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Vol. CXVI, No. 81.
bovernment Presents Contempt Evidence
Ctassen Wins Nebraska Election With
Floods Hit
Big Areas
0f Nation
Ohio River Valley Is
Focal Point Of Big
Floods In Nation Now
CINCINNATI, April 14.—(AP)
—A five-state Ohio River Valley
area today was the focal point
of widespread spring floods
which also spilled into some
Florida and North Dakota low
lands.
Experiencing its first major
flood since March, 1945, the Ser
pentine Ohio was 10 feet above
flood stage in some areas and
rising steadily throughout the
500-mile stretch. Tributaries
went over their banks through
out the watershed.
Florida’s state capital, Talla
hassee, was isolated from penin
sula Florida except by air or
round-about routes through
southern Georgia. Branford, Fla.,
was hardest hit when the mean
dering Suwannee River left its
banks. There were no reports of
flood deaths or injuries.*
Families Evacuated
An estimated 1,000 families
were evacuated in the Ohio
River area — Kentucky, Penn
sylvania, West Virginia, Indiana
and Ohio. Nearly 100 families
were forced from éheir homes in
Grand Forks, N. D., and nearby
East Grand, Forks, Minn., when
the Red River crested at 40.70
feet, 12.70 feet above flood level.
National Guardsmen ,dynamited
ice jams there to save - bridges.
Grand Forks’ power plant was
out of order.
Red Cross disaster workers
said thousands in the Ohio Val
ley would be homeless unless
streams crest swiftly. River ex
perts refused to prediet a crest
until near-continuous rains, now
in their third day, come to a
halt, :
National Guard units were
alerted at Marietta, Ohio, Par
kersburg, W. Va,, and Jefferson
ville, New Albany and Evans
ville, Ind.
At Washington, Red Cross
Eastern Area Headquarters an
nounced it was sending 20 dis
aster workers to areas facing
major flood threats. Red Cross
shelters were set up at Parkers
burg and Point Pleasant, W. Va.;
Maysville, Ky.; :Cincinnati &nd
Marietta, Ohio; and Madison and
Aurora, Ind.
1 Send Supplies
The Army and Coast Guard
sent coats, blankets and addi
tional workers, Cynthiana, Ky’s
3800 population was without
public water supplies after the
rain-gorged South 'Licking River
crested at 23 feet, nearly twice
flood stage. About 100 families
Were homeless there( and at
Ciicinnati and Milford, Ky. The
200 Claysville, Ky., residents
moved to higher ground last
night while -forty families were
€vacuated at Awurora and New
Albany, Ind., and Madrietta.
Two Ohio cities. — Pomeroy
and Athens — were isolated as
:111 traffic ground to a virtual
alt.
At Pittsburgh, where' the Mon
ongahela and Ailegheny Rivers
meet to form the Ohio, the river
Crested at 26.6 yesterday noon
and started going down. But last
. (Continued on Page Six.)
ATHENS AND VICINITY l
Mostly cloudy with scat
lered showers this afernoon
and tonight. Partly cloudy
and cooler Thursday.
GEORGIA — Mostiy cloudy
With scattered showers and
thunderstorms “this afternoon
and in southeast portion to
night. Not so warm this aft
ernoon, cooler in north and
West portions tonight. Thurs
day partly clouder and
Cooler, v
TEMPERATURE
Highest b spiiee i U TR {
Lowest ..., vas .48 ‘
Mean' .;. 4 ol o
O e T D |
- RAINFALL 3
Inches last 24 hours .« .» 00
Total since AP L Gy LO%
Excess since Apell 1.0 0
Average April rainfall .. 3.73
Total since January 1 i LBk
Excess since January 1 .. 491
Dewey, Taft And
Vandenberg Run
Next In Polling
Truman Gets Support
Of Nebraska’s 12
Convention Delegates
BY JACK BELL
OMAHA, April 14— (AP) —
Tireless Harold E. ‘Stassen lift
ed himself into the top rank of
Republican presidential candi
dates today with a sweeping vic
tory in Nebraska’s GOP primary.
Mis clear-cut win clubbed.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York into political submis
sion for the second week in a
row. Dewey was shut out in the
April 6 Wisconsin primary when
Stassen won 19 of the state’s 27
nominating votes.
Taft Loses Prestige
The former Minnesota gover
nor’s victory bashed the prestige
of Senator Robert A. Taft. It
built new fires under the good
man-but-can’t-win theory that
has dogged the Taft campaign.
It all but snuffed out the dying
hopes of General Douglas Mac~
Arthur’s supporters.
But it left intact the dark
horse possibilities of ° Senator
Arthur Vandenberg, secure in
fourth place in a race he s,purn-l
ed. -
The count in yesterday‘s free
for-all primary from 1,429 of the
state’s 2,024 precincts was Stas
sen 53,874, Dewey 41,167, Taft
13,873, Vandenberg 5,508, Mac-
Arthur 4,556, Governor Earl
Warren of California 1,208, and
House Speaker Joseph Martin
566. - - s (IR W
' Along with his victory in the
free-for-all popularity contest,
Stassen appeared likely to wrap
up as a 41st birthday present the
first-ballot support at the Phila
delphia convention of at least 13
of the state’s 15 delegates. |
Dewey Chances |
On the basis of incomplete re
turns, Dewey had a chance to
get one delegate and another
pos<ible winner was unpledged.
Of the 13 who said they would
vote for the primary winner on
the first nominating test at the
national convention, five also
pledged to support him as long
as he has a chance for the nomi
nation. The delegates are not
bound by the popular vote in the
primary.
Charles Reed, Omaha attorney
and Nebraska manager of Van
denberg’s unsuccessful - presiden
tial campaign in 1940, was lead
ing the list of candidates run
ning in state-wide races for
seven of the 15 delegate posts.
Reed pledged first ballot support
to the primary winner.
These convention delegates
were elected in a primary that
saw ihe Democrats cheose a 12-
vote delegation and give Prgsi
dent Truman a pat on the back.
Truman Unopposed
Mr. Truman, running unop
posed, polled 24,099 votes in
1,114 precincts in the Demo
cratic popularity contest. Senator
O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.), running
solo for vice presidential en
dorsement, fell behind with 18,-
266 votes in the 1,043 precincts.
Republicans renominated Sen
ator Kenneth Wherry, acting
GOP Senate leader, and Gover
(Continued on Page Six.)
Rebel Vicfory Seen Today In Six-Weeks
Old Costa Rican War; Governmeni Moves
U. S. State Department Advised That San
Jose Is In Endangered By Revolters Now
By The Associated Press
Costa Rica’s six-weeks-old Civil
war seemed to be boiling down to
a finish—and a Rebel victory—
today.
Reports were heard in Guate
mala that the Rebel chieftain, Jose
Figueres, has set up a provisional
government in Cartago, the coun
try’s second largest city, 30 miles
southeast of San Jose, the capital.
The U. S. State Department in
Washington was advised last night
that San Jose is endangered by the
revolters and that a house-to
house defense of the capital is ex
pected. San Jose's population is
about 68,000.
There are no dispatches direct
from. Costa Rica because of cen
sorship.
A well-informed traveler from
Costa Rica, who asked that his
name be withheld, reported on his
arrival in Panama last night that
President Teodoro Picado Michal
ski of Costa Rica has accepted
peace terms dictated by Figueres
Full Associatea Press Service
C Of C Increases
New Members Are
Revealed Today
The roster of membership of
of the Chamber of Commerce
is begining to read like a “Whose
Who” in Athens as the member
ship increases and as the exist
ing membership increases its
dues.
In the past few days the fol
lowing new members have been
added to the roll and the follow~
ing active memiers have sub
stantially increased their fees—
inYmost cases doubled or better:
New Mempvers
The Basketeria, McLeroy Pro
duce Co., Athens Chickery, John
Brown Grocery, F. H. Mendel
hall, The Huddle, Charlie James
Laundry, New Way Dry Clean
ers & Laundry, L. L. Wright,
Richard Bloodworth, G. F. Ste
(Continued on Page Six.)
P.T. A. Battle Of
Gentury Tuesday
Local Pops To Show
‘Em How To Do It
Next Tuesday night at 8
o'clock the High School gym will
be Celebrity Center for Commu
nity Cut-ups. Most of the high
'schoolers’ Dads will don dashing
% basketball uniforms -and flash the!
form faultless b‘{(org an anticip
! pated audience of a thousand fes
tive fans when the: A. H. S,
P. T. A puts on its Battle of
Century, FATHER'S FRAY. ,‘
- Two mighty basketball. . teams
‘have been garnered . from the.
‘gallant goalings — all of them
‘must be crowding forty — b}
Dudy Driftmiresind Josh Molder
who will be the coupageous cap
tains of the opposing behemoths.
Drifty will lead the Red Elephants
into a stampede and Josh will
mold the White Bears into some
professional squeeze plays. Their
coaches, Eaves, the Beef, and De- |
laperriere, the Basketeer, are
now busily laboring with these
prancing papas and rounding
them int, shape for gz well-oiledAi
slick-clicking games that will
smaze the. home towners. They
will display some of the fanciest
tipping and flipping in the South- |
euast. They’re all expert at making
a drop in the slot from any and
all angles. Thg{’re great at play«l
ing forwagrd. No one wants tol
rlay guard, Being a center (of at
traction, sonny) is the next most
popular position to being forward
(Would you have believed it?).
The line-ups will be announced
later if you can bear to wait.
Anyway, some of the frolicsome
fellows will be Wee Welly Butts
Sammy Wood, B. Y. Grier, Bob
bie Seagraves, Preston Almand
Judgie West, Ellum Shadgett
Biew Ick Thurman and lots of
other fine boys, including Jaydee
Bolton and Emmett Cabaniss.
The feudin’ fodders will he
flagged on by still greater attrac
tions, the famous Fancy Fillies
from Four Points (of the cam
pass that is). This bevy of bouneing |
bheauties will form a cheer lead-‘
ing section the likes of which this
tcwn has seen none whicher
They're really flashy. These flex
ible femmes are being drilled
night and day to a state of per
fection by such tastey technicions
(Continued on Page Six.)
which call for Picado to resign
when Congress meets May 1.
Reports from other sources said
all peace terms submitted by
Figueres had been accepted except
for some minor points. Disrupted
communications 'fl'e reported
hampering the negotiations.
Just what part Communists are
playing in the situation, if any,
remained obscure.
Travelers arriving in Panama
from Costa Rica said Manuel
Mora, Communist leader, has
seized the international airport at
Lassbanas, on_the outskirts of San
Jose. The Communists have been
supporting the government, but
now appear to be taking things in
their own hands, these informants
said. This was largely borne out in
dispatches to the U. S: Staie De
partment, which heard that Com
munists in the Vanguardia party,
which has been- supperting the
government, ar:&fiow‘fig an in
creasingly independent line.
(Continued On Page Six)
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948.
Meyers-Hughes Warlime Dealings Labeled
"Obviously Corrupt” Inßeport Today
Senate Group Calls
For Law To Deal
With Future Cases
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, April 14—(AP)
—A report to Congress today
labeled as “obviously corrupt” the
wartime negotiations between mil
lionaire plane builder Howard
Hughes and Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers.
The Senate War Investigating
Committee which drafted the
document called for a law to deal
with any future case of the kind.
It said such a law should de
mand that both private citizens
and officials “report promptly all
attempts at bribery, extortion, or
other corrupt acts in connection
with the negotiation of government
business.” :
The final report of the seven
year old committee once headed
by President Truman eovers the
group’s sensation-packed hearings
of last year.
! Hughes Probe
These began as an inquiry into
Hughes’' plane contracts but later
centered around the wartime acti
vities of Meyers as No. 2 purchas~
ing officer for the Army Air
Forces.
As a result of the committee’s
disclosures, Meyers was convicted
of forcing a former businéss as
sociate to lie to the Senate Investi
gating Committee and was sen
tenced to 20 months to «five
years on that charge and still
faces two income tax fraud in
dictments—and possibly a court
martial.
The committee report was due
to be filed formally with the Sen
ate during the day. It has been ap
proved by a majority of the 10-
pASmber group, -t ey M
. A copy of the document already
sent to the government office was
made available to a reporter. It
includes these other finds and rec
ommendations:
1. That War Department and
Army Air Force leaders failed to
conduct an adequate investigation
into previous charges against Mey
ers and later ‘“deliberately tried to
conceal” facts from the Senate
Committee.
2. That all future inquiries in
to “corrupt or improper activities”
on the part of Air Force, Army,
Navy or other officers be conduct
ed by a separate agency so avoid
“a tendency to cover up or white
wash” cases involving officers of
high rank.
3. That the Hughes Tool Com
pany, in which Hughes holds all
the stock, faces a possible “tax de
ficiency” for 1940-46 of almost SB,-
500,000 although these ‘“pre
liminary determinations” are sub
ject to review both by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue and the
courts.
Expense Accounts
4, That John W. Meyer, free
spending public relations man for
Hughes, paid expense accounts
totaling $169,661 during the five
war years in an attempt to win
favor of Air Force and other of
ficials handling contracts.
5. That all such costs be “dis~
allowed in computing federal in
come taxes’.
6. That the “draft deferments
of John Meyer should be fully
investigated by the Department of
Justice.” - 4
Parading through the final re
port are most of the names that
made headlines during the hear
ings—except that of Senator
Brewster (R-Me), chairman of the
(Continued On Fage Six)
Sunday School Lesson
Of The Week
By Roy'L. Smith
By ROY L. SMITH
The international Sunday
School Lesson of this week deals
with a theme extremely modern,
though the scripture concerning
it comes from an mncient day.
This Sunday Schooi Lesson
is sponsored by the Athens
Banher-Herald, The Interna
tional Council of Religious
Eduecation, and the Athens
Ministerial Association. Dr.
Roy Smith is the brilliant
editor of a Methodist na
tional paper and the opinions
herein expressed are his own.
We hope these lessons may
be a real service to the
community.
When the Hebrews were car
ried off into Babylonian capitivi
ty it was only the leaders, the
important business men, the tem
ple priesis, il cultured, and the
ESTABLISHED 1832,
Coburn Kelley Wrifes
To Boys At Athens Y
Coburn Kelley, Director of Ath
letics at the Athens YMCA, who
iz at present on leave of absence
with Bobby Forbes in the Jungles
of Brazil on a wild animal hunt
ing expedition has written & let
ter back to the boys at the “Y.”
~ Mr. Kelley and Mr. Forbes are
lin these wild jungles not only
catching wilq animals and snakes
but also gathering up a store of
thrilling stories to tell the boys
at “Pine Tops Camp” when they
réturn to take over in the early
summer.
In his letter, made public by
CGeneral ecretary H. C. Pearscn
Mr. Kelley tells of his travels and
linteresting experiences in the
DBrazilian Jungle, e
The letter follows:
The Letter
Barra, Amazonas,
Brazil, S. A.
March 19, 1948.
Qear Friends:
The small village of Barra
(about 30 mud and straw huts
with one central building of
wood and covered with palm
fronds) far up the Tapajos River
‘amid some of Brazil’'s wildest
ccuntry is from where I've decid
ed to write you a few lines.
’Judging from its beautiful and
ideal location, I predict that Bar-!
ra will someday become a thriv
}ing metropolis. I would like very
much to write each of you a per
sonal letter, but as I can’t possi
bly have time for that I'm writ
ing a general letter and will ask
Miss Anne to mimeograph a copy
for sach of you. Of courese, 1
have no idea when I will be able
to ‘mail it for thelre is no postof
| fice here ang our transportation
’down river is very uncertain. We
find two of the most used sayingsl
'down here: “Mas ou Menos,”
‘mezning ' “more or less;” and
“amanha” meaning ‘“tomorrow.”
First, let me tell you about five
additions .t, our camping party
all of whom are very friendly.
quite noisy and as fond of bana
nas as we are. There are three
parrots and one small parakeet
“Piney” and “Toppy” are the
nomes we have given two' of the‘
parrots which we obtained from
{riendly Indians. “Cururu,” forl
the river we have been camping
cn, is the name of the other. The
perakeet’s name is “Pete.” Anoth
er member of the part,, is a small,
reddish-grey. marmoset monkev
with a white face and a black
nose and mouth, and about the
size of a small squirrel. His name
is “Secorpion,” “Scorpy” for short,
in honor of our champion foot
ball team of last year. His favor
ite place is clinging to my arm
or sitting on my shoulder. He
squalls worse than a baby, if we
ieave him alone. His favorite
pastime is catching bugs, which
he likes almost as much as he
does fruit. 1 doubt being able to
get any of the pets through the
U. S. Custom officials, but I'm
going to try, and sis possible
bring back a few non-poisonous
snakes, also. If I don’t get the
pets back with me, I'll bring some
pictures of them anyway.
Alone With Pets
For the past month, Bobby
Forbes, Atlanta, and I, alone ex
cept for our pets, have been
slowly working our way in a small
row bost along the Cururu River
a tributary of the Rio Tapahos,
(Continued On Page Six)
influential who were exiled—
some ten thousand of them.
Scores of other thousands of the
illiteraie masses were left behind,
Leaderless, unlettered, unorga
nized, with no pride of race or
sense of destiny, they served lit
tle more than to clutter up the
landa.
In the year 538 B. C. Cyrus is
sued a decree permitting any
Jews who were so minded to re
turn to their ancestral home, and
a migration of a few thousand
took place. But by far the larger
part of the Babyionian colony,
like prosperous American Jews
of today, found it to their ad
vantage to stay where the soil
was rich and the crops were
good.
Those Who Lower the Average
Back in the little land of Ju
dah the returning exiles set out
to rebuild the la#nd and re-estab
lish the lovely capital Jerusalem
but the ne’er do-well population
(Continued On Page Six)
Bowers Defeats
Incumbent Sheriff
In Hart Election
HARTWELL, Ga., April 14
—(AP)—Sheriff Carey C.
Carter went down to defeat at
the hands of S. V. Bowers in
yesterday’s Hart county pri
mary. Bowers polled 2,038
votes to Carter's 1,651, A. S.
Johnson, jr., had 206.
Other results:
Representative in the Legis~
lature: T. H. Risner, incum
hent, 2,097, Baxter A. Morris
1,269; Ora L. Vickery 599.
Superintendent of Schools:
W. A. Moss, incumbent, 2,631;
Asa Martin Brown 1,942. .
Commissioner: L. A. Pruitt,
incumbent, 1,144; W. Eber
Bailey 2,801.
Coroner: Howard W. Shirley
defeated G. C. Lott and David
E. Owen.
Russia Turns Down
Trieste Proposals
Soviets Call Plan
Unacceptable In
Note To Big Three
LONDON, April 14—(AP)— |
Russia has turned down the west
ern power proposal to give Trieste
back to Italy, Moscow radio an
nounced last night.
A Soviet note terming the sug
gestion unacceptable was delivered
to the governments of Britain,
France and the United States yes-~
terday, the broadcast said.
’ Foreign Minister Georges Bid
ault of France first broached the
idea publicly in a speech at Turin,
Italy, on March 21. It was hailed
frankly at the times as a bid for
anti-Communist support in the
Italian elections next Sunday.
The proposal called for a Paris
meeting of the powers principally
concerned early in May to con
sider the future of Trieste.
Yesterday’s Soviet note, the
broadcast said, pointed out that
Trieste was created a free city and
territory by ‘the Italian peace
treaty, signed by 21 nations, in
cluding the Big Four. It said re
vision of the treaty by means of
“correspondence or by convening
private conferences” in unaccept
able and violates ‘“‘elemental prin
ciples of democracy.”
The note was in response to for
mal U. S.-British-French sugges
tions on Trieste made to Russia in
notes on March 20 and reiterated
last Friday with an urgent request‘
for action.
Trieste’s Future ]
Among other things, the Russian
action apparently ruled out a
Yugoslav suggestion that Italy and
Yugoslavia get together on
Trieste’s future,
It was primarily because of
Yugosiavia's insistent fight that
Trieste was made a free territory
in the peace treaty. Yugoslavia had
the full back of Russia in its de
mand that Trieste be made a
Yugoslav city. The free territory
emerged as a compromise, as the
western nations stubbornly bucked
the demand.
Shortly after the new western
power proposal was made, Yugo
slavia made a tentative offer to
swap the free territory of Trieste
to Italy for the nearby Italian city
of Gorizia. Italy turned that down.
Pan-American Conference Resumes Work
In Revolt Torn Bogola, Colombia Today
Parley Expected To Pass Measure Keeping
Communism Qut Of The Western Hemisphere
BY JOSEPH F. McEVOY
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 14
—(AP)—The 21-nation Pan Am
erican Conference resumes its
work today in revolt-battered
Bogota.
The conference was broken up
five days ago by a bloody upris
ing which the Colombian govern
ment and U. 8. Secretary of
State George C. Marshall attrib
uted to international® Commun
ism. Delegates voted unanimous
ly yesterday to resume sessions.
First Item
One of the first items on the
conference agenda probably will
be a resolution against Commun
ism in the Western Hemisphere.
(In London the Moscow radio
broadcast a Tass News Agency
dispacth which termed “absurdl
fabrications” what it said were
rumors of participation of Soviet‘
or Russian agents in the events
in Bogota.
(In Balboa, C. Z., Donald L.]
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5
Ageinst Lewis
‘Big Majority
Lewis And Miners
Enter Plea Of Not
Guilty As Charged
Government Lawyers
Give Out List Of
Witnesses In Case
WASHINGTON, April 14—(AP)
—John L. Lewis pleaded ‘“not
guilty” and went on trial today on
a charge of contempt of court for
not calling off the coal strike
earlier.
The big-bushy-browed miners
chief entered his plea through his
sattorney, Welly K. Hopkins, who
also - pleaded innocent for the
United Mine Workers to a similar
charge.
First off, Hopkins asked Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough to
throw out the charges. Golds
borough refused. He is the same
judge who fined Lewis SIO,OOO
and the union $3,500,000 (later cut
to $700,000 by the Supreme Court)
for ignoring a stop-strike order
from the courts in 1946.
Then the government took over
and started presenting its case.
That was a pretty dull business for
the first few hours. Assistant At
torney General Graham Morison
began by building up a case that
a coal work stoppage creates a
situation imperiling the national
safety and health. He has to show
that under the Taft-Hartley Act.
So his first witnesses were gov
ernment experts on coal, power
and general business conditions.
They poured out statistics to. show
that without coal industry starves
to death.
Hopking poped up continually
with objections, but Lewis sat im
passively. A 5 e
Government Witnesses
_Government lawyers gave out a
list of six witnesses, some of them
obviously designed to show the
seriousness of the coal strike dur
ing the last four weeks.
Two of the witnesses sub
poénaed were John Owens, sec
retary treasurer of the UMW, and
William L. P. Burke, secretary to
trustees of the Miners’ Welfarel
Fund. . ,
The walkout was the result of a
dispute over payment of pensions
from the wélfare fund. The' fund
comes from a 10 ¢ents a ton royal.
ty on coal mined.
/The other government witnesses
were W. H. Young, chief of the
bituminous coal section, Bureau of
Mines; V. Lewis Bassie, of the
Commerce Department; Nelson
Lee Smith, chairman of the Fed
eral Power Commission; Arthur
H. Gas, director of the railway
transport department of the Office
of Defense Transportation.
Lewis' back-to-work order ' of
Monday followed an agreement
granting SIOO monthly pensions to
miners over age 62. The miners
were out for a week after the court
order for Lewis to end the strike
was served.
About half the 400,000 miners
have gone back t, work. Many
were waiting to see how Lewis
comes out in this second encoun
ter with Goldsborough.
It was Goldsborough wh,, fined
Lewis SIO,OOO personall, and the
uvnion $3,500,000 on Dec. 4, 1946,
because they ignored a court or
oer to end a strike . The fines
ware for contempt. The Supreme
Court later cut the union’s fine
to $700,000.
Impose Any Penalty
A federal judge can impose al
most any penalty, in fines or im
(Continued on Page Two.)
Jackson (R.-Calif.) said last
night that the rioters ware “Com-~
munist inspired and led.” Jack
son, a congressional observer at
the conference, declared dele
gates had “an opportunity to see
at first hand what happens when
Communists move into positions
of leadership.”
(Jackson said he will report to
Congress tomorrow on the re
volt). : |
Colombia’s diplomatic relations
with Russia are unclear. Yester
day a member of the presiden
tial secretariat said the cabinet
had not yet approved the decree
for severing relations, as an
nounced by the government ra
dio the previcus day.
Gunfire |
Gunfire was heard outside the
U. S. Embassy last night imme
diately after it was announced]
the conference would continue,
The nature of the shooting was
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LOCAL COTTON
1-INCH MIDDLING .. .. 39%g¢
buy Scott
Is Named
As Justice
Grand Jurors Cite
Law Banning
Rubbish On Highways
In presentments of the Grand
Jury made public this morning,
Guy B. Scott, jr., was appointed
as Notary Public and ‘ex-officio
Justice of the Peace, 216th Dis
trict, G. M., Clarke county, Geor
gia, to fill the vacancy created
by ihe death of the late Judge
W. Milton Thomas. James Lang
ford, Puryear’s district, was ap
pointed Notary Public and ex
officio ' Justice of the Peace in
that district.
The Grand Jury adopted
unanimously a resolution ex=<
pressing appreciation for the ser
vices and respecting the memory
of the late Judge Thomas.
Members and officers of the
Grand Jury are as follows:
G. Arthur Booth, foreman; W,
M. Crane, jr., clerk; J. H. Poss,
R. M. Snow, A. J. Oldham, W. F,
McElreath, B. F. Grant, A. D,
Wier, Edgar L. Eberhart, Horace
I. Abneyy, B. C. Kinney, J. S.
Garrison, T. M. Philpot, H. M.
Swartz, A. F. Pledger, Floyd C.
Adams, Willis H. Johnson, O. W.
Russom, E. D. Newton, Lamar S.
McGinnis, H. G. Callahan, W, J,
‘Malcem, and E. H. Downs, :
. Conisidering indictments sub=
mitted by the Solicitor General,
true bills were found as follows:
l Robert E. L. Hardy, L. S.
[Shortridge (col.), Cliff Willing
'ham, James Wingfield, James
Muckle, Charlie Burroughs, Wil=
liam Dupree, Emory Andrews,
John L. Boykin, Bernice Nesbit
(col.), Ben Crawford (col.), Dil=
lard Jenkins (col.), Mrs. Marga=
ret Whitehead and Bill Colley,
Willie B. Thomas (col.), Jack
Hillman (col.), Willie James Ed
wards (col.), Albert Hester
(col.), Felton Owens (col.), Joe
Fulcher, Lee Kinney, Jack Hills~
man f(col) J W, Havmon, and
Edna Waters (col.).
Dawson Appointed
J. L. Dawson, Winterville, was
appointed to fill the unexpired
term of T. W. Morion, resigned,
~» the County Board of Educa
tionn. T. R. Johnson, Gaines
School Road, was reappointed to
the County School Board for a
new term. }
Having received the County
School Superintendent’s report, a
committee appointed by the fore
man to study the report, stated
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E.A GriswaldTo
Address Film Group
W. J. Bell' Spoke At
Monday Meeting Here
“We are, in a sense, passing
through a dark age. .. .” Sog
stated Walter J. Bell, supervisor
of the Audio-Visual Department
of the Atlanta Public School
System, guest speaker of the
Athens Film Council’s bi-month~
ly meeting on April 12. S
Speaking of the use of radio
and other mass means of com
munication, Mr. Bell asserted
that people are not taking advan
tage of the opportunities for betw
ter understanding among peo=
ples, education, and civic prog=
ress’ offered by such media. :
Mr. Bell also gave details on a
new FM station to be constructed.
in Atlanta for the use of city
and county schools. The part
played by the schools, - teachers,
and - technical staff were ex=-
plained. i \ ;
Mrs. E. A. Griswald of the U.
'S. Department of Health will be:
‘the next speaker for the Athens
Film Council on April 26. Mrs. .
Griswald will discuss utilization
of various types of motion pic
ture and other audio-visual aids.
The Film Council invites all
program chairmen of civic, busi=
ness, religious, social, and educa=
tional groups to be present, as
well as all other interested indi=
viduals. g 5
The April 26 meeitng will be
held following a BWincheon at the
N. & N. Cafeteria at 12:30 p. m.
Reservations and additional in
formation are available by call~
ing Gerald Cauble, Film’- Library,
University of Georgia. |