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Newspaper Page TextDevelopment Board Will Be Asked To Prepare Master Community Plan Another step in the program to develop Athens was taken at a called meeting of Mayor and City Council last night when it was decided the City and County would jointly request the services of the Pub lic Works Panel of the State Agricultural and Indus trial Board in drawing up a master plan for improve ments. ; - o et o e W e Attending the meeting were two members of the Board of Countyl Commissioners, Harry Elder, and Frank Hammett. After council had I voted favorably on the proposal, they announced fae county board will do the same and a joint re quest will be sent. Mayor Bob McWhorter asked Council to-authorize him to em ploy an architect to draw plans under whica the City Hall may eventually be expanded to make use of space now wasted so that more room can be'provided various city departments now badly over crowded. & i The Mayor pointed out that the puilding was erected in 1904 and has not been improved or expand ed and that while it was satisfac tory forty years ago, the various city department such as nealth, finance, police and other agencies, have continually grown. The Mayor said improvements to City Hall would add not only to its looks but that the various depart ments can work more efficiently if sufficient and needed space is provided them. Referred To Committee After discussion by members, Council voted to refer the matter to the Public Property committee of Council, the committee to re port its findings at ae next regu lar meeting of Council. The mo tion was made by Councilman C. Denny Recommends Program Here To Aid Garbage Collection; Urges That City Operate Slaughter Business An assertion that garbage is not being properly collected in the business section by the Sanitary Department, that.' the ‘scavenger ordinance” is not being enforced and a recommendation that the “collection of delinquent taxes be more vigorously pursued” and that an increase in water meters and extension of sanitary sewers would increase the City’s income by thousands of dollars were made at a called meeting of Mayor and Council late yesterday by Council man C. S. Denny of the First Ward. : Councilman Denny, chairman of the Council’s Future Planning and New Industries Committee, urged that the “double parking ordi nance be rigidly enforced as this type of parking prohibits the Sanitary Department from proper ly collecting garbage in the busi ness section.” In a lengthy, prepared state ment, Councilman Denny declared that “Athens is not the dirtiest town in the state as some members of the Planning Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have stat ed.” He said “I am indignant over some of the statements that have been made in "drawing compari sons with other cities, particularly with the statement made by Mr. L. M. Shadgett, relative to Gaines Are Parking Places Here For Merchanls Or Citizens! Council Asked; Police To Enforce Double Parking Ordinance Motorists were put on notice today that starting next Monday, cases” will be docketed by police in Recorder’s Court against any car owner who double parks in the fire limits without leaving a driver in the car. The double-parking situation cropped up in the meeting of| Mayor and City Council again‘ last-night and complaints were cited of drivers double parking and blocking cars parked cor rectly at the curb for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour orl more, : : J. Swanton Ivy, a member of a special committee of the Cham ber of Commerce Planning Com mitte trying to wrok out a solu tion to the parking prbolem here, asserted that if double parking is eliminated it will help greatly. Criticizes System “We have one of the worst parking systems of the many towns I have visited. The people have no rqgard in Athens for one another in parking their automo biles,” he said. Mr. Ivy also as serted that many visitors coming to Athens on business cannot find parking places except several blocks away from the downtown! section. Alderman Denny said that while it might sound absurd, he. knew of people who came to town on Saturflay, parked their cars all morning and took a bus homp for lunch rather than move their cars, so they would have a place to sit during the afternoon. He asserted that merchants park their cars in the business section throughout the entire day without imoving them, and said there is a master parking ordi nance but that it has never been enforced. “Who is to blame for, this,” he said, “I do not know.” He cited double parking in front of The Varsity on College avenue S. Denny. Dy 3 In the discussion H.L. Seagraves objected to granting the authority, saying that the money so expended is needed more at the vresent for other items, such as street improve ments. Mr. Seagraves said he fav ors resurfacing all tu. streets in the business section and thinks the cost should be borne by the abut ting property owners. ¢ Alderman W. R. Bedgood point ed out that the proposal tolave an architect draw up a plan did not mean the work is to be done rigat now but later as finances become available. Alderman Denny said the City Engineer /could do this work. H. P. Williams, president of the Chamber of Commerce and mem ber of that body’s Citizens Plan ning Comittee, emphasized the necessity of the community mak ing an immediate start on a pro gram of improvement. Want To Cooperate He said the committee of citizens wanted to work with council and city and county oficials in get ting something done. He contended that ‘if we get something started now, we can soon finish, We just aren’t building like other cities. 1 don’t know what’s wrong. It's us, I guess,,” he said. Councilman Seagraves asked Mr. Williams if the Citizens Com | (Continued on Page Six) ville. It took tornadoes and the graciousness of the Federal Gov ernment to clean them up.” . ...10-Point Program Making a 10-pgint recommen dation for future development in the City, Councilman Denny said that before he took office as chair man of the. Future Planning and New Industries Committee —of Council, he met with Mayor Mc- Whortgx;&a,nd told hilv‘né_deﬁmté plans Titeded to be employed to deal with water and sewage sSys tems. He also said he met with President H. P., Williams of the Chamber of Commerce and ex pressed his willingness and desire to cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce in any and all plans for the benefit and improvement of Athens. He said that to this day Mr, Williams has never asked “this committee through its chair man to work with the Chamber of Commerce or its special plan ning committee in any way.” Contending that the Sanitary Department operates at a ‘“high standard of efficiency,” Council man Denny made several sugges tions which 'he said would aid the department in maintaining that standard. The Chamber of Com merce Planning Committee adopt ed as its No. 1 objective, cleaning (Continued on Page Six) as patricularly glaring, saying| that often cars are parked four ?breasl at night, the cars extend ing beyond the middle of the| street. He said the city must en-! force the curb service ordinance .and suggested that the one hour parking law be enforced and that thi city find some person inter esivd to operate a parking lot with some sort of assurance of business. : Merchants or Citizens Street Superintendent Engineer Jack Beacham said that while ‘everybody else was having their “say” he thought it was a good time for him to have his. The street superintendent said that the “time has come when Council must decide whether the parking spaces are for the use of the merchants or whether they are Ifor the use of the citizens.” He said there are 688 parking spaces in the downtown area and that 50 percent of those are taken up all day by the same cars. He| further said that he Kknew that Police Chief E. Weldon Wood and his department have diligently tried to enforce the one-hqur parking law, but that the cars merely shifted - their positions each hour and this did not get those cars off the streets. ‘ Councilman Thomas Elder con-. tended that parking meters would | solve ‘the problem. Hé said he had studied the problem and is “sold” on parking meters as a sSO lution. He has corresponded with other cities, he said, naming Sav annal}, Columbus, Tampa, Fla., Columbia, S. C., Anderson, S. £ about parking meters and that ithe replies said the meter system has proven very successful. Alderman H. L. Seagraves dis | puted the theory that the meters will solve the problem, saying that the citizens and merchants Continued Cn Page Six ATHENS BANNER-HERALD e ———————————— oAI ostitonsetseom et ey st ATN A AS S B R L s R < Vol 113, No. 137. Full Associated Press Service. Athens, Ga., Wednesday, June 20, 1945. A.B.C. Paper — Single Copy, 3c'— 5¢ Sunday ENEMY DEFENSES COLLAPSING: NIMITZ Americans Fight Toward Headguarters Of Japanese General As Nip Soldiers Leap From Cliffs Into Surf Below BY LIEF ERICKSON : GUAM, June 20.— (AP)—Against stiffening resistance, Seventh Division doughboys fought doggedly today toward Mabuni, believed to be headquarters of the Japanese general commanding Okinawa forces, while two Marine regi ments cleaned out enemy-infested caves on the island’s ofhth coast. Scores of Japanese troops jumped from cliffs into the urf as the Eighth Regi mental combat team and the Fifth Regiment raced to H‘p southiern shores yes terday and cut Japanese survivors into three pockets. Both regiments were on the coast south of Komesu, near the center of the island’s southern tip. With the enemy breaking in dis organized confusion in the Marine] sector of southwestern Okinawa, and 500 Japanese surrendering in‘ one day, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said in today’s communique: “The enemy’s defenses were in the pro cess' of collapsing” by nightfall yesterday. Confused Nightmare The southern end of: the island was a nightmare of confusion. In some sectors, Japanese fled fran tically across open terrain. Air craft strafed and heavy warships shelled them. Other Nipponese wmade death stands, usually in small groups, taking -a. heavy toll of American lives, until wiped out by tanks, flame throwers, or small arms fire. They killed many Americans, in cluding some high ranking of ciers. | Many fled to white coral cliffs at the southern shore. Some leaped linto the surf. Others, seeing their comrades wiped out by rocket firing LCl's, used as gunboats close ashore, signaled a desire to surrender. Seven swam out to an LCI, gave themselves up. One group of 30 soldiers, following loud-speaker instructions from a Japanese prisoner aboard an LCI, made their way with 300 Oki nawan civilians to an American Fgarcg' ~and. surrendered. « 4 % Pockets Holdout . _The ¢nd of any semblance of Jupanese resistance was near but thtee«s&bom cores were holding out.- One was in the Mabuni area. A second was around Hill 81 in the Marine sector. The third was in the Mabu?i-Udo sector, be tween the first two. Considerable 'mopping up of enemy strongpoints was in pro gress while droves of war-dazed, battered Okinawans were moving through American lines to civilian camps. So many civilians were on the move in some areas that they impeded progress of advancing American troops. Tokyo reported , Allied mine layers were sweeping a channel off Balikpapan, South Pacific oil center, for a third Australian in vasion of Borneo. These reports were without con firmation. In announced Ameri can naval activity a destroyer shelled and sank three Japanese vessels in the Bonin Islands, be tween Iwo Jima and Tokyo, while other surface ships joined air forces in bombarding by-passed Jaluit Island in the Marshalls. Air Raids The enemy reported 30 fighter planes from Okinawa raided Omura in the Japanese homeland during daylight today, following up devastating pre-dawn raids by 450 Superforts on three indus trial cities and three mine-laying expeditions by 60 other B-295. American ground forces in the ; (Continned on Puge Seven) Mayor Urges "Action Now" To Make Athens Cleanest City; Council , Discusses Various Parking Methods Mayor Bob McWhorter was un able at a called meeting of Mayor and Counci] yesterday to obtain the consent of that body for a “peginning, now” on a clean-up program of Athens. The Mayor pointed out that the “citizens. want it and wg should do something now.” Council dis cussed installation of parking meters and parking lots to handle cars which it is contended prohi bit the Sanitary Department from keeping the streéts clean. «It will take some time to get parking meters, even if the citi zens want them,” the Mayor said. “We should do something _r}ow." In calling the meeting the Mayor said that he would ask Council to designate a special day to “get every body together on cleaning the city and keeping it clean.” i Councilman T. L. Elder said that it was unfortunate that it became public that a citizen said Athens is the “dirtest town.” Mr. Elder said the citizen *did not mean that' literally. Cites Ordinances Councilman C. S. Denny rec ommended that several ordinanc ces be enforced to keep the streets clean. Clerk A. G. Smith said today these ordinances are enforceable by the Police Depart ment. They are in part as follows. “An ordinance of the Mayor IKE'S HOME TOWN PREPARING HEART-WARMING WELCOME Many Servicemen With Enough Points Must Wait Release WASHINGTON, June '2O -— (AP)—The War Department told Congress today that many ser vicement who rate discharge un der the point system cannot be released before next June. | And. it advised the House Mil itary committee, it has no inten tion of lowering the age for &au tomatic discharges, now 40. The information was furnished the committee by Maj. Gen. Ste phens G. Henry, assistant chief of staff. who was asked for a de~ talieg explanation of operation of the point system. 777 Smoeth Operations. ...~ “"Sorisidering all factors, sucly-as available replacements and trans 'portatinn facilities, Ger}eral Hen ry said, the program for rapid ‘discharges is operating smoothly, ’ (Continued on page seven.) Poland's London 6 { Head l . (leared In Trial } By TOM OCHILTREE | Associated Press Staff Writer ~ Testimony apparently absolving Stanislaw Mikolajezyk, former i premier of the London Polish government, of ahy connection with the alleged anti-Russian op }ez‘ations of the Polish under ;gruund was before the military ‘collegium of the Soviet Supreme ' Court in Moscow today. A witness last night at the trial of 16 Polish underground leaders ‘accused of subversive activities testified that Mikolajezyk had ‘been kept in the dark concerning alleged anti-Russian operations of the Polish underground army. | Not Informed The witness, Yevgeny Char nowsky, chairman of the Polish Union of Democrats, added that (Continued on puage seven.) and Council of the City of Athens regulating the flow of water or any othe- liquid onto city streets, and for other purposes: “Be it ordained by the Mayor and Counci] of the City of Athens that from and after the passage of this Ordinance it shall be un lawful for any person, firm, or corporation to allow any water obtaining objectional material such as sewerage, waste milk and other organic material, as wel] as’ any drainage that is objectiona ble, to drain from their place of business on any city street or any part thgreof, without having spe cial permission from the Mavyor and Council of the City of Ath ens. “An Ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of Ath ‘ens prohibiting the throwing of paper, vegetable matter, or other foreign material in catch basing, or drain, and for other purposes. (Continued on Page Six) BULLETIN WASHINGTON — (AP) — Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley, assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division, was killed in action on Okinawa Tuesday, his wife was notified by the War Depariment today. § - ABILENE, Kas., June 20—(#)— Ike’s home town op the broad Kan wheatlands has prepared a welcome for the General that won'tiapproach in magnitude those awarfd him in world capitals but it will warm his heart more than the agclaim of the millions, for it] will from his homefolks. Dwight D. Eisenhower returns ;go his own people Friday and nsas will honor in its own way —in purely civilian fashion—the man who stands with Roosevelt, Stalin, Zhukov, Churchill, King, MacArthur and Nimitz as saviors of thé world from tyranny. } g Special Train A gbecial train will take General jower and members of his party“to Abilene Thursday eve ning‘ﬁrom‘ Kansas City where a tour%our program and great pa rade s scheduled for that after noon, Relatives of the General will comé&rrdm all parts of the country | for the occasion. Among them will be his 83 year old mother, Mrs. Ida Eisenhower of Abilene. Gavernor Andrew Schoeppel of Km& has proclaimed Friday as Eisenhower Day and called on all citizens to observe it “in such a manner as is fitting to honor so great and illustrious a service to the cause of human freedom.” Expect 50,000 - Abilene, a town of about 5,400 population, expects a crowd of . 50,000, anid as one of the reception officials put it: “No matter how many presidents come from Abi lene in the future, this will be the biggest day in the history of the town.” ! _ [ Eisenhower’s last visit to his home state met with no such re ception. It was shrouded in secrecy. Few now remember that only 18 months ago the story was wide lly printed and widely believed ‘that Eisenhower, fresh from vic ‘tory in Africa and Italy, would come home to succeed Gen. George C. Marshall, who would go to Europe to open the second front. ‘lt persisted for weeks before an ‘nouncement in a historic Christ mas Eve message, in 1943, by President Roosevelt that Tke would be the Supreme Commander to assault fortress Europe. Last Visit Ten days later Eisenhower was home, or almost home for a day, his last and only Kansas® visit since he went to England in 1942 to head American troops prepar-l ing to hose the housepainter and douse the Duce. The General flew to Manhattan, Kas., where his mother awaited bim at the home of President Milton Eisenhower of Kansas State University and they had a quiet supper and eve -ling together with other close ' members of the family. License Validating Machine To Be In Athens Friday Members of the State Patrol will be in Athens all day Friday with ‘its drivers license validating machine, The machine will be in the City Court room in the courthouse and applicants are asked to have their forms filled out before getting in the validating machine line. The visit of the Patrol here Fri day will be the last it will make to Athens before June 30, the date on which drivers are supposed to have their new licenses. ATHENS AND VICINITY Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Mild tonight and warmer Thursday. GEORGIA — Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Some what warmer in northwest portions today, otherwise not much change in temperature. TEMPERATURE SC 2 A S iit BB MR a 8 Mo . o RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours ....... .60 Total since June 1 ......... 146 Deficit since June'l ....... 118 Average June rainfall ...... 398 Total since January 1 .....26.69 Excess since January 1 .... 243 ESTABLISHED 1832, Broad New Labor Relations Laws Proposed In Senate WASHINGTON, June, 20 — (AP)— Broad new labor rela tions legislation designed to es tablish a pattern for enduring industrial peace was proposed today in Congress. °* . Postwar Security Its authors, three of the orig inal congressional advocates of Uniteq Stages participation in a world organization to prevent wars, said their new plan would avert the “serious danger of a knock-down, drag-out fight between management and labor in the immediate postwar pe riod.” Patterned laster the railway labor act, the bill submitted jointly by Senators Hatch (D --NM), Ball (R-Minn.) and Bur ton (R-Ohio) would vest al]l la bor . concilation and mediation in a new federal labor relations board. A separate labor pracfices tribual would take over functions of the present National Labor re lations board. Industrial Peace ' “We propose that the last sur viving field in which civil war fare is tolerateq shall be trans formed in to a field of, industrial peace,” Hatch'sald in an expla ' nation’ prepared for the senate. 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AT 1 4 BB A By T ; : &_ LR e o~ s ‘h@é - 7 i TR ee et it et it e e e P President Truman and General Dwight Eisenhower chanced to méet at the airport in Wash-ing ton early yesterday morning—each waiting for a plane, although going in different directions. Eisenhower was leaving for New York where a big reception had been planned, and Truman was heading for Olympia, Washington from where he planned to go on to San Frangisco for an address to the World Security Conference there. " ~NEA Telephoto. Charter Interpretation May Make Or Break ‘NewWorld Planning BY J. M. ROBERTS, JR. - AP Foreign Affairs Analyst On:its face, the new “trustee annexation” agreement at San Francisco appears g step forward in thé handling of areas = and peoples which have not arrived at the status of independent na tions. Actually, as in the case of so many other clauses of eSan Francisco’s charter for a brave new world, so much depends on subsequent interpretations and on the method of territorial assign-. ments as to make the whole bus iness obscure, - Provisions ! The charter now provides that nations which hold hegemony over peoples of non-independent areas shall report regularly to thé new league on their steward ship. Apparently it applies to most present colonies as well as to such areas as the Pacific Ts lands. In addition, nations which undertake such commitments can decide for them Selves wheil er to annex -such. areas outrigh: or to administer them as manda tee. Under the clause it is pre sumable- that anrgﬂion would ‘not be what it s , since the system of reporting on admin iistration carries with it the im plication that the league will {take a hand should any controll T=™MAN BEGINS PACLE:” HOLIDAY BY ERNEST B. VACARRO | OLYMPIA, Wash., June 20— (AP)—President Truman started a holiday today in the Pacific northwest but his thoughts were centered on the post-war Securi ty Conference at San Francisco. Associates said the chief exe cutive’s plans for the immediate future were predicated upon hope of quick action on the final form of the projected interna tional peace charter. A delay in the closing of the San Francisco meeting beyond this week, they asserted, may force the rearangement of Mr. Truman’s schedule for the pe riod leading up to his reparture next month for his first “Big Three” meeting at Berlin, Governors’ Conference The president already has all but abondoned thought of being able to attend the governor's con ference in Michigan. Meanwhile, he held to his ten tative schedule, which calls for his addressing the Sap Francisco conference Saturday unless he'is adviseds that its work can not be completed before next week. " In the latter event, he may ‘find it necessary to fly directly to Independance, Mo., for a ‘homecoming celebration there 'June 27, and another at Kansas lCity the next day. The President, hig visit here ing power get off base. Fields Of Emphasis For instance, the United States is expected to be assigned many Pacific islands taken from Japan or which have floated in a rather nebulous state. We can annex them, as Hawaii, 'or we can ope - ate directly as a league trustee, Either way, we report to the league what we are doing with them, as well as with Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Presum ably we wil] be expected to pro~ vide economic, social and educa tional benefits (those are tae principal matters which the .re ports are to cover.) : But the-e is doubt even gmong the experts as to whether it ap plies to spots like Alaska and Hawaii. And, to begin with, the clause specifically sidesteps the world’s greatest colonial problem India, by ascribing to her “sov ereign equality” with the other United Nations. The Philippincs were. placed in the same category, but the difference between the status of the Philippines and Tn dia is so obvious as to require no space here. © 4 > During the war the British used p display of tanks te en force appointments by King Fa rouk of Egypt of a premier sat | (Continued on page seven.) described as a purely socia] one, nevertheless took time out to pay homage to a heroic “G. L.? He arranged to present the Congressional Medal of Honor at 11 a. m. (PWT) to Sergeant John D. Hawk of Bremerton, Wash. This is the medal Truman re peatedly has said he would raih= er have than his presidenta] of fice. A “spotter” for anti-tank guns, 21 year old Sergeant Hawk, four times wounded, repeatedly risk ed his life at Chambois last Au=- gust during the batt'le of the Belgian Bulge. : s The -ceremony was scheduled to take place on the capitol steps here. x . Spent Night With Wallgreen The President spent last night. at the thiree story Georgian home, which serves as the exe-' cutive mansion, with Gov. Mon C. Wallgreen, a pal of old senate days. : ; The President established a precedent by flying here yester day from #he nation’s capitol, the first airplane trip within the country ever taken by a presi dent. £ There was no comment from him or his staff today on his recommendation to Congress that the speaker of the House be de ‘signatéd as the next in line to the presidency in the event of a L'vacancy in the vice presidency. On His Succession To Be Considered WASHINGTON, June 20—(P)— Congress headed today toward early consideration of legislation designating House Speaker Ray burn (D-Tex) President Truman’s successor in the event of an early White House vacancy. Mr. Truman himself suggested such a course even as he was winging westward yesterday on the first of a number of scheduled air trips, including a trans Atlantic flight to Berlin. | Quick Coungress Response Quickly Senator Bridges (R --NH) introduced a bill closely paralleling the Chief Executive’s recommendations, and. Chairman Sumners (D-Tex) of the House Judiciary Committee said he would follow suit at once. ~ Calling for early action, Bridges noted plans for the flight to Ger ‘many for the Big Three meeting apd added to a reporter: . “In these days of hazardous ‘travel we cannct take any chances of having anything happen to Mr. {Truman without having prepared for his logical successor.” Sumners said he expected the Judiciary Committee to act on his bill before the projected summer recess. He added that it will be considered. along with several 'uthers dealing with presidential ' succession. & 2 | Proposals - . These include proposals by Rep=- resentatives Monroney (D-Okls} which, in effect, would carry wut ithe President’s suggestions ‘and by Representative Kefauver (D --}Tenn) to give temporary succes sion to cabinet officers only until }the House itself can elect a. suc< (Continued on page seven.)

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