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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON I_!NCB mDDIJNG s s e u. Vol. CXVI, No. 264. FREIGHT FMBARGO EXTENDED The rail embargo on export {reigcht was extended to all major East coast ports today as the dock workers' strike immobilized al most 200 ships. ; The Association of American Railroads placed a ban on nearls, all goods destined for oversea!sﬁ shipment out of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Hampton Roads, Va. This was an extension of the embargo clamped yesterday on freight moving to New York and Boston. i The ordinary week-end lull minimized the effects of the strike of some 65,000 longshoremen on its first official day. But the usually teeming water fronts were expected to be de serted Monday. Marshall plan shipments as well as ordinary commercial maritime business will be hit drastically if the walkout is a long one. A survey indicated these ships were tied up by the strike: Balti more 95, New York 52, Philadel phia 32, Boston 8 and Hampton Roads 3. Actually 202 vessels were idle in New York’s great port but cus toms officials indicated only 52 of these could bgeattributed to the stevedores’ walkout. : Expect No Development Joseph P. Ryan, president of the AFL International Longshore men’s Association, who called the strike for last midnight, said he expected no developments until Monday when two union meet ings are scheduled. One of the sessions will involve all AFL maritime unions. Ryan said yesterday the nec essity for the walkout was a “na tional calamity.” He called it after ILA members had voted by a large margin to reject a wage settlement negetiated .with ship ping operators by the uaion's Federal mediators got the par ties together after the union vote was announced, but the employers said they would not raise their 10-cents-an-hour = increase offer turned down by the ballots of the rank-and-file longshoremen, Boom Town The shutdown in U. S. Atlantic coast ports made a boom town out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Several trans-Atlantic liners were diverted there including the Mauretania and the Britannic of the Cunard White Star line and the Veendam of the Holland- America line. U. S. customs ofiicers were flown there to expedite handling of passengers. Special trains took travelers to and from New York. Foreign mail was piling up in New York, Postmaster Albert Goldman said 15 ships scheduled to take mail overseas had been held up. . The agreement rejected by the ck workers called for a hike in v shift straight-time pay from $1.75 to' $1.85 an hour, and in the night and week-end overtime rate from $2.62 1-2 to $2.77 1-2. Ryan said the union now was toing back to its original demand of a 50 cents an hour raise. - Mysterious Blast, . . Fire Kills Two TACOMA, Wash.,, Nov. 13— (AP)—An unexplained explosion, followed by fire killed two men and injured at least six others to day as the fast new Swedish mo torship Los Angeles prepared to sail for Europe. Ambulances and every avail able piece of Tacoma fire equip ment rushed to Port Tacoma pier No. 2 when the alarm ceme in at 10:32 a. m. Bluish smoke poured from the diesel-driven luxury ship, Queen Craft of the Swedish Johnson line and termed by her owners the fastest cargo vessel in the world. ATHENS AND VICINITY Clearing and mnot much change in temperature Sun day, GEORGIA — Increasing cloudiness Sunday, light showers Sunday afternoon or night, followed by partly cloudy weather Monday. No . important change in temper ature, TEMPERATURE Highest - ¢ e i o 8 Lowegt ...z 2apoins 00 oM Mean ..., 0 JiiaTie Normal ... 3l ia.aß -39 ‘RAINFALL Inches last 24 nours .. .. .03 Total since Nev, 1.. ... 2.38 Excess“since. Nov. 1... .. 1.15 Average Nov. rainfall ... 2.61 Total since January 1 ...50.82 Excess since January 1 .. 7.54 ATHENS BANNER-HERAILD Ships Caught In East Coast Strikes Columbus, O, Suffers Acute W ater Sbortage COLUMBUS 9., Nov. 13—(AP) — Water tr o > and gurgled slowly thr =he pipes of this city’'s wg tem today, three hours 2 roken main cut off servies xﬂghout Columbus. Ci’ ff ter offiicals restored lin g‘ service about 9:30 a. m. e A The break was by-passed © Jsmaller lines. e break produced the Ohio \ﬁtal’s worst water emergency since the 1913 flood. The area’s 500,000 citizens must get along with less water for two days un til the broken main can be repair ed. Soon after the 6 a. m. rupture of a 36-inch main serving the north and part of the east side, taps ran dry in homes, hospitals, restau rants and business establishments. Officials cut off all sections of the city until the break was located. The fire department immediate ly began hauling water from out side the city. It had only a few tanks and 18 cisterns for supplies in event of fire after the break. Fortunately, no fires broke out. SOUTH PLANS Southern Demos Will Fight Any Change In Senate Debate Rules WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.— (AP) —Southern Demo crats will filibuster if leaders try to change the Senate debate rules to help push any civil rights proposals through Congress. : ; : Death Takes Mrs. Meadow; Rites Mond ay Mrs. David W. Meadow, one of Athens’ moest beloved women, died in Atlanta Saturday morn ing following an illness of three days. She was 36 years old. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 11 a, m, from her residence at 585 Prince avenue, with Dr. J. W. O. Mec- Kibben, pastor of the First Meth odist Church, officiating. Inter ment will be in Oconee Hill cemetery. A resident of Athens for the past 28 years, Mrs. Meadow suf fered a fall three days before her death and never recovered from the effects. Her death came as a shock to her multitude of friends since she was reported in good condition until early Saturday morning. She is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Albert Tilton, Knox ville, Tenn., and Mrs. Julian T. Brown, Elberton; two sons, Har old L. Meadow, Elberton, and William K. Meadow; two sisters, Miss Iyaisy Colbert and Mrs. A S. Rowland, both of Athens; and nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Funeral arrangements will be handled by Bridges Funerai Home. - Flaming Plane . . Crash Kills Six FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 13— (AP)—Six men were killed and 18 injured last night in the flam ing pileup of two planes at near by Eielson Field. One was a B -50 bomber from Tucson, Ariz. REDS SHOOT WORKS IN CHINA WITH HIGH STAKES ON TABLE Must Score A Smashing Triumph Or Face Winter-Long Stalemate SHANGHAI, Nov. 13.—(AP)—Scenting a chance win the civil war quickly, the Communists appear to shooting the works in the grezt battle around Suchow 1f the Reds win the battle, it seems that the Chiang Kai-Shek glovernment must either fall or €e. If they fail and the fighting bogs down, the two enemies may solg around that north-central region all winter inconclusively. This would give Chiang a chance to get his wobbly government back on its feet. The fog of war is so thick that only one forecast now is safe: the immediate fate of the nation rides on the outcome of Suchow, : Associated Press Service Mayor And Council Move To Cut 1949 City Taxes ° s Finance Group Meets To Aet 9 . On Mayor’s Recommendations Councilman F. H. Williams of the Second Ward, chair man of the Finance Committee of Mayor and Council, announced yesterday a meeting of his committee will be held at an early date at which time specific recommenda tions by Mayor Jack R. Wells designed to reduce taxes will be considered. Councilman Williams said he has received a letter from the Mayor recommending a ten-per cent reduction in business license taxes, acceptance of lower eval uation of automobiles for tax purposes and establishment of & central purchasing agency by the city which, the Mayor stated, should result in considerable FILIBUSTER FORMULATED Senator McClellan (D-Ark), who has taken an active aprt in such things in the past, made that point elear todayss oo v McClellan told a reporter he has heard that administration lieuten ants are thinking of asking the Senate to make its cloture (debate limitation( rule apply to any mo tion, as well as a legislative bill. Republicans, who lost Senate control in the election, had prom ised to try that maneuver. Hour Limit on Talks Coliture is a procedure under which each senator is limited to an hour’s talk on any bill or amendment before the Senate. It could kill the time-consuming oratory by which Dixie senators always in the past staved off a Senate vote on the anti-job dis crimination, antil-lynching, anti poll tax and anti-segregation measure President Truman prom ised voters he will try to put through Congress. But under present rules there are two catches in cloture: 1. Two-thirds of those wvoting have to approve before it can go into effect. 2. It can’t be used to stop talk about a motion. Filibuster Civil Rights Southern Democrats always starts filibustering when a motion is made to bring up a civil rights measure, several of which have been passed by the House in pre vious congresses. Rules changes — which require only a majority vote of the Sen ate (might wipe out the Dixie ad vantage on both counts. So, McClellan said that to pro tect their rights, the Southerners will have to filibuster against a rule change unless some com promise can be reached in ad vance. Emphasizing that he was speak ing for himself on the comprom ise phase, the Arkansas senator said that if an agreement could be reached not to push a measure for establishment of a fair employ ment practices commission (FEPC) or any anti-segregation proposals, Dixie sentaors might agree not to filibuster some other bills. There, where the Honan and Kiangsu plains are #ransected by the Pukow railway and the Grand Canal, three to Communist gener als are making their bid. Chen Yi, the impatient and im placable; Chen Keng, the bold; and Liu Po-Cheng, the one-eyed Red Cyclops who moves fast and makes few errors—all are knifing at and around the gowvernment’s hard-pressed armies 180 to 200 miles northwest of Nanking. Both sides have claimed big successes, wilth' huge casualties in SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY savings. | The mayor’s letter also pointed out that ‘he equalization pro gram for which data is now be ing assembled by the city is aimed at reducing the ad valo lem tax rate on property. Williams’ Comment Councilman Williams said the Mayor and members of Council were faced with a difficult prob lem involving city finances at the beginning of the present year. “We felt, however,” Mr. Wil liams said, “that if we went di rectly to the people and told them about the financial situa tion our city faced we would re-l ceive the help of the people in solving our problem. We did re ceive the help of the people and‘ we feel now that we have suc~ cessfully passed the hump. On our part we are now undertak ing to.reduce taxes for next year wherever possible without crip pling our municipal services. I think we can do that. ~ “We want aiways to be fair witn the citizens oi Athens and we are confident the citizens will be fair with us ana assist us in continuous improvement of our city government. The ‘operation of the municipal government is a [cooperative undertaking bétween the citizens and the officials they elect to represent them. As long as we all bepr that in mind we should continue to go forward.” Text of Letter The Mayor's leiter tc Chairman Williams, which the latter re leased for publication, said: “November 11, 1948, “Mr. F. H. Wiiliams, Chairman, Firance Committee of Council, 195 Milledge Heights, Athens, Georgia. : “Dear Mr. Williams: “I think it very important that the Business License Tax sched ule be adopted at the December meeting of Mayor and Council, so that it can become effective on the first of Jenuary. “1 arm, therefore, requesting that you hold an early meeting of your committee, so that you will be prepared to make recom mendations at the regular meet ing in December. When you meet, 1 hope you will consider a ten percent veduction in the Business License Tax. “You and the other members of the Council met the situation at the beginning of the year in such a way as to win the support of most ~f our citizens in a pro gram intended to furnish the rev enue recescary to meet the in creased school and other budgets. It was your intention to make reductions in governmental costs whenever ycu could do so. I be lieve that we have an opportunity now to make some reductions. In addition tc reducing the Business License Tax, I recommend that we accept a lower evaluation of automobiles for taxation. And the aim of our equalization program is to reduce the property, or ad valorem. tax, flicted on the enemy. Nobody ac cepts either at face value, but the burden is on the Communists. while they retain the initiative, they need a clear-cut victory to avoid a winter stalemate. Reporters, as usual, are preven ted from reaching the battle zone. Neither side wants or will permit impartial onlookers. There is nothing to do but wait and see. Harold K. Milks, “Associated Press correspondent in Nanking, reports that Chiang Kai-Shek is holding the national government to gether by his fierce insistence on continuing the fight in the face of repeated military and economic disasters. : ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1948. 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Preparing Red Pearl Harbor By The Associated Press Two United Nations leaders appealed to chief execu tives of the four big powers yesterday (Saturday) to set tle the Berlin erisis and end the world’s “fear of another war.” Assembly President Herbert V. Evatt and Secretary-General Try gve Lie addressed their plea di rectly and urgently to President Truman, Prime Minister Stalin, Prime Minister Attlee and Pre mier Gueuille. . Their letter said the U. ' N.s work is being undermined by the Berlin crisis and the “danger to the peace.and security of all na tions continues undiminished.” “End Danger to Peace” “It is within the power of the leaders of the great nations, to which this communication is ad dressed, to end this danger to the peace,” the letter said. Evatt and Lie sent their letter as the General Assembly’s politi cal Committee heard Soviet Dep uty Foreign Minister Andre Y. Vishinsky shout at U. S. Delegate Frederick H. Osborn: “You are preparing a Pearl Har bor for the Soviet Union, aren’t you?” Prohibit Atomic Weapons The 58-member committee later voted 36 to 6 against a Russian proposal that the Big Powers re duce their armaments by one third and prohibit atomic wea pons. Instead, the committee voted 40 to 6 to call upon the U. N. Com mission for conventional arma ments to continue its discussions on the entire arms question. The U. N. Security Council’s seevn-nation Palestine committee approved a plan said to call for demilitarizing nearly all the Neg ev Desert. This plan was. sub mitted by acting U. N. Mediator Ralph Bunche. In London, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, Winston Church ill, criticized Prime Minister Att lee for rufusing to name a bi-part isan delegation to the 18-member committee to seek ways to strengthen Western European uni ty. Georgian Wins Star Farmer Title { ATLANTA, Nov. 13—(AP)— Richard Ogletree, 19, of Houston ' ecounty will be named the Future | Farmers of America’s star farmer ‘ for 12 southern states at the FFA convention in Kansas City next ‘ Tuesday. ! Ogletree is the first Georgian ever to win the Southern Star . Farmer award. Announcement of | the selection was wade today. $ LT AIESG A S "”*?:‘?L';‘:h B State Parks Head Resigns ATLANTA, Nov. 13—(AP)State Parks Direetor Charlie Morgan to day submitted his resignation, ef fective next Wednesday. His successor under the Herman Talmadge administration, said one department offiical, will be A. N. Moye of Barnsville, former repre sentative from Lamar county. Morgan, an appointee of Gov. M. E. Tthompson, said he would enter business in Newnan. The parks department during Morgan’s administration acquired Jekyll Island, which became a campaign issue between Talmadge and Thompson. Talmadge objected to the purchase price of $675,000. Thompson defended. the pur chase on the grounds that it would provide recreation facilities for Georgians at a low price. MOVES OUT OF MANSION Thompson Prepares To Turn Over His Offices Wednesday ATLANTA, Nov. 13—(AP) — Gov. M. E. Thompson moved out of the Georgia Governor’s mansion today and prepared to turn over executive offices Wednesday to Herman Talmadge. At his last regular press confer ence, Thompson said ‘“‘the people of Georgia have been fine to mie. I want to thank them for making my hopes and prayers come frue. “I believe my 21 months in of fice will be remembered as an administration in which law and order and h,ar;mony prevailed in government. at was my greatest wish. “It is my hope that law and order will continue to prevail in Georgia.” Moves To Valdosta Thompson’s family moved today to Valdosta, where he will admin ister an electrical appliance and oil distribution business. He will keep a finger in politics with his weekly paper, “The Georgia Dem porat st ~ Up to 10,000 _persons are expect Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area ¥ ¥ ¥ Boosters’ Club Sends AHS T eam To Auburn Game Players, coaches, and man agers of the Athens High foot ball team are back in Athens today after spending an en joyvable week-end in Colum bus where they attended the Georgia - Auburn game as guests of the Athens High Boosters Club. The team spent Friday and Saturday nights at Fort Ben ning in Columbus through the courtesy of Fort officers and officials of the Georgia game, Leaving Thomaston Friday night after their game with the Robert E. Lee Rebels of that city, the Athens Hizh contingent travelled to Co lumbus by chartered bus and were treated to two meals there by the Boosters Club. NEWSPAPER RATES ATLANTA, Nov. 13—(AP)— Daily newspapers in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon today an nounced an increase of five cents a week in subscription rates for carrier delivered papers. » ed to swarm over capitol square Wednesday at noon for the inau guration of Talmadge, 36-year-old son of the late Eugene Talmadge, four times elected Governor of Georgia. The State Legislature will sit in special session on the capitol lawn. Five hundred officials and friends will be seated on a temporary platform jutting out from the west entrance to the capitol. Cannon Szlute Cannon will boom a salute to hail the state’s new governmental chief, who defeated Thompson in the September Demoecratic prima ry. ; Talmadge said toaay he hoped to find time Wednesday to install a half dozen of his key department heads. A rapid turnover among other officials is on tap for Thurs day, Friday and Saturday. w The incoming Governor invited “everybody in Georgia” to .a re ception at the Governor's man sion Wednesday afternoon. vt st el kR Ry g eYR T RR g e Home Edition 20 Injured In French Disorders PARIS, Nov. 13 —(AP) —More than 20 persons were injured to=- day when bitter fighting between police and Communists broke out in three widely scattered parts of France. One of those injured was Ar thur Ramette who is considered one of the top six Communists in the country. He is a member of the French National Assembly. Ramiette was hurt by a tear-gas grenade near Douai, in the north ern coal fields, when police broke up a forbidden public meeting. The bloodiest clash was at Pu teaux, a western suburbs of Paris, where 20 were injured in a battle between stone-throwing Commun-~ ist demonstrators and police. The police fired pistols, Three demon strators were reported to have been struck by bullets. Another incident in the Com munist coal strike occurred when workers marched on a mine in south central France. They kid~ napped three police officers and lowered them into a minesshaft with a supply of provisions. The clash in Puteaux resulted from today’s 24-hour general strike in Paris and the suburbs. The fight was an outgrowth of the arrest of Communist union mem bers who gathered at a factory entrance this morning. During the afternoon some 500 workers marched on police headquarters to seek their release. Enroute the marchers stopped two buses operating reguarly de spite the strike and sought to per suade the drivers to leave the job. Police squads arrived and the crowd began throwing paving stones. Police retaliated with pis tols, wounding three, Others were reported injured by night sticks. ‘WANT TALK’ Truman Takes Family On Historic Tour KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 10 — (AP)-—President Truman took the family to Fort Jefferson today for a lesson in history, leaving unof ficially unanswered questions as to the makeup of his new admin istration, With his Florida vacation a week old tomorrow, the chief ex ecutive continued to maintain si= lence on legislative plans as well. He told campaign audiences, how ever, that he would press for an expansion of the “New Deal” and his associates look for him to seek, among other things: =~ 1. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. 2. A permanent system of farm price Supparte: " T wOEEEE 3. Development of the nation’s great rivers for floor control, pow= er, navigation, irrigation and re clamation. A 4. Civil Rights laws which stir red Southern protests and cost him four, states in the election. 5. 'A national health program embracing compulsory insurance covering prepayment of medical costs. : But, there was no talk of these matters as he boarded the Presi dential vacht Williamsburg about 7 a. m. (EST) to join Mrs. Truman and Margaret for a cruise to the historic fort where Dr. Samuel Mudd was imprisoned after the War Between the States. Senator Alben W. Barkley, vicé president-elect, and Senator J. Howard MeGrath, Democratic Na tional Chairman, went along, too, as did the entire White House staff. The President had visited Fort Jefferson on a previous visit to Florida and was able to point out the cell where Dr. Mudd served his sentence until he was pardon ed by President Andrew Johnson. $11,200 Rewards . In Coed Slaying BOULDER, Colo,, Nov. 13 — (AP)—Rewards totalling $11,200 spurred the search for the assault slayer of 18-yeéar old Theresa Fos ter tonight. Colorado . University’s Board of Regents announced they would give SIO,OOO to the person who fyggvided information leading to the killer's arrest. Boulder’s news paper, the ‘Camera, has collected $1,200 in contributions from resi dents of this, college .town. This will ‘be.agded to the reward jack- PO TN P o "“W""‘i‘ﬂuv" YL ECE o[x

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, November 14, 1948, Home Edition, Image 1