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Increasing War Materials To Pacific MNext Move In Contest On Spread Of Communism Left Up To Moscow WASHINGTON, June 28.— (AP) —The United States poured an increasing volume of war materials into its Pa cific pipelines today to reenforce the new fighting front drawn against Communist aggression in Asia. Now that American planes and warships are in combat action around Korea, arms have been urgently dispatched to Indochina and the Philippines and Formosa is being screened by the U. S. Navy, the next major move in the grim contest over spreading Soviet Communism was clearly up to the Kremlin. Administration officials agreed that as the situation now stands, following Mr. Truman’s historic decision to support the United Nations and meet the Korean chal lenge head-on, the little group of powerful men who run Russia and its satellites holds the key to world war or peace. How the President himself re gards the situation created by the Red invasion of South Korea and his determination to strike back with force may be disclosed in the course of the day. He was sche duled to speak to a meeting of the Reserve Officers Association this morning and to the American Newspaper Guild Convention in the afternoon. Some discussion of the new American position in the Far East and its effects on the East-West struggle elsewhere in the world was_ also expected from Secretary of State Acheson at a news con ference today. There appeeare dto be no doubt among top officials that whatever the outcome of the present crisis they had done the right thing in deciding to go to the support of South Korea, once the U. N. Se curity Council had ordered the northern invaders out. They have long argued that the only way to stop aggression is to use force against force. . And while the President ook a calculated risk of war with Rus sia in making the decision on Ko rea, advisers argued that any policy smacking of appeasement would have been even riskier by encouraging the Kremlin to count on American weakness not only in Korea but elsewhere, Reports from the fighting front in Korea were scanned eagerly by government offieials but reactions from the diplomatic and political fronts were no less interesting to the White House and State Depart ment. Mr. Truman, Acheson and oth ers were reported greatly cheered by the speed with which eold war allies abroad and political leaders at home rallied in the warlike at mosphere to support the American action. : s ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service Fukuowa in southern Japan. This is the first picture received in the United States from the Korean war zone. — (AP Wire photo via Army radio facilities from Tokyo.) 4-H Achievement Meefing Closes Northeast Georgia District 4-H Club members closed their achievement meeting here yester day afternoon following announce ment of winners in the variety of demonstration. Winners in demonstrations not previously announced: Livestock judging, Lane Nicholson, Clarke; Senior canning, Mary Batchelor, Hancock; Tractor malntenance, J. D. Penn, jr., Jasper; Senior bread, Doris Boswell, Greene; Use of cot ton, Jean Cheely, Hancock. Livestock pest control, Billy Ca rey, Jasper; Cotton production and marketing, Bob Bullard, Columbia; (Continued On Page Two) RAIL WALKOUTS WESTERN ROADS Ranks Of Idle Continue To Rise With No Sign Of Break In Sight CHICAGO, June 28. — (AP) — A switchmen’s strike against five big Mid-Western and Western railroads enter ed its fourth day today. Thousands of non-rail workers were being forced into idleness, and there was no immediate sign of a break. Four of the five road struck have shut down. The fifth has re duced operations. The AFL Switchmen’s Union of North America walked off the job on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Great Northern, the Denver and Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific, and the Chi cago Great Western Sunday morn ing. They are protesting a June 15th recommendation by a presi dential fact-finding board. The board suggested granting a zegeust for 2 40 hour work week. South Korea Attempts To Regroup As Seoul Falls New Defense Line Is Prepared: U. S. Planes Knockout 6 Tanks TOKYO, Thursday, June 29. — (AP) — South Korea's army, scattered and chewed by big Russian-made tanks of the Northe'o vaders, struggled today to form a new line a score of &4» south of their fallen capital of Seoul. Seoul 4 @? s airfield at Kimpo, 16 miles west, fell to the ComrrA°é" .nvaders Wednesday after a see-saw struggle sincr‘)o:- v cart of the Red onslaught Sunday. 1 ‘3"" seoul and Kimpo and ¢ ' & .1 that Inchon, Seoul’s g (;u miles west, was probably ,5 able, were confirmed by the 2d States Defense Department in Washington. The Communists, betraying the completeness of their invasion pre parations, quickly began broad casting from Seoul, introduced Lee Sun Yup, defense minister of Rites For Prof. R. L. McWhorter Toße Thursday Prof. Robert Ligon McWhorter, widely known educator and mem ber of the University of Georgia faculty for fifty years, died Wed=- nesday morning at 6:30 o’clock in a local hospital. He was 68 years old and had been in failing health for several years. Services are to be conducted in the University Chapel Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock with Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, former pastor of First Baptist Church and Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor emeritus of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the cemetery at Woodville, Ga., Bridges Funeral Home in charge of arrangemnts. Pall-bearers will be E. M. Ever ett, J. O. Eidson, J. D. Bolton, Merritt Pound, W. W. Davidson, John E. Talmadge, William Tate and J. Alton Hosch. Honorary Escort An honorary escort will include members of the University faculty. Prof. McWhorter is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ellen Rhodes Mc ‘Whorter, Athens; sisters, Mrs. C. J. Davison, Woodville, and Miss Lucille McWhorter, Miami, Fla.; brothers, James Vason McWhorter and Captain Charles McWhorter, both of Woodville; Fonville Mc ‘Whorter, Atlanta, and William Pope McWhorter, Coronado, Calif., and four nephews, "Prof. McWhorter, who retired from the University faculty in the (Continued On Page Two) but denied pay for’ 48 hours. The fact-finders suggested an 18 cent an hour wage boost with the 40 hour week instead. Leverett Edwards — National (railway) Mediation Board mem ber — said yesterday after talks with railroad executives: “Things look dim. There is no indication of a quick settlement.” As the strike went on, its effects were felt: The rail strike spread to the Na tional Tube Co., at Lorain, 0., the . company closed down, and 12,000 SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1950. the Northern régime, as the new mayor of Seoul. In the broadcast, heard in To kyo, Lee even ordered Seoul schools to reopen today. Carrying out President Tru man’s orders for American air and naval support for the hard-press ed South Korean troops, the U. S. Far East Air Forces announced its jet fighters and light bombers ef fectively attacked North Korean positions northwest of Seoul on Wednesday. A summary said troop concen trations, truck convoys and rail road yards near Munsan, 25 miles northwest of Seoul, were bombed. It said one American F-82 fighter and a B-26 light bomber were re ported desrtoyed on the ground by strafing of the Russian-made North Korean planes. United States ground troops are not being employed, but General MacArthur sent a Signal Corps Unit to set up a field headquar ters somewhere in South Korea today. New Line O. H. P. King, Associated Press correspondent, reported from Su won, 20 miles south of Seoul, that the defense forces were trying to re-form just north of Suwon un der General Choi Byong Duk, South Korean chief of staff. King said the Southerners still were falling back in order, but that they had been badly mauled by the Northern tanks. SR N (The U, S. Defense Departnrent identified these as 35-ton Russian made T-34’s, mounting 76 or 88- millimeter guns, and small 12-ton Russian-made T-70’s.) Major A. E. Shook of Clovis, N. M., one of several pilots who knocked out six Russian-made heavy tanks from the air in the first American raids on the in vaders, pictured Seoul as in the hands of the Communists. None of the pilots returning to Japan were injured. They reported no Russian made fighter planes were in the air against them. The fall of Seoul was first re ported by the Red radio from Pyongyang, Northern capital. Radio Pyongyang broadcast frony the Northern capital that Seoul had been occupied by Northern troops after street fighting. It as serted banks, public buildings and the provincial government had been taken over. Shock Action General MacArthur’s last sum mary said the South Korean army seemed to have recovered from the “surprise and shock action” of Sunday’s invasion and the front “remains substantially unchang ; ed." All previous indications were that the Russian trained North Koreans had been hurled back from Seoul to Uijongbu, 12 miles to the north, and beyond. MacArthur’s summary said that the staying powers of both armies were “being put to the test.” On the high seas American na val forces maneuvered to counter any amphibious operation by the Communists. Their patrols covered Formosa, the Nationalist China bastion 100 miles off the Chinese coast, Swift jets and light bombers were thrown into the battle on the orders of President Truman to save the young South Korean re pblic from being overrun by the 'Russian armed Northern forces. AGAINST FIVE IS IN 4TH DAY men were idled. The shutdown fol lowed a wildcat strike by 300 plant railroaders represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. They are protesting the same board report that led to the switchmen’s strike. The Great Northern Railway halted operations in 15 branch lines, shut down repair shops in five cities, and announced last night system-wide reductions in personnel in all departments. The GN was the one struck road which was trying to keep rolling. Five thousand coal miners were laid off in Utah mines using the D & RGW lines. Mediation board officials held talks yesterday not only with the rail executives, but with chief taing from four unions as well. Other rail unions besides the switchmen may walk off the job July 15. Bulietins LONDON, June 28.—(AP)— Prime Minister Attlee announced Britain has decided to place na val forces in Japanese waters at the disposal of the United States to support action in South Korea. Attlee said the British naval forces were offered for immedi ate use. He made the announce ment in the House of Commons. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 28.—(AP)—Governor James E. Folsom today ordered the Ala bama legislature back into spe cial session July 5 to take an other shot at the coniroversial issue of reapportionment, Georgia Voters Turn Out In Large Numbers Good Weather Conditions Bring Georgians To Polis Early Today ATLANTA, June 28.— (AP) —Georgia voters were out early and in strength today as the state held its earliest primary in history to choose between Herman Talmadge and M. E. Thompson for the governorship. Also at stake in the primary equivalent to election in this Democratic stronghold—are the U. S. Senate seat of Wal ter F. George, five congressional pests, scores of state and county offices. : The hot campaign of Governor Talmadge and former Governor Ik oompse: continued a potitical fight which burst into headlines four years ago in the “two govern ors” dispute. Memory of that bitter battle and the race issue injected into the campaign by Talmadge, long time “white supremacy” advocate, cen tered major interest on the gu bernatorial scrap. A new record of 1,216,084 Georgians are registered to vote. Observers had speculated only about half of these would show up at the polls but early reports showed that voting was exception ally heavy. The U. S. Sepreme Court rulings last month striking at segregation in colleges and on railroad dining cars came in the midst of the cam paigning, "= .t : R Gov. Talmadge, who inherited the mantle of white supremacy his late father, “old Gene,” wore so many years, quickly labeled this state’s race problem a major issue in the campaign. He sang a song of segregation from one end of the state to the other. He got the loudest cheers from his rural followers when he shouted time and again: “As long as Herman Talmadge is your governor, there’ll be no mixing of the races in Georgia.” Talmadge also denounced a pro posed Federal Fair Employment Practices Commissior. (FEPC), one of the items in President Tru man’s civil rights program. He accused Thompson of “running with that FEPC crowd” and said the former governor could not be trusted to fight vigorously for Georgia’s traditional way of life. Thompson, too, voiced opposi tion to lowering segregation barri ers and the FEPC, and said he had a plan to preserve separation of races in schools. Thompson pro posed to borrow $80,000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration to help equalize white and negro school facilities. Ie said Talmadge talked about the race problem, but had no :or crete pro gram to offer. * ¥ ¥ Athens Gains In Population, Census Reveals Athens gained 8,042 in popu llation during the past ten years. it was revealed today through preliminary census figures. The city’s population in 1940 was 20,060 and preliminary fig ures on the 1950 count list a total of 28,102 persons; however, for the first time students were counted in the city where they are attending school and not in their home towns. Athens gain ed about 5,000 because of Uni versity of Georgia students. A. E. Rood, jr., district census supervisor, announced the city totals from his Augusta office. Preliminary figures for Clarke county have not been released. The county had a total of 28,- 398 citizens on the 1940 count. Moscow Paper Terms Action "Direct Act Of Aggression” Official Red Organ Accuses U. S. Of Trampling On Charter Of U. N. MOSCOW, June 28.—(AP)—Pravda, in the first pub lic Russian comment on the new United States policy in the Far Pacific, accused Americans today of ‘“direct acts of aggression” against both Korea and Communist China, and asked: “Have they gone too far.” The front page editorial in Uravda, official newspaper of the Communist Party Central Committee, said President Truman’s order dispatching ships and planes to Korea and Formosa was “further evidence that the American ruling cireles no longer confine themselves to the preparations of aggression, but have gone over to direct acts of aggres sion.”’ s VOTING BRISK T HERE AT NOON; 2,582 BALLOTS A steady stream of citizens casting ballots at the courthouse throughout the morning at 12:30 p. m, had placed the total votes cast at 2,582. Voting in the other precincts of the county outside of Athens was also brisk but figures were not available. The vote here shortly after noon, if it continued at the same speed, indicated a heavy total vote will be cast before the polls close at 6 p. m. The vote in the courthouse boxes at 12:30 was: Box. No. 1— 75%; Box No. 2—670; Box No. 3 —756; Box No. 4—223; Box No. 5—176. Dr. Sander Gets License Again CONCORD, N. H., June 28 — (AP) — Dr. Hermann N. Sander, country physician, was sent back to minister to his patients today by the State Board of Registra tion in Medicine. The board restored his license to practice, which it had suspended after he was acquitted March 9 of a murder change in the death of dying cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto, 59. At his trial, which failed to be eome a test case for euthanasia (mercy death) as expected, the prosecution contended Dr. Sander administered a deadly quantity of air into Mrs. Borroto’s veins. The defense satisfied a jury the wo man already was dead before the injection. GRADUATE SCHOOL DEAN Dr. Boyd Vice-Chairman Of Oak Ridge Institute Dr. George H. Boyd, dean of the graduate school at the University of Georgia, has been named vice-chairman of the Institute Council of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 7 Dr. Boyd will serve for one year. The Council directs the ac tivities of the nuclear studies in stitute. Dean Louis A. Pardue of the University of Kentucky, was elected chairman of the Institute to serve out the unexpired term of Dr. J. Harris Purks %r. Pardue will serve for two years. The Council met in Oak Ridge this week and elected the new officers. Dr. George H. Boyd has taught at the University of Georgia since 1926 when he came here as a professor of zoology. Later he was made chairman of the University’s division of biological science. Since 1943 he has been dean of Read Daily by 35,000 People le Athens Trade Ares “The American governmen,t with its chraracteristic unceremon iousness as regards international law, is grossly trampling on the United Nations Charter, acting as though the United Nations organi zation did not exist at all,” the newspaper said. : News of President Truman’s statement of yesterday was han dled in a routine fashion by the Moscow press and radio. Pravda published the actual news dispatch on page three, in four paragraphs. Izvestia, the government newspa per, printed it on the back page, Red Star and Red Fleet, the Army and Navy Organs, also published the Tass dispatch on the back pages. Only Pravda, which carries great weight in Russia, made an editorial comment. ~ Three dispatches from Pyong yang, capital of North Korea, con~ cerning the fighting in Kores, were published immediately pre ceding the dispatch about the statement of President Truman. Just after the story of the Presi dent’s statement came a Tass dis-~ patch from New York, quoting Gen. McArthur on the military situation in southern Korea. U. S. action in Formosa, said Pravda, “is similar to American occupation of part of Chinese ter ritory.” President Truman announced the U. S. Seventh Fleet would pro tect Formosa from a Chinese Com munist attack and called for the Nationalist regime to halt opera tions against the Red-occupied mainlind of China. The editorial charged the U. S. government with “grossly scorn ing” the United Nations charter and with “acting as though the United Nations organization did not exist at all.” . The United States, the party organ said, had sought to present the U. N. with a “fait accompli” (accomplished fact) in “undertak ing its openly .aggressive act.” “Who authorized the American government to take this step?” Pravda asked. “In putting its arm=- ed forces into action, did the Uni ted States government reach an agreement with the United Nations on its policy about their loyalty to which Truman and Acheson make such a display? “Where and when did the Se curity Council take the decision freeing the hands of the U. S. A, in the acts of direct aggression un dertaken by it?” ; Pravda answered those ques tions thus: ‘ “As is known, it was not the United Nations nor any other in ternational body that authorized the government of the U. S. A, to under take those actions with re gard to Korea and China which Truman yesterday announced.” the graduate school and director of research. Dr. Boyd holds an A. B. and M. S. degree from Emory University and the Sc. D. degree from Johns Hopkins. He is a member of the American Association of Parasitologists, and is a past president of the South eastern Association of Biologists, the Georgia Academy of Science, the Southern Association of Science and Industry, and the Confeernce of Deans of Southern Graduates Schools. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sig ma Xi, and Gamma Alpha fra ternities. HOME EDITION U. N.EMBARKS ON HISTORIC NEW VENTURE Calls On Members To Support Korean Cease-Fire Orders LAKE SUCCESS, June 28 — (AP) — The United Nations em barked upon an historie venture today by calling upon its mem bers to use military foree to back up & eease-fire order defied by Communist North Korea. The decision was taken late last night by the Russian-boyeotted Security Couneil, a few hours aft er President Truman announced the United States already was or dering planes and ships to support the invaded Republic of (South) Korea, The vote was 7 to 1, the mini mum of affirmative votes requir ed. India and Egypt asked to be recorded as not participating ke cause they had mot received in tructions. Yugoslavia cas. the neg ative vote. The council’s action was mo mentous in several ways. | I—llt gave its stamp of approv al to Mr. Truman’s bold plan of ldirect action to stop Communist ‘ aggression. This was the first time | in its history that the counecil had authorized the military sanctions provided by the U. N, charter. 2—lt was a clear warning to Russia, although Russia was not mentioned in the U. S. resolution, that the U. N. would not permit the seizure of countries by force. 3—lt may have made the Rus ‘ sians angry enough that they will ‘decide to make permanent theig ‘boycott which they started las{ ‘Jan. 10 in protest over the pres -ence of Chinese Nationalist dele gates. The Russians have insisted ‘they would not return until rep resentatives of Red China are seated. ~ Apart from the council’s action, there is another factor which may prolong the China representation ‘deadlock indefinitely. That is President Truman’s new policy on Formosa. The President announced yes terday that he had ordered the Seventh Fleet to prevent any at tack on Formosa and said the fu ture status of Formosa will await restoration of security in the Pa cific, a peace settlement with Ja pan, or eonsideration by the Uni ted Nations. ; -'This declaration plus the Korean Communist attack on South Korea seemed to rule out any chance that the Chinese Reds would get a U. N. seat in the near future. Some ‘diplomats say flatly there is no chance of a settlement by the time the General Assembly meets Sept. 19. All this aroused unusual infer est in the projected departure of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakok A. Malik, head of the Rus~ sian delegation. Ostensibly Malils is returning to Russia for a vaca tion. But it was recalled here that Andrei A. Gromyko - also went home on vacation in 1948 and never came back as the regular delegate. Regardless of the effect the council’s Korean decision may have on the Soviet boycott, mosi delegates agree there was little else they eould have done without completely undermining publie faith in the U. N. . 60 Killed, 93 Hurt In Blast DAMACUS, Syria, June 28 — (AP) — The Syrian govermmen{ announced today that 60 persons were killed and 93 badly hurt in an explosion yesterday at a fuel depot in Homs, 100 miles to the north. This official announcement con siderably reduces unofficial figu res, which listed more than 20( dead ard 300 injured. ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and not so warm this afternoon, tonight and Thurs day. Low tonight 66, high Thursday 88. Rather faverable conditions for boll weevil peis oning this afternoon and Thurs day though moderate breeze may hinder dusting at times. Sun sets today at 7:48 p. m. and rises Thursday at 5:24 a. m, GEORGIA — Fair and ne so¢ warm this afternoon and tonight, Thursday fair with little change in femperature. :

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