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New Differences Arise
In MacArthur Hearings
BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, May 21.— (AP)—Senate investigators
called General Omar N. Bradley back to the witness stand
today while a fresh batch of differences kept the MacAr
thur dispute boiling.
@n one side, Senator Fulbright (D.-Ark.) said part of
General Douglas MacArthur's recent testimony to Senate
committees investigating his dismissal was “almost equiv
alent to deception” and consisted of “some half-truths.”
Proof Prison Is
Scene Of Riot
POINT -~ OF - THE ~ MOUN
TAIN, Utah, May 21—(AP)—
Two hundred prisoners nabbed
eight guards as hostages at Utgah’s
new “escape proof” penitenticry
Jast night and rioted through the
buildings and corridors for four
and one half hours.
The disturbance brought peace
officers bristling with Tommy
suns and sawed-off shotguns from
over the state, but not a shot was
fired. The only persons hurt were
ceveral prisoners beaten up by
their fellows.
None of the prisoners escaped,
but two of the guards held as hos
tages succeeded during the height
of the excitement in breaking out
through barred windows in the
maximum security section. They
shinnied down the second story on
makeshift ropes made of forn
sheets.
Hostages Released
The other six hostages were re
leased after a delegation of inmates
met with Warden Alvin O. Sever
son, and members of the board of
corrections. The officials prom
ised to consider the prisoners’
complaints if the prisoners would
release their hostages, return to
their cells and clean up the mess
they had made.
Th mess included a broken safe
which had contained narcoties.
Prisoners told officials the riot
developed spontaneously when
word spread that several were dis~
ciplined Sunday for a lesser dis
turbance which occurred Friday.
But Warden Severson said the dis
ciplining was for a disturbance at
church a few hours earlier.,
The riot started with seizure of
the unarmed guards at 5:10 p. m.
(MST). The prisoners released six
men in death row and others.
They later agreed to the: terms
and the hostages were released at
8:35 p. m. More than 200 of the
532 inmates of the prison took
Peace officers called from as
far as Ogden, 60 miles away, to
taled 150.
At midnight the prisoners had
been fed and order restored.
One member of the Board of
Corrections, Dr. Leslie D. Bur
k e, estimated damage at from
$52.000 to $100,000.” Warden Se
verson and other officials appeared
to doubt the damage was that ex
{ sive,
A number of prisoners were ex
pected to be “pretty sick” before
morning, said Dr. W. H. Horton,
prison physician. He said the men
had imbibed paregoric, denatured
@lcohol, and other concoctions from
th~ prison hospital.
Some also were reported “high”
on the stolen narcotics. Most po
tent, the doctor said, were mor
phine tablets, but there were only
about 20 of those in one bottle.
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Mrs. Mattie O. Lord, for forty
five years a resident of this city,
dred Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’-
clock at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. William Hinson, in Decatur.
Death came unexpeciedly from a
stroke, Mrs. Lord was 80 years
010,
Services are to be conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'-
Clock from Bridges Chapel with
Rev. W. G. Hinson, pastor of El
berton Baptist Chureh, officiating.
Interment will follow in the
Harris Cemetery, near Commerce,
Bridges Funeral Home in charge
Ul arrangements. Pallbearers will
be grandsons and sons-in-law of
Irs. Lord,
In addition to her daughter, Mrs.
Hinson, she is survived by six oth
er daughters, Mrs. O. D. Few,
Watkingville, Mrs. Julias F. Greg
son, Sanford, N. C., Mrs. W. E.
Wilson, Hogansville, Mrs. Robert
Lloyd, Atlanta, and Mrs. W. S. In
stem and Mrs., O. C, Morrison,
both of Detroit; Mich., four sons,
Winifred Lord, . Sarasota, Fla.,
Heward Lord, Henderson, N. C.,
and Gipson Lord and Pezul Lord,
both of Detroit, thirty-three
“randchildren, and four great
children,
A native of Commerce, Mrs.
Lord lived here for forty=five
vears and following the death of
her husband, Joel T. Lord, here in
1942, she gave up her Athens home
and had stnce resided with her
childref,
Mrs. Lord was a member of
Prince Avenue Baptist Church
and during her long residence here
made a large number of friends
Who were saddened by her unex-
Pected death.
KIWANIS MEETING
Athens Kiwanians will hear a
discussion on eancer by Dr. J. L.
Barner at the weekly meeting to
morrow in the Civic, Room of the
N & N Cafeteria at Ip. m.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
On the other, Senator Taft (R-
Ohio) declared the Truman ad
ministration has staged an “ab
solute reversal” and now has
adopted practically all features of
MacArthur's far eastern war pro
gram which most Republicans
have urged.
Senator McMahon (D-Conn.)
disagreed, saying there has been
no major change in administration
policy. Fulbright said so, too.
Senator Brewster (R-Me.) went
along with Taft, The Maine law
maker said the administration has
been putting up “quite a din of
opposition,” but meanwhile has
been ‘“retreating under that
smokescreen very close to the
MacArthur line.”
Gen. Bradley
Bradley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, was booked to re
sume testimony interrupted last
week when he refused to relate
who said what at a conference he
and other top advisers had with
President Truman April 6, five
days before MacArthur was oust
ed,
WASHINGTON, May 21—
(AP)—Gen, Omar N. Bradley
told senators today the Joint
Chiefs of Staff recommended
dismissal of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur because he was ‘“not in
sympathy” with Korean war
plans.
The combined Senate Armed
Services and Foreign Relations
Committees, looking into Mr. Tru
man’s dismsssal of the five star
general and U. S. policy in the far
east, later voted 18 to 8 against
requiring Bradley to give an ac
count of that discussion. Six Re=
publican senators were among the
18 majority votes.
Bradley took the position that
to do so would destroy his value
as a confidential adviser to the
.Ergse.ifde,nt- bg WA T
ore the issue came up, Brad
ley had testified in strong support
of the administration’s policy of
trying to limit the war to Korea.
Mr. Truman fired MacArthur for
publicly advocating more direct
action against Red China, includ
ing the bombing of supply bases.
Badley was called back before
the inquiry committee against a
backgrouns o these other develop
ments in the stormy controversy:
- George View
1. Senator George (D-Ga.), a
member of the committee, said it
was “unfortunate” that Mr. Tru
man got further into the argument
by saying he had been consider=
ing dismissal of MacArthur on and
off for a year before he acted
April 11. The White House later
said the President actually started
mulling it over last August. George
said there was “no good reason
for the President to have injected
himself” deeper into the contro
versy. Some senators have pointed
out that Mr. Truman publicly
praised MacArthur on at least two
occasions during the time he says
he was thinking about firing him.
2. Senator Hickenlooper (R-
Iowa), also a member of the com=
mittee, declared he agrees sub
stantially with Senator Wiley (R=-
Wis.) that the Democrats on the
committee have, as Wiley put it,
a “frantic desire to whitewash and
cover up.” Wiley made the charge
in a letter to Chairman Russell
(D-Ga.) last Friday. It was Wiley
who made the unsuccessful move
to force Bradley to answer. Sena
tor Flanders (R-Vt.) and several
Democrats on the committee have
denied the Wiley accusation.
3. Taft, Brewster and McMahon
threw cold water on Wiley’s pro
posal that Mr., Truman testify at
the Senate inquiry. Wiley suggest
ed the committee might well con=
sider a subpoena if the President
were unwilling to appear. Taft
said Mr. Truman might be able to
clear the air, but that there is no
constitutional way he could be re
quired to testify. Breswter said
the President ‘“for all practical
purpose is complying” now with
Wiley'’s proposal by discussing the
matter “very freely” with report
ers and by furnishing considerable
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair to partly cloudy and
warm today, tonight and Tues
day. Chance of thundershowers
Jate this aftermoon or evening.
Low tonight 60. High tomorrow
88. Sun sets today 7:32 and
rises tomorrow 5:27,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and not much temperature
change through Tuesday, wide
ly scattered thundershowers this
afternoon and evening and
again Tuesday afternoon,
TEMPERATURE
Bighest v e o B 8
Lanvind ooor esl 5 8
RREAN L e R Wi sadi gl g
Novmal &, v et
RAINFALL ;
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .31
Total since May 1 .. .. .. .36
Deficit since May 1 .. .... 195
Average May rainfall .. .. 3.54
Total since January 1 .. ..13.60
Deficit since January 1 ... 7.86
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Red:” Sacrifice 48,341 Men
In" 5-Day Offensive Action
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TB Association
Meets Tuesday
Annual meeting of the Clarke
County TB Association will be
held Tuesday, May 22, 7 p. m.,
in Civic Hall at the Chamber of
Commerce building.
Any person who made contri
butions through the Christmas
fund is eligible and is urged to
attend this meeting.
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Sunday School
Building Begun
By Methodists
The First Methodist Church
will soon begin. construction of a
Sunday School building, which
will replace the wooden-structure
annex. Rzing the the Annex will
take about 30 days and soon after
that work is eompleted construc
tion will begin,
Officials said construction will
take about a year, and will be
done by Mathis Construction Com
pany. Cost will exceed $200,000.
The new building, which will be
attached to the present main
church strueture, will include Sun
day School rooms, church offices,
a chapel, and other facilities.
The chapel will be used for
small occasions when the large
church auditorium is not needed.
The new building was neeessitated
by the increase in Sunday School
enrollment. Many classes will meet
in the new building and the ones
still holding class in the main
church building will. have more
space.
Plans for the Sunday School
building, which will match the
present building in design, were
begun several years ago. Final
plans were approved by the board
of Stewards and the church mem
bership several weeks ago.
New Navy Chief
Appointed Here
Chief Robert H. Wright, U. S.
Navy, a native of Douglasville,
has been appointed chief-in=-
charge of the Athens Navy Re
cruiting Station, located in Room
10 of the Post Office building.
The new chief is a veteran of
more than 11 years Naval service.
His duties have been aboard a
battleship, three destroyers and
two aircraft carriers. His latest
shipboard duty was on the U. S. S.
Coral Sea, one of the United
States’ largest aircraft carriers.
Chief Wright served in the Atlan
tic and Pacific areas in World War
11, participating in the invasion of
Southern France, lowa Jima and
Okinawa.
Chief Wright relieved Chief I.
E. Mathis, former chief-in-charge
of the local station, He was trans
ferred to Macon for duty.
Chief Wright will have as his
assistants, Chief W. W. Wright,
who has been on duty here over
three years, and A. G, Free, Quar
termaster First Class, located at
the Navy Recruiting Station in
Gainesville,
According to Chief Wright, there
are vacancies in every fieled of the
U. S. Navy for men who qualify.
There are special programs for
high school graduates, where an
applicant is assured a “Class A
School” upon completion of re
cruit training if he qualifies.
Spanish War Veterans, Meet Continues Here
Delegates from all parts of the
state registered at the Georgian
Hotel yesterday and this morning
for the twenty-ninth convention of
the United Spanish War Veterans
and Auxiliaries of Georgia.
rAn impressive memorial cere
mony for deceased members of the
Spanish War Veterans and the
State Auxiliary were held in First
Presbyterian Church last night at
8 o’clock. Dr. E, D. Pusey, Athens,
past department commander, pre
sided at the exercises. Dr. E. L.
Hill, pastor - emeritus of the
church, delivered the Invocation,
followed by the singing.of ‘Salva
tion Is Created” by the combined
choirs of First Presbyterian
Churéh and Emmanuel Episcopal
Church. Dr. Harmon B, Ramsey,
pastor of the church, delivered the
Memorial address, and several lo
cal boy and girl scouts participated
in the actual memorial exercises
which followed the principal ad
dress.
Large Representation
A large representation’ for the
convention has been reported by
officials stationed in the lobby of
Georgian Hotel, local headquarters
for the convention. One of the
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, MAY 21, 1931,
STARCH TAKEN OUT OF RED
EFFORTS, GEN. ALMOND AVERS
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, May 21.—(AP)~—Red commanders sacrificed
48,341 troops in 4 futile five-dai'{ attemft to break through
the Allied east-central front in Korea, Lt. General Edward
M. Almond said today.
The Tenth Corps commander, whose h‘og}ps man that
front, said Sunday’s Red casualties were 24,700 killed and
wounded. That is the biggest one-day total of the war,
Most of the Red casualties were
inflicted by the U. S. Second Di
vision, which the Communists set
out to destroy. The Eighth Army
said the Second Division killed or
wounded 37,750 Reds in five days.
“We've taken the starch out of”
the offensive, Almond said. “And
I feel certain that if they come
at us in even greater numbers we
can handle them again.”
The Reds threw 1250,000 men at
his sector in their second spring
offensive, Almond said. The first
Red all-out smash began April 22
and bogged down at the end of
10 days.
In their new drive,; the Reds fell
before the tremendous fire power
of U, N, artillery, planes and au
tomatic weapons . . . were trapped
on barbed wire entanglements . . .
blown up by mines.
The enemy “may be getting
ready to strike again,” Almond
said, “and if he does we are pre
pared to meet him.
Line Being Held
“We have a line across the Pen
insula and we are holding it. We
have a line of fire that operates
day and night, rain or shine. Our
capability of bringing down in
stant fire whenever we sight these
people is tremendous.”
TOKYO, May 21 — (AP)—
Reds began withdrawing from
half of the Korean central front
today after losing nearly 60,000
men, by Allied estimates, in
their five-day-old offensive.
Much of Sunday’s record cas
ualty toll, he said, was complied
when artillery caught the Chinese
trying to carry off their dead all
along a two and a half mile valley.
Eighth Army reports and field
dispatches had given no hint of
heavy Red assaults Sunday.
U, N. forces suffered ‘“compara
tively few casualties” from the
Reds’ human sea wave attacks, Al
mond reported. “And the second
division is still in good shape.”
A spokesman at Tokyo head
quarters said the Indian head di
vision apparently inflicled more
than 30 casualties for every one it
suffered.
Briefing officers said the divi
sion’s position was “still dan
gerous.” But Chinese assaults
dwindled during the night to six
probing attacks on the lengthy
east-central front held by the Sec
ond Division, All were beaten
back.
Diminished Pressure
Pressure diminished all along
the front Monday morning, the
Eighth Army said.
United Nations patrols stabbed
far out from the Seoul perimeter
in the far west. A South Korean
patrol re-entered Munsan, only
ten miles south of the 38th parallel
with little opposition. An Amer
ican task force probed into
Uijongbu, 11 miles north of Seoul,
unopposed.
But British units shoving north
east of the old South Korean cap=
ital ran into strong nests of Reds.
Communists continued to mass
by the thousands for a new as
sault at the heroic Second Division.
The division was strong out across
more than 20 miles after a brilliant
tactical maneuver that closed a
huge gap on its flank.
U. N, bombers concentrated on
the Second Division’s sector in the
war’s biggest might attack on the
front lines. ‘B-29 Superforts and
B-26 invaders cut up the Reds
with 1,000 fragmentation bombs
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outstanding figures present s
Charles William Bernhardt, Atlan
ta, now Senior National Viee-
Commander, who is to be elevated
at the national convention §n
Grand Rapids, Mich., in August to
the highest post in the organiza
tion, that of Grand Commander.
Having served the group tn
many capacities, Mr. Bernhardt is
a past Department Commander of
Georgia, is at present a member of
the Legislative Committee of the
national organization and has
proven his administrative abilities
in the various offices he has held.
Col. J. D. Wawson, Georga De
partment Commander, is presiding
at the convention with the assis~
tance of Mr. Bernhardt. Col.
Watson is now a resident of Win=
der, but was reared in Athens,
having entered the Regular Army
—in which he served brilliantly
until his retirement—from Athens.
His work in various offices in the
Georgia Veterans Organization has
been particularly outstanding.
' Mrs. Minnie H. Owens of Al
bany, Department, President of the
Georgia - Auxilior'es, is e2'so at
tendance at the moe’ing here,
Bowen Succeeds
Branyon As
County Agent
Francis Bowen, former Greene
county agricultural agent, has been
elected Clarke county agent suc
ceeding D, L. Branyon.
It is reported that Mr. Branyon
resigned to accept a position as &
specialist on the state staff of
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service, which will give him a
wider field of activity,
The Extension Service, with
main offices on the University of
Georgia campus here, has speece
ialists to formulate information
and investigate varigus practices
in agriculture, The specialists pro
vide the agents In each county
with the information on better
agricultural practices and the
county agents disseminate the in
formation to individual farmers
and aid them in carrying out the
practices.
The Extension Service is a
branch of the University’'s College
of Agricultural. It uses findings
from tests conducted bi; Experi
ment Stations in the University
System.
Mr, Branyon had cne of the
most successful careers of any
county agent in the history of
Clarke county. He served here
since 1938.
During his years here agricule
tural advanced in many ways, He
assisted in the formation of the
livestock association for cattle
auctions, organization of the Agri
cultural Fair Association, the be
ginning of Georgia Eggs, Inc., and
numerous other worthwhile proj=
ects,
Besides his work in cooperation
with other groups and in forming
agricultural organizations, he
spent many hours with individual
farmers helping them in bettering
their farm practices. Also, he was
a leader of 4-H Club work in the
county.
Rain Brings Some
Degree Of Relief
A measure of relief from the
dry heat that was blanketed this
section for more than a month,
was gained late Sunday afternoon
in the .31 inches of rain that fell
in the course of a few minutes,
E. 8, Bell, U. 8. Weather Obser
ver, said today.
Through yesterday’s rain still
left a deficit of 1.95 inches for May
and a deficit of 7.86 inches since
the first of the year, Dr. Sell said
it did bring relief and was of
some benefit to crops, gardens,
lawns, etc.
Dr, Sell said the last effective
rain in Athens fell on April 22-23,
with .72 inches and .58 inches,
respectively, and was registered
for a total of 1.30 inches. During
May, up to yesterday afternoon, he
said only .06 inches was recorded.
May 11 showing .03 and May 4
with .02,
Accompanying the rain late
Sunday, Danielsville reported a
goodly amount of hail.
Mrs. Rhodes
Mrs. Mildred Rhodes, Athens, a
Past President of the Auxiliary, is
serving as conventton chairmen for
women, having planned a most
interesting and enjoyable pro~
gram for the auxiliary attendants.
Dr. William M. Burson, a Post
Commander of the Georgia De
partment, is chairman for the men,
and latest reports indicate that his
overall plans for the success of the
convention are highly pleasing.
Registration for the Auxiliary
began Sunday morning at 10
o'clock, Men, who also began reg
istration yesterday morning, were
eontinuing to sign in at the head
quarters desk this morning.
The Auxiliary held its Past De-~
partment President’s Club break
fast in Legion Room of the Hotel
this morning at 8 o’clock. Dr, Bur
son, convention chairman, presided
at a joint session of the groups in
Civie Hall at 9:30 this morning.
Mayor Jack R. Wells, Harry H.
Elder, Dr. E. D. Pusey, and Mrs.
Mildred V. Rhodes welcomed the
delegates to Athens on behalf of
the city of Athens, Clarke County,
Col J. Brown Camp, and Oscar
Brown Auxiliary, respectively.
Iranian Minister
Rejects British
Arbitration Plan
TEHRAN, Iran, May 21—~(AP)
—Prime Minister Mohammed
Mossadeh has rejected a British
proposal to arbitrate the explos
ive dispute over nationalization of
the wealthy Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company,
A government spokesman also
told Parliament yesterday that
‘Britain and the United States are
pushing Iran eloser to Russia and
a Comnmunist revolution by oppos=
lnfl'oll nationalization.
he ;{m\kcr, National Front
puty Hossein Makki, raised the
t t of a holy war if the Brit
use force to resist the loss of
their bits investment in the Aba
dan refinery and the nearby oil
wells in southern Iran.
The government’s letter to the
ofl eompany, while refusing to ar
bitrate, called on the comi)any to
send representatives to plan the
method of taking over the south=
ern Iranian Installations. It was
the first time since Mossadeh’s
sudden rise to power three weeks
ago that he has offered even to
talk over the nationalization sit
uation with the British.
Illegal?
The company, declaring expro
priation is illegal, had asked the
government to appoint its arbitra
tor under terms of the 1933 con
cession agreement which provided
all disputes be settled by an arbi
tration board.
Replying for Mossadegh, Fin
ance Minister Mohanmmed Al{ Var
asteh, declared Iran had the sov
ereign right to nationalize the in
dustry and rejected arbitration,
Informed sources said Mossa
degh also, had rejected a British
note, sent Saturday, offering to
send a negotiating mission to Iran.
Iran contended that the dispute
was one between the nation and
the company, despite the fact that
the British government owns more
than half of the company stock.
’ Makki’s Charges
Makki’s charges of American
interference were based on a State
Department appeal Saturday for
friendly negotiation between Iran
and Britain to keep oil flowing to
the “free world.” The statement
said the U. 8. would “strongly op~
pose” any arbitrary action.
“What America did,” Makki
said, “was interference with a free
independent country, We expected
the United States tc support pub
lic opinion in Iran and not enter a
fight with Iranian Nationals by
helping the former oil company
looters.”
Makki declared that Iran is an
international powder keg and ad
ded, “the freedom lovers of the
world should take eare not to
come close to this powder keg
with a match in their hands. If
they do, it will get rid of the Brit~
ish empire forever. Our spiritual
leaders have all deelared that if
the British threat is carried out
they will declare a holy war.”
LONDON, May 21—(AP)—
Prime minister Clement Attlee
summoned the British cabinet to
meet tomorrow on the Iranian oil
erisis.
Athenians Urged
To Get City Tags
Athenians and all other persons
operating a mortor vehicle in the
city for 60 days or more annually
must purchase city tags 15 days
after recoivln% their state tags
Captain J. H, Porterfield, head of
the traffic division, emphasized to=
day.
He said police are makintgl cases
against persons not having the city
tags. Auto registration certificates
received with state tags are dated
so police can check to see when
a person got his state license,
Greetings
Greetings were also presented
by D. Weaver Bridges, from the
Allen R. Fleming American Legion
Post and by Mrs. J. W. Bailey,
Laura Rutherford Chapter, UDC.
Mr, Bridges and Mrs. Bailey spoke
on behalf of their own organiza
tions as well as all the men’s and
women’s patriotic organizations in
the city, respectively.
A luncheon for the Auxiliary
was held in the hotel today at
1 o’clock, the men simultaneously
enjoyed a meal at the local Elks
Club.
Business sessions were resumed
at 2:30 o'clock with reports being
presented, Both the veterans and
the auxiliary members are to at
tend a chicken barbecue and pro
gram of entertainment at the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars Club home
tonight.
Tomorrow’s, the first day, pro
gram begins at 9:30 a. m. with a
business session, election and in
stallation of officers taking place
at that time. Another joint lunch
eon will be held in Georgian Ho
tel tomorrow at 1 o’clock following
adjournment of the morning busi
ness session,
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WHERE ALLIES STEMMED RED DRIVES — Map lo
cates three Korean front areas where Red attacks (open
arrows) have been repulsed. In the west (A) Allies stop
ped suicidal North Korean attacks on the outskirts of
Seoul, and in the center (B) U. N. lines held firm against
Reds southeast of Chunchon. On the east-central front
(C) where the U, 8. Second Division withstood the most
concentrated attack of the war the Allies held new posi
tions north of Hongchon. A Chinese attack in the Pun
gam-Hangye area, the latest assault in the four-day Red
drive, was turned back. The Reds were reported re
grouping all along the front for new attacks expected at
any time.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Rising Pressure Makes
Curbs Setup Uncertain
BY JOSEPH C. GOODWIN
WASHINGTON, May 21.— (AP) —Mounting pressure
from many sides today made still more uncertain the post-
June 80th shape of the government’s economic controle
program.
President Truman wants it broadened, Labor generally
wants prices and rents rolled back and wages geared to liv
ing costs. Civilian industry thinks more materials should
be pushed one way; defense industry, another.
John L. Lewis favors scrapping
all wage and price controls. 1
Farmers and stockraisers are
complaining. So are city dwellers.
Some congressmen think pre
innt gontrols are to broad; others,
too narrow.
Leaders of the Senate Banking
Committee predict Mr. Truman
will get some—but not all—of the
powers he seeks under an exten
slon of the Defense Production Act.
Expiration Date |
Tt expires June 30 unless Con
gress extends it. Heated hearings
are underway in House and Sen
ate banking committees.
Senator Maybank (D.-S.C.),
chalrman of the Senate group, told
a reporter yesterday he exPects
the administration measure “will
have to be g'etty well rewritten”
but that he is confident it will not
be killed. .
James B. Carey, secretary-treas
urer of the CIO, today urged Con
gress to crack down on “great cor
porations (whieh) Increase their
gower at the expense of the small
ellow.” ~
“We believe that there should be
more equalization of duties, re
sponsibilities and sacrifices,” Ca
rey said in testimony prepared for
the House banking committee.
Allan 8. Haywood, CIO vice
president, said in a statement pre-l
pared for the same committee:
Stabilization |
“If we really mean to stabilize
the American economy, we must
stabilize the cost of housing, par
ticularly the cost to those who are
forced to rent.”
A government program designed
to cut retail beef prices by 10 cents
a pound by Oct. 1 went into effect
yesterday. But the cattle indus
try did not let up In its fight
against the plan. Industry spokes
men were scheduled for another
session today with the Senate
Banking Committee,
Meanwhile, the wage stabiliza
tion program is due for a drastie
overhaul this week and next, with
negotiated pay boosts for hundreds
of thousands of workers almost‘
certain to be approved by the wage
board. |
Biggest Decision |
The biggest decision is whether
to lift the 10 per cent ceiling on
wage increases above Jan. 15, 1950,
levels another two or three per
cent to make up for living cost
rises since the wage-price freeze
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WAVE Recruiter
To Visit Athens
Lt. Mary E. Freas, USN, WAVE
procurement officer for Georgia,
will be in Athens Tuesday and
Wednesday at the Navy Recruiting
Station in Room 10 of the Post Of
fice building.
She will review applicants for
enlistment and commissioning in
the Uavy WAVES, according to
Robert H. Wright, MMC, USN,
chief-in-charge.
Young women from 20 through
25 years of age are now being ac
cepted for enlistment for a career
in the WAVES.
Applicants must ®e high school
graduates, unmarried and with no
dependents, and meet the neces
sary mental, moral and physical
requirements. Former members of
the WAVES y be enlisted as
Seamen, Airm‘zfi,. or Hospitalmen
as appropriate,
For full information about a
WAVE career visit the Navy Re
cruiting Station, Post Cftice Build
ing, Athens, or call 2651,
HOME
EDITION
US, Russia Part
On Japan Peace
[ WASHINGTON, May 21-—(AP).
The United States and Russia have
reached a parting of the ways over
preparation of a peace treaty feor
Japan,
The spread of their differences
was spofll?md by an American
charge that Moscow is “conniving
at aggression” by proposing to
deny to Japan adequate post
treaty defense arrangements.
An American note published last
night made it olear this country is
determined to x)mthrouzh with its
plan of using erican forces to
help protect Japan against amy
threat of Communist aggression
from Asia,
The note was handed to Soviet
Ambassador Alexander $. Pan
yushkin Saturday. It replied to &
May 7 Russian set jf proposals en
a preparation of a Japanese peace
treaty.
Moscow Request
Moscow asked for a meeting in
June or July of the foreign minis
ters of the United States, China,
Britain and Russia to start work
on a treaty and bring it to a
“speed% conclusion,”
The U. 8. rejected this proposi
tion outright on the ground that
misuse of the veto power by Rus
sia in such a four-nation meeting
actually would work against early
conclusion of & treaty and also
would give “a secondary role” to
nations “which bore a greater bur
den of the Pacific war than did
the Soviet Union.” The note point
ed out that Russia was at war with
Japan for only six days.
The U, 8. also declared that as
far as Red China is concerned,
this country “does ngg seek guid
ance from a convieted aggressor”
~a reference to Commumist
China’s activities in Korea—and
made plain that it has no intention
of doing so.
The heart of the 3,500-weord
American reply, however, was not
so much concerned with the Rus
sian proposal to scrap all that this
country, Britain and a dozen oth
er nations have already done on &
Japanese treaty and start over. It
was concerned more with the de
fense of Japan after Japanese in
dependence is restored.
Russian Proposal
Russia had proposed that Japan
armed forces should be limited in
the treaty to those needed for
“self-defense.” It had also pro
posed that all occupation troops
should be witdrawn from Japan
within a year after the treaty be
came effective. Thereafter “nc
foreign state will have troops er
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Price Control
Forum Tomorrow
Retail and wholesale merchants,
manufacturers, and other persons
will be interested in a Federal
Price Control Forum to be held
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. in
then Council Chamber in the City
Hall.
Claude C, Mason, jr., District
Price Executive, with assistance
from his Office of Price Stabiliza~
tion, will be present to discuss all
régulations pertaining to prioq;
control.
The meeting is being held un
der the sponsorship of the Mer
chants Council of which C. W,
Fitzgerald is chairman.