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Newspaper Page TextHOME “Vol. 115 Na. 41, ‘Democratic Party” Elects Man Who Defeated Roy Harris As Statewide Temporary Chairman Grandson Of Senator, Governor Hoke . . T’J Smith Is Named Executive Secrefary 8 ATLANTA, Feb. 27. — (AP) — A group of Gr £+ Democrats set out today to “reorganize” the party \;’M e state for one purpoese—to destroy the political “ : -.}" of erman Talmadge and his lieutenants. - « Members of the group made it nlain they intended to retain the name of Democrats, asserting that the Talmadge faction had “holted” the party. A {reshman legislator and newspaper publisher, William S. vorris of the Augusta Chronicle who said he was “willing to ccrap” for the reorganization, was elected temporary chairman of the group at a meeting here yes terday. \lorris was eleeted to the Leg islature last summer over Roy Harris, now a chief Talmadge 4'(\\&]l&‘“]ol'. Namesake Of Famous Political Leader Married Athens Girl (1l ¢ Hoke Smith, grandson and namesake of a former Geor gia Governor and United States Senator, who became Executive Secretary of the “Democratic Party” at a nLeeting of opponents of the Hairris - Taimadge “Cracker Party” group in Atlanta yes terday, comes of a long line of famous Georgia political leaders. Several of his ances tors lived in Athens and he married an Athens girl, Miss Virginia Tate Wright, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs, Tate Wright. foung Smith’s father is Marion Smith, chairman of the University Board of Re gents. The first Hoke Smith was Secretary of the Interior in the cabinét of Grover Cleveland, first Democratic President after the Civil War. The present Hoke Smith is a great-grandson of T.'R. R. Cobb of Athens, one of the Southern Democratic leaders who married a daughter of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, first Chiei Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, who was also a resident of Athens., In a resolution the group said ite members viewed with conster nation “the efforts of those now in control of the party’s machin ery to perpetuate their rule by a series of unlawful, unconstitu tional and undemocratic actions culminating in the so-called. White Primary Act.” | The Legislature passed the Talmadge-sponsored white pri mary law last week to ban ne groes from voting in Democratic. primaries. The act divorced pri maries from any semblance of state control, leaving their con duct to party regulations alone. The reorganization group’s res olution asserted that the act “de nied to those who participate in such primaries the protection of the laws, or recourse to any tri bunal except that established by thosd now in control who, like all tyrants, make the rule, interpret the rules, obey the rulés or Vvio= late the rules, according to their own whims and interests.” s Party regulations passed at the last State Convention, together with provisions of the white pri mary law, make the primaries “specious and farcical,”. the reso-. lution added, and shows that the‘ Talmadge group intended to “‘ex-| ercise a tyrannical —control over the party and through it over thel people of this state.” . There was no official an= nouncement but an informed source indicated mnegroes would be allowed to vote in the “reor ganized” party’s primaries. | The group set up machinery to issue charters to county units as well as to organizations of wo-‘ men,, veterans, students, ministers and teachers. - ‘ Oppose “Harris Cracker Party” The party meeting followed closely that of directors of the Aroused - Citizens of Georgia, an organization formed last month {0 protest Talmadge’s election as Governor by the Legislature. . Members of the Aroused C}t"- zens attended the party meeting as individuals, but later officially endorsed the reorganization idea throuh a resolution, approving the “purge” of those “who pa\!e: in fact forsaken” .party princi ples. ‘3 Leaders at the party meeting referred to the Talmadge faction as “the Harris Party” or the “Cracker Party,” name of the or ganization in Richmond county which supported Harris. Representatives from 22 coun=. fies met in the Piedmont Hotel. and heard speakets charge that ﬂ‘\:_‘ Talmadge mﬂom.ﬁ?;& ahandoned the tradi 5 ciples of the Democratic Party. and therefore are %‘ ‘e ATHENS BANNER-HERALD . U, 3. Virtually Certain Of | ‘lsland’ Approval LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Feb. 27— (AP)—The United States plan to continue sole administration of the Japanese-mandated islands under a United Nations trusteeship appeared today to be headed to ward almost certain approval by the Security Council March 7. As the delegates were called in to session at 3'p. m. (EST) to re sume debate on the British-Al banian mine-laying dispute, a ma jority, including Soviet Russia, were reported to favor the trusteeship plan “in principle.” The only oppesition was ex pected to come from Great Britain and Australia, but this was not certain. Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko, in accepting the sub stance and main terms of thﬁ American plan, offered three amendments at yesterday’s meet ing, but most delegates felt that he would not veto the U. S. draft! agreement even if his amendments Ware. geeea, - o Eight Rejections Russia had offered similar amendments to each of the eight draft - agreements approved in December by the General As sergbly, but all Were rejected. “The Russian ‘amendments pro posed: 1. That the draft agreement drop the provision that the islands would be administered “as an in tegral part of the United States.” 2. That it add the words “or independence” after the words “toward self-government” in the section in which the United States proposed to guarantee the political development of the native popu lation. 3. That it give the Security Council authority to alter or ter (Continued On Page Six) Say U. S.—Russian Troops Swap Shots ~ SEOUL, Feb. 27 —(AP)—Ko rean quarters asserted today that U. S. and Russian troops ex changed shots Tuesday along the line between their occupation zones but American Intelligence authorities dismisseq it as a mi nor incident wiaich had been “highly exaggerated.” . Intelligence officials said a U. S. border patrol rushed to Paek chon, about two miles inside the American 2zone, after receiving a report that seven Russians were firing rifles into the town. The patrol saw two Russians hurriedly leaving Paekchun as it approached, The Korean version said 28 Russians and 11 Americans fired at each other for 14 hours and that four Soviet figater planes appeared briefly over the area. No *casualties were reported. These sources said the follow ing day Korean police from the Soviet zone angq Korean police from the American one fired at each other for 20 minutes in the same general area. Taey asserted the shooting began when the north Koreans tride to kidnap a Korean from the southern zone. House Sets Stage For First Showdown With Debate Opening On Portal Suits First Bill To Reach Either Floor Of New Congress; Vote Due Friday WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—(AP) —House members readied their srguments for debate today on legislation to outlaw portal pay suits—first labor bill to reach the floor in either branch of the Re publican controlled 80th congress. With many Southern Demccrats joining the GOP majority in backing the bill, house approval appeared certain whenever the voting stage is reached—probably Friday. gebate glias limited to five hours. ne fight centers around a pro - vison allowing an mvr to of Full Associated Press Service FLASHES OF LIFE Bt A e TAA R S 3£ A SAFE KEEPING TORRINGTON, Conn., Feb. 27—(AP)—It was the vault's fault that Albert E. Wellman had to borrow a coat and hat —several sizes too big to wear home on one of the coldest night's of the year. Wellman, employed by a Torrington bank, thrust his haberdashery in the vault just before closing time to get it out of the way of a painting crew, . Another employe closed the time-locked vault, and no body could open it until the next morning. INTRODUCTION COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Teb. 27—(AP)+~Two lowa State Highway Patrolmen, waiting in the sheriff's office for a traffic violator who was late, spied a man coming down the corridor, “Here is our man,” one patrolman said, calling to the man. “Get in here bud.” A bemused look came over the stranger’s face as he stuck out his hand. “My name’s Al Kahl. What’s yours?” The patrolmen, their faces flushed, introduced them selves to Towa’s New Public Safety Commissioner, the boss of the highway patrol. End 0f Buffalo Teacher Strike Rests With Dewey BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 27—~ (AP)—Hope for settlement of the largest teachers’ strike in U. S. history which has 'halted classes for Buffalo’s 71,000 public school pupils apparently rested with Gov. Thomgs E. Dewey’s admin istration today. Mayor Bernard J. Dowd.tossed the problem of settling the four day old walkout of 2,400 teach ers to the Stlate yesterday for the second time in as many days. This time h, made his appeal in a letter to New York State Education Commissioner Francis T. Spaulding. Mayor Dowd, asserting that the strike was ‘not a Ilocal issue but a fundamental state problem,” appealed to Dr. Spalding to in tervene “in this revolt” against the state's educational authority The mayor’s apeal was followed quickly by a declaration of emer gency by the city board of edu (Continued Or Page Six) ATHENS AND VICINITY Paitly clondy and not quite so cold this afternoon, tonight and Friday. GEORGIA: Partly cloudy in north, mostly cloudy in south portion today, tonight and Friday; occasional light rain in extreme south portion; little change in temperatures except not so cold tonight. TEMPERATURE - Hishést v L 0 b A Joowest: N iin iL) L MEORDY. .va i nan i R Wormal .. il R RAINFALL Infhes last 24 hours .. .. .00 Total sioce Fob 1 .. ... . 220 Deficit since Feb. 1-.. ... 1.88 Average Feb. rainfall .... 5.08 Total since January 1 ....11.09 Excess since January 1 .. 1.98 ffer as a defense in any action brought against him under wage hour iaws a plea that he acted in “good faith” on the basis of past orders in court or administrative regulations. As thée House Un-Américan committee resumed its inuiry in to accusations that some strikes have been instigated by’ Com munists, chaidnan Thomas (K-NJ) predicted the government soon will act against the com-l raunist party on charges of viola ting the corrupt practices act. He said that involved contentions the Athens, Ga., Thursday, February 27, 1947. 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"Mofris (standing at speaker’s table), publisher of the Augusta Chronicle, addresses a meeting of Aroused Citizens of Georgia in Atlanta at which action was taken to organize the “Democratic Party” of Georgia and to purge the Herman Talmadge faction from the Democratic Party in the state. At extreme right sits Judge Blanton Fortson of Athens, state chairman of the group. next to him is Mayor Harvey Kennedy of Barnesville, co-chairman. Morris was elected chairman of the *“Democratic Party.”— (AP Photo). s S e g eT T S R NR e A S e R % E R R S z £ i -_-:,5?;;;551’33::;;&?3:_«__-.;,::f._:;: %ﬁm B "‘%ch?g“i, R T %%\,&?% s AR 53 = R B R R BeR R S A o : p B S RTR Tk LA AP TS, . 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RAT e B3b i s S R B % 7 oo : : Saadena Te R 3 / i % “ - B R S, 0 B G e e %:::;’:;:y-';:x,- R R s FERE s IRy & .&r oy gg RS :."?«fi ':.2:.:3;?"-"' i e {fi i i 3 s s e R P g !w0 7 - 2 % B ¥ P b o :'.;,% S B ’ e A s e O S g Py, o e ————————— - £ O————— GEORGIA LEGISLATORS CONFER WITH VA OFFICIALS i Georgia legislators meet with Veterans Administration officials in Washington to discuss a measure to create a Veterans Educational Council. Seated, left to right: H. V. Stirling, Assistant Veterans Administrator for Vocational Rehabilitation and Education; G. H. Birdsall, Assistant Veterans Administrator for Legislation. Standing, left to right: State Senator F. L. Baker, jr., of Rome, Ga.; Senator Rob ert E. Knox of Thomson; Rep. John A. Flynt, jr., of Griffin, and Rep. Jack R. Wells of Athens.— (AP Photo). : Communists Launch Drive With Tanks . NANKING, Feb. 27- — (AP) !-—Nearly 125,000 tank-led’ Chi inese Communists have opened a fierce drive in Manchuria = that has swept to within 15 miles of Changchun_ the capital,. govern ments dispatches said today. Unconfi-med press ‘dispatches said government troops haq with drawn from Changchun’s suburbs to the center of the city in anti vipation of a Communist attack. These reports said government officials have Dbeen evacuated. Whether this was -the long awaited pusty to break the winter ' ull in that vast region wag not known in Nanking, where it was impossible to confirm the Central News agency report. that involved contentions the party failed to file expenditures and contributions reports as re quired. e Need Progection Atwood R. Wynn, president of th, Confederated Unions Of Am erica, a grqup of independent Unions, told the House Labor Committee congress should ‘act to protect “independent organiza tions from the attacks o‘t‘the major labor organizations.” In a prepared statement Wynn asserted the CIO and AFL are “constantly using their power and influence” to put the inde pendents “out of business”. | Albert J. Fitzgerald president iof_the CIO United Electrical Workers, was ay's wit- N P MR v iProbe Thompson's ‘S. ' . . Signing First Bill . ATLANTA, Feb. 27 —(AP)— The House of Representatives today 'calleg for an investigation of the manner in whida a bill was delivered to M. E. Thompson, for his signature as a claimant to the “governorship. Bob Elliott of Muscogee coun ty a leader of the Herman Tal madge forces, introduced a reso lution -asking for . the inquiry after Joe Boone, House = clerk, ask ed the bedy to c¢onsider e “eth ics” ‘involved in delivery of the bill- to Thompson. Thompson signed a local bill amending ‘the Dalton, Qa., char ter yesterday. It wag the first bill turned over to him and he said it may be that “taig is the first act of the’ present legislative ses sion to become a law.” Herman Talmadge, as govern or, has signed 19 legislative (Continued On Page Six) Annual Meeting 0f Red Cross Tonight Athens Chapter -of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting tonight at 7 o’clock in the Civic Room of .the N & N Cafeteria, it was announced today by Rev. David Cady Wright, chairman of the chapter. et Among business to be dis cussed is election of officers for the coming year, adoption of a budget for the annual finance campaign to be held diurgngnMaxjch. and presenta tion of the outline of plans for the annual campaign, Chair man Wright said. : Young Girl Found - Beneath Underpass. LONG BEACH, CALIF., Feb. | 27—(AP)—A pretty 17-year-old ! high school girl was found near ly nude, her body gashed and burned with a cigaret, beneath a railroad underpass last night. A five foot, 112-pound blonde, she was indentified by police as Jacquelyn Mae Stang, daughter of Mr. and Mrs ‘Fioyd Stang ‘ A passing motorist saw her ly ing below anr embankmen { i where she apparently had rolled i-after being tossed from a- car. i Unconscious when picked up, i she emerged from the coma in a { hospital and, after emergency | treatment, was permitted to go { home. ' Leadership At Stake: LABOR GOVERNMENT FACES TEST IN NEW “NIGHT SHIFT” PROGRAM - LONDON, Feb. 27 — (AP)— Britain’s - tradition - shattering decision to introduce the night shift in British industry was ex pected- today to confront fae La bor Government with one of the toughest tests it has faced in. its 19 months in power. £ The government’s plan to in augurate night working saifts— which have been resisted bitte-- ly for many - years by British trade unions forming the back bone of the government's sup port — was. announced in the House of Commons last . night during debate on sue grave coal and power crisis, which has clos ed many industrial plants and brought discomfort to the whole ‘nation. R A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢ Faces Problem Of Soothing Troubled Affairs In Strife Ridden Palesfine WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — (AP) — The problem of smoothing Anglo-American relations troubled by differ ences over Palestine emerged today as the first huddle for plain-talking Lewis W. Douglas when he takes over the Embassy in London. SEAGRAVES RELATES LIBRARY GROWTH IN TALK ON WGAU How the Athens Regional Pub lic Library has grown and de veloped despite many difficulties, particularly inability to find a permanent home, was described by Millard Seagraves in a radio talk over WGAU last night. Mr. Seagraves said the Library has not reached the point where it must stop growing, - unless a home is obtained for it, large enough to serve the growing num ber of people that want its ser vice. He advocated passage of the proposed $50,000 library bond issue March 25, as a means for giving the Library a chance to continue its ‘“fine work” for the community. Tonight, 7:30 omigm, /- s . On Pubiic 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: Thursday, February 27th, %:30 P. M.: Henry Rosenthal, - Friday, February 28th, 5:45 P. M.: Ned Blackman. Monday, March 3rd, €:ls 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 iZ, 7:50 P. M.: Jack Reeves. Thursday, March 13, 7:30 P. M.: Leland Ferguson. Friday, March Idth, 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 8. Oldham. Wednesday, March 19th, 7:30 P. M.: Grady Callahan. Thursday, March 20, 7:30 P. M.: Guy B. Smith, Friday, March 21st, 5:45 P. M.: G. L. O’Kelley. The text of Mr. Seagraves’ talk follows: “Fellow Citizens: “In 1845 the Old Town Hall was built in Athens and in the base ment of that building fresh meat was sold. When an animal was butchered and dissected for sale, it was customary to ring the town hall bell to notify the villagers of the fact. Just about as prehistoric as this Town Hall of 1845 is our Regional Library Branch Office in the basement of the Court House. Very few citizens realize that a great part of the work of the Regional Library set-up goes on in the basement of the Court House in a room that is absolutely devoid of fresh air, windows, heat. The air is dank and musty, and the cireulation comes from a jumpy electric fan that must be kept constantly going while any (Continued On Page Six) Sir Stafforg Cripps, president of the Board of Trade, said the program for putting approxi mately 2,500,000 Britons on nig%xt duty would be devised by “agreement withh the workers,” and added: “there is really no other solution” for the current crisis. He did not elaborate ag to when the step would become ef fective. Tiret responses to the night chift idea, were mixed. Meetings ,i ndustrial - groups at Derby and Northampton opposed night shifts, on the ground they would not spread the electric loag ef fectively and would raise prob lems of transporting and feeding workers at odd hours. LOCAL COTTON i 1 INCH MIDDLNG .... 33 3-8 The trans-Atlantic controversy came to a kead in a White House statement describing as “unfor tunate and micleading” any Rrit. ish implication that President Truman was playing politics last Oct. 4 when he urged the imme= dite admission of 100,000 Jews to tvie’ Holy Land, The statement, handed out last night only a few hours after the President chose the one-time New Dea] budget director as his new ambassador, was issued as a reply to Foreign Secretary Be vin'’s tart assertion to parliament Tuesday. Bevin declared M». Truman’s October remarks, during the con gressiongl election campaign, “gpoiled” negotiations’ which might have led to a settlement of the Arab-Jewish conflict. : The White House statement retorted: 7 X “The impression that has aris en f-om vesterdav's debate in the British parliament that America’s interest in Palestine and the set tlement of Jews hers is motiva ted by partisan and local polities is moset unfo-tunate and miglead= ing” i Reiterated Position It went on to declare that M, Truman's October stand sunply reiterated the position he had communicated to Primg Minister Attlee as long ago as August, 1945, and made public in Novems= ber, 1945, : e, | “America’s interest in Pales 'tine,’ the setatement continued, ‘“i{s of long and continuing stand |ing. It is @ deep and abiding in | terest #haved by our people with | out regard to their political af | filiation” = . Bevin’s part in the Bglestine debate touched off a brief lurry on the Senate floor before the Wh(ijte House statement was is sued., Democratic Leade~ Barkley (Ky), told his colleagues he thought it wag “most unfortu nate’’ and “almost astonishin?’ that the British Foreign Secre tary in effect had accused the President of the United States of a “cheap politica] trick.” l _Flays Bevin Sen. Taft (R-Chio), added that “another inconsistency” could be seen in what happened to the British plan for pa:tition of the Holy Land. “Now Mr. Bevin sud denly turns against partition,” Taft asserted. Douglas, whose prompt con firmation by the Senate was as sured, submitted his resignation yesterday as president of Mutual Life Insuranceé Company of New York and told reporters ‘ae will hurry to England after a State Department briefing on his new task. Etna Continues To Erupt Lava PALERMO, Sicily, Feb. 27— (AP)—A molten flood of lava which has been boiling out of a new crater in Mount Etna since Tuesday rolled steadily onward today toward Passo Pisciaro, the first mountain hamlet in its path. (A Catania dispatch to Ansa, the Italian news agency, later in the morning quoted the pilot of an Italian observation plane which flew over the area as saying that the lava flow was cutting off to the left of Passo Pisciaro and that the village, for the time being at least, appeared to be out of dan~ ger.) For Passo Pisciaro there were only an estimated three or four days of life remaining at the lava’s present measured rate of advance. - Smoke from the molten streams still obscured the scene and barred accurate observations. (Risorgimento’s correspondent said the inhabitants of Passo Pis ciaro had assembled their belong ings in front of “their poor homes” in readiness to flee. I’unita’s Catania correspondent described the lava flow as a “sea of fire” submerging forrests and fields as it passed.) : L. S. WARSHIPS SET FOR PACIFIC ‘WAR’ WITH TASK FORCE 38 IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC, Feb. 27—(AP)—Under simulated bat tle conditions, 14 warships of task force 38 moved out of Kwa jalein Lagoon today and pointed East for an engagement with the first task fleet in the Pacific fleet maneuvers. s Eight destroyers swept the five-mile channel outside Kwa jalin, four cruisrs deployed so positions in the narrow gap Sepa rating Kwajalein Lagoon irom the open sea, and planes flew anti-submarine patrol. L

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