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Vol. CXVII, No. 180.
15 Perish In Flaming Indiana Bus Wreck
Mayor, City Council Create Department Of Civic Activities
Bus Hits
Bridge:
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By DALE BURGESS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 10
. (AP)—Fifteen persons died in
1e flaming wreckage of a Grey
;mnd bus that burned after
<mashing into a bridge abutment
near here early today. ;
None of the dead has been
jdentified. y
The bue, bound from Indiana
polis to Bloomington, hit the
tridee on a winding, hilly road
shortly after midnight. - Seconds
jater it was in flames.
Twelve other persons were in
sured in the erash and are in a
Bioomington hospital. . . &
The bodies removed from the
tus were brought to the Indiana
National Guard armory here to
await identification.
Tire Blown
Driver Wayne Cramer of Indian
spolis, one of the survivors, said
a front tire may have blown out,
causing him to lose control of the
bus. After striking the abutment
it skidded 150 feet down winding
Highway 37 and came to rest on
its left side, blocking the‘ emer
gency door,
Flames enveloped the wehicle
slmost immediately. The driver
«aid he snd “two or three” pas
sengers got out the front door. The
other survivors escaped through &
rear window which a passenger
kicked out.
A Greyhound spokesman in In
diznapolis, who declined to permit
use of his name, confirmed that
there were 37 passengers on the
bus when it left Indianapolis for
Bloomington.
Walked Through Fire
Glen Van Horn, manager of Ra
¢io Station WTTS in Bloomington,
said one of the survivors told him
he “walked through five feet of
flames” to get off the bus.
The bus was still smoldering two
hours after the wreck. The cen
ier section was burned down to a
maoss of twisted metal in which
charred bodies could be seen.
A Bloomington fire truck laid a
line to mMuddy Fork Creek, near
the scene, and pumped water into
the smoldering bus. State police
waited until daylight to start re
moving bodies,
It was feared identification and
even an accurate count. of the
bodies would be a slow process.
Some of them, officers said, would
have to be cut out of the wreckage
with torches.
% Breaks Window
Van Horn said Edgar Davis of
]"“'E'H'thpohs, a negro, was credit
ed by other survivors with kick-
Ing out a rear window, through
which most of the survivors es
caped. Davis suffered a back in-
Jury and was brought to the
B comington hospital.
Billy Ellerbrook of Evansville,
#nother survivor, said he was rid
g right behind the driver when
the accident occurred.. He said
his impression was that the bus
hit a bump in the road and went
out of eontrol.
im afraid my wmother and
fther are still in the wreck,” El
lerbrook said,
_ Survivors set the time of the
; cent at 12:40 a, m. (Central
.;m.Ttme).
I,’""""lhgtt{n, seat of Indiana
Versity, is about 60 miles
Southwest of Indianapolis.
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¥ Presstime Bulletins ¥
SENECA, S. C., Aug. 10.— (AP) —Two little sisters
were killed here today while their mother and two
other women tried desperately to push a stalled auto
mobile from the path of an oncoming train.
The girls, Tommie Lee, 6, and Mary Guy Hutson, 8,
were the daughters of Sergeant and Mrs, Thomas M.
Hutson of Clemson College.
Their mother, & teacher in the Fairplay Schools of
Qconee county, was taking them to school with I.ler
when the automobile suddenly stopped on the main line
of the Southern railway.
LONDON, Aug. 10. — (AP) — John George Haigh,
self-confessed vampire slayer of nine Britons, was
hanged today at Wandsworth Prison. :
The handsome, 39-year-old business eecxutive was
convicted July 19 of murdering a well-to-do widow,
Mrs. Diivia Durand-Deacon, 69, for her money.
A jury rejected a defense plea of insanity and sen
tenced Haigh to death.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— (AP) —Secretary of De
fense John on told senators today the military depart
ment ig wflfi:g to accept 60 percent in cash and 40 per
gent in contract authority to launch President Truman's
AT Brogramm, ™ i meiy et e
It is agreeable to the military, he said, to spread the
sost of the $1,450,000,000 program over two or even
three years, i AT | : ¢
£ é:nerka" three top military men—the jf’i“_‘, °h'°f_":_
j2fT—waited for Johnson to eonclude his testimony T~
fore they made their report to the Senate Foreign Rela-
Hon: and Armed Services Commitiees, |
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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- RUINS OF EARTHQUAKE FILL STREETS IN ECUADOR
Ruins of the town Cathedral at Am
bato, Ecuador, are piled high in the
street by the earthquake that killed
thousands of people in 50 communities.
Two hundred were reported killed in the
U. S. Tackles China Policy
As Reds Advance On Canton
Cox Elected
Director
i Of
National Ba
ional Bank
Flection of Julian H. Cox us &
director of The National Bank of
Athens was annouuced today by
W. R. Antley, president.
Mr. Antley said Mr. Cox was
unanimously chosen at a meeting
of the board of directors yester
day to fill the- vacancy on the
board created by the death of the
late Max Michael. y
The board now comprises Mr.
Antley, J. Ovid Bird, Carter W.
Dgniel, Gordon Dudley, Milton
Leathers, David B. Michael, Sam
i¥ Nickerson, D. D. Quillian, Mal
colm A. Rowe, W. A, Sams, jr.,, H.
Paul Williams and Julian H. Cox.
Mr, Cox is regarded one of the
most energetic business men in
Athens. He is president of Hutch
ins, Cox and Stroud, Inc., a real
estate and insurance company
established in 1890 by the late
Fiank A. Lipscomb, later merging
with Erwin & Company, establish
ed by the late Andrew E. Erwin.
Mr. (>x became a real estate
salesman with Lipscomb and
Hutchins in 1928. At that time the
company was owned by Mr.
Lipscomb and hisz nephew, the
late J. C. Hutchins, junior. They
loter purchased Exwin & Compa
ny when M:, Erwin became Sec
retary of the Southern Mutual In
su.ance Company. After Mr,
Lipscomb’s death and the death
of the late Monroe Dearing, who
was onc of the partners of Lips
comb, Dearing, Hutchins and
Company, Mr. Hutchins and Mr,
Cox bought the business.
Mr. Cox and Mr. Hutchins and
their company we'e responsible
(Continued On Page Two)
fallen cathedral. The mighty quake de
stroyed many homes and left about
100,000 people homeless. — (AP Wire
photo.) i,
Lol Re D eLR M
Ambassador Stuart Reports To Truman;
Acheson Before Secret House Session
By The Associated Press
The United States government tackled anew today the
problem of working out a new policy for the Far East.
Ambassador to China J. Leighton Stuart was reporting
to President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Ache
son on the complex situation resulting from the Commun
ist rout of Chinese Nationalist armies.
His report coincided with Can
ton dispatches which said the
Communists were throwing fresh
forces into drives toward the Na
tionalist provisional capital. Na
tionalists fled Kanhsien, Kiangsi
province capital only 215 miles
irom Cantoi.
AChEION. WEN —yTemrrete——_——
before a secretworld News
session of the
House Foreign ROllfldllp
Affairs Commit- ——m———oome
tee to discuss his program for
working out a new approach. His
department in a white paper last
week wrote off aid to Generalissi
mo Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists
as a costly failure.
A new policy planning group,
headed by Ambassador-at-large
Philip C. Jessup, was reported al
most ready to start a broad survey
of the problems facing the U. 8.
in China and elsewhere in the far
East.
Acheson and his aides withheld
official comment on the appear
ance before Congress yesterday of
Elpidio Quirino, president of the
Philippines. The island leader ap
pealed for at least moral suppert
from the U. S. for a new Pacific
anti-Communist pact proposed re
cently by Quirino and Chiang.
Australian Defense Minister
John Dedman commented in Can
perra that Australia would wel
come creation of a Far East al
liance similar to the Atlantic Pact.
The American Army, Navy and
Air Force Chief of Staff, who re
turned yesterday from a prelimi
nary survey of the defense needs
of the European Atlantic Treaty
members, reported today to the
Senate Armed Services and For
eign Relations Committees.
Lt. Gen, James Van Fleet, chief
of the U. S. military mission in
Greece, announced in Athens that
49 American Navy dive bombers
will be delivered in a few days to
the Greek Air Force. The Greek
gneral staff reported further ad
vances in its offensive sgainst the
guerrillas in the Grammos moun
tains.
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'Unification Bill
-
‘Signed By Truman
|
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 1€ —
| (AP) — President Truman today
sign the new Armed Services
’Unificatlon bill. He said that this
will permit the Jnited States to
:gvogress toward “a balanced and
| effective national defense.”
| Mr. Truman signed the meas
lure in a ceremony in his oval
| room office. Senators and repie
sentatives who handled the legis
lation, the heads of the defense
'estab]ishment ca top ranking
| Army, Navy and Air Force
“prass” looked on.
! The legislation, which strength
lens Secretary of Defense John
!son’s control over the entire mili
| tary setup drew one criticism
| from Mr. Trum.z_a& .
| “It ig wnrorfunate that in this
1 gené¥ally progressive legislation,
|at least one provision represents
| a backward step,” the President
| said in a Brief statement.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER
l Newspapers in Commupnist-led |
|Czechoslovakia returned to bitter!
attacks on the Vatican. Rude Pra
vo, Prague Communist organ, said ‘
the Eastern European “people’s
democracies” would defeat the
Pope’s recent decree excommuni
| cating militant Communists.
SONEORETRY DAL Yo
Big Fire Prevention Week
Campaign Is Being Mapped
Plans for “the biggest Fire Pre
vention week campaign in the
history of Athens” are being made
by this year’s sponsoring institu
ticns — Athens Banner-Herald
and Radio Station W. G. A. U—
in cooperation with the Athens
¥ire Department, local Boy Scouts,
Athens Chariber of = Commerce
Fire Prevention committee, and
Athens City Schools.
Not only will the sponsoring
bodies endeavor to put over Fire
Prevention Week, which is Octo
ber 9-15, in a big way, but will
also have as a motto, “Make Every
Week Fire Prevention Week!”
Posters, leaflets, educational
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair and continued
bot with few afternoon and
evening thundershowers in the
vicinity today and Thursday.
High tuday 94, low fonight
68. High tomorrow 95. Sunset
this afternoon 7:28, sunrise to
morrow 5:51,
GEORGIA—MostIy fair and
contimued hot this afternoon,
tonight and Thursday excent 2
few afternoon and evening
thnnglershowerl.
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Forest Fire
Jumps Defenses
McCALL, Idaho, Aug. I—(AP)
—More than 1,000 men fo;x‘ght to
day to control Payette ational
forest’s worst fire in 15 years.
The flames have burned 5,100
acres of timber.
Fire fighters are spread over 18
miles of fire lines in the Salmon
River area and the blaze has now
tickar to within tiree miles of the
Golden Anchor mine. In addition
to 18 miles of fire lines, a five
mile stretch of fire front along
the Salmon River is being used in
an effort to beat back the flames.
The flames jumped fire lines in
two sectors last night, requiring
ar evening-long ltruggie to check
trem.
Fire dispatcher Slim Vassar
said radio contact has been re
stmed with a crew of 75 men
fighting in one sector.
Last night efforts tc reach the
men were unsuccessful.
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RESCUERS REMOVE BODIES FROM EARTHQUAKE DEBRIS
A rescue party with a stretcher re
moves a victim from the ruins at Ambato.
This stricken area suffered new earth
2ud Athenian
Misses Giant
Radio Jackpot
For the second time within
iwo weeks, an Athenian -vas
selected as contestants on the
popular CBS quiz show, “Swnin
to Win.”
Last night Mrs. F. §. Bailey
o. 251 Franklin street was call
ed by the program and given a
chance at the $15,000 jackpot.
Like her predecessor, Mrs. Gar
net Bell, of 98 Springdale, Mrs.
Bailey didn’t know the answer
—the song “Shoe Shine Boy”
played backwards.
However, Mrs. Bailley won &
Land Poloride Camera and a
month’s s.pply of film by cor
rectly identifying Dinah Shore
in a record played on the show
entitled “ “Baby It's Cold Out
side.”
“] was so excited I didn’t
know what I had won until
after T hmg up and heard it
ove; the radio,” Mrs. Bailey
said.
Ibooklets, inspection blanks, short
plays, stories, special radio and
!newnpaper material and other
items are being ordered, and will
play a big part in the campaign.
When contacted this morning
‘Scout Executive J M. Molder said
4L Seguts here will be glac to
help in the campaign, especially
in distributing posters and litera
ture and in any other ways.
Thomas F., Gerdine, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce Fire
Prevention committee, said they
would help in putting over the
campsign “in a big way.”
Fire Chief W. C. Thompson told
LIST OF 38 SIGNATURES
Princeton Road Protest
Is Presented To Council
A petition “strongly protesting
the proposed p!'n to ¢ ert
South Milledge avenue (White
hall Road) into a Federal High
way,” where-by the road from
Princeton would lead into the eity
via Milledge avenue - Five poinis
and down Lumpkin sireet instead
¢! leading in through the south
portion of Lumpkin as it does at
present, was presented to Mayvor
and Council last night, and a
copy has been sent to Clarke
County Commissioners.
The petition is' signed by 38
property owners in that section,
and carries a note in which 't is
stated: “Attached thereto is &
capy of a petition which is a pro
test against the filicfipond plan to
convert South edge avenue
(Whitehall Road) into a Federal
Highway. The petition was not
widely circuiaied as we weie -
formed that the necessary time in
which to do this v.s not avail
able. Additional names c¢an be
secured if it is deemed necessa
ry.” This note is sl‘nod ay C G
Hammond, Col. U. 8. A. Ret'd.
Silgger& of the rtitlon are
George M. Abneé, T. R. Harvill,
A. G. Smith, H. E. Outlaw, W. D.
Taulkner, Ralph A Thornton, L.
W Eberhardt, jr., G. M. Caskey,
. Mrs. G. M. Caskey, sr., C. G.
Hammond, C. ¥. Carieaux, Hoi
ace S. Smith, ‘George K. Jones,
A CENTURY
tremors yesterday, adding to tie already
disastrous eonditions. — (AP Wire
photo.)
Pani ¢ In Ecuad
After New T
i Unruly Indian Mobs Add To Fear;
; Official Death Toll Rises To 6,000
| BY BEN MEYER
; QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 10.— (AP)—New earth trem
ors and pillaging by unruly Indians spread fear and panic
today among the thousands of survivors left homeless by
E Ecuador’s destructive earthquake.
| Official government estimates of the death toll in Fri
| day's quake rose to 6,000. But the truth is no one knows
| for sure how many perished in the great piles of rubble
| that litter 50 demolished towns in the populous Amdes
ol R Crale g S iSI B S
DD SE ERANTREIEE. -SN O N . N Mt sty ek B L
Fresh tremors yesterday tum-~
bled weakened walls in Ambato
and other cities, adding to the ter
ror of 150,000 homeless,
l Groups of workers attempting
to dig their way through the block
ed highway to Pelileo, 100 miles
e e
a Banner-l-leral& reporter that he
is glad the campaign is being
staged on such an exiensive scale,
and that his department will do
everything possible to help make
tl,e drive a success. He added “We
want Athens to be tops in the na
ticn in fire prevention.”
School Superiniendent = Fred
Aser, agreeded wloleheartly with
the campaign and said “fire pre
vention will be stressed in the
schools.” :
Much of the supplies for the
Kcal campaig.i are being secured
rough the National Board of
Fire Underwriters.
Mrs. A. G. Bussey, . W. Barber,
F. N. Drewry, J W. Henry, Tony
Galis, Steve D. Vocalis,
Mrs. Dick Ferguson, Kathleen
Merry Drewry, J. C. Richardson,
Carolyn Reynolds, Eileen Sisley,
Mrs. Guy H. Smith, Dorsey Davis,
Cordis H. Thurmon, 1. H. Allen,
J. D. Boiton, Mrs. R. R. Childs,
Jules C. Aliciatore, Charles C.
Wilson, Arthur G. Bovee, Frank
Sinkwich, B. H. Woftford, Fred F.
Flowers, D. R. Bi ley and Ralph
E Nollner, jr.
Some of the above petitioners
appeared before the County Com
missioners at their August raeet
ing.
Lions Prepare
.
Music Program
Program Chairman J. W. Hen
-7y has announced that members
of the Athens Lions Club will be
entertained at their weekly meet
ivg in ge Gcor'xu? Hotel tomor
row with a musical program.
Rev. Charles Middlebrooks,
member of the local ciub, accom
penied by :Irs. Dick Ferguson,
will sing. The two won the state
Lions Club stunt night competi
ticn at the recent state conven
tion.
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
'south of Quito, were reported
buried under a landslide loosed by
the new tremors. "
Shoot-to-kill orders werg issued
to troops guarding Pelileo against
looting by the wild tribe of Salasa-‘
ca Indians. Defense Minister
Manuel Diaz Granados said one
band of Salasacas had been driven |
off when caught ransacking the
ruins.
The Salasacas have been the
fiercest warriors in the Andes re
gion for 400 years. Driven out of
Bolivia by the Incas centuries ago,
they have harassed Ecuadoran set
tlements even in modern times. |
Continuing landslides and sul
phurous fumes oozing from jagged
crevices ha¥e terrorized the coun
tryfolk who escaped the worst ef
fects of the shocks. <
Little Airlift |
Thisseorrespondent flew over the
area yesterday to Ambato with
some of the U. 8. Air Force trans
ports helpini‘ out in the “little
airlift” which is dropping food
and medical supplies to isolated
towns.
Pelileo, a sown of 3,5(0-popuia
tion, resembles a garbage dump
surrounded by bright green grass
and trees. Not a house escaped
damage. Block after ‘block is a
jumble of adobe walls and bambo
poles.
Clouds of dust still hung over
many areas which have had no
rain. The road froin the diitl air
strip outside Ambato, a provincial
capital of 35,000 population 50
miles south of Quito, was lined
with men, women and children
sitting dazed and staring into
space.
The plazas of the eity were
jammed with people huddling un
der bedsheets and spreads.
.
Life Works Here
On Dodd Story
Representatives of Life Maga-~
zine are on the campus .of the
University of Georgia for last
minute work in connection with
an article on I .2al Dodd and the
art department.
The article, according to Miss
Jane Wilson of Life’s art depart
ment, will feature Dodd, his * wk
and that of the art department.
It iz scheduled’for appearance in
late September
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
sl naa gee il e s e
HUGO ECKENER, born August 10, 1868, at Flens- g«
tha dirigihla. Dr. Eckener started as a reporter. g s,
the dirigible, Dr. Eckener started as a reoprter. ;NS
Count Zeppelin, for whom the German ships were ’ g*g‘%(
named, converted him to dirigibles in 1909,b1n=' 2\ 3R
World War I, Eckener schooled the commanders <* % N
who bombed Britain. His first big feat wag flying [ 3 %fl ,
the Los Angeles across the ocean in 1924, Four g R
years later he repeated with the Graf Zeppelin SRE "
and then flew it around the world in 1929. The k% R
explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, N. J., S
at a cost of 36 lives daghed his ambition, but he
still believes in dirigivies. tmao !cum_
HOME
EDITION
Dr. Hill
Is Named
Director -
After September i, Aik
ens will have a full-time Di
rector of Civic Activities,
which will enable the mu
nicipal government to em
phasize its personal rela
tionship with the citizens,
newcomers as well as older
residents, and Dr, E. L. Hill,
veteran pastor of First Pres
byterian Church, will be the
first director.
The new service was created at
the regular meeting of Mayor and
Council Jast night and Mayor Jack
R. Wells nominated Dr. Hill for the
post. Council unanimously ap
proved the selection,
Also at the meeting a third fire
station and a heaith buiiding ier
the city and county became a mx
nearer reality and a move to ri
Athens of part of its slums was
launched.
Commenting on the olectioapo,l
Dr. Hill, Mayor Wells said: L
Hill’s entire life has heen devoted
to the improvement of human rela
tions and to the development of
individuals, His career in Athens
has been outstanding as a minister
and citizen. He knows the eiti
zens, their families and he knows
and loves the community as well
or better than any other ecitizen.
Through him the city government
can serve more effectively in &
realm wherein he is superbly fit
ted to lead and I am sure our eiti
zens will agree that they are for
tunate that one so richly endowed
by inheritance and experience os
a humanitarian has consented to
serve them through their govern
ment in a full-time énpecrsy.”
Dr. Hill will retire as pantz':
First Presbyterian church on
tember 1 and assume his new i~
ties. His experience as a minister
of religion, it is pointed out, ad
mirably equips him to fill the post
to which he was elected. His
duties will be to aid in btingin’
the citizens into closer persona
celationship with their city govern
ment. He will play an impeortant
part in bringing new citizens into
quick contact with the city gov
ernmenti and its services.
I Humanitarian Experience
One of his duties will be ag an
adjunct to the Recorder’s Court
wherein his experience in humani-~
tarian activities will enable him to
prove effective in mediation of
family or juvenile delinquencies,
it was declared. The Ordinance
setting up the office to which he
was elected defines the duties.as
follows:
“To advise the Mayor and Coun~
cil on all matters of worthy eivie
activities, of charity and of caring
for the poor; visiting new eitizens
to welcome and to advise them of
the medical, recreational, educa
tional, and religious facilities of
the city, visitations to hospitals;
assistance to city authorities in all
maiiers concerning iuveniles and
habitual offenders; and such other
related duties as required by the
Mayor and Council.”
Salary for the director will be
$75 per month and compensation
for reasonable expenses of the di
rector may also be authorized at
the disccretion of the Mayor, sub=
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School Bonds
Are Sold
Here Today
Athens school bonds were sold
this morning after bids were
opened at a special meeting eof
Mayor and Council.
Successful bidder was Citizens
and Southern National Bank —
Johnson, Lane, Jpa‘e and Compas
nv — Milhoue, Martin and Come
nany.
They bid $1,059,160 plus acerue
interest from the date es th
b-nds to the deliv -, of the bonds.
Several months ago the eitizens
of Athens voted the $1.000,000
bond issue and since that time
work has been ‘i p-ogiess prelim
inary to the sale of the bonds.