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Vol. CXVIII, No. 112,
Explosion Area
Still Threatened
By Live" Shel.
SOUTH AMBOY, N. J., May 22. — (AP) £~ flast-torn
<outh Amboy returned to business-as-usu' .= ,day, but
Army officials said it would be three or ¢ v, ays before
+he danger of live shells is removed. [
Demolition squads combed the waters; ¢ area and the
mile-square city for shells and fuses whicts"/ere scattered
everywhere in Friday night’s blast disaster.
Campaign Info
Middle Georgia
Talmadge Continues
One-Speech-A-Week
Plan; Rally Saturday
By The Associated Press
Former Gov. M. E. Thompson
started a march through Middle
Georgia today by taking his cam
paign against Gov. Herman Tal=
madge right into the governor’s
home county of Henry,
With the fervor and fire of old
time politiclans, Thompson has
been blasting at Talmadge in three
to five speeches six days a week
since he launched his campaign
three weeks ago. He's already
swung through South Georgia and
North Georgia.
He speaks this afternoon at Mc-
Donough, county seat of Henry,
then over to Hampton for another
address. He moves to Griffin for a
night appearance, Thompson car=-
ried Spaulding county (Griffin) in
1948;"Talmadge carried Henry.
Rep. John Greer of Lanier coun
ty, campaign manager for M. E.
Thompson will speak in the Upi
versity of Georgia Chapel at 8
o’clock Tuesday night. Mr. Greer,
author of the anti-mask bill in the
state house, will conduct a ques
tion and answer forum following
his address.
Gov. Talmadge, still following
a pattern of one major speech a
week, will hold a big rally Satut
day in Summerville in the seventh
Congressional District, 8 Thomp
son stronghold. On Friday, the
Governor has scheduled a political
address at Lawrenceville, scene of
perhaps his biggest rally in 1948.
A weekly newspaper editor, Miss
Amelia Knoedler of the Unadilla
Observer, who has been crusading
against the Ku Klux Klan in her
section, makes a radio address on
Thompson’s behalf Tuesday. She
speaks over Atlanta’s WSB at 6:45
p. m. Thompson goes to Unadilla
for 2 speech on “law and order”
Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, Attorney Dan Duke,
one of three candidates for lieut
enant governor, declared in a
statement yesterday that thousands
of Georgians qualified to vote will
be denied that right unless they
take legal action now.
No Vote List
He explained that because of the
on-again, off-again reregistration
law, some counties now lack a
voting list. He urged anyone who
should be registered but finds his
name isn’t on the voting list to get
in touch with him.
“Proper legal action will be tak
en against those responsible,” Duke
asserted.
Gov, Talmadge made a “non
political” ' dedicatory address at
Marietta yesterday for the 105-
bed Kennestone Hospital.
He hailed Georgia’s participation
in the Hill-Burton hospital pro
gram as “the greatest single
achievement” of his administra
tion. He said it is one of “several
major programs in Georgia’® which
should be carried out “by the ex
clusion of factional or political in
fluences.”
The Governor also asserted that
the state needs more money for
education and said “we are going
to get it.” He didn’t say how.
He has been criticized strongly
by opposition forces because he
hasn’t taken a stand for or against
a sales tax, which many political
leaders say is the only way to
raise enough money to finance ex
panded state services.
ATTEND FUNERAL
Friends will regret to learn that
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Baxter left on
Monday morning for Columbia, S.
C, to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Baxter’s sister, Mrs. Hacott P.
Green, who died Sunday evening.
Officer's Wife Claims Kidnapping Hoax
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22—
(AP)—The distraught young wife
of a vice squad officer admitted
today the bizarre 21-hour kidnap
ing chase she led police yesterday
was spurred by her own imagina
tion,
Mrs. Jo Alice Raper, 23, abrupt
ly halted a frantie police hunt
when she called her husband, C.
V. Raper, from & suburban filling
;tation and asked him to come get
er.
But Detectivg Chief Dwight
irown said officers still hadn't
und all the pieces to the puzzling
¢ase,
Brown said and his fellow
fiwg feared %hw ‘had
'Wm ‘kidnapers,
! from her ‘and
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Lt Hugh Casey, in charge of the
demolition team, warned that there
would be more blasts as mines are
detonated during the next few
days.
He said more than 3,000 mines
already had been picked up amid
the wreckage of the weekend dis
aster that took 27 lives.
School - children, meanwhile,
were on a holiday, class rooms
damaged beyond immediate re
pair.
Officials said there would be no
more classes for the remainder of
the school term, but seniors would
be graduated despite incompleted
courses.
Cheerful shopkeepers returned
to their boarded up stores in the
business district this morning and
carried on as usual behind scenes
of debris and wreckage.
The state of emergency con
tinued in the sunlit port city, with
army, state police and Red Cross
units still on the job.
Police said there were no hard
ship cases and no residents suf
fered from lack of food or shelter.
All were joining in the big
cleanup program.
The remains of a 20-ton phos
phorus fire, which flared up yes
terday, smouldered near the dock,
scene of the explosion Friday
night.
Four barges, laden with muni
tions en route from Newark, 0.,
to Pakistan, exploded Friday with
a roar heard across the state. The
blast left a death toll of 27, wreck
ed the waterfront of this port 21
miles southwest of New York, in
jured 350 persons with flying glass
in all parts of the town, and did
property damage estimated at $7,-
500,000,
The phosphorus fire startled
residents anew -as a fast-spreading
blaze zigzagged through about 50
drums, raising a pall of ominous
white smoke over the stricken
city.
State police said the phosphorus
drums may have been cracked
open by Friday’s blast, or by a
mine detonated by army men.
Phosphorus ignites when exposed
to air.
The burning chemical set off
about 100 more mines. The fire
was in the blast-shattered grounds
of the American Agricultural Com
pany, adjacent to the area of Fri
day’s explosion. ’
For a time it was feared that a
shift in the wind might blow
harmful fumes over the city. How
ever police said later that there
was no panic and no danger of a
general evacuation.
Exploding mines kept firemen
at a respectful distance, but the
fire was brought under control
within a short time. It was final
ly decided to let it burn itself out
over night.
Firemen played their hoses from
behind a nearby bank building foi
protection.
The 27 men lost in Friday’s blast
were mainly employes of the Jer
sey City Stevedoring firm which
contracted to load the munitions.
Radio Tonight
C. O. (Fat) Baker, candidate for
Governor, will make his first cam
paign speech in Clarke county to
night at 7 o’clock.
Mr. Baker will deliver a half
hour address over WRFC.
. -
Kiwanis Course
.
Subject of Meet
The Bob Bale course in persongl
improvement, which Athens Ki-~
wanis Club will sponsor here soon,
will be discussed at the club’s
meeting tomorrow at one o’clock in
the Civic Room of the N and N
Cafeterja.
Proceeds from the course will
go towards completion of the fence
around Athens YMCA athletic
field.
"POLICE STILL PUZZLED-
held captive as revenge on her
husband.
Raper is assigned to the police
gambling detail.
Brown reported Raper told of
ficers he received threatening tele
phone calls last week and a note
in his mail box which said in part:
“Stay out of my business or that
woman will have to take your pun
ishment.”?
However, after long questioning,
Brown seid, Mrs. Raper broke
down and admitted the whole af
fair was a “figment of my imagi
nation.”
The husband sounded the kid
naping alarm at 2 a, m, yesterday
when he came home from duty.
His wife was gone and there was
evidence of a struggle. wESag
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Marine Sergeant Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati, who
was a prisoner of the Chinese Communist for 18 months,
holds his daughter, Kathy, 4, as he kisses his wife, Shir
ley, on his arrival at Naval Air Base at Glenview, 111.
The plane was an hour late on the trip from Burbank,
Calif. Sergeant Bender and William C. Smith of Long
Beach, Calif., Navy chief electrician’s mate, were seized
by the Chinese Communists when their small observation
plane was forced down October 19, 1948, near Tsingtao.
— (AP Wirephoto.)
House Busy With Bills
On Draft, Foreign Aid
n Drait, roreign Ali
WASHINGTON, May 22.— (AP)—DMilitary, draft and
foreign aid legislation will keep the House of Representa
tives busy this week while the Senate wrangles over civil
rights and reorganization.
Crowded onto the calendar of the House, which hopes to
get a long Memorial Day holiday next week, are bills to
extend the draft law, to speed up the Navy’s anti-subma
rine warfare program, to continue the Marshall Plan and
to construct a far flung system of military public works.
Reed Lauded
At Memorial
Services Here
T. W. Reed was honored at me
morial services yesterday held by
the H. C. Tuck Bible Class of the
First Methodist Church.
A resolution was passed by the
clags in memory of Mr. Reed, who
served it as teacher for 12 years
until his recent death.
Harry Hodgson, in his address
praised the work of Mr. Reed in
journalism, history, scholarship,
administration and education. Mr,
Hodgson gave a history of Mr.
Reed’s life.
Concluding his speech, Mr.
Hodgson said, “In speaking of his
love for our class, I cannot fail
to mention our love for him which
was deep rooted in the heart of
each of us. I do not think of him
as dead for ‘to live in the hearts
of those we leave behind is not
to die,’ so we say to our beloved
Sunday School teacher ‘Good night
Sweet Prince and may flights of
angels sing thee to thy rest.’”
The complete text of the ad
dress memorializing the late T.
W. Reed, delivered by Harry
Hodgson, sr., at services yester
day, will be printed on the edi~
torial page of The Banner-Her
ald in two installments, begin
ning tomorrow.
Besides the outstanding work of
Mr. Reed in journalism, history
and teaching (Sunday School and
classroom), he was praised for his
long and faithful service as regis
trar of the University of Georgia
for 35 years.
Presiding over the memorial
services was W. A. Pledger, class
president. .
Tributes were paid Mr. Reed by
Dr. N. G. Slaughter, Dr. D. L.
Earnest, Jake B. Joel, E. P. West,
Clyde McDorman, John Elliott,
Dean William Tate, Aaron Cohen,
Henry Fullilove, Carlton Jester,
all of Athens, Morgan McNeel,
Marietta, and Fred Scott, Thomas
ville.
About 100 persons were present
(Continued On Page Two)
He said her bedroom was in dis
order. Her tattered night gown lay
on the floor. A crudely scawled
note was pinned to a linen closet
door saying:
“How do you like this Mr. Raper,
Is afraid?” #
Raper saia outside the house he
found a 12-foot ladder Ileaning
against a second story window
where the screen was cut.
All-Out Manhunt
With that to go on, Police Chief
L. J. Hilbert ordered an all-out
manhunt.
In the afternoon Raper received
a telephone call at home, He said
ilhe.heard hl:s wife scream ;nd then
the caller hung up re he ¢ould
have the call trau?‘o ! s
. He 'said he got twv' vulls early
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, MAY 22, 1950.
If it gets time this week, the
House also wants to dispose of a
3.625,090,000 deficiency appropria
.tm@g»and»fllgqfic?%gqptest from
Michighn and several less wn@o.‘.
versial measures,
Some House leaders are talking
of a recess of a week or more start
ing next week, but no decision has
been made. The thought is that
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Congress czive the Senate
- time to catch up
Roundup with major bills
——iact g L vesqy | PRESSG
by the House but not acted on by
the Senate.
Three big House measures have
been sent to the Senate: A Fair
Employment Practices (FEPC)
bill, and omnibus $29,000,000,000
appropriation measure and a so
cial security bill.
Southern opposition to the FEPC
bill has stalled the Senate for more
than a week and it is still the
pending business there.
The Foreign Aid Bill awaiting
House action is a compromise be
tween different versions passed
previously by both braches. Not
yet acted on by the Senate, it sets
up a $3,121,450,000 program of
American economic aid to Europe
and other non-Communist areas,
including South Korea.
1t is scheduled for a House vote
Tuesday, with passage apparently
certain.
Little opposition is expected to
the draft bill, which would con
tinue for two years beyond next
June 24 the Selective Service Law.
The House Armed Services
Committee took much of the sting
out of the measure by writing into
it a ban against acctual inductions
without express directions from
Congress. The bill simply would
keep intact the present draft ma
chinery; youths would register
without being subject to induc
tion.
The anti-submarine and military
public works bills also are pro
ducts of the Armed Services Com
mittee,
One would authorize the Navy
to go ahead with construction of
$335,000,000 worth of ships, mostly
small vessels. Included are sub
marines to be propelled by atomic
energy.
The other would allow the De
fense Department to undertake a
half billion dollar program of mil
itary construction in the United
States and at bases outside this
country.
Sunday night. In one a man’s voice
said Mrs. Raper would be released
in front of her home. The other
was & woman, saying his wife
would be freed in a residential
area several miles across town.
Detective Chief Brown said Mrs,
Raper finally called from a filling
station in that residential area.
At first Mrs. Raper told Brown
she was abducted by two men—43
and 20 years old—who forced their
way into her bedroom and at
tempted to carry her away in the
nude.
She told a story of being held
captive all day guarded by a
woman. -
Later Brown said Mrs. Raper
admitted she left home of her own
accord’ and wag mot kidnaped: «» ¢
Emergency Airlift Rushes
Aid To Quake Area In Peru
30 Known Dead, Nearly2oo
Injured By 12-Second Tremor
LIMA, Peru, May 22.—(AP) —An emergency airlift to
day rushed doctors, medical supplies and food to the an
cient Andes city of Cuzco, devastated yesterday by a 12-
second earthquake, At least 50 persons were reported
killed and 178 others injured in the once-thriving seat of
Inca civilization. -
Peru’s President Manuel Odria
Amoretta dispatched rescue crews
to the stricken city, 340 miles
southeast of Lima. The Peruvian
health director called on all avail
able doctors and nurses to go to
Cuzco at once. .
The quake, which struck at 1:45
p. m. (EST), sent. many of the
city's 45,000 residents rushing into
the streets while centuries-old
stone buildings crashed down. Ter
rified citizens knelt in prayer be
fore a stature of christ in Cuzco’s
main plaza, a radlo broadcast from
the isolated provincial capital
said.
Until the rescue parties search
the Cuzco ruins the number of
casualties will not be known, but
a radio broadcast from there late
last night said the deaths “have
risen to 50” and the number of in
jured to 178.
A government communique said
the nearby town of San Sebastian
also had been hit by the quake and
had suffered heavy damage.
The communique said the cas
ualty toll in Cuzco probably would
have been far greater except for
ithe fact that some 15,000 persons
were watching a football game in
the town stadium when the quake
struck. None of the spectators were
believed hurt.
It was reported that the hotel
Turista,, were most foreign visi
tors stay, was not damaged. Cuz
co is a popular center for tourists
who come to see the ancient Inca
ruins and historic churches,
Much of Archeologically-rich
Cuzco was reported in ruins.
“The restaurants and shops
were almost totally buried,” Cuz
co radio reported. “The task of re
moving the debris is extremely dif
ficult.”
- “Until now,” the broadcast said,
"It has been’ fmpossible to calcu=
late the damage, since almost ev
erything has been destroyed.”
+ The quake disrupted communi
cations, making it difficult for
officials to get a complete ac
count of the disaster.
Six Killed In
By The Associated Press
Six persons were killed in ac
cidents on Georgia’'s highways
over the week-end. Another died
from injuries suffered three
weeks ago, and still another Geor
gian was killed in an accident in
Ohio. .
The dead:
Mrs. F. W, Segars, 57, of Jef
ferson; Alice Gray, 10, of Dalton;
William Cleveland Duncan, 48, of
Ideal; John Coney, 36, of Macon;
Clarence A. Bethune of Experi
ment; James F. Wheeler, 23, of
Route 3, Marietta,
Mrs, Segars, wife of a contrac
tor, was fatally injured when an
automobile driven by her son,
Frank Segars, Georgia Tech stu
dent, collided with another ma
chine near Athens, She died soon
after admittance to an Athens
hospital,
Alice Gray was killed in a grade
crossing accident when a passen
ger train crashed into the auto
mobile in which she was riding.
Duncan’s car skilled into the
path of another. Nine other per
sons were injured in that accident
near Macon.
Coney died in a Macon hospital
Sunday of injuries suffered when
he was struck by an automobile
the day before,
Bethune was injured in a car
accident on May 2 on the out
skirts of Macon. He died last
night.
Wheeler was killed in Chilli
cothe, Ohio, when his trailer
truck crushed him after the rig
missed a curve.
JET EXPLODES
NEAR GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN, Ga,, May 22.—(AP)—
A jet fighter plane plowed into a
farm near Griffin at 500 miles an
hour and exploded yesterday,
blasti?‘g a hole in the earth big
enough to swallow a house. The
pilot was killed.
The Atlanta Naval Air Station
said the plane was an F-9-F Gru
mann Panther. Lt. Commander
Ben Johnson said it fell from a
high altitude at a speed of more
than 500 miles an hour. It left a
crater 30 to 40 feet wide and 25
feet deep.
L ATHENS AND VICINITY
: Mostly cloudy and mild with
| light showers tonight. Low to
| night 69, and high Tuesday 76.
i Sun sets 7:33 and rises 5:26.
| GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy
| this afternoon and tonight with
| oecasienal light rain in east
l portion this afterneon. Tuesday
* ‘pdrily “eloudy and warmer.
Authorities said they expect the
death toll to mount when rescue
workers are able to dig their way
into the wreckage of many resi»
dences,
N. C. Primary Seen As
“Fair Deal” Pointer
WASHINGTON, May 22.— (AP) —A North Carolina
primary this week may show in more detail how Southern
Democratic voters feel about President Truman’s “Fair
Deal” program.
North Carolinians vote Saturday on a three-man Senate
race after a hot campaign that has revolved around the
issues of Communism, Fair Employment Practices Commis
sion (FEPC) proposals and the “planned state.”
Senator Frank P, Graham, Iriend
of the President who is described
by his backers as an cutstanding
southern liberal, is seeking the
party senatorial nomination in a
race that may show how the wind
is blowing nationally in some
issues.
Graham is opposed by Willis
Smith, Raleigh lawyer and former
president of the American Bar
Association, and former Senator
Robert R. Reynolds. |
Aiming his campaign at Graham,
Smith has stressed the Commun
ism, FEPC and “planned state”
issues, He has said Graham let his
name be used by Left-Wing groups
which later were marked on sub
versive lists. He said Graham once
favored a compulsory FEPC. He
has attacked what he calls the
“planned state” of the Truman ad
~ministration. :
. Graham: has denied that he ever
was a Communist or a sympath
izer. He said he is for a voluntary
FEPC, but not the compulsory an
ti-job discrimination proposal the
administration has been trying un
successfully to get before the Sen
ate.
Graham wasn’t .on hand to vote
when the Senate rejected a debate
limiting petition on the FEPC bill
last Friday by a 12-vote margin.
Reynolds, a vigorous critic of the
Roosevelt foreign policies when he
was in the Senate, has called for
an end to foreign aid spending, is
plugging for SIOO a month pen
sions for all over 65 and a halt in
red-ink government spending.
Graham supports most of the
President’s program, except for
compulsory health insurance and
a compulsory FEPC. ;
He is backed by Jonathan Dan
iels, North Carolina Democratic
National Committeeman and for
mer White House aide, who told a
Chicago party conference last week
that regular Democrats in the
South couldn’t swallow FEPC.
If none of the three candidates
get a majority in Saturday’s pri
mary, the two highest will run it
off on June 24 for the remaining
four years of a term to which Gra
ham was appointed. Senator Clyde
Hoey has no opposition for re
nomination and thus is assured of
the state’s other senatorial seat for
another six year term.
Democratic, nomination means
election in North Carolina.
Georgia Briefs
FORT GAINES, Ga., May 22—
(AP)—Sheriff A. E. Hamilton, 60,
died last night after a heart attack.
He had been sheriff of Clay coun
ty 14 years. Survivors include the
widow and five brothers,
GREENVILLE, S. C.,, May 22—
(AP)—Atlanta airplane model en
thusiasts walked off with top hon
ors at a model plane show here
yesterday.
D. C. May of Atlanta had the
fastest time with a jet model—
-135.44 miles per hour. The team
of Yarborough and Jennings, also
of Atlanta, took the high point
trophy.
AUGUSTA, Ga., May 22—(AP)
—The Southeastern Association of
fire chiefs opens its 22nd annual
convention here today. Some 250
delegates are expected, The con
vention will end Wednescay. Chief
R. O. Nobel of Cordele, Ga., is as
sociation president.
MACON, Ga., May 22—(AP)—
Georgia’s Knights of Columbus
have elected Savannah Attorney
John M. Brennan to head their or
‘ ganization for the coming year.
Other officers chosen yesterday
| are R. H. Casson, Macon, advocate;
R. L. Bernard, Brunswick, trea
surer; Thomas J. Griffin, Atlanta,
warden; Salvador Spano, Colum
bus, secretary, and the Rt. Rev.
MSGR. T. James McNamara, Sa
! yannah, chaplain.
Brennen, chosen state deputy,
and past State Deputy J. P. Price
of Augusta were automatically
named delegates to the Supreme
convention in New York City in
August. Alternates are Edward P.
;Dal’y’. ‘Savannah, and Paul Hayes,
Augnpis.. oLy iy
; Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Rulletsn
WASHINGTON, May 22 —
(AP) — Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.)
said today he will try to reach
an agreement with Republicans
on a legislative schedule aimed
at a midsummer adjournment of
Congress.
Lucas, the Senate Democratic
leader, said the possibility of
limiting Congress’ remaining
work to several major issues will
be discussed at a White House
conference of leaders with Presi
dent Truman tomorrow.
4 P
RESEARCHON *
NEW YORE, May 22—(AP)—
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis said today that
research for a polio cure is “on‘
solid ground.”
The foundation emphasized that
It still is impossible to promise a
practical means of control within
a given number of years., But it
added:
“The foundation’s program of
research has ‘developed scientific
‘reasons for the belief that such
control is attainable, and it has
promising leads that indicate that
drugs, serums, and vaccines against
polio are all within the realm of
possibility.”
“It appears likely that 1949 will
prove to have been a turning point
in the history of infantile paraly
sis,” said the foundation president,
Basil O’Connor. “We may be able
to halt the rising tide of polio in
the not-too-distant future.” 1
' The predictions were contained
in the Foundation’s 12th annual
report—which also told the story
of 1949, the country’s worst polio
epidemic year in history.
The report showed that the
foundation aided 80 per cent of
the 42,375 new patients last year,
sent out a record number of respi
rators — 803 — to hospitals, and‘
spent more than $27,000,000 on
patients, l
The cash payments tctalled sll,~ |
326,387 from the national head
quarters, and $16,000,000 from the
Foundation’s 2,822 local chapters.
The strain of the epidemic ex
hausted the funds of nearly half
of the chapters, or 1,089, and
forced the national organization to
raise nearly $4,000,000 more in an
emergency drive.
This was in addition to the regu
lar March of Dimes fund, half of
which goes to the local chapters
and half to the national office.
O’Connor said about 17,000 of
last year’s patients will need con
tinuing care in 1950.
On the research front, the foun
dation reported these new ad
vances:
1. Growth for the first time of
the polio virus in non-nervous tis
sue in test tubes. This would be\
important if a vaccine is ever de
veloped, as it would aid in pro
ducing the great quantity of virus |
needed.
2. Classification of three dis
tinet types of polio virus. The
search for all types is expected to
be complete by the end of 1951.
3. Improved methods and de
vices to reduce to “an absolute
minimum the number of patients
who suffer permanent disability.”
Athens Concemn Is Manufacturing
n
Lafest In Diapers- With Snaps
The evolution in wearing apparel has at long last reached the
basic garment of every infant, The conventional diaper may be
come as absolete as the toga with the advent of a new snap fastener
diaper which has just been placed on the market.
A local concern is now producing a ready-made diaper fabri.
cated in a unit in the shape of a keystone with multiple layers of
fabric.
The diaper was invented by a Georgia mother, Mrs. R. G.
Geeslin, Decatur, Ga., and the patent pending and trade mark was
recently purchased by Perdue Manufacturing Company, Athens,
according to G. E. Perry, president.
The diapers will be sold by Keystone Mills, a division of Perdue
Manufacturing Company, They will be distributed on a national
scale and advertised from coast to coast.
The name of the new diaper is the “Keystone Safe-T-Di-Dee”
It sells for slightly more than the old-fashioned rectangular style,
but in place of pin pricks to the infant or parent’s fingers, these
boons to htimanity will be held in place by snap fasteners. Cae
Of course, like all modern inventions, they’ve been mukav
these behind the Iron Curtain for centuries. But to our know! )
this is the first time this invention has been perfected m
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EDITION
Taft ToOppose *
Reorganization
Leads Fight Againg-
Five-Prong Attack '
On Truman’s Proposal :
WASHINGTON, May APY -
—Senator Taft (R-O_HIO%E%""‘?
‘day he will oppose efi to junk
any more of President s
pending government reo
tion plang which the Senate ha
killed this month. it
Resolutions aimed at knocking
off five more were scheduled for
Senate actiomg : tomorrow.
First on the ’ llsé was a
move by Senato 'win C. John~
son (D-COLO) to veto the reorga
nization of the Federal Trade
Commission.
Democratie leader Lucas of Illi=
nois said Senators might have to
work overtime to meet tomorrow’s
midnight deadline on the 21 plans
sent to Congress by the President
two months ago.
Presidential reorganization plans
become effective 80 days after they
are sent to Congress unless reject
. ed by either the Senate or house.
Most of the plang stem from the
program for government reorgani
zation recommended two years ago
by a Bi-Partisan commissiory
headed by former President Her
bert Hoover.
Opponents of some of the ;);llans
sent up by President Truman have
contended that the Chief Execu
tive went far beyond the Hoover
commisgsion’s suggestions. But a
citizens committee formed to
stump for the Hoover proposals
has endorsed 20 of the 21 plans. On
one—a f)roposal to reorganize the
National Labor Relation Beard-—
it took no stand,
It was that plan, which would
have deprived the hoard’s general
counsel of his Independemm,
which Taft battled suce y in
the senate.
The Ohio Senator’s announce
ment to & reporter that he will
back theé rest of the reorganization
plans was expected to swing a
number of Republican votes in the
tests today and tomorrow. A least
49 Senators, or one more than half
of the 96, must vote against a plan
to kill it.
Besides the NLB proposal, the
senate rejected plans for revising
the treasury and agriculture de
partments and the Federal Com=-
munications and interstate Com-
Imm'ao Commissions. It refused to
kill a plan affecting the Maritime
i Commission.
| After considering the trade com
{mission plan, the Senate was to
I take up another resolution by Sep
(utor Johnson against a similar
I plan to revise the Federal Power
{ Commission,
Mrs. Susie B
I'S. JUsie brown
Dies At Home
Brown, a well known Madison
county woman died at her home
near Commerce Sunday afternoon
at 6:10 o'clock after en illness of
several weeks. She was 78 years
old. =
Mrs. Brown was the daughter of
the late Richard B. Minish, a busi«
ness man and land owner of Madi
son county. Her mother was
Alethea Culberson Minish. Mrs..
Erown’s husband, B, T. Brown,
preceded her in death 39 years ago.
This family is one of the pioneer
families of this section.
Mrs. Brown, or Miss Susie, as
she was called, was a modest, un
assuming woman of kind and gen
tle disposition. Her life was de
voted entirely to her home and
family, though she was also a good
friend and neighbor. She reared
and provided for nine fatherless
children and mothering them was
her, ;;gi,g cupation as long as she
lived: profusion of flowers in
and aroupd ” her home that she
grew, the many foods she raised
and prepared, the needlework she
plied, the continual hospitality she
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