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Vol. CXVII, No. 188.
Woods Cites Cutbacks
in Addition To Slash -
In Borderline Areas
By BILL ROSS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(AP)
Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woocs
Iday predicted a further new cut
pack in rent control.
He said his agency .may be
forced to curtail activities in many
parts of the nation—this in addi~
tion to lifting ceilngs completely
in one-third of the areas no~ con~
irolled by federal regulations.
Just what form additional re
ductions in rent controls would
tlake, Woods could not immediately
<av. He declared, however, that
more cutbacks of some nature are
aslmost eertain to come.
“The slash in our budget makes
it necessary to lop off the housing
ctaft from 5,600 to 3,000 persons,”
Woods told a reporter. “And that
means we just won’t have' man
power to do the job—so we’ll have
to cut the work load.”
Already announced plans to
sbolish ceilings across one-third
of the ecountry, meantime, were
creating a stir of reaction and eon
fusion.
Senator Douglas (D.-I11.) said
he heped today to bring to the
Senate flour a resolution to recon
sider 2 House - Senate conference
bill which okayed the cut in the
housing ageney’s funds to $17,500,-
000 contrasted with $26,750,000
acked by the budget bureau to
tinance rent control operations.
: Phone Calls
Housing authorities said they
have been “flooded with a constant
stream” of long distance phone
calls and telegrams asked clarifi
cation and protesting the proposal
to drop restrictions in many parts
of the eountry where controls still
are on.
Woods attempted to explain pre
liminary details of the new policy.
It is still impossible, he said, to
determine what areas will be de
controlied: ~Sueh - information
won’t be ready for at least another
week. It is expected, he went on,
that ceilings will be dropped first
in so-called “borderline” areas
where sufficient rental housing ap
pears to exist or will soon be
available,
Will the bulk of the decontrols
come in small towns or metropoli
tan areas?
Wods said he is sticking by his
original statement that controls
will not be dropped in.any com
munity of more than 100,006 popu
lation—which will rule out large
;f""““ and heavily-populated eoun
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Generally fair and eontinued
hot through Saturday. High to
day 92, low 72, High Saturday
§B. Sunset 7:16, sunrise 5:57.
GEORGIA ~— Partly cloudy
&nd corftinued rasher hot this
afternoon, tonight and Satur
@ay, scaitered thundershowers
in south pertion this afternoon
and over south and west por
tions Saturday afternoon.
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resstime Builliefins
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MANCHESTEK, England, Avg. 19.—(AP)—A British European
Airways plane enroute here from Belfast crashed into a hill im
thick weather today and killed 27 of ils 32 occupants.
. Four persons were killed in anether crash at Baildon, near
Shipley, Yorkshire, the Civil Aviation Ministry anneuncs.
All oceupants of the planes were believed to have been: British.
\TLANTA, Aug. 19.—(AP)—The President of Georgia State
4 ollege for Negroes in Savannah has resigned after an investiga-,
tion by s eommittee from the State Board of Regents. -
A spokesman for the Regents said today the committee has not
vet made its report back to the Board, but an over expenditure of
the college budget is involved.
MAYBANK ELECTION
Political 1
romnuca 1
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Cauldron
: : :
Boils In S. C.
COLUMRIA, SB, C., Aug. 19—
(AP)—-South Carelina’s politieal
cauldron bubbled doéuble today.
Senator Burnet R. Maybank was
tltcted Demrocratic National Com
mitteeman,
‘lavbank succeeds Governor J.
Sttom Thurmond, last year's
'“minee for President under the
States’ Rights banner. ;
“hurmond offered to resign +his
Democratic committee post last
‘¢ar. Tt was not accepted then.
He offered again Wednesday anfl
't wus taken up by the state’s
€Xecutive committee,
South Carolina is a one-party
“'ate—Democrat. But the party if
it wide over the states’ rights
duestion,” They divide as follows:
?ro-Truman Democrats md
Pates’ Righters: T i L=z oo
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Associated Press Service
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State Okays Construction
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Of $,%“l0,000 Building Here
g '-;) BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR. .7y
A f Assistant City Editor
St@, pproval for financial assistance to Athens and
Cle g county in the erection of a SIOO,OOO Public
g’_ &;;lsCenter was announced today by city and county
Several months ago both the Athens Mayor and
Council and the Clarke County Board of Commissioners
voted to take part in the program and make a joint
effort to get state and federal financial aid in the build
ing of the health center for the citizens of the eity and
county. .
In this program the city will pay about $17,000 and
the county will pay a similar sum; amounting to 1-3 of
the total cost. The state and federal governments will
each pay 1-3 of the cost. j
The application- for financial assistance has been
sent to federal officials for approval.
Representing Mayor and Council in the Public Health
Center work were Mayor Jack Wells as ex-officio mem
ber of the committee and a Public Heaith Center com
mittee composed of Mayor Pro-tem. Merritt Pound,
chairman; Councilmen F. H. Williams, Luther Bond,
Kenneth Guest and Dick Thompson.
Members of the County Commissioners — Chairman -
Harry Elder, J. H. Towns and Frank Hammett—served
as the committee representing the county.
The letter received today from Guy C. Lunsford, M.
D., Director Division of Local Health Organization of
the State Health Department, stated in part: ;
“It gives me pleasure to advise you that the applica
tion of Athens and Clarke county for financial assist
dnce in the erection of a public health centér has gotten
final approval from this department, and has been for
warded to the U. 8. Fublic Health Service for their ap
proval.” : ;
Paris Perfume Trip
Senator Mundt Seeks To Link Air
Jaunt With Vaughan Freezer Deal
" gy OLIVER'W. DEWOLF
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — (AP) — Senator Mundt
(R.-S.D)) sought today to link a flying trip to Paris in
1945 by three agents of a Chicago perfume firm with the
firm’s gifts of home freezers to Major General Harry H.
Vaughan “and his friends.”
e e L Cantral Fieures
| Mundt told reporters that the
| testimony given the Senate In
vestigations Committee secretly
Monday, and made public yesier
day, “begins to disclose a suspicion
of a motive of what is behind the
gifts of deep freezers.”
He referred to freezers paid for
by the Albert H. Verley Perfume
Company which were sent to Mre,
| Harry S. Truman, General
Vaughan and four other adminis
tration officials during the sum
mer of 1945 and the winter of
: 1945-46.
| Three representatives of the
iVerley Company made the Paris
|trip on an army transport plane
! in July, 1945 at a time, Mundt said,
!"when businessmen just couldn’t
| get there.”
l Mundt is a member of the com
mittee which is looking into the
[ activities of “five percenters’ —
l indivduals who search out govern
ment contracts for others at a fee,
usually fve percent.
-3 NEW CARS
READIED FOR
POLICE DEPT, |
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Three 1949, black Ford sedans |
are being readied for police duty, !
Chief of Police Clarence Roberis i
reported today.
At the same time, City Engi
neer J. G. Beachman, received 2
new 1949 Ford for use in his
departmental duties. |
Chief Roberts said that it |
wouid be several days before ‘
the new police cars would be !
ready for service. Special radio i
equipment, lights, generators, .
ete. will have to be transferred '
from the old cars to the new |
ones. ,
The purchase of the four cars
was approved recently by the ‘
Mayor ana City Counell ;
Central Figures
Twa of the central figures in the
inquiry are Vaughan, President
Truman's military aide, and John
Maragon, Washington man-about
town who used to have free access
to the White House. :
The testimony released by the
committee yesterday, after Presi
dent Truman had accused it of
withholding testimony “favorable”
to Vaughan while producing the
unfavorable parts at public hear
ings, threw a new spotlight on the
two men.
Both Vaughan and Maragon are
slated to appear before the com
mittee personally sometime after it
resumes its hearings next Tuesday.
Testimony by Harry Hoffman,
Milwaukee advertising man, who
handles the Verley account, named
Maragon as the man who arranged
for the army transport to carry
Hoffman, Maragon and Emmett
King, New York attorney, to Paris
on Verley business,
'TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
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j. TOM (Themas Terry) CONNALLY, born August ;
| 19,1877, oon a small cotton plantation in McLennan e
| County, Texas. Graduated from Baylor University, 7“
| be became a reporter on the Waco, Texas, “Tele~ .
| ‘phone” With political ambitions, he studied law, be 107 B
! but wag interrupted by the Spanish American ;5 ? ’
' War. He enlisted and was granted an LL.B, cum fif. 4
| laude, in absentia. He was elected to the Texas i
; legislature in 1900, served two terms, then was a ,@ f A
| prosecutor from 1906 to 1910, Going to Congress
l in 1917, his first vote was for declaration of war
against Gernmrany. He advanced to the Senate in T
1928 and since has been a leader in foreign affairs. TOM CONNALLY
TSET SUNDAY AT 2P. M.
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Swim Championship
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Committees Listed
» Committees for the Classic City Swim Championships
'to be held at the Legion Pool on Sunday afternoon begin
' ning at 2 o’clock were announced today by Meet Director
|Ed Hawkins. o ; yeae i
I An _honorary committee will be
composed of Mayor Jack R. Wells;
Mrs. Sallie T. Orr, executive sec
retary of the local chapter of
American Red Cross which co
sponsored the city learn-to-swim
program this summer along with
Ithe Recreation Department; D.
| Weaver Bridges, commander of
| Allen R. Fleming, jr. American
ILegion Post No. 20 which owns
the pool; and W, H. Benson, chair
i man of the City Recreation Board.
Head Judge will be Wendell
‘Wilson of the University of Geor
gia. He will be assisted by mem
| bers of s physical education de
partment, who wiil serve as judges
and timers.
- Theyx Stewart, ¢ne ,of the opi
TATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1949.
Finland Moves To Smash
Strike Offensive By Reds
A 8.1 l
“Limps”
Better Treatment
~ Being Sought For
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~ House Slashed Bill
' BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
| WASHINGTON, Aug, 19—(AP)
—Battered by the House, the ad-!
ministration’s foreign arms aid
}program looked te the Senate to- l
day for gentler treatment. |
i The program was slashed and
' hedged in with restrictions before I
{the House passed it last nizht by
(& vote of 238 to 122. ‘
| It marked a bad beating é*?
President Truman’s congressio
forces.
[ Despite their entreaties, a 50
| per cent cut was imposed on the
$1,160,990,000 earmarked to help |
}western European nations resist |
lpossible Soviet aggression. Con—’
| gress could decide to appropriate
' the rest of the funds next year. |
On top of that, the House de
creed that at least half of the sup
plies sent abroad must be carried
in ships flying the American flag.
The lawmakers als tightened up
a prohibition against using United
States troops for other than non
combatant duty in connection with
| the program. ‘
* But the House granted the full |
$211,370,000 the President wanted',
for aid to Greece and Turkey, and |
the $27,640,000 he asked for Iran,
| Korea and the Philippines and it
~beat back amendments to: :
I (1) Add $100,000,000 for China
and other southeastern Asia areas,
(2) Charge the western European
allotment against the current U.
S military appropriation, (3)
| Withhold funds from Britain as
'long as Ireland remains partition
led, (4) Ban the use of U. S,
| troops for any purpose under the
program, and (5) require the
the President to ehannel produc
tion into areas suffering from
acute unemployment problems.
Defeat of those amendments
was a shallow victory for the ad
iministration. whose House leaders |
thad predicted confidently that
they could stave off any cut in
western European funds.
,What they failed to figure on
were the absentees and the de
| sections from northern Democratic
| ranks, which usually line up solid
'ly for* anything the President
| wants.
The rcil-call count on the
amendment of Rep. Richards (D=
1 SC) to halve thé western Europe
n fund found 35 members not ac
counted for. And among' the 71
democrats who supported the
{ amendment were many noithern
!members who normally are found
| D administration ranks.
‘standing swimmers in the state,
will serve as starter.
~ Serving as a preliminary com
mittee (which will arrange entries
| several evente prior to the running
'ot the event) are Frank Eberhart,
Bill Volk, and “Monk” Collins, all
' of whom are members of the pool
staff,
The Meet Recorders will be
Royce Brewer of the City Recrea
tion Department and George Ab
ney, ir., of the Athens Banner-
Herald.
[ Announcing entries and results
will be Randolph Holder of station
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POLICE SHOTS STOP A FUCGITIVE
George Kuone, 29, an escaped convict, liegs on the
street in the business district of Kansas City where he
fell in a gun fight with police. He fled from the state
penitentiary August 9. Detectives Frank Bennett and
Floyd Hyland spotted him walking along the street
Wednesday and stopped him. Kuone drew a pistol and
fired two shots. The officers returned the fire and hit
him with three slugs. Bennett squats beside the wound
ed man. The officer at right was not identified.— (AP
Wirephoto.)
Klan Heads Meet Next Week
To Name Green’s Successor
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DR. SAMUEL GREEN
. . . Heart Attack Victim
FOR DIVIDEND PAYMENTS
Veteran Insurance Forms
To Be Issued August 29th
Application forms for G. 1. insurance dividends will ‘be
distributed by the government beginning August 29, it
was announced today.
In making the announcement Frank E. Mitchell Post
No. 2872, V. F. W., Commander John Wier said the forms
will be distributed by se\_rer_al agencies in Athens.
His post will have a special of
ficer available at the post home ati
434 1-2 Broad street from 5 to &
p. m. every day, Monday through
‘Friday, beginning on September 1,
to distribute forms and help vet
erans with filling them cut.
He said the service will be in
creased if there is a demand for it.
An announcement will be made
later on the material and facts
persons will need to have when
coming to the post home to have
their forms filled out. Commander
Wier brought out that forms can
be picked up at several places here
and veterans may fill them out
themselves, but he said V. F. W.
members will be glad to help any
needing help. !
The Commander pointed out'
that virtually every World War II
veteran who had a National Serv
jce Life policy in effect prior to
January 1, 1949, whether or not |
it is now lapsed, will be eligible
for a cut of the two billion, eight
hundred million dollar surplus to
be divided.
Although the exact basis for
payment is still being worked out
by the Veterans Administration
Wier stated, amounts of dividend
shasts will conarolle be determ
ined by the total amount of premi- i
Sudden Heart Attack Snuffs Out
Life Of K. K. K.’s Imperial Wizard
BY BEM PRICE
ATLANTA, Aug. 19. — (AP) — A heart attack last
night killed Imperial Wizard Samuel Green, the fanatical
ruler of the Ku Klux Klan. :
There was no doubt, however, that the Klan would
carry on though minus the energetic leadership of the
thin, 59-year-old physician .wit_huthe Hitler-like mustache.
A leading Ku Kluxer here said
twe Board of Directors probably
would meet next week to name a
successor to the rasp-voiced little
man who breathed a spirit of re-|
surgency into the “invisible em-~
pire.” '
Though Dr. Green had been a |
Klansman for 31 years, his family |
asked that the fact be omitted from |
his obituary. |
At the time of his death, Dr.
Green’s passion for preaching
“white supremacy” had made him
a target for aroused newspaper
editors and public officials.
They feared the Klan might ride
to power again on prejudice, as it
did in the decade of the 19205,
and become once more a powerful
political factor in the South.
Angrily and bitterly, Dr, Green
declared he was being “persecut-
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Clarke County’s Don Branyon
Elected State 4-H President
f (Special To The Banner-Herald)
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Aug. 19.—Donald Bran
yon, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, D. L. Branyon, sr., of
Clarke county, was elected 4-H Club Council
President today at the state meeting here.
Other officers elected were Edward Johnson,
Chatham county, Boys’ vice-preident; Jane Greer,
Newton eounty, Girle’ vice-president; Joy Lewis,
Thomas county, secretary; and Darrell Mosley,
Henry county, treasurer.
Mr, Branyon has won 4-H prizes in a number of
shows, including County show, Southeastern- Fair,
Parish Show, and National Jersey Show,
He has held the following offices in the Win
terville 4-H Club: Secretary in 1944-45, President
in 1946-46: Vice-president in 1946-47, and Presi
dent in 1947-48. He was named Secretary of the
County 4-H Council ,in 1946-47, and was re
elected to that post again the next year. 2
While he was vpresident of his club it won SIOO
fgon; The Atlanta Journal for its outstanaing
work. £ % e
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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City Officials Are Arrested;
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Sideline Cheers From Moscow
Ry The Associated Press
Finland’s government, determined to smash a strike
offensive it says is aimed at setting up a Communist
state, cracked down today on strike leaders while the
Reds shouted defiance,
The chairman of the city council at Kemi, fountainhead
of the snowballing strike movement and arena of its first
violence, was arrested. Another city council member was
reported in custody. The council chairman, Lahja Heikki
lae. was described as a leader of tbe Ke}‘ni‘sp‘rike call. =
One Injured
=
In Accident
D. D. Saye, well known local
contractor, was injured slightly in
an automobile aecident on Me~
Whorter Drive shortly before noon
today.
Mr. Saye, driving a pickup
truck, collided head-on with an
automobile owned by Albert Sams.
Mr. Sams’ regro chauffeur who
was driving, and Edward Sams, a
passenger of the car, was not in
jured,
Mr. Saye wes carried to a local
hospital by a Bernstein's Ambul=-
ance. Hospital attendants said X
[rsys reveaied no broken bones or
fractures and that Mr. Saye would
probably go home tomorrow.
.City police who investigated the
accident reported that both ve
hicibles were badly damaged.
ed.” |
Violence Spreads |
As a pattern of violence spr2ad
over the South in which masked
‘men figured in cross bumings,l
| beatings and threats, Dr. Green re
{lied more and more upon a stock
denial, *
f All these acts he ascribed with
out fail to “Bolshevik” groups over
' which he had no control.
He promised tx:at any Klansman
found guilty of violating the law
would be banished. To offset
growing ~ public indignation, he
ordered the Klan unmasked just
10 days prior to his death.
Simultaneousiy with the un=
masking order he revoked the
charters of three Klaverns near
Chattanooga, Tenn.
22 Beatings
~ His action in this case came only
after the blue bills of Georgia and
Tennessee had seen the beating of
22 individuals, mostly by masked
bands.
The blow that hurt Green the
most, however, was the declara
tion by U. 8. Attorney General
Tom Clark that the Klan was sub
versive,
Green had always maintained
| that part of the Klan oath was to
| uphold the constitution,
| ‘To prove his patriotism, Green
often pointed to a leiter of com
mendation signed by the late Pres
ident Roosevelt thanking him for
serving on the Selective Service
Board.
Police and strikers exchanged
fire yesterday in Kemi, a north
‘ern lumber town. The first Fin
nish Infantry station at Oulu, 60
riiles away, said a striker was
killed and nine persons, including
three police. were injurad,
Communist leaders - said the
strike movement would grow,
| Aimo = Aslfonesy, — e
i Communist World News
member of Par- Raun ¢
Fliament llld.__._!_.!:'_!._
| “The working claus should more
firmly than before continue their
fight for better wages.”
Moscow cheered from the side~
Ines, The Communist glfly newse
paper Pravda, which has stepped
| up attacks on Finiand recently,
prociaimed that. a strike wave
was gripplipg all Finland with 100
per cent support from the work
ers.
The Finnish federation of trade
unions has condemned the move
ment, threatening to expel Com
“munist-led unions which called
| stoppages. Most Finnish unionists
| are non-Communists, and some
100,000 strikers could throw the
may defy strike calls, ‘However,
100,000 strikers could threw the
I netion’s economy out of gear.
Unto Varjonen, Finland’s min
ister withfout portfolio described
the strike offensive as an atiempt
'“to usurp E:wer wer and establish a
people’s (Communist) Democra
cy” He vowed it would be erush=
ed.
Elsewhere
The council of the organization
for Europ%an Economic Coopera
tion (OEEC) kegan consideration
o 1 a rock-bottom estimate of $3.-
(Continued On Page Two)
Hannay Rites
Are Set
For Saturaday
Mrs. Susie Hannay, prominent
High Shoals resident, died in an
Atlanta hospital Thursday after=
noon at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. Hannay
was 76 years old and had bee . ill
for the past three months,
Services are to be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
from High Shoals Baptist Chureh
with the pastor, R:v, Leo Burges,
officiating. The body will lie in
state in the church from 2:30 ».
m. unti! the time jor the service,
Burial will foilow in the church
cemetery, Clyde McDorman Fun
eral Home in charge of arrange
ments. Pall-bearers will be neph
ews of Mrs. Hannay.
She is survived by a step-son,
John Hannay, Loganville, Ga.;
step-mother, Mrs. B. B. Nunn,
Crawford; three sisters, Mrs.
Claude MecDonald, Tampa, Fla,
Mrs. Lena Hawkes, Mil.ledg;\"’ille,
and Mrs. Sam Cox, High als;
four brothers, Ralph Nunn, Craw
ford, Walter R. Nunn, Covington
and J. B. and G. G. 'N. Nunn,
both of High Shoals,and a num
ber of nieces and nepheys.
A native of Madison county,
Mrs. Hannay had been a 2 resident
of High Shoels for the past fifty
three years and was a member of
the Baptist church there, being
active for many years in th of its
wemen's orgarizations.
Last summer Donald was elected president of
the Northeast Georgia District Council. This year
he is president of the County 4-H Couneil and
also he is president of the FFA Chapter,
He was won honors in & number of projects
such as pigs, cows, chickens, heifers, rabbits, beef
animal, dairying, gardening, public speaking,
grooming and showmanship, and others. His
prospects this year are three Jerseys (a cow.
heiter and bull), chickens, a garden, and 'tyrestry.
Donald said, “I think the 4-H Club hag helped
me a lot and I'm sure that it will help any other
boy or girl who is a member.”
A candlelight service will close the sixteenth
‘convention of the group tonight, with 750 boys and
girls taking part in the ceremonies. :
Yesterday, the club agreed to adopt and %
a long-range program to bufld two 4-H ud
houses—one for boys snd one for girls at the
University of Geoigia to aid siudenis in atténdng
collgge. - oo cada gl A LEEE
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