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Newspaper Page Text," LOCAL COTTON % |INCH MIDDLING .. .. .. 29¢ —Vol. | 14 Has 2o 05, LEWIS NEARING SHOWDOWN IN WAGE DISPUTE COTTON EXCHANGES OF NATION SLAWNED SHUT AS PRICE CAIN TUMBLES SSO PER BALE | NEW YORK, O f'otton y(-‘((‘h‘m re e 30_(AP) ~—The ation’ oTk i hl :( !-,.43 suddenly were ‘slammed S prmclpal %\e t l‘l( time in less than two e shut toaay for King Cotton had tumbled by an ext after the price of i bale. xtreme of more than SSO lans For Traffic dline Saturday Hanaiing | ino Completion Nearing Virtually the same tratfic plan and regulations will ba in effect : 50,000 this week-end, when sr.vmes ot are expected to pack. an ¥ gadium for the Georgia-Alaba ma football game’ ae were used suceessfully for the Oklahoma & eks ago, Police game tiere two we g ,‘d this Chief E. Weldon Wood sai morning. : 5 Chief Wood sai_d that the nut:n per of local officers, policem frora other cities, rrlx)a{xb?rsar?é the State Highway Fatroi, | ROTC students at the University, ho will help in handling the who will help t 1e expected record crowd, will greatly augmented f?r tthet gazm'ae(i The game will start a : oclock and starting about noon, Lumpkin street from Broad to Five Points in both directions will ive Points in be open only to cars proce to parking places for the_ game, the chief said. He also said that al] streets emptying into Lumpg kin street, will be bloeke’d of_ for one block away from Lunz}r:n kin, starting at noon. When 4 game starts, the Caief sald. Lumpkin street will be‘”oggt?n to traffic both ways, tt})xut ey will be closed when e o quarter of the game gets un ‘ - Parking Plans Plane call for all cars parked north of Baxter street fto lb? routed north to Broad at conclu sion of the game, and for cars varked souta of Baxter to pro (Continue@ On Page Two) Alabama's 1947 - . \utmobile Tags Rust Rapidly MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 30—(AP)— Mobile License Commlsstoner Frank Bunkley says he is receivm,g complaints also that Alabama’s new 1947 automobile license plates are yielding rapidly to rust. The Mobile official said he }}ad asked his attorney for an opinion s o whether car owners could legally repaint their tags in the omglhal colors He added that some of the tags tugen rusting befors they were rrmeved {vom their packing eases, and predicted numbers on the plates would not be legible in six months, The Birmingham Age-Herald Quoted State Prison Director E. P. RHSS(‘”, whose departm?nt has general supervision of the wvlates’ Manufacture at Kilby State Prison, 8 saying he believed the rusting might have vesulted from the type 0f paint used. State Purchasing Agent W. H. Williams, was quoted as saying ’?f‘f"?\’e!’. that the paint purchased f{m the tags met all state specifica~ U\"ns\ and he believed the trouble md}' have developed from failure '0 remove all scale from the sheet Steel used for the plates. ‘ . ﬁreek Violence . R""S 27, Press eports Assert priEHEN& el .38 (AP) -~ enes "ePo°ts said today that vio -1};";7,('"‘”"“‘3(1 27 lives in . Greece - .Wi last 24 hours, with most e[.;»;;ﬁf(') [Lasualties reported in a MWirteet 25hes in the north. L €N persons, including 10 _(f,:n?e S of Leftist bands, were fierce gioV€ been killeq in one Volow ißht at Vyrsika, in the borg, JlStrict near the Turkish The ; Z.E.}E‘ghﬂreek political situation py;;?.,“‘f“d knotted, meanwhile, but Satemen, CONstantin Tsaldaris’ New ‘lerm that he would request inet genar sto dissolve tie cab dccepte. 'K Was greeted with QHZJ:‘;EA:KQ,:EH mQSt opposition Any . Vih some reservations. hop 1. oSSibility. that Archbis reaent . SKinOs, who acted 88 King GeoiN® the absence of might .26 IT during the war, ‘t"""V]-Od lead he govesriment r‘“"» be dispeiled today Kles gopr - Premier Themisto f the gLS informed the chief fat g pn ‘]m“‘* ]ﬂol*itk-al bureau Or =par ia!‘nnnt - 3 s p emier v nentary ‘ﬁgure i 2 T NGMIR E Ble 1o pie b ‘_b,e..unaccepta ‘ ATHENS BANNER-HERALD - The New York Cotton Ex daange acted swiftly this morn ing, only a few minutes before trading was to open. The New Orleans and Chicago Exchanges followed immediately. The Dallas, Tex. ,exchange re fused to close. Frank N. Knell, ‘president of ‘the New Yark Exchange, said cnly that ‘“numerous requests have been, received from ship ping centers in the cotton belt, pleading for a temporary sus pension of trading in cotton fu tures to allow for an orderly sur vey of the spot situation in the Souft.” In an apparent move to pre vent panic selling by hard-hit cotton producers, the Department of Agriculture in Washington is sued a statement €iat the cotton crop was in a “favorable statisti cal position.” The disruption of cotton trad ing in the last two weeks has been all but unprecedented. On October 8 cotton for deliv ery in December was selling at a 96-year high or 39.13 cents a pound. At the close of trading yesterday it had hit a low of 29.15 a pound, a crop of approx imately SSO a 500 pound bale. The liquidation of. a single “long” account, in which a New Orleang trader was reputed to have held contracts for hundreds of thousands of bales, was held officially responsible for the original cotton break. | Refuses Comment . Thomas Jordon, who earlier had millions in *3e New Orleans cotton market, has refused either to confirm or deny that he was the trader concerned. Arrangements were being made heve today for the saleg of Jordan’s seat on the New York Ex&ange for $64,000. . After all exchanges were clos ed on Saturday, October 19, to arrange for {the liquidation of the single long account — movre than 150000 bales then remain ing unsold —the cotton market rallied. However, after another clos ing last Saturdav to allow dog tired clerical worke-s to catch up with t®eir work. the market ;uddenlv started another tum le. Official or quotable reasons for this droo have been conspi cuous by their absence. One rea son advanced for this unusual silence by brokers was that a congressional investigation al ready was under way fin Washing ton. at the instance of Senator Tyomae (D-Okla). Originally he had chavged a bear raid on the Continued on Page Two) WORLD FLASHES WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—(AP) —States and cities whose flood control and rivers and harbors pro jects appear blocked by President’s Truman’s economy order may be able to get the work done after all. They have a good chance, of ficials told a reporter tqslay, be cause of two pre-war-laws—the rivers and harbors act of 1925 and the flood control act of 1940. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 30— (AP;—A subcommittee of Univer sity of Alabama Board of Trustees conferred yesterday witn Gov. Chauncey Sparks on selection of a successor to Dr. Raymond R. Paty as President of the University but adjourned without announcement regarding its deliberations. . TOKYO, Oct. 30—(AP)—Death pictures of the Nuernberg war criminals were withheld from the Japanese press today because of the possible effect on witnesses and defendants in the Tokyo war crimes trials. * Japanese editors were told with out explanation that the pictures were suppressed by censorship. Chief prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan had advised against their publica tion here. BALDWIN, Mich,, Oct. 30— —{(AP)—A 32-year-old mother who killed her four-year-old daughter because she believed her insane, was held in the Lake coun ty jail teday to await trial next month on a first degree murder charge. MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 30—(AP)— Two Mobile . bottlers have an nounced an increase of 20 cents per case on 12-ounce size soft drinks and some retailers said the hike would be passed on to con sumers. ‘ Bottlers said increased produc tion and material costs were responsible for the increase from 80 cénts to $1 per case, - Full Associated Press Service Athens, Ga., Wednesday, October 30, 1946 g . 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Fear New Tensions Will Arise Between Russia And Western Powers CPA Plans Exit From National Picture Soon v * & WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(AP) —The Civilian Produetion Ad ministration, beginning to chart its exit from the federal scene, today prepared to cast off two more controls over industry. . - Highly placed officials report ed that CPA Chief John D, Small shortly will revoke Order L-99, which “freezes” cotton looms to the produetion of essential fab rics, and L-101, which limits the size and shape of glass contain- €rs. ’ The loom freeze requires mills to turn out fixed percentages of the cloths needed for garments and work clothes, bagging for farmers, and industrial fabrics. In addition, CPA aides said, Small has created a committee headed by Lucius Foster, chief of the agency's priority bureau, to decide (1) what additional curbs on industry can be scrapped, 2) when the scrapping should occur, and (3) what agencies should in herit the remaining controls when CPA goes out of business. Officials emphasized that the industrial decontrol will be no such headlong rush as OPA’s erasure of price ceilings, but they added that the program will cut the control list to a minimum by December 31. Foster’s Committee Foster’'s informal committee, made up of CPA bureau and div ision heads, will report to Presi dent Truman in December on which other agencies should as sume CPA’s leftover functions. 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Since last Thursday, when the family had to move out of their Chicago apartment because the’building ‘was condemned, they have been living in the car and hunting for a place. All the landlords can say is “too many children.” Mr. Marshall, a painter and decorator, has money and a job, but too many children. ' . NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—(AP)—Fears of new tensions between Russia and the Western powers over atomic controls, disarmament, the veto and other critical issues swept through many United Nations Assembly delega tions today as diplomats from -50 other member coun tries debated the challenging policy speech -hurled into the Assembly by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov. 7 The Soviet leader . topped oft his speech with a four-point arms reduction program, includ= ing a request for action by the Assembly to try to get the United States to stop making atomic Warren R. Austin, chief United States delegate, had an opportu nity to respond to the Russian leader today. He was scheduled to speak during the second of two Assembly sessions (11 a. m. and 4 p. m., EST) but aides reported he almost certainly would net re vise the main body of his ad dress — prepared before Molotov tossed his oratorical bombshell in a lively session last night. It re portedly deals in a conciliatory vein with the veto issue and other U. X constitutional problems. Attacks Churchill Molotov assailed Winston Churchill as a “propnet” of “ag gressive, imperialist circles” in America and Britain and blasted Bernard Baruch, U. S. member of the U. N. Atomic Commission. for allegedly holding a “militant philosophy” leading towafd g “new aggression.” He attacked the American atomic control plan as designed tc give this country an atomic mo nopoly, asserted abolition of the veto would awreck the United Nations, and demanded aU. N report on American and Britis! troops in foreign lands. Cappimjl off his address with the four-' point a;{ms redugtion plan, he urged the Assembly to act on i at once. Molotov had spoken in Rus sian. When he finished he had t¢ wait through two long transla tions of his 7,006-word speech one into English, the other intc ESTABLISHED 1832. French. When the interpreters finished, Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium asked if there was any more business before he adjourned the session. The hall wad slready largely empty. . Molotov sprang suddenly to his feet and said: “The Soviet dele gation calls on the other, delega tions tQ express their views on disarmament.” Caught Off-Guard The other delegations were caught off-guard, but Philip Noel-Baker, Britain’s graying slightly stooped chief delegate promptly rose and objected that there was neither time nor pre paration for such a debate. Molo tov insisted but was overruled by Spaak. His insistence on the point, however, left no doubt that push ing the disarmament plan would almost certainly be Russia’s pri mary concern during the remain der of this session. The four points of his plan are: 1. The General Assembly should declare that it considers a ‘“general reduction of armaments necessary.” 2. It should particularly call for “banning the manufacture and use of atomic energy for military ovurposes.” 'This would put the United Nations: on record as de nanding that the United States stop making atomic bombs. 3. The Assembly should call on ‘he Security Council to carry out those two objectives. 4. The Assembly should also ~all on all member governments ‘0 cooperate in the arms reduc tion and atomic bomb ban’ pro iects. T (Continued On Page Two) lilmadge Sufte:"", Only From Allergies,” Edifor Declares _ ATLANTA, Oct. 30—(AP)— Ralph McGill, Editor of the Atlan ta Constitution, checking on rum ors that Governor - Nominate Eugene Talmadge is seriously ill, reported the veteran campaigner is merely suffering from allergies to “hospitals, needles and strange women who come in to bathe him.” Talmadge is in the Piedmont Hospital here after undergoing treatment in a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital for a ruptured vein in his stomach. McGill said the Governor-Nomi nate looks better than at any time in the past several months and has not-suifered a relapse. He entered the hpspital for a physical check up ¢rd expects to lJeave as soon as it is completed. Paul Brown Urges Gotton Be Held From Low Market ELBERTON, GA. Oct. 30-—| Declaring that “this is one time that all cotton growers and mt-‘ ton merchants must- join in a united fight and keep cotton off a declining market in order to save themselves,” ' Congressman Pau] Brown today urged cotton growers and. all those in sym pathy with them to hold the cotton off the market as the best, method of fighting those whcl have caused the rapid decline in cotton prices. l The statement by Congressmar Brown, who - has never before advised the holding of cotton followed his action of yesterday in sending tn President Truman a telegram in which the Tenth District Congressman, long ai leader in the fight for the welfartl of cotton grawers, wurged the President “if you have the autho- l rity under the law in this emer gency to issue executive order making price on cotton at close of today the floor for future mar: kets for a limited period , . .It will save the situation.” Text Of Statement Text of the statement by Con gresman Brown was as follows: . “This \is one time that all cotton grewers and cotton merchants must join in a united fight and keep cotton " off a declining market in or der to save themselves.l have never before advised the holding of cotton. But cotton has declined $50.00 per bale since October 10, without any good reason. There wil] not be enough cotton produced in this ' country to supply the mills. I have *therefore urged the cotton growers and all those in sympathy with them to hold the cotton off the declining market. This seems to be the best me thod of fighting those who have caused the rapid de cline in cotton. “The Commodity Credit Corporation was designed to help the cotton grower in such emergencies. “You can borrow from the Commodity Credit Corpora tion approximately 25¢ per pound in this area and you can borrow from the local bank at the same rate of in terest in many communities. “The spinners in this coun try must have our cotten before the loan date matures in August. This grave emer gency calls for UNITED AC tion AT ONCE.” Congressman Brown this morn ing wired Robert H. Shields, pre sident of the Commodity Credit (Continued on Page Two). Numbered Circulars Dropped By Plane Will Win Awards Wat&® for an airplane over the cityv at three o'clcck Thurs day afternoon. The Athens Recreation Depart ment s swamped with prizes, and as an aid in distributing these many prizes will drop numbered circulars over the city on Thursdav afternoon. Many of 43¢ numbers on these circulars will win prizes. If you capture a circular. bring it to the parade Thursday night and listen for vour number to be calleq over hiur loudspeaker, A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—bs¢c Sunday GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO AVERT “oE DISPUTES WITH OTHER ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— (AP) —The government, nearing its Friday showdown with John L. Lewis, sought a formula today for keeping the nation’s soft coal mines going without raising a target for a possible new round of wage tussles in other industries. With his 400,000 rainers ready to walk out if the gov ernment fails to vield on his pay demands, Lewis played a tight hand and let the administration worry about a solution. Athens Hallowe'en Celebration Begins Thursday AtBP. M. By Allen Collier There is not much longer to wait, in fact, your costumes should be about ready if you are after prizes in the Athens Hallowe’en Celebration here Thursday night. - Clayton street will be cleared of traffic promptly at six o’clock to }morrow evening, and between that [hour and eight o'clock a great transformation will take place. The ‘parade will begin at eight-thirty ,and will feature the University of Georgia majorettes and hand, as ‘well as a dozen or more floats, the 'Athens High School Band, and a ivast array o 1 costumed characters. As an added attraction the Georgia University fire-twirling baton master will display his wares. . Judges will evaluate the costumes throughout the =vening, with the actual award ceremony beginning from the speaker’s plat form at nine-thirty. This part of the program will be broadcast by W. G. A. U. Following the awarding of prizes there will be a street dance ‘with both square dance music and SWIDZ, . ... o , : ‘ ’ Once again, there will be three costume classes. Class 1. is for | (Continued on Page Two). Augusta Vote Today Will Determine Fate 0f Cracker Machine AUGUSTA, Ga,, Oct. 30(AP)— 'With a record number eligible, !Augusta citizens voted today in a City Democratic Primary which jheld the fate of the long dominant Cracker political machine. Seven of 14 city councilmen were to be chosen, and loss of all seven posts would sweep the Crackers from control of the city government they have held for a score of years. ' The machine lost control of the county government to the Inde pendent league for good govern ment, a reform group, in an April primary. Polls opened at 6 a. m. and were scheduled to close at 7 p. m. The Crackers had candidates in six of thg city’s seven wards, and the Indépendents had a candidate in each ward. Six other candidates, running without support of an organized group, brought the field to 19. The seven posts being filled to day are now held by Cracker party members, but only one of them, serving an interim term, is eligible to seek reelection. The City Law Limits Service of Councilmen to one full term. Six of the other seven councily men and Mayor W. D. Pags, whose terms run until 1948, are Crackers This, is evént of a clean sweep by the Independents today, might re sult in a stalemate in the city gov ernment since neither side would have a necessary two-thirds to override a veto by the mayor. Approximately 26,500 citizens were eligible to vote. Of these, some 8,000 are negroes. The campaign, though short, has been heated. It was marked by the absence from public ‘participation of the old line Cracker leaders in cluding John B. Kennedy, the City’s Public Safety Commissioner. Retirement of Kennedy as Safety Commissioner and reinstatement at an annual salary increase of $3,- 000 has been one of the principal issues in the campaigri. ATHENS AND VICINITY Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm. GEORGIA: Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm teday, tonight and Thursday. TEMPERATURE Pieghoat ... ... .. . »® Loves ... .. ... .... B BMan ... .0 Ll 00l Normsel ... ... s 00 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00 Total since October 1 .... 457 Excess since October 1 ... 1.57 Avefage October rainfall . 3.23 Total since January 1 ....44.32 Excess since January 1 .. 249 HOME ~ Careful study of the miners’ pre=~ sent contract reportedly convinced some government lawyers that Lewis has a strong argument to support his contention that he is ‘entitled to reopen the entire ques tion of wages, hours. and other !matters. By contrast, Secretary of Interior J. A. Grug has maintained there can be no question of a new con tract and only the present Working. agreement with the government can be discussed. Some officials privately express~ ed belief that coal mines adminis trator N. H. Collisson, pinch-hit ting for Krug at the Friday con ference, might offer another type of concession than actual wdge in creases. - Despite the timing of Lewis’ wage demands—hitting right at the peak of the government's ef forts to junk both price and wage controls and still discourage in dustrial strife—the administration was reported ready to get rid of the Wage Stabilization Board as it now stands. y Under the plan most discussed, - controls over prices and pay would be continued for the time being in certain key industries such as coal, steel and automobhiles in each of which threats of new wage de mands have been raised. Adminisiration Corner ' In the coal dispute, Lewis has the administration in a corner he cause: | 1. The wage decontrol program is roaring into high speed as whole industries and big chunks of others are moved®out from under price ceilings. Wages automatically become unrestricted in those lines. 2. " Yet the government is stuck with control over the 3oft coal miner’s wages. The coal pits have been under federal operation since the 59-day strike last spring. To unfreeze the mines now would mean a quick strike, because the mine owners have indicated they are not all ready to meet Lewis’ terms. For these reasons, Lewis’ wage demands, still unannounced, come at a bad time for the government. In order to avoid a strike over wages if Lewis ends the present contract as he says he can do Nov ember 20, the government would have to negotiate a new agreement calling for pay concessions. Pattern For Future Boosts In effect, a direct wage increase would fix a pattern for a second {Continued on Page Two). ForClarksHill ™ Are Not Changed ATLANTA, Oct. 30—(AP)— Governor Nominate J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina said today he had heard nothing dur 'ing two days of & Federal Power ‘Commission hearing “that would !change the government’s plan to go ahead with” construction of the Clark Hili power dam. The FPC hearing on an applica ,tion of the Savannah River Electric !Company for renewal of its license to develop the project instead of ’the federal government continued today, and Thurmond was prepar ed to summarize the opposition case. | Associated with Thurmond in ‘opposition to the plea of utility are Edgar Brown, president of the South Carolina senate and chair man of the Clarks Hill Authority, land Lester Moody, secretary of the Augusta, Ga., Chamber of Com merce. | Attorneys, with an eye on the re cord which FPC Examiner Maxi milian G. Barron will present to ‘the full Commission for decision, took the limelight in yesterday’s hearing. ’ Though a number of witnesses were called, much of the new ma terial was offered by attorneys. Robert M. Heard, attorney for Elbert County, Ga., said * a pro ject such as this should be built by the government only when private enterprise refuses to build it and the area needs services.” Taxpayers, he said, should not be required to finance a development for which private funds are avail able. ~ Others appearing in opposition o government construetion in cluded Willard Lewis of Augusta, president of the Riverside Mills, and Richard E. Allen, a former mayor of Augusta. L s

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, October 30, 1946, Home Edition, Image 1