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TRAIN WRECKKILLS SIX IN ENGLAN D
Passenger coaches lie on their sides at Wath-On-Dearne, Eng., after the express
train went off the tracks at a speed estmated at 50 miles-per-hour. Six people
were killed and scores injured.
Arabs Claim 80-Percent
0f Old Walled Holy City
Within the old city in Jerusalem May 21— ( AP)—The
end of a four-day-old battle for old walled Jerusalem
seemed to be in sight today.
Arabs claimed lasy night that their forces controlled 80
per cent of the old city, seized by their forces or abandon
ed by the Jews.
NLRB Rules Qut
Union Elections
In Nineteen States
WASHINGTON, May 21—(AP).
—The National Labor Relations
Board ruled today that it can not
hold union shop elections in 19
states which have bans or regu.
laticns covering the subject.
The Board issued an adminiss
trative order making the ruling.
It is based on a majority opinion
of three of its five members,
The agency said the Taft-
Hartley Act “in effect removes all
tederal restrictions upon existing
and future state legislation pro
hibiting compulsory unionism
even where such legislation may
affect employees engaged in in
terstate commerce.”
The Taft-Hartley law bans the
“closed shop” but allows a union
shop if a majority of workers
vote for it. '
In a closed shop, only union
members can be hired. In a union
shop, the management may hire
a non-union man but he must
join the union after his eniploy
ment.
The NLRB had no estimate of
the number of workers Wwho
would be unable to obtain union
shop elections under the ruling.
The states are Arizona, Ar
kansas, Coloradd, Delaware, Flor
ida, Georgia, lowa, Kansas,
Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraksa,
New Hampshire, North Carolina,
North Dekota, South Dakota, Ten
nessee, Texas,, Virginia and Wis
consin,
~ The Board issued its decision
in a case which ran into the Vir
ginia state regulations on union
shap elections. It involved the
Giant Food Shopping Center,
Inc, and local 1501 of the retail
Clerks International Association,
(AFL)
i d
Eerit Food has a cbamac;{{ efc(l)oa
stores The clerks union e
union’ shop eleci}lon for' e dinta
trict of Columbia and ing
stores,
Ross Madden, Baltimore region
al director of the ULBR, refused
to hold an election on grounds it
would conflict with Virginia law.
His position was upheld by
NLRB members James J. Rey
nolds, jr, Abe Murdock, and J.
Copeland Gray.
Chairman Paul M. Herzog and
John M. Houston dissented. They
szid they believed the Board has
legal right to hold the election,
but that as an administrative
question they would be inclined
to agree with the majority.
The three majority members—
Reynolds, Murdock and Gray—
said the Taft-Hartley Act and its
legislative history make it clear
that it was “the intent of Con
gress to leave to the exclusive
Jurisdiction of the states the pro
hibition of union agreements to
the extent that prohibition in
this respect now exists or may
hereafter exist in such states.”
RABBIT SEASON
ATLANTA, May 21 -—(1\5):3“5
Georgians are to ‘hunt ;5 i
only from N%v. 1} to tFeP.
eight is the ha git,
lgShutch \lvas thi &mofié ;:;mtl}:
State Game and, Fish ot
sion yesterday, Director s
Elliot said foxes and "fiurllmn_
have been getting so many it
bies that the' season bag 58
had been set to avoid killthg
Cottontails out, '
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Eull Associated Press Service
The Jewish Haganah and Irgun
Zvai Leumi had been driven back
to a thin defense line along the
west side of the Jewish quarter.
Midway of that line, they were
holed up for a last stand in the
Beit Yaacov or Hurva (Ruin)
Synagogue, in a spot where Jews
have worshipped for 700 years
and two earlier temples have
been destroyed.
- The Jews withdrew int, that
Synagogue yesterday with Arab
capture of the Tiferet -Israel Syn
‘agogue, Jerusalem’s tallest
structure, to the east..
King Abdullah’s Trans-Jordan
Arab Legion was at 'their backs
threatening to bloek escape. The
Legion had most of the American
quarter; westof the Jewish section.
It was reported unofficially ‘in
firm control of Zion Gate just
below that quarter in the south
ernmost of Jerusalem’s 400-year
old walls.
Legionnaires on the gate trad
ed automatic weapon fire yester
day with Jews in a school on
Mount Zion a few score yards
away. fr
A delayed dispatch from Car
ter L. Davidson of the Associated
Press in the Jewish area of Je
rusalem said that when 100 young
Jews penetrated Zion Gate Wed
nesday, it was the first time in
almost 500 years the city walls
had been forced. The dispatch
was dated Wednesday. The Jews
went in to reinforce defenders of
the Jewish quarter,)
Continue Drive
In the new city outside the
vralls, the Legion had thrust from
the northern limits down Ramzl
- Road t, the Damascus gate
on the north side of the old city
and last night was trying to
clear the Jews from Allenby
Square opposite the gate.
West of there Legion gunners
pushed back Jewish defenders
from the north side of the MEA
Shearim quarters, including cen
tral prison, the Law Courts, the
Russian Cathedral and the Abys
sinian church.
2 FIFTH-GRADERS STEAL PLANE;
FLY 120-MILE PERFECT FLIGKT
OKLAHOMA, CITY, May 21—
(AP) — Two fifth-graders who
studied flying in comic books
confessed to the State Patrol last
night they piloted a stolen plane
almost to Texas.
“There is not doubt about it,”
the patrol said.
The plane was a two-place er
coupe with simplified qontrols
advertised as nearly fool-proof.
“They said it was easy”,
trooper Arch Hamilton said.
“They’d looked at some comic
books that told all about. it. They
thought we were silly not to
know how.
“They made a perfect ianding.”
Astonished at the 120-mile
flight — air distance — almost
drowned out talk of a juvenile
court hearing tomorrow morning.
“It’s incredible . . . I am as
tonded. This is more than meré
mischief,” one of the fathers, at
torney P. Bodard, said.
The grade-school aviators are
Jiramy Bodard, 11, and Robert
Ronald Peterson, 12. Both Fami-
Jies are prominent here. Robert,
the largest, weighs 85 pounds.
Troopers cracked the case
when all evidence pointed to an
Sixteen More Join
Chamber; Two
Firms Boost Dues
Evidencing the increasing
interest in the Chamber of
Commerce, sixteen business
and profesional men have
joined the trade organization,
and two firms have increased
their dues, according to Rob
ert R. Gunn, publicity chair
man for the beody.
Increasing their dues, Mr.
Gunn said, were Whitmire
Furniture Company and Bern
stein Funeral Home.
Joining the- Chamber were
Eddie 1. Hale, R. E. Braneh, jr.,
Dr. John A. Simpson, William
C. Hartman, Matthews Auto
Parts Company, Skinner’s
Radio Service., Burneit Auto
Service, Athens Auto Supply,
Bikson Motorcycle Company,
Healan’s Auto Body and Paint
Shop, B. C. Praither Coal Com
pany, Wier Coal Company,
Dillard Coal Company, The
Kroger Company, P. W. Mar
tin, jr., and Heyward Allen
Mbtor Company.
Roof Collapses,
Kills Six Miners
DANTE, Va.,, May 21.—(AP)—
Grim and sweat-streaked rescue
crews early today brought to the
surface the last of six miners
killed last night after a roof sec
tion collapsed in the Clinchfield
Coal Company’s No. 2 mine.
Tons of coal, earth and debris
buried the miners alive as they
worked in the mine tunnel four
nailes underground. There was no
explosion.
Mine Dispatcher J. M. Smith
said the ‘roof collapse simply
“blew the coal out and over the
men working near it.”
Four other miners, working
some 400 yards away in the cor
ridor, were injured, but only
slightly, in the accident. They
were brought from the shaft
about midnight after four hours’
entombment.
The dead were listed by Smith
as BEuris Astrid, Arnold Vickers,
Harold Park, Oakley Creger, Troy
Phillips, and a miner named Ras
nick. All were from the Dante
region. 3
Dante is in Russell county, near
the Dickingon county line, in
southwest Virginia.
unbelievable -but unescappble
conclusion, g
Jimmy and Robert played
hooky from schooi Monda |,
were reported missing the next
day. Tuesday night they were
picked up inthe little Western
Oklahoma town of Cheyene, due
west of here and 18 niiles from
the Texas Panhandle.. The told
a likely story of hiteh-hiking by
road, and Wednesday their folks
brought them back home.
Plane Abandoned
But yesterday the Sheriff of
Roger Mills county found the er
coupe abandoned in a field eight
miles northwest of Cheyenne.
Inspectors from the CAA
traced the number to Ted Goller,
former ercoupe dealer at the
downtown airport "her. It hadn’t
been seriously missed. : =
“I kneav it waz gone but I
thought Goller had it out,” said
Bob Fitzgerald, assistant airpark
manager .
Sgt. Otis Haltom and trooper
Arch Hamilton took the case and
linked the two cheyenne inci
dents. ’
“When we put it to them they
(Continued On Puge Six)
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1948.
17 Arrests Made
But Speediig
Reports Continue
Athens Police continue their
crack-down on speedsters, rack
less and drunken drivers here
with 17 cases against such viola
tions made this week.
Judge Olin Price, City Recor
der, is meting out sentences rang
ing for monetary penalties of
$15.75 for speeding to S2OO for
drunken driving, to revocation of
the drivers permit in cases in
volving reckless driving and 180
days inthe city stockade for
driving while under the influ
ence of alcohol. &
However, reports from tribu
tary streets thre¢ghout the city
indicate that speeding has not’
subsided in those areas toc any
great degree. No reports have
been made by former violation
observers saying that speeding
“hot” areas have been relieved.
A resident of the 200 block of
Barber street yesterday volunta
’rily conducted a traffic survey
in that area. He reports that he
clocked cars between the hours
of 3 p. m., and 7 p m., observing
continued speeding practices.
“During the entire time I watch
ed cars on the street,” he stated,
“] did not see one policeman,
either on a motorcycle or on
{foot.”
A Dougherty street resident
living on the hill behind the post
office reports that “thrill-drivers”
‘make a practice of racing up
Dougherty, “jumping over the
top of the hill.” The observer
said further that a person back
ing out of one of the parking
places in rear of the post office
“would not have a chance” if a
“thrill.driver” were approaching
behind him.
Make It a Speedway
From a lady living on East
Broad street came the report that
taxis, trucks, and passenger cars
make a speed-way out of that
street. Saying that she has a
three-year-old child, the woman
stated that she cannot let him
rlay in the front yard because of
the traffic. “There are a lot of
other children who live on the
block, too,” she concluded.
A woman, spezking for “ten
other persons” called yesierday
to say that Baxter street, be
tween Cloverhurst and Lumpkin,
was an ‘“incessant race track.”
She added, however, that the
speed situation was at its worst
when students are going to n%
from classes in the mornings and
evenings.
A Hancock avenue resident,
living in that section on the west
side of Pulaski, stated that pas
senger cars, and trucks speed
down that street 21l during the
day, She also said that motorists
have “utter disregard” for the
stop sign at the intersection of
Pulaski and Hancock, making
that corner very dangerous.
«Hot-rods” and “souped.up”
old cars are making Oglethorpe
avenue dangerous for everyone
in that area, according to a res
ident of that street. The obser
ver reported that the “racers” do
most of their speeding in that‘
area between the hours of 4:00
and 6:00 o'clock in the evening.
Mayor Urges Support
OF VFW Poppy Sales
Mayor Jack R. Wells today
gave his whole-hearted support
to the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Buddy Poppy Campaign which
will be held here on Saturday,
May 22.
In explaining his reason for
backing the campaign, Mayor.
Wells stated:
“The wonderful things that the
V.F.W. is doing with the proceeds
from the annual Buddy Poppy
Sale more than warrant a gen
erous contribution from each
member of this community. The
prompt help given to our disabled
and needy veterans, the magnifi
cent care given the orphans and
widows of our honored war dead,
the fostering of true American
ism—these are some of the high
ly commendable things being
done by the V.F.W. through our
unselfish support of the Buddy
Poppy Sale. &
“When we buy our Buddy Pop
pies on May 22,7 continued
Mayor Wells, “we may give
heartfelt thanks that in this small
but important way, we are able
to honor that everlasting debt of
gratitude we owe those courag
eous men who were ready to give
their lives at a time when our na
tion' could not -survive without
them. Hundreds of thousands did
give their lives, and those men we
cannot forget!”
In .concluding his endorsement
of the Buddy Poppy Campaign,
Mayor Wells emphasized: “It is
my sincere hope, and my belief
that our people will distringuish
themselves by showing our neigh
boring communities that we here
in Athens are ardent supporters
of such a worthy cause— that we
have not forgotten!”
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and warmer tonight
and Saturday.
GEORGIA—Fair and slight
ly warmer today, tonight and
Saturday.
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DUTCH PALACE RAVAGED BY FiRE
Hastily-mohilibed zoldiers, civilians and firemen rescued many pieces of fine furni
ture and valuable paintings from Queen Wilhelmina’s Noordeinda Palace at the
Hague, Netherlands. The central portion of the palace was gulted by a raging
fire.
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Directs Psychologists Conven
tion here. See story on page 4.
Escaped Convicts
Sought In Murder
GREENVILLE, May 21—(AP)
—Two Cobb County road gang
escapees were sought by police
today as the possible slayers of
Buddie Hart, 40-year-old cross
road storekeeper.
The pair escaped from a work
camp near Marietta Wednesday.
Hart was killed Wednesday night.
A coroner’s jury yesterday
found that Hart “came to his
death at the hands of a party or
parties unknown.”
Sheriff C. H. Collier of Meri
wether county said no arrests
have been made. He added that
he believed robbery was the mo
tive for the slaying. A walleg
containing $862 was found on
Hart’s body, but two other wal
lets he wag known to carry were
missing. - |
ATHENS TEXTILE EMPLOYE T 0 TAKE
FREE PLANE TRIP TO CALIFORNIA
Q. D. Drake, an employe of
the Athens Manufacturing Com
pany in the slashing department
has his eye on the calendar these
days because with arrival of the
week of July 5-10, he will board
an airplane for a free trip to
California where ne will spend
his vacation, drawing his pay
from the mill' throughout the
period he devotes to recreation
and rest. -
~ The trip t 6 the West is a gift
to Mr. Drake from a relative
who resides in California..
Mr. Drake is one of several
hundred employes of the mill
who will again be given a week’s
vacation with pay, the board of
directors this week having ap
proved the plan which involves
an expenditure of upwards of
$13,000 by the mill, it was an
nounced today by D. D. Quillian,
general manager.
In approving the plan to give
the emprioyes fime off with their
pay continuing through their va
cation, the board of directors set
July sth, the day following Inde
pendence Day, a holiday, as the
beginning of the pericd.
Mr. Quillian was very much
pleased that business has made
it possible for the board of direc
tors to again approve a vacation
Oregon Votes Today On
Fates Of Stassen, Dewey
PORTLAND, ORE., May 21— (AP)—Gev. Thomas E.
Dewey and Harold . Stassen came to an end of the Ore
gon political trail today in their race for Oregen’s Repub
lican Presidential favor. ' :
- It was a photo finish to a furious and sometimes Acri
monious three weeks of campaigning. ;
Neither the New Yorker nor
the Minnesotan was bold enough
to claim wvictory in advance of
today’s woting,.
As polls opened at 8 a. m,
overcast but generally favorable
weather was in prospect through
out the state.
As a consequence, a record
turnout was indicated. Republi
can registration was at an all
time high of 822,490, of which
65 or 80 per cent were expected
to cast ballots before poll closing
time at 8 p. m.
Both Dewey and Stassen were
pinning a large share of their
presidential hopes on the out
come—the last direct president
ial" preference primary before
the Republican party nominates
a standard bearer at Philadel
phia next month,
Both brought their campaigns
to a close last night in Portland.
For the past 20 days they have
criss-crossed Oregon from border
to border in unprecedented per
sonal campaigns in which each
spoke to an estimated 100,000
persons.
Portland’s downtown business
section last night resounded to
the blare of bands and was lit
by red flares ag Stassen sup
porters paraded through the
streets in a campaign finals.
~ Both” candidates took to the
radio in last appeals to the vot
ers. .
with pay for the personnel and
expressed the hope that econom
ic conditions in the future will
permit the mill to continue the
practice.
“The plan is the same as last
year,” Mr. Quillian’s announce
ment stated, “s;nd employes who
have been continuously employed
by the Company for a period of
one year ending March 31, 1948,
and who have regularly per
formed the duties in connection
with work assigned to them
throguhout the year will receive
a week’s vacation with pay, pro
vided he or she qualifies under
the Company’s continued service
policy.”
Mr. Quillian was particularly
pleased that the ‘announcement
could be made “well in advance
of the vacation period so that
the employes will have ample
time to arrange for a pleasant
vacation.”
UN FORCE
LAKE SUCCESS, May 21 —
(AP) — The American-French-
Belgian Consular Truce Coim
mission reported from Jerusalem
tnday that nothing short of
United Nations force could stop
fighting in the Holy City.
A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 5¢
Both Sides See
Victory In Row
Over Truman Veto
WASHINGTON, May 21—(AP)
—Both sides predicted victory
today in a Senate fight over
President Truman’s veto of a
bill to let qualified Senators call
for FBI reports on top atomic
officials.
Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa)
said he was confident the Senate
weuld override the veto and
send the bill on to the House
Senator McMahon (D-Conn)
predicted flatly that the Presi
dent would be upheld.
Mr. Truman, in vetoing the
measure last Saturday, called it
“an unwarranted encroachment
of the legislative upon the exe
cutive branch.” The bill passed
the Senate and House without
a recorded vote in either cham
ber.
Hickenlooper said he had not
tried to poll the Senate but felt
sure he could enlist the two
thirds maojrity needed to overw
ride. a
Preliminary debate late yes=«
terday split pretty much along
party lines, but McMahon said
he didn’t think the {final vote
would follow that pattern,
Acting Maority Leader Wherry
of Nebraska engineered an
agfeement to shut off debate at
2:30 p. m. (EST) today and vote
on whether to override the voto.
The veto message was called
up late yesterday. To dispose of
it, the Senate laid aside a bill
to authorize the admission of dis
placed persons.
That bill appeared likely to go
over until Monday, since Wherry
said the Agriculture Department
apropriation for the fiscal year
starting July 1 would be called
up affér the vote on the veto.
Knowland’s bill would pro
vide for an FBI investigation of
Presidential appointees to the
Atomic Energy Comission or to
its general managership. All
other employees — that is, those
who do not require Senate con
firmation — are now subject to
such a check.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, May 21—(AP)
—Movie writers John Howard
Lawson and Dalton Trumbo
were each sentenced to a year
in jail and fined SI,OOO today for
contempt of Congress.
Federal District Judge David
A, Pine sentenced Trumbo,
script writer of “30 Seconds
Over Tokyo.” Judge Edward M.
Curran imposed the penalty on
kawson. auther of such films as
Smashup” and “Blockade.”
" LOCAL COTTON %
1-INCH MIDDLING .... % 1.24
Favorable Vole
Seen On Accepling.
Company Pay Raise
CHICAGO, May 21 — (AP)+—
An end of the 67-day old na+
tionwide meat strike @t most of
the maj(i:r packing plants appears
ed imminent today.
The ClO United-Packingouse
Workers union strike director
predicted that the rank and file
vote on proposals to end the long
work stoppage —on company
terms—will favor immediate re
turn to all plants except ‘Wilson
and Company, i e
Locals across the country last
night voted by secret ballot on
the settlement proposals to end
the strike, which has been mark
ed by violence at several-live«
stock centers. Results were ex
pected to be announced today. at
the union’s national headquartérs
here. ‘o T o
Herbert March, . directing _the
strike of some 100,000 CIO. works
ers who quit their jobs Match 16
after a dispute over wages; said
the wunion had recommended
strikers to vote against returning
to work at Wilson, one of the
major packers. He predicted ' the
vote would be close for return-~
ing to wcrk at plants :operated
by three other major pßElte}fS,
Swiit, Cudahy and - Armour, ,-.
- The strikers voted on the acw
ceptance of a nine-cent hourly
wage increase, retroactive to the
March 16 strike call; retention of
all seniority rights, and arbitra~
tion with the company on possi
ble discharge of workers accused
o 1 unlawtul acts during the pro
longed work stoppage:_.
The nine cents ‘and hour pay
boost was -the o;;ximlw&
made_by the packers . and
had been récommended ‘by a
presidential - fact-finding board.
The union, which has demanded
a boose of 29 cents an hour, re
jected the original offer. It had
been :Qccepted by AFL and in
‘dependent union . workers, who
rémained on the jab’ =~ .
17 Initiated
Into Gridiron
Gridiron, University honor so
ciety, yestéerday initiated eight
honorary members and nine
students into its ranks in tradi
tional fashion, beginning at Cos<
tas at 6:00 o’clock and terminat
ing with a banquet at the Geor
gian Hotel. 7
The initiations featured horse=
play inflicted upon the coe%
fledglings during which they i
dulged in street dancing, ‘'speak
ing and singing, )
Outstanding Georgia men in
itiated as honorary members in
cluded: -
Judge Joe Quillian, Winder,
Mayor Lewis B. Wilson, Macon,
W. K. Jenkins, < president of
Georgia Theatres, Atlanta, Comp-=
troller General Zack Cravey, At~
lanta, Foster B. Broadway, k
con, Dean Alvin B." Biscge.
H. R. Smith, of the Collegesof
Business Admipistration, Snd™¥,
Fredrick Kennedy, Augusta, ..
Students initiated were:
Lawrence .Crimmings, %&cgn.
Fuller Pedrick, Quitman, W, .C,
Lloyd, Gainesville, Alfred Lae
nier, .Savannah, Upshaw Bent~
ley, Athens, Harry Wingafi,‘ael
ham, William Holland, ' Albany,
Hubert Griest, Rabun Gap, and
Harold Clarke, Forsythe. |l%.
YEAR-OLD MURDER
CASE UNCOVERED
ATLANTA, May 21 fi-(M'f;"d&
A statement by an acéused aufo
mobile thief that he and a-coms
panion beat a young south'Geor=
gien and left him for deéad'Veside
a highway in-February, 1947, sent
officers on a frantic search for
the body today between Waycross
and Tifton, :
Federal Bureau of Investigae
tion agent in charge - Rdwin .
Foltz, said that = John Howard
Long, 23, of Aquome, N. C., made
a statement that the missing:man
was beaten, robbed and thrown
from his car after he picked up
Long and a companion at. Jacks
scnville, ¥Fla. : WAR
The missing man, William E.
Edwards, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs,
G. W, Edwards of Cordele, has
not been heard from since; < *
Foltz said it was the recbvery
in Los Angeles, Calif.; of a, 1940
Pilymouth cedan which belonged
to Edwards’ brother and’ in-which
the missing man was last seen,
th=t{ led to the arrest of Lgnfl
Foltz said that Long identified
James Daniel Pressley-25, of
Acuome, as his'companion in {ke
robbery and beating. . Pressiey
wos arrested May 15 in Aguome.
T.ong was picked up 'twe days
later in Ventura, Calif. Both men
have been charged with violating
the Federal Vehicle Theft Act
by traveling from- Cordele o
Santa Ana, Calif.,, in the _stolen
Flymouth. TR