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IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING
rhis little lady, undressed for the balmy spring days now being
had in St. Louis, Mo., squared things with mounted policeman,
Richard Eberius, by giving his horse the ice cream cone she was
eating. When last seen, Rita Ann Clark, 14-months old, was tod
dling home for another nickle to replenish her ice cream supply.
HOUSEWIVES MUST DAY MORE MONDAY
WASHINGTON, March 29—(AP)—Housewives will pay slightly
more for most pork and about a third of all beef cuts beginning next
Vionday. R i R T G R s N Z
Announcing this today, the OPA
¢iid the increases result from
higher prices recently authorized
for the packing industry to offset
2 wage increase of 16 cents an
hour. ;
Price hikes for veal, lamb and
mutton will be announced later.
Retail pork prices generally will
be upped an average of .three
quarters of a cent a. pound, OPA
said, while beef. price increases
will average a third of a cent a
pound. :
Increases for individual pork
and beef cuis range from one to
four cents a potnd. The price
boost for most popular cuts—such
as sifloin dnd* porterhouse steaks;
pacon and pork chops and loins—
will be only one cent a pound.
In some areas, ceilings for these
cuts will not be increased. For
example, there will be no price
change for porterhouse steak in
Los Angeles and Dallas, according
to OPA, but it will cost a penny
more a pound in Chicago, New
York and Nashville.
On the other hand, there will
be an increase of a cent a pound
for flank steak in Dallas, but not
in the other cities mentioned.
The reason for these discrep
ancies, an OPA official explained,
is that .meat prices are figured un
der a formula based 'on . costs
which vary from area to area.
Retail prices are rounded off to
the nearest cent.
About three-fourths of all pork
cuts are being raised in price, but
only a third of beef cuts.
Beef liver and cooked corned
beef briskets are increased by two
cents a pound, but other beef va
riety meats remain at the same
ceiling. The only items increased
by four cents a pound are bulk
dried beef and packaged Can
adian bacon, OPA said. ;
‘The agency added that begin
ning Monday butcher shops will
display ‘posters listine new ceiling
prices for beef and pork, wmigs
Th : hout China
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cholera, bubonic plague and
famine spread through vast areas
0t China today, taking ‘a heavy
toll of lives.
United States relief and re
habilitation administration offic
lals at Shanghai said cholera rag
ing through south China, where
More than 1,000,000 persons are
threatened, was exaeting a 50 per
tent mortality of those affected.
The number of deaths was not
given, 9
In north and southeast China,
UNRRA reported, bubonic plague
Wwas reaching dangerous propor
tons. Dr. Frank H. Herring, chief
®glonai UNRRA medical officer
N Kvzantung province flew to
Canton with enough cholera vac
tine to immunize 200,000 persons.
Vore vaceine will be sent until
1000,000 persons have been im-
Munized. .
U. S. Navy ships have been
Pressed into ~ service to deliver
tholera vaceine for immunization
of 250,000 persons in Hankow.
Bubonie plague was reporte_d
Moving eastward through a corri
dor' west of Mukden, in north
China, anq vacdecine was be!ng
flown to the area. Southeast China
iso reported the plague in 2an
dea centering around Foochow.
" Chungking, the Peoples
Political Council asserted that a
‘errible famine in the “recovered
Plovinees of north China was tak
'B an inereased toll of lives. Mil
liong of persons were said to be
fndangered, - : :
"o council cabled an. appeal to
UNRRA for an increased alot
nent of food to meet the , grave
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
LaGuardia Seeks
To Buy Relief
Food ‘Anywhere’
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March
29— (AP)—Fiorello LaGuardia,
new Director General of UNRRA,
told delegates from 48 nations to
day that he would seek food for
world relief wherever he could
find it—including the Argentine.
“Ticker tape ain’t spaghetti,”
cried out the squad, fast-talking
former mayor of New York in
his_inauguration address after
bluntly ceclaring ‘that the peovle
of the world “want bread, not ad
vice.” :
“Wheat,” he cried, “has no po
litical complexion, and I'll buy
wheat wherever I can find it.”
Then he said that he would
start right now by extending his
gretings to Col. Peron, president
of Agentina.
“Here is an opportunity,” he said
“for Argentina to show its desire
to coonerate with the rest of the
world.” |
(A dispatch from Buenos Aires
today said Argentina had declined
an invitation to membership in
UNRRA on the ground that she
already is committed to send all
her exportable food surplus to
various countries by sale or dong
tion.)
“Before long,” La Guardia con
tinued, “I'll be knocking at the
door of my old friend, McKinzie
King” of Canada. “Perhaps he can
serape up a few bushels there.”
He told delegates that relief was
“not an international chess game
where every move seeks an ad
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Judge Cornett |
To Return Here
At End Of Year
— -——————————— e —
Judge Walter G. Cornett, who
has been general coutsel for the
large J. A. Jones _Construction
Company during toe war, wiil
return to Athens tec make his
home within the * next few
months. Mrs. Corrett and othe
members of the fomily will re
open their home ere shortly.
Joe Cornett, a.son of Judge and
M-s.. Cornets, has e¢ntered the
University of Georgia.
Judge Cornett’s duiies with the
Jones Construction. Company
has taken him to several foreign
couwntries, including England
and India. Prior to joining the
Jones company as counsel, Judge
Cornett was a teacher in tae
University’s Lumpkin Law
School and was for many years
U. S. Commissioner and Deputy
U. S. Clerk,
Judge Cornett plans to join his
family here about the end of this
vear. Their home at present is at
Panama City, Fla. .
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Continued fair and mild.
Saturday fair and warmer.
GEORGIA — Decreasing
cloudiness and continued
mild this afternoon and to
night. Saturday fair and war
mer, 3
TEMPERATURE
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Wl . s .08
: RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 1.03
Total since March 1 .... 5.18
Exéess since March 1 .... .54
Average MarcH rainfall .. 5.00
Total since January 1 ....19.79
Excess since January 1 .. 7.07
7:;ull Associated Press Service
Mayor And Other
Otticials Meet
On Sanitary Plan
- Beer And Wine Taxes For First Month
~ Yield $6,160.23, Treasurer Smith Says
" Mayor Bob McWhorter said today he is planning
to meet with |. G. Beacham, commissioner of streets,
and Eugene Lumpkin, supervisor of the sanitary de
partment, for the purpose of working out a system
of garbage disposal that will eliminate criticism
throughout the city. : S
TRUMAN WILL NOT
SEIZE MINES IF
DIGGERS WALK OUT
By.The Associated Press
The ranks of the nation’s idle
because of labor disputes, show~
ing a steady drop the past coupie
of weeks, may be nearly doubled
over the week-end,
A shutdown of soft coal opera
tions appeared set - for Sunday
midnigat, putting 400,000 AFL
United Mine Workers on the
strike list which today - totaled
460,000.
President Truman said the
government has no plans to seize
the mines in event of a strike.
But the government. to assura
supplies for urgent wuses, took
over control and disiribution ot
soft coal last midnight.
Labor department officiald
continued efforts to avert a shut
down as John L. Lewis’ UMW
and tae operators appeared no
closer to reaching an agreement
on a new contract. The mine un
ion president has given motice
to the producers there wiii be
no soft coal mined next week 1f
a new confract is not agreed
upon by midnight Sunday.
Farm Machine Strike
Other = government officials,
headed by Secretary of Agricul
ture Anderson and ‘Secretary
Schwellenbaca, preparced to meet
with- prineipgls in. strikes: of 42~
000 farm equipment - workers.
The officials of three major pro
ducers of farm equipment, In
ternational Harvester, Allis~
Chalmers and J. ]I. Case, were
invited to the conférence in
Washington to discuss the “grace
situation” on foed production
caused by the work stopvages.
As the meeting was calleq In
ternational Harvester wpartlv re
jected an offer by tae CIO Farm
Equipment Workers union to
sent its 30.000 workere back to
their jobg and submit all dispu-~
ted issues in the walkout. The
company said “certain things are
arbitrable and certaia are not.”
Labor department cfficials also
worked to end the CIO-AFL ju
risdictional dispute tying up
northern California canneries and
keeping idle about 60,000 work
ers. Nearly 100 canneries have
closed since March ¥ when con
tracts with AFL Steamsterg Un
ion expired. Government seizure
of tae canneries wag not being
immediately considered.
: Copper Tie-ap Due
A strike of 7,000 workers in
Montana copper mines and
plants ordered to start Sunday
in a directive from the CIO
Mine, and Smelter Werkers, will
paralyze the country’s copper
mining industry. Already about
17500 are idle in the industry.
The walkout in the- Montana
workings followed failure to
reach agreement on demands for
wage increases ranging from 21
1-2 to 30 cents an hour.
. Twenty thousand production
workers in General Motors
plants in Michigan and Indiana
were recalled to their jobs yes
terdav. It was tae largest number
called back in a sinele dav since
the strike of 175,066 CIO Uni
ted Auto Workers einployes be
gan last Nov. 21.
Strike Threafeners
Drafted In Virginia
RICHMOND, Va., March 29—
(AP) — Governor Tuck today
drafted approximately 1,500 pro
duction and maintenanee work
ers of the Virginia Electric and
Power Company into tae State’s
unorganized militia and placed
them under military law, subject
to court martial if they refuse to
work for the commonwealth in
the event of a strike.
The governor directed mem
bers of the.Virginia State Guard
to serve on each officer and
employee of the power company
under the age of 55 a ‘“notice
of draft order to veport.”
Approximately 2,700 members
of tae state guard began serving
the orders on VEPZO Workers
at 9 a. m., today, Copies were
placeq in their hande a¥# emer
gency meetings in armories and
schools in various parts of the
state last night. #
The unprecedented action fol
lowed the governor’s declaration
of a state of emergency vester-
Gal in a move aimed at prevent
ing any interruption of power
cervice in the event a strike of
VEPCO worke s takes Dplace
Monday as threatened.
~ Athens, GoTFTiday, March 29, 1946.
“The peoplé are entitled to the
very best garbage collection ser
vice that the City can give them”,
the Mayor said. “I am asking Mr.
Beacham and Mr. Lumpkin to
help me work out a system that
will be more satisfactory than
that which now exists”.
Under the recently enacted
Charter Amendmenti, the Mayor
as Chief Executive Officer of the
Ciky of Atheds jis 'responsibile
'to the pecple for efficient admin
‘\istration of wvarious municipal
‘services. “As soon as I meet with
eMssrs. Beacham and Lumpkin I
hope we will see an improvement,”
the Mayor said. “If it is necessary
for Council action in order to- car-|
ry out recommendations that may,
be made by Mr. Beacham and My ‘
Lumpkin I fee] confident that the
Council will support the recom-l
mendations of the Street Com
missioner and Mr. Lumpkin. Un
der certain- ordinances that now
exist cooperation of the citizen lis
a requirement in order to obtain a
clean and .sanitary community.
Whatever cooperation the people
can give, when it is asked by the
City, I am sure will be given".
Mayor McWhorter said, “Working
together I believe we can make
Athens one of the cleanest cities
in the state.”
Beer Tax Collections
Athens’ financial prospects ap
peared brighter today as a result
of the first month’s coliections of
beer and wine taxes. City Treas-
A. G. Smith said the beer and
wine taxes have brought in $6,160-~
28-ase of-March 27th: Mr. Smith
said that $2,400 was collected in
taxes on beer and wine inventories
which have not yet been exausted.
He said there is no accurate way to
estimate how much the City will
‘coilect annualiy from these taxes
It is recognized, however, that
sale cp beer increases during the
hot months and collections may
be larger during the summer
months. If so, the City may colleci
a considerable amount from the
beer and wine taxes this year.
Smallpox Kills Five
In Seattle Qutbreak
SEATTLE, March 29 — (AP)—
The death toll stood at five today
in a smallpox outbreak termed by
one physician the worst in the na
tion since 1913. ° Vaccine from:
Philadelphia was brought in: to
help fight the threat of the in
vader from the Orient,
Kelly Will Speak
Exercises Saturday
The Crawford W. Long Day
exercises, sponsored annually by
the University of Georgia in
commemoration of Dr. Long’s
discovery of anesthesia, will be
observeq Saturday inorning. at
10:35 a. m,, in the University
Chapel wita Dr. G. Lombard
Kelly, professor of anatomy and
dean of the University of Georgia
School of Medicine in Augusta,
as the featured .speaker.
Dean John E. Drewry, of tae
Henry W. Grady School of Jour
nalism ang chairman of the Uni
versity committee on special
convocations, has extended a spc
cial welcome to the citizens of
Athens to attend this lecture.
The topic of the addresg will be
“Tae Evolution of lAledical Ed
ueation.”
The physiciang of Athens have
been invited to sit as a commit
tee of honor on the stake as Dr.
Kelly speaks. Dr, Frank K. Bo
land, University aiumnus and
noted Atlanta physician, will in
troduce Dr. Kelly.
Dr. Kelly received his A. 1.
witih honors from tne Uhiversity
of Georgia in 1911, hig B. S. in
Medicine in 1922, and his M. D.
in 1924 He has becen a member
of the Medical School facultv
since 1918, and dear since 1935.
An author of note, he is a mem
per of the Southern Medical As
sociation of Anatomists: Georgia
Academy of Science, Delta Tau
Delta, Phi Rio Sigma, Phi Beta
Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha,
Reiland To Speak
At Emmanuel Sunday
Dr. Karl Reiland, who -wag for
many years the rector of St.
George’s Church, New York and
lives now at Lindale, Ga., will
be the guest speaker at the Em
manue; Episcopal CHurca, Sun
day, March 31. Dr Reiland has
visited and addressed many uni.
versities throyghout the country.
ESTABLISHED 1832.
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By HOWARD W. BAKESLEE
Assoeiated Press Science Repoiter
ST. LOUIS, March 29—(AP)--
The big fact on which scientists
rely to prevent surprise atomic at
tacks—namely, that all atomic
energy is limited strictly to two
natural metals, witlrout even a
slight prospect of extension—came
out here today at the meeting of
the American Association for the
advancement of science. T
Scarce Materals 8
- The metals are uranium and’
thorium, both scarce and controll
;able at mines and in power hous
es, so that scientists believe no
[nafion wil] be able to prepare for
an Atomic attack without auto
rmatiwlly givng the world advance
‘warning of 18 months to several
| years.
These facts came from a plan
for international control of Atomic
energy issued simultaneouslys last
night in Washington and St. Louis.
Here the plan was explained by
Or. Charles A. Thomas, Vice Pre
sident of the Monsanto Chemical
Company, himself a member of
the plan commiftee and an atomic
oomb expert.
| Uranium makes both bombs and
}power. It also makes a new metal,
plutonium, for bombs and power.
‘Uranium converts thorium intd a
new form of explosive uranium.
‘Uranium alone is the basis and no
ther chemical in creation now
appears likely to yield atomic en=
ergy.
Important - also is ‘denaturation
‘that renders all the metals non
2xplosive, but leave them useful
‘or power. Denaturation is what
lappens when an egg is hard
boiled. The metals are not boiled;
they are denatured by adding a
secret chemical element. But. Dr,
Thomas said, there is no doubt
that “boiling” them will take a
long time and large plants.
The proposal is to give an in
ternation Atomic development
authority three controls, over;
(1) All mining of uranium and
thorium.
(2) Al] plants making the met
als. X
~ (3) Inspection of large peacc
time power plants (because these
could be secretly modified to make
bomb materials).
All the explosive metals would
be denatured and issued in stock
piles Ao all nations for peacetime
use. No nation could start a re
naturing job without being seen.
Any nation wanting to make raw
atomic explosives would have to
seize an international plant within
its borders and\hat seizure would
e automatic warning to the rest
of ithe world. :
.
Mother, 2 Children
Awaif Departure
For Occupied Zone
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March
29— (AP)—A mother and her two
small daughters, the wife and
daughters of an Army warrant of
ficer stationed in Germany, anx
iously awaited today their de
parture for New York on the first
leg of a journey overseas.
Mrs. Joseph J. Jordan, with
five-year old Edna Gayle and
Julia Frances, four months, will
be among the first families in the
United States to join their hus
bands and fathers in Uncle Sam’s
Army abroad. Warrant Officer
Jordan is stationed at Schlamgen
bad, Germany.
' Already, Mrs. Jordan said, her
ihusband has found a “very pretty
’house" for them, and Edna Gayle
volunteered, “It has a pretty yard
to play in and a fence for baby
sister.” Mrs. Jordan said her hus
band told her about it in a tele
phone conversation this week.
The family will drive to New
York with Mrs. Jordan’s brother
in-law, Howard Adams, when she
receives the go-ahead word from
Washington.
Meanwhile, she is busy packing
and taking care of other last-min
ute details, and “getting all kinds
of inoculations.” The latter, she
said, is the only unpleasant part
of it.
Warrant Officer Jordan, whose
home is in Fort Gaines, Ga., was
in the Army 12 years before he
went overseas last December.
No Clue Found
- .
To Missing Boy
PHILADEELPHTA WMarch 29 —
(AP) — Deétectives reported today
they had failed to find a single
positive clue to fate of three-year
old Mayer Trobman, missing for
48 hours.
They extended the search to
expansive Fairmont Park after
dragging sewer inlets within a 20-
block square area of the child’s
home. Eighteen patrolmen were
assigned to the hunt.
“We are up against a blank wall
with nothing to work on,” said
Detective Lieutenant James A.
Kelly. “It is one of those things
for which there is absolutely no
reason that would give you ' the
slightest clue.”
Kelly reported that a blonde
woman who was reported to have
disappeared from her home near
the Trobmans’ shortly before the
boy vanished had returned. “She
seems to be okay, but you know
there were several other tips on
blonde women being seen with a
boy ahd we are trying to run
them down,” Kelly said.
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Joe McCarthy (right) New York magazine writer and former
managing editor of Yank, is questioned by reporfers as he left
after testifying before the six man Army board investigating the
Army’s caste system, in Washington, D. C. McCarthy said he told
the board members that the GI gripes stem solely from social
privileges granted officers and withheld from enlisted men,
BACKERS OF TERMINAL PAY FOR Gl's
WASHINGTON, March 20—(AP)—Backers of the idea of letting
Gl's as well as officers collect terminal leave pay put spurs to their
drive today in the face of a Budget Bureau rebuff.
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Better Officers
Called For To
&
Stop Gl Gripes
WASHINGTON,: ahrch 26—
(AP)—Better army oficers, says
a man who is an officer himself,
would stop most GI discontent.
Lt Col.. William, _R. ;.l.gmgeg a
West Point sraduate of 1940, savs
that much of the GI griping is
due to “too many commisions and
not enough genuvine cofficers.”
+* Kitner appeared yesterday he~
fore the board, headed by Li. Gen.
Jimmy Doolittle, which is study
ing oficer-enlisted man relation
ship. The public was not allowed
to attend the meeting, but Knitner
later explained his views to re
porters.
' “The army isn't perfect, .of
course,” hesaid. “But I don’t think
it’s.a wise move to make any radi
cal changes.
“After all, we did pretty well
with this system, in spite of ils
faults, in this war. If oficers are
properly chosen and trained, we
no longer will hear many of these
complaints.” *
Kintner, formerly of Johnstown,
Pa., saw action in the European
theater. He now is stationed in
Washington. .=
Upholding the enlisted man's
side of the argument was Bill
Mauldin GI cartoonist.
Mauldin’s two main points:
1. Army newspapers must be
kept fre of censorship by the
Brase. The papers give an en
listed man a chance to let off
steam. They also offer him a place
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Liberality Needed
Arnall Declares
ATLANTA, March 29 — (AP)—
Governor Ellis Arnall assailed
narrow-mindedness in Georgia
last night.
“Do you know there are some
communities in Georgia where a
teacher is not allowed to have
dates, play bridge, go to dances
and that if she gets married, she
is fired?”, he asked.
To obtain a better world, he
said, the people must raise teach
ers’ salaries so improve schools,
expand .health services and work
for a- balanced farm-industrial
condition.
Rate Charges May
Drag For Months
COVINGTON, Ga., March 21—
(AP) — Railroads caarged with
conspiracy to maintain unjust
freight rates may take three to
eight months °fo answer the
Ceorgia suit against them in the
United States Supreme Court,
State Attorney General Eugene
Cook said. Cook presented Geor
gia’s case before special JMaster
Lloyd {3arrison in Washington
recently.
Red Cross Drive ”
To End Tomorrow
The Red Cross Fund Drive, in
progress for the pas: two weeks,
will end tomorrow, Saturday.
March 30.
Persons who have been unable
to contribute up to the present
or wao have been unsolicited are
notified that the Red Cross of
fice qn College avenue next to'
the Western Union oifice will be
open until 1 p. m, Saturday, to
sccept contributions, |
A. B. C. Paper —Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
The letter came in a report
complaining of the multi-billion--
dollar cost and huge bookkeeping
obstacles.
Supporters of the legislation to
give enlisted personnel the same
furlough pay consideration now
accorded to officers said they
were convinced the bureau’s re
port ‘means the House Military
Committee will not approve the
DVEIRDORRLS &o st N
So they centered their attention
on a discharge to force house ac
tion regardless of what the com
mittee does.
. Rep. Dwight L. Rogers (D.-Fla.)
told reporters the petition was be
‘ing signed at a rate that indicated
the necessary 218 signatures would
be affixed “within 20 days.”’
Once that number is obtained,
the legislation comes up automati
cally for a House vote. .
Filed by Rogers several weeks
ago, the petition already has 127
signers, more than half of them
obtained in the last ten days. "’
Although a subcommittee ‘has
recommended enactment of the
terminal pay bill, the full military
committee has shown no inclina
tion to aet since the Budget Bu
reau filed its report. :
~ Made public today, the Teport
estimated the cost of the legisia~
tion at “several billions” of dol
lars and pointed out that no pro
vision for such an expenditure
was made in the President’s bud
get for the current year.
~ While it would be “glad” to
recommend legislation affecting
only men discharghd after the pro
posed law is enacted, the Bureau
said, it could not agree with the
subcommittee’s recommendation
that the pay benefits apply to
every enlisted man who has serv
ed since the draft law was - en
acted. ‘
The Rogers bill would entitle‘
enlisted men, at the time of dis
charge, to extra pay at the rate
of 30 days a year for furlough
time to which they were entitled
but which, because of the war,
they did not receive. It puts the
same 120-day ceiling on such ac
cumulated leave as applies to of
ficers.
Hun War Pofential
To Be Eliminafed
BERLIN, March 20 —(AP)—
A plan“to eliminate Germany’s
irdustrial war potential while
retaining enough of the beaten
nation’s economy to make it rea
sonable self-sustaining by 1949.
has been adopted by the Allied
Control Council.
. The program, outlined in de
tail by tae Council’last night.
slashed German econcomy in half
and placesg future emphasis In
proction on agriculture and on
coal ans# materials for the re
building of war-torn cities.
Every industry which could
possibly be diverted to the man
ufacture of war materials is to
be eliminated ang octher indus.
irieg considered on the fringe of
the war -potential are to be,cut
back. Only enouga export trade
is provided for to pay for the
food Germans must import to
maintain their reduced living
scale.
Allied officers said the target
is to establish by !#4B a stand
ard of living for Germany ap
proximating that 1092, Germans
would not be permitted a higher
standarg eof living than the Eu
ropean average.
H
oM
E
HEARING IS SET .
THIS AFTERNOON
TO CHART ACTION
NEW YORK, Marcn 29—(AP)
—A majority of the United Na=
tions Security Council, wita con
siderable leadership irom Secre
tary of State Byrnes moved to
ward a showdown with Russia
today over the refusal to: take
part in discussion of the Iranian
case.
As the Council scheduled (3 p
m., E. 'S. T.) another public
hearing meeting on the case,
wiaving decided to go ahead
without Russia, there were au
thoritative predictions that 1t
would adop a plan calling for
submission to both Moscow and
Tehran of three specific ques.
tions bearing on ‘eairent nego
tiations between thcm and on
the withdrawal of Russian troops
from Jran. .
Request Early Replies
Replies would we requested by ¢
early next week, probably Tues
day or Wednesday, after waich
the Council might proceed with
or without answers. The question
procedure won informai majority
support at a closed scssions of the
Council late yesterday, accord=
ing to persons fanuliar with the
discussiong at that meeting,
Among top delegates ther was
some wope the Scviet govern
ment woulq find this, or some
other method, ag a graceful way
out of the situaticn created by
Ambassador Andrei Gromyko’s
Moscoy-directed absence from
two Council sessions. ;
Some privately expressed hope
that Gromyko might receive new
instructions after the Xremlin
weighed world resstish {0 o=
dramatic gesture in walking out
of Wednesday’s Security Council
me/ting and ir tile interest of
restoring unity among the key
powers in the councii. The am
bassador stayed at his Russian
Consulate offices lat night until
after midnight, then.leturneq to
his hotel.
In - Washington, meanwiite,
President Truman toid reporters
at a press conference he had
talked with Secret:vy Byrnes
about 30 minueg earlier. He gaid
he fully supported Byineg in the
policies the Secretary of * State
was pursuing here,
These policies, with the repor=
ted backing of a mejiority of the
Council, were moving swiftly to
day into a new phuse, the key
which ig the council’s informal
decision at its closed meeting
Wednesay that Russia’s absence
should not be allowed to ‘aalt Its
work on the Iranian case.
To Seek Clarification
A slate of thres major ques=
(Continued on Page Two)
Solons Approve
World Control
lOf Atom Energy
- _WASHINGTON, March 29 —
(AP)—Capitol Hill said “yes, but”
today to the State Department’s
plan for internationalizing future
atomic energy development for
scientific or industrial purposes
only.
The “yes” part of congressional
comment was that it might be a
good thing if the United States
could create fool-proof machinety
for strict control of the mining
and processing of all fissionable
ores.
The “but” was that legislators
generally cautioned against leav
ing any veto loophole which might
permit secret A-bomb production
by any one of the big five UNO
nations at some future date.
The general disposition appear
ed to be to make haste slowly on
the entire program.
. More immediate matters on the
day’s calendar were such items as
draft extension, the minimum
wage bill, the emergency housing
program and the future of OPA.
| Chances for a one-year exten
sion of selective service appeared
to be looking up in the Senate
Military Committee. Senator Smith
(R.-N. J.) told a reporter he was
now ready to back such an exten
sion because the country “cannot
afford to take a chance” ta lat the
draft expire May 15.
The committe has been split 8-8
on the question of reeommending
a year’s extension, and - Smith’s
statement indicated he was ready
to break the deadlock and make
it 9-7 for continuing selective
service. Hearings on the subject,
however, continue until April 9.
. . o
Roy Curtis Given
.
Naval Discharge;
- &
Back In Business
Roy W. Curtis, secretary-treas
urer of the Athens Federal Sav
ings and Loan Association, has
been discharge dfrom the United
States Navy and has resumed his
duties here.
Mr. Curtis entered the Navy
two years ago and was stationed .
at the U. S. Naval base, St. Sim
ons Island. He held the rank of
storekeeper, second class.