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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 15

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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Tfaarwfojr, OcloWr SI. 1937 SHKf 4 ja -J "ii "vvv saw mx SHOP FRIDAY NIGHT TILL "r'jC --T rp Mfcr, IMIIJIIIHI til I I ft Mik 8 Staff Phot-Jerry Huff GRADY GOBLINS' PARTY Children at Grady Hospital were guests at a Halloween party Wednesday afternoon. Here young "goblinc" Alma Jean Smith (left), Donna Lester, Frank Wooten and Sheila Howard enjoy refreshments. Mrs. Edward Glaser helps Alma Jean with a piece of cake.

The Council of Jewish Women were hostesses at the party. Mrs. Hodges Is Held Under $50,000 Bond By KEELER McCARTNEV Convicted lottery queen Margaret Hodges, 40, Wednesday was ordered held under $50,000 bond for Fulton Criminal Court in connection with the latest lottery Chest Drive Tops 75 Pet. of Goal Here The Tri- County Community Chest Campaign, which moves Thursday into the final eight days of its 1957 drive, has attained three-fourths of its goal, Chest officials said Wednesday night. "We've collected about so far," a Chest official said.

"That means we've achieved 75 per cent of our objective. And we're extremely hopeful that the first-of-the-month pay days coming up for many people will give us an extra boost toward getting that other 25 per cent." The Chest campaign, which encompasses Fulton, DeKalb and Cobb counties, is scheduled to close Nov. 8 at noon. cnarge against ner. Municipal Judge James Webb I l1 r- I ill Is Xx MA Vt r.

1 Sr Ft ''A -v, leased immediately. Cox said the hold was on an entirely different Parkway drive address. Cox, who was net present at that raid, and Fulton Criminal Court Sol. John I. Kelley obtained a search warrant later and searched Mrs.

Hodges' home on Peachtree-Dun-woody road. Cox and Kelley said they found investigation than the lottery charges on which the two were bound over. Mrs. Hodges and Mrs. Lambert were arrested Tuesday by homicide detectives in a raid at the evidence of a telephone lottery business, together with lottery paraphernalia.

They added this included a memorandum showing how much money several pickup men owed and other papers which appeared to have been written in code. Kelley said investigators found also assessed a $10,000 bond against Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Lambert, 61, of 706 Parkway NE, who was arrested with Mrs. Hodges. Det.

J. F. Inman said both women waived preliminary hearing and after Judge Webb fixed the amount of bond Mrs. Hodges said in sarcastic tones: "Thank you very much, Judge Jimmy Webb." Meantime, trouble appeared to be mounting for the gray-haired woman, who was brought back from a five-year sentence at Tattnall State Prison to testify before the Fulton County and federal grand juries in connection with the recent lottery investigation. Lt.

W. M. Cox, head of the Metropolitan Lottery Squad, said a hold order which he placed on Mrs. Hodges and Mrs. Lambert at city jail would not be re CITY HALL NEWS Hide and Landers Review 12 Requests for 5 58 Funds By HERMAN HANCOCK Spade work was begun Wednesday on preparation of a 1958 city five telephones in the house and a telephone splicing device.

Kelley said he obtained a search warrant last Friday for the Peachtree-Dunwoody road address and turned the warrant over to investigator George Carter. Carter was quoted that the lead did not develop and the warrant was not served. Cox and Kelley indicated lt was entirely possible that an entirely new lottery charge would be drawn against Mrs. Hodges, who has a five-page police record, when the investigation is completed. Kelley also said a lottery charge booked against Mrs.

Hodges in 1952, together with a series of old traffic charges, would be placed on the court calendar at the same time that the newest lottery charge is set for trial. The solicitor gave this explanation of why the 1952 case has not been tried: Mrs. Hodges was sentenced in 1950 to serve 12 months in prison and six months in jail on lottery charges and the 1952 charge was brought while that sentence was still on appeal. Kelley said the 1952 case was used as a hold to force Mrs. Hodges to serve the entire 18 months.

Mrs. Hodges last year was Indicted by the Fulton County Grand Jury on three counts of assault with intent to murder, robbery and two counts of lottery, following what police described as a lottery war. She was sentenced to serve five years on two counts of shooting at another and one of assault and battery. Judge E. E.

Andrews set aside the five-year sentence and granted Mrs. Hodges a new trial after her grand jury appearance. Kelley said the grand jury indictments charging lottery were retained in Superior Court. budget calling for an over-all outlay of some $35,000,000. Aid.

Ralph Huie, finance com sponsoring development of the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint river basins. The invitation was presented to the aldermanic board's water committee by Waterworks Manager Paul Weir. School TV on Dec. 1 The nation's first school owned TV station, the Atlanta school department's WETV, will be opened around Dec. 1, Miss Ira Jar-rell, school superintendent, said Wednesday.

The scheduled opening for Nov. 20 has been postponed because of delays in completing the tower. The station will operate on ultra high frequency channel 30, and can be received by home viewers if theirr eceiving sets are equipped with adapters, it was said. The facility has been financed jointly by several foundations, and the school system. mittee chairman, and Comptroller Earl Landers reviewed 1958 budgetary requests from a dozen department heads and scheduled nine more conferences for Thursday.

Huie has announced approximately $5,000,000 must be trimmed from requests to prepare a budget within anticipated income for the new year. Division chiefs have asked some $5,000,000 more money than will be available for appropriation for the new year. The conferences are designed to prune requests to essentials. Heads of the law, personnel, electrical, sanitary, municipal revenue, purchasing, land, city hall, building inspector, city clerk, urban renewal, and police departments were heard Wednesday. Huie has announced the conferences will continue until all the 33 division chiefs have an opportunity to present their demands.

River Backers Invited J. W. Woodruff executive vice president of the Three Rivers Development Association, Wednesday invited Atlanta officials and prominent citizens to attend the annual dinner at Apa-lachicola. Nov. 12.

The association is composed of groups all wool toppers $29.90 special purchase! short in style! long on value! all milium lined for year-'round comfort! Now you can save on the one-coat style that is really a year-'round coat toppers of fine fabrics, milium linings, and all-year colors are priced at savings! New styles for misses' sizes 8 to 18. Buy your topper now! Rich's Coats, Famous Fashion Fourth Two Special Groups of Toppers Group I 55 cashmere, 45 wool fabric in a wide range of colors, now sale priced at just 39.90 Special Purchase! All wool full length coats $39.90 Group II imported 100 cashmere in toppers that are a tremendous saving when priced at only $49 Sorry, no mail or phone orders. 2 Men Beat Widow Here At Her Home Aa Atlanta widow late Wednesday was severely mauled by two strangers who knocked at the door of her newly rented home, police said. Detectives O. W.

Jordan and J. G. Adams said the attack could have resulted from a mistaken identity. They added they had been able to identify the two partially. The 42-year-old woman said she moved into the Poole Creek road address three days ago.

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Detectives said the woman told them she had not seen the men before. They said she was bruised about the arms, head, back and ide. Just present this coupon to any usner the door. 'I.

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