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TRUMAN SENDS
SOLONS DRAFT
ON MERGER BILL
Proposed Measure
Would Establish
Unified Defenses
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—(APX
__President Truman sent to Con
gress today the draft of a proposed
bill calling for the unification of
the Armed Forces.
The legislation would set up a
National Defense: establishment,
under a Civilian Secretary of
National Defense who would have
cabinet rank.
The legislation would bring un
der the defense establishment
equally-important departments of.
the Army, the Navy and the Air
Force. :
Each of the three branches of
the armed services would ‘have a
secretary to direet its activities as
an individual unit. The three sec
retaries in turn would operate un
der direction of the Secretary of
National Defense. '
While all four secretaries would
be subject to confirmation by the
Senate, the White House said only
the Secretary of National Defense
would have cabinet rank.
The -President, in a letter sub
mitting the proposed legislation,
informed Senator Vandenberg
(R-Mich) presiding officer of the
Senate, and Speaker Martin (R-
Mass) of the House:
“It is my belief that this sug
gested legislation accomplishes the
desired unification of the services
and 1 heartily recommend its en
actment by the Congress.”
Under the measure, the United
States Air Jorce would be es
tablished under the department of
the Air Force to which would be
transferred the Army Air Forces,
the Air Corps of the United States
Army, and General Headquarters
Air Force (Air Force Combat
Comand). !
Chinese Communists
Claim Big Vicfory
NANKING, Feb. 26.—(AP)—
The Chinese Communist radio at
Yenan said today that Communis{
forces had won the “biggest vic
tory in the civil war.” ks b
The radio report said General
Chen-Yi's army ,which the Gov
ernment Minister of Information,
Peng Hsueh-Pei, had said a week
ago was “utterly defeated,” now
has “annihilated two Nationali_st
armies, plus another division, in
central Shantung province on
February 23.”
The Yenan report said the gov
ernment lost more than 50,000
men in savage battles which fol
lowed ‘a Communist counterat
tack on government forces which
captured Lini, Red capital in
Shantung. |
Communist field éispatches re
ceived here also reported the
Communists were attacking the
outer defenses of Tsinan, the pro
vincial capital of Shantung, from
three directions.
In southern Shantung, a Nat
ionalist division which smashed
into the rail town of Tenghsien
on February 24 pushed on to the!
southern suburbs of Tsaohsien 1n
what was reported as a ‘“relent
less drive” on the Coirmunist
held town.
FRIRGEI s LT
B-29 Reported
Lost In Alaska
ELMENDORF FIELD, Alaska,
Feb. 26. — (AP) — The second
Alaskan Air Command B-29 lost
in less than a week was feared
down today somewhere on oOr
near the Alaska Peninsula, possi
bly ip the vicinity of the Valley
of Ten Thousand Smokes. ;
Brig.-General Joseph H. Atkin
son, commanding general, an
nounced the last report from the
missing ship placed it near Bruin
Pass, on the mainland area of the
peninsula north of Kodiak Island.
The number of men aboard and
their' names were not disclosed.
Normally, such a plane on a
lraining mission carries approxi
nately 12 men. The Superfortress
from Ladd Field, Bairbanks,
which was forced down in north
ern Greenland last Friday had 11
men aboard.
Three Youths Display
Bravery In Drowning
PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 26—(AP)
—Eyewitnesses who helplessly
Watched three youngsters drown
n the ice-choked Passaic River
credited the boys today with show
ing gallantry to the last.
“Doén’t come any nearer,”’ one
boy was said to have called to men
of the “human chain” that sought
In vain to rescue them yesterday.
“The ice is ecracking. We're
going under. “You'll go too.”
The boys were believed to have
been crossing the 250-foot-wide
stream from the Wallington side
of the river to Passaic when the
ice gave way.
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WBRITISH AMBASSADOR
ASHINGTON, Feb. 26 —
(AP) — Lewis W, Douglas, one
time budget director, today was
appointed by President Truman
so be Ambassador to Great
B",i,’:;n- ‘ o
nomination was sent so
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FIREMEN BATTLE BLAZE
iN NEAR-ZERO WEATHER
Ice encrusted firemen are shown battling a spectac
ular blaze which caused an estimated $75,000 damage
to the Cameo Soap Powder plant in Chicago, Illinois.
Revolt Against “Bolters”
Leadership Looms As
Democrats Gather Today
ATLANTA, Feb. 26.— (AP)-—A possible revolt within
Georgia’s Democratic Party loomed today as leaders of
the “Aroused Citizens of Georgia” prepared to undertake
reorganization of the party and to purge it of the Tal
madge political faction. i
The citizens’ group, represented
by a 75-man Executive Committee
at a meeting today (11 a. m. EST),
was formed a month ago to pro
test the Legislature’s election of
Herman E. Talmadge to the four
year gubernatorial term of his
father, the late Eugene Talmadge.
Sowrces witnin ui€e COIMGIILET
told the Associated Press that Tal
madge and the State Democratic
Executive Committee he controls
would be accused of “bolting” the
party by engineering write-in
votes for himself in the 1946 gen
eral election. : -
Leaders of the group contend
Eugene Talmadge was winner of
the Democratic primary election
and consequently the write-ins for
Herman were cast in opposition
to the Democratic nominee.
It was on the basis of write- in
votes that the Legislature eclected
Herman. Talnradge spokesmen had
said the write-ins were “insur
ance” in case the ailing Eugene
Talmadge died before inaugura
tion.
Today’s meeting follows regis
tration of the name “Democratic
Party” and two similar designa
tions by two anti-Talmagdge Leg
islators with Georgia's Secretary
of State. This move raised the pos
sibility of rival primary elections
and rival “Democratic” parties
competing in the general election.
Declines Comment
Critics of Talmadge’s “white pri
mary” law, which voids state con
trol of primaries, warned in the
Legislature the act would lead to
the formation of a second party.
Proponents of the bill avowed its
purpose was to exclude negroes
from Democratic ballot boxes.
Talmadge declined comment
yesterday on the possible schism.
Meantime, as an aftermath of
the enactment of the “white pri
mary” bill, a schism in Georgia
Republicann party ranks was in
dicated.
A faction headed by Roy Foster
of Wadley, Ga., oblained certifi
cates from the Secretary of State
preparatory to incorporation un
der the name of “The Republican
Party of Georgia, Inc.” Certifi
cates were also received for three
other designations.
The action would deny the
names to the Republican faction
headed by W. R. Tucker of Daw
sonville which has the recognition
of the National Republican party.
Should anti-Talmadge Demo
crats achieve a reorganization,
they would be certain of consi
derable support in the party’s Na
tional Councils. Democratic Na
tional Committeeman for Georgia
is E. D. Rivers. former governor,
who split with Talmadge and back
ed Lieut.-Gov. Thompson. National
Committeewoman is Virginia Pol
hill Price, long a‘political associ
ate of Rivers. .
“'A party schism, and possible re
cognition of the anti-Talmadge
‘group by the National Party, could
Full Associated Press Service
(OMMUNITY NEEDS
EXPANDED LIBRARY
SERVICE, SAYS LONG
Expanded library services for
the people of Athens and Clarke
county should rank at the top of
the list of progressive improve
ments forr this community, Roscoe
Long declared yesterday in a
radio talk over WGAU.
Declaring that he favors the
proposeq issue of county bonds
for the Athens Regional Library,
to be decided in an election
March 25, Mr. Long cited some
of the benefits derived from the
Library by citizens, .young and
old, in Athens and Clarke.
Seagraves Discusses
Library Plans
On WGAU Tonight
A series 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.: Henry Rosenthal.
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.: Waller Wéllman, 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. Bendurant.
Tuesday, March 18th, 7:55
A. M.: Arthur S. Oldham.
Wednesday, March 19th,
7:30 P. M.: Grady Callahan.
Friday, March 21st, 5:45 P.
M.: G. L. O'Kelley.
l The text of Mr. Long’s talk fol
lows: ;
' “The earliest Library m
{ America was that of Henrico
{College established by the colon
,ists of Vi-ginia in 1621, and de
stroved at the time of the massa
cre next year. Harvard Universi
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, February 26, 1947.
Italians Flee Rivers Of Lava
Flowing From::Mount Etna
"
Molfen Rock Moving On 2-Mile Front;
Dense Smoke Shrouds Siricken Areas
ROME, Feb. 26.—(AP) —ltalians were reported flee
ing today before a massive flow of lava pouring from
the crater of Mount Etna after the Sicilian volcano’s first
notable eruption since 1928, when it destroyed the village
of Mascali.
Slight manifestations occurred
Jan., 20 and Feb, 11 this year.
The eruption which began yes~
terday reached proportions the
seriousness of which could not be
fully ascertained a§ once because
of clouds of smoke obscuring ob
servation.
Dispatches frem Catania, how-|
ever, said that after 20 hours of
eruption lava had covered an area
of about a mile and a half on a
front of about 165 yards. The
eruption was continuing.
A Catania dispatch to the Rome
newspaper Risorgimento said
flashes of flame were first observ~
ed at noon Monday on the north
slope of Mount Etna, midwav be~
tween Mt. Cacciatore ‘and Mt.
Timparossa.
Lava began to descend yester
day in a broad front toward Mt.
Timparossa, flowing into the plain
of Palombe and then continuing
over the Callaboasso hill. The lava
was ‘threatening the villages og
Passo Pisciaro and Randazzo "’d
the northwest of Eina. f
In its flow toward Passo Pis_as"
aro, the lava met an obstruction
which diverted it into the
Musmeci Valley, which it was
reported to be slowly filling,
reaching at some points a depth
of more than 600 feet.
Scientists who rushed to the
scene and those stationed at the
Etna observatory station said the
eruption might succeed in filling
the entire valley in the course of
the day if the flow should continue
at its present rate.
Downtown Brussells
Racked By Rioters s
BRUSSELS, Feb. 26—(AP)—
More than 50,000 persons rioted
in downtown Brussels today over
demands for special government
recognition of the status of for
mer prisoners of war. ‘
Lines of mounted police bols
tered by gendarmes on foot
blocked the massive demonstra
tion as it reached the head of Rue
Royale, one of the principal ave
nues of Brussels.
Fighting vroxe out fmmedlately
as the demonstrators attempted
to break the lines. Police beat
back the surging mass of human
ity. No shots were fired in the
first few moments of the strug
gle,
Injured In Auto
Miss Elizabeth Jennings, of
Avgusta, is in St. Mary'’s Hospital
for treatment of injuries received
when the car she was driving
this morning went out of control
and crashed into a telephone post
in front of the hospital. ;
Hospital attaches did not re
veal the extent of Miss Jennings’
irjuries but described them as
not serious.
VETERANS DEMAND
COLUMBUS, ©O., Feb. 26 —
(AP) — Several hundred World
War ]I veterans mardaed into
the State House yesterday de
manding prompt action by the
General Assembly on a State
bonus and other legislation in
tended toi ease their financial sit
uation and living conditons.
Agriculture Department Scorns Talk
0f Pork Chops Being Doliar- A-Pound
Asserts That Housewives Simply Won't
Stand For It: Hoa Prices Still High
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—(AP) |
—The Agriculture Department to
day discounted talk of sl-a-pound
pork chops with an assertion that
housewives won’t stand for it.
Skyrocketing hog prices merely
reflect a seasonal decline in mark
etable animals, said Charles L.
Harlan, department livestock price
specialist.
And he told a reporter he ex
pects consumer resistance—which
means housewives with their dan
der up—to force a downturn in
those prices soon.
Department economists held to
their contention that food price
levels reached their post-war peak
Oepiities Adjourn
With Treaties
Still Unsettied
LONDON, Feb. 26—(AP)—
Deputy . Foreign Ministers of the
Big Four adjourned on schedule
last night, still snagged in dis
agreement on preliminary prob
lems surrounding a peace treaty
for Germany and leaving the Aus
trian peace treaty largely un
written.
Despite the lack of accord, the
deputies expressed belief that
they had accomplished a great
deal in laying groundwork for the
Foreign Ministers Council meet
'ing at Moscow March 10.
* “The deputies working on the
German settlement bogged down
in the final session yesterday in
a dispute on how their disagree
ments were to be reported to Mo~
cow.
Feodor T. Gousev, Sovict‘
deputy, declared he would not as
sociate himself with a report sum-l
marizing the points upon which‘
Britain, France, the United States‘
and Russia were in agreement and
listing disagreements in the form‘
of marginal notes or annexes. |
The negotiators finally agreed
to report in this language: |
“The deputies failed to work
out - procedure for consultations
wl%;l Allied governments.” '
“The Western powers,” sos ‘the
most . part, wanted 18 smaller
Allied nations to have a full voice
in committee work in writing the“
German treaty but Russia wanted
to afford them only limited parti
cipation at the most. . ‘
ANTARCTIC VESSELS
RAM! THRU ICE PACK
ABOARD THE U. S.-S. MT.
OLYMPUS, Feb. 26—(AP)—The
icebreaker Burton Island rammed
through the last great stretches
of the ice pack today and was ex
pected to rendevous tomorrow
with the Mt. Olympus at the outer
edge of the frigid Antarctic moat.
Rear Admirals Richard Byrd
and R. H. Cruzen, together with
many of the 197 men who lived
at Little America for 39 days, are
expected to transfer immediately
to this ship if the sea is calm
enough. The icebreaker North-~
wind is due to join the other two
ships shortly thereafter.
FRESH BLIZZARD
STRIKES ENGLAND
LONDON, Feb. 26.—(AP)—A
great new blizzard, the most se
vere in years, worsened the Brit
ish fuel crisis today, isolating
hundreds of villages and shutting
down scores of industries.
The storm was centered in
northern England, and Wales,
tumßling temperatures to around
zero Fahrenheit and piling up to
15 inches of snow on that which
had fallen before. Highways and
railways to the coal mines were
blockesd.
Thousands of industrial work
ers were storm-bound. Even some
larger towns, such as Newecastle
and Sunderland, were isolated.
The mercury dropped to as low
as ten below zero on the northern
European continent: Two persons
froze to death in Frankfurt, Ger
many.
last October, after most govern
ment COfltl‘OlS were l'(filflUVL‘({.
“It 1s possible that prices dur
ing the first half of the year may
hold their own, or increase very
slightly,” said James P. Cavin,
farm and food price economist.
“But we see no possibility of their
climbing back to anywhere near
the peak of last October.”
. Some foods already have de
clined in cost since the first of the
year and further decreases are
expected. In this class are fluid
milk, butter, cheese, evaporated
milk, dry milk, eggs, poultry, fresh
and frozen fish, fresh and process
ed vetgetables, and canned fruits.
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FaTHER AND SONS KILLED BY TRAIN
Fred Locke, 65, and his two sons, Fay, 23, and Theodore, 10, were killed instant
ly when the New York Central’s “Mercury” plowed into their car at Newburgh
Junction near Albion, Mich. A minister, who was aboard the train, is shown, head
bowed, praying for the dead amongst the auto’s wreckage.
FLASHES OF LIFE
TRAPPED
MT. PULASKI, lil, Feb.
26—(AP)~-The. Mt. Pulaski
Fire Department dropped into
a fire last night and couldn’t
get out.
A blaze broke out in the
Yasement of ¥ the City Halk
and the city’s two fire trucks,
kept on the first floor, fell in
to the flames as the flooring
collapsed,
Fire equipment from Lin
coln, 11 miles away, was sum
moned, but the building was
destroyed.
FOOD PB?BLEM
CANON CITY, Colo., Feb.
26—(AP) —— Things looked
rosy for James O. Maxey with
pigs hitting S3O a hundred
weight and his sow with a
litter of 11 pigs.
Then the sow electrocuted
itself by chewing through the
insulation on the electric
brooder.
Maxey is trying to save the
pigs by farming them out to
neighbors to feed by bottle.
U. S. Appeals Island
Plan To U. N. Today
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Feb.
26— (AP)—Heartened by unex
pected Russian support, U. S.
Delegate Warren R. Austin will
ask the United Nations Security
Council today (3 p. m. EST) to
approve a United States request
for sole trusteeship over 623 Jap
anese-mandated islands in the
Pacific.
Austin said last night that yes-~
terday’s unexpected Soviet note
approving the American request
was “very encouraging.” He im
mediately rewrote his speech for
today in the light of the new de
velopment.
Russia earlier had been expected
to side with Great Britain and
Australia in opposing the proposal
on the ground that no such action
should be taken until a peace
treaty is signed with Japan, thus
legally and formally ending the
Japanese mandate over the islands,
conquered by American forces
during the recent war.
Food Survey
The Department’s Economics
Bureau, in a recent food situation
report, predicted a downturn in
‘priccs of better grades of beef in
the spring and summer, when
i marketings of cottlé now on grain
t feed should jncrease.
i Grain prices have Increased
;somewhat in recent weeks under
| the impact of a heavy foreign de
| mand. But officials expect a reac
tion when the 1947 winter wheat
crop—now being forecast as the
largest of record—is harvested in
the spring an% early summer.
In a report ed today on the
outlook for food fats and oils, the
department said prices of these
commodities are expected to con
tinue at present levels during the
next 2&? months. But they may
ne when marketings of this
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢
Surprising New Twist:
U. S, AND RUSSIAN RELATIONS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(AP)—Russia’s out-of-the
blue endorsement of United States trusteeship over Pa
cific islands once ruled by Japan provided an unexpected
new twist today to Soviet-American relations.
Moscow’s note saying Rusgia deems it entirely fair for
United States to keep control-of the 623-odd islands left
diplomatic authorities guessing whether there might be
more behind the move than meets the eye.
Plans For Schools
Discussed By Grier
“The curriculum program of
the Athens public schools is be
ing revised from the kindergar
ten through the proposed twelfth
grade.” City School Superintends=
ent B. M. Grier told members of
the Kiwanis Club at their regu
la» luncheon .meeting Tuesday,
and “all students entering the
eighth grade another year - will
graduate under a twelve grade
program, while students in the
higher grades will pursue the
twelve year program on a volun
tary basis.”
Superintendent Grier also told
Kiwanians that the Board of
Education has developed a mas-
Iter plan for the new High School
| building. The building "is to be
'lm‘uled on the present Higha
| School site, he said, which will
|be enlarged by acquiring the
Iproperty adjacent to the High
| School lot on Hill Street. The
‘plan is workeq out so that the
i building can progress in units as
money is available.
In the event Congress never
makes any appropriation for
ahool building programs, Mr.
Grier said, each unit of the High
{ School building can be completed
{as bondeq margins in the City
bLecome available and the people
vote the bonds.
Veterans Training
i The school official said the
present construction on the High
School grounds is a Veterans
Training building and is not a
| part of the proposed High School.
|He said the Veterans Training
‘ngram is carried on under the
direction of the Board of Educa
| tion by authority of the Veterans
{Training Administration. He
fpointed out that the buildinz
i being erected is furnished by the
[ War Surplus Board and the
| Veterans Administration at no
| cost to the Board of Education
{and is being temporarily located
j at the present site as a matter of
i convenience and utility.
{ Mr. Grier told his hearers that
| many educators and parents feel
that grade organization and clas
'sification ang the embarrassment
caused by having to report chil
dren in a specific grade prevents
the scaool from adapting the work
‘of a particular g-ade to the needs
'of the individuals. Consequently
there are a variety of plans in
operation which seek to dl!-&
'regard grade limitations as such.
. “For example,” he said, “in the
| continuous progress plan there
‘is no time for children to coms
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LGCAL COTYTON
1-INCH MIDDLING ... .. 34%0
They hoped it forecasts improv
ed prospects for a European peace
settlement at next month’s Mos=-
cow conference of the Big Four
Foregin Ministers. But because of
the almost unbroken series of re
cent disagreements between
Washington and Moscow they pri
vately were wary of a possible
diplomatic maneuver.
Secretary of State Marshall
comment on.a reporter’s sugges
tion that Russia might be trying
to get a precedent to justify her
own postwar land acquistions.
Unofficial Suspicions
Tokyo dispatches today, how
ever, mentioned immediate bub
unofficial suspicions that the
Soviet Union might be trying to
bargain for extended influence in
East Asia. Y
Some Japanese, the dispatches
said, saw in Russian references
to Amnferican sacrifices in captur~
ing the islands an attempt to in
sure that former Japanese indus=
trial equipment taken from Man~
churia would not be included in
the total reparations assessments’
against Japan. The Russians al
ready have cited their “sacrifices”
in the MancHurian campaign.
The' United States proposal to
administer as a “strategic area”
the islands which the League of
Nations had mandated to Japan
after World War I was due to
come before the United Nations
Security Council today.
The surprise Russian move
came in the. midst of a series of
foreign relations developments
which included: ’
1. Foregin Secretary Ernest
Bevin's assertion in the House of
Commong that President Truman
torpedoed efforts to settle the
Palestine issue by urging Britain
during last fall's American elec
tion campaign to let down the bars
to 100,000 Jewish immigrants,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair today and tonight;
Thursday, partly cloudy, con- :
tinued rather cold.
GEORGIA: Fair today and !
tonight; Thursday, partly :
cloudy, continued rather cold ;
followed by rain in extreme i
south portion Thursday night. §
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TEMPERATURE + i
Highest .... .... .... 43 ;
LOWEBt™ i\ viiiih v orute ;
Mean .... soss asés Saenit ai
ORI i sil i
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 00 4
Total since Feb. 1 .. ... 215
Deficit since Feb. 1 .. .. 1.70 -;ji
Average Feb. rainfall .... 508
Total since January 1 ....1109 0
Excess since January 1 .. 216 .