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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTON L[NCH MIDDLING .. .. .. 86¢ “Vol. 115 No. 107, TH PARTIES ~ SUPPORT PLEA 3 Chances Of Action On Truman Proposal Slim For This Year WASHINGTON, May 15—(AP) __Although President = Truman’s recommendation for a hike in the minimum wage drew bi-partisan ) congressional support today, chances appeared slim for any ac tion this year. The President urged Congress iperease the present minimum wage of 40 cents an hour to 65 cents. genator Taft (R-Ohio) told re porters he favors hiking the wage floor but isn’t ready to set any fisure. However, he said, there is only a bare possibility the Senate can act on such a bill this session. & genator Pepper (D-Fla), author * . a bill to hike the minimum to 75 cents an hour, ‘said other mat ters on the Senate Calendar aren’t 5o important as the wage matter while Senater Ellender (D-La), who favors a hike to 55 cents now and 60 cents later, said there is no prospect for action at this session. Meanwhile, House and Senate conferees assembled for their first {ry at compromising differences in | the House and Senate labor bills. 4 Biggest obstacle—The various restrictions in the House bill but not in the Senate version. These include a ban on most industry wide bargaining and an authoriza tion for employers to ask injunc tions against some strikes and boy- Action Due Today Action was due today on both the admiriistration’s Greek-~Turkey and foreign relief programs. A compromise version of legis lation to grant $400,000,000 fer economic ‘and military aid to Greece and Turkey was slated for a vote in the House, where ap proval was foregone. The bill then goes to the Senate for final legisia~ tive action. X House and Senate conferees were to meet and see what can be done to iron out differences in the House and Senate bills to provide funds for relief in six countries of Europe and in China. Principal difference in the bills is that the Senate voted $350,000,000 as asked by the President while the House whacked the amount to $200,000- 000. The House Appropriation Com mittee’s economy drive collided to day with a bi-partisan demand for more funds for airports. i As the House took up amend ments to the committee’s $535,~ 728,000 Justice-State-Commerce- Judiciary supply bill,-GOP leaders conceded that Rep. Rooney (D --NY) would succeed in his move to add $4,849,000 for air traffic con trol towers in 150 cities. Democrats were ready next to try and restore $32,500,000 for fed eral-aid airport building through= out the country. Republican lines held firmly yesterday in beating back all ef forts to restore parts of a 22 per cent cut recommended for the State Department. One unsuccess il move would have added $31,- 31,000 for the department’s cul lural relations program. House leaders hoped for a final Vote on the bill during the day. These matters also were of con gressional interest: School aid—A high-ranking Re- Publican said the party !eadership hss decided to kill a bill which Would give states $300,000,000 vearly for aid to schoels. This Re- Publican, who desired to remain dhonymous, said this move re ;,lfdmed party desires to hold down HL eral spending. Majority leader “alleck of Indiana, asked about '¢ matter, said there had been ?U) decision. A House Subcommit (;;: headed by Rep. McCowen (R --4 10), author of the bill, has con wear | hearings on it for several W%}XGHCFSenator Kilgore D hibn) urged that Congress pro dve) Patenting of any inventions scier,ed by a proposed national p(;lernce ‘oundation. He made this gy 2l as the Senate took up ugma“"" 10 set up such a founda o 10x research into National De- Sub-jechethods as well as science ATHENS" AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and econtin- U¢d warm tonight and Friday Vith scattered thundershow *s Friday, GEORGIA - Partly cloudy and continyeq warm today, (night and Friday: scattered thundershowers Friday after- 1 noon, TEMPERATURE Highest ... 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R e bk e [ "’; eRI e v ovps o v s I ——————— . - TRAFFIC VICTIM COMFORTED An unidentified passerby bends over Janie Klein, 16, who suffered a possible leg fracture when she and five other high school students were run down by a car in New York City. The driver said he lost control of the car while making a U-turn. All six were taken to the hospital, two of them in a serious condition. Twin Arrests 9.C. Pay Roll Ex-Con‘And Wife Are Arrested In Local Hotel; Plans Snafu To Rob Cotton Mill The arrest of George W.-Solsbee and his pretty young blonde wife at the Georgidn Hotel late yesterday after neon, plus the capture of two other gang members in Anderson, S. C., stymied a well-planned payroll robbery of the Piedmont Cotton Mill in Piedmont, S. C. Athenian’s Sister Dies; Funera In Salisbury, N. C. Mrs. W. A. Thomas, of Washing ton, D. C., a sister of Mrs. Thad Hawkins and of the late W. A. Capps, of Athens, died last Sunday in Seattle, Wash., where she was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frederick Clanton. The remains will arrive in Salisbury, N. C., next Saturday and funeral services will be con ducted Sunday at St. John’s Evangelical Church, interment following in Chestnut- Hill Ceme tery. Mrs. Thomas had visited her, Athens relatives on many occa sions, prior to a serious illness some years ago from which she never fully recovered, and is remembered for her gracious bear ing and the many other admirable qualities which were hers by right of birth and heritage. The daugh ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mar tin Van Buren Capps, prominent pioneer citizens of Salisbury, she was born and reared in he North Carolina city, where she spent most of her life, moving to Wash ington, D. C. some twenty years ago. . The deceased is survived by three children, Mrs. Frederick Clanton, of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Stanley Rathborn, of Washington, D. C., and Mr. John Capps Thomas, of Salisbury. In addition, she is survived by her brother, Judge Bismarck Capps, of Gastonia, N. C. and her sisters, Mrs. Thad Hawkins, of Athens, and Mrs. John J. Boyd, of Georgetown, S. Lok Mr. and Mrs. Thad Hawkins will leave Friday for Salisbury to join other members of the family for-the obsequies on Sunday. German Food Experts In 0.5.-British Occupation Zones Hold Urgent Confab FRANKFURT, GERMANY, WMay 15—(AP)—German officials proposed today a temporary slash in the official rations in the Brit ish and American zones as feod experts of both zones met in emergency Ssession on Western Germany’s grave food crisis. Governmeht sources in London said’ British troops would seek to crush a large-scale black market held largely responsible for the critical situation. | British troops will search farm lands for hidden stocks which, the informants said, are hoarded for diversion into black market BY ALLEN COLLIER Mr. and Mrs. , Solsbee were arrested by State Trooper Rogers and Deputy Sheriff George Nash, after receiving orders from South Carolina duthorities. The other two members of the gang, Frank Parker, of Gafney, S, C. and Lester R. Ferris, Elber ton, Ga., were arrested in Ander=- son and supplied information that led to the arrest of the Solesbees here. According to South Carolina authorities the three men were to make the pay roll robbery and meet Mrs. Soisbee-here and con tinue’ to points south with the loot. A hitch in their plans spilit up the gang and their plans went haywire. . Parker and -Ferris held up a Greenville cab driver, tied him to a tree in woods and stole, the cab. They were supposéd to meet Solsbee at an undisclosed spot and converge on the Piedmont Cotton Mill. But Ferris and Park er missed Solsbee and.returned the cab to where they had stolen it. In the meantime the cab driver had freed himself and informed the police of th, robbery. Ferris and Parker abandoned the cab and started hitchhiking and were picked up by the ‘police a short time later. The two men in turn revealed the holdup plans and disclosed the planned rendevous with the Solshees in Athens. Mris. Sclsbee arrived here by bus frorghGreen ville at noon esterday. e reg istered under the name of Mrs. W. D. Forest. Solsbee an ex-con viet and dishonorably discharged from army for bad conduct, ar rived later in the afternoon in a stolen 1941 Mercury. The "irrests were made at 5:45 p. m. in room 420. Solsbee who also fised’ the name~ of George Wilbur Bush was wanted by South Carolina authorities oh several misdemea (Continued On Page Slexl;‘ Reports reaching Berlin from the Soviet zone indicated that the Russions, too, were exper iencing dificulty meeting ration scales in Eastern Germany, al though the situation theve was believed to b, less acute. In Washington, Secretary of War Robert Patterson said more than 400,000 tons of food wou'd be sent to Germany thi§ month, a similar amount would be sent next month, and even more” in July German officials in Stuttgart proposed that the official ration in the British and American zones be cut from 1,550 to 1,130 calories Stymie Holdup Plans Snafu Athens, Ga., Thursday, May 15, 1947. UN Assembly Votes Today On Palestine Commission . Poland Launches Soviet Backed Drive . To Reverse Decision To Ban Big Five NEW YORK, May 15.—(AP)—Poland today launched a Soviet-supported move to reverse a United Nations de cision barring the Big Five powers from membership on the proposed Palestine inquiry commission, Polish delegate Alfred Fiderkiewicz took the floor as the General Assembly began ‘what it hoped would be the final day’s debate on creation of a group to study the Holy Land problem this summer. _ He called on the plenary meet ing to throw out the 13 to 11 de cision in a resolution alopted.by 55-naticn political cominittee naming 11 small “neutral” na tions as members of the inquiry commission and excluding the bi% powers. he drive for adjournment was slowed by a 45-minute speech from Indian delegate Asaf Ali, which required another 45-min utes for translation into French. He pleaded for a “just settle ment” of the Palestineg problem, warning that failure to find such a solution might bring “a third great war.” As the Assembly neareq the mid-day recess, it still faced the task of voting paragraph by par agraph on the nine-paragraph resolution providing for estab lishment of the Inguiry Commis sion. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran denounced the resolution before the Assembly yesterday because it made no mention of independence for Palestine a car dinai point in their program, and because it deals only with the “question. of Palestine instead of BULLETIN NEW YORK, May 15—(AP) —The United Nations assem bly sped toward the end of the special Palestine session fto day after voting down a final Soviet-Slav move to include the five big ‘powers in the 11-nation Palestine In quiry Commission. The assembly voted 40 to 0 to confine the membership to sinall “neutral” countries after opposition led by Poland and Russia gollapsed, The Slav bloc and the Arab states ab stained. The delegates then quickly approved proposed instruc tions to the Inquiry Commis sion by a vote of 45 to 7, with one abstention and two ab sent. The Arab states voted against the proposals. The votes came after the five Arab countries refused to agree to a proposed interim truce in the strife-torn Holy land while the inquiry group tackles the problems this sum mer. The General Assembly, however, approved the truce proposal with the Arab states abstaining. It calls on all inlerested par ties to refrain from the “threat or use of force or any other action which might create an atmosphere prejudicial to an early settlement.” paving the way for recommen dations on the future government of the Holy Land. They reserved their position onl future developments and mem brs of the Arab delegations hint. ed at a policy of non-cooperation in the investigation. Vete On Order The delegates first must vote on the orders for the commission. The second section concerns the composition of the commission. The committee voteq to appoint this inquiry-group members from Australia, Canada, Cechoslova kia, Gautemala, lindia Iran, the Netherlands Peru, Sweden, Uru guay, and Yugoslavia. Delegates still were discussing with some excitement Russia’s surprise recommendation for an independent, dual, Democratic state with equal rights for Arabs | (Continued On Page Six) daily per person. Mass Protest The possibilty of a mass pro test strike in Stuttgart next week appeared to have faded. Factory workers had threatened a gener al strike Mhay 22, but WMarcus Schleicher, president of the city’s trade unions, declared that the workers would allow more time for the situation to be improved. The bi-zonal food board plagued by a potato famine, was veported to be considering the substitution of bread for potatoes when promised grain shipments arrive from the United States. ~ (Continued On Page Six) ESTABLISHED 1833, WORLD FLASHES JERUSALEM, May 15 — (AP) —Mines planted by the Jewish underground wrecked two Pal estine trains today, killeg two British offticers, injured five other persons, damaged three briages and disrupted railway service in the Holy Land. Unexploded mines were dis covereq on trackage in the Jeru salem and Tel Aviv areas, offi cials said. and some sources said a large scale attack on the Pal estine railway system may have been timed on the assumption that the Uniteq Nations Assembly session on Palestine would end last night. | An accidental explosion of a parachute flare set off a 20-min ute emergency alarm in this jit tery city this morning, with Rrit_ ish troops rushing to the scene near the point where the under groung shot and killed two Brit ish constables Monday night, Military patrols, investigating explosions which injured two British soldiers' last night arres ted two Jews in northern Palas tine. Authorities said they were carrying a Sten gun, two pistols, grenades, ammunition and a homemade mine. Two others es , caped. | 'ELKO, Nev., May 15 —(AP)— Three persons were killed and four injureq early tbday when a two-story brick apartment-busi ness building collapsed and crash ed into an adjoining excavation in Elko’s business district. Sheriff C. L. Smith of Elko county said the dead were tenta tively identified as Ralph Neii sen, Beatrice Neilsen, believed to be Neilsen’s mother, and Mrs. Robert Norris. The sheriff said digging con tinued in the wreckage but it was beiieved ail occupanis were ac counteq for. | WASHINGTON, May 15 — (AP) — Additional settlements further narrowed the nation’s phone strike today as a new round of conferences, got under way in the deadloclted Western Electric tieup. Jobn Murray, Labor Depart ment representative, was hopeful of new wage concessions from both* the Western Electric, Bell Teiephone System affiliate, and the Association of Communica tions Equipment Workers repre senting 20,000 striking workers. NANKING, May 15 —(AP) — Twenty of its members urged the legislative Yuan today to try to revive peace talks with warring Chinese Communists on the ground that economic conditions were growing worse daily. Pointing up the situation, sev eral thousand students staged a demonsration_ shouting “bombs or food?” It was generally doubted in Narking that the appeal to seek an end to the current civil war would produce any result; neither cide has shown any disposition to modify its conditions for resump tion of peace talks. Government conditions include restoration of Communist-de stroyed communications. The Reds insist on abolition of the constitution ang a reversion of government military positions to those prevailing in January, 1946. NEW YORK, May 15 —(AP)— “No substantial general reduction in retail food prices is possibie until the cost of food to ths re tailer is reduced.” the Great At lantic ang Pacific Tea Co, said tcday. i * The statement was meade in an advertisement appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers through out the country. The advertisement stmted that the company has reduced prices on hundreds of food itlems in re cent weeks, but addead that mer chants generally have lowered prices on many items on which they were over stocked. WORLD ECONOMY CHICAGO Mav 15 —(AP) — A 150-billion dollar ip-ogram of American exvorts angd invest ments throughout the ! world is proposed by Henry A} Wallace, who savs that the onl't hope for peace “is a major effivt to re store the world econom{v by the vse of American resoures.” o ———— e ——————————————————— ——— it e A A A 5 N TR TWA ——————" = . ee e y \g 4 & hiwy gy 4O ey y 't I 8 TSR L b 1D B b R 0 oty Y G X kP s o @ » e 5 LA 4 5 ol g i 8 AB S x,(l = 3 WGP | e, / h % 3 . o b . o a 7 B Py i 3 2’ gt S & g 9 S R W AN &¥ W T : i I e A st t R R & ; Skas, Al e R e & ol s . ',‘;% . A 4 : 4 b R R 3 PO L 27 B od Bt i ;"’;\&?“l BR B Set wg‘%ﬂ"%. c&@ o 3 - Tl e e &YNR e % o R i B AT T St L AT, R e gdids . d Rl g e S I«;Zs-::::zzﬁ"-' %4 7 ¢ % . . RS e 0. 5 iof 7 Si Ty -~+,~.—"%_;——'—~=-*~“>**"' SEEAIA KBS I R e Fie R < 2 e 8 e SRR e SR 3 3 3 o 3 : PR g ; s TR . 3 & ’ 3 : T e ; 5Wi Mﬁ.g, (6 k- be & B ¥ , B o & g IR B e G s L B % Flome el g A 9 B4‘ 1o i W G S O g B . o . s ... 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The tornado yvai.preceded by a hailstorm.which dropped stones described as nearly two inches in diameter, FLASHES OF LIFE EASY WAY DENVER, May 15.—(AP)— Patrolmen Richard Brown and Thomas Davy did their duty the easy way yesterday. Waiting in their squad car for a traffic light to change, they saw a man hold up an other. They waited patiently until the stickup man had the money in his hand, then leaped out and arrested him. HARD TO HIDE PORTLAND, Ore., May 15. — (AP) —Palice believe re covering Frank Queahpana’s stolen headgear will be . a cingh if the thief decides to wear it. s The Indian said his feather war - honnet disappeared along with a set of wampum belts. Athens 'Blue Baby’ Returns Home Cured Mary Ruth Littles came back to Athens yesterday, ready to face life on .equal terms . with other girls. The twenty-year-old former “blue baby” had spent the past three months in Baltimore, three weeks of it in Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she successfully underwent the operation that has made Dr. Alfred Blalock, himself a Georgian, internationally fam ous. Dr. Blalock himself performed the operation, and following paid several personal visite te the Athens patient,, whose trip ‘was made possible by a numgﬁ;of local civie clubs and or a tions, including the Salvation Army, Lions, Elks, Civitans, Ex chanfge, Rotary and Kiwanis. She was accompanied to Baltimore by Envoy Mary Peacock of the Army. “ C R “ ¥ The rest of the time in Balti more, Mary Ruth spent at the Salvation Army Women’s and Children’s Home. . A luncheon honoring the pres idenfs of those organizations, as well as the Advisory Board of the Army and, with Miss Littles as honor guest, will be given by the Salvation Army at the Geor gian Hotel on May 26, according to Envoy Mary Peacock, when the Athens girl, ‘daughter of Mrs. Grover Little, will tell the story of her trip and how it feels to be released from the shadow of death that was always with: her until she went to Baltimore. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 15— (AP)—John L. Lewis agreed today to bargain on a new con tract with three-fourths of the soft coal industry and nczoti ations were set to begin to merrow. The mine union leader’s agreement, reversing a pre vious stand, raised the possi bility of avoiding a crippling strike im coal industry when the gevernment relinquishes control of the pits this sum mer. The United Mine Work ers traditionally have refused to work witheut a contract. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢ ATLANTA SOGIETY BEAUTY FOUND STRANGLED IN PEACHTREE CREEK Police Believe Rope Used To Kill Auburn-Haired Wife Of French Artist ATLANTA, May 1564 (AP)—The body of a 31-year old Atlanta'society beauty, the wife of a French artist, was found face up in historic Peachtree Creek last night, and police said she apparently had been strangled to deatn. A rope apparently had been used to strangle the woman, Mrs. Paul R. Refoule, although none was found at the scene. Her feet were bound together by her shoe laces. ’ Peachtree Creek was the scene of a ‘bitter battle between '‘Confed= erate and Union forces during the Atlanta campalgn of the War Between the States. : The body was found near the Refoule home on Howell Mill road in the fashionable northwest sec tion of the city. Mrs. Refoule, the former Margaret Alston, daughter of a prominent. Georgia attorney, spent the war years in France while her husband was a German prisoner. His family lives in Orleans. He was an interpreter with the French Army, was captured at Dunkirk and escaped in late 1944 from a Polish prison ‘camp. The original investigation of ficer, Lt. Cal Cates, said there were signs of a struggle in the soft sand around the historic creek where the diminutive, 110-pound victim was found and that her dress had been raised around her shoulders. . Arm Blistered Her underclothes were missing and her left arm, which was doubled beneath hér bddy, was blistered, he added. Captain Bradford said early to day that a preliminary report by a county physician was unable to say whether she had been attack ed. Members of the family were quoted by Captain Bradford as saying the auburm-haired Mrs. Refoule was in the habit of pick- Mass Murder Trial TRIGGER MAN STATEMENT CALLED IN SOUTH CAROLINA LYNCH PROBE GREENVILLE, S. C., May 15. —(AP)—The State of South Car olina called up as evidence today the purported unsworn statement of the man allegedly identified by four fellow defendants as the shotgun executioner of a negro lynched February 17. i The statement is that allegedly! signed by Rosoevelt Carlos Hurd, ! sr., 456-year-old Greenville cab| dispatcher, one of 31 defendants| in a_mass murder trial growing | out of the slaying of Willie Earle. The prosecution yesterday of fered seven purported statements by ' persons who impligztgq themselves in the lynching. Four named Hurd as the ringleader who stood over the writhing, bleeding negro and fired three shotgun blasts into his head. The young negro, who had HOME, ing wild flowers along the creek in the rear of her home, an old water mill dating from the War Between the States which the couple was converting into a studio. Captain Bradford said Refoule, an art instrucfor at Oglethorpe University and the Hish Muscum of Art here, reported his wife's disappearance shortly after he ar rived home early last night. Cates said he found an iron still hot upon his arrival at the Refoule home and that all the doors ex cept the kitchen door were lock-= ed. Bloodhounds Used Refoule was. quoted by Captain Bradford as saying he had not seen his wife since he left home about 2 p. m. after a luncheon party yes terday. : Cates said that since the atea in the rear of the home was sparsely settled and heavily matted with tangled undergrowth he summoned the bloodhounds who picked the scent immediately. . "A member of the family, Char les - Currie, a cousin, said Mrs. Refoule met her husband while she was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and that they married here in a fashionable wedding in 1938. T ’ i Shortly after the marriage, Cur~ rie said, the Refoules returned to France. Refoule was captured in the German breakthrough of 1940. Mrs. ReFoule and their son, nine year-old Jon Paul remained with his ‘family in a small town south of Paris until the liberation. Cur rie said the couple returned to the United States about 18 months ago. been arrested and accused of fa tally stabbing a white taxi dri ver, was found at dawn, Febru ary 17, in a lonely roadside ditch. Before the shotgun blast ended his life, the prosecution says, he ’was prutally beaten .with fists and gun butts, and was savagely i.\iashed with knives until chunks [of flesh were gouged from his | body. He had been taken earlier | from the:Pickens county jail by ' a mob, : The seven purported state ments were read to the jury yes terday, over defense objections, elating the sordid story of the lynching. Varying' only in detail, they told how a mob of. taxi men went to Pickens, S. C., atter midnight February 17, determin~ ed to lynch the negro suspect ln

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