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‘) KELLEU M DVI UCRRITTRY ’l‘lc BRHDGE
Rescuers look through the Greyhound
pus that was demolished after crashing
into & concrete abutment of a bridge near
Bloomington, Indiana. The picture is
Surge Hikes Number Of Polio
Cases 1o 11,600 Over Nation
Total Of 3,000 New Cases Reported
This Month; Early Season Is Cited
By The Associated Press 7
More than 3,000 new polio cases this menth have
%oosted the nation’s total for this year over 11,000.
An Associated Press survey through August 9 showed
that the number of cases in 1949 was running roughly
£.OOO ahead of that for the same date in 1948.
+ ervices
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To Be Held
‘riday, 6P. M
‘riday, 6 . M.
Bennett-Franklin Tuck, member
¢ a well known Athens family,
lied in a local hospital Wednesday
}lwmepa al 5:30 o'clock. Mr.
uck %was 60 years old and had
been ill for five days. 3
Graveside services will be con
ducted in Oconee Hill cemetery
Friday at 6 p. m,, with Dr. J. W.
¢ McKidden pastor of First
Methodist Church, officiating.
Pall-bearers will be C. A. La
nier, M. H. Pittard, Louis Trous
dale, Ernest C. Long, J. P.
Engwles and William Hudson.
Eernstein Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
In addition to his wife, Mr.
Tuck is survived by a son, Bennett
Frankiiz Tuck. jr., Atlanta; three
sisters, Mrs. Louis C. Trousdale,
Mrs. Rupert Weatherly and Mrs.
Lillian Knowles, all of Athens;
brother, Robert Tuck, Bangor,
Maine; three nieces, Mrs. C. A.
Lanier, Mrs. M. H. Pittard and
Mrs. Ernest C. Long, all of Ath
€l.s; two nephews, Louis C. Trous
dale and J. P. Knowles, both of
this eity. .
Mr., Tuck was a .resident of
#thens for many years, later go
ng into business in Florida. His
health began to fail about two
Years ago and ha returned ‘ ere.
He suffered a stroke at his home
al 345 Rutherford Street late last
veek and was taken to the hospi
¥ but failed to rally.
(CHINg = S UTAL LOS
Author Maloof Attacks State
Department’s ‘White Paper’
in an exclusivJe fizimez'fle:‘:gg
interview Louis i 001, au
¢f the widely acclaimed book,
“Iruth About Chi.~’s Crisis,” de
tlared that China is not totally
lost to democravy, :
“China,” he said, “is no more
lost than the communisti¢ men in
the state department desire her
tv be lost.”
Mr. Maloof, wiic is doing grad
vale work in journalism at the
University of Georgia, described
e “White Paper,” published by
lhe state department as a “1,054-
Page masterpiece of rationaliza
tion.” He continued that the ad-
Y issions mace in that paper ere
#ld should be “nauseating to de
tnt Americans.” .
The “White Paper”, according
lo Mr. Maloof, even ' represents
President Truman as refusing aid
0 China on the grounds that
some Chinese leaders were hOPm%
so. a republican victory in the las
€lection,
Maloot charged that because the
{cntents of I.t General Albert C.
Wedemeyers repert on China
Woild have preveunted the pres
sot China grisis it was kept a
“top secret.”
Maloof recently returned to
Athens where he addressed con
§ressmen on the “White P&r-
A personal friend of ang
Kai-shek and his wife, Maloof
s2id that it causeq him the great
*st pain to hear the smear cam
fi'lans against their integrity and
loral ehacacter,
“The Madame.” he said, “is my
tonception of g saint on earth.”
2, COncerning Mr. Malqsgf’; book.
‘atdame Chiang Kui- ek says
be authos o *“Truth About iCEi4
ATLIFAIC DD AAIARIFD LIED AL
ATHAENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
from the under-side of the bus which is
lying on its side. Every side of the bus
was completely burned up.— (NEA Tele
photo.)
Last year, with a total of 27,680
cases reported, was the second
highest on record for polio inci
dence. The worst year was 1916
when more than 30,000 cases were
counted.
Judged solely by case figures,
the polio situation looks more
alarming than it really is, health
authorities pointed out. They
}said that a greater: percentage of
polic cases are recognized and re
‘ported each year, and that many
of the added proportion are so
mild they would Lave been diag
nosed as cold in the head a few
years &go.
Also, many local health officers
reported a slacking off in new
case reports. And it was noted
that this year’s polio season de
veloped several wi ks earliér than
is usual.
Actually, the 11,000 cases repor
ted to date represents a ratio of
about one victim to every 15,000
persons in the United States.
There was no accurate check on
the number of deaths from the
disease to date this year, but they
were expected to run between six
and nine percent of reported cas
es. This would mean about one
fatality to more than 150,000 per
scns. ’
Most health officers reported
the proportion of paralytic cases
was no greater this year than for
merly. The percentage of bulbar
cases was reported under the us
ual ratio in most areas. Bulbar po
lio is the type which atffects the
medulla oblongat: the rear por
tion of the brain. It causes pa
tients to losc control of their
breathing, swallowing and other
involunitary muscular processes.‘
Eulbar cases are those treated
with iron lungs.
rc¢’s Crisis” knows China well. He
gives a clear and honest picture of
what is happening in my country.”
Mrs. Maloof is the author of
seven boo' - and has four now in
the process of ?sublication.
Journalist Since 15
He has done journalistic work
since he was fifteen, contributing
to more than 800 newspapers and
25 national magazines.
He is the author of numerous
plays, biographies, and short sto
ries. Louis Maloof first received
national attention in 1934 with
his song, “Praise to The chief” —
the song used at the Roosevelt
birthday balls. §
He became a Marine Corpg
Combat Correspondent in 1934
and served overseas from Gaudal
cgnal to the China occupation with
the Sixth Marine Division.
He is the holde of thirty-two
decorations, citations, and conf
mendations. Gen A
Maloof, on the subject of com
munism in America, declared that
the Amer! an negro-especially the
southern negro—would never
prove good soil for the communis~
tic seed.
He typed . lul Robeson, who re
cently made .the statement that
the American negro would never
fight for America against Rfluia,
es an egotistical man with illus
jons of graundeur-—who hopes to
be communist diztator of his own
people.”
No Church
When asked about the we.": of
the church in China, he said that
in the Communistic paris of Chi
ru there is no chur 1. “Christiani
1y is being viciW,eu! |
51 the whim: of Communist digto~
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HERBERT HOOVER
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HOOVER WARNS:
U.S. Should Check
U.S. Shou ec
Spending Polici
~ PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 11.—(AP)—The nation to
day had the sober warning of its only living former Presi
dent that its spending policies, if unchecked, will rob
posterity of its inheritance.
" Former President Herbert Hoover, in a significant'ad
dress, asserted last night that the United States *‘is biiss
fully driving down the back road 'to collectivism at top
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torship. I frequently hear of my |
very good Christian friends in |
China being tortured to death and !
sometimes declared to be war |
oriminals,” he sai&.‘ “All beoause!
¢f their faith in rist.” i
Maloof is now publishing a book
of war-ti?e poetry. He was call
ed, “the Joyc: Kilmer of World
War I 11” bg Or, Michael Kinney,
founding editor of America mag
azine.
He calls that book “Seahag Co
boodle,” because he says he had a l
caboodle of poems in his seabag
of the end of the war, ..~ »
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIAOVER ACENTURY
75 Cents Minimum Wage
Bill Approved By House
e e
Senate Delays On Similiar
Bill Makes Fate Uncertain
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.— (AP) —The House passed
today a bill to raise the national minimum wage from 40
cents an hour to 75, as asked by President Truman.
The measure went to the Senate, where a similar min
imum wage Lill is pending, The Senate has set the measure
aside repeatedly for other legislation, however, and it is
uncertain when the bill may be called up for debate there,
The House action was, in a
sense, a victory for the adminis
tration. The bill carried the 75-
cent minimum advocated by the
President, Secretary of Labor To
bin, and representatives es major
labor organizations.
However, it also carried sub
stantially the revision of coverage
pushed by a coalition of Republi
cans and Southern Democrats. The
bill was introduced by Rep. Lucas
(D.-Tex.).
Earlier the House had refused
to wash out three days of heated
debate on minimum wage legisla
tion by sending the whole thing
%fck to its labor committee for
iore study.
Standing Vote
A motion to do that lost 241 to
41 on a standing vote.
While boosting the minimum,
the bill also stands to take perhaps
one million workers out from un
der its protection.
The legislation was writien by
‘Republicans and Southern Dem
ocrats but amended in one vital
spot by administrative supporters
—the 15-cent feature.
As introduced by Rep. Lucas
(D.-Tex.) it would have boosted
the minimum from its present 40
cents an hour to 65 and provided
annual adjustments—up or down—
to cost of living trends, with a 50
cent floor.
Flat Boost
As amended to give a flat boost
to a 75-cent minimum, it got tent
ative approval twice yesterday —
211 to 140 on an unrecorded tally,
and 225 to 181 on a roll call a few
minutes later.
Two roll calls were possible to
day—oneé~on a motion to send the
whole subject back io the Housé
Labor Commi'iee for further con
sideration @nd another on final
passage.
Administration leaders were
passing out the advice to vote
against sending it back to com
mittee, and then to vote for pas
sage.
On the roll call yesterday, 143
Republicans and 82 Democrats, 12
Republicans, and the lone Ameri
can Laborite, Rep. Marcantonio of
New York.
“We have not had a great so
cialization of property,” he said,
“bul we are on the last mile to
collectivism through governmen
tal collection and spending of the
savings of the people.”
The country’s President, from
1929 to 1933, spoke before an esti
mated 10,000 persons in the beau
tiful grass-carpeted Laurence
Frost Memorial Bowl on the Stan
ford University campus, virtually
in the shadow of the Hoover In
stitute and Library on War, Rev
olution and Peace, founded lin
1915, .
The ocecasien was his 75th
birthday celebration, sponsored
by the University in tribute to its
most famous son, a graduate of its
first class in .1895.
Good Wishes
President Truman's mressage of
congratulations and good wishes
was among the thousands which
came from all over the world.
Some of them came from foreign
lands where Heover's administra
tion of relief established his
name as a great humanitarian.
Hoover headed a special com
mission on government organiza
tion which recently completed a
two-year study with a report rec~
ommending economies of four]
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
LLOYD NOLAN, borm Augusté 11, 1903, in San' ZZI 8 ;i
Francisco. Now well known among movie goers SFF " TS
for his roles in “Guadalcanal Diary,” "Bataan,"&f; «;f; 7
and “The House on 92nd Street,” among others, JE s . |
Nolan started his stage career with the Pasadena §&8 &% 743 |
Community Players in 1927 after graduation from # 4 &j A
Leland Stanford University, He then joined the /™ - . ”‘ {
Cape Cod players at the Dennis Playhouse and | /x N
made his first Broadway appearance in the “Cape % N B
Cod Follies” in 1929. The next vear he toured with 2228 ;
“The Front Page,” after three vears in Broadway § 5
plays, he made his screen debut in 1934 in “Stolen e o -
Harmony” and has been in innumerable films {{QYD NOLAN l
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1949,
Some administration Democrats
claimed a victory. Others were
not so. sure. Republicans were
divided in sentiment, and so were
Southern Democrats.
Lucas’ bill differs from the ad
ministration’s bill in two major
respects. First, it would not give
the wage-hour administrator any
authority to fix rules and regula
tions for administration of the law.
Of E Council
urope wOUlncit
Greece Steps Up Campaign Against
Red Guerrillas On Albania Border
By The Associated Press
The European Council’s Consultative Assembly elected
Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium its first president by accla
mation today.
Sponsors hope the Assembly, meeting in Strasbourg,
France, may become Europe’s first international parlia
ment. It has 101 members from 12 countries,
Spaak was nominated by Wins
ton Churchill, one of 18 delegates
from Britain. He resigned as act
ing Belgian premier and foreign
minister to be eligible for the post.
The asembly'E wmomptmmpmem
choice will keepwofld News
one of Europe's
outstanding post- ROlllldllp
war political fig- ————rrrme
ures in public life. - Spaak has
been prominent in his own toun
try’s government since liberation.
He was first president of the
United Nations General Assembly
and has been a leader in steps
toward European economic coop
eration under the Marshall Plan.
Spaak’s resignation marked the
end a government crisis in Belgi
um since elections six weeks ago,
in which his Socialist party lost
ground. A new coalition cabinet
of Social Christians and Liberals,
headed by Social Christian Gaston
Eyskens, was being sworn in to
day.
Greece’s general staff announced
a stepping up of the new offensive
against Communist guerrillas in
mountains near the Albanian fron
tier.
A communique said four forti
fied heights in the Vitsi triangle
were stormed during the night.
Fantastic Charges
The Ministry of War labelled as
fantastic charges broadcast from
Tirana last night that the govern
ment troops had invaded Albanian
territory. :
‘Louis Johnson, United States
Defense Secretary, traveled to Ot=
tawa for taiks with Canadian mii
itary chiefs, The conferences are
believed likely to cover both U. S.-
Canadian planning for defense of
North America and close military
cooperation of the two countries
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Continued hot and humid
this afternoon and Friday with
scattered afternoon or even
ing thundershowers both days.
High today 92. Low 71. High
for Friday 92. Sunset tonight
7:20. Sunrisé Friday 5:52.
G E O R G I A—Continued
rather hot and humid this aft
ernoon, tonight and Friday.
Showers and thunderstorms
over south portion and a few
scattered afternoon and even
ing thundershowers over north
portion.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since August 1 .. .. .42
Deficit since August 1 .... 1.16
Average August rainfall .. 4.62
Total since January 1 ~..82.32
Deficit since January 1 .. 1.04
Bel guum - Athens
Atr Mail Takes
Only 24 Hours
Three evidences of how air
mail service to Athens speeds
up the delivery of letters was
revealed to the Banner-Herald
by Postmaster J. L. Myers to
day.
He said a letter mailed in
Belgium on Tuesday was -e
--ceived at the Post Office here
last night (Wed iesday). Other
instances of fast air mail ser
vice shown when a letter n.ail
ed in California yesterday ar
rived here this morning and an
air mail letter arrived here to
day from Oklahoma in only 12
hours.
under the North Atlantic Pact.
W. Averell Harriman, roving
ambassador for the European co
operation administration (Mar
shall Plan), was the day’s chief
witness at Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations Commit
tee hearings in Washington on the
administration’s foreign arms aid
program, i
China Situation ¥
. Backers of the $1,450,000,060
program were reported heartened
by news that Senator Taft (R.-
Ohio) would not lead a fight
against it.
Latest word on China in Wash
ington was that U. S, Ambassador
J. Leighton Stuart may not return
to his post with the hard-pressed
Chinese Nationalist government at
Canton.
More Land Bought
.
For School Site
Practically yall of the property,
which is being sought by the Ath
ens Board of Education for the
site of the new high schoo!, has
been acquired today.
* A deed to the major portion of
the property was acquired by the
Board this week after a court or
der carrying out the verdict of a
jury awarding $15,000 for the
land was executed. W, H. Benson
is the former owner of this part
of the land, which comprises
about 22 acres.
* The Board also has acquired|
the lot formerly belonging to
Mrs. Katie Goodwin, This lot is
about 70 feet square.
There remains only about six
acres yet to be acouired for the
high school site by the Board.
The school bonds have been
sold for $1,059,160 to the Citizens
and Southern National Bank;
Johnson, Lane, Space and Com
pany; Milhous, Martin and Com
pany. The premium paid is re
garded as highly satisfactory.
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Survivors of th‘e-éafi'fl;q;él{e Whiéh vhlf
Ambato, Ecuador, huddle in makeshift
tents and on mattresses in squares and
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Data On Suspension Of Two Generals
BY OLIVER W. DEWOLF
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(AP)—The Senate investi
gations subcommittee today planned to take the lid eff
some of the evidence that led to the suspension of the
Army’s Chemical Corps chief last July 186,
Major General Alden H. Waitt was suspended as chief
of the Chemical Corps by Secretary of the Army Gordon
Gray on that date along with Major General Herman
Feldman, Quartermaster General,
Gray said in a statement then
that he acted because evidence se
cured by the Senate committee
“indicated that each officer had
exhibited a lack of that judgment
and sense of propriety which must
be expected of persons in their
positions.”
The eommittee is looking into
the activities of “five percenters”
—persons who seek government
contracts for others for a fee,
A committee aide told reporters
the group plans to start in “on a
matter affecting General Waitt”
after first hearing testimony from
Clarence Oehler. He said this
matter would involve part of the
evidence that led to the 56-year
old officer’s suspension.
Oehler, formerly supervisor of
the War Assets Administration’s
storage warehouse division at Chi
cago, now is reported associated
with the American Industrial De
velopment Corp., St. Louis.
The committee wants to ask him
about correspondence he is said to
have conducted with James V.
Hunt, Washington management
counselor, in April 1947 when
Oehler was with WAA.
Hunt, a former army lieutenant
colonel and War Assets eonsultant,
is a prime figure in the investiga
tion.
The subecommittee has heard tes
timony from Paul Grindle, Fram
ingham, Mass., manufacturer, that
Hunt named to him as “close per
sonal friends” both Waitt and Maj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President
Truman’s military aide. *
Vaughan’s name was brought
into the hearing again yesterday
by Housipg Expediter Tighe E.
Woodg. He testified that Vaughan
had come to his office to see about
hurrying up a construction per
mit for the Tanforan race track in
California on January 12, 1948,
Chairman Hoey (D.-N.C.) told
reporiers there may be more ref
erences to Vaughan later. Other
committee sources predicted in ad
vance that Vaughan’s name would
figure today in connection with
Waitt, Waitt himself is expected
to take the stand tomorrow.
X Presstime Bulletins X
Judge Clark Edwards of Elberton told the Banner-Herald early
this afternoon that he is preparing his opinion in the Chamber of
Commeree vs. Cily of Athens case and c3Pscls so release ¥ By
Saturday.
A hearing in the case concerning the occupancy of Civie Hall
was held on July 1 and briefs were filed Jlater by attorneys for
both sides. ;
ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Georgia’s Game and Fish Cem
mission named a subcommittee today to Investigate charges of
political firing.
The Atlanta Field Trial Club proiested the dismissall of Bob An
derson, game warden ror Cobb and DeKaib counties, :
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Building Set
Mayor Jack R. Wells told the
Banner-Herald tocay that all ap
plications mecessary in erder te
seek state and federal aid in eb
taining a Public Hzalth Center in
Athens have been completed.
He stated that if thg funds are
ckayed for the building here
Athens will have a SIOO,OOO heaith
center. Under the Hill-Burton bill
the federal government furnishes
-3 of the cost, the state pays 1-3.
an;i the community pays the ether
1-8.
In Athens and Clarke county the
Department of Health is a jeint
one so the county will pay 1-8 of
the cost as ,will the city. The
amount pai& by each of the loes
bodies will be about $17,000,
Mayor and Council and #h
' Coynty Commissioners hmz.nb
¢ furnish their share of €os’
ond are joining hands in an ~ffor
to get approval by state and fed
eral authorities.
One Injured
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In Collision
William D. Turner, 19, of Rout:
Three Danielsville was slightly in
jured when the motorcycle o
which he was riding and & trucl
driven by J. H. Hooper, 34, dila.
collided on Madison avenue. T .
head-on collision occurred late
yesterday afternoon.
Both have been charged by Tity
Police with reckless driviig snd
the case has been set for Aufusi
15 in Recorder’s Court.
parks of the city - after destruction of -
their homes.— (NEA Telephoto.) T