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Units “of “the United States Armed Forces in" Athens
joined with Girl and Boy Scout troops and Red Cross units
today in a colorful observance of the first annual Armed
Forces Day, highlighted by this morning’s parade of nearly
a dozen units.
The parade moved over a 12-
block route through downtown
Athens and past the reviewing
stand at Washington and College
before assembling at Fine Arts
Auditorium to hear Major General
Ernest M. Brannon deliver the
Armed Forces Day address at 11
o'clock eeremonies,
Headed by Col. Thomas H.
Fickett, parade marshal, and his
staff, the parade was led off by
two cars carrying representatives
of the Red Cross, A group of Girl
and Boy Scouts were next, fol
lowed by the University band, the
Athens High School military unit,
veterans of Athens, the University
of Georgia military unit, and four
NEW RAILROAD STRIKE ORDERED
FORTUESDAY ON MIDWESTROADS
10 ENTRIES
Girl Sponsors
Merchants sponsoring entries in
the 1950 “Miss Athens” contest to
be held Saturday night were an
nounced today by Bob Maupin,
general chairman,
The affair will begin at B_o’-
clock in Fine Arts Auditorium
with ten contestants. It is spon
sored by Athens Junior Chamber
of Commerce, The winner goes to
the state finals, and the state win
ner enters the “Miss America”
pageant.
The girls as the merchants spon
soring them are: Peggy Bradberry,
Heyward Allen Motor Co.; Lou
Davis, Athens Co-Operative
Creamery: Carolyn Dunning, Bell’s
Food Store: Sue Edge, Christian
Hardware: Bettie Foster, Athens
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.: Pat Hun
ter, Gallant Belk’s; Jan Martin,
Georgian Hotel: Jean O’Neal,
Georgia Motors; Peggy Wilson,
University Chevrolet; Martha
Brown, McGregor's.
Judges will be Dr. J. C. Rogers,
University president; Paul W.
Chapman, associate dean of the
College of Agriculture; James E.
Gates, dean of School of Business
Administration; Lamar Dodd, head
of Art Department: Barrett
Howell, of The Atlanta Constitu
lion; Cock Barwick, prominent At
lanta attorney; Mrs. Bunnig Por
ter-Cox, society editor of The Ath
éns Banner-Herald; and David
Michael, Athens merchant,
Master of ceremonies for the oc-
Caioln w%leo be fUly Gunn, o
uncheon for sponsoring mer
chants, contestants, judges and
Jaycees will be held at one ¢'-
clock Saturday . in: the Georgien
Hotel. s yvue anys s Pee § 54 bastsns o
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
heavily-armored tanks from the
University unit.
The Athens High School band
was absent from the parade for
the first time in three years of
parades honoring the various
branches of the Armed Forces.
Planes Fly Over
At just the opportune moment,
four fighter planes of the Army
Air Corps roared over Athens to
signify the national spirit of uni
fication for defense, demonstrated
by the harmeny of all the Armed
Forces units.
Today marked the first time
that a single day’s activities hon
ored all branches, directing atten
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6,000 Switchmen To Walk Out On
Wage Dispute Over Working Hours
CHICAGO, May 18.— (AP)—Ten midwestern and west
ern railroads were threatened today with a strike Tuesday
morning by 6,000 switchmen. .
The walkout was called last night by the FL Switchmen’s
Union of North America in a wage dispute.
It came less than 48 hours after settlement of the crip
pling six-day firemen’s strike against five of the nation’s
carriers. The threatened walkout is not directed against
any of the recently struck lines. : cdiae
Union President Arthur J,
Glover said in Washington the
strike was set to enforce demands
for 48 hours pay for a 40-hour
work-week. The union, one of the
five operating brotherhoods, was
not affected by the 1949 decision
by presidential emergency boards
giving the 40-hour work week to
non-operating workers.
The strike action, Glover said,
will be directed against.the Chi
cago Great Western; Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific; Daven~
port, Rock Island and Northwes
tern: Denver and Rio Grande
Western; Great Northern; Minnea
polis and St. Louis; Northern Paci
fie Terminal Company of Oregon;
St. Paul Union Depot Company;
Sioux City Terminal Railway
Company, and Western Pacific
Railroad Company. The strike
deadline was announced as 6 a. m.
local time. SRI g Bk
A spokesman for the Association
of Western Railways satd switch
tenders, yard foremen, yard
brakemen and helpers would be
affected by the strike. The union,
he said, represents about 10 per
cent of the men doing this class
of work on the nation’s carriers.
The others—about 90,000—are
members of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen,
All mediation machinery under
the National (Railway) Labor act
has been exhausted, Glever said,
and the union was free to call a
strike.
However, a presidential fact
finding board in a report so Pres
ident Teruman 'on Aprik 119 ‘had
suggested 1 the sswitchmen's* case
Atlantic Ministers Form
‘World' High Command
Troops Necessary To Defend
Western Europe Are Ordered
LONDON, May 18.— (AP)—Atlantic Pact Foreign Min
isters set up a permanent high command tonight and or
dered it to develop the armed forces necessary for the de
fense of Western Europe.
Each of the 12 member Foreign Ministers will appoint a
deputy to serve on the permanent committee.
ANNUALRADIO
MEET BEGINS
HERE TONIGHT
Professors, Students
From State Colleges
To Swell Attendance
l Radio and speech students and
instructors from Georgia colleges
are expected to swell the attend
ance at the sth annual Georgia
Radio Institute at the University
of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism today
through Saturday.
The Institute opens here tonight
with a dinner address by Sig Mick~
‘elson, director of public affairs of
the Columwia Broadcasting Sys
tem.
The Radio Institute is held an
nually under the joint sponsorship
of the Grady School and the Geor
gia Association of Broadcasters.
This year’s program arrangements
are being made by a committee
headed by Lewis Doster, WGAU,
Athens.
A special session on radio ad
vertising showing its effect on
sales has been scheduled, and the
film, “Lightning That Talks,” tell
ing the story of radio’s place in
America and its importance as an
advertising medium, will be shown
tomorrow mornmg at 10 o’clock.
Following the film an address
based on it will be given by Mau
rice Mitchell, director of Broad
cast Advertising Bureau, National
Association of Broadcasters. A
discussion will follow.
At noon Sol Taishoff, editor and
publisher of “Broadcasting and
Telecasting” magazine of Washing
ton, D. C., will speak.
A closed luncheon is scheduled
for 1:15 in the Georgian Hotel. Re
ports by officers will be heard at
this time,
At 2:30 p. m. a panel on “Re
ligious Broadcasts” will be held
with the following participating:
Chairman: Warde Adams, Director,
Protestant Radio Center, Agnes
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would be passed upon after hear
ing similar cases by two other op
erating unions, the trainmen and
the order of railway conductors.
The board has been holding
hearings here for two months and
its report is due June 1. The
switchmen contended its case de
served a separate board.
Glover said that “most of Amer
ican industry has had a basic 40
hour work week for years. That's
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and warm foday and to
morrow. Outlook for the week
end, partly cloudy and warm
with scattered thundershowers.
Low tonight 62, high tomeorrow
86. Sun sets today at 7:30; sun
rises tomorrow at 5:29,
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
warm today and tonight, Friday
partly . cloudy and eentinued
warm, scattered afternoon thun
dershowers.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
The appointments will be made
“with the least possible delay” so
that the deputies can proceed to
appoint a full-time chairman from
among their members, the Foreign
Ministers announced in a commun
ique at the close of their four day
session.
This was in line with an agree
ment to set up a high command
to block Communism, whether it
tries armed attack or “Trojan
Horse” conquest.
The communique said: :
“A year’s experience has shown
that on the political side the meet
ings of the council have been too
infrequent to permit a sufficient
exchange of views on matters of
common interest within the scope
of the treaty. ‘
“On the military side the strate
gic concept of the treaty has been
adopted and a defense plan drawn
up, and the corresponding esti
mate of the necessary forces is be- ‘
ing established.
“The next step is to put these
plans into effect by taking furth
er measures in the direction of
common defensé, the division of
financial responsibilities and the
adaptation and development of the
necessary forces.”
The communique said the perm
anent high command will execute
policies and be responsible “for
formulating issues requiring de
cisions by the member govern
ments.”
- The highest priority tasks of
the permanent council will be:
1. To coordinate the work of the
North Atlantic Council’s Defense
Committee, its Defense Financial
and Economic Committee and all
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Services For D
ervices ror vr.
J.T. Wheeler
Saturday, 10:30
[ ®
Dr. John T. Wheeler, head of
the Division of Vocational Educa~-
tion in the College »f Education
of the University of Georgia, and
nationally known educator, died in
a local hospital Wednesday night
at 8 o’'clock. Dr. Wheeler had been
ill for several weeks and criticaly
ill for the past several days. |
Services will be conducted from
First Methodist Church Saturday
morning at 10:30 o’clock, Rev. J.
W. O. McKibben officiating. Inter
ment will be in Oconee Hill Ceme
tery, Bridges Funeral Fome in
charge of all arrangements.
Pallbearers will be R. H. Drift
mier, O. C. Aderhold, J. H. Mit
chell, Garland Bryan& Neal Bak
er, Allen Wier, Grady Callahan,
and Ralph Tolbert. Serving as hon
orary pallbearers will be the fac
ulty of College of Education, Uni
versity of Georgia, members of the
State Department of Education of
Atlanta, Dr. Harmon Caldwell, Dr,
‘Jonathan Rogers, Dean Paul
Chapman, Dean G. H. Boyd, Deanl
Alvin B. Biscoe, J. D. Bolton, Wal
ter Danner, Tom Askew and Har-‘
ry Brown, ‘
Surviving Mr. Wheeler are his
wife, Mrs. Belle Gregson Wheeler,
Athens; three daughters, Mrs.
Horace Williams, Nashville, Geor=
gia, Mrs. Milton Griffeth, Athens,
and Miss Joyce Wheeler, Athens;
two sons, John T. Wheeler, jr.,
Rochester, N. Y., and M. B,
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The path of true love is running pretty
rough for Egyptian Princess Fathia (ex
treme right), 19, but she's determined to
hold her husband, Riad Ghali (left), 31,
a Coptic Christian® commoner. Her bro
ther, Egypt’s King Farouk, has disowned
l EGYPT PRINCESS
' SAN FRANCISCO, May 18—
(AP)—Any time now—maybe to
‘day, maybe tomortrow—the lovely
princess is going to wed her com
moner sweetheart before a Moslem
riest—and the furious King of
ggypt can make the most of it.
" Last night 19-year-old Fathia,
beautiful brunette sister of King
Farouk at long last received of
ficial decrees from Cairo, con
firming what she had read in the
papers: Her title is lifted; her for
tune is impounded; so is the for
tune of Queen Mother Nazli; Both
must return to Egypt within 60
days.
That did it. She promptly told
her mother the Moslem wedding to
31-year-old Riad Ghali, secretary
to Queen Nazli, is on. The quicker
the better.
“Within a couple of days,” was
the assurance the youngest mem
ber of the Egyptian royal family
passed out to all callers.
While all Egypt talked about the
romance of their Moslem ‘former
princess” with a coptic Christian.
At end are plans to plead furth
er with the King to retract his op
position because Ghali is a Chris
tian and a commoner. The King
phrased an additional objection
“an adventurer.”
“He can punish us no farther,”
Fathia said.
The plans for the ceremony, to
seal a marriage contracted in civil
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DeMolay Dance
®
Tomorrow Night
Final plans were completed to
day by the Frank Hardeman
Chapter, Order of DeMolay, for
the Chapter’s annual Spring dance,
set tomorrow night at the Athens
Country Club. The dance will last
from 8 until 12 o’clock.
The Georgia Bulldogs will fur
nish music, with Ed Murdock as
vocalist. Dress will be semi-formal,
with no flowers. Admission is
$2.00 with invitation.
Members of the Frank Harde
man Chapter and their dates will
be entertained at a breakfast at
D. Weaver Bridges’ cabin, follow
ing the dance.
LOVE’S PATH IS ROCKY FOR EGYPT’S ROYAL FAMILY
and impoverished the princess because of
her marriage in San Francisco last month.
Fathia poses in San Francisco with her
mother, Queen Mother Nazli (center),
and sister, Princess Faika (left).
House Group Approves
B
Rent Curb Extension
Cities Must Vote To Continue
Controls Before December 31st
WASHINGTON, May 18.—;-(AP) —The House Banking
Committee voted 13 to 4 today for another year of federal
rent control.
The bill provides, however, that
controls will end December 31 in
cities that do not vote to continue
them until June 30, 1951, gt
The present rent controf law ex
pires at the end of next month,
The committee’s action sends its
bill to the House. The measure,
’sponsored by Chairman Spence
(D-Ky), has these main provis
wons:
1. Continuation of the federal
control powers to June 30, 1951,
2. Increased “local option’ pro
visions whereby localities can de
termine whether they want fur
ther controls. A city would have
the power at any time to vote out
controls. Once taken off, no rent
ceiling could be reimposed in a
particular locality. i ‘
3. Rent controls to end automa
tically December in all localities
where the local governing body
or the people in referendum do not
decide to continue the controls to
June 30, 1951.
Governors of the various states
would have no authority to veto
the action of cities taking them
selves out from under the federal
rent ceilings.
President Truman asked for a
renewal of the rent law in a spe
cial message to Congress April 21.
He said “a sudden and simultan
eous removal of rent controls on
a national scale would presitate a
wave of exorbitant rent increas
es.”
Mr. Truman also argued that
rent increases would mean the
average family would have to cut
its spending for food and clothing.
He said that would lead to unem
ployment.
Tabor groups also campaigned
strongly for continuation of con
trols.
Spokesmen for the CIO and A.
F. of L. told the cemmittee yes
terday that if controls wer2 drop
ed labor certainly would ask for
a new round of wages increases.
Mr. Truman said that controls
are now being dropped gradually.
He estimated that by June 30,
only 8,000,000 rental units would
be under rent ceilings. This com
pares with a top of 16,000,000
units controlled in 1946.
Millions of rental units have
been decontrolled under the pres
ent law that permits state legisla
tures to decontrol whole states,
localities to deconrol themselyes
and the federal housing expediter
to lift ceilings where he thinks
housing pressures have eased.
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Athenian Wins
Pharmacy Award
Six University of Georgia stu
dents were recognized here Wed
nesday for outstanding work in
| pharmacy.
| They received awards at a din
' ner climaxing the annual Student-
Faculty Alumini day at the Uni
versity’s Pharmacy School.
Top award of the day, the Rob
ert C. Wilson award carrying with
it a SSO prixe, was given to Walter
Strange, Ellaville. The award,
named in honor of the Pharmacy
School’s emeritus dean, is given
to a member of the senior class
who excels in scholastic abilities,
character, and interest in the
ideals of the profession of phar
macy.
Two other seniors received $25
.awards from the Atlanta Drug and
Chemical Club. William D. Easter
ly, Sheridan, Ark., was recognized
for scholastic achievement in
pharmacy and Iva Wallace, Ath
‘ens, was gven an award for schol
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. »» T 0 Speak Friday
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Approximately 70 representa
tives of Northeast Georgia towns
entered in the Georgia Power
Company’s 1950 Champion Home
Town Contest will attend a lunch
eon Friday at the Athens Country
Club as guests of the Georgia Pow
er Company,
Charles A, Collier, vice president
of the company and founder of
the better Home Towns Program,
will be principal speaker. He will
be introduced by E, €. Hammond,
Athens division sales supervisor
for the company. The guests will
be welcomed by Mayor Jack Wells
of Athens. ;
This meeting will provide the
representatives of the contesting
towns with an opportunity to dis
cuss some suggestions and ideas
about the contest with particular
emphasis on the preparation of
reports of progress which must be
submitted this fall.
All of the prize winning reports
submitted in the 1949 contest will
be on display.
Two representatives areexpect
ed from each of the following
towns in Northeast Georgia. Bow
man, Canon, Clarkesville, Clay
ton, Cleveland, Comer, Conyers,
Cornelia, Covington, Crawford,
Cumming, Demorest, Duluth, El
berton, Flowery Brinch, Gaines
ville, Greensboro, Hartvrell, Jef
ferson, Lavonie, Lawrenceville,
Lithonia, Loganville, Mansfield,
Monroe, Madison, Martin, New=-
born, Royston, Rutledge, Statham,
Talmo, Toccoa, Watkinsville, and
Winder.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 18.—(AP)~Bernie Moore, Seuth
eastern Conference Commissioner, todday annotinfed that Alabama
i and Kentucky will open a playoff Tuesday for the SEC baseball
championship.
I Alabama won the Western Division title, while Kentucky is
Eastern Division leader.
’ Moore said the site for the first two games of the playoff will be
picked later today. After those two games, the teams will shift e
l new site.
/v o. Although Keptucky has several more games so play, Moore .
« « sruled that the: Wildeats were Eastern Division ‘chamypions, """
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EDITION
Rate OnU. S. Tax.
Refund Ok ed’ ‘
UKdy
House Ways And Means
Committee Approves
Two Percent Cutback
WASHINGTON, May 18—(AP)
—The House Ways and Means
committee voted today to eut to
2 per cent the interest rate the
government pays on overpayments
of taxes that later are refunded.
The rate now is 6 percent. The
committee decided to keep at 6
per cent the rate the taxpaver
must pay if he is late with his
payments.
At present, the government pays
out about $100,000,000 a year in
interest on tax overpayments later
refunded. Staff experts advised
the committee that cutting the rate
from 6 to 2 per eent would save
the government $67,000,000 a year.
Some big taxpayers are suspect
ed in fact of deliberately over
paying their taxes in order to col
lect the @8 percent. Interest rates
being what they are — and bond
yields as low as they are — an
overpayment- of taxes is ene of
the most profitable safe invest
ments a man with surplus ‘money
can make.
The proposed cut is being writ
ten into the new tax bills the com=~
mittee is drafting,
It has made a number of pro
posed cuts in taxes. The most con~
troversial of these, at least’ within
the committee, is a proposed drop
from 25 to 16 per cent in the tax
on long-term capital gains,
The main argument there is
whether the cut in taxes on stock
and bond deals would helg market
speculators more than it would
thgrhnatiods economy., T
» ‘gnmm' kfihn a:
no‘tlsed g '31% ly to trading
yesterday, wo app!
in real estate and commow
well as to stocks and counds, The
committee’s action brought an im
mediate dispute among its mem
bers.
fßep.t %ombi (P—Te:;) called the
suggested cut “grossly ineguita
ble,” and said its main benefits
fv?uld g% t}?i gshto;k cnl:a{ktet specu
ators an -bracke
while those in the lowerm
would suffer.
Rep. Lunch (D-NY) countered
by calling the committee action
an “excellent” move which would
stimulate business and add SIOO,~
000,000 a year to the government’s
income. .
If approved by Congress, the
committee recommendation would
have this effect:
1. The maximum fax on long
term-capital gains would be slash
ed from the present 26 per cent
to 16 per cent,
2. A capital asset would have to
be held only three months—in
stead of six - in order for its
sale to be considered as either a
gain or a loss for income tax pur~
poses. e : o
The first provision wo y
to transactions by indiflh
only; the second would :=y to
deals by both individuals €or
porations. :
By law, a gain or loss fram the
sale of such property held
than six months may be
along with other income de
ductions for tax purposes. This
means a savings to grw. with
inc(;mes taxed less than 50 per
cent.
Pool Contest
Winners Named
A contest has been conducted in
the negro city and county schools
for the past few weeks whereby
school children have submitted
suggested names for the new col
ored swimming pool and park. A
selection committee has chosen the
best name submitted by the ’fi:
of each school. These indivi
winners will receive a season’s
swim pass at the dedication cere
monies Saturday afternoon.
This dedication will be preced
ed by a parade headed by the Da
vid T. Howard high school band,
a seventy piece organization se
cured for this event. Thim
will start at 11:36 a. m. Saf
morning. .At one o’clock " several
hundred people are expected at
the dedication services to be held
at the pool in Newtown at the foet
of Athens Avenue. i
The principal speaker will be
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