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SEVEN-YEAR-OLD _KILLING SOLVED—Two former members of an Offices of
Strategic Services mission parachuted into Italy during the last war, have been ac
cused by the Defense Department of the murder of another member of the team.
Named by the Department as the principals in the case were Aldo Icardi, left, then
a 28-year-old lieutenant, and Carl G. LoDolce, then a sergeant. Major William V.
Holohan, right, was the victim of the accused.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Accused Menßefute Charges
That They Killed OSS Major
Love-Mad Man
Commits Double
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LAKEWOOD, N. J, Aug. 17—
(AP)—A love-crazed suitor killed
his attractive girl friend and her
aged mother last night, fired their
house, and then shot himself to
death as police flushed him out cos
a thicket.
A third woman was rushed to
nearby Paul Kimball hospital with
a .32 ealiber bullet lodged in her
spine. She was in poor condition
today. A fourth was spared by
the killer so she could “be a wit
ness.”
Ocean county Detective George
Westervelt identified the dead wo
men as Mrs. Anna Tulpan, about
45, of Hillside, N. J., and her 87~
year-old mother, Mrs. Kuzanna
Kaczmasz. Wounded in the wild
affray wds Mrs. Alexandria Prun
koff of Passaic, N. J., a visitor at
the Kaczmasz home.
Their assailant was identified as
45-year-old Pawel Yasrewicz, a
Polish DP believed to be from
New York.
Westervelt said Yasrewicz pull
ed out a .32 caliber revolver and
blasted away at the woman dur
ing a quiet family gathering. He
fled the house after setting it afire
but returned to the scene a short
time later only to turn his gun on
himself as police closed in. Fire
men put the blaze out. Damage
wag slight.
Police were able to piece to
gether the events leading to the
slayings after talking to 30-year
old Nadine Sarakwsh who was in
the house at the time.
Officer Harry Justus quoted her
as saylng Yasrewicz spared her
life so she could “be a witness”
to the shootings.
AR s il
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Reds Resist
'U. S. Bth Army Headquarters,
Korea, Aug. 17—(AP)— Allied
patrols fighting along the spiny
ridges of East Korea met mild
Red resistance today. Only brief
fights flared elsewhere on the
Irongv.
Fams almost washed out the
Air War .
In the area around the Kaesong
neutral zone, an Allied patrol saw
a Communist platoon but did not
engage {t.
Elsewhere from the West Coast
of the central front, United Na
tions and Red patrols reconnoit
ered warily in no-man’s land.
avoiding contact.
On the east central front, As
soclated Press’ Stan Carter re
ported the Red renewed company
sized attacks started Thursday
against U, N. hill positions. They
assaulted Allied positions near
Kumsong again before dawn today.
Occasional hand-to-hand combat
raged sporadically throughout the
day. The fight was still underway
in late afternoon. 1
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and not quite
80 warm today. Fair with little
temperature change tonight and
Saturday. Low tonight 68; high
fomorrow 88. Sun sets today
7:17 and rises tomorrow 5:56.
GEORGIA — Fair to partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight
and Saturday with widely scat
tered afternoon or evening
thundershowers in south por
ticn,
EXTENDED FORECAST
GEORGIA — Temperatures
will average near normal, a
slight rise Sunday and Monday
and cooler Tuesday and Wed
nesday. Rainfall moderate to
heavy, Widely-scaitered after
noon thundershowers in South
Georgia Saturday. Some wide
ly-scattered showers Sunday
and Menday, increasiny shower
activity late Monday or Tues
day.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Former Servicemen Promise Fight
To Avoid Extradition To ltaly
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.— (AP) —Protesting their in
nocence, two former servicemen have indicated they will
fight any attempt to send them back to Italy for trial in the
death of their commanding officer seven years ago.
And the Italian government has taken no announced
action to extradite them to face charges made by the U. S.
Defense Department that they played key roles in the kill
ing of Major William V. Holohan behind enemy lines in
late 1944,
Holohan, head of an Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) mission
which parachuted behind German
lines to direct aid to partisans,
disappeared mysteriously.
The Defense Department said in
a statement Wednesday that he
was killed by former lieutenant
Aldo (Ike) Icardi, now a resident
of Preakness, N. J., and ex-ser
geant Carl G. LoDolce, of Roches
ter, N. Y., with the help of two
Italians. Both Americans denied
the accusation flatly.
“Charges Fantastic”
“The charges made against me
are fantastic and I am confident
that I shall be completely ex
onerated,” Icardi told newsmen
at the home of his parents in Pitts
burgh.
“The Defense Department has
never confronted me with the
charges it now makes. The depart
ment has obviously prejudged the
case without even giving me the
opportunity to make & statement
about it.”
Tcardi added that the depart
ment’s “unprecedented ‘trial by
press and radio’ violates the most
elemental concepts of justice and
due process (of law).”
In Rochester, LoDolce told a
reporter for the Rochester Dem
ocrat & Chronicle that “I am ab
solutely innocent of any charge
made against me in connection
with the case.”
“These charges can be disprov
ed and will be,” he added. “Right
now, I can’t say anything more
than that. I'm leaving the matter
in the hands of my attorney.”
His attorney, Thomas G. Pre
sutti, said “when all the facts are
disclosed, there will be no question
that LoDolce is innocent.”
Confessions
Presutti also said a confession
which the Defense Department as
serted LoDolce made in the sum
mer of 1950 would be repudiated.
The department said confessions
had been obtained from LoDolce
and from the two Italians.
LoDolce said he would “fight
to the utmost” any attempt to ex
tradite him to Italy for trial. On
the same point, Icardi told re
porters “the alleged attempt to
‘shanghal’ me back to Italy is
hardly worthy of belief.”
The department has said neither
man can be prosecuted in this
country, since the alleged crime
occurred in Italy, and since both
men are now civilians outside the
reach of military courts.
Smith Rises Are
A
Guilford W. Smith, Athens resi
dent for twenty-five years, died at
his home at 1135 Oconee street
Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Mr. Smith was 80 years
old and had been ill for several
months.
Services were conducted this
afternoon at 2 o'clock from Cen
tral Baptist Church with the pas
tor, Rev. C. H. Ellison, officiating.
Burial followed in Woodlawn
Cemtery in Gainesville, Ga., Bern
stein Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements. Pall-bearers were
nephews -of Mr. Smith,
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Dona Martin Smith, Athens; dauh~-
ter, Mrs. Earl C. Seward, Toccoa,
and two sons, Charles H. Smith,
Augusta, and Mark H. Smith, Ath
ens, for many years a member
of the comiposing room staff of the
Banner-Herald.
Mr. Smith was a native of Hall
County and had lived here for a
quarter of a century.
Moss Services
Set Saturday
Lucious Lamar Moss, well
known resident of the Winterville
Road, died in a local hospital
Thursday night at 9:45 o'clogk
after an illness of 'several weeks.
Mr. Moss was 68 years old.
Services will be conducved Sat
urday morning at 10 o’clock from
Bernstein’s Chape! with Rev. Jesse
Knight, pastor of Winterville Bap
tist Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Oconee
Hill Cemetery, James Lester,
Ralph Chander, Lint Dawson,
Noah Davis, C. S. Coile and Nelson
Roper serving as pall-bearers,
Mr. Moss is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Connie King Moss; two
daughters, Mrs. W. Glenn Thorn
ton, Hapeville, Ga., and Miss Mel
ba Moss, Atlanta; three sons, J.‘
T. Moss, Statenville, Ga., L. King
Moss, Buena Vista, Ga., and Willie
Moss,. Winterville; four grandchil
dren, Jan and Tom Thornton, both
of Hapeville, and Susanne and Pa
tricia Moss.
Mr. Moss was a native of Frank
lin County, Ga., and a member of
a family long prominent in that
section. He had been a resident
of Athens since 1923 and was a
member of Winterville Baptist
Church. He was a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks.
For many years Mr. Moss was
connected with the automobile
business and was one of the high
est ranking salesmen in this sec
tion. During his residence here
he had made a great many friends
by virtue of his genial, friendly
nature and these will be saddened
by his death.
Oconee Street Church
Plans ‘(ue Wednesday
When several hundred barbecue
devotees gather at Oconee Street
Methodist Church Wednesday
afternon, August 22, 6-8 p. m,
they will enjoy one of the best
prepared and cooked ‘cues to be
given this summer.
And the ’cue will be enjoyed
under the big shade trees that sur
round this church whose history
dates back eighty years.
The church was officially or
ganized on July 2, 1871 and dur
ing that time forty pastors have
served it, beginning with Rev. W.
A. Simmons who had been pastor
in 1870, replaced by Rev. Charles
J. Oliver in 1871, on down through
the years to the present day with
Rev. Burch Fannin at the helm.
Its membership - and officers
during those years has numbered
some of Athens’ most prominent
and influential citizens.
Original Officers
Members of the original Board
of Trustees, organized in January
of 1870 included John W. Nicker
son, Reuben Nickerson, James
Reeves, Robert Chappel, William
King, jr., R. T. Comer, G. L. Mc-
Clesky Ellison D. Stone and E. R.
Hodgson, The original Board of
Stewards included Robert Chap
pel, Reuben Nickerson, James w.
Parker, E. T. Comer and E. D.
Stone. :
As near as can be ascertained
from the roll book there were only
16 members at that time. Today
the church rolls number 450 mem-
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1951.
Red Willingness To Compromise
On Buffer Zone lssue Indicated
House Republicans Mass Strength
To Cut Foreign Aid Program Funds
Approval Given
State Sales Tax
Bracket System
ATLANTA, Aug. 17. — (AP) —
Georgia’s week-long conflict over
collection of the state’s sales tax
ended today with official appro
val for the bracketing system
worked out by merchants and
used since shortly after the levy
becanre erfective April 1.
Attorney General Eugene Cook
knocked out an effort by the Of
fice of Price Stabilization to re
duce the tax collections when he
ruled that the merchants’ system
of collection is not subject to OPS
regulation.
This restores the system under
which the first penny of tax was
collected on items priced at 14
cents, The OPS bracketing system
held that collection could not be
gin until the price reached 17
cents and collections thereafter
could be made only on the near
est-half-cent basis.
Cook’s ruling, made on request
of Revenue Commissioner Charles
Redwine, followed conferences
between the state official and
James Hollingsworth, Atlanta dis
trict OPS director, Agreement was
reached at this conference and
Hollingsworth said the OPS will
withdraw its orders to merchants
to establish the new bracketing
system. ¢ %
The Attorney General’s opinion,
in full:
“Collections of the Georgia re
tailers and consumers’ sales .and
uset tax und(leé;g voluntaryfibra;l:dt
systenr resu c on
cent, or in excess of three percent;
are deemed to be taxes collected
in compliance with state law.
Such collections are not deemed
to be a portion of the sales price,
and are, therefore, not subject to |
regulation by the Office of Price |
Stabilization.” |
Local Reservists
Return Saturday
Members of the reserve units of
the 81st Infantry Division that are
in the Athens Military Sub-Dis
trict will arrive in Athens Satur
day afternoon at approximately
5 o’clock, Major C. W. Johnson,
Jr., commanding officer of the
Athens district, has announced.
The Central of Georgia train
was originally scheduled to re
turn on Sunday afternoon, but has
been moved up one day. Troops
will unload at the Central of Geor
gia depot.
Units in this area which have
participated in two-weeks sum
mer training at Fort Benning are
First Battalion, 322nd Infantry Re
giment; the Tank Company of the
322nd; the 381st Heavy Tank Bal
lation; Battery A, 317th Field Art
illery Battalion. All are units in
the 81st Division, a reserve Army
Infantry Division with headquar
ters in Atlanta.
More than 225 officers and en
listed men from this military sub
district attended camp with these
units.
bers, and this membership is
among the most active in religious
circles in the city.
In the first church built, on
Oconee Street near Broad, Sunday
School was held in the afternoon.
On February 16, 1887, a Par
sonage was purchased for the sum
of $1,650, not much more than one
fully equipped room would cost
today. But it was sufficient six
ty-four years ago.
In 1882 J. Wesley Brown or
ganized a Sunday School on the
east side of the Oconee River
which was seen associated with
the church and at one time there
were three Sunday Schools on the
charge: Oconee Street, East Ath
ens and Baldwin Street.
In a special meeting of the
Quarterly Conference on Decem
ber 8, 1902, the Oconee Street and
East Athens Church were consoli~
dated and the church building was
moved to its present location with
the present parsonage being pur
chased.
In the late summer of 1920 the
Stone-Nickerson Sunday School
rooms were completed, a great
addition to the church.
One of the most active groups is
the Wesleyan Service Guild, which
is sponsoring the barbecue to be
given = Wednesday, tickets for
which are selling at $1.50 for
adults and seventy-five cents for
children. The tickets may be pur
chased from any member of the
(Continued on Page Two.)
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(AP)
—House Republicians massed
strength today behind a drive to
cut $2,000,000,000 (b) from the ad
ministration’s $8,500,000,000 (b)
foreign aid program.
Democratic leaders were confid
ent they could blunt the drive but
were not too certain they could
prevent all of the proposed cut.
The $2,000,000,000 GOP target
includes $651,250,000 (m) already
trimmed from the aid program by
the House Foreign Affairs Comit
tee. The additional $1,400,000,000
(b) many Republicians want to cut
would come out of both military
and economic aid, with Europe
getting the heaviest trimming,
around $900,000,000.
No attempt is expected to be
made to cut the $45,000,000 aid
proposed for Greece and Turkey
or the $62,000,000 for South Am
erican Countries.
And not all Republicians are in
sympathy with the drive for the
big reductions.
Vorys Statement
Rep. Vorys (R-Ohio), a member
of the Foreign Affairs Committee,
told newsmen he believes an over
all reduction of $1,000,000,000 (b)
would be in order. He indicated
he would opposed further trim.-
ming
Pending when the House Ad
journed yesterday was an amend
ment by Rep. Fulton (R-Pa) to cut
$200,000,000 from Europe military
aid and $300,000,000 from Europ
ean Econorhic Aid.
These reductions would be in
addition to those already recom
mended by the Foreign Affairs
Committee. It agreed to $5,028,~
000,000 for Military and $1,335,-
000,000 for Economic help for
Europe—s266,ooo,ooo and $340,-
006,000 lessk than ;rhe respective
&o\m'@ asked b; ent Tru-
A .fij%g@%@-d
fi'he commift;e\ approved $7,-
848,750,000 (b) measure breaks
down like this:
Western Europe — $5,028,000,-
000 military and $1,335,000,000
Economic plus $55,000,000 for de
velopment of strategic materials
supplies throughout free world.
Near East,Africa
Near East and Africa—s4ls,-
000,000 military and $175,000,000
economic.
Asia and Pacific—s3so,ooo,ooo
military and $175,000,00 economic.
Latin America—s4o,ooo,ooo mil
tary and $22,000,000 economic.
Concerned over the economy
move, Mr. Truman called an un
usual White House Conference,
yesterday to urge Congressional
approval of the full program.
Surrounded and supported by
some of his top administrative
aides, the President told senior
Fenator leaders of both parties
that any cut in military or econ
omic aid funds will seriously in
terfere with the struggle againsti
Communism.
After the conference, chairmani
Connally (D-Tex) of the Senator
Foreign Relations Committee, pre- ‘
dicted, however, that there would
be sizable reductions in the funds.
Night Swimming
Ends August 18
Night swimming in the city-op
erated swimming pools—Riverside
and Legion pools—will end Satur
day, August 18, according to a
Recreation and Parks Department
announcement today.
“The pools will remain open
during the afternoons from 2 to 6
p. m.,” Royce Brewer, pools man
ager, states. The pools will close
on the first Monday in September
—Labor Day.
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EXPLOSION IN NAPTHA PLANT KILLS 2, INJURES 13—Flames rage in a naptha
treating plant of Esso Standard Oil Com pany’s refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Thursday after an explosion that killed two men and injured 13 others. The ter
rifie blast derailed some of the freight cars in the foreground. Company officials esti
mated the damage at $200,000. — (AP Wirephoto.)
Tax Lien Filed
Against Posey,
Spalding Sheriff
ATLANTA, Aug. 17— (AP) —
Spalding county Sheriff Jesse D.
Posey’s troubles with the Federal
Government today had grown on
include a 26 count indictment and
a $192,025 tax lien.
The tax lien was added yester
day by U. S. Coliector of Internal
Revenue Marion H. Allen.
Posey was indicted two weeks
ago on charges of conspiring to
defraud the Government oi Taxes
due on illegal whisky.
At the same time the Revenue
Collector issued the lien against
Posey, he also filed a $13,500 tax
lien against Marion L. ‘Allen, At
lanta Negro, who was named in the
conspiracy indictment with Posey.
The lien followed hard on the
heels of a record check in the
Spalding county clerk’s office
showing that Posey already had
begun disposing of property.
Posey’s Sales
Recorded by the clerk was
Posey’s sale of 19 lots in a sub
division, two five-room houses,
three four-room houses and a six
room house.
All the sales were recorded as
being for $lO and other valuable
considerations.
The Revenue Collector in list
ing the tax money due from Posey
set forth that he owed $178,525 for
whisky distilled through June 29,
1951, and $13,500 for taxes due on
whisky distilled between July 1,
1951, &and Aug, 15, 1951.
The government claimed $13,-
500 was due in taxes from Allen on
1,500 gallons of whisky.
Indicted Aug. 8
Posey, a former State Highway
Patrolman, Allen and William
Jerimiah Burks were indicted Aug.
8. After the indictement Posey,
who was elected Sheriff in 1948,
posted a $5,000 bend while Allen
and Burks posted bonds of $3,000
each.
Immedaitely after the Federal
Grand Jury’s action, a special ses
sion of the Spalding county grand
jury was convened to investigate
Posey’s activities. They adjourned
temporarily yesterday after hear
ing from more than 40 witnesses.
Posey claimed after the Federal
indictment he had been “framed”
and attributed his troubles to poli
tical enemies in Spalding county.
Allen now is being held in the
Fulton county jail on vargrancy
charges.
Killer Nabbed
CHICAGO, Aug. 17 — (AP) —
Police today questioned a husky
killer in an effort to learn full de
tails of his escape from the death
row of the Cook County jail Tues
day night during which he beat a
guard to death,
Harfy Williams, rapist and slay
er, was recaptured without a
struggle last night while he was
riding a street car.
The 20-~year-old negro’s capture
lacked the dramatic overtones of
his escape over the jail wall less
than 47 hours before.
Willlams, neatly dressed, was
riding in a street car reading a
Bible when four policemen in a
squad car spotted him. Two of the
officers, in plain clothes, quietly
boarded the car, captured Wil
liams and took him off. Other
passengers apparently didn’t know
what was going on.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Four-Man Subcommittee To Hold
Second Informal Meet Tomorrow
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 17.— (AP) —A four-man sub
committee tackled the Korean buffer zohe deadlock today
amid official indications the Communists are ready to com
promise. £
The subcommitteemen declined to comment on what
happened in their first session—held in an unusual air of
informality for Korean truce talks.
They scheduled their second
session for 11 a. m. Saturday (8
p- m. Friday EST).
When they adjourned at 4:22 p.
m. (1:22 a, m. EST) United Na~
tions and Communist delegates
posed together for the first time.
While posing, Maj. Gen. Henry
I. Hodges, one of the U. N. repre~
sentatives, put his arm around
lggrth Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang
o.
The other two delegates—U, S.
Rear Adm. Arleigh Burke and
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang—
also appeared to be in good spirits.
While they were negotiating
behind closed doors, their discus
sions were broken at times by
outbursts of laughter.
Informal Attitude
The informal attitude—a com
plete reversal of the cold military
formality of all full delegation
meetings—strengthened an air of
hopefuness brought to Kaesong by
a Red broadcast.
The Peiping radio quoted the
chief Communist negotiator as
saying “it is possible to adjust”
the Red demand for a demarcation
line along the 38th parallel “on
the basis of terrain and mutual de
fense.”
Terrain and defense are the
reasons the Allies have insisted on
a military demarcation along pre
sent battle lines. These are gen
erally north of the 38th parallel.
Peiping radio, official veoice of
Red China, reported North Korean
Lt. Gen, Nam Il immediately qual
ified his statement by saying the
United Nations delegation must
abandon “its unfair and unreason
able demands” before agreement
can be reached.
The broadcast, monitored in
Tokyo, said Nam made the state
ment at Thursday’s Kaesong con
ference. This was the meeting
which created the subcommittee.
It was considered significant
that Nam was reported to have
shown willingness to compromise
at the very moment negotiators
decided to try a new way to break
the three-week-old impasse.
First Meet Today
The subcommittee held its first
meeting today. ;
Full dress negotiations were re
cessed until the subcommittee
comes up with a recommendation
—or there is some other nced for
a gathering of all ten delegates.
The subcommittee met in secre
cy. The U. N. command an
nounced in advance that the usual
communique and briefing to news
men would be abandoned during
its sessions, Communist newsmen
at Kaesong said they understood
the Reds would also discontinue
communiques and briefing.
The secrecy was to help the sub
committeemen fulfill the recom
mendation of ice Adm. C. Turner
Joy, chief U. N. delegate, to meet
“around rather than across” the
table. Joy suggested there would
be better opportunity of progress
toward ending the shooting in Ko
rea if the problem were tackled
without the speech making that
has marked Kaesong negotiations.
This is exactly what happened.
Subcommittee Meet
AP Correspondent Sam Sum
merlin at Kaesong reported the
subcommittee sat around a circu~
lar table instead of sitting on op
posite sides of the long rectangu
lar conference table normally
used.
Informality, which may prove
the key to success, marked the
meeting from its start at 11 a. m.
until adjournment five hours and
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EDITION
Russell May Be
51 Choice Of &
Anfi-Trumanites
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(AP)
Senator Russell (D.-Ga.) said to
day he isn’t a Presidential eandi
date, but there are strong signs he
may be the man around whom
anti-Truman Southerners rally in
1952.
Gov. Herman Talmadge, one of
the sparkplugs of the anti-Truman
movement in the South, has said
Russell can have Georgia’s 28-
vote support in next year’s eon
vention if he wants it.
Russell told a reporter all he
knows about that is what he read
in the papers, adding:
“But I'm not a candidate for
President, if that’s what it means.”
However, some of the Georgia
senator’s friends said they have
little doubt Russell’s name will be
put before the convention as the
choice of the South if President
Truman allows his name to be
voted upon.
“Many Ambitious”
Mr. Truman told a White House
news conference yesterday there
are plenty of men ambitio:i for
the Democratic nomination he
doesn’t run again. But he said it
wouldn’t be seemly to name them.
The President apparentx was
not speaking about Russell, who
polled 263 convention votes in
1948 in the South’s unsuceessful
stop-Truman move. This was a
little over one-third of the 618
then needed to nominate.
As he did then, Russell repre
sents the South’s protest
President Truman’s Civil ts
program, Senator Long (D.-La.)
said he personally doesn’t know a
better man for the South to pre
sent again,
Whether Russell his
name to be offered evmtjl.; rests
primarily on Mr. Truman’s ac
tions. However, if the Southerners
thought there was a chance Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower would be
come available for the Democratie
nomination, they would rally
quickly to his banner.
The President’s assertion that a
lot of Democrats are gazing long
ingly at his job left some party
members cold. They contended
Mr. Truman isn’t giving any other
Democrat much of a chance to get
his chin above water.
Truman Silent
Although he hasn’t said any
thing about his intentions, the
President hasn’t discouraged the
pilgrimage of the falthful to the
‘White House to pledge support of
state delegations for his renomi
nation,
This makes it difficult for any
possible candidate even to get fav
orite son backing and tends to put
the President in a position to name
the nominee if ke doesn’t run him
self,
Morris Services
Mrs, Lizzie Morris, one of Col
bert’'s best known citizens, died
at her home Thursday at 6 p. m,,
after an {llness of ten weeks. Mrs.
Morris, affectionately known to
her many friends as “Aunt Liz
zie”, was 95 years old.
Services are to be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock
from Colbert High “School Audi
torium with Rev. Mr, Allen of
Social Circle, and Rev. A, E. Lo
gan, pastor of Hull Baptist Church,
officiating,
Burial will be in Hardeman
Cemetery, Clyde McDorman ¥u
neral Home in charge of arrange
ments. Grandchildren of Mrs. Mor
ris will be pallbearers.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. R. F. Thompson, Hull; seven
sons, W, B. Morris, J, Z. Morris,
J. R. Morris, C. H, Morris and A.
R. Morris, all of Colbert; 8. C.
Morris, Kannapolis, N. é., and
T, A, Mareis, Biberion, forkaive
grandchildren, fifty-four great
grandchildren and three great
great-grandchildren, .
Mrs. Morris was a native and
lifelong resident of Madison eoun
ty and was greatly loved by all
who knew her. She was a mendbes”
of one of that section’s most prom
inent families and will be greatly
missed,