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Council May Accept County's
Park Ofter Without Delay;
More Citizens Urging Action
Japan s Polential
Irouble Maker
0f Future: Analyst
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Is it necessary for the Allies
to enforce uncont®tional surren
der on Japan? 1o
That question naturally arises
from the statement by Nippon's
Admiral Kichisaburo Npmuru
that our policy of upcondlti‘gnal
su-render is only costing us hlgh—
er casualties. Nomura( who in
cidentally seems to be one of the
few Jap admirals that haven't
committed hara-kiri for the hon
or of the Mikado) presumably is
tishing for easier peace condi
tions—that, and trying to cause
discord among the Allies. It’'s a
safe bet that Japan would leap
at terms which would permit her
to salvage any of her war-loot.
%erman Parallel
Apropos of this great ' prob
lem there |has been running
through my mind like a theme
song a phrase which came oug’ of
Berlin a week ago in a news dis
patch, Daniel De Luce, an Asso
ciateg P.ess correspondent, in
reporting the entrance of Amer
ican troops into the German cap
ital, wrote this graphic line:
“There were tears of joy and
cries of 'God be thanked” from
some Berliners, but othes were
silent and sullen.” :
Let's not forget that—‘put
others were silent and sullen.”
It means that these “others”
aren’t repentent., They . woulid
provide fertile soil for tillage by
another Hitler, if we hadn’t com
pelled unconditional su-render
and thereby made sure®that we
could complete the task of knock
ing militarism out us Germany.
Prussiap militarism is a terri
ble evil, but it probably isn't sc
deeply inb-ed as'is the Japanese
brand. Nippon’s«Bavage glotijiigafil
tion of war runs persistently
through the long centuries of ner
histoy. The soldier always has
been the hero of the island em
pire.
Asiatic . Ambitiong
But there’s another and even
more important aspect of the
situation. This Japanese war of
aggression is founded on more
thap the mere desire to increase
the Mikado’s domains and influ
ence. Underlying it is the devil
ish design of forming 2 powerful
Asiatic bloc of nations whicn
would be pitted in conflict
against the western world. There
we have the maNings of the ra
cia] conflict which even the mil
itaristir olg Kaiser of Germany
warned the wdrld to beware as
it would the devil.
There is evidence that even
recently the Japanese militarists,
realizing that they are losing
this war, have been _ plotting
another assault tweénty-five years
hence. Were they permitted 1o
carry out this scheme, they would
be a far more formidable enemy
next time thap they are now.
Japan has learned much about
modern war from her disas
trous contact with the western
bowers. Her operations in many
respects have been crude as com
pared with the methods which
have been carried against her
from out of the west. But they
won’t be crude next time.
Thus if there is any lesson
which stands out in our war
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Seventh Bond Drive
Exceeds All Others
In Volume Of Sales
(AP}
WASHINGTON, July 11.—(A
—The $26,313,000,000 Seve}:‘itsl}
War Loan has gone down in e
tory as the biggest fimancing oap; |
eration of this or any other w d]
There will be a{xother l;‘onS
drive this year, starting per .ags
in November. . But future dmvne
are not likely to equal the o {
Just ended. |
Final figures were announigcé
last night by Shecretary of |
Treasury Morgenthau.
Althoflgh sales of E-Bonds filé
$24,000,000 short of making t )
$4,000,000,000 quota, the Amerl;
¢an people reached 99.4 percer;t
of their goal in those low-co
securi lles, %
Nev& erecords were set in each
Category of the drive. ~Here are
the statisticg:
Total sales, $36,313,000,9005.
Quota, $14,000,000,000.. Prevxoun
record, $21,621,000,000 in the 6t
War Loan,
Individual sales, $8,681,000,_000.
Quota, $7,000,000,000. Prevnpltlfi
Tecord, $6,351,000,000 in the Fif
War Loan,
E-Bond sales, $3,976,000,000
(included in the individual to_t.al).
Quota, $4,000,000,000. : Prewou;
‘ecord, $3,187,000,000 in the 4t
War Loan.
Corporate sales, $17,632,000,000.
Quota, $7,000,000,000. Previous
Tecord, $15,739,000,000.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
A movement began de
veloping in City Council
yesterday to accept with
out delay the county’s of
fer to give the city the
Fairhaven property of 54
acres as a Memorial Park
in honor of servicemen
and women of Clarke
county. .
According to reports of various
citizens interested in the prompt
acceptance of the county’s offer
without “looking a gift horse in the
mouth,” a resolution seiting up a
Memorial Park Commission of
three outstanding citizens and pro
viding for acceptance of the offer
tonight may be adopted unani
mously.
Will Urge Acceptance
Councilman D. E. Williams said
today he will change his resolu
tion creating a Memorial Park
Commission for the purpose of
studying the county’s offer so as
to ‘accept the offer tonight. “I
planned. to introduce the original
resolution in order not to allow
the offer to slip by the board. But
after talking with several Council
men, they are of the opinion that
Mayor Cites Ability
Of Proposed Park
Commission For City
Expressing the hope the
City Council tonight will ac~
cept the county’s offer for the
City to develop the Fairhaven
property into a Memorial Park
Mayor Bob McWhorter said
today:
“The members of the pro
posed Memorial Park Com
mission are outstanding busi
nessmen. All three represent
our banking interests, con
servators of the bulk of the
wealth of the community. All
three are successful citizens.
One of them is an able lawyer.
Another is ‘a former mayor
and legislator. We can impose
this responsibility upon them
with the assurance it will be
carried out successfully.
“Within the last few days
we have read in the news
paper expressions from citi
zens residing in every part of
Athens, urging acceptance of
this offer. These statements of
citizens, men and women. ap
proving the park proposal are
made by the ministers of our
churches,, by representatives
of the schools and the Uni
versity, including the chancel
lor, by heads of our banks, the
legal profession, the judges of
our courts, largest industrial
concerns, of our largest mer
cantile establishments and by
smaller taxpayers who recog
nize the need for a large pub
lic park. It is almost unani
mous.” &
a majority will want to accept the
offer tonight at the July Council
meeting. And I think myself that
the offer should be promptly ac
cepted, leaving it to the proposed
Park Commission to make 2
thorough study of the matter. If
the Commissioners named in my
resolution think, after investiga
tion, that it is impossible to de
velop Fairhaven into a park, I am
sure they will tell the people and
the Council. We -can then inform
the County Commissioners of that
and they will dispose of the prop
erty in another manner.”
- The Commissioners proposed in
Councilman Williams’ resolution
are: A. G. Dudley, chairman; C.
lA. Trussell and Max Michael.
Chancellor S. V. Sanford, who
is a recognized authority on how
to get federal money for public
purposes, has suggested that the
Park Commission be incorporated
so that federal and state funds wll
be available to it and so as to
accept gifts from individuals.
Councilman W. R. Bedgood to
day declared: “When I learned of
the county’s offer I wanted a call
ed meeting of Council at once to
accept it without delay. But know
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FROM AN ATHENS MINISTER
July 10, 1945,
The Banner-Herald, !
Athens, Ga. "
Dear Sirs:
There are wonderful possibilities for the youth of Athens, not
only of this generation but those yet to come, in the proposed
Memorial Park with its facilities.
Young people are going some place and I believe the reason
they go to so many undesirable places is nothing better is offered
them by adults or the City government. Those to whom I have
talked say they much prefer a high type of recreation and would
certainly frequent those places if such were available. It is my
conviction this is the ministry which the church should render.
Since the church is failing in this so completely, the second best
thing is for the City to make those things possible for the youth.
A life time of observation has convinced me city and civic
organizations, along with .the churches, sponsor many worthwhile
projects but they soon let them die. Tne chief reason is mismanage
ment or politics. If the high ideals which have been set forth in
the publicity concerning this park are sincerely followed, the
juvenile delinquency problem of tomorrow will be a minor factor
in this section. 1
" Yours truly, s
T. R. HARVILL,
Pastor Prince Avenue Baptist Church.
Full Associated Press Service. Athens, Ga., Wednesday, July 11,1945,
Cruiser Augusta
Carrying Truman
To Big Three Meet
BY ERNEST B. VACCARO
ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA,
July 11—(4?)—Bristling with guns,
this historic warship carried Presi
dent Truman steadily closer today
to his first Big Three meeting on
the outskirts of Berlin. ;
Mr. Truman holds high hopes
his Potsdam talks with Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stalin not only will chart the
course of lasting European peace
but speed an Allied victory over
Japan as well.
A two-cruiser task force is car
rying the Chief Executive and his
party across the Atlantic.
As the ships reached mid-ocean
yvesterday, Mr. Truman approved
the first direct shipboard report
on his voyage, which up to that
point had been through waters as
calm as the Missouri river. Cor
respondents of the three news
services and a representative of
the radio networks are making
the trip with ' the presidential
party.
Up no later than 6 a. m. every
iday JMr. Truman wears a sporty
cap cocked on the side of his head
and obviously is enjoying himself.
'He is suntanned and looks as fit
as an athlete. A
Sailed Saturday
Leaving Washington last Friday
night, the party sailed Saturday
from Newport News, Va.
In the group—smallest staff ever
to accompany a President to such
a meeting—are Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, Fleet Admiral
William D. Leahy, the President’s
personal chief of staff, and his
militdry and naval aides, Brig.
Gen. Hatrry H. Vaughan, and Capt.
James K. Vardaman.
' Also in the party are Press
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Secretary Charles G. Ross, H.
Freeman Matthews, {director of
the State Department’s Office of
European Affairs; Charles E. Boh
len, the Department’s expert on
Russia; Benjamin V. Cohen of
Byrnes’ staff and Capt. Alphonse
McMahon, a naval surgeon assign
ed to look after the health of the
travelers. R e
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the party will fly to Potsdam,
where it is understood they will
be met by Army Chief of Staff
George C. Marshall, Fleet Admiral
Ernest J. King, chief of naval
operations, and possibly Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the
Army’s Air Forces. Joseph E.
Davies, a special presidential
emissary, and other State, War
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Teamed up again in delivering a devastating 1,000 plane attack on the Tokyo area are Admiral
William F. Halsey (right) and Vice Admiral John S. MeCain, (left) carrier task force commander,
shown talking over strategy in a stateroom of Halsey’s flagship during an ecarlier attack. The
mightiest naval task force moved to withilh 200 miles of the Japanese capital to launch the new
attack. + —U. S. Navy Photo.
Shortage Of Feed
Beclouds Hope
For More Meals
WASHINGTON, July 11—(AP)
—The possibility of anothar
livestock feed shortage arose to
day to threaten government
plans for expanding meat and
poultry output in 1946.
In its July report on crop
prospeeis, the Agriculture le
partment said that, due to unfa
vorable weather and shortages
of labor and materials, this year's
production of feed graing may be
the smallest since 1941,
This year’s production will
form next year’'s livestock feed
supply. And that supply will
have to be larger than now’ in
dicateq if more hogs are so be
raised and fattened, if beef cat
tle are to be fed to heavier
weights, and if poultry and egg
production are to' be increased.
Livestock production declined
last year due largely to a short
feed supply and to hi%h feed
costs in. relation to livestock
prices.
Unfavorable Outlook
The unfavorable feed girain
outlook is expected 1o lead Sce
cretary of Agriculture Andeison
to postpone for another 30 days
at least, decisions on proposals to
estabilsh greater finaicial incen
tiveg for livestock production.
The next officia] report on crop
prospects will be issued August
10. :
Those proposals -~ advanced
by the House Food Investigating
Committee which Andersin
headed before -he moved to the
Agriculture Department July 1--
include:
1. An increase in the #og sup
port price from sl3 to $14.50 per
hundreq pounds, Chicugo basis,
and
2. Establishment of a wider
margin between prices of lower
grade, unfattened bheef cattle
and higher grade, faitened cat
tle. This is designed to eéncour
age feeding lower grade cattle
to heavier weight.
A short feed grain crop might
well result in more meat this
winter but smaller supplies in
1946 than now hoped for. This
could develop by torcing heavy
marketing of lean meat animals
this fall and winter.
May Use Wheat
It might be possib.e to use a
large amount of what to supple
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VISUALIZING YOUTH'S ADVANTAGE,
STUDENT ASKS INDUSTRY COUNSEL
BY JOE CONKLE
“America offers more jobs andi
more opportunity today than ever
before in her history,” Jeff New-!
bern, a 20-year-old Navy veteran
and senior at the University told
a banquet gathering of 200 busi
nessmen, civic leaders, faculty
members and students last night
at the closing session of the Stu
dent-Industry Conference which
was held here yesterday. .
Business is “increasingly con
cerned with fitting the right man
to the right job, and in maintain
ling a just and enlightened wage
‘policy” Newbern pointed out. “It
is when the young man assumes
[an attitude of getting, rather than
giving, of ‘what can you do for
}me?’ rather than ‘What can I do
'for you’ that trouble descends
upon us.”
Newbern deplored the fact that
long years of training is “going
down the drain” under the present
system of education, and asked
the businessmen present if “‘some
licy could be worked out be
tween our schools and industry
through which they would be able
ESTABLISHED 1833,
WAR ROUNDUP
By The Associated Press
JAPAN—ISO fighter planes rip
sawed over southern Japan's
homeland while Radio Tokyo an
nounced that the Allied task force
which launched 1,200 carrier
planes yesterday withdrew to the
south. Preliminary reports show
ed that 154 Japanese planes were
destroyed or damaged yesterday.
" BORNEO—Capture of the great
oil bay and fleet anchorage of
Balikpapan completed; Aussies
seized all of Pandansari refinery
area.
BURMA — Counter - attacking
Japanese pressed retreating Brit
ish in Lower Sittang river bend,
90 xgi‘lgs northeast of Rangoon.
CHINA —Chinese isolated Kan
shein, former U. S. air: base, 200
miles north of Hong Kong and
lanched attack against enemy
beachheads on China’s southeast
“invasion’” coast below Amoy.
Rises In Prices
0f Clothing Pose
Inflation Threat
WASHINGTON, July 11.—(AP)
—James F. Brownlee, OPA Dep
uty Price Administrator, said to
day that unless the rise in cloth
ing prices is halted and reversed
“we shall not be able to hold the
line.”
Clothing items are the only im
portant sections of the cost of
living index “which has had a
continued, steady rise,” Brownlee
said in a letter to Senator Young
(R.-N.D.), adding:
“That rise has amounted to
more than 12 percent in 22
months.”
Brownlee wrote that if the
trend is not halted “the wvicious
spiral of increasing prices will
lead us swiftly and surely to in
flation.”
Many low and medium priced
items are no longer available, he
said, and that makes the actual
cost to consumers greater than
indicated by the index.
“As if this did not indicate
trouble enough, it appears that
we may have, from now until the
end of the war, even less yarn
available for civilian consump
tion, due in large part to increas
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to advise how much general edu
cation and how much specializa
tion will best fit students for
careers in respective industries.”
In answer to Newbern, Robert
E. Lee Hill, executive secretary
of the Misseuri Bankers’ Associa
tion, chairman of the public rela
tions committee of the University
of Missouri, and past president
of Rotary International, spoke for
the business world. The topic of
his address was “Opportunity In
Our Business World.” He attempt
ed to show that America is still
a land of unlimited opportunity
}for the young man and woman
with’vision and integrity. “Oppor
tunity comes to those who make
it,” he said.
The fundamental things which
brought America and Americans
to their ptesent statue will con
tinue to make us great, added Mr.
Hill. “The homé, the school and
the church, combined with an in
herent sense of thrift and the
blessings of our. democratic form
of government are fundamentals
which make for the finest citizen
(Continued on page five.)
Pole Army General
Pledges Support
To Exiled Regime
By TOM OCHILTREE
Associated Press Staff Writer
The potentially grave situation
confronting the British in determ
ining the future of Polish troops
under their operational command
was underscored today by an an
nouncement that a Polish general
in the field had pledged his con
tinued allegiance to the Polish
exiled regime in London.
The announcement - from the
London headquarters of the Pol
ish armed forces abroad gquoted
General Klemens Rudnicki, com
mander of the First Polish Ar
'mored Division, as. telling his men
'in an order of the day: “We shall
always remain faithful to our
soldier’s ‘oath and continue obe
dience ot the highest commander
of our armed forces, President
Wiladyslaw Raczkiewicz.”
While voicing allegiance to
Faczkiewicz, Rudnicki declared
that he and his troops would con
tinue to carry out the task as
signed to in Germany.
Shall Do Duty
“We shall long for our coun
try,” he said, “but we shall wait
patiently. Our task as a division
of occupation on German soil,
which was trampled by us, has
been assigned to us by our sup
erior authorities, and we shall
carry out this task loyally and
honestly.”
The British Foreign Office de
clined to comment immediately
upon Rudnicki’s order of the day,
in which he informed his troops
that Britain and the United
States had withdrawn recognition
from “the legal government of
the Polish republic.” Rudnicki’s
stftements, however, underscored
the potentially grave situation
now confronting the British in
determining -the future of the
Polish armed forces under their
operational command.
The First Polish Armored Div
ision now is serving with British
forces in the occupation of Ger
many. Rudnicki’s statement raises
the question of whether the Brit
ish and American governments
can gontinue to support on for
eign soil an armed force directed
by officers, many of whom are
outspokenly antagonistic to the
new’ Warsaw government, with
out straining relations with ‘War
saw and Moséow.
Rudnicki was quoted as telling
his men:
“We shall never give up the
fight for the freedom of Polani
and of other countries deprived
of freedom in accordance with
our traditional motto — for your
freedom and ours. And in this
fight we shall not remain alone.
Soldiers, this is our attitude and
our will. -
Want Right, Not Might (
“We shall return to the Poland |
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY ‘
Considerable cloudiness and }
slightly cooler tonight. Thurs
day partly cloudy with moder
ate temperature. |
GEORGIA — Considerable
cloudiness and a little cooler
over north portion tonight.
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tomorrow with scatter
.ed showers in afternoon.
. TEMPERATURE
Highest .. .hi.diciivaaia 94
foawmest vl sGO
Maekh o woivsen i L B 8
WOPHNBL i i s b s W
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ........ .20
Total since July 1 ......... .50
Deficit since July 1 ........ 1.33
Average July rainfall ...... 5.13
Total since January 1 .....27.35
Deficit since January 1 .... , .09
A.B.C. Paper - Single Copy, 3¢ — 5¢ Sunday
Invasic.”, Hery Tokyo
Foresees INew Action
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN .
Associatea Press War Editor
Enemy broadcasts said today the mighty U. S, Third Fleet withdrew
from Japanese home walters after sending 1,200 carrier planes swarm
ing over Tokyo airdromes for 12 hours yesterday, but warned that
the raiders might return at any moment. :
Tokyo said, “about 150" OKi
nawa-based fighters carried on the
unremitting air attack today,
sweeping suicide air dromes on
Kyushu Island of southern Japan.
The Mikado’s air force made no
announced attack on the Third
Fleet's Task Force 38 but for the
first time in months hurled a
handful of interceptors against the
U. S. 14th Air Force ranging over
Asia.
Chinese Advance
Chinese troops making the only
substantial ground gains of the
war occupied Sincheng, former
14th USAAF base roughly 200
miles north of Canton and drove
toward Kanhsien, another former
American air base. Five airdromes
have now been retaken by the re
»surgent Chinese.
ile Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
was silent on Today's operations
of Task Force 38, Tokyo reports
said American warships withdrew
“for some distance to the south.”
But the Japanese admitted the
‘task force is still in the seas in
‘the vicinity of our homeland” and
defenders were ‘“on the alert
against a possible follow-up raid.”
Nipponese propagandists claim-~
ed 26 carrier aircraft were shot
down by interceptors yesterday
and asserted “almost no damages”
were inflicted on the more than
70 airdromes bombed and strafed.
154 Planes Hit
Preliminary reports from the
task force said the attack account
ed for at least 154 planes, includ
ing 72 definitely destroyed. This
covered only the first six hours
of the attack. Only two of the
enemy planes were in the air, both
reconnaissance planes scouting the
daring American fleet.
Other American air units hit
41 small Nipponese ocean going
vessels from Japan to Java, and
23 river craft in Java. The bulk
of these 64 vessels were damaged.
. Admiral Nimitz - promised that
“strong United States air forces”
based on conguered islands “with
in effective striking distance of
Japan,” will continue. to hammer
enemy shipping and defenses
“preparatory to further amphi
bious assaults.”
McArthur Command
Simultaneously, he announced
Gen. Douglas MacArthur has as
sumed command of all Army air'
forces based on Okinawa, inciden
tal to regrouping American air
power in the western Pacific “for
\greater operating efficiency.”
~ Four different air commands are
now hammering at Japan. The at
tacks are coordinated but each
command issues its own report,
making it difficult to gain a clear
picture of simultaneous action. -
Yesterday’s action included the
carrier sweep over Tokyo, suc
cessful B-29 raids on four cities
and a refinery producing aviation
gasoline, a fighter sweep from Iwo
Jima over Kobe airdronies and
shipping which aestroyed or dam
aged 19 planes and 25 vessels.
There was no report from Mac-
Arthur’s air forces for the day.
Tokyo Rationalizes
Tokyo conceded American air
forces held supremacy over the
homeland, but commented “mas
tery of the air is not an absolute
!factor" in deciding the result of an
|invasion.
A current rumor in the Philip
pines has it that a lone Japanese
plane rescued Gen. - Tomoyuki
Yamashita, supreme Nipponese
commander in the islands who
once boasted he would make Mac-
Arthur surrender.
MacArthur reported Australian
troops under his command made
two new landings in the Balik
papan Bay area of southeastern
Borneo completing our control of
the Balikpapan shore arca. Other
Aussies advanced a mile toward
flaming oil fields and beat off two
night inflitration attacks.
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« HAMILTON HOLT @
HOME
Rankin’s proposal
To Give Velerans
§1,040 Rejected
WASHINGTON, July 11—(&)—
A revised GI Bill of Rights, with a
servicemeri’s bonus provision dis~
carded, awaited final approval to
day of the House Veterans Com
mittee.
It makes no major changes in
the loan, education, and job pro
visions of the original over-aill
veterans benefits measure but is
intended to overcome difficulties
that have developed during the
bill’s first year of operation,
One-Sided Vote
Stricken out by a one-sided
committee vote was Chairman
Rankin’s proposal to pay every
veteran with 90 or more days of
honorable service an outright
bonus of $1,040. This is the sanl}fi
amount provided in the GI B
for ex-servicemen unable to ob
tain jobs.
The Mississippi Democrat offer
ed the proposal to offset what he
said was an encouragement to
idleness in the original bill's pro
vision for S2O-a~week jobless pay
ments for one year. His plan call
ed for the S2O weekly payments
to every veteran, employed or
unemployed.
Rankin told reporters the com
mittee action should not be con
strued as a definite rebuff for ad
justed compensation proposals.
Major changes approved tenta
tively by the committee are de
signed to simplify procedure by
which veterans may obtain gov
ernment-guaranteed loans and to
liberalize the vocational education
section of the original legislation.
The changes resulted from com
plaints to the committee that “red
tape” was making it dificult for
veterans to avail themselves of the
law’s benefits.
.~ Second Rebuff
| Rejetion of the bonus plan was
Rankin’s second rebuff in the com
mittee in one day. Earlier, a ma
jority of the committee issued a
“‘minority report” opposing legis
lation approved last Friday to
waive “closed shop” restrictions in
labor-management contracts in the
cases of veterans seeking jobs.
The situation in which 11 mem
bers of the 21 member group
found themselves in minority re
sulted, they said, from many ab
sences at last ‘week’s meeting at
which the legislation drafted by
Rankin was considered,
Athenian’s Brother
Dies Tuesday
At Home In Homer
Many friends qf J. K. Caudelli,
of this city, will regret to learn
of the death in Homer, Ga.,
Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock of
his brother, F. L. Caudell. Mr.
Caudell was 59 years old and was
ill six weeks.
Services are to be conducted
Thursday afternoon from Dama
cus Baptist church. In addition
to his brother here, Mr. Caudell
is survived by his wife, a daugh--
ter, Mrs. J. B. Coffee, Banks
county; another brothe:, P. (.
Caudell, Banks county, and his
father, P. L. Caudell, also =of
Banks county.
NAME COLBERT POST
MASTER
WASHINGTON, July 11—(AP)
—The Senate has approved the
following nominations for post
mastership in Georgia: Emma 1..
Slater, Brooklet; Myron R. Leard,
Colbert; Zelan T. Wills, Smyina.
Hamilton - Holt, newiy elected
international president of the
Wiwanis Club, told Athens
Wiwanians yesterday at their
regular weekly meeting that the
people of the United States have
a triple challenge before them
today; to win the war, to win
the peace, and to secure the fu
ture.
Addressing a Kiwanis club for
the first time since his election
to the club’s highest office, Mr.
Holt admonished his listeners
that the United Stales and her
Allies must wsstrive harder han
ever now that Germany. is de
feated to bring Japan to uncon
ditional surrender and the war
to an end.
But that is only the beginning,
he said, adding that il is a pri
mary duty of this country o
suppoirt the blueprint of peace
recently drawn up by represen
tatives of the United Nations at
the San Francisco conference.
The third challenge we face,
Mr. Holt pointed out, is to pre
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