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Vol. CXVIIL, No. 123. Associated Press Service
Fresh Web Spun
For Armed Trio
Scar-Faced Woman, 2 Men Continue
To Defy Huge Posse Near Calhoun
CALHOUN, Ga., June B.— (AP) —Georgi g
see troopel;is 11;5pun 3. new atl;emed web today %(l)?' :r;(i(;l_‘}e;ggisug
woman and two desperate men who h i 2ot
posses sincleo'ghursday. 0 have defied hEES
Almost patrolmen blocked all road o AN
the little town of Ranger in Northwg:lt ?}el::g;n?f- v‘e,
wild, mountainous approaches to the Chattahooc” Y 5 at
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Talmadge Increases
Tempo Of Campaign
With Royston Speech
By The Associated Press
Former Gov. M. E. Thompson
heaped fire on Gov. Herman Tal
madge yesterday for broken prom=
{ses and broken engagements. And
Talmadge scored Thompson’s
“constant association with the
radical element.”
Sunday punches were tossed as
hig weekend rallies pushed up the
rampaign tempo for Georgia’s June
18 Democratic primary. Charges of
“spendthrift,” “drunkenness,” and
“deceit” were aired.
Shouting from the sturmps were
five candidates for Governor and
rll three contenders in a lively
scrap for Lieutenant-Governor.
The Georgia League of Women
Voters, meanwhile, urged strict
enforcement of the new secret bal-
Jot law. And the Georgia educa
tion Association released new
promises by Thompson and Tal
madge for full financing of the
tlmimum Foundation Program for
ducation.
Talmadge, gradually punching
harder as the campaign wears on,
rlimaxed four rallies and 1,000
miles of traveling this week with
o blast at Royston: ki
“The whole record of my oppo
sition has been one of constant
association with the radical ele
ment that is seeking to overthrow
our institutions and way of life
here in the South.”
He again insisted that he is the
only eandidate who will fight to
preserve the County Unit System
and to kill the proposed Federal
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission,
The Governor said his adminis
iration has benefitted every coun
ty in Georgia and has improved
conditions at Milledgeville Mental
Hospital” “something like a thou
sand per cent.”
Thompson swept into Newnan in
Coweta County, home of former
Gov. Ellis Arnall, amid claims by
Talmadgeites that the county is
switching to their camp.
Broken Promises
He reeled off five alleged bro
ken engagements and broken
promises by Talmadge and said
;thfi people are sick” of such con
uct.
“The trademark likes to get up
and try to win votes from the
people who admired Eugene Tal
madge. But he doesn’t tell them
that he has spent more in 18
months of wastefulness and ex
travagance and spendthrift living
than Eugen%" Talmadge spent in
four years.”
He charged that Talmadge again
is cutting old age pensions for
May, June and July “to pay the
expense accounts, of the 2,000
‘deadbeats’ on the state payroll.”
He said it takes lots of money to
send state employes to yell at all
Talmadge political rallies.
He said@ Talmadge spent $l,lOO
of state money for a state party at
Savannah “that he didn’t get to.
He sald he was indisposed.”
Gubernatorial candidate Pat
(Continued on Page Two).
Mari Injured In
Tractor Mishap
G. W. Thaxton, of Arnoldsville,
was Injured yesterday morning
when a tractor fell on him.
He was carried to St. Mary's
hospital where he was listed as in
good condition. He is suffering
from a fractured left leg, hospital
attendants reported,
LONE MALE TO BE TOASTMASTER———————
Second Annual "Old Maid's Day” Observed
NORRISTOWN, Pa., June 3—
(AP)—As far as Marion Richards
and 27 other unmarried women in
l‘_!orristown are concerned this, the
first Saturday of the month lots
of folks choose to get married in,
is “Old Maid’s Day.”
Miss Richards, who says she is
“fiftyish,” decided just a year ago
at there are day’s for mothers,
ays for fathers saints’ days, and
¢ven dog dfit——but nary a day for
aoyom o never has said “I
Then and there she rallied
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A lonely storeke( ' aid he
spotted the heavily arwed fugi~
tives there shortly after they slip
ped out of a police cordon five
miles southward that had trapped
them afoot for 36 hours.
A Kkey left carelessly in a 1948
(Dodge) pickup truck opened the
getaway trail from the earlier po
lice circle.
The dangerous game of hide
and seek began Thursday when
the trio was halted by a Tennessee
trooper for a routine check. In a
gun battle that followed, they
sped away with the trooper’s pa
trol car and machine gun.
Seizing another car and crash
ing through two roadblocks, they
abandoned their bullet-pierced,
blood-stained car near here. Of
ficers traced them to an 18-square
mile section of dense thickets.
For 36 hours, police with guns
poised probed gingerly into the
area, using airplanes, bloodhounds
and floodlights. But all they found
were camp fire ashes and a
woman’s heel print.
Then the trial got hot. A night
watchman at a lumber mill said
the woman and one of the men
terrorized him from 1 a. m. to 4
a. m, today. Shortly afterward, the
pickt%g {ruck disappeared from a
nearby farmhouse.
Then the storekeeper saw the
trio heading north. Police fanned
out into a new ring, and started
all over again.
Tennessee patrolmen have iden
tified the men as Fred Scroggins,
a native of the Calhoun area, and
William J. Parker of Huntsville,
Ala., wanted on five counts of
burglary.
The only clue to the woman’s
identity is that she is red-haired
and has a‘scar between her eyes.
Volcano Erupts
For Third Day
HONOLULU, June 3 — (AP) —
Mauna Loa’s eruption—greatest in
Hawaii’s volcanic history—thun
dered into its third day today with
no sign of abating.
Coast Guard craft stood off the
west coast of the island of Hawaii,
rescuing persons trapped between
the three molten rivers of lava
which have reached the sea.
This is the Kona coast of villages
and plantations. One village, Up
per Hookena, has been destroyed.
.
Film About Paul
Shown At Church
“The Stoning at Lystra,” another
film about the life of Paul, will
be shown at evening services of
the First Christian Church to
night at 8 o’clock. The film is the
seventh in a series of episodes
about the Apostle.
The film describes the journey
of Paul and Barnabas to Iconium
and Lystra, where the miracle of
the lame beggar causes Paul and
Barnabus to be hailed as gods.
Later the populate turns against
Paul and he is stoned and left for
dead.
Surviving the ordeal, however,
Paul continues his ministry with
Barnabas. :
Storm Hits Here
Last night’s brief, but intensive
wind and rain storm here caused
an interruption of power and a
small fire on Arch street.
Firemen rushed to the scene of a
burning tree in the 200 block on
Arch street, extinguishing the
blaze and calling the Georgia
Power Company to restore power.
Company trouble department of
ficials said late last night that the
storm caused wires, which ran
between branches of the tree, to
short-out and set the tree afire;
however, wire damage was light
and officials promised. that serv
ice would be restored at least by
early Sunday.
'round the unmarried gals in the
shirt factory where she works and
said, “we’ll fix up an old maid’s
day—first Saturday in June.”
They had a little get-to-gether,
got written up in newspapers, and
lo and behold found lots of old
maids all over the world who
thought it was a dandy idea;
Letters poured in from all over
the country and from England,
Germany, New Zealand, Canada
and Australia.
They weren’t all from gingle
women either, Miss Richards said
Largest Class In University
History Graduates Monday
More Than 12 Inches Of Rain
Makes A lake Of Island City
GALVESTON, Texas, June 3.—(AP)—A de~
luge of rain—l4.2l inches on the western out
skirts—flooded this island resort city today.
Water 3% feet deep was left standing in the
business section after nine hours of wind-driven
rain clogged stornr sewers.
All traffic, except for determined men wading
to work in their shorts, was stopped. Ground
floors of all business houses and most homes
were inundated.
By noon the water was slowly receding.
There was no loss of life, nor much danger of
it. This city of about 80,000 people is located on
level ground—with few depressions to hold
water—on the eastern end of a 30-mile-long
island. A causeway connects the resort island
with the Texas coast.
Galveston residents had no alternative but to
sit up all night and watch the storm, because
thunder kept them awake. Thunder claps like
major explosions shook the city while constant
lightning illuminated water-filled streets.
There’s no distress, no danger to life,” said Tom
Mulvany of the Galvestorr News. Mulvany tele
phoned from his home, where he was marooned.
“It’s just that we’re water-bound. Every home is
surrounded by a moat, There’s nothing to do but
CITY ATTORNEY
ELECTION SET
FOR MONDAY
Basham, Barrow
Are Candidates;
Polls Open At 9
Voting in the general election
for city attorney will take place
on Monday between 9 a. m. and
4 p. m. Candidates are Clyde Bash
am and Jim Barrow,
The present city attorney, Rob
ert ‘G. Stephens, Jr., is not seeking
re-election as he is a candidate for
a seat in the State Senate.
Voting places and managers in
each of the city’s five wards are
as fellows:
First Ward—Voting place—Fire
Station No. 1; Miss Alma Hughes,
H. E. Daniel, Mrs. E. S. Kirk.
Second Ward — Voting piace—
City Hall; Mrs. W. J. Russell, Mrs.
W. D. Faulkner, Mrs. Pope R. Hill,
Third Ward — Voting place—Y.
M. C. A.; Mrs. E. W. Carroll, Mrs,
C. S. Denney, Mrs. Dorsey Davis.
Fourth Ward — Voting Place—
Fire Station No. 2; James Storey,
Mrs, R. W. Wood, Mrs. Golden
Michael,
Fifth Ward—Voting place—Cody
David’s; Mrs. J. W. Firor, Mrs. P.
M. Almand, Mrs. David Simpson.
Newspapers Back
Thompson, 6-to-1
ATLANTA, June 3—(AP)—
Georgia’s daily newspapers lined
up today 6 to 1 behind former Gov.
M. E. Thompson’s drive to over
throw Gov. Herman Talmadge.
A survey of Associated Press
member newspapers showed six
editors beating the Thompson
drum and one sounding forth for
Talmadge.
Others were non-commital. The
Atlanta Constitution said it
couldn’t conscientiously endorse
any candidate.
Thompson had more press sup
port than in 1948, when he lost
the executive seat to Talmadge.
But the Talmadge clan has won
many political battles fighting the
newspapers almost as hard as op
posing candidates.
Already Talmadge has picked
up this cudgel, lashing at “foreign
owned newspapers who couldn’t
make a nickel without a Talmadge
to cuss.”
she even got two proposals of
marriage. And politely turned
them down.
Some women wrote they liked
the idea of having a litile shindig
of their own. Even a bachelor or
two penned a line te sk how to
start an “Old Bachelor’s Day.”
Miss Richards says she keeps
pretty busy answering all these
letters. But she begs off when it
comes to trying to organize any
thing bordering on a national ob
servance of “Old Maid’s Day.”
Ags far as the Norristown affair
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1950.
TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED
lllinois Senator
Stops Here For
¢ 3
“Southern”’” Meal
Senator Paul H. Douglas,
(Dem.-I1L.), stopped over in
Athens iast night to have a meal
of Southern fried chicken, tur
nip greens and grits.
The junior senator from the
Sucker State was on his way
back to Washington after making
an address at the State American
Legion convention in Macon.
In viewing the world situation
briefly, Sen. Douglas said he
favors the economic aid program
for Western Europe and the pro
posed standby draft legislation,
“We also need greater unity
at home and abroad,” he said.
The senator was brought here
from Macon to catch a train to
Washington. He was accompan
ied by Gen. Carl T. Sutherland,
Col. John B. Hill, and Sgt. James
L. Houle.
Sen. Douglas is a member of
ihe banking and curreney and
labor and public welfare com
mittees.
Services For
Mrs. Bryant
Set For Monday
Mrs. A. M. (Fannie I.) Bryant,
resident of Athens for the past
fifty~-four years, died in a local
hospital yesterday morning.
She was 83 years old and had
lived in Athens until a few months
ago when she moved to Winter
ville to live with her daughter,
Mrs. Ben Burton.
Funeral services will be held in
Oconee Street Methodist Church
on Menday afternoon at 3:30 with
Rev. J. A. Langford, pastor of an
Atlanta Methodist Church and
former pastor at Oconee Street
Methodist Church here, oificiat
ing. Assisting will be Rev. Charles
Middlebrooks, pastor of Oconee
Street Methodist Church.
Street Methodist Church, Bridges
Funeral Home in charge of all
arrangements.
Interment will be in Oconee
Hill cemetery with her grandsons
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is concerned Miss Richards and
her fellow bachelor girls, all em
ployes of the shirt factory, will get
together for a dinner tonight, But
this year they've let down the
bars to the married girls and have
told them they can come tooc, as
guests.
There’ll be one lone male there
too. He’s Arthur Lazell, a radio
man, who'll arrive in time to han
dle the toastmaster’s job.
But he’s agreed that the women
can do most of the talking. He
says they usually do.
wait for the water to drain off.”
Galveston had perhaps its worst drenching
since the 1900 hurricane in which 5,000 to 7,000
people were killed.
The Weather Bureau said it was a continua
tion of torrential rains which flooded Brownsville
at Texas' southern tip yesterday. Today seven
inches of rain fell -at Port Arthur, up the coast
from Galveston on the Louisiana border. The
rain was accompanying 61-mile-an-hour winds
which did minor property damage at Port 9rthur.
Streets were flooded briefly at Beaumont, close
to Port Arthur, after 3.24 inches fell last night
and early today. Heavy rains also drenched
several Louisiana and Mississippi areas last night
and today. Lake Charles, La., had almost seven
inches,
Galveston's downpour began about midnight,
Between 6 and 8 a. m. (CST) 7.35 inches fell.
Eighteen inches of rain water covered the air
port. Water stretched from front porch to front
porch in residential areas. Most downtown
stores closed as ground floors were turned into
debris-littered ponds. Downtown Galveston’s
rainfall was less heavy than that on the western
outskirts—only 7.7 inches. But that was the
downtown’s heaviest rain in a quarter century.
A. H. S. GRADUATION
EXERCISES TUESDAY
Graduation exercises for the Athens High School will be
held on next Tuesday night, June 6, in the Fine Arts Audi
torium at 8:30 o’clock. At this time, 148 diplomas will be
awarded. :
Speakers at the graduation ex
ercises will be Hugh Hale, Nelson
Hitcheock, Bobby Singleton, Hen
ry West, and Tommy Whitehead.
During the exercises honor grad
uates will be named in recognition
of outstanding scholastic records.
Sam W. Wood, Principal of the
Athens High School, will certify
the graduating class to Superin
tendent of Schools, Fred Ayers.
Diplomas will be delivered by
Howard H. McWhorter, President
of the Board of Education. The
Invocation will be offered by Rev.
R. C. Singleton, and the Benedic~
tion will be pronounced by Rev.
C. H. Ellison.
A special feature of the program
will be songs by a chorus of Junior
Students under the direction of
Mrs. Harris Parham. The accom
panist will be Roy Tom Scoggins,
a student of Athens High School,
who also will be at the organ for
the processional.
The following list, furnished the
Banner-Herald by Athens High
School, gives the names of those
who will receive diplomas:
Norene Alewine, Dempsey East
in Allgood, Annie Jo Arnold, Bar
bara Ann fiond, Otis Long Bonner,
Jr., Betty Ree Boone, Frank Pa
trick Bowden, Roy Little Bowden,
Joyce Ann Bray, Nancy Sue
Brown, Reba Jeanette Brown,
Douglass Mills Bruce.
Nancy LaClair Bullock, Jerry
Richard Burnley, James William
Burroughs, Jeanne Ann Cheek,
Mildred Gaylyn Christian, Martha
Nell Clanton, Robert Langston
Coile, Hoyt Collins, Billy Joe Col
quitt, Edward Leo Condron, Elea
nor Imogene Conley, William
Milton Cook.
Crawford Combs Cooper, Nancy
Lura Cooper, Edna Lucille Craw~
ford, Janet Gay Crawley, John
Walker Daniel, Jerry Fincher
Davis, Marion Virginia Davis,
Mary Louise Day, Janet DeLay,
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and rather
warm with a few scattered aft
ernoon thundershowers. Sun
rises 5:21 and sets 7:43.
GEORGIA — Cloudy and
warm, scattered showers and
thunderstorms Sunday and
Monday.
TEMPERATURE
RN 5. e N 0
SNE s s e
B o b e ein 219
JOOEIINE o s i i
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .19
Total since June 1 .. .. .. .18
Deficit since June 1 .. .... .25
Average June rainfall ~ .. 4.03
Total since January 1 ....15.86
Deficit since January 1 .. 7.29
148 To Receive Diplomas In Fine
Arts Auditorium; Speakers Named
Jim Milner, 19, Gainesville,
died late last night from injuries
received when an automobile in
which he was riding everturn
ed on Hobson avenue Wednes
day night. e 44
He is the third person to die
from the accident. Another
University student is still in the
hespital, and the fifth has been
released.
.
Time and Place
.
Of Main Events
For Graduation
Here in brief is a schedule of
the main graduation events to be
held here today and tomorrow.
(1) — Baccalaureate sermon
this morning at 11 o’clock at
Stegeman Hall.
(2)—Reception this afternoon
at 4 o'clock for alumni, faculty
and friends at the President’s
home.
(3)—Class reunions this even
ing at various times and places.
(4)—Gov. Talmadge’s address
at chapel at 10 o’clock in chapel
Monday morning.
(s)—Alumni and Faculty bar
becue at noon Monday on Ag
Hill,
(6)—Graduation exercises at
5:30 Monday afternoon at San
ford Stadium.
BUS DRIVERS
WARN PUBLIC
OF NEWTIEUP
Clyde Chandler, vice-president
of the local~union of bus drivers,
stated yesterday that a letter has
been received by the union from
D. H. Stoddard, vice-president and
general manager of Athens City
Lines, stating that if Mayor and
Council fail to do something about
the present transportation situa
tion here wages of the bus drivers
will be reduced.
The letter received by Robert
Fitzgerald, president of Amal
gamated Assoclation of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees of America, Division
1421, A. F, L. was dated June 1,
Mr, Chandler said. He added that
the “union wishes to inform the
public that there will be an auto
matic work stoppage if the pay
reduction is necessary because the
drivers can’t live on the reduced
wages.”
Mr. Chandler said, “In fairness
to the bus passengers we feel that
we should let them know about
the possible work stoppage.”
The special committee of Coun
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Jap Communists Facing Another
Sethack In National Elections
Badly Beaten In First Anti-U. S.
Campaign; General Strike Fizzles
TOKYO, Sunday, June 4.—(AP) —Japan’s Communists,
whose big anti-U. 8. drive blew up yesterday, faced an
other major defeat in today’s national elections.
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshi
da’s Liberal party is expected to
be the gainer. It was his govern
ment, backed by the power of the
occupation, which caused Satur
day’s Red rallies and “general
strike” to fizzle.
The Communists had called the
demonstrations to protest the ar
rest of eight Japanese accused of
assaulting five U. S. soldiers at a
Red rally in downtown Tokyn on
Memorial Day.
On the very day of the schedul
ed demonstrations, an occupation
court couvicted all eight and gave
them stiff sentences, ranging from
five to 10 years imprisonment.
An estimated 28,000,000 Japan
ese, freshly impressed by the show
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Commencement Sermon At 1;
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The largest class in University of Georgia’s history
receive degrees in Sanford Stadium tomorrow climaxing
round of commencement activities scheduled to get undere
way this morning.
Hundreds of alumni and parents are expected to file intq
Athens today and Monday to attend Alumni Day festivities
and the exercises planned for the University's 147th Com
mencement, ATy
Highlighting the Alumni Day
program tomorrow will be an ad
dress at the annual business meet
ing at 10 a. m. by Gov. Herman
Talmad%e. a University alumnus,
class of ’36, ‘
Two of the week-end’s main
events will be held out-of-doors
to accommodate the large crowds
anticipated.
Graduation exercises will be
held at 5:30 p. m, tomorrow in
Sanford Stadium, and a reception
for alumni, seniors, thelr parents
and friends, will be held this aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock on the lawn
of the President’s Prince Avenue
home. |
IN THE EVENT THE WEATH- |
ER IS DOUBTFUL MONDAY,
LOCAL RADIO STATIONS WILL ‘
ANNOUNCE AT 4:30 P. Ml
WHETHER OR NOT GRADUA
TION EXERCISES WILL BE
SWITCHED FROM THE STA-"
DIUM TO STEGEMAN HALL.
THIS BUILDING HAS A SEAT
ING CAPACITY OF MORE
THAN 4000 PEOPLE;
Speakers at graduation exercises
will be Bishop Marvin A. Frank
lin, a University alumnus whol
now heads the Methodist Church
in Mississippi, and Hall Peebles.‘
a philosophy student from Au~
gusta, who will give the class
valedictory.
Commencement Sunday is be
ing observed on the campus to
day. Dr. Ellwood C. Nance, presi
dent of the University of Tampa,
will preach the baccalaureate ser
mon before a class of 1600 stu
dents, {
The service will be held in
Stegeman Hall at 11 a. m. The
Rev. Robert Ayers, University
Chaplain, will give the invocation
and Robert Harrison, assistant
professor of music, will present
special music. Members of Pi Kap
pa Alpha social fraternity will
usher, |
. Alumni Day |
At Alumni Day tomorrow new
officers of the Georgia Alumni‘
Society will be named, a portrait
of the late T. W, Reed will be pre
sented to the University, and
awards will be made to two alumni
for distinguished service.
A portrait of “Uncle Tom,”
painted about 20 years ago by Miss
Laura Blackshear, will be pre
sented to the University during
the annual alumni business meet
ing by President J. C. Rogers in
the artist’s behalf. The frame has
been given by Mose Gordon, Com-~
merce, long personal friend of Mr,
Reed.
Awards will be presented to Eu
gene Baker, LaGrange, class of
11, and Charles H. Newsom,
Montgomery, Ala., class of 'l2, for
their work over an extended
period of time in behalf of the
University of Georgia Foundation.
Taking part in the graduation
exercises tomorrow in addition to
Bishop Franklin and Mr. Peebles
will be the Rev., Harmon B. Ram=~
sey, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church, who will pro
nounce the invocation, and M, W,
H. Collins, president of the Geor
gia Alumni Society, who will in
duct seniors into the Society.
Just before degrees are award
ed the winner of the 1950 Michael
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of firmness agairst thrests of vio
lence, will elect 132 “members of
the parliament’s Upper House.
There are 559 candidates.
The Red Fiasco is expected to
cost the Communist some of the
popular vote they had expected.
The party has been unusually ac
tive in the campaign. The Com
munists have 50 candidates.
They have been hammering
away with appeals to Nationalism.
They attacked the maintaining of
U. S. military bases in Japan. All
other parties but Yoshida's jump
ed on this nationalistic band
wagon:'' 9 N el
Thus, in General voes for Yoshi
da’s liberals will endorse such pro-
American policies as basis and a
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J. Morgan Nix, prominent
dent of Commerce and father
Abit Nix, died in a local h
Friday afternoon at 2:15 o
Mr. Nix was 87 years old and
been ill for five weeks.
Services are to be eo
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clo;:‘;a
First Baptist Church in Com:
with the pastor, Rev. G. C. Took
officiating, assisted by Rev. T. a
Hardman,
Burial will fcllow in the ceme«
tery at Apple Valley, near Coms«
merce, Bridges Funeral Home ixf
charge of arrangements. Pall«
bearers will be grandsons and
nephews of Mr. Nix, Dyar Massey,
jr.,, John Massey, Abit Massey,
Claude Williams, jr., Robert Nfl
and Harry Merk, <@ =~ & =
An honorary escort will include
nmembers of the Board of Diree~
tors of First National Bank of
Commerce and served as State
merce First Baptist Church.
Mr. Nix is survived by three
dattfightersMMrs. (13)1 Eci Massey, sr.,
Athens, r'S. aude Williams,
Gainesville, and Miss Lucille Nix,
Decatur; twe sons, Abit Nix, Ath
ens, and Ernest M. Nix, Jackson=
ville, Fla.; half-brother, L. L.
Davis, Commeérce, twelve grand
children and twelve great-grand
children. .
Native of Jacksox
Mr. Nix was & native of Jackson
county and resided in that com
munity all of his life. He was one
of Northeast Georgia’s most prom
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peace treaty even without Kussia.
The police ban on outdoor de
monstrations, which !}'oke the
back of the Communist™drive, ex
tends through election day.
Authorities wheeled out 27,000
police in Tokyo to enforce the
edict. The:Communist rally wilted.
The Communists had boasted
they would have 30,600 demon
000'¢ ATUO ‘OAjOL, UT SIOJRNS
turned out for a rally at a build
ing rented from the Red Cross.
' There were none of the Belli
cose, anti-American speeches that
had resounded all week. Instead
the meeting issued an open letter
to General MacArthur demanding
an early peace that would include
Russia and Communist China.
The Communists had announc
ed that 400,000 workers all over
Japan would take part in a se
called *general strike.” Authori~
ties estimated that no more than
100,000 responded to the 24-hour
walkout. No violence was report
ed anywhere. Osaka, where an-.
other big Red rally had been
scheduled, also was quiet.