws For Protecting Bike Riders ' Jp5 J • *' H 7. • ' DON'T ride bike on sidewalks when there are pedestrians or playing children. Dismounting and walking your bicycle around them means safety. (EDITORS NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on the most flagrantly violated traffic ordinances of the City of Griffin. The series is taken fr om the ordinances prepared by the. Griffin Police Department ajndf adopted by the Griffin City Commission Jan. 27, 1918.) BICYCLES Sec. 85. Traffic laws apply to per sons riding bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle upon a road way shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by the laws of this state declaring rules of the road applies ble to vehicles or by the traffic ord inances of this city applicable.to the driver of a vehicle, except as to special regulations in this article and except as to those provisions of laws and ordinances which oy their nature can have no applica tion. Sec. 86. Obediance to traffie-con trol devices, (a) Any’person opera ting a bicycle shall obey the in structions of official traffic-con trol signals, signs, and other con trol devices applicable to vehicles unless otherwise directed by a po —Please Turn To Page Eight Congress Roundup ____ minRSi e * ec4ltive secr etary of th” National Association of Uniform Manu{acturers , Inc ., to testify be hind closed doors. , Rcp Hrberl (D . Lal said he a.sk e d Cumimngs to testify' after hear ; mR a t thal James v Hunt . had aslced , or $25 .000 a.s his fee for trying to get an army order rela ting to uniforms rescinded The deal reportedly fell through. Hunt, a former Quartermaster Corps colonel, has been accused rf offering to use his influence in ob 7 , alnlIlg g 0ver nment contracts for a fee of five percent. FOREIGN AID APPROPRIAT | IONS — With neither side giving an Inch, senators returned to their battle over $5,647,724,000 foreign aid bill. | j Administration lawmakers want to see the money bill passed with | out amendments — tacked to it oy i the Appropriations Committee — j calling lor such things as aid to Issued Daily Except Sunday and entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Griffin, Ga., under act of March 3, 1879 500 Cars Flunk More than 3.000 cars had been I safety checked by the Griffin Po lice Department and the State Hi ghway Patrol through 11 o'clock this morning. All the cars being checked weren't j from Spalding County. They have j been coming' in from Bartlesville, ‘ Zebulon, Hampton and other places * to have tljeir cars voluntarily ch ecked by one of the two law- enfor cement bodies here during Jvcee Safety Week. Patrolman Woodrow Holcombe estimated that about 500 of the 3.000 cars had been turned down. Some of them have had defects that were pointed out by the check- ! ing officers ' corrected and have been back to change the stickers from yellow to white. There are over 5.600 registered vehicles of every description in Sp alding County^a/i^ their owners are cooperating with the law officers by volunteering their cars for insp ection. . The volunteer stations originally were scheduled for only two days, but as long as the cars, come for checking the stations will remain open. HEAVY DAY The Griffin Police Department had a heavy day again Tuesdy. but it slackened a little this morning. The State Highway Patrol Station reporter a good day Tuesday and cars still were coming in today. Drivers will get a chance to vol unteer for aptitude tests on Thurs day. A unit from the Motdr Vehicle Association of Georgia, mounted on a truck will be stationed in front of McLellans 10 cent store all day Thursday. The unit will be here only one day. The series of tests will test a drivers reaction time, color vision, distance judgement, field of vision glare acuity and steadiness. Bill Johnson of the Motor Vehicle As sociation of Georgia will be in ch arge of the tests that are being sponsored by the Griffin Jaycees. j NO FATALITIES There have been no traffic fn' alities in Griffin and Spalding Cn unty during the first three days of Safety Week. However there have beeh several minor auto accidents. j Army To bring band, the a platoon week to of a foot close sol- an j diers and a color guard has been !secured from the Army. They will [lead the parade here on Friday af ternoon when Safety Week comes —Please Turn To Page Eight Spain and purchase of American surplus crops. The dispute, now in Its second round 'the bill was sent bark to committee once for rewriting > w u resumed after passage of a $7,800, 000.000 independent offices appropr iaUon meaM,re Economy minded senators delay Pd »M> ro v *' r,f ,ha ' blU for , ' vp 1 days while they sought ways to trim it. Instead, the Senate added $27, 000,000 to Ihe totl. a UNIFICATION The House Tuesday completed cogressional ac tion on a fiill to give Secretary of Defense Johnson greater control over the Army. Navy and Ait Force, and sent the measure to the White House. Besides strengthening Johnson* hand — as requested by the secre ; tary. President Truman and the Hoover Commission—the bill sets up a new armed forces accounting j system Intended to save money, and \ creates a permanent chairman for . the joint chiefs of staff. GRIFFIN FIRST Invest Your Money , Your Talent, Your Time, Your Influence In Griffin M T.v Vj f ’ -v. V fee • I . 8v [ ^arr; #■ , *§ | *8 j j I j > 8 ;' .' m ■■■ ■ t -S/i m fr: I j Crackdown On ' Restaurants Is Underway i The Spalding County Department was in the midst of { crackdown nr. eating establish J , nfn f s today, | Bill Hansel sanitary said it probably will be 1 i."fore the > backdown is completed He explained that it is to make two thorough of the 85 cafes and 1> tchool rooms in this county. The first inspector: is mad" oolnt out errors to the he said. Th>- second i> made grade notices are posted and establishment are graded inv to conditions existing at tiirre of the second Inspection. | ctvfcs all r-> tblishmer.ts a j *o'make pa ing grade- 1 , he out. . Hansel] and Parx McKibben sanitarian, already have I jo establishments "We have found greatly p '' nrti,lon ^ I ed the food hand'er'- school , we «>k Most, of the places we inspected arc complying with j standards,” Hansetl oeclared. ; He said that all 11 school | ronms will he inspected and prior to the opening of school i during the first week of school. Want A Mouse? Want to buy a bouse? Tired of paying renl? Try a News Want Ad ! For well money spent — Phone 3276-77 — 1871 Mr*. Esley O. Anderson, Sr. (left), 68, society matron of Charlotte, N. C., was shot to death Monday in her fashionable Myers Park home by a mysterious gun man. Above is a view of the death scene. The circle indicates the bedroom in which her body was found. The killer also attacked Mrs. Anderson’s Negro butler in his quarters and wounded him seriously by slashing his throat and beating him. (AP Photos.) State Crisis Was Political, St. John Says The recent special session of the Legislature was called as the result of a political emergency rather than an 'economic crisis,' " M. L. St. John, political writer of the Atlanta Constitution, told the Kiw anis Club of Griffin today. ';" ! there can he no criticism as to how the money that will be raised in ex ra taxes Is spent. For no one object, to the expanded state services that will result," he added, Pr< ure fr m the old people of Georgia. • whose pensions had been cut. was chiefly responsible for the 1 "political emerpeney.' St. John : stated. j In passing the increased tax pro y-'m the T ecisla created "an other emergency,’* he said. "That in.' . v . m be <•. • eq only by a complete revision of Georgia’s ant iquated tax structure.” GREATEST NEED I S’ John sa'd one of the greatest | needs in G irgfa was a Legislature that would not be bound' by pol 'tical alignments but would be fn ; j dependent and vote on the merits of issues, |f ; "In the eecrnt extra session, rtep j sr,intent head sent onto the floor' | of both houses to 'bring pressure' on the members o th< v •• ;M 'vo'a. . right. ’ j But "pie ,;i" was not only pra cured-in the extra. <■ fm : lonR bp( . n ,.. h said, "Dur jnR the adm ... • ration of Fill Arnall. when he wot putting thr j 0URh hfe prbgram, hr Irpqti'T.'ly j summoned legi tutors to hit i office 'for 'conferences ' "The greatest .'pre 'ire' on th* Legislature, came when the two governor cqntrover v was up Lead ers of both groups actually vent so far as to offer bribes, to get p o ple to ‘vote right,’ he continued. St. John expressed disgust with men who are "so bitterly aligned, in pelitics Uiat they vote right dov* the line." And lie said his disgii-t was not restricted to."pro-adminis tration men" but also to "anti administration men" who were ol jmded by their political bitterness.