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* GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money, Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griff in
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By Quimby Melton
Let’s not spend our time try
ing to catch a bunch of min
nows—.
Let’s go after the big fish.
And we’rp not talking about
.h fish that have scales.
We re referring to the expose
made by Revenue Commission
er Redwine that nigh state of
ficials at least .Milked at if
they did not participate in
the i'legal sale ot iiouor in dry
counties.
Rpriwine’s charges are most
serious.
Now when the cases come
before the grand juries in sev
eral counties there’!’ be a lot
of effort nut out to make some
“little feljow’’ the goat. The
\ higher-ups will claim they knew
nothing what so ever about the
matter.
Some book-keepei or stock
clerk or maybe ever a Npero
janitor wi 1 be blamed for the
entire matter.
And the big dogs may go free
—to- plot more illegal cam
paigns.
Let s not spend our time try
ing to jail some buck private.
Let's go after the maior. the
co’one' and the general himself,
and see if they hare had their
fr’ger In .he pie.
7f the governor of Georgia
“w'nked at” or “arranged" pro
tection for Illegal sale of liquor
in dry counties—then let's put
the Governor of Georgia in safe
k-“oine at Tatnal'
If a Revenue Commissioner or
are of his assistant are guilty
of this—then let’s (rive them s
sample of prison life.
And let's not let anyone re
gardless of bow high his sts'ion
push the blame o*f on some
stenographer. boo v keeocr or
stock clerk.
•nie Illegal sa'e of liquor tn
«frv counties was planned bv
someone with a keen m’nd.
It was n'anned hr someone
who had ♦ V e authority to sav
to the wholesalers 'You need
not fear any Interfc-enee from
anv state enforcement ager.'s”
It was planned by someone
who has no bttsines- holding an
office of public tms*.
Let's go a_f|er ♦b e big boys
Some of them are”guilty and
an honest effort to smoke them
out followed by an honest trial
will bring them to taw
Ingrid Bergman Plans
Divorce," Quitting Movies
ROME— OF )—Ingrid Bergman an
nounced tode.v she wi’l divorce her
husband. Dr. Peter Lfnstorm. She
eteo said she will qu»“ the movies.
The beautiful Swedish star made
the declaration in a statement is
sued to reporters by her persona
represetative, Joseph 8teeie
Source close to *he actress re
ported she intends to marry Italian
Director Roberto P.osselinl after
her divorce.
Sons Of Confederates
May Form Camp Here
Effort* are being made to revive
a camp of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans in Griffin.
Lewis H. Beck, who is leading
the move, said it has the endorse
ment of the local chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confed
tacy.
Persons invested tn joining the
camp should contact Beck at the
Georgia State Employment Office.
Thrasher Says Hospital
Run For Politicians
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — pp) —
Milledgeville State Hospital it op
erated more for the benefit of em
ployees and politicians than for ite
10.000 patterns.
State Auditor B. E. Thraater, tn
effect, made this charge today.
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MARY FRANCES BASS of Timmonsville, S. C., strikes a
pretty pose in celebration of opening rales in the Carolinas
Border Tobacco Belt. She had the role of “Miss Tim
monsville” in the annual Tobaco Festival at Mullins, S. C.,
Thursday. (AP Photo.)
Bart Searcy Qualifies
For Board Of
D. B. Searcy has qualified for the
Board of Education election to be
held Sept. 14. His entry assures al
least a two-way race for the post
from Third Ward.
He qualified for reelecuon to the
post from Third Ward Thursday at
the city manager's office in City
Hall.
Mrs. Gwyn McKneely is the ot
her person to qualify for the post
from Third Ward. She qualified
Monday morning and was the first
to qualify. She w’as followed by Wil
bur Brown who qualified shortly
after she did. He qualified to seek
reelection to the First Ward Post.
l Searcy's term expires in the Th
ird Ward. Dr. Kenneth Hunt's term
expires in the Fourth Ward. Brown's
term expires in the First Ward and
there is a vacancy in the Second
Ward caused by the resignation oi
J. H. Stephenson.
Bart Searcy is now serving his
{second four year*term pn the Board
of Education. Both terms have been
served from the Third Ward.
Two members of the board are
elected from each ward for four
; year terms. But the elections are
; staggered so that one member from
i each ward is elected every two years.
iNudistS Don
Their Clothes
For Drama
| DENVBR l/P) Nudisls put
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Qn thejr clothes Thursday night
and a ttended a dramatic show at
their annual convention,
“After all we re the American
Sunbathing Association, and there's
no sun at night,” explained Mary
Kilgore. She's chairman for the
convention in Deer Creek Canyon,
southwest of Denver. The nudists
ignored a newspaper reader's sug
gestion they should have assembled
In nearby Bear Canyon.
Thursday night's affair was less
sociable for some of the skinfolk
than their clothlesless frolics
The absence of clothes makes for
a more sociable life, a pair of To
peka, Kans., girls, Mildred and
Mary, told an Interviewer.
“You understand we mean all
clothes off,” Mildred said. "Just a
wee bit of clothes is much worse
than nothing at all. Take those
new French bathing suits. They’re
simply horrible. Not only are tttey
the most sex-provocative things in
existence but they're absolutely
useless for swimming purposes.”
The people running around in
their birthday suits at tne conven
tion are perfectly at ease, a Texan
told an interviewer.
“When you’re undressed and
everyone around is the same way,
why, you don’t even notice the dif
farent physiques about you,” he
insisted.
The full dress dramatic show put
on by the Echo Valley Club ot Kan
sas was a disappointment for the
ptepthg toms who've been over
stuffing their eyes In the canyon.
The problem of the peepers has
lessened, though, alnoe one of them
—armed With a three foot telescope
—was forced to disrobe and join In
the outdoor sports with the devo
of nothingness.
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Acheson Writes China Off
As Total Hits
The World Today
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today Chinese com
munist armies can take over the whole of China any time they
wish.
In a bitterly frank white paper on American-CKinese rela
tions, Acheson wrote off China’s Nationalist government. He
blamed Chiang-Kai Shek and his men for "the ominous result j
of the Chinese civil war."
Even as the 1.054 page State Department document was
being released in Washington, reports from the civil war front
said another Nationalist general and his army have deserted to
the communists and that the reds are roiling towards Canton
virtually unopposed. |
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JAKE, A PfcRfORMING dc,AR, objects to getting into
the barrel and turns on his handler, Buck Robinson, rodeo
clown performing at the Ski Hi Stampede in Monte Vista,
Colo. * Cloyd Teter, a Denver Post photographer, took
this picture just as the bear sank his fangs into Robinson’s
left cheek near the eye. Robinson subdued Jake after he
was lacerated severely—and went on with the show. (AP
Wirephoto.)
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| State Approves
Health Center
For Spalding
ATLANTA ifp< The State
Health Department today announc
i ed approval of a $120 ' 000 heallh
I u ' nter for Spalding County,
The Spalding Health Center was
included in a list of 1C which have
j been approved forma.ly,
If the’ center is bi ilt, one-third
of the cost will be paid by the
state, one-third by the federal gov
ernment under terms of the Hill
Burton Act and one-third by Grif
fin and Spajding County together.
Also included in the list of ap
proved health centers is Lamar
County.
Methodist Ministers
Will Meet In Griffin
Methodist Minister, from all ch
arges In the Griffin District will
hold an all-day meeting here Tues
day at the First Methodist Church,
The Rev. Henry Jones, distriat
superintendent., has called the mee*
ing to discuss the program for the
year. The meeting will begin at
10 A. M.
She's Happy Now
Grandma broke her cup,
Filling it with tea;
Want Ada found another,
Now happy as can be.
— Phone 3276-77 —.
Griffin, Go., Friday, Aug. 5, 1949.
• Barbs ...
A couple in North Carolina got
married on a locomot've. Now. pu t
that just -hoo. c-Moo clever”
Walker Hosiery Mills
Will Be Liquidated
LAFAYETTE, Ga Plans
for liquidating the Walker Countv
Hosiery Mi’.h—one of this citys
leading industries for more than
40 years—have been announced by
President A. S. Fortune.
The industry was established here
'n 1906. In lecent years it has dis’
ributed an $11,500 weekly payroll
to some 300 employes
Solons Hail Truman’s
‘Blank Check’ Denial
WASHINGTON —oP»— Lawma
kers aiming to cut down the size
of the arms-for-Europe program
took heart today at President Tru
mans statement that he doesn't
want “blank-check” powers under
the project.
"If the President has yielded on
one major area of controvercy he
can back up on another," saidlone
top Republican member of the Hou
ae Foreign Affairs Committee
The program's critics want to
slash the program to half its pre
sent *1,450.000.000 sue. As written,
the proposal would authorise Mr.
Truman to ship U. S. arms to pra
tically any nation in the world.
FOREIGN AID — There appar-
Chiang and his men were due to
loss of popular suppbrt and loss by
the armies of the wiT to fight. He i
saui the communists waged war
with fanatical zeal while “the Na-;
tionalisi armies did have to oe {
not
defeated; they disintegrated."
Acheson outlined a new Amen
esn foreign policy cr Chuia. He
said. in a letter to President Tru
ALSO IN THIS STORY: |
t . S. chiefs hold talks in Eu- |
rope: ..
Tito announces his troops on
alert.
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man. that U. S, poliev now must be
directed to encourage all develop- !
ments in China aimed at throw
ing off the foreign yoke” of Krem
lin-dominated communism.
He charged that the Chinese
communist regime served the in
terests of Russ! aand might lend it
self to “the pirns of Soviet Russian
imperialism. ’ by attacking neigh-
1 ormg countries. The United States
would attempt to bio.g such
sion through the United Nations.
Acheson said.
President Truman said the docu-,
ment was being issued with the aim
to end “considerable misrepresent
ation. distortion and misunder
standing." on America's Chinese
policy.
Capture of Changsha by com
munist forces was announced ’o
day by the National);:: government
at Canton.
Unofficial but credible reports
said Nationalist Gen Chen Ming
Jen, new: "overnor v Hunan, the
bread basket vrovioce. Went over
c the communists ai d took at lea 't
one of his three armies with him
His armies * Haled ^.ObO men. He
had just replaced another general
■ ho also had deserted to the com
munists.
The communists’ "me tab e calls
for the cao.ure of Canton, provis
ional N3*ion list capital, bv Aug.
15. Gloomy Nationa’Ms admittef
'he Changsht situation might m p an
that en. Pai Chung- Hsi. the com
mander In the sou h would have
to withdraw his troops south-nest
j ward Into Kwangsi province This
rou'd make Cantofi a plum ripe
, to r communist pickine
The armv chief of staff of the
Southern Korean Raw bite said to
day his forces hav- hurled
j <ommun | rt invaders from South
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Congrets Roundup |
eiul y waa s t ron g Senate support for
j an amendment to the big foreign
aid money bill which would penal
ize France for allegedly dlscrlmin- j
ating against Americans in French
Morocco,
The Americans, ex-GIs who went
into business in Morocco after the
war. claim the authorities there are
using unfair methods to block their
enterprises.
The amendment before the Sen
ate would deny any nation the use
of certain European recovery funds
if it discriminated against American
Issued Daily Except Sunday and entered as second class matter
at the postoftice at Griffin, Ga, under act of March 3. 1879
Big Parade Ends
JC Week
Ta ImadgeL in ksA mail j
To Ga. Scandal
ATLANTA —(APi— Gov. Herman
Talmadge said today “some of. that
crowd 1, involved in an alleged huge
state-protected bootleg liquor ring
- mav be staring the penitentiary in
the f ace ••
Talmadge at a news conference
declared. “All the resources of the
state at my command will be thrown
into an effort to prosecute and con
vict the guilty parties.” y
The governor commented for the
first time on accusations that For
mer Gov. M. E. Thompson and se
veral of his top officials approved a
multi-million dollar illegal liquor
traffic into dry counties, including
all over Georgia.
Talmadge. for the first time, link
ed the name of former Gov. Ellis
Arnall into the powder keg inves
tigation.
Talmadge charged that Thomp
son was forced by Arnall and for
mer Gov. E. D. Rivers to remove
Glenn Phillips as revenue commiss
ioner because "they couldn't get
campaign contributions unless they
had their own man over there.”
REMOVED PHILLIPS
Thompson removed Phillips in
j une 1947 an( j appointed Downing
Musgrove as revenue commissioner
'What I want to know is why
Downing Musgrove could get con
tributions while Glenn couldn't."
Talmadge said.
Tglmadge noted that he made
these same charges repeatedly laV,
summer in the political campaign
in w hich he ousted Thompson as
governor.
"I make these same charges to
day,” Talmadge said.
Talmadge added that he planned
to appoint a special deputy stale
attorney general to investigate and
p rosecute the case through Solici
tor General Paul Webb of Fulton
county,
Revenue commi.-sioner Charles
Redwine, who said his agents crack
ed the case with seizure of records
in an Atlanta w holesale liquor firm.
turned his evidence over to Webb.
Talmadge said he could not le
gally allocate money to meet Webb's
plea for the state to finance the
investigation and any prosecution.
EMERGENCY FUNDS
But. the governor added, he pl
anned an emergency appropriation
to the State Law Department un
der Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook to pay
for the probe.
Talmadge recalled his campaign
p rom j se 0 f an investigation into
“campaign contribution activities"
c ft he State Revenue Department
Redwine has quoted testimony by
state agents to him that the illeg
al liquor traffic had a 50 cents per
case fee" which w as "to go into a'
{campaign fund.”
Considerable support for the am
endment was Indicated Thursday
when the Senate voted 44 to 42 ag
ainst dropping discussion of the
proposal.
FIVE PERCENTERS — When a
senate committee brings its "five
percenters" investigation into
°P« n Mond ». v ' Secretary of Defen e
Johnson will be called as the first
witness.
The Senate group ha* been con
puctlng closed-door hearings on re
ports of middlemen using their tn
fluence with government officials
a fee (usually five percent) to
help bualnessmen get government
contract*.
GRIFFIN FIRST
Invest Your Money , Your
Talent, Your Time, Your
Influence In Griffin
City Has Rules
For Protecting
All Drivers
ELDERLY
Nearly 30% of all pedestrian
fatal itiea arc auffarad by only 7%
of tha population—thorn past tf
years .of age! To avoid trouble m
traffic they should be alert, watch
ful and should carefully observe
sale walking rule*.
—AAA Safety Feature *.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is
the tinal article in a special Sa- 1
fety Week series on Griffin traf
fic ordinances.)
Sec. 35 operation of vehicles on
approach of authorised emergency
vehicle*.
! A> Upon the immediate approach
of an authorized emergency vehicle
equipped with at leas’ one lighted
lamp exhibiting red light visible
under normal atomspheric cond-1
itions from a distance of 500 feet |
to the front of such vehicle and
when the driver is giving audible i
rivnal by siren, exhaust whistle, or
bell;
(!) The driver of every vehicle
shall yield the right-of-way and
hall immediately driv* to a position
parallel to, and as ict-'.se as possib’e
to. the right-hand edge or curb of
of the roadwat clear of any inter
rection and shall stop and remain
in such position until the authorized
emergency vehicle has passed ex
Cfpt when otherwise directed by a
police officer
Sec. 41. Traffic-control signal
legend. Whenever traffic is control
ed by traffi’-control ritrnai.s exhib
iting the wo-ds "Go’. “Caution." o*
"Stop," or evhibiting different col
colors only .-hall be used and said
time, or with arrows, the following
ored lights ruceessively one at a
•erms and lights shril indica'e and
apply to drisers of vehicles and Tie
destrains as fellows
fa > Green alone or "Go”,
j fli Vehicular traffic facing the
signal, exrept wlv’ti prohibited
under section SO may proceed
straight through or turn right or
'eft unless a Men a: si'ch place pro
hi bits either such turn But vc-htc
lar traffic including vehicles turn
lng right o- left, s’-all yield the
right-of-way to othei vehicles and
to pedest.rains lawfully within the
| walk at the time such signal is ex
intersection or an adjacent cross
hibited.
i2> Pedestreins facing the signal
may proceed across the roadway
within ary marked or
crosswalk.
<b) Yellow alone or
I when shown following the green or
Go
il' Vchiclular traffic fncing the
signal Is thereby warned that the
red or "Stop" signal will be exhibit
ed Immediavlv thereafter and such
/
vehicular i traffic shah-not enter o’
be crossing the liit*” tection
the red or "Stop" signal is
ited.
(3) Pede.trams facing sfich
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Established 1871
A gala Safety Week that began
Monday was brought to a dost to
day with a grand parade that rott
ed through the outskirts ot Oriffta
and then back through the business
areas ot the city.
The marching of feet, tbs biars
of music from the 38 piece Third
Army Band and the swoosh ot Jit
airplanes was heard on the
day of celebration ending Safety
Week hers.
The local Junior Chamber at
Commerce In oooperatloo with tbs
Griffin Police Department, the
fety Education Division of the State
Patrol and the county Sheriffs Of
fice sponsored the week.
The two flights of jet planes
sent here by Lt. Gen. Alvan O. 00
em, Jr., commanding officer at
Third Army. He also sent the Amy
Band, the Infantry troops, the eot
or guard and the sound truck.
The parade moved out from kg
front of Griffin High School at I
P. M. This was the mechanised por
tl015 °t parade. It moved throu
gh the outskirts of the city fbr ap
proximately an hour and then re
turned to Oriffin High School whers
the Third Army Band, the oolor
guard and aU the other walking
portions of the parade were added.
Then it made Its grand march thro
ugh the business section of the city.
Between 15 and 30 floats entered
by merchants and others, the mo
torcycle escort and for that matter
every part of the parade carried
with it the theme of Safety Week.
771 * Parade was led by a motor
cycle escort headed by Woodrow
Holcombe of the Griffin Police De
partment. Ted Edward* and hi*
son, Ted Edwards, Jr, trick rldere
from Atlanta followed on motorcy
cles of their own. The color guard,
the 33 piece Army Band and the
platoon of soldiers from the Third
Army fell in behind They wyre fol
lowed by the floats and other part*
of the parade.
Court Orders
Highland Mill
To Bargain
NEW ORLEANS — (XP)— A Orlf
fin Ga mill mu8t
collectively with it* employes <k
spite its having already given them
a larger wage increase than was
asked,
The company, Crompton-High
land Mills, Inc., was ordered by
the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Ap
P ( *al K Tuesday to stop refusing to
bargain collectively with the CIO
Textile Workers Union or any other
bargaining agency of the employes.
The decree was issued in compli
ance with a mandate from the U. S.
Supreme Court which held that
the wage increase was invalid be
came the romjVnv failed to notify
the union bcfoiV^mng it.
At the same time, the Circuit Co
url of Appeals denied the company'*
motion for a stay of the decree and
an order requiring the National
Labor Relations Board to show
cause why the motion should not
be granted
Strickland To
Bun Forjudge
F E. Str;ck'ard, r>r eight years
solicitor general of the Griffin
Circuit Superior Court, will be a
candidate for Judge of that court,
lie announced today.
] Col. Strickland moved to Oriffin
!2 years ago from Bainbridge,
While in Bn . bridge he was so'lcit
■>r of the Ci*v Court for four year*.
H» is now ‘ acticfn'i iaw h-re He
,
is• a memb*-' of th-* First Baptist
Church arri teacher of the Men’*
I Bible dai s of that church.
The Pike Countv-Joumal a*
! 7.ebulon ha announce! that. Cheat*
« A Byars, incumbent, will mot
I .(■election.