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Eyewitness Reports Two Yugoslav Fighters
Jeliberately Shot Down U. 5. Transport
Poland Attacks
ffaly’s Stand l
PARIS, Aug, 20 — (AP) —
Puland urged a t'eace Confer
ence. Commiittee teday to reject
as “completely unfounded” an
Italian declaration taat Ttaly
Lad not been at war with all the
21 conference nations, notably
Poland, Belgium, the Nether
lands and Czecheslovakia.
“Poland was at war with
lialy,” said a\ Polish delezate.
“Polish soldiers fought' in Norta
Africa and Itdly. Polish soldievs
vere killed by IMalian buallets.
Was this a state of war or a state
of peace?” '
Belgium, Yugoslavia and the
Netherlands likewise challengad
the Italian claim, which wasl
rresented im a proposed amend
rient to tae preamble of the ital
irn treatv taken up by the Ital
iar. political and territorial com
mwittee. Jtaly . suggested that al
datement in the vreamble that
Italy was at war *with all” Al-?
llea powers be altered to read |
“come” of the conference nations.
The memorandum - ferniticized
the omission of any reference ‘o
what it ecalled “the aetive role
rlaved bv tae Italian neonle” in
overthrowing Mussolini’'s re
gime.
Dreaded DDT Now Has Rival That
Not Only Kills But Also Repels
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—(AP)—DDT has a rival that nq,g
only kills but repels. ;
The new substartee, dlready dvailable to the fly-swatting pub
lic, is called “NMRI 448." It was the 448th of approximately
3,000 compounds tested by the Navy’s Medical Research Insti
tute (NMRI) during its wartime fight gaainst mosquitoes and
other insect pests.
It was synthesized by Lieutenant Commander Michael Pijoan
who told a reporter it is effective against mosquitoes, house
flies, sand flies, chiggers, bedbiys and “silverfish.”
As a repellent, he said, “it is six times more effective than
anfthing else tested in the tropics and apparently is at least
twice as good as anything else tested in temperate zones.”
As a killer, the material can be used to spray a roem in which
insects already are present.
“It kilis them faster than does DDT,” he said, “and then it has
a residual effect as a repellent, keeping insects away from the
room for a week to ten days.
“DDT, on the other hand, has a residual killing effect for long
periods in some cases. But jnsects must come in direct contact
with it to be killed. They are not repelled by DDT as they are
by 448.” : :
Also Pijoan said, whereas DDT has some poisonous effect on
people, birds and fish, “ ‘44B’ is relatively non-toxic.”
The officer said that six drops of the material, rubbed on each
arm and leg and on the face, is sufficient to keep insects away for
between six and ten hours in any part of the United Statess
U.S. TO MEET RUSSIA HALF-WAY
Dardanelles Issue Ready For Showdown
WASHINGTON, Aug, 20 —
(AP)—The United States aad
Great Britain have decided t(Z
rieet squarely on the issue of
the Dardanelles. ;
In a cards on the table ges
ture to Soviet demands for a
Voice in the military control of
that highly important water link
between th, Mediterranean and
the Black Sea. .
Furthermore, diplomatic offi
cizls who reported this action
said Great Britain will take t.le
same step, if she hasn’t already
done so.
Thus tae two big Western
Powers ar, siding firmly with
"urkey, current guardian of the
Dardanelles,. upon whom Rus‘sm
has served two highly - unpala‘a
bie demands:
I. Taat the Straits should be
‘ointly defended by Turkish and
Soviet forces, and ¢
<. That future control politices
thould be laid down by agree
tent among the Black Sea pow-
Cers alone.
To the first demand this coun
'ry is said to have objected on
he grounds that it virtually
Would ‘mean granting SOV‘“?t
Is'mon military bases in ‘he
traits,
And because Turkey and Rus-
Sa are the principal Black Sea
Powers. the secong wpoint re-
Portedly was rejected because of
!ea's that Russia would be able
!0 dominat. the smaller nation
On any major issne.
However, the American aote
Vhich Fedor Orkhov, Soviet
fhirge a 4 Affairs, was manded
°l th. State Department veste:-
.V leaving the way open for
Moceow $a negofiate for, freer
! @lt fn +ho Straits—wath Amer
" sunnort,
The Montreaux #-eaty which
foverne contral of the vratér:vg;\;
Jrrently sives Turkey the rig
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE TAKES A HOLIDAY
President Truman is pictured on the deck of his yacht, the “Williamsburg” in Washington on
a pleasure cruise off the New England coast. Left to right, are: Ted Marks, Kansas City, an old
friend of the Trumans; President Truman; Matthew Connelly, secretary to the President; Major
General Harry H. Vaughan, Presidential Military Aide; and Charles G. Ross, Press Secretary.
any country during time of war. The note was seid to empha-
Secretary of State Bymes,lsize that tais country feelg the
however, has declared that tae jentire issue of fuiure control
United States is willing to back {should be settled in full accord
Russia in any request for .un- |with United Naticns - principles.
limiteq transit rights for her |These call for broad internation
war and merchant ships at a2l lal agreement among all nations
t'mes. : ‘ concerned. ,
TWO NEGROES STILL AT LARGE
AFTER LONG MANHUNT NABS SIX
MAGEE, Miss., Aug. 20— (AP)—
Officers and citizens re-formed a
!possee today to comb the wild
Sullivan Hollow country for three
war veterans, last of a group of
negroes being rounded up as an
aftermath of the ambush wounding
of four white men.
The “orderly processes of law”
demanded by the Department of
Justice through U. S. Attorney
Toxy Hall had been observerd
throughout the determined, blocd
hound-aided search.
Eight negroes were taken into
custody yesterday and removed to
Jackson for safekeeping—*“just in
case,” said State Highway Com
missioner C. R. Bradley. None of
them, however, were prime objects
of the search, which was suspend
ed late last night. Sheriff George
Hawkins of Smith county explain
ed, “I don’t want any of my boys
Ikilled.” ;
Hawkins named the men still
sought as the Craft brothers—
John, an ex-Marine; Garfield and
Bill, both former Army men. John
and Garfield, believed armed with
carbines, were said by Town Mar
! shal Ellie Bishop to be held chiefly
responsible for the attack.
The town of Magee was quiet,
and one of the prisoners was left
unattended in the jail an hour yes-
Full Associated Press Service Athens Ga., Tuesday August 20, 1946.
Clayton And Hancock Re-Surfacing
Okayed, Then Council Votes To
Reconsider But Doas Not Rescind
Mayor and Council voted at a called meeting last night for the City
{o re-surface Clayton street from Hull to Thomas and Hancock ave
nue from Jackson to Pulaski and then a battle ensued over whether
property owners were going to be required to help defray the cost,
with the result that at the close of a meeting lasting one hour and a
half, the Ceuncil adjourned with the status of the re-surfacing ac
tion a moot gquestion. :
That is, the Mayor and four
Councilman voted 5 to 4 to re
consider the original motions to re
surface Hancock avenue and Clay
ton streets but no motion was
made to rescind the original action,
gnd as of today the Mayor and
ouncil are on record as favoring
the re-surfacing of the two streets.
The motion to re-surface Clay
ton was made by Councilman John
Y. Coffee and.seconded by Coun
cilman R. T. Dottery. The motion
to re-surface Hancock avenue was
terday without incident. Acting
governor Fielding Wright visited
the scene to satisfy himself that
“there was nothing wrong,” after
receiving calls from assistant U.
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. WEATHER
| ATHENS AND VICINITY
| Slightly cooler this after-
E noon, tonight and Wednesday.
~ Possible scattered afternoon
~ and night showers.
' GEORGIA: Clear today, to
‘ ‘nlght andxFWednelday except
} partly cloudy with scattered
| showers in exireme south
| portion today and tonight;
| cooler in north and central
~ portions today and tonight
and in south portion Wednes
day.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .... o ... .98
Lowest ..., sßeg iii. . 0
Mear ... it s BT
Natrhal .o
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .. .. .25
Deficit since August 1 ... 2.75
Average August rainfall .. 4.67
Total since January 1 ....35.51
Excess since January 1 .. 1.71
made by Councilman Dottery and
iseconded by Councilman Coffee.
‘Buth motions were declared passed
by an oral vote.
Later on, when an unsuccessful
}effort was made to require pro
perty. owners of these streets to
}pay two-thirds of the cost, a
motion to re-consider the re-sur
facing motions was made by
Councilman T. L. Elder and
seconded by Councilman D. E. Wil
liams. The vote was as follows:
Councilman Bob Seagraves, Wil
liams, Elder and Floyd Adams,
voting “yes” and Councilman Clif
ford Denney, Allen Wier, Coffee
and Dottery voting “no”. Mayor
Bob McWhorter voted ‘“yes” and
the motion was carried. No motion
was ever made to rescind the ori
ginal action, however.
| Broad, College Improved
The motions to re-surface Han
cock avenue and Clayton street
grew out of the City's action in
resurfacing College avenue from
Broad to the Seaboard and the
lower part of Broad, without cost
to the property owners on these
streets. Councilman Coffee, Dot
tery, Denney and Wier contended
that Hancock and Clayton shouid
be re-surfaced on the same basis.
if one street was to be re-surfaced
at the partial expense of the pro
perty owners other streets should
be improved on the same basis,
and if one street was to be im
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WATCH-IT, ME BEAUTIES
A beach guard examines the live mine which washed up on
shore of the famed bathing resert Coney Island.. Police at first
thought the mine was a buoy and so informed the Navy. Its true
identity was discovered when the Navy came to claim its “buoy,”
and it was towed out to sea and destroyed after the detonator
cap was removed. Navy experts stated that the mine had been
sown during the war to give protection to the harbor. Coney
Island bathing beauties wiil iread softly for quile some time.
ESTABLISHED 1832,
G-47 Exploded In Rugzed Alps:
Statement Expected From Tito
. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 20.—(AP)—The rugged Julian Alps
gi?ld‘the‘ mystery today of a second C 47 Army transport plane which
a ‘witness said went spiralling down in black smoke from shots fired
by two Yugoslav fighter craft. The witness said four of five cannon
shots also were heard. ;
The vplane was flying from
Yiennato Udine in Italy, a regu
-1a: run of the European Air
‘Transport Service, and it was
not clear whether the attack was
over Yugosiav territory.
. “The person who saw the as-
E.?gault on the unarmed transport
.~ _BELGRADE, Yugoslavia,
| Aug. 20—(AP)—A spokesman
- within the Yugoslav govexn
. ment said today that “our
. pilots did the right thing” in
. sheoting down an unarimed
; Americar: transport plane yes
. terday and forcing anether to
~ land. earlier. .
;F;said the cannon shots could he
seard on the ground near Bled,
where Premier Narshal Tito
‘Was reported spending a vaca
tion. Diplomats said Tito may
Dersonally explain the attacks
+ The attack ' yesterday was
southwiest of Klagenfurt, ‘Aus
*ria and about 25 miles from the
¢not where another U. S. Army
Transport was fired on by Yu
roslav fighter planes and forced
to land on Aug. Y. The occu
‘nants of tae first plane were
lheld incommunicado for a week
}l-efore American diplomats could
see them and protest subsequent
tly that the incident was a
“wicked, inexcusable ang delib
orate attack on a friendly na
tion’s plane.”
' 2 Chutes Open
The C-47 missing since Mon
aay morning was believed ‘oo
l:ave carried a crew of five. The
‘witness saw only ‘wo parachutes
dron. e
“We saw fighter planes at
tack ang we saw tae transport
plane spiral down in a column
nf smoke and disappear into the
mountains,” witness said, “Then
we ‘saw a big column of black
‘smoke apgear, indicating that
the plane had exploded.”
The witness said Yugoslav
ircops immediately started a
“thorough search” of tie moun
tains.
(In Washington, the U. S. State
Department, reveaiing a state of
rear war between American and
Yugoslav troops at Trieste, ar
cused Yugoslav forees of ma%ing
illegal forays into the Amevican
oceuvation zone ond of unpro
veked attacks on American sol
drers.
(The Rritish foreign office in
(Continued on Page Eight.)
GOERING GRILLED ON GERMAN'S
EXPERIMENTS FOR LUFTWAFFE
NUERNBERG, Aug. 20.—(AP)
—Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer
ing, recalled to the witness stand,
testified before the international
war crimes tribunal today that'he
had no knowledge of experiments
carried out in concentration and
extermination camps which the
prosecution charges were for the
benefit of Goering’s Luftwaffe.
Goering said ‘that although he
was chairman of the Reich Re
search Council all the experi
ments were carried out by subor
dinates without his knowledge.
“In 1944 1 was forced to organ
ize a special department to pre
Morfon §. Hodgson
Named Direclor
0f (. & S. Bank Here
Election of Morton S. Hodgson,
well known business man and civic
leader as a member of the Board
of Directors of the Athens branch
of the Citizens and Southern Na
tional Bank at a meeting held yes
terday, was announced today by
Robert V. Watterson, vice-presi
dent of the bank.
Others members of the Board of
Directors of the bank here are
Cuyler Trussell, E. E. Lamkin,
Abit Nix, O. D. Grimes, L. M.
Shadgett and Harmon W. Cald
well.
Mr. Hodgson is a native of Ath
ens and member of one of the
state’s best known families. He is
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
E. R. Hodgson and his brothers
are Harry Hodgson and E. R.
Hodgson, jr., also among leaders
in this city.
Mr. Hodgson is president of
Hodgson’s, Inc., one of the largest
business firms in Northeast Geor
gia, and is also general manager of
that organization.
He is a member' of the Board of
Directors of the Georgia Power
Company and has played a pro
minent part in the civic and re-
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Threat Of:Epidemic Increases
As Fighting Slows In Calcutta
CALCUTTA, Aug. 20—(AP)—
Military and police units, work
ing their way through the blood
stained streets of Calcutta, re
stored a measure of order today
in this weary city where an es
timated 3,000 men, women and
children were killed in four days
of fighting between Hindus and
Moslems.
Shaking off the terror and
hysteria which had gripped them
vent misuse of my name,” he tes
tified. “It was well known in
Germany that no other name was
used as much as mine.”
Goering was recalled to the
stand on a petition of defense
counsel.
Apparently still' rankling from
a prosecution summation by Jus
tice Robert H. Jackson in which
the American said ' the Reichs
marshal had a finger in every
pie,” Goering said, “I have fat
fingers to put one into every low
pressure chamber experiment.”
He denied under cress examil
nation by Sir David Maxwell
Fyfe of Great Britain that his
was a rubber stamp administra
tion and declared the “prosecu-
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Hottest Day Of
Summer Sees
Mercury Hit 96
Athenians sweltered through the
hottest day of the summer so far
Monday with a high temperature
of 96 being registered on the of
ficial thermometer, according to
U. S. Weather Observer E. S. Sell.
The low temperature for the past
twenty-four hours, ending at 8
a. m. today was 70, Mr. Sell said.
No rain fell and little chance of
cooler weather is seen for the next
few days until there are showers.
Business at the American Legion
swimming pool was better than
usual, as steaming Athenians
sought, and found, surcease from
the heat in the cooling water of the
big pool. The pool was not crowded
'but was doing business right up so
the closing hour of 7 p. m., as a
number of working Athenians
stopped off when business closed
at 6 o’clock, and took a dip before
going home to supper.
If tomorrow is another scorcher,
pool officials expect a thriving
business, since the day is a half
holiday for most stores and busi
nesses.
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Four~year-old Melvin Snyder has reason to smile from his bed
in Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago. He was badly burned while
playing with matches in his home, but has another chance to live,
thanks to volunteer donors who gave him 190 square inches of
»th_eir skin for grafting operat.ions. 3
since last Friday, the more than
2,000,000 inhabitants of the city
found they faced the threat of
starvation and disease.
Calcutta’s food distribution
system has been thrown so. bad
ly out of gear that many of the
poorer residents have been with
out food for days.
The soldiers and police were
touring the streets not only to
prevent frésh outbreaks but also
to search for food. Fresh vege
table and fruit stalls in New
Market the largest in the city,
were damaged in the disorders.
Some sections of the market
have reopened; but the limited
supply of commodities were sgel
ling high above normal prices.
Eggs for example were priced at
16 cents apiece.
Health authorities feared dis
ease would be raging before dis
posal squads could complete the
removal of the piles of torn,
bloated bodies which littered the
streets.
Distraught refugees by the
thousands streamed into rescue
and police stations seeking rpst
and safety.
The staip government of Bengal
said that the bloodiest rioting in
the violent history of Calcutta
STABS CIRL FRIEND TO DEATH
BUT CANNOT EXPLAIN MOTIVE
DANVILLE, 111, Aug. 20—(AP)
—Authorities today had a 21-year
old farm hand’s signed statement
that he fatally stabbed his 19-year
!old girl friend in what the sheriff
itermed an “utterly pointless” cli
max to a day spent at the ball game
‘and the movies.
Sheriff William Wayland said
ißobert Beatty, who is employed
on the farm of his grandfather, a
Iformer minister, would be charged
today with murdering Lois Nelson,
daughter of a newspaper auditor,
although, the sheriff added, the
motive “is still a mystery to us.”
“] wasn't mad at her and I
jwasn’t jealous, and I had no
motive,” Wayland said the young
'man had told him. “We weren’t
lin love.” Wayland said Beatty told
{him he planned the crime for two
days. R il £
The sheriff reported Beatty l=d
skeptical officers to the girl’s nude
body in a secluded spot in Kick
lapoo State Park after laying a gun
he later said was his stepfather’s
\on a Nilling station counter and
telling the attendant: “I'm in
trouble. Call the sheriff.”
The girl, her clothes ripped from
her body, had been stabbed in the
HOME
was “definitely under control.”
The first officia] report of cas
ualties listed the dead at more
than /2,000. ‘Unofficial weccounts
placed the toll at 3,000. So con
fused and ' widespread was the
fighting that an exact tabu
ation of casualties may never be
made.
Police still brought in tales of
atrocities. In the bustee (Tene
ment) areas alone hundmeds of
men women and children were
(Continued on Page Eight.)
O.W. Russom, Sr.,
Is Taken By Death
Oliver W. Russom, sr., father of
Mrs. Lamar Lewis, sr., and O, W.
Russom, jr., of Athens, died Sun
day at his home in Dallas, Ga.
Funeral services were held in
Dallas on Monday.
Mr. Russom had been ill for
sometime, and he had many
friends here who regret to learn
of his death. Other survivors are
his children, Mrs. Idell Finch,
Mrs. Louise Lester, Mrs. Cary
Wyatt Lee and Miss Ella Rus
som, all of Dallas, Ga., and Mrs.
Carl Adair and Hansell Russom
of Lakeland, Fla.
chest five times. A long-bladea
hunting knife was found nearby.
Wayland said there was no im
mediate evidence of rape, and
Beatty denied molesting her.
Back at the county jail, Beatty
was confronted by his sobbing
mother and his-stepfather, a rail
road worker.
“Mom, I killed Lois Nelson,” he
said.
“You couldn’t do that,” said the
mother. .
“Well, T did,” the sheriff said
Beatty replied*firmly.
Good-looking and weighing
about 130-pounds, Beaity was
considered *‘a respectable voung
man,” Wayland said, and had been
dating Miss Nelson occasionally.
Both were in the 1943 Danville
high school graduating class. Miss
Nelson, an active Lutheran church
worker, was an office worker in
a glove factory.
~ The pair'spent Sunday afternoon
with her father, Arvid Nelson, an
empioye of the Danvilie-Com
mercial News, at a ball game.
Leaving him, they went to a movie,
a hamburger stand and some tav
erns before ending up in the State
Park. 10 miles 'from Danville,