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Uew Terrorists Threaten To Bomb Palestine Post Office
YRNES' TALK AT PEACE PARLEY
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PARIS, Aug. 15—(AP)—U. S. Secretary of State James' F.
yyrnes, in an address patently aimed at Soviet Russia, told the
eace Conference today that economic treaties concluded in contra
iiction of the Potsdam agreement would lead to “enslavement and
pxploitation. '
{\« the same time-~Byrnes took exception to Russian allegations—
nade during the debate on Italy’s statement to the conference—that
ertain nations had enriched themselves during the war. ¢
“Now what great power en-~
iched itself during the war,”
yrnes asked. “I certainly know
't none. I hope hé (The Soviet}
pokesman), was not referring to
he United States.”
Byrnes declared that the warl
ost the United States $400,000,-J
00,000 “loaned by the American
yublic,” but was “seeking no re
ompense.”
‘Before America was attacked
'ranklin 1. Roosevelt announced
hat the United States would be
he symbol of demoecracy,” he
dded. ‘““America has asked for
0 recompense other than the
reedoms she sought for .all man- |
ind. America seeks no territoryl
r recompense.” |
Byrnes added that the United
States was willing tplhelp in the
conomic rebirth of any nation.
He spoke after Foreign Minis
er Jan Masaryk of Czechoslova
ia had told the conference that
ungarian Foreign Minister Ja
os Gyongyosi had tried to “gloss
ver” his nation’s record as an
xis satellite by castigating
zechoslovakia in an address be
ore the parley yesterday.
There was loud applause in the
onference chamber when Byrnes
aid the United States would of
er “reciprocal friendship to any
ation.” :
Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
ov listened intently as Byrnes
poke in a firm voice, occasion
lly gesturing with one hand.
The American Secretary prais
d both Italy and Greece and ob
ected to recent speeches by Rus
jan and other Slav . delegates
iving the “impression that other
ountries were more democratic
han Italy because they have har
monized their views ~with the
ussiang!” '
Cries of “Hear, hear” sounded
rom the benches of English
peaking delegates when Byrnes
eferred to Italy’s new “demo
ratic government.” l
There was a clear reference to
ussia when Byrnes said that the|
raft treaties “permit every coun
ry to exploit its own resources
nd to allow the free flow ot‘l
oods between countries.”
ON-UNKSN SEAREN XS ECIEDTO FOOW SHLT;
EIG MARITIME STRIKE THREATENS LAKE SHIPPING
CLEVELAND, Aug. 15—(AP)-
The CIO National Maritime Un
ion calle it Great Lake sea
en out on strike today and es
imated that sufficient non-union
iembers wold join the walkm:lt
0 paralyze lake shipping within
evera] days.
President Joseph Curran of the
MU, who sped to Cleveland *by
lane from Washington to help
irect the strike, estimated the
nion's lake members at 4,500.
At strike headquarters here, a
pokesman said between 4,000
nd 5,000 other seamen were ex
ected to join the work stoppage.
¢ estimated the number of ves
els operating on the lakes at
60 and said a “large majority”
ould be idle within a few days.
The spokesman said CIO mem
ers “from coast to coast” have
greed to cooperate. The extent
f the cooperation was not de
ned.
The sfrike began at 12:01 a. m.
EST) while Curran and other
nion officials conferred in Wash
'2ton with government coneilia-
TS and some company repre
fnatives. Jack Lawrenson vice
resident of the union, who re
@ined in Washington, said the
Nion had modified drastically its
ne original demands, keeping
fncipally a demand for a 44-
our week and maintenance of
hion membership.
In Cleveland, I, N. Feagler, 10-2 l
2l representative of the CIO Ins
mational Longsheremen and
arehousemen’s Union said
‘*mbers of the union would re~
bect the NMU picket lin gd
"’_a'i unanimous suportni" e
MU officials said original de
ands for g 40-hour week had
N discarded along with wage
‘Teases of 10, 15 and 18 cents
urly for beginners and certain
'*d men and preferentiaj hir
? through union ‘halls. ‘
A flat overtime rate that would
v with ratings was substituted
" original overfime @emands
* Saturday and Sunday work,
10N representatives said.
H w. Collins of Detroit, re
esentative of the: Great Lakes
“sport Company, said the
ikout was ‘just' an organiza
nal strike” amd added it broke
Contraet recently signed which
'S 1o run until December.
€. E. Jackson, Detroit, of the
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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WASHINGTON, N 5 (AP)
—Both major pai \?‘obvious]y |
hoped today for Senator Robert M. |
LaFollette’s support in November
amid conflicting forecasts on the
lpolitical portents of his defeat.
Beaten for Wisconsin’s GOP |
!senatorial nomination by Joseph R. |
chCarthy, 37 yeal oid war veteran, !
LaFollette himself kept mum onl
his future plans. He to.d a reporter
by telepHone that he will make no
political decisions for two or three
'weeks, but he reiterated that he
}will not run as an independent.
| As a former progressive who
‘voted congistently with the Roose
velt New Deal on domestic legis-,
lation, the veteran lawmaker had
an open invitation from Senator
Taylor (D-Idaho) to come back
into the administration fold. |
In a statement reportedly inspir
ed by party leaders, Taylor said
LaFollette’s defeat in the GOP pri
mary proved “there is no room in
the Republican ranks for men with
the interests of the people at
heart.” 2
. Because the remnants of the
progressive party, which he led
back into the GOP fold last spring.
may well hold the balance of
power in November, LaFollette's
support would look attractive to
either McCarthy or McMurray:
. On the Democratic side, poli
ticians noted that Leo Crowley,
;Intmer new deal official, had en
dorseu LaFollette in the primary,
but that the Senator had been bit
terly criticized by Democratic
state chairman Robert Tehan.
On the Republican side, La-
Follette counts GOP state chair
man Tom Coleman as his bitterest
political enemy, but he had the
endorsement of Senator Robert
Taft of Ohio.
Nicholson Transit Company, said
his firm also recently had ne
Veterinary School To Be Opened
Here: Non-Resident Tuition Hiked
ATLANTA, Aug. 15.— (AP) —The Board of Regents Wednesday
approved establishment of a veterinary school at the University of
Georgia and a recommendation that a new branch of the University
at Hunter Field in Svaannah be opened to both veterans and non
veterans. In addition, the board approved the admission of women
day-students at the Savannah branch.
' The new veterinary school will
be set up at a cost of about $37,000
for the first year. President Har
mon W. Caldwell of the University
of Georgia said funds were avail
able for the first year’s operation.
He estimated the cost for the next
two years at about SIOO.OOO
annually.
~ Non-resident tuition fees in the
system were raised to SIOO a
quarter in senior collegds. Peyton
Jacob, President of Georgia South
western College at Americus, was
granted $4,000 for purchase of in
structional equipment.
Veterinary students will be ad
mitted at the University of Geor
gia at the beginning of the fall
quarter for work in both pre
veterinary medicine and the fresh
man year. It is understood that
more than 100 students, mostly
veterans, have already applied for
this training.
Abraham Baldwin College at
Tifton was directed tc render a
report to the Board of Regents as
to its ability to give the first two
years’ work in veterinary medicine
on a basis similar to that to be in
augurated at the University, with
a view %o allowing credit toward
the full five year course, the last
three years of which would be
completed at the Athens institu
tion. ‘
It was brought out that the
University curriculum already
offered all of the required
courses, with one exception, for
‘the first two years’ work, al
though it is necessary to provide
considerable equipment.
The question of admitting both
veterans and non-veterans at the
new branch at Hunter Fieid
brought objections from Regent
Sandy , Beaver. The branch at
Hunter Field was approved by the
Board last month to alleviate
crowded conditions at colleges.
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Smilingly, Fiorello H. LaGuardia (left), UNRRA Director in Europe to survey famine condi
tions there, accepts a foaming glass of Pilsener beer from U. S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia,
Lawrence Steinhardt. A few minutes later, the former Mayor of New York was frowning seri
ously as he thought of the Czechs plea for more grain. At present in the Prague, LaGuardia later
said he thought the Czechs would need no more U. S, grain.
Slayer Learns Today
Whether He Gets
Chair Or Life Term
MONTGOMERY, ala., Aug.
15 — (AP) — William Edgar
Alston will learn t{oday
whether he must die in the
electric chair tomorrow or be
allowed to join his twin
brother in serving iife in pri
son.
Alston was convicted for the
murder of his wife in Walker
county a year ago. He appeal
ed to Gov. Chauncey Sparks
for commutation of the death
penalty and was to be given a
hearing today. v
" The murder was committed
. while Alston and his twin,
- Julian, were under parole
from a 1926 murder conviction
in Tallapoosa county. They
were given life for Kkilling
Melvin Kimball.
Now, Julian, whose parole
was revoked, occupies a cell
only a short distance from that
of his brother.
gotiated a contract that was to
last through June..
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and 16 year old civilian students
with 22 and 26 year old veterans
would be “morally unsound,” sub
jecting the younger students to un
necessary hazards
President Caldwell declared the
same situation existed at the Uni
versity in Athens. He said denial
of admission to non-veterans at
Hunter Field would bring “flare
backs” from both veteran and
non-veteran students.
“The veterans,” he said, “would
get the impression that the board
believed this old Army camp is OK
for veterans but not for civilians.’*
The President suggested sepera
tion of younger students from vet
eranss in the dormitories and Bea
ver commented “that would
help.”
Caldwell said the University had
encountered many problems in
setting up the Hunter Field
branch. He said however, that
equipment had been secured and
considerable progress made -in
selecting a faculty.
Sorne 250 students already have
applied for admission at the Hun
ter Field branch, and Caldwell
said the University was preparing
to care for between 500 and 1,000
students there. The school is ex
pected to open Sept. 24.
SOLVES CAR WOES
I.OS ANGELES. Aug. 15—
(AP) — George C. Green isn’t
worried much whether automo
bile manufacturers get back on
the prewar heam.
George pulled into town yes
terday from Lambertville, N. J.,
in the 1904 model (Oldsmboile)
he bought second-hand in 1907
for $165. It was his second trans
continental trip in the one cylin
der model. :
He says he gets 30 miles to the
gallon and the old buggy does up
to 25 miles an hour, %
Athens Ga., Thursday August 15, 1946.
REV. GEORGE E. STONE TODAY
By T. W. Reed
There come times in the lives of men when
“From Love’s shining circle
The gems drop away.”
Such a moment has arrived when I come to tell of the passing of Rev.
George Ellison Stone.
There are not enough of golden words to meet sufficient eulogy to
his matchless life. Across almost four score years his holy and con
secrated life and was a bendiction to Athens and this section of Georgia.
Following in the footsteps of his
father, the lamented Ellison D.
Stone, he served his d2y and gen
eration as a weorthy exemplar in
the ministry of his-church. Judged
by the standards of the world he
never sat in the seats of the mighty.
but,in the hearts of the thousands
to whom he ministered in the la
bors of love he reigned as would
a King. |
| Among the greatest and most
lloving services he rendered was
'that of carrying the message of the
Master to the down and out. For
years and years it was his pleasure
to preach to the inmates of the
county prison, to those who in
'large measure were hopeléss in
their outlook on life, and the mess
ages he carried in many instances
fell upon listening ears and year
‘ning hearts. It was also his plea
sure to visit and preach to the aged
and indigent at the county farm,
who had come down to the position
of dependance upon the local gov
ernment for support. In such ser- |
vices as these his royal spirit left
an impress that cannot be effaced.‘
Faithful Follower
His religion was that of a simple,
faithful follower of the Master. He
was possessed of a strong mind and
throughout the years was a close |
student of the Bible. Stripped of
the intricate discussions of theolo- I
gical questions, his chief devotion
was to the fundamentals. *To
preach Christ and his redemptive
mission was the foundation of his
work as a minister. Throughout]
his long life he was an exemplar
of the two great commandments,
those two that stress the father
hood of God and the brotherhood
of man. '
If there was one thing closer to
his heart than any other it was
his work as teacher of the George
E. Stone Sunday School Class of
Oconee Street Methodist Church.
For more than forty years he had
taught the matured men who con
stituted the; membership of that
class. They fairly worshipped him
and he was equally devoted to
them. In spite of age and failing
health, he discharged his duties
as teacher up to within a few
weeks of his death.
~ Like his beloved father, his work
through life was that of a printer.
His ministerial services were over
and above-the long hours of his
business engagements, but they
were given freely, abundantly and
with consecration and enthusiasm.
No man in the county had more
or dearer friends. To the writer
he was a close and intimate friend
of almost sixty years standing.
He was a Mason and an Odd
Fellow. He was especiallyidevated
to Masonry, being a member »f
Godfrey De Boullion Commandery
and also a Shriner. In civic affairs
he was ever ready to advance the
best interests of Athens and on all
questions of public or private in
terest was to be found on the side
of morality and good government.
He was in his vouth married to
Miss Florence Daniell, who long
since passed on. Their only child,
Margaret, became the wife of Mr.
Henry Grady Callahzan. She, too,
passed away several years ago.
Since her death, Mr. Stone has
lived with his son-in-law, whom
he loved ‘as a son and who held
him in tenderest regard as a father.
He is survived by four grandchild
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REV. GEORGE E. STONE
On 18-Day Yacht
Vacation Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, Aug., 15 —
(AP) — President Truman will
cave Washington fomorrow sot
an 18-day yachting wvacation in
New England watars.
White House Prrss Secretary
Charles G. Ross disclosed plans
for the cruise, aboard the presi
dential yacht; U. S. S. Williams
burg. It will carry tae President
into the Narragansett Bay area
and up the east ccats of Maine.
It will be the Williamsburg’'s
first voyage under the command
of Capt. C. L. Freeman.
Freeman was the executive
office~ ‘aboard the ecruiser Au
fusfa, waich carrieq M~. Truman
to Europe for the “Big Three”
conference at Potsdam. The Au
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness
with moderate temperature
tonight Partly cloudy and
rather hot on Friday.
GEORGIA: Partly cloudy
skies and not much change in
temperature today, tonight
and Friday.
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .... .25
Deficit since August 1 .. 2.00
Average August rainfall . 4.67
Total since January 1 ....35.51
Excess since January 1 .. 2.46
Of Wildlife Plan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(AP)
—The fish and wildlife service to
day made $2,260,000 available to
the states for the restoration and
development of their wildlife re
sources.
~ In order to obtain the federal
grants, the states must contribute
25 per cent of the cost of projects.
‘All projects must be approved by
the fish and wildlife service.
The federal funds are apportion
ied to the states under the Pitt
man-Robertson act on the basis of
land area and the number of hunt
ing license holders in each stata.
Army Drops Hint
pons
WASHINGTON, Aug., 15 —
(AP) — The Army incheq back
the curtain today on two weapons
calculated to be wuseful defen
sively in the event of a future
war.
1. The Air Forces disclosed
thal actual tests have started
with a hitherto secret guided
missile designed as potential pro
tection against high speed, high
flying aircraft.
2. The War Department re
vealed that a new coat of armor
far soldiers capable of repelling
“missiles un to and including a
45 calibre revolver bullet,” will
soon get a practical test in South
American jungles. 3
The Air Forces’ guided missile
i« the “GAPA,” a slim, ten feet
long, rocket powerrd projectile.
One o~ more alrzady have been
f.red, anq 60 others are to be
ect off at the isolated Wendover,
Utah, proving ground this year
in tae first phase of a program
+o continue for several years.
Without disclosing whether
“he 'missile is guided by radio,
‘makes use of a proximity fuze,
‘or other details, the Ai~ Forces
announcement said that when
perfected it is “expected to be
cupable of seeking out and de
stroying possibls enemy weapons
Lefore they can reach their tar
cet”
First test models use rocket
mfethods on which Nazi scien
tists were working at war's end.
The name “GAPA” comes from
technical term “ground-to-air
pilotless aircraft.””
The new bullet-repelling ar
mor, identified as “Doron”, will
be worn by membhers of a partv
ni American scientists anq drill
crewmen prospecting for oil in
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NEW STRMGES TORIC f DISCUSSICENS:
CIO LEADERS PLAN FUTURE WAGE-PRICE STRATEGY
; WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(AP)
—The CIiO piotted its fuiure wage
price strategy today.
~ Top national officers as well as
regional, state and local represen
tatives gathered for an emergency
session to discuss what has hap
pened to the wage earner’s dollar
in the light of recent price boosts.
- The meeting, following a gather
ing of CIO vice presidents yester
day to draft formal declarations of
policy, was thrown open to news
men. The policy declarations were
not made public immediately.
~ The top unanswered question in
advance of today's session was
whether the labor organization
would launch a new wave of wage
demands.
~ The stabilization board’s two
public members, Chairman W.
Willard Wirtz and Vice Chairman
Phillips L. Garman, advised the
price decontrol board yesterday
that the government’s whole stabi
lization program depends on roll
ing back prices on essential food
items. |
The CIO has made similar sug
gestions. And President Philip
Murray was scheduled to testify
before the decontrol agency at 4
p. m, (EST).
“Wirtz and Garman in a letter to
chairman Roy L. Thompson of the
decontrol group, declared that
“take home” pay has dropped 8
per cent sin¢e April, 1945.
They said job rates have in
creased 11 to 15 per cent but that
average straight time hourly earn
ings have risen only aboul nine
per cent,
Wirtz and Garman concluded:
“(A) That there is today, or was
on June 30, relative wage stabi
lity; (B) That the program which
has achieved that stability cannot
be continued unless June 30 food
price levels can be restored to the
fullest extent consistent with the
recent act of Congress; (C) That
this program probably can be con
tinued and wage stability main
tained. if there is that restoration:
and (D) That the public interest
will be greatly served by the re
control of food prices which will
rermit the avoidance of wage in
flation.”
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
200,000 British Troops On Alert
000 British Troops On Aler
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For Trouble; Communications Hit
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 15.—(AP)—Terrorists threatened for a second
time to bomb the general postoffice of Palestine today after Jews
were exhorted to revolt against Britain by the outlawed Irgun Zvai
Leumi organizaion. .
As on iast night, the building was emptied and communications
systems throughout Palestine were disrupted for more than ‘an hour.
‘Bombs were not found in either case, e
. From 50,600 to 200,000 armed British troops stood guard in the
:mandate awaiting possible trouble from the Jews, aroused because
«illegal Jewish immigrants were being deported to Cyprus. :
- Another 800 illegal immigrants reached Haifa aboard a 300-ton
schooner after a 21-day voyage. All faced deportation under the
§British policy to halt lawless entrance into the country in which the
{Arab population is dominant. 1
© Irgun Zvai Leumi, which asserted authorship of the King David
Hotel bombing last month in which 91 persons were killed, called on
the Jews to revolt in a broadcast from an cutlawed radio transmit
- ter.
~ The broadcast, made over a secret radio station, urged unification
of Irgun, Hagana and the so-called “Stern Gang’—similar resistance
organizations—into a single Jewish army under an underground
- Zionist government.
Calling upon all Jews to volunteer their services either with the
army or the proposed underground government, the broadcaster said:
“We must exert our every strength against two enemies—the Brit
ish and time.”
l The underground government is needed, the broadeast said, “to
guide our constant war against those two adversaries—'no longer
will we wage a war of retribution, but a constant war.”
| The broadcast also urged Jews to stop paying taxes to the Pales~
tine government and iurn the money over to the “Irgun Zvai Leumi
| war fund.”
TRUMAN INFORMS BRITAIN U. S.
WON'T HELP DIVIDE PALESTINE
LONDON, Aug. 15—(AP)—
Authoritative sources in the Bri
tish government said torday that
the United States has refused to
participate in the plan for dividing
Palestine as recommended by a
British-American Cabinet Com
mittee of experts, leaving Britain
to cope with the problem by her
self.
President Truman made the
United States decision known in
a letter saying he could neither ac
cept nor rejegt the plan at this
time without “the support of the
American people,” - these sources
said. : :
British officials, who had made
it plain that the plan for dividing
Palestine into foWr zones in a
Federal State depended upon sup
|port of the United States, say they
feel that they have to seek a new
solution.
~ Informants said Mr. Truman had
advised Britain, as the mandatory
power, to go ahead with any action
she deemed wise under the cir
cumstances.
The government decided, how
ever, not to make public the text
or details of President Truman'’s
letter to Prime Minister Attlee.
- The President’s decision appar
ently meant that the admission of
100,000 Jews to Palestine, recom
mended by a British-American
committee of inquiry which spent
The stabilizers declared that if
essential food prices are not re
controlled and rolled back there
would have to be immediate con
WAGE STABILIZATION PROBLEM
STUDIED BY DECONTROL BOARD
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(AP)—Wages and subsidies moved up
from the background today as the Decontrol Board wrestled anew
with the issue of restoring price controls to five major food and feed
products.
The board bumped squarely into the subjeet of workers’ pay when
another federal agency, the Wage Stabilization Board, sounded a
formal plea for a rollback of food prices to prevent what it termed
“wage inflation.” .
The subsidy issue was raised
within the Decontrol Board it
self. It involves an answer to the
question of how much, if any, of
‘the $869,000,000 set aside for the
purpose should be alloted for the
‘payments. They are designed to
keep retai] prices lower but at the
same tfime represent a drain on
the' budget which that adminis
tration is trying to bring into
balance. |
. Witnesses Called
Before members could turn
their full attention to either of
those side problems, however,
they summoned the last 31 of
nearly 100 witnesses to wind up
four days ol public hearings. Up
for argument today was the
specific question of price ceilings
on milk, butter, cheese and a long
list of other dairy products.
Congress allowed thes, along
with' grains, meats, cottonseed
and soybeans, to remain free
from price lids until August 20.
Then all will go back under June
30 price maximums unless the
board decides controls are un
necessary. .
Rollback Demand
Public members W. Willard
Wirtz and Phillip L. Garman of
the wage stabilization board is
sued the rollback demand in a let
ter to Decontrof Board Chair
man Roy ‘L. Thompson in which
HOME,
months in investigating the situa
tion both in Europe and Palestine,
would be postponed beyond the
end of the year. .
British and American commit
tees headed by Herbert Morrison,
.Lord President of the Council, and
Henry F. Grady of the U. S. State
Department then ' spent several
!weeks in London discussing im
plementation of the inquiry com
;mittee‘s report. They agreed on
\the division plan, with the im
migration of 100,000 refugees to be
}dependent upon the working out
of the long-range scheme.
Both Arabs and Jews have de
clared the scheme, at least in
many of its phases, was unaccept~
able. Jews were particularly in
censed by failure to provide for
the immediate admission of at
least 100,000 of their number.,
Meanwhile, a British spokesman
said the U. 8. State Department
had acknowledged “courteously”
Britain’s representations on the
question of American financial
support for illegal immigration to
Palestine, and had promised an
inquiry.
- In banning the #léw of further
unauthorized immigrants to Pales
tine, the British charged the traf
fic was highly organized and
financed, and declared the finan
ieing came largely from sources in
the United States.
sideration of several basic wage
stabilization issues, including:
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they wrote:
“Unless the prices of essential
foods are recontrolled and rolled
back the wage problems simp
ly cannot thereafter b, met. un
less there i clear notice that
the stabilization purpose is to be
carried out on all fronts, it can
be effective on none.”
The issue of the subsidies has
been raised frequently during the
hearings by both Daniel W. Bell,
former acting director of the bud
get, and George H. Mead, Dayton,
0., Industrialist and Republican
member.
Farm and trade spokesmen. in=
sisted it would be much wiser to
drop all food subsidies at once and
dllow the money to stay in the
treasury.
Albert Goss master of the Na
tional Grange said the subsidies
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SMOKE SNAFU
BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Aug.
15.—(AP)—Smoke was pour
ing from all the windows of
the Kern County Fair’s main
exhibit building. As firemen
from eight companies unlim
bered their hose, a gas-mask
ed figure staggered out and
motioned them to hold off.
The State Guard, it devel
oped, was studying chemical
warfare and had accidentally
set off six smoke bombs.
