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CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 25
_(AP) — Amilitary Junta took
ver provisional rule of Venezuela
today. The announcement of the
new leadership came & few hours
after the Army. toppled the gov
ernment of President Romulo Gal-
AOOS.
q finu announcement, issued just
pefore midnight last night, said
Lt. Col, Carlos Delgar_fo Chalbaud
has been named President of I.‘,he|
Junta. Delgado was Defense Min
ister in Gallegos’ cabinet.
No Shots Fired
The Army, which overthrew
Gallegos’ government without fir
ing a shot, has announcen:'l it is in
seneral control of the nation.
" The Junta will govern Venezue-
J]a until a new government is
formed, the announcement salq. It
wvill rule under the 1936 Constitu
tion and parts of the 1947 Consti
tution that are considered progres
sive.
" Other members of the Junta are
Lt. Col. Marcos Perez Jimenez and
Lt.- Col. Luis Llovera Paez., Perez
was Chief of the Army Staff and
Llovera his assistant.
The bloodless revelt occurred at
noon yvesterday when ftroops took
over all public buildings.
Direct Vote
Gallegos, who took office last
February as the nation’s first
president leected by direct vote,
was at his home under Army pro
tection. The whereabouts of other
political leaders was unknown.
Perez said the Army staged the
coup because of the “incapacity” of
Gallegos’ administration, made up
of members of the Demaocratic ac
tion party, and because “Extrem
ist” labor elements were threat
ening a general strike.
The Army apparently acted
when Lt. Col. Mario Vargas, in
spector general of the armed
forces, returned from a recupera
tion of several months at Saranac
Lake, New York, and threw in his
lot with the military.
Vargas was one of the leaders
of the 1945 Revolution which over
threw President Isaias Medina An
garita.
U. S. Ambassador Walter Don
nelly said reports to him from var
lous sections of the gountry indi
cated that American citizens and
U. S. property were safe. k
Navy Transport
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Reported Missing
LONDON, Nov. 25 —' (AP)—U.
S. Navy headquarters here said to
day a Naval transport plane with
four aboard is missing between
Gibralter and Port Lyautey, Mo
roceo.
The plane has been lost since 9
p. m. Tuesday. The flight to port
Lyautey normally takes one hour.
The plane is- a two-engined
Beechcraft. American, British and
French planes searched the area
vesterday and continued the hunt
today.
Names were withheld until kin
can be notified, :
SEN. RUSSELL SEES
RICHTS COMPROMISE
ATLANTA, Nov. 25.— (AP) —
Sen. Richard B. Russell believes
Southern Senators may be able to
work out a compromise on Civil
Rights legislation in the eighty
first Congress,
The possibility of a compromise,
he said in an interview here yes
terday, deepnds on whether‘or not
Present rules of Senate procedure
can be reserved.
But he warned that the South
may be in for trouble. “If the ex
treme left-wingers are able to im
hose their will, raeial relations in
the South will be set back 80
years,” he declared.
Russell flew to Atlanta on his
Way to Winder to spend Thanks
§ving with his mother.
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
_ Fair this afternoon with
Inereasing cioudiness and
warmer tonight, followed by -
rain Friday, JHEERE
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GEORGIA—Fair and” mild
this afterhoon, inereasing
cloudiness tonight and Friday
followed by rain Friday aft
‘rnoon or night beginning in
north portions early Friday
Mmorning, Somewhat warmer
tonight except in coastal
ireas, not much temperature
change Friday.,
TEMPERATURE
Highet a 8 (0o pg V. 80
Loweglis o vl s o & 533
Meagy #7220 2 iy v, 48
Normgh | “Torruune. ..49
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Nov. 1 .: ... €73
Excess since Nov. 1 .. .. 393
Average Nov, rainfall ... 2.61
Total since January 1 ....55.17
Excess since January 1 ..10.89
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held in city jail today — after
math of a riot at the Newhouse
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lege students held a Tolle at the
hotel c;r}x the eve as thwifi'
‘lonal Utah State-Utah Univer-
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PRIZE TURKEY FOR THE PRESIDENT — President
Truman receives a 1615 pound prize turkey in Wash
imgton for his Thanksgiving Day dinner. It is presented
by Paul Clayton (right), president of the Poultry
Science Club of Ohio State University. Lester E. Lehm-\,
kuhl (center), a member of the club, looks on. The
Turkey was raised hy Harvey Welford of Elyria, O{o,
ard was selected as grand champicn at an international
turkey show.— (AP Wirephoto.)
No Holiday For Truman
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By The Associated Press
Americans., their country prosperous and at peace, give
thanks today for the bounty which they are sharing with
their neighbors around the world. )
The 1948 Thanksgiving Day
brought a new breadth to the tra
ditions established 327 years ago,
when the Pilgrims shared their
harvest with their Indian neigh
bors.
Today, instead of merely bring
ing their baked corn and new
plucked vegetables to a commu
nity feast table, the people were
sharing their goods international
ly through the Marshall Pan.,
But the tradition of the food
heaped table remained a big part
of the celebration for Americans,
who today were gathering
throughout the land for family re
unions and to eat turkey-and
trimmings.
Railrocads and airlines schedul
ed extra facilities to‘handle the
stream of home-bound travellers.
Highways were jammed.
Thanksgiving festivities were
arranged in hospitals, penthouses,
orphanages, clubs, = churches, at
army posts, jails, welfare agen
cies, aboard ships, and wherever
Americans gathered, at home or
overseas.
There were banquets, entertain
ments, ' football games, and in
many places specialp prayers.
Most places of business and
public buildings were closed. Inns
and movie houses were crowded.
In Washington, President Tru
man plans to spend most of the
day working at his desk, except
for time out for a turkey dinner
at Blair House across the street
from the White House.
Mr. Truman yesterday received
a 33-pound lve Oregon master
tom turkey as a gift — his sev
enth — from the Exchange Club
of Salem, Ore.
In New York and Philadelphia
department: stores stage their big
Thanksgiving parades featuring
Santa Claus and toy-land won
ders, and attracting thousands of
spectators along.the avenues.
In Seattle, the Boeing Airplane
Company gave 25,000 employes a
four-day holiday., ~ ... .
On New York Bowery, the
the Down-aid-Outer Association
planned its apnyal turkey dinner
—with the meal on the house.
For thousands of new Ameri
£gns, ’éhi§ is their first Thanksgiv
ing. They are thé Europeans re
cently arrived here under the dis
placed persons law.
‘Forty-five' Boys ‘ahd girls, new
ly arrived in this country, ate their
Thanksgiving turkey yesterday at
2 'New YOork YMCA* * * 1" ¢
Truman Expected To Ask Congress
To Continue Present Export Curbs
Controls Needed For Operation
Of Marshall Plan In Next 4 Years
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — (AP) — Administration
sources predicted ' today Pretident Truman will’ ask the
new Congress to keep export controls in force throughout
the prospective four _years’of the Marshall Plan.
They said the request would fit
in with both U. S. foreign policy,
particularly that related to the
“apld war,” and the domestic anti
inflation program.
Their explanation:
1. The controls furnish a means
by which scarce - industrial - goods
can be channeled to Western Eu
rope to aid its recovery and simul
taneously kept from reaching the
Russian sphere. ;
2. ?‘hey also furnish a means of
Associated Press Service
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TOJO WRITES
POEM ABOUT .
COMING DEATH
TOKYO, Nov. 25— (AP)—
Four of the seven Japanese
leaders condemned to hang for
war crimes have sent poems
to their families sincc hear
ing their sentences.
Tokyo newspapers publish
ed the poems today.
For Premier Hideki Tojo
wrote:
“The cold moon,
“Many eras it has lighted,
“And is now here.”
. .
British People
.
Favor Aid Plan
LONDON, Nov. 25 — (AP) —
Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express
reported—with regrets—today that
60 per cent of the British people
favor the Marshall Plan and only
11 per cent oppose it.
The rest, it said, “don’t know”
how they stand. o
The Express has been against
the program from the outset.
Editorially reporting on an in
vestigation by its own “poll of
public opinion” department, Bri
tain’s most widely circulated daily
paper said it found 80 per cent of
the people knew what the Mar
shall Plan was, 60 per cent fav
ored it, 11 per cent opposed it and
54 per cent believed it would suc
ceed.
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8 Spies Given -
Death Sentence
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov.
25— (AP) —Eight men charged
with espionage and working with
the American counter-intelligence
corps were sentenced to death by
a Prague court today.
Only two of them were in the
court room. The others had long
since escaped, presumably to Ger
many. ‘
preventing foreign buyers from
bidding up the price of American
goods.
The controls, wielded by the
Commerce Department through li
censing requirements on shipments
abroad, are scheduled to expire
February 28 under a “temporary”
extension voted by Congress earli
er this year.
The informants, who cannot be
named, said Secretary of Com
merce Sawyer has suggested to the
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
The strike bv 65,000 AFL dock workers, which for
more than two weeks has paralvzed shipping operations
at ports from Maine to Virginia, appeared near an end
today.
The negotiatcrs in the East
Coast shipping tieup agreed on
terms for ending ‘the walkout, ap
proving a pay raise of 13 cents
an hour, retroactive to August 21,
for some 65,006 ATL Longshore
men. The agreement s subject to
ratification by uniorn members
and the inaividual employers.
The AFL International Long
shoremen’s Association struck 16
days ago in support of demands
for a 25 cenis &n hour hike in the
straight daytime pay rate of $1.75
heurly. The employers had offer
ed 10 cents.
Night Session
The agreement between offi
cials of ‘he union and the New
| York Shipping Association, rep
'resenting the employers, came
{after a long night session. Cyrus
,Ching, head of the Federal Me
diation and Conciliatipn Serviceq
ywho announced the agresment,
joined in the conferences yester
{day in an effort to end the crip
‘pling walkout.
Meanwhile, pending ratifica
’tion by the rank and file rad the
‘employers, some 250 vessels re
;mianed strikebound at major
East Coast ports. The strike also
fhas caused railroads to embargo
the movement of export freight
to the East, cut off Marshall Plan
shipping, forced the closing of
some industries and made idle
trousands of railroad and other
industrial workers, "
< Liner {o Sail S
| 'ln Southampton, England, ' &
Cunard White Star Lines said the
Queen Elizabeth, worid’s biggest
ocean liner which has been tied
,up for more than a week by the
{ strike, will sail for New York
;Sundéy. Nearly 1,500 passengers
)have been stranded aboard the
i liner since last Saturday.
' The ILU will submit the agree
i ment to members of 37 locals for
~a ratification vote on Saturday.
. On the West Coast, the maritime
strike enfered its 13th week.
| Terms Secret
i Terms of the settlement of the
’uni(m pilots strike were not an
nounced. However, G T. Baker,
lpresident of National Airlines,
and Daid PRehncke, head of the
' Rirline Pilots Association, said
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948,
Agreement Is Reached On
East Coast Shipping Tieup
13-Cent An Hour Pay Hike
Okayed; Pilot Strike Settled
By The Associated Press
At the same time a 10-month
cld strike of union pilots against
the National Airlines was set
tled.
Farmer Shoots
Two And Himself
RALEIGH, Miss., Nov. 25—(AP)
—A 55-year-old farmer shot him
self to death with a .38 caliber
pistol after he had killed his fath
er-in-law and critically wounded
his wife with a shotgun blast.
Sheriff Lawrence Crumpton said
a crowd watched horrified as Polie
Stringer fired a load of buckshot
at his wife and Jim Blakeney, his
70-year-old father-in-law, and
then walked to his pasture and
shot himself in the head.
The shooting, which occurred
near Taygrsville yesterday, ap
parently Wwas caused by a family
quarrel, Crumpton said. He added
that Stringer was at liberty under
bond after his recent arrest in
connection with the shooting of
the Taylorsville Marshal.
HEART ATTACK
HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 25—(AP)
—An autopsy disclosed that Lloyd
W. Tharp of Miami, Fla., died: of
a heart attack, police announced
today.
Tharp, 44, formerly was an OPA
Administrative Investigator.
President that the control powers
be extended through 1952 so they
will eover the planned life span of
the European Recovery Program.
The original export control law
was passed July 2, 1940, shortly
after France fell to the Nazis.
Since then it has been renewed
periodically.
The last Congress wrapped con
trol authority into an act giving
anti-trust law immunity to firms
entering - into “voluntary agree
ments” to ration scarce industrial
materials, such as steel. The law
set February 28 as the expiration
date for the whole business.
~ Sawyer’s recommendations, ad
ministration sources said, call for
separating export controls and the
allocations powers, renewal 'of
both and posgibly" standby power
for compuisory ailocations if the
voluntary progxam breaks down.
both parties agreed to drop coun-
ter claims for damages totaling
$11,750,000, The strike stemmed
frem a pilot’s discharge after a
landing crackup in 1946.
The 135 union pilots on strike
since February 3 *“will return to
work as promptly as safety re
quirements vermit,” said James
M. Landis, former Civil Aeronau
tics Board chairman, who medi
ated the dispute. The airline *has
maintained its operalions afimg
the eastern seeboard with inde
pendent pilots
} Landis said the agreement in
general provides for the same
working conditions prevailing
lbefor cthe strike started.
Cheerful, Energetic At 86
Professor Earnest
Honored On Birthday
' Professor D. L. Earnest, who became eighty-six years
old today, was honored at a surprigse presentation of U. S.
Savings Bonds by representatives of many of the classes
he taught at the old State Normal School and subse
quently.
{ In addition to other friends who
assembled for the presentation, his
. son, David Lewis Earnest of
Maryville, Tenn., and his wife and
lchildren were present, Mrs. Anne
| Wilde Walker of Decatur and her
sivier, Miss Dollye Walker joined
. with Mrs. Earnest and other mem
‘bers of the family in the celebra
tion of the distinguished educa
itor’s birthday anniversary.
Despite his advanced years Pro
fessor Earnest approached the day
jof the birthday celebration still
enjoying the vigor and health
[which rarely accompanies such
(years and has continued to ride
his famous bicycle on the streets
‘of Athens, dodging automobiles
,and trucks and riding along as
serenely as if he were sitting in
‘the back seat of a limosine with
a chauffeur to do the piloting.
Born at Greenville, Tenn., No
vember 25th, 1862, Professor Lar-
Inest was graduated with first hon
sors from Peabody in 1885. He
taught school in Mississippi and
Alabama before coming to Geor
gia in 1891 to teach in the Athens
Public Schools. He later hecame
a member of the faculty of the
Georgia Normal and Industrial
| College at Milledgeville as head
;‘of the Science Department. After
iserving four years there he
returned to Athens in 18397 as
head of the Science Department
lof the State Normal School, later
the Georgia State Teachers Col
‘lege. He remained on the faculty
of that institution until it was ab
isorbed by the re-organization of
the University System of Georgia
in 1933.
Professor Emeritus
After re-organization of the
University System of Georgia,
Professor Earnest was made Asso
ciate Professor of Education. In
1933 he became Professor Emeri
tus after which he served as radio
visualist in demonstration at the
University. The story is told that
under the retirement rules of the
Board of Regents, Professcor Ear
nes reached the retirement age in
1945 and was officially retired.
But when a former student
caller the office of the Board
of Regents recently and ask
ed when he retired she was
told that “he was retired
in 1945 but we do not know when
he quit.” In fact, Professor Earnest
has never quit since he began
teaching more than sixty years
ago.
Among the former studeats who
shared in the purchase of bonds
to present Prof. Earnest on his
birthday is Miss Lily Reynoids of
Raymond, Ga., who is eighty-one
years old. She was graduated in
the Class of 1910 at the age of for
ty-three. Contributions also were
made by other pupils from Geor
gia, Florida, North Carolina, Miss~
issippi, Oklahoma, Massachusetts,
New York, Connecticutt.
A member of the Class of 1307
contributed to the “Bond Pot” as
one of the admirers of Prof. Ear
nest called it, in memory of her
mother and another did so in
memory of a sister who was grad
uated in 1912. The latter woried
in a factory to support the three
children of her sister and all of
them have grown to adulthood and
have been graduated from famous
colleges.
HITCH-HIKER
OMAHA, Nov. 25—(AP) — An
lowa mother and her five small
childern, intercepted here while
hitch-hiking to Colorado, resumed
the journey today—this time by
bus.
The Salvation Army grovid d
travel tiskels and; money Bt b,
LOW THUS FAR
By The Associated Press
The nation started observa
tion of the Thanksgiving Day
holiday with iess than a dozen
deaths from violent causes, a
survey showed today.
Reports from across the
country since 6 p. m.,, Wed
nesday disclosed 10 persons
had beén killed in traffic ac
cidents. One violent death of a
~ miscellaneous cause also was
reported.
Four states—Colorado, Kan
sas, New Yerk and Qhio—each
reported two traffic fatalities.
There was one each in Con
necticut and Utah. The na
tional Safety Council did not
estimate the number of traf
fic deaths expected over the
holiday.
W.C. Flanagan
Dies Thursday;
Rites Friday
Will C. Flanigan, for many years
one of Clarke county’s best known
citizens, died in an Atlanta hospi
tal Thursday morning at 1:15
o'clock after a short illness. Mr.
Flanagan was 73 years old and for
the past six years had resided in
Atlanta with a daughter.
Services are to be conducted
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock from
Tuckston Methodist Church with
the pastor, Rev. R. W. Allison, of
ficiating.
Burial will be in Tueckson ceme-l
tery, nephews of Mr., Flanagan
serving as pall-bearers. Clyde Mc-
Dorman Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements. [
Mr. Flanagan, a retired farmer,
is survived by six dau%l"tters, Mrs,
Clyde McDorman, Athens, Mrs,
Etta Sanders, Mrs. W. H. Bost
wisk, Mrs. Jack Johnson and Mrs.|
Carroll Johnson, all of Atlanta,
and Mrs. Morton Blackerby,‘
Brunswick; two sons, W. G. Flan
agan, Athens, and Thomas C. Flan
agan, Kingsport, ' Tenn.; son-in
law, Robert J. Jernigan, Atlanta;
four brothers, A. P,,!g],anagan, w.
1. Flanagan, A. 'O, 'Flanagan and
M. L. Flanagan, all of Athens, and
eleven grandchildren. ‘
A native of Clarke county, Mr.
Flanagan resided here for sixty
six years, movei%w Atlanta six
years ago. A m er of the Meth
odist church, Ms, Flanagan was a
member of one of this community’s
most prominent families and was
a large land owner and farming
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GUNS BOOM AS VESSELS MEET — The U. 8. Navv's lone battleship, USS Mis
souri (left), passes the British battlewagon, HMS Duke of York, in Hampton
Roads as the Missouri returned from Atlantic Fleet exercises in Newfoundland.
The Duke of York, carrving Admiral Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor. RN, Commander
in Chief of the British Home Fleet, left Norfolk, Va.. after an eight-day stay. The
Missouri’s guns boomed forth a 17-gun salute to the British Admiral as the two
vegsels approached in the channel.—(NEA Telephoto)— Navy Fhoto.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Internal Warfare
Splits (10 Ranks
Strife Rages As Leadership
Seeks Extradordinary Powers
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 25.— (AP) —The one-sided
internal warfare of the CIO rages in a goldfish bowl
again today. The national leadership prepared to ask the
CIO convention feor almost unlimited power to organize
workers in fields where CIO unions have failed to ex
pand.
Such a resolution would give
President Philip Murray and the
CIO executive board an enor
mous weapon® against small left
wing unions whose leaders have
resisted him at this convention.
Some of the weaker right-wing
leaders might suffer, too, if the
board decided they had done a
poor job of organizing.
The resolution seemed certain
of passage, though not without
bitter wrangling.
The Murray forces showed
their steamroller power yesterday
with a 572-t O-49 triumph on a
political action resolution after
Murray had once more made a
sledge-hammer speech againet
the ClO’s Communists and fel
low traveleis. ¢
This resolution provided for
the CIO to continue its political
efforts within the frame work of
“both major parties,” and said
every CIO urnion should give
“unstinting support” to the CIO
Political Action Committee.
Murray said the opponents of
the resolution -— who were sup
porters of Henry Wallace for
President — were following the
Communist party line.
CIO delegates braced _them
selves today for an all-day
Thanksgiving session, maybe con
tinuing into the night. They ex
pect to re-elect their present of
{icers and end the convention to-
Mmorrow.
‘The resolution giving extraor
dinary powers to the executive
board. could easily result in
crowding out certain union offi~
cers deemed to be. unfit.
Murray has already told the
convention that the structures of
the Office and Professional
Werkers Union, the United Pub
iic Workers, and the Retail and
Wholesale Union are ‘“unfit” to
organize the millions of non=un
ion people in those fields.
He has also been bitterly crit
ical of the leaders of the Food
and Tobaceo Workers Union, the
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
and the American Communiga
tions Association.
PARIS, Nov. 25 — (AFP) —
The acting Palestine mediator
said today the United Nations
should admit Israel to mem
bership.
The mediator, Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche of the United States,
told the 58-nation Political
Committee the United Nations
should reaffirm the existence
of the New Jewish state.
Communist Charge
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NEWS OF WORLD
No Immediate
Action Seen
On China Aid
By The Associated Press
The Chinese said today they had
strengthened their stand against
the attacking Communists 25
miles east of Suchow, guardian
base for Nanking. They asserted
three Nationalist army groups had
joined there, retaken ten villages
and wiped out three Red brigades.
Chinese oificials were disap
pointed in Secretary of State Mar
shall’s brief and rather cool com
ment that Washington. has made
no decision on the urgent request
for aid Chiang Kai-Shek sent last
week.
Official wariness was evident
over stepping up U. S. help to
China. Marshall said the govern
ment hasn’t decided what it can
do properly tu be of real assis
‘tance. He said a decision will de
pend on Congress, the risk of in
volving this countr yin new re
sponsibilities and just how much
more military assistance the U. S.
can provide.
A growing tendency developed
among Chinese political figures to
shift blame for the failure of their
own government’s military and
economic policies onto the U. S,
- Troop Demand
Russia asked the United Nations
to order all foreign troops and mil
itary personnel from Palestine.
The resolution might be aimed at
the ouster of 500 U. S., French
and Belgium truce observers as
well as Arab armies. Britain revis
ed her draft of her Palestine res
olution to meet some U. S. objec
tions. The resolution still asked
that the Bernadoite report be the
basis for a settlement.
Israel is expected to ask U. N.
membership in a week or so.
Britain may veto it. This might
strain relations with the U. S. and
Canada, which officially favor Is
raeli membership. An opposite
stand would - alienate Britain’s
Arab allies.
The British foreign office said
the U. 8. and Britain have decided
to give France a direct voice in
allocation and management con
trol of the coal and steel in their
section of soouniad Gavmany,
Soviet bloc sources asserted the
western powers are preparing to
wreck a Berlin gettlement to fur
ther military plans in Europe. The
utterance took no account of the
fact that Russia herself raised and
has kept alive the issue by block
ading the city last June. U.S. and
British officials planned to take
1,500 German Lospital patients
out by air.