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I Vol. CXVII, No. 36.
ROGERS CITES HCL
IN U. OF GA. CRISIS
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR. '
Georgia President, Dr, J. C. Rogers, said today
{hat the high cost of living is one of the main fac
tors contributing so the present financial crisis at
the University of Georgia,
He said, “the high cost of living, including serv
jces, supplies, fuel, and other items has hit the
University System straight in the face.” :
The President added that “a veiy serious crisis
is facing the entire lUlniversity system.”
Dr. Rogers brought ont that other states have
recognized the situation and “have increased ap
propriations to meet the crisis.”
He added that “every possible economy consist
cent with high standards of service to the academic,
puciness, agriculture, and proiessional interests of
the state will be practiced.”
Enrollment Trebled
1n rominenting on the enrollment of the system
he remarked, “we hope the citizens of the state
will realize that enrollment in ihe University
system has almost trebled in the past ten years.”
He also said that the expanded service to the state
actually costs a great deal of money.
The President brought out that “the attiiude of
the Veterans Administration is costing the system
thousanids upon thousands of dollars in the form
of reduced income,” “Unless services to the state
are curtailed,” he said, *“additional money must
somewnere be found.”
In talking on the matter of having to increase
{he University fees Dr. Rogers said, “I hope it will
Reds Warned Not To Cross Yangtze
Demos Seek
Speedy Okay
On Labor Law
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(AP)
—Democrats in Congress, urged
on by impatient unions, sought to
day to speed passage of a new la
bor law. gl . ;
Thee Senate Labor Commite
neared the windup of its hearings
with no visible chang:s» in_the
views of its 13 members. Their
opinions have been voiced day
after day, sometimies at greater
length than the witnesses’.
Following the hearings, which
are due to end tomorrow, the
committee’s 8-5 Democratic ma
jority is expected to approve—
with perhaps minor changes—a
bill embodying President Tru
man’s labor proposals.
Those proposals would replace
the Taft-Hartley Act with the
original Wagner Act — plus cer
tain changes such as emergency
boards which could recommend
settlements in disputes threaten
ing the national health or safety.
Chairman Elbert Thomas (D-
Utah), sponsor of the administra=
tion bill, appealed to the commit
tee’'s Republicans late yesterday to
exercise “good will” ‘and help
speed the measure to the floor
even if they oppose it later in the
Senate debate.
But the Republicans are pretty
sure to demand their right to ar
gue—even in the committee ses
sions — for certain Taft-Hartley
provisions they want to bacsk to
the Thomas bill.,
Senator Donnell (R-Mo) espe
cially wants to preserve a Taft-
Hartley provision authorizing the
government to delay ‘national
emergency” strikes by means of
80-day injunctions.
Whitney said that labor injunc
tions are “the weapon of a cow
ard,” that the Taft-Hartley Act
1s “the most immoral and indecent
lany’\{e ever seen,” and that Don
nel’s injunction attitude is “ a
close approach to totalitarianism.”
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
Warm through Wednesday.
GEOKGIA — Partly 'cloudy
and continued warm this aft
¢rnoon, tonight and Wednes
day,
EXTENDED FORECAST
Exiended forecast for period
beginning at 7:30 p. m, (EST)
tonight and ending at 7:30 p. m.
(EST) Sunday, February 27:
GEORGlA—Continued warm,
With little change in tempera
lure during period averaging
five to 10 degrees above mor
mal. Normal minimun: 45 in
Southern Georgia; normal maxi
mum 55 in mountains to 67 in
éXtreme south Georgia. Gen
frally light showers ocenrring
about Friday or Saturday.
TEMPERATURE <
Highest 2, sive lii .00
Lowest ~ s iiiidstis g
Mean i .. iBl -el
Normal, ... o dldle.s vo 48
RAINFALL .
Inches last 24 hours ... .. .00
Total since February 1 ... 6.31
Excess since February 1 .. 2.53
Average February rainfall 5.09
Total since January 1 ....10.37
Excess since January 1 ... 2.15
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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Asso_g:_:_ated Press Service
not be necessary to increase fees, which must be
paid by the individual student or parent.” He said,
“such wculd be contrary to the theory of public
education.”
: Need $1,700,000 ‘ ,
According to an Associated Press story the Uni
versity System of Georgiz said yesterday that they
were faced with a problem of obtaining $1,70¢,000.
The story said there is a letter from one regenrt,
name undisciosed, on Governor Herman Tal
madge’s desk saying that if the money is not
raised 30G teachers will have to be drcpped.
Dr. Harmon Caldwei!, University System chan-~
cellor, said that maybe things weren’t really that
bad. '
The story said that Chancellor Caldwell said
maybe by cutting down in various way enough
could be saved to retain most of the teachers.
Bolton Comment
When contacted by the Banner-Herald this
merning, Universily of Georgia Comptroller J. D.
Bolton said that the University now has double as
many students than before the war. He said this
large enrollment necessitates more (eachers, hous
ing space, clasasrconis, and other facilities than
was needed before the war. & j
Comptroller Bolton said he believed the Univer
sity’s expenditures for the past several years has
risen in reason with the extended service the
University has rendered. Besides the large enroll
ment he brought out that the cest of living has
risen greatly since tefore the war,
Sunday Cancels
100-Y ear-Old’s
Birthday Dance
WEST POINT, Ga., Feb. 22—
(AP)—Mrs. Martha California
Reeves would have cut a few
fancy dance steps for her guests
on her 100th birthday if it
hadn’t come on Sunday.
The little Auburn, Ala., lady
greeted 600 well-wishers at a
party here. She was at her best
all day and at one point an
nounced:
“It’s too bad it’s Sunday. 'd
like to do a littie dance for you.”
She wasn’t joking either, She
has six children, 26 grand
children, 45 great grandchildren
and a great great grandson but
she can siiil touch the floor wiih
her knuckles without bending
her knees.
b +* e
Woman Shot On
Street Crossing
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 22 —
(AP) =~ A 52-year-old woman
was shot to death at a streét in
tersection here today. Shoppers
screamed as she fell. Police iden
tified her as Mary Wooten.
A man listed as Watson
(Sweetpea) Stover, 41, was arres
ted on an open charge.
Several .32 caliber bullets pen
etrated the woman’s body.
Police quoted Stover as saying
he remembered little of the shoot
ing. It occurred at 16th Street and
North Brevard streets, a neigh
borhood shopping center.
Officers quoted Stover as say=-
ing he “loved her better than any
thing.”
FROM AN OAK TREE TO AN ACORN #%
Athens College Life Convinces
Boyle It's Easy To Grow Younger
BY HAL BOYLE
ATHENS, Ga., —(AP) —Some
time, somewhere, an oak
tree is going to decide to grow
back into an acorn again.
It’s going to do it just for the
heck of it — just for fun. It’s go
ing to do it just because it sud
denly decided there’s more pleas
ure in growing young than there
is in growing up.
And there is.
Ttrying to grow younger grace
fully has been a lifelong hobby
with me. At least it has been ever
since I discovered the prime curse
of civilization is it tends to make
people old before their time. But
why should anybody ever grow
old inside?
The oldest people today are the
young people. They are a sad peo
ple, too, in a way that only old
young people can be sad.
This +has been impressed upon
me a-new by a week-end attend
ance at the Georgia Press Institute
here, home of the University of
Georgia. 1 felt a curious kinship
with the students here, because
meeting and talking to them
brought back memories of a time
when 1 was as elderly and trou
New Attacks
Threatening
Peace Moves
' By The Associated Press
Efforts to end China’s civil
war came slightly apart - at ~ the
scams today. B
Aciing President Li Tsung-Jen
warned the Communists must not
cress the Yangtze River :f they
want peace. Li declared a Red
aitack on Nengking .and Shang
hai south of the river would end
efforts for peace negotitaions.
The acting president had paid
a visit to Canton to try,to per
suade Premier Sun Fo and the
cabinet to return tfo Nanking.
The Communists have been sit
ting north of the Yangize for
seven weeks and have given no
indicaticn they intend to cross
right away
Red General Chen Yi report
edly told a Li emissary, the Com
munists would nat cross as lng
as there was a chance for peace.
The Republican Sccialisi cabi
net of Bohva resigned yestemuy‘\
tc permit President Enrigue
Hertzog to form a coalition of all
groups which supporied the rev
clution in 1946.
Such a cabget is believed to
have a bettef chance of meeting
renewed threats of an extreme
right-wing coup d’etat. ’
Bolivia has been under an of
ficial “state of siege” since Sat
urday when the government
clained to have thwarted a plot
by the Nationalist Revclutionary
Mcvement (MNXR) to seize power.
Anna Louise Strorg, American
newspaperwoman charged by the
Russians with being a spy, has
been deported from the Soviet
Union. The Soviet press an
nouncement did not state where
she was deported.
bled in spirit as they are. I sur
vived those bitter days — my own
four years sentence to college life
—and I think they will, too. And
years and years later, they will
suddenly find themselves younger
and happier. '
Awful Experiences
Growing up is an awful troub
ling experience.] I don’t know
why people go through with it.
Because once you are grown up,
you realize immediately that the
only thing to do is to try to grow
back the other way again. That is,
to try to grow young and smart
and fresh of mind again.
For the heart and mind are the
only true calendars of age. There
is no fool like and old foll, yes.
But there is no greater fool, yes.
one who lets himself be old be
fore he buys a tombstone.
What are the real advantages
of growing up? If just growing up
taught a man or woman to be tol
erant, gentle, kind or modest, it
would be a wonderful thing. If
growing up made a man or wo
man more selfless and anxious to
serve his kind or fashion the
world into a fairer garden, it
would he a fine thing, ioco.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY
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RICE ENVOY — Jocylyn Aube
(above), 1948 queen of the In
ternational JXce Festival at
Crowley, La., is helping the
rice industry in a campaign io
‘convince the American people
they should eat rice at least
once a day. !
Agnes Scott
To Receive
Big Endowiment
"MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 22— (AP)
—Agnes Scott College of Deca
tur, Ga., is going to receive ‘a
SIOO,OOO endowment from Mrs.
John B. Waterman of Mobile,
alumnae here were informed
today.
Mrs. Waterman, widew of the
founder of the Waterman
Steamship Corp., agreed to pro
vide the endowment for the col
lege’s .speech department, col
lege officials said.
The announcement said the
grant would be used to establish
the Annie Louise Harrison Wat
erman Chair of Speech, named
after the deoner.
Mrs. Watterman is a trustee of
the college.
.
t.ludge Lenient
In Plane Theft
COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 22—
(AP) — An Ohio soldier who ad
mitted stealing an airplane for a
midnight trip to Toledo was given
probationary freedom yesterday
after his wife, his commanding
officer and the plane’s owned ask
ed leniency.
Superior Court Judge T. Hicks
Fort reduced Pvt. Milton R.
Reeves’ offense to a misdemeanor
and released him to military au
thorities under 12 months proba
tion.
- Capt. H. G. Bench, Reeves’ com
manding officer, said he at first
protested Reeves’ assignment to
his paratroop jump-training out
fit, but had been impressed by the
soldier’s “superior” conduct.
~ That is really growing up. But
that wind of growing up usually
is measured by suffereing or loss
rather than the number of can
dles on a birthday cake. The ago
ny of an instant often adds meore
statue to the soul than the petty
frictions of many years. People
generally grow up—or fall apart
—after they learn they are going
to have to do without, forever,
something or some one that meant
almost as much to them as breath.
Otherwise growing up is pretty
much an undignified catalogue of
minor physical changes — all bad.
You bulge out where you used
to bend in. The barber spends less
and less time cutting the hair on
your head. He spents more and
more time weeding it out of your
ears. You have fewer dreams—
but you walk in your sleep more
in the day time.
No wonder kids in college feel
sad. The world calls: them “the
hope of toforrow” because it isn’t
ready for them — or their ideals
—today. They have reached the
peak. They are crossinfidt’l‘xat mys
tic chasm between childhood and
adulthood, that one-way bridge
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ESCAPED KILLER WALDEN
IS CAPTUREL*!N FLORIDA
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Offers Sheriff $2.,000 Bribe;
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Admits Three Safe Roberies
MONTICELLO, Fla., Feb., 22.—{(AP)—-Dave Walden,
a coavieted murderer who escaped from the Brunswick,
Ga., jail while awaiting trial for the slaying of his wife,
wag capturezd near here yesterday. :
Jeffarson County Sheriff J. R. Ccoksey, jr., caid he ar
resied Walden at Lloyd, between fiere and Tallahassee,
during a routine investigation of a Llovd store rohbery.
Cooksey said he recognized
Walden from a description heard
over a radio program and from a
tattoo mark on nis arm.
The sheriff said Walden had
admitted participating in three
Tallahassee safe robberies in
waich $5,000 was taken last week.
Welden and Johnzy McVeigh
were sentenced to life imprison
ment fer the murder of John
Fravnklin Stringfellpw in 1944 and
also were charged with™the slay
ing of Walden’s 19-year-old wife,
Patricia Ann.
McVeigh was convicted for his
part in the death of Mrs. Walden
and Walden was awaiting trial
when he escaped from the Bruns
wick jail January 20.
Skheriff Cooksey said he was
called to Lloyd yesterday morn
ing to investigate the robbery of
Split Views
On Truman’s
Home Relief
WASHINGTON: Feb. 22—(AP)
~-Laawmakers gave this. answer
day to President Truman’s re
quest for a vast expansion of the
Social Security System: Some of it
'may pass — but not the whole
thing.
The bill Mr. Truman sent to
Capitol Hill yesterday proposed
(a) providing direct ||home re
lief” to all needy persons; (b)
blanketing 20,000,000 more per
sons under old age insurance;
(¢) greatly increasing the bene
fits; (d) raising — in some cases,
triping —the tax on paychecks
and pay rolls.
It was the “home relief” idea
which ran into the closest scruti
ny in Congress.
.~ Top Democratic managers of se
culity legislation — Chairman
Doughton (D-NC) of the House
Ways and Means Committee and
Chairman George (D-Ga) of the
‘ Senate Finance Committee — took
no position on the bill.
) The program calls for an in
crease in payroll taxes from the
present $1,800,000,000 for old age
and survivors insurance, to about
' $6,000,000,000.
It would boost individual pay
roll taxes 100 per cent or more,
‘The tax on a person making $4,-
800 or more could be increased
from a top of S3O to $96 a year.
The expanded insurance pro
gram would cover a total of 50,-
000,000 persons. '
Members of Congress said they
had no idea how far the unprece
dented “home relief” program
could be or what the overall cost
would be.
' Under this phase, the maximum
payment in which the federal
government would participate
‘would be SSO a month for one per
son; SSO for the first additional
person in a home, and S2O for
each additional person. States
would contribute 40 to 75 per
cent of the cost, according to
state wealth.
~ Such assistance from the federal
treasury’s general fund, outside
the insurance program, mnow is
limited to needy aged persons, the
blind and dependent children. It
now costs about $1,000,000,000 a
year.
The new bill proposes one other
departure: disability insurance,
under which employes covered by
old age insurance would get short
time sickness benefits.
The President will send legis~
lation to the Capitol later for a
National health insurance pro
gram and for expansion of unem
ployment compensation. There are
some estimates that the health
program, with the government
paying doctor bills, would mean
about $6,000,000,000 in payroll
taxes.
Mr. Truman recommended
boosting the present 1 per cent
payroll tax social seculity, collec
ted from employes’ pay and em
ployer’s payroll, to 1 1-2 per cent
each next July and to 2 per cent
next Januarly 1, with the tax to
be applied against the first $4,800
of a worker’s income instead of
the present $3,000. |
BODY FOUND
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 22—(AP)
—The beaten body of James Ma
honey, about 50, wealthy Bristol,
Va., business man, was found in
a downtown hotel early today. A
towel was knotted tightly about
the neck.
|Ed Willie’'s store. Tire tracks at
the scene led to a small pond
'nearby v.here the sheriff and his
brother, J. P. Cocksey, found
Wislden.
No Ressitance
Cooksey said Walden was un
armed and offered no resistance.
| The, sheriff reported Walden
had about $1,600 in cash .and
!checks with him when arrested
,and offered the sheriff $2,000 to
let him go. -
l “l humored him along,” Cook
sey said, “and he told me his
whole life story. He admitted the
|killings in Georgia and also the
ithree safe robberies in Tallahas—J
| see.”
. Cooksey said Walden told him
he had two companiens in the
Lloyd robkery in which $2,000
was stolen. He aiso said he had
given a buddy Ss¢,ooo and a dia
mond ring stofan in she three
Tallahassee robberies.
Tools used to break into the
Willie stere at Lloyd and a ook
containing bétween §B,OOO and
SIO,OOO later were {found near
the scene of the robbery, Cook
sey said. *
The Jefferson county sheriff
declined to say whether Walden
had identified his companions,
but added he was continuing his
investigation of the case.
Appeared Drunk
| Cooksey said Walden appearsd
to be “kinda drunk” when he
)was arrested and apparenily
thought the officers were his
two companions, i ‘
k Walden was “taken to the Lecn
‘county jail in Tallahassee late
last night.
Glynn county Sheriff Mitchell
Owens and Police Chief W. H.
Norris of Brunswick, Ga., arrived
here early today to aid in the in
vestigation. They will accompany
Cooksey to Tallahassee later in
the day to sesk Walden’s return
to :{eorgia. " - =
BETTER MEDICAL SERVICE FOR
HEART SUFFERERS IS PLANNED
Increased medical service for citizens in Athens and Clarke
county who suffer from diseases of the heart is the aim of a cam
paign now being conducted hy the Athens Heart Association,
of which Dr. J. B. Neighbors, jr., is chairman,
Citizens who wish to aid in the campaign to find out the causes
of heart diseases which have been a mystery up to now and to
help in creating more facilities for treatment are asked to send
their checks or cash to Gordon Dudley.
With the heart diseases taking an annual toll greater tHan the
next five leading causes of death combined, the need for a com
plete diagnostic and treatment service is of first importance,
While research into causes is pushed forward, we have yvet the
obligation to apply the known facts of heart disease to relieve
suffering and assure many cardiac patients of happy, useful years
ahead. 2
Heart disease is neither inevitable nor incurable, it is said. The
neglect of heart disease, however, and the failure io apply
therapeutic procedures developed by cardiac specialists is respon
sible for needless pain and premature.
The Heart Campaign in Athens seeks money for an overall
program of research, education and community service. The ma
jor portion of the funds raised—7o%-—will be spent for locai heart
services. More than half the remainder will be devoted by the
national office of the American Heart Association to research in
the causes of the diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Three
major diseases—rheumatic fever (forerunner of rheumatic heart
disease), high blood pressure and hardening of the coronary
arteries—cause more than 90% of all heart disease, yet the causes
of these three are still unknown. Research into the causes is ex
pected to pave the way for measures of prevention and cure.
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VERDICT NEAR IN
A. D. ALLEN TRIAL
ATLANTA, Feb, 22 —(AP)Trial of Aubrey Joe Alen of Athens,
accused of operating a car %thefi ring, drew to a :lose today.
Allen’s trial on two auto larceny counts opened in Fulton Su
perior Court vesterday before Judge Viriyn Moore,
A. D, Allen,.brather of Aubrey Joe, and Frank Jackson, both
of Athens, will be tried March 15 on similar charges, ;
Aubrey Joe Allen was arrested in Atlanta for posséssion of a
pistcl but has not yet been tried on that charge. Another auto -
theft count also is pending against him. '
Allen, pleading inwecent-- to the theft charges, said he had
bought one of ihe cors.in question from a used car dealer in
Rochester, N, Y., and another one from Albert Brady in Clayton.
Brady, however; denied that he had secld the car to Allen, and
the Rochester dealer said Allen had bought some cars from hims
but he did not know about the.stolen car, L
The jury recessed for lunch ahd was eipected to reach a ver
dict late today. % (i evslitas kb el
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KEPT SECRET
Red Rocket
Hits In U. S.
German Zone
BERLIN, Feb. 22—(AP)—U. S.
Authorities said today a Russian
Rocket fired in practice during
maneuvers landed some time ago
in the American zone of Germany
without causing any damage or
injuries. i
The incident had been filed
away in the top secret category
because it would have served no
purpose to make it public at the
time, a high American officer said.
The disclosure came as the Rus
sians lashed out anew with propa
ganda blasts against the West, Lt.
Gen. G. S. Lukanschenko, Soviet
Chief of Staff in Germany, charg
ed that the United States is hold
ing more than 100,000 Soviet
citizens in Western Germany.
.
Gloria Swanson
back
Stages Comebac
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22—(AP)
—Gloria Swanson, nearing her
51st birthday, has come back to
Hollywood to play a role for
which she is especially fitted-—
that of an ex-movie queen.
The woman who rose from a $2-
a-day bathing beauty extra to a
$12,000-a-week screen siren in the
’2os and early ’'3os, has, signed a
contract for a role in Paramount’s
“Sunset Boulevard.” ?
The star of many a silent and
early sound epic has been appear
ing before the television cameras
in New York. keeping her talents
sharpened. ;
Sally May Take
Stand Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(AP)
—“Axis Sally” is about to begin
her roie as star defense wiiness in
her treason trial.
Her attorney said today that
Mildred E. Gillars, 48, may take
the witness stand in her own be
half tomorrow.
Defense Attorney James J.
Laughlin added that if three of
his witnesses arrive from Ger
many in time, Miss Gillars’ ap
pearance likely will be delayed
until they have been heard.