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TAFT, REECE, ACUFF AGREE TENNESSEE-./ILL GO G. O. P.—ln conference w¢
ille, Senator Robert A. Taft (center) of Ohio predicts Tennessee will go
R ican in the November election. In full agreement with him are former G.O.P.
N 'Chairman Carroll B. Reece (left), Tennessee’s Republican candidate for
the 1. S. Senate, and Hill-Billy Singer Roy Acuff (right), Republican nominee for
wor of Tennessee.— (AP Photo.)
SIMMONS FOUND GUILTY;
MAY AND HUDSON FINED
Hearing Set For New Trial On
Simmons; Released Under Bond
BY ED THILENIUS
Roger Sin'mons was found guilty by a Clarke County
juperior Court jury yesterday of embezzling nearly
$7.000 of University athletic funds and sentenced to two
years in prison.
Defense attorneys filed an immediate appeal for a
motion on a new trial. Judge Henry West set December
4. 1948, as the date for the hearing. In the meantime,
Simmons was released under $5,000 bond posted by his
father.
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C.P. OFarrell
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Dies; Funeral
Rites Frida
ites Friday
Charles Pyron O’Farrell, mem
ber of one of Athens’ most prgm
mnent {famhies, died at the home
of his sister, Mrs: G. M. Craig- at
1577 Lumpkin strest, Wednesday
night. Mr. O’Farrell was 62 years
old and had been in failing
health for several months.
Services are ‘to be ~conducted
Friday morning at 11 o’clock
from the chap®l of Bridges IKin
cral Home with:Dwo . W, O.
McKibben, pastor of First Meth
odist Church,: officiating.
- Burial will follow. in Oconee
Hill cemetery, W. L. Erwin, Car
lisle Cobb, George Crane, George
Thornton, .O. B. Mcßae, Col. H.
. Mann, Roy Wilson. John Da
vis and James. Groever. .serving
s pallbearers.
Mr. O'Farrell is survived by
‘hree sisters, Mrs. Richard Jones,
J ickson, Tgpn,, and Mrs. Crai;{
Mrs, Hnoh J, Rowe, bath of
Athens; ‘brother, O. C. O'Far
rell, Kings Mountain, N. C., and
moval miaces and nephews.
A native of Athens, Mr. O'Far
e son of James O'far
rel anl Martha Mason O'Farrell.
He attended local . schools and
°n tock up railroad work as
1S vocation.
Railroad Career
At various times he was con
nected with the Seaboard Airline
Rallroad, the Southern Railway
and the L. & N. Railroad, beaesg
Ocated in - Atlanta, Richmond,
Norfolk, St. Louis and Nashville
@uring his career, He became ill
N Nashville Jast May and re
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N NN RS CAN'T BE WRONG
It’s Ok To Blow Your Nose
Hard If You Have Bad Cold
LHICAGO, Oct. 14 —(AP)—
A physician who believes that
#O.OOO Navy submarine men can’t
be wrong said today it’s all right
19 blow your nose hard when you
have g cold. ‘
't won’t cause an ear infection
by lorcing bacteria or virus-laden
Material into the ear tube, he told
@ group of ear-eye-throat spe-
Claysis,
Dr. W. Wallace Teeq of Ann
Arbor, Mich., said he came to that
““aclusion while serving, as a
N2vy medical officer ai the New
London, Conn., submarine base
during the war. -
In a paper prepared for the an
“ual meeting of the American
A(Tdemy of ophthe,lixéquogy and
Otolaryn, ology, he said.
More gthan 30,000 submerine
o<n were trained _at the base.
Part of &le course involved use
°f the Mommsen “lung” »-—-.a:m:,e-
Vice for escaping frem sunken
“Pmarines — ‘while submerged
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Edwin May of . Augusta, a
former University student like
Simmons, pleaded guilty to dis
posing of 52 football tickets to
the Georgia-Geergia Tech game
in Atlanta last year and drew a
suspended sentence of 12 months
and fined him S3OO.
John Hudson, another former
student of Blue Ridge, entered
a plea of guilty for scalping 30
tickets and was fined SIOO when
court convened at 10:00 a. m. to
day.
Jury ©ut Hour
The jury deliberated little less
than an hour on the Simmons
verdict. 2
The three students were indict
ed last July by the grand jury.
Their trial began Tuesday and
hag drawn state-wide interest.
Each daily trial session was wit
nessed by ‘a student - packed
courtroom.
Simmons was tried for the em
bezzlement of funds, May with
the disposing of the 52 tickets
and Hudson with ticket scalping.
Key Witnesses
~ Some 15 witnesses were called
to the stand during the course
of the trial. Key witnesses for «%he
‘state were Dr. Harmon W. Cald
%well, University of Georgia pres
‘ident, J. D. Bolton, University
treasurer, and Johnny Broadnax,
’former Athletic business mana-
| ger.
| The shortages occurred while
| Broadnax was employed by the
| University. The defense called
{numerous character witnesses
lboth from Macon, Simmons home
town, and from Madison, where
the defendant has been employed
by the Madisonian Newspaper
since his dismissal from school.
The prosecution was handled
by Marshal] Pollock, Solicitor
lGeneral, and the defense by Car
lisle Cobb and Vane Hawkins,
Athens attorneys.
in a 100-foot water -tank. This
pressure change required frequent
inflation of the tubes between
ear and throat.
He said that “for some time I
was horrified” to see men with
acute infections going through
the test repeatedly. However,,
only one man out of more than
30,000 trained developed an ear
infection.
“The sheer weight of this evi
dence” he said, “gradually forced
on me “the ‘conclusion that the
older teaching — that Otitis Me
dia was caused by improper
blowing of the nose during an
infection was entirely falla
cious and shouid be discarded.”
. What does cause an infection
following a cold, he decided, is di
rect opstruction of the tube by
infection of tissue, creating a
relative vacuum in the middle
ear, which fills with serum that
in turn may become infected.
Associated Press Service
{FARMERS FEAR
'Price Drop
May Nullify
‘Meat Boom
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—(AP)
—Government forecasts of a
boost in meat supplies — and
lower prices — by late 1949 may
be over-optimistic.
Made chiefly by the Agricul
ture Department, these predic
tions have been based largely on
the fact that, at the moment, the
relationship between feed prices
and livestock prices is very fa
vorable for producting meat ani-
BTR T ee S s 45
This year’s record grain crop
has pulled down costs of feed,
while livestock prices have re
maineq relatively high.
But reports from the corn belt
where the bulk of the nation’s
meat supply comes from, indicate
that farmers are not jumping in
to expand livestock production as
much as the Department had ex
pected.
These reports say many for
mers seer that prices may drop
sharply by the time new meat
animals can be produced, fatten
ed and marketed.
This view was expressed by
Carl C. Malone, Towa State Col
lege economist, before an Agri
culture Department farm outlook
conference here this week. He
was supported by severzl econo
mists from other western corn
kelt states.
High Goal
Malone, somewhat to the sur
prise of department officials, said
he does not believe farmers will
meet the government’s goal of &
60,000,000-head 1949 spring pig
crop. Such a goal must be met
if there is to be a big jump in
pork supplies next year. It com
pares with this year's spring
crop of 51,000,000, - 2
Malone said many farmers in
lowa —the major corn-hog
state — prefer to put their corn
under government price support
loans and thereby escape any risk
that might be involved in feed
ing the grain to livestock. '
The Department itself reported
similar skepticism among corn
belt cattle feeders in a report yes
terday. It said the volume of beef
cattle to be fed in the corn belt
this winter may not be grealy
different from a year ago because
of a “cautious attitude among
farmers ang financing agencies.”
The “uncertainty of future
prices” of beef cattle was said to
be the main factor back of this
cautiousness. ;
'ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and slightly warmer
this afternoon and tonight.
Little ehange in temperature
Friday.
GEORGIA — Fair and a
little warmer today and to
night; Friday, fair and net
much change in tempera
tures.
TEMPERATURE
It i
Lioavest: .i.OO . i e LAB
WMan: o . iTI
Nobmal s ..ot d .08
' RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. . .00
Total since October 1 ... .89
Deficit since October 1 .. .57
Average October rainfall. 3.23
Total since January 1 ...48.09
Excess ginee January 1 .. T 7.80
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
~ American, British and French
delegates studied the Kremun’s
answer to the neutral states’
mediation effurts. The content
of the Soviet note still was not
made public, but Western sourceg
said it set back the Berlin dis
pute to where' it was six weeks
ago. “
Members of the 11-nation Se
curity Counci] prepared tn» meet
this afternoon on the Palestine
siluation. A reliable source said
they will be asked to crack down
harder on both Arabs and Jews
to keep the peace.
Dr. Ralph Bunche, interim
mediator since the assassination
of Count Folke Bernadotte, is
expected to speak.
Assassin Plot
Britain was expected to de
mand of Israel’s representatives
what progress has been made in
tracking down the assassins of
Count Bernadotte.
» The six “neutrals” of the coun
cil abandoned their efforts to
mediate. Argentine Foreign Min
ister Juan A. Bramuylia, acting
chairman of the council for the
Berlin discussions, called the
conucil meeting after receiving a
Russian reply to the neutrals on
'what termg would be acceptable
to Moscow.
l Red Answer Secret
The Russian answer was not
made public. Authoritative sour
ces said it rejected mediation,
insisted the Berlin issue was.out
side the authority of the Securi
ty Council, and asked that ne
gotiations revert to the Aug. 30
four-power Moscow agreement.
Under this the Russians would
raise the blockade. And the west
ern powers would withdraw
their currency from Berlin, leav
ing only Soviet zone currency
under four-power supervision.
Wesilern power spokesman did
not comment on whether this
might represent a retreat from
additional Soviet demands made
at the Berlin level oi the nego
tiations, on which the talks broke
down. The Russians in Berlin
demanded the right to contro] air
traffic to Berlin as part of the
currency control,
An informed c¢ource said the
Russian reply put the situation
back where it was when the me
diation efforts began. The neu
trals — Argentina, Canada, Bel
gium, Colombia, Syria and China
—reportedly, they had proposed
lifting of the blockade simul
taneously with the calling of a
four - power foreign - ministers
council meeting on Germany.
ATHENS, CGA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1948.
Demand For UN. To Lift
Berlin Bloc Being Framed
Mediation Hopes Vanish;
Palestine Action Studied
PARIS, Oct. 14.— (AP) —Western Power delepates
met today on the Berlin crisis and authoritative sources
said they were framing a joint demand for Security
Council action to lift the Soviet blockade. ‘
The Council takes up the Berlin issue again tomorrow.
Hope vanished for mediation outside the Council with
Russia’s reported rejection of conciliation efforts by the
gso-called neutral states.
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“DOC” BLANCHARD AND BRIDE CUT CAKE—
Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the Army’s former All-Am
erica fullback at West Point, and his bride, the for
mer Jodie King, cut their wedding cake in San Anto
nio, Texas. They were married there Tuesday at the
home of the bride’s parects. After the honeyvinooi,
they will be stationed at the Air Force’s Shaw Field
base which is near McColl, S. C., “Doc’s”” home town.
— (AP Wirephoto.) {
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Veronica Lake
Expects Baby
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14—(AP)
Veronica Lake, involved in a
money dispute with her motner,
is in Good Samariian Hospital
awaiting the birth of her third
child.
The tiny blond actress entered
the hospital yesterday, two days
after ‘her mother, Mrs. Con
stance Veronica Keane, filed suit
against the star and her husband.
producer Andre Dt Toth, for SSOO
monthly support ang $17,416 she
claims is due under a 1943 sup
port agreement,
GOP Candidate Speaks In Kansas
City Tonight; Truman in Milwaukee
By The Associated Press
Governor Thomas E. Deweyv headed his Republican
caravan today for Kansas City, onetime Democdgatic
stronghold where President Truman made his political
how 26 years ago. ;
Making his second campaign swing across Mr. Tru
man’s-home. state of Missouri, the GOP presidential can
didate switched from his sharp attacks on the President’s
handling of foreign affairs to a ‘“good government”’
theme. :
Allen Hearing
Set Tomorrow
Hearing of A. D. Allen, charg
ed with violation of probation, is
scheduled to be held tomorrow
morning before Judge Arthur S.
Oldham of the City Court.
Postponement of the hearing,
originally set for Wednesday
morning, was secured Tuesday
by City Solicitor Preston S. Al
mand in order to secure further
witnesses for the prosecution. No
objection to the posiponement
was made by the defense.
Allen was arrested last week
by City police. He was on proba
tion for possessing an ,illegal
amount of tax paid whiskey.
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COLIN KELLY’S BODY RETURNED TO FLORIDA HOME—Lyine in state in the
county courthouse at Madison, Fla., is the body of Captain Colin Kelly, first
American to be proclaimed a hero in the war with Japan. He perished in his plane
after sinking a Jap warship with aerial bombs. Funeral service with military
honors was held at Madison Wednesday. — (AP Wiréphoto.)
Mr. Truman meanwhile push
ed his vote hunt through Minne-~
sota and Wisconsin, where he is
scheduled to make a major talk
tonight in Milwaukee. The Dem
ocratic standard bearer stressed
a plea at 8+ Paul for the “right
kind of unity” to provide peace
and prosperity for this country.
Dewey mvoes ‘into Minnesota
tomorrow after a major address
tonight in Kansas City. The Ncw
York Governor hammered away
at the unity and peace theme in
vesterdays’ heavy round -of
speeches in Oklahpma.
“The time has come,”’ he told
an Oklahoma City rally, “for
national leadership which will
measure up to our devotion to
peace.”
Pledging to “mobilize the
strength of this immensely pro
ductive country” to forestall any
attack, Dewey said: 5
“The plain fact is that strength
—economic, military, mwo r a'l
strength—-is a stark grim neces
sity if we are to live and go for
ward. Free nations must be
strong or they will lose their
freedoms. Peace - loving nations
must be strong—or there can be
no peace.” .
Mr. Truman told his St. Paul
audience that today’s bi-partisan
foreign policy for which “othérs
are now claiming credit .s 9
loudly” was mnot Republican
backed in 1940 with “half the
world in flames.” ; s
“We achieved this degree of
unitv.,” he said, “only -asker
world-shaking events had made
it clear that the vast majority cf
the' people of the United States
wouid ‘no longer tolerate isola
tionism.” 4 é
Senator Taft meanwhile told a
St. Petersbuig, - Fla., rally that a
Republicen - vietory would insure
freedom of_ enterprise, sound
government and the principles of
states’ rights for Southerners. .
The Democrats, the Ohio Re
publican said, would “subject the
life of every family to direction
from a Federal bureau.” But he
said the GOP, on the other hand,
is wroking ‘“to achieve progress
and material welfare and full
emplovment, w h i 1 e main
taining the liberty of the indi
vidual and the liberty-of the
local community to live their
own lives and work out their
own problems.” - L
| Mrs. Talmadge Made
Committeewoman
By Dixiecrat Party -
Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of
Athens, who was named a presi
dential elector for the States
| Rights Party at Augusta yester
day was also appointed National
Committeewoman of the = Party
for Georgia. Herschel Lovett of
/Dublin was appointed National
' Committeeman of the Party.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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CON ESCAPES;
O
FLAGS BUS,
SITS BY GUARD
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct.
14 — (AP) — An escaped
negro convict boarded a bus
at Wetumpka, Ala., late yes
terday. And that's where he
made his mistake.
Sitting on the bus was the
prison guard from whom he
escaped a day before. Pronta,
the negro was back at Kilby
prison.
And oddly enough, says
Prison 'Director Frank Bos
well; it all ‘happened because
the guard J. D, McGee, was
sick ang had to go home
for work. He lives several
miles north of Wetumpka,
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Thurmond
Will Speak
Here Oect. 20
Bruce B. Edwards, WValdosta,
who is a law student in the Uni
versity of Gebrgia and Chairman
of the States Rights Party's or
ganization on the campus, today
announced that J. Strom Thur
mond, presidential candidate of
the Dixiecrats will speak at the
Universiy at 7:30 o’clock October
20th.
. Mr. Edwards said the Dixie
crats are opening headquarters
‘at Room- 312 Georgian Hotel.
“We urge students and towns
;people to join us in this fight."
‘Mr. Edwards said. He denied
hat the Dixiecrats are financed
by oi] money. He said money to
}open the- headquarters here was
raised by the sale of Thurmond-
Wright buttons at the Augusta
lconvention' yesterday. 3
. He said the Dixiecrats are
fighting the “damnable Civil
Rights” program. - 9
Mr. Edwards said the Demoss
thenian Literary Society at the
University invited Mr. Thurmop&
as well as the Democratic an
Republican presidential candi
dates .to speak here. i o
NUMEROUS PRIZES OFFERED
City Hallowe’en Celebration
Set For Night Of October 30
Athens Recreation Department
is .planning a city-wide Hallo
‘we'en celebration on the night of
Oct. 30. Mayor Jack Wells has giv
en the go-ahead siftnzl and a size
ablé’ chunk of downtown Athens
-as the City’s contribution to the
program. Since Hallowe'en falls
:on Sunday, October ‘3l, it was
-ncessary to move the celebration
'ahead to Saturday night Octo
ber 30. .
} This year’s celebration will in
corporate all of the features of
the 1946 celebration along with
innovations guaranteed ‘to keep
the partv moving. No celebration
wes possible last vear because of
‘a conflict with a Georgia home
football game. ek
; Window Dispiay
-~ Merchants are urged to make
‘plans ezrly to participate in the
lwindow display contest. This sea
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FIRST WAR HE.RO
Colin Kelly
Is Buried
In Fiorida
MADISON, .Fla., Oct. 14.—
(AP)—Captain Colin Kelly, hail
ed seven years ago as the first
hero of the war in the Pacific,
lies buried today amid the scenes
of his boyhood at this small
north. Florida town.
Full military honors marked
the burial yesterday of the young
flier who was killed when his
plane crashed soon after he had
bombed the Japanese battleship
Haruna. At Kelly’s command, the
crew members parachuted to
safety.
-Kelly's death won. him per
sonal praise from President
Roosevelt, and he was posthum
ously awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross and the Distin
guished Flying Cross.
Among the hundreds of mourn=~
ers at the graveside service
were Kelly's parents, his young
widow who has since remarried,
and his eight-year-old son, Colin
111. -
The flag which draped the cof
fin 'was oresented the son by
Captain William E. Frantz of the
14th Air Force. ;
“It's a small token of appre
ciation from a very grateful na
tion for the supreme sacrifice of
vour father,” Frantz said .to
voung Colin. '
Colin, nicknamed = “Corky™. by
his family, was recommended for
a West Point appointmerit ‘in
1956 by President Roosevelt.
The recommendation was made
by the President a week after
Kelly’s death, In a letter to who
ever is President of the United
Stateg in 1956, Roosevelt said:
“My request is that you con=-
sider the merits of a young Am
erican of goodly heritage-——Colin
Kelly 3rd—for appointment as a
Cadet in the United Stetes Mil
itarv Academy at West Point.”
Kelly was a West Point grad
uate, And young Corky has no
doubts about following in his
fontsteps’
“I know what I want o be,”
he said yesterday. “I want obe
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ture of the program has always
proven popular, and cash prizes
of $25.00, $15.00 and $5.00 will
be awarded to first, second and
third place winners.
Dozens of prizes are being lin
ed up for the feature of the eve
ning — a giant costume parade.
Agein prizes will be awarded to
school children, adults and fam
1y groups.
Another feature of the evening
will ‘be a parade through down
town streets, complete with floats
and bands.
The lzst celebration found sev
enty-six business houses in Ath
ens cooperating to make this pro
gram an outstanding community
event. The support of all of these
=nd manv more will be necessa
ry *o carry out the 1948 plans.
Merk this night on your calen
dar now. T