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LEWIS SENDS SOFT COAL MINERS BACK TO PITS
120 Die, Cver 100 Injured In Winecoff Disaster
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HOTEL FIRE IN NATION'S HISTORY
ATLANTA, Dec. 7.—(AP)—The most frightful hotel
fire in American history roared through the 15-story
Winecoff Hotel in downtown Atlanta early today, killing
120 persons and injuring at least 100 more.
Men, women and children plunged screaming to their
deaths on pavements below their windows, while scores
of others were trapped and burned or suffocated in up
stairs rooms.
Two Athenians
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Survive Fire;
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Only 1 Injured
Two residents of Athens were
suests at the Winecoff Hotel when
it burned early Saturday morn
ing, one of them being hospitalized
for injuires, extent of which has
not been ascertained and the other
escaping injury with the exception
for discomfort of smoke.
Samuel Dunbar Duncan was
first reported killed but later his
name was transferred to the list
of those hospitalized. Mr. Duncan
is from Millhaven, Ga., and is a
graduate student at the Univer
sity of Georgia, residing on
Lumpkin street in Graduate Hall,
next to the Chi Phi fraternity
house.
Alsa among those listed as
guests in the hotel at the time of
the fire were E. B. Murrow and
son, M. E. Murrow. The Murrows
reside at 467 East Hancock Ave
nue. Mr. Murrow was a guest at
th.e hotel, but his son was not, his
name appearing in the initial lists
through error.
The Banner-Herald contacted
the Murrow home early Saturday
morning rand was informed that
r. Mr. Murrow had already tele
phoned his home and said that ex
cept for some discomfort from
smoke, he did not suffer in the
fire. He said he intended to re
turn home during the early after
noon but was delayed and had not
reached Athens last night, so he
could not be reached for an eye-’
witness account of the disaster.
Others Dead |
~Among others who perished in
the fire and who were well known
so Athenians were Mr. and Mrs.
W. Fleming Winecoff, sr, who
have often visited in the home of
Dr. and Mrs. T. H. McHatton,‘
their relatives, here.
Mrs. McHatton’s sister, the for-‘
mer Rene Lustrat, daughter of the
late Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Lustrat,
is ?.hr? wife of Mr. and Mrs. Wine
‘“’f”'i son. Their son, Fleming
Vinecoff 111 is a student at the
(Continued on Page Eight.)
INENTIFIED FIRE DEAD
ATLANTA, Dec. T—(AP)—A
revised list of the identified dead
In the Winecoff hotel fire, foilows:
Lt. Cmdr. E. A. Conzett, Nor-l
lolk, Va.; W. F. Wineeoff, former
hotel owner, Atlanta; Mr. and
Mrs, Will D. Dickerson, Jonesboro,
Ga., and their two children, Bill,
. and Mary Melinda, 6; J. R.
Moody, Arlington, Ga.; Joseph
Goodson and four-year old boy of
Clay City, 111.; William Jones, Ork
Ridze, Tenn.; Robert Clay Wil-
Lams, Pensacola, Fla.; Edward L.
Pettijohn, Mountain Brook, Ala.;
Harry W. Sorrells, Asheville, N.
C. Billy Berry, Cedartown, Ga.;
Dotsy S. Smith, 11, Fitzgerald, Ga.;
'red S. Smith, 13, Fitzgeraid, Ga.;
Mary Smith, Fitzgerald, Ga.; Mrs.
John Williams, Cordele, Ga.
Walter L. Baker, 75 Vermont
ive, West Asheville, N. C.; A. J.
Burns, New York City; M. Theo
Constancy, Atlanta: R. W. Billy
Cox, no addréss; Eloise Maison,
Atlanta, Ga.; W. L. Rochelle,
Marietta, Ga: J. B. Sherry, no
fddress; C. H. Truen, Columbus,
Ga. Matine Willis, Bainbridge,
Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Knox,
*I., Thomson, Ga.; Bill Bryson,,
“ddress unknown; Christine Hen
won, Thomaston, Ga; E= O.
Thomas, Asheville, N. C; Eric.
Havworth Elliott, Oklahoma City, !
Okla.; Matsey Eikle, Tampa, Fla.:
Eluise Buck, New York City:
Maxine Willis, Bainbri Ga.;
T ,‘Kfi}“ s
- B, S 8 lita; James
Lewis McDonald, Memphis, e
Capt. Dewitt Lane %
o'ss unknown: Phillip D. :
p.annah; Miss Lo rm
Bainbridge, Ga,; Walter W Beck,
“ddress unknown; Miss Sarah M.|
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
At daylight the sides cf the
tall, chimney-like structure were
draped with torn bed-sheets and
blankets, marking in grim silence
where victims tried to escape
Eyewitnesses told how panic
stricken guests swung from tenth
and twelth story windows on
flimsy, make shift ropes. A few
rescued, but most fell headlong as
flames burned away theic sup
ports, or they lost their grip.
Others were seen briefly at
flaming windows, shrieking and
praying, then disappearing into
the terrible inferno. |
At one time, a half—dozen}
broken bodies lay at the intersec~
tion of Atlanta’s famed Peachtree
street and Carnegie Way, orposite
the theater where the world pre-‘
mier of “Gone With The Wind”
was staged. ‘
Some who kept their heads were'
saved, White-haired Mrs. Banks
Whiteman, manager of the hotel
cigar counter, pulled the wife and
children of her employer, Arthur
F. Geele, jr., from the 14th floor
to the top-floor apartment of Mrs.
Arthur Geele, sr. There they
huddied in a corner until the fire
subsided. g e
The brick, concrete and steel
structure had no outside fire-es
capes, but was classed as “fire
resistant.” Fire Marshal Harry
Phillips said it met all safety codes
when it was built in 1914.
! The fire apparently started on
’the third or fourth floor, and
Mayor William B. Hartsfield said
lits origin was under investigation.
Would-be rescuers told of seeing
‘many forms silhouetted against
. boiling flames, praying vainly for
| succor that could not reach them.
| Thudding bodies crashed in
|ghastly procession into the street
land into smoke-filled alleyways.
| here were 285 guests regis‘ered at
' the hotel, which was one of At
lanta’s leading hosterlries.
Spreading with disastrous rapi
| dity through the southwest side of
|thc building, flames raced “up
‘stair-wells and 'elevator shafts to
' trap nearly half the guests.
he death toll eclipsed Chicago’s
LaSalle hotel fire of six months
ago, when 61 died, and more than
| trebled the 34 dead in Atlanta’s
terminal hotel fire of May 16,
1938. o
The nation’s previous recurd toll
in a hotel fire was 71 in the New
hall House Holocaust at Mil
(Continued on Page Eight.)
E. Rasmussen, Des Moines lowa
(attached to Veterans Hospital 48,
Atlanta); Paul Lain, 3603 Cliff
Road, Birmingham, Ala; Dr.
. Robert Cox, Petrie Hospital,
Murphy, N. C.; Charles Keith,
Rome, Ga. (310 East Sixth street);
Mrs. Sarah Miller, Gordon, Ga.;
George William Walden, Rome,
Ga.: Irene Maude Wilson, Knox
ville, Tenn.
Cleveland Dillard Sisk, Buck
ingham Court, Asheville, N. C.;
Jacob M. Mauss, Philadelphia,
Pa.: Evelyn Adams, 307 George
Avenue., Thomaston, Ga.; Ruth
Powell, Bainbridge, Ga.; Mrs.
Borgia McCoy, Canada; William
Todd, Columbia, S. C.; Mrs. Paul
Lain, 3603 Clliff Road, Birming
ham, Ala.; Mrs. Paul Lain, 3603
ham, Ala. »
Patsy Griffin, Bainbridge, Ga.;
Patsy Uphold, Thomaston, Ga.;
Lena Harris, no address; P. R.
Mennix, jr., Columbus, Georgia;
Robert L. Sollenberger, Barnes
ville, Ga.; H. E. Swanson, Chicago;
Mrs. Ethel J. Steward, Atlanta;
Irene Tollett 151, 15st., Atlanta;
Charles H. Thrun, Columbus, Ga.;
Mrs. Mary Minor, Thomaston, Ga.;
Nell Sims, Barnesville, Ga.; Claire
Williams (8 to 10 year-old girl),
Cordele, Ga.; Clarence B. Bates,
jr., Bainbridge, Ga.
‘" ¥rank B. Hale, jr., Nashville,
Tenn.; Mrs. John Edward Smith,
Fitzgerald, Ga.; Hedy Metcalf,
Columbus, Ga.; Barbara Goodson,
2, Clay City, Ill.; Martha Harriet
Cobb, Fayette, Ala. (U. of Ala.
student); Mary Louise Murphy,
Bainbridge, Ga; Margaret Parker,
Montgomery, Ala. Lt. (j. gB.) James
R. Little, Charlotte, N. C.; Gene
Pruitt, Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta;
Mrs. W: F. Winecoff, Atlanta,
| (wife of of the hotel,
Who also perished in the fire),
Full Associated Press Service
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WOMAN LEAPING TO HER DEATH
IN WINECOFF FIRE
A split second after this photograph was snapped,
this unidentified woman crashed to her death on the
marquee of the burning Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta
Saturday. At least 120 persons perished in the fire.
(AP Pheto by Arnald Hardy, Georgia Tech Student).
That YOS Seok,
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT RUNS HIGH
IN ATHENS AS HOLIDAY NEARS
By Hasty Marlow
Athens has'&&at Christmas look.!
With only‘sifficen days between
now and Santa Claus, downtown |
lwindows and_xgtside store decora- |
| tions are creating the jingle-bell
lfeeling. !
The streets are crowded, Christ-|
l mas music fills the air. People are|
! hurrying in and out of %ores. going |
in with arms empty. Coming out |
with arms filled with packages. |
The window displays are giving
shoppers much pleasure.
Dominating all decoraticns is
Old Man Santa Claus in the red|
suit. One display features a large
}Sama surrounded by over twenty
miniature duplicates. Of course,
‘not far from any of the Santa
Claus figures, are the six rein
deer. i Lo
. Christmas trees, all gaily and
Icolox'fully decorated and some
bearing the burning lights, can be
found ‘the stores. Snow,
made of « - forms the back
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Athens, Ga., Sunday, December 8, 1946.
and gifts of every shape, size andl
kind are piled here and there.
Flower shops have Poinsettias
and other flowers wrapped in
| Christmas paper. Photograph !
| studios have wrapped up personal
gift pictures in huge red ribbons
!and glittering frames. .
{ Chimney and fireside .scenes
| suggest an expectant atmosphere
{ which is evident in the wide-eyed
| children looking forward to won
|der-man Santa’s visit as they
gaze at the toys and gifts spread
out before them in, the stores. i
It seems appropriate to wrap
{any article in bright-hued paper
and tie it with a red ribbon to,
make a gift for some member of
the buyer’s family. Transparent
wrappings are popular for the
store windows.
Christmas music comes from the
Salvation Army March of Dimes
station on the street. Passers-by
quickly pick up the familiar tunes
and carry them into stores and
down the street in a soft hum un-
ESTABLISHED 1882,
Local Jottings
Dr. J. K. Patrick, president of
the Athens Board of Education,
has been besieged with telephone
calls from friends asking him to
reconsider his “resignation’” from
the Board. “I have not resigned”,
Dr Patrick told Local Jottings.
My termi expired and the an
ncuncement was made in a rou
tine way to the City Council. The
Councilmen from my Ward did
not have an opportunity prior to
the meeting to communicate with
me to see if I would be willing
to serve another term, if elected”.
The reporter covering the Coun
ci meeting was given the im
pression that Dr. Patrick had re
signed and that his ‘“successor”
would be elected at another meet
inb. Now that the matter has
been cleared up Dr. Patrick’s
friends wil]l be relieved to know
that he has not “resigned” and
will be re-elected at the next
meeting of the Council.
Two sedate Athenian couples
exchanged hearty greetings on a
dewntown street and stopped to
ask after the welfare of each
with much concern. After part
ing oneg gentleman turned to his
wife and asked “who are they?”
She repliéd “I'm sure I don’t
know. Don’t you?”
A bus driver watched one of
“this younger generation” take
her time in getting out of the bus,
He mutters to another passenger,
“My grandfather' was slow, but
he was old.”
With only a red suit and white
whiskers added, “Fat” Baker
would have delighted all as Old
Santa while chatting with the Sal
vation Army worker who was
playing Christmas songs Satur
day morning.
A citizen wonders what visi
tors think of the sidewalk area
cn Broad St. between Hull St.
and Lumpkin St.
Take it from John E Drewry,
of the University of Georgia
Henry, W. Grady, School of Jour
nalism, Mr. Grady may be dead
in he body but his spirit lives on.
As evidence of this, Dean Drewry
receives several letters each week
acdressed to “Dean Henry W.
Grady”, or .‘Dr. H. W. Grady”.
This has been a common occur
ence for many years, but Wed
nesday afternoon; ° the' ultimate
happened. A timid, bewildered
freshman entered Dean Drew
ery’s office @nd olitely asked the
secretar if he ‘“‘might confer with
Dr. Grady about some schedule
difficulties”. Since Dean Drew
ry was out of town for the af
ternoon, the secretary tactfully
told the young man, “Dr. Grady
is out of the office right now,
Irm sorry";
I Lee Bowen, Universiy student
| majoring in journalism, will
lprobably go a long way in the
newspaper world. Lee! was in
Atlanta when the Wincoff Hotel
fire .broke out at 3:15 Saturday
_morning. He got as many . facts
as he could during the first ex
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Christmas Story
“Santa and the Boy King”,
a Christmas serial written es
pecially for children, will be
found on Page 5 A in teday's
issue of the Banner-Herald.
First chapter of the story was
printed on the paper’s front
page Friday.
Dr. McKibben Will
Begin Ministry
In Athens Sunday
{ Dr. J. W. O. McKibben, who
| succeeds Dr. H. C. Holiand as
| pastor of First Methodist church
| here, will conduct services in his
| new pastorate this morning and
| tonight.
] Dr. McKibben’s topic for the
morning service will be “In the
Land of Beginning” and tonight
he will preach on “A Vital Chris
‘tian Experience.”
| Dr. MeKibben came here from
Augusta where he was district
superintendent four years. He and
Mrs, McKibben have moved into
the church Parsonage at 234 Dear
ing street.
Prior to going to Augusta, Dr.
McKibben was pastor of First
Methodist chuech in Decatur six
years, Dr. Holland becomes pastor
of First Methodist at Decatur by
assignment of the Bishop of the
North Georgia Conference several
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Before going to Decatur, Dr.
McKibben was district superinten
dent at Rome. He has been pastor
of First Methodist church in Elber
ton; Haygood Memorial church,
Atlanta and other vprominent
churches in the North Georgia
Conference.
Dr. McKibben has been cne of
the most active, efficient and popu
lar ministers in the Coaference.
He has been rémarkably success
ful in every task that has been
committed to him. He zerved as
a delegate to the last General
Conference of the church held in
Kansas City, A graduate of Young
Harris College and of Emory
University, Dr. McKibben received
a degree in theology from the
Candler School of Theology at
Emory University.
Dr. Holland, who goes to Deca
tur after serving seven years in
the Athens pastorate, leaves a
host of friends in this community
who have appreciated his effec
tive ministry. He has been cne of
the most successful pastors in the
long history of the Athens First
Methodist church and during his
pastorate here the chur:h began
raising a fund for the purpose of
building an educational building
to be added to the present church
structure, The fund has increased
continuously and architects have
been engaged to prepare suitable
plans for the building, which will
be constructed when building ma
terials become plentiful. The
membership of the church was in
creased by two hundred additions
during his pastorate.
Dr. Holland was a member of
the Athens Kiwanis club and took
a keen interested in the civic af
fairs of the community.
University Student
Injured In Crash
Joe Mitchell, University of
Georgia student residing in Joe
Brown Dormitory, was taken to
St. Mary’s Hospital early Satur
day afternoon for treatment of in
juries suffered when the motor
cyle he was riding crashed into a
car at ' the“cordef of Hull and
Broad streets.
Mitchell. who suffered head and
leg injuries, was taken to the hos
pital in a Clyde McDorman am
bulance. ie e oA W ins
ARC i PapeeringE—CEEy—: s_s_:_
VIRTUALLY ALL RESTRIGTIONS
WIPED OUT BY SUDDEN END OF
17-DAY OLD SOFT COAL TIEUP
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—(AP)—John L. Lewis gave
in to the government today and ended the soft coal strike.
With it, like the finish of a nightmare, went virtually
all the restrictions it had brought and the economic peril
it had poised over this and other countries.
President Truman cancelled
the broadcast he wiag planned for
tomorrow night, closed his desk
and went to an Art Show, smil
ing but silent on the outcome.
Lewis ordered the 400,000
miners to enq the 17-day walk
out and go back to work imme
diately. Reports from the mine
fieldg indicated ready compli
ance. Some maintenance crews
keaded for the pits tonight, and
Local Train Schedules
The Office of Defense Trans
portation informed local Sea
board officials that traing 5 and
6 from Washington, Hamlet and
Richmond [ {ll make last trip
€ rough Athens on the night of
December 7th, The last train
from Hamlet will run “on the
night of December the Bth.
Train schedules from Hamlet,
throughy Athens to Atlanta, will
be continued at the present.
Pullman sleeper service from
Washington will be discontinued
after December 7th and from At~
lanta on night of December Bth.
full-scale resumption of mining
Monday morning appeared cer
tain. *
At the same time Lewis an
nounced his readiness to nego
tiate with the privaie mine own
erg for new wage and other de
mands, a step whaich could clear
the way for the government to
get out of the coal business.
For his startling step Lewis
gave two reasons — that the Su
preme court in_ considering the
case might be “free from public
pressure superinduced by ‘ays
teria and frenzy of an economic
crisis,” and that “public necessity
requires the quantitative produc
tion of coal during such period.”
Lewis’ retreat came ab-uptly
hetween two conferences with
Chief Jystice Vlinson of attor
neys for the union and the Jus
tice Department. One conference
was held in %ie forenoon, before
Lewis acted:another was held in’
the late afternoorn. The court
sent word that no announcement
would be made todav, and the
lawyers all were tight-moutied
Expected Ruling
The nine Justices at thcir reg
nlar Saturday noon conference
jhad fan oprpriunity to decide
whether thev will hea~ Lewis
anneal. at the government’s re
by g¥d Lew)s keemd sure
that thev would. He said that
hie future nesotiations will be
“with‘n the limitations of the
findings of the Supreme Court,”
and made otuer references to an
expected ruling.
The sudden end of the strike
brought swift action by officials
junking ‘the coal congservation
measures which wad shackeled
industry and darkened the
Christmas outlook. The freight
‘and exprdss embargoes were
lifted, the ban on passenger trav
eirevoked, and the 21-state dim
out cancelled in time for Sat
urday night shopfing {throngs
except in a few places whaere
the utilities are neavly out of
fuel. A partial removal of the
freeze on coal stocks was being
prepared and probably will be
tomorrow.
| Bemove Controls
- “We want to remove the con
trols as quickly as possible se
the coal freeze on deliveries and
on distribution may return to
normal,” said a spokesman for
the coal mjnes adminfstration.
“However, we want to make
sure the consumers in the criti
cal categories get sufficient sup
plies until coal stocks are replen=
- (Continued on Page Seven.)
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and mild
Sunday with little change in
temperature.
GEQRGIA: Fair and slight
ly warmer this afternoon and
tonight. Sunday partly cloudy
and mild.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .... ... .0
Lowest . ... ... oo
B . oo
Mosshal ... e
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 00
Total since Dec. 1 .. ... .00
Deficit since Dec. 1 .. ... 1.18
Average Dec. rainfall .... 5.08
Total since January 1 ....46.65
Excess singe January 1 .. .86
H
OM
Jury Gonviets Two
In Mail Fraud
Case Tried Here
A federal court jury yesterday
afternoon returned verdict of
guilty against Ralph E. Richards,
alias Paul Curtis on five counts
of a sik count indictment ond
against Ernest Samelson on one
count, at thg same time acquit
ting Mrs. Francis Bolin of all
charges.
Richards, was found guilty on
ccunts invelving mai]l fraud and
conspiracy, and Samuelson on the
conspiracy count. A verdict of
acquittal for all three on count
four of the indictment was di
rected by Judge T. Hoyt Davis.
Sentence was witheld by Judge
Davis pending a report from the
probation Office of the Court and
wil] robably be handed down at
the Macon term of court attaches
said yesteday afternoon.
Richards and associates were
charged with using the mails to
‘defraud in connection with a ra
dio series of ‘community victory
pograms “promoted in seven
Georgia cities,
Richards Friday told a jury
that he had served a prison term
in California on mail fraud con
viction growing out of a radio
program. He said he still was on
probation.
Richards denied vigorously any
wrongdoing and declared he ne
ver took money without rendering
the service promised.
The government claims that the
promoter duped merchants and
local radio stations with glib
soles talk that convinced adver
tisers they were participating in
a national network all-star show.
Mrs. Bolin of Moberly, Mo., in=
dicated with Richaras, tesufied
that she had no business interest
in the promotions. ,
On cross-examination, the tall,
ssuave promoter who went under
‘the name of Paul Curtis and
several other aliases, acknow
ledged conviction in California
on mail fraud charges growing out
of a radio program.
He also aknowledged having
’sold “astrological readings” at
ore dollar each and having en
gaged in an oil promotion scheme.
He told the jury that since the
war’s end he had continued stag
ing radio programs, but had
changed his trade name from
“community victory program” to
wecommunity veternas program.”
lßecently he said he was operat
ing in Harlem, Ky., when postal
’inspectors interrupted his promo
tion.
} He said he also had operated
in South Carolina, North Caro
lina, Tenenssee, Alabama and
Mississippi.
| Denies Guilt
. Richards said he never know
ingly had misrepresented his
“community victory program” and
heatedly denied he LeSr failed
to give merchants the .:dvertising
he promised or, that he ever
witheld prizes which he promised
to award. When complaints arose,
he continued, he always ‘attempt
ed “to adiust matters” to the
entire satisfaction of the buy
er.’)
' (Continued on Pape Eight.)
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Shopping Days
To Christmas