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Consul "Get Out”’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—(AP)—The United States is stripping the Soviet Consul
(ieneral in New York of his official position because ¢f his conduct in the Kosen
kina affair and has demanded that Russia get him out of this country.
The sensationa! turn in the Soviet-Ame I.can row over the refugee school teacher
in New York was disclosed today with pub lication of an American note handed to the
Soviet Embassy last night.
Market Raided
BERLIN, Aug. 20.-—(AP) —British troops and military
police were called out today when Russian military police
and Soviet-controlled officers again raided alleged black
market operaters near the east-west city boundary.
The Russian group -arrested yevening. s,
about 600 Germans in all. The
police riding in open trucks,
were escorted by Soviet tommy
gunners in American-made jeeps.
There were jeers as they with+
drew. Five minutes after they
drove off, the square was again
packed with a new group of
plack marketeers and buyers.
The forces converged on Pots
damer Platz, where at least five
Germans were injured late yes
terday in a riot. Berliners yes
terday stoned the Russian-con
trolied police, who responded
with gunfire as they retreated.
The American, Russian and
British sectors of the blockaded
city meet at the Postdamer Platz.
About 60 Russian Military
Police and soldiers were report
ed involved in the action today.
The raid was conducted swiftly
and apparently without violence.
By the time five truckloads of
British military police and sol
diers #trived at the sector borders
the Russians and their faction
or the German police had corall
ed many Germans in the square.
A German policeman who wit
nessed the operation from the
British sector estimated form 400
to 500 Germans were rounded
up.
The suspects were placed on
trucks and hauled off to jail
Whether the Russians and their
German raiders actually crossed
the zonal line during the raid
could not be determined.
There was no brush between
British and Russian forces. The
Lieutenant Colonel commanding
the Britons talks amiably with
the Russian troop commander
after the raid. ) :
Tension Slacks =
The tension was - greater last
L i
.
Caribbean Squall
Slows To Normal
MIAMI Fla., Aug. 20 — (AP)
—The squall wave under obser
vation in the Caribbean “doesn’t
amount to much any more,” the
U. S. weather bureau said today.
“Everything looks about nor
mal,” said Federal Storm Fore
caster Grady' Norton. “There are
still a few showers down there,
but no storm.” All reconnaisance
reports aré that it has flattened
out.”
The area ¢ aFiTting west across
the Caribbean sea and extends
from Haiti south, Norton ex
plained,
Free-Wheeling
Credit Braked
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.— (AP) —The government
today pulled a brake on free-wheeling credit.
New rules to stiffen “easy payment” loans and pur
chases covering most consumer goods costing from SSO to
$5,000, were posted official
Board. They take effect Sep
Most consumers shrugged —
they’ll go along if it will help
fight inflation. Businessmen were
divided. Some thought it “fair
and reasonable.” One furniture
€xecutive denounced it as “ra
tioning the poor.”
These are the terms — backed
up by criminal penalties and the
bPower of the Federal Reserve
Board to put a violator out of the
credit business:
One third down on automo
biles.
Twenty per cent down on
stoves, dishwashers, ironers, re
frigerators, washing machines, air
conditioners, radios, phonographs,
television sets, sewing machines,
Vacuurmh eleaners, furniture and
rugs,
A 15-month timeé limit to com-
Dlete payment if the article costs
SI,OOO or less.
An 18-month limit on credit
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Police opened fire when the
crowd stoned them as they over
stepped into the British and
American parts of the square.
Germans in the crowd yelled
“Communist Pigs” at the police.
It was a question, however,
whether the shouters were sin
cere anti-Communists or just
piqued black marketeers.
Five hours after the smoke
had cleared and the Soviet-sec
tor police had retreated the black
market trade was going 4 as
usual.
The incident” was the most
serious since the Berlin police
force was split into two rival fac
tions, one backed by the Rus
sians and the other by the West
ern Allies.
During the rioting British and
American miltary police appear
ed on their sides of the square
and Russian troops “on their
ground. Zyey were not involved
in the figh?hg, Rowever,
In previous raids in the Pots
damer Platz Russian soldiers or
military police usually have been
involved.
Same Setup
Although Russian-backed po
lice faced a hostile throng yes
terday observers reasoned that
the same thing could happen at
any time to Western-backed
police if they over-stepped into
the Soviet sector during a black:
market raid.
Yesterday’s violence pointed
up the tension which has been
growing since the introduction of
the Sovief blockade.
The British-American air lift
droned on. In the 24-hour period
ending at noon yesterday, 526
British and American planes
landed at Tempmelhf and Gatow
airfields with supplies for the
blockaded western sectors. The
Americans brought in 2,338 tons,
of which 1,548 were coal. Theq
British carried an estimated 1,200
tons of supplies.
The propaganda war in Berlin
continued, .
The Russians boasted last night
they are “now in a position to
supply Berliners wish 1,500,000
tons of coal by April- of next
year,” acording to the Soviet
sponsored news agency.
In Weisbaden, the Hessian In
terior inistry_said last night a
German policeman of the U. S.
zone has been kidnapped by
Russian zone police. The minis
try said it had sent a formal
complaint to the Russian zone
state of Thuringia.
ly by the Federal Reserve
tember 20.
over SI,OOO, but with a minimum
S7O monthly payment.
Ordinary charge accounts—us
vally payable in one, two or three
| months—are not affected. Person
al loans, of the type repayable in
monthly installments, are subject
tc the time limits. Single pay=
ment loans and housing loans are
exempt.
The order is the first fruit of
the new Republican anti-infla
tion law, signed by President
Truman Monday. He said the act
is only “tiny fraction what we
lneed" to defeat rising prices.
| Nemed “regulation W after the
'war and postwer controls which
expired last November 1, the or
| der putsanendtoa big chunk of
!the “two dollars down and iwo
| years to pay” type of merchan
dise — ot least until next June
|3o' That's when the anti-inflution
law expires.
Associated Press Service
+ The noté flatly rejected Soviet
charges that the teachers, rs.
Oksana Kosenkina ana i, and
sasw. aulhilall 1. DalErine, were
abducted by the anti-Soviel 10i
sluy lounuation with e conm-
Vauce vl adenican eincials. ine
Uuee, ne nole sdaiq, wainted w
Sty dl WIS country.
while recogmziug the right of
Soviel oriclais 10 proiect s Na
uovlials 10 LS couary, the note
salo ey are entitted w the pro-
LECUOL vl e TappLcaUe laws ul
lhe united States.”’
veclaring tmis government will
f not turn Mrs, Kosenkina over 1o
{awuSSlall dulnoriues against her
will, tne note said:
“Ihe government of the United
States cunnot permit the exercise
witnin the United Sates of the po
lice power of any 10Ieig8iL guv
ernment,
‘l'he State Department told So
viet Ambassador Alexanaer .
Panyusnkin and his government
that the Russian charges, includa
, ing some by Soviet Foreign Min
'--u-; aavalvuy, sVI ML buoew
upon misinformation.”
Moreover, the department told
the Soviets in effect that the U.
S. government hotds Consul uen
erar Jacob M. Lomakin in New
York responsible for this infor
mauon., rie was accused of an
“abuse” of his position and a
‘‘gross violation” of proper con
duct of foreign officials.
Revoke Papers
As a result, the note said, the
Staie Vepartment is “requesting’
President lTuman 10 revoke cie
ventials granted to Lomakin by
this country and wants him to
leave the United Siates “within
a reasonable time.”
The note was not signed by
eitner Secretary of State Marshall
or Undersecreiary of dtate Roo
ert Lovett although both took a
hand in its preparauon. it was
signed simply “Deparument 0i
State” and bore the initial “L,”
presumably meaning Lovertt.
While concentrating its fire- on
Lomakin, the United States de
clared its reports on tne refusgce
teacher cases in this country “in
dicate that officials of the ovietl
government have been engaged
in conduct which is highly im
proper.” g
‘tne note “categorically” rejec
ted all charges made by the So
viets against American authori
ties. .
The United States requested
copies of two letters which it said
were in the hands of the Soviet
consulate general in New York
ond had been written by Mrs.
Kosenkina. One was written at
the time she decided not to go
back to Russia and one a little
more than a week ago when she
jumped out of the consulate win
dow in New York,
- Secret Testimony
The evidence against Lomakin
was based on testumony given to
American aijthopities by Mrs.
Kosenkina, who is now in a New
York hospital suffering with inju
ries she received in her leap for
freedom.
In general, these assertions by
her, as described in the State De
partment note, covered these main
points:
1. The interview which she
gave to the press Aug. 7, after
Lomakin had forced her return
from the Tolstoy Foundation ref
ugee farm, “was arranged by the
consulate greneral and...she was
instructed to make false state
ments to the effect that she had
been kidnapped.”
2. She went to the farm, ac
cording to her testimony and of &
number of other persons, “vol
untarily, and stayed there of her
own free will.”
Defense Confab
Scheduled Today
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 —
(AP)—Secretary of Defense For
restal will hold a conference
with the joint 'c“chielfs of stz;f’f at
the Naval War College at New
port, R. L, bem late foday
and continuing through Sunday.
The Defense Department said
the conference follows the pat
tern established, at Key West, Fla.
March 11-14. Similar meetings
are planned at intervals of a
few months in the future.
The purpose is tc provide an
opportunity for extended dis
cussion of important policy ques
tions in an informal atmosphere
and at a distance from the rou
tine administrative pressures and
interruptions at headguarters in
Washington.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 20 —
(AP) Roberta Lawson Nelson, 17,
sdys she never knew — until po
iice told sher yesterday — that
the “hudband” with whom she
had lived for two years was a
W oman.
l Police Inspector Clarence Ko
vill said Roberta was upset to
the point of hysteria by the news.’
The “husbalad” Robert Stew-i
’art Nelson, 25, has been missing}
since Monday and is charged with |
; theft of 3910 from a grocery sup
| ply firm were he-—or she— was ’
bookkeeper.
| “He was just like a normal hus
band,” police salé Roberta told
| them. In tor Kovill said she
*‘Hed. hq#‘f:r, that they did not
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LAST RITES HELD FOR “BABE” RUTH — The flower-decked casket containing
the body of Babe Ruth is carried into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York for fun
eral services. In the left background is the Babe’s widow, Mrs. Claire Ruth, flanked
by her adopted daughter, Mrs. Richard Flanders and her husband.
Immigration Service Is Asked
To Find Missing Spy Witness
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20— (AP) —Rep. Nixon (R.-
Calif.) said today it has become “imperative” that the
immigration service quickly produce missing witness J.
Peters for the congressional spy hearings.
An admitted former Communist has testified under
oath before the House Un-American Activities Committee
that Peters headed the entige . Red underground in the
United States. '
The committee contends the
Immigration Bureau has promis
ed to produce Peters and that it
can in fact do so because he is
under $5,000 bond awaiting de
portation action.
Immigration Commissioner Wat
son Miller said he would talk
things over today with Nixon and
other committee members.
Miller told reporters he doesn’t
know where the man is but “It's
inconceivable to me that Peters
couldn’t be found.
At about the time Miller plan
ned to have his talk with the
committee, the State Department
arranged to make public its exact
words rejecting & series of bitter
Russian protests and demands
growing out of the refugee school
teacher incidents in New York.
The government’s official re
ply was delivered to the Soviet
embassy last night But publica
tion of the texts was delayed until
9 a. m. (EST) to give the ambas
sador a “reasonable time” to ad
vise his own government of their
contents first.
Defy Order
The teachers invoived already
have been promised asylum in
this country. They are Mrs. Ok
sana S. Kosenkina — still in crit
ical condition after her leap from
a third floor window of the So
viet consulate in New York—
and Mikhail Samarine.
' Both of them, along with Sama
rine’s wife and three small chil
dren, ignored Russian orders to
sail for home last month. This
prompted Soviet charges —
among other things — that Amer
ican authorities had connived in
their “kidnaping.”
The exact status of any depor
tetion action against Peters has
not been brough out publicly
curing the House committee’s
hearings,
There appeared to be consider
able doubt, however, that the
immigration service — in the ab
sence of any orders from higher
up—would make any quick move
to produce Peters for the com
mittee.
Chest Always Taped Up
Girl Surprised To Find
2-Year Hubby A “Woman”
Too Much Pregsure
And it seemed doubtful, too,
thet any such orders; would be
forthcoming in view of the way
President Truman has taken
punches at the spy investibation at
his last three news conferences.
Nixon told reporters it is vital
that the committee ge a crack
a Peters because:
1. Whittaker Chambers, who
says he was a Red from 1925 to
1937 and now is a Time Maga
zine editor, has testified that he
believes Peters ran the Com
munist underground in the whole
United States.
2. Chambers has told the com
mittee that Peters introduced
him to Alger Hiss, former State
Depertment official,
3. Hiss has denied Chambers’
charges that Hiss belonged to a
pre-war Communist underground
operating in Washington.
Free Lancer
4, Hiss at first testified he did
not know enyone named Whitta
ker Chambers but later said he
had known him in 1934 and 1935
as a free lance writer named
George Crosley,
5. Hiss has szid he met his ac
cuser when the man he knew as
Crosley visited his office seeking
material for magazine articles, at
a time when Hiss was a lawyer
with the Senate munitions inves
tigating committee.
6. Gerald P. Nye, former North
Dakota senator who headed the
committee, has written the House
investigators that he never en
countered anyor e around the com
mittee named George Crosley.
Three more witnesses were
summoned to a closed door ses
sion of the Un- American Activi
ties Committee today for testimony
on the Hiss-Chambers relation
ship.
All three formerly were prom
inent New Dezl attorneys. All
were listed by Chambers as mem
bers of the Communist under
ground when he knew it and by
Hiss as fellow lawyers in the
old agricultural adjustment ad
ministration.
have marital relations because
Robert was ‘“emotionally involv
ed” with an earlier wife.
Robert “always wore tape over
his chest,” Roberta also told Ko
vill! “He told her he had been in
the Navy and had been wounded
by sharpnell.”
Kovill said FBI reports show
ed Nelson had been picked up in
Chiengo 2nd St Louis in 1944 for
failure to carry a draft card and
that sach time wes released when
the prisoner’s true sex was dis
closed. :
Roberts said they met as fellow
workers in a Phoenix laundry
and were married at the home of
the Rev. C. D. Smith there Oct.
6, 1946,
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"AXIS SALLY”
HEADS FOR U. S.
TREASON TRIAL
FRANKFURT, Germany,
‘Aug. 20—(AP)—"Axis Sal-
Iy” left for the United States
today to l"a.ce trial for trea
**She is Mildred D. Gillars,
formerly of Portland, Me.
During the war she broadcast
appeals to American soldiers
to stop fighting. She was ar
rested soon after American
troops entered Germany, re
leased briefly and then jailed
again.
“Good bye Frankfuri,” she
said when boarding an Army
transport plane for Washing
ton. She wore a flowing black
fur cloak and black slacks.
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Plans Set
For Swim
Meet Sunday
Plans are nearing completion
today for the First Annual Clas
sic City Swim Meet, scheduled
for Sunday afternoon at the
American Legion swimming pool.
Theyx Stewart, ace swimmer
for the University of Georgia
swimming team, and an “out
standing Southern titleholder,
will be on hand to further en
liven the afternoon of swimming
competition with exhibitions of
his swimming skill. Life saving
‘demonstrations are also being
arranged to show spectators the
latest methods in saving the lives
of dr#wning persons.
A capacity crowd is expected
to attend the meet, and adequate
bleachers are being installed for
the comfort of spectators. An am
plifying system will be used to
let the crowds know who is win
ning what. !
Medals have been made avail
able to winners by the generosi
ty of Michael Brofhers, Palace
Theatre, Coca-Cola Company,
and J. C. Penny Company. In ad
‘dition, dozens of Red Cross cer
tificates will be awarded to chil
dren for their accomplishments
during the summer instruction
| period.
' Twenty separate events will be
staged during the affernoon of
swimming competition, ten for
'bovs and ten for girls, to suit the
ability of every contestant.
| The A. A. U. Meet planned for
next Sunday afternoon has been
‘cancelled through the joint agree
ment of the recreation and health
officials.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and partly cloudy,
warmer tonight and Saiur
day.
GEORGIA—CIear to partly
cloudy and continued warm
today, tonight and Saturday;
scattered thundershowers in
southeast portion thic after
noon and over extreme
south portion Saturday aft
ernoon.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
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Leader Of Prison Break
Slain On Milledge Ave.; .
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Companion Still At Large -
The ring-leader of eight armed negro desperadoes, who
escaped from Fulton county prison iast Wednesday, was
killed in a running gun fight with Athens police here early
this morning.
The escaped convict was identified as Robert Jackson,
34, and was felled by police bullets on Milledge avenue
shortly after 1:00 a. m. A second escaped convict, riding
in the stolen car with Jackson, escaped on foot and was
still at large late today. He is belieyed to be wounded.
Both men were heavily armed and the object of a mas
sive manhunt that had alerted three Southern states.
Police Chief Clarence Roberts
revealed that Jackson was one of
the state’s most notorious car
thieves and had been placed on
the dangerous list for quite some
time.
Local police were alerted at
12:50 this morning by Madison au
thorities that the convicts were
headed toward Athens in a 1941
blue Chevrolet, stolen from a
Madison resident.
Radio Patrolmen Nelson Wood
and Lt. Henry Smith were warned
shortly after midnight to be on the
lookout for the stolen car.
~ The officers stationed themselves
at Five Points and spotted the
stolen car shortly after 1:00 a. m.
The car turned onto Milledge ave
nue from the Princeton Road, and
the officers gave chase. After
pulling along side of the car, the
officers reported that the convicts
pointed guns out the windows of
the car, but didn’t fire. |
Car Wrecks ‘
A few minutes later the driver
of the convict car lost control and
crashed into the curb in front of
the VerNooy residence on Mil
ledge. Both convicts leaped from
their stalled car and fled. Officers
Wood and Smith opened fire and
Jackson was struck in the back.
He died a short time later in a
local hospital.
Jackson regained consciousness
long enough to plead with doctors
—“Save me, doctor, Save me.”
Local authorities report that Jack
son was employed here at one
time by the Varsity.
A dragnet of police officers,
aided by bloodhounds, began
combing the residential section in
which the second convict was last
seen. Their search proved nothing
until after daylight, when they
received a tip that a negro had
tried to commandeer an automo
bile on the Lexington road a short
distance out of Athens.
Second Tip
D. E. Dawson, of Arnoldsville,
reported to police that he was on
his way to Athens, when a negro
tried to flag him down on Dean
Hill. Mr. Dawson said that he had
ijust heard a flash over the radio
reporting that the escaped con
victs were in this section. He drove
on and stopped at a roadside store
and phoned in his information.
Authorities rushed to the scene
but were unable to find any trail
of the fugitive.
A report by a housewife, Mrs.
John Gamble, who lives a short
distance from Dean Hill, that she
saw a negro fitting the convict’s
description boarding a bus, proved
futile.
The State Patrol alerted au
thorities. in Atlanta, and the bus
was met at the Atlanta terminal
New GOP Labor
Legislation Seen
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.— (AP) —New Democratic
demands for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act brought spec
ulation today that Republicans may propose some changes
in the labor law.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential
nominee, has not ruled out such a course.
But he and Republican Chair
man Flanders must decide first
whether any such proposals can
be made appealing to organized
labor without alienating other
citizens who want the act kept
pretty much as it is. |
Dewey’'s Taft-Hartley com
ments have been few recently.
But he said in Salt Lake City in
May that he never had seen a
“perfect law.”
Later the Republican platform
pledged “continuing study to im
prove labor-management leJsla
tion in the light of exXperience
and changing conditions.” |
Thus Dewey goes into the ac-.
tive phase of the campaign next
month with the way open for
him to propose possible changes
in the law without being tied
down in advance to any specific
revisions. |
There seems lttle doubt but
that he will defend the general
principles of the act.
Democratic National Chairman
J. Howard McGrath forecast
Home
Ecition
but the driver, Ben Williams, re
ported that he had not picked up
any passenger fitting the descrip
tion of the convict.
Overpower Dairymen p
Late yesterday the pair had
stolen another series of cars and
had overpowered two dairrx‘ié’n in
Putnam county near Eatonton, aad
took a pistol and a .22 calibre rifle
from them. The convicts later
abandoned the truck taken.from
the dairymen for the Chevrolet
sedan stolen in Madison. v
A 22 rifle found with Jackson
here is believed to be the same
gun stolen from the dairymen. The
convict still at large is believed
to have one and possibly two' pis
tols in his possession. .
The other two convicts who
staged a bold escape from Fulton
prison are still at large, and have
not been heard of since their
break. Four other members of the
break have been re-captured by
authorities.
Draft Cards
Being Readied
WASHINGTON, Aug, 20 -
(AP) — President Truman told
Selective Service boards today to
start mdiung classification ques
tionnaires to single non-veteran
draft registrants by Sept. 7.
The order was ih a 30-page set
i’of regulations laying down the
‘detailed provisions for putting
thousands 6% yoling men 19
through 25 into unifrm under the
new peacetime draft act.
Under the order as provided by
the act, deferments will be given
to men with dependents, to al
most all veterans, to men in ne
cessary jobs, including farm
work, conscientious objectors and
some other classes of registrants.
Generally, the classes are pat=
terned after those used in the
wartime “draft setup.
- Single _non-veteran men: will
be the first to get their question
naires, which the boards will use
to determine whether a registrant
should be called for induection or
deferred. . vz
2 Boys Started
*
Big Reno Blaze
RENO, Nev. Aug. 20—(AP)—
Two “awful sorry” Negro boys
were held by juvenile authorities
today for starting a downtown
fire Sunday which killed five
persons and injured 137.
such a stand in a statement last
night commentine on' the visit of
House Speaker Joseph W. Mar
tin, jr.,, to Dewey in Albany.
McGrath said Martin’s asser
tion that the Republicans will
brag about the record of the
GOP - controlled 80th Congress
hangs an “albatross” around
Dewey’s neck, 2
Dewey previously, MeGrath
said, “appeared to be running
for the presidency under the pre
tense that the Congress during
the past two years had besn con
trolled by hottentots and krem
lins, rather than by Republi
cans.”
But now, the Democratic
chairman added, it seems that
Dewey “will soon abandon his
fattitude of being too /noble to
concern himself with such mun
dane problems as high prices and
housing and run as a Republican
on the Republican record”
McGrath said the “failures” of
the Taft-Hartley Act will plague
Dewey and his ruuning mate,
ltornia, in the campaign.