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Newspaper Page TextHOME Vol. CXVI, No. 114, Livestock Rush, Lower Meat Prices Foreseen CHICAGO, May '22 — (AP) — The CIO meat handlers strike was over at most plants through out the country today and in dustry sources forecast this good Lews for housewives: m 1 __ Meat supplies " probably will start spurting next week as some livestock believed held back on farms is shipped to market. Gy s_The additional supplies may result in lower retail prices. There are somie “ifs” in the price outlook—the principal one being how strong a demand for meat develops. Even if receipts at livestock markets boom Mon day, it will be a week or 10 days pefcre these additional ' meat supplies reach the nation’s butcher shops in volume. The prices of meat on the hoof and on the butcher’s shelves have been heading in opposite directions since the strike start ed March 16. Live cattle and hog prices have been tending down ward because the strike reduced the capacity for slaughtering and butchering the animals. This decreased the demand, men in the industry say. In the retail markets, prices have edged gen erally ahead because demand was strong for the smaller than normal meat supplies. Although the strike never caused any important meat shortages throughout the coun try, weekly meat production was only from 75 to 85 per cent of IJ«II‘IHSI. 3 Summer Slump However, the longer term out look for meat supplies is not so bright. Meat production normai ly slumps during the summer months. The meat packers say the blacklog of farm supplies that was damned up by the strike could keep them running at high capacity for two or three weeks. | the CIO United Packinghousei Workers union called off its strike yesterday against Swift, | Armour and Co., but continu ed it against Wilson & Co. The strikers accepted the nine cents an hour wage boost they reject-I ed before leaving their jobs. 1 The strike settlement spread today to the Kinghan and Com-I pany plant ‘at Indianapolis, | where some 2,300 production workers accepted the nine cents boost. : However, the union continued its strike agajnst the Rath Pack ing Plant at Waterloo, la., and against the Morrelll Packing plant at Ottuwa, la. The Na-‘ tional Guard still is on duty at‘ the Rath plant where a picket was slain Wednesday. i Troops Withdrawn | National Guardsmen were wthdrawn from' south St. Paul, Minn,, scene of picket disorders.’ Wilson & To., one of she “big four” packers which employes about 8000 this® time of year, charged the union today with fraud and misrepresentation in polling Wilson employes ‘on the question of ending the strike. The company challenged the union to sound -out - sentiment among Wilson workers in a back-to-work poll to be conduct ed by some government agency. Richard C. Winkler, Wilson’sl labor relations attorney, madel the proposal in a letter to Ralph Helstein, union president. Wink-' ler said the company had evi dence the proposal never was submited to the workers. | Helstein replied to Winkler charging Wilson with “misrepre sentation, half-truths and com gﬁg}y erroneous statements ol BAPTIST PARLEY ' ‘ MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 22 — (AP) — Southern Baptists chal ed their ancient foe—alcohol— loday as they completed thke I)usmess sessions of their 9llst annual convention. Lo Slow COZ”IU'” Bre DEWEY INCREASES LEAD OVER STASSEN IN OREGON PRIMARY PORTLAND, Ore, Way 22— (AP)—Gov. Thomas ‘E. ‘Dewey of New York, gradually building up his lead over Harcld E. Stas en, today seemed. the probable Winner” of the Oregon Republi tan presidential primary. In 1.196 of 1,961 precincts, the New Yorker was 6,602 votes in front—sß,3B3 to 51,781—0 n the Unofficial count. Counting was slow in populous Multnomah (Portland) county Where many state and local is- LUes were on yesterday’s ballot, but Dewey was moving ahead there »g e€Xpected, . Stassen, seeking to add Oreg_on to his Wisconsin-Nebraska vic tory: string, was regarded in pre €lection estimates as holding "his Ereatest strength in upstate Ore ~Oni—the districts remote from bortland — byt Dewey ‘had his biggest majority in Josepfine ;1;101 (I)(lamath counties of South- N Oregon. There the governor an in front, 3.t0 2—better than ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associate<’ Oress Service [ m——e, T —— A R % v::-—:;‘- ‘9o’.\\‘. 3 ‘——‘:—.—vmwwb <~ PR s W N Lt o “ SRS B a 3 \\\ wesid o v ; R et SR W . % ahe Y i o ; e i ‘_g con gl » }eR:. i L 3 8 | Ly i 1 Cac it ' i vl t § o . 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S. representative in Palestine, Wasson, 52, was wounded “gravely” by a sniper as he brawed gunfire in the streets in trying to arrange cease fire agreement between Arabs and Jews, the State Department reported. This official account was giv= en: A memher of the three-man United National Security Coun cil' Truce Commission, Wasson was returning on foot from a meeting of the group at the French Consulate. Just outside the American consulate, a .30 caliber bullet from an unidentified sniper felied him. After first aid treatment, he was taken in an armored ambu lance to the Hadassah English mission' hospital. There doctors gave him better than an even chance to recover. . The bullet passed through his right arm and chest. Herbert M. Walker, member of a ' Naval ‘communications . unit which maintains a radio link be tween Jerusalem and Washing ton, was hit by machine gun bul lets near the Consulate General in a separate incident. Walker, - 27, ‘is a Navy Chief Engineer and a native of Moun tainsburg, Ark. A third member of the consu late staff, which numbers about 60, Thomas Gannon, a guard, meanwhile - was reported out of danger from a wound received May 14. He was shot in the Bao.. . ; i The shootings appeared likely (Continuc’ on Page Two.) his 4 to 3 margin on Multnomah county’s incomplete report. The two were neck-and-neck in many counties. Dewey was in front in 20 of the 38 at the three quarter precinct mark; Stassen ahead in 15 and in one they were tied. ; The trend, however, was un changed from the early start when the New York governor moved out in front. Early today Stassen whittled the margin a trifle, then ‘Dewey moved back into a greater — although still slender—lead, as the count con tinued. ! Election officials said it would be late tonight before reasona bly complete returns could be expected—and it might be to morrow moraning. The winner takes all 12 of Oregon’s Republican convention delegates as well as the prestige and influence of the last con tested preferential primary be fore the nomination takes place. RED LEATHERS Retirnig President "The Merry Widow” Fine Arfs May 25, 2 ine Arts May 25, 26 Franz Lehar’s operetta, *‘The Merry Widow,” will be presented it Fine Arts Auditorium, Tues day and Wednesday, May 25 and 26, by the University of Georgia Music Department, under the direction of Hugh Hodgson. Cur tain time is 8:15 p. m. Frances Hodgson, soprano, Athens, will sing the title roll as the Merry Widow, with James Griffeth, baritone, Athens, sing ing the male lead as Prince Dan ilo. Charming in music, intriguing in lines and situation, “The Mer ry Widow” proved a reigning fa. vorite when produced both abroad and in New York, Opening in Dealy’s Theater, London, the ope retta played 778 consecutive timeés and in New York, 242 times. The story of the operetta con cerns a beautiful young widow living in gay Patee. She lis quite a catch not merely because of her looks, but also because of an inheritance of 20 million francs. Plans are made for Sonia, the widow, to marry Danilo, a prince from her own country of Marsovia, in order to keep the inheritance in her native iand The plot entangles when the spirited young widow decides she will marry for love rather than by selection. % ) Among the most memorable selections of musie from the ope retta is the classic “Merry Widow Waltz” . and “Vilia.” Also, the tneful “Gay Paree” will be sung by Jean “Sonny Boy” Jen. kins, who plays the comic Nisch. The production features a com pany of 100 students, with the cast eand chorus composed of se lect voices from the .Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, under the direction of Byron Warner.: Mu sic is by the University Little Symiphony Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Hodgson, Staging is di rected by Leighton Ballew, with cet design and construction by the Drama Department. A colorful scene occurs i~ the third act when the operetta takes vou to, Maxim’s. a gay French case, where the floor show feat. ures a traditional French Can- Can. The Ceg-Can girls are: Jane Schneider. Joy Smith, Jean Kim herly, Betty Carroll, Frances Swanson, Jo Anne Durrance, (Continued on Page Two.) ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1948 . W : s » R St » 1 s ”Ww» 3 By . » A (v 80l TR W v- 1'14." o i & 5 TR e : € '8 o =~ R ¢ s . 4 4 : | v ;‘. V . : 3 "v;; A E o { Sy 4 & ey 2 b S 2 &% R W LAI w 8 20D AN e 2 S ’ ~’“ o~ Y : ¢.( } = 3 e VTEERS:. N- & i 5 : " oo s 3 s .t s e “ N L 3 % i S " ﬁa S @Rw wLB : G S K - . T R & ikl ST A Syrian soldier~ leaps a wall during Arab attack' on the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem’'s old walled city, (Photo by David S, Boyer, NEA-Acme staff correspondent,) Fai : ain Slaughter Elected Touchdown Club Prexy Fain Slaughter was elected president of the Athens Touchdown Club Friday night, succeeding outgoing prexy Red Leathers. Slaughter wgs elected by a landslide vote and headed the election of officers for the club’s 1948 program. The elections preceded a fine barbecue at Frank McElreath’s place which was attended by some 150 touchdowners. Ed Downs was elected vice president, Evans Johnson, treas urer and Jimmie Hayes Secre tary. ’ Four new board members were also installed: J. B. Alexander, Harvey Cabaniss, Gordon Dua ley. and Cornelius Vason. The new president acrevted his appointment saying that he hoped that the memcersnip o. the club could be boosted to 250 members by the énd of the year. Retiring president Leathers thanked the club members for their cooperation during the past season, and praised Wally Butts for his work last season, Leathers said: “We have here the finest football coach in the nation. I know, ‘cause I've seen 'em all.” All sthe members were in hearty agreement with this Lewis Reveals Pension Report WASHINGTON, May 22— (AP)—John L. Lewis made pub lic today a pension expert’s re port which concluded that the present 10-cents-at-ton royalty on coal could pay 60-year-old mineis SIOO a month and still leave a $210,000,000 fund at the end of 10 years. The report was prepared by Murray =W. Latimer, former cliairman of the U. S. Railroad Retirement Board, who was ask ed by the United Mine Workers Union to make a study. It attack ed a study in the same field by a firm of Philadelphia actuaries hired by Ezra Van Horn, the soft coal operators’ trustee. For that reason the report was useful to Lewis as part of his word battle with the operators. But it could hardly be used to bolster any move for an increase in the 10 cents royalty in forth coming contract negotiations. Plans Being Mapped For Annual Dot Philpot Dance Revue Here The Dot Philpot Dance Revue, annual Y. M. C. A, benefit show sponsored by the Athens Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held Thursday evening, June 3, at 8:00 p. m. in Fine Arts Audi torium, according to J. W. Matthews, president of the local Jaycees. Admission to the affair is 35 cents for children and 75 cents for adults, and all proceeds will be turned over to the Athens Y. M. C. A. for scholarship “Y” memberships. “In the past,” said Mr. Matthews, “we have been over-whelmed by attendance at the Revue, and this year we anticipate a greater show and a greater attendance.” A cast of 60 children will be featured in the performances which are expected to be worthy and very entertaining. The Revue is zm;tsr of several civic projects the local Jaycees have undertaken, and as othﬁ of their projects have been, the Revue is something special, aifl well worth seeing. statement and gave Coach Butts a vote of confidence for the com=- ing season. Attention was also called to the fact that all TDC members, who are acting alumni, will be mailed forms for ordering tickets for next fall's games. Their orders will be given alumni pri ority. ! Retiring officers were Abit Nix, vice-president, and Tom Tillman, Secretary, Fain Slaugh ter was treasurer last year. The annual TDC barbecue was prepared by Ed Ware and was throughly enjoyed by all those present. The evening’s activities ad journed with the by word being a great season this fall for the Bulldogs. Gandhi Slayers Face Trial Soon NEW DELHI, India, May 22.— (AP) — The =alleged triggerman and eight co-defendants accused of engineering the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi are ex pected to go on trial for their lives next week in historic Red Fort here. The exact day the trial will be gin is still secret, presumably because the government fears an outbreak of riots or disturbances such as marked the period im mediately after Gandhi’s assas sination on January 30. Security forces are taking elaborate precautions to prevent any attempt to deliver N. V. Godse, obscure Poona newspa per editor, and his eight co-de fendants, or shoot them down in court or otherwise silence them. The great stone fort built by a Mogul Emperor and once the home of be-jewelled Moslem rulers will be cordoned off com pletely. Security guards will be posted everywhere about the high towered walls whose half mile circumference encioses pal aces, shrines and military build- AR R s o e e g i ey ..n.-«.rr w a 9 \ i . 3 : ’Uu"\r Y o S 0 R R o W;:¥Jb3 X 5 1 Y b AN 3 R e 5 S ¥ § N i aB, ‘M‘“ & I'y‘!"' R M ﬁ.& b By ol i 0 . 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Chairman Gur ney (R.SD) refused to comment, but it was learned that he has been checking the committee members on this point, Under the new proposal 18 year olds would be allowed to volunteer for one year of service. After that they would have to serve four years as members of the National Guard or other re serve units with regular drill pe riods and summer training camps or cruises. Men from 19 through 25 years old would be subject to drafting for two years. Army, navy and air force lead ers have estimated that they will get 250,000 volunteers for the one-yeer training program, far more than the 161,000 who were to have been drafted. House Speaker Martin (R- Mass) last week announced that the House would not accept any scheme for drafting 18-year-olds as provided in the Senate bill. The latest Senate move, as re ported, brings its bill closer in line with 3 House measure which calls for drafting men 19 through 25 years with registration of those 18 through 30 years. The Senate bill limits registration to 12 through 25. The House bill may be taken up during the next week. It is listed for consideration as soon as the Senate acts on a pending farm money bill and a measure to admit 100,000 European dis placed persons. WEATHER — P 1 .. f MpMW ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and warmer today - and Monday. , . GEORGIA—Fair to mod erately cool Sundcy. Monday continued fair and warmer, | JEWISH FORCES 'CONTINUE FIGHT 'FROM OLD TUNNELS LAKE SUCCESS, ‘May 22 — (AP) — The Security Council failed tonight t, accept an Amer. ican-Russian demand for strong United Nations action to stop the Palestine war, | Instead, it ssucd its second de mand on Archs and Jews to rease fire. It fixed a deadling at 35 hours after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, tonight. The final vote on g much amended resolution was approv ed, 8 to 0. Syria, Russia end the Soviet Ukraine abstained. The question of the U. N. using force really was decided, however, when the Security Coun cil did not approve the United States demand. that preliminary vote was 5 to 0 with six nations abstaining.. 4 Before the final vote, taken at 6:26 p. m,, E. S. T., Warren R. Austin U. S, delegate, served no tice the U. 8. will cail for further action if this 36-hour cease fire order is not observed. ! Meanwhile, waves of Jewish soldfersl charged; ArahjLegion po sitions in the Zion Gate today but failed to reach their comrades hemmed into a corner of Jeru salem’s old walled city, The Legionnaires from Trans- Jordan and 600 tiohps of Israel fought at close quarters with grenades and tommyguns on a battleground lit by flares and a bright spring moon| Several times the Jews swept up to the walls on the south side of the old city only to be thrown back. Some of them attempted to climb over the wall from the top of an armored bus whicn was used like an ancient assault tower, : Wireless SOS A Legion commander said the Jewish attack was inspired by a wireless SOS in which the hard (Continueg On Page Two) — Theater Improvements COMPLETE NEW FRONT IS T 0 BE CONSTRUCTED AT THE PALAGE . Work will start at the Palace Theater Monday rounding out a program of improvements which has been under way at two other local theaters, for the past sev eral weeks. The improvement program at the Palace, however, will not inconvenience patrons or close the theater, according to Dan Hill, Athens representative for Georgia Theaters, Inc., oper ating the theaters here. Mr. Hill said that an entire new front will be instdlled at the Palace, complete with a_new marquee and a new inset attrac tion, board. The work will take six weeks to complete and the new front and improvements will do much to improve the looks of the street. Mathis Con struction Company is in charge of the work. Mr. Hill ssid that work has recently been completed at the Ritz Theater, where a new RCA Sound System was installed with high intensity lighting and a new daylight screen. Also installed % the Ritz was an American Air ashing anid Cooling System " LOCAL COTTON 7 1-INCH MIDDLING .... 39 3-8¢ A. B. C. Paper-Single Copy, o 6 Counter-Charges Fly In Thompson, Griffin Arcument ATLANTA, May 22 — (AP)— Acting Governor M E. Thompson refused to say today whether he will surrender his official title of lieutenant governor if he loses hig battle for the governorship this summer. Instead, Thompson fired a blast against former Adjutant General Marvin Griffin of Rain bridge, who asked the question. He accused Griffin of leading an il=- legal pre.dawn assault on the offices of former Governor Ellis Arnall during 1947's double-gov ernorship dispute. Replied Griffin: “I have too riuch respect for the office of governor to call Mr. Thompson a liar, but he is guilty of flagrant untruth,” Griffin said he quelled the Jan uary 15 riot instead of leading it, He said he gave Arnall full courtesy as protection as Arnayy’s adjutant general; and that Arnall himself complimented him (Grif fin) highly on his handling of the job, Griffin wrote Thompson this week inquiring -whether Thomp son: intends t, cling to the lieu tenant governorship if he loses the September 8 primary for governor, If Herman Talmadge should win the gubernatorial bat tle, and Thompson remain lieu tenant-governor Thompson would preside over the Senate during the talmadge administration. Announced Candidate Griffin already is an announc €d candidate for lieutenant-goy ernor ip the primary, Griffin contended the Consti tution required Thompson {o re sign as lieutenant-governor when he became 5 candidate for gov einor for the two-year unexpir ed term of the late Eugene Tal madge. The resignation would be effective when the new govern. or's term begins. Thompson’s reply almost ignor ed the question. He said merely “I shall abide by the Constitution and laws of Georgia,” but did not say whether he thought he was required t, resign. X ~ Griffin accused Thompson of “trying to put up a political smoke-screen to evade a polite }guestlon whiel? every citizen in Georgia is entitled to ask. Courage Chalienged “Mr. Thompson plans to hold the office of lieutenant governor while running for governor. He doesn’t have the courage to tell the people of Georgia he intends to remain lieutenant governor if he loses his race for governor.” Thompson’s letter to Griffin said: “At about 2 a. m. on the morn ing of Jenuary 15, 1947, you were still holding the commisgion as adjutant general from your com mander in chief, the governor of Georgia. Yet, at that hour, when the good people of Georgiag should have been 2sleep, vou and Roy Harris led a band of law violaiors int the executive office, beat ing in the doors, for the purpose of illegally and forcible installing en individual in the governor’s office. At that time, apparently, vou concerned vourself not at all as to what was legal or what wae right. g “Could it be that only a self ish and political motive now prompts you t, evidence a 7 con= cern as to what 1 may intend to do, even before I have had &n cpportunity to determine what is legal and what is right?"” RUSSIANS CHAKGE LONDON, May 22 — (AP)— Tass, the official Russian news agency, presenting ‘“the position of leading Soviet circles,” blam ed the United States tonight for the United Nations’ failure to control and reduce armaments. The statement was made in a unit, which not only makes the theater more comfortable for patrons, but aids in purifying the air and making the theater more germ-free. At the Strand Theater a sim=- ilar unit for washing and cool ing the air has recently been in stalled Mr. Hill said. ‘ “We believe that patrons of the Palace and Athenians gen erally will be pleased with the improvements to be made at the Palace and we have received many favorable comments from people attefiding the Ritz and Strand on the additional com forts provided at these theaters,” he said. “While these improvements, and especially those to be made at the Palace involve considera ble sums, Georgia Theaters feels that the expenditres invoived will be well justified by the re< sults in making the theater.much more up-to-date and modern ap pearing. The Palace, as was the case with the other two theaters where improvements have re (Continued on Page Two.)

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