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Vol. CXVII, No. 183.
Next Three Weeks Will Hold Key To Local Cotton Crisis
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR. ;
Assistant City Editor
’ The next three weeks will be the criticel period in cotton pro
¥ uction for this section of the state, it was revealed to the Ban
per-Herald by local cotton experts yesterday. :
£ C. Westbrook, Georgia Extension Service cotton specialist;
D. L. Branyon, Clarke county agent; D. L.- Floyd, agricultural
statistician in charge of the Georgia Crop Reporting Service, and
Archie Langley, agricultural statisticlan for the same service,
+aid the weather and the boll weevil poison used during the next
three weehs Wil determine the outcome of the crops. ?
Mr. Branyon saig that this vear’s yvield per acre will not be as
good as last year’s, which was one of the best in the history of
{he county. Also the cotton will be later than last year,
Dry weather is beginning to hurt some of the cotton here along
with the boll weevil and plant lice. v
School Funds
“Life Saver”
" Coile Hails Allocation To Clarke; o @
- City Teacher Quota Is Reduced (o &%
| By ED THILENIUS, City Edis/ o™ ¥
The allocation of $3,092 by the State,,x.;f‘urke County
gchools yesterday was termed a “lif . AVer” by W. R.
Coile, county school superintendent. &
“The amount doesn’t cover our needs, but it will make
o anine next month an easier ioh.” Mr. Coile said.
FARMERS MARKET
Released
The Athens Farmer’s Market,
which has been open for sales for
2 little over a week, today re
leased @ progress report for the
period of August 8-12.
J. A. Rape, manager of the farm
er’s Market, said that the market
had been doing well in. its first
week of service to the farmers.
“Volume,” he said, “must in
crease before there will be any
need to be open for more than two
days a week. We have provided
buyers in large, small, and medium
cizes, These buyers in many cases
have not been “able to obtain the
quantity desired at our market.
The rest is up to the farmers.”
He continued to cite instances of
farmers going to the merchants
with produce when better prices
could be had at the market and
;(k that farmers come to the mar
et ‘ .
Prices have been good for the
opening days of market.
A portion of the report that Mr.
Rape released stated that: During
fivg days time 76 bushels of peas
have o= =eld with an average
orice of 81.47, a low of $1.25, and
a high of $1.50. 401 water melons
heve been sold with an average
orice of 35 cents, a low of 15 and
and high of 55 cents (a truck
vanting 1,000 melons had to go to
Atlanta). 229 doz. corn have been
sold with an average, high and
low price of 30 cents.
Other foods sold have been ckra,
outter beans, tomatoes, canta
oupes and corn meal — all in
bushel quantities. i
Mr. Rape expressed the opinion
that the marketing would go even
higher if the farmers brought all
“heir produce in on Tuesdays and
“ridays instead of in “dribbles all
through the week.”
A buyer's schedule has been
Planned to have bigger buyers in
Athens on market days.
Fire Razes Home
On Tallasee Road
A majority of the furniture m‘|
he home of Leon Wood on the'
Tallassee Road was saved Friday
light when his wooden structure
home burned to the ground.
Firemen reported that the house |
vas almost completely gone when !
hey arrived on the scene because |
ifter the fire began a long distance
'ad 1o be traveled before a phone
‘ould be reached in order ™o call
the firemen, causing great delay.
Fhere was no phone in the house,
liremen reported,
They said the conflagation began
n the eeiling of the house. Only
me fire truck answered the call.as
the fire was outside the city
imits. The call was received by
the Fire Department at 6 o’clock
Friday evening,
The Fire Department 'answerl_!d
2 call to the corner of Lumpkin
nd Woodrow streets late yester
fay afternoon. There was a small
*rass fire, which caused no dam
age. o
M
Pliers Avert
Trespass Charge
REXBURG, Idaho, Aug. 13 —
(AP) — fhanke to a pair of
liers, Dy, Blair C, Rich, Rexburg
€nlist, escaped a possible tres~
Passing charge,
~ Dr. Rich said he was fishing at
‘Sland Park. Unknowingly . he
“oved onto posted prog;rty own
“by a Dude Ranch: The owner
drove up and started & lectuse o
'€spassing, .He halted when he
found Rich was a dentist. Seems
he had op aching tooth. 25
Without hesitating Dr. Rich
dicked up the pl ; acted the
‘coth and MWMH
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
~ The funds are part of the first
-equalization fund that will be is
sued by the state tomorrow in a
move to avert the financial crisis
in the Georgia school system.
The funds are derived from new
taxes recently imposed by a spe
cial session of the state legislature.
Mr, Coile said that the had not
made up his budget for the coming
year and did not know to what use
the new funds will be applied.
“We have so many projects that
the money could be used for,” he
said. “We'll just have to spread it
around and make it go as far as
possible.”
Mr. Coile cited repairs on sev
eral negro school buildings, and
the paying of salaries of extra
teachers as possible ways of using
the new funds.
Teacher Quota
The teacher quota for Clarke
county was alse increased from 52
to 53 for the coming year.
Mesanwhile, Supt. Fred Avers, of
the city school system, has received
notice that the teacher quota for
Athens has been reduced from 93
to 92. Mr. Ayers said that the
teacher cutback will be in the ne
gro schools.
The announcement of the new
state allocations was made by As
sistant State Superintendent J. I.
Allman. The Associated Press
quoted him as also saying, that
the $1,000,000 bonanza to put
Georgia schools on their feet, was
a life saver.
Jt’s the first summer-time state
contribution to local schools in
many years. It will enable many
heavily indebted local systems to
open school doors next month
which otherwise might have been
closed, Allman said.
¢ 2 Other Steps
And at the same time, Allman
announced completion of plans for
two other steps to boost ailing
schools.
I—Allocation of 313 more state
paid teachers, with especially big
boosts for Macon, Columbus, sav
annah, Albany and Augusta. At
lanta’s teacher quota was cut but
Fulton county showed an increase.
2—Adoption of a new state sai
ary scale for teachers, up to SIBO
a month or $2160 a year. General
ly; the new scale provides a 10
per cent increase at a cost of $3,-
600,000 a year.
All the financial aid comes from
(Continued on Page Four)
TOPS IN RADIO FIELD
WGAU-CBS Renew Contract:
WGAU-FM In Full Operation
Radio Station WGAU announces
renewal of its affiliation with Co
lumbia Broadcasting System, re
garded generally as America’s
greatest network, thus assuring the
people of Athens and Northeast
Georgia a continuation of the
finest radio programs on the air.
The list of top favorite programs
on WGAU-CBS continues to grow.
Such shows as Jack Benny, Amos
'n Andy, Arthur Godfrey, My
Friend Irma and Lux Radio The
ater, so name a few, entertain the
largest listening audiences in
broadcasting, and they’ll soon be
joined by other all time favorites
including Bing Crosby, Groucho
Marx, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton,
Burns & Allen, Horace Heidt, with
more to come.
In addition to standard broad
‘casting, many of these great CBS
shows will also be carried on Ath
ens’ newest and most powerful
broadcasting station WGAU-FM.
WGAU-FM is now in full opera
tion—radiating four thousand four
Zmdred watts of power from the
llest structure in Northeast
Georgia—WGAU’s new tower that
measures 370 feet above the
ground. Lewis Doster, manager
of WGAU, in discussing the com
pletion of the FM (frequency mod
buhltion) equipment, says “the new
370 foot tower also increases the
signal strength of WGAU-AM at
the old familiar 1340 spot on your
'AM dial, and blankets the whole
,Northeast section of Georgia with
lg”ti;u-fr?c;,. sk d;ifefity, FM at
Mr. Westbrook suggested that the farmers use Calcium Arse
nate or Texaphene or Benzine Hexachloride (3540 BHC) as pois
oning for control of the boll weevil, Mr, Branyon said the use of
3540 BHC er Calciunt Arsenate with two or three percent Nico
tine, prefer: 'y three percent, should be used to battle the lice.
“There are lots of boll weevils in this sction and it will be nec
essary to continue poisoning until the cotton begins to open,” Mr.
Westbrook added. :
“It’s alittle too early to tell just what the crop outcome will be
this year, but the crop estimates don’t look too good,” he con
tinuéd, My, Westbrook, however, said he thinks the yields will be
“pretty fair.”
If farmers stop poisening operations now they may lose a lot of
what has been gained by past poisoning, but if the work is kept
up for about three weeks, a good, but nat full crop, will likely be
the outcome. o
X Presstime Bulletins ¥
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 13,—(AP)—Herbert Hoover suffersd
a gall-bladder attack aboard an eastbound passenger train today,
but it didn’t impair his skill at gin rammy last night,
When the train stopped here the former President had won
$1.50 and felt good enough to smile about it
His secretary, Bernice Miller, said when the train stopped
here: “The boss is feeling fine.”
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heavy rains washed away some of the danger of forest fires in
the East and West last night and brought cooling relief to paris
of the nation. .
Timber fire fighters in the Payette National Forest in Idaho
said Saturday that an hour-long heavy rain Friday night had
aided them somewhat. They said the rain eliminated the danger
of new fires from lightning strikes. The fire has spread over
5,000 acres of timberlands.
General rains throughout Massachuseils that reached cloud
burst proportions in the western part of the state ended a forest
fire hazard there. The heavy rains forced evacuation of several
families near Chicopee, Mass.
World Eyes Focused
On German Election
Twin Red Offensives Pointed At China
Capital; Greek Army Encircles Rebels
By The Associated Press
Western Germans will vote today for a 400-member
parliament to run their new federal republic, the first
overall government since the days of Hitler.
The general tone of the _campaign has been so anti
allied that the occupation authorities and many German
newspapers and politicians have expressed alagm. No sin
gle party is expected to win a majority.
Miss Mitchell
«
Is Improving
ATLANTA, Aug. 13—(AP)—
Margaret Mitchell, author of
“Gone With the Wind,” partially
regained consciousness today and
recognized friends.
She was struck down and
nearly kilied Thursday night by
a speeding car driven by an off
duty taxi driver.
Miss Mitchell, in private life
Mrs. John Marsh, aroused from 2
coma today and got mad over
being fed intravenously. She ask
ed a relative to remove a tube
from her arm through which a
saline solution was being admin
istered.
“When Peggy gets mad it’'s a
good sign,” said a physician and
family friend. “The chances for
her recovery look better today
than we thought they would
when she was brought in here.”
Once when being given & drink
of water, Miss Mitchell said she
“purt all over.”
«Public interest in Frequency
Modulation is growing tremend
ously as more people learn of the
great superiority of this method of
broadcasting. Almost six million
homes now have FM radios—one
in every seven radio homes in the
United States. Over seven hun
dred FM Broadcasting stations are
on the air with many others under
construction. Static-free, inter
ference free, FM signals of perfect
listening quality already cover
more area in the nation than all of
the more than two thousand old
type AM stations.
Perfect Reception
“Right now in the Athens area of
Georgias FM receivers can bring in
perfect reception of stations carry
ing programs of all four of the
major networks. This has never
been possible “with the old style
AM method. The pleasure of
radio listening is so much greater
on FM that you have to experience
it to realize how much is lacking
in the AM method.” -
Radio dealers have a wide se
lection of radios with the FM band
in table models ranging from
popular prices on to the finest de
signs in console combination radio
phonographs, said Mr. Doster, who
further declared that until one
listens to programs that have no
static, no interference and no fad
ing, it is impossible to appreciate
the vast improvement over AM
or standard broadcasting.
Concluding his nm;nc:_:flcement
about the compieiion o 1 === £acili-
A 0 Continued. on Page Four)
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, AUCUST 14, 1949,
The 12-nation Council of Europe
adopted at Strasbourg, France,
yesterday, a nine-point program
providing for the discussion of al
most anything but military sub
jects. Among these was & point
calling for debate on human rights
and fundsmental —%"
freedoms. Ire- wol’|d News
land’s request for
the airing of her Roundup
dispute with Bri- —
tain over Northern Ireland was
rejected.
Chinese Communists pushed two
accelerating offensives southward
in the direction of the Nationalist
capital in Canton. The Central
Government said one drive was
being held in check on the out
skirts of Kanhsien, 215 miles from
Conton. Private reports said the
other push was aimed at Heng
yang, key railway junction 265
miles north of the capital.
Wu Teh-chen, a close adviser to
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
held what he called an “unofficial”
two-hour conference with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo. The
subject of the conference was not
disclosed,
Supply Route Cut
In Washington four U. S. agen
cies were taking steps to prevent
acquisition by the Chinese Com
munists of more than $500,000,000
estimated to have been secreted by
private Chinese citizens in Ameri
ca. The funds are said to have
been concealed in banks and in
vestments,
Greek army troops cut off the
main supply route from Albania
for some 8,000 Communist guer
rillas in the Vitsi mountains. A
government communique said the
mian guerrilla resistance in the
southeast pocket of the stronghold
had been “annihilated.”
Argentine President Juan D.
Peron accepted the resignation of
his foreign minister, Dr. Juan A.
Bramuglia. Bramuglia gave rea
sons of health for wanting to give
up his post, but previous reports
said he was understood to be in
disagreement with others in the
administration over demestic poli
cies,
Bramuglia wgs challenged to a
duel by Jeronimo Remorino, Ar
gentine ambassador to Washing
ton. The outgoing foreign minister
was reported to have punched Re
morino in the face.
U. N. Secretary-General Trygve
Lie told an outdoor rally in Co
penhagen, Denmark, he believes
the world has “come through the
worst postwar political crisis and
that we are facing brighter times.”
He called for a halt in talk of a
third world war.
- .
City Court Will
Open On Monday
The regular Aug&xst term of City
Cour. will begin Monday morning
at 10 o’clock in the Clarke County
Ccurt House.
Judge Arthur Oldham said
there will Jikely be a heavy dock
e for this term; however, he said
about thirty pleas of guilty were
mzde during July nd August.
Jurors are to be at the opening
session of court on Monday morn-
AR T R i
Mr. Westbrook stated that migration of the weevils can be ex
pected within the next few days. When it ‘comes it means that the
weevils will be flying from field to field and it will not be pos
sible to keep them from tue flelds by poisoning, but by uvsing
poison on the cotton it will keep the weevils off and will be prof
itable in controlling weevil damage, ne said.. - -
Although the hot weather isn't toc good on the cotton, it is
aiding in the control of the boll weevlls, Weevil damage will be
held down considerably if the hot weather continues.
In South Georgia the cotten crops have passed the cerueial
period and the outcome shows that there will be a small crop this
year.
North Georgia is in what Mr. Westbrook termed a “vulnerable
stage” at present, but the farmers are doing much in battling for
a good crop. “There still is a chance for a good erop,” he said.
Mr. Branyon was emrphatic in his agreement with Mr, Westhrook
Judge Edwards Rules
For City; Appeal Set
Dismisses Chamber of Commerce
Petition In Civic Hall Case
Judge Clark Edwards of Elbert Superior Court announ
ced at Elberton yesterday he has ruled the City of Athens
owns Civic Hall and the claim of the Chamber of Com
merce that the property is held in trust by the City for
the Chamber of Commerce is without justification under
law.
The Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors met in special
session after news of Judge Ed
ward’s decision reached Athens
and voted to instruct their attor
neys to carry the case to the Geor
gia Supreme Court on an appeal
from the Elbert jurist’s decision.
Judge Edwards upheld a de
murrer filed by attorneys for the
Mayor and Council and dismissed
the petition for an injunction
against the City filed by attorneys
for the Chamber of Commerce,
The petition claimed that Civie
Hall was built for the Chamber of
Commerce and that ‘while the City
holds title to the property it is
actually held in trust for the
Chamber of Commerce.
Judge Edwards, in a four-page
opinion, copies of which were re
ceived yesterday by attorneys in
the case, held that the Chamber of
Commerce contention has no legal
basis.
T. M. Tillman, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, said yes
terday the Chamber of Commerce
has always contended that Civie
Hall belongs to the City of Athens
but that the Chamber of Com
merce feels the City “has a moral
obligation to the Chamber of Com
merce to let it use the building
which it helped build.”
Mayor Jack R. Wells made no
comment .on the decision of the
court.
Attorneys In Case
City Attorney Bob Stephens and
T. H. Milner, jr., of Milner and
Stephens and A. S. Skelton and
Carey Skelton of Hartwell are at
torneys for the Mayor and Council
in the case. John L. Green and
Howell C. Erwin, jr., are attorneys
for the Chamber of Commerce.
Clerk Elmer J. Crawford of
Clarke Superior Court said yester
day he has not yet received the
original decision by Judge Ed
wards. Judge Edwards told The
Banner-Herald he mailed copies
to the attorneys and that the ori
ginal will be filed with the Clerk
of Courts.
Judge Edwards, of the Northern
Judicial Circuit, was designated to
preside in the case when Judge
Henry H. West of Clarke Superior
Court disqualfiied himself because
of membership in the Chamber of
Commerce.
The suit was filed by the Cham
ber of Commerce after part of
Civic Hall became occupie(g) by the
CREAT COMMUNITY SERVICE
Readers Eagerly Awaiting
.
Return Of New Bookmobile
By LEON DRISKELL, Staff Writer
It’s been a long time since the shiny new Bookmobile
arrived in Athens to provide good book service to rural
communities of Clarke, Oconee and Oglethorpe counties.
The people then were gnthusi
astic and eager to see the “li
brary people” coming. The peo
ple are still enthusiastic and eager
for good book service, But it was
a long time ago that the Book
mobile was new.
Now after nine years of hard
wear and good service there is to
be another Bookmobile to provide
book service to the Georgians of
this area,
It was in 1940 that the present
Bookmrobile was purchased under
WPA.
Since then it has traveled over.
70,000 miles of all types of roads‘
in this area. ‘
The Bookmobile travels be-~
tween 500 and 600 miles a month.
The Bookmobile stays on the
road four days a week and di
videe ite time hetween home and‘
community stops. l
There ~are thirty community
sotps where the. people of the
three counties gather at stores to
‘meet the Bookmobile. There are
also sixty home stops where iso
lated families get books. |
~ The number of books read frorm
the Bookmobile varies from eight
to eleven thousand. ;
P cal requesis for books f “LJ
City Department of Education by
order of Mayvor Wells. The Cham
ber of Commerce asserted it was
the intention of the City to oust it
from Civic Hall and petitioned for
a permanent Injunction by the
court.
Offered a Lease
In a twenty-eight page brief
filed with the court, attorneys for
the Mayor and Council tited vari
ous court opinions and laws which
they contended governed the case.
They argued that there is no re
cord of the City of Athens ever
holding Civie Hali in trust for the |
Chamber of Commerce and that
even if such record existed it was
illegal under State law governing
authority of municipalities.
In their brief, attorneys for the
City also stated that the City had
offered the Chamber of Commerce
a lease on use of part of Civic Hall
but that the offer was rejected.
The City claimed that it could al
locate space in the building for use
by City departments since it owned
‘the building. It was the allocation
of space to the Board of Education
that caused the Chamber of Com
merce to file the petition which
Judge Edwards has dismissed.
Attorneys for the Chamber of
(Continued on Page Four)
TR -
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair and continued
hot Sunday. High 93 today
with low 72. Sunset 7:21 and
sunrise 5:54.
GEORGIA — Consider
able cloudiness over south
portion and partly cloudy in
north Sunday. Showers and
not so hot over south portion
Sunday and Monday, other
wise little change in tempera
ture, ’
TEMPERATURE
MARMRet o 5 e e Y
RRORIE . on s
DI ..s v aeiasenee Bl
Mosnel el eyl
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .. .. .42
Deficit since August 1 .... 181
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 ....3232
Deficit since January 1 _l__s9
current holidays, current coun
tries being studied, musie books,
and books on chapel programs,
Unusual requests heard by the
Bookmobile staff during the last
few months were:
A book in Braille for a blind
ten year old and “The Arabian
Nights” for an older man and
his invalid sister -— because ‘“we
get so lonely.”
In an effort to aid in- purchas
ing the new Bookmobile, which
will belong to the library on a
shared basis, the schools of the
three counties have responded in
various ways.
A one-room and one~teacherl
school pushed all the desks to]
one end of the room and made &
stage for a minstrel. In that way
the quota was reached (a total of
19 003 |
Other schools had harbecues
and contests to raise their guotas.
J. Swanton Ivy’s bid for the
Bookmobile was the lowest oml
received and he is to supply the
specially designed automobile. |
Members of the library board
of Athens are Mrs. J. J. Wilki_ns‘J
chairman; Robert Gunn, who was
acting chairmman in Mrs. Wilkin’s
absence, and Richard Bloodworth,
Billy Wier and Troutman Wilson..
ho; haye, been, o, gharie of e
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
that the farmers are f‘\;tun(up a good battle, 1 & o ;
Mr. Floyd.and Mr, Langiey report that indications are for @ -
Georgia crop of about 570,000 bales, which is 24 percent below
the 745,000 harvested last year, and 37 percent less than the tem
year average of 779,000, Indicated yield per acre, they said, is 187
pounds compared with 279 last year. ; ety vaidi B
Estimated acreage for harvest is 1,460,000 or 14 percent above
the 1,286,000 acres harvested in 1948, The twe statisticiang rppa
“There is is definitely a poer cotton year over most of
southern section of the state.” . The final oOuturn of cotton in the
Piedmont areas and northern territory is dependent on weather
and weevil damage, they said. .
Over the nation the total cotton crop is estimated to be below
last year’s, but more than the ten-year average. The condition : :
the crop on August 1 was seported to be 80 percent of no: _
compared with 85 percent a year ago. :
BAD WEATHER
IS DELAYING
DEEP SEA DIVE
SMUGGLER’SS "OVE, Calif.,
Aug 13—(AP)—Rough seas o=
day postponed Marine emplorer
Otis Barton's attempt to descend
in a diving bell to a depth of
6,000 feet below the surface of
the ocean,
He may try again tomorrow.
“Y want calm weather above
everything,” Barton told news
mwen. “The greatest danger we
cculd encounter would be the
parting of the ecable in rough
seas.”
The diving bell, a hollow uteel
balql about five feet in diame
ter, is raised and lowered on a
five-enghths inch steel cable
from a erane on a barge.
Barton and naturalist Will
jam Beebee hold the current
deep sea diving record of 3,028
feet, achieved in 1934 in a
bathysphere off Bermuda. The
benthoscope is slightly larger
and capable of descending to
much greater depths witheut
collapsing.
Spratlin
Rites Set
At 4 Today
Funeral services for Abner
Spratlin, prominent citizen of Win~
terville, will be conducted this
afternoon at 4 o'clock from the
Winterville Baptist Church.
Mr. Spratlin died . yesterday
morning at his home after an ill
ness of two months. He was 79
years old and had lived in Win
terville for the past 45 years. He
was a native of Wilkes county.
Officiatinfi at the services will
be Rev. W. R. Coile of Salem Bap
tist Church assisted by Rev. Jesse
Knight, pastor of Winterville Bap
tist Church, and Rev. H. L. Me-
Neil, pastor of the Winterville
Methodist Church.
The body will lie in state at the
church from 3 o'clock until the
hour.of the service,
Interment will be in Winterville
cemetery. Bridges Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers are J. L. Dawson, J.
R. Dawson, J. E. Williams, J. T.
Hardeman, D. W. Bramlett, and R.
J. Chandler.
Mr. Spratlin was a member of
the Baptist Church, having united
with the Sardis Baptist Church in
Wilkes county and moved his
membership to Winterville Baptist
Church when she made that town
his home. Mr. Spratlin, a retired
farmer, was a member of one of
the most prominent families in
this section, g
Survivors include: his wife, Mrs.
Jettie Whitehead Spratlin, Winter
ville; four daughters, Mrs. Obie
Newnan, Athens, Mrs, Ralph Ed
wards, Mrs, Charlie Slay, and Miss
Myrtle Spratlin, Winterville; son,
Ferma Spratlin, Winterville; two
brothers, Pellem Spratlin, Bishop,
and Malvin Spratlin, Athens; and
seven grandchildren.
Japs Remember
August 14, 1945
TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 14—(AP)
—Four years ago tomorrow, (Aug.
14 U. S. time) policemen dutifully
made their rounds in every Japa
nese village and town, proclaim
ing: i
“Listen to the radio at noon! An
important announcement from the
Emperor.” Listen carefully at
noon!”
In whispers—llest the ever-pre
sent “thought police’”” might hear—
citizens speculated on what it
might mean. Few guessed right.
Japanese listened incredulously
as the strained voice of the em
peror came over the loudspeakers,
announcing his decision to sur
render to the Allies and admonish-~
ing his subjects to accept defeat
calmly.
Some were convinced only when
army and navy supply depots
threw open their gates and invited
all comers to carry off what they
liked. !
In the cities many ~did not be
lieve until they saw clouds of
smoke from burning papers pour
ing for days from the chimneys of
government budldings, ..
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Race Row
Erupts In
Alabama
Homes Of Two Negro
Ministers Bombed
in Birmingham Strife
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 18 —
(AF) — A tense racial zoning row
erupted today in the dynamim
of two negro ministers’ homes
answering gunfire by negroes
guarding the houses.
Two midnight blasts, seeonds
apart, rocked the adjoining .‘fl::
hcuses in an area zoned for wh
only. Windows wer shattered and
a few planks knocked loose.
There was little damage al
though the heavy exgloslons were
heard over most of Birmingham.
The Rev. E. B.de Yamptre, one
of the negro ministers, sald three
or four negroes fired with pistols
and shotfum at a speeding suto
mobile from which the bombs
were hurled. The shots apparent
ly missed. . »
Eighteen negroes were on the
porch or in the houses at the tme,
te said, but none was injured.
Asked by reporters if he rlm
ned to move, the Rev. de Yam
per'tr replied: v 2 g
“This is my home and I'm goi
ic stay here.x The other mln’:z‘:
the Rev. Milton Curry, said the
same,
One Arrested
The houses are & half bleck
from three others that were heavi
ly damaged by bombs the night es
March 24.
Throngs of negroes antheud
within a few minutes. availa
ble police roared to the scene in
patrol cars. One negro was arres
ted and charged with refum it
okey an officer’'s eomm: so
move on.
The Rev. de Yampert said the
dynamite was thrown by am un
mased white man riding em the
rurining board of the car.
One bomb fell on the lawn
about 20 feet from the front porch
of the Rev. Milton Currg’:l house.
It dug a two-foot crater, The other
struck a curbing «1d shattered the
stone.
The Rev. Rampert told officers
he was seate.. on the front porch
cf his home wiih seven vi‘ier
members of his race. He said he
had called then. to join him ear
i:er because he feared troubli
About two hours before, w.
Henderson, who also lives im the
Curry House, trailed a oar with
dimmed lights that halted briefly
across the street.
He said he followed it several
hlocks to where two other cars
apparently were waiting for it
He wasn’t able to get the Meense
tag number.s
AT 'Y’ CAMP
DeMolay
House Party
Set Aug. 22
The annual House Party of the
local Frank Hardeman Chapter,
Order of DeMolay, will be held
this year at the Athens Y. M. C.
A. Camp nea: Tallulah Falls, be
ginning Monday, August 22 and
lasting through Augusi 25.
There are a large number of
DeMolays and their dates gmn
ivg on attending the House Party,
which is one of the high-lights of
the year for the local chapter of
DeMolays. .
Allan Booth is the chairman of
the House Party Committee and
he is assisted by Jule Spears. John
Spratlin is Ex-Officio member of
the committee as he is Master
Counselor of the Frank Hardemsan
Chapter.
The Chaperons include Mr. and
Mrs. D. Weaver Bridges, C. O.
Buker, Miss Thelm~ Elliott, Mr.
and Mrs., H. C. “Pop” Pearson.
The Gainesville NeMolays have
been invited to attend the House
Party along witt the Athers
Chapter since they are just be
girning their activities and ave
not planning to have 2 House Par
ty of their own this year.
Several of the majority MEm,
bers of the Frank Hardeman
Chapter are planning on attend
ing the House Party with their
wives or dates. | :
S s ERENER IS L L