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FIRST BUS LEAVING BERLIN AT END OF
BLOCKADE — German workmen make merry
on the fenders and engine hood of a bus which
takes them out of Berlin as the Russian block
ade lifts. This vehicle ic the first outgoing bus
GERMANS CELEBRATE AS REDS
REMOVE BERLIN IRON CURTAIN
Flag-Decked
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City Receives
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Food, Supplies.
BERLIN, May 12— (AP)—The
Russians pulled up their German
Iron Curtain today, ending their
327 day-old Berlin Blockade, ma
jor sore spot of the Cold War.
Ground traffic flowed on
through the day, by rail and by
highway, pouring supplies and
passengers into the long-besieged
old capital city from the west for
the first time in nearly 11 months.
The blockade-lifting had all the
fanfare of a Hollywood movie pre
miere, and the people, convinced
that at last this phase of the Cold
War was ended, whooped- it up in
the flag-decked city.
The Russian and Western Allied
Military outdid each other in cour
tesy as the barricades went down
ending the blockade, and the al
lied counterblockade., There was
a general display of good will and
smiling readiness to cut red tape.
But the Western Allies were
taking nothing for granted. Their
airlift, which had made the block
ade a useless Soviet weapon by
flying in the food, fuel and raw
materials needed by West Berlin’s
2,000,000 residents, continued fly
ing. It is to continue at least 30
days, building a stockpile of sup
plies and giving a chance to really
sound out Russian intentions. To
day’s flights kept supplies coming
;n alt about a 500-ton per hour
evel.
Fuél Trains
Allied military trams, followed
by food and fuel trains, were the
first into Berlin after the barriers
went down one minute after mid
night. Foreign correspondents,
racing down Hitler’s famous sup
er-highway, were the first into
Berlin from the West.
The vehicles had a big send-off
* at the old barrier points, which
had been cleared of steel and con
trete obstructions by work crews.
There were cheering crowds, spe
cial lighting for the camera men,
and a big display of the black, red
and gold colors of the new West
German government. The trains
Were plastered with placarded slo
gans, '
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Livestock Show
Scheduled Here
lomorrow Night
Ag Hill will bring out its fin
stin livestock and handlers Fri
day, May 13, when the Universi
ty of Georgia’s twenty-sixth an
hual Little International Live-
Stock. Show gets underway in
Hardman Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Sponsored by the Saddle and
Sirloin Club, a group of .animal
husbandry majors, the livestock
show will feature showing and
judging of farm animals from
University herds, Animals shown
Will include beef and dairy cat
tle, horses, sheep, and swine.
The Little International shows
are the biggest thing the Univer-
Sity presents in the way of farm
animal exhibits, and breeders
from all over the state are ex
bected to attend the judging. Top
Guality of animals and handiers
Dromises to ‘make + this year’s
show one of the best in the
school’s history, -
Television Demonsiration To Be First Of lis Kind Here
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
to leave the German metropolis for the Western
Zone after relaxation of triavel restrictions im
posed neraly a year ago. 'l‘e German sign on
the front reads: “Hurray, We Still Live.”— (AP
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RAILL. WORKERS LIFTING BLOCKADE—
German rail workers rcmove a barrier that has
blocked rail traffic between Germany’s British
Zone and the Soviet Zone for 11 months at
Helmstedt, Germany. Although the blockade
TOMORROW NIGHT, 8:30
TV Show Highlights
Radio Institute Here
Television in action—a full evening’s entertainment—
will be presented Friday night at 8:30 in the Univarsity
Fine Arts Auditorium ps one of the highlights of the
fourth annual Radio Institute.
The cooperation of Byron War
ner and the University Glee Club;
Radio station WAGA, Atlanta; andl
the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism will make possible this\
first demonstration of its kind in|
Athens.
Directing and producing the pro
gram will be George B. Storer, jr.,
and Miss Marian Hine, Grady
alumna, from the Atlanta radio
station.
The public is invited, and by
reason* of an anticipated heavy
attendance, seats will-be available
to persons in crder of their arrival
at the auditorium. |
. GLEE CLUB SINGS |
The Glee Club, which has re
cently returned irom a successfull
Georgia tour, will present several
numbers using the entire club
membership, There will be spec
jalty and comedy acts, and Miss
Jane Schneider will sing several
solos.
‘ Radio executives gnd workers
from all parts oi Georgia began
arriving in Athens this afternoon
for the Institute which concludes
Saturday afternoon. The meeting,
sponsored jointly by the Grady
School and the Georgia Association
of Broadcasters, - will officially
open tonight at a dinner meeting
‘at the Georgian Hotel. Gov. Her
man Talmadge will deliver the
has ended, the struggle between the Soviet
Union and Western Allies over Germany’s des
tiny is expected to continue. — (NEA Tele
photo.)
principal address.
Institute Hosts
Hosts for the occasion will be|
Radio*Stations WRFC and WGAU, |
and DiGamma Kappa, honorary |
radio fraternity. Governor Tal
madge will be,introduced by G. A.
B. President John Fulton, WGST,
Radio station WGAU will re- |
cord Gov. Herman Talmadge'’s
address at the Radio Institute
here tonight =nd the speech will |
be broadcast at 10:30 tonight. |
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Atlanta, and Lee Nance, president
of DiGamma Kappa, will preside.
The ‘meeting's program, ar=:
ranged jointly by Institute Chair=
man, Allen M. Woodall, WDAK,
Columbus, and John E. Drewry,
dean of the Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism this year
featurgs, ‘addresses by nearly a
‘dozen outstanding broadcasters
~and public figures.
Scheduled to address Institute
' members and guests are Elmer Da
vis, famous ABC news commenta
tor; George Moscovics, television
expert, CBS, New York; ,Sam
Slate, British Broadcasting Corpo
ration, New York; Irvin Abeloff,
WLEE, Richmond; Va.; Ken
Treadwell, WBT, Charlotte, N. C.;
Enid Day, Davidson-Paxon Com
pany, Atlanta; Fred A. Palmer,
(Continued on Page Three.)
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949,
ARRESTED ON
An excited housewife called
the police department this
morning,
“There’s an alligator on my
front lawn, snapping at every
thing,” she said.
The desk sergeant tried to
be reassuring.
“Just leave him alone, lady;
mayvhe he’ll gg away.”
“ll! do no such thing, you
send somebody out after him,"”
the housewife replied.
So the call went out over the
police radio. A prowl car was
sent to the home on Prince
avenue, Motorcycle Officer
Emory Sanders also rushed to
the scene. He arrived first.
Sure encugh, there was an
alligator, about two feet lens,
snapping at everything within
reach,
No ane could figure where
he came from, Officer Sanders
decided to keép him for a pet.
79 CLARKE
CITIZENS
REGISTERED
A total of 79 Clarke county citi- |‘
zens were registered to vote Wed
nesday on the first day of regis
tration under the act passed by
the last State General Assembly.
Of the 79 registered, 71 were
white voters and 6 were colored,
Mrs. Annie E. Griffeth, chairman
of the Board of Registrars, said.
Other members of the Board, all
of whom were present for yester
day’s first day of regiStration are
James Storey and Rufus Crane.
Two applications were held over
until next Monday. Both were col
ored applicants who failed to pass
the litéracy test, and will be given
the question test Menday.
Registration procedure is simple
and will prove of very little trou
ble to by far the great majority
of citizens. Very little time is con
sumed in registration.
The registrars work seven hours
daily, six days a week, their hours
being from 9 to 12 noon and from
1 p. m. until 4 p. m.
On the basis of registering 79 in
‘a seven-hour period Wednesday,
which gives an average of slight
ly more than 5 minutes per regis
tration, and with about 12,000 on
the old registration list, it will
take the registrars something like
145 working days to re-register
the old list, exclusive of any new
registrants, and provided the av
erage speed of Wednesday can be
maintained. :
~IIUNAWAY GIRLS
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 12—
(AP)—Two 16-year-old runaway
girls and their parents who flew
here to get them were ready to go
back home today and forget their
cross-country venture,
Spy Probers Order
Hush - Hush Session
Senate Committee Questions
Mysterious Witness “Mr. X”
WASHINGTON, May 12.— (AP) —Senate investigators
of Communist spy activities arranged a hush-hush meet
ing behind closed doors today to question a mystery wit
ness they call “Mr. X.” .
Senator McCarran (D.-Nev.),
chairman of the Judiciary Sub
committee conducting the in
quiry, refused to give the slight
est clue to the man’s identity.
Subcommittee aides said the
witness summoned to the se
¢ret session is “in danger of his
life” and cannot be named “be
cause of his connections abroad.”
MecCarran said only:
“If he wasn’t important, he
would not be brought before us;
if he was not very important, he
would not be brought before us
in closed session.”
The witness was called in con
nection with hearings on a bill
by McCarran which calls for the
deportation of any alien found to
he engaged in subversive activi
ties against the Unietd States. It
also is designed to strengthen
the immigration barriers.
U. N. Spies .
The bill, McCarran has said,
is aimed, particularly at foreign
agents who come inte the coun
try under the guise of represen
tatives of the United Nations and
other international groups.
At a public session late yester
day the subcommittee was told
that Dr. J. Vilfan, Yugosiavia’'s
chief delegate to the U. N, is
“the main, top man for espion
age in this country concerning
the Yugoslavs.”
The sworn testimony came
from Bogdan Raditsa, a former
information officer at the Yugo
slav Embassy in Washington.
Baditsa said he bdoke with the
government of Marshal Tito in
1946 and later re-entered this
country as a displaced person,
Earlier Raditsa had testified
that Vilfan in Europe sent “hun
j mo'fisands of innocent
Yugoslavs” to their deaths. The
witness also said Vilfan now is
“developing a seeret police net
work” from a luxurious Fifth
Avenue apartment in New York.
Raditsa called Vilfan “a mem
ber of the Central Committee for
the Slovenian Communist Party.”
In New York, Vilfan described
Raditsa as an unimportant man
whose charges are absurd.
Stands Fall,
Strikers Hurt
ATLANTA, May 12 —(AP) —‘
A portable bleacher section col
lapsed today at a mass meeting of
striking Atlanta bus drivers and
at least eight were injured.
Two men were carried on
stretchers and six others were
taken by ambulances to Grady
hospital. -
Doctors inside the meeting hall
gave first aid treatment toc cthers.
The 1,400 drivers had convened
for their first meeting in 12 day
transit tie up to hear a report on
negotiations with the Georgia
Power Company.
Action was delayed when a six
foot high portable grandstand
seating about 75 men collapsed.
Reporters were barred from in
side the hall and accurate esti
mates of the injured were not
available immediateiy.
Apparently the most seriously
injured were B. C. Rutledge, in
jured in chest, and C. W. Dooly,
whose hip was hurt. Both were
rolled out of the meeting on
stretchers. .
~ Dr. George M. ®parks, head of
the Atlanta Evening College
where the meeting was held, said
the seats fell because they were
not bolted to the floor as they
should have been.
. Police Officer L. O. Davis, who
helped bring the injured out, said
he did not think any were in crit
ical condition.
|
Reds Attack
. \
Near Shanghai
CHANGHAI, May 12—(AP)—
Red forces pushed to within 21
miles of Shanghai today.
Two separate Communist at
tacks were underway. The near
est was at Taichang, 21 miles to
the northwest. Bitter fighting
there was reported by the Shan
ghai garrison communique,
A force southwest of this great
Asian city had reached Shihut
ang, a hamlet 25 miles southwest
of Shanghai. Government troops
there were reported holding firm.
On the central China Hankow
front Central News Agency de
scribed fighting of “unprecedented
fury raging.” But from the size
of forces involved this 'action
seemed to be on a small scale.
The Shanghai garrison ordered
all government departments out of
Shanghai withni two weeks.
ISRAEL’S
U. N. BID
APPROVED
NEW YORK, May 12 —(AP)—
Israel’s admission as the 59th
member of the United Nations has
finally been approved. A simple
flag-raising ceremony today winds
up the formalities.
The General Assembly approv
ed the Israeli application last nigni
by a vote of 37-12, with nine
countries abstaining.
The decision was followed by
an Arab walk-out, but some of the
Arab countries’ representatives
returned for a late night meeting,
indicating that the protest was
ended.
The Assembly has been sched
uled to return to plenary session
today but a last-minute change
calls for committee meetings at
Lake Success at 9:30 a. m. (EST)
instead. Officials decided some of
the committee reports were not
yvet ready for Assembly action.
The officials said the delegates
might return to plenary sessions
later in the day with debate on
draft agreement on freedom of
information topping the agenda.
This was one of the three major
issues still awaiting action before
Saturday’s scheduled adjournment
of this spring assembly session.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett took his seat as a regular
delegate immediatel¥ after yes
terday’s vote. He delivered a for
mal address on Israel's general
for eign policy. ;
Sharett, however, took no part
in debate last night -en the. first
issue to come up after Israel’s ad
mission. This was a proposal to
postpone action until next fall on
the Dutch-Indonesian dispute. Is
rael abstained when the assembly
voted 43-6 approving the defer
ment. ¥
The Spanish question comes up
after freedom of information.
The assembly has before it a
recommendation of its political
committee that member nations be
given complete freedom to decide
whether they would restore fuil
diplomatic relations - with the
Franco regime. A 1546 assembly
resolution = recommended -the
withdrawal of top diplomatic rep
resentatives from Madrid.
The political committe voted 25
to 16, with 18 abstentions, in favor
of lifting the restrictions. Only a
simple majority is required, but
in the assembly itself two-thirds
of those present and voting are
needed for approval. ’
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and mild tonight and
Friday.
GEORGIA — Considerable
cloudiness in coastal areas but
mostly fair and mild this after
noon, tonight and Friday; war
mer Friday.
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A COMPLETE CHANGE OF BLOOD! — Louis Castellanos, 26,
Army veteran, gets washed out with blood at San Diego, Calif.,
in an unusual attempt S\combat leukemia, His normal supply of
eight to 10 pints will be entirely new after about 30 pints are
passed through him. His fatheér, F. G, Castellanos, watches Nurse
Mary Crooks and Dr, Francisce Sanchez perform the cperation.
—(AP Wirephoto.)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
WILL OPEN
Should Saturday and Sunday
of this week duplicate last
week’s scorching week-end, the
Athens public can take refuge
or sunbaths at the Legion Pool.
The Athens Recreation De
partment, who operates the pool
on lease from the Allen R. Flem
ing Post No. 20, announces that
the opening of the 1949 swim
ming season is set for two
o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Admission will be twenty
five cents for adults and four
teen ceris for children, thus
duplicating the bargain rates es
tablished last summer,
Every consideration is being
given the comfort and conven
ience of both swimmers and
spectators, and with a fifteen
day shining up program already
complete, the facility will be in
top shape for opening day.
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Athenians Intensify
A BY JOHN T. YOUNG
Publicity Co-Chairman ;
The newly organized group of Adopted Athenians met
again Wednesday night in the Chamber of Commerce
Civic Hall and made further plans te help put across a
favorable vote May 24th on the school -bend issue.
School Sites
chool Site:
Is Praised
By Athenian
In a radio talk yesterday over
WRFC advocating passage of the
$1,000,000 bond issure which will
be voted on May 24th, Mrs. Rob
ert G. Stephens, jr., stressed. the
need for providing high school
students with the best nossible
facilities.
‘Mrs. Stephens pointed out the
defects in the present high school
building_and the lack of physical
facilities. The radioc programs
over WGAU and WRFC will con
tinue until May 24th, the date of
the bond election.
Mrs. Rollins Chambliss spoke
this morning. Mrs. W. L. Liddell
will speak at 10.30 tomorrow over
the same station. Tonight at 7:15
Councilman Clyde Basham will
speak in behalf of bonds over
WRFC. Mrs. W. M. Crane, jr.,
president of the P. T. A. Council
will speak over WGAU at 2
o’clock p. m,
.~ Mrs. Stephens discussed the
’ school needs as follows:
| Vitally Interested
~ “As a graduate of the Athens
| (Continued on page Five)
HOME
EDITION
PURCHASED
First Baptist Church has pur
chased the M. M. Arnold residence
at 770 South Milledge avenue for
use as a parsonage, it was an
nounced today by Church Trea
surer W. R. Bedgood, sr.
Mr. Bedgood said the church
will take possession of the resi
dence, which has a garage apart
ment in the rear, on July 1, and
marks the first time within his
knowledge that the church has
owned a parsonage.
Another recent residential pur
chase is that of University Head
Football Coach Wallace Butts, who
has bought the home of Frank Mc-
Elreath at 498 Highland avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. McElreath are ex
panding and renovating their lake
home five miles from the city on
the Atlanta Highway as their fu
ture residence.
Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor of First
Preskyterian Church, and Mrs.
Hill have recently movad into their
new home at 295 Springdale street,
which they purchased from Prof.
Hugh Henry, formerly of the Uni
versity faculty, who has moved to
Oak Ridge, Tenn., to become con
nected with the atomic project
there.
Jim Sharpe, chairman of this
group, presided over an enlight
ening discussion in which Howard
Mc¢Whorter, chairman of the
Board of Education, Fred Ayers,
superintendent of Schools, Mrs.
Warren Thurmond, chairman of
the Athens P. T. A., organization,
and Jimmie Williams, chairman
of the Athens Alumini Group, took
major roles.
High School
This group now feeis that they
are better prepared than ever to
convince voters of the acute need
for a new high school in Athens,
as well as improvements to other
schools in the city.
One of the highlights of the dis
cussion was the emphasis brought
out by Mr. Sharpe and others as
to the fire hazard existing in the
present High School Building.
Plans are being formulated to
urge Athenians who have never
visited Athens High School or who
have not looked over present fac
ilities for some time to go out and
see for themselves wherein Ath
‘ens has been one of the most
‘backward of all Georgia cities in
providing a safe and adequate
rHigh School Building. These pians
include the furnishing of ‘trans
portation for those who desire
same in connection with visiting
the present Athens High School
Building. Voters are urged to
watch for an important announce
ment on this. ;
Chairmen of Ward Committees
were chosen as follows:
First Ward—F. C. Thompson.
Second Ward—Dr. W. P. Horton.
Third Ward—Ernest C. Crymes.
Fourth Ward—Ezra Fulcher.
Fifth Ward—Joe Crawford.
This group of Adopted Athen
ians, consisting largely of young
pusiness men who have settled
down in Athens after having gone
to school elsewnere, feels that
improvements in.our school facili
ties are just as important to them
as any other group of Athenians,
and they are anxious to work in
close coordination with all other
groups who are endeavoring 1o
put across these bonds in the most
important election ever held in
Athens. They feel that a vote for
bonds is a vote for investment in
progress that will favorably af_-
sect every Athenian, either di~
rectly or indirectly, whether they
have children or not.
I I
Amos ‘N’ Andy
. .
In Radio Suit
LOS ANGELES, May 12—(AP)
—Amos ‘n’ Andy have been sued
for $300,000.
The William Morris Talent
Agency, which filed the action yes
terday, claims it lost a weekly
commission of SII,OOO after nego
tiating a contract for the radio
comedians with Lever Bros. Com
pany.
The suit alleges Amos ‘n’ Andy
sold their program to the Columbia
Broadcasting System for $2,000,-
000 last summer and tried to end
commission payments to the agen=
cy, contending the Lever Bros.
contract was terminated.