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Vol. CXVII, No. 295. Assaciated Press Service
Moonshine Crackdown Sped Up Here
151 Gallons
Nabbed Two
Raids Today
By ED THILENIUS
Federal, State and county offi
ecers continued their widespread
crackdown on moonshiners in this
area today, capturing 151 gallons
of non-tax paid whiskey in two
separate raids.
Today’s catches ran the total to
338 gallons of moonshine captured
in four raids in the last six days.
Five persons have been arrested,
State and Federal agents arrest
ed Arthur Burrell, Athens, in
Danielsville after a wild chase. A
total of 102 gallons was found in
his car, a 1937 Ford.
Burrell was charged with pos
sessing and transporting non-tax
paid whiskey. State Revenue agent
N. M. Taylor said that he and
agent Andrews, along with Fed
eral Agents Bob Thomas and T. Y.
Harris, jumped Burrell in Frank
lin county and chased him to Dan=
ielsville.
A few hours later the state and
¥ederal officers joined with
Clarke eounty officers in a raid
that nettad 40 gallons and one
arrest., Harve Butler, colored,
was arrested and charged with
possessing non-fax paid whiskey.
Agent Taylor said that the whis
key was found in the negro’s corn
crib in Jackson county, near the
county line. Sheriff Tommy Huff,
and county officers Jimmy Wil
liams #and George Farmer accom
panied the State and Federal
agents on this raid. |
‘Today’s action followed closely
two whiskey cases here yesterday.
(Continued on Page Two.)
T & H Repeal Still
Truman’s Top Goal
Democratic Leaders Expect Law
To Stay On Books Through 1950
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—(AP)—Repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Act still is President Truman’s No. 1 objective in
the labor field. But Democratic leaders in Congress say
they look for the law to stay on the books through 1950.
Mr. Truman’s lieutenants at the
Scientists
Study Robot
‘Saboteurs’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—(AP)
~—Military scientists are consider
ing the possibility of planting ro
bot electronic *“saboteurs” in an
enemy eity to steer a guided mis
sile to a target. LS
A hint of this was contained in
@ pamphlet issued today by the
Defense Department’'s Research
and Development Board. It is a
new edition of the “Glossary of
Guided Missile Terms.”
The reference was tucked away
in a technically - phrased discus-~
sion of “semiactive homing guid
ance” in which a missle seeks out
a tarket which has been “illumi
nated from a source other than the
missile.”
As untangled from such com
plex phrasing in explanation by
Qne expert, this means that a mis
sile follows a radar beam from a
transmitter either located in, or
pointed at, a city or factory. In
the case of pointing, the radar
beam is aimed at the target and
reflected off at an angle. The mis
sile would “ride” the beam of this
reflected radar impulse and then
blast the target with an atomic or
conventional warhead.
LAMOUR SUES
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Film
ilm Stars
Sans Xmas
Pay Checks
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 22—(AP)
—Dorothy Lamour, John Ireland
and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
are not drawing their movie stu
dio paychecks th is week before
Christmas,
All four are under salary sus
pensions.
Claiming the birth of a son last
Oct. 20 brought a halt to her
. $1,400 -a - week
L giiihead, salary checks,
' <l Miss Lamour fil
. ed suit in feder=
P al court yester
8¢ T day against RKO
, . & i Studio. The ac~
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iEL& A life the wife of
LW el William R. How-
Pt s ard, 111, adver
f o™ tising executive,
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————= pended Iseland
:fi::u his “calculated and wilful re
to ” an assigned role
aiter nporhng‘mfor WOFR Oni the
set. The actor recently filed sult
{0 break his confract, claiming he
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UAW-CIO -
EAD Q UARTE e e
Inspector Joseph V. Krug (left), of the
Special Investigation Squad and Inspec
tor Albert Langtry, head of the police
Scientific Laboratory, inspect dynamite
and fuses found on a little-used outside
basement stairs of the United Auto
Workers international headquarters at
Detroit. The dynamite, 39 sticks complete
capitol have indicated clearly they
plan to advise the President it
probably would be tfutile to try
again for repeal—or even drastic
revision of the law—at the new
session opening Jan. 3.
“So far as I can see, we just
don’t have the votes,” one of the
party chiefs told a reporter.
Thus repeal appears almost cer~
tain to be one of the stormy issues
of next year’s congressional elec
tion campaigns, just as it wes in
the presidential and other con
tests in 1948.
The Truman Democrats aren’t
unhappy about that. On the con
trary, many of them feel the par
ty’s chances for success at the
polls will be enhanced if the Taft-
Hartley argument can be put to
the voters again. S
Repeal advocates have contend
ed all along that Mr. Truman's
election and the overturn last year
of Republican control of Congress
constituted a mandate from the
people for the scuttling of the
Taft-Hartley measure. They are
working for a big enough margin
in the Senate and House in 1951
to achieve it.
The administration lost its fight
for repeal at the last session be
cause a big bloc of Southern Dem=-
ocrats lined up with the Republi=
can opposition, while only a few
Republicans voted with the Tru
man Democrats. ANy
The GOP foes of repeal, led by
Senator Taft of Ohio, have argued
that the majority of the voters
want the essentials of the Taft-
Hartley Law kept.
Infant Slayer
Found Guilty
FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 22—(AP)
—Paul Montes Gutierrez, 25-year
old cotton picker, was convicted
yesterday of first degree murder
in the assault slaying of 17-
months-old Josephine Yanez.
The verdict of Superior Judge
Arthur C. Shepard, who heard the
case without a jury, was without
recommendation, making death
penalty automatic,
Judge Shepard also rules that
Gutierrez was sane.
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DALLY DAWDLE,
2 70 CHRIST
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Dally Dawdle pokes along,
As always, self.decaiving:
Tell her Christmas Is nearh e
She's dumbly unbelieving,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
with two detonators and fuses, was found
in a corrogated cardboard soap box
wrapped in gaily decorated Christmas
paper. “It was enough to blow up a city
block,” one union officer reported. Police
said one of two fuses leading to the dyna
mite burned to within an inch of the
charge.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Winder Widow
Just Won't Say
When She’ll Wed
WINDER, Ga., Dec. 22—(AP)
—Mrs. H. A, Carithers, like the
lady in the song, wouldn't say ves
today and she wouldn’t say ne.
The question was when or if
the charming 56-year-old Geor
gia widow will beco the
bride of Methodist Bhlfi Ivan
Lee Holt, 63, the man who mar~
ried Vice President Alben
lßa.rkley and Mrs. Carleton Had
ey.
Mrs. Carithers was in St
Louis at the time of the Veep’s
wedding. She was visiting the
bishop’s son and daughter-in
law, U. 8. Judge and Mrs. Ivan
Lee Holt, jr. :
From this circumstance came
reports that she and the church
man soon would make the trip
to the altar,
Mrs. Carithers obviously
wasn’t too much displeased last
night with these rumors, al
though she said so many re
poriers had ieiephonea her that
“I almost have had to leave
home.”
New Officers
Of Hospital
Staff Named
Dr. John A. Simpson Wwas
elected president of the staff of
Athens General Hospital at the
regular meeting held last night.
Elected to serve with Dr, Simp=-
son were Dr. Linton Gerdine,
vice-president, and Dr. John Mc-
Pherson, jr., secretary. Dr. Ger
dine, chairman; Dr. Sam Tal
rmradge and Dr. J. B. Neighbors,
jr., compose the executive com=
mittee. .
Retiring officers are Dr. Sam
Talmadge, president; Dr, L. H.
Goldsmith, vice-president; and
Dr. H. G. Bird, secretary, Mem
bers of the retiring executive
committee are Dr. Simpson, Dr.
James Greene and Dr. Herschel
Harris.
A delicious turkey dinner was
served to the doctors at the an
nual meeting.
COBB ACQUITTED
RUPERT, Idaho, Dec. 22—(AP)
—Herschel R. ©obb, son of base
ball’s immortal Ty Cobb, was ac
quitted of a charge of involuntary
manslaughter by a district court
jury last night.
—— AO, BGGS, CHEAPER: EASY CREDlTesmsmmnpmm:
Signs Point To Consumer Break In 1950
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—(AP)
—There were some signs today
of a Happy New Year ahead for
consumers — with money more
plentiful, a drop expected in pork
and egg prices, and the easiest
installment terms since the war.
The good news for those who
like ham and eggs came yester
day from the Department of Ag
riculture. It reported prospects of
a record-breaking peacetime pork
supply in 1850, along with a pos
sible eight to ten-cent-a-dozen
drop In the cost of eggs.
The Federal Reserve Board
s wen that Up todasy with = va.
port that:
“1. “The tendengly seems tc be
ward progressively easier terms
for all borrowers” who are ‘buy>
inigoods on the installment plan.
It expects an expancing
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1949.
Bl Probes Union
Dynamiting Attempt
First Federal Move Into Alleged
‘“Terroristic Campaign’; Clues Nil
DETROIT, Dec. 22.— (AP)—The FBI moved in today
to have a look .at the dynamite plot against the CIO
United Auto Workers Union, !
It marked that federal agency’s first formal interces
siqn in what the big labor union calls a “terroristic cam
paign.” et i s
At the same time Detroit police disclosed they were
without any sound clues to the origin of Tuesday night's
defective dynamite plant at union headquarters.
The FBI, acting under the Civil
Rights law as well as other federal
regulations, was ordered to in
vestigate by Attorney General
Howard McGratii.
The government’s intervention
was unprecedented in the UAW
CIO's troubles.
This came as the union guarded
its doors and boosted its rewards
total to nearly a quarter million
dollars.
Neither in the attempted assas
sination of UAW President Walter
Reuther, nor that of his brother,
Victor, did the FBI intervene.
Under the government policy
the FBI enters a case only when
there is evidence or other reason
}o suspect a violation of federal
aws.
Various courses were followed
in the investigation, including a
Detroit newspaper’s private ef
fort.
Reporter Tipped
The Detroit Times, one of whose
reporters was “tipped” to the in
tended dynamiting, invited his
anonymous telephone informant to
call again on a promise of “abso
lute protection.” .
Reporter Jack Pickering, who
got the call, wrote a story begin
ning:
“PERSONAL: To the man who
phoned me Tuesday night to say
that UAW headquarters was be
ing bombed.”
The story went on to say:
“You sounded like a man who
didn’t want fellow human beings
to die—wehether you liked them,
ha?li them, or didn’t know them
at
“I don’t know, naturally, what
your part was in this, but your
part didn't include wanting to kill,
You're a different kind of man.”
The pledge of “absolute protec
tion” then was made. The tipster
was urged to “call me, contact me
in any way you choose, at any
time, night or day, anonymously
or otherwise.”
money supply next year. This in
cludes bank deposits (both check
ing and saving) and currency in
cireulation, It will be swelled by
iarge public outlays by federal,
state and local governments—
made with the use of bank loans
since tax income doesn’t cover
s
Tax Rate
It is probable that consumers
will continue to pay the same
rate of income taxes and also the
cost of steel products and coal is
expected to rise. However, these
increases may be offset in part
bv the mrounting congressional
drive for a cut in the taxes lev=-
fed on so-caiied “luxury items.”
That . ;wouid - »bring , soppewnat
Tower - telephone’ *mb,%m
transportation, and a saving on
such other things as electric light
Gen. MacArthur Urges Probe
Of Japanese Held By Soviets
Killers Foiled
By Milkman’s
Faithful Donkey
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec.
22—(AP)—A milkman’s faith
ful donkey helped solve his
master’s murder today.
Gunmen killed milkman Has
sanein Atta, 45, for reasons un
known. Atta’s donkey, covered
with his master’s blood, contin
ued on his usual rounds, stop~
ping before each place where he
Cuslomarity ueiivered miik.
A shopkeeper noticed the
blood, police backiracked and
arrested two men who had not
even bothered to flee, believing
it would be hours before their
crime would be discovered.
Quake Recorded
NEW YORK, Dec, 22—(AP) —
The Fordham University seismo
graph today recorded an earth
quake apparently located in Cen
tral America. Another quake, pos
sibly in Peru, was recorded yes
terday.
Full-Time Pay
For Mayor
Is Proposed
Chairman F. H. Williams of the
Finance Committee of Mayor and
Council said today his group is
discussing a proposal io recognize
the office of Mayor of Athens as a
full-time job and a resolution em=-
bracing that will be brought be
fore the January meeting. Under
the proposal the salary of the
glayor would be fixed upon that
asis.
Mayor Jack R. Wells, under the
City Charter amendment passed
about three years ago and ap
proved by the people, has rec
ognized the job of Mayor as a full
time duty during his first term
and proposes to do the same dur
ing the new term, beginning next
month, it was pointed out.
In discussion of the plan in City
Counecil Tuesday night, Council
men Bob Seagraves, and Merritt
B. Pound, spoke favorably of the
proposal to make the salary of the
Mayor, beginning next year, more
equal to the duties performed and
the time devoted to the job.
Councilman Pound said the du
ties and responsibilities placed
upon the Mayor and, under a full
time schedule, the present salary
of $150.00 per month is not suf
ficient. It is also pointed out that
the salary schedule being con
sidered for Mayor, City Recorder
and City Attorney is not out of
line with heads of departments
and other city officials performing
duties of equal responsibility.
Full-Time Job
Councilman Pound, in his ccm
ment to the Council, said that
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bulbs, cosmetics, leather goods
and jewelry. 7
The Reserve Board said in its
monthly bulletin that installment
terms already have eased consid
erably since government credit
controls ended last June 30—
most notably in the cases of new
automobiles and refrigerators,
Credit Demands b
The one thing which would
keep the supply of money from
expanding, the Board study com
mented, would be a “marked de
cline in over-all credit demands
of businesses, farmers, real. es
tate owners and consumers.”
The money supply, it noted,
feii off in 1545 for ihe thirg year
in .a row. “The total' amount of
currency outside banks at the end
of November,” the Board said,
SEEK FATE
OF 376,000
PRISONERS
By The Associated Press
General Douglas MacArthur
called today for an independ;g&
investigation of the fate of 376,
missing Japanese war prisoners
captured by the Soviet Union,
MacArthur asked Washington
to take action after his diplomatic
advisor yesterday told the Allied
Council for Japan that probably
374,041 of the missing Japanese
prisonerz had died in Russian
prison camps. s
The Soviet delegation walked
out of the counéil. MacArthur ap=
pealed to Wash-—mmm———
ington to begin World News
negotiations for
an investigation ROUfld“P
of the mMISSINE
prisoners either by a neutral na
tion or the international Red
Cross.
Meanwhile, Russia stepped up
often repeated charges that Mac-
Arthur is re-creating Japan a Fas
cist state. 4
Little Yugoslavia, now out of
the Russian orbit but still a Con
munist country celebrated Army
Day. The Balkan nation ignored
Joseph Stalin’s birthday celebra=
tiong yesterday. Army Day was
marked by charges that once~
friendly Russia used to sell Pre
mier Marshal Tito second-hand
arms and useless ammunition at
fancy prices back in the heyday
of Cominform friendship.
There are mounting demands
from both Republican and Demo
crat lawmakers in Washington
that Uncle Sam ease off his Santa
Claus role in Europe. The con=-
gressmen are calling for a sharp
cmn; in European recovery spend-
Sen.” Vandenberg of Michigan
led off the stop-spending cam
paign. He was followed by others
including Sen. McKellar of Ten
nessee who said even Paul Hoff
man who directs the Marshal Plan
program realizes there should be
a cut in the vast appropriations.
Vogeler Release
Rumors Not True
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 22
—(AP)—A U. S. legation spokes~
man today denied rumors circulat
ing in Vienna that Hungsrian po
lice had released Robert A. Vo=
geler, American businessman ar
rested Nov. 18 on espionage
charges.
The spokesman described the
reports as “unfounded and irres
ponsible rumors.” The U. S. State
Department Tuesday demanded
the release of Vogeler, assistant
vice president of the International
Telphone and Telegraph Compa
ny, and banned travel by Ameri~-
cans to Hungary.
Policemen Quell
Colombia Riots
BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 22 —
(APJ)—Two persons were killed
and several wounded yesterday in
fresh violence which broke out in
Natatgaima, in the Tolima Depart
ment.
Police were forced to call in
reinforcements to quell a civilian
mob embroiled in a political ar=
gument, according to a govern
ment anncuncement.
Colombia is still under a state
of seige decree imposed before
the Nov. 27 elections which plac
ed the present Conservative gov
ernment in power despite a Lib
eral party boycott.
Lady Ambassador
Goes To Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec.
22— (AP)—America’s first woman
ambassador got a royal welcome
in Denmark today — and a news
paper warning to steer clear of
Danish hign society.
“was $800,000,000 less than a year
earlier and $1,500,000,000 below
November, 1946.”
Like money, pigs were expect
ed to be plentiful in 1950. The
Agriculture Department said the
fall crop this year is 10 percent
higher than last year’s, while
next spring’s crop is due to be
six percent bigger than in the
spring of 1949.
Those two crops will make up
the bulk of the 185¢ pork supply,
and the increase probably will be
reflected in lower prices paid by
the consumer. i
In a second announcement, the
Department said it will suppert
egg vrices at a level intended to
sssure fammers acsoss the nation
of an’ average income of 37 cents
a dozen—compared with 45 cents
this year,
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Mrs. Elicia M. A. Kramek holds her jail-born daugh- !
ter Joenna, five months, as she greets her huband Jos- |
eph after the 26-year-old mother was freed from the |
- women’s reformatory at Framingham, Mass. In eours
another woman eonfessed to having passed the werth
less checks for which Mrs. Kramek had served nmine !
- months of an indefinite sentence. She had ecared for hex '
baby at the reformatory.— (AP Wirephoto.)
ING IN
X Spirit Bright
In Destitute Town
' SHALLMAR, Md., Dec, 22, — (AP) — The spirit of
Christmas burned brightly in this little mountain town
today.
And it is spreading to other poverty-stricken communi=
ties of the mountain area.
All but a few of Shallmar’s 200 residents were utté.is
destitute a few weeks ago.
435 Holiday
Deaths Seen
CHICAGO, Dec. 22 —(AP)—
The nation’s death toll in traffic
accidents over the three-day
Christmas holiday may reach 435,
the National Safety Council says.
The pre-holiday estimate is the
largest ever made by the council.
It said the estimate covers only
immediate traffic deaths — T=
sons killed between 6 p. m, g%-
da{l and midnight Monday.
ed H. Dearbern, council pres
ident, said: “We are forced to
make this estimate by mathema
tics. It certainly is a terrible
thought for the Christmas season.
But our hearts tell us the toll will
be lower—that the American peo
ple will not permit such a trage
dy. I hope our mathematics is
wrong, and our hearts are right.”
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Whaling Season
To Start Today
LONDON, Dec. 22—(AP)—The
Antarctic whaling season openedl
today with more than 100 ships of
six nations hunting for 16,000*
Liue whales. |
This is the limit established for
this year by the International
Whaling Convention. The season
ends April 7.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Showers and warm this aft
ernoon and evening, clearing
and becoming colder late to
night and Friday. Expected low
tomorrow morning 36. High to
morrow 46. Sun sets 5:28 and
rises tomorrow 7:36.
GEORGIA-—Cloudy, showers
and continued warm this after
noon foiiowed by ending of
showers with clearing weather;
turning colder in northwest
Georgia early this evening and
in southwest Georgia by morn
ing. Friday fair and colder.
TEMPERATURE
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Mean 5000 Sess Beee Seve .-‘4
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RAINFALL
Tnchee last 24 hours .. .. .11
Total since Dec. 1 .. .. .. 2.00
Deficit since Dee 1 . ... 1.7
Ayerage! Dec.; rainfall . .4, . .
Potal thade ‘Jundary i a;;:fifl’
Deficit since January 1 .. 6.27
HOME
EDITION
There had been no work in the
community since itz only mins
ciosed down in March for lack of
orders.
Thin, scantily elad children be=
come faint in school for lack of
food. Some families had subsisted
for weeks on a diet made up main=
ly of potatoes and apples.
Then the pli%ht of ihe iown and
its 80 children leaked into the cut
side world.
Soon trucks loaded with food
and clothing started bumping theip
way over the narrow mountain
road to Shallmar. The packages
were sent from all sections of the
country.
Hundreds of toys arrived and
the mails brought letters from
each of the 48 states. Many econ
tained a coin or a check, More
than $3,000 is on hand now.
It will be used to assure hot
lunches for the children.
In all six and one-half tons of
clothing and foodstuffs have been
sent to Shalmar.
That would have been emough
to carry the community for a long
time.
But Christmas is coming—and
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Soldier
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Killed By
&
Love Rival
JAMESTOWN, Tenn., Deg, 22
(AP)—A 19 year-old soldier home
on furlough was shot and bludge
epned to death by a rival fer a
young girl’s love.
Chief Deputy Sheriff W. B.
Richards reported that Hellis
'Beatty, who works on his father’s
nearby farm, said in a statement
he shot th» soldier eight times
’with lrah pistol = yesierday, then
ctruck him with an ave,
© Richards identified the soldier
as Lillard Stephens. The flfi
occurred in front of the
‘home of 15-year-old Betty Cheate
in the Cumberland Mountain foot
thills.
Beatty is 18. Richards said he
was arrested here an hour after
‘the slaying and was charged with
murder.
. The Chief Deputy Sheriff said
5 is¥
Beatty callad him ant In the Seakt
shot him four times in ihe back
and four timeg in front wiin a 3=
axe, and fled,