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Vol. CXVII, No. 194. Associated Press Service
1949 Seen
As Worst
Polio Year
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—(AP)—
she polio epidemic may not have
reached even the half-way point
yet, and 1049 is certain to be the
worst polio year in U. S. history,
says the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
The score on the basis of the
Foundation's latest reports:
17,306 cases so far in 1949,
9422 new cases reported in
the nation last week—the highest
number ever recorded in one
week.
The total of reported cases
through last week compared with
9,743 for the same period in 1948,
‘he second worst polio year up to
that time.
In 1916, which had ranked -as
the worst epidemic year, there
were about 30,000 reported cases.
The figures and prediction were
sssued yesterday by Dr. Hart E.
Van Riper, the Foundation’s med
jcal director, who said:
“Study of previous patterns of
polio incidence shows that the
peak may come anywhere be
sween mid-August and mid-Sep
sember. But the mid-point of the
epidenric has never occurred be
sore the second week in Septem
ber. 0
“If the peak is reached early,
the reduction in cases is slower
than if it comes later. When the
peak is reached late, the number
of new cases reported drops rap
idly.”
This year has been marked by
an increased polio total to date,
as compared with 1948, in 38
states. :
Red Shadow Looms
Over China Capital
Commies Take Short Cut Through
Mountains; Island Attack Repulsed
By The Associated Press : .
Chinese Communist troops were réported today 140
miles from Canton, Nationalist provisional capital. They
pushed to the Kwantung provincial border after capturing
three eities in southwestern langsi province. Canton is the
capital of Kwantung province.
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Rites For Mrs.
Griffeth Are
Set Saturday
Mrs. O. P. Griffeth, prominent
Colvert resident, died in a local
hospital Thursday afternoon at
5:55 o’clock. Mrs. Griffeth was 59
vears old and had been ill for the
past five days.
Services a-e to be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Colbert Baptist Church with
burial following in Colbert ceme
tery. Pall-bearers will be nephews
9* Mrs. Griffeth. Bridges Funeral
Home is in charge.
She is survived by her husband;.
five daughters, Mrs. O. J. Lancas
ter, Decatur, Mrs. B. A. Caldwell
and Miss Hilda Griffeth, both of
Atlanta, and Miss Jannelle Griffeth
Athens; Mrs. A, P. Cannon, Haw=
kinsville; two sons Harry P. rif
feth, Atlanta, an Cecil J. Griffeth
Decatur; sister, Mrs. E. K.
Clenn, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs.
Lottie Grificth, Savannah; half
sisters, Mrs, B. J. Cornett, Atlanta,
Mrs. Paul Hanson, Athens, Mrs,
Thurston Hilliard, Mexico, Mrs.
Gienn Hilliard, Wildwood, Fla.;
orothers, Carl Porterfield, Col
bert, and Y, J, Porterfield, Atlan=-
ta; half-brothers, Rollie Porter=
fieid, Monroe, and Otto Porter
field, Atlanta; step-mother Mrs.
E. J. Porterfield, Athens.
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FIRE - FIGHTERS KEEP ON
mpe e oel ITiohwav 14 hetween
. Air Force men from the Rapids City
Alr Base wearily battle “out of control”
glaze in Black Hills national forest near
apids City, 8, D, Blaze has disrupted
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
NINE POINTS
WHAT TO
DO IN A
HURRICANE
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 26.—(AP)—
How do oldtimers weather a hur
ricane?
South Florida had lots of good
advice today ~»m newspapers
and radio stayi>” o
Some of th¥ & and don’ts:
I—Stay i & iway from win
dows. The. & may break and
cut you. ?
2—Dogr fooled by a lull in
the stogg, A calm center of a
hurrics 2% ray last from a few
‘minuf N, an hour. Then the
fury &' nes suddenly from the
opposi_lirection, :
3—ls you must take a drink to
settle your nerves, just take gne.
A clear head may be needed.
4—Don’t take anybody's word
about what’s going on except of
ficial advisories and warnings
.over the radio and in newspapers.
Pay no attention to rumors.
s—Board up all windows and
put storm shutters in place. Brace
outside doors. Sterilize bathtub
and fill it up ‘with drinking water.
Have a flashlight and lanterns
ready. Store up food that won't
spoil easily.
6—ls your home isn’t rugged,
try a Red Cross shelter. The re
lief agency has emergency facili
ties in every section of Miami. |
7—RBe certain to open a window
on the side of vour house awayi
from the wind. This keeps pres
sure equalized inside and out.
B—Don’t touch loose or dang
ling wires. They may kill you.
Keep away from pools of water‘
where such wires may be ground- ‘
ed. 3 S
9—Watch out for spoiled food,
unsafe drinking water, fire haz
ards such as storm debris, lan
terns, candles.
After cutting across mountains,
the Red war machine rolled along
highways leading south of Ku
kong, an important railway point,
125 miles north of Canton.
Obeervers said the Communists
might isolate Kukong. It is an
important Nationalist defense
point. Nationalists said the Com
munists dared not move too
gpeedily ' because st
strong National-wofld New'
ist forces are on
their western Roundup
flank. A 8 bSR Lo SR
The Ministry of National De
fense asserted the Communists
suffered heavy casualties in fight
ing north of Hengyang, nerve cen=
ter of the South China forces, 265
miles from Canton.
Official dispatches said a Com
munist seaborne assault on the
Chushan Islands, 100 miles south
east of Shanghai, was beaten off.
It is from these islands that the
Nationalists are marshaling their
air and sea blockade of Commun
ist portss
A British Socialist, Will Nally,
lashed out at American critics of
the British Socialist program in
the assembly of the Council of
Europe in Strasbourg, France. He
said in a debate on European so
cial conditions:
“We are not going to have the
bases of social security in Britain
strained by the threats of blusters
of a small number of stupid but
powerful people in America.”
Some British negotiators arrived
in Washington yesterday. They
will begin preliminary discussions
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Florida 'Gold Coast Braces
For 120-MPH Hurricane Winds
Storm Slated To Hit Near
Fort Lauderdale Late Today
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 26.—(AP)—Rising winds assaulted
the rich southeast Florida “gold coast” this afternoon as
a howling tropical hurricane approached offshore.
A noon advisory said the tempest, packed with 120
mile winds and fierce rains, was expected to pass iniand
near Fort Lauderdale later this afternoon.
Low-flynig black clouds and
dismal showers heralded the tem
pest along 130 miles of coastline
from Vero Beach to Miami.
Black and red hurricane flags
flapped from Vero Beach to Miami
and around huge Lake Okeecho
bee.
Everywhere in the famed re
sort area, hurrlcane-wise property
owners in bathing suits boarded
windows, bolted doors, and tied
down potential debris. Small
boats scurried for cover.
Picturesque palms waved in the
winds and some palm fronds
hurtled through the air.
Refugees from lowlands poured
into Red Cross shelters in Palm
Beach.
Firemen, police officers, and
disaster workers were alerted for
emergency duty.
Dangerous Tides
The noon advisory warned that
tides and winds would be especial
ly dangerous between Fort Laud
erdale and Stuart.
The center of the second hurri
cane of the season passed nearly
over or slightly north of the Bahs
mas capital shortly after 6:30 a,
m. (EST). Highest winds were re
ported at 75 miles an hour in
gusts. The wind did not reach
the hurricane’s top velocity in
Nassau, since that British colony
caught the weakest side of the
storm,
In an 8 a. m. (EST) bulletin the
Miami Weather Bureau said the
storm had picked wup intensity
‘daring the night with highest
winds estimated at between 110
and 120 miles an hour,
Because of the erratic nature of
the storm, hurricane warnings
covered a 130-mile stretch of the
Florida east coast from Vero
Beach south to the greater Miami
area, and inland to include hte
Lake Okeechobee region. Storm
warnings flew over most of the
state not included in the hurri
cane area.
Bad Actor
The “bad actor” hurricane still
had forecasters puzzled. Residents
in the hurricane area were cau=
tioned that all emergency and pro
tective measures should be made
immediately,
“The storm is approaching the
coast at a sharp angle and this
will cause it to skirt along the
coast before passing inland,” said
the weather bureau, “this makes
it difficult to say just where the
center will strike. However, it is
storm winds that are important
and we should not take any
WINDS SHIFT SEVEN TIMES
Forest Fires Still Raging
In Western Brush, Timber
By The Associated Press
Fires still menaced brush and timberland areas in
western United States today, but few serious develop
ments were reported.
A new brush fire broke out in California just south of
the Stanislaus National Forest. More than 7,100 acres al
ready have been burned over in Stanislaus and two lives
have been lost. :
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1949.
chances with this erratic hurri
cane.
Meanwhile, South Florida rush
ed preparations for the approach
ing storm, Merchants began
boarding up storefronts at dawn.
Small boats scurried up the Miami
river seeking shelter inland. Gay
flags and bunting which were put
up in Miami during the Veterans
of Foreign Wars National Con
vention were taken down during
the night.
Pan American Airways began
evacuating ite clinpers 10 Havana,
Cuba at dayhreak and all flights
were to be cancelled after 10 a.
m. (EST). Other planes were
flown out of the area.
Probers Go Over Maragon’s
Books With Fine Tooth Comb
Queen Of Sheba
Home Found In
Sands Of Arabia
CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 26—
(AP)—An American explorer
said today he has found 3 fab
ulous ancient city buried under
the sands of Arabia.
Wendell Phillips, Concord,
Calif,, archaeologist said he
found the remains of a great
civilization near Mareb, tradi
toinal home of the Queen of
Sheba,
Phillips, 27, led a University
of California expedition explor«
ing the region for two years.
Traveling from Aden, Arae
bia, on a Royal Airforce plane,
Phillips related, he landed on
the site of ancient Timma, de
scribed by the Roman historian
Pliny as the “City of Forty
Temples.”
“Timna is covered by sand,”
he said. “However, several city
walls, the gate, and ruins of
temples are still visible. The
center of the city emerges four
feet above the sand. Nomads
living nearby dug fifteen feet
deep without reaching iis base.
Hymartic inscriptions are car
ved on its four faces.”
A huge brush fire in San Diego
and Riverside counties in Cali
fornia burned out of control along
a four-mile front.
~ High temperatures and chang
ing winds that shifted seven tinres
in one hour harrassed the fire
fighters. More than 12,000 acres
of ranch and grazing lands have
bheen burned over, % -
Two fires in Idaho’s Payette
National Forest were out of con
trol. The two—one in Hell’s Can
¥on and the other on the south
ork of the Salmron River ~— have
charred 20,000 acres of timber.
Two men have died this week in
the Payette forest.
All fires in Yellowstone Park
were reported checked and near
ing the control stage.
Fire in the Black Hills of South
Dakota also has subsided. There
still was some danger, however,
and Rangers said the future de
pends solely on weather condi
tions.
Two small fires—both under
ien acres — burned in wesiern
Oregon, Cool weather lessened
the danger in Oregon.
NEGRO DOEMITORY
ATLANTA, Aug, 26 — (AP) —
A new 1,000 bed dormitory for ne
groes is being planned for the
state hospital at Milledgeville.
State Welfare Director Alan
Kemper said yesterday work
would get underway shortly and
that upon completion negro pa
tient facilities would be in “pret
ty fair shape”
X Presstimeßulletins -
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-—~(AP)—Six Navy submariners and a
civilian technician lost their lives and 84 crewmen were rescued
today when the submarine Cochine exploded and burned in
Arctic waters.
-"'lv‘l'n-; s'i;'fi;;ry men were attached to the U, 8. S. Tusk, a sister
submraine which rescued the Cochine’s crew, The civilian, whe
was not immediately identified, was the only one lost aboard the
Cochino.
v"i‘-l;;-;;lnken submarine was equipped wihta s norkel—an under
water “breathing” tube which enabled it to remain submerged
for long periods of time. ST e v
" The explosion occurred in the Cochino’s battery room and was
followed by fire. ¢
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—(AP)—John Maragon today refused
to answer guestions at the Senate five percenter inquiry “on the
ground that my answer might tend to incriminate me.”
~ He had taken the witness chair after an accountant testified
that Maragon made bank deposits of $119,608.61 during a five
;;ar period in which he has said his income was only around
0,000,
GRIFFIN, Ga., Aug. 26.—(AP)—Superior Court Judge Chester
A. Byars today upheld Georgia’s increased tax on wine,
Judge Byars sustained a demurrer filed by the State against the
suit brought by a group of Atlanta wholesale wine dealers,
The dealers attacked the constitutionality of the act on the
grounds that it contained more than one subject, They also ques
tioned changing the caption on the measure,
Break In Senate Logjam Looms With
Work On Defense Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — (AP) — Senate probers
pried today into banking and income tax records of John
Maragon who rose from a bootblack’s box to a cloud of
suspicion above the nation’s capital.
Committee members said that at one of their private
sessions in July Maragon supplied income tax returns on
1945-48 earnifigs totaling about $24,000. They said he also
listed only one bank account, and that in Washington.
On Aug. 1 Maragon told a news
conference that the Senate inves
tigators were checking the records
of a bank account he had in San
Antonio, Tex., about three years
ago. He wouldn’t say how much
ke had on deposit.
Maragon heard read evidence
that Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan
informed SEI .
State Depart- Congress
ment in 1945 that Roun
President Tru- _gu_d_ul
man was personally interested in
seeing that he (Maragon) made a
trip to Europe.
The trip which Maragon made
was for the Albert Verley Compa
ny —the perfume firm which that
same year presented several home
freezers to Vaughan. One went to
Mrs. Truman.
The committee also go* evidence
yesterday that Maragon once
claimed an SB,OOO fee for services
to a company interested in buying
government surplus property. Ma
ragon has sworn that he never
was paid anything by anyone for
regotiating business with the gov
arnment,
The Senate steamed toward pas
sage of a $14,800,000,000 bill for
the three armed services, but a
bitter argument about govern=
ment economy thrzatened to slow
it down. :
Quick Action
It completed work yesterday on
a $668,000,000 appropriation for
the Interior Department and then
whizzed through at $188,000,000
odds-andlens approprition bill.
Passage of the armed services
A.H.S. SITE CONSIDERED
Health Center Plans
Move Step Forward
Erection of a City-County Pub
lic Health Center building here
has moved another step forward
today as Mayor Jack Wells an
nounced the committtee named by
him from the membership of City
Council would meet with the
building committee of the Board
of Education and the County Com
missioners soon to determine on
locating the health center build
ing on the property where the
high school is at present located.
It was decided yesterday at the
regular meeting of the Board of
Education to have the committees
meet with the Commissioners.
Approval of Athens and Clarke
county’s application for state fi
nancial aid in the consrtuction of
the bpuiiding has been made by
state health officials, and the ap
plication has been sent to federal
health authorities for their ap
proval,
The state and federal govern
ment are to pay 1-3- of the cost
each and jointly the city and coun
ty will pay the other 1-3. The
building will be a SIOO,OOO heatlh
center. Athens’ share will be about
$17,000, and the county will pay
a similar amount. ¢
Several months ago Mayor and
City Council decided to take part
appropriation would clear the
Senate money docket except for
five measures it already has ap
proved but in a form different
from the House version.
The Senate appeared ready to
go along with Secretary of De-
sense Johnson on an economy
drive started in the defense de
partment Wednesday.
Senator Elmer Thomas (D=
Okla) said Johnson’s move to cut
off 135,000 civilian workers and
12,000 reserve officers now on ac
tive duty would save about $434,-
000,000 and that the Senate might
boost the saving in its bill to sl,-
200,000,000 by cutting back House=
approved plans to expand the air
forces.
He thought, too, the Senate
might back its appropriation com
mittee plan to cut $275,000,000
from stock-piling funds previous=
ly voted by Congress in other
bills. .
But a fiefce argument appeared
certain over the plan of Senator
McClellan (D-Ark) to offer a
rider to the armed services bill
that would direct President Tru
man to save up to $3,000,000,000
by cutting all money bills back
by from 5 to 10 per cent.
Administration leaders. are
against such a move.
The house took off today on a
25-day holiday — without Senate
approval.
Members of the combined Sen
ate Foreign Relations and Armed
Services met behind closed doors
to continue their discussion of the
President’s $1,450,000,000 arms aid
program.
in the project and a committee
under the chairmanship of Mayor
Pro Tem Merritt Pound was ap
pointed to work out the details,
The County Commissioners also
voted to participate, and with the
Commissioners working as a com
mittee with the Council commit
tee all applications were filed. A
short time later state approval
was received here.
Coile-Butler
Reunion Set
A reunion of the Coile and Bfit
ler families will be held this Sun-
day, August 28, at Easi Athens
Baptist Church, it was announced
today. g
Dinner will be served to ap
proximately 150 people at noon,
following morning services at the
church. Members of the families
from many sections of Georgia
and South Carolina are expected
to attend the reunion.
In charge of planning the re
union are Sam Butler, Roy Wilson,
and C. A, Carson, sr., who urge
all members of the Coile and But
ler families to attend.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
1950 Vote
Pointer
For Truman
Qutcome May Decide
Whether Or Not He
Will Seek Re-Election
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—(AP)
—Some of President Truman’s
closest friends predicted today he
won't let it be known until after
the 1950 congressional elections
whether he will run again.
They agreed he will stump
around the country next year to
get a Congress to back his “Fair
Deal program.”
A substantial number of them
expressed conviction Mr, Tru
man’s inclination is to leave the
White House at the end of his
present term in Oct.
All of them conceded they were
“guessing” — that they were just
as much in the dark as are the
people who are not close to the
President. >
4 V.T\rri&’ih'éy insisted that Mr. Tru
man hiwself couldn't say for sure
at this time. |
The President himself set off”
the speculation yesterday. ‘
He hinted with a smile that,
might havé meant anything—that‘
he won’t rur. in 1952, (He will
be 68 on May 8 of that year.)
But then, later, he wouldn’t say
no, positively, or even probably.
It was started when 96 teen-age
girls trottec up to the White House
to look it, and the President
ov er,and to sing him a song that
lasted so long he had to wave
goodbye and get back to work.
One of the girls — students of
government brought here by the
American Legion Auxiliary, had
asked about her chances oi be
coming an ambassador five years
from Baw, St
Reporting this, in one of his off
the-cuff talks, Mr. Truman said he
couldn’t promise anything that far
away “because that is a year or
two beyond the time when my
term will expire.”
Reporters pounced upon the re
mark at a subsequent mews con=-
ference. It sounded, they told him,
like 9%5 would not bé a candidate
il. 19562,
That, teid the President, was
the implication he intended.
So they tried to nail him down.
“But you are going to be a can
didate, aren’t you?” one newsman
pressed.
I'll answer that question when
{)he l:ime comes, Mr. Truman came
ack.
And evidently enjoving himself,
he added he was not in the posi
tion Calvin Coolidge was in 1927
when We said: “I do not choose to
run.” ¢
Four Jailed
In Beating
MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 26 —
(AP)—Four men were jailed here
last night after a fifth chagged
they had beaten him into un
consciousness until an armed ne
gro forced them to stop.
The victim, J. C. Benson, re
ported to police here and in At
lanta that he was taken out by
three men last Monday, carried to
the home of a fourth and then
taken ocut again and cruelly whip
ped.
Benson told police he had been
abducted at knife-point in Atlanta
and carried into Cobb county.
Two Atlanta detectives and
Cobb county policeman, Hugh
Poore arrested four men last
night.
They were booked at the Mar
letta County Juil as Shelton Ellis,
22; J. T. Green, 19; Raymond
Strickland, 25, and-s his brother,
Jesse, 20, all of Cobb county.
They were charged with suspicion
of assault and battery.
Benson said he was beaten ap
parently because he had dated
the relative of one of the men
several months ago. IHe said he
had not seen her recently and, in
fact, had forgotten about her.
He did not make clear the re
lationship of the woman.
ATHENS AND VICINITY -
Fair and continued warm
through ~ Saturday, Showers
likely Sunday afternoon, High
today 90, low 68. High Satur
day 90. Sunset 7:07, sunrise
6:02.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
I and continued warm this after
noon. tonight and Saturday
I with showers Saturday and
over extreme south portion this
afternoon and tonight,
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! Total since August 1 ~ .. 2.08
" Deficit since August 1 ..... .75
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Los Angeles police are inves
tigating the disappearance eof
Mrs. Mimi Boomhower (above),
48, widow of Frank Boomhow
er, inventor and African big
game hunter, Missing for a
week, Mrs. Boomhower was
known to have worn jewelry
valued at SS,OOO.—(AP Wire
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Legion
Delegates
Hit Philly
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26 —
(AP) — Delegaies to the Jlst Na
tional American Legion conven
tion began streaming into Phila
delphia today with many Var
ently intent on naming a Werld
War Two veteran as their new
commander, T e
As the city gradually took on a
holiday atmosphere, two veterans
of the last war plunged into the
lusiness of meeting delegates and
lining up support. They are
George N. Craig, Brazil, Ind,, ai
torney, and Erle Cocke, jr., far
mer and railroad man, of Dawson,
Ga.
A third candidate is oxé)ecud to
establish campaign headquarters
by tonight — James F. Green,
Omaha, Neb., attorney. -
Election of one of those th&
would mark the first time iop
control of the legion passed out
ot the hands of World War One
veterans., 4 o
Legion spokesmen have indica
ted they believe the race will nar
row down to a ihree-way scrap
between Craig, Cocke and Green.
While the $15,000-a-year job is
of intense irterest to every Le
gionnaire the big show, as far as
the public is concetned, will be
Tuesday’s parade of 18,000 march
ers.
Legion officials say it will Le
ihe biggest and showiest ever put
on. One official said costumes, mu
sical instruments and equipment
for the 15-hour parade are valued
at $5,000,000. He added that the
National Championship Band
from Joliet, 111., is bringing uni
forms and instruments worth
about ..65,000 aione.
Thirty bands, 75 drums and
bugle corps, firing squads, eolor
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STREET TERROR
Train Wreck
Starts Fiery
oil Stream
NORTHEAST, ¥d. Aug 2¢ —
(AP)—Flaming oil rushed down
a street in the negro section here
early today after a spectacular
freight train wreck on the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
~ Terrorized families fled from 12
houses, but all the dwellings were
saved and no one was hurt.
. Treffic .on . the Pennsylvania’s
New York-Washington mainline
faced long delays.
Twenty cars in the middle of a
southbound freight plowed off the
track about 200 yards south of the
Northeast station.
Three were: oil tankers, which
burst into flame, i
The burning oil' surged down
A%e main strect of the negio s&¢-
tion and into a creek, where it
continued to blaze.
The noise of the wreck and the
flash of fire woke the whole
neighborhood and sent ferror
stricken families into the street.
Fire companies from nine near
by communities came here to fight
the fire. They had it under con
tro! in a couple of hours.
Northeast is about 45 miles
northeast of Baltimore and about
;2)‘7e lmiies southwest of Wiimington,