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Vol. CXVII, No. 202. Associated Press Service
4 Convicts
Flee Mental
Institution
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Sept. 5
_(AP)—Following the p:fitern set
v 13 “stir crazy” prigoners two
Lecks ago, four felony convicts
sawed their way out of the state
nental hospital last night.
The convicts, all transfers from
Reidsville State Prison, used the
ame escape method as the 13
criminally insane prisoners. They
.awed away the bars of a tiny
pathroom window in the hospital’s
maximum seeurity ward.
The 13 “stir crazy” prisoners
were caught a few days after their
escape, ¥
The convicts who got away last
night had been brought here for
skilled work on a construction
job.
“supt. R. H. Lawrence of the
colony prison blamed the break on
an outside guard’s negligence. He
said he believed the escapees
would remain in the hospital area
in an efofrt to steal a getaway car.
None of the four was considered
dangerous, he added, but all were
in better physical condition than
the 13 insane patients.
Lawrence listed the men as:
Edward Clarke, 35, sentenced
from Fulton county to six years
for assault with intent to murder.
Jack Mauldin, 23, Fulton, four to
five years with a one-year term to
tollow that sentence, burglary.
Ear] Curtis Taylor, 22, Fulton
and Muscogee, two years and two
1o five years, automobile theft.
Jack McDaniel, 32, Bibb, seven
{0 nine years, automobile theft.
.
Cross Burnings
New Protests
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 5—
(AP)—Six cross burnings Satur
day night -are only the beginning
of 2 Ku Xlux Klan.protest against
left-wing singer, Paul Robeson
snd Communism, Bill Hendrix
said here yesterday.
Hendrix, “spokesman under the
seal” of the Southern and North
ern Knights of the KKK, said by
imperial edict of Klan Emperor
Samuel II and Imperial Wizard
4-006800 the crosses will begin to
burn north of the Mason-Dixon
line “as soon as the order gets
through” - e
“National Adjutant’® Hendrix
explained’ the order went by mail
and would reach the Northern
Knights somewhat later than those
in the South. But he had reports
of only six displays Saturday night
—five in Florida and one at Val
dosta, Ga.
Each burning cross was accom
panied by a sign, Hendrix said,
reading “We protest Paul Robeson
and Communism.” An effigy of
the negro singer was tied to a tree
at the Valdosta burning.
“Valdosta was the birthplace of
our organization,” Hendrix ex
plained. He reported cther cross
burnings in the vicinities of Tal
iahassee, Jacksonville, Crawford
ville, Quiney and Monticello, Fla.
Hendrix claimed at least three
units in New York City and others
“perhaps™ at Scarsdale and White
Plains, N. Y., “New Jersey and the
Detroit area.”
Youth Assaulter
Nabbed In Albany
ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 8 —(AP)
—A 24-year-old white man, Jo
seph Arnold Trainell, today was
under arrest on a charge of as
saulting a 16-year-old Albany
high school girl, Chief Morton
Burnett said.
Posing as a “Talent Scout” for
a 4 youth magazine, the police chief
said, the man allegedly lured the
girl inte his automobile last Fri
day afternoon, the alleged assault
faking place around 4 p. m., at a
lonely site on the Riverroad south
of this eity. .
Trainell was arresied by city
&nd county authorities here Satur
day night.
CLEVELAND, Sept. S—(AP)
—Eill Falck of Warwick, N. Y.,
got his red and yellow midget
plane off in front in the pro
£ram opene: at the National Air
races today and stayed there
until the finish for $220 first
prize in the Goodyear consola
tion,
Falck averaged 162.6 miles an
hour to lead James W. Wlliur“rlL I"I
Nashville,. Tenn.,. ia his
Rebel.”
ATHENS AND VICINITY
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¢hance of afternoon thunder
showers. High today 86, low
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6:54 and sunrise 6:10.
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and continued warm this aft
trnoon tonight and Tuesday.
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BENDIX AIR TROPHY WINNER
Joe Deßona, of Beverly Hills, Calif., winner of the Bendix
Transcontinental speed dash of the National Air Races in
Cleveland, 0., leans from the cockpit of his plane for a
congratulatory word from sponsor actor Jimmy Stewart
and his new wife, the former Gloria McLean. Deßona
made the 2,010-mile course from Rosemond, Calif.; to
Cleveland in the record time of four hours, 16 minutes,
17 seccends.
Speed Pilots Pray
For Good Weather
By JAMES J. STREBIG
Associated Press Aviation Reporter
CLEVELAND, Sept. 5— (AP)—Pilots of the world’s
fastest competitive planes prayed as they worked today
pleading for good weather and a fair chance &t the $16,-
000 first prize that goes with the Thompson trophy.
The forecast, however, was un
favorable. Late afternoon thun
dershowers with gusty winds were
predicted.
The Thompson, reduced in dis
tance from 300 to 225 iniles, is the
outstanding event of the National
Air races. The planes will be
shooting this year at a $2,000 bo
nus for beating the record of 396
miles an hour set by Cook Cle
land of Cleveland in 1947,
Air PForce jet fighters will® fly
the Thompson again this year
a‘ter skipping one season. The
course has been changed from four
to seven legs to ease off the turns.
The jets, North American F-86
Sabres, are expected to beat the
1947 jet mark of 515 miles and
hour by close to 100 Mph. They
already have turned the course at
bette- than 600 Mph. in practice.
Veteran Joe De Bona of Bever
ly Hills, Calif., won the 2,010-mile
Benedix trophy race Saturday in
the record speed of 470.136 miles
per hour. The stocky piot said his
F-51 Mustang hit a top speed of
498 miles an hour at one time dur
ing the hop from California to
Cleveland.
Thompson Warms
Up Pitching Arm
ATLANTA, Sept. 5 — (AP) -—
Former Gov. M. E. Thompson
hasn't actually thrown his hat into
the 1950 Governor's race, but he’s
getting his pitching arm limbered
up.
Thompson gave & broad hint
yesterday that he is considering
seeking the Governorship in a
statement approving a plan calling
for a meeting of candidates for
Governor to discuss Georgia’s
education problems.
His statement:
“Roy Harris who in 1947-48 was
the most partisan politician in re
cent Georgia political history, but
who recently has maneuvered
himself into a neutral corner in
preparation for the 1950 political
bout had a good suggestion in the
last issue of his Augusta Courier.
“Actually, his suggestion was
one of approval of a proposal made
recently by Supt. Buck Anderson
of Polk county public schools.
Buck proposed to cut out ‘political
civil war’ long. enough to finance
the program for education in
Georgia.”
52 Of Nation’s Fairest Gather
To Vie For Miss America Title
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept.
5 (AP)—Fifty~two shapely * las
ses, each hoping to be chosen the
fairest one of all, meet officials of
the Miss America Beauty Pageant
| here today.
A Boardwalk Mardi Gras parade
will greet them.
The girls are officially the
| comeliest representatives of 45
Istates, Canada, Puerto Rico, the
Hawaiian Islands, and the cities of
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
and Washington. All have won
regional contests in their home
areas.
Today they will register at the
Traymore Hotel. Tonight they
will have & session with pageant
| officials at which they will
| pe told how Miss America con
| testants must behave between
U now and ;aturduy, when the win
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Scores Hurt
After Concert
By Robeson
PEEKSKILL, N. Y. Sept. 5—
(AP) — Seqres of people were in
jured and windows in hundreds of
automobiles were shattered last
night as a throng departing from
a Paul Robeson concert ran into a
barrage of rocks.
At least eight autos and an emp
ty bus were overturned, and an
auto was set afire as demonstra
tors against the Left-wing negro
singer got beyond the control of
almeost 1,000 law enforcement of
ficers.
Glass splinters were so thick on
some spots of road ‘that it looked
as if a sleet storm had hit the
Westchester county suburbs.
Fifty-four persons were treated
at hospitals. Fourteea persons
were arrested on various charges,
and about two score cthers were
taken into temporary protective
custody.
The barrage of stones, bottles
and other missiles was fired by
knots of anti-Leftists scattered
along three roads up to distances
of five miles.
Many of the bus and auto pas
sengers were women and children.
The officers—including about 250
state troopers mobilized from a
wide area on Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey’s orders—prevented. any
serious violence at the concert, A
helicopter was in contact with po
lice radio posts in the area but
they were unable to cope with the
attacks that flared with increasing
intensity from town-to-town as
the concertgoers heavled home.
The concert—On an abandoned
golf course—was held one mile
frim the scene of a riot which pre
vented Robeson’s apnearance the
previous Saturday. Eight persons
were hospitalized then when anti
ists held a similar demonstra
tion.
Gov. Dewey in ordering all
available state police into the area
yesterday, called the concert gath
ering “pro-Communist.”” He de
clared, however, that the “rights
of free speech and of assembly
are guaranteed to all, regardless
of political beliefs.”
will be warned.
No Padding
Miss America pageant officials
will stand for no padding in bath
ing suits. -
No smoking or drinking. At
Jeast not in public.
And absolutely no male com
panions. Not even papa or kid
brother.
However the girls will be free
to stroll the boardwalk, and
breathe all the salty ocean zair they
want to.
The first preliminary contest
will take place tomorrow, and by
Saturday the field will be nar
rowed to 15 finalists, on the basis
of face, figure, poise, and talents
ranging from singing and piano
playing to dressmaking and horse
back-riding.
Scholarships :
One of the finalists will become
Aiee America of 1040 and encresd
to the. crown wou last year by
anm ot Hopkins, Ming. She
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1949.
Record Holiday Weekend
Death Toll Is Foreseen
341 Dead Reported With Heavy
Traffic Crush Still To Come
By The Associated Press
The nation appeared headed today for a record Labor
Day week-end death toll from accidents.
With the heavy homeward traffic crush still to come,
the tide of fatalities rose to at least 341,
Two hundred seventy-five of
the violent deaths counted since
six p. m., Friday, were in traffic.
There were 23 drownings and 44
deaths from miscellaneous mis=-
haps, an Associated Press survey
showed.
The National Safety Council
conceded that the total of traffic
deaths would far overshoot its
prediction of 280 for the three-day
week-end by midnight tonight—
and perhaps pass the record Labor
Day highway slaughter of 302 in
1937. Deaths trom all iccidents
were 428 that week-end.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the Council, urged home-bound
motorists to use ‘“common sense
and courtesy, and to avoid speed
ing and fits of temper or care
lesenecs while driving in the
heavy traffic.”
| Georgia Deaths
Georgia counted eight dead by
‘acoidents today as the long Labor
‘Day week-end neared an end.
An Atlanta realty executive, J.
'H. Whitten, jr., was drowned late
Iyesterday while swimming at a
club lake.
Six persons were killed in traf
fic accidenis and another drown
ing took the eighth victim.
" An automobile slammed into a
bridge railing south of Macon yes
terday, killing J. R. King, jr., 23-
year-old Macon fireman. Robert
Leon Alverson, 47, of Cedartown,
was killed near Griffin when he
stepped from his car and, was
struck down by & passing vehicle.
A drowning victim was Mrs.
Opal - Burch, 20, whose body was
found in an abandoned water
filled rock quarry near Rome.
Edward D. Dudley, adyertising
manager of Radio Station WTAN,
Cleawater, Fla.,, died in & truck
auto crash near Lake Park, Ga.
. George Raymond Iw;a?l;'n of
‘Rome, killed in a truck-aute col
lision in Atlanta. :
“Walter A. Staps of Wyoming,
Ohig, killed near Albany when &n
automobile failed to make a
curve and rammed into a utility
pole. i
Richard Watters, 16-year-old ne
gro, killed in a motoraycle-auto
crash in Rome.
’ - .
Barkley Visits
. - r
St. Louis Again
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5 — (AP) —
Vice President Barkley was back
in St. Louis—on his fifth recent
visit.
And again he was greeted upon
his arrival by an attractive 37-
year-old widow, Mrs, Carleton S.
Hadley.
Barkley said his trip was only
a Labor Day holiday, but added:
“I've been coming to St. Louis
for years, but never paid much
attention to it until the last few.
weeks.”
Rumors of a vomance between
the 71-year-old Vice President, a
widower, and Mrs. Hadley had
persisted. Friends say they def
initely have not discussed mar
riage plans.
Barkley flew in from his Padu
cah, Ky, home yesterday. Mrs.
Hadley and her 14 - year-old
daughter, Jane, waited at the air
port through a heavy rainstorm
from his arréval.
The Vice President, who has a
speaking engagement at Spring
field, 111., Thursday, said he would
be here two or three days.
. .
Kiwanis Speaker
Frank W. Fitch, jr., who repre
sents the Federal Government in
Wildlife and Game Conservation
in this area, will be guest speaker
at tomorrow’s meeting of the Ath
ens Kiwanis Club in the N and N
Cafeteria at one o’clock.
'will also receive a $5,000 scholar
ship. The 14 runners-up will di
vide $20,000 worth of scholarships.
Idaho, Delaware, and Rhode
Island are the only states unre
presented.
In- addition to the 52 damsels,
the contest has also brought a
horse and a cow into town,
“Miss Nevada,” Carol Diana
Lampe of Reno, offered cow-rais
ing as her talent, and her Here
ford heifer is stabled under con
vention hall to prove it.
“Miss Montana,” Carol Rosebel
Fraser of Billings, will present “a
talent that is typical of Montana—
horseback riding-«’ and will ap
pear on the convention hall stage
astride her favorite mount.
Contest officials are looking as
kance at the livestock, however,
and they will allow no more after
this year.
“1f we do,” said Park W. Haver
sticle. mrecident of the mpageant
Swel wmm.:wiflg dog acts, live:
seals, and eve ‘tigers and lions.”
Rep. Flood, D-Pa.)
Wedding Plans Set
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 5—
(AP)—Rep. Daniel J. F, Flood
(D-Pa.) and Catherine H. Swank,
a teacher at Coughlin High School
in Wilkes-Barre, will be married
here Sept. 24, it was disclosed to
day.
Flood is serving his second term
in the U. S. House of Representa
tives. He is 45 years old and un
married. The congressman was
born in Hazleton, Pa., and was
graduated from Syracuse Univer
sity later studying law at Harvard
and at Dickinson in Carlisie, Fa,
Among the ushers at the wed
ding in St. John the Evangelist
church will be Sen. Francis J.
Mpyers (D-Pa.), Democratic whip.
Revolt, Fire Reel
China Nationalists
By The Associated Press
China’s Nationalist government reeled today before 2
successful revolt in Yunnan Province and a disasrous fire
that killed 1,000 persons in Chungking. %
T-H Repeal
Fight Still
On--Truman
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5—(AP)—
President Truman assured labor
today his administration will con~
tinue to fight for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Aet until it is “wiped
off the statute books.”
He said at Pittsburgh that “self
ish interests” thus far have block
ed attempts to repeal the law. But,
he added grimly, the issue is still
“far from settled.”
Apparently setting the theme
for next year's congressional elec
tion campaign, he also accused the
same ‘selfish interests” of trying
to sabotage other parts of his
“fair deal.”
He said these forces have
“trumped up slogans” like “sta
tism, welfare state and collect
ivism” in their fight against such
things as the administration’s
farm, social security, health and
aid to education programs. He
called it a “scare word campaign”
aimed at confusing the people.
These and other programs are
needed, he said, and “we will have
them.”
In Steel Capital
Mr. Truman spoke to a throng
of factory workers, farmers and
others at the Allegheny Country
Free Fair in the steel capital. It
was the first of the two speeches
he had booked for the day. The
‘second was in the farm belt at
IDes Moines (5:15 p. m. EST).
There were many similar ob
servances. across the nation to pay
tribute to the working man on his
special holiday. ;
At Poston, Secretary of Labor
Tobin said he had received reports
of “shecking conditions” in some
industries and promised a first
hand investigation. .
Tobin said if he had been cor
rectly informed there are men and
women working in “cess pools of
human misery and industrial
wrong” He spoke to the AFL
Central Labor Union of greater
Boston.
CIO President Philip Murray
prepared a radio speech (ABC)
' for delivery from Pittsburgh and
the President of the American
Federation of Labor, William
Green, was to speak at the new
Mission Bay Park in San Diego.
Members of Congress and local
labor leaders made speeches in
other cities. Many of those sche
duled to speak today also issued
statements over the weekend.
In Washington, Senator Myers
(D.-Pa.) urged labor and manage~
ment to “exercise reasonableness
and fairness and industrial states
manship” in their “battling over
the so-called ‘fourth round’ of 1
post-war wage-contract agree
ments.”
He said industry “must squeeze
a lot more of the inflation out of
its prices,” and labor “must see to'
it that the price level is not jolted
upward by unreasonable de
mands.”
In another pre-holiday state
ment, Tobin praised labor’s activi
ties in support of economic andl
politiea! nrogress. “Labor has led
in poany fields,” he said, “notably |
including civil liberty.”’ 2 ¢
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PIE-EATER
Gerald Steward, 10, bespms with
joy after winning a pie-eating con
tact at the Rallroaad Fair in Chi
cago, 111. He consumed 144 cubic
inches of pumpkin pie in 60 sec
onds, winning a prize of a bicygle
which he promptly presented to
his sister, Gloria, 11.
The revolt of Gen. Lx? Han, gov
ernor of Yunnan Province, ap
parently was bloodless, He held
the provincial capital of Kunming.
Reliable reports said Nationalist
troops were in the outskirts trying
to forge a ring around the city.
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Kunming was the terminus of the
air supply route over the Him
alayas from India.
Cause of the fire in Chung-
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ton but arsonists
l‘oundup with Red sym
—iee. pathies were sus
pected. Two accused Red agents |
were executed.
Pope Pius XII publicly de
nounced Communism by name
yesterday for the first time in his
10-year reign as head of the Ro
man Catholic church. Previously
the pontiff had used such phrases|
as “Materialism,” “Totalitarian-|
| ism” and “enemies of the church”
in referring to Communism. I
! Archbishop Josef Beran told
I Czechoslovak Catholics yesterday
that they are living “Amidst Rag
| ing Satanism.” He expressed hope
I the Communist-governied nation
would “return to God like a
prodigal son.”
Sermon Smuggled In
The Archbishop has made no
‘public appearance since he was
driven from his Cathedral by
shouts and catcalls June 19, His
sermon yesterday was smuggled
past his Communist guards and
| was read in many churches in the
| Prague Archdiocese.
‘ Bolivia’s middle -of -the - road
government appeared to be gain
ing the upper hand over Rightist
revolutionary forces w hich
plunged the South American
country into Civil War 10 days
ago.
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PAL HELPS RESCUE TRAPPED YOUTH
Eugene Sanders, 17-year-old Chicago you th, manages & weary smile (right) as he is
hauled to the surface late Friday night aft er being trapped six hours in a eave-in at
the bottom of a 20-foot well at Bristol, Ind. At left, Sanders’ pal, Lowell (Bud) Berry
stands at the bottom of 20-foot steel tube which was driven into the well to aid res
cue. He shouts orders to rescuers on groun d above. Beside him is the partially buried
Sanders who was taken to a hospital in Elk hart after the rescue. Falling sand ham.
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120 MPH Wind
Whips Atlantic
Honeymoon Isles Of Bermuda Put
On Alert; Hurricane Marking Time
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. s—(AP)—The honeymoon isles of
Bermuda, 800 miles off the South Carolina coast, were al
erted today for an Atlantic hurricane containing winds
of about 120 miles an hour.
Grady Norton, chief storm fore- ‘
caster in the Miami Weather
Bureau, said the large and.severe
hurricane which spun’' overnight
about 800 miles east of Miami “is
apparently turning to a north
northeasterly direction” It is
drifting at the slow pace of six to
eight miles an hour,
The center at 11 8. m. (EST)
was about 450 miles south-south-l
west of Bermuda.
Norton, in an advisory at that|
time, said “Bermuda should pre
pare for possible hurricane winds
and stand by.”
Ships were warned to avoid the
storm.
The hurricane increased in size
and intensity during the night.
winds of hurricane force cover a
100-mile diameter, and gales ex
tend 155 miles to the east and
north and 100 miles to the west
of the center. ,
" Norton, observing that hurri
canes are full of tricks, said a
close watch was being kept on
the storm for possible erratic
movement.
A Navy Hurricane Hunter in the
storm reported ‘“very heavy go
ing” as it battled toward the eye,
with winds above 100 knots (110
miles an hour) encountered about
one-third of the way into the
storm. g
“Vertical development greatly
increased,” said the Navy storm
tracker. “Very turbulent weather.”
- As this fourth storm of the sea
son grew, a squally area in the
Gulf of Mexico moved inland and
today was over Mississippi and
northern Alabama with no further
heavy weather over Gulf waters,
VACATION SEASON ENDS
Nation Pays
To Working
By The Associated Press
The nation pays its annual tri
bute to the working man today.
Labor Day crowds streaming
home from resorts marked the
traditional end of the summer va
cation season.
In many cities, people took time
off to hear civic leadeérs praise
labor’s pdst contributions to na
tional progress. They also heard
a few words of criticism and some
suggestions for closer government
labor-management cooperation.
At Pittsburgh, factory workers
and farmers went to the Allegheny
county free fair to hear an ad
dress by President Truman.
Secretary of Labor Maurice J.
Tobin was to address the Central
Labor Union of Boston.
CIO President Philip Murray
prepared a radio speech (ABC)
for delivery from Pittsburgh and
the President of the American
Federation of Labor, William
Green was to speak at the New
Mission Bay Park in San Diego.
HOME
EDITION
U. S., Czech
Troops
Swap Fire
FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept,
s—(AP)—German oorder police
reported today that U. 8. eonsta
bulary troops and Czechoslovak
border police enxchunged more
than 600 pistol shots nesr Net
early yesterday,
The reason for the gunfire be-.
tween American and Cazech bor
der elements could not be imme
diately determined,
German eyewitnesses reported
that Czeeh border guards first
opened fire on an American and
German border patrol late Friday
night.
The shooting was repeated dur~
ing the night of Baturday te Sun
day when an American constebul«
I“, patrol approached the Caech
border.
German police said that, as far
ag they knew, nobody was hurt in
the exchange.
One German officizl described
the incident as “simiess shooting.”
The exchange early yesterday
morning lasted four hours, the po
lice said.
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Members of Congress and local
labor leaders made speeches in
other cities. Many of those
scheduled to speak today alse
issued statements over the week
end.
In Washington, Senator Myers
(D-Pa.) urged labor and manage~
ment t¢ “exercise reasonableness
and fairness and industrial states
manship” in their “battling over
the so-called ‘fourth round® of
post-war wage-confract agree
ments,”
He said industry“ must squeeze
a lot more of the inflation out of
its prices,” and labor “must see
to it that the price level is not
jolted upward by unreasonable
demands.”
In another pre-holiday state
ment, Tobin praised labor's acti
vities in support of economic and
political progress. “Labor has led
in many fields,” he said, "notably
including civil liberty.”