The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 1

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246 Associated Press Leased Wire SELMA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1947 FOLSOM TAKES OATH AS GOVERNOR POLISH BALLOT NULLIFICATION EFFORT DNTED CEREMONY HELD HOUR AHEAD OF TIME SCHEDULED New Chief Executive Pledges Aid To Georgia In Rate. Case Before Court; Service To All Of eople Promised MONTGOMERY, Jan. E. Folsom was of Alabama tody and immediately promised to tern state of Georgia i a railroad freight fore the U. S.

Supreme Court. Head Of Peasant Party May Appeal Election To High Court MISCOUNT CHARGED BOTH THOMPSON, TALMADGE REST HOPES ON COURT Incumbent Refuses To Yield To Demand For Surrender Of Office And Decision Apparently Left To Legal Authorities Of Georgia ATLANTA, Jan. 20 (A3) Herman Talmadge, in a brief face-to-face encounter in tbe executive chambers, today refused to recognize Lieut. Governor E. Thompson as acting goyemdr of Georgia, but reiterated a promise to troTer" 1 '1 Thompson then'.

set itr A- COLLEGIANS TO ASK TALMADGE TO STEP DOWN ompson then -set Tip an acting governor's office in the suite on the floor above normally occupied by the president of the state senate. Other Developments Meanwhile there were these other developments in the dual control of the states government: 1. Students of five Atlanta colleges and the University of Georgia Eight Persons Lose Lives A Ritter -C-amaign Reaches Close Departing from his prepared text, Folsom told an estimated at inaugural crowd upwards of 100,000 FOLSOM FILLS FIVE POSTS IN STATE CABINET Brother In Law Chosen Industrial Relations Bureau Head CENTRAL FIGURES tN ADMINISTRATION CHANGE Having completed his four-year term, Gov. Chauncey Sparks, above, steps down and turns over the reins to James E. Folsom, right.

Sparks steered the state through troubled war era, greatly expanded program of education, public health, welfare, highways and public buildings, leaves his successor a well-filled treasury and efficient governmental setup. Folsom, elected by the biggest vote ever polled by a candidate for Governor in Alabama, has promised still greater increases in teachers salaries and old age pensions. He also favors a constitutional convention to rewrite the States basic law, abolition of poll tax, and reapportionment of representation In the Legislature. (State Newsphoto.) at Athens, 70 miles away, planned a march on the state capitol tomorrow to protest Talmadges as'sump tion of the executive office. 2.

The State House of Represerrfa tives, by an 88 to 64 vote, decided to invite Talmadge to address joint session of the legislature to morrow as governor. The senate must act on the' resolution. Efforts to have Thompsons name added to the resolution failed. Attorney General Eugene Cook announced that he recognized Thompson as the acting governor and would substitute his name for that of Ellis Arnall in a court suit challenging Talrqadge's occupation of the governors office. 4.

Thompson, before the state sen ate, retook the oath as lieutenant governor and added the words will faithfully exerqise the execu Hundreds Will Join In Coup Protest March Set Tuesday ATLANTA, Jan. 20 (AP) Leaders of the proposed student march on the capitol to protest the Georgia gubernatorial squabble said to- day hundreds were' expected to participate. Lester Purcells, University of I Georgia graduate said campus leaders had told him about 250 students planned to make the 70-mile journey from Athens to join the marchers tomorrow. The students instructed their ecutive committee to draft resolutions to be presented at their Blast, Flash Blaze Is Fatal For Bride BY LARRY ALLEN WARSAW, Jan. 20 (JP)' Vice.

Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the' opposition Polish Peasant party '(PSL), hinted today that he might seek Supreme-Court nnl lification of yesterdays parliamen' tary election, in which officials forecast victory for the communist-dominated government bloc The voting was marked by scat tered violence resulting in the death of eight persons, all apparently slain in raids by the 'anti-govem ment underground. Mikolajczyk, who vas bCoed at the polls, charged that constitutional guarantee' of the secret ballot had been violated and said he probably would ask the Supreme Court to declared the election invalid. He expressed belief that if the votes were counted fairly his party would get a majority of the 444 seats in Polands one house parliament, which is to draw up a new const! tution and elect a president. Leaders of the government bloo, before the election, had freely pre dieted triumph for the bloc, dom inant in Polands Moscow-sponsor ed provisional government since the Nazis were chased out, (In London last night, the Soviet radio monitor distributed a Warsaw dispatch of Tass, Russian News Agency, reporting that balloting in 'perfect order and peace gave the government bloc 100 percent support in three election districts.) Campaign Bitter A bitter campaign preceded the election. Mikolajczyk charged government suppression of his party and called for a vote for freedom of man.

Government political leaders accused Mikolajvzyk of a tieup DELAY FORCED FOR INDUCTION OF SECRETARY Marshall Plane Pauses A Chicago Because Of Weather MANGtIM RITES WILL BE HELD HERE TUESDAY Retired Preacher Dies Early Monday After Long Illness that my first official act will be to ask our Attorney General, Al-bert A. Carmichael, to carry on the freight rate fight. Our plan is to join the state of Georgir, suit which is now before the Su preme Court. Monopoly Scored Weve got to fight monoply, the six-foot-eight inch Chief Ex-ecutive declared. Weve got to fight all kinds of monopoly.

If we dont our eccmoiftic system will be choked to death. The suit pending in Washington was filed by Georgias former Governor, Ellis Arnall, against 19 southern and western railroads, charging them with violation of the Anti-Trust laws. Folsom is an ardent follower of Arnall and has promised to give Alabama an administration patterned after that just ended in Georgia. Folsom took the oath of office from Chief Justice Lucien D. Gardner of the State Supreme court nearly an hour ahead of schedule because the inaugural parade was finished sooner than expected.

The new governor also declared in his inaugural address that my hands are untied. I want to be, and I am going to be, the faithful servant of all tha people, he said. In his inaugural address shortly after he was sworn in by Chiel Justice Lucien D. Gardner of the State Supreme Court, Folsom Now I am your governor. From this day on 1 will be the trustee of your power.

As I start out on your program today, I ana glad to say again that my hands are untied. That I am free to senNs you, and you and you. For Average Man The Cullman, insurance man who began life in rural Coffee county and who campaigned under the banner of the common folks, reiterated his campaign promises to give Alabama a government based on thfc kind of democracy that touches the home of the average man. I believe, he said in his prepared address, in the kind of democracy that goes back to the (See Ceremony, Page Six) meeting, protesting Herman I Talmadges ascension to the gover I norship by use of force and viol- I tive Pwer of the state of Georgia. I ence.

Thompsons addition of the execu- Five Atlanta colleges were rep- tive power words to the regular I resented yesterday when the stu- ath brought a move to have it I dent leaders met at the Georgia stricken from the senate journal, I Tech T. M. C. A. to organize.

They but the move was ruied out of or linyited students from other Geor- I der. BIRMINGHAM Jan. 0 (IP) As youthful Edward Jolly, 18, fights for his life in a hospital here tonight, he doesnt know his pretty wife, Dorothy, is dead, victim of an explosion and flash fire that rocked their apartment Saturday. Jolly and his wife, also 13, were reconditioning the dement apartment into which they had ju moved last week and were using paint remover on the floors when a spark from the grate ignited the fumes. Mrs.

Jolly died early last night. Critically injured himself. Jolly succeeded in carrying Dorothy to the apartment above to summon aid. The young couple had been married about eight months. CRAIG TO FILL PARTY VACANCY MONTGOMERY, Jan.

20 (A) -Five more major appointments including two members of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, were announced by James E. Folsom today shortly before his inauguraiton as governor. They were: Bryce Davis, Cullman lumberman, chairman of the ABC board. Melvin Dawkins, Montgomery plumbing contractor, member of the ABC board. W.

H. Bill Drinkard, Cullman funeral home operator, state finance director. 8 Samuel Fleetwood Carnley, Elba lawyer and Folsom's brother in law, director of the state department of industrial relations. R. Wade, east Tallassee, state labor director.

Wade is president of the Alabama State Federation of Labor. An electrician by trade, he ias been employed by the Alabama Power Company. Folsoms executive secretary, O. H. Finney, announced that a meeting of the new cabinet mem.

bers will be held in the new governors office at 8 a m. tomorrow. Appointment of the two ABC board members left ope vacancy on the board, and Finney said it would not be filled for a few days at least. The new ABC Board chairman is 29 years old. He was born just across the Mississippi river from Franklin County and was educated in the public schools of Belmont, Miss.

He has been in the lumber business about 12 years. In 1940 Davis bougftt a small mill near Cullman which has since developed into one of the states largest lumber firms. He is married to the former Jewell Scott of Red Bay. They have two small daughters. Dawkins, who will serve with him on the ABC board, was an active campaigner for the incom-ipg Governor and delivered a number of radio speeches in his behalf.

He is 32 years old and partner in a Montgomery plumbing and heating firm. A veteran of tbe last war, Dawkins served in the Navy with the Seebees. He is married and has two sons. New Finance Chief Folsoms new finance director was, for several years, a competitor of the new governor in the insurance business. Through a friendly business rivalry they became close friends.

Drinkard, a native of Faulkville, operates, with his father and two (See Folsom, Page Seven) McCorvey Re-Elected To Head Committee By Unanimous Vote Igia schools to participate. James Clark of Emory was elect-led temporary chairman. Horace I Davis of Tech was named vice-I chairman and Margaret Lilly of I Emory was elected secretary. I Although Clark sought to ban I injection of personalities into the I meeting, the names of Talmadge, elected by the legislature, and El-llis Arnall, who stepped down Saturday in favor of Lt. Gov.

M. E. Thompson, were mentioned fre-Iquentiy by speakers. I A plan to carry the protest direct-lly into the halls of the legislature and the governors office was voted down but it later was agreed that Btudents could form an independent group and seek an audience with the governor. Clark suggested that students Confront Talmadge with the declaration: We disagree with what you have done.

Why dont you step down? (See Collegians, Page Three) ffiSERWCES IN CEY TODAY Widely Known Planter Of Dallas Passes At Hospital Here Marvin Griffin, who is serving as Talmadges adjutant general, ae cused Col. R. W. Collins, Thompsons military chief, of delaying more than eight hours the dispatching of a convoy of National Guard trucks for flood relief at Rome, Ga Collins was not available for statement While Primary Bill 6. The house of representatives received a bill to establish a white primary in Georgia.

Both Talmadge and Thompson have agreed to such a bill. Talmadge, at the first of his two daily press conferences, said that meetings being held in protest to his assumption of the executive powers were the same crowd who trietj to destroy the county unit and the white primary systems. Georgias Democratic primaries are Held under the county unit system which is similar to the U. electoral system with counties having unit votes based on population. Talmadge and Thompson shook hands after their encounter in the executive chambers.

Vacancy Denied Talmadge told Thompson you have no right to claim this office. There is no vacancy. The General Assembly of Georgia has elected me as governor. Thompson, wearing a brown overcoat and clutching a brief case, aid I take issue with you on that. If the courts decide that I am lawful with the underground and asked Poles to vote their faith in the government and express their abhorrence of underground violence.

In most big cities, voters, taken to the polls in tens of thousands by house-to-house campaigners for the bloc, were said in many cases to have made known how they balloted by shewing election officials their white No. 3 (bloc) slips before putting them in envelopes designed to insure secrecy. In many country districts, on the other hand, farmers were said to be insisting upon a secret ballot. In Warsaws 183 precincts, the PSL (See Polish, Page Seven) SENATOR BYRD ASKSECONOMY Spending Can Be Slashed To 32 Billions, Says" Virginia Solon WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (P) The swearing in of Gen.

George C. Marshall as Secretary of State was delayed indefinitely today when bad weather forced his plane to land at Chicago on a flight from the west coast to the capital. The ship put down at Chicago at 8:20 a. m. just two hours and 40 minutes before Marshall was scheduled to take the oath as Secretary in a White House ceremony.

The armys air transport command headquarters reported there was no possible chance of Marshall completing the trip by air today, Weather conditions here were described as rotten. There was no immediate announcement of Marshalls plans. The White Hous however reportedly was trying to make new arrangements for the oath-taking, A crowded schedule had been lined up today for Marshall who will retire from the Army as soon as he takes the oath as secretary from Chief Justice Fred N. Vin son. Included was an afternoon conference with President Truman and retiring Secretary of State Byrnes.

The latter had expected to leave the capitol for his Spartanburg, S. home tonight. Ibere is plenty of; work ahead for Marshall, including preparation for the Big -Four Foreign Ministers conference at Moscow in March on German and Austrian peade settlements. The American delegation will leave in about a month for the Soviet capital. Diplomatic authorities said at least three problems seem certain to claim Marshalls early attention: (1) American policy toward yesterdays national elections in Poland, (2) the future American attitude toward China, and (3) a study of the Argentine situation.

Strong American disapproval of the Polish governmentSTOonduct of the election and pre-election campaigning was considered certain because of the protests already voiced here. They took sharp exception to the reported oppression (See Delay, Page Seven) William B. Craig an attorney of Selma was named to a vacancy on the State Democratic Executive Committee, at a meeting in Montgomery, Monday morning, a longdistance message from Mayor L. P. Burns disclosed.

The election of three men to fill vacancies on the committee in -the Fourth Congressional District placed Tom Abernathy, Talladega and DeWitt Carmichael, Anniston also on the Board. The Fourth Congressional District has eight representatives, the now serving being, L. P. Burns, Brewer Dixon, Talladega, Walter Merrill, Anniston, Winston Huddleston, Elmore County and Ed Moore. S.E.

HUNT DIES RENEATH TRAIN ged Orrville Resident Killed While Walking On Tracks Dr. Josiah Thomas Mangum, 70, retired Methodist minister whose power as a pulpit orator has swayed many hundreds of listeners and who devoted much of his talent to public causes, died in a local hospital early Monday morning. He had been seriously ill for the past week, following a period of impaired health due to a heart ailment which had forced his retirement some ten years ago from the active ministry Funeral services have been set for Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. from the Church Street Methodist Church, Dr. W.

F. Calhoun, the pastor, to be assisted in the rites by Dr. Stanley Frazer, District Superintendent, and the Rev. Fletcher Howington, pastor of Memorial Methodist Church. The Baraca Class of which Dr.

Mangum was teacher, will assemble at the church in a body for the services. Library To Close Carnegie Library, of which Dr. Mangum was president pf the board, will be closed all day Tuesday. Expected here for the funeral rites, Bishop Coston J. Harrell of Birmingham will arrive Tuesday, accompanied by Mrs.

Harrell. Dr. Mangum had discharged many services to the community since returning here to reside from North Carolina, following his retirement from the ministry, making frequent pulpit appearances, as his health would permit, and aiding in many civic and public enterprises. Defense Council Head He was made chairman of the Dallas Council of Defense on its organization and served for four years of the war, directing its varipus war services which brought all of Dallas county into various phases of the war effort. Maintaining an office at the Court House, Dr.

Mangum was in close touch always with public affairs, and his never failing interest in the political scene led to his appointment on many commit! and groups, during the period of his activity. He was a member of the staff of outgoing Governor Chauncey Sparks, and had many friends in the political world who valued his appraisal of trends and events. He was a trustee of Alabama College, Montevallo. Born At Greenville Born at Greenville, April 13, 1877, the son of the late Dr. T.

F. Mangumi a Methodist minister, and of Julia Perkins Mangum, J. T. Mangum was educated at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, and did post graduate work at Vanderbilt University. He later was accorded honors as an alumnus of API, and was invited back to the college in recent years as a special speaker.

Dr. Mangum served in the Alabama Conference of the Methodist (See Mangum, Page Seven) Funeral services for Peyton Rob-rt King, 55, well known planter nd member of the Dallas County I interests of the state. By the same governor I call on you to cooperate with me fully in the best token, if you are declared governor it is my purpose to cooperate with you. Talmadge made no reply to this. Thompson said "then there is no (See Both, Pare Three) McCorvey Re-elected MONTGOMERY, Jan.

20 (NT Gessner T. McCorvey of Mobile was unanimously elected to a third four-year tetrn as chairman of the State democratic executive committee here today. Walter J. Price of Huntsville also was reelected to the office of vice chairman by a 44 to 16 margin over Frank J. Mizell of Montgom ery, and Nelson O.

Fuller of Centerville was named secretary succeeding Talbot Ellis of Birmingham, who is not a member of the new committee. Red-haired Mrs. Caroline P. (See Craig, Page Three- Polio Funds Drive Booth Opens Here democratic Executive Committee vhose death occurred Sunday in a hospital, were held at 3 m. londay from his residence, 425 ing Street, the Rev.

N. J. Warren, pastor of the First Presbyterian officiating. Pallbearers will be L. W.

Morgan, dr. Drayton Doherty, Roy Beard. Karnes Minter, Joe Tillman and Xorace Zimmerman. Mr. Kings death occurred at 11 m.

yesterday in the hospital aft-lr an illness which forced his re-lirement froiii active affairs the Sight Restored By Coal Gas Explosion CHICAGO, Jan. 20L-(g) Richard Herbert, 22, today credited a fin- ger of flame from a coal gas ex- ast September. He had undergone plosion with restoring sight to an treatment also in a New Orleans eye that was blinded two yetirs linic, his condition for some time ago during a war blast in Germ-ast having given rise to great an any, iety on the part of his family and Herbert lost all vision after Hends. combat explosion in Germany two S. E.

Hunt, an agecl citizen oi Orrville, was struck and killed by decapitation by an freight train at 8:05 a.m. Monday at a point near the Orrville railroad station, as he walked down, the track. Coronor Bernard Reynolds, who investigated the tragedy, entered a report of accidental death. He was accompanied in the investigation by Chief Deputy Sheriff Bob Moore. He stated that Mr Hunt, who had limb and was walking on also had seriously impaired hearing, and that apparently he hear the train whistle behind him.

L. E. Lowery of Pensacola, sajv the figure ahead on the and blew several times in it was attested by persons who reported hearing the blasts, Coroner Reynolds Efforts to stop the train were he said, and the body of Hunt was recovered the under the third car, he hearse from Breslin Service the body to Selma where arrangements will be perfected. Hunt made his home in Orr-ville with a daughter, Mrs. Ruby The train was bound for with Engineer Lowery H.

Rogers, Selma, fireman, cab. GREEN RECOVERS Jan. 20 (yp Dr. Green of Atlanta, grand of the Ku Klux Klan who injured in an automobile accident two weeks ago near Forsyth, dismissed from a hospital wife, hurt in the same wreck. a hospital patient and her today was reported aeatill By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 (jp) -Senator Byrd (D-Va.) topped some Republican demands for economy today with an assertion that government spending can be cut to 1132,000,000,000 in the next year. Byrds estimate $5,508,000,000 below President Trumans budget figure was given to a reporter before! the four taxing and appropriating committees of the two houses convened to take an official look at the nations prospective income and outgo. This committee, charged with making the two ends of the financial chain meet, gathered 4s Con gress prepared for a busy week of acting on war fraud investigations, beginning studies of air safety and starting hearings on labor dispute legislation. Byrd said his studies indicate the budget fon the year beginning next July 1 might be carried even below tbe $32,000,000,000 figure be regards as a maximum While Senator Taft (R-Ohio) and some other GOP leaders have shied away from any slash in the fixed in the White House for military expenditures, Byrd said he believes savings can be made there by more efficient administration without impairing na. tional defense.

He estimated that 1,000,000 of the 1.400.000 government employes could be cut off the pay rolls without impairing efficiency. Taft has been talking about a $3,500,000,000 cut in the budget, a figure that some Republicans have indicated they think is too low. He also urged a 20 per cent cut in income taxes. But Byrd said he doesnt want to see any tax reductions until the budget figure comes tumbling down. A son of the late W.

H. King, one years ago. Medical treatment re-this sections outstanding land- itored the use of his right eye, but wners and cotton producers, Eey- offered no hope for complete sight, on King was for many years as- Physicians told Herbert that neith-aciated with his father in agricul er of his eyes had been physically oral pursuits, later devoting a great damaged by the explosion, but that brtion of his interest to livestock, the blindness had been caused by fie operated a general store and hhock. The doctors added that he otton gin near Burnsville, and was might someday regain full vision, "oong tbe group which had the dis- or that he might be completely The appearance of the Charity Leagues March of Dimes booth in front of Carters Monday morning gave notice to the general public that the local fund-raising effort is now underway, and will continue for the next two weeks. Members of the Scribblers Club, captained by Mrs.

John 4 Fi- the Charity League representative Mrs. Baker H.U... Monday, and each day members of other federated clubs and the League will man the booth. While contributions have come In during the past few days, progress of the campaign ha been slow, it was reported Monday by Dallas county chairman Arthur J. Lewis, who emphasized that donors may expedite the campaign by forward ing their contributions in response to the appeal made by letter to hundreds throughout the city and county.

Industrial plants and their employees are being contacted by workers headed by M. P. Jackson. A contribution of $167.82 w.is raised on Saturday night at the regular dance neld at the Officers Club at Craig Field, where a special feature was staged to aid the Mari of Dimes. Tickets were sold at 50 cents eacU among the guests during a March of Dimes about the ball-room, and an extra inducement was the awarding of two $25.00 war bonds, ssrloua, lost one crutches, did not Engineer track, warning, warning stated.

fruitless, Mr. tracks, said. A brought funeral Mr. Anderson. Myrtlewood.

and R. in the MACON', Samuel dragon was has been here. His Is still condition BOTHJYLABAMA AND CAHABA WILL PASS FLOOD LEVELS BY MID-WEEK Approaching dangerous levels the Cahaba and Alabama rivers will pass flood levels in mid-week, the Cahaba to crest at Marion Junction at 38 feet and the Alabama to crest at 52 feet at Selma on Friday, both crests to come in the aftemo on. The flood stage for the Alabama is 45 feet. That of the Cahaba at Marion Junction''bridge is 23 feet.

The flood warnings, issued from the State Weather Bureau offices, Montgomery, in the form of bulletins to the local Weather Clerk, W. C. Robinson, and to the Red Cross Committee, Carl Edwards chairman. The first call for Red Cross boats with which to enter flooded lowlands the Cahaba and remove cattle marooned here came Monday morning from Will Ward. Reporting the week-end rainfall 1.52 inches fell Saturday night and Weather Clerk Robinson said that 3.2 inches fell Sunday night.

river stoo at 60.9 feet at 9 a. m. Today at 9 a. m. at Tuscaloosa lock and dam, rat above the 46-foot flood stage.

Three streets In Northport were blocked to motor traffic but Major James Andrews said that no homes have been evacuated in the Northport area. On the Tuscaloosa side the river threatens to hamper operations at Reichold Chemical Companys plan; at Fox where the stream lacked only a foot of covering a road. 100 Families Ousted ROME, Jan. 20 (AP) At least 100 families were forced from their homes today as the Oostanaula river flooded Into west Rome. The river was still rising, and another 500 families were under an alert to move.

National Guard (See Both Alabama, Page Three) notion of chartei membership lr. pe Dallas County Farm Bureau. He was connected with the State griculture Department for sever-years, in its livestock Inspection Apartment, and was identified also Lith many of the programs for ag-cultural advancement which were lorn time to time proposed here iiring the past 25 years. (Born In Selma on June 30,1892, mother having been the late rs. Carrie Mason King, Peyton ng was educated In the Selma labile Schools, a the famous preface Ring, Page Three- blindin 10 years.

Herbert said that Saturday night he was firing the bailer in his father's tavern and "suddenly an ex. plosion occurred. A ball of fire shot out of the boiler door and burned me on the arm and on the lid of my left eye, the one that has been blind two years. I didn't realize anything had happened until I started back upstairs. When I reached the top I put my hand to my right eye to close out the light, and found I could still see.

Then 1 realized why. KIDNAPING PROBED LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 -MV- A widening search was under way today for 11-year-old Arlene Waters, whose sister, Jenice, 14, told police a young man pulled Arlene intd his car as they were taking a walk last night and sped away. The girls distraught parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Waters, said Jenice told them the dark-haired motorist offered the girls a ride which they refused, then stopped the car and forced Arlene in. Warrior Rising TUSCALOOSA Jan. 20 (fP) Still rising slowly the Warrior.