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REUNION WITH HER PARENTS—Barbara Nemeroff,
9 clutches her doll as she is reunited with her parents
in Montreal, Quebec, detective headquarters. She took
ihe doll with her when she was abducted. Police found
her walking on a business street with with a youth whom
the police identified as Robert Patenaude, 16, — (AP
Wirephoto.)
Congress Hits At Tax
L sopholes, 25% Ceiling
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Existing System
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Benefit Te Rich
By JACK RUTLEDGE
WASHINGTON, Fz=b. 25—(AP)
« Present tax leopholes and a
proposed peace-time tax ceiling
were under congressional fire to
day for what some lawmakers
viewed as a tendency 1o sock the
voor and help the rich.
Senator Humphrey (D-Minn.)
said existing tax loopholes cost
the government more than a 4 1-2
billion dollars & year, and benefif
almost entirely those with incomes
above SIO,OOO annually,
Staffs of two congressional com
mittees said a -proposed 25 per
cent peactime federal income tax
ceiling, already endorsed by some
states and under study by Con
cress, would “tend to shift the
ndividual tax burden from the
rich to the poor.”
Humphrey’s views were given
in a study published by the Pub
lic Affairs Institute, which de
scribes itself as a non-political or
ganization designed to air facts
about public issues.
Humphrey, wio sought unsuc
cessfully last fali to amend the
5 1-2 billion dollar tax increase
bill, said writing of tax laws these
days has come to resemble the
“log-rolling and pork barrel” tac
tics of special interests.
Enormous Handouts
He said “enormous handouts”
g 0 to “high income recigients,”
and outlined what he said were
the six principal loopholes—and
the amounts they cost the treasury
—n the present tax laws.
'l'\\'o.of the major “loopholes”
were income splitting and per
centage depletion allowances, he
sain,
ncome splitting was enacted in
1948 to benefit married couples,
but Humphrey said only 3 per
cent of the benefits went to cou
bles with annual incomes below
55.000. He said this law cost the
Zovernment 2 1-2 billion dollars a
yen
Poreentage depletion also help
ec those in the upper brackets. It
;:I‘o-"‘;s owners of certain mineral
broducts (oil, coal, gas, even oys
ter shells) to deduct a certain
“rrount of gross income as deple
on allowance in figuring income
'“xes. The senator said some of
‘¢ allowances granted were “un
believably generous”.
"he proposed 25 per cent tax
tering would be made law by a
“7sututional amendment, requir
approval of two-third or 32
v Ihe states., Proponents say 28
s already have asked Cou
ess to call a constitutional con
tion on the subject. Several of
states have rescinded their
L ‘.._however. and officials say
vtly 16 now actually have resolu
ns in foree;
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\ ke county citizens may regis
€" 10 vote in the March 26 Dem
"“* e Primary were announced
‘“4y by Mrs. Murray Soule, in
o Aarce of the office of the County
’“.'“" of Registrars.
e office is located on the
“tcond floor of the courthouse ard
[“eisiration is to be made there,
(. hotin the Tax Collector’s of
-7% as previously stated.
\llé"‘xstead of being open only on
ondays, as customary, Mrs. Soule
';{;f(l her office will be open from
=9O 10 5:3) o'clock on Wednesday,
\r Jary 27, February 28, Febru
°'v 29 and on Monday, March 3,
"I remain open all day, -
_m(‘r;n March 8, 6 and 7 the office
5:30 be open from 2:30 p. m. until
- P m.{ and on March § will be
IP‘erx’unfi 1 p. m, .when registra
-100 for the prinary. closes, .-,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Primary, Seek
rimary,
Russell Electi
ATLANTA, Feb. 25 — (AP) —
The Georgia Democratic Executive
Committee today asked Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell (D-Ga) to become
an active candidate for President.
The request will be delivered
personally to the senator by a com
mittee, which plans to call on him
this weekend if he is available
in Washington.
The committee set May 14 as the
date .for the State Primary and
March 22 as the closing date for
candidates to file.
A resolution urging Russell to
run was submitted by Charles
Bloch of Macon.
Bloch, who submitted Russell’s
rame in nomination at the 1948
National Democratic Convention,
said, “believing as we do that the
people of the whole nation will
know or will learn in the next
few months that he is endowed
with every trait of character and
every attribute of leadership need
ed in these times, we ask him to
permit us to announce him as a
candidate for the Presidency.”
The resolution named State De
morcatic Chairman James. S. Pe
ters of Manchester as chairman of
the special committee to cail on
Russell. As other members of the
commitee, Peters named Bloch, Lt.
Gov. Marvin Griffin, House speak
er Fred Hand, J. R. Roberts Elliot
of Columbus, National Committee
man; Mrs. Ors Blitch of Homer
ville, Benton S. Odum of Newton,
Henry Chandler of Atlanta, Roy
V. Harris of Augusta, B. D. Mur
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Cartl |
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Coroner Office
S. C. Cartledge today qualified |
with the Clarke County Democra
tic Executive Commitiee as a can= I
didate to succeed himself as Coun= |
ty Coroner in the County Dem- |
ocratic Primary scheduled for:
March 26. :
Mr. Cartledge, who resides at |
161 Springdale, was first elected[
in. 1944 and was re-elecied in 1948, |
From 1903 to 1934 he was con
nected with the postal service (
here. He is a native of Madison |
County and has been a resident
in Athens since 1903. i
Mr. Cartledgé is a member of
Central Presbyterian Chuyrch and |
is an Elder in that congregation. |
The Cartledges have six chil= |
dren. two of whom live here. They i
are Ralph Cartledge, connected |
with the University Press, and |
Tom B. Sullivan, with the Athens|
Division of the Chicopee Manu-~
facturing Corporation. i
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ATHENS AND VICINITY !
Cloudy and continued cool to- |
night, becoming a little colder |
Tuesday. Occasional light rain
likely tonight and Tuesday
morning. Low tonight 33, high
Tuesday 42. The sun sets today |
at 6:25 and rises tomorrow at i
7:07. |
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GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy i
today, tonight and Tuesday.
Oceasional light rain tonight.
Continued cool today and to
night and colder Tuesday. 5
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TEMPERATURE ,
Highest ... 5. v Vgl s4B
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SReale | .o mtarravre monilL .
NOrmal oo s ceee iAT
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since February 1 .... 2.74
Deficit since February 1 ... 1.57
Average February rainfall . 5.09 [
Total .since January 1 .. .- 7.26,
Deficit sfnoe January 1::.. 2460
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GEORGIA LAD GETS MEDALS
FORT JACKSON, S. C., Feb. 25.—(AP)—First Lt. Lindsey P.
Henderson was such a good soldier in Korea that the Communists
offered a reward for his death. No Korean Communist collected.
But the Savannah, Ga., lieutenant collected four medals for his
battlefield gallantry. The Army officer was awarded three Silver
Star medals and a Bronze Star with Qak Leaf Cluster at ceremo=
nies here Saturday. ¢
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CUTS PROPERTY TAX
ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—(AP)—By executive order, Georgia has
practically retired from the business of collecting property tax.
Governor Herman Talmadge Saturday cut the state’s property
tax rate from five mills to one-fourth mill. The original $6,000,000
annual collection should be cut to about one-twentieth of that
amount, d
A constitutional amendment, essentially the same as the Gover=
nor’'s executive order, is to be voted on in the November General
Election,
PLEA FOR EQUALIZATION
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 25.—(AP)—A plea for equalization of
white and negro public school facilities has been made here.
A group of 27 negroes filed a petition with the Chatham County
Board of Education Saturday asking that the facilities be equal=
ized or that white schools be opened to negroes, «
TEENSTERS FACE CHARGES
ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Four teen-agers faced charges of
disorderly conduct—malicious mischief today after they burned
a six-foot cross in front of a negro woman’s house. Det. Lt. I. A.
Thomas said the four, ranging from 17 te 19 years old, admitted
burning the cross Friday in the yard of a partly-paralyzed negre
woman, Mary Butts, :
; COUNCIL BANS CHURCH DANCE
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga., Feb. 25.—(AP)—A hastily enacted
city ordinance amendment broke up a church square dance here
before it could get started. :
Tempers flared as Vice-Mayor A. W. Cain read the amendment
to some 200 persons gathered in St. Gerard’s Hall at the Catholie
Parish Saturday night. He explained that it had been passed only
a short time before to make sure the church dance came under an
earlier city counsil’ban against public dancing. 2
DR. WRIGHT DANIEL DIES
ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Dr. Walter Wright Daniel, former
president of the Fulton County Medical Society and a former in=
structor at the Emory University Medical School, died yesterday
of arterial thrombosis. He was 55.
He was a native of Columbia, 8. C., but made his home here
after his graduation in medicine at Emory in 1923,
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow. &
Surviving are his widew and a son, William Wright Daniel. Ԥ
” COMMEMORATE.SURIBACHI g o :
IWO JIMA, Feb. 25.—(AP)—About 100 U. 8. Airmen and Coast
Guardsmen stood in a cold rain on Iwo Jima Saturday and marked
the seventh anniversary of the famed flag-raising atop Mount
Suribachi.
Three rifle volleys were fired and two buglers blew “To The
Colors” and “Taps” as a white carnation wreath was placed on
Suribachi Monument,
THOUGHT THEY WERE BLANKS
BALTIMORE, Feb. 25.—(AP)—“Just blanks,” said Clarence
Hurst, who told police he foiled a holdup at his filling station last
night by brushing aside the gunman’s weapon.
The bandit fired twice and ran.
“Still just blanks,” Hurst insisted when the sleuths picked up
two discharged cartridges from the ground.
Police looked a little further and retrieved a flattened lead slug
that had bounced off a concrete wall.
“I coulda.sworn it was blanks,” Hurst said, and turned a bit
pale.
WASH SINS AWAY
NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 25.—(AP)—Shops were closed in
India’s capital today during a partial eclipse of the sun to allow
thousands to bathe in the holy Umma river. According to Hindu
belief bathing at the time of a solar eclipse washes away all sins.
In Hindu lore, an eclipse is an evil moment because Rahu, the
head of a giant demon whom the gods once eut in two, is trying to
avenge himself by eattag up the sun.
IT’LL BE A BLOWOUT
BANNING, Calif.,, Feb. 25.—(AP)—There’s an old story about
a hostess who wrote an Army captain asking for “the pleasure of
your company” at dinner. ’
And the whole company came.
Miss June Hedgpath, manager of a grill here, has the same
problem.
Last December, hearing the Marines in Korea wanted letters,
she wrote four of them. During the correspondence she offered to
give them a homecoming party when their outfit returns next
month.
So far, Miss Hdgpath reports, she has received nearly 100 letters
accepting the invitation. “I'm going to give that party, somehow,”
Miss Hedgpath says. “The boys expect it.”
Russell Favorite Son
For President's Race
By WILBUR JENNINGS
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—(AP)
—Sen. Richard B. Russell will own
up to no political tag other than
“Georgia Democrat.”
The 54-year-old bachelor some
times has been called anti-Tru
man. Maybe he is. But that would
be difficult to prove.
He has been linked on occas
sions with the State’s Rights
group of Southern Democrats.” But
in 1948 he turned down a bid from
this group and probably had more
to do than anyone else with keep
ing Georgia in the regular party
fold.
Right now it appears that Rus
sell may be the man to whom anti-
Truman southerners will look for
jeadership if President Truman
runs again. Tthis may or may not
be of his own choosing, But he
won't say one way or the other.
Declaration Urged.
Some Southern Democrats have
been urging Russell to make a
public declaration of his stand.
They want him to start picking up
delegate strength for the July De
mocratic National Convention. ;
. But despite the urging, he hasn’t
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1952,
said a thing publicly.
Asked by a reporter if this
“pressure” wasn’t greater than in
1948, Russell would say only, “I'm
deeply flattered by it all.”
In the 1948 Democratic conven=
tion as the south’s choice over
Truman because of the Civil
Rights issure, Russell collected 263
votes. But he was running as a
regular. And after Truman won
the nomination, Russell remained
a regular.
As chairman 'of the Senate
Armed Service Committee Rus
sell has gone along with Presi
dent Truman’s defense build-up.
But he has differed on domestic
issues.
Russell will tell you that he is
against the Brannan farm filan,
Socialized medicine and statehood
for Alaska and Hawaii. I
On the other hand, Russell has
led the fight for such Truman=
advocated programs as rural elec
trification, school lunches, parity
for farm products and soil conser
vation.
Powerful Veice
Russell has been a powerful
voice for Agriculture on the im-.
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Atlantic Powers End Historic Talks
After Passing Master Military Plan
Negotiators Try
Compromise In
Munsan Parleys
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Feb., 25—
(AP)—U. N. truce negotiators
moved to break the deadlock over
selection of a neutral truce su
pervisory commission today by
offering to withdraw their nomi
nation of Norway if the Reds
would give up Russia.
Under the Allied proposal be
hind-the-lineg inspections during
an armistice would be made by
representatives of only two neu
tral nations for each side rather
than three.
The U. N. would be represented
by Switzerland and Sweden; the
Communists by Czechoslovakia
and Poland.
Allied staff officers asked the
Reds to study the proposal care
fully and reply later.
The only immediate reaction
came from Chinese Col, Pu Shan
who declared: “You have no just
ification to object to the nations
nominated by our side which are
in compliance with the definition
of neutral nations.”
Staff officers working on prison
er exchange made no headway
during a 58-minute session. Col.
George W, Hickman called it a
“completely fruitless” meeting,
The Communists complained
that four Allied aircraft flew over
the neutral Panmunjom: confer
ence site Sunday. The Reds de
manded an investigation.
- “It appears that your side has
taken no action to restrict your
aircraft,” said Col. Tsai Cheng.
~ Col. Andrew J. Kinney told Tsai
“we note your statement. We will
take it up later after we get the
facts.”
In addition to proposing a com
promise supervisory commission
plan, Allied staff officers submit
ted a re-phrased paragraph cov
ering the inspection of armament
ge}naeggrnu during a“truce.
t provided that neutral teams
would be permitted to check
equipment only enough “to prop
erly insure” that it was of the
same type being replaced.
The plan specifies that “this
shall not be construed as auth
orizing inspections or examinations
of any secret designs or char
acteristics of any combat aircraft,
armored vehicles, weapons and
ammunition.”
The Reds, who advocate a more
thorough inspection, replied only:
“We have fully expressed our
views on this matter.”
The staft officers made no
progress toward agreeing on the
number of ports of entry to be
checked on each side.
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Religious Talk
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Set For Tonight
Adair Hickman of New York
City will deliver a free public lec
ture on Christian Science tonight
at 8 o'clock at the Georgian Ho
tel. His address will deal with the
Science of Christianity, under the
title “Christian Science: The Rev
elation of Scientific Being.”
Mr. Hickman is a member of
the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts. He is being pre
sented here under the auspices of
Christian Science Society, Athens.
He will be introduced by Jule G.
Liddell, First Reader of the local
Chyistian Science group. The pub
lic is invited.
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LOVE FINDS WAY AT LONG LAST—Seventy-six-year
old John Denton places the ring on the finger of his
bride, Mrs. Bertha Dillen, 71, as the couple is wed in
Atlanta to culminate a romance that had been inter
rupted more than 50 years ago. The newlyweds became
engaged in Indiana in 1898, but when Bertha’'s people
told her she was too young to marry, Denton joined the
Army and went off to war. After being widowed Mrs.
Dillen traced Denton through Army records and came
South from Indiana to marry him.— (AP Photo.)
lke Is Told Of Long Range Plans
For 100 Division Army By 1954
BY STAN SWINTON
LISBON, PORTUGAL, Feb. 256.—(AP)—The 14 Atla
ntic Allies today end a historic meeting which produced a
master plan for Western Europe’s defense. :
Just two problems remained at the final sessions of the
North Atlantic Council :
I—~How much the U. S. will pay
of an estimated 450 million dollar
“infrastructure” program to string
air basis, communication networks
and headquarters across Europe,
The best guesses were at least 40
per cent, -
2—Streamlining of the NATO
civil and economical organization
under a permanent Secretary-
General, "
A big three meeting on Ger
many and Austria tommorrow
holds U, S. Secretary of State
Acheson, French Foreign Minister
Robert Schuman and British For=
eign Secretary Anthony Eden here,
They will talk chiefly about lift
ing Allied controls on defeated
West Germany’s war industries
and try to settle the final size and
form of its cont.sbution to Western
defense.
Most of the other 1,500 dele
gates and advisérs today leave
Lisbon now celebrating carnival
time amidst flowering almond
trees—and scatter to their home
lands.
Successful Meet
They felt they had held the most
successful of the North Atlantic
Council’s nine meetings. It told
Eisenhower for the first time just
what forces he can count on to re
sist any Red army aggression,
By the end of 1952, he is due to
have in Europe a 50-division,
4,000-aircraft fighting force with
strong naval support.
In 1954, this is to grow to about
88 division, by the economists’ cal
culations, or 100 divisions, if the
military men’s full target is
achieved. This three-year pro
gram, the economists estimated,
will cost western taxpayers a to
ta%of 300 billion dollars.
Gisenhower will assume impor=
tant’ new responsibilities. His
SHAPE headquarters will mush
‘room as Allied forces from Ice
‘land to the Dardanelles are uni
fied under a single command.
An estimated 200-plus airbases
will provide insurance against
sudden attack by Russia’s Korean
proved jets or new long-range
bombers.
The Atlantic Council also gave
its blessing here to the European
defense community (EDC). That
is a plan for a supra-national Eu=
ropean force made up of French
Italian, West German, Belgian,
Dutch and Luxembour fighting
men,
Eisenhower would be in com=
mand, just as he would over U. S.,
British and other forces commit
ted to NATO bu outside EDC.
The European army is a long
way from existence still. First
each nation must sign a treaty.
Then each parliament must ratify
it.
Only then can German recruit
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ing begin,
The Lisbon decisions mean new
sacrifices for citizens of Allied
powers., Taxes probably will have
to be stepped up to meet spiraling
costs of the atomic age defense.
French Premier Edgar Faure,
for instance, said today France's
taxes will be upped 15 per cent—
instead of 10 per cent, as previous
ly planned.
Legions Of Men
Legions of men must don uni
forms—and quickly.
Eisenhower now has less than
30 divisions combat-ready or
available within two weeks. Twen
ty or more must be built within
10 t;mmths to meet the Lisbon tar
gets.
Today under 1,000 fighters and
bombers, mostly U, S, are in
Europe, The year's goal is four
timés that,
Despite difficulties ahead, sen
ior U. S. officiais were heartened
over the Lisbon meeting. They
believe Europe’s steps toward self
defense wiil lezsen the difficulty
of winning U. 8. congressional ap
proval for President Truman’s $7,-
900,000,000 request for foreign aid
next month,
The big question Congress is ex
pected to ask is, “Can Europe de
fend itself if the Lisbon targets
are met?”
The generals reportedly feel
that not until 1954—the most cri
tical year for peace, they believe
—will Europe be ready to throw
back and crush a Communist as
sault ‘in terms of conventional
weapons.
Atomic weapons might change
that picture. There was an indirect
hint of this in a temporary coun=-
cil committee report released yes=
terday. It recognized Allied stra
teglc air power as already a pow=
erful deterrent to aggression. Pre
sumably the strategigb ircraft
could carry atom bombs % Eu
rope’s safety demanded.
The council-endorsed TCC re
port called for establishment of a
board to blueprint the needs for
airbases and communication lines
to support the army. It also would
recommend how costs would be
shared.
Nine Requests
In addition, the 14 member na
tions, including the newcomers
Greece and Turkey, were asked
to:
1. Encourage general economic
expansion, 3
2. Increase raw material pro
duction and control the use of ma
terials,
3. Prevent inflation.
4, Ease manpower shortage by
letting countries needing workers
bring men in from countries like
Italy with labor surpluses.
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P. J. Smith Asks
Receiver Post
P J. Smith today qualified with
the Clarke County Democratic
Executive Committee as a can
didate for an endorsement term
as County Tax Receiver in the
County Demaqcratic Primary to be
held on March 26.
Mr. Smith was elected Tax Re
ceiver in the 1948 Democratic Pri
mary and took office on January
1, 1949,
A native of Madison County,
Mr. Smith served two ferms as
Madison County Tax Receiver and
did not offer as a candidate after
so in order to enter the Univer
sity of Georgia Law School, where
he graduated in the class of 1910.
Except for a few years, he has
been a resident of Athens since
1912,
Mr. Smith resides at 132 Clover
street. Mr, and Mrs. Smith have
three children, two sons, E. V.
Emith and C. S. Smith, who live
in Athens, and a daughter, Mrs.
?. T. Chandler of Manasquan, N.
He is a member of the Mill
Shore Baptist Church in Madison
County.
Sun Is Eclipsed
3 Minutes Today
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Feb, 25—
AP) — While devout Moslems
prayed and Hindu women hid in
their homes in feai, the moon
blacked out the sun for three
minutes today. Scientists were ju
bilant over near perfect weather
for recording the total eclipse
here.
For the three precious-minutes,
70 scientists from 10 countries
worked feverishly at the great
mass of complicated astroniomical,
photographic and electronic equip~
men. they had assembled in this
capital of the Sudan. If an as
tronomer is lucky, he may see an
hour of total eclipses in his entire
lifetime.
The scientists hope {0 find more
information about what is around
and behind the sun, further checks
on Einstein’s theory of relativity,
and to make corrections in the
world’s majis. This will come aft
er calculation and research based
on today’s observations.
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Taft Confident
Of MacArthur’s
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Election Suppert
By The Associated Press .
Senator Taft of Ohio has ioid
colleagues he is confident Gen,
[Douglas MacArthur will give hina |
solid support for the Republican !
presidential nomination when the .
chips are down at the Chicago
convention,
| Taft would not comment, bus
friends say he isn’t worried abous’
.reports MacArthur might bed
' thinking of himself as a pessible |
|nominee if a deadlock develops '
between Taft and Gen. Dwight D,
' Eisenhower,
Evidence of Taft’s confidence in
MacArthur was seen yesterday .
(Sunday) when he said on a m-g
vision (CBS) program he
the general addressing the conven
tion. If he does, Taft added, he
probably would be the keynote
speaker.
But he sidestepped a direcs
answer to whether he plans to
name MacArthur head of the jeint
chiefs of staff if elected., He
he hasn't been elected yet, '
was not announcing any appoint
ments.
Taft’s supporters regard as signi«
| ficant that MacArthur did net de-,
ny News-Week Magazine's article
last week that he was g Taft back~
er.
In his statement, MacArthur re=
ferred to what he ecalled *“mais
leading headlines, captions and
advertisements” of the article. He
said these led to “erroneous specu
lation. on my political views.”
' Won't Support Ike
As for Eisenhower, MacArthur
said: “I do not support his candi
dacy for political office as I have
no slightest knowledge of his poli
tical beliefs or his views on many
grave issues which now confront
our nation,”
The Maryland citizens = for
Eisenhower yesterday wired Mac- i
Arthur views claimed to be those
of Eisenhower on several foreign
and domestic issues, and
MacArthur to clarify his pesition
on the same matters. !
Senator Duff (R-Pa.), an ardent
lEisenhower man, said yesterday
ir a radio interview (Gannett
News Service) that if anyone in
'the world can win a presidentia
'nomination without campaigning !
for it, the general can. !
Eisenhower has said he would !
accept the nomipation, but will
not campaign for it.
Duff said he feels the general
can override party regulars to win
the nomination, and then go on
to “crack the solid south” im No
vember. -
But the nation’s new price boss,
former Gov, Ellis Arnall of Geor
gia, said in another radio (NBC)
interview he didn’t believe any
Republican—not even Eisenhower
—could carry a single southern
state in the election.
President Truman’s friends
were reported looking around for
a way to beat off what some of
them now regard as a threat of
victory by Senator Kefauver eof
Tennessee in the March 11 New
Hampshire primary,
One close friend is reporfed to
be ‘“deeply concerned” over the
outcome, and hopes something ean
be done to buck things up for
Truman there.
Grady Seagraves
Taken By Death
Grady R. Seagraves, one of
Athens’ most popular citizens, died
in a local hospital this morning at
4 o’clock after an illness of three
weeks.
Services are to be conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from Prince Avenue Baptist
Church with the pastor, Rev. T. R.
Harvill, officiqting. The body will
lie in state in Bridges Funeral
Home until the hour for the ser
vices.
Burial will follow in Oconee Hill
Cemetery. Pall-bearers will be
Allen Hogan, A. H. Brackett, Har
ry Elder, Chappelle Matthews, L.
L. Lester, Joe Burton, Bryan
Lurnpkin and Clifford McLeroy.
Mr. Seagraves is survived by
his wife, Mrs, Willie Mae Hollo~
way Seagraves, Athens; two
daughters, Miss Laura Seagraves,
Athens, and Mrs. S. L. Maddox,
Gainesville, Ga.; sister, Mrs. Guy
Wortham, Athens; brother, How
ard Seagraves, Athens; two grand
children, Laura Irene Maddox and
Stedham L. Maddox, jr., both of
Gainesville, Ga.
A native of Athens and a life
long resident here, Mr. Seagraves
was born December 22, 1906, the
son of the late Willie B, and Anna
Bradley Seagraves. He was a mem~
ber of a widely known family and
attended local schools.
Married In 1925
In 1925 he married Miss Willie
Mae Helloway, a member of a pro
minent Winder family. For several
years he wag connected with the
Gulf Qil Company and was the
first operator of the Rainbow Ser- |
vice Station, located across the =~
street from the Ge::gmn Hotel.
He later purchased the business
he was operating at the time of
his death, Seagraves Barbecue
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