The Macon News from Macon, Georgia • 8

Wednesday April 18 1945 MACON NEWS ORDER AT HOME PEACE ABROAD MACONITES WEIGH TWO ISSUES Illness Fatal To Shea At Sanitarium Trailer Camps Are Prohibited By Ordinance CHAMBER PUN TO HUNTING) The tourist and convention bureau of the Macon Chamber of Commerce is discussing a program to develop an area south of Macon into a nationally recognized game preserve in the postwar era Walter Cates executive secretary of the Chamber revealed today 0 Today's announcement followed just now It naturally follows that if the world has peace the United States will have peace The biggest thing to do right now is to finish this war!" phases of the question are important but we're most interested in putting the United Slates back on peacetime basis" answered John Jones city councilman course we're interested in the world but more especially in the welfare of our own country" must have the cooperation of the Senate to make any peace and I notice that Columnist David Lawrence thinks Truman will have the backing of both houses of Congress" responded Attorney Douglas Carlisle "I feel optimistic about Truman for a well man makes a better president than a sick man The stork market is up indicating that business is behind a good sign" Truman will have to establish world peace His second job is to put the United States back on an orderly peacetime basis and convert industries from wartime to peacetime production" is the belief of Brown hpad of office of the Slate Highway Department "Truman's biggest job is to work with Mr Churchill and Mr Stalin to carry forward the plan of peace already formulated" commented Marvin Newberry assistant clerk in the county commissioners' office Judge Cecil Baldwin presiding officer of the City Court of Macon observed: the most important job is world peace because what effects the world will naturally affect the United Slates World peace plans will affect us Sharing the judge's opinion are llolt State Highway Dc- partment Harry Burns clerk City Court and Elmo Simmons deputy clerk City Court peace is more important than anything else in the world It's Truman's paramount and chief job" City Treasurer Frank Bran-an began since the war is progressing to the place where the shouting will soon be over in Europe Unless we change admirals and generals the Japs will fall soon after Germany and nobody has any idea of throwing our fighting heads out Somebody with genius is responsible for selecting the war leaders including Gen Courtney Hodges" The Rev Maurice Trimmer pastor First Baptist Church says first important job is to demonstrate he's worthy of the confidence of the nation His biggest job is going to be to help returning servicemen regain their standing in civilian life and to return our country to peacetime pursuits without upsetting the economic equilibrium of the Ministers believing world peace is the most important thing facing Truman are the Rev Sammons and the Rev Earl A Crawford the latter adding: is impossible to get back on a normal basis without something being done on a world basis As Roosevelt said can't hide behind geographical barriers any more" William Thomas Shea formerly of Augusta died early today after an illness of several months Mr Shea was born in Baldwin countv near Millcdgeville on Nov 14 1859 ilis parents were David Emmett and Alethea Jenkins Shpa and his grandparents Dennis Shea and Elizabeth Martin Shea daughter of Col James Martin Augusta who Is noted for action in the Revolutionary War Mr Slica jived in Augusta until 13 years ago and was active in civic and religious affairs Funeral services will be conducted at 3 pm Thursday in Montezuma He is survived by his wife Joann Bodeker Shea two sons Brig Gen George Shea Ninth Army Chaplain Ralph Shea First Army one daughter Mrs Carl Savage of Montezuma six grandchildren Pfc Carl Savage of USMC Cherry Point John and Virginia and Richard Savage of Montezuma Ralph Shea of Orlando and George Shea of Washington one nephew Dwight A Deas Augusta I IVHII Hattie CRAWFORD ELECTED PRESBYTERY HEAD Rev Vernon A Crawford pastor Vineville Presbyterian Church Macon was elected moderator of the Macon Presbytery at the semi-annual stated meeting of the Presbytery in the Warner Robins Presbyterian Church Tuesday Rev Crawford succeeds Rev Talmadge Columbus The two- day session started Monday and doses this aflernoon Macon YMCA Annual Meeting Slated Monday The annual meeting of the Macon Young Christian Association will be held in the Civic Room of the Monday afternoon at which time new members of the aboard of directors and new trustees will be named YMCA pins will be awarded for work in the membership campaign and a program of Is being planned The new officers to be installed are Charles Bowden president Douglas Carlisle vice president Newton Jr treasurer and Walter Grace recording secretary A luncheon will Jollow the business session Seven new directors will be named and four trustees will be selected Wives of the directors and trustees have been invited to attend the luncheon which will be served by members of the Auxiliary DESTROY AR3TTS Ant Food is quick death to ants It kills by contact or swallowing Effective 24 hours a day Uo odor Over 1250000' cam of sold last year Get today PETERMAN'S ANT FOOD SHAPING DEVELOP FISHING a meeting Tuesday of the bureau in which it was pointed out that area between Macon and Ilawkinsville is a veritable paradise of 150000 acres 17000 of which are lakes and swampland and high ground well stocked with bears deer fish turkeys and beaver" This area lies between the Cochran Short Route on one side of the river and the Ilawkinsville Road on the other TIIE COMMISSIONER of the Pennsylvania Game and Fish Commission has advised the Macon bureau that area can be developed into one of the greatest sportsman's game preserves in the United Stales as it contains all manner of game native to all swamp and upland areas" Bureau members headed by Carstarphen meeting Tuesday to formulate plans and objectives for the coming year also are planning to establish guided tours of attractions in and about Macon for convention delegates and tourists with colored and illustrated booklets mapping tours to points of interest in and about the city OTHER PLANS included the preparation of souvenir picture booklets and postcards to be distributed among servicemen and the mapping of plans for a wide publicity program focussed toward postwar tourist and convention trade which is expected to be considerably greater after the war than previously due to the national cemetery which will be established here then Bureau members will meet with those of the chamber's 13 other bureaus to offiriglly launch the chamber's activities for the coming year at a luncheon meeting at 12:30 pm Friday at which President Carmage Walls will be host 1457 Voters Register A total of-1457 voters had registered at City Treasurer Frank Branan's office shortly before noon today DUNWODY PLUS Councilmen Approve Proposed Bon Prohibition of trailers and trailer camps was officially and swiftly acted on by City Council Tuesday night Councilmen passed the ban after only 15 minutes of discussion Alderman Blair disapproved of off the decision any longer on a problem we have been facing for the past four Trailers now occupied and in use in the city limits and trailer camps already being operated provided they fully comply with all existing city ordinances and health regulations are exempted in the new ordinance THE ORDINANCE also permits property owners to allow their personal guests to park trailers on land which they own for a limited time by obtaining a permit from threity This permit can be issued only for non-paying guests however From the date of Its passage the new ordinance prohibits any new commercial trailer camp operations and no new paying trailer guests may be permitted on any premises within the city limits For non-paying trailer guests to get city permits which are to be issued by the city clerk for seven-day period applicants must first obtain from the city-county health department a certificate of compliance with existing health regulations Arnold Jacobs and Harry Strozlcr attorneys for a group of residents of First Street and Pine Street offered the ordinance that was adopted TWO ADDITIONAL proposed ordinances were read for the first time last night and were assigned to the committee on new ordinances for study until next week The first of the two would provide a speed limit of 25 miles per hour for all locomotives and trains while traveling within the city limits of Macon with Recorder's court penalties for violation The second proposed ordinance would set a 20-mile per hour speed limit for vehicles on Dr Lee boulevard within Baconsfield park from 99 North avenue to Nottingham drive and would bar trucks from this road with Recorder's court penalties for violation The speed limit is needed within the park because of the large number of youngsters play-' ing there it wss explained PENSION APPROVED A pension was approved for Stewart of the city fire depart-1 ment who is ill at a hospital in Augusta with the provision that it become effective May 1 1 THE DISABLED American Veterans Auxiliary) headed by Mrs Charles Lellardy Adams was granted permission to sell forge t-j me-nots in downtown Macon June I 2 A quit claim deed for Lee Thomas also won approval Joseph Daly's petition for an encroachment was assigned to the encroachment committee the request of Rogers avenue residents for extension of a sewer went to the street committee: and Gilbert Johnson's request for refund of an auditorium fee was assigned to committee Beer and wine license applications were disapproved for both Jack Lamar and Bertha DeShazer and Wiggins was denied permission to complete construction of a partly built storage room that extends into one of tire city streets Yanks Fighting Continued from Page One persons over secret mountain trails to the American lines Often the sturdy native mountaineers carried the sick and feeble Many the Igorotes and refugees said were too sick or starved to complete the four-day roundabout journey The trail was dolled with graves Baguio Japanese last stand headquarters was also the last seat of their Filipino Puppet government headed by Jose Laurel Refugees from the city confirmed reports Laurel had fled to Japan possibly with Gen Toinoyuki Ya-mashita Nipponese commander-in-chief in llie Philippines AMONG TIIE rescued was-Brig Gen Manuel Koxas former speaker of tiie Philippines national assembly who steadfastly had refused to collaborate with tiie Japanese Another was Milagros Osmena a daughter of Philippine President Sergio Osmena by bis first marriage Her condition was reported very poor I) Armies Continued from Page One piling up more confusion and disorder along the enemy front Advancing against weak opposition across the Luneberger heath south of Hamburg the British Seventh Armored Division captured the big railway center of Soltau 30 miles below the port and rammed ahead another 10 miles this morning for an overall advance of 32 miles in 36 hours On Hie Seventh Division's right flank Hie British 1 1th Armored Division and the Devils" of Ihe Sixth Airborne Division rolled up to within 13 miles or less of the Elbe Rivqr on a 30-mile front cutting the main Hamburg-Bcrlin railway line ONLY 10 MORE DAYS Ministers and elders representing 12 churches in the Macon Presbytery area which includes the territory of Macon Cuthbert Dublin and Colnmbus attended the meeting and voted to hold the fall meeting at Columbus Oct 16 FOLLOWING A dinner at the church served by members of the Auxiliary a program on evangelism was conducted by Dr Logan Landrum pastor Warner Robins church A musical feature was provided by Sgt Edmund 1 Thompkins Robins Field basso accompanied at the organ by Mrs i Thompkins Kev Oswald Delgado pastor Log Cabin Presbyterian Church Macon was in charge of devotion-als at today's meeting which In-: eluded the communion service at 11 o'clock Subjects of committee reports presented during the meeting proposed union of the North and South Presbyterian churches by Rev Ellis Assembly Causes by Rev Davis Religious Education by Rev Tal-mage Woman's Work by Rev Ellis and Stewardship by Rev Delgado REV JAMES TOAD pastor Memorial Presbyterian Church Columbus was slated clerk for the two-day session concluding at 2 pm today and Rev Delgado the recording clerk Other ministers participating In the meeting were Rev Harold While Americas Rev Calvin Iteid Columbus Rev A A Talbert Dublin Kev A Harris Macon The Presbyterian elders were: Watt Americus Talbert Columbus Hart Dublin A Cain Columbus: Goode Cuthhert: Fudge Perry II lloltzclaw Macon Buchanan Mt Tabor Rad Turner Maron and A Wliitmcr Warner Robins Fire Sprinkler Forum Set Here Thursday Brady New York fire prevention sprinkler system en-jt glueer will be1 at the YMCA ati 3:30 pm Thursday for consults-It tiou with all interested property owners anil lease holders in Mi- con areording to David Adams I) chairman of the Chamber of I Civic Bureau and two cousins Mrj Cody of Jewel Ga and Mrs Ida Lalti-more of Macon Ga Fliers Rock Continued from Page One land just north had been two-thirds cleared ON OKINAWA Marines battled 1300 to 2200 Japanese in the hills of Motobu Peninsula in the northern sector The Japanese counterattacked four times yesterday in a battle for an important hill The Marines counted 300 enemy dead after finally winning the position A Japanese communique claimed Japanese planes sank five aircraft carriers a battleship two battleships or cruisers a cruiser and four transports in the Okinawa 'area Monday and Tuesday Another enemy broadcast said Japanese patrol units sank an Allied submarine in the area yesterday I mm mm fOR AN EXTRA CHOP! Extra red points can help so much Get 2 red points far each pound of used fats you turn in Keep Saving Used Fats For tha Fighting Fronts and Home Front srwiiy dw-a -r? 'jfc-fc- 115 Cotton Avenue To Make Your State and County Tax Returns And apply for homestead and Personal Exemptions Books Close April DAN TAX COMMISSIONER By PEGGY FOREHAND Pausing only a moment to ponder the question Macon's mayor councilmen judges ministers lawyers bankers and businessmen gave rapid answers to The News reporter who heat the rounds of city hall courthouse banks stock exchange and office buildings yesterday to take a poll on current opinion concerning a matter of national and International import The question around which the poll was centered is: What is the more important job facing Pres dent Truman making a world peace or putting the United States back on an orderly peacetime basis? is confronted by two major tasks he must prosecute the war to a successful conclusion and 121 he must work out a world peace with teeth in it to secure peace between the nations in the future" said Mayor Charles Bowden can do both with the cooperation of the American people The United Stiles must make an enforceable peace so that nations will have to abide by it If we win the war and don't win the peace we'll have gained nothing Roosevelt left us a wonderful foundation upon which to build Mrs Viola Ross Napier city clerk thinks the two questions go together This country won't get back on a peacetime basis unless we have a just and enforceable peace she said a good Job of making world peace is the most important issue facing Truman because we made such a mess after the last war!" is the opinion of Commander Stanley Jones Navy Attorney Gus Jones is of the opinion that steering tle United Slates into a world peace is of paramount importance this country can pretty well take care of itself What we don't know is can Truman take care of the world?" the United States back on a peacetime basis Is the prime job of Truman because Roosevelt spent so much money" stated Barnwell Jr of Mcrrill-Lynch-Pierce Fenner Beane we don't get our finances straight we'll have plenty Agreeing with Mr Barnwell is Hogan manager who gives as his reason that business can pro-t cced in the normal way" peace is the most important thing because the United States has been trying to look after itself at the expense of the rest of the opined Harris assistant cashier Citizens Southern Bank United States is too capitalistic" he added of America have enough faith in the nation getting back on an even keel" said Fred Carson assistant vice president of the First National Bank "Trumaq is an organization man who can delegate his authority to good men under him in order to establish Guyton Abney cashier City Bank replied: peace overshadows anything the United States could undertake at home British Continued from Page One Armies Ten bombers and 20 fighters were lost British planes had a gala day attacking a large number of German ships ranging from 1000-ton vessels to bargesiawhich were trying to get out to sea around the coast of Holland and Northwest Germany At least 11 ships including a large freighter and a minesweeper and 29 barges were destroyed or damaged Press correspondent tried to get out from under the debris and couldn't Said Vermillion somebody get me out of here" IN FRANCE Pyle finally saw all the death lie could stand for a while lie wrote candidly that he could no longer take it He had to route home Everywhere he went Pyle found fighting men looking for him They told him their stories and lie always got their names and addresses right 4 If lie slept on the ground with a hunch of exhausted soldiers he wrote a column about that in the morning If the bombs came close he told how the men took it IF THEY WERE hungry and dirty and homesick and grumpy and sick of war lie told about that too Pyle's columns about combat troops won them an increase In pay He didn't pretend to be a moulder of opinion he just thought that If airmen and others got extra pay for combat duty the men with the rifles ought to get it loo lie said it would be good for tlieir morale Congress agreed What he wrote hit a day laborer as hard as it hit a college The ordinary people loved him witness the stream of Lct-ters-lo-the-Editor which flowed constantly into the newspapers which carried Ills column The learned also ltfved him and showed him theic respect Witness the honorary degree bestowed upon him by his alma maler Indiana University They called the degree of Human Letters" Morrison Brotherhood Holds iSupper Meeting The Brotherhood of Morrison Memorial Methodist Church on Henry Street held tlieir regular monthly supper meeting at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night at the church Supper was screed by Hie member of the Ladies' Auxiliary to Hie Brotherhood Solos were rendered by Rev Waller and Quynlon Newton Miss Minnie Lee Waller sang several songs with Rev Waller at the piano Speaker for Hie evening was Dr Melvin 1 Williams sociologist of Wesleyan University faculty Tribble president pra-gidad EVANGELIST Emerson Estes of Birmingham will hold a revival at the South-side Church of Christ Broadway and Colquitt Streets April 22 through May 2 Reds in Sight Continued from Page One Henry Shapiro cabled from Moscow thing is certain In the view of Russian the Cermans intend to defend the capital bitterly and are not expected to surrender by telephone or bicycle courier it Is possible the Allied armies will meet somewhere south of Berlin probably in the Dresden area where the distance separating Marshal Ivan Konev's and Lt Gen George Patton's forces is the shortest" Truman Facing Continued from Page One employment if low-cost foreign goods Wallace said: you're just talking for a third World War" Wiley shot back: a hell of a fine answer You're getting cockeyed that's the matter with-you" WALLACE WILL be one of the first witnesses before the Ways and Means Committee along with State Department officials Protection Avoid the Rush! Machinegunner Kills Pyle t- To the Nan or Boy CTho Is Planning' for the Future: Yes avoid the rush! 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