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SOLDIER PARLAYS CIGARETTES INTO SMALL FORTUNE—M.-Sergeant Wiley
(. Walters (left) were held by police for qucstioning at Colorado Springs, Colo.,
after a small fortune in jewels and antigues was found in their home. Police Chief
1. B. Bruce said Sergeant Walters told him he traded 1,500 cartons of American
cigarettes for the articles during his twe-year tour of duty in Austria. No charges
were made against the Walters, but Bruee said he and the Air Force are tryving to
find out if the goods were brought into this country legally. At right are some of
the antiques. The collection is valued at $20,000.— (AP Wirephotos.)
Democrats Turn Cold Shoulder
On Proposal To Purge Righters
Leaders Opine Mrs. Roosevelt’s
Plan Would Stymie Solidification
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—(AP)—Democratic leaders
turned a cold shoulder today on the proposal of Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt thal States’ Rights supporters be
purged from the party.
Mrs. Mattie
Jones Dies In
Hospital -Here
Mrs. Mattie Manes Jones, one
of Clarke county’s most beloved
women, died in a local ‘hospital
Monday at noon. Mrs. Jones was
74 years old and suffered a stroke
Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock,
failing to rally. .
Services are to be conducted
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock
from Bridges Fumeral Home
chapel with Dr, J. W. O. Mec-
Kibben, pastor of First Metho
dist Church, and Rev. Claude
Singleton, director of the Wes
ley Foundation, officiating. .
Burial will be in the cemetery
at Woodbury, Ga., with Dr. J. 5.
Patrick, Carl Fowler, Guy Bow
den, Howard McCants, Grover
Ginn, Frank Fowler, Bob Thom
as, H K. Rumsey and Lloyd
Whitehead serving as pallbear
ers.
Mrs. Jones is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Edgar Fowler,
Athens, and Mrs, John Goodman,
Clemson, S. C.; soms, Ralph K.
Jones, Grand Island, Fla., and El
lis M. Fowler, Bethesda, Md.,
A native of Crawfordville, Fla.,
Mrs. Jones had been a resident of
this ~ommunity -for fifteen years,
residing on the Tallassee Road.
ay years ago. she moved to
Georgia from Florida with her
rather and mother, her father be
coming widely known“n the field
of medicine for his great contri
butions in that realm. Her parents
were Dr. Ellis Manes and Annie
Bedell Manes. ;
Mrs. Jones resided in Washing
ton, D. C., Barnesville and Wood
bury, Ga., before moving to Ath
ens. She was the widow of Wil
liam Seay Jones, her husband pre
ceding her in death July 31, 1933.
Since coming to Athens she had
made many friends who were
deeply saddened by news of her
passing. Mrs. Jones was apparent
ly in her usual good health when
she suffered the stroke from which
she failed to rally.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY |
Cold with rain, cooler to
night and Wednesday. Clear
ing and colder Wednesday
night and Thursday.
GEORGIA — Continued
mostly cloudy with little
change in temperatures this
afternoon, tonight and Wed
nesday. Occasional rain to
night and Wednesday, fol_
“owed by colder Wednesday
night,
TEMPERATURE
Highesg, .. i@y .90
Lowest: (i 4. 7avds ', 4B
Megy (.o ioos it 8T
Normal . ..o, 88
; .i\y-: 1t
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Totial shice Nov. 1 .. ... 2.33
Excess since Nov. 1 .- .."1.53
Average Nov. rainfall ... Z.6i
Total since January 1 ...50.77
Excess since January 1 .. 5.94
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
National Chairman J. Howard
,McGrath told a reporter it will be
up to the Democratic members of
the House and Senate to decide
who gets the prized chairmanships
in the new Congress. . .
He indicated: the nation com=
mittee ‘doesn’t Wd’lifi%o"% - a i
any such possible fight. McGrath
is a Senator from-Rhode Island.
|* He hinted further that any re
i prisal program such as Mrs. Roos
‘evelt suggested wouldn’t fit in
'with current efforts to solidify
| Democrats behind the legislative
proposals President Truman will
lsend to Congress in January.
' In a radio broadcast from Paris
yesterday, Mrs. Roosevelt said she
!would like to see “the permanent
1 ousting of thre Southern Dixiecrats
| from the Democratic Party.”
| Deny Chairmanship
! The widow -of the late President
'suggested that some Southerners
! who opposed Mr. Truman’s Civil
Rights program would be denied
{ Congressional chairmanships if
. they aren’t recognized as Demo
crats.
| She named specifically Rep.
l John Rankin (Miss.), terming him
“one of the worst reactionaries,”
| and Senator Olin Johnston (S. C.).
' She said Johnston ‘“snubbed
President Truman, campaigned
!against him and then was one of
! the first on the train at Washing
| ton to congratulate the vietorious
i Presicent after his electjpn.’i :
| Johnston refused to attend the
! Jackson Day dinner here last win-
I ter because of his opposition to the
' President’s Civil Rights proposals
but later announced he was voting
for Mr. Truman. He declined
comment.
Off Base
But Democratic Committee offi
! ficials said Mrs. Roosevelt was off
(base on Johnston’s campaign rec
iord. William J.-Primm, assistant
to McGrath, said: “Senator Johns
ton was very helpful throughout
the campaign. He has worked with
the committee in every way we
. asked.”
| (Continued on Page Seven)
TWO TOP MEMBERS IN ‘LAME DUCK’ RANKS
Eclipse Ahead For Un - American
Cormmittee As Thomas Whaits Trial
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9— (AP)
—The House un-American Activi
ties Committee seems likely to be
in eclipse for the rest of this year.
With Chairman J. Parnell
Thomas (R.-N.J.) under indict
ment and two other Republican
members in “lame duck” company,
a committee official said today he
sees little activity ahead until the
committee is reorganized under
Democratic control January 3.
This means that resumption of
the Reds-in-Hollywood investjga
tion and the atomic spy hunt —
both tentatively set for this month
and next—will be delayed.
So will the committee’s long
promised public hearing in the Dr.
Edward U. Condoen case.
Other projected inquiries ex
pected to be junked for the present
include those dealing with reports
of Communist infiltration into Ne
gro groups and illegal crossings of
the Canadian border.
The Hollywood hearing, dealing
with reported attempts of Com
munists to gain a foothold in the
film colony, were siaried in 1547
and recessed indefinitely.
~ The spy probe ran thiough sev
Associated Press Service
A Broad Grin
New Cabinet
Rumors Fly;
Truman Rests
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 9—(AP)
—Everybody speculated today on
what may happen to top-ranking
otféq‘i’als of tl;p Truman adminis
ti 01, g é«n‘ ‘_a-§" o 2
o u(n “President Truman said
nothing, He just relaxed and en
joyed himself in this vacation
wot, R 3 :
There was heavy guessing on
cabinet changes. The man who
will make them just changed from
red to blue swimming trunks for
another sunburn, another swim at
the enlisted men’s beach at this
naval submarine-base where he is
making another visit to recuper
ate from 31,500 miles of cam
paigning.
Why he needs the rest is'a mys
tery to most newspapermen who
(Continued on Page Seven)
600 Miles From Key West
UNSEASONAL STORM
BREWS IN ATLANTIC
MIAMI, Fla.,, Nov. 9—(AP)—A
tropical storm with winds ap-|.
proaching 60 miles an hour devol-|
oped overnight in the Atlantic]|:
wwout 400 miles Northeast of Nas- |
sau. ]
The apparent center of the un-|
sual November disturbance is|
some 600 miles away from Presi
dent Truman’s vacation spot at|
Key West. ;
The federal storm warning ser
vice nere reported a Navy hurri-|.
can hunter aircraft was on its!|
way to the area, and an Army|
weather plane was to follow this |
afternoon. :
Grady Norton, chief storm fore-|
caster here, said that watch had|
been kept on a low pressure area
which worked its way slowly}
across the Atlantic “and began to!l
reach storm proportions during the
night.” |
eral months of this year and re
sulted in several contempt cita
tions against witnesses - who re
fused to say whether or not they
were Communists, It was to have
been resumed before the “election
but this plan was abandoned.
The Condon case broke into the
headlines early this year when a
subcommittee called Condon, head
of the National Bureau of Stan
dards, “one of the weakest links
in our atomic security.” Condon,
insisting upon his loyalty, de
manded a hearing which the com
mittee has not yet granted.
Any prospect that the commit
tee might continue its activities up
to the convening of the new Con
gress all but vanished yesterday.
That was when a federal Grand
Jury here indicted Chairman
Thomas on charges of conspiring
to defraud the government
through alleged salary ‘“kick
backs.”
; May Resign
Thomas reelected to his seventh
term in iast weal's alection
branded as “poppycock” reports
ihat he planned {o =resizn gs%
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Brigadier General Willard W.
Irvine, Warrenton, president of
the Army Discharge Review
Board, office of the Sceretary of
the Army, with station in Wash
ington, D. C., as main speaker at
the exercises held in Fine Arts
Auditorium this morning said,
“Miss Moina Mitcheal was a great
American woman, able educator,
and valiant crusader who has con
tributed to veterans of this coun=-
try and other countries.”
He added, “Her name will al
ways be gratefully remembered
by the people of this nation.” .
At the closing of the exercises
Ralph A. Davis of the U. S. Postal
Department third assistants office,
division of stamps, presented
stamp albums autographed by
Postmaster General Jesse M. Don
oldson to Congressman Paul
Brown, who sponsored legislation
for this recognition of Miss Moina;
Miss May Michael, for the four
sisters of Miss Moina; W. L. Prick+
ett, commencer oi the American
Lagion Allen R. Fleming, Jr., Post
No. 20 which helped initiate leg
islature for the. issurance of the
stamp; and Mrs. A. D. Gann, pres
ident of the Allen Fleming Auxil
iary which was also an intiating
force.
An advisory issued at 10:30 a.
m. (EST) said the storm may be
increasing in intensity. Its appar
-lent movement—subject to verifi
'cation when hurricane hunters
reach it — is toward the west
northwest at about 16 to 18 miles
an hour.
Tropical storms in November
are a rarity in the Western Hemis
\lphere.
. One formed near RBRermuda in
November, 1935, and moved south
[ward. It assumed tropical charac
teristics and reached hurricane
force. That storm swept the Baha
‘mas then passed directly over Mi
‘lami, causing $5,500,000 property
loss.
Another November storm struck
Jamaica, B. W. I, an island in
‘the Caribbean south of Cuba, in
1912, It killed 100 persons and
created heavy property damage.
Congress, but committee attaches
said they look for Thomas to call
no further committee sessions
while his trial is pending.
U. S. District Attorney George
Morris Fay said the trial, under
normal procedure, will not begin
before January.
Whatever -the outcome, the Re
publican membership of the com
mittee will undergo changes in
January. Besides Thomas, only
Rep. Richard M. Nixon (Calif.)
was reelected to the House. Rep.
Karl E. Mundt (S. D.) won elec
tion to the Senate, but two of the
committee’s most active GOP
members were turned back at the
ballot boxes. They are Reps. John
McDowell (Pa.) and Richard B.
Vail (IlL.). |
None of the four Democrats on
the committee was affected by
Tuesday’s elections. All are South
erners who were returned with
out strong opposition. |
They are Reps. John S. Wood,
(Ga.), John E. Rankin (Miss.), J.
Hardin Peterson (Fla.), and F.|
Edward Hebert (La.). Woocd is
slated to become chairman next]
January, 3
ATHENS, CA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1948
Talks, Parade Highlight
Mq_inq Michas! Day Here
Stamp Albums Presented
By U.S. Postal Official
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
The name of Miss Moina Michael will long be remem
bered by Athenians, Georgians, and people the world
over.
She was honored today for her work as the *“Poppy
Lady” with a United States commemorative postage
stamp, a large parade, and a galaxy of speeches,
Numerous Speakers
Other speakers were Tenth Dis
trict Congressman Brown, Fifth
District Congressman James C.
Davis, Dr. E. M. Coulter, and Jim
my Lane. Dr. Coulter spoke for
University President Harmon
Caldwell. Mr. Lane is the South
ern Refional National Vice-Pres
ident of the American Legion.
Congressman Brown said, “Miss
Moina will go down in history as
one of the most beloved of all
time” He further said the bill for
the issuance of the stamp was ap
proved quicker than any other
such bill.
Mrs. Pat Kelley, National Le
gion Auxiliary Chaplain, opened
and closed the exercises® with
prayer. A number of distinguish
ed guests including the four sis
ters of Miss Moina were introduc
ed by Weaver Bridges, general
chairman, who presided.
il National Shrine
In concluding the exercises Mr.
Bridges said:
“I am happy to have the privil
ege to announce today that efforts
are underway to have the burial
place of our beloved ‘Miss Moina’
designated as an historic shrine
by the National American Legion
and National Auxiliary, and also
officially so designated by the
State of Georgia, and we have
every reason to feel these efforts
will be successful.”
President Harry S. Truman sent
a message for this oceasion, and it
was read by Mr. Bridges.
A parade composed of repre
sentatives of various legion organ
izations here, the University and
High School R. O. T. C. units and
bands followed by a number of
(Continued on Page Seven)
High Winds Fan Big
California Forest Fires
Flames Shopped Short Of Marine
Base; 1,500 Persons Evacuated
SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 9.— (AP) —Fire and wind
played damaging tricks on Southern California today.
- Forest fire fighters striving to save hundreds of dwel
lings from the flames found little encouragement in fore
casts of continued winds up to 40 miles an hour, with
gusts still stronger.
Nearly 1,500 persons have been
safely evacuated from the worst
threatened areas, settlements in
Silverado and Modjestka Canyons
ofithe Santa Ana Mountains, about
40 miles southwest of Los Angeles.
Early today the flames were with
in a half mile of the community of
Silverado in Silverado Canyon.
Marines at ElI Toro Base, 10
miles southeast of here, were on
rooftop duty with wet gunnysacks
to protect their 900 buildings from
sparks. Flames from the forest fire
licked southwestward down the
mountain, to be stopped 500 yards
from the base.
The same general area was
swept by fire last week. Foresters
estimate that it and the one which
flared up yesterday have backen
ed 40,000 acres. An offshoot of last
week’s brush fire flared anew in
Topanga Canyon, which cuts back
from the seashore west of Los An
geles. Luckily it was in an unin
habited section.
Gale winds whipping from the
desert toward the seas at 50 miles
an hour, with gusts as high as 80
miles reported at Fontana, where
an aircraft hanger lost its roof.
Accompanying dust storms slowed
'Stubbs Calls
!Meeting On
®
Xmas Lights
T. E. Stubbs, chairman of the
lExecutive Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce Merchants’
Council, has called a meeting of
that group for Wednesday morn
ing at 11 o'ciock.
The meeting will be held in the
Chamber of Commerce bhuilding
‘and final plans will be made for
the Christmas lights and other
'matfiers. f
90 MPH Chase
Nabs 2 Cons
’ SWAINSBORO, Ga., Nov. 9 —
' (AP)—A 90-mile-an hour high
way chase ended last night in the
‘capture of two more of the prison
‘ers who last Wednesday escaped
from the State Prison at Reids
ville.
Sgt. Buck Branch of the Swains
boro diivsion of highway police
identified the two as Carl Evans,
serving 270 years, and Rudolph
Chandler,
The two prisoners broke through
a road block set up above Oak
Park, after which Branch and Sgt.
Beasley of the Hinesville division
gave chase. Warned by the patrol
men, Swainsboro police 15 miles
away set up a road block. In try
ing to get around the road block,
the convicts turned into a side
street and were captured about
11:30 p. m. when their car ran
into a ditch.
The escaped prisoners surrend
ered peaceably,
CHICAGO, Nov. 9—(AP)—
Temperatures dipped to near zero
in the Rockv Mountain region and
were below freezing over Midwest
sections and the Texas panhandle
today. |
Generally mild
I ; “lweather was re
o 2z ported from east
R : ;“Ap,ck jof the Mississippi
{ ',,. Y HA( river to the At
[y s ¢ lantic coast.
LN | The cool ' belt
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DR RSS2 [Rocky Mountain
-;v.- istates, the south
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COLD the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Montana
and Minnesota, The mercury was
near zero in parts of Wyoming.
Light snow fell in eastern Mon
tana, the western sections of the
Dakotas and northeastern Wy
oming. Last night a trace of snow
was reported as far south as
Amarillo, Tex., where the mer
cury dropped to 29 above.
traffic. Trees were uprooted and
roofs brown off in many places.
Power lines failed. Citrus orchards
sustained some = damage from
dropping and scarring of ruit.
In Los Angeles, the strong wind
fanned a major fire at Eaton’s
French restaurant, causing dam
age estimated by the owners at
$250,000.
Death Note In Mail Box
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
HALT GAMBLING DRIVE
MOLINE, Il.§ Nov. 9—(AP)—
The month-long campaign of a
mother and daughter against slot
machines was ended today—
prompted by two death' threats
and “apathy by legal groups.”
Mrs. Elaine Van Muelebrock
and one of her twin daughters,
Marie, 26, abandoned their cam
paign after receiving a letter yes
terday which read;
“You'll be shot tonight.”
The terse message was found in
a plain envelope in her mailbox
by Marie. She had just returned
from the trial of a tavern owner
she had prosecuted on a charge of
possessing a gambling device.
A brick was thrown through a
window of the Van Meulebrock
home last Friday, Attached to it
was the message, “Mama and Ma
rie — lay off our you die.”
After the second threat, Marie
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YOUTH IN BARRICADED HIOME BATTLES POLICEMEN-—Ray Aldridge (right),
21-vear-old ex-convict, sits in police headquarters after barricading himself in the
home of his parents at Gastonia, N. C., and fighting a two and a half hour battie
with officers. Two policemen and two bystanders were shot and wounded during
the siege. Officers finally drove him out with tear gas and he surrendered. Officials
said the youth chased other members of the family from the house after an argu
ment before the siege started. Officers and spectators (left) surround the house
just after the youth surrendered.—(AP Photos Y
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens I rade Area
Shanghai Struck
By Food Shortage
SHANGHAI Nov. 9.—(AP) —Shanghai today is facing
its most critical food situation in modern times.
Ten weeks of choking economic restrictions and the 10
days of frantic, unbridled inflation which followed have
left the once great center of commerce a city of closed
shops, sporadic rice raids and strikes. f
~ Chinese reports from the imme
diate interior add tales of gang
raids on surrounding villages,
which are being stripped clean of
edibles. .
During the weeks of economic
regulation, the flow of food from
the interior dried to a trickle be
cause of the low ceiling prices
prevailing here, s
.The government expected shat
when the ceilings were lifted the
normal’ flow would be' resumed.
But, military disasters of the past
two weeks have thrown those
hopes askew, Faith in the govern
ment has plummeted to a new low.
And so has plunged the confi
dence in the new gold yuan. No
one, particularly the farmer, wants
any part of it. 1
Prices have climbed as they|
never climbed before—doubling or
more daily. :
~ Chinese officials in Shanghai
‘and Nanking have promised daily
that the governiment either would
start dumping rice or start ration
ing to east the shortage, which
borders on starvation for hundreds
of thousands. But no rice has been
forthcoming.
Peter Cheng, secretary to the
mayor, told the Associated Press
today that the fault lay with the
municipal authorities, The U.. S.
Chinese aid mission and the muni
cipality agreed to a relief g;an by
which each would contribute 50
per cent of the rice rations, he said.
However, last month, he’said, due
to the city’s unexplained inability
to obtain rice stocks, the aid mis
sion contributed the 100 per cent. t;
Roger Lapman, chief of the U.
8. China Aid Mission, stepped in-‘
to the breach last night and prom
ised to distribute American aid
rice to tide the Chinese authori
ties over.
attributed their abrupt decisionl
to quit their campaign to “apathy
by local groups and inability to
lead .a normal life,” Marie's father
prosper, aiso pieaded with the wo
men to call it off.
The second threat, mailed from
nearby Rock Island, was given to
police.
Marie herself, faces court ac
their campaign after tavern own
ers turned down their solicitations
of funds with which to establish
an animal shelter. .
About a dozen tavern owners
were convicted of possessing gam
bling machines as a result of the
crusade,
Marie(, herself, faces court ac
tion as a result of the crusade. She '
is charged with disturbing the !
peace by throwing a soda bottlel
through a tavern window during
one of 'her raids. The hearing is
seheduled today. ;
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Services For
Mrs. Brackett
On Wednesday
. Mrs, Millie Dockery Brackett,
one of Athens’ best known women,
died in a local hospital Tuesday
morning at 5 o’clock. Mrs. Brack
;ett was 57 years old and had been
in failing health for the past year,
Services will be conducted Wed
nesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock
from Prince Avenue Baptist
Church with the pastor, Rev. T.
R. Harvill, officiating. Burial ar
rangements will be announced
later by Bridges Funeral Home.
Pall-bearers will be Loyd Downs,
Fred Orr, Roy Curtis, R. N. Wil
son, T. W. Chambers and Dillard
Crowley.
An honorary escort will include
‘members of the Lois Philathea
Sunday . School class of Prince
Avenue Baptist Church, of which
‘Mrs. Brackett was a member,
| She is survived by her husband,
A. H. Brackett, sr., well known
grocery store owner, two daugh
\ters,‘ Mrs. Walter Ruark and Miss
Rene Brackett, Atianta; sc v
Alvin H. Brackett, jr., Fbrtflyuh,
Texas; sisters, Mrs. C. M. _cis
kell, Lawrenceville, Mrs. L. H.
‘Carter, Bishop, Mrs. W. C. Lyles,
Barnesville, Mrs, M. E. Young,
Mrs. J. H. Bullock, both of Ar
noldsville; brothers, J. W. Docke-
Ty, Arnoldsville, F. B. Dockery,
Barberton, Ohio, and J. R. Docke
ry, Knoxville, Tenn., and two
grandchildren, Kay Brackett and
Pat Ruark.
A native of Marietta, Ga., Mrs,
Brackett had lived in Athens for
the past twenty-five years, resid
ing at 234 l.uena Vista Avenue.
She was an active member of
Prince Avenue Baptist Church and
the Lois Philathea Sunday School
class. Much of her time and en
ergy was devoted to her church
and its-activities. She had a large
circle of devoted friends here who
greatly admired her and to whom
her death was a source of deepest
regret, ;
Satira In New
Cuba Contract
CINCINNATI, Nov. 9—(AP) —
A $3,000 a week engagement will
take Satira back to Cuba although
she doesn’t know just how soon.
Satira, whose real name is Pa
tricia Schmidt, is the Toledo, 'O.,
dancer who served 18 months of
a 15-year-sentence for the fatal
shooting of John Lester Mee, Chi
cago lawyer, aboard his yacht in
Havana harbor. She was pardon
ed a month ago and last week re
sumed her dancing career with an
engagement at the Latin quarter
in nearby Campbell county, Ken
tucky. .
“I'm certainly anxious to go
back,” Satira said.