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Pre-Dawn Raids
By Wolf-Dog
Packs Reported
ROME, June 28 — (AP) —
ROME, June 28—(AP)—
The story of wild dogs, run
ning in packs and carrying
out wolf-like raids against
livestock, Fas drifted out of
the rugged, sparsely settled
Lavender Mountain District
of morth of here.
The tale eame to light
yesterday when T. W. Snyder
of Mount Berry asked for
permission to carry a pistol
fie saia it was unsaie (o roam
the area without arms after
nightfall.
Much of the area around
Lavender Mountain, a lonely
hill which few visit, is pri
mate enough to shelter a
pack amid its crags and rav
ines.
Snyder said the pack had
carrvied out repeated raids
on livestock and peoultry and
that the raids invariably were
after nightfall,
The north Georgia farmer
said he had killed a large
dog several weeks ago and
helieved it part of the pack.
He said there were indica
tions the mongrel strain had
somehow become crossed
with wolf,
Ex-Athenian
Dies Monday
Miss Margaret C. Honeycutt,
former resident of Athens and one
of the first members of the WACs
to enter Paris during World War
Two, died in Lawson General
Hospital in Atlanta Monday at
12:50 a. m. Miss Honeycutt was
33 years old and had been ill for
four months.
Services are to be conducted
from the graveside in Oconee Hill
cemetery Wednesday morning at
11 o’cleck with Chaplin David B.
Napier of the University of Geor
gia, officiating. Pallbearers will
be members of the American Le
gion and Legionnaires will also
form an escort of honor. Bridges
Funeral Home is in charge of ar
rangements.
Miss Honeycutt is survived by
two sisters, Mrs. Richard Grimes,
Savannah, and Mrs. E. B. Bailey,
Toledo, Ohio; two brothers,
Wayne Honeycutt, Boone, N. C,,
and Earl L. Honeycutt, Savannah;
and her step-mother, Mrs. Lucy
Honeycutt, Boone, N. C.
She was a native of Alexander,
N. C., and graduated from Craw
ford High School, after which she
entered Nursing School.
Miss Honeycutt later joined the
Women’s Army Corps and was a
sergeant stationed in London for
a time, and was with the first de
tachment of the WAC to enuv..
Paris, where she remained for
several months. She was dis
charged by the Army at Fort
Bragg, N. C. She was well known
in Athens, where she resided for
some time.
Miss Honeycutt lost a brother in
the Italian sector in April of
1945, Leftridge W. Honeycutt, who
since the close of the war was
awardeéd a citation by the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Santa Fe Super
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WINSLOW, Ariz., June 29—
(AP)—Santa Fe Railroad’s luxu
ry passenger train, the Super
Chief, was derailed today in the
Winslow yards. .
Morris Richards, editor of the
Winstzail, said he was told the
train “turned over.”
Richards said he was informed
“several” persons were injured
He said. all doctors in the city
were summoned to the scene of
the wreck. !
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“DEMOCRATIC WORLD” ASKED TO SAE BERLIN—Some 50,000 people pack the
football field in the French sector of Ber iin to hear leaders of the Social Demoerat
Party appeal to the “democratic world” to save Berlin from Russian aggression.
Franz Neumann, party chairman, labelled as “Russian tyranny” the recent Soviet
move of cutting off the food supply into the German city. -
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
U.S.Maps New
German Move
WASHINGTON, June 29 —(AP)—-United States of
ficials were reported readving new, tough diplomatic
moves today to crack Russia’s land blockade of Berlin.
Although White House and State Department officials
maintained a tight-lipped silence, Indications mounted
that a diplomatic stroke ain:ed directly at the Kremlin
might be unleashed tomorrow or Thursday.
The nature of any such plan
was cloaked in strictest secrecy,
but signs pointed to a stern note
demanding that Russia lift the
eight-day old blockade and quit
other unity-hampering tactics—
or take responsibility for the
consequences.
The Air Force meanwhile
stood ready to rush more cargo
planes to the beleaguered Ger
man capital if needed to help
ferry food and other urgently
needed supplies to 2,500,000 res
idents cut off in the western
zones. )
Already some 39 Giant C-54S
were winging their way to Ger
many from as far away as Alas
ka and the Caribbean.
An Air Force spokesman said
no further requests for "planes
had been received from U. S.
occupation authorities. But he
told a reporter scores more of
the transport craft were availa
ble.
Meanwhile diplomatic and
military officials held a fast
breaking series of conferences
here and abroad which pointed
to an early break in the Berlin
impasse.
New Developments
These were the major devel
opments:
.1. Undersecretary of State
Lovett conferred with President
Truman yesterday and later at
tended a White House cabinet
session. There was no official
word on the topics under discus
sion, but it was learned that one
of them was the Berlin situation.
2. Undersecretary of the Army
William Draper and U. S. Am
bassador Lewis W. Douglas went
into a London huddle with Bri
tain’s Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin. Draper then flew to Ber
lin to join Lt. Gen. A. C. Wede
meyeér of the U. S. General Staff
for conferences with the Amer
ican Commander Gen. Lucius D.
Clay.
3. Prime Minister Attlee sum-
Truman Signs
Pension Bill
WASHINGTON, June 28 —
(AP)—President Truman today
signed a bill providing retirement
benefits for reserve officers and
men of the Army, Air Force and
Navy.
In a statement, the President
said “The way is now open to
the development of an everyready
reserve as an integral part of the
United States Armed forces.”
For the first time, reserves are
given retirement credit for time
spent in the reserve. Heretofore
they have been entitld to pensions
only if they had enough time on
active duty or were disabled in
active service.
Upon reaching the age of 60
reserves can retire if they have
been in the reserve 20 years or
longer. Those now in the reserve
must have been in active service
dquring World War I or World
War 11.
Retired pay will be computed
at two and a half per cent of base
pay for the highest rank held
multiplied by the number of
years on active duty, plus one
half of one per cent of the seme
base pay multiplied by the num
ber of years on inactive status.
In no event, however, can the
pension be .greatér than 75 per
cent of the highest active duty
pay drawn by the person receiv
ing the pension
Associated Press Service
moned Field Marshall Viscount
Montgomery, Chief of the Bri
tish Imperiai Generai Staff, to
a special cabinet session last
night. .
Bevin meantime put off un
tili Wednesday a statement on
overall British policy in Ger
many which he had been sche
duled to make before Parlia
ment yesterday.
The fact that Bevin postponed
his Parliamentary report until
Wednesday indicated that' the
United States and Britain may
be planning simultaneous state
ments then. s
Funds Campaign For Farmers
Market Nets SI.BOO Ist Day
Svri 4
Syrians Say
U. S. Warship
.. Warship
Shelled Arabs
CAIRO, June 29.—(AP)—Syria.
has protested that an American
warship off Palestine shelled A}*ab
lines, a Syrian official disclosed,
as the Arab League met today to
mull over United Nations propos
als for a Holy Land peace. |
Muhsen Al Barazi, Syrian in-'
terior minister, in Cairo for thel
League session, said the protest
was made to the United Nations
and to Count Folke Bernadotte,
U. N. mediator. |
He described the warship as one
of those the U. S. recently placed |
at the disposal of Bernadotte, and |
said the shelling took place three'
days ago near Al Barwa, during
a Jewish attack. He added that
the Arab troops shelled were un
der the command of Fawzi Pasha
Al Kaukji.
In Washington, the State De-'
partment said it had received no
official word of the Syrian pro
test. A Department spokesman .
said American destroyers were in‘
the Palestine area only as observ
ers of the U. N. truce. ‘
Syrian Premier Jamil Mardam
Bey, who announced the League.
meeting from Damascus, said Ber- !
nadotte’s new peace proposals
“will in no way modify our atti
tude of rejecting partition and a
Jewish state in Palestine.”
The proposals alse have been
forwarded to the Jews in Tel
Aviv.
Bernadotte said he asked both
parties to refrain from suggestions
or publishing the proposals until
he has received their replies.
The Cairo newspaper Al Ahram
ran a dispatch from Saudi Arabia
last nighHt that official talks on
the Palestine problem between
King Ibn Saud and King Abdul
lah of Trans-Jordan, began Sun
day in Riyadh.
The dispatch quoted Abdullah
as saying that if Bernadotte’s me
diation fails, “the world will wit
ness the result of the participa~
tion of Saudi Arabian forces in
the Palestine fighting.”
President Chaim Weizmann of
Israel predicted in Paris yesfer
day that Palestine Arabs eventu
ally will come to an agreement
with the new Jewish state.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
The proposed Northeast Georgia
',Farmers Market for Athens re
ceived a big boost here today
'when six local business houses’
contributed a total of SI,BOO to the
‘Jaycee subscription fund, the pur
}pose of which is to buy the ap
| proved market site.
| Millard Seagraves, chairman of
i the Jaycee Farmers Market Com-~
‘mittee, described response to the
| fund-raising drive as “insurance
of the fact that we will be able
to raise the necessary funds to
purchase the site within 30 days.”
The Junior Chamber group had
announced previously that the ap
proved site will cost $10,500.
The site, consisting of five acres
ljust beyond the tarmination of
| Broad street, inside the city limits,
lhas been approved by Commis
sioner of Agriculture Tom Linder,
~and Mr, Linder statvd that the
State will construct necessary
buildings on the lot, which will
I cost about $40,000, within 60 days
after the lot has been purchased.
i Local businesses contributing
i the SI,BOO are: Rowe Warehouse
and Fertilizer Company, Russell
Daniel, Inc., W. A. Mathis Con
struction Company, Hutchins, Cox
and Stroud, The National Bank of
Athens, and Hodgson’s, Inc. |
Death Takes
e
:Mrs. Alice
‘Hall Tod
: a O ay
At four-thirty o’clock this
morning Mrs. Alice Williams Hall
died, gently and serenely, as she
had lived, in a local hospital, af
ter an illness of only a few days.
One of the best-loved women in
Athens, Mrs. Hall had never fully
regained her strength after an
illness last year, but she had'been
able to accept the hospitality of
her friends and entertain them in
her home up wuntil the end of
last week.
She was boih by inheritance
and by reason of her gracious
personality one of the leaders in
the social and cultural life of the
community. The daughter of Sa
rah Jones amilton and Edwin
Anderson Williams, shic was dorn
in the home built by her grand
parents, Dr. James Sherwood
Hamilton and his wife, Rebecca
Crawford Hamilton, and from
this house she was married in
1900 -to Joseph Somervill Hall,
of Charleston, South Carolina.
They lived for fifieen years in Au
gusta, Ga., and after the death of
Mr. Hall she returned to Athens
in 1915.
The men and women of Mrs.
Hall’s generation recall her gay
and popular girlhood, when she
was a belle throughout the state
and “Sweet Alice” was one of
their favorite names for her, and
many 4 person in sorrow or mis
for tune hagiteasonto jemembler
her acts of unobtusisive kindness
(Continued on Page Two.)
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1948
Slogan Contest
Wil End At
12 P. M. Tomorrow
Athenians have two more
days, including today, to en
ter the Chamber of Com
merce Slogan Contest and
compete for one of three
money prizes which will be
awarded the winners.
The Contest is being held
under auspices of the In
dustrial Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce for the
purpose of picking a short
slogan to advertise Afthens in
a campaign to pbring more in
dustries to thie community
The slogan should not be
longer than twelve words.
Those who desire to enter
should send their slogans to
“Slogan Contest, Chamber of
Commerce.” The contest clos
es at 12 o'clock Wednesday
(tomorrow) night.
The prizes to be given are
a $50.00 security bond; $25.00
security bond and SIO.OO in
cash. Many entries have al
ready been received, but the.
last entries may be the win.
ners.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Thundershowers and contin
ued hot tonight and Wed
nesday. Thursday partly
cloudy and cooler.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and hot with thundershowers
today and tonight; Wednes
day scattered showers and
thunderstorms; not so warm
in the afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
e il s
EOWERE ..o i )
DR LD
PRI . . e A
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since June 1 .. .... 4.77
Excess since June 1 .. .. 1.06
Average June rainfall . 301
Total since January 1 ...31.85
Excess since January 1 .. 6.34
Red Troops May Be
Sent Tc¢-.Yugoslavia
Tito Told To Get In Line
With Party Or Be Replaced
LONDON, June 29— (AP)—American Diplomatic
sources in Rome said today Russia may be building up a
case to send troops to Yugosiavia.
The Kremlin-ruled cominform denounced the Com
munist rulers of the Balkan country yesterday. Premier
Marshal Tito, his whereabouts still a mystery, was casti
gated by name and told in effect either to adhere to the
party line or be replaced. Tanjug, the official Yugoslav
news agency, said it expected a statement from Tito to
day.
The Italian radio said martial
law was declared in Yugoslavia,
but a dispatch telephoned from
Belgrade to Prague said this was
LTI Studies
Increase In
Teacher Pay
Ten experts in the field of ed
ucation insisted at last night's
Leadership Training Institute
session that Georgia teacher’s sal
aries must be raised.
During the two-hour session
held in The Fine Arts Audito~
rium Dr., Harmon W. Cadwell,
University president, Dr. M _D.
Collins, state Superintendent of
schools, and Dr. O. C. Aderhold,
dean, College of Education, join
ed the other experts in’ stressing
the fact that the 83 million dol
lars asked for Georgia schools
this year is the sorely needed
bare minimum with which the
schools should operate.
An apt story by Dr. George
Sparks, director, Atlanta Division,
University of Georgia, pointed to
the fact that the school children
ir Georgia are just as capable as
any in the world. ‘
Mr. E. A. Lowe Director, Di
vision of General Extension, fur
thered the discussion with the
statement, “We are finding that
more and more adults want to
continue their education.”
To fill the need of both adults
and children in Georgia for
greater educational facilities, the
educators explained that we need
more teachers. To get more teach
ers for Georgia who will remain
in Georgia to teach, their szla
ries must be raised to at least a
level of the teachers in the sur
rounding states. In order that
those salaries may be raised and
in order that teaching facilities
for those teachers may be pro
vided, the concensus of opinion
of the panel was that each com.
munity and each community
civic organization must support the
minimum foundation program.
Emphasizing the need for sup
port of this measure when it is
presented to the state legislature,
Miss Emily Woodward declared,
“The politicians will do what the
people want!”
Varies Ideas 2y
Among the various sugges~
tions offered as to methods for
starting the program locally Dr.
1. S. Ingramy residents West Geor.
gia College, mentioned a barbe
cue. Other suggestions from the
experts and from the audience
followed. Dr. Aderhold urged that
the question of education in
Georgia be discussed at almost
any kind of community meeting.
The members of the panel em
phasized the fact that the low
salaries of the teachers did not
hurt the teacher who goes out of
state to get a better one, but that
(Contmued on Page Two.)
New Earth Tremors Strike Japan;
Death Toll Now Estimated 2,500
FUKUI, Japan, June 29.—(AP)
—The shattered Fukui area felt
new earth tremors tonight. Mili
tary government officers estimat
ed Monday’s earthquake casual
ties would mount to 2,500 dead
and injured Japanese.
No new damage was reported.
All Americans in the stricken
area escaped serious injury but a
number were bruised and burned
slightly.
American relief reached the
quake scene to aid the injured and
homeless.
Military government officers
said 200 children were crushed to
death when a motion picture thea~
ter collapsed in the first shock.
Their bodies have been recovered.
At a school 22 more children and
two adults were reported crushed.
| Major General Joseph W. Swing,
emphatically denied in the Yugo
slav capital.
The Belgrade correspondent of
the Associated Press said there
was a story that martial law was
declared around Nis, near the
Bulgarian border, to allow police
and soldiers to evacuate persons
from a flood zone. The story
could not be confirmed because of
poor communications.
} Communist headquarters in Bel
‘gra(le repeated a promise to issue
a statement in response to the
Cominform denunciation “some
time this afternoon.” Yugoslav
papers ignored the Cominform‘s
denunciation.
The Cominform had accused
Tito and other Communist leaders
of pursuing a hateful policy to
ward Russia, leaning toward the
western powers, conducting a
“wrong” foreign and domestic
policy and departing from the
Marxist-Leninist line.
Belgrade dispatches yesterday
said Tito was believed to be at
his summer palace at Bled in the
north. He usually spends June
there. A former Czechoslovak del
egate to the United Nations said
he thought Tito is dead. A high
Yugoslav diplomat in Rome said
Tito still is in power. The fact
remained that weeks had elapsed
since the strutting marshal, once
a general in Russia’s Red Army,
had appesdred in the news.
3,000 Word Blast
The text of the Cominform’s
3,000-word blast seemed to indi
cate that Tito and his men may
yet have a chance. It said, at one
point:
“The aim of these sound ele
ments of the Communist party of
Yugoslavia is to force their preés
ent leading factors to confess
openly and honestly their faults
and correct them; to part from
nationalism; to return to interna
tionalism and in every way to fix
the united socialist front against
imperialism. Or if the present
leaders of the Communist party of
Yugoslavia prove unable to do
this task, to change them and to
raise from below a new interna
tionalistic leadership of the Com
munist party in Yugoslavia. The
information bureau does not doubt
that the Communist party can
fulfill this task.”
Nonetheless, the Cominform
statement showed, this will be an
uphill struggle, because of recent
acts:
“The Central Committee of the
Communist ' party of Yugoslavia
puts itself and the Yugoslav Com
munist party outside the family
of brotherly Communist parties,
outside the Communist front and,
therefore, outside the rank of the
information bureau.”
American and British officials
in Germany thought perhaps Yu
goslavia’s strong desire for goods
from the west — including ma
chinery and manufactured goods
—might have had some connection
‘with Tito’s troubles.
The denunciation was contained
in a resolution adopted at a Com
inform meeting this month in
Romania — a meeting at which
Yugoslavia, one of the nine-na
tion Cominform’s founders last
year, was not represented.
It singled out for criticism, in
addition to Tito, Vice Premier
Edvard Kardelj, one of the Com
inform founders; Milovan Djilas,
minister for Montenegro, a Yugo
slav state; and Lt. Gen. Alexander
Rankovic, minister of interior and
head of Yugoslavia’s police force.
U. S. Army First Corps comman
der, returned to Kyoto from Fukui
and said he doubted the death list
for the whole stricken area would
exceed 300 but the total injured
may eventually reach 5,000. He
said there was no evidence of any
tidal waves striking the shore
from the Sea of Japan.
The governor of Fukui Prefec
ture estimated 3,155 were killed
in the violent quake. (The Tokyo
newspaper Asahi gave the num
ber of dead and injured in the
prefecture as 16,000. It reported
300,000 homeless.)
Americans here who went
through the ’quake, said it was
‘almost as if Fukui, which was
leveled by Superforts late in the
‘war, was hit by an atom bomb.
‘The city of 85,000 is heavily dam-
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BEAT THE DRAFT-—Scenes of this nature are being
staged all over the country these days as young Ameri
cans seek to make their own choice where a stint in Army
life is concerned. The men ahove are shown signing up
for National Guard service. Although Guard enlistments
had to be curtailed, recruiting stations are getting more
than their quota of volunteers
Democrats Renew
Eisenhower Chant
Anti-Truman Democrats pounded their Eisenhower
for-President drums with fresh vigor today. '
Elliott Roosevelt set off the parade by disclosing a new
letter from the General which he said made him optimis
tic Bisenhower could not refuse “a true draft movement”
at the Democratie National Convention. _
The son of the late President
read the letter last night at a
New York rally sponsored by the
American for Demrocratic Astion.
He said it was written June 15
to Leslie E. Schwartz, an ADA
official. The letter said:.
“When 1 made a public state
ment last Jenuary referring to a
possible political career, I did it
only after earnest study to defer
mine the field in which I might
possibly be of some future use
fulness.
“l am anxious to do my duty,
jbut felt that it was my own prob
lem to determine whether or not
a sense of duty could call me
into the political field.” )
It was last January that Eisen~
hower, new president of Colum
bia University, silenced a similar
effort by some Republicans to
stir a draft move at the GOP
convention Since then he hes
repeatedly reaffirmed that posi
tion.
Confab Sought
Another Democratic group
meanwhile sought to arrange a
meeting with the general today.
Hezrry Carlson, New Hampshire
Democratic National Committee
man, said last night that he and
party leaders from several South
ern States would seek the Eisen
bower interview. The general’s
office said, however, that his’
calendar “is filled with universi
ty appointments.”
But Senator J. Howard Mec-
Grath (D-RI) told a New York
news conference last night he
dnes not “regerd General Eisen
hower as a candidate.” The Na
tional Democratic party chair-
Flash Fires
The first tremors burst water
mains. Fires flashed but Ameri
cans and Japanese were helpless
before the flames without water.
Half the city, rebuilt wooden
houses and structures, went down
in the first temblor or so. Ninety
five percent of what was left was
burned and scorched and turned
into rubble. ’
A few of the Americans here
suffered minor injuries — mostly
cuts, bruises and burns. Many
lost their possessions.
Military personnel, totalling 17
officers, 17 enlisted men and two
civilians, fought vaiiantly through
out the night and day to help the
suffering Japanese.
" Fiames stiil seared their faces
as they led the Japanese to safety
H QTIONM E
man &dded that he expects Pres
ident Truman to be nominated
on the first ballot at the Phila.
delphia sessions opening July 12,
McGrath said he doesn’t “look
for any difficulty with the ¢ele
getes from the Southern States.”
District of <Columbia Demo
crais, however, showed a sharp
division of opinion in their pri
mary balloting yesterday. Only
371 votes were recorded, and
while Mr. Truman won the six~
vote delegation by a 236 ftally,
Eisenhower piled up 181 write-in
votes, :
'Another Blow ;
Another note which jarred with
McGrath’s first ballot vietory
prediction came fromi the director
of the Southern States’ rights
group which is oppesing Mr.
Truman’s nomination.
J. 0. Emmerich announced in
McComly, Misdf, ‘that 15 Dixie
znd border state governdrs have
indicated they will attend an anti-
Truman caucus in Philadelphia
the day before the National Con
vention.
In the border stete of Ken
tucky, meenwhile, the two Uniis
ted Mine Workers officials souryds
ed a call for labor to supnort
Senator Alben Barkley (D-Ky)
for the presidency. They said un
ion members should oppose Mr.
Truman. g
To that, third party presidential
Cendidate Henry A. Wallace
agreed In a speech in Berlin,
N. H.. he said “labor is not get
ting its iust desserts from our
present foreign policy of spend
ing vast sums in adventures
overseas.” he added: :
on the edge of the ravaged town.
During the first hours, 1,000 in
jured Japanese moved through an
American first aid station.. Brig.
General Eugene L. Harrison, in
charge of the station, said about
10 percent of the first thousand
patients were hurt seriously.
Harrison said 39 bodies had
been recovered.
(In Tokyo Allied Headquarters
said American dependents : have
been evacyated from Fukui and
are proceeding toward Kyoto by
jeeps, avtomobiles and- train,)
Army sources said an |area
about 50 miles wide along the
coast of the Sea of " Japan was
ripped by the i€inbiors. The area,
embracing Fukui and Ishikawa
prefectures, has a population of
1,664,000--the t in the census
of October hflfi. R