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SMOG VICTIMS VISIT PLANTATION NEAR WILMINGTON—W. G. Broad
foot, jr. (center), president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington,
N. C., points out Spanish moss to visitors from Donora, Pa., on a tour of historic
Orton plantation near Wilmington. The 40-odd persons, all sufferers from the
recent smothering fog that killed 20 persons at Donora, are spending a week in
Wilmington and nearby Wrightsville Beach with all expenses paid by the Jaycees.
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SIGNS INDICATE HCL
Similiar Signs Seen In 1947-48;
Officials Shy From Predictions
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. -— (AP) — Has inflation at
last reached its peak—or perhaps even passed it?
There are new signs today that this could be so. Bat
somewhat similar signs appeared in early 1947 and 1948
onlv to be bowled over by another upsurge in the boom.
Among the latest indications
emerging from government reports
in the last few dsgs are these:
A two-month declifiein the con
sumer (cost-of-living)--price “in
dex until, in October, it was only
moderately above last January’s
level.
Also, a dip since August in the
general index of wholesale prices
—which are more of a guide on
future costs at retail-—until in Oc
tober the index dropped slightly
below the level of last January.
Not all prices have gone down.
Those for metals, which play a
major role in. determining the
price course of many goods, have
been rising even more sharply than
in 1947. |
Prices, however, are only one
factor on the scoreboard showing
how the inflation contest between
supply and demand has been get
ting along. {
Balanced Supply |
“Supply of many goods,” saysj
the Federal Reserve Board in its;
latest bulletin, “is now in better
baalnce with demand at current
prices than at any time since be-'
fore the war.” “
And demand ‘itself hasn’t been
showing the old zip it had in earl
ier postwar periods. ‘
People have been spending less
of their after-tax income and put
ting more of it into savings. Busi
;mss has slowed down its buying,i
00, (
Department store sales have
dropped below last year in dollar
volume for two consecutive weeks,
and retail sales in general hayen’t
been showing their old month-by
month elimb. |
. Building Decline |
Starts on construction of new
homes have been declining since
April—suggesting, as the Federal
Reserve Board put it: “Resistance
on the part of puyers to current
POSTPONES AUSTRALIAN TOUR
King George Ordered To Take
Rest: Blood Clot Forms In Leg
LONDOSSER Wit GAF) B Ssore V 3 ;‘jgni
blood clot ip his right leg and has canciation "Gk e
engagements to avoid the dangér of Ampy
disablement, :
The news that shocked the Em
pire was released today by Buck-
Ingham Palace so it could be an
nounced simultaneously ‘in the
Parliaments of Australia and New
Zealand that the royal tour of
those countries set for 1949 had
been abandoned. e
The king’s five pnysician, 3
nounced they had decided ‘that it
Would be hazardous for His Ma
jesty to embark upon along jour
ney which might delay his recov
ery and which mightbtgen involve
serious risk to a limb, 2
Thn ~#Binin] ical bulletin ge;‘
scribed the hm‘m“ 9
vosituction to the circulation of
the legs which has mmflf
become acute.” It sard “a defec
live blood supply to the right foot
CUSES anxiety.” WPR
balace sources agreed th -~ meant
a blood clot, SRS
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
high prices.”
~ Price-resistance is a factor in
the retail department store sales
pieture too, officials say, although
they add that unseasonable weath
er and perhaps a return to the old
“last minute” Christmas shopping
habit might have as much or more
to do with it.
ANGRY SHERIFF SAYS:
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BOBBY BREEN
Missing gag—no Joke
handled from his office in the pal
ace. All outside appearances will
either be abandoned or delegated
to his wife, Queen Elizabeth; his
daughters, Princess Elizabeth and
Princess Margaret; and his son-in
law, Prince Philip, Duke of Edin
burgh.
News of the 52-year-old king‘s
illness — his first serious ailment
since 1917 when he underwent an
operation - for ‘doudenal ulcer—
eclipsed the empire’s rejoicing at
the birth.of a son and possible fu
ture king to Princess Elezabeth a
week ago.
Messages of condolence poured
into the.Palace from all quarters.
While it was apparent that the
ruler’s present condition is not
critical, there was no attempt to
miminize the gravity of his ail
meint. ;
The doctors agreed thtat the
king’s condition was the result of
Associated Press Service
Press And Radio
To Carry Truman
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T hank You' Note
" WASHINGTON, Nav. 23 —
(AP)—President Truman ask
ed the newspapers and the
radio today to carry a “thank
l you” from him to everyone
who has congratulated him on
his election victory.
“Y therefore asx ai: vhe fine
. citizens from whom I have
heard to accept this assurance
of my appreciation,” Mr. Tru
man said. “Their letters and
telegrams have quickened my
sense of responsibility as we
enter together upon the hard
tasks that'lie ahead. -
“From theswdepths of my
heart I thank one and all.”’
GLIDDEN, Wis., Nov. 23.— (AP) —Sheriff William
Sands said today that, singer Bobby Breen’s week-end
disappearance was a ‘‘publicity gag that’s going to re
quire a lot of explaining.” :
But the 211-year-old former
child movie star said, ‘“honest to
God there’s nothing fishy.”
Breen and his pilot were located
last night at the Northwestern
Hotel here, where Breen register
ed Sunday night uuder the naine
of Benedict.
The sheriff said yesterday’s day
long search for the single-engined
Stinson Monoplane which carried
Breen and his pilot, Kenneth
Thompson’s home field at Wau
kesha Wis., was a travesty.”
“Hundreds of men fought their
way through the woods looking
for him,” Sands said. “And Les
Schultis, the local pilot, risked his
life by spending eight hours in the
air durding weather that turned
back outside search planes. Some
thing ought to be done about at”
Sands, who had been directing
the search through remote, snow
covered wilderness, said first word
of Breen’s wereabouts came from
newspapermen who had been call
ed by Ernie Rotl, the singer’s
manager. The sheriff sent depu-
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. . . Postpones Tour
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Kept Mum; More Talks Hinted
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—(AP)—A top administra
tion official estimated today it would cost' the United
States around $5,000,000,000 to try to save China from
the Communists.
This official, asking not to be
quoted by name, told a reporter
he is convinced that only a pro
gram of that size, and one com
bining both miiitary and economic
help, would stand any chance of
success.
He added the $5,000,000,000 fig
ure has been mentioned by several
cabinet officers in discussing what
—if anything—can be done to
help the hard-pressed Nationalist
government of Generalsisimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek.
The official did not profess to
know, however, whether Presi
dent Truman and Secretary of
State Marshall got around to talk
ing about any such specific esti
mate in their first post-election
conference yesterday. *
The White House reported only
that the two men reviewed the
whole range of foreign relations,
including China, all of Asia, and
Europe.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
called Marshall’s report “very in
formative” and said the secretary
might return for further talks to
day.
Quick Move Sought
Diplomatic authorities describ
ed Mr. Truman as eager to reach
a decision on China quickly so he
can reply in greater detail to
Chiang’s urgent appeal last week
for more American help.
The main factors confronting
the President and his Secretary of
State are these:
1. Whether it is too late, as some
government officials are known to
feel, to help Chiang’s Nationalist
armies, and :
2. Whether the cost of an ‘“‘ade
quate’ China aid program could be
fitted into the budget without
forcing the treasury to dip into its
red ink.
ties the 50 miles from Hayward to
Glidden when he was unable to
get a call through busy tlephones
circuits last night.
5 Lucky Landing
In a 45-minute telephone inter
view with The Associated Press
today, Breen pleaded, “get it right,
will you?,tell everybody it wasn’t
a gag.”
“We just were lucky enough to
land the plane without hurting
anything after we ran out of gas.
We thanked God we got out of it
all right, and Sunday night we
came to town. We went across the
street from the hotel and laughed
for an hour and a half at a movie.”
Thompson, the Waukesha char
ter pilot, went to Hayward with
deputies last night to meet his
wife, who had traveled.,the 300
miles north yesterday. He said he
hadn’t known of the search or that
“there was going to be any fuss.”
Breen said, “It was just an in
nocent little trip. I was tired and
thought a few days hunting would
be good for me. My buddy Ernie
Roth came up and arranged the
trip.”
Stammering frequently, Breen
told of leaving Waukesha in
threatening weather, of running
into icing conditions and fog near
Hayward, then of concern for the
gas supply.
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Georgia Gets
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GAINESVILLE, Ga., Nov. 23 —
(AP) — Jack Roberts, Gainesville
High School halfback, will play
football for the University of Geor
gia next year.
Roberts was selected as a mem
ber of the North Georgia Intercol
legiate All Star team this year.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Rainy weather and pot
much change in temperature
this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday,
GEORGIA—Rain and net
much change in temperatures
this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday. |
TEMPERATURE <
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RAINFALL | ' |
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .97
CRUERS RALIE AV % e v S
“Excess since Nov. 1 .. .. 3.19
Average Nov. rainfall ... 2.61
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1948.
Truman-Marshall Confab Info
- The official who told of the
thinking in terms of a $5,000,000,-
000 undertaking said it has not
been determined how many years
the program might require. Thus
he did not offer a guess on what
the cost might be in any ene year.
One estimate came over the
week-end from former Senator D.
Worth Clark who visited China
for a congressional committee. He
id an “all out” program would
E%' $1,000,000,000 -the first year
nd $600,000,000 annually there
after until the Communist are de
feated. The money would be used
to buy military supplies and prop
up China’s currency.
“The $5,000,000,000 figure would
include funds for a third purpose
—purchase of huge quantities of
consumer goods, such as food and
clothing, for Chinese civilians. The
objective would be to discourge
hoarding and black market oper
ations.
Quash Lobbying Suit
~ Judge Hears Arguments On Charge
Against Linder And Three Solons
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.— (AP) —Government attor
neys were summoned today before Federal Judge Edward
M. Curran to defend a series of indictments under the two
year-old federal lobbying act.
Returned last June, the indict
ments charged four men and two"
a%giationg with having tried to
influence farm tegislation and to
[advance “their own personal fi
'nancial interest” without register
"ing as lobbyists. Those named are:
’ State Agriculture - Commission
‘ers James E. McDonald of Texas
land Tom Linder of Georgia; Rob
ert M. Harriss, a partner in the
New York Commodity brokerage
firm of Harriss ano. Vose; Ralph |
'W. Moore of Washington; the
Farm Commissioners Council and |
the National Farm Committee.
The cases are not due to come
to trial until early next year. But
defense attorneys sought yester
day to have the indictmentsl
quashed. They contended that (a)
the act violates constitutional
guarantees of freedom of speech;
(b) their clients are innocent of
any wrongdoing, and (c¢) the in
dictments are ‘“vague, indefinitel
and faulty.”
Curran asked Justice Depart
ment Attorneys Herman Wolkin
son and Arthur Caldwell to reply
to these arguments today. He also
instructed them to give the court
their interpretation of a disputed
section of the law. |
This section provides, first, that
a lobbyist must register with Con
gress and, second, that he must
furnish certain information about
his activities and his employers.
Curran said a person seeking to
influence the passage or defeat of
legislation “for pay or any other
consideration” violates the act if
he fails to register. He also noted
that if a person does register, but
fails to file the required quarterly
reports, he also is in violation.
New Red Drive Aimed At Strategic Airfield
NANKING, Nov. 23 — (AP) —
The Communists opened a new
push today on Suchow, key to Nan
king and Central China. The im
mediate objective was the defense
bastion’s only airfield.
Gen. Chen Yi’s Red veterans
‘punched out of the southeast un
der the cover of low clouds. Weath
er cut down the effectiveness of
the government’s air force.
The new offensive added to
Communist pressure steadily
building up against the Nationalist
Second Army Group all along a
great arc to the ‘east and south of
the city 180 miles northwest of
Nanking. Other Red forces were
reported moving aaginst Suchow
from the north. .
In North China, the Communist
threat to the great cities of Peip
ing and Tientsin increased as the
‘Reds took over Paoting. The Com
'munist radio claimed the city yes
‘terday, the government announced
its evacuation today.
i Without full air support for the
defense of Suchow, the National-.
ijsts were expected to be in for a
rough time. The Communists ap
parently had regrouped and re
formed completely after last
week’s heavy battering. They had
been caught unprotected on the
Suchow plain and the Nationalist
Air Force blasted them in clear
days and moonlight night with
bombers and fighter-bombers.
Eastward from Suchow, Gen.
Huang Po-Tao’s Nationalist Sgi_
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THIS WEEKEND
The weatherman dashed
cold water—and pienty of it—
on the hopes of foothall fans
looking forward to Dixie’s
number one grid feature here
this weekend between Georgia
and Georgia Tech.
Rain was G @i
forecast for to- W‘
day.tonightis‘\l‘)- S(1 .
and tomorrow | et 4
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day and Satur- | ey
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rain has fallem § ¢ A
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uounsly here . Smpu ot
since early last f_“d
night, no great -
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fall was re- e,
corded at the local weather
station.
Spalding On
vpalding
Regent Board
ATLANTA, Nov. 23 — (AP)—
Hugh Spalding, Atlanta attorney,
said yesterday Gov. Herman Tal
madge had asked him to serve as
a member of the Board of Regents
beginning in January.
Spalding, former Chairman of
the Board during and administra
tion of Gov. Eugene Talmadge,
said he nad told the Governor he
would accept the appointment.
The terrh of the present chair
man, Pope Brock, expires in Jan
uary. Board members select their
own chairman.
Spalding prominent in Catholic
lay circles, is now serving as
chairman of the Fulton-Dekalb
Authority. He is a native of At
lanta and received his law degree
from the University of Georgia in
1910. He served as Chairman of
thg Board of Regents from 1932 to
1934,
The Governor said yesterday
that Spalding would accompany
him to the Southern Governors’
Conference in Savannah Dec. 12~
15.
The principal purpose of the
conference is to work out details
of the new program of regional
college for the South.
Previously, Talmadge announc
ed that Dr. Raymonr R. Paty, for
mer Chancellor of the University
System; Dr. Harmon Caldwell,
the present Chancellor; Atty. Gen.
Cook and Adj. Gen. Ernest Van
diver would also accompany him
to the Savannah meeting.
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CHINESE NATIONALIST TROOPS HEAD FOR FRONT — These Chinese Nation
alist troops are heading for the front to battle Communist forces in China’s civil
war. At the moment their train has been halted in the railway station at Pukow by
a report that the enemy has cut through railway lines to the north. The soldiers
are taking advantage of the stop for a brief rest. This picture was made by Johii
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Return-To-Work Movement
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Rejected; Pay Demands Cut
By The Associated Press
Shipping operations at East and Pacific Coast ports
remained tied up today by strikes and there appeared no
indications of quick settlement of the wage disputes,
Leaders of the AFL Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Asscciation
in New York rejected an employer
proposal that the 65,000 striking
dock workers return to work im
mediately and the union and em
ployers work out details of a wel
fare plan,
Details of the welfare plan sro
posal were not disclosed but ILA
President Joseph P. Ryan, whose
men have tied up ports from
Maine to Virginia for two weeks,
said: “We told them they’ve got to
give us something different.” -
The union has cut its increase
demands in half and is asking a
pay hike of 25 cents an hour in
the straight time pay and 37%
cents an hour in the overtime rate.
The union also is asking other
benefits. :
The West Coast maritime strike
is 83 days old, the second largest
Pacific waterfront tieup. A strike
in 1936-37 continued for 98 days.
Some 28,000 CIO workers struck
last Sept. 2 in a dispute over
wages and when longshoremen
held out for continued econtrol of
hiring halls by which workers are
assigned jobs. The longshoremen
asked for a 15 cent %:y raise to
$1.82 an hour. The waterfront em
ployers Association offered 10
cents. . M M
| In addition to the dock workers
strike tying up the world’s largest
port, New York also was ‘beset
with a trucking walkout. One
third of the city’s general trucking
was reported affected by a work
stoppage of some 2,000 members
of an AFL teamsters local for
higher pay. The drivers and help
ers from about 300 truck firms
struck yesterday in support of pay
raises of 22% cents an hour. The
stoppage affected movement of
railroad freight.
In Lawrence, Mass., yesterday a
convention of the AFL United.
Textile Workers’ Union voted to!
ask a 10 cent hourly wage hike for
40,000 woolen and worsted work
ers in 55 miles throughout the
country. The union said present
average rate is $1.32 an hour with
a minimum of $1.05. New contract
talks are to start Feb. 1.
418,760 Votes
Cast In State
ATLANTA, Nov. 23—(AP)—
The Democratic Party carried
Georgia for President Truman in
the general eiection by a majority,
polling a total of 254,646 votes,
Gov. Herman Talmadge announc
ed today.
All other parties combined re
ceived a total of 164,114, making a
total vote of 418,760.
The Democratic electors will
meet at the State Capitol Jan. 5 to
cast their ballots. The results will
be telegraphed to Washington.
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Revision In
ision |
C. Of C. Laws
Is Approved
With President D. Weaver
Bridges presiding yesterday after
noon at a special membership
meeting of the Chamber of Com-~
merce revised By-Laws were un
animously adopted for the organ
ization.
Under the new By-Lawe the
Chamber of Commerce will have
fifteen directors, twelve elected by
the membership, six each year for
terms of two years each and the
twelve elected by the membership
will elect three directors-at-large
who wiil service for one year each.
The By-Laws also provide for
the election of ex-efficio directors.
Those now serving in this capaci
ty are: Mayor Jack R. Wells, J.
Frank Hammett, Chairman of the
County Commissioners and J. W.
Matthews, President of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. ¢
~ President Bridges has already
‘}‘appointed Aan eicovion committee
Chairman, Dan H. DuPree, Arthur
S. Oldham, J. E. Wickliffe and Van
Noy Wier who will have super
vision+® of the election. Under the
new By-Laws there will be no
nominating committee and all di
rectors will be elected by direct
ballot of the membership.
Ballots will be mailed to all
members along with a roster of
the membership on November
30th and these ballots must be re
turned not later than non, Decem-~
ber 7th, in order to be counted.
The Election Committee will open
the locked ballot box in the offic
es of the Chamber of Commerce
immediately after the election
closes and wiili count the bailots
and announce the names of those
elected.
Members of the Board of Direc
tors who have one year yet to
serve are D. Weaver Bridges, Ma
rion W. Conolly, Gordon Dudley,
W. Frank McElreath, Abit Nix,
John C. Stiles and Walter W.
Wellman.
Those who complete two year
terms on December 31st and are
ineligible for re-election for one
year are W. R. Bedford, R. R.
Gunn, R. H. Maupin, Max Mich
ael, Sam H. Nickerson, W. W.
Wier and F. H. Williams.
WAR CRIMES
TOKYO, Nov, 23—(AP)—Form~
er Premier Hideki Tojo and 24
other wartime Japanese leaders
will receive General MacArthur’s
decision tomorrow on their war
crime sentences. Five will appeal
their convictions to the United
State Supreme Court.