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Navy and Commerce Departments and the Civil Aeronautics Board. Conferees seek to speed opening
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Eritish, Canadian, Dutch and Australian scheduled and non-scheduled airlines are eager to send their
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"Fight To The Finish’.:
BUFFALO'S 2,000 TEACHERS
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BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 25— (AP) —More than 2,000
striking Buffalo school teachewg, vowing a fight “to the
finish,” today awaited official reaction to their claim
that the city is able to meet demands for a sl.o2s'annual
pay raise “now.” 5
Athens ‘Blue Bahy’
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boes To Baltimore
Mary Ruth Littles, 20 year old
victim of the “Blue Baby” heart
disease, left Monday nigat en
route to John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, Md., where she may
vndergo an operation which will
permit her to begin living a life
or normaley, She lives with her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. O.
J. Bailey on 765 N, Jackson St.
The trip and operation are be
ing made possible through the
aid of various Athens' Civic
clubs, friends, ang the Salvation
Army. :
Envoy Mary Peacock, who has
been with the Salvation Army in
Ataens for twenty-five years and
in charge of the Salvation Army
here for the past four years, is
accompanying Miss Littles and
her aunt to Baltimore and will
stay until the operation is made.
Mrs. Bailey wil] stay wih. Miss
Littles until her return to Athens.
Suffering from #ae unusual
heart disease sihce birth, it was
necessary for her to stop school
while in the seventh grade. After
reading in the papers about a
Successful operation on a “Blue
Baby” Miss Littles began cor
responding with the operating
surgeons and was given hope that
2 similar operation would make,
her well. Although uncertains |
that the operation can be made
successful in the case of .one ‘.’lerl
age, Doctors Alfred Blalock sur
fical chief, Helen B, Taussig,
physician in charge, cardiac clin
ic. and Edwin L, Crosby, medical
director, all of Johns Hopkins
Hospital in their communications
With Miss Littles and the Salva
tion Army indicate there is a
thance that the operation will
be successful. She is to be at
John Hovkins on March 26 for
€xaminations to determine if the
operation can be made.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clear and continued cold
today and tonight. Fair and
slightly warmer Wednesday.
GEGRGIA: Clear to partly
tloudy and continued cold
Wday, ionight and Wednes
day with slightly higher
lemperatures Wed n e sday;
Some light snow flurries in
mountain section.
TEMPERATURE
Fighest . Sifiiat S NN
Lowest , [ ki w e
Mean . i 8. b it 80
Normat " [ iiuhl s oot oo MY
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .90
Total since Feb, 1 .. .... 2.15
Deficit since Feb. 1 .. .. 1.58
Average Feb. rainfall .... 5.08
Total since January 1 ....11.08
Excess since January 1 .. 234
The strikers, members of the
Buffalo Federation of Teachers
(Independent), said they were con
fident that many of the 534 teach
ers who failed to participate,
would join in as the walkout en
tered its second day.
The strike, largest of its kind
in the history of the United States,
yvesterday closed all but 20 of the
city’s 98 public schools. School at
tendance was 9,796 out of an en
rollment of 71,000. Shi e
School Superintendent Robert
T. Bapst said these schools would
continue to function as long as
possible with any of the 2,960 city
teachers who want to work.
An official stand on the dispute
was expected at today's regular
meeting of the Board of Education.
Breached Contracts
City Corporation Counsel Fred
C. Maloney held yesterday that
the striking teachers had “breach
ed their contracts” and could be
“summarily removed by the.
Board of Education” without a
hearing. \
Federation President Raymond
Bapst said the City Council could
“bring the teachers back to their
classrooms” by paying the de
manded $2,440,000,000 salary
scale “now” out of current funds.
Meanwhile, there as no official
comment in Albany where a per
manent pay plan for teachers is
scheduled to be given the Legis
lature tomorrow.
BATTLESHIP NEW
'YOKK STILL ‘HOT’
. KWAJALEIN, Feb., 25 -~
(AP) — The Battleship New
York_ still “hot” from the Biki
ni atom blast, ig being towed to
tihe West Coast, where Navy sci
entists will make further studies
of her radioactive hull. -
The {first capital ship of the
Bikini target fleet to be moved
to the coast, the New York left
Sunday in tow of two navy tugs.
HOUSE STUDIES GENERAL SALES TAX TODAY;
BILL IS FAVORED BY WAYS AND MEANS GROUP
ATLANTA, Feb, 25 —(AP)—
The House prepared for study of
the three per cent general sales
tax after asession in which the
lower House scrapped the pres
ent voting registration ‘lists and
the Senate approved a Constitu
tional amendment strongly anti
labor. |
Thae sales tax was reported to
the floor favorably by the House
Ways and Means Commiitee, The
‘committee, however, voted 29-6
for a substitute which eliminates
a proposed wholesale levy and
provides for no exemptions.
" In yesterday’s session the
House passed by a vote of 131 to
24 a Talmadge-sponsored meas
ure reguiring genera] registra
tion of all voters, white anq ne
gro, this year and r% reg
istrars to enforce the
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LAFAYETTE, Ind.,.Eeb. 25—
Purdue University today counted
two dead and 200 injured in the
third major tragedy of its sports
history—a collapse of new wooden
bleachers at the end of the first
half of a basketball game with
Wisconsin.
Dr. W. T. Cox, Tippecanoe coun=
ty coroner, identified two dead
students as Roger Gelhausen, 24,
of Garrett, Ind., a freshman Navy
veteran killed instantly last night,
and William J. Feldman, 20, of
East Chicago, Ind., who died of
a skull fracture in St. Elizabeth
hospital.
Twenty Purdue football players
were killed in 1903 in the wreck
of a special train taking them to
Indianapolis for a game with Ine
diana University. A gasoline ex
plosion in a dressing room killed!
football stars Carl Edward Dahl-!
beck of Lyndonville, Vt., and
Tommy McGannon of Evansville,‘
Ind., in September 1936. |
Last night’s accident came as
about 3,500 spectators in bleachers
on the east end of the floor jump
ed and yelled in tribute to Pur
due’s team, which had gained a|
34-t O-33 lead just before the half‘
ended.
Stands Sag ‘
The 62 rows of seats in the 100-
foot-long structure sagged to the
dirt floor before players reached
the dressing rooms. ' |
Haynes Sleeth, principal of
Roosevelt Junior High school in
Kokomo, seated across that floor
from the collapsed bleachers, said
“ijt was an experience that will
haunt me all the rest of my life.
The screams coming from crum
pled debris, and the sight of
hands rising out of splintered
bleachers clutching for some sort}
of support that wasn’t there, was:
horrible.” ‘
The bleacher section that failed
was one of two recently. erected
at either end of the floor to in-|
crease the seating capacity from
8,000.t0 about 11,500. ’
There was no thought of resum
ing the game. Kenneth L. (Tug)
Wilson, Western Conference Com
missioner, said -in Chicago .he
would confer with Purdue and
Wisconsin about rescheduling the ‘
game. :
qualification provisions of the
constitution which require voters
either to read or write a portion
of the constitution or show that
they are of good caaracter and
understand the republican form
of government.
Education Bill :
Senate today passed a House
bill to allow county education
boards to condemn private prop
erty for school buildings an”
playgrounds but by amendment
knocked out a section to give the
State Education Board a review
of such condemnation.
The amendment, which sends
the measure back to the House
for concurrence - was introduced
by Senator G. Everett Millican
of Atlanta who said he had rath
er risk such matters with local
authorities than to give “some
Action On Party “Bolters”
On Atlanta Meetiiig Agenda
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Steps To Preserve "True” Democralic
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Party Seen In Wednesday's Gathering
ATLANTA, Feb. 25.— (AP) —A possible attempt to
wrest political control of Georgia’s Democratic Party
from adherents of the late Eug'éne Talmadge was fore
seen today in a meeting tomorrow of the executive com
mittee of “The Aroused Citizens of Georgia.”
Library Builds Up
Good Will For
.
Athens, Says Curtis
Advocating passage of the pro
posed $50,000 county bond issue
March 25, to provide /a perma
nent home for the Athens Reg
ional Library, Roy W. Curtis over
WGAU last night described the
Bookmobile that distributes books
in three counties taking part in
the Library as a “good-will”
messenger for Athens.
The text of Mr. Curtis’ talk
follows:
“Ladies and gentlemen of the
radio audience, citizens of Athens
and Clarke county, are any of you
looking for a home? No doubt
some of you are, and if so you
will understand that financing a
home is a big wundertaking. I
know of an institution in Athens
which is desperately in need of a
permanent home and of a means
of financing this home—this in
stitution to which I refer is the
Athens Public Library.
Millard Seagraves To
On Regional Library
A serkes of radio talks over
WGAU in behalf of the pro
posed $50,000 bond issue for |
the Athens Regional Public
Library will include discus
sions by the following Clarke
county citizens:
Wednesday, February 26
7:30 P. M.: Millard Seagraves.
Thursday, February 27th,
7:30 P. M.: Guy Smith.
Friday, February 28th, 5:45
P. M.: Ned Blackman.
Monday, March 3rd, 6:15 P.
M.: Felton Christian.
Tuesday, March 4th, 7:55 A.
M.: J. W. Henry.
Wednesday, March sth, 7:30
P. M.: Walter Wellman, jr.
Thursday, March 6th, 7:30
P. M.: Alex Saye.
Friday, March 7th, 5:45 P.
M.: Guy B. Scott.
Monday, March 10, 6:15 P.
M.: Robert Hamilton.
Tuesday, March 11, 7:55 A.
M.: Harry Speering.
Wednesday, March 12, 7:30
P. M.: Jack Reeves.
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 P.
M.: Leland Ferguson.
Friday, March 14th, 5:45 P,
M.: Lamar Lewis, jr.
Monday, March 17th, 6:15 |
P. M.: John P. Bondurant.
Tuesday, March 18th, 7:55
A. M.: Arthur S. Oldham.
Wednesday, March 19th,
7:30 P. M.: Grady Callahan.
Friday, March 2llst, 5:45 P.
M.: G. L. O’Kelley.
L S S A BA Sl TS
“You will probably want to|
ask me this question: ‘How can I |
help the Athens’ Public ‘Library|
secure and finance a permanent
home?’ That is just what I would
like to tell you. You can join me
in helping to make it possible for
our Athens Public Library to
purchase a home on the corner of
Hancock avenue and College
avenue in downtown Athens. On
March 25th, those of you who
will, and I sincerely urge you to
do so; can vote for the $50,000
bond issue on that date. The
money from the bond issue, if
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people up there in Atlanta who
don’t know anything about local
conditigns” final jurisdiction.
During debate on the bill Ser
ator Vendie H. Hookg of Lexsy
urged adopting saying that the
railroads, highways and pipe
lines -already had the right of
eminent domain and school au
thorities should have it.
“I fee] that first things should
come first” Hooks said, “and I
don’t think ‘anything of a com
mercial kind should come above
education.”
Some senators - argued that
the bill might be dangerous in
that it “infringes on the rights
of private property.” Others in
property rights should be sub
?;di;x;}tedi tx;d ‘:;cagtx;eater public
ter: n on.
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Athens, Ga., Tuesday, February 25, 1947.
The committee, composed of 75
leaders from all sections of Geor
gia, is to meet at 11 a. m. Wednes
day in Atlanta’s Piedmont Hotel.
Judge Blanton Fortson of Ath
ens, chairman of the “Aroused
Citizens” Committee, said it would
be an executive session.
Fortson and Mayor Harvey J.
Kennedy of Barnesville, co-chair
man of the citizens’ group, de
clined comment on the meeting.
The “Aroused Citizens” organized
in protest of Herman’s Talmadge’s
claim to the Governorship.
The Augusta Chronicle said
spade work would be done for
formation .of a new political party,
but informed sources within the
committee told the Associated
Press this was not contemplated.
These sources said it was more
likely that the committee would
seek to reorganize the present De
mocratic Party of Georgia, on
contention that the Talmadge
leadership “abandoned” it when
a small group engineered the
write-in vote which led to legis
lative election of Herman Tal
madge.
“Forfeited” Leadership
' The latter was named to the
I‘four-year term of his father on
s the basis of 675 write-in ballots,
which were obtained as “insur
'ance” in case his father died be
, fore taking office. The elder Tal
' madge succumbed Dec. 21, 1946.
Opponents of the Talmadge
faction, angered by the legislative
maneuver and critical of the so
called “white primary” act which
Herman Talmadge sponsored, are
understood to claim the Talmadge
lmmip “forfeited” its right to
speak’ forthe Demoeratic Party
of Georgia. !
~ “In Athens last week during the
session of the Georgia Press In
’stitute, newspaper editors and
publishers were told of the plan
to form a Democratic organiza
tion that would oppose the white
primary, law in its present forml
and these phases which it is claim
ed would remove all safeguards
from elections in Georgia,” the
Chronicle says.
A meeting of those sponsoring
the movement was held in Ath
ens last week, the newspaper says,
but persons participating “were |
reticent to discuss any details that
came before the meeting.”
“According to reliable reports,
initial plans call for the forma
tion -of an organization that will
declare itself independent of pri
mary elections coming under the
white primary laws,” the Chron-;
icle continues, and the new or
ganization “would nominate its
own candidates to appear on
ballots in general elections to be
held in the future.” l
MAY TAKE STEPS TO SAVE
“TRUE” DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Organization of a “new” Poli
tical Party is not the objective of
a called meeting of “Aroused Citi
zens of Georgia” in Atlanta to
morrow, it was learned here to
day, “but the meeting may well
lead to steps toward concerted
action in preserving the tried and
true principles of the old Demo
cratic Party.”
Blanton Fortson, co-chairman
of the “Aroused Citizens” organi
zation declined to comment for
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“Fire’” Crazed
Citizens
Termed Hazards
ALPHA, lil, Feb. 25 —
(AP) — A fire in Alpha
(Pop, 550) is quite a novelty
and when ihe firsi aiarm in
two years! wag soundeq there
was such a rush of motorists
to get to the fire that the vol
unteer fire department near
ly missed getting to the
scene to fight the blaze.
“Autos driven by firelhungry
spectators kept getting in our
way,” said Fire Chief Floyd
Krugger, “and the {ruck
with fire apparatus was de
layed.” ,
VETERAN BLOWS SELF
TO BITS WITH BOMB
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 —
(AP) — A 25-year-old war ve
teran walked into a restaurant
telephone booth yesterday. call
ed his estrangeq wife .and then
blew " himself to bits with a
homemade bomb.
That wag the way police to
day reconstructed t.ae ftragedy
that took thé life of Frede-ick J.
Sauer, of Wilkes Barre Pa., a
Pennsylvania railroaq worker in
Philadelphia since his discharge
from the Army.
ESTABLISHED 1832,
Temple Has
Ordinance To
Stymie Truman
e el e e e ettt e e
TEMPLE, Tex., Feb, 25—
(AP) — City Autorney Byron
Skelton has found a city or
dinanece requiring all presi
dentiad trains passing through
Temple to stop for not less
than five minutes, and he’s
wondering if it can be ap
plied to airplanes.
When President Truman
flies from Mexico to Waco,
where' he will receive an
honorary degree from Baylor
University March 6, presum
ably he’ll pasg directly over
Temple,
President Theodore Roose
veit declined an invitation to
stop in Temple while enroute
to San Antonio in 1910, The
city passed the ordinance.
The presidential train stop
ped and the President made
a brief speech,
“Dolfar Bacon”
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Hog Prices Sear
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| CHICAGO, Feb. 25 +(AP) —
'A pork cduop soon may, cost SI.OO
a pound at retail butcher shops
as a result o fthe sharp advance
in' prices for live hogs in recent
weeks, an agriculture department
meat specialist saiT today.
' “Dollar bacon” also was a pos=
sibility as pork-on-therhoof sold
yesterday at a record of $29.00 a
hundred pounds’at Chicago.
| Russ Jeter, wholesale —market
analyst-for the . agriculture. de
'partment_ said that prices of pork
,in wholesalé markets were being
marked up in line with the live
hog advances, He sald these in
creases should reach consumers
later this week.
“Some retail shops may trans
late wholesale prices into pork
at SI.OO a pound for center cuts,”
Jeter said. ;
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. .
Time For Electing
.
Employes Of City
Changed In Measure
ATLANTA, Feb., 25 —(AP)—
The Athens mayor and city
council are empowered to elect
city officers and fix their sala
ries ‘and duties at their first
meeting in January instead of
July by a new act of the legis
lature
The Clarke County House
measure passeq by the Senate
and sent today to the Governor’s
office for signing names among
officers to be so elected the
city marshall, chief of police,
council clerk and ex-officio
treasurer, tax receiver and tax
collector, . :
To cover the periog until next
January, the mayor and council
a-eauthorized by the act to elect
all these officerg and such others
is may be deemed necessary at
their next meeting after the sign
ing of the measure.
Last Industry Witness Charges NLRB
With ‘Rias Worthy Of Nazi Germany
Tells House Labor Committee Agency
"Destroyed” Two Independent Unions
WASHINGTON, ¥Feb. 25 —
(AP) — Raymond S. Livingstone,
Cleveland industrialist, today ac
cused the National Labor Rela
tions Boarq of “partisanship and
bias worthy of Nazi Germany™
in its dealings with independent
unions.
In a statement prepared for
the House Labor Committee Liv
ingston, vice president of person
nel for Taompson Products, Inc.,
saig NLR had “destroyed” two
independent unions at the com
pany’s Cleveland and Euclid
plants, !
The board, he said, ordered
the unions broken up although
workers in elections rejected the
CIO-UAW as bargaining repre
sentative,
“Giving aid to the CIO in its
organizing attempts,” fae said,
“js much more important to the
board than either assuring indus
trial peace, facilitating great pro
ductivity, or allowing employes
to choose their own representa
tives.”
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢
MAROONED AMIRMEN WHO CHEATED
DEATH FOR THREE DAYS ON
GREENLAND ICE CAP BACK HOME
WESTOVER FIELD, Mass., Feb.
25-—{AP)—Eieven American air
men who cheated death for three
days 600 miles from the North
Pole after their B-29 crashed in
Northern Greeland were flown
back here today.
Lieut. Bobbie Joe Cavnar, 22, of
Okmulgee, Okla, set down the
rescue plane—a big C-54 trans
port—of the Army Air Transport
Command at 7:55 a. m. (EST)
here after a 2310 mile non-stop
flight from Thule, Greeland. |
Less sthan 24 hours earlier,
Lieut. Cavnar wagered his life that
a sheet of ice beside the crashed
B-29 would hold his 20 ton four
engined plane—and won.
The 11 men climbed stiffly from
the rescue plane. They appeared
Investigate Luciano’s Prison Release
ALBANY, N. Y. Feb. 12 —
(AP) — An investigation by the
New Ybrk legislature into the
release from prison -of Charles
‘Lucky) Luciano, whose sentence
was communted by Governor
Thomas E. Dewey 13 months ago,
is sought by Democratic assem
blyman Owen McGivern of New
York City. by
McGivern's resclution was in
troduced last night as- Cuban of
ficialg announced the former New
York gangster would be deported
to his native Ltaly.
Luciano, deported to Italy after
Britions Await Warm West Winds
LONDON, Feb. 25—(AP)—Ice
bound Britain looked toward the
West today for warm winds to
push back a Siberian eold wave.
Hopefully an air ministry fore
caster announced a depression was
moving slowly eastward across the
Atlantic. But progpects were sO
uncertain he refused more than
a familiar 24-hour forecast:
“Winter conditions will con-~
tinue.” |
Abingdon, in the midlands, re-.
ported a reading of two below
Mt. Olympus Flirts With Iceberg
- ABOARD' THE 1T § - ®iav
OLYMPUS, Feb. 24— (Delayed)—
(AP)—The Mt. Olympus flirted
‘with a huge iceberg today, making
a starp turn to avoid the great
mountain of ice which loomed
suddenly out of the fog. = '
The headquarters ship encoun
tered the iceberg while steaming
towards the ice pack, but quick
action kept the vessel at a safe
distance from it,
Ship’s officers said that radar
had missed = spotting' the fog
shrouded giant during a brief in
terval when the radar controls
178 Japs Killed In Train Wreck
KOMAGAWA, Japan, Feb. 25—
(AP)—ALt least 178 Japanese were
reported killed and 350 injured
today when four cars of a six-car
train jumped the track here and
plunged down a 30-foot embank
ment. It was one of the worst rail
way disasters in Japan’s history.
Unofficial reports said the
coupling between the second and
third cars gave way as the steam
train rounded a downhill curve.
Livingstone wag final industry
spokesman’ before the committee.
Railroads Next
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotaerhood of Railway Train
men, waited 1o open organized
labor’s opposition to bills pending
before the committee.
The Senate Labor Committee,
which has been hearing labor
representativeg for several days,
had David Dubincky, president
of the AFL International Ladies
Garment Workers for its first
witness today.
From Senator Taft (R-Ohio)
fae Army ang Navy have word
they should begin planning a re
turn to a peacetime spending
level. He told a reporter the arm
ed services may escape severe
budget cuts for the 1948 fiscal
vear but that next year Congress
likely will make deep cuts prob
ably holding their total budget
to $7,500.000,00. :
President Truman asked sll.-
200,000,000 for _Army and
Navy in his m%m 1946
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exhausted from their ordeal.
An Army medical officer said
none was in serious condition.
Lieut. Vern Arnett of River
side, Calif., pilot of the downed
B-29, described Lieut. Cavnar’s
landing as a “wonderful job.”
~ Permitted to talk to newsmen
for five minutes, Arnett said his
ship was “on a routine training
flight. We were mnot making
photos.”
The big plane ran into a storm
which blew it completely off
course, he related and added:
“We were running short of fuel
and since we had been flying for
19 hours, there was neothing to do
but make a belly landing.
l “We landed on a lake and
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Dewey commuted his seentence
on Jan. 3, 1946, went to Havana
last October.
The U. S. government last week *
banned all narcotics shipments
to Cuba ag long as Luciano re
mained there,
Dewey, acting upon the recom-~
mendation of the State Parole
Board, communted Luciano’s sen
tence after 'ae had served nine
and one half years of a 30 to
50 year sentence for compulsory
prostitution. Luciang had been
prosecuteq by Dewey when the
latter was special New York City
prosecutor. i
zero (fahrenheit) during the night
—only two degrees’ warmer than
the lowest British-temperature on
’mordé'!" ey WP I vi A it
A bright sun shown in most
areas. Earlier a fog had halted
uhlpflnx in the Thames. Twenty
shiploads of coal for fuel short
London were tied up in the Thames
Esturay throughout the night.
Thawing snow, sliding from a
rooftop into a baby carriage, fatal
ly injured a five-month old girl
in North London.
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were being switched.
Meanwhile the ‘weather robbed
the Eastern and Western wing
groups of one of the few remain
‘ing days left for exploratory
flights. !
Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and
his 197 men evacuated Little
America at 5:26 p. m. Eastern
Standard Time Sunday aboard the
ice breaker Burton Island, which
was racing against a congealing
pack for the open sea. The ex
plorers had been in the little tent
city 39 days. !
The last four cars tumbled down
the bank into a wheat field.
The engineer did not know until
he reached the next station that
he had lost part of his train.
Kyodo news agency said the ac«
cident was the worst in the history
of railroads owned by the Jap
anese government. The scene at
the site of the disaster, 25 miles
west of Tokyo, seemed to bear out
this pronouncement.
budget.
The Senate, still considering
the 1948 budget ceiling, agreed
yesterday to limit further debate..
In recess today, it is due to vete
'tomorrow on a proposed $33,000,-
000,000 spending limit.
‘ The House already has voted
‘a $31,500,000,000 top.
Other Developments
Atomic — Senator O’Mahoney
(D-Wyo) said he will vote for
cohfirmation of :David E. Lillien
thal as chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission but Senator
Wherry (R-Neb) party whip said
thereé is doubt the nominee will
win Senate approval. An Asso
ciateg Press poll showed 41 sen
ators favor Lilientha!, 28 are
against, 24 decline to state their
position and wo 'fiave not. been
reached. The Alomic Committee
considering the nomination hopes
to reach a vote Saturday. '
OPA-Rent — Two senate sub
committees took up billy which
may wash out what little is left
of OPA. Tae bill before the
banking committee also would
allow rent ceiling increases up
to 10 percent. An appropriation
subcommittee eonsideveq a House
bill whieh"m virtually take
away all of OPA'g funds.