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Commission Says U.S. Needs Military Training
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multi-engined aircraft is pictured above, at MacArthur Field, Sayville, N. Y. Lockheed Aircrafi
Service, Inc., has contracted to service more than 160 transports for the U. S. military services and
many - flomestic and foreign airlines. Planes seen in service docks belong to Venezuela’s Linea
Aeropostal, left, and Royal Dutch Airlines, right. In background ere two transports of Argentina’s
y Flota Aerea Mercante. *
43 REPORTED DEAD, HUNDREDS
Twin Twisters Hit Rich Farming
Sections In Arkansas, Okldhoma
By The Associated Press
Storm-lashed Arkansas and Oklahoma counted at least
43 dead and hundreds injured today from tornadoes
which swept through rural areas causing thousands of
dollars of property damage. :
Hardest hit was a heavily populated agricultural reg
ion near Pine Bluff in southeastern Arkansas. Thirty
seven bodies were reported recovered and about 15 per
sons were believed missing.
DU - T s B T Y xS g
A large portion of the victims
were children.
Hundreds were injured as the
twister leap-frogged across the
rich Arkansas farming area yes
terday, narrowly missing Pine
Bluff, a city of 40,000.
In Oklahoma, three-fourths of
the town of Leesd‘ey was" leveled
Satyrday night. Six persons were
killed and about 25 injured. The
town has a population of 600.
Both states were hit earlier this
year by severe storms. 1a April,
tornadoes in northern Arkansas
and northwestern Oklahoma caus
ed more than 100 deaths and heavy
property damage. X
In vesterday’s Arkansas storm,
estimates of the number of homes
g(e)egtroyed ranged as high as 1,-
Trees Ripped Up
So great was the force of the
wind that bridges “were literally
blown away across bayous” and
trees were ripped to splinters.
“Whole families—negro and
white—were wiped out,” said Pine
Bluff Mayor George Steed. “I saw
10 negroes all in one heap. The
buildings were leveled and the
only evidence some had ever stood
were the foundations.”
The storm moved over a 20-
mile course, across flat country
broken only by bayous and hard
wood timber stands in the low
lands. Mayor Steed said thc storm
area extended roughly from 10
miles southwest of Pine Bluff to
10 miles southeast of the city.
Taxicabs, private automobiles
and trucks were used to bring the
victims to Pine Bluff.
Towns Demolished
Some rural communities in the
path of the storm- were reported
virtually wiped out. Many frame
houses of tenant farmers were in
the area, The National Guard was
rallgd out to prevent possible
looting of the wrecked buildings.
Cots were used to augment the
beds in Pine Bluff's hospital
which was reported filled within
two hours after the tornado. Other
large buildings in Pine Bluff were
Opened to those with minor in-
Juries and the homeless.
The alertness of Jack Sapp, a
telephone worker, was credited
With holding down the death toll
n the Leedey, Okla., storm. He
Saw the twister approach and
turned on the town's fire siren
and shouted warnings cver a
loudspeaker system.
Rescue parties worked through
the night with the aid of lanterns
and flashlights since the town's
Power system was knocked out.
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ATHENS BANNER:-HERALD
Twelfth Annual Garden School
will be held at the University of
Georgia in cooperation with the
Garden Club of Georgia, the ses
sions opening the night of June
12 and closing at noon on Satur
day, June 14. The sessions will be
held at Lucy Cobb Institute.
Registration will be in the Lucy
Cobb parlors, starting a2k @, .y
June 13 and continuing through
the day with a fee of $1.50. Regis
tration fee for a single session will
be fifty cents and meals will be
served in Lucy Cobb Cafeteria
for those desiring them. Those de
siring to have their meals in the
Cafeteria are requested to indicate
the number of meals desired at
the time of registration. Prices for
a full day are $2.00 with fifty cents
being charged for single break
fast, sixty-five cents sos lunch
and eighty-five cents for dinner.
Lodging is SI.OO per night. “
Reception June 12 |
It is anticipated that quite a
number of ladies will arrive in
Athens on Thursday, June 12th,
therefore, there will be a recep
tion for all persons interested in}
the Garden School in the grawing
rooms at Lucy Cobb from 8 to 10
p. m.
The Founders Memorial Gar-1
den, which has been greatly im
proved since the last meeting ofl
the Garden School in_ Athens, will‘
be open for visitors. Tea, with the |
Landscape Architecture Depart
ment as host, will be served on
the afternoon of June 13th at 4:30
p. m.*
Dr. and Mrs. T. H. McHatton
will be At Home to all members of
the Garden School and Garden
Club of Georgia on Friday, June
13th from 8 to 10 p. m.
The School is very fortunate in
having as guest speakers, Mrs.
Ester Wheeler of Brooklyn, New
York, Dr. T. H. McHatton and
Roy A. Bowden, both of the Horti
culture Department of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Noted Lecturer
Mrs. Wheeler is a noted lecturer
and instructor in floral arrange
ment. She has a background of
many club appearances through
out the country and has been
most successful in competition
with the foremost artists of the
East. She has the distinction of
having received three blue rib
bons for her arrangements at an
International Flower Show. She
also is noted for her demonstrat
ed talks on flower arrangement.
She illustrates each subject before
her audience and discusses each
step as she proceeds.
At the Garden School for 1947
Mrs. Wheeler will lecture and
illustrate the following: 1. Funda
mentals of Floral Arrangements. 2.
Floral Arrangements for the Home.
2 Floral Arrangements for Special
Occasions. She will use native
material and it is certain that
those who attend will .be not only
interested but greatly benefitted
by her work. Mrs. J. J. Blount,
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Full Associated Press Service
FLASHES OF LIFE
eks el B s 0 S S 0
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2—
(AP)—Steinhart Aquarium’s’
Willie is on odd kind of an
octopus. Or maybe he isn’t an
octopus at all.
Robert Dempster, California
Academy of Sciences Biologist,
discovered that Willie has only
seven teptacles instead of.the
eight common to his breed.
There is nc stump to show the.
little fellow ever had an eighth
arm. ;
Does that make him a
. septimus? >
BEVERLY Hills, Calif., June
2—(AP)—Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Linstrum picked a pet pooch
right out of the Pacific.
They were returning from
Santa Catalina Island abeard
their cabin cruiser yesterday
when one of their guests cried:
“Lobk, there’s a seal.” :
Mrs. Linstrum, at the wheel,
steered the craft alongside.
The “seal” turned out to be a
male cocker spaniel dog,
swimming and nearly ex
hausted.
* Now the Linstrums, who
took the dog home, are won
dering if they’ll ever solve the
mystery of how he happened
to be swimming 10 miles from
shore.
NEW YORK, June 2—(AP)
—Nine - year-old Annette
Marie Cummo, eldest child of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cummo,
l called to a passing friend.
“Marilyn,” she said. “More
, babies!”
Thus she announced that
her mother gave birth yester
day to a fourth set of twins.
The first pair died, but there
have been three singie births
in the 10 years since the
Cummos were married.
The father of the nine
youngsters is a postman,
whose ‘“take home” pay is
sllß every two weeks.
Hungary's Number 2
Man Flees Country
' BUDAPEST, June 2.—(AP)—
A reliable informant said today
that Bela Varga, speaker of the
House and No. 2 man in the gov
ernment of former Premier Fer
~enc Nagy, had fled Hungary to
avoid Communist arrest and was
was presumed to be in the Am
erican zone of Austria.
The informant, a close friend
of Varga, said that the speaker
was driven last night tp Copron,
near the Austrian border in
northwestern Hungary, and he
planned to dash across the Rus
sian zone to the American area.
“I know he was met by a re
liable guide with a fast car and
1 presume he safely got across,”
the informant said. . |
Earlier, Nagy’s friends sajd the
Communists have threatened
Hungary’s erstwhile Premier
with a treason prosecution to
keep him from telling how he
came to resign. 3.4 8
They declared that a trial in
absentia was in store for Nagy if
he violated a reported agreerpelfl
not to talk with western'dlpl(}-
mats about week-end shifts in
the Hungarian government.
Pro-western = Hungarians have
seen a Communist doup, aimed at
a police state, in these shifts in
whnich Hungary got a new ,Prf'
mier and a new Foreign Miiis
ter, both reputed "to be DTQ'
Communist membérs of Nagy's
majority Small landholders partllf-
SR e ke
ALREADY HAD CONTRACTS
WASHINGTON, June 2—(AP)
— Henry Garsson testified today in
his war fraud trial that his muni
tions firms already had $10,000,-
000 in war contracts before /he
ever met former Congressman
Andrew J. May whom he is ac
cused of bribing for government
favors, i
| . -ht ‘
’Gen. Wainwright
“I can see no cure for the ills
of war unless the United Nations
becomes ‘a going concern and is
able to control international ai
fairs. I am sure that if present
conditions exist we are going to
have another war,” declared Gen
eral Jonathan M. Wainwright in
an address on the campus of theé
University of Georgia Sunday af
ternoon. g
The Hero of Bataan and Corre
gidor, who saw war at its worst,
addressed several thousand Ath
enians and University students
lfrom a platform constructed be-
Ifore the Georgia Arch. He was
'introduced by Senator Richard
B. Russell, jr., who cited him as
“America’s symbol of raw.fight
ing courage.”
Wainwright lauded the work
of the University Military De
partment and its ROTC prograim.
'“With the exception of Texas A
& M, no._other school furnished
as many vavalry and mechanized
officers as the University of Geor
gia during the recent war, Over
1,600 cavalry and infantry grad
uates of the University of Geors
gia served with distinction over
the world. ¢
ROTC Training
I “l feel with great cincerity the
necessity of ROTC training. Even
lif Congress does see fit to enact
universal military training, we
must continue to have ROTC
units,” hg maintained. The men
who graduate from these groups,
he said, will serve as replace
ments for regular Army men
when the next emergency comes.
The General stopped for a
tour of the Athens Campus while
enroute from Gainesville to Ma=
con for the- Georgia American
Legion Convention. His entourage
.was met at the Clark County line
by a welcoming committee com
posed of Robert L. McWhorte‘r;
mayor of Athens; Dr. Harmon W
Caldwell, University president:
Frank Majors, Claxton, and
Ralph Laster, Roopville Uni-~
versity students who fought un
der Wainwright; Gus Barksdale,
president, University Student
Veterans Organization; Colonels
K. T. Riggs, R. B. Trimble, and
Hubert Mann, retired professor
of military science and tacties at
the University; Colonel J. V. V.
Shufelt, current University PMS
& T; and Ralph Hodgson, Ath
enian who served with Wain
wright in World War I.
I Prior so his address, General
Wainwright was conducted on a
tour of Athens and the Universi
ty campus. ‘
Pope Says World
Must Seek Peace !
? VATICAN CIIY, June 2 —
(AP) — Pope Pius XII warned
‘the rulers of the world today not
to let the opportunity to restore
normal relations between nations
escape them.
“It could—God forbid it—be the
llast," he declared in a radio
broadcast to the world.
| The pointiff said the security
|which “was to have been the
fruit of victory” ang “for which
humanity ardently aspires” had
not yet been achieved.
The Pope, who as Eugenio
Pacelli bears the same Christian
name as Saint Eugene, spoke on
Saint Eugene’s Day.
He began speaking from his
‘private library immediately after
receiving the greetings of the
college of Cardinals.
Pope Piug had harsh words for
the victors in the war,
“We know too well,” he said,
“the extent and gravity of thc-l
nameless horrors with which a
defeated system covered with
desolation th, face of Europe,
nor do we wish to diminish the
heap of its faults.”
“But,” he said “how can the
victorioug people adopt in their
turn or tolerate methods of hate
and violence with which that
system lived and acted, to use
the weapons whose use in other
hands raised their just indigna
tions?”
“The wounds of the war have
rot yet been healed; some ofl
them in° fact have rather been!
deepened and irritated,” he said.l
but added, “normal relations —I
even after the Second World War
—ar, possible to rebind.”
“Do not fear: If there is today
something that causes fear it is
fear itself,” th, Holy Father de
clared. “There is no wofse coun
sellor, especially in present cir
stances.” !
REVERSES DECISION }
WASHINGTON, June 2—(AP)
—The Senate reversed itself today
and struck from its rent control
extension bill a provision reguir
ing decontrol at a fixed rate,
CONVICTION UPHELD
WASHINGTON, June 2—(AP)
—The Supreme Court today in ef
fect upheld the conviction of
Mayor James M. Curley of Bos
ton on mail fraud charges. -
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This dramatic series of pictures, made by Al Mar
kado, of Acme Newspictures-NEA Service, Inc., shows
how William “Shorty’” Cantlon, veteran race track
driver met his death in the annual 500-mile Indianap
olis Speedway classic. Top photo shows: Cantlon driv
ing his Auto Shipper Special hitting the retaining wall
on the southwest turn of the track. Middle photo shows:
Two attendants running across the track with a
stretcher to remove the injured driver from his car.
Bottom photo shows: Attendants carrying the fatally
injured driver across the track to a waiting ambu
lance. Cantlon died in the track hospital from a crush
ed chest and other injuries.
EA:
Armed Troops Stand By:
NEW DELHI, June 2.— (AP)—Britain’s plan for with
drawal from India after a century and a half was placed
before seven Indian leaders by Viceroy Lord Mountbatten
today as heavily armed troops and police stood by to pre
vent new outhreaks of communal violence in this tense
capital.
Despite fears that the confer
ence might be the signal for
fresh demonstrations by this
teeming country’s widely divided
political and religious faiths, no
incidents had been reported here
up to midday when the smiling
but tight-lipped Indian leaders
emerged from the Vice Regal
Palace.
The precautions which had
been taken against rioting in
New Delhi were duplicated in
other recent trouble spots — in
cluding Bombay, Calcutta and
the Punjab.
None of the Indian conferees—
Chinese Anti-War Demonstration Set
SHANGHAI, June 2—(AP)—
Police and the military cracked
down on students in widely-sep
arated parts of China today to
block a scheduled nation-wide
demonstration demanding an end
to the civil war.
The Chinese press reported
raids were carried out at Muk
den, Hangchow, Wuchcang, Foo
chow, Chungking and Tientsim
The newspaper Ta Kung Pao
said two students were killed and
two wounded in Chungking
where garrison troops arrested
Congress Faces Crowded Schedule
WASHINGTON, June 2—(AP)
—Congress lined up a crowded
schedule today, aiming at final
action that woulg send three
major bills — income tax cuts,
labor disputes regulation and
rent control extension — to
President Truman’s desk by the
week-end.
First the House and then the
Senate planneq to stamp approv
al on the $4,000.000,000 a year
tax cut bill. The compromise
measure slashes individual in
come taxes by from 30 to 10.5
per cent beginning July 1.
Say Put U. S. Industry Underground
WASHINGTON, June 2.—(AP)
—An Army expert on atomic age
weapons declared . today that
Washington should start “right
now” to put its vital units of
government underground to
shield them from possible A
bomb attack.
Lt. Col. David B. Parker, who|
which included representatives of
the predominantly Hindu Con
gress Party, the Mosiem League
and the Siikhs—gave any indica
tion of the nature of the plan
presented to them or of their re
action to it.
However, it was generally con
ceded that Mountbatten made a
final appeal for adoption of the
British cabinet mission plan for
a united India. The alternative,
to which the British were re
ported reluctantly ready to agree,
was partition of India into Hin
dustan and an independent Mos~
lem state of Pakistan.
“more than 1,000 suspects” in a
midnight raid.
Some 30,000 pro-government
students staged an anti-Commu-~
nist rally and parade in Shang
hai despite the government ban,
but there was no sign of a “gen
eral uprising.”
Twelve students were reported
arrested at Hangchow, 20 at
Teintsin, 32 at Foochow, and an
unannounced number at Kaifeng.
Chinese reports said students at
Hangkow clashed with police and
soldiers and that several were
injured on both sides.
The Republican leadership
called up for Senate passage its
own measure continuing rent
controls for eight months beyond
June 30. It permits landlord
tenant agreements to boost pres
ent ceilings and provides for
swifter decontrol than a version
passed previously Dy’ the House.
After the Sanate acts, its bill
wi'l go to the House. The House
measure extends controls only
six months, but authorizeq the
P-esident to let them run an
other three months.
has been assigned from the En
gineer Corps to the secret “arm
ed forces special weapons pro
ject,” expressed this opinion in
an article written for the unoffi
cial service publication, The
Coast Artillery Journal.
Parker, illustrating his article
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, S¢
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Goceial Broup Asserts 950,000
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Youths Should Be Trained Annually &
WASHINGTON, June 2.— (AP) —The nation heard|
from a commission of nine prominent civilians today that
the compulsory training of up to 950,000 American
youths a year is an “urgent military necessity” in this
world of insecure peace.
The alternative to that and
other multi-billion dollar out
laws for national defense is to
invite “extermination, President
Pruman’s advisory commission
on universal training declared.
The grou- painted this bleak pic
ture of the future if its warning
goes unheeded:
For a few years—f{rom four to
ten—*"our monopoly of the atom
ic bomb” and the availability of
battle-trained veterang of World
War II may serve as insurance
against a sneak gssault on the
American homeland.
But the precipitai, drop in the
nation’s state of readiness—‘our
military forces are a hollow
shell”—will encourage ‘“those to
whom weakness on the part of
peace-lovirg nations is a pass
port to aggression.”
Other countries who share
our Democratic ideals will lose
faith. and then:
“The mantle of tctalitarianism
will spread its darkness over still
larger sections of the earth, in
creasing the peril so use and
narrowing the company of those
on whose aid we can count in
the search for lasting peace.”
The document was drafted and
signed unanimously by the nine
members of he Commission
headed by Dr. Karl T. Compton,
scientist and president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. ;
Note Of Urgency
The note of urgency which the
Commission gave its findings was
not echoed immediately in Con
gress. There was every indica
tion there that aside from possi
ble enactment of an Army-Navy
unification bill this summer—a
cempanion step urged by the
Commission — any long-ranget
defense program will have to
’await the next session beginning
in January.
Although the Compton group
went along with Mr. Truman’s
request that the official name of
the project be only “universal
training,” with thg original word
“military” deleted it asserted
“The only basis on which uni
versal training should be ac
cepted, in our opinion is a de-i
monstration that it is needed to
insure our safety in a world in
which peace is not yet secure.”
Other benefits — physical,
mental and normal would be “by
products of a project which is‘
made necessary by the state of
the world today.”
As proposed by the Commis
tion the program would follow
this outline:
On the basis of census figures,
between 1,000,000 and .1,100,000
male youths would become eligi
ble for training annually for the
next few years (liability for
training would start at age 13
or upon completion of Thigh
ischool, whichever occurred first).
Eligibility Pool
~ Out of this total, an estimated
200,000 would be physical or
mentally incapacited. An addi
tional 50,000 to 100,000 wouid
not meet present Army and Navy
standards but still could be train
ed in some form. Taking varia
tions into account a pool of not
less than 750,000 or more than
950,000 thus would be .eligible
for training.
Basic training in ecamp or
aboard ship (a choice of services
would be given so far as possi—|
ble) would last six months. The
training would be censistent with
developing weapons and techni
ques in warfare, f
Upon completion of the six
months basic training. a series of
options would be open to the
trainee, including enlistment in
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City Atforney Race
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A total of 922 votes had been
cast today at 12:30 p. m, in
the general election to name
a City Attroney from among
three candidates contesting for
the place.
In box No. 1, in which
white votes in the First and
Second Wards were cast, the
ballots numbered 328, while
in box No. 2, for white voters
in the Third, Fourth and
Fifth Wards, the vote was 499.
In box Ne. 3, where all negro
ballots were cast, the total was
95.
Candidates in the race are
Dorsey Davis, who now holds
the City Attorneyship, Eugene
A. Epting. and Robert G.
Stephens, jr., attorneys.
The polls opened at 7 a. m.
and close at 6 p. m.
HOME
District Court
Jng
Term Here Today
Fifteen cases were 9n t}le
docket as United States Dis
trict Court for the Northern Dis=
trict 6f Georgia opened is regu
lar June term ths morning.
Judge T. Hoyt Davis is presid
ihg over the term, which is ex
pected to be an abbreviated one,
probably ending Tuesday. Dis
trict Attorney John Cowart is av=-
pearing for the government.
Of the fifteen cases listed the
great majority are for liquor law
violations.
Two brothers, James Verner,,
36, and Tom Verner, 26, and of
Monroe are slated to be tried on
charges of assaulting Golden L.
Howard, Monroe negro, when he
refused to tell them what he
testified to before a Federal
Grand Jury investigating the
iynching of four negroes in Wal=
ton county. !
! Another case, growing out of
the Walton county affair, is that
charging George Adcock, Walton
county affair, is that charging
George Adcock, Walton county
white man, with perjury in his
testimony before the Grand
jury probing the lynching Adcock
is accused of giving false testi
mony regarding his whereabouts
at the time of the lynching.
James Verner was tried fin 'Wal
jton Superior Court for assault
and battery upon Howard, but
was acquitted. Verner said he
visited Howard after the negro
“tried to run me off the road with
an automobile.”
The Grand jury investigated the
lynching for three weeks and re
ported last December that it was
unable tu identify the persons
who late in the afternoon of July
23, 194¢, shot to death Roger
Malcom and George Dorsey and
their wives.
A. (. Sorrells Is
Taken By Death; -
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Services Tuesday
A, Chandler Sorrells, 59, died
at his residence in Comer Monday
morning at 7:30 o’clock.
Graveside services are to be
‘held Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’-
clock in Comer cemetery, Rev. L.
G. Cowart, pastor of Comer
Methodist Church, officiating.
Bernstein Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers were Elmer Mec-
Connell, W. D. Porterfield, J. T.
Carithers, J. C. Means, W. C.
Birchmore, jr., and Milton Moore.
An honorary escort will include
members of the Men’s Bible Class
of Comer Methodist Church and
members of the American Legion.
Mr. Sorrells is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Blanche Turner Sor
rells; daughter, Miss Allene Chloe
Sorrells, Comer; two nieces, Mrs.
Willie Lee Hackett, Comer, and
Miss Sara Sorrells, Danielsville;
four nephews, J. H. White, Comer,
and Adolphus Sorrells, Walter
Sorrells, William Archie Sorrells,
all of Danielsville.
A native of Madison county and
lifelong resident of that commun
ity, Mr. Sorrells was the son of
the late Howell Parks Sorrells and
Susan Payne Sorrells, members
of family lines long prominent in
that section. He served his country
in the First World War and saw
duty overseas.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy "and no
change in temperature to
night. Scattered thunder
showers this afternoon and
possibly Tuesday. :
GEORGIA — Considerable
cloudiness and warmes;
showers and thunderstorms
tonight and over north acd
west portions today. Tuesday
fair and cooler, preceded by
showers in southeast portion
Tuesday afternoen.
TEMPERATURE
Highest . s antow 8
LOWESt o 0 s e ;
MEBh [ iii iivs nabe waasiiTN
Nl . 5 e oo el
RAINFALL i
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 00
Total since June 1 .. .... 00
Deficit since June 1 .. .. A 3
Average June rainfall .... 391
Total since January 1 ....243%
Excess since January 1 .. 253