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Vol. CXX, No. 108,
(ommies Charge %:aughter
In New Koje Prison Deaths
Abilene Takes
lie Homecoming
In Amazing Calm
ABILENE, Kan., May 30—(AP).
For an event Vyhlch most of t}u
nation either will read about, lis
ten to, or see, the homecoming of
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
next Wednesday is being taken
with amazing calm in this central
Kansas town.
There is little talk about the
tive-star general's presidential
oom,
! Tke Comes Home
7o most of the folks, Ike Is com
tne back to visit old friends in the
~eaceful little town where he went
{o school, played, worked at the
.reamery and grew up like any
typical American boy.
Ihere is quiet pride in the fact
that they will welcome home a
10-al hoy who made good, but
there is no sign of excitement.
perhaps the calm is the letdown
fier the big task of preparing the
7000 homefolks for the influx of
vicitors which some believe may
¢ vach 100,000.
Or it may be that “only the out
of-town people are excited about
{he hig day” as Mrs. Katherine
(allahan puts it. She is a restau
t operator whom the general
) nized in the crowd and called
name when he came home
y the war in 1945,
here were -about 30,000 people
here for that occasion.
Inflim of Visitors
The out-of-town people this
tine-are expected to include the
governors of a number of states,
2nd hundreds of politicians who
are booming Eisenhower for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion
risenhower’s schedule calls for:
A brief address at a 1:30 p. m.
(2ST) cornerstone laying cere
mony &t the Eisenhower Museum
which will house his million dollar
collection of war souvenirs,
A review of a 3:48549. m. parade
of floats, depicting-the life of-the
general from birth to a possible
place in the White House.
A major speech at 6 p. m.
A press conference at 10 a. m.
on the following day, June 8.
Georgia Combat
Pofat
¢ 01ai0 Jnoriage
ATLANTA, May 30 (AP) —
With Georgia’s 1952 crop of new
potatoes beginning to move to
market in volume, federal price
control agents are taking to the
highways in their battle against
black market operations in this
aple food.
The Atlanta spokesman for the
Olffice of Price sStabilization said
today OPS agents will work close
lv with the truck weighing crews
of the state hiihway departmer\
who check trucks for overloading
at 75 to 100 locations around Geor
gld,
Check Trucks
While the state agents check po
tato trucks for overloading the
OPS agents will examine invoices
and attempt to detect any loads
not moving in normal trade chan
nels at or below eeiling prices.
Under recently announced
amendments to itg rules on potato
marketing, the OPS requires every
seller of potatoes to give every
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‘lonroe are mentioned in plans by the retired Ya_nkee
fluigger’s ex-wife, aetress %orothy Arnold, seeking &
modifieation of their 1944 divorce decree, The actress is
%”’m% to eourt to stop Joe, sr., from taldngl their son,
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ATHENS BANNER -HERALD
Associated Press Service
.
Allied Stand
R i i
emains Firm
By SAM SUMMERLIN
MUNSAN, Korea, May 30 —
(AP) — The Communists’ chief
truce negotiator today called the
killing of a Red prisoner on Koje
Island an atrocity,. And he
dropped a thinly-veiled hint of
possible reprisals against Allied
prisoners held in North Korea,
United Nations authorities on
Koje had repcrted one Communist
prisoner was killed and another
wounded Thursday by the acci
dental disch&rge of a guard’s ritle,
Voices More Demands
North Korean Gen, Nam Il de
manded that the Allies “immedi
ately stop these atrocities.” Then
he told the U. N. delegation:
“I clearly remind you that to
protect the war prisoners is a mu
tual and reciprocal responsibility
of both belligerents. You should
not fail to see the consequences of
your action.”
Nam’s reference to “see the con
sequences” had an ominous ring.
Again he charged the U, N. with
preparing “for another mass
slaughter.”
} A short time before the 42-min
ute truce session broke up, Allied
authorities in Tokyo, Seoul and
Koje announced seven Red POW'’s
were killed and 16 injured yester
' day and today in new disorders.
| Set Bitterness Deeper
The new disturbances were cer
tain to embitter further the al
ready stalled talks. The Reds were
unwilling to agree to a recess and
insisted that the delegations meet
again tomorrow.
Maj. Gen, William K. Harrison,
jr., senior Allied delegate, told
Nam that his “hysterical reac
tions” to the results of recent
screenings- among North Korean
and Chinese military and civilian
internees did not alter the fact it
had been done in a completely
fair manner. ;
COMRADE LOSES FAVOR
VIENNA, May 30.-—-(A.E‘A;-A‘na
Pauker, frfend of Stalin and pos=
sibly the most powerful woman in
the Communist world, was report
ed here today to have been purged
from her position as Romania’s
foreign minister.
The mannish-looking 59-year
old woman, life-long Communist
and daughter of a Jewish butcher,
was reported also to have been
relieved of her positions as dep
uty prime minister and as No. 2
Communist on the Romanian po
litburo.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
Allied Command
To Gen. Rid
0 ben. Ridgway
PARIS, May 30—(AP)—Against
a backdrop of Communist-in
spired tension and U. S. political
overtones, Gen. Pwight D. Eisen
hower today turned over his com
mand of Allied defense forces in
Europe to Gen. Matthew B. Ridg
way.
High officers of supreme head
quarters of the North Atlantic pact
allies and a French delegation
headed by Defense Minister Rene
Pleven witnessed the brief cere
monies on SHAPE'S front lawn.
Eisenhower, who is leaving to
morrow for the United States-as a
candidate for the Republican pres
idential mnomination, turned to
Ridgway and said: “It is now my
proud duty to turn over to you the
finest headquarters I have ever
seen. The task is yours.”
Ridgway, a four star general
fresh frorm the Korean War, ac
cepted with “a sense of deep pride
and privilege.”
Touched Off Riots
His arrival here was the signal
for Communist-led rioting in Pa
ris and elsewhere in France. In
Germany the Communists were
increasing pressuré-on the West
ern Allies to urgerscore Soviet
anger over the Ssfgning of the
peace contract with Western Ger
many and the treaty which ap
proves a six-nation European ar
my.
But Ridgway said of his SHAPE
command: *n this organization
there is no™“aggressive intent, It
has only creative intent.”
In remarks pointed at the Sovi
et Union; he added: “With aggres
sive designs toward none, we are
determined to resist aggression
from any source whatever.”
A news conference attended by
Ridgway and Eisenhower preced
ed the ceremony.
Politics came in for only brief
mention. . Eisenhower had said
earlier he would not participate in
any political discussion.
Won’t Campaign
Eisenhower disclosed he will
shed his uniform next Tuesday
but still will refuse to campaign
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
The general implied that he
would welcome “healthy argu
ments over honest differences” but
added that “bitter quarrels for
quarrels’ sake are bad for the
country and I deplore them.”
Asked if he would comment on
whether the election of Senator
Robert A. Taft would have a dis~
couraging effect on Europe, Eisen
hower replied with a chuckle:
“T most certainly would not —
I am still in uniform.”
ITHACA, N. Y., May 30—(AP).
Twenty-five Cornell University
students who seized a university
radio station and broadcast fake
war bulletins have been suspend
ed for a year.
The Faculty Committee on Stu
dent Conduct announced last
night the suspensions would take
effect Thursday, last day of
classes,
Ten students, wearing masks,
controlled the student-operated
station WVBR for eight minutes
Wednesday night after overpow
ering three student staff members.
Another 15 students admitted par=
ticipating.
The fake broadcast said Euro
pean cities had been bormbed and
an air armada was approaching
North America. Some “fainting
and hysteria” was reported in wo
men’s dormitories but a college
spokesman said there was “no
panic.”
Names of the students were not
disclosed. In the group were soph
omores, juniors and seniors.
Piedmont Get
C "
onfidence Vofe
DEMOREST, Ga., May 30—
(AP) — Little Piedmont College,
which a year ago began accepting
funds fronr the Texas Education
Association, has received a vote
of confidznce from 17 faculty
members. .
The Texas money. set off a con
troversy which resulted in the fir
ing of at least one member of the
faculty and the resignation of an
other who protested against the
grant,
The TEA is financed by an en
terprise of George Armstrong,
Texas millionaire who is & strong
advocate of white suprenracy.
Miss Lillian McKee, chalrman of
a faculty «ommitfige, ui:ld QLQ “&f;
firmation of faith” si :
1!7 3'?;03 a ie%‘l in "g‘ ouZntial
Bquality of all men—the authority
of majority opinion, and the right
of all men to individual freedom
of thought, speech and action.”
It added that the school admin
istrators hud done nothing to
‘f‘&mit: our individual, academic
freedom.” £t
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RUSSELL NAMES CAMPAIGN MANAGER — Senator
Edwin Johnson of Colorado sits beside Senator Richard
Russell of Georgia in Washington as Russell announces
the appointment of Johnson as manager of his campaign
for the Democratic presidential nomination. — (AP
Wirephoto.)
Truman Tells Acheson
Pact Is Step To Peace
Taft's Backers l
By The Associated Press
A frontal attack on Dwight Eis
enhower’s record, launched by Sen. |
Robert Taft’s forces in South Da-‘
kota, today heightened.the politi
cal clangor greeting the general's
imminent arrival home.
__JThe Ohio senator’s supporters
‘brought newspaper —‘adveriising
space to assail Eisenhower, due in
Washington Sunday. The general
resigned as Allied defense chief
in Europe to be available for the
Republican , presidential nomina
tion if offered.
Underscore Duel
The advertisements underscore
the bare-knuckle nature of the
Taft-Eisenhower duel for South
Dakota’s 14. GOP persidential-no
minating delegates to be chosen |
in a primary Tuesday.
Citing Taft’s stand on top issues,
the ads said Eisenhower is on rec
ord for universal military train
ing and the draft of women in
war-time. They linked Eisenhower
to what was called the Democratic
administration’s “plan for unnec
essary foreign aid and wasteful
spending.”
UMT and administration poiicies
are unpopular in heavily-Republi
can South Dakota, where the mili
tary draft has taken many youths
off the farms.
Eisenhower backers campaign
ing there have contended Taft
favors “some kind of UMT but not
other kinds” and lsas strung along
with a lot of the administration’s
domestic proposals.
South Dakota newspaper editor,
surveyed by The Associated Press,
prediet Taft will get 51.2 per cent
of Tuesday’s GOP vote, with 48.8
per cent for Eisenhower.
Last Contest
It will be the last ciearcut con
test between the two top-running
Republican nominee - candidates
before the July 7 convention at
Chicago.
Taft got a boost from Alabama
yesterday, when a Birmingham |
convention completed the state’s
14-vote slate. The result; nine for l
Taft, four for Eisenhower and one |
uncommitted. |
This makes The Associated
Press tabulation of delegate
strength-based on concessions,
pledges, instructions and avowed
preferences—now read: Taft 411,
Eisenhower 386. GOP nomination
requires 604. ‘
Big topic on the D(‘m()crfltic‘
side was Vice President Alben
Barkley’s announced willingness !
to be a presidential nominee. It'*
nominated and elected, the spry
“Veep” at 74 would be the oldest
man ever to become President.
Harmony Candidate
Barkley’s statement-that “while
not a candidate in the regular
sense,” he would accept Demo-’
cratic nomination - brought cheers |
from supporters touting him as a
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w.
Joltin’ Joe Is
* |
In Court Fight |
|
NEW YORK, May 30—(AP)—
Joe DiMaggio says he’ll fight his |
ex-wife’s threatened move to gain ;
full custody of their 9-year-old
son Joe, jr.
“T love him and, of course, I'll‘
fight for him,” said the retired
baseball star here yesterday. '
DiMaggio now has partial cus
tody of the boy. But his formerl
wife, Dorc;'thy Amolc]i, lt}if
Wedpesda eles she
wogfll‘%iéén 2 c%tg;t efiort to get
fuli custody.
Miss Arnold made her an
nouncement after DiMaggio took
his son swimming last week with
Marilyn Monroe, bosomy blonde
actress. She said she didn’t,think
_?ye swimming party was proper
or: the boy: \ et
US Braces For
.
Beriin Blockade
WASHINGTON, May 30 (AP)
—President Truman, greeting
Secretary of State Acheson at Na
tional Airport, declared today that
pacts allying West Germany with
the Western anti~-Communist bloc
have made a ‘“great contribution
to the peace of the world.”
Acheson said agreements signed
in the past' week gt Bonn and Paris
will mean “vgr}nuch to the se
curity of our ndtion, our allies and
all the free world.” &
Legislative Actif
The task now, Acheson told the
President, is to proceed with legis
jative “action.- In‘.¥he U.-S. that
means Senate consideration of the
agreements which have been com
pleted and signed but which must
still pass the test of ratification.
Acheson signed the German
peace contract at Bonn, observed
the signing of a European defense
treaty at Paris and himself signed
an amendment to the North Atlan
tic Treaty broadening security
guarantees to include West Ger
many.
As Acheson stepped down the
ramp from Truman’s own plane,
“The Independence,” which had
brought him home from Paris, the
President with outstretched hand,
said: “Hello, Dean. Congratula
tions—you did a gra_nd job.”
Major Problems
One of the major problems be
fore Acheson is that of counter
measures by the United States,
Britain and France against the
tightening of lines between East
and West Germany and the Soviet
imposed travel difficulties between
West Germany and Berlin as re
prisal for the forging of new Ger=
man links with the West,
Some consideration has been
given here, it is understood, to
making a show of power on the
Western side, perhaps by flight of
military planes in the German area
in order to remind both the Rus
sians and the Germans of Western
firmness in German policy.
Elaborate Plans
The Air Force is reported to
have prepared elaborate plans for
setting up a new Berlin airlift in
case the Russians disrupt the
movement of vital supplies to the
cily’s Western sector. But some
officials doubt that they will resort
to the full scale blockade.
In Californi
MARIETTA, May 30—(AP)—
Alexander George Petropol has
beén keeping in touch with George
Bryan by mail during the 18
months they’ve been separated.
Now they're fixing to meet
again, face to face—Petropol, the
escaped convict, and Bryan, the
warden of the Cobb County prison
camp from which he fled. Petro
pol was arrested in California yes
terday.
The warden said the 33-year-old
convict sent him several postal
cards and two Christmas cards
during his period of freedom,
“On one of the cards Petropol
wrote that he was sending'me a
bloodhound, weighing 400 pounds
and which could run 75 miles an
hour and never stop,” Bryan said.
Routine Shakedown
Petropol was arrested in Hunt
ington Park, Calif.,, on a routine
shakedown. Georgia’s Assistant
Corrections Director J. B. Hafch
ett said Warden Bryan would go
to California to bring Petropol
back.
Petropol, who was a cook
walked away from the Cobb Coun
ty camp Nov. 13, 1950, while
?,rving life for %;% 1946 slaying of
om Aiken in Atlanta.
The conviet once vowed in a.
letter to an Atlanta Constitution
;g;orter that he would never be
urned to Georgia.
NOT AN ATHENIAN
- Alexander George Petropol
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Eight Red POW's Are Killed
As New Riots Occur In Koje
Action On Pri
By JOHN CHADWICK
WASHINGTON, May 30 (AP)
—Further Senate action on a bill
to extend anti-inflation controls
has been put off until Wednesday
after overwhelming rejection of a
proposal to junk wage-price curbs.
Off today for a long holiday
week end, senators will turn to
consideration of other legislation
next Monday and Tuesday and
then tackle the controls measure
again Wednesday under an agree
ment limiting debate.
The agreement is expected to
bring about a final vote late
Wednesday and send the bill to
the House, where committee hear
ings on a companion measure have
been completed.
The only vote yesterday was on
an amendment offered by Sen.
Dirksen (R-Ill1) to end wage-price
controls on June 30, the present
expiration date.
Rejected Amendment
The amendment was rejected 52
to 18. Voting against it were 40
Democrats and 12 Republicans. It
won the support of 16 Republicans
and two Democrats, Sen. EllenN\r
of Louisiana and Sen. Gillette of
lowa.
The biil submitted by the Senate
Banking Committee would extend
wage-price controls until March 1,
1953. President Truman asked that
they be continued for two years
beyond June 30.
The President also urged a two
year extension of rent controls and
authority for the allocation of
scarce essential materials, but the
committee bill would continue
these powers one year.
Dirksen agrued price controls are
stifling production, but Chairman
Maybank (D-SC) of the Banking
Committee said it would be a
tragedy to let them die now.
President’s Mate
During yesterday’s debate on the
bill, President Truman sent a mes
sage to Vice President Barkley
| urging the Senate to reject a pro
vision in the bill ' which would
abolish the present Wage Sta
bilization Board and substitute an
all-public panel stripped of auth
ority to recommend settlement of
labor-management disputes.
The board now is composed of
an equal number of industry, labor
and public members.
Veep Will Take
The Nominali
WASHINGTON, May 30—(AP)
—Vice President Alben W. Bark
ley’s announcement he would ac
cept the Democratic presidential
nomination was cheered today by
supporters touting him as a har
mony candidate.
“He can win for us against any
man the Republicans nominate,”
said Senator Guy Gillette of Towa.
Two of Barkley’s Kentucky col
leagues, Democratic Senators
Earle Clements and Thomas Un
derwood, voiced the same senti
ment.
Can Bring Harmony
“He can bring harmony to the
party and victory in November,”
Underwood told a reporter.
The 74-vear-old vice president
made his long expected announce
ment in a brief statement yester
day. Barkley said:
“The act.on of the Kentucky
state convention endorsing me for
the Democratic nomination for
president constitutes a signal
honor for which I am profoundly
grateful.
“While T am not a candidate in
the sense that I am actively. seek
ing the nomination, I have never
dodged a responsibility, shirked a
responsibility, or ignored an op
portunity to serve the Amrerican
people.
Will Accept '
“Therefors, if the forthcoming
Chicago convention shouid choose
me to lead the fight in the ap
proaching campaign, I would ac
cept.”
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and mild with eccas
ional light rain or drizzle this
afternoon and tonight, Mostly
cloudy and not much change in
temperature Saturday. Low to
night 62, high tomorrow 82. The
sun sets 7:28 and rises 5:23.
| GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy
| and mild this afternoon and to
| night with scattered showers in
| coastal area and risk of light
rain or drizzle in the irterior.
Saturday continued rather clou
dy and a little warmer.
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TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ~ ... .05
Total since May 1 .. .. .. 247
Deficit since May 1 .. .... 93
Average May rainfall ~ .. 3.54
Total since January 1 ~ ..22.91
‘Excess since January, I ..., .96
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Toll Of Deaths
Reported At 245
BY JIM BECKER
KOJE ISILAND, Korea, May 80,
—(AP)—Eight Red prisoners were
killed and 17 wounded in bloody
incidents at United Nations pris=
oner of wur camps on riot-torn
Koje Island and on the Korean
mainland yesterday and today.
Prison camp authorities said no
U. N, personnel were killed or
wounded in the outbreaks.
The killings raised the toll of
reported deaths from violence to
245 prisoners. The Army said 115
of these died at the hands of fel
low prisorers after drumhead
trials in compounds dominated by
hard-core Communist POW'’s.,
Latest Brawl
Four North Korean prisoners
were killed and 13 were injured
yesterday in a brawl among cap
tured persornel moved recently
from Koje Island’s massive grison
camp to a new compound at Yong~
chon, 60 miles north of Pusan,
temporary South Korean capital.
One North Korean prisoner was
killed and another wounded yes
terday by bullets from a U. 8.
soldier’s automatic rifle, fired ac
cidentally during a guard change
in Compound 66 on Koje.
The accidental shooting took
place two hours after about 100
U. S. and British troops raided
the compound — holding 2,700
North Korean officers and 65 en
listed Red orderlies—and destroy=
ed their headquarters and dispen
sary shacks, The U. N. guard
troops went in with fixed bayo
nets. They used tear gas bhombs
but fired no shots. There were no
casualties,
Attacked U. N. Guard
Koje authorities said the four
North Koreans killed yesterday
died after one member of their
work party attacked a U. N. guard
during a rest period.
An official Army statement said
“in self-defense the guard opened
fire on his assailant and killed
him. In the fracas one other POW
was killed alnd five were wound
ed. Two of the wounded died later
at the hospital. No Americans
were hurt.”
Major General A. J. H. Cassels,
comx_xLander of the First Common
wealth Division, today wvisited
British and Canadian troops on
Koje for three hours and reported
they ‘“seemed to appreciate” their
assignment.
| Expressed -Displeasure
Monday Canadian Foreign Min
ister Lester Pearson said in Otta
wa that the Canadian government
had expressed displeasure and
concern to the U, S. State Depart
ment over assignment of a Cana
dian unit to Koje without Cana
dian government approval.
Sailor Is Shof
In Night Chase
BRUNSWICK, Ga., May 30 —
(AP)—Run down by bloodhounds,
a young sailor was shot early to
‘day in a gunfight ending a wild
chase started by an attempted air
plane theft.
Agent Estus Durden of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
identified the youth as J. W. Dow
dy, 19, a sailor from Jacksonville,
Fla. Shot once in the stomach, he
was reported in fair condition at
City hospital today where he is
under guard pending filing of
charges.
Durden said the wounded sailor
told him today is his 19th birthday.
Nocturnal Drama
Two 15-year-old Brunswick
lads, Winn Baker and Joe Taylor,
touched off the nocturnal drama
about 9:30 last night when they
paid a casual visit to the Bruns
wick Air Park, a small, private
airport managed by Winn’s father,
Sam Baker,
They found a four-place, single
engined plane outside its hangar
with a man beside it. He fled in a
heavy automobile and they called
police.
The fugitive headed south at a
speed which pursuing officers said
reached 100 miles an hour at times.
' Near Midway, about 5 miles south
of here, the pace burned out the
engine of the fugitive’'s car and he
fled on foot into the moss-draped
coastal woods,
Bloodhounids Called In
Bloodhounds were called in by
police radio from the state prison
camp at Jesup and from the prison
at Reidsville.
Around 1 a. m. the dogs and
posse closed in on Dowdy and,
Durden reported, the sailor fired
11 ineffectual shots at the officers.
Fire was returned and one bullet
struck the fugitive in the stomach
and he was captured.
Durden said Dowdy apparently
had been at the airport some time
when the boys discovered him. He
had found the key to the hangar,
rolled the plane out and had it by
the gas pumps preparing to fill its
tanks. Ironically, this may have
prevented him from taking off be
cause the plane hags a defective
gasoline gauge which registers
empty even when the tank is full.
PRISON WARDEN SUSPENDED
DENVEP, May 30.--(AU)—Roy
Best, who has heid the post 22
years, was suspended yesterday as
warden of the Colorado Peniten
tiary at Cauon City.
Best will go on trial here June
16 with other prison officers on
charges of violating the civil lib
erties of six convicts. The gov
ernment charges they were tortur
ed after a riot last July:*
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EDITION
America Mourns
War Dead Amid
WASHINGTON, May 30—([5?}..
Americans mourned their wadr
dead this troubled Memorial Day.
And while the folks at home ob
served the day with solemn cere
monies, across the seas, U. 8.
troops fought in Korea and Com=
munists demonstrated in Tokye.
The rioting was part of a mar
tyr's day ceremony. Police broke
up the demonstration after a brief
flurry during which flaming
torches of oil were hurled.
Two persons were killed, 12
were arrested. Two policemen and
three newspapermen were lin
jured.
From American heldquarterfih
Tokyo came this Memorial Day
message:
Memorial Message
“We best honor our fallen ¢om=
rades by our devotion to the great
causes for which they died and
tor which we continue to battle.”
The statement was issued by
Gen, Mark Clark, the new su
preme Allied commander in the
Far East. His thoughts turned to
Korea, where United States and
other United Nations troops are
engaged with Communist forees.
He added:
“It is here that we meet the
test of America’s. determination
to protect a defenseless people
from the brutality and terrorism
by which the forces of Commu
nism have degraded and enslaved
millions of human beings.”
At home, many shops and of
fices were empty. The workers
and their families paid tribute to
their war dead and then relaxed
for the holiday.
Baseball Attractions
The national pastime, baseball,
claimed hordes. All 16 major
league teams scheduled afternoon
double-headers and the minor
leagues followed suif.
There were Memorial Day pro=
grams at race tracks, and there
was the 50’-_?“& auto race held
each year at the Indianapolis
Speedway.
President Truman sent a wreath
to the tomb of the Unknown Sol«
dier in Arlington National Ceme
tery. Wreaths on his behalf are
also being placed at three other
monuments—the Unknown Civil
War Soldier, Confederate Memo
rial and Spanish War Memorial.
Election Contest
H - "
earing Begins -
DUBLIN, May 30—(AP)-—Su~
perior Judge J. Roy Rowland re«
fused today to disqualify himself
in a court action aimed at forcing
g recount of ballots case in the
race for Laurens County sheriff in
the April primary.
Counsel for the Laurens County
Democratic executive committee
moved that Rowland disqualify
himself on the ground that he is
related to two members of the
committee.
Rejected Motion
Rowland rejected the motion
and went ahead with the hearing
on a petition by John M. Coleman
seeking a recount in the race in
which Sheriff Carlus Gay was de
clared renominated by a margin
of 165 votes.
In today’s hearing the commit«
tee which turned down Coleman’ss
request for the recount, is being
required to show cause why it
should not hold the recount.
The small courtroom was
crowded as today's proceedings
began. In accordance with his re~
quest for outside protection in
handling this controversial ecase,
Judge Rowland was accompanied
to the bench by Lt. H. M. Spurl=
ing and Agent Leroy Kelly of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation,
and by Lt. B. P. McKinnon of the
state highway patrol. They were
assigned by Governor Talmadge
after Rowland had told the gover
nor he feared for his safety and
felt he could not enforce a ruling
in the case without help.
Friendly Greeting
Sheriff Carlus Gay, whose of«
fer of protection was rejected by
Rowland, was in the couttreom
with a deputy and when the judge
walked to the bench Gay arose
and shook hands with him.
CANTEEN IS CLOSED
The Teen-Age canteen at Mem=
orial Park will not be open tonight
or tomorrow night because of the
Y-Teen house partey at the YWCA
Camp, according to city recrea
tion director Royce Brewer.
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