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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON Vol. CXIX, No. 35. Associated Press Service Troops-To-Europe Views Set By GOP WASHINGTON, Feb, 22. — (AP) — Top Republicans moved into the forefront of the troops-for-Europe fight to- ‘ day amid signs the outcome of their inter-party differen o« may well have repercussions in 1952, | . I B l Mills B. Lane ATLANTA, Feb. 22 — (AP) — Mills B. Lane, president of the cit izens and Southern National Bank of Atlanta, has been elected state ¢hairman for the 1951 Easter ap pal, pt'l‘[‘:\' was announced Wednesday vy Robert G. Pruitt, chairman of ‘he Board of Directors of the Crip sled Childrens League of America, sponsors of the Easter appea® “Each Easter season for the past fourteen years, the Crippled Chil ens League of Georgia, an Elk orcanization, has mailed Easter cals freely to Georgians all over the state, in order to raise from oluntary contributions for the eals. the necessary funds to assist n the surport of their rehabilita tion progcram for Georgia’s erip pled children. Lane has long been associated ith plans and programs helping Georgia’s crippled youngsters. In addition to heading permanently the Children’s Rehabilitation Cen ter of Georgia, Inc., and being a lational director and the State Di ector of Georgia for the United Cerebral Palsy Association, he is vr-'ag as state chairman of the ks Easter appeal for the second time, having headed the most suc essful drive in the history of the Georgia campaign in 1949. Lane said, “the league’s program of hospitalization treatment and therapy through Aidmore Hospi tal in Atlanta and its associated statewide services, is at present the best possible hope for Geor gia’s 40,000 paralyzed, palsied, and otherwise crippled youngsters. This is an appeal ‘from Georgians, to Georgians, for Georgia’s crip pled children.” i 3 ATLANTA, Feb. 22—(AP) — Gov. Herman Talmadge Wednes day signed into law the following (58214) To c¢reate fire, sanita tion and sewerage districts in Clarke County. (58215) To set up a pension system for employes of Clarke Korea Winter ECIIOGS AP NEWSFEATURES ; American troops in Korea are enduring a bitter and discouraging winter in this year of 1951, but it’s not the first time U, S. soldiers have encountered dark days. It was exactly 173 years ago this month that Americans at Val ley Forge, under the command of General George Washington, passed through one of the most trying times in American military history. The general marked his 46th birthday with his troops in that snow-swept Pennsylvania camp. Washington’s anxiety was increased when word reached Valley Forge shortly before his birthday that Congress had appointed a new war board, without consulting him. Moreover, he knew that 4 clique of generals was conspiring to supplant him as comman der-in-chief, 'he Continental Army, which had fought through three years lor independence, was at an all time low. American forces under Washington had dwindled to approximately 8,000 ill-fed and half- Naked soldiers. ; lany men died of pneumonia in log hut hospitals after sleeping on the snow without so much as a clump of straw to put between themselves and the frozen ground, Others spent the long nights huddled around meager fires. hington reported to the president of Congress that “We have than 2,873 men in camp unfit for duty because they are X oted and otherwise naked.” - i ¢ss than 25 miles away, in the capital of the United Colonies iladelphia, approximately 19,000 British troops were quar tered for the winter. British officers were either unaware of the § ted condition of the American forces at Valley Forge, or ‘ ere too comfortably quartered to attack. Une of the greatest tasks facing Washington and his officers was 10 supply the troops adequately, The supply system set up by the ( inental Congress was a mess. Two generals headed the com- Missary, one for buying, the other for issuing supplies. Their sub ( iies were not accountable to them, but were directly respon- Wle to Congress, Many purchasing agents made fortunes from Hal commissions. : result, Americans at Valley Forge had to get by on skimpy nd meat rations. Soldiers Had to yoke themselves to make rts and wagons to haul wood into the camp. ite the weight of responsibility that rested on his shoulders, e almost insurmountable hardships he faced, Washington ied his hopeful attitude and bolstered the courage and hisamen, R T R b e g RSO s AN s B e e 11:355533;';’:5%‘:;555{55335:':Efi:gﬁ-':-'t:i"{»@?gp‘,}?ffﬁf‘:C}}:;:EE:;}E{?;’G"?:Tsziﬁ-{'ff,";‘-' R ey AR e R R Rt % s S O d e ahel MRS t‘}: 0 e S e ¢ A boe OAW L SRR R 3 i AR LRSS g sy i- T L B S g e N Tt d . TRI P i o R ﬁ. e e et SR .+ 3 Te N 35 : ¢ % IR R R P ¥e s g 50 el ¥ By ISTORIC PAINTING - Washing'o.i =t Valley Forge. ATHENS BANNER-HERALD The scheduling of the GOP leaders to give their views before¢ the Senate Foreign Relations an Armed Services Committees star * ing tomorrow overshadowed ' day’s apparent wind-up of py' : military testimony, General Care (Tooey) Spaatz, retired Air Force officer, headed today's list. The two committees are consid ering a resolution by Senate Re publican Leader Wherry of Ne braska. It would bar President Truman from sending any more ground troops to Europe under the North Atlantic Pact until Congress has fixed a policy. Schedule Announced The schedule announced late yesterday calls for Harold E. szn, University of Pennsylva a president, to testify tomorrow afternoon. He will be followed Saturday morning by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the 1948 GOP presidential candi date. » Senate Réepublican Policy Lead er Taft of Ohio and Wherry prob ably will testify Monday. The four do not see exactly eye to-eye on the troops issue, al though Dewey and Stassen tend to align themselves with the ad ministration’s thinking on an aid program, while Taft and Wherry do not. Stassen and Taft.contended with Dewey for the 1948 Republican nomination and the possibility ex ists the three may again be rivals in 1952 although all have disclaim~ ed they are seeking the nomina tion. Policy Course The course charted by Congress in the next few weeks of foreign policy—and the way it coincides or conflicts with their views — is virtually certain to play a major role in the outcome of the 1952 Republican presidential scrap. Dewey, now publicly backing General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP standard-bearer role, has called for full U. S. aid to Eu rope. He has also suggested mo bilizing 100 American divisions. * Stassen has nét gone quite that far in calling for Republicans to Tfollow the course outlined by Eisenhower in his role as supreme commander of the European de fense force. : Taft is holding out for some limit by Congress on the number of troops that can be sent to Eu rope. Wherry -has opposed the sending of even a single division, while calling for emphasis on U. S. air and sea power. e, S v‘ﬂi‘\t\\\ 4 S Y" ® .{ o‘\ \ : £ ; : SRR R AL £ . ; ) ¥ \\ X g i £ . \i‘;} £ vy @ ! o PR LR . 4 ; . Dty : s e Aixm B : i ; ; }5 £ N s % . Sl e g - ' : ! SSNH g NANWES s 8 v » vl oAI e S e 3 SR A 8’ 3 3 el D - NN & 3 V\'?i Y - ‘ ¥ ‘ » RS N B e o AN . o 3 \»@\\,m i | £ % A 5. SN i A R o X :‘;‘*x‘ 3 § f&'\k‘“\ ij‘&&“ e % % 5 RS o R M SRR S SR y Y e L O ; ’:\!&\ O &s@ﬁ.}\v-&‘ oy )IR 3¥b B S g 3\ s %‘F *& & 5 \“,\\?&\?. 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They will concentrate on plays, acting, lighting, stage sets, and other properties of the drama. Program Highlight Highlight of the program will be the presentation of one act plays by high school drama groups frém Atlanta’s O’Keefe School, Wrightsville, and Toccoa. Round table discussion on stage lighting, make-up, and sets for high schools are planned as well as panel discussions on the prob lems of the high school dramatic director, and the relationship be tween high school and college theater and civic and little theater. Friday night the Drama Festi val participants will be the guests of the University Theater at the final performance of Terrance Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy.” Festival Leaders Leaders of the festival sessions include Paul A. Camp and Leigh ton Ballew of the Univetsity dra=- ma department; Maynard Samsen, Wesleyan Conservatory; Jack Gore and Edna West, Georgia State College for Women; Lila Kennedy, Atlanta Civic Theater; John Hruby, Macon Little Thea ter: Marian Anderson and Fred Hodges, Savannah Little Theater; Irene Arnett, LaGrange College; George Neely, Emory University; Ruth Draper, Washington Semin ary; Hilda Dyches, University High School, Athens; and Neil Mashburn, Monroe High School. | | Mrs. J. B. Capes | " u o Dies Wednesda | y ! Mrs. J. B. Capes, well known | Oconee Heights resident, died at . her home Wednesday night at | 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Capes was 34 tyears old and had been in failing | health for several months. | Services were to be conducted this afternocon at 4 o’clock from | Attica Baptist Church with Rev. | Jesse Knight, pastor of Winter ! ville Baptist Church, and Rev. D. Morris Smith of Washington, Ga., officiating. Burial was to follow in Attica | Cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home i in charge of arrangements, Pall | bearers selected were nephews of ! Mrs. Capes. l She is survived by her husband, J. B. Capes; daughter, Miss Au drey Jo Capes, Athens: father, M. | L. Lowe, Athens; four sistérs, Mrs. ''W. D. Fuller, Mrs. G, G. Archer and Mrs. R. J. Fuller, all of Ath ens, Mrs. E. R. Lance, Bogart; brother, W. M, Lowe, Athens. Mrs, Capes was a native of lJack?on county and lived in that community all of her life. She is the daughter of M. L. Lowe and the late Georgia Parham Lowe, of ‘ Athens. U. S. Has Ample . Might - Bradley VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Feb. 22, —(AP)—General Omar N. Brad ley said today the United States has “ample strength” to share with its free-world | jallies, -} ‘they become “self vs%gm»% independent of our aid.” SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951. BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR. City Editor There is a possibility of a “Ko rea” taking place in Germany, said Robert Low, assistant to the publisher of Life, Time, and For tune magazines, in a speech on “Defense of Western Europe” at the 23rd Annual Georgia Press Institute today. Also featured on today’s agenda were Cranston Wiilliams, general manager of the American News- IN'THE CHAPEL “ FRIDAY 10 a. m. Edward Weeks, Edi tor of The Atlantic Monthly. 11 a. m. Jonathan Daniels, Editor of Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer. 12 a. m. Sylvia Porter, syndi cated financial writer. The Press Institute is jeintly sponsored by the Georgia Press Association and Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, Univer sity of Georgia. paper Publishers Association, and Ernest ‘“Tony” Vaccaro, Associat ed Press White House correspond ent. Mr. Low, who has had wide journalistic experience in Europe, said he would not be surprised if Russia signs a separate peace treaty with Eastern Germany within six months and later there may be an outbreak begun by the Eastern Gernmrans “in the name of unification of Germany.” Mr, Low added that if Western Germany is rearmed there will be Germans fighting against Ger mans, but if rearmament is not completed soon Americans may have to fight and this will give the Communists a chance to say America is against unification of Germany, which the Russians hope happens. No Attack Soon Optimistically, he said it is his opinion that Russia will not attack Western Germany within the next 12 months. “We always assume that the Russians have none of the difficulties we do,” he added. However, he said, the Russians are having a difficult time organizing Eastern Europe. He said the United States and other countries have gone a long way in putting Western Europe on its feet and in making Western Eu rope more resistant to Commun ism. “The free countries take the positive approach while the Com munists use a negative one,” Mr. Low added. Mr. Low spoke of the will and spirit of the Germans in the free section of Berlin to resist Com munism, Although the Voice of America and other agencies and media are doing a good job, the United States “should tell the Rus sian people that we will support them in their efforts to get rid of the Communist form of govern ment,” he emphasized, Mr. Low had much journalistic experience in Europe. No inference Mr. Williams said that there seem to be no trends In Washing ton, D. C., today to interfere with freedom of newspaper publishing. However, he said the security of newspapers today depends a great deal on an adequate supply of newsprint. He added that many foreign ecountries are controlling newspapers by = controlling the newsprint supply. Mr. Williams said he doubted that restrictive measures aimed at Georgia newspapers by the State Legiclature would stand up in court. | One bill would give state courts E authority to dissolve newspaper | monopolies in the state. Mr. Wil i liams said a “study of a long series 'of mergers and consolidations L rbow, y b u gs%amz%gmsﬁ?szamzm (Continued on Fage Iwo.) T l -'. ' T * tucents Fri dy Ten students in the Henry W. “arady, School of Journalism, Uni versib& of Georgia, will be ipitiat ed into Kappa Tau Alpha, journal ism scholarship fraternity, on Fri day afternoon. Those chisen for membership are Virginia E. Booth, Atlanta; Alva Jean Casey and Margie Casey, Adairsville; Charles D. Corbett, Poulan; Etheldra Davis, Tourna pull; Wilma Florence, Cedartown; Charles E. Hoopper, Augusta; Bet ty Ruth Hecker, Savannah: John Wheeler; Atlanta; and Eva Whet stone, Atlanta, Griffith Chosen Louis T. Griffith, assistant pro fessor of journalism, will be ini tiated as an honorary member, Eligible for membership are seniors in the upper ten per cent of their class. There are 24 chap ters in schools of journalism throughout the nation. Initiation will be held at 5:30 p. m. Friday under the direction of Tyus Butler, associate professor of journalism and fraternity adviser. Following the ceremony the new members will join members of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, in their joint banquet with the Georgia Collegiate Press Association at the Holman Hotel. Dinner At 6:15 The dinner will begin at 6:15 p. m. Following the meeting there will be a dance in Memorial Hall for members of Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha, and the Colle giate Press, and all journalism stu dents. Speakers at the banquet will be Don Carter, Atlanta Journal city editor, and Luke Greene, Atlanta Constitution city editor. Sigma Delta Chi will initiate a number of outstanding editors from Georgia and other states and several undergraduates at a cere mony to be held at 5 p. m. Friday. FREE GI INSURANCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—(AP) —Senate leaders hoped to win quick approval today of a bill to give SIO,OOO worth of cost-free government insurance to every person in the armed services. A similar bill was passed last month by the House. In the past most persons in the armed services have been requir ed to pay premiums to get govern ment insurance, ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and cool today and to night, Friday partly cloudy and warmer. Low temperature to night 40; high Friday 64. Sun seis today at 6:22 p, m. and rises Friday at 7:11 a. m. G E OR G I A—Fair and not much change in temperature this afternoon and tonight; Fri day fair and warmer. TEMPERATURE Sigheak i . R NR SOWeSE L BIOAR iy uy fiailne vivve wan B Norrolll ‘v . bt i aahies il RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00 Total since February 1 .... 2.15 Deficit since February 1 Al.‘ 1.62 verage February rainfall . 5.09 %d&l'ﬁiizge'%éﬁhgf‘; } S S Deticit since January 1 ... 4.18 UN Offensive Called “Operation Killer” Allied Advances Of 12 Miles BY OLEN CLEMENTS TOKYO, Feb. 22, — (AP) — Allied forces smashed northward today on a 60-mile rainswept front aiming to kill, maim or capture all Reds in the mired mountains and valleys of central Korea. 1 Advances in this new offensive—"*Operation Killer”— ranged up to 12 miles on the east-central sector and up to 814 on the central valley, north of Wonju. : : Resistance was spotty most of the day but was stiffening at dusk as Allied spearheads neared the main forces of the dug-in Chinese and North Korean Reds. An esti mated 40,000 Reds are south of Parallel 38. The Allied objective is to wipe them out. General MacArthur announced the new push today, nearly 24 hours after it began without fan fare. 12-Mile Push Field dispatches tonight report= ed an American division on the right flank of the United Nations line splashea 12 miles Yo within three miles south of the valley town of Pyongchang. Deep mud and Réd mines slowed the advance of other units in the area. A The main Chinese Communist strength was arrayed in and around Hoengsong, 10 miles north of Wonju in the central sector. A tank-led -American spear head advanced to within four road miles of Hoengsong by nightfall. The Chinese earlier had fought briefly and then ran — some in panic. : ; A field dispatch said that at dusk Thursday American ma chinegunners and riflemen were duelling from neighboring ridges with Chinese machinegunners and burp (automatic rifle) gunners. The U. N. forces were moving carefully over every hill and dale, leaving no foxhole or crag uncov ered. But no major contact with the Reds was reported. The greatest obstacle to the Al lied troops of five nations was the weather. Rain, Snow, Fog They were beset by rain, snow, fog, mud, washed-out bridges, raging streams and landslides. Such conditions virtually ruled out close aerial support at the outset. But U. S. Air Force, Marine, Navy, Australian and South African war planes roared through holes in the clouds Thursday to plaster Red tavgets. Teamed up in the new hunter killer drive were American, Bri tish, Australian, New Zealand and South Korean troops. They moved up behind tanks, self-propelled guns, weapons carriers and jeeps. A senior staff officer said fresh Chinese Reds of the 196th Division with 10,000 men and other Chinese units were in the Hoengsong area. He said the Chinese had orders to hold the town at all costs. Hoengsong is 10 miles north of Wonju. ‘lt fell to the Chinese in their recent attempt to sweep down the middle of the peninsula to the key mountain passes below Wonju. But the Allies eracked that drive wide open with devastating fire power that killed thousands of Reds. Big Battle Seen AP Correspondent Stan Swinton said it appeared another big bat tle was in the offing for Hoeng song. Its outcome could materially affect the whole war, he surmised. At Eighth Army Headquarters, AP Correspondent William J, Waugh reported the Allied forces are applying a pincers on Hoeng song from the west and south. By nightfall Wednesday, a South Ko~ rean spearhead had rolled more than eight miles to within six miles of the town. An American force was five miles to the scuth, Correspondent Swinton said there were indications the Reds had armor for the defense of Ho engsong. There were fresh signs that Chinese pulling out of posi tions south of the town had self propelled guns. Tanks had been Two More Performances Of "Winslow Boy’ Slated Only two more performances are scheduled at the University‘ Theatre for “The Winslow Boy,"‘ the Terrence Rattigan comedy-dra ma based on the real-life Archer- Shee case, which opened on Tues day night. Performances will be given on Thursday and Friday of this play which won the New York | Drama Critics’ Circle Award as| the best play of the 1947-48 sea son by a foreign author. = ] | Despite the fact that “The Wins- ! { low Boy” deals seriously with the | callous injustice done a defense i less youngster, Terrence Rattigan, its author, has combined the dis arming comic touches and delight ful wit with the grirm business of exposing the high and mighty English bureaucracy. The fighting | father of “The Winslow Boy,” lplayed by Paul Bacon, has only the support of his determined 4 ‘%}ﬁhm Catherine’ and the cool ‘mber of Parliament,. Sir. Robert | Morton, played by Clare James Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area spotted, and some knocked out, north of the town. The stiffest fighting Wednesday evening was reported from the sector north of Chipyong, where a French-American force stopped cold the Chinese Red thrust of last week. Prosecution For Perjury Seen | WASHINGTON, Feb, 22.—(AP) —Senate investigators said today obvious perjury is hampering their inquiry into charges of in fluence in the making of huge government loans, They talked of possible prosecution. The statements canre from mem bers of a Banking Subcommittee digging into accusations that the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion (RFC) has yielded to pres~ sure from E. Merl Young, White House Aide Donald Dawson, and others, The group, headed by Senator Fulbright (D.-Ark.), has charged in a report to the Senate that those men wielded influence which affected decisions of three RFC directors in making loans. New Hearings The new hearings, Fulbright says, are a reply to President Tru man’s news conference statement that the report was asinine. The subcommittee called Young back for a second period of ques tioning today. S Young yesterday swore he has never received a fee or commis sion in connection with any RFC loan. He denied under oath testi mony by Ross Bohannon, a Texas lawyer, that Young once asked him for a $85,000 fee to “be influ ential” with the RFC. “One of these men is a liar,” stormed Senator Tobey (R.-N.H.), participating in the hearings. Other members of the group took up the cry from Tobey, a former member who attended by invita tion. Senators Capehart (R.-Ind.) and Frear (D.-Del.) used almost iden tical language in separate inter views, declaring the committee should call for a Justice Depart ment investigation wunless it can “get to the bottom” of the clash ing testimony of Young and Bo hannon. - Deeper Probes Urged % Senator Douglas (D.-I1l.) said he agreed that one of the two “obviously is lying,” and said the subcomnrittee should probe more deeply for the truth. : Fulbright said he will call other witnesses later who may know more about the situation. Besides Young and Bohannon, the group heard yesterday from William E, Willett, one of the three RFC directors the subcom= mittee’s report had said yielded to influence. “Merl Young has no influence with me,” Willett said. - “Merl Young knows that and everyone at the RFC knows that. I don’t think Merl Young had any influ ence with any directors of the RFC. I don’t believe Merl Young tried to sell ipfluence with the RFC.” ’ and Oliver Land Arrayed against him is his wife (Kathy Pender) who thinks her husband is a fool to call attention to the family’s disgrace by deny ing an accusation so vehemently; his son Dicki for whom a universi ty career is ruled out because of the fight; and his prospective son~ in-law who regards the legal suit a humiliating affront to the British Navy; and finally, even Ronnie, “The Winslow Boy” himself who is fed up with the whole fuss and bother over whether he stole a few shillings, and wants to forget the whole affair. Against the background of a long drawn-out legal conflict, Rat tigan presents a likeable and com pletely believable family group. It is this warm eharacterization that has endeared “The Winslow Boy” to audiences. And here again the University Theatre is to be com mended both for its performances and . for. stheir . sympathetic and beautifully staged production. HOME EDITION Quattlebaum To Head Red Cross Fund Drive Here Lester N. Quattlebaum, promin ent insurance representative, has been named as chairman of the 1951 American Red Cross Fund Campaign. Co-chairman of the drive is Clyde Fitzgerald. The minimum goal for Athens has been set at $17,000, the great est portion of which will stay in Athens to carry on the work of the local Red Cross Chapter. Office Set Up Athﬂé time office, serving as the fund campaign headquarters. has been set up In the o%ﬂeu oi Hutchins-Cox-Stroud, with Mrs. Murray Soule serving as secretary. Division Chairmen are as fol lows. A..D. Soar, Advance Gifts; B. L. Flanigan, Industrial; Joe Wyckliffe, Downtown Business Area; J. A, Bruce, Suburban Bus iness; Mrs. King Crawford, Resi= dential; William Tate, University} Ensley Evans, Colored. Mayne R. Shields has been named as pube= licity chairman. \ In addition to carrying out the work of the local Red Cross Chap= ter, citizens of Athens must as sume their share of the responsi bility for the vastly expanded program of the National Office. Mr. Fitzgerald, co-chairman of the drive, outlines this responsibil ity as follows: ~ Responsibility Outline “Facing its greatest responsibi ty since the peak of World War 11, the entire American Red Cross organization is mobilizing to ear ry out its new role in national de= sense. Today’s Red Cross job in= cludes these major defensc tasks: “Serving members of greatly expanded. armed forces and their families, procuring vast quantities of blood and stockpiling blood plasma for instant use, training 20,000,000 first-aiders, teochixg home nursing skills to hundreds thousands, instructing 100,000 ad ditional nurses’ aides, expanding Red Cross disaster facilities across the nation to assist in civilian de fense, and recruiting millions of additional volunteer workeps: “To achieve these goals natione ally we must obtain more com= pletely than ever before the active participation and support of the American people. The nation’s growing military and civil defense needs will make necessary the ex~ panding of most services of the Athens Chapter, and consequent ly the recruitment of additional, volunteers for those services.” ¥~ The national Red Cross Came paign Fund goal for 1951 is $85,« 000,000, Methodists Sef Benefit Banquet Dr. John T. Cocutz, head of the department of philosophy of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia, will be guest speaker at the Buldins Fund Banquet, First Methodist Church, tc be held in Georgian Hotel Monday night at 7 o'clock, o Bl e Mr. Cocutz’s subject will be “The Threat of Communism 10 Religion and the Democratic Way of Life.” Tickets, limited in num= ber to 300, are now on sale at $3.00 each at the Churcz office, Georgian Hotel, Athoni 'Portin‘ Goods Store and at A. P. Farrar’s office in Southern Mutual build ing. Further announcements con cerning plans for the banquet will be published in Sunday’s Banner= Herald, AP’s McArthur ATLANTA, Feb, 22 — (AP) — George McArthur, a staff member of the Atlanta Bureau of the As= sociated Press, leaves tomorrow for assignment as a war corre spondent in Korea. A native of Valdosta, McArthur joined the AP staff after graduat ing from the University of Geor= gia and has covered general as signments and sports. He was editor of the Red and Black, Uni versity newspaper, and a member of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity. He studied at North Georgia College before serving three years in the Navy during World War Two, including two years in the Pacific. McArthur’s mother, Mrs. Dennis L. Thomas, lives in Thomasville. Johnston Meets With Labor Men WASHINGTOE[, Feb. 22.—(AP), —Economic Stabilizer Eric John-* ston arranged another meeting to day with labor leaders who were hopeful he would decid&to raise the wage ceilings recommended a week ago- by the “Wage Stabiliza tion Board.

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, February 22, 1951, Home Edition, Image 1