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US.-RED CONSULAR TIES CUT
Spy Probers To Try Hiss
Or Chambers For Perjury
Alleged Red Leader, Editor
Called Together In Showdown
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—(AP)—Alger Hiss and his
accuser, Whittaker Chambers, confronted each other in
the congressional spy hearings today and were told that
“certainly” one will be “tried for perjury.”
The statement came from Chairman J. Parnell Thomas
(R.-N.J.) of the House Un-American Activities Commit-
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DAN T. HIX
Rosenthal’s
Is Joined
By Dan T. Hix
Henry M. Rosenthal of Rosen
thal's Athens and Cooper Shoes
Ins,, Gainesville and Cartersville,
todey annoynced that Dan T.
Hix, Shoe Buyer for Davison-
Paxon Company of Atlanta, Au
gusta, Macon and Columbia will
lbg* associated in business with
11m, -
Mr. Hix has resigned his pres
ent position .effective October
first, and he 'and Mrs Hix will
immediately move to Athens to
assume his duties as Buyer and
General Manager of ine three
stores. P
Mr. Hix for many years was
associgted vfith = Saxon-Cullum
Shoe Company of Augusta, and
Columbia, South Carolina as
Manager and Buyer; and when
thet company sold out to the Da
vison-Plaxon Company several
years ago, he continued in that
capacity with much success, and
wes then transferred to . Atlanta
to head the buying and merchan
dising of the better shoes of the
four stores.
For many years he has enjoy
ed the reputation as one of the
outstanding shoe men in the en
tire south, and many telegrams
and letters from the foremost
shoe manufacturers of America
have congratulated both Mr. Hix
and Mr. Rosenthal upon this as
sociation in business. ;
Mr, Hix is a member of the
Presbyterian Church and the
American Legion, and will make
a great addition to the business
and civic life of the c¢ommunity.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and continued rather
hot teday, tonight and Thurs
day,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued hot today, to
night and Thursday; a few
scattered thundershowers in
extreme south portion this
afternoon and again Thurs
day afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ;%, a 3 <ic .88
Lowegt « o iit wBl
Metin ", 08 S 0 oyt Y
Notmal- .st o, 77
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .... 5.40
Excess since August 1 ... 1.78
Average August rainfaii . 4.67
Total since January 1 ...43.60
Excess since January 1 .. 9.85
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Perjury is lying when under
oath to tell the truth. Conviction
would carry a possible jaii sen
tence.
Hiss, former State Department
official, and Chambers, now a
senior editor of Time Magazine,
have told the committee widely
varying stories. "
What Thomas’' statement im
plied was this: the commitiee in
tends to make a decision which
e is lying and seek action
against him in the courts.
The 43-year-old Hiss was
sworn in as the first witness im
mediately after Thomas' state
ment.
Hiss then public admitted for
the first time that he once had
known Chambers, but said it was
under the name of George Cros
ley. 2
Different Stories
At previous hearings, Cham
bers has accused Hiss of being a
member of @ Red underground
in Washington in the 19305. Hiss
has denied it. Hiss also once tes
tified publicly that he mnever
knew Chambers. But since then,
Hiss has told the committee in a
closed. door session that he did
kncw Chambers under the name
of Crosley.
Hiss said he knew Chambers
as George Crosley in the winter
of 1924 or 1935. He said he last
saw Chambers in 1935.
A moment later, Chambers said
he last saw Hiss in 1938.
. That was after Thomas sworce
Chambers in as a witness and
the two key men in the heagngs
stood facing one another.
So right at the start there was
an element of conflict in the tes
timony of two men who had
taken an oath to tell the truth.
In the caucus room of the old
House office building, hundreds
of spectators watched the drama
unfold. Others trailed out in a
string around the rotunda of the
building, down a corridor and
out into the street, waiting for a
chance to get in.
Chambers has never said that
the Communist underground he
talks about was engaged in spy
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Separate Case |
With reference to that, Thomas
said the issue presently before
{the committee is not “definitely
involved in the two espionage
rings the committee is investigat
ing.” But Thomas said it did
deal with a Communist under
ground, and that the committee
is determined to get at the truth
of the conflicting statements of ‘
Chambers and Hiss.
W hat's Wrong I n Dixie
North - South Differences
Discussed At Montgomery
MONTGOMERY, ALA, Aug.
25— (AP)—Southern spokesmen
square off today to tell visiting
Yankees why Dixie feels like it
does about President Truman'’s
racial policies.
They joined 11 northern busi
ness \gen in a roundtable forum
on the South’s problems, with
emphasis on the racial question.
Back of the discussion lay the
hope that an intercnange of
views and ideas might do away
with ‘the wrangling between the
North and South over the civil
rights issue. . . that’s what the
eicht Montgomery civil clubs
had in mind when they invited
the Yankees here.
Southern hospitality like you
read about in story bocks was
prevalent in all its splendor. The
northerners were guests of the
blue-gray assoclatipn, which
sponsors the annual north
south football game. Everything
was on the house.
A tour of historic Montgom~
?y, cradle of the confederacy,
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WIN HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTEST _—_Shown above are Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Shadden and their two daughters, Agnes and Lorene, in front of their home at 170
First street. The Shadden family was the winner in the home improvement and
beautifciation contest in which were entered many of the 180 families who became
home owners when Athens Manufacturing Company made it possible for its em
ployes to purchase the homes on long-term, casy pavments through the Athens
Federal Savings & Loan Association. Hutehins-Cox & Stroud, Inc., handled the sale
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of the homes. The Shadden family pitched in and all helped in beautifying and im
proving their home and ended up as first prize winners in the contest,
Shaddens Winners
In Home Contest
“Owning my house and beautifying it makes me feel
more a part of Athens and makes life more pleasant,”
said H. H. Shadden, 170 First street, who recently won
first prize in the home improvement and beautification
contest sponsored by Hutchins-Cox-Stroud, Inc.
Winner Shadden added, “I am
proud of the prize (which was a
1948 Philco Model 472-1 six tube
radio with FM reception), but I
didn’t go out for it. I would have
done the beautification work
anyway.”
Winners of the contest were
chosen from those making the
most improvement in the outside
appearance of homes' purchased
from the Athens Manufacturing
Company. Recently this company
sold about 180 houses to their
employes on long term, easy pay
ment basis, through the Athens
Federal Savings and Loan Asso
ciation.
Hutchins - Cox - Stroud, Inc,
handled the sale of the houses
and Athens Federal Savings and
Loan Association handles the
payments.
Fixer in Spinning Room
Mr. Shadden, a fixer in the
spinning room at the Athens
Manufacturing Company, has
been working for that company
since he moved to Athens in
led past the spot where the or
der was given to fire on Fort
Sumpter. A plague on the side
of a building which now houses
a men’s store tells the story.
The idea for the roundtable
discussion grew out of a remark
by columnist Drew Pearson of
Washington that the blue gray
football game was a boost for
better North-South relations.
The contest is played here each
year between picked teams from
the North and South.
Fearson also suggested exchang
ing visits by civic eclubs, and
the blue-gray organikation
pounced on the idea. Telegrams
signed by the Presidents of
eight civic groups went out to
their parent oranizatibns up
north.
Today's discussion wasn’t li
mited to racial problems, but
voung R. F. Hudson, jr., the
mogderator, said that would be
the highlight. ‘Huddon, gme ‘of
the promoters of the forum. is
assistant publishec of the Mont
omery Advertiser-Journal.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
'Quake Tremors
\ Threaten ltaly
‘ ROME, Aug. 25.—(AP)Many
j thousands of Southern Italians
}are camping out today, afraid
to return to their homes because
|of earth tremors which. have
| shaken them almost daily for a
ifortnight past.
i Foggia, a city of 64,000, was
described in Rome press dispat
'ches as deserted. Aufhorities es
|timated 50 buildings wll have
to be torn down tHere: and that
‘4OO homes had peen dectroved
in nearby Montesantangelo and
‘San Giovanni Rotondo. Smoke
‘and hot air issued from earth
, cracks near Montesantangelo,
lthe dispatches said,
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, AUCUST 25, 1948.
1928. Before moving to Athens
he lived in Whitehall, 2
He bought his. home in Octo
ber and has been improving it
since. The first thing he did
was to paint the house inside by
himself. He then bought a new
front door and put it in. Later
Mr. Shadden had the.outside of
the house painted, and had a low
rock wall put around the front
yard.
Other Improvements
Other improvements were the
installing and fixing of gutters,
repairing the front porch, and
putting new flooring in the front
porch. Also he painted the inside
of the house again.
After telling about this work
he stated, “That’s what I've done,
but I'm not nearly through. 1
plan to do much more.”
While admiring the front
porch, which is painted white
with green trimmings, the win
ner said his wife ;and two daugh
ters had worked along with him
in improving their home. His
two daughters are Agnes and
Lorene. He has three sons—Car
bet works at thes Athens Manu
facturing Company, Welden
works in Atlanta, and Roy is in
service in Japan.
Fifty-six years old, Mr. Shad
den asserted, “We moved to Ath
ens so that our children could
graduate from high scheol. All
of them have graduated except
one—she graduates in June.”
Mrs. Shadden Speaks
Mrs. Shadden said, “We both
just fried to improve what we
bought.” :
Other winners in the contest
(Continued On Fage Five)
Gotta Be Iceberg
To View Beauty
Contest — Bishop
VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug.
25— (AP)—Archbishop Will
iam Duke of Vancouver as
sailed last night the “rapid
ly growing practice of semi
nude beauty crjitests for
every imaginable objective.”
Addressing the sixth an
nual convention of the Cana
dian Federation of Convent
Alumnae, the Roman Catho
lic Archbishop said beauty
contests are barred to Catho
lic women “who realize in
conscience” the danger that
“they could be occasions of
sin to others.”
“You would have to be an
iceberg,” he declared, “to be
in the same room with a
sime-nude woman and not be
subject to immoral ideas.”
New Border
IShootings
BERLIN, Aug. 25—(AP)—Bor
der shootings of Germans in Ber
lin and Bavaria kept tension be
tween the West and Russia alive
4today. \
{ American authorities in Nuern-
I’berg said Russian zone police Mon
;day shot and killed a German in
i telligence agent of the U. S. Army
[who was fleeing across the Soviet
zone border. They said the Ger
‘man, one of scores used by the
;Army as intelligence agents, was
| at least 100 yards inside the Amer
!ican zone near Coburg when he
| was shot.
!Absentee Ballot
.
Deadline Aug. 28
i Attornty Generzal Eugene Cook
i has notified all County Boards of
|Registrars in Georgia that next
| Saturday, August 28th, is the last
day application can be made for
an absentee mail ballot for the
State Primary. to be held in
Georgia on September Bth.
Any Clarke County voter who
will not be here on Election Day
is eligible to vote by mail and, if
application is made not later than
next Saturday, may secure an ab
santee mail ballot by writing to
the Clarke County Board of Reg
istrars, Box 47, Athens, enclosing
twenty-six cents in either coins
or stamps to cover cost of post
ege and registry, or by contacting
one of the local regisirars in per
son. The local board is at present
composed of Judge Arthur S
Oldhsm, Chairman, Mrs W. R
Bedgood, and Mrs. J. Guy Han
cock.
Sharp Action
Result Of
Teacher Case
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — (AP) —
Russia speeded up a steady recall of So
viet citizens from the United States today
by ordering the closing of the last two re
maining Soviet consulates. in this country.
Moscow announced the New York and
San Francisco consulates will be closed in
a note which provided a new climax to the
dispute over the refugee Soviet school
teachers.
The lone outpost of the Amer
ican esmbassy in Moscow, the con
sulate in the Pacific port of
Vladivostok, was ordered by Rus
sia to close its doors at the same
time. Moscow also said it is can
celling a 1947 agreement to let
the U. S. reopen a former con
sulate at Leningrad.
The action was Russia’s reply to
the American demand that Soviet
Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin
leave the country for “abuse” of
his official status in New York
during the investigation of the af
fair of the three Soviet school
teachers who refused to return to
their homeland.
There was no question of break
ing off formal diplomatic relations.
Consulates are concerned with
‘commercial affairs while political
relations of sovereign countries
are carried on with embassies and
tlegations. The new Soviet note de
livered to the State Department
last night, made no mention of
the Soviet embassy here or the
U. S. embassy in Moscow.
Action Expected
Diplomatic officials took the
position that the Soviet action was
not unexpected and does not ma~
‘terially alter the troubled rela
tions between Moscow and Wash
ington. They contend it has no
more effect on the current negotia
tions in Moscow for a broad
settlement than the quarrel over
the Danube river in the recent
talks at Belgrade and friction in
Berlin. ;
Russia has been steadily lower
ing the number of Soviet citizens
in this country in recent months.
Closing the l‘{ew York and San
Francisco consulates will speed the
process.
The reduction reflects the sharp
sag in Soviet-American trade since
U. S. export controls were slapped
on March 1, as well as the basic
quarrel between the two major
world powers.
The latest State Department
figures on the number of Soviet
officials in this country totalled
346 four months ago. They show
Russia had in the United States in .
April, excluding dependents, the
following:
' Embassy, 87; Consular 55; In
ternational Organizations (United
Nations) 81; Purchasing Commis
sion 12; Trading Organizations
1 103; Miscellaneous 8. '
Narrows Gap
Listed at the New York con
sulate were seven officials and 32
employes and’ at San Franciscol
three officials and 13 employes.
The U. S. has four Americans at
Vladivostok and about 125 includ
ing employes, attached to the em
bassy in Moscow. : ] '
Thus the new Russian action
tends to narrow the gap between
the numbers of Americans in Rus
sia and Russians in the United
States. The far larger number Rus
(Continued on Page Five.)
Radio Forum Set Tonight On
Importance Of Farmers Mart
Radio Station WGAU tonight
from 8 o'clock to 8:30 will car
ry a Round Table Discussion
Forum designed to show the im
portance and far : reaching ef
fect of the proposed Northeast
Georgia Farmers’ Market to be
erected near Athens on the New
Atlanta Highway.
Participating in the half-hour
show will be Mayor Jack R.
Wells, who will read a procla
mation designating tomorrow
(Thursday) “Farmers’ [Market
Day” in Athens.
Junior Chamber of Commerce
President J. W. Matthews, Jay
cee Market Commitee Chairman
Millard Seagraves, Howell Er
win, and Richard Bloodworth
will discuss the relative merits
of the proposed market; its im
portance to the farmers of this
section and to ihe businéssmen
of Athens, and its prosperous ef
fect in this section to bussinesses
and farms alike,
Tomorrow beginning at '12:30
. (Continued On Page Five)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
First Bale Of
Cotton Brings
Dickens $24.3
First bale of cotton from the
1948 crop to be brought to Clarke
county arrived yesterday from
the ferm of L. L. Dickens in Oco
nee county,
The bale weighed 486 pounds
and brought a bonus price, 50-
cents-per-pound, being bought by
Gallant-Belk Company for $243,
It was handler by Tulme Fertili
zer and Warehouse Company.
The cotton bale is on display in
front of the Gallant-Belk Store
on Clayton street.
Live Telfair
Voters Give
‘M.E.” Cotton
MACON, Ga., Aug. 24 —(AP)
—With Gov. M. E. Thompson
scheduled to appear in Macon
Tuesday night, signs of political
revolt against Herman Talmadge
in his own Telfair county appear
ed there today.
Three prominent Telfair far
mers and businessmen repared
for the presentation of more than
$2,000 worth of cotton, raised in
the Talmadge stronghold, to the
Thompson cause.
The Telfair cotton will be
brought tc Macon by E. S. Burch,
J. D. Williams and G. R Bland,
all of Talmadge’s home county. It
was contributed, according to
Burch, by a number of supporters
of Gov. Thompson in the county.
Rankin Wins
In Miss. Race
By The Associated Press
Mississippi voters are sending
John E. Renkin back to Congress
for his Isth term.
The veteran advocate of white
supremacy easily defeated two ri
vals in yesterday’s Democratic
primary. The party nomination
is as good as election in that
state.
Rankin, a member of the House
Committee on Un-American Ac
tivities and outspoken foe of Com
munism, told voters in his cam
peign that to defeat him would
be “the best news that Joe Stalin
ever heard.”
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MAYOR PROCLAIMS AUGUST 26
AS FARMERS MARKET DAY HERE
WHEREAS, there are but few days rema.lnlnt in the drive by
the Athens Junior Chamber of Commerce to raise sufficient
funds for the purchase of an approved site for the Northeast
Georgia Farmers' Market proposed here, and,
WHEREAS, this proposed Farmers’ Market will help to bring
additional prosperity to the farmers of this area and to the busi
nessmen of this city, and, : _
WHEREAS, such prosperity may well reach a two million dol
lar income for Athens, I am iold, and be of untold benefit to the
farmers of Clarke and surrounding counties,
THEREFORE, |, in my official capacity as Mayor of Athens
do hereby proclaim Thursday, August 26, as “Farmers’ Mavket
Day” in Athens in an effort to climax the campaign to raise suf
ficient funds for the Market cite and ¥ urge all of our Drogres
sive citizens to particinate in the campaign, :
JACK R. WELLS, Mayor, City of Athens.
Church Group
Seeks To Aid
Kast West Row
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Aug.
25.— (AP) —The East-West conflict has
brought the World Council of Churches to
its feet” What are the churches going to
do about it.
Delegates have listened for three days
to introductory speeches conciuding the
first part of this church assembly. They
have heard agreement on the futility of
war and the need for peace. Conflicting
East and West views have been voiced.
4Ulay uic)y gol UOWII L 0 DldEsSs
tacks in perhaps the most vigorous
and heated discussions of the as
sembly to see what steps the
churehes can take to ease a world
situation which has boiled up to
crisis at Berlin,
Some of the world’s leading
churchmen go behind closed doors
to work out a composite, if not a
unified, view as the basis for a
significant church pronouncement
on East-West differences.
For practical work of the as~
sembly, the delegates have been
divided into four main groups con
cerned with the church’s “message
to major problems in the contem
porary world.” The group con
cerned with “the church and in
ternational disorder” has emerged
as the most important of these.
Intense Discussion
“Unquestionably the most in
tense thought and vigorous dis
cussion will center upon the so
called East-West confrontation,”
said Dr. 'Henry Pitney Van Dusen,
president of the Faculty of Uni
Theological Seminary in ufi
York, speaking for the afisem% ;
“Here members will “seék both
for fuller critical understanding of
the issues and for steps which the
churches might take toward eas
ing the problem.” b
Two conflicting points of view
were expressed yesterday before
this group, with delegates in
tently listening to both—John Fos
ter Dulles of the United States for
the West, and Prof. Joseph L.
Hromadka of Czechoslovakia for
the East. ¢
Dulles challenged Communism
and declared that the Soviet Com~
munist regime was not for peace
and “does not purport to be.
Kromadka declared that the world
is witnessing the end of western
supremacy in the world because
of “anxiety about the advancing
social transformations under the
leadership of the Soviet Union.”
No Freedom
At a news canference following
his assembly address, Kromadka
was crallenved on his address A
man who said he was from Latvia
declared tnere was 1O I€llglOUs
freedom left in his country, ab
sorbed by Russia eight years ago,
and predicted the same would hap
pen in Czechoslovakia, now Com
munist-ruled, s
Kromadka said he could speak
only for today, but that if tomor
row brought a Communist crack
down on freedom he would fight
it. In a later interview he said no
restrictions have been placed on
his work in the church since the
Communist coup in Czechoslova
kia. e
The overall theme of the dis
cussions is “man’s disorder and
God’s design.” The four groups
will be in session for six days.
Their reports will be presented at
a plenary session for discussion by
the full assembly. The assembly
continues until Sept. 4.
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