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H pital
ATLANTA, Jan. 20 — (AP) — A |
bill to authorize a $20,000,000 bond |
issue to eliminate “snake pit” con-_
ditions at Milledgeville State Hos
pital was introduced in Georgia
House today. ]
Another series of measures
would establish an industrial plant
at the State Prison in Reidsville
and require state agencies to buy
prison made goods. :
The hospital bill would permit
the State Hospital Authority to
issue the self liquidating bonds at
4, percent interest. The big sum
would be used for new buildings,
personnel and expansion of the
Milledgeville institution for mental
patients. ‘
Another new measure in the
House would raise salaries of As
sistant Attorneys General from
$5,000 to $6,500 a year.
Administration leaders introduc
ed four bills on the proposed in
dustrial plant at Reidsville. They
would establish facilities for print
ing stationery and form for state
agenc'fes. for manufacturing shoes
and clothing. The State Welfare
Departmept-and:thre-State-Puarch
asing Director would be specifical
ly directed to buy prison goods.
A huge appropriation bill con
fronted the Georgia House today,
carrying with it the threat of new
taxes.
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BULLETIN
ATLANTA, Jan. 20 — (AP)—
A move by anti-administration
forces to continue a ten percent
salary increase for Georgia
school teachers was defeated to
day as the Georgia House waded
into a record-making $108,000,-
000 Appropriations Bill.
The double-barreled spending |°
neasure—=sloß,ooo,ooo for regular |
tate services and $44,700,000 for :
xpanded programs—reached the ]
lcor for final action. Speaker ]
“red Hand predicted both parts of E
he bill would go through w.xt_h as
mn}'mum of organized opposition.
Explosive Bills 3
Two explosive bills were up for |
liscussion as soon as the appropri- |,
ition measure was disposed of.|.
Jne would unmask the Ku Klux |
Klan; the other would create a|,
ew voter registration program for ]
he state.
The Senate calendar was cleared |}
f major legislation, but a bill by |
Sen. Spence Grayson of Savannah
romised to garner a lot of atten- ||
lon. Grayson’s measure—in thef,
orm of a Constitutional Amend- |.
nent—would allow the State Ports |«
Authority to float up to $20,000,000
n bonds to expand Georgia’s ports !
ind waterways system. :
The $44,700,000 portion of the|
Appropriation Bill is contingent on |'
hat amount of new revenue being '
‘dised. And new revenue means |
idditional taxes. This contingent
budget would cover expansion of
hezlth,welfare and road programs
nd the Minimum Education Foun
dation plan.
The contingent program includes
i twin appeal to small, rural coun
es for support of new taxes—
brobably a 3 per cent sales tax and
d hike in state income tax rates.
This appeat is in the form of a
34,800,000 grant to rural .counties
or roads and $4,700,000 for com
mon - school buildings. Since it
Would take additional taxes to
‘aise this money, some legislative
leaders hope the small , counties
Will help put over new levies so
'hey can receive the approximately
SIJ.S(]O,O(JO.
The ban against wearing masks
has been changed since it stirred
Ub turbulent debate Tuesday. Rep.
John Greer of Lanier said his or
18mal bill outlawed masks at any
demonstration, parade or mieeting,
bublic or private, : :
The substitute allows masks in
Private gatherings, as well as with
traditional holiday costumes, such
as Christmas and Hallowe’en out
fits. The changes were made to
better the bill’s chances of surviv
"B 2 possible court test, Greer ex-'
Plained, 2 |
. The Administration-backed re
yf-i{;f&lratmn bill calls for complete
h‘ new voter lists. Woters would
ave to register every two years
[nd pay a §1 fee each time. A high-
Y controversial issue, it also has
D*en rewritten -to boister iis
fhances of withstanding court at-
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Six Cases On
Police Docket,
No Defendants
Six cases were on the docket
of Recorder’s Court today, but
no defendants appeared for
trial,
Five bonds were forfeited
and the sixth person was cited
for contempt,
Three reckless driving cases,
two with bonds of $15.75 and
one of $25.75 were forfeited,
while a speeding and drunk
charge followed the same pre
cedure.
One parking meter violator
was held in contempt.
Plenty Of Money - Hot Car
WILD CROSS - COUNTRY
RIDE BY 4 BOYS ENDS
HEFLIN, Ala., Jan. 20. — ¢(AP) — The. cross-country
jauni of four Cleveland,'Ohio, bove who apparently spent
£1,400 in five days “having a big time,” ended in the
Cleburne county jail today.
The four-ranging in age from
12 to 16, were picked up by De
puty Sheriff Troy Brown and
Highway Patrolman W. R. Jones
last midnight. They were asleep in
an automobile 'on a side road
about six miles east of Heflin.
Deputy Brown listed the four
as:
Kenneth Allen Beyer, 13, of
(2194 Wascana Avenue) Lake
wood, O.; Jack Joseph Chambers,
12, Roy Lawrence Talbot, 16, and
Bob Henson, 16, all of Lakewood,
a subrub of Cleveland.
The deputy said young Beyer
admitted having taken $5,000 ‘in
cash belonging to his grandfather,
Louis Kosman, last Saturday.
Brown said Meyer fold him his
grandfather operatg 'a Cleveland
night elub.
‘ The four had approximately
$3,600 in their possesion, divided
equally among them, the officers
added. Also found in the car was
‘about $75 worth of fireworks, in-
Lcluding firecrackers, roman can
dles “auto bombs,” and other
pieces. I
The boys told officers they
bought the fireworks in Cobbl
County, Georgia, near Marietta.
The car in which they were
found was reported stolen from
Joseph Shaffia ‘of (2192 Brown
Avenue) Lakewood, last Satur
day, Brown said.
The jaunt was similar to one
taken by young Beyer last May.
Detectivg Paul Lange said at
Lakewood that Beyer took $6,000
of his grandmother’s money then
and headed west with four boys
to ¢*buy horses in Arizona.”
Cowboy Suits
They were picked up in Chicago
in cowboy suits.
Officers here said the did not
know if any of the three with
Beyer now made the other -trip
also.
The four are being held in the
Cleburne jail for Cleveland au
thorities. S
Deputy Brown said the boys
told him they had been “having
a big time traveling about the
country, shooting fireworks.”
Total Of 4,919 Persons Placed
EMPLOYMENT RECORDS HERE
SHATTERED IN 1948 SURGE
All records of employment in the Athens area
were smashed during 1948 when 4,919 persons were
placed through the office of the Georgia State Em
ployment Service here.
W. W. Deßeaugrine, manager of the office, said
that one of the outstanding services rendered by
the office during the past year was in counseling.
He said 364 persons received counseling while
there were 4,740 reinterviews.
The counseling process ‘s an elaborate one, said
Mr. Deßeaugrine. It consists of finding out all in
formation®from a person that concerns his place
ment in a suitable job besides a plan being worked
out that will benefit the applicant. This plan is a
long-range one and is fixed so as to suit the ap
plicants needs, the manager said, .
Separate Peace Bids
Are Offered In China
NANKING, Jan. 20.—(AP)—The government tonight
offered to halt hostililies and talk peace in China’s civil
war but left to the Communists the next move. |
In North China a separate
peace agreement suitable to both
sides reportediy has heen reached
but not put into effect. This
agreement would cover only that
part of North China still in gov
ernment hands.
The Kuomintang (gcvernment})
Party’s powerful Central Political
Counci! today approved the cabi
net’'s resolution calling for a
cease fire order and the begin
ning of peace negotiations.
President Chiang Kai-shek has
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Petition To
Unmask Klan
Sent Solons
Copies of a petition urging
Clarke county’s iwo representa
tives in the House and the State
Senator frcm tis district to sun
port the bill now in the House to
unmask the Kiv Klux Klan were
mailed to Reps. Chapopelle Mat
thews aad C. O. Baker and Sen
ator George D. Brooks- late yes
terday by Carlisle Cobb, presi
dent of the Athers Bar Associa
ticn.
The petition was drawn yester
day morning and signed by ar
overwhelming number of the
members of the local bar. Sev
eral attorneys were oul of town
or could not be reached to sign
the petition but four oi ‘hese
affixed their signatures on re
turning to ths city today. These
included Max Michael, Joe E.
‘Webb, L. Olin Price and L. Den
nis Penny. :
Mr. Cobb talked with Repre
sentative = Matthews over the
telephone this morning and the
latter, who supported the bill
unmasking the Klan when it was
introduced, said he would con
tinue to give the measure his
full support. Clarke’s other rep
resentative C. O. Bake:, is in
Washington to attend the iraug
uration of President Truman.
NAME PRESIDENT
NASHVILLE, .Ga.,, Jan. 20 —
(AP) — Officers for 1949 were
elected at the annual convention
of the Eighth District Postmasters
Association here Wednesday. Nam
ed to -head the association was
Bernys W. Peters of Nashville, suc~
ceeding Howard Thompson of Al
ma.
Of the: large number of placements 1,356 were
women. Of the persons placed there were 1,098
veterans, and 246 of the total persons placed were
handicapped workers.
. Much emphasis has been put on tne placement
of handicapped workers by the Athens area office.
The percentage of placement in this category for
the office here is one of the highest in the nation.
Orders for workers received by the office during
the past year totaled 5,233.
The highest month of activity in placements for
the office in 1948 was October. The placements
numbered 964. Mr. Deßeaugrine brought out that
this high total was reached mainly because of the
amount of workers required to harvest the crops
during that month,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949.
Truman Promises Crusade
For World Peace, Freedom
Cites Four Major Courses
Of Action To Prevent War
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.— (AP) —President Truman
pledged a global crusade for Ypeace and freedom” today
in a fighting inaugural speech that rang with denuncia
tions of Communism as a ‘““false philosophy.”
That philosophy “holds that was
is inevitable,” he told massed
thousands in the capital plaza im
mediately after taking his oath of
office for a four-year term. And
even now, he said, it is endanger
{not spoken. But gcvemmentl
spokesman, Shen Chang-Huan,
obviously speaking with Chiang’s‘
knowledge ana approval, made it
plain the government considers!
its responsibility for peace neded
fcr the time being and that it is
up to the Communists.
Said Shen:
“There will ke no more 2Jeace
overtures until the Communists
have expressed their desires for
a similar halt in hostilities Then
and then only will the National
government consider ordering
{cease fire and sending a delega
tion to discuss negotiations.”
Chiang may override both the
executive Yuan and the Kuomin
tang.
The Communists have remain
ed silent since their tough leader,
Mao Tze-Tung, last weck told the
National government if it wanted
peace to put down its guns.
Hectic Meeting
A member of the gevernment
|party’s Political Coymeit said its
membershif approyed il @ hecs
‘|tic meeting today the executive
Yuan'’s previous efforts to bring
about a truce.
The party council has no gov
ernmental powers but no import
ant steps are taken without its
approval.
(From Peiping, Spencer Moo
sa, Associated Press correspond
’cnt, got .through a dispatch say
jing terms agreeable in principle
to both sides had been reached
]there. He quoted & member of the
| peace delegation to the Commun
-lists as saying the terms call for
,the surrender of Peiping and all
- North China. Moosa cautioned
» .these terms had not been put into
effect.
' (Under the Peiping terms, said
- 'Moosa’s source, Peiping and
{Kweisui in Suiyuan province,
- |would be handed over to the
- |Reds. The Nationalist commander |
in the north, Gencral Fu Tso-Yi
- iwould step down and be removed
“from the Communist “war crim
'inals” list. Moosa warned the deal
-'had not been completed and
Ilmight yet slip, but the Nation
lalist position in North China
|seemed hopeless.) \
- Chiang was invited to preside
lever the Kuomintang Political
. Council meeting put did not at
. . tend. The right wing clique tried
lto block the move for a negoti
-} ated peace.
: The government prepared to
| shift at least some of its minis
| jters to Canton tomorrow.
Two Killed In
Headon Car Crash
VERO BEACH, Fla, Jan. 20 —
(AP)—A headon collision of two
automobiles six miles north of Ve
ro Beach has taken the lives of
two persons.
* Nina Belle Jenkins, 25, of Phe
nix City, Ala., was Killed in the
crash yesterday. Mrs. Mary Jul
- lian, of Hartsville, Pa., died later
of injuries.
~ Four other persons, all northern
ers, were hurt.
ing attempts to keep world peace.
But he declared that as a result
of American efforts “hundreds of
millions of people all over the
world now agree with us that we
need not have war.”
These efforts must now be ex
panded, he said, to include a gigan
tic “bold new program” of foreign
economic development, aimed at
wiping out misery, hunger and de
spair in backward areas all over
‘the world.
~ Mr. Truman listed that as one of
“four major courses of action” to
be stressed in coming years.
He also called for a sectirity pact
with Western Europe, which he
hopes to send to the Senate “soon,”
and he promised to strengthen
non-Communist countries cooper
ating with American security plans
by providing them U. S. military
advice and equipment.
New Front
His proposed new program for
improving conditions in the areas
which might offer a breeding place
for Communism amounted to a call
for a new front in the cold war.
In this endeavor the cooperation of
allied nations would be “warmly
welcomed,” the President said.
“More than half the people of
the world are living in conditions
approaching misery,” Mr. Truman
declared.
“Their food is inadequate. They
are victims of disease. Their eco
nomic life is primitive and stag
nant. Their poverty is a handicap
and a threat both to them and to
more prosperous areas.”
To combat these conditions he
proposed enlisting American capi
tal investments and industrial
skills—plus any assistance which
might come from other sources.
“Our aim,” he said, “should be to
‘help the free peoples of the world,
through their own efforts, to pro
duce more food, more -clothing,
more materials for housing, and
more mechanical power to lighten
their’ burdens. We invite other
countries to pool their technologi
cal resources in this undertaking.”
. UN Support
The “Truman Plan” for world
betterment constituted the only
new point in the President’s four
main courses of foreign policy ac
tion. Under the other three this
nation would:
1. Continue “unfaltering support
to the United Nations” and search
for ways to strengthen it.
2. Continue programs for world
economic recovery; first, through
the European Recovery program;
second, by increasing world trade.
3. Strengthen ‘“freedom - loving
nations against the dangers of ag
gression.” Mr. Truman flatly
promised: “We will provide mili
tary advice and equipment to free
nations which will cooperate with
us in the maintenance of peace and
security.”
While the President nowhere
named Russia outright in his
scathing attack on Communism,
his words apparently ended any
possibility of quick and easy com
promise between the Soviet Union
and the West.
But “in due time,” he said, he
believes “those countries which
now oppose us will abandon their
delusions and join with the free
nations of the world in a just set
tlement of international differen
ces.”
That he does not consider such
a settlement possible now he made
clear at. the very outset. The
United States and other non-Com
munist nations, he declared, have
been balked in their work for “a
just and lasting peace”, by “a. re
gime with contrary aims and a
totally different concept of life.”
Fake Rewards
“That regime adheres to a false
philosophy which purports to of
fer freedom, security and greater
opportunity to mankind,” he as
serted. “Misled by this philosophy,
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and cold with low
temperature of 30 degrees
tonight, Increasing cloudi
ness and warmer Friday and
Saturday. Rain Saturday,
GEQRGIA—Fair in north
and partly cioudy in south
portion and rather cold this
afternoon, wmostly fair and
colder tonight, low tempera
tures 28 to 24 in north por
tion and 36 to 42 in south
portion; Friday partly cloudy
and warmer,
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REAT DAY FOR HARRY TRUMAN
i axes oath of office fer f
; P IN z f n¢; fer four vears
Cheering Masses Whoop
Up Gala Inauguration
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(AP)—Harry 8. Truman’s
farm boy-to-President ¢areer brought him his “great
day” today: the acclaim of hundreds of thousands of fei
low citizens and the start of a White House term won in
kis own right. i
From all over America, his
backers and well-wisnhers came to
share the 'excitement and glory
of inauguration day.
They packed along the national
capital’s bunting-draped broad
avenues to cheer every glimpse of
the President. -
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man turned his back on it all.
Two hours before the oath-taking
ceremony, he went with Mrs. Tru
man and their daughter, Margaret,
to St. John’s Episcopal church.
JThere, he bowed his head and
heard the Rev. C. Leslie Glen pray
for him, for the Coungress, for sa
cial justice, for the family of na
tions and for ‘“those we love.”
Mr. Truman was u;i with the
dawn for this day of days in his
64-year-old life. !
Warm Sun
He found the skies clear and
the sun breaking out with unus
ual winter strength.
He was up so early for two rea
sons: 1. He likes to get up early,
and 2. He had a breakfast date
with the surviving men who
Parents Visit
Youth Center
Open House will be held tonight
and tomorrow night at the new
‘teen-age center at Memorial
Park from 8 to 10 o'clock. This
will be for adults — parents of
teen-agers and other interested
persons.
The operation of the club will
be explained and visitors may see
the entire facikity which has been
developed. Saturday night will be
the opening for the young people.
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fought with him in “Battery D”
of World War I days.
Mr. Truman looked them over
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ISRAEL-ARAB TRUCE
TALKS NEAR CLIMAX
RHODES, Jan. 20.— (AP) —Armistice negotiations
between Tsrael and two Arab neighbors—Egypt and Le
vanon—are reported_in a deécisive stage.
An authoritative sourece in Rhodes said. last night Dr
Ralph Bunche, acting United Nations mediator. has sub
mitted to Israel ana Egypt the first draft of a compromise
on the disputed Negev desert. ,
A’ reliable cource in Tel Aviv
said the first draft of an Israeli-
Lebanese agreement was written
yesterday at the Lebanese fron
tier village of Ras En Naqura.
The Rhodes informant said the
Israeli - Egyptian compromise
brings together the conflicting
viewpoints of the two nations on
the strategic southern Palestine
desert. He said 1t alsc involves
troop withdrawals and a reduc
tion in the number «f soldiers on
beth sides in that area.
Complete details of the com
promise were not availables
Bunche has pledged beth the Is
raeli and Egyptian delegations to
secrecy. :
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Dixie States
Prominent In
Parade Today
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—(AP)
—Fiorida, Georgia and Alabama
had prominent roles in President
Truman’s inaugural parade down
the flag bedecked Pennsylvania
avenue today.
The order of march, however,
separated the units by good dis~
tances. Georgia was assigned to
the Second Division, Alabama to
the Fourth and Florida to the
Fifth.
Governor Fuller Warren ac
companied by his assistant, Frank
Wright, was spotted to lead Flori-
da’s unit. The Peninsula State’s
float depicted an aquaplane drawn
by a sailfish. There was a back
ground of palm trees, and oranges
were strategically placed about the
float.
Mrs. Elizabeth Golden of Lees
burg was assigned a spot atop the
aguaplane while to the rear of the
float were Miss Iris June Hart of
Sebring; Miss Alma Butler of
Chipley and Miss Gertrude Nox
tine of Palm Harbor.
The girls wore sweaters and
slacks because of Washington’s
weather; otherwise, they would
have chosen bathing suits to ad
vertise Florida’s winter climate.
Governor Warren had four
Florida highway patrolmen to es=
cort his car.
Governor and Mrs, Herman Tal
madge headed Georgia’s represen
tation in the parade. The state
float which commanded consider
| able attention was a replica of the
Little White House at Warm
Springs. It was there that Presi~
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
! ~ Georgia Girls
Eight Georgia girls—four dress
ed in colonial costumes and four in
modern attire—rode the float.
They were Clarissa Wright, At
lanta; Martha Brown, Cartersville;
Mary Martin Davis, Atlanta; Dor
othy Winfree, Atlanta; Lois Lin
quist, Athens; Kay Gassett, Thom
aston; Mildred Pharr, Lawrence
;liille, and Jackie Ann Bigley, Dub»
n. LIPSt are 5
Governor and Mrs. Talmadge
will attend a reception for Presi
dent and Mrs. Truman at the Na
tional Gallery of Art this after
noon and the inaugural ball, to
night.
Governor and Mrs. James Fol
som headed the Alabama contin~
gent. It was one of the largest,
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The Israeli-Lebanese agree
ment was drawn up between rep
resentatives of the two govern
ments, the Tel Aviv informant
said. He said the delegations re
turned to their respective capi
tals to present the vet unsigned
drafts for the approva. of their
home goernments.
Elias Sassoon, expert on Near
Eastern affairs in the Israeli for
eign mini#ry, had been called
home from the Egyptian-Israeli
talks in Rhcdes to head the ne
gotiations with Lebanon. .
~Earlier a reliable source in Na
‘hariya, Palestine, said a Leban
ese-Israelia agreement hacd . been
signed yesterday.