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Vol. CXVII, No. 192,
Democrats Qust Bolters From Four States
W. Boyle
Is Named
Chairman
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—(AP)
.. The Democratic National com
.-ittee today ousted States Rights
members from Alabama, Louisi
ona, Mississippi and South Caro
lina. - :
As expected, William M. Boyle,
i+ was elected National Chair
nan, succeeding Senator J. Fow
ard MecGrath, (D-RI).
The committee, involved in a
hot, iong-standing iamily TOW
over the desertion last year of
State Righters, shouted its ap
proval of recommendations for
punishment handed down by a
credentials committee.
The party purge was executed
rv voice vote. :
Then the committee started de
pating whether to retain Wright
“iorrow as Texas National Com=
ritteeman, as proposed by the
¢ edentials committee.
When the argument was over,
ihe concmittee kept Morrow by a
voice vote. It tabled a motion to
1 nseat him offered by Byron C.
allen of Minnesota.
The National committee went
slong with only half of a South
‘arolina compromise. It made
sure in the process that the name
i Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, the
biates Rights presidential eandi
{ate, came off its membership
rolls. :
Senator Burnet Maybank was
approved in his place. The com
promise worked 6ut in South Car
olina had called for retention of
Mrs. Anne A. Agnew as National
committeewoman,
Mrs. Agnew says she voted the
Democratic ticket in 1948 although
she was inactive in the campaign.
But the credentials committee ac
rused her of letting her name be
ased by “another political party”.
Maybank jumped to his feet to
remind the National Committee
that he was elected by the South
Carolina State Executive Commit
iee on condition that Mrs. Agnew
be kept on as committeewoman.
The retiring National chairman,
Senator J. Howard McGrath, com
mented that the South Carolina
committee could not divect the Na
tional committee and could merely
suggest a line of action to’it.
Maybank said he was in “a rath
¢r embarrassing position.”
Later he told reporters:
“I haven’t taken my seat and I
am not going to take my seat. We
were jointly elected. I take no or
ders from anybody but the State
Committee.”
After throwing out state righters
and seating Morrow from Texas,
the committee filled a Wisconsin
vacancy. It elected Carl Thompson
of Stoughton to succeed Robert
Fehnan, who resigned to accept a
Federal Judgeship.
L.andrum Rites
To Be Held
Thursday A.M.
Miss Lizzie Landrum, well
known resident of Stephens, Ga.,
died in a local hospital Tuesday
night at 7 o’clock. Miss Landrum
was 58 years old and had been ill
for several days. . "
Services are to be conducted
Thursday = morning at 10 o’clock
from Stephens Baptist Church
with Rev. J. H. Melear, pastor of
Stephens Central = Methodist
Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Stephens
cemetery, pallbearers to be an
rounced later by Bridges Funeral
Home, in charge of arrange
ments, .
Surviving Miss Landrum are
five brothers, F. M. Landrum,
Stephens; L. G. and W. M. Lan
drum, both of Augusta; G. S.
Landrum, , Atlanta; and C. H.
Landrum, Thomson; and several
nieces and npepehews.
A native of Oglethorpe county,
Miss Landrum had resided in
Stephens all of her life, being a
member of one of the most prom
nent families in that section. If‘or
many years she was an actve
member of Stephens Baptist
Church and a Sunday School
class teacher, She was also "sec
'etary of the Woman’s Mission
ary Society and took an active
role in all the women’s endeav
ors of her church, ' _
Youth Struck By
Bat In Game Here
Friends of Tommy Crawford,
“ho was accidentally hit in the
head with g baseball bat late yes
'erday afternoon, have more than
one reason to wish <for a speedy
recovery,
Besides wanting Tommy, six
vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomae €. Crawiord of 198 Bar-
Der street, to get well soon, his
friends hope he can be on his
'eet Sathrday because on that day
e will be seven years old.
Tommy was ‘carried so St.
‘-};d‘}'.s Hospital in a Bemstein,s
“inbulance. Six - stitches were
!aken in his head at the hospital,
then he was peleased with the
advice to “keep quiet for a few
Gays ™
Hisg mother told the Banner-
He'rald this morning that he was
doing “very nieelyi s il
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JUST UP FROM AN UNDERSEA WEDDING
Smiling Louis Villani, 21, earries his bride, the for
mer Ruth Ehlers, 17, as they emerge from a diving bell
at Atlantic City after they were married at the bottom
of the ocean. Holding the sign is Rev. J. Ramond Vann
who performed the ceremony. The newlyweds are from
North Bergen,’N. J.—(AP Wirephoto.) :
Solons IFlay Mass
Firing By Johnson
Perfume Agents Were Given High Air
Priority, Five Percent Probers Told
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.— (AP)—Faced by economy
shut<dewns of military installatiens intheir «istriets, anx
ious lawmakers met with defense officials today to find
out where the axe wiil fall. '
V;‘They are going to tell us,” said one House member,
“in just what part of our bodies they will stick the nee
dle.” o
The idea apparenily was torlet
the congressmen know about the
closings in advance so they could
explain to those unhappy con
stituents who might be thrown out
ot work,
The cutbacks were said to be
part of a drive by Secretary of
= : Defense Johnson
Congress to, chop military
Roundup expenses for
TSR et RgE down
tc $13,400,000,000 — about sl,-
5(0,000,000 less than this year’s
budget.
Some members of Congress pro
tested loudly even in g_dvance of
the meeting. One of them, Rep.
Rooney (D-NY), said the proposed
curtainlments “will do nothing but
contribute to increasing unem
ployment.”
Five percenters — Senator
Mundt (R-SD) said agents of the
Verley Perfume Company—which
presented home freezers to Wash
ington notables — were able to
get-precicus space on an army
plane in 1945 because they were
rated as “very important persons.”
The freezers were presented to
Maj. Gen. Harry S. Vaughan,
President Truman’s military aide.
He passed them on to prominent
Washingtonians.
Mundt wouldn’t say whether the
Senate ” investigations subcom
mittee knows who arranged the
“y, 1. P.” classification for the
Verley people.
The subcommittee, continuing
its probe of five percenters—peo
ple who arrange government con
tracts for businessmen for a fee,
generally five per cent — called
(Contmued on Page Two.)
Atlantic Pact Put Into Effect
At White House Ceremony
Work Is Underway To Schedule
First Meeting Of Alliance Council
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — (AP) — The historic Atlantic Treaty,
allying the United States with 11 other nations in defense of the West,
goes into effect today at a White House ceremony,
From now onward the 12 nations, having formed their alliance
under the threat of Russian aggression, will be formally pledged to
strike back in case of an attack aLgainst any one of them,
~ Formal notice by the French
government that it had ratified
the treaty provided the occasion
for the White House gathering.
Invited to attend were top rank
ing American officials and rep
resentatives of the 11 other na
tions which signed the treaty here
last April 4.
Already representatives of these
12 nations are at work at the
State Department planning for the
first meeting of the council of the
Atlantic alliance.. That meeting
probably will be convened in
Washington about the middle of
next manth.
Ambassador. Henri Bonnet of
France was called on to deposit
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Country Club
Plans Gala
Celebration
The Athens Country Club is
planning a gala celebration for
Labor Day—a golf tournament,
barbecue, and informal dance
Members of the women’s com
mittee of the club are busy spon
soring the sale of tickets to the
members who may bring their
children aand as many guests as
they choose. Much enthusiasm is
being shown, and everyone is ex
pected to support the event be
cause all of the profit will be used
to Lelp decorate the club house.
The decoration committee has
already begun the renovation job,
and the interior boasts a stylish
new coat of paint. Tables and
chairs are being freshened-up
and the floors sanded, but as yet
there are not even rufficient funds
for this work, and absolutely no
funds for draperies, furniture,
lamps, supplies and the like.
Needed repairs are being made
on the practice field and the golf
course—one of the finest in the
South—and the swimming pool is
rearing con.pletion. Naturally ev
eryone is eager to have the dining
room and club room decorated and
ready for use.
Many enjoyable activities are
planned for the club, and this
Labor Day barbecue-dance is only
the first.
the French notice of ratification
with the White House as the first
step in today’s ceremony. That
action, as provided in the treaty
itself, automatically brings the
pact into force.
The second step, White Housel
officials said, would be the
issuance of a proclamation by Mr.
Truman declaring that the treaty
was effective. Such a proclama
tion would formally bring to an
end a century and a half of Amer
ican policy of steering clear of any
peacetime alliance with European
% natlons.
Diplomatic officials also ar
raged to receive the ratifications
of Italy, Portuf;:’l and Denmark.
Those deposits, however; were not]
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, AUCUST 24, 1949,
Two Hurricanes Whiplash Atlantie
135,000 Civilians Dropped
From Armed Forces Payroll
Navy Installations Hardest
Hit In Move To Cut Spending
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24— (AP) —Secretary of De
fense Johnson announced today that 135,000 civilian
workers for the armed services will be laid off in his
drive to slash military spending. i
Navy installations were the hardest hit in the civilian
cut. They were ordered to reduce by 76,000, the Army by
41,000, and Air Force 18,000,
This program, going into effect
immediately, will result in an es
timated saving of $200,000,000 in
the current fiscal year ending
next June 30. Then it .is calculat
ed to bring a saving of $500,000,~
000 a year, thereafter.
A total of 50 installations *will
be closed down, many willebe cut
severely.
These savings were worked out
by the individual services them
selves, the Army, Navy and Air
Force.
The Navy shipyard at Long
Beach, Calif., was ordered practi
cally closed down to a custodial
basis. "
Its civilian employment was
reduced fromr 5,800 on July 31,
1949, to & proposed 400.
. Brooklyn Naval shipyard’s civ
ilian employment—l2,22s on July
31—was ordered cut to 3,385,
Some of these reductions will
go into effect immediately and
others will start in abouf three
months.
The announcement by the de
fense establishment was made as
congressmen went into a huddle
with military leaders to get de
tails on how the cuts will affect
their home districts.
In addition to establishment
in this country, military installa
tions in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and
Trinidad will feel the economy
axe.
The number of reserve officer®
now on active duty also will be
reduced. In the next two or three
months, 12,073 will be returned
to inactive status. Of these, 5,787
are in the Army, 3,157 in the
Navy and 3,129 in the Air Force.
Major Culs
Aside fronr the Long Beach and
Brooklyn shipyards, other major
cuts in civilian employment will
include:
Marine Corps Air Station, El
Toro, Santa Ana., Calif.,, reduced
1,165, from 2,056 to 891.
Navy shipyard at Boston re
duced 1,614, from 8,894 to 7,280.
Naval shipyard, Portsmouth, N,
H, reduced 1,240, from 5,340 to
4,100.
Philadelphia Naval shipyard
cut 2114 from 9,464 tc 7 350,
Naval Ordnance Plant at York,
gg., reduced 498, from .1,398 to
0.
Charleston, S. C,, Naval ship
yard reduced 1,846, from 6,506 to
4,660,
U. S. Naval Air Station, Cor
pus Christi, Texas, reduced 1,878,
from 4,317 to 2,439.
Ordnance Plant
Naval Ordnance Plant at Alex
andria, Va., reduced 619, from
1,319 to 700. ) ;
Naval Ammunition Depot at
Bangor, Wash., reduced 518, from
638 to 130. >
Naval Supply Depot, Seattle
and Tacoma (Wash.) Annex, re-
necessary to make the treaty
legally binding.
The effeciive date for the al
liance was worked out in this
way: The United States, Canada,
Britain, France, the Netherlands,
Belgium, and Luxembourg made
up the group of seven countries
which began negotiating the pact
July 6, 1948, and substantially
completed it early this year. The
treaty itself provided that it
should come into force when all
seven had ratified it and France is
the last of the seven to take that
action,
The total membershin of the
alliance was raised to 12 in March
of this year when five other na
tions in the Western European At
lantic area accepted invitations to
join. Those five were Norway,
Itali, Portugal, Iceland and Den
mark, .
The treaty’s action clause—in
which the western powers state
the defensive nature of the com
pact, provides first that an attack
on any one of the members “shall
be considered an attack against
them all,” and then adds:
duced 411, from 699 to 288.
Naval Gun Factory., Washing~
ton, D. €., reduced 2,283, from
9,993 to 17,700,
Ex-Minister-
Heads New
Klan Outfit
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug., 24
—(AP)—A fiery-tongued, silver
maned former Baptist minister
reached out today for new power
as the nation’s Imperial Emperor
of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Lycurgus Spinks, who recently
described himself as the “fight
ingest buck private in the rear
ranks of the Klan,” has been en~
throned to lead an ambitious new
union of the robed order. The
group has invited other Klans
throughout the nation to join their
organizatien.
Spinks, a bespectacled, heavy
set orator of the old school, was
selected by Ku Kluxers from six
states to head their combined or
der. The new imperial emperor,
whose long, silver hair eurls un
der at his coat collar, once lived
near Meridan, Miss. He ran un
successfully for governor there in
1946.
The 64-year-old Spinks boasts
he has been a Klansman for more
than a quarter of a century.
Robed and masked, about 60
Klan leaders from Alabama,
Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas,
Tennessee and Louisiana met yes
terday in private in a Montgomery
hotel room. Only Spinks was bare
faced.
They met within a few blocks
of the state capitol, where legis
lators recently enacted a law ban
ning masks or hoods in public.
Spinks says the new organiza
tion has 265,000 members.
Included among the groups
joining yesterday were the In=-
dependent Klans, Seashore Klans,
Ozark Klans, River Valley Klans
and Allied Klans.-
Membership Drive
Not included were the federated
Ku Kiux Kians, Inc., principai
targets of Alabama officials, and
the Association of Georgia Klans.
Spinks, who now [lives at
Thomasville, Ala., said an organi=-
zation campaign would be begun
in all 48 states and “that “all
legitimate Klan groups” would be
welcomed, ¢ 3 o
. Meanwhile, William Hugh Mor
ris, chief of the Alabame Klans
who is now in jail at Birmingham
for refusing to reveal Klan mem
bership to a grand jury, de
nounced the new organization as
being “the idea of one or two
men.”
Morris said he did not think it
would last long.
Although only Spinks was un
masked at the meeting, the or
ganization adopted a rule against
the wearing of masks in public,
He said any Klansman worthy
of that title was not afraid to show
his face, e
The imperial emperor attacked
government bureaucracy in ac
cepting the Klan leadership and
said, “Bureaucracy is the grave
yard in which mutilated and
crucified bodies of American lib
erty and freedom is being buried.”
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
RUTH BAKER PRATT, borz Angust 24, 1977, ot UMM
Ware, Mass., where her father was a textile man- 28
ufacturer, Former Congresswoman from New % ;
York, she was one of three Ruths who went to L -
Congress in 1929 —the others having been Ruth i
Bryan Owen and Ruth Hanna McCormick, Mrs. SN W
Pratt had been the first woman elected to the . 9
New York City board of aldermen and the first T
woman elected to Congress from New York State, 254 b
Socially prominent, wealthy, the mother of five TS
children and 13 grandchildren, she has long been | GGG,
an active patron of music. After majoring in VR
mathematics at Wellesley she was married to the RUTHBAKER PRATT
Jate. John T. Pratt in 1902, e e
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TREATED AFTER SIX FLOOR PLUNGE
Police and detectives look over Max Fein, 63 (seated
left), after he plunged six floors fromr an open window
in an office building at Los Angeles. He landed on a
steel-barred skylight. When police arrived he was walk
ing around asking, “What floor is this?’ Fein told
police he became dizzy and fell while looking out of &
window. Doctors say he may have skull and ankle frac
tures.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Tomato Plants
Ten Feet High
Are Raised Here
When Mr. and Mrs, Joe H.
Massey go in for raising toma
toes, they really do a good job
of it.
On the outskirts of town on
the old Hull road, Mr. and Mrs.
Massey have three special to
mato piants —the climbing va
riety, The vines have grown ten
feet high and are still going up.
Pretty soon a ladder will be
necessary. Mr, and Mrs. Massey
get ‘more than enough tomatoes
for their own use from just the
three plants alone.
Mr. Massey brought several
iomaioes puiied from the vines
by The Banner-Herald Wednes
day, one of them weighing one
and-a-half pounds.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair and warm
through Thursday. High tem
perature today 85, low 68,
Thursday’s high 89, Sun sets
tonight at 7:16 p. m.,, rises
Thursday at 6:01 a. m,
GEORGIA — Generally fair
and warm this afternoon, to
night and Thursday,
TEMPERATURE -
Miahest ... oo i TR
TOWNOt . s il i R
MM L ey ke
MRS i e Tt
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .. .. 2.08
Deficit since August 1 .... 1.45
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 ....33.98
Deficit since January 1 ~ 1.34
TRASH FIRE
Firemen were called to the
Georgia Railroad tracks last night
where there was a trash (fire,
They reported no damage was in
curred,
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
WINTER’S SAFETY
Check All
Heating
Equipment
For next winter's safety, take
a look now at your heating equip
ment. There is no quicker way to
expose your family and posses
sions to the danger of fire than to
reglect a home heating unit, ac
cording to local fire safety offi
cials.
Now is the time of year, they
say, to have dirty or defective
equipment cleaned and repaired.
Every stove or heater is a poten
tial hazard and thousands of
home fires are caused annually
by neglect of the heating equip
ment.
Special aitention is advised for
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DAMAGE NEW AREAS
Forest Fires Out Of
Control In 3 States
By The Associated Press
Fast-moving forest fires whiplashed new areas of the
nation’s forests today. : o - :
Flames were reported out of control in at least three
states. In other areas fires were still burning but had been
checked. i ; ;
Fire has blackened more than
40,000 acres of national forest
lands in Idaho, California and
Montana alone so far this month.
The fire conditions are considered
thfl most critical in the past de
cade.
In Idaho’s National Forests, an
gerial survey showed fires had
gained 2,000 acres in the last two
days. The flames have blackened
17,000 acres in the state.
Winds up to 40 miles an hour
sent a forest fire in the black hills
of South Dakota out of conirol.
The flames swept out of the hills
into the plains country,
All available men and equig
ment were massed between the
gr% front and the town of Tilford.
While Western States struggled
to halt the flames, forest fires aiso
flared in northeastern United
States and Canada.
Maine’s fire hazard was rated
class 4 — very dangerous — by
State Forestry Commissioner Al
bert D. Nutting. Blazes were re
ported in Roxbury and Allagash
forests of northern Aroostoock
county near the Canadian border
and in the Flagstaff-Straiton area.
More than 200 fires were seat
tered through the Canadian prov
HOME
EDITION
First Storm
Misses Coast;
2nd Growing
AMlAlet’) l't"la., iAyg‘ tr!l--—cAfli
small but vicious o
ricane raged off the com
Carolina teday as a new storm
gathered strength north of Puerto
Rice, & thousand mileg sway,
Square black and red hurri
cane warning flags flapped along
a 45-mile stretch of the desolate
upper Carolina capes from Manteo
to Cape Lookout.
The Diamond Shoals Lightship
20 miles of. Cape Hatteras, radio~
ed they they were in the thick eof
“the hurricane.”
“Wind estimated at 115 knots
(about 130 miles per hour). Seas
mountainous. Hope Anchor will
hold,” the lightship message.
Grady wNorton, chief forecaster
of the Miami Weather Bureau,
said it appeared the center of the
hurricane passed between Cape
Hatteras and the Diamond Shoals
lightship.
Norton said the lightship report
ed the winGg from the east-south
east and the barometer reading
was 28.96.
“This would indicate the center
of the storm is just a little bit
west of the ship, or» maybe right
over it. P
“It appears that the storm will
ncw begin to swing to & more
northeastern course, avu‘i‘ from
the coast. Its my opinion cens
ter will brush pretty close te
shore — but stay in the Atlantic—
and turn away from the land.
Alert Still On
“People in the Cape Cod are}
should remain on the alert, but
don’t think that the storm will as«
sect them much.”
Meanwhile, the second hurris
cane of the season was growing
larger and more vicious hourly.
“This storm eould give us real
trouble,” Norton observed.
“It looks to me like it will drift
towards the Turk’s Island region
—all the while picking up strength
and expanding. By tomorrow
morning we should know a great
deal more about this new hurrie
cane,”
10 New City
Buses Ordered
E. Waldo Henson, owner of
Athens City Lines, has announ
ced that ten new 27-passenger
Ford buses are being manufac
tured and delivered for use here
on or before October 1,.
In a telegram from the South
ern Ford Motor Coach ll_% of
Jacksonville, Fla., o Higin
the buses are being purchased, it
was stated that on delivery of the
buses *Athens will have the fin
est transportation system in the
South” for a city the size of Ath~
ens.
Rusliaiss
ATLANTA, Aug. 24~—(AP) —
Walter R, McDonald stepped
{oWn taay as COAINIGREE Of he
Georgia Publie Serviee Com
mission.
The commission unanimously
elected former vice ‘-ehairman
Matt L. McWhorter to suecceed
MeDonzld, whe remaine en the
commission.
irces of Quebec and Ontario.
The most active Quebec fire
was in Lotbiniere county, 40 miles
south of the city of Quebee. The
fire was rcg%l;ted out of control
lest night. ee villages were
tireatened. At least 12 houses,
two saw mills and 2 school were
destroyed.
The weatherman gave nc en
couragement in Quebec. where dry
stands of timber were being con«
sumed by at least 80 fires. No
rain was forecast. In Ontaric
woodlands, where more than 150
fires were reported, a few light
showers gave hope of better con
ditions. e
In California, the biggest 118
week-end fires flared out of cone
trol on three sides late yesterday
in Stanislaus National forest.
Winds Whip'fl,ed the flames across
fire lines. e acreage already
burned was estimated at approx
imately 2,500.
All other California fires were
reported checked or completely
controlled.
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stone Park's sin
1931. Forestry egt‘i.‘clall -eumf:
the fire covered 6,000 acres. Esre
lier estimates had placed it ot
4,000 fires. ; ) i