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Army -Run Rails
Operate Normally
Strike Slated Today Averted,
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Labor Scene Still Unsettle, '+~
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—~ (AP) =7 %" agion’s rail
roads maintained - on-time operations o* v under the
Army’s direction—Dbut the labor dispr¢ .ich had threat
ened to halt the trains was'still unse’ ,/*
Winterville
Civitans To
WITERVILLE—A barbecue hon
oring almost 200 invited farmers
of Clarke and Oglethorpe coun
ties will be given by the Winter
ville Civitan Club -tomorrow at
5:30 at the Comunity Park here.
rhe farmers will hear an address
by Paul W. Chapman, associate
dean of the College of Agriculture,
University of Georgia, on the pre
sent challenge to farmers in the
mprovement of their farming pro-
A total of 178 farmers of Buck
Branch and: Puryear’s districts in
arke county and Beaverdam dis
trict in Oglethorpe county and a
umber of other special guests
ave been invited to attend. Invi
tations have been sent to the far
mers and special guests. |
Plans are being made for inau- |
guration of a winter grazing con- ‘
test at the Tuesday meeting. |
I'he club, which has taken ex
treme interest in agricultural de
velopment in the Winterville area
formed an agricultural committee‘
last year composed of J. R. Winter,
thairman, Guy W. Cabe, W. B.
looney, jr., James Pulliam and.
Ralph Morang. The committee‘
has worked in close conjunction
-vith the Department of Vocational
Agricultural headed by Mr, Cabe
and other farm organizations to
implement the farm economy of
the area with programs of year
round pastures and improved live
stock. |
Plans are being readied for more
dairy enterprise in the area, Also,
progress is being made toward for- ‘
mation of a calf chain for youths
in the section, i
Storms Threaten l
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 28—
(AP)—A Gulf storm located about
450 nriles south of Pensacola, Fla.,
increased to hurricane force dur~
ing the night,
In its 9:30 a. m. (CST) advis
ory, the New Orleans Weather
Bureau said winds of 75 to 85
miles an hour extend out about 70
miles on the north and northeast
sides of the hurricane, Gales ex
tend outward about 125 miles
Northeast, the Bureau said.
At 9:30 a. m, (CST) the hurri
cane was located near latitude 23,
longitude 87.6, moving west or
west porthwest about ten miles an
hour. This position was determ
ined by aircraff reconnaissance,
the advisory said.
The Weather Bureau advised
small craft from northwest Flor
ida to the east Louisiana coast not
1o venture into the open Gulf,
Storm warnings ‘were ordered
lowered on the lower Florida keys.
lhe Gulf hurricane is one of
two tropical hurricanes on which
New Orleans and Miami Weather
Bureaus are issuing advisories,
l'he other is a small hurricane
in the Atlantic about 1,800 miles
east of Miami,
Chinese Reds
ChargeU. S.
TOKYO, Aug. 28 — (AP) — The
Chinese Communists Ohar%ed to=
¢ay that American planes attacked
Manchurian villages. The Oharlg
Was promptly and strongly denie
by a Far Fast Air Forces spokes-
Chou En-lal, Red China’s foreign
Minister, wag reported by the
Peiping radio as messaging Secre
lary of State Acheson a protest
and appealing to the Unijted Na
lons for “action” against the
United States,
. The broadeast heard here said
three Manchurian villages near
e Korean border were strafed
Sunday and that a reeonnalssance
ir:fixflion was flown over a fourth
. The Air Forces spokesman said
tHatly: “No Air Force gircraft have
Yeen over Manchuria.’
He added that all American
'€ws are briefed earefully to
avoid any flights over that terri=
tory from wh?ch the f(orean pen-
Nsula jute into the Sea of Ja;laan.
A newly egtablished regulation
against &ro:ily quotlg‘ militar!y
Jakesmen was relamed to permit
tirect yse of the denial.
The éhineu z!om unist foreign
Ninister demanded :gat those “re
*Donsibi:” for the alleged attacks
2;3 tpun hed and that the 'Sini(tled
Jiates pay ages. Chou's de-
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L e G e SERVINGC ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
7TH g"\"-y took over .the rail
systée, N 4 .p,-m. (EST) yester
day, This 'was on orders from
President Truman, .who last Fri
day ordered the railracd industry
seized by the government to avert
a nationwide strike,
A half ‘hour after Mr. Truman
ordered seizure, the two strike
threatening unions called off their
walkout scheduled for today. The
labor groups—the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and Order of
'Railway Conductors — said their
300,000 members will stay on their
jobs for the government.
So the actual taking over of the
rajlroads by . the Army was a
rather perfunctory affair. No
troops boarded locomotives or
manned depots, About 50 uniform
ed Army officers assumed a gen
eral sort of supervision under Karl
R. Bendetsen, Assistant Army
Secretary.
The presidents of seven major
railroads were put in charge of
rail operations in various sections
of the nation . with the rank of
Army colonels.
About the only difference under
seizure that the public could no
tice was piacards telling of Army
operation were posted in major
railroad stations.
The dispute back of the union
strike threat involved trainmen
and conductors pay demands. They
asked a 40-hour week and 31-cent
hourly pay boost for yard service
workers and wage boosts for
workers on moving trains,
The carriers accepted a White
House proposal for a 23-cent in
crease and 40-hour week for yard
service employes and a five-cent
increase for train service work
ers, plus a three-year no-strike
pledge and a living cost adjust
ment arrangement. But the unions
rejected that plan and called the
strike.
All negotiations are off for the
time being. But talks are expected
to be resumed after a few days.
Probably the White House will
seek to initiate and aid renewed
talks. The government has made
it clear that it won’t try to make
3 deal with the unions, but that it
is up to the carriers and unions to
settle their own argument before
the seizure order can be lifted.
The Army indicated over the
week-end that it will permit any
railroad to handle its cwn finan
ces, retaining all profits as usual,
if the carrier will waive any claim
for losses which might occur un
der seizure.
The seizure order placed 195
major lines under Army control,
and provided for standby control
of 106 others.
The Army desk men supervis
ing running of the railroads are
headed by Assistant Secretary
Bendetsen, Under him are Major
General Frank A, Heilman, Army%
chief of transportation, whose as
sistant is Brigadier General An=
drew F. Mclntyre, a Reserve of
ficer on leave from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. |
.
Reservists On
Temporary Duty
Four officers and one enlisted
man are now on temporary active
duty with the Athens Military
Sub-District Headquarters. They
are Major C. A. McMahan, of Ath
ens; Capt. John M. Hood, of
Gainesville: Capt. Tyus Butler, of
Athens: and Master Sgt. Major B.
Rice, of Bishop.
The Athens Military Sub-Dis
trict covers 23 counties in North=-
east Georgia and is commanded by
Major Charlie W. Johnson, jr.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 —
(AP)—President Truman today
signed the revised Social Securi
ty bill adding approximately
10,000,000 persons to the old age
pension rolls.
$35 BILLION BILL
Prompt Senate Approval Is Seen
For Emergency Money Measure
~ BY JACK BELL !
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28./
—(AP)—The Senate clear- l
ed the right of way today
for a $35,554,000,000 money
pbill carrying funds to run the
government this year. Lead
ers predicted prompt appro- ’
val to send the measure to
the White House.
Frailing behind it was an emer
n;xcy defense bill providing $16,-
1,000,000 in addition to the $14,-
680,000,000 in military funds in
the regular approHriatlon measure.
The emergency bill, passed by the
House Saturday, would provide
5,333 new planes and other equip
ment to fight the Korean war and
build up the nation’s military
strength. : :
.. The Senate Appropriations Com~ |
‘mittee expects to have the emer~
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Assistant Secretary of the
Army Karl R. Bendetsen
(above)} in charge of govern
ment operations of the nation’s
railroads under President Tru
man’s seizure order. — (NEA
Telephoto.)
Philippine Head
Discuss Quell
Huk Terror Raid
MANILA, Aug. 28— (AP)—Pres
ident Quirino conferred today with
governors of seven central Luzon
provinces on methods of stopping
Hukbalhap terror raids which last
weekend left 85 dead, nine miss
ing and 66 wounded. ;
The Communist-led Huk guer
‘rillas swarmed out of the hills Fri
day and Saturday nights on a score
of towns. They killed, plundered
and burned.
The Philippines constabulary
said the Huks killed four Philip
pine army enlisted men and two
police in a raid Saturday night on
the mountain town of Dupax,
north of Manila. Reports on the
‘raid, in a remote area, were de
layed.
~ Miss Rosario Sotto, Philippines
Red Cross worker injured when
Huks set fire to a hospital at Camp
Macabulos near Tarlae, died today
in a Manila hospital. 3
Rumors that the Huks would at
tack Manila proved groundless.
Guards ringed the Philippines cap~
ital-and other citiesilast night.
The Defense Department said
the slain included 35 Huks.
Among the victims at San Ra
fael was a three year-old girl—
killed by a stray bullet.
Hit-run raids by the Huks be
gan in the spring of 1946 and have
continued sporadically since. As
serting they sought agrarian re
form, they at first denied any
Communist affiliation. Later their
supremo, Luis Taruc, announced
he and other Huk leaders were
Communists.
Seminole Trai
Derails|
VINCENT, ALA., Aug. 28—(AP)
~—Ten cars of the Central of Geor
gia railroad’s speedy passenger
train, ‘“the Seminole,” were de
railed here yesterday, injurying
five persons.
The cars remained upright, how=
ever, as the train left the track in
a switching area. Railroad officlals
said 80 passenfers were aboard.
One of the injured, Carrie Kee
lan of Chicago, was taken to Syla
cauga, Ala.,, hospital where at
tendants said her eondition may
be serious.
The others treated at a doetor’s
office here, were Identified as Ka~
therine Moody and Clara Colé;ultt,
both negroes; Mrs., V. M. Eorgé
and E. E. Gaylor, the train’s flag~
A te to Bi
assenger en route to -
ming}?am, Mgrs. W. L. I%yle of Paf
metto, Fla, said the train was
traveling at medium speed when
the accident took é)lace.
“Cinders and dust seemed to
cover the train, People started
screaming as the train left the
track,” she reecalled.
gency measure ready for Senate
’action late in the week. Behind
{{t—but probably delayed until
|January——will come proposals for
an estimated $10,000,000,000 morefi
in military funds.
In advance of Senate considera
tion of the regular money bill, pro
viding money for tne year which
started July 1, Chairman McKel
lar (D.-Tenn.) called the appro
priation group together (9 a. m,
EST) to see what could be done
about ~House action to kill the
Senate-House watchdog commit
tee which has checked on Mar
shall Plan spending in Europe.
Senator McCarran (D.-Nev.),
who heads the present wafchdog
Sro-up, said that if the House
oesn’t want to go along he would
propose that the Senate set up itsl
own committee to carry on the
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House- bonfertes, in i.:filsfiagl&tt
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1950.
South Koreans Halt Red Advances;
MacArthur Withdraws Statement
Refractio
efraction Of |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.
——.(AP)—The White House
said today that President
Truman directed General
Douglas MacArthur to with
draw a statement on Formo
sa “te avoid confusion as to
the United States position.”
MacArthur had sent a statement
of his views - saying Formosa
must remain in friendly hands—to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars en
campment at Chicago. Later, he
said he had been directed to with
draw the statement,
Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross confirmed today what had
been surmised—that Mr, Truman
himself ordered the withdrawal.
Ross told reporters:
“In order to avoid confusion as
to the U. S. position with respect
to Formosa, the President directed
that the statement prepared by
General MacArthur be with
drawn.”
Asked whether MacArthur
might be relieved of his command
as a result of the incident, Ross
said, “the ircident is closed.”
Formosa Position
Simultaneously with the an
nouncement of Mr; Truman's ac~
tion, the White House released a
letter from the President to War
ren Austin, U. S. representative in
the United Nations, This re-stated
the United States position with
reference to Formosa so that
there will be “no misunderstand
ing.”
Mr. Truman’s stated policy is
that Formosa must be neutralized
so far as the Korean war is con
cerned, but this country will make
no commitnment other than to
block any invasion attempt dur
ing the current erisis.
The Whitfe. House did not elab
orate on the letter Mr. Truman
sent to Austin but a White House
authority told reporters: :
“In the field of foreign rela
tions there can be only one voice
in stating the position of the
United States. This is regarded as
being of fundamental constitu
tional importance.”
Ross was informed that a num
ber of newspapers were printing
MacArthur's message despite its
withdrawal.
Ross would not say what he
thinks other papers should do.
“Every editor will have to be
guided by his own judgment,” he
said.
Matthews Speech
In talking with reporters, Ross
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Two More ORC
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Units At Camp
Two additional reserve Army
units in the Athens Sub-District
reported for 15 days active duty
Sunday. The 387th Medical Am
bulance Company and Headquar
ters and Headquarters Detachment
of the 356th Quartermaster Battal
ion reported at Fort Benning yes
terday and will return to Athens
on September 10..
The 887th is commanded by
Capt. Millard L. Wear, a student
at the University of Georfa; and
the 356th is headed by Lt. Col.
Charles E. Bell, who is with the
Agricultural Extension Division in
Athens.
The first two reserve units from
this District to report to summer
camp were the Tank Company
322nd Infantry Regiment, under
the command of Lt. Col. William
H. Booth, of Commerce.
The latter two units have been
in training at Fort Bragg, N. 6.
since August 20, and will return
to Athens on September 8. Twenty
officers’and men are at Fort Bragg
with each of the two units.
the Senate-House group wind up
its work Sept. 1. They won their
fight when the conference agree
ment was reached on the regular
money bill,
Close Check
McCarran told a reporter he
thinks Congress ought to keep =
close check to be sure that eco
nomic Cooperation Administration
(ECA) funds are spent wisely.
He noted that the United States is
going to pour $5,222,500,000 in
military assistance funds into ap
proximately the same countries
which receive ECA aid.
McCarran had one victory vir
tually won in expected Senate ap=
proval of a 36%00,000 ioan to
gir;?in’ as a part of the big money
President Truman has opposed
such a loan. Lawrnakers heard
over the week-end that he may
refuse to spend any money Con
gress earmarks for Spain. :
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Troops of the 27th Infantry Regiment,
on its way to the northern front near
Waegwan, South Korea, press South
Korean laborers into service to carry mu
North Korean War Industries
Pulverized In New B-29 Strike
St. Joseph's
School Opens
September 5
St. Joseph's Scheol, 134 Prince
Avenue will open for classes on
September 5, with registration to
be held for children from Kin
dergarten through seventh grade
on September 1 and 2.
Hours for registration on the
two days will be from 9 till el
even o’clock in the morning, and
from 2 till 5 o’clock in the after
noon.
Fellow Commie
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—(AP)
—Attorney Lee Pressman testified
today that John Abt, Nathan Witt
and Charles Kramer were fellow
Communists with him when all
were New Deal employees in the
early 30’s.
The 44-year-old attorney, form
er lawyer in federal agencies and
later general counsel for the CIO,
denied that Alger Hiss was a mem
ber of the Communist cell while
Pressman was in it.
Pressman gave the names to the
House Un - American Activities
Committee although he said it was
offensive for him to have to do
so. He testified he gave up His
own Communist connection after
one year.
Like Pressman, Abt was a law=
yer in the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration who later held
other government jobs and then
became active in Henry Wallace's
third party campaign in 1948,
Witt also worked for the AAA
and later became an official of the
National Labor Relations Board.
Kramer’s position in the Agri
culture Department was not
brought out.
The names of Abt, Witt and
Kramer went into the record after
Rep. Nixon (R.-Calif.) said he
thought Pressman should be re
quired to identify them. Nixon
said:
“I think it is extremely impor
tant that the question be answered
and the precedent if he doesn’t
would be extremely bad.”
Pressman was called for a re
peat appearance before the UN—l
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ATHENS AND VICINITY N
Partly cloudy and continued
warm through Wednesday with
scattered afternoon thunder
showers and again Tuesday.
Low tonight 89 and high Tues
day 88. Sun sets 7:05 and rises
6:04.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued warm this after
noon, tonight and Tuesday with
widely scattered thundershow
ers,
TEMPERATURE
gk ... ~ 8
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PRUBR .. : iiih tave sevi a 8
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .24
Total since August 1 .. ... 1.29
Deficit since August 1 .. .. 2.63
Avearge August rainfall ... 4.62
Total since January 1 ~ ~24.96
Deficit sirice January 1 ~.10.89
KOREAN LABORERS AID Gis
By 0. H. P. KING
TOKYO, Aug. 28—(AP)—B-29s
in a new strike at North Korea's
war industry rained 300 tons of
bombs today on Songjin.
The target city is on the sea of
Japan 180 miles north of parallel
38. _
Allied fighter planes socked the
Red Koreans in close support of
ground troops. Light bombers
struck deep in Red territory at
Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon,
Navy carrier planes earlier
ranged along North Korea’s east
coast and sank five Red vessels,
left six others sinking and 15
burning.
Jack Macßeth, Associated Press
correspondent, reported from Ko
rea:
The Fifth Air Force flew 218
sorties by 3 p. m. (midnight Sun
day, EST). More than half were
made by Air-Force, Marine and
Australian planes in close support
of ground forces.
In the northeast sector, the
planes ripped 10 dummy hay
stacks camouflaging enemy vehi
cles.
On the Naktong river front, the
Allied fighters exploded one am
munition dump, destroyed six ve
hicles and blasted several Red
artillery posithons. Red troops
were strafed 19 times.
B-26 light bombers hit the rail
yvards at Seoul and Pyongyang and
a pontoon bridge at Seoul. In
Sunday night strikes several ware
houses, a locomative and 15 fail
cars were damaged at Inchon.
Other towns hit included Sunchon,
Taejon and Kwangu,
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan Swinton reported from the
Masan front that Allied planes
knocked out two Red Korean
tanks along a flaming road where
Sunday they kayoed four tanks,
15 artillery pieces and 28 trucks.
In a summary of the month
ending Saturday, Maj. Gen. Earle
Patridge said Fifth Air Force Al
lied planes flew 13,455 sorties.
§inety per cent were made in
close support of ground forces, the
Fifth Air Force commander said.
For Fast naval headquarters re
ported five vessels were sunk off
Korea’s east coast. Nine corvettes
and six coastal supply craft were
burned, six corvettes were left
sinking.
Carrier planes also destroyed 11
“shiny new Yak fighters” foundl
on the ground at Yonpo.
FLIES B MBYIONS
U. S. Airman To Teach
South Koreans Flying
By STAN SWINTON
} MASAN, KOREA, Aug 28—
' (AP)—Maj. Dean Hess, the “one
man air force” of the South Ko
rean war, has been grounded by
official order.
But only until he can take the
air again leading South Xorean
fliers against the Reds.
“And that won't be long,” the
handsome, 32-year-old airman
from Marietta, 0., said today.
So far as the infantry is con
cerned, Hess is probably the out
standing air hero of the war. They
know. him by his radio call sign
—“Maelntosh one.” That’s a sign
;lgat an, F-31 fighter, with Eguth
orean forces marking, will flash
down to tree top level to blast en
emy machinguns and troops.
Hess flew 95 missions in less
than two mopths. Sometimes he
made six sorties in a day. 3
Infantry units he has supported
have written to his commanders,
recoomending . him = for medals
ranging up to the distinguished
Read Daily by l’,&dif;;gl!;l_tA_them Trade Area
nition and supplies over terrain too rug
ged for motorized vehicles to negotiate.
— (Exclusive NEA Photo by Staff Pho
tographer Stanley Tretick.)
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Draft Board
Gets Call
For 35 Men
A call for thirty-five wmore
men from Clarke County was
received by the local Selective
Service Board today. This group
will represent the second part
of call number six, according to
board officials.
Those men receiving notices
for this call will report so the
Augusta Induction Center on
September 18 for their physical
examinations.
Refloating Seen
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 —
(AP)—Navy salvage experts will
recommend whether the sunken
hospital ship Benevolence should
be refloated, or blasted.
The sunken hulk is on its side
in 75 feet of water and only two
miles offshore. If it i too dam
aged, it probably will be dynamit
ed to ciear the channel into San
Francisco harbor.
The mercy ship, recently de
mothballed to bring wounded
home from Korea, was rammed on
her final test run by the freighter
Mary Luckenbach in thick fog Fri
day evening,
Eighteen persons, including a
navy nurse, were known dead and
13 are missing. All-out operations
by Coast Guard, Navy and Army
craft and some civilian boats res
cued 492 persons from the fog
covered Pacific.
. Aboard the Benevolence were
civilian technicians and navy per
sonnel, including 15 nurses.
The navy salvage experts are
due today on the salvage shill),
Viking, from San Diego, They will
take several days to determine
whether the hospital ship is worth
refloating, Their recommenda
tion will go to the Bureau of Ships
in Washington. j
| service Cross.
l But for Hess the greatest reward
wes that infantrymen down in the
flea-infested fox holes thanked
him time and again.
l Once he saved 25 surrounded
| American soldiers by strafing
within 50 feet of them from an
altitude so low the soldiers said
the Reds could have hit his plane
with rocks.
Hess, a flying scholar who holds
a master’s degree from Ohio State
University in Diplomatic History,
is officially head of the South Ko
rean Air Force advisory group.
The order for him to stop fly
{!ng came because higher head
’quarters wanted him on the
ground to train 66 South Korean
cadets now learning basic flying,
and another group of flying Ko
reans who must convert from AT
-6 training planes to F-51 fighters.
- When the converted fliers are
ready for action, the air force
sg, “Maclintosh one” can person
ally lead tnem 1 combat. i
HOME
EDITION
Severe Fight
Central Front
TOKYO, Tuesday, Aug. 29,
—(AP)—The Korean Refl
drove back the right wing
the Allied Defense line en-
Korea’s east coast Monday,
then lost some of their gains
to a South Korean counter=
push. But they were main
taining strong pressure on
the Pohang sector Monday
night. _
In a dispatch filed at midnighg
Mondsy from Pohang, AP Corres
pondent Ton Lambert said that
after having lost considerable
ground, mileage undisclosed, the
South Koreans edged back northe
ward late Monday in an attempt
to lift the sagging defense line,
They had American air, artillery
and naval gunfire support.
Lambert said the South Koreans
had reached the southern edge of
a broad valley leading towards
Kigye and were reported making
new aggressive moves after dark
Monday. i
U. S. pilots said the whoie
northern front—east and west
from the Naktong River to the
east coast—was aflame.
Severe Fighting
The most severe fighting was
before Pohang on the sea of Japan
east coast, and 22 miles north of
Taegu near the Red-held village
of Uihung.
Red infiltrators were seen be
hind South Korean lines north of
Taegu. ’
The Reds were 2 1-2 miles out
of Pohang.
AP correspondent Hal Boyle at
Pohang, 65 miles north of the main
Allied port of Pusan, reported a
U. S. cruiser and three destroyers
joined land artillery in pounding
the advancing Reds. But the
lNorth Koreans advanced in the
teeth of the fire.
' General MacArthur's headgquar=
ters, whose announcements gen
erally are behind field reports,
said in its Korean summary early
Tuesday that enemy pressure con
tinued in the Pohang-Kigye sector
with no significant changes.
The summary said a Red eom
pany penetrated the South Xe
rean Sixth Division’s sector on the
north-central front northeast of
Waegwag but was forced to with
draw to the vicinity of Sansong, 18
miles northeast of Taegu. Details
were not disclosed.
The Reds won Pohang .a'lieg
this month in a surprise attack."
They lost it a few days later to
counter-attacking Allied #roops.
The United Nations froops drove
them nine miles north * from
whence they sprang back te the
offensive that has carried them to
the gates of the No. 2 east coast
port in South Korea.
Correspondent Boyle reported U.
8. Infantry, powerfully supgcfled
by armor, moved into position te
backstop the South Koreans try
ing to hold Pohan%
U. 8. Fifth Air Force pilot ob=
servers reported heavy fighting
from Waegwan, 12 miles north
west of Taegu, all the way to the
east coast—4s airline miles. The
pilots said the Red drive was go=
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{ ATLANTA, Aug. 28—(AP)—A
| three per eent general sales tax
’ for Georgia was pictured today as
| “100 per cent certain” after a hud
| del between Gov. Herman Tal=
madge and other leaders.
A big hike in state income taxes
also was reported likely, with a
radical new approach under study.
This was the word from confer
ences last night at the executive
mansion on how to raise about
| $75,00,000 in taxes to replice some
| present levies and add huge new
funds for schools, roads, health
and welfare.
A key figure in the talks said
“there was no argument about a
sales tax. You can say it's 100
per cent certain.
~ This spokesman, declining use of
his name, said the state tax re
vision committee will be reactivat
ed to write a sweeping tax pro=
gram for the legislature next Jan
uary.
Talmadge will be fighting per
sonally for the sales tax and oiher
revision measures, it was reported
reliably. |
The revision committee has been
inactive for almost a year. It
presented an exhaustive but some
what ,inconeclusive report to the
1950 legislature.
Now the committee and the goy
erfqor seem to be ready to get spx#'
cific.
Talmadge sald last night’s meet~
ing was “informal” and more seri«
c;’zfi and detailed discussions will
ow. aeR