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ATT A ATTA nJ QTTHniTTT Rain Stocks: Higher; most change! small. Bonds: Steady: corporate improve. Cotton: Quiet. N.Y. etocks, bonds, J1.S10,-000.

ni nri in uinui lux Rain Thursday, followed by partly cloudy skies Friday. Extremes Thursday: 33 and 45. Frl-day's extremes: 34 and 38. Extremes Wednesday were 34 and 40. For 88 Yean the South's Standard Neicspaper VOL.

LXXXVIH, No. 191 TEL.V WA. 5030 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1936 38 PAGES Price Five Cents Markets TN JJL, mfm JL RALPH More Trade With Peiping Indicated by Ike and Eden Negroes on Cobb Juries. FBI Admils III M'fi Legislature Broadens Anti-Newspaper Bill, Sends It to Governor We Have Lost One of 3 Rs WASHINGTON, Feb. l-While the big highway program which will put even more of America on Investigation Fails To Rack Charges By JACK NELSON The controversial FBI of the Cobb County grand jury By DREW MIDDLETON (CotyrliM ItSI ty Thi tin Ytrk Timet CO WASHINGTON, Feb.

1-The United Stafps and Britain moved slowly but definitely today toward increased world trade with Communist China, A communique issued at the close of the three-day conference said that although trade controls should continue they are to be reviewed now and periodically. This will involve, according to a U.S. source, the application of system failed to support charges In Editorial wheels, and the Eden- Eisenhow-er talks are making the headlines, education remains one of that Negroes had been systemati cally excluded from juries, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Amendment Covers More Small Dailies By M. L.

ST. JOHN The Georgia Legislature broad 1 i i v': I 0 vrr -sy 5 i i In a statement issQed in Wash ington and in Atlanta, the de the topics most studied and discussed by government experts. The plain fact is that the three traditional "Rs," partment reported it had concluded "that juries in Cobb County, Georgia, are now and have i I ened the scope of the administration's newspaper libel venue bill a new criteria to trade with the Peiping regime. This criteria is whether the trade is of assistance to non-Communist nations of the Far East such as Malaya, Ceylon and Indonesia. MARKET FOR RUBBER Each of these countries can find a market for its rubber exports in Communist China.

Although the American source denied that the British delegation headed by Sir Anthony Eden had had its way over trade with Communist China, he admitted that the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd are well pleased with the outcome of the conference. They have reason to be. For Wednesday and sent the proposal to the governor for his signature. The House approved the amend ed bill. 143 to 44, and the SenaU The Constitution Accepts the Challenge The Legislature has passed, at the Griffin administration's behest, a bill which would allow this newspaper to be sued in any of Georgia's 159 counties.

punitive intent of the measure is obvious. It was conceived in vindictiveness and enacted in defiance of the undisputed fact that Georgia's libel laws were already among the most stringent in the nation. It seeks to harass, to hamstring and to intimidate. In this latter purpose, in so far as The Constitution is concerned, it will not be successful. Wo promise our readers to continue our efforts to get and print all the news, regardless of whom it may embarrass.

We assure the taxpayers of Georgia that we shall not relax our vigilance in reporting how and to whom --state money is being spent. What's more, we shall not relinquish our right to comment editorially on the acts of public officials, however much some may seek to punish or to threaten. In short, let no one fail to understand: We accept the Griffin administration's challenge. We refuse to be intimidated. We will continue to do our duty to our readers, to our conscience and to our state.

been, since August, 1954, chosen in a legal manner without unlawful discrimination because of a person's race or color." The statement, in the form of a news release, quoted Acting Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers and noted that U. S.

Atty. James W. Dorsey of the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta) concurred in the report exonerating Cobb County officials of any irregularities in jury selections. RELEASE STATEMENT Dorsey released a copy of the quickly accepted the change. The amendment, offered by House administration floor leader Denmark Groover of Bibb, would make the bill apply to all newspaper corporations which have a circulation of more than 50 Associated Press Wirephoto 3-DAY CONFERENCE CLOSES IN WASHINGTON the United States has also pro- vided powerful support for Brit- Prime Afinister Eden Sipns Joint Stateinent; Eisenhower Watches in more than one county in Geor ish policy in the troubled Middle statement to newsmen in Atlanta gia.

As originally drawn, the bill East. The economy of the United at the same time it was released would apply only to newspaper Kingdom and much of Western Europe increasingly depends on by Rogers in Washington. The. investigation ordered by Asst. Atty.

Gen. Warren Olney III oil resources of the area. corporations which had such circulation in 10 or more counties. WEEKLIES OUT PLEDGE READINESS on Dec. 20, touched off a stormy reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, are slowly but surely being reduced to two reading and 'riting.

And, to be sure, there are critics who say don't do much of a job in those two fields. Latest statistics have horrified educators in' general and scientists more specifically. It likely will shock the average American to know that every year more and more high schools drop the teaching of mathematics. They just don't teach the subject. And, since most state universities by law must admit all graduates of accredited high schools, the students Ret into college.

To be sure, they have conditions. But the state universities, harassed by shortages and by the fact they cannot set up any standards for admission, must take the Cretins along with the others. And colleges, too, are finding ways to permit a student to get through with mighty little math. Latest surveys show that somewhere between 25 and 30 per cent of American high schools today offer no physics or chemistry. A lesser percentage offers no math at all.

Deserts Thereby, say the scientists, who fear for the nation's security, great educational desert areas are being created In which there Is a tragic loss of potential science and engineering students, Hundreds of thousands of American boys and girls never get a chance to learn mathematics and to dis In a joint communique issued Groover said the amendment controversy. Cobb County Sol. Luther Hames Georgia con Groundhog May Wipe Mud Out of His Eyes By DEAN RHODES That old prognosticator, the Is likely to get mud in his eye when he squints sunward Thursday. from the White House, the United States and Britain pledged their wouldn't cause tlie bill to hit the small weekly papers, since "95 gressmen, gov. urittin ana Geor- readiness to act to keep the peace in the area.

gia Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook blasted the Department of Justice for per cent of them are owned by individuals, not corporations." They also strongly endorsed what they termed "interference" with justice in Georgia. Gov. Griffin commended th the Baghdad pact, constructed as That is the word from a more Wednesday's official report sub bulwark against Soviet aggres members of the General Assembly for "a splendid job." stantiated a story in The Consti sion.

The United States, the communique stated, will participate 'It is a fair law," said the scientific-minded forecaster at the Atlanta Weather Bureau. He predicts rain, and that means the Senate OKs Probation; Votes Judges a Say-So The Georgia Senate passed, 43 to 1, Wednesday an amended House bill to create a statewide probation system. constructively in the work of the tution Jan. 11 which reported that the FBI investigation had failed to support the charges of discrimination in jury selection. pacts' committees.

governor, it will not nrtng about more lawsuits, but it will enable tlie citizens of rural sections to President Eisenhower and Eden Ike Seeking Postal Boost, 4-Cent Letters have fair treatment." EXPLAINS PROBE Olney had said he ordered the also issued a joint statement to be known as the Declaration of Washington. This document rejected Communist charges of the two powers' "imperialism" and Probation agents would be hired GOVERNOR'S NEWSPAPER Asked if the bill, denounced as "punitive" by opponents on the investigation because of a Supreme Court decision in the case of Amos Reece, a Negro who was by the State -Pardon and Parole Board under provisions of the bill. Bill Asks Rise ground hog won't see his shadow. This news should be cheering to those who hate chilling weather. The popular belief is that if the critter doesn't see his shadow, he stays out of his burrow and the freeze stays away.

If he sees the shadow, there is six weeks more of winter. Warming trends are expected Thursday afternoon, with rain diminishing Thursday night, fol (Copyright 1056 by Th Nnw York Tlmn convicted in Cobb of raping a coioniansm- ana warned un WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-Presi- white woman. In its decision on House floor, would apply to his own weekly newspaper (Bain-bridge Post-Searchlight), Griffin replied "My paper is not a corpora But a compromise amendment adopted by the Senate would give dent Eisenhower again asked Con Dec. 5, 1955, the court voided the Superior Court judges some say-so gress today to consider raising indictment against Reece on the the first-class mail rate to grounds there was evidence "suf- To $20,000 in Mayor's Pay tion." in the firing or assignment of the committed nations which, like Egypt have accepted Soviet economic aid, against the embraces of the Russian bear.

The President and the Prime Minister said the record of the past 10 years or more showed that Britain and the United States cents per ounce. ficient to make a strong showing A letter from the postmaster 0f systematic exclusion." agents. Cheney Griffin, the governor's lowed by partly cloudy skies and brother who was on the floor of general, which the President for- Rpece was on 0ct. 23, The judges had sought the power to employ the probation agents. the Senate while that body was Salary raises for Atlanta mayor cold temperatures Friday.

ICE IN ATLANTA waraea to Capitol tun, also asked i i i an ineiease irom 10 i cenis TTniioH had helped 600,000,000 men and and aldermen were proposed in a v. i in the House for a while hi 1 introduced Wednesday by slate Wednesday as representatives de- Atlanta extremes Thursday are the basic airmail rate and fori Sunreme Court." Rogers women in almost 20 countries to attain nationhood. expected at 33 and 45. Predicted per cent rises second and, was sufncipnf Sen. Everett Millican baled the bill.

ii in tifia i airs, By contrast, in Europe alone The same schedule of rate increases was asked of Congress Continued on Page 7, Column 1 extremes Friday: 34 and 38. Extremes Wednesday were 34 and 40. Atlanta's winter showed no signs of slackening Wednesday. Although the official low "morn The Senate meanwhile passed a House bill providing for a referendum on expanding Forrest Park's city limits. The bill now goes to the governor.

The Atlanta salary bill would set Other Legislature stories on Page 8, 9 and 10. but an amendment to give them that right was beaten down and the compromise adopted. Jl'IXiES' POWER Under the compromise amendment, judges could relieve a probation agent of his duties and rec last session in a special presi to warrant, and indeed, to require an investigation to obtain sufficient facts upon which could be made a determination as to whether or not Section 243 of Continued on Page 7, Column Speaker Marvin Moale ordered the floor cleared of all unauthorized persons before the vote was taken. As passed, the bill would permit a person to sue a newspaper dential message. No action was taken Jast year and, because of the impending election this fall Mayor Hartsfield's pay at the program is conceded virtually cover lor tnemseives wnai tai-ents they have in that field.

While about 30 per cent offer little or no math, a whopping 40 per cent of all high schools today provide no foreign language or Latin course. Government and educational leaders alike realize that a great educational crisis is building up in this country because of the great increase in enrollment and the decrease in teacher supply. A tidal wave of new pupils, accurately estimated on the basis of children born, even now is beginning to lap at the doors of our elementary and secondary schools. Under the pressure of too many pupils and not enough teachers, the trend has been to drop those courses which are, in a sense, hard and for which not too many students would volunteer anyhow. The result is an acute shortage today in the fields of science and engineering.

Graduates of science and engineering schools can step from the college door into jobs paying from $8,000 to $10,000 and the opportunities for rapid financial advancement are good. no chance of enactment this year. ommend the agent's dismissal or ing reading was 34, the first day of February brought ice to several sections of the metropolitan community, especially the Dora-ville and Chamblee Naval Air Station areas. 000 a year and the aldermen's at a month. Present scale Is $16,000 annually for Hartsfield and and $250 a month for aldermen.

Postmaster General Summer- reassignment to a different judicial field also recommended a "bold Virginia Calls Segregation Ruling Illegal RICHMOND, Feb. 1 (UP)- circuit. vigorous, large-scale" program of corporation for libel in any county in which the paper is circulated, provided the paper has a circulation of at least 50 in more than one county. Present law restricts suits to the home county of the newspaper. The Continued on Pnge 10, Column 1 Millican said that at present Brazil President Lifts Press Lid, Maps Expansion physical improvements for many More than a dozen other amendments were tacked onto the House the mayor is paid less than other The Atlanta Weather Bureau of the nation's outmoded post explained that its readings ap bill as the Senate got snarled in public officials here.

The county manager receives $17,500 a year, offices parliamentary procedure and ply only to the airport and that temperature variations over the The recommendations for rate worked rfn the measure for longer increases were aimed at abolish metropolitan area are common. ing the deficit under which the The Virginia General Assembly charged the Supreme Court today with illegal action in banning seg than an hour. All of the amendments must be post office traditionally operates RADIO KAYOEI) The Atlanta Board of Educa- regated public schools At present the yearly deficit is about $500,000,000, Summerfield agreed to by the House. BARS LAW PRACTICE The Leeislature called for nn'tion's radio station WABE-FM, reported. amendment to the federal Consti-jwas forced off the air Wednesday tution to overthrow the seerpeatinn afternoon when freezing rain This, he noted, worked out to Ihe manager of Grady Memorial Hospital $18,000 and the superintendent of Atlanta schools more than $17,000.

Millican also Introduced a bill to provide more funds for Fulton County schools. The plan, reported Tuesday by the county commission, would give the schools for the remainder of this school year; $20,000 a month in the and 1957-58 fiscal years; a month for the next two years, and $.10,000 a month thereafter until the bill is repealed. (Cnyriiht 1958 Th Ne Ytrk TlmM Ct RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 1 Jusrelino Kubitschek today lifted press censorship in one of his first acts as president of Brazil. The president was sworn in yesterday, got his administration off to a brisk start with a 7 a.m.

cabinet meeting at the Catete Palace. Announcing a five-year program of economic development, he told the ministers that private enterprise must account for most ruling. the station antenna with a loss of $1,000 per minute. Most of them concerned technicalities in the language of the bill. One, however, would prohibit a probation agent from practicing law.

Another change would fix the maximum pay of an agent at $1,800. (The minimum is $.1,600. and the chief agent would draw not less than nor more than Ala. Negro's Yard Blasted lv Homh MONTGOMERY, Feb. 1 yB A bomb tonight exploded In the front yard of E.

D. Nixon, former state president of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. No casualties were reported. Nixon, a pullman car porter, tried unsuccessfully to attend the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at Birmingham last summer for Democratic, party leaders.

He was refused an invitation and Votes approving the interposition lce resolution were 36-2 in the Senate, The station broadcasts until 3 90-5 in the House. p.m. for classrooms in the Atlan- "This does not mean we are de-ta "area and as far away as tying the court," declared SenJCainesville. Thereafter it broad-Charles R. Fenwick of Arlington.

icasts t0 tlie public The antenna "We have a perfect right to sayjis located on the old flagpole atop that in our opinion the action of the ithe citv of the projected expansion annually.) production. He also served notice Wife Served Soup Without a Warm-Up KNOXVILLE, Feb. 1 OA. Mrs. Harland Jacobs, seeking a divorce in domestic relations court, denied that she hurled a radio, elephone and other objects at her husband.

"All I ever threw at him was a bowl of soup," she said at her hearing. Supreme Court was illegal. But The State Patrol Wednesday re- that he intended to maintain a In another important action, the Senate passed a workmen's compensation bill that its opponents said would reduce workmen's 15 on Ice Floe Saved BUFFALO, N. Feb. 1 Wl-Fifteen fishermen, cut off from "high standard of administrative that does not change the binding ported ice forming on trees and power of the decision until the deci- bushes over north Georgia moun- morality" in government.

sion itself is changed." tains and in Blue Ridge, Jasper, The lifting of censorship was benefits in violation of a campaign I shore on a huge ice floe in Lake Erie, were rescued today by Coast Continued on Pagn 11, Column 1 A much stronger resolution, de- Gainesville and Hutord. ihe daring the Supreme Court's highways were said to be Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan canceled his engagement to speak at the dinner. made public in the early after noon through an executive order, sion "null, void and of no effect." I clear.

went into effect in Alabama today Inside Today Buford Dam Gates Shut To Form Lake Lanier on FoeCs Loved River when Gov. James E. Folsom let it go through without his signature. The Virginia resolution asserts that nothing in the Constitution or its amendments gives the federal government power to control the operation of public schools. Therefore, the resolution contends, the Supreme Court decision has the effect of writing into the Constitution Wilson Eyes Draft Cut To 1.5 Yrs.

Bin: Quotas Compiled Fror Constitution Wlr Se-vic Repor WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -Secretary (f Defense Wilson siid tv day he is considering cutting the active military service of about Future With the continuing Increase in Industrialization, with automation sure to increase, the man with a technical education is assured of a profitable future. In fact, more than ever in our history, it is possible today to say that the future belongs to the educated. All sorts of new developments crop up in what is in fact an educational revolution. Top technical schools, for example, have recently established courses in the humanities in their curriculums.

Justly famed MIT and California Tech are prime examples. They were so moved to do because they discovered, in checking the successes of their alumni, that while they were almost all doing well, too few had attained top positions of management. These jobs are being held, for the most part, by men who had come up through the ranks or by men whose educa-. tional backgrounds included the humanities. In either case, the top management men had a knowledge of Jiving and of people as well as making a living.

The future is sure to see the 35-hour work week. With more and more leisure ahead it is important to know how to live. Our present statistics of crowded mental institutions, the tremendous addiction to sleeping pills, and the vogue of psychiatry indicate the problem Is a serious one. At ary rate, education is a big-fer topic than a national highway system, and more pressing than the Eden-Eisenhower issues. The state and the community which aren't planning for more and better education are condemning their present and future gerera-tions to a second rate status.

BUFORD, Feb. 1 A reservoir, called Lake Lanier, a power that is not there. The court By PAN COfiGI.V Chamber of Commen Jjmes E. Comituion Wntsr Jackson, chairman of the Atlanta chre, Apalachicola ar.d Flint Board; Col. H.

F. Bis-Rivers. Lake Lanier, which it ere-'bort, division engineer of the Mo- is not empowered to make such an! bran forming here Wednesday draftees from 21 to 18 monljis. At the s.tme time, monthly draft calls would be Increased. when the gates of Buford Dam amendment.

Roy Otwell tn i narrW oftnr SiiWv bile District; Mayor of dimming: H. Wcldon Gardner, past president of the Upper Chat Georgia's immortal poet who wrote "Song of the Chattahoochee." monthly draft calls. Current calls are running 16,000 Mionthly 6,000 for tho Army and 10,000 for the Navy. ilson disclosed his plan to appoint a special guided missiles director, to "operate in my tahoochee Development be! f'at-l nttenn nrf'cirlftnf of the I 'r- The 510-mile shoreline will Korea Steps Up Hunt for Assassin SEOUL, Feb. 1 (UP)-The gov PARENTS' IM'TV to tell children about life.

Page 19 9 Annie Iu Hardy 25 Atlaula Accent 5 Billy Graham 21 Bistier IS Hi rtlge 37 Busires 20, 27 Celesti'ie Sibley 22 Charier; Allen 4 Classif-ni Ads 36, Crossword Puzzle 3fi Dr. Van Dellen 37 Editorial Page 4 Financial News 26, 27 Jumble 36 Aikrnan 1 Ot-ituaries 29 Ollle Reeves 37 Drummond 4 Society 22-25 Spoils Ki-i8 Star Gazer 23 Television frtid Radio 2S Theaie'- P'ngvams 21 Thin a Stokes 4 Events 2t Weather 23 Worry Tfi Women's 26, 27 developed in many places into were closed. Water began barking up in the huge lake site when 12 persons, including the 85-year-old mother of Rep. James C. Davis, simultaneously operated levers that lowered the sluice gates shortly before noon.

A six-year operation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, costing $42, 000, 000, was climaxed as the i per Chattahoochee Development recreation spots, including ai Ain onH Kr.forH Wilson also announced he will soon name a guided missiles "czar" to speed development ol Ihe dread intercontinental ballistics missile and other push-button war weapons. Wilson told a news conference draft cutback would be "one means of building up the ready reserve." He said that under thii program, men let out of service earlier will have to agiee to remain in the project io De duiii ay ine rity mafiager. I City of Gainesville. 3 Lake Lamer first bucket of.

The gate-closing switches were wafPr pi.eHf.n,ei ,0 Atlant.i! ernment cancelled leaves for the entire Republic of Korea army today and impounded every army jeep in the search for the assassins of Mai. Gen. Kim tnroun oy Mrs. vioia Liavis, mom-i waterworks Mgr. Paul Weir rr of Congressman James C.

big dam gates went into action. I as a symbol of water tlie lake mame, shortly after Sen. Jackson j(D-Wash) told the Senate Russia imay be winning the rare to develop an iutf ('continental ballistics missile. Story on Page 2.) I The defense secretary said "as far as I know" he would rather (lie iii this country's position on weapons development than Russia's. He conceded the Soviet Chang Vong, head of the courtcr- The dam win impound runnii uans no was aeiainej in wasti- provide for C.

A waters from more than 1.000. ington, and by Atlanta's Mayor. JacksAn Jr. of the Mobile dis-' ir.t?lltgence corps. investigators planned to Inspect square miles aoove tne sue arm VMinam m.

mnstina; Jonn Al. frirt, was masf o' ceremonies the jeeps for clues in the shying! provide flood contiol along the Cooper, chairman of the executive; nj leauv reserve lor vars. Wilson spoke of Jettmg the nut rarly by June but said shere had been no definite project consists of a TI2-fr)t l.igh dam which stretches l.HM feet across the river, ano. three Chattahoochee River as well ns an committee of the Atlanta Freight i adequate water supply for growirg Bureau; Gen. H.

J. HWfer, di-; Atlanta. vision engineer of he South At-I Buford Dam a part of the net-: Division: Frank K. Shaw, I on Monday. Kim was killed in his own jeep by two men wearing army field jackets and driving what is believed to have been an army Jeep.

Un'on may have concentrated guided in.ssiles after World W'ar II said the United Statej "didn't just do nothing." derusionthat it was something he jwas consi j'Ting. Wilson said the plan could work of dams alons the Chattahro1 industrial manager of the.

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