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Vol CXVI, No. 185.
Ku Klux Klan Officially
Endorses Herman Talmadge
Forison s Thompson
Speaker For Monday
Delegation Will Go From Here
To Monroe, Greensboro Saturday
Judge Blanton Fortson of Athens will be the chief
speaker on the Thompson program from Atlanta next
Monday night at 8 o’clock, it was announced today by
Robert G. Stephens, chairman of the Clarke County
Thompson organization.
Mr. Stephens pointed out that
the program, originating from
the Ansley Hotel Civic Room
will be broadcast over a state
wide hook-up including Radio
Station WGAU in Athens. Mr.
Stephens also announced that
Wednesday night, August 18th,
Abe Conger, prominent Bain
bridge attorney, will speak in be
half of Governor Thompson from
Radio Station WSB in Atlanta.
Mr. Conger will: speak at 7:30
o’clock. Mr. Conger is a former
member of the Georgia Legisla
ture and former Mayor of Bain-
MOTORCADE LEAVES
AT 2:30 P. M.
FOR THOMPSON MEET
Chairman Bob Stephens of
the Clarke Ceounty Thompson
organization, announced to
day that all Thompson sup
perters who desire a ride to
Greensboro and return to
merrow are asked to meet at
the Georgian Hotel at 2:30 p.
m. tomorrow. Transportation
will be provided for all and
the motorcade will leave at
that hour. The meeting opens
at Greensboro at 4 p. m,
bridge in Decatur county.
“We expect a large delegation
of Athens and Clarke county
Thompson supporters will attend
the meeting in Atlanta next
Monday night to hear Judge
Fortson and the Governor,” Mr.
Stephens said.
Mr. Stephens said Governor
Thompson will speak at Monroe
tomorrow (Saturday) at 11
o’clock and at Greensboro Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o'clock: The
Greenshoro speech will be broad
cast over a statewide radio hook
up including WGAU in Athens.
Missing Plane
Found, Smashed
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 13—
(AP)—A National Guard plane,
missing since Wednesday after
noon, has been found demolished
on the side of a mountain near
Crossville, Tenn., with the body
of the pilot nearby.
The ship,.a P-47 Thunderbolt,
left Nashville Wednesday after
noon on a routine flight to Knox
ville. It was piloted by Lt. James
F. Hartman, 25, of Nashville.
An intensive search was started
vesterday morning when the plane
had not been reported. Approxi
mately 40 aireraft, including arm
ed forces rescue personnel, parti
cipated.
Thrasher Burial
In Watkinsville
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug.
13—(AP)—Barton E. Thrasher,
chief clerk of the Property Tax
Division of the Georgia Revenue
Department, died here yesterday.
He was 68 vears old.
The father of B. E. Thrasher,
ir.,, Georgia state auditor, he
came here several weeks ago on
vacation, He was admitted to H¥-
ifax District Hospital July 27
after suffering recurrence of a
heart attack.
The body has been sent to At
lanta, where funeral services will
be held. Burial will be in Wat
kinsville
‘Flying Coalman’
In Berlin Crash
BERLIN, Aug. 13. — (AP) —
Two United States fuor-engined
“flying coalman” planes span
ning the Soviet blockade of Ber
lin crashed while landing during
a heavy rainstorm at Tempelhof
Airdrome today.
One smashed through a fence
and burned, but the crew of two
escaped through an emergency
hatch without serious injuries.
The otßer plane, coming down
through clouds, landed on a half
completed runway and was heav
ily damaged. The crew was unr
hurt.
It was first reported that the
C-54 which crashed and burned
Was carrying food and that the
crew was trapped. Later it was
learned that the plane carried
coal. ‘ P
This plane careened through a
fence a sow vards short of one of
Berlin’s busiest streets.. One wing
and part of the fuselage and
cargo burned before firemen put
out the blaze.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Death Takes
Mrs. James
Meyer Today
- Mrs. James F. Meyer, one of
iWinterville’s most prominent citi
zens, died in a local hospital at
one o’clock this morning. Mrs.
Meyer was 60 years oid and had
been ill for one week.
~ Services are to be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from Winterville Methodist
Church with Rev. R. W. Allison,
Winterville, and Rev. L. F. Van-
Landingham, pastor of Smyrna
Methodist Church; officiating.
- Burial will follow in Winterville
cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements. Pall
bearers will be Sherwood Coile,
Pope Spratlin, Jim Hardemann,
Jepp Dawson, Ralph Chandler
and Smith Gaines. i
Surviving Mrs. Meyer is her
husband, James F. Meyer; three
daughter, Mrs. Ralph Murphy and
Mrs. Billie Lowe, botii: or Hape
ville, and Mrs. Harold Westbrook,
Gainesville; two sons, Dederick
Meyer, Gainesville, and -Henry
Meyer, Winterville; sisters, Mrs.
Gus Barber, Mrs. Earl Lester and
Miss Merle Carter, all of Winter
ville, and Mrs. Pryor Simmons,
Decatur; mother, Mrs. Thomas
Carter, Winterville; brothers,
Grady Carter, Crawford, Hobson
Carter, Bishop, Frank Carter, Wat
kinsville, and Shelvon Carter, Win=
terville, and two grandchildren,
Mrs. James Glover, and Harold
Westbrook, jr., both of Gainesville.
A native of Oglethorpe county,
Mrs. Meyer had lived in Winter
ville practically all of her life. She
was the daughter of the Ilate
Thomas Carter and Mrs. Carter,
pioneer Oglethorpe county citi
zens, and was descended from!
family lines long prominent and
influential in this section of the
state. |
Mrs. Meyer was one of the most
constant and devoted members of
Winterville Methodist Church and
was widely known and universally‘
admired. She suffered a stroke ai
week ago and failed to rally, heri
death casting a pall of sorrow over
her community. |
Husband Secker
Swamped by Bids
CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 13 —
(AP) — Mrs. Annetta Newman,
30-year-old divorcee who adver
tised for a husband, sorted
through 500 proposals today as
her self-set Sunday deaciine for
a final decision drew near.
Mrs. Newman told a reporter
yvesterday that of all the offers
of marriage she has received by
letter, telephone &hd telegraph,
she is most kindiy disposed to
ward the proposal of a Virginian.
“1 don’t know why I favor this
guy from Virginia,” she said. “He
can’t write worth a darn. He
heén’t got anything to offer ex
cept a small farm. And as far is
I know he’s got no children.
“Hes 32 years old and his pic
ture looks cute. But get this
straight, looks don’t mean a thing.
He’s got to have character.”
It was a near miracle that the
lcrew was not killed. Bystanders
who usually crowd the end of
| the field where the plane crashed
!narrowly escaped injury.
A few minutes earlier anothcr
C-54 coming out of the clouds on
instruments came down on a
half-completed runway. The
plane was ripped by the rough
landing but the crew was not
hurt. ‘
This morning’s crashes brought
to five the number of crashes
since the air lift to Berlin was
started. 'Five Americans have
been killed in these accidents.
The coal-carrying planes were
the- first ~ four-engined craft to
crash in the cargo-carrying op
eration. k.
| A few minutes later a third
American C-54 reported by radio
that it was near Berlin with two
! engines out of orger. Tempeihof
IIOSt contact with the crippled
| plane, but the royal air force at
Gaton Airfield contacted it and
] guided it to o safe landing there.
Associated Press Service
Gov. Thompson
Urges Unity
To Help State
Thompson Refutes
Charge Of Green
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug.l3—
(AP)—Denial that he has
ever applied for membership
in the Ku Klux Klan, been a
member or ever expected to
be was made here today by
Gov. M. E. Thompson,
The Governor’s statement
was made in reply to Dr.
Samuel Green, grand dragon
of the K. K. K., who declared
in an address in Milledge
ville last night that Thomp
son had been a member of
the organization but Herman
Talmadge, whom the K. K.
K. has endorsed, never had
been.
Governor Thompson left
here this morning after
speaking at a banquet last
night of the State Conference
on Vocational Rehabilitation.
He speaks at Chipley this af
ternoon. ’
! By The Associated Press
The Ku Klux Klan has officially
endorsed Herman Talmadge as its
favored candidate in the Georgia
Governor’s race. Beside an electric
“fiery” cross in front of the Bald
'win county court house at Mill
edgeville last night, KKK Grand
- Dragon Samuel Green threw his
| arms wide and cried:
| “The Ku Klux Klan of Georgia
‘endorses Herman Talmadge for
Governor on the platform he is
running on.” /
Both the Klan and Talmadge are
great believers in “white Su
premacy.”
Green’s address was made to
several hundred white-robed,
hooded Klansmen and spectators.
Later the Grand Dragon said
Talmadge has never been a mem
ber, and has never applied for
admission to the Klan.
' Talmadge was not available for
comment,
Meanwhile, Gov. M. E. Thomp
son told a crowd at Waynesboro
last night that the Taimadge forces
know they are fighting a losing
'battle, and will be snowed under
in the Sept. 8 primary. He said
'he hoped to expand forest fire
protection from the present 53
counties toc all of Georgia’s 159
counties. |
He accused the opposition of
trying “to divide our people and'
put one class against another.” {
At Elberton, Talmadge charged
Thompson forces are sending state
employes at state expenge all over |
Georgia to spread false campaign
rumors. l
“You can recognize them easily,”
Talmadge said. “They all wear
loud, double-breasted suits, ride in
sleek, shiny new cars and smok
ing big, fat cigars at state expense.
“I am going to fire all these
rumor spreaders, and in their§
places I am going to appoint cap
able and deserving Georgia vet
erans.” ‘
Both Talmadge and Thompson‘
were described by Joe Rabun in
a speech at Blakely.
Rabun described Thompson’s
record as “as spotted as a
Leopard,” and said of Talmadge
that “with no record at ail of any
kind of business ability or public
service, he seeks the most re
sponsible job in the state.” |
Atomic War Seen
Possible In '52
NEW YORK, Aug. 13 —(AP)
—ls war with Russia should come
after 1952, it probably would
start with an atomic bomb raid
or America, says Gen. Karl
Spaatz, retired Air Force Chief
of Staff,
However, should conflict with
the Soviet Union come in the
near future, Spaatze says, indus
trial limitations would force Rus
sia to fight an “orthodor” war.
Writing in current issue of
Life Magazine, Gen. Spaatz said
that “before the Russians can
have airpower on the scale and
in the broad variety known to us,
they must first buildup their in
dustrial potential.”
He says the Soviet Union—
along with other nations — may
have atomic bombs “in quantity”
by the end of 1952.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clear to partly cloudy and
rather hot this afternoon and
Saturday.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and warm today, tonight and
Saturday. U
TEMPERATURE
Highest 3.5 &5 3., @
Liowest ... bßy i eO9
DRy N e e TS
NMormal ... oo T 8
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 1.18
Total siYce August 1 .... 4.39
Excess since August 1 .. 2.44
Average August rainfall . 4.67
Total since January 1 ...42.59
Excess since January 1 .. 9.99
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Truman Prepares
Inflation Blast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— (AP)
—President Truman held out little
hope today for a drop in the cost
of living as he prepared to act on
the Republican anti-inflation bill.
. The President took issue at his
news conference with a prediction
by Senator Taft (R-Qhio) that
prices may level off soon.
He hopes that Taft is right, the
President said yesterday. But he
added he doesn’'t agree with the
Ohioan.
The expectation in Washington
was that Mr. Truman would sign
the credit-curbing bill passed by
'the special sessioa of Congress
]which refused to give him the
price-wage controls and rationing
authority he asked.
A renewed blast at the GOP
Congress for this omission was al
most certain, since he already has
tabbed it a do-nothing Congress.
The Republicans were ready
with their answers.
Senator Watkins of Utah dis
—~losed their rebutlal line in ad
! vance,
| He told a reporter that Congress
had approved controls that “go to
-the root of the matter” of infla
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1948,
Funds for the proposed North
east Georgia Farmers Market
climbed within a few dollars of
the $5,000 mark today when the
Athens Lions Club turned over a
check for SIOO to fund chairman
Millard Seagraves.
Less than two weeks remain in
which to raise the remainder of
the SII,OOO quota required for
purchasing of the market site,
which has been approved by
State Commissioner of Agricul
ture Tom Linder. :
Mr. Seagraves pointed out re
cently that the Farmer’s Market
will aid in bringing mutual prop
erty to this area. It will not only
serve as a market for farm pro
duce in this area, but it will also
bring more trade to the busi
nesses of Athens.
The above graph shows the
rate of rise and funds on hand
for the Market site. The graph
will be run from time to time in
the Banner-Herald to indicate
progress in fund contribution.
Contributors to the Farmers’
Market site:
Rowe Warehouse Fertilizer Co.,
$500; Russell Daniel, Inc., $300;
National Bank of Athens, S3OG:
C. & S. Bank, $300; Benson’s
Bakery, $300; Hodgson, Inc., $250;
W. A. Mathis Co., $250; Michael’s,
$250; Wbheh-Crawford Co., $250;
C. A. Trussell, $250.
Dixie Canners, $200; Hutchins,
Cox & Stroud, $200; University
(Continued on Page Iwo.)
Police Gnard Teacher
From Sovict 'Visitors'
Escape Leap
Stirs Fresh
Spy Comment
NEW YORK, Aug. 13—(AP)—
A strong police guard today bar
red Soviet officials from the
hospital room of a Russian wo
man teacher who leaped three
tories from the Soviet Consulate
‘after five days’ aiieged imprison
‘ment.
- The critically injured teacher,
Mrs. Oksana Stepanova Kosen
kina, expressed fear of Consulate
officials who were sent to the
hospital with friendly gestures
and tried to see her, police said.
“I do not want to see any one
from the Russian Consulate,” a
detective quoted the teacher as
saying. “I'm afraid to see them.
1 tear them and will not see
them.”
. Mrs. Kosenkina — pawn in a
¢loak-and-dagger struggle = be
tween Red and anti-Red Rus
sians—suffered internal injuries,
a fractured right leg, a possible
fractured pelvis and back in
juries. She was placed on the
critical list at midnight.
Hospital attaches said she
“rested fairly comfortably” last
night and at time was cheerful.
She slept very little they said. “
Excitement High
Excitement ran through the
fashionable neighborhood when
the teacher leaped at 3:20 p. m.
(EST) yesterday from the ornate
consulate on East 61st street, a
few steps off Fifth Avenue. The
building had been a center of at
traction all week as scores of
policemen and newsmen were
posted outside during the rapid
fire developments in the con
troversy over Mrs. Kosenkina.
Vice Consul Zot I. Chepurn
vkh said “the whole incident is
being taken to the highest level,”
as the 52-year-old woman’s dra
_xg;tic leap heightened U. S.-
‘Russian tension against a back
ground of alleged espionage.
Mrs. “Kosenkina summoned
Vladimir Zenzinov, an anti-
Communist White Russian friend,
to her bedside at Roosevelt hos
pital last night, and he quoted
her as saying:
“I was struggling to break out.
I.was like a bird in a cage. I had
to ‘get OBED |
Mrs. Kosenkina embraced
Zenzinov, a journalist, and he
told her the police and the U. S.
government are “behind you”
and “nothing could happen to
you now.” oy
Note Caught
- The Vice Consul and a secre
tary tried last night to send Mrs.
Kosenkina a note which read:
“Dear Stepanovna, I would Ilike
‘to know how you feel. Do you
)need anything? We hope you are
‘all right. We took all the neces
sary steps to have you cured. We
wish to see you.”
In view of the patient’s atti
‘tude, the Russians were told to
come baek with the note thi§
morning.
Mrs. Kosenkina was guarded
by two policewomen in her
room, six detectives on the floor
and six patrolman and a ser
geant at the hospital entraVces.
White Russians have said Mrs.
Kosenkina Hhas beer fighting
against return to Russia after a
teaching assignment here be
cause she fears she would be
killed. e
Soviet Consul General Yakov
Lomakin and aides took her from
the farm last Saturday, and she
had been at the consulate from |
that time until her leap.
(Continued On Page 2)
tion. He said the Republicans had
refused to go along with the “un=
wise steps” of bringing back price
controls and rationing.
“What we didn’t do was as im
portant as what we did do,” Wat
kins declared.
The Republican bill authorizes
the Federal Reserve Board to re
instate wartime controls over time
payment buying. The board could
fix the down payment required on
many articles and the overall time
limit for payment in full.
Up to last November, when these
controls died, one-third of the
purchase price was required first
on ‘most articles like washers and
radios, with full payment in 15
months.
The new regulations—which one
official said would be issued “very
quickly” after the bill becomes
law—were expected to ber more
drastic in one respect than the
board’s previous “regulatiod W.”
That rule exempted any pur
chases below SSO or above $2 000
But because of the steep climb of
automobile and other prices, the
new top figure will be closer to
$4,000, this official said.
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YOUNGSTERS WAIT WORD FROM THEIR BABE—
Ignoring their planned baseball game, this group of
would-be Babe Ruths wait outside Memorial Hospital
in New York for word of the condition of sheir idol, 53-
yvear-old Babe Ruth. The Babe has developed pulmo
nary complications after contracting a cold.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— (AP) —Republicans gave
every indication today of accepting President Truman’s
challenge to make a political issue of the congressional
hunt for Communists in the government.
Mr., Truman'’s second declaration
that the Senate and House investi
gators are nothing but a red
herring—with the added phrase:
of the strongest type you can smell
—brought a burst of answering
fire from GOP ranks.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s cam
paign manager declared at Al
bany that the people are “shocked”
at what he called the President’
attitude “in seeming to cover up”
information bearing on Communist
activities.
Herbert Broell, jr., the cam
paign .chief for the Republican
nominee, added to reporters that
nothing else that has happened in
Washington in the last three weeks
could match the “intensive” in
terest shown in the spy investiga
tions.
Rep. Mundt (R-SD), who has
been acting chairman for many
of the hearings before the House
un-American Activities Commit
tee -aped his acceptance in the
fo.m (€ a counter-dare.
“T . challenge the President,”
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HERE WE HAVE “MISS ATLANTA"” OF 1948 — Eichteen-year-old Jerry Long is
very, very happy, now that she has been crowned “Miss Atlanta oi 1533.” She was
chosen in the annual beauty pageant at Atlanta’s Lakewood Park, Jerry is a
blonde. She won out over 10 other contest ants.— (AP Pheto). §
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
| Mundt said, “to authorize the FBI
}and other government agencies to
make available the evidence sub
stantiating or disproving the exis
tence of these espionage activities.”
His vigorous assertion that these
inquiries are nothing but a red
herring left little doubt he will
contend in rebuttal that the hear
|ings were stage-managed to take
| the public ‘mind off his cost of
living battle with Congress. \
A week ago the President said
nothing had been disclosed that
was not already known to the FBI.
He added that a grand jury also
had looked into the charges.
The President brushed aside
with a no comment response ‘a
question as to whether he places
f responsibility for Congress’ actions
jon the Republican nominee.
{ The President took occasion to
{ deny what a reporter said were
| Republican charges that the fed
eral payroll had been stacked with
15,000 additional persons a month
i recently in a pre-election rise.
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Former Ace
'U.S. Heads
In Spotlich
An Spotlight
| WASHINGTON, | Aug. 13 —
| (AP, - The congressional spy
| hearing yielded the spotiight to
, day to two former top-drawer
; government ofiicials and tumbling
!devclopmémg, .reaching all the
way to M Ry
| As the O% - Un-American
activities co ee made ready
ito listen to sworn denials from
- Lauctiin Currie, - one-time aide
. to President Roosevelt, and -Qrry
Dexter White, former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, mem
bers pciadered these rapid-fire
happenings: : :
4 (l%e. Moscow let it be known
that Soviet Foreign Minister V.
. M. Molotov had summoned Amer
|ican Ambassador Walter -Bedell
' Smith to the Kremlin Wednesday
night to hear a sharp protest.
Molotov © charged “connivance”
of American authorities in ‘the
“erimin:i action” invelving Mrs.
Kosenking and Michael Ivano
with Samarin, the second teacher
who has appealed to the FBT"and
the Un-American Aectivities Com
i mittee for protection.
| (The pessport of the second
Russian teacher and the subpo
ena issued by the committee for
his appearance as a witness spell
-ed his name “Samerine.”)
| Fear Soviets
- (2). At eboui the time word of
.the Molotov protest ‘reached - this
| country, Samarin was telling the
House committee he does not
want to go back to Russian be
cause he would be shot or intern
ed for time if he did.
The committee kept him under
subpoena for his own protection,
but Chairman Thomas (R-NJ)
said he provided no information
‘“pertinent” to the committee’s
huint for definite proof that a
Communist spy ring operated in
wartime . Washington. :
(2). Prwim'rnimm‘toak an
other and augmented crack at
the investigation by calling it a
red herring with the strongest
kind of a smeli. Thomas retorted
by saying the President could
help prove whether the commit
{ee is interested in “Red Herring
or Red spies’ by meking public
some government files the com
mittee wants. :
(4). New -York Supreme Court
Justice Samud ‘Dickstein delayed
a decision on what to do about
a habeas corpus order to bring
Mrs. Kosenkina into court Th~
Societ consul general at New
York “vetoed” the order by ignor
ing it hours before the teacher
jumped out of the window.
Secret Zliearings
All these things happened as
the House committee heard two
more witnesses deny implications
of espionage made by confessed
former Russian agents: question
ed Samarin behind closd doors,
and called six more witnesses for
today. ;
Meanwhile U. S. Attorney
George M. Fay studied committee
records and the transcript of
hearings in an effort to determine
whether pedjury has been com
mitted by previous witnesses.
Cemmitttee members a'zim there
has been lying under oath. They
want the Justice Department to
find out who it is and prosecute.
Besides Currie and White. to
dey’s witness list included Dun
ald Hiss, former State Depart
ment employe; Mr znd Mrs. Will
iam J. Geid, and Frank Coe.