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Vgr Three THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1942. he South' Standard Newspaper U. S. Coiiliiiucs''Zfifie Plunges Down Ihmh Its Probe of Lieutenant (jg) D. H.

B. fjlmcr and his pHsscnerr, KnMgn C. 01-Ken, escaped injury when their f. ft i vv Cliule Reports plane plunged over an embank mcnt nt the edge of the field at United States Navnl Rcurrv Aviation Base In Atlanta during a landing yesterday. 20 Fnlc Humor Ginned Air Station In rrVsnrota, Fla an4 were In a group of planes flying to a northern destination.

NELSON IN CANADA. WASHINGTON, July 17. Donald Nelson, chairman of th War Production Board, left by plane today for Canada to confer with C. W. Howe, Canadian minister of munitions and supply.

The most inexpensive form of advertising is the kind that brings results; you can sell or rent almost anything through low-cost Constitution Want Ads. Phone WA. 6565. Banned Music (roup Appeals To use volt Invitation Alo lManmtl to Union Head To Visit Camp. 1NTERLOCHEN, July 17.

VT) Youthful students at the famed National Music Camp, banned from the air through an edict from the American Federation of Musicians to the National Broadcasting Company, today appealed to President Roosevelt to Needless Labor, Army Says. NEW YORK, July 17. (P) The Lieutenant Ulmcr, pilot of the plane, said his left brake failed and he realized he was unable to the direction of his ship Army's eastern defense command said in effect tonight that the old Yankee weakness for exaggeration was causing needless labor for by the brakes. He also realized he was too close behind a plane that had landed just ahead of him to take off again. So he attempted to groundloop his ship, not aware that a steep embankment lay just military and civilian personnel in the northeast who were kept busy all day searching for non-existent parachutists.

Lieutenant Colonel E. J. Glavin, public relations officer for the command, stated that more than 20 false rumors of pnrnchute land DR. E. G.

GRIFFIN Dr. I. G. Lockett DENTISTS Hours: to 6. Sunday 9 to 1 113i Alabama SL WA.

1612 beyond the edge of the field. The plane plunged down the bank, turning completely over in the ditch below. Neither occupant of the plane received any Injury, however. Both are frcm the Naval ings were received today while the Army continued to investigate a report that six parachutes were seen descending last night a few ml V- I miles from President Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate. In the statement issued tonight Colonel Glavin said that in the wake of last night's report "there Conttitution Btulf Photo Bill Miion.

have been many false reports cir dilating which tend to cause alarm "take some action which will allow us to continue," The student committee which telegraphed the message to the chief executive also announced they would extend an invitation to James C. Petnllo. president of the Musicians Union, to come to the camp and be convinced for himself that the broadcasts should be permitted. "Our broadcasts always have been one of the highlights of our study here." the students' message to the President declared. "They have been an inspiration to music students all over the United States as well as ourselves Won't you take some action that will enable us to continue?" In Washington Senator Vanden-berg.

Republican, Michigan, told the senate today he was demanding an investigation into the situation. Richard Himber Ordered Off NBC NEW YORK. July 17. (JP) The American Federation of Musi-rians. headed bv James C.

Petrillo, and fear in the localities where they originated." He cited these examples as typi TRESS IS READY Otis Brumby (left), "editor of the Cobb County Times and president of the Georgia Press Association, is shown here with H. Carl Wolf, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, at the luncheon which yesterday featured the opening of the Association's two-day convention at the Ansley hotel. Brumby said the press is ready to serve the nation in the all-out war effort. INFORMAL MOMENT The camera caught this interesting group in an informal moment at the luncheon yesterday in connection with sessions of the Georgia Press Association. Left to right are Mrs.

II. H. Trotti, wife of the vice president and business manager of The Constitution; Albert Hardy, editor and publisher of the Gainesville News, and Winship Nunnally, Georgia CAP. cal of the false, rumors: A man in New York state tried to tease or impress a 14-year-old boy by saying he had seen a para chutist "dropping from a dark plane." The boy informed the ne; est aircraft warning post, and only after a check of the source was 11 Publishers the hoax revealed. Reds Recross Don in Fierce Another instance "resulted in iven Merit elaborate investigation of another report of parachutist activities which proved to be entirely un Awards Here announced today it had ordered I founded in fact and based on care less rumor," he said.

Continued From First fage. The command said that other reports had been received from Maine 'and New Jersey as well as Counterattack Continued From First Page. railway points leading east to the rich Volga port of Stalingrad. German losses were reported running into tens of thousands killed, with hundreds of Nazi McGinty publisher. 2.

Chats-worth Times, Roy McGinty New York state of alleged para publisher. 3. Gainesville News, chute landings. In New Jersey the Albert Hardy, publisher. J.

C. Williams Trophy (best edi parachutes turned out to be bal torial page): 1. Douglas Enterprise, Thomas Frier, publisher. 2. loons released to secure meteorological data, it was said.

Calhoun Times, J. Roy McGinty, publisher. 3. Nashville Herald, A. local 802 to take dance bands of Richard Himber and Teddy Powell off the NBC Red network beginning tonight.

"We've ordered the Himber and Pcrweil bands off, the air," a spokesman for the union said tori a "because they're feeding music to KSTP, the St. Paul-Minneapolis radio station with whom we're having a labor dispute." District Club Winners Given At Carrollton W. Starling, publisher. Atlanta War Cry Trophy (best religious editorial): 1. Blackshear Times, Kirk Sutlive, publisher.

2. Thomson McDuff ie Progress, James Ansley, editor. 3. Ellaville Herald, and Pleasant A. Stovall, of the Savannah Evening Press, previously had been placed in the hall.

"Plug State," Says Governor. Governor Talmadge and Mayor Hartsfield welcomed the editors during the opening sessions, and Talmadge deviated to give a report on the "State of the State." He called on the editors to write more about the excellence of Sun, Raymond Duncan, publisher. tanks, planes and guns destroyed in both areas. Tanks Take Heavy Toll. Soviet tanks covering the Red army's withdrawal in the Mille-rovo area were said to have killed 1,200 Germans in one sector where the Nazis were striding through the Wheatland approaches of the Caucasus.

Millerovo is about 125 air line miles north of Rostov, the south-em anchor of the Red army based on the sea of Azov, and Likhaya, an intermediate point between the two cities is a junction on the railway which branches east to Stalingrad. It is that junction toward which the Nazis are slowly progressing. Stalingrad, within 175 miles of W. B. Sutlive Trophy (commu nity service): 1.

Monroe Walton Tribune, Ernest Camp, publisher. Nashville Herald, A. W. Star ling, publisher. 3.

Thomson Mc ll i Duffie Progress, James Ansley, editor. Georgia, reiterated that New York is the nation's most illiterate state, saying "we have the brightest, 4-H Club Boys and Girls From 30 Northwest Counties Compete. 9 pl I ft i 1 i happiest and best educated peo Chamber Is Host. The Atlanta meeting is the first ple in the whole United States" in time the association has met in Georgia. "I think," he said, "that I have contributed more to the uiwv CARROLLTON, July 17.

the fighting, was in greater dan Atlanta in 25 years, and drew com ger with each hour; Rostov and success of our two big Atlanta pa ment at a midday lunch at the (3) Georgia 4-H Club boys and the armies based on the west Cau pers than any other man. I don't know what they would have to write about if I quietly passed 1 casus corner were in grave peril of envelopment by the German Atlanta Athletic Club by Carl Wolf, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The chamber was host to delegates at forces southeast of Millerovo. away." Brumby devoted much of his Constitution Staff Photo Bill Maion. Only at the Russians' northern the dinner.

annual address to appealing to anchor, Voronezh, at least 175 Wolf commented on the fact that the organization has not selected miles north of the furthermost point of Nazi penetration, were jp I editors to continue their efforts for victory. He reviewed the year's activities and praised the Atlanta as its convention city for a quarter of a century, and told the Germans mired. There the Russian chances grew brighter BOND WINNER II. H. Trotti, right, vice president and business manager of The Atlanta Constitution and treasurer of the Georgia Press Association, yesterday was the lucky man among the state's 200 editors when he annexed a new $50 war bond in a drawing among association members.

James D. Robinson president of the First National Bank, is making the award. the editors that Atlanta's interests co-operation of association mem bers. He called for a continued in with every Red army counterat dependent press for facts, full tack. girls from 30 northwest Georgia counties competed here today for the honor of representing their counties and district in state-wide contests to be held later this summer.

It was the final district competition, sponsored by the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service. Similar meets have been held in Tifton, Douglas and Athens. O. B. Copeland, extension editor, reported the winners as follows: Dairy foods demonstration, Rebecca White and Alva Osborne, DeKalb county; livestock judging, Larry Staples, Carroll county, and Bill Evans, Cobb county; Southeastern Fair team demonstration, Laverne Jones and Julia Moody, DeKalb, for girls, and Boyd Coffey and Glenn Smith, Murray, for boys.

tacts impartially presented. and those of the state are identical. He promised that businessmen of Georgia are "going to take more interest in politics." Mrs. Edmund Hughes sang the "Star Spangled Banner" as a cli Our problems are common max of the dinner. H.H.

Trotti Wiser-and Richer- ones, our interests are common, and we should be neighbors attempting to solve them as neighbors," Wolf said in welcoming the convention. For Attending Press '-Meeting "Proud of Atlanta." In response, Brumby expressed II. II. Trotti, vice president and like a fashion plate in a bluish green suit. He formerly was gratification businessmen are business manager of The Constitution and treasurer of the Geor Clothing contest, Sammie Lou Bowman, Catoosa; Annette Kelley, speaker of the Georgia house of representatives and was chairman of the State Highway Board.

He gia Press Association, who believes in taking in the cash, dem DeKalb, Hermice Daniell, Cobb, and Rose Lester, Paulding. Yeast bread contest, Dorcas Morgan, onstrated his ability yesterday Voroshilovgrad Claimed. (A special German communique said German infantrymen had stormed and captured Voroshilovgrad, capital of the Donets coal country, which the German -tank formations had bypassed in their plunge to Millerovo and beyond. (The German high command said that German armies pushing toward the lower course of the Don had cut the railway to Stalingrad at a point some 55 miles south of Millerovo. The German communique also claimed the envelopment of many Russian divisions which, it said, were trying unsuccessfully to cut their way eastward.

(German-jcontrolled reports via Ankara and Stockholm said Joseph Stalin had gone from Moscow to Stalingrad to personally direct the defense of this Volga gateway to the East Caucasus). lost three races for the governor ship by small margins. Albert Hardy managing edi when he received a $50 war bond in a drawing during the afternoon. Butts: Clinnelle Parker, Musco The first name pulled from the pee. Public speaking, Harriette Clark, DeKalb.

for girls, and Bill drawing box was that of Miss preparing to take an interest in politics. "The press welcomes them," Brumby said. "The Georgia Press Association is proud of Atlanta. We do not subscribe to any policy of pitting one interest against another. Vou can not hurt Atlanta without hurting every county in Georgia." He then praised Atlanta business interests for their co-operation in assisting to establish the Bell bomber plant in Cobb county, near Marietta.

Evans. Cobb, for boys. tor of the Gainesville News, edited by the elder Hardy, is doing very well, he admits. He got his early Emily Woodward, former associa tion president, but she was ab Rifle contest, Bert Alexander, Cobb, and Forrest Brumbalow, Carroll, for boys, and Dorothy 0 Air Cooled Jersey (dresses! 1 -9S 3B'95 Study Press Problems. During the day, the editors attacked publishing problems.

Speakers from Georgia and neighboring states were on the programs. J. Howard Fore, president of the Louisiana Press Association and editor of The Bunkie Record, praised newspapers and said the federal government is placing immense confidence in the good judgment of editors throughout the nation. He said the newspapers are "highly complimented and few of them ever have broken faith." Among other speakers on yesterday's program were John Davis, Thomas Frier, Roby Robinson, Belmont Dennis, L. A.

Lee, Glen Pendergrass, Ralph McGill, who spoke of "What the Office of Censorship Expects of Newspapers;" Hunter Golson, past president of the Alabama Press Association; Ryan Frier, H. H. Wind, Frank Miller, Carmage Walls, H. V. Wells past president of the Tennessee Press Association; Rush Barton, E.

P. Hall D. B. Turner, L. P.

Cross, Albert S. Hardy, vice president of the National Editorial Association and former president of the Georgia Press Association. Hardy is slated to be elected president of the national organization at its next meeting. Advertisers To Speak. Executives of six large adver- training, that which Hardy could not beat into him, on The Constitution under the tutelage of sent, and the rules required the winner to be present.

Trotti's name was then drawn. Tanner, Fulton, and Eula Ellis, Floyd, for girls. Health, Lucy Mae the late Bob Moran, night city edi tor of The Constitution. Louie Morris, editor of The Cogburn and Fred Kellog, Cobb, Mrs. MeWhirter Hartwell Sun and president of the Tom Arnold, former city editor Five past presidents of the as shortest railroad in the world, of the old Atlanta Georgian sociation were presented keys says his railroad is the only one to make the Bible.

"You remem commemorating their services by Dies Here at 91 doesn like deadlines or metro politan newspaper headlines any H. H. Trotti, vice president and ber where the Bible says 'and Mrs. Sarah D. MeWhirter, 91, God created all creeping things'? more, he said yesterday.

He's now editing the North Georgia Tribune business manager of The Atlanta Constitution and treasurer of the The steppes southeast of Millerovo, cloaked in a sea of waving at Canton and likes his new as died yesterday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. William Vernon Skiles, 1057 Springdale association. Hall of Fame, That was referring to my railroad." The road runs from Hart-well to Bowersville about 12 miles. wheat and cut by shallow rivers, 6ignment. road, following a brief illness, presented the scene of the great est danger.

Just before the afternoon ses Vacation Bible School Mrs. MeWhirter, a native of Il The Russians, even in general sion closed, Louie Morris, former president of the organization, and linois, had resided here with Mrs Held at Moimtville Editor P. T. McCutcheon, 77, has the distinction of being the Skiles for several years, retreat, were lashing back repeatedly at the huge tanks and infan Dr. John Drewry, of the Henry So sleek for this sweltering sumlner! Air-cooled Jersey for desk-time, date-time, dress-up time anytime you choose, Jersey's up-to-the-minute in fashion.

Cream-puff pastel dirndls, spliced with lacy inserts; black 'n white chic-checked shirtwaists with bright belt trims; garden- In addition to her daughter, she LAGRANGE, July 17. only member of the Georgia Press try masses which are pushing orady acnooi oi journalism, university of Georgia, added the The annual Daily Vacation Bible is survived by a grandson, Lieu them southeastward. school is in progress this week at tenant William V. Skiles names of the late James R. Gray Dispatches told how they left the Mountville Methodist church.

brother. Oscar Stephenson, and this morning on a round-table dis-' the wheatfields choked with Ger with the Rev. Homer Leroy Mor two. nephews, Bryan and Fred and John S. Cohen, of the Atlanta Journal, and William G.

Sutlive, of the Savannah Evening Press, man bodies and the wreckage of gan, minister to children of the Stephenson. tanks, guns and planes. Druid Hills Methodist church, The body will be taken to Troy to the associations hall of fame, But these wheatlands were to Atlanta, directing the activities Grove, 111- today for funera The hall is located at the Univer gay splash print casuals with semi-peg skirts. Yes. there's a Jersev for everv The Rev.

Morgan will work as as have played a large part in feed cussion oi advertising. Stewart elders will preside. Tom Arnold will tell the editors "What To Do About Free Publicity." Election of new officers, adoption of resolutions and other business of the session will be conducted. During the afternoon editors will be guests at the coun sity of Georgia, and will be -re sistant to the pastor, the Rev. Carl mg the nation the coming services.

Deep Well in LaGranjre moved to the new library build ing when it is completed. winter. 'ill At one river crossing below Millerovo the Russians turned on Busts or oil portraits of Henry W. Grady and Clark Howell, for moment in your busy, but fashionable, summer. Sizes 9 to 15 and to 24 la- HIGH'S SCCONO FLOOR FASHIONS Is Purchased liy City Special tn THE CONSTITUTION.

their attackers and dealt them a try home of Otis Brumby for re mer editors of The Constitution; Bowdre Phinizy, of the Augusta freshments. savage blow, destroying 14 tanks and killing 600 men. In this same Association to attend every annual convention since the organization was founded 56 years ago. He was one of three who wrote the first constitution for the organization. He edits the Franklin News and Banner.

R. E. L. Majors, of the Clax-ton Enterprise, likes his initials. He was named for General Robert Edward Lee, and heJs slated to become president of the Georgia Press Association at closing sessions of the convention today.

Misses Etta and Ver. Greene, sisters and editors of the Gray News, think all Georgia editors like to visit Atlanta, and give that as the reason for the large attendance. When surprise was expressed that so many were present, Miss Vera replied, "Oh, no Georgian, and especially a woman, ever misses an opportunity to come to Atlanta." Mayor Hartsf ield yesterday sector a German flanking opera tion was defeated, the attackers losing 1,800 dead and 14 tanks dispatches' said. Snow White. and Easy to Clean ll The Germans were heedless of the losses.

They constantly threw in more men and machines and they still were strongly supported from the air, with dive bombers BAGS PLASTIGFLEX J. Dodds for the next two months, directing the work of the children and youth of that church. Assisting as teachers in the Bible school are Mrs. C. R.

Caudle, for beginners; Miss Marie Thrash, for the primary group: the Rev. Morgan, Mrs. Arthur Moore, and Mrs. Abner Woodward for the junior group. The play director is the Rev.

Carl Dodds Jr. Enrolled are children from four to 12 years, inclusive, from the Mountville community. Closing exercises are scheduled for Friday night, July 24, and all the citizens of this community are invited to attend, the affair to be in the nature of an "open house." AMASON REUNION. TIGNALL, Ga-July 17. The Amason family reunion will be held in Lexington, Oglethorpe county, at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Warren Daniel on Sunday, July 26, it is announced by Ophelia Amason, secretary. Family connections are urged to be present. Dinner will be spread at noon. LAGRANGE, July 17.

The city of LaGrange this week purchased from Mrs. M. F. McClendon the deep well on her property in the city limits, near the site of the old McClendon pond, for years the only swimming and boating site in the city. The well, dug by the city in 1922, when the city's water supply needed additional quantity of water, and rented from the McClendons since that time, has been fitted with modern equipment since 1930 and is a definite aid to the city's water supply, especially in "low periods." George H.

Sargent, city engineer, states the capacity of the well is 105 gallons per minute, and the consideration involved was around $3,000. SKIN IRRITATIONS slashing at the Red Army lines before tanks and infantrymen rushed them. On the upper Don, on the west side of the city of Voronezh, the Germans apparently were still vff clinging to their positions. But north and northwest of the city Oblong Shape Plasticflex Checks Leather-like Lacings Big 'n Roomy Cleans Easily Snowy-White limits the Russians were reported throwing the Germans back and "complained" that editors were holding their first state convention in Atlanta since 1917. He urged them to come more often, and "enjoy our hospitality which is the finest in the world, with all due respects to every other community in the world." New priority fashion baRs! Smart with any costume big.

enough for all your do-dads easy to clean Just nib the surface with a damp cloth. breaking into their hastily forti fied positions, leaving many ra vines and hills cluttered with of broken machines and bodies. John Holder, editor of the Herald for 51 years, and one South of the city in the caused by junction of the Don and BAGS HIGH'S STREET FLOOR (externally Uud) Check Itching Burning th antiseptic easy way with famoucBlack ana White Ointment- Promotes healing clearing help. Uw only as directed. Cleanse daily with Black and Wbite Skin Soap.

5 PIMPLES ACNE TETTER ECZEMA Voronezh rivers, the Russian po sition was more acute. Here, Hun garian cavalry was attacking be hind tanks. of Georgia's most prominent po- i litical figures until he retired from active politics, appeared in the convention halls dressed something 1 OLIUEV3 AMD white PETROLEUM JELLY.

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