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R SETE & % it I ﬁ B N . . s 24 A T A e e PR, ¥ i SRRy aetr S B e ; e sE&3 B e T AR 5 3 . £ © & g o % bR R 7 SRR e SR D >, SRS SOy SRR a 2 s ¢ T T R e ST T FREGTTIN e PR sﬁ ST ST R b iy CHE S G R W X '%' i L & R T o SRR & Y PP R, TR i e e Sl g Setn b - B 5 'ﬁ.@ TN e T s e U K 8 g 7 3§ Gl e P e B LIRS P % > e % ; Y Gy k e >‘§é o Was ¥ g eRt o S i ? ;%,Ks 2 S B N ; 5 RS A & i ol 2 o ey ,: : g 3 e, e : 4 ‘ i % % 0 B 0 bR = L : B . Y ».‘ CHEAP BUTTER CAUSES RUSH—Clerks in this Chicage meat and dairy market have their hands full serving rush of customers which filled store to purchase but ter the proprietor, Walter Meder, is selling for 39 cents per pound. Meder says he decided he could take a loss on butter profits becausefit builds up good will and the customers stay to buy other items in the store. He says he cut the butter price when business fell off because of high prices.— (AP Wirephoto.)” ! ; : U.N. DELEGATES MORE Vishinsky Blast U. S., Britain In Closing Stages Of Session PARIS, Dec.”l3.— (AP) —Russia — bitter over the rubbing she has taken in the United Nations General ssembly — dropped diplomatic niceties last night to ssue a no-compromise warning to the West. Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet De uty Foreign Minister, attacked ritain and the United States in he closing minutes of the Paris ssembly. That part of the session usually s reserved for expressions of raise and hopeful thoughts for he future. John Foster Dulles, acting chairman of the U. S. dele gation, led off in traditional fash on. But Vishinsky strode to"the ros rum and reviewed every case in which the Russians had fought the ‘West. This is not the time, he said, for “paeans of praise.” He said the Russian delegation could speak of any affirmative re sults in Paris. He declared the session would be described in his tory as one which took further steps toward a policy of wrecking international cooperation. The Assembly will meet again in New York April 1, 1949 to com plete its work. iy . Vishinsky’s outburst came soon after the Russian bloc had taken a severe beaiing in the Assembly. The delegates voted 48 to six with one abstention (Sweden) to en dorse ther government of the Re public of Korea (South Korea). The vote alsu continued a U. N. Korean commission and instructed it to seek again to unify Korea. Russia has barred the U. N. com mission from Northern Korea where she has set up a “People’s Republic.” ‘ Major Issues Lost - ] Vishinsky, who has lost every: major fight with the West in thel Assembly, tried vainly to do away with the Korean commission. This proposal. too, the vote was 46 to six against him. The end of the Paris assembly found the Western Powers and Russia further apart than ever. But many delegates said they were relieved. They said they had arrived in Paris last September fearing war might break out; they are going home feeling more opti mistic about peace. | The major questions which the} assembly disposed oif were: | 1. Creation of a Palestine con ciliation commission made up of the U, S., France and Turkey. It will take over the work of the U. N. mediator. 2. It wrote a World Declaration of Human Rights which the Rus sians refused to approve. The U. N. now plans to write a treaty of human rights. Genocide OQutlawed 3. Wrote a treaty outlawing ge nocide (mass destruction of racial, religious, ethnical, religious or na tional groups.) 4. Condemned Yugoslavia, Al bania and Bulgaria for aiding Greek guerrillas and reconstituted the U. N. special committee on the Balkans, 5. Approved the Government of the Republic of Korea, set up on the basis of elections held last May under the supervision of the U. N. Korean Commission. The Korean Commission was recreat ed with only seven members, in stead of nine, . ; 6. Instructed the U. N, Atomic Energy Commission ango;;xe U. N. commission for conventional arm aments to keep trying for a world agreement to regulate atomic en €rgy and armaments. _Members of the Security Coun ;él arranged {o keep delegates here T meetings \ thus far no deﬁnim &hﬂl ATHENS BANNER-HERALD v * * * A strange case appeared.on the docket of city police today. Being held in the eity stock ade were two fugitives— names unknown—address un known — charge vagrancey. Police records listed their physical properties as weigh ing approximately 200 pounds —one’ with white hair, the other black—with a height between three.and four feet. Police were reported to have said: { “Unless hogs claimed will barbecue same.” Mother, Three Girls Killed BUTLER, .. N. - J., . Dec. 13.= (AP)—A mother and her three daughters were killed last .night when the twin-engined: - private airplane in*which they were ‘rid ing crashed into the side of a mountain near here. ‘ The plane, a Beechcraft, was piloted by the girls’ father, Rich ard E. Reeves, 37, c¢f Charleston, S. C. Reeves and two negro ser vants were injured in the crash. BENEFIT EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE Local Mill's Polices Model For Industrial Students Here By VIRGINIA WOODALL Here in Athens, within walking distance of the University of Geor gia, is being carried on an out standing piece of work in labor management relations, so out standing in fact that students pre paring to enter careers in business and industry are making trips to the plant to observe, first-hand, the results which are proving mutually satisfactory to employer and em ploye. The Athens Manufacturing Com pany, one of the oldest textile mills in Georgia, is the plant where this strikingly successful policy in industrial management is being applied, and classes in in dustrial psychelogy, conducted by r_- lo SHOPPING DAYS LEFT ‘ A// "'\\" i =N = = J - g o s tta—ied U CHRISTMAS SEALS Associated Press Service NIXON CHARGES Filibuster Tactics In Spy Hearings WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— (AP) —Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) said today he suspects the Justice Department of using one Red spy investigation to filibuster against another. A “‘whitewash” may be in the making, said Nixon, a member of the House Un-American Activi ties Committee, The committee and the Justice Department have been rowing for nearly two weeks over who should go after—and how-—the men sus pected of stealing government se crets for the Russians a decade ago. Each has its own investiga tion going, but the department has monopolized most of the key wit nesses. , The committee had a meeting| scheduled for noon (EST) today.l Members ‘said they might have a witness but not one of the major ones. QOver the week-end, there were these developments: 1. The committee released a dozen documents it says were stol-] en from State Department files ?enl years ago so information in them could be copied and sent to Russia‘ through an underground spy net-' work. : Something less than sensational now, the papers probably would have produced diplomatic earth quakes had they come out in 1938. 2. Rep. Holifield (D-Calif) proposed that the incoming Con gress curb the ' committee with stricter rules. He wants to make sure that any one who thinks he has been hurt by the committee or one of its witnesses gets a prorgpt chance to ‘answer back. . .. % Holifield says that before any body is criticized, in} ;;fgunmttee report that persom.'should have a chance to tell his side of the story. 3. Nixon said the spy hunt al ready has shown a nqmtight ening the espionage laws,/\He said that should get first prio’ﬂh in the new Congress. WA K Prof. J. Stanley Gray, have just completed a visit to the mill to see theories they have studied all year being applied and producing re sults that are passing hard-headed business tests. Industrial Engineering | Industrial engineering policies were established as a part of the local mill management several! months ago and three graduates of the University of Georgia, W. J. Short, Dana Watson, and John Murray were selected as the nu cleus of the staff at the plant which is directed by native Ath enians, D.. D. Quillian as general manager and Gordon Dudley as president. YU k Policies followed at the plant, the students noted, ‘are designed not only to bring about the very best relationss between employes and management but are also aim ed - at - increasing the ‘productive capacity of the plant through in creased produetivity and earning power of the employe. In seeking to esiablish this ideal situation, management of the com pany has sought out not only the sweeping generalizations but even the most minute factors that con tribute toward the best working conditions. , All the students in Prof. Gray’s class are young men who nlan ca reers in business and industry and are, therefore, intensely interested in the policies carried on within SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCIA OVER A CENTURY ) Only a “military miracle” seems capable of putting Gen eralissimo Chiang in position to make an effective bid for Amer ican help in any way comparable to the money and supplies being poured into Europe. While Mme. Chiang kept her own counsel, and possibly looked for a graceful means of exit, of ficial Washington generally show ed great indifference to her prob lem and diplomats mainly con cerned themselves with the fu ture of Europe. In this respect, representatives of the United States and Canada and the five Western European Union countries—Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg — settled down to work in earnest on the drafting of a North Atlantic military alli ance. When completed and if finally accepted by all interested coun tries, it would commit this nation to assist the European members against attack from any quarter— meaning Russian aggression. “The security talks now being resumed are part of a broad pattern for making Western Eu rope so strong that eventually it will be able by its very success to break down the barriers to Eastern Europe, American author ities, though . they talk little about it, are counting heavily on that concept to restore the traditional ‘balance of power in Europe and to some extent gjin the world. No Importance Evidently they attach no such importance to China in terms of cold war strategy. The Chinese have estimated the cost of their tentative program for American economic and mil itary help at around $3,000,000,- |OOO total for three years. There is no evidence that Marshall or ‘Mr. Truman has ever given this program the slightest serious consideration. : By contrast, estimates of mili tary help alone to Western Eu rope have run as high as $3,000,- 000,000 for the first year. Meanwhile, American sensi tiveness to developments in the cold war was shown up by the speed with which the State De partment denounced two Roma nian diplomats here after two American foreign service offi cers in Bucharest were ordered home by the Romanian govern ‘ment. ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1948 U. S. Concentrating On Non-Red Westerri Europe Begins Work On North Atlantic Pact; China Regarded As Lost WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—(AP)—The United States —-prepared to write off China as an almost certain loss— concentrated today on securing a non-Communist Western Europe. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek’s extra ordinary mission tc Washington, her two appeals to Secretary of State Marshall and one to Presi dent Truman, appear not to have changed any important part of the American attitude toward the global struggle with the Commu nists. ~ Her mission is widely regarded here as a failure; the government she represents as a failing re gime, Five-Nation Pact the walls of the Athens company. Prof. Gray reported that “the boys were impressed with the up-to dateness of Athens Manufacturing Company.” These minute fac tors which tend to make working conditions enviable—factors such as excellent lighting facilities to avert possible eye-strain, scientifi cally approved ventilation as an added health precaution, safety methods to avert accidents—all were noted with interest by the students. They carried away from their tour a mental picture—ob served first-hand-—of ideal work ing conditions and harmonious re lationships between the worker (Continued On l'age Two) Royal Baby To Be Christened Dec. 15 LONDON, Dec. 13.—(AP)— Princess Elizabeth’s four-weeks old son, who may one day rule the British empire, will be chris tened by the Archbishop of Can terbury in Buckingham Palace Wednesday morning, i There has been no hint as to what the child’s name wiil be. The first public description of the baby, following some criti ciem in the British press about palace reticence concerning him, said he is t‘g«dun-hdud, with a fnost beautiful complexion.” Red - Attack On Nanking Looms Near NANKING, Dec. 13 —(AP)— Chiang Kai-Shek’s grim watch on the ,Yangtze is coming sooner than expeoted, - o % f With a Chinese Communist at tack reported only 50 miles north west of this capital, government military sources said Red infil tration and heavy Nationalist loss es may sooh force abandonment of the new Hwai River defense line. That would shove National defen ses back to the Yangtze River. These sources reported that more than 50,000 troops of the government’s long encircled 12th Army group have been wiped out southwest of Suhsien, about 245 ‘miles northwest of Nanking. 3 _The 12th, which originally num-| bered some 110,000 now has been compressed into an area of less than four square miles. Its critical shortage of supplies are worsen ing. Pilots report difficulty in dropping material into the shrink ing target area. 5 . Trapped 17 Days - ] The 12th has been trapped 17 days. The Chinese Communist ra dio asserted Sunday night that the government’s Sixth Army had been stopped in its effort to break through to the 12th. The Sixth moved north from the Hwai River line and its anchor at Pengpu, and once was within 22 miles of join ing-the 12th. Pengpu is 53 miles south. of Suhkien and 105 miles northwest of Nanking. < The Red radio asserted that remnants of the 12th Army group are “being mopped up,’ neutral observers said elmination of the 12th would free at least 80,000 Red troops for action against the un der-strength Sixth and Eighth Army groups. t \ Rails Threatened Communist units crossing the Hwai east of Pengpu already are threatening the vital rail link be tween Pukow, on the Yantze, and Pengpu. Traffic has been disrup ted frequently. Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, minister of war, told the Kuomintang political council that airborne supplies to the 12th ancl the trapped army groups southwest of Suchow were being stepped up. There was no news of what is happening to the latter forces except that they are suffering heavy casualties. (The darkening military picture in North China was almost equal ly bad. Associated Press Corres pondent Spencer Moosa reported clashes only eight miles from Peiping, China’s ancient capital. ATHENS AND VICINITY Partly cloudy and contin ued warm through Tuesday. Rains will follow late Tues day. GEORGIA — Partly cloudy to cloudy and rather warm this atfernoen, tonight and Tuesday, followed by rain Tuesday night, probably be ginning over mnorth portion late Tuesday, TEMPERATURE Highow ... " ... it .9D OO . L el e MU . iy i R Noemgl .. .0 .. i W RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00 Total since Dec. 1 .. ... 1.32 Deficit since Dec. 1 .. .. .68 Average Dec. rainfall ... 5.08 Total since January 1 ...63.43 Excess since January 1 ..16.84 JANTA= ¢ AT s ‘7_ £ !,‘ I\‘:-‘:\ l‘ i w BY LUCREE 2 HUDGINS THE STONE TREE “l have 999 trees in my Val ley” said the Tree Wizard. “Bring me one more and I will give you the pill to cure your twisted leg. But it must be a tree different and more remarkable still than any I now have.” What impossible order was this? For where could one find a tree more astonishing than the Wiz~ ard’s Silver Tree whose branches blossomed with silver money in stead of leaves? Or his Sleepy- Time tree whose branches folded and curved to form a fpertect bed covered with a down of leaves and shaded by orange blossoms? Or his Man Tree shaped so truly like a man that the birds never went near it and visitors talked to it thinking it 21i09 = “Oh, sir,” said Danny. “Where shall ;we find a tree stranger than these?” / T —) . 4 ——————— e e o= - — s Y s g ERRBCRER RO, ecv e i P ooy R bl ek L e R s«, & e “_ RDU S A:::V e i TR o «rd“ % ® Fo ST e s B K s dogocs 3 4 o » . TR S & -;3;5;:-- ) . . :552‘:;;‘1:1“-'4 SR ® &: s 3 S R %ﬁ . L oo T LN e Y R | e B e e TS R R, D e & X = ;‘?‘ ) i . & R : :ST = = &% ,‘. e : , e ¥ et ; e» ¢ j : R T P 2 ‘\ dﬁ‘" 3\ W A i S Sy g k% B - Ve e v : o'nd CHILD KILLED BY TRUCK — Mrs. Eleanor Stemley, mother of five-year-old Robert Stemley, jr., leans over the body of her son after he was fatally hurt by a truck in Dayton, 'QOhio, December 10. Eugene Taylor, driver of the truck. turns his back on the tragic scene. Police exonerated him.— (AP Wirephoto.) Governors, Educators Study Regional Plan $4 Million Price Tag Placed On First Regional College Program SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 13.—(AP)—Southern educa tors today set a $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 price tag on the nation’s first program for regional college education. ; But several Governors assem bled for. a Southern Governor’s conference here said they would balk at tne figure. Educators made their proposals in coferences extending from early yesterday into the small hours to day. They suggested immediate regional action to meet ‘“acute” southern needs in medical and veterinary training, graduate stu ies and educational researchd. Several governors taking a lead in preliminary talks said they propabably would whittle this down to about $2,000,000 for a pioneering share-the-wealth plan in medical and veterinary training only. The Southern Governors’ con ference and an offshoot, the sou thern regional council for educa tion planned to meet this morn ing (11 a. m. EST)and this after noon (2:30 . m. EST) to act on the proposals, ’ ' The unique and intricate plan ‘called for contributions from 14 lsouthem states for the education al benefit of all. ' Kentucky, the only southern state not included, will be asked to join. Tonight the Dixie state execu tives will hear Dr. John R. Steel | man,, assistant to President Tru ‘man. Tomorrow thzy will turn to other southern problems. States Rights The familiar banner of states rights was raised on at least two issues. Gov. Preston Lane of Mary land, chairman of the conference, said he would fight a proposal for the federal government tr take over the National Guard. Gov. Beauford Jester of Texas said he would speak against federal con trol of Tideland Oil. . ’ The South’s explosion against civil Rights program was not on the official agenda, but several (Continued On rage Two) - “That is up to you,” replied the Wizard and he doffed his hat and went away. BT The Snow Man gaunted. “It’s a queer business. All these funny looking trees make me dizzy.” “But—what are we to do?” cried Danny. ‘“Where shall we even begin to look?” The Snow Man put his round white a r m around the boy’s shoulder. “Come we will walk and surely we will somewhere find the tree we want.” So they left the Valley and walked and walked. I do not know how far they travelled but it was a great distance. They studied trees all day long and ' at night they slept on the ground with the §§low Ma? curled around Danny AADT Qii IKUY, Finally when they had about Qven up they ecame upon a tree (Continued on Page Four) Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area School T eacher, Lumberjack To Air Feud Views CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. 13 — (AP) — A school teacher and a lumber worker were on their way to New York today in an effort to re solve a year-old feud which has brought violent death to at least two persons on nearby Daisy Mountain. Mrs. Ethel Parker, 35, and 21-year-old Francis Harris, who say they represent the two factions invelved in the feud, agreed to make the trip in a mountain-top conference last night. They will appear on a na tion-wide radio broadcast (We the People, CBS) Tuesday night. The conference was ar ranged by a writer for the program. KIDNAPED BY GANG American Girl Found Dying In Guam 'Jungle GUAM, Dec. 13 —(AP)—Crim-~ inally assaulted and left for dead pretty Ruth Farnsworth was tounti unconscious in the jungle today near the small Curio Shop from which she vanished mysteriously Saturday night. The 27-year-old San Francisco beauty was found nude in a pool of blood in dense bushes about 200 yards behind the shop, where she worked part time. St Hospital attaches reported 12 hours later she was clinging to life. A searching party found her at 7:10 p. m. Sunday. Guam authorities said she had been seized by a gang of “sex fiends,” criminally assaulted and beaten. They said she apparently put up a terrific struggle. A reward of SI,OOO was offered by the proprietor of the Curio Shop for the arrest of Miss Farns worth’s attackers. Condition Critical Her condition was regarded as critical. ; A e {ln San Francisco, Miss Farns worth’s sister, Aline, 25, said she planned to fly to Ruth’s bedside if the Navy will permit the trip. (“Thank God she was found alive,” said Aline when notified by the Associated Press that her sis ter had been found. “I hope they'll lat me fly to Guam and hring heér back home when her condition im proves enough for the tﬂ&” (Aline returned from Guam ong, Home Edition WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.— (AP)—The 531 men and women who make up the electoral col }lege meet in the 48 state capi talg: today to cast their votes for President. The next step in the formality \of making President Truman’s election official then will be up to the new Senate’s presiding of ficer. On January 6 he will open the returns at a joint session of Congress, announce the results, and declare the winner. The 150-year-old system of voting for electors rather than for President direct is still with us, but some legislators want to change it. They plan to press their arguments at the next ses lsion of Congress. As originally intended, the elec tors—each state has one for each Athenian Attends Georgia Meeting Abit Nix of Athens went to Atlanta today to cast one of Georgia’s electoral votes for the election of President Harry 8. Truman to a full term of four years, Mr, Nix was one of the electors, headed by Henry T. Mecln tosh of Albany, named by Georgia Democrats Novem ber 2, to cast this state’s elec toral votes for Mr. Truman. Mr. Nix has been invited to attend a banquet in honor of the electors from each state during the inauguration of President Truman in Wash ington rext menth, He served on a national board repre senting the DeMolays with President Truman. senator and representative—were meant to constitute a council of the ablest men of the country. They were to use their independ ent judgment to select a Presi dent and Vice President, The theory didn’'t work out that way. Today, the electors ac cept their offices under a tacit pledge to vote according to the popular will as expressed in the balloting. Tennessee Switch So, since. President Truman won the popular voté of 28 states with 304 electoral voles, Governor Thomas E. Dewey won 16 states with 189, and Governor J. Strom Thurmond won four with 38, the electors are expected to cast their ballots accordingly — with one slight reservation. Tennessee may switch one elector from Truman to Thurmond. In Tennessee, which has- 12 electoral votes, two electors on the Truman ballot were also on the Thurmond ballot, and Tru man won the popular vote. Breaks Pledge One elector, Malcolm Hill, said three days after the election he would cast his vote for Truman even though he was pledged to Thurmond before the election. The other, Preston Parks, re fused to state his position the (Continued On Puge Five) ly recently. Both young women worked on the Navy-administered island so they couid send money to a brother, Lawrence, 21, who is in Mexico, in a Latter Day Saints Church Mission. The Farnsworths are Mormons. Marine Search More than 200 Marines, soldiers and island police had combed the jungle for Miss Farnsworth — one of the most beautiful girls on Guam. She has been a Navy civil ser vice employe for two years. She disappeared from the Oriental goods shop, presumably about 8 p. m. Saturday. A passerby report ed that he notrcea the lights of the shop go out at that time. John W. Arnold, assistant mana ager: of the. shop, said he found the front doors open. Wires to a generator - supplying electrcity were ripped loose: Inside the shop were Ruth’'s purse, bandana and her bracelet which had been badly bent — app«rently in a struggle with her assaiiants. One of her sandals was found about five feet from the shop. " Police said she had put up a desperate fight. ¢ At the 22nd Army Hospital, at taches said Miss Farnsworth was suffering from “multiple injuries and exposure.” Her condition was so critical shat last rites of the :ﬁd’omn Church were administer-

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