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The streamliner “Powhatan Arrow” of the Norfolk and Western Railroad jump
ed the track killing a fireman and seriously injuring the engineer when it derailed
near Franklin Furnace, Ohio. This is the second time in its 20 month history the
“Powhatan Arrow’” has been derailed.—NEA Telephoto.
Jerusalem Paralyzed After
Sunday Bombings; 92Dead
Gun-Carrying Arabs, Britons And Jews Patrol
City Made Bitter And Tense By Bombings
JERUSALEM, Feb. 23.— (AP)—Jerusalem was virtu
ally paralyzed today as gun-carrying Arabs, Britons and
Jews patrolled a city made bitter and tense by yesterday’s
bombing of the Jewish sector, in which at least 52 per
sons died. _
Rescue workers clawing at the
wreckage of two hotels, three
apartment houses and scores of
shops along two blocks of Ben
Yehuda street extricated nine
more bodies today, boosting to 52
the number of dead. At least 88
injureq have been dug from the
debris. Haganah workers at the
scene said there possibly were
more victims in the rubble.
Arab leaders said their com
mandoes set off the two truck=
loads of expplosive which caused
the blast but Jews seemed con
vinced that the British were some.
how responsible. ;
Nine British soldiers were kill
ed in retaliatory gun fighting af
ter the explosion and three Jews
iost their lives. The death toll
for the day thus stood at 64.
Streets Mined
Streets were mined and a trip
pled guard stood duty at British
security zone gates and at vital
administrative and military
building. g
Jews worked feverishly. to
strengthen their own barbed
wire ang cement block barricades.
All Jewish sections of the city
were ordered out of bounds to
the military. Jews warned even
British police to stay out unless
accompanied by Jewish police.
Irgum Zvai, Leumi Extremist
Jewish undergrouna group, pro-
. S., Britain, France Begin Parley
Tnday On Fate 0f Westem Germany
LONDON, Feb. 23—(AP)—The
United States, Great Britain and
France begin a conference today
on western Germany’s future.
For the first time, Russia is ab
sent from official talks on the fu
ture of the countries—Germany,
Italy and Japan—that gambled
their military powers upon world
conquest and lost. In her empty
chair is piled a batch of reasons:
(1) Inability of the Big Four to
get together on a peace treaty for
Germany at their Foreign Minis
ters’ Council meeting which ended
here in December,
(2) U. S. determination to give
western Germany a big part in
the Marshall Plan for European
economic recovery.
(3) A plain-spoken Soviet ac
cusation that the Marshall Plan
is part of an “Imperialistic” Amer
ican plan to “ensalve Europe.”
(4) Formation of the Communist
International Information Bureau
(cominform)—eastern European
,Spokesman for Communist-domi-
Only One Escapes:
SIX PERSONS, ALL MEMBERS OF SAME FAMILY, DIE
ASFLAMES SWEEP THEIR HOME EARLY THIS A, M.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 23—
(AP)—Six persons in one ftgmllyi
—four of them children—perished
early today when flames swept
their 16-room house on fashion
able Brewster street. |
Police identified the dead as: |
H. Alan Gregg, 40, a Harvard
graduate of 1935; his wife, Ann,
and thatz £ children—Susan,
9; H. Alan, jr, 8; Peter, 3; and
Thomas, 10 months old. |
~ The only one to escape as flames
raged through the rambling three
BY JAMES M. LONG
claimed: “as from today all Brit
-Ish personnel, military and police,
entering Jewish sections will be
sutbject to execution.”
The already crippled civil ad
ministration was rendered wvir
tually non-existent as the city
was blockeq off into three zones
of war. ?
Jewish rescue workers refused
to use British fire fighting and
debris clearing apparatus rushed
to the scene. One of the first Brit
ich polishmen to arrive after the
blast was beaten. British corres
pondents were threatened.
Later in the day five British
soldiers were killeq and six ins
jured when a mine shattered
their army truck:
Two Shot
Two RAF troopers were fatal
ly shot near the gate of the Brit
ish security zone. A chaplain was
wounded and his army driver
killed by gun-fire near the Jew
ish agency building. ;
_+ A British _constable was wound
ed in crossfire at a police station
and a Jew killed.
There was no- official estimate
of the damage causeq by the Ben
Yehuda blast; A Jewish source
caid it’amounted to “millions of
pounds.” s
One Arab military. source said
the explosives Were placed by
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nated countries—to coordinate an
attack upon western democracies.
Lewis W. Douglas, ambassador
to London, is representing the U.
S. in the three-power conference.
The Benelux countries—Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxembourg
_——have been guaranteed a hear
ing.
Russia protested the talks would
violate an agreement made at
Potsdam in 1945 for four-power
decision on Germany.
The United States and France
turned down the protest. . In- a
diplomatic note made public in
Washington Saturday, under Sec
retary of State Robert Lovett said
Soviet failure to “observe the
principles of economic unity” in
Germany impelled the other three
powers to organize Germany’s eco
nomy for German and European
recovery. i 4 4
Upon the conference depends, to
a major degree, the Marshall Plan
and Britain’s proposal fora five
power pact and a western Euro
pean union.
| story wooden house was the tamily
maid, Edna Roper, 29. She was in--l
jured critically, firemen said, when
she apparently toppled through a
second story window in trying to
open it.
At least a dozen firemen and‘
,lthe department’s fire chaplain—
‘]the Rev. Thomas Tierney——werel
| overcome attempting to rescue the
. trag)ped family. ;
he whole inside of the house
| was a roaring inferno beiore ihe
| firemen got there, Deputy Chief
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Bio Steel Faces
GOP Thrashing
During This Week
WASHINGTON, Feb 23—(AP)
—Angry Republicans may rake
big steel over the coals this week
for boosting prices.
Then Senate-House Economic
Committee has arranged to ques
tion three “typical” steel execu
tives at public hearings Thursday.
Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) said
big steel, little steel and inde
pendents will be represented.
There are signs that Taft feels
the steel industry may have put
the Republican Congress over a
political barrel by boosting some
prices after the lawmakers had
voted to rely on voluntary action
to keep down the cost of living.
Sorge Republicans think that
steel has given President Truman
and the Democrats a new argu
ment for government contrels.
They blame big steel primarily for
the price jump.
It also adds fuel to organized
labor’s demands for wage in
creases. Those, in turn, threaten to
keep the inflation cycle going.
CIO. President Philip Murray
served notice, meanwhile, that his
unions will press their twin drive
for (1) a new round of wage hikes
and (2) an ‘“effective anti-infla
tion program” in Congress.
Murray’s statement made no
mention of the steel price boosts.
It did, however, refer to the com
modity market break and falling
food prices. The CIO chief said
there is doubt that these will con
tinue for- long.:
Murray's own CIO steelworkers
are due to begin their wage drive
in April. :
Industry officials insisted that
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Dean Says Georgia
Jefferson Dinner
Is Assured Success
ATLANTA, Feb, 23—(AP)—
Georgia’s Jefferson-Jackson Day
dinner already is an assured suc
cess, Bill Dean, chairman of the
affair, announced, .
“More Democrats than ever be
fore are making contributions,”
Dean said. ‘“More than 50 percent
of counties already have met or
exceeded their quotas.”
Dean added that the intra-party
fight with the Talmadge faction in
Georgia and dissension -over Pres
ident Truman’s civil rights pro
gram are not interfering with suc
cess of the March 9 fund-raising
dinner. /
However, James S. Peters, chair
man of a Talmadge-aligned State
Democratic Executive Committee,
has.spurned an invitation to at
tend the affair. $
He joined Herman Talmadge in
a boycott of the dinner. Both gave
the same reason; they said spon
sors of the dinner neverl-u ac
counted properly for funds col
lected last year. o
An invitation was extended Pe
ters Saturday, along with bids to
five former governors—John M.
Slaton, Ellis Arnall, Hugh M. Dor
sey, Clifford Walker and E. D.
Rivers.’
-+ Henry Kilfoyle said.
| All six members of the Gregg
/| family were found burned to death
| in their second floor bed rooms—
| indicating, he said, they had no
chance even to try and get out.
| Father Tierney made his way
i through the house and up the
| flaming stairways. He carried out
| Gregg. Just after administering the
last rites of the Catholic church in
| an ambulance, the priest collapsed
| and was taken io Mt. Auburn hos
| pital., & l
Truman Asks Rent Control v.-*ension,
Seeks 10 Million Homes In For Decade
President Calls For More Housing
At Lower Cost For Present, Future
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—(AP)-—President Truman
today urged a 14-month stronger rent control law, along
with extension of financial aid to home building.
~ In a special message to Congress, Mr. Truman acked
that this emergency action be coupled with a long-range
‘housing program to produce 1,000,000 dwellings a year
for the next decade.
“We must adopt them together
so that they may work together,”
the Presidential message said. “We
must make orderly progress, not a
staggering, uncertain series of
halts.”
Rent control expires February
29, Republican leaders have agreed
to push through a 30-day exten
sion of the present law this week.
This will give time for study of a
bill pending in the Senate for a
14-month extepsion of ceilings to
April 30, 1949 ‘'on a modified basis.
Mr. Truman asked for ‘“more
housing at lower cost, both in the
immediate future and for the long
run.” ]
Objective
He set before Congress this five
point objective:
1—“ To continue and strengthen
rent control.
—“To stimulate a higher volume
of home building on a sustained
basis with special emphasis on ren
tal housing, with proper safeguards
abainst possible inflationary ef
fects.
3. “To reduce building costs.
4. “To assist communities in
providing low-rent housing for
families in the lowest-income
groups. ;
5. “To aid cities in rebuilding
and modernizing run-dewn areas.”
Less than 15 percent of the 840,-
000 new homes built in 1947 were
rental units, the President said,
and “almost no housing at all was
built for low income families.
“Tenants in many parts of the
country have been receiving no
tices from landlords that their
rents will be substantially raised
if rent control is allowed to ex
pire on Feb. 29,” he reported.
The new law, he said, should
protect the 1,660,000 tenants who
have agreed to 15 percent under
the present law.
Protection Limited
“These families have no protec
tion beyond December 31, 1948,”
if the new rent control law should
“provide adequate authority to en
able the government to enforce the
law, and appropriations should be
sufficient for an adequate enforce
ment staff,” the President said.
In extending the liberal loan in
surance provisions of titie 6 of
the National Housing Act for one
year beyond the March 31 dead
line. And increase of $2,000,000,000
of insurance authorization should
be granted, half of it earmarked
for homes only, he said,
No Common Sense In World:
TakingTheFuture
For A Play-Walk
NEW YGORK, — (AP) — “The
world doesn’t have any future,”
said the young man, ‘“because
there isn’t any common sense left
in the world.”
. This is a depressing view Tom
tgkes after a' hard day at the of
fice. And this had been a hard day.
Frances and I had come over to
baby-sit for him and his wife so
they could take in a movie. While
his wife was dressing, Tom talked
about the sad plight of humanity.
“There isn’t anything you can
really look forward to,” he said.
“Nothing is stable anymore and
nothing’s sure.”
Tom is like millions of other
men his age who came back from
the war with a permature armor
of pessimism. It is a kind of “oh
to-hell-with-it-anyway” philoso
phy that was helpful in the recent
years when the penalty and pri
vilege of being young was to face
death and danger in foreign lands.
But this surface cynicism seems
strangely unnatural now in these
days of semi-peace, particularly in
young married men with their real
careers just beginning.
. Not Complaining
“I'm not complaining,” Tom
said. “I’ve got a good job and make
a fair living. But what will it all
lead to?”
1 didn’t answer. I have learned
that when ex-soldiers talk that
way they are only trying to talk
back into themselves something
they lost on the battlefields—-—a‘
sense of security, a feeling that
things will be well. And that takes
time.
. “What use is there now in sav
ing money?” Tom went on. “May
be is was a good thing for my
father or my grandfather. Buti
why should I? Nobody learned
anything from this war. There’ll bel
another war.”
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ATHENS, GA.,, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1948.
The government also must con
tinue a secondary market for home
mortgage loans, with “adequate
safeguards against inflationary ef
fects,” Mr. Truman advised.
Federal purchase of mortgages
should be limited to localities
where the drying-up of credit is
endangering home building, and
when it will not mean higher costs
or “unsound credit standards,” the
President said.
Federal power to buy up home
mortgages now rests in a sub
sidiary of the Reconstruction Fi
nance Agency. RFC’s authority ex
pires June 30. Mr. Truman pro
posed that mortgage-buying power
be transferred to the overall hous
ing office—the Housing and Home
Finance Agency headed by Ray
mond Foley. HHF A, he said, would
handle both FHA loans and those
guaranteed by the Veterans Ad
ministration.
As a third financial aid Mr. Tru
man renewed his pleas that the
government insure a return on in
vestment for companies which
launch big-scale rental projects.
The long-pending Taft-Wagner-
Ellender housing bill would pro
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Mayor And Council
To Meet Tomorrow
Night At Eight
- “Mayor Jack R. Wells said
today that a holdover meet
ing from the regular Febru
ary meeting of Mayor and
Council will be held tomor
row night at 8 o’clo¢k.
Mayor Weiis pointed out
that by the policy already
established by Council and
himself, the public is invited
to attend this and each meet
ing of the City’s governing
officials.
SEASONAL TEMPERATURES
CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—(AP)—
Seasonal or slightly higher tem
peratures prevailed over virtu
ally the entire nation today.
The only exception was in the
northeastern states where Cari
bou, Maine, had the only subg
zero temperature of the day,
three below.
to hear his last remark.
“Okay, sourpuss,” she said.
“There’ll be another war. So
what?”
“So money won’t be any good—
nothing’ll be any good,” said Tom.
“We'll all be atomized.”
“Well, we might as well see one
last movie first,” said his wife
cheerfully. As Tom got up to put
on his coat, still growling “I stiil
say there’s no future,” their baby
woke up in the next room and be
gan to cry.
“Oh, darn!” said his wife. “I'd
better give him a bottle before
we leave.”
Crowing Happily
While it was warming, Tom
went in and brought out the baby.
He yawned and rubbed his eyes,
gave us all a startled look and then
began crowing happily. This baby
is crazy about company.
Tom held him while the wife
fed him. Then the baby began to
kick vigorously.
“I think he wants to walk al
ready,” said Tom. ;
~ “At six months, silly?” laughed
his wife. |
“Well, he does. Look.”
He held the baby close to the
floor. Electric with pleasure, the
baby paddled at the rug with both
feet.
“Look, look!” cried Tom. “He’s‘
practically walking at six months!”
“Don’t you dare put any weight
on his legs, Tom!”
“I'm not, I'm not!”
Then the young man who didn’t
believe in the future play-walked
the baby to its mother. She walked
him back again. They both held
him and laughed. é
“Oh, Tom.” she said. “It's get
ting late. Let’s don’t go out.”
“Okay.”
We all stayed home and let
the baby enieriain us. And nobody ;
said another word about war. |
Southern Governors Carry
Fight To Mclhrath Today
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-—(AP)—The wallop behind
the Dixie revolt appeared to hinge today on whether any
of President Truman’s civil rights program becomes law.
Angry Southern Governors
frankly proclaimed their “fight
ing mood” as they waited to call
Democratic National Chairman
McGrath on the carpet at a mid
afternoon session (2:30 p. m,,
EST) with newsmen on hand to
witness the fireworks.
But two Dixie Senators told a
reporter privately that if Con
gress does nothing about such
things as anti-lynch, anti-poll
tax and anti-discrimination bills,
the insurrection may never,
amount to much.
On the other hand, they agreed
that if any of those things are
written into law—and they look
for that to happen—there will be
“real trouble” for Mr. Truman in
the South. X
As an example, one of these
Senators said the legislature in
his state undoubtedly would vote
to remove the name of both the
President and his running mate
from the ballot. The voters then
would cast their ballots for presi
dential electors who could vote
as they choose.
Political Crossfire
There are increasing signs that
the Southerners fear they have
been caught in a political cross;,
fire from which they may not be
able to escape.
A sééret Senate poil has con
vinced some of them that their
most effective weapon—the fili
buster—may fail because of lack
of Republican support.
The House usually passes one
or more civil rights measures in
each Congress. But the Southern
ers have always been able to talk
them to death in the Senate. This
is because it takes a two-thirds
'vote to stop a (filibuster, and
enough Republicans usually side
with the Southerners to block the
gag rule.
They got the support of seven
Republicans on the last such test.
That was on July 31, 1946, when
an anti-poll tax bill was up for
debate.
But several of the same Repub—‘
licans have, told the Southerners
not to count on them this year.[
This makes it almost certian, one
of the Dixie Senators said, that
some bill will be passed.
Hearings on an anti-lynching
bill already have been held in
the Senate. A similar measure is
due to come before a House Ju
diciary Subcommitte on Wed
nesday. ; :
Strangely enough, the South
erners don’t blame the Republi
cans for trying to run the steam
roller over they.
Instead, they contend that
President Truman forced the is
sue by his demand for action. The
Southerners reason that the Re
publicans must accept that chal
lenge or lose the minority vote in
the North both parties are ang
ling for. = ¥
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$600,000 FIRE AT PITTSBURGCH
Fire destroved a Golden Triangle oifice buiiding and a jarge grocery warehouse
doing damage estimated at $660,000 and leaving two persons missing in the down
town Pittsburgh area. The blaze was believed to have started in a drug store base
ment.-—NEA Telephoto,
BY JACK BELL
The Dixie Governors waiting to
see McGrath came here under
orders from the Southern Gover
nors Conference to -lay the
South’s complaint before party
headquarters and demand an
answer,
“We . really mean business,”
Governor J. Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina told a reporter as
the five-man delegation went in
to a huddle yesterday to plan the
presentation of the Dixie case.
- “We are in a fighting mood,” he
added when the meeting broke
up several hours later., .= -
A series of questions to be shot
at McGrath was drafted with the
help of a group of lawyers.
Thus the meeting appeared
likely to take on something of a
courtroom air—with, McGrath on
‘the witness stand. p .
-~ In a Jackson-Jefferson Day
address at Providence, R, I, last
night the Na&onal Chairman de
clared that “the Democratic Par
ty is on trial.”
Asking his listeners whether
the party has “the forthrightness
to stand up for human rigms?”l
he added:
“Unless we support a policy
that lead to a better way of life
for all mankind, then we have
no message at all in life” . .
On other matters political: ~
Senator Taylor (D.-Idaho) ar
ranged a broadcast late today
(6:15 p.. m., EST) +to announce
whether he will be Henry A.
Wallace’'s third party running
mate.
. Harold E. Stassen called upon
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York to join him in a series
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and ecool with
drizzies today. Cloudy, war
mer and windy with light |
rains tonight, being moderate
at times on Tuesday and
Tuesday night,
GEORGIA — Cloudy, con
tinued cold with drizzle in
south portion this afternoon,
becoming windy and warmer
tonight and Tuesday with
light rain tonight and light
to moderate rain Tuesday
and Tuesday night.
TEMPERATURE
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LOWest % i D
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since February 1 .. 5.94
Fxcess since February 1 . 1.99
Average February rainfall 5.08
Total since January 1 ....10.26
Excess since January 1 .. 2.02
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Wallace To Appear
Before House Aid
Committee Tuesday
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—(AP)
—Hernry A. Wallace discusses for
eign aid tomorrow before a House
Committee in which Presidential
and international politics have
| been scrambled together.
The independent candidate for
the White House asked to be heard,
And the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee agreed, even though it knows
'how ‘Wallace stands.
Wallace has been eriticizing. the
administration’s = whole foreign
policy as likely to lead to “war
rather than peace. He has hit
hardest at that part of the pelicy
centered around the Marshall Plan
for European recovery. .
Mixed Up y
There is no evidence that: the
committee has been getting mixed
up with Presidential politics in
the Wallace case any more than in
the case of Gen. Douglas Mae~
Arthur, ]
Rep. Lawrence H. Smith "(R-
Wis) says he is going right ahead
with plans to ask that committee
'to invite MacArthur to come to
Washington and testify on aid for
| China.
But some members think that
MacArthur's backers for the Re
publican presidential nomin;ation
would be certain to use the, visit
to boom their man, o
| MacArthur himself took off'some
of the heat by saying in Tokyo he
hoped the committee would not
carry the idea any further. He said
he was busy with Japanese poli
tical problems. :
There is a chance the committee
may compromise by asking Mac-
Arthur to send a statement of his
views on American help for China.
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MONROE, Ga., Feb. 23— (AP)—
Panels of white jurors were set
aside today in the trial of a negro
charged with murder and arson,
in a precedent-setting court case
in this county.
Judge Henry West of Walton Su
perior Court ruled that four panels
of white jurors called for this term
of court should not take up the
negro’'s case because negroes had
not been ealled for jury service.
- Trial of Isiah Grimes, 27-year=
old negro. indicted on three counts
‘'of arson and' one of murder, was
postponed until the August term
of court. ‘A .defense motion to
quash the indictments against the
negro was denied by Judge West.
" The' Walton court house, hold
ing approximately 400 spectators,
was crowded to overflowing when
the court rendered its ruling. The
case of the negro attracted wide
attention because the -county -was
‘the scene of the lynching of four
'negroes in July, 1946.
The mass slaying. was brought
up in court by Grimes’ attorney
‘and caused a murmur to run
through spectators; and the judge
rapped for order. . : n
As the defense attorney, Dan
Duke, left the court house he pass
ed several men standing along the
sidewalk. One yelled to the athers
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