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Vol. CXVII, No. 68
FOREIGN MINISTERS CONVENE
TOO FORM SOLID PEACE FRONT
' By The Associated Press
Nations of the west today began
lining up a solid front which they
hope will enforce peace in the
world.
Brit®h Foreign Secretary Ern
est Bevin and Secretary of State
Dean Acheson scheduled the first
of a series of major conferences
in Washington this afternoon,
While the main reason for Be
' vin's visit to the United States is
' the signing of the North Atlantic
gecurity treaty Monday, the meet
ings were expecied to cover the
whole problem of reinforcing the
unity of the west against Russia.
Also slated for detailed discuss
ion is the future ot western Ger
many. X .
French, Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman probably will see Ache
son tomorrow and the three for
eign ministers will make a ‘deter
mined effort to end policy dif
ferences preventing creation of a
single German government over
the American, British and French
occupation zones.
Other issues to be threshed out
may include:
The security of middle eastern
countries such as Turkey, Greece
and Iran; the possibility of form
ing a Mediterranean defense trea
ty, and how to block the spread of
Communism in southeast Asia.
A French cabinet spokesman
said in Paris that Schuman will
demand that the French army be
built up and armed heavily under
the past so it can take on the role
of western Europe’s mair defen
der in the event of war.
Others scheduled to arrive in
Washington in the next few days
include representatives of Bel
gium, Holland, Luxembourg and
Italy.
The foreign ministers of Ice-’
land, Denmark, Norway and Por
tugal are also expected in time
for the first formal meeting of the
pact countries Saturday morning.
Iceland and Portugal decided yes
terday to join the alliance.
In Bonn, Germany, members of
the Constitutent Assembly made
another try today at reaching
agreement on a constitution for
the west German state proposed
by the U. S., Britain and France.
Squabbles between German po
litical groups over how the state
should be set up have blocked as
sembly action on adopting a con
stitution.
Britain’s wartime Prime Minis
ter, Winston Churchill, speaks in
Boston tonight on what hope he
sees for man in this war-marred
century. 2 ‘
Churchill, who electrifed the
world in March, 1946, with his
“iron curtain” speech in Fulton,
Mo., will speak on “the 20th Cen
tury, Its Promise and Its Realiza
tion.”
The veteran statesman’s address
will be broadcast over much of
the world.
In Nanking, Nationalist peace
delegates, prepared for long ne
gotiations on Communist-set con
ditions, leave for Peiping tomor
row. The world probably will get
little information about the peace
talks once they start. The Com
munists have barred Chinese and
foreign newsmen. £
ATLANTA, March 31—(AP) —
The sale of 1949 automobile tags
will be continued through tomor-
I'ow.
This' was announced today to a
big throng of tardy applicants who
were milling around the tag win
dows of the state motor vehicle
division at the capitol.
WASHINGTON, March 31.— (AP) —Rent boosts under the new
housing act may be delayed several weeks, while Housing Expediter
Tighe Woods makes -a survey of iandlord income.
President Truman signed the 15-month extension of ceilings last
night. He called it an “effective” law, well equipped with enforce
ment teeth, and a “crushing defeat for the real estate lobby.”
Through its home-rule provis
ion, it could ease the government
out of the rent regulation business
by the process of city-by-city de
control. Meantime it guarantees
landlords a “fair net operating in
come,” ‘
This will bring about numerous
rent increases. But President Tru-~
man emphasized that it does not
“mean a ggner’al increase” for
the country's 14,000,000 renting
families. g
The number and size of the in
creases is in doubt. Because he is
uncertain at the moment what a
“fair” income would be, expediter
Woods is considering a survey of
landlords’ costs and income before
announcing the government’s new
yardstick of “fairness.”
Such a sampling of costs and
rental income would take some
time. No immediate rush of land
lords for rent boosts is expected,
therefore; meantime the old rules
governing “hardship” increases
will continue to apply.
The rent agency understands
that Congress intended some lib
eralization of ceilings, a spokes
man said. There is no ground, he
indicated, for the belief voiced by
some Republicans during the de
“ate that the “‘fair income”’ guai
antee might mean mereéy the con
tinuing of present standards.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
SCIENCE TRIUMPHS
Hay-Burni
Hay-bßurning
Cows Liking
Sawdust Diet
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Maich 31 —
(AP)—Science is getting along
right well in its effort to convert
hay-burning cows to a sawdust
diet.
Dr. H. K. Benson, chemist, told
the National Farm Chemurgic
Council today some cows in' the
west are the guinea pigs in this
experiment.
They developed a liking for a
molasses made from yeast and
sugar produced from sawdust.
They appear to be thriving on it.
The diet has to be tested a while
longer before the scientists decide
it could become big business, using
a great proportion of sawdust and
wood products that now are mostly
waste.
Dr. Benson, retired head of the
Department of Chemistry at the
University of Washington, said the
yveast contains vitamins and the
sugar is a high energy food. He
hopes it will cut the cost of pro
ducing beef. |, |
The government is building pilot
plants to see what the cost of pro
duction will be in large quanti
ties. The molasses is mixed with
other animal foods. |
Dr. Benson said the idea of
changing old bossie’s diet to saw
dust was born in plants the gov
ernment built during the war to
make alcohol from wood. The al
cohol was needed for making rub
ber. Some of these plants no lon
ger are needed for rubber.
The new livestock feed has been
produced in, pilot plants at Madi
son, Wis.,, and has been fed to
cows in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
“In time we may have the tim
ber industry so efficient, by using
all its byproducts, we will be util
izing everything but the song of
the buzz saw,” Dr. Benson said.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy with showers
and cooler tonight. Friday
fair and mild with rain Satur
day or Saturday night.
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Total since January 1. ....13.7¢
Deficit since January 1 .. 1.32
On this point, Mr. Truman’s
statement said the law will help
“to correct injustices against
landlords.”
The President emphasized that
the act was the fruit of “joint ef
forts” by Congress and the ad
ministration, working together on
a difficult problem.
He did not denounce the “home
rule” provision, even though he
charged last week that this de
control device was backed by the
real estate lobby as a means of
scuttling rent control.
Instead, Mr. Truman described
the system as one which extends
the principle of the local rent ad
visory boards —a grant of greater
authority to local officials to say
whether federal rent control is
no longer needed. Decontrol de
cisions by cities, towns and vil
lages must be approved by state
governors.
«I urge local authorities in
reaching their decisions to ex
amine all the facts carefully and
to exercise their pest judgment in
the interest of all the citizens in
their communities,” the President
said.
An Associated Press survey of
governors and big-city mayors in
dicated that most of them will
|move slowly in using the local
| decontroi machinery,
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Grady Pittard
Opens Law
Office N
ice Monday
Grady Pittard, jr., well known
young attorney and resident of
Winterville, is opening offices for
the practice of law Monday at 202
North Jackson street, the entrance
being behind Lesser’s Apparel
Shop.
Mr. Pittard is a member of one
of Clarke country’s best known
families, being the son of Mr. and.
Mrs. G, C. Pitiard, sr., of Winter
ville. The Pittard name has long
been prominent in the affairs of
this country and the development
of Winterville.
Graduating from the University
of Georgia in 1939 with the de
gree of Bachelor of Arts in Poli
tical Science, Mr. Pittard enlisted
in the United States Navy in July
of 1940 as an Apprentice Seaman
and when he was released from
active duty in November of 1946,
held the rank of Lieutenant Com
mander, following service in both
the Atlantic and Pacific theaters
of action.
Has Two Degrees e
He returned to the University
and graduated from the Law .
School March 19, 1949. He suc
cessfully stood the state bar exam
ination on March 5, this year,
prior to his graduation from law
School, and was admitted to prac
tice.
While in Law School he was(
elected vice-president of the Sen
jor Class and was a member of
Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity
and was active in other campus
organizations.
A member of the Winterville
Civitan Club, Mr. Pittard has also |
been active in Masonry, being a
member of Mt. Vernon Lodge,
No. 22, in Athens. He is a member
of Winterville Methodist church
and has taken active part in all
of its endeavors.
Keenly interested in veterans
affairs by virtue of his six years
service in the Navy, Mr. Pittard
is Judge Advocate for the De
partment of Georgia in the Vete
rans of Foreign Wars, and is a
membher of Allen R. Fleming, jr.,
Post No. 20 of the American Le
gion, Joe Brown Connolly Chap
ter of the Disabled American Ve
terans and Post No. 10 AMVETS.
I
Judy Garland'’s
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Marriage Cracks
HOLLYWOOD, March 31—(AP)
—“'m very sorry but it's true—
we're happier apart,” says song
stress Judy Garland.
Thus did the actress confirm re
ports of the breakup of her mar
riage to Director Vincente Minneli
“We tried very hard to overcome
the difficulties of incompatibility,”
she said yesterday.
Judy and the director met on a
movie set and were married in
1945. Her first husband was com
poser David Rose. The Minnel
\lis have a daughter, Liza, three.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY MARCH 31, 1949,
Sensational Savings Days
Begin In Athens Tomorrow
Big Welcome Sign Out For All
Out Of City Visitors, Shoppers
Athens Savings Days, Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2, will be
the first major bargain-offering event conducted here on a community
wide basis since the war and it looks like ‘it will go over big, the Mer
chants Committee of the Athens Chamber of Commerce announced
ioday.
Savings Days is not only an op
portunity to buy at special prices
all kinds of goods that thousands
of people want and have perhaps
delayed buying, but it has been
a successful cooperative venture,
the promoters declare. The com
munity spirit has found an outlet
in this enterprise and practically
everyone had joined in the move
ment. \
The Big Welcome
The big welcome sign is hang
ing out to all visitors to Athens
on Friday and Saturday. Not that
Athens does not welcome visitors
at all times, but on these two days
the merchants have combined to
make availabie to the public
practically every conceivable ar
ticle for sale here at reduced
prices, selling them lower than
ordinarily because .of a desire to
give the public a special treat in
values. |
The Banner-Herald has joined
in this event by issuing a big
Savings Days Edition, distributing
copies to thousands of people in
addition to those already on its
large circulation list, the largest
Audit Bureau of Circulation veri
fied circulation of any newspaper
ever published in Athens.
As a special inducement to
Athens people free bus rides to
the shopping district from any
where in the City will be given
by the Athens City Lines between
9:30 and 11:30 on Friday morn
ing, (tomorrow) the first day of
the trade event.
Street Decorations
Special street decorations are
being put up and will be in read
iness by Friday morning and the
cooperating merchants have at
tractive display cards for their
windows designed especially for
the Athens Savings Days. g 3
Merchants participating in ‘@l
fiqfl&h,pomn;upity _event have
made arrangements for additidns
to the regular sales staffs for the
convenience of the customers.
Mayor Jack R. Wells annmf}g
that he has asked Chief of Police
Clarence Roberts to instruct all
policemen to do everything possi
ble for the convenience of visitors
and to help them with their park
ing so that there will be no delays
resulting from insufficient park
ing space downtown.
“I have talked awith the mer
chants,” said W. R. Pate, chair
man of the Merchants Council,
“and they are ready to go. The
Executive Committee has comple
AFFECTS CLARKE |
Importance Of Referendum
.
April sth Is Stressed Here
Announcement was made today that Athens and Clarke county
sehools, roads, welfare agencies and other state-supported public serv
ices will receive an additional $236,155.40 annually if the voie in ihe
referendum next Tuesday, April ?,‘i-g in t‘he‘.afflrlpftivg:” :
At the same time President J.|
C. Rogers of the University of
Georgia pointed out that the Uni
versity of Georgia System is due
to receive an additional two and
one-half million dollars if the ref
erendum carries. President Rogers
said “it is imperative for the April
5 referendum to pass to keep state
services to the people in line with
the other states of the southeast.”
President O. C. Aderhold of the
Georgia Education Association al
so comments on the importance of
the referendum in statements re
leased by the local organization
promoting a representative vote
and statements are also released
from the presidents of the Athens
League of Women Voters, Ciarke
County Women Voters and the
Mayor of Athens.
The statements follow:
The University of Georgia needs
additional financial assistance to
bring the University services to
the people in line with those in
stitutions in surrounding states.
State support per student of the
University of Georgia last year
ran below state support for Clem
son, North Carolina, University of
Arkansas, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, Louisiana State Universi
ty, University of Alabama, Uni
versity of Florida,” University of
Tennessee, University of Mississip
pi and other institutions in this
area. :
The 2% million dollars the Uni
versity System may secure if the
referendum is successful will not
help the System go forward; it
will only help us to §tand still. It
is belittling the people of Georgia
to say that the University of Geor
gia is now reeciving as much sup
port as the state can afford; many
poorer states are doing far better
by their state universities. It is
imperative for the April 5 referen
dum to pass to keep state services
to the people in line with the other
states of the southeast. ‘
J. C. ROGERS
\ President, U. of Georgia
From the very first announce
ment of the plan for the Minimum
’ted all details and shelves are
‘stocked with fresh, clean mer
chandise at rock bottom bargain
prices.”
A large banner annowuncing the
special two-day trade event has
been stretched across Clayton
Street at the corner of College
Avenue and the Athens Poster
Advertising Company has placed
one hundred additional banners
announcing the event on white
way and other posts in the busi
ness part of the city.
All merchants participating in
the trade event can be easily
identified by special window cards
in their show windows. l
Churchill Speaks O
Peace Alld War Tonight
BOSTON, Mass., March 31.— (AP) —Winston Churchill tells the
world tonight what hepes he sees for man in this war-marred cen
tury.
The 74-year-old statesman, who spurred battling Britain with his
call to “blood, sweat, and tears,” will speak en “The 20th Century
Its Promise and Its Realization.”
BU & SUTRIING CUSUTE SWRw S S NS
His views are awaited with the
urgency thai surrounded his “Iron
Curtain” speech at Fulton, Mo,
March 5, 18486,
Then he lamented the lowering
of an “iron curtain” across Europe,
assailed Soviet Russian expansion,
and called for the fraternal asso
ciation of the British Common
wealth of Nations and the United
States. ;
Tonight in his audience at Bos-~
ton Garden will be some of the
ablest thinkers of the western
world—statesmen, educators, sci
entists and phllosogxers.
The‘iér.:mm ed for a three
LOny. shis iilry survey, spon
sored by the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology on the *social
implications of scientific progress.”
The occasion is the inauguration
Saturday of Tech’s tenth presi
dent, Dr. James Rhyne Killian, jr.
Over the country and much of
the world, the words of Churchill
will be carried by radio (NBC,
ABC, Mutual in U. S.) and tele
vision to one of the largest audi
ences ever to hear a speaker. He
is scheduled to speak-at 9 p. m,
(EST).
Churchill has agreed that his
[address will be “of some impor
Foundation for Education, the
Clarke County Women Voters, as‘
an organization, has given the
movement its Wwholehearted sup—l
port. Whatever the outcome of the
voting on April 5, that same sup
port will be continued thru elec
| tion day.
CLARKE COUNTY WOMEN
VOTERS
Mrs. Annie E. Griffeth,
president
The citizens of Athens and
Clarke County are asked to ex
press themselves on April sth re
garding the improvement of health,
education, and other services for
the people of Georgia. They are
aiso asked io say whether or not
they want these services financed.
A favorable vote on April sth will
enable Georgia to take a long step
forward in providing these essen
tial services for all of the peo-
Iple.” If our youth are to have
quual opportunities with those in
our sister States, these facilities
and services must be improved.
We need more and better teachers,
more adequate school buildings,
safer school transportation, and
other facilities essential for a good
instructional program. The Uni
versity system must have the
amount of money provided in the
contingent budget to continue to
provide present services to the
large number of young men and
women attending the University
and the colleges in the system.
Improved health and welfare
services will benefit a large num
ber of our citizens.
Georgia’s future is at stake. 1
am sure the citizens of our com
munity who believe in youth and
providing opportunities for their
maximum development, and those
who believe in the economic op
gortunities of our County and
tate, will urge through their vote
on April sth the General Assem
bly so put this program into op
eration at the earliest possible mo~
ment.
O. C. ADERHOLD, President
i Georgia Saucational Association
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tance.” He has said little more
about it.
The former Prime Minister will
be in Boston until Friday at mid
night. Then he, his wife and
their daughter and son-in-law,
Capt. and Mrs. Christopher
Soames, leave for New York. They
take the Queen Elizabeth home
on Saturday. : ]
The convocation will bring him
again to Boston Garden tomorrow
night. ' Departing slightly from its
custom. of never conferring hono
rary deigmes Tech will make
Churchill “an honorary lecturer,”
the first this noted scientific school
has ever had, .
PLANS Mifilfic
Co-Ed Ban To
Affect 800,
Mayer Says
Mayor Jack!R. Wells said today
that if the Board of Regents
should rdecide to discontinue the
Freshman and ‘Sophomore Girls
classes at the University of Geor
gia it -will affect more than eight
hundred co-eds who registered at
the institution this year.
The Mayor said the Board has
not, of cdurse, acted because
Chairman . Hughes: Spalding -only
a few days:@go brought up the
subject “for “consideration as an
economy move. “However,” = the
Mayor said, “it is of vital impor~
tance to the future of the Univer
sity that the Board of Regents not
discontinue’ tt:e Freshman - and
Sophomore girls cjasses. i
“I believe that all of those who
want the University to continue
its gfowth should 'l\;eiglé tthis p{g
posal most seriously and from the
standpoint of.its etfect on the fu
ture of the institution and strive
in_every way possible to prevent
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gether ‘citizens who are interested
in the University’s welfare to see
what we can do about this mat
ter,” the Mayor - said.
Meanwhilé, students at’ the Uni
versity are expressing alarm and
oppdsition “to the J‘!roposal to drop
the Freshman and Sophomore co
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MlTCHUM——Screen Actress Lila Leeds waves
goodbye and leaves the county jail at Los An
geles—a he‘ woman, Actor Robert Mitchum
irighi) nolds out his hands and takes a deep
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Read Daily by 35,000 Peopie in Athens Trade Area
Oleo Fight Main
Event In House
WASHINGTON, March 31.— (AP) —A showdown fight between
butter and oleo was the “main event” in the House today.
Oleomargarine interests want to repeal all federal taxes and pre
vent any new restrictions in the sale of the product.
Dairy state interests, conceding that the half-century-old tax
finally may be killed this year, seek to outlaw the sale of yellow
plee in interstate commerce,
The butter bloc won an initial
victory March 9 when the House
Agriculture Committee approved
a bill repealing the tax but ban
ning the sale of yellow olea in a
state unless it was manufactured
there.
This bill comes up before the
house today, and oleo backers hope
to eliminate that clause limiting
the sale of yellow margarine.
Rep. Andreson (R.-Wis.) said
the battle is between 28 rich oleo
manufacturers and 2,500,000 dairy
farmers. He said if oleo is suc
cessful, it will mean higher prices
for milk and meat. Rep. Poage
(D.-Tex.) said repeal would not
hurt the dairy indusiry.
© The Senate was still debating
the $5,580,000,000 European Re
covery Program. Administration
forces claimed today they have
enough votes to break the back of
a Republican-led drive to slash the
total by 10 percent. e
s First Test
The first real test was due to
come — perhaps today — on an
amendment by Senators Taft (R.-
Ohio) and Russell (D.-Ga.) to cut
the 15-month aid program +to
$5,037,000,000.
Democratic Leader Lucas of 111-
inois and Senator Connellg (D.-
Tex.), chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, were confi
dent the amendment would be de
feated. G
‘Twenty - seven other| amend
ments have been offered, but Lu
cas said if the Taft-Russell move
is voted down, the others wouldn’t
have thuch chance. AR
Connally, urging approval of the
full sum sought to finance the
Marshall plan for the second year,
said opponents were trying to “cut
the program right in its most criti
cal year.”
Meanwhile, the labor bill ran
into an ersatz filibuster in the
House. Actually, the House Rules
Committee’s delaying tactic is not
a filibuster, but it serves the same
purpose.
Labor Act
The administration measure to
repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and
replace it with a modified Wagner
Act has been approved by the
House Labor Committee. But it's
up to the Rules Committee to say
when and under what procedure
it will allow the House to begin
debate. Since Tuesday it has been
holding hearings on this. Chair
man Sabath (D.-Ill.} of the rules)
group called the deliberations a
filibuster and another member
agreed. Others just grinned.
Surveys of Congress by the
American Federation of Labor in
dicate serious doubt the bill will
be passed by Congress. One AFL|
poll of the Senate showed 38 sena
tors for repeal 46 against, and 12
doubtful. |
The House Veterans Affairs
Committee called veterans admin
istration officials to testify on pro
posed pensions for World War I
veterans. The measure is a wat
ered-down version of the pension
bill batted down by the House last
week.
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free from jail. They were released upon com
pleting 50 days of their 60-day sentences for
violating narcotic laws. Each got 10 days off for
good behavior. Officer Frances O. Blumfeld
(left) witches Lila depart.—(AP Wirephotes.)
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ATLANTA; March 31, —(AP)w=
If Georgians vote “yes” in Tues
day’'s tax referendum, the State
Tax Revision Committee will be=-
gin immediately to draft bills to
raise $46,000,000 in new reve
nue. i
The committee, said Secretary
William Lester, is required-to do
so by a législative resclution.
And former Gov. M. E. Thomp
son said yesterday if Georgians
were assured the legislature would
follow recommendations of the tax
Revision Committee, they would
approve new taxes for expanded
state services. =
The people, he declared, trust
the committee but have no faith
in Gov. Herman Talmadge or the
legislature to draft new taxes.
Lester said the legislature,in ex
tending the life of the revision
committee, gave the following in
structions:
I—ls the legislature meets in
special session after the referen
dum to enact new taxes, the com
mittee . “is requested to submit tai
the General Assembly a report
suggesting sources for such reve
nue and bill or bills to impose
the same.”
2—Regardless of whether new
taxes are approved April 5, the
committee ‘‘shall submit to tha
1950 session of the General As«
sembly such bill or bills which it
deems necessary to secure a re
vised, simplified and equitable
system of taxation for the State.”
Thompson said if he was sure
the second plan would be followed
he would change his stand from
“no” to “yes” on the referendum.
Thompson favors a long-dis«
cussed general overhaul of Geor
gia’s antiquated “hodge-podge’
tax structure to eliminate duplica=~
tion and confusion.
Thompson said a general 3 per
cent sales tax plus increased in=
come taxes—as talked in the Leg=
islature—would bring in an addi~
tonal $80,000,000 a year.
Holiywood Oscars
May Be Cancelled
HOLLYWOOD, March 31—(AP)
—Chances increased today that the
coveted Academy Award “Oscars,”
symbels of excellence in the mo
tion picture art, soon will become
a collector’s item. .
Five top movie producers have
come out flatly with an announce
ment they are stopping their con
tributions to the awards.
Robert Montgomery, secretary
of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts .and Sciences, says without
their support the Oscars are a
thing of the past.