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Margaret Mitchell Loses Fight For Life
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Vol CXVII, No. 185. Associated Press Service
A N
Eamous Writer Dies
As Doctors Readied
Emergency Operation
ATLANTA, Aug. 16 — (AP) —
Margaret Mitchell, aqthor of
aGone With the Wind,” died today
gs doctors prepared for an emer
gency operation® to try to save her
mei\liss Mitchell, 43, was struck
down by a speeding automobile cn
Peachtree Street ‘last Thursday
pight. She and per husband, John
R. Marsh, were crossing the street
to go to a movie near their home:
Miss Mitchell never fully recov
ered consciousness - Doctors said
she had a fractured skull, frac
tures of the pelvis, and other in
juries.
" ghe was taken to the operating
room at Henry Grady Memorial
Hospital this morning. She died
st 11:59 a. m. (EST), before the
eperation was performed.
Doctors did not reveal imme
diately what operation was plan
ned. X-rays had shown a frac
ture of the skull from near the top
to the spine.
Marsh, a semi-invalid as the re
sult of a heart attack several years
ago, was not at the hospital when
his wife died, Her brother, Steph
ens Mitchell, left immediately to
inform Marsh. w3y
Mrs. Stephens Mitchell was the
only member of the family in the
operating room when Miss Mitchell
died.
Funeral ararngements were not
announced immediately. :
Miss Mitchell had lived as quiet
1y as possible since her novel and
the subsequent movie thrust her
fnio prominence. She and her
husband had a small, unpreten
tious apartment. .
They were crossing a walkway
when a car speeding down the
sireet went over the center line
end smashed into her. She was
dragged 15 feet. Marsh held his
wife in his arms until police and
an ambulance arrived. 5
Driver Charged
Pclice charged the driver of the
ear, Hugh D, Gravitt, 28, with sus
picion of manslaughter. A taxi
driver, he was off duty at the time
and in his private car. Police
records show he has 23 previous
traffic violations agairst him.
Miss Mitchell turned the Civil
Woar tales she heard as a child into
“Gone With the Wind,” a book
outsold only by the Bible.
But she scoffed at an idea it
was an easy job.
“Actually, 1 began writing at
the age of six years. I worked 12
yezars en ‘Gone With the Wind’
and threw away -2 lot of novele 1
had written before that,” she once
said.
Miss Mitchell began her career
as a newspaper feature writer.
Fresh from Smith College and a
debut as one of Atlanta’s social set,
she joined the staff of The Journal
in 1922, The next four years many
stories in the Atlanta newspaper
were bylined “Peggy Mitchell.”
In 1925 she ‘married John R.
Marsh, advertising manager of the
Georgia Power Company, and a
year later she left the newspaper
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TODAY’'S BIRTHDAY
HUGH SIMONS GIBSON, born August 16, 1883, & d
in Loe Angeles, son of a bank cashier. Diplomat ‘,,5_ L
for 30 years, Gibson argued for hours in a vain ‘“"'g"'@ -
¢ifort to save Nurse Edith Cavell, execuied by aSI il RS
German rifle squad in World War 1. He was secre- S "§<§
tary of legation at Brussels during the 1914 invas- : ofi, %
jon #nd denounced German atrocities. Graduated g SO
from the Ecole Libres de Sciences Politiques in § o U
Paris, he entered diplomatic service in 1908. He A 00l
Was @ member of Hoover’s Belgian relief commis- Z
£lon end chairman of Coolidge’s delegation to the
- disarmament conference, He once declined puch GIBSON
W A T ————— . —————
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ATLANTA, Aug. 16 — (AP)—
Georgia’s population is estimated
&' 3,167,000,
This is exclusive of the armed
forces overseas. The estimate was
Tiade by the Census Bureau.
An analysis of the figures made
by C. Parker Persons, regional di
rector of the U, 8. Department of
Ccmmerce, showed last July
Ceorgia’s total population had m}'
Pieased by 44,000, or 1.4 per eent
Over the 3,128 728 ns counted
fr the state in 1“&9 %s eompar
€d with the estimated increase of
¢nly 4,000, or gne-tenth of a per
snt. reflected in the provisional
figyres, :
A Grresponding increase N
#iso shown for the state’s civilian
Population in the estimates just
#rnounced as compared with last
{;ar’s provisional figures. The
‘reau_found that the figures
i}‘ 7uld be 3,143,000 instead of ine
104,000 previously given, which
likewise i an estimated 44,000, or
14 rer sens hcicase, *7w e
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WIDOW WITH BARKLEY AT HOMECOMING
Vice President Barkley and his friend, Mrs. Carle
ton Hadley, pretty St. Louis widow, pose at his estate
near Paducah, Ky., during celebration in which the
local airport was re-named for him. The vice president
spoke at the celebration but made only jocular referen
ces to his rumored romance with Mrs. Hadley. — (AP
Wirephoto, copyright, 1949, by Nashville Tennessean.)
Hawaii Picket Ban
Defied By Bridges
HONOLULU, Aug. 16.—(AP)—Harry Bridges shoved
Hawaii’s 108-day CIO dock strike into a decisive phase
today. The territorial gevernment obtained an anti-pick
eting injunction. He defied it personally.
The next step was up to Walter D.- Ackerman, jr., Ha
waii's attorney general. His office said Bridges, president
of the CIO International Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union, might be arrested for contempt. Ackerman
said he would determine today .wha‘i‘: to do. :
Ackerman went into circuil
court yesterday to obtain the in
junction. He acted uner an emer
gency law of the territorial legis
lature. Under this act the govern
ment has seized Hawaii's struck
stevedoring firms. It plans to op
erate the docks, tied up since the
ILWU struck May 1 for a 32 cent
hike in the $1.40 hourly basic
longshore wage.
The territory resorted to the in
junction as it tried to unload the
Matson Pine freighter Hawaiian
Merchant at Pier Nine. ILWU
pickets were on duty there. CIIO
Marine cooks and stewards and
independent Marine firemen said
they would walk off the ship if
government stevedores worked
behind the picket line.
The injunction restrains the
ILWU from picketing Pier Nine.
It also restrains the ILWU, its of
ficers and 100 “John Does” from
“jnciting or directing” &ny one
else to picket the pier and thus
halt work on the ship.
Taking & picket post on pier
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness with
afternoon thundershowers fo
day and Wednesday. Continued
warm with a high today of 88,
low tonight 72. The high fo
morrow will be 88. Sunrise to
morrow 5:56, sunset at 7:19,
GEORGIA — Consider~
~ able clondiness and little tem
perature change today. Secat
tered showers and thuuder
storms, mostly in the west and
“north portions. Wednesday
partly cloudy and warm, with
afternoon thundershowers.
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Stalin, Kirk In
.
Courtesy Visit
MOSCOW. A;)s w~<f — V.
S. Ambassador Alan 6. Kirk said
today his mecting with Prime
Minister Stalin in the Kremlin last
night was a ‘“‘courteous pleasant
visit” on “general subjects.”
Tha eanversation lasted about 46
minutes. It was the first time
any high American official had
seen Stalin in nearly & year.
nine, Brid{es moved swifily to-
I ward the ILWU’S long-threatened
test of the seizure law’s constitu
tionality.
. Authorities served him with an
injunction notice. He stuffed it in
| his pocket. For a half-hour he
| marched on the picket line. Po
| lice did not try to stop him.
On the March he told reporters:
“Thig is the start on this law.
It's going to the supreme court.
This is where it starts and that is
where it will end. What these is
-lands need is a cool breeze, legisla
{ tively speaking.
Mrs. Winter
Attendln%vl
NRLCA Meet
Mrs. J. R. Winter of Winterville,
president of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the National Rural Letter Car
riers' Association, is in Grend
Rapid:, Michigan, uttefndinglfitho
snnual convention of the tter
Carriers’ Association.
The muting‘ begins today ad:d
Issts through Friday. Prior to ez
convention, Mrs. Winter conferr
with National officers at the Ex
ecutive Board meeting held In
Grand Rafids. ¢
As National Prosident of the
Leadies Auxiliary, which this year
i€ oelebratl%y its Silver Anniver
sery, Mrs. Winter will preside at
all sessions of the Auxiliary meet
ings. She was scheduled to speak
‘at a joint session of koth the La
dies Auxiliary and Rural Carriers’
Association today. On August 18
she will address tne entire Asso
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| SET FOR AUGUST 21
Swimming Meet Highlights
L.ocal Instruction Program
Highlighting the swimming in
struction program at the Legion
Pool will be the second annual
Clessic City Swim Championships
to be held on August 21 at the pool
a‘ 2 o’clock.
~ The Championships are spon
sored by the Athens Kiwanis and
are to be conducted by the Athens
Recreation Department. Medals
will be awarded to the first, sec
ond, and third place winners in
sach of the 22 evente
There will be races and contests
to demonstrate the progress of all
children from bo&inners to ad
vanoed swimmers that took part in
the morning #swim instructions
th‘gnmmma.
tries m& not limited to parti
cipants in the imstructions, but
anyone livin; in Clarke county
and 30 years of age or under and
not affiliated with the University
of Georgia swimming tem, may be
& contestant in the evenis of free
styles, backstroke, and Dbreast
stroke varieties.
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949.
Gen. Waitt Takes Stand
In 5 Percent Investigation
City Sues
Petition Declares
Defendant Used
Distribution System
A suit-against the Georgia } ow
er Company to collect $1,500 al
leged unpaid renta'! on a power
distribution system which the
City of Athens claims to own has
been filed in Clarke Superior
Court by attorneys for the City.
Cit{ Attorney Bob Stephens,
John L. Green and Edwip Fortson
represent the City in the litiga
tion.
The petition claims Goor’ia
Power Company owes the City
51,500 rental for use of the dis
tribution system and asks for &
judgement in .that amount, or
whatever the réntals amount so at
the time the judgment is rendered.
,The petition, in part follows:
“Petitioner owns n system for
tne distribution of electric power
consisting of approximately 1120
poles with crossarms and insula
tors on which is strung approxi
mately 260,000 feet of copper wire
together with appurtenant equip
ment. This system is installed on
the public streets of the City of
Athens in Clarke County, Georga.
“The defendent has used this
system for many years n furnish
ing electric power for lighting the
streets of the City of Athens and
for furnishing electric power %o
its customers gencrally.
“The defendant formerly paid &
yearly rental for the use of this
system under a written contract
which expired by its terms on
May 8, 1949.
“The defendent has continued
to use said system since May 8,
1949, until the filing of this suit
but has refused to pay any rental
for the use of said system although
frequent demands for payment
have been made. .
“No express contract has been
made between &etitioner snd the
defendant for the rental of said
system but petitioner alleges that
the reuonagle value of the use
cf :’them is $500.00 per month.
“The defendant therefore is g
debted to your petitioner for the
sum of $1,500.00 at the time of the
filir{ of this suit,
"? the defendant eontinues to
use said system, petitioner shou'!
be allowed to amend and claim
any additional rental come due
bef%e the trial of this suit.
“WHEREFORE, petiomer
prays: i i
Sk Thgt | rocess issues rvequir
ing the defendant to appear and
answer this complaint.
“2. That petitioner have judg
ment nxalnlt the defendant for
$1,800.00 or such larger sum as
may be due.”
Gunmen Search
Onl i
n In Georgia
SALEM CROSS&OADS‘ 8 C,
Aug. 16—(AP)—The search for
+wo gunmen who rcbbed a general
store keeper here of $41,500 spread
to Georgia today.
Fairfield County Sheriff E. XK.
Babb was in Statesboro, Ga.
where a man reportedly dopositod
; large sum of old money yester
ay.
At Statesboro, Sheriff gtoddard
Dea! said a stranger had deposited
$2,500 in a bank while another
man waited in a car. Bank offi
cials said the money smelled of
moth balls.
Additional Events
The contestants will compete
with the other boys and girls of
similar age, similar abilities, and
of the same sex. There will be
special events for ron-swimmers.
In addition to the regular ev.nts
of the afternoon there will be sev
eral demonstrations and comedy
acts to enlive: the program.
Siveral hundred Athens chil
dren attended the morning swim
instruction sessions, and the
swimming meet is arranged 80
that the childrer can demonstrate
15 their parents the progress iney
are making in swimming skills,
Meet Director Ed Hawkins said.
Regular judges, timers and
starters will be used in the after
noon’s events.
Admission to the meet will be
25 cents for spectators while the
participants will be admitted free.
Scme seating will pe available in
ihe pool area. After the meet the
pool will be open for public swim
ming. The meet contentonts will
te admitted Tree w™ '~ »ifeis siay
swim at regular. priced
Suspended Army Officer
To Break Public Silence
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, — (AP) — Major General
Alden Waitt, a key figure in the Senate five percenter in
vestigation, was due to testify on Capitol Hill today.
Waitt w?s suspended as chief of the Army Chemical
Corps — along with Major General Herman Feldman,
Army quartermaster general — following reports that
some men had used their influence with government offi
cials to help businessmen get eontracts.
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MAJ. GEN. ALDEN WAITT
.« « Talks to Probers
18 GUILTY
PLEAS IN
CITY COURT
Bigheen pleas of guilty were
entered in City Court yesterday
while one person was acquitted,
one found guilty by the jury, one
case was settled, and ancther was
nolle prossed.
,Court went into ils second day
of the August term today with
Judge Arthur Oldham presiding
and Solicitor Preston Alman
prosecutinf for the state.
Milton Jordan, colored, was ac
guitted by the jury on a charge
of operating slot machines. He was
arrested in a raid on the AMVETS
Club by the City Police.
Curtis Fowler was found guilty
of possessing distilling apparatus,
and was fined S2OO and put on 12
monins provation.
Settlement on payment of costs
was made in the case where Hoyt
Arderson was charged with as
sault and battery.
The case where Roger Arthur
Fontaine was charged with leav
u‘i the scene of an accident was
nclle prossed.
Guilty Pleas
Persons entering puilty pleas,
the charge and their sentence are
as follows:
Vernon Neunn, selling tax-paid
liquor, SSOO tie and 12 months on
publie works to be served on pro
bation upon payment of fine; Sal
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.
Dr. Wilson
Speaks To
Homemakers
Dr. Pauline Park Wilson, dean
of the University of Georgia
School of Home Economics, told
300 high school homenraking
teachers this morning that chil
dren develop independence in
proportion to that which they are
permiited to have in the home.
Dr. Wilson spoke to the Home
making Education Conference,
which opened last night, on
“Family Fundamentals.” The ses
sions are sponsored by the State
Department of Education and the
University's School of Home
Economics and College of Educa
tion. Scheduled to close Friday,
the conference will include many
discussion groups and weork
shops.
Workshops will be held on arts
and crafts, audio-visual instrue
tion, slip cover making, flower
arranging, frozen foods and
clothing.
Last night Miss Elizabeth Todd,
professor of home economics edu
cation at the University, spoke
on “Curriculum Revision in
“omemaking Education in Geor-
WY Viniversity President J. C.
R cevs welcomed the group.
Chairmian Noey (D.-N. C.) of
the Senate Special Investigations
Subcommttee said there were a
couple of other witnesses to be
heard from, “then we will hear
from Gen. Waitt.”
Reorganization—Opponents of a
Br:posed cabinet-rank -~ Welfare
partment dug deep for Senate
votes in an effort to defeat the
plan. But both its opponents and
its backers were somewhat pessi
mistie.
One administration leader pre
dicted the plan’s defeat, Senator
Fulbright (8.-Ark.), who's against
the idea, sald enemies of the plan
would need a heavy turnout to
beat it back.
The Welfare Department would
be created by one of two govern
ment reorganization pro&onall
which recently received votes of
disapproval from the Senate ex
penditures committee after they
were submitted by President Tru
man.
The new welfare agency would
handle &l! federal welfare, educa
tion and public health functions.
Federal &curity Administrator
Oscar Ewing is reportedly Mr.
Truman’s choice to head the new
department.
il —Ap administration leader
T A RS of & wI4OO
000,000 arms-for- ":K. rogram
might take less than the gxll pro
gram as it now stands.
As the combined Senate Foreign
Relations and Armed Services
committees were called together
to star writinitho measure admin
istration backers were reported
ready to compromise in the interest
of speed. |
The basis for a compromise
probably would be the proposal
offered by Senators Vandenberg
(R.-Mich.) and Dulles (R.-N.Y.).
They called chiefly for (a) a cut
of $160,90,000 in the total and (b)
a closer tie-in between the arms
program and the defense pian io
be drafted by the North Atllntlc‘
Defense Council. |
Appropriations — Their money
used up, the Defense Establish
ment, Interior Department, Veter
ans Administration and other gov-=
ernment agencies waited for Con
gress to do something about it.
A stop-gap money bill—to keep
the offices in funds until the Sen
ate can.get to the regular appro
priations bills—was turned down
by the House yesterday, as mem
bers showed their anger at the
slow-moving Senate.
Clark — Senator Taft (R.-Ohio)
joined other Republicans in pro
testing the fact that the Senate
Judiciary Committee okayed Tom
Clark’s nomination to be a Su
preme Court Justice without ever
hearing from Clark himself.
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FBI TABS ACCUSED KIiLLER “FUBLIT ENEMY NO. 17
Handcuffed and chained, Earl D.
Bircham (left), 45, is wushered inte
police court at Louisville, Ky., for a hear
ing on a charge of kimng & policeman
and wounding another Sunday night.
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No. 1” He was ordered held without
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
TALLULAH FALLS, Aug. 16.—Athenians figured promisently
in the winning of honors at Athens “Y” Camp today. m
Butler won honor camper in the senior divisies Tommy L
was runner-up. Tillman won master swimmer award,
Jimmy Allen was runner-up in eleciion for top ecamper o
younger boys division. Oliver Oxford of Ameriews won younges
division emblem. Winning Pioneer emblem was Henry Crisp,
Americns. Hix Lanier, Atlanta, was runner-up, Winkie Wilking
won a cup. Randy Bowen, Americus, was runmer-up, Bill Harrls,
Americus, won junior division; Carl bodum was runter-up,
Winning the honor camp cup for the entire camp was Arg
“Buster” Jenkins.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16— (AP) —Ma jor Gtvnl Alden W,
Waitt said today shat Major General Harry M. auflu“:flu‘
him to prepare & memorndum on elght officers elig! for
Waltt’s job as chief of the Army Ohecioal Corps.,
Mrs. Marcus
McWhorter
Dies Tuesday
Mrs. Josephine McWhorter, wi
dow of Mareus P. MocWhorter,
member of one of this eity's best
known families, died in an Atlanta
hospital Tuesday after an {liness
of five months. ¢
Services will be conducted Wed
nesdag morni‘ns' at .l.vin o'clock
from ernstein unofill ome cha
gel with Dr, E. L. Hill, pastor of
irst Presbyterian Churgh, offi
ciating, assisted by Dr. J. W. 0.
McKibben, pastor of First Metho
dist Church.
Burial will follow in ?‘conn
Hill cemetery, with Robert L. Mc-
Whorter, Howard H. McWhorter,
Thurmond McWhorter, Charloz
Hawkin, John Pierce Borders an
8. C. McDaris serving as pall-bear
-I§,
lurvlvinhxrn. McWhorter is =
‘daughter, .W. R, bbe’,»
ji.,, Atlants: two sons, Marcus F.
McWhorter, ir., Clinton, 8. C., and
Hamilton Pierce McWhorter, At
lanta; two wisters, Miss lellga
Wynn, Athens, and Mrs. H. B.
Borders, LaeGrange; brother, Hen
ry A. Wynn, Athens; father, F. P.
Wynn, Athens, and four gramd
children.
A native of Greensbero, Ga.,
Mrs. McWhorter was descended
from family lines long promineni
in the affairs of that section and
the state. She had been a resi
dent of Atlanta for the past twen
ty-five years, her husband for
many years being prominent in
state political affairs and long eon
nected with the siate government.
She had a large number of
friends here who will be saddened |
by news of her death. |
Bradley Takes
Over New Post
WASHINGTON, Aug. I—(AP)
Gen, Omar N, Bradley today took
over the nation’s highest military
posi.
The former Army Chief of Staff
was sworn in by Secretary of De
fense Johnson as chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Stafi. He is the
first to hold the office, recently
created by Congress.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the
operating heade of the three armed
services—the Army, Navy and Air
Force. They serve as the chief
military advisors to the President
and the Secretary of Defense.
Coalition
By The Assoclated Press
Victorious conservative leaders
of Western Giermany begen plan
ning today for a coalition govern
ment.
Calls for wm’, out from
Dr. Konrad Adgpaver, 78-year-old
lead¢r of istian Demoers
tie &xim%‘D ) which emerged
in Bunday's €ieciions as the biggest
single force in the new state.
s e
so
w;’“ r‘mmallcr comcgn—
oun tive gntlu
—--—-—-u-!-- eoalition tha‘tofi
exclude the left-of-center
Democraty, second hrgm fiflr
The government trobn ly will B
formed early newt week, with Dr.
Adensuer expected to becoms the
first chaneellor %fim minister) in
Germany sinee Hitler,
German Communists reagied
with a surrrifin{ tone g nsmflh—
t!ontotherdoo&tln e Sundsy
balloting. Otto m&tu, one of
their top leaders, said they had =
chance and inflcG.
Alan G. Kirk, U. 8. Antaa-dlr
to Moscow, eonferred for min
utes with Premier Stalin 11%
Rirk deserized his first mee
with Stalin as s eourtesy Jfg and
said it was a “pleasant visit.
The government In Athens said
mopping up eontinued in E‘ of
fensive against the guerr in
the Vitsi mountains near Albania
In China big Ameiican and Bil
tish oil vompanies began moving
out of Canton in the face of the
Communist drive for the National
ist refugee capital. The Nationals
proclairned i counter attack had
driven the Reds out of Nanking
198 miles to the northeast.
4-H Clubbers
Convene Today
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Aug. 16
—(AP)—Two thousand 4¢-HM <lub
members and Georgia leaders frem
over the staig werq expected at
the 4¢-H Club %ouncfl which opens
today. pe
Sessions will eontipue through
out the week on the 3«"}. Stak
College for Women campus.
Gov. Herman .'Falmndgo, Chan
cellor Marmon W, Caldweii and
other state dignataries are sche
duled to give addresses during the
16th annual conferercs.
of the accused killer, sits in police eourt
during the hearing. She was ordered
held on a charge of being an accomplice.
Officers said Bircham, a mative of Ten
nessee, had been sought in eonnection
with several hold-ups in Nashville, Tenn.,
in which the loot toteled more than $85,-
000.— (AP Wirephoto.) _r
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