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Newspaper Page Text4-INCH MIDDLING .... 33 1-4¢ Vol. CXVII, No. 314. Spalding (hairman ATLANTA, Jan. 12 —(AP) — Hughes Spalding, Atlanta lawyer, today was elected chairman of the University System Board of Regents. Msgpnmmg, a member of the orig inal Board of Regents when its was set up in 1931, succeeds Pope prock, Atlanta lawyer, whose term has expired. Spalding’s elec tion was unanimous. ’ Spalding told the board it had the responsibility =~ of carefully serutinizing college faculties to keep our various “isms” from the state school system. "“Chancellor Harmon W. Cald well told the board the veterans administration has ruled that the Georgia University System is charging veterans excessive fees and has asked the system to re duce charges to veterans. Veterans are required to pay non-resident tuition rates of $149.50 per quarter, SIOO over the fee charged resident students. The veterans acministration wants the University System to reduce the charges approximately S3O per student per quarter. Five Georgia institutions are involved and Chancellor .Caldwell said more than $1,000,000 is at stake on the question this year. "The University System is con tinuing its negotiations with VA over the matter. The board authorized the Uni versity of Georgia to buy two passenger carrying vehicles for transportation 6f students at the School of Veterinary Medicine in Atbens. An executive session of the board was scheduled for this af ternoon, at which time the Re gents may take up the appoint ment of a president of the Univer sity of Georgia. The post became vacant upon elevation of Cald well to the chancellorship. T . ' ension » LONDON, Jan. 12.— (AP) — Britain’s cabinet planned a re view today of new developments in Palestine, which the Foreign Office calls a grave threat to Mid dle Eastern peace. Israel and .Britain blamed each other for the crisis. The cabinet meeting was the first called since British-Israeli tension heightened over the de struction of five RAF planes in the Palestine - Egyptian frontier area last Friday. Israeli forces shot down the planes, described as armed recon naissance craft. They fell in the closing phase of a long border bat tle between Israel and Egypt. Ar mistice talkks between Israel and Egypt are due to start at Rhodes this week under United Nations auspices. Acting U. N. Mediator Ralph J. Bunche arrived at Rhodes yesterday. Foreign Secretary Ernest Me vin, whole Middle Eastern policy has been criticised by some Brit ish newspapers, was slated to give his fellow ministers a re view of the situaiton up to date. A Foreign Office statement, issued after Israel complained about British activities to the Security Council at Lake Suc cess yesterday, defined Britain’s current stand on the Palestine problem: To exercise restraint, back up the United Nations and reserve her rights as to future action. “One of' the great dangers in the situation lies in the iact that the Security Council has been losing control over the events,” the statement said. “It-is of par amount importance that this au thority should be reestablished Without delay and maintianed untik a final settlement is reach- Pedestrian edes . Hit By Cab Carl Dye, 563 North Jackson St, suffered two broken :legs early loday when struck by a taxi cab on Washington street in front of | the Georgian Hotel. Local hospital attendan_ts rg-, borted that Mr, Dye was in fair | Condition and was resting c(.)m—i fortably, He also received a shghti Cut on the head, the attendantsi said, Police Office A, S. Manus, who vestigated the accident said that Mr. Dye apparently was Street and | Aid not see the approaching cab. - Officer Manus said that Mr. Dye vas knocked about ten feet by the blow. The driver of the ftaxi cab, - A C. Childers will be booked _— @ charge of reckless driving, o lice said, with the case being heard L g R&corder’s Court when Mr. Dye s able to appear., A ‘ Officer Mglr)lus said he estimated the taxjg speed between 25 and 30 miles-per-hour from the skid Marks, and the space required to Stop the vehicla > Have You Entered The Lions Club ATHENS BANNER-HERAILD Associated Press T e T R T T e e e b P il e (o g AEE 204 b o | ee A R AO U I : | L e A | Lo %%x@ : ¢ ; R o G W e | ; g A R I R R o e Bag Ty e iy e T By R set R R R T g e EE e S o R g SR L R foB s 3 o R g R S S S TR o S W i HPROR SR g i : Tk 8 ,sg e e : : ; s S R R R __,__,_‘__‘ “‘_}i ALIENS HELD IN SMUGGLING ATTEMPT — Three Jewish refugees, all former inmates of Nazi concentra tion camps who are being held at Miami on charges o 1 conspiracy in connection ‘with their entry into this coun try are lancu Herscu, 26 (center), and his wife Milica, 29 left), of Roumania and Artur Woloski, 25 (right), of Poland. They were captured on the charter boat Semper Fidelis at Marathon Key, Fla., after a 28-hour watch by border patrolmen along the lower coast of Florida. Three crewmen of the Semper Fidelis are charged with conspiracy and ‘attempting to smuggle aliens into this country illegally.—(AP Wirephoto.) Tillman Predicts Big Year For Chamber Of Commerce Liquor Runner Aids Cops In Nabbing Booty ATLANTA, Jan. 12 — (AP)— “What you got?” Two policemen called to the driver of a heavily laden truck. “A load of liquor,” the driver shouted. 4 “How many gallons?” laugh ingly inquired the officers. “Two hundred and seventy,” came the reply. So DeKalb County Policemen Fred Howard and Marvin Duren decided to investigate. Sure enough, there was 270 gallons of corn whisky. They booked the driver, Rufus Mincey, 41, on charges of trans porting illegal liquor, and im pounded the truck and cargo. British Lady Killer Hanged MANCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 12. —(AP)—Miss Margaret Allen, 43, a spinster who dressed like a man, was hanged today for mur=- der. She was the first woman to be executed in Britain in 12 yedrs. She was convicted of killing a 70-year old Lancashire woman in a robbery. The jury rejected her plea of insanity. Bill To Extend Rent Ceilings 27 Months, Restore Old Curbs Favored WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—(AP) —Legislation to extend rent ceil ings 27 months and put thousands of dwellings back under rent con trol will be introduced by Senator Myers (D-Pa), probably tomor- TOW. Senator = Maybank, (D-SC), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee told a reporter the measure might become the ad ministration’s rent bill. Mr. Tru man has asked for tightening of controls and extension for at least two years. The Senate Banking committee hold its first meeting of the ses sion Fridaye Maybank predicted ‘that rent legislation will get a top priority. The present law expires March 31. Myers’ bill would ex tend control through June, 1951. Rep. Spence (D-Ky) said he plans to introduce a rent control bill drafted by the administration. ' An official of the housing expedi ter’s office said that measure and the one Myers will spunsor ap pear to be very similar, Under Myers’ bill as shown to 'a reporter, rent control would re vert pretty much to its status prior 'to changes authorized, over Mr | Truman’s protest, by the Repub ervice Thomas M. Tillman, president, Athens Chamber of Commerce, ‘and a past president of the Athens ! Kiwanis Club, spoke to the mem bers of the Kiwanis Club at its i regular meeting yesterday on the ‘history, organization, and 1949 i plans of the Chamber of Com merce. : : Seated at the speakers table with ~Mr. Tillman were the following ! members of the Kiwanis Club who ‘were also offieers, directors, or committee chairmen of b}.{le Cham ber of Commerce: Bill Mathis, Ki wanis president, Marion Conolly, ISwanton Ivy, Hubert Owens, Mal com Rowe, Durward Watson, lSmiley Wolfe, and Harvey Mau pin. Malcom Ainsworth, Secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce, and honorary member of the Ki wanis Club and the other civic | organizations in the city, also sat at the head table. Mr. Tillman began his talk by stating: “The Chamber of Com merce movement is quite old. It | started in France in the year 1599, and since that time has grown quite rapidly. During the next 200 ! years it was encourgade and con | demned, for during the.reign of Louis XVI, all Chambers of Com merce in France were outlawed, but when Napoleon came to pew er, he encouraged the formation of these trade organizations. The } movement did not get started in England until 1785 when a Cham lber of Commerce was established in Leeds. In this country, the movement started first in New York in the year 1768, and second in Charleston, South Carolina in the year 1773.” ' Mr. Tillman further brought out ‘that early Chambers of Commerce | were strictly business organiza tions but that other duties and ac tivities like agricultural develop { (Continued On Page Two) lican-controlled 80th Congress. ° New Buildings New dwellings, including those rented since they were ~ de-con trolled, would be placed under rent ceilings again. So would con verted dwellings and permanent Hotel accommodations, including | apartment hotels. | A rent control official said re control of new construction alone would apply to thousands of‘ dwelling units. Transient hotel rooms and mo tor courts would remain recon trolled. The bill would give the housing expediter authority to control or re-control whole additional areas. The measure also would ban any more 15 per cent increase leases. Under those, first authoriz ed in 1947 and continued under the present law, landlords can raise rents 15 per cent where the tenant agrees in exchange for a lease barring. further increases for a specified period. i ’ Myers’ bill would not nullify any such increases already ar ranged. : Eviction Curbs Another provision would re store to the federal government SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,:1949. Bill Revising State Vote Laws Reaches House Floor Repeal Of Home Rule Bill Included In New Legislation ATLANTA, Jan. 12.— (AP)—Governor Herman Tal madge’s legislative package revising Georgia voter laws hit the House today, calling for the wiping out of the present state list of 1,200,000 registered voters. The bill would lauch a comple= tely new registration, requiring a $1 registration fee, and would make it a crime for registrars not to administer a test of voter qual ification. A separate resolution calls for an amendment to the Georgia Constitution requiring voters not only to be able to read any para graph of the federal or state con stiutions, but also to explain it “in a simple, fair, and reasonable manner.” The voting laws, designed to carry out Governor Talmadge's pledge to elminate “the hazard of bloc voting/’ were introduced by House Speaker Fred Hand, speak er -Pro Tem George Smith, and Floor Leader Frank Twitty. They were accompanied by a flood of other bills pouring into the House hopper within a few minutes after the opening of the third day of the 1949 legislative session. Another new bill calls for re peal of Georgia’s present home rule law, which has been termed unconstitutional, and adoption of new city home rule legislation. Speaker Pro Tem Smith said the re-registration bill would re quire voters to register every two years regardless of whether they go to the polls or not. Present laws keep a voter’s name on the list if he votes once every two years. Smith said the registration ball called for a $1 fee each time a voter seeks to register, with the money specifically tagged to pay the cost of registration machine ry. y “Secretary of State Ben Fortson estimated a completely new regis tration would cost at least $250,- 000. ~ The voter qualification amend ment would repeal a present sec~ tion of the Constitution which re quires that prospective voters only read or write portions of the econ stitution — not explain them. An Alabama constitutional amendment requiring voters to explain the federal constitution recently was declared invalid by a federal court in Mobile. Main Pitfanl The proposed Georgia law seeks to avoid this pitfall by stipula ting: “The rule, guide or test to be applied by the registrars in de termining what constitutes a sat isfactory explanation of any para graph of the constitution of the United States or of this state by any applicant seeking to qaulify as an elector in this state shall not be an arbitrary or capricious requirement, but shall be that degree of explanation which is expected from an ordinary person under reasonable circumstances.” The Alabama law, frankly de signed to curb negro voting, was ruled unconstitutional partly be cause it gave too much arbitrary power to registrars, did not spe cify the nature of the explanation of the constitution required, and was used —the court said — to discriminate against voters on the grounds of color. . Basham Speaks On WGAU At 7 O‘Clock Councilman Clyde Basham will speak over Radio Station WGAU tonight at 7 o’clock on the Civic Hall matter. the power to regulate evictions. The provisions of the various state laws dealing with evictions now apply. The housing expeditar’s old au thority to sue violators of the rent ocntrol law on criminal grounds also would be handed back. Moreover, the . expediter again would have the right to sue for triple damages in cases of charg es over the rent ceiling. At pres ent only the tenant can ‘sue in such cases. Local advisory boards would be continued but Myers’ bill states clearly that their recommenda tions dealing with decontrol would be purely advisory. There has been some contention that Congress meant that the board’s recommendation were to be fol lowed explicitly by the housing expediter. - Myers’ measure also would strike out the declaration of pol icy written into the law. during the 80th Congress. That declara tion places emphasis an a need to decontrol rents speedily. - In fixing ceilings for new con struﬁtion. the housing expediter would be authorized to take in creased building costs in account. Must Register State Golf Tourney Slated Here The Georgia Amateur Golf Tournament will be held in Athens in 1950. ~ This long awaited news was made public today by Jimmy Dud ley, Athens Country Club official, who was notified of the decision by the Georgia State Golf Asso ciation headquarters in Augusta. Although no definite date has been set as yet, country club pro fessional R. M. Hubert said that the tournament is usually held in July or August. | The state tourney, which will not only draw the best in Georgia Amateur circles, is another feath er in the cap of the club which already has the annual SEC tour ney on its books. Postal Inspector Killed In Hotel OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 12— 1((AP) — Postal Inspector E. M. Harking was shot to death in the lobby of the main post, office to day and police arrested a 65- year-old man. . The man was booked at police headquarters as Joseph Donnelly ¢n charges of murder and inves tigation. A -federal charge wsa bﬁ prepared. : 4 ‘..~ ice’ quoted Donnelly as say ing: ~ “He accuseg me and slandered me. I had to take the law into my own hands. Police said they found in Don nelly’s possession a 10-inch knife and a 'pistol. A pistol bullet kill ed.Harﬁins as he learned over to take mail from his bhex. He was shot in the head. Police said Donnelly told them he brought the knife along ‘‘just in case. Sometimes these guns den’t work, you know. If it didn’t I was at least going to cut off his arm.” IT'S GETTING MONOTONOUS Winter Plays Favorites; More Snow For California By The Associated Press Winter continued to play favorites today. It slapped the Far West, the Pacific Northwest, West Texas and the Panhandle with chilling snows, sleet and cold. And it saressed the South with balmy breezes that brought flowers into bloom. Snow—the fourth straight day of it-——was predicted for one-time sunny Southern California. How ever, the forecast was that it wouldn’t be so cold in the orange and lemon growing belt—a mini mum of 26 in comparison with the frosty 19 of early Monday. Most of the snow melted from Los Angeles’ downtown area but there was eight inches of the white stuff in Orange county’s Silverado Canyon. Sheets of ice and sleet gripped much of West Texas and the Pan handle and large sections of east ern New Mexico also were coated. The ice—inches thick—felled tel-‘ ephone lines and closed all roads in the Amarillo area. 1 Schools were shut down and bus schedules cancelled. Power andl telephone lines by the hundred‘ were downed in West Texas and two deaths attributed to the weather were reported there. Prolonged cold brought a new problem to the Pacific northwest— a power shortage. The long freeze cut the flow of water in ice-clog ged streams and rivers, reducing the water supply needed for power generators. Brown-Out A voluntary brown-out went in< to effect in Oregon for outdoor lighting to conserve electricity. Ati Spokane, Wash., power company officials said the northwest power poll “rode through the ecritical period” last night on a ‘“slender margin of safety.” They warned that conservation of electricity }must continue. Floating ice clogged the Colum bia river entrance to Portland, Ore., slowing upriver movement of ocean. vessels. \ Trucks loaded with supplies ‘crashed through to the snowbound “Amateur Show” Offering Big Prizes? s - - A ——— se S ————s o~ RPO A A YSBT S ——— = A I T La <2 < 4-16‘.'/r> . T ""&'r"”""» R :- V:T | !TR Y ! o §§3 : e + G - e L% S . 1g ; : | Lo RN .\ 3 i O R AW i TN W - 1 T & N\ E i F A Bt TR i : K %oo " %k\ 2 5L 5 ‘ | ; e LR e . 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A high of 81 on Monday broke all previous records, according to Dr, E. S. Sell, U. S. weather observer here. This morning Dr. Sell report ed the record 81 had gone by the board as the temperture climbed yesterday to 83, two degrees higher. The low tem perature Tuesday was 48, compared to the normal fig ure:of 43, It seemed likely however, that the heat wave is on its way out as the weather fore cast from the local airport for Athens and vicinity pre dicts increasing cloudiness and not so warm this after noon and tonight and mostly cloudy and cooler Thursday. town of Gordon in Western Ne braska yesterday but the little town still was in danger. A criti cal shortage of fuel oil grew worse and the only routes that oil could be brought in were blocked by huge snow drifts. . Warmer weather was in prospect for Kansas, Missouri and Oklaho ima where sleet and rain has ham pered normal life for three days. Power lines were down in some lareas and both rural and city schools closed in others. Parsons, [Kansas, a city of 15,000 was with out electricity last night. Send In . . Your Nomination For The person who has done the most for Athens and Clarke County during 1948 will be honored at a civic dinner to be held later this month. Everyone can send in a nomination. A letter should accompany this nomination giving the reason for the selection. Person to be eligible for consideration must live in Athens or Clarke County, and only those persons living here should send in nominations. Mail your selection to COMMUNITY SERVICE, ATHENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ATHENS, GA. not later than January 15, 1949, : i MAN OF THE YEAR My: Nominalom ..., oo o Sove aivieinovn abion oo Sk WOMAN OF THE YEAR' My NonSaalon . ... ... @, 08 il Shie e aani tdoy Suds BURRG - ciiivaervime el R S U 0 T e Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area STRONG COMBO SEEN AGAINST TAX BOOST WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—(AP)—A strong combina tion of Republicans and Democrats was taking shape to day for a drive against the $4,000,000,000 tax boost re quested by President Truman. ' Senator Byrd (D.-Va.(, a. long time economy advocate, predicted»] the President will geb less than half of what he asked for—if he gets any increase at ail. | “With reasonable economies no. tax increase at all would be nec essary,” he told a reporter. As a step in that direction he proposedl dropping 210,000 of the 2,100,000 federal workers from the gove.rn-i ment payroll. Senator Robertson (D.-Va.) ex pressed a similar view. “I feel the more prudent course would be to balance the budget by economy in spending rather than‘ through an increase in taxes,” he said. ‘ And Senator Sparkman (D‘-i ‘Ala.) told a reporter, “It is go ing to be very, very difficult to get as much of an incrcase as the President requested. We either have got to cut the amount of spending or raise taxes. We sim ply cannot afford in these lush times to have deficit financing.?” Shave Budget Rep. Taber (R.-N.Y.), who was chairman of the House Ap priations Committee in the Re publican 80th Congress, said in a statement he was certain the President’s spending estimates can be shaved “very substan tially.” And Taber's Senate counter part, Senator Bridges (R.-N.H.) echoed that view with a call for “sound cuts in government spending.” Summing up, a Senate GOP leader who asked anonymity said he believes Republicans, who cut taxes when they controlled Con gress, will stand solidly against an increase until the need is proved. And he added: “Up to now we havent’ been shown.” The President submitted a $41,900,000,000 federal budget estimate for the year starting July 1. Predicting a deficit of al most $1,000,000,600, Mr. Truman Home Eclition asked Congress to cover it and help pay. off the $252,000,000,000 national debt by passing the $4,- 600,000,000 tax boost. Mr., Truman proposed raising the new revenue chiefly from corporations but -he also suggest ed that Congress examine the possibility” of increasing taxes on middle and upper Incomes. National Head Of Elks To Visit Athens Grand Exalted Ruler George I. Hall, of the Benevolent and Pro- Itective Order of Elks, will be a {visitor here Saturday, the guest of i his personal representative in Elk {dom, Dr. M. T. Summerlin, who is {District Deputy Grand Exalted |Ruler for Georgia North. ' The national head of Elks will be honor guest at a banquet to be !given in the Georgian Hotel at 7 'p. m. Saturday, with more than 1350 members of the order.in Ath ens and other parts of the state expected to attend. District Deputy Summerlin will head a group of several automo biles going tc Buckhead Saturday jafternoon to meet the Grand Ex | alted Ruler at 5 o’clock and bring ling him to Athens. Among high Elk officials at tending the banquet will be Past i Grand Exalted Ruler John S. Mc- Clelland, Clayton Burke, and R. E. Lee Reynolds, all of Atlanta, Ed Dutton and W. Leon Friedman, both of Savannah, and Sidney Smith, Augusta. Presiding at the banquet will be Exalted Ruler C. L. Armstrong, of Athens Lodge No. 790. Following the banquet, Grand {Exalted Ruler Hall will be motor ed to Atlanta where he will board a train at midnight for the return trip to New York. ATHENS AND VICINITY Increasing cloudiness and not so warm this afternoon and tonight. Thursday mostly cloudy and cooler. GEORGIA — Considerable cloudiness and not so warm in north portion, partly cloudy and continued nrather warm in south portion today, tonight and Thursday; some light rain or drizzle in north east portion tonight, TEMPERATURE Mighest oo oy s iOB Lowest . ..iet shaisien vk MOan . .«» inasi gesdivesen it Normal ;.o heds Gidedi <N RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .. {OO Total since January 1 ... 2.26 Excess since January 1 . .57 Average January rainfall. 4.26

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, January 12, 1949, Home Edition, Image 1