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Vol. CXVI, No. 107.
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GREEK GUERRILLAS LINE-UP AFTER CAPTURE
One hundred and forty-one men, women, and teen-age guerrillas, captured by
Greek Army foreces in the spring offensive to remove all threats to the Athens-
Salonika rail line, are lined up by their captors. They face courts-martial, and
possible execution after their capture at Gravia, Greece. &
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ROBERT STEPHENS
Reserve Officers
Robert G, Stephens, jr., lieu
tenant colonel, Military Intelli
gence reserve ang City Attor
ney of Athens, was elected presi
dent of the Athens chapter of
the Reserve Officers Association,
at the organization’s regular
meeting Wednesday night.
Mr. Stephens will fill the un
expireq term of Hugh O’Farrell,
who -has entered the Regular
Army. .
Forrest (Spec)) Towns, a re.
serve Major and track coach at
the University of 'Georgia ,was
elected * vice-prpesident. Major
Clarence W. Lung, reserve offi
cer on active duty, unit instructor
for organized reserve corps work
In this distict, was chosen secre
tery-treasurer.
A short business session was
held and it was decided that a
arive t, secure additional mem
bers for the Reserve Officers
Association will be launched. In
the near future & luncheon meet
ng will be held. All officers in
this area will be notified so that
their, applications for member
ship may be sent in. All reserve
officers, including Air Corps re
‘erve, are eligible for member
ship,
Active members of the Athens
chapter are = Edgar K. Avriett,
Charles E. Bell, Roger ©. Ben
nett. Harmon L. Boland, John P.
Bondurant. Charles J. Bryant,
T\ewm?n Corker, Marion D. Du-
Pose jr. Thomas H. Fickett,
;'Pov'ge H Gaines, Bernard A.
Harden, James R. Harris.
James N. Hartford, ir., Peter
L Henderson, Charles H Hoop
o T Alton ‘Hosch., Marion A.
bnhm-t. Jemes 1. Kalleen, Fdwin
" Kennv. William A. King
(;’3'“(’”"6 W. limg, T. H. MqHat
r:‘n. Hatrv C. Pence. William M.
wandail. Robert G. Stephens, ir.,
T\lfiert ¥. Sullivan, ir.. Forrest G.
YO“"’S Joel M. Thornton. Charles
.~ Vickers and Walter J. Whi
lamson,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
_Full Associated Press Service
Civil Ri isi
vil Rights Crisis
WASHINGTON, May 14.— (AP) —A time-consuming
battle over civil rights has been averted by a hair-line
decision, as Senate Republican leaders gathered today to
map strategy for new fights ahead.
The race issue showdown was pat off until later in the
session by a 38 to 387 vote decided in the final moments of
a see-saw roll call. The vote sent back to committee a bill
to give congressional approval to an educational compact
drafted by 15 Southern states.
Senators Holland (D-Fla) and
Russell (D-Ga), leaders in the
unsuccessful fight to keep the
mezsure before the Senate, said
today the recommital action prob
ably has killed for this year the
plan to create a series of regional
universities in the South.
The GOP policy committee ses
sion called for this morning (9
a. m. EST) by Chairman Tait of
Ohio was confronted - with at
least two other highly controver
sial measures in addition to one
next up for debate.
Pending before the Sendte
today was a battle to cut at least
$200,000,000 out of a $708,586,-
666 army civil function bill.
Chairman Bridges (R-NH) of
the appropriations committee was
teamed with Senator Reed (R-
Kan) in an effort t, slash the
amount from funds earmarked by
Bridges’ committee for flood con-'
trol end rivers and harbors pro
jects. Angry defeat was expected
to carrv aver inte Monday before
a decision,
Other Controversies
Next on the list are two more
controversies:
1. The hotly disputed plan for
peacetime draft and military
traingng to expand the regular
armed services and reserves, This
calls for two years service by
men 19 through 25 years and one
year of voluntary training for
161,000 18_-year-olds. Southerners
have promised to try to attach a
provision that would eallow all
enlisted men the right to request
service units of their own races.
2. The argument over admission
of war refugees from FEurope.
The Senate Judiciary committee
has recommendeq the admission
of 100,000 displaced persons in
the next two years under strict
terms Senators. McGrath (D.RI)
and Hatch (D-NM) want to boost
this to 200,000 and liberalize the
terms.
One of the decisions confront
ing the policy group was which
battle should come first.
‘Further Study
Yesterday’s civil rights test
came on a motion by Senator
Morse (R-Ore) to send the House
approved educational compact
back to the Judiciary Committee
for further study,
Morse had promised — if that
move failed — to offer a flat
anti-segregation and other more
Generd! anti - discrimination
amendments to the compact bill.
This wouid have touched off 2
Dixie filibuster that mighi have
deleyved maior legislation indefi-‘
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Horse Show Staged .
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At Georgia Track
The first post-war horse show
to be held by the University of
ierrgia was scheduled this aft
ernoon at the school track.
’ The show was sponsored by
'the Hunt Club of the Department
of Education for Women.
~ The show revives the interest
in the snort which enjoyed a
large following here in pre-war
Gays. -
Seven riding classes were slat
ed to participate in the event.
They are the Children’s Class,
Ladies’ Horsemanship Class,
Student Children's Jumping
Class and the Men’s Jumping
Class. ‘
One of the featured attractions
of the evening was a riding
demonstration given by E. P.
Foreman, cwner of the Tallvho
Stables here in Athens. Assist
ing Mr. Foreman was Ann Cal
houn of Augusta.
The show was open to all
students and the public and
staged under perfect weather
conditions.
.
Shake-Up Hinted
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In Red Officers
BERLIN, May 14 — (AP)—
Western allied authorities said
today they have received re
oorts that the Soviet Military
Administration in Germany is
undergoing a purge. Dozens of
high officers are being recalled
to Russia, the reports said, 1
Details on the extent of the
alleged re-shuffle or the reasons
forit Wwary,) ThielAmerican_licens
ed Deng news agency estimated
that 85 high Soviet officers would
be replaced in Germany.
The purge reportedly is being
conducted by a political generzl
named Scharnov, who recently
was appointed political advisor to ‘
Marshell Vassily D. Sokolovsky,
Russian commander in Germany. |
BULLETIN
MILLEDGEVILLE, May
14 — (AP) — The Georgia
Power Company annbunced
today it would resume con
struction on the $£10.000.000
Furman Shoals hvdroeleciric
development on the Oconee
river near Milledgeville. |
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1948.
By The Associated Press
Six plane mishaps on four
continents have claimed the lives
of at least 200 and perhaps 53
persons.
Best known among the dead
was Lady Hartington, the daugh~
ter of Joseph P. Kennedy of
Boston, former U. S. Ambassa
dor to London. She died near
Privas in southern France with
three others, including Lord
Fitzwilliam, the eighth Earl of
his line. The other two were
crewmen.
Only one known survivor came
through the six mishaps.
Thirty-five were missing.
The other crashed planes were
in the Belgian Congo, Saudi
Arabia, Alaska, Massachusetts
and Switzerland.
A Sabena Airliner which dis
appeared yesterday over the Bel
gian Congo with 25 passengeds
and six crewmen was found
wrecked in the African colony.
The plane was a DC-4 on the
Belgian Congo-Belgium run. The
airline’s office in Brussels said
nothing was known of casual
ties,
Superioriress Falis
A U. S. B-29 Superfortress fell
in Saudi Arabia, 120 = miles
northwest of Dhahran. The U. S.
Air Force said in Wiesbaden,
Germany, that nine bodies have
.been found. Four persons are
missing and one survivor has
been found. The plane appar
ently crashed Tuesday ©on #
training run between Germany
and the Asian airport.
Two U. S. Air Force fighter
planes exploded and crashed at
Anchorage, Alaska, yesterday.
Both pilots were killed. The
planes ‘were in a group of four
maneuvering four miles above.
Both went into almost wvestical
dives and . were blasted in a
rending explosion about 8,000
feet up. -
Three crewmen of an Army{
C-54 transport plane were killedl
yesterday in a crash at North
ampton, Mass. The plane burst
into flames during a rainstorm,
dug a hole eight feet into
soggy field and splattered wreck
age over five acres. ;
Two Swiss fliers were killed
practicing emergency landings at
Locarno, Switzerland. One was
Major Piste Hitz, who helped
rescue 12 Americans stranded
9,000 feet up on Aguli Glacier
in 1946,
.
Veterans Office
s
Will Reopen Here
ATLANTA, May 14 —(AP)—
The Veterans Administration
will reopen 11 local offices and
add 242 employes in the south
east, Deputy Arministrator John
M. Slaton, jr., says.
A new appropriation makes the
repoenings possible, Slaton said
yesterday. ’
The offices were closed more
than a month ago. A twelfth—
et Key West, Fla.,—was schedul
ed to close soon but will remain
in operation.
Medical and administrative
branches will receive the addi.
tional workers. {
Offices to be reopened are:
Albany, Athens, Augusta, Bruns
wick and Rome, Ga.; Florence
and Gadsden, Ala.; Dayton Beach,
Fort Myers and Panama City,
Fla., and T.awrenceburg Tenn,
31 ARRESTS INCREASE TEMPO IN DRIVE AGAINST
SPEEDSTERS ; BARBER STREET LEADS IN PROTSETS
By HOKE SMITH MAY
Athens police today reported
31 arrests for speeding, reckless
driving and drunk-driving since
May 6 as more citizens —Teported
similar violations of thé law in
their neighborhoods.
Since yesterday morning four
reports have been made by
Barber street residents alone in
The Banner-Herald traffic sur
vey, the other telephone calls
having come from different parts
of the City.
Meanwhile, Civil Service Com
missioner T. M. Philpot said
The Banner-Herald survey will
be of much help to the police
department in spotting the vio
lators of the law against speed
ing, reckless driving and driving
while intoxicated. -
Of the total number of calls
received in the survey almost
one-third of . them have come
from ‘residents of Barber street,
and the greater per centage of
those from residents of that
street between Boulevard and
Prince.
Two residents of Barber street
phoned in yesterday afternoon;
their reports were very similar.
Two had telephoned earlier in
the day. The last two reported
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NEW OFFICERS OF GEORGIA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION e
Newly elected officers of the Georgia Public Health Association, chosen at 19th
Annual Convention in Savannah, Ga., are left to right: Dr. M. E. Winchester, Bruns
wick, Ga., outgoing president; Dr. James A. Thrash, Columbus, ' president-elect;"
Miss Annie Taylor, Atlanta, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Clair A. Henderson of
Savannah, who was installed as president. . »
In U.S. - Korean Zone
SEOUL, May 14. — (AP) — Russian-occupied North
Korea cut off power to the U. S. zone in the South today
in a dispute intensified by an American victory in Mon
day’s South Korean independence election.
American authorities were ready, however, and wheels
turned as usual in occupation installations. Two former
Navy power barges came to aid of auxiliary Army units
in providing needed electricity. =~
Midnight Raid
On Packing Plant
NEWPORT, Minn., May 14 —
(AP) — A mob estimated at 200
men forced its way into the
strikebound (Cudahy & Co. pack
ing plant at midnight, heavily
damaged the intericr, set Tree
several thousand dollars worth
of hogs and carried away 30
plant workers as hostages.
R. J. Swenson, general mana=
ger of the plant, gave this ac
count of the incident:
TAbout 11:15 p. m. (CST) an
estimated 200 men —some of
them Cudahy owrkers on strike
—entered the plant. {
“First the main power switch
was pulled, plunging the plant
into darkness. Then a room
where some of our men were
sleeping was entered. Cots on
which they rested were broken
up and some windows smashed.
“Locks on some of the stock
pens were broken and 110 hogs,
valued at about $6,000 were set
free. |
“A ‘new car belonging to onc
of the plant engineers was tipped |
over and the windows of one
side and the windshield were
broken. j
“The plant boilers were turned
off but apparently there was no!
serious damage done to them.
{Conituued on Fage Two.)
that passenger cars and trucks
The speed limit in Athens
is 30 miles per hour except
in certain zones wherein the
maximum is as low as 6
miles per hour--in the busi
ness section.
have attempted to transplant the
Indianapolis Speedway there by
tearing up and down the street
at high rates of speed all hours
of the day, but especially in the
late afternoon, between 5:00 and
7:00 o’clock.
Extremely Dangerous
A resident of Cloverhurst be
tween Milledge and Bloomfield
reported that two-block stretch
several times during the ®ay i
made extremely dangerous by
speeding cars. Several dogs, pets
of children, have been killed in
the past several weeks. Offend
ers are mostly young people in
passenger cars and taxicabs.
Parking on both sides of Clov
erhurst at the intersections with
Milledge also is dangerous since
it makes entrance into Milladge
a blind proposition and narrows
Cloverhurst to - one-car-in-the
center-of-the-gtreet width, Dan-
A continued shutdown of pow
er from the North-—which furn
ishes more than half the supply
in South Korea — would torce
rationing upon Korean factories
and residences, U. S. officials
warned, :
‘l'nere have been temporary
interruptions of the power flow
from the North before. Conse
quently, no .one in authority
would say the current shutdown
was permanent.
North Koreans had sent an ul
timatum over the radic at Py
ongyang, Soviet occupation
headquarters, They said t"fiel
power would be shut off at noon
today unless a South Korean
representative was sent to nego-‘
tiate over an old and disputed
power bill, i
American authorities ignored
the ultimatum, saying they were'
not accustomed to negotiating
by radio. |
Bill Unpaid
The North Koreans charge
the U S. has refused to pay an
old bill for power furnished
from Japan’s surrender to May
1947. The U. 8. says it is ready
to pay, and has paid part—as
much as possible under the
Soviets’ demand for machinery
instead of dollars. ‘
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge re
fused to negotiate with the
North Koreans. He insists on
dealing with. the Russians, whoi
say they have turned it over to
the North Koreans.
Only Wednesday Hodge an
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ger hours are when students are
going to college in the morning
and late in the afternoons and
at night.
According to a resident of
Hillerest, taxies and passenger
automobiles speed and drive
recklessly between Hill and
Brookwod drive many times
during the day. The observer
reports that the problem is es
pecially dangerous in the time
iust before 7:00 o’clock in the
mornings, at noon, and between
3:00 and #4:00 o’clock in the
afternons.
A report received from Water
street stated that taxies and pas
senger vehicles proceed along
that street at high rates of speed
between the hours of 11:00 a. m.
and 2:00 p. m. and at night be
tween 6:00 and 8:00 o’clocks.
The entirety of Lumpkin street
was likened to a fast race track
by & resident of that street. He
said that at night and in the
early morning hours he is unable ‘
to sleep because of the noise cre
ated by spgeding cars, sometimes
lined three abreast and motor
cycles. T ‘
In a little different vein, a
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Talmadge Accuses
Cook Of Making
Political Ruling
ATLANTA, May 14—(AP)
—Herman Talmadge today
accused Attorney General
~ Eugene Cook of rendering an
incorrect legal opinion to
boost Gov. M. E. Thompson’s
political stock.
Talmadge charged in his
. personal cplumn in_ The
~ Statesman; his political week-
Iy, “that Chok “very ~eclearly
was in error” in ruling re
cently that Thompson could
let highway contraels up io
the last day of his adminis
tration.
The political opponent of
the Governor quoted a sec
tion of the Georgia code pro
hibiting the highway depart
ment, commission or director
from letting any road con
tracts during the last three
nionths of the term “of any
governor oi ihis siate.”
Cook had ruled that
Thompson was acting gov
ernor, not governor. and the
ban would not apply to
Thompsen.
ANTI-RED MEASURE
WASHINGTON, May 14 —
(AP)—The House aimed a leg
islative shotgun at the Commun
ist party today and got set to
pull the trigger.
It probably won't fire -until
next week, when it expects to
pass a bill making it a crime to
try to set up a Communist dic
tatorship in this country.
The bill doesn’t outlaw the
Commmunist party. But it would
crimp the party’s operations and
€xpuse its inembers ana acuvi
ties. |
The measure came before the
House for debate today with:
1. A plea from Rep. J. Par
nell Thomas (R-NJ) to take firm
acuon to cope with “the foremost
menace to Democracy today.”
2. A retort from Rep. Isacson
(Al-NY) that the bill repudiates
the concept of progress and ‘“‘re=-
gards America as a finished pro
auct, rigid and unchangeable.”
Isacson is one of the newest
members of Congress. He was
elected from the Bronx earlier
this year with the support of
'Yhird party presidential candi
date Henry A. Wallace. |
Thomas is chairman of the
House committee on un-Ameri
can activities. The bill is the!
first legislative proposal ever
drafted by that commiiitee. |
Dictatorships Charged i
In its preamble, it assérts that
an Internationa? Communist<
movement is conspiring to set‘
up totalitarian dictatorships
through organizations it controls
in other countries. l
The bill defines the American
Communist party as one of these
organizations. It says it shall be
illegal to try in any way to set
up a foreign-controlled “totali
tarian dictatorship” in this coun
try or to take part in a jnove
ment to create such a dictator
ship. |
Violators would face ten years
in prison and a SIO,OOO fine and:
\‘ould lose their United States
citizenship. ]
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Rival Armigs i
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Poised; British
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TEL AVIV, Palestine, May 14,
~— (AP) —The Jews proclaimed
today an independent state—the
first Hebrew nation if 2,000
year, : CEAC
The British High Commission=
er, symbol of Britait’s héctic $l
- rule of the Holy Land, left
Palestine soil.
The Jewish provisional gov
efument issued a “declaration of
independence of the Jewish
state.” ; ke
The Jews, the declaration said,
have the right to a life of “dig=-
nity, freedom and labor.”
- The contribution of Palestine’s
Jews in the war against the
Nazis “gained them the title to
rank = with the peoples whao
founded the United Nations,” it
said, adding: ’ :
“On November 29, 1947, the
General Assembly of the United
Nations adopted a resolution for
the re-establishment of an inde~
| pendent Jewish state in Palestine
lund called- upon the inhabitants
of the country to take such steps
as may be necessary on their
part to put the plan into effect.
“This recognition by the Unit
ed Nations of the right of the
Jewish people to establish their
independent state may not be re
voked. It is moreover tHe' self
evident right of the Jewish peo
ple to be a nation, as all other
nations, in its own sovereign
state. :
g Solemn Assembly
“Accordingly, we, the members
of the National Council = repre
senting -the Jewish people in
Paletstine and the Zionist move
ment of the world, met together
in solemn assembly by virtue of
lthe natural and ‘historic right of
the Jewish people and of the
resolution of the General As
sembly of the United Nations
hereby proclaim the- qfifi%’
‘ment of IhéJl%ln,h' stafe.in Pal
estine, to be called Israel” '
In the uniform of a general of
lthe Bri{ish Army High Commis
sioner Bir - Alan Gordon Cun
ningham moved to the cruiser
Euryalus, lying off Haifa, while
bagpipes walied the doleful
straing of “The Minstrel Boy.”
An honor guard of the King's
Company of Guards and Royal
Marine Commandos snapped to
attention. A 17-gun salute sound
ed. - Royal Airforce Spitfires
whilred overhead, >
The High Commissioner leaves
at midnight, and a minute later
the Jewish state comes into be
ing by proclamation. A modest
ceremony to usher in the infant
state. was arranged for late this
afternoon. -
The Jewish Army, Haganah,
braced itself on three frontiers,
ready to meet the threat of any
Arab invasion. Haganah reported
Syrian armored forces already
inside Palestine on the north,
attacking Dan, northermost
limit of the Holy Land of Bible
days. Egyptian forces are report
ed probing the Negeb Desert area
in the gouth. On the east, Iraqi
and Trans-Jordan troops are re
ported in readiness, ;
Btate .of War
(The general secretariat cf the
Arab League proelaimed a state
of war exists between the Arab
League « nations and Palestine
Jewry. Syria and Lebanon de
clared a state of emergency in
their countries. Trans-Jordan's
capital, Amman, appeared calm).
. Cunningham drove out of Jé
.rusalem early this morning while
a solitary bagpiper skirled a
Scottish lament, With him went
the last of Britain’s long manda
' tory rule of the Holy City.
. A company of Highland Light
Infantry was drawn up in the
‘spacious 'government gardens.
'The High Commissioner solemn
‘,ly shook hands with his officers
and entered his armor-plated car
for the drive to Kollandia Air
port, six miles away. :
Cunningham’s~ twin - engine
Royal Air Force Anson, escorfed
by Spitfires and Lancasters, ar
rived in Haifa shortly afterward.
(Continued on Page Two.)
et e e A ee e ———
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and not so warm to
night; Saturday fair and
little change in temperature.
GEORGIA—Fair and nos
so warm today and tonight;
Saturday, fair and mild.
‘ Extended forecsat, Georgia,
North and South ~Caroling,
for the :period beginning. at
7:30 p. m. tonight and.ends
ing at 7:30 p. m,, May 19th.
Temperatures = will ad
vance 3 to. 5 degrees above
normal. Mild Saturday, war
mer Sunday and Monday,
continued warm Tuesday aiid
Wednesday. ~Scattered light'
showers Monday. I e