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Jan Gerrit Klifman, 50, former Du__h ounces of sugar and a pound of pears.
circus employe, digests the news at his He prefers editions just off the press.
home in Amsterdam — and - we’re not Taht's his weekly supply of “rations” on
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JUDGE’S STEPDAUGHTER
ON STAND FOR DEFENSE
ATLANTA, Sept. 16.— (AP)—The pretty, soft-spoken
stepdaughter of a judge testified today her father’s ac
cuser once entered the bedroom of her drunk mother.
Subsequertly, said blonde Barbara Carpenter, her
mother asked to be left alone with Attorney John Lock
wood.
Barbara’'s stepfather, Judge
Robert Carpenter 44, is now on
trial, charged with attempting to
murder Lockwood . the nig_ht of
July 27th by shooting at him four
times.
Cooly, the 20-year old college
student also told of how her moth=
er had cherished a purple ox;chid
given to her by Lockwood and of
how her mather had reached the
point where she could talk of
nothing but “John said this or
@ #ld that”
Winally without emotion, the 1
defense witness told the court her
mother Had taken from her a con
vertible car and all of her clothes.
Sittlng relaxedly in the witness
¢hair and clutching white gloves
the very attractive Miss Carpenter
said her mother had tried to turn
her against her stepfather but
that she had demanded proof. She
testified her mother told her
“daddy had spent all her money”
and “he was letting his business
drop altogether.” }
Borrowed Money l
As for Lockwood, Miss Carpen- |
ter testified, the attorney said |
“daddy had borrowed aii his money
but he didn’t say daddy had re
paid him.”
Mrs. Carpenter s separated
from the judge and is suing for
divorce, claiming the judge drank
and gambled excessively and ran
around with anotheér woman.
Miss Carpenter, hefore telling of
the bedroom incident, testified
“nothing they could say would
turn me against him because I love
him and always will.” i
Drinking Heavily
_ The night Lockwood came call
ing in her mother’s bedroom, said
Miss Carpenter, she had found her
mother had had “too much te
drink,” She said she discovered
this when her grandmother, Mrs.
Minnie Sullivan asked her to call
a doctor,
. About 12 or 12:30 a. m., she con
tinued, T.ockwood arrived and
went to her mother’s bedroom
Bulletins
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16—
(AP)—The CIO United Steel
workers today appealed to the
steel industry tc accept the
presidential board’s peace rec
ommendations to avert a strike
September 25 and at the same
time summoned its tcp strate
gists to plot the union’s next
maove,
ATLANTA, Sept. 16—(AP)
Georgia voter reregistration
law — 8 new wrinkie in south
ern efforts to curb negro voting
—was upheld unanimously fo-~
day by the State Supreme Court.
The measure was Governor
Herman Talmadge's pet bill of
the 1949 legislature.
It wiped out the state’s record
breaking old 1li:* of 1,200,000
registered voters, including 120,
000 negroes,
It ordered = completely new
registration under stiffened
qualifications. * ,
WORK FREE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—(AP)
—Carl A, Ilgenfritz, $70,000 a year
steel offijcal, offered today to work
‘or the government for nothing, if
't is possible. His nomination to
b€ chairman of the Munitions
Board js under fire in the Senate
Y€cause he declines to give up his
Dr!fi'ate paycheck while he lerve?-o
‘ary of Defense, that if the Senate
‘Pbroves his appointment for the |
10b in 8 wots seheasica sodashe
il ask for a Tegal ‘opinion s o |
Whether he ean serve without pey.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Associated Press Service
where he sat on the side of the
bed. Shortly thereafter, Miss Car
penter related, her mother asked
everyone but Lockwood to leave.
Thereupon, she continued, she
went to her room and tuough call
ed back later refused to return
because she v-as too “indignant
over being asked to leave in the
first place. Miss Carpenter said
she “cried a little bit” and then
went to sleep.
In yesterday’s hearing Judge
Carpenter took a turn as his own
attorney and questioned witnesses
about his estranged wife and her
relations with Lockwocd.
HURTLED INTO LAKE #
One Dead. 4 Missi
ne Dead, ISSINg
In First B-36 Crash
n rirst b- ras
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 16.—(AP)—A giant B-36
bomber hurtled into Lake Worth last night at 100 miles
an hour, killing at least one of its crew of thirteen, Four
were missing and eight injured.
A mysterious power failure as the plane roared down
Carswell Air Force Base’s long runway wag blamed for
the accident, first major mishap since the big bombers
started flying a year and a half ago.
Technical Sgt. William G. Sey- A fisherman said he saw flames
mour of Fort Worth was injured
fatally.
First Lt. Richard L. English,
flight engineer from Sartell,
Minn., said he stood on the fuse
lage of the cigar-shaped ship after
the plane hit and took a hasty
roll call. He said every man ans
w red.
Crash boats picked up survivors
from the wings, fuselage and the
water as the .ix-engined air mon
ster stayed partially afloat.
The eight known survivors were
rushed to the base hospital for
treatment of minor injuries. Last
night they slept in semi-guaran=
tine, unavailable for questioning.
A professional diver probed the
Murky depths where the multi
million dollar craft crashed. The
huge tail section of the bomber
stood as a stark marker.
The plane smashed into the
lake — a short distance from the
end of the runway — at approx
imately 7:45 p. m. (EST). It was
one of t..e planes of the 7th squad
ron, 7th wing, eighth air force,
scheduled for a routine training
flight.
U. S. SOLDIER ESCAPES
SOVIET TORTURE PRISON
American Private Tells of 10 Months
Of Mistreatment by. Russian Officers
BERLIN, Sept. 16.—(AP)—An American soldier bur
rowed out of a Soviet jail in east Berlin and related a story
today of beatings and mistreatment during his 10 months
confinement by the Russians, .
The American, Private Jobhn J.
Sinkiewrez, 26, of Baltimore, told
U. S. officers Saviet officials
thought, because of his name, that
‘he was a Polish displaced person
bging used to spy on the Rus
sians,
He said he and three British
companions used a blunt knife to
bore through a thick jail wall un
til they could reach through and
open their cell door, Then they
made their way to the western
sectors of Berlin. ‘
Sinkiewrcz was taken to an
Army hospital and reported to be]‘
in a “generally weakened physical
condition but not unduly under-l
nourished.” i
He had been held by the Rus
gians since last ygzp l,‘h:Jhen hc‘
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sector of the city enet.'l!euid]
JUDGE RULES
17 CHILDREN i
ISENOUGH = %
LOS ANGELES, Sept, 16.—
(AP)—Enough is enough, Mrs,
Ernestina Macias told the
Jjudge.
In 27 years, she said she had
17 children by Alejandro Ma
cias—l 4 still living.
But Macias, 55, an unemploy
ed gardener, insisted he wanted
more children.
Cruelty, ruled the judge yes
terday, giving Mrs. Macias &
divorce.
shooting from one of the engines.
Master Sgt. Kenneth McKellip, in
charge of a crash boat, told Max
Ewing, Dallas New photographer,
that all of the men he picked up
~rere in a daze and that one was
seriously injured.
Lt. English said the plane mys
teriously lost iis power as it was
traveling down the runway at
about 100 miles an hour for the
takeoff.
Maj. Toy B. Husband of Wood
lake, Calif., was the pilot. Co-pilot
was Maj. John H. Keene of Miami,
Fla.
The air force withheld names of
the missing crewmen. :
Other survivors were:
Technical Sgt. Harry Holloway,
jr., of Monongahela, Pa.
Technical Sgt. J. R. Shumake of
Red Springs, Tex.
Staff Sgt. Quentin Freed of
Youngstown, O. . :
Staff Sgt. James Bradshaw of
Elysian Field, Tex.
Staff Sgt. Jack Allen ot Weath
erforll JTe s
nights ‘and “beaten when they
said I was lying.” He saild the
Russians mistreated and tortured
him in other ways, too.
British ‘headquarters said the
three British soldiers were arrest=-
ed March 3, 1948, and had been
iimprisoned ever since—a period
of 18 months.
Officers quoted the three as say
ing: “We were brutally treated
throughout our captivity and
were subjected to immersions in
cold water and kickings and beat
ings by Russian officers and
i soldiers. We were fed on the scan
tiest rations.”
Sinkiewrcz is the son of Mrs.
Mary Sinkiewrcz of (619 Chapel
sireet), Baltimare, Md.
l Sinkiewrcz told Army officers
'he and the three British prisoners
I_Mmmm#&m&wd'fi&;
‘beds to pry open their cell block
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949,
Friends With Liquor Monopoly *
Wholesaler Says Dry-County
Action Approved By Redwine
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 16.— (AP) —A court suit today
charged “favored political friends” of Governor Herman
Talmadge and Revenue Commissioner Charles Redwine
with seeking a monopoly on illegal liquor sales in dry
counties.
The suit charges sale of liquor in dry counties has been
conducted with the knowledge and consent of Redwine as
well as previous Revenue Commissioners, 3
The suit was filed late yesterqny
in the Griffin Circuit Superior
Court by Robert C. Lee, an ad
mitted dry-county liquor whole
saler, Lee's license for Southern
Distributors in Atlanta was re
cently cancelled by Redwine.
Judge Chester C. Byars, who
presides in Redwine’s home county
of Fayette, ordered a hearing for
Sept. 26, Another suit against
Redwine, accusing him of gross
misuse of licensing powers, is set
the same day.
Lee’s suit:
1. Cites alleged instances in
which five wholesalers sold in dry
counties, and went unpunished be
cause of Talmadge influences. The
wholesalers named operate in Al
bany, Columbus, Savannah, and
Macon.
2. Sets forth details of an al
leged statewide battle between
two rival liquor combines for dry
county supremacy early in 1947,
3. Bring a constitutional at
tack on the present high liquor
warehousing fees. It asks recov
ery of $28,000 allegedly paid by
Lee.
The lengthy petition charges
that “favored political friends of
the defendant -(Redwine) and the
Talmadge faction” are trying to
secure a monopoly on the sale of
whiskey in dry counties and to
private clubs in wet counties. -
Photostats Issued
Lee attached photostats of five
large monthly report sheets, filed
with the State Revenue Depart
ment and federal officials, in
which he listed hundreds of sales
to clubs in Atlanta, Gainesville,
Newnan, Athens, Rome, Ragwell,
‘and other places. ;
The reports show sales at ran
dom dates during the months of
October and December, 1948, and
in January, March, and July of
this year.
The suit claims Redwine’s office
was furnished with this detailed
information every month and
sanctioned the sales.
Lee also submitted photostats
showing sales of liquor between
wholesalers in October and De
cember, 1948, and April, 1949.
Such sales are forbidden by state
regulation.
Lee enclosed photostatic copies
of a SIOOO check, marked for a
license and dated Jan. 6, 1949, and
a copy of a wholesale license dated
July 13, 1949, He said he was
allowed to sell to clubs in dry and
o> Called In
Li
iquor Probe
ATLANTA, Sept. 16—(AP)—
Five Georgia wholesale liquor
dealers, inciuding two alleged top
Talmadge friends, have been eited
for hearings on loss of their li
cense,
Revenue Commissioner Charles
Redwine and special liguor inves
tigator Claude Shaw announced
today the summons were perfect
ed Wednesday after three weeks
investigation.
Asked to appear for hearings
Monday were two dealers in Al
bany, one in Brunswicz, Columbus
and Augusta.
Shaw said this was an effective
answer to a suit filed in Griffin
late yesterday charging Redwine
with protecting friends of Gov.
Herman Talmadge in his probe
of vast sales of liquor in Georgia
dry counties.
door and then fled over a wall
topped by jagged glass. g
They. reached the street by |
sneaking through a bombed-out
building and then separated to
make their way to the western
sector. Sinkiewrcz managed to get
to a German police station in the
French sector and telephoned,
American authorities. {
Food Improves f
The Army quoted him as saying |
“My food improved greatly about
five or six weeks ago, when I be-j
gan to get white bread for the first
time since I was arrested.” 1
This improvement coincided {
} with a letter to Soviet authorities
by the American military govern
'ment demanding his release. !
\ Sinkiewrcz later told reporters
- at the hospital the Russians “ques- |
tioned me many times, all about
- guns, tanks {roops and such in the |
' American Army.”
“When I refused to answer,” he
added, *“ a high ranking Russian
officer slapped me in the face.
They took my clothes away from
me and gave me the cold watgrl
Apdutment .. o rieiskiil T b
'« “That was in ‘February, + end |
wet counties by Redwine with=-
out a license between those dates.
Lee charged his license was re
voked “for the purpose of driving
him out of business,” so Talmadge
and Redwine's friends could take
over,
Political Protection
He named five wholesalers he
said had political protection.
One, he said, is Donald Lee
bern who has a wholesale liquor
license in Columbus. He said
Leebern sells whiskey in dry
counties “all the way from Thom
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OPPOSITION SCARCE
Delay Foreseen On
Minton Appointment
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—(AP)—Senate action will
be delayed a while on President Truman’s unexpected
Egggiigxgtion of Sherman Minton to be a Supreme Court
Further Plans
Made For
“NEPH Week”
Further “r%lans f;)r Ethe] obserq;;
ance ational Employ Ti
Physfc%f" Handicapped Week”
were made at a meeting of the lo
cal community eommittee yester
day.
A radio program entitled
“America” will be given this even
ing at 6 o'clock over Station
WRFC, it has ‘been announced by
Nathan Nolan, chairman of the
radio sub-commitiee of the local
‘NEPH Week,” committee.
Another program about the
week is scheduled to be heard:
over Station WGAU on Friday,
October 7, at 5:15 p. m. .
Tyus Butler, chairman of the
civic organizations sub-commit
tee, reported that ecivic clubs in
Athens are wholeheartedly back
ing the activities for “NEPH
Week” and a majority of clubs
have allotted time on their pro
grams for speakers on phases of
the week’s activities.
Club Speakers
Marion Williamson, executive
director of Employment Security
Agency for Georgia, will speak at
Exchange Club meeting on Mon
day, October 3. A. P. Jarrell, as
sistant state director in charge of
technical services, Division of Vo=
cational Rehabilitation, will be
guest speaker at the Jaycees meet~
ing on Monday, October 3. |
Speaking to the Optimist Club
on Tuesday, October 4, will be A.
L. Davis, assistant state director
in charge of field operations, Div
ision of Vocational Rehabilitation.
W. B. Gaines, supervisor of Serv-'
ices for the Blind, Division of Vo
cational Rehabilitation, will speak
to the Ljons Club on Thursday,
October 6. :
Principal speaker at the Tues
day, October 4, meeting of Ki
wanis Club here will be John S.
Prickett, district supervisor, Div
ision of Voeational Rehabilitation
of Augusta. 3
Members of the Joe Brown Con
ally Chapter No. 2, Disabled
American Veterans, heard L. L.
Hargrove, commander of the Geor
gia Department of the DAV, s eak‘
on “Highly Handicaps” at WeJr)\es- |
day night’s meeting. ‘
Mr. Harbrove is on the state
committee for “NEPH Week” and
is making a tour of Georgia in‘the
interest of this week to arouse
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' ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly elgudy and continued .
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urday. Low tonight 65 and high
for Saturday 90. Sunset 6:38,
sunrise 6:17. \;
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy -
and continued warm tonight
and Saturday, except scattered.
showers in extreme north por
tion this afternoon and scatter
ed showers in coastal area late
this afternoon or evening.
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Although there was no apparent
opposition to the appoiniment,
Chairman McCarran (D.-Nev.) of
the Judiciary Committee, said the
nomination will “take the routine
course.” That usually takes about
three weeks, a committee aide
said. 'There is a speedier proce
dure often used in cases where
opposition is lacking.
S:;\am%ho would .comm
‘on- the int t praised Min
ton, a former mmfic Senator
from Indiana, a thorough-going
New Dealer and now a judge on
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
at Chicago.
The President nominated him
yesterday to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of Justice Wiley Rut
ledge last Saturday.
SRy Senaters Geclned oown
ment. While some privately ex
gressed disappointment at the
resident’s choice, they said they
knew of no reason to attempt to
block the nomination.
MecCarran, now en route to
Europe for a three-week trip, has
been at odds with the administra
tion over displaced persons legisla~
lation and other matters recently.
Senator Kilgore (D.-W.Va.) told
a reporter that MecCarran tele
phoned his instructions on the ap
pointment from his ship.
Kilgore, ranking committee
Democrat in McCarran’s absence,
said that this means *“‘everything is
stalled for the time being, I'm
afraid.”
The customary procedure is to
allow up to 10 days for any pro
tests to be filed—or even longer
if the Senators from the nominee’s
home state request it.
If protests are filed which the
committee feels require . looking
into, hearings may be held. Other
wise, the committee just holds a
routine meeting to act on the
nomination.
Kilgore, who hailed Minton’s
appointment as “a fine nomina
tion,” said he had thought it might
not be necessary to go through the
more lengthy procedure since
Minton is a former Senator. For
that reason, he said, he had the
committee staff check McCarran’s
views.
In a ship-to-shore telephone in
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LUNCH TIME FINDS MR. BEVIN IN A JOVIAL MOOD
British Foreign Secretary Erneat Bevin
(second from right) eats and talks in
iovial manner at a capital luncheon given
in his honor at Washington by the Sen
ate Foreign Kelations Committee, Left to
right: Vice President Alben Bugey,
Read Daily by 35,000 People In
Coal Industry
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FisiS Looms -
Some Soft Coal Operators :
Fearful Strike Call Imminent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—(AP)—A crisis loomed to
day in the soft coal industry over refusal of some eépera
tors to pay the 20-cent royalty for miners’ pensions,
John L. Lewis headed back to
Washington from White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.,, for & possible
showdown with at least the South
ern coal operators who have been
holding back the welfare payments
due Aug. 20. Some operators fear
ed a strike call was imminent.
Lewis also was reported to be
calling a meeting of the welfare
fund trustees, amid rumors that
Senators Styles Bridges (R-NH)
the neutral member, was about to
resign. ¢
Bridges has been criticized for
remaining as a member after it
was disclosed that he and Operator
Ezra Van Horn, the employer rep
resentative, were receiving $35,000
a year each for their services.
Bridges accepted the post 17
months ago and helped break
Lewis’ deadlock over pension pay
ments at that time. Lewis is
chairman of the trustees, but ac
cepts no pay. :
He gets $50,000 a year and ex
penses as head of the United Mine
Workers’ Union.
The UMW hoss concentrated his
welfare attacks on southern epera
tors he said were causing the
$100,000,000 ayear pension fund to
be “bled white.” But there were
indications also that he was anx
ious about whether mine owners
in the north and west would hold
back when their pension payments
come.due Sept. 20. |
Lewis met with the northern
and- westérn operators- at--White.
Sulphur Springs yesterday for
three hours and did these two ma
jor things. ' :
I—Questioned the owners about
ihe next payments, but ¢id not get |
a firm commitment from the op=
erators about whether they 'fi? ‘
pay up or refuse as some of those
in the south alreacy have done.
2—Notitied the operators he
wants a 7-hour work day without
loss of pay in place of the present
8-hour. day. The miners now get
a base rate of $14.05 for 6 1-2
hours of production. Another hour
and a half is allowed underground
travel and meals.
The latter demand would
amount to the equivalent of a
wage boost of approximately $1.75
day.
The White Sulphur meeting was l
recessed until Sept. 21, the day
after the northern and westernl
payments are due.
DING DONG DADDY
Balding Conductor Ready
For 13th Or 14th Wedding
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 —
(AP)—Ring those bells, wedding
bells—not once but 13 or 14 times
for the ding dong daddy of the D
car line.
Francis Van Wie will wed again
today—for the 13th or 14th time.
The smiling, balding, 62-year
old former conductor of San Fran
cisco’s municipal railway will mar
ry Mrs. Mary Aba, 49, of Oakland.
Mrs. Aba, who knows all about
Van Wie’s predilection for orange
blossoms, smiled happily today.
Apparently she is not worried
by the fact that he served two
“40 And 8” -
Hold ‘Wreck’
On Saturday
Activities for the *“4O anc #*
state-wide initiation will get un
derway tomorrow morning at 8:45,
wher all local members of the or
%s;m‘zation are asked to gather at
oodruff Hall,
Street activity in the one-day
affair, which includes the famous
“wreck,” gets underway at 10
o’clock in the downtown area. This
will include a parade headed by
the Texas Train II from Atlanta,
recent winner of first prize in the
Philadelphia convention.
After the street parade, the
“wreck” will follow, ?I‘hu part of
the show will be held at Wood=~
ruff Hall, with proceedings get
ting underway at 2 o'clock.
Some 36 members cf Voiture
Locale 499, local chapter of the
organization, will be initiated in
the “wreck” tomorrow. Local head
of the “499” is John H. Gunder.
Top officials of the 40 and 8 will
be here, including Ben T. Watkins,
Chef de Gare of the state of
Georgia. Watkins is a native of
Macon.
Charlie Sacre of Atlanta will be
the Corductor of the Wreck. Coi
ture Loeale 217 of Atlanta will
-brimg their-entire group here- to
head the initiation, ° : %
Teen Canteen To
Open Seturday
A direct telephons line from ia
dio station WGAU will furnish
recorded dance music lor the new
opening -of the teen-age canteen
to morrow night out at Memorial
Park.
WGAU has announced that dur
ing its recorded Saturday mnight
music for dancing, the entire pro
gram will be dedicated to the high
school students, The dance =%
scheduled for 8-11 with WGAU
beginning its program at 10
o’clock.
The teen-agers will be able to
cali into the station for rec%uested
numbers during the specially de
signed recorded hour.
years in San Quentin prison for
marrying 12 or 13 wives (the
count was never definitely estab
lished) without bothering about
the formality of annulment eor
divorce.
“I was off the beam for a while
there,” Van Wie admitted, “but
that’s all over now.”
“Yes, dear,” said Mrs. Aba.
Van Wie, a rambling romancer
on the rails, was a conductor on
the D car line when he rang up .
his record of marriages without a
transfer. Now he’s a porter.at a
cocktail lounge.
pottaied et SR S eD Bt DM go eEE T - o
Secretary of State Acheson, Bevin, a:&)
Senator Tom Connally of Texas, cha
man of the committee. Bevin is"in Washs .
ington for discussion of Great Britain's
financial crisis.— (AP Wirephoto.) .
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