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Southern Mutual Policyholders Get Back $22,000,000 0f $27,500,000 Paid In Premiums During 100 Years In its 100th yeur, the Southern Mutual Insurance .Com pany was able to report to policyholders at their annual meeting yesterday that of $27,500,000 paid into the com pany for insurance premiums, $22,000,000 has been re turned to the members and $2,000,000 is held in trust for their protection over and above the amount of reserve the organization holds for unearned premiums and out standing dividend serip. The Company, one of tbe gut standing insurance organizations in the nation, will become 100 years of age December 29, 1947; having been founded in 1847, 3 President Blanton *Fortson re-~ ported to the policyholders that “as it approaches its first cen tennial it finds itself in the soundest and strongest position of its long and honored career.” Directors Re-Elected All directors were re-elected by | the policyholders and the board | re-elected the officers, Judge Fortson as president and freasurer and E. E. Lamkin as secretary. The directors re-elected are: Howell C. Erwin, Blanton Fort son, Jacob B. Joel, Thomas S. Mell, Madison G. . Nicholson, Eugene L. Hill, Edgeworth E. Lam kin, William L. Erwin, Robert V. Watterson, Harvey Stovall, Clark, Howell, Atlanta; Charles H.; Phinizy, Augusta; William C.) Bradley, Columbus; W. Hugh| Stephens, Savannah. Roy T. Scoggins was re-elected auditor; Carlton N. Mell, assistant! auditor; Warren Pledger, building superintendent and Mrs. Fredonia H. Davis, office assistant. 89th Dividend _ The Company this year declared its 89th dividend, thirty-three and one-third percent to policyholders, permitting an addition of $63,- 500.00 to the Company’s surplus and enable it to “still furnish pro tection to members at two thirds the usual cost.” The Company be (Continued On Mrg&lrn") ATHENS AND VICINITY _Clear to partly cloudy with litle change in temperature tonight and Thursday. GEORGIA: Partly cloudy with litiie temperature change loday, tonight and Thursday; Some widely scaftered thun dershowers in extreme north west portion Thursday after noon, . TEMPERATURE Highest. .7. 7 St dlcs 2 298 Lowest .... v 45 Mean ... shii sanabe 78 Normal ;.. sdalnia 018 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00 Total since: Jal@ §.: 0 .. 28 Deficit since. June 1 .. .. .14 Average June rainfall. . ... 3.91' Total since January 1 ....24.56 Excess since January 1 .. 2.51 l Jaycee-Sponsored Philpot School Dance Revue Tonight ATHENS BANNER-HERALD 14 Crewmen Missing As Freighter Sinks WINDSOR, ONT., June 4— (AP)—Canada Steamship Lines Ltd. said today that its 7,000 ton freighter, Emperor, sank of Isle Royale in Lake Superior early to day and’' that 14 crewmen are missing. Twenty one persons were saved, the Windsor offices of the line reported. All aboard were crew members. The ship carried no passengers. Glen Jackson, superintendent in Windsor for the steamship line, said the ore-laden ship went down in a rocky passage offi remote Isle Royale, a National Park 48 miles from Michigan’s northern most Hp. State Maps Court Battle To Convert Jekyll Island Into Huge State Park ATLANTA, June 4 —(AP) — The State of Georgia is mapping! a court battle to take possession of one of the world’s most exclu sive playgrounds, owned for 61 years by 100 millionaire families from the North. Gov. M. E. Thompson said yes terday the state is determined to convert Jekyll Island, a gold plated winter resort off Georgia’s southeastern coast, into a state park for “the plain people of Georgia.”. " Since 1886, the isle has been owned by a club limited to 100 members, who not only must be millionaires but must actively direct major financial or busi. ness interests, On the island’s beaches, ac cessible only by yacht or plane, the Morgans, Rockefellers Goulds, Bakers, Baruchs and Pulitzers have relaxed in perfect privacy. Today, Governor Thompson said the present owners refuse to sell — and he has instructed At torney General Cook to file condemnation proceedings imme diately. The 3,500 acres of Jeky!l Island, Full Associated Press Service Truman Will Not Act On-dncome Tax Cut Bill Before Trip To Kansas City Friday A. K. S. Graduation Exercises Are Held Tuesday Night ~ Marianna Cohn was named first honor graduate of the Athens High School senior class of over 125 students, last night at the graduating exercises held in Fine Arts Auditorium. This class not only had the regular members graduating but 31 persons, largely veterans and ‘servicemen, who have been grant ed diplomas since June 1946, mak ing the class one of the largest ever to graduate at the Schooi. The theme of the speakers was “Our Life In The Community.” Curtis Driskell spoke first on “Further Professional Training” being followed by Bill Hilley, speaking on the subject “Industry in Athens.” The subject of the third speech was “The Field of Commerce” by George Abney and Marquerite Antley talked ~on “Civic Responsibilities.” Wins First Honor Marianna Cohn not only was first honor graduate but she also received a medal from the maga-‘ zine “Seventeen” for her story in the current issue and she was given a prize, from the Athens Branch of the A. A. U. W., for winning the creative writing award. The Rotary Club’s “Service Above Self” cup went to George Abney. This cup is given to the person who has rendered the most outstanding service to the school and community. Abney also re ceived a certificate from the Quill (Continued On Page Five) | Technicolor Reel Of Athens Is Most Revealing The technieolor motion ricture, depicting scenes and activities in Athens, which was made some weeks ago under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce, was exhibited to the organization’s di rectors Sunday, and during the ’next week or ten days Secretary Joel Wier plans a showing to each ’of the various civic organizations. | The reel shows Athens in all ’its glory, having been *“shot” in the Spring when Athens’ lovely \gardens were at the height of their ‘beauty, which together with the lovely homes and historic spots and scenes of business and in dustrial activity really constitutes a revelation. .~ The purpose of having the pic ture made was a two-fold-one to acquaint Athenians with the beauties and attractions of their‘ own city, and two, to have a com prehensive picture of Athens that‘ can be exhibited at conventions in all parts of the country, thus ac quainting others with Athens ad vantages. It is understood that Mr.’ Wier does not regard the reel as complete and it is his plan to augment it as finances for that purpose become available. 10 miles from Brunswick, Ga,, mostly have been left to giant, moss-beared trees to great sea turtles who lay their sofe eggs in the sand, and to wild deer which occasionally invade the 18-hole golf course, Refused Bridges The financial barons wanted it that way—they sefused bridges or causeways to link Jekyll with the mainland or other nearby is lands, ; ; Civilization has touched the island only for the comfort and recreation of its millionaire owners. There is a huge club house which Governor Thompson estimated could be converted into a hotel for 300 guests. There are 22-room winter mansions which Georgia would turn into board ing houses. The state also plans tc construct camp sites and cot tages. 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Hundreds Flee, Children Missing As Power Dam Falters In Flood RUTLAND, Vt., June 4.—(AP) —A nine-foot wall of flood water, released b& a shattered dam, smashed this city’s electrical power, and drinking and commercial water facilities and left 500 persons temp orarily homeless today. Two children were reported missing after East Pittsford dam, north of the city, burst last night under pressure of the flood created by torrential rains. ; i Wide sections of the commun ity were inundated, at least 500 residences were flooded from depths of a few feet to first floors, railroad service on several lines was interrupted and the city of 18,000 was left without drinking water and electric service, e The children—Philip McKenzie, 9, and Richard Victoire, 13,—were reported missing by their parents after the wall, which reached u crest of 15 feet at times, bore through the north section of the city. City health authorities directed that all water be boiled and issued warning ggainst attempted use of electrical heaters and other at-l tachments that might cause fire. Boats And Canoes Many evacuees were taken out in boats and canoes. A majority, however, had heeded warnings by police and national guardsmen and reached safety before the speed ing water hit the city proper. Witnesses reported that the water from the ruptured dam came in so fast that it buried Jekyll Island’s nine miles of beaches are the finest in Georgia. ‘“When you realize,” he said ‘“that only three miles of the 14 miles of beaches along the Georgia coast are open to the people of Georgia, you can realize what a beach like this will mean to the Georgian of jverage means.” The island Was sold by the Du Bignon family of Savannah, Ga.. to a group of New York, Boston (Continued On Page Five) . . Revival Services * Open Tonight T At Young Harris Revival services are beginning at Young Harris Methodist Church this evening at 8:00 p. m. and will continue through June 13. Rev. D. L. Hagood, Pastor First Methodist Church, Winder, will be the visiting preacher. The public is cordially invited to come and enjoy good gospel singing and preaching. Athens, Ga., Wednesday, June 4,.1947. FLASHES OF LIFE TOUGH PEDESTRIAN LAWTON, Okla. June 4— (AP)—Drivers better watch out for four-year-old Ken neth Ray McClain if they value their cars. Kenneth, son of Comanche county Jailer Jess McClain, can take cace of himself. McClain said Kenneth darted out on the highway and was knocked 20 feet by an auto. He was Unhurt ex cept for the loss of a little skin. The fender of the car was knocked loose and badly dented. Brifain To Refain No Bases In India NEW DELHI, June 4—(AP)— Viscount Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, promised the Indian people today that Britain would retain no bases whatever within the sub continent when its complete in dependence is achieved under the new British plan. “I think it would be most im proper for any foreign power to have bases in India,” the Viceroy told a news conference. | He made it plain that under the plan, announced yesterday, Hin ‘dustan (Hindu India) and Pakis tan (Moslem India) would be in 'dependent both of British and each other and that neither could con trol the other on the question of remaining within the British Com monwealth. Both will have dominion status for the transition al period. The native (Princely) states will get their own independence from Britain’s paramount authority as soon as power is transferred in the rest of India, Mountbatign said, and will be free to choose whether they will be independent or will join Hindustan or Pakistan. | The Princely states will not be permitted to have dominion statusl within the empire, the Viceroy said. Precautions have been taken, he revealed, to prevent bloodshed in the transition, and minorities will be protected. For the most part, the new de cisions appeared to have been ac-~ cepted calmly and there were no reports from any quarter of dis turbances arising from the new compromise. There was continued fighting in Punjab between Moslems on one side and Sikhs and Hindus on the other, bu&;hat has been going on for three months. rapidly moving vehicle attempting to run ahead of it, forcing oc cupants to race to higher giound. Frank Lapine, a Rutland taxi driver, said he saw tha2 water coming down a highway “so fast it went over the top of a truck. I saw the men get out of the truck and climb a telegraph pole. A boat rescued them.” | The evacuated families were cared for at private homes or at 'lhe Rutland armory where the Red Cross set up headquarters. Damage was -estimated unof—‘ fically at hundreds of thousands of idollars. - Officials said that the waters at times reached a peak ‘higher than in the disastrous flood of 1927. | Another Dam Break Another dam burst 18 miles up the Moose river from Lyons Falls, N. Y., wrecking a bridge spanning the main highway into the Adiron dacks and flooding farmlands, but the village itself escaped major ‘damage. In Oneida, N. Y., Oneida creek receded after spreading over a six-block area and flooding 300 ‘homes. A fourth of Elmira, N. Y, was flooded by Chemung river tributaries, which quickly receded. Rising six-mile creek caused the evacuation of 35 Ithaca families. High water took out bridges at Nobiesboro, 35 miles north of Utica, and at Floyd, the New York state police reported. Highways in many areas were blocked by flood damage. The rains, which ranged up to four-inch torrents, forced the] evacuation of 50 families from homes at Springville. Pa.. and others at Conneautvillee. Water ran 10 inches deep over the main street of Kerrtown, Pa. First to be struck by the floods was the Miami River Valley north of Dayton and other lowlands of central and northern Ohio. At least 80 families were forced from their homes. Tappers On Parade: FIFTH ANNUAL PHILPOT DANCE REVUE IS PRESENTED TONIGHT Fifth annual Philpot Dance Revue will be presented from the stage of Pound Auditorium at 8:30 p. m. tonight. Proceeds from the Revu,. will be used to sponsor the membership of worthy boys in the YMCA. The Athens Junior Chamber of Commerce has been the co-spon sor of the benefit performance for the past five years. Miss Phipot states this year’s performance will include a cast A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢ Unknown Whether President Will Act Before Leavine For Canada Monday - WASHINGTON, June 4.— {AP) —President Truman wlil not act on the $4,000,000,000 income tax cut bill be fore he leaves for Kansas City Friday morning, Secretary Charles G. Ross said today. ¢ Ross told reporters he did not! know whether Mr. Truman would act before he leaves for Canada; next Monday after his return from the Mid-West. In Kansas City, he will address the meet--} ing of the 35th Division with; which he served in the First‘ World War. w The tax bill, he added, has not yet reached the President’s desk although Congress completed work on it yesterday. The Chief Executive has 10 days, not counting Sundays, to approve or veto it, but the time element pressed in from another ‘direction. | The bill on which the Senate completed congressional action yesterday is designed to take! affect July /1. That means hun dreds of thousands of revised withholding tax instructions and! forms will have to go out to em-i ployers all over the country in the next three weeks if the bill becomes law. Most withholdings would be cut 20 or 30 percent ‘the first of next month. : ' Senator Millikin (R.-Colo.), who piloted the bill through the Senate, said he looks for the President to act this week. ‘ ~ “If he’s going to sign it, ,it's necessary that the new instruc tions go out as soon as possible,” Millikin told a reporter. | : Clera Air “If he’s not going to sign it, it would clear the air for action TN TR T e Sttty ik Secretary of the Treasury Sny der indicated a decision might be reached at a special cabinet meeting on Thursday. The President is due to leave Friday on a week’s trip that will take him to Kansas City and Ottawa. One Democratic official on Capitol Hill told reporters last night that unless Mr. Truman has a last minute change of mind he will veto the biil. Speculation, however, continued rife. The Senate approved the meas~ ure in its final form yesterday, 48 to 28. The House voted for it Monday, 220 to 99. The two-thirds majority in both houses would be required to ovérride a veto, and Senate Re publicans concede they simply don’t have the votes tu do so. The measure provides for cuts (Continued On Page Five) Drastically Gut “AAA” Personnel Hinges on Funds Restoration Notice has been received by the local Production and Mar keting Administration, Field Ser_ vice Branch office (formerly the Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration better known as the Triple A) that unless Congress restores funds appropriated by the last Congress for the 1947 de velopment program, personnel of ‘the State office here will be cut to ten per cent, affective July 1. The announcement was made by T. R. Breedlove State Direc tor for the office ~here which serves the State of Georgia. Mr. Breedlove pointed out that the notice is tentative ang in the na ture of a protective step to allow personnel to make future plans in he event the funds are not resicred. of fifty-five, complete with dress costumes, including tuxedoes to grass skirts. Admission price is children 35 cents, adults 75 cents, including federal tax. Mrs. Wed Barber, school ac companist will assist Miss Phil pot again this year. The scheduled program and those to take part are: “Everybody Has a Laughing Place”, Rosemary Abney, Con (Continued On Page Five) HOME MistrialAßuled" For James Verner; Brother Tom Freed ~ After five hours of delibera tion, an all white jury acquitted Tom Verner late yesterday and reached no decision on hic broth er James, in an indictment charging the two white men with beating a negrb youth for his tes timony before a federal grand jury here last summer. District Judge T. Hoyt Davis, accepted the jury’s acquittal of th. younger Verner and when in formed of the ijuror’s ‘impossible deadlock’ declared a mistrial on the charges against James. A date for a new trial was not set The split verdict came after ‘almost two days of testimony be fore a jury composed mostly of farmers. The two brothers’ tes timony highlighted yesterday's closing session before th, case went to the jury at 12:02 p. m. L Tom Verner, 26, testified that he. took no part in the beating and his brother’s testimony veri fied this statement ats James claimed all respo denied however %gﬁﬁ% ’ the negro, Goldén Lamar Howard, 19, with anything ex cept his fist. Howard testified Monday that he was dragged from a Monroe ice house and beaten by the two men with guns for failing to re veal his testimony before the grandjury probing the Walton County lynching last summer. James c¢ontradicted Xhis tes timony testifying that he beat the negro because on sev~ eral occassions he had attempted to run him off the road with his automobile. While a new date is being set for the trial, the older Verner will b, free on bond. - The Monroe Adcock case, charging him with perjury in the grand jury lynching probe, was not heard and will be held over until the next regular session of district court. ~ lowever, since the personnel here is under Civil Service, it does not mean the employes will lcse their jobs if the funds are not allotted for the program, but that they will be rtansferred from Athens to some other point. Mr. Breedlove is optimistic over possibility that the need ed funds to continue full opera tion of the program will be re stored. However, he pointed out that the entire situation is in a state of flux and nothing definite will be known until Congress acts. He said that in the House, when the bill was on the froor for con sideration the amendment to sustain the full $300,000,000 -the last Congress authorized the Sec retary of Agricuiture to use in developing the 1947 program was defeateq by a vote of 156 to 151. The bill is now before a Senate csub-committee and indications sre that the Senate will restore at least 2 major partof the $300,- C6O 000 to carrv on the work au. (Continued On Page Five) ol TN BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 4.— (AP) — Contract negotia tions between John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers and Southern coal operators broke down today. Ten minutes before the talks were scheduled to re sume, the UMW representa tives notfiied operators they would not attend because the mine owners yesterday had made public their wage pro posals.

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, June 04, 1947, Home Edition, Image 1