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DECISION ON STETTINIUS
FUTURE IS SEEN SHORTLY
Additional Meat Is
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ByFRANCIS M. LE MAY
WASHINGTON, June 25—(AP)
_(linton P. Anderson today fore
st more meat for the nation’s
inner table ‘4f the senate goes
long with new slaughtering rules
vritten by the house into legisla
ion extending price controls.
Twe New Mexico Democrat who
aoves next Monday from his
ouse seat into sweeping control
wer food as Seeretary of Agricul
ture said the change “hands me
weapn to deal with the black
narket in meat and to channel
nore meat to the dinner table.”
Anderson, however, declined to
liscuss in e same interview an
sther house amendment designed
o give him even greater authori
v in his new post, including veto
ower over OPA price and ra
ioning orders. )
Price Extension
Both were adopted during day
ong debate Saturday before the
wouse finally approved a one-year
xtension of price and stabilization
ontrols, alfiough in widely dif
erent form than the Senate’s ex
ension bill. .
The two measures are headed‘
or a joint Senate-House confer
nce committee, where adminis-|
ration laders, with some Republi
.an abcking, will seek to strike still
nother house amendment and
mne added by the Senate. These
re: :
1. The Dirksen (R-Ll1l.) amend
ent, voted by the house 20 to
64, to grant those aggrieved by
YPA orders ‘the' right to 2ppeal
o Federal district cdurts. Oppo
vents contended this would permitl
saried interpretaions by numerous
‘ederal judges and would result
n challenging an abundance of
rarce goods into areas where price
nd rationing westrictions were
elaxed while surrounding areas re
ived less. Appeals now can be
sade to the emergency court of
ppeals waich hands down decis
(Continued on Page Two)
If Page Arficle
n A. H. Holbrook
Occupying half a page in last
reek’s issue of Time Magazine 1s a
tory about Alfred H. Holbrook,
lew York attorney, and his gift
f a valuable art collection to the
Iniversity of Georgia, :
The story is illustrated with a
hotograph of Mr. Holbrook with
ne of his paintings, the picture
eing taken by John Y. Coffee.
Following is the article as car
ied by Time:
HE CURE
“At 70, Manhattan Lawyer A]-
‘ed H. Holbrook seemed an in
irable colleetor of paintings. He
as, he says, ‘‘like a toper who
ok one swig at the fount of art
ppreciation and went on a 40-
ear binge. Between sprees, Col
ctor Holbrook wanted to find
it why the habit had such a hold
i him. This year he enrolled as
1 art student at the University
Georgia in Athens, where his
ass mates were 61 coeds. Last
eek he still had no logical ex
anation of his craving for art.
ut grateful Student Holbrook
ad presented his entire $175,000
llection, acquired over tour
cades, to his new alma mater.
orty of his best items went on
hibition in the university’s li
ary. i
“A first-rate group of 19th and
th Century U. S. pictures, the
llection included: Winslow Hom
‘s Sunflower Pickaninny, Sar
nt's: portrait of Joe Jefferson as
1p van Winkle, Whistler’s Red
osalie .of Lyme Regis, George
ks’ Plaza Cabbie, George Bel
ws' Sea ‘Spume, canvases by
hin | Sloane, Marsden Hartley,
*hn Marin.
Collector Holbrook took a good
ng look at the show and was
ized with a new urge which
omised to be even less curable
an his old habit of collecting:
. sat down and dashed off a
dinting of his ewn.”
ABHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and warm
tonight. Tuesday warmer.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and warm tonight and Tues
fday with somewhat higher
temperatures over the south
east portion this afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .. v tore . 08
lowest - ... 0 o 0
Mean | ¢ L s D 0
Normal 200 o it
RAINFALL
ches last 24 hours ........ .00
tal since June 1 ........ 1.46
ficit since June 1 ........ 1.83
Verage June rainfall ...... 3.98
tal since January 1 ......26.69
cess since’ January 1 .... 1.78
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Help Bring End
To World Sessions
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Diplomatic
News Editor.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—
(AP)—President Truman's arriv
al today to help wind up the
United Nations Conference in a
brilliant round of speech-making
may also lead to the clarifying of
another situation —the future of
Edward R. Stettinius, jr., as Sec
retary of State.
In the American delegation and
other diplomatic groups here
there is considerable speculation
that the President may indicate
either publicly or privately his
futurd plans for Stettinius before
he leaves here tomorgow night.
There are two main reasons cited
for this view:
1. The prolonged speculation
that Mr. Truman may intend to
replace Stettinius in the Secré
taryship with James F. Byrnes,
former director of War Mobiliza
tion, is weakening Stettinius’ of
ficial position in addition to being
personally embarrassing to him.
2. Now that the conference has
come up to a successful conclus
ion, with the charter of a new
world peace organization ready
for final, formal approval and.
signipng, Stettinius immediate task
is done, and a breaking point has
been reached. r VAL
A Big-Three meeting is close at
hand but it is another job; if
Stettinius is to prepare for it, as
Secretary, he may want to know
without delay. If Byrnes or some
one else. is going as Secretary—
with Stettinius possibly in some
other capacity — that also will
have to be decided without delay,
since the time is short.
1t seems evident that persons
close to Stettinius here do not
know what the answer is, even
though they refuse to discuss the
situation on the grounds it is a
White House matter.
‘Some members of the Ameri
can delegation :predict that since
the Pecretary’s part in the con
ference and the conference itself
have ended in success, the Presi
dent will be inclined to keep him
on. This is in sharp contrast with
predictions in Washington politi
cal quarters that he will be given
a foreign assignment, as ledaing
American official in the projected
United. Nations set . up, and re
placed as Secretary.
Last Met In May
President Truman and Stettin
ius have not met since late May,
when the Secretary paid a flying
visit to the White House. Prior
to hat they had been associated
for a few days immediately after
the death of Franklin D. Roose
velt in April, but in the hectic
events of those days no thought
(Continued on Page Two.)
CAN JAPAN STAND UP UNDER
HEAVY BOMBING, ASKS ANALYST
. BY DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign News Analyst
Our conquest of Okinawa has
been a grim and bloody business,
and it certainly furnishes ample
warning . that the defeat of Japan
calls for a maximum Allied effort
—but I don’t believe we necessari
ly have to regard this engagement
as a preview of what it’s going to
take to knock out the Mikado’s
home islands. .
Okinawa has confirmed in the
harshest possible way many things
which we had encountered before.
Outstanding is the truth that the
Japanese fighting-man is a savage
fanatic who is quite willing to
sacrifice his life in suicidal con
flict. Because of this charactertstic
he is a tough customer to deal
with. -
Real of Unknown
This fanaticism of the Jap war
rior is largely religious—a belief
that he becomes a god if he gives
his life in battle for his Mikado,
whom he regards as a divinity.
We may find that the civilian
population is like-minded and is
prepared to resist invasion of the
homeland to the death, but it
strikes me that on this point we
are getting into the realm of the
unknown.
The Tokyo government boasts
that every man, woman and child
on the Japanese home islands will
turn out and fight an invading
force, and we should be most un
wise to assume that this is idle
chatter. We must accept it as a
fact until we can demonstrate
otherwise. However, I believe it’s
entirely possible that the battle of
Japan will develop along different
lines. .
We know what the Jap soldier
will do when he is at close quart
ers with his enemy. He will fight
to the death. But we don’t know
what he will do, or what the
civilian population will do, when
they are under constant fierce at
tack by a foe who isn’t facing
them but is striking from such
a remote position that they can’t
~ (Continued on Page 1wo)
Full Associated Press Service.
Senate Ratification
0f Peace Charter
Now Seems Ceriain
BY FRANCIS J. KELLY |
WASHINGTON, June 25—(®)—
Senate ratification of the United
Nations Charter became largely a
question of timing today with 52
senators already on record for it.
Some of the warmest advocates
of American participation in the
international. peace preserving or
ganization want to take full ad
vantage of the momentum built
up at San Francisco. They want to
rush the ratification resolution
‘through the Foreign Relations
Committee and out to the Senate
floor. .
Some Advise smuh
Others counsel full, unhurried
deliberatiodfs in both places. They
say it would be almost physically
impossible to ratify the charter
in-time for President Truman to
take it with him to the Big Three
meeting. They also believe the
American people as well as the
senators would profit by a
thorough study and discussion of
the document.
The disclosure that at least 52
senators are committed firmly to
ratification, barring unforeseen
developments, was made over the
weekend in an Associated Press
poll.
Five more senators said they
probably would vote for it, and
not a one came out flatly against
it. Eighteen reserved their de
cisions; 20 could not be reached
by interviewers. (Senator Scrug
ham (D-Nev) died Saturday.
The 38 non-committal or un
available included more than a
few who have shown lively in
terest in international cooperation.
Need 64 Votes
Ratification of a treaty requires
affirmative votes from two-thirds
of those present and voting. If all
95 or 96 were on hand—and that
seldom has ben seen by the oldest
eyes at the capitol—it would take
64 votes . . . only seven more
than the “sures” and “probables”
combined.
Senator Lucas (D-I11) hailed the
results of the poll as “impressive
(Continued on Page Two)
Booth To Discuss .
Planning Program
Before Kiwanians
Members of the Kiwanis Club
will' hear a talk Tuesday by G.
A. Booth, member of the Citizens
Planning Committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, who will out
line the program of the committee
and progress made in reaching its
first objective, that of cleaning
up the city, Van Noy Wier, club
secretary, announced today.
The meeting will be the usual
weekly - luncheon gathering and
will be held in the Holman Hotel
starting at 1:30 o’clock.
Hartwell Cifizens
Plan Progress,
Beautifying Town
HARTWELL, Ga. June 25.—
Beautifying streets, planting ad-‘
ditional shrubbery, enlargement
of recreational and playground
facilities for children, rerovation
of the courtheuse park, expansion
of the waterworks system, a
county hospital, and more paved
roads—these were just a few of
the subjects placed on the year’s
program by the Better Home-
Town - County Committee for
Hartwell and Hart, at a meeting
at Hotel Nancy Hart. :
The meeting was called by T.
S. Mason, chairman of the Hari
County Planning Commission, un
der which a sub-committee will
direct this part of the program.
A large number of citizens dis
cussed the various subjects, with
County Chairman A. Sid Johnson
and Mayor R. C. Linder telling
of county and city participation.
The meeting was helpful and
will prove a great stimulus to the
city and county program for var
jed steps forward which propose
to make this a more beautiful and
healthier locality.
Colonel Mason has named the
following sub-commitete: A. S.
Johnson, chairman; James W.
Bell, secretary; R. C. Linder, Mrs.
O. J. Johnson, Mrs. M. H. Basin
ger and Mrs. John W. Herndon.
E.' R. Bedenbaugh, manager of
the Hartwell district for the
Georgia Power Company, which
is sponsoring the Better Home
Towns movement in the state,
presided. Other representatives
of the company included Messrs.
George H. Broadnax and C. A.
Mees of Atlanta, and Parker Mc-
Rae of Athens, - /- @ o %ot
Athens, Ga., Monday, June 25, 1945,
Should Keep
Air Bases
Arnoldg Says
l .
Essential To
.
Future Security
* ’
Of America
HONOLULU, June 25~(&)—Re
tention of an exténsive string ‘of
Pacific island bases in the interest
of America’s future security was
advocated by Gen. H. H. Arnold,
head of the Army Air Forces, in a
press conference here Sunday.
“Our air power must be in a
position to carry our attacks home
to the heart of any aggressor who
may threaten us,” General Arnold
emphasized. *Our own. B-29s al
ready can strike anywhere in the
world if we keep the use of cer
tain strategic bases.”
He cited as “essential for our
future security” the bloodily won
islands of the Marshalls, Palaus,
Volcanoes, Bonins and hyukyus,
as well as wunrestricted use of
Wake, Marcus, Canton, Palmyra
and Christmas Islands and Ameri
can Samoa.
“Returning from a tour of Pa
cific bases, “I have come back
convinced we must have a bridge
across the Pacific,” he said. “The
future peace of the world depends
on our doing this. Indeed, the fate
of mankind-may depend upon it.”
Saves Superforts
Iwo Jima already has saved
1,100 Superfortresses which have
made emergency landings there,
he said, and has demonstrated the
importance of American possession
of such bases. .
“We must be able to take ad
vantage of the terrific power and
mobility of the strategic air force
the United States has built up—
the greatest in the world,” Arnold
said. iy
America’s entire strategic air
force can be moved from Sah
Francisco to Okinawa in 36 hours,
“which is something to think
about. We shouldn’t allow any
thing to stop us from taking ad
vantage of the power such a stra
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War Bond Sales
. +
In Madison
County Over Top
DANIELSVILLE, Ga.—Madison
ccunty has exceeded the quota
set for it in the purchase of all
War Bonds, a report made by R.
Howard Gordon, county bond
sales chariman, announces. The
report covered sales through last
Friday, and show that “E” Bonds
sold, total "$56,989.75, while total
sales are $84,009.75.
Chairman Gordon said. that by
the end of the campaign consid
erably more bonds will be sold.
“Many thanks to all the citi
zens of the county who bought
bonds during the campaign and
the fine work of the bond" can
vassing committee is very much
appreciated,” said Chairman Gor
don, adding that “the American
Legion Post No. 39, also did some
fine work in this drive.”
Tropical Storm
Moving North
Along Coast -
MIAMI, Fla., June 25—(#)—The
center of a tropical hurricane was
reported moving near Georgetown,
S.C., at 10:30 a. m. (EWT), whip
ping northward at 15 to 18 miles
per hour, the Miami Weather
Bureau announced.
Dangerous winds and high tides
will attend the storm’s advance
along the Atlantic coast northward
to the Virginia Capes and prob
ably as far north as Atlantic City,
N. J., the Bureau said.
The storm, which swept out of
the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
late last week, struck across a
sparsely-settled region of north
central Florida and then raced
northeastward toward the Caro
lina coast. :
It passed along the Georgia
coast without incident, but coast
line cities and towns reported high
winds and heavy rains.
United Nations Charter
Explained By Writer Who
Covered ‘Frisco Meeting
BY JAMES MARLOW |
WASHINGTON, June 25—A)—
Fifty nations, including our own,
this week in San Francisco will
sign the completed charter of the
United Nations. |
This charter —the rules and
regulations by whiclf’ the United
Nations agree to keep peace in
the world—took tw> months and |
the work of about 200 delegates
to finish. |
The United Nations actually
will not come into existence until
a sufficient number of the mem
bers gives formal approval to the
charter in their own capitals. ]
Our own Senate is not expected
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur has appointed Gen. Joseph. W. (Vineflar
Joe) Stilwell to be commander of the American 10th Army on
Okinawa, succeeding the late Lt.-Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jt
In this newly received picture Stilwell is shown (right) wearing
old Army campaign hat as he inspects an operations map with Lt.-
Col. Albert.V, Hartl on @kinawa.
RUSSIAN LEND-LEASE CONTINUED
FOR POSSIBLE RUSSO-JAP WAR
| wg:mc'ron. June 25—(p)—
'Lend ease supplies—cut’ off to
western ' Russia when Germany
surrendered — are being shipped
into Russian Siberia on the thres
hold of the Japanese war.
Leo T. Crowley, lend-lease ad
minister, told the House Appro
priations Committee the Siberian
shipments are being made at the
request. of U. S. military leaders.
The fact became public today
when the committee released the
text ‘of his testimony made earlier
in the month, '
Crowley disclpsed that the pre
viously announced “review” of
Russian lend-lease actuaily stop
ped all commitments which were
not then enroute to Russia or be
ing loaded on ships. The Russians
were given the choice of ‘paying
cash if they want previously
promised lend-lease supplies to
fi;lish uncompleted plants and the
like, ?
“There is, however, a program
that is sponsored by our military
under which wWe are supplying aid
to Russia that is going to Siberia,”
Crowley testified.
| -Will Continue
- “My understanding with the
chief of staff is that this aid will
be continued until such time as
the President,and his highest mili
tary advisers advise us that they
think it should be discontinued.
“All of the things that are being
included in' this are items that
our military feel are necessary.”
‘Crowley testified that highest
military strategists regard the
Siberian lend-lease ‘“of military
advantage to the United States,”
and explained: ;
“The possibility of Russia’s en
try into the war against Japan
acts to pin down in northern
Manchuria large numbers of Jap
anese troops which might other
wise be diverted against Allied
forces in the Asiatic theater.”
Crowley told the committee
European lend-lease was cut back
drastically with Germany’s de
feat and said it may end com
pletely- for such countries as Bel-
to ratify our membership untily
lthe fall and then only after weeks
|of debate. No one, however, now'
|seriously doubts that the Senate
will approve. I
| oOld Dream Realized i
Thus the old dream of Presi-|
dent Roosevelt and President wil- |
ison and of many other Americans!
I——that the United States would |
‘abandon isolationism and join a |
world league to prevent war— |
{will come true.
| Always remember this: 'l’he]
United Nations is by no means a |
| perfect organization. It will work
lonly so long as its members wishl
to keep it working. = =
Bitter Dose for Japs
gium, Holtand and. France.by the
‘end of the year. He expects loans
from the Bxport-Impori. Bank. to
take up where lend-lease ends.
Other Shipments Stopped
" Detailing the Russian clamp
down, except for Siberia, Crowley
said, “All of the lend-lease ship
ments to them have been dis
confinued and all of the items in
the process of manufacture that
were not related to the Far East
were either canceled or they were
given the opportunity of taking
them up on a payment basis.”
Crowley said the entire lend
lease program could be closed out
30 days after Japan is defeated.
A trickle might be continued to
help American soldiers get home,
he added. . ‘
His testimony disclosed, too,
that lend-lease help is finding its
way into Italy although that
nation—classified as a co-beliger~
ent rather than a full ally—is not
eligible to direct lend-lease. Some
lend-lease money is going to our
own military forces to use in com
batting hunger and disease in Italy
while U, S. troops are stationed
(Continued on Page Two) I
Lieut. Dan DuPree
In Athens On
Brief Visit Sunday
. First Lieutenant Dan Dupree,
Jr., for many months a prisoner
of war of the German govern
ment, paid a brief wisit to his
wife, the former LaGrange Trus
sell, and his mother, Mrs. Dan
Dupree, sr., Sunday.
Lieutenant Dupree arrived at
Fort MecPherson Sunday and was
given a few hours leave, and in
structed to .report at the Fort
Monday to receive his papers en
titling him to sixty days leave.
He went to Atlanta this morning
and is expected back sometime
late today or tomorrow to spend
his leave.
{ Above all it will work only S 0 !
long as the Big Five—United |
' States, Britain, Russia, France and'
China—get along together and do
| not go plunging into war. 1
{ There is no authority in thej
| United Nations — except moral'}
| force and world opinion—to keep
| one of the Big Five from starting
'a war. It has no authority to use |
|the United Nations armies against
{a rampaging member of the Big
Five.
] Statesmen expiain this weakness
.in the United Nations by saying
if one of the Big Five wanted to
lstart a war, we'd have another
~ (Continued on Page ‘rin.) i
A.B.C. Paper - Single Copy, 3¢’ — 5¢ Sunday
l
38,000 ENEMY SOLDIERS ARE
ACCOUNTED FOR IN ONE WEEK
) AND 20,000 MORE ARE DOOMED
| ' BY LEONARD MILLIMAN .
| Associated Press War Editor, ;
| Emperor Hirohito lost more soldiers last week
‘than in any comparable period of the Pacific island
war, American communiques disclosed today.
Yanks killed 30,632 Japanese troops on Okinawa
and in the Philippines. Another 7,705 surrendered, an
tastounding figure in view of the traditional Nippon
ese willingness to fight to the death.
' The fate of about 20,000 more
was sealed by a paratrooper land
ing near the northern tip of the
Philippines. Those ‘elements of
the 11th Airborne Division joined
‘guerrillas near Aparri and began
to squeeze Japanese in Cagayan
valley against 37th Infantry and
guerrilla forces to the south.
Tokyp talked of an attempted
Australian amphibious landing at
Balikpapan on southeastern Bor
neo, across the island from the
valuable Seria oil fields captured
by Ninth Division Aussies.
Chinese forces moving up the
east China coast were reported to
have reached a point 175 miles
south of Shanghai. Others were
said to be fighting inside Liu
.chow, pne-time southeast China
airbase, } l
Sink Watercraft
American bombers and fighters
patroling the China coast sank 15
small ships and 40 junks. The
junks were wrecked by Hitchell
bombérs from the Philippines
which pounced on 1,500 junks and
fishing craft in the Hongkong-
Canton area. .
In the air war raging from Ja
pan te OKkinawa, 128 Japanese
planes were accounted for. About
‘half of them wese. wrecked by
Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima,
The balance were shot down in a
skillful suicide plane attack on U,
S. shipping around Okinawa, end
ing last Friday midnight. Alto
gether the Nipponese have lost
abot 4,000 planes in the Okinawa
operation,
Supply Gliders
Paratroopers landed with pack
howitzers and for the first time
in the southwest Pacific were
accompanied by supply-carrying
gliders. Joining guerrillas who!
previously occupied Aparri, orig-‘
inal Japanese invasion point in(
the Philippines, they swept 11
miles south to capture Lallo.
Australians “met virtually no
opposition as they pushed through
flaming Seria oil field, potential
ly the biggest oil producing field
(Continued on Page Two.)
1,195 Registered
For Summer Term
Registration for the first session
of the summer quarter at the Uni
versity of Georgia has reached
1,195 according to Dr. J. Ralph
Thaxton, registrar. “This figure
compares favorably with the 1,050
enrollment of last year,” he said.
Sixty cadet nurses and 29 new
veterans are included in the regis
tration total. Enrollment in off
campus workshops sponsored by
the College of Education has not
been tabulated as yet.
Dr. Thaxton revealed that he
has received numerous inquiries
about the second session of the
summer quarter, which begins
July 19. “Indications are that we
will have a good enrollment dur
ing the second session also,” he
said,
BONDS BOUGHT HERE ENOUGH
FOR B-29;: DRIVE CONTINUES
Ga. Development
Program Takes
Shape---Governor
ATLANTA, June 24—(&)—A
program for the development of
Georgia is ready to enter the
phase of “concrete accomplish
ment,” Governor Ellis Arnall
declared at a meeting of the
State Agricultural and Indus<
trial Development Board.
Referring to the river de
velopment, Arnall suggested a
meeting of the board as soon
after the general eiection on
August 7, as possible. The board
unanimously adopted the Gov
ernor’s proposal.
The Governor said that the
health phase of the board’s pro
gram had been turned over to,
the State Board of Health for
accomplishment and tha a state
wide and expanded health sys
tem is being developed.
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Belgium's |.eopold
Threatened
With Labor Strike
} By The Associated Press
King Leopold 111 ran into new
trouble in his fight to save his
throne when Belgian communists
today threatened to call a general
strike if the king's reported choice
ifor Belgian Premier, Gangaof Van
De Meersch, formed a new gov
ernment at Leopold’s request.
The Anti-Leopold front, com
missioner of state security has
posed of various elements led by
Nazi collorators, was described
Communists and other left wing
ers, previousiyy had threatened a
general strikc the moment Leopold
himslef set foot in Belgium.
Prosecuted Communists
Van Der Meersch, who as com
pre secuted tootsends of wartime
by the communist newspaper Le
Drapeau ,Rgfiie as “a famous agent
of reaction, absolutism and repres
sion.” his 1939-40 prosecution of
communists was recalled.
Moscow dispatches said Polish
factions conferring there on for
’mation of a hew provisional gov
ernment of unity had almost fin
ished their talks and would be
ready shortly to leave for Warsaw,
’where tae personnel of the new
government will be anneunced. In
London, the rival polish exile
‘regime declared the new Warsaw
coalition government is three
fourths communist.
| Churchill Campaign
' British Prime Minister Churchill
told voters in a eampaign address
“it’s no use peaple thinking I can
continue to serve unless I have a
great majority when I return to
the house.”
Cuaurchill, a rose in his label
and a black hat on his head be
gan a 1,000-mile tour through, En
gand and Scotland to plead the
conservative party's ‘cause against
the labor party in the July 5 par
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BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, June 25—
(AP)—The House Appropria
tions Committee today ap
proved a $125,000 fund for
liguidation of the Fair Em
ployment Practices Committee.
The Committee’s surprise
action if approved by Con
gress, would mean that oper
ations of the FEPC, long the
center of a congressional con
troversy, would be limited to
liquidation after July 1.
Buying more than $600.000
worth of bonds during the Sev
enth War Loan Drive, citizens of
Athens and Clarke county have
bought and paid for a B-=29,
which will soorn be sent on its
way te Japan, .
“I want to cengratulate Clarke
county and all War Finance Com
mittee workers on achiveing this
very notable performance,” Jack
son P. Dick, state chairman, in 2
letter to Milton Lesser, head. of
the Retail Stores Division of the
local committee. “I am sending
vou a facsimile of the decalcoma
nia which will be put on the
panel of. the ship, which will be
delivered to the armed forces.
Also, I'wish to extend to you and
to the members of your commit
tee an invitation to visit the Bell
Bomber Plant at Marietta at the
time of the ‘christening’ of the
Superfortress. The B-29, as you
know. is one of the most import
ant pieces of fighting equipment
to be used against the Japanese
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