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II THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Monday, OetoW 7, 193T Sunday Stops Spate Store Holdups By MARION GAINES The outbreak of liquor store holdups in Atlanta-seven within the past six days Sunday night prompted Little Rock Called Blow to State GOP By WILLIAM M. BATES Constitution Political Editor The Republican Party of Georgia so far appears to nave weathered the Arkansas integration crisis with its organization largely intact and no major defections among its leadership. Atlanta New York Non-stop then observe: '(K'u vv state organization, said she has no intention of quitting the party because the state GOP Executive Committee turned down her proposal to censure President Eisenhower. "I'm going to continue fighting within the Republican Party," the Augusta newspaperwoman said. BLOW TO PARTY SEEN However, Miss Twiggs made no secret of her belief that the Republican Party in the state has been dealt a severe blow by the President's handling of the Little Rock integration crisis.

"I would certainly say that at "1 i j1 -it i i I I Lj! I 3 i 1 Staff Photo Hudh Stovll OLDEST, YOUNGEST CHEST VOLUNTEERS Mrs. Mary M. Brownlow, Debbie Wynne, Mrs. Dora Harmon any Skills Needed To Push Chest Drive By MARJORY RUTHERFORD A telephone operator came into Community Chest headquarters a little uncertainly the other day. I III I if i 1 i 4 Mi aw 4, i i4 i 1 i 1 i I I i I to run a united campaign.

We're grateful for the several hundred now doing advance work to back up the 18,000 volunteers who will actually solicit funds during our drive." The drive runs from Oct. 9 through Oct. 29. Chest volunteers come from all walks of life, from every corner of the Fulton-DeKalb-Cobb area served by this year's campaign. They're in almost every age bracket.

And they tackle unsung, unrewarding jobs like stapling and stuffing letters, counting and packing supplies for campaign divisions, typing, filing, telephoning. They draw maps for campaign soMctors, write letters, do special art work, ask friends and neighbors to volunteer. RALLY WEDNESDAY These "behind-the-s cents volunteers" have a lot to do with the giant Wednesday night rally at Alexander Memorial Coliseum that officially will open this year's Chest drive. Many Chest volunteers "just walk in and offer their services." Others come through friends and board members of Red Feather agencies. Chest leaders are grate Do you need anybody on your switchboard?" she asked timidly.

"I guess you'll be betting a lot more calls during the Red Feather drive. I know you folks do a lot of good. I thought, if you need me. I'd come down and help out on my day off. The words were hardly out of her mouth before harried Chest leaders had her plugging in a long-distance connections.

Over in another corner of the headquarters two sweet-faced women who live at Battle Hill Haven were busily packing pledge cards. HELPS 6 YEARS "I gave a full morning every day this week," smiled Mrs. Dora S. Harmon, who's looking forward to her 83rd birthday anniversary in December. been doing this for six years now every fail when Chest campaign time rolls around.

Seems the least I can do when the Chest means so much to me!" Her co-worker, Mrs. Mary M. Brownlow, nodded. "You know," she pointed out, "some of these pledges are used for folks like us at Battle Hill." Youngest Chest volunteer, three-year-old Debbie Wynne, had no remarks. She just kept counting out receipts for her mother, Mrs.

Owen Wynne of 692 Camp bell Hapeville, to package. A NEW GAME? "She thinks it's a new game," smiled her mother. Debbie's "game" is important to the Tri-County Community Chest, which this week launches a $2,335,098 fund-raising campaign for 57 Red Feather agencies. "Our great Community Chest movement depends on volunteers from the policy-making board of directors right down to clerical help," declared William C. Wardlaw Chest president.

"It takes all kinds of skills nuwever, tne party doubtless has suffered a loss of prestige among white rank-and-file voters in me state. And this adds up to a setback, at least for the immediate future. to GOP two-par-f ty hopes in1 staunchly Denw cratic Georgia. Republ i a nflV ranks in several states of the South have been thinned by res Balm ignations of some leaders In protest against President Eisenhower's decision to send troops into Little Rock. But GOP spokesmen here report no major desertions of party leaders in Georgia.

IKE BUTTONS DISCARDED However, at least two county "Democrats for Eisenhower" leaders-Carl Seiler of Savannah and E. B. Parker of Brunswick-have turned in their "I Like Ike" buttons. So have Mrs. W.

F. Nor ton of Augusta, vice chairman of the Richmond County GOP, and Qt. Steve Knight, Muscogee County commissioner who ran as a Republican. Otherwise, the GOP leadership ranks seem to be holding firm. miss- Margaret S.

Twiggs of Augusta, a vice chairman of the Films on State To Be Shown Two films from the Georgia Department of Commerce will be shown at a meeting of the Senior Citizens Library Club at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Atlanta Public Library. "Land of the Cherokee," one of the films to be shown, is the story of the Cherokee Nation. "Our 13th Colony," the other, depicts a tour of the entire state. Meetings of the club are open to the public.

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R. F. Jordan, chief of the city detective robbery squad, said he has thrown every available officer into the search for the bandits who struck the seven liquor stores and escaped with total cash in the neighborhood of $1,000. 2 WHITE MEN Police records show that five of the seven holdups reportedly were perpetrated by two white men. Whether all five stickups were pulled by the same two-man team at this point is still conjectural but detectives have admitted several of the robberies display striking similarities in the bandits' operational pattern.

The rash of robberies broke out last Monday when Andrew A. Tsiropoulas, manager of a whisky store at 565 Boulevard, NE, told police that two white bandits forced him to lie face down on the floor, then slugged him on the head with a bottle of liquor and fled with about $100. Two liquor stores were held up within minutes of each other Tuesday, records show, and in both instances the bandits were identified as two white men. And, following Monday's script, the clerk in one store was smacked savagely with a bottle of wine. WINE BOTTLE F.

A. Boatfield, employe in the Crown Liquor Store at 237 Piedmont NE, told detectives he was slugged with a wine bottle and forced at pistol point to lie face down on the floor as the pair made off with about $100. Two men answering the same descriptions minutes later 'stuck up the Derby Liquor Store at 471 Peachtree NE, and fled with about $42, police said. Wednesday apparently was an off-day for the whisky store specialists, but a lone Negro bandit burst into the Delta Loan Office, 332 Whitehall fired one shot above the heads of two terrified employes and dashed out with between records show. Friday was a three-in-one affair, but two white gunmen were involved only in the stickup of the Southern Liquor Store, 501 Spring NW, which was robbed of about $250 plus clerk Luke van Sandt wallet con- taimng NEGRO BANDIT The two other Friday holdups were pulled by lone Negro bandits at 283 Peters SW, where about $311 was snatched, and at 245 Fort NE, where the loot was around $175.

A pair of white bandits turned up again Saturday night at tne Inman Park Liquor Store, 1171 McLendon NE. Store manager H. D. Pope told officers that one of the men pulled a snub-nosed revolver, snapped, "This is a stickup," and ordered him to lie face down on the floor. A customer entered, Pope said, Will Hold Valdosta totaled more than 150, reported Dr.

Dick M. Hall of Decatur, president of the board of trustees. Dr. James P. Wesberry, pastor of the Morningside Baptist church," Atlanta, and president of the convention, will preside.

He will give the president's address during the opening session on Tuesday morning. Some of the convention speakers are: Dr. Porter W. Routh, Nashville, executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention: Dr. H.

Cornell Goener, area secretary of tne Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board for Africa, Europe and the Near East; and Dr. Court Refrod, Atlanta, executive secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. R. J.

Robinson, pastor of the Augusta First Baptist Church, is scheduled to preach the convention sermon at the opening session Tuesday. Several pre-convention meetings will be held on Monday. Among these are the Pastors' Conference, the Brotherhood Conference, Ministers Wives, Religious Education Workers and the Executive Committee of the Convention. All of these meeting wi!) be held in various Valdosta churches. Azores Volcano Sprays Village HORTA, Azores, Oct.

6 MP) A subocean volcano that created a new island in the Azores last Tuesday spouted heavily again today and increased the island's size. It also spewed fiery rocks, weighing up to 45 pounds over the coast of the nearby island of Fayal. These damaged the Cape-linhos lighthouse and homes in the village of Capelho. The new eruptions are the most violent recorded since the volcano became active Sept. 26.

They brought the island to a height of 2,400 feet. The cone's crater is now three times the size of and the gunmen told him to wait on the customer. When it developed that he needed a nickel in order to give the customer change, Pope said, one of the robbers fished out a five-cent piece for him. They then escaped with an undetermined amount of money, detectives said. A lone gunman lost $5 Saturday when he attempted to rob a supermarket at 111 Chestnut NW.

His pistol fired and he ran from the store, leaving groceries and a five-dollar bill he had laid on the counter. Tcniiesscan Replies to Race Charge The head of a biracial Tennessee workshop said Sunday that a Georgian who claimed he "infiltrated" a Labor Day weekend meeting registered like any other applicant and that the sessions were covered by the press. Miles Horton, director of the Highlander Folk School at Mont-eagle, also said he had been unable to verify the agent's charge that a Daily Worker reporter attended the meeting. Horton said in a telegram that Highlander "did not and does not welcome enrollment of anyone of totalitarian philosophy whether from the extreme right or from the extreme left." In Atlanta Friday T. V.

Williams executive secretary of the Georgia Education Commission, told the group that leaders of every recent major racial incident in the South since the Su preme Court's school integration decision attended the Monteagle meeting. He said that a state employe, Ed Friend, worked as an "under cover agent who made contact and infiltrated" the session. In reply, Horton said that "Ed Friend paid the required registration fee like all other appli cants and voluntarily identified himself as a free lance photographer and water polution expert for the state of Georgia. There was no way of knowing Berry Opens New Addition To Library ConaUliitlon Sia'le Newf Service MOUNT BERRY, Oct. 6-Berry College opened the Sarah Hamilton Fleischmann addition to the college's Memorial Library with a formal dedication ceremony Sunday.

William McChesney Martin chairman of the board of trustees of the Berry Schools, in accepting the new building for the college, said that the library addition marked the beginning of a new phase in the Berry story. The expansion of the library, Martin said, "is only a part of our plans for the development of the Berry scnoois. miss Berry's vision and thoughts were always for the continued growtn and ever-increasing service of the schools, and we have a very great responsibility to carry on her work. Martin traced the history of Berry College and said the new library addition might enable the college to become accredited. A gift of the Max C.

Fleischmann Foundation of Nevada, the library addition has been named in honor of Mrs. Fleischmann, the widow of Maj. Max C. Fleischmann. Both were longtime friends of Martha Berry, the founder of the Berry Schools.

The new building provides book stack storage for an additional 77,000 volumes, and 5,704 square feet of reading room space accommodating 234 students. In the basement of the building is a fully-equipped audio-visual department with projection room, recording studio and seminar room, as well as facilities for the repair and binding of books. Doodles Is Married HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6 W-Tele-vision producer and comedian Winstead Sheffield (Doodles) Weaver, 40, and actress Reita Ann Green, 21, were married today. (Advertisement) What every husband needs "Each year as a man grows older it's more vital for his wife to let him know how much he's wanted," says Hannah Lees.

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Miss Twiggs was a leader of a Southern Republic bloc that secured a "moderate" integration "Tl, The President lured the con fidence and the votes of the Southern people by his promises of a return to states rights and constitutional government," she declared. "In my opinion his handling of this (Arkansas) situation from beginning to end is in direct violation of his promises and the Republican platform." "He has knifed the South in the back for a handful of Northern votes," Miss Twiggs added. Democratic leaders, of course, go even further than Miss Twiggs in their predictions of a bleak future for the GOP in Georgia. State Democratic Chairman John Sammons Bell said the Arkansas crisis "has had very little effect on Republicanism in Georgia for the simple reason that there was very little of it to affect." He said the Republican Party exists only for "patronage purposes." But a very different view is held by Republican National Committeeman Robert R. Snodgrass of Atlanta.

Snodgrass refuses to be discouraged by the effect of events in Arkansas on his party's future in the state and said "we are going to continue to work for a second party in Georgia." CANDIDATE IN 5TH DISTRICT Snodgrass declared emphatically that the GOP will again enter a candidate for Congress in the Fifth District next fall. It is in this district that the Republicans have made their most significant progress toward a real two-party system. Their candidates for the House seat now held by Rep. James C. Davis made respectable showings in 1954 and 1956.

Snodgrass said he was "tremendously proud of the Republican Party for its sound thinking as reflected in the "Statement of Policy" adopted by the state Executive Committee last Thursday. The policy satement, which was approved after rejection of Miss Twiggs' proposal to censure Eisenhower, expressed regret over the Little Rock But it said the President is charged with enforcing the law as interpreted by the federal courts. "If the problem of school integration is not to be handled by mob violence, it must be handled in accordance with the law," the statement said. And this, it continued, is not a political issue but a question that addresses itself to Southern Democrats and Republicans alike. voU more Maters Southern's cofP AHUM lT uotoW" ful to "faithful" groups which an They have a long list including the Atlanta Art Institute, Altrusa Club, National Secretaries Co-Ed Hi-Y, American Associa tion of University Women, Pilots Club, Northside Woman's Club, St.

John's Parish Diocesan Council of. Catholic Women, Pharmaceutical and Medical Auxiliaries, Doraville Woman's Club, Decatur Junior Woman Club, Rhododendron Club, Adult Fellowship Class of Emory Presbyterian Church, Atlanta Art Institute, the PBX Club, and many others. "Volunteers plan our Chest drive. They are the Chest," sums up Wardlaw. "Bless them every one!" the three-million-dollar Baptist Village of Waycross will climax the convention.

The convention will hold a picnic and adjourned session Thursday, Nov. 14, at the village to formally open the initial unit, which will house 28 elderly persons. When completed, the village will accommodate 300 elderly, retired persons. Applications are pouring in and as early as May Georgia Baptist Convention 136th Meeting Nov. 12-14 at tarts Oct.

27 The 136th session of the Georgia Baptist Convention will be held Nov. 12-14 in the Valdosta State College auditorium, Dr. Searcy S. Garrison, executive secretary, announced Sunday. More than 1,000 messengers (delegates) are expected to attend the session.

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