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FRANCE PRODUCES BUMPER FOOD CROP
The traditional French farmer, thrifty lover of the land, has been rewarded this season by a
near-record crop—answering almost as though by Providence the urgent need for food in war-shat
tered Europe. In the fertile Rhone valley and the rich hills of Brittany, fields are covered with
solden grain and green acres of ripe vegetables greet the eager harvesters. Here a group of chil
dren join their parents in making the most of the bumper crop by getting it ready for market.
FEARLY MORN’ BRAWL:
BOMBAY, Sept. 3.—(AP)—A communique said today that 81 per
<ons had been killed and 300 injured since Sunday in violent Hindu-
Moslem rioting in this teeming city, where new commual fights
{lared early this morning.
The city still simmered with the threat of widespread disturbances
and strong forces of troops and police were on duty, following pre
dawn outbursts in zones outside the area where a curfew was im
posed yesterday.
L M R el LRk e ee S i T e i
Wartime Romance
Dies Violently In
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Sept 3.—
(AP)—A wartime romance born
in England died violently in La
bor Day gunplay in this resort
town which calls itself the West’s
last frontier.
The principals were dark-hair
ed, dark-eyed Bridget Waters, 26
and pretty; baldish Frank Waters
38, her estranged husband whom
she accused in a bitter separation
trial last July of deserting her:
and their wide-eyed, chubby, 16-
month-old son, Frank, jr.
Waters was killed with a single
shot through the heart from a .22
caliber pistol yesterday, Police
Chief George Thompson report
ed, as Waters sat with the baby
on the floor of the home where
his Irish wife was employed as a
nurse. The tot’s knee was creased
by the bullet.
Mrs. Waters, tearful and at
times hysterical, was booked by
police for investigation of mur
der. Thompson quoted her as
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DCT Program Provides High School
Fducation, Practical Job Experience
Diversified Cooperative Tra}n
ing Program, designed for High
Schoo] juniors and seniors who
would prefer oceupational train
in in school to a straight col
lege preparatory course, will _be
resumed this year at Athens High
School after being discontinued
during the war years.
The program known as DCT,
makes it possible for studentg to
attend school classes in the morn
ling and work part time in the
afternoon Ahus gettihg ' & basic
education together with practical
experience in their chosen occu
pation, !
Students in the DCT proram
will attend {wo regular classes in
English, Mathematics, History or
science then have two classes
relating to their chosen occupa
tion. One class relating to work
In general, covering some busi
ness law, health safety insurance,
taxes and other subjects impor
tant to all employes. The other
Is specifically related to their af
ternoon work in which a student
desiring employment after grad
uation ag g radio repairman
Would study radio theory elec
tronics, and shop procedure. In
the afternoon this same student
Would be working in a radio shop
te gain practical experience.
The program is desigr~d to
brovide both a High Schoo] edu
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
. Police were reported to have
’opened fire three times during the
rmoming to quell outbreaks, with
estimated casualties of 10 Kkilled
and 50 injured. :
Two persons were killed and
eight injured when Bombay police
fired 22 rounds this morning to
disperse two armed mobs n s
street battle on Victoria Gardens
road. The mobs hurled stones,
sticks and sodawater bottles.
The violence spread to the
northern part of the city, ‘where
several assaults and stabbings oc
cured. Two shops were looted. The
police shot a man at one of the
shops.
No meat was available in the af
fected areas and tram and bus
traffic was paralysed.
111-feeling bgtween Hindus and
Moslems has been intensified by
the Moslem League’s refusal to.
participate in the government—set
us as a preliminary step in the
British plan for Indian Indepen
dence. :
After taking the oath of office
yesterday as head of the new gov
ernment. Congress party President
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru pledged
himself to govern the nation “for
the Indians” and indicated he was
considering a 10-year program to
improve their lot. |
At the same time, Mohandas K.
Gandhi declared at a prayer meet
ing in New Delhi that the Con
gress party “could never ally with
Britain against the Moslems.”
cation and practical job exper
ience to the student who piang to
commehce work upon gradua
tion. It had its origin in Georgia
| in 1938 and was spreading rapid
| ly before the war reduceed teach
ing staffs and limited facilities.
lNow, DCT is again available in
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'Children Register
| .
‘Thursday, Friday
| Parents of all children expect
ing to attend cily schools which
open September 9, are reminded
‘that the children must be regis
tered Thursday or Friday, Septem
ber 5 or 6.
The children are to register at
the school which they will attend
lon one of the two days, between
‘the hours of 9 a. m. 2nd 5 p. m.
lmany of the communities and the
|Stat(_3 Department of Education is
supporting this progressive edu
cationa]l] movement in every way
possible. Most southern states and
| many others are building similar
| programs based on the form of
the original Georgia plan.,
| It is pointed out that between
iBO and 90 percent of High School
graduates seek employment with
‘no practical experience and this
program will provide that ex-
Iperience and will furnish to the
lstudent a DCT certificate in ad
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Full Associated Press Service Athens Ga., Tuesday September 3, 1946.
306 Persons Meet
Violent Deaths
On Holiday Weekend
By The Asso?ated Press
More than 300 persons suf
fered violent deaths as the na
tion celebrated its final ex
tended holiday week end of
the summer.
At least 306 persons were
killed, including 217 in traffic
mishaps. The council had
estimated 350 persons would
die from public accidents over
the holiday weekend, includ
ing 210 in traffic accidents.
The 306 total compared with
361 violent deaths for the 1945
Labor Day holiday and 245 for
Labor Day weekend in 1944.
Only one state—Nort h Da-
Kota—reported no violent
deaths. California led the
states in violent deaths with
29, including 25 traffic fatali
ties.
Totals by states, listed as
traffic, drownings and mis
cellaneous causes. included:
Alabama 4 3 0: Florida 2 1 1:
Georgia 4 1 2; Mississippi
2 0 0; South Carelina 7 0 2;
Terinessee 4 0 0.
B. F F ]- F D t. Rd t.
.PARIS, Sept. 3.—(AP)—“Big Four” recommendations that the Italian army, navy and airforce be limited to 297,500 men—only a
fraction of war-time strength—were approved unanimously today by the military commission of the 21-nation peace conference.
Under the approved provisions, Italy is permitted to have an army of 250,000 (including 65,000 Carabinieri), a navy of 22,500, and an
airforce of 25,000. i
She is barred from possession of aircraft carriers and her land aifrorce is restricted to 200 fighter and reconnaissance planes with
an additional 150 transport and training planes. . »
The Military Commission ac
cepted the foreign ministers’
draft setting the strengta of the
Carabinieri (State Police) at 65,-
600 after Yugoslavia withdrew
an amendment to limit the force
to 30.000.
. Without debate the Military
Commission adopteg all but one
of the naval limitation articles
drafted by the Foreign Ministers
Council, including one on Italian
possassion of aivcraft carriers
and submarines, .
Approval of “Big Four” rec
ommendations to i'mit the Ital
ian fleet to two battleships, fzur
cruisers and four destroyers and
restrictions on other smaller
warcraft wag delayed pending
study of a French amendment
to qualify the wording of the
treaty.
Tae French propcsal did not
seck to change the number of
shios.
Other provisions of the naval
I'iaitation a-ticles which were
apnroved included: .
Surplus fleet wnits, — in
cliuding the battle ghips “Sesare,”
“Tialia,” and *“Viiorio Vento” —
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and moderately war
mer tonight and Wednesday.
GFEORGIA: Clear to partly
cloudy with moderate tem
peratures today, tonight and
Wednesday.
TEMPERATURE
Aehest 0 oo e
Looiest ... o 0 e
DOBEEY oo iy st irak Vi ikl
Nomms . 357188
RAINFALL :
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .0C
Total since Sept. 1 .. ~. .00
Deficit since Sept. 1 .... .24
Average Sept. rainfall ... 3.46
Total since January 1 ....37.18
Excess since January 1 .. 1.5%7
Rejection Note Indirectly Tells
U. S, ‘To Mind Its Own Business’
.MOSCOW, Sept. 3—(AP)—
Russia has rejected American
expression of concern relative to
Bilateral Soviet-Swedish trade
neotiations in note in which the
official Russian news agency
said the United States was told.
in effect, to mind its own business
Tass, the Russian news agency,
announced the rejection last.
night and quoted the note of re
jection as saying that the ‘Soviet
government—and it may be as-.
sumed the government of Sweden
—are not in need of consulta
tion with the United States gov
grnment on the question of the
advantage or disadvantage they
wil] reap from trade agreements.”
(Sweden in efefct, rejected the
U. S. note—in which the hope was
expressed that Russia would not
undertake any obligations in con
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MOURNS BABY'’S DISAPPEARANCE
Mrs. Jayne Sorcic, 20-year-old- Nashville, Tenn., nightclub
photographer, looks at a photo of her two-year-old son Jackie
who was kidnaped from the bedroom of their home in Nashville.
Mrs. Seorcic told police that she thought her estranged husband,
John Sorcic, a Chicago, 111., laborer knew “something about the
abduction.”
would be transferreq {o the gov
ernment of the United States,
Russia, Britain and France with
in three months afler signing of
the treaty.
No¢ battleships cculd be con
siructed or acquired by Italy.
During tae perinog of post-wa:
minesweeping, Italy would be
vermitted to employ an addi
tional 2,500 officers and men in
her navy abeove the 22,500 tetal.
YIOE HoTRL NN
KING GEORGE !l OF GREECE
EXPECTED HOME IN 3 WEEKS
LONDON, Sept. 3—(AP)—
King George II of Greece de
scribed by a confidant as “a very
happy man” today, intends to re
turn to Athens in two or three
weeks, a government spokesman
said, thus ending his second exile
since 1924.
The returns from = Sunday’s
plebiscite on the Monarch’s re
turn to his throne were still run
ning at better than two to one for
King George and dispatches from
Paris said Premier Constantine
Tsaldaris of Greece, -iow attend
ing the peace conferencee, might
confer with the King today or
tomorrow.
The influential Times, com
menting editorially, viewed the
results of the plebiscite as a sig
nal for the withdrawal of British
guardianship and the assumption
by the Greek government of full
responsibility for the peace and
welfare of the country. 9
The Conservative Daily Tele
graph called the resuit of the bal
loting a rebuff to Russia and
Communist ‘autocracy.”
flict widh principles expressed
in a mutual aid agreement con
sluded between the United States
and Russia in 1942—when her
‘oreign officg announced last
Saturday that a Swedish dele
gation would leave for Moscow
omorrow to resume negotiations
Zx a proposed five-year agree
ment with Russia.
- (Informed officials in Washing
ton said a second note might be
glspatcheed to Moscow and Stock
holm, but that no decision had
been reached. The principal U. S.
suggestion to both nations in the
first expnression was that both
agree upon a clause specifying that
the agroement could be changed
later to conform to the Interna
tional trade oranization which the
American government seeks to
" (Continued on Page Five).
Yugoslav delegate Ales Bebler
answered Italian claims for
Trieste with a counier-claim for
» greater share of Venezia Giu
iia and accused Ivanoe Bonomi,
former Italian premier, of ex
-Iressing “ruthless, heartless syn
icism” in his speech yesterday.
Bebler told tae Italian politl~
«.] and territorial commission
that Bonomi’'s statement showfd
that Italy was “inspired by fthe
“Whatever was the calcula
tion,” the Telegraph ' said, ‘the
recent outburst of (Russian For
eign Minister V. M.) Molotov and
(Ukrainian Foreign Minister
Dmitri) Manuilsky - evidently
have not had the effect of les
sening the traditional Greek love
of independence.”
The Communist Daily Worker
commented, on the other hand,
that Greece was ‘“no longer an
independent country—-it.-is a Brit
ish Colony.”
l Democracy in Greece has been
Imurdered, and the assassin is the
labor govrnment in London,” the
Worker said.
And as king George prepared
to end his five years of exile, the
Admiralty announced that a Brit
ish Battle Fleet would follow a
U. S. Naval force into the waters
off Greece about Sept. 18. The
U. S. aircraft carrier Franklin
D. Roosevelt will send 123 fight
ing ‘planes to write ‘FDR” in the
i skies over Athens Thursday but
lthe British fleet will approach
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ARTIST’S MODEL HELD AS GESTAPO AGENT :
Just uncavered, this exclusive photo shows Grethe RBariram, 27, whom Danish officials
charge with being one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious woman Gestapo agents, at work during
the war as a nude artists’ model, a task which she used as a blind to cover treasonable acts.
Captured after the war, and charged with the deaths of 50 Danish patriots, she escaped imme
diate trial by pleading pregnancy—caused, she said by two o# her jailers. Both jailers received
two year sentences and Miss Bartram awaits trial after her confinement, and is hoping for a life
sentence.
Large Scale Civil
War Continues To
Increase In China
PEAPING, Sept., 3 —
(AP) — Chinese press dis
patches today reported
iarge scaie fighiing had flar
ed again in the Mukden Area
of Manchuria and a pro
government Peiping news
paper, Social Welfare, fore
saw a peossible government
assault on Communist-held
Harbin.
(In _ Tientsiin, the anti-
Communiist Catholic news
paper, Social Welfare, repor
ted that Gen. Lin Piao, com
mander of Communist forces in
Mauchuria, eallcd an ureent
military conference at Har
bin. It said the Communists
were making intense prepa
rations to defeng the city).
Chinese dispatches said
heavy fighting occwrred at
Tungfeng and Hailung., about
160 miles northwest of Muk
den. There were lesser bat
tlies at Anhan, Haicheng,
Huhsin, Peipiao. Faku, and
Kangping. Details were lack
ing.
same agressive spirit” of Fascisml
Bonomi said yeste:day that crea
tion of the free territory of
Trieste would result in a “per
maneht threat” 1{» Yugoslav-
Italian peace.
Bebler criticized the so-called
“Fienca-Line” agreed upon by
the Foreign Ministers Council
as establishing “the most absurd,
thc most arbitrary frontiers.”
The French line, Beblér said,
“gives the former aggressor ex
ccllent strategic position and
conkiderable §nilitory advanta
fes.” ,
“It deprives the victim of ag
eression, Yugoslavia. of any pos
sibility of organizing a more or
Te 53 stable defense line because
i* deprives her of tae possibility
»f leaning on the coast, where
the territory of Trieste, a kind of
piant bridge head, drives a deep
wedge into territo'y under Yu
goslav sovereignty,’ he added.
Mrs. W. D. Loyd Is
Taken By Death;
Hold Rites Today
Mrs. Ellen O. Loyd. one of Ath
ens' best loved women, died in a
local hospital Monday afternoon
at 2:45 o'clock. Mrs. Loyd, 52
had been ill for several months
Services were conducted Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock from
First Presbyterian church with
the pastor, Dr. Eugene L. Hill
officiating.
Burial followed in Oconee Hill
cemetery, Clyde McDorman Fun
eral Home in charge of arrange
ments. Pallbearers were Roy L
Hurst, Bill McKinnon, H. H. El
der, L. L. Lester, Abit Nix, W. H
Maxwell, Rov Bowden and Dr. J
F. Hammett.
Mrs. Lovd is survived by her
husband, W. D. Loyd; son, Har
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
RUSSIA GIVES GROUND:
U, S.-YUGOSLAV PLANE DISPUTE
MOVING SWIFTLY TO HAPPY END
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — (AP) — This country’s dispute with
Yugoslavia over the forced crashes of two American planes appeared
to be moving swiftly today toward a harmonious conclusion.
Such an ending, officials said, migh{ have the additional effect of
lessening the current tension between the United States and Russia.
Undersecretary of State William L. Clayton scheduled a late
morning news conference with the annuonced intention of issuing a
statement on the Yugoslav matter. iR e
| Officials who should know tolj
a reporter it was *“‘good specu
lation” that Clayton — heading
e State Department krt'h;*b-a
sence of both Secretary Byrnes
ai ¢ Undersecretary Dean Ches
on — would announce a new
note from Yugoslavia’s Marshal
lito, containing:
1. An official apology for the
incidents, one of which cost five
American lives.
2. Assurances that they would
nct be repeated.
Tae two army -trarsport
planes, reportedly off course be
cause of bad weather, crashed in
Yugoslavia August 9 and )
after being fireq upon by Yugo
slav fighters. | .
Government officials who have
much to do with thisi countrv’s
lelations with Russia® cite the
pessibility of am €arly Yugoslav
settlement ag one of several rea
sons why they contend that
task of an impending final ghow--
down—or even war — between
the United States snd the Soviet
Union is far-fetched. l
They sav taey fianklv expect
American-Russian relations 1o
be difficult for g lrng time — 2
case in point is the current dis
put, revolving around a pending
Soviet-Swedish trade agreement.
But they maintain that war talk
ignore the fact that Russia in
tccent months »as palled back on
soveral important fronts, rather
than becoming more aggressive.
Among the reasons these of
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DOCTORS URGE 50-BED INCREASE
IN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPACITY
' A petition signed by nineteen
Athens angq Clarke county doe
tors declaring tnat it is necessa
¢y to enlarge the bed capacity
«of the Athens General Hospital
to maintain medica! progress in
ini> community, has been receiv
¢ by the Board of Trustees of
the Hospital and the Boarg us
County Commigsioners. No ac
tion «las been taken.
To enlarge the bed capacity.of
the Hospital will require an ad
ditional wing which wiil co¢t ap
proxmately $150,000, it ‘3 report-
L‘d.
At the present time the Gen
eral Hospital, owned bv the
county, has a bed gapacity for
sxty patients.- Toe doctors urge
that space for fifty additional
Leds be provided. !
Recently the X-Ray Depart=
rment of the Hospital was given
the east wing of the thirg floor
«ud the most madern X-ray
equipment was installed, partly
financed by citizen< who contri
kuted tie money for a cancer
clinic. Later on' radium will be
rrovided for cases reauiring ra
dium treatment. 'The Hospital is
cyuipped with machines that are
comparable to the best in use
anywhere in the State. In addi
tion to equipment for making
x-lay examinations, superficial
x-rav freatment can be given
Dr J. 1.. Barner, a recognized
radiologist. is in charge of the
Lepartment.
HOME
Withdrawal Of U, S.
Forces From China
Would Halt Strife
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2 —(AP)-—
Gen. Chou En-Lai, No. 2 Chinese
Ccmmunist, declaied today that
suspension of U. S. assistance to
the Cainese government and
withdrawal of U. S. forces from
China would make peace “imme
ciately attainable.’
He warned, however, that Chi~
na's turbulent internal situation &
was heading toward a completa
national spiit and a wholesale
erjargement of its 19-year-old
c:vil war,
In an interview before depart
isp for Nanking, ae told the As
sotiated Press that one of the
principal reasons the Kugmin
{ang (government party) dares
wage “this rutless civil war” was
ithe support extended it by thz
U. S. government, ke
He said the Soviet government
at no time rendered assistante
to the Cnienese Communist par
ty. but had aided the Kuomin
tane when it was a revolutionary
party, and later in the _early
siages of the Sino-Japanese watr.
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The petition signed by the
cloctors follows: “To: Board: of
Commissioners, Board of Trus
tces of Athens General Hospital
and people of Clarke county.
“Petition — |
r Need Enlargement
| “We the undersiened hereby
petition that Atnens General
’Hosnital be increased in bed
capacity by at least 50 beds.
’ “We do this, knowing that the
medical facilities in this commu
nty and - county ure inadequate
for the needs of the best medi
cal care of tae people, and that
by increaging the bed capacity
it will allow an expansion of the
hospital in keeping with medical
progress n our community. En
lareément will afford care of
communicable diseases, a better
equipped obstetrical department
and expansion of other depart
rients® Medical, Suigical, Labor~
atory and X-Ray.
“We, the undersigned, feel this
i« necessary angd in support of
this expapsion affix our names.
“Joan Hunnieutt, John A,
Simpson. Henrv C. Hollidav, Au~
thony H. Galis, M. A. Hubert,
H. B. Harris. J. B. Neighbors,
ir. W. H. Cabaniss, John L,
Rarner. Harry F. Talmadge., Sam
A]. Talmadge, J. A. Green. i,
Toree Winrence G O. Whelchel,
.1 Whitltey, 1. S Pallth &
H. Goldsmith, Tora Dover, Lin=
ton Gerdine =Y