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DIRECTS GRAVEDIGGING — Cardinal Spellman, left, background. talks to uni
dentified priest while directing gravedigging by students of St. Joseph Seminary,
who volunteered for the tack in the strike bound Calvary cemetery. — (NEA Tele
photo.) -
STRATEGIC NORWAY LINES UP WITH WEST
OVER STRONG OBJECTIONS FROM RUSSIA
U. S. Hails
Decision As
Cold War Win
WASHINGTON, March 4—(AP)
— Strategic Norway officially
linked its defenses with the North-
Atlantic Democracies today over
Russia’s vehement objections.
Norwegian Ambassadar Wilhelm
Munthe De Morganstierna wag -
at the State Department ¢thi§
morning to add his country for
the first time he list of nations
drawing up a tight defense alli
ance against. Communist expan-
The Norwegian government’s
formal acceptance of an invitation
to join in the final stages of the
negotiations came yesterday. Si
multaneously Norway was report
ed to have turned down a non-ag
sression pact which would have
tied its future to Russia.
The nations already at work on
the North Atlantic. Treaty are the
United States, Canada, Britain,
France, Belgium, Holland and
Luxembourg.
State Department officials wel
comed Norway’s decision to join
up as a significant cold-war vic
tory over Russia, one which is
bound to increase the effective
ness of the North Atlantic group-
Denmark, following Norway’s
lead, said last night that it, too,
would like to join the treaty talk.
That leaves Sweden the only
“neutral” among the Scandinavian
countries which control the ap
proaches to the Baltic Sea.
In. announcing his country’s
move, Morgenstierne told report
ers Norway would have “a few ob
servations” of its own to make
about the defense treaty.
The Norwegian dipiomat was
~xvected to give the first official
inkling of his country’s views at
his meeting with Secretary of
State Acheson and the ambassa
dors of the other alliance nations.
The Norwegian Storting (Parli
ament) overwhelmingly approved
Norway's decision to turn to the
West for securify in a secret ses
sion yesterday. Moxgenstierne
4 the anlv annagition came from
the 11 Communist members.
Norwegian Foreign Minister
Halvard M. Lange visited Wash
ington several weeks, ago seeking
information on' the pact and State
Department officials credited the
“hard facts” presented to him then
with convineing Nerway it should
make the move, °
These offiicals cautioned that
Russia might now try some new
bressure against. Norway — or
against nearby Finland, whose fate
long has concerned the Scandina
vian countries. X
Border Plane
Crash Mystery
DEL RIO, Tex., March 4—(AP)
—Why a C-47 plane went at least
200 miles off its route, only to
crash and burn, was a border mys
terv today. ) :
The crash killed all nine men
aboard,
The margin of death was only
400 feet. The plane crashed in
Mexico, about 60 miles ‘from here,
the nearest U. S. town, Had it
flown 400 feet to the right, it
vould have missed the 5,500-foot
Serranias Del Burro mountain
‘ange against whieh it smashed.
En route from Harilton Field,
Calif,, to Kelly Field, San An
onio, Tex., the plane apparently
crashed Monday, 1t last was seen
over Wink, Tex. This is about 200
miles from the site of ‘the crash.
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DR. WAIGHTS G. HENRY, JR
Dr. Henry, Jr.
Speaks Twice
Here Sunday
Dr. Waights G. Henry, jr., will
preach a*! the Oconee Sireet
Methodist Chuhch at the 11:15
service on Sunday. His theme
will be “The Road Not Taken.”
You are invited to hear him in
this service.
Dr. Henry will speak to the
Athens - Elberton District Youth
Rally on the subject: “g‘here Is
2 Time.” This rally will begin at
2:00 o'clock at TFirst Methodist
Church. All young pecple are
invited to attend. If anyone
would liker to come for Dr.
Henry’s message alone he will
speak at 5:10.
In speaking of Dr. Henry, Rev.
Charles Middlebrooks, pastor of
the Oconee Street Church, said:
“The life of such a man is diffi
cult to present to good advan
tage.” The son of a Methodist
minister, he ieit ihe cail o fol
low in his father’s footsteps. He
(Continued on Page Two.)
All Classes Dismissed
NUMEROUS CAMPUS ACTIVITIES
SET FOR "G-DAY’ TOMORROW
.Saturday is “G”. Day at the University of Geor
gia. #
As a prelude to the festivities, the first annual
Southeastern Conference Spirit Jamboree, sponsored
by the University Bulldog Club, began a two-day
session here this afternoon at 1:30.
The group, which will include students from other
conference schools, will participate in the “G” Day
activities set for Saturday.
The Jamboree program, announced by Buddy
Asher, president of the Bulldog Club, consists of a
theater party, several sessions on how best to in
erease school spirit, and informal dancing at the
Student Union. « *
All classes will be dismissed Saturday so that
students may attend the full-day festival of sports
events and entertainment. The annual affair is
shonsored by “G” Club.
Chief attraction of Saturday’s activities will be
the inter-squad football clash in Sanford Stadium
at 3 p. m. Saturday. Universiiy-studgnts wiil get
their first pre-view of Wally Butts’ 1949 Bulldos
Reds Leave
Mission
InU.S. Zone
FRANKFURT, Germany, March
4— (AP) — Eight angry Russian
soldiers ran down the Red flag
over the Russian repatriation
mission headquarters today and
roared off to the Sovie Zone of
Germany in-a motor convoy.
Th § Russians weré grim-faced
as they left the building in which
they had been bleckaded for two
‘days by American military police.
One Russian truck driver spat at
an American girl bystander as he
left the Mission grounds.
The siege of the big yellow
house finally forced Russian head
quarters in Berlin to order the
Mission to comply with American
orders to leave the U. S. occupa
tion zone.
But Russian authorities struck
lback quickly. They ordered U. S.
graves regisiration men to leave
the Soviet zone. at once. A grave
search unit of four U. S, soldiers
arrived in Berlin from the Soviet
zone last night under escort of a
Russian officer. Two other Ameri
cans were in Berlin voluntarily on
Ia holiday when the Russian order
was issued.
The graves r:‘lfltawn unit,
‘which has its headqu s in Ber
lin, numbers two officers, 11 en
listed men, two American civilians
‘and several interpreter%
The Russian fipatria_\; on Miss
ion ijit Frankfdft in three auto
mobiles and two trucks piled high
with their belongings. They were
escorted by members of the Soviet
military mission here.
The éight men had been sealed
in their quarters for two days by
a “little blockade” imposed by the
U. S. Army after they failed to
heed an order from Gen. Lucius
D. Clay to leave the American
zone by March 1. Clay said they
had no reason to remain as the
return of displaced persons to
Russia had dwindled to almost
nothing.
The Russians protested that the
order to leave was a violation of
the Yalta and Teheran agreements
but their protest was rejected by
the U. S. State Department.
The trucks which were in the
Russian convey were crammed
with wornout spare tires, battered
gasoline drums and trunks. |
Three alumni groups, the classes of 1935, 38 and
39, plan to attend the activities. Luncheons have
been scheduled by those classes.
First- attraction of the day will be a one hour’s
showing of last year’s football highlights on the
screen at Fine Arts Auditorium.
At 11 a. m., two inter-mural basketball squads
will tangle in Woodruff Hall. The top independent
basketball stars will meet a similar team of frater
nity sharp-shooters.
Following the basketball classic, a push-up con
test between freshman and sophomore physical edu
cation classes will take place at Stegeman Field at
12 noon. |
A between half feature of the football game will
be a greased ?zig contest. The lucky winner will be
awarded a prize for his efforts. l
Topping off the day’s activities will be a campus
wide dance in Stegeman Hall Saturday night from*
2 to 12 Music will be furnished hy Jesse Duck
worth’s orchestra. i
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949,
38 Senators Go On Record
Against Halting Fiibuster
Poll Shows Truman Foreces
Facing Stiffer Opposition
WASHINGTON, March 4. — (AP) — Administration
forces face stifl opposition if they try to cheke off the
five-dayv-old Southern filibuster in the Senate through &
technicality, an Associated Press survey showed toady.
The test will come, nrobahly next week, on an expected
ruling by Vice-President Barkley that dehate on a motion
can be halted by a two-thirds vote.
This would reverse the ruling
last year by Senator Vandenberg
(R.-Mich.), when he held Bark
ley’s post as presiding officer of
the Senate.
Barkley’s ruling will be ap
pealed to the Senate—and that is
where the showdown will come. It
will take a' majority of those vot
ing to make Barkley’s decision
stick.
The A.P. checked 90 of the
Senate’s 96 Senators. Thirty
eight said they probably would:
vote againt Barkley’s ruling, 17
said they would back it. The re
mainder—a substantial minority—
wouldn’t say what they’d do. :
But even if the ruling is. up
held, it still will take a two-thirds
vote to actually stop the talka
Truth Serum
Brings Out
Murder Story
NEW ORLEANS( March 4 —
(AP) — Louis Eugene Hoover
filled his blank memory with
“truth serum” and b(imd police he
beat and strangl millionaire
James Mahoney. 3
Police investigators, however,
continued to dig into the cdse to
day. They said there, “are a lot
of angles” to be cleared up.
Acting Police Supt. Joseph
Scheuering said the statements of
Hoover, a 25-year-old Louisville,,
Ky., parking lot attendant, ‘‘are
not a confession” and the case is
far from closed.
Among angles to be cleared up,
he said, is the' matter of Mahon
ey’s missing watch. y
‘ Hoover said he took it from Ma
‘honey’s room after a fight with
‘the wealthy Bristol, Va.-Tenn.,
man in his hotel room the night
of Feb. 21. It was not in Hoover’s
luggage when he was arrested
Monday after his discharge as a
mental patient at the Veterans
Administration Hospital here,
Another angle involves Ma
honey’s emptied wallet which '
Hoover said he threw into a trash |
can. It, too, is missing. (
~ Hoover submitted voluntarily‘
to administration of the so-called
“truth serum” (pentothal) late
yesterday.
Scheuering quoted Hoover as!
telling of going to Mahoney’s
(Monteleone) Hotel room in the
French quarter, taking a shower:
and engaging in an argument with
the millionaire as the two lay‘
nude on a bed. When Mazahoney
called Hoover’s wife a “name,” a
fight ensued, Scheuering said.
Then he quoted Hoover:
“] pasted him and pasted him |
several times. The only thing I
used was my fist. I gave him a{
rabbit punch with my hand on
the back of the head. That might
have broken his neck.”
Mahoney’s bloody, nude body,
the head. battered and the neck
broken, was found in the hotel
ronm the morning of Feh, 22. A |
towell was twisted around Ma-‘
honey’s neck.
§thon under the cloiture (debate
- § limit) rule.
: ) Talk Continues
'§ Meanwhile, the filibuster went
on stronger than ever. President
. §Truman yesterday angered many
; Sénators with his remark that he
t blgi.eeved a simple majority of
1t voting should be able to cut
| off Senate debate at any time.
The remark made Southerners
fmore determined than ever, and
4even drew a reluctant “I regret
fthat 1 am compelled to disagree
1 h my chief” from Democratic
‘}leader Lucas of Illinois. |
4 Senator Holland (D.-Fla.) held
the floor for today’s opened. Other
4 Dixie lawmakers lined up behind‘
1 with substantial prepared or-
J atory.
Over in the House, a Civil Rights
filibuster-in-reverse was threat
ened by Rep. Marcantonio (Alp.-
N.Y.). A filibuster as a delaying
technique does not exist in the
House, but Marcantonio said he
would try to gain the same ends
by gtother tactic — demanding
time<consuming roll calls, and in
sisting that every appropriation
bill be read in full before passage.
He said he would attempt this un
less the House goes on record on
Anti-Segregation legislation.
Rent Showdown
But filibusters and quasi-fili
busters did not hog all the head
lines:
A showdown on the Rent Con
trol Bill exploded in the House
Banking Committee, which is
sttldying legislation to continue
controls for 15 months.” An
amendment by Rep. O’'Hara (D.-
TI) injected racial diserimination
i the measure and caused an
uptoar late yesterday. The group
delayed a test vote until today.
Before it adjourned, however, it
had approved 23 to 2 extension of
controls for 15 months instead of
24 as asked by Mr. Truman. The
final bill may go to the House forl
a vote next week.
Over in the Senate, the banking
and. cirrency - subcommittee was
scheduled to question Housing
Expediter Tighe E. Woods on the
same measure. .
‘he Serate Labor Committee
was called into session with a
prompt vote possible on the ad
ministration iabor billi which seeks
to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act
and replace it with a modified
Wagner Act.
The Foreign Relations Commit
tee in the Senate continued its
study of the European Recovery
Bill. The Finance Committee
opened hearings on the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Bill.
Clergymen Death
Penalty Sought
SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 4 —
(AP)—The Communist prosecutor
today demanded the death penalty
for the top four of 15 Protestant
churchmen who ate charged with
spying and treason against Bui
garia. ,
In a two-hour summation, Mos
sow-trained Dimiter Georgiev ac
cused the defendants not only of
spying but trying to promote a re
volt against Bulgaria’s Commun
ist~-dominataed government which
he said was to have brought in
tervention by the United States
and Britain.
The prosecutor said names of
prominent Americans and English
men were mixed “in the spy net
work of evangelical leaders” as
well as the names of wvarious
American church boards and the
World Council of Churches. s
“That is why this trial is signi
ficant not only here but abroad,”
he declared.
A REMINDER
If vou have not yet made a
contribution, by check or other
wise, to the campaign to control
heart diseases, this is to remind
you to do so, Send your contri
bution to Gordon Dudley at Ath-‘
ens Manufacturing Company.
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’Clgarefle Price
Law Repeal Seen
ATLANTA, March 4 — (AP) —
The hornests nest of protest
brought on by Ilegisiative action
which hiked the price of cigarettes
in Georgia has set several of the
law-makers to thinking the Gen
eral Assembly might have gone too
far
Avowals by customers to buy
cigarettes by mail from other
states, threats of a court challenge,
and announced plans to call for
renesl of the minimum price law
marked vecterdayv's developments
in the discord. = |
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J. V. FORRESTAL - - - - - LOUIS A. JOHNSON
Johnson May Get More
Power Than Forrestal
WASHINGTON, March 4.—(AP)—Lcuis A. Jchnson,
picked to head the quarrelsome military establishment,
may. be handed more authority than his predecessor had.
ATLANTA, Marcvh 4—(AP)—
The State Board of Education to
day stopped distribution of all
textbooks except for emergencies
for the next 60 days. gilist
In addition, the board bucked
the Georgia Bar Association and
agreed to set up a two year law
school at Columbus, with the right
to issue a law degree. :
Tuition for the two year course
was set at $lB5 yearly for " the
school to be known as the Colum
bus College of Law. Thomas E.
Sikes said he hoped to begin op
erations by March 15 with a seven
man faculty after obtaining ap
proval of the Superior Court of
Muscogee County, which is re
quired by law:
Rome Students
Still On Strike
ROME, Ga., March 4—(AP)—
The strike of more than 250
high school students at McHenry
continued its second day in open
protest to the permanent suspen
sion of their principal J. Battle
Hall. i
A spot check of class rooms by
reporters found less than 50 stu
dents in class, while newly ap
pointed principal, W. F. Burk said
there were about 100.
The majority of the student
body was in the gymnasium and
on the school campus after a sec
ond “unauthorized” student coun
cil meeting called at the first class
period. Prineipal Burk said he had
not granted permission for the
meeting. but: admitted he was un-~
‘able to force students to the school
11‘00!“5. A
| Meanwhile, a committee of pa
trons were assured a conference
late today with County School
Superintendent John C. Warr, and
members of the Floyd County
School Board, who promised to
hear pleas of patrons in a “tem
porary reinstatement of principal
Hall until the end of the current
school vear.”
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ATLANTIC FLEET MANEUVER—NavaI guns and planes pound the beaches as U.
8. Marires speed in to make a landing on Vieqgues Island during Atlanti Fleet
maneuvers in ihe Caribbean. The Navy is holding its higgest post-war maneuvers in
this area.—NEA Teiephoto.) Lo o T e G e
President Truman, who an
nourced yestierday ihal Johnson
will replace Secretary of Defense
Forrestal at the end of this
month, is expected to ask Con-
Bress to give roore power to the{
new defense chief
Johngon, bB-year-old West. Vir
ginian, has served in the past as
Astigtant Secretary of War. His
career includes a term as nat
ional commender of the Ameri
can Legion, years of practicing
law, and experience as d money
raiser in Mr. Truman’s electign
campaign-last year. : %
A more powertul Seecretary .of
Defense was the main theme of
the Hoover Commission’s receat
report on reorganization of tlLe
Department of Defense. Foriestal
ihad made similar proposais in
the past.
Mr. Truman told his news
conference vesterday thal =he
thought ail the recommendations
offered by the commission—
‘which is headed vy former Pres
ident Herhert Honver—were very
good.
In New York, Geuaeral Dwight
D. Eisenhower, former Army
Chief of Staff, called the presei.t
armed forces unification law
“wichy washy.” Eisenhower gave
streng support to moves toward
greater authority for the Secre
tary of Defense. 3
e Demos Applaud
' Senators who must confirm
Johnsons’ nomination expresesd
regret at the retirement of Foi
restal, but gave no indication of
any opposition to his successor.
Democrats generally applauded
the appintment.
Those seeking an indication cf
how Jchnson will get on with
the Army, Navy and Air Foice
point to his record as Assistznt
Secretary of War during the
third Roosevelt admniistration.
Jehnson, who saw action as an
infantry oiticer in World War 1,
worked on close terms with the
Army, but at the same tine
tought for building up a long
range bomber force.
And he was a close friend of
his opposite in the Navy, Assist
ant Secretary Charles Edison,
with whom he conferred often. |
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Non-Commie
Oath Signed
By Talmadge
ATLANTA, March 4 —(AP)—
Gov. Herman Talmadge tcday
swore he was anti-Communist and
ordered all other state employes
io swear iikewise or iost tneir
paychecks. ; : :
The governor alsoc moved to
make Mississippi’s roads safe for
Georgia farmers and to set up a
ten man state warter advisory
commission.
His news conference also pro
duced news that the Department
of Public Safety had set up an
eight man Safety Education Com=
mittee under Lt. E. S. Burke.
The Governor’s signature on the
anti-Communist oath was in com
pliance with a new state law au
thorized during the recent session
of the legislature by Sen. Spence
Grayson of Savannah.
In his executive order address
ed to all department heads of the
state government, Talmadge set
out that the new law requires all
persons who draw any wages, per
diem, or salaries from the state or
from counties, cities, school dis
tricts, or educational systems, “te
execute a loyalty oath.” It must
be signed by May 1.
The executive order told de
partment heads to see that the
“provisions of this law are rigid
ly enforced.”
Second Order
A second executive order es
tablished a three man board to
negotiate a reciprocal agreement
covering highway useage beiween
Mississippi and Georgia.
Talmadge explained that Geor
gia had such agreements with all
other Southern states but that far
mers trucking produce between
two states sometimes found them
selves in difficulties over such
things as weight limits.
As a result, said Talmadge,
Georgia’s farmers hauling pro
duce into Mississippi found them
selves under. arrest, their trucks
and crops confiscated for viclat
ing Mississippi’'s highway laws.
“The three man hoard is author-.
ized to make an agreement with
lMississippi so that ‘a Georgia far~
‘mer may have the same privileges
in.that state that he enjoys in his
home state.
Named to the board were Chair
man R. McDonald of the public
service commission; Comptroller
General Zach T. Cravey, and Ag
aiculture Commissioner Tom Lin=
er,
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and slightly warmer to
night and Saturday.
GEORGIA—Fair and slight
ly warmer tonight with scat
tered showers in south portion.
Saturday fair, becoming mild
in afternoon.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for period
beginning at 7:30 p. m. (EST)
tonight and ending at 7:39 p.
m.. Wednesday, March 9:
Georgia and South Carelina
—Temperatures during period
will average several degrees
above normal, with no import
ant daily changes. Little or ne
precipitation expected.
TEMPERATURE
Highlest: o, v i i i
Lowest .. iudrde viaivni i
MEAD «idv siiW o e st
Normal i vt aroiid Gl
RAINFALL
Inches iast 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since March 1 ... .. .60
Deficit since March 1 .... .59
Average March rainfall .. 5.27
Total since January 1 ....11.12
Excess since Jantiary 1 ... .60