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Vol. CXVII, Ne. 198. - Associated Press Service
Senate’
CRUCIAL
BALLOT .
SEEN NEAR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(AP)
__After taking one setback, Senate
leaders pressed confidently today
for a vote by nightfall on a bill
putting & 75-cents-an-hour floor
under. wages.
mDemocrgtic Leader Lucas of Ill
inois called the Senate into ses
sion an hour -earlier than usual in
an effort to complete the action,
The present Fair Labor Stand
ards Act sets a minimum wage for
covered workers of 40 cents an
hour. The bill before the Senate,
like one a'ready passed by the
House, would hike this to 75 cents.
The major fight was expected
gver a proposal by Senator Ellend
¢r (D.-La.) to set the minimum at
$5 cents an hour until the end of
1950, then gear it to living costs
#c measured by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. It couldn’t go
below 55 cents or above 75,
Ellender told a reporter he was
nopeful of winning approval for
his amendment, but Senator Pep
per (D.-Fla.), leading the fight for
the administration, predicted its
defeat.
The administration took a.lick
ng last night when the Senate
adopted, 50 te 23, an amendment
tfered by Senator Holland (D.-
Fla.) and others which Pepper
said would take about 200,000
workers out from under the law.
Holland insisted that his amend
ment made no changes not intend
ed by Congress when it wrote the
wage and hour law a decade ago.
Under the amendment, retail
and service establishments would
be exempted from the wage-hour
law under most conditions if more
than 50 per cent ‘of their annual
volume of sales were made within
the state where they are located.
Holland said the amendment
would clear away doubts of -“tens
of thousands” of small business
men who are uncertain whether
the law now applies to them,
Earlier the Senate had voted
without objection to exempt news
boys from provisions of the sct.
The amendment applies to hours
and child labor provisions of the
law 28 well as to pay rafes.
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Storm Brewing
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in S. Atlantic
MIAMI, Fid., Aug. 31.—(AP)—
A small tropical disturbance of
apparent slight intensity was lo
cated east of the Barbados, far
out in the Atlantic early today.
The Weather Bureau at San
Juan, Puerto Rico, said it was
about 135 miles scutheast of the
Barbados, pin-pointed at latitude
120 north and longitude 57.6
west,
It was moving westward at the
slow pace of about six to eight
miles an hour, and was attended
by winds of 35 miles ¥ hour
near the center. ¢
“If the disturbance continues
its present course and at its pres
ent rate of movement,” the San
Juan Weather Bureau said, “it
will pass south of the Barbados
late this afternoon.”
WORST IN 11 YEARS
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Crowded Yokohoma
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Struck By Typhoon
TOKYO, Aug. 31.— (AP) —The worst typhoon in 11
vears whipped across crowded Yokohama and Tokyo to
night.
Giant seas lashed the coast. High waves accompanied
an 80 miie an hour wind. ;
Widespread damage was feared in coastal areas.
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Freak Storms
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Hit Alabama
By The Associated Press
Alabama today was mopping
up from freak storms which
caused thousands of dollars of
damage throughout the state yes
terday (Tuesday). it
Birmingham was deluged with
a record rajnfall of 2.59 inches
In 40 minutes which flooded
downtown streets and basements
yesterday. %
Near Montgomery, a freak tor
nado destroyed at least one resi
dence in a sparsely settled neigh
borhood as it dipped out of a
heavy electrical storm late yes
terday afternoon. : ‘
Birmingham City Commissioner
James W. Morgan said he couldn’t
estimate the loss from Ymda’s'»
Ueiuge, put predicted that ““:
going to cost a lot of money.
Water was reported 10 feet deep
n the basements of some down=-
lown stores and officials said
merchandise suffered great dam
age,
Three of Birmingham’s six ra
dio stations were forced off the
#ir and electricity was cut off in
half of the city during the record
rainfall,
Heavy roine o 0 hign winds
Vwere also reported in other sec
tions of the state, Aty A VRS
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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LEGIONNAIRES STRUT ON PARADE
Beverley Wareham (left), Bonnie Wareham (cen
ter), and Barbara Heim (right), representing Post 8 of
St. Paul, Minn., strut their best in the American Legion
parade through downtown Philadelphia, Pa., where
the Legion is staging its annual convention, — (NEA
Telephoto.)
Legion Delegates
Study Atom Control
Peacetime Draft, Anti-Communist *
Legislation Also Draws Interest
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 81.—(AP)~—End of the peace
time draft, continued civilian control of the atom bomb
under U. 8. monopoly, and a strong anti-Communist law
came under consideration today at the 81st annual Amer
ican Legion Convention,
The Legion settled down to serious business on the third
day of a four-duy conclave,
FDR, JR. TAKES
SECOND WIFE
INN.Y.TODAY
NEW YORK, Aug. 31—(AP)
—Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
jr., son of the wartime Pres
dent, will be married today to
Socialite Suzanne Perrin of New
Yoll::, his office annourced.
e wedding is to be a small,
private ceremony. Only mem
bers of the two families and =
few intimate friends will attend.
The couple got their wedding
license last Friday. Miss Perrin,
who served two years in the
Marines, gave her age as 28 and
her residence as Piping Rock
Club, Locust Valley, N. Y. .She
is the daughter of Mrs. Perrin
and the late Lee James Perrin,
New York attorney.
First Japanese reports said a
steamer with 50 passengers aboard
was lost off the China coast across
Tokyo bay. More than 200 fish
ing boats were swept away from
the western shore of Sagami bay.
Japanese police reported one
dead and four injured at Odawara.
Forty homes in Qdawara were de~
stroyed and 600 flooded. The town
i on the river in the flats near the
bay.
The barracks of the U. 8. Fifth
Calvary Regiment on a peninsula
between Sagami and Tokyo bays
were damaged. No troops were
reported hurt. But soldiers were
alerted to move to safer ground
if the typhoon got worse.
The center of the storm was
passing inland. That means the
second portion of the blow will
begin when the dead calm of the
center passes. Both Tokyo and
Yokohama were in the path of
the center. >
__The main railroad line south of
Yokohama was washed oul
Famed Shonan Beach Drive, built
on sand dunes 15 feet high, was
washed out in many places by
tides -which moved 500 feet in
land.
No serious damage was reported
immediately in Tokyo, where Gen.
Douglas MacArthur and his oc
cupation staff make their head
quarters,
. Heavy rains accompanied the
iypoon. The gre iesi danger W 0
the low lym&aflto Plains around
Tokyo was flooding rivers.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Legionnaires are determined to
spell out a program their $,000,000
The major go’:lncy-makml reso
lutions have drawn “f by
the Natjonal Security, American~
ism, and Foreign Policy Commit
tees.
Erle Cocke, jr, 28-year-old
Dawson, Ga., candidate for Na
tional Commander, heads the Na
tional Security committee. He
He syas his group is opposed to
extension of the present selective
service law beyond next June 30.
Cocke said it's possible the
committee may urge the conven
tion to a dopt a resolution recom
mending the drafting of women if
Congress insists on extending theé
draft.
The Georgian told a reporter
his report will ask the Legion to
go on record ‘“against giving any
of our atomic secrets or atom
bombs to any country. He added:
“You can quote me as saying
that means England, too.”
Cocke made it clear that the
committee is in favor of continued
civilian control of the nation’s
atomic energy program -— and
will so recommend.
“We have never advocated any
shift to military control of the
atom,” Cocke said. s
The Legion’s nationai execuiive
committee already has okayed a
resolution urging continued aid to
anti-Communist forces in China.
That’s expected to win convention
support without opposition,
# Cocke had indicated earlier he
would fight it, He said his com
mittee wanted to write off China
as lost to Communism, but later
softened his _tand. v
“I'll be satisfied if the foreign
relations committee recommends
a resolution advocating establish=-
ment of a western Pacific defense
line,” Cocke said. “This would
be an anti-Communist wall of for=~
tifigd bases that would ring Chi
na.’
POST-WAR TRENDS
Wolfe Says No
Debt Despite
While Georgia farmers have
spent millions of dollars for im
provements, soil -conservation, and
the purchase of new equipment
since the war’s end, farm debt has
made no significant increase and
holdings in cash, bank deposits,
and United States Savings Bonds
are at record levels, according to
J. S. Wolfe, ir. vice president Citi~
zens & Southern National Bank,
who represents the Georgia Bank
ers Association as a county key
banker.
© “Georgia farm families are go
ing through these final months of
adjustment from a war to a peace
time economy with very little dis~
turbance,” Mr. Wolfe said. *“They
are maintaining a sound finanecial
position: and while they are udng
more credit for lmtgrovements an
new equipment, their obligations
are being paid off in relatively
short time and they are adding to
their already substantial financial
reserves.” :
Re&orfin‘ on the results of “an
eighth national survey of bank
lending made by the Agricultural
Commission of the Ameriean
Bankers Association, Mr. Wolfe
sald that “total farm debt held by
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1949,
Vaughan Tells Probers Even FBI
Couldn't Prove Income Tax 'Deal
General Returns To Stand ‘
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For 2nd Round Of Questions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. — (AP) — Major General
Harry H. Vaughan told senators today the FBI once
looked into—and found groundless—a charge that he ac
cepted a SIO,OOO bribe to “fix” an income tax case.
The White House military aide also acknowledged that
he got a Democratic campaign contribution last fall from
a lawyer who had come to see him earlier seeking a par
don for a man convicted of black market liquor deals. But
Vaughan insisted there was no connection between those
events and the parole__given‘to the convicted man.
Senator McCarthy (R.Wis.)
fired the questions about the two
incidents.
Vaughan identified the lawyer
in the pardon case as William H.
Neblett and described him as a
law partner of the late. Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo of Cali
fornia. Vaughan said the convict
ed liquor black marketer was Rob
ert Gould of Cincinnati.
As for the campaign contribu
tion, Vaughan said “I don’t think
it could have been over a couple
of hundred dollars.”
When McCarthy suggested there
might be some link between the
contribution and Gould's parole,
Val}ghan said: |
“I don’t think that had a thing
to do with it senator.” it
Concerning Neblett’s visit to
him in connection with the Gould !
case, Vaughan said hé referred
Neblett to the Justice Department.
Vaughan said the-#BI investiga
tion of the report of a “fix” in an
income tax case came about as
the result of a ‘“request.of the
member of the press” to the FBI.,
He never did identify this mem
ber of the press.
But Col. C. J. Mara, assistant
White House military aide, later
said that for some time before the
investiga ,fim_i*‘w camfia .
had been carriéd . on :
Vaughan by Columnist Drew
Pearson.
Mara was put in the witness
chair and testified that he had
talked with the FBI about it'and
was informed that Vaughan was
‘“‘completely exonerated.”
For the second straight day,
Vaughan was in the witness chair
of the Senate Investigation Sub
committee looking into the ques-~
tion of whether there has been
improper influence in the letting
of government contracts.
Vaughan acknowledged yester-
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloud
iness foday and tonight with
scattered thundershowers, be
coming fair and mild Thurs
day. High today 86, low 68,
High Thureday 84. Sunset 7:01
and sunrise 6:06,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
with little temperature change
this afierzssn, fonight zaznd
Thursday, scattered thunder
showers this afternoon and to
night and over south portion
Thursday. .
TEMPERATURE
Highest 5., .. sl .. 08
POREBY . s ovt wrss wnne gy B
MBRI sk nins sy Avem wold
Normal “5, 0 w 8
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .03
Total since August 1 ~ .. 3.56
Deficit since August 1 ..., 1.09
Average August rainfall ~ 4.62
Total since January 1 ..,.35.46
Deficit sincé January 1 .. .99
Riseln Farm
Improvements
banks of the state at the begin
ning” of 1940 amounted to only
about $36,000,000, compared with
about $35,000,000 on January 1,
iB4B. In addition to this amount,
there are $22,062,000 in Commod~
ity Credit Corporation loans held
by the banks cooperating with the
government’s farm price support
program.” '
Farm Loans
Ir. 1948, the last full year of
operation, the 309 Georgia banks
serving agricultural communities
loaned $73,516,000 to 81,854 farm=
ers. This represents a fotal of
36.2 per cent of aM the farmers in
the state. Of the total amount,
64,399 farmers borrowed from the
banks for production purposes in
an aggregate amount of $47,368,~
000, Of these loans, only $19,-
102,000 remained outstanding at
the beginning of 1949, During the
year, there were 17,455 farmers,
representing only 7.7 per cent of
the farmers in the state, who
made farm real estate loans in an
;fi‘egate amount of $26,148,000.
prosperity of the farmers is
shown by the fact that. of these
long term debts, only $16,919,000
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day that he had aided Dbusiness
friends in dealing with the govern
ment, but declared he never did
anything improper or accepted any
fee or gift for his services.
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Robeson To Visit
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Peekskill Again
NEW YORK, Aug. 381.—(AP)—
Paul Robeson, - declaring that
‘“from now on out we take the
offensive,” vows he'll return to
Peekskill, N. Y. where a riot
broke up his scheduled concert
Saturday night. - 3
- The negro singer spoke last
night to a crowd of 3,000 q"aeer
4ing supporters at a Harlenr rally
protesting the riot, which staged
an anti-Communist rally outside
the concert grove. Hire o
“] want to warn the Legion,”
the singer declared, “that I have
been to Memphis, Tenn. and
Florida, and I'll be in Peéitskfll
again,”
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from Dixie, Ls., sbout 10:30 a. m, today, It was not immediately
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Dixie is about 15 milés morth of Shrevepert,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—(AP)—Secretary of State Acheson
today denounced Russia’s holding of two American students in
eastern Germany as outrageous, illegal and improper,
Acheson fold a news conference the Americans wandered into
the Russian zone illegally but said they were doing no harm and
should be released promptly.
The students referred to are Peter Sellers, 18, of Radnor, Pa.,
and Warren Oelsner, 21, of Oyster Bay, N. Y, They have been
missing since July 29.
WASHINGTON, Aiig. 31— (AP) —President Truman and his
Democratic high command today discarded suggestions of a stop
gap extension of the reciprocal trade agreements law, They
elected to fight for the full program at this session.
Senate Majority Leader Lucas and Chairman George (D.-Ga.)
of the Senate Finance: Committee announced the decision after a
conference with President Truman and Secretary of State Ache
son at the White House, :
MILITARY EQUIPMENT
Western Curbs May
Be Eased For Tito
LONDON, Aug. 31.— (AP) —Restrictions on the sale of
military equipment to Yugoslavia may be eased shortly by
the U.S. and Britain, according to dipiomatic officials.
They said yesterday a decision in the matter is expected
when Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin meéts with Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson in Washington soon.
British officials have been
studying how they can quietly
support Premier Marshal Tifo’s
government in its quarrel with
Russia and her satellites, the in=
formants said.
This outlook of support for Tito
comes at the time of Russia’s lat
est blast against Tito. In a note
yvesterday the Russians accused
the Yugoslav leader and his lieu
tenants of being deserters, double
dealers and stooges of “Western
masters.”
One way the West€rn powers
could back up Tito’s feud with
Russia would be the shipment of
needed arms to Yugoslavia. The
shipment of such supplies to Yu
goslavia has been halted by the
countries of the Communist Inter
national Information Bureau
(Cominform).
Yugoslavia, it is believed, has
asked the Western powers for ve
hicles, light armor and small arms.
Informants said the Western pow
ers would like to help Tito defy
the Cominform.
If Yugoslavia can survive as an
independent state, without ties to
the East or West, the informants
point out, an important precedent
will have been set for other Com
munist-led countries.
On the other hand, the Western
Powers, it is said, are not sure
Tito can stand up to the blasts
from the East, and they fear that
if arms were given Yugoslavia
they might ultimately fall into the
hands of Communists loyal to
Moscow.,
But at the wmqnt, the inform
ants x, the Western Powers are
‘to take a chance. Western
officials hold that if Tito is not
aided quickly he may succumb to
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Major General Harry H. Vaughan
(center, back to camera), is questioned
by Chairman Clyde Hoey (D.-N.C.) of
the Senate Investigating Committee in its
probe of five percenters in Washington.
Seated beside Vaughan are Colonel Cor
nelius Mara (left) Vaughan's assistant,
and Carl L. Bristine, Washington attor
ney. At committee table are, left to right:
Senator Herbert O’Conor (D.-Md.), Com-
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L. P. Crawford
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iDIES From
Heart Attack
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‘ Luther P. Crawford, one of
| Clarke county’s best known and
| most highly - esteemed citizens,
} died ~Monday night at 10:30
] o’clock in a hospithl in Asheville,
| N. C: Mr., Mr. Crawford was va-
E cationing with his _ brother)
| Grady, when he was taken‘ill
| with a heart attack a week ago.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Bridges Fun
eral Home,
Mr. Crawford is survived by a
sister, Mrs, Willie Smith, Atlanta;
brother, Grady Crawford, Ath
ens; niece, ‘Miss Janelle Craw
ford, Atlanta; and a nephew,
George Smith, also of Atlanta, He
was also related to Clerk of
Courts Elmer J. Crawford, Walter
and Lon Crawford.
A native of Madison county,
Mr. Crawford had lived in Clarke
_county nearly all of his life,
where he had operated large
farming interests until his retire
‘ment a few years ago. He was
one of this gmmunity’s most
!civic minded cifizens and a per
| son of great value to the section.
VAUGHAN FACES INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
et &
Univ. Graduation
Held Here Today
Talmadge Takes Part In Exercises;
Inspects Various Campus Activities
Governor Herman Talmadge is scheduled to participate
in the University of Georgia’s Summer grdaduation exer
cises this afternoon. He will be a member of the party of
President J. C. Rogers.
Qet for 5:30 in the South Campus Amphitheater, the
exercises will see the awarding of over 500 baccalaureate
and graduate degrees. .
Dr. Ronald C. S. Young, Xrotes
sor of philosophy at the Atlanta
Division of the University, will
deliver the commencement ad
dress. James H. Anderson, candi
date for the B. S. A. E. degree,
will deliver the valedictory.
Andérson, a 23-year-old Army
veteran, is a native of Jesup and a
graduate of Wayne Cuunty High
School He attende Abraham
Baldwin College before coming to
the University. While an under
graduate Anderson serviced as
captain in the University ROTC
unit. He was recently elected to
Phi Kappa Phi. ;
. Dr. Young is a native of Scot-
Jand and attended schcols there
until he entered the First World
War as a private at the ag2 of 19
in the Gordon Highlanders. He
served with the Regiment until
commissioned in the Royal Flying
Corps.
Shortly after the war he came
to the United States. After work in
automobile -factories, he came
South. He was gracduated {from
Mercer University, aud later re
ceived . his honarary _doctorate
from that institution. |
Dr. Young later became an ac
tive minister, serving pastorates in
Meridian, Miss.; Atlanta, and
Newnan. He joined the Atlanta
Division in 1941. -
In the event of rain, exercises
will be held in Fine Arts Audifo
rium. Should weather this after
noon be doubtful, local radio sta
tions will announce the place of
graduation.
Local Boy Scouts wili serve as
ushers.
Governor's Visit
Governor = Herman Talmadge
today saw the first oenefits to be
derived by the Unmiversity of
Georgia from a recent special al
location of $15,000 by hLim to the
department of animal Husbandry.
Dr. A. E. Cullison, head of the
department, told the Governor and
other .prominent guests that this
money is being used to establish
an Aberdeen-Angus herd, to make
addition to the = Hereford herd.
and to build a hog bain. Govern
or Talmadge inspected cattle -al
ready purchased. Others are yet
to be bought.
The Georgia chief executive also
visited tha Ceargia Museum of
Art, which houses the Holbrook
Collection of American Art; the
University dairy; the meat and
food processing plants; the Vete
rinary Buildln% now under con
struction; the Veterinary Clinie;
the poultry plant; irrigation pro
jects, and agronomy field expe
riments. !
";Studtié: in winter pastures for
beef cattle at the University,” Dr.
Cullsion also told the Governor
“shaw graee ceturne of $69.29 per
acre against cost of 831‘.50’3:&1
aeve, for a net profit of 79
HOME
EDITION
mittee Counsel William P. Rogers, Uhair
man Hoey, Senator Joseph McCarthy
(R.-Wis.), Senator Karl Mundt (R.-8.D.),
and Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R -
Maine). Vaughan denied that there was
anything improper. in anything he did
for any business man, or that he ever re
ceived any fee, gift or favor in return for
his aid.— (AP Wirephoto.)
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per acre.”’
At the site of the agronomy-#s
perimenis, the Governor was
shown heavily fertiliced alfalfa
plots which have averaged, over
a six-year period, a yield of 4.0§
tons per acre. -
The Governor saw the Veterine
ary Cilinic in operation and wat
told that during the past year 6.
853 animals ‘vere handled, includs
ing horses, ,mules, cattle, hoga
sheen and goats, cats and dogs.
Governor Talmadge, a Univer
sity alumnus, was honored at 4
noon luncheon and participated in
late afternoon Summer gradua
tion exercises as members of the
party of Presideni J. C. Rogers.
Death Takes
Dr. Rockwell
Tod 11:30
oday, 11:
Augusta Moore Rockwell, M.
D., mother of Mrs. Roosevelt P,
Walker, died at the home of her
daughter at 1196 Prince avenue,
this morning at 11:30 e’clock. She
was 91 years ¢ld and had been
ili for ihe past two weeks.
Funeral arranjements will be
announced later by Bernstein’s.
The family requests friends onvit
flowers.
In addition to Mrs. Walker, she
is survived by another daughter,
Mrs. William M. Vaile, Denver,
Colo.; son, H. C. Rockwell, Sav
annah; and three grandchildren,
Mrs. W. W. Osborne, Savannah;
Harry R. Vaile, Denver, and M.~
Sergeant Joel Frederick Vaile,
Camp Hood, Texas. g
Dr. Rockwell was a native of
Acton, Canada, and attended
schools there. She treceived her
medical degree from Gross Med
ical College in Denver, and prac
ticed medicine in that city for
twenty-five years, coming to Ath
ens in 1927 to make her home
with her daughter, Mrs, Wflher.
She was the widow of n J.
Rockwell and was a member of
Emmanuel Episcopal = Church
here. D;fl Rockwell had made
Athens, where she mm
active interect in elvin affaine and
was very active in the Ciarke
County Women Voters, Fik
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