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VUNICH, Germany, Nov. 5—
(AP) — Fourteen German war
~riminals were hanged at Lands
berg prison today in @ speed-up
of executions. One man won a last
minute ;’('}Sf’i(’,\'er
e men were convicted of
lilling unarmed American fliers
-+ committing atrocities in con
centration camps.
Today’s executions brought to
43 the numbe: of . men hanged
since the war crimes executions
were resumed at TLandsberg Oct.
15. The sending of 14 to the gal
-lows in one day reflected the in
creased tempo. Previous execu
tions, all on consecutive Fridays,
had been in groups of nine or 10.
German church leaders have
protested the hangings, but the U.
. Military government has refus
ed to toke action” except in cases
where the Judge Advocate Gener
al has certified that the new evi
dence warranted a reprieve.
S. S. Sgt. Spared
The last-minute stay of exe
cution went to Georg Schaller
mair, 53, an S. S. (Storm troop)
master sergeant charged with
atrocities at a Dachau sub-camp.
U. S. Army officials said a pe
tition filed in his behalf had been
found “of sufficient merit to war
rant further investigation.”
Schallermair was charged by an
army report at the time oi his
conviction with some of the creul
est acts of any of the men who
faced the gallows today.
Hair Puller
The report said he beat “many
inmates until they died, exposing
them to severe cold weather and
by cutting the inmates’ hair leav
ing a small portion in the center
of their heads which he then pull
ed out” . ®
Sent to death for killing fliers
who had parachuted from ' dis
abled ‘aircraft over Germany
were.
Police Captain Max Bruno
Cartman, 56, Bad Salzdefruth.
Ernst Ittameie:r, 58, mayor of
Wassertrugedingen.
Aohann Sturm, 37, a German
army sergeant.
Waldemar Feldmeier, 38, a
county organization leader.
Friedrich Heldebrandt, 50, Nazi
party leader at Gau Mecklenburg.
Wilhelm Bollow, 51, assistant to
Heldebrandt.
Karl Gronwaldt, 56, party offi
cial of Gau Mecklenburg. -
Mecklenburg. -, : 4 ¢
Kurt Mueller, 46,.0f Gau Meck
lenburg. : :
Franz Pensien, 52, of Gau
Mecklenbuarg. ‘
All were -accused of killing, or
ordering the killing, of from one
to two fliers. i
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Funds For Medical
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Study At Georgia
WASHINGTON, Nov, 5— (AP)
—Approval of $455,715 in research
grants to institutions in 15 states
was announced today by the Pub
lic Health Service.
The funds will be used to con
tinue medical and related studies
already underway.
The new grants include:
Georgia—University of Georgia
School of Medicine, Athens, $8,333;
Georgia Institute of: Technology,
Atlanta, $10,565.
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Banner-Herald
Sports Scope
This Week End
The Banner-Herald Sports
Department will bring vou
coverage of the following
football games over the week
end,
Monroe High vs. Hartwell
High, Monroe, tonight—Curtis
Driskell.
Athens “Y” Preps and Cubs
vs. Fritz Orr Club Preps and
Cubs (double-header), Atlan
ta, tomorrow—George Abney,
ir.
University of Georgia vs.
University of Florida, Jack
sonville, Fla., tomorrow —
Bozo Clodfeller 1.
Georgia Tech vs, University
of Tennessee, Atlanta, tomor
'ow — Bob Oliver, Banner-
Herald Sports Editor.
U.S. Citizens Ready To Flee Nanking, Shanghai
By The Associated Press
Americans were advised today
to leave the Nanking and Shanghai
areas of China, which seasoned
Chinese Communist armies threat
€n. About 1,000 dependents of
Americans are expected to leave
the great cities, which soon may
be under attack.
A battle which might be de
clslve is shaping up in the
Suchow area, 170 miles northwest
°f Nanking, The government had
100,000 troops, most of them with
mediocre combat recqrdsn':llg g'it;e
area to oppose the to >
;}plined Red a%*fim Chea
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feliable sources in Frankfurt
s2id the United States has ‘armed
three French divisions viith Amer
-88 eGuipment to boj r&"‘ .
of western Europe%‘ ussians
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
HOMES DESTROYED
Huge Forest
Fires Rage
In Califo%nia
LOS ANGELES, Nov. S—(AP)
—Two fires — one destroying
scores of homes and forcing hun
dreds to flee—smoldered over 16,-
000 brush acres of drough-dry
Southern California today.
Some 2,000 more residents of
Topanga Canyon were prepared
to evacuate if winds again whip
ped up the mountain area blaze
near the Pacific ocean.
< The other fire, inland in the
Santa Ana district, still raged out
of control on two 10-mile fronts.
No deaths were. reported, al
though some 20 cases of minor
injuries and burns were Ireated
at the Topanga Canyon fire.
The Topanga blaze was brought
to a temporary standstill last nigit
by back-firing, but fire fighters
feared wind might arise again at
daybreak to fan the flames south
ward toward the 400-home com
munity of Fernwood.
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THAT DID IT---GOP
Lack Of Stretch Drive Cited As
Main Factor In Stunning Defeat
ALBANY, N. Y,, Nov. 5.— (AP) —Over-confidence—
that more than anything else is what the people around
Governor Thomas E. Dewey are blaming for his defeat in
the Presidential election.
It was not so much a case of the
Republican nominee himself be
ing sure he had the prize in the
bag.
Dewey was confident, but he
sensed weeks ago that it was an
unhealthy thing for the GOP par
ty workers to take it for granted.
The New York Governor was
pleased but disturbed by the polls
which he said the White House
was his in a walk.
For a while he cautioned that it
would be dangerous to let down.
Then that seemed to be forgotten.
Dewey. took the outcome for
granted like millions of others.
That was why. be. struck to his
“high level” campaign and his
“United _America” gta,em.e-. He
thought, and the majority of his
top aides believed, he did not have
to slug it out with President Tru
man.
Small Vote
Although Dewey said at a news
conference after he conceded to
Mr. Truman that he did not be
lieve failure of the vote to reach
the 50,000,000 mark was a big
factor in the outcome, he is known
to be thinking differently about
that now. »
The Governor is wondering
whether many Republican voters
decided the election was no con
test and on that ground neglected
to cast ballots, aides said.
- But the thing that puzzles him
most—as it does nearly everyone
alse—is how the polls could have
been so wreng. Dewey aides blame
those predictions of easy victory
for him for the overconfidence
they believe resulted.
Campaign Strategy
Another big factor those around
Dewey are citing in trying to find
a reason for his astounding defeat
is the kind of campaign the Gov
’ernor waged.
A minority of the “Dewey
Team” held out for the slugging
kind of campaign President Tru
man conducted.
But Dewey himself and most of
his advisers decided at the outset
that it would not be necessary for
him to slug hard this time.
Dewey was told and believed
that he could coast in—that the
nation was ready for a change
after 16 years of Democratic rule.
And he was told that Mr. Tru
man was a weak candidate who
could be ignored in campaign ad
dresses.
So Dewey’s theme became a
“United America” and he chose to
ignore the President’s demand that
he speak out on the issues.
The New Yorker did outline his
position on a number of matters,
but he did so in general terms and
paid no attention to his Democra
tic onponent’s charges—except to
brand them “mud-slinging.”
Several times, especially during
the latter part of the campaign,
some of the Dewey people argued
it would be a good idea to swing
back at Mr. Truman.
were reported again to be build-l
ing up a tank-equipped German
Army in their occupation zone. !
John Foster Dulles told the]
United Nations that Russian
charges of American plans for
aggression are ‘“vicious false
hoods.” But, he added, the United
States intends to be strong. He)
spoke before the political com
mittee considering Greek charges’
of border violations by Albania,
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Dulles |
said that after the war, the United
States withdrew her forces clean
ly and ‘organized no fifth
columns.”
Egyptian forces escaped from
the coastal pocket at Majdal dur
ing the night. They had been
trapped there by the Jewish vic—l
tory in the Negev desert. As the
Egyptians drew out for Gaza, the
Associated Press Service
3 Dead, 30 Missing In Air Tragedies
B-17 Crashes In Fla.;
Airliner Feared Lost
ELGIN FIELD, Fla., Nov. 5.— (AP) —Officials here
reported three officers and two master sergeants killed
today in the crash of a B-17 near Niceville.’ B
The public information officer said: apparently . dlf
aboard were killed. i i
Officials said all were based
here. Their names were withhold
temporarily pending notification
of next of kin,
The plane was coming in from
another field and crashed about
five miles from here about 1 a. m.
Meanwhile three planes—one of
Dinner Opens
ACMA Drive
Monday Night
All of the workers who are be
ing recruited to secure members
for the Athens Civic Music Asso
ciation are invited to la compli
mentary dinner Monday night,
November Bth at 6:30 p. m. in the
Hotel Georgian. ‘
‘This will be the kick off dinner
which officially opens:dihe..cam
paign for members i Athens new
Civic Music Association. The cam
paign will last one week only;
closing ‘Saturday night, November
13th.
Division chairmen, appointed by
Mrs. J. E. Broadnax, secretary of
the association, are as follows:
Mrs. F. H. Mendenhall, Mrs. Da
vid Napier, Mrs. Warren Thur
mond, Sam Wood, Mrs. John Wil
kins, Mrs. H. A. Compton, Rev. C.
L. Middelbrooks, Miss Vicky But
ler, Mrs. Robert Stephens, Frank
Hodgkinson, Miss Aileen Sisley
Mrs. Tom Dover, Mrs. E.. 8. Mar
tin, Mrs. Stanley Grubb and Rab
bi Glassner.
- Each division chairman has five
captains and each captain five
workers. This is the working force
which =~ will call among their
friends for Civic Music Member
ship next week. 3
Headquarters are in the Cham
ber of Commerce and are open
daily 9 to 5 p. m.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Scattered showers and
continued warm this after
noon and tonight, clearing,
cocler and windy Saturday.
G E O R G I A—Scattered
showers, warm and windy
this afternoon and tonight,
becoming cooler over north
and wesi portions late to
night, Saturday clearing,
ccoler and windy, preceded
by showers in southeast por
tion Saturday morning,
TEMPERATURE
Highest ...0 .07 St 80
LOwßst oo e e Ao
Mol ... i s
Nortal .. oo DY
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Now. 'l 0. %.0 1.33
Excess since Nov." 'l' .. .. .92
Average Nov. rainfall ... 2.61
Total since January 1 ...49.78
Excess since January 1 .. 7.31
IJews moved in and hoisted theirl
flag over the Majdal area, which
' was allotted to the Arabs in the
'; Palestine partition.
. The United Nations Security
. Council voted 9-1 to ask Israel to
give up recent gains in the Negev.
The resolution, voted under a sec
' tion of the U. N. charter which!
| allows punishment ranging from
’investigation to armed interVen-l
tion, called on the Jews to with-l
| draw to positions held before their
| October offensive. Egyptian troops
would not be allowed to return
automatically.
The anti-Communist Berlin city
council asked the western powers.
to outlaw the Russian-sponsored .
east mark as currency !or,‘watl
IBerlin. They said the dual cur
rencies caused extreme Qconomicl
| difficuity ana steial teneion,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
them an airliner—with a total of
30 or more pessens aboard were
missing today, in the North Paci
fic area. | T
The planes were: N
A Pacific Alaska Air Express
non-scheduled airliner which-van<
ished yesterday on a flight from
Anchorage to Seattle. Figures o%
the number’ aboard ranged from
11.to0 15. 1 : o':
A Navy long-range Neptune’
bomber with a crew of “seven gr:
nine” repoited missing off _ the
Washington| - British Columb::‘
coast yestenday during Army-Na=
vy-Air Foro: war maneuvers. i
A Navy PBY with 12 aboard
which disappeared in the Aleuti~
ans area Wednesday. |
All available aircraft in the
three areas were pressed into a
search for the planes.
The non-scheduled Pacific Alas-~
ka DC-3 disappeared during a
flight from Anchorage, Alaska, to
Seattle. At the time, it was mak
ing one leg of the hop from Yaku
tat to Annette Island. 3
It was last heard from over Cape
Spencer yesterday morning at
8:10 a. m., Bastern Standard Time.
It failed to make its regular re
port over Sitka.-
Passenger lists of all three
planes were withheld by the mili
tary and the airline firm. |
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Twisters Hit
iss. A
Miss. And La.
By The Associated Press .
At least two ‘persons were dead
and an undetermined number in
jured in tornadoes or other wind
storms_ that struck por;&;ms of
'Laufsm'me\w "Mississippi ‘early
today. R EHe T o
’ All wire communications jin
South Central and Southwestern
Louisiana were down and the
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany posted as much as four hgurs‘
delay on calls to Catalahoula Par
rish (county) and other Louisiana.
points. &
A tornado ripped through ' the
Mitchell :community, six miles
from Ripley,” Miss., causing the!
death of Mrs. M. E. Young, 89.
Thirteen persons were treated at
the Ripley hospital for cuts and
bruises but none was reported ser-.
iously injured. The twister struck
about 6 a. m. destroying four
dwellings and several barns. ‘
REIDSVILLE, Ga., Nov. 5§ —
(AP)--Jewell Eller and Charlie
Zarret were scheduled to die to
lay in the electric chair at Tatnall
state prison.
The two were convicted of the
1x murder of Milton Maney in
Towns County. They asked the
State Pardon and Parole Board to
commute their sentences to life
mprisonment, but the board re
fused yesterday.
6 Escaped Cons
Are Recaptured
REIDSVILLE, Ga., Nov. 5—
(AP)—Six of the 15 convicts who
tunneled out of Tattnall State pri
son Wednesday have been recap
tured, and the others are reported
still in the surrounding woods.
Three were caught soon after
the break and three more were
rounded up yesterday. :
Warden Rboert P. Balkcom said
he believed the other nine fugi
tives are in a swamp area within
five miles of the state prison.
None of them a-c believed armed,
he added.
' Foreign Minister Juan A.
Bramuglia, of Argentina, a mem
| ber of the U. N. Security Council,
l said he will try again soon to con
| ciliate the East-West crisis in
| blockaded Berlin “from a different
angle.”
The Americans hanged-14 more
! German war criminals. They had
| killed unarmed American fliers
! and committed atrocities in con
] centration camps.
t Pro-Communist railroad unions
! were voting for a 24-hour rail
| strike in France. Non-Communist
unions having 40 per cent of the
1 500,000 rail workers boycotted the
vote. The strike seemed to be a
| sympathy measure for the coal
| mine walkout, now in its fifth
| week. The back to work move
| ment was gathering strength slow
tle in the'conl fleldas. 0 @
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948.
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jured slightly in this derailment of the Southern Railway System’s fast passenger
train, the Ponce De Leon, near Kent, Fla. In the foreground is an overturned mail
car guarded by a Florida State Highway Patrolman. The train was enroute from
Jacksonville, Fla., to Cincinnati. — (AP Wirephoto.)
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WASHINGTON, Nov. S.—(AP)-—The name of Harold
L. Ickes, the “Old Curmudgeon” of the New Deal, crop
ped up today in widespread rumors of impending cabinet
appointments. .
It is all strictly speculation, but
some people in high places are
whispering that they won’t be sur
prised if President Truman in
vites back into his official family
that master of invective who coin
ed the phrase: “Thomas elusive
Dewey—the candidate in sneak
ers.”
Mr. Truman hasn’t said a word
about it, but the rumor mills are
working overtime about possible
shakeups.
A favorite topic of conversation
for weeks has been the degree of
campaign activity on the part of
the various cabinet members—
with the fixceptions of Secretary
of State Marshall and Secretary
of Defense Forrestal.
Those two, because of the bi
partisanship foreign policy and
the strained international situa
tion, never had been expected to
do any plugging for Mr. Truman.
Snyder Case
Otherwise the range spread
from the all-out efforts of such
cabinet officers as Secretary of
Labor Tobin and Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan down to the
political inactivity of Secretary of
the Treasury Snyder.
But in Snyder’s case, there has
been no suggestion that Mr. Tru
man ever had suggested or even
wanted him to do any campaign
ing. Snyder is not regarded as a
particularly smooth politician.
And while he may leave the
cabinet sooner or later to take a
better paying job, it seems most
likely that will be the only rea
son. Snyder rode back to Wash
ington with Mr. Truman from St.
Louis. And word passed along to
newsmen on the presidential train
was that Snyder will be pressed
to remainon. - - 1
Congress Action Cited On
New Labor Law, Price Curbs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.— (AP)—Campaign promises
blossomed into legislative plans today as thigz still pop
eved capital readied a mammoth “weleome home” cele
bration for President Truman. -~ - =
_Democrats spoke plainly of
serapping the Taft-Hartley Act
and writing a new labor law; of
creating a “Welfare” department
of cabinet rank; of public housing
and, less plainly, of price controls.
One top-rung official hinted that
the President also may try to bol
ster the nation’s red-ink budget
without proposing.a boost in taxes.
That, if he can do it, will be al
most as neat a feat as his “impos-l
sible” election vigtory.
- It would tnean a firm clamp on
military ?, spending, this White
House adviser said privately, and
perhaps the shipment of some ex
isting 'land Wweapo:s 10 Westerni
Europe instea%o&.‘ buying new
munitions for \gd‘«»)ease delivery, .
as proposed, . ‘
Profits Tax |
There was a reassuring word
for business. When asked about
the prospect vs a return of war
time ‘tax on excess profits—a rev-\
At the same time, these re
porters were toid that Mr. Tru
man is not interested in any “re
prisal” dismissals.
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JUST ONE OF THE BOYS — President Truman says goodbye to Hurley K. Bur
gess (left), railway expressman and long a personal friend, at Independence, Mo.
The President is about to board his special train on his return trip to Washington.
Grouped around him are many other old friends and neighbors in his home town.
— (AP Wirephoto.) : :
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
“enue and anti-inflation plan twice
urged by Mr. Truman-—the offi-.
:cm said: .
“I wouldn’t like to hear . ialk
about an excess profits tax now‘
Perhaps business has had enough
of a shock.” : |
But, shock or no, the stock mar
ket was recovering from its post-1
;election break and the world from‘
the scrappy Missourian, looking
fresh as a daisy on his campaign
weary special train, was: g
“I don’t bear any malice, or feel
badly towards any one.”
Crowds screamed wildlyyat his
every appearance on his,, 'ifih-!
’phant return from one of History’s
fightingest election camgg{gns.
The scalps of a favored Républi
can rival and a GOP Congress fig
uratively dangled from his belt.
Happy and Humble
Happy but obviously humble
over the sudden turn of affairs
that raised him in the public eye
from harried executive to hero,
he asked only that the crowds
“stay with me and help meé as you
did on election day.”
’ The City of Washington, fairly
‘blase by reputation, worked up
something like a hero's welcome
for its first citizen—the guy whose
smile won’t come oti—ithe country
boy who finds the White House
lawn fine for pitching horse shoes.
All available police and 300 fire
men were ordered out to handle an
estimated crowd of 500,000, Gov
ernment workers and school chil
dren got time off. Six bands were
hustled up. Bunting and flags
decked historic Pennsylvania ave
nue from Union Station to the
White House. i ‘
_ (Continued On Page Two)
Home
Telation
! WASHINGTON, Nov. S—(AP)
—An. outright race issue con
fronts the new Democratic major
ity of the House—a negro is in
line to head a major committee of
Congress. "
He is Rep William L. Dawson of
Ilinois, Georgia-born Chicago at
torney who was reelected Tuesday
to his fourth term.
Dawson actually is only the sec
ond ranking Democrat on the exe
cutive expenditures committee,
But the No. 1 man — Rep John W.
McCormack of Massachusetts—is
slated to return to his job of ma
jority floor leader. And the majori
ty leader customarily does not
have any committee assignments;
he never has carried the burden
of a major chairmanship.
Democratic committee agsign
ments in the House are arranged
by the party’s members of the
Ways and Means Committee. This
group’s recommendations are sub
mitted to a caucus of all House
Democrats, then to the entire
House.
Caucus Approval
The Ways and Means members’
recommendations usually are ap
proved by the cacus, since they
are worked ouv with the party’s
leaders and committee chairmen.
Acceptance by the House : is“just
a formality. ' s
Almost without exception,
chairmanships are decided -on
committee seniority; that is “en
how long a man has been on the
committee, rather than how long
he has been in Congress.
If traditions is followed in his
case, Dawson will be the first
modern day negro congressmen to
head an important reguiar com
mittee, He represents Illinois’
First District, which {;?s sent ne
gro members 'to Congress for
many years. The only other pres
ent negro House member is Rep.
Adam C. Powell, jr,, of New York
who won reelection to his third
term on the . Democratic and
American Labor Party tickets. He
ranks fifth on the Legor Commit
tee.
Federal Funds
' The expenditures committee has
" broad authority to look into all
| the executive departments of the
government. Its jurisdiction cov
|ers any activity involving the
| spending of federal money.
Under the chairmanship of Re
publican Clare E. Hoffman of
Michigan, this committee during
the past two years has probed the
( State, Commerce, Justice and Ag
riculture Dt(e_fartments, as well as
the Federal Comimunications Com
mission and housing agencies.
Among the nine hold-over Dem~
ocrats on the Ways and Means
Committee, with silx to be added
in line with the party’s new ma
jority status, four represent
| Southern States where President
Truman’s anti-discrimination civil
rights program provoked a storm
of protest.
They are Reps. Robert L. Dou
ghton (NC), Jere Cooper (Tenn),
Wilber D. Mills (Ark), and Sid
ney Camp (Ga), ali irom states
Mr. Truman carried easily de
|;;pite the states’ rights uprising.
A fifth member is Rep. Noble J.
* Gregory of border-state Kentucky,
iwhich also landed safely in the
; Truman column. 4
The other four Democratic
members of the committee active
ly spported Mr. Truman’s " eivil
rights program. They are Reps.
John D. Dingel (Mich), Walter A.
Lynch (NY), Aime J. Forand (RI)
and Herman P. Eberharter (Pa).
House and Senate committee
chairmanships will be heavily
sprinkled with Southerners in the
81st Congress.