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Besides moving heavy loads of the huge granite blocks, the women mine them, using crude hand tools. % : ik WEIGHED BY UN SUB-COMMITTEE LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 7. — (AP) — Spurred on by Greece’s warning that she would be swept into the Rus sian sphere unless the United Nations acted, Security Council delegates today explored new avenues in efforts to reach agreement on quelling Balkan disorders. Greek Ambassador .~ Vassili Dendramis said Russia’s veto of the American plan for a watch dog commission in .the ;troubled Balkans clearly indicated - Mos coW's Al L Bt S iy Lok “The object is 10 givé the ap~ pearance of a solution and to lull the world into a {ﬁlse sense of security until it is foo late—until the newspapers have reported that it is all over and that one mere country has been reduced to vassalage,” Dendramis told the delegates last night in one of the bluntest attacks ever made on Russia in the council chamber. “The moment will come when there will no longer be any fron tiers between Greece and her northern neighbors,” he contin ud. With an air of pessimism, del egates set up a sub-committee of WORLD SCOUTS CONVENE FOR JAMBOREE PARIS, Aug., 7 —(AP)—\ore than 1,100 boys scouts from the United States and Alaska are scheduled to arrive tonight at the wooded 1,500 acre site of the In ternational Scout Jam®oree en campment 40 miles west of here. The boys. — first Class, Eagle and life Scouts — have spent four days on excursions through the Netherlands and Belgium af ter disembparking, at Antwerp. They are among some 30,000 boys from 39 countries expected INDONESE ASK ARBITRATION GROUP BATAVIA, Java, Aug 17— (AP)—The Indonesian govern ment asked the United States to day to use its influence with the Netherlands and the United Na tions to have “an international arbitration commission diapa,;tch ed without delay to ‘lndqnesia to mediate Dutch-Indonesian con flicts. _y | The statemepk"ww name of Republ L T Amir Sjarifoeddin over the Jog jakarta radio, was in reply to a United Stateg offer of its “good offices” in mediating the dispute, THREE-HOUR PALESTINE WORK STOPPAGE JERUSALEM, Aug., 7—(AP)— Jewish leaders decreed a com- Plete three-héur stoppage this afternoon in protest against the Internment by British authorities of th-ee Jewish mayors and some 40 other Jews for the avowed Purpose of checking terrorism. Violence continueq meanwhile. British _authorities announced that 12 oil tank cars were wreck ed by a mine explosion ‘at: Ras El Ain between Tel Aviv and Haifa. The blast ripped up 300 yards of Tailway track, but caused no cas-' Ua'ties, the announcement said. An extrao-dinary meeting of Vaad Leumi (the Jewish National Council) and other leaders decid BIG BRUSH, FIRE CONTINUES TO RAGE AT ol TN SRR T S - W LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7.—(AP) —~Weary fire fighters fought grimly today against the still un controlled Big Tujunga Canyon brush fire which has killed two Men, injured or burmed an esti- Mated 75 and scorched 3;500 meres of Watershed, Now in ijts third day, one branch of the fire jumg%d the *Mutheastern rim of Rig Tujunga and licked down toward the town ATHENS BANNER-HERALD seven nations to go over all pro posals submitted so far and try to find a common ground. The first meeting was set for 10:30 a. m. (EDT), with a deadline 6f next Monday_for a report. . ; The sub-committes had before it the newest resolution—irom Australia — calling on Yugosla via, Greece, Bulgaria and Albania to “cease al} acts of provocation” immeditely and enter into direct negotiations to settle their fron tier differences. However Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko already has an nounced that he will oppose the proposal. Observers interpreted this to mean he would veto it. Col. W. R. Hodgson, Australian de'egate, said virtually the same formiula had worked in the In denesian case and “it ig impera tive that this council act now.” jror the Jamboree, . which ~will start officially Saturday and last through Aug. 21. For the. oceasion, the Paris Telephone System has oveated a temporary ‘“Jamboree” exchange, the French National , Railways have opened a 17-track tempora ry station, a daily newspaper is being issued for th. Scouts and the French post office has put out a short-term five-franc postage stamp bearing the word “Jam boree.” in which an uneasy truce now prevails. The Dutch previously accepted the offer. In effect, the Indonesian state ment amounted to rejection of thg United States as the sole arbiter of the controversy. “The Indonesian government feels,” the statement said, “that in view of the fact that two years of mediation and negotia tion have failed to halt hostili~ ties, United Nations arbitration is the only means' to settle the matter.” ; »d upon the work stoppage in the Jewish areas of the Holy Land. They ordereq all Jewish traffic kalted and all Jewish shops, res taurants and places of amuyse ment closed from 2 p. m. to' 8 p. m. The three mayors rounded up by the British are Israel Rokach' of Tel Aviv, Oved Ben Ami of Natanya and Abraham Krinitzi of Ramat Gan. They are being held at the Latrun detention camp with the other arrested Jews, most of whom are members of the Right Wing Revisionist party. . The Jews were arresteg under emergency regulations and no specific .charges , have been lodged. K< of Tujunga. This constituted the most serious threat to homes but water lines had been laid between the town and the fire five miwss or more away. The ‘eastern flank of the fire was slowly coming under con trol. Bulldozers, mobile water pumpers and hand-axe Crews fought the flames. Helicopters were used to take water and sup plies to semi-isolated crews. Full Associate~, Press Service WEATHER ATHENS AND VICINITY Slightly cloudy with mod erate temperatures and wide- Iy scattered thundershowers this afternoon, tonight and Friday. GEORGIA: Partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday; scattered afternoon and even ing thundershowers maostly over north portion; not much change in temperatures. TEMPERATURE Highest 475 . i, -~ 0008 SREREORL. L e e MERN . % g, e RAT NOITRIRE: oo i oL A R »it . RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .. 703 Total since August 1 .... 1.23 Deficit since August 1 ... .18 Average August rainfall . 4.67 Total since January 1 . ..30.24 Deficit since January 1 .. 1.27 Truman Signs Merit Plan For Army, Navy WASHINGTON, Aug., T—(AP) —The Army’s archaic system of p-omotion by seniority went out the window today with President Truman’s sSigning of legislation setting up a peimanent prcmo tion-by-merit program for the Army and the Navy. One of the lengthest and most complicated measures enacted by the 80th Congress at itsfi~st ses sion, the legislation is the oui growth of study by committees. In addition to sefting up a new promotion ‘system for the Army and tightening the Navy's ad vancement system, the bill cuts down the number of high-rank ing officers in both services and abolishes in peacetime the war time ‘rank of five-star officers. However, it does not affect thei rank of the eight officers now holding five star rank. Affeeting . directly or indirect ly the status of an estimated 175,- 000 officers in both services, the legislation .is intended to en-l courage the better-qualified men and to weed out through a p-o --cess of elimination those unfit for command. Return of American War Dead Underway 3 O R ¢= : e = . ,y*”’“\’*»xf“"?’”g‘@ . i . e gsamedides S 2 s S y / il oo ol . - Yggiem Ul g ; o g 2 o 5 3 Y R Pin < R A /)i A e e % . oo .S E B ; R S b 4 E 5 B R B Gad g 5 < Pl Gt o b e ;\} S 37 i e & ST S ¢ 3"* 3 % i g b i T i . b S oe-. B& 4 f . Wy LR L, i ; o G emeESe 3 =a4 g7e - Y 7 &5' : & et - R 1 a 8 g & “:ﬁ R o 4 .of P STR v - *9; 5 R £ f g — i BaeE ey s e s #‘ . e R g v_\%%*.;__ﬂj 84. if o 4 %&% 3 S X b 44 B P sg 4O T e———— : F i o 3 9 gy H eg g : % A » 4 & -y OSR N g iL. raa S 5 Tl LR *‘%w%‘%w”“ﬁ? 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Ar; H p— : Ps B T ¥ ) jcan war dead g oL my personnel, Belgian” work S Pl r ¢ at the U, S, Military C : workers start disinterrin the backgrqund is used to transp J{ t—ht’:l‘nstexy at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium :I‘lg one Pf the Ameér : sport the body to the i i g s 1e wooden coffin in placing it i ” body to the identification poi : _ : g it in a casket and shipping it to the next of I‘n'L'r'nix a:; t!L}e Scemctely oy 4 £in 1e 'S, Hughes Declares Brewster's Testimony ‘A Pack Of Lies’ Marines Celebrate " Fifth Guadaicanal Anniversary Here Marines from the University of Georgia, Atlanta, and Athens are celebrating the fifth anniver sary of the landing on Guadal canal today with the Marine Corps League in Athens as host. Wake Island Detachment No. 2 of the Marine Corps League and the Last of the First Club, an or ganization of First Marine Divis ion Veterans of Atlanta, joined the Johnson-Hodges Detachment for the services. Tribute will be paid to the Marine coinradeg who died in battle. A barbecue for the group will be held tonight at Charlie Will ams at 7:30!/p. m. A bottle of cog nac, presented to.the ‘“‘Last of the First Club,” by Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution editor, will e displayed. First Offensive Five years ago today, at 9:05 a. 'm, United States Marines stormed ashore at Guadalcanal in the first American offensive action of World War 11. The first shot of the battle for Guadalcanal was fired from a U. =. warship at approximately 6 a. m. setting off a bombardment that lasteq for three hours. When the Higgins landing boats, bearing young and untried Marines, hit Lunga beach, the members of the First Marine Di vision raced inland to take posi tions directly opposite the Jap ar.ese airport. This ‘airfield was later to become known to every An.erican as Henderson Field, named in honor of Marine Maj. ' Lofton R. Hendersong air hero of ‘the Midway Battle. ' The first American casualty on Guadalcanal is said to have been a Mavine who cut his hand open ing a coconut. That avas. because the enemy had been surprised ang was unable to resist the lfirst few hours of the landing { opcration. Other landinegs' were being made on Tulagi, in the Florida Islands novth of Guadalcanal at Tanamhbogo and Gavutu. . Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vande grift, now a full gemeral and Commandant of the Marine Corps, directed a'l the Marine ac tions. He was commangding the first division of American fight ing men ready for offensive com bat after war was declared. The First Marine Division is now fa mous for its subsequent bitterly centested action at Cape Glou cester, Peleliu and Okinawa, as wall as Guadalcanai. At Guadalcanal it was laden with the heaviest responsibility ever entrusted to a fighting force in American- history. Its job was to stop the Japs’ sure and relentless advance toward New Zealand and Australia. En emy seizure of these countries woulq have paved a broad high way for an eventual assault on the United States. The Marines’ job was to take Guadaleanal ang hold it. Front-Line Fighting To do this they saw longer front line fighting than any other combat force in American histo ry. Cften they went without prop er fooq and medical facilities. Sometimes they fought without proper equipment. Mail from home was only a thing to dream! about. - J (Continued On Pag, Three) B ——— U Athens, Ga., Thursday, August 7, 1947, - : ___Candid Camera Catches Key Figure In Plane Probe Hi‘!lnes Vlews With Varied Expressions—But Only One Mood—Angry 7 W G T e ! -,.;:__j; Jt“ R “&XQ\V\%} o " Rl & ke {. b s - o . ! CITORE. (eI f P T ’ TR L £ - IR R i R i ™A k. e . éfo o . L mEa T Tl *LR T e Se™ N 5 4 TLa k. [A B e feom s % ': ¥ 5 & B ‘ﬂl IRBR K S Y iL N R {E R, & % | NGNS L s AR LN fs‘,‘. g o ’:t{\\n\ € 1 24y i&..._‘ e e ’___ rad i “U’m tired of being pushed around . . .” Attlee’s Economic Plan Draws Fire From Conservatives And Leftwingers HAND EXPANDS SESSION AIMS IN NEW APPEAL PELHAM, Ga., Aug. 7—(AP)— Speaker Fred Hand of the Georgia House of Representatives said to day he hoped legislators weuld ngrgg to eonyene in extraordinary session to 'gant increaséd funds for common schools. Hand, who said the call pri marily was aimed at g Constitu tional amendment to set up edu cational qualifications for voters, observed that financial difficulties of the common schools also would have first-rank place on the agenda if the Legislature convenes itself. “lI was informed today by the Mitchell County Superintendent of schools ‘that our schools will be unable to operate beyond the first of next year unless we receive more money than is now pro vided,” Hand said. “Many other counties are in the same fix. Yet state income this yvear is 56 per cent .above 1945. It seems tragic to me that we can not provide better support for our schools.” Hand said he would seek an early-autumn session if affirma -1“"'\ certificates are received from 119 members of the House, and 30 members of the Senate. This ‘number would constitute three fifths of each branch—the Consti tutional requirement for self-con vened session. Although the Legislature nor mally number 249, there are-. 111 vacancies due to resignations. These include four Senate seats and seven in the House of Rep resentatives. # Pressing Matters | In a letter mailed to 54 Sena tors and 204 members of the House | of Representatives, Hand said it was “necessary for the. welfare ofl (Continued On Page Three) ESTABLISHED 18%" § s RN T : e Sy o b E TN P Pt LA R e A TR £ LR S 8 AR ik io ) S : AW 2 L i gk TR ai iy A & " 5 | : o B:B X i o % w 8 # 3 0% 257 ¢ A 2 - P ; SR o “I refuse to jump through a hoop .. .” LONDON, Aug. 7. — (AP) — Conservatives and Left Wing Laborites found themselves in the same camp today in oppositicn to Prime Minister Attlee’s new program to avert economic disaster in Great Britain—calling mainly for sharp cuts in imports and increases in production for export. | The Leftwingers were discon tented because the announced re ductions in Britain’s Armed Forces under the new plan would leave more than _:1;005;0013” men . undes arms by next spring-—far more than the reduced number they have been advocating ever since they attacked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin’s foreign policy lasti November. The conservative opposition blasted the Attlee program on the ground that it was “too little, too late.” They made three specific points in their eriticism: Too Late 1. They said the government ‘was dealing with the crisis too hurriedly, at too late a time. 2. They said the plan was not detailed €nough. 3. They said the government had failed to give the country a full statement of the peril it faces. Several London newspapers pre dicted the conservatives would vote against the government to night on the adjournmert motion under which the crisis debate was being held. Such a step would con stitute a protest without involving a vote of censure. | Appease Critics } The Daily Express said dissident laborites had called on Hugh Dal ton, chancellor of the Exchequer, after a post-midnight meeting and added that Dalton “will try to ap-' pease these critics” when he (Continued On Pag, Three) ‘ Athenians' Fath |ANICTians raimier, Sister Dies Today ' ATLANTA, Aug 7—(AP)— Jere A. Wells, 55, superintendent of Fulton County = (Atlanta) schools since 1924, died in his sleep early today at his home. He had been in failing health for three years. ' His physician-brother, Dr. Frank Wells, said death was caused by "a rare paralytic ailment. For sev ‘eral years he had walked with the aid of two canes, During the past month he had been confined to his home but continued to direct the school system. | Wells joined the Fulton county schools system in 1914 as a teach er. He was elected County Su-‘ perintendent in 1924, succeeding J. W. Simmons. ‘ In June of this year he was named “Educator of The Year” in the Atlanta area by the Emory chapter of Kappa Phi Kappa, na tional honorary fraternity and Emory conferred on him an honor ary degree of Doclor of Laws. Wells aided in bring about en actment of pension and tenure legislation for county teachers and payment of teachers on a 12 month basis. Wells was a past president of the Georgia Education Association and a member of the legislative commission of the National Edu cation Association. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Robert O. Harri son of Athens, and Miss Caroline Wells, of Atlanta; two sons, George F. Wells of West LaFayette. Ind., and Robert E. Wells,™ Atlanta; seven sisters, ineluding Mrs. Guy Beckum of Athens, and six ‘brothers. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢ e e R 3 o ',}: R { ¥ 4 U o Ge e 4 i 3 ,NF\*: ‘ﬁ R 3 k. L e eWS ' ; ) \\3\ i $ \ h N T R i - B G % R S IW RS o ‘ st 3 - b : E W 7 LT R p Q ’ 7 b e i { : i ol Lees L i s i &4 J 3 - > ‘; : A g L ; ) 3 % % % 2 53 ¢ £ 4 3&‘ Nif & & l%{s P A Sl R AN ¥ YO i p B R "5‘ * G % i “’-“g‘ % &e - v - g \:“:‘x . i , b O JEA ! 3 S SRR L e = o e = “I have no respect for Brewster , , .” Europe Faces Tight \Economic Squeeze Before Aid Arrives WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—(AP) —All evidence, including Prime Minister Attlee’s report sto Com ‘mons, indicates today that western Europe faces a tight squeeze be tween now and the time the Mar shall plan can become effective. It is equally evident that no new American financial aid will be forthcoming — barring economic disaster abroad-—until Congress can pass early next year on the Marshall recovery program. Attlee’s report yesterday evi dently was well received here be cause of the way in which it em phasized Britain’s intention to survive the next few months on her own dwindling resources with a minimum of help from the Unit ed States. ) This was regarded as dovetailing with the Truman administration’s promise to Congress that there will be no further foreign financing on a piece-meal basis and that the only workable solution is to try to promote European recovery as a whole. - Officials here are sensitive te the fact that this country’s initial postwar economic policy for Eu rope was based on a bad mis calculation: That the multi-billion dollar credits authorized for the British, French and Italians last year would be sufficient to get all of Europe back on its feet.. Since events have not turned out that way the American gov ernment has come forward with the Marshall program of a con tinental approach. | Hence once again the govern ment is staking its ju}dl'ment on a promise to Congress that this time | Europe really will be restored and that further American loans for straight-out recovery purposes ‘ will be unnecessary. 69 Dead In Four Days: THUNDERSHOWERS, COOL BREEZES HELP BREAK PEAK OF HEAT WAVE | By The Associated Press Thundershowers - and .cooling breezes cut further into the Mid west’s worst heat wave of the year today after deaths from the four days of 100-degree temperatures had risen to at least 69. “The heat wave is definitely broken at Chicago and all points north and west and is being broken eastward,” the Weather Bureau said after a shower at Chi cago early today tumbled the mercury from 81 to 72 within -a few minutes. Elsewhere, though, the fore caster said continued high tem peratures could be expected today, particularly from southeastern Michigan southward through In diana, across southern Illinois and throughout the Southern Plains states. : LOCAL COTTON 1-INCH MIDDLING .. .. 34l i e - = B [ear it Apan y c u tl . a [OBS LUestoning WASHINGTON, Aiig. 7. — (AP) —Howard Hsghes shouted today that testimo ny of Senator Brewster (R.- Maine) before the Senate War Investigating Commit tee “is a pack of lies and I can tear it apart if T am al lowed to cross question him.” The lankly Hollywood film pro ducer and flier hurled that declaration at Brewster as he took the stand for a second day in the committee’s inquiry into Hughes $40,000,000 wartime aircraft eon tracts. Chairman_ Ferguson (R-Mich), presiding at the hearing under control of a subcommittee, de manded first of Hughes and then of Brewster if they had any written questions ready for each other. Hughes, having some difficulty understanding Ferguson, asked his attorney, Tom Slack, what had ‘been said. Then Hughes asked to make a statement to “clarify my position.” Ferguson cut him off saying that under rules of the subcommittee questions must be submitted in advance and in writing. Hughes flushed. He reached in to an envelope and pulled out sev eral long sheets of writing. “I want to make it very clear ‘these are not all,” Hughes began. ‘“Furthermore the testimony yes terday of Senator Brewster is a pack of lies and I can tear it apart if T can be allowed to eross gues tion him.” In separate appearances on the witness stand yesterday, Hughes charged and Brewster denied that the Maine Senator once offered ' “in so many ‘words” to call off the investigation of the plane con tracts if Hughes would agree to a merger of Trans World Airlines with Pan American Airways. Hughes holds a controlling in terest in TWA. Brewster Willing After Hughes' outburst, Brews ter waived any right to cross examine the plane manufaeturer. “As far as I am concerned, I am willing to let the matter rest with the subcommittee,” the Senator said. ' The audience, packing the Sen ate caucus room, applauded when 'Hughes demanded to know Whether Ferguson would submit in advance to him (Hughes) any written questions Brewster sup-~ plied. Banging on the table, Ferguson ordered the room cleared of spectators. A tall youth, wearing a sweater, jumped up in the audience. He spoke out clearly: “I speak for the audience.” Then, on its behalf, he promised that those attending the hearing would remain quiet.: “We want to hear this as Amer= ican citizens,” he declared. The young man said he was Leonard Small, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a student at George Washing-~ ton University here. - Capitol police, moving forward to carry out Ferguson’s instruc tions to clear the room, hesitated. One of them said to Small “You won’t speak for anyone,” and then moved forward—apparently to oust Small first of all. Recalls Order Ferguson intervened. “Don’t put him out for saying he is an American citizen,” he said. ’ ) Then Ferguson said he was rely (Continued On Page Three) At Joliet, 111., about 40 miles south of Chicago, a brief but heavy downpour was accompanied by strong winds which blew deown many trees and disabled the city’s power service. Some houses and automobiles. were damaged by the falling trees. e Fatalities as a result of the heat, including some drownings, includ ed: Chicago 25, St. Louis 11, Wis consin 11; Ohio 8; lowa, Alabama and Arkansas three each. Louis ville, Ky., two, Indiana, Pennsyl vania and Tennessee one each. A high reading of 101 degrees vesterday gave Chicago its hottest three-day period since July, 18i1. On each of the three days, the mercury climbed to 100 or more. Yuma, Ariz,, reported the na tion’'s highest temperatures yes terday, 113 degrees. Phoenix in the same siate had liZ2.

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, August 07, 1947, Home Edition, Image 1