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Vol. CXVII, No. 32.
Changes In
U.S. Postal
Setup Asked
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—(AP)
__Take the Post Office Department
out of politics, the Hoover com
mission advised Congress today.
The bi-partisan group headed
by former President Herbert Hoo
ver recommended that thé Post
master General be barred from
heading a National Political Com
mittee, and that postmasters be
career men, chosen for merit and
not subject to Senate confirma
uon.
The report was the Commis
sion’s fourth in a series of recom
mendations on streamlining the
executive brance of government.
Meanwhile the lawmakers stud
jed such matters as the business
outlook, labor legislation and the
housing problem.
A. D. H Kaplan, a Brookings
Instution Economist, told a joint
Senate-House committee that the
current business hesitation is just
an economic “burp” and that “des
perate” measure by the govern
ment would be more harmful than
helpful. :
Spokesmen for the U. S. con
ference of mayors went before the
Genate banking committee to tes
tify that the housing needs of low
income families can be met only
with federal help. The committee
is studying a group of housing
bills.
The foremen’s Association of
America asked Congress today for
a law permitting foremen to bar
gain collectively with employers.
HOUSE COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED
TOO INVESTIGATE JEKYLL ISLAND
Sudden Action Is Aimed At Halting
Possible Threat Of Long Filibuster
ATLANTA, Feb. 17.—(AP)—Threatened with a fili
buster over a Jekylil Island bill. the House today agreed
to appoint a committee to investigate the island resort.
Rep. Iris Blitch “of Clinch county withdrew her bill
which would have set up a five man Jekyl! Island author
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“Since this bill ,came up so late
in the session and a filibuster is
imminent I will withdraw ‘my
bill.” she said.
The House then adopted a reso
lution which provides for a five
man board appointed by the Gov
ernor to decide what should be
done with Jekyll Island. The res
olution was .introduced by Rep.
Charles Gowan of Brunswick.
The House agreed to the reso
lution unanimously after Floor
Leader Frank Twitty urged its
adoption.
Gov. Herman Talmadge report
edly is insisting that some action
be taken to halt losses in operation
of the island as a state park.
~ The Senate passed a bill open
ing the door to new industries in
Georgia, by setting a uniform tax
for accounts reecivable. '
Under the bill, which now goes
to the Governor for signature, ac
counts receivable will be taxed at
$3 per SI,OOO.
The Senate then took up the
House-passed measure permitting
the General Assembly to be the
sole judge of a Governor’s qualifi
cation and election, but recessed
before taking any action.
The House, meanwhile, tabled a
bill which would have made more
people eligible for old age pen
sions.
Hunting Licenses
_ The House passed a bill increas
ing state hunting licenses from
$3.25 to $5.25. It leaves county
license fees at present rates. An
other bill passed increases State
fishing lcienses fro $1.25 to $2.50.
However, hook and line fishermen
fishing in their own county would
not have to buy a license.
MP Wounded In Search
2 GI ESCAPE ARTISTS
SLUG WAY OUT OF JAIL
EADE, Md., Feb. 17 —
( AFF"O)T"E“% Army escape ar:xsfi
slugged their way out of a de le b
tion cell with a cane here .late as
night and another soldier watsl
critically wounded in the searc
for them.
The two men who got away
were identified by Maij. T.eon H.
Durst, Second Army public rela=
tions officer, as Pvt. Robert Nel=
son, 22, of (30 Penningion Ave
nue) Rome, Ga., and Pvt. Donald
J. Nye, 21, of 328 W. Ostrander
Street) Syracuse, N. Y.
They had been brought here
from the federal prison at Lewis
burg, Pa. to testify in the court
martial of Lt. Col. George E. Pin
ard, accused of neglecting Ameri
‘an solders in a German prison
three years ago. v
Maj. Durst said they overpow
ered two guards, grabbed a rifle
from an open locker, and disap
peared ,in the woods.
Three fihsfivrsmi;{evx:, about 2:30
' M. an MP squad searching for
‘he pair passed a medical labora-
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IRON LUNG GIRL SPURNS HOSPITAL — For two
vears Janet Gentle, pretty 18-year-old polio victim, has
lived in an iron lung at her home in Russellville, Ala.,
at the expense of the Infantile Paralysis Foundation.
But now the Foundation has notified her parents it no
longer can pay two nurses S6OO a month to operate the
artificial respirator. Foundation officials offered to
give Janet treatment at 4 hospital in Milton, W. Va.
She rejected the offer. “I would rather die than go back
to a hospital and leave my family,”’” she said. The nurse
at left was not identified.— (AP Photo.)
The present tax rate on accounts
receivable is approximately $47
per SI,OOO, and is collected in only
a few counties, Sen.. Crawford
Pilcher of Warrenton said.
Pilcher read a letter from the
John Deere Plow Co. saying that
if the uniform tax measure were
passed, the firm would build a
million dollar plant just outside
Atlanta. ; |
The present tax structure pro
vides that if a firm liquidates its
accounts receivable before Jan. 1
yvearly the tax rate would be only
10 cents per thousand. Thus, said
Pilcher, many firms sold their ac
counts receivable to subsidiaries
before the end of each year.
Retirement Plan
In other action, the Senate
adopted the House approved bill
setting up a retirement plan for
judges of the State Supreme
Court.
A bill to legalize Sunday movies
was put aside temporarily on mo
tion of Sen. Walter Harrison of
Millen, who asked for time to pre
pare a debate on the measure.
The Governor says Jekyll Is
land is losing 's4oo to SSOO a day
and cannot continue without dis
rupting the entire State Parks De
partment.
Under legislative procedure it
would be impossible to get a
House-originated bill enacted into
law unless it has cleared the House
chamber before adjournment to
day.,
The Senate had the hard-to
handle $77,000,000 contingent sec
tion of the appropriation bill on its
calendar. This money would have
to be raised through new taxes
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tory about a mile away and no
ticed a man inside had a shotgun.
'Sgt. Walton Morris of Crozet,
Va., who was on guard duty there,
explained " later ' that it had been
advised to keep a gun handy. The
MP patrol called for him to, come
out with the gun, and there was
an exchange of shots and Sgt.
Morris was wounded in the face.
He is in serious condition at the
Station Hospital. :
. Maj. Durst reported that both
the men who escaped had three
times ptreviously made breaks
from prisons. ’ A
Nelson, a cripple who walked
with a cane, was serving a three
year sentence for black market
activities in Germany, plus two
years for his escapes.
The officers said Nye originally
was sentenced to life imprison
ment for strangling a German girl
while AWOL in Germany. Later,
he said, extenuating circumstances
were found and sentence was re
duced to 10 years.
TWO-YEAR-OLD
SYLACAUGA, Ala., Feb. 17—
(AP} — A 2-year-old bey was
found today on a mountain ug
here after an overnight sear
in which an estimated 1,000 per
sons joined.
The child, Rickey Dunn Tank
ersiey, was suffering from shock
and exposure, but was not be
lieved seriously affected by his
ordeal. :
Rickey and several small degs
wandered off from the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs, L. C.
Tankersley, about 4:30 p. m.
vesterday
Alarm was sounded at
nightfall and law enforcement
officers, National Guardsmen
and neighbors joined in the
hunt.
The small boy was found by
his father about 8 a. m. He was
asleep on the side of a mountain,
the dogs nearby.
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Wire Kills.
Negro Youth
A coroner's inquest held today
resulted in a verdiet of “acciden
ta, death caused by a live wire”
in the death of Jackson Lawrence,
17, colored employe of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Lawrence was electrocuted al
most instantly yesterday after
noon shortly befor2 Zour o’clock
as he was unlecading ccal on a
truck near the Central Railway.
He was pronounced dead on ar
rival at General Hospital where
he was rushed by ambulance.
Witnesses said that Lawrence
met his death when he stepped
back and a live wire became en
tangled around his neck.
Coroner 3. C. Cartledge pre
sided =at the inquest held this
morning at Mack and Payne Fun
)eral Home. :
’, ATHENS AND VICINITY
| Continued fair and cool with
Jight - scattered frost tonight.
" ¥riday partly cloudy and war
- mer.
. GEORGIA — Fair and cool
this afternoon, partly cloudy in
south portion, mostly fair in
north pertion and cooler to
night *with low temperatures
32-38, scatiered lighi firosi in
extreme north portions; Friday
partly cloudy and warmer,
TEMPERATURE
Highest ... v ..2 01
Tow West . L 0 iOh
Menn v riatines civEide e4B
Normtal i¥, .8 oot ... 48
RAINFATT
Inches last 24 hours .. ... 166
Total since Fgbruary 1 ... 5.36
Excess sinte February 1 .. 2.30
Average February rainfall 5.08
Total since January 1 .... 9.42
. Excess since January 1 ... 1.90
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949.
Thousands Stranded By
Heavy Snow, Raging Floods
Food And Fuel Shortages Hit
Insolated Western Communites
By The Associated Press
Mountainous snows and flood waters in some areas of_
the storm-stricken West isolated several communities to
dav, and thousands of persons were stranded.
| Food and fuel shortages in
' some of the snowbound Wyoming
towns petame more acute. The
misery of ranch families mount
ed. At least a dozen small towns
and several ranches in the Elko,
Nev., area were marooned. Resi
dents declared an informal “state
of emergency,’ and private and
Army pilots flew food into the
area.
Flood waters in Pysht Valley
on the Olympic peninsula isolat
ed five northwestern Washington
communities. Several other towns
were threatened. Snow slides
roared into Pacific northwest
mountain passes, impeding rail
and road travel across Washing
ton.
For the second time in a week
the mining town of Burke in
\northern Idaho was isolated by a
slide which cut its only road to
the outside,
A landslide in Port Angeles,
Wash., killed a woman last night.
No Truce Seen
In Philly’s
Transit Tieup
~ _PHILADELPHIA, Feb. & 17—
(AP)—Negotiations in Ph%fideiv
phia’s - week-old transit ¢ strike
‘were at a standgtill today and the
end of a city-wide walkout of
taxicab drivers was not yet in
sight.
Millions of trolly, bus, subway
and taxi riders got to work again
as best they could while police
stood by to prevent a recurrence of
yesterday’s violence in which
three motorists were beaten. ;
A conference between represen
tatives of the Philadelphia trans
portation company and the CIO-
Transport Workers Union ended
abruptly last night. |
National TWU President Mich
ael J. Quill, walked out of the of
fice ¢! Fnderal Mediator John
Murray, announcing that negotia~
:tions had been broken off.
Despite Quill’s statement, how
ever, Murray said he was hopeful
of bringing the two factions to
gether again today, possibly after
an 11 A. M., EST, news conference
announced by Quill.
After leaving last night’s meet
ing, Quill told reporters “we be
lieve the Philadelphia Transporta~
tion Company has acted in bad
faith. *We intend to contin
ue this strike indefinitely.”
Speaking for the company’s ne
gotiating committee, William C.
Macßeynolds said “the company’s
position remains the same, the of
fer on the wage scale being three
cents (an hour) and the union in
sisting on 17.”
Spokesmen for both the TWU
and the AFL-Taxi Drivers Union
denied any knowledge of yester
|day’s flareups in which three mo
torists were attacked after being
accused of hauling passengers for
pay. All three drivers denied they
had accepted fares.
7A7 Lofl§ SfOl’z To Tell Sl v .
DEFENSE TAKES OVER
IN AXIS SALLY TRIAL
|(AP)—The‘defense took over to
day in the “Axis Sally” treason
trial to tell (ts side of the story.
James J. Laughlin, chief de
fense counsel, indicated the story
will be a long onsz, winding up
with “Aixs Sally” on the witness
stand. Her tesfimony alone may
require ten days, he said.
The gevernment wound up its
case yesterday, the 16th court day
since the trial began January 28.
| Befcre today’s session began,
Laughlin told reporters he hopes
to call between 506 and 1,000
former Gl's as defense witnesses.
Whether he will he allowed to do
so is up to Federal Judge Edward
M. Curran. x
~ The attorney said the testimony
of the former soldiers would off
get that of government witnesses
who said the morale of American
troops was undermined by the
wartime activities of Mildred E.
Gillars, 43, on the German radio.
Laughlin, in his opening state
ment to the jury, contended that
Flood waters spilled over 20
biocks in the community oi iS,-
500. Planes from the Port Ange
les Coast Guard base planned to
fly food and mail to some of the
isolated Wastgngton towns. The
Coastal higfway was under four
feet of water in some places.
Generally, weather over most
of the Western blizzard states
was fair yesttrday but new falls
of snow and strong winds appear
¢d headed for storm - battered
Wyoming, the Dakotas and Ne
braska. Temperat:ares moderated
yesterday . and there were no
heavy snowfalls, Bul strong
winds whipped acreoss the isolat
ed sections of Wyoming ior the
13th straight day.
Raoads Blocked
All highways in southwestern
Wyoming were reblocked by
drifts. The Union Pacific’s trans
continental railroad line through
southern Wyoming was closed and
trains were rerouted by way of
Denver and Salt Lake City. Food
and fuel supplies dwindled at
Casper, Wyoming's second largest
city. The city of 36,006 popula
tion 'has been without regular
transportation for four days.
Between 50 and 175 interstate
trucks were held up in Wyoming
because of a gasoline shortage
caused by the drifted roads. Many
contained valuable shipments.
Two truckloads of turkeys, val
ued at more than $40,000, were
stranded at Rock Springs.
Warmer temperatures in Ne
‘braska resulted in thawing and
‘brought warnings of floed danger
at some points. In Washington,
the Agriculture Department warn
ed that the heavy snows in the
West may create devastating
floods 'l?ohen they on?:k this
spring. The danger spots are the
Columbia, Missouri and possibly
the Rio Grande river valleys. The
Department said there is danger
of flash fleods of considerable
extent in the Dakotas and Ne
braska.
Strong winds hit the Oregon
coast last night. Windows were
smashed and trees f{felled in
’Portland, Spokane and other
towns.
. Weather over the rest of the
country was fair. Temperatures
moderated in the Middle Atlantic
States after a few days of near
springlike readings. Some rain
fell in the area. Warm weather
continued in the extreme south
east and the mercury was above
normal in Califorria.
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Pacific Yolcano
May Erupt Soon
- BY SPENCER DAVIS
VOLCANO ISLAND, LAKE
TAAL. Luzon, Feb. 17.—(AP)—
More than 2,000 Filipinos have
fled this island, but Volcanologist
Arturo Alcaraz says Taal volcano
will not erupt for some time to
corme.
Steam from the crater set off
the exodus of residents.
Taal erupted 38 years ago and
killed 1,400.
I went with Alcaraz on an in
spection tour of the crater. We
found that steam sizzled from the
ground in spots when we punch
ed sticks into it. But there was
no discernible odor of suiphur or
other gases.
many American fathers and
mothers by lefting them know
their sons were alive and well in
'German prisons and hospitals.
The indictmen: against the
Maine-born Miss Gillars alleged
the messages from captured Am
erican soldiers »fre designed to
build up a largé listening audi
ence for Nazi propaganda.
Two witnesses from Germany,
Emil Beckman and Franz Scha
fer, were brought here at gov
ernment expense (o testify for
Miss Gillars after Laughlin filed
’a motion saying they could dis
pute the testimony of Germans
‘who appeared as government wit
nesses.
They will testify. Laughlin’s
motion said, that Miss Gillars’
life would have been in danger
if she did not obey the Germans.
One of the Garman witnesses for
the government said Miss Gillars
was the highest paid of all Ger
man radio broadcasters
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NYLON MYSTERY—Pat Reel
(above) is one of several hun
dred women whose nylon hose
disintegrated rvight on their
legs in the downtown area of
Jacksonville, Fla, Pot displays
her stockings, ripped to shreds
by mysterious and unseen
forces. A technician for E. L
Dupont de Nemours nylon div
ision .at Wilmington. Del,
blamed it all on a certain at
mosphere condition ~which
causes tiny coal pariicles in the
air to cling to clothing. And
these particles contain acids
damaging to any sheer stock
ing.~—~(AP Photo.) )
Weizmann Inaugurated
As First Israel Prexy
JERUSALEM, Feb. 17.—(AP)—Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
74-year-old elder Jewish statesman, was inaugurated
today as the first president of the new state of Israel.
His.right hand raised, the president of the first Jewich
State in 2.000 years, solemnly intoned:
“I, Chaim Ben Ozer Weizmann,
as president of the state, swear al
legiance to the State of Israel and
its laws.” v
Thousands of ‘spectators cheered,
shouting “long live the Presi
dent,” as Dr. Weizmann drove
through the streets of the Holy
City to the ceremonial session of
the assembly. He had been pro
visional President since may, when,
the British surrendered their
League of Nations Mandate and Is
rael proclaimed herseif an inde
pendent nation.
Dr. Weizmann, a pro-westerner
and outspokenly anti-Russian, will
be formally inaugurated with
pomp and ceremony in the Jewish
agency building near the old
walled city. The old city is still
held by Arab Legion forces as an
aftermath of the fierce fighting
that accompanied the birth pains
of the new nation.
The swearing in will take place
before the 120-man assembly
which last night chose Dr. Weiz
mann on the first ballot , after
adopting a new constitution.
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DEAD WHALE MISTAKEN FOR BLIMP AT BROOKLYN—-Chfld\ren at the Lavoy
shipvard near Sheepshead Bay, Drooklyn, mistook this dead whale for wrecked
blimp in the water. The 16-ton giant of the sea apparently was injured fatally in cel
lision with a ship. A fishing boat captain towed it ashore for sale to some tfat-ren
dering firm.— (AP Wirephoto.)
UN Topic Heads
Press Institute
Opening the public sessions of the Georgia Press Insti
tute this morning wss Thomas J. Hamilton Tinited Na.
tions correspondent of the New York Times, who said the
United Nations has failed in many problems, but that the
U. N. is doing much good work in other problems.
He remarked that he won’t say
that the U. N. will prevent war,
but that with time, “I think the U,
N. activities will diminish some
basic causes of war.
Mr. Hamilton feels that the U.
N. is a long range program. i
He expressed the opinion that
the authority of the Security
Council must be bolstered with
regional defense agreements. The
United States, he added, must do
all possible to make the long
range refugee and economic pro
grams succeed.
At noon today approximately
100 journalists from over the state
had registered at the Institute.
Ward Greene, editor and gen
eral manager of King Features Sy~
ndicate and author of a number of
books including “Star Reporters,”
told attendants at the ncon session
of the Institute that the foundation
stone of every good newspaper is
good reporting and good re
porters.
He used the theme, “Get the
news!” throughout his address.
World Crisis
Erwin D. Canham editor of the
Christian Science Monitor in his
speech on the subject of “The
American Press and World Cris
is,” said that the American peo
{;le are better informed relative
y than the people of any other
great country.
Robert W. Brown, editor of Col~
umbus Ledger-Enquirer, spoke
at the luncheon sponsored by the
Columbus-Enquirer and held at
the Georgian Hotel. ~ ~
Introductions at the sessions
held in the University Chapel this
morning were made by Deaii Jog-r;
. Drewry of<the Henry W. Grad
School of Journalism, University
of Georgia; Maynard Ashworth,
publisher of Columbus Ledger-
Dairy Co - Op
Officials
Convene Here
Mere than 25 'prominent dairy
officials of Georgia were in at
tendance today as the Georgia
Association of Dairy Co-Opera
tives opened a one-day conven
tion at Athens Civic Hall.
Mayor Jack Wells extended an
official weicome in behalf of the
city this morning at the 10:30
oponing session at which Presi
dent M. C. Ccoper, Columbus,
presided,
Features of the morning’s ac
tivities included a discussion of
local health regulations by Dr.
Wedford W. Brown, Clarke coun
ty health commissioner, and a
discussion of the history of basic
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Enquirer; and Robert L. M. Parks,
editor of the Augusta Chronicle.
Presiding over the affairs was In
stitute Chairman Jack Williams of
Waycross Journal-Herald.
Speaking at the dinner session
opening the Institute last night
Governor Herman Talmadge de
clared that Georgia newspapers
and the Governor’s office should
seek non-political issues upon
which they can cooperate for the
building of a greater Georgia.
The dinner was sponsored by
the Athens Rotary Club and the
University of Georgia. .
This afternoon, three round-ta
ble discussions were to be con
ducted:
“Newspaper Production,” with
Stanford Smith, secretary-mana
ger, Georgia Press Association,
presiding, and Edwin O. Meyer,
secretary-manager, Virginia Press
Association, leading the discus
sion; “The Newspaper and the
Community,” led by Miss Emily
Woodward, director of forums of
the University of Georgia; and
“Women’s Interests in Newspa
pers,” presided over by Mrs. Nora
Lawrence Smith, of the Ashburn
Wiregrass Farmer, and led by Mrs.
Bernice B. McCullar, Georgia
State College for Women.
-~ Dinner Tonight
Tonight the editors will be en
tertained at a dinner sponsored by
the Augusta Chronicle at the
Georgian Hotel at 6:30. William
S. Morris, publisher, will preside.
The speaker will be Dr. G. Lom-~
bard Kelly, dean of the University
of Georgia School of Medicine.
| fm;«p?amwm gel under~
way in.the Chapel at 9 o'clock
[with an address by David L. Cohn,
author of “Where I Was Born and
Raised.” He will be followed at
10 o’clock by Hal Boyle, AP col
umnist and Pulitzer Prize winner;
at 11:05 by Robert T. Elson, chief
of Time correspondents; and at
noon by Doris Fleeson, Washing
ton correspondent.
The Atlanta Journal will spon
sor a luncheon for the editors at
the Georgian tomorrow at 1:15 p.
m. Editor Wright Bryan will pre
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Europe Hopes
For U.S.War Aid
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—(AP)
Western European nations were
reported still hopeful today of ob
taining American agreement to
some open promise of military
support in the proposed North At
lantic Security Treaty.
Diplomats informants predicted
that when the Europeans next
meet with Secretary of State Ach
eson they will again press on this
point.
They are seeking to include in
the defense clause of the treaty
the clearest possible statement of
unity of the forces of the West
against any future aggressor.
They are expected to urge on
Acheson some reference at least
to the possibility of military action
by all of the members of the se~
curity organization in event of an
attack. 4
It is understood that, provided
the “military” reference was sub
ordinate to other kinds of action
along diplomatic and political
lines, Senator Vandenberg (R.-
Mich.) would have no personal ob=
jection to the wording. :