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Vol. CXVI, No. 253.
50 Million Expected To Voiz. Tomorrow
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Polls open here Tuesday morn
ing at 7 o’clock and remain open
until 6 p. m. for voting in the Gen
eral ‘Election, in which are to be
selected Presidential Electors,
gtate officers and county officials.
Also to be voted on are a num
ber of amendments so the State |
Constitution. The lefthand side of
the ballot lists the State Democrat
ic nominees, but in order to vote
for President and Vice President
it is necessary to turn the ball_ot‘
sidewise and find the list of elec
tors desired and then place an x
in the bracket by that ust. J
Citizens will vote in their home
militia district and all voting by
Athenians will -be done at the
courthouse, where three boxes will |
receive the ballots. i
Tennessee Guard
Troops Recalled
LOUDON, Tenn., Nov. 1—
(AP) — National Guardsmen
withdrew from this middle east
Tennessee town * yesterday atter
their commander reported that
“the situation is under control.”
American Citizens Instructed To Leave
North China As Reds Continue To Gain
Stroud Rites
Held Tuesday
In Virginia
Mrs. Margaret Burks Stroud,
mother of Mrs. John W. Nutty
combe, died at the home of her
daughter at- 611 Milledge Circle,
Sunday at 6 p.. m. Mrs. Nutty
combe was 74 years old and had
been ill for several weeks.
Services are to be held Tuesday
morning at 10:30 o’clock in Lynch
burg, Va., Mrs. Stroud’s former
home, with Dr. Carlton Barnwell
pastor of St. Paul Episcopal
Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Spring Hill
cemetery in Lynchburg, Ben
Thornhill, jr., James R. Gilliane,
jr., Ernest Taylor, T. H. Fox, jr,
Ned Scott and Jack Caskie serving
as pall-bearers. Bridges Funeral
Home was in charge of local ar
rangements.
In addition to her daughter,
Mrs. Stroud is survived by a son,
Charles A. ' Burks, of Daytona
Beach, Fla. i
Mrs. Stroud was a native of
Bedford, Va.,, and had been a
resident of Athens for the past
ten years, making her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Nuttycombe.
Before coming to Athens she re
sided in Lynchburg, Va.
A member of the Episcopal
church, Mrs. Stroud had® made
many devoted friends since com
ing to Athens to live and news of
her death was a source of sad
ness to the many who knew and
greatly admired her for her nur
erous outstanding qualities.
Athens friends wishing to send
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POPPY SALES BEGIN TWO DAYS EARLY
Athens Combines Moina Michael
Day With Big Armistice Parade
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By H. T. MEADERS
Athens will get a double treat
on Nov. 9 when the observance
of Monia Michael Day will be
combined with the Armistic Day
American Legion parade. !
The sale of memorial poppies,
usually held on Nov. 11, will also
begir this year on Nov. 9, in mem
ory of Monia Michael, foqnder of
the memorial poppy honoring Am
erica’s war dead.,
Athens merchants will be re
quested to close for the hours of
10 to 12 noon so that everyone
may attend the parade and exer
cise, the latter to be held in the
Fine Arts Auditorium, according
o W. L. Prickett, commander of
the Allen R, Fleming jr. American
Legion Post No, 20. ;
In a meeting to thrash out final
d:tails, representatives from fi:
three American Legion posts,
'wo Legion auxiliaries, and the
VPW joined with D, Weaver Brid
gei°>. Ighairman of the Moina Mil:h;
ael Day pr amc% “m’
Recommendigon fl::%g‘m t;'fim:ln
rmistic Day, pa; reld
Nov. 9 to coincx%fwl 1 the insur
ance of the Moina W’
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Federal Funds For Georgia
Highway Department Cut Off
ATLANTA, Nov. I.—(AP)—The Federal Gov
ernment today eut off roads funds to Georgia in
an order which will apply equally t{o the new
State administration,
Highway Director John C. Beasley said the
order applied to Federal aid projects now re
strained from execution by court.order.
In addition, he said, the order applies to the
same contracts involving Federal funds unless
approved by the new administration of Governor
nominee Herman Talmadge.
Attorney-General Eugene Cook said the govern
ment’s action was *“the most far-reaching” in the
highway controversy,
The Federal Government, he said, is telling
Georgia, “We are through until you tell us these
road contracts can go through.”
The government’s order resulted from the per
manent injunctions against fulfillment of $17,000,-
000 in road contracts issued Saturddy in Cuthbert,
Ga.
The order, issued by Superior Judge Charles
Eoymegr Star Of -
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Ziegfeld Follies .
Dies In Obscurity
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1—
(AP)—Mary Nolan, whose
blonde beauty and daneing
feet took her to the pinnacle
of show business fame as
Imogene (Bubbles Wilson, is
dead, in obscurity.
The onetime toast of New
York and the Zigfield Fol
lies, later a movie star, finally
known at the “hard luck girl,”
succumbed yesterday, found
dead in a three-room bunga
low apartment. She was 42.
A physician said he had
been treating her for a chronic
gall bladder ailment and her
sister, Mrs. Mabel Bondeau,
said that’s what caused her
death. :
Soveits Kill
U.S. Official
VIENNA, Nov. 1. — (AP) —
Four Russian soldiers were
blamed today for bludgeoning an
American official to death and
savagely beating his Austrian
girl companion.
Irving Ross, 38, an official
here of the Economic Coopera
tion Adminisiration (ECA), was
found dead ecarly yesterday in
his abandoned automobile in the
Soviet sector of Vienna.
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the memorial poppy tradition, will go on sale here
Neovember 9.
Associated Press Service
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Chinese Tighten Defenses As
Reds Race Through Manchuria
NANKING, Nov. I.— (AP) —President Chiang Kai-
Shek, his Manchurian armies crumbling and Mukden
lost, told the Kuomintang Central Political Committee
today that China “must accept the lessons of defeat by
Communists and fight on.” :
There was no hint of surrender
from the weary Chinese leader,
whose government has been
shaken to its foundation by t‘r.\e‘
wholesale defeat of his troops In
the last three weeks.
In his first official appearance
since his return from two weeks
in the north where the cream of
his armies was destroyed or went
over to the Reds, Chiang declar
ed:
“We have had reverses in the
northeast (Manchuria) but the
Communists are not yet in a posi
tion to menace North China di
rectly.” .
American authorities mean
while instructed U. S. citizens to
prepare to leave North China,’
The U. S. Navy may be asked
to send a ship to Taku Bar, 30
miles off Tientsin, to pick up
those of the estimated 900 Am
ericans in Peiping and Tientsin
who were unable to arrange
commercial transportation from
those points. |
Authoritaiive sources here said
the Communists had occupied
Mukden cmopletely at 3 p. m. (2
a. m.,, EST) and that tlie last
government officials fled from
there three days ago. The gov
ernment has had no radio con
tact with Mukden since 6 p. m.
Sunday (5 a. m., EST) but the
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Worrill, later was amended to exémpt nine Fed
eral aid projects, ‘
A telegram to Beasley, signed by Public Roads
Commissioner Thomas H. McDonald, read in part,'
“To protect Federal interest involved we will ex- !
pect ihe State to complete Federal aid projects for
which contracts have peen awarded by the State
with concurrence in the award by the Publicl
Reoads Administration under proper and adequate
State engineering supervision. |
“Until we have assurance that thcse firm con
tracts will be completed in accordance with the
terms of the contracts we will withhold approval
of any Federal aid projects or any new contracts.”
Judge Worrill’'s order held that the 164 read
contracts let by the Highway Department since
August 3 were illegal and restrained the State
from further work until the new administration of |
Herman Talmadge takes office, e 6%
Since the judge’s order prevents complefinn of
these contracts, the application of the Federal
order apparently will be in cifect. |
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American consulate radio there is
'still functioning and in commtg-‘
_nication with American authori
ties here and in Shanghai.
l Navy Guards Port
" The Chinese navy, backed by
the six inch guns of -its former
British cruiser, Chungking, lis
guarding the ports of Yingkiw
and Hulutao as possible escape
avenues for whatever National
troops managed to get' out of
| Mukden.
‘ Chiang praised both the brav
ery and skill of his North China
commander, General Fu Tso-Yi
at Peiping. He said Fu “has made
' ample preparations and been suf
| ficiently reinforced” to handle
Red threats to that area.
The president insisted the
i “overall war situation does not
' give cause for worry.”
His speech obviousiy was de
signed to encourage Kuomintang
lleaders who were stunned by the
news of the wholesale defeats.
Supplies Cut
Neutral observers recalled that
Fu was in a precarious position
in North China since the Com
munists had cut the corridor to
Suiyuan and interrupted the nor
mal supply route through wnicn
, came the bulk of the food for his!
. troops. '
Gunman Kills Tech Student;
Attempts To Assualt Girl
CARROLTON, Ga., Nov. 1 —
(AP) — A 22-year-old Georgia
Tech student was shot to death
last night by a masked gunman
who tried to rape the young man’s
companion.
Cari Stevens, jr., of Carroliton
was slain when he attempted to
protect the girl, whose name was
withheld by officers. She escaped
as the assailant shot and then
bludgeoned -the student.
The girl, 18, told Sheriff B. B.
Kilgore she believed the slayer
was a negro.
The young woman gave the fol
lowing account of the attack:
She and Stevens were parked
in his car near the home of Judge
Samuel J. Boykin, in the Sunset
Hills residential section. A masked
man holding a gun forced them to
lwalk across a field 400 yards from
where they were parked.
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1948.
12 Feared Lost
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As Ship Grounds
PENZANCE, England, Nov. 1.
—(AP)—Coast Guardsmen said
at least 12 seamen were believed
to have drowned early today
when a small French tanker ran
aground on the rocky Cornish
coast during a storm.
COULDN'T BREATHE_
Scientists
Probing 20
Smog Deaths
DONORA, Pa., Nov. I—(AP)—
Chemists studied their test tubes
today looking for the cause of the
mysterious malady which took the
lives of 20 elderly people in 36
hours.
The malady struck this Monon
gahela River industrial town of
13,500 late last Friday as a smoth
ering mixture of fog and sinoke
lay low over the valley for the
third straight day. 5
Old time residents couldn’t re
call ever seeing such a dense smog,
as the combination of fog and
smoke is iown, but it caused no
ill effects until early Saturday
morning. e,
Then the town’s eight doctors
were besieged by calls from asth
ma and cardiac sufferers. Before
midnight 14 men and four women
had died.
: Hospitals Jammed
Nearby hospitals were jammed
with people finding it hard to
breathe. An emergency aid sta
tion was set up and hurried calls
went out for oxygen equipment.
A doctor estimated the town’s
medical men treated between 400
and 500 cases.
The fog litte;i yvesterday ar}gv I;he
number of suf rs eased off but
the're‘x.,v’vgge tw%‘e"more deaths —
both men. At least 32 people re
mained in the Charleroi-Mones~
son and Monongahela memorial
hospitals, two of them ecritical.
Air Analyzed ;
The State Department of Health
sent in a team of chemists headed
by Dr. Joseph Shilen of the Indus
trial Hygiene Bureau. The Amer
ican Steel and Wire Company,
largest industry in the town and
a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel
Corporation, called on the Inde
pendent Hygiene Corporation of
Pittsburgh to join with state au
thorities in analizing the air over
Donora’
Numerous tests were made yes
terday and others were planned
for today. Dr. Shilen said he hop
ed to have a report on the first
tests this afternoon.
“But it is my guess,” he added,
“that we will not find anything
worthwhile. The greater part of
the so% had passed by the time we
got into operation.” .
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fariiy cioudy and warm
tonight and Tuesday with
slight chance of light show
ers on Tuesday.
GEORGIA — Considerxble
cloudiness and mnot much
change in temperatures to
day, tonight and Tuesday;
occasioral light showers in
central portion today and in
extreme north portion Tues
day.
TEMPERATURE
Highest viov <ivv ood 8
weet . B
RBBR v 0 wsvika e
Nosmal o T
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .12
Total since Novemher 1., .12
Excess since November 1. .07
Average Nov. rainfall ... 2.61
Total since January 1 ...48.57
Excess since January 1 .. 6.46
When they reached a clump of
bushes the man attempted to at
tack her. When Stevens tried to
defend her, the man shot him
twice, then beat him on the head
with the gun.
Officers arrested an unidenti
fied young white man today who
was wearing a torn shirt and
who bore scratches on the upper
part of his body. |
A Carrollton barber told Sher
(ff Kilgore he gave a lift to the
white man on a near-by road ear
ly today. The barber said the man
was. wearing a torn shirt and ask
ed to be let out near a country
s;.‘q;:, saying he wanted to buy a
shirt,
Deputy Sheriff H. R. Lambert
said the Stevens’ slaying wrs the
fourth case in recent raonths
where couples were accosted on
lonely roads and attempts imade
ih rape young women. L
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I And Dewey End Campaigns
Tonight With Radio Vote Appeals
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Harry S. Truman and Thomas Edmund Dewey came to the fork in the presidential
trail today. Tomorrow the people will beckon one of them no.
The Democrat who holds the White House lease and the Republcian who holds
high hope of breaking it planned only the customary get out and vote appeals for to
night's windup to a long and exhausting campaign.’ %
Depending on how those pleas
are heeded—and the weather—
upwards of 50,000,000 citizens swill
visit the polls. They will decide,
among.other things, which party
will control the next Congress—
and especially the Senate.
But for all the oratory, energy
and dollars expended in trying to
sway the world’'s greatest court of
public opinion, only time can tell
whether the winner and his party
will relish victory through each
of the next four years.
The cold war in Europe and the
hot war in China underscore the
unfinished task of the peacemak
ers. At home high prices leave
unanswered whether the current |
boom will turn into a bust. l
For Dewey it is a second try—
and the first time the Republican
party has left its banner in the
hands of a defeated candidate.
The New York governor lost a
3,696,000 popular vote decision to
“the champ” in 1944. But Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt’s fourth
term victory in the electoral col
lege was a whopping 432 to 99.
For Truman it is an uphill race
to win in his own right the mantle
that fell upon him—as he put it—
with “the whole weight of the
moon and stars and all the
planets’ when Roosevelt died
April 12, 1945. From the heights
of popularity in the months that
followed, Truman had to put
down rebellion in his own party
last summer. He was not com
pletely successful.
Truman Confident
- But the President stoutly dis-
Butes the poll takers who show
wey far in the lead. Even
without the votes he will lose in
the South to States’ Rights Demo
crat J, Strom Thurmond and else
where to Progressive Party Can
didate Henry Wallace, Truman in
sisted in his campaign wind-upj
that he is going to win.
“The North, the South, the East‘
and the West are falling in line,”
he declared at St. Louis Saturday
night. :
For his part, Dewey too was
confident. He spoke of “the eve of
victory” as he closed out his cam
paign in New York'’s Madison
Square Garden—the city where
he rose to fame as a racket bust
ing district attorney.
Dewey then went to his Pawl
ing, N. Y., farm to rest until he
returns to New York late to vote
and await the outcome.
Truman went on home to In
dependence, Mo. He will cast his
ballot and follow the returns
there, but only until an early bed
time.
While the presidency is the big
issue tomorrow, the Senate battle
commands nearly as much atten
tion.
Senate Margin
The Republicans, who smashed
14 years of Democratic rule of
Congress in the 1946 off-year elec
tions, now hold the upper hand in
the Senate by only a 51 to 45 vote
margin. %
Thirty-two seats are at stake.
And in 11 pivotal states the races
are close that politicians de not
rule out the possibility of an un
precedented 48 to 48 tie.
Such a result would leave the
deciding vote on party line issues
up to the vice president—Cali~
fornia’'s Gov. Earl Warren if
Dewey wins, or Kentucky’s Sena
tor Alben W. Barkley if Truman
retains the White House.
In addition, 432 house seats, 32
governorships. hundreds of state
and local offices and scores of
referenda issues will be settled.
Republican Maine elected a
senator, governor and three house
members in September.
(Continued on Page Four.)
Senate, House, Governor Races
Vie For Interest In Elections
WASHINGTON, Nov. I—(AP)
—Competing with the presidency
for interest in tomorrow’s nation
wide balloting are elections for
432 House and Senate seats as
well as 32 governorships.
If either ?arty comes out on top
all around it will have established
a strong beachhead for the politi
cal wars of ‘1950 and 1952.
The prize plum aside from the
presidency itself is control of 81st
Congress which convenes next
Jannuary 3. This is the Congress
that will start writing the record
on which Senatorial and congress
ional candidates will run again in
1950. That record inevitably will
be a major issue in the president
ial campaign of 1852. ‘
And the political complexion of
statehouse throughout the land
lyrgely will determine which can
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Governorship Tie
The Republicans are bouyontly
confident of retaining control of
the House and hardly less so of
breaking in their favor the pres&nt
24-24 governorship tie. The De
mocrats dispute both these claims,
but their loudest predictions have
to do with the Senate. . = =
The party that controls the Sen
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that steer legislation into the
chamber. That party, too, controls
much of the prize patronage of the
White House, for all the major ap
pointments must be confirmed by
the Senate.
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filled this year. But that number
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Senate Control
Republicans now control the
Senate by a 51-45 margin, which
means the Demoerats need a net
gain of four seats for control.
Of the 63 seats not .at stake,
Republicans have 33 and Demo
crats 30. Of the 33 being filled this
year, 18 now are Republican and
15 Democratie. But 11 of the De
mocratic seats on the block adre in
the normally Democratic South.
In Missi%wx and Georgia, and
in one of tw Lgyxsiana contests
Democratic nominees are unop
posed, while in Arkansas the De
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