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NEXT MOVE IN U. S. - RUSSIA
DEBATE LEFT UP T 0 KREMLIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—(AP)—The next move in the
Moscow-Washington debate over how to end the cold war
js now clearly up to the Kremlin, diplomatic authorities
acreed today.
Two possible major lines of Soviet counter action were
forseen here:
1. A new blast at the United
States for rejecting Premier
Stalin’s so-called ‘“‘peace” state
ments of last Sunday. This might
be coupled with the familiar Rus
sian argument that while Moscow
seeks an improvement in East-
West relations the United States
is maneuvering toward war.
2. Some specific proposal for a
settlement of -one or more out
standing issues along the lines
laid down by President Truman
and Secretary of State Acheson.
Together these two ~American
leaders have slammed shut the
door on any kind of direct meet
ing between -Mr, Truman -éand
Premier Stalin for the purpose of
making a “pact of peace” or try
ing to settle between themselves
issues involving other countries—
which mean all the real issues in
cluded in East-West conflict.
However, both the President
and his Secretary of State have
left the way open for the Rus
All Is Ready
K mateur
or Amat
ight
Show Tonigh
With between 400 and 500 tick
ets sold in the advance sale, indi
cations are that a capacity audi
ence will be on hand tonight when
the curtain rises on the big Lions
Club Amateur Show at 8:15 in the
Fine Arts Auditorium.
That number of tickets had been
disposed of by members of the
club through yesterday and the
lickets will be on sale at the box
Office tonight. Prices are $1 for
adults, 75 cents for University
‘tudents and fifty cents for chil
dren under 16 years‘old. :
Proceeds from the show, -in
hich S3OO in prizes are offered
or the best talent displayed, will
£0 to the Lions Club Public Wel
lare. Fund. Prizes are $l5O for
lirst prize, SIOO ior second prize
and §SO for third prize. Winners
will be selected by the audience
lhrough the use ‘of an Applause
Meter which will register the in
tensity of the applause for each
of the many acts by the audience,
a 5 1S done on many of the big radio
contest shows.
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Announce Program
Following is the schedule of
4¢ls to be presented:
The Melloaires, Band; Pete Lo
84n, - bariton solo; Beth AKkins,
Sbecialty tap® dance; Charles Mc-
Call, piano solo; The Settle Twins,
vocal duet; L. B. Berryman, folk
2ong: Donald Tolbert and Patsy
fhodes, song with piano accom-
Paniment,
Jimmy Knowles jr., tap dance;
Mrs James Maxwell, monologue;
Betty Noell, piano solo: Laddie
Wigley, soprano solo; Sally Jones,
novelty tap dance; William Huff
and Payl Malcom, vocal duet, ac
“Ormpanied by Gwendolyn Poole.
Nathaniel Rosenthal, imperson
alions; Hazel Tvey, piano imperso
nations; Joe McKee, tenor solo;
Jetferson Playboys, string band;
Charlotte Atkins, blues song; Bet-
Ly June McCants, tap dance; Jane
f-hf*rhart, toe dance and acroba
.22yl Wilson, soprano - solo;
~Orta Malcom, * accordian - solo;
~ene Jenkins, novelty solos; Cliff
Collier anqg Hanoria Brennan,
_Ance tango; June Barrett, piano
'O and Jim Griffeth, baritone
Lions Club Amateur Show Tonight In Fine Arts Auditorium
Associated Press Service
are heing freed trom the frozen Red Desert
for shivment to feed lots at Fort Collins,
floek which survived the bitter blizzard
in Western states. (AP Wirephoto). = - ¢
sians, if they want to end such
struggles as that over Berlin, to
come forward with proposals for
action through established diplo
matic channels.
At his news conference yester
day Mr. Truman declared that
the United States would not. go
outside the framework of the
United Nations to enter into talks
with Russia or other powers on
the world sitpation.
At the State Department this
remark was interpreted to mean
not only such U. N. agencies as
the Security Council and General
Assembly. It also would include
other related agencies such as the
Council =of Foreign Ministers
whose responsibility for handling
the problems growing out of World
War II is indirectly recognized in
the United Nations charter.
Mr. Truman also declared that
Stalin’s Sunday statements had
been completely and fairly
answered by Acheson after consul
tation with the President.
Acheson took the position in a
news conference statement Wed
nesday that the United States and
Russia were already committed to
avoid war or the threat of force
in their relations with each other
or other nations. He said the com
mitment is in the United Nations
charter and implied that any new
pact along the same line would
be meaningless. |
Some authorities believe that
the Russians may now follow up!
their moves—possibly under a
cover of anti-American propa-}
ganda—by making some specific
settlement proposals. '
FEUDIN'ANDFUSSIDI_’ .
Congress Renews Bitter Fight
Over Democratic Labor Program
BY JACK RUTLEDGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —(AP)
—Feudin’, fussin’ and fightin’ re
sumed early today over the ad
ministration’s laber program.
The -Senate Labor committee
scheuled hearings, beginning un
usually early ana continuing into
the night, to work out labor leg
islation that will be voted on
later.
Yesterday President Truman
and Senator Taft (R-Ohio) clash
ed over presidential authority to
halt strikes endangering national
health or welfare. .
In this, Taft received unexpec
ted support from the CIO, which,
however, endorsed the Truman
plan to repeal the Taft-Hartley
Act and replace it with a modified
Wagner Act.
The administration program, as
outlined by Secretary of Labor
Tobin, contained no legal club to
beat down strikes that could
prove dangerous to the national
welfare. Tobin said that instead
“public opinion” could curb such
threats.
Needs No Other
Later, however, Mr. Truman
said he had ample authority to
halt strikes, and needed no other
power than that given him as
President and Commander-In-
Chief.
He said history, and Attorney
General Clark, backed him up in
that.
Taft promptly denied the Pres
ident had any such authority, and
said even the suggestion of such
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“FORGOTTEN MAN”—Naval Air
man Joe Vogen, 23, from Brooklyn,
N. Y., is sitting it out at the Air
Force base at' Shreveport, La.—
the ‘“forgotten man” of the year|
Last Dec, 29 he was cordered to
stay with a plane which was
greunded by engine trouble at the
base. No-further order has come
—and Joe is still sitting in the
plane. (AP Photo).
'power has “a threat to the lib
erty of the people!” "
Arthur Goldberg, the CIO gen
eral counsel who appeared as a
witness yesterday, generally en
dorsed the administration bill but
said he disagreed with Clark and
the President about any inherent
power the President might have
to biock a strike.
That’'s where matters rested
when the committee went into
action today, with the ¥eb. 10
deadline on hearings less than a
week - away. -
The Senate Banking Committee
moved along briskly on a bill to
extend wartime export controls,
which expire Feb. 28. Chairman
Maybank, (D-SC). called the
group ‘into closed session (10 a.
m.) to vote on approval of the
extension, probably for 28 months.
Vote Extension
The House Banking Committee
yesterday voted 17 to 6 to give the
President the full 28-month ex
tension he requested.
Controls would serve to protect
the United States in case of do
mestic shortages and also help
ban certain exports to unfriendly
nations. Mr. Truman made an
important compromisé yesterday:
He agreed that the Agriculture
Department rather than the Com
merce Department would make
decisions on farm exports.
The Senate Agricultural Com
mittee, meanwhile, was called
into session (10:30 a. m.) to in
vestigate government purchases
of foreign farm products for glo
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949
Senate By-Pas:zs Action
Temporarily On Vote Bill
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Action Is Postponed Since
Only 27 Senators Present
ATLANTA, Feb. 4— (AP)—The Georgia Senate today
bypassed action on the voter re-registration .bill aimed
at curbing the voting privileges of negroes—and some
whites.
Senate President Marvin Grif
fin, noting that only 27 senators
were present, said he wouid not
‘call up any controversial measures
for consideration. There are 54
senators.
The ‘re-registration bilk, which
‘would wipe out the present list of
1,200,000 qualified*voters, was at
the top of the Senate’s calendar
for debate this morning. Griffin's
action automatically precluded
any action until next week since
the Senate rarely meets on Sat
urday.
Most of the senators usually
go home for the week-end, many
leaving Friday.
The House had only routine
business ‘scheduled for the day.
Other- general measures await
ing senate action include: i
Establishment of a factory for
the blind. - ]
Creation of a Veterans’ Educa
tional Council. '
Provision for creating a state
wide forest fire prevention system.
Extension of -the merit system to
the Department of Safety.
Creation of the office of Solici
tor General Emeritus.
Requirement of a loyalty oath
from all state employes.
Regulation of the sale of ciga
rettes.
Prohibition of advertisement of
spirituous liquors.
The loaded Senate calendar
came on the heels of heavy work
yesterday in passing the general
appropriations bill after hiking
the total by $250,000 to $108,549,-
026. £
“The éxtra $250,000 was added
to give the Agriculture Depart
ment $500,000 for expansion ' of
state farmers’ markets.
In “other action yesterday,
Senate passed the House-approv
ed bill enabling the state to build
$9,000,000 in hospitals a year dur-
I‘lng the next'five years.
Senate Amendment
The bill was amended by the
Senate, however, to provide for a
single participation by & city or
county of $350,000.
The hospital bill now returns to
the House for concurrence. Under
the bill the state puts up $3,000,000
to be matched equally by the fed
eral government and local govern
ments.
A floor fight in the Senate yes
terday brough the administration
forces of Gov. Herman Talmadge
their first real opposition.
Sen. J. Knox Gholston of Comer
sought unsuccessfully to bring to
the floor his bill providing for a
10 man highway board elected by
the General Assembly.
Since the bill runs counter to
administration wishes, Sen. Craw
ford Pilcher of Warrenton led a
fight to have the measure post
poned until next Monday.
Pilcher, administration floor
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bal aid programs.
A resolution by Chairman El
mer Thomas (D-Okla) would au
thorize a probe into purchases of
wheat, rice and other products by
the Economic Cooperations Ad
ministration and the army quar
termaster Corps for use abroad.
Thomas said he wants Con
gress to decide whether the gov
ernment should buy cheaper for
eign farm products, or support
American farmers by buying at
home.
. ERP Causes Howls
The shipping ‘industry, Mari
time unions and Congress have
hset up a ‘similar we-want-our
share howl over how much recov
ery plan cargoes should have in
American ships. When the Eu
ropean recovery program started,
Congress through it had things
fixed for American operators to
get half the business. But it hasn’t
worked out that way. ECA ex
empts certain items.
Yesterday the Maritime Com
mission proposed to the House
IMerchant Marine Committee that
at least half of all goods carried
to or from the U. S., and financed
by this country must be moved in
American ships when they are
available and rates are ‘“reason
able.”
The ECA has defended "its po
sition by saying it has been saving
taxpayers’ money because Amer
ican shipping is often more ex
pensive than foreign.
The President was one step
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Registration
IBill
|Bill Sets Up
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'Voter ‘Tests
1 ATLANTA, Feb. 4— (AP)—
1 Can you read or write the Consti
tutions of the United - States or
Georgia “intelligibly or legibly?”
If the registrar says you can,
you would be permitted to vote
under the re-registration law sla
tel for action in the State Senate
today.
This is the bill, backed by the
administration of Gov. Herman
Talmadge, which will wipe out
the present registration list of
some 1,200,00 qualified voters, in
ciuding 150,000 negroes.
The bill represents a campaign
promise by Gov. Herman Tal
madge tc curb bloc voting by ne
goes in Georgia.
As the bill now stands, along
with proposed amendments, the
boards of registrars will be the
judges of what lis “intelligible”
and what is ‘“legible.” |
So what if you cannot read nor
write? 1
The state of republic committee‘
headed by Sen. Howard T. Over
by of Gainesville has in hand a
proposed amendment to set up a
test to see whether a man of
“good character and understand
ing"” is qualified to vote.
50 Questions
This amendment would incor
porate into the bill a series of 50
questions. From these questions
the registrars will be able to se
lect 20 .at.random for sdbmissien
to a prospective voter. 1
If the voter can answer 10 cor
rectly, the amendment provides,
he will be deemed qualified.
The present bill also would re
quire all voters to re-register
every four years.| The re-regis
tration test would be applied only
the first year.
Thereafter the . voters would
have to return to the courthouse
every four years. But six months
prior to an election he would
have to sign a card saying he
would like to stay on the registra
tion list.
Here are the questions to be
submitted to the illiterate voter
or the prospective voter who can
‘not read or write “intelligibly or
legibly:”
1. Who is president of the Uni
ted States?
2. What is his term of office?
) 3. May he be legally elected
for a second term? .
| 4. If he dies in office who
succeeds him?
‘ 5. If he becomes unable to per
form his duties who succeeds
him?
} 6. If the vice-president succeeds
to the presidency and dies, who
succeeds him?
7. How many groups compose
Congress?
- 8. How many senators are there
in the Congress of the United
‘United States?
9. How many United States
States senators from Georgia?
10. How are United States Sen
ators elected?
11. Who are the senators from
Georgia now?
12. How many members are
there in the House of Representa
tives of the United States?
13. How many congressmen
represent Georgia in Congress?
14. How are congressmen elect
ed?
14. Can you name three con
gressmen from Georgia?
16. How many congressional
districts in Georgia?
17. In what congressional dis
trict do you reside?
18. Who is your representative?
19. How long has yoyr congress
man served in Congress?
10. Is your congressman a resi
dent of your district?
21. Does you congressman under
the law have to be a resident of
your district?
22. Can you name three com
mittees in the National Congress?
23. Is your congressman a
member of any one of three com
mittees?
24. Can you name any commit
tee in National House of which
your congressman is a member?
25. Under the provisions of the
United States Constitution, must
there e a Supreme Court?
26. Can you name two other
federal courts?
Supreme Court
27. Can Congress abolish all
other courts than the Supreme
Court?
28. How many judges are there
on the Supreme Court? |
29. Does the Constitution pre
scribe this number?
30. Who is the Chief Justice?
31. Can you name two other
justices on the Supreme Court?
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TANK CARS BURN IN DERAILMENT—H¢2avy hlack
staoXe towere irto the skv from hurning tank cars of 2
Misscuri-Kansas-Texas Railroad freieht train derailec
near Mokane, Mo. The cars were loaded with crude oil.
No <ne ves burt in th eaccident which was attributed to
a brolien wheel. About 50 cars of the train were pulled
to safety away from the fire.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Pr'ce Dli F i
New Look By E ists
NEW YORK, Feb. 4—(AP)—lncreasingly charp de
cl@ex' in commodity prices in recent days are causing
e€onomic prophets to take ancther lonk at their fore
casts-
Today is the anniversary of last
year’s big break in commodity
prices, and although declines this
year have been more gradual, they
appear to be gaining momentum
and are being watched closely by
all business leaders for clues ‘to
the future. "
Most economists and business
leaders at the turn of the year
predicted 1949 would be a year of
general business activity, only
slightly below 1948.
However, the commodity price
drops of recent days are causing
some of them to wonder whether
a sharper adjustment may not bhe
at hand. The evidenge is far from
conclusive as yet, but it is one
straw 'among several getting close
attention from most business lead
ers.-
~ The Associaied Press commodity
index of 35 weighted wholesale
prices dropped yesterday to 169.40,
lowest since Feb. 11, 1947, repre
senting a decline of 3.13 in one
week. And over seven points in
a month. It compares with. 199.93,
the starting point of last year’s
sharp break in commodity prices,
and the all-time high of 208.14 on
Jan. 9, 1948. The decline from the
all-time high is just short of 14
per cent.
Lowest Yet ]
The Dun and Bradstreet whole—{
sale food price index, representing
the total wholesale cost of a pound
of each of 31 foods in general use,
dropped this week to ss.Bß—low
§st since the end of QPA in
October, 1946. The index was off
one-half of one per cent from the
previous week, 17.6 per ‘cent
under a year and 20.1 per cent
under last flwieal?—time high.
Top prices for slaughtered hogs
on the Kansas City Market drop
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Showers today followed by
mostly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday. Not much change in
temperature,
EXTENDED FORECAST
Georgia and the Carolinas:
Temperatures will average 2 to
5 degrees above nermal. Mild
Saturday. - Warmer Sunday.
Little change in temperature
Moiday, becoming cooler
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Light rain coastal area tonight,
Maoderate rain Sunday night
and Monday.
TEMPERATURE
IRhent v v o, .. 48
RO 0 s el s 8D
BN i v e e B
RLe s A
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ...... 1.33
Total since Feb. 1 ........ 144
Excess since Feb. 1 .. .... .72
Average Feb, rainfall .... 5.09
Total since January 1 .... 5.50
Excess since January 1 .... .12
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
ped to $20.25 a hundredweight
vesterday, lowest since OPA. In
Chicago, the price was $21.25,
down $1.50 in the last month.
Oil companies made a new re
duction of 20. cents a barrel in
heavy fuel oils, the latest of a
series of price cuts in recent weeks.
Scrap steel, highly important in
new steel production, has dropped
from $43.08 a ton to $38.50 in the
last month, reflecting both aug
mented supplies of pig iron—also
used in steel making—and a gen
eral softening of the gray market
in steel.
Sagging grain prices started
speculation as to whether the gov
ernment’s price support program
could put the brakes on the slump
in farm products. One dealer ex
pressed the situation this way:
“There’s a big supply of every
thing.”
ON TRIAL FOR TREASON
A O SV S N RSN SN
Aged Cardinal Admits
Planning Jail Break
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, Feb. 4—(AP)—Duke Paul
Sterhazy one of pre-war Hungary’s richest men, pleaded
guilty in people’s court on the second day of the treason
trial of Jogef Cardinal Midszenty.
The Duke was the fourth de
fendant to enter a plea. Six man
are on trial with the Cardinal
who was accused by the govern
ment prosecutor yesterday of
seeking American assistance to
break jail and flee the country
by plane in order to escape trial
on charges of treason, spying,
plotting against the government
and engaging in black market
money deals.
The court said the Cardinal,
56-year-old Roman Catholic pri
mate of Hungary, admitted writ
ing a letter to U. S. Minister Sel
den Chapin asking him to furnish
a plane for the escape and offer
ing $4,000 for the pilot.
The Cardinal admitted partial
guilt yesterday in his defiance of
the Communist-dominated state,
but declared he had not plotted to
destroy the country’s “Democratic
system” -—the most serious
charge against him.
The court room was half empty
when the five judges marched in
at 9:10 a. m,, to begin the second
day of the trial after a recess of
only about 11 hours. The court
did not adjorun last night until
10 p. m. — after a 13-hour gruel
ling session,
Esterhazy, called first before
the court, pleaded guilty while
his wife, a former ballerine,
stared desperateiy from her seat
on the last bench in the court
room. *~
Tax Fear May
Block U. S.
‘Spend’ Spree
WASHINGTON, Fe. 4b—(AP)
—House Democratic leaders, fear
ing a spending spree in the Blst
Congress,, are counting on Presi
dential vetoes and congressional
opposition to higher taxes to stop
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They admitted privately today
that they see no way now to keep
the House from passing a vast
veterans’ pension bill and other
measures which could dun federal
spending into billious of dollars
not figured in President Truman’s
budget.
“We took a calculated risk when
Iwe curbed the power of the rules
committee to pigeonhole bills,” a
top democrat told reporters. “That
risk was that some committees
migh vote for big spending bills
and force a House vote over rules
committee opposition.”
To keep a possible coalition of
republicans and Southern demo
crats on the Rules Committee
from tying up some of President
Truman’s major bills, the demo
cratic leadership put through a
new rule o let any committee
chairman force a House vote on a
bill not cleared by the Rules Com
mittee within 21 days.
Under that new rule, Chairman
Rankin (D.-Miss.) of the House
Veterans Committee is reported
ready to force action on a vet
erans’ pension bill estimated to
cost $2,000,000,000 the first year
of its operation. The adminis
tration is opposed to the expense.
And republicans prediet that the
House Postoffice Committee soon
may approve pay raises for postal
workers, adding another huge item
to the cost of the government.
Chairman of the Post Office
Committee is Rep. Murray (D.-
Tenn.) who, like Rankin, is not
toe responsive to the wishes of
the House leadership.. :
House leadexrs believe that on-a
roli-call vote, both the pension
and pdy raise bills would pass
easily.
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Russian Airmen .
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Pleased With U.S.
WESTOVER AIRFORCE BASE,
Mass. Feb. 4 — (AP) — Two
Russian Air Force officers who
escaped from the Soviet Union
by plane landed here today—de
lighted to reach America.
They took off Wednesday noon
from Rhienmain, Germany, air
field in a Navy VR-3 military air
transport plane and landed at
2 a. m. (Eastern Standard Time).
.
1 Fire Yesterday
The Fire Department answered
one call yesterday at 6:10 p. m.
to 1682 South Milledge avenue
where a chimney was burning out,
No damage was incurred.
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Josef Cardinal Mindszenty