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Vel CXVII, No. 168. Associated Press Service
ATLANTA JUDGE SHOOTS DOWN RIVAL LAWYER
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ATLANTA, - July 27.—(AP)—
An Atlanta judge early today
<hot down a lawyer, his oppon
ent in a tangle of divorce suits
and other legal actions.
At about 2:30 a. m., police re
ported, Fulton County Civil Court
Judge Robert Carpenter, 44, pull
ed his car alongside one driven
by Attorney John Lockwood, 53,
and fired at him five times with a
pistol. ; :
One shot wounded the lawyer
in the face. He ran irom the car
and tumbled into a muddy, 40-
toot deep hole. A hospital report
ed his condition was fair. : |
Carpenter and Lockwood were
former business associates, but in 1
recent months had become bitter
opponents in nine eourt actions.
The judge wa ssued for divorce
by his wife, Mrs. Helen Carpen
ter, who charged cruelty, She
also filed & sloo,oov a]ie'fition' of
affections suit against Mrs, Es
telle G. Manful, alleging the judge
was in love with her. ;
Carpenter in turn filed a dl-l
vorce action aaginst Mrs. Carpen
ter, In it he alleged Lockwood
had joined with Mrs, Carpenter
in an effort to defraud him of the
Imperial Hotel. He also charged
that Lockwoed, whom he deserib- |
ed as one of his best friends, and i
his wife planned to be married |
themselves. ,
Lockwood Suit
Lockwood filed a suit against
Carpenter, claiming the " judge
owed him SIO,OOO for legal serv=
ices in filing income tax adjust
ment claims. He also filed a
SIOO,OOO glander sult against Car
penter. &
Police Officers C. E. Walker
and J. M. Stephens said the judge
freely admitted shooting Lock
wood. The officers gave these de
talls:
The shooting occurred at a gas
oline station, across the street
from two echurches, on Atlanta’sl
northside. The two automobiles
vere side by side in the street,
about seven feet apart apart, Bul
lets had pierced the windshield
and left front window eof Lock
wood's car, i
Fire Ladder Used - |
Fulton Police Captain John V.
Davis said when he arrived at
‘he scene, Judge Carpenter was
leaning against his automobile.
The captain said Carpenter in
formed him that he “had shot
Lockwood” and that the attorney
lad run from his car to the rear
of the filling station, where he
had fallen into a hole.
Lockwood was removed from
ihe excavation by police using a
fire departgent ladder.
Davis said he found a black
jack and a .38 caliber pistol in
Carpenter’s car, Te said he found
a 25 caliber automatic’ in the|
lawyer’s. It had not been fired.
Judge Carpenter was jailed Onl
a 1 charge of shocting at another,
and was released on SSOO bond.
Mrs. Carpenter visited briefly
with Lockwood at the city hos
vital where he was ecarried first
She held his hand ag an orderly
wheeled him from the X-ray |
‘oom back into the emergency '
ciinic for further examination. |
JENIES CHARGES i\
MRS. FDR
ANSWERS
SPELLMAN
HYDE PARK, N, Y., July 87—
AP)—Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
elt, denying any “bias .g‘m',s
1¢ Roman gtholic Church,
aid today she would “econtinue
0 stand for the things in our
‘overnment which I think are
right.”
She made the statemments in a
‘etter to Francis Cardinal 3‘“’
an who assailed her last Friday
0 & letter for a “record of anti-
Atholicism unworthy of an Am
rican mother,
“T assure you,” wrote Mrs.
"oosevelt, “that 1 have no sense
"t being an unworthy American
nother. The final ihdimafil my
‘lear Cardingl g n, of the
vorthiness of all huxzun beings is
1 the hands of God.
The controversy stemmed from
rs. Roosevelt's O‘l:Mu°:°°;:
ederal aid 4o ial sc .
Cardinal lp‘fl.r;‘:en said Mrs.
oosevelt aligned herself with
‘ackers of the Barden bill in her
'une 23 column and two others.
'he Barden bill would permit
ederal aid only to publie schools.
Ars. Roosevelt mentioned Cardi
&l Spellman’s opposition soothe
‘arden bill i her column,
— R
Yanks Warned
f Ching Danger
WASHINGTON, July 27—(AP)
~Secvetary of State Acheson said
1. that Americang remaining in
hing- face the danger of DQ:‘?E
cated gy hostages by the Com
a uhlists,
He tolq g news eonference that
‘mbassadop J. Leighton Stuart,
" Preparing 49 return to the Unit
’:n ?i?:ex for conlultatlogl. ::t’
5 10 numeroyg difficulties
3 his way yy Communist authori
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straw hat), a big tobacco grower in the
Georgia-Florida belt, officiates at sale of
the first basket of flue-cured leaf at Val
dosta, Ga, This basket was sold for 60
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l British Request For
More Funds Seen As
Marshall Plan Threat
BY HARVEY HUDSON &
PARIS, July 27 — (AP) —Brit
ain’s critical dollar shortage has
exploded into an economic crisis
i for all the Marshall plan coun
tries. ;
i - The un ted British request
‘tox $624m,000 more American
jaid than had been tentatively al
lotted to her, broke like a bomb=
shell among the other gountries.
This was especially true since
the others had become resigned to
a slash in available funds.
Leaders of the Democratic part
ty in the United States Congress
agreed yesterday to an appropria
tion of about 16 per cent below
what the European countries had
hoped to receive.
One French official said yester
' day the British request “could
break the Marshall plan wide
open.”
An American economist - com=
mented that the other European
nations “will never stand for it
(the British request).”
~ 'The British reqguest was trans
mitted Saturday in a secret note
to the organization for European
Economic Cooperation (OEEC).
This is the organization which
splits up the Marshall plan funds,
Note Leak |
Contents of the note leaked out
to the press yesterday. |
The British said reserved cal- |
culations showed the sterling area l
would have a dollar deficit of sl,-
547,000,000 for the year starting
‘July 1. It implied that Britain
would need inat much doliar aid
or would have to cut its imports
and undergo a drop in living
standards.
For 1948-1949, Brituin receiv
ec $1,239,000,000. When the re
quests originall{ were submitted
for 1949-50 Britain estimated she
would need $1,114,000,000. She
pointed out that this was a 10 per
c¢ent cut from the Srevious year.
Funds Slash
The American" Economic Coop=
eration Administration, in a gen
eral scaling down of all reguestl
reduced Britain’s share to $923,-
000,000. This amount was based
on an American appropriation of
fl.gG0,000.000.
ongress has trimmed the
amount still further and pros‘ucu
are for an a&%topriauon of lese
than $4,000,000,000. :
If Britain’s newly proposed re
quest were granted it would mean
other European countries would
have to sgive up dollars to help
Britain, Since flx&;flhares of all na
ticns must be trifhmed in line with
the reduced American appropria=
tion, it was considered unlikely
that they would be willing to
make any such sacrifice.
The crisis arises because all de
cisiong of the OIEC must be un
animous. If Britain should hold
out for a bigger share in the face
of the greatly reduced number of
dollars, she might wreck all hope
0« real cooperation.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Yair and continued hot
through Thursday,
GEORGIA—Fair and contin
ued hot this afternoon, tonight
and Thursday.
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Average July rainfall .... 8.01
Total since January 1 ....3193
Excess sinée’ January 1 .. LUi
cents per pound. The 1949 auction sales
opened simultaneously on 22 markets in
south Georgia and north Florida.— (AP
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the first basket of tobacco st the opening of the 1949
market in Jasper, Fla. A few moments later, the profes
gional auctioneer’s chant took up where the Warrens
left off.— (AP Wirephoto.)
French
Ratify
N. A. Pact
PARIS, July 27.~(AP)—The
French National Assembly ap
proved ratification of the North
Atlantic Pact today by a 388 to
187 vote.
The Assembly voted for the
charter after an all-night session
marked by fist fights between
Commuaists and Rightists, -
The pact now will go to the
Council of the Republie —the
upper house of France's legisla
ture—which is expected to give
speedy approval.
The vote was preceded by
stormy debate which brought
tempers to the bolling point, At
one stage the legislatoms became
so uproarious it was necessary to
recess,
Proponents of the pact con
tended that it is a defensive alli
ance intended to protect member
pations from aggression,
The Communists cherged it is
a pact of aggression aimed
egainst Russia and that in sign
ing it, France would be led into
War.
Most of the criticism, apart
fromr Red sniping, came because
no express provision was made
for the United States to supply
military aid to European coun
tries immediately..
Some speakers complained
there were no provisions to as
sure that Germany would not be
rearmed and again become & mil
itary menace to France.
One of the last speakers was
Jecques Duclos, Assembly spokes
man for the Communists. He call
ed the treaty an act of servitude
and aggression which violates the
United Nations Charter and is
aimed against the U, 8. S. R.
Duclos said the alliance was a
product of capitalism which is
preparing a war to save Ameri
can €conviiy.
“A pact of war, a pact of re
action, such’ is the Atlantic Pact,”
Diuclos declared, ¢ -
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949
Opening Day
Sales On
Tobacco Off
- VALDOSTA, GA.,, July 27—
(AP)——Georgia and Florida 10~
bacco growers were a little disap
poinmE—but still hopeful—today
as they took another turn st cash
ing in their 1949 harvest,
The started the nation’s $500,00,-
000 (M) flue-cured crop to the
market yesterday at the 90 ware
in their 22-market, two-state belt.
Opening day reports from the
markets showed average prices
nnqingdtrom $1 a hundred above
to sl3 below 1848 beginnings. Gen
;r.?lly. they were from $1 to $5
ow.
The big Statesboro market, for
instance, was $1.41 under the 1948
opening average—s4B against $49.-
41. But it turned loose $12,536
more in cash because of a jump
from 596,366 to 640,000 pounds in
volume.
A $1 increase was refomd from
Fitzgerald where a lot of good
uality tobacco was offered. At
&utman, wheer the average quali
ty was lower, a sl3 drop from last
z:‘ar was estimated—from $37 to
In a preliminary report, the de
partment of Agriculture guessed
averages at several markets at
fi'om'us to sso—a decided. drop
from last yeer’s belt-wide open
ing average of $53.20.
There was no doubt that the
day’s volume was far ahead of last
vear’s first day total of 8,768,151
(M) pounds. It might well have
reached 10,000,000, judging from
enthusiastic reports of heavy sales
almost everywhere.
Bumper Crop
The crop is a bumpei one—esti
mated to be 18 percent above last
year’s 120,690,013 (M) pounds.
Quality is reported to be except
ional.
The growers hoped, first, that
prices will settle down and im
prove as the Markets continue,
They hcped, also, that, even with
lower prices, the big, quality erop
will bring them as much or more
last year’s $57,304,584 (M).
Their anxiety was no less than
that of thousands of Carolina and
Virginia producers .whose market
seasons come later, -
Bitter Senate Debate Rages
On Corporation Tax Increases
*
House Action
Kills All
“Sub” Bil
üb” Bills
BULLETIN .
ATLANTA, July 27.—
(AP)—The Senate, after
three bitter hours of
wrangling, today passed
the income tax increase
on corporations, 31 to 21.
ATLANTA, July 27—(AP)—
The Senate today tangled bitterly
over an increase in corporation in
come taxes, discarding pro and
anti administratiof party lines.
Even Senator H. R Garrett of
Quitman, ehairman of the Finance
Committee which reported the bill
favorably, said he was against the
measure. ‘
The bill, already approved by
the House, provides for an in
crease in present corporation tax
es of five and a half to a total of
seven ger cent. The administra
‘tion’s floor leader, Crawford Pil
cher of Warrenton, offered an
amended which would limit
the effectiveness of the tax to the
calendar years 1949-1950.
One of the chief opponents of
the bill was Senator Spence Gray
son of Savannah, long time Tal
madge adherent, and Senate pres
ident pro tem.
The House killed all remaining
wndin‘ bills by adjourning its
ays and Means Committe with~
out action on any of them.
SESSION COST
ATLANTA, July 27—(AP)—
The Georgia legislature’s spe
clal session already has cost
state taxpayers $50,000.
State Auditor B. 8. Thrasher
said the average daily cost of
keeping the legislature in ses
sion is $5,500. The General As
fiubly convened Monday, "uly
L A g e P sl »
- The bills mfi ‘left stranded
would have ra?d taxes on sofe
drinks, automobfie license tags,
and would have included aviation
gasoline under sta’. gas taxes.
The House refused to accept a
Senate amendment to the cigar
ette tax increase measure. The
amendment included a one cent
tax on each ten cent sales price on
snuff, smoking tobacco and chew
tigi‘: tobacco. It also doubled cigar
es.”
Tobaceo Bill
There were some indications the
Senate would not insist on its
amendment and the tax increase
on the other forms of tobacco
would be killed.
The House accepted the Sen te's
amendment to the beer tax in
crease giving the state revenue
commissioner power to refuse
beer licenses so persons not of
good character,
That sent the bill to the govern
ol for his signature.
Yesterday, the Senate delivered
the one-cent gasoline tax increase
bill to the governor for signature,
the bill passed 29 ‘o 20, with 27
needed, givinf the administration
i‘u closest eall of the special ses
sion,
Bales Tax
The House killed a sales tax
prmlal 119 to 37.
lower chamber approved
however, 163 to 3, an amendeé
appropriations bill giving the gov
ernor considerable latitude in the
spending of the $20,500,000 to be
raised through new taxes.
Botaa Houses have omayed an
addition ot two cents on cigar
ettes and beer. Since the Senate
amended the:n they are now back
(Continued on Page Two)
PASSES HOUSE FIFTH TIME
Senate Action Unlikely
On Anti-Poll Tax Measure
WASHINGTON, July = 27.—
(AP)—An anti-poll tax bill was
laid today on the Senatd’s door
steps, with ilndications that it
would be abandoned there.
A 273 to 118 House vote sent it
over, ignoring arguments by Sou
thern opponents that it and other
civil rights bills are likely to
bolster the Ku Klux Klan.
It was the fifth time in less
than ten years that the House has
gone through the formality of
passing such a bill. Four times
previously the Senate has refused
to consider the bills in the face of
threatened filibusters.
The filibuster threat was raised
again as the House pasesd the
bill late yesterday.
“The bill has about as much
chance of passage in the Senate
as a bird-size snowball has in
Hades,” said Rep. Whecler (D.-
Ga.), who opposed it. A filibus
ter, if nothing else, will stop it
he added. i
Southerners tried to filibuster
it off the House floor but House
debate limitations blocked them
after two days. In the Senate de
bate can go on and on
Should the Senate reverse pre
cedent and pass the bill, oppon
ents said, one immediate effect
will be, for, the Southern poll tax
states to order split « ballots for
. .
Thomasville Senator Assails
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Talmadge As ““Promise Breaker
ATLANTA, July 27.—(AP)—State Senator W, B, Cochran of
Thomasville today called Governor Herman Talmadge a promise
breaker,
Cochran rose to fight increzsed corporation taxes, He told the
Senate that his vote and that of Senator H, R, Garrett were re
=nangihle in 1947 for putting Talmadge in office during the twe
governor squabble,
“If you will recall,” said Cochran, “the first roii call was 122
votes. Then it jumped to 128. Thenr everybody tried to get on the
bandwagon.”
After that vote, Cochran continued, “the Governor met with 18
members of the present Assembly in & room at the Henry Grady.
He made the statement voluntarily that those 128 men who put
him in as Governor could have anything they wanted.
“I asked for one promise,” said Cochran. “The Governor said it
would be done.
“The next morning his secretary called me over at the hotel.
After I got in to see ¢he Governor he told me he would be unable
to fulfill his promise.”
The Thomasville senator said he told Talmadge “if you don’t
tive up to this promise I won’t be able to believe anything you
ever say.”
“Gentlemen,” Cochran went on. “I have been taught to hate &
liar and a thief. If a man will lie to You he will steal fron_x you,
“You have been promised roads and other things but deep
down in my heart I don’t belleve you are gotng to get a thing
you wgren't going to get anyhow.”
American Air Bases
In Arctic Pondered
Bases Would Be Used By Bombers 3
For Refueling In Polar Strikes
BY ELTON C. FAY : !
WASHINGTON, July 27.— (AP) —The Air Force 1s
talking about forward air bases deep in the Arctic at
which bombers could refuel on strikes across the Polar
cap.
A cautious official reference to this hitherto secret
plan for stretching the reach of bombers opemtin(f from
airfields within the United States came to light today.
AP o el L W i, T il Lp el
‘ln a report on plans and money
needs for the new heavy bomber
base at Limestone. Me, the Air
Force says:
“A typicay polar operation might
involve aircraft taking off from
United States air bases, the stag
ing or topping off of these aircraft
at forward bases in northern Cana
da, Greenland, or wven the polar
ice cap.” |
This project may explain how
the USAF can make good its elaim
that the huge B-36 bomber can
strike virtually all “significant
military targets, on the earth from
bases in the western hemisphere.”
The distunce from bases within
the United States itself to potential
targets in the heartland of the Eu
rasian continent would be beyond
the rangs of even the B-36, how
ever, However, the new strategy
suggested in the report indicates
that the inission would operate
like this: '
A B-36, whose home field was
Limestone or some other airdrome
in the United States, would load up
with bombs—and a comparatively
light load of fuel. It would fly two
or three thousand miles to a stag
ing base on the rim oi the Norih
American continent, in Greenland
or elsewhere in the far north.
There the bomwer would “top off”
its fuel tanks (fill them to capa
city.) That would carry the inter
continental bomber to the target
and back to the staging base or to
friendly territory beyond enemy
territory.
Strategists say the advantages
of such Arctie staging bases would
include:
future elections.
Under this procedure, candi
dates for federal office would be
listed on one ballot and ecandi
dates for state and local offices
on another.
A voter who has paid his poll
tax would get both ballots, while
the voter who hasn’t paid would
get only the federal ballot.
The bill applies only to primary
and general elections for Presi
(Continued on Page Two)
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
| LEO DUROCHER, born July 27, 1906, at West foiiun
| Springfield, Mass. This maior league manager and = gy K
lstormy petrel of baseball played the game in high - § PR
,schoo]. After graduation he worked and played S |
| baseball for a factory, A Yankee scout signed him &
|up in 1925 and he was farmed to Hartford, Atlanta SRS i
land St. Paul. In 1928 he played second base for ggg%”gi 4
the Yankees in the World Series, He was with the B & = i
| Cincinnati Reds from 1930 until 1933, when he % e F
v#; traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, where he WG @@ &
| became a star shortstop and team captain. The e
| Cards traded him to Brooklyn in 1938 and he was | § (W&Ee Jd
Imade Dodger manager in 1939. After a year’s sus- [ ”&’ o,
| pension in 1947 “for conduct detrimental to base- go pyrocpen |
lball,” he returned to the Dodgers and last July o
became manager of the Giants. iy 801 :
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
(A) Qperation of forward air
’fielda with a minimum of per
'sonnel and equipment. Only re
fueling equipment would be need
ed. The number of men required
would be small,
(B) At no time would there be
concentration of big bombers at
the forward field (as there would
be if they were major airdromes)
to present a profitable target for
an enemy air raid.
(C) The striking reach of ine
smaller B-29s and B-80s, as well
as the B-36, could be extended.
Posse Kills
Assaulter
In Florida
GREENVILLE] Fla,, July 27—
(AP)—Bullets from a posse’s guns
yesterday cut down the fourth ne
gro wanted for assault which
touched off flaming recial eonfliet
in central Fiorida iasi week.
Three sheriffs led searchers who
cuught the negro, Ernest Thomas,
sleeping in dense woods near here.
Posgsemen shot him to death as he
tried to escape.
He was “bem&?rent as the de
vil,” said Lake unwcrm w.
V RaCsll “He had a loadad Estol
in his hand when he was
and he had his finger around the
trififer."
2C.1l and the other two sher
ifts, Simmie Moore and Bill
Tcwles, said they did not know
who fired the fatal bullet or how
many sho.. were fired.
Thomas and three other mmna
all in their 20s, were accused
assaulting a 17-year-old white
housewife after beating and rob
bing her husband. The other three
have been indicted for assault and
jariel being held in an. undisclosed
ail.
The assault-robbery was fol-
Jowed by mob terrorism against
negroes around Groveland, where
the crime occurred. Three negro
homes were burned. Shots were
tired into others. Gov. Fuller War
ren ordered out 300 National
Gardsm.n to quell the violence.
A search for Thomas centersed
here Sunday afier authorities
lcarned he had relstives in the
area.
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Field Day Here
Veterans of the “Village” o 5 ¢
University of Georgla campus
were being treated today to an
old-fashioned watermelon m
as well as other events, an
affair sponored by the merchants
of T.‘;t.henl.t . ~
watermelon
third such ¢.casion wf?h%enl’l
as the host was the openlm event
at 3 o’clock after which kinds
of sports and recreational num
bers featured the program arrang
ed under direction of “Mayor”
Jack Mavidson of the “Veterans
Village,” where a large number
of war veterans and their families
reside. The eveterans, and in some
cases, their wives are students in
the finlversity.
Baby contests, women’s and
men’s sports contests, a wiener
roast and a dance were listed on
the program.
Children’s events, schsdule! to
begin at 4, include a baby eon~
test for children up to one year,
racing contests for age groups up
to 7 years, and a hopplng gontest
for children from 7 to 10,
Ladies’ events include an egg
race, a water ecup race and a
short step race. For the men
there are a ba g race, a short
step race and a speed race. Mix
ed events include a three-legged
race and a relay.
During the afternon loicles
and ice eream will be tf‘m the
children, alon{ with a free ride
or a special oit ybus.
The wienar roast is set for 738
m. Dancing will begin at 8:350,
with numerov door p!i'fiu to be
xivten. The Village will provide
sitters,
Merchants te
i mgg?omm Am«wmn
e: S e e
Michael’s, Gallant-Belk Com-
I%y, Brai'i‘lvy’l g:-uty Shep,
| ter R. Thomas, M’ohi Bros,
‘Stores, Ine, Arnett's Studio, T,
H. Jackson (Grocery), Rosen~
thal’s Becks, Nolan Clothing
Company, Bush’s, W."A. Capps
Company,
Ficket's, Bradley's, Ernest C,
Crymes Co., Athens fla!ri]cgation
and Appliance C 0.,, Ing., Butles
¥urniture Co,, Classie Art Studio,
Crows’ Drug Store, Hodgkinson's
Gift Shop, Thurmon iumiture |
Co., Moon-Winn Drug Co., Ine,
Economy Auto Stores, ine., gimp- |
‘son Photo Service, Norris Hard
‘ware Co,, Inc. ’
McLellan’s, F. W. Woolworth, '
Van Cleve's, Banders Men’s Shop, |
Richardson — llodrou, ~ Gunr's |
Men’s Store, Booth & Elliott, inc.,
Horton-Reed Drug C 0.,, Hale
Bros. Shoe 8h Tuck’'s Bhoe
Shop, Boley’s, gfitnu Pharmacy.
Co-op Cab €Co., Veterans Cab
Co., J. C. Penney Co., z{oGregor
Co., Benson’s Bakery, A. &Bak
ery, Pitdmont Mar loniak
Stores, Bell's Food ;roa {
gr's ¥ood Store, A. . Food
ore.
Georgian Hotel, N& N Cafete«
ria, Snack Bhack, Old South Res
tourant, Hoiman Hotel, nuaivy’s,
Red Rock Beverage Co., Orange
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