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FLOOD FIGHTERS BATTLE TO SAVE ELECTRIC PLANT
Workers haul in sand bags on rafts in
their battle to keep flood water from en
tering the power plant which services the
business district of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
in Canada. The water is coming from the
24-HOUR RAIN FEEDS
New Storm Brings Threat Of New
Evacuations And Further Damage
By The Associated Press
Fresh floodwaters from the Red River of the North to
day made thousands homeless and isolated many commu
nities in parts of the water-soaked North Dakota and Min
nesota. A 24-hour rain fed the rising stream and its tribu
taries.
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ments d%n a"f:& the Ufiit’ed
States discussed today plans for
spending inereased unity of west
ern Europe as a Democratic bul
wark against Communism.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
and Secretary of State Dean Ache
son met in London in preliminary
talks preceding a Big Three con
ference opening Thursday. Ache-l
son arrived from Paris after con
ferring with French Foreign Sec
retary Robert Schuman. |
In the Paris talks, Acheson
promised stepped up military and
'—————economicf aid for
French forces
World Newsfightin Ly
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china, Schuman is joining Acheson
and Bevin in London later for the
three-nation foreign ministers’
meeting described as the most im- }
portant since the war. |
The future of Germany looms
high on the agenda. Diplomatic
observers said the three ministers
are agreed that the occupation law
now governing west Germany
should be eased. Acheson favors
the close of integration of west
Germany with western Europe for
security reasons and to strengthen
western European economy. Brit
ain fears German economic €om
petition and France fear German
rearmament. : 3
The foreign ministers Wlll‘dls
cuss the problems of the middle
east, They will probe means of
bringing economic stability to that
oil-rich area whose poverty
stricken masses are now Leing
bombarded by Communist propa
ganda. 3
The ministers probably will re
view also Russia’s latest gffer to
permit citywide elections in Ber
lin on terms weighted heavily in
Russian’s favor. A Russian note
last night proposed that elections
be held after occupation troops are
withdrawn. This' would mean
western troops would move 100
miles back to the western German
frontier. Russian troops would
withdraw to the city limits. ;
In Bangkok, Thailand, Soviet
Union representatives walked out
of a Regional United Nations
meeting over the issue of seating
Chinese Nationalist delegates. The
Russiang had asked that Commun
ist Chinese replace the Nat_tlonal
ists at the regional economic con
ference, It was the 24th Russian
walkout in protest against Chiang
Kai-shek’s Nationalists. g
At Taipei, capital of Chirangs
Formosan stronghold, the Nation
alist Air Force reported it sank
the better part of 2,800 Commun
ist invasion ‘craft poised for an
assault on Formosa. The sm;ill|
craft were trapped in surprise
raids on the ports of Swatow;
Amoy and Foochow, the National
ists said,
. ® :
Different Views
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In Crosby ‘Rift
PARIS, May 9 — (AP) — The
Crosby brothers—Bing and Larry
—told conflicting stories today qf
the state of the famous crooners
20-year-old marriage to one-time
film star Dixle Lee.
Here in Paris the screen and
radio singer denied a Hollywood
report that “strained relations” are
blighting his married life.
But in Hollywood his brother
Larryfi 'l.:eadd‘ot the gr?%gy hße—
search Foun , said: “We hope
it l:e 2 mnm‘ and Hot a di
vorce” : i
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
raging Red river which has broken
through its dikes. More than 2,000 Winni
peég homes have been abandoned to the
flood. Damage runs into the millions of
dollars.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Across the border in flood-be
sieged Winnipeg, jhere also were
more evacuations ds a new storm
threatened further damage from
the raging Red River. More than
12,000 persons already have been
driven from their homes in Win
nipeg _and Southern Manitoba in
the last .week. New floods in
North Dakota and Minnesota hit
the area which only recently had
battled the worst floods in 50
years. g
~ National Guardsmen »vu%rg called
out at Grand’ Forks, No B, as the
Red River crest hit 45.5 feet, 17%
feet above flood stage. Additional
rain was forecast for much of the
flooded area. There were more
than 200 families forced from their
homes in Grand Forks and 300
families were evacuated from East
Grand Forks, Minn., across the
river.
Other communities endangered
by floodwaters in North Dakota
included Minto, Bowesmont, Graf
ton and Pembina. At Oslo, Minn,,
20 miles northeast of Grand Forks,
the Red River-—normally 100 feet
wide—spread over an area of sev
en miles, Nearly all homes and
business places were flooded.
Drinking water was hauled in
milk tank trucks to the 500 resi
dents of . Warren, Minn, The
trucks were met by boats and the
water was poured into milk cans
and delivered by boat to the resi
dents.
Other Minnesota communities
fighting floodwaters included Aif~
kin, where a score of families fled
their homes as the Mississippi riv
es overflowed. Floodwood, north
west of Duluth, was 75 per cent
inundated by the overflow of the
St. Louis river.
Cool weather prevailed in many
parts of the flood area. The chilly
temperatures covered the north
ern half of the country while ‘gen
erally warm weather continued
over the southern half. Readings
in the 30’s weve reported over the
Dakotas, the northern and central
Rocky Mountain States and most
of New England early today.
~ There were thundershowers
from Minnesota and Wisconsin
southward into Missouri and East
ern Kansas. Light snow fell in
parts of North Dakota. A rainfall
of 4.71 inches of rain was reported
yesterday in Concordia, Kans.
Tornadoes hit areas in Nebraska
and lowa. A twister struck Au
burn, in Southeast Nebraska, dam~-
aging several buildings. A small
tornado swept Red Oak, in south
western lowa, destroying the main
Hangar at the city’s airport and
damaging six planes. No injuries
were reported in the two commun
ities.
2 ATHENIANS IN CAST
University
Presents--
Presentation of T. S. Eliot’s
«Murder in the Cathedral” in a
four-night run here this week will
ring down the curtain on the Uni
versity Theatre’s 1949-50 season.
The drama which tells the story
of the murder of Sir Thomas Bec-~
ket, Archbishop of Canterbury,
will be presented in Fine Arts
auditorium May 9-12. Curtain
time is 8:30 p. m.
Heading a large cast is Gus-
Mann, Cairo, as the archbishop
who fought for the church against
royal encroachments only to be
murdered at the altar of the cathe
dral for his disputes with authori
ty. ,
~“Eliot wrote the play in 1935 to
jd-in the restoration of the Can
uiry Cathedral in Shgland. T
portray’s the murder of Sir Fhom-
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FLOOD WATERS COVER HIGHWAY
Flood water from the Red River spreads over High
way No. 75 on the outskirts of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Hundreds of blocks within the city are already under a
shallow sea of muddy water. Ten thousand people have
been driven from their homes in southern Manitoba.—
(AP Wirephoto.)
Miss. Meet Called
STATE RIGHTERS
AT 'CROSSROADS’
JACKSON, Miss., May 9.— (AP)—States Righters face
decisions here tomorrow which may mean life or death for
the movement and its bitter opposition to federal civil
rights bills. :
Most of those who led the deep South states out of the
regular Democratic party two years ago will be here. They
expect 3,000 others for a third national States Rights meet
ing.
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"Buddy’ Britfian
Dies In Atlanta
Robert D. (Buddy) Brittain, one
of Athens’ most popular young
men, died Monday morning at 11
o’clock in Lawson General Hospi
tal. Mr. Brittain was 29 years old
and had been ill for the past two
months,
Services are to be held Wed
nesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock
from Prince Avenue Baptist
Church with the pastor, Rev. T.
R. Harvill, and D. E. L. Hill,
pastor-emeritus of First Presbyte
rian Church, offnciating.
The body will lie in state in the
church from 3:30 o’clock until the
hour for the services and full mili
(Continued On Page Five)
Theater
Murder”’
as Becket there in 1170 by a band
of armed knights and Becket’s
subsequent martyrdom.
In Eliot’s drama, the archbishop
is warned of his death by the wo
men of Canterbury. Uncertain
about the course he will follow
in his canonical disputes with King
Henry 11, Becket listens to four
tempters who offer him, in turn,
easy living and good times, temp
oral authority, leadership of a ti
:;iled group ,and finally, martyr
om,
The archbishop, who has se
cretly desired martyrdom, listens
to the last tempter and gives him
self into the hands of the knights
who have come to kill him. The
climax of the play is the murder
. (Continued On Page Five) . .
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEQRGCIA OVER A CENTURY
State Peach Crop Set
At Multi-Million Loss
New Estimate Says Only 1,500
Carloads Expected; 3-Year Low
MACON, Ga., May 9.— (AP) —Georgia’s peach crop
was estimated today at net more than 1,500 carloads, the
smallest in 50 years and a multi-million dollar loss.
W. C. Bewley, president of the Georgia Fruit Exchange,
said the crop failure was the third in succession, ‘“an unpre
cedented situation.”” The Exchange is the main marketing
agency for the commercial peach crop. - 1
“Peach = crop prospects look
worse from week to week,” Bewley
said, “and from present indications
the total Georgla peach crop is not
likely to exceed the equivalent of
The meeting is a “where do we
go from here” affair. An execu
tive committee session tonight will
offer a chart for action.
W. W. Wright of Jackson, vice
chairman of the committee, said
he looked for a program calling
for stronger organization, well
planned drives to raise money and
States Rights offices in each
Southern state,
Alabama, carried by the States
Righters in 1948, indicated a
change of heart last week. Demo-~
crats there elected a new state ex
ecutive committee. A majority of
the winners are anti-States Right
ers.
The Alabama committee led the
successful States Rights campaign
in 1948. Former Governor Frank
Dixon of Alabama will report to
morrow on- the States Rights de
feat in his state,
Whether States Rights followers
keep control of Democratic party
machinery in Louisiana may come
up for decision today at Baton
Rouge, La.
In Mississippi and South Caroli
na, the cther two states carried by
the movement in 1948, there has
been no shift in party control.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness and
mild today, cool again tfonight
with low of 56. Wednesday
partly cloudy and warm with
high of 86. Sun sets 723 and
rises 5:35.
GEORGIA — Consider
able cloudiness and mild this
afternoon and tonight, Wednes
day partly cloudy and warmer.
TEMPERATURE
FEeat TR, G 08
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since May 1 .. ~ .. 1.02
Excess since May 1 .. .... .14
Average Mey rainfall ~ ... 3.54
Total since January 1 ....11.78
DPeficit since January . I.+ +8:12
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950.
1,500 carloads and may be con
siderably less.”
He said the survey, just com
pleted, showed a “further substan
tial loss in volume as compared
with prospects the middle of
April.”
He said the crop failure was
caused by abnormal weather con
ditions. There was not -enough
cold during the mid-winter months
for proper development of buds in
the orchards of the Southern and
Central districts of the state.
Then, freezes and frosts wiped
out the crop in the northern sec
tion in April, by killing blooms
and buds.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture reported 1949 production
totaled 2,040,000 bushels, at an
average price of $2.95 per bushel
for a total of $6,018,000. Carload
slggoments last year were about
2,300,
_Agricultural sources said that on
the basis of an estimate of 1,500
carloads this year, production
would be less than 1,000,000 bush
els, or less than half that of last
year.
Higher Prices
Short crops bring higher prices,
and the farm sources said the 1950
peaches could sell as high as $4.00
a bushel.
The smallest crop on record was
in 1932, when 2,024 carloads were
shipped. Highest was in 1926,
when 17,963 carloads moved.
Average production over the 10
year period, 1938-47, was 4,258,000
i!mheh- & RN R S e ie g
Bewley said foliage has not put
out properly on such varieties as
Dixiegem and Sullivan’s early and
regular Elbertas.
“There are not many peaches on
the trees of those varieties and a
before maturity,” he said.
maturity,” he said.
“At this time, we can only guess
as to the volume of peaches that
will mature, and our guess at this
time is that the production in the
southern district will not exceed
the equivalent of 900 to 1,000 car
loads, if that many, and the pro
duction north of Macon will not
exceed the equivalent of 600 car
loads, if that many.
“This will be the third success
ive season that the Georgia peach
crop has been largely a failure
from a production standpoint, due
to abnormal weather conditions.
For 50 years prior to 1948, there
had never been two such crop
failures successively.
“The South Carolina and North
Carolina peach crops are also al
most a total failure. Therefore
there will be very few Southern
peaches available for the com
mercial market this year.”
Cattle Sale Tops
"9 Records Here
Average sale price at the annual
Georgia Jersey Cattle Club sale
here yesterday was $338.91, top
gi;xg last year’s average by about
The 46 purebred animals sold for
a total of $15,590. Officials praised
the high quality of the animals this
year.
Top selling antmal a ten
month-old bull, Magnolia Connie
Basil, consigned by Magnolia Lane
Farm at Blythe. The Tennessee
Artificial Breeding Association at
Brentwood paid $1,575 for the bull,
University of Georgia was a con
sistent bidder for the animal.
Highest price paid for a female
was $525 for Standard Royal
Hilda, sold by Ralph Pulliam,
Winterville. The animal was pur
csased by John Rigdon, Columbus.
Among those selling animals
were three of Georgia’s outstand
ing 4-H Club members. They were
Julian May, Washington, Doris
Shropshire, Chickamoga, and D. N.
Click, jr.,, Moultrie,
Pigeon Race Armed Forces Day
- BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Seven homing pigeons will race
from here to Atlanta tomorrow
morning as a preliminary to Arm
ed Forces Vieek, which will be
observed May 13-20.
The pigeon race is being held
as an added attraction to build in
terest in the first observance of
Armed Forces Week. Previous to
this the Army, Navy and Air
Force have had separate observ
ances.
Competing Cities <
Pigeons will race from Athens,
sainesville, Albany,- Augusta, Co~ -
Bulletins
WASHINGTON, May 9—(AP)
—The House Ways and Means
Committee reversed itself today
and voted to cut cigar excises by
$15,000,000 a year.
The slash, if finally approved,
would reduce the $45,000,000 an
nual tax on cigar smokers by
one-third. The committee previ
ously had refused to cut the
cigar tax.
WASHINGTON, May 9—(AP)
—The House Armed Services
Committee today shelved a plan
to let the government build
$97,643,000 worth of homes for
families of servicemen in this
country.
The committee struck the pro~
vision from a multi-million dol
lar military public works bill on
the recommendation of Chair
man Vinson (D.-Ga.). He said
the job of building homes for
military people should be turned
over to private firms operating
under the Wherry Act.
WASHINGTON, May B—(AP)
—The Senate Postoffice Com
mittee today approved a resolu
tion directing that Postmaster
General Donaldson drop his
economy cutbacks in the postal
service. The vote was 9 to 0.
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Rebels To Gain l
InFEPC Fight
WASHINGTON, May 9 AE.)
‘ed today that Southerners fighting
Fair Employment Practices legis
lation will pick up strength *as
we continue to expose this thing.”
Debate on a motion of Demo~
cratic Leader Lucas of Illinois to
make the bill the pending business
in the Senate got underway yes
terday. |
To shut off an expected Di:_cie‘
filibuster against the motion will
take the votes of 64 senators, but
a decision on the issue is unlikely
before next week.
Russell, directing strategy for
the Southerners, didn't claim the
33 votes necessary to defeat a de~
bate-limiting move but he t6ld a
reporter he is sure the other side
lacks the 64 votes to put it over. 1
He said there are 10 votes that
cannot now be placed on one side
or the other. If these 10 should
be split evenly, he said, it would
give the Southerners the 33 votes
they need.
The bill would set up a federal
commission to bar any discrimi
nation in employment because of
race, color, religion or nationali
orig;n. '
In a two-hour speech yesterday,l
Russell ripped into the measure as
a proposal shot through with poli- |
tics and hyprocrisy. He said it
would create “an army of thought
police” and long has been “No. 1
on the agenda of the Communist
party.”
. .
Civil War Data
Requested Here
A letter has been received by
Mayor Jack Wells from Rabbi
Harold Shuster, 5316 W. Berks
Street, Philadelphia 3!, Pa., re
questing information, old papers,
letters and envelopes that would
help in his study of the Civil War
and the South.
Rabbi Shuster asked Mayor
Wells to contact friends, neighbors
and -organizations for the material
to aid in a “complete study of the
Civil War and the South.”
Mayor Wells answered Rabbi
Shuster’s letter, informing him
that a story had been released to
the Banner-Herald and that all
persons who can aid him may
communicate with him at Phila
delphia.
I closing his letter, Mayor
Wells said “I hope that you will
soon receive the information you
desire.”
FROM ATHENS TO ATLANTA
llumbus,- Macon, Reme, Savanna
| and Waycross. The ones released
from each place will compete
against each other while the fowls
from the various cities will also
be in competition. Because of the
varying distances irom the cities
to Atlanta the winner will be
chosen on a basis of distance cov
ered and time.
Th%&igeons will be released at
9 o'cl tomorrow mcrning from
the field in front of the University
| infirmary, .',mrxc’um:eg‘s Mg%:; ng
iW. Johnson, jr., unit insttactor, o
‘flu-hflmem-afit’*hmm taeaér:ve,
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Air Power Boost
Readied By House
Congressmen Expected To Add ‘
$350 Million To Defense Budget
WASHINGTON, May 9.— (AF)—The House was all set
today to add an extra $350,000,000 for national defense
spending, mostly on air power. The money would be put
into a $29,000,000,000 omnibus appropriation bill now ap
proaching a house vote.
A congressman’s suggestion that a United States warship
may have recently sunk “a strange submarine” was not
expected to hurt the cause of House members in’sistilg.that
the cold war is too warm to permit economies at ex
pense of national defense. :
Republicans whose policy com
mittee meets today to figure out a
plan to cut $1,000,000,000 or
more from the pending one=- pack
age measure Indicated that they
will keep hands-off the $13,911,-
000,000 national defense budget al=-
ready recommended by the appro
priations ecommittee.
They are expected {o go along
too with a later committee recom=
mendation that an extra $350,000,«
000 be given to the alr force
and the navy, most of it for air
planes.
The assertion of Rep. Young
(D-OHIO) about the submarine
actually created little stir in the
house. Young said in a statement
that the U. S. warship may have
“engaged a strange submarine and
sunk it with bombs.” R
He said he didn’t “dream this”
and “I didn’t get it out of my
mind,” but refused to elaborate
further. i
A Navy spokesman who was ask-.
ed about it said the Navy investi=~
gated all reports of foreign sube
iet At Al
P g ’ ' Was any su
The Republican policy commit=
tee hoped to reach argeemeént on
a plan to reduce the big appro
priation measure without affect
ing funds for the army, the navy
or the air force.
Three major suggestions have
‘been made to members of the com=-
mittee:
1. To add to the hill a ban
against filling normal vacancies
in federal agencies next year, This,
according to Rep. Taber (R-NY),
would save up to $590,000,000.
2. To designate individual items
in the big bill for reduction and
incorporate all the cuis into a sin
gle motion on whic ha roll-call
vote would be demanded. The pro
posed cuts would be in the neigh
borhood of a billion dollars.
Highway Group
Elects Officers
Officers and directors of the
Uncle Remus Highway Association
(Federal Route 441) were chosen
at the annual meeting of that or
ganization today in Civic Hall
with B. H. Lord of Dublin, being
chosen president to succeed Rob
ere Cowart of Douglas, who has
served the past two years.
Others elected are E. H. Scott,
secretary of the Milledgeville
Chamber of Commerce, secretary
treasurer succeeding Milton
Fletcher, formerly of Douglas and
now of Moultrie; W. D. Bolton,
Commerce, first vice-president,
succeeding Harry Bone, Milledge~
ville; O. K. Holmes, Lake City,
Fla., second vice-president, suc
ceeding George O. Huey, Homer
ville.
Election of directors was held
too late to get in today’s Banner-
Herald and will be published
Wednesday.
At one o’clock a luncheon was
held at the Georgian Hotel with
a good representation from all
points along the famous route on
hand. Among these was Alan Stal
cup, of Gatlinburg, Tenn., repre
senting the northern portion of
the route.
Work was started to bring about
a change in route numbers in or
der to extend the highway to Cin
cinnet{, Ghio.
| and Captain T. H. Milner, jr., local
Armed Forces Day officer.
Arriving late today, the pige
ons will be watered at 8 a. m,, to~
morrow and be released an hour
later. In the event of rain they
will not be released until the rain
has stopped. By order Lt. Col
Russell W. Narman, E. C., Assis
tant Project Officer, Georgia Mil
itary District Headquarters, At
lanta, the pigeons will not be re
leased until Thursday if i‘ rains
all-day qug;aesdag g
: eon Names
! 'Ndmes of the pigeons to racé
HOME
EDITION
Truman Promises
West Development
Despite Opposition
ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN,
May 9.-— (AP) ~—President Tru
man declared today his adminise
tration will push the development
of the West over the oppesition of
“reactionary forces” of “privilege
and greed” with their philosophy
of ““Teapot Dome.”
“Phe President carried his day
‘and %ht cxoxsfcountry_muz
tour info Wyoming aitey telling an
Brannan farm plan would help
assure “peace and prosperity for
ourselves and the world.”
In a speech prepared for an au
dience today at Casper, W£., the
Chief Executive described new
Kortes Dam, 50 miles away, as a
source of “wealth and strength for
the people of the world.”
And he scoffed at those whe
cry “socialism,” “regimentation”
or “boondoggle” at government
water and land resource develop~
ment. »
As the day proceeded he cone
tinued to talk to large and appar
ently heppy crowds who jammed
the tracks around his private car
in the chatty, neighborlz fashion
that was his “vote appeal” in 1948.
Like at Pacific Junction, Towa,
yesterday where he told them he
wanted them to look at thelr
“hired mran” to see if he is the
same fellow who came out “look
ing for votes two years ago.” He
added he was 66 even if they
thought he didn’t look it
Mr, Truman fevived the old
“Teapot Dome” ooil scandal at
Casper, contrasung the philosophy
of “Teapot Dome” with that be
hind the construction of the Kor
tes Dam,
Gov. Candidate
Here Tomorrow
Mrs. Jessie W. Jenkins, candi
date for governor of Georgia in
the coming election, will speak at
the Clarke county courthouse to
morrow afternoon at 4:B¢ in be
half of her cam&aign.
Mrs. Jenkins, announa her
appearance here, said her
campaign is “not just another po
litical campaign,” but “a erusade
in dead seriousness for needed re
forms of a sound and permanent
character.”
The gubernatorial ecandidate
said tha! she has no affiliations
with any machine and has no
press agent, and that she is “trust
ing entirely to the simple, civil
courtesies of good citizens who
want good government.”
Mrs. Jenkins is founder of the
National Patrick Henry Organiza
tlon, Ina.
Preliminary
from Athens to Atlanta are “John
Silver,” "Mr. Boston,” “Flash.’
“Kingfish,” “Boots,” “Dead Pan,”
and *“Devil Divar.”
National observance of Arpiéc
forces Day will be on May 20, but
individual communities may ob
serve it any time during the week.
May 18 has been chosen for the
observance in Athens. Featured on
the agenda that day will be a pa
rade through the streets o%"the
o AR el e s
er. es -
vocate general of the Army. :
The 'speech will be delivered in
Fine Arts Auditorium at 11 4. m.