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Vol. CXVII, Na. 219,
Uneasy Quiet
Over Coal
Steel Fronts
PITTSBURGH; Sept. 24.—(AP)—An uneasy quiet to
day hung over America’s vital coal and steel industries
after a week of rapid-fire developments.
CIO United Steelworkers and industry negotiators—
finally brought together again at the conference table by
President Truman—ave girding for a resumption in earn
est of their contract taiks in an effort to stave off a strike
next weekend.
Air Crash
QUEBEC, Que., Sept. 24— (AP)
—A slim, wayy haized Quebec
Jeweler, J, Albert Guay, was form
ally charged today with murder
ing his wife, who died with 22
others in an explosion-torn Que
bec Airways plane Sept. 9.
Pale and nervous, he was ar
raigned ' less than 24 hours after
police ‘announced they had proof
explosives had been placed abeard
the plane to get rid of a woman.
A kéy witness is Mrs. Arthur
Pitre, 40, described as one of sev
eral women friends of Guay. She
told police she delivered an ex
press package to the aircraft here
under the’impression it contained
“a statue”
The charge made no mention of
what police believe caused the
plane’s destruction—a home-made
dynamite bomb. It simply accused
Suay of “having Sept. 0, at Sault
Au Cochon, killed and assassinated
Rita Morey (Guay), your wife.”
Sault Au Cochon is the timbered
mountainside northeast of Quebec
where the mangled bodies of the
19 passengers—including three top
executives of the Kennecott Cop
per Corporation—and four ecrew
members were found in the plane
The 82-year-old prisoner was
brought before Judge Alphonse
Garon in the Court of Sessions. He
did not enter a plea.
The preliminary hearing was set
for Oct. 4. «
‘Mrs. Guay was 28. Six other
wamen were among those who
#rished with her when an ex
nlosion in the baggage campart
ment swung the plane into the
mountainside. - Police said a $lO,-
%00 insurance policy on her life,
paysble to Guay, was taken out
only s short time before she
boarded the plane for Baie Co
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Ist Baptist Church
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Baptist Church will be held at the
11 o’clock service hour today,
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ATHENS BANNER-HERAID
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But the picture was not so
bright in >al. No prospects were
in sight for un end to the nation
wide mine strike as .t ended its
first week,
Peace did return to the fields
after state police patrols squelch
ed a mild wave of violence.
The steel furnaces and coke
ovens continued to devour a
dwindling supply of ‘he vital fuel.
In another six days — if their
OWners and the men who operate
them have not reached an agree
ment— they may have no need
for zoal.
A brief exploratéry n eeting be
tween U. 8. Steel Corp. Vice Pres
ident John Stephens and steel
workers President Philip Murray
climaxed a hectic two weeks of
wrangling over . _conditions for
their getfing together. - .
Steel and the USW have been
parleying over their new contract
since June 15. A Presidential fact
finding board recommended in
dustry-financed pension and social
insurance without a wage increase,
The industry, with big steel set
ting the pace, balked at the pro
posal that management contribute
the entire sum for the benefits.
Murray stands firm on the
board’s recommendation, but
threatens to toss in a renewed
waged raise demand if industry
fails to go along with {l.e pension
insurance plan. .
Tallgs resumed after” President
Truman “won an: extension of &
second strike truce to next Satur
day at 12:01 &, m. Eastern Stand
ard Time. i
Murray and Big Steel said they'd
get down to business teday. Rep
resent.tives of 10 vther steel firms
sit down with USW negotiating
teams the samé day but are ex
pected to mark time pending out
come of the talks by . S. Steel
the industry’s bellwether.
Other firms negotiating and lo
cations of the talks: % %
Allegheny - Ludlun, Jones &
Laughlin and Cruible, all in Pitts
burgh; Bethlehem Steel, = New
York; Republic, Cleveland; In
land, Indiana Harbor, Ind.; Sha
ron Steel, and Youngstown Sheet
& Tube, Youngstown, (3° Rustlesd
Steel, Baltimore, and Shenango-
Penn Mould, Sharpsvilie, Pa.
session.
Among those to be installed are
the pastor, Dr, Howard ', Giddens,
Sunday School Superintendent,
Preston M. Almand &nd the As
sistant Superintendents, Bryant
M. Smith, sr, W. Henry Hill,
James Bailey and Norman Sailors.
~ Other ‘general (qmee officers
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W. 1. Hopkins, general secreta
ry; Warren Lanier, Wade Cogger
and Dan Arnold, assistants. Mrs.
Marion Reid, chorister; C. E. Lit
tle ard George H. Thornton,
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‘Welcome Committee — A. B.
Coile, chairman; E. B. Mell, M. M.
Stephenson, J. Ben Thornton, H.
B. Henderson and R. L. Miller.
Other members of the Teaching
Staff: Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, M. S.
Hodgson, Abit Nix, Dr. B. O. Will
iams, Prof. E. P. Mallary, Dr. O.
C. Aderhold, and Fred Ayers.
Adult Department—Sam Wood,
Superintendent; B. C. Kinney,
Secretary; Mrs. H. . Morris,
Pianist. A
Forum Class — President, Rob
ert Bradberry; President-Elect,
Roy Gill; Guy W. Smith, Secreta
ry; L. W. Eberhardt, Secretary-
Elect; Group Captains: Ernest
Garrett, H. M. Morris, . H. Nun
nally, Fred Ayers, A. C. Duncan,
L. L. Whitley, Jones Purcell, Gar
land Hulme, O. W. Haygood, Har
old Saye.
Lollie Hutchins Class — Mrs. H.
O. Epting, Teacher; Mrs. Hubert
Yow, Assistant Teacher; Mrs. G.
V. McCarson, President; Mrs. Em
mett L. Wier, Vice-President; Mrs.
Geo. Brient, Treasurer; Mrs. W. C,
Noell, Secretary.
T. S. Mell Bible Class — Stacie
L. Bowen, Teacher; M. M. Ste
g'}'xxenson, President; Ceorge H.
ornton, Secretary-Treasurer.
Fellowship Class — Rev. Robert |
H. Ayers, Teacher; Mrs, Clyde |
Reagin, Assistant Teacher and
Donald Branyon, Assistant Teach
er; Marion Ivey, President.
M an dM Class — Mrs. Alex
Saye, Teacher; Mrs. Sarah Moore,
President; Mrs. Warren J. Con
nally, Ist Vice-President; Mrs. O.
M. Spears, 2nd Vice-President;
Mrs. Henrietta G. Sullican, 3rd
Vice-President; Mrs. LuSarah
McConnell, 4th Vice-President;
Mrs. Ihrlarvin Tucker, Treasurer,
Mrs. Ira Hg E:bo tham, Secreiary.
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Numbers Racket Cracked Here
Riggs Services
To Be Held
Monday, A. M.
Col. Kerr T. Riggs, veteran of
48 years of service in the United
States Army and assigned to the
University of Georgia as P. M. 8.
& T., died in a local hospital yes«
terday morning at four o'clock.
Col. Riggs was 69 years old and
had been ill for the past six days.
Services are to be co'n'ducted
Monday morning' at 11 .o'clock
from Bridges Chapel with Rev, J.
Earl Gilbreath, pastor of Em
manuel Episcopal Church, and
Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, retired pastor
of First Baptist Church, of
ficiating. Friends are requested to
omit flowers.
Burial will follow in the Na
tional Cemetery at Marietta with
full military honors, pallbearers
being Col. James Shufelt, Col.
Richard Trimble, Sgt. Leon Far
mer, Sgt. H. B. Averett, Walter
Sams, jr., and Charles Hooper.
Surviving Col. Riggs is his wife,
Mrs. Mary Virginia Fosdick Riggs,
Athens; daughter, Mrs. H. H. Os~
borne, Augusta, Ga.; two sons,
George O. Riggs, Athens, and Col.
T. Scott Riggs, Fort Knox, Ky.;
two sisters, Mrs. William E.
Selinx and Miss Theleo Riggs,
both of Lynthiana, Xy, and gight
grandchildren.
Col. Riggs graduated from West
Point Military Academy in 1901
and served in the Philippines in
1904-05 and was awarded the Sil
ver Star for gallantry in the Moro
campaign. He served in France in
World War One and was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal
Col. Riggs had also served in
Washington, D. C., Fort Leaven~
worth, Kan.,, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, Fort Riley, Kan, Fort
Bliss, Texas, and Fort Brown,
Texas, as commander of the 12th
Cavalry.
He was Chief of Staff, Panama
Canal Department, and was then
assigned to the University here in
1942. He was recalled to duty and
retired in 1944. Col. Riggs had al
so served as A. S. T. P, School
commander here.
Fall Quarter Classes Will
Begin At-U. Of Ga. Tomorrow
The second annual Opening
Convocation of the University ofl
Georgia will be held tonight at
8:15 in the Fine Arts Auditorium,
with Athens Churches cooperating.
The Rev. Robert H. Ayers, Uni
versity chaplain, will speak at the
services. President Jonathan C.
Rogers *will preside, and Mayor
Jack Wells will bring greetings. l
This convocation will conclude
a week of pre-class activities on{
the campus. Classes begin Mon- |
day. '
Official Welcome |
To The Students ;
Mayor Jack R. Wells has sent. |
President J. C. Rogers a letter !
officially welcoming the students |
and faculty to Athens at the be- |
ginning of the new term at the
University of Georgia. ‘;
A copy of the welcome, as
forwaraea to President Rogers, |
< follows; . (Lofeed j
~ %“On. behalf of the City .of .
Athens and the eitizens of Ath
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1949,
Two Negroes And Numerous ‘Bug’
Tickets Captured In Local Raids
- BY ED THILENIUS
The arrest of two negroes has cracked an extensive
numbers racket operated in this city, Chief of Police Clar
ence Roberts reported yesterday.
The lottery—better known as
“The Bug’—had been the object
of extensive police attention for
several months, Chief Roberts
-said, but oniy yesterday were the
officers able to crack the ecase. l
Arrested were Milledge Ifoon,
and Eugene Eberhart. ""pe latter
was arrested in a negro pressing
club on Washington suweet after
City Detectives Hardy and Mc-
Kinnon found a number of the
lottery tickets concealed in the
cloth of a pressing unit.
Moon was arrested by Officers
Alan Hansford and Olin Wood
when numerous tickets were
found in his possession. :
Chief Roberts said that the
racket was operated on the daily
total bond sales throughout the
nation.
The middle three digits of the
daily total were the key to “The
Bug”, the Chief polnted out.
The rings’ activities in the city
were described as very elusive by
officers and complete details on
pickup stations and other op
erational activities were not re
vealed for security reasons. ]
An estimate of how mauch furn
over the racket had in the city
each day was not available, but.
was expected to reach quite a
high figure.
Both negroes have been turned
over to county authorities.
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Kiwanis Begins
.
Ticket Sales
Tickets for Athens Kiwanis
Club production, “Facts and Fan
cies,” to be held October 5-6 in
Fine Arts Auditorlum have been
placed on sale, announced Dean
D. J. Weddell yesterday.
Dean Weddell, who is chairman
of the ticket committee, said tick
ets can be purchased at Gunn’s
Mens Store, Richardson-Hodgson,
or from any member of the ticket
committee, who are Dean Wed
dell, Fred Birchmore, Bob Gunn,
E. B. Cook, A. P. Farrar, Nolen
Richardson, Durward Watson and
J. 8. Wolfe. Tickets are priced at
$2.50 for orchestra; $1.50 for
downstairs rear; SI.OO for bal
cony.
ens I, as Mayor of Athens, wish
to officially extend to the stu
dents and faculty of the Uni
versity of Georgia a most cordial
welecome, and to express the
hepe that the great institution
you head will enjoy another
successful year.
“We are all delighted to have
you back with us at the begin
ning of this new term. Please
assure the student body, facully,
and employes of the University
that the officials and employes
of the City of Athens, as well as
the citizens generally, desire at
all times to serve them.
“Sincerely yours.
“JACK R. WELLS, Mayor.”
Among early schoo! activities
was the fourth annual pre-plan
ning confererice of the College of
Education. For the {irsi time this
vear, in addition to the staff,
m"aiiuate dassistapts and selected
junors and seniqrs participated.
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Special Edition
Welcomes New -
Students To City
This ‘edition of the Athens
Banner-Herald 15 deslgned to
give greetings to the returning
students at the University of
Georgla, and the warmest of
welcomes to the new students.
. In this expanded edition the
new students will find informa
tion that wili be valuable to
them, and the returning students
will find a re-affirmation of the
affection in which all students
are held by the Banner-Herald,
speaking for the people of Ath
ens.
Speed Preparations
For Ag Fair Opening
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Assistant City Editer
A great deal of activity is now
in progress at the Athens Agri
cultural Fair in preparation for
the second annual fair, sched
uled to be held October 17-22, an
nounced F, H. Williams yester
day. %
Mr. Williams, general manager,
said there will be much more ac
tivity this week and the amount
will increase as the date nears.
He added that & number of peo
ple have been working this past
week, especially carpenteit, in
fixing the buildings and other
gao_:ilitlel for the exhihits at the
air. A
Each department is getting in
a large number of entries, Mr,
Williame added. The various de-
partments are community, com
mercial, automobile, farm immle-
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iven Board
Construction of a new Athens
High School building and other
- school improvements moved ane
oth&forward_ step when checks
:fi‘ roeseds of the school bond
‘weré pregented to the Board
of Education Jate last week.
Mayor Jack R. Wells presented
two checks amounting to more
than & million dollars to the Ath
ens Board of Education before its
Thursday’'s meeting.
" 'The two checks, probably among
the largest ever written in Ath
eng, represented money obtained
from sale of the million dollar
bond issue voted by the people of
l Athens this year.
The sale was conducted by the
Mayor and Council and proeceeds
from the sale were deposited in
the Citizens and Southern Na
tional Bank and the National
Bank of Athens. Now the money
. is being transferred to the account
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ment, women’s and girls, live
stock {(poullry, cattle, hoge), and
negro division. There will be ex
hibits in each department, and
prizes will be awarded for the
;,virming exhibits in each group
ng.
Additional Shows
In addition to the regular ex
hibits there will be a special
Boys’ Hobby Show and an Egg
Show,
There are three buildings on
the grounds, and in order to
house the much larger fair this
year the exhibits will_be put in
buildings and tents. One new
building wa% constructed this
year. Almost all exhibits had to
be in tents last year.
- Mr, Wilhams stated yfim
that the parking area is
greatly enlarged, and now there
are parking facilities for about
3,000 cars. He also cited the out
standing decorations and lighting
effects which will be at the fair
this year.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 peo
ple from Athens and WNortheast
Georgia are expected to attend
the affair, which will have ex
hibits and animals displayed from
Clarke and a number of sur
rounding counties.
) Large Midway
Laurence Greater Shows will
furnish the miaway this year.
Mr. Williams said this- will be
the largest miaway in Northeast
Georgia.
A large number of University
of Georgia students and citizens
of Clarke and many other coun
ties are expected to attend to see
the exhibits, go to the midway
where sonre free acts in the aft
ernoon and night will be includ
ed, and participate in the many
contests, which will be sponsored
by various merchants, Mr. Wil
liams added. ' e
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
3 Condemned
For Revolt
In Hungary
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sépt, 24.— (AP) —Ex-Foreign
Minister Laszlo Rajk and two former Communist P&%
officials were sentenced today to death on the gallows for
& purported piot to overthrow Hungary's Communist §ov
ernment. , :
They theémselves had- testified
they worked with Americans and
Yugoslavs to toss Hungary under
the influence of Yugoslav Premier
Marshal Tito. S
Two other men were sentenced
to life imprisonment aibd one to
nine years in this second big Hun
garian treason trial of 1949. Ap
;fi:};ls -7ere entered for all, though
k protested that “I consider the
verdiet justified,
A technicality delayed a decis
fon in the case of the other de
fendants, Lt. Gen. Gyorgy Palify
and Col. Bela Korodny. The five~
judge people’s court ruled it was
not competent to deal with them
and ordered inem heid for Couri=
martial, though they had admitted
government charges as ireeiy as
the rest in the six-day hearing.
Gen. Palffy formerly headed the
Hungarian army as its chief in
spector. Col. Korodny eommanded
Budapest police. As military per
sonnel, they might be sentenced to
death before a firing souad. Hang
ing is the penalty for condemned
civilians. N
The case attracted the most in
ternational attention to Hungary
since the treason tmal of Joesf
Cardinal Mindszenty last’ Febru
ary. The Roman Cathclic primate
is now serving a life term.
The sentences, deiivered by pre
siding Judge Peter Janko before
ahushed and crowded courtroom:
Death—for Rajf ,a poker-faced
man of 40 who headed Hungary's
mico «5 interior minister before
shift to the foreiga ministry;
Dr. Tibor Szoenyi, 46, former
member of parliament who direc
ted the Hungarian Communist
party’s Sadre system supervising
rank and file members; and An~-
dras Szalel, 32, deputy to Szoenyi.
- Lifé — for Lazar Brankov, 87
year-old Yugoslav who was coun
sellor in the Yugoslav legation in
Budapest; and Pal Justus, 44, for
mer meflm of Parliament and
vifi?-pmi tof the Hungarian
radio.
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One Injured
In Car Wreck
W. L. Winters, Winterville, was
in good condition at General Hos
pital last night where he was
treated for lacerations received in
an automobile accident early Sai=
urday 'gfht'
Mr. inters was treated for
lacerations on his forehead and
knee. He was injured when his
car ran off the road and hit a
ditch on Oak street, about 8
o'clock,
Mr. Winters was brought to the
{xospital in & Bernstein ambu
ance.
ATHENS AND VICINITY 1
Fair and continued cool
through Sunday, Low 46 and
high 76. Sun rises 6:23 and sets
6:26,
GEOKGIA—Fair and contin
ued cool tonight, Sunday and
Monday,
TEMPERATURE
Higheet . ... 12
SOWest . . ... . .A 8
DROAN i v ke D
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. v RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Sept. 1 .. .... 247
Deficit since Sept. 1 .. .. .48
Average Sept. rainfall .... 3.26
Total since January 1 ....35.93
Deficit since January 1 .. 1.48
Boy Scout Cireus
Date Is Changed
Date of Cherokee District Boy
Scout Circus has been changed to
November 1, it was announced
yesterday by Scout offipia’s
The circus will be held here at
night on the Athens Recreation
Department athletic field behind
thé Legion »>wimming Pool, and
the five counties eomprising the
distriet — Clarke, Oconee, Ogle
thorpe, Madison, and {reene—will
take part.
The affair was previously plan
ned for October 11, but was chang
ed because of the Scout's intensive
one-month membership eampaign
during October. More emphasis
can be J:lac_ed on the campaign
now and the new inembers re
cruited will participate in the cir
cus. Also several units have been
late re-organizing since the open
ing of the new school year. '
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Athenian
Re-Elected
Mrs. H. A. Haygood, of this
city, was re-elected president of
the Ninth Distriet Women's Chris
tian Temnpersnce Tnion st the
Guarteny mecting neld neie s
da’y Friday. :
Other officers named were virs.
V. L. Byrd, @ainegville, vice
president; Mrs, J. L. Allen, Gain
esville, secretary; and Mrs, L. L.
Allison, treasurer,
The meeting was held at the
First Baptist Church here, and
lunch was served by the host
group, Athens WCTU, A large
number of people were present.
State officers lpeakhx at the
meeting were Mrs. J. Milier,
Macon, state Loyal Temperance
League leadér; Mrs, C. ©. Morris,
Atlanta, state recording secretary;
and Mrs. H. W. Birdaong, Athens
state corresponding sscratare,
Mrs. Miller gave a report of
the Diamond. Jubilee Nationzl
Convention at Philadelphia, which
which was attended by over 1,000
delegates, including 42 state
WCTU presidents. Mrs. Morris
spoke about several matters, in
cluding an announcament of the
state convention of WCTU to be
held in Atlanta Octobctmo. i
Mrs, Birdsong told the
‘National Workshop held in Evansg
ton, Indiana, Mrs, Fred White
head, state lufuwcvthel'l of the Year,
led a prayer. en 8 pray
er was Rev, E. thg“ of
Gainesville, Mrs. Fred Bennett
rendered a devotional. Dr. J. W.
O. McKibben, pastor of the Fivst
Methodist Church, was honorved
at the meeting. ;
Norcross extended the group s=
invitation for the next ml&
district meeting.
Property Sales
A™Ne . 0 f™e e
Uited Sign O 1
Growth Here
Announcing total real estate
sales by his eompany, Hutchins,
Cox & Stroud, Inc., as amounting
to $397,532 in the last ninety days.
Julian H. Cox, president of the
company, yesterday discounted the
idea that there has been a reces
sion.
“At least the citizensof Athens
are not worried about a recession,”
Mr. Cox said. “Our company alone
has sold real estate amounting to
nearly $400,600 during months that
normally are. the . dullest in the
year.
“Ehjs reaé estate has consisted
of homes, business and
sites for business expmqflan
has, of ecourse been 2 K¥ & oo
estate in- communities where
growth was stimulated the
war and because of war ts
being located therein, or nearby.
Naturally, with the end of the
war those communities suffered a
slackening of business activity, af
fecting redl estate as well as other
businesses.
“But Athens has grown steadily
and normally, in recent years. The
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staff,
| He will serve in the Piedmont
| District':flwhichfi includfl: five and
spm-trizgl counties iv northeast
corner of the state. Mr Forrest,
who is married and has two young
sons is at present altending the
National Scout School near New
York City and will reporis for
work in the Northeast Georgia
Council, which has neadquarters
in Athens, about November 12.
Mr. Forrest is from High Point,
N. C, and is a graduate of Wake
Forest College. He is 28 years old
and has been a Scout and an As
sistant Scoutmaster. He and his
family are members of the Bap
tist church.
A Cherokee District Roundtable
meeting will be held on Thursray
night at Young Harris Memgorial
s i