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STATE PARK BEAUTY QUEENS OF 1948
When it comes to picking beauty queens, Georgia’s State Parks take second place to
none. Above are seen four of the 22 shapely misses who have been chosen to represent their
respective State Parks in the finals of the State Park bathing:beauty revue to be held at
Jekyll Island on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 4:30 p. m. Top (left) Miss Betty McCoy, of Wood
bury, “Miss Roosevelt State Park;” (right), Miss Sara Kate Chew, Millen, “Miss Magnolia
Spring.” Bottom (left) Miss Frankie Little, Cordele, “Miss Lake Blackshear;” bottom
(right) Miss Betty Sue Shealy, Ashburn, “Miss Jefferson Davis Memorial.”
“M.E” UNITED THEM
Thompson Backed
By Political Aces
BY CHARLES F. BARRETT .
ATLANTA, Aug. 16.— (AP)—Governor M. E. Thomp
son didn’t want to take any chances when he set up his
drive for two more years in office.
He recruited a top man from each of the three major
political camps in Georgia in 1946. Then he put them in
harness to manage his own campaign this summer.
This trio has called each other
SO many bad names in the past
that Thompson's feat in uniting
them already has qualified him
for a post as peacemaker or ref
eree if his politics turns sour.
Two of the campiagn triumvi
rate—former Governors Ed Riv
ers and Ellis Arnall—have led
their own factions in past siz
zling campaigns for Governor.
Rivers was a candidate in 1946
and Arnall backed- James Car
michael. The third — big, home
spun John Beasley—is: from the
old-line Talmadge group.
The three who were political
enemies only two years ago insist
ncw their new harness doesn’t
chafe. Qutwardly they present a
bicture of harmony as they lend
to the Thompson cause their
years of experience in rounding
up votes.
Wher. you get below the level
of the chieftains, as they joke
around Thompson’s headquarters,
the “Little Indians” show Riv
ers’ influence. Many of Thomp
son’s lieutenants are performing
the same tricks they did for Riv
€rs in previous- campaigns.
Rivers himself is the dynamo
of the drive. His black bow tie
often drapes loosely’ around a
wilted, open collar at Thompson’s
hard-working headquarters. Riv
ers has a finger in many phases
of the campaign-—speeches, ma-
Jor strategy, lining up district and
County organizations.
Arnall, another champion vote-
Better of past yars, is not as
active around the headquarters,
but he also helps with strategy
and speeches.
Arnall, Rivers, and all the top
Notchers have separate rooins.
Backsround Knowledge
Az titular campaien manager,
Beasley brings knowledge ¢f the
inner workings of Talmadge
forces, He suddenly joined
Thompson in 1947 and emerged
as State Highway Director. His
talents are directed toward tun
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
ing up the Thompson organiza
{tion out in the counties and con
gressional districts.
Like Beasley, another heavy
weight—literally and figurative
ly—is huge L. C. (Tiny) Groves
of Lincolnton. He managed pre
liminaries from January to July
and now is mostly administrative
officer in charge of headquar
ters. Formerly Thompson’s Wel
fare Director, he’s been mostly a
Rivers man in the past.
Anotyer close associate of Riv
ers is Stonewall Dyar, attorney
from Arnall’s-hemetown of New
nan. He's in the front ranks of
the campaign with specific fAluties
of arranging the Governor’s
stump-speaking tour.
In still ancther of the private
offices in the Henry Grady Hotel
suite is smooth-working State
Representative Charles Gowen of
Brunswick. He assists Thompson
with the truckloads of corres
pondence, form letéers aid ®am
paign literature.
Two campaign executives were
lifted from Rivers’ unsuccessful
1946 campaign. Majordomo oi
publicity & Leo Farrell, a vat
eran who at one time worked for
the late Eugene Talmadge. The
women’s division is topped by
Mre. Clifford Ragsdale.
Another key man in the hotel
suite is ¥¥an Greer, state repre
sentative from Lanier county. An
intimate of Rivers through the
years, he aids in organizing
Thompson supporters throughout
the state.
i These ore " just some of the
leaders in the Thompson cam
paign. Other major workers in
clude State Senator R. G. Daniel,
who divides his time between
[ripld work and headquarters; W.
1. Dean, senaie presigent pro=
tem. and a frequent headquar-
F‘rers handshakery -and Walter
Harrison, another Thompson
legis]@tive'legder. i
~ That’s the first team which
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Associated Press Service
Fortson Presides
Tonight At Big
Thompson Meeting
Judge Blanton Forison will
preside tonight at the state
wide rally for Governor M.
E. Thompson which will be
held at the Ansley Hotel in
Atlanta, beginning at 8
o’clock.
The meeting will be
breadcast over a state-wide
hock-up including WGAU 1n
Athens and will be re-broad
cast over several stations
Tuesday at 12 o’clock, in
cluding WRFC in Athens.
Judge Fortson will share
tonight’s program with Gov
ernor Thompson, A large del
egation of citizens from
Clarke and adjoining coun
ties will attend the rally. |
5 Killed, 137
illed,
Hurt In Reno
RENO, Nev., Aug. 16.—(AP)—
Fire, a shattering explosion and
panic among several hundred
spectators left a toll of five dead,
one missing and 137 injured ia
Reno’s worst tragedy in its his
tory. :
The fire broke out about 10 a.
m. yesterday in a false-fronted
frame and brick building in the
old business district. It drew sev
eral hundred onlookers, massed
around the scene just a few
block east of the city’s gambling
quarter.
The sudden explosion and fire
killed the fire chief of a nearby
city and four men. A sixth, a
Reno fireman, was missing. The
blast sprayed injury among the
spectators. Some were trampled
in the rush to get away.
A fireman fought to prevent
the blaze from spreading to ad
joining building, a policeman
warned the crowd to get back—
that “there’s dynamite in there.”
.
13Injured In
. . .
Train Collision
BUCYRUS, O, Aug. 16— (AP)—
A Pennsylvania passenger train
collided head-on with a freight
train today near North Robinson,
8 miles east of here, and first re
ports said 13 persons were injured.
The west-bound passenger train
was reported carrying soldiers.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
The Russian version of the
Dreher case came out first and
monopolized attention through
out most of yesterday until the
State Department finally got
around in mid-afternoon to put
ting out the American side.
Dreher is a 32 year old Naval
Lieutenant presently assigned to
the important office of Chief of
Naval operations here. For two
years unti] last May 1 he 'was as
sistant Naval attache at Moscow.
$70,000 Kire
In Sylvester
SYLVESTER, Ga., Aug. 16—
(AP) — Lightning-ignited fire
swept the Thomas I. Spendley
Lumber Company warehouse yes
terday, causing damage estimated
at $70,000.
The blaze was discovered during
an afternoon thunderstorm, and,
fed by paints and oils, burned un
til after midnight despite sheets
of rain and efforts of the fire de
partment.
Mr. Pendley said the loss in
cluded three carloads of new
building supplies.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug.
16— (AP—Police yesterday said
they rounded up a marauding band
of 20 masked children, who had
dubbed themselves junior Ku Klux
Klansmen.”
The gang contained 11 white
boys, six negro boys, and three
white ' girls, all between the ages
of nine and 15, Sgt. Frank Riddle,
head of the Juvenile Bureau, said.
They told police they donned
waist-length white robes markedj
with crosses and skulls and cross
bones, and would then ransack
automobiles, steal bicycles, and,
beat smaller children.
Riddle said they carried “black
jacks” made of wood and metal
covered with a thick tape. i
Police said most of the chil—!
dren’s parents knew about thel
activities but didn't seem to pay
any attention to it.” The kids said
they got It{? idea from a movie
about the Ku Klux Klan.
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948.
Spy Probe Climax Seen
In Hiss-Chamiiers Meet
Star Witnesses Could Make
Or Break Red Investigation
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—(AP)—A possible face to
face meeting today between Alger Hiss and Whittaker
Chambers held the prospect of a fresh climax in the con
gressional spy investigation. -
Whatever the outcome, the House Un--American Ac
tivities Committee planned an early recess in the current
phase of its thrill-a-minute hearings.
REDS SEEK
TO FRAME
NAVY HEAD
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 —
‘(AP)—Russia’s belated spy blast
at an American Naval officer is
viewed by officials here today as
an attempt to cover up waning
Moscow interest in the Kosenki
na-Samarine schoolteacher cases.
Moreover, the State Depart
ment insists that the espionage
charge against Lt. Robert Drslger
is .a deliberate Soviet frameup.
The department disclosed that
American Ambassador. Walter Be
dell Smith bluntly told Soviet
Deputy “Foreign Minister Andre
Vishinsky last April that he con
sidered the evidence against,
Dreher had been ‘“arranged”’
with the connivance of the MVD
—Russia’s famous secret police.
The Moscow press and radio
made a tremendous fuss yester
day about the apprehension of
the alleged American spy last
April 23 at the very moment
when he was reciving secret and
“unauthorized™ information from
a Soviet customs official ident
fied only by the mysterious des+
ignation “E.” ) «{
St @Overplayed Hand 0
State Department officials ten
tatively concluded that the Soviet
government is recognizing shat it
badly overplayed its charges of
American criminality, kidnap
ping and violations of interna
tional law in the case of the two
schoolteachers in, New York.
These offitTals believe that
probanly even in the Soviet Union
itself some facts in the case are
beginning to leak through.
The rest of the world mean
while pretty generally under
stands now that Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Ivanovitch Samarine and
Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosen
kina got into trouble with Soviet
authorities simply because they
preferred to stay in this country
rather than go home and that the
American government is determ
ined to protect their right to
stay. : a
Police Round Up
Child KKK Group
But the echoes seemed likely to
reverberate :or a long time to
come.
Attorney Gerneral Ciark, for in
stance, whipped out a contention
| that the inquiries on Capitol Hill
have damaged administration ef
forts to crack down on Communist
activities.
And Moscow came up with a spy
case of its own by dusting off a
four-month old charge against an
American naval officer. The State
Department, however, insisted it
was nothing but & frame-up.
American officials said it seemed
to them the Soviets were just try
ing to cover up their embarrass
‘ment over the two school teachers
who refused to go back home.
' The Hiss-Chambers meeting—if
i it occurs—could make or break the
whole house investigation.
E Hiss, a former top State Depart
(ment official who now heads the
‘Carnegie endowment for interna
tional peace, has been named by
¢ Chambers as a member of an
{ “Elite” Communist underground
twhich Chambers insists operated
|in Washington more than a de
f'cade ago.
?~« . Time Editor
Chambers, now a senior editor
of Time Magazine, has told of be
ing a part of the “underground”
before he renounced Communism
in 1837. He and Elizabeth Bentley,
another professed ex-Communist,
have been the committee's star
‘witnesses during more than two
weeks of hearings.
Hiss testified that he had never
“laid eyes on” Chambers before
and would like to d¢o so. That was
in the face of Chambers’ sworn
testimony that he even had visited
Hiss at the latter’s home.
To give Hiss the requested
chance to confront Chambers in
the flesh, and to help resolve
doubts in the minds of members,
the committee invited both to ap
pear this afternoon (1 p. m. EST).
Neither was subpoenaed, and
members said there was no as
surance that the meeting would
take place. Indications were that
if it did it would be behind closed
doors, with the committee later
announcing the results.
Committee members said it was
probable the hearings would re
cess either late today or tomorrow
for a week or more to give in
vestigators time to develop new
leads. An interim report is likely
this week.
Members predicted privately
that still “more names” will be
brought into the hearings before
they finally end.
GOP Claims Figure Juggling
In Truman’s Deficit Report
Solons Forecast Six Billion
Surplus, Cut In National Debt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—(AP)—President Truman’s
forecast that the government will be $1,500,000,000 in
the red next June loosed an angry flood of Republican
charges today that he had deliberately juggled his fig
ures for political effect. v
GOP lawmakers insisted the
treasury will wind up .between
five and six billion dollars to the
good. They said there definitely
will be money left over to pare
down the national debt and possi
bly to cut taxes again.
Mr. Truman’s sharply worded
mid-year budget review blamed
the Republicans’ “ill-timed” $5,-
000,000,000 tax cut for putting the
government back in a financial
hole.
He said federal spending in the
year ending next June 30 will hit
a near peacetime record of $54,-
200,000,000—more than $6,000,-
000,000 over the outlay last year.
And instead of the record SB,-
400,000,000 surplus of last June,
Mr. Truman declared, the treasury
faces an operating deficit of sl,-
500,000,000 and a return to “de
ficit financing.”
Actually, even if his figures pan
out, the treasury’s books will show
an “adjusted surplus” of $1,500,-
000,000. That’s because Congress
specified that $3,000,000,000 of last
year’s excess funds should be
shifted to this year’s accounts to
help cover foreien aid costs. Mr,
Truman called this a “convenient
bookeeping device” to yield a
“paper surplus.”
“Indeed,” the Chief Executive
asserted, “as long as the present
fiscal outlook prevails, we may
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DURWARD WATSON
C.&S. Names
Watson As
Bank Director
Durward Watson, president and
owner of the University Chevro
let Coapany today was elected «
member 0f the Boarda or Directors
of the Citizens ana Southern Na
tionai' Bank, Executive Vice-Pre
sident R. V. Waterson announced,
following the directors’ meeting
this mornng.
Mr. Watson & president of the
Athens Kiwanis Club, vice-presi
dent of the Community Chest,
Finance Chairman of the Athens
chapter of the American Cancer
Society, member of the Board of
Stewarts of First Methodist
Church, president of the Athens
Auto Dealers Association, First
Vice-President of the Georgia Au
to Dealers Association, member of
the Chamber of Commerce, Ath
ens Country Club and the Touch
down Club. :
Born in Bufloch eounty, Ga., he
is the son of Mr and Mrs. Joseph
G. Watson and attended States
boro High School. He graduated
from the :Eniversity of Georgia
in 1928 with the Bachelor of Arts
degree. While attending the Uni
versity he was a member of Sig
ma Chi social fraternity, Pelican
Club, Demosthenian Literary So
ciety, Asséciate Editor of the Pan-*
dora, and was awarded his “G”
for managing athletic teams. |
Mr. Watson is married to the
former Fvizébeth Dunlap of Ma-~
con, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. C, Dunlap and the couple has
two children, Durward, jr., and
Lanier.
Mr. Watson entered active duty
with .the Navy in June of 1942 as
a Lieutenant (Jg) and was as
siened to duty with the office of
Chief of Naval Operations as Ad
ministrative Assistant to the De
puty Chief of Naval Communica?
tions, and was ordered to inactive
dutv in October of 1945 with the
rank of Lieutenznt Commander.
face an expanded debt even in a
period of high national income
when financial irudence clearly
would indicate continuing debt re
tirement.”
The hour for Mr. Truman’s bud
get review to be made public had
not yet arrived when Republican
leaders hurried out their rebuttals
for simultaneous release.
Weird Distortions
“Just another campaign speech,”
said Chairman Bridges (R-NH) of
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee. To which Chairman Milli
kin (R-Colo.) of the Senate Fi
nance Committee added:
“Another of the weird distor
tions which are coming from the
White House while its occupant is
a nervous candidate for re-elec
tion.”
Bridges insisted that instead of
the $1,500.000,000 deficit Mr. Tru
man predicted, there will be .-a
surplus “that will be not less than
$6,000,000,000.”
Millikin said even the Presi
dent’s own figures when viewed
“on the basis of present realities”
indicate a surplus of ‘“over $5,-
000.000.000.” |
Mr. Truman listed these as the
“oputstanding facts” of his budget
review: .
“1' -B‘-udget expenditures for the
fiscal year 1949 areé now' estimated
at s42,2oo,ooo,ooo—substantially
Net Out For
Beach Slayers
Atlanta Steno And Campanion
Found Slain On Florida Beach
"ORMOND, Fla., Aug. 16.—(AP)—A pretty Georgia
stenographer was criminally assaulted and slain and her
23-year-old escort shot in the head at close range on a
desolate moonlit beach here in what authorities desecrib
ed as one of the most fiendish slayings in the state’s his
tory. ;
Sheriff Alex Littlefield said the
young vacationing couple—24-
year-old Mary -Hucks of East
Point, Ga., and Gregory Blount of
Lexington, Ky.—were shot 'and
killed early Saturday night on a
lonely Beach aboui a half-mile
from the nearest habitation.
The young woman’s bruised and
beaten body was found in a
clump of paimetto brush, He:
bathing suit had been wrenched
from her body, and footprints in
the sand indicated a fierce strug- ‘
gle, Sheriff Littlefield said.
“There is no doubt that she was ‘
assaulted,” he added. |
He said Blount’s body was foundi
on a blanket' sspread upon the
white beach sands, and that thel
young man apparenily had beeni
slain ‘while he slept. |
The Volusia county sheriff said
his investigation indicated that
two slayers were involved. in the
crime and he theorized that they
were ‘“‘sex perveris on the prowl.’”
: Ne Question
Rewards . totalling SI,OOO had
been offered for information—
with no questions asked”—leading
10 the arrest and conviction of the
slayer, Littlefield said’
““We have some leads, but we
would be fools to give them away
right now,” he continued,
Police said the coupfe had met
at this Atlantic seaside resort only
last Thursday, had a double date
with another couple Saturday af
ternoon, and were reported last
seen before their deaths about
€.50 Saturday night.
Sheriff Littlefield said a recon
construction of the crime indicat
ed tne killers had walked past the
counle, doubled back. of a row of
sand dunes along the ocean front,
crept up to the pair, and shot
Blunt at point blank range,
Miss Hucks was awakened by
the shot and ran a short distance
before she was overtaken and
d-agxed behind a sereen of pal
metto brushes where her assail
ents strigped her swimming suit
from her, attacked her, and then
shot her, the sheriff surmised.
He said that indetations in the
blanket indicated the couple were
asleep when the slavers ¢came up
on them, and that Ffunt was shotl
{irst.
higher than was estimated in Jan
uary—llargely because or increases
in the national defense program,
increased benefits for veterans,
and increased tax refunds.
“2. The tax reduction enacted
in April will cause receipts for the
fiscal year 1949 to be substantially
lower than was estimated in Jan
uary. Budget receipts are now
estimated at $40,700,000,000.
“3. As a result, an operating de
ficit of $1 500,000,000 is now anti
cipated for 1949, compared with
the record surplus of $8,400,000,-
000 in 1948. This sharp reversali
eliminates one of the Principal‘
forces that have been restraining
further inflation. |
“4, The public debt was reduced
by $6,000,000,000 in 1948. Present
estimates indicate that no further
reduction in the total debt will be
possible in 1949.
“5. As we look ahead it is clear
that our national and international
responsibilities make impossible
any sharp reduction in government
expenditures in 1950—indeed it is
likely that there will be some in
creases. It is plain, therefore, that
the ill-timed tax reduction of last
spring has left the government
facing a period of deficit financ
ing.”
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable c¢loudiness,
mild this afternoon and to
night, Tuesday partly cloudy
and warmer with scattered
thundershowers Wednesday,
GECRGIA — Considerable
cloudiness today and tonight
with scatiered ihundershow
€rs 'in ‘soutl’ ‘portion und war
mer in norih portion,
Home
Ecdition
VIOLENCE
FLARES IN
PALESTINE
JERUSALEM, Aug. 16.—(AP)
—Arabs and Jews traded accusa=~
tions of truce breaches today
after the biggest outbreak of
shooting here since the second
cease fire began four weeks
ago. g 3 A
Mortar and heavy machinegun
fire resounded throughout the
Jerusalem area yesterday only 48
hours after the deadline for a
new truce. Count Folke Berna
]dotte, the United Nations Medi-~
ator, had asked both sides not to
fire" after the early morning
hours of Friday. /
The Jews, listing five casual=
ties, said the Arabs were respon
sible. e
A spokesman - for* the Trans-
Jordan Arab Legion said in Am
man that the Jews attacked Leg
ion forwafd posts. The Arab
spokesman ‘ said the attack was
launched after U. N. observers
notified the Legion Saturday
night that Israel had accepted
| Bernadotte’s order not to return
fire.
’ (In Stockholm, Bernadotte’s
aides said the Jewish comman
*der in the Holy City had declin
ed to reply to the order until he
confe§ed with top Jewish offi
cials in Tel Aviv. The final Jew
ish reply still has not been re
ceived in Stockholm, the aides
said. They added that the rcport
that the Jews had refused to ac
cept a cease fire in Jerusalem
was erroneous, )
1. Brig. John Glubb Pasha,
commander in the Arab Legion,
said in Paris that nearly. 500,000
Arabs “driven from their homes
in Palestine will die from starva
tion” unless something is done
before winter,
2. A group of 355 Jews, iden
tified by the French Press Agen
cy as Exodus 1947 refugees ar
rived at Marseille, Francg, in
special rtains. The agency said
the Jews are pars of those who
sailed without immigration visas
for the Holy Land in the Exodus
1947 from southern France 13
months ago. British warships in
tercepted the vessel and the ref
ugees were sent back to France.
Vote Purge
In Germany
BERLIN, Aug. 16 — (AP) —
Berlin’s Liberal Democratic press
declared today the Communists
have prepared a purge list of
hundreds of thousands of anti-
Communists upon whom revenge
would be taken if the Western
Allies left the city.
The newspaper Montags Echo
said a Communist Fifth Column
is working in the blockaded
western sectors of Berlin, oceu
pied by the U. S., Britain and
France. :
The Communist spy system has
wormed its way into industrial
workers' councils, into commerce,
info postal and telegraph sys
tems of Western Berlin and there
make systematic preparation for
“X-Day”’-—the day the Commun=-
ists hope the Western Allies will
leave Berlin,” the Liberal Demo
cratic newspaper said.
60-Mile-Hour
Winds In SOWEGA
ALBANY, Ga. Aug. 16—(AP)
—Winds up to 60 miles an hour,
accompenied by blinding rain,
smept through this. area yester
day, but the only serious damage
was reported by pecan growers.
Growers said the wind wrenche
limbs from trees and scattered
thousands of growing nuts. They
szid U. S peean experiment ex
pefts were investigating the
damage. W L