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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948,
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Surrender Of Cornwallis
October 19, 1781
October 19,1781
BY MRS. JOHN L. BARNER
Chairman, Patriotic Anniversaries,
Elijah Clarke Chapter, N. S. D. A. R.
The surrender of General
Cornwallis at Yorktown October
19, 1781, brought to an end hos
tilities between England and the
American Colenies in the -Revo
lutionary War. The war which
had begun with ~the battle of
Lexington on April 19, 1775, was
ended at Yorktown six years
later.
For three years since the Bat
{le of Monmouth, General Wash
ington had held his army guard
ing the valley of the Hudson
while General Clinton in the city
of New York was threatening lo
invade the valley. During the
spring of 1781, an attack upon
the city seemed favorable. Count
Rochambeau with six thousand
French troops was to join Wash
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ington for the attack. With thc
news that Count De Grasse with
a French fleet of twenty-eight
ships and six frigates, bearing
twenty thousand men, was about
to sail from the West Indies to
Chesapeake Bay, Washington
changed his plans and decided to
take the combined American and
French forces to Virginia to cap
ture the British army.
With a pretense of an attack
on Staten Island to deceive Clin
ton, then a quick turn to the
Delaware, Washington was in
Philadelphia before it was gen
erally known' that he was going
after Cornwallis.
DeGrasse reached the mouth
of the York river with four
thousand men to augment the
army of Lafayette. A naval en
gagement on September 5 so
damaged the British ships that
all ships had to go to'New York
for repairs, leaving DeGrasse
master of the Chesapeake. In
this way Cornwallis was pre
vented from escaping by sea. His
only other escape was through
North Carolina, but this was pre
vented by the troops of Lafay
ette.
The bombardment of the city
began on October 6. Day by day
the British works crumbled from
incessant fire of the American
and French armies, and on Octo
ber 17, a white flag was seen
waving above the parapet at
Yorktewn. On October 19, the
surrender of the sword of Corn
wallis was made. The Brikish
arms were stacked and the en
tire army and a few hundred
seamen became prisoners of war.
The treaty of peare was signed
on September 3. 1783, in Paris,
although hestilities had ceased
after the defeat of Cornwallis. By
the treaty the independence of
the United States was acknowl
edged and the boundaries vere
Florida on the south, the Mis
sissippi on the west ,and the sou
thern boundary of Canada on the
north.
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AIR - WAVES
Fletcher Markle will direct two
cf Hollywood’s top {favorites—
Burt Lancaster and Josn Ben
nett— in a full-hour adaptation
of the tense, action-packed screen
hit “Double Indemnity” on the
second “Ford Theater’ broadcast
over WGAU-CBS tonight at 9:00
p. m. :
Lancastetr plays an insurance
salesman who falls in love with
Miss Bennett, & shrewq woman
plotting the death of her husband.
In a combination of romance and
finance, they arrage to insure the
ill-fated husbad heavily — with
72 double indemnity clause care
fully included. The intervention
of a clever investigator, Myron
McCormick, gives the exciting
story a surprise climax.
Harried hubby, Mr. Ace, tries
to cure JANE of her habit, after
attending a movie, of going about
acting like the heroine, during
the “Mr. Ace and JANE” come
dy, broadcast to night at 8:30 p.
m., over WGAU-CBS.
“Every time I take Jane to a
movie,” compalins Mr. Ace, “for
the next fewdays she lives the
part of the heroine. Once I
thought I cgplg_ cure her by tak
ing her %o see Lassie Comes
Homes, and when we left the
theater I asked Jane how she
felt. She replied, “Just fine. Feel
my nose,.”
The North Carolina vs. North
Carolina State footpall game,
one of the sport’s most heated
rivalries, will be broadcast by
WGAU-CBS from Kenan Memo
rial Stadium at Chapel Hill, N.
C., tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. CBS
Sports Director Red Barber will
handle the play-by-play assign
ment. P
Another big sports event will
be broadcast at 8:00 p. m. tomor
row night, when the UNIVER
SIITY OF GEORGIA BULL
DOGS meet the L. S. U. Tigers.
The “Party Line” regularly
heard at 9:00 p. m. Saturday
will be broadcast at 7:00 p. m.,
instead. This is a program of
recorded pop tunes, tunes| that
have been supplying Athens lis
teners with good music, over
WGAU. i
Nila Mack’s original radio |
adaption of the fairy tale favor
ite, “Bluebird,” is WGAU-CBS’
“Let's Pretend” offering Satur
day morning at 11:05 a. m. The |
entire production is under the |
direction of Nila Mack, who, for |
many years, has been produc~ !
ing fine entertainment for chil- '
dren, I
Teen time is the best time of
of your life, according to WGAU
CGS “Junior Miss,” who runs
into typical adolescent complica
tions tomorrow at 11:30 a. m.
SQUEAKS
From
The
ROTARY WHEEL
by SAM WOODS
Governor of the Rotary District,
Sidney Smith, of Gainesville, held
an assembly meeting with offi
cers of the local club and com
mittee chairmen at the Georgian
Hotel Tuesday night.
The meeting had a 100 percent
attendance of officers and sixteen
chairmen to make their reports on
the affairs and objectives for the
1948-49 administration.
Albert Wier, jr.,, reported on
Club Service; C. D. Chandler on
Aims and Objectives; Bob Brad
berry on Extension; John E.
Drewry on Programs; Sam W,
Wood on the musical set-up; W.
R. Bedgood, sr., on Budget and
Finance; Horace Bell on lunch
eons; Abit Nix on International
Relationship; Moon Corker on
Community; Howard Benson, Re
creations: Dr. Lauren Goldsmith
on the Crippled Children Clinic;
H. E. Mann on Traffic and Safety;
Phil Campbell on Rural-Urban
relations; Sam Woods, Publicity;
Sam Nickerson,” Student Loans;
Lee Bradberry, Attendance; Wea
ver Bridges, Youth Service; Ralph
Snow on Vocations and Hamp
Rowland on International Trade
Relations.
“Port of Savannah”
Albert Wier proposed to the
Governor that all the clubs in
Georgia should sponsor a program
on the “Port of Savannah” in
order to stimulate interest in
making that city one of the lead
ers along with other southern
ports.
At the Wednesday iuncheon
meeting, Governor Smith was
presented by Abit Nix and shared
the speaking program with Ralph
MecGill, editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution. The District Governor
told of the work of various civic
club efforts in the state to give
the ballot a clean spot in politics,
a program which will be contin
ued this season.
He told the unhappy member of
Rotary who does not believe in
the organization’s principles to re
sign, in order that a man believ
ing in these principles can take
his place.
Dean John E. Drewry presented
Editor McGill, who told of a re
cent telephone conversation with
General Lucius Clay. He said
General Clay said in Beriin’s af
fairs there have been few changes,
except for increased tension re
garding the air lift situation and
that he thinks the prospects of
war are remote.
-Clay In History
Mr. Me¢Gill ‘thinks that when
the history of these days is writ
ten, the name of General Clay, of
Marietta, Ga., will be recorded for
his splendid work under trying
circumstances.
Mr. McGill is a strong believer
in the two-party system for Geor
gia and hopes that our people will
either vote a Republican or a
Democratic ticket in preference to
a third party ballot in the Novem
ber presidential elections.
H. E. Holsapple and Mart Har
ris called attention to “Oil Pro
gress Day,” which was observed
Qctober 14.
Ed Hammond presented the vis
itors as follows: Dr., Harmon
Caldwell and Sid Smith, jr., with
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The Poor Man’s Philosopher
THE AMERICAN LEGION SETS A NEW GOAL
NEW YORK — (AP) — The
American Legion, which opens its
30th National Convention in Mia
mi Sunday, has set the most am
bitious goal of its history for 1949
—5,000,000 members.
The campaign is being under
taken in the face of a post-war
slump in membership which has
affected all organizations of war
veterans.
The Legion now has a record
number of posts— more than
17,000—but its membership as of
Oct. 8 was 3,065,6614, as compared
with 3,249,303 a year ago.
Legion officials believe the de
cline is only temporary, parallel
ing a similar drop that overtook
the organization after the first
World War. Its membership of:
845,186 in 1920 fell to 609,407 by
1925 but hit a between-the-wars
peak of 1,053,909 in 1931, a per
iod of national depression.
Woman’s Role
With interest in National De
fense rising and millions of vet
erans of the Second World War
as potential members, the Legion
sees a period of rapid growth and
increasing influence ahead.
Significantly, women are play
ing a larger role in its activities.
The 30,000,000 th member enroll
ed in 1948 was a former Wave—
Mrs. R. J. Deland, 24, of Seattle.
Her husband, also a veteran, be
(c)ame Legionnaire number 3,000,-
01.
Today there are more than
250,000 formery - Waves, Wacs,
Spars and Nurses in the Legion.
There are some 203 all-women
posts—but most of the girls pre
fer to join up with “co~-ed” posts.
The Legion, the largest but
neither the first nor the last as
sociation of war veterans in
American military history, was
conceived three decades ago by
two wounded soldiers—an officer
and an enlisted man.
‘ Roosevelt-Patterson
They were the late Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., then a Lieut.-Col
onel in the First Infantry Divis
ion, and Sgt. Willlam Patterson.
They agreed that as soon as the
war was over they would return
home and work together to start
a veteran’s association ‘“for the
good of the country.”
Patterson returned to his outfit
and was killed in action. But
“Young Teddy,” who was to die
a Brigadier General in France in
the Second World V‘!ar, carried
out the project.
An early hurdle overcome by
the Legion was the fear by many
enlisted men that it would be
come “an officers’ club” and an
instrument for those seeking poli
tical office. It specifically pro
claimed it would be non-political
Alton Hosch; Dr. J. A. Green with
iHowell Erwin, jr.; W. A. Craw
ford and Harry Matthews, Nor
folk, Va., with O. B. Mcßae; Tom
my Gerdine with W. A. Sams, ir.;
Luther Glass with Al Wilson; Col.
J. V. Thompson, soon to be en
route to Bolivia, with Col. H. E.
Mann; James Boyle with Brant
Dozier; J. E. Gilreath with Mart
Harris; Dr. J. H. Parks, Atlanta,
with Dean George Boyd, and John
Renka with Weaver Bridges. A
Roamin’ Rotarian and wife were
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Dillon of Cali
fornia. &
Mr. Hammond also introduced
L. M. Shadgett, a distinguished
guest, who has just been elected
president of Georgia Kiwanians.
in its act of incorporation.
Chary of bestowing titles, it
has had only two honorary na
tional commanders—General John
J. Pershing and Marshal Foch of
France. The Alabama Staté Le
gion convention recently adopted
a resolution recommending that
the organization’s highest honor,
its distinguished service medal, be
awarded the late Dr. George
Washington Carver, negro scien
tist.
The Legion from its start has
been active in the rehabilitation
of veterans, child welfare and
community improvement projects.
Under its program “to foster and
perpetuate a one hundred per cent
Americanism” it also has plumped
for a well-armed nation and Uni
versal Military Training in peace
time. It supports the Mundt-Nix
on Bill in its fight against com
munism.
Legionnaires are proud that be
tween 1925 and 1944 they helped
raise and spend $53,000,000 for the
care of some 6,749,000 children;
that more than 250,000 high school
students competed in its 1948 na
tional oratorical contest; that a
million kids each year participate
in the American Junior League
baseball program; that 24 gradu
ates of this prograin played in the
All-Star game between the Amer
ican League and the National
League.
The Legion, now thirty years
old, feels its roots go deep into the
American way, It feels it is going
to be around for a long time.
It says:
“The American Legion looks
forward to another generation, at
least, of continuous useful con
tribution to American life and
American public opinion, and it is
shaping its plans in accordance.”
BRITISH BASKETMAKING
LOOKS UP
LONDON — (AP) —British
basket weavers, whose trade on
the banks of teh Thames goes
back before the birth of Christ,
are regaining prosperity after a
between-the-wars slump.
After World War 1, the 9,000
acres of willow beds dwindled
to 2,000 acres. Floods of cheap
imported baskets drove many
paskets out of business.
Aerial warfare during World
War II brought them back in
business. Thousands of willow
baskets were used for “air
drops” of supplies.
Now to conserve funds, Brit
ain is using its own baskets in-
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GAFFNEY, S. C.,—Oct. 14—Re
ligious Emphasis Week is in pro
%ress at Limestone College, led by
r. J. C. Wilkinson, First Baptist
Church, Athens, Ga. |
Religious Emphasis is an an
nual observance at Limestone
College, and is a movement which
is supported by both faculty and
students. Dr. Wilkinson is sche
duled to make seven addresses
during the week.
For 27 years Dr. Wilkinson has
served as Pastor of the Athens
church, and mucii emphasis in his
ministry has® been placed wupon
the needs of students, since Ath
ens is a University center.
During past years Dr. Wilkin
son has been a frequent visitor on
the campus of Limestone College,
having both preached the Com
mencement Sermon and delivered
the Baccalaureate Address at var
ious times,
stead of importing them. The
present labor force of aout 7,b000
is expected to rise to 25,000 be
cause of government training
programs for the blind and par
tially disabled persons.
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