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Vol CXVII, No. 182, Associated Press Service
GOP Hits
Stalling
& Answer Truman Charge
§ That Filbusters
i Delaying Money Bills
' By Jack Bell
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—
(AP)—President Truman's as
sertion that Republican filibuster
ers are delaying money bills in
the Senate brought GOP counter
charges today that the Democrats
gre stalling Congress’ adjourn
ment,
Senator Morse (R-Ore.) told a
yeporter he ihinks there is a Dem
ocratic plot to keep Congress in
gession and thereby keep Repub-
Yican lawmakers off the stump this
fail,
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
Pemocratic leader, retorted that
this is only a figment of the Sena-‘
tor’s imagination.”
Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
the GOP floor leader, and Senator
Taft of ©Ohio, chairman of his
party’s policy committee, took
issue with the President on the
money bill question.
Wherry called reporters to
gether to tell them his belief that
Mr. Truman, in complaining at
delays, was actually reflecting on
the Democratic leadership. s
The President made his fili
buster-delay statement at a news
conference yesterday.
At the same time he brushed off
the statement by former President
Hoover that the nation is “on the
last mile” toward collectivism be
cause of government spending and
taxation.
Asked about this, Mr. Truman
replied: “It sounds funny to me. I
don’t know what that is, but 1
don’t think it is so.”
Senator Taft said forcefully that
there hasn’t been any Republican
filibuster.
“There has been no filibuster by
Republicans 'on any bill,” Taft de
clared, “We - have consistently
fought increases made by the
Democratic Appropriations Com
mittee and there have been go
many of these that there have
been delays.
More Tremors
Felt In Ecuador
QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 12 —
(AP)—More earth tremors were
reported last night as residents of
Ecuador’s “~ichest - agricultural
area still removed their dead from
the kdebris of last Friday’s earth
quake,
Col. Baoriel Nunez, military
commander of the Ambato area—
the Lardest hit — said the tremors
were not strong, but were intense
erough to terrorize the inhabitants
ard tumble quake weakened
“Our greatest problem now _is
the prevention o an epidemic,
but everything possible is being
dcene,” Nunez said. ‘‘Stores have
recpened at Ambato (largest city
> receive the brunt of the quakse
the Ambato electric system in
functioning, water is available and
food is being distributed by a
fleet of 10 military trucks eircu
lating continuous’y throughout
the Ambato region.”
Engineers are studying the pos
sibility of shooting & gable line
irto the still isolated village of
Patate to bring our survivors and
injured.
ONLY 1,896 SIGNED UP
Re - Registration
Still Slow Here
Clarke County Women Voters today intensified their
campaign to induce citizens to register at the courthouse
in order to be eligible to east ballots in 1950 as it was dis
closed that a total of only 1,898 have registered of the
former total registration of about 12,000.
Of the 1896 wlio have register
€r 1596 are whites and 200 are
begroes, according to the County
Board of Registrars.
Registration started on May 12,
this year, and the office, located
on the second floor of the court
hcuse \is open six days a week.
The tirst *our days of the pres
ent week produced the heaviest
Tegistration so far recorded with
147 placing their names on the
eligible voters list. :
With eight-one days of registra
ticn having passed and 1896 be
ing .egistered, the average daily
registration is a fraction more
than 23. -
Mrs. William . . Russell, legisla
tive chairman of the Clarke Coun
ty Womer Voters, today said that
Vlganization -is making plans to
Lelp speed registration in order
that the vote in elections next
Veir be s represanintiea sma
_Mrs. Russell said that if the
Ueadline of registration finds a
small number of voters on the
4ist, it is much easier for machine
polities to rule the people rather
than the pegple themselves, She
bointed out that it takes less than
Live minutes to register and the
flOCedure is a very simple one.
any citizens, especially women,
have been reluctant to register.
fearing they might be embarrass
¢d, but those who have. register
€ found #t ensily wnd auiekly
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HOEY TALKS WITH HUNT’S HELPER
North Carolina’s Senator Clyde Hoey, chairman of
Senate subcommittee investigating ‘‘five- percenters,”
talks with Mildred Ortmeyer at hearing in Washington.
She is secretary to James V. Hunt, key figure in the In
vestigation. The inquiry stems from activities of Hunt,
former Army officer, now a business counselor in
Washington.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Probers Pondering
Five Percenter Investigators Check
On Several “Very Important People”
BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— (AP) —Senate five per
center investigators today checked reports that some
“very important people” were given deep freezers like
one a witness testified he shipped to Major General
Harry H. Vaughan in 1945.
The fresh testimony dealing with Vaughan came just
before President Truman told a news conference late
yesterday his opinion of his military aide has not been
changed in the slightest by developments at the congres
sional inquiry. e M‘
1 B Se R L se i’ IR W 2
Farmers May
Lose Price
Advantages
WASHINGTON, Aug., 12—(AP)
-<The price advantage farmers
have enjoyed since late 1941 may
turn into a disadvantage within a
few months.
So predicted Agriculture De
partment Economists today as
they eyed prospective bumper
crops to be harvested in the fall
and a sharply increasing supply
o 1 pork due to hit butcher shops
in a month or so.
These seasonally increasing sup
plies of farm products are expec
ted to pull down prices of many
products.
The department has a standard
for measuring farm prices. This
standard is called “Parity.” When
prices are at the level of this
standard, they are deemed to be
equally fair to the farmers and
those who buy his products.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
hot tonight and Saturday.
Slight chance of afternoon
thundershowers. Hjgh today 92,
low tonight 71. High Saturday
92. Sunset 7:23, sunrise 5:53.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued hot this after
fioon, tenight and Saturday.
Sunday showers in exireme
south portion during afternoon
and = few widely scattered
afternoon showers in north and
central portion,
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 00
Total since August 1 .. ... 42
Deficit since August 1 ... 1.31
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 L 8232
‘Deficit *siace January -
The commitiee was told by Al
bert J. Goss, a Milwaukee busi
nessman, that he shipped Vaughan
a home freezer unit four years
ago. Goss said it was paid for by
the Albert Verley Company of
Chicago. That's the perfume firm
which fast-talking John Maragon,
one of the key figures in the in
vestigation, has said he worked
for at that time.
Gross was all set to go on from
there and name, committee mem
bers said later, other Washing
tonians to whom he said he sent
freezers for the Verley Company.
But the probers cut him off
short after talking down the mild
protests of two Republican mem
bers of the group, McCarthy and
Senator Mundt of South Dakota.
Mundt, who remarked that the
hush-hush business created an
“aroma of mystery,” managed to
get into the record before the hold
everything order that it was his
assumption Vaughan had not paid
for the freezer. 5
Innocent Thing
Senator Hoey (D.-N. C.), chair
man of the investigating commit
tee, told reporters he called & halt
to gross’ testimony because ship
ment of the freezers “might have
been a perfectly innocent thing.”
He added:
“We want to find out the cir
cumstances before we let any
more of it go into the record. We
don’t want to smear anyone.”
Hoey said the committee plans
now to make the other names pub
lic “as soon as we have this thing
in proper perspective and know
all the circumstances.” He said
that might take a while.
The deep freezer matter was
touched on briefly at the Presi
dent’s news conference. At re
porter referred to the testimony
about Vaughan getting one and
asked whether Mr. Truman was
“considering one for the White
House.” He replied he didn’t
know anything about it.
New Witnesses
Meanwhile, the committee called
new witnesses today. The group
ararnged to hear first from Miss
Mildred Ortmeyer, secretary of
James V. Hunt. He is the manage
ment counselor who witnesses
have testified raked in big fees
from businessmen who wanted
government contracts and an in
side track to top federal officials.
Committee officials sald Miss
Ortmeyer will identify records
from Hunt’s files which they say
contain some of the evidence
which led to suspension of Maj.
Gen, Alden H. Waitt, Chief of the
Army’s Chemical Corps. In re
lieving Waitt and Maj. Gen. Her
man Feldman from duty pending
#urther investigation, Secretary of
the Army Gray said they failed to
exhibit judgment “expected of
persons in their positions.”
Feldman is the Army Quarter
master General.
Aftg the hunt records deali
with Waitt are put in the recor
the committee plans to call Col.
John A. MacLaughlin, command
ing officer of an army ‘m
center in Maryland. His
concerns a gas-proof clothing con
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIAOVER ACENTURY
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, AUCUST 12, 1949.
Foreign Arms Program
Strikes New Obstacles
Farmers
Market
Cutback
Will Open Only On
Tuesday And Friday
Starting Next Week
J. A. Rape, manager of the
Athens Farmer's Market. today
annourced that tne market will
after this week be open only two
deys a week
The market w.ll be open on
Tuesdays and Fridays.
He explained the change of
plans as _.eing better for both
buyer and seller. He said that he
plans to make those two days
“really big ones for the market.”
“There has been since the open
ing of the market a scarcity of
produce rather than buy-rs” he
said.
By having the market open on
only two days he hopes to get an
abundance of produce on those
days.
Mr. Rape {old of having to send
a Tennessee buyer on to Atlanta
because the marke: couldn’t give
him a truck-load of water mellons.
He said that the farmers were
not bringing enough produce be
cause they didn’t really plant for
the market and because many
were still taking produce to the
merchants at their stores.
He urged the Atheas and ‘cin
ity farmers to come to the market
on Tuesdays and Fridays. Accord~
ing to Mr. Rape every bit of pro
duce brought to the market has
been sold.
Pleads Guilty
In Assault Case
DOTHAN, Ala.,, Aug., 12—(AP)
—A surprise plea of guilty today
had brought a 12-year prison sen
tence for Denver Jernigan, 24-
year-old soldier charged with as
sauliing his 16-year-old date.
The young enlisted man enter
el the plea yesterday at testimo
ny was about to begin at his irial
in Houston County Circuit Court,
Penalty was fixed by the jurz and
sentence passed by Circuit Judge
D. C. Halstead.
Jernigan- was jailed on a war
rant sworn out by the girl’s moth
ed last April. He had been held
without bond.
Sheriff J. Walt Cameron said
mother accused Jernigan of as
saulting the high-school girl
while they were double-dating
with another couple.
The other couple returned after
a brief absence, Cameron said,
and fouad the girl weeping on the
back seat.
Re e Lol s ene BAGR W A w Yreiyg
STRUCK BY AUTO ON PEACHTREE
Margaret Mitchell
Injured In Street
ATLANTA, Aug. 12 — (AP) —
Margaret Mitchell, the little
Southern lady who made the high
courage of a lost cause into “Gone
With the Wind,” was nearly killed
last night by 2 speeding car.
Police said. the quiet, middie
aged author of the fabulous ro
mance of the War Between the
States was knocked to the pave
ment by a drunken taxi-driver
and dragged 15 feet.
She was taken to city hospital
where physicians and nurses said
she was too gravely hurt so be
moved even for X-rays.
She was placed under an oxygen
tent and was given a blood trans
fusion -early today, after her blood
pressure fell. Attendants said she
responded satisfactorily.
Hospital attendants made it
plain that Miss Mitchell would
need a stout heart—as stout as the
one she gave Scarlett O’Hara—to
pull through.
Miss Mitchell—in private life
she’s Mrs. John Marsh—received a
possible skull fracture, internal in
juries, and an injury to her right
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
CECIL BLOUNT DE MILLE, born August 12, 1881, | g, ~
at Achfiald. Maes where hizs parents were on four 4 “
in one of their own plays. The family home was at ff* * ~ 7708
Washington, N, C., where Willlam, who like his
brother Cecil became a movie director, had been § ?
born. When Oecil was 15, he yan away to enlist for ' Bl oo &
the Bpanish-American War, but was rejected. He ' EMp-wm &
turned to dramatics end when 17 was playing in 4 g;s
New York. Inspired by his father’s playwriting, he Sl /
wrote “The Return of Peter Grimm.” With Jesse g,
Lasky and Samuel Goldwyn he entered the film .
field and they broke the “trust.” His “King of}
Kings” has been called the world's best known cecii DeMILLE
m":"“'“' FEARLUESR SR Tl s eni PR NN
Stewardess Heroine In Plane
Crash As 27 Passengers Escape
PORTLAND, e, Aug. 12—
(AP)—A pretty and plucky
stewardess was heroine of a
nertheast airliner ecrash from
which 27 persons escaped safe
ly last night.
Miss Patricia Donnellan, 23,
of Neorth Quincy, Mass, & roo
kie at her job, calmly herded
the passengers out a rear door
—a scant two )jninuies beiore
the plane was enveloped in
flames on Portland Municipal
airport.
The new. $400.000 Concair—
from New York and Beoston—
was a total loss.
Capt. Roderick Cote, 40,0 f mel
rose, Mass., the piiot, said the
propellers of the twin engined
plane accidentally reversed 15
or 20 feet above the runway
“and we started plop straigh’
down.
“Then our landing gear col
lapsed and the sparks bega- to
fly.”
The big plane slithered on its
New Crisis Looms In Czech
Rift Between Church, State
SHIRT-T AIL |
1
TWO BROTHERS
NEWNAN, Ga.. Aug., 12—
(AP) — A $445 shirt-tail rob
bery by force — namely, by
battering their aged grandfath
er on the head vith a pistol—
was charged today against twe
ex-oonviet trothers. * .
Sheriff Lamar Potts announc
ed last nigh he had placed the
charge, punishable in extireme
cases by death, against Thurmon
Kellum, 31, and Herman Kel-
Jum, 21.
He said they were seized in
Atlanta when they tried to buy
2 used ear with part of the
money they ripped from their .
grandfather’s shirt-lail at t'.eir
father’s home Wednesday night.
They had used the rest of the
money, the sheriff reported, to
buy new clothes and liguor.
Infant Swallows
.
Open Safety Pin
ATLANTA, Aug. 12—(AP)—A
nine-month-old Marianna, Fla.,
negro boy, rushed here by troop
ers from three states, recovered
teday from swallowing an open
safety pin.
leg. Her face was badly bruised.
She was struck by a car owned
and driven by an employee of a
taxi company. First reports er
roneously described the vehicle
as a taxicab.
A close family friends said an
interne told her blocd had run in
a thin, weak stream from Miss
Mitchell’s left ear, normally a sign
of a skull fracture. A deep gash
:lv‘asl linflk:t;ed along the base of her
ull. -
After nearly four hours of un
consciousness, the 43 - year -old
novelist was able to mutter, though
incoherently, when interns
queried, “Peggy?”
Another friend said Miss Mitch
ell and her husband were enroute
to a neighborhood theater to see
the British film “A Canterbury
Tale” when she was hit.
Husband Escapes
Her husband, victim of a heart
ailment for several years, said he
was about to step behind his wife.
Otherwise he, too, would have
been injured.
Marsh was advised by a physi
cian to leave the hospital and go
belly for several hundred feet
in a shower of sparks. Th2n the
right engine caught fire.
Shouting, “Follow me,” | iss
Donnellan led the way to the
rear door when she couldn’t
open the front dcor —the hy
draulic system wouldn't work
~—and flames blocked an emer
gene: exit.
Thomas Clish, 50, of Fal
mouth, a passenger, said “all
hands got out inside of a r in
ute,”
“That litile sftewardess was
grand,” he said. “She 4’4 a
grand job.” g
The burning piane was evac
nated without panie. Miss Don
neilan said there was “only &
little natural confusion,”
Mrs. Cora Connors of Port
land theught that “it was
amazing.”
“The people in the ship ere
the calmest I ever saw,” she
said.
Moscow Radio Terms Tito Governmeént
Enemy In Strongest Protest To Date
By The Associated Press
Vatican representatives in Prague disclosed today that
two new bishops will be consecrated in Slovakia Sunday,
without approval of Czechoslovakia’s Communist-led gov
ernment.
The action may cause a new clash in the country’s
church-state struggle. Both men are known as loyzl to the
Crech Primate. Archbishop Josef Beran,
gt —— dl%x%’:ic an
ipldmatic source
WOdd N.*“saidthe. te will
Roundup not have grounds
i ST ACHION, TyOW e
ever. The two new prelates will
be named only as titular bishops,
not bishops in residence. Thereby,
he said, their appointments will
not require the government ap
proval necessary under an unof
ficial agreement existing between
the Czech government and the
Vatican since before the last world
war.
An automobile belonging to
Capt. John Childs,assistant air at
tache at the American embassy in
Prague, was wrecked by a bomb
in front of his home during the
night. Childs said the gomb ap
apparently was home-made. He
said neither he nor the police had
any theories about who planted it.
Radio Blast
Russia called Marshal Tito's
Yugoslav government an enemy of
the Soviet Union in a broadcast
today. It was the strongest term
the Kremlin has hurled in more
than a year of attacks since Tito’s
Gravely
Accident
home and rest.
One interne said it might be as
much as 72 hours before X-rays
could be taken, though there was
a chance they might be made later
today. 1
Police charged the taxi driver —
28-year-old Hugh D. Gravett —
with drunken driving, speeding
and driving on the wrong side of
the street. ;
They quoted him as saying he
tried to avoid striking Miss Mitch
ell and would have missed her if
sheb“l’md not run back towards the
curb.”
The vehicle plunged into the
noted Southern author as she and
her husband, John R. Marsh, start
ed across the street in front of
the Peachitree Arts Theater, not
far from their Peachtree street
home, :
Marsh, advertisin% manager for
the Georgia Power Company, said
his wife saw the vehicle bearing
gow:: upon her and tried to evade
“There was a loud crash as the
car hit her,” he related. “It drag
ged her 15 feet before it stopped.”
Gen. MacArthur
.
Shuns Senate Bid
TOKYO, Aug. 12—(AP)—Gen
eral McArthur today declined a
Scnate invitation W sluim @0
Washington and testify on the
Foreign Arms Ald Bill.
The occupation commander In a
statement gave these two main
reasons:
1. He’s needed in Tokyo “dur
ing thie moment of eritical events
in the Far East.”
2. The testimony wanted from
him concerns China, “which has
never been within the area of my
command responsibiMty.”
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
- 3
' Faces Rough Going Before
. .
Committee; House Fight Seen
BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— (AP) —Saved by the slim
mest of margins from being cut almost in half, the admin
istration’s foreign arms aid bill faced new obstacles today
in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. e
Its supporters still predicted, on the basis of yesterday’s
committee action, that the bill would emerge early next
week with no major changes. They conceded that it is in
L £on 2 touwh fieht on the House Tloor i
SVE T YW RIS HOGRRRN NUEW . e WS
By a tie vote reported as eight
to eight with nine absentees, the
committee rejected yesterday an
amendment by Rep. Richards (D.-
SB.C.) to cut—from $1,180,000,000
to $580,495,000—the amount of
military aid for Atlantic Pact Na
tions. It takes a majority of those
voting to approve an amendment.
* Backers of the Richards propo
sal may try &gain in committee
and if they lose they will carry
their fight to the House floor.
Several other money amend
ments were before the committee
today.
One by Rep. Vorys (R.-Ohio)
would cut the total authorization
ouster from the Russian-led Com
munist Information Bureau (Com
inform).
Rome newspapers published re
ports of a revolt against the Com
munist regime in Albania, There
was no confirmation.
Greece’s government announced
more heights captured in its new
offensive against Communist guer
rillas near the Albanian frontier.
The Russians backed up more
than 100 Berlin-bound trucks
early today in a brief revival of
last month’s “little blockade” of
the German capital. .
Berlin Bloe
Soviet guards let through only
four trucks an hour from 2 a. m.
to 10 a. m., Berlin time, at Helm
stedt on Berlin’s main highway
link with the Western occupation
ZOnes,
The British official said the
guards explained they “didn’t like
the look” of passes carried by
German truck drivers from the
American zone, They lifted the
restrictions after higher Soviet of
ficials approved the questioned
passes, he said.
American military government
intervened for the first time in
the campaién for elections Sunday
of a West German Parliament.
A spokesman for U. 5. Miiitary
Governor John J. McCloy, broad
casting last night in German, lash
ed out at the “pronounced Nation
alism” demonstrated in candidates’
speeches. He declared that “not
a single Germany party has a good
word for the positive work of the
Western Allies.”
Strasbourg Meet
Winston Churchill of Britain,
who advocates admitting Western
Germany to the new Council of
Europe after the elections, battled
at Strasbourg for greater power for
:)l;e council’s Consultative Assem-
Y
Churchill wants to change a
rule that gives the assembly only
three days after convening in
which to add items to an agenda
proposed by a 12-nation commit
tee of foreign ministers.
China’s Communists were re
ported driving with three armies
totaling 75,000 men on Kanhsien,
215 miles from the Chinese Na
tionalist provisional capital at
Canton.
In Tokyo, Geg. Douglas Mec-
Arthur said he does not plan to
visit Washington to give his views
on the Far East situation, as
urged by a group in Congress. He
said his ideas already are “fully
on file” with the army depart
ment.
X Presstimeßulletins 3¢
ATLANTA, Aug. 12.—(AP)—Former Revenue Commissioner
Glenn Phillips was called in today to tell B]l he knows about an :
alleged huge state-protected Hguor ring,
Phillips went into a elosed conferemce with Claude Shaw, spe
ciai staie imvestigaior. o
GRAY COURT, 8.-0., Aug. 12.—(AP)-—A liftle negro who out- g
foxed a big search mty meekly surrendered today, Willie Jun- '
ifor Tolbert, 25, had n sought widely im eonnection with an at- |
tempted assault of a white girl. !
ATLANTA, Aug. 12.—~(AP)—Johp Paschall, editor emeritus of =
the Atlanta Journal, was reporty !mprovf-. today at Emory '
Hospital. Lo g i A *“q ’;
He suffered a stroke office yes 7
Paschall had a comfortable night at u.“:‘:nm snd econthnved | ”*
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EDITION
bill from the re%xoestod $1,450,000.~
000 to $793,960,000 with the entire
program put on a stop gap basis
ending next March 31,
Another Vory’s amendment
would prohibit the construction
abroad with United States funds
of new arms plants. It would per
mit only standard U, 8. arms to be
sent to fereign nations.
Both Vorys' and Richards have
amendments to charge at actusl
‘cost or replacement cost the value
of any except surplus arms sent
abroad. President Truman has
proposed that he be .Pven broad
authority te fix a value on such
arms.
Another amendmeni proposed
by Rep. Lodge (R.-Conn.) would
authorize a S2OO 000000 arms aid
program for non - Communist
China.
A group of senators headed by
Knowland (R.-Calif.) have beem
urging that $175,000,000 of the to
tal $1,450,000,000 arms aid pro
gram be earmarked for China.
They have asked that General
Douglas MacArthur be called home
from Japan to testify on the far
FEastern situation. The Senate
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees, in fact, had
scheduled a vote for this afternoon
on whether to ask MacArthur who
said in Tokyo yesterday that “dur
ing this moment of critical events
in the far East the interests of the
American people are better served
by my remaining at my post here.”
State Agents
Raid Home
Of Phillips
APPLING, Ga., Aug. 12—(AP)
—Glenn Phillips, who used to have
charge of enforcing Georgia's li
quor tax laws, found himself en
gaged today in charges of a tech
nical violation.
The former revenue COMMis-~
sioner reported that two siate
agents and two Coélumbia deputy
sheriffs seized 14 cases of taxpaid
liquor at his home yesterday. They
charged him, he said, with pos
session of more than one gusart in
a dry county. S
Phillips called it a “spite raid,
unheard of procedure solely to emg
barrass me.” He claimed that hé
had fired the two agents on orders
from “higher up” while he was
revenue commissioner and they
pulled the raid on him to get even,
He asserted that aven if Co
lumbia is a dry county, “you eould
go to about any home and you
would find more than & guart of
liquor.”
He named the raiders as Agents
Eddie Blackman and J. E, Tebow
and Deputies Herman Morrie and
Sam Crawford. He said he let
Blackinan and Tebow go duri:g
the administration of Gov. M.
;l:ihogmpson but they later were re
red. -
Philips insisted that his liquor
was _“perfectly legal” He said it
was given to him during Christmas
seasons while he was commission
er and deputy eommissioner.
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Klan Promises
I ’
Hot’ News Story
IRON CITY, Ga., Aug. 12—
(AP) — Athu “Igux KP:& membel;
promises tha igs " @&
a meeting of City Cound?oi)fion
day night
“If you want a good story. be
sure and attend Monday night's
City Council meeting,” James
Beard, self-identified Klansman,
told a reporter.
It is expected efforts will be
made to repeal an ordinance ban
ning masks.
Mayor C. L. Deeke ha: ex
changed gunfire v'ith Klansmen
recently. The State Departmnent of
Public Safety ha. sent three men
1o Donalsville to strengthen. the
five-man station.
A Klan parade planned here for
es:;turday night has been postpon-