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8 THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Saturday, Aug. 16, 1947, TENANT COMPLAINS 110-Mile Winds Whip U. S. Charges Romania With l3d-Degree' Tortures WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (JP) The State Department, in a new denunciation of Communist strong-arm tactics in Eastern Europe, charged the Romanian Government Friday with subjecting opposition political leaders to "third-degree" tortures.

The apparent purpose of the tor I A 0: U. S. Court Revokes Kroger Case Fine CHICAGO; Aug. 15- A $48,000 fine assessed against th Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, operator of 3,000 stores in 18 states, for allegedly selling meat at overceiling prices was revoked Friday by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The fine was imposed by District Judge John P.

Barnes, of Chicago, in June, 1946, after finding the chain in contempt for allegedly violating an injunction against overceiling sales. The of Appeals ruled there was "no substantial evidence to support the finding that the defendant's overcharges were made deliberately, knowingly and wilfully." of exterminating them. 2. In "the face of government denials of mistreatment, many pro- ture was said to be to extort "confessions" for use in their forthcom- ing trials on charges they plotted I tests have been addressed by pris to overthrow Romania Commu- oners and their families to officials nist-run regime. 0f foreign powers.

Some 235 con- A department statement said the fined in the Pitesti concentration "third-degree" methods had been 'camp appealed to the four-power reported by Roy M. Melbourne, 'Allied Control Commission for United States political represcnta-j Romania Mexico, Go Inland TAMPICO, Aug. 15 MP) The year's worst hurricane lunged inland 100 miles North of here Friday but its fringe was enough to whip this oil capital with 110-mile an-hour winds, unroof homes, and bring 15-foot tides. No casualties were reported. The storm center was said by the weather bureau to have hit 0111 I miiyfifl art area where there are few aMAJM towns and poor communications.

Information is incomplete as winds 111 Vdl" 1 IUwK Streets were deserted as de structive winds howled into Tarn-ft MT pico at dawn. Many stores, fac- llQ.Sll niCFS tories and refineries' remained closed, although banks opened Four persons were admitted Grady Hospital Friday afternoon Families in the poorer sections after a truck colhded with the car abandoned flooded homes and in which they were riding near the moved to nearby hills, police and intersection of Gresham Street and firemen patrolled streets. con-Ormewood Avenue, S. police stantly. reported.

I Windows were shattered, and The injured were: gusts destroyed signs and foilage. Mrs. Catherine Coggins, 47, of Waves 15 feet high swept over 216 Richardson S. driver Tampico beaches. Small lakes and of the car.

admitted with a broken rivcr rose rapidly as rains ac-arm. chest injuries and bruises. companying the hurricane reached tive at Bucharest. Officials stressed there is voluminous other information to support the charge that hundreds of Peasant Party Couple Hailed To Court In BathroomRow Alleging that they set upon her while she was taking a bath, Mrs. C.

A. Jessee Friday haled her landlords, Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, before Judge Quincy Q. Arnold, of the Civil Court of Fulton County, on charges of assail and battery.

Mrs. Jessee told the Court that she occupies an apartment In the Wilsons' house at 400 Whitehall S. and that last Saturday the Wilsons pushed into the hall bathroom she was using and struck her. The Wilsons denied the charge. They said they had received complaints from other tenants that Mrs.

Jessee was in the habit of taking baths with the bathroom door open. When their maid 1 reported her in the tub with the door open they said they went to the bathroom to see for themselves. Mrs. Wilson admitted reproving Mrs. Jessee, but denied striking her.

She said Mrs. Jessee seized her by the hair and threatened her with a slipper. Wilson said his wife called to him for help and and other opposition leaders jailed 3. Hundreds crowded into small cells have been forced to sleep on floors. Denied medical treatment even for typhus and typhoid, and fed with a diet of only 400 or 500 calories a day, less than half the minimum deemed needed by inactive persons.

Housing Forum For 'Airing' Today Four experts will discuss hous- in a roundup of Communist foes were mistreated. This development followed two formal American protests against suppression of civil liberties in Romania as a violation of the new peace treaties, and other, protests against Communist tactics in Bulgaria anH Hunearv. the "Housing 4i problems on XII Li rc lilies ic I ui'iuilinuu i. i PEN REPAIRS World' Itadiof pan Maker hava? aaada a their aathofiaaa repair atatinav CanittM part. Serviriai kjr factory-trained axptrta.

We arke Parfcea Sbeaffer. Everabarpaad allotaer aiakaa. lands, particularly, the American VjiA Vnrp official view is that the Roy Tippen, Moderator, announces. nists, with Moscow's backing, are Tl T.JJ u- I No. 1 and Chairman of the Citi- ratification of the treaties.

final Izens Better Housing Forum; David Authoritative reports on current T. Nicholes, President of the Home conditions in Romania said that: 1. Nearly 2,000 persons rounded Builders Association of Atlanta; V. S. Beem, Vice President of the Home Builders Association of At- Constitution Staff Photo Edna Werton up by the regime of Premier Groza Mrs.

Louise Rey 50, 321 Orleans ciouaDursi proportions. S. received a broken, arm. I Owners of houses near the sea Mrs. Hattie R.

Wallace, 51, of, stripped them of furnishings and 755 Primrose S. E.t admitted evacuated. Tourists deserted flood-with broken arms and ribs, and beaches, where cabins later shoulder injury. were washed away. They took ref- Bertie Hogan.

39. of 263 Little uge in downtown hotels. S. received a compound1 Electric power failed for, five fracture of the right leg and other injuries. I Weather bureau instruments According to Radio Patrolmen wre destroyed early in the day, C.

N. Wingo and E. F. Jackson, and accurate measurements were Mrs. Covins was driving West on not obtained of the wind or rain.

Ormewood Avenue when her car A11 travel halted, with planes was hit bv a truck, driven by.Krounded and ships docked. This Thoma." C. Roberts. 26. of 291 At- ot 132,000 persons, a rich oil wood S.

going South on center and one of Mexico's larg- that he went to her aid and separated them. Each had the other MUSIC CLUB WINNERS Miss Eugenia Snow and Louis Ronev have been announced winners of the 2S BROAD ST, S. W. 2 Edcewood Ave. 104 Whitehall S4 are held under "inhuman" condi-j lanta, and Edward W.

Hiles, Vice tions in prisons and concentration President of the Georgia Savings camps with the apparent purpose and Loan League. by the hair at the time, he said. Judge Arnold bound Wilson over tl the Criminal Court of Ful Atlanta Music Club's first annual Marvin McDonald scholarship awards of $500 each. Miss Snow is a pianist; Roney, a They are preparing for concert careers. HAVERTTS AUGUST SALE HAVERTY'S AUGUST SALE HAVERTY'S AUGUST SALE ton County in bond of $100 and dismissed the warrant against Mrs.

Wilson. MUSIC CLUB AWARDS MADE est cities, was paralyzed. Gresham Street. The center of the storm struck 80 Mrs. Coggins' car careened feet after the accident, and crash- sparsely settled Soto La Marina, America's Favorite Portable ed into a utility pole, Wingo and Jackson said.

Charges of reckless driving and accident were booked against both drivers. Miss Show and Roney Scholarship Winners Lynched Mans Widow Sues MINDEN, Aug. 15 (JP) The widow of a lynched Negro sued Sheriff Oscar H. Haynes for $50,000 Friday, charging he failed to protect her husband from a mob on Aug. 8, 1946.

The suit was filed in Webster a iisning and ranching area midway between Tampico and Brown-ville on the Texas border. Winds at the center were believed to be 120 miles an hour or more. Communications to the Soto La Marina area were disrupted, and First winners of the Marvin McDonald Scholarship Awards, $500 each, to promising Atlantan musicians, were announced Friday by extent of the damage there is not known. Several small towns lie in Parish (county) Court here by the Atlanta Music Club. Miss Eugenia Snow, pianist, and Louis Roney, tenor, were selected to receive the scholarships provided by the Music in the came of McDonald.

Its manager for many years. 111! Will Pull 'Chute At 100 Feet Here Fred Bonner, one of the owners of the all-veteran air show scheduled for Lake wood Airport today end Sunday, said Friday he planned to jump from a plane, delaying opening of his parachute until 100 feet. Bonner, who recently survived the failure of parachute to open in a jump at Toccoa, said the veterans would be able to present only a part of their show and said rto admission would be charged. Miss Snow, the daughter of Mr, the storm's inland path. Gales and rain were felt as far as 300 miles from the hurricane's center.

If it follows a normal pattern, it will continue through much of Saturday, moving inland and diminishing in force until it finally disappears. and Mrs. George D. Snow, of 209 Peach-tree Circle, will use her Carrie Lee Jones, widow of John C. Jones.

Jones' beaten, bullet riddle'd body was found along Dorchet Bayou between Minden and Cotton Valley after he and another Negro, Albert Harris, 17, had been taken from the Minden jail by a group of white men. Harris, also beaten and left for award to further her study with Edwin Hughes, in New York. A graduate of Washington Seminaryi she studied locally with Mrs. HITCHING POST 1947 MODEL POTSDAM, N. Aug.

15 The streets of Potsdam no longer have hitching posts, but the new parking meters serve the purpose. Police reported that a girl put a nickel in a meter, and parked her pony by tying it to the meter shaft. "Legal," police called it. dead, recovered and testified in a Federal court trial of six Webster Parish men who were charged with depriving the- Negroes of their civil rights by releasing Wayne Wilson. She will return to Atlanta in February to appear as a guest soloist with the Atlanta ill Truman Acts To Fill Red Cross Posts WASHINGTON, Aug.

15 UP) President Truman Friday Tilled two Government vacancies on the Board of Governors of the American National Cross. He named Archibald L. M. Wiggins, Undersecretary of the Treasury, to replace Joseph J. O'Con-nell.

former General Counsel them to the mob. A jury acquitted Battery, 4.85 all six. Jones and Harris had been held for investigation in connection with an alleged attempt to break into a white woman's home. Officers said they found lewd pictures of a white woman on one REAL ESTATE, LOANS Friendly Service No Application Fee No Red Tape Definite Safe Contracts Easy to Understand Prepayments Permitted No Fines or Forfeitures No Loans Sold. Low Cost 4 1o 7 per annum Long Terms $750.00 and up, in and near Atlanta F.

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Roney, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Roney, of 96 The Prado, will return to New York, where he has been singing with Renato Bellini, teacher of Eleanor Steber.

Roney, 26, a graduate of Harvard, and a soloist with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, sang for Grace Moore during her last visit to Atlanta and at her suggestion went to New York to pursue his studies. He has sung with Miss Steber and, at her insistence, has been heard by Edward Johnson, General Man-aar of the MetroDolitan ODera of the Negroes. of the Treasury, to one vacancy. To the other he named Charles E. Saltzman, Assistant Secretary of State, to replace Maj.

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Berrien Resident Is Said Missing TIFTON, Aug. 15. A. C. Con-nell, 45, Berrien County resident, has been missing from his home since Wednesday and Sheriff J.

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Down 8 Percent Atlanta department store sales for the week ending -Aug. dropped eight, percent below sales counties Georgia ComDanv. He is married to the surrounding 300 for the corresponding period aj DEDAL SAVlNffs 4 OAN AIIOCIATlaa former Miss Martha Beverly Sanders, of Richmond. McDonald termed the young musicians not only the finest in Atlanta, but two outstanding American artists who will be a credit not only to their city, but ALL MAKES Electric Clocks Repaired Authorized Talacren Sarvlca Southern Meter Transformer Co. 1375 Laa S.

W. RA. (M14 and in Florida had revealed no trace of him. Connell is reported to have left the home of his brother, Dannie Connell, in his night clothes, leaving behind his billfold and suit. The missing man is said to have been in ill health for two weeks.

year ago, the Federal Reserve Bank reported here Friday. Sales for the entire Sixth Federal Reserve District were down two percent, in comparison with corresponding 1946 sales. J. R. Beyd.

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