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ATLANTA, Feb. 28 — (AP) —
Gov. Herman Talmadge indicated
today he would lease all of Jekyll
jsland to a private operator, if a
suitable contract can be developed.
“Tuwe've either got to close Jekyll
down, or work out a completely
new arrangement,” Talmadge said.
“The latest report I have is that
Jekyll Island State Park still is
losing S4OO a day. We have al
ready invested $5,000,000 to $7,-
000,000 in the purchase price, ac
cess roads, development and op
eration of this park.
«1¢ we closed every other state
park in Georgia, we still would not
have enough money in the Parks
Department budget to withstand
such losses at Jekyll.
«pouring millions of dollars
more into Jekyll Park would be
crazy.” -
Talmadge directed State Audi
tor B. E. Thrasher, jr., to investi
gate possibilities of leasing the
island with Parks Director New
ton Moye.
A private operator, the Gover
nor pointed out, would assume
complete risk and turn over to the
state a percentage of any profits.
Former Gov. M. E. Thompson
purchased the one-time fabulous
millionaire resort for $675,000 and
then leased hotel facilities on the
island to a private operator.
The state, however, maintained
a large staff on the island to sup
ervise property other than that
covered by the lease.
Thrasher said today this result
ed in some duplication and con
fusion. The Thompson lease con
tract was terminated after Tal
madge took office last November.
Both Talmadge and Thrasher
said they would favor a new ar
rangement under which the entire
island wouid be turned over to a
private operator.
Mrs. Fannie A.
Thompson
Dies Monday
Mrs, Fannie Ashby- Thompsen,
resident of Athens since 1914, died
at her home at 297 Franklin Street
Monday morning at 6:30 o’clock.
Mrs, Thompson was 79 years old
and has been ill for the past sev
eral months. She was gle widow
of the late Will Thompson,
Services are to be conducted
from Prince Avenue Baptist
church by the pastor, Rev. T. R.
Harvill, the date and hour to be
announced later.
Burial will be in Oconee Hill
cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Thompson is survived by
four daughters, Mrs. Roy Epps and
Miss Dorothy Thompson, both of
Athens, Miss Fern Thompson, At
lanta, and Mrs. W. H. Barnett,
Montgomery, Ala.; two sons, Way
land M .Thompson, Detroit, Mich.,
and James R. Thompson, Akron,
Ohio; sister, Mrs. 1. N. Williams,
Richmond, Va., nine grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.
A native of West. Virginia, Mrs.
Thompson had lived in Athens
since 1914. She was one of the
most devout members of Prince
Avenue Baptist Church and at
tended regularly all services until
her health became impaired and
she was forced to curtail her ac
tivities. She had made a large
circle of friends since coming to
Athens and news of her death was
a source of sadness to them.
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Ligarette
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Prices Up
Cigarettes began costing ‘more
loday, as a result of the minimum
prices iixed by a new state law
regulating the markup by whole
salers and retailers. : -
= Minimum prices set up by ine
Passage of the substitute for House
Bill 219 are 20 cents a pack, two
backs for 39 cents, or $1.91 by the
¢arton. Cigarettes have been sell
ing for from 17 cents in three-
Package lots to 22 cents a single
Package, and former carton prices
began at $1.69, ranking upwards,
The bill setting up the new
Minimums is entitled “Unfair Cig
arette Sales Act,” and provides for
Wholesalers to make no less than
4 1-2 per cent profit over cost for
handling anq 1.2 per cent for de
Jvery of the cigarettes. The re
tailer must make 8 per cent of the
€ost of the cigarettes to profit.
“To sell, offer to sell, or adver
lise” is a misdemeanor, the bill
Provides, and these guilty of viola
lion are subject to SI,OOO fine, six
months in publie works, or 12
Months in jail, :
Wholesalers may sell to other
Wholesalers without profit, but
Wholesalers may not gell to retail
°rS at less than the minimum
Prices, Cigarettes may be sold at
| lower priceg when a business
closes out, op when the cigarettes
have been damaged, the bill states.
_ Clarke COU%esentative .
0. (Fat) Baker voted against pas-
Sage of the Unfair Cigarette Sales
Act, he said today. Representative
Chappelle Matthews was confined
10 his home because of illness and
did not have avajlable the records
l “Nowing hig vgté} in the session _Qf
State Legigiatize. since they are in
i his office downtown,
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THE MAILS GO THROUGH — Flagg, 2-year-old pet
doe, starts her daily duties of overseeing the dailiy de
itvery of Uncle Sam’s mail, in Councii, Ga., as she
watches Mrs. Rose Johnson, postmistress, take the mail
delivery from railway Postal Clerk B. H. Talley. From
here the deer follows Mrs. Johnson to postoffice watch
ing distribution. Making daily rounds of stores, the do=
enjoys a varied diet as townspeople feed her candy,
soft drinks and other dainties.—(NEA Telpehoto.)
Plans For Re-Arming
Europe Arouses Talk
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.— (AP) —The administra
tion’s plans to re-arm key Western European countries
appeared likely today to arouse more debate than the
proposal to link the U. S. to a defensive regional alliance
with Western Europe. :
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) sounded
a call of opposition to the arms
program over the week-end. He
said the sending of military equip
ment to the Western European na
tions might be an invitation to
Russia to start a fight, rather than
an encouragement to peace.
Taft argued that the projected
North Atlantic Security Treaty is
a defensive arrangement and
would be so recognized by other
nations; therefore, he said he sup
ported it. &
On the other hand, the Ohioan
said he thinks that if this country
decides to help re-arm Europe it
might give cause to the Russians
to feel they are being ringed with
military nations. In that case, he
said they might decide to attack
quickly. :
Senator Pepper (D.-Fla.), a
members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, who pleaded
a year ago for a better understand
ing with Russia, said he supports
the security treaty and the re
arming of Western Europe.
Pepper told a reported he thinks
an association' of friendly north
Atlantic Nations is justified “until
we get an effective international
police force.”
He added that he doesn’t see
how any defense agreement can be
effective unless its members are
prepared to fight if they have to.
“If we are going into a mutual
aid program with these Western
European Nations,” he said, “I
DEPLORES LACK OF CIVILIAN CONTROL
Hoover Commission Attacks UNM
As Weakest Link In Government
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—(AP)
—The Hoover Commission today
called . the new Unified National
Military Establishment “perilously
close to the weakest tvpe of de
partment” in the government.
The investigating commission
deplored lack of civilian control by
the President and Defense Secre
tary over the powerful military
high command, the joint Chiefs of
Staff. :
it said there is “continued dis
harmony and lack of unified plan
ning” in the supposedly ‘“unified”
department of defense; It found
that the military is far too free of
civilian control; and it warned of
“extravagance” and “waste” which
could do serious damage to the
national economy.
. The i2-man bipartisan commis
sion on government reorganization,
headed by former President Her
bert Hoover, strongly urged on
Congress six recommendations in
tended to remedy defects it found
under the present unification law.
don’t see how we can avoid giving
them arms.”
This week will be one of the
climatic periods in the develop
ment of the proposed security
program. Here is the outlook:
1. Secretary of State Acheson
and the representatives of Canada,
Britain, France, Belgium, The
Netherlands and Luxembourg are
due to meet Monday or Tuesday
in another treaty drafting session.
Acheson and the others hope to
have the draft complete by the
week-end. ;
2. Some further meeting be
tween Acheson and the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee is re
garded as possible although plans
were not fixed. Senator Vanden
berg (R.-Mich.) said yesterday
that he considered program on the
project satisfactory.
3. The Norwegian government
is expected to reach a formal de
cision favoring Norway’s adher
ence to the security treaty.
4. Along with the pact nego
tiations, the U. S. and the Western
European countries are now work
ing at top speed to complete plans
for the so-called Mutual Aid Mil
litary Program, Military and
State Department officials here
have been screening European
arms needs estimates for several
weeks. This week may give the
European military leaders the first
official work of what they can ex
pect from the U. S.
“There is evidence,” it reported,
“that the utmost that can be ac
complished under the present sta
tute will fall far short of national
needs.”
Most of the recommendations
were aimed at concentrating great
er control in hands of the Civilian
Secretary of Defense (Secretary
Forrestal, a member of the com
mission, took no part in preparing
the report.).
But the group’s final suggestion
emphasized the need for immedi
ate action on such things as “emer
gency plans for civilian and in
dustrial mobilization,” plans for
civilian defense and ‘“defenses
against unconventional methods of
warfare.” s
In commenting on the freedom
enjoyed by the military, the com
mission levelled especially strong
criticism -at the way the joint
Chiefs of Staff are set up.
It said the chiefs “are virtually
a 2 law unte themselves” and sug
gested appointing a chairman to
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1949.
Dixie Filibuster <Threat
May Ban Truman Frogram
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Fiery Senate Debate Seen
On Proposed Rules Change
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—(AP)—The stormy weather
of a Southern filibuster threatened to ground President
Truman's program today as the Democratic Congress
winds up its second month withoul any major legislative
A
Dixie Democrats who didn’t
vote for Mr. Truman—and some
who did—were ready to turn on
the talk in the Senate. They are
lined up against a proposed rules
change they think would pave the
way for passage of civil rights
legislation.
This means there probably will
be no take-offs for any adminis
tration bills in the Senate this
week—and possibly longer.
The House is unaffected by the
filibuster threat. It plans to get
down to work by mid-week on
the first of a long list of money
bills to keep gevernment depart
ments running in the year begin
ning July 1.
Before the week is out, the
House may get an administration
,—_'—"——_——_.__bww
‘ BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28
~—(AP)— President Truman
Truman advised administra
l tion leaders in the Senate to
day to meet the fillibuster is
sue “head on” and seek a show
down on curbing it.
Senate Democratic leader
Lucus of Illineis told reporters
after a White House confer
ence that Mr, Truman had giv
en that advice.
- Lucas himself commented:
| “This issue has to be met
~ sooner or later and we might
as well meet it now.”
That meant, he indicated,
that the fight over the filli
buster would not be put aside
for any legislation, but would
be fought to a finish. |
meagure to extend rent controls—
now due to expire in March. But
the extension may be for only 15
months instead of the ¥wo years
the administration asked. |
The House Ways and Means
Committee starts down thg long,
rough road toward action on an
other Truman proposal—broaden
ing of the Social Security pro
gram.
Arthur J. Altmeyer, Social Se
curity Commissioner, expected
some sharp questioning about an
administration proposal on the
first phase of the broadening—
for federal grants to states for
“home relief” for all needy.
Displaced Persons
A propsal to boost the number
of displaced Eurcpeans who can
be admitted to this country from
the 200,000 voted by the last Re
publican Congress to 400,000—an
other of Mr. Truman’s requests—
will be before the House Judiciary
Committee.
The prospective filibuster
threatened to limit Senate com
mittee action as well as to block
major legislation from the floor.
Southerners fighting to prevent a
filibuster-killing rules change
said they will object to having any
committee meetings while the
Senate is in session. The rules
change would permit a two-thirds
vote of senators to cut off debate
on any matter,
Among other things awaiting
Senate consideration is a compro
mise housing measure, supported
by some Republicans asg well as
Democrats.
Despite the obvious filibuster
block to any legislation, the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
went ahead on a bill to provide
$5,580,000,000 for 15 menths of
Marshall Plan aid to Europe.
bring “this most powerful of mil
itary units” under strong civilian
control.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
recently was named tempeorary
chairman of the joint chiefs by
President Truman, reportedly to
bring an end to disagreements
among the services. Whether that
was the kind of appointment the
commission had in mind, the re
port did not say. .
But it did lay considergble
stress on the bad effect of “inter
service rivalries,” commenting
that they “indicate a lack of un
derstanding of the fact that mili
tary security depends upon co
aperation and balance among the
Army, Navy and Air Force.”
"And what the commission said
about the military establishment
as a whole went especially for the
joint chiefs, who include the
chiefs of staff of the Army and
Air Force, the Chief of Naval Op
erations and,the Chief of Staff to
‘the President. 4
California
Killer Dies
In Gun Fight
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 28—(AP)
—The vicious killer, Bill Ray Gil
bert, made good his boast he
~would never be taken alive. He
fell dead before a blaze of police
gunfire here last night.
~ He almost made good his second
boast—“T’ll take two officers with
me when I die.” He shot a police
~man three times in the leg.
- The 28-year-old Arizona ex
convict killed a woman and two
men near Needles, Calif.,, last
Wednesday.
| The gun battle with police ended
‘a erime foray in which Gilbert and
'a prison pal, George Adolph
Schmid, 22, kidnapped a Phoenix
I woman, killed the three Californi
-ans, and returned to Arizona with
a plan to kill the State Prison
‘Warden and other offiicals..
- Schmid was captured without
resistance by two city policemen
here early yesterday as he tried
to reach his mother’s home. He
was armed with two pistols.
Police surrounded a tourist
court cabin in the southwestern
section of the city last night when
the operator, C. A. Jensen, report
ed a man he recognized as Gilbert
had, registered during the after
noon. 4
The policemer battered on &e‘
c¢abin. door and jordered the occu=
pant to come out. :
The answer was a blast of pistol
fire from the cabin’s attic. Detec
tive Ed Langevin fell wounded.
Police poured bullets through
the thin cabin walls.
Blood Flows
They knew their man was hit
when blood streaked the white ex
terior of the cabin.
“Don’t shoot anymore. I'm hit
in the head,” Gilbert shouted
above the gunfire.
As police held their fire, Gilbert
came to the door.
He threw it open and, blood
streaming down his naked body,l
stood swaying in the glare of police
lights.
“Raise your hands,” Sgt. Orme
Moorhead shouted. Y
Instead, Gilbert raised a pistol
in his right hand.
Police cut him down in the door
way.
His body was riddled with 12
bullet holes. His pistol was emp
ty.
Gilbert was taking a shower
when police reached the cabin.
Pair Held
Gilbert’s companion, Schmid,
and the woman they kidnapped,
Florence Margaret Chisholm, 31,
Phoenix, already were being taken
to California when he was killed.
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Livestock
Group Names
49 Officers
A. P/ Winston was named presi
dent of the Northeast Georgia
Livestock Association at a meeting
of the directors heid ¥Friday in the
Athens Civic Hall. Other officers
elected included: W. S. Lowe,
vice-president; D. L. Branyon,
secretary; and S. E. Patat, treas
urer.
Twelve directors were named
for the coming year, including: L.
O. Price, Malcom Rowe, A. P.
Winston, F. E. McHugh, W. A.
Sams, E. O. Cabaniss, J. R. West
brook, Mac Cobb, W. C. Alexan
der, E. K. Davis, W. T. Cunning
ham, and W. S, Lowe.
Total sales at the local livestock
sales barn during the last year
were announced in excess of $2,-
030,000. ;
After regular business and the
election of officers and directors
had been conducted, prize-win-~
ners in the grazing contest spon
sored by the Association were an
nounced.
Prizes were given to both adults
and 4-H boys in four of the seven
counties in which the contest was
conducted, with a cash total of
$530 being awarded.
Winners included:
Clarke County — (adults) Mrs.
L. M. Sheffer, Howard Vaughn,
and H. E. Wood; (4-H boys) Ron
nie Clements, Harold Barton, and
Ray Cochran.
Barrow County—(adults) Clyde
Haynie, T. F. Maynard, and Ernest
1.. McLocklin.
Jackson County — (adults) Joe
and Jimmy Johnson, Tom and Jim
Davis, J. D. Jewell, Luther Free
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ONE BIG HEAVE . . . AND OUT COMES GRADY—
Ralph Partridge (top), farm editor of the Denver Post,
gives a big heave to Grady, the famous silo-imprisonea
cow, at Yukon, Okla.. Saturday. In photo at bottom,
‘Grady, well greased, pops out of her tiny silo door like
a watermelon seed squeezed between finger ard thmub.
Rehind her, Dr. L. J. Crump, the veterinary, assists,
with co-owner Bill Mach at right. Grady came through
in great shape but later was groggy from knockoat
drops they gave her which proved unnecessary. Editor
Partridge engineered the freeing of the cow whiek
wandered somehow into the silo iast Tuesday. — (AP
Wirephoto,) e
13 States Pondering
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Anti - Communist Bans
By The Associated Press
Thirteen states are considering proposals to bar Com
munists from public jobs. . W
. Some measures now before legislatures would require
people on public payrolls, including teachers, to take
loyalty oaths.- ’ e
Other bills are aimed at keeping Communists out of a
wide range of positions.
Maryland and Illinois are
studying suggestions for outlaw
ing the Communist Party,
Moves are under way in &her
states to put a crimp in the party
line in one way or another.
Qaths of loyalty or ailegiance
to the U. S. would be required of
public school teachers and uni
versity professors in Oklahoma,
Nebraska and New Hampshire.
All public officials and candi
dates for public office would
have to do likewise in Califor
nia.
In Texas, all state officials
A LOCAL NEED
Lack Of Instruments Badly
Handicaps Study Of Musie
By BITSI JENKINS
Training in music at the Univer
sity, of Georgia = Demonstration
School is seriously handicapped
because of a lack of instruments,
according to John H. Anderson,
assistant professor of music at the
University and leader of the De
monstration School orchestra.
“We have plenty of students
who would like to and could. play
in the orchestra, but we don’t
have intsruments for them to
play,” he said.
Mr. Anderson made this state
ment today in anticipation of the
appearance of the Milledgeville A
Cappella Choir in the Fine Arts
Auditorium, March 4. Proceeds
from the program, sponsored by
the Civitan Club, will be used to
buy instruments for the Demon
stration School orchestra.
The orchestra consists of 35 in
struments — six clarinets, seven
trumpets, two saxophones, two
saxophones, two trombones, six
tsring instruments. A flute and an
French horn have been ordered.
~ #The music students at the school
and employes, including those in
schools that get money from the
gtate” <would have to swenr thay
never have been members of the
Communist Party or other sub
versive group.
In Arkansas, all pubiic em
ployes, including teachers, would
have to sign affidavits that they
are not Comrmunists before they
get their salaries.
In New York, all civil service
employes cf state and city gov
ernments and teachers and pro
fessors would have to take non
: (Continued on Fage dIX.)
are divided into two groups, the
beginners and the advanced. Ad
vanced students play in the or
chestra, and the beginners are
trained to take their places as the
advanced students drop cut or as
new instruments are obtained.
The students play short orches
tral pieces, marches, and folk
tunes now, but are working up to
the more difficult pieces. A quan
tity of new music has just been
added. « \
Some of the students play
well enough to sole. The clarinet
qguartet is planning to enter the
distruct music contest.
Robert Harrison, assistant pro
fessor of music at the University,
is in charge of the string instru
ments in the orchestra. University
music students assist Mr. Ander
son with the other instruments.
This is the second year that the
school has had an orchestra, but
there has been some work teward
one for about three yéars.
The orchestra on Dec. 1€ pre
sented a program which featured
Christmas carols. Another pro-~
gram is planned for March. =
Home
Eelatimry
French Major
Admits Giving
Reds Secrets
By The Assoctated Press
| The French government, busily
iwaging"a drive to purge Commun-
Liat ‘alamants’ S3IB tohay o i
[mum'st army major has confessed
turning army documents over to
a “foreign military attache.”
The Interior Ministry sai‘d the
officer—identified only as a “Ma~-
Jor Teulery”—was on active serv=-
‘ice with the French Army and had
)admitted handing over “numerous
documents which he had been able
‘to collect in his jobs in the offices
\of the Ministry of Munitions and
National Defense.
~ The attache was not identified,
nor was the country he represents
named. The major was identified
as stockholder in the Communist
weekly, France D’Abord, whose
business manager was arrested
Friday. The Ministry said another
officer, a captain charged with
giving defense secrets to the paper,
also will be court martialled.
Many Frenchmen wondered
nervously haw far France would
go in the purge, as the campaign
against Communists on the parlia
mentary front continued with an
official request for lifting the im
munity of Florimond Bonte, a
Communist leader in the National
Assembly and party press spokes
man.
The Assembly was consider this
week similar measures on Marcel
-Cachin, veteran Communist leader
and editor. Also slated for official
scrutiny is Maurice Thorez, sec
retary general of the party.
Labor Unrest
France’s Communists are ac
cused of inciting labor unrest and
declaring that “France will never
fight the Soviet Union” but that
Frenchmen should welcome the
Soviet “Army if it moved into
France, .
i Elsewhere in Europe the Rus
sians were running into opposition.
‘Denmark appeared lined up
firmly with the West in the cold
war and there were indications
Sweden, too, is leaning in that
‘direction.
Denmark’s position in the North
Atlantic Defense Alliance — pro
posed Western Military Alliance
against Russian expansion — was
made clear yesterday when the
country’s largest political party,
the Social Democrats, decided to
look to the West for security.
Fiery Plea
Winston Churchill made a fiery
plea for European unity in Brus
sels yesterday amid Communist
heckling. The former British
Prime Minister declared a unified
Europe was “the sole means of
preventing another hideous war.”
The admintsartion in Washing
ton advised Congress today the
proposed $940,000,000 in new aid
to Britain is the absolute mini
mum needed and warned any re
duction would “adversely affect
continued recovery in both the
United States and Western
Europe.”
The fourth defendant in Bul
garia’s spy trial of 15 Bulgarian
Protestant Clergymen pleaded
guilty today -as the hearing went
into its third straight day in court,
Like the others, the fourth de
fendant—The ev. Georgi Cher
nov—llaunched into a long con
fession of espionage for the U. S.
and Britain.
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SI.OOO Fire
Here Today
Fire caused an estimated SI,OOO
damages to Prof. U. H. Daven
port’s home at 1123 Prince Ave.
thxs morning, firemen reported
toaay.
The fire was started when
plumbers, melting a pipe with a
torch, accidentally set the wall
afire, firemen said.
The fire was quickly brought
under control after the engines
arrived.
The fire department also an
swered a call to an automobile
on fire on Lumpkin street at noon
today, but no serious damage re
sulted from the blaze.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and colder tonight.
Tuesday fair and eontinued
rather cold.
GEORGIA—Fair, windy and
rather cold this afternoon. Fair
and colder tonight with lowest
temperatures 24 to 30 in ex
treme northern sections; 30 to
35 in central pertions; and 35
0o 40 in exireme souih. ¥Frost
in the interior tonight. Tues
day fair and continued cool.
TEMPERATURE
Bighest oapiviic s+ 1B
TOWESE . 50 SBk i enkitii i AR
MEERN . . oo ababinns v nrssen B
Noarpmal 0:0 . i 0048
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ..... .23
Total since February 1 .. 7.06
Excess since February 1.. 187
Average February rainfall 5.09
Total since January 1 .... 1112 .