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I umi mil i i L. JtmiF viyraM 1ct4Nxtl MMWWWIty I SPUNK WON CARNEGIE MEDAL 1 I I 5-Year Quest If W- I For Extinct f4 THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Monday, April 11, 1949 Babich Case Is Cited fis Warning by Hoover Constitution Man Brought Tot. 2, From Well to Safety A Constitution employee was the main figure in a 1912 well rescue similar to the Kathy Fiscus episode in San V0 Mv i i- Arctic Culture ANDOVER. Mass. (UP) A WASHINGTON (UP) FBI Director J.

Edgar Hoover said yesterday that cases such as the Babich slaying, which shocked the nation several weeks aco. should serve "as a noted anthropologist said yesterday he will leave for the north Marino, CaL Henry T. Mathews, who has tragic warning to parents. tim's mother described Babich as Someone sent for Mathews, and acording to newspaper reports at the time, he was "slender game." Ropes were tied to th 11-year-old Mathews feet and he been with The Constitution 23 years, was lowered into a 30-foot well in JJothan, in March, a good boy. She said he always "Every day the newspapers, ern coast of Newfoundland tnis Summer to start a five-year search for traces of two extinct cultures that may have been among the earliest in Northeastern America.

ElmT Ham. Jr Curator of An had been mild-mannered, cour with stories of youthful crimes, tell the story of the failure of too 1812, to pull a two-year-old child out The story was carried in teous and polite when he visited her home. was lowered into the well, head- many patents to give their chil thropology at the Dartmouth Col- papers all over the country at the first dren proper moral guidance, the While declining to comment di lege Museum, said he will seek rectly on; the Babich case. Hoo top G-Man said in an interview, Milton Babich, 19-year-old Mil time, and Mathews was awarded Tense workers had to lower th the Carnegie Hero Medal. spunky boy into the well three The child rescued was Ben times before he was able to lift tangible remains of the Beothuk Indians and the Cape Dorset EskI ver said it was his belief that many youngsters go from "small waukee, student, shot and killed Patricia Birmingham, 16, because Patricia refused to keep troubles" to "serious crimes' because they have no one they feel mos In Northern Newfoundland Grant, now with the Associated the Grant child to the top.

and possibly Southern Labrador. Press in Washington, D. C. I jjotj were muddy but neither Harp, who said he hoped to Grant and some other children, was injured. they can turn to when they get into trouble.

hnrlr in th- mninlanrf. gnirl vrv hnm in nnthnn Ala vihn the A large Crowd had gathered tt secret the pregnancy of her sister, Kathleen Babich trussed Patricia's body to a cement block, dumped it in the Milwaukee "This, primarily, is the fault of little Is known of the original civ see the rescue operations and in the excitement and confusion 1 41 1 1 1 A A tot slipped through a 14-inch opening into the well. Grant's play- the parents," he said. "A young-f River and then elorted with Kath ster's start down the path of crime nearly always can be traced mates ran for help, but the well "5" was too small for the people at the ace- hero shPPe( leen, ilizations of Newfoundland and Labrador. He said he expected his expedition would complete an "ar-eheological reconnaissance" of the In the courtroom after he had away.

to the home he lives in. scene to be lowered into confessed to the crime, the vie- "If he is doing wrong things, it's up to his parents more than area this summer and return in subsequent years to make excava Jw-: fail He was identified by a bystander and was given sums of money, by grateful relatives, and eventually awarded the Carnegi Medal for his daring rescue. Conservatives anyone else to set nun on tne right road by showing him the difference between right and tions on the basis of the survey. Harp, here for the 10th annual NEW ROOFS Industrial Residential "Whin You Haar Drip-Drop, Call Tip-Top." TIP-TOP ROOFERS CT. 7751 221 MARIETTA wrong and getting him to under meeting of the Massachusetts Archeolocical Society, said the Win Clear-Cut stand and do the right things.

BURNED CLAY TILE "The youthful crime rate has project will be financed by the Arctic Institute of North America which has headquarters in New CERAMICS been running at record or near- record levels since shortly after York City and Montreal, Quebec Pearl Harbor," he continued. LASTING BEAUTY IN COLOR ESTIMATES SALES A SF.RVICE A. W. Cook Company J1S FORREST AVE. At 8001 ATLANTA.

OA. ltoitfraw swx ImmmiMiaammmwaaMBassw. tmuimmmmfkmm-jfT IftTi frn'-rfi'iiYrwrtiiiitMrii "rf "These crimes should not be if?) Don't Be FAT! R.D.X. Tablets help you taken for granted. Guggenheim Awards Go to "A great majority of them could be prevented and many tragedies avoided if parents only British Victory LONDON (UP) Winston Churchill's Conservative Party last night had won a clear-cut victory i in nation-wide county council elections.

Shaken Laborites admitted that it was "a warning we cannot ignore. With results in from 54 counties, the Conservatives claimed they had won 253 seats. The Socialists to help yourself reduce Tike R.D.X. Tablets be- fore meals to help you curb Constitution Staff Photo Marlon Johnion SPOTLIGHT ON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT Smyrna Legionnaire Tom. Young, left, Mayor J.

M. Gibson, second from left, and State Treasurer George B. Hamilton, right, watch as W. P. Perrish, head of the Georgia Power Company's Community Improvement Project, throws the switch to light Smyrna's improved city park.

The ceremony was part of the festivities that ended Smyrna's community im- Five Southerners your appetite tor un needed foods. Between meals, R. D.X. Tablets help you stave off hunger that causes yon to overindulge in fattening nacks. Reducing becomes more pleasant, more CO-joyable way of eating.

If your doctor has told provement and clean-up week. A baseball game xouowea closing oi me awnui. NEW YORK JF) Five Southerners were among the winners TEST RESULTS conceded they had lost 336 seats and claimed a gain ef only 83. of 144 fellowships announced yes would take a more sympathetic interest in the educational religious and social activities of their children." As an afterthought, Hoover smiled and remarked: "A visit to the woodshed once in a while is not a bad idea." In 1948, according to FBI records, there were three times as many "serious crimes" every day as there were minutes. pearly 32 percent of all persons arrested were under 25 years of age and most of them already had police records.

The elections were for city and town councils. In London the Conservatives broke Labor's 15-year grip on the 129-man council when terday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The 144 fellowships for 1949 totaled $395,000. The Southern winners: you to take off weight. Jr -v ask him about the wonderful new R.D X.

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Tablets and Smyrna's Park Revamp Bids for Towns Prize By GORDON SAWYER Environment Not Key to the voters returned an equal number qf Tories and Laborites. The l9th seat went to a Liberal. follow the R.D.X. REDUCED PRICES On Bendix WASHERS Standard 18950 De Luxe 20995 Delivery in 5 Days HODGES RADIO SALES A SERVICE 1226 Stewart Ave S. W.

FR. 1166 Reducing Flan. Arna Wendell Bontemps. writer; Chief Librarian, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. He will undertake a three-way biography of Frederick Douglass, Booker T.

Washington and W. E. B. DuBois. a.

-a Yo Lot Weight Smyrrfa is out to win' the Georgia Power Company's MEETINGS TODAY Heredity "Better Home Town" prize this year. Monoy-Badc fv. have just com- Citizens there Dr. Dora Neill Raymond. Pro- A self-puncture-sealing auto tire that needs no inner tube, goal of the tire and auto industries for more than 50 years, has been I Moo I 1 I a- ilHl ATLANTA ROTARY CLUB, Analay Ho tmttw vnmf fTTPA jthirlv fessor of History.

Sweet Briar Wed 50 Years tel, p. m. en life in a bacteria colony showed ALEXANDER STEPHENS TOASTM AS College, Sweet Briar, Va. She will do a biography of the First Earl of Lytton. last night environment plays no significant part in heredity.

TER CLUB, YMCA, p. m. BUCKHEAD LIONS CLUB, Piedmont Driving Club, p. m. BUCKHEAD CIVITAN CLUB.

Colonial The finding, reported by Co lumbia University scientists, is ex George Robert Lunz, director, Bears Bluff Laboratories, Wfcdmalaw Island, S. Lunz will work on development of methods of oyster cultivation. CORRECTION The address of Lanier Florists at given in the Florists Page 12-A of The Sunday Constitution was incorrect. It should be: ANIEU FLORISTS 783 E. College Decatur DE.

5746 pected to have an important bearing on the opposing theories of genetics throughout the world. I i Miss Eudora Welty, fiction pleted paint-up-clean-up and many of the town's buildings and homes got a face-lifting. Up town the theater and a drugstore had a new coat of paint, and many a brush slapped paint on Smyrna homes in the summerlike sun. The big project of the week, though, was out at old Brinkley Park. Led by Mayor J.

M. "Hoot" Gibson and Municipal Development Committee Chairman Tom Young, civic clubs were in the process of changing a "cowpas-ture" into a modern park with enough play facilities to keep the Terrace, p. Frank Troutman, apeaker. GEORGIA ENGINEERING SOCIETY, YMCA. 12:30 p.

Frederick Bellinger, apeaker. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF HENRIETTA EGLESTON HOSPITAL, Nuraes Home, p. m. writer, Jackson, Miss- author of At the present time, American and British scientists on the one hand and Russian scientists on the "Delta Wedding and other books. Alexander Peter Russo, painter, other, are in the midst of a contro New Orleans.

versy on what controls heredity. The Foundation was established The Soviets, led by T. D. Ly- by the late U. S'.

Sen. Simon Gue senko, have abandoned the gen genheiro and Mrs. Guggenheim as ALL SAINTS CHURCH North Avinua and Weat Pcachtrc MID-DAY HOLY WEEK SERVICES, Dr. D. A.

McGregor, of Sewanet, will preach daily, Monday through Thuraday. Lunch In the pariah house 40c Call AT. 9789 for rctervation. a memorial to their son, John Simon Guggenheim, who died as a young man in 1922. This is the erally accepted theories that there is a gene for every human characteristic.

Under their new Soviet scien- tif ic line, they now believe that twenty-fifth annual series of! ANO MRS. S. W. PARKER MR. W.

Parker, of! the type of human individual can kids busy the year around. The American Legion had donated lights and bleachers for the new softball field, end the Lions Club chipped in with backstops for the two new tennis courts awards the total to date being 2,117 fellowships with stipends of $4,789,195. Mr. and Mrs. S.

109 Heatherdown Rd Decatur, comroued entirely by environ- celebrated their fiftieth wedding i ment anniversarv vesterdav with an The Joviet theory, however, was See Cigars Made and playground equipment for the little tykes. These kids get open house given by their daugh- shown to be incorrect in the ex-ter, Mrs. W. F. ChappelL The' periments conducted at Columbia, couple has two daughters and oneTRe scientists used selected micro- a kick out ol this, said Develop COME TODAY The Glasses You Need At the Lowest and EASIEST CREDIT TERMS WAYCROSS The Exchanbi Club visited the John H.

Swisher and Sons, Incorporated, factory here and saw first hand "how thev organisms in the experiments be ment Leader Young, "when they think you're trying to do some grand-daughter. cause of the ability of the bacteria to produce a generation in zorou up those cigars." Sheriff Wa will lit row face v'rth the latest frames and roar yet vita the finest necessary tansts. Erin Johnson, program chairman, arranged for the visit with officials of the company. thing for Across the street from the park, the new Legion house has been opened up every Friday night for a teen-age center. The entertainment, complete with juke box, free cokes and what have you, is on the house.

minutes. The Columbia report said: "The ability of micro-organisms to adapt themselves to different external conditions is not the result of a change induced by the environ Yale's President Ready To Retire In July. 1950 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (X) ment, but rather that the environment acts by allowing the selected gtowth of only a few members in ALL WAKES Electric Clocks Repaired Authorized T.iechren and Otn.ral El.ctPl. Clock Barvlo Southern Meter Transformer Co.

1S7S Lt. 81 1 RA M14 President Charles Seymour, of, the population of the micro- The week was climaxed when State Treasurer George B. Hamilton spoke to a celebrating crowd of Smyrna citizens in front of the Legion Home. Then Georgia Power Executive W. P.

Perrish threw Yale, announced yesterday he I organisms." pi will retire July 1, 1950. the switch to light the new soft- bau field, and the Smyrna Firemen battled the American Legion team in the first full game under tne new arcs. Yale'- fifteenth President said he is making his announcement more than year in advance so the Yale Corporation may have "ample opportunity lor studied consideration in the choice of my successor." Seymour, Internationally-known educator, and noted historian, will be 65 years old next year, the age at which an officer of Yale is eligible for retirement. DP sWEBS FOR COMPLETE LIVING ROOM SET eIt's for you. Mom Take it Downstairs" Civic Association Will Hear Brewer They believe the same principle applies to human beings, plants, and all animals.

Tascism' Verses Win $20,000 For Soviet Poet MOSCOW (INS) Constantin Simonov was awarded a Stalin prize of 100 thousand rubles (about $20,000) for a book ol poems on the "New Fascism" in the United States, Britain, France and other countries. The prize was among awards totalling more than six-and-a-half million rubles (about for achievements in literature, music and the arts. They reflected Communist ef Brewer. Secretary to Mavor Hartsfiplrl will uiscussmg nis reasons for re- UP TO 9 PIECES DRY CLEANED crime prevention at the meeting Gf (tirement, Seymour explained the the Loring Heights Civic Associa-j internal educational development tion at 7:30 p. m.

tomorrow in the ot tne University, which has been Peachtree Christian Church, ac-lnis major concern, "is well-nigh cording to an announcement by completed." Ralph McClelland, President of "Never," he declared, "have 70-DAY SERVICE the Association. faculty affairs and student inter Representatives of the Georgia ests been in more trustworthy Lrfjad works also have accented: hands. a. McClelland's invitation to attend the meeting and to outline efforts Said Seymour: "It is with the conviction that of that concern to overcome odors fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort will best serve Yale's RETURNED TO YOU AS FRESH AND BRIGHT AS SPRING ITSELF emanating from -the Lead Works which have brought frequent complaints from members of the forts to overcome "foreign bourgeois influence." Soviet scientists and secret weapons experts yesterday received prizes totalling 15 million rubles interest that I avail myself of the privilege of retirement at that time. The Soviet film, "Court of Honor," received one of the new top' awards of 100 thousand rubles.

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