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Vol. 115, No. 181.
Philpot Announces
Candidacy For
Civil Service Post
T. M. Philpot, Athens cotton fac
tor and insurance man, yesterday
announced he will be a candidate
for the Civil Service Commission
from the Second Ward in the
Democratic Primary next Fall.
Under the new law, Commis
sioners are elected from the five
City Wards, but the entire City
votes on the selection. The Com
mission was enlarged by an act of
the last Legislature, introduced by
Rep. Jack R. Wells, and each Ward
is now entitled to a representative
with the people, instead of the
City Council electing them.
At the present time the First,
Fourth and Third Ward are repre
sented. The Second and Fifth
Ward representatives will be elect
ed this year. . 5
“I have considered the proposal
that I become a candidate for the
Civil Service Commission for sev
eral weeks”, Mr. Philpot said yes
terday. “I have come to the con
clusion that I will be a candidate.
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Biggest Problem
“As we all know the solution of
the traffic problem, or at least
the control of traffic, is the fore
most municipal problem facing us.
1 believe that fundamentally
there are two requirements which
must be me before we can do
anything about traffic. i
“First, I believe we should have
more policemen.
“Second, I believe we should
have a traffic division in the
Police Department, directed by a
man who has plenty of energy,
horsesense and determination.
“T realize it will cost some
money, possibly about $15,000
additional annually, to properly
staff our Police Department. Can
we afford it? I think we cannot
afford not to have a Police staff
sufficient to protect our citizens.
“Only Providence has saved the
lives of our citizens with a grow
ing traific problem downtown and
in the residential sections.
“1f T am elected a Commissioner,
1 will advocate asking the Mayor
and Council for enough money to
employ enough policemen to pro
tect the citizens. We do not have
them now. And I will advocate
that the Commission set up a
Traffic Division and elect a Di
rector. I am saying this now be
cause 1 want the people to know
how I stand. T have-absolutely.no
desire to be a member of the Com
mission if I am elected under false
pretenses.
Will Call The Plays
“If the people want the kind of
program I advocate they can elect
me and I will serve with the best
that I have. I will call the play
as an umpire does and let the de
cisions lay just where they are
made.”
As an umpire of baseball games,
a hobby he has followed since he,
was graduated from the Univer
sity of Georgia in 1919, where he
was a baseball star, Mr. Philpot
was using an expression with
which he is familiar.
An Augustan by birth, Mr. Phil
pot became a citizen of Athens
after his graduation from the Uni
versity. He married an Athens
girl, Miss Hortelle Hood. They
have a deughter, Miss Dorothy
Philpit.
He is a veteran of World War
One.
Mr. Pilpot is one of the tost
enthusiastic supporters of the Uni
versity of Georgia athletic pro
gram. He was a prime mover in
organization of the Georgia
Boosters Club. He is a Mason,
member of the First Baptist
church. He has always been a
strong and effective worker for
the Democratic Party. He was one
”‘l' the “original Russell men” in
Clarke county, a strong advocate
of angressman Paul Brown, and
Was instrumental in carrying this
county for several recent Gover
nors.,
e ——— e e, c——
Peggy Maynard, 12 years-old,
0l Boga-t was injureq early Sat
urday when she fell off th(; back
of a moving truck on Mxl!edge}
A McDorman-Bridges ambul
&rce answered the call but she
had been taken to the General
Hospital by a private car.
Her condition was described as
f2ir by hospital officials. She sub
tained a broken- shoulder and a
broken knee.
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17 Die In British
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DONCASTER, -England, Aug. 9
—(AP)—Two London and north
eastern railway trains, crowded
with weekend holiday seekers,
Crashed outside Doncaster statiqn
today and company officials said
17 persons were killed and nearly
50 injured. s
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TECHNICAL CHARGE
~ HOT SPRINGS_ Ark., Aug. 9—
AP) — A technical charge _of
homicide was filed today against
Mrs, Sidney McMath, pretty 26—
vear-old wife of the prosecuting
dttorney, for the -fatal shooting
of his 56-year-old father at her
tountry home Thursday night.
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as this warn unauthorized persons to stay away.
14 Athenians
Candidates For
Summer Degrees
Two hundred and ninety-eight
persons are candidates for de
grees in the forthcoming Summer
Quarter Graduation Exercises at
the University of Georgia, accord
ing to Dr. J. Ralph Thaxton, regis
trar.
Degrees will be bestowed inl
twenty categories. Graduate de- |
grees will be given to 81 students,
49 of them receiving the Master
of Education Degree. Eight persons
will receive the Master of Science
in Agriculture; two, the Master of
Science in Home Economics; two, |
the Master of Science in Fores-'
try; three, the Master of Science
in Education; four, the Master of
Science; four, the Master of Fine
Arts; and nine, the Master.of Arts.,
The Bacheloer of Business Ad-!
ministration Degree leads in num- |
bers in the bacclaureate categories
with 40 candidates, with the
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
second with 39. Other under
graduate degree groups with more
than 25 candidates are Bachelor
of Arts, 31; Bachzlor of Science in
Fducation, 27; and Bachelor of |
Science, 26.
The Commencement Exercises
will be held at 10:30 a. m. Satur
day, August 30, in the Fine Arts
Auditorium. Senator Walter F.
George will be the principal
speaker, and Till M. Huston, Dal-!
ton, candidate for the Bachelor
nf Seienre in Agriculture Degree,l
will deliver the valedictory ad-j
dress. |
14 Athenians
The names of degree candidates
from Athens are as follows:
Bachelor of Arts—Joseph Les
ter Collins, Hyman Garson, and
Eugenia Caihoun Hargreaves.
Master of Arts—Helen P. Gar
son.
Master of Science—Paul Ed
wards Morrow.
Bachelor of Science—Robert
Henry Loomis.
Bachelor of Business Adminis
tration—Paul John Plevack.
Bachelor of Scienee in Educa
tion—David Wilson Stephenson.
Bachelor of Science in Agricul
ture—Frederick Block.
Bachelor of Science in Agricul
ture Engineering—Alvin Mac-
Millan Powell, jr.
Master of Education—Charles
Monroe Rose, and James Conrad
Womack. ;
Record Is Within Reach:
ODOM MCRE THAN TWO-THIRDS
AROUND WORLD ON SOLO FLIGHT
TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 10 —
—(AP) — Endurance flier Will
jam P. Odom took off from Yo-
Kota Airfield early today in the
next to last leg of a world flight
which he said should set a new
recorq by “eight or ten hours.”
The big blond airman and his
converted A-26 bombshel! plane
were 50 hours and 23 minutes out
of Chicago and had covered
more than 13,000 miles when he
soared off the runway at 5:16 a.
m. (3:16) p. m,, Satu-day, EST).
There was another 6.000 miles
to go, half of it on the Tokyo an
chorage leg over the Pacific.
Odom, 27, set out from Chicago
Thursday (12:53 p. m., EST),
with the announced intention of
halving the late Wiley Post’s
1933 solo world record of 186
hours.
However, he remarked during
his one hour and 48 minutes stop
at. Yakota that he expected to
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and heavy rubber gloves gathering up paint which will
be taken to a‘ laboratory for analysis. This ship is the
transport Crittenden which is even today plenty “hot.”
Rookie Trooper
Kills Farmer
Who Shot Infant
Rome, Ga., Aug. 9—(AP—
A rookie state trooper today
shot and killed Homer
Shedd, 56-year-old tenant
farmer, accused of the shot
gun slaying of his eight
months-old son wl{o was
nursing in his mother’s arms.
Trooper John E. Hulsey,
an Infantry wvetéran felled
Shedd with one rifle shot at
a range of 100 yards. The
small, wiry hillsman had
been sought by a posse for
almost 24 howurs in the rural
Northwest Georgia section.
Hulsey said Shedd had
shoved a cocked shotgun
through a window in the
home of Mrs. Fanny King
today and threatened to kill
her and her family. Mrs.
King ran screaming from the
house. A neighbor, wealthy
planter Grady Bradshaw,
and several armed citizens
heard the :cries and set out
in pursuit of the fugitive.
surpass the recorq of 78 hours
and 55 minutes which he himself
set with-a crew last April in the
same. plane as well as Post’s
mark.
The previous flight began at
New ~ York, so exact comparisons
are impossible, but his elapsed
time from Chicago to Tokyo was
only ten minutes move than the
time from New York to Tokyo,
giving him an actual advantage
of several hours since he has less
milage still to c¢over.’ :
Odom saved time by short
ground stops and by flying direct
from Calcutta to Tokyo, skipping
the Shanghai stop of the previous
flight. ;
He appeared more tense and
nervous than tired, but said “I'm
getting pretty sleepy.”
He added that he intended to
start taking stay-awake drugs on
the Pacific hop. He does not
smoke. : £ oS
India Begins Independence
Week; Union Jack Descends
Hughes Says He Gave Parties
To opike ‘Stuck Up" Rumors
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—(AP)—Howard Hughes told Senate investigators today
he began spending for entertainment when he got confidential word that Army offi
cers congidered him a “stuck up” rich man who wouldn’t “kow tow.”
Also, the millionaire plane de
signer, manufacturer and flie?l
solemnly testified that he may
leave the country for good if his!
giant much-criticised cargo plane
fails to fly. & !
“I put the sweat of my life in
this thing,” Hughes told a War
Investigating subcommittee. “My
-eputation is rolleq up in it
“I have stated several times if
it is a failure, I'll probably jeave
Max Michael, president, Na
tional Bank of Athens, has been
named as a Counselor to the State
Tax Revision Committee from the
Georgia Bankers Association by
John J. Cornell of Savannah, Pres
ident of the association.
In addition to Mr. Michael,
Sherman Drawdy, President, Geor
gia Railroad Bank & Trust Com
pany, Augusta, Georgia; David J.
Arnold, WVice-President, Com
mercial Bank & Trust Company,
Griffin, Georgia; John S. Peters,
Chairman of Board and President,
Bank of Manchester, Manchester,
Georgia; Dameron Black, Vice-
President, Trust Company of
Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia; John:
L. Hendon, . Vice-President, Peo
ples Bank, Carrollton, Georgia; E.
F. Vickers, President, Citizens
Bank & Trust Company, Bain
bridge, Georgia, and William C.
Adamson, Vice-President and
Cashier, First National Bank, Af
lanta, Georgia, were also named
to serve with him.
I The Georgia Savings and Loan
i League has also appointed a com
mittee to study tax revision, ac
cording to William M. Lester,
Executive Secretary of the Tax
Revision Committee, who has been
advised of the appointment of a
committee by Edward W. Hiles,
Executive Vice-President of the
i League. The members appointed
from the League are Joseph S.
Shaw, Treasurer, First Federal
| Savings and €L.oan Association of
Atlanta, W. O. DuVall, Executive
Vice-President, Atlanta Federal
,Savings and Loan Association, and
Charles D. Hurt, Attorney for
Home Building and Loan Associa
tion of Atlanta.
“The survey :and study of the
itax system:of the State is pro
'gressing satisfactorily,” said Les
’ter, who is coordinating the study
being made by seven sub-com
mittees who will submit their re
ports and recommendations to the
full Committee at a later date. In
idiscussing the study and survey,
' he further said, “We are receiving
|man,v suggestions and ideas from
.people throughout the State for
| revision of our tax system. The
{Committee is anxious to receive
,such suggestions, as we want
1 every citizen to have a part in
. re-writing the tax laws of the
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ESTARLISHED 1832
Athens, Ga., Sunday, August 10, 1947,
this country and never come
back. And 1 mean that.” |
Hughes said he could not guar
antee the plane would fly or that
it woulg be a success, that he
only hoped it would. But he said
the criticism of the project andl
of the money spent on it was “un-
Jjustified.” ;
The subcommittee is investiga-|
ting the wartime contract the
government gave Hughes and in
dustrialist Henry J. Kaiser for
the aerial ecargo craft —the
world’s biggest plane. It also is
looking into Hughes’ contract
during the war for photographic
reconnaissance planes.
None of either was delivered
while the fighting was on . The
committee wants to know why. !
Hughes gave another install
ment on his story today, along
with a lecture on aeronautics.
Today’s installment went again
into expense accounts for enter
tainment charged to Hughes’
ccmpany. Absent, however, was
Hughes publicity man John W.
Meyer who has told in previous
appearances of spending $164,-
000 in entertaining wartime offi
cials and thei~ companions. The
committee is seeking elaboration
from Meyer.
Party Venture
Hughes told the questioning
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich),
chairman of the subcommittee,
about his venture into entertain
ment as a plane builder.
He said he had heard that
Avmy officers' considered him a
“stéick up” rich man who thought
“himself too good for him and sat
““out in my bailiwick in Holly
wood instead oi coming o
Wright Field to kow tow.”
Wright Field, at Dayton, Ohio,
is headquarters for the Army Air
Forces and,Hughes, without giv
ing any names, said “I was told
of this in confidence in a Dayton
hotel, by one of the high-ranking
officers at Wright Field. e
Hughes said generals and offi
cers all down the line “complain
ed that 1 was a rich man and did
not bother with them.”
It was then, he said, he author
ized spending for entertainment.
But in an almost hurt tone, he
denieq that any ente-tainment
expenses were part of some $150,-
000 in costs for the flying boat
which he said the government re
fused to ailow. Ferguson had ask
ed him about that.
In contrast with his earlier ap
pearances before the subcommit
ice there were little firewovks be
tween Hughes and Ferguson.
Before the committee quit fo~
the dav —the hearing goes on
apain Monday — Hughes testi
fied:
No Fraud
1. He “sertainly” knows of no
“fraud or corruption” on anyone’s
part in obtaining the contract for
the 200-ton flying boat.
2. “Hatred” of Army officers
prevented his getting orders for
other planes befove the war. The
Army wouldn’t touch planes he
designed “with a 10-foot pole.”
3. It appeareds “more than a
coincidence” that the Lockheed
Company designed a twin-engine
interceptor plane, which became
the famous P-38 lightning, after
the Army compelled him to ‘“sit”
four months on a similar design
and Lockheed hired engineers he
had to lay off.
4. The'Army turned down a
pre-war plane, with which he set
American Invesitgators On $2,000,000
Treasure Hunt In German Underworld
BERLIN, Aug. 9—(AP)~The
vanishing ' jewels of German
Royalty lured American investi
ators on a $2,000,000 treasure
hunt tonight through a bizarre
maze that already has involved a
dozen nationalities in Berlin's
underworld ‘and promises to lead
to an international incident.
German Prince Ferdinand von
Schoenaich-Carolath told inter
viewers he and his wife had sub
mitted to truth serum tests to
satisfy investigators of the accu
racy of his story that the jewels
belonging to his mother, Prin
cess Hermine, the late widow of
Germany’s last Kaiser, had mys
teriously disappeared from a
trunk in the house of an Amer
ican friend where he had kept
new world and cross-country
speed records because of its can
tilever construction — a type
Hughes said is used now in all
planes. It took the Army and Na
vy eight years, he said, to equal
his plane’s performance, but the
Japanese patterned their renowed
“Zero” after it.
5. The big cargo boat has been
structurally complete for months.
What is holding up the test is
the trouble controls. Hughes said
the plane has passed the size
where the controls can b opera
| ted by manpower alone.
Hike In Popular Jitters:
U, S. ASSURED BRITISH TROOPS
WON'T BE YANKED FROM GRE |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.— (AP) —Great Britain was
reported by diplomatic authorities today to have reassur
ed the United States that British troops will not be pulled
hastily out of Greece, despite earlier plans to withdraw
th - m by autumn.,
The British force now there is
small, numbering only about 6,000
men, but both American and
British officials regard the pre
sence of this group as a stabilizing
factor in Greece.
Fresh rumors that it would be
withdrawn as part of Britain’s
‘economy ng%\paign were describ
ed authoritatively here as at least
partly responsible for an increase
in popular jitters in Greece re
cently. This nervous situation was
refiected in reports from Athens
that the money market there had
showed a rise in the drachunl
value of the gold sovereign. Ob
servers in Athens describe this as
the usual forerunner of a govern
mental crisis.
American policy in stemming
Communism in Greece appears to
be aimed at preventing any kind
of erisis, certainly in the period
during which the American as
sistance program to Greece is be
ing set up by Administrator.
Dwight P. Griswold.
Various Factors
Rumors about the withdrawal of
British troops—rumors‘ which
actually were in line with previous
British policy statements—were
said by officials here to be only
one of various factors disturbing
the Greek political situation and
complicating the task before Gris
wold.
Other upsetting influences in
clude (1) the Russian veto late
last month“of the American pro
posal to create a United Nafions
Greek Border Commission and (2)
persistent reports that Greece's
Communist neighbor states have
some sort.of international Prigade
ready to go into action at the
proper moment,
The brigade reports are not dis
counted by American officials al
though none has ever come fare
ward publicly with evidence of
the actual existence of such an
organization. Speculation here is
that if such an organization does
it might be used at some point in
an effort to capture enough Greek
territory for the Greek Com
munists to allow them to set up
a provisional Communist govern
ment of some sort.
$5,000,000 of the German Royal
treasure.
A woman emissary, he said,
had “risked her neck” to smug
gle the jewels from his mother’s
apartment at Frankfurt-on-Oder
in the Russian zone, where she
died Thursday, into the Amer
ican sector of Berlin.
The nervous, 34-year-old
Prince, who is blind in one eye
from a war wound, said he had
been shadowed by two NKVD
(Soviet Secret Police) agents be
fore the 29 gems disappeared,
and was certain he had been
betrayeX to the Russians while
playing a cat and mouse game
with them and moving off his
trail.
- American quarters said the
disappearance of Princess Her-
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Virginia Hill
Urged To Take
Safety Measures
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Aug.
9 — (AP) — Virginia Hill
was under 24-hour guard by
private detectives today after
she had been advised by
Miami Beach Police Chief P.
R. Short to “take precau
tions” for her safety.
The pretty, 30-year-old
friend of slain gambler Ben
jamin (Bugsy) Siegel, 42,
was given an escort or two
detectives who whisked her
to her Sunset Island home
t-om the airport when she
arrived from Paris anq New
York today.
Chief Short told Miss Hill
thought it “imperative that
she be guarded against possi
bl harm,” and suggesteg that
she hire private detectives.
She followed the advice, a
Miami Beach detective re
maining on guard until the
private operative reported
for duty.
Harry J. Merk
To Be Candidate
For Gity Council
Harry J. Merk, for twenty
seven years connected with the
Railway Express Agency here,
Saturday announced that he will
be a candidate for City Council
from the Fourth Ward in’ the
primary to be held in November.
'~ Date for the election will be
set this fall by the Clarke County
Democratic Executive Commit
tee. 3
Mr. Merk has lived in Athens
practically ail of his life, having
come to this city from Jackson
county. ’
Residing at 735 Prince Av
enue, Mr. and Mrs. Merk have
two children, a daughter, Miss
Suzanne Merk, a junior in the
University of Georgia, and one
son, Harry, jr.,, a senior in Ath
ens High School.
Mr. Merk is a member of Cen
tral Presbyterian Church and has
been active-in the civic and
fraternal life of the city for a
number of vears.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and not much
change in temperature through
Sunday. Slight chance of
thunderstorms Sunday after
noon.
GEORGIA: Partly cloudy *
with little change in temper
ature Sunday and Monday.
Widely scattered afternoon
and evening thundershowers,
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lmine's jewels had the possibility
of international complications
because they had been smuggled
from the Russian Zone and the
Russians might demand the rest
%of the treagure be returned.
| Under Guard
| The remaining 66 pieces have
! been deposited under U. 8. guard
in Frankfort-on-Main, American
Headquarters City in Germony.
i The Prince said the 95 pieces
iincluding gem-studded tiaras,
ear rings, brooches,combs, toilet
fsets, snuff and powder boxes,
bracelets, rings and watches,
were worth 50,000,000 marks, or
) $5,000,000 at present rates of
military exchange. The value of
{the stolen pieces was $2,000,000
| he said. &
LOCAL COTTON
1-INCH MIDDLING .... 34 1-4
Two Centuries
Of British Rule
To End This Week
NEW DELHI, Aug. 9.—
(AP)—lndia stands today
at the threshold of her
promised freedom from two
centuries of Rritish rule—ga
freedom under which the
Hindus and Moslems, divid
ed into bitterness, go separ
ate ways in two new coun
tries seeking their fortunes
among the nations of the
world. Sl
This coming week—in Mo
hammedan majority Pakistan on
Aug. 14 and in Hindu majorty
India on Aug. 15-—the Union
Jack will be hauled down and in
its place will be raised national
flags marking a day of days for
which thousands of Indians
fought, died and endured im
prisonment,
On those days Pakistan and
India will' become “ hard-fisted
Democracies, which will vest in
their administrative officials
bowers far broader than the,
American type of Democracy.
These new powers resemble
strongly those held wunder the
Viceroy.
The end of British Crown rule
and the start of Dominion status
will be marked by cereg;onm\
and public celebrations. To na
tions in both countries the day
represents all the Fourth of July
and French Bastille Days rolled
into one.
The public celebrations started
today, coinciding with the anni
versary of the Congress Party's
launching of its civil disobedi
ence campaign, Aug. 9, 1942.
Processions were = climaxed by
many public rallies.
Figuratively, this means the
British are quitting India.
But actually Viceroy Lord
Mountbatten remains as Govern
or General of Hindu India. Gen.
Sir Claude J. Auchinleck will be
supreme commander of both the
Indian and Pakistan armed for
ces. Britons will command the
armed forc&® of both countries.
Each country will have at least
two British Governors of Pro
vinces as well as Englishmen in
other high civili and military
posts.
Ultimate Geals
Both Indian and’' Pakistan
leaders still mention ecomplete
sovereign Independence as ulti
mate goals. Both are staring
hard at the tiny French Colony
of Pondichery and the Portu
gese Colony of Goa and at those
princely Indian states which re
fuse a union with India or Pak
istan.
When lean, whiplike Mahomed
Ali Jinnah becomes C?er;mr
General of Pakistan on .Aug. 14
virtual dictatorial powers auto
matically go into his hands. He
will hold . these powers to run
the country until a Constitution
is drafted by a constituent as
sembly. The assembly will be~
gin this task tomorrow and its
completion is not expected for at
least several months.
Jinnah, who led his Moslem
League in its long and blood~
tained fight for separation of
Pakistan from the rest of India,
refuses to reveal in advance
what form of Democracy he
wants. Associates closerg;h}m,
say they will be;’surprisecf if it is
rot one in which great power
will repose in administraters.
U. S. Influence
These associates add that
British influence is expected to
be great in India. but that Ames
ican influence will be great in
Pakistan, because that country
will need dollars. ’
In India, where Jawaharial
Nehnu is slated to be top man as
Prime Minister, Constitutional
sections already drafted follow
the British pattern more closely
than the American. The Central
Government is. given au&‘&rifi';ég:
reach deeply into provineial af
fairs and in emergencies assume
the life and death powers held
formerly by the Viceroy. =
The Hindus and Moslems
reached a bitter parting, and that
bitterness over the division of
India is reflected in the blood
spilling which still continues in
the rich Puniab and WBengal—
each of which is being split into
two dominions. 1
These elements, who represent
only a tiny fraction of India’s
400,000,000 population,, are - a
distraction which Jinnah @ and
Nehru and other top figures are
working together to eliminate.
The leaders want to get on to
other grave internal and interna
tional problems pressing for at
tention. A