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Vol. CXVII, No, 190. Associated Press Service
Nature -
Attack
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Hurricane Poised ‘
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i Forest Fires Rage
By The Associated l’m .
Nature unleased its savage fury
on scattered parts of fi!fi globe
pver the week-end, bringing death
io score of persons and causing
widespread property damage. -
A small Atlantic o;xi\snicane,
whipping toward the Florida coast
tcdzy, poised a threat of further
destruction. i 5 >
I the worst disaster to hit
France since the war, raging for
st flres killed at least 78 persons
in the southwest corner of the
ccuntry. The fires destroyed en
tive villages and burned over 100,~
000 wooded acres.
Army firefighters said today
fhey had the blaze under control.
in the Pacific northwest, violent
¢arth tremors rocked a wide area
but no casuclties or major damage
were reported. The quake appar
¢ently centered in Lritish Colum
bia's Skeena River Valley but was
felt as far south as Portland, Ore.
A two=-foot wave lashed the water-~
sront of Ketchikan, Alaska, mo
ments after the shock hit the area.
Power lines were torn down and
the water mains broken in some
parts of Seattle,
Hurricene Winds |
The hurricane, probably in=
creasing in size and intensity,
roared toward the Florida coast,
but observers said there was no
jmmediate danger to the coast.
At 5 a. m. (EST), the blow,
with 90-mile-an-hour winds at its
neart, was centered about 440
miles east of Nassau in the Baha
mas. It was moving west north
west at some 20 miles an hour,
In the drougth-stricken west,
hundreds of firefighters battled
flames in the National Forest areas
of six states where at least six
major fires still raged out of con
trol.
Three swept through the Pay
ette National Forest of central
Tdaho and three others through
the Yellowstone National Park in
Wyoming. Four fire-fighting
¢rewmen were hospitalized.
Shell Explodes
In Quebec, fragments from ex
ploding anti-aircra’t shells men
aced army fire-fighters batfling a
prush fire on.the army proving
grounds at St. Maurice en Hunt,
The shells were buried duds that
had failed to explod2 during fir
ing tests, No injuries were report
ed
Meanwhile, seismographs pick
€o severe earth tremors in other
parts of the-world.
At West Bromwich, England,
Seismologist H. J. Shaw recorded
& sharp earthquake, probably cen
tering at the eastern end of the
Himalaya Mountains. The shocks,
which began at 10:12 p, m. (EST)
Sinday were so severe they dislo
eated three recording instruments,
In New York, the Fordham Uni
versity seismograph recorded one
f the heaviest earthquake vibra
tions in several months about 2,-
800 miles south of New York City.
A seismologist said the vibrations
were so intense actual location was
¢ifficult to determine. !
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Rites For W.G.
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I'hornton 1o
Be On Tuesday
W. G. Thornton, well known
Tesident of the Hull road and for
the past thirty-one years a rural
mail carrier, died unexpectedly at
his home from a heart attack Sun
€ayv afternoon at 12:30 o’clock.
Services are to be conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clqck
from Hull Baptist Church with
Rev. A. E. Logan, pastor of the
church, and Rev. W. R. Coile, DRs
tor of Salem Baptist Church, offi
clating.
The body will lie in state in the
church prior to the services.
3urial will follow in Winter
ville cemetery, Bridges Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers will be Guy Patton,
Robert Winter, Hugh Daniel, W.
L. Brookshire, Steward Sisk and
Truman Bullock. §
Surviving Mr. Thornton is his
wife, Mrs. Ruby' Turner Thornton;
Wwo daughter, Mrs, Charles M.
Blakney, Hawaii, and Mrs. Bruce
Davis, Chatham Field, Savannah;
four sons, W. Glenn Thornton,
Hapeville, James A. Thornton, U.
S. Navy, New London, Conn., and
Johnnie Louis Thornton, Hull; two
sisters, Mrs, J. C, Human and Mrs.
George K, Bradford, both of At
lanta: three brothers, Virgil Glenn,
Atlanta, R, B.® Glenn, Americus,
@nd John G. Glenn, Athens, and
three grandchildren.
A native of Oglethorpe county,
Mi. Thornton had resided in Hull
énd Athens for the past nine years.
He was.a member of Hull Baptist
Church and over a period of years
had taken a leading role in the
ddivities of ¢hat conzregation, in
m: bosition of Deacon.
. . Thornton was guest speaker
o nday morning for ‘a Sunday
S¢hool elass at Pleasant Grove
‘hurch. He became ill and im
mediately returned home, dying
000 after the arrival of & physi-
Mr. Thornton’s first assignment
# a rural mail carrier was at
Point Peter in 1919 and in 1935
s transferred to Hull, where he
“a¢ served since, Though for sev
°'al years he had been eligible for
'€lirement from m;g:‘&rm
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flying saucer” type aircraft found by Air Force offi
cers in an abandoned tool shed near Marley Park, Md.
This aircraft named the ‘“‘gray goose” is tubular steel
and fabric covered and would operate somewhat sim
ilarly to a helicopter.— (NEA Telephoto.)
1 Of 13 “Stir-Crazy’
Convicts Still Out
12 Escapees Recaptured In Large '
Manhunt In Milledgeville Section
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 22, — (AP) — Thirteen
“stir-crazy’’ convicts escaped from a ward for the crim
inally insane at the State Hospital yesterday. One, a rap
ist, still was at large today.
The other 12, all recent transfers from the State Prison
at Reidsville, were recaptured before last midnight. e
was considered by the hospital
superintendent to be the most
dangerous of the 13. Dr. Thomas
G. Peacock, the superintendent,
said Hyde was serving a life term
for murder. He was captured be
tween Irwinton and Macon, in
Central Georgia.
Still free was William Cochran,
serving a 20 year sentence for as
sault. Officers were uncertain
whether Cochran was armed.
Peacock said all 13 of the men
had gone insane from long con
finement.
The 13 made their break by
sawing the bars from a small bath
room window, rubbing their bodies
with soap and sliding through.
They escaped from the huge
mental institution’s recently com
pleted maximum security ward,
Most of those caught were found
on or near the hospital grounds.
They were serving time for
crimes ranging from murder and
assault to suto theft and grand
larceny.
Use Hose
As soon as the alarm was sound
ed, hospital guards turned fire
hose on the window to keep others
from fleeing. ;
Four of the prisoners were
caught shortly after the escape by
George W. McFarlin, hospital bus
iness superintendent. He was the
first to spot the fleeing prisoners,
and sounded the alarm.
Armed with a pistol, McFarlin
followed the men and found four
lying in bushes. Pointing his pis
tol, he said “you'Hl get hurt if you
355 t come tul® 'They surrando
ered.
State patrolmen quickly set up
road blocks around Milledgeville,
A posse of around 200 citizens
helped comb the wooded areas
surrounding the hospital.
Killers Caught
Two convicted murderers were
among those caught early. They
were Perry Rearden of Richmond
County and Cecil Kelly of Brant
ley County.
The others recaptured were list
ei by prison officials as Curtis
Henderson of Fulton County; Her
man L. Sears of Walker; Joe Me~
New of Floyd; Paul Jackson of
Fulton; Howard Foster; Wallace
Shellnut of Muscogee; Vincent
Baker, convicted in Fulton, Chat
tooga and Floyd; Charles Holcomb
of Floyd; and Eldon Emerson of
Muscogee.
ADDRESSES VFW JUBILEE
Thought Machine Near Reality
BY HERB ALTSCHULL
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 92 —(AP)—The long
dreamed of day of the thinking machine may be
nearer than you imagine.
The world is closer to that day now than ever:
before. Scientists have invented an electrical
monster that can perform any mathematical
exercise and can memorize more than 500 num=
bers.
This giant brain, using wires and coils instead
of nerves and blood cells, is known as the Binac.
e brain created by J.
Presper Eckert, jr., 30, and John W, Mauchly,
42, former University of Pennsylvania physi
cists.
Details of the Binac were disclosed yesterday
for the first timg. Ecker: and Mauchly put the
machine through a test run in which it did
500,000 additions and 200,000 multiplications in
fwo hours. ?
- A man working with an &dding machine
would have taken Years et S
TN, 5 o Ty o 3 :
| Eckert ssid it isn't troe thal the machine can
The building from which the
prisoners fled was only recently
completed. Peacock said the pris
oners had been sawing on the win
dow for several days.
State Welfare Director Alan
Kemper said in Atlanta that from
a security standpoint the building
is one of the best in the nation.
Kemper said negligence on the
part of an attendant was responsi
ble for tlxe break.
“It wasn’t lack of proper facili
ties nor a shortage of personnel,
normally speaking, that permitted
these insane prisoners to escape,”
Kemper said. .
.
New “Gas Pipe
.
Line Planned
WASINGTON, Aug. 22 — (AP)
—A move io pipe natural gas from
Texas and Louisiana fields into
the lower southeast got underway
today before the Puwer Commis
sion, ‘,
The Atlantic Gulf Gas Co. of
Shreveport is seeking permission
to build a 1,731~mi1e pipeline from
south of New Orleans through
southern Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia to Jacksonville, -
W. Scott Wilkinson of Shreve
port, counsel, said the preject is
estimated to cost $92,000,000. The
line would tie into a United Gas
I(forp. line at Pointe a La Hache,
a.
The company proposes to serve
Savannah, Ga., Charleston, 8. C,,
Tallahassee, Fla. and intermediate
points.
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Kiwanis Speaker
Speaking at tomorrow’s meeting
of the Athens Kiwanis Club will
be Malcolm Ainsworth, secretary
of Athens Chamber of Commerce.
His subject will be “Where Do
We Go From Here”
The meeting will be held in the
N and N Cafeteria at one o'clock.
think right now. But in the future?
“We don’'t know that it’s impossible for these
machines to think,” said Eckert,
Binac's predecessor was known as the Eniac,
It performed very much like Binae, but it was
30 times bigger and can’t operate as fast, Eniac
weighs 30 tons, Binac less than one.
Eckert and Mauchly now are on their third
automatic computer, That one will be called the
Univac and it will be far superior to either of
the others.
Univac will be able to do almost enything.
The first two Univacs produced will play each
other a game of chess, Eckert .said they may
even be able to write music.
After Univac, what? ’ y
" Eckert was asked whether the day will come
when each of us has & mechanical man at his
beck and call to do his thinking for him?
“That’s a distinet possibility,” the serious
minded young scientist asserted. “At the mo
ment, any preblem that can be translated into
mechanical terms can be solved by the ma
chines.” . : K ERE AR
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949,
SPLIT GROWS IN RANKS
OF WORLD COMMUNISTS
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German Reds Oiifer Surprise
7 e
Support Te Stand By Tito
By The Associated Press
Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia drew surprise sup
port from a group of German Communists today. This
sign of the growing split in the ranks of world Communism
came as Yugoslavia’s war of words with Russia reached
a new pitch of intensity.
A Russian note to Belgrade at the week-end threatened
to take “effective measures” to protect Soviet citizens in
Yugoslavia. Replying, the Yugoslav Communist newspa
per Borba accused the Kremlin of using those citizens as
spies.
e — ¢ PPILISH - HEWRS
papers quickly
World NewsP il e simi-
Roundup larity between
. the stern tons of
the Soviet note and the language
used by Htiler before he sent the
German army into action a decade
ago. They said the Russian note
sounded like the worst threat of
war since 1939.
Typical was the comment of the
London Daily Mail, It said the
acute hostility between the Yugo
slav and Russian govemmentsg‘%‘)hns
reached such a pitch that an out
break of war would not be aston
ishing.”
The concern of the Kremlin it
self over its relations with Tito
apparentty was reflected in the
Soviet press and radio, ‘which de
voted much space and time to
foreign reactions to the Soviet
note.
Half of Pravda’s foreign news
page was taken up with dispatches
from abroad on the subject. Sam
ple headlines in the official So
viet Communist party newspaper
were: 3
i Secret Talks
“Tito’s clique conducting secret
negotiations with Vatican.”
“Traitorous deal of the clique
with Greek monarchist-fascists
(Nationalists).”
Tito has been feuding with the
Kremlin for more than a year.sHig
government was thrown out of the
Moscow - directed Cominform
(Communist International Infor
mation Bureau) for Nationalistic
deviations from what Russia re
gards as Orthodox Communism.
One of the Kremlin’s fears is
that Tito’s show of national inde
pendence will spread to other
Eastern European countries in the
Soviet sphere and to Communist
parties elsewhere. This fear is
shown by Moscow’s insistence that
Tito must bend a knee and admit
his “mistakes.”
Titoism now has taken root in
Germany. German Communists
who hate Russia formed a new
splinter party today and prompt
iy sent the Yugosiav ieadér a mes=
sage of support.
The new organization described
itself as a “Free Communist Par=-
ty.” 1t claimed 4,000 active mem=
bers in the Russian zone of Ger=
many and another 600 in the
Western sectors of Berlin.
Chile Revolt
Across the world, the Chilean
government announced it had
broken an attempted Communist
revoit based on & generai sirime.
Troops evicted more than 1,000
tired and hungry sit-down strikers
from the Lota coal mine last night
and arrested 35 Communist lead
gxi: accused of fomenting the trou=
Officials quoted the miners as
saying Communist spokesmen had
convinced them the government
had fallen, that a general strike
had crippled Chile and that a rev
olution had broken out in Santia
go, the capital. 2
Chinese Nationalists claimed a
military success on the front north
of their provisional capital of Can=
ton. The Nationalists said their
troops had thrown back a Com=
munist thrust aimed at cutting
the Canton-Hankow Railway and
isolating the Hunan province de
fense bastian of Hengyang.
Ex-Athenian’s
Daughter Di
aughter Dies
Athens friends will regret to
learn of the death in Wilson, N, C,,
Sunday of Claudia Taylor, two
year-old daughter.of Mr. and Mrs.
Gray Taylor,
Mrs. Taylor formerly was Miss
Margaret Kidd, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Claude Kidd, Mr, Kidd
was formerly a county officer here
and he and Mrs. Kidd now reside
in Brunswick, were he is a law
enforcement officer.
The little child was playing in
the yard of her he. home with her
fiveqyear-old cousin. The little
boy was playing with a rifle,
which accidentally, killed Cdaudia,
Secret Letter Sheds Light
On Freezer - Perfume Probes
Sen. Hickenlooper Joins Senate ,
Drive To Cut Foreign Arms Bill fl
- BRY JOSEPH €. GOODWIN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— (AP)—A mysterious mem
orandum and a secret letter beginning “Dear Pop” took
the center spots today in two separate Congressional in
vestigations.
A Senate drive to cut President Truman's $1,450,000,-
000 foreign arms.aid program got a new supporter.
I And the Senate argued over
| whether it should reconsider the
| $17,500,000 appropriation it voted
|for rent control. Rent Director
Tighe Woods has said that if the
| amount isn’t upped he will have
| to lift controls from one-third of
| the areas still having them.
Senator Mundt (R.-SD.) said
|the “Dear Pop” letter is shedding
new light on the perfume oil and
’lhome freezer aspect of the five
| percenter inquiry.
—— s 1t was written
by a former serv
con"“' iceman to his
Roundup tather. The fath
i e O B RVE B 0
| Mundt, a member of the special
| Senate subcommittee investigat
jing ihe use oi infiuence in goV
| ernment business transactions.
| “The letter ties in with the
| whole chain of events dealing with
| the presentation of home freezers
| to prominent people in Washing
ton and the subsequent aciivities
| of representatives of the perfume
| company which paid for the freez
| ers,” Mundt said.
“ No Names
| Mundt said the youth who wrote
the letter either will be called to
| testify at public hearings, to be
| resumed - tomorrow, or will be
| questioned privately, He declined
‘| to name the boy or his father.
| Two members of the House
| Armed Services Committee, Reps.
Brooks (D.-La.) and Bates (R.-
| Mass.) want to know who wrote
the mystery memo which is partly
responsible for the B-36 bomber
investigation.
Talk has spread around Wash
ington tkat it was written by a‘
prominent aireraft manufacturer
| whose firm competes with Consoli
dated Vultee, makers of the B-36.
The committee is looking for
evidence of political influence or
other ‘favoritism in the develop
ment of the big intercontinental
bomber. It received the unsigned
memorandum from Rep. Deane
(D.-N.C.) who has refuse@ to tell
reporters where he got it.
Funds Cut
| Senator Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa)
Ijoined in the Senate drive to cut
the foreign arms aid program. He
said he thought the European
countries could “get along with
substantially less money” than
Secretary oi Siate Acheson and
military leaders have asked Con=
gress to approve.
The House voted last Friday to
chop in half the $1,160,990,000
asked for North Atlantic Treaty
signers,
Hickenlooper is a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee which, along with the Arm
ed Services Committee, is consid
ering the program,
The $17,500,000 rent control ap
lpropriation was approved by the
Senate after House-Senate con
“ferees cut it down from the $21,-
X Presstime Bulletins ¥
oRR e e e
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 22.—~(AP)—A hurricane alert was sounded
for the northeastern Babama Islands today.
The Bahamas are a large group of islands which form across
the Gulf Stream about 60 miles east of Miami and sttetch out into
the Atlantie, .
The storm center was piacsd 5y Grady Norton, chiei siorm
forecaster in the Weather Bureau here, about 525 miles due east
of Miami. It was moving west-northwestward at a forward pace
of 15 to 17 miles an hour, a slower pace than the 20-mile pace of
yesterday. 2
. Highest winds were estimated at 90 to 100 miles an hour with
40 miles of the center, with gales extending outward 100 miles in
the northern semi-circle,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— (AP) —Atlanta and Albany, Ga.,
received authority today to begin construction of low-rent hous
ing units under the new national long-range housing program,
Atlanta got approval of & 3,500-unit project, It is to be builé
during the next two years.
Albany was given an okay to build 250 rental dwellings during
the next 12 months,
BOSTON, Aug. 22.—(AP)—Bobby Waltheur, 71, once world
famous bicycie raeing champion, teday was waging what doctors
feared might be his last race—with death, §
Doctors at Boston City Hospital, where Walthour s & patient
with pneumonia, placed his pame on the danger list and would
only say today, “He is a very sicx man.”™
In the early years of this century, the Georgia-born athlete—
grandson of a Civil War general, was to bicycle racing what Babe
Ruth later became to baseball.
667,500 which the Senate voted
originally,
President Truman had asked
$26,750,000 to operate the housing
expediter’s office during the year
that began July 1.
Aid to Education—Rep. Steed
l (D.-Okla.) said he would touch off
“Plenty of Fireworks” at a Con
gressional roundtable discussion of
federal aid to education opening
I ifoday.
Chairman Lesinski (D.-Mich.) of
the Housge Education and Labor
Committee, invited religious, edu
cation and labor leaders to talk
things over informally at a closed
door meeting with committee
members ‘“until some satisfactory
understandings can be reached.”
- A row has been raging in and
out of Congress qver whether there
should be any government help for
Catholic and other non-public
schools,
Farm Price Program-——Senator
Elmer Thomas (D.-Okla.) invited
leaders of farm .and labor orqmi
zations to tell the Senate Agricul
ture Committee what they think
about a compromise farm price
program sporisored by Senator An~
derson (D.-N.M.).
Anderson’s bill would provide a
flexible price-support plan.
NO HURRICANE THREAT
Truman On Quick
Miami Visit Tod
MIAMI, Fla.,, Aug, 22. — (AP) — President Truman
called for prompt passage of his $1,450,000,000 foreign
arms program today as ‘‘part of the price of peace.”
Declaring the purpose of the program is “to prevent
aggression,” Mr. Truman said:
“We are not arming ourselves
and our friends to start a fight
with anybody. We are building
defenses so that we won’t have
to fight.”
The President delivered his plea
at the Golden Jubilee convention
¢t the Veteraus or Foreign Wars—
men who served overseas in two
World Wars — after flying here
from Washington. g
As his Senate leaders began an
uphill struggl> to win back the 50
per cent cut voted i 1 his arms-for=
Europe program by the House, Mr,
Truman said in a prepared speech:
“The cost of such a program is
considerable, but it represents an
investment in security that will be
worth many times its cost, It is
part of the price of peace.”
The President’s quarter-hour
lcng talk also: ‘
1. Corndemned by name Com
munism ("It lures men by false
promises back so tyranny snd
Read Daily b)T?TST(Sabwfieople Iri Athens Trade Area
Break In Local
Cold Wave Is
Seen Tomorrow
No break in the ccld weather
spell in Athens and vicinity s
foreseen before tomorrow after
noon, it was reported late this
morning by the U, 8. Weather
Bureau at the Athens Municipal
Airport.
The Bureau reports that the
cold spell is caused by a eold
mass of air moving in this direc~
tion from the North Atlantie and
not by the hurricane east of
Miami, Fla. :
Predicted as high temperature
today is 65 degrees while to
morrow’s high will be about i
degrees. Forecast for today and
tomorrow is cool and eloudy
weather,
—
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Continued . ¢londy and cool,
Rain this afterneon, tonight
and Tuesday. High today 65,
low 60. High Tuesday 70, Sun
set 7:12, sunrise 5:59,
GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy
with little temperature change;
soattered showers in south
pertion and rain Im north por
tion this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday.
slavery”) and the Sowiet Union
(because it “has blocked every ef
fort . . . to free the world from
the fear of aggression.”)
2. Said we must provide milita
ry aid to the Philippines and Ko
rea in the Far Pacific and to Iran,
Turkey and Greece in the Medi=
terranean area as well as the
countries of western Europe.
3. Called military aid a “part
and parcel” of the policy of help
ing European Economic Recovery
because he said overcoming fear
of military aggression will foster
new investments and new indus
tries, enabling speedier economie
recovery.
4. Expressed hope that “securi
ty forces under the control and
direction "of the United Nations”
can some day take over the task
of preventing aggression. The
President added “we have been
working far that” B3R b il
HOME
EDITION
--Talmadge
Governor Says No -
Issue Involved In
Re-Electian Righis
. ATLANTA, Aug. 22—(AP)—= "
Gov. Herman Talmadge and
of his legal advisors said :
they saw little chance of a court.
suit to test Taliiadge’s legal ri
to seek re-election. :
Talmadge was questioned on the
subject after revived speculalj
in several newspapers in
state. I ¥
Augusta poiitical leader Roy
Harris said last week that anti-
Talmadge forces planned a suit
next year before Judge Samuel
Boykin of the Coweta Judicial
Circuit to declare Talmadge in<
eligible to succeed himself.
Editor Ralph McGill of the At~
lanta Constitution yesterday urged
Talmadge himself to initiate a
suit for a court judgment to clar=-
ify the picture.
The Governor said at a news
conference today he had noted
these and other statements “with
interest.”
“But, you've got to have an issue
to go into court. I know of ne
issue at the moment,
“There is nio controversy of &
justifiable nature.”
Talmadge then called in 2 pri~
vate attorney who is a close legal
advisor, The attorney asked that
Lis name not be used but gave
this opinion:
Two Claimants .
That no court action could be
breught to bar Talmadge's re
election at any time unless the
state again had two claimants te
the governorship.
The attorney said this actually
was the law even before two acts
passed by the Legislature lass
winter. These acts, he sald, spelled
out and strengthened this view by
declaring that the Dcmmg:
Executive Committee would -
the sole judge of 2 candidate’s
qualifications in the primary.
' Furthermore, he added, the acts
clearly established the Legislature
a 8 the sole judge of a candidate’s
election and qualifications 10
serve.
Talmadge has not announced
that he will seek re-election but
is generally expected to try.
He holde that he s eligivie
despite a constitutiona! provision
against any governor succeeding
himself in four iy;eaan-l of his term.
Talmadge says he is not mim
his own term but the unexpir
term of his late father, Eugene
Talmadge.
CALDWELL SAYS: ;
Pt alians o R S
Will
Regents
view GSCN
Review
3 . £
Resignation
ATLANTA, Aug. 22 — (AP) ~=
University System Chancellor Hare
mon Caldwell said today the Board
of Regents will review the resigna
| tion of James A, Golston as presi
dent of Georgia State College for
Negroes at Savannah,
Caldwell, commenting for the
first time on the affair, said a
committee of regents found an
| over-expenditure of about $40,000
in the college budget.
The committee felt, Caldwell
said, “This certainly was negli
gence on the gart of the eomptroll
er and probably the president for
nq} checking closer.”
The committee was Feady io
lrecommend a chan&: in adminis~
tration at the college, Caldwell
said. He added that he a@vised
Colston of this situation and Cols
ton submitted his resignation.
Caldwell said the regents norm
ally would not act upon & resigna
tion but would be asked to consid
er this case in view of other de
velopments,
Colston. has suggested thet
charges concerning his racial views
might have had a part in his re
signation.
He said he has been accused of
sponsoring “radical” ideas, but the
charges were false,
Cal@well said the racial mat
ter has never been discussed of
ficially by the Regents or any
committee of Regents, Finsneiel
operations at the school wag the
only consideration, Caldwell said.
Caldwell said he knew of ne
| meeting with Atlalta negro lead
ers reportedly planned today te
protest the situation.
Bumper Turkey
Crop Foreseen -
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—(AP)
—Housewives got good news today
for their Thanksgiving and Christ
mas menus.
Turkeys should be plentiful &nd
cost less.
The Agricuiture Department
said the 1949 crop will be the
second biggest in the nation’s hise
tory and the biggest since the war,
This promises lower prices.
Every state in the union figures
in the inereased turkey produe
tion, the department said.
7t estimated the 1949 crop at
41,107,000 turkeys. This would
be exceeded only by the 1948 erop . .
of 44,000,000, ‘;he increases this ™~
vear, ecompared with the short sup
ply of 1948, range from three pi
cent in New York State to fi
ner cent fn Arbansas L 0 0