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Hungarian
Revolt Laid
To Tito, OSS
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. 10. — (AP) — Hungary
charged today that Premier Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav re
gime and the Amerjcan 0. 8. S. had backed an ahortive
plot aimed at assassinating Hungarian Communis 4%@&'5
wd overthrowing the goyernment. ¢ T
Former Foreign Minister Laszlo
fajk and Lt. Gen, Georgy Palffy,
sormer commander of Hungary’s
army as its chief inspector, were
named as the Hungarian plot lead~
They and six others are to go
on trial next week on charges of
ireason and attempting to displace
Hungary’s Communist-led people’s
front regime,
The indictment said the group
hoped for armed help from Tito
and the other “present leaders of
Yugoslavia.”
The defendants were accused of
planning to assassinate Vice Pre
mier Matyas Rakosi, who is chief
of Hungary’s Communist party;
Defense Minister Mahail Farkas
and Erno Gero, head of the Peo
ple's Economic Council.
“The American and Yugoslav
spying organizations helped Rajk
in every respect,” the indictment
declared.
Border Crossings
The indictment said the Hun
garian group had repeatedly
crossed the border to Yugoslavia
to discuss assassination plans with
Yugoslav police agents and that
Tito's vice premier, Alexander
Rankovic, had proposed Rajk as
the head of a new Hungarian gov
ernment. *
Pre-trial testimony produced by
the government gquoted Rajk as
saying Rankovic spoke thus of the
assassination plans:
“You have to thihk over the
vossibilities of this liquidation.
You ecould produce an accident
that would take eare of one of
them. Another could be made to
appear as suicide, A tgx‘d could
die suddenly because illness.
Or yvou could kill them in their
homes and give some plausible
sounding explanations.”
The indictment spoke of the
eight as “tools of oTito and of Al
lan Duiles,” who was named as
leader of “the American espion
age organization, the office of
strategic services.”
(This was a reference to Allen
Welsh Dulles, who was chief of
he wartime O. S. S. in Europe.
He is a New Yorker and an author
of & book “Germany’s Under
ground.”) £
“American Tt caatisil . 8150
was denounced,
Informed quarters here said the
irial, opening next Fz‘day, is ex~
ccted to be the first-# a series of
hree. Many more persons have
Aeen implicated, they reported.
FIRE CALL
Firemen went to the intersection
i Broad street and Milledge ave
nue late Friday afternoon where
the wires of an automobile were
afire. The blazes were readily ex
tinguished. This was the first fire
In Athens since September 1.
Firémen reported no fires oc
furred all day Saturday.
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
4-Yri.r-Old Relates
Stor'y Of Kidnaping
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10, — (AP) — Blonde little
Janie Franz, 4, safe and sound after a night with a strange
man, told her daddy today: “I'll never go riding with a
stranger again.”
The man she said took her in his auto vesterday from
her Trenton, N. J., neighborhood was charged with kid
naping and indecent assault. He was docketed as Gerald
A. Hutt, 35, of Bridgeport, Conn., and said he was & brush
ss;}e‘sma}i‘ egtrar{geg from his wife and two children.
Police Lt. Francis Deegan said
Hutt waived extradition and
would be returned to Trenton la
ter today. Under New Jersey law,
Maximum punishment for kid
naping is life imprisonment.
Janie and her f{ather, John
Franz, Trenton truck driver, were
reunited in a police station here,
The little girl sat on her daddy’s
lap as he stroked her head. They
spoke in whispers.
“I wouldn’t take a million dol
lars for this moment,” Franz said.
The little girl was reported
missing late yesterday. Playmates
said a stranger tcok her into a
battered car and drove away. She
was found this morning standing
beside the Philadelphia-Trenton
Highway.
“Thank God, thank Cod,” sob
bed the mother when a reporter
told her the child was safe.
Mrs. Franz did not accompany
.h&msb:md here but wa\ite_gl at
h for him to return with their
only child.
As they sat talking with report
er: in the police station, Franz
asked his daughter why she went
away with a stranger. :
The child who will be five in
November, replied:
“He called me over daddy and
said, do you want to take a ride
vith me. I said no. He said, sure
you want to take a ride and pulled
me into the car.
“T said 1 want to see n y Mommy
and Daddy but the man said,
“We'll go for c little ride and then
I’ll bring you home.’
“T’'ll never go for a ride with a
stranger again Daddy.”
Police testified the unshaven,
dicheveled Hutt admitied taking
the five-year-old child ii to his car
and sleeping with “er last‘_nig_h_t.
When Detective Bernard Mc=
Loughlin quoted . Hutt as having
said he slept with the girl at a
farmhouse, the 35-year-old father
of two children shouted: {
“1 did not, I did not.”
Janie’s only testimony was to
nod affirmatively when Magis
trate Thomas Costello asked her:
“Just tell me if that’'s the man
whose car vou were in. ¢
" Later, sifting in a small cell,
Hutt told a reporter his version
of his ride. g By
Clutching his already rumpled
tie and rubbing his hands down a
wrinkled gabardine suit Hutt said
he had been driving ahout look
ing for an older girl to pickup but
«] didn’t have any luck.”
“] stopped on a street corner,”
he said, “and the little girl (Janie)
got in the car. I drove until, we
came to a farm about a mile from
the Philadelphia eity line.”
“We had supper at the farm and
slept in separate beds overnight.
“] was taking the child back té
. renton when I ran out of gas
and decided to remain 1 _the car
until Monday. I let the girl off on
the highway and told her to ask
a motorist for a ride 1o Trenton.”
Special officer Raymend Michel
of Rahway, N.J., discovered J anie
as he drove U. S. Route 1; the main
ily along U. S. Route 1, the main
Philadelphia = Trenton highway.
Michel was off duty. But he réc
ognized Janie and stopped, to pick
her up.
Then Michel sped after the bat
tered car, and was joined by Fair
mount Park Guards. After a three
mile chase at spe€ds ‘tHat ‘réached
80 miles an hour on traffic-jam
med Roosevelt Boulevard'the po
lice overtook Hutt at a diner.
New Proposal
In Steel Dispute
WASHINGTON, Sept! ° 104
(AP)—A Presidential fact-find
ing board named to head off a
nation-wide strike today’ recom=
mended a 10-cents-an-hour pen=-
sion-insurance “packagg" but no
wage increase.
President Truman promptly
asked both sides to extend the
existing truce for 10 days in the
“public interest.”” Meantime, he
said, the parties should continue
bargaining on the basis Qf the
fact-finders’ report. E
The CIO Steel Workers Union
had demanded a 30 cent package,
including wage increases. The un
fon, headed by Philip Murray,
had called for ‘a strike of a mil-
Jion workers, starting at;12:01 a.
m,, next Wednesday, to ‘back .up
the demands. -
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
YORK, Me., Sept. 10— (AP)—
Supreme Court Justice Wiley
Blount Rutledge, 35, died to
night at York Village Hospital.
Death came to the big, soft
spoken juris’ shortly after 8 p.
m. (EST).
Victim of a cerebal hemor
rhage, he had been in eritical
condition since being admitted
to the little 12-room hospital,
Aug. 27.
A week after he entered the
hospital, his physician, Dr. El
mer Tower, disclosed Rutledge
had suffered paralysis of the
entire left side of his bedy.
The jurist had been in a
coma much of the time since
Sept. 2.
2 Brothers
Are Held In
Kidnap Case
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 10
— (AP) — A mountain farmer,
John Jordan, 35, gave himself up
today to face charges of kidnap
ing and shooting a Cartersville
student in & traffic accident argu
ment,
He and his brother, Will, a Car
tersville mill worker, both were
charged with kidnaping Donald
Brown, 18, in warrants obtained
during the day by the youth’s
father, Hiram Brown. .. .. .
~John Jordan also was ¢harged
with assault with intent to mur
der and drunken driving and Will
with being an accessory to the as
sault.
Will was arrested late yesterday
after Young Brown reported he
was hauled in a truck to John’s
home in the hills and shot in the
back with birdshot as he escaped
afoot.
Donald, a Georgia Milifary Aca~
demy student, said the truck, oc
cupied by the Jordan brothers,
smashed into his automobile on a
Bartow county road. He told
them, he added, they would have
to pay and they agreed to drive
him to Cartersville and settle up.
Instead, he related, they took
him to John’s farm in ‘adjacent
Paulding county where the farm
er’'s wife warned him “to run. My
husband is going to kill you.”
School Route
Is Reversed
An agreement between the City
and Athens City Lines was signed
yesterday whereby the East Ath
ens route will be reversed for the
“convenience and safety of school
children.”
The agreement was made after
being brought up in a meeting of
Mayor and Council by Council
man Luther Bond of the second
ward. He said the original bus
route would carry children away
from the school and if reversed
the buses could carry the children
to school without inconveniencing
‘other passengers.
The route as reversed will be
exactly the same without any
change in the time schedule ex
cept such “minor adjustments
which must be made out of neces=
sity due to the reversal of the
route,” the agreement stated.
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FARM BUREAU WEEK BEGINS
. Shannon Wood, president of Clarke County Farm
Bureau, is shown (second from left) presenting a card
of membership in the Farm Bureau to J. D, Strickland,
secretary of the Winterville Veteran Farm Training
Class. He was the first class member to join and all of
the others followed. Shown looking on are Henry P.
Ashe (extreme ieit) and W. D. Giimer {exireme right) .
Farm Bureau Week beging Tuesday and an extensive
membership drive will be cn, — (Story on Page Six) ——
‘(Photo by Ed Thileniug.) PRERN RNHCRARR AiS Ae
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1949,
Nine Perish As Cruiser
Sinks In Raging Storm
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Two Men Battle Stormy Seas
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All Night In Fight For Life
NANTUCKET ISLAND, Mass., Sept. 10.— (AP)—Nine
persons, including nine women, perished and two men
struggled against stormy seas all night to safety after the
38-foot cabin cruiser Constance was smashed to bits in &
raging storm.
Bodies of the life-jacketed victims were picked up to
day in the waters beween this island and Martha's Vine
yard, some 20 miles away.
The dend were lentitied B 8! eb i
The Rev. Hubert Allenby, 52, of
Falmouth; Mrs. Allenby, 49; their
son, Leightan Allenby, 20; John
Hadley, 19, Falmouth; Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Nairn, 25 and 22, of
Rochester, N. Y.; Emily Foster,
21, Falmouth; Jane Mange, 19, 116
Bard Ave. Staten Island N. Y,
and Patricia Dickinson, 18, Vero
na, N. J.
The survivers of the ill-fated
pleasure cruise are Russell Palm
er, 23, skipper of the craft; and
Alfred Allenby, 23, another son
of the clergyman.
First word of the tragedy came
when Palmer staggered ashore this
morning on Dionis Beach on the
north side of this island, about a
mile and a half west of Nantuc
ket Harbor.
Palmer, speaking with great
difficulty, told a group of sun
bathers about others in a boat
which had sunk.
Bodies Recovered
The Coast Guard was notified
and several boats, aided by planes
and two Navy helicopters, began
a search of waters near this island,
some 30 miles off Cape Cod. All
bodies were recovered. ¥
Young Allenby was brought
ashore at Dionis Beach by Coast
Guardsmen, tied with three other
castaways, later found to be dead.
The four, including two girls, had
been tied with line from the szun
ken cruiser.
Palmer; hollow-eyed and show
ing the strain of his harrowing ex
perience, spoke to newsmen after
several hours sleep at the sum
mer mansion of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Fitch, Cambridge, near
Dionis Beach.
He later was removed to Nan
tucket Cottage Hosoital.
He said a storm blew up about
half an hour after they left Nan
tucket on the-return trip to Fal
mouth, about 5 p. m. o
For ahout an hour, Palmer said,
the craft struggled against the
wind and waves before one of the
engines failed. He sighted Cape
Poge om Martha’s Vineyvard about
that time, he said, which would
place the boat some 10 miles
northwest of Nantucket,
o
No Fanic
He told of instructing his nine
passengers to hold onto a line he
tossed into the water as the waves
buffeted the small craft.
“There was no pani¢,” Palmer
continued, “the passengers were
completely swell. Somebody sug
gested they sing and they started
one song. But that one song was
drowned out by a huge wave.
“T went back aboard to get an-
other line, The passengers were
slipping off the anchor line and I
thought I'd better cut the boat
adrift from it. :
“When I jumped overhoard
again, I couldn’t find thii"fiu.‘!fiie.
I kept yelling for an hour but
they weren’t around.”
Red Light
Then the Navy veteran told of
climbing onto the roof of the
cruiser cabin after it broke loose.
He said he drifted through the
night with a blanket over his
head to keep from swallowing too
much water. >,
“I saw a red light,” the skipper
went on, “and I think it was &oss
Rip Lightship. I must have been
within 50 feet of it yelling my
head off but the current kept car
rying me back and forth. 1 as
sumed my passengers were safe
so T started for shore.” ;
New Carrier Tag
For Mosquitoes
ATLANTA, Sept. 10.—(AP)—
The mosquito was tagged today
for the first time as the carrier of
the dread, often fatal virus dis
ease, Eastern Equine Encephalo
myelitis.
Confirmation of the long held
suspicion came from four re
searchers in the communicable
disease center of the U. S. Public
Health Service.-
The four researchers disclosed
that during the summer of 1948,
a few horses in South Georgia
were diagnosed as having Ence
phalonryelitis and the brains of
two animals shipped to the lab
oratory at Montgomery, Ala.
At the same time, said the CDC,
mosquitoes were collected from
farms in two counties. These mos
quitoes, known as the Mansonia
Perturbans, were found to con
tain the disease.
' This particular species is a per
sistent feeder #on warm-blooded
btnimals. :
October 26 Set As
City Primary Date
Meeting yesterday morning, Clarke County Democratic
Executive Committee selected Wednesday, October 26, as
the date for the City Democratic Primary in which a
Mayor and five members of City Council are to be nomi
nated.
Mrs. Wilkins
Resigns
Library Post
At the September meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Ath
ens Regional Library, Mrs. John
J. Wilkins tendered her resigna
tion as chairman of the Board and
recommended to the Board that
they elect Vice-Chairman, Robert
ot Gunn, to succeed her. .. .. ..
Led by Mr. Gunn, the entire
Board insisted that Mrs. Wilkins
continue on, but she insisted that
she had served her time and
should be relieved; whereupon
Vice-Chairman Gunn requested
that she be elected as Chairman
Emeritus and retain her active
status on the Board. The Board
so voted and Mrs. Wilkins was
elected as Chairman Emeritus
with active status and Mr. Gunn
was then elected as chairman of
the Board. :
Mrs. Wilkins was chosen Woman
of the Year in Athens last year
and has been the moving spirit
and directing head which has
brought the present library from
its small beginning to where it is
now one of the show places of
Athens and one of the best
libraries in the state.
Mr. Gunn has served on the
library board for a number of
years and last year was its build
ing chairman in charge of re
modeling the old Stern house into
the present library building.
A news clipping was read from
a city of about 100,000 people
which stated that the circulation
of books in their library was iO,~
733 for the month of July which
compares with the Athens library
in a city of 32,000 which had a
circulation of 8,200 in July. This
shows that the local library is not
merely a warehouse for storing
books but a continuing and vital
(Continued on Page Six)
WEATHER
TATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY |
Fair weather and cool with
high for Sunday 78. Sun rises
6:13 and sets at 6:45.
GEORGM —Fair Sunday ex
cept some cloudiness in extreme |
south portion. A little warmer |
over north and central portions
Sunday and Monday.
TEMPERATURE i
Wit . 08
St e o L e
RS e i R ’
Normal . ... S e
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Tgtal sines Sept 1 ~ ... 2081
Excess since Sept. 1 .. ... .iß]
Average Sept. roinfall .... 3.26|
%&M January 1 ....35.52
> since January 1 .. .21
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Waitt Is Retired By Army;
Feldman Returned To Duty
City Schools
Scheduled To
Open Tomorrow
City schools open tomorrow,
All students in High School,
Junior High, and elementary
schools, both white and colored,
will be back in school tomor
row after an anjoyable three
months vacatiom,
A number of big improve
ments have been made in sev
eral schools Dbesides painting
and other miner improvements
in all schools, Registrationr was
held during the past week,
Demonstration School also
opens tomorrow merning, Pu
pils in county schools have al
ready begun several weeks ago.
RADIO TALK
By request C. A. Rowland will
give the same talk as he gave last
Sunday on his regular Sunday
morning program, “The Bible For
Today” over Station WGAU at 9
o’clock this morning. The subject
is “The Value of the soul and can
one go through iife ‘suiciding the
soul.” ”
Date for the primary and the
closing date for entries and regis
tration on September 22, was set
on motion of Vice-Chairman D. D,
Quillian. Entries will close at noon
on September 22, and are to be
made with the committee secre
tary, B. C. Lumpkin, and regis~
tration will close at 5 p, m. at the
office of City Clerk A. G." Smith.
Following a report by ITreasurer
Robert D. Hamilton and Secretary
Lumpkin on the expense of the
last city primary and estimates of
the cost oi the approaching one,
on motion of Mr. Quillian, entry
fee for candidates for Mayor was
set at $125 and entry fee for can
didates for Council was fixed at
S6O. : 2
Allen D. Wier nominated J. A.
Freeman as a member of the com~-
mittee to fill the vacancy created
by the recent death of Luther P.
Crawford, long-time member, and
Mr. Freeman was unanimously
elected.
On motion of W. I. Hopkins, the
committee secretary and treasurer
were instrueted by Chairman Ed
D. Wier, who presided, to prepare
resolutions on the death of Mr,
Crawford and transmit them so
members of his family.
Attending the meeting were
Chairman Wier, D. D. Quillian,
Robert D. Hamilton, T. W. Mor=~
ton, Reese Carnes, W. 1. Hopkins,
Allen D. Wier, James Lay and B.
C. Lumpkin.
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left, leads a discussion on KY-81 Fescue
with Ladino Clover, Alfalva or ather
legumes added to make a good pasture
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—(AP) —One of twe major
generals suspended in the Senate’s “five percenter” probe
is being retired, and the other restored to his command.
the Army said today. ;
Retired: Alden W. Waitt, 56, under suspension since
July 16 as Chief of the Army’s Chemical Corps,
Restored to duty: Herman Feld
man, 57, quartermaster general of
the army. He was suspended the
same day as Waitt.
In announcing the decision,
sSecretary of the Army Gordon
Gray spoke of ~irregular actions”
by Waitt and “errors of judgment”
by Feldman,
Grey noted that both officers
have devoted the major portion
of their lives to the Army. But,
he said, he had decided it would
not be to the best interests of the
service to retain Waitt as head of
the Chemical Corps. (in the other
hand, he said that talks with
r'eldman had convinced him there
would be no rurther lapses of
judgment by the quartermaster
general, and he was ‘gratified” to
be able to order him back to his
old post.
Technically, Waitt also was re
stored to active duty. But Gray
immediately approved Waitt's ap
plication for retirement, at his
present rank. £
Effective Today
Feldman resumed ccmmand as
Quartermaster General today.
Gray suspended the two gen
erals eight weeks ago today sub
ject to investigation, shortly after
a Senate subcommittee began in
quiring into activities of “ five
percenters” — persons who under
take to get government contracts
for others and charge a fee for
doing it, often 5 per cent of the
gross.
Gray said at that time the Sen
ate committee had ‘“evidence
whiech indicates that Gen, Waitt
improperly furnished personnel
data to an individual not in the
military service and who was not
entitled to receive sucn data; and
that Gen. Feldman furnished to a
contractor’s represeniative pro
curément information under cir
cumstances which appear irregu=-
lar.”
Both generals subseguently ap
peared before the committee.
Both acknowledged they were
friendly with James V., Hunt,
Washington “management coun
selor” whose reported dealings
Lrought on the investigation. But
both officers denied th.:y had done
anything wrong. Hut also denied
anything wrong. Hunt alsc denied
his activities 1n representing busi=-
nessmen as legitimate.
Feldmau Denials
Feldman conceded he had given
Hunt information about the army’s
purchasing plans. He declared,
howevel, the data wasi’t secret,
and added that if he had known
that Hunt was “a so-called five
percenter” he wouldn’t have let
him in his office.
Waitt acknowiedged tihat he
himself went to Hunt's office and
dictated tc Hunt’s stenographer a
memorandum hizhly eritical of
c’sht fellow officers who were
under consideration as his succes
sor as chief of tk 2 Chemical Corps.
He said he wrote the memo at
the regeust of Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan, President Truman’s mil
itary aide.
Waitt also sdmitted he was the
author of a highly /lattering re
port on his own capabilities. He
told the commmittee, nowever that
latter report never reached the
White House. “My brass broke
down,” he explained.
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“Polio Week”
Proclaimed
By Mayor
Mayor Jack R. Wells has pro
claimed September 3 to 14 as
“Polio Emergency Week” in keep
ing with the national and state
program through which the Foun
dation for Infantile Paralsys
hopes to raise enough money to
continue fully its work im com
bating the disease.
Robert G. Stephens, lccal attor
ney, who is chairman of the 1949
Infantile Paralysis Drive for
Clarke county asks that the eiti
zens of the county “recognize the
need in this epidemic year and
send contributions to POLIO in
care of their local post office.”
- Mayor's Wells Procaimatien fol
lows:
“WHERREAS infantile paraiy
sis again is rampant throughout
the nation, striking ecommunity
after community with ruthless im
partiality, and,
“WHEREAS, the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
has thrown its full resources into
the fight against this insidions
disease, and, /
“WHERAS, the high cost of
combating the 1949 pclic out
breaks, plus the millions of dol
lars still being expended by tne
National Foundation Jor last year's
patients who require continued
care and treatment, have drained
the organization’s finances to the
danger point, and,
“WHEREAS, it has coasequently
become necessary for thes;gtional
Foundation to hold a dizaster drive
for funds so that its work of mer
cy may continue unabated.
“NOW THEREFORE, 1 Jack R.
Wells, Mayor of the City of Ath
ens do urge each and every resi
dent of Athens and Clarke County
to respond most generously to the
National Foundation’s emerger ¥
appeal during the week of Sept.
8 to 14th, and
“1 DO FURTHER PROCLAIM
THE WEEK OF Sept. Bth to Sept.
14th, 1949, to be “Polio Emeréency
Week” and ask all citizens our
community to join in our common
crusade against infautile paraiy-
SIS, -
“JACK R. WELLS.?
Sen. Vandenberg
In Arms Fight
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10-—(AP)
—=Senator Vandenberg {R-Mich)
took the lead today in & move fe
compromise a growing Senate
fight over arms aid to non-Com
munist China,
Vandenberg would not comment
but friends said he hopes to lay
before the Senate Foreign Rela
tions and Armed Services Com
mittees Monday a compromise oi
this dispute swirling about the ad
ministration’s $1,314,010,000 for«
eign military aid bill
tures are, foreground, left to right: Mr.
Hendrickson, William Chandler, Jaspeg. i
Harvev, W. O. Hardigree. Mr. Hayes. °
Bill Hardigree, Calvin Marshall, Charles:
Murrow, R. L. Griffith, and {ghn Hale.
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