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Newspaper Page TextO'TTON C( |.INCH MIDDLING ........ 4% val. €XX, No. 122, Associated Press Service Doafner Plans .oame ork And PI oI dy L 231 ror S b By ROBrRT B. TUCKMAN KOJE ISLAND June 16 (AP)— The U. S. Eighth Army plans an ey tensive work-and-play program {or Communist prisoners of war on Koje once the POWSs recognize Allied authority completely. prig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, Koje commander, hopes to start the program soon after he finishes «nlitting the present large, unruly compounds into small units. The dispersal operations pro pably will be completed within a week. Inspected Stockade Field Marshal Lord Alexander, Pritain’s minister of defense, in <rocted the POW stockades today. ['e toured the island in a jeep driven by Boatner. Alexander was accompanied by Cen. James A. Van Fleet, U. S. I'chth Army commander, and a party of leading military and dip lomatic figures. The group drove through the ruins of Compound 76 where more than 6,000 prisoners fought des porately to prevent being broken v into small units. Boatner told Alezander it was “a hell of a fight” Alexander made no public state m-nt while on Koje. But Selwyn Lloyd, British minister of state for foreign af fairs, said “obviously the situation is bzing cleared up very fast and a creat deal of good .work is being done.” Once he has uncontested control over the prisoners, Boatner plans to use POW . labor on road con ¢'ruction and other engineering p-oiects, He also plans to expand oihletic and other recreational f-cilities inside compounds. Sports equipment has been ordered. No Relaxation Eighth Army oificers stress that there will be no relaxation of the new firm policy in handling POWs. The basic policy .governing op eration of Koje prison campus is strict adherence to the Geneva Convention. Of Koje’s present POW popula tion of 80,000, some 30,000 will be moved soon to other islands off South Korea. Remaining POWs will be set to work. building roads, drainage ditches, fences and camp buildings. Camp officials dec%ned to say whether prisoners wold be paid for such- work, as thev v-ere in World War 11. Lo No such work projects &ve ex isted on Koje in its 18 ~months as a prisoner island. "’.g' » \/ins Style Prize vV Mrs, Wilson Jones, Oconee Hei shis Demonstration Club member, was one of the five winners out of some 107 contestants in the style review held here last week in connection with the Georgia State Home Demonstration Council meet. Clarke County ‘style review winner, Mrs. Jones was entitled to compete against the other county winners who came to Athens “or the several day meetings of the State Council. Mrs. Jones’ winning entry was in the casual dress division and was a simple creation of blue tis sue chambray. Other divisions of the review were dresses made from sacks, dresSy dresses, and house dresses. Prizes were awarded to each of the division winners and a prize was given to the best dress in all four divisions. Prizes were mar chandise from Davisons of At lanta. Winners were televised from At lanta on Friday night at 10:15, wearing their prize-winning dres sas, o 5 ~ The Council meeting held sway in Athens from Tuesday through Friday of last week with sessions in Fine Arts Auditorium and on Coordinate Campus. wa L. U, oussman is {aken By Death RXS en y ea E. Dryden Gassman, resid ent of «“Copren :gisd in & local hospital Sunday morn ine at 8:45 o’clock after an illnegs 0l several months. Mr, Gussman was 70 years old. _Services are to be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock from Comer Baptist Church with the pastor, Rev. Girod H. Cole, officiating, Burial wili follow in Comer Cemetery Bernstein Funeral Horhe (Continued On Page Two) R ——— ——————" . | {UNCIERERS T A T Y RAR T~ 2§ Pl e & v . - \(Z © NEA 4 Those Korean truce negotia=~ tions remind Joe Parks of the old-fashioned Quaker meetings he had to attend as a boy. Ev erybody -just sat silent for hours, w for the Spirit to move them, You were in good Company, though, which is more than the United Wations people ¢njoy with the Chinamen and Koreens, who wait 'for _the Propagenda spirit to move them, ATHENS BANNER-HERALD . 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Bobby Shaw, anrazed by all the publicity and gifts he has receiv edl, has told his mother econtinu ally: “I don’t deserve it. I'm not good enough for someone to do all this for me.” : But Mrs. Earl Shaw says she tells Bobby he’s been a good boy who has nad a tough time of it, and everyocne is trying to help him get well soon. Bobby is expected to slip into a coma in about three weeks and never recover. He has had three operations in a Tulsa hospital but doctors finally "have given up hope. Television station KOTV at Tulsa and the Tulsa World joined forces to put on the big show for Bobby at 11:30 p. m. Large Cast . A large cast of entertainers and well-wishers will be headed by Governor Johnston Murray who, by letter, will make him an hon orary commodore in Oklahonra’s mythical navy. Bobby’s father has- returned from California to be with his son during the last weeks. “He's so appreciative,” said Mrs. Shaw. “He came home from the hospital the last time June 6 and started crying when he saw a prand new television set which friends had bought for him. He didn’t think he deserved it. Since then he has become an avid tele vision fan.” A g : Newspaper articles describing Bobby’s plight have been kept from him. By special arrange ment, captions on pictures do not mention that the youngster is doomed, and these are shown to him. Station Agreement Radio stations here have agreed not to broadcast the story. The Shaw television set will be turned off at the start of the program tonight. Mrs. Shaw will be in telephone contact with the station. During the first five. minutes of (Continued On Page Two) ELMONT, N. Y., June 16—(AP) —A groom and 21 racehorses were burhed to death early today in a spectacular fire which destroyed half of a big barn at Belmont Park racetrack. The groom, found burned to a crisp, apparently had been kicked unconscious by a horse he was trying to save. He was identified by police as Alfred Mitchell, 28, of Laurel, Md. Screams of horses could be heard a mile away, Long Island resi dents said. Nassau County Fire Marshal George Clough estimated damage at $250,000, including horses, barn and equipment, Seventy horses in the barn were saved, A brick fire wall m the center of the barn saved 50 horses and half the barn. The other 20 horses were led out by police, firemen and grooms. Most of the horses killed were jumpers, trained by Miss Judy Johnson. The horses had been left at the barn after racing shifted from Belmont Park to the Aqua duct track last.week., . .. of paint absent-mindedly placed on a stove ignited in one of the homes. Some 350 people were left homeless., — (AP Wirephoto.) ‘ . Three Assistants . Out Of Office By JACK ADAMS WASHINGTON, Jun 16—(AP). A broad reorganization of the gov ernment’s legal branch, the Jus tice Department, appeared in the making today in the wake of three new resignations by top officials. Out of office Saturday went ex~ actly half of the six assistant at torneys general: Qusted Personnel . Harold I. Baynton, 48-year-old Nevadan who headed the Office of Alien Property. His unit had been under congressional attack. H. Grabam Morison, 45, %( Johnson City, Tenn., and Bristol, Va., head of the Anti-Trust Di vision. - William A. Underhill, 42, of De land, Fla., chief of the Lands Di vision. President Truman’s new attor ney general, James P. McGranery, announced in Philadelphia that the resignations had been accepted. McGranery succeeded J. How ard McGrath as head of the Jus tice Department at the crest of a corruption-in-government uproar that had led to the ouster of still another assistant, T. Lamar Cau dle, fired by the President him self. The departure of the three oth ers was less dramatic. Courteous Resignations When McGranery took office May 27, all division heads sub mitted “courtesy resignations,” so that the new chief might have a free hand in organizing his de partment. McGranery announced Satur day, without elaboration, that three of these resignations were being accepted. Those leaving, for a return to private law practice, all served under both McGrath and his pred ecessor, Tom Clark, now a su preme €ourt justice. Dooly Sheriff Begins Def AMERICUS June 16 (AP) — The defense set out today to prove the innocence of a sheriff and two other men charged with illegal arrest and peonage. On trail in Federal District Court are Dooly County Sheriff John B. Fokes, Frank B. Calhoun of Unadillar and Calhoun’s son in-law, Edward T. Chancey. The three are charged with illegally arresting two Negroes, Theodis Blue and A. G. (Red) Cross, and forcing them to wort on Calhoun’s farm. 2 Defense attorney Charles J. Block of Macon said the defense would prove that Blue was ar rested by Fokes in the line of duty after Blue's indictment by a grand pury on an abandonment charge. He also said he would show that Calhoun was on the bond of Cross, arrested on liquor charges, and that under those circumstances had the right to remove the bond by returning the Negro to jail, Testimony last week revealed that Blue was arrested in Detroit Mich., and returned to a Georgia jaid on charges of abandonment, | Both the Negro and his wife denied the charge. Cross testified that Calhoun and Chancey had him jailed after they i dragged him {rom his house and |beat him with a pistol. Two wit | nesses supported the testimony. But Fokes said he found Cross threatening Chancey with an ax. An FBI agent, William E. Lee, told the eourt of a discrepancy in dates of Cross’ arrest and a war r@®t charging him with a liquor v@gation. 64 TIMES A FATHER CAIRO, Egypt, June 16—(AP) | —The newspaper Al Akhbar re ported today that Saudi Arabia's lKing Ibn Saud has become a father for the 64th time, SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY, Soviel th' STOCKHOLM, June 16—(AP) —(AP)—Soviet jet fighter planes shot down an unarmed Swedish military search plane off the coast of Estonia today, the government announced. The seven-man grew was picked up later by a Getman merchant ship. Two of the Sﬁladu ish crew were reported wounded. The plane was searching for ah other Swedish amr force plane missing with eight men aboard in the same area, where the Russians are reported holding vast air and sea maneuvers. Strong Protest The Swedish government, re flecting the anger of people,in the streets, delivered a strong protest to the Russians. Soviet Ambassador Constantine Rodienoy was summoned to the foreign office to receive the pro test personally from Prime Minis=- ter Tage FErlander, who is also foreign minister. Crowds in front of the Soviet Embassy jeered Rodionov as he left. Sweden demanded an immediate investigation and prompt punish ment of “those responsible for the outrage.” Erlander also delivered a sec ond request to the Russians that they halt further espionage activ ity by their diplomats in Sweden. This note referred specifically to the trial which opened here today of seven Swedes charged with selling out this nation’s entire viFal northern defense system to the Russians, Searched For Plane The Swedish military plane, an unarmed Catalina, was searching for a Swedish air force transport missing since Friday. It is feared that plane also was shot down by the Russians during their maneu vers. This would be a fate similar to one met by a U. S. Navy Privateer aircraft which disap peared in the same area two years ago with 10 men aboard. | S e lßa k Dividends | Pavable July 13 | . A typographic error in a story Sunday telling of the regular semi annual dividend and an extra dividend declared by directors of the National Bank of Athens has caused some confusion which the Banner-Herald regrets. The directors voted the divid ends on June 10 to stockholders of record June 30 and are payable on July 15, The regular dividend voted is SI.OO and the extra divid end is $1.50, the two amounting to $2.50 or 12 15 per cent. The latest dividents, voted bring the total dividends since the bank was organized in 1866 to $1,996,- 500.00, thus continuing the bank’s record of having never failed to pay a dividend since its establish ment. PLAY DATES ANNOUNCED Dates for University of Georgia Theatre productions for 1952-53 were announced this week by Leighton M. Ballew, head of the University drama department. The first of the season’s four productions will be given Novem-~ ber 4-6. Other plays will be pree sented Dec. 2-4 and Feb. 24-27. Dates for the final production of the wear are May 4-8 and May 11-28 1088, - . el ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1952, U. S. Officials Start High Level Talks With Allies In Face Of Soviet Move Kefauver, Taft Trade. Sharp Punches On TV . Mr. Republican J . Won't Try Again By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON, June 16—(AP) ~lf it should be Taft of Ohio vs. Kefauver of Tennessee in the main presidential bout, you can look for a free-swinging battle right up to the knockout. The two senators staged a gloves-off demonstration of this on television last night. When it ended, the perspiring Taft called it the hottest broadcast of the year—and apparently he wasn't talking about the weather. | “Slur!” Republican Taft cried at one point. ‘ “Then I'll take it back,” Demo-= crat Kefauver offered. That was easily the greatest dis play of senatorial courtesy that occurred as the legislators—each leading his party-in the number of convention delegates — debated foreign policy and a slate full of other issues on ‘“American Forum of the Air.” Once Kefauver called Taft an isolationist, Oh, No! “Oh, no! no! the Ohicnan ob jected, ? sigain, Kefauver—who gained frame as a televised crime prober—said it’s necessary to weed out racketeers and fixers at all levels. “Sen. Kefauver and I seem to agree,” Taft interjected, “that we ought to throw the administration out on the issue of dishonesty.” ' The series of barbed exchanges wound up-a busy day for both candidates. Taft had been on television earlier and he said, among other things, that it’'s now or never so far as his presidential hopes are concerned. . SRn e “I'm 62 years old.” he said, “and I’ll never run for president again.” But he said he thinks he has just about enough votes to win the novaination thig, ti F, What ' about ~ Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower’s description of him self, in a Detroit speech Saturday, as a “no-deal” candidate? Made No Deals Taft said he has made no deals, either—and owes no political debts to anyone, Was it quite cricket, he was asked, to choose a Taft supporter, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, as the GOP convention keynoter? Taft said it would be hard to find somebody who hasn’t taken sides. The thing to do, he added, yvzlt)s to find the best man for the job. Kefauver also took part in an ecrlier Sunday telecast—playing a real life Father’s Day role with his children, his wife Nancy, his 81-year-old father and sundry friends sharing the camera view of the senator’s back yard. It was all as relaxed as malted milk at bedtime, but Mrs. Kefau ver confided that it still was too exciting for her tastes. After the Chicago convention, win or lose, she said, “we’re going down to the farm in Tennessee and take off our shoes and really relax.” KIWANIS “LADIES NIGHT” The regularly scheduled midday Tuesday meeting of the Kiwanis Club will not meet. Instead, an informal “Ladies Night” will be held at the Athens Country Club on Tuesday evening, 7 p. m. The program will consist of musical entertainment arranged by Byron Warner. Members are urged to at tend. e SRR ok A : . SW e Sty Fe I 1 % e NS R o e PRI B e v ; B P S % Po e SL e 7 % 5% R R G S BT i e e T R e k- ikl e T .:v‘.l.:,'éi:»,.f‘:::',:‘:ch.v.“v.':-'-"‘. A ‘J:E" A : ggﬂ\" P S R I.*'% ¥ PR g £ P R ) SA TR e b O S o, L a O, dy Ger s T 4 A 1’?? R, ol SR Ba marl od e e e W Ay Bt |Sg- W, : Voot e LB S g Sptiae 5 " o = T, RO S A . 5 ‘-ii’:" 3 sk 2 ; g B A by el SRI T e B L . 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BRI %S B e e Leelß Pz AT e e R W A " oR S LSG Ie B oR s B S NGO Go A o ~&;:; e sel & S ‘.,’Z?é;’,::&. ;s&jﬁ:s»feﬁi’é&ﬂ:ﬁ;ﬁ‘» os SR R e R IRS s L Bz P N CRE e Shta ,E%'i% Sl G i el P Yol it SO G e 3 ’*{f ,) &r (i >P o G N %;ﬂ‘a‘#»z V 2 e %13}!?:' BEWILDERED WIDOW—-Mrs. Lela Josephine Franklin (seated), 14-year-old child widow, admits the future is uncertain now that her husband, James Franklin, 31, died of typhoid fever. He left the widow with two step sons, Bobby Joe, 11, (standing), and Wayne, 8. Her sis ter, Evelyn Cheatham, 15, stands behind Wayne. They live at Little Texas, Miss.— (AP Wirephoto.) . Beautiful Polish Spy Found Dead InLondon Hotel LONDON, June 16 —(AP)— A beautiful Polish noblewoman who served brilliantly as a wartime British spy was found stabbed to death early today in a Kensington hotel. Scotland Yard said a porter confessed to the killing. The victim was Countess Krys tyna Skarbek, 37, who served in France in actual combat under the French Marquisards and accom= plished daring feats of sabotage against the Nazis. Police picked up Dennis G. Mul downey, 41,"a porter, for ques tioning and later brought him te court to be charged formally with murder, Chief Inspector G. W. Jennings of Scotland Yard told the court that when he accused Mul downey, the porter blurted out: “I killed her. Let's get away from here and get it over quick=- ]y_n Held For Trial Muldowney was ordered held for a hearing July 1. : Hotel guests who heard the countess sereaming “Get him off me:” found her lying dead in a hall with a gaping knife wound in her chest. The countess, who became a naturalized Briton in 1947, was a former beauty queen in her native Poland. She offered her services to British Military Intelligence at the outbreak of the war. She was first sent to Hungary to set up communications with un derground groups in Poland and occupied Central Europe. Twice she fell into the hands of the Ges tapo, but escaped I&naided. “Later ghe ‘took parachute train ing and was dropped into France to work with resistance groups. She was officially credited with taking part in several actual bat tles against Nazi troops. The slim, dark~haired noble woman also directed underground sabotage teams which blew up bridges, derailed trains and raid ed various German headquarters. The British government award ed her the George medal for valor and made her a member of the Order of the British Empire, Champion Rife Services for George Moore Champion, sr., who died Saturday night at 9:05 o’clock, are to be conducted this afternoon at 5 o’clock from Central Presbyterian Church. Officiating will be the pastor of the church, Rev. C. C, Shafe, and Rev. H. E. Wright, pastor of Tal madge Heights Baptist Church and burial will follow in Oconee Hill . Cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pall-bearers will be Judge Olin Price, Hubert Bell, Reid Alexan der, Kenneth Eberhart, Julian Price, Richard Martin, David Betts and Jack Reeves. Surviving Mr. Champion is his (Continued On Page Two) " Read Daily by lf,oqgm___ In Aﬂlo‘ni !’E ! Big Three Powers Will Discuss Possibility Of Russian Confab BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, June 16,—(AP) —Under the t a possible new Russian drive to split the West, States officials started today a series of talks with and French representatives on problems dividing the ' powers. Korea, Indochina and Germany are high on the list of problems. And the talks Iﬁet added urgen cy from the week-end disclosure that Moscow ig assigning its chief deputy foreign minister, Andrei Gromyke, to be ambassador to London. New Move This looks to some officials like a major new Russian move in the cold war—and, more than likely, one aimed at disrupting the U. 8.~ British-French alliance which is the heart ¢f the Western defense system. Against this background, the Big Three powers will discuss, among other things: I—France’s desire for increased American nelp in carrying on its billion~dollar-a-year-war in Indo china, This was expected to be ‘the main theme of conferences to be held by Jean Letourneay, !French minister for relations with ‘the Indo-chinese states, who had ‘an appointmrent with Secretary of State Acheson today. The French man also is seeking to learn from State and Defense Department of ficials how much assistance the United States will give in case of a massive Chinese Communist at tack on Indochina. Truce Conduct : 2—The conduct of Korean truce negotiations and the handling of Communist prisoners of war. These matters are expected to be taken up by the British defense ministers, Lord Alexander, who is expected here to see Defense Sec retary Lovett and other top Am erican officials’ next week-end. Alexander is in Korea for a per sonal look at the situation. There has been growing criticienr in Bri tain of“the way the Korean sec~- tor of the struggle with Commun issm is being run. 3—How soon and under what conditions the Western powers should offer to meet with Russia to discuss German issues. These are the key questions to be ans wered in the preparation here, be ‘ginning early this week, of:a new ‘move to Moscow on German uni fication anad peace. The Russians have been pressini for talks. The Western powers have taken the position that the Reds must first agree to a nationwide political survey of Germany. Recently, however, there have been indica tions the French and perhaps the British thought a meeting of Big Four officizls might be held any way. Review of Problems 4 A review of the whole range of Allied difficulties, undoubt edly including the Korean, Rus sian-German and Indochinese as well as other problems. This is expected to be held by the Brit ish, French and American foreign ministers when Acheson goes to London in little more than a week. FARMERSBURG, Ind., June 16 —(AP)—A crack Atlanta to Chi cago train of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, 38 minutes behind schedule, jumped off the track Sunday and 17 passengers were injured, none seriously. The train, the Georgian, smash ed into poles along the track, shattering many windows, but the 15 derailed cars remained on their wheels. One coach plowed to within 20 feet of a front porch of a home where Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beaver and their six children slept through the noise. Dean and Mrs. Alvin Biscoe of this city yesterday received a telegram from their son, Al vin, jr., who was on board the Georgian, en route to Chicago to make flight connections to Portland, Oregon. The telegram revealed that Alvin was not in jured and read, “Georgian wrecked. Eight cars derailed. I wasn’t 2ven scratched.” E. E. Gordon, passenger traffic manager, said,“apparently a me chanical difficulty in the head car fouled the switch over which the train was passing.” Other railroad sources blamed a broken axle on the first passenger coach. The derailment tore up 1,500 feet of track through Farmersburg, a small town 15 miles south of Terre Haute. Government will WASHINGTON June (AP) — The government will try this week start enough steel flowing from -* » nation’s strike-closed steel idils to prevent a crippling halt in the production of weapons. The White House announced that a four-man committee of the CIO " steelworkers had been dir ected by union President Philip Murray to help work out an ac ceptable plan for mesting defense needs for steel. Both the union and industiry (Continued On Page Two) EDI’I‘IONI Atlanfa Paper Has Editorial Under a heading of “@larke County’s Traffic Reecord Shews Value of Firm, Fair Stand” the three courts of this eo law enforcement officialg mn - operation of the citizens & pai high tribute by Atlanta C - tion Staff Write Keeler - ney. Mr. McCartney ? writin, - ries of articles under the head of “Murder on Highways” and his work into all parts of :ae state. checks personally iﬂ" n given him and also w « great deal more facts. .:: several days here ecomp: facts on this coumey.. . . Following is the text of M. Me- Cartney’s article dealim Clarke County, which ‘ on the front page of this m s Constitution: “Clarke County sets am c{; standinf examfle of t ) accomplished in e en forcement and t!'c? e . “Records in Clarke sho three judges who hear cases &re utterly im?'rﬁ tences reflect no sYec al p for anyone, regardless of ¢ color or influence. “The county police, police and State Patrol from the same radio statiem, k in effect, welds the three “ single, weli-oiled enigrcemm which works closely w courts. “The result is a county, thread ed by four federal highways #od dozens of state and county . listed by the State Patrol ag eme of ‘the safest In Georgia. ght persons were killed in aute je dents over Clarke last year, of them non-residents. b “Athens, a thriving ;ﬂ of 35,000, including the University Georgia, has no pressing g problem. Athens has had only ene fatality this year-—an eight-yegr old Negro boy who ran inte the side of a passing truck—compared with two for a similar period of last year. “Soft - spoken, mild - mannered Judge Arthur 8. Oldham of m ens City Court and Recorder OM Price carry the major part of the traffic burden. Willfuf vielgge who face Judge Henry 1 in Clarke Superior Court same atmosphere. Fair Hearing “‘Citizens will respect the courts when they are made to Wi~ derstand that the court intemds to give them a fair hear&. and tn consideration,” Judge Oldham de clared. ‘We carry out thet prae tice and we feed everyone frem the same spoon. “‘For many years we ha tg'l; ized the seriousness of trq& violations. A person foelish ~$ to endanger his own life and life of another by driving while drunk is a potential menace to any community and must be m to realize the seriousness of crime.’ “Judge Oldham beog,ms w& ® S2OO fine and six months’ license revocation for the first of fense of drunk driving, provided there are no agg;favaging cbcza stances. Second offenders pa to. SSOO, are placed on proLlon and lose their licenses for a year. “‘ln 12 years on the bench Pve never had a third offender brought before me, he said “I'm sure that should call for a prison sentence.” “Clarke judges do not believe in returning driver licenses ‘for business only.’ “‘ tried that, Judge Oldham said. ‘People won't keep faith, so I discontinued the practice.’ “Criminal , court records show thoser found driving while their licenses are in revocation pay fines up to SSOO and serve 12 menths on probation. “In Atlanta, Capt. W. P. Grin steag, supervisor of the Patrol driver responsibility section, said he knew of no instance in which either of the Clarke judges re turned a license before the end of the original revocation period. Same Treatment “qf ali our courts were like those in Clarke, we wouldn’t have (Continued On Page Tweo) WEATHER ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair to partly cloudy and het this afternoon, tonight amnd Tuesday, with widely scaétered afterncon and evening thunder showers. Low tenight 72 and high tomorrow 95. Sun seis to day at 7:46 and rises tomerrow at 5:21. GEORGIA — Partly w and continued hot this noon, tonight and Tuesday; scattered afiernoon or eveming thundershowers. '

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