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Vol. 109, No. 35.
Press Notables Throng
Athens For Georgja's
Annual Press Institute
Davidson Opens Conclave Tonight;
Many Famed Writers To Speak
The 14th annual Ceorgia Press Institute opens
with a dinner for Georgia editors in Memorial Hall
on the University of Georgia campus tonight.
State Legislature
Hear Arguments
On Union Workers
( By The Associated Press)
ATLANTA — Focussing at
tention on one of the most
explosive issues of the present
session of the General Assem.
bly, opponents marshalled their
forces today for a full hearing
on unionization of workers on
public projects.
Up for consideration of the sen
ate committee of the state of the
republic was a bill by Senator H.
B. Edwards of Valdosta to pre
vent labor organizations from col
lecting any fee from persons work
ing or seeking work on projects
financed in whole or in part by
tax money.
Dewey Johnson, president of the
Georgia Rederation of Labor ar
ranged to present as opposition
witnesses the heads of the AFL
Building Trades organizationg in
Macon, Columbus, Augusta and
Savannah, where vast government
defense projects are underway.
Other labor leaders also will testi
fy at the public hearing.
Edwards Urges
Georgia solicitors general, par
ticularly those from circuits in
which defense construction is in
progress, have been urged by Sen-
ator Edwards to be present, and
the legislator said many non-union
workers would speak. Senator J.
H. Clark, chairman of the com
mittee, said the session would last
as long as necessary to Rear all
evidence., .
Discussing the reasons for the
AF'L's opposition to the measure,
Johnson said it would enahle work
ers “to obtain all the benefits re
sulting from organization without
contributing to the cost of the
unions.” v
In addition to the “improved
working hous and wages that labor
organizations had won,” Johnson
said, “unions also provide insur
ance payments, pensions and other
benefits.” To give these to work
ers who had not contributed to
ward the cost, he argued in an in
terview would be “unfair.”
Johngon also pointed out that
unions have built up large reserves
In their treasuries and that all
members have an equity in those
funds. “If we let a whole lot of
new members without charging
them anything,” he said, ‘“they
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Final Services Held
Yesterday For
Father Of Athenian
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Funeral services for J. 1. Pruitt,
83, one of Banks county’s best
known citizeng and father of Mrs.
Jewell Short of Athens, were held
vesterday afternoon from Nails
Creek Baptist church,
Mr. Pruity was a native of Banks
county and had lived there all his
life,
He is surviveq by his wife; five
sons, Joe and Broadug Pruitt of
Atlanta; Oscar Pruitt, Toceoa:
Dolph and Lop Pruitt, both of
Banks county; three daughters,
Mirs, Short, Mrs. W. T, Prickett,
Cornelia, anq Mrs. W. M. Tatum,
Clarkesville.
Historic Bills To Be On Exhibit
At National Bank Open House
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
' Herbert Davidson, editor, Day
tona, Beach (Fla.) News-Journal,‘
and chairman of the committee on
schools of journalism of the!
kSouthem Newspaper Publishers’
- Association, will be the principal
!speaker. He will speak in the
']ounge room of Memorial Hall at]
8:30 p. m, At this time officers
of the Press Association and other
distinguished guest will be intro-l
duced. Students in journalism and !
faculty members have been invited
‘to hear Mr. Davidson. He will be
introduced by Dr. Harmon VV.‘
Caldwell, president of the Univer
sity. Dean John E. Drewry of the
Henry W. Grady School of Journ
nalism will preside.
Other distinguished guests at the
opening dinner will be Harry Gray-.
son. sports editor of the NEA, who |
is «v speak Thursday at 10:20 a. m.
as the guest of the Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer, and Edward W,
Feattie, jr., United Press London!
correspendent, who is to be heard !
Thursday at 11:30 a. m., as guest
of the Augusta Chronicle,
Other Speakers
This yvear’'s Institute program
features, in addition to Davidson,
Bronner, and Grayson, two Pulit
zer prize winners and an FBI spe
cial investigator. The Pulitzer
speakers are Governor James M.
Cox 1920 Democratic presidential
candidate, who is to be heard Fri
day at 11:30 as the guest of his
own Atlanta Journal, and Kirke L.
Simpson, Associated Press Wash
ington writer, who speaks Satur
day at 11:30 as 'the guest. of the
Atlanta Constitution. The I'BI
spokesman is R. C, Danner, At
lanta, who is to be heard Friday
at 10:30 as guest of the Macon
Telegraph-News.
Ernest Rogers. radio news edi
tor, Atlanta Jqurnal, and Louis L.
Morris, editor, Hartwell Sun, will
address the annual dinner of the
Georgia, Collegiate Press Associa
tion Friday evening. While the
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Mardi Gras Swings
Into Start For
Week Of Festivities
NEW ORLEANS —(AP-— Here
it is again, that season of the year
when men begin to look like pen
guins and kings get peppered with
peanuts and pebbles. It starts to
right and gets worse in ahurry
for seven days.
Carnival marches toward its
peak tonighkt with the first street
parade given by the Krewe of
Babylon. Between now and the
Mardi Gras climax next Thursday
at midnight there will have been
13 balls and at least a dozen pa
rades.
The Socialite males, trying to
attend as many balls as possible
in the time left them, will prac
tically have to live in their tuxes
and tails and for that pleasure
don’t mind being called “the Pen
guins.”
In the time between the start of
the Carnaval season. January 6
and the finish on ¥Fat Tuesday,
there will have been 41 balls all
told—and retold. That’s a record
breaking number even here.
Not even the European war can
put a lamper ofi the schedule.
King Alla and his hrewe, who, in
peaceful years, presented a Miss
issippi River pageant in full view
of thousands on' the city’s wharves
In a report on the shipping
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An exhibit of old money, rich
in historic value, will be of inter-,
est to the many friends attending
the open house to be given at the
National Bank of Athens Thurs
day night from eight to ten o’clock
in observance of the bank's sev
enty-fifth anniversary.
The bills, some of which have
reposed in the vaults of the bank
since it was organized on Febru
ary 20, 1866, are stch as would
delight the heart of a collector.
Among the bills are some issued
by the then Bank of Athens, some
eighty-odd years ago, but still in
splendid preservation. Some of
the bills have pictures of the old
Georgia Railroad depot, then (0~
cated on Carr’'s Hill in BEast Ath
ens. At the time these hills were
ob e .
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Japs Watch While
Singapore Base
Gets Planes, Men
British Fighters, ;
Bombers Arrive |
As Tension Mounts |
BY C. YATES McDANIEL
SINGAPORE. — (AP) —
The fighting strength of
Britain’s Singapore base was
reinforced today by thous
ands of Australians and by
such great numbers of bom
bers and fighting planes that
neutral observers believed
the balance of air power in
Southeastern Asia has turn
ed in Britain’s favor.
The arrival of the Australians
made the Malay peninsula a ver
itable powerhouse of military en
ergy and increased expressions of
official, press and popular confi
dence that the empire now was
ready to meet any threat of an ex
tension of the war to the south
Pacific, 2
-Malaya today had the greatest
manpower strengtp in its history.
The Australians came complete
ly equipped to reinforce British,
Indian and Malay troops guarding
the great base. Malaya’s volun
teer and civil defense units-also
have been completely mobilized and
are in training to support the reg
iments manning the defenses,
Help Protect
Chinese residents who form Ma
lay’s largest and most important
racial minority are organizing to
help in »rotecting the country, An
air defense program is being vig
oriously pushed ahead in all ports
and centers of popuiation. Bomb
blast screens are installed to pro
tect important buildings in Singa
port. and g plan is being perfected
to disperse the unessential poula
tion to the nearby countryside in
the eyent of an emergency, Hun
dreds of shelters .are being built
in the hilly areas of central and
northern Malaya..
(Japanese observerg in Tokyo
sald the Australian expedition was
another indicatien that Britain was
attempting to create a erigis in the
Far Bast. In Shanghai a Japanese
army spokesman said the Austra
lins’ arrival was ‘“a belligerent ac
tion” aimed at bringing pressure
on Thailand, “which is coopérat
ing with Japan in bringing g new
order into the Far Bast” This
spokesman said it might prevent
success of the Tokyo peace confer
ence, in which Japan is mediating
hetween Thailand and French Indo
China.
(Unconfirmed reports reached
Saigon that twp Japanese flotillas
were in the Gulf of Siam, the
bedy of water lying between Indo
‘China, Thailand and the Malay
Peninsula.)
Farm Exverts Say
Britain Not
Desperate For Food
WASHINGTON —{#)— Admin.
istration farm officials said today
they saw little likelihood that
Great Britain would require any
appreciable quantity of American
farm products in the near future.
This view was based upon an
analysis of English needs, the
present shipping situation, and the
factors which caused Britain to
restrict its imports of United States
agricultural products after the war
started.
When the war began, England
cut down on purchases of Ameri
can farm prbducts to conserve
foreign exchgnge for purchasa
here of airplanes, munitions and
other tools of war.
Since that time, England has
taken steps to expand domestic
production sharply as well as to
reduce requirements by imposing
the rationing system.
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Wallace Scheduled
To Make Speech
At Farm Institute
WASHINGTON —(#)— Vice.
President Wallace, who has listen.
ed to a lot of speeches in his first
month’s service ag presiding of
ficer of the senate, is going to
make one of his own Saturday.
. And the advance word is that
it will be an important one, scru
tinized in advance by the Presi
dent, and possibly intended to
swing mid-western support behind
tLe British aid bill |
‘Whllace’s friends saw in the
vice_president’s expanding activity
a verification of theipr pre-election
forecasts that he would do all he
could, in and out of the senate
chamber, to forward President
Roosevelt’s policies.
Wallace will speak in his old
home town, Des, Moines, fowa,
before the National Farm Institute.
As former secretary of agricul.
ture, he was expected to bear dewn
on qis thesis that this nation’s
farmers have a material stake in
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, February 19, 1941.
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Great tenderness surrounds Guiberson Diesel engine as mechanic
draws curtain for first look at much-talked-about motor beng built
at Dallas, Tex., for possible use in planes and tanks. Engite’s now
being tested for naval planes, is reputed to generate more powel
than gas engine on same amount of fuel.
Athens Naval Recruiter Cited
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For Promotion To Lieutenant
After Making Brilliant Record
Adventures In Fleet Include Fight
With China Bandits, Antarctic Trip
By Mary Sutton
E.'R. Flynn, chief quartermaster of the Athens
Naval sub-station, has been recommended by Stanley
A. Jones, officer-in-charge at Macon, to Congress
for an appointment as lieutenant in the United
States Naval Reserve. The bill is now pending before
Congress that the Navy be allowed to choose com-;
’misliioned officers from the non-commissioned
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Brilliant Record
Brings Him Honor
E. R. Flynn, chief quarter
miaste: and local recruiting
otficer for the United States
Navy, has been recommended
for a promotion to lieutenant
in view of the brilliant record
established since he entered
the service. Since he took
charge of the Athens station,
it has become the best in the
district.
State Entomologist
Shows Movie To
Zoolcgy Club Here
C, H. Alden, entomologist in
charge of the parasite laboratory
of the State Department of ento
mology, will show a color movie at
the meeting of the University of
Georgia Zoology Club in room 208
of LeConte Hall Thursday after
noon at 4:39. The public is invited.
. The movie will deal with the
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Flynn has been with the navy
15 years, during which time he
has served on cruisers, battleships,
| submarines and on land. His work
has carried him to many parts of
| the world. His bravery was recog
inized when he led a band of men
rat Amoy, China to ward. off a
;Chinese attack .on the Standard
| Ooil Company, He also brought
iback 60,470 pounds of seal skins
from ong of the Byrd expeditions,
! In his recommendation Mr. Jones
!declared Flynn was sent to the
i Athens sub-station in September,
{1940. At that time the station was
{ unproductive but gmce then it has
| become the best one in the district,
| according to the record.
Jones added that Flynn’s charac
ter bespoke the “highest type of
military man” and in addition he
lis “capable of utilizing every op.
[ portunity to the best advantage of
the United States navy.” He has
taken an active part in local =o
i cleties and civic organizationg and
has bought a home here where he
plans to live after retirement,
Acrobat-Carpenter
Lands Job By
Giving Exhibition
By CHOLLY DRAKE
Some men may retire at sixty
five, but not so one carpenter who
came into the Georgia State Em
ployvment -Service office last week.
| The man approached William Pit
tard, senior interviewer for the
Service, and asked that he be
sent to a job in North Carclina.
Pittard glanced at the man’s
%card and found that he was sixty
i five vears old. He glanced at the
worker’s white hair. He explained
to the ecarpenter that the projeect
wanted men under fifty-five.
! Apparently anticipating this ob
stacle, the carpenter immediately
droppéd to the floor on his knees.
Fe began to perform acrobatic
!feats that would put many profes
sionals to shame. He concluded
his performance by kneeling,
bending back over his heels ard
touching his head to the floor, and
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Snow Predicted
For Northern
Georgia Thursday
Below Zero Mark
Is Reported In
Chicago Today
By The _Associated Press
Arctic blasts again kept
the mercury at sub-zero lev
els in sections of the middle
west today and brought
freezing temperatures to
most of the northeastern
quarter of the nation.
Approximately one year after
Athens was blanketed by g six
inch snow, the weather forecast
heralded colder tonight and Thurs
day, followed by snow in mnorth
portion and rain in south portion.
Sub-zero cold was felt in seven
midwestern states, with Minnesota
and North Dakota reporting the
lowest readings. Continued cold
and snow flurries were forecast
for most of the northern states.
| Beforn dawn the temperature
was 27 below zero at Bemidli,
Minn,, 25 below at Roseau, Minn,,
and Devilg Lake, N. D., -17 at
Watertown, 8. D.; -10 at La
Crosse, Wis,, -9 at Charles City,
Jowa, and zero at Moline, 111. Upper
Michigan also had sub-zero read
ings.
Temperatures remained _above
normdlf on the "Paeifie coast, ~in
Texas, and the ‘Rocky Mountain
region. Among high temperatures
reported vesterday were: 74 iat
Yuma, 'Ariz., ang’ Miami; 727 at
Abilene, Texad;' 71 at'Shrfeveport,
La.; 68 at Los Angeles; 67 'at Pho
enix, Ariz., and San Diego, Calif.
Maryland looked forward to 'its
coldest weather o¢ the winter as
forecasters predictéd a 10 degree
drop today. The temperature fell
to two above zero at Mount Sav
age, Md. yesterday and the min
imum at Baltimore was 21 above.
A 48 mile wind swept Baltimore
early yesterday, :
Highway crews battled driftg in
western New York, which suffered
its worst snowstorm of the season
yesterday. Because of drifts and
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Clarke Bill Affecting
Sale Of School
Property Is Passed
A Clarke _county bill allowing
the city board of education to sell
any of its property not deemed
necessary to the successful opera
tion of the school system, was
passed today by the State House
of Representatives.
The Bill was introduced about
ten days ago by Representatives
Dupree Hunnicutt, jr., and Olin
Price, jr.,
rules relating to the sale of
public property must be complied
with before any school property
can be sold under the specifications
of the bill.
Louisville Finding
Answer To Put
Soldiers At Ease
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —(#)— Good,
clean, inexpensive fun that may
be financed partly with army post)
seript is official Louisville’'s ans
wer to the soldier-recreation prob
lem—a new worry fop many a
United States community. |
And approved girl friends are{
to be provided too, if plans work
out for entertaining thousands of
soldiers who throng this city on
week-ends from the armored force!
headquarters at Fort Knfox, 35
miles away. |
Center of the city.sponsored
program is to be a 3.story civilian.
soldier recreation hall on the edge
of the business district, newly ac
quired by the city for more than
$200,000. :
Thus, with what one official
termed a “positive” approach,
Louigville authorities believe they
have solved the problem of pro
viding wholesome, “appealing” en
tertainment for the soldiers, some
of them away from home for the
first time. | : (<] 1S
“There’s going to be nothing
namby-pamby about our program.,”
explained Welare Director Charles
J. Rieger, jr. “No pink teas or
anything like that. Nothing sissi.
fied. foo
“We're simply trvying to provlde‘
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A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Democracies Must Hang
Together--Connally,
U.S. Can’t B;\l;d*i&;ént To Fate
‘ Of Battling Demecracy, He Says
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Senator Connally (D.-
Texas), pleading for national unity in support of the
administration’s British aid bill, told the senate today
that the democracies of the world “‘must all hang to
gether or they shall hang separately.” ‘{
Greeks Continue
To Push War
Against [talians
Nazi Planes Drone
Over Greece As
Fascists Lose Men
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia.
— (AP) — Reports of vast
German war supply move
ments across Yugoslavia and
the drone of Nazi planes
over Greece intensified pres
sure on Britain’s embattled
little Balkan ally today to
decide whether to continue
the fight in Albania, or talk
peace on Italy’s terms,
Long lines of sealed railway
cars reliably reported carrying
war material were said to have
crossed the Yugoslav frontier from
Germany, headed for Bulgaria,
from which a flanking attack
could be aimed into Grecee
through Thrace and Macedonia.
Diplomatic sources said the
Germans apparently were taking
quick advantage of the new Turk
ish-Bulgarian nonaggression pact,
regarded in some quarters as im
mobilziing Turkey in event of a
Nazi thrust through Bulgaria, and
of an agreement reportedly reach
ed lagt week with Yugoslavia.
The Greeks apparently only in
creased the force of their offensive
along the Albanian battlefront.
This step-up in the Greek drive,
noticed by military observers here
in the past several days, was at
tributed to the fact—reported by
authoritative Greek sources—that
Nazi scout and photographic
planes have been flying over the
Bulgarian frontier deep into
Greece,
These observers said the Greeks
were trying to bring the fighting
in Albania to a decisive stage
before the Germans could strike.
Increased resistance by the Ital
ians along the Albanian front
caused reports here that Premier
Mussolini, perhaps feeling Italy’'s
cause is lost in Africa against the
British, is throwing all available
reserves into Albania.
(A Greek spokesman declared at
Athens last night that Italian
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Controversy Over Brifain's
Dlockade Becoming Issue
BY DeWITT MacKENZIE |
Associated Press Woriter
Herbert Hoover'’s new proposal
for supplying food to Belgium, with
a view to determining whether
such relief could be carried out
on a larger scale without indirectly
aiding Germany, has emphasized
an issue which will become in
creasingly controversial as the
heavy hand of war presses down
on Europe,
Both London and Washington
have furned cold shoulders to this
further effort to secure relaxation
of the British blockade. That ring
of steel is maintained for the pur
pose of garroting Germany and
Italy, though it is . the misfortune
of many . little countries that
through of no fault of their own
they have been caught in it. ‘
We haven't by any means heard
the last of the efforts to send re
lief to BEurope, especially since the
indications are that famine and
HoXE|
The tall, heavy Texan open the
third day of senate debate on the
legislation with the assertion that
opponents of the bill had engaged
in “specious” arguments with | h
charge that the so-called leas e
lend measure would make President
Roosevelt a “dictator.” i O
Crowded galleries’listened atte e
tively. Tk
Describing the Kuropean war as
“this death struggle of democracy"’
against ruthless tyranny,” Conn ;:;..3'
ly said the United States could not
afford to be indifferent to the fate
of those nations fighting the ax.d
powers. j i
He cited one “safeguard” in the
clause which would specifici a
retain for congress its control over
the purse strings and make it
necessary for the president to ”Wl?*
appropriations and authoriza ;.f‘%}‘;v",ifglf‘:
to earry out the pogram, . = 7 208
~ Other Backers
Waiting to follow up Connally’s
arguments were three other ad L
cates of the program, Senators
Bailey (D-N, C., " Hill (D-Ala.) =
and Murray (D-Mont.) e
Once they have spoken, it is =
very likely that the administration |
will rest its formal case in behalf
of the bill—a maneuver calculated
to hasten a final decision. o
This would saddle the opposition
‘with the task of keeping the
‘bate going, and already the bill's
foes were said to be having d u{%
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Athens Firemen Are
Praised By
Oglethorpe County
Athens firemen were M‘h&‘
praised in a resolution adopted by
the Oglethorpe county Board a@
Commissioners at its meeting lgon-if
day, for the heroic work done in
fighting a fire which partially de
stroyed the courthouse at Lexing
ton recently. i
While there was no usessmcg"i
made against Oglethorpe county
for answering the call for help, the
commissioners inclosed a cleck for
§SO and a copy of the resolution
in a letter to Fire Chief E. F.
Lester today, and asked that the
money be distributedq among the
members of his department. )
Following is 5 copy of the reso=
Ition: i
“Whereag it has been the mis
fortune of Oglethorpe county to
have it’s courthouse partially de
stroyed by fire, and whereas, had
it not been for the able and heroie
aid of the Athens Fire Department
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sering and death to many regions
by summer. The Balkans are on®
of the grave danger spots, and the ‘d
fresh war maneuvers there will
aggravate the situation. 53
Answer Is Yes
The average ' 'person probably
sub_censciously refuses even to *3
debate .the ’question of whether
‘hungry foik, especially little chils
dren, should be fed if possible. The o
answer naturally is yes. e
m afraid, however, that we
can’'t dismiss the present problem
so easily. Those who oppose relax- =
ing the blockade to serve this
humanitarian idea clahin that it
would cause death and disaster g
far exceeding the tragedy of the
starvation at present envisaged.
Supporters of the plan to feed
the needy of Europe say that the
operation could be supervised so
that none of the food would fall
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