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Vol. CXVI, No. 192,
Injunction Granted To Stymie
Walkout By 45,000 Stevedores
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—(AP)—A Federal judge, acting
at the request of the U. S. Attorney General, today order
ed 45,000 East Coast dock workers to call off a strif set
for midnight tonight. S
The order, handed down in the form of a temp Qvf in
junction, was issued by Judge Harold R. Medi :’,:jztinst
the AFL International Longshoremen’s Union/ & ¢
It also restrains six employer
organizations from restoring to
possible lockouts in connection
with the labor dispute.
Joseph P. Ryan, president of
the union, said the ILA would
abide by the court’s ruling.
“We naturally will live up to it
and I hope we will be able to ad
just our differences and be able
to get a good agreement before
the 80-day cooling off period of
the injunction.”
The restraining order is effec
tive until Aug. 31. But Joseph M.
Friedman, specialy assistant to U.
S. Attorney General Tom Clarke,
said the government next Tues
day would aet to have the in
junction extended for the full 80-
day cooling off period covered by
the ‘Taft-Hartley Act. |
President Truman directed
Clark to seek the injunction on
the ground that a strike of Long
shoremen in busy eastern ports:
would endanger the national
health and safety ‘ 1
Mr. Trumen acted after his
Tact-Finding Board reported that
a work stoppage was imminent.
An east coast walkout of pier
workers probably would spreadi
to South Atlantic and gulf ports,
involving another 15.000 Long
shoremen who traditionally fol
low the lead of their northern af
filiates. v |
Arabs Behead
Israel Troops
JERUSALEM, Aug. 21.—~(AP)‘
—The beheaded and mutiiated
bodies of two, Jewm_}g}m
were brought =info “the *Jewdshs
controlled areas of Jerusalem to
day.
Stripped of clothes and slash-'
ed, the soldiers were killed dur
ing fighting on the “Hill of Evil!
Counsel” when both Jews and!
Arabs stormed into a neutral
zone occupied by the Red Cross.!
A conference will be held to
morrow under United Nations;
auspices to discuss proposed neu
tralization of Government House,
which is in the heart of the Red|
Cross zone. Military commanders,
of Trans-Jordan, Egyptian and
Israeli forces, Red Cross and
United Nations officlals will at-'
tend. |
The Red Cross is demanding
complete demilitarization of the
zone. It implied that if this is not
done the Red Cross will move
out, ‘
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued hot Sunday with slight
chance of afternoon thun
dershowers.
GEORGIA — Partly clondy
and warm Sunday and Mon
day; widely scattered after
noon thundershowers mostly
over extreme south portion. |
TEMPERATURE
Highest! i S bisi i 5508
Lowest .b, tai i skt 1168
Meant dicons Bl (v 018
Normial A ipiac v, .1%
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 ... 5.36
Excess since August 1 .. 2.21
Average August rainfall . 4.67
Total since January 1 ...43.56
Exopes sinpa Janitary 1 .. 9.76
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! GRAY, Ga, Aud. 21 —(AP)—
| Disappearance of a 17-year-old
girl, apparently in nightclothes,
y@nd an apparently incendiary fire
in which only a kitchen faucet
,was stolen, developed a first-rate
mystery here today.
C. E. McKinley, tourist court
operator, told Sheriff Holmes, J.
Hawkins his daughter, Margaret,
]\fanished from her bedroom be
tween midnight and 3 a. m.to
day All her clothes were left
behind, Mrs. McKinley said. Po
lice found no trace of tracks—or
, Margaret — after an all-day
| search in two counties. ‘
Mart Funds Over
Half - Way Point
A total of $6,100 of the needed SII,OOO to insure estab
lishment of a State Farmers Market had been raised Sat
urday, announced Millard Seagraves, chairman of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce committee raising the fund.
Mr. Seagraves said the drive is continuing and urged all
Athenians to contribute so that the market may become a
reality and bring hundreds of thousands of dollars to
Athens annuallys . -
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paign being carried on by the Jay-!
tees to raise the necessary funds'
for purchase of the property lo+
cated on the new Atlanta high
way just beyond the city limits,
Mayor »Jack -R. Wells, Saturday
said: VY
“I am satisfied that if the peo=
ple of Athens realized just how
much the location o%<a State
Farmers Market here wili mean
in future years, ey would get,
behind the movement so whole
heartedly that the necessary
amount of money would be rais
ed in a matter of hours.”
“Athens can get, for the sum of
SII,OOO, something that practical
ly any other city in Northeast
Georgia would give its right arm
to secure. As soon as the deed
to the property is delivered to
Commissioner of Agriculture Tom
Linder for the State, the Mar
ket will become an assured fact.
iThe State will put up the neces
sary buildings and maintain them
and it will also provide for the
necessary personnel and pay |
their salaries. l
Initial Investment
“The initial building invest-i
ment by the State will. & some |
$40,000 or $50,000 =n® this sum
will be increased as the market
grows and other buildings be
come necessary,” Mayor Wells
- said. !
' Mayor Wells, who started the |
move many months ago to secure
a State Farmers Market for Ath- |
ens, commended the Jaycees for
their efforts in trying to raise
the necessary amount of money
and also for the help they gave
in selling the idea of locating a
market here to other communi
ties in ‘Northeast Georgia.
l Mayor Wells recalled that!
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beach, That should hold you |
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Nicker
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New Head Of
Hardware Co.
Sam H. Nickerson, well known
husiness man, was elected presi
dent of the Athens Hardware
Company, one ot the oldest such
organizations in the South, at a
recent meeting of the board of
directors,
The Athens Hardware Compa
ny, which stands high in the bus
iness life of Athens, of Georgia,
and the Southeast, was establish
early in 1865, and has establish
its business in the same location
on Broad Street for 83 years.
With a large variety of hard
ware, sporting goods, and related
items, it has tb{'\oughx the years
developed a steadily increasing
wholesale business.” Originally
limited to one floor and a base
ment, the firm today occupies
three and a half stories on Broaa
Street :Jld has a warehouse locatec
on the railroad tracks.
Supplementing the works of
the local personnel are traveling
representatives who cover North
east Georgia,and parts of North
and South Carolina,
Other officers elected by the
board of directors are E. C. Jack
son, vice president; and N. D
Nickerson, secretary. J. C. John
son is store manager.
The Athens Hardware Company
was established by Reuben Nick
erson, a great uncle of the new
president. For a number of years
it was known as Childs, Nicker
son Company. Reuben Nickearson
was succeeded by Thomas H.
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ATHENS, GCA., SUNDAY, AULCUST 22, 1948
Clash Between Occupation
Forces In Germany Feared
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Soviet Soldiers Stab, Beat
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Police; U.S. Seeking Confab
BERLIN, Aug. 21.—(AP)—Russian soldiers beat and
stabbed German police in the American sector of Berlin
today and American authorities expressed fear of a clash
between occupation forees.
The Americans were seeking direct discussions wilh
the Russians to arrange a truce between rival German
police forces in the Seviet and western sectors.
‘, Failing a settlement, an Amer
ican spokesman said, ‘“‘something
might happen that will involve
more than the Germans.” ;
Althpugh attempts to reach
high Russian officials were un
successful, two Russian otficers
told the U. S. Deputy Provost Mar- 1
shal in a streel conierence they
would keep armed Soviet troo;:ns|
concentrated in central Berlin as
long as the United States keeps
militery police there l
Today, two American sector
German policemen were attacked
and carried off by the Russians.
An official police announcement
said the two men were accosted
by “numerous” Russian soldiers
who demanded they come along
into the Soviet sector.
When they resisted, one was
stabbed and the other knocked
down with a rifle butt. ;
Five Kidnapped
The incident occurred near the
Annhalter Razilroad Station in
downtown Berlin, near the bor
der between the ,American and
Soviet sectors. Earlier, two other
German police were Kkidnapped
yesterday. Of nire abducted in
two days, three have escaped.
At least 20 western sector police
have been seized since the police
department was split by Russian
refusal to accept .dismissal of
Moscow-trained Paul Markgraf
as police chief. The dismissal was !
ordered by the anti-Communist
‘cit'y' government,
Renew Efforts
American officials telephoned
’fgsa,ian headquarters, seeking to
further violence ; ght™
lead to a clash between occupa
iion forces. They were told the
two top Russian Commanders in
Berlin were away for the week
end It was indicated renewed
efforts for a conference will be‘
meade Monday.
The international crossroads of
Potsdammer Platz, where the
British, American and Soviet sec
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Soviet Consul
May Not Leave
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 —(AP)
—Soviet Consul General Jacob
Lomakin, expelled by the U. S.
State Department over the Rus
sian refugee teacher case, has
hooked passage for Europe —
but his right-hand man hinted
today that he may not ledve.
Passage for the discredited Lo
makin and his family has Ceen
booked on tHe liner Stockheclm,
sailing next Saturday for Gote
yorg, Sweden.
But Vice ~nenl Zot 1. Chep
‘unykh — replying t
man’s questiv. — said today:
“Oh, I think he’s going to stay.”
Reporters had asked him who
might replace Lomakin in New
York.
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Registration
On September 7
The University Demonstration
School will open its doors again
for registration on September
7th. School authorities advise
that busses will run their regular
:chedule on the 7th. !
Classes begin the following
iay, at which time the school
‘unch room will be reopened. \
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tors meet, resembled an armed
cap today.
Soviet soldiers with tommyguns
held at the ready, rode slowly
along the square, just inside the
Russian sector border. A few
yards away military police stood
by their vehicles.
Opposite them, the British have
erected a barbed wire barricade.
they also have painted a broad
white line to mark ihe border and
have erected now boundary signs
in English, Russian and German,
Behind the line reinforced British
military police units and British
sector German police patrolled
the street,
First Annual City Swimming
Meet At Legion Pool Today
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TOUGHKID!!!
SURVIVES GAS,
POISON, FALL
| ELLAVILLE, Ga, Aug. 21
‘ —(AP)—Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
. Phillips are very much wor
_‘ried about their 12-year-old
oM ROYCew A
" "“"When Royce was four he
swallowed enough poison, his
parents said, to kill 15 men
and was saved only by
prompt use of a stomach
' pump.
| A year later he drank kero
sene and had a close call with
pneumonia. That was just
' before he was kicked in the
head by a mule.
Royce is recoveriag today
from a fall out of a pecan
tree in which he broke both
arms.
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On Negro Con
Police Chief Clarence Roberts
opined last night that the escap
ed negro convict, sought here
since early Friday morning, is no
longer in this vicinity,
Chief Roberts said that there’s
every reason to believe that the
fugitive has fled these parts. He
was the object of an extended
search in this section following
a running fight with local police
Friday morning around 1:30 a. m.,
Robert Jackson, another convict,
and leader of an eight-man break
from Fulton earlier in the v.eek
was slain. “We have run down
every possible lead we have had,”
Chief Roberts said, “but we
haven’t had anything concrete to
go on since he leaped from the sto
len car Friday morning on Mill
edge Ave. and escaped.
Three of the negro convicts are
still at large Four others have
been re-captured,
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Abit Nix will preside at the
Thompsen Rally ian Atlania
Monday night from 8 to until
9 o'clock, it was announced
yvesterday by Bob Stephens,
chairman ' of the Clarke
County Thompson organiza
tion.
Mr. Stephens said that Mr.
Nix will make one of the
principal speeches at the rally
and a large number of Clarke
county Thompson supporters
plan to attend it, It will be
held in the Ansley Civie
Room and will be boadcast
over a statewide hook-up
including WGAU in Athens.
Mr. Stephens said Governor
Thompson will speak in Oco
nee county at 3 o’clock SQ—
tember 3rd. 5
20 Events Are Listed On Program;
Five Exhibitions Also Scheduled
BY CURTIS DRISKELL ,
The First Annual Classic City Swimming Meet will get
underway at two o’clock this aiternoon at the American
Legion Swimming Pool, presenting to spectators dne of
the biggest aquatic shows ever staged here.
The full program will include
twenty swimming events and five
ther features, Frank Eberhart,
r'é:pmmm the Pool, will
execute the Flame Dive, an event
that promises thrills for all.
Theyx Stewart, Georgia’s out
standing swimmer, will demon
strate swimming strokes from all
over the globe, in presenting his'
Round the World exhibition.
A Houdini escape trick under
water and a demonstration of hel
met diving and life saving will
round out the list of added at
tractions. ’
Lists of entrants have grown un
til all but a few events are filled.(
There is a possibility that not a
single event will be cancelled, butl
in event of cancellation, entrants
will be moved up to the next age
group in the same class swimming.
All events are open for new ap
plications until meet time.
~ Bleachers will be provided for
spectators, with only a quarter be
ing charged for admission.
Freestyle Events
In the freestyle events no girls
are entered in the eight years and
under age group; however, five
boys,—Jimmy Gabrielson, Ross
Wescott, Jimmy Carlisle, John
Matthews, and Walker Word will
compete for the boys’ title in the
eight and under group.
In freestyle,”ageés nine and ten,
the following ‘girls are entered:
Sherry Gabrielson, Norma Lois
Osteen, Dot’ Btrudel, Abbie Sud
dath, Eloise Hooper, Ann Craw
ford, Nan Danner, and Penny Gar
ner. The hoys competing will be:
Billy Bowman, David Field, jr.,
Bobby Langley, and John Bell.
Freestyle entrants for ages
eleven and twelve include Gail
Garner, Jane Eberhart, Beverly
Ann Yearwood, -Joan Bowman,
Rosanne Hendrickson, Gail Word,
Sue Bradberry, Betty Jane Daniel
in the girls’ race, and Harry Wayne
Storey, Jimmy Tolbert, Buddy
Boone, Johnny Moss, George Han-
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Thompson Urges Citizens To Be
Alert Until Every Vote Counted
By The Associated Press
Two of the gubernatorial candidates today were
around to the point of impugning each other’s honesty.
Herman Talmadge yesterday accused his opponent,
Governor M. E. Thompson, of perpetrating the bigglst
“swindles” and “rackets” in state highway building since
reconstruction davs.
Thompson came back with a
warning to his followers to re
main vigilant until the last vote
is counted” to make sure ‘‘they
cannot steal this election.”
The two candidates reached the
sizzling pofnt in the six-weeks
Ison, and James Cooper in the boys’.
: Freestyle competitors, ages
.| thirteen and fourteen, consist of
|| Beth Eberhart, Nancy Holsappl
| Carol Quillian, and Frances Wia&,'
with the following boys: Melvin
.| Duane, Johnny Short, Ronnie
| Clements, R. H. Driftmier, jr.,
| George Upchurch, Sunny Suddath, |
land C. W. Marlow, jr. ]
In the fifteen through twenty-!
|one age group of freestylers will
be Eloise Molder, Phyllis Barber,
Katherine Soule, Emma Carter
Daniel, and Evelyn Hall repre
senting the fair sex. Male com
petition in this event will be
Byron Booth, Frank Eberhart, andl
Chas. Parrott.
I Backstroke Class
In backstroke events there are
three age groups, with events for
boys and girls separated. Ten and
under girls are Sherry Gabrielson,
Abbie Suddath, Dot Strudel, Eloise
Hooper, Pat Crymes, Gail Word,
Ann Crawford, and Nan Danner.
Boys in this age will be Jimmy
Gabrielson opposed by John Bell.
Ages eleven through fourteen fea
ture Gail Garner, Jane Eberhart, |
Carol Quillian, Frances Wiatt, Sue
Bradberry, and Barbara Carter,
with four boys entered in this
event: Melvin Duane, Johnny
Moss, George Hanson, and Sunny
Suddath. The fifteen to twenty
one yvear old girls entered so far
are Eloise Molder, Emma Carter
Daniel, Phyllis Barber, Kathryn
Soule, and Evelyn Hall with only
three boys in their event: Byron
Booth, Frank Eberhart, and Chas.
Parrott. *
Six events in breaststroke are
planned as in backsiroke. En
trants include: (Girls-ten and un
der) Sherry Gabrielson, Norma
Lois Osteen, Dot Strudel, Abbie
Suddath, Pat Crymes, Gail Word,
Ann Crawford, Nan Danner, and
Penny Garner. (Boys—ten and un
der) Jimmy Gabrielson, Bobby
Langley, David Field, jr., and John
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old campaign, with two and a
half weeks to go before the Sep
tember 8 Democratic primary,
At Thomaston, Talmadge ac
cused Thompson and two of his
campaign managers, former Gov
ernors Ellis Arnall and Ed Riv
ers, with negotiating “illegal”
road contracts at campaign head
quarters at the Henry Grady Ho
tel.
“The swindles (they) are pull
ing off in the Highway Depart
ment are worse than Ed Rivers
ever dreamed about in his noto
rious asphalt racket administra
tion,” Talmadge charged.
“The swindles are worse than
that old carpetbagger Bulloch
pulled off.
“It is- no wonder that Rivers,
Arnall and Thompson are accu
mulating in the Henry Grady
Hotel the biggest slush fund in
the history of Georgia.”
Citing figures he said were
taken from Highway Department
records, Talmadge said Thomp
son “negotiated” a contract for a
road in Floyd county.
The cost of the “negotiated”
contract, he charged, was $25,000
more than the lowest bid fgx;*tihe
sar - ungdgh. gompetitive
Increase Cited
[ The cost of moving dirt, Tal
madge said, was increased from
20 cents a yard in competitive
bidding to one dollar a yard in
the negotiated contract. He al
leged similar “negotiated” in
creases for rock, asphalt and
pavement,
“This new. contract made an
outright gift to the contractor of
$25,000,” Talmadge said. “Bank
ers and contractors are telling
me every day that the two ex
governors are taking the road
contractors up to the Highway
Department in ghe Henry Grady
Hotel and ‘shaking them down’
for ten percent of these ‘negsti
ated’ contracts for a slush fund.”
Deny Charges
The Highway Department has
denied repeatedly previous char=-
ges by Talmadge of political she
rsnigans. = Thompson, speaking
today at Douglas where Tal
madge opened his campaign, cited
his record-breaking highway: ex
penditures and said all contracts
“are being made without politi
cal consideration.” =«
The Governor said Talmadge
forces have “found they cannot
win this election. They will find
they cannot buy this ‘eledtion.
Let's all stand together and See
that they cannot steal this elec
tion. ;
“My friends, this crowd (Tal
madge) is beaten and beaten
badly because Georgia has found
them a hollow shell,”
Since Talmadge refuses to
meet him on the main issue—his
record — said Thompson, he is
shifting emphasis for the remain
der of the campaign to the future.
SSAD SSTORY — Once upor. @
time—just before the war,
there was a decllar, That dol
lar would buy a certain
amount of daily life essen
tials. Today’s dellar bill,
compared against the pre
war buck, gets you only 57
cents worth of goods. The
accompanying pictures show
you how much today’s dollar
is worth for seven separate
items, all in terms of the pre
war dollar. The dollar is now
worth less than ever before
in United States’ history. For
example, the meat dollar -
day will buy you the same
amount of meat that 28 cents
would buy before the war.
BULLETIN
GUAM, Sunday, Aug. 22.—
(AP)—Fire visible for miles
raged through the huge U. S.
Navy aviation and mobile
gasoline tank farm five miles
from Apra Harbor today fol
lowing an early morning ex
plosion,