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Vol. CXVII, No. 176. Associated Press Service
Air Mail - - Air Express - - Air Passenger Service Inaugurated Here Today
S ATHENS
Uy GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Southern Airways, Ine. airline
service along with Air Mail and
Air Express service were inaugu=
rated here this morning when the
DC-3 on the first flight of the new
route landed at Athens Municipal
Airport at 11:17 a. m.
Four flights daily will stop in
Athens. All 11:17 a. m. and 6:07
p. m. flights from Atlanta to
Charlotte will land here, and at
4:21 p. m. and 10:36 p. m. flights
#rom Charlotte to Atlanta will stop
in Athens. On all stops air mail
end air express will be taken on
and put off.
Two shipments were received by
air express on the first flight today.
The first parcel recelved by air
express were machine parts for the
Banner-Herald from Chicago, Il
The first crate was received by the
Orange Crush Bottling Company.
1t was machine parts from Cudahy,
Wisc,
Local firms represented with
“first-flight” shipments from Ath
ens were Snow Tire Company,
Quality Machine Company, and
Kellar Machine Company.
J. D. Simpson, agent of Railway
Express Agency of which there is
an Air Express Division, said that
direct air express between Athens
and ‘more than 1,200 airport cities
in the U. S. and Canada was in
sugurated today with the first
flight.
Overnight Delivery
“This newly - established air
shipping service via Southern Air
ways puts local business and in
dustry on direct airline routes to
Atlanta, Memphis, New York and
Chicago,” Mr. Simpson said. “It
will bring virtually every city in
the United States within overnight
delivery from here. Air express
shipments are dispatched on all
passenger flights of SBouthern Air
ways and 27 other scheduled air
lines and the pickup and delivery
service is performed by the ex
press agency.”
Several bags of air mail were
placed on the plane today. The
envelopes had been stamped with
special cachets and were placed on
the first flight under the direction
of Postmaster J. R. Myers. He
said that by having an airline
through Athens air mail service
will be speeded up considerably.
The route will be known as Air
Mail Route No. 98,
One bag of mail for Athens was
taken off the plane.
Interview Made
The first man to step off the
first flight at the first stop, which
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Bolton Rites
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Pending Son's
.
Arrival Home
Funeral arrangements for W. O.
Bclton, Central of Geor&il Rail
road agent here for e past
twenty-eight years, have not
been completed pe..ding « rival of
kis son, Nfajor l.c?,Boykin Bolton,
from Yokahama, Japan, who is
fiving to Athens. 5
Arnnouncement of the arrange
ments will be made by Bridges
Funeral Home when eompleted.
Burial will be in Oconc : Hill cem
etery,
M:. Bolton disd in the Ceniral
o Georgia Hospital in Savannah
Thursday morning t eight o’clock
ester an illness oi two weeks
Mr. Bolton is sußom'wfind gylth“
wi‘e Mrs. Emmie Boy oiton,
Athens; daughter, Miss Emmie
Bolton, Atlanta; son, Major Bol
fon; brother, Rev. Robert Lcwi‘
Bolton, Chapel Hill, 8. C.. an
scveral nieces ana nephews.
Here 28 Years
Mr. Bolton was born in Milner,
Cz, November 27, 1881, and had
been a resident of Athens for the
past twenty-eight years. He was
& member of the First Baptist
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NO NIGHT SUN
Nudists Put
On Clothes,
Attend Show
DENVER, Aug. 85—(AP)—Nud
ists put on their clothes last night
and attended a dramatic show at
their annual eonvention.
“After all we're the American
Sunbathing Association, and
there’s no sun at night,” explained
Mary Kilgore. Sge’s chairman
for the eonvention in Deer Creek
Canyon, southwest of Denver. The
nudists ignored a newspaper read
er's sufgestion they should have
#ssembled in nearby Bear Canyon.
. Last night's aftfair was less so-
Ciable for some of the skinfolk
than their clothesless frolics.
The absence of clothes makes for
2 more iociable life, @ pair .gl To
geka, ans,, fi:l.. idfidr and
Tary, told an interviewer.
"You wnderstand we mean all
slothes off,” Mildred said. “Just a
Wee bit clothes is much worse
than g, all. Teke those
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gieteno:"m m‘u absolutely
cless for swimming purposes.”
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THIS SCENE WASN'T IN THE ACT
Jake, a performing bear, objects to getting into the
barrel and turns on his handler, Buck Robinson, rodeo
clown performing at the Ski Hi Stampede in Monte
Vista, Colo. Cloyd Teter, a Denver Post photographer,
took this picture just as the bear sank his fangs into
Robinson’s left cheek near the eye. Robinson subdued
Jake after he was lacerated severely — and went on
with the show.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Talmadge Declines
Webb’s Funds Plea
Ellis Arnall Linked In Liquor Case;
Governor To Name Own Investigator
ATLANTA, Aug. 5.— (AP) —Governor Herman Tal
madge said today “some of that crowd” involved in an
alleged huge state-protected bootleg liquor ring “may be
staring the penitentiary in the face.”
Talmadge at a news conference declared “all the re
sources of the state at my command will be thrown into an
effort to prosecute and convict the guilty parties.”
The Governor commented for
the first time on accusations that
former Gov, M. E. Thompson and
several of his top officials approv
ed a multi-million dollars illegal
traffic into dry eounties all over
Georgia.
Talmadge, for the first time,
linked the name of former Gov.
Ellis Arnall into the powder keg
investigation,
Talmadge charged that Thomp
son was forced by Arnall and
former Gov. E. D. Rivers to re
move Glenn Phillips as Revenue
Commissioner because “they
couldn’t get campaign contribu
tions uniess the?' had their own
man over there.
Thompson removed Phillips in
June, 1947 and appointed Downing
Musgrove as Revenue Commis
sioner. ;
“What i«wsnt 4o know & why
Downing Musgrove could get con
tributions while Glenn couldn't,”
Talmadge said.
Sam Charges
Talmadge noted that he made
these same charges repeatedly last
summer in the political campaign
in which he ousted Thompson as
Governor.
“I make these same charges to
da%," Talmadge said. \
almadge added that he planned
tc appoint a special De})uty State
Attorney General to investigate
and prosecute the case through
Solicitor General Paul Webb of
Fulton County.
Revenue Commissioner Charles
Redwine, who said his agents
cracked the case with seizure of
records in an Atlanta wholesale
liquor firm, turned his evidence
over to Webb.
Talmadge said he could not le
%ally allocate money to meet
ebb’s plea for the state to fin
ance thtr investigation and any
prosecution.
\
| Emelgoncy Funds
But, the Governor added, he
‘planned an emergency appropria
tion to the state law department
‘under Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook to
pay for the probe.
Talmadge recalled his campaign
promise of an investigation into
“campaign contribution activities”
of the State Revenue Department.
Redwine has quoted testimony
by state agents to him that the
illegal liquor traffic had a 50 cents
mr case “fee” which was “so go
to a campaign fund.”
' Arnall and Rivers were @O~
chairmen of Thompson's campaign
against Talmadge ’l)ast year.
Talmadge said he would assign
the entire Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation, all state alecohol zn
forcement agents, and thie law de
partment to the case.
”‘—
STOOK MARKET
NIWYORKiA . B —(AP) w=
The stock mar et%ook oft early
indacteion ioday and a slow rise
got under way.
Gains were small f:fl W
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THOMPSON SAYS:
Se S e
Ch k L.
eck Liquor
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Consumption
By Officia
y Officials
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug. 5—(AT’
—Former Governor M. E. Thomp
son declared today he “welcomes
a thorough investigation” of his
gdministration and at the same
time suggested “it would be well
tv investigate consumption « li
quor by public officials, as well as
the distribution of liquor.”
His statement follows:
“Tt ig indeed stisnge that Rev
erue Commissioner Charlie Red
wine made the insinuations th:t
the sale of liquor in dry counties
op the date after he began goug:
ing the taxfnyerl of Georgia out
¢f an additional 21 million tax
dollars.
“The people cannot be ma‘go to
fcrget higher taxes impos on
them by broken promises.
“The Talmadge administration
has started a sme~* campaign of
others in a hopeless effort to di
vert the people’s attention from its
own miserable failures.
“] shall wecome « comflete and
thorough investigation of my ad
ministration as acting governor of
Georgia in 1947-48 as well as my
acts as state revenue commission
er in 1945-46.
FILES DIVORCE PAPERS
Bergman To Quit Movie World
ROME, Auf. §.— (AP) —lngrid Bergman announced
today she will divorce her husband, Dr. %’eter Lindstrom.
She also said she will quit the movies.
The beautiful Swedish star made the declaration in &
statement issued to reporters by her personal representa
tive, Joseph Steele.
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Sources close to the actress re
gomd she intends to marry Italian
irector Roberto Rosselini after
her divorce.
Miss Bergman’s statement said:
“It was my desire not to make
any statement until the conclusion
of the picture I am now making
(“After the Storm”).
“But presistent malicious gossip,
that has even reached the peint
where I am made to appear a
prisoner, has obusod me to break
my l‘ivliefim and demonstrate my
fie& have instructed my lawyer to
start divorce proceedings imme
diately. Also, with the conclusion
of my present picture, it {s my in
tention to retire into private life.”
Miss Ber; is to fiie ner
suit in “&tfl ng or flvudcn,i
e =S
"tglnllni,'who g directing Miss
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Acheson Sets New Course:
For Americain The Far East
Police |
To Spike
French Forces Set
For Protest Against
U. S. Chiefs Of Staff
PARIS, Aug. 3 — (AP) — Two
‘thousand police and soldiers in
full battle equipment and gas
masks deployed about the Place
De La Concorde today to stop a
Communist protest march a‘faimt
the presence here of the United
States chiefs of staff.
| The soldiers and police rolled
up in 100 trucks several hours be
fore the time of the Communist
march.
The forces spread out in the
area of the U. S.- Embassy, to pre
vent Communists from carrying
out their anrounced intention of
protesting there against the Atlan
tic Pact talks.
Meanwhile, American and
French military chiefs held what
they described as satisfactory talks
on Western European defense,
Their schedule has indicated
that by the time the Communist
march was to start, they would be
40 miles away, at Fontainebleu,
talking with Western European
union defense chiefs.
“T think we see eye to eye,” U.
8. Airforce Chief of Staff Gen.
Hoyt Vandenberg said after the
officers had talked for almost three
hours in the French war ministry.
No Decision
Vandenberg said no decisions
had been made, but that the dis
cussions had been *“wery helpul.”
French leaders Tiad beeén re
ported seeking assurances that
France won’t be shoved into the
background in drafting Atlantic
Pact defense strategy.
Asked if the talks get down to
discussion of how far east to draw
Western Europe’s defense line,
Vandenberg said “We were just
finding things out.”
He also was asked if the talks
Ihad concerned France’s desire for
a top role in the Atlantic Defense
Council. He replied:
“Qur discussions were on a mili
tax’g, not a political level.”
iplomatie officials in London
said France, along with the Unit=
ed States, Britain and Canada,
would be named to a Supreme De-~
sense Council to direct the mili
tary and strategic program of the
12-nation Atlantic Alliance. The
officials said this was one of the
main topics under discussion by
the staff chiefs.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and warm
With & few scailerea snunaer=
showers tonight and Saturday
afternoon, High today 90. Low
70 and high for Saturday 92.
OGEORGIA—MostIy fair and
warm with a few scattered aft
ernoon and evening thunder
showers this afternoon, tonight
and Saturday.
TEMPERATURE
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Wamß o i i WedTD
RAINFALL
¥lchen last 24 hours .. ~ .01
otal since August 1 .. ~ .17
Deficit since August 1 .... 81
Average Au‘g’nst rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 ....32.12
Deficit since January 1 .. fl
Bergman’s picture, was not avail
able for comment. A member of
his family said he had left an
‘order not to be disturbed. He
was not in his hotel suite at the
Ecelsior.
In Hollywood, Dr. Lindstrom’s
publicity representative said the
doctor had not heard directly from
Ingrid and would not comment
until she notified him personally
of her action.
Steele told newsmen Misr Berg
man intends to wind up her pre
sent film within the next month
or £O.
“She wanis to lead a private
life,” he added. “She has yearned
to get away from the bright glare
qf _m.:bligity. She ha,s' made her
decision in good faith.
The star arrived in Rome yes
terday from the seaside resort,
Amalfi, and now is in seclusion
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Thirteen-year-old Mrs. Wanda Chappell of Oakton,
Va., and her husband, Harold Chappell, 17, smile
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proudly at their infant son, Larry Gene, in hospital at
Arlington, Va. The baby weighed eight pounds, 15
ounces at birth. Mother and child are doing well, says
the hospital. Chappell, an electrician’s helper, and his
wife have been married less than a year.— (AP Wire
photo.)
Johnson To Be First Witness
In Senate 5 Percenter Probe
RUTH WELLMAN
SEEKS STATE
TITLE TONIGHT
Ruth Weilman, Miss Athens
of 1949, will be one of 12 con
testants to compete for the title
of Miss Georgia in Columbus
tonight, .
A large list of prizes awaits
the winner, including a college
ssholarshin 2 wardrohe of ave
ning dresses and a irip to At
lantie City, N. J., in September
for competition in the Miss
America Beauty Pageant.
Miss Wellman will offer a
humorous reading “The
Waltz,” 'in the tfalent confest.
The contestants will parade in
evening gowns, and bathing
suits during the contest,
A barbecue was held for the
contestants yesterday and &
dance last night.
Miss Wellman was acoom
panied on the trip to Columbus
by her mother, Mrs. W. M.
Wellman, and Bob Maupin,
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with friends here.
Steele sald Miss Bergman prob
ably will alaim incompatibility in
her suit and that “she does not ex
pect her husband to contest the
aivoree.”
He declared that Miss Bergman
will not seek exclusive custody of
her 11-year-old daughter, Pia.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—(AP)—Secretary of Defense
Johnson will be the first witness at the Senate publie in
quiry into the activities of “five percenters.”
Senator Hoey (D.-N.C.) announced this today. He
heads a special expenditures subcommittee which is ex
pected to start its open hearings Monday.
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‘Service subcommittee arranged to
confer behind closed doors today
‘with Secretary of the Army Gray
on one phase of the many-sided
inquiry. The Hot probes also
plan to question a representative
ot makers of n.litary uniforms.
The congressional investigations
are aimed at finding ou’ ' ether
there has been any attempt to in
fiuence government officials by
persons who charge a fee for help
in getting contracts for others.
The middle-man’s commission us
ually is five per cent of the gross
proceeds of the contract.
The Senate subcommittee’s pre
liminary search aiready !'-~- re
sulted in suspension by Gray of
two wrmy major generals — Alden
¥ Waitt, chief of the Chemical
.Corps, gnd Herman Feldman, the
quartermaster general.
In relie "1g Waitt and Feldman
from dntv pending further inves
tigation, Gray said they had fail
ed to exhibit judgment “expected
of persons in their positions.”
Both officers are expected to
testify at the Senate hearing-
Hoey declined to go into detail
with respect te the nature of
Johnson’s testimony next week.
' Other subcommittee sources indi
cated, however, that the secretary
‘will be asked abou’ the procure
‘ment policies of the defense es
tablishment ,and %~ his views on
hew to discourage five percenter
operations.
Hoey said the subcommittee still
is awaiting word as to whether
James V. Hun t, . key figure
mn the inquiry, will be able to
testify. Hunt, a former lieuter nt
colonel in the Army Quartermas
ter Corps, is hosfitalized for
treatment of blood elot in his 12&
Paul Grindle, a Massachusetts
Manufacture., has said he paid
Hun SI,OOO for help in secking a
government contract. Grindle also
said Hunt claimed influence with
Waitt and Feldnas and that he
listed President Truman’s milita
ry aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H,
Vaughn, as a very good friend.
TITO TROOPS
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug.
5 - (AP)-—Yugoslav troops vere
in a state of ater’ today to guard
against what Premier Marshall
Tito called provocations and inti
midation by his Soviet-dominated
ne_ilgxborl.
anjug, the official news ag;n
cy, last night quoted Marshal' Tito
as saying bloody clashes already
bad taken place in Macedonia.
The stormy Dalken region lies be
tweer Communist Bulgaria and
Albania, with Greece on the
southern border. =
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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China Written Off As Total
Failure Before Red Attacke -
RY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— (AP) —Secretary of Btate
Acheson wrote off China’'s Nationalist government as &
total failure before the onslaught of Communism. He
charted a new course for America’s anti-Communist pol
in the Far East,
In a bitingly eritical “white paper,” including the leng
suppressed Wedemeyer report, Acheson told President
Truman in a letter that U. S. policy now must be shaped
to “encourage all developments” in China which are
aimed at throwing off the “foreigm yoke” of Moscow
directed Communism. : S {5 !
Acheson said the Communist re- ‘
gime serves the interests “of So
viet Russia. ”"He advised the Presi-1
dent it may “lena itself to the aims
of Soviet Russian imperialism” to
start an aggression against China’s
neighbor nations,
If that aggression somes, Ache
son indicaved the United States
would try to block it through the
United Nations.
While not all China is presently
under the Red Banner, Acheson
said in another document of the
White Paper, the Communists can
take over the rest any time they
want and»Nationalist armies wiil
be powerless to resist. He thus ad
vised chairman Connally (D-Tcx-_]
as) of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions committee March 18, ‘
For the “Ominous result of the
Chinese civil war,” Acheson placed
full blame on Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek and other lead
ers of ti:e crumbling National gov
ernment. He sald they “lost no
battles” in the last ecrucial year
for lack of American weapons.
Red Zeal
The failures of Chiang and his
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Five Bullets
.
Quiet Prisoner
BUFORD, Ga., Aug. 5—(AP)—
Two Rolicn officers reported it
took five bullet wounds to subdue
a negro prisoner i a jail cell last
night.
Officers M. J. Puckett and Le
roy Everett gaid the prisoner,
John Gillespie, 27, of BufordL was
being held in jail before being
sent to a road gang on a minc:
ccnvietion.
Trey said Gillespie went on a
cumpage,, breaking light bulbs and
windows.
Everett said ' went to trans
fer the prisoner t~ a smaller cell,
ar.d that Gillespie heat him to the
floor with a bottle,
Everett said he fired five times
at the negro.
Puckett said he came to aic the
fellow officer, but the prisoner es
caped and ran two blocks before
collapsing.
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THERE’S BEAUTY IN TOBACCO SALE
Mary Frances Bass of Timmonsville, 8. C., strikes a
pretty pose in celebration of opening sales in the Care
. ‘ ;
linas Border Tobacco Belt. She had the wala of “Miud
Timmopsville” in the annual Tobacco Festival at Mul
lins, 8. C., yesterday.— (AP Photo,) :
HOME
LDITION
men, Acheson said, were due to
loss of popular support and Joss by
the Armies of the will to fight. The
Communists battled with “fanati
cal zeal,” Acheson added, but:
“the Nationalist armies did net
have to be defeated; they disinte
grated.”
To support the position that Chi
nese—not American—igéaders were
to blame for the disaster, the State
Department included among the
unveiled state documents a sensa
tional letter from China’s ecur
rent acting president, General Li
Esung-jen.
Li, who succeeded Chiang Kai
shek as chief of state, wrote Presi- |
dent Truman May §, 1949, that
China brought to its present plight
by the failure of its previous gove
ernment (Chiang’s to make “judi.
ciouluu”o!Amemnuljhput"
through “political, economie and
military reforms.” b
The White Paper (official dip~
lomatic record) contains probably
the most slashing criticism ever is
sued by the United States against
another friendly government, sven
2 dying one.
Big X
Even the report of Lt General
Albert C. Wedemeyer, made to
President Truman in 1947, is dis
closed to have tempered its pro
posal for China aid with a big ‘if’
Wedemeyer advocated a five-year
aid program but said Chiang
should undertake . drastic reforms
and should piace Manchuria under
United Nation’s trusteeship fteo
keep the Communists from taking
over, :
It was this recommendation re~
garding Manchuria, Acheson said,
which caused the report toc be sup
pressed so long. He said the sug
gestion for alienation of Chinese
territory would have caused trou
ble with the Nationalist govern
meni if published at the Wine, 5 - -
} Acheson’s letter to Mr. Truman
formally presented him with the
“frank record” of American-Chi
nese delegations from their begin
ning in 1944 to the present. The let- |
terter itself constituted a summary
review of that poutey together with
a brief hopeful look at the future. =
Acheson assured the President that
no documents had been left out of
‘thc White Paper for the purpose
' of avoiding criticism.
Perhaps the most interesting, be
cause it has been the mosi pubiitiy
suppressed, is the much-debated
Wedemeyer report. ;
Mr. Truman and Acheson evi
dently have decided that China’s
‘Nationalist government is bevond
the point where it can be hurt
even by bitter criticism.
Aid Program :
In addition they appear to bes
lieve that the record justifies theig
decision not to undertake an{
great new aid program to the Chi
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