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Secret Conferences
By Byrnes, Molotov
Boost Treaty Hopes
PARIS June 26 --(AP)—Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes
wag represented by American
imformants today as encouraged
by a series of private talk with
Spviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Moiotov, presumabiy aimed at
Lreaking the deadlock over
Trieste, key to tae Italian peace
treaty. }
Byrnes and, Mclotov talked
{fcr more than an hour yesterday
atternoon in their third private
meeting in less than a wee{;.a'
" Ths Secretary of State ter
conferred separately with Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Ernest
Revin and Georges Bidault,
French president " and foreign
ramister, apparently to advise
them of tue progress of his talks
with Molotov.
Although nothing was disclos
ed é‘qugming the nature of the
discussionss Herweth” Byrhes and
Molotov. Zorperican quarters
were said to be slightly more op
timistic over the possibility that
e four-power foreign ministers
Council would be able to reach
aureement on the major issues
of the Italian peace treaty.
A word of caution was inter
posed. however, by one high
American source, who declared:
U. S. Cautions
We're not out of the woods
vet. {
Russia has mdintaineq 'stead
{fastly that. thae '%ity should go
to Yugoslavvia wkhile the other
powers hold it should go to Italy.
At vesterday’s Council session,
the Council disposed of two mi
ror questions by agreeing to de
late from the treatly clauses pro
viding for compensation for
property expropriated by the
Tialian government and for Ital
ian liability for Allied nationals
injured during the war.
: Seven Fundamentals
Disagreement on tae Italian
treaty hag ngw been narrowed
down 1o seven fundamental
questions: :
—The Dodecanese Islands; 2—
{Trieste andi the Italian-Yugo
<lav frontier; 3-—Reparation; 4—
(‘olonies which have been re
ferred to a special conmittee set
27 by the ministers; s—The
French-Italian frentier; 6—Dis
tribution of Ttalian naval units;
—Comjoensation for damaged
Allied p-operty in Italy.
Puts Son In Trunk
Of Car, Causes
False Kidnap Hunt
NASHUA,”" N. H, June 26.—
(AP) — A garage mechanic
brought about the -happy solu
tion of a “kidnaping” that touch
ed off a two-state hunt yesterday.
Harold Scott reported to police
that a youngster, reported snatch
ed and tossed into the trunk of
an automobile, was his 11-year
old son he had placed in the com
partment in an effort to find the
source of a rattle.
The report of two firemen that
they saw a man stuff a boy in
the trunk of a Massachuseits car
and then drive off speedily sent
Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire police and the Federal Bu
reau of Investigaiton into action.
Several hours later Scott walk
ed into police headquarters and
said:
“T guess I'm your kidnaper.”
He was unaware that the novel
procedure had caused a kidnap
alarm until he saw the headlines
in the Nashua Daily Telegraph—
about seven hours later. ‘
Tobacco Growers
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To Vote On ‘47
Marketing Quotas
ATHENS, Aa., June 26— (AP)—-
S. E. Statham, chairman of thé
Georgia production and Production
and Marketing Administration
Committee, announced today
Georgia Tobacco Growers will
vote July 12 in a National refer
endum to determine whether mar
keting quotas will be continued on
the 1947 crop.
The referendum is being held in
accordance with a recent amend
ment to the agricultural adjust
ment act of 1938 which directs the
Secretary of Agriculture to pro
claim quotas on the 1947 crop of
tlue«;ured tobacco, and to call for
@ referendum of growers to de
t("rm_me whether they want quotas
continued,
DRAFT EXTENSION, PAY INCREASE
MEASURES 60 BEFORE TRUMAN
wASHINGTON, June 26.—(AP)—With more than $50.000,000 at
Slake, the nation’s men in uniform rivited their attention on the
White House today to learn when the draft extension compromise
and its compahnion pay increase measure become law. :
The twin bills cleared final prentice seamen-—were more in-
fongressional hurdles yesterday]
after months of argument.
Public interest eentered on the
Nine-month extension of the war
lime draft beyond June 30 wlth‘
non-fathers between 19 and 45‘
Probably most concerned as pos
sible draftees. L l
Other prime provisions of the |
Measure include: : ]
l. An 18-month limit on com-‘
bulsory service. - :
2. No further inductions of
fathers, g
3. A clause that fathers now in
Service may apply for release
after August 1. ;
But the men of the Army,
Navy, Marines and oth.er armed‘
Services-—from gold braided offi-‘
‘ers down to privates and ap
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world-wide atomic bomb test is held. These conceptions are in the Pacific.
Meat Famine Hovers Over Entire Nation
By 'Fhe Assogiated Press -
A virtural famine in fresh meat
for most of the nation was report
ed today—with no indications of
immediate relief —as the Senate
prepared to act on the House
approved compromise OPA bill
retaining meat price controls.
Some packers industry spokes
men said should the bill hccome
law, keeping the lids on live
stock and meat prices, the coun
try’s meat supply “will get even
worse.”
Others asserted ~ the scarcity
would continue for several
months. One large packer said
the shortage would continue “until
the fate of OPA is determined.”
There were threats of a corhplete
shutdown of facilities from pack
ing houses to retail markets in
Los Angeles because of exvressed
dissatisfaction over the OPA bill
provisions.
Fish and fowl and eggs replaced
the main meat dish on the coun
try’s dinner tables as hundreds of
butcher shops across the country
close operations in packing plants
dropped to new all. time low le
vels. [
Low Volume
The abnormally low volume of
livestock at markets during the
last two weeks ‘has resulted in
|the lowest output in history at
Ifnany plants. A
i An increase in livestock re
lceipts however was expected next
week by some industry spokes
lmen who said many farmers
would release cattle which they
have been holding back pending
settlement of the OPA ‘issue.
' The larger run in the weeks
ahead they saaid, would be seasonal
as grass cattle move to market
ibut some expressed belief that the
)total meat output during the next
six months might be less than in
lthe corresponding period of last
terested in the time of the pay
boost signing. |
The increase — ranging. from]
$25 a month for the privates up
io $166.67 for the upper bracket
generals and admirals—will be
come effective on the first day of;
the month following the Presi
dential signature. : |
Because the present stopgap
draft act dies at the end of this
month, Mr. Truman was expect
ed to sign the compromise exten
sion before July 1.
But he was not under the same
pressure to sign the broad pay in
crease plan. Hence if he delays
until after July 1, all men on
duty with the armed service
would have to wait until August
1 before collecting the extra
money. SE i EA
Not Obtainable
City after city reported victually
no fresh meat obtainable and in
some cities even cold cuts were
hard to get through normaj chan
nels. ’
New York City’s meat-hungry
Peasants Tesfify
Mihailovic's Men
BELGRADE, June 26.—(AP)—
A group of Serb peasants took
the witness stand today at the
trial of General Draja Mihailovic
and told with gruesome detail
how men they identified at Chet
niks slaughtered the inhabitants
of three villages near Belgrade in
1943 and 1944.
Four Serbs from Bolech testi
fied that Chetniks raided the vil
lage one winter’s night in 1943,
plundered the residents and car
ried out mass slaughters. They
said the raiders announced they
were “fighting for king and coun
try against the Communisis.”
One gray-haired peasant, Ilija
Ilich, exhibited in the courtroom
a red-stained cradle in which he
said he had seen a four-months
old baby lying with its throat slit
the day after Christmas. Six men
in the household — all friends of
his—were slain, Ilich testified.
The prosecution indigtment
charges that a total of 72 resi
dents of Bolech were killed by
the raiders. A £
Mihailovie, directed by the
court to confront the Bolech wit
nesses, denied that the men were
acting under his orders. When the
baby’s cradle was exhibited in
the courtroom, the Chetnik leader
was told to look at it and was
asked:
“Is this the execution of yourl
order to purge the Communists?"|
“No, never,” replied Mihailo
vic. :
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness and
showers, and warm this aft
ernoon and tonight. i
GEORGIA — Considerable
cloudiness and moderately
warm this afternoon and to- |
night, showers and thunder- [
showers over north and west
portions this afternoon and !
early tonight. Thursday, |
partly cloudy and rather hot, |
with widely scattered after
noon thundershowers.
TEMPERATURE |
Blighest ... -+ ohiad R 3
Sowest ... i ..68
Mishh ! v ssuiite bt lopss eOB
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| RAINFALL |
' ) Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since June 1 .. ... L 72
Deficit since June 1 .. .. 1.60
Average June rainfall ... 391
Total since January 1 ... .31.40
. Excess since January 1 .. 6.38
meionsé-wene unable to find any
‘meat in the illegal market.
~ In Los Angeles packers threat
ened a complete shutdown of
packing house and retail markets
because of their disstisfaction
with the OPA bill provisions re
taining the price controls as voted
by the house yesterday.
“There will be no relief until
the meat business is returned to
the meat industry”, said Ben W.
Campton president of the meat
packers, Inc., at Los Angeles.
Frisco Hit
E. F. Forbes, president of the
Western States Meat Pakers As
soiation, said in San Francisco
that the nation’ seat supply “will
get even worse” unless the OPA
controls on meat and livestock are
discontinued.
G. M.. Foster president of the
John Morrel and Company said
in Ottumwa, 1a.,” that his com
pany was unable to buy livestock
“under present restrictions,” and
“no one can blame livestock own
ers for holding their livestock in
the hope of a price rise.” his state
ment came after layoffs of 3,450
workers at three Morrel] plants
since’ Saturday. :
Compromise Built
Some of the industry spokes
men, who asked Anonymity said
the compromise OPA *bill would
encourage operations in the il
legal market and predicted a
much larger “black market”
meat trade in the months ahead.
The reports of the fresh meat
famine from cities across the
country were about the same to
day as in the past several days,
with the supplies even smaller in
many areas.
Closed Shops
In New York City one butcher
said he was forced to close his
shop for the first time in 32 years.
There was an abundance of fish,
with receipts of a million pounds
daily reported. The poultry- sup
ply, however was getting tight
COTTON BLOOM
The third cotton bloom from
surrounding counties reached the
Banner-Herald’s offices today. It
was sent in by E. B. Wilkes from
Danielsville.
Mr. Wilkes said that he saw his
first bioom on June 24 and that
he planted his cotton in the first
week of April.
Searchers Probe Smouldering Ashes
0f Ferry Terminal For More Bodies
NEW YORK. June 26— (AP)—
Searchers probed the smoulder
ing wreckeze of the huge Staten
Isiand Fery Terminal today to
sscertain -if there were other
victims in a $2,000,000 fire
v'hich caused three deaths and
injuries to many otuers yester
dav. :
The known deag weve Mrs.
Cornelius White, 43, a ticket
agent who wag ' trapped in her
pooth: Harold Clendening, 59-
vear-old fireman who died in an
ii. the nation’s largest city as mid
rd‘l.e west buyers were reported
making purchases in the Dele
&ware-Maryland-Virginia area, New
{ York’s principa] chicken market.
The bright spot in the poultry
'situation was that 900,000 pounds
]of long Island ducklings were
being marketed each week.
Athenian Elected
Commander Of
Spanish War Vets
SAVANNAH, GA., June 25—
(AP)—Dr. E. D. Pusey, Athens,
retired educator today was elect=
ed Commander of the Georgia De
partment, United Spanish War
Veterans, at the annual state en
campment which began here
Sunday and concluded today.
Dr. Pusey rises to the comman
dership from the post of Senior
Vice Commander, following the
customary line of succession. He
succeeds W. T. Stradley, Atlanta,
who was appointed Chief of Staff.
Raobert Taylor, Savannah, was
elevated to Senior Vice * Com
mander and Capt. John D.
Twiggs, Augusta was advanced to
Junior Vice Commander. Other
officers, who were apointed by the
Commander, are:
Charles William Bernhardt, At
lanta, Adjutant; Howard B. Jack
Atlanta, Quartermaster; W. M.
Simmons, Savannah, inspector;
James M. Rogers, Savannah,
Judge Advocate; The Rev. Ed
mond F. Cook, Chaplain; Dr I. T.
Catron, Atlanta, Surgeon; C. P.
Dusenberry, Brunswick, Patriotic
Instructér; Henry C. Cameron, Al
bany, ' Marshal; Chauncey L.
Foote, Fitzgerald, Historian; Wi
C. Dean, Norcross, Senior Color
Sergeant; C. T. Mims, Augusta,
Junior Color Sergeant, and F. S.
Dorsey, Savannah, Musician.
The new officers were installed
by Judge Edward S. Matthias,
Past National Commander-in-
Chief and now a judge of the
Ohio Supreme Court.
In resolutions passed by the vet
erans today John White of Texas
was endorsed as a nominee for
the post of National Commander
in-Chief. Horace Havner, lowa,
was endorsed as Senior Vice
Commander-in-Chief.
aitempt to rescue Mrs. White
znd Jeremiah Cronin, 46, city
‘Marine and Aviaticn Department
worker.
" The exact numrer of injured
waus not available, but it wag un
officially placed around 40, in
cluding a number of firemen
koverocme by smoke and fumes.
| The blaze occuired just after
'a ferryboat -carrying ‘aundreds
‘had just shoved off and all but
a few passengers frcm an in
lcominzshiphld'lfi the terminal.
¢ s
Senate-Tehate
Senator Wherry Leads Gy sition
- Against House Approved Measure
WASHINGTON, June 26. — (AP) — Senator Wherry threw his
weight as Republican whip behind a Senate drive today to beat the
compromise OPA bill despite its thumping 265 to 105 victory in the
House. \
But Senator Lucas (D.-IIL.) said he thaught the overwhelming
House vote foreshadowed a Senate okay for the measure even
though, he added, ‘nobody likes it.” .
UNO Shelves Veto
Issue, Studies
Development Plan
'NEW YORK, June 26 —(AP)
—The “United Nations atomic
conferees left the wveto issue
deadlocked between the opposing
views of the United States and
Russia today and headed for an
‘amicable start on a plan aimed
at ultimate world contrel and
development of atomic energy.
~ When the last members of the
U. N. atomic encrgy commis
¢ion had been polled yesterday
for their views on separate con
t 0l programs.advanced by the
United States and Russia, all
'but those two great powers were
agreed there were broad meas
vres of merit in both plans.
The United States has offered
no comment in the Commission
sessions sinca the initial presen
tation of her program and Rus
sian made no reference to the
American ideas in offering her
counter-proposals.
The Commission. Chairman,
Foreign Minister Herbert V.
Evatt of Australia, set up an
atomic working committee to be
gin at once the task of trying to
draft an internatioral control
plan. i
The committee represents all
the 12 nations on the Commis
s:on and will hold its first meet-~
ing at 10:30-a. m. (EDT) Friday.
The Security Council will as
semble at 3 p. . (EDT) today
to dispose of the Spanish issue
on a resolution prepared by a
committee composed of Evatt,
Eritain’s Sir Alexander Cadogan
and Polish delefate Oscar Lange.
Members of the Atomic Com
mission’s Working Committee
made clear they intended tt
sidetrack the veto issue and let
Jt reach a showdown only after
all the other differenceg between
the Russian and United States
plans have been reconciled.
The prime requirement of the
American plan laid down by
Bernard M. Barucn calls for re
lnunciation of the veto on atomic
matte~s: Russia is opposed to any
vetn surrender.
“Ought To See ‘Shiek Gene’ Tango,”
Rivers Says; Carmichael Asserts
Rivers Is “In Race To Help Talmadge”
Talmadge Declares Arnall Will Leave
Georgia, "Despised As Rufus Bullock
Rivers yesterday furned his guns
on Gene Talmadge, calling higp
“a regular shiek in Atlanta and a
red-gallused hick when he gets
out of town.” .
Rivers spoke yesterday ‘- at
Thomaston and Americus. Tal
madge meantime at Fitzgerald at
tacked Governor Ellis Arnall, who
is supporting candidate James V.
Carmichael.
Carmichael, at Madison and
Thomson, told his audiences that
Rivers is “out of the race” but is
“working hand in glove with Tal
madge because the same power is
financing and backing them both.”
Talmadge called the Governor’s
race part of a nationwide battle
between communists and conser
vatives, and said of Arnall:
“I predict he will leave -this
State after January I—the most
despised Governor since Rufus
Bullock. And up in Chicago, Har
lem or Dayton, 0., he will find
that Henry Wallace, Ohio Jim Cox
and Rosenwalt won’t treat him so
good because they can no longer
use him for their purposes.”
| Speaking of - Talmadge, Rivers
said:
“You just ought to 'see him,
sliding across those polished ball
room floors in Atlanta’s Hotels . ..
Today’s itinerary called for
Carmichael to speak at Waynes
boro and Swainsboro, and Rivers
at Vidalia, Lyons, Swainsboro,
Soperton and Milledgeville. Tal
madge’s speech at Camilla is to be
Broadcast over radio stations
WGPC, Albany, WPAX, Thomas
ville and WMGA, Moultrie.
Talmadge Hits Arnall
Talmadge said “Bendeict Arnold
was not happy in England; Ellis
Arnall will not be happy among
your cousins in Indiana and Illi
nois, because they, too, are en
gaged in pushing back a horde of
Wherry, a Nebraskan, said he
did not .se¢ Bow the Senate could
accept the conference committee
decision” eliminating a Senate
clause which would have lifted
price econtrol from meat next
Sunday night.
The house, however, yoted 221
to 150 te back up the committee
on this point.
Senate rejection of the bill
would plunge it back into confer
ence, probably with instructions
to the seven Senate conferees to
hold out for the decontrol not
only of meat, but of poultry.
dairy produects, petroleum and
tobacco.
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Four Georgia congressmen
voted for compromise price
control legislation approved
by a vote of 265 to 105.
Representatvies Brown,
Cox, Mankin and Tarver
cast votes for the measare.
Representatives Pace and
Wood were among the 27
House Democrats voting
against the legislation.
Other members of the
Georgia delegation were not
listed as voting.
All those efforts to lift con
trols were eliminated Monday
night by the joint committee
which wrote the compromise ver
sion.
While both Stabilization Direc
tor Chester Bowles and OPA
Chief Paul Porter remained pub
licly silent, officials in close
touch with them said each is
likely to urge President Truman
to veto the compromise bill,
Their hope would be that Con
gress, because of the little time
remaining, might vote an emer
gency extension of price controls
as they now exist. This would
give the administration more time
to battle for a bill more to its
wishes. ]
However, Speaker Sam Ray
burn (D.-Texas) told his collea~
gues just before the House began
its final vote late yesterday that
unless the compromise were ac
cepted “there will be no OPA at
all.”
"~ Rayburn said he expects M.
Truman to sign the measure if it
reaches the White House.
After the House approved the
bill, 14 members, including Rep
resentatives Helen Gahagan
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Negroes and unwashed East Euro
peans trying to undermine them
and their concepts of American
law and American order.”
Talmadge told the people of Ben
Hill County, which was founded
by Yankees after the War Between
the States, that even their Aboli
tionist forebearers had found
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” story to be
false, and that Abolitionists long
since gave up the illusion that the
(Continued on page five.)
WAR DEPARTMENT REVEALS NEW
ORDER FOR ARMED FORCES RANKS
| WASHINGTON, June 26 —
(AP) — The Army launched a
military “new order” experi
ment today by narrowing social
and other distinctions between
cfficers and enlisted men with
cut wiping them out. )
It also decided .it can get
aiong with less saluting, except
where a snappy salute counts.
| Secretary of War Patterson
put the new formula into Army
'lifp when he - gave carefully
qualified approval last night to
{ail but two of the 14 recommen
ichtions submitted by the Doolit
tie “gripe” board which investi
gated post war GI complaints of
tvo much caste in tae service.
Patterson announced that the
War Department is crdering:
1. Abolition of saluting except
an military posts, in overseas
occupieq areag and on ceremon
ial occasions.
2. Elimination of an existing
requirement that officers wear
distinctive uniforms, live apart
fiom their men in garrison, and
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Georgia Graduates
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Are Assured Jobs .
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ATLANTA, June 26 — (AP)
-——More than three-fourths of
the graduates of Georgia’s Uni
versity System ‘have been assurs
ea employment the State Board
«f Regents reported today.
The Board of Regents repeor
ted that 1,366 persons were
graduated from the System’s 16
colleges from last September
tarough the recent June grad
' pations. Of this number 1,072
have jobs or assurances of em
ployment.
Other figures released by fthe
Regents included:
~ Oldest students to be grad
‘uated were 52 years cld, the stu
‘dents having attended the Uni
versity System center at Atlanta
#ng the Albany State College.
‘The University of Georgia had
‘a 47-year-old graduate.
Youngest graduate from a
}senin" institution was an - 18-
vear-old student at the Univer
’sit.v System center. Both the
University of Georgin and Geor
g.a Tedn have 19-year-old grad
uates.
l The graduates included 175
married students, 208 who work
ed their entire way through
school and 555 who worked part
of their way.
Graduates planning to take
sdvanced work in colleges total
29y, .
The University System in
cludes seven senior colleges, six
junior colleges and taree negro
iastitutions,
Great Bach Artist
Toße Heardln :°
Chapel Thursday
One of America’s greatest pia
nists, Rosalyn Tureck wil] be pre
sented in a program in the Uni
versity Chapel . Thursday night
at 8:30 o’clock.
The program is presented by the
University of Georgia Music De
partment under the direction of
Hugh Hodgson and through the
courtesy of Miss Tureck’s man
agement, National Concert and
Artists " Corporation of New York
City.
Admission for the concert is
$2.00 and the occasion presents
an opportunity for music-ioving
Athenians and those from other
towns in this section to hear the
artist who is regarded as the fore
most specialist in the works of
‘;Bach in this country. :
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Forrestal Tells .
Truman He'll
WASHINGTON, June 26—(AP)
—Navy Secretary Forrestal has
notified President Truman of his
desire to copperate “fully” to
achieve the goals of the Presi
dent’s Army-Navy merger pro
gram,
Forrestal’'s attitude toward the
merger proposal was expressed
in a letter to Mr. Truman. The
letter to Mr. Truman. The letter
was released by the White House.
The Navy chief said he consid
ered the objectives recently out
lined by the President as “at
tainable.” He added that he be
lieved it posgible to overcome
difficulties in drafting the neces
sary legislation.
“l wish to thank you for the
patience with which you have
listened to the Navy's views on
the regroanisstiss &8 sur nationgt
defense and for the time which
you have devoted to the subject,”
Forrestal wrote.
“You may be assured of my de
sire and that of Admiral Nimitz
to cooperate with you fully in
thé effort to achieve the objec
tives in your program.”
BAR MEETINGC
A bar meeting will be held
Friday morning at 11 o’clock in
the Superior Court room. The
purpose of this meeting is far
the filing of a calendar for trial
cases at the July term, 1946, of
Clarke County Superior Court.
‘confine their social contacts to
cther officers.
3. Granting enlisted men the
same privilege as officers, ef
fective July 1, in accumulating
‘unused leave time, currently 30
cdays a year.
4, Studieg looking to a possi
ble upwards of pay schedule
along with allowances for food,
quarters and travel.
5. Measures to train officers
better for leadership, assign
then “in the best interests of
the service,” and to overhaul the
present system of promotions.
6. Rewriting of regulations tc
define “essential” privileges of
officers and to prohibit or mini
mize “possible abuses of au
thority ang prestige” 1
7. Fifforts to improve the
social facilities avoilable to en
listed men.
Patterson rejected outright a
proposal that the terms “officers™
and “enlisted men” be eliminated
entirely, and’ stressed there
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