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Newspaper Page Text. _ZAL COTTON ) L{NCH MIDDLING. ... 27 3-8 Vol 114, No. 68. 160 Thousand Miners Are ldled 7o Push Welfare Demands [ By The Associated Press - Four hundred .thousand 'AFL Goft coal miners stayed away iror heir jobs today and _the nation’s dle beeause of labor disputes sky rocketed 1O 777,000, the highest otal 1N nearly three _weeks. : - gtrikes over wage disputes crip ‘l)]c(| (ransportation facilities iu Detroit and Akron, O, to fur iher darken the labor picture. pecond Biggest Strike : The work stoppage by John L. lewis' AFL United Mine Work ors, which went into effect at 19:01 a. m. upon expiration oi the collective hargaining contract, was {he second largest walkouti of workers since V-J Day, tfopped ony by the strike of 750,000 CIO steel workers+on Jan 21. —-‘-—‘M . NO INTERVENTION WASHINGTON, Apri] 1-— (AP)—The White House said foday that President Truman has no plans for intervening in the bituminous coal minirg stoppage. Press secretary Charles (. Gross, asked al a news coli ference if the President will do any thing about the walkout, replied: | “That is in the hands of the | Secretary of Labor.” e et ' There was no disorder report -4 as the bituminous coal mines hut down, President Lewis said here would be no picketing. The overnment although hoping to sect a settlernent between union nd management, made no plans o seize the properties, but the olid fuels administraion ordered reserve of soft coal for emer ency consumption and limited eliveries. As a prolonged stoppage threat ned to disrupt the country’s re onversion program, Federal mec ator. Paul Fuller. planned. to re ume negotiations with Lewis and e soft coal operators in efforts o effect an early settlement voi e disrupted issues in the pro osed contract. The steel and u motive industries were expected ) be among the first hit by a ng walkout and already ene ajor stee] company said it would ave to bank 20 blast furnaces. Chief demand by Lewis is the roposed health and welfare func v miners, to be created from an ssessment on each ton of coal roduced and to be administ e v thtf union. Lewis said he will ot discuss other major issues of ages and hours until the welfare Ind question is settled. Transortation (Halted Detroit's street car and bus rvice was halted at 4 a. m. today v a strike of 5,200 AFL motor ach and trolly operators and'the early two million persons in the etroit area were inconvenienced 0 disorder was reported as large uads of police were detailed at Trh:ﬂms Schools remained open m.mkjihy some 13,000 . children ‘:'vmg;'\q ride in school buses ;i‘]‘\\'avi( (12";. }{he DetrOi.t street A sﬁokocnﬁ';‘rwl rfnen:iq Jagamated A:~ e 5 iy o ssociation of Street :«0.('1“" Railway and Motor g”‘}:mf:{lnloyeg of America said 3('ll'”o4l']{: ]'?nd company -were and, 'l‘;x((i on the wage de -1 18 cent ;IIZ:IO?,had demanded d ‘~t“h-rdwui(g‘- V{aae increase boy’ ofter L 8 jected the com olier of a 15-cent hike. ilhis Horse Wanfs " nions For Sure His Hamburger ATLANTA, April 1 — (AP) — tale of a horse ordering a ham- Irger and complaining later the “nd order fajled to have onions ' It won approval on this Apf}l ol's Day from two Georgia edi- The Anderson (8. k) Indeper}d 't cited thig varn in an editorial: The horse entecadt 3 GN6 and dereq g hamburger with onions. 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This airview of the eruption was taken by Tom Shafer, Acme Newspictures-NEA Service cameraman from an Army plane fiy jne directlv ever the. mountain range. Crippling Of Agency Feared: House Works To Save OPA - WASHINGTON, April - I—(AP)—Administration. leaders.in the House worked behind the scenes to day in an effort to save OPA from crippling cuts in its powers. Their effort is based on the belief that the agency is certain to be shorn of some authority in legislation now being written to extend price controls beyond June 30. : ; What the leaders fear is that the trimming may get out of hand if very much of it is dene on the. House floor. . ‘ Hence they hope some sort of compromise can be agreed upon which will be acceptable to the Banking Committee. That group began closed sessions today in an effort to draft a bill. Seek Concessionrs Some of the key administration officials disclosed that they have conferred with OPA leaders in an attempt to reach an agreement now on some concessions. Likewise, these officials—who asked not to be named—reported they have discussed such conces sions with a group of southern Democrats and others favoring sharp cuts in -OPA’s authority. These discussions were coupled with please for agreement in the interest of party harmony. The Democratic leaders have been very upset over the south erners’ sharp break from the party in recent major votes on housing and labor legislation. They told a reporter, however, that they expect much greater un ity from now on, with many of the Dixie Democrats facing pri mary_ electicn tests soon.. Southerners Hit Many of the southerners were called to task bystheir local news | papers recenfly after they were ;identified publicly as appointees to a coalition committee on OPA iheaded by Rep. Hartley (R.-N. J.) ' Whether. the administration leaders can get OPA chiefs to yield ground remains to be seen. OPA 'Administration Paul Porter and Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles both told the banking g:ommittee last week that weaken ing amendments might loose a spiraling inflation, If a compromise can be reached, however, it will be submitted to friendly members of the banking group with the hope that it can be worked into whatever legisla ' tion the committee finally drafts. Chairman Spenece (D.-Ky.) told newsmen it probably will be 106 days to two weeks before a bill is completed. WEATHER ATHENS AND VICINITY Clear and warmer tonight and Tuesday. GEORGIA: Clear or nartly cloudy skies and slightly wargner this afternoon, to niggt and Tuesday. TEMPERATURE Hihat . . ... 0, .78 Eotwest'. .., .. .. ... 040 B ... e B Nomaat.... e 08 . RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .: .. .00 Total since April 1 .. ... .00 Deficit since April 1 .... .08 Average April rainfall ... 3.93 Total since January 1 ....19.84 Excess since January 1 .. 439 Full Associated Press Service ~ Athens, Ga., Monday, April 1, 1946. | Hoover Says Famine | Worst In Finland ! HELSINKI, April I—(AP}-— | Herbert Hoover, head of an Am erican commission investigating {European food conditions, tolc !reporters today that Finland's food Irations can be maintained at .thei: { present level until the end ot June, but that thereafter there will be a shortage of 40,000 to 50,- 000 tons of grain until the end ol September when the new harvest is reaped. Hoover, who arrived here yes "terday by plane from Warsaw, said conditions in Poland were ,the worst he had seen thus far in Europe and that a study by Am erican experts showed “over 2. 600,000 children are terribly sub normal from undernorishment.” Yanks In China 'To Be Reduced SHANGHAI, April 1 —(AP)— Deactivation of the United States Army in the China theater May 1 was announced tcday by Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer upon instructions from the joint chiefs of staff in Washington. S ~ This will leave: 3,060 to 4,000 U. S. Army personnel in Caina to carry on with the military ad- visory group headed by Gen. George C. Marshall #nd to serve on the cease fire truce teams and aid with repatriation ana similar residual duties. mThbﬁseiﬂgures were announced by Wedemeyer. He said only (Continued on Page Three.) WAR DEPARTMENT REPORTED TO HAVE DECIDED TO DO AWAY WITH CAVALRY BY EDWARD E. BOMAR WASHINGTON, Aprill—(AFP) —Military men hearg with sen timental regret today that tne War Deartment has decided to abolish the Cavalry as a sepa rate branch of the Aumy. Taere was no official confirm ation but service publications re port that general army reorgani zation proposal awaiting Presi dent Truman’s approval calls for merging the horse oulfits with the‘armored force. = = ‘' Trends in World War II were 211 in that direction. Fast moving Cavalry reconnaisssnce outfits fought colorfully on several front, but they travelled in licht tanks and armored cars rather than oa norscback. The First Cavalty Division fought on foot in the Pacific. and negro trocper; cf the Sec ond Cavalry Divisicn were em ployed in service units after the Nerth Africa landing. The horse Cavalry .did see some action, taough, in the Chi. na-India-Burma thater. Thers the 124th Regimenial Combat RIGHT-WINGERS CLAIM VICTORY IN GREEK VOTE A'THENS, April 1. — (AP) ~ Leaders 0f the Conservative Pop ulist party claimed a victory to day in Greece’ Sunday elections and declared the size of the vote was an overwhelming defeat for Communists and other lefi-wing parties who had waged a cam paign for the voters to stay away from the polls. The election possibly paved the way for the eventual return tc the throne of King George 11. The press ministry announced that out of 272,855 votes cast in 499 precincts in different parts of Greece, the Populists received 272,855 votes; the national bloc— a cpalition of National Unionists, Social Democrats and Venizelist Liberals — 67,578 votes, and the middle-of-the-road Liberals 49,- 790 votes. Unofficial tabulations indicat ed, however, that the Populists would gain a clear cut majority of the 354 parliamentary seats. From 65 to 75 percent of the total electorate balloted in com paratively heavy voting, it was estimated, only 62 percent of the voters participated in 1936, the last time Greeks voted. Clashes between Communists and government forces resulted in 20 deaths, most of which oc curred Friday and Saturday. Order prevailed in most sections of the country during the actual voting. P Returns showed that balloting was heavy, despite a Russian suppogted leftist campaign 1o boycott the polls in protest against the holding of elections at this time. Left wing elements had declined to enter candidates in the election, which was the first in Greece since 1936. L Typhus Epidemic Takes Big Toll 0f Nips In Osaka OSAKA, JAPAN, April I—(AP) —The largest typhus epidemic which has confronted the United States army during World War 1I has broken out among Japanese ~ivilians in the Osaka Area. Maj. Gen. Charles L. Mullins, ir., comander of the 25th, said 3,871 cases were reported in Osa ka alone and 7,113 in the 12th prefecture. The death rate has Yeen eight percent of the reported cases. But, Mullins pointed out, Al though the entire fourth Infan try regiment has been thrown in to the campaign only three typhus cases have broken out among G. I’s and all three cases have already been discharged from the hospital. Mass dusting of the Osaka popu lation and innoculation on large scale, has been underway for some time, Mullins said, with Americans supervising Japanese performing the work. Smallpox Spreads SEATTLE. April {—(AP) — Four Seattle hespitals barred all visitorg today as two new cases of smallpox were reported, bringing to 24 ths number of cases in Seattle and its suburbs. The death toll from tae epidamic standg at five. team which stemmed from 2 Texas National Guard outfit op erated. It remaing the Army’s oniy such unit, - } Men familiar with War De partment planning for the atom ii«- age are inclined ig doubt taat the reorganization pian contem )piates putiing the Aimy’s re 'maining horses cut iu pasture. 'Rather they think it will limit ‘horse Cavalry uniis to a few out fits traineq for specialized tac tics in rugged terrain. Abolition of the Cavalry as & separate branch would be the final caapter in a spectacula® military history studded by such names as Robert E. TLee, George A. Custer, and George S. Patton. Lee resigned frem command of the olg Second Regiment in 1261 as a ILieutesant Colonel to lead the armies of the South. The Seventh was under Custer’s command at the 1876 battle ors lThe Little’ Big Horn. Patton re o otfully took leave of orses. _[buf employed Cavalry dash In winning renown as the best E {Continued on page seven.) ESTABLISHED 1832, Soviet Payment Of UNO Dues Boosts Hope ui:Early Accord Black Markef In Meat Running Wild, Is Charge WASHINGTON, April I.— AD) —An attorney for small packers told the Senate Agriculture Ccmi mitiee today that “price control on meat has broken down and the black market is running wild.” ralter Laßoe, jr., counsel for the National Independent Meat Packers Association, which he said had 700 members, recom mended that price controls be removed from meat, g “There is no real price conirol on meat and livestock now,” he deelared. If price checks were removed, Laßoe said there would probably be an ‘“abnormal- increase” in prices for a month or two, “just long enough to knock out the black market.” e Asked by Senator Ellender (D.- La.) how much ‘“abmormal in crease” there would be, Laßoe gaid he was not in a position to estimate. . Laßoe said, however, that abol ition -of meat subsidies would necessitate an increase of five to six cents a pound in the price of beef and a somewhat smaller in crease on pork. : Senator Connally ~(D.-Texas) interjected that he favored abol ishing the subsidies. | ] don't see why the govern ment should pay for my steak,” Connally commented. o « Chairman Thomas (D,-Okla.)Y said it would be decided after the hearing whether “any legislation or resolution is necessary.” ‘ He announced that once the House has acted on price control extension legislation, he will ask’ the Agricuiture Committee to look qver the measure though the form handling will be done by the Manking Committee. Canning Sugar Is Not Available At Board Offices Somebody heard a report anda then the offices of the local Price and Ration Board were deluged this morning. : The Board hastens to point out that canning sugar is obtained by using Spare Stamp No. 9 in Ra tion Boox ¢ ‘ The Board emphasized that lo cal price boards have no part in the canning sugar program this season and asks that those desir~ ing informai.on on canning sugar contact or write the OPA Dis trict Office at 445 West Peach tree, Atlanta. ‘ The report had it that cannin? sugar was obtainable at the Board office, which is entirely erron eous, but certainly did drum up business . this mqrning. Kiwanians To See Oil Bowl Game Pictures Tuesday Members of the Kiwanis Club will be entertained at their reg ular weekly meeting Tuesday afternoon with the movies of the oil Bowl football game, in which the Georgia Bulldogs defeated Tulsa University’s eleven. The meeting will be held in the Holman Hotel and Line Coach J. B. Whitworth will ex plain the action on the screen. Many Planes Are Being Ruined By Weather, Looting CLARK FIELD, P. 1. Apri 1c (AP)—Milliong of dollars worth of American war planes, lined up in neat rows along runways Of an abandoned Japansse airstrip here, are rapidly being converted into junk by weather and looters. Two correspondents spent hours Sunday, without authority and without being stopped 0! ouestioned, wandering through the two-mile collectioh of planes, whaich range from Mustangs to Liberators. Rapid demobilization not only ceprived U. S. Air Forces of the personnel to keep the planes air worthy—it also reduced the num_ rer of men availabie to guard them on the ground. That meant - that anything from fishing tackles so new ma raine-guns was available to the first taker. Gunners’ plexinglass bubbles have been removeq from tu-rets. letting tropical Trains ruin delegate instruments and farjoment. 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Here al Swifi and Company plant, two lonely sides of beef hang in the cold storage cooler which once was full. 5 Ex-Ohio Governor Dies Entertaining KENT, 0., = April 1-=(AP) — Former Gov. Martin L. Davey, 61, one of Ohio’s most colorful poli ticians, died of a heart attack while entertainifig”guesis at his home vesterday. Death came as he added up scores of a bridge game. A business man as well as politician, Davey built his father’s tree surgery business into a na tion-wide organization, served two. terms as Ohio’s' governor, 1935 to 1939, and represented the state’s.l4th_district for four terms in Congress. g o Nazi Movements Still Brewing, Army Declares FRANKFURT, Germany, April I—(AP) — American intelligence officers said today that several Nazi subversive movements ‘still were plotting against the Allies in Germany and that = Sunday's roundup of nearly 1,000 -Hitler youth conspirators was “only the beginning.” The officers said counter-es pionage agents were working ‘“day and night” to break up the last vestiges of Nazi resistance which came into the open with the weekend sweep on followers of captured Arthur Axmann, former head of the Hitler youth move ment. The eperation against the Ax mann group is still going on, it was said, although only remnants (Continued on Pape Three) TRUMAN PROCLAMATION CALLS UPON U. 5. 70 DO HONOR TO ARMY SATURDAY That the Army continues iil active - service to the nation in occupying parts of enemy coun tries to insure the establishment of a lasting peace, is pointed cut in an official proclamation by President Harry S. Truman, in calling on the nation to observe Army Day on Saturday, Aptjil 8. ¢ also remind our citizens that our Army, charged with tae responsibility for dcfending the United States and oui- territerial possession, can cairy out its. du ty only with the full support of cur peole,” said the President’s proclamation. Army Day will be observed In Atheng with a parade and a pro gram of addresses, under tenta tive plans. The parade will wind tarough™ the business section. starting at 11:30 vo'clock Satur< day' morning, and the speaking will® follow. S e Committee To Meet Final details for obgervance of the cay wjll hel made Wednesday afternoon « when a committee named by Mavor Bob McWhorter will meet and map tLe complete plans. Serving on the committee i« Col. H. E. Mann as_chairman, ¥ B. Braswell Waior William Firor. Dean John E Drew-y. Rev. David Cady Wright. L. O. Price, ir.. Ned Blackmon, Tom FPenland and Li. R. 8 Tvo. Inelnded in the parade will be tae ROTC upits at bothl the Uni- A. B. C. Paper —Single Copy, 3c—s¢ Sunday University Meniors Will Parficipate In Education Meel Five members of the Univer sity of Georgia College of Educa tion faculty will appear on the program of the South Atlantic Conference on Rural Life and Education which will be held at the Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, on April 4 and 5, Miss Jane Fran seth, University director of sup ervisory training and program chairman; has announced. 5 . +Miss Franseth, who is vice president of the National Educa tion Association Department of ‘Rural Education, the organization sponsoring this two-day confer ence, will preside over the first session Thursday morning, April 4, Dr. 0. C. Aderhold, professor of rural and vocational education and director of the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board, will be the panel leader in a discussion on “What Kind of Schools and Related Community Services Do Rural People Want?” at the Thursday morning session. Miss Neéll Winn, assistant di rector of supervisory trainidg at the University, and Professor Ralph Tolbert, associate professor of vocational education, will lead group discussions at the sceond session Thursday afternoon on the general theme of “Developing the Program of the Rural School As An Educational Service Cen (Continued on Page Two) versity of Georgia and Athens High School ang the bands of both institutions, all municipal ¢nd eampus veterans organiza ticns, Boy Scouts of America, the Red Cross and alt attached units, and others = The proclamaticn of President Truman in callihg on the nation to pay especial acnor to ‘‘our Army, to the soldie:s of World War 11, and to the soldierg who defended our limerty in others wars,” pointed ouf that “the Army of the United States hé&s perform ed 'gallantly its part, in magni ficent cooperaiion with our Al lies, in accomplishing tae utter defeat in the past vear of the enemy nations tbat threatened cur freedom and required us 10 defend it in the most terrible war in history”” = Remember Sacrifices President Truma= also said, «T yurge my fellow cilizeng to oe mjndful of the Army's needs, to the end thatsour so.diers over seax g 0 not lack the ‘means of performing effective.y their con tinuing duties, and in order that the hardship of their separation fiom home and loved ones may be elleviated 'in every possible way. 1 know that sur people wiil always remembe: the soldiers v ho nave suffeveq thal we might remain free, and the families of those who have sactificed their lives for our cause.” : HOME COUNCIL AWAITS ANSWER TO NOTE ON IRAN ISSUE NEW YORK, April I—(AP) — Russia’s payment in full of her dues in the United Nations gave a boost today to hopes that the Security Council will soon be run ning on a full team basis. : It has been one man short since Wednesday when Russian dele gate Andrei Gromyko walked out in protest against the Council’s re fusal o defer the Iranian question until April 10. ) Members of the other ten dele gations could count three develop- REDS PACK UP TEHRAN, Aprii I—(AP) —A U. S. Embassy spokes= man said today reports from Tabriz indicated = that the Russian brmy was making “ostentatious” preparations to evacuate that city, capital of the semi-gutonomoys Iran ian province of Azerbaijan, The spokesman said no actual movement of troops or materials had been reported in Tabriz but that “equipment and vehicles are being con centrated, apparently in pre pration for evaucatipn”. An official Iranian source said the Russians had evacuat ed all highway check posts between Tehran and points im ‘mediately south of Tabriz, but that the self-proclaimed gov ernment of Azerbaijan had opened a new control station - B e e previous frontier post of Khorramdarah. e ments in favor of their hope that Russia might end what one' of ficial called a “temporary ab sence,” and resume its place on the Council when that body re convenes Wdnesday, These were: . 3 Developments 1. The nws from Moscow, re leased by Secretary-General Try gve Lie, that Russia had paid in full her $1,723,000 assessment for the United Nations working capi tal. She was the first big power to do so. 2. Boris Stein, alternate Russian delegate, has been working stead ily—and most congenially, other members said—on the Council committee which is drafting rules for the conduct of business. - 3. Similarly, the Russians have taken part in meetings of the mili tary staff committee which is working on preliminary plans for an international force to keep the peace, i “All these are evidence that adé up all to the good,” said one dele gation official, who withheld the use of his name. This man ex pressed the opi the Russians have not be '%in their gelf chosen exi#@ frony the Council., There is st! fact that Mas cow, and Tehrar, have not replied vet to the Council’s request of last Friday fop clarification of the Iranian occupation matter. The (Continned o Fage Two.) Body Of Covingion Girl Is Found Weighted In Creek COVINGTON, Ga, April 1 — (AP)—Sheriff W, G. Benton re ported today the finding of the weighted-down body of a 12-year old girl in a creek five miles north of here. - ¥ “There is no doubt from the position of the body, and the way the blocks were placed, that the child was murdered and did not meet death accidentally,” the sheriff said. The girl, Ruth Patrick, had been missing from her home in Porter dale, near here, since March 8. The sheriff said a textile work er who lives near the creek was being held for investigation. He added that no formal charges in the case would be made before a 1 InGUeSt Wincn Ras BaeN Sthtae uled for tomorrow morning. : Asserts linnocence The sheriff said that the man held protested he had no knowl edge of how the girl met her death. e : Sheriff Benton added, however, that the man was questioned soon after the girl disappeared . and admitted, that he had been with her the night before. The sheriff said the girl was last seen in Oxford, a town near here, on March 8, apparently headed in the direction of Atlanta, which would have taken her to ward the creek. Earlier in the day, the sheriff said investigators had learned, the girl obtained a small amount of money from a bank on the repre sentation she had been sent for it by her mother. The girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Louis Patrick, are cotion mili workers and live in Porterdale.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, April 01, 1946, Home Edition, Image 1