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World War Il
Vets Take Over
Reins Of Legion
MACON, Ga., June 5.—(AP)—
world War Two veterans took
over the -American Legion in
Georgia today after the most
spirited convention in the history
of the Department.
They elected a state comman
der and a senior vice-commander
frem their own numbers yester
day, likewise filled most other
officer posts, and also assured
themselves control of the key
executive committee by amending
the department constitution.
Dr. W. E. Burdine of Blue
Ridge was elected state comman
der, defeating David Hirsch of
Savannah, a World War One
veteran, by 1,135 to 1,053 votes.
Erle Cocke, jr., of Dawson was
named senior vice-commander.
Until the convention, concluded
here yesterday after three days,
veterans of the First World War
had wielded the power in Geor
gia councils of the Legion.
The constitutional amendment,
which drew support from some
elements of the old guard, re
stricts the state executive com
mittee to the current state offi
cers, the 11 district commanders,
and to the three immediate past
state commanders.
. Past Officers
The past state commanders, all
World War One veterans, had
peen accumulating on the execu
tive committee through the years
until they outnumbered all other
elements on that body.
The department constitution
also was amended so that four
| junior vice-commanders, instead
' of one, may be elected.
Named junior vice-command
ers were John Sammons Bell,
; Atlanta; Bill Kilroy, Savannah;
E D. Lindsey, Sandersville; and
william W. Mundy, Cedartown.
Burdine succeeds John R. Wil
liams, Valdosta, as state com
mander. The defeated candidate,
Hirsch, moved that Burdine’s vote
be changed to unanimous.
In other elections, the candi
dates for chaplain, treasurer, and
historian were unopposhd.
The Rev. J. T. Walker, pastor
of St, James Episcopal church,
Marietta, was re-elected chaplain,
and Margaget Giles, Atlanta, was
- re-elected treasurer. Bd “Hughes,
| Camilla, became historian when
" Charles Morgan, sr., Macon, de
clined nomination for re-election.
| Stone Elected
State Senator Guy Stone, Glen=
wood, defeated Past Department
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Flying Home Today
MIAMI, Fla., June s—{AP)—
»Aunt” Jane Stevenson, Who
will be 98 years old in Septem
ber, will fly back to her home
in Athens, Georgia today after
spending the winter here. :
“I wouldn’t think of making
the trip any other way,” she said
It will be her second aivplane
trip. She came to Miami last fall
by air to visit her daughter, Mrs.
R. A. Stovall.
“People are getting awful
smart,” she told a reporter. “t
seems only like yeserday that all
we had to ride in was a buggy
or go horseback.”
“Why, if our Confederate sol
diers had had aivplanes like we
have today, we would have beat
en the North without any trouble
But we didn’t and that’s that.”
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, June 5—
(AP) — The Senate com
-linted ratification of the
first four of Worlg War IFs
peace treaties today.
After ratifying the Ital-’
ian treaty a 79 to 10 vote,
the Senate then gave voice
vote approval to treaties
with Romania, Bulgaria and
_Hungary.
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Here is the first photograph of “The Independence,” _the new Presidential
plane, a DC-6, which was unveiled in Santa Monica, California. Three rear win
dows are placed in the area of the conference room which can be made into a pri
vate stateroom. Windows over the wings are cut in the general passenger space.
When painting of the plane iz completed, a stylized eagle head will cover the noge.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
National Democratic
Party. Recognizes
Thompson Cormmittee
WASHINGTON, June 5. — "'5“;9») — The Democratic
National Committee disclos "Jf .ay it has given official
recognition to the Georgiz \g: on of the party headed by
Governor M. E. Thompsu, & .nd has in effect turned its
back on the group headea by Herman Talmadge.
The committee annonunced it
has cancelled invitations to of
ficers of the pro-Talmadge De
mocratic Executive Committee to
attend a meeting of party leaders
here June 19. Pro-Thompson
people have been asked to at
tend instead. :
“The comittee declined com
ment on the reason. A spokesman
who requested that his name no:
be used told a reporter:
“Invitations to the June 19
meeting were issued by office.
The committee personnel has
changed in Georgia so the new
officers were invited. The same
thing happened with regards 1o
North Carolina.”
Talmadge who occupied the
Governor’s office until the Geor
SMALL NATIONS
PLAN FOR GLOBAL POLICE FORGCE
Belgium Leads Attack Charging
Plan Won’t Affect Major Powers
LAKE SUCCESS, June s.—(AP)—The small countries
on the United Nations Security Council today leveled
their fire at a Big Five Report on organization of a glo
bal police force.
Belgium led off the criticism
at the opening of general debate
yesterday, charging that the ma
jor powers were making plans
only to stop “certain categories
gs wars” and offering no provis
ions to block aggression by a big
TRRAOIG e i o e e
Australia was ready to take
up the fight upon resumption of
discussions tomorrow (3 p. m.,,
EDT). At that time Colonel W.
R. Hodgson said he would brand
the whole report vague and in
adequate and charge that the 51
small countries in the U. N. had
been ignored entirely in drafting
the basic program.
Meanwhile, the Big Five iteslf
was divided over plans for es
tablishing the international army,
with Russia standing . alone
against the United States, Bri
tain, France and China on more
than a third of the basic princi-.
ples.
Secret Study
The report was drafted after
15 months of secret deliberations
by the military staff committee,
which comprises admirals and
generals representing the chiefs
of staff of the five great pow
ers. Its acceptance would be the
first step toward conclusion of
individual agreements with U. N.
member nations whereby they
would provide land, sea and air
contingents for an international
force. ; :
Fernand von Langenhove of
Belgium noted that use of such
forces would be subject to veto
in the Council and he said. the
committee therefore had held
that it was not necessary to en
visage use of the forces ‘“in the
case of a new world war involv
ing. the great powers.”
He confended specifically that
the committee failed to provide
for use of the forces in the case
of a threat to peace, a breach of
peace or an act of aggression
“when these were directly or in
directly committeed by -a great
| power.”
Full Associdfedfpr—e'ss‘fService
gia Supreme Court ruled Thomp
‘son could be elevated to it from
the Lieutenant governoyrship,
claims the Democratic State Exe
cutive Committee chosen by
Thompson suporters is illegal.
Talmadge had occupied the Gov
ernorship briefly in place of his
father, who died after his election
and before he could taky office.
Leaders Invited
The National Committee said
the -following Georgians have
been asked to attend the June 19
meeting of party leaders from
Alabma, Florida and Georgia:
Former Governor E. D. Rivers
and Mrs. Virginia Polhill Price,
National Committee members;
William S. Morris, Augusta pub
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NU.N.ATTACK
NEW COAL STRIKE
JITTERS FORESEEN
} WASHINGTON, June S—(AP)
—Every sign points today to a
new case of coal! strike jitters
before the threat of auaother mine
shutdown July 7is settled by
John L. Lewis and the operators.
Both the United Mine Work
ers’ chief and the soft .coal mine
owners prepared to put each
other’s patience to the test as the
last of their contract negotiations
broke down yesterday,
~ The government must return
‘the mines to private ownership
July 1, when its authority to
continue running the seized pits
runs out.
However, on June 27 the min
ers begin a 10-day vacation call
ed for cificially under their gov
errment contract.
Thus the deadline for any new
strike now looms as July 7 unless
some cother arrangement is made
in the meantime. :
Confab Halted
The southern coal negotiations
broke off yesterday when the un
ion negotiators refused to appear
because of “what they called the
cpelators’ disregard of an earlier
agreement not to discuss bargain
ing terms.
The owners had announced
publicly late Tuesday their offer
of an 85-cent daily pay increase,
provided present portal to portal
‘allowances were wiped out.
~ While the negotiating confer
enc. was not formally recessed,
UMW Vice _ President John
G'Leary said, “it should be ob
vious to everyone that there is
‘nc. use wasting time in a con
jference. talking over the opera
tors’ phony contract offer, the
provisions of which woulq take
away the rights and privileges
the miners now enjoy.”
jack Wells Plans
Gandidacy For
Mayor Of Athens
Jack R, Welis, Athens busi
ness man. and member of the
Georgia Legislature from Clarke
county today declared he will be
a candidate for Mayor ‘in the
Democratic Primary next No
vember.
Mr. Wells saig he will not re
sign from the Legislature in order
to make the race for Mayar, be
cause he was elect>g for a two
year term in the General Assem
bly which expires at the end of
1448. The next two-year term of
the Mayor does not begin until
Jegnuary 1, 1948. “In the mean
time,” Mr. Wells said “the Leg
islature might be calleg into spe
cial session. I believe that in as
much as I am familiar with the
organization of the present Gen
eral Assembly, I could be of
servic, to Clarke county and the
University by retaining my seat
in the House of Representatives
until th, expiration of my term.
Of course if the people of Ath
ens should elect me Mayor I
would not be a candidate for an
other term in the General As
seembly.”
Finances, Traffic Control
While he saiq he will make no
formal announcement regarding
his candidacy until the entries
are opened by the Clarke Coun
ty Democratic Executive Com
mittee, Mr. Wells indicated that
he believes traffic conmtrol and
city finances are the “two most
irnportant questions before the
people of Athens at this time. He
suid he is devoting “a consider
abl, amount of time to the study
of these two major ~municipal
problems. And T expect that they
will figure very largely as the
basis for my candidacy for
Mayor. 2 :
“The time has come when we
me compelled to face the gques
tion of municipal finances
squarely and in such a way that
we can proceed with a normal
ruunicipal development program,
-.ithout creating a patchwork
and cumbersome revenue - pro
ducing system,” Mr. Wellg said.
«“The City most certainly must
not adopt a permanent policy of
living beyond its budget and of
raising the water rates fifty per
eent every time it firds itself in
a hole. ;
«As a matter of fact, my Ad
ministration, if I am elected
Mayor, would be pledged to re
duction of the water rates to
what they were Dbefore _the
Mayor and Council increased
them fifty percent a few weeks
ago.
“The quesion of traffic control,
as we all know, becomes more
acute cvery day. We must solve
this problem. Its lack of solution
is a reflection upon us all and
as Mayor I would tackle it with
determination, regarding its suc
cessful solution as a chief test
of my fitness to serve.” s
Although he was a newcomer
to the Legislature, Mr Wells was
recognized by the officers of the
Ceneral Assembly as one of its
zblest members. He was Chair
man of the Committee of Vete
rans in the Legislature to make
a special trip to Washington D.
C., to study veterans problems
and on other occasions he was
given recognition by the Speak
er of the House and the Govw
ernor.
Aided University
Mr. Wells introduced the bill
to permit the people to elect
members of the Civil Service
Commission, which was ratified,
in a_ special election several
weeks ago. - He also introduced
the bill permitting automobile
drivers to buy licenses on a five
year basis after which, he pro
poseq to Governor M. E. Thomp
son and State Auditor B. E.
Thrasher, members of the budget
commission_ that a campaign be
conducted to sell the licenses and
that the University be given part
of the funds collecteq in advance
to construct a Veterinary Build
ing on the eampus here. The
Governor agreed to the plan and
since that time Mr. Wells has de
vi ted considerable time to pro
n.cting the sale of the five-year
licenses.
L. R. Seibert, secretary of the
Uriversity System Board of Re
aents, declared in regard to Mr.
"ell’s proposal to build the Uni
versity’s Veterinary School with
advance collections on the sa'es
of drivers’ licenses, that Mr.
Wells made a splendid contribu
tior to the University, and had
solveq a problem that was giving
the Board of Regents considera
ble trouble.
“The University is of such vital
irmportance to Athens.” Mr. Wells
ceclares, “that I believe a City
Adrinistration should give much
of its attention toward advanc
ing the growth of the institution.
If T am elected Mayor I shall
werk toward organizing the City
Government so that its energies
can he directed toward creating
-a bigger University and thus a
bigger Athens.”
BUCKLED DOWN
NEW DELHI, June 5—(AP)—
Seven Indian leaders who agreed
to accept the British plan for
seitling India’s political problems
by partition buckled down with
the Viceroy today to the job of
ironing out some of the major
cdministrative, wrinkles which lie
,dircetly ahead. -~ gt o A s b
Athens, Ga., Thursday, June 5, 1947,
Truman Answers
Attack On High
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SAFETY PLACARD ICNORED
A police officer inspects the wreckage of an automobile, which while speeding
at 70 miles per hour, crashed head-on into a street car in Chicago, 111. The driver of
the car, Gerald D. Fisher, 32, a steel company salesman, was critically injured.
Notice the ‘“less accidents” sign on the front of the street car.
FLASHES OF LIFE
OVER-PARKERS PLAN
- BRISTOW, Okla,, June §s—
— parkers are
given new consideration as
this city inaugurates a pay-as
you-overpark plan.
Attached. to each parking
meter pole now is a metal
container in which the erring
driver drops his ticket and 50
cents, half the usual cost of a
ticket. If the driver fails to
leave the ticket and money he
must go to City court where
the fine is sl.
SECOND CATCH
DURANGO, Colo., June 5
—(AP)—Sam Walford hooked
a 17-inch trout that was really
ready for the frying pan.
Walford, of Buckeye, Ariz.,
related that he hooked the fish
in Vallecito reservoir, hauled
it into his boat and found it
already had been cleaned.
It apparently had been
caught, cleaned and lost by
another angler,
Athenian Is Named
Legion Historian
MACON, Ga., June 5.—(AP)—
Mrs. C. L. Edmunds of Augusta
is the new president of thé Wo
men’s Auxiliary of the Georgia
Department of the American Le
gion.
Her election came yesterday at
the closing session of the Legion
convention here. She succeeds
Mrs. Fuller Pedrick of Quitman.
Other officers named.are Mrs.
P. M. Wise, Winder, first vice
president; Mrs. E. M. Lowery,
Atlanta, secretary-treasurer; Mrs.
Harold B. Hodgson, Athens, his
torian; and Mrs. John J. Mc-
Creary, Macon, chaplain.
These district presidents were
elected: Mrs. Mack Grimm, Sav
annah Beach, First; Mrs. E. T.
Hughes, Camilla, Second; Mrs.
Margaret Harvard, Unadilla,
Third; Mrs. L. G. Lifsey, Bar
nesviile, Fourth; Mrs. L. P.
Moon, Fifth; Mrs. L. K. Bloomer,
Macon, Sixth; Mrs. M. Hicks,
Rome, Seventh; Mrs. W. B. O’-
Quinn, Jesup, Fighth: Mrs. Guy
Strickland, Jefferson, Ninth; and
Mrs. W. B. Streeter, Augusta,
Tenth.
Labor Bill Goes To Senate After House Passage
WASHINGTON, June S—(AP)
—Senators step up today for
turn at approving the comproc
mise labor bill that rode a rock
crusher vote to passage in the
house.
Senator Taft (R-OHIO) said
there was a chance the Senate
ballot might go over until to
morrow. It depends, he said, on
how many people waat to speak
bow long.
Cnce the vote comes, the biil
goes to the White House, where
some key Democrats expect a
veto, There is no doubt about
Senate passage. The only ques
tion is whether the vote will fuin
Feeder Lines Used:
CREWS WORK TO RESTORE WATER,
GAS TO FLOOD STRICKEN CITY
RUTLAND, Vt., June §-— (AP) —Emergency crews
worked 'desperately today to restore gas and water facil
ities to this flood battered Green Mountain community
of 18,000.
The first major step in rehabili
tation was taken last night when
electric power, ruptured for 24
hours, reacgsd the city through
auxiliary feeder lines. ;
The utility services were wreck
ed when a nine foot wall of water,
released by smashing of a power
dam, poured into wide sections of
the city Tuesday night. Torrential |
24-hour rains preceded the break.
Authorities estimated it wouldl
be two or three weeks before nor
mal gas service was restored, but
city officials hoped to establish a|
water connection today for sani
tany purposes,
Meanwhile, drinking water was
being rushed in tank trucks from
Bellows Falls.
Spring water also was available
in several sections of the city, Qf
ficials reported that the food and |
milk situation, described as cri-l
tical - yesterday, was relieved by
arrival of emergency supplies. -
Few of the 500 families that
abandoned homes when the water
bounded out of a 20-foot wide
creek had returned .to.their mud
strewn dwellings, At least 60 per-‘
sons were being cared so- at the
State Armory.
The raging waters spewed mud
from five inches to two feet thick
in hundreds of residences in the
northerly section of the city and
battered foundations in some
areas. oo .
Unofficial estimates of damage
ran as high as $2,000,000. Con
siderable 'of that was in crop
destruction and residential prop
erty wreckdge. The business sec
tion escaped undamaged.
MUKDEN DISPATCH
NANKING'® June 5— (AP)—A
Mukden dispatch to the nawspa
per Ta Kang Pao said today the
Chinese government inspection
narty which reached the Russian_
Vel Manchuvian pert of Dairen
Monday found most of the heavy
industries dismantled.
lup a margin indicating that con
gress will veto a veto That takes
'a two-to-one majority in both
{ branches.
{ The house score late yesterday
. was better than four to one—329
to 79.
= “Very Close”
Taft, who heads the Senate
}Labor Committee, stuck by a
prediction that the bill will be
come law regardless of a veto.
Senator Pepper (D-FLA) told a
reporter it will be “very close”
on that issue, but the Democratic
leadership in the house says a
‘veto will be overriden.
At yesterday’s nese counting,
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢
HUNGARY'S COUP
STIRS SPECULATION
WASHINGTON, June S—(AP)
—Diplomatic authorities specu-~
lated today whether the Com
munist coup in Hungary may be
followed by steps to set up a
Balkan federation of Soviet
dominated states in eastern and
southern Europe.
Until last week, Hungary's non-
Communist governmeni was the
sole break in an otherwise solid
lineup of Moscow-controlled na
tions extending from the Baltic to
the Adriatic seas.
Marshal Tito.of Yugoslavia has
been an outspoken advocate of a
formal Balkan federation, and
such a development now is being
viewed here ag a definite pogsi
bility.
Like the Hungarian overturn, it
would be regarded as (1) a curt
Moscow rejoinder to the American
program of aid to Greece and Tur-~
key and (2) a move to solidify the
Soviet bloc before final ratifica
tion of the satellite peace treaties
forces withdrawal of Red Army
occupation forces.
Diplomats also consider as a
possible next Russian step in
eastern Europe some action to
perpetuate the Communist-domi
nation of Czechoslovakia. A
Leftist bloc which included Com
munists won last year’s elections
there, but a more recent rightist
trend has suggested that the Com
munists might slip back to second
or third place in the next national
balloting.
Meanwhile, a formal United
States protest and further econo
mic slaps remained under consid
eration at the State Department to
express this government’s concern
over the Communist seizure of
control in Hungary.
Democrats backed the compro
mise 103 to 66, Republicans 217
to 12. The one American-Labo
rite, Rep. Marcantonio of New
York was against the Bill.
Bar Some Strikes
The compromise, blending to
gether the original house bill
and another approved by the
Senate, 68 to 24, among other
things would:
Ban some kinds of strikes en
tirely and give the g2)overnment
authority to use court orders to
stop “National Paralysis” strikes,
as in the coal or steel industry,
during 80 days of mediation, -
HOME
Taft's
Prices
Says Aid Program
Not Intended To .
Lower Home Prices
WASHINGTON, June 5.
— (AP) — President Tru
man said today that Sena
tor Taft (R.-Ohio) has ad
vocated “fallacious and
dangerous” procedure on
the economic front.
My. Truman made this state
ment at a news conference at
which he announced the appoint
ment of former Governor Dwight
T. Griswold of Nebraska to be
chief of the United States Mission
to Greece under the $400,000,000
Greek-Turkish aid bill.
At the same time, he appointed
Richard F. Allen to administer the
$350,000,000 relief program for
other European countries.
In a lengthy prepared statement,
Mr. Truman took issue with Taft’s
recent statement that “apparently
the President and the administra
tion are abandoning talk of keep
ing prices down in favor of heavy
spending abroad that will keep
them up.”
Price Reductions
The President said bluntly the
administration does not advocate
the Greek-Turkish aid program
“for the purpose of bringing prices
down,” but to aid starving millions
restore their economies and to bul
wark them “against totalitarian
aggression.”
While ' foreign aid programs
place some strain upon the Amer
ican economy, he said, the answer
is to make price reductions at
home “even more urgent.” i
Mr. Truman said:
“Senator Taft’s argument that
high demand justifies or necessi~
tates high prices is fallacious and
dangerous. It is based upon the
}iflea that prices should seek as
'high a level as the traffic will
‘bear, rather than the lowest level
g)tat is consistent with fair pro-
S.
“That kind of practice is in
defensible, and in the long run it
would destroy both prosperity and
profits.”
Registration For
Summer Schools
To Start Friday
Summer School registration
plans for Athens High School and
Elementary Schools were disclosed
today by Superintendent B. M.
Grier,
High School registration will be
held Friday and Saturday, June §
and 7, from 9 to 12 o’clock at the
High School Building. Regular
Class work wiill begin Monday
June 9, at 9 a. m.
Registration for the Elementary
Schools will be held Friday and
Saturday, June 13 and 14 from 9
to 12 o’clock at Chase St. School.
Regular classes will begin on Mon
day, June 16, at 9 o’clock.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Parily cioudy with little
change in temperature to
night. Friday warmer,
GEORGIA: Partly cloudy,
warmer in northeast portion
today and tonight; continued
warm Friday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ... ..vliii B 8
Lowest . oo iuiiwy R
MeRN oot wihs s s inll
Noemal ..l bl i i
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since June 1 .. ... .25
Deficit since June 1 .. .. .27
Average June rainfall ... 3.91
Total since January 1 ....24.56
Excess since January 1 .. 2.38
MURDER BY MAIL
LONDON, June 5— (AP)-— A
Scotland Yard spokesman said
today scores of prominent Brit
ons including high government
leaders, were targets of a mur
der-by-mail plot of “Jewish ter
rorists,” apparently reprisal for
British Palestine policy.
' Forbid the closed shop, which
| compels an employer to hire only
| union workers.
! Allow law suits against un=
ions for breaking contracts.
{ Bar unions from keeping non=-
'strikers of the job by mass or
violent picketing.
l Bargaining Rights
Deny collective bargaining
‘rights to unions if any official
can “reasonably be regarded” as
| a Communist or sympathizer. ‘
Congress has wrangled over
‘such matters for weeks. The
lhouse wrangled only an hour
| yesterday before goung._ 4k