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Nationalist North
China Falls Apart
Gov't Troops Pouring Into Nanking;
Foreign Property Used By Defenders
NANKING, Jan. 18.— (A} )—Nationalist North China
was falling arart today, and foreign diplomats exnected
momentarily to be notified that the Nanking government
was being dispersed for safety reasons.
Red Trial
Is Slowed
By Motions
NEW YORK, Jan. 18—(AP)—
The history making trial of 12 top
American Communists, slowed
down at the start by lengthy argu
ments of defensé counsel, headed
into a new legal skirmish today.
The main question before the
court was whether trial of 11 of
the defendants should proceed at
once in the absence of the twelfth
—William Z. Foster, Communist
National chairman, who is ill with
a heart ailment. :
That issue was left unsettled at
the end of yesterday’s opening
session in federal court, where
the defendants face charges of
working for forcible overthrow of
the government.
Defense lawyers were turned
down in a long series of delaying
moves — many of which had been
argued before.
U. S. Attorney John F. X. Mec-
Gohey moved for immediate trial
of the eleven men present and
asked a separate trial for the 67-
year-old Foster, who was not in
court. McGohey will argue for his
motion today.
Lawyers for’ the defense con
tend that Foster is a vital defense
witness and that the others — all
members of the Communist Na
tional Board — should not be
tried in his absence.
Sealed medical reports on Fos
ter’'s condition, filed with U. S.
District Judge Harold R. Medina
last week by two ¢ourt-appointed
physicians, may have a bearing on
today’s argument.
The trial was postponed last
November wémx“ the same two
doctors found Foster physically
unable to stand the trial, expect
er to last at least two months.
While some 400 police and fed
eral agents stood guard around
the federal building and 500 pros
pective jurors waited, the eight
man defense battery argued vain
ly for delay. The defense’s pre
trial pleas took about four and
one-half hours.
The heavy police guard was a
main target of the defense law
vers, who called the proceedings
“ a Hitler trial” andp “another
Scottsboro case.” 'They asked a
90-day postponement on the
ground a fair trial was impossi
ble under existing conditions.
The defense argued that the
police guard — largest courthouse
detail in New York’s history was
part of an attempt to ineimatg the
defendants, their lawyers and
prospective jurors.
McGohey said it was necessary
to have the police present because
of expected pickting.
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Search On
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or Airliner
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 18
-(AP)—Air and sea rescue forces
were mobilized over the South At
lantic today to search for a miss
ing British airliner with 20 persons
aboard. ; -
The British South American Air
ways tudor “Ariel” disappeared
while on the 1,000-mile flight from
Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica,
vesterday. It was due at Kingston
at 1:07 p. m. (Eastern Standard
Time) yesterday and was last
heard from at 8:37 a. m .
The flight normally takes five
and a half hours. Presumably the
plane long since was out of gas.
The airline said in London that
all but three of the passengers
were British. A
The “Aerial,” with 13 passen
gers and a crew of seven, took off
from here at 8:32 a. m. (7:32 p. m,,
E.S. T.) yesterday for Jamaica,
I's next stop on a flight from Lon
don to Santiago, Chile. The crew
Captain was J. C,: McPhee of
Christchurch, N. Z.
McAfee Murder
Trial Underway
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Jan. 18
—(AP)—Mrs. Betty McAfee and
Aubrey Logan went on trial in
Superior Court today on charges of
slaying Mrs, McAfee’s husband.
Eugene McAfee was found Oct.
10'in the kitchen of his home with
his throat slashed, and a razor in
hig hand. +29
At a coroner’s inquest, Mrs: Mc-
Afee and Logan said he had cut
his own throat while they looked
on. Mrs. McAfee identified Logan
45 a family friend who had been
dcling as a mediater to bring about
¢ reconciliation between her and
her husband. Z i
' The two have been held without
bond since their arrest the day
alter McAfee's death. A Grand
ity iast week returned indict
ments aaginst them, .
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
An order to this effect, an au
thoritative foreign office scurce
said, is being prepared. But, he
added, that does not méan Nanking
is being abandoned as the capital.
{’t will remain as such as long as
resident Chiang Kai-shek stays
here.
Neither, he said, will the Chi
nese foreign office ask foreign dip
lomats to pull out of the potential
battleground. Instead, they will
be told that the Chinese govern
ment no longer can be responsible
for the safety of those who choose
to remain. Almost all embassies
are expected to stay on.
Meanwhile, the old capital of
Peiping, encircled by Red Armies,
is expected to fall or surrender
momentarily. A newspaper pub
lished by Peiping’s commander,
Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, hinted as much,
dispatches from there said.
Nanking filled with more de
fending National troops as the gov
ernment pulled back its forces
from north of the Yangtze.
There was some dissension in
foreign quarters as National troops
moved into the’ Nanking area.
Foreign owned and Chinese pro
perties were seized as billets.
Various foreign embassies, in
cluding the American, protested
the seizures to the foreign office.
One diplomat said the Chinese
Foreign Office was cooperating
excellently. Nevertheless, Chinese
troops moved in and held the
Standard Oil Company’s Pikow
installations, where a new tank
farm is under construction.
On the Nanking side of the
Yanktze, an artillery unit started
to move into another Standard Oil
installation where a considerable
stock of gasoline is stored but
prompt action of the foreign min
istry halted the move.
The government foreign office,
as usual, had no comment on the
reported plan of dispersing the Na
tional government. But usually
reliable sources said the notifica
tion will say that the foreign of
fice itself is being moved south
ward—probably to Canton-—while
other National ministries are being
scattered into areas well below the
Yangtze river. :
The afternoon newspaper, Mei
Jih- Wan Pao, said the notification
already had been given the foreign
embassies. But a foreign office
spokesman denied this.
Despite mushrooming peace
movements from dozens of official
and semi-official organizations,
preparations for the defense of
Nanking continued. Only another
change of mind by Chiang will
prevent this capital from becom
ing another Tientsin with the pos
sibility of its being subjected to
Red Artillery fire from across the
Yangtze.
Most observers feel that prepar
ations to hold Nanking are ex
ceedingly weak.
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Vickers, Rooney
Engagement Set
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18—(AP)—
Film Actress Martha Vickers, 23,
says she’s engaged to actor Mickey
Rooney, 29, but they “haven’t
made any definite plans as yet for
the wedding.”
Rooney’s divorce from Betty
Jane Rase, Birmingham, Ala,,
beauty and mother of his two sons,
becomes final in May. Miss Vick
ers’ divorce from A. C. Lyles, film
publicist, won’t be final until
September.
Jeep Accident Clouds Case
POLICE PUZILED BY BANKER'S
ONE-SHOT DEATH IN FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 18—
(AP) .— The death of wealthy
Grenville Baker, who was found
beside his wrecked Jeep with a
pistol wound in his head, present
'ed a puzzle to police today.
A coroner’s jury, after four
hours of testimony from witnesses
last night, found only that the 27-
year-old heir of a New York bank
ing family was killed by a pistol
“held by a party or parties un
known.”
! A divorced tavern waitress who
'was with Baker when the Jeep
was wrecked could give no ex
planation for the bullet wound.
Sheriff Frank Stoutamire offer
ed no theories, and no one was
being held in connection with the
Icase.
Efle young amateur aviator died
about 3:30 a. m. (EST) Monday on
on{ of the many winding trails of
his mother’s “Horseshoe Planta
tion,” where the Duke and Duchess
of /Windsor were entertained two
years ago.
e waitress, Mrs. Thelma Grif
fin, said she never.had met Baker
before Sunda% night. She testi
‘fied that Baker fired one pistol
!fgt in an effort to attract the at
| tention of a car of companions just
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POLICE SCATTER ZULU RIOTERS IN SOUTH AFRICA—ZuIn rioters flee from
club-swinging policemen during bloody fighting between the native blacks and
Indians at Durpan, South Africa. The racial rioting started January 13 and is still
raging. More than 100 persons are revorted killed in street fighting. — (AP Wire
photo via Radio from Capetown.) ‘
State Legislature Takes Up
Regional Education Program
DISCOVERS FOSSILS
Young Georgia Geologist
Prospects, Explores Alaska
By VINCENT WATSON
At the ripe age of 25 Vernon
Hurst, of Manor, Georgia, has
been a prospector, contractor, ge
ologist, anthropologist, and explor
ed a sizable part of the Alaska ter
ritory.
Last summer Hurst, a geology
major at the University of Geor
gia, spent his vacation working and
exploring in Alaska. For three
weeks he toured..-the territory,
finding time to contract for and
build a nightclub, ‘The Gay Nine
ties.”
He then took a job on the Sew
ard Peninsula examining mining
property for silver and lead claims.
Upon completion of this job, Hurst
took another examining silver
lead claims on mining property
south of Nome. The young geolo
gist explains that these two min
erals are invariably found in the
same vein.
Vernon Hurt will show color
slides photographed along the
Alaska highway and at scenic
spots and mines in the territory
when he speaks to the Geogra
phy-Geology Club of the Uni
versity in Room 101 of Leconte
Hall Wednesday night at 7:30.
Students and the public are in
vited.
With Johnny Brewer, Hurst
hiked down the Pinjuk River to
the Bering Sea investigating in
formation that the native Indians
had been running platinum down
the stream. Hurst then set off for
Sitkalidak Island prospecting for
gold. His efforts to discover a
lode were hampered and finally
failed because of severe weather.
Along with these varied jobs,
Hurst did free-lance prospecting,
hunting, exploring, and collected
data and recorded much of what
he had seen on color film.
Prehistoric Fossils
At Livengood, near Fairbanks,
before he lost control of the Jeep.
: . Heard Groan
The car struck an embankment
and she was thrown out and dazed,
the young divorcee said. When she
recovered consciousness she saw
Baker. in the middle of the road,
and heard him groan.
She ran to the highway, met the
other car which was waiting for
her, and reported the accident.
They returned to the scene, she
said, and Baker died a few min
utes later without regaining con
sciousness.
Although Mrs. Griffin said she
Reard only the single shot Baker
fired while he was driving the
Jeep, his ten-shell capacity pistol
had only eight shells in it when it
was found. :
Mrs. Griffin said Baker put the
pistol in- the pocket of his coat,
which she was wearing, .after he
fired the shot in the Jeep—but that
it wasn’t there when she ran for
help.
When she and the others came
back, they said they ' found the
pistol on the ground and put it
back into the pocket. Later, they
gave it to the sheriff.
y Midnight Supper
Floyd Whiddon, operator of a
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1949.
he gathered several hundred
pounds of prehistoric fossils. These
relics of earlier life on the earth
included skulls of super-bison, the
spear-like teeth of Sabertooth tig
ers, skulls of super-beaver, the
ivory tusks of mammoths and mas
tadons, and assorted unidentified
dfragments of bones.
Perhaps the most unusual of
these ancient specimens, A which
Hurst gollected and crated for
shipment to the Geography-Geolo
gy department here, was a pair of
ten foot mammoth tusks. Hurst
discovered in sluicing operations
while mining silver and lead. Some
200 pounds of these fossils are stiil
in Alaska awaiting shipment to
Athens. 4
Hurst made his initial trip to the
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Athens Girl
Will Ride On
Inanugural Float
WASHINGTON, Jan. liß.—
(AP)—Eight Georgia girls will
ride on the Warm Springs
Commission flvat in the inaug
ural parade Thursday.
Mrs. H. F. Buchholz of the
Georgia State Society said the
girls are: Clarissa Wright, Mary
Martin Davis and Dorothy
Winfree of Atlania; Martha
Brown of Cartersville; Kay
Gosseit of Thomaston; Lois
Lindquist of Athens;- Mildred
Pharr of Lawrenceville, and
Jackie Ann Bigley of Dublin.
The ficat will feature the
Little White House at Warm
Springs,
drive-in tavern, said Baker called
him from the airport after arriv
ing about 10 p. m. Sunday from
the Bahamas. ;
They had a midnight supper.
Then Whiddon, his wife, their
child, and Mrs. Griffin escorted
Baker to his country home. They
said there was very little drinking
during the evening.
When they arrived at the plan
tation, Baker got the Je€p to show
the Whiddons the way to the main
road through the winding maze of
woodland trails.
Mrs. Griffin rode with him, and
was to meet the Whiddons at the
highway. :
The divorcee testified Baker
made no improper advances and
there were no unpleasant inci
dents during the ride.
Young Baker’s wife, the former
Alicia Gragales of Mexico City,
was reported flying to New York
for her husband’s funeral, which
probably will be Wednesday.
Baker was a World War II flier,
an amateur aviation enthusiast,
and an avid hunter. He was the
son of the late George F. Baker,
who died 10 years ago while his
yacht was rushing him through the
South Pacific toward a Honolulu
hospital, e ot
ATLANTA, Jan. 18— (AP)—
House members turned their at
tention today to a regional edu
cation plan to improve white and
negro educational facilities in the
South.
The proposal, worked out at a
Southern Governors Conference
in Savannah last month, includes
professional and graduate train
ing for negroes under the tradi
tional pattern of segregation.
“Fourteen Southern States would
finance the program on an abili
ty-to-pay basis.
An act enabling Georgia to take
BULLETIN
ATI.ANTA, Jan, 18.—(AP)—
Favo bills loudly labeled as
punitive politica!l measures
against State Tresaurer George
B. Hamilton overwhelmingly
passed their first test in the
Georgia Legislature today.
The House amid cries of
“petty politics,” passed a meas
ure to strip Hamilten of his
duties as State Housing Direc
tor.
The measure, supported by
Governor Herman Talmadge’s
forces, would create a three
man housing authority com
posed of the Governo:, Comp
iroiier General Zach Cravey
and Hamilton.
part in the regional plan was up
for debate and final action in the
House. The measure under con
sideration does not carry an ap
propiation. That would come la
ter.
Governor Herman Talmadge's
steamroller legislative forces con
tinued to make fast work of ad
ministrative measures. Of four
administrative bills passed by the
House yesterday, only one drew
any opprosition whatsoever, and
it was only a whisper. The other
three bills passed unanimously.
The Senate, meanwhile, got a
glimpse of a proposal which its
sponsor, Sen. Gus Stark of Mon
roe, said would bring in from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000 in ew
state revenue without new taxes.
Stark’s bill would create a
state-owned liquor monopoly.
State stores would be the only le
gal sources for liquor and each
individual county could determine
whether to be wet or dry. A simi
lar measure already has been in
troduced in the House.
The senator said he opposed a
state sales tax and was offering
the liquor bill as a substitute
source of new revenue. He asser
ted people over the state favor the
proposal and predicted many dry
counties would legalize liquor if
sales were under control of the
state.
Othér Action
Committee action on several
major pietes’ of legislation were
other highlights on tody’s
hovdida: '
The administration’s huge
$150,000,000 appropriation bill—
by far the.largest. in. Georgia’s
history — was up for considera
tion at a 4 p. m. meeting of the
House Apgrppriation Committee.
This includes $42,000,000 in con
tingent grants for expanded ed
ucation, health’ and welfare ser
vices.
The state of the republic com
mittee of the House-had the thor
ny problem of the Talmadge
sponsored re-registration bill and
the new voter qualificatioy con
stitutional amendment.
The Senate Committee on Can
stitutional amendments consider
ed the bill to extend the county
unit system to general elections.
The administration measure
drew spirited debate in the Sen
ate yesterday and wound up back
in committee.
- The House yesterday afternoon
passed bills which would:
Prohibit highway = patrolmen
from participating in or contri
buting to political campaigns, and
reorganize the public safety de
partment,
Rogers Takes Over
President’'s Duties
Welcomed By
University,
City Officials
~ Dr. Jonathan C. Rogers
arrived here today to as:
sume his duties as president
of the University of Geor
gia. On hand to greet him
in his offices in Old College
were “ key officials of the
University and the City of
Athens. o d M
Upon his = arrivel, President
Rogers issued the following state
ment:
It is with an. overwhelming
appreciation of the past achieve
ments and future plans of the
University of Georgia that I as-«
sume its presidency in this month
of its 164th anniversary. On Jan
uary 27, 1785, Governor Lyman
Hall signed a bill submitted to
the Georgia Legislature by Abra
ham Baldwin. That kill has rince
become known as the charter of
the University of Georgia. |
“The University of Georgia as
an eduecational institution in a
free and democratic society is
today of greater importance to
the citizens of Georgia than at
any time in its past. The Univer
sity has been, is, and always
should be both a home for schol
arship and training ground for
those basic subjects so essential
to those who will someday be
participants and leaders in the
extremely practical business of
meintaining our way of life. |
“I wish to assure the people
of the state of Georgia, the alum
ni, students and faculty of the
University, that neither the Uni
versity’s glorious past nor its
challenging future will ever es
cape my attention.”
On hand tc greet Dr. Rogers
were Mayor Jack R. Wells, Ath
ens; Dean Alvin Biscoe, Dean
George H. Boyd, Registrar J.
Thomes Askew, Comptroller J D.
Boiton, Registrar Emeritus T.
W. Reed, and Chancellor Har
mon W. Caldwell.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and contin
ued warm ton{ght. Wednes
day partly cloudy and not
quite so warm with occasion
al showers,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued warm this aft
ernoon and tonight, Wednes
day, increasing’ cloudiness and
warm, follcwed by scattered
showers over north and west
portions Wednesday after
noon,
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for per
iod beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday and ending at
7:30 p. w., Sunday, January
23: i)
Georgia and South Carolina
—Average temperatures con
siderably above mnormal, be
coming cooler Wednesday ex
cept in west and south Geor
gia, Light to moderate rains
in most sactions Wednesday
or Thursday, followed by
cooler, Rising temperatures
latter part of week with rain
again Saturday.
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DISABLED VETERAN SAILS 1,600 MILES IN SKIFF -— Clarence Frix, a disabled
war veteran from Alexandria, Ind , arrives at New Orleans aboard the tiny skiff in
which ne cruised 1,600 miles down the Mississippi River. A distaste for cold weather
promyted the 31-year-old ex-corporal to make the 60. day cyuiss, {AD Wie
rheto.)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Bl
TWO BILLS PASSED
Acheson Approval By
Senate Expected Today
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18— (AP)—The 81st Congress
rolled along in high gear today, with two bills alregdy on
the Presideat’s desk and Mr. Truman’s first major nomi
nation ready for Senate avproval,
From here on in, congressional
leaders said, it will be work and
more work for the two-week-old
Congress, except for a short rest
for this week’s inauguration
! ceremonies.
' The first two bills to reach Mr.
Truman hurtled through the
House vesterday, having been
passed earlier by the Senate. One
of them will bcost the pay of the
President, Vice-President and
Speaker of the Hcouse. The other
gives federal workers in the
Washington area a four-day in
augural week-end |
| Their swift approval by Mr.
Truman was considered a fore
gone conclusion. The pay raisel
bill must become law before‘
Thursday, inaugunration day, to
apply to ofiicials whose terms
start that day.
A third bill affecting the in
auguraticn also whizzed through
the House, but it still needs Sen
ate approval, expected today. It
exempts from federal taxes the
admission tickets being sold for
|various inaugural events,
Deadline Measures
Passage of Ithese deadlined
measures cleared the immediate
House calendar, leaving only for
\mal approval of Democratic and
Reublican committee assignments
for today. Party members had
agreed to the assignments in ad
vance.
} The President's mnomination of
Dean Acheson as new Secretary
of State promised to keep the
Senate busy most of the day, but
there was no doubt of the out
come. The Foreign Relations
Committee iast week zapproved
Acheson unanimously. The for
mer Undersecretary of State Suc
ceeds the retiring Geoeral George
C. Marshall.
~ Most House Republicans went
along with the Democrats in giv
ing voice-vote approval to the
Presidential pay measure,
| Tax-Free Fund
The biil hikes the President’s
salary from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO a
vear and gives him a $50,000 an<
nual tax-free expense allowunce
for which no accounting is re
quired It is in addition to the
$40.060 travel and entertainment
fund which the President has
been receiving and for which he
makes an annual accounting
- Tax experts figure the ne! ef
fect on the President’s income
will be a gain of about $63,000 a
year. They reckon he will have
about $60,000 of new salary lefi
after paying taxes—not counting
the tax-free sso,ooo—instead of
the $47,000 he now gets to keen.
Speaker Rayburn (D.-Texas)
recently said that after digging
into his own pockets for neces
sary expenses Mr. Truman has
only about $4,200 left 2t the end
of a year. These out-of-pocket
expenses will come from the ne§
expense fund.
Rayburn’s own salary goes up
from $20,000 tc $30,000 under the
bill and his annual iax-free ex
pense allowance of $2500 as a
House member will be hiked to
SIO,OOO, with no accounting for
how it's spent.
Vice-President-elect Barkley’s
pay and expenses will' match
Rayburn’s.
Bevin Won’t
Talk On Holy
Land Question
LONDON, Jan. 18—(AP)-—For=
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin re
fused today to discuss the delicate
Palestine question in Parliament
for fear of endangering success of
the Jewish-Egyptian peace talks at
Rhodes.
Facing critics who demanded a
full statement on Britain’s role in
the Middle East situation, Bevin
told the House of Commons:
“I am sure the House will agree
with me that any discussion on
these problems regarding Pales
tine and the Middle East may have
a disturbing effect.”
Winston Churchill is expected to
challenge Britain’s Palestine poli~
cy when Parliament reconvenes
today after a month’s holiday.
The wartime Prime Minister is
reported to have given notice he
will ask Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin for a statement on the Holy
Land.
Bevin, also, facing a movement
for his ouster from within his own
Labor Party, has a statement
ready. He is expected to make it
today—of his own accord in reply
to questions.
The hefty union leader turned
diplomat has been the butt of a
rising storm of criticism because of
the Middle East maneuvers of hig
department.
He has been accused of risking
war, flouting the United Nations,
endangering' U. S.-British friend
ship, giving Russia a wedge to en
ter the eastern Mediterranean and
making an enemy of a potential
ally in the Middle East-—lsrael.
Several members of Parliament,
including laborities, have signified
their ‘intention as asking pointed
questions in Commons about the
Holy Land situation.
The government is expected to
consent to or be forced into a gen
eral debate on its Paiestine policy
within the first two weeks of the
session. .
Clement Davies, leader of the
small Liberal Party, also has given
notice he will ask Bevin today to
give assurances British forces will
not be ordered to engage in mili
tary operations in the Middle East.
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“Letter” Ring
Cracked In L. A.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18—(AP)
—Law officers made valiant ef
forts today to protect Los Angeles
area residents from . themselves
amid a mush-rooming new get
rich-quick fad. 9
Two persons were arrested and
fined SIOO each for violating the
city chain letter ordinance in the
new “Pyramid Friendship Clubs”
which have attracted thousands of
members dreaming of payoffs of
$2,000 to $4,000.
Seventeen persons were arrest
ed last night in nearby Long
Beach, including Mr. and Mrs.
William R. Stroud, at whose home
detectives said a club meeting was
in progress around the kitchen ta
ble.