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Vol. CXVI, No. 265.
Assembly
Fight Seen
On 4 Bills
ATLANTA, Nov. 15—(AP)—
Three battleground bills of the
1947 Georgia Legislature already
are being polished off as top
priority measures for the new
General Assembly in January.
And legislative leaders now are
writing a new bill—creating a
Constitutional ~ State Highway
Board out from under the gov
ernor’s thumb—to join the three
repeaters near the top of their
list.
House Speaker Fred Hand, a
legislative chieftain for Governor-
Elect Herman Talmadge, said to
day all representatives would be
invited to Atlanta within three
weeks for conferences on the new
administration’s program.
They will get a look at printed
copies of four measures which
legislative leaders are ready to
push: L
I—A bill wiping out all regis
tration lists in Georgia and re
quiring every votes to. sign up
acain for new, permanent lists.
9.—A Constitutional amendment
cetting out steict educational
qualifications for registration and
voting. This is Talmadge’s long
talked answer to his charges of
«oontrolled bloc voting” by ne
groes.
3—An appropriation bill putting
state expenditures under a fixed
program approved by the General
Assembly. Failure to pass an ap
propriations bill at the “double
sovernor” 1947 Gov. M E.
Thompsen with power to allocate
huge sums as he wished. y |
4—A bill setting up staggered
terms for a powerful State High
way Board which actually will
plan and administer Georgia’s
highway program. Virtually all
power now is vested in a highway
director, who serves at the
pleasure of the governor. This will
be Talmadge’s action on a cam
paign promise to “take the High
way Department out ot politics.”
The first three bills aroused a
tempest in the 1947 session. After
Talmadge’s victory in the Septem
ber primary, his legislative
lieutenants are expecting more
support in the new Legislature.
Speaker Hand said plans now
2al! for these four measures only
to be ready for ‘pre-legislative
conferences ‘“‘the last of November
or the first of December.”
But, he added, “of course there
will be many other good proposals
for the Legislature to consider.”
‘Red’ Rolfe To
L etroit
ead D
DETROIT, Nov. 15—(AP)—The
Detroit Tigers today named Rob
ert A. (Red) Rolfe manager of
their baseball team.
A former Yankee star, Rolfe in
1947 was named director of the
Tigers’ Minor League farm system.
He succeeds Steve O’Neill,
whose contract was not renewed.
No salary details were revealed
by General Manager Billy Evans
as he announced that Rolfe had
received the managerial assign
ment,
Cons Use Funeral
As Escape Means
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo,
Nov. 15—(AP) — Two life-term
conviets uged their mother’s fun
eral yesterday as a ruse to escape.
George Sylvester Huston, 41,
and his brother, Ernest Gordon
Huston, 28, both serving sentences
for murder, were permitted to
leave the Missouri State Peniten
tiary at Jefferson City in custody
of two guards to attend the serv
ices here.
Prior to going to the funeral
home, the convicts were allowed
Lo join about 20 relatives in the
house where their mother had liv
ed. The guards, James Farmer and
Albert Pkillips, remained outside
and watched through a window.
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Mighty Cruiser
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In Final Tests
QUINCY, Mass., Nov. 15—(AP)
—Most powerful cruiser in the
world, the U, 8. Des Moines put
to sea today for a final trial be
lore joining the United States
Navy,
Today’s cruise, called the build
er's trial, precedes tomorrow’s
commissioning of the sleek fight
ing ship which embodies - newly
engineered automatic rapid fire
Operation for its heaviest guns.
By a slender technicality, the
vessel was still the baby of the
fore river shipyard of the Bethle
hem Steel Company, which as
sembled, shaped and welded her
lethal 17,000 tons. There was no
danger, however, that.the Navy
Wwould not exercise its priority and
break out a commission pennant
on the Des Moines tomorrow.
The Navy calis her the world’s
heaviest “heavy” cruiser, capable
of travelling in “excess of 30
knots.” i
“Y” GAME TONIGHT
Athens Y. M. C. A. Prep foot
ball team will play the Washing
ton Athletic Club team in Wash
ington tonight at 6:45 o’clock. The
2ame, to be played by boys 115
©ounds and under, was scheduled
late tihs morning,
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.FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILS—CoaI and freight cars of
a 98-car West Shore Railroad fast freight train are
strewn along the tracks just north of Valley Cottage,
N. Y., Saturday after a wreck in which 20 of the cars
left the rails. No one was hurt in the wrack but all
traffic on the line was blocked.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Air Raid Shelters Afford Only
Partial Protection From A-Bomb
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(AP)--Civil defense plan
ners, advising that air raid shelters afford only partial
protection from atomic attack, say the best preparedness
for American ciites is to have ready a system to save the
injured, put out fires and pravent panic.
~ 'What amounts to a primer for
the publi¢-on what to do if hit by
the weapons of modern war was
issued over the weekend by the
Oftice of Civil Defense Planning.
It is a report by 43 experts to Sec-|
retary of Defense Forrestal._
Function of Localities
The recommendations are based
on the idea that Civil Defense is a
function of localities and that the
actual operation should be up to
the states and cities, with a federal
office of defense existing only for
purposes of advice and coordina
tion. '
The report emphasizes that such
existing agencies as police and[
fire departments provide an ex
cellent starting point for civilianl
defense in time of attack. But be
cause of the magnitude of attack
that might be expected, the prob
lem may be greater than any sin
gle police or fire department can
handle.
Therefore the civil defense plan
ners recommend the creation of
volunteer.mobile reserve battalions
set up under state control and
equipped in part by the federal
ed from central locations to aid
any city in their area in rescue,
firre fighting or other post-attack
disaster situations.
Yolunteer Groups
The planning group pointed out
that the aim should be to build the
whole civil defense structure on
volunteer groups which could be
expanded swiftly if war came.
The estimate was that in war
time as many as 15,000,000 per
sons might be engaged in civil
defense. But during normal times,
the force would be small—tech
nicians to train volunteers, organi
zations to keep municipal and
state defense units in existence
and up to date on developments,
teams of specialists skilled in deal
ing with radio-active dangers,
'poison gas attack or the menace of
what the planners called only
| “other special weapons.”
1 Prince Is ’A Bonny Lad” :
Princess Elizabeth “Doing Fine™ After Birth
0f Heir To Throne; Entire Kingdom Rejoices
] By TOM WILLIAMS
{ LONDON, Nav. 15 — (AP) —
| Buckingham Palace flashed word
to a jubilant Britain today that the
condition of Princess Elizabeth
and her new son ‘is satisfactory.”
The doctors who | attended the
birth at 9:14 (4:14 p. m., EST) last
}night visited the mother and baby
early this morning while church
.bells pealed and joyous erowds
“clustered “at the Palace’ gates. = !
. They issued this bulletin:
[ “Her Royal Highness Princess
T™iiastath hee hod some sleep dur
ing the night. Her condition and
w..t us tue infant prince is satis
factory.” :
“A Bonny Lad”
The baby weighed seven pounds,
six ounces, at birth, an announce
ment said. Members of the Court
jdescribed him as “a lovely boy, a
“really spiendid baby,” aund “a boi-
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Associated Press Service
Miss Sallie
Maude Jones
Dies Sunday
Miss Sallie Maude Jones, well
known resident of High Shoals,
died in a hospital at Battle Creek,
Mich., Sunday after being in'fail
ing health for the past year.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Thursday afternoon from
Springhill Chapel in Atlanta..
Miss Jones is survived by a
sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter M.
Jones, Athens; Mr. and Mrs. Har
ris Jones, Baltimore, Md., and
children, Bannie and Harris, jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Bannon Jones
and children, Sallie and Del.
Miss Jones had many friends in
Athens and these will be deeply
saddened by news of her death.
- -
Two Injured In
.
Auto Accident
Two men were injured in an au
tomobile accident on the Atlanta
Highway last night, and were ad
mitted to a local hospital.
They were listed as Allen Heath,
Gatson, Ala., and Albert J. Gil
son, a member of Alpha Epsilon
Pi Fraternity here. Mr. Heath was
released after being treated for
minor injuries whiie Mr. Gilson’s
condition is reported good by hos
pital attendants.
No details of the accident were
aavilable early today.
Meanwhile city. police reported
a moving van, parked near Lay’s
Drive-in on Broad Street, rolled
unassisted across the street and
crashed into a' residence, Some
‘damage was done to the building
but no one was injured.
Court circles said the wording of
the doctors’ bulletin, referring to
“some” sleep, indicated the Prin
cess did not have an entirely rest
ful night.
[ But the birth evidently was un
complicated and the labor short.
| The baby arrived so quickly some
|officials called to the Palace for
the birth still were on the way
Iwhen the Prince was born.
The baby was born in a special-
Ily prepared room on the second
floor of the Palace. °
| Britain and the overseas domin
ions gave the infant who may one
day rule the empire a royal wel
come today. g R
Mementous News &
Last night's momentous news of
the birth came in a terse an
imcement‘fr_om th!;diocwrs at
e princess. thou-
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948
Three Local Youths Confess
Series Of Burglarias Here
Discovery Of Record Covers
In Field Breaks 9-Month Case
By ED THILENIUS, City Editor
A teen-age burglar ring, accredited with & long series
of robberies totalling over $690 has been crackad by city
police today, following the :g\fession of three youths.
The three vouhts were ligted as Asa Lee Allen, 16;
Dupree Cape, 16, and Albert Daniel Mills, 19, all of
Athens. :
The case was brought into the
open during the weekend, when
city detectives E. E. Hardy and
Walter McKinnon, jr., arrested the
three youths and obtained confes
sions for the sertes of buglaries.
Police Chief Clarence Roberts
praised the detective’ work on the
case, saying that until this week
end the department had no direct
clues on the series which began
last march.
Officers McKinnon and Hardy
reported that they have recovered
over 90 percent of the stolen goods.
Included in their lists of booty
were cameras, clocks, a valuable
guitar, clothes, guns and cash.
They preformed most of their
raids at night the detectives re
ported, but staged two bold robs
beries at high noon.
34 Waszznis
A total of 34 warrants were
sworn out against the three
youths, police reported, with Cape
being charged with eight burglar
ies, and one larceny; Allen with
nine burglaries and 2 larceny, and
Mills with 13 burglaries and one
larceny. i
McKinnon and Hardy reported
that their first break in the case
came . Thursday when they re
ceived a report that numerous re
cord -covers had been discovered
in a field near - radio Station
WRFC. The detective found a path
across the field leading in the gen
eral direction of where Mills lived.
After investigation the officers
reported they found two of a num
ber of records reported stolen
from’ the radio station in Mills
home. Mills told the oficers he got
the records from Cape and Cape
‘in turn placed the blame on Allen.
“WHen confronted with other
stolen items which the officers
had recovered, the youths contin
ued to..shift- the blame for the
thefts but finally coniessed the en
tire series when their stories be
came hopelessly entangled.
A list of their robberies, the date
and procudure used for the break
ins was issued by the: detectives:
On the night of March 1 Cape
and Mills broke a chain off the
basement door at the Athens High
school and entered the building.
They forced open the locked door
to Principal Wood’s office and
stole two class rings, $1.75 cash
from a desk drawer, an alarm
clock, and a mechanical pencil,
plus $4.00 worth of stamps. An es
timated total of $35.00. The rings
were recovered. .
Remove Safe
On the night of March 8, all
three of the youths broke in the
Texas Oil Company. This was the
first in a series of three burglaries
performed on this establishment.
On the nights of August 11 and
November 2 they also broke in
the company. On their first visit
they removed a burglar-proof
safe 'from the building but were
unable to open it. The safe was
recovéred unharmed.
The next trip they acquired two
army-type rain coats, valued at
$lO, while, on the third break-in
they took $65.00, in courtesy cards
and a $126.00 cancelled check. On
all three occassions they broke the
glass on the front door and un
locked the night latch. The coats
were recovered.
Raid Lyndon House
On the night of July 15, the
three youths made their first in
two burglaries of the Lyndon
House. On their first attempt they
forced open the back door and
took $1.75 in loose change. Their
next break-in was on the night
of Sept.:9 when they forced open
a window screen and broke open
heard of the safe delivery nearly
an hour after the birth.
“Her Royal Highness and her son
are both doing well,” the bulletin
said.
That was the signal for thun
derous cheers, wild hand-waving
and an outburst of enthusiasm
such as austere London has not
known since Elizabeth and hand
some Prince Philip were married
last November. \
The birth came six days before
the first anniversary of that dra
matic event in Westminster Ab
bey. 3
Britons everywhere rejoiced as
the word sped around the world.
And thg,ir-ju'bilant» feeling were
echoed in the hearts of = people
everywhere. ;
B 41-gun Salutes .
. Teday, 41-gun salutes will boom
out and helle will W
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the lock to the office door. They
took $20.00 in casn from one of
the desk drawers, chewing gum,
and a $75.00 canceiled check.
“On the night of July 14, Cape
and Mills made the first of two
raids on the Allen Weir Coal
Company, taking numerocus can
celled checks. Aiien and Mill re
repeated the break-in on'the night
of Nov. 5 this time acquiring a
Parker pen and a double barrell
shotgun, both items being esti
mated as worth $40.00. The gun
'was recovered.
. "On the night of July 14 Cape
and Mills entered the Athens Con
crete Products company, after
breaking the glass in a side win
dow and took $2.00 in change from
a jar found on an office desk.
sate Job Fails
On the night of July 19, Allen
and Mills attempted a safe rob
hery on the large safe in the Co
gg Creamery. Nothing was report
¢l missing from the establish
ment, The youths were unable to
- (Continued On Page Two)
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U.N. Looks To Truman;
: §e !
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For Berlin Success Cue
Letters Sent To Big 4 Chiefs
Asking For Talks To Bring Peace
- APARIS, Nov. 15.—(AP)—The United Nations looked
to President Truman today for a. cue to the success or
failure of an appeal to the chief executives of the Big
Four powers for a Berlin peace.
TRUMAN SILENT
New Cabinet
Still Unknown
' KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 15.—
i (AP)—Company comes and goes
lat the Southern “White House”
with no one outside any wiser
’about administration decisions or
Ithe makeup of the new cabinet.
| The President would not com
iment on reports from parts
‘that Secretary of Defense For-~
restal had left it to the Chief
|Executive when he should resign
{from the cabinet.
Senator Alben W. Barkley,
vice-president-elect; Senator H.
Howard McGrath, Democratic
National Chairman, and Leslie L.
lßiffle, director of the Democratic
| National Committee in the Sen
late. would say nothing as they
imoved out of Mr. Truman's vaca
i tion retreat
‘ Connelly, Moss Move In
! Matthew J. Connelly and
|Charles G. Ross, presidential
‘secretaries, were moving in from
Washington. Also coming down
was Governor Mon C. Wallgren
of Washington state, a pregiden
gtial pal, who was defeated for re
election in November. It's re
|ported he will be offered a top
ladministration post.
| The three were .flying here by
tplane with David K. Niles, ad
ministrative assistant in charge
of problems of minorities.
Commonwealth
Although the name of Eliza
beth’s son was not announced,
King George already has disclosed
he will have the title Prince of
Edinburgh and will be addressed
as “Royal Highness.”
The infant’s name will perhaps
be kept secret until the christen
ing—probably in the church at
Sandringham, King George’s fav
orite’ country estate, where the
Royal Family is expected to spend
Christmas.
One may assume that selections
have beén made—and that two of
them are George, for the King,
and- Philip, for the father. Albert
may be included in deference to
a custom initiated by Queen Vic
toria, who asked that the name of
her consort be included in that of
future grin_ces. In the running, too,
ic Louie far Rarl = Mountbatten,
Philip’s ulile, -© o
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Housewife Hits
$30,200 Quiz
Show Jackpot -
NEW YORK, Nov. 15—
(AP)—Prizes valued at $30,-
200—biggest jackpot in the
nistery -o -the -American
Broadcasting Company’s
“Stop the Music” give-awdy
show—were won last night
by the wife of an unemploy
ed jewelry salesman.
The winner, Mrs. Edward
Easton, 34, of 1 James street,
Attleboro, Mass.,, struck it
rich by identifying the pro
gram’'s - “Mystery ' Melody”
over the telephone as “The
Minstrel’s Return From the
War.”
Se maeny neighbors and
friends crowded around ihe
Easton’s modest five-room
cottage in Attleboro to con
gratulate the housewife after
the announcement that police
protection was summoned.
Easton said his wife, the
mother of a two-year-old son,
is expecting another baby. He
said he has been unemploved
for several weeks and has
been worried about ‘“who’s
going to pay the taxes.”
U. N. Secretary-General Trygve
Lie and Herbert V. Evatt of Aus
tralia, president of the General
Assembly, dispatched letters ask
ing for Four Power talks to set
tle the Berlin erisis. The letters
were sent to Mr. Truman, Prime
Minister Stalin, Prime Minister
Clement Attlee of Britain and Pre
mier Henri Quéuille of France.
U. N. circles said the Lie-Evatt
appeal was aimed at the American
President in the hope he would
agree to meet the other three if he
felt the moral weight of the U. N.
was behind such a meeting.
- Expect Stalin to Agree
U. N. officials said privately
they expected Stalin would agree
quickly to the apgeal. Dispatches
from Moscow said foreign diplo
mats in the Russian capital believe
Stalin will accept. :
The U. N. informants said the
big question isß what reply Mr,
Truman will make to the latter.
Members of the United States
delegation said they expected no
answer from Mrp, Truman for sev
eral days. They said the answer
will be given to Secretary of State
Marshall, who has made no com
ment on the appeai.
White House officials at Key
West, Fla., where Mr. Truman now
is vacationing, had no comment
yesterday on the Lie-Evatt appeal.
The latest word here irom . aiie
House officials was that the Presi
dent preferred trying to settle dis
putes through the U. N. rather
than through independent talks.
Direct Talks
Because of Lie and Evatt’s high
positions in the U. N. and because
their appeal was an invocation of
a Mexican resolution approved re
cently by the U, N. General As
sembly, U. N, offiicals felt the
president’s objection to direct talks
might be removed.
The Mexican rasolution calls for
big power cooperation in the so
lution' of world problems.
The U. N. offiicals, who refused
to be quoted by name, based their
belief 'in Stalin’s acceptance partly
on the Soviet press’ favorable re
action to a Washington columnist’s
recent suggestion that Mr. Truman
and Stalin meet.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and slightly warmer
this afternoon and Tuesday.
Cool again tonight.
GEORGIA — Fair and war
mer this afternoon, cool again
tonight; fair and slightly war
mer Tuesday.
TEMPERATURE
Bigheat . ..okiov...ivi i, 02
LOwest! . coastois, . i 35
B o s L A
Norl . .itoo it 88 |
RAINFALL
Inches last M.gouu e
Total since'Nov. 1 ..... 239
Fixcess since Nov, 1 ..... 1.071
Average Nov. rainfall ... 268
Total since January 11 i 3 59{2% J
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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On Guard Duty In Tientsin
NANKING, Nov. 15.—(AP)—Red threats to Nanking
increased today as Communists surged southward from
the Scuchow area.
A mounting breakup of National forces along the outer
approaches to the capital was reflected in reports from
the war area.
Neutral reports said Suchow
was isolated. Others had a
mechanized force fighting its way
to the relief of trapped govern
ment troops east of the city.
Communist forces reached
Suhsien, 135 miles northwest of
Nanking. One report said the town
was captured by the Reds.
The railread, connecting Pukow,
across the Yangtze from Nanking,
and Suchow, had been cut in sev
eral places. Government rein
forcements moving up from Nank
ing were reported stranded in
spots along the line. There were
no reports from Suchow itself,
Charles Hayes of Salem, Mass.,
pilot of a plane that flew out 25
Catholic missionaries to Shanghai,
said there were signs of heavy
fighting near the Suchow airport,
five miles east of the city.
On the political front President
Chiang Kai-Shek and top leaders
met in Nanking to discuss a pro
test to the United Nations against
alleged Russian aid to the Reds.
Reliable sources said fio decision
was reached but indicated a pos
sible government statement later.
Talk of a “war cabinet” without
Chiang died down. ; J
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Suchow situation, the government
reportedly had thrown some of the
weary troops evacuated from the
Manchurian port of Hulatao into
the battle. Also, three government
divisions were landed at Lien
yunkang, eastern terminus of the
Lunghai railroad. They started a
diversionary westward move.
American Marines
Elsewhere there was news ofl
two government setbacks in north
west operations and the arrival of
American Marines for guard dutyl
in Tientsin.
A small detachment of leather
necks was flown from Tsingtao,
U. S. Navy base, to protect the
American consulate and help eva
cuate [Americans from north'
China. Nationalist soldiers looted
Tientsin food shops Thursday. The
whole area faces Communist oc-,
cupation if the Reds win out at
Suchow.
Fall of Paoting, capital of Hopei
Province, was reported imminent.
Official quarters in Peiping con
firmed the evacuation of govern
ment regulars and top officials
from the city, 90 miles southwest
of Peiping.
Red Maove In
Communist occupation of Chen
gteh, seat of Jehol Province, was
reported by the Shanghai news- .
paper Sun Pao. It said mobs had
looted the city before the Reds
moved in three days ago. !
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CINCINNATI, Nov. 15—(AP)=
The American federation of Labor
keynoted the start of its 67th con
vention today with a demand for
swift repeal of the Taft-Hartley
act and the re-shaping of a strong
labor department. e
President William Green, who
has set the tone of every conven
tion since 1924, was scheduled to
open this one. He was to be fol
lowed by Secretary of Labor
Maurice J. Tobiny who has infor
mal approval'[i{r&n the AFL for
his plans to rebulid the Labor De
partment. Sharp appropriations
cuts and agency transfers by the
Republican-controlled 80th Con
gress have drastigally reduced its
size in the past two years.
Green was expected to claim for
the Federation a large share of
credit for President Truman's re=~
election. ¢
AFL Backs Demos:
The AFL entered a political
league in the 1948 campaign for
the first time in its history. The
league never officially endorsed
Mr. Truman, but 98 per cent of its
backers worked for a Democratic
victory, AFL leaders said.
In congressional contests, the
AFL~—like all the other labor poli
tical organizations—campaigned to
beat lawmakers who voted for the
Taft-Hartley act.
On the eve of the convention
the AFL council voted to demand
outright repeal of the act, now
that the Democratic party controls
both houses of Congress. As the
basic for a new law which the la
bor organization would regard as
fair to both employers and work
ers, the AFL leadership proposed
a quick return to the Wagner act.
The Wagner Labor Relations Act
adopted in 1935, was amended by
the Taft-Hartley act, passed over
Presidential veto last year. The
labor leaders would build one that
on the basis of experience with the
17-month-old Taft-Hartley act.
Repeal By March 1
.. Green told. newsmen the
council favored repeal by March
1 regardless whether there was
any labor statute to take its place.
However, other members of the
policy-making group expiained
Green must have misunderstood
the action.