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Athens Memorial Park Commission Urged By Citizens
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Vol. 113, No. 153.
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Sleeping berman War Captives
Memorial Park Is
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Hailed AS “Fine,
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“Fine!”
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sWonderful!”
T\h\ls. did«the citizens of Athens
hail Clarke county’s offer of the
Fairhaven property, Compns_ed of
54 acres of land to the City of
Athens for development of a Me
morial Park in honor of .the ser
vicemen ,and women of the com
munity, and its acceptance by the
Mayor and Council was regarded
s a foregone conclusion, ¢
Here are some' sample com
ments: .
Chancellor S. V. Sanford: “I
am wholeheartedly in favor of
the proposal. I would like to
see a Memorial Park Commis
sion created. I would like to
see it incorporated because it
then would have access to
tederal and state funds avail
able to incorporated park com
missions.”
Dr. E. L. Hill: “I am heartily
in favor of this proposal and
I sincerely hope it will be
accepted.”
L. M. Shadgett: “I cannot too
strongly endorse this plan.”
R. V. Watterson: “A swell
idea.”
Name Commission
Blanton Fertson was very
enthusiastic over the plan,
saying that he hopes the
Mayor and Council will not
only accept the eoffer of the
county but that a Memorial
Park Commission be created
and appeinted to “carry the
job through.”
W. L. Bradberry: “A fine
thing if someone will take the
job of developing the proper
ty into a park.”
T. M. Philpot: “I hope Coun
cil will grab this opportunity
and name a good committee
of citizens to develop it.”
L. O. Price, sr.: “It’s the
most wonderful thing that
could be done not only for re
turnnig Servicemen and wo
men but for all the people of
Athens and Clarke county.”
K. A, Hill: “It’s the Kkind of
proposition that gets a fellow
enthusiastic over his com
munity. We need all the parks
we can get and when some
body gives us the land we
ought to grab it.”
Mrs. T. H .McHatton: “I
think the move to establish
a Memorial Park at the old
Fairhaven grounds is one of
the most far-reaching and im
portant steps in the advance
ment of this community that
nas ever been started. Con
gratulations are due to both
the county and city for the
plan, which certainly should
be carried through to realiza
tion.
_ David Michael: “I think it
is a great plan! I think we
should embrace the opportuni
ty and develop a real recrea
tional center. It could be made
one of the finest assets of our
community,”
Fine, Great Plan
Mrs. John T. Wheeler: “I
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Reign Of Terror
(harged To Greeks
By Marshal Tito
LQNDON, July 9. — {AP) —
Yugoslav Premier Marshal Tito
said in a Belgrade broadcast yes
terday that Greek forces were
firing machineguns across the
Greek-Yugoslay bodrer in an at
tempf “to provoke us” and that
thousands of Macedonians had
fled northern Greece to Yugosla-
Via to escape a Greek reign of
An Associated Press dispatch
from Bitolj, Yugoslavia, said that
according to official estimates
10000 Slavs have fled northern |
Greece to escape terrorism which
refugees asserted. included rob-]
b“".‘" rape and the sacking of en
tire villages by armed bgnds and |
Greek militia. \
(Greek government spokesmen
have discounted reports of ter
forism and have said that any
outbreaks were by outlaw bands).
Tass dispatches from Moscow
said the National Front of Fed
eral Macedonia had laid a strong
brotest before the Yugoslav gov
€rnment, accusing “Fascist”
Greek organizations, supported by
units of the Greek army, of car-
Tving out a reign of terror.
The dispatch said it was im
bossible from that side of the
frontier to learn the Greek ex
blanation of the situation but
that it appeared that Slavs re-
Maining on the Greek side of the
Macedonian frontier were consid
€red enemies of Greece in an aft
€rmath of the Bulgarian occupa
tion of Greek Macedonia.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Eight Men Slai
ight Men Slain, 1
By Rampaging Gl
SALINA, Utah, July 9.—(AP)
—Machinegun bullets fired by an
American soldier killed eight
Germans and injured 20 others
asleep in a prisoner of war camp.
Why the soldier turned loose
the barrage was a question still
publicly unanswered today. 1
The shooting occurred early
yesterday, a half hour after Pfc.
Clarence Bertucci of New Or
leans, La., had gone on duty as a|
guard at the camp housing pris
oners working in central Utah
farm fields.
- Fires Indiscriminately
Colonel Arthur Ericsson, com
mander of the prisoner of war
camp at Ogden, of which the
camp here is:-a branch, said Ber
tucci, 23, suddenly fired from his‘
post in a guard tower into a tent
area in which the prisoners were
housed.
Three bursts of fire, including
in all 250 shots and lasting no
more than 15 seconds, ripped into
the tents.
His ammunition expended, Ber
tucci yelled for more, Ericsson
‘said, but was placed, instead, un
‘der arrest on orders of the branch
;camp commander, Lt. Albert I
Cornell. ;
“Berserk” Thinks Mother
In New Orleans, Bertucci’s
widowed mother said an Army
officer who notified her of the
incident expressed the opinion
the soldier had .gone “berserk.”
“Something must have happen
ed to him,” said Mrs. Mary Ber
tucci, adding that she could not
understand her son’s action.
A board of inquiry interviewed
Bertucci, officers and men at the
camp and the prisoners. Bertuc
ci’s story, however, was not dis
‘closed and. Ericsson - said it and
other testimony would’ be handed
on to the security and intelligence
officer at Ninth Service Com
mand headguarters at Fort Doug
las; Utah.
Will Be Held
~ Bertucci will be held in cus
itody, Ericsson added, pending
;consideration of the inquiry
board’s report. .
Bertucei was stationed with @
field artillery unit in England for
eight months but saw no battle
action, Ericsson said.
Military officials said Bertucci
had been subjected to three dis
ciplinary actions, once for being
absent without leave, once for re
fusing guard duty and once for
’missing a train. His sentences
’ranged up to three months.
‘ Eyewitnesses quoted Bertucci
‘as saying, “I'm not sorry! I'd do
it .again if T had the chance.”
. Ericsson said the Germans had
been model prisoners. Bertucci
admittedly had no love for the
enemy prisoners, he said, but had
jcaused no previous trouble with
them.
(Bertucci’s brother in New Or
leans, James Bertucci, said the
soldier had been ill for some time
and had been in several Army
hospitals during the past year.
He said his brother harbored no
particular hatred for the Ger
mans).
The wounded were hurried to
the Salina hospital where they
were treated by civilian doctors.
Six doctors, two medical corps
men and four ambulances alsc
were sent from Fort Douglas,
Utah.
Ericsson said there had been
no previous incidents at the camp
that might have precipitated the
.shooting. He reported the prison
ers were a model group and had
been doing their work well. He
also reported that the officers had
been deing a “very good job” at
the camp.
“T'echnicolor’ Egg
Plant Begins Here
Eggs, egsgs, eggs! First thing
you know, the Banner-Herald
will have enough eggs to whip up
a souffle. :
But the egg to beat all eggs
was brought into the B'-H. office
today and knocked the whole
staff off its equilibruim. The
hens these days are getting vretiy
swanky about their eggs. Wheth
er they think Easter is a little
late this year, or whether they're
following zee style of zee French
mademoiselles with blazing col
ors, the reporter couldn’t say. At
any rate, this egg has set out to
amaze the world in a coat of
beautiful henna color. Yep, Ma
dame Hen must have clucked
with pride as she presented her
masterpiece, an egg of reddish
brown hue, with one edge being
of a sandpaper roughness and the
other a smoothness of that school
‘girl complexion. The hen that
?’laid this marvel of nature is
owned by C. L. Owensby of Win
tarville.
Full Associated Press Service.
Canada, Argentine
Meat Unavailable
To U, S. Consumers
BY OVID MARTIN |
Associated Press Farm Writer
WASHINGTON, July 9—(&)—
Empty meat counters are causing
many Americans to turn their
eyes toward Canada and Argentina
and to wonder why the govern
ment doesn’t import supplies from
those meat~producing countries. *
Suggestions of this nature pour
in on American food officials. |
The latter reply that it is im
possible to obtain meats from
either country under the Allied
program for = coordinating pur
chases of the fighting nations.
Canada’s exportable surplus is
being turned over to the United
Kingdom and to liberated areas
in Europe.
Argentina’s exportable supply
likewise is earmarked largely for
the United Kingdom and the arm
ed forces of the Allied nations.
Brivish Sole Buyers
[ Early in the war, the British
and American governments agreed
[to make the British government
the sole purchaser of meats in
Argentina. This agreement took
into account the fact that before
the war the British were the prin
cipal buyer of Argentina’s export-‘
able supply.
The British already had pur
chasing agents in the South Amer
icdn country who knew the ropes,
so to speak. This country, on the
other hand, bought wvery little
Argentine meat. Sanitary regula
tions—designed, so the govern
‘ment said, to prevent importation
of the dread hoof-and-mouth di
sease—llimited imports of Argen
tine meats largely to canned beef.
Actually, such meat imported into
this country averaged far less
than - one -per cent of . .<domestic
production. o A
GI Use in Europe
The agreement included a pro
vision that a portion of the South
American canned beef obtained
by the British be turned over to
American and Canadian fighting
men in Europe. American canning
facilities were inadequate for both
military and civilian needs.
The British pay for the meat
obtained from Argentina. This
country reimburses the British for
the meat used by American armed
I forces. Lend-lease is not involved.
The decision to designate the
British as sole purchasing agent
of Argentine meats also stemred
from an Allied desire to prevent
cut-throat competition for the Ar
gentine supply. v
STAFF SGT. JOE
ADVENTURES IN
By VIRGINIA 7WO9DALL
Staff Sergeant Joe Burton has
peen taking his adventures in
double doses. For the Athens Ser
geant, serving as tail gunfrer on
a bomber, has been forced to
abandon his plane twice when
the Jerries became too active for
comfort.
His first experience at “hitting
the silk” came when he and his
crew were returning to their base
in England after a missioh near
Paris on June 7—the day after
D-Day. It was a moonless night
and they were therefore unablei
to detect the presence =of any
danger as they left the Channel
and headed for their base. As the
plane flew over East Anglia,
that dangér made itself known.‘
The Nazi planes had been flying in|
formation’ with the ' American
mission from the time they had
left the French coast. It was not
until the crew felt the impact of
¢ae Luftwaft planes’ attacks that‘
they became aware of the pre
sence of their “congenial com
panions.” |
Taken Into Private Home
Following Newton’s theory that
what, goes up, must come down,
they hastened to leave their fall
ing plane.. When Sgt. Burton nit
the ground, the shock knocked
him out for a wile. When he re-i
gained conscipusness, he foynd
himself flanked, not by angels
witia golden harps,as he might
have feared, but by a group of
angels with Brooklyn acents.
The Athenian was taken to a pri
‘vate home and thence to a hos
pital for recuperation.. He said
that two of the crew were lost
by injuries from that mission. .
. Sgt. Burton’s second dose of
)Nazi medicine came on Novem
ber 30, when the B-17 was on a
bombing mission over Leipzig.
The plane was caught in a deluge
of flak and the left wing was
burned off. For the second time in
the course of five months, the
young Athenian found himself
preparing to test that @aute for
“preciston and dependability”--
Athens, Ga., Monday, July 9, 1945
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tered it with gunfire. Survivers of the stricken Nip vessel cling te the rigging, awaiting rescue.
AP Investigation
Shows Germans
Execufed Reporfer
ROME, July 9—(#)—An investi—é
gation by The Associated Press in
dicated today almost beyond doubt
that Joseph Morton, 34-year-old
AP war correspondent, was ex
ecuted by the Germans on Jan.
24, 1945, after hiz capture in
Slovakia. d
Morton, whose enterprise and
daring won for him a distinguished
career as a war reporter in the
Mediterranean theater, had accom
‘panied a mission of 17 Americans
and British who went to assist
Slovak patriots-in a revolt- last
fall. -
) The entire group was taken
}prisoner at Banska Bystrica in
icentral Slovakia, 125 miles north
of Budapest, and apparently near
1y all were killed.
Lynn Heinzerling, veteran Asso
ciated Press correspondent who
had worked with Morton, went
into Slovakia several weeks ago
in an effort to determine Morton’s
fate. ‘
Heinzerling said upon his return
here that he was satisfied from‘
questioning German officials and
guards that Morton was executed
at a Nazi concentration camp at
Mauhausen, a small Austrian town
on the Danube ten miles southeast
(Continued on Page Two)
BURTON TAKES
DOUBLE DOSES
—praying fervently that it would
n’t turn stubborn on him in his
hour of need.
A Drifts Inte Germans
Briefly the parachute performed
its duty nobly and the Sergeant
drifted down into %ae midst of
the waiting Germans below. He
recalls that even a brass bana
couldn’t have made that recep
tion a cordial one. Sgt. Burton
grinned as he said, “As a matter
of fact they were kinda rough.”
Brutal might be a better word for
it. They weren’t even gentlemanly
about their brutality. As the de
fenseless airman stopped to remove
his flying boots, ne felt the toe of
a well made German boot.. Yes,
they kicked him, and it’s a good
bet that it took a lot of Southern
grit to keep from kicking back
—but ‘it was a 25-1 shot for the
Athenian, for e was surrounded
by just that many Nazis. -
In Leipzig, his captors kindly
bandaged his feot and held him
for interrogation. From there, he
was taken to Frankfurt for fur
their interrogation and five days
of solitary confinement.
The German interpreter who
spoke good English according
Burton, ftriea a few face
tious tricks to bend the Ath
enian into a congenial frame of
mind. Having learned that Sgt
Burton was a Georgian, the in
terpreter must have started read
ing up on the Cracker state. At
any rate, he told the Atfaenian
that he had once been through
Atlanta and had stayed _at the
‘Biltmore hotel and ‘wad found it
a very attractive place. When the
iGeorgian still didn’t defrost, the
interpreter began to talk about
lCoca-Cola, asking Burton if it
were not true that the Cuca-Cola
company was founded in Georgia.
He even went so far as to claim
that Asa Candler, founder of the
company, was a German because
Ihis name was spelled with a
K. Sgt. Burton said lae was high
ly amused at the man, for in the
first place, few Georg#ans /are
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——————
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS }
JAPAN — 50 Japanese planes
were destroyed or wrecked in a
series of attacks by Army, Navy
and Marine fliers. %
BORNEO — Australian infantry
advanced in the Pandansari re
finery area near Balikpapan.
PHILIPPINES — Enemy casual
ties rose to 423,236 as 3,824 addi
tional Japanese dead and 386
prisonérs were counted last week.
CHINA — Chinese headquarters
announced Japanese Marines who
W&lded southwest of Amoy were
beéing forced into retreat. CHinese
captured south guard pass on
Indo-China frontier. ’
S BURMA-—Japanese activity in
creased in Sittang river bend, 70
miles northeast of Rangoon.
Hopkins, Nelson,
Aides To FDR,
Assume New Rules
NEW YORK, July 9—(AP)—
Harry L. Hopkins, for 12 years a
key government figure and Pres
idential adviser, Friday stepped
into a new diplomatic role — as
impartial chairman of the New
York wdmen’s coat-and-suit .in
dustry. :
His appointment to the post
was announced by David Dubin
sky, president of the Interna
tional Ladies Garment Workers
industry, who said Hopkins would
assume his new duties after a
few weeks’ rest.
As impartial chairman, Hop
kins will preside over labor
management contracts, arbitrate
disputes, settle industrial prob
lems and generally promote har
mony in the gigantic $500,000,-
000-a-year industry.
Resignied Public Post
Hopkins, a close personal friend
of the late President Roosevelt,
resigned his $15,000-a-year ad
visers’ post to President Truman
last Tuesday on grounds of ill
health.
Union officers reported his new
salary would be “in the neigh
borhood” of $25,000 annually.
He will succeed former Mayor
James J. Walker as impartial
chairman. The industry has 50,000
employers, 1,300 employers and
claims 80 percent of the national
coat and suit output.
Donald Nelson, former War
Production Board chairman and
special Presidential representa
tive, is back at his ¢ld job of
merchandising after five years in
government service. This time
he’s not selling overalls and bird
seed for Sears Roebuck, but-films
for the Society of Independent
Motion Picture Producers.
Nelson said in an interview
that his chief duty as president
of 'the Society will be to get bet-
(Continued on Page Three.)
International Head
Of Kiwanis Is
Club Guest Tuesday
Hamilton Holt, president of Ki
wanis International, will be the
featured speaker at the regular
weekly luncheon meeting of Ki
wanians here Tuesday.
The meeting will be held in
the Holman Hotel and wijl start
at 1:30 o'clock.
Mr. Holt, a resident of Macon,
has long been a leader in the
Kiwanis organization, having
served as club, division and state
officer in Georgia and as Inter
national treasurer before being
elevated to the highest office in
the entire organization.
Senate Commitiee
Begins Hearings l
g s
On Peace Charfer
WASHINGTON, July 9—(AP)
—Edward R. Stettinius, jr., told
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today that the United‘
Nations charter offers ‘“a truly es-l
fective instrument for lasting
peace..” ‘
The silver-haired former Sec.
of State testified as the first wit
ness as the 6HO-nation agreéement
reached at San Francisco started
‘o{ficially through the eSnate amid
indications it may be radified
'without amendment oOr reserva
tion. :
’ Wilkie Spirit Recalled .
Speaking from prepared manu
deript in a large caucus room
where tue late Wendell L. Wilkie
once expounded Lis one-world
views, Stettinius declared:
“] believe the five majér na
tions proved at San Francisco be
yond the shadow of any doubt
that they can work successfully
and in unity with each other and
wita the other United Nations
under this charter.”
No country has a greater stake,
he continued, then A%ie United
States in a speedy beginning upon
the task of realizing in fact the
promise which %ie United Na
tions charter offers to the world.”
The former secretary, desig
nated by President Truman as
the American representtative on
the proposed world security coun
cil, defended the voting procedure
under which %e United States,
Great Britain, Russia, France
and China—plus two small na
tion members—must approve be
fore the council can take positive
action to settle intrenational dis
putes.
Practical Plan
“These nations possess most of
the military and industrial re
sources of the warld,” he asserted.
“They have to bear tae principal
resposjbilidy for ) majntainihg
peace in the foréseeable future
The provisions of membership re
cognize this inescapable fact.
“I submit that these five na
tions, possessing most of the
world’s power to break a preserve
; (Continued on Page Three)
TRUMAN ENROUTE TO
BIG THREE MEET
WASHINGTON, July 9—
President Truman is enroute
today to Europe for the Big
Three meeting with Prime
Minister Churchill and - Pre
mier Stalin.
The President left Newport
News by ship Saturday. Ac
companying him was a staff of
advisers including Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes.
The Big Three meeting will
be held in the Potsdam area
of Berlin.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and warm tonight
and Tuesday with scattered
showers.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and rather warm tonight and
Tuesday. Scattered showers in
north portion.
TEMPERATURE
Wit o BB
Toshest ... 00000000 8
Mot ... iiviiimeis e B 8
Nowial . . oiihitiv. vl B 9
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ........ .00
Total sinee July 1 ... 8
Deficit since July 1 ........ 1.35
Average July rainfall ...... 5.13
Total since January 1 .....26.99
Deficit since January 1 ..... .1l
A.B.C. Paper - Single Copy, 3¢ — 5¢ Sunday
50 Nip Planes Wrecked
In Invasion Preparation
5Y LEONARD MILLIMAN
A ‘“‘considerable number” of American submarines
have moved into waters around Japan, Tokyo report
ed today, joining thousands of daily raiding planes in
strangling Nippon and preparing the way for invas
ion.
Chinese claimed they captured the gateway to
Indo-China, posing a similar threat of strangulation
and conquest to 200,000 Nipponese ground forces in
southeast Asia, already cut off and threatened by
British troops mopping up in southeast Asia and Aus
tralians overrunning Borneo’s oil fields. ’
Deadlock In Berlin
Unsolved: British,
Yanks May Leave
BY DANIEL DeLUCE
BERLIN, July 9 —(AP)— The
inter-Allied deadiock over the!
government of Berlin continued
unbroken today as high diplomats
began arriving for the impending
Big Three meeting. ‘
Averell Harrimon, U. S. ambas
sador to Moscow, is to land at the
Tempelhof airdrome this after
noon and take quarters near the
“little white house” prepared for
President Truman in the heavily
guarded Potsdam area.
A procession of American limou
sines started regular service from
the airdrome to Potsdam, carrying
distinguished visitors. |
Prepare for Conference
. American Army signal experts
were stringing a thick network of
cables and wires by which Mr.
Truman will be din touch wx;g
Washington while he confers wi
Generalissimo Stalin and Prime
Minister Churchill.
Guards from Elite Red Army
regiments were increased through
out the Potsdam area. A heavy
sprinkling of American and British
sentries were in the area.
The Berlin governmental @m
passe over the issue of supplying
food and fuel for the districts oc~
cupied by -the Americans and
British still was unsettled and the
possibility increased that the Big
Three might have to resolve it.
Big Three May Decide |
Col. Frank Howley, chief of the
military government of the United
States occupation z»ne, declared
last night he expects the major
powers to decide within a few
days on an overall plan of govern
(Continued On rage ‘ihree)
ARNALL SEES ERA OF “PROSPERITY”
USHERED IN BY NEW CONSTITUTION
ATLANTA, July 9.— (AP) —
The new state Constitution, to be
voted on August 7, is preparation
for “a new era of prosperity,
happiness, tranquility and prog
ress in our state,” Governor Ellis
Arnall said today.
Arnall in an address to a meet
ing of Atlanta civic groups that
was broadcast by Radio Station
WSB, began a month-long cam
paign for ratification of the new
Constitution in which state offi
cials and employes, political and
civic leaders will take part. |
“I believe that, if you give it an
attentive perusal, you will con-!
vince yourself that it-is the in
strument through which Georgia
will obtain . . . more efficient and
economical and useful govern
ment, and government closer to
the people,” Arnall said.
Postwar Plans
“In Georgia, we have endeav
ored to prepare for the postwar
period as intelligently as possi
ble,” he said, citing that more
htan half of the state revenues,‘
not reserved for payment of debt,
had been spent for education,]
that surveys had been made for
development of ports, navigable
streams and hydro-electric pow
er, that state debts had been de
creased.
“We have endeavored to pay
Geargia’s large accumulated debt,
which stood at $35,000,000 when
I took office and which will be
extinguished by June 30, 1946.
We hope to accumulate a work
ing reserve to meet emergency
needs for public works by that
date also.
“The new Constitution is part
of an effort to have Georgia pre
pared for the inevitable s)xanges
that will come with the end of the
v
Arnall, outlining the history of
Georgia’s seven previous Consti
tutions, briefly sketched the story
of how the proposed new one was
drafted.
“Controversial subject matter,
Tokyo Deseription
Tokyo reported nearly 200 U.
S. fighters, bombers and Super
forts bombed, rocketed, strafed
and scouted widely separated
targets in Japan today. Enemy
propagandists described the at
tacks as part of an American “at
tempt to raze the Japanese main
land thoroughly before invasion”
and warned that this is only the
beginning. Really heavy raids,
Tokyo said, will follow the rainy
season which is just starting.
Submarine attacks, coupled
with daily mine-laying sorties by
B-295, were described as an at
tempt to blockade the Japanese
mainland. Tokyo claimed seven
submarines have been sunk in
waters close to the homeland in
the past five weeks.
Extent of Nippon’s fears was
indicated in the most direct semi
official bid yet made for peace.
Kichisaburo - Nomura, ambassador
to Washington at the time of
Pearl Harbor, made it, saying the
Allied demand for unconditional
surrender was costing additional
Allied lives. -
Sink Jap Ships
Week-end Allied communiques
nanounced 40 more Nipponese
'ships and small craft were sunk
ar damaged, and 64 enemy planes
destroyed, including the first ag
gressive fighters encountered over
the enemy homeland in more
than a month,
The Allies acknowledged that
Japanese kamikaze suicide plane
attacks damaged three British
aircraft carriers, and Nipponese
marine assault units landed on
the East China *“invasion coast”
near Amoy.
Chungking claimed heavy cas
ualties were inflicted on Japanese
marines who landed southwest of
Amoy, on the China coast oppo
site Formosa. The invaders were
reportedly driven 30 miles south
of their beachheads. The coast~
line for 400 miles northeast of
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some of it of importance, was
‘eliminated in a desire to submt
only those reforms upon which
there was complete harmony
‘among the people of Georgia,” he
‘said. “The document finally pre«
pared, while retaining the vener
able traditions of Georgia’s insti
‘tutions, is a document that
breathes a modern spirit.
.~ “The historic Bill of Rights,
and the magnificent preamble to
'the Constitution, were retained.
'The reforms that have been writ
ten into the new document are in
harmony with their spirit.”
Listing salient points of the
new Constitution, Arnall said
“the first group of reforms deals
with government itself.” He said
it provides that no future Con
stitution may be adopted without
submission to a vote of the elec
torate, forbids a governor the
power -to veto constitutional
amendments, eliminates “favorit
ism in taxpaying ... to special
corporate interests,” preserves
penal systems reforms.
Prevent Squandering
Figcal provisions of the new
Constitution, Arnall said, “will
prevent the sorry spectacle of dic-~
tatorship and the disbursing of
public funds without a valid ap
propriation. . . . The new Con
stitution has put an effective
lock’ on the treasury door, and
has turned the keys over to the
chosen representatives of the peo
ple of Georgia.
“The new finahce sections sup
ply the reason why certain peo
ple and certain interests do not
like the Constitution. Their oppo
sition is its best indorsement.”
Arnall said the new Constitu
tion “has provided for home
rule.”” He described the provision
that the legislature submit alter
native forms of local government
for adoption by local voters as
“the basic home rule section.”
“Candidly, it is what the oppo
nents of the new Constitution are
unhappy about,” he added. :