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ELECTION
Western Officials
Foreseee Launching Of
New “Peace Offensive”
By The Associated Press
goviet Russia votes today for a
new Supreme Soviet, or Parlia
ment.
From an opposition standpoint
Prime Minister -~ Stalin and his
Communist party had nothing to
worry about. The single list of
candidates of the Communist and
i 1 ONI = party bloc
was sure to.win.
World NewsThe s fiedd
Roundup part of the bloc
isa il kade (up ofF
candidates not actually members
of the Communist party but nomi
nated by Communist and labor
union committees which were sat
isfied the nominee would not raise
his voice in opposition once he was
glected.
All the Politburo speakers who
have spoken were campaigning on
the issue of the Soviet “peace”
policy as though a great deal de
pended on it.
U. S. sources in the U. N. dele
gation at New York said all the
peace speeches indicated “there is
widespread fear of war among the
Russian people and the leaders are
trying to calm them.”
But Soviet leaders may think
the time is ripe for another “peace
offensive.”
Belgian Vote
Belgians also vote today in a
Plebiscite on whether they believe
King Leopold should return from
his exile in Switzerland. The issue
has divided Belgium sharply and
may continue to divide it after the
Plebiscite. The -Plebiscite is ad
visory and will not really settle
anything except how the people
teel about it. The King alone can
abdicate. The Parliament alone
can ask him to come back.
The 48-year-old king is criticised
for having surrendered too soon
during the war and with having
had no real sympathy for his peo
ple during the German occupation.
French Strikes
The subway and bus strike end=
ed in Paris, flattening part of the
strike wave which Communists
hoped would reach a crest when
the first U. S. arms shipments ar
rive under the Atlantic pact- aid
prgam. i
e strikers won a waggfim
crease of about $3 a month. Non-
Communists had refused to join
in the walkout. Thousands of other
metal workers and electric work
ers remained on strike. -
Pope Pius, in an encyclical to
Roman Catholic bishops all over
the world, urged prayer on passion
Sunday, March 26 for “opportune
remedies” for the unsettled peace,
the armaments race and the Com
munist attack on religion.
Red Attacks
The Communist attack, he said,
seeks to undermine morals and
peace. A “solid and stable peace”
still eludes mankind, he added, so
that an armament race leaves “the
souls of all fearful and uncertain.”
‘.“We exhort you,” he told the
bishops, “to begin a veritable cru
\}f?e of prayer among your faith
ful.”
Other churchmen have been
urging a similar crusade.
An anglican vicar in England,
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Davis Re-electe
Emory Davis, Rutledge, was re
clected president of the Tenth
District Postmasters here yesterday
as the group held its annual meet
ing at the Georgian Hotel. Sixty
nine postmasters and visitors
were present,,
Mrs. Ada Cheyney, Stephens,
was elected vice-president; Mrs.
Hoe Lowe, Crawford, was named
secretary-treasurer; and Mrs. W.
H. Maxwell, Lexington, was nam
er publicity chairman of the group.
A large number of those in at
fendance were from out of the
distriet.
_ Mayor Jack R. Wells and J. F.
Bishop welcomed the postmas
ters to Athens, and Ben Lester,
Augusta, responded for the group.
Outstanding addresses were de
livered by Honorable Dan Gibson,
Albany, editor of the “Gazette,”
national postmasters’ magazine;
Chief Inspector M. H. Ackerman,
Atlanta; State President Clyde
Hollingsworth, Sylvania; and G.
W. Mathis, Tenth District inspec
tor, Augusta; and several others.
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Corporate Profits In 1949 Close To Record
NEW YORK, March 11—(AP)—
Profits of 565 representative
American corporations last year
almost equalled the all-time high
record set in 1948.
The total is only 2.6 per cent
under 1948 earnings of these same
tompanies, making 1949 the sec
ond most profitable year in the
history of the nation’s industry.
These companies earned 20 per
cent more than in 1947, and 70
ber cent more than in the postwar
conversion year of 1946,
The figures are shown in a com
vilation by the Associated Press
of earnings reports of typical
corporations, large and small, in
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The long “mercy” murder trial is a thing of the past
with an acquittal verdict in his favor — and Dr. Her
mann N. Sander is now back home with his happy fam
ily at Candia, N. H. Daughter Martha, 5, holds to her
daddy’s neck. Mary is in the center. Mrs. Sander holds
on to 18-month-old Nancy who waves her arms play
fully.—(AP Wirephoto.)
Clarke School Needs
Stressed At Meeting
Chamber of Commerce Designated As
Collection Point For Emergency Fund
Three major plans evolved as possibilities for aid to
Winterville in the reconstruction of its $40,000 auditorium,
which was destroyed by fire last week, at a mass meeting
of over 150 Clarke county citizens Friday night in the
Superior Court room of county courthouse here. -
Hunnicuft Will
Be Candidate
For Legislature
John A. Hunnicutt 111, well
known young Athens businessman
and farmer, announced yesterday
that he would be a candidate for
the state legislature in this year’s
Demacratic Primary, He will seek
the post now held by Representa
tive C, O. Baker, who is an an
nounceéd candidate for Governor.
Mz. Hunnicutt is a partner in the
insurance firm of Hunnicutt and
Stephenson, and has extensive
farming interests in the county.
He is a veteran of World War
11, having served in the Intelli
gence Corps with the rank of S-
Sgt. for three years, 12 months of
which was overseas.
Mr. Hunnicutt attended the Ath
ens public schools, and graduated
from the University of Georgia in
1942 with a B. B. A. Degree in
Finance. At the University, he
was prominent in campus activi
ties, being a member of the Phi
Delta Theta, University social fra
ternity.
In addition to his business en
deavors, Mr. Hunnicutt takes a
leading part in Athens and Clarke
county civic and political activi
ties. At the present time he is
Chairman of the County Public
Welfare Board; a member of the
Athens Rental Advisory Board;
and is identified prominently with
the American Legion and other
veterans’ organizations.
In his announcement, Mr. Hun
nicutt stated that a formal,plat
form would be made public short
ly, but that its essential features
would pledge him to exert every
effort as a member of the legisla
ture to promote and carry forward
a constructive program for the
county and the state as a whole.
He states that he is a sincere
friend of education and will work
during his tenure of office for the
benefit of the common schools and
the University System of the State.
He will support the activation of
the Minimum Foundation Pro
gram.
%I am in the race,” he said, “be
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The showing for 1949 is impres
sive because of the snap-back in
business from the recession start
ing early in the year. At that time
the profits barometer pointed
downward, giving rise to a feeling
that the big postwar boom was
over.
But recovery progressed stead
ily thereafter with a pickup in the
profits picture becoming more evi
dent in the final quarter of the
year.
The 565 corperations reported
dollar profits of $5,049,582,639, a
decline of 2.6 per cent from the
1948 total of $5,186,705,908.
The total was a gain of 20 per
cant over the 1947 t%&l of $4,-£
218,14, 35 »w“ 5 W E
? Eéxg%:.stions for m«iating t{lle im=-
mediate ni of Winterville in=
cluded th::%:fihe of ;):nq; to
cover costs th he audi
“4orium and improving the pl},;;fical
‘and instructional facilities ¢f the
Clarke County School System, the
joint civic club -sponsorship of a
benefit show to run for several
nights, and ‘the establishment of
an Athens receiving center for do
nations to the Winterville Audi
torium Fund.
Action was taken on the latter
suggestion and Athens Chamber of
Commerce was designated as the
collection point in Athens for do
nations to the Auditorium Fund.
Citizens also stressed the need
for fire protection outside of the
city limits of Athens and extension
of water facilities to communities
in the county where the people
want such services.
Water, Fire Facilities
A resolution adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Athens
Chamber of Commerce urging a
poné election te restore the Win
terville auditorium as well as im
provement to other schools in the
county system was read by Presi
dent Ralph M. Snow.
- The Chamber of Commerce reso
lution also urged that the county
and city governments work out a
plan under which the residents of
the county outside of Athens will
be given water facilities and fire
protection. ‘
Councilman Roger Hazen, chair
man of the Public Works Commit
tee of the Mayor and Council said
that the City has taken action
toward extension of water facili
ties into the county but that other
than to authorize sale of self-li
quidating -revenue certificates to
finance these:projects they have
not been undertaken pending com
pletion of similar projects inside
the city limits.
County School Superintendent
W. R. Coile announced "that S4OO
in contributions is already in the
hands of fund officials, and that
donors may also make volurtary
gifts to the Fund by mailing their
contributions to Winterville Audi
torium Fund, Winterville.
Representative Chappelle Mat
thews pointed out that action ne
cessitating the. egualization of
white and coolred schools is ap=-
parently in the offing. He further
said that because of this pending
action some thought must be de
voted to the advisability of issuing
bonds at the present moment in
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ported by these corporations mn
1946. !
The earnings of the big auto
mobile companies had a marked
influence on the overall totals.
Total earnings of nine makers of
autos and trucks were 44 per cent
higher than 1948, although five of
the nine fell behind their 1948
totals. These companies not only
made the biggest percentége ad
vance but also contributed the
largest number of dollars to fotal
earnings.
Earnings of airlines and air
craft companies galned 41 per cent
over the previous year, but total
dollar earnings- were sraall com-~
pared wigx!r:lutomobfles.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CE
ATHENS, GAx SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1950,
Georgia School Warehouse
Theft Is Revealed By Cook
Loss Of $180,813 Property
Termed Biggesi In History
ATLANTA, March 11.— (AP) —Attorney General Eu
gene Cook revealed today that state school property valued
at $168,813 is missing—one of the biggest thefts from the
government in Georgia’s history.
He said from July, 1945, to July, 1949, a half-million
separate articles were slipped from a warehouse operated
by the surplus property division of the State Education
Department.
Some of them were in huge quantities—7s tons of scrap
metal, for example. il : &70
Yet, bookkeeping was so “slip
shod” that mo one discovered any
loss until almost a year ago, Cook
said. Then if took a tedious eight=
months audit and intricate inves
tigation to pin down the missing
goods, item by item.
The attorney general accused a
veteran state employe, 36-year-old
‘Hugh Gantt, of selling at least $5,~
594 of the missing property to in
dividuals and bu!‘i‘:zesses in At
lanta.
This much property has been
traced and the receivers have ad
mitted buying the goods from
Gantt, Cook said.
Gantt promptly denied the
charge. No formal action was tak
en today.
Cook turned over the’ complete
audit and all evidence to Fulton
County Solicitor Paul Webb, who
said he would take the affairs to
a grand jury.
Foreman Suspended
Gantt was foreman of the state
warehouse. He was suspended to
day by Dr. M. D. Collins, State
School Superintendent. -
The property was bought by the
State from Federal War Surplus
Property agencies, for use in pub=-
lic schools. The state paid only
about 15 aßler cent of the pro%erty’s
retail value, an actual cash loss
of about $25,000.
Cook expressed amazement at
“slip-shod methods of both feder
al anglsta'te governments in hand
ling ‘the taxpayers’ property.”
Cook released the official audit
to newsmen and also an official
memorandum showing the total
amount he said was missing, and
the amount he attributed to Gantt.
The attorney general said the
evidence did not involve any
Mrs. B. Wrigh
rs. b. Wright
Dies Suddenly
The many friends of Mrs, Ber
nice Wright, 67, a resident of
Athens for the past 38 years, will
be saddened to learn of her death
here yesterday afternoon,
Funeral services will be held at
the _First Christian Church to
morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock
with Rev. Paul Howle, pastor of
First Christian Church, officiating
and assisted by Rev. Newt Saye,
pastor of Edwards Baptist Chapel.
Interment will follow in Oconee
Hill cemetery. Bernstein Funeral
Home is in charge of arrange
ments. .
Mrs. Wright was one of Athens’
most beloved women. Her nrain
interest in life was the welfare of
her children and her home. She
resided at 635 College avenue.
Before moving to Athens she
lived in Newberry, S. C.
Pallbearers will be Selvin
Smith, R. L. Stone, jr., Ben Bur
ton, D. D. Saye, L. C. Lunsford,
John W, Thurmond, Howard Da
vis and Julian Cox.
Survivors are five daughters,
Mrs, W., M. Hart, LaFayette, Ind.;
Mrs. George C. Bosley, Mrs.
James B. Herring, Mrs, Bill Eng
land, Mrs. Roy F. Davis, all of
Athens; three sons, William H.
Wright, Columbia, S. C.; James
Fred Wright, Athens; Thomas H.
Wright, Miami, Fla.; one brother,
Thomas H. Smith, -Memphis,
Tenn.; five sisters-in-law, Mrs.
Maud Wright Spruyt, Augusta;
Miss Nettie Wright and Miss
Tempie Wright, both of Athens;
Mrs. Mark Smith, Néewberry, S.
C.; Mrs. J. W, Smith, Atlanta; one
brother-in-law, Mr. T. P. Adams,
Newberry, S. C.; and 13 grand
children.
cement makers were up 17 per
cent, and the manuiacturers of
drugs, cosmetics and soap showed
a 13 per cent rise.
While automobiles were moving
ahead in the profits column, the
producers of motor vehicle parts
and accessories just managed to
hold their own by making only .5
of one per cent less than in 1948.
On the other side of the ledger
are the companies whose 1949
profits. were less than in 1948.
The oil group with 24 companies
stands out. Last year the group
headed the list of dollar earners
(excluding utilities) even ahead
of automobiles, but this year it
slipped down to fifth place with
total earnings 26 per cent less than
TORET T RER RTR SRR
other state employes or officials,
Missing Goods
The list of missing goods inciud
ed bulk items such as 3,300,000
yards of thread, 355,296 thousand
screws, and 175,520 feet of rope,
Cook said the size ranged from
“screws to bulldozer hlades to a
small electric light generating
plant.”
First hint of the sweeping probe
came last July when Ccok said in
a speech he was investigating
“fraud, graft and corruption in
state government.”
The attorney general was sums
moned before a State Senate com
mittee to tell about it. News leak~
ed out of the closed session that
the surplus property division was
involved.
Collins then challenged Cook to
show that any of his employes had
stolen “so much as a paper clip.”
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Primary Not Possible
‘Till Sept. 9- - Hamil
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Overlooked’ 1908 Law Cited As
Restriction By State Treasurer *
ATLANTA, March 11.—(AP)—State Treasurer George
Hamilton rocked Georgia politics today with a legal opin
ion that the State Democratie Primary cannot be held be
fore September 9.
The elaim, if upheld, could completely upset the politi
eal timing of Governor Herman Talmadge’s forces, bank
ing heavily on a primary June 28,
“It’s time somebody threw a monkey wrench into the
Talmadge monkey works,” declared Hamilton, 7
“Tt is about time the adminis
tration learns it cannot win by
political trickery.”
Talmadge leaders in the recent
Legislature pushed through a law
letting the Talmadge-controlled
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee fix the primary date.
Previously, the votingwwas fixed
by law on the second Wednesday
in September.
A June 28 election has been re
garded as a certainty for several
weeks, although there’'s been no
official announcement.
When they passed the “early
primary” law, leaders admitted
privately they did so to boost Tal
madge’s chances of re-clection.
Hamilton said he asked five
“eminent attorneys” in different
sections of the state for a legal
opinion on when the primary could
be held. He said the attorneys
unanimously came up with ‘this
conclusion:
While the state committee is
given the right to fix a specific
date, an old, apparently overlooked
1908 law restriets the committee
Sororify Award
Red Cross officials here an
nounced today that the University
sorority contributing the Ilargest
amount in the current Red Cross
Finance Campaign will be awarded
a combination flower and fruit
bowl made ®y Earl McCutchen,
head of the Ceramics Department
of the University, and presented to
the Red Cross Chapter here.
The bowl is medium in size and
is glazed in two shades of brown
featuring an Indian design. A fiaw
resulting from a “firing” defect on
one side of the bowl adds to the
attractiveness of this decorative
piece of pottery. One Red Cross
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Sunday windy and warmer,
colder Sunday night., High te
day 64. Sun sets 6:30 and rises
6:45,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and warm with scattered show
ers in extreme north portion
Sunday and night. Monday
showers and warmer,
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VIRGINIA CGOES INTO ACTION ACAINST CAMERAMEN
Virginia Hill (left), identified by Chi
eago newspapers as the international
playgirl who grew up in rural Cobb coun
ty, Georgia, claws at news photographers
in Chicago’s Ambassador East Hotel.
She’s angry because the photographers
want pictures of her honeymooning with
her new husband, Hermann Johann
to a period 60 days in advance of
the November general election,
Bomb Letter
The treasurer dropped his bomb
in a letter to chairman James S.
Peters of the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee. It exploded
almost on the eve of a committee
session here Tuesday to set the
primary date and adopt other
rules.
Peters, reached in Macon, de
clined comment.
Talmadge leaders have said they
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$500,000 GIFTS LISTED
Financial Path Cleared
For University Library
ATLANTA, March 11.— (AP) —A financial path was
cleared today for an early start on ten new buildings in
the University of Georgia System, costing $5,039,938.
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, chairman of the Univer
sity System Building Authority, said a group of Atlanta and
Savannah bond firms have agreed to buy the authority’s
bonds. 4
A $6,000,000 bond issue will be
planned by members of thé newly
created authority next week.
Thrasher said he hoped actual
construction will be underway
within 90 days. :
The authority was created by
the legislature more than a year
ago but was activated only ten
days ago. It is empowered to issue
up to $12,000,000 in bonds {for
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* (Hans) Hauser, ski instructor at San Val
ley, Idaho, and AgFen, Colo. Max Arthuy
(right), Chicago Tribune photographer,
suffered a broken finger in the nail eom
bat. This é)icture was made by George
Kotalik, Chicago Sun-Times cameraman.
— (AP Wirephoto.)
REV. SHERRILL
The e(flluuonul program of
the Episcopal Church for the
past two months comes to a eli
max tqday with a message from
the Rev. Henry Knox Sher
rill, ding bishop of the na
tional church. This message will
be by transcription during
the lar morning serviee of
E uel Church.
In unction with the edu
cati phase has been the “One
World\ in Christ” campaign to
raise fumds for mission work in
this oo:try and overseas. The
collection this morning at Em
manuel Church will go to this
special fund, with a portion be
ing used within the local (At
lanta) diokese, and part going to
the Natiopal Church for mission
work. \
The General Convention of
the Episcopal Chureh which met
in San Francisco last autumn
adopted a budget of $5,684,617
for 1950. This represents an in-~
crease of almost two million del
lars, and the spring campaign is
designed to help in raising this
additional amount, ;
university buildings.
Officials hope the plan will pro
vide a long_me program of per
manent improvements. Recent
surveys have showed the Univer
sity S§stem to be woefully short
of buildings, with many present
structures branded as “firetraps.”
Several buildings® have been
condemned as a result of the sur
veys.
, Under the plan, the University
System will pay the building au
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AT FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM
10th District Music Festival
Scheduled Here OnMarch 17th
There will be musie, music mu=-
sic here in Fine Arts building
March 17, the date of the annual
Tenth District Musical Festival for
high school students.
Details of the festival were an
nounced yesterday by Thomas J.
Brynes, director of music educa~-
tion in Athens city schools. Repre=~
sented at the fest.ival will be ele
mentary, junior high, and senior
high schools of the district.
Piano soloists, smali ensembles,
choirs and instrumental groups
will take part in the all-day fes~
tival of talented musicians of the
district. - ¢
The festival will be climaxed by
an evening program being planned
for the night of March 17 in Fine
&mh‘ PR ee, A \m A
HOME -t
EDITION
Truman Begins
3-Week Florida
Vacation Today
WASHINGTON, March N-~
(AP) — President Trumap, spe
‘proaching the end of five gventful
years in the White House, embarke
on & trim, #44-foot cx‘gm
row for about three of yest
at Key West, Fla.
He was there for a Wrdhr
last December. He r 3
per and ready for the anmual
imposed by the opening of
gress.
His doctor says he is im good
health, though a bit heavy at l'lz
pounds, and the Florida waters an
sunshine ought to put him in the
pink for the campaign trails this
spring and fall.
Under present plans, Mr. True
man will fly back to Washw
around April 2, ten days ore
; his fifth anniversary in the presie
'dency and a little more than a
- month before his 66th birthday on
‘May 8. He expects to start on his
first cross. country speaking trip
around May 1 L
i Accompanied by several mem~
| bers of his staff, the President wflg
| leave the Naval gun factory at 1
la. m. tomorrow aboard the yacht
!Williamsburg, a diesel-onginoé
}former gunboat converted for his
{ use.
{ The voyage down the Potomae
| river and the Atlantic to the U. 8.
submarine base at Key West will
require four days: He js due to
arrive at the “Summer White
House” at 6:30 a. m. Thursday and
disembark two hours later,
| The commander-in-chief says he
' had a new seasick “pill.”* However,
his aides still wince when they re
call the buffeting they took en 2
Truman trip through windward
passage in 1948,
. §
Two Small Fires
Cause NoDamage
Two fires of a small nature
busied firemen yesterday and Fri
day. Yesterday aftfemmey
went to the corner o Ngside
Drive and Harris street where they
readily extinguished a grass sand
brush fire on.a vacant ¥ot. 3
Friday firemen syent to the
corner of Nantahala and Seminole i
streets where they guiekly |
quenched a grass fire. Neither fire
caused any damage. 3
ommended by the judges and s
mass band of 120 outstanding stu~
dents will present a public coneert.
The band of outstanding stu
dents will be under the direction
of Harris J. Mitchell, an instru
mental judge, of the University of
Georgia music department. Admis
sion will be free to the publie,
Athens will be well represent
ed in the festival. Choirs from
Chasfi; Oconee, Barrow, and Cols |
lege Avenue grammar schools, and
Child street Junior Hw take
ggt, la% wéll the Aths Righ
00l band. :
First division M and
groups recommended by the judges
may enter the State contest, set
for latyg mg- ng. Mr. Byme