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Vol. CXVI, No. 99.
Stassen Captures At Least Q
Of Taft's Votes In Ohio Polling
Two Young: Vets To
Be In Runoff For
Florida Governor
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 5
—(AP) — A couple of young
World War I 1 veterans who made
their marks in politics before the
war will face each other in a
runoff for governor of Florida.
They ere Dan McCarty, 36-
year-old citrus grower and cat
{leman of Fort Pierce, and Fuller
Warren, 42, a Jacksonville law
ver.
" They eesily outdistanced all
others in a field of nine candi
dates running for the Democratic
nominetion in yesterdays prima
ry election, Whichever wins ' the
nomination in the “second prima=-
ry May 25 is certain to reach the
sovernor’s chair ~Democrats in
Florida outnumber the Republi
cans 14 to one. '
Warren, who was generally
looked upon as the leading man
in the campaign but who had
trailed in the early tabulaions,
slipped by McCarity with a thin
handful of ballots on the basis
of reports from 856 of the state’s
1,537 precincts, . |
This count gave Warren 103.-
645 votes to 103,435 for McCarty.
A pre-dawn count had given Mc~
Carty a lead of several thousand{
votes.. ‘
In third place, and far behind
the two leaders, was Colin En-’
glish superintendent of State
Schools, with 53,606. The other
six candidates were far in the
rear.
It was a big day for McCarty.
His third child, & daughter, was
Lorn iust before the polls opened.
McCarty got into politics as a
member of the Florida legislature
when he was 25 and was speaker
of the House at 29 before he left
for army service in 1941.
Warren was in the legislature
at 21 and ran a good third for
governor in 1940, He, too, inter
rupted his political career with
service in the Navy.
In an almost unnoticed Re
publican primary, Bert Acker,
Miami plblic relations counsel,
held 5 slim lead over John L.
Cogdill, Jacksonville lawyer, for
tlie governorship nomination.
No returns were repcrted elec
tion night in contests for dele
gate to the Democratic and Re
rublican National Conventions. A
long ballot that slowed the count,
coupled with an overshadowing
interest in state and local offices,
held thed up. They may not be
cointeq until later in the week
Democratic contests for repre
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(lasses In Public
Schools End May 28:
CNools tna May £o;
In case children in the Athens
public school system hadn‘t al
ready figured it up, only seven
teen days of classes remain in the
Present school year.
Classes will end with the close
of school on May 28, Dr. B. M.
Grier, city sghool superintend
ent, announced tdoay, and the
children will receive the year
end report cards on June 2.
As customary, the final day,
June 2, will be an abbreviated
session, the children reporting to
their classrooms, receiving report
tards and then being dismissed
for the remainder of the summer
months,
The lunchrooms will continue
in operation through the final
day of classes, May 28.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair this afternoon and
tonight. Thursday partly
cloudy and warm with scate
tered thundershowers.
GEORGIA — Fair weather
loday, tonight and Thursday;
little temperature change.
RAIL UNION OFFICIALS SAY GOVERNMENT SEIZURE
OF RAILROADS WOULD NOT BAR PLANNED WALKOUT
By HAROLD W. WARD |
WASHINGTON, May 5-—(AP) ‘
—~A government attorney’s con-{.
tention that President Truman
*Ull hus power to seize the strike |
threateneq railroads brought a|
Union retort today that such al
Sp would not bar a walkout.
The nationwids - =tike hasl
been calleq for next Tuesday.
Daviq B, Robertson, head of |
the hrotheinioog of Wirenien and |
En‘gineermen, said White House
Selzure “wil] net settle the wage
dispute—it will only irritate o
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One person was killed and eight others wjured in
Queens, N. Y., when a gas pipe was accidentally dis
lodged by a moving crew. The men were moving a
'piano into the house when it bumped against the gas
line.—NEA Telephoto.
Taylor Conviction
In Higher Courts
Conviction To Be Test Of State’s Racial
Segregation Laws; Taylor Now On Probation
BY BEM PRICE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 55—(AP)—The convic
tion of Senator Glen Taylor (D-Idaho) for disorderly con
duct here last night was headed for higher courts today
as a test of the state’s racial segregation laws.
The .viece-presidential candi
date of the Henry Wallace third
party was condemned by Police
Judge Oliver Hall as a publicity
seeker, then fined SSO and costs
and given 180 days in jail.
Judge Hall, however, stayed
the sentence and placed Taylor
on six month’s probation. The
defense immediately filed notice
of appeal.
When notified in Peoria, Il
of Taylor’s conviction, Wallace
commented,. ‘“the sentencing of
Glen Taylor makes certain the
destruction of the Democratic
party.”
“No party,” Wallace continued,
“can claim to be liberal and still
stand for Jim Crow. Glen was
not violating any law; he was
upholding the basic law of the
land, the Constitution of the
United States.”
Press Freedom Challenged?
SWIFT HOUSE TEST SHAPES UP ON
BILL TO PENALIZE NEWSMEN IN U.S.
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, May S—(AP)
——-é swift test shaped up in
Congress today ~ over the idea
of putting newsmen in jail for
printing confidential informa
tion “leaked” to them from
House or Senate committee.
A bill containing that idea may
be taken up in the House before
the end of this week.
But there appears to be little
chance that the jail-for-report
ers provision will stick.
At least two members, Reps.
Brown (R-Ohio) and Price
(D-I11), said they will offer
Robertson made his comment
to a reporter as Chairman Frank
P. Douglass of the National
(Railway) mediation board re
turned from Chicago to report to
Mr. Truman that the board’s
piece efforts have been exhaus
ted.
Douglass anonunced yesterday
the failure of last-ditch media
tion atempts. At about the same
time, Fraaces A. Siiver, Generai
counsel of the office of defense
transportation, disclosed that i
Vorld War 1 emergency law stiliJ
Followed Argument
Wallace’s statement followed
the defense’s line of argument.
Taylor’'s attorneys contended
that while the charge was dis
orderly conduct, the basic issue
was whether segregation laws
violated the right of free as
sembly.
Nesbitt Elmore, attorney pre
senting Taylor’s case, argued
that police. in denying Taylor
admittance to a church last Sat
urday through a door set aside
for use by negroes, had violated
Taylor’s constitutional rights.
“We hold,” said Elmore, “Sen
ator Taylor to be within his
constitutional rights in attending
a peaceful meeting through any
door he chooses.”
It was a scuffle between Sena
tor Taylor and Policeman W. W.
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amendments to strike out the
provision, and Speaker. Martin
(R-Mass) told Newsmen “the
press has nothing to fear from
this Congress.” :
The provision is part of a bill
drafted by the House \expendi
tures committee as a result of
the Commerce department’s re
fusal to turn over to the un-Am
erican activities committee data
it wanted for a loyalty investi
gation.
Yhe legislation would require
executive departments and agen
cies to make available to Con
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on the books carries authorty forl
government seizure. |
Justice Department lawyersl
privately backed up Silver’s
view.
Other high administration of
ficials want to avoid this step
because of the uncertainty they
forsee in getling men to run the
trains if the government should
step in. soi 5o iy :
|~ Those threatening to strike are
the 190,000 members of the Bro
therhoods of Firemen and En
: (Conitnued on Page Two.)
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 1948
FOLSOM AND TRUMAN SUPPORTERS
IN ALABAMA BOW TOO OPPOSITION
Taft Leads 14-9
In Contested Race
By JACK BELL
COLUMBUS, 0., May S—(AP)
—Senator Robert A. Taft took a
14 to 9 lead today in a see-saw
vote battle with Harold E. Stassen
for Ohio’s 23 contested GOP Presi
dential delegates.
Incomplete returns from yester=-
day’s 700,000 vote: Republican pri
mary indicated seven Taft dele
gates had been elected and seven
others led for a total of 14. Taft
already has 30 delegates without
contest.
The vote count indicated four
Stassen delegates had been elected
—in the Akron and Youngstown
industrial areas—and five others
were leading for a total of nine.
This is short of the 12 delegates
Stassen predicted he would get at
the end of his Ohio campaign. It
was one less than the 10 most poli
ticians said he needed to make his
foray into Taft’s home state a suc
' cess. :
Stassen apparently lost his bid
for one of nine at-large delegates.
He let eight of these places go by
default to Taft by not entering
candidates. He did the same in 11
district races for 22 delegates.
Carrington T. Marshall, the sole
Stassen at-large candidate, drep
ped so far behind in the count
from 6,841 of the state’s 9,385
polling places that he seemed out
oi the running. Marshaii had Zoß,=
896 votes to the 236,631 rolled up
by Ed D. Schorr, Taft’s weakest at
large candidate.
Taft’s friends said this proved
that Stassen had to pick his spots’
—chiefly the heavy labor vote
areas where there is opposition to
the Taft-Hartley vote—to give the
‘Senator trouble on him home
grounds.
l Stassen still was within reach,
‘however, of the 12 delegates he
‘wants if later counting reversed
the present trend.
Taft ran a poor third in the
April 13 Nebraska primary which
Stassen won. He attempted to off
set the “good-man-but-can’t-win”
theory spawned in that defeat by
an intensive personal campaign in
Ohio. ;
In a half-mililon vote Democra
tic primary, former Gov. Frank J.
Lausche claimed he had won the
party gubernatorial nomination
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RASHNESS OR STUPIDITY ARE THE
GREAT THREATS TO WORLD PEACE
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
This column yesterday tried to
analyze President Tuman’s view
that the current year “may well
determine the world’s future,”
and pointed out that the number
cne issue of the period is wheth-~
er the cold war will develop into
a shooting, war or whether it can
be kept within bounds.
Britain’s outspoken Foreign
Secretary, Ernest Bevin, now en
ters the discussion with the
statement that “the chaotic sepa
ration of the western (European)
pewers, if allowed to continue,
would leave them open as a
prey.” A prey to what? Weli,
very obviously to Communist ag
gression, which almost inevitably
would turn the cold war into a
hot one.
' Bevin was addressing the House
of Commons and was dealing with
the prdposed expansion of the
new five-power alliance among
Britain, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg in
to an economie and military un
ion of all western Europe. He
declared that such a union
wouldn’t lead to war and added
in effect that ‘“chaotic sepeara
tions” might lead to it.
The greatest danger of war
isn’t that any power deliberately
would precipitate it. Rather it lies
in the chance that some nation,
or group, might inadvertently do
something, through rashness or
stupidity, which would set the
world aflame 2gain.
I believe that represents the con
sensys of ciose .observers. Indeed
none other than General Eisen
hower subscribed to this view in
a press conference. He was asked
whether he thought the United
Stetes was closer to war with
Russia than a year ago, and re
plied that “no great country, in
cluding Russia, would deliberate
ly provoke war at this time.” He
szid war possiblv would be start
ed by “some stupid act or a
cdeadlock of some kind.” in which
neither side would retreat.
| Unfortunateiy Hurope is so
i tense that it might react much
l more quickly t. “some stupid
lact” than it would under normal
_conditions. There have been plen.
Itv of flashes of fire between the
{ Russian and the western allies in
Truman May Not
1
Get ‘Bama Votes
By LEROY SIMMS
~ BIRMINGHAM, May S—(AP)
—Alabama Democrats today ap
parently made certain that Pre
sident Truman cannot get this
stat’s 11 electoral votes for an
other term. :
‘Whether any other regular
Democratic nominee would get
those votes was a moot question.
Presidential electors’ pledged
against Truman because of his
civil rights program were lead
ing on incomplete returns from
yesterday’s party primary.
They have the right, under a
state Supreme court ruling, to
vote for any man of their choice.
They have announced they will
not vote for any Democrat who
supports the civil rights meas
ures, which would change this
section’s racial laws.
Alabama has given its elec
toral votes to every Democratic
nominee since 1872.
The outcome of another move
to take Alabama from the regu-1
lar Democratic ranks—this one
in the delegation to the party.
convention at Philadelphia—
still was inconclusive.
In this race, a slate of dele
gates pledged to bolt the con=
vention if a civil rights plank is
adopted in the party platform,
or if Truman is nominated,
shared top places with an anti
bolt group.
The anti-bolters, however, are
against both Truman and the
civil rights measures. They pro
pose to fight both within the
party. Gov. James E. Folsom, of
the anti-bolt group, was not one
of the leaders in early tabula
tions. He is a native son candi=
[‘ddgg for the Democratic Presi
‘dential homination.
~ Folsom’s prestige also slumped
in the U. S. Senate race. Philip
J. Hamm, endorsed by the Gov
ernor, was running far behind
Sen. John J. Sparkman. Three
minor candidates did not figure.
The delegate races, with 84
contending for the 26 posts,
probably will not be decided in
most cases before the runoff
June 1.
Counting was slow and ted
ious. The ballot was the longest
in recent Alabama history, with
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Germany and Austria recently,
but caution on both sides has
prevented difficult situations
from getting out of hand.
One big threat of trouble lies
in the fact that 'the present rela
tive calm in Europe is merely a
lull in the Communist world rev
clution.
With the absorption of Czecho
slavakia, Russia got as far as
she could go in her offensive
}without a display of force whichk
would be asking for war Mos
cow tacitly recognized this by
holding Italy’s big Communist
party in leash during the recent
national elections. It was clear
that use of force by the Reds
would endanger world pedce.
However, there isn’t the slight
est indication that the Muscovites
have abandoned their effort to
absorb western Europe. Commun.
ism often works by stealth' and
indirection. It attempts a coup
only when it hes carefully pre
pared the ground, or when
chance has done the joh for it.
But we may be sure that the
Bolshevists will reach for more
territory if and when the time
seems ripe. ¢
(Continued On Page Two)
Athenian Named To
New Farm Council
“ATLANTA, May 5.—(AP)—
Appointment of a 10-man Farm
Replacement Council was an
nouniced today by State Labor
Commissioner Ben T, Huiet.
The council, Huiet said, is
composed of employers, em
ployes, representatives of the
general public and veterans, and
will assist the State Employment
Service in improving its farm
placement service both to em
ployes and employers.
Appointed were: Wilson E.
Still, Macon; W. H. Smith, jr.,
Statesboro; J. J. Brown, Man
chester; Cari Chaney, Reidsvilie;
D. ‘W. Brooks, Atlanta; , Robert
Stembridge, -sr.,, Ellijay; S. E.
Vandiver, iLavonia: Richard E.
Smith, Athens; Harley Langdale,
Valdosta; and H. G. Wiley, Cor
dele. i |
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HIGH WINDS RIP THROUGH TEXAS TOWN : HE R e
Workers of the Texas Textile Mill at McKinney, Texas, view their cars and the
building where they work after high winds ripped through their town. No one in
the building was killed when the winds struck, tearing away the third floor.—
NEA Telephoto, ' e R
Mayor, Council Approve
New Softball Diamond
With Arab Heads |
In Jericho Today
BY CARTER L. DAVIDSON
JERUSALEM, May 5.—(AP)—
The United Nations truce com
mission conferred in Jericho
with Arab representatives today
on an Arab-Jewish truce for all
Jerusalem, officials .announced.
r The commission ‘met - with
Trans-Jordan's Deputy Foreign
Minister, Hussein Siraj Taaquid
din Al Solh, brother of the Leb
anese Premier, and Ahmed Hilmi‘
Pasha of the Palestine Arab
higher executive. |
Both the old and new quarters
of Jerusalem were comparatively
quiet under the British-enforced
cease f{ire order, but there was
intermittent shooting throughout
the night and morning in the
outskirts,
Haganah’s loud speakers moved
in close to Arab quarters during
the night, broadcasting an ap
peal in Arabic to “live in peace
ful cooperation” with the Jews.
The Jewish militia urged the
Arabs to “change your leaders.”
A Palestine government spokes
man said the cease fire order,
which was to have ended at 4 p.
m. yesterday, had been extended
indefinitely while the U. N.
truce negotiations continued.
In the north at Acre, authori
ties expressed fear of an epi
demic of typhoid. The city,
crowded with thousands of Arabs
who fled Haifa when Jews seized
that city two weeks ago, already
has reported 82 typhoid cases, 56
of them among the British. A
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SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
TO GET OLEC TAX CUTTING BILL
BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITHF
WASHINGTON, May S—(AP) .
—A leader of the battle to send |
the House-passed oleo tax repeal |
bill to the Senate Finance Com
mittee predicted today it proba- |1
bly won’t wind up there.
Senator Fulbright (D.-Ark.”|!
told a reporter *the chances are” |
the Senate will back up the rul-|!
ing of its presiding officer, Sena-~ |
tor Vandenberg (R.-Mich.), and}|
let the measure go to the Agri-|
culture Committee.
Vandenberg decided in favor |
of the agriculture group yester- ||
day. Then he invited an appeal.
FORMER VANDERBILT STUDENT SAYS HE WAS AN
ANNOUNGER ON “TOKYO ROSE” WAR TIME SHOW
NASHVILLE, May 5—(AP)—
The Nashville Tennessean pub
lished today an interview in
which a Vanderbilt University
student said he was an announ
cer for propaganda broadcasts
by “Tokyo Rose” during World
War 11.
The interview with 26-year
oid Norman HReyes was written
by Harry T. Brundige, special
correspondent for the Tennes
sean, who recently returned
from Tokye.
Brundige, in a story publish
ed by the Tennessean Sunday,
A. B. C. Paper-Single Copy, 5¢
Ball Ground To Be Paid For By Self
Liquidating Loan; To Cost About SSOOO
By HOKE MAY 1
Mayor and Council last night, at |
their regular monthly meeting in
the Council chambers, agreed to
allow the Athens Playground and
RBecreation Commitiss, headed by
W. .H. Benson; to borrow (on a
self-liquidating basis) $5,000 to be
used for the construction of a
softball diamond, complete with
night playing lights.
The proposed site of the new
diamond is near American Legion
Post Na. 20, situated at the foot
of Lumpkin street. - b ¥
Pointing out that the loan would
be self-liquidating, and that the
project was worthwhile, Council
man Clyde Basham made the mo
tion to allow the Recreation Com
mittee to borrow the money. Mr.
Basham also asked that, since the
American Legion is planning to let
the Recreation Committee take
over the operation of their swim
ming pool at 25 percent of the net
profit, it might be wise to have
the City Atlorney lock ints the
feasability of furnishing the wa
ter for the pool free of cost. This
point was also carried in the reso
lution.
A letter was read by the Clerk
of Council from Hugh H. Gordon,
in which he tendered his resigna
tion from the City Planning Com
mittee. Mr. Gordon stated in the
ietter that he would be out of the
¢ity the entire summer and much
of next winter, making it impos
sible for him to carry out the
duties that would be required of
him.
The resignation was accepted by
the Mayor who asked Councilman
M. B. Pound to write Mr. Gordon
a letter of appreciation for the
services he has rendered the city
while serving on the Planning
Board.
D. Weaver Bridges, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, acting
as spokesman for that group, re
quested that the city aid in finding
'ulbright, took him up on that,
asking that the controversial
measure be referred instead to
the Finance Committee. :
The Senate agreed to vote on
the issue at 1 p. m. (EST) today.
Foes of the oleo repealer,
mainly from the butters produc
ing states, want the Agriculture
Committee to get thé bill. Back
ers of the measure believe it
would have a better chance in
the Finance Committee.
Both sides insisted that today’s
vote would not be a barometer of
the bill’s final Tate.
(Continued on Page Two.)
-said that while in Tokyo he had
received a signed confession from
the original “Tokyo Rose.”
He identfiied her as Mrs. Iva
Tkuko Toguri D’Aquino, Ameri
can born of Japanese parents
who is now living in a Tokyo
suburb, the wife of a Portuguese
citizen. He said she had been ar-
Pastad onct bt seas sslancad Han
lack of evidence. The story said
that Attorney General Tom Clark
IS now coniempiaiing her ie
arrest.
Reyes, a Philippine citizen,
said in the interview thal he was
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storage space for 80,000 pounds of
‘equipment, which would be nec
essar{ to maintain a propoged Na
tional Guard Unit in Athens. Mr,
Bridges said that former Mzoor
Bob McWhorter had requested the
Guard Unit here before leaving
office, and that such a unit is now
available. ‘ .
| National Guard Unit
He said that the unit would be
designated as Company L, bat
talion herdquarters in Milledge
ville, and Regiment headquarters
in Macon, The company assigned
here would consist of 265 men
with' 276 rifles, all necessary
equipment, including three pieces
of rolling stock.
Mr. Bridges pointed out that
‘having the unit here would be a
great boon to the city from a com
mercial and military standpoint.
Further, he said, that War As
sets is still in a position to furnish
materials at no cost to the tax pay
er for such building that would be
necessary to house the unit.
Mayor Wells appointed a three
man committee composed of Al
derman Pound, Williams, and
Basham to look into the matter.
A Ttesolution to lift the zoning
ordinance on Prince avenue at the
northwest corner of Lyndon and
the northwest corner of Chase to
allow the construction of a medi
cal center at Chase and a Dr. Pep
per Bottling plant at Lyndon was
vetoed by Mayor Jack Wells dur
ing the first of the meeting, be
cause the Mayor felt the people of
the ward had not been given suf
ficient notice.
Later discussion on the matter
was resumed and the Mayor’s veto
overridden, through a motion by
Councilman Basham, seconded by
Councilman Kenneth Guest. The
vote on the motion to everride
was seven to three. o
Councilman Bob Seagraves mov
ed that the ordinances be lifted to
allow the two buildings” to be
built. Following the second to the
motion, Councilman Pound called
for a division of the question, stat
ing that both buildings deserved
individual consideration. He furth
er stated that he was opposed to
the bottling plant but not te the
medical center. BN
Point Of Order
Councilman Basham rose to the
point that since the Mayor’'s veto
had been overridden, the first of
the two motions to be considered,
that of the medical center; had al
ready been passed. o
A vote on lifting the ‘Zoning
ordinance to allow building.of the
bottling plant passed. It was speci
fied that plans and specifications
for both of the proposed buildings
should be turned over to the City
Engineer for approval before con
struction could be begun.
A letter from J. Ralph Thaxton,
chairman, Athens Board of Educa
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! captured by the Japanese while
serving with the Philippine army
in 1942. He said he was given
the choice of working at Radio
Tokyo or being put to death.
| He said he played records and
| announced a radio program that
later came to bé known as the
“Zero Hour.” According to his
story, Mrs D'Aquino, then Miss
Toguri, joined the program and
began ‘her broadcasts, playing
upon the homesichncss of AmSr
icen troops, in 1943.
: The womsan was known on the
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