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Southerners Ready
To Beat Ga; Rule
First Test On FEPC Measure S~
For Friday; Dixie Bl i
0 y; Dixie Bloc Confir'_ .
WASHINGTON, May 15.—(AP)—Soutb \;» i
dav they can beat an expected administratio. @.t:nsl%ltdtfn(i:
week to curb Senate debate on a Truman civh rights
}r('Sill. pro-
Majority Leader Lucas (D.-Il1l.) has told the S
“I}\' will Enake t_helz tFes_t Friday in an effort to ;usin?}fsott?;}t
,(.;:?E%(g]) rk?i\i'firsm air Employment Practices Commission
Big Jubilee In
Chicago Tonight
Truman Readies Main
Speech; GOP Primary
In Penna. This Week
By The Associated Press
2. Democratic jubilee in Chicago
tonizht and a Republican primary
n Pennsylvania tomorrow make
this an important week in 1950
politics.
The Democratic gathering, at
which President Truman will make
an outright political speech, is the
climax to his Western tour. Party
supporters say it will be the big
vest political affair ever held out
side a National convention,
Mr. Truman will speak at 10:30
p. m. EST, with television and na
ionwide radio broadcasts, after a
torchlight parade through the ecity.
Chicago holds strong attachments
for Mr. Truman, for it was here
fn 1944 that he was nominated for
vice president. Again in 1948, the
city’s Democrats put on a big rally
which some say marked a turn of
the political tide in his favor and
helped lead to the presidency.
The Pennsylvania Republican
primary tomorrow involves party
control in the biggest GOP strong
hold in the nation. g
Leading the intra-party oppon
ents are former Senator Joseph R.
Grundy, veteran political chieftain
who swung mest of the Pennsyl
vania delegation to the nomination
of Thomas E, Dewey for President
in 1948; and Gov. James H. Duff,
who led insurgents against Dewey.
This time Duff is out for the
senatorial nomination, with John
S. Fine, former superior court
judge, as his running mate for
Governor.
Running against Duff with Grun=-
dy’s support is Rep. John C, Kun
kel, a six-termer in the U. S.
House. Grundy also backs Jay
C o 0 ok e, Philadelphia lawyer,
#gainst Fine for Governor.
Both sides claimed success in
advance. Duff campaigned as the
champion of “the average 'guy.”
Kunkel called for an end to what
he called “handout government.”
In the Democratic primary in
Pennsylvania, Senator Francis My
ers is unopposed to succeed him=
self in the U. 8. Senate. Richard
son Dilworth, Philadelphia City
Treasurer, has only token opposi=
tion for the gubernatorial nomina
on,
Even before President Truman
reached Chicago last night, the
Democrats had been stirring things
up for days with various confer
ences, topped off by a public meet
ing of the President’s cabinet on
the stage of Chicago’s civic opera
BY CALIF. SCIENTIST
Possible 'Flu" Cure
Found In Hay Microbe
BALTIMORE, May 15. — (AP) — A possible lead to
wards a drug treatment for the most prevalent type of hu
man influenza and a costly disease of chickens was de
scribed today to the Society of American §actgrioloßiSE§~
TTT TR RS | S, e R B SIS R S e e
A California scientist reported
that a substance derived from a
microbe found in hay fever capa
ble—in laboratory experiment—
of destroying viruses of human in
fluenza “A” and of newcastle
disease, a serious malady of chi
ckens.
Influenza “A” ig the commonest
of all known ‘Flu’ types. At gre—
sent there is -no specific drug
Cheek Services
Funeral services for Mrs. James
M. Cheek were held yesterday aft
eroon at the High Shoals Baptist
Church, with the Rev. Leo Bur=-
gess, officiating.
Mrs. Cheek died at a local hos
pital Saturday after an illness of
several weeks, She was 70 years of
age, <
The deceased was survived by'
her husband, Mr, James M. Cheek;
two sons, Paul B. Cheek of Athn:
ta and Claude H. Cheek of Athens;
three sisters, Mrs. Emory Jordan,
of Monroe; Mrs, R, L, Mason of
Eatonton; Miss Ida trick,
vived by five | ¢ Je 5%
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Senator Russell (D.-Ga.), floor
general for Southerners battling
the measure, told a reporter;
“I don’t think it’s possible for
them to get 64 senators to invoke
a gag rule this week.”
Under a rule adopted by the
* Senate last year
64 senators, ox
two thirds of the
entire member
-ship of 96, can
Congress
Roundup
limit debate and thus force a vote
on any issue. This is called clo
ture.
Senator Lucas told a Civil Rights
panel in Chicago yesterday that he
has not given up hope of passing
the FEPC bill although he is “not
overoptimistic.”
The FEPC measure is one part
of President Truman’s Civil Rights
promises of the 1948 election. It
would set up a federal commission
with broad powers to prevent job
discrimination because of race,
creed or color.
Russell’s forecast of defeat was
made after a check of all senators
by both camps in the battle that
started a- week ago. Because this
is an election year many senators
are away campaigning. o
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) has said
30 to 35 of the 42 GOP lawmakers
will vote for cloture. If only 30
of them do, that would mean Lu
cas would have to pick up 34 of
the 54 Democratic votes in the
Senate, If 35 of them do, Lucas
gould need 29 Democrats on his
de. .
Senater Russell always ‘can
count upon more than 20 votes of
senators from Southern and Bord
er States. With absentees and a
few recruits he will win.
While the Senate battles over
civil rights and its rules, the House
set aside the first two days of the
week for action on minor bills.
It will hold a memorial service
Wednesday for deceased members.
On Thursday and Friday it will
consider several presidential reor
ganization plans.
Two investigations continued to
hold Senate attention,
Senator Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
was busy organizing his five-mem
ber special crime investigating
group. :
2 Serate Foreign Relations Sub
comnittee probing charges of
Communism among government
workers by Senator McCarthy (R-
Wis.), continued a detailed exam
ination of the personnel files of
State Department employees.
Rep. Jacobs (D-Ind.) still hoped
to get John L. Lewis of the miners
union before a House Labor Sub
committee for a grilling on union
practices but this appeared un
certain, Chairman Lesinski (D-
Mich.) of the full labor committee
has opposed Jacobs’ plans.
A Senate-House Conference
Committee was reported near
agreement on the authorization for
more than $3,100,000,000 of foreign
aid funds. E
treatment for it or for any other
type of ‘Flu’. Neither is there a
drug weapon against newecastle
disease once it develops.
Dr. A. J. Salle of the Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles
emphasized that his experiments
have been limited to trials on
viruses of both disease purpose
ly made to grow in hatching hen’s
eggs.
There have been no experi=
ments so far on virus-infected ani
mals—a necessary preliminary to
any thought of human application
in the case of influenza.
But Dr. Salle said the work con
stituted a forward step in that-it
marked the first time that any
subsance had been able to de
story viruses of these types in a
developing chick embryo without
killing the embryo itself.
pastort gour Ishlona mm mm m
Other scientists at the golden
jubilee meeting of the bacteriolo
gists said the work had this fur
lther signicicance:
Tough Germs
Up to now, germs of the “virus”
class have proved virtually invul
nerable to all drugs—even the
wonder drugs like pengciilin,
A few of the largest-sized viru
ses—such as the one that causes
so-called “Parrot Fever”—can be
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Bulletins
WASHINGTON, May 15.—
(AP)—The Supreme Court re
fused today to reconsider its
recent decision that federal
courts have no right to inter
fere with Georgia’s county unit
election system,
Opponents of the system con
tended it gives added political
power to rural areas, thus cut
ting the voting strength of or
ganized labor groups and negro
populations in cities.
ATLANTA, May 15.—(AP)—
Four Southern Railway passen
ger trains were halted in Bir
mingham today when crews re
fused to pass picket lines at the
Terminal Station.
PICKETING SPREADS IN RAIL
STRIKE; PEACE HOPES DIMMER
New Truce Conference Breaks Up
Without Success; Strike In 6th Day
CHICAGO, May 15.— (AP)—Picketing was spreading
in the nation’s railroad firemen’s strike today and hopes for
peace grew dimmer.
The strike went into its sixth day with pickets halting or
attempting to halt rail operations in widely separated areas
of the nation. Effects of the walkout were spreading.
By The Associated Press
Seven Georgians—three of them
children—died “in traffic accidents
within the state this week end.
Two other Georgians died Sat
urday in an accident in Alabama.
Charles Vernon Moore, 8, of
Lake Park, Ga., a schoolboy, died
Sunday from injuries received
when the bicycle he was riding
was struck by an automobile Sat
urday four miles north of Staten
ville, Ga.,, on U. S. 129, (Echols
county), froopers at the Valdosta,
Ga., patrol station reported.
Albert Singleton, 57, of Man
chester, Ga., a businessman, was
killed, and one other person in
jured in a wreck at 6:40 p. m. Sun
day near Chalybeate Springs, Ga.,
on State Highway No. 190, the
patrol station at LaGrange, Ga.,
reported.
Dan Thigpen, 7, of Wrens, Ga.,
a schoolboy, died from injuries
received when he was struck by
an automobile while waiting for
a school bus Friday morning,
Trooper B. L. Hilliard, of the Way
cross, Ga., state patrol station said.
The accident occured about three
miles south of Wrens on U. S.
Highway No. 1 in Jefferson coun
ty.
Glenda Dianna de Loach, 2, of
Ludowici, Ga., was\gtruck and
killed by an automobile Friday
afternoon. The accident occurred
near the child’s home, troopers
said.
Farmer Killed
Verner E. Bullington, 55, of
Madison, Ga., a farmer, was killed
Saturday morning when his car
wrecked seven miles west of Mad
ison on a country road, state
troopers at the Madison K patrol
station said.
Tom Watson Hooks, 43, of Shell
man, Ga., was Kkilled Saturday
night when the auto he was driv
ing ran off the road and into a
creek, officers said. The mishap
occurred on a country road seven
milesgnorth of Morgan, Ga.
Warren G. Reeves, 29, a negro,
of Thomaston, Ga., was killed Sat
urday night when struck by an
automobile as he was walking
along the highway eight miles west
of Thomaston, troopers said.
Jimmie Garrett and Carolyn
Hightower, Bowden high school
students, were killed when their
automobile overturned near Hef
lin, Ala., Saturday. - :
————-————~ATOM_' COMMITTEE MEMBER SAYS: —
Russians Unable To Llaunch Mass Attack
WASHINGTON, May 15.—(AP)
—Rep. Elston (R.-Ohio) said to
day he doesn’t believe Russia will
ever be able to launch a mass
atomic attack on the United
States. |
Elston is a member of the Sen
ate-House Atomic Energy Comr
mittee.
He said he doesn’t believe either
the Soviet Union or this country
would be eager to drop the first
A-bomb in event of war. An
atomic attack on the United States
would be a suicide mission, he
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BURNED UP-—Retired Penn
sylvania Railroad fireman James
Stewart, 81, of Wellsburg, W. Va,,
found himself stranded in Pitts
burgh when the firemen’s strike
halted passenger trains. Stewart
was on his way to Greensburg,
Pa., to pick up his pension check
when he got derailed.
Representatives of the National
(Railway) Mediation Board held
separate conferences . throufiout
yesterday with railroad officials
and heads of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, who struck to enforce a de
mand for a second fireman on
multiple unit Diesel locomotives.
The conference broke up around
11 p. m. (ET)‘MI:;t night an&
W W -8 member
‘board, said “it looks bad.”
Earlier in the evening, it had
appeared that the mediators might
be making some progress in their
effort to halt the strike of more
than 18,000 firemen which began
last Wednesday, But at 11 p. m,,
Edwards said the negotiations
were “derailed” for the moment.
He declined to give details,
Asked if any meetings were
scheduled for today, Edwards re
plied that “we haven’t planned
any talks yet, but I hope there
will be some.”
In the South meanwhile, a un
ion official claimed that every
important sector of the 8,000~
mile Southern Railway system
had been tied up or crippled by
the walkout of 1,200 nmrore firemen
and enginemen.
L. B. Johnson, Southern general
chairman for the union, said
trainmen from seven new divis
ions had been called out since
Friday.
He asserted that Southern op
erations in strategic areas .are
“practically shut down” and that
every one of the far flung system’s
some 27 divisions was affected.
Pickets took up posts at Bir
mingham and other struck locali
ties, They hope to halt all South~
ern traffic between New Orleans,
Atlanta and the East and from
Birmingham to Chattanooga, Tenn,
In central Illinois pickets made
their first appearance late last
night, halting two freight trains of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railroad at Pana, a point where
the line uses tracks of the New
York Central System.
Police said about 25 or 30 pick
ets stood in the tracks and pre
vented the two freight trains from
moving. One train was south
bound for St. Louis; the other
northbound for Chicago.
Kiwanis Club
Meets Tomorrow
“Selecting and Training Em
ployees” will be the topic of dis
cussion at the weekly meeting of
Athens Kiwanis Club in the N and
N Cafeteria Civic Room tomorrow
at one o’clock.
A talk on this subject will be
given by John Murray, industrial
engineer, Athens Manufacturing
Company.
could win a quick war in a mat
ter of days by sending wave after
lwave of planes at us with atom
‘bombs in a sneak, attack, I have
‘no doubt they would do so,” he
told a reporter, ‘
- “But I don’t believe Russia is,
or ever will be, prepared to de
liver a substantial load of atom
bombs on targets in this country
at one time.”
Elston said he believes the Rus
sians “probably recognize the
truth of this,” and therefore would
hesitate to invite retaliatory A
‘bombing by mflmnfi%tf
Atlantic Pact Nations
Hold Defense Confab
- "Big Three™ Talks In London
: By The Associated Press .
Foreign Ministers of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations met in
London today to try to work out ways to build up their de
fenses against possible aggression without scuttling their
economies.
The three-day meeting follows close on the heels of the
Big Three meeting of Foreign Ministers, in which Britain,
France and the United States outlined their aims in the
cold war with Russia and her satellites.
With the Big Three announce
ment they would keep their troops
in Germany as a defense force
more than as an occupation police
force, the rest of the Atlantic Pact
members were mainly concerned
with how much defense they can
afford.
Military chiefs of some of the
member nations have recommend=-
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Liberty Bell |
Rings Tonight;
Opens Bond Drive
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—
(AP)—The historic Liberty Bell
will ring out again tonight to
sound the start of a drive dur
ing which the government
hopes a billion dollars worth of
savings bonds will be sold.
The famed bell—capable only
of a toneless “bong” because of
a crack in its side—will be tap
ped by U. S. Treasury Secre
sound will be carried across the
nation by radie.
After tonight’s ceremonies—
to be witnessed by descendants
of signers of the Declaration of
Independence from the 13 orig
inal states—replicas of the Lib
erty Bell will be taken to all 48
States and the District of Co
lumbia.
City Court opened this morning
in Clarke County court house,
Judge Arthur S. Oldham presid
ing, with several pleas being en
tered and the trial of one case
getting underway.
A decision in a case of assault
and battery was expected this af
ternoon.
Court will run through this
week and the first days of next
week, if necessary.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Tuesday.
Slight chance of late afternoon
thundershowers. Low tonight 60,
high tomorrow 84. Sun sets 7:27
and rises 5:31.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and warm this afternoon, to
night and Tuesday. Scattered
thundershowers in extreme
south portion this affernoon.
TEMPERATURE
BHRBREL ... i i D
RONNRSE ... i o 8
T f vii e bane sOD
D o i iR
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .54
Total since May 1 .. .. .. 2.55
Excess since May 1 .. .... .90
Average May rainfall ~ .. 3.54
Total since January 1 ....13.30
Deficit since January 1 ... 7:35
ment.
On the other hand, he said, the
United ‘States views its A-bombs
only as insurance against attacks
on this country.
“Interception, of course, is the
best defense against an atom
bomb air raid,” Elston said. “We
don’t have all the interception
power we want, but what we have
is very good. An enemy raid
would be a suicide mission.”
He said Congress is moving to
strengthen these deferses, and “by:
ie2- i S o h
ed far more troops and military‘\
equlipment 1) o —
build up the |
Western Euro-wm’ld NGWS
pean bastion Roundup
than the coun= — e
tries’ economic experts say they
can pay for.
It is reported that the pact na
tions may consider enlarging their
defense treaty into a Western
European Defense and Economic
organization which would include
Germany, possibly Sweden, Tur
key and other nations not mem
bers of the present agreement. ‘
It has been suggested that Gen.
Omar Bradley, present chairman
of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,
might be named head of a new
supreme western defense com
mand which would replace the
present five-natton defense organ
ization headed by British Field
Marshal Lord Montgomery,
A counter move to shut out all
Western influence and tighten
Communist control of countries in
Russia’s eastern sphere of influ
ence has been noted by Western
diplomats. The latest sign of this
campaign has been seen in Poland,
where a purge of government of
ficials and party weaklings is re
ported under way.
Diplomatic sources in Warsaw
have reported that Polish govern
ment ministers were severely crit
icized at last week’s meeting of the
Polish Communist party’s Central
Committee.
~ The appointment of foix;xer Rus
‘sian Army Commander Konstantin
Rokossovsky to the powerful Po
litburo of the Polish Communist
‘Party ~was seen as further
‘strengthening Russia’s influence
in that Communist - dominated
country.
Also added to the Politburo was
veteran Communist Zenon Nowak,
who is believed heading a drive to
rid the government and party of
“Titoists”—members who balk at
Kremlin dictation.
- Turkey Election :
Unofticial reports from Turkey’s
national elections yesterday (Sun
day) indicate a sensational land
slide may sweep out of office the
People’s Party regime of Presi
dent Ismet Inonu. The party has
ruled Turkey since the founding
of the Republic.
The unofficial count reported in
the Turkish press gave the. five
year-old Democrat party, headed
by Celal Bayer, as many as 300 of
the 487 seats in the new one-house
Parliament. The press interpret
ed this as a sign of the resentment
of the people over the country’s
economie ills,
If the® official results bear out
these éarly reports, it will be a
major upset, since Inonu had been
expected to be returned to office
—perhaps by a narrower margin
than in past elections—for a third
term. He first took office in 1938.
U. N. Secretary General Trygve
Lie indicated today that he may
stay in Moscow most of this week
to continue his attempts to mediate
in the East-West cold war. An in
formed source said Lie had aecept
ed an invitation to a reception at
the Norwegian embassy Wednes
day celebrating Norwegian Nation
al Day. There were indications,
the source said, that Lie’s business
might keep him there undil the
end of the week. He had original
ly said he might stay in the Rus
sian capital only two or three days.
.
Fifth Attempt
.
In Flog Trials
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 15—
(AP)—State prosecutors today be
gan their fifth attempt to win con
victions against a group of men
charged with floggings and masked
intimidation.
Circuit Solicitor Emmett Perry
said 11 men were ordered to face
trial on charges including boy
cotting, floggings, and burglary.
Boycotting is interfering with
the right of another person to do
business, Perry said.
Previous trials ended in acquit
tals and a mistrial.
bombs, we’ll be stronger, too.” :
Elston recently said the United
States has learned how Russian
atom bombs are manufactured,
and that the Soviets aré no farther
advanced toward creating a hy
drogen bomb than this country.
He also contends that there has
been “too much hysteria” about
A-bombs and H-bombs. He said
he considers it would be quite a
task for any country to beat an
other one to pieces with bombs
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
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TO MARRY SPY.
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TRIALLAWYER
NEW YORK, May 15.-—(AP)
~—Judith Coplon said today she
will be married within the
next few weeks to a lawyer
whom she met while the gov
ernment was pressing spy char
ges against her,
The 28-year-old brunette,
convicted in espionage trials
here and in Washington, D, C,,
said her prospective husband is
Albert H. Socoiov, 29, a New
York attorney and World War
2 veteran.
Miss Coplon is free on bail,
while appealing convictions for
stealing U. S. government se
crets and plotting to transmit
them to Valentin A. Gubitchev,
deported Russian engineer. She
has been sentenced to prison
terms of up to 25 years in the
- two cases.
WOMANSAVED
FROMDEATH
AT NIAGARA
Two Men Risk Lives
In Daring Helicopter
Rescue In Swift Water
o |
NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., May
15—(AP)—Two men in a heli
copter risked their lives today to
save a woman clinging to a rock
above the horseshoe falls of the
Niagara river. .
A dramatic rescue was effected
with a second helicopter, after the
first had pitched its two occu
~pants into the water and exploded.
_The woman, Mrs. Jeannette Bu
gay, 25, of Niagara Falls, suffered
from shock and exposure and was
hospitalized. .
Her husband, Sigmund, a taxi
cab driver, said she had suffered
a nervous breakdown and had been
ill for some time.
Two park employes, Herbert Sé
dita and John Paonessa, heard her
screaming as she clung to a rock
75 feet from an- island about 300
feet above the horseshoe, or Can
adian, Falls,
Sedita fastened a rope around
his waist and waded into the swift
current. He was swept off his
feet. Paonessa hauled him back.
The Bell Aircraft Corporation
then dispatched Owen Q. Niehaus,
28, and Joseph A. Cannon, 30, in
a helicopter.
The pontoon -equipped craft
landed on the water near the wo
man but nosed over. The engine
exploded. Niehaus and Cannon
were pitched into the river,
Catches Rock
They struggled back aboard. The
helicopter drifted toward the cat
aract. It caught on a rock, how
ever, and the men managed to
lash Mrs. Bugay to the undercar
(Continued on Page Two).
TALMADGE MORE ALOOF
Thompson Continues
Rapid Rural Campaign
E By The Associated Press
| Former Governor M. E. Thompson renewed today his
face-to-face, handshaking campaign for votes among the
back woods of North Georgia, gambling on weaning some
| rural ballots from Governor Herman Talmadge.
| Thompson planned five speeches in five towns in nine
! hours today, and more than 20 speeches this week.
| Talmadge continued a more aloof, leisurely drive for
| votes—putting all his eggs this week in a big basket, a
{ Saturday afternoon rally in Thomasten. Lo
""Miss Athens”
Prize s Set
’ First prize in the “Miss Athens”
beauty pageant to be held in Fine
Arts Auditorium Saturday night |
will be provided by six local busi
ness firms. |
The firms are Benson’s Bakery,
Dick Ferguson, Hutchins-Cox-
Stroud, Russell Daniel, Inc., Na
tional Bank of Athens and C. A!|
Trussell Motor Co. ’
| Also a $lO merchandise certi- |
ficate will be given by J. C. Penney |
Co. to the girl taking first place’|
in the bathing suit division. |
A loving cup will be given the
fraternity presenting the girl
selected as “Miss Athens.” The
cup is being donated by Bush
Jewelers.
Second prize in the contest is a
17-jewel Harvel watch presented
“by Walter R. Thomas. Third prize
is a $25 merchandise certificate
donated by Michael Brothers.
v k> - Various entries. ilhere |
Bibhied ¢b3 giects -gd ok g |
e3l parsontin tng contest, 1.
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EDITION
P
Solon Urges Truman
To Act; Claims U. S.
Was Betrayed In Asia
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 15
—(AP)—Senator McCarthy (R=-
Wis.) today accused Secretary of
State Acheson of betraying the
United States in Asia. He asked
that President Truman fire
Acheson.
Contending American policies
played into the hands of the Com
munists in China, McCarthy said
that Acheson had “brought” a
plan for the Far East devised by
Owen Lattimore which is “gigan
tic in its fraud and complete in
its deceit.”
He said that Philip Jessup, U. 8.
roving ambassador, was a “third
member of the Lattimore-Acheson
Axis” and asked that Mr. Truman
fire Jessup, too,
MecCarthy hit out at Acheson,
Jessup and Latfimore in an ad
dress prepared for the Diamond
Jubilee Convention of the sons of
the American revolution.
Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins
University professor and specialist
on the Far East Wwho has been an
occasional consultant to the State
Department.
McCarthy has concentrated much
of his fire on Lattimore in con
tending that the State Departmeént
harbors Communists and red sym=
pathizers.
Lattimore has denied he is a
Communist or a sympathizer.
Acheson and other living secre
taries of state have declared also
that Lattimore was not the suthor
%t é\merican policies in the Far
ast.
McCarthy said in his prepared
speech that the strategy of the
Acheson-Lattimore Axis in Asia
‘is that “of hitting Communists at
the tvontwm with a silk hand
kerchief they beat the brains
out of your friends at the back
door.”
.
Ala. Hail Cuts
$500,000 Path
REFORM, Ala., May 15—(AP)—
A rolling barrage of hail ecut a
30-mile path through northwest
Alabama yesterday and caused
damage estimated at $500,000.
Cotton and seed crops suffered
the heaviest blows. In Reform,
windows were shattered, gardens
crushed and roofs pierced by the
ice pellets. No injuries were te=
ported. .
The hail fell in a strip one-half
to two miles wide running to the
Mississippi line,
County Agent James H. Sellers,
who made the damage estimate,
said, “cotton in the entire belt
will have to be replanted, and oats
and crimson clover being grown
for seed are about 90 per cent de~
stroyed.”
Other hail storms struck farther
to the southeast at Holt, again at
Tuscaloosa, and at Montgomery
in Central Alabama.
By the end of the week, Thomp
son will have spoken in mere than
6 towns in the first three weeks of
the campaign; Talmadge in only
three. :
[ Thompson campaigners frankly
assign themselves an underdog role
' and are banking on the 1847-48
governor’s multiple persenal ap
pearances to start a Thompson
tide in rural regions.
Talmadge Saturday predicted
his re-nomination in the June 18
primary by the biggest margin in
history. Indications were he weuld
step up his campaign to a half
dozen speeches a week for the last
four or five weeks.
Thompson, emphasizing that h&'s
just the country son of a tenant
farmer who worked his way
through ‘school, - speaks today at
Nelson, Tate, Jasper, Fairmount
and Chatsworth.
Three candidates for lieutenant
governor also have embarked on
vote-shelling tours. One of them,
Atlanta Attorney Dan Duke, today
accused another, Lt.-Gov, Marvin
Griffin, of a “calculated and de
libce;rate‘ - falsehood.” oo 1
Carrollton Saturday, called Duke
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