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HE’S COMING HOME—Lee Sheridan, Clarke county’s
double amputee war veteran, is pictured with his little
seventeen-months-old daughter, Shirley Ann. It is for
this American that the gala July Fifth party is being
staged. The citizens of Athens, Clarke county, and
Northeast Georgia will have opportunity to pay trib
ute to their hero with the big show given just for him,
whieh is preposed to build him.a home with the pro
ceeds. :
.
Gov. Thompson Will Attend
° .
Lee Sheridan Celebration
Further impetus was added the big July fifth celebration here
today, with the announcement that Gov. M. E. Thompson would be
on hand for the occasion.
The highlighted event is being held as a tribute to Clarke County’s
only double amputee of World War 11, Lee Sheridan.
Gov. Thompson also sent word that he will be accompanied by
Alpha Fowler, State Adjutant-General.
Another double amputee, well-known to Athens, will alsc be on
hand for the celebration—George Poschner. Poschner, the former All-
American at Georgia, will fly here from Washington.
A special trust fund was raised for Poschner two years ago and
used to help the veteran in securing a special wheel chair and other
useful comforts,
Clarke County citizens are endeavoring to do the same thing for
Sheridan. The funds raised by the celebration will go towards building
Lee, his wife and little girl a permanent home in Athens.
The “welcome to Athens’ celebration will also feature a tremen
dous fireworks display.
CHFF7 IT! THF HFAT'SON
90 Degrees Expected After
Storm Sunday; Damage Light
The heat was on again today]
in Athens. BL AR W
But temporary - relief, in: the.
form of a mild electrical storm,.
accompanied by' a heavy down
pour, was enjoyed by Athenians
last night. |
A total rainfall of 1.37 inches
fell on this area within a 30-
minute period late yesterday. A
considerable amount of lightning
preceded the deluge but caused
little damage in the ecity.
The fire department answered
two calls during the disturbance.
At 7:00 p. m." they answered a
call at 230 Hampton Court where
lightning had entered a house
and short-circuited an ice box.
At 7:35 p. m. the firemen were
called to 237 Rock Spring street
where lightning had struck 2
home, setting a bird nest on fire.
No serious damage was caused
by either bolt.
Winds, clocked at 28-miles an
hour, but stronger in gusts, clut
tered many streets with tree
branches. Only report of dam
age by the winds was on 424
South Lumpkin, where a fairly
large elm tree smashed into the
roof of a home. Although some
damage was done to the rear of
the building no one was injured.
Although there were several
brief power failures throughout
the city during the disturbance,
the Georgia Power Company Tre
ported no serious damage to its
facilities.
The U. §. Weather Bureau re
ported yesterday’s high as 92 de
srees. However, at the airport,
the mercury was read at 97 de
grees, marking the second fime
this month that the temperature
has reached that figure.
Yesterday’s wflu booosted
this month’s total to 4.77, well
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
over June’s average rainfall of
3.91.
The. mercury was expected to
hit the nineties again today and
tomorrow with possible thunder
showers in the late afternoon of
evening. No clean break in the
heat is foreseen for the immedi
ate future.
BULLETIN
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia,
June 28.—(AP)—The Com
munist Cominform charged
today Yugosiav Communists
had departed from the Mhrx-
Lenin: line and that their
leaders, including Premier
Marshal Tito, pursued a hate
ful policy toward Seoviet
Russia.
; The Cominform called for
“either a true return to
Marxist policy or a change
of Cesnmunist leaders in Yu
gosf(ivia.” *
i sy
LONDON STRIKE
LONDON, June 28.—(AP)—
The Labor government asked
peacetime emergency POWers to
day for the first time since the
1926 general strike to deal with
a spreading dock strike threat
ening the nation’s food supply.
Prime Minister ~ Attlee said
“«Communist. mischief”. was part
1y benhind the wildcat . walkouts.
TRUMAN CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, .~ June 28—
(AP) — President Truman will
make “an active speaking cam
paign” for the presidency in the
event of his nominaiion.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Thousands Estimated -Dead
In Violent Japanese Quake
Cooperative Effort For
Athens Praised By Mayor
Wounded W alk
Aimlessly;
AWoman Cried
TOKYO, June 28—(AP)—
A Fukui correspondent of
the Tokyo newspaper Asahi
described the town as twist
ed and gnarled and aflame
today.
His, the first account to
reach here, said:
“I had to cover my eyes
at the terrible situation. The
once formidable Fukui police
headguarters was twisted
and the roads hag wide gaps
in them. Tram lines were
gnarled and overhead trol
leys collapsed.
“The wounded with blood
dripping from them walked
aimlessly, Others fled in
fear.
“As far as I could see at
one glance, there was noth
ing but wrecked houses.
Fires broke out immediately.
“On top of a collapsed
roof a woman eried for her
family. A girl about seven
years old was washing the
bloody body of her litte sis
ter in a dirty river,”
The reporter ; said farm
houses six miles away col
lapsed.
Palestine
! |
Peace Plans
Forwarded
RHODES, June 28 — (AP) —
Jews and Arabs received from
Count Folke Bermadotte today his
proposals for peace in Palestine.
Bernadotte is the United Nations
mediator who brought about the
current four-week armistic,
The suggestions, which the
mediaor called a “Basis for fur
her discussion,” were not pub
lished
(Premier Jamil Mardamby of
Syria said in Damascus the pro
posals will “in no way modify
our atitude of rejecting parti
ticn and a Jewish state in Pales
tine.” Jews are just as insistent
that the new state of Israel must
continue to exist.) ;
Jewish experts flew from this
Greek Island to Tel Aviv this
morning with the proposal. Arab
experts are flying to Cairo after
lunch. Paul Mohn of Sweden and
Constantine Stavropolos of Greece
will acompany the Arabs and ex
plain the Count’s peace plan to
an |Arab league sub.committee
meeting in Cario tomorrow night,
Both are members of the U. N.
mediators staff. John Reedman
Africa, also one of Bernadote's
aides, is to present the proposals
in Tel Aviv to the Israeli Govern
ment.
(At the U. N.s Lake Success
headquarters, both the Bernadotte
formula and he reaction of the
disputing parties are expected to
be known before the end of the
week.) ;
Bernadotte indicated his pro
posals are not a hard-and-iast,
(Continued on Page Two.)
Demand On Reds
» WASHINGTON, June 28—
(AP)—The United States rushed
a fleet of huge cargo planes to
Germany today to help break a
Russian blockade of ground
transport to western Berlin.
As food supplies dwindled for
2,000,000 Berliners, diplomats
predicted the western powers
shortly would make a direct de
mand on the Kremlin to lif the
traffic noose from their sectors.
Air Force Headquarters an
nounced here Ilast mnight that
about 39 of the big four-engine
Cps 4 Skymasters had been or
dered to Germany to help ferry
food and other urgenlty needed
suppligs into the American sec
tor of Berlin.
The action gave one more in
dication of the determination of
the United ‘States, along with
Britain and France, to stand fast
and resist Soviet efforts to block
rail, highway and canal trans
port into the city.-
Officials ~ here interpret the
Russian actions as designed pri
marily to force the three west
ern gowers out of Berlin and
‘then convert it into the Comrgu
nist-controlled capital of an
eastern German state. 5
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1948.
Two more days remain, after today, before the Cham
ber of Commerce Slogan Contest closes and Athenians
who want a “crack’” at one of the three prizes which will
be awarded are urged to send in their slogan before mid
night, June 30. &
-
Dr. Napier
Addresses
LTI Opening
By GENE BARNES
“The comunity is ours only in
trust.”
Emphasizing this thought in a
brief but brilliant sermon last
night, Dr. B. Davie Napier, chap
lain of the University of Geer
gia spoke at the opening meet
ing of the second annual Leader
ship Training Institute in the
University Fine Arts Auditori
um. {
The crowd sat motionless as
Dr. Napier quoted from Screw
tape’s letter to Wormwood in
’which it was brought out that no
person possesses anything i-.
'cept'through the aid and sarfc
tion of God.
“If the claim of God upon us
is at all valid then it is valid
‘all- of life,” declared the chap
lain. ',
He went on to say that the
life of our community is a grant
from God and that the way in
which we handle that grant af
fects not only ourselves and our
‘community but every other cem
munity in ever widening circles.
Musie under the direction of
Mr. Hugh Hodgson, chairman of
the Fine Arts Division of the
University, filled the huge au
ditorium as the approximately
175 people who had braved hea
vy rain and an electrical storm
to attend rose to sing “Oh Wor
ship the King.” Mrs. Frances
Hodgson and a chorus of fifteen
voices sang the “Hymn to the
Saviour” by Kremser.
Introduced by Mr. A. E. Lowe,
moderator, President ‘Harmon
Caldwell gave a brief account
of the results of last year’s
|Leadership Training Institute
!and the plans for this = year's
meeting. He welcomed all form
er visitors and all new ones, and
then presented Dr. Napier.
This morning the Institute
held a clinic, “Promising Prac
tices in Health and Nutrition in
Public Schools in Georgia,” As
sisted by the staff and partici-.
pants in the health department
of the University, Miss Floride
Moore, College of Education, di
rected the program.
The second program of this
morning, “Better Use of Georgia’s
LResources,” was directed by
Miss Reba Burnham, College of
Education, assisted by Mr. E. H.
Thomas of the Soil Conservation
Service.
At 2:30, the Institute was
scheduled to present a clinic,
“Youth ‘Guidance and Counsell
ing in Georgia's Public Schools.”
|A panel discussion of “Better Li
braries Help Build a Better
’Georgia" will be presented at
3:30 today, and at both this dis
cussion and another panel dis
cussion of “The Minimum Foun
dation Program for Georgia” to
lnight at 7:30, Miss Emily Wood
ward will be moderator. °
A British Foreign Office
spokesman said yesterday in
London that the western nations
were considering a direct “ap
proach” to Moscow, evidently in
an effort to obtain an order from
Premier Stalin which would re
verse gxe Soviet policies in Ber
lin and ease the highly danger
ous sitsation developing there.
Kate Department officials had
no comment on the British state
ment.
The London spokesman did not
make clear wgat form the “ap
proach” would take, whether in a
single note or three similar
notes.
However, arguments the three
powers have made to date against
the Russian actions indicate the
approach probably would be
based on two major points.
1. They could argue that under
agreements made at end of the
war the western powers were
accepted by Russia without
qualification as joint occupants
of the capital of defeated Ger
many. Their right to be in the
city, they may also argue, in
cludes the more specific right to
transport food and other sup-
The slogan should not be lon
ger than twelve words and
should be sent to “Slogan Con
test, Chamber of Commerce.”
The prizes are a SSO security
bond, $25 security bond, and $lO
in cash.
Many entries’ have been re
ceived at the Chamber of Com
merce and many more are ex
pected to be received before the
contest closes, inasmuch as the
interest is very high in this be
ginning of @ movement to en
large the industrial plant in Ath
ens.
Praises Movement
Commenting on the value of a
united movement for Athens as
ne terms the Slogan Contest,
Mayor Jack R. Wells said in a
statement today:
“Beginning of the movement to
bring new industries to our com
munity, of which the Slogan
Contest is the opening gun, can
not help but be successful. I say
this because the movement is a
concerted one, in which Athen
ians have banded together in
one unit to attain one goal, and
when that happens nothing can
prevent success.
“We have long been an advo
cate of securing new industries
and businesses for Athens and it
is most encouraging right at the
start of this campaign for our
citizens to know that a site has
been approved for one of the
State Eermers Markets in Ath
ens and that funds are now be-
ing raised to purchase the ap
proved site.
“This Farmers Market comes
to Atlsens after much work ana
splendid cooperation on the part
of our citizens. The Farmers
Market is a new industry—one
that will bring hundreds of thou
sands of dollars into our city in
new money. It will provide an
outlet for the crops and. produce
of hundreds of farm families,
not only in Clarke county but in
all of the gounties in Northeast
Georgia. Not only will it bring
these farm families into Athens
to trade, it will also bring hun
dreds of buyers from all over
the wate and South to our city.
“It took work to secure the
State Farmers Market. It took
the cooperation of many. But the
results show clearly what can be
zccomplished when we all work
together.
“I have not the slightest doubt
that the movement to bring other
industries and businesses to our
city and community will be
equally successful. :
“I pledge now, on behalf of the
City government, our fullest co
operation, our time nad our en
ergy in this movement to further
the progress our city and com
munity has already made, feel
ing sure the other members of
the City government agrs: fully
and wholeheartedly with the
movement.”
DRAFT
WASHINGTON, June 28—
(AP)—The Army estimated to
day that between 225,000 and
250,000 men probably will be
inducted during the first year of
the new military draft.
To End Bloc Seen
that the Russian zone command
er has no legal power to deny
access.
2. They may warn Moscow in
stiff terms that the Soviets have
creatéd a powder keg in Berlin
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued hot tonight and Tuesday,
with widely scattered thun
dershowers.
GEORGIA—PartIy cloudy,
little ‘change in temperature
today, tonight and Tuesday;
scattered afternoon or even
ing thundershowers.
TEMPERATURE
Hidheat .0 .. v v, . »08
Lowet . v L olaowi Gy
MOBE . i e e
Normal .. .coiim wil w 9 iP
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 137
Total since June 1 .. .. 477
Excess since June 1 .. .. 119
Average June rainfall .. 391
Total since January 1 ...31.85
Excess since January 1 .. 6.47
Fisherman
Rides 60-Foot
Whale Bareback
PROVIDENCE, Mass., June
28— (AP)—A story worthy
of competing with the top
thrilling tales of the eld
whaling days was recorded
today by a 17-year-old lob
ster fisherman who ‘“rode”
a 60-foot mammal bareback.
The strange story was told
by Frank E. Cabral, jr. after
he was brought ashore by
his father yesterday.
Frank and his dad were
thauling lebster pots in sep
arate dories about 500 yards
apart off Race Point when
a huge whale came to the
surface and submerged.
Suddenly, the whale came
up again — right under
Frank’s small dory.
Both Frank and boat were
thrown, he estimated, about
15 feet into the air.
When he came down the
young fisherman said, he
landed on the whale’s back.
He dug his fingers deep into
the soft blubber.
After a short ride of 20
knots or better,” Frank re
lated, the whale sounded and
he took a long chance and
dove off before the mammal
submerged.
Young Cabral swam as
fast as he could to his fath
er's dory and was pulled
aboard. » =
Truman OK’s
$6 Billion
Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, June 28—(AP)
—The $6,090,000,000 foreign aid
program became law today.
President Truman signed the
appropriation bill swinging Amer
ica’s full force into the most am
bitious world economic program in
history.
1t pledges to western Europe and
far eastern countries to spend
within 15 months—within a year
if necessary——this vast sum in the
cause of recovery and political
freedom.
Authors of the bill also made it
clear the intent also is to throw up
a barrie{ against the spread of
Communism by strengthening gov
ernments outside of the Iron Cur
tain.
In a statement the President
said the appropriation represents
“the combined judgment and will
of the executive and and the Con
gress.”
“It was evolved in the spirit of
cooperation and not of partisan
conflict,” M. Truman continued.
“Ilt demonstrates the united deter
mination of our people to make
good our pledge of cooperation to
those who, like ourselves, are
strivifg to achieve enduring peace
and prosperity among all nations.”
The President said that the ac
tion “furnishes concrete evidence
and assurance to the free peoples
of the world that we stand ready
to work side by side with them to
preserve free institutions in
stability and peace.”
There never was any great doubt
the United States would help after
Secretary of State Marshall pro
posed his cooperative plan last
year. But there were strong dif
ferences over how much help
should be given,
and must bear full responsibility
for the coigequences if they per
sist iz their present course.
Diplomatic speculation on the
Russian response to such a note
gives high priority to the possi
bility that the #wnlin may pro
pose a new meeting of the Coun
cil of Foreign Ministers to try to
iron out the difficulties.
Such a meeting was urged last
week by a conference of the
eastern bloc nations at Warsaw
which Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov attended.
The United States govern
ment, however, is cool to the
idea- because officials here see
little chance of making any sub
stantial progress toward settle
ment of major German issues
until the whole European picture
has been clarified somewhat
through , the Marshall Plan re
covery program and related de
velopments,
e e S R —n
LEGION CONFAB
ATLANTA, June 28—(AP)—
The American Legion had bro
ken camp today after a business-
B e 1 theton nemnd
Erle Cocke, jr., of 1 na
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Few Americans
In Fiery Holocaust
TOKYO, June 28.—(AP)—Great earth shocks late toy
day twisted the western Honshu town of Fukui like taffy,
destroying the homes of most of the 85,000 population
and killing possibly thousands.
Japanese newspapers estimated that casualties in
Fukui were expected to reach 5,000. U, S. Army sources
said no official information had been received on the
number of dead and injured. §
California
Democrats
Uncertain
By The Associated Press
Cablifornia Democrats hung a
“wait and see” tag today on their
62 national convention votes.
Although all the state’s dele
gates signed statements yester
day that they preferred Presi
dent Truman as the party's
nominee a spokesman said this
was not a deiinite pledge.
“We're leaving California as a
Truman delegation and will see
what happens at Philadelhpia,
according to conditions at that
time,” John F. Shelley, delega
tion chairman said. He said his
group had decided to caucus on
any question that comes up at
the national sessions opening
July 12 in Philadelphia.
This developmeént, coming on
the hels of the Rubuplicans' se
lection of Gov. Earl Warren of
‘ alifornia as running mate to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, foreshadowed
later trouble for Mr, Truman if
he wins the party nomination.
Warren demonstrated his popu
larity with California voters two
years ago when both § .the
Republicans and Deg"\ oélts
picked him as theilr woandidate
for a second term as governor.
meanwhile the Democrats head--
ed into the final week of de
legate picking . The District of
Columbia wil select a six-votg
delegation at a primary tod&y.
The National siate of 1,234 will
be completed Friday when Vir
ginia Democrats chose a 26-
vote delegation expected to be
be anti-Truman. ¥
ounts 670 Votes
But to date Mr. Truman counts
670 pledged and claimed dele
gates, with 618 BGeéing required
for nomination.
- In Wisconsin where all bus one
of the state’s 28 delegates to thy
Democratic convention were
elected last spring on a Truman
for-President plank, a party
convention closed yesterday with
a noisy “we want Eisenhower”
demonstration in progress.
There were about 4000 delegates
at the session, which adopted re
solutions praising the Roose
velt-Truman Administrations,
without specificalgge endorsing
Mr. Truman. An adjournment
motion was declared caried be
fore a resolution calling for an
Eisenhower draft came up 'for
a vote Some delegates objected
«nd crowded around the chair
man’s platform to protest loud
ly.
(Continued on Page Two.)
SLIPOUT ON FREIGHT CAR
Five Gunmen Elude Largest
Trap In Chicago’s History
CHICAGO June 28—(AP)—
Five machinegun bandits who
held up an alleged gambling and
handbook spot Saturday and
shot two policemen in a running
gun battle appeared today to
have eluded the biggest man
trap in Cook county history.
Police expressed belief the
gunmen slipped out of a ring of
200 oficers on a freight train
after they had been surrounded
in a nearby stone quarry in the
southwestern section of the
county.
Treasury agents and police
said they might have found
some tell-tale evidence, how
ever, in guns, ammunition and
the abandoned car. About 1,000,
the bulk of the hoidup loot, al
so was found with the guns at
a stop where the robbers were
believed to have iorded the Des
plaines River in their escape
from the police trap.
- Checking Weapons
! Polic:d were cl;ockinz, the wi;ai
pons a - for fingerprints.
Federal .fiw’ufim " were
guns a carbine, three 45 caliber
HOME
Fires sprang up after the series
of quakes which began at 4:12 p.
m. Fanned by a brisk wind the
fires destroyed half the. city.
They still raged for six hours
after the temblors. Forty thous
and were homeless.
A fully equipped U. S. Army
relief train was rushed tc Fukui,
cogstal city fronting the Sea of
Japan., - B *
Army reports from its men on
the scene said 60 persons were
injured at Daishomi, 20 miles
northeast of Fukui, but there
were no known dead. Previous
Japanese reports had said 300
were killed there. Five hundred
Daishoji homes were destroyed.
Other Army reports said there
was no fire and damage was
slight at the big manufacturing
city of Kanazawa. A long silence
from the city of 186,000 persons
had produced fears of a heavy
toll,
Major General Joseph W.
Swing, commander of the U. 8.
First * Corps at Kyoto, left his
headquarters = aboard a relief
.train bound for the disaster
~scene. The train carried three
medical teams, medicine and
'tood. :
Radio equipment aboard -the
train was to be used to send back
data on the disaster.
“Nobody really knows what
happened there,” General Swing
saia before his departure.
Reports reaching Brig. Gen.
Crawford S. Sams of the Allied
Public Health Section, said the
quake was centered around Fu=-
kui. Survivors who reached
Osaka placed most of the damage
at Fukui, which was. heavily
bombed during the war but had
been largely rebuilt. Some 37,000
houses stood in the area.
Few American occupation per
sonnel are stationed in the quake
area.
Tidal wave warnhings were
issued. Japanese remembering
the 44,000 thousand who died in
the I*B quake, were jittery.
The heaviest damage appeared
to be in three perfectures, Fukui,
Ishikawa and Toyama.
Buildings Swayed /
Buildings in Tokyo — several
hundred miles to the northeast—
swayed and the quakes were felt
at Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka and Ky
oto.
(Honolulu reported a sharp
earthquake there at 1:38 a. m.
Honolulu time). 7
The Osaka meteoriogical ser=
vice said the first of three tremb
lors struck at 4:12 a. m. Other
reports placed the number of
temblors at flur.
Communidaions with the
stricken area were disrupted.
Meager reports were received by
the U. S. Army headquarters in
Kyoto, which is about 75 miles
from the hardest hit areas.
(Continued On Page Two)
pistols, a shotgun and a sub
nachine gun.
The chase began as the gun
men left the holdup scene. A
‘hild who said she saw the man
shoot a lock off the door quick=-
ly informed a nearby filling sta
tion operator who called police:
Sgt. Charles Peterson, 43, of
suburban Western Springs police
arrived as the bandits emerged
from the building. As he stepped
from the car he was felled by
two bullets in the abdomen.
Peterson crawled back into his
car and radioed an alarm. Lieut.
Joseph Clegg and other subur
ban Lagrange police took up the
chase. They engaged the fleeing
car in a gun battle during which
Clegg was slightly wounded in
an arm., : 2 .
The fugitives sped on to the
quarry and surrounding swamp
land where they abandoned the
car. ;
More than 200 policemen sur
rounded and searched the area
inroughout the night. Until
darkness 11 planes .%: ‘the
(?m view naval air fi
cled over fi\lm%m in an effort
to spot the fugitives. ~*