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Vol. CXVI, No. 11,
9 Convicts Escape-~Here
Manus, Seagraves Captors
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Pro Safe Crackers
Nabbed In Act Here
ED THILENTIUS
Rfforts of two city policemen have regulted today
in the capture of two professional safe crackers believed
to be operating from a burglar ring with headquartrers in
Miami, Fla.
Crucia ee
rucial Week
Ahead Of
.
Legislators
ATLANTA, Jan. 24—(AP)—The
Georgia Legislature reconvened
today for what shapes up as one
of the most crucial weeks of the
1949 session. |
Money, education and voting
matters head the list of legislation
slated for action in the House and
Senate this week.
A joint meeting of the House
and Senate Education Committees
was called for this afternoon for a
public hearing on the minimum
foundation plan. ° ,
Education leaders planned to
show legislators just how each
county would benefit from the ap
proximately $80,000,000 school ap
propriation. :
County Unit System
Ready for Senate action were
bills extending the County Unit
BULLETIN
ATLANTA, Jan. 24—(AP)
—The Carke county delega
tion to the Georgia House in
troduced a bill today to
change the meeting date for
Clarke Superior Ceurt from
the first to the second Mon
day.
The court meetfi. .w.
" 31, October, and .
Rep. C. O. “Fats” Baker of
Athens said he would intro
duce bills later to provide
pensions for city employes
and to raise pensions already
provided in the Fire Depart
ment, from $75 to: SIOO per
month,
System to General Eiections as
well as Primaries; providing for
retirement of State Highway pa
trolmen; setting up a new milk
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Do You Know?
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That the Assembly has spent
§1,000.00 on dental equipment?
That the Dental Clinic has
served the following city
schools: Barrow Street, College
Avenue, Chase Street,r Childs
Street, Oconee Street, and the
Athens High School?
That it has alsop served the
Gaines, Hinton-Brown, White
hall, and Winterviille Schools,
and the University Demonstra
tion School, of the county?
That our community is
greatly indebted to our doctors
and dentists for their faithful
and unselfish work with all of
these clinies?
That the Assembly’s first
White Well-Baby Clinic was
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SOVIET LEADERS TOLD THIS 1S COMMUNISM’S CENTURY — Russia’s leaders
gather in Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, Friday to hear P. N. Pospelov, Pravda editor,
all this the century of Communism, not of Wall Street. The meeting commemo
rated the 25th angiversary of Lenin’s death. Left to right: G. M. Malenkev, vice
chairman, Council of Ministers; Foreign Minister C. M. Molotev: Marshal N. A.
Bulganin, Armad Forces Minister; Marshal K. E. Voroshilev; G. M. Popov a Com
munist Party seeretary: Premier Josef V. Stalin; L. P. Beria, Minister of Internal
Security: P. K. Panomarenko, a Communist Party secretary; N. M. Shvernik,
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Central Committee member and one of oldest living members of Soviet Party —{AP
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Officers Frank Ed Seagraves
and Arthur Manus arrested the
pair late Saturday night while
they were attempting to enter the
B & B Beverage Company at 335
Madison Ave.
The two men gave their names
as Johnnie Montgomery and Frank
Joseph Cappetta, both, white and
36 years old, of Miami. City po
lice are checking with Florida of
ficials on two unmailed letters
found in the burglar’s car which
were addressed to persons in Mia- |
mi advising them of their progress.
The letters, written Saturday
morning, said in part, “arrived Fri
day night. Business looks good
here. Will contact you later.” 1
Equipment Bought Here
Equipment found on the burg
lars were two dim-out flashlights,
one crow bar, two pair of gloves,
four steel punches of various sizes,
a sledge hammer, one .38 cali
bre pistol, fully loaded. All the
equipment, with the exception of
the pistol was brand new and was
purchased from the Farmers Hard
ware Company on Broad street
Saturday afternoon, the pair said.
Both men told police that they
have served time fer burglary
charges before. Montgomery said
‘that he had served 14 years in
prison, while Cappetta said he had
been out of jail since 1936. Mont
gomery has just finished a feder—‘
al parole sentence the seventh of
this month. 5
Officers Manus and Seagraves
gave this account of the capture:
“We were riding down Madison
Ave. Saturday night on patrol du
ty when we noticed two men
tampering with the front door of
the B & B Beverage company.
Realizing that it was two late for
the company to be closing we
continued down the street, turned
onto Hayt street and began to in
vestigate.” - .
Crouched In Darkness
The officers parked their prowl
cart on Hoyt street and approached
the building through a vacant lot
to the rear of the building. They
were working their way along the
side of the building toward the
front when they heard the two
men descend from the platform
and start around the corner of the
building. The officers said they
crouched in the darkness and wait
ed for the burglars to approach
them. When the pair was less than
three feet from them, the officers
leaped to their feet with drawn
guns and arrested them.
Later, Montgomery, who was
Icarrying the pistol, told police he
would have used the gun, if he
had had the chance. Both men
were wearing gloves at the time of
the capture.
Montgomery and Cappetta told
police that they figured opening
the front door would make too
much noise and had intended en
tering a rear ‘window, when nab
bed by police. ¢
Plenty Experience
Both Montgomery and Cappetta
said they had had ample experi
ence in opening safes. Montgom
ery said that it would have taken
him about six minutes to open the
B & B safe, and that he could
punch open any ordinary safe in
less than 10 minutes.
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Sin ger Margaret
Truman Turns
Again To Career
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—
(AP)—Now that she doesn’t
have to go on any campaign
trips, Margaret Truman is
taking up her sniging career
again.
The White House announced
last night that the President’s
daughter has signed with
James V. Davidson of New
York as her manager in “con
cert and aillied fields for the
1949-50 season.”
Margaret had an active mu
sical career, incluaing a cross
country concert tour, in 1947.
The Critics were not overly
enthusiastic, but the crowds
liked her—as they did on her
journeys with the President
in 1948’s political campaign.
* o *
BEHIND STATISTICS
T e o
Human Welfare Chief
Polio Drive Object
BY BARBARA ROSS
Twenty-five years ago Franklin D. Roosevelt came to
Warm Springs, Ga., in a wheelchair. Three vears previ
ously, a stalwart young man of 39, he had heen stricksn
with infantile paralysis. After weathering the worst of
the dizease he thought perhaps swimming in the waters
of Warm Springs, then a rundown summer resori, would
strengthen his weakened legs.
By 1927, three years later, Mr.
Roosevelt and a group of {riends
formed the Georgia Warm
Springs Foundation, the first non
profit-making institution for in
fantile paralysis victims,
Today there: are 68 -medieal,
scientific and educational insti
tutions where work is going on
in polio research and education
under the spensorship of the Na
ticnal Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, which was organized
in 1938. Forty-three of these in
stitutions are colleges and uni
versities, located as far West as
California, Neorth. /\to , Toronio,
Canada, Fast to New York, and
South to Emgry - University in
Atlanta, Ga.
Together they have received,
since the National . Foundation
began, over sixteen million dol
lars in research and education
grants and since 1939 local chap
ters, who ge: most of their funds
{from the March of Dimes drives,
have spent ‘about forty million
dollars for service to local polio
patients, with individual polio
care aeraging $2,000 per patient.
- Little Research
I’ a far cry from the situa
tion existing 11 years ago when
the National Foundation was in
corporated under the laws of
New York State. Then yery lit
tle research as to the cause,
cpread and cure of polio existed
and the cost of local . infantile
paralysis epidemics was entirely
on the shoulders of local heatih
authorities who were usually
limited in their expenditures by
the size of their annual budgets.
| Those who were stricken with
polio were often treated in their
'homes and sometimes not even
'diagnosed as polio cases until the
’disease had crippled and par
alvzed. General hositals were un
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1949,
Teen-Age Center
»
Stages Gala Opening
By CURTIS DRISKELL
The teen-agers of Athens foday are endowed with one
of the most adequate reereationa’ centers to be found any
where in the State—thanks to the efforts of a group of in
terested adults and the hard work of several organizations
of Athens.
The Athens Teen-Age Club got
off to a brilliant start Saturday
night, and—take it from any one
of the more than 200 youths who
turned out for the grand opening—
it’s one of the biggest things to
happen for the teen-agers here in
a long, long time.
The clubhouse set up for the
youth of Athens to use every Fri
day and Saturday night contains
everything that teen-agers could
possibly want for a night of good,
clean recreation. The house ideal
; ders_taf fed and insufficiently
equipped to give.adequate ‘early
care for polio. In fact, many hos
pitals rcfused to admit polio pa
tients—parily because the puhblic
was afraid to have them in anyy
but contagious disease hospitals.
Fiespvital care _ itself was primi
tive by present standards. Jt
|varied from one locality to an
other, casts and splints, now dis
carded as, treatment, were used |
in many places and physical the-|
rapy was generally prescribed |
oi)l.ly_ after the acute stage, if at |
all,
Frightening, Mysterious |
Polic was a frightening, mys-|
terious thing, unknown and un- |
predictable. and communities |
were thrown into panic when|
epidemics came :
When polio struck the average |
family, it was a crushing finan-|
cial burden, snd if the vietim |,
were an adult, as an increasing |
‘number of polio cases are each|
year, the problem was worse. Fi
nancial help often offered by|
government agencies to children
usually was not, and still is not,
available to middle-income brac
ket zdults. There was no other
source of help in 1938.
Then, the National Foundation
|was organized and progress be
gan. Thé first local chapter was
recognized in a little Chio town
in 1939: now it is a link in a
chain of 2,809 branches staffed
by volunteers in all states and
tervitories. The American Red
'Cross began participating a year
iater when nurses were recruited
for an epidemic for the first
time. Since then this recruitment
has become a part of the Disas
ter Service of the Red Cross and
by 1948 more than 5,400 nurses,
their salaries paid by the Nat
ional Foundation, have been re
cruited.
Scholarships Awarded
In 1942 the first physical the
rapy scholarship was awarded
under a National Foundation
grant, and ‘n 1943 the first ad-~
vance of funds from national
lheadquarters was made (o a locall
chapter in Tioga county, Pa.,
where an epidemic was raging.
By 1948 almost sixteen million
dollars had been advanced for
such emergency purposes.
In 1945 Epidemic Aid Unit
teams were organized at univer
sities in four strategic areas in
the country — Massachusetts, 11-
linois, Pennsylvania and Califor
nia—to give expert professional
care in epidemic stricken areas |
on short potice and help organ-‘
ize polio care. They have goné
out as many as 15 times in four
summers. E |
That same year saw the begin
ning of a greatly expanded phys
jcal therapy liraining program,
cet in motion with a $1,267,000
National Foundation grant. It has
provided more than 1,000 schol
arships and 22 teaching fellow
lchips since inaugurated.
In 1946 an equipment depot
was set up at Des Moines, lowa,
to assemble iron lungs, hot pack
machines and . other equipment
for prompt shipment to communi
-iies in the Middle West ;:em
hard hit by polio that year. rer
manent depots are now located in
,Buston, Columbus, San Antonio,
§__De,l;-.wm', Atlanta, and Portland,
t:m in n«ghem Inter
}|' (Continued On Page Two)
ly located for the convenience of
lall, just outside the city limits and
not far from the bus line, but far
Eenough to give the clubhouse that
“exclusive” air. |
| 250 Attend |
A count of visitors at the big
Saturday night opening placed at
tendance at 250, most of whom
were high school students, from
Athens, Winterville, and other
nearby communities of Clarke
county. For three full hours the
Teen-Age Club furnished the teen
agers with one of the most enjoy
able evenings to be had in quite
a while. ‘
Movies, card games. ping-pong,
dancing, piano, juke-box records,
refreshments at the snack bar, and }
reading were among the popular
items of entertainment available
to the teen-agers. Four different
films were shown twice each dur
ing the night, and to a capacity
audience each time. The juke
box, containing the latest of popu~
lar music, was kept playing con
tinually, and there was always a
waiting line at the ping pong table,
snack bar, and dance floor.
A photographer was kept busy
all night snapping pictures of the‘
dozens of activities going on, and
‘the members of the Club will get
to see these shots later when they
‘are shown with a slide projector.
'An eight-minute recording of some
iof the comments teen-agers had to
| make about the club was aired this
morning on Mary Ann Martin’s
“Feminine Agenda” over radio
station WRFC. 1
] Memberships Go Fast |
Ninety-two memberships were
sold to eligible teen-agers during
“he night, with the honor of first
memberships being shared by
brother and sister Charlie and
Gretchen Parrott. Membershipsl
went on sale at Athens High
School this morning, and are be
ing sold at the rate of only 50
cents for six months’ membership.
Membership prizes — winners
¢hosen by drawing numbers of
membership cards from a box —
went to Sue Terry and Carol Quil
lian among the girls, and Joe Phil
lips and Rodney Cook among the
boys. Sue was presented a beauti
ful orchid given by Crucedale
Florists as first prize, Carol re
ceived a box of candy donated by
Horton-Reid Drug Company, and
Joe and Rodney each received Ar
gyle socks from Gunn’s and Rich
ardson-Hodgson. Ed Hawkins of
the Athens Recreation Department
conducted the drawings.
Complete furnishings, and food
for the opening night were given
to the Teen-Age Club by mer
chants, civic groups, businessmen,
and individuals of Athens, all of
whom reported that they ‘“felt it a
privilege to contribute to such a
worthy project.” Athens florists
furnished flowers for the night.
Study Group Sponsors
The Teen-Age Club is under the
sponsorship of the Athens Teen-
Age Study Group, of which Mrs.
Walter F. McLendon is president.
‘Mrs. Fred Leathers is vice-presi
dent of the Study Group and
chairman of the legislative com
‘mittee. Mrs. F. H. Mendenhall is
chairman of the chaperone com
'mittee, and Mrs. J. W. Fanning
heads the flowers committee.
Wayne R. Shields and Ed Haw
kins of the Athens Recreation De
partment have been invaluable in
making the Teen-Age Club a real
ity, ‘Mrs. Leathers said Saturday
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WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP ’
China Nationalists Show No Sign Of Fight
By The Associated Press |
Thousands of plodding Nation
alist troops, showing no sign that
any fight was left in them, were
reported withdrawing from the
Nanking, Shanghai and Hang
chow areas of China today. They
may be enroute to Chekiang
Province, where Chiang Kai-shek
is in at least temporary retire-!
ment. ‘
The Nationalist government con
tinued the southward removal of
its ministries “in order to fight
on if Communist peace terms are
too harsh to be acceptable,” a
government spokesman said. The
government’s Director of Informa
tion said Chiang is still President
of China and Vice President Li
Tsung-Jen is serving as acting
president only because Chiang is
‘absent from his seat of govern
‘ment and unable to serve. |
}, Reds Control North :
The Communists, with victory
piled upon victory, were in con
trol of virtually all China north
of the Yangtze river, Peiping sur
rendered Saturday. The Com
munist radio, meanwhile, assailed
what it called the “hrpocrlt!cal
peace offensive* oi the Nationalists
o S oTh
“Freedom Tram
Ends Tour; May
.
Be Kept Running
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—(AP)
—The Freedom train has compiet
ed a 37,106-mile tour with its
treasured historical documents.
Officially, at least, that’s the
end of the line. But efforts are be
ing made to keep the train run
ning.
Bills have been introduced in
Congress to set up a government
commission to operate the train
two more years. The legislation has
the blessing of President Truman,
Attorney General Clark and other
government officials.
The train’s travels in the last 16
months have been sponsored by
the American heritage foundation,
a private group.
Work With Police
R T B PTtAN 35 TPR SOt
Jaycees Launch 2-Year
Safety Drive Tonight
An extensive safety campaign that is expected to be
conducted in Athens for the next two years will be
launched here tonight at the semi-monthly banquet meet
ing of the Athens Junior Chamber of Conimerce.
| E. C. Burke of the Safety Edu-.
cation Division of the State High
way Department will speak to the
Jaycees tonight and will briefly
outline -the wmanner in which
safety campaigns should be con
ducted.
The national Jaycee , monthly
will provide the local organiza
tion with other information and
steps in the campaign planned by
the .Jaycees, announced Safety
Committee Chairman ' Jimmy
Aiken today, and through local
publicity outlets, the Jaycees ex
pect to carry on the campaign
'lor the next two years.
Mr. Aiken heads a committee
that includes James Bailey, Fel
ton Christian, Frank Crane,
Claude Williams and Bob Mau
pin,
Consult With Police
The representatives of the Jay
cees have already consulted with
the Athens Police Department,
said Mr. Aiken, and have sur
veyed the accident reports filed
by the police in order to break
down accidents into various as
pects. including location. Loca
fions that have had several ac
cidents over a short period of
time will be the prime targets
for the safety campaign, and at
ATHENS AND VICINITY ‘
..Fog and drizzle today and
tonight. Partly cloudy and
warm Tuesday. |
GEORGIA—MostIy cloudy
and mild this afternoon and
tonight with considerable fog
and drizfle northeast portion.
Tuesday partly cloudy and
continued warm except show
ers and cooler extreme north
portion,
TEMPERATURE
Higheet . i d a 8
TOWESE .;i viy voee oy Bl
oo LERE S RN S R ) |
NOBRRY .. o, lied e B 8
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ...... .03
Total since January 1 .... 4.18
Excess since January 1 ... .92
Average January rainfall . 4.26
under Li. It urged a -coalition
“united under the leadership of
the Communist party” and emu
lating “our friend and neighbor,
the Soviet Union.” However,
some Nanking leaders predicted
the Communwsts would accept the
government’s request for negotia
tions,
Chiana’s former premier, T. V.
Soong, who just annouced his re
tireinent as governor of Kwan
tung Province, arrived by plane
in Hong Kong and asked for po
lice protection. He is high on the
Chinese Communist list of “war
eriminals.”
Israeli - Egyptian armistic
negotiations at Rhodes were re
ported by a usually reliable source
to have broken down, apparently
over boundary lines in the Negev
desert area of southern Palestine.
The United Nations mediator, Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, had asked the
Egyptian delegation in a final ap
peal to modify their position.
Boundary Argument
Rhodes dispatches reported the
Israelis balked at the evacuatjon
of Egyptian troops trapped in the
Faluja pocket of the Negev as
Jews and l‘apflmq clung stub
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
One Captured; Three
J
N By ED THILENIUS
Nine negro convicts sawed their way out of the Clarke
County Prigon farm shortly before daylight today in the
largest mase break in the iail’s history.
One of the convict was recaptured
shortly after noon by city police-~
men Alan Hansford and Dan War
wick on Hobson Ave. Arrested was
Crawford Z«e Turner, convicted
recently of burglarizing Dick Fer~
guson’s clothing store. Turner was
captured at his home.
At the same time Colbert police
called Athens authorities for State
patrol assistances, believing they
had three of the convicts spotted
in that city. s
An extensive search by ecity,
county and prison officiglz con
tinved in the Athens aree.
Prison officials scid that the
tempts will be madce to learn the
’cause of the accidents.
' The Jaycees will work with the
Civitan Safety Committee in
their campaign and especially
want to cooperate with the po
lice department, Chief Clarence
O. Roberts and Traffic Captain
Jake Porterficld, Mr. Aiken said.
By promoting safety education,
the Jaycees will conduct their
drive, and after investigating
sotety hazards, will make recom
mendations to the police departs
ment,
All members of the Jaycees
are urged to attend the banquet
tonight at 7 o'clock in the N. &
N. Cafeteria, so that work may
be continued in the safety drive.
Thrasher Seeks
Funds Status
ATLANTA, Jan. 24 — (AP) —
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher Jr.,
today urged the General Assem
bly to settle for once and all the
question of whether the Athletic
Associations at Georgia Tech and
the University of Georgia are State
agencies, subject to all constitu
tional provisions.
The auditor’s statement came as
athletic officials of the two col
leges and several legislators plan
ned a protest to the Appropriation
Bill which they contend will “end
big time football” at the two in
stitutions.
Masked Men
. .
Visit Church
In Chattancoga
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.,, Jan.
24—(AP)—A group of masked
and robed men visited the Phila
delphia Baptist church here last
night. The church pianist fainted
during the visit and her husband
later resigned as musical director
and member of the board of trus
tees.
The Rev. Clarence Starling said
the hooded men entered the
church just as he started to read
the announcements.
bernly to their positions in the
boundary argument. Bugche was
reported working hard to break
the deadlock. Most of the Negev
was given to Israel by the U. N.
partition decision of 1947; a few
coastal areas went to the Arabs.
The British cabinet met with
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin,
who was expected to ask approval
for recognition of Israel. Some
sources said announcement of such
a British move might follow.
Israeli’s elections, which take place
tomorrow.
Italian and French Communists
continued to talk of peace.: Such
talk has been interpreted as the
beginning of a new Communist
propaganda line to convince the
world it can get along with Rus
sia. A
Prague police intimated they
planned new arrests in an in
vestigation of 60 Slovaks accused
of working with American in
telligence units and _ plotting
against the Communist‘ govern
ment of Czechoslovakia.
. Greece reported new skirmishes
with Communist Rebels in the
Peloponnesus. Wity
U. N. Assembly ; !
Home
Edition
convicts sawed out the bars of a
second story window then let
themselves down to the ground
on_ bed sheets tied together. Tracks
ir the prison garden were also
found by authorities.
One of the convicts were be
lieved sighted near the Seaboard
Railway depot, authorities said,
but he disappeared in the fog and
wooded areas nearby. :
Prison officials said that the
convicts were serving termns rang
ing from 12 months to life on
charges from larceny to murder.
All of the convicts were ap
prehended by local police and
some were sent to the prison farm
less than two weeks ago.
Authorities listed the escapees
as: .
Columbus Campbell, age 26,
serving eight to ten years on a
rape charge.
Melton Jinnings, alias Joe Mele
ton, serving life, for murder.
Reese Ransom, 19, serving three
to five years, auto larceny.
Willie James Terrell, 22, serving
five to 10 years for burglary
Bernis Nesbt, serving two sen=
tences of five to 10 years, for at
tempted murder, arrested recently
in Philadelphia by FBI for local
police. Perlie Johnson serving 12
months {lor stabbing wife.
Jack Hillsman, serving four so
six years, attempted murder,
Charlie Sargent, serving two
cases of 12 months for larceny.
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Three University
.
'Of Washington
‘ .
Professors Fired -
SEATTLE, Jan. 24— (AP) —
The Uniersity of Washington's
ißoard of Regents has fired three
prefessers accused of former or
present Communist Party mem
bership. )
University President Raymond
B. Allen described the action as
“unique in educaticnal history.”
l Three other professors were
placed on two yea:s’ probation.
’ Dr. Allen, whose recommenda
tions were borne out by the Re
gents’ decision, said he would lay
the case before the American As
sociation of University Profes~
SOrs. : ;
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Four Meetings
i Set For C. OF C.
- Four committee meetings have
been schedled by the Athens
Chamber of Commerce during the
coming week in addition to a trip
to South Carolina by a sub-com
mittee of the Tourists and Con
ventions Committee in an effort
to promote highway travel
through Athens.
The Civie Planning Committee,
Hubert B. Owens, chairman, will
meet at 6 o'clock Monday after
noon; the Executive Committee
of the Merchants Council, T. E.
Stubbs, chairman, at 11 o’clock
|Tuesday morning; the Traffic,
Safety and Streets Committee,
Floyd C. Adams, chairman, at 11
o’clock Wednesday morning; and
the Round-Up Club, J. Smiley
Wolfe, jr., chairman, at 4 o’clock
Friday afteroon. All meetings will
be held in the offices of the Cham=
ber of Commerce.
The Indonesian republic’s con=
flict with the Dutch may be
bLiought before the next session
of the United Nations Assembly
as asked by the Asian conference
at New Delhi. Security Council
debate on Indonesia is scheduled
for tomorrow when the Council
resumes consideration of an Amer
ican-backed resolution to bring
peace to the East Indies.
The Asian nations want In
donesia freed from Dutch rule by
next January. Moscow, through
the newspaper Pravda, said’the
Asian conference, by speaking
softly, gave the Netherlands the
right to drag out discussions and
sabotage the recommendations. |
In Japan, electors gave Prime
Minister Shigeru Yoshida’s ultra
conservative Democratic liberal
party 263 diet seats, a gain of more
than 100, on the basis of complete
returns from yesterday’s elections.
This gave Yoshida a clear
parliamentary working majority
to advance a program of lessened
economic controls. The Commu
nists rolled up a popular vote of
more than a million and 100 K 32
seats, emerging as a strong poli=
tical faction. BB