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British
Leader In
U.S. Talks
Feud Between Chinese
Top Leaders Widens
National Party Split
By The Associated Press
pritain’s Field Marshal Vis
count Montgomery arrives in the
United States today for a round
of unofficial talks with America's
{op military men. |
During his 12-day stay, he will
confer with General Eisenhower,
his World War II boss; General
Omar N. Bradiey, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General
oseph L. Collins, Arnry Chief gt
gmn, and other military and di
;lumatic leaders.
Viontgomery, now chairman-of
the Western Union Defense Alli
s AIICE, khas beten
working for
World News e
Roundup plans for the
s (Bf6OSS .Of JiUs
yope. These plans for England,
Belgium, France, Holland and
Luxembourg will form the basis
of the defense plans for the
Morth Atlantic nations for which
Congress has voted $1,000,000,-
000.
It is on these plans the West
ern Allies will gamble in their
ficht to hold Europe against any
attack from Russia and her satel
lites.
In the Far East, the feud be
tween Nationalist China’s top
Jeaders — Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek and acting President Li
Tsung-jen — appeared nearing a
ghowdown,, A new party hostile
to both the Communists and to
Chiang may be in the offing, ob
servers said.
While Chiang cooled his heels
in the Red-threatened National
ist capital of Chungking, wailing
for talks with Li, the latter rest
ed in a Hong Kong hospital. He
complained of a stomach ail
ment.
China Feud
The Generalissimo had gone to
Chungking several days ago at
Li's request. He found Li gone on
an ingpection tour of the Nation
alists’ dwindling southwestern
Chilr_xla domrain. Then Li wwenfzr on
to Hong Kong, ,supposedly, or a
hospital checkup. TN
The two leaders have had many
differences since. Li took over
the presidency last January
when Chiang “retired.” Out of
these developed a split over con
duct of the civil war against the
Communists.
Fresh demands in Washington
that the United States use force
against the Chinese Communists
drew only an official silence at
the State Department.
The demands are prompted by
the imprisonment at Mukden of
an American consul, Angus
Ward. He and four members of.
his staff have been held 'since
Oclober 24, on charges of having
beaten a Chinese empioye,
Panama Revolt
The turbulent little mation of
Panama switched presidents over
the week-end in a bloodless re
volt staged by police force lead
ers.
Daniel Chanis, president less
than four months, resigned after
police surrounded his palace. Vice
President Roberto F. Chiari was
sworn in as president on- Sunday
nrorning,
Chanis was ousted because he
tried to fire Police Chief Jose
Remon and two of his top aides.
Instead of resigning, Remon call
ed out his police—Panama’s only
armed force—and sealed off the
presidential palace.
In stormy Colombia, anony
mous leaflets were scattered in
Bogota, urging rebellion and sab
otage to hinder the November 27
vresidential election.
Conservative Laureano Gomez
is the only candidate for the
vresidency. The Liberals have
withdrawn their nominee, charg
ing the Conservative-led govern
ment was using “coercive vio
lence” against them.
U. N. Vote
The U, N. Assembly votes today
- (Continued On Page Two)
BEEFSTEAK, FAMILIES AND INSURANCE
B- 29 Survivors Tell Story
Of Drifting For 79 Hours_
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov, 21,
—(AP)—Beefsteak, families, in
surance and “move over and give
me a little room”—
That’s what survivors of the
ditched B-29 said they thought
about during 79 “miserable”
hours on two six-man life rafts
in heavy Atlantic swells north of
Bermuda,
The 18 survivors—iour of ihem
on stretchers—arrived here yes
tercay afternoon aboard the Ca
nadian destroyer Haida. The ship
picked them up Saturday after
noon after a U. S. Air Force B-17
sighted them about 40 miles
northeast of Bermuda.
Two of the 20-man crew
drowned before they could get
through the heavy swells to the
two life rafts. One of the 18 sur
vivors was suffering considerably
from shock.
But 14 of the bruised and salt
caked ainnen walked unaided
from the crashboats that brought
them to the shore from the de
stroyer, They grinned at the
wildly cheering hundreds who
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HONEYMOONING BARKLEYS IN ATLANTA
NEARING SHANGRI-LA
Barkleys Spend
Night In Atlanta
ATLANTA, Nov. 21.— (AP) —Take it from the-Vice
President of the United States—the state of the nation is
good.
“You wouldn’t expect me under the circumstances to be
pessimistic, would you?” honeymooning Alben Barkley
queried.
The Veep and Mrs. Barkley drove into Atlanta last
night on their way to “Shangri-La.”
Liquor Plant
Charged With
Illegal Sales
ATLANTA, Nov. 21—(AP)—An
Atlanta wholesale liquor plant—
Fulton Distributors, Ine. — was
accused today of sending more
than 4,000 cases of liquor into
Georgia dry counties or other il
legal channels.
The Fulton firm was the ninth
wholesale company to be haled
before Revenue Commissioner
Charles Redwine by Deputy Attor=-
ney General Claud Shaw. The
company is operated by Max
Kahn.
Shaw, special liquor investiga
tor, assused the Fulton firm of
conspiracy with a retail dealer
and other wholesale dealers in
channeling liquor to dry counties
and also charged faisification of
sworn state reports.
He said Fulton sent 1,351 cases
in 1947 to Progressive Distributors
a “notorious outfit which, ac
cording to previous testimony
here, did absolutely nothing but a
dry country business.”
He said Fulton sold 2,087 cases
to Richmond Wholesalers, Inc.,
from June through *December
1948. Shaw charged that Rich
mond replaced Progressive in an
organized dry cou .try__cqnspirgcy.
He noted that the Fulton firm
is located at 485 Stephens street
southwest while Richmond oper=
ated “right next door.”
Shaw charged that in December,
1948, Fulton Distributors began
direct dry county sales itself, list
ing 354 cases sold to dry counties
in its sworn report to the state.
watched them transfer to ambu
lances that took them to the
Kindley Air Base Hospital here.
Most of the nren were consider
ed in good condition, Some had
suffered sprains. Some had salt
water sores. But the majority
seemed fairly fit.
The plane’s commander and pi
lot, Lt. Col. John Grable of March
Ficld Air Bage, Calif, said the
church was to be a first stop
ashore for most of the rescued
airmen.
No Evangelist
“Then maybe we will cele
brate a bit,” Grable added.
Grable said “no one turned
evangelist” during the long, wet
wait, “but we all thought a lot
anq' prayed we would be picked
up. ;
The pilot said after the plane’s
radio navigation equipment faii
ed Wednesday morning, “we
hunted for the island (Bermuda)
under every cloud we saw, bui
had no luck. It was pretty over
cast.”
With their fuel almeost out, “we
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
He wouldn't say where that is.
but remarked, “We're™ getling
closer all the time.”
Barkley pronounced his bride
“such a good driver that I glide
along without nerves” and added,
“things have been so peaceful
that I'm getting suspicious. We
don’t even argue about what
route to take.
Mrs. Barkley murmured, “You
sound like you're on a honey
moon.” 3
They drove down from Nash
ville yesterday, stopping near
Chattanooga to eat a box lunch.
So many people Ttecognized
them and shouted congratulations
that the Vice President com
mented:
“You might say we had a con
tinuous lovely visit all the way.”
They tried to slip quietly into
Atlanta’s downtown Hotel ‘Ansley
last night but were met by so
many reporters and photogra
phers they agreed to receive the
press.
At one point Mrs. Barkley
proved as quick with a quip as
the Veep.
Refusing to be photographed
eating an appie from a gift tray
of fruit, Barkley said, “I don’t
want to pose with —my mouth
open.”
The bride looked at the talka
tive Vice President and remarked
with a smile, “You mean with
your mouth open while you're
eating.”
Barkley said they hoped “to
spend most of the time until Con
gress reconvenes (January 3) in
the Sout/ »
However, he plans to take time
out for four speeches—December
2 at a Jefferson - Jackson Day
banquet in New York; December
7 in Boca Raton, Fla.; December
10 at the Gridiron dinner in
Washington, and December 17 in
Miami at a Jackson-Jefferson
Day dinner.
jettisoned everything we could
and prepared for ditching.”
When the big bomber hit the
water, the tail broke off, taking
one of the three life rafts aboard
down with it. The fuselage turn
ed nose down in less than a min
ute.
The nmien on the rafts lived on
emergency rations, mostly hard
candy. When they were picked
un, they had one day’s supply
left. Thirst was no problemr be
cause they drank rain water from
frequent showers. They also had
equipment to purify the salty sea
water,
Grable said he caught one fish,
a two-foot yellow tail. But it got
away when he tried to land it. It
was the nearest the group came
to getting their food from the
sea.
Loug Transfer
When the B-17 finally found
the rafts, it dropped the survivors
a iifeboat by parachute. The res
cue plane crew said by then some
of the survivors were so weak
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ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949,
Byrnes
To Address
Governors
Former Secretary Of
State Shuns Queries
On S. C. Governorship
BILOXI, Miss., Nov. 21—(AP)—
States Righters hoped today that
James F. Byrnes would add spark
to their cause in a speech before
the Southern Governors’ Confer
ence here. ¢
The former Secretary of State,
who indicated recently he might
be a gubernatorial candidate in his
home state of South Carolina, will
deliver the main address at a din
ner tonight,
Byrnes arrived for the confer
ence last night and immediately
began renewing acquaintances. He
declined to discuss politics with
newsmen.
In his recent statement saying he
might run for governor, Brynes
declared he “would like to help
bring back to the states the rights
that belong to the states.”
Statess Righters at once seized
upon that statement as an an
nouncement that Byrnes subscrib=~
ed to their cause. Some even vis
ioned him as a 1952 presidential
standard bearer for the States
Rights ticket.
No Politics
Officially, politics isn’t on the
agenda at the Southern Govern
ors’ Conference which opened to
day in the state where the States
Rights movement was born. But
States Righters who gathered in
informal caucuses around the con
vention hotel had plenty to say on
the subject.
The 1948 presidential and vice
presidential candidates of the
States Rights party, Gov. J. Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina and
Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississip
pi, were among the 12 governors
present. Rk
Highway Safety
The first order of business after
a welcome address by Governor
Wright was a round table on high
way safety and motor transport
regulation led by Gov. Willlam
Lane, jr., of Maryland.
During the afternoon the gov
ernors were to go into a joint ses
sion with the Board of Control of
the Southern Regional Councii for
Education to discuss recommenda
tions for extending the program.
The educational program en
ables 2 student to go.ta another
state without paying out-of-state
fees to study co'irses not available
in his state. His state, acting
through the Board of Control, con
tracts for the service with the in
stitution.
Gov't Forum
Tomorrow morning the Govern
ors will hold a round table on or
ganization and operation of state
government. The afternoon will be
devoted to committee meetings and
informal discussions, The con
ference will adjourn after a sea
food jamboree tomorrow night.
The governors, who have talked
about freight rates at every meet
ing for the last 13 years, said the
South had grown without rate
equality with the North.
Gov., Herman Talmadge said
Georgia had tripled its industrial
capacity since the war. He credited
the expansion to more harmonious
relations between the worker and
his employer, the climate, power
facilities, nearness to raw materi
als and increased capital.
Accident Toll
Nine In State
By The Associated Press
Traffic mishaps took six lives
in Georgia over the week-end
and three men were supposed to
have drowned while on a duck
hunting trip.
Red Cross workers searched
Soddy Creek in Tennessee today
for the bodies of three Rossville,
Ga., mill workers who have been
missing since early Saturday.
They were identified as Phil .I.
Thach, Jeff Roark and Hezekiah
K. Lunsford, sr.
An aluminum boat the trio
t.ed on their duck hunt was
found overturned.
Two pedestrians were killed in
traffic accidents, State Patrol
Headquarters in Atlanta report
ed.
Six-year-old Millie Jean Dan
ner of Appalachee was struck
down near Appalachee Sunday.
Robert Lee Thomas, 65, was kill
" (Continued on Page Two.)
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Tuesday,
becoming cooler in the after
noon and night. Low tonight
28 and high Tuesday 50. Low
Tuesday night near 20. Sun sets
5:27 and rises at 7:12, ‘
GEORGIA—Fair and windy |
through Tuesday except for |
considerable cloudiness with i
snow fiurries in the mouniains,
cooler this afternoon, colder
tonight and Tuesday, followed
by colder Tuesday night. Low
tonight 27 to 32 in north and
30 to 35 in south portion,
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Inches last 24 hours .. .. 001
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verage Nov. rainfall ..., 2.7
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Plane Carrying 28 Children
Feared Down In Wild Forrest
Explosion Sends Searchers
Into Swamp Area Near Olso
OSLO, Norway, Nov, 21,—(AP)—A plane carrying 28
undernourished Jewish refugee children from North
Africa was missing today, believed crashed somewhere in
tangled forest country near Oslo. .
Farmer Charters
Ride With Doc;
Cabs Too Costly
BALLSTON SPA, N. Y, Nov.
21— (AP)—Dr. Harry E. Hansen,
a veterinarian, got a call from a
downtown drugstore. A farmer
there wanted him to look at a
sick cow.
Dr. Hansen picked up the
farmer and drove him through
winding, country roads.
As the pair pulled up to the
farmer’s house, the farmer open
ed the car door and said:
“You can let me out here, doc.
I haven’t got a sick cow. You see,
you charge only $3 for a visit
while a taxi would have ecost
me $5.”
Conductor Shoots
Three Passengers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 21—
(AP)—A streetcar conductor shot
three negro passengers last night
after one of them took a seat in
the section reserved for whites,
police reported.
Detective R. A. MacMurdo said
two of the men were wounded ac
cidentally. The third, Sammy Lee
Wililams, 34, suffered a serious
wound of the abdomen.
Conductor M. A. Weeks protest
ed when Williams sat down in the
white section, the detective said.
An altercation and the shooting
followed.
X Presstime Bulletins ¥
CLEVELAND, Nov. 21—(AP)—Dynamic Bill Veeck sold the
Cleveland Indians’ to a group of local business men today for a
reported $2,200,000.
The Tribe president announced the long-awaited action at a
news conference in his Cleveland stadium offices.
Ellis Ryan, insurance éxecutive, is head of the new group that
has been dickering with Veeck for weeks to buy the American
League baseball club and its holdings. . ;
CHICAGO, Nov. 21—(AP)—Ohio State was officially named
today as the Big Ten team to play in the Rose Bowl football game
Jan. 2.
The Buckeyes, co-champions with Michigan in the Big Ten,
probably will oppose California of the Pacific Coast Conference,
~ Thus Ohio State would have a chance to avenge a 29 year old
humilitation by California.
ATLANTA, Nov. Zi—(AF)—Carroil M. Ricks, Savannah slayer,
was saved from the electric chair today when a board appointed
by Governor Talmadge ruied Ricks insane,
The state’s sanity commission examined Ricks at the Reidsville
penitentiary Friday and submitted its report in writing at Tal
madge’s office today.
POTTSTOWN, Pa., Nov, 21— (AP)—Fire raged out of control in
the heart of Pottstown’s business district today.
Hundreds of fire fighters battled the flames that first attacked
the three-story Kessler drug and department store building and
spread to adjoining buildings.,
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POTENTIAL ATOM BOMB DAMAGE ON CAPITAL TARGETS
Here are the total and semi-total dev
astation areas which could be expected
from an atom bomb attack on strategic
targets in Washington according to a re
port of experts to the Atomic Energy
Commission staff. Heavy circles around
the Capitol, White House and Pentagon
buildings enclose the 2,500 feet radius
within which every building would be
damaged and made unusable. Dotted
Yines cirele the area 7,500 feet distant
from the point of explosion within which
concussion would crush or damage brick
The plane with 35 aboard — 28
children, three nurses and four
crewmen—sent its last radic mes
sage about 6 p. m. last night as it
neared Oslo’s Fornebu Alrport.
Soon afterwards a sharp flash of
light, followed by an explosion
was seen near Gjersjoen Lake a
mile svutheast of OsYo.
Hundreds of searchers struggled
through the trees and swamps in
the lake region during the night
and this morning searching for a
trace of the missing craft.
The 28 children were in a group
of 55 North African Jews from
Tunis being flown to Norway for
six months of rest and rehabilita«-
tion before traveling on to Israel.
Most were between six and 12
years of age.
Another plane with 27 children
arrived safely earlier in the after
noon from Tunis. The missing
plane, a twin-engined DC-3 trans
port, was operated by a Dutch
company, Aero Holland.
Visibility was obscured by
clouds as the incoming plane re
ported it was over Oslo Fjord only
a mile or two from the capital.
Aero Holland, owners of the
plane, announced at The Hague,
Netherlands, that the plane was
considered lost. 4
The rehabilitation program is
financed by the American Joint
Distribution Committee, A spokes=-
man said the children, from Tuni
sian Jewish families, were under
nourished and threatened by tub
erculosis.
buildings, according to the survey filed
with the National Security Commission.
Widespread fires, due te. smashed equip
ment, broken water pipes and collapse
of utilities, would allow blazes to merge
speedily, completing the destruction of
most of the crushed area.” The AEC re
port is based on the assumption that the
old-type bomb, similar to those dropped
on Japan, would be used with the burst
get for approximately 1,800 feet above
ground.— (AP Wirephoto Map,). ... .
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DAN BISHOP
. « Election Winner
Ex-Athenian
Named Official
In Florida City
Dan Bishop, former Athenian
and son of Mr. and Mrs, E. E.
Bishop, of this cily, was elected
a member of the City Comnrission
of Lakeland, Fla., in the recent
election held there,
Mr. Bishop was one of three
candidates whose vote was large
enough to eliminate the necessity
of being in a run-off. Four candi=
dates face run-off races on Dec=
ember 6.
The former Athenian was mak=
ing his first appearance in poll
tics in Lakeiand, and running as
a candidate from FPrecint 10, he
polled 2,348 votes to 2,146 com
bined vote of the other three
candidates in the ra%e'a two of
whom were ‘women. e new
Commission will take offfce on
January 3. 3 :
Mr. Bishop is well known here
‘being a native of Athens and
having lived here most of his
life untii moving te -~ Lakeland
some years ago. He engaged in
the automobile sales business for
several years here before moving
to Florida where he is connected
with the Florida Favorite Ferti
lizer Comrpany. He has a brother,
Y. A. Bishop, who also resides in
Lakeland and is connected with
the same company. i
» Mr. and Mrs, E, E, Bishop, who
reside at 545 McWhorter Drive,
have one other son, Edward
Bishop, who lives in Sodus, N. Y.
Shadgett Makes
Official Visit
L. M. Shadgett, Athens district
governor of Georgia Kiwanis
Clubs—l 949, will make his official
visit to the local Kiwanis Club at
their regular weekly meeting in
the N and N Cafeteria Civie Room
tomorrow at one o'clock.
Mr. Shadgett has made official
visits to all Kiwanis Clubs in the
state, and his home club is happy
to have him back with them now.
HOME
EDITION
Dismissal
Asked In
Flog Case
Trial Of 12 Men,
Including Sheriff,
Is Underway In Rome
ROME, Ga., Nov, 21 — (AP) —
The defense asked the federal
court today to dismiu charges that
twelve men eonspired to take the
law into their own hands.
Seven negroes were flogged by
a band of 50 or 75 men In Ku
Klux Klan robes April 2 and the
government accuses these twelve
of helping them do it.
The Grand Jury held Aug. 8 that
the conspirators were Dade Coun
ty Sheriff John W. Lynch, three
of his deputies and eight others.
They conspired, the jury found
to have the negroes arrested ancf
then while in lawful eustody, seiz
ed by the mob and whipped.
Defense Attorney Frank M.
Gleason launched into a lengthy
argument for dismissal before Dis
triet Judge Frank A. Hooper short
}y after court convened this morn«
ng. s
Gleason contended that the so
called Civil Rights statute under
which the 12 are charged was di
rected against states and mnot in
dividuals. '
The Grand Jury which returned
the indicimeni heid that the ne
groes were deprived of their rights
to equal protection under the law
and thelr immunity to punishment
save through the courts.
Gleason sald the Civil M’
statute, which {s the enforcemen
act of the 14th amendment to the '
Constitution, guarantees that states '
will not pass laws depriving citi
zens of ineir i‘irhti.
Battle e
U. 8. District At;m J. m\;
Mundy said he ex most >
rhing i B T
skirmighing with the
'attorneys. He added it might b¢
Wednesday before the frial sce
tually got underway. 1
Meanwhile, the Grand Jury:
which returned the original Indicte
ments is to reconvene Tuesday ta
dig deeper into the case which, the
government has indicated, is saw
from closed.
Since Sheriff Lynch first ree
ported the floggings, Federal Bus
reau of Investigation agents unden
John C. Bills have swarmed into
the pounty just serose the state
line from Chattanooga, Tenn.
After the beating of the weveni
negroes a crosg flamed on the side |
of famed Lookout Mountain and a
large pattern of violence began
} manifesting itself in the Blue Hillg
around Chattanooga. g
Before the spring was out more j
than 20 men had heen whipped hyl
hooded night riders for various |
reasons—drinking too much, goingy
to church which the band did not:
approve, not working and failure
to support their families.
For the trial’today the governe
ment aiready has called 65 wits
nesses, including the Ku Klux
Klan’s Imperial Wizard Samuel
Roper.
Going on trial with Sheriff
Lynch are three of his deputies—
N. Stokes McCauley, William M. |
Hartline and John Bleckley—and
eight others, Robert Lawrence
Keener, Terrell T. Wheeler, Tru=
man Purcell, Woodrow ~Daniel,
Sam Peters, Farris Durham, John
Wilking and L. C. Spears,
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Talmadge Backer |
Runs For Congress
MACON, Ga,, Noc. 21—(AP)—
Garland T. Byrd, firm Talmadge
supporter, -has announced he will
run for Congress from Georgia’s
Third District.
The 26-year-old Byrd will seek
the post held by Rep. Stephen
Pace, who has said he will retire
at the end of his present term.
Byrd resigned from the General
Assembly this year when Gov.
Herman Talmadge appointed him
assistant director of the Veterans
Service Department.
His father, D. E. Byrd, of Reye
nolds, is now filling his unexpired
term in the House.
In a statement -to the Macon
Telegraph, Byrd said, *I definite=
ly am in % seke and, if elected,
will attempt to carry forward Mr,
Pace’s legislative policies.”
Byrd was chairman of the
Georgia delegation to the National
Young Democrats convention last
week in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
where he voiced strong oppositio:l
to President’s Truman's civi
righte nrogram.
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Carolina Klans
.
Are Now United
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 21-——(;\3
—The Augusta Chronicle repo
yesterday that Ku Klux Klansmen
in North Carolina and South Caros
lina have jofined forces under L@
leadership of a former :
The union was ummfi
paper s2id, in an evolnsive interd
view by Reporter Esther Young
with the new Grand 3
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