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Newspaper Page Text1 LOCAL COTTON {INCH COTTON ...... 21 3-8 Vol 114, No. 104. lE. .t C t. [raws 10U Uelegates . . . & District Meeting To Close Tonight - with Barbecue, Address By President BY HOPE CHILDS ’ \nual Georgia District Convention of Civitan International neared Cetion of the day’s business agenda here early this gfternoon { o officers still to be named. More than 109 officials and dele oo from 22 State Civitan clubs had been in session since the 9a. g ation at the Y. W. C. A, building. Foreion Ministers g ¢ ‘R Seek Settlement 0f Ruhr Dispute PARIS May 13—(AP)—A compromise on French demands ior detachment of the Ruhr Ar cenal from Germany appeared pos “ible today as the Big Four For eign Ministers reassembled after o day off in an effort to resolve their remaining points of disagree ment—including the Italian peace treaty A well-informed French source clid the germ of a possible com promise was contained in a Re cent British proposal reportedly quggesting some form of federation ior the Ruhr region, which might even include part of the Rhineland. The French source said a Feder .ted Ruhr similar to the setup the American occupation forces in stituted in greater hesse in the U. S. zone of nc\cupation might meet rench approval so long as the ‘ederated state was not under omplete control of a centralized rerman authority in Berlin. In any event, this informant con ii.ontinued on Page Two) WEATHER ATHENS AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and contin ued cool tonight. Tuesday cloudy and mild with scat tered thundershowers. GEORGIA — Increasing cloudiness and mild temper atures this afternoon and to night. Scattered showers in south and west portions to night and in extreme south portion this afternsen. Tues day, mostly cloudy with scat tered showers and thunder storms, not much change in temperatures Tuesday except slightly cooler in north por tion. TEMPXRATURE Highest ..7 2hdpiadsa il Lowest. i iiiue s e SRI Mean &/ i s e Normal KTI S e T RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours . :.. Trace Total since May 1 .. ... 27 Deficit since May' 1 .. .. 118 Average May rainfall .... 3.59 Total since January 1 ....25.43 Excess since January 1 .., 592 Talnadoe Has Field To Himgelf n In Avacacy OF State “White Primary” By BENETT DELOACH ATLANTA, May 13—(AP)—It ooked like a sure bet today that, imong tne gubernatorial candi lates, FEugene Talmadge would ave the field to himself in idvocating a white: democratic rimary Talmadge, carrying the torch .of vhite supremacy, says the wh}te rimary question is the prime_ls ue in the campaign. He promises 0 restore primaries in which only vhite democrats would wote. He ays there are legal ‘ways to do his. All the other qualified candi lates except Hoke O‘Kelley haye ldd something to say on the white rimary lesue. E D. Rivers of Lakeland, who © seeking another term, has gone ' record simply with this state nent: “It is the law. Negroes will James V. Carmichael of Ma ®ta has come out with this and: ,T'”\ duestion of who shall vote "' e primary has been decided 'V Ihe Supreme Court of the Unit ‘' Stales. T have no power to Re “lse that Decision—nor does any :‘ 'son in Georgia.. Those who tfy ) Make this question an issue in ' tAmpaign are merely throwing Fyf"‘l”fif‘\('l'eon to divert your at ”‘_(}“{j from their distasteful re rds, S hF (DOC Everritt of Waycross, s bid for Governorship, laid wh this assertion: i have come to the conclusion at there is no negro or white T—— e ; s 58 Nazis To Hang ,\r;,‘{‘\(:HAU. Germany, May 132 oA gereral military court h’«'» sentenced 58 operators Ot . Dotorius Mauthausen exter hf}dthmn camp to hang. Three '1:1: S were given life terms. W 61 defendants were sen iced after fire Americon ‘eourt hoo them guilty of murdering . ,"h‘:"l’:f of victims imprisoned aifns AZls in persecution cam ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Installation of officers by In !tcrnalionai President Leßoy D. Suure, Dayten. Ohio, was sched uied to enqd the all-day business meeting in time for the six o’clock barbecue dinner. Mayor Welcomes Mayor Bob McWhorter wel comed the club men to Athens lwith a mid-morning address. fol- Ilowing ceremonial opening of tae convention. Julian Sipple, Sa vannah, responded to the Mayor’s address, cong-atulating the city aind the three host clubs of Ath iens, Watkinsville and Winter iv"lle on arrangements and ac commodations made for the meeting and delegates. - Rev. E. N. Anthony, Watkins v.lle, delivered the invocation «nd Hoyt Robertson, Ataens, led the attending Civitans in sing ing “America” to open the meet mg. e . After announcement of com mittee appoints, L. 8. Simms, Waynesboro, read the Necrology Report. ~ Isolation of delegates, ratifi cation of new District Constitu ien ang By-i Laws and annual report of officers foilowed in quick succdssion to dispose of the morning’s agenda. J. B. Tan=- rer, retiring president of the Athens Civitans and chairman of the convention, closed the morn ing session with announcements concerning the afternoon’s bus iness. Wives of delegates were enter tained during the morning by a tour of Athens, escotted by lead e:¢ from the three host-clubs. The women joined the men at the 12:30 p. m., luncheon, and then were free so rest, sadp or vicit until the dinner hour. Election of Officers Committee reports on essay contests resumed the business of the convention at two o’clock thig afternoon. Introduction and adoption of various resolutions consumed the greater part of the” afternoon, with election of offi- | cers slated for late afternoon. | Naming of delegates to the In tetnational Convention of Civi tans also awaited disposal be-| fo:e adjournment of the daY'Si business meeting. Mr. Sauer, after installing new i ctficers in the afternoon, Wwas scheduled to be principal Speak-‘ er -at the barbecue dinner to night. Judge Henry H. West of he Western Judicial Circuit will preside at the dinner, angd. Rev. George M. Acree, Decatur, chap lain of the Decatur club and pastor of First Methodis¢ Churcha PAS Continued on Page Two.) | issue in this campaign, but instead, the issue is whether we want a 100 per cent democracy, or part demo cracy, and a part of the totalitarian form of government.” } Talmadge declared “I welcome the support of all white Georgians” in maintaining the White Demo craic Primary. His Son, Herman, has advocated that, if necessary two different party primaries be held—one for white voters and the other for negroes. i Meanwhile, two of the cand idates Rivers and Carmichael, cast about for reaction to their opening campaign speeches over the week end. ‘ Rivers, wearing his political trademark of ‘a black tie, opened in Waycross with a defense of his past two administrations and ask ed for a chance to finish the work he had started. ! Carmichael, making his first bid for a state-wide office, called for honest and progressive govern ment paid for only by available state money. | ~ Talmadge beings, his campaign ‘at Lyons Saturday. Rivers ad dresses a rally in Atlanta Monday night at 9 o’clock over W. A. G. A. | STUDENT.SOLDISHS PRESENT LADIES: Athens Highß. 0. T. (. To Honor Sponsors At Ceremony Here Wednesday Morning - By BILL SIMPSON Plans for Sponsor Day, annua]! event of of the Athens High School R.O.T.C. Unit, have been‘ completed by the military = de partment. The date, when the! girls chosen as sponsors for the different units will be presented! to the cadets and the public, has been set for Wednesday, May 15,' at 10:45 a. m. I ~ Medal winners, honor cadets,| and honor units will be praentl ed at the same time. 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Top photo shows the wreckage of one of the giant PB-4Y’s after it crashed in a field. Bottom phote shows rescue workers searching the wreckage of the second plane for bodies of the crew.—U. S. Navy Photos. Georgia’s P i rgia’s Progress Requires . - 3 , Revision Of Revenue System, . . . - University Bulletin Declares Georgia’s future progress will require a revision of the tax sys tem so as to produce more revenue, according to Dr. R, P, Brooks of the University of Georgia in the foreword of a bulletin just issued by the University. The bulletin is part of a series prepared by the Institute for the Study of Georgia Problems. Dr. Brooks’s statement, in part, follows: “In December, 1944, I was asked by a representative of the Southern Regional Committee of the Social Science Research Council to join a group of Southern economists in a cooperative study of the taxation of manufacturing in this area. For a number of reasons I was glad to accept the invitation. For one thing I had/ been associated earlier in the year with the Agricultural and In dustrial Development Board set up by Governor Arnall in the spring of that year and had become convinced that the ambitious plans under way for the development of Georgia in all phases of her culture and economy would necessitate a complete revision of the tax structure. I did not believe it possible under the pres ent revenue system to finance far-reaching improvements in such matters as education at all levels, health, care of the dependent and delinquent classes, and road building. The time seemed ripe for a thoroughgoing study of our governmental costs with the specific purpose in mind of suggesting changes in the tax system that would cause it to produce more revenue. . “The commiitee of cooperating Southern economists was duly orgdnized under the chairmanship of Prof. James W. Martin, Di rector of the Bureau of Business Research in the University of Kentucky, and to a limited degree the present report follows the program laid down by the managing committee of the group. The cooperating economists were left free to amplify their state studies in any way that seemed desirable and it was understood that the results of the several studies might be publishe¥l inde pendently. It turned out that a comparison of the relative tax burdens laid by the Southern states upon enterprise involved only a limited number of specifically business taxes, such as the cor poration income tax and the licenses. Part IV of this study covers that matter. Of course, differences in rates and in the adminis tration of all taxes are important to business men, so that the other parts of this study are not without interest to them. How ever, the major portion of the bulletin is not concerned directly with the taxation business, but is intended as an overall analysis of the revenue sources of Georgia. Part 11, the most significant section, is given to that matter. ‘ ' “During the progress of the study I have become mcre_asm;:ly conscious of a striking change in the‘psycholoﬂv of Georgia peo ple about the quality of their public scrvi(‘.cs.. There can be little doubt, I believe, that Georgians now definitely desire to forge ahead in all those state public activities that measure a common wealth’s status as a civilized community. From all sides and i_rom all elementis of the citizenry the demayg‘g are loud for rt.evolutwnt ary improvements in education;}l f'aml'ltxes, in the _cqulpmf‘r‘n' ‘QI eléemos_ynary and correctional institutions, in ho.spxyal faCllltl(is.‘ and.in road building. A formidable array of evidence could be adduced in support of this statement.” Betty Bowden has been chosen as regimental sponsor by the com ‘mander, Cadct Colonel Paul Chapman; Jackie Wells, instruc tor’s sponsor with Cadet Lieuten !ant Colone] Woody Ansley; and Carolyn Newton staff sponsor, !wiu Cadet Lieutenant Colonel iHugh Firor. | First Battalion sponsor will be | Joyce Cook with Cadet Lieuten |a‘lt Colonel Joe Pendergrass, Se- Iccnd Battalion sponsor will be Ruth Wellman wth Cadet Lieu 'tenant Ceclone] Richgz ‘Cofer. | Company Spons : l Company sponsors are as fol- L (Continued on Page Twa) | Athens, Ga., Monday, May 13, 1946. Freight Rate Fight . . To Continue, . . .... ATLANTA. May 13 —(AP)— Chsirman Walter R. McDonald of th» Georgia Public Service Com mission said today he would seek recpening of a case in which the Interstate Commerce Commiss ion rejected a proposal for equal freight rates on Southern ship ments of fresh meat and packing house products. Although the Commission’s or ders gives Southern shippers substantia] reductions, Mc¢Donald said “I do not think that the South hould accet anything short of equality with th North - -{Continued on Fage iwo.) (armichael T ‘ (armichael To Be iI " ge | Into Gridiron Club Jimmy Carmichael, candidate for governor from Marietta, is among the eight prominent Geor gians who will be initiated into i(}ridimn at toe University ! Thursnay evening, it is announc ed by officials of the secret hon or society. In addition to these newly elected honorary mem ‘l‘e“s, ten student neophytes will ke initiated. ' Others to be inducted into the ciub are: J. Thomas Askew, director of l»‘he University Veterans Division II)". Josiah Crudup, Gainesville, { president of Brenay College; Joe Engle, Chattanooga, Tenn., pres icent of the Chattanooga Look cuils; Harley Longdale, jr., Val dosta, naval stores executive; i McKibben Lane, Macon, member of Lane, Turpin law firm; Mau ‘is Block, Selma, Ala., president of the Selma Chamber of Com 'merce; and Ben Fortson, Wasga-" lington, secretary of state. 1 Students being initiated are: Abit Massey, Athens; Colon Stew {art, Crawfordville; Elmo Haster. iCuthbert; Frank Mpyers, Ameri ‘ (Continued on Pagy Two) 1 ————————— . ———— 'World War | Ace { . ‘Sees Son Die 'As Plane Wrecks LANCASTER S. C, May 13— - (AP)—Col. Elliot, White Springs, 1"1‘(-xtilc magnate and ace of World i;War 1, watched his son, a flying | instructor of Worid War 11, die {in a plane crash yesterday along }}with the pilot. ! The son Leroy Spring 11, and 'Sindney B. Mahaffey, manager of -the airport here were in the | plane that ¢rashed and caught 'qfi: e. Col. Springs and John Tay | ; los of Lancaster were in the glider {treiling the plane. ] Taylor, piloting the glider, quickly cut it away from the lv.’ashina piane, and neither he inor Col. Springs was hurt. Col. ISmir gs also served in.the last jwar, and was stationed at Mor= | ris Field Charlotie, N. C. Young Spring was an instruc tor at Shaw Field, Sumter. Since ’hl§ release from the Army Air Forces, the _2l-year-old aviator !was studying at Georgia Tech. | i MUSICAL PROGRAM ' IS FEATURE FOR ' KIWANIS MEETING | . A musical fprogram will be I festured at the regular weekly | meeting of the Kiwanis Club iTuesday afternon at one o’clock iin the Holman Hotel with five young ladies, students at Coor 'dinste College being presented. . The program was arranged by (Walter S. Martin, chairman of j programs for May, and all mem bers aie urged to aitend. | Truce Gave Immunity To Triai, Nips Claim Warlords Argue That Surrender Terms " Guaranteed They Would Not Be Tried TOKYO, May 13.—(AP)—Argument that Japan did not surrender unconditionally and does not have to obey every Allied command was presented today to the Far East military tribunal by the chief defense counsel for Japan's major war criminals. Majority Of Miners | " Return To Pits; ) Lewis Talks Peace WASHINGTON, May 13—(AP) | —Coal-short = America breathed | son:ewhat easier today as the bulk of John L. Lewis's 400,000 | striking miners—except for hold- | outs in Pennsylvania—headed to their pits under a two-week truce. I'his was the over-all picture: 1. Rstrictions on freight, ex- | press and parce] post shipments | came offlat mijinjght, hours before { the ifirst full crews descended | into the mines to end the 42-day | snutdown. . '. 2. Other conservation meas~ | ures—including tifgnht controls | over ail coai 10 be produced dur-; g the truce—remained in ef -leCi, s 3. The government prodded! ‘miners and operators alike to, yreach a swift ,agreement on a [ new contract, but both sides’ said | privately there was little hope of weeung the Weanesaay aeaaline nxed oy President Truman. ! 4. Congress' shuwed no inclina tor to pack down ifrom Its ae termination to seek a legislative barrier to future crises growing 'out of labor disputes. 'L'he Senate *turred its full attention to writ ing a strike control bill. ‘t'he attitude of some 30,000 Pennsylvania Miners introduced a jarring note into Lwis's abck to-work appeal. 'They voted to apide by their traditional “no contract, no work” policy. The United mine workers chiel asked his men to return to their jcbs for the next 12 work days as a “contrbution x X x x to our nation’s economy.” In this connection, the solid fuels administration assumed cortrol of the entire output of the truce period, originally estimated at from 20,000,000 to 25,200,000 tone. The agency gave top priority to railroads, utilities laundries, hos pitals, food processing plants, daries, bakeries and refrigeration plants. In the next preferentia] class wiil be industrial users who will receive actual daily vequire ments and nothing more. Domes tic consumers in distress or hardship will form third group with preferred claims. The office of defese transpor taton, mindfu] of the potential results of its railroad freight em bargo lifted that retsriction but retained the 25 percent cut in railroad passenger service, Plans to make it a 50 percent reduction by Wednesday were abandoned, The coal contract negotiations stiil were deadlocked on Lewis’s claim for $3,000,000 in back holi day pay. ] ; : j 4 i : i (r‘rt; é 3 0 :- : | § wod é ' 3 BT N % 5 0 e ‘ L - Z e o s e e oy’ 3 S N BW" el ~ Bl " P L e T e, T o i & b T R, I o L g 8 u.f s R Y Ww«?ﬂk w P i, S e eR S W L O ROCKET OFF TO STRATOSPHERE Belching flame and smoke amid a great cloud of dust, a Ger man V-2 rocket rises ‘rom its platform at White Sands Proving Ground, N. M., where Army Ordnance officers are testing the deadly missile. When the rocket was fired it reached an esti mated altitnde of 75 miles inte the stratosphere, = A. B. C. Paper —Single Copy, 3c—s¢ Sunday Attorney Ichiro Kiyose’s chal lenge that the court lacks authority to try the 28 defendants on 55 counts was taken under advise ment as the tribunal adjourned until Tuesday morning. i The Allies’ chief prosecutor, Joseph B. Keenan, labeled Ki yose's Argument as the “height of absurdity” and offered documen tary evidence that Japan’s surren der was “utterly without condi dion.” Kiyose said that in giving the tribunal jurisdiction over crimes against peace and crimes against humanity “General MacArthur is exercising authority which he does not posses and the Japanese people are not bound to obey that order.” | l Japan’s top statesmen, Klyose said, agreed to surrender in the | belief they would not be prosecut-. |ed as war criminals. ‘ | The attorney declared that in | I|the surrender last September Ja-| {pan Pecognized that she would o ibey orders and. directives of the lallied powers but only those in lacordance with the Potsdam De l'claration. f ’ Chief Prosecutor Joseph Keenan declared that examination of Jap 'anese communications delivered to ! |the Swiss Government at the time 'of surrender would show it was lwithout condition, | |- Keenan turned to the surrender ;ultimatum prepared by the Allies at the Potsdam conference last July for further support for his argument. { From Paragraph 13, he head: “We call upon the Government of ~Japan to proclaim rniow the uncon !ditional surrender of all Japanese | Armed Forces . . ." | And from Pargraph six:“There |must be ,eliminated for all time |the authority and influence of | those who have deceived and mis |led the people of Japen into em barking on world conquest . . .” '| Kiyose took a difierent view of ‘|the Postsdam declaration. Guilty lof violating accepted laws and cus toms of war. But he argued that no provision was made for charges included in the present indictment whieh hold the defendants res ponsible for inciting war and for mistreatment of allied peoples, Germany’s surrender was wholly unconditional, Kiyose said, but the Potsdam agreement “presented an I (Continued on Page Two) Wheat Pinch Arouses Talk Of Rationing Food, Bread Included, As In Wartime WASHINGTON, May 13.—(AP)—The wheat pinch began so hurt at home today with one big flour mill closed as President Truman called in Herbert_Hoover for the first of a series of talks that may answer this question: Will a resort to wartime food rationing-—with bread added to the list for. the first time in American history—be necessary to colve the world famine crisis? Those in favor of suda a step gained powerful new support with word that Stabilization Di rector Chester Bcwles _plans to urge it upon Mr. Truman unless END ONE-PARTY Teo Vie With CIO For South’s Support : By MAX HALL . Associated Press Labor Reporter. ASHEVILLE, N. C., May 13.— (AP)—Southern AFL leaders set out today to destroy the one party system in the South, but the one party that interested them immediately was the party who cui William Green off the air. The great wire-slashing mys tery—the puzzle of the “dead” NBC microphone into which the AFL president shouted strenu ously for 15 minutes Saturday night—prcduced these new devel opments: 1. An Asheville AFL leader who asked to remain unidentified of fered a SIOO reward for capture of the wire-slasher. 2. Asheville police were trying to locate all the electricians who had anything to do with installing the wires, to discover whether they saw any suspicious charac ters in the basement of the city auditorium, where the slashing occurred. 3. Police Chief C. W. Dermid told a reporter: “We have noth ing on which to proceed. The au ditorium was full of people. There were no restrictions on where they should go. That makes it virtually impossible for us to make an identification so the persons responsible.” Endorse Negro Voting The AFL's Southern Labor Conference, which ended yester day, endorsed negro voting in the’ South. ; . approved a policy statement ,saying. “organized labor will make thie right to vote effective (in all Southern states and this ;revolution will end rule by one ‘party in the South.” ' The statmeent declared that “the two-or-more party system is { the only wholesome condition for the development of democratic practices.” (Negroes are voting in some Southern state primaries this year for the first time). ‘ The 2,000 delegates from 12 (Continued on PFage Two.) the present outiook brightens q ickly. 4 Bowles's suggestion, if it 18 made, will call for action by Au gust, according to a highly-plac ed official who asked not to be named. While Hoove: rema:.ned silent cn returning from ‘liis seven week, 35,000-mile giobe girdling fo.u stuls yesierday, no one ex pe:t=d hi 3 x:port tu M. ‘lTtuman today to cast any optimism on the global piciure. On the domestic scene, mean-= while, the closing nf Pillsbury’s «A” Mill at Minneapolis stood out as a grire reminder that the shortage of whneat can well make deep inroads into American eat ing ‘habits. Mill Shut Down ‘Unable to obtain grain for the first time in its 66-year nhistory - the mill shut down Saturday night. Hoy long flour stocks will hold out until bakers and house wives -begin to feel the squeeze remains problematical. This factor undoubtedly fig vred in tue reported decision of Rowles to recommend breaq ra tioning, along with a return to coupons for meat, buster and cheese. Mr. Truman has said repeated= 1y he will not hesitate to order. wartime rationing restored if such. action becomes essential: Thus far, however, he has taken the position that machinery could not be started up again in time to help in the current cri sis, which officials first 2stima trq would last only uitil - this summer’s crops are harvested. Also on the President’s _eb~ sagement list for thig week is Herbert Morris, president of the Biitish Council who arrived by plane . from Lodon yesterday. Dispatches from the British capital said Morrison will ask for meat and fats rationing in this country. T e These dispatches took on ad decd significances in the licht ot the Agriculture Department’s ac tion over the weekend in asking farmers to reduce their pigpro duction this fail by ten percents

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