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Vol. CXVI, No. 108.
Building Permits
Show Record Rise
Construction
Building in Athens during the
first four months of 1948, has
skyrocketeq to an all-time peak.
Figures released by J. G.
Beacham, City Engineer, show
that the amount spent on build
ing here during January, Febru
ary, March, and .spril, this year
is more than twice as much as
that spent in the same length of
time during 1947.
S, far, 1947 has been the
greatest building year in Athens,
however, if figures continue their
present skyward trend this
year, Athenians should see
building here unequalled by any
previous years.
The $274,550 dollars spent on
the new homes and office build
ings during 1947 was doubled by
the $595,256 spent on new struc
tures during a relative period
this year. Likewise, repairs to
homes and offices this year dou
bled those of last year, $176,979
being spent this year against a
comparatively small $80,305 last
year. {
Primary reason for the phe
nomenal rise in biulding expen
ditures this year is the sect that
there has been an influx of new
businesses into Athens this year,
anq several established firms
have erected new structures.
Notable among business build
ing is the SBO,OOO structure be—i
ing constructed on Fulaski for the
Trussell Motor Company, , the
new Heywood Allen Motor Com- |
pany on Broad, the S and J. Sim..
owitz Shoe Store on the corner
of College and Clayton streets,
and the Athens Seed Company
biulding, being erected at the
intersection of +Thomas and
Dougherty streets. v
Home development in the City
is steadily progressing with new
homes being erected on thée West
side of Athens, 5 large apartment
being finisheg near five points,
and numerous smaller duplex
apartments being constructed.
Much of the repair work dons
in the past four months has been
made in roofing repair, this be
ing attributable to the recent
hail-storm encountered in this
area.
A month-by.month breakdown
of funds expended in the build
ing of new homes and buildings
and in repairs by Athenians the
first fc v~ months of 1947 and for
that period this year, follows.
The first figure will be the total,
the second. that of this year. I
New office buildings and
homes: January. . 62,250, $16,-
500; February. $73,900, $119,959;’
March, $33.800, $165,956; April,l
$104,600, $292,850. Total, $274,550,
$595,256.
Repairs and renovation costs:
January, $12.500, $3.000; Feb.
ruary, $23,600. - $73,175; March,
$22,050, $11.461: April, $22,155,
$89.343. Total, $80.305, $176,979.
Grand Totals for entire con
struction and repair in city are:
1947, $354,855, 1948, $772,235.
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Directors Named
Sam D. Wingfield and Grady
Pittard, jr., of the Frank E.
Mitchell Post No. 2872 of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, have
been chosen to direct the 27thj
annual sale of VFW Buddy Pop
pies in Athens, Mayo C. Buck
ley, Commander of the Post, an
noumed here yesterday.
_Girls from the. Junior High
School, from University Sorori
ties, and from the POW, non
sorority woman’s political or
ganization, will be stationed at
various boothg and corners Sat
urday, May 22, to sell Buddy
Poppies.
“The sale,” Commander Buck
ley said, “will enable the VEFW
to continue its welfare work in
behalf of the living veterans of
the nation’s wars, and to care
for those orphans and widows
of our dead who @ are unable to
provide for themselves.” :
Members of the local negro
Post, Wakefield C. Brant No.
3910, will also participate in the
selling, Commander Henry Jones
declared. Ray B. Ware is chair
man of the drive for that post.
.
Athenian Hurt
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Joe I{Strickland, 20-year-old
tesident of 265 Barber Street,
Was injured slightly last night
when the motor bike he was
liding upet on Madison avenue.
throw’ng him head-first againsi
the curb.
gtMl; Strickland was taken to
SU Mzry’s Hospitai in a Bern
ilem Ambulance where he was
'eported 10 have suffered lacera
tions about the head and face.
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POLICE BEATEN IN PICKET LINE SKIRMISH
Several policemen and sheriff’s deputies were beaten and forced to retire when
they attempted to open the CIO Packinghouse Workers’' picket line at the Swift
and Armour plants in Chicago. This picture shows part of the skirmish.
Talmadge Maps Plans
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BY CHARLES BARRETT
ATLANTA, May 15.—(AP)—If Herman Talmadge is
elected governor this year, you can expect a special ses
sion of the Legislature to put him in office immediately.
That was the word from high in the Talmadge -camp
today. A reliable source said if Talmadge sweeps the
November 2 balloting, legisiators would take the hint
quickly and install him as governor by November 10.
Talmadge himself’ pointed to
the possibility in his personal col
umn in the Statesman, his poli
tical weekly. He wrote “If M. E.
Thompson is defeated for elec
ion as Governor, the General As
sembly can convene immediately
after November 2nd and inau
gurate the Governor.” :
Attorney General Eugent Cook
has ruled that the next governor
normally would be installed at
the regular legislative session in
January. The legislators could,
however, convene themselves in
extraordinary session, Cook
agreed, and make the shift much
earlier,
The Talmadge chieftain said
there was no doubt the lawmak
ers would get on the Talmadge
bandwagon with this course, if
young Talmadge wins.
Plans for the extraordinary leg
islative session were revealed as
both Thompson and Talmadge
stepped up their civic club cam.-
paign. :
At times now they are speak
ing at better than a once-a.day
pace in g bid for “middle man”
vote before the political war gets
hot and heavy in July.
Opens Headquarters
Thompson also has opened new
Caliphicn Decotugsters —in the
Henry Grady Hotel here and ex
panded his staff. : k
Although neither has started
his announced campaigning, each
could hardly be working more
feverishly. Thompson, especially,
has been roaming the state mak
ing speeches and shaking hands
up to 20 hours a day.
He made seven speeches in six
days this week. He hit a peak
Thursday by speaking at the
Portal schoolhouse in the morn
ing. Addressing the Statesboro
Junior Chamber of Commerce at
noon, and making the first toss
in a ball game at Jesup that
night,
Tzlmadge has been hitting the
trail in spurts — leaving time,
e said, for office work and man
‘agement of his Lovejoy Farm. He
lspoke five times in four days
from April 28 to May 1. He talks
four times in five days next
\week.
. Close associates of the two po
litical opponents put considerable
}emphasis on the addresses to
civic clubs, veteraps and farm
groups. and school meetings.
For Talmadge, its a departure
from the tactics of his famed
father, the late Eugene Talmadge
wh, once boasted he never want
ed tn win a county with a street
}car in it.
HWe-man s making a vigorous
| effort to expand his suppoit
among middle-of.the-roadears by
quiet. business - like talks on
| Georgia agriculture. civil rights
’and other likely topics.
| Thompson is just as determin.
ed.
For Verification
ATLANTA, May 15—(AP) —
Attorney G-neral Eugene Cook
today asked Gov. M. E. Thomp
son to explain an accusation that
the state’s legal office made po
litically biased opinions.
The accusation was made by
Herman Talmadge. The guber
natorial aspirant said he was
quoting a statement made by
Thompson himself that the At
torney General’s office issued
opinions favorable to the gov
ernor. g
Cook wrote Thompson that
he, as = Attorney - General, had
“no intention of becoming in
volved in a political controversy
with Mr. Talmadge over my rul
ings of law.”
But Cook pointed out that
Talmadge had quoted the gov
ernor himself as suggesting in a
Fitzgerald Rotary club address
that there was collusion between
the governor and attorney gen
eral.
“Prestige and. dignity of the
law department demand that
vou make a public statement
clarifying and explaining the
situation,” Cook wrote Thomp
son today.
“I do feel that under the cir
cumstances you should explain
publicly what you meant by the
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WORLDWIDE EVENTS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, May 15—(AP)
—John L. Lewis begins negotiat-‘
ing key contracis with the soft
and hard coal operators next
week.
Whether the nation faces an
other mine shutdown after June
| 30, when the bituminous contract
| expires, may be foretold better
a week from now. By then the
industry will have an idea what
Lewis wants. :
If he wants more than.the op
erators will give, it is ‘possible)
that July will find the govern- |
ment starting ‘“national emergen
cv” proceedings anew under the
Taft-Hartley Act, seeking a new
injunction like the one which now
holds the miners in restraint
{ TUnions and industries far re
moved from the coal pits will be
watching Lewis’ every more when !
negotiations start Tuesday. ‘
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| STOCK BOOM |
NEW YORK, May 15 ——(AP)—-—]
The heayviest trading in 15 vears
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1948.
MAIL ORDER FIRE DEPARTMENT, OR—
A FIRE SHOULD BURN SO LONG
BLACKPOOL, Eng., May
15—(AP)—A man sent the
Blackpool fire brigade a
posteard saying: “Will you
come to my house? I can
smell something burning.”
I—-— 140 diploma candidates -———l
| Members of the Senior Class of the Athens High Schaoll
are working diligently to complete their work for the
yvear, looking toward the graduation exercises which are
scheduled to be held on Tuesday evening, June 1, in the
Fine Arts Auditorium. :
Speakers for the exercises will
be Beverly Almand, Nick Chili
vis, Alva Mayes and Carolyn
Whitehead, who have been se
lected from;the upper 10 percent
of the class and who are engaged
in the preparation of their man
uscripts. In addition to talks by
these four, Honor graduates will
be named and several awards
will be made to students for out
standing accomplishments.
Below is a list of the members
of the Senior Class from which
approximately 140 diplomas will
be awarded to those 'who com
plete the requirements for grad
uation. The list does not include
those members of the 11th grade
who have planned to return for
a 12th year in high school. A
complete list of those who will
receive diplomas will be pub
lished at a later date.
Floyd Cecil Adams, jr., Mil
dred Irine Adams, Charles Al
fred Allen, Beverley Ruth Al
mand, Ellie Lee Anchors, Mar
garet Emma Anderson, Frances
Margaret Ansley, Mary Clemen
tine Arnold, Julia Ellen Askew,
Mary Edna Atkinson, Geraldine
Bagley, Ira Daniel Barnes.
Beverley Ruth Beeland, James
S. Bernstein, Betty Joan Betts,
Alvin Blocksom -Biscoe, jr., John
Dixon Bolton, Dorothy June
Brandenburg, Ned Algood Brown,
Billy Joe Bullock, Bobbie Jean
Bullock, Mae Luoise Burger,
Martha Jean Butts, Isabeile Eliz
abeth Cabaniss.
Elizabeth Joanne CarteauX,
Marshall’ Frederick Cartledge,
Ruth Joyce Cash, Nickolas Peter
Chilivis, Dorothy Juanita Crowe,
Nina Jeanne Damron, Emma
Carter+ Daniel, Martha Nell Day,
Marion Rachael Dickens, Thomas
King Duncan, Marion Eugene
hit the stock market today but
Friday's spectacular spurt in
prices was slowed to a walk.
Wal] Street was in a mood that
reczlled the turbulent days of
pre-crash 1929.
A bull market was on the move
in the belief of investors and
speculators all over the country.
Public interest whipped up to
white heat.
Price advances today at the
close though, were limited to $1
a ‘share or less in most cases.
Gains in early trading ran to
around $2. The flashy advance on
Friday had boosted leading is
sues $1 tol!s7.
STRIKE VIOLENCE
SOUTH ST, PAUL, Minn., May
15——(AP)—Massed pickets and
sympathizers in the packing
house workers strike, driven from
streete here today by National
Guard bavonets were told by
Gov. Luther Youngdahl that
“vou ecan’'t win a strike by an.
The fireman got it 24
hours later.
They thought it was a
joke, went anyway, and
found timbers smouldering
under the man’s hearth.
They extinguished the fire.
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LEBANESE SOLDIERS READY IN PALESTINE WAR
These Lebanese soldiers of the Arab Army of Liberation are shown standing
by with their French 75 mm. trench mortars. These men are reported playing a
leaging role in the Arab invasion of the Jewish state. The Arabs are also reported
employing armies from four nations in their attack.
Dunn, Barbara Jean Dunston.
George Bobby Edwards, Char
les Lamar Elliott, William Dar
rell Epps, Nellie Faye Farr,
Grace Qarroll Farrar, Tomlinson
Fort, jr., Stella Pauline Frady,
Anne Priscilla Gentry, Bobbie
Jean Giles, Norris Hennon Giles,
Jack Gray, Charles Edwin Green
way.
Gloria Ann Greenway, Joyce
Ann Hansford, Virginia Eliza
beth Harris, John Thomas Hen
derson, Marion Alma Hendon,
Frances Claudia Holeomb, Bar
bara Ellen Hubert, Nelda Kinney
Ingram, Donald Greenhut Joel
Florence Ann Johnson, Roelle
Johnson,, Betty Jo Jones. '3
Annie Jean Jordan, Ethel Irene
Jordan, Kathryn Jeannette Ken-}
nebrew, Mary Lee Kittle, Joyce
Rebecca Land, Mary Ann Lind
say, Katherine Louise Little,
James Donald Llewellyn, Charles
Lee Lyle, Nancy Letitia Mackey,
Gloria Jean Malcom, Jean Mal
com. ’
Emliy Victoria Manley, Pris
cilla Nell Manus, Mary Lucile
Massey, Gloria Helen Mathews,
Alva Louis Mayes, ‘jr., Jean Sha
ron McClelland, Betty Ann Mc-
Cune, Frances Louise McCurley,
Howard McWhorter, Catherine
Janette Miller, Emma Jané Mil
ner, Mary Eloise Molder.
Mary Catharene Moss, Robert
Nelson Nash, Sally Louise Nash,
Betty Ann Nix, Chester Overton
Parsons, jr., James Roberi FPai
rick, jr,, Barbara Jean Patter
son, Marian Pinson, Glennie Dee
Pittman, June Kathleen Porter,
Robert William Powell, Duncan
Peter Randall.
Ruby Janet Ray, Clifford No
len Richardson, jr., Robert Paul
Saye, jr., George Marshall Scott,
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archy.”
Five hundred persons swarm
ed at the state capitol after Na
tional Guardsmen, called out yes
terday by the Governor, cleared
the way for entry of more than
a score of workers automobiles
to the strikebound Swift and
Company plant,
Several skirmishes devieloped
during the morning as an estima-l
ted 500 persons collected at Con
cord street and Grand Avenue,‘
the towh’s main intersection.
Guardsmen battled three men,l
cne of whom attempted to seize |
a Guardsman’s rifle. |
DOUBLE SLAYING i
COLUMBUS, Ga.,, May 15—
(AP) — A former Houston, Tex
{ as, business man shot and killed
an attractive, well-to_.do brunette |
iin her apartment bedroom today ,
and then fatally shot himself, |
| Detective Thief A. G. Reese re—i
ported, Ak
l Only two shots were fu-edl
Arabs Attacking
Jews On 3 Fronts
Survev S S ;
Survey Shows Speeding
W : ‘
orst On Side Streets
BY HOKE SMITH MAY l
Banner-Herald City Editor
Repeated reports from citizens on speeding, mostly
coming from residents not on Milledge avenue, Lumpkin
or Prince, resulted yesterday in automobiles heing
clocked for speeding on those main thoroughfares. |
. Of the four streets on which
reporters clocked motorists, mo
torcycle police were continually
patrolling three of them. It was
on the fourth, Baxter, where no
police were encountered, that
major speeding offenses ewre ob
served,
Clogking eight drivers on
Prince avenue, between Lyndon
and Chase, three drivers were
observed driving at rates of
speed between 35 and 40 miles
per hour, the other four pro
ceeding at speeds a little above
and below thirty miles per hour.
Two motoreyele police were seen
patrolling -~ Prince while the re
porters were making the survey.
On Lumpkin, in the Ag Hill
section, where patrolling police
men were constantly observed,
motorists seemed to be driving_‘
well within the speed laws. One
was clocked at 35 miles per
hour.
. Milledge Avenue
On South Milledge avenue,
the fastest driving motorist was
clocked at 40 miles per hour,
several others being clocked
within- the speed laws. Here
again the street was well patroll
ed.
. However, on Baxter, where
no police were seen during the
thirty minutes in which report
ers made speed records there,
several cars were observed driv
ing well over the speed limit.
One student driving a red con
vertible was clocked down Bax
ter Hill between 50 and 60 miles
per hour. ’ )
Acting Chief Clarence Roberts
was quoted here today as saying
that traffic motoreycle patrol—i
men, strengthened by the addi
tion of three machines, will pa
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from a foreign-make .32 calibre
pistol, Reese said.
BOLTERS WARNED
ATLANTA, May 15 —(AP)—
Former Governor Ellis Arnall of
Georgia warned today that South.
erners who intend to bolt the
Democratic National Convention
many be ousted before they can
bolt.
Thus, he predicted, Dixie’s re
volt against President Truman
and his civil rights program is
due for softening.
Comnpleting a lecture tour of
the South, Arnall reported sen
timent in favor of sending loyal
Democrats to Philadelphia to
compete for seats with would
be bolsters. |
And Arnall had n, doubt how
a convention coniroiied by Pres
ident Truman would react. Del
egates pledged to walk out if
Mr. Trumen is nominated — ike
some already elected from Ala
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[ Cifizens Pefition
1
Asks Broad St.
Loning Confinued
Meeting with members of the
Public Works Committee of City
Council in City Hall Friday
night, a_ group of citizens pre
sented a petition which they
said was signed by more than
800 names, asking the Mayor
and City Council to not lift the
zoning ordinance on Broad
street. ;
The, citizens’ group asked :ihe
committee to present the petition
to the Mayor and Council at the
next meeting, which the com
mittee agreed to do.
‘Members of the committee
attending were Chairman H. L.
Seagraves, Clyde Basham, Roger
Hazen, John Coffee and Walter
Danner. *
‘The petition, said to include
names of citizens in all wards
of the city, was addressed to
Mayor and Council and said:
“We, the .undersigned ™ citizens
of ZAthens, request that you do
not lift the zening ordinance on
Broad street and Milledge ave
nue. We feel that this ordinance
was passed so that it would give
protection so the property own
lers' in that vicinity. As we now
need that protéction, we ask that
'you keep the zoning ordinance
as it now stands, 400 feet from
Milledge avenue.”
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Prominent Resident
0f Apalachee Dies
! Mrs. W. G. Bhockley promi
‘nent resident of Appalachee,
’died in an Athens hospital Sat- |
‘urday morning at 3 o’clock. Mrs.
Bhockley was 82 years old andl
‘had been ill for two months.
~ Funeral services will be con
‘ducted Sunday’ aftetnoon at 2
o'clock from the ‘Appalachee
Methodist Church. Hemperley
Funeral Home of Madison is in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Shockley was preceded
in death by her husband in No
vember of 1947. She was a native
of Greenville, S. C., and had been
a resident of Apalacheé for the
past fifty-two years, being one |
of the most highly esteemed wo
men in that community. ’
She is survived by four daugh-'
ters, Miss Nell E£aockley and
Mrs. J. M. Few. both of Apala- |
chee, Mrs. H. E. Clarke, Macon,‘
and Mrs. W, S. LeMaster of Mil
ledgeville; six sons, B. A, Shock; !
ley, Apalachee and Athens, Carl
Shockley, St. Petersburg, Fla..z
~~ v €N oVs NS sun ~smad T h 2
Shockley, A. G. Shockley and |
H. H. Shockley all of Monroe. l
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| Armored Might,
mored Might,
Air Strikes
Paces Invaders
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 15—
(A‘P)—The army of Israel said
its new-born state was invaded
today from the north and socuth,
shelled from the east and bomb=
egl and machine gunned from the
air. i
Haganah, now the army of a
new nation already recognized by
the United States, said the Leb
anese army attacked across the
border from the north, the
Egyptian army speared finto the
Negeb Desert, and Trans-Jor
dan's Arab Legion shelled four
settlements on the Jordan Valley
frontier.
(The Egyptian army said two
columns of troops invaded south
ern Palestine and one destroyed
the Jewish settlement of Al
Dangor, 13 miles southeast of
Gaza. This_would be in the ter
ritory of Israel, as defined in the
United Nations decision on par
tition.
(The Cairo newspaper Al As
sas said Gaza, Arab city 20 miles
inside Palestine on the coast, had
fallen to the Egyptians.
( A dispatch from Beirut said
Lebanese troops had captured
Malikya, a town a mile inside
Israel on the northern frontier.
‘ (Advance patrols of the Syrian
army grabbed a small bridge over
lthe Jordan River and knifed into
the area south of the Ses of
Galilee, also inside Israel terri
tory on the east a dispatch from
Damascus said.
(Farther south King Abdul
lah’s Trans-Jordan Arab Legion
crossed the Allenby Bridge, oc
cupied Jericho, and took mili=
tary control of a large area in
’the Judean hills 20 miles north=
cast of Jerusalem, advices from
}Jerieho said.) i e
Fourth Air Attack
Tel Aviv, temporary capital of
‘ Israel, underwent its fourth air
attack tonight, and Haganah or
dered the entire city blacked out
tonight. Planes were over the
city most of the dav and it was
difficult to differentiate one at
tack from another. »
All attacks, including the first
by three to six lignt planes, were
on the outskirts. They did not
interfere much with Jews cele~
brating the first Sabbath in al
most 2,000 years on soil they
claimed as their very own,
Two bombing and strafing at
tacks this morning killed one
person and injured six in Tel
Aviv. Haganah said one of the
|attacking planes — a Spitfire —
“fell into our hands and we cap
tured its Egyptian pilot.” A half
dozen bombs fell at the ‘edge of
the Tel Aviv airport near the
power and light building.
Arab Legion artillery smashed
at four settlements in the same
area — Ein Geb on the-eastern
shore 'of Tiberias and “Ashdot
Yaacov, Shaar Hagolan and Ges
her farther south, Haganah
broadcasts said, All these places
are in Jewish Palestine as de
lineated by the U. N. 3
Capture Power Plant
The Legion was said also to
have captured a power plant
near MNaharayim, a town which
is in Trans-Jordan.
Other air attacks were made
on the airdrome near Rehovet
[south of Tel Aviv in Israel and
ieaflets demanding surrender
were dropped on Urim, a settle
ment in the Negeb 10 miles from
the Egyptian border.
Hagarah said two western Ne
geb settlements were under
' heavy attack by the Egyptians.
| These were Nirim, only four
‘miles inside ‘the Palestine fron=
tier, and Kfar Darom, which lies.
10 miles from the frontier along
the main highway to Gaza.
Haganah said the attack on
Nirim, with tahks and shell fire,
was by regular forces of the
Egyptian army. Both Nirim and
Kfar Darom lie just outside the
borders of the new state ss de
fined in the United Nations plan
for partition.
In Jerusalem itsclf the British
army announced it had- com=-
pleted evacuation of all its forces.
Haganah said ifs trOOPfi, were
taking over British installations
as soon as the British' stepped
out. .The United Nations Consu
lar Commission continued to ne
gotiate for a truce in the Holy
City. s
The new state imposed a mil=-
itary censorship as it marshalled
all its strength against the sur«
rounding Arab armies.
ATHENS AND VICINITY ]
Fair and warmer Sunday.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and a little warmer Sunday.