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POL\ICE'CHARGE AS STRIKERS DEMONSTRATE AT NEWSPAPER OFFICE
Police charged into a group of edmonstrators gathered on the Corso Umberto in
Rome, Italy, outside a newspaper office during the disorder which followed a gen
eral strike called by Communist leaders.——-NEA Radiotelephoto.
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‘New Run In With Solons Makes Qil Man
First Subject In Grain Investigation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—(AP)—Edwin W. Pauley,
whose last run-in with Congress shook Harold Ickes out
of ‘the cabinet, stepped defiantly. forth today. as the first“
subject of a Senate inquiry into grain speculation by
government officials. | ; 1
In advance of his appearance
before the Senate Appropriations
Committee, the former Demaocra
tic! national treasurer freely con
ceded. that he is trading in wheat
while’ holding an Army Depart
ment: job. |
have been “perfectly proper and
ethical.”. {
Pauley described his dealings as
a hedge against inflation and as
serted that more people ought to{
be buying commodities for the
same reason.
But: he declared he is getting
out of the market as fast as good
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Assistance Of Civitan Fund Helps
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Young Girl To Regain Health So
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‘She Can Aid in Supporting Family
In a letter to the Civitan Rehabilitation Fund, Inc., Envoy Mary
Peacock, commanding officer of The Salvation Army here, points
out how the Fund helped the Army this year in giving financial
aid. to persons facing emergencies.
. Envoy Peacock praised the Civitan Fund, established for the
purpose of giving financial assistance to those who are temporarily
in difficulties and who do not come within the provisions of the
public assistance laws.
‘Envoy Peacock cites the following case as an example: “A young
girl who had come to Athens to work so she could help support
a widowed mother and two younger children became very ill and
the doctor when called said that an operation was necessary at
once. Neither the girl nor her mother had the money for a opera
tion. Her plight was made known to the Salvation Army who
went to work. The doctor agreed to give his services but there
was still the hospital bill to be paid. The Salvation Army called
upon The Civitan Club Rehabilitation Fund and found that they
were wuite willing to take care of the hospital bill. Now that young
girl will soon be back in much better health. She will be able to
RO, back to work and once again this family will be self-support
ln[!."
Contributions for the Fund since yesterday follow:
Chvitan Club of REBBNE. . /.. i iiddesFaionsiitoaaas SIOO.OO
Lamar Lewis Shoe Company, ........coreesccenceecedn 25.00
JArry M. TISERE 0, .s i caaier BReet o 5.00
«Bormie Keslll .L, A v s oyl 2.00
Tdood Dasbs Lo se s e e 1.00
MR G R e el s s Ty $133.00
Conwributions to the Civitan Rehabilitation Fund, Inc., may be
made to Garland Hulme, treasurer, P. O. Box 982.
Marlow’s Column:
JANUARY 1518 INCOME TAX DEADLINE FOR ONE
OUT OF EVERY FIVE TAXPAYERS IN UNITED STATES
By James Marlow
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—(AP)
—Here’s a reminder for taxpayers:
Jan, 15, 1948 is a deadline on 1947
income taxes for one out of every
five taxpayers. ‘
It’s the deadline for those who
haven’t had the full tax, or any
tax, withheld from their 1947
wages or income. °
In 1947 most people’s income
Was from wages. And most of them
had the full 1947 income tax with
held from them.
If youre in that group—the
Eroup from which full tax has been
Withheld—don’t worry about Jan.
15. Youw'll have to make your final
return March 15.
Jan. 15 is the deadline—if it
affects you—for filing, changing
ind paying your declaration of es
timated tax for 1947. ;
(Some people think that dead
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
business practice permits, because
he agreed to do so when he be
came a special assistant to Secre
tary of the Army Royall on Sept.
3 S
Meanwhile Chairman Brisges
(R-NH) of the Senate Committee
told newsmen he is asking “every
sovernment department or agency
having to do with the purchasing
of any commodities” whether any
of their employes are using inside
information on government pur
chasing plans to profit on the
market.
Former Gov. Harold E. Stassen
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line is Dec, 15. It isn’t. It's Jan.
18).
Here are the people who must
do something about their income
tax by Jan. 15:
1. Farmers. In 1947 they have
not had to do anything about the
tax on their 1947 income. They
must do it by Jan. 15, 1948.
By that date they must figure
their 1947 income—and the tax
on it—and by Jan. 15 pay it in
full.
2. Those from whose 1947 in
come no tax has been withheld,
such as professional men like doc
tors, or landlords, and so on.
Last March 15—knowing no tax
was to be withheld from their
1947 income—they estimated what
that itcome and the tax on it
would be. . ,
And, beginnimg last March 15.
they started paying that tax in
quarterly installments. The . last
Little “Nubbins”
Hoffman In Denver
Hospital Again
DENVER, C 010.,, Dec. 12—
(AP) — Six-year-old Forest
(Nubbins) Hoffman was back
today in a hespital—an all too
familiar place for the Che
yenne, Wyo., bey who was
visited by Santa Claus in No
vember 1944 because he was
not expected to live until
Christmas that year.
The surgeon who operated
and saved Nubbins’ life three
years ago said a thorough
examination would be made
today to learn why he was
“not doing well” since a sec
ond operation last September.
Nubbins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Marshall Hoffman, has
been suffering from kidney
and bladder disorders.
ATLANTA, Dec, 12—(AP)—
A strike date for Western Union
employes to-enforce a 15 cents per
hour wage demand probably will
be best set sometime next week,
Hal R. Swann, general president
of the Telegraph Employes Union
of Atlanta, said last night.
Swann said a strike vote now
underway indicated the employes
were voting eight to one to walk=~
out and that the strike call most
likely would be issued prior to
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Thompson Attends
.
Beagle Club Field
Trial At Monroe
MONROE, Ga., Dec. 12—
(AP)—Wrapes Lady, owned
by Floyd Carter of Winston-
Salem, N. C., won the 13-
inch all-age female award at
the second annual Peach State
Beagle Club Field trials here
yesterday.
Bal-Jos Rob, owned by B.
C. Jones of Buchannon, W.
Va., took the 13-inch male
title. The trials end Saturday.
Governor M. E. Thompson
was among those who follow
ed the opening day trials.
quarterly payment is due Jan. 15.
3. Those who had wages from
which no tax was withheld, such
as servants or farm workers. They
must pay their full tax by Jan.
15.
4, Those who had full tax
withheld from théir wages in 1947
but received more than SIOO in
outside income from which no tax
was withheld.
Such outside income for a wage
earner, for example, would be
rents, sales, dividends.
5. Those who had some tax, but
not all the.tax due, withheld from
their 1947 wages. |
The people in No. 5 should have
been paying in quarterly install
ments the difference between the
tax withheld and the total tax due.
(Full tax is withheld on wages
up to $5,000, plus SSOO for each
exemption except ‘yourself. Your
wife and child, for example, are
exemptions.), .« ;
ATHENS, GA., FRII
Soviet Sources Report Molotov
Ready To Bargain With mizisters
At least 20 Killed |
east 20 Killed In
I Air Crash
IBNNessee Al wrasn
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Plane Crashed Within Two Miles Of
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 12.— (AP) —An Army C-47
plane burst into flames with a flash seen two miles away
and crashed into an open hillside near here shortly after
,dark last night, killing at least 20 persons.
iAII Athensians Are
Urged To Purchase
Athenians will 'be awakened
from their Sunday mornings
slumber—rain, s'eet or shine by
the Athens Jaycees and the mem
bers of the Frank Hartman
Chapter Order of DeMolay in the
annual Jaycees Christmas paper
sales. The entire proceeds deriv
ed will go for a banefit Christ
mas tree party conduucted by
the Salvation Army. 5
“In the past, Athenians have
always donated generously to
charity in. our community, and
it behoves everyone this year
to give as much as possible for the
cost of food and other items
that go in the “goog cheer’ basket
'to over 100. needy families have
advanced, as we al know,” statedl
Dan Dupree, chairman of the
Christmas vactivities committee.
Special Edition of Banner-Herald
“The newsboys making the
city wide eanvass will have
with them a specal-fegnt . .page’
edition of the Athens Banner-
Ferald, which will feature the
highlights of Jaycee Activities
for the past year along with
group pictures of the Philpot
;Schoo\ of Danging,” stateq 'J. W.
Matthews, president of the Ath
ens Jaycees. “The Banner-Her
2ld is furnishing us, 'without costl
1,500 copies of the regular Sun
day, December 14th edition of;
the paper excepting the front
page, which the Jaycees have
prepared copy, otherwise the pa
per remains the same. When the
paper boy—(He may look too old
to be selling papers)—comes to
vour bhouse leave a bit of good
cheer in an envelope in the
screen door or ™ail box, that is
if you don’t want to be disturb
ed. Otherwise, he will greet you
personal’y and accept whatever
donation you wish to give tc
make Christmas a merry one for
the underpriviledged in Athens.”
President Local
Phi Beta Kappa
Members of the University of
Georgia Alpha Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, ranking national
scholarship fraternity, elevated
John E. Drewry, dean of the Henry
W. Grady School of Journalism,
to the presidency of the group this
week.
Selected for terms concurrent
with that of, President Drewry
were Dr. Gedrge H. Boyd, dean,
Graduate School, vice-president;
William Tate, dean of men, secre
tary; Dr. Tomlinson Fort, head,
Department of Mathematics, re
elected treasurer; and Mrs. R. L
McWhorter, associate professor of
English, Dr. E. M. Everett, head,
Department of English, and
Claude Chance, professor Ro
mance - Languages on leave, all
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DEAN JOHN DREWRY !
DAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947
. ithin two miles of the Mem
phis Municipal Airport, the big
raft slashed through a small
‘wooded area and twisted into a
sage field, scattering bodies and
wrt‘ckage over a quarter-mile
path.
Small trees were torn down. In
one, a hali-open parachuie dau
gled. Twisted masses of metal
hung on other limbs and dotted
the ground.
Col. Donald K. Fargo, com
'manding officer of the 458th Air
Force Base Unit, announced the
death toll as 20—with possibly
another body in the wreckage.
, ‘Hames of the dead were with
held pending notification of rela
tives.
‘Fargo said the plane was based
at Aberdeen, Md., and had' made
its last stop at El Paso, Texas,
yesterday. It was returning from
the West Coast. |
G. V. White said he saw the
plane explode and burst into
flames from his home two miles‘
away.
*lt wasn’t more than two,sec—“
onds before it hit the ground,” he
saig.
| .B. Taylor, a county bridgel
so n, said he saw “a terrific
flagh that lighted up my whole
y as if it were day.”
said he began to run to the
;: . about a mile away.
MUPHGh T Bot thers thb plane Wwas
still burning and about seven or
eight bodies were lying face down
on the ground and scattered over
about a half acre. Several were
burning and I turned them over
and beat out the flames.”
The crash was the worst air
disaster in this vicinity since Feb.
11, 1944, when an American Air
lines plane plunged into the
Mississippi River 15 miles beluow
Memphis, killing 24 persons.
Abercrombie Director Emeritus:
DR. T. F. SELLERS CHOSEN NEW
DIRECTOR STATE HEALTH BOARD
ATLANTA, Dec. 12—(AP)—
The State Board of Health
emerged from a closed, two and a
half hour session late yesterday
to announce the promotion of Dr.
T. F. Sellers to succeed Dr. T. F.
Abercrombie as director of the
Health Department.
Dr. Abercrombie, veteran of 30
years at the helm of the depart
ment, was named director em
Post Office Will
Regular closing hours will be
obsered at the Post Office to
morrow,: the window closing at
1 p. m., Postmaster J. R. Myers
said today.
The Post Office wil remain
open all day Saturday, Decem
ber 20, Postmaster Myers said,
adding that four stamp and par
cel post windows will eb opened
early nert week in order to pre
pare for the anticipated Christ
mas rush.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and continued
moderately cold this after
noon and Saturday. Slightly
colder tonight,
GEORGIA: Cloudy and
continued cool today through
Saturday; occasional light
rain or drizzle over south
portion today; occasional
light rain along the coast
and extreme south portion
tonight and Saturday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ... vess? o 5046
Lowest ..., “uita.ilioer.42
PRERN O i e 043
oorael a 0 iy 47
RAINFALL .
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .31
Total since Dec. 1 .. ... 1.83
Deficit since Dec. 1 .. .. .01
Average Dec. rainfall ... 5.08
Total since Jan. 1 .. ....46.33
Deficit since Jan. 1 .. .. .18
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Molofov May Forget Reparations
LONDON, Dec. 12.— (AP) —Soviet sources reported
today Foreign Minister V. M. Molotoy might offer to
defer Russia’s $10,000,000,000 (ten billions) reparations
claim against Germany if the Foreign Ministers’ Confer
ence would agree to immediate establishment of all-Ger
man economic and administrative agencies in the Reich.
Dixie Mills Must
ISpend Miilions
To Modernize
l ATLANTA, Dec. 12—(AP) —
Trade sources roughly figured
‘trdav that cotton mlls in the
South neeq to spend well in
excess of $375,000,000 more than
they have been able to accumu
late in reserves to replace over
age machinery, buildings and
equipment.
The estimate was based on a
survey cf the whole industry just
completed by Textile Information
Service, which reported that half
of £]l equiment needs replaceing.
The amount in excess of reserves
the entire industry needs to speng
was piaced at $500,000,000.
The survey said ‘that deprecia
ble assets such as machinery
and equipment originally cost
'mo;e than a billion dollars but‘
thai to replace them now would
cost two biltion. Reserves set.
n-dn during the useful life of
equipment were based, in ac-l
‘ o e with - tax regulations,
upon the original cost.
the average life of textile ma
chinery and equipment is figur
ed at 27 years, the informatien
gervice said, and for the entire’
‘Lfli- yeavs. previous to.the end of
‘the war, profits in the 'fimst,ry“
were only a billion dollars.
“It is estimated that ha'f of all
equipment needs replacing to
day,” the survey said. “This is
partly because of the mills in
ability to replace esuipment in
the depression years, but more
particularly because of the un
availability of new machinery
during . the war years and the
terrifc strain of continuous op
eration.”
eritus at two-thirds his present
annual salary of SIO,OOO.
In his new capacity, Dr. Aber
crombie will retain an office in
the department as an advisor and
will prepare a history of his 30
years’ tenure.
Dr. Sellers, head of the State
Health Laboratories since 1918,
joined the Health Department staff
after serving as a city chemist in
Macon for five years.
In an official statement the
board said Dr. Abercrombie had
vresented a resignation which was
accepted with regret. Some board
members said they felt Dr. Aber
crombie’s health might not permit
another six year term. Dr. Aber
crombie is 68-years-old.
Previously the board named
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Thege sources, close to the Rus
sian delegation at the conference,
said Molotov might propose to
day a deferment of the claim for
reparations from current produc
tion wuntil German economy is
balanced and the country is pay
ing its own way. There was no
immediate estimate of how long
this would be.
Whether such a concession
would open the way for an over
all German settlement remains
| questionable. The Russian ap=~
| proach to the creation of all-
German administrative and eco
nomic agencies differs substan
tially from U. S. views.
Russia prefers the vesting of
more power in a central author
ity. The United States, backed by
France and Great Britain, favors
|a limited decentralization.
Molotov is expected to make a
lmajor statement today or tomor
row. ’
This statement probablyy will
eb Molotov’s promised response
to U. S. Secretary of State Mar
shall’s assertion Kednesday that
Russia’s reparations demands
could not be paid without either
wrecking German economy or
making the American taxpayer
carry the load. 4
The only agreement of signifi
cance reached in yesterday’s dis~
cussion of secondary German
economic issues was that if and
when all Germany is unified the
level of steel production should
ybe sét at 11,500,000 (million) in
got tong per, year, ;
(Total steel production in the
United States this year is expect
ed to reach about 85,000,000 (mil
lion) tons). i
Molotov sought to have this
tentative decision made final at
once and applied to all Germany
immediately by the Allied Con
trol Council at Berlin.
Marshall and British Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin success
fully insisted, however, that any
agreement on industry or any
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Mine Blast Death
Toll Reaches 7
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Dec. 12
—(AP)—The death toll recahed
seven today in a gas explosion
which ripped apart a section of
Lehigh Coal Company’s Franklin
colliery.
Two blasts in rapid succession
1.000 feet underground killed
five men outright. " Two others
dieq in hospitals,
State and federal authorities
starte4d an immediate investiga
tion. ight anthracite mine blasts
in Luzerne county this year haive
killed 40 workers,
SANTA AND THE 600 D BOY
' SYNOPSIS: Mr. Sleek promises
Tom Clover a star if he ' will
lbring him a red sheep’s wool.
Only a brave and good boy can
get the wool and, if Tom fails,
Mr. Sleek will destroy Santa
Land and there will never be
Christmas again. .
CHAPTER EIGHT
Tom Goes to the Land of
Tomorrow |
Mr. Sleek had told Tom there
was such a thing as a red
sheep and Tom had to believei
him because if he didn't get the
red sheep’s wool he wouldn’t get
the star from Mr. Sleek and if
he didn’t get the star he wouldn’t
win the Christmas tree prize for
his mother.
But the boy had no idea where
to begin looking. He sat on a road
’side and tried to think.
Suddenly he heard a tiny sound
like a sneeze—not a man sneeze
Jbut a mouse sneeze—and he saw
a very small creature, about the
size of half an ear of corn, stand
ing at his elbow. :
“W.-who are you?” gasped Tom.
“I am Rudolph. I am a Santa
Land fairy,” said the little one.
Now Tom knew there were
such things as elves and brownies
and fairies in the world but it just
happened he had never seen one,
before and he hardly dared to
brehthe. . ik l
Rudolph said, “Santa has sent
LOCAL COTTON
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Winter Edition Of
“Georgia Review”
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Now In The Mail
Thinking Americans in every
i corner of the land will find some~
thing of interest to them in the
'winter edition of the Georgia
Review, placed in the mail this
week-end.
In this issue, the University of
Georgia literary publication
reached an hppex in diverse
subject matter and digestible
food for thought. Its articles—
dealing with such multifarious
topics as national and Southern
economy, agricultural progress,
science, literature, educational
problems, Indian folklore, ands
philosophy—will find avid read
ers wherever they fall into the
hands of men and women who
are alive to the implications of
present-day social and scientific
developments.
An enitome of what subaorin.
ers may expect in the current
number is enough to whet intel
lectual appetities to razor-snarp
ness—yet, the enlightening con=
ltent is handled in an inter~
| esting manner without erudition.
[ “The Wage Problem in the
South” is discussed by John V. Van
Sickle, economist, Wabash Col
lege, Indiana: “Dairying in Geor
'gia,” by Paul W Chapman, dean
of the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture; “Ireland’s Lit
erary Revival”, by Norreys J.
OConner, formerly professor of
English at Yale, Harvard, and
Columbia; “Medical Citizenship,”
by Dr. James E. Paullin, promi~-
nent Atlanta physician; and re
cent books on the philosophy of
civilization, by Letoy Loemaker
professor of philosophy and dean
of the Emory University Grad
luate School, to mention only a
few.
To round out the picture, the
publication is sprinkled with re~
freshing bits of verse, written by
Thomas H. English, editor of the
Emory * University quarterly; -
Paul Alexander Bartlett; Gene
Baroff; and Conrad Aiken, a
native of Georgia and one of Am
erica's foremost contemporary
poets.
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Saturday, 11 A. M.
Funeral services for Dr. Paul
Morrow, widely known educator,
who died in a local hospital
Thursday morning after a short
illness, will be conducted Sat
urday morning at 11 o’clock
from Bernstein's Chapel.
Conducting the services will
be Dr. Eugene L. Hill. pastor of
lirst Presbyterian Church. of
which Dr. Morrow was a mem
ber, and burial will fo'low in
Oconee Hill cemetery.
Pall-bearers will be Lorenzo
Allgood, James Arthur Ash, Ay~
thur J. Benson, Robert J. English,
David McCorkle and Thomas H.
Smith. .
An honorary escort will in~-
clude members of the faculty of
the Education Department of
the University of Georgia. 5
Dr. Morrow is survived by his
wife whe was the former Imogene
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me to tell you where you can find
a red sheep.” ;
“A red sheep!” cried Tom.
“How did he know?” 8
“Why, boy, Santa knows pretty
nearly everything. He knows, for
instance, there is a red sheep in
the meadows of Nettyboo.”
“Nettyboo! I've never heard of
it!”
“No. It’s not likely to be found
in geography books because it's
in the Land of Tomorrow.”
“Oh, my goodness!” wailed
Tom. “Where is that?” 742
“Why,” explained Rudolph:
matter-of-factly. “It's the Land
that comes after today. It is To
morrow, and Tomorrow has things
you never dreamed of — like
chickens that lay eggs: alfeady
fried and pigs with bacon grow
ing out of their ears and fish
’without scales or bones and a
sheep with red wool—for red
woolen underwear, you know.”
- Tom’s eyebrows climbed right
up his forehead in astonish
ment. “Oh, my!” he gasped. “But,
tell me, how does one ever get
there?” :
“Well, it is a very ticklish busi
ness. Ordinarily today is today
and tomorrow is tomorrow and
when you get ta tomorrow you
find it’s really today and tomor
row is the next day after. Some
people spend all their lives wait
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