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1o Tax Bill Worries
By Alex H. Singlteon
WASHINGTON. — (AP)
__ (ongress pointed its
geamroller today at admin
stration demands for con
gnuance .of the wavtimel
food subsidy program for a
310"00,000,000 added tax‘
bill.
\o further word has been issued
. the invasion of the two geO-'
waphically small but strategically
important bases since Admiral
mester W. Nimitz tersely an
pounced the landings carried out
gafurday -
The announcement vesterday by
{he commander in chief of thel
pacific fleet said the American
forces met moderate resistance at
jl-mile long Makin, = and strongl
resistance at Tarawa, largest of |
the Gilbert chain 2,400 mnes]
cuihwest of Hawaii.
The Japanese imperial head-l
quarfers, in a communique broad- |
east by Radio Tokyo, reported to-!
day heavy fighting was in prog
ress. That appeared -to indicate
Japan does not intend to give up
esily its hold on air bases which
American bombers could use so
pierce. still deeper " into Nippon
territory for the eventual possiblel
thrust at Truk itself, 1,600 miles
west of the (tilberts.
But ‘the invsaion forces could]
certainly depend on strong aerial
support, as evidenced in the week
long series of raids by both land
and carrier-based planes on both
the Gilberts and Marshalls in ad
vance of the landings.
They had also the cover of pow
aful naval units which helped,
establish the beachheads — units
which the Tokyo radio said in
cluded battleships - and aircraft
carriers.
The campaign followed the re
cent assurance by Admiral Nimitz
{at “we now have hte means to
take the offensive and to blast the
Jap out of his island strongholds”;
and his statement ‘om: Armistice
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inmanuel Church Is
Fled To Capacity
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On 100th Anniversary
Emmanuel Church was filled to
capacity yesterday for the Centen
nial Service marking the 100th an
niversary of the founding of the
Episcopal Church in Athens. Four
occasions were especially observeds
Immediately before the Centen
nial Service at 11 o’cloek, the
Barrow Memorial Window was
dedicated. A stained-glasg window
of Christ and the Feeding of the
Five Thousand, the window Was
placed in the chureh in memory
{‘»f“.\lr& David Crenshaw DBarrow,
[\':’l[‘j“ of the late Chaneellor of the
University. 1t was given by the
severa] children of Chancellor and,
Mrs, Barrow.
A Centennial Gift was placed on
the Altar by the members of the
tongregation. Another stained
glass window will be placed in
fl_\‘r' church, for the increased beau
lfylng of the church will be car
ried out through the means of this
gift,
The sermon for the day reviewed
the coming of Christianity .to
Georgia late jn the sixteenth cen
try and the further establishment |
of many branches of the Christian
Church in the eighteenth century.
Also a short history of the 100
vears of Emmanpuel Church in Ath
“N was given by the Rector.
The Centennial Observance clos
¢l with the baptism of William
j"'”"’-\' Henry, son of Mr, and Mrs.
f:““' Henry. He thus becomes the
st child to be baptized.as -Em-
Manual Church moves forward in
-0 lts second century of life,
h_["_"“l:.l its founding in 1843 until
“ Emmanuel Church was locat
.u:,n‘;)v“;"(‘ the Holman Hotel now
\\:N present church on Prince
:v nue was built in 1900, Em
;;“““*'1 Church lives as a parish
t’}‘ml;‘)“ Diocese of Atlanta, under
D D‘L T}ev. John Moore Walker,
c;.a\."“pl.Sh"p'. The Rey. David
M; Wright, jr. has been Rector
tre since 1933.
W-E-A-T-H-E-R |
GEORGIA: Fair and colder
this afternoon and tonight.
Tuesday fair and continued
told with slightly lower tem-
Peratures over south portion.
TEMPERKATURE
Highdst .7o imo 2 i 150
LOWGSt S.O 0 Bl bn AN ...;.47.0
Rean .. . i sOO
Normal .. . .sisg .. 010
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Inches last 24 hours .. .».. 00
Tota] since Novem 1 aas 1.97
Excess since Novem 3oe AP
Average November ml 2.6
Total since Janu , 1 4o 444621
Excess singe January 1 y.. 147
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By The Associated Press
Plunging forward four miles in the mountainous
central sector of Italy, General Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's Eighth Army has seized two more towns
overlooking an additional stretch of the main road to
Rome and moved into position from which to launch
a full-blown offensive against the enemy’s winter
defenses, Allied headquarters said today.
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furns on the tears in a demon
stration of the talent that has
earned him S4OO in model fees
in New York in the brief nine
months of his life,
Congressman Dies
In Plane Crash
Representative Ditter
Of Pennsylvania Is
Sunday Crash Victim
(COLUMBILA, Pa.—(#)—A Navy
plane, circling helplessly and drop
ping flares through a heavy rain
falling on this Lancaster county
town, crashed and burned near
here last night carrying Rep. J.
illiam Ditter and Lieut. Com. J, J.
Mansure to their deaths.
(A few hours earlier an Army
transport smashed into Locust
Mountain near Tamagua, 100 miles
nortp in the anthracite region. The
plane became a blazing funeral
pyre for seven occupants, whose
names were withheld by the Third
Service Command pending motifi
cation of the next of kin, Two
soldiers found wandering dazedly
a half mile from the wreckage were
taken to nearby Coaldale Hospital.
Congressman Ditter, 55, a resi
dent of Ambler, Pa., and a ranking
Republican in the House, was en
route with Commander Mansure
from the Sgantum, Mass, Naval
Air Base to the Navy Base at Wil
low Grove, Pa, 80 miles from
where the plane crashed. Mansure,
35, was executive officer at Wil
low Grove.
The Navy was unable to say
whether Ditter was aboard the
plane, but it was pointed out that
congressmen frequently travel on
miltary planes when on govern
ment missions. Ditter was closely
linkeq to naval operations through
his handling of Navy finance mat
ters as a member of the House
Appropriations Committee, .
Elected In 1932
Ditter, noted :+ for his sharp
tongue in House debates, had rep
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Search Confinuing
For Survivors
In Tankers Crash
LEWES, Del. — (AP) — Coast
Guard craft continued searching
today for survivors of two tank
ers which collided ni dense fog 58
miles off Cape Henlopen yester
day, killing an undisclosed num
ber of seamen and injuring others.
The Fourth Naval District said
last night that 39 survivors have
been landed here.
Following the collision, one of
the tankers caught fire, but the
Navy reported that a tug had the
disabled vessel in tow and that the
flames had been brought under
control. ¢
The other ship, althcugh dam
aged, was able to proceed under
its own power to an unidentified
Atlantic port.
Navy Intelligence Officers are
questioning the survivors but de
e¢lined to comment on the cause of
the collision. Names of the cas
ualties will not be announced un=
til the next of kin have been noti-
W of the survivors were
San Pietro Avellana, 10 miles
due west of Agnone and only five
miles east of an important junction
of highways leading to the Italian
capital, was scooped up along with
Vastogirardi, to the southeast of
San Pietro Aveplana, in the Mont
gomery advance which was made
despite heavy rains drenching the
entire battlefront.
Falling back before the on
slaught, the Germans were firing
the towns of Alfedena and Castel
Di Sangro in apparent deterinina
tion to leave no shelter when they
are forced to give up those places.
Alfedena is three miles west of
a fork in the central road to Rome
and Castel Di Sangro is two miles
northeast of the fork on the branch
leading to the Rome - Pescarai
highway.
The Allied forces were approach
ing the fork from two directions,
from the seutheast on the road
from Rionero, and from the west
in the direetion of Agnone, which
the Eighth Army took Saturday
after ironing out an eight-mile
deep enemy salient. .
The new gains, putting the left
wing of the Eighth “Army within
two miles of the er Sangro
river, were scored mw head
quarters announced that Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander’'s ground forces
in Italy had been reinforced by the
recent arrival of.a large number of
Canadians, There was no indica
tion whether the new contingents
already had been in action, how
ever, . i
Nazis Menaced:
German positions at Kriveg, keg
city inside the Dnieper gend, were
menaced today by a new Russian
offensive ithrust apparently design
od”to - dbvert Nazi fopees: fiercely
witacking in the iorgstyshav see
tors on the nerthern. l&mne, front,
Front’ line s dispatehes sald : the
latest - Russian, assaults,souty of
Kremenchug,.one of the original
Soviet bridgeheads. ‘o /sthe west
bank -of the Dnieper, had smashed
enemy resistance . yesterday and
oveérrgn’ eight ‘Nazi: defense bases
there. About 3,000 Germans were
reported slain and 60 tanks knock
ed out in the fighting.
The thrust added to the difficul
ties already confronting the Nazis
but they continued to press their
attacks in the Xorostyshev area
west of Kiev, though they had
nothing to show for their efforts
but heavy losses in men and ma
chines since recapturing Zhitomir.
A familiar scene thus was cnce
more being enacted, with the Ger
mans attacking with a large con
centration 'of troops, tanks and
planeés on a narrow :sector while
the Russians absorbed the blows
with widely distributed forces and
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U. §. Payroll Slash.
Would Save Ten
.. T e
Million, Byrd Says %
WASHINGTON —(#)— Despite a
trimming of the federal civilian
personnel rolls by 121,058 during
June, July and September, the
Byrd Economy Committee . has
again demanded a reduction of
300,000 employes, :
The committee. headed by Sena
tor Byrd "(D-Va) said the cuts
already effected were attributable
to its criticism of “wasteful and
extravagant personnel practices”
but it noted that from October
1942 to September, 1943 there had
been a net increase of 260,649 em
ployes.
Recommending employe roll re
ductions in numerous departments,
the committee report estimated
that $10,000,000 a year could be
saved by “completely overhauling
the present antiquated personnel
reporting system.”
Arnall, Sanford And
(aldwell Begin
Alabama Conferences
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., — (AP) —
Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia to
day began a series of conferences
with Alabama state officials and
educators.
The Georgia Governor arrived
last night, and planned to leave
today to investigate operations of
the University of Alabama's Di
vision of Phblic Administration,
which makes special studies of
government agency problems.
From Tuscaloosa, Arnall will go
to Montgomery for a visit with
Chauncey Sparks, Algbama's Gov
ernor.
Accompanying Arnall are Dr. S.
v. Sanford, Chancellor of the Uni
versity System of Georgia, and Dr.
Harmon W. Caldwell, President of
the University of Georgia,
Athens, Ga., Monday, Novemgfivfl, 1943,
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smile, and so has her press
agent, for Yank, the Army mag
azine, has dubbed her the serv
icemen’s favorile pin-up girl
British Minister
At University H
Public Invited To
Hear Envoy At
Fine Arts Auditorium
Speaking on ‘“Anglo-Am
erican Cooperation Bas&&
on the British Commoni
wealth,” Captain H. Cotton
Minchin, attache of the
British Embassy in Wash
ington, will address stu
dents and the faculty and
public Tuesday at 12:05 at
the weekly University Cha
pel Hour, and .at 1:30 on!
the same day he will ad
dress the Kiwanis Club on
“Present Conditions in Eng
land.” The Chapel address
will be in Fine Avts build-
ing. .
Captain Minchin's varied career
as a diplomat and soldier includes
service in the last war, both in
the infantry and in the Royal Fly
ing Corps. Born in 1894, he at
tended Eton, going from there to
the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst. He was commissioned
to the Carheronians (Scottish
Rifles). After the war he rejoined
his regiment in India, serving three
years there and fifishing on the
staff of Sir Willam Birdwocd. Af
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Chandler Scores Hit
With Hospital
Patients, Many “Vets”
THOMASVILLE, Ga, — (AP) —
Spud Chandler, 34-year-old ace
pitcher of the New York Yankees,
voted the “most valuable player”
in the American League for 1543,
scored a hit with patients of Fin<
ney General Hospital on a visit the
other day.
He answered questions put by
the patients, many of whom were
veterans of combat duty overseas,
on big-time professional baseball
and gave them advice on how to
pitch and how various plays are
made.
Chandler toured a number of
wards and later met larger groups
of convalescent patients on the
lawn outside.
€. ) REAL PERSON
; BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK]
‘ : ' "f:‘ & We Want To Take Credit For Our |
T Successes, But Not Our Failures
The beginning of worth-while
living is the confrontation of otr
selves—unique beings, each of us
trusted with the makings of per
sonality. Every human life involves
an unfathomable mystery, for man
is the riddle of the universe, and
the riddle of man is his endow
ment with personal capacities.
The stars are not so strange as
the mind that studies them,
analyzes their light, and measures
their distances. Electrons and pro
tons present mo enigma so occult
as the ability of human beings to
remember and hope. Human af
fection, by which we live in other
lives more than in our own, is
none the less recondite because it
is familiar.
As for personal qualities such as
courage, the new telescope With
its 200-inch -reflector will reveal
New.U. S. Stab
Aims At Heart
By The Associated Press
The United States has begun its promised offen
sive in the central Pacific.
American soldiers and Marines carried the fight to
the Japanese on the low, sandy beaches and the
rocky terrain of Tarawa and Mekin Islands in the
Gilberts in a campaign aimed at the heart of Japan’s
power in the Pacific — Truk. }
World Today
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PACIFIC: United States
l foreps batter dug-in Jap des
senses on Central Pacific is
lanfl‘; of Makin and Tarawa in
Gilbert group. Battleships, cars
ngg; and planes support sol
. diers and Marines in new of
fensive. 2
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. RUSSIA: Red Army masses
artillery to oppose German
- assaults on Kiev front. Soviets
say Germans halted since re
capture of Zhitomir,
ITALY: Montgomery’s Bth
Army plunges ahgad four miles
to take two more towns. Cana
dian troops aded to Allied
forces, !
CHINA: Fourth great battle
for Central Chinese province of
Changsha appears to bg near.
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Dedicafion Held
|For Baptist
gig
Church Yesterday
3 BY J%?OLYN BUSH.
ll n Thomas. S. Mell, only sur
viving member of the original Bond
C ittee of the First Baptist
presented the church treas
urer with paid bßonds at the Sun
day> morning service, his act was
symbolic of the removal of a 22-
year debt amounting to $169,000,
IW. R.' Bedgoed, who has held the
office’ of treasurer for years, ac
cepted the bundle of papers before
an' audience filling to capacity the
building whien has been cleared
of debt - after more than two
decades, i
Re-dedicating the First Baptist
church building to the service of
God, Dr. Harold Tribble, visiting
minister from the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary, preach
ed the first of a week-long series
of sermons Sunday morning. His
talks will eontinue twice daily
throughout this week, at 10:30 a,
m. and 8 p. m.
The' removal of- the enormous
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Rev. Marvin Maxwell
Dies Unexpectedly
At Griffin Sunday
GRIFFIN, Ga. — (AP) — 'The
Rev. Marvin M. Maxwell, 40-year
old superintendent of the Griffin
District of the Methodist Church,
died unexpectedly yesterday short
ly after preaching a guest sermon
at the First Baptist Church here.
His death was attributed to a
heart attack.
A former Superintendent of the
Athens-Elberton District, he had
held pastorates at LaGrange, Cov
ington, on the Joneshoro Circuit
and here. He was reappointed Dis
trict Superintendent at the North
Georgia Conference last week and
was elected a delegate to the Gen
eral Conference.
Bishop Arthur Moore will
preach the funeral services Wed
nesday morning in Griffin.
nothing more amazing than a
character that in the face of suc
cessive ecalamities says, as on®
hard-bestead woman did say: “I
am like a deeply built ship; 1
drive best under a stormy wind.”
In particular, personality’s abili
ty to project a purpose into the
future and head toward it is
unique. Only within‘the personal
realm are changes caused by con
scious planning. In the realm of
inanimate mnature, changes come
by pressure and coercion from be
hind; The moon makes the tides
rise; the sun makes the planets
keep their courses; gravitation
makes the rivers run; the chemis
try of soil and sunshine makes the
trees grow,
In p 11 life, however, a new
P - .emerges. There the most
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As labor groups, coal mine oper=
ators and coalition forces teamed
up on Capitol Hill this prospect
developed: i
1. Passage by the House appears=
‘ed ‘certain #his afternoon of a
measure extending the Commodity
Credit Corporation but banning
food subsidies.
2, Debate starts tomorrow or
ednesday on the second wartime
revenue measure calling for $2,-
140,000,000, approximately one-fifth
the amount the administration
sought to draw off the taxpayers’
income and apply to the cost of the
war, L
4. A bi-partisan bloc of legisla
tors appeared strong engough to
force. a showdown soon on its
move to strip OPA of coal and oil
price controls and turn them over
to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes
who has gone on record for in
creases for both, ;
4. Tax-troubled lawmakers turn
ed with new intensity to their
review of war appropriations as a
result of the Arnfy's voluntary de
cision to return $12,000,000,000 in
unneeded funds.
Has Top Billing
With the subsidy. row capturing
top-billing for the day, secretary
of the Navy Knox, War Produc
tion Chief Donald Nelson and OPA
Administrator Chester Bowles came
out over the week-end for con
tinuance of the program, terming
it essential as an Ir?g@uon”pmyen-i
litive. But a | coalition of Houss
Republicans and farm state Demo
crats stood ' firm'agains ,";t’ifigfim'\qt:
a compromise and administration
supporters, . conceding privately
that the bill would be passed swift
-Iy, frankly -based . their hopes on
‘arousing the ‘consumer public be
hind, an anticipated veto. |
There appeared little doubt that
the new ‘tax bill would win House
passage during the week after two
days of general debate, despite
considerabde ' om:on ito some
of its increases, ticularly in the
excess levy field.
The coal-oif blo¢ pimed - vital
blows at OPA in the midst of a
threessided controyersy -between
the War Labor Board, Ickes and
the United Mine workers over a
proposed increase in coal miners’
pay.
Hanging fire was another broad
slde against OPA in the form of
rtnewed pressure to take all checks
over food prices out of its hands
and place them 'with a single war
Day, “our time has come to at
tack.”
Only in China did fighting in
the Pacific war go against the
Allies, F
Continue Advance .
Americans at Bougainviile, last
of Japan’s major bages in the Soi
omons, continued their steady ad
vance. They have managed to en
large and consolidate their posi
tions despite five Jap ‘air raids
which caused only minor casual
ties.
On New Guinea, Australian
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Does To Americans
VTUSCALOOSA, Ala. —i(P)—*o.
K.” means the same in French as
it does in English to about 100
French air cadets in training at
the U. 8 Army Air Forces Van
De Graaf Field.
The instructors, all being U. &,
Army men, address their classes
in English. Interpreters stand by,
and relay in French. But when an
instructor asks a pupil “Compre
nez-vous?’ or ‘“Do you under
stand?” he usually gets an “O. K.”
in reply.
The French .cadets get &wo
months training here, and then are
shifteq to Gunter Field, Ala., for
a similar period of basic instruc
tion, Advanced training follows
at Craig PFleld, Selma, Ala., or
Turner Field, Albany, Ga.
Most of the cadets are under 24
years oM, They volunteered for
the air service in Africa, and were
selected by strict physical and
mental examinations.
They wear regulation khaki with
dark blue overseas caps. A tri
color with one word, “France” a:
the top is their sleeve insignia.
The Frenchmen get a translation
of the same courses offered Ameri
can cadets. Their ground school
lectures are interpreted; textbook
and flying regulations have been
translateqd into French. |
All had service in the TFrench
Army, and many escaped from
German prison or concentration
camps. Most of them have families
now in France, They make fre
quent purchases to send friends
and famiy“s in Afriea.
Additional groups will follow
(o preseht citks of cadets, the
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William Gort of Queen's Village, N. Y., taking Army specialized
training at University of Georgia, listens as Professor J. D. Poole, |
member of the University’s physics staff, explains the details of the
laws of motion as they apply to a bullet in flight. The device pic
tured is known as a “ballistic pendulum.”—(Associated Press),
Byrnes Is Urged To
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To Prevent Strikes
WASHINGTON —(#)— Senator
"George (D-Ga) appealed to War |
Mobilization Director James F.l
Byrnes today to head off a threat
ened strike of non-operating rail
way employes—with possible in
tervention by Congress —by at
tempt}ng sgme adjustment of their
wage dispute.
Joining Senator Wagner (D-NY)
in efforts to obtain a speedy end !
to the controversy, which now re
volves around Stabilization Direcs
tor Fred M., Vinson's refusal to
approve an 8 cents an hour fin
crease, George said he_ thought, it
}unwine to bring the issues before
Congress at this time @W;Brbp;ipg’u‘
by -Senator Truman (D-Me). 4. |
Wagney suggeésted that Vinson
withdraw an alternate 4 to 10
cents an hour gliding scale 'ins
crease which the rail workers have
rejected and grant the flat rate
pay raise, despite Vinson’s 'e‘on’-‘
tention that this would break the‘
Little Steel formula and make il
impossible to hold the line against |
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Glori
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Have Lead In
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"Stage Door"” Here
BY DAVID L. PAYNE
Miss Gloria Eppes, daughter of
Mrs, Camille Eppes, Athens, will
appear in one of the feminine
leads in the University Theater
production of “Stage Door” to be
presented the first week in De
cember,
__Although only a freshman, Miss
Eppes has been given the part of
Jean Maitland, Hollywood screen
star who wins fame through beau
ty. Miss Eppes’ blond hair and
brown eyes were big factors in her
being chosen Beauty Queen of the
June graduation class of Athens
High school and as one of the
eight campus beauties at the re
cent Pandora revue.
~ Jean Maitland was once just
another member of the Footlights
Club in New York, where stage
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Athenians Nominate Mayor And
Five Aldermen On Tuesday
Bell Bomber Plant
.
Will Employ
20,000 After War
ATLANTA — (AP) — The Bell
Bomber Plant at Marietta prob
ably will require 20,000 workers in
peace time,’ Frank Russell, gen
eral manager of the National Air
craft Production Council, predict
ed here.
Addressing a gathering of Bell
officials and Georgia leaders yes
terday, Russell said the govern
ment and the aircraft industry
could not afford to let the new
plant become a “ghost factory” af
ter the war. He described the
plant as “greater than Ford's Wil
low Run factory.”
“In floor space,” he said, “it
coizprises four-fifths of the total
area of all plants dewoted to air
craft production at the beginning
of the war.”
The giant plant is now working
on new super-bombers designed to
operate in the stratosphere, carry
greatly increased bomb loads and
so huge that experts say the cur
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Physics Training
At University
Wins Top Rating
Topmost rating for show
ing soldiers how to apply
scientific principles in mod
ern warfare has been given
by the Army to the Physics
Department of the Univer
sity of Georgia, ’President%
Harmon W. Caldwell hu;é
‘beer-informed. S
e Al e
! ac _fepo_ov a(: évemen
tests made by Majo Wy{ Tfi'@
lam Bryden, in charge of collegé "
unjts of the Army smm
Training Program — tgé ASTP ¢
covering work done . duripg . thej
summer at twenty-six !Mfl&n
institutions ' inelading Hurv&rd.g‘
Cornell, Pennsylvania State, Pitts
burgh, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Cali=
fornia, Mississippi and Florida.
Five other departments at the
University of Georgia were also |
given creditable rark, history,
English, chemistry, mathematics,
geography, in the tests. The ASTP
students began study at the Uni=
versity last June, several hundred‘
of them, and are being given a
nine-months course in ~ physics
which includes thirty-six experis
ments, twelve in each quarter,
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Congressman Steagall
Dies Unexpectedly .
Today In Washington
WASHINGTON — (AP)—Henry
B. Steagall (D-Ala), chairman of
the House Banking Committee,
died unexpectedly today. 1
“teagall was the leader of the
battle in the housg against: the ad-_
ministration’s food subsidy pro=
gram.
He was born at Colpton in Dale
County, Ala., May 19, 1873, served
in the Alubun? iegislature, and
had represented the Third Alabma&
District for almost 30 years. 4
With the largest number of
qualified voters eligible to mt%
ballots, Athenians Tuesday will go
to the polis to nominate a Mayor
and five members of City Couneilj
in the City Democratic Primary.
Approximately 3,900 ‘Athenmz
are qualified to vote in the Pri
mary, nomination in which is tan
tamount to electon in the General
Election to be held December 1.
Mayor Bob McWhorter is um
posed for re-election, as is Thomas
L. Elder for re-election as a mem
ber of Council ffom the
Ward. .
In all the other city wards there
are contests, cand:::’a being %;
H. (Buck) Paul, incimbent, and
Clifford ~Denney, First Ward;
Charles . Martin, incumbent, and
Allen D. Wier, Second. Ward; ng
E. Williams, incumbent, and M.
B. Wingfield, Third Ward; and
C. L. McLeroy, incumbent, and
Cecil Maddox, Fifth Ward,
Polls in all of the wards will
open at 9 a. m. and close at 4P.
ra. After the votes have been
counted in the various polling
places, the boxes will be sealed
and brought to City -Hall by two