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SUB STAYS UNDER “SEVERAL WEEKS’
Shown at Portsmouth, England, is the British submarine Alliance, reported to
have remained submerged for ‘‘several weeks” in a test off the African coast, com
pleting what was decsribed as the longest underwater sojourn by a submarine in
history. A crew of 67 men took part in the test—NEA Radiotelephoto,
American Delegation Holds Special
Meeting To Discuss Big Four Failure
V. M. Molotov And Soviet Delegation
Hastily Depart For Home After Meet
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
LONDON, Dec. 16.—(AP)—The American delegation
held a special meeting today to discuss problems arising
out of the collapse of the Big Four Conference as Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov .and his aides hastily
departed for home.
Ship Raided By
Pirates Steams To
Sea Again Tod
ea Again Today
HONG KONG, Dec. 16 —(AP)
—The Dutch passenger ship Ven
Heutz—raided by Chinese pirates
who kidnapped six voyagers yes
terday raided dauntlessly out a
port, again today for Swatow.
Aboard the '4,5224t0n vessell
was its full complement of 1,600
passengers. But this time to buck
the buccaneers were seven well
armed guards.
The Van heutz was defenseless
yesterday. About 25 pirates leis
urely roamed her decks and gath
ered up loot valued by a ship’s
officer at a half - millian U. S.
dollars.
The freebooters carried off six
passengers for ransom, presum
ab'v to some hideaway on Bias
Bay. 30 miles northeast of this
Pritish colony. The Van Heutz
returned to port. |
Shipping officials said the
boarding of the Van Heutz was
the latest instance of a vostwar
resurgence of piracy plaguing
coastal Shibving lanes. Singapore
a» - Hong Kong are reported the
main plotting stations of wirates,
who are using modern methods.
“Gaftle 5§ Wi Rulge”
THIS IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY THE
WORLD FELL IN THREE YEARS AGO INBELGIUM
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK, Dec: 16—(AP)—
This is the day the world fell in,
three years ago in Belgium.
It is the anniversary of the
opening of the famous “Battle of
the Bulge”—A Johnny-come-late
version by Germany of Japan’s
disaster-laden surprise blow at
Pearl Harbor. .
It should also be a red-letter
day in the American military
calendar forever, a reminder that
a failing foe always has a con
vulsive throe before his end, a
snake its final fang.
The battle *‘began on a dark
morning of snowy horror with the
Allied top command convinced
war on the Western front would be
over in a matter of weeks. By that
same nightfall realistic officers
who had survived the German
breakthrough at Kasserine gap in
Africa knew that the American
armies were fighting for their very
lives,
Out Of Nowhere
Out of nowhere the beaten
€nemy had suddenly rallied its
last reserves of tanks and guns
Mmanned by tough young S. S.
troopers. They came in an arc of
trimsoned steel they hoped would
save the fatherland, and they gig
gled sadistically as they slew.
. They chose with teutonic con
sistency to attack in an area the
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
The American talks were be
lieved concerned largely with U.
S. policy in Germany, which was
expected to include merger of the
French with the British-American
occupation zone and establishment
of some sort of German govern
ment in the unified area.
*U. S. Secretary of State George
C. Marshall was reported agree
able to setting up some form of
unified government 'in western
germany, but was said to be op
posed to signing a separate peace
treaty with such a government.
’ Attending the conference this
morning with Marshall were Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military gov
[ernor in Germany; Robert Murphy,
‘political adviser to Clay, and other
experts on German affairs.
Molotov, first of the fqreign
ministers to leave London, depart
ed barely 12 hours after collapse
of the Big Four sessions, which
ended at 7:18 p. m. yesterday
without any agreement in respect
to Germany.
There was no arrangement for
any future meeting of the foreign
ministers and no hint that any
thing was in the wind for healing
the breach.
. Strengthen Positions
On every hand here there was
belief that the leaders of both
sides would take immediate steps
to consolidate and strengthen their
positions for the rapidly develop
ing economic and political struggle
between Moscow and Washington-
London-Paris—the so-called “Cold
War.”
Developments which authorita
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’Americans had lightly defended in
one of the “calculated risks” nec
‘essary in all warfare. But the Nazi
}leaders knew the land as you dc
the road to your own garage—be
}cause twice before, in 1914 and
1940, they had rolled through these
}pine-clad Ardenne mountains on
‘the way to France.
~ Through two thinly strung out
American divisions they charged
—the battle-worn 28th Infantry
and the untried 106th—and plung
ed on for mote than forty miles
to within three miles of the Meuse
river, a goal that would have cut
the Allied forces in half.
Preparing to launch their own
razzle-dazzle across. the Rhine, the
Allies had been caught napping
by the oldest play in football—a
straight line buck. -
What saved them was the
courage of combat engineers at
road blocks and isolated units,
hopelessly cut off, who delayed the
Nazi surge for vital hours and
stained the white fields with the
red tide of anpnymous valor. By
the nature of this chaotic battle
the heroism of hundreds of in
dividual men will lack even the
brief remembrance of a medal.
Ran Dry
When the German tanks ran dry
of gasoline and stranded, the air
men of England ang America rak
ed them with rocket and bomb.
But to the doughboys on the
State’s Building
Faces Deadling
ATLANT. Dec. 16 — (AP)—
Georgia’s building safety pro
gram, enacted by the legislature
last march but put into effect
cnly last week, today faced a
virtually impossiblez deadline
which threatened lawful business
permits for thousands of firms.
Building safety Didector W. P.
Kennard said 20,000 to 30,000
structures .involving . major life
risks must be gualified for tem
porary occupancy - -----* kv
Jan. 1. He sad the new state safe
ty law forbids issuance of a bus
mess license next year to any
cencern operating in a building
without an occupancy permit. |
To date, only about 40 private-‘
ly owned buildings havve quali-l
fied. A score of counties have cer
tified all their publicly owned
buildings.
Program
To bring compliance within the
next two weeks, Kennard out
lined a three-point program:
I—Building owners may qualify
for one of the so-called ‘“blanket
tentative certificates” merely by
certifying that they are complying
‘with local building safety regula
tions, if any.
2—One copy of a latter certify
ing compliance must be sent by
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YOU MAY STILL
GIVE TO JAYCEE
CHRISTMAS FUND
+ All persons who did not have
the opportunity to contribute
to the Jaycee Christmas Fund
Sunday morning may do so
now by calling Dan Dupree at
1097.
ground fell the cold torture of
ldriving back the enemy over all
'the lost miles of forest and moun
tain.
And for the third straight year
the Army which boasts it is the
best fed and best-clothed in the
world had been caught without
proper supplies of winter equip
ment. Infantrymen wore their
shoulders raw dragging food, wa
ter and ammunitions across the
snow-locked hills,_
Tree limbs snapped and fell in
a crystal wilderness, and cold
climbed up the legs of doughboys
in frigid foxholes and froze them
into khaki logs. .« °
At one field hospital they
carried in a captured German
soldier, his leg black with gang
rene.
“It’ll be a chance at least to take
off a Nazi leg,” said a surgeon
grimly. “I've been taking frozen
legs off American boys all morn
ing.” '
Well, that nightmare of three
years ago is faded now for both
the quick and the dead. The quick
are back in civilian life and the
ardenness dead are still being
brought back to parents who want
their boys at home. :
The only another war—if it
comes—will show whether Amer
ica truly learned the bitter Ies:&
the Germans gave in Belgium’s
Valley Forge of 1944, |
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947,
Bureau Labor Statistics Says U.S.
Living Cost Up $450 Year Oince 1946
Survey Finds This
22 Month Period
WASHINGTON Dec. 16—(AP)
—The Bureau of Labor Statistics
told Congress today it costs an
average family of four in 34 ma
jor cities about $450 more a year
to maintain a “modest” standard
of living now than it did 22
months ago. Almost a third of
this goes for food.
The annual budget for such a
family ranged from $3,004 in New
Orleans to $3,458 in Washington
as of last June, the bureau said,
and since then consumer prices
have jumped another 4.3 per cent.
Ewan Clague, Commissioner of
Labor statistics, said the average
family for th purposes of his re
port is an empioyed father, a
housewife and two shoolchildren
under the age of 15.
The Bureau survey was started
in 1945 at the request of a House
" Appropriations Subcommittee
Claugue turned it over today to
a sub-committee of the House-
Senate economic committee head
ed by Senator Taft (R-OHIO).
The report said the cost of
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COMMUNITY FUND IS $4,000 SHORT
OF ITS ORIGINAL GOAL -- GIVE
Budgets Of All Community Projects
Will Be Cut Unless Goal Is Reached
B. R. Bloodworth, sr., chairman of the Athens and
Clarke County Community Fund Campaign, today issued
an appeal to all Athenians who_have not made their con
tributions to the 1948 campaign {o please do so as soon
as possible.
Mr. Bloodworth said that the
drive for funds for next year's
cperation of six public ggencies
in Athens i< over four thousand
dollars short of the goal. He noin
ted out that the original goal of
$34,400 was set because every
cent of this would be necessary
to overate the scout organiza
tions, the YMCA, YWCA, Salva
tion Army and the other groups
that penefit from the Community
Fund. |
Mr. Bloodworth Yaid that if |
this goal is not reached these‘
groups will have to have their
budgets cut accordingly and
thereby result in hampered op
eration.
He has urged al'! Communitv
Fund workers to call on all of
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clearing and windy this
afternoon. Fair and colder
tonight with low of 26. Con
tinued fair and rather cold
through Thursday.
GEORGIA: Clearing and
windy today; cooler in south;
clear and colder tonight; low
temperatures 26 to 30 in
north portion and 30 to 34
with frost in seuth portion;
Wednesday, fair and contin
ued rather cold.
TEMPERATURE
Highet .5 vl oicg 9P
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MEED . cveiiis saxidinsi i i
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .89
Total since Dec. 1 .. ... 3.01
Excess since Dec. 1 .. .. .54
Average Dec. rainfall ... 5.08
Total since Jan. 1 .. ....47.51
Excess'since Jan.l .. .. .36
Up 400 Per Cent: |
Nearly Half-Million Doilars In
Milk Bought This Year From
Farmers By Cooperative Creamery
State’s Oldest Refail Cooperafive Creamery
Also One Of Most Modern In Georgia
BY HOKE MAY
Georgia’s oldest retail cooper
ative creamery, the Athens Co
operative Creamery, has quad
rupled its business to local far
mers in the last nine years by
buying up to $40,000 worth of
Grade A and Grade B milk per
month this year.
The firm, which opened in 1930
in a single modest building on
But What A Card:
ara.
Sl Sasy Aizres nod
RETE] ATTESES
Bootlegger For
Sending Yule Card
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 16
=—{AP)—The Sheriff thought
it wag tactless, if mnot down
right insulting, when he got
Christmas cards of thanks
from an Oklahoma City boot
legger.
Especially ones that read—
“At the colse of another year
we realize how important your
friendship and good willi have
been to our success, . . .”
You ecan’t ask a sheriff to
take that sort of things from a
bootlegger, especially in prohi
bition Oklahoma.
So last night deputies began
calling the telephone numbers
they found on a little regq card
attached to the Ywle greeting,
Saft voices discussed prices,
made appointments. . . .
When it was all over, one
man was in jail on liquor
charges, Santa’s pack was 42
pints lighter, and the bootleg
ger’s Christmas spirit had all
gone dewn the drain.
He discovered that some hu
morous — or unsatisfied — cus
tomers had re-addressed' his
cards.
Chapman's Stafus
’ Press reports from Atlanta yes
terday were to the effect that, in
ia reorganization program of the
‘agricultural forces of the Univer
sity System, it was likely that
Dean Paul W. Chapman of the
University College of Agriculture
would be relieved of his present
duties.
‘The rumor was neither con
firmed nor denied by adminis-~
trative authorities, according to
the newspaper reports. Chancel
lor Paty was quoted as saying
that a broad outline of a reorgan
ization has been discussed and
that it appeared likely Dean
Chapman’s position would be dis
continued. He added, however,
that any reorganization plans at
the University was the sole re
sponsibility of .President Cald
well who is expected to make
recommendations to a forthcom
ing meeting of the Board of Re
gents.
Dr. Caldwell, when queried by
Atlanta newspaper men, is said
to have declined comment, says
ing no definite action had been
taken and that the matter was
“too premature to talk about.”
Dean Chapman is quoted as
having told the press, when ask
ed whether he had been informed
that he would not be continued
in his present post at the end of
the current school year; “No, I
wouldn’t say that I had been told
that.”
Vice Chancellor Harry L.
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Lumpkin street, - has expanded
until it covers practically one
ha'f of a city block.
In 1938 the creamery was buy
ing $120,000 worth of milk each
vear from farmers. The buying
figure so far this year is $472,000,
an increase of over 400 per cent.
This expanded buying program
on the part of the creamery is
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AMERICANS LEAVE ITALY AFTER FOUR YEARS
The American flag is lowered at Leghorn, Italy, as
the last American troops left Italian soil after four
years in the Mediterranean theater.—NEA Radiotele
photo.
}A . t H l.d F.
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Fire Chief Lays Down Plan To Aid In
Prevention Of Christmas Home Fires
“Will ycur home burn on December 25?” asks Chief
Thompson of the Athens Fire Department. Reporting that
every year from a few days before Christmas to a few
weeks after New Years, a plague of needless fires rages
up and down the country, Chief Thompson said today
that if Athens residents follow the four-point plan advo
cated by the Athens Fire Department and the National
Fire Protection Association their homes will be reason
ably safe from holiday fires.
1. THE CHRISTMAS TREE. A
fresh cut tree will not take fire
any more eagily in your home
for the first day or two than it
would be growing outside. But at
the end of the week, it is highly
inflammable. Therefore, bring a
fresh tree in as short a time be
fore Christmas as possible and
remove it as soon afterwards as
you can,
The tree can be kept fresh is
you set it up in a pan of water.
Cut off the base of the tree at an
angle, at least one inch above the
toriginal cut, and keep it stand
ing in water during the entire
period that the tree is in the
house. Add water to the jar or
tub in which the tree stands at
intervals to keep the water level
always above the cut.
Locate the tree away from
'fireplaces or other sources of
!heat. Allow no smoking near the
tree.
2. CHRISTMAS LIGHTING.
Open flame lighting is entirely
out of place Unless you have
your candles and lamps well
away from Christmas trees, win
dow curtains and burnable dec
orations, have a fire extinguisher
handy and then keep constant
watch over open flames. Such
precautions are not mecessary for‘
the equally attractive electric
lights made especially for Yule
tide decoration. But if yon use
'electric lights REMEMBER: do
‘not overload your electric sys
tem: be sure that the lighting
seis bear the label of the Under
writer’s Laboratories, Inc., and
that the cords are not frayed.
3. CHRISTMAS DECORA
TIONS. If you decorate your
home elaborately you'll have a
very serious hazard unless you
use incombustible material.
Flame - proofing treatment 1S
available for home use if com
bustible materials are used. How=
ever, metal, glass and asbestos
decorations are available nearly
everywhere and are quite as at
tractive as those of daqgerous
paper, cotton and pyroxylin,
4, CHRISTMAS WRAPPIN'G.S.
See that all wrappings go into
the wastebasket and then that it
is taken out and dumped in a
covered metal barrel or incinera
tor as soon as it is filled.
. In concluding Chief Thompson
said: “If you tree catches fire,
call the fire department immedi
ately. Our telephone number is
10—or just say ‘give me the Fire
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Donations Bring
Givitan Fund Up
Donations vyesterday brought
the total contributions in he
Civitan Rehabilitation Fund up
to $348.000.
The gifts were as follows:
Donations for Civitan Rehabil
itation Fund, Ins. December 16,
1947.
Previous donations ...... $197.00
A Friend ... iy st 20N
Jack Malecom .....is.is 5.00
Yo W, Prieket .10 . 500
e DR i 5.00
. W.. Russom . .<.éiasii 5.00
1 H. Gillespie ..:..... 5.00
Cosby Hodgeg Milling Co. 10.00
Howard McCants ........ 10.00
H. G Callshan, .. ..., 5.00
Total donatons ..... $348.00
SANTA AND THE GOOD BOY
CHAPTER 11
Mr. Sleek Tricks Tom
"Tom did not understand why
Mr. Sleek was so furious to find
that he really had gotten a red
sheep’s wool. And he did not un
derstand why Mr. Sleek should
have thrown the wool away.
“But,” he told himself, “all of
this means nothing to me if he
shows me where I can find a star.”
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‘Senate May Adop
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Get Tough Polic
et Tough Policy
0n US Grain Probe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—(AP)
—Senators may answer with a
subponea any administration re
fusal to make public the list of
grain market speculators which
Harold E. Stassen claims includes
the names of “government in
\ siders.”
l Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) told
a reporter that if the Senate Ap~
| propriations Committeqi is denied
| access to the names of large trad
lers, he will seek a subpoena to ob
tain the list either from govern
{ment records or individual
brokers.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Agri
culture Anderson, who has the in
formation the committee wants, is
known to have conferred privately
lwith Chairman Bridges (R-NH).
Declines Comment
Bridges declined to comment on
the outcome, but there were strong
indications that Anderson may re
fuse officially to make the names
public.
J. M. Mehl, administrator for
the commodities exchange au
'thority of which Anderson is a
| member, already has told the com
' mittee he believes the law for
' bids his giving the names to Con
| Bress.
Pending the outcome, committee
experts have been conducting an
inquiry into reports that some per=
sons connected with the Agricul~
ture Department have been active
in market trading.
Stassen, a candidate for the Re=
publican presidential nomination,
told a news conference yesterday
that he believes President Truman
himself should make public the
list of market operators.
The former Minnesota governor
added that any government of<
ficials found to have been specu
lating in grains and other coms
modities should ‘be fired. : .
Pauley’s Holdings
Stassen said this applies to Ed«
win W. Pauley, special assistant
to Secretary of the Army Royall,
who told the Senate Committee
'last week that he has had com
‘modity market holdings approxi
mating $1,000,000. Pauley denied
that he had used any information
he obtained as a government of
ficial in his trading activities.
Furthermore, he declared last
night that he has no intention of
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M "
athis Defeafs H. B.
VALDOSTA, Ga., Dec. 16 —
(AP) — J. E. (Ed) Mathis, mem=
ber of the State Legislature, yes
terday was elected mayor of Val
dosta, defeating incumbent, H. B.
(Hell Bent) Edwards, 1,899 to
1,020.
For Edwards, who served sev-~
eral terms in the legislature, it
was the first defeat at the polls
in his home city and county. His
nephew, 25-year-old Bruce Ed
wards, was third and low man in
the race.
Mathis wag endorsed by the
recently-organized Valdosta Bet
ter Government League, which
won five of the six places on City
Council.
Nineteen were in the council
race,
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
So he followed Mr. Sleek as the
evil creature led him out of the
park, out of .the city, and down a
country road. 5
When they finally stopped night
had come, and the sky was dark
except for a lonely star or two.
They stood in a deserted farm
yard and Mr. Sleek pointed to a
hole in the ground which was
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