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Domestic unrest in Iran, higNigh{ed by two strikes of 50,000 workers which. paralyzed vital I_3r.it
;~}r"‘ht'id oil fields for weeks, may compel Great Britain to move armed forces into Iran. The British
sovernment owns over half of the Anglo-Iraman oil Company, whose Khuzistan wells are the
:.1 in the Middle East, producing 17,000,000 tons in 1945, lran‘ has protested recent dispatch
C;AL-‘u';h troops from India to southern Iraq and has demanded withdrawal of British forces now
b concentrated on Iran-Iraq border.
U. S. Plane Radios
Receiving Tracer
Fire-Then Silence
TRIESTE, Aug 19—(AP)—
An American army plane en
route from Vienna to Udine
was hours overdue this after
noon and the last message
radioed from the plane said
tracer bullets were streaking
past it. After that there was
silence. .
Discuss Politics
While On Vacation
QUONSET POINT, R. I. Aug.,
19—(AP) — President Truman
tarried a while in* this New En
gland Naval Air Station today
tc thumb through White House
cortespondence and greet offi
cial callevs.
He described ihe - seheduled
visit to Gov. John O, Pastore
and Solicitor General J; How
ard McGrath at 10 a. m, @s
ctrictly a friendly call without
noiitical significarce.
T.ue President, tunned by sun
ard sea winds, decked ‘here at
4 p. m., yesterday aboard the U.
§. S, Williamsburg after a leis
urely cruise from Washingion.
Talking with Trecporters, he
refused to be drawn into anyz
discussion of either. politics or
«'fairs of state, emphasizing that
thie is simply a summer vaca
tion cruise and nrothing more.
He bristled when a New En
ciand repo-ter asked if signifi
caire could be atlached to his
“ailure to invite” Sena‘or
Theodore Francis Green (D-RI)
to call tomorrow.
Senator Green, he said, is one
of t}lw best friends he hag in the
world.
He added, too, that he had in
viteq nobody, since he was con
cerned solely with enjoyment of
his 18-day vacaticn He planned
to exchange official greetings
w'th the governor, and McGratn,
a former governor.
POSSE CLOSING DRAGNET AROUND SWAMP AREA:
ENTIRE NEGRO FAMILY SOUGHT BY. MANHUNT FOR
AMBUSHING OF FOUR POLIGE IN NORTH CAROLINA
MAGEE, Miss., Aug, 19 -—
(AP) — Mayor O. J. Biglane of
Magee said today that a posse of
two or three -aundreq officers
aud citizens was hunting down
a family of negroes after a se
ties of shooting in Sullivan Hol
low last night, and that one of
tte negroes had been shot and
taptureq by state palice. »
The negroes, members of wie
Albert Craft family, ave sou;,mt
fonnegtion with the * dshooting
«nd wounding of four white men,
(ne of them seriously, and the
Biing upon two staie police, Big
lane said. y
The negro captured, one of
‘itee of the Craft brothers, was
brougat into Magee thig morning.
Biglane said that the state po
e was engaged’icday in a con
terted search of the wocded
“sea for the entira Craft family .
of 7 or 8 person.
Magee City =~ Marshal Ellis
Bishoo told this sfory:
At sundown Sunday, an auto-
Mobile bearing v/hite passen
“er: attempteq to pass an old
Wood truck, containing several
feroes, on higaway 20 near the
“mith-Simpson county line.
As the automobile dreyw along
“lCe, one of the negroes jumped
‘Ut of the truck and fired a
Shoteun into the car. No one
Wac hl"‘f. i
\’_‘The incident occurred between
df%ee and Mize, :
. The white ‘men reported ihe
sz‘cnlent to the Mize city mar-
S:‘al. Whose name Wwaeg not obH=
Efl.)ed. He summoned Smith
unty Sheriff Blynn Hester, who
ATHENS BANNER-HERAILD
EVIDENCE OF HITLER'S SECRET
INVASION PLANS MADE PUBLIC
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(AP)
—Fresh evidence of Hitler's re
solve to invade Czechoslovakia
and Russia while talking peace
came today from a mass of offi
cial Nazi documents published by
Justice Robert H. Jackson’s war
crimes prosecution staff.
The Fuehrer's blueprint for an
invasion of England that never
came off also was included in the
first of a series of eight bulky
volumes to be issued as a supple
ment ot testimony submitted at
the 'Nuernberg trial of 21 top
Nazi leaders.
Much of the evidence, includ
ing the British invasion plan,
was said by prosecution officials
to be new. It was omitted from
the Nuernberg record as not
bearing directly on the Allied
charges that, the Nazi state plot
ted and waged aggressive war
and pereptrated countless crimes.
Some had been introduced piece
meal.
The supplementary documents,
culled from nearly 2,000 seized
by Allied investigators, included:
1. The Nazis’ detailed 1938
master plan for war, to begin
with an attack on Czechoslova
kia.
9. Hitler’s “most secret” memo
randum written months before
the Munich peace crisis stating
that ‘ll is my unalterable decis
ion ot smash Czechoslovakia by
military action in the near fu
ture.”
3. The German high command’s
directive for the assault on Rus
sia, dated March 13, 1941, three
months before the attack started,
and instructions for deceptive
measures to be taken in advance.
4. A staff officer’s memoran
dum stating that Hitler on Octo
ber 29, 1940, was ‘“occupied with
the question of the occupation of
the Atlantic islands with a view
to the prosecution of war against
America at a later date.”
5. A mass of reports on the 1943
deputized Ree Ainsworth, Mize
farmer, and Glaston Sullivan,
Re-Surfacing Is
Begun Today Op
Milledge Avenue
A called meetinz of the Mayor
and Council is slateq for 6:30
co'clock Monday for the purpese
of considering re-surfacing of
additional. principal streets that
have already beaen paved but
have become wor n by mauny
years usage.
Meanwaile re-surfacing of
Milledge avenue, which recently
was made a part of the State
Il'ghway System was begun
during Monday morning. This is
regirdeq as vne of the most
important steps taken in some
ume toward putting the main
sireets of Athens inio good shape.
The re-surfacing program Is
reing carried out by a company
that brought its machinery to
+hic area to re-surface Prince
Avenue and Broad streets and
‘highwave in this section by the
J4-ghway Department. Whila the
achinery is here the Mayor
zad Council als6 authorized the
lre-surfacing of other streets, in
cluding College and a short por
{tion of Broad.
The re-surfacing program is
not connecteq with the street
paving program to be carried out
by the City which involves put
{ine other streets into good shape.
Full Associated Press Service ~ Athens Ga., Monday August 19, 1946.
destruction of the Warsaw Ghet~
to, carried out by the SS Black
shirts on official orders to act
with the “greatest severity.” Some
14,000 Jews were “exterminated,”
aside from possibly 6,000 who
died in explosions and fires.
6. A report by Alfred Rosen
berg to Hitler listing 5,255 paint
ings and thousands of other
looted art objects stored in spec
ially dispersed air raid shelters
-early in 1943.
Hitler’'s general order to pre
pare for operation “sea lion,” an
invasion of England, was dated
July 16, 1940, and called for a
“surprise” crossing of the Chan
nel behind mine barriers. These
were counted on to hold the Brit
fsh navy at bay while the Luft
waffe and cross channel guns
cleared the way for assault
eraty. 2 g 2 i
Britain’s Royal -Air Farce
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GRAND JURY MEETS
ATHENS, Ala, Aug, 19 —
(AP) —-A special grand jury
was formed here tcday to inves
tipate the Aug., 10 race riot in
which an undetermined numkter
of negroes were kicked and
beaten and 10 white persons,
aged 13 to 41, were arrested. ‘
EXTENSIVE UNDERGROUND ACTIVITIES EXPECTED:
British Throw Rigid Cordon Around Palestine Port
TAIFA, :Palestine, Aug. 19—
(AP)—British troops clamped a
rigid cordon around the port area
of this city today following a
tumultuous weekend in which a
group of illegal Jewish immigrants
attempted unsuccessfully to scuttle
Mize case operater.
The four went to a “iouse on
the Mt.. Olive road where ‘the
negroes were believed, to be.
As the four white men ap
proached the house, the occu
pants opened fire “in all dirsc
tions.”
Sullivan’s rigat arm ~ was
rearly torn off with a .charge
of heavy buckshot, which went
through his elbow.
Hester was critically wounded
and the Mize city marsaall Ic
-cived shotgun peilets “all over
his body.”
The fourth member of tae paity
was wounded, but not seriously.
Members of the state highway
patrol went to the house Surday
nigat but the negroes had flad
to a swamp, in the region of
Mize, Magee and Mt. Olive.
WHEAT WASTING
SPOKANE, Wash,, Aug., 19—
(AP) — Three million bushels
of wheat in the Pacific north
west, left begging for storage
stace because of an unpreceden
ted crop and a shortage of rail
road cars, are veing pileg in
great mounds on the ground at
the mercy of the weather, a
survey disclosed tfoday.
In the Big Bend country and
other eastern Washington areas
wnaere the warvest is nearing its
finish, railroad sou:ces said 2,-
000.000 bushels of grain have
been spilled out in the open
near elevators, alcng their rights
of way alone.
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CALCUTTA, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Moslems and Hindus killed each other at a slackened pace today ir
the stinking streets of Calcutta, which in four days have been strewn with 2,000 to 3,000 corpses.
The situation was the quietest sinee Friday when the rival factions started the most ghastly riots
in Calcutta’s turbulent history, quarreling over differences regarding the British proffer of independ=
ence.
Situafion Considered Quietest Since Friday;
Police Consfanily On Alerf For New Violence
Sporadic shooting continued.
Eerie cries rang through the
streets. Bodies were piled here and
there, many of them &ead four
days and picked by vultures. Many
were bloated. The danger of an
epidemic which might dwarf the
present number of casualties
mounted by the hour. ;
Several thousands lay wounded.
The food situation worsened as
stores remained closed.
Looting was rife. Police blotters
were filled with accounts of wo
men sadistically raped, mutilated,
then butchered or burned with
their families. One seven year old
rape victim was removed to a
hospital in a critical condition.
- The Moslem-Hindu battling con
tinued during the night 'in many
localities of this sprawling city of
1,250,000 popuiation, although
police restored a semblance of or
der in the Eastern and Northern
sections.
British troops, supported by light
tanks and civilian police, patrolled
the streets, many of which were
clogged with bloated bodies. Some
corpses have been lying in the sun
Final Rites Held
Sunday Afternoon
For Mrs. Dußose
Last rites for Mrs. Robert
Toombs Dußose, widely knawn
and greatly beloved Atheng wo
man who died Saturday, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at
tae home of the deceased’s son,
Bolling S. Dußose, followed by
interment in Oconee Cemetery
alongside the last resting place
‘of her husband, who pre-deceas
ed her bv seventeen years.
_Funeral services were condue
ted»by Dr. Harvey C. Holland,
Fastor .of = PFirst Methodist
Church of which Mrs. Dußose
was a devout member. Dr. Hol
land was assisted by Rev. .T.
Walter Dickson, assistant paster
o{ the First Presbyterian Caurch,
and Rev. Charles Kopp, Baptist
minister of Greensboro,’ Ga. :
A large concource of friends
and relatives from Athens and
other parts of t{he state were
present to pay final ftribute to
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a transport assigned to deport them
to Cyprus. f
Tension mounted th{'oughout the
Holy Land as a result of the Bri
tish deportation policy and re
'ports were published in London
that all underground groups in
Palestine to launch a nation-wide
offensive "today.
Bren Carriers :
| The first infantry division, using
bren carriers, mounted guard in
this city. after the Cyprus-bound
transport Empire Heywood return
ed to Haifa following the un-
Successful attempt to scuttle her
yesterday.
The British had used tear gas
and fire hoses to drive 640 illegal
immigrants from the transport
Fenice, on which they arrived here
from Europe last week, onto the
Empire Heywood for transship
ment to a refuge camp being pre
pared for 10,000 persons on Cy
prus. The Empire Heywood finaliy
’left port yesterday morning, but
returned less than an hour later
after two small bombs exploded
in her hold.
No Defense Against Afom; U. 5. War
To Conquer World Seen By Scientist
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—(AP)—An American war to conquer
the world was advanced by atomic scientist Harold G. Urey today
as one of three choices presented by the A-bomb’s very existence.
Of .the other two—continuing to build up a stockpile of the
bombs, or devising “adequate” international control — only the
latter can avert a major conflict, said the noted chemist who had
a major part in developing the world’s most awesome weapon.
Declaring that “there is no military defense against the atom
bomb” and that “it is impossible to prevent others from discover
ing our secrets for themselves,” Dr. Urey wrote:
“There appear to be only three possible courses of action open
to us. The first is to do just what we have been doing in the past.
We will build sarge stockpiles of atom bombs and other weapons,
and large numbers of airplanes and rockets to deliver them. The
end of this course of action is complete destruction of our civil
ization. -
“The second alternative is the waging within a few years of
another world war, with the frank purpose of conquering the
world and ruling it as we desire, and pg‘eventing any other sov
ereign nation from developing mass weapons of war, this is a
possible course of action.
“The third alternative lies in an adequate international control
of the atom bomb and other major weapons es war. It is well to
keep our attention in this respect on the atom bomb because it
will be by far the easiest to control internationally.”
Dr. Urey is professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago.
ESTABLISHIED 1882,
since Friday, thus posing a serious
health problem and presenting the
possibility of an epidemic.
Three carlods of bodies were
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New York State
Eiections Cause
Wild Speculation
WASHINGTON, Aug, 19 —
(AP) —New York voters -write
an indirect verdict on the 79th
Congress tomorrw. Their prima
ry may prove whether the re
¢ent trend that has bowled
over some prominent midwest
ern incumbentg is likely to car
ry over in the populous east.
Three torrid congressional
races, one of which involyes
a measure of Gov. Thomasz E.
Dewey’s prestige in his home
gistrict, w@ighlight battles in
which party candiates for 45
seats—a tenth of the member
~hiv of the House — will be
picked.
In New York City’s . “Silk
Stocking” 17th Distriet, incum
bent Joesph Clark Baldwin is
being opposed for the Repuhli
can nomination by S;ate Sena
tor Frederick R. Coudbert, ir.,
packed by the regular GOP or
ganization. -
Toe race presents somewhat
similar aspects to that in Wis
ronsin last week where Senator
Robert M. Lafollette, jr., former
Frogressive, sought to buck the
regular Republican organization
and was defeated.
Baldwin has voled with the
Demoeratic administration on
some maior issues. %
‘Whatever the outcome of "'5
Renublican™ primayy. Baldwin |
certain of going into the No
vember election since he is nun
oprosed for the American Lahor
rarty nomination.
In Harlem’s 22nd District the
Renublican orranization has
thacked Grant Reynolds, voung
negro former <erviece man, o op
ncse Rep. Adam C. Powell, ir.,
negra inenmbent who is trvinT
to vepeat his feat of two yea:'s‘!
ago when he won both major
No Damager
A British announcement said the
bombs caused no damage or
casualties, but were “introduced
into the hold with the apparent
object of blowing a hole in the side
of the vessel.”
Eight hundred other illegal im
migrants, who arrived here aboard
the refugee schooner ‘23, were
transferred without incident yes
terday to the troopship Empire
Rival, which then left for Cyprus.
Meanwhile, troops sought to
maintain order at Tel Aviv, where
a mass meeting yesterday to pro
test the deportation policy ended
in violence when a group of
cudgel-swinging youths climbed
onto the speakers’ platform.
Microphones Used
The youths seized microphones
and tired to exhort the crowd t()l
protest against the scheduled exe
cution of 18 Jews sentenced last
Friday for a bomb raid on Haifa
railway shops. The public address
system was switched off and con
iservatives fought extremists forl
half -an hour before the mob was
Idispersed. ‘
parked in the middle of Harrison
road. One of the centers of the
fighting. Some were covered with
water from open hydrants. Vui
tures picked at the remains.
~ The fighting spread to the
Hooghly river, where approxi
mately 50 vessels, beronging mostly
to Hindus, were burned. Two
factories on the Western bank of
the river were set afire.
~ The Calcutta fire brigade, which
' has answered more than 1,200 calls
since the rioting started four days
ago, was summoned 400 times yes
terday.
Nevertheless, an official state
ment said that the situation had
“improved.” Peace committees at
tempted to quell the violence.
Hundreds of families, carrying
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PEACEMAKERS SHIFT INTO LOW
GEAR: LONG TALKS BOG ACTION
PARIS; Aug., 19 —(AP)—The
Feace Conference +went into i*s
fourth week in low gear today as
the Italian economic committee
Lecame involved in a lengthy
discussion of how various chap
ters of the Italian treaty should
be divided between it and tae
political committee.
Committees for the Finnish
and Hungarian treaties also be
gan deliberations.
France touched off the dis
ctlssion with a suggestion that
the economi¢c committee include
cn itg agenda article 72, which
<ets up a conciliation commission
in“case of disputes over Italian
| Russia supported the proposal,
and Deputy Foreign Minister
Andei Visainsky said it should
be ‘adopted as & general prinei
ple that all questiorns ‘“of a pre
dominantly economic nature”
should be considered as falling
within the commiitee’s scope.
Brazil, Yugoslavia, the United
Stateg, Greece , Belgium and
“White Russia all joineg in the
Gebate, agreeing *hat practically
a'l chapters of the treaty aave
both economic and political as
nects. and that consultation with
tne Political Committee was
necessary to establish some line
(The London Daily Graphic said
in a dispatch from Jerusalem that
the British Army Intelligence had
obtained documents purporting to
show that all British underground
organizations planned an offensive
throughout the Holy Land today.
The dispateh said that 50,000
British troops would mount double
guards on all public buildings and
police stations in Palestine. It said
that Hagana planned to attack
police stations; Irgun Zavi Leumi
would bomb public buildings and
the Stern gang would try to ass
assinate five high-ranking officials.
TAKE GREAT PAINS TO PRESERVE SECRECY:
OPA AGENCY AND NEW DEC ONTROL BOARD HUSTLING
TOMEET RESPECTIVE DEAD LINES SET BY CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(AP)
—Two government agencies—OPA
and the Price Decontrol Board—
hugstled today to complete major
assignments in the time alloted
them by Congress.
With “substantial progress” to
ward a decision reported, the
three-man decontrol board resum
ed deliberations on whether price
ceilings should be restored on
meats, dairy products, grain, cot
tonseed, soybeans and hundreds of
items made from these commodi
ties.
The board, which may wind up
discussion by nightfall, is planning
to announce its ruling at 7 p. m.
(E.S.T.) tomorrow—just five
hours before the deadline set by
Congress.
Unless it acts by midnight Tues
day, ceilings automatically go back
on the five categories of commo
dities the next day.
~ OPA meanwhile raced time on
two fronts: .
1. If the board re-establishes
control, OPA must be ready. to
anneunce quickly what the ceilings
will be on major food products and
other items.
2. It must place in effect by
Saturday many more of the price
increases required by the new
price control law.
" These include a price hike of at
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FIRST GERMAN GIRL TO MARRY
AMERICAN LEGALLY
Mrs. Margarete Roth is reported to be the first German girl i
to marry American in Germany legally since Army ban sn such
marriages, here looks longingly at picture of husband Joseph C.
Roth, Philadelphia, Pa., former GL
of demarcation.
The Hungarian political and
!ierritorial committee chose Aus
tralian delegate A. T. Stirling as
its vice chairman. and adjourned
ofter ideciding Hungary saould
make a written request to appear
béfore the committed.
The Finnish political and ter
sitorial commiltee rejected a
Russian proposal that it emme
diately begin study of the trea
tr's clauses without waiting for
receipt of amendments, from
which there is a Tuesday mid
night deadline.
Tae vote produced the sare
Esast-West split that has charac
-levized Peace Conference baliot
ing. The affirmative votes were
Russia. Czechoslovagia, Ukraine
and: White Russia. Voting in op
rosition were: Australia, Canada,
Great Britain, India, New Zeal
and and South Africa. France
an: the United States did not
vote,
WEATHER
/ ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clear to partly cloudy and
not quite so warm this aft
ernoon, tonight and Tuesday.
GEORGIA: Partly cloudy
today, tonight and Tuesday:
scattered thundershowers this
afternoon and evening, most
ly over the south portion;
ceoler Tuesday over north
portion.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total isnce August 1 .... .25
Deficit since August 1 ... 2.60
Average August rainfall . 4.67
Total since January 1 ....35.51
Excess since January 1 .. 1.86
TAVERN BRAWL
SWEDESBORO, N. J., Aug. 19
—(AP) — It was cll quiet along
the Swedesboro front today—and
Pgolice Chief J. H. Eastlack says
tae “Tavern Brawl” Saturday
n:ght which prompieg a call for
.fq!ate troopers is a ‘“closed” af
air.
least 2.5 per cent on refrigerators,
and higher ceilings for virtually
all kinds of building materials.
Hunter Mistakes
Hat For Turtle;
Woman Is Killed
LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 19—
(AP)—A crownless hat which a
squirrel hunter mistook for a
turtle caused the death of Mrs.
Elizabeth C. Pfaff, 40, of Logans
port, as she fished in Wabash
river yesterday.
Prosecutor Harry V. Tutwilder
said a 28-year-old Peru Brake
man, Carl W. Coppernoll, told him
he fired at what he thought was
a turtle along the river bank. The
bullet struck Mrs. Pfaff, wound
ing her fatally.
Coppernoll was held in jail here
and Tutwiler said he probably
would file charges of involuntary
manslaughter. The hunter told the
prosecutor he could just see a hat
over the bank and could not see
the woman, who was fishing from
a boat. He said his brother, Wesley
Coppernoll, who was hunting with
him, warned him not to shoot, but
at the moment the head and hat
lmoved. and he fired.
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Mother Moans One
Son’s Death And
Another’'s Marriage
NEW YORK, Aug. 19—
(AP)—-Mrs. Maria Corridere
put on something black yes
terday and went sadly to the
city morgue where she identi
field the body of her son,
Joseph, 18, shot by police who
said they saw him snatch a
wallet. That was at 4:30 a. m.
Twelve hours later she de
terminedly donned sometihing
lighter and went to St
Joseph’s Church, the Bronx,
where another son, Dominick,
was wed. The party and guests
departed. She remained to
pray.
Cop’s Judgment
Saves Many Lives
In Recent Twister
MANKATO, Minn., Aug., 19—
(AP} — A village policeman
wae hailed today as a cool
headeq hero who possibly saved
many lives durwg tornadoces
which struck two communities
Saturday night, kiliing seven pe:-
sons and iniuring about 75.
As the twister approached
Wells, Minn., Patrolman Artanr
Danks was standiiig in front of
the village theater. He ordered
the theater doors closed and
then asked the 400 patrons in
the auditorium to remain seat
ed. The tornado swept along the
‘three-block main street, damag
isg every building; The rear
part of the theater roof collaps
ed. but no one was injured.
Elsewhere in the town, about
25 persons were injured. The
tornado struck during the Sat
urday night shopping rush.
The six fatalities were all at
Mankatp. wheve ‘a twister din
ved momentarily from th,. sky
to demolish a 22-cabin tourist
camp, and damaged several farm
bhuildings. About 50 persons wrere
ininred in tha Mankato area.
Killed in the Mankato storm
were: Gerald Nurre, Bancroft,
Is.. Donald Nelson, Butterfield,
Minn.; Leroy Nelson, 23, Wel
come, Minn.; Donalg J. Wirig,
Mankato: and Mrs. Alle, Wat
land, Minneapolis.
Coal prices may nave to be
[raised, too, and an increase may
‘be authorized for woolen textiles
and garments.
~ Also on tap is a decision whether
ceilings on new automobiles—
boosted an average of 7.3 per cent
last week—should be raised an
other 3 per cent. Officials said this
latter adjustment may be handled
on an individual dealer basis and
that all car sellers may not qualify.
Word that the decontrol board
has made substantial progress was
given to a reporter last night by
a spokesman for the three mem
bers. The report came when the
board recessed after a more than
10-hour Sunday session. ;
The spokesman said the board
still had “two or three things to
decide” but that members had
given no indication of what these
were nor any hint of what issues
may have been settled.
Farm Bureau Chief
Kiwanis Speaker
Tuesday, 1 O’clock ™™
H. L. Wingate, Macon, presi
dent of the Georgia Farm Bureau
¥ederation will be the princinal
speaker at the Kiwanis elub
meeting Tuesday at 1 o'clock at
‘he Holman Hotel.