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MOTHER ACCUSED OF BEATINGS — Six-year-old Bobbie Smith (above) is in
City Hospital at Columbus, Ga., for treatment of injuries, and her ,mother, Mrs.
Hazel Smith, 30, has been bound over to county court on four charges of beating
the little girl. Mrs. Smith, a preacher of the Four Square Gospel Church in Colum
bus, is a former pupil of the late Aimee Semple McPherson of Los Angeles.—
(AP Photo).
Reds Cite Air
Trattic Rules
BERLIN, June 30.—(AP)—The official Soviet news
paper in Germany took a dig at the Western Allies’
emergency air freight service into Rerlin today. Some
westerners feared it might portend a Russian attempt to
restrict use of the air corridor food lifeline.
“Claims that this service is designed to feed Berlin are
a bluff to cloak the plundering of the city by shipping out
machinery and products on the return flight,” said Taeg
liche Rundschau.
Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
the Russian commander in Ger
many, cautioned last night that
he hoped flying regulations
would be faithfully followed.”
Some thought that also might
have been a hint of forthcoming
effortsto shut off the last food
liféeline to the more than 2,000,-
000 Germans in the western sec
tors of Berlin
In last night’s statement, how
ever, Marshal Sokolovsky said
he hoped that train service from
the west into Berlin could be
resumed before the city’s food
stocks run out.
Commenting on that statement
this morning, Coi. frank L.
Howley, the U. S. Commandant
of Berlin, had this to say:
“If the Russians want to lift
the blockade, that will be fine.
but we will wwait for deeds
rather than words.”
In Frankfurt, top ranking
American, British, and French
occupation officials met today
to start building a new neutral
government for Western Ger
many. It was ‘hinted that the
Soviet land blockade of Berlin
may also be discussed.
The U. S. Army’s Templehof
air base announced that 157
tlights had been received' during
24 hours up to last midnight,
bringing supplies to the Ameri
can and German population.
Planes Increase
This total may be exceeded
today as planes are flying from
Weisbaden as well as Frankfurt
airports. The British Royal air
force also is expanding its air,
shuttle service to Berlin.”
A British official in Hamburg
said today that barge traific, the
British zone’s last ground supply
link with Berlin, has stopped
moving along the Elge river. He
said the barges had been held
up at the Russian control point
at Witteuberg.
(Continnea On Page Five)
Survivors Tell Of Spending
3 Days In Gulf After Blast
CEDAR KEY, Fla., June 30—
(AP) — A harrowing story of
three = days without food and
drinking water in the Gulf of
Mexico after the fishing boat
Hazel efploded and burned was
told today by two survivors of
the ill-fated craft. '
The pair — Mrs. Merle Potts
and William Sanders, a barber,
both of Ocala—were found yes
terday by “Dad” Collier, care
taker at nearby Seahorse Island.
The boay of Mrs. Ted Hill, a
third member of the party of 14
aboard the 38-foot boat, was
found off snake key by Clyde
Coulter and several other per-
Sons who joined in the surface
hunt,
Levy County Sheriff G. T.
Robbins said Sanders told him
four other members of the par
v may be alive. They broke
away from a group of nine sur
dlogan Contest Will Close At 12 O’Clock Tonight
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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! ATLANTA, June 30—(AP)—
Comparative comfort of 70 degree
lweather settled on Georgia early
today and the Weather Bureau
said temperatures would average
two or three degrees under the
highs of the past ten days.
Fifteen Georgia weather sta
tions showed high reading ranging
from 94 to 103 _ i
for the week of :;]
June 23 to June el o
29. For the state jfN: i g
as a whole, the i#: 6 ;
average was 84§ WPI Lo
degrees or 4] EuR
points above nor- & ,
mal. Bhig i e
The intense S i
heat had an un=- FEO g T
favorable effect il L
on most crops, . *COOLER - -
especially -
between Albany and Macon. The
bureau said in many instances corn
and some other crops are too late
and too small to withstand heat
and lack of moisture and unless
substantial rains are received soon,
crops will dry up and fail to pro
duce.
Atlanta, Macon and Columbus
had minimums of 70 this morning,
from two to five degrees below
!yesterday. The maximums will
range from 85 to 95 for most of
the state.
Albany thermometers rose to 103
during the week. Other maximums
included Eastman 101; Americus,
Augusta, Dublin and Lumber City
‘100; Atlanta, Columbus, Fort
} Gaines 99, Athens and LaGrange
‘94,
vivors clinging together in the
water Monday morning and
swam for an island. That was
the last Sanders saw of them.
Two of the remaining five
sank Monday night, including
Sanders’ wife. Mrs. Hill went
down yesterday morning.
Sanders and Mrs. Potts, res
cued from a bird rack off Sea
Horse Island by Collier were
suffering from exposure, shock
and numerous scratches Sanders
said were made by needle fish.
They were taken ww Ocala in
ambulances.
Sinks Quickly
The explosion ocurred at 8:20
Sunday morning after the boat
put out from Yankeetown, San
ders said. The boat caught fire
and sank within 15 minutes.
Sanders said L. R. Burnpett
of Yankeetown, owner of the
Associated Press Service
Soviet Awr Bloc
ProvesTo Be
Barrage Ballon
BERLIN, June 30.—(AP)
—One tired old barrage bal
loon raised a false scare to
day that the Russians were
putting up a new obstacle to
the aerial foed ferry route
into Soviet-blocked Berlin.
&xcited U. S. Air Force of
ficials, suspecting ¥ threat to
the air lifeline to Berlin,
found a supposed mass of
obstacles was just an old bal
loon that has flown a long
time in the corridor between
Berlin and the British zone.
The false report, presum
ably based on information
from pilets, first came from
Finkfurt and was quickly
questioned by American air
autherities here, ... .
Pilots already had been
warned to fly above the 5,000
foot level of the supposed
obstacles.
Strife Splits
KKK Forces
ATLANTA, June 30.—(AP)—
The hooded realm of the Ku
Klux Klan was showing signs
today of an internal struggle for
power.
Two . large Klaverns seceded
from the state-within-a-state
ruled by Grand Dragon Samuel
Green yesterday to form “The
Original Southern Klans, Inc.”
Dr. Green promptly branded
their departure as one by ‘‘Boi
shevik Klans which pulled out
because they couldn’'t run things
themselves.”
Green named the deserters as
the Klaverns in Manchester and
Columbus. Both long have been
active and powerful. And both
were involved recently .in re
ports by two Columbus newspa
permen and a photographer.
The three said they set out to
trail a busload of Klansmen
from Columbus to a meeting
near Manchester and that they
subsequently, were forced to
drink whisky, doped and their
pictures taken in compromising
positions.
Dr. Green denied the charges
on behalf of the Klans and
nothing further was heard on the
case.
(Continued on Page Five,)
craft was badly burned and is
believed to have died soon after
wards. Life preservers were giv
en to the women in the party
while the men clung to wreck
age, he said. ¢ ;
Mrs. Potts mother of three
children, told Deputy Sheriff. F.
L. McGehee of Ocala she was
ready to give up yesterday and
couldn’t stand the thirst any
longer. She began to drink sal§
water and was badly nauseated
when brought here last night.
She also was burned on the
face. {
At low tide, Sanders said,
they were able to wade some of.
the time but when high water
returned they had to cling to
life * preservers or swim.
Sanders and Mrs. Potts drifted
to the bird racß sbout ™aen yes
terday and they were sighted not
long afterwards by Collier.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
U.S.-Yugoslav Financial Deal Netting
Tito S3O Million Nears Agreement
Balkan Bloc
Proposed By
Yugo Commies
LONDON, June 30—(AP)—
The Yugoslav Communist party
asserted that country's independ
ence today from outside demin
{nation.; Swoittly before it had
termed comminform “charges
against Premier Marshal Tito
znd other Red leaders of Yugos
lavia ‘“lies, slander ané absurd.”
The Yugoslav Communists pro
posed a Balkan bloe of Yugosla-
Wia, Bulgaria and Albania and
recommended that the Yugoslav
army be strengthened because it
“protects the freedom and inde
pendence of the people of Yugos
lavia.”
Tito himself remained as elu
! sive as ever. Presumablv his
voice dominated the two Yugos
lav utterances bpecause he is the
’Communist .chief of state and
secretary generel of the Yugoslav
|Communist party — a position
like that of Stalin in Rusgin,
’ Tith variously was reported -t his
summer palace in Bled, in Bel
grede, on an Adriatic Island, in
’ Austria and in Moscow.
. The British foreign office said
‘Russcia and Yugoslavia split over
the “degree of interference which
can be exercised by the Kremlin
in Yugoslav policy.” A spokes
man said the view was based on
reports from Sir Charles Peake,
ambassador to Belgrade, and
Frank Dixon, ambassador tOl
Prague. Peake is enroute home.
Other responsible British offi
cials said Tito has become a
“rebel—but one still in the par
t.” British diplomats spoke after
studying the cominform’s con.
demnation of Yugoslev Commun
ist leaders and the latters’ detiant
denal of charges of being anto-
Russian, flirting with the west
ern powers and departing from
from the Marx-Lenin party line.
British fq?:rfiffsafii*bnth ‘Rus-}
(Contfinved On Page Eight)
FDR Granddaughter
To Wed Republican
PHOENIX, Ariz.,, June 30.—
(AP)—The eldest granddaughter
of the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, standard bearer for
the Democratic party during four
national conventions, will be
married July 7—to a Republican.
Anna Eleanor (Sistie) Boetti
ger, who lived two years in the
White House during her grand
father’s first term, will marry
Van H. Seagraves, 25, son of Dr.
and Mrs, Charles Seagraves, Ore
gon City, Ore. ’ |
Mrs. Seagraves last night said
her son is a registered Republi
can. |
DRIVERS LICENSES
Members of the State Patrol
will be here Friday from 9 a. m.
to 5 p. m. for the renewal of dri
ver's licenses. They will be in
the Superior Court room on the
second floor of the Court House.
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ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1948.
ASK BOYFRIENDS TO SURRENDER — Shirley Fre
dendall (left), 19, and Dolores Anderson, 17, have
made radio appeals to their boyfriends to give them
selves up to police in connection with the robbery of a
handbook store in Chicago. Shirley’s appeal was made
to George Mudra, 23, and Dolores’ to Jerry Mnacek, 21.
The two men, along with Ernest Filbab, 21, have
eluded one of the most widespread manhunts in Chi
cago’s history.
Z(}round—Breaking To Highlight
Christian College Ceremonies
BY CURTIS DRISKELL
Several hundred representative members of the
125 Christian Churches of Georgia will convene in
Athens Sunday for a full day of activity, including
a special ground-breaking ceremony ™®at will mark
the beginning of the Christian College of Georgia.
Rev. Paul C. Howle, pastor of First Christian
Church here and secretary of the Athens Ministerial
Association, announced the program for Sunday’s
activities and listed as speakers Dr. Harmon W.
Caldwell, president of the University of Georgia,
and U. S. Senator Richard Russell.
Dr. Caldwell will greet the congregation in behalf
of the University of Georgia at the 2:30 services at
the First Christian Church at which' E. N. Anthony,
chairman of the Board of Trustees, will preside.
In addition to Dr. Caldwell, Rev. Cecil Denny, of
the First Christian Church in Macon, will address
the group and will speak on “Christian Education,
the Hope of the World.” Dr. Robert Burns, pastor of
the Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, will
follow Rev. Denny with an address on *The Chris
tian College of Georgia”.
Greets Visitors
Dr. T. R. Harvill, pastor of the Prince Avenue
Baptist Church of Athens and president of the Ath
ens Ministerial Association, will greet the visitors
in behalf of Athens’ ministers, following Dr. Cald
well’s address. Rev. R. C. Singleton, student
pastor at the First Methodist Church and head ‘of
the Wesleyan Foundation, will be the last speaker
at the afternoon service and will welcome the con
gregation in behalf of the Student Workers.
After the services at the Church, the members
British Wind Up
Palestine Rule
HAIFA, Israel, June 80. — (AP) — The last British
troops left the soil of troubled Palestine today, thus end
ing 31 years of British military occupation of the Holy
Land. i i ey -
In strict military order, the few remaining soldiers
withdrew behind barbed wire barricades to troop ships
and landing craft. British planes from an aircraft carrier
task force buzzed overhead.
Lt. Gen. Gordon H. A. Mac-
Millan, Britain’s last military
commander in Palestine, was the
last British soldier to leave Pal
estine, in the evacuation which
began on May 15.
He stepped aboard the ship’s
boat at 1:41 p. m., local time,
just a few moments after the
Union Jack was pulled down
from the harbor office.
The British commander an
nounced yesterday that Britain’s
“military jurisdiction” wili end
at midnight tenight,
The remaining British troops
left Haifa, last British control
point in the Holy Land, in Jew
ish hands under the supervision
of United Nations truce observ
ers.
Original plans called for final
evacuation August 1.
(In Cairo, Jamil Mardam Bey,
and friends of the Christian Church will gather at
the future location of the College o Hull street for
the ground-breaking ceremonies, when Senator
Russell will deliver his address. The ground-break
ing ceremony will open with music oy the well
known youth choir of the First Christian Church of
Athens at 4:30.
Senator Russell will be introduced by Clare Har
ris, prominent businessman of Winder, and im
mediately after his address, the ground will be
broken for the College,
Atlantan Speaks !
Edgar Craighead, c‘prominent Atlanta attorney,
will deliver the Sunday morning message at the
Church. A special basket dinner will follow the
services at 1:00 and will be held in the Church din
ing room for the out-of-town visitors. ;
The Christian College of Georgia will have the
full co-operation of the University of Georgia, Rev.
Howle explained, and the students of the new Col
lege will use the facilities of the University just as
the other University students. Students of the Chris
tian College are to be admitted to the University
classes on payment of the same fees and submission
to the same regulations as other students.
“The building for which we will break ground
Sunday is only a half of the building that will
eventually house the College,” Rev. Howle said. “As
soon as the funds have been raised for the other
wing, construction will begin on the second unit
of the building. Classes will be held in the room
originally planned as a lounge in the first wing until
the second has been built.”
Rev. Howle went on to explain that the College
will begin operation with only one professor, but
will acquire others later.
Syrian Prime Minister, told
newsmen yesterday that the
Arab governments have protested
to Britain against withdrawal of
her troops from Haifa ahead of
schedule).
As British troops were brought
in from their army camps to the
dock area, tanks took up posi
tions around the harbor district
and a strict curfew was imposed
on all civilians.
U. N. Supervision
Colonel Joseph Hoffman of
Baltimore, Md., a U. N. truce ob
server, said the U. N. would
supervise -administration of the
(Continued On Pag= Five)
Voters Registration Is To
Close Wednesday, 5:30 P.M.
Registration of voters will close here Thursday afternoon at 5:30
o’clock with prospects that the number of citizens eligible to cast
ballots will go well beyond the 12,000 mark.
The prediction was made today by County Tax Collector Albert E.
Davison, in whose office in the courthouse registration is made. The
office closes at 5:30 p. m.
No charge is made for registration and registration is not necessary
for those who have voted here in county or state elections since 1944
since those names have remained on the registration books.
Registration makes voters eligible to cast ballots in the election of a
President, Governor, United States Senator, Congressman, State House
officers, Representatives to the General Assembly from Clarke County,
and Solicitor General of the Western Judicial Circuit.
Supplies Pouring Into Quake
Stricken Western Japan Area
FUKUI, Japan, June 30—(AP)
—Relief supplies poured today
into & 55-mile long strip of west
ern Japan laid waste by a great
earthquake that crumpled this
city of 80,000 and left in ruins
a score of more other towns.
Military government, granting
that many bodies may never be
found, stuck t{o an estimate of
3,155 dead and 7,250 seriously in
jured throughout the area.
(Occupation headquarters in
Toklo, however, on the vasis of
American medical - workers’ re
ports from the scene, put the
recovered dead at 58, seriously
injured at 1,600 and slightly in
jured at 4,000. It obviously did
not include the 200 children re
ported by military government
cfficers to heve been crushed to
death in a movie theater.
(At noon Japanese time the
U. S. Eighth Arm at Yokohoma
announced reports irom the Jap
Read Daily by 35—pC) 0 Peoglé In Athens Trade Area
Athenians Leave
This Week For
Elks Convention
Athens’ lodge of Elks has
made plans for its represen
tation with a Tocal delegation
fit the 84th convention of
Elks, July 1-8, at Philadel
phia. C. L. Armstrong Exal
ted Ruler of Atheans Lodge,
announces fthat three mem
bers will leave Athens this
wiqek to arrive in Philadel
phia for the eight-day con
vention which opens July 1.
In addition to Mr. Arm
strong, other 10-al Elks mak
ing plans for the trip to
Phijpdelphia 2re Trustees J.
Bush and Dr. M. T. Summer
lin. They expect a svonderful
meeting which, asong other
things, will include an open
meeting at Independence
Hall en July 4, ending up
July 8 with a mammoth
street parade and pageant
when most of the 40,000 con
vention delegates and visi
tors yre expected to march,
anese welfare ministry gave the
casualty toll at 9,092 — 2,573
dead and 6,526 injured.
(Wide discrepancies in the
'quake toll may be laid to Jap
anese excitability and excessive
official military conservatism.
(Allied and U. S. First Corps
headquerters have told medical
field teams to count bodies. On
this basis, they are sticking to 56
dead.
(Military government, on the
cther hand, has access to reports
of all relief workers who are
digging in the ruins for victims.)
(Kyodo News agency reported
from Fukui that police estimated
total cesualties would exceed
13,000 — 4,070 dead and 8,948 in
jured in Fukui prefecture and 39
dead and 19v+injured in Ishika.
we prefecture to the north.
(The agency said 48,000 build
ings and dwellings were destroy
ed in the two prefectures.
HOME
Capitol Hill
Remains Mum
On Rift Link
' WASHINGTON, June 30 —
(AP)—The United States and
[Yugoslavia were reporteck near
final agreement today on a fi
nancial deal which would net
Marshal Tito’s government
’about $30,000,000.
~ The extended negotiations
over this money accord may
Uxave been one of the issues that
set off the cominform blast
}M'onday against the Belgrade
chief. 9
~ Washington officials watching
Tito's defiance of the Commun
ist high command with obvious
surprise and delight, kept mum
on any possible connection be
tween the financial deal and the
Yugoslav-Cominform scra%
For severa] months the United
States government has been
seeking payment o™ about $20,-
000,000 in claims for American
property nationalized in Yugo-~
slavia. Tito, on the other hand,
has been laying claim to some
$50,000,000 in Yugoslav assets
which the United States froze in
1941 to keep it out of Axis
hands. : <
Counter Claim
The counter claims have been
under negotiation for several
months, diplomatic informants
said with Yugoslavia at times
using, the talks as basis for bit
ter denunciation ¢#. the United
States.
- About a month ago, however,
the Yugoslavs appeared anxious
to reach a reasonable settlement
of the nationalized property.
They reportedly proposed a fi
gure somewhere near the $20,-
000,000 asked by the United
States.
| The American government, in
turn, appeared ready to unfreeze
the ss%e,ooo.oofi ?fi Yfigo';%v'
lfunds as its part of the two
way arrangement.
~ The reported financial deal
evidently has not been directly
influenced by Tito’s sensational
split with Communist leaders.
But it does tie in with grow
ing" speculation here that if he
finds himself in an impossible
spot with his Moscow Allies, he
may turn actively to the West
ern powers for helg.
State Department officials
awaited first-hand report in the
next day or so from Cavendish
Cannon, U, 8. Ambassador to
Yugoslavia who is en route home
for consultation.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and net
muach change ir temperature
tonight and Thursday. Scat
tered thundershowers this
afternoon and evening.
GEORGIA -- Partly cloudy
and not se warm today and
tonig!st; scattered thunder
showers this afternoon;
Thursday Pir to partly
cloudy ard warm. .
TEMPERATURE
Highest . v o, . 08
Lowest . i nigve il 0008
MeRN ... ot it avial
Normal & . vsis i, »alB
RAINFALL :
Inches last 24 hours .. ... 26
Total since June 1 .. ... 5.03
Fxcess sinee June 1 .. .. 1.19
Average June rainfall .. 3.91°
Total since January 1 ...32.11
Excess since January 1 .. 6.47
Sleepless and weary, American
and Japanese worked side by
side looking for the dead and
issuing food and medicine to the
living, Long lines of Japanese
men and women stood before
emergency aid <staiion to be
treated for injuries.
Fukui city, once a bustling sill
manufacturing center, slowly was
returning to life. However, the
city still without electric
lights, power, waier, telephones
and telegraph. Many = persons
raised shelters from’” bits of
wreckage and tin.
U. S, patrols clad in combat
greens moved through the town
in radio eduipped jeeps. There
were medical corpsmen with first
rid, infantrvmen to keep order,
interpreters to handle the lan
guage barriers and radiomen to
bridge the . communications
breaks. . \