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CATTLE-KILLING BUZZARDS TRAPPED IN
CAROLINA — About 25 of the vicious buz
sards that have been Killing livestock in South
Carolina are trapped in a pen built by W. M.
Riddle on his farm near Greenville. The trap is
paited with a calf Killed by some of the buz
EAST, WEST NEAR
BERLIN COMPROMISE
Concessions Hinted By Both Sides
For Forming ‘Little Peace Treaty’
BY ARTHUR GAVSHON
PARIS, June 3.— (AP) —Russia and the West were
reported ready today to cggupromise on a “little peace
treaty’”” for Berlin. : -
The basis of today’s discugsions at the Four-Power
Foreign Ministers Conference will be the American plan
submitted yesterday by Secretary of State Dean Acheson
and backed by Puth 1;h(‘e1 British and French.
Russia and the West alveady are
agreed in principle on the plan’s
two mostt_ , j;fiportgnt proposals: l
1. Reestabli t 55911!-"!)0%«
er coxriltrdl Efm RGN """1
9. City-wide elections for an all-
Berlin council.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
v Vishinsky hinted on Wednesday
that Russia was ready *g‘ transfer
to German civic au y some of
{he functions exercised in the past
by the Kommandatura. That is
what the West wants and Westernl
diplomats forecast some East-West
bargaining. ‘
A tangled problem is Acheson’s |
call for four-power supervision of
elections. Both Russia and the
Western powers have their own
version of what constiutes free and
fair elections.
West Contract "
The Western powers intend to
offer a contract which weuld bind
Russia to give the West free road
and rail access to Berlin from their
zones. They want to avoid the pos
sibility of another blockade.
Russia is expected to suggest
unification of curreney throughout
Germany, under four-power con
trol. If this proposal fails, Vishin
sky might suggest that in Berlin
the currency question be passed
along to the Germans. The East-
West row -over control of Berlin’s
currency was the primary cause
of the blockade.
There are signs that both sides
will make concessions, because
both want to restore peace and
quiet to the former German capi
An important indication _is that
the ministers will meet privately,
suggesting they will get d_ovyn to
some old-fashioned bargaining.
Another sign is that the Western
powers are not expected to press
too hard to abolish the veto in a
reestablished four-power Xom
mandatura. - :
While Acheson, British Foreign.
Secretary Ernest Bevin and
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman are expected to make
this a bargaining point, informants
say the three ministers are un
likely to let this issue torpedo
their talks with Vishinsky.
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World’s Biggest |
Banker Is Dead
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 3—
(AP) — Amadeo Peter Giannini,
boy produce peddler wno fought
his way up to become the world's
biggest banker, died today of a
heart ailment. He was 79, and had
been ill with a cold for a month.
The veteran of a thousand
leuds, the president of the vast
Bank of America cnce told inter-
Viewers “Shucks; I'm just a
roughneck. I left school and went
10 work when I was 12. Why, I
r\\.'us brought up on the water
ront.”
But he fought on the side of the
solid little people of the expand
g west coast. And by 1946, his
Rank of Amercia was the world's
biggest, with assets topping $5,-
165,000,000. It had grown to 500
?Jl‘an‘ches, most of them in Cali
ornia.
The banking chain was started,
he had explained, because he ‘“‘got
S 0 damn’ mad” at directors of the
little bank in which he first was
active. They didn’t favor some of
his go-getter policies, so he start
¢d a bank of his own. It was the
fi;lonk of Italy, established Oct. 17,
4. &
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
zards. Both turkey buzzards and black vultures
found their way into the wire trap. They could
have walked out easily but for their habit of
rising straight up in leaving the ground for
flight.— (AP Photo.)
o.D.VealeDies
In Hospital;
Rites Saturday
Oran Dozier Veale, prominent
resident of Watkinsville and father
of Mrs. L. D. Penny, jr., Mrs. i
A. Pope and Ralph Veale, all of
Athens, died in a local hospital
Thursday afternoon at 3:10 o’clock.
Mr. Veale was 76 years old and |
had been ill-for the past six days.
Services are to pe held at the
graveside in Watkinsville ceme
tery Saturday morning at 10
o'clock with Rev. J. S. Hill, pastor
of Watkinsville Methodist Church,
and Rev. Dan Joiner, pastor of
Watkinsville Christian Church, of
ficiating.
Pall-bearers will be Henry Grif
feth, Raymond Griffeth, Charles
Griffeth, Robert Montgomery, Po
well Veale and Lamar Elder. Bern
stein Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
Myr. Veale is survived by four
daughters, Mrs, Kathleen Tarver,
and Miss Elizabeth Veale, both of
Savannah, and Mrs. Pope and Mrs.
Penny of Athens; two sons, Ralph
Veale, Athens, and Dozier Veale,
jr., Savannah; five sisters, Mrs.
Clyde Humes, Mrs. Jennie Mcßee,
Mrs. W, H. Booth, Miss LeNira
Veale, all of Watkinsville and Miss
Katherine Veale, Miami, Fla.; two
prothers, Diamond D. Veale and
Joe Veale, hoth of Watkinsville;
three grandchildren, Francis Tar
ver, Cape May, N. J, Jeannettte
l (Continued On Fage Two)
DECONTROL CENTERS IN SOUTH °
Survey Shows “Home Rule” Rent
Chanaes Ranae Up To 1007 Hikes
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, June 3 — (AP)
_ln the two months since it be
came law, “Home Rule” rent con
trol has brought results ranging
from minor Increases in some
places to a few rent boosts of up
to 100 per ‘cent.
Under the bill passed March 29,
communities could be decontrolled |
by their local governing bodies—!
with the state governor’s okay —|
and whole states could be decon
trolled by their legislatures.
An Asscciated Press survey
showed today that 16 cities and
towns, including Knoxville, Tenn.,
Amarillo, Tex., and McAlester,
Okla., have lifted their own rent
controls, with the approval of.
state governors. Only Nebraska
has thus far voted statewide de
control.
The bill also gave the federal
government power to re-impose
controls where it had lifted them—
power which prompted housing
‘expediter Tighe Woods to decon
trol more than 100 areas.
Landiord reaction to community,
state and federal decontrol has
varied greatly. Some areas repori=
ed practically no boosts. But in
Anfericus, Ga., decontrolled from
Washington, rents rose sO sharp
FREAK WRECK
Mother Walks
Mile With
Lifeless Son
HELENA, Ga., June 3—(AP)—
A grief stricken young farm
mother appeared at a country store
carrying her two small sons in her
arms—one of them killed in an
automobile accident a mile away.
Mrs. Margaret Yawn Whatley,
22, fell exhausted after walking
the mile, Store employes were
horrified when they saw her lay
the limp, lifeless body of her old
est son; Ralph Bearn Whatley, 4,
at the front door.
Uninjured in the automobile ac
cident was her younger son, about
“Drobpets G. L. Sind“afd 3T
Lunsford, of the Helena State
Highway Patrol Station, today told
the tragic story of what happened.
Mrs. Whatley and the two small
sons were riding along a dirt
country road near Nelly's Crossing
in Telfair county in a 1936 model
Ford sedan yesterday afternoon.
The oldest boy was standing up
in the front seat on the right hand
side.
Suddenly the automobile struck
a hole in the road. The jolt pitched
the boy out the window and at
the same time caused Mrs. What
ley to lose control. The automobile
careened into the ditch—against
the body of the boy. The weight
of the automobile crushed his
skull.
Unable to move the car out of
the- ditch, the mother managed
some way to remove the child’s
body from underneath the vehicle.
Then, holding the lifeless form of
the viectim in one arm and the
younger brother in the other, she
started running toward the store.
Apparently she had refused to
accept the fact of the boy's death
—until the owner of Hall's store
told her he was dead.
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i ATHENS AND VICINITY
| Fair with little change in
| temperature over the weekend.
l GEORGIA—Fair this after
| noen, tonight and Saturday.
Not much change in tempera
-1 ture.
ly that the town is being recon-‘
trolled today. |
Restraint Sought ‘
In Nebraska, with statewide de
control, the leading real estate
figure has announced 10 per cent
increases and has asked his fellow
landlords to show similar “re
straint”—llest they hurt the cause
of decontrol.
In Amarillo, which decontrolled
itseif, the Globe-News says rent
boosts generally have been “a con
servative 20 to 25 per cent” but
adds that some rents were doubled.
In McAlester these among other
early increases were noted: A
house went from $35 to SSO a
month; an apartment house went
up $5 on each apartment.
In most of the areas decon
trolled from Washington in early
April, rent rises have been mod
erate. Generally, decontrol is
sticking. , :
Rents Skyrocket
But the Rent Advisory Board of
‘Americus reported boosts ranging
up to 100 per cent in the two con
trol-free months. The local citi
zens' board was unanimous in ask
ing the return of ceilings. The
real estate man on the board made
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1949,
ClO Threatens Crippling
Strike At Atomic ‘2lant
rg
Walkout Set For Tuesday;
Would Stall U-235 Output
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 3.—(AP)—A strike of 2,000
—workers in a huge atomic production plant is planned
for next Thursday.
If the strike comes off, it will stop production of ura
nium 235 in one of the largest industrial plants in the
world. U-285 is the fissionable element that goes into
atomic bombs. :
A CIO union voted lass night to
strike and asked its international’
headquarters for authorization.
At Washington, President Mar
tin Wagner, of the United GCas,
Coke and Chemical Workers
(CIO) said the union’s officers
would take up the Oak Ridge lo
cal’s strike resolution today.
Wagner indicated a decision
would be announced after the
meeting.
The union asked a 15-cent hour
ly wage inerease when negotia
tions began seven weeks ago for
a new contract to begin June 9.
A counter-proposal that wages
be reduced six cents was made
by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Corp., operator of all Oak Ridge
atomic installations for the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The CIO employes’ average wage
is $1.59. )
J. A. George, president of the
Union’s Local 288, said the strike
resolution was passed in two union
gleetings attended by 600 mem
ers,
The resolution asserted that
“negotiations have produced no
results” and asked that the com
mittee be empowered-to call a
strike.
Gov’'t Steps 3
Two methods of government in
tervention may be used to pre
vent or delay the strike.
President Truman is empowered
under the Taft-Hartley act to seek
an injunction to prohibit a strike
during an m y arbitration
plied in a similar dispute between.
Carbide and an AFL union here
more than a year ago. 50
Another is procedure to settle
strike threats in vital AEC opera
tions proposed by a special com
mission : headed by former war
labor board chairman Wiliiam
Davis. ‘
Under ' this plan, a three-man
panel appointed by the President
would enter an atomic labor dis
putg only after all other means
had failed. The contesting parties
would. be obligated, once the panel
intervened, to maintain the status
quo for 30 days.
The CIO employes are produc
tion workers at the. Gaseous
Diffusion Atomic Process Plant, a
unit that cost about $100,000,000
to build in wartime.
Nap In Shade
Proves Fatal
BOWLING GREEN. Ky., June
3—(AP)—A nap in the shade of
an auto brought death to one
child and critical injuries to an
other as the vehicle’s wheels
struck them.
Rickey Bledsoe, nine-months-old
son of Mrs. Leona Robins, died at
a hospital here yesterday, 10 min
utes after the mishap.
The other boy, Harry Lewis Jor
dan, 13, son of Jerry Jordan, of
Oakland, and Mrs. L. E. Denham,
Bowling Green, received internal
injuries and severe head lacera
tions.
the motion.
Several state legislatures have
taken up decontrol bills. Such a
bill passed in Florida, but the gov
ernor hasn’t signed yet. Texas
legislators are battling on the is
sue. Four states have turned
down decontrol bills—lowa, Ten
nessee, North Carolina and Okla
homa.
Few figures are available on
“home rule” decontrol, but these
nationwide tendencies were noted:
Decontrol movements tend to
cenier in the South and Southwest.
These occur most frequently in
smaller communities. Industrial
New England and the fast-growing
Pacific Northwest show little in
clination to drop ceilings.
-~ And most governors are taking
their time about approving local
decont-ol requests. Eleven cities
and towns have voted for raising
controls but are awaiting action by
the governor. One town, Ocean
View, Va., ran into a governor’s
veto. : X
In Washington it was learned
that six brand new, approved de
control requests are being checked
for legality by Expediter Woods.
If the cities are the largest in their
rent areas, Woods must decontrol
the whole area.
Grand Jury To
Probe Lynching
EDGEVILLE, Ga., June 3
—(AP)—A special session of the
Wilkinson county grand jury was
ca today to investigate the
lyunching early Monday of a negro
pr‘%xer.
ge George Carpenter set
Juie 14 the date for the session.
Caleb Hill, jr., 28, was taken
from the jail in Irwinten early
Monday morning by two men. His
body was found later after he had
been beaten and shot 'to death.
“Hill was arrested Sunday nght
by Sheriff George Hatcher at a
negre roadhouse. The sheriff said
the negro got hold of his (Hatch
er’s) pistol and fired at him.
Hatcher said he took Hill to the
jail and then went back to hunt
for his pistol which had been lost.
Chambers Admits He Lied To Get
Gov't Job At Hiss Perjury Trial
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tate Red
Second Day
ATLANTA, June 83 —(AP) —
Alleged threats of vioience and
intimidation by Communists who
follow a definite plan to get
young people “in their grip” were
before a civil court today.
Evans Wilder, 20-year-cld resi
dent of Cartersville, Ga., testified
concerning allleged threats by
Homer B. Chase, Georgia Com
munist party chairman.
Wilder is seeking a peace war
rant against Communist leaders.
He told Judge Ralph McClellan in
Fulton Civil Court yesterday that
Chase warned hiin the party had
a way of “taking care” of mem
bers who talked too much or de
viated from the party line.
Wilder testified Chase visit.d
him in Cartersville last Octobor
or November after he had written
to William Z. Foster, New York
Communist leader. Wilder said
his letter to Foster expressed sym
pathy with Communism.
Chase gave him literature on
Communism, he said, and he mail
ed similar litature to others in
Cartersville. He was a grocery
clerk at the time. ;
His testimony included accounts
of Communistic meetings at
w hich music records of the In
ternationale, -the Revolutionary
anthem were played.
Atlanta Stopover
At one meeting in Chase’s
home, he said, he was told At
lanta was a stopping place for
alien Communists smuggled into
the county.
Wilder quoted Bill Stafford,
whom he identified as -one of
Chase’s associates, as asking
“how much dynamite would it
take to blow up the Allatoona
Dam and if I thought the Kremlin
would be interested.” The Alla
toona Dam is being built near
Cartersville.
Chase questioned Wilder and
sought to bring out that the meet
ings at his house were social, in
stead of political.
4] think they were political”
‘isaid Wilder.
Counsel. "for Chase objected
vigorously to questioning about
Atlanta being the stopping place
for Communist agents.
Dan Duke, attorney for Wilder,
replied that Communists were
trying to arouse a “psychological
fear” by giving Wilder access to
such inner workings of the party.
Duke said it was part of a plan
to get “young impressionable peo
tple in their grin'”
Get City Report
Cards Wednesday
| Children in the city school sys
tem today ended the current school
year with a full schedule of classes.
Children in the county school sys
tem ended their year last Friday.
Students in the city schools will
return !? their schools next Wed
nesday for a few minutes to re
ceive their report cards and then
will begin their three months sum
mer - vaeation period with the
schools re-opening early in Sep
tember.
Mickey Rooney,
Set To T ake
3rd Wife Today
HOLLYWOOD, June 3—(AP)
—Mickey Rooney, the films’
perpetual juvenile, is scheduled
to take his third wife today.
Rooney, 28, and Actress Mar
tha Vickers, 24, plan to recite
marital vows this afterncon at
the Little Church of the Valley
in nearby San Fernando. A
champaign reception for 50
suests will follow at the Beverly
Hills Club.
Miss Vickers paved the way
for the ceremony by obtaining a
Nevada divorce decree from A.
C. Lyles, Hollywood publicist,
last week. Mickey’s California
divorce from Betty Jane Rase,
former Miss Birmingham, Ala.,
became final Tuesday.
Rooney married Betty Jane
while he was stationed in the
army in Alabama in September,
1944. They were divorced in
May, 1948. They had two chil
dren, Mickey jr., 3 1-2, and Tim
othy, 2 1-2.
Before that, the boisterous
Mick was wed to Ava Gardner.
That lasted from January, 1942,
until September, 1943. .. .. ...
S MR e W
NEW YORK, June 3. — (AP) — A cross-examinin
lawyer drew from Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambel%‘
vesterday an acknowledgement that he once lied to get
a federal job and that he lost another job after being
‘aceunfed of stealing. o e RN et
Chambers, the government’s key witness in the per
jury triai of former -State ‘Department official Alger
Hiss, returns to the witness stand today for further
cross-examination by defense counsel. =~
The defense began its rapid-fire
questioning yesterday after the
stocky, soft-fiien Chambers un
folded in Federal court a story of
a prewar Soviet spy ring which he
said was fed government secrets
by Hiss.
The 44-yea§’old Hiss, who sat
calmly beside flis wife, Priscilla,
during Chambers’ testimony, is ac
cused of lying when he denied be
fore a Federal grand jury that
he ever gave confidential docu
ments to Chambers.
Hitting at Chambers’ reliability,
Defense Counsel Lloyd Paul
Stryker drew from him the ad
mission that he committed per
jury in 1937 when he took an oath
of office for a job with the Works
Progress Administration.
Chambers said he swore to sub
port the Constitution although he
was a Communist dedicated to
“help overthrow our country by
force.” ¢
Probing into the background of
the witness, who e¢laims he was a
courier for the spy ring, Stryker
asked him if he was ever “kicked
out” of Columbia University.
Chambers said he left the uni
versity because of a ‘“very just
criticism” of a play he wrote for
a campus magazine. He said it was
£ i%hly offensive” in its treatment
hrist. ¢
Stryker said that Chambers, in
making application for the fed
eral job, deliberately left out men
tion of a job he once held at the
New York public library.
“Were you charged in the New
York public library for stealing
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maon trip with Prince Aly Khan, movie aciress
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latest wedidng gift to her—Skylaiking, a two-
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—CAPITOL HILL ROUNDUP
Demos Map labor |
Action In Secret ,
BY JACK RUTLEDGE
WASHINGTON, June 3.— (AP) —The Senate’s dis
rupted Democrats met behind closed doors today to
work out a labor program they can agree on Monday
when the Senate itself starts debate on the bill.
The administration wants outright repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Act and substitution of a modified Wagner Act
that labor likes. :
Most Republicans and some
Democrats want to either keep the
T-H Act, or replace it with a bill
that retains most of its provisions.
The administration bill was de
feated in the House, even though
Speaker Rayburn (D.-Tex.) back
ed compromise amendments that
would have made the measure
much like the present law.
And now the Senate faces the
| same problem: Compromise, to win
' votes.
Senate Democratic Leader Lu
cas of Illinois came out today flat
ly agreeing to some changes in the
administration bill. He didn’t say
books?” Stryker asked. |
“Yes,” said Chambers, “but not
from the library.”
Q. “Were you dismissed from the
library after the charge was
made?”
A. “Yes, I had some Co?r’nbia
University books.” §
Chambers said detectives came
to his home and found there 25
or 30 books which he had taken
from the Columbia University
library.
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Tanker Flashes
. .
Distress Signal
NEW YORK, June 3—(AP)—
The Coast Guard reported today
the tanker flagship Sinco had
flashed an S. O. S. that it was
disabled 90 miles off the Florida
coast with water flooding its en
gine room.
The master of the vessel said
the ship’s ecirculation casing—
which controls its cooling system
—had broken and that water was
rising in the engine room at the
rate of a foot an hour.
The distress message was flash
ed at 3:53 a. m. (EST). Later the
master reported the water already
had risen to a depth of 11 feet.
The Coast Guard said the dis
abled ship was about 90 miles
off Jacksonville, Fla. Another
tanker, the Delaware Sun, was re
ported standing by the Sinco.
Meanwhile, two Coast: Guard
cutters and a tug were speeding
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what they were, however.
President Truman himself has
stoutly maintained that he op
poses any compromise, although
the CIO and the AFL have an
nounced they aren’t dead set
against all amendments. But the
unions are definitely against anti
strike injunctions which the T-H
Act contains.
The conference of Senate Dem
ocrats was expected to last all day.
Elsewhere on capitol hill things
were quiet today. Both houses
were in adjournment until Mon
day. And few committee meet
ings were scheduled.
Most of the spotlight was on
things to come:
Atomic — The Senate-House
Atomic Energy Committee investi
gation of the Atomic Energy Com
mission and its chairman David E.
Lilienthal was abruptly adjourned
yesterday—until possibly Monday
—after Chairman McMahon (D.-
Conn.) said a missing atomic bot
tle has been found. The loss of
the bottle, and some Uranium-235,
helped touch off the probe.
Senator Hickenlooper (R.-lowa]
charged Lilienthal with “incredis
hknumnmmm"mi “the AEC,
which Lilienthal hotly denied.
Both demanded a public probe,
which started this week and may
resume next Monday or Tuesday.
Recovery of the missing bottle,
lost - apparently by accident, took
some of the steam out of the at
tack, on the AEC. But Hicken~
looper isn’t through.
Pact—The Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee will try again
Monday to get an approving vote
on the North Atlantic Treaty. It
ran into a snag yesterday when
Senator George (D.-Ga.) said he
could not support it as it stands.
Chairman Ccnnally (D.-Tex.) said
it's “able and splendid.” But he
wants a unanimous vote, and
George must be convinced the
treaty doesn’t give the President
the right to send American soldiers
into combat without the consent
of Congress. v
Crop Stt‘e — Only President
Truman’s ¢ ature is needed to
set in operation a vast system of
government-supplied storage for
farm crops, particularly wheat and
corn. Both the House and Senate
vesterday approved the bill.
Displaced Persons — The House
yesterday passed a displaced per
sons bill, boosting by 134;000 the
number of European war refugees
who may come here. The bill
faces an uncertain future in the
Senate.
Deficiency Bill——The Senate late
yvesterday approved by a voice
vote a $862,563,510 deficiency bill
carrying extra funds to tide over
the various government agencies
and departments for the rest of
the present fiscal year ending June
30. An interesting part of the bill
was its approval of $5,400,000 for
renovation of the White House.
The Senate wants to repair the
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year-old filly. Rita and Skylarking are shown
together just after the filly won the 150,000-
frane Prix de Nogeant at a Paris, France, race
track.— (NEA Radiotelepheto.)
