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Vol. CXVI, No. 162.
Georgia Mids
Year With
Large Surplus
ATLANTA, July 17. — (AP) — The State of Georgia
collected an unprecedented $108,299,859.94 during the
fiscal year that ended June 30, and finished the year
with a surplus of $4,5633,336.84, State Auditor B. E.
Thrasher, jr., reported today.
The State’s income was up $49,636,353 from the rev
enue collected in the previous year, without any new
taxes.
Holy City Is
(Quiet; Bombs
Hit Tel Aviv
CAIRO, July 17—(AP)—Fight
ing stopped in Jerusalem today
but the war roared on elsewhere
in Palestine.
Twin-enjzined jplanes bombed
Tel Aviv in seven sorties today,
the Israeli government announc
ed. One of the raiders was shot
down, the announcement said.
Six persons were reported killed
and 20 wounded.
Israeli planes struck at Arab
troop concentrations and com
munications in the Tulkarm area
of central Palestine and at Syrian
concentrations at Mishmar and
Hay Yarden in northern Galilee.
Count Folke Bernadotte headed
for the Holy Land with the be
lief that the Arabs will accept the
United Nations cease-fire order
before the three-day time limit
expires Sunday. Israel accepted
the cease-fire yesterday provided
the Arabs agree.
Arabs Not Obey
But there is little expectation
here the Arabs will obey the U.
N. order. Many:Arabs--here -be
lieve the Arab states will (1) con
tinue fighting, (2) wait to see
whether the Security Council will
adopt sanctions and (3) then de
cide whether to impose counter
sanctions, such as suspending oil
deliveries to the United States
Navy and western Europe.
Security Council members al
ready are reported studying pos
sible steps to enforce the order
if the Arabs reject it. But dele
gates and U. N, offcials alike hes
itated to talk of what might hap
if the truce order is rejected.
Firing stopped in Jerusalem
after a tumultuous night of fight.
ing. Guns thundered to the final
second before a 4 a. m. (§ p. m.
EST) deadline. The. U. N. had giv
en the Arabs and Jews on Thurs
d&ry night 24 hours to end the
fighting
Before the artillery duel began,
Arah troops smashed through the
Jewish front in the Mae Shearim
quarter and blasted forward for
500 yards in the direction of mod
ern Jerusalem’s heart, American
correspondents with the Arab
legion reported.
During the night, the Jews
unleshed repeated attacks against
the Damacus, Jaffa, Zion and new
gates to the old city. Arab legwn
officers estimated 5,000 Jewish
troops were engaged. Legion gun
ners returned the fire until their
guns smoked with heat. The fight
guns smoked with heat. The
fighting was so close that Legion
officers climbed to the tops of
the walls and emptied their re.
volvers into charging Jews.
U.S. General Urges
“Economic War” On
BERLIN, July 17. — (AP) —
Major General (Wild Bill) Don-
Ovan urged world-wdie retalia
tion against the Soviet Union to
He suggested at a news con
ference that the Western Allies
might deny the Russians access
10 the Panama and Suez Canals
and to the Kiel Canal in Ger
many_
He said also that the Western
Powers might urge Turkey to
take measures in the Dardanelles
to prevent the passage of Soviet
ships,
“If the Soviets want to make
the squeeze on Berlin an eco-
Nomic war, we should not con
fine it to here,” said General
Donovan, who was the war-time
head of the United States Office
of Strategic Services (OSS). “We
should go to other places in the
Wworld where they are weak.”
Donovan said the Westerr
Powers should stand firm ir
Berlin.
He said he did not like the
Phrase “cold war—because it if
hot as hen”
The Russians had warne”
arlier they would be conductins
Maneuvers with Soviet planes
from practically every air field
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
The chief increases were $7,-
293,493 in income taxes, reflect
ing greater prosperity in the
state, and $2,350,477 in motor
fuel taxes, indicating a greater
ability to travel. Insurance taxes
gained $414,189; property taxes
increased $396,563; cigar and cig~
arette taxes were up $477,123;
inheritance taxes increased $722,-
110; motor vehicle license fees
gained $431,391.
The only income drops were
$2,181,681 in liquor warehouse
charges; $696,797 in alcoholic
beverage taxes; $53.545 in malt
beverage taxes; and $26,851 in
occupational taxes. An. increase
of $54,128 in wine taxes was the
only item to offset a claim that
the people of Georgia were much
soberer last year.
Fuel Taxes
Motor fuel taxes continued to
lead state income sources with a
contribution of $35,246,106. In
come taxes came second with
receipts of $29,039,889. The cigar
and cigarette tax produced SB,-
264,636, the liquor warehouse
fees brought in $8,035,436 and
the general property tax $5,010,-
927. The liquof warehouse fees
were initiated by former Gover
nor Ellis Arnall during his ad
ministration to raise the salaries
of school teachers,
- Ag proof es ‘the rapid- growth
of the state’s income, the totai
income of the state was listed as
$58,893,568 in 1942, $63,193,875 in
1945, $81,021,500 in 1946, $98,-
663,506 in 1947, and $108,299,959
in 1948.
The State Budget Board, com
posed of Governor M. E. Thomp
son and Auditor Thrasher, ap
proved budgets for $106,713,320
during the year. The chief ben
eficiaries were common schools,
$37,568,828; the Highway Depart
ment, $32,322626; the Welfare
Department, $11,451,316; the
Board of Regents of the Univer
sity System, $7,469,742; teacher
retirement, $2,324,453; public
health, $4,118,789; the Revenue
Department, $1,708,145; the
Parks Department, $1,679,501;
Department of Agriculture, sl,-
066,367; Department of Correc
tions, $1,614,983; Public Safety
Department, $1,409,518; and 32
other state agencies, $2,172,606,
or an average of $75,000 each.
Other Allotments
The allotment to the Depart
ment of Agriculture was increas
ed $307,557; to parks, $1,339,801;
the common schools, $5,618482;
the University System, $3,069,-
742; the Highway Department,
$5,455,384; the Tuberculosis Hos
pital, $350,789; the Public Safety
Department, $895,253 for bene
fits, and $79,547 for institutions
over the previous year.
The allotment for miscellan
eous departments was reduced
$6,339,131.
they have along the corridors,
But little activity was reported
by American pilots. 1
The weather on the Berlin-
Frankfurt leg was so bad that
almost the whole trip was flown
on instruments.
“I guess those boys don’t like
that stuff,” said one American
pilot who had just made the run.
The Russians made effective
another c¢lamp on Dblockaded
Berlin,
Russian guards turned back
three of four American vehicles
seeking to reach the western
zones from Berlin on the Auto
bahn. The guards said a Soviet
visa was needed to leave Berlin
by automobile,
The one American who passed
“just talked his way through,”
guards said.
Travel Risks
The Russian order demanding
Soviet visas for Americans was
issued a week ago but had not
been carried out until today.
High American officials already
have said the U. S. does not rec
ognize the order. Americans
ieaving Beriin now are warned
that they “travel at their own
risk” through the Soviet zone.
General Donovan’s sharp com
ments were made after the offi-
Associated Press Service
S.C. Governor Thurmond Named
Bolters' Presidential Choice
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Episcopalians
Here Select
A New Rector
The Rev. J. Carl Gilbreath of
Clarksville, Tennessee, has recent
ly accepted the position of Rector
of Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
succeeding the Rev. David Cady
Wright, jr., now of Lexington,
Virginia,
The new Rector is a native of
Columbia, Tennessee, a g aduate
of Duke University, Boston Uni
versity School of Theology and
the Virginia Theological Semina
ry. He did graduate work in
Theology and Philosophy at
Harvard Divinity School and at
the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland.
From 1940 until his coming to
Athens, the Rev. Mr Gilbreath
has been Rector of Trinity
Church, Clarksville, Tennessee,
During his ministry he has serv
ed the Church and the Diocese
of Tennessee in various capaci
ties. He has been a member of
the Standing Committee of the
Dliocese, twtice a member of
Bishop and Council, Chairman of
the Army and Navy Commission
and Chairman of the Presiding
Bishop’s Fund for World Relief.
Mr. Gilbreath is the author of
two books, “The Vision of God
and the Social Order,” Revell,
1930, and “Individual Worth in
a Social Crisis,” Revel, 1932.
The Rev. Mr. Gilbreath mar
ried Martha McCallum of Mem
phis. Their one son is Joseph Karl,
age sixteen Mr. Gilbreath plans
to move to Athens the first of
October. Until the new Rector
is in residence, services at Em
manuel Church will continue with
a Lay Reader during July and
Dr. B. Davie Napier will resume
his position as Guest Minister
through August and September.
DRIVE-IN THEATER
SET NEAR ATHENS
Construction will begin imme.
diately on a modern drive-in
theater with all up-to-date im
provements at the intersection of
the old and new Atlanta highways
it was announced Saturday by
Moon Corker, district manager
for the Georgia Theater Compa
ny.
The theater, Mr. Coker said,
will be built by his company and
will have the very latest in med.
ern equipment and will be the
only open air theater in this sec
tion.
All - Out
Russians
cial Soviet newspaper Taeg
liche Rundschau said that “even
the adventurous politicians of
American imperialism would not
now risk starting a war.”
General Donovan, who is re
tired and visiting Germany in a
private capacity, said if the So
viet Union wanted war it was
better to. find it out ‘“here and
now.”
It is known that other ' high
American officials bere share the
opinion that a show of force to
break the Russina blockade may
be necessary.
They reason that either the
Russians are bluffing or they
have decided the only way to
prevent the successful conclusion
of the European recovery pro
gram is through a new war, If
the latter is the case, the Rus
sians will apply pressure against
the Western Allies until they
commit an overt act. If the Rus~
sians really want a new war, and
they have denied it for three
years, Berlin is only an incident.
These American circies say the
only way to learn Soviet:inten
tions is to make a-show of force,
perhaps with an armed effort to
bring a convoy up the Autobahn.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Thompson - Talmadge Trade
Questionnaires; Pace Quickens
Herman Talmadge and Gov.
M. E. Thompson traded cam
paign blows in long distance
questions yesterday, each de=-
manding that the other put up
or shut up.
Young Talmadge took ‘the ros
trum at Moultrie’s tobacco fes
tival, where Thompson spoke
the day before. The Governor
was at the other end of the state
in Gainesville as they quick
ened the pace of tneir week-old
battle.
Talmadge said he was going
to smoke the Governor out on
what he termed the six major
issues—fair employment prac
tices, legislation, racial segrega
tion, states rights, bloc voting,
the sales tax and the county unit
system.
“] want him to say °‘yes’ or
‘no’ on these issues so that the
people of this state will know
where he stands.” Talmadge told
a crowd of southwest Georgians.
“I am going to keep his feet to
the fire. I am going to smoke him
out on these questions or else he
will have to admit that he is still
aligned with Henry Wallace and
the bloc-voting element in Geor
- gila.
~ “He can’t play on both sides of
this any longer.” i
Thompson at Gainesville echo=
ed the questions he asked Tal
madge in Moultrie Friday and
then added some new ones. “We
Gubernatorial
Speeches Slated
For Station WGAU
The local raaio station
WGAU announces that time
has been engaged by guber
natorial candidates, M. E,
Thompson and Herman Tal
madge, for every Monday
from now until election for
discussion of their respective
candidacies.
Talmadge will be heard
each Monday from 7:30 to
7:45 p. m. with Thompson
following him from 8 to 9 p.
m. In addition Thompson will
he heard every Saturday af
ternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock.
Athens Bank Votes Bonus
To Stockholders, Employes
A mid-summer bonus for em
ployes as well as stockholders of
The National Bank of Athens
was voted last week by the
Board of Directors, it was an
nounced yesterday by Max Mi
chael, president.
Mr. Michael said the directors
voted the regular SI.OO semi-an
nual dividend to stockholders
and an extra $1.50 dividend.
“This makes a total of $1,859,000
in dividends The National Bank
of Athens has paid its stock
holders since its organization in
1866,” he said. ;
Employes of the bank were
awarded a life insursnce policy
in addition to a cash bonus by
the directors, it was announced.
At Christmas the directors gave
the employes a cash bonus and
a hospitalization insurance pol
icy. Premiums on both the life
and hospitalization insurance
covering the employes are paid
by the bank Mr. Michael said.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1948
By The Associated Press
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued warm pnd humid with
scattered afternoon and eve
ning thundershowers.
STATE WEATHER
GEORGIA — Partly clondy
and continued warm and
humid Sunday; widely scnt
tered thandershovrers Sun
day afternoon.
Extreme Northwest Flor
dia and Alabama — Cloudy
Sundny with scattered after
noon thundershowers; gentle
to moderate southeast winds
on the coast,
TEMPERATURE
Highest -ot .o, ... .88
ROWESS ... 0 20088
B et B
MOV ... .o awn 10
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 1.97
Total since July 1 ... .. 599
Excess since July 1 .. .. 2.47
Average July rainfall ... 5.13
Total since January 1 ...38.10
Excess since January 1 .. 9.55
are going to pull this mask 'of
deceit and sham from the face
of this pretender,” he shouted.
Thompson called on “the pre
tender to tell the people of Geor
gia why he now says he opposes
the sales tax, when the whole
truth is that he and his gang at
tempted to railroad a sales tax
through the Legislature when
he thought he was Governor.”
He asked Talmadge to explain
his illegal seizure of the Gov
ernor’s office in 1946, He brand
ed the effort as “pure thievery.”
Thompson also noted the tour
ict trade in North Georgia, and
pointed to expansion of State
Parks in his administration. Of
Jekyll Island, he said “you can
well see that it won’t be too long
in paying for itself.“
Both the Saturday addresses
‘were broadcast over statewide
radio networks. ‘
Rabun Questions
Candidate Joe Rabun also ask
ed some questions. Speaking at
Cedartown he said that Gover
nor M. E. Thompson claimed to
be a ‘“great liberal candidate”
but had failed to make himself
clear on subjects which are dear
to the heart of all “liberals.”
Rabun challenged the Gover
nor to make himself clear on
these questions:
1. Are you for or against a
white primary?
2. Are you for or against a
qualification voting law?
3. Are you for or against the
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Jax Mayor Cites
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Athens’ Progress
One of Georgia’s gifts to Florida—a former Athenian
—Mayor C. Frannk Whitehead of Jacksonville, called on
Mayor Jack R. Wells Saturday while on a visit back to his
old home town.
Mayor Whitehead was accom
panied by his family and his
brother, J. A. Whitehead and
family on his visit here with rel.
atives, Mr. and Mrs. Z. M. White
head, on Hill Street,
The Jacksonville chief execu
tive was born seven miles from
Athens in Jackson county and
moved to Athens with his mother,
Mrs. Edith Whitehead, on the
“Operations of The National
Bank '‘of Athens for the first six
months of this year were the
most profitable in its entire his
tory,” Mr. Michael said. He said
the bank has a surplus of $300,-
000, undivided profits of $167,-
695.72 and deposits of $7,666,-
037.76.
N. C. Polio Siege
Worst In History
RALEIGH, N. C,, July 17 —
(AP) — North Carolina’s polio
outbreak, at its present rate of
incidence, will be the worst in
the state’s history.
The 23 cases reported today
brought this year’s total to 679.
I surpassed the second worst
outbreak by overrunning the
675 reported in the entire year of
1935.
The worst epidemic was in
1944 when 878 cases were re~
ported for the year. However,
in 1944 the 683rd case wasn’t
reported until the second week
in September.
Dr. J. W. R. North, state
health officer, issued a state
ment during the day which said
“the epidemic area of the state
has now become fairly well de
fined as lying between Asheville
and Raleigh. Citizens outside
these areas are requested to re
strict their contact with resi
dents in this area as much as
possible. '
“Local health departments
have already taken action where
indicated in limiting opportuni
ties for contact among children
in counties in the epidemic area.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON IN
TODAY'’S PAPER
Due to an oversight the
weekly Sunday School Lesson
did not appear last week on
the appointed day—Wednes
day—and is being printed in
today’s Banner-Herald for the
convenience of Sunday School
goers,
“notorous” labor law that you
signed? {(Thompson signed a
legislative act banning the clos~
ed shop in Georgia and prohibit
ing mass picketing.)
4. Are you for or against the
strengthening of democracy and
democratic institutions with full
economic and political freedom
for all citizens
Rabun said that as a ‘true
liberal” he was against a white
primary, against a qualification
voting law, against the ‘‘notori
ous” Georgla labor law and for
the strengthening @gf democracy
and democratic institutions”
with full economic and political
freedom for all citizens, insofar
as it requires equal rights for
all.”
Talmadge hits full stride the
second week of the campaign
for Governor with six addresses
in Atlanta (radio), Nahunta,
Gratis, Vidalia, Fort Valley and
Statesboro.
Thompson also has a radio ad
dress ‘in Atlanta and speaks in
Fitzgerald, Americus and Cart
ersville. .
The Rev. Joseph A. Rabun
continues his back - breaking
schedule of 17 addresses weekly,
mostly in small towns. >
Randall Evans, another guber
natorial aspirant, said yesterday
he would announce plans this
week for an extensive campaign
with active headquarters to be
opened in Atlanta soon.
five years old. The family resid
ed here for ten years at 272 Han
cock Avenue, next to what is now
the Williams Service Station.
Mayor Whitehead has been in
Florida for thirty-eight years and
was engaged in the real estate
business until elected Mayor, a
full-time job. His brother has
been in Jacksonville for twenty.
six years and is a merchandising
broker. Both have been highly
successful in business.
Drafted For Office
The "' elder Whitehead entered
Jacksonville’s political life when
he weas drafted to to serve as
precinct committeeman, then as
ward councilman, member of
Council from the city-at-large.
He then was elected vice-presi
dent of the Council and then
Council President. Four years ago
he Wwas agdin drafted to make
the race for Mayor, which he won
by a comfortable margin,
He returns to Jacksonville Sun
day afternoon, while his brother
and family motor north on a va
cation.
~He was taken on a tour of the
city by Mayor Wells and recog
nized many of the homes and
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Mississippi Gov. Wright
Elected As Running Mate
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 17.—(AP)—Rebel South
ern Democrats today named two Dixie Gevernors to lead
a fight to take tne Solid South irom Mr. Truman in Nov
emiber over racial issues.
Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was
selected for President and Governor Fielding L. Wright
of Mississippi for Vice President. :
Earlier they had announced
the Southern ticket would make
the campaign in Missouri and 14
other states, including all of the
usually heavily Democratic deep
South.
The resolution nominating the
two men also called another
meeting of southern revolters
here Oct. 1. Unlike today’s ses
sion the October meeting would
be limited to delegates from each
state numbering the same as
their presidential electors.
e
'oday’s sessions were noisy.
Police Chief Floyd Eddins esti
mated afternoon crowd at 7,500,
considerably more than capacity
of the auditorium here. Eddins
said several thousand more were
outside, listening to the meeting
over loudspeakers.
The morning attendance was
estimated at 6,000.
In seconding the two nomina
tions, Sen. Eastland (D-Miss),
made the forecast that ‘“‘the race
next November is between Gov.
‘Thurmond and Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey.”
1 “Truman will not get a single
electoral vote,” he shouted.
Nomination of both candidates
was by acclamation. i
| Tempers in the jampacked city
lauditorium flared when a self
styled presidential candidate,
Herbert C. Holdridge of Wash
ington, D. C,, objected to the
nominations of Thurmond and
W;i!ght.
oldridge, whose campaign
literature described him as a
“peace general candidate,”
shouted his protests and . was
quickly surrounded by a mob of
shouting, excited delegates. He
'was not harmed, however, and
‘'was taken under police guard to
the auditorium manager’s office.
He was subsequently released
without any charges being filed.
Thurmend Accepts
Gov. Thurmond accepted the
nomination in a statement issued
at the hotel where he awaited
notification by a committee. He
said: “I appreciate -deeply this
high honor. No true Southerner
could fail to answer the call of
his people. !
I am grateful for the endorse
ment of this conference,, how
ever, I have sought only to
fight for the great principles in
which we believe.
“A great beginning has been
made in our fight for states’
sovereignties and I am glad plans
are being made for a regularly
constituted convention in the
future.”
Asked if he planned to wage a
viggrous campaign, he answered
he could not say at this time.
Wright said “This is the
South’s great opportunity, it is
a chance to prove to the nation
tha we are the Democratic par
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“We have saved the Democra
tic party in the past,” he said,
“and we will save it in the fu
ture. But we will not save it for
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Hoeme
Eciition
Yarbsough Is
Innocent, Lie
Detector Says
ATLANTA, July 17—(AP)—A
lie-detector test given Mrs. Alma
Yarbrough, charged with murder
in the slaying of a crossroads stere
operator, convinced the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation today that
she was innocent of any connec
tion with the slaying.
The 36-year - old LaGrange
woman was to be returned to
Meriwether county where the
charges against her will be dis
missed, said Lieut. J. L. Dixon of
the GBI.
Mrs. Yarbrough was arrested
July 8 and charged with the mur
der of Buddy Hart, whose body
was found near his home the night
of May 19 soon after he was re
ported by the woman to have left
his store with two strangers.
Hart, 40-year-old Troup coun=-
tian, was believed to have carried
between $3,000 and SIO,OOO in
three wallets at the time, One wal
-let containing several hundred
dollars was found on his body, but
the others were missing.
‘ Lieut. Dixon said the lie-detec
tor test given Mrs, Yarbrough led
GBI officials to believe her ac
count of Hart’s departure from his
store with the two men who said
they needed assistance for their
motor car stalled nearby.
$3,274,000 State
Bridge Projects
ATLANTA, July 17—(AP)—
The State Highway Department
‘will let 18 road and bridge con
struction+ contracts estimaied to
cost $3,274,000 July 30.
Nine of the projects estimated
to cost $2,362,000 are federal aid
for which the Federal government
will pay one-half the construction
costs. The other nine, estimated to
cost $912,000, will be paid for en~
tirely by the state.
The largest federal project, esti
mated to cost $1,000,000, is for
the construction of 1.297 miles of
the North - South expressway
through Atlanta. The work will
consist.of grading and paving, in
cluding service road connections,
four grade separation underpasses
and one pedestrial underpass.
Among other federal projects
are:
Jackson county—Paving 9.234
miles of the Hopeful-Pelham road,
beginning at Hopeful. Estimate
$132,000.
Wilkes county—Paving 7.038
miles of the Crawfordville-Wash
ington road, beginning at the
Taliaferro county line. Estimate
$114,000. g