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FRENCH LAWYERS FIGHT DUEL WITH SWORDS AT DAWN
Two French lawyers, Jean Tixier-Vig
nancour (left) and Roger Nordman
(right), fight a duel with swords at
Marnes-La-Coquette, a French hamlet
between Paris and Versailles. The duel
resulted from a bitter exchange of words
between them during the recent trial of a
Of Freeing K
. Aides Boiling Mad Over Situation
Of Jailed U. S. Diplomats In China
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.— (AP) —Secretary of State
A cheson returns from Europe today to face a problem that
has some of his top men boiling mad and at their wit’s
end.
The problem: how to free American Consul Angus
Ward and four of his staff from a Chinese Communist jail,
presumabiy at Mukden in Manchuria.
Hike Okayed
In Eastern
Rail Fares
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—(AP)
—Another raise ]!%bnm railroad
Kassenger fares the east now
as government sanction. Coach
tickets will move above the price
of pre-war pullman transporta
tion.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission, splitting 6 to 4 on the
matter, issued the increase author
ity to 61 eastern lines late yester
day. It permits a 12 1-2 per cent
hike in both coach and sleeping
parlor car mileage charges. It may
be made effective on five days’
notice to the public.
Communtation fares are not af
fected but the upward revision ia
basic interstate passenger rates
will go to 3.376 cents per mile in
coaches and 4.5 cents per mile in
pullman ears.
This compares with 2-cent
coach rates and 2-cent pullman
rates in 1941. Four increases since
then have advanced the eastern
rates more than 50 per cent.
Southern and western railroads
in the same period have made ad
vances of .bout 20 per cent, the
basic rates in these sections now
being 2.5 for coaches and 8.5 for
pullmans.
The eastern lines, conceding
that the new increase might divert
some traffic to competing forms of
iravel, estimated that the changes
would yield them another $37,~
800,000 a year, to help meet -a
continuing drop in passenger ser
vice reverues, which last year
showed a record deficit of more
than $252,000,000.
The ICC majority said the lines
had proved their case. It held that
more railroad income is needed
in the light of heavier operating
expense and that the new rates
“will still be relatively low” when
compared to the general level of
incomes “and prices generally.”
ICC chairman Charles D. Ma
hammie differed sharply, filling a
dissent for himself and three other
commissioners. He said the failure
of the previous postwar increases
to halt the passenger revenue de
cline should be a warning that ad
;lmtonal travel business may be
OSst.
: . the
It was his suggestion that ’
railroads “experiment with red\;:_
ed fares rather than further
creases.”
Kills Self After
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Wedding Failure
LYNWOOD, Calif., Nov. 15 —
(AP) — A 10-year-old junior
college student shot and killed
himself, Sheriff’s office reported,
only hours after he had been
spurned in his wedding night
hotel room by his 16-year-old
bride.
The body of Thomas Lee
Schwader, 20, was found yester=
day in the car on the bank of the
Los Angeles River. Officers said
he had ‘Ssps SN 55 his Owil
shotgun.
A note, serawled on the back
of his marriage license, was ad
dressed to the former £dna
Hamman., They had been wed
Sunday at 4 a. m. in Yuma, Ariz.
The note read:
. “If anybody ever tells you this
s a coward’s way out, Jackie (a
nickname), you try it once”
The bride, also a student at
Campton College, told officers:
“I thought I loved him. Bui on
the way back from Yuma, I sud
denly felt it was all wrong. I told
him 35, But we went so a hotel.
g; I told him again. I left
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
French collaborator. Tixier-Vignancour
wounded Nordman on the arm and was
the victor. The men in the background
were not identified but the two in busi
ness suits were described as doctors.—
(AP Wirephoto.)
Privately, aides of Acheson say
the imprisonment of ward is
“barbaric” and they are irked be
yond question at the Chinese
Communists. They are not, how
ever, at the point of acting on in
formal suggestions that the U, S.
take a big stick to the Commu
nists in the form of military force
or threat of force. - e T
‘Ward’s captivity has stretched
out to three weeks, and the
Chinese Communist authorities
have made it plain they are in no
hurry to do anything about it.
They have withheld -all informa
tion about the health, treatment or
trial date of the group, who are
charged with beating & Chinese
employe of the U, S. consulate at
Mukden.
Radio Report
About all the State Department
knows about the charges is what
has been heard on the Commu
nist radio. Telegrams sent by oth
er members of the consulate staff
have been intercepted, There hasl
been no reply to a letter “request-|
ing” the Communist authorities tol
take ‘‘appropriate action,” sent
November 3 by Consul General O, ‘
Edmond Clubb, at Peiping, the]
Communist capital, 4
What to do next except wait and
see has the State Department
stumped at the moment. The Unit
ed States eventually may be in
a position to bring political and |
economic pressure, directly and
through the United Nations, but
right now the new Russian-sup=-
ported Peiping regime is in a nose=
thumbing mood toward the West |
Under somewhat similar cir
cumstances, the United States used
the threat of force to bring about
the release of an American civilian
who was captured by a Moroccan
bandit 45 years ago. |
Effecture Threat |
This was the incident made
famous by the phrase “Perdicaris
alive or Raisuli dead” which Sec
retary of State John Hay used in
a note to the Sultan of Morocco.
In that case the guns of American |
warships as well as the grim de
termination of President Theodore
Roosevelt and Secretary Hay made
the threat effective. |
The Morocco incident arose
when the bandit Raisuli kidnapped .
lon Perdicaris, an American citi
zen, ‘
“Date” Says Heer “Slightly Amorous”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov, 15.—(AP)—A young woman who danced with James E.
Heer shortly before he shot and killed a fellow student at Ohio State University has
denied they quarreled on saying goodnight. Joyce Crafton says Heer was “slightly
amorous.”
That was her reply vesterday to the state ment of a Columbus detective that the
shooting of Jack T. McKeown was an after math of a rebuff she had given the admit
ted slayer’s improper advances. ,
Miss Crafton had come from her
Cleveland home last Friday to ac
company Heer to a homecoming
party preceding ihe Ohio Siaie-
Illinois football game. The shoot
ing occurred early Saturday morn
ing after the party, near the fra
ternity house where both Heer and
McKeown lived.
Through her attorney yesterday
Miss Crafton told newsmen:
®There were no improper ad
vances. There was no violent ar
gument either at the dance or after
it. He became slightly armorous
whi”la saying goodnight, That is
A grand jury, probably next
week, will consider a first-degree
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Husband Jails
Self To Get
At Wife's Lover
DETROIT, Nov. 15.—(AP)—
Robert Brown, 32, showed up at
police station and said:
“I'm drunk., Lock me up. I
don’t want to take any chances
driving my car.” .
Sergeant = Maurice LaLond
obliged. -
Soon there were loud screams
from the cell block.
Police found Brown bouncing
Arthur Troia, 34, a Dbarber, off
the cell bars.
Sergeant LaLond got this ex
planation from Brown:
Brown’s wife had told him
Troia had made passes at her. In
an angry mood, Brown went
hunting for Troia. He heard that
Troia had been locked up for
drinking, So Brown had himself
locked up by feigning drunken
ess so he could get at Troia.
Police threw Brown out of jail
after taking down his eomplaint
against Troia.
Residential
Sireets To
Have Signs
Athenians who have become
used to the street signs found in
downtown Athens can lock for=
ward to seeing additional ones out
in the residential sections. The
Athens Exchange Club, which
raised the money for the purchase
of the downtown signs, is planning
on using S7OO made recently at a
stand at the Agricultural Fair to
purchase additional signe for the
city.
The Exchange Club has taken
the lead in the city in calling at
tention to the need for adequate
street signs, and members of the
club are hoping that other civic
clubs will follow in seeing that
the streets of Athens are ade
quately identified for citizens of
the city as well as the many visi
tors who come every year,
The method of selection of corn
ers where the signs will be placed
has not been worked out yet, but
it is thought that some will be
placed in each ward.
Present officers of the Exchange
Club are Uly Gunn, president;
Dan Dupree, secretary, and
Thomas H. “Buddy” Milner, treas
urer,
NO GOOD NIGHT ARGUMENT
murder charge against Heer.
The fact that Heer was bound
over to the grand jury on a firsi
degree murder charge does not
necessarily mean he must stand
trial on that charge. The grand
jury can return an indictment,
based on facts of the case, for first
degree murder, second - degree
murder, manslaughter or assault
and battery.
Three officers of Delta Tau Del-~
ta, the fraternity in which Mc-
Keown was an active and Heer a
vledge, were removed from their
posts yesterday by the university’s
Council on Student Affairs. They
were Prof. Frank M. Mallett, fac
ulty adviser; Jamee E. Rhodes, the
chapter’s. president, and George V.
ATHENS, CA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1949,
Maritime Strike Set Tonight
On Atlantic And Gulf Coasts
Federal Mediators Work
Against Clock For Truce
WASHINGTON, Nov, 15.—(AP)—Government media
tors worked against the clock today to avert a deck offi
cers’ strike threatening to tie up passenger and dry cargo
vessels sailing from Atlantic and Gulf ports after mid
night tonight.
The AFL Masters, Mates and Pi
iots Union, with four or five men
on each freighter and more on
passenger ships, threatens to strike
tonight, largely over the issue of
rotating jobs. Oil tankers and
coal-carrying vessels would be ex~
empt, as would the ships in com
merce within the ports.
The “America,” luxury liner of
the U. S. Fleet, advanced its sail
ing time to two hours ahead of the
strike deadline—setting it for 10
p. m.. (EST) from New York.
But Capt. Charles F. May, head
of the union, said that vessels on
the high seas would be considered
struck at their destinations under
an agreement with the Interna
tional Transport Workers. The
America will head for Southhamp
‘ton, England.
Frank J. Taylor, president of the
American Merchant Marine Insti
tute and chief negotiator for the
Atlantic and Gulf Port Shipown
ers, said that the officers sign ar
ticles to serve until they reach the
return ports, so that union mem
bers would be obligated to com
plete their runs, even if the strike
develops.
Conciliator William N. Margolis
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Civic Hall Fire
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Damage Is Slight
What could have been a dan
gerous fire in the downtown bus
iness district last night was read
ily extinguished and allowed to
do only a small amount of dam
age by Athens firemen.
The fire occurred at 10:55 last
night in Civic Hall, located next
to the City: Hall: Firemen kept the
blazes in the furnace room. They
said the fire could have bhecome
dangerous if it had not been stop
ped at this point. They reported
that the main damage was caused
from smoke.
Firemen answered a call on
Wilkinson street yesterday where
a chimney had become stopped up
and was causing the room to be
smoke filled.
6-Year-Old
Found Slain
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15—(AP)
—Little six - year-old Linda Joyce
Glucoft, missing from her home
since yesterday afternoon, was
found slain near her home today.
The body was found under rub
bish and an axe was nearby.
Earlier police had announced
that they were seeking a known
pervert with a record of convic=
tion for child molestations who al=-
so was missing from the neighbor
hood.
The child is the daughter of
Jules and Lillian Glucoft. - The
father is a commercial artist.
The child was last seen at 3:45
p. m., playing In front of her
house.
Ssbory—
Two Hanged For
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Gandhi’s Death
NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 —
(AP)—Two young Indian journal
ists were hanged today for assassi
nating Mohandas K. Gandhi, the
little spiritual leader who hated
violence.
Narayan V. Godse and Narayan
B. Apte, who lost legal battles
lasting nearly two years, went to
the gallows at Ambala jail shout
ing the Nationalist slogans that in
flamed them to take Gandhi’s life.
Fisher, the social chairman,
University officials said they
admitted a violation had been com
mitted Friday against the univers
ity rule prohibiting the serving of
liquor in student housing accom
modations. The council’'s action
bans them from holding any fra
ternity office in the future.
Earlier in the day, the universi
ty’s board of trustees passed a rule
prohibiting the keeping of “fire
arms of any description in any
recognized university housing fa
cility.”
Miss Crafton also was held to
the grand jury vesterday under
S3OO hond as a material witness.
She is not an Ohio State student.
was doubtful that a strike could be
avoided. He said after meetinge
with the parties yesterday that “it
looks very much” as if a walkout
is imminent.
May told reporters “We're noti
fying our people to prepare for a
strike.” He said 17 issues are be
ing pressed, but didn’'t say what
they were.
The contract, which expired
September 30, was twice extended.
Coplon’s “Undercover” Work
Against Spy Groups Revealed
G-Man Who Led Arresting Party &
Put On Grill By Defense Attorney
NEW YORK, Nov. 15. — (AP) — Judith Coplon, con
victed of spying for Russia, was pictured in Federal Court
today as a conscientious government worker who “dug
out various subversive organizations” for the U. S. Attor
ney General’s office.
Her lawyer, Archibald Palmer,
gave this picture at a hearing pre-|
liminary to the spy conspiracy
trial of the former government giri
and her ex-friend Valentin Gubit
chev, suspended Russian employe
of the United Nations.
FBI Agent Robert R. Granville,
on the witness stand, agreed with
Palmer that Miss Coplon had re
ceived promotions in the Depart
ment of justice and that her work
had been praised by her superiors.
“Did you x%xnow,” the lawyer
asked, “that she dug out various
subversive organizations put on
Tom Clark’s list?”
Stunt Night
At Fine Arts
Tonight, 7:30
The merry men of Sherwood
Forest, an Arkansas traveiier, and
Lady Clair de Lupe will be
brought to life by student talent
tonight at the 23rd annual Stunt
Night in Fine Arts auditorium.
Curtain time is 7:30.
Competing for the cup awarded
annually for the best stunt, 13
fraternities and sororities will
match their talents in comic and
musical skits. Between the stunts,
campus musicians will compete for
the $5 prizes awarded for the best
original song and best love song.
The Men’s Glee Club, sponsor of
the event, will open the show with
a medley of Georgia songs and
“Sit Down Sara” and “Dames,”
both hits from the Broadway pro
duction “South Pacific.,” Walter
Cook, president of the Glee Club
will be master of ceremonies.
Try-outs for a place on tonight’s
program were held Monday when
all but 13 of the 29 stunis entered
were eliminated.
Satire on everything from col
lege life to modern advertising to
Russian relations’ will be high
lighted in stunts presented tonight.
Included on the program are
stunts by Chi Psi, Kappa Delta,
Sigma Chi, Chi Phi, Alpha Chi
Omega, Tri Delta, Pi Kappa Al
pha, Kappa Alpha, Tau Epsilon
Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Mu,
Alpha Gamma Delta, and Delta
Psi Epsilon.
Entries in the love song contest
are “Just a Memory” by Charles
Greiner; “Begin the Beguine” by
Joe McKee; “I'Ve Got You Under
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“I did not,” Granville replied. ‘
The reference was tc former At
torney General Tom C. Clark, now
a Supreme Court justice.
“Did you find that this girl had
ever been a Communist?” Palmer
asked.
“Not that I can recall,” the FBI
man said.
Granville commanded the 20 G
men who arrested Miss Coplon, a
tiny, 28-year-old brunette, and
Gubitchev after a cloak-and-dag
ger pursuit in New York Ilast
\Mll‘ch 4,
He testified yesterday that the
‘arrests were made because Miss
Coplon and Gubitchev tried to
throw off their pursuers, causing
him to believe that secret govern
ment papers were about to pass
between them.
Mrs. Winchell
Dies In Plunge
NEW YORK, No. 15 — (AP) —
Mrs. Jennie Winchell, 77, mother
of Walter Winchell, plunged to her
death last night from her room on
the 10th floor of Doctor’s Hospital.
Her private nurse, Kathleen
Carton, said she had left Mrs. Win
chell’s room for a few minutes to
obtain the patient’s evening meal,
and returned to find a window
open and Mrs. Winchell gone.
The elderly woman's nightgown
clad body was found on the 87th
street sidewalk below. The offi
cial police report said she either
fell or jumped.
Mrs. Winchell was admitted to
the hospital Oct. 24 for treatment
of a heart ailment from which she
had suffered for several vears.
London Blacked
.
Out By Thick Fog
LONDON, Nov. 15—(AP)—The
worst fog of the season blacked out
London and crippled transporta
tion in much of the British Isles
today.
Buses, trains, ships and aircraft
were slowed down or brought to &
standstill in the London area,.
Thousands of suburbanites were
one to two hours late for work.
In parts of the city visibility was
zero and all traffic halted. All
shipping in the Thames estuary
stopped moving at midnight.
Elect Inter-Club
.
Officers Thursday
The Athens Inter-Club Council
will meet Thursday night at 8
o’clock in the council room of the
city hall, it was announced today
by Chairman Tyus Butler.
Chairman Butler said that he
would like for a representative of
each club to be present if possible
for the important meeting.
Election of officers for 1950 will
be held.
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and mild tonight and
Wednesday. Low tomight 40,
high Wednesday 63, Sun seis
5:30 and rises 7:06.
GEORGIA — Fair and not
much change in temperatures
this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ..o wivii ivii.. B 8
Towest . iy o s 88
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Nov, 1 .. .. .. 64
Deficit since Nov. 1 .. ... .59
Average Nov rainfall .. .. 2.74
Total since January 1 ....39.80
Deficit since January 1 .. 418
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PRESTWICK, Scotland, Nov.
iS.—~(AP)~Ii this keeps up,
Trans-Atlantic air liners are
going to have to start carrying
bassinets a 8 regular equip
ment,
A baby girl was born—half
way across the Atlantic be
tween Presiwick and Gander,
Newfoundland—t{o a Polish wo
man today aboard a Scandina~
vian Air Lines plane ecarrying
. 80 displaced persons to New
York.
She was the second Trans-
Atlantie “air-born” baby in less
than a month. A baby boy was
born to Mrs. James C. Parker,
wife of a U. 8. Air Force ser
geant serving in Germany, in
an American Overseas Airinies
plane flying the other way
October 17,
Mother of the girl was Mrs.
Leokadia Rolbiecki, already a
mother of three.
The plane was a veritable
flying nursery anyhow. There
were 11 children of two years
or over and 13—whoons, 14—
babies,
JUST STRAIGHTEN OUT
Reinforced Leg
Bones Mend Easy
CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.— (AP) —How would you like
one of the new reinforced leg bones? Break it and the sur
geon merely has to straighten it out. No cast, no medicine,
no long hospital stay.
Or a reinforced hand? Al he does is to straighten it out
after the break.
Both these things actually hap
pened, and thie X-Ray photograph
of the leg bone is on exhibition
here at the Southern Medical As
sociation Convention.
These reinforced bones are by
products of a new method of
mending broken bones. The
mending is done by pushing a
stainless steel rod—for big bones
almost a girder — down through
the hollow marrow tunnel of the
bone. Doctors call these rods
“pins.” The longest is nearly two
feet.
Two exhibits show how. The
miraculous leg is in an exhibit by
Dana M. Stuart, M, D., of Ken
nedy Veterans’ Hospital, Mem-~
phis. A broken thigh bone was
mened by a shining, diamond
nmrended by a shining, diamond
seventy pounds to flex.
The patient walked around in a
few weeks on his reinforced leg
arg dravk too mucth ye<d JMguor. A
nasty {all broke the same leg
again, in fact dent it 20 degrees.
The doctors merely bent the thigh
straight and turned him loose.
No Casts
The reason for this new surgery
is quicker return to work, for
brcken thighs a few weeks in
siead of neariy a year, iasier
healing, no casts, lace comnlica
tions.
Even among doctors this mend
ing is credited to Germany early
in the war., But years before
Germany it was done at Meridian,
Miss., by Doctors Leslie V. Rush
and H. Lowry Rush.
They have an exhibit here with
some new type “pins” that mend
not only thighs, but lower legs,
broken knees, ankles, feet, and
both upper and lower arms,
wrists, hands and collar bones.
They had a voung fellow wha
broke a bone in his hand hitting
a man’s head with his bare fist.
HOME
EDITION
Miners’
Welfare
Staff Cut
Operators Shun i
Lewis Bid To Talk ‘
About Building Fund
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—(AP)
—John L. Lewis slashed the staff
of the coal miners’ once-rich wel
fare and pension fund today as
operators remained cool to his of
fer to talk about building up the
fund again,
With little more than two weeks
left of the truce Lewis called in
the nation wide coal strike, con
tract talks remained deadlocked.
Directors of the Southern Coal
Producers Association, a thorn in
Lewis’ gide since negotiations be«
gan last May 25, were called to=
gether again today to go over the
demands they will make on
Lewig to tighten up expenditures
from the welfare fund.
They insist that the operators,
who contribute a 20-cent-a-ton
royalty to finance the fund, should
have more to say about how it's
spent.
The fund is administered by
three trustees—one for the mineé
owners, Lewis for his United Mine¢
Workers Union, and a neutral
member.
Ezra Van Horn, the operators’
member since the fund was starte
ed, turned in his resignation weeks
ago, saying that Lewis and Sena«
tor Siyles Bridges—the neutrale.
had spent the welfare and pension
money unwisely.
Court Action
Bridges, who also wants $o quit,
has asked for a court accounting
of the fund so he can leave with
a clean bill,
Headaches were mounting for
Lewis as he waited for the soft
coal operatorg to take up his bid
to resume négotiations for a new
contract without government ine
tervention,
With the threat of a Taft-Hart«
ley Act court injunction hanging
over him if he renews the mine
shutdown Dec, 1, he and the UMW,
were scheduled to pay over to the
district court here the $1,420,000
in fines slapped on them for re=
fusing to obey a back-to-worl
cgu:&:rder in the pension strikeé
0 8
Lewis unsuccessfully !o?n the
fines—imposed by Judge T. Al
Goldsborough—right up to the
Supreme Court, Of the total, §255+
000 was levied against Lewis per~
sonally,
PARADE SET
Santa Claus
Arrives Here
Tonight At 8
Arrangements were being com
pleted this morning for the grand
pre-Christmas visit of Santa (Naus
to Athens promptly at 8 e’clock
tonight when the Christmas lights
overhanging downtown Athens
streets will be turned on to burn
every, might until after Christmas.
Santa Claus left the North Pole
this morning and he wifl be met
at the airport by Mayor Jack R.
Wells, W. R. Pate, chairman of
the Merchants Council and Alex
ander Bush, a member of the
committee in charge of Santa's
visit. Upon Santa’s arrival at the
corner of Broad and Thomas
Streots Le will be met By the
eighty piece Athens High Band
and will be escorted by motorcycle
patrolmen and ihe band up Broad
Street to Lumpkin, on Lumpkin
to Clayton and down Clayton to
Thomas. At the conclusion of the
parade Santa’'s escorts will take
him immediately back to the air
ppr_tt and he will take off for other
visits,
As Santa rides through Athens
gaily lighted streets tonight he
will throw souvenirs from his
to those along the line of mm’fi’
Indications thls morning were
that the weather wonld be clear
but Santa Claus will arrive in
Athens ionight, rain.or .shine.. ..