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Directed personally by Britain’s Minister of: Civil Aviation, Lord Pakenham, the experts will try to find out why the big passenger plane packed with jubilant Welsh football fans careened wildly into a field as it was landing on a flight from Dublin, Of the 78 passengers and five crewmen aboard, cnly three sur vived. It was the world’s worst commercial air tfragedy and brought the toll ot deaths in Tudor planes -—— Britain’s first postwar: four-engined commercial aircraft —to 144, The chartéred plane, biggest in active service in Britain, was pre paring to land in sunny weather, Tired but happy rugby football enthusiasts aboard had gone wild with joy a few hours earlier at Wales’ 6-3 victory over Ireland in the United Kingdom champion ships at Dublin, The big four-engined plane ap peared to be touching down at Landow Airport near here for a normal landing . when, without warning, it roared back into a climb, It smashked to earth in a field after making a right-hand turn and sideslipping. No Blast, Fire The huge plane crashed 15 vards from a house. It did not explode or burn, Two of the three survivors, (Continued On Page Three) Forrest Turner ToSpeak Here Forrest Turner, Georgia’s re formed “bad boy,” will speak at the Prince Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow night at 8 o’clock in the church auditorium. . He is here under the auspices of the Brotherhood of the Prince Avenue Baptist Church. The pub lic is invited to hear the talk, said Ed Spinks, president of the Broth erhood. Mr. Turner, Georgia’s former number one escape artist and “bad boy,” was serving prison sentences, which totaled more than a per son’s life-time, when he was con verted by Rev. W. A. Allison, pri ton chaplain. - Mr, Turner dem onstrated a change in life and be “ame a model prisoner, later get ting a full pardon. He has been out of prison for about a year and has spoken to nany churches, civic clubs and other organizations, ASKS MARITIME COMMISS ION BE ABOLISHED Truman Sends Congress Long List Of Agency Reorganization Plans \VASHINGTON, March 13— (AP)—President Truman today sent Congress a sheaf of plans to ‘eorganize a long list of federal agencies and abolish one—the Maritime Commission, : Seaboard congressmen and ship-~ Ping interests were expected to light the proposal to shift control of the merchant fleet over to Sec rfetary of Commerce Sawyer. In another of his 21 praposals, Mr. Truman lit the fuse for a sec ond major explosion in Congress by calling for abolition of the al- Most-independent .office of the ienera! counsel of the National abor Relations Board. The post is held by Robert N. Dmham: mml&lim, grosecutor ang poiwe;‘ £R aft- y law, is a Sds wiﬂl:‘ho fmsmty. He ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service pionship match. 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R % ;,; G : k k # : ¢-5 e B 0 TR Bil sl WHERE 80 DIED IN WORST AVIATION DISASTER Officials search through the twisted wreckage of chartered Avro Tudor trans port plane that crashed near Cardiff, Wales, Sunday, with death toll reported at 80. The crash, worst disaster in eom mercial aviation annals, occurred as the Belgians Vote By Narrow Majority To Bring King Leopold From Exile Bulletins WASHINGTON, March 13.— (AP)—The House Ways and Means Committee rejected to day a new Republican effort to ram through a “quickie” bill slashing excise taxes immedi ately by about $1,000,000,000. The rigid party line vote was 15 to 10. WASHINGTON, March 13.— (AP)—Senator McCarthy (R.- Wis.) told senators today he has heard reports that a former Navy scientist familiar with the couniry’s “topmost defense se crets” is an admitted Commun ist. He proposed an investiga tion. MecCarthy named the man as Stephen Brunauer, a former Navy commander, calls it “pro-labor.” Labor unions in turn have demanded Denham’s removal. The White House plans take ef fect automatically in 60 days, un less vetoed by either the House or Senate. In 23 accompanying messages to Congress, Mr, Truman said the plans will save “modest” to “sub stantial” sums. All are based on proposals of the reorganization ecommission headed by former President Herbert Hoover, he said, adding: #These plans will take us well along the road toward more ef fective, economical and responsible gove:nment.” The Commerce Department would take over all activities of the five-member Maritime Com plane was coming in for a landing. Plane was loaded with Welsh football fans re turning from a victory over the Irish team at Dublin. The three survivors are in crit ical eondition.— (AP Wirephoto via radio from London.) | Slim Victory Margin Threatening To Touch off New Political Crisis BRUSSELS, March 13. — (AP) — Belgians voted by a narrow majority yesterday in favor of restoring King Leo pold to the throne from which he has been barred for sur rendering to the Germans in World War Two. But the slim margin of approval—s 7 percent—threat ened to touch off a political crisis if pro-Leopoldists actu ally tried to bring the handsome monarch back from exile. A key question was whether the Liberals would join the pro-Leo poldist Social Christians (Catho lics) in asking Parliament to res cind its ban on the King's return from exile in Switzerland, The referendum yesterday was only an advisory vote. Parliament still must decide if Leopold may ! come back. i Also to be determined was| mission, which has regulated | American shipping for 14 years, Maritime Board A new three-man ¢‘Federal Maritime Board” wouid be set up in commerce to regulate rates and grant ship subsidies, under broad policies fixed by Sawyer. A “Maritime Administration” would be created, also in commerce, tol take over the jobs of building, sell- | ing and chartering vessels. l Secretary of Commerce Sawyer would have top policy control. The ' plan is “a long step forward,” said Mr. Truman, toward making com merce the government’s central agency for land, sea, air and water transportation. " Six of the White House plans strengthen the power of tg&nﬂ - (Continued (&*ﬂg hree) ' SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CE ATHENS, CA.,, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950. Talmadge Requests Cook Ruling On Primary Date Governor Says Hamilfon Opinion On 1908 Law "“Clearly Erroneous™ ATLANTA, March 13. — (AP) — Governor Herman Talmadge today requested an official opinion from Attor ney General Eugene Cook on whether this year’s Demo cratic primary may be held before September 9. Talmadge, at the same time, said his personal opinion is that’ State Treasurer George Hamilton is “clearly erron eous” in detlaring that an earlier primary would be illegal. Hamilton stuck by his guns in a seething row over the legal primary date. If an earlier date is set, a court contest seemed certain. The question arose just before the State Democratic Executive Committee meets tomorrow to set the primary date and adopt other whether the monarch would return if asked, or whether he would ab dicate if he got less than 55 per cent of the vote. Belgium votes this way: Yes (for Leopold’s return), 2,- 933,382, No (against his return), 2,151,- 881. There were 151,477 ballots de clared invalid. The Interior Ministry said the (Continued On Page Three) ATHENS AND VICINITY Showers ending late this aft erncon. Tonight partly cloudy and cooler with low near 34. Tuesday fair, windy and cooler with high of 50. Sun sets 6:39 and rises 6:46. GEORGlA—Showers this aft ernoon, followed by mostly cloudy, windy, and turning colder tonight, preceded by showers in south and east cen tral portion, Tuesday, clearing, windy and cooler. Scatiered thunderstorms in south portion this afternoon and teaight, TEMPERATURE Higheat .o 5.0 v a 8 Towest L., Vi iAI MEAL .ico vovivion ann Normel ... ... . .i.;v 0% RAINFALL Inches.last 24 hours ~ ~. 1.42 Total since March 1 ~ ... 3.04 Excess since March 1 ..., .65 Average Masch rainfall ... 5.29 Tqtal since January ,&i" DO ries Fabbai iIT rules and regulations. Cook said he would rush out an opinion be fore tomorrow’s committee session. Talmadge forces have geared their political machinery toward a re-election bid by the Governor in a primary June 28. ‘Hamilton attempted to upset the apple cart with a legal opinion Saturday that the June. 28 date would be illegal and that the bal loting cannot be staged before Sept. 9. Attorneys’ Rule The Treasurer, leader in anti- Talmadge political camp, said five “eminent attorneys” from different sections of the state agreed unan imousiy that an old, apparently overlooked, 1908 law limits the primary date to 60 days in advance of the November general election. Talmadge leaders just as unani mously rejected Hamilton’s claims. The Governor himself said today “The last act of the Legislature prevails.” : He referred to a Talmadge backed bill in the recent Legisla= ture permitting the executive com=- mittee to set the date. This law repeals a 1917 act which fixed the primary on the second Wednesday in September. Talmadge’s top legal adviser, At lanta Attorney B. D. Murphy, said Hamilton “doesn’t have a leg to stand on.” Little Faith - Chairman James S. Peters of the ‘Talmadge~controlled. party execu= tive committee also put little faith in Hamilton’s argument. He indi cated he thought the committee would go ahead and set a June 28 date. Hamilton said today, “Language is not action. I cannot pre-sup pose what the State Executive Committee will do. “The committee is not the chair man, the governor or Buck Mur phy. Buck Murphy is too good a lawyer not to know there are only two ways to repeal a statute: “I—By direct language. “2-—-By implication. “And you can only repeal by im plication when the latter statute is in conflict with and repugnant to the former statute.” . Student Injured . . In Bike Mishap Gay Keith, Jamaica, N. Y., Uni versity student, was injured slight ly late yesterday afternoon when he fell from his motorbike on West Cloverhurst. He was carried to the Athens General Hospital by a Bernstein ambulance where he was treated for lacerations and bruises. He was later transferred to the University infirmary where his condition was reported good. The accident apparently hap pened when Keith lost control of the bike and was thrown to the pavement, No other vehicles were involved. in the accident, b 5 A R e R A # 1 Lo e e i . o ﬁ' .:’:*.EQ:};._;-:?E‘&?&?"-;~5:s;:v, . j RNL 8 " ’ ’f . TR S ; b LR e :/' o % 54 e e 3 Lhow o GAR ﬁ Rl e T TIE R e b o e Srn & »:lsf""T*z&:"‘i*‘fﬁ L e . ey A W ? e b 2 ; ‘,{ E e Ty A ey a&ﬁ OSR e i . U W e Y g}f o e e o e e G e %5 P e A e /': iB. e L (o = © @ @ CEeeße s : & e T i "=-‘.',éf~‘:: ewé - T W z?” gRBo> 3 b e e & b AL e SR o T L i L T i T i T e T B . . L O e R e e :e; e . e "iﬁx””% e £ T T Ew. r sAO .W o e Well splattered and rubbed in, these two girls show the results of the annual tomato festival at Dania, Fla. Left to right: Deborah Salvino and Gracie Glenn.— (AP > 3 ‘i ¥ i : Figbing ‘ Wirephoto.) i itiiiitiad iEi e Fsibiah ' 7 Truman On Way To Florida For 3-Week Vacation ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL ESCORT U. S. S. WILLIAM LAWE, March 15—(AP)—Presi dent Truman is on his way to Key West, Fla., for a vacation he hopes will last the full three weeks scheduled. Mr. Truman is aboard the Presidential yacht Williamsburg, which he boarded in Washington Sunday morning. The Williamsburg, skippered by Commander Donald MacDon~ ald and this escorting destroyer, The William C. Lawe, command - ed by Commander Thomas H. Suddath, passed through the Virginia capes and into the At lantic snortly after midnight after a rendezvous a few hours earlier near Smith Point light at the mouth of the Potomac. The ships encountered such a heavy fog a short while later that they slowed speed so five knots, navigating by radar, but the fog lifted completely less than 30 minutes later. New Agents Cut Odds For U. S. Tax Evaders 3,500 Government Agents Added To Bureau; Deadline Wednesday * WASHINGTON, Mar¢h 13. — (AP) — Attempting to evade federal income taxes will be riskier than ever this year. The deadline for 1949. income tax returns and payments comes Wednesday midnight, and the Internal Revenue Bureau is set to give the 54,000,000 expected returns closer scrutiny than in the past. ; o : __Officials sgi@jboda,y some 3,500 investigators have been added to the bureau's cheek-up forces in the last year. Cor(x)gress has been asked to provide funds to add about 3,000 more. o , Chinese Bombers Blast Communist Invasion Forces TAIPEI, Formosa, March 13 — (AP) — Nationalist bombers to= day walloped Communist invasion forces on the mainland as a new cabinet prepared to begin func tioning on Formosa. Main Target was a potential in vasion force of 4,000 Commuinist troops off Chusan Island, Nation=- alist blockade base 100 miles southeast of Shanghai. Air head quarters claimed a third of the Red forces was wiped out, along with food stored at Ningpo, 75 miles south of Shanghai and a warehouse at Ninghai, 55 miles from there. Other planes flew over Shan ghai, Hangchow and Nanking dropping copies of President Chi ang Kai-shek’s message of March 1 pledging recovery of the main land. Al] Chinese political segments are included in the cabinet except followers of deposed acting Pres= ident Li Tsung-Jen, who is in New (Continued On Page Two) Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area McCarthy Hurls New Red Charges Accuses Key State Department Head Or Pro-Communist Activities In 1938 WASHINGTON, April 13.—(AP)—Senator MecCarthy, (R.-Wis.) today accused Haldore Hanson, key State De partment official, of “pro-Communist” activities dating back to September, 1938. : He identified Hanson as the executive director of the secretariat of the inter-departmental Committee on Sefen tific and Cultural Cooperation, =~~~ = = = £ McCarthy said Hanson wiﬁ head a technical cooperation project staff for President Truman’s “point four” program which will spend “hundreds of millions of dollars of our taxpayers’ money all over the world.” The “point four” program is Mr. Truman’s plan for American tech~- ‘ nical aid to undeveloped parts of the world. It took its name from the fact that he first mentioned it Meanwhile, the bureau hag been shifting more of its personnel to inyestigate work as machines are installed to take over more and more of the routine clerical duties. Officials stressed that most of the “errors” in tax returns appar ently are innocent and not the result of efforts to evade taxes. They point out that nearly a million errors were caught in one recent year, yet fewer than 500 persons were prosecuted for delib= erate tax fraud. Anyone who files a return and later remembers an omission or error can file an amended return without fear of being treated as a swindler. : Mere mathematical errors in figuring the tax wusually will be caught by electronic calculator machines that have been installed in big city collection districts, Punch Card An operator copies off on a punch card machine the income, deduction, exemption and with holding figures the taxpayer puts on his return, then feeds the punch card into the calculating machine. It rapidly shows the correct tax amount, for matching against the taxpayers figure. The machine, however, can’t tell if the taxpayer gave the bu reau correct figures on income, deduction, exemptions, etc. That’s where the investigators come in, Naturally they scrutinize large income returns more closely — a closer-than-ever check is to be made this year on returns for in comes of $7,000 to $25,000 — and special attention is given to re turns with suspiciously large de ductions, for instance, But any return, however neat and clear and reasonable looking may be checked now by a bureau call 6h the taxpayer for verifica (Continued On Page Three) G U @ON YOUR CBS NETWORK DIAL What's going on in Athens? If you want complete and up to the minute reports on news developments in Athens and vicinity, listen to four WGAU newscasts each weekday, given by Banner-Herald staff repor ters. And for complete details on these and other stories read the Banner-Herald daily. WGAU local newscast and times: 7:15 (AM)—WGAU. News-—. Sunrise Edition, Bob Oliver. 3:00 (PM) — The News 'Till Now, Ed Thilenius. 5:30 (PM)—Local News = Spot Summary — Ed Thilenius. 11:00 (PM)—WGAU News— Night Final, Ed Thilenius. Listen to WGAVY AM, 1340— WGAU-FM, 99.5. IR T HOME EDITION a$ “point four” in the foreign pols icy section of his 1949 imaugural address, McCarthy made his aeccusation against Hanson before & Senate Foreign Relations subcommitiea, The group’s investlgating MeCare thy’s charges that the State Des partment is a haven for Communs istlsvl and ged ss&m}:l)aa!t‘hix&‘:. cCarthy sai son is one the “cleverest” and “nmooﬁ‘sg men in the State Department, and could not be called a “dupe” mis= led by Communists, . - Hanson joined the S atg!?;‘pl ; ment in 1942 as a special in Chinese affairs. McCarty said Hanson: ﬂ 1. Was running a Comm?M magazine in Peiping when the Jap= an;seéChinese wg}' broke out. - . Spent several years with the thinetse .Comncllunigk?rmb ‘write g stories an ng pietures which the Chix&:ﬁ Cgommuiﬂ ‘helped him smuggle” out of the gountry. ! 3. Wrote a book “which sets forth his pro-Communist answers to the problems of Asla as elearly as Hitler's Mein Kampf set forth his solutions for the problems of Europe.” e 4, Has contributed to the mag= azine “Pacific Affairs.” McCarthy said this a publication of the Institute of Pacific Relationg ‘“whose staff was headew mille jonaire Frederick Vande Field; an admifted Communist.” 5. Wrote for the magazine “Am= errasia,” whose managing editon was Philip Jacpb Jaffe. “Jaffe,” McCarthy said “was ?rresfted, indiclt)ii arixd found guile y of having n in poS« session of several hutw secref documents from the state, mavy, war, and other government de partment files.” 4 " i {Killed, | Hurt f , In Cab Accident 1 One man was killed instantly | and seven other persons injured ' last night in a car-truck ezlision two miles west of Dawsonville, ! Killed was William Wesley Brads shaw, 32, of Rt. 1, Farmington, who | was riding in a Veteran’s Cab from Athens driven by Hubert Guest. % Both the driver and his brother, g Harvill Guest, were injured in the ? accident, State patrol headquarters im | Gainesville said the cab eollided | with a truck which was carrying a family of five. They were freated | at a Gainesville hospital for minor injuries and released. The Guest | brothers were reported suffering | from numerous lacerations and i (Continued On Page Two) : Former Athenian . . £ Dies In Florida Francis Price, former well known Athenian, died Saturday night in Tampa, Fla., where he was making his imme. Services will be held Tuesday i afternoon at 5 o’clock at the grave side in Oconee Hill eemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. { Surviving Mr. Price is his moth | er, Mrs. J. D. Price, Hapeville; sis« iter, Miss Maria Price,cl;.lsm‘vme; | brother, W. P. Price, and | one son, F. E. Price, jr., Bethel, N. s : IStudent Lost On 'Hunt In Alabama i | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 13, | —(AP)—William R. Nixon, 21« | year-old University of Alabama law student, disappeared ever the weekend on a hunting trip near Lock, 14 miles southwest of here on the Warrior ‘River. - Nixon went for a hunt Saturday. His automobile, left parked near the river bank, was still there yesterday and searchers began llooking for him. A boat he ostensibly had used 1o cross the river' was found - drifting in the river. It contained ‘his coat and water jug. Searchers hoped he had lest his way on the west bank of the river and would be found. He is married and lives in the West End residential sarea here. Nixon is a nephew of mm., Taylor, of Athens, Ga,, his !ﬁohg: g%gtgﬂr& Tagelgr being sisters, D, ,of Athens, is qum RON’s gre ‘ uncle, ! »u:.» »wf»w‘tww ‘{

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