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WAR VET WINS ELECTION
Ex-Colonel De Lesseps B. Morrison, candidate for mayor of
New Orleans, La. (center) receives congratulations on his victory
from his mother (righi) whiie an unidentified woman backer
left) weeps with joy. De Lesseps, a veteran of World War II and
scion of an old Louisiana family, defeated Hobert S. Maestri, the
last of Huey Leng’s lieutenants who had held the post for the
past 10 years, thus crushing one of the most powerful political
machines in the history of the city.
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House Commitiee Approves Bill And
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Debate Due To Begin Tomorrow A. M.
By MARK TEMPLE
ATLANTA, Jan. 24— (AP)—Legislation to revise the Constitution,
permitting Governor Ellis Arnall to run again, bore approval of a
House commitiee today.
Constitution Committee No. 2 voted 39 to 30 late yesterday to bring
the Senate approved vesolution to- the floor and debate, is expected
lo get under way Friday.
The committee disposed of the
resolution in a secret session, re
quested by Committee Chairman
J. Wesley Culpepper, after the
regular House session ended.
Thus was a promise of Speaker
Roy V. Harris kept and the way!
cleared for what some members
of the General Assembly predict!
will be the bitterest debate of re-!
cent years.
The resolution, approved 36 to!
13 by the Senate on the second
day of the current 15 day session
would submit to the people a con- |
stitutional amendment whichl
would allow a governor to succeed
himself. ¢
Under the present law a Geor-l
gla dovernor can serve only four
Our Mew: And “Wosmen
A I Service o
CHARLES D. ADAMS
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
Charles D. Adams, 28, seaman,
iirst class, USNR, last Broag St.,
Athens, Ga. attacaed to the ANH
val Amphibious Base, thtlg
Creek, Va. ig being discharged
from the Navy af‘er 18 months
of duty.
Adams, who is married to the
lormer Lorene Gowden, was em
pleved by Talmadge-Bros. Inc.,
before entering the service.
THREE ATHENS MEN
DISCHARGED FROM NAVY
Three Athens men were dis
¢narged from the Navy at the U.
S. Naval Separatiun Center,
lacksonville, Flosida cn January
20
They were Robert L. Pittard,
Cook 3-c, 2020 Jefterson Road;
Bernard W. Walsh, Chief Yeo-
Man, 535 Prince avenue, and Eli
M. Huff, Jr. Signaiman 3-c 733
Prince Avenue,
YAMES N, HODGES
DISCHARGED AT FT. MAC
Jemes N. Hodges, of 395 Boule-
Vard, received an honorable dis
charge from the ‘Army on Jan
vary 20. Hodges, who was a case
Manager before eniering the ser
‘ice, served 25 months in the
Army,
He was overseas i 4 mon¥%as with
the 15th Army and served as a
Cook. He wears one battle star
Fom the European Theater.
ik s
R. H. WAGES RECFIVES
H()NORABLE DISCHARGE
[Robert H. Wages was recently
discharged from the Army after
Serving for 34 months Wagesh,
“ho lives on Route 1 Athens
Vas with the 10th Cenerai Hos
Pital unit, ‘He *was overseag 29
months and wears both the Asia
lc-Pacific Ribbon and the Phil
!bbine Liberation Ribbon. '+ .
Before entering the service he
“as a filling ' station attendant.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
| years, and then must wait at least
four years before he can run
again. .
Chances of the resolution before
the House was still considered a
toss~up by many. The House fail
led by ten votes to provide the re
iquired constitutional majority last
!year.
{ Both Sides Confident
Some administration supporters,
!anticipating the committee’s ac
tion today said they had more
than 137 votes required. Oppon
| ents of the measure. led by Speak
|er Roy V. Harris, were stil equal-
Ily confident that it would be
beaten.
The Governor, aside from stat
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WILLIAM L. AMASON |
RECEIVES DISCHARGE .
William L. Amason, of 867 Col.
lege Avenue, hag been discharg
ed from the Army after serving
37 montas.
Amason wag with the 98th Di
vision of the 6th Ariny and was
overseas for twp years. He wea:s
the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon.
RALPH W. E. MATTOX
DISCHARGED FROM ARMY
Ralph- W. E. Maltox, son of
Mr. G. H. Mattox of Daniels
ville, Ga., has received his hon
o-able discharge at Fort Mec.
Pberson, Ga.
Mattox has been in the ser.
vice 32 months, of which 25
months were spent ovverseas with
the 186th Infantry, 4ist Division
as a thachine gurner. Besides
his Asiatic-Pacific and Philip
pine Liberation service ribbon, e
helds the . Combat Infantry
Badge, Purple Heart, and Good
Conduct ribbon. Bafore tae war,
Mattox was a farmer. =&
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LT MARION C. IVEY
DISCHARGED FROM ARMY
MAXWELL FIELD, Ala. —
First Lieutenant Maricn C. Ivey,
formerly Personne]l Affairs Offi
cer at iMami Army Air Field, an
installation of the Air Transpott
Command’s Caribbean Wing, re
ceiveq his honorable discharg=
from the Army Air Forces here
today.
Lt. Ivey served thrce years and
three months in the armed forc
es. and saw service overseas with
ATC at Atkinson Field, British
Guiana. He was commissioned a
2nd Lieutenant upon graduation
from AAF Officer! Candidate
Scheol in Miami Beach, Fla,, in
April, 1944. s
Lt. Ivey served as an enlisted
man with the Eastern Flying
Training Comman d at Gunter
Field, Alabama, anc as an offi.
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Full Associated Press cervice.
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S HINGTON, Jan. 24—
( S;A poll by administra
t ides showed today the
F .e will refuse to break
~ & seck old FEPC filibuster
& ¥ applying its so-called
5" 2 rule.”
o {evertheless, Senator Mead
% '-N.Y.) said an effort will
#* > made to present a cloture
@®or debate-limiting petition
today. He conceded the vote
would be close. -
Results of the poll, disclos
ed to a reporter showed
“more than 36” senators lined
up against any step to force
an end to the debate which
has gone on and on since the
measure to set up a perma
nent Fair Employment Prac
tice Commission was called
up unexpectedly a week ago.
Four or five other senators
; were counted as ‘“probably
| opposed” to cloture.
| Application of the seldom
| used rule requires a two
| thirds majority of those vot-
L ‘lheg. “'Phus “38 "ho¥ votes
. would suffice to prevent
. adoption of the rule even if
i all+ 96 members were pres
l ent.
However, four senators are
| out of the country, and sev
} eral others are ill or away
. from the capital. Mead told
. newsmen his side needed 60
| votes to assure victory; and
| that he had counted about
50 favoring the bill.
| Only 16 senators nged sign
| ‘the cloture petition, and there
i was no doubt that number
i (Continued on Page Twe)
Snow Changes To
Rain - Disappoints
Athens Children
The snow which threatened to
make Athens a white city this
morning changed to rain about
noon, disappointing boys and girls
waiting for it to get deep enough
for snow “ice-cream.” Wh i
The forecast for ‘Athens today
predicts warmer weather and
cloudy skies tonight, fair and
colder Friday.
Meanwhile, the Associated
Press reports alternate masses of
cold and warm air moving across
the country, subjecting some
areas to frigid temperatures but
giving others mild mid-winter
weather. i
It still was vunseasonably cold
along the Atlantic Seaboard, from
Maine to Georgia. Coldest spot in
the country early today - was
Greenville, Maine, =vith a record
ing of nine degrees below zero. A
belt of cold air with tempera
tures down to 15 degrees extend
ed from Pennsylvania to eentral
North Carolina. .
But just west of the Appalach
ian Mountains, in a diagonal line
from Ohio to the southwest, was
an area of warm weather. Still
farther west, another stream of
cold air was pouring into the
western Dakotas and northern
Plains States.
Snow was falling over. most of
the northern Mississippi Valley,
while rain mixed with snow ‘was
striking the extreme northwest. ‘
Early morning recordings in
cluded Miami 65, Atlanta 30,.
Washington 20, Boston 24, Buffa
lo. 30, Memphis 42, and New Or
leans 43. a 2 (BY
UNO ASSEMBLY APPROVES ATOM COMMISSION:
TAKES UP IRAN, SOVIET, GREEK ISSUES FRIDAY
More Than 250 In
Attendance For
Two Short Courses
Dr. Paul W. Chaprian, dean of
the University of Georgia Col
lege of .Agriculture;. welcamed
more than one hundred persons
to the First Annual ¥arm Build
ings Saoert Course when it be
gan Wednesday in Barrow .Hall.
Henry ' Giese, professor’ of ag
rieultural . engineering at lowa
State College, is the main gpeak
er on the' agricultiiral engineer
ing department’s prggram given
as a service to the farm men
and women of the state. *** ~ * °
The first day of .the short
course was devoted tc livestock
and poultry building® construc
tion. The . program. .participants
took up the farm heme on Thurs
day, the second day in the three
day program. Henry Giese open
ened the day’s program with a
discussion of the farm home in
the Sout®. Miss Willie Vie Dow
dy, economist in home improve
ment with the Georgia Agricul
tural Se~vice, then discussed the
planning of the kitclien. Archi.
tectural considerations = were
pointed out by James J. Pollard,
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Athens, Ga., Thursday, January 24, 1946.
Navy To Loose Atomic Bomb
Against Guinea Pig Armada
TEST MAY REVOLUTIONIZE
METHODS OF SEA WARFARE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—(AP)|
—The Navy raised the curtain to
day on.its plans for testing the
atomic bomb against a great ar
mada of fighting ships—an ex
periment expected’ to revolutionize
sea’ warfare. ) |
A guinea pig fleet of 97 vessels,
ranging from carriers and battle
ships to submarines and trans
ports will be the atomic target in
the vast operation to start in May.
The laboratory selected is the
anchorage of Bikini Atdll, one of
the northernmost of the Marshall
Islands which were wrested from
Japan by ampibious assault two
years ago.
Vice {Adm. W. H.P. Blandy,
head of the Navy’s division on
special weapons, ticked off for
the Senate atomic energy com
mittee these details of the epochaj
exjeriment, known by the code
word “operation crossroads’:
1. In the target fleet will be
isc operating ships—two aircraft
carriers, - four battleships, two
'cru,isers, 16 destroyers, eight sub
)marines and 15 transports from
| U. S. fleets, plus a German heavy
cruiser a Japanese battleship and
‘light cruiser—and 47 other craft
such as landing ships.
e U. 8. Action Only
2 %_undertaking “is not a
combined or international opera
tien, but rather a scientific ex
periment by the United States
government alone.” The question
of permitting foreign observers
has not yet been de&d.
3. The unnamed target ships
“will be anchored and placed in
a manner caluculated to give ef
fects wvarying from probable des
struction tc neglible damage” in
each' type. S by :
4 The first est, @arly in May,
calls for detonating an atomic"
bomb at an altitude of several
hundred feet above the target ves
sels. A second test, tentatively
set for July 1, wil be an atomic
burst at the water’s surface in the!
target area. ‘
5. A deep water test in the
cpen sea is planned later, but
technical difficulties preclude
its coming off this year.
6. “Task force one”—A fleet of
50 aditional U. S. Navy shipg with
a complement of 20,000 men—will
set up the experiment and make
arrangements foryecording s ro
tesults by all. modern scientific
techniques.
Blandy who has ben named
commander for the entire test by
the joint chiefs of staff, revealed
that some of the best-known units
SPAATZ IS NAMED
CHIEF OF AAF
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 —(AP)
—President Truman today an
nounced General Carl A. Spaatz’s
appointment to be Chief of the
Army Air Forces, succeeding
General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold.
The President told his news
conference that General Arnold
will retire upon his return from
his current South American tour
and that Spaatz will take over
his assignment. .
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER toona s
LONDON, Jan. 24—(AP)—The United Nations General Assembly
voted unanimously today for the ¢reation of a special atomic energy
commission, urged by U. S. Seeretary of States James F. Byrnes as
necessary to save'the world from an atomic armaments race. . .
The action came . after little
more than an hour of discussion
during which both Byrnes and
chief Soviet delegate, Andre Vish
insky, urged prompt action.
The vote was 47 to 0, with four
nations abstaining.
. JAlmost-simultaneously the
World Security Council announced
that it would meet tomorrow to
consider .complaints involving
Iran, Green and Indonesia.
First Major Test
~ The complaints, providing the
basis for the first major tests of
the UNO’s machinery to' settle
disputes, will be considered at 3
p. m. (10 a. m. Eastern Standard
Fime).
Byrnes, who came to the UNO
meeting primarily to work on cre~
ation of the atomic commission,
planned to leave within a matter
of hours—probably today and cer
tainly tomorrow, American offi
eials said.
The commission would have no
power to compel the United States
or any other country to disclose
any of its atomic energy produc
tions secrets or disclose how t*he
atomic bomb ‘is made, according
to interpretations given by Byrnes.
Its respomnsibility will be to work
out ways of keeping atomic energy
from being used destructively. |
(Continued on Page Six)
of the U. S. fleet had been marked
for target vessels. They include:
The Saratoga, oldest U. S, car
rier afloat which carried the fight
from Guadalcanal to Jap home
(Continued on Yage Two.)
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NEW USE FOUND FOR SOUTH’S COTTON
Carl T, Williams (left) of Jackson, Tenn., secreiary of the National Ginners Association; Mrs.
Williams (center) and H, G. Williams, of Bakersfield, Cal: (right) look over a sample of a new use
- for coston—a stainproof plastic cotton material which will have a wide variety of uses. The new
fabric was introfluced at the Nationglri({'orttnn Council meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
2-STATE CONTROL
1 -~
FOR CLARK'S HILL
COLUMBIA, 8. C., Jan. 24—
(AP)—State Senator Bryant of
Orangeburg, S. C., planned to
confer in Washington today with
U. S. Senator Maybank (D-S.C)
on the prospects for Georgia and
South Carolina® {o" secure Joint
control of the proposed Clarke’s
Hill Hydro-Eiectric project on the
Savannah river.
The action came after senate
President Edgar A. Brown told
the oSuth Carolina General As
sembly ‘yesterday that South Ca
rolina was “just, groping in the
dark” concerning the project.
He said the only group doing
anything to participate in the pro
ject was the Chamber of Com
merce at Augusta, Ga., and he
emphasized: “it’s a big problem
for both states, and we should
do something aobut it now.”
The senate head pointed out
that unless “we South Carolin
ians are careful,” contro] of the
(Continued on Page Six)
'Ephng Re-Opens
Law Offices
[After War Service
' Bugene A. Epting, young Ath_
!ens attorney, has re-opened ais
law offices and ig located up
stairs over the Western Union
' Telegraph bureau.
. Mr. Epting was recently dis
‘charged from the United States
Navy. He enteed the Navy ag an
‘enlisteq man during the war and
‘advanced to the grade of junior
Lieutenant.
Prior to entering the service,
Attorney Epting practiced law
with offices in the Shackelford
building. He isa former memlger
of the General Asserably.
TWO FLIERS KILLED
MACON, Ga., Jan. 24—(AP)—
The Army has identified two Tur
ner Field airmen killed Monday
in 2 plane crash near Marshall
viile as Capt. Roger Vandenais, of
Woonsocket, R. 1., and Flight Of
ficer Hugh A. Comis of Torring
ton, Conn.
Their plane crashed on the
Burk-Murph Farm, three miles
from Marshallville,
IS l .
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. WASHINGTON, Jan. w{AP)—President Truman today termed current labor disputes a struggle
for power between munagement and labor. The President added that the United States Steel Cor
poration should accept his proposal for an 18% cent wage increase for its workers.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The government went ahead today with its plans to take over
operation of strike~-bound meat packing plants Saturday amid specu
lation whether similar presidential seizure orders against other struck
industries were under consideration.
Goes To Trial
In Friend's Death
SAVANNAH, GA.,, Jan. 24—
(AP)—The question of .whether
the public should be permitted to
hear the grusome details of the
slaying and butchering last Oct
ober of 17-yezr-old Lauther Aids
was brought up today as his con
fesed killer was called to trial
Attorneys for Jesse McKethan,
24-year-old factory worker who
confessed he killed Aids in g ar
gument over a missing wallet,
opposed the anounced intention of
solicitor Genera] Pro Tem A. J.
Ryan, jr., to eclued the public.
Meanwhile, the defense attor
neys, Edwin J. Feiler and E. J.
Goodwin, prepared to plead that
McKethan was hit.on.the head by
Aids and became temporarily in
sane. / ‘
Confessed To Police
McKethan confessed. to . police
that he killed Aids after the two
had been to a roadhouse. He took
the body to his home and dismem
bered it the folowing night.. He
then placed the pieces in cloth
bags which he distributed
throughout the, city.
Dr. Harvey M. Cleckley, Uni
versity of Georgia Medical school
psyciatrist, was called as a de
fense witness. ’
Dr. Cleckley examined Me
(Continue¢ on page two.)
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY |
Light snow changing to
rain by noen. Warmer and
cloudy tonight. Friday fair
and colder. - v
GEORGIA: Mostly cloudy
with light snow changing to
light rain in extreme north
portion this afternoon follow
ed by clearing and not quite
so cold tonight, Friday fair
and moderately cpol.
TEMPERATURE
Highast . ... o i %
Lomiest .. o 0 s )P
Meon . .:. it D
Nt ... ol s A
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 -howrs .. .. .00
Total since January 1 ... 8.90
» Excess since January 1 .. 5.58
Average January rainfall 4.28
A.B.C. Paper — Single Copy, 3c — 5¢ Sunday
There was no word from the
White House that the government
planned immediately to take pos
session of the steel industry,
paralyzed by a walkout of 750,-
000 CIO workers, or other indus
tries affected by werk stoppages.
Meanwhile, union and manage
ment officials turned © anew’ to
President Truman to find a solu
tion to the four-day old steel
strike, with U, 8. Steel President
B. F. Fairless proposing a national
wage policy.
- Urge Industry Meeting
Fairless urged that Mr. Truman
call a conference of industrial
leaders for their advice “on what
kind of a wage increase the econ
omy of this country ecan endure
without incurring the danger of
an inflationary spiral.”
The President also was offered
a suggestion by the CIO Steel
workers wage policy committee
which asked him to turn over “a
billion dollars worth” of govern
ment owned steel plants for oper
ation by individuals willing to ac
cunt his recommendation of 18i4
ceats an hour wage increase.
~ Brightest development on . the
‘nation’s labor front was the call
ing off last night of a scheduled
strike by 1,500 trainmen on three
shuttle railroads. a vital link in
handling freight for 21 converging
major railroads in Chicago.
CIO union leaders conducting
the meat packing strike planned a
strategy meeting tomorrow to de
cide whether they would follow
the action of the AFL union in
volved in the work stoppage and
order the strikers to return to
work for the government, with
the Agriculture Department in
charge of operations.
(Continued on Pzee Six)
Practice Of Law
Is Resumed By
Captain Barrow
Captain James Barrow, after
several years in the armed ser
vice, has returned to Athens and
resumed his law practice in the
Southern Mutual building. v
Captain Barrow, son of the
late City Clerk James Barrow
and Mrs. Barrow, was one of the
city’s best known younger attor
neys when he entered the service.
Going into the service as an en
listed man, he rose in rank to
that of Captain at the time he
was discharged. He was awarded
the Silver - Star - and the Bronze
Medal for . gallantry during his
service. 4‘
HOMS
Mr. Truman’s views weére ex
pressed at a news conference.
Asked about a proposal by Ben
jamin F. Fairless, president of U.
S. Steel, that he call an all-man
agement conference on wages, the
President said he was always
ready to talk to business lezders.
However, he added, the best
thing Fairless can do is send word
that he accepts the White "House
proposal for settling the = steel
strike,
Congressional defenders of or
ganized labor lined up today be
hind a plan to cool off the drive
for legislation restricting union
activities by turning some of the
heat on management.
Rep. Biemiller (D.-Wis.) fouch
ed things off earlier in the week.
He made a speech declaring U. S.
Steel could have netted $20,000,-
000 a year by accepting President
Truman’s wage compromise. He
said the corporation would have
gained $200000,000 annually in
income from a $4 'a ton price
boost, while paying out only
$180,000,000 more in waes under
an 18 1-2 cents an hour boosi for
striking CIO steelworkers.
Some of Biemiller's colleagues
said the figures came from the
White House.
Similar Addresses Planned -
Half - a dozen other House
members and several senators
planned to follow up with a se
ries of similar addresses on both
sides of Capitol Hill,
House Republicans, committed
by their steering ‘eommittee to
demand -economy cuts wherever
feasible, looked over the first
appropriation bill of 1946, a $5,~
594,000,000 independent offices
measure.
Republican - Leader Martin of
Massachusetts noted that most of
the money was for the Veterans
Administration -and said his fol
lowers were not interested in
paring down these funds. Bul
“there are plenty other depart
ments that can be cut,” he re
marked. i 7
Man Is Charged
'With $4,500 Theft
BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 24—(AP)
-—The FBI reported here that a
Union Grove, Ala, man seized
near an automobile which was
mired in mud, was beirig held in
connection with the $4,550 bank
robbery at Arab, Ala.
B, J. Abbaticch®, jr., agent
in charge of the FBI office here,
identified the aceused as Glenn
Ballew. The FBI agent said he
‘was to bd formally charged with
robbery today.
Abbaticchio said Ballew had
confessed to « taking the money
from the Arab Bank yesterday.
'He added that $4,510 of the money
‘'had been recovered. Ballew was
'held in jail at Guntersville, Ala.
i The FBI oficial reconstructed
the robßery and . arrest in this
manner: : Z
' In the presence of several cus
'tomers and Bank employes, the
rresident of the bank, Wilkin
Jackson, was forced to enter the
ivault and had over to the bandit
‘several packets of S2O, $lO and
\ (Continued on page six.)
Dr. Herbert Winn
Dies In Chicago;
Burial In Athens
Dr. Hubert Winn, for many
years a resicent of Athens and
once partner 'in Moon-Winn
Drug Company, died in a Chica~
go hospital last night after be
ing in failing ‘health for some
time. Prior to going {o Chicage
for treatment, Dr. Wmn had been
a patient in an Aflauta hospital.
Funeral arrangement have nos
been completed ang will be an
nounce later by McDorman-
Bridges. Burial will be in Oconee
Hill cemetery here.
Before forming the partner
ship that operated the drug store
here for a number of years, Dr.
Winn had been a pharmacist.
After selling his interest in Moon,
Winn, Dr. and Mrs. Winn mov
ed to Cedartown, Ga, where e
was owner of Bradford Drug
Company.
During his 7residence here he
formed a large circle of friends
who_were distressed so learn of
bis passing. In_addition to his
wife, survivors include several
sisters and brothess. - e