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President Aims At Holding Army
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Outlays To Calculated Risk Levei
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—(AP)—President Trurhan
apparently is determined to hold military costs next year
to the lowest figure he considers safe in the present un
easy state of the world.
He is to be eager to'avoid sirain
ing this country’s production to a
point where rationing and price
controls would have to be clamped
back on.
The President’s advisers believe
he will’' ask Congress once again
next week for standby controls.
But they say that barring some
great new world emergency you
probably can count on getting
through the next year of huge
foreign aid and rearmamenf, pio
grams without any new ‘home
front curbs actually in force.,
The question of controls arises
because everything this nation
does abroad has its effects at home.
It works the other way aroiind,
too. And as chief of both domes
tic and foreign policy Mr. Truman
has to worry simultaneously about
the cookstove for your kitchen and
the combat tank for France.
If he has to make too many
tanks to rearm France or for the
American Army, there might not
be enough steel left to make cook
stoves. Then he would face the
question: Should he reduce the
number of tanks or the number of
cookstoves? And if there are too
few stoves, who gets them?
Price Controls
That sort of thing leads to ra
tioning and price controls,
Secretary of Defense Forrestal
underscored that point in his an
nual report last night. He didn’t
ment on controls as such, but he
said the imperative need of help
ing to re-arm Western Europe,
plus the cost of building up Ameri
can’s defenses, “may necessitate
hard decisions by our people.”
Mr. Truman and his council of
economic advisers, headed by Dr.
Edwin G. Nourse, have figured out
that if total Army, Navy and Air
Force appropriations are held to
$15,000,000,000 next session the
nation—even with the burden of
European recovery — can escape
controls.
Nourse has said that an increase
of three to five billion' dollars
would bring on the need for a
complete eonsumer rationing sys
tem. This is not considered a very
wide margin of safety in view of
troubled world conditions.
Domestic Demands
It will be widened, however, if
domestic consumer demand (the
need for cookstoves and such) con
tinues to fall off in this country
for the next several months as it
has recently.
By the same token the margin
would be narrowed if the United
States faced heavy new domestic
or foreign demands for steel, cop
per and other bagsic good which are
the mainstays of arms and industry
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Hotel Fire Ashes
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Yield Two Bodies
TWISP, Wash., Dec. 30—(AP)
—lnvestigators reported last night
that the remains of only two per
sons were found in the ruins of a
two-story frame hotel which
burned early Tuesday.
Sheriff L. H. Ross said there
was no definite assurance that an
other person or persons had been
killed in the blaze. Estimates of
the deaths had run as high as five
before the ashes cooled enough to
permit investigation.
Tom Campbell, the hotel own
er, was identified as one of the
victims. The second man was be
lieved to be a Stanley Parkinson,
who has been missing since the
day of the fire.
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COUPLE MARRIED VIA TRANS-ATLANTIC TELE
PHONE-—Dina Machetta, 21, in Milan, Italy, and M.-
Sergeant John Kent, 30, in Fort Worth, Texas, ex
change marriage vows by trans-Atlantic telephone.
Kent met the girl jn Italy during the war and could not
return to Italy to bring her to the United States. His
new bride will journey to Texas where they will under
«o another ceremony.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Associated Press Service
alike.
" Given this situation, Mr, Tru
man told Secretary of Defense
Forrestal to hold down. Forres
tal has screwed on the $15,000,-
000,000 lid and kept it tight against
strong pressures from some mili
tary men—the ones who argue tha;;f
this nation’s safety requires /g
greater armament program. 5?
~ Not all military leaders ares .
that category. There are some ikt
fear that an extremely heav ;7
mament . program- now, 7 -
panied by controls with nt 1y
prospect of war, might make peo
ple react strongly against prepar
edness—make them unwilling to
get ready if and when war actual
ly threatens in some more distant
future.
Peace Or More War--
China Awaits Verdict
Government Official Says Leaders
Meeting Individually With Chiang
NANKING, Dec. 30.— (AP) —War or peace talk still
flooded Nanking today but a government spekesman
spiked reports that Chiang Kai-shek called together his
licutenants to discuss China’s overall futare.
Instead, said spokesman Shen
Chang-Chuan at his first news
conference, the Chinese military
leaders came here for “consulta
tions rather than a conference”
This was taken to mean they
were here for individual rather
than collective meetings with the
Chinese president, i
But Chinese looked forward to
Chiang’s promised first of the
year statement for some inkling
of what the Generalissima has on
his mind. The big question is will
the war continué or is there some
hope of peace for China’s . war.
weary millions.
Shen brushed off a report that
vice-President Li Tsuhg-Jen had
joined the National group now
advocating peace “with the Com
munists.
Said Shen:
Shen Surprise
“T met Vice-President Li this
morning. When told of the report
has was surprised, saying: “I
share the same thought entertain
ed by President Chiang’.”
Asked if this was confirmation
or denial of the report on Li,
Shen said the Generalissimo’s
views — in which %‘hiang empha
sized his determination to fight on
against the Reds — were well
known. That statement, the
spokesman said, still stands until
Chiang makes another one.
Bad flying weather continued to
delay the arrival from Peiping of
Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, north China
commander, who is expected to
talk with Chiang. But T. V. Soong,
governor of Kwangtung, and Lu
Han, governor of Yunnan prov
ince, reached here today from the
south, to join other National lead
ers pouring into Nanking.
Food Talk
Yen Hsis-Han said he came
here to arrange food food for his
armies and people within encir
cled Taiyuan and thtat he had
made no recommendations to
Chiang “or anyone else in Nank
ing” on the future Mational poli
cith of the government.
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HELD AS ASSASSIN — A
policeman in Caire holds
Abdel Hamid Ahimed Hassan
(right), 21, veterinary col
lege student charged with
assassinating Egypt's Prime
Minister Mahmoud Fahmy
Nokrashy Pasha . He was
seized just after the Prime
Minister was shot. --- (AP
Wirephoto via Radio.)
‘Air Victims
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Sought Along
|Cuban Coast
{ MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 30—(AP)—
lMilitary aircraft flew over hun
dreds of miles of rugged Cuban
’coastline today following an un
'confirmed report that survivors of
a missing charter plane had been
sighted on a beach.
Coast Guard officers directing
the widespread aerial search said
they had “absolutely nothing to
authenticate or verify” the report,
+ but every effort is being made to
. scan every inch of coast on the
1 off chance the report may be cor
| rect.
The report, which was trans
mitted from the New York head
guarters of the Coast Guard yes
terday, said: “unconfirmed report
survivors sighted on Cuban
coast.”
| It did not state on which side
i of the island the survivors were
» believed seen or in what area.
i “It's a pretty slim lead,” said
' one coast guard officer, ‘“we can’t
| afford to passit up. But it’s an aw
ful long shot.”
! The Airliner, a DC-3, has been
I'missing two days. It was last
’heard in a faint radio message at
4-13 a. m. Tuesday when the pi
-lot reported his position as about
50 miles south of Miami. It then
!had fuel for another hour of
' flight.
| En route to Miami from San
{ Juan, Puerto Rico, the plane car
jried 29 passengers — all of them
native Puerte Ricans.
As high as 45 Navy, Army and
Coast Guard planes have partici
. pated in the search which has ex
ttended from northern Florida
south to Puerto Rico and included
| vast stretches of the Gulf of Mex
ico and Atlantic Ocesan.
LIKE SHOOTING STARS
Missiles May Evaporate
Before Reaching Target
NEW HAVEN,, Conn., Dec. 30—
(AP)—Maybe a guided missilel
shooting at you from half around
the world will evaporate before it'
gets here.
This evaporation of solids trav-!
elling fast 50 to 100 miles abovei
the earth was reéported to thel
American Astronomical Society to
day at Yale University. (
_Shooting stars, astronomers said,
sometimes simply vanish because
of their speeds in the airways of
future wars. Their impact on the
thin air produces heat that peels
off their atoms. :
This study is part of a ballistics
program of the U. S. Navy re
ported today by Dr. Fred L. Whip
ple of Harvard College observa
tory. The military authorities are
using shooting star photos to study
the upper reaches.
The shooting stars are mostly
sand grain size. Few are larger
!than marbles. Many of these eva
porate completely. A big rocket,
lor other flying weapon won’t eva
porate so Sasiis . et elt Base
fast enough it is likely to suffer
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948
Check Of Mexican Airfields
Reveals No Sign Oflmprota
3 y - e g
Hope Wanes FFor Pilot Feared
Lost In Jungles, Mountains
: By ED THILENIUS, City Editor
The search for youthful Vincente Improta has again
run amuck against the silent wall of mystery.
A-thorough check of every airfield in Mexico by the
Argentine Embassy has failed to reveal a single trace of
the naval inspector who was last reported on December
3 when he left Vera Cruz, Mexico, in his tiny Ercoupe.
' The Associated Press reported
Ithis morning, airport officials at
Vera Cruz said that Improta was
headed for Guatemala when he
left the coastal city, but was
'scheduied to stop at several Mex
3ican airfields on the way. None
have reported his presence.
Since Improta’s blue and silver
plane only had a ilight radius of
750 miles, it would have been
necessary for him to stop at some
Mexican airfield for fuel before
reaching Guatemala. Since no
record of him has been reported,
’air officials say their is only one
alternative left — he crashed, or
’was forced down somewhere in
‘the jungle and mountainious area.
Search Continues
Since no word has been receiv
ed by any of the Mexican air au
thorities, the odds of Improta be
ing alive are very slim . Even
though the odds are slight, the ex
tensive search by the Mexican
Army still con#nues, both aloft
and on the ground. 4
No signs of plane wreckage
have been found in the heavy un
dergrowth. A complete search of
the rugged area may take months,
but even then the results may not
be fruitful.
In this event, the true story of
what happened to Improta may be
’added to the list of unsolved air
crashes in that wild and thinly
' populated section.
Cooperation Asked
Officials of the Mexican army
has issued requests to the gov
ernors of Vera Cruz, Tabasco,
Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca and
the Yucatan States for coopera
tion in the search. The core of the
search area is located between
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Stranded Airmen
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Happy’ At Rescue
ARGENTIA NAVAL BASE, N.
F., Dec. 30 —(AP) — “Happy”
seems the only word to describe
how the 12 stranded airmen felt
after being whisked off a 7,800-
foot Greenland icecap where some
of them had shivered for 19 days.
“They were all happy” reported
Maj. Gen. Caleb V. Haynes, Air
Force commanding officer for the
area, in a telephone interview
from his headquarters at Fort
Pepperrell, St. Johns, N. F. He
used the word over and over.
Alabama Bands
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In Inauguration
MONTGOMERY, Ala—(AP)—
Gov. James E. Folsom announced
today that the University of Ala
bama and the Auburn bands will
take part in the inauguration of
President Truman.
He told a specially called news
conference that arrangements have
been completed for the two bands
to march in the inaugural parade
on Jan. 20. In addition, he said
tentative plans called for a float
to represent Alabama, probably
made up of camelias, azaleas “and
pretty girls.”
Both the University and Auburn
have promised to put on the best
show of the parade, Folsom said,
and he predicted there will be
“enough college students there to
modernize the electoral college.”
from this vanishing trouble. ]
l In Canada, radar is in use son
an even bigger shooting star study,
lnot only for guided missiles but
also for radio communication.
! The Canadian work is by the
iDominion Observatory at Ottawa
and the National Research Coun
cil, it was reported today by Dr.
Peter M. Millman and Dr. W. H.
McKinley.
Radar finds shooting stars the
leye never sees. It finds 50 times
more. Around Ottawa radar has
been finding 10 shooting stars a
minute, and recorded a total of
1,800,000 since last summer, Radar
hears these meteors as whistles,
and also photographs their tracks.
The photos show heights and posi
tions. The pictures also reveal
long trails of electrified air often
left by the meteors, but invisible to
eyes or cameras.
The shooting stars show that the
thin upper air is somehow lumpy.
This lumpiness appears on radar
as spots of - extra electrification.
1 What this may mean to weapons
‘lor radio is not known,
Vara Cruz and the Guatemala
border. Officials feel there is no
need to search beyond the Mex-~
incan border since Improta's gas
supply couldn’t have possibly car
ried him that far. . 3
Therefore, he must be some
where in southwest Mexico,
whether dead or alive, and exact
ly where, is still a baffling mys
tery. ’
Improta left Athens Nov. 30,
after having spent six months
here inspecting planes to be ship
ped to his government. He ac
quired most of his flying time
here, (less than a 100 hours), and
purchased the Eccoupe here.
He had expected to reach Bue
nos Aires by Dec. 16 and be home
in time for Christmas.
* The 9,000 mile flight is believed
to be the longest and most haz
ardous ever attempted by such a
small plane.
Forrestal Asks Bigger Stick
OverU.S. Military Services
Defense Chief Says U. S. Must
Re-Arm Non-Communist Europe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.— (AP) —Secretary of De
fense Forrestal set the stage today for a possible new
fight in Congress with his plea for greater power over
the nation’s armed services. .
At the same time, the cabinet officer declared this
country must help re-arm non-Communist Europe even
though the cost “may necessitate hard decisions by our
people.” .
l For itself, the United States “is
less vulnerable today” than it was
when the Army, Navy and Air
Force were unified a year ago last
September, Forrestal said.
But he added that this is not
enough: “We must do all in our
power to re-create the confidence
and hope of Europe.”
Forrestal did not say what “hard
decisions” he had in mind. But
plainly he meant the possibility of
higher taxes and more shortages at
home while more American dollars
and goods are poured into the dike
being erected against Russian
Communist aggression.
His first annual report, made
public last night, was devoted
'largely to a review of the military
establishment under his direction,
together with recommendations to
the White House for changes in the
unification law.
But it was spiced by a terse but
intriguing notation that military
'scientists are working on an
“earth satellite vehicle program”—
perhaps a man-made moon from
which great destruction might be
‘heaped on any threatening nation.
- The chief, but not unexpected,
irecommendation from Forrestal
'was that the unification act be
amended to give the Defense Sec
retary more direct authority over
the three armed services.
Without referring directly to the
bitter feud between the Air Force
and Navy over long range bomb
ing and super-carriers, Forrestal
said there have been “many argu
ments and disagreements.” And,
he added, “there are still great
areas in which the viewpoints of
the services have not come to
gether.”
He left no doubt he wants to be
able to tell the services to get to
gether—and make his order stick.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Clearing today. Fair and
colder tonight with a low of
26 degrees, Friday fair and
cold,
GEORGIA — Cloudy and |
rather cold this atternoon,
fair and colder with frost
tonight, low temperatures 24
to 30 in north and central
portions and 30 to 35 in ex
treme scuth portion; Friday
fair and continued cold.
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B R Re i R e e Y
18 PASSENGERS ESCAPE INJURY WHEN AIRLINER DOWNS A DC-3 gits in a
snow-covered field near Kingsport, Tenn., after it executed an emergency landing’
there. None of the 18 passengers aboard the plane were injured. Airport officials
said the plane was returning to the field when one of the engines failed. — (NEA
Telephoto.)
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Founder Of “"Rum
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Row’’ Dies On Ship
STUART, Fla., Rec. 30—(AP)
—Capt. Bill McCoy, 71, pioneer
Florida passenger and freight
boat operator, died aboard his
boat, the Blue Lagoon of Carol
Strand, here today.
McCoy, long a familiar figure
along the Florida east coast, was
credited here with originating the
term “The Real McCoy,” and
friends said he also founded
“Rum Row” during the prohibi
tion era.
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Deaf Baptists
Hold Conference
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 30 —
(AP) — Dr.J. W. Gardner, mem
ber of the Home Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention
in Atlanta, was named president
of the Southern Baptist Confer
ence of Deaf Workers yesterday.
He was elected .y 17 other
church leaders from seven states
who met here to form the confer
ence. Mrs. William Lanham of
Memphis, secretary, said the pur
pose of the conference is to or
ganize better the- work among
deaf Baptists.
Awakens Woman With Match
SST — 3 e v WPow—
HERE; NABBED IN 20 MINUTES
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BY ED THILENIUS
Swift action by local police has resulted today in the arrest and imprisonment of a
negro burglar who entered two -homes here last night and was discovered in a woman’s
bedroom holding a lighted match.
Being held by county authorities
is John Gibson Faust, 42, who ad
mittedly took $5 and a dress from
a colored house early last night
and then entered the home of Dr.
L. H. Crow at 293 West Clayton
Street early this morning.
Faust was arrested by Lt. James
Hansford at the bus station at 2:30
a. m.—just 20 minutes after the!
second burglary was reported to
headquarters. ; |
Mrs. Crow told police she was
awakened around 2:00 a. m. by
the smell of smoke in her bedroom. ‘
She said she opened her eyes and
saw the negro kneeling beside her
bed holding a lighted match over
her face. Bir 4
Woman Screams
- Mrs. Crow said she screamed
and the negro ran fram the room
through the back of the house.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
%FAMED MARSHES
|{UP.FORSALE - '\
l BRUNSWICK, Ga., Dec. 30—
(AP)—For Sale: The Marshes of
Glynn.
Thinking the land might have
some value if dredged into
waterfront lots, the Glynn coun
ty Commission has advertised |
for bids on the marshes Jan, 5.
The marshes were immortal
ized by Sidney Lanier, famous
Georgia poet.
The Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution and other wo- !
men’s groups have protested the
Commission’s action, ;
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| Less Lives Lost
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' By Fireln ‘4B 1
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I BOSTON, Dec. 30—(AP)—Fires
| branded a $725,000,000 record loss
| across North America in 1948 but |
'took fewer lives than in other
years, a survey showed today.
The year’s total fire loss was 3
percent over 1947 according to :.1‘
report by Percy Bugbee, general
manager of the National Fire Pro
tection Association, non-profit 'in-‘
ternational fire control organiza
tion.
For the United States and Can
ada Bugbee listed 32 fires causing
individual loss of $1,000,000 or
more and 243 others topping the
$250,000 mark. '
Greatest fire death toll in the
U. S., excluding aircraft accidents
involving fire, was 17 in an ex
plosion in a Chicago candy factory .
on Sept. 7.
Faust told police that he en
tered the Crow home by moving a
table from a window on the back
porch and finding the window un
locked, entered the kitehen. Here,
he said, he removed his shoes and
'crawled into Mrs. Crowe’s’ bed
room, striking several matches
along the way.
Wanted Medicine
I Faust also told police that, he
'had been drinking and said that
he had come to see Dr. Crow about
some medicine. When frightened
by Mrs. Crow’s screams, Faust said
he ran to the back porch and put
on a pair of overshoes, belonging
to Dr. Crow and fled from the
house. .
Lt. Hansford and officers Allen
Hansford and Dan Warwick an
swered the call to the Crow resi
Home
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Hint Ranki
nkin
Ouster From
Spy Probers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—
(AP)—House Democratic leaders
put final touches teday to a plan
aimed at giving the Truman ad
ministration a sure-fire wya to get
cround the often-troublesome
‘rules committee,
Still . another move within
party ranks was reported afoot—
to try to keep Rep. Rankin (D.-
Miss.) of the Un-American Aé
tivities Committee—but the lead
ers refused even to discuss it.
© They did, however, arrange a
meeting with Speaker - designate
BSam Rayburn of Texas in the
hope of winning his promise to
recommend the rules commitiee
project to President Truman,
The President orviginally had
planned to huddle this morning
with Rayburn and Vice Presi
dent-elect Barklsy of Kentueky
on plans for the new Congress
which convenes Monday. But the
White House said the meeting
probably will be held tomorrow
instend.
Mr! Truman and President
Roosevelt before him both have
had trouble with the House Rules
Comimittee—even when the Dem
ocrats were in control of Con
gress, as they will be again next
week.
That trouble arose beeause the
Rules. Committee — which muss
give its okay before major bills
can get to the floor for debate-—
traditionally has had a heavy
proportion of Southern Demo
crals as members,
These _Democrats often teamed
with Republicans to refuse ciear=
ance to New Deal-type legisla
tion.
dence and made a quick investiga
tion. Lt. Hansford checked the
bus station a few minutes later
and arrested Faust on suspicion,
since he was wearing the over
shoes and had mud splattered on
his pants.
Mrs. Crow identified Faust, and
Faust then told police the entire
story. He also related how he went
to a colored house on Indale Street
early last night to ask about a
room. Carrie Jordan, negro wo
man in. the house, told police that
‘while she went to prepare a room
for Faust he took $5 and a dress
and fled. :
Officers Wood and Nelms ans
wered the first burglar call. :
Chief Clarence Roberts had high
praise for the quick and efficient
work at L.t Hancford and the tus
other officers in solving the case,