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Vol. CXX, No. 149,
Union-Negro Groups
¢eeking FEPC Action
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BY EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
CHICAGO, July 17, — (AP) —
cenator Richard B, Russell ran up
2 no-surrender flag today on a
key civil rights i‘ss?e after re
ireating from his five-year-old
nosition on the Taft-Hartley Act.
“1 will never be for any jail
centence, compulso:y FEPC,” the
Georgia senator told this reporter
.s he laid plans for the stretch
drive in his bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Political Bombshell
Russell set-off something of a
political bumbshell late yesterday
by declaring:
«The Taft-Hartley Act must be
supplanted by new legislation in
the field of labor relations.”
That sounded a lot like Presi
dent Truman and other stalwarfs
of the New Deal and “Fair Deal”
who bitferly fought the labor
management act produced by the
Republican 80th Congress.
nussell voted for the T-H Act
alone with most other Southern
Democrats when it went through
the Senate. Then he voted to over
ride Trumen’s veto to write it into
law.
Did his shift in this field signal
a new stand on the touchy issue
of whether Congress should un
dertake to ban discrimination in
the hiring and firing of Negroes
by setting up a fair employment
practices commission (FEPC)?
Russell quickly pointed to a
sentence in his statement on Taft-
Hartley.
Clarified Statement
«I anr eternally opposed to puni
tive legislation of any kind,” it
read.
And, he added in the interview
sny FEPC bill with enforcement
{)owers would be punitive legisla
10n.
In bis T-H statement Russell
said that if he were®™ nominated
ar.l elected he would call in “the
best minds of the country” among
labor and management leaders to
frame & replacement.
Folk Opera At
Chapel Tonight
“Old Scratch” will hold forth
against Daniel Webster tonight in
University Chapel with the pre
sentation of Stephen Vincent Be
ret's folk'opera “The Devil and
Daniel Webster.” The opera, pro
duced and staged by Byron War
ner, with members of the Sum
mer Chorus and voice students at
the University will be the regu
lar weekly Music Appreciation
feature for the week. Time for the
opening bars will be 8:30 and the
Chapel will be transformed into a
temporary Opera House for the
evening. ' >
Musie for the folk opera was
written by Douglas Moore and is
well adapted to the words and
tory which deals with the sale of
a soul to the devil. Jabez Stone,
who made the bad bargain with
“old Scratch” realizes his mistake
when the Devil calls for payment,
'n panie, he seeks aid from Dan
lel Webster, famous orator.
Though things look bad for Ja
bez when the jury to hear the case
rgued turns out to be a motiley
crew of renegades, traitors, and
worse, Daniel manages to sway
ven the ghostley scoundrels with
his e;oquence and the devil is
routed.
Members of the opera’s cast in
clude: Carlton English, Scratch;
Jabez Stone, Paul Kea; Louis
Gritfith, Daniel Webster; Ethel
Skelton, Mary Stone; Bob Flan
ers, Justice Hathorne; Bertram
Kelso, Miser Stephens; W. C.
Owen, fiddler and clerk; Nat Fraz
er, Walter Butler; Savier Lenoir,
old man; and Juanita Tucker, old
woman.,
Ernest Edwards will play the
blano and Miss Nolee Mae Duna
vay will be_ at the organ for to
night’s production.
"The Devil and Daniel Webster”
Is one of the best-known works
of the contemporary composers
vast array of contributions to the
music of Americana. Influenced
10 a large degree by Stephen Vin
tnt Benet, Archibald MacLeish,
nd Vachel Lindsay of the literary
vorld, Mr. Moore’s music is sub
tle and meaningful while remain
g In the background—bringing
the full import of the story to the
listeners’ ear,
Students and townspeople are
cordially invited by the Music De
bariment to attend tonight's un
bfual presentation at Music Ap-
Teclalon, instigated and directed
.7 Hugh Hodgson, chairman of
- ”’t"el‘SitY’s Fine Arts De
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"Lip Service"
Is Condemned
By NORMAN WALKER
| CHICAGO, July 17— (AP) —
Union labor and Negro leaders
called today on Democratic plat
form drafters for assurances that
civil rights pledges will be car
ried out, once they are written.
Advocates of a civil rights plank
“at least as strong” as thai in the
1948 Democratic platform com
plained so newsmer "hat the party
had not made o its prom
ises of four year &
Want b’ ’é’ Mmance
James B. (% $ Secretary-treas
urer of th >, said “we're not
going to 1&> sfied with a grom
ise like ¥ ¢ from the 1948 con
ventio© %, want performance.”
A~ a¥al of the red-hot scrap
betw.¢§? ‘Northern and Southern
Democrats on the civil rights is
sue is shaping up.
But it is too.early to tell wheth
er feeling will mount as high as
it did at the Philadelphia conven=-
ion in 1948 when many Southern
delegates walked out of the con
vention, later forming the States
Rights party.
The Dixie contingent this year
is hopeful of achieving a compro
mise—something short of the fed
eral Fair Employment Practices
Commission with enforcement
powers recommended in the ’4B
platform.
. Besides the FEPC, the Northern
group wants party pledges for fed
eral laws outlawing lynching, ban
ning state poll taxes and racial
segregation,
Walter White, head of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People; Roy
L. Reuther, political action coor
dinator for the ClO’s Auto Work
ers Union, and Stanley Gewirtz
executive committee chairman of
the Americans for Democratic Ac
tion, carried the ball for the civil
rights proponents before the 21~
member Democratic platform
(Continued On Page Two)
Chapel Program
Noses GEA Day
Today was GEA BDay at the Uni
versity of Georgia, -
At an 11 a. m. Chapel program,
Mr. Frank Hughes, president of
the Georgia Education Associa=
tion, spoke to University faculty
on the program of the Associa
tion.
The Chapel program was de
signed to provide for a better un
derstanding of the Georgia Edu
catigs# Association as a profession
al organization for teachers in
public and higher education, its
program and plans.
Also on the program were the
University’s dean of faculties, Dr.
Alvin Biscoe, who is presideni{ of
the University’s GEA unit; Mr, J.
L. Yaden, executive secretary of
the Teachers Retirement Eystem;
Mr. Tom Boyd, director of the
10th district GEA; Mr. Ira Aaron,
vice-president of the University
GEA; Mrs. Gladys Darling, presi
dent of the department of elemen
tary school principals of the GEA;
Mrs. Helen Herring, president of
the GEA’s classroom teachers as
sociation; and Dr, J. A. Williams,
assistant to the University presi
dent. ; :
Music was provided by Miss
Nolee Mae Dunaway, and singing
was directed by Mr. Douglas Rum
ble. University Assistant Chaplain
William Moyle gave the invoca
tion.
Playground Still Gives
Kids Summer Pleasure
By R. H. DRIFTMIER, JR.
In just four more weeks the City
Recreation Department will close
down its eight playgrounds for the
summer. So all the boys and girls
who have not had an opportunity
to participate in the activities held
each afternoon will have to hurry
and make the best of the remain
ing weeks of the program.
Yesterday, your correspondent
visited the Fairview playground
located on the yard of the East
Athens School for colored. The
visit was made in order to gather
first-hand ideas on the kind of
activities that the youngsters are
doing at the present time and
also to see how many of the chil
dren were enjoying the program.
He did not come away disillus
ioned by any means. Callie Wink
field, supervisor of the Fairview
playground, has been doing a mar
velous job of working with the
children and teaching them to be
come adept in handicrafts and
other forms of play.
As proof of her abilities and the
success of the program, she has
163 boys and girls on her roll that
come regularly every day.
Children’s Activities
Recently these children have
been modeling in ¢lay, which they
%lt from a creek near the grounds.
ey have also been learning to
color sand with tempera and trans
from it onto paper in the form of
sand paintings— some of which
are very creditable. Another of
the chillren’s useful activities is
the making of aprons. After sew
ing the apron together themselves
they then apply their knowledge
g textile painting which Miss
inkfield has given them, and
finish the apron with original pic-
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REAL TRAFFIC STOPPER—TooO hot to
bother to stand up, Babe, a 70-year-old
elephant with a traveling show, lay down
on a main street in Lewiston, Maine, for a
20-minute snooze. Refreshed after the
brief nap, Babe then elimbed back into
Administration Plans Reshuffle
Of Foreign Aid After Funds Cut
Georgia Granted
Part Of School
Building Funds
WASHINGTON July 17 —(AP)
—Georgia was granted $34,568,-
705 and Alabama $3,709,884 out
of 67 million dollars allocated by
the government for school con
struction in federally affected de
fense areas.
Announcement was xinade yes
terday by the Federal Security
Agency’s Office of Education that
the Vtignds :;;e belzen lsethmlde to
provide grants ocal school dis
tricts l&‘%b n%& ‘school build
ings in crowdéd towns boomed by
defense activities.
Here is the breakdown of Geor
gia and Alapbama projects for
wheih funds have been reserved:
Georgia——Board of Public Ed
ucation & Orghanagé—Bibb coun
ty, $889,047; Douglas, $67,5600;
Moultrie, $436,464; Clayton coun
ty, $175,966; Marietta, $9,210; Long
county, $15,000; Hogansville,
$132,552; Cobb county, $405,003;
Peach county, $178,768; Houston
county, $345,720; Muscogee coun
ty, $1,656,29; Upson county, sllO,-
840; Glynn county, $151,345. Total
$34,568,705.
Alabama — Huntsville, $625,-
859; Anniston, $170,000; Macon
county, $385,000;. Calhoun county,
..620,689; Enterprise, $101,397;
Talladega county, $199,344; Mobile
county, $1,101,736; Talladega city,
$211,531; Jacksonville, $71,600;
Sheffield, $48,353; Phenix City,
$204,375. Total $3,709,884.
Tentative Approval
The government pointed out
that reservation of funds constitut
es only tentative approval. The
announcement said the actual
grants will not be made until af
ter the government completes en
gineering and other surveys. A
spokesman for the FSA said, how=-
ever, that in most cases grants are
made for projects for which funds
have been reserved.
play horseshoes or softball while
the little ones engage in the handi
craft work. All of them are doing
something, though, under expert
guidance and that is the import
ant factor in all the playgrounds
all over the city. Patience, under
standing, and helpful guidance
equals a good time is the formula
used by all the supervisors or the
eight city playgrounds. And one
look at the attendance figures
proves the success of formula’s
use.
Although the activities at the
various playgrounds may var
a little as to the games playe({
ete., they are basically the same—
not too much strenuous exercise
in the sun, a lot of guiet games,
singing now and then, and a full
afternoon of recreation.
Quiet Gathering
Some of the boys and girls in the
program gather under one of the
trees on the play lots and play
checkers, and monopoly, while
others may be content to make up
games among themselves. Every
body lis always having a good time
and attendence is entirely volunt
ary and free.
So, if your boy or girl has free
you can take them to one of the
following playgrounds for whole
some, supervised recreation:
(white) Lyndon House, Hoyt
street; Dudley Field, Oconee
street; and the Park View Apart
ments on Broad Street. Super
visors are, respectively, Mrs. Rob
erta Elliott, Tip Almond, and Peg
gy Fulcher.
Sallie Winkfield, C. H. Lyons,
Jr., and Emma Hill direct the ac
tivities at the tolloswing colored
sites; East Athens School (Fair
view), Peter stréet; dßroad‘ tAcres
partments on br 5
the i i ol pidcie i
) C avenue.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Next Congress
May Get Appeal
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON, July 17.—(AP)
—A reshuffle of slashed foreign
aid funds and a possible new ap
peal to the next Congress for more
‘money wcre forecast today by ad
'ministration officials. A
Congress cut President Tru
man’s foreign military and eco
nomic aid request g 25 percent,
to $6,031,947,760. Im signing the
appropriation bill Tuesday, the
President termed the glash “the
falsest kind of economy” because
of the effect he said it would have
on defense plans of the Western
Allies.
Necessary Steps
~ Tackling the job of m
down previous estimates, offici
'said = skigmer & among -the steps
‘under consideration:
1. Shifting part of the $3,128,-
224,750 earmarked for military
aid to Eurcpe to ‘“defense sup
port” — economic assistance — of
hard-pressed Britain. Last year
the British received 350 million
dollars. About 596 million was
budgeted for the 1953 fiscal year
beginning July 1. The legislation
permits such a transfer of up to
10 percent within the total Euro
pean allotment,
2. An appeal to the next Con
gress for a deficiency appropria
tion to increase Point Four aid to
South Asia, particularly India.
Congress cut the South Asia total
by 60 percent to 67 million dol
lars. The result ig that only about
44 million dollars will be left for
India, compared with last year’s
50 million. g‘he administration had
requested 118 million for fiscal
1953 largely with the aim of bol
stering Prime Minister Nehru's
regime against Communism.
Urgent Situation
The India situation is consider
ed most urgent, as terms of the
act prevent a transfer of funds
from other purpeses. Meantime &
(Continued On Page Two)
James Ward In
Serious Stafe
James Ward was reported in
serious condition this morning in
the Athens General Hospital from
head injuries incurred during a
fight Tuesday night.
Clarence James Brewer, of
Jackson County, was tried this
morning in Recorder’s Court, in
cennection with the incident, and
bound over to the next session of
Superior Court. He wag tried on
the charge of assault with intent to
murder. Although his bond was set
at $2,000, he is being held pending
further development in Ward’s
condition.
SIMILAR NAMES
Due to a similarity in names,
embarrassment was caused Mr.
and Mrs, Clarence Brewer of the
Danielsville Road in connection
with the story in yesterday’s paper
telling of injuries inflicted on
James Ward, 21, by a Clarence
Brewer.
The man being held in Clarke
County jail, pending outcome of
Ward’s injuries, is Clarence James
Brewer, a resident of Jackson
County and with no connection
to the Clarence Brewer residing
on the Danielsville Road. The Ban
ner-Herald 1s happy to make this
clarification and hopes that it
will clear up any doubt as to
which Brewer is the man in coun
ty jail.
FOURACRE SPEAKS FRIDAY
Interested parents have been
extended a cordial invitation to
attend an address by Dr. Maurice
Fouracre, director of the Special
Education Department, Teachers
College, Columbia Universifx, at
10 a. m., Friday, in Pound Audi
torium.
Dr. Fouracre is in Athens to
participate in the University of
Georgia’s program for the train
ing of teachers of exceptional
childten. He winm talkx F;éday
on oblems faced
PAEb oF! FRilen o aoecat
problems. .
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952,
the big trailer at right from which she
had backed to grab a little shut-eye. Ele-
Ehants and people in New England ¥ve
een sweltering several days with the
temperature in the high ninetics.— (AP
Wirephoto.)
Speed Record Is
Set By Navy's
New Rocket Ship
By BILL BECKER
LOS ANGELES, July 17—(AP),
The hottest plane in the free
world, the D-568-2 Skyrocket,
hold a new speed record of l,m
miles an hour, says the Navy.
And the hottest test pilot, Biil
Bridgeman, says zooming at that
speed is “no different than flying
750 miles per hows." :
} " “T'he veal kick comes, Bridgeman
‘said in &n ‘exclusive mfhv
last night, when the roc ro
pelled hummingbird runs out of
power at a record altitude of 79,-
494 feet and swoops down 15
miles for a dead-stick landing on
the desert. !
Unprecedented Heights
Both the speed and altitude
marks were confirmed here by
Secretary of the Navy Dan A.
Kimball. Bridgeman flew . the
Douglas-built rocket ship to un
precedented heights last August
7 and set the speed record Au
gust 15 in tests at Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif.
The Navy previously had ad
mitted only that the research
plane had “climbed at 1,000 miles
an hour.”
In all, Bridgeman made six
rocket flights last summer after
the Skyrocket was launched at
35,000 feet from a B-29 mother
ship.
Each time, the 85 -year -old
Douglas test pilot said, the needie
nosed 40 - foot ship rammed
smocthly through the sonic bar
rier—which is reached at about
660 miles an hour at 35,000 feet
and above, In pressurized suit and
cockpit, Bridgeman says he was
Fnot especially conscious of
speed.”
Speed Not Noticeable
“You notice the high speed on
ly when you make a mistake,” the
ex-Navy bomber pilot said, “then
she really jumps and gets hard to
control. Generally, though, there’s
too much blue sky and so many
things to do that the speed isn’t
noticeable.”
The record speed was made in
level flight after the Skyrocket
had reached the apex of her
climb. It was measured by in
struments in the plane and radar
ground readings carefully checked
by the Navy Bureau of Aeronau
tics.
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MYSTERY OF THE MINE SHAFT — This bedraggled
and snarling collie has kept a week-long vigil at the
mouth of an abandoned and water-filled mine shaft near
Joplin, Mo., much to the mystification of local inhabi
tants. An attempt to poison the dog has spurred efforts
to drain shaft to see if it held a human body. A special
pump has been rigged to speed the operation. . Rodney
Heed, 5, of Neosho, has been one of the many who have
cared for the dog.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Truman's No Retreat Edict
Sends HopefulsOnNew Path
Georgia Reaction
Favors Russell
Stand On T-H
ATLANTA, July 17T — (AP) =~
Senator Richard B. Russell’s an
nouncement that he favored re
peal of the Taft-Hartley law
pleased Georgia labor leaders but
a management spokesman viewed
it as “political expediency.”
No Comment
Governor HKHerman Talmadge,
leaving for Chicago to attend the
Democratie national convention,
said he had no comment on Rus~
sell’s statement that the law
should be supplanted by new leg~
islation.
Henry Chandler, secretary of
the Georgia Federation of Labor,
said he was elated.
“It bears out labor’s pgsition,”
Chandler sald, “when a man of
Senator Russell’s integrity and ex
perience on legislative matters
comes out and says the law is
wrong.”
Russell vote&! for the Taft-
Hartley law and to override Pres
ident Truman's veto of the bill.
He has said he voted for the meas
ure with reservations and has felt
for some time that it needed to be
changed.
Cicero Kendrick, editor of the
Journal of Labor and CIO spokes
man, joined Chandler in-approv=
ing the Russell statement.
Management Reaction
A management spokesman who
declined to permit use of his name
called the announcement political
expediency and added:
“The general attitude of man
agement is we don't know what
chanqlgs he advocates. Even Sen
ator Taft admitted some changes
were needed,
“It could be that Senafor Rus
sell merely wants to change the
e of the law.”
Aderhold Speaks
At Ag Session
..JACKSON LAKE, Ga.—Presi
dent O. C. Aderhold #f the Uni
versity of Georgia outlined the
role of the University in Georgia's
agricultural development here this
week.
He spcke. to the State Confer
ence of Teachers of Vocational
Agriculture, pointing out that
“more than 90 per eent of the 325
teachers here for the conference
are the product of the University
of Georgia.”
“The role of the University,”
he said, “is to help those who live
on the farms of Georgia to deal
more intelligently with those ever
increasing complex problems of
farm life.”
He listed three major types of
activity through which the Uni
versity seeks to achieve this goal
—training of personnel, research,
and dissemination of information.
“The University,” he said
“through its extensive program
of experiment stations and general
research, is on the forefront at
tacking all of the important farm
problems which face the farms of
our state. More than $2,000,000 is
being spent annuannly in agriculs
tural and homemaking research.”
McCARTHY SILENCED
WASHINGTON( July 17—(AP)
—Sen, MeCarthy (R-Wis.) will be
unable to do much-if any-public
speaking for about six weeks.
A spokesman at the Naval
Medical Center at nearby Bethes
da, Md., where McCarthy is ex
pected to remain a week after
yesterday’s minor operation for
sinus trouble, said the senator
probably wouldn’t be able to make
speeches for some time.
lod’bm; by 35,000 People In Athens Trads Area
Floor Fight Seen
On Civil Rights
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO July 17 —(AP) —
President Truman’s fighting de
claration against any convention
“betrayal” of his political ereed
paced a new trend among De=~
mocratic presidential aspirants to
day.
Without any apparent advance
knowledge of Truman’s blunt de
maned for endorsement of his
“Fair Deal” program, at least two
candidates moved to put them
selves in a positicn—if they get
the nomination—to lead a fl%ht
against what they called “Republ
icanaction.”
Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor
gia, plagued by his designation as
the anti-Truman candidate of the
South, bid for Northern labor and
“Fair Deal” support with a de
nunciation of the Taft-Hartley law
he helped enact.
Densunced GOP
Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes
see, self-tabbed people’s choice for
the nomination, called for a fight
on what he labeled “Republican
isolationism and reaction.”
Their declarations seemed to in
dicate a developing pattern of
thinking among the !?resldential
hopefuls that the e%ublicam’
choice of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower will force the Democrats to
pick a nominee who can call him
sellf a progresslve.
n words that paralleled Tru
man's offictal message to the qon
vention delegates, Kefauver told a
news conference festerdayx
“The Democratic party must
continue to be the liberal, pro
gressive party of the nation. We
cannot retreat on either foreifin
policy or in the domestic field.
Truman said in his message, to
be printed in the officlal conven
tion program handed to every one
of the 1,576 delegates, that no other
political party has “done so n*uch,
so well, for so many people.” He
declared;
No Retreat
“There must be no turning back
or faltering on the great course
our party has pioneered, There
must be no betrayal of the New
Deal and Fair Deal”
Matching the call of E;‘senhowor
for a “shining promise” erusade
by the Republicans, Truman
sounded the bugle notes of a
“burning faith” crusade by the
Democrats,
“There will be voices ealling
us to turn aside from the path to
vietory,” the President sald. “We
cannot afford to be begulled by
the weary or the fainthearted.
“Our answer must be that we
will not compromise with thc‘
forces of defeatism, or reaction, or
fear—that we will not retreat
from the {reat humanitarian prin
ciples that have made our country |
what it is today.”
Viee President Alben W. Bark
ley, whose 74 years mag' not stop
him from becoming a formidable
candidate for the presidential
nomination, echoed the President’s
demand that the party stand on-its
record in office.
Reciting what he said were Tnaim
made by farmers, laber, business
(Continued On Page Four)
Boston Student
Admits Shoofing
BOSTON, July 17—Police Capt.
Francis Wilson said a 29-year-old
Back Bay man confessed orally
last night to the shooting of pretty
Eileen Fahey of New York on the
Columbia University campus early
Monday morning.
Miss Fahey, a bookkeeper for
the American Physical Society,
was shot to death while sitting at
her office desk reading a letter
from her marine boyfriend in Ko~
rea.
Refused His Work
Wilson said Bayard Peaks, a
Boston meat-packing plant em
ploye, told him he went to New
York “to kill someone” in the so
ciety because the group had re
fused to accept a scientific paper
he wrote on a theory of life.
The paper was entitled “Applied
Electronics to Medicine With the
Aim to Prolong Life.” .
Peaks is a former Northwestern
University student.
Wilson said Peaks told him he
fired three shots at Miss Fahey
when she confronted him as he en
!tered the society’s office at Co
lumbia University.
He told police Miss Fahey said
to him, “You're just standing
there,” as she crumpled to~ the
floor. . l
Peaks told Wilson he then re
loaded the .22 automatic pistol,
fired three more shots at Miss
Fahey and fled.
Miss Fahey’s alleged killer told
several persons in the university
building to call police because “I
just killed a girl” as he fled,
Peaks, an Air Force veteran,
waived extradition and will be
turned over to New York authori- I
ties and taken back to that city,
Wilson said.
Helpful Description
Peaks was traced by a descrip
tion given to police by a universi
ty professor and an elderly wo=
man confronted by the girl's slay
er.
. Two Boston detectives, accom
panied by two detectives from
New York, arrested Peaks at his
Back Bay rooming house.
Marine Pfc. Ronald Leo, 20, of
New York City, the slain girl’s
bey friend, has been granted a 30-
day leave and is flying back to the
United States to attend’ Miss Fa=
hey’s funeral Saturday. i
" HOME ~
EDITION
Steelmen Await
Whife House
Action On Strike
By JOHN MOODY b
PITTSBURGH, July 17-—}o)_
—Philip Murray, president of the
striking CIO United Steelworleers,
waited today for the White laa-o
or industry to take some step to
ward breaking the paralyzing 46«
day-old dispute,
There has been no visible effort
on either side to reach a settle
ment in the economy-strangling
strike since Monday, when negoti
ations arranged by Presidential
Assistant John R. Steelman ended
in deadlock.
Maze Of Rumors
A maze of rumeors sprang up
around the countr); a}t‘wut m‘fi
secret settlement of the str
has idled more than 1 ml:
workers, but Murray brushed
them all aside with:
YThey are without foqndatiu."
or “That simply isn't so.”
Iron Age Magazine, a teade
journal, said Murray’s rejection of
the industry’s compromise offer st
the last peace talks did mot :
with approval of his union
tenants. But union officials seid
Iron Age’s report is without
foundation.
The issue of a union shop, which
would require all workers to fi
the union, or some modified
of it ap{)aared to be the bi’ stam
bling block in the path of a set
tlement, B i
Diverse Feglings
Murray wants compulsor; -
bership, but the lndu:_u'y!zp
ing out for union membership on
a volunta}x;lvl basis only.
Meanwhile, the longest strike in
steel history dii‘ftl along in jts
seventh week. addition to the
idle steelworkers there are -
ly a million workers f\n\%
from industries that o&pond 3
steel for raw material, g
~ The best available estimates by
observers are that helwm:
Illxiavedlolali'r. $ R fike 37
lion dollars wa
‘ the strike started June z.'fiom:
in allied ?dm ies :ave lost an
estimated 35 million dollars a éay
in wages. =
Steel tonnage los ougl
strike ig valued at 01.%,&%},}#
Parents Demand
Wedding Probe
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 17
—(AP)—The governor of Gct
can look for a g{aturo of a
fear-old Florida bride—and with
t 2 w-nplamt from Juvenile
Judge Walter 8. Crltww.
Judie Criswell said esday
the girl was married to a 16-7&-
old dairy hand at Folkston, =
about two weeks ago.
“I am going to write to Gover
nor Talmadge, send him plctures
of these children and ask him to
investigate the Ordinary who
married them,” Criswell said.
7 The fim was described as five
feet tall and weighing about 98
DOUBGE:. = Tel :
Criswell said the boy's gaum
took the couple to Folkston for
the marriage ceremony. ‘They
told me the ehildren were in love
and wanted to get married,” the
judge said.
After the girl's parents reported
the weddirg ot juvenile authori
ties, the ynungsters were itaken
into custody. They had set wup
housekeeping in three - roem
shatk on the dairy :arm where the
boy works,
Names of the youngsfers were
withheld.
THE BARE FACTS
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Irii?r 17 —
(AP)—Here are the bare facts:
Deputy = Sheriff Arthur Willis
halted a car for speeding yester
day morning. In it sat four we
men naked from the waist up.
As the quartet donned bras
sieres, the driver said to Willis:
“Well, men drive bare-chested,
don't they?” &
- Wrote Willis, in a postscript to
his report: s gt
By the way, I forgot te ticket
them for speeding.”
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
hot and humid today, tonight
and Friday with chance of thun
dershowers this afternoon eor
evening and again Friday. Low
tonight 72, high tomorrow 93.
The sun sets tonight at 7:44 and
rises tomorrow at 5:34.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy,
hot and humid this afternoen,
tonight and Friday with widely
scattered afternoon and evening
thundershowers.
TEMPERATURE
Bigheot -« iy wveh dini vin iDB
BOWOb . i s v hs 008
DI, Vive diuk siae ovi BB
Nomml-. .. G
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ... .. :
Total since July 1 .. .u.ne 3
Deficit since Juli' 1.0 0 B
Average July rainfall ~ .. "fit
Total since January 7 %% .. 2097 '
Deficit sin¢a January 1 ... 2.58