GEORGIA __ .. _ In the batt:e of Atlanta, in the skirmishing of t h e d , y, the Lieutenant Gover n or-elect, Y. E. Thompson, bec a me Acting Governor this morning,by taking the oath before the State Sen a te. And were the Talmadge ■■,,••*• supporters furious! They hadn't known what was aoing on, thought Thompson was being sworn in as Lieutenant- Governor. They screamed angril7 that it was a hoax, and adopted a r ~ solution addre s sed to Bis Excellency, Governor Berman Talmadge. · On the other hand, one lepresentative, who is not a tu tluxer, declared that Berman Talmadge had no more than a squatter's rights on the Governor's office. Also, the legillatora opposed to Talmadge refused to join in in v iting him to address a joint sessi n of the Georgi a legislature. Acting Governor Thompson and Herman Talmadge m et this mornin g , shortly before nine o'clock. Go v ernor thompson went to the Governor's office, w~ere Talmadge sat, and announced that be had been sworn in and was now legally A cting-Gov e rnor.of Georgia. Talmad g e replied: •1r. Thompson, there ia no vacancy in the office of governor, I a lone kas aa governor and have every intention of reaaini ng so.• The int e view was friendly. Governor Thoap•on 1hook hands with Talmadge, and left the office, to carrJ -~-tL-- out hi• function• a• Acting GoYernorAin the office of the President of th• State Senate. ' Both . , .a,a ■ have agreed to abide bJ the decision of the Georgia Supr••• Court. The Attorney General, lugen• Cook, gave out a _. atatement that be waa recognizing Lieutenant Goveraor Y.E. Thompaon as Acting Governor, in accord, as he put it •with the c l ear mandate of the Conatitution of Georgia.• /iL--~ i;;i; ~-ti....~~ . ~adeilti .. ~~ 4@ri'kr 6" abaolutely impersonal. The legislature, be added, bad no authority to elect a governor. A spokesman for the Georgia liberals declared UQlill - 3 today that so far as progress and decency were concerned, it r : e ~ dicr"",et ■atter whoat.lae court recognized as governor, eince Thoapeon aa well•• Talaadge will ■ upport a law barring negroe• fro• •oting • • IIELQIIII The members of the Eightieth Congreas are not gr,ing to have such an easy time whittling down Uncle Sa■'• astronomical payroll. That payroll cost• the taxpayers six-billionr two-bundred~nd-fifty aillion• a year. Six-and-a ~uartel'-billions./for two ■illion, three hundred thousand ■ en and women. Thoae two aillion, three hundred thouacnd are girding their loin• for a - aesperate fight to keep their naaea on that payroll. The Senate•• Committee on Civil Service h•• called upon the head• of department• and bureau to explain just why it take■ two aillion, three hundred thousand people to run the government. Senator Barry Byrd of Virginia aays that liat can eaaily be c1t:one .... even ■ie~hea! ~ Congressman John Taber of I•• York, Chairman of the Houae Appropriations Committee agrees ;i~)Yrd. In Nineteen Thirty~Rine, there were nine hundred and twenty-eight thouaand on the payroll, and eYen then aany people coa p lained that the Roosevelt adaini•tration had too many agencies and too aany people working for the•. The payroll was a trifle then, Jut one billion, aix huadred and ninet7-two aillion. ~ t course, the war ia largely reapon•~A~f.~,, ~ . ~eople who obtained joba • apecial war agenciel want I'- A to haag onto th••• f 1&e• _ _ , , •• - . ~ ~ -+L.~- 11ass11,L There will be quite a ceremony when General G-en1• Marshall is sworn in tomorrow aa Secretary of -(k It will tal:c ~ ... ~ ~ State to succeed ~ Byrnes. A at the White Bouse, and Chief Justice lrd Vinaon 14.AWl'f., will administt,r the oath. The General was to have arrived in Washington today,by plane 1 but • was grounded at Chicago and had to finish the journeJ b7 train.1fBe told newapapermen t,!:\~:l"6c':t retire from public life. When he became Chief-of-Staff of the Army in lineteen ThirtJ- eight, his hope was to serve only two years, and then take up the cultivation of his vineyard or whateYer . ~ ~.;.._""1L1 ~ ..... ..aa,,,._,,.,., .. _ 1t is that retired generals do. A But that plan ••• = b f the greatest war in history. After the war, A ~ . -rr-.L.•_ his job done, again Allarehall proposed to retire. ,...._ ~ • Just as he was looking forward to a life of ease, President Truman drafted hi• for his mission to China. And now, once more he h as ~d to p u t off his cr a ving for privatelife becaus e so m e eighteen ~ours from now he 1 1 become the nu ~ ber one m n of the Cabinet, one of t he mo s t t xin jobs in is entire care e r. And th a t, Gener 1 , is the penalty y : u pay fpr having s e rv ed y o rc o untry so well. WAR --- It is too often s u e d t t ot ing ple s es Army nd Navy men so muc r. Since fightin is t P ro e ; sion for which they've been trqined, -- ence it is all too-of en a u ed that they like to engage in it. Wel, to t y on~ of thea comes forw ~ rd to tell us t t there is no gr~~ter pacifist in the world than the military man. Ibo is he? Why, Bull Halsey, Ad iral of the fleet. •Anyone w~o has been throug aw r,•says he, •will never vrant another.• And he a ~ded: •I w s through two, and I was smred both times and I never w nt to be eared age.in.• The atom bomb to i is horrible thing which e ¥Ii . had never llllw been i nvented. Then went on to s y that ther is R good chance that we he for l o n time to come. But he also may ave pe ce said that this t a lk of cut t , in aJJ ■ Z ■ ap ro ri tions f th A~ v a v and Air Force is dRngerous. To or e i • , V P . . . r' mus , re in s ron , 9 id e • STALIR --- Here is a Russian who doesn't approve of the iron curtiin that Soviet officials hav.e erected between the Soviet Onion a nd the people of other countries. Who is he? Why Marshal Stalin! Stalin, so we hear, told a questioner that he definitely fwors a broad exchange ofultural and scientific information between the United St a tes and Russia. And hen he asked whether he would lite to••• an exchange of students, artists, scientists and professors, he replied, •et course.• No menti n made of newspapermen! ho did he say it to? Why, the man on the receiving end of the~nterview was Elliott Roosevelt -- and his wife Fay Emerson -- through an interpreter. All this comes out now in the Feb. Fourth issue of Look Magazine. Eliott also asked Stalin w hether be thought another eeting of the Big T hree would be useful to discuss all the problems now threatening the world. The Sovi e t Chief replied he thou ht there should be not one.meeting, but several. If there were 1everal, he added, they would serve a very useful purpoae. ~ooaevelt then asked hi■ hi• opinion as to •bJ friendly relations and understanding between the U.S.&. and the U.S.S.R. bad diminished recently. Stalin replie4 ~ .t.-rt:J-- tbat he~•• ~ think they ha_:-A So tar as the laerioaa and R1111eian R_!~pla A.re concerned, ■ l ~ r a l a t i o u have illprovad. t•■•!'~~~-~;Jt!3iJ :f:J; . ~~~~ aae,:t, ••" ■ iaunderatand,inga between the goYernaenta. /\.. ---- ---- The way he saw it, certaia depreciation took place, ana then a great noise wes raised that they would beco ■• c.:s--.Q. ~ - -· ,, even worse. But 1 for bis part,Ahe could see nothing frightening the peoples about the situation. ,i.cause, tor one thing, ~ a . i J c ~ ~ ~ of the world are tired of war. ~ a aingl• great power could raise an aray to fight another great power, because no government today can possibly fight without its people, an the people are unwilling to 11ALII - 3 fight. A l l in all, be thinks the dan g er of a new war 1• not real. Elliott Roosevelt asked hia whether he considered it possible for a democracy like the Unite4 States to live side by aide in yeace with a coaauniatlc state like the Soviet Union, in peace and without &DJ attempt on the part of either to interfere with the internal politics of the other. Stalin'• replJ waa emphatic. Be declared it not only possible, but wiae and entirely within the bounds of realisation. Durinl the war, he pointed out, differences in government were no obata c le to cooperation between the two nationa, ~ A-~'.J and this relationabip is even more poas;ble in time of ,( peace. With respect to the United N a tions, be said ~-- its fate depend• on reachin g a state of harmony between the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the llilLU - 4 1f United States. believes that an economic agree ■ent ,. between Russia an d the United States would be an ~ important s t e p ~ • at b:Hll1a:At or world p e a c e . ~ ( ' Expansion of tre . de,. J ■ 71atp •ould ~ • • ~ - - ~ ~ l a t i o n a between our two countries.~ iie~a\ A on to eay that the loviet Union is •trongly in favor ot "-r=-,~:..;.;~~;:.:;.;~~~~ce force tr&i■••••lt••••■lx■t ,< the Security Council of the United latione. , , .. ,.,.P ..fl..__ f ~ - &,>&J¼- VV ~ o u t the atomic bo ■b. Elliott/\aaked hia whether the United N a tion• ahould . . . have power to inspect and control all reiearch and manufacturing faci l ities for armaments of any nature, also the peacetime development of atomic energy. In reply to this, Stalin sai d something that hardly seems to jibe with the attitude of Molotov and Gromyko at United Nation• meeting3. The Soviet chief said: •on the principle of equality, no exception should §!!1lli ____ i_ be m de in the ca s e of Rue ~ ia.w And he added: •Russia s ould be subject to the. me ruleR of inspecti o n and cont~o l as ot er n tion .• POLAND ~ . - (Pol a n 'selections, ran according to form. A Govern~ent spokesman in tarsRw now says that the Government's Communist-dominated party -- they call it 'Democraticw -- will h a ve three-hundred-and-ninety out of the four-hundred-and-forty-four seats in the next Polish Parliament.) In most of Poland, Government candidates are ten to one ahead of their chief opposition, the Polish Peasant Party, es the votes are tabulated. But surprisingly, their margin of triumph is only three to one in arsaw here the campaign against-. Stanislaw Yfkolfch!k, opposition Peasant Party leader, reached its head. Yikolich!k has already made the formal charge that the big government majorities were rolled up by gun-point intimi ation of his Peasant Party. Guns cert a inly were in evidence during the voting, the eatb toll n ha~in risen t thirt y -two. The present Government says it is~••- satisfied with the results of the election. The opponents of the present Government point out that 1~ should be quite satisfied after its campaign of intimidation, force, and capricious arrest of the candidates opposing it. PLANE Another tra ic pl ne crash, this one in t - ~ akland, Cali or ia -- a big ' ( F i t t ~ ~ Navy Hospital ship cracked up on the edge of the Oakland air strip today. Te plane struck the ground with such force that several homes nearby were rocked by the resulting explosion. Miraculously, twenty of the twenty-one 4SS£NtJ.£ltS cre..-,.en ••li.•fl!•III survived, eight of thea, however, ar~serio sly injured. ~ one fatality~;:r,;:;t:J(so far -- a woman dressed in a Navy uniform, perhaps a ave, perhaps a Navy Nurse, the N a v y ~ has-n~t yet made a pW!lil st tement. The cause of the crash? A dense fog plus a p ilot ho appare tly lacked confidence in his radar round irector. Te unha py com ination marred a record of one-billion-four-hun red- illi on iles flo n by Na vy O p it a l tra sorts · ithout a fatality. PLANE 2 ---------- The Oakland Airport was ••f env~ oped in •Pea oup" o , so thick, s 1 member of the Centro To er crei, t . the douldn't see t e ground twenty fe t below. But the Navy use ground- control l ed nproach-- guidin planes into fog ed-in field~ with finger of r d ~ r that shows up on the screen inthe Control Tower. When the lane wap some sixty feet off tbe gro u nd, somethin g went wrong. The pilot apparently not following his rad r instructions. The transport missed the runway and spun into the low-tide mud flats of San Fr ncisco Bay. Its motors and wing explodin : . It' or th n a jx ir a cl pers o n wa kille , n 1_ i ht seriously infured, twelv~ others excaping with minor injuries. I Last year many of us, all over this land, contributed to the clothin g drive, for vie ims of the Euro p e R n /war. Hundred s of th aands of us sent coat , resses, suit , shoe , under ?T~'l -- things we wanted to p~se on to 1 sr fortun~te persons abroad. One who did this wa Mrs. L rs Midjaas of Fairdale, North Dakot, wbo g ve a dres ~ , inside the sleeve ~f which s e pinned a note wishing good luck to the Europe n woman who, she thought, mi ht wear i Mr. Midjaas of curse ne,.. expected to get aq answer to that note. But she did. And fro"1 a wo11an who livee on V t '10 hundred iles a"ay from her, in Hazelt o n, North lxD kotR. A wo . an wh• bou '1t the dres . from a Chic go 11ail order hous~ for eighteen cen , s! It bein one o f a lot of a hundred drear.es she bought from the same firm for ei hteen dollars as advertise i n a ■ x farm rr.' ma a z ine. On l y the dre contributed b : rs. Midj 1 a a not. 0 in it. So ,rot~ the 1 y _ t H a zelton:- "t n { s for the b rgain!" CLOT I G ----------- - S ~ n o r ., i l to Y o· 0 r o n ma all i public to o . e fl o 0 u . . 8 ~ n::t . e of p i ~ cle indi.c t· n th t in m . y p rtr of the coun r t e clo in : riv for Ruro ean suf O Ar \ ~ a n o - nd-o ut r u~ u , on the e ne o ity oft e Am ic n n eo p le. Sen=lto Youn , n tur l ly, woul lil · e o know ow th at Chic om il order bouse o bta ined that dresr hie obvi 1 w not the on l v one, don e d for Euro -c e , n r _ ie • T ere ' s not er mjs t ry to soive ~elson -- ir ca e y cu R re in re ted in so~ving myst ~ ries. a r e a n The e a rly r e turns from th~ e l ction ir. P oland ~~~ expected. From three hundred ~ J . ~ n i ne t y-four districts, th e g overn m nt has more than A five-hundre d -an d -sixty thousand votes; the opposing Peasant Party fifty - three thousand odd. The g overn m ent is quite satisfied, aaid a spokesman. The opponents z■t point out that the government s hould be satisfied after ita caapaign of - ,...~ inti m idati~foree,an~esting the candidates who },. , A op p osed it. a:;;=5".-violence is reported, twenty-three A p eople killed i n ~ outlyin g districta,but none in lar saw. American correspondents who tried to watch the voting were arrested and detained six hours. 'URD R --------- A l a curt in B roe t n, ' assach uset s, was the a ene of P • ~ t h e ost extraor inary rials in the h · s o r o f the 1 a . lt w •• Ct mu r er tr i a 1 , the v i ct i m u/4 ~ a man named Cote, )••u lag lie~ killed on Christ as Day. His ife, Bertha Coe, a c cused a friend named Walter Steele of the killi . . She was to have been the etar witness of the state acainst Steele in c o urt today. When it cam e 1:9 her turn, the jud e informed her she wa not obli ed to t•stify to anythin that mi g ht incriminate her, but she could testify to other matter•. \'thereupon said Mrs. Cote: "I refuse to t•atify~ Then the jud e dismissed the charge agiinst Steele for insufficient evidence, and ordered rs. Cote arrested. AH1n.u••••-----• Mrs.Cote had been held in t w ent y -five thousan dol la rs bail as a material witness. , - - ..J S~ The court relea se d her1 then I\ prom p tly ordered her arrested and ch ar ged , i th the murder. She immediately plea d e d n o t guilty, and w a s taken to rison. President Auriol of France to d ay received a cable from a fellow President, Bo-Chi-Minh, head of the Viet Nam, the government of Indo-C h ina. The Ammamese President congratulated Pres id ent Auriol on his election, and follo w ed it up with an appeal. Be begged Auriol to -~~~~ join him in brin ing about immediate peace to avoid k•*u ~ death and ruin for both countries. Be made this appeal, he said, knowing the great generosity and high principle• 0 of Auriol. Then he repeated once more that hi• people want nothing but independence !Jth1~ the family of the French Union. PORTAL ~---------- A Southern Sen a tor w nts to impeach the Michigan jud g e who made that de c ision in the Mt. Clements Pott~ry ~ Ca~e which started five billion dollars' worth of I lawsuits by labor unions for portal-to-portal pay. The Senator who wants this i m peachment is Eastland of Mississippi• Jes:vJ:ilbg::!:a :at ,;t._ ->-"',Eastland urgei the judiciary sub-committee to A. investigate tha judge, examine carefµlly certain A remark Bis Honor is supposed to have made. When ~ corporatio ' thirty-five t us ~ n d 1 .. . . n . r F. ,. 1 ~ nd a t e 1 . .rer v: e ~!' t ju g a d co rce the comp ~ n y into set lin g t h c l~i m , n t e lawyer re lie d : •Yes, de finite ly .• LTP.1947.01.20i.pdf LTP.1947.01.20ii.pdf