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U.S. Pemands Soviets Lift Berlin Food Bloc
WASHINGTON, July 6—(AP)—
The United States demanded di
rectly to the Soviet government
{oday that the Russian blockade of
gerlin be lifted.
gecretary of State Marshall pre
cented the American note of pro
test personally to Soviet Am
passador Alexander S. Panyushkin.
Immediately afterward, State
pepartment Press Officer Lincoln
White issued this statement:
“Ambassador Panyushkin ealled
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ISRAEL
REJECTS
PEACE BID
“CAIRO, July 6.—(AP)—lsrael
today formally Trejected Count
Folke Bernadotte’s Palestine
peace proposals. Neither Arabs
nor Jews gave a definite reply on
the United Nation mediator’s bid
for an extension of the Holy
Land truce. i
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Shertok handed Bernadotte 2
1,000-word reply to the media
tor’s proposal to turi Jerusalem
over to Arab rule, make Haifa
a free port and regulate immigra-
Tion,
The reply said Israeli leaders
were deeply wounded by the
Jerusalem proposal. The Jews
expressed emphatic opposition to
any restriction on immigration,
and urged Bernadotte to recon
sider his whole approach to the
problem. This latter was taken
as an indication that the Jews
are willing to extend the truce if
new talks develop. The truce ex
pires Friday.
Bernadotte planned to leave
Tel Aviv for Cairo tonight to re
sume conferences with the Arabs
and to return to Tel Aviv Wed
nesday to hear a Jewish reply on
the truce extension.
In Cairc an Egyptian cabinei
source said there is little doubt
the Arabs will resume fighting in
Palestine when the four-week
truce ends Friday, despite U. N.
appeals for an extension.
The final decision of the Arab
League on the truce’extension 1s
expected to be taken up by the
League’s political committee to
day.
In Jerusalem, where Arabs
and Jews engaged im gun auels
Sunday and again yesterday, Is
raeli forces have begun digging
in for an all-out resumption oi
war. ‘
40,000 Miners
Begin Strike
PITTSBURGH, July 6.—(AP)—A walkout of 40,000
captive coal miners began today and in western Pennsyl
vania the bulk of commercial miners remained idle in a
sympathy walkout.
Overall coal production in western Pennsylvania,
which employs 56,000 miners, was only 20 percent of
normal,
The big U. 8. Steel Corpora
tion reported all 14 of its Penn
sylvania mines, employing 11,000
men, were idle, causing a daily
loss of 55,000 tons of coal.
Among other captive mines
closed were those of the Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corporation and
the Weirton Steel Company. Cap
tive mines and those whose out
put goes to a parent firm, like a
steel company. :
The Western Pennsylvania
Coal Operators Association re
ported commercial coal produc
tion in the Pittsburgh-Uniontown
area was only one-third of nor
mal, with 30 pits and 10,000 men
idle. The output of commercial
Lnines is sold on the open mar
et,
Commercial producers hit hard
included the Pittsburgh Coal
Company, which reported 14 of
its 17 deep mines in Pennsylva
nia closed. With 3,500 men idle,
its daily production loss was 24,-
000 tons.
The captive miners stayed
away from work because of lack
of 3 contract. Steel companies
refused a new contract because
of a union shop provision.
The majority of the 400,000
bituminous miners had a new
contract from commercial coal
Guard Posted On
Murder Victims
TULSA, Okla., July 6.—(AP)—
Three survivors of Tulsa's sadis
tic bludgeon killing were under
24-hour police guard in - their
hospitals today.
Extra protection for the wo
man and twe girls was ordered
when the hospitals were plagued
vesterday by mysterious phone
callers who repeatedly asked the
victims’ condition. They refused
to identify themselves or say why
they wanted the information.
.| on the ,sec@ry. at 11:30 o’clock
| (EDT) this morning and was given
.| a note regarding the situation in
| Berlin.
“The ambassador was informed
| that it is not the intention of this
| government to make the contents
| of the note public until the Soviet
| government had a reasonable
| period of time to study the note
| and make its reply.”
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DUTCH TREAT — A prefty
girl strikes a pretty pose on a
beach — it's the same all
over the world. Here Mary
Van Den Velde displays the
Duteh version of the brief
bathing suit.
operators granting a sl-per-day
pay increase and an increased
employer contribution to the un
ion healith and welfare fund.
The walkout actually was an
extension of the 10-day miners’
vacation which ended yesterday.
The captive miners held to the
United Mine Workers' tradition
of “no contract, no work.”
SLEEPING T ABLETS
Carole Landis
Takes Own Life
LOS ANGELES, July 6—(AP)
—The movie career of actress
Carole Landis came to an abrupt
end yesterday with the finding
of her body in the bathroom of
her Pacific Palisades home.
Police said ste had taken her
own life.
Clutched in her hand was a
satin ribbon, with the Lord’s
prayer imprinted in gold letter
ing. On a nearby dresser was a
final note addressed to her
mother.
Capt. of Detectives Emmett
Jones said: “this is definitely a
suicide.” The detective said there
were four bottles of sleeping
pills in Miss Landis’ bathroom
and dressing room., He.said an
empty bottle was found near the
body.
* Capt. Jones reported the beau
tiful blond actress, 29, had died
perhaps 12 hous before the bedy
was tound by film actor Rex
Harrison, who said he had been
unable to reach her by telephone
regarding a business matter.
The officers said a maid was
in the home but had thought Miss
Landis was still in her bedroom
and did not notice the body hud-
protesting strongly the Soviet
blockade of the German capital.
White officially gave no intima
tion of the line which Marshall
took.
No Doubt
Other diplomatic informants
said there appeared no doubt that
he demanded the immediate lift
ing of the Berlin blockade, and
protested Russia’s recent policies
in the German capital. They said
he argued that the Soviet Union
Associated Press Service
lke Vows He Couldnt Accept
Nomination For Public Office
Lee Sheridan Day
Termed Big Success
Red Prexy
Is Greeted
By Silence
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July
6—AP)—Cheers for resigned Pres
ident Eduard Benes rang through
Prague today from the throats of
80,000 marchers in the Sokol Con
gress parade.
Kelement Gottwald, the Com
munist who succeeded Benes, got
silent treatment.
inere were cheers also for
Yugoslavia and Premier Marshal
Tito, denounced recently by the
cominform as a heretic from the
Marx-Lenin line.
“We have no true Republic with
out T. G. Masaryk and Benes,” the
‘marchers chanted as they tramped
through central Prague in the rain.
~ Masaryk ‘was founder and “first
President. of Czechoslovakia. His
son, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk,
plunged to his death soon after the
Communists seized the country.
Benes resigned recently withdut
signing the new Communist Con
stitution.
Sokol members shouted “long
live brother Benes,” but there
were no cheers for Gottwald. The
marchers passed coldly by the re
viewing stand in the old town
square where Gottwald sparked
the drive for Communist power
last Feb. 22.
The games and mass maneuvers
in which some 20,000 persons have
taken part, have attracted thou
sands from other countries.
.
Footprint Keeps
Search Hopes Up
SOMERSET Pa,, July 6—(AP)
—A child’s footprint, in a wood
ed area a mile from the collier
cabin, today led searchers for
ward with new hope that 23-
month-old Donald Collier may
still be alive. ‘
The baby disappeared last
Friday afternon and 300 or
more volunteers and officers
have been searching for him
ever since. {
Searchers said the footprint,
to the northeast of the cabin
site, was a fresh one, having
been made since Saturday
night’s heavy electrical storm.
dled in a corner of the bathroom.
Miss Landis left a note which
read as follows:
“Dear Mommie—
“l'm sorry, really sorry to put
you through this but there is no
way to avoid it—l love you darl
ing, you have been the most won
derful mom over — and that
applies to all our family. I love
each and every one of them
dearly — everything goes to you
—look in the files and there is
a will which decrees everything—=—.
Goodbye, may angel —pray for
me—yvour baby” ~
Harrison told police that Miss
Landis had been i& for a week,
suffering a recurfance of an
amoebic infection she incurred
during a wartime entertainment
tour in the South Pacific..
Only last March 22 the actress
filed suit to divorce her fourth
1 usband, theatrical Producer
Forace Schmidlapp, on grounds
of cruelty. Schmidlapp, who was
ot Cincinnati. O, said he was
shocked bv his wife’'s death and
was leaving immediately for Cal.
ifornia.
Miss Landis, daughter of a rail
road mechanic, was born Frances
Ridste at Fairchild, Wis.
must directly accept responsibility
for any lack of supplies among the
fi:illions of Germans living in Ber
n.
White did not define what was
meant by a “reasonable period of
time” in which the Soviet gov
ernment could study the American
note but presumably it meant sev
eral days at least.
Other Notes
The contents of the notes from
the three western powers are not
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CEN TURY
With patriotie addresses by outstanding Georgians and
a $1,500 super colossal fireworks display, the Lee Sheri
dan home-building celebration exploded to a sky-high
success here last night.
Two Killed
Auto Wreck
TUSKEGEE, Ala., July 6 —
(AP)—Two persons were Kkilled
and four others seriously injur
ed when two cars collided head
on about two miles east of here
on U. S. 80 early today.
The dead were listed by the
Highway Patrol as Mrs. Betty
Dennis Walters, 19, of Columbia,
S. C, and Pvt. Tommie J. Cob
ble of Fort Benning, Ga.
Cobble and three companions
were traveling toward Fort Ben
ning when the accident occurred.
Mrs. Walters and her husband,
Frank, were in thg other car.
Those listed as seriously injur
ed were Lt. Troy J. Morris of
Fort Benning, driver of one of
the cars; Frank Walters, 30,
driver of the other; Herschel
Bradley, 25; and Dick Andrews.
Investigating officers reported
Walters and Morris were most
badly hurt of the four.
Tire And Tube
Prices Hiked
AKRON, Ohio, uly 6.—(AP)—
Two major producers today an
nounced increases in the prices
of tires and tubes.
Goodyear and Goodrich were
the second and third members of
the “big four” of the industry to
boost retail prices. U. S. Rubber
Company last Thursday upped
its figures from five to seven and
one-half percent.
Geodyear anncunced that ef
fective today truck tire prices
would go up about five percent,
passenger tires six percent and
large farm tires about seven and
one-half percent.
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948.
Zoning Law
Heads Council
A gend a Tonight
The regular monthly meet
ing of the Mayor and City
Councili wili be heid tonighi
beginning at 8 o’clock in the
newly decorated couneil
chamber,
Open house ceremonies for
tht public to observe the new
look in the City Hall will be
held previous to the meeting.
The lifting of the _zoning
ordinaice will also be
brought up before the mayor
and council.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued hot tonight and Wednes
day. Slight chance of thun
dershowers both afternoons.
GEORGIA — Pprily cloudy
and continued hot with scat
tered thundershowers today,
tonight and Wednesday.
TEMPERATURE
SRENeet - it T b
ROWEE T o ey 08
Mobh. .. L e a 8
INOSRARE i o X e 19
RAINFALL
inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total gince July 1 .. ... .00
Deficit since July 1 .. .. 1.02
Average July rainfall ... 5.13
Total since January 1 ...32.11
Excess since January 1 .. 5.60
- expected to be disclosed for sev
| eral days. Notes similar to that of
| the U. S. were understood to have
been handed the Soviet ambass
adors in London and Paris,
| Panyushkin said Marshall had
not expressed to him directly any
views on Berlin. He did not say
what they talked about during the
time he was in the secretary’s of
fice. ‘
Panyushkin told reporters as he
left the department that he had
A highlght of the festivities
last night at the home-building
party were patriotic speeches by
Governor Melvin E. Thompson
¢nd Senator Richard B. Russell
and short addresses by Third
Army Chief-of-Staff, General
Geroge W. Smythe; State Adju
tant General Alpha Fowler; May
or Jack Wells; state Legion
Commander Erle Cocke, jr.;
George Poscher, former Univer
sity of Georgia All-Ameican
football star who lost his legs
and the use of one hand in the
war. ~
REPORTS INCOMPLETE
Reports from the numer
ous persons selling tickets
for the show were not re
eeived as yet this morning,
se that no tabulation "has
been made on the fund.
Weaver Bridges, general
chairman of the fund, said
that an entire report on the
amoutt secured in the drive
would net be available until
tomorrow.
D. Weaver Bridges, general
chairman of the home-building
fund, acted as master of ceremo
nies, assisted by Vane Hawkins,
Commander of Classic City
American Legion Post.
Patritism Praised
Expressing appreciation for the
sincere ‘“evidence of patriotism
shown by vou here tonight,” Gov~-
ernor Thompson told over 7,000
persons gathered in Sanford Sta
dium, “I can tell that you people
out there are typical Georgians
with hearts and minds typical of
Georgia citizens.”
He congratulated the individ
uals and organizations who were
responsible for the home-build
ing celebration and expressed his
congratulations ““to each and
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Over 500 Holiday Deaths
By The Associated Press
The nation’s death toll in violent
accidents over the three-day In
dependence Day holiday soared
far past the 500 mark today.
Four persons lost their lives in
fireworks accidents. An undeter
mined number of persons suffered
injuries in fireworks mishaps.
A final survey of accidental
deaths from 6 p. m. local time Fri
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Salem is shown afire 20 miles off the coast of Lewes, Del. Crewmen abandoned
the ship in two lifeboats and were picked up by a United States Coast Guard cu%gr.
ireceived a note from Marshall but
didn’t know what was in it. He
;was in Marshall's office for 14
| minutes.
{ American sources had said Mar
shall would protest Soviet policies
in Berlin and present a demand
for lifting the Russian blockade in
the German capital.
At the same time, ambassadors
of five western Eluropean powers
and Canada were called into con
! ference with Undersecretary of
Says N. J. Will
GoTo GOP If
Truman Nominated
JERSEY CITY, N. J,, July
6—(AP)—Frank Hague, state
Democratic leader, today call
ed President Truman to re
quest Gen. Eisenhower to ac
cept the Democratic Presiden
tial nomination.
The vice chairman of the
National Democratic Commit
tee said in a statement that
“the position of the New Jer
sey delegation is unchanged.
New Jersey will cast its 36
votes for an out-and-out draft
of Gen. Eisenhower at the
convention.”
“] can advise the President
that New Jersey will go inte
~ the Republican column by over
300,000 votes” if President
Truman is the candidate. He
added, however, that if Gen.
Eisenhower were draiied ai
~ the request of the President
the state would remain Demo
eratic by over 200,000,
States Rights Plank
Sought By Democratis
WASHINGTON, July 6.— (AP)—Democratic platform
drafters talked today of writing in a strong states rights
plank to help cool off Southern bitterness over civil rights.
The issue of granting greater rights to negroes and
other minority groups has stirred up a major problem for
the platform writers as they got ready for their first meet
ing in Philadelphia tomorrow.
This is the reported aim of the
platform committee, headed by
Pennsylvania’é - Senator Francis
J. Myers:
To find some compromise sat
isfactory both to the backers of
President Truman's controversial
civil rights p%gtam and to the
Southerners who have threatened
to split the party wide open over
that program.
The group plans to hold public
hearings tomerrow, Thursday,
and probably Friday. The con
venion opens on Monday. The
day until last midnight showed:
296 persons killed in traffic ac
cidents; 184 drowned; 66 fatally
injured in miscellaneous accidents,
and four deaths from fireworks.
The toll of 550 compared to 546
killed in accidents over the three
day Fourth of July holiday last
year. The 296 fatalities resulting
from accidents on highways were
more than the 235 estimated by
the National Safety Council.
Only two of the 48 states—New
i State Lovett. These talks are the
| first of what may prove to bé a |
" historic series of meetings onl
i American military support for the |
. western European bloc. '
| Scheduled to confer with Lovett
| |
| were ambassadors of Britain, |
| France, the Netherlands, Belgium, |
| Luxembourg and Canada. {
E The five European nations rep
| resented are members of a west
i ern op ation formed to coordi
| nate & .and political as well |
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Backers Of Draft Movement
Won’t Take ‘No’ For Answer
NEW YORK, July 6. — (AP) — General Dwight D.
Eisenhower last night made a flat disavowal of political
ambitions with a statement that “he could not accept
nomination for any public office.” ,
Eisenhower broke -a political silence of almost six
months to take public cognizance of the booming draft-
Eisenhower movement within the Democratic party.
But many leaders of the draft
movement said they would not
take the General’'s “no” for an
answer and would continue ef
forts to win the top spot on the
Democratic ticket for him.
Eisenhower’s statement, re
leased by Robert Harron, Colum
bia University director of public
information, said: ;
“1 will not, at this time, iden
tify myself with any political
party, and could not accept nom
ination for any public office or
participate in partisan political
contest.”
James Roosevelt, eldest son of
the late President and California
Democratic chairman, ingisted on
going ahead with plans to nomi
civil rights question is expected
to get a full — and possibly vio
lent — airing before hopth the
committee and the full conven
tion,
Leaders of negro groups, rep
-lesenting substantial voting
strength, have asked to be heard
Ly Myers’ committee. They are
expected to demand a plank call
ing for anti-poll tax, anti-lynch,
fair employment and other civil
rights legislation.
Meanwhile , at Minneapolis,
(ContinucZ on Page Two.)
Hampshire and South Dakota—
reported no accidental deaths.
Pennsylvania had the heaviest
state t 011—44, including 23 traffic
| fatalities; 14 drownings; six mis
| cellaneous and one fireworks.
| The deaths by states, listing
| traffic, drownings, and miscel
| laneous:
| Alabama 6 40; Florida 6¢ 2;
{ Georgia 7 4 0; Mississippi 2 1 1;
| South Carolina 7 2 2; Tennessee 6
14 0.
as military problems common tqg
all of them. | o
FENCE OR NO FENCE? ;
ATLANTA, July 6.—(AP)-=
The question in six Georgia
counties tomorrow will be
“fence” or “no fence.” j
Voters in the counties will de=
cide under a 66-year-old statq
ilaw whether cattle or crops nust
be fenced in to prevent damage
to the latter by the former.
H QTICM E
nate the wartime supreme com=-
mander.
Roosevelt said that ‘“General
Eisenhower’s statement confirms
his desire not to seek partisan po
litical office. The people of this
country, at this time, I believe,
desire a nationsl units —Sandie
date. ; e
Caucus Call
“General Eisenhower’s state
ment clearly indicates that he
will not serve as a partisan
President but will answer a call
to national duty. 1 am tonisht,
therefore, reissuing the call for
the caucus to be held in Phila
delphia this coming Saturday
night.” .
~ Roosevelt and 17 other leading
Democrats had issued a call for
the pre-convention caucus to
discu®s Eisenhower’s possible
nomination.
Mayor William O’Dywer of
New York, and Chicago Demo
cratic leader Jake Arvey were
not available for comment. They
were among the leaders who
called the caucus. :
Frank Hague, Democratic Nat
ional Vice Chairman, who threw
New Jersey’s 36 convention votes
to Eisenhower Sunday, also was
not available but one of his lieu
tenants said the matter might
not ‘“necessarily ©be finally
closed.”
Among those who accepted the
Eisenhower statement as a final
refusal was Leon Henderson,
chairman of Americans for Dem
ocratic Action. He said it amount
ed to rejecting the nomination.
James S. Peters, Georgia state
chairman, said his state’s conven
tion votes now would go to Sen=
ator Russell of Georgia.
Georgians
Behind lke
MANCHESTER, July 6—(AP)
—Georgia’s 26 votes will go to
General Eisenhower if, despite
his avowed wish against .it, his
name is placed before the Demo
cratic National Convention, Geor
gia Democratic Chairman James
S. Peters said today. :
Earlier Peters had said that
Eisenhower’s latest statement
that he did not want the nomi
nation meant that Georgia’s vote
would go to Senator Russell, the
state’s favorite son.
The State Democratic Conven
tion last week decided to give
the state’s vote to Eisenhower
and if he declined then to Rus=~
sell.
Peters said that although
Georgia would cast its vote for
Eisenhower if his name is plac
ed before the convention, the
Georgia delegation will not of
fer his name if no other state
does. In such ‘an event, the
Georgians will nominate Russell,
Peters said.
Sues Doctor For
False Prediction
LONDON, July 6 — (AP)—J.
F. Whiteford, an American con
sulting engineer, sued two Lon
don doctors today for telling him
in 1942 that he had only a few
more months to live.
Whiteford’s claim for damages
charged John Bowman Hunter, a
surgeonand Dr. Seymour R.
Gleed with breach of warranty
and negligence. They denied the
allegations.
Whiteford complained that the
doctors incorrectely diagnosed a
bladder ailment, removed his
prostate gland and told him he
was suffering from inoperable
cancer.
Whiteford said he gave up his
business here, sold his furniture,
and returned to the United States
to die, e .