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Displaying the?clothes that were especially dosigneu‘ for their
African tour, Britain’s Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret
Rose, followed by their mother, Queen Elizabeth, arrive at Kenil
warth Racetrack, Capetown, South Africa.
PONGRESS ENTERS THIRD MONTH
OF SESSION WITH NO PROGRESS
Two Deadlines Nearing On Draft
Law And General Labor Troubles
WASHINGTON, March 3.—(AP)—The 80th Congress
swings into its third month of business today with little
to show for its efforts so far and with two deadlines:
looming ahead
This is the month the lawmak
ers must decide what to do about
the draft law, which expires
March 31, and in_ which their
leaders had hoped to finish ‘work
on a general labor law to head
off a possible new coal strike
April 1. o :
A Presidential message on the
draft law may go to Congress
early this week—possibly today.
While there has been no offi
cial announcement, Army and
Congressional officials ~ predict
privately the President will ask
that the draft act be left to die
on schedule. It hasn’t been used
since last October.
Chances for getting a new la
bor laws on the statute books by
the end of the month — when
John L. Lewis’ current soft coal
truce expires—were dealt a blow
by the announcement of Chair
man Hartley (R.-N.J.), that the
House Labor Committee may not
wind up its hearings = before the
middle of the month. :
End Plan
The Senate Labor Committee
plans to end its public hearings
Saturday, but both committees
may spend considerable time be
hind closed’ doors writing their
separate bills.
Wven when they reach the re
spective floors, the measures are
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ity Bus Ownership
Proposed In Bill
Presented By Joel
ATLANTA, March 3—(AP)
—City ownership of public
transportation busses in. At
hens was proposed in a bill
introduced in the House today
by Rep. Jake Joel of Clark.
The measure provides for a
self-liquidating project in
which the city assumes main
tenance and operation of a
privately owned bus system.
The measure stipulates a
MNat five-cent bus fare instead
of the present seven-cent
f‘}"t plus a one-cent transfer
e,
Joel said that the privately
Owned company earns be
tweens $25,000 and $30,000 a
year and contended that
Municipal ownership event
ually would return a profit to
the city.
Coast Guards Stage
Dramatic Sea Rescue
CAPE ELIZABETH, Me.,
Masch 3—(AP)—Coast Guards,
Manning a breaches buoy rig
sing, today dramatically rescued
(rcwmen of the Colliar Oakey L.
Alexander, wrecked on %ie rocks
Ol high head here in a fierce
storm,
.. The first two brought ashore
'om the 10,000-ton . craft were
David Rogers, 18, of Norfolk,
“)-‘- !T;essman. and Lorenz Con
lely, 40 of B n. ‘
Al handsofi'ss!e;”‘ gasped
*\‘Pgers as he struck the ground
2fter his trip across 150 yeards
of turbilent ghoat whater--
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Dr. H. G. Bannister
Dies In Florida;
Services Wednesday
Dr. H. G. Bannister, 56, one of
Northeast Georgia’'s best known
physicians died at noon Sunday
at Clearwater Beach, Fla., where
he had gone to recuperate after
being in failing health for several
months. He was a resident of Ila.
Services are to be conducted
Wednesday from Ila Baptist
Church with the pastor, and Rev.
Alton Morris pastor of the Bap
tist church in Murphy, N C., of
ficiating. 8 .
Burial will be in the ceme
tery at Gay, Ga., honcrary pall
bearers being members of the
Clarke-Madison County Medical
Association, members of the Madi
son County Post of the American
Legion, and Deacons of Ila Bap
tist Church. McDorman-Bridges
is in charge of arangements.
Dr. Bannister is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Eleanor Estes Bannis
ter, Ila; son, Henry Grady Bannis
ter, jr., Ila., and Royce Bannister,
student at Emory College at Ox
iord. 3
A native of Cummings, Ga., Dr.
Bannister had been a resident of
Ila for the past twenfy-six vears.
He was a member of the Masons,
and the American Legion.
Dr. Bannister graduated from
Emory University Medical School
in the class of 1916 and entered
the United' States Army during
World War One, serving his coun<
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Secret Session Of Congress Urged
To Hear Marshall's ‘tast’ Report
Suggests ‘Bolted Door’ Conference
For Survey Of Mediterranean Crisis
WASHINCTON, March 3 -
(AP) — Senator Tobey (R-NH)
proposed today that Secretary
of State Marshall tell Congress
beéaind bolted doors exactly how
the situation stands in the trou
bled Mediterranean and the Near
East before the lawmakers are
called upon to vote for bigger
cash outlays abroad.
Tobey, who heads the Senate
Banking Committee charged with
passing on foreigns loans, told a
reporter he thinKs the crisis pre
sented by possible withdrawal of
British military and ° economic
aid to Greece can be “met only
by an informed Congress.”
“I think General Marshall
ought to come before Congress in
an executive-(secret) session and
tell us fae actual situation in all
of its grave aspects,” he said.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska.
the Republican whip, said that
in his view if any “political
loans” are to be ‘'madé “thei
should be discussed frankly ol
the floor of #he Senate”
Full Associated Press Service
Palestine Death Toll Increases;
~ British Enforce Stri-t Curfews
Search For Exiremists Nefs 60;
250,000 Jews Under Marfial Law
JERUSALEM, March 3.— (AP) —Deaths by violence
in Palestine mounted to 22 in three days with the shoot
ing of a Jewish curfew violator in Tel Aviv today as the
British Army maintained martial law over a third of the
Holy Land’s 700,000 Jews.
|s Martial law’ was in force for
“more than 250,000 Jews in Jeru
isalem's oldest and biggest Jewish
district, the Met Sherim section
'and in ‘a northerh coastal-plain
~area measuring some four by 1(
miles and embracing Tel Aviv
Ramat Gan, Petah Tiqva, Bene'
Berag and other Jewish commu
nities. ;
| A curfew keeping residents to
their homes was lifted at dawr
today in the coastal section. In
the Jerusalem martial-law area.
- housing some 15,000 Jews, inhab
itants were allowed out for the
; first time since 7 p. m. Saturday
as a daily three-hour suspension
of the curfew became effective at
\‘ 10 a-m.
. . Ninth-Brigade Infantrymen be
lgan a search for Jewish extrem
ists today through twisted streets
cluttered alleys and homes of the
poverty-ridden vicinily of Mea
Shearim, “the Place of a Hundred
Gates.” By invitation, Rabbi Mo
she Goldman went along as ob
server in searches of religious
institutions.
The army reporied that soi
diers searching Tel Aviv had
found a “considerable quantity”
of arms and ammunition last
|night. :
: 60 Nabbed
" Upward of 300 persons were
investigated yesterday and 60
were held to be questioned fur
ther after an army search of Je
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J. W. Henry Will
Speak Tuesday
A. M. On Library
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:
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. Scett,
Monday, March 10, 6:15 P,
M.: Robert faammiltun.
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.
Thursday, March 20, 7:30 P,
M.: Guy B. Smith,
Friday, March 21st, 5:45 P.
M.: G. L. O’Kelley.
Marshal]l ang - former Secrata
ry of State James F. Byrnes are
listeq to testify before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee to
morrow on four Balkan peace
treaties which represent what
President Truman said were tae
best terms that could be obtain
ed .in bargaining wih this coun
try’s wartime allies. including
Russia. ; i
Mediterranean Crises
Marshall and ‘Byrnes might
take advantage of fais opportuni
ty to discuss privately, with com
mittee members the current Med
iter-anean crisis. But Marshall
is due to leave Wednesday for
Moscow to attend the Big Four
Foreign Ministers Conference,
The crisis came to a head last
week with the disclosure that
Britain had told the United States
that unless large-scale American
aid is forthcoming the British
Empici;t v;}ll be wunable {c bear
Truman Travels
To Mexico For
Friendship Talk
KANSAS CITY, March 3—(AP) l
—President Truman headed to
ward Mexico by plane today to
give a sister Republic renewed
assurances of United States
friendship. ® .
The Chief Executive took off be
fore dawn in his big C-54 plane
after visiting his 94-year-old
mother, confined to her home at
Grandview, Mo., with a fractured
hip. During his brief Missouri stay
he received assurances of her
steady improvement.
Mr. Truman will speak in
Mexico City tonight about 11 p.
m. (EST) at a state dinner in‘
response to a welcoming address
from President Miguel Aleman.
Ceremonies attending the Pre-—1
sident’s three~day good-will visit‘
are scheduled to start shortly
after he arrives at Mexico City's
Central Airport where he will be
met by President Aleman and high
Mexican dignitaries as well as U.
S. Ambassador Walter Thurston. |
During the President’s Missouri
visit yesterday, his mother, Mrs..
Martha E. Truman confided to
Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham that
she prayed for her son’s health
and that se will be.*“the greatest
President” in history.
Graham, the President’s per
sonal physician, said Mrs. Truman
explained that she had prayed
similarly for all -the Presidents
whose careers she has followed
during her long life, |
Mr. Truman will leave Mexico
City early Thursday in time to
reach Waco, Texas at 11:30 a. m.
(EST) for a major 25-minute
speech after receiving a degree
from Baylor ‘University. This
speech will deal with both foreign
and domestic policy, |
Buffalo Teachers
Return To School
BUFFALO, N. Y. March ?-
(AP) — Vacation ended for
Buffalo’s 71,000 public school pu
pils today as their instructors
returned to classrooms after
staging the largest teacher strike
in U, S. history.
The week-long walkout of
2,400 teachers was ended by the
Buffalo council .of delegates
voted to accept a promise of
Mayor Barnard J. Dowd that a
pay increase would be forthcom
ing nexf fall if the state author
ized additional taxes for the
purpose. o 5 i .
Gov. Thomas E. ' Dewey is
scheduleg to submit -a special
message to the legislature this
week requesting that localities
be granted authority to improse
special taxes, including a special
levy 'for education.
President Truman at once
| summoned key congressional
leaders to the White House for a
personal report from Marshall on
the situation. This was said to
have embraceqd the threat of 2
Communist government in
Greece and added Russian pres
sure on Turkey, which thus far
has been resisting Soviet demands
for, border changes and a voice
in the defense of the Dardanelles.
Two days after this highly se
cret report, Undersecretary of
State Dean Acheson was said to
have advised British Ambassador
Lord Inverchapel on Saturday
that this country is “favorable in
principles” to granting American
‘aelp rrovided (1) that Congress
is willing ahd (2) that Britain
keep its troops .in Greece.
The pessibility that the United
States may be asked to take over
British economic commitments
elsewhere in the world, particu
larly in Palestine and the Near
lEast. added to the confusion in
| Congress over the final outecome
jof differing Senate and House
pledges to carve sizeable chunkg
out of President !‘:nmansg':
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Talmadge Terms Journal Expose
Example 0f Yellow Journalism'
ATLANTA, Mfirch 3.—(AP) —Prompt, and perhaps explosive, legislative reaction
to the Atlanta Journal’'s week-end documentation of alleged voting irregularities in
Governor-claimant Herman Talmadge’s home county was indicated today.
One gubernatorial candidate, Republican D. Talmadge Bowers, said he would de
mand & re-canvass of the write-in votes on which Talmadge’s election as Governor by
the General Assembly was based. 1
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ROBERT L. FROST
Returns By Request
Robert L. Frost,
Famed Poef,
By popular demand of stu
dents, faculty, and Athenians,
Robert L. Frost, dean of American
poets, will make his third ap~-
pearance in as many years on the
Athens cdampus Tuesday March
4 at 12:05 p. m, in Yae Univer
sity Chapel.
Four times winner of the Pul
itzer Prize for his poetry, Frost
has given 14 volumes of prose
and verse to American literature.
“New Hampshire,” “Collected
Poems,” (1931) *“A Witness
Tree,” and “A Further Range”
earned for him the Pulitzer
Prizes. “A Further Range” was
also chosen as a Book-of-the-
Month Club presentation.
He schooled at Dartmouth and
Harvard and has received honor
ary degress from Amherst, Uni
versity of Michigan, University
of Vermont Wesleyan University,
St. Lawrence University, Yale,
Middlebury College, Bowdoin,
New Hampshire State University,
olumbia. Williame Cellege,
Dartmouth - Bates, University of
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Russia Says This Isn't ’Expandiné’q
If the Legislature does not ac
cede, he added, “I'll have to go
to court.”
Talmadge himself dismissed the
Journal’s charges, spread in words
and pictures of official documents
over most of the Sunday edition’s
front page, as “Yellow Journalism
in the extreme form.”
Election officials of Telfair
county, where the newspaper said
it had documentary evidence of
the “voting” of dead, now-resident
or non»existegt persons in the
Helena precinet, promptly denied
the charges of irregularities.
“There is nothing wrong with
the count,” asserted T. L. Thomas,
county ordingry (clerk). And W.
H. Brooks, clerk of the Superior
Court, declared there “is no evi
dence of fraud.”
The alleged irregularities in
volved votes cast for the late
Eugene Talmadge, Democratic
nominee who was successful in
the general election, and write~
in votes for his son, Herman, sub
sequently named Governor by the
Legislature after the elder Tal
madge’s death prior to inaugura
tion.
Write-In Ballots
Some of the write-in ballots,
discovered belatedly during the
General Assembly’s canvassing of
the votes, put Talmadge ahead of
Bowers and James V. Carmichael,
who Eugene Talmadge had de
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and not quite so cold
tonight. Tuesday, partly
cloudy and warmer.
GEORGIA: Fair, continued
cold, not so windy today and
tonight; low temperatures
tonight 22-26 in north, 26-30
with frost in south portion;
Tuesday, partly cloudy and
warmer.
TEMPERATURE
Hilhest ..o viviv . 88
et Ll e 38
NEBRR: . i Eols Wvie mas it
Wormmal ... v iiia D
5 RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since March 1 .... .37
Deficit since March 1 ... .11
Average March rainfall .. 5.00
Total since January 1 ....11.4%
Excess since January 1 .. 1.65
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢
FLASHES OF LIFE
WRONG SIDE ¢
DENVER, March 3—(AP)
—Paul A. Ruston, Denver at
torney, got a letter from Louis
Berwitt, Cleveland, Ohio, for
mer fellow-soldier, ‘asking
him. to defend a friend in
Denver district court.
But Berwitt didn't know
that Ruston is hardly able to
help out.
He's deputy district attor
ney.
MIX-UP
SPOKANE, Wash.,, March 3
—(AP)—Frank Bunker, re
tired Spokane resort owner,
ordered some pipe, rivets and
steel from war surplus.
When the crate arrived it
contained 60,000 yards of
thread, a barrel of laundry ink
thinner, and 50,000 shirt but~
tons.
Fate Called Its Shot:
EXPLOSION LEVELS 3-STORY
CHICAGO BUILDING: 2 DEAD
CHICAGO, March 3—(AP)—
An explosion which would have
been a major disaster on any
other day of the week Ileveled
a three-story brick building,
killed two persons and injured
more than 30 in the Loop dis
trict at noon yesterday. s
One person still was missing
and firemen expressed fear his
body might be in the debris. He
is Louis Pappas, who operated a
restaurant on the ground floor
of the building at Wells and Van
Buren streets. i
Th, dead are Mr. and Mrs.
Harry W. Koons, Fort Wayne,
Ird., who wer blown from the
street to the elevated structure
of the Chicago Rapid Transit
tracks Koons, a taxidernist, and
his wife had arrived in Chicago
LOCAL COYTON
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Russell’s Plan
For ‘States’
Gets Cold “No”
- ATLANTA, March 3—(AP)—
Immediate reaction, at home and
abroad, to Sen. Richard B. Rus
sell’'s proposal that England, Ire
land, Scotland and Wales take
steps to be admitted to the Unit~
ed States, was negative—as he ex=
pected.
The Georgia Demoecrat advanced
the idea late Saturday in an in
terview copyrighted by the At
lanta Constitution. In it, he was
quoted as saying he realized the
plan probably would be denounced
as fantastic.
“Yet I predict it will come in
the years’ ahead,” he asserted.
Senator Russell said he pro=
posed the union because of com
mitments by Great Britain in
world affairs, which he said are
“now proposed as our obligations.”
In London, the Daily Worker,
Communist newspaper, said the
proposal was “what some people
here mutter ironically.”
‘No Official Comment
There was no other comment,
officially or otherwise, immedia-~
tely from . British or American
government officials.
In Atlanta, British Consul M.
C. G. man said his was “only a
personal re-action,” adding:
“We very much appreciate the
sentiment ‘which inspired the
statement. I'm sure it was made
with the utmost sincerity and
kindness, but I still think we
would prefer to keep our inde=
pendence. i
“And I'm not quite sure the
thing- would be quite practical.
We are having -a difficult time
of things, but you see it would
requir€ a rather delicate surgical
operation, and I really don’t think
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John King Wells
Taken By Death;
Rises Held Today
John King Wells, father of Mrs,
Fred Leathers and Mrs. E. B. Cook,
of this city, died in an Atlanta hos
pital Sunday morning at 6:10 o’~
ciock after an illness of several
months.
Services were conducted Mon
day afternoon from McDorman=
Bridges Chapel with Dr,. J, C, Wil
Kinson, pastor of First Baptist
Church, officiating.
Burial was in Oconee Hill ceme=-
tery, M. S. Cooley, A. G. Har
grove, jr., Allen W. Wier, Hubert
Weils, Glenn Dillard and Claude
Leathers serving as pall-bearers.
Mr. Wells, 71, is survived by
four daughters, Mrs. Leathers,
Mrs. Cook, both of Athens, Mrs.
Wesley N. Fain, Birmingham, Ala.,
and Mrs. Ralph Hopkins, Miami,
Fla.; son, Fred W. Wells, Deca=
tur, Ga.; sister, Mrs. Will Segars,
Bowman, Ga.; brother, A. M.
Wells, Homer, Ga.; sisters-in-law,
Mrs. E. D. Wells, Watkinsville,
Mrs. Freeman Wells, Atlanta and
Mrs. H. Goss Wells, Savannah,
and nine grandchildren.
A native of Banks county, Mr.
Wells was well known in Athens
where he once resided and where
he often visited after leaving here.
During his residence here he join~
ed First Baptist Church and since
had maintained his membership
in that congregation. Since leav
ing Athens he had resided in Bow=~
man, Elberton and in Florida, be
fore being in Atlanta, where he
had lived for the past three
months. Mr. Wells had many
friends here who will be saddened
by news of his death.
only about an hour before the blast
shook the area and shattered
hundreds of windows in build
ings over a radius of a block.
Only three of the injured were
described as in critical condition
and Fire ComissionerMichaelJ.
Corrigan said the city escaped a
major disaster only by the fact
that the blast occurred on Sun
day. Had it been on any other day,
he added, “hundreds would have
been killed.”
Corrigan estimated loss of the
building and its contents at about
$1,000,000 but Ray Crane, chief
of uniformed police, said “poten
tial loss” of property, including
exposed merchandise in nearby
bulidings, might total $10,000,000
to $15,000,000. Window damage
alone was estimated as high as
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