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EAGER GIRL, RELUCTANT TURKEY— AT THANKSGIVING — This turkey
gobbler seems reluctant to take the tidbit offered by seven-vear-old Faith W hithy
at Pittsburgh. And there’s reason for the gobbler’s uneasy suspicion. Faith’s daddy
is waiting (cut of sight) with the axe to'start preparations for the family’s Thanks
giving Day feast.—{AP Wirephoto.)
CHURCH SERVICES SET
L e B R TT T SRS Y SN WA .WS
Athens Will Observe
Thanksgiving Quietly
By ED THILENIUS, City Editor
Athenians will observe Thanksgiving Day tomorrow
queitly, under lead-gray skies with a slight threat of rain
The weatherman 4lso says it will be cooler.
Special services are planned at
many of the city’s churches to
night and tomorrow, while local
stores, city county officies, banks
and the Postoffice will observe the
national holiday.
Numerous lo
cal citizens —
members of the
football clan — P
will spend part of s
their holiday out ; Tl
of town. Atlanta ISR
will drow fi@'/ &
share to the an= ffi‘i K 7
nual Turkey Day a 2
classic ..-%@%‘;!“P
Georgia and ..‘h' 5‘,,,.,.@- e
the freshmen of M
Georgia Tech at”
Grant Field in a THREATENING
game for the :
benefit of the Scottish Rite Hos
pital.
Meanwhile in Gainesville, Ath—
ens High’s Trojans take the field
for the last time this season
against the Red Elephants, one of
North Georgia’s most powerful
grid aggregations. =
Mother nature will also draw it
favored few —the huntsmen—
who considered the ancient holi
day the perfect hunting day of the
year.
Although the price of the holi
day bird — turkey — is almost
20 per cent higher this year than
in 1947, the average housewife
hasn’t let the high cost of living
interfere with tradition.« Local
groceries report a good run on the
holiday bird, which chicken also
came in for its share of selections.
A survey by the Associated
Press of key cities in the nation
report the average price of tur
kays per pound was 756 cents.
Some stores here listed 78 cents
per pound. a 3
A cordial invitation has been
extended to all citizens to attend
the following-church services:
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN — The
annual Thanksgiving service will
be held in the Church tomorrow at
Il a. m. Reverend William Kryder,
assistant minister, will bring the
message at this service. The usual
voluntary offering will be taken
for Thornwell Orphanage.
PRINCE AVENUE BAPTIST—
Tonight a service, will be held
with the devotipt'fil led by the
pastor, Doctor T. R. Harvill. The
service begins at 8 o’clock.
Sunday will be a day of special
observance of Thanksgiving for
children to contribute to the Or
phans’ Home. Members are asked
to bring in old shoes which will
be sent to Clarkesville, where they
'_\);'111 be repaired and given to char
-Ity.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIE
TY — As js its custom, the Socie
ty will hold a special Thanksgiv
g service tomorrow morning at
11:15 in Legion Hall on the second
COULDN'T BLOW A BUBBLE
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 24. — (AP) — When they
named Double Trouble, the yellow kitten, they named
her right. She went for a spin yesterday—in an automatic
home waghing machine. -
It was only a dry run but it tbath. Into the machine went
was almost enough for Double |Double Trouble, on went the
Trouble; |juice, and ' the washer went
At the Acme Dog and. Cat Tos- "round and round.
Mtal, Dr. Alfred C. Zedlitz says| About three minutes later an
its 2 bad case of shock. |agonized Chris burst into his
“Her sense of balance is defi- |mother’s kitchen. :
itely - disrupted,” he explained.| “The cat can’t come up' .. .
‘But I think she 'shpuld be able | The cat can’t get cut of the ma
-0 go home in a few days.” chine!” he burbled.
~Double Trouble was almost| Poor Double Trouble.. She
done in by her best friend — 3- |didn’t know up from down.
vear-old Christopher Jordan. | But Chris did. ;
Young Chris reckoned it wasl « . 'An awiGl spanking!” said
Hine for the- kiltewde have. 8 lMrs, Jordan, .. (. S s
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
floor of the Georgian Hotel. The
subject of the Lesson-Sermon will
be “Ihanksgiving.”
FIRST BAPTIST — A special
observance of Thanksgiving will
be held tonight in connection with
the regular Wednesday night
prayer meeting. The meeting is at
8 o'clock.
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN—
{ All members and others are ask
{ed to join with the pastor, Rev.
1 C. C. Shafe, in a radio devotional
< tomorrow morning at 9 to 9:15
+o’clock.” Rev. Shafe will conduct
;‘lthe devotional over radio station
1. WRFC. ;
| YOUNG HARRIS MEMORIAL
L (Continued On ruge Two)
MacARTHUR DENIES »
CLEMENCY FOR TOJO
TOKYO, Nov. 24.— (AP) —Gencral Douglas MacAi-
thur today denied clemency
inals and ordered the exec
others who dreamed of cong
Girl Murder
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Confessi
ontession
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 24 —
(AP) — Officers quoted a slender
31-vear-old metal worker as say
ing last night that he disposed of
the body of Theresa Foster, but
that she wuas murdered by a
“plond, chubby” boy friend.
Miss Foster, 18-year-old Colo
rado University freshman, was
blurgeoned and strangled the
night of Nov. 9.
The metal worker, Joseph Wal
ker, was takea into custody Sun
day after his wife told police she
was “suspicious” of her husband.
District Attorney Hatfield Chil
son, who with Sheriff Art Everson
received Walker’s statement, said
he would file a charge of murder.
.
14 Killed In
.
Bus Accident
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 24
—(AP) —Fourteen persons were
believed to have been killed today
when a bus crashed through the
rail of a bridge and plunged into
water 66 feet below.
The accident occurred after the
bus was in a collision with a truck
on the Stora Essingen bridge. The
bus sank into 74 feet of water in
Essingen Sound.
Associated Press Service
TO BEAT BAND,
—7O IN FACT!
LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov.
24.—(AP)—A couple will be
married to beat the band
Friday night — ‘7O bands, in
fact.
Virginia L. Stanton, Long
Beach, and Donald M. Rush,
Pueblo, Colo., plapned their
wedding in the First Baptist
Church hefore they knew
that 5,000 musicinas would
be marching past the church
ihe same night in the Eighth
Anneal Western States Band
Review,
But all is well. Officials
agreed not only to hait ihe
parade long enough for the
couple to skip through the
rice from the church, but
also to have 70 bands play
Lohengren’s Wedding March
for them.
for Japan’s 25 top war crim
ition of Hideki Tojo and six
lest but lost an empire.
As sole reviewing officer, he de
clined to use his power to lighten
any of the sentences determined
by the international military tri
bunal—seven to die on the gal
lows: 16 to spend the rest of their
lives in prison, two to lesser pri
son terms.
The supreme commander called
his task ‘‘utterly repugnant” to
him. He closed his review of the
war guilt case with a plea to peo
ple of all creeds in Japan to pray
on execution day-—yet to be made
public—to help the world keep the
peace, ‘“lest the human race per
ish.”
Attorneys for five defendants
planned to appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States which
has never yet intervened in inter
national war crimes cases.
MacArthur, in his statement,
said he saw no reason for him to
intervene. Whether the prisoners
should have been prosecuted at all
was not for him to say. But the
two-year trial itself, he went on,
was a fair one; every safeguard
was made to “evolve justice.”
“I therefore direct the com
manding general of the Eighth
Army to execute the sentences as
pronounced by the tribunal.
“In doing so, I pray that an om
nipotent providence may use this
tragic expiation as a symbol to
summon all persons of good will
to a realization of the utter futili
ty of war — that most malignant
scourge of mankind—and eventu
ally to its renunciation by all na
tions.”
Those sentenced to death weer:
Tojo, army commander and pre
mier at the outbreak of war; Gen.
Kenji Doihara, known as the sly,
ruthless “Lawrence of Manchuria;”
Koki Hirota, former premier; Gen.
Seishiro Itagaki, former War Min
ister; Gen. Heitaro Kimura, Man
churan commander; Gen., Iwane
Matsui, whose troops perpetrated
the “rape of Nanking:;” -and Lt.
Gen. Akiro Muto, who fought in
the Philippines.
3 Cars Overturn
b 3 .
As Train Derails
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov.
24 — (AP) — Three cars of the
Sounthern Railway’s Tennessean
were derailed near Fackler, Ala.,
at about 2:30 a. m. today, the
company’s office here announced.
The announcement said no pas
sengers received serious injuries
and that the train continued to
Chattanooga after a delay of ap
proximately four hours,
The superintendents’ office of
the railway said cause of the de
railmant Wae nat isusadiatelv de.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948,
U.S. Foreign Aid Plans
Taxed By Reds In China
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Communist Gains--Large Or
.
Small--To CostU.S. Heavily
By The Associated Press
Chinese Communists were believed by neutral ohserv
ers o he pressing Nationalist forces steadily back today
on the plains of Suchow. Government assertions of vie
tory were confused and conflicting. ¢ ' § 1"&!!‘!;!
The Communist radio said Red
forces destroyed the Nationalist
Seventh Army group east of Su
chow. The loss of Suchow would!
open the gates to Nanking, the
capital, less than 200 miles away,
and clear the path to Shanghai,‘
165 miles southeast of Nanking.
Officials at Shanghai talked of
“total war” plans. 5
Regardless of whether the Com
munists win all China, their
sweeps appeared certain to cost
the United States more billions in
foreign aid. If President Truman
and Secretary of State Marshall
decided China still could be saved
from the Reds, Congress would
have to be asked for the money. |
Should all China fall to the
Communists, the task of rebuilding
Japan and providing her a stabl‘e!
economy will be much more cost
ly, policy makers in Washington
said. ,
Military Problem
Additionally, there is always the
risk of building up some indirect
clash of American and Russian
military power. i
~ President Chiang Kai-Shek is'
understood to have proposed the.
U. S. send some military leaders.
of great prestige to head the
American military mission in Chi-1
na. Some Chinese said he had Gen..
Douglas MacArthur in mind. There
is little belief that the Supreme
Commander in Japan would be
moved from his present post. ‘
The six neutral members of the
U. N. Security Council resumed
the task of trying to break the
west-east deadlock over Berlin.
They sifted through questions
answered by the U. S., Russia,
Britain and France about the
iblockade the Soviets imposed ‘itn
June. They hoped for a clue “to
lbxeak the cold war. :
. The Russians postéd guards at
the Berlin City Hall to prevent
elected city government officialsl
from taking out any records. Some
believed this a preliminary to es
tablishing a hand picked Com
munist regime after city elections
Dec. 5, which the Russians have ‘
boycotted.
l A Soviet bloc delegate told the
U. N. Political Committee Ameri
lcan and British oil and military
interests have wrecked the U. N.
lpartition plan for Palestine. The
Soviet Ukrane delegate said the
‘committee should order Arab
‘iroops to leave Palestine.
The United States is seeking an
international agreement on the
future of Italy’s former colonies of
Libia. Eritrea and Somaliland in
Africa,
Cameras Watch
Cancer Growth
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—(AP)—
Two time lapse movie cameras
were set in operation yesterday
to condense into minutes the
growth of cancer cells over a
period of one year.
The cameras are harnessed (o
a new type microscope which
makes a beam of light travel at
iwo different raies of speed.
They are housed in a weather
conditioned container, built of
transparent pilastic materials. in
the time lapse motion picture
studic of Joha Nash Ott, jr., in
suburban Winnetka.
Northwesterr University has
commissicned Ottt to make the
study, which is reported to be one
of the most extensive of its kind
in medical history.
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HE CARRIED KNIXE BLADE IN NECK SEVEN YEARS — Recupcrating at his
home in Asheville, N. C., Leslie E. Stearnc, department store manager, holds the
piece of broken knife blade which surgeons removed from his neck reeently. Un
knowingly, he had carried the blade in his neck since 1941 when he was stabbed by
a shoplifter. He had complained of a stiff neck for vears. The other day an X-ray
was made and the negative (right) disclosed the 1 3-4 inch blade wedged between
two vertebrae near the jugular vein—(AF Fhetos.) i
!Politics Tos
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ICIO Confab
Into Wrangle
|
| PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24.—
(AP) — Supreme Court Justice
i William O. Douglas told the CIO
today that labor leaders. can do a
/better job than conventional di
‘plomats in defeating world-wide |
Communist propaganda and |
’bridging the gap between Amer
ica and Europe.
! His speech at the CIO conven
ition was in tune with the pre
vailing mood here,
‘ The 600 or so delegates, doing
a whacking job of humiliating
their own left wing and fully
alive to labor’s new importance‘
in the international field, tm‘ned‘
lthoir attention to the future of
'CIO political action. |
That meant new wrangling,
new name-calling, and the cer
tainty of another smashing vic
,tory over the left-wing minority
'that supported Henry Wallace
‘for President and opposes the
Marshall Plan of European aid.
‘ And there was another signifi
cant development today. There
were spreading reorts — appar
ently well-based — that the CIO
leadership plans to create “or
ganizing committees” to seek 2
‘flood of new members among
governmental workers, - retail
‘clerks, and white collar em
‘ployees of all sorts.
|"This ~“weuld be - done by the
CIO executive board, probably
after the convention ends.
| In the international field,
President Philip Murray and his
supporters vesterday won a pow
erful expression of suppori for
the Marshall Plan and other
lphases of U. S. foreign ‘policy-—
also sharp condemnation of Rus
sian actions.
Today Justice Douglas said
labor has a “urique opportunity”
—that of preserving the value of
democracy in a troubled world.
He said conventional diplomats
will “fail miserably” unless they
understanc the rise of the labor
governments so the world and
share an understanding of the
labor struggle. Yet he said this
understanding is “the one essen
tial tocl of modern diplomacy”’
that our diplomats lack.
He continued that American
labor leaders, who carry ‘‘good
credentials” to western Europe,
can do two things:
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Crash Injures 1
Ronald Green, University stu
dent was reported in fair condi
tion at a local hospital today fol
lowing an accident last night in
volving the motor scooter he was
riding and an automobile.
Police reported Ralph B. Teas
ley, jr., had been charged with hit
and run driving as the result of
the accident which occurred
around 11 p. m., at the intersec
tion of Baxter and Lumpkin.
Green, who lived in the Chap
man Pre-Fab, Dorm. No. 26, re
ceived severial head injuries, hos
pital attendents reported.
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THE KITTY HAWK COMES HOME FROM ENGLAND—Amid a formal welcom
ing ceremony, a truck arrives at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with the
Wright brothers’ first plare, the Kitty Hawk, returned home from England. The
airplane will be placed on display in thc institution which once rejected it. After
the first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the institution disputed the claim that it was
the first airplane to travel through he air under its own power. As a result, the
Wright brothers let the Kitty Hawk go to the British museum in London, and it was
on display there many years.—(AP Wirephoto.)
Redwine Fires
Workers Faster
Than Can Count
ATLANTA, Nov. 24—(AP)
—State Revenue Commission
er Charles Redwine says he's
firing people so fast he can’t
keep track of them. +
He reported he abolished
more than 110 jobs in his de
} partmeni in keeping with
Gov. Herman Talmadge’s
economy program.
There have been more than
that, he said, “but I've been
so busy I haven't had time to
add them up,”
Redwine also announced the
appointment of Albert Dozier
of Leary as director of the
farm gas refund unit of the
department.
Destroyers
Crash At Sea
TSINGTAO, Nov. 24 —(AP)—
The U. S. Destroyers Chandler
and Ozbourn collided in the Yel
low Sea maneuvers, a navy source
said tonighti, and one of three sail
ors hurled overboard from the
Ozburn is still missing.
No date for the seas collision
was given.
Both destroyers returned to
their Tsingtao base, The Chandler
was damaged only slightly but the
bow of the/Ozbourn was smashed
considerably, this source said.
-
Polish Reds
In Labor Coup
WARSAW, Nov. 24 —(AP) —
Polish Communists. took over con
trol today of this nation’s most
powerful labor organization.
The Central Trade Unionists,
with a membership of 33,000,
handed the presidency to Com
munists party leader Edward
Ochab.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Committee Declines To Set Aside
Nomination Of Dick Thompson
After hearing testimony for approximately three hours
vesterday the Clarke Ceounty Democratic Executive Com
mittee unanimously confirmed the résults of the council
manic race in the Fifth Ward and declined to set aside
the nomination of Dick Thompson as demanded in a peti
tion by his nearest opponent, H. H. “Bill” Giles.
The vote in the primary was 204 for Mr. Thompson and
203 for Mr. Giles.
- The Committee determined that
‘the point at issue in the contest‘
filed by Mr. Giles and conducted‘
by his attorney, John L. Green,
)was whether the election officials
in the Fifth Ward had conducted
election according to the rules
and regulations, and whether:
each of the candidates was ac
iccrded ihe benefits and privilegs
permitted under the rules and
regulations of the Primary. No
evidence was presented to sus
tain a contention that the offi
cials did not perform their duties,
according to law.
| Hear Testimony
| At the outset of the hearing,
over which Committee Chairman
FE. D. Wier, presided, Carlisle
\Cobb, acting as attorney for Mr.
Thompson, moved dismissal of
Mr. Giles’ petition but the Cem
mittee took the view that the
petitioner was entitled to be
heard and testimony was ther
begun by various election offi
cials and others.
After the testimony was con
cluded the Committee retired to,
the jury room of the City Court
chamber in the court house and
after hearing from its counsel,
Bob Stephens, on the laws and
couft decisions haviag a bearing
on the Committee’s responsibili~
ties and duties, Mr. Stephens res
tired and the Committee discuss
ed the testimony, coming to the
conclusion that there was no evi
dence warranting the Committee
to gn behind the action of the
election officials and reconsider
the work that the oificials had
performed under odth, so the pz
tition was denied and the results,
as found by the officials, re
affirmed.
Mr. Green cited a state law
which gives a defeated candidate
1 state e county primaries a
right to obtain a re-count in a
contest but admitted the law did
not govern the action of the Com
mittee in this instance, but ae
asked that it so apply in the ab
sence of any rules or law govern
ing such contest as that filed by
Mr. Giles. |
. Mr. Green argued for a re
count of the votes ard then, he
saia the Committee, after going
into the blalot boxes, with the
assistance of the candidates and
the attorneys, could decide on
{he other allegations made in Mr,
Giles’ petition, after they had ex
amined the ballots.
| No Cause Shewn
Attorney Cobb argued that no
evidence had been presented sub
stantiating a claim that the elec
tion was not properly handled by
the officials sworn to conduct it,
and that all the Giles petition
amounted to was g“au demand for
the nomination of Mr. Tompson
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Home
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HCL Dip May
Tone Down
e
Truman Bill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—(AP)
—A slight but welcome dip in liv
ing costs raised the possibility to
day that President Truman might
tone down his demand for ‘“stand
by” price control and rationing
powers when Congress meets in
January.
Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of
the President’s Council of Eco
nomic Advisers, said a continued
ebb in prices, washing out the
need for drastic controls, would be
“swell.” But he didn’t predict that
would happen.
“It would be like seeing a fever
chart go down,” Nourse told a re
porter, “but we aren’t drawing any
conclusions yet.”
Behind all the guesswork lay the
big question of what will happen
overseas—how much more money
will have to go for foreign aid and
national defense.
Slaughter Fights
-
Lobbying Charges
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—
(AP)—Roger C. Slaughter, the
Missouri Democrat President
Truman purged from Congress in
1946, today mapped a “fight. to a
finish” agains! a lobbying indiet
ment hLe called “politically.in
spired.”
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerably cloudy today
and tonight, cooler tonight.
Thursday parily cloudy and
not much change in temper
ature,
GEORGIA — Considerable
cloudiness and cooler in south
and east portion, partly
cloudy and net much change
in temperature in northwest
portoin this afternoon, fol
lowed by partly cloudy ard
cooler tonight. Thursday
partly cloudy and slightly 4
warmer, P o F
'I'EMPEEW URE
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Lowest 7= 0 Bas oo iBY
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Normal . i g, .. .:50
Inches lafigz4 Efi% < it 50
Totsl since Nov. I .. 25 673
Excess since Nov. 1 .. .. 4.02
Average Nov. rianfall ... 2.61
Total since Jahuary 1 ...55.17
Fxcess since January 1 ..10.98