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DECISION EXPECTED ON OPA EXTENSION TONIGHT
‘Hope Real Show Is As Gpod’
FATAL ACCIBENT CLOUDS SUCCESS
OF REHEARSAL FOR A-BOMB TEST
ABOARD B-29. CIRCLING BIKINI
crew scheduled to drop the atomie bo,mgu?l;e 32%-—(AP)~—The B-28
the }N(‘llfl.u‘_ly today and scorpd “g00d” results wit ;\;/ d{lys.outguessed
after their plane propeller killed an Army Aj practice bomb—
pefore the take off, - 5+ ! ir Forces captain just
- Maj. Gen Roger Ramey of Den
to,ll\:l 'IJ‘PX., who rode the B-29 that
dropped the practice bomb today,
5‘13‘(;;",10 Queen’s day mission from
an air operations point of view
was apparently satisfactory. Final
judgment depends on photographs
and reports.” s ¢ gad
(From the U. S. S. Mt. McKinley,
Associated Press Correspondent
Elton C. Fay quoted the atomic
bomb task force Commander, Vice
Adm. W. H. P, Blandy, as saying
that the experiment was “swell, I
hope the real show is as good as
the rehersal.”’)
Clouds obliterated the target
ships in Bikini Lagoon when the
B-29, piloted by Maj. Woodrow
Swancutt of - Wisconsin Rapids,i
Wis., made its first run. But by
the time the big plane came around ‘
again, the bombardier, Harold H. !
Wood of Bordentown, N. J., was |
able to take advantage of shifting |
clouds to drop his practice bomb |
within thirteen seconds of the,
scheduled time,
(Fay abroad the Mt. McKinley!
said the bomb went off “like a
ball of orange flame bursting close l
to the target ships” in the Bikini
fleet that is to be used on or about |
July 1 when the world’s fourth
atomic bomb actually is dropped.l
The Mt. McKinley was 10 milesl
away but Fay said the bomb ap-,
parently went off at an altitude !
of 1,000 to 1,500 feet between the‘
old battleship, USS Nevada, and
the light Carrier, Independence.)
Before Maj. Swancutt’s plane,'
“Dave’s Dream,” took off, an Army |
Air Forces Captain walked into!
a propeller and was killed, Mem
bers of the crew helped place his
body in an ambulance before tak
ing off one minute late.
The old Nevada, which will be
the main target ship in the actual
atomic bomb test, has baen re—’
named by the men participating in
the preliminaries. They call her
the “Chameleon” because her ori
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CHINESE RED LEADER DECLARES
U.S. FORCES MENACE TO NATION
NANKING, June 24— (AP) —Communist Leader Mao Tse-Tung
declared today the Chinese people believed that U. S. Army and
Navy forces in China “have become a grave menace to the national
peace, security and freedom” of the troubled nation. >
The head of all Chinese Com-
Mmunists issued a statement at his
Yenan headquarters—by far the
strongest criticism yet leveled at
U. S. activities in China—saying
the people felt the departure of
American military forces was
“long overdue.”
It came at a time when the
efforts of Generai Marshall, spe
cial 1. 8§ envoy, to bring the!
government and the Communistsi
together had reached a crucial
stage.
Tension Mounts
Tension had been increased
earlier today when a mob beat
Up a part of Leftist “peace dele
fates” from Shanghai as it step
ped off a train at Nanking's rail
way station. 'The Communists
charged the government’s “secret
bolice” were responsible for the
incident,
Mao asserted that the United
States had given aid only to the
Kuomintang government and
served notice that the Commun-
Ists “are adamantly opposed” to
a bill introduced in Congress ear
lier this month requesting contin
ued U. S. military aid to China.
Since Japan’s surrender, Mao
insisted, United States aid to the
fovernment had “enormously in
creased.” .
He said the stationing of large
U.S. forces in China was “a fun
damental cause of the eventual
outbreak and propagation of civil
war in this, country.”
No Objection :
The Communist leader said no
objection was raised to certain
U S aid at first because the
United States pledged itself to
follow the terms of the Big Three
conference — which declared a
hands-off policy in China by the
big powers—and the Kuomintang!
Promised to halt the civil war.
“The fact is,” Mao . added,
“these promises are now broken,
Consequently, the partv will res
olution oppose American miiltaryl
aid .. . which in fact only inter
feres with - Chinese internat af—'
fairg” !
Ray of Light : |
The only ray of light in thel
Whole tangled situation was an
unconfirmed report that Gener—l
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek hfl.d
aereed to modify somewhat his
demand that the Communists give
Up certain areas they hold in
North China .as a first step to-
Ward peace,
Marshall himself was reported
Eravely concerned by the inci
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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Will
Wilkam 3. Hart, 83,
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Dies In California
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| LOS ANGELES, June 24—
(AP) — William S. Hart, - east
ern~born ‘Wild West’ movie actor
|cef a quarter of a century ago,
_di.ed lagst night of a lingering
infirmity which had ealled his
son home from Wasaington, D.
C.. last month {u enter a court
fight over the dying man’s af
‘fairs.
' The iron-faced hero of many
la movie gun battle died peace
,l'ull,v in a hospiial. His physician,
iD=! H. D. Van Fleet, issued a
!stutemem saying “death came
without “a struggle, justt as though
{ke were asleep” Hospital rec
!(.x'ds gave Hart’'s " age as 83.
ILilovie press agents earlier had
igi‘:en hic age as 75.
} At the bedside. was his) son,
William S. Hart, "j»., 24, who
{last Thursday was appointeg co
{ puardian, with George Frost, of
Ithe actor’s person. Young Hartl
l'had charged ir court that his
| father was Dbeing improperlyl
cered for and was incapable of
managing his own affairs. Frost,
Iwho said ha was a long-time
ifriend of the actor, wag appoint
ierl sole guardian of Hart's es
{{ate. estimated at nearly a mill- |
licn dollars. 8 {
Your~ Hart’s mother Winifred |
Westover.. from whom the .actor |
was divorced 20 vears ago. had |
been almost constantly at Hart’s |
| side . during «the. reeént, critical
|stage’ of Ois illness,but swas not
in:'esent when death came. Havt |
suffered 8’ strcke- last May. . '
| Funeral sgrvicce have not been
| arraneed. [
.dent. One source close to Mar
shall said the government and
Communist members of the com
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Taylor, after their marriage in England, says that British people
are more congenial and home-loving, and thut England is a bet
ter country to live in. British authorities have refused to extend
his three-months’ visitors’ permit because of national shortages
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LONDON’'S LEO TAME AND FRIENDLY
“Boy,” six-month-old lion, lies leisurely with his strange pals, “Ric,” the pooch, and “Puck,” a
goat, in Children’s Corner at the Chessington Zoo in London, England. The eonly survivor of a
famiiy of three. Rov is tame and always friendly to visitors.
Church-goer Dies Of Heart Failure
When Skyscrapers Sway Above Him
SEATTLE, June 24—(AP)—Walls fell and a hillside walked yesterday morning in the Pacific
northwest when a strong earth shock jarred a wedge-shaped piece of the cosatal area from Vancouver
Island to Kilowna in central British Columbia and south ot Olympia, Wash. One man died, Jacob K.
Lingston, 69, succumbing to heart failure when Seattle’s downtown buildings swayed above him as he
walked toward church. There were no other reports of deaths or injuries.
The quake knocked the needle
from the recorder at the University
of Washingten's seismograph at
9:14.30 a. m. (PST) and was re
corded at 9:14 by the dominion
astrophysical observatory in Vie
toria, B. C. It was noticeable for
a full minute to Seattljtes; but the
University réported 'itd equipment
continued to record viprations for
an hour,
Worst In Years .
“It was the most severe in sev
eral years,” said Dr. J. A. Pearce,
director of the dominion station,
estimating its epicenter as near
Victoria, probably 25 miles dis
tant.
- From the villages along the East
coast of Vancouver Island, north
‘of Victoria, came reports of exten
sive damage to building and roads.
A 300-foot high hill “walked” 35
feet closer to the sea at Campbeil
river and a house moved five feet
off its foundations.
At Port Alberni the top of a
brick-fronted building crashed to
the street. At Courtenay a collaps
ing ‘chimney smashed ;through two
floors of an elementary school in-
to a classroom which, on a week
day, would have been occupied by
60 children. One wall collapsed
from the Courtenay postoffice and
plate glass show windows were
shattered. ;
Across the strait of Georgia at
Vancouvergß. Cs.c.toll, huildipgs
Army Transport
Demolishes Aufo
Bus Lands Safely
' MEMPHIS, TENN., June 24—
|(AP)— A Memphis-based army
C 447 plane returning from a trip
to Dallas crashed broadside into
a moving automobile in an at
tempted landing yesterday, de
‘molishing the car’s rear and kill
iing two back-seat occupants.
Its left landing gear shatitered
by the impact, the plane regained
altitude, and pilot Wayne Col
lier circled the Air Transport Com
mand field for almost two hours
before setting it down :in a safe
crashlanding. Collier, alang with
his co-pilot, .Captain Francis L.
Kenny of Enon Valley, Pa., and
six GI aerial hitchikers escaped
unhurt. l
Ernest Bobo said he was driv
ing about 15 miles per hour when
he saw the plane about 75 feet
away. He said he tried to speed
away, but that the plane“hit us
and just cut the car half in two."l
Big Four Unable To Reach
Agreement On French Issue
PARIS, June 24—(AP)—An
American informant said the
council of Foreign Ministers re
jected today Austria’s demand te
take part of the Southern Tyrol
from Italy byt was uable to agree
on the Italian-French froulier is
sue. 1
The Ajustrian demand would
have given the new republic con
trol of the strategic Pusterthal
railroad.
The ministers met for an hour
and a half during the morning.
The United States, Russian,
British and French foreign minis-
Predicted Break
With Franco
{
:Doomed By UNO
| NEW YORK, June 24—(AP)
I-—The Uhiteds Nations Security
Council was called into session
.‘tc(iav to act on Pecland’s demand
for a worldwide d'plomatic break
with Franco Spain but a check
of . the delegates indicated ithe
'demand would be rejected.
As tae delegates prepared to
meet at 3 p. m., (EDT) to de
hate the controversial question,
it appeareq that Poland would
not be able to rauster more than
four votes out of the Council’s
fotal of 11—Russia, Franre, Po
land and Mexico.
ESTABLISHED 1832,
swayed crazily and a piece of
masonry crashed to the pavement
from the Canadian National rail
;'&vay station, narrowly missing
a group of people.
Mayor Harry Simms, of Courte
nay, which is on the Island’'s East
‘vast 85 miles West of Vancouver,
said damage could be répaired. -
“We are very lucky,” he said.
“Thousands of dollars’ damage
‘was done to seashore hcuses.
People by the seashore saw great
waves.” The U. S. Coast Guard
here said it had no reports of dam
aging waves.
At Everett two 13,000-volt pow
er lines crossed and shorted out,
interrupting service for 30 min
utes. On Mercer Island, East of
Seattle in Lake Washington, a
steel expansion joint on a bridge
gaped about three inches, a por
tion of the bridge deck dropped
about an inch and turned slightly
out of line.
l People of Region, still quake
conscious from a sharp shock ex
'perienced Feb. 14, fled from their
homes but many said the swaying
lmotion ended by the time they
i reached the streets.
‘ Scores of chimneys fell in the
Courtenay-Campbell River region,
Canadian Press reported, and
plate glass windows were shatter
‘ed in downtown Courtenay. Camp
bell River, 45 miles North of
Courtenay,* reported there were
numerous cracks in the Islands
highway between the two towns.
At New Westminster, B. C,, 35
miles from the United States boun
dary an old building was report
ed thrown out of line. J
ters planned to continue discus
sions of the French-Italian bor
der late today. The French have
demanded and received tacit ap
proval at previous conferences
for minor adjustments in the
Alpine Region.
Disposition of surplus Italian
naval units also was on the as
ternoon agenda.
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
of Russia was declared ‘o have
soughte a postponement of the
French-Italian Frontier issue
while the American and British
conferees insisted on an imme
diate decision.
Hope For Solufion
Hope for solution of the trou
blesomme Trieste problem, key to
the Italian peace treaty mounted
amid reports that the British, Am
erican and Russian delegaions to
the Foreign Ministers Council
were considering a compromise
plan put forward by France.
While nothing official was an
nounced concerning the plin, it
was reported that France had pro
posed that the disputed Adriatic
port be internationalized for a
period: of 10 years, after which
a plebiscite would be held to de
cide wheth&r the city should go
to Italy or Yugosavia.
Closed Session
It was understoed that George
Bidault, French Provisional Pre
~ WEEK'SRADIO
By The Associaied Press
Where to hear the candidates
this week.
James V. Carmirnael: ;
Tuesday, June 25: Madison, 11
a. m.; Thomson, 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 26: Waynes
boro, 4 p. m.; Swainsboro, 8 p.
m
Thursday, June 27: Fort Val
ley 11 a. m.; Perry, 4 p, m.
Friday. June 28. WGOV, Ma
con, State Radio hookup, 12:30
P m.: Cochran, 4 p. m.
E. Dt Rivers:
Monday, June 24: Atlanta, 9
r.m. (WAGA), (WGAU), Athens,
Tuesday, 3 p. m. !
Tuesday, June 25: Thomaston,
4:30 p. m.: Americus. 8:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 26: Vidalia,
iloa.m Lyons, 1:30. p. m.
Swainsboro, 3 p. m.; Soperton,
5:50 p. m.; Miiledgeville, 8:30
D, M.
Thursday, June 27: Sylvania,
11 a. m; Metter, 3 p. m.; Claxton,
£:3O p. m.: Fembroke. 8:30 p.m.
Friday, June ?5: Darien, 11 a.
m.; Ludowici, & p. m.; Wrights
ville, 5:30 p. m.; Louisville, 8:30
. m.
Saturdav. June 29: Greensbo
ro. 10:30 a. m.; Statesboro, 3 p.
m.: Reidsville, 5:00 . m.; Bax
ley, 8:30 p. m.
Eugene Talmadge: j
Monday, Junc 24: Canton
3:30 p. m.: Atlanta (WSB) 6:30
M. m.
Tuesday, Jun. 25; - Fitzgerald,
£.30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 26: Camilla,
3:30 p. m. (WGPC, Albany;
WPAX/, Thomasvilley and
WMGA, Moultrie, 4 p. m.)
Thursday, June 27: Statesboro,
(Continuéd on Page Two).
Branyon To Speak
To Kiwanis Club
“Agriculture in the Athens
Area” will be the topic of a talk
by Clarke County Agent D. L.
Branyon before members of the
Kiwanig Club at their regular
weekly luncheon meeting Tuesday.
The meeting will be held at
one o’clock in the Holman Hotel
}ami Mr, Bnflyon will give Kiwan
iang a pictaré of farming conditions
in this section at present, and
what this trained observer con
siders are the prospects for the
year,
CITY OFFICIALS ASK GOVERNOR TO
REPAIR DANIELSVILLE ROAD LINK
l Governor Ellis Arnal] informed
a committee of Athens city offi
cials last week he will do what
he can to have the State Highway
Department put the Danielsville
road, from the Hull road into Ath
'ens, into the same condition it
was when the State took it over
for a State route.
The committee of city officials
included Mayor Bob McWhorter,
City Engineer Jack Beacham, R.
T. Dottery, chairman of the City
Council street committee and
Councilman T. L. Elder.
The committee told the Gov
ernor that the City of Athens
and Clarke county built the high
way from Hull into Athens on
the Danielsville road and that
subsequently it became a part of
sident and Foreign Minister, ad
vanced the pian at a closed ses
sion last Friday, when the foreign
Ministers were re-examining the
Italian Yugoslav border issue.
The Russians have proposed a
line which would run south from
the Austrian border to the Adria
tic far west of Trieste, while the
other three Ministers favor a
frontier which would run a lit
tle east of the city.
Western Allies
The three Western Allies have
held that Ethnically Trieste is
Italian and should go to Italy,
but the Russians say this would
make an Italian enclave within
Yugoslav territory if the Soviet
line were accepted.
(Continued on Page Two)
University Summer
School Enrollment
3,604, Not 5,604
Due to a typographical error
in Sunday’s paper, the sum
mer school enrollment at the
University was given as 5,604,
when the figure should have
read 3,604.
‘lt was pointed out today,
however, that the latter figure,
3,604 sets a record for summer
school in the history of the
University.
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ONLY Ffi"f”’“zngVlSlUNS REMAIN |
UNSETTLED 7= OLON COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, June 24— (AP) —OPA reaches its night of decis=
ion tonight. }
Rep. Wolcott (R.-Mich.) predicted the final form of price control
extension legislation should be determined by 9 p. m. (EST).
Wolcott is a member of the joint congressional committee harmo=
nizing differences between House and Senate OPA bills. The con
ferees meet at 8 p. m. in a session which Wolcott said probably
will be conclusive. it
if a deadlock develops on any
of the four provisions waich re
main in dispute, the lawmaker
saiq the decision may be check
ed directly to the House and
Senate, by reporiing disagree
ment and asking for instructions,
Deadline Sunday
The committee has no time to
waste. for OPA expires Sunday
midnight unless the extension
L 11 is enacted.
“r am very optimistic we can
come to an ag:eement within
an aour,” Wolcott told‘ a reporter.
“Every member should have
made up his mind on the re
rraining p-oblems by the time
he enters the conference room.”
Twq reasons iay behind the
unusual night session. Some of
taoe conferees wanted time to
consult with ¢ollvagues who are
not members of the committee.
in addition. the Banking Com
mittee from which the House
conferees were. picked had a
cate to confer with the rules
committee on procedure for
calling up tae British Loan Bill
in the House, ',
Act Quickly
If an OPA measure is agreed
upon tonight the House can take
it tomorrow. There will be no
opportunity to amend - it; the
House must either vote it up or
down, or send the conferees back
!with instructions to yield or hold
out on controverted pointes.
After the house acts, the bill
goes to the senate, where there is
always the chance of a time--Con
suming filibuster. It was learned
that the possibility of such a de
velopment was discussed in the
conference sessions.
Altaough four major dis
agreements remu.n, the key to
ihe dispute is whelher to ac
cept Senate amendments lifting
price ceilings on meat, “poultry
and dairy products, petroleum
anc tobacco at the end of June.
House membevs take the at
(Continned oo Fage Two.)
the State Highway system and
‘was used by the heavy traffic
‘'which contributed to its present
condition.
The State has begun resurfacing
and improving the Danielsville
road from the Hull road toward
Danielsille I4lt pland to eventually
‘abandon the link from the Hull
road into Athens. The city officials
asked that before the State abon
dons the link that it be put inty
the same condition the State
found it.
Governor Arnall received the
committee cordially, it was re
ported and asked that he be sent
full details about the matter and
he would do what he can do
grant the committe's request.
Chemist To Speak
At Dinner Here
Tomorrow Night
Dr. C. Lewis Wrenshall, agri
cultural chemist for the South
ern Research Institute wil] be
guest speaker at a dinner to be
held in the Georgian Hotel tomor
row evening.
The dinner meeting, to which
prominent business and industrial
leaders will be invited, wil] be
held in connection with the Insti
tute’s educational program.. Dr.
Harmon W. Caldwell, a trustee of
the Institute, will be host. Dr.
Wrenshall®s address, “Smoke
stacks in the Southland”, will be
devoted to a discussion of indus
trial trends, which are develop
ing in the nine southeastern states,
in which Georgia is taking a lead
ing part.
For many decades, Southern in
dustry has been concerned with
the production of raw materials.
These agricultura] and metallur
gical products have been shipped
to other parts of the country,
where they have been finished;
and Southern users have then
purchased, in part, the fimished
‘goods. As a result enormous pro
fits have been lost.
During the war years, however,
Southern manufacturers have
produced billions of dollars worth
learned that with adequate scien
tific research the resources pe
culiar tc the South can be, pro
cessed by them into new and use
ful commodities which hav market
value in other parts of the coun
try. A great movement, therefore,
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‘lke’ Says Russian
War Plan Untold
Until Almost V-E
WASHINGTON, June 24—(AP)
—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower re=-
corded in his final report today as
Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe that he was kept - in the
dark about Russia’s grand strategy
unti! four months before V-E day.
Then, however, Marshall Stalin
came through with full plans for
the Red Army’s final offensive,
which became one jaw of a vise
that crushed the German war ma=-
chine “to a degree never before
experienced in the history of
modern armies.” s
{ Eisenhower's belatedly publish~
ed 123-page detailed report to the
combined Chiefs of Staff covered
the fateful 11 months from D-Day
in Normandy to the German sur
render. It was released by the War
Department, which said only
minor details were deleted for
security reasons. 3
In it the present Army Chief of
Staff recorded briefly his difficul
ties of coordination with the Red
Army while lauding the teamwork
of the Western Allies. The United
States and Great Britain, he said,
fought as “one nation.”
Aside from {eamwork, Eisen=
hower concluded that the victory
was due to Allied might and “in
vincibility of spirit” and to mis~
calculations by Hitler and Field
‘Marshall Von Rundstedt, the Nazi
<commander in the west. . ... ...
' In Eisenhower’s judgment, three
battles were decisive in liberating
Europe: :
' 1. The battle of the Normandy
beaches, where the foe was re
vealed as a stubborn fighter but
beset by difficulties of supply and
communications resulting largely
from the allied hammering from
the air. “Completely misled” by
:allied diversionary operations, Von
'Rundstedt held the bulk of his
lforces in the Pas-de-Calais op
posite England, waiting for a
Isecond assault which never came.
| 2. The battle of the Falaise
Pocket, where the enemy “showed
that fatal tendency to stand and
fight when all the logic of war
demanded a strategic withdrawal.”
3. Battles west of the Rhine
during February and March, 1945,
where “the armies which had been
intended to defend Germany were
shattered beyond recovery.”
Brother Batfles
Brother In Race .
0f Cotion Blooms
It was brother against bro}fier
in the race to get the first cot
ton bloom to the Banner-Herald
office Monday morning, and H. F,
Gaulding won over John M.,
Gaulding by less than two min=
utes.
Just as the news department
opened for business at 8 a. m., H.
F. Gaulding pulled up to the front
door in a trueck, jumped out and
brought in his bloom. About 100
seconds later John Gaulding pull
ed up in a passenger car and
dashed in with his bloom.
The Gaulding brothers are well
known farm operators living at
Colbert.
The winning Gaulding said his
bloom came from ninety acres
planted to Coker’s 100 wilt and
that forty-five of the ninety
acres have a pretty good stand,
the other half being fair. His corn
crop is good, he said.
John Gaulding’s bloom came
from a 60-acre field planted
April 8, he said. He has a total
of 140 acres in cotton.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clear to partly cloudy with
little change in temperature
tonight and Tuesday.
GEORGIA: Clear to partly
cloudy and slightly warmer
today and tonight. Tuesday,
partly cloudy and continued
warm, i
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since June 1 .. ... L 73
Deficit since June 1 .. .. 134
Average June rainfall ... 391
Total since January 1 ... .31.40
Excess since January 1 ... 6.64