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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON ONE-INCH MIDDLING ... 31}e Vol. CXVIII, No. 32, Britisher (onfesses Spy Charge Co-Defendant Of U. S. Businessman Vogeler Admits Sabotage Work By The Associated Press ¢ A British co-defendant of Amer can businessman Robert A. Voge jer ir., eonfessed in a Hungarian court today dthat he was guilty of «abotage and spying. - - - . ‘a??fe gtrial of the Briton, Edgar Ganders, and the American who is an assistant vica-president of the International Telephone & Tele graph Co., brought sharp protests from Britain and the United States against the Communist-dominated government. : Fard : " Charged with them are six Hun sarian Nationals acused of being - — ::Iccompli¢§es.h One of these, Worm News Imre Geiger, the Roundup managing direc i D e| T r. in Hungary, said on the stand the firm had strict orders to sabo taga orders made for the Soviet Union and Eastern European coun g @lsewhere behind the iron cur tain the heavy hand of the state moved to stifle opposition. In Po- Jand, Roman Catholic Bishop Kaz imierz Kowalski was placed under house arrest at his home in Pom erania. The Bishop was accused by the Communist - dominated state of asing pressure and threats against “patriotic priests.” = These were the priests who supported the state in its charges of mismanagement of the church’s largest welfare in stitution, Caritas. The state seized control of Caritas last month. National Front In Berlin, both Catholic and Protestant church heads spoke out against the East German Com munists’ “National Front” move ment. They ordered their follow ers to shun the movement which they said was a Communist device to gain power by playing on the German wistful desire for national unity, Konrad Cardinal Von Preysing said the Communists are trying to “extend an ever-increasing one party dictatorshitp to the whole of our German fatherland.” The evangelical churches banned parti cipation in political activities and demonstrations by their followers in the Soviet zone. French Strikes In Paris, Communist = called railway and coal strikes to protest (Continued On Page Two) 8 Killed \ MIDLAND, MICH., Feb. 17— (AP)—lnvestigators probed ruins of a wrecked Dow Chemical Co. plant today trying to learn the cause of a Llast that killed eight workers yesterday. Twenty-six others were hurt in the mighty, flaming explosion. reported missing but they later Three more workers had been reported missing but they latr were accounted for—one among the dead and two in the lists of in jured., : Dow officials sald the distruc tion of the company’s long (LC) building 414 where latex rubber paint represented a loss of more than half a million dollars. They could give no immediate explanaticn for the explosion. C. of C. Phones . Fail Early Today Telephones in the Chamber of Commerce were out of order this morning but the company promis ed they would be in working or der during the afternoon, Secre tary Maleolm Ainsworth said this morning. : Secretary Ainsworth said he knew many Athenians were try ing to call and reserve tickets for the big annual dinner next Thurs day night at the YWCA at 7 p. m. and would not understand why the telephone did not - answer. Mr. Ainsworth said tickets for the dinner at which Board of Regents Chairman Hughes Spalding of At lanta will be the main speaker, are going fast, more than half of the fotal number being already sold. ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and continued rather cold this afternoon. Saturday fair and warmer. Low tonight 36, high tomorrow 60. Sun sets today at 6:17, sun rises tomor=- row 7:18, GEORGIA—Fair and contin ued rtaher cold this afternoon and fonight with frost tonight; low temperatures 28 to 36; Saturday fair and warmer, - TEMPERATURE . Highest ~.0 Cits 20l .. 08 Lowest ~.. S il el M(’ﬁn 2008 45090 sees evel ..40 Normal ... 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R S P AR e% e B ) oS B P 9‘7":‘”":‘&’s3: ATR R S J R O T v T PR TRAFFIC CLAIMS 8-YEAR-OLD The grief-stricken parents of eight-year-old Pimmy Messer bend over the lifeless form of their young son who, with his dog (foreground), lies dead in a Los An geles, Calif,, street. Pimmy was crossing the street on his scooter, his black mongrel dog trotting at his side, when he was hit by a motorist just before he reached the curb. Police said the driver of the car had a speeding ticket in his pocket.—(NEA Telephoto.) TRUMAN FLAYS GOP SOCIALISM C(HARGES Tells Dinner Guests Republicans Using Old Charge To Hide Defects WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(AP) —President Truman is taking for his 1950 political line: the Repubicans are croaking about socialism to hide their own “negative inac tion.” That brought new GOP challenges today for a Nov ember vote test of the issue. | e R e Mr. Truman told a glittering gathering of 5,300 Demo crats at the SIOO a plate Jefferson-Jackson Dinner here last night that the Republicans just sit around waiting for the Democrats to propose something. “Then they react with an out burst of scare words,” he said. To the chuckling appreciation of his steak-fed listeners, he added: “They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturb ed.” The President called for full speed on “our domestic programs for health, education, social secu rity and economic stability.” He said Republican charges that] these involve socialism “is an in-‘ sult to the " intelligence of the American people.” | | Firm Faith “Now of course,” he said, “this program is not socialism. It is based upon firm faith in the strength of free enterprise.” “Confronted by the great rec ord of this country and the tre mendous promise of its future, all they (the Republicans) do is croak ‘socialism’,” he declared. Senator Taft (R.-Ohio), who took a leading part in framing the GOP campaign slogan of “Lib erty versus Socialism,” told re porters that if Mr. Trunran doesn’t know his program is socialistie “he is being hoodwinked by his ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) and CIO-PAC (Political Action Committee) supporters who have sold him most of his features.” “Police state economic controls, price-fixing, wage-fixing, gov ernment operation of steel and (Continued On Page Two) FIVE MISSING ON ISLAND Torn ‘Chutes, Tracks In Snow Spur Search For B - 36 Airmen McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE TACOMA, WASH., Feb. 17—(AP) Two tree-snagged parachutes and tracks in the snow turned the search for five missing airmen to day to the West Side of Princess Royal Island. They alone were unaccounted for of the 17 men who plunged from an ice-coated, blazing B-36 bomber off the Northern British Columbia coast Monday night. Eleven men have been brought here and a twelfth was to be flown out today. A coast guard spokesman at Ketchikan, Alaska, said the tracks led down a small stream toward the west side of the island. “It’s my understanding from the crew of the plane making the re port that the ‘chutes and tracks are in an area not zet eovered by any ground party,” he added. The Canadian destroyer Cayufa. which has served as a base for ground parties searching the area Truman “Never Runs Lights;” ‘Then Breaks 20 WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 — (AP)—President Truman whiz zed through 20 red lights on a four-mile drive to the big Dem ocratic dinner last night. It was all perfectly legal, be cause his car had a police and secret service escort. Traffic regulations are wailved under such circumstances on the theory that a police officer carries more authority than a-traffic signal. But only 24 hours earlier, Mr. Truman had told a National Crime Conference: “I never go through red lights, despite the prerogatives attache ing to the presidency.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 = (AP)—Three men held up an outlying branch of the Hamilton National Bank today and es caped with about $30,000. W. T. Waller, president of the bank, sald one man remained in a car outside, another stood guard at the door and a third rounded up the branch manager, H. R. Bauckman, and two tellers. Nobody was hurt. moved to the vicinity of the new clues and was to dispatch a crew into the spot at dawn. Shots Heard The search plane’s report and that of returning ground parties that they had heard shots from the inland of the rocky, heavily wooded island raised hopes for the rescue of the missing men. Survivors brought here said it was possible the shots had been fired by Capt. Theodore F. Schrei er of Madison, Wis., the co-pilot. They said he was the only man among the riss group known to have carried a gistdl. Meanwhile, -Sgt, Vittle Vi tale Trippodi, 23-year-old radio ogerator from Brooklyn, joined 10 other survivors at the McChord base hospital. A 12th man, Lieut. Charles C. Pooler, 36, engineer from Beloit, Kas., was to be brought here to day. Pooler, suffering a broken lnile, was found yesterday some SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1950. Gov't. Mediators Shooting For Coal Truce By Monday Move Sought To Avert Miners Contempt Action WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(AP)—Governmen media tors said today they are “shooting for a settlement by Mon day”’ of the coal strike. : i David L. Cole, chairman of President Truman’s board of inquiry, told a reporter a week-end settlement is de sired to stall off possibie contempt of court action against the strikers. The 370,000 miners have ignored all .this week an order from a federal judge for a return to work. Cole said Monaay Is the target for a return to work as John L. Lewis and mine cperators began their third succegsive day of talks. Hopes were high, because of a secret,. three-hour meeting held last night. At this session, wages and other contract terms were reported to have been discussed more realisti cally than at any time in the past eight months of the coal contract dispute. Cole asked each side to reduce their representations to not more than four persons. There have been 20 representatives for each side. Cole’s thought was that cutting down the number of negotiators would speed things up. Both sides agreed to this. South ern operators consented only after holding a caucus among them selves. The final line-ups were: For the operators — George H. Love, for Northern and Western mine owners; Joseph E. Moody, Southern Operators; Harvey L. Cartwright, Indiana Coal Opera tors Association, and Harry Moses, spokesman for the “Captive Mines” owned by steel firms. Union Team § For the Union—Lewis; UMW Vice President Thomas Kennedy; Secretary-Treasurer John Owens; and George J. Titler, head of UMW District 29 in West Virginia, It was reported that Lewis has thrown on the table a 14-point list of demands. He made no flat wage demand, it was said, but left this cpen . for . settlement wivn other points were agreed. Lewis also has suggested that the mine owners guarantee the miners 200 days of work a year. Cole and Cyrus Ching, Federal Mediation Chief, brought about last night’s unscheduled talks. Both Cole and Ching sat in on the three-hour talk, which was described by one informant as a “real dollar and cents negotiation” between the chief of the 370,000 striking mine workers and spokes men for the major operators’ groups. . Pat Campbell Found Guilty CONYERS, GA., Feb. 17—(AP) —R. P. (Pat) Campbell, ex-state Senator recently sentenced on a manslaughter charge, was con victed of assault and battery yes terday. He was given a 12-month sus pended sentence and fined SI,OOO in the beating of Billy Womack. Campbell zlready faced a six to 10 year sentence for the slaying of Eugene Edwards, Womack’s companion, Oct. 9 1949. He has ap pealed the conviction. An attorney as well as a Coving ton business man, Campbell was the only witness in his own be half yesterday. He maintained his altercation with Edwards and Wo mack was justified when they cursed him and his wife after a minor accident on the highway. Campbell admitted striking Wo mack with the gun which killed Edwards but insisted he was only defending himself and that he was “afraid for my life.” distance inland by searchers from the Canadian destroyer. Safe Condition Trippodi was returned in a lit ter aboard ar air force flying boat. He could not be interviewed but hig condition was described as “satisfactory.” The young radio operator had no gloves and wore only oxfords on his feet when he jumped. Other crew members were clad in arctic ‘boots and clothing. Lt. Comdr. A. D. Wier of the Royal Canadian Navy, who treat ed 'l‘ripi)odi aboard the Cayuga, said his left foot became entangled in a cliff-side tree when he landed fromthe fumop. . “Trippodi spent the night hang i~ by his foot. He was found by other survivors and brought to the ground at the top of a hill and left by them in a tent rigged by a parachute,” Talmadge Kills ‘65 Speed Bill ATLANTA, Feb. 17 — (AP) = Gov. Herman Talmadge today kill ed with a veto a legislative bill raising Georgia’s speed limit from 55 to 65 miles per hour. . Talmadge, in a statement, said he could not permit “the impair ment of the safety of school chil dren and other citizens of the state.” The speed limit raise was en acted on the last day of the leg islature, Monday, with a plea to curb “speed traps” along coastal highways. - The governor said today, “I have reviewed this question carefully and desire very much to eliminate these speed traps. s ‘But the school children of Geor gia are forced to ride on our pub lic highways in school buses. “To permit the speed limit to be raised to the extent of this act would impair the lives of these children on our highways. “There are some roads in Geor gia where it is safe to drive 75 to 80 miles an hour with a good new car and good tires, on a straight stretch. “There are other roads where 35 miles l:{x hour is excessive. . “A ‘goo speec{;gaw would be a reasonable rate of speed with no fixed limit. “The proposed new speed limit would make considerably more difficult the prosecution of many cases for reckless and negligent driving. “I am tfrying to improve high way safety in Georgia and have called a conference in March for that purpose. “In view of the safety of our school children and other citizens of the state, I could reach no con clusion except to veto this act.” In pushing the bill through the (Continued On Page Three) 3-FOR-1 CHANGE Judith Coplon Splits With Attorney In Spy Case NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—(AP)—Judith Coplon changed her lawyers today in the middle of her spy conspiracy trial. Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan appointed three attor neys to defend her. Named to succeed Archibald Palmer as the ex-govern ment girl’s defense counsel were Sidney E. Berman, Sam uel Neuberger and Leonard Boudin. ' Miss Coplon has been on trial with Soviet Engineer Valentin A. Gubitchev since Jan. 24. They are charged with conspiring to make iU' S. defense secrets available to the Russians. Gubitchev was not involved in the split between Miss Coplon and her attorney. He will continue to be represented by Abraham J. Pomerantz. Since the trial started three weeks ago, the tiny brunette and the demonstrative Palmer have snapped at each other frequently, both in and out of court. At a recent news conference, Palmer called her a “damn fool,” and she told him to shut up. Once in court, she tugged at his sleeve and told him it was “stupid to make such a fuss.” “What have you to do with this?” Palmer yelled at her. 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Top: The rising Atchafalaya river surrounds houses o;S 4 : b Loe if ey dui e P 3 s % b R T o ] b T Rl sY e ‘ P f sommee o o BEER E e, SR 1 p é _;.;.-:<_§-:‘;i'.- s yAR ;3 s F egsE Yy 8 TR L o | v i sae T . S fro e ; s % R 3 ok g 5 i e : A e£ ; E E T i B SR g £ 8 DR ’ et S e « xS L R LS eLT A ) iw!“}?r .'«';f’,'i" Ol A ok G Sl L S SR e i ST L AR o B T LS sLR ee R v MAE WEST TIRED Mae West was reported rest ing comfortably today in her hotel after collapsing last night on’ the stage of the Au ditorium Theater in Rochester, N. Y. Miss West, opening a three-day stand in “Diamond Lil,” was said to be suffering from “sheer exhaustion.” University Concert At 8 Tonight Popeye, Superman, Blondie, and Snuffy Smtih, comic characters familiar to all, will be featured through the music cf the Universi ty Band. tonight in the Fine Arts Auditorium as they play the “Comic Strip Suite.” Another in teresting rendition will be the “French Quarter Suite” which is composed of rhythmic dances ori ginating in New Orleans and heard very generally during the Mardi Gras season. y This concert, which begins at 8:00 p. m., is given by the Univer sity Band for the benefit of the Demonstration School orchestra. The admission price is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for all students, including college students. Pro ceeds will be used to buy addition al instruments for the Demonstra tion School orchestra, The entire program will be pop ular band music that has a wide appeal for varied audiences. Among other features of this con cert will be the march “Band Wa~ gon,” the overture “Tiberius,” “March to the, Scaffold,” “The Four Hornsmen,” a horn quartet with* band accompaniment, the march “H. M. Jollies,” “Five American Folk Songs,” and the first movement from “Symphony from the New World.” Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area at Simmesport, La. Bottom: Livestock from flooded farms finds refuge on the levee near Innis, La. The flood area is about one and a half times the size of the state of Rhode Island.— (AP Photos.) [ Flood Refugees Seek Higher Ground In La. Rising Waters Spread Over Two Million Acres; 20,000 Hogs Die FERRIDAY, La., Feb. 17.—(AP)—A stream of refu=- gees trekked to higher ground today as Louisiana-Missise sippi floodwaters oozed over lowlands. About 9,000 persons had moved, were moving or were about to move from an area of 2,000,000 acres inundated by backwaters in east-central Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. There were no reports of loss of life. State Rep. Mike Ohlen esti mated that 20,000 head of hogs had drowned and ‘“‘damage will run to one milliori dollars.” Red Cross workers said more than half of 2,000 families in the flood area of Catahoula and Con cordia parishes (counties) of Louisiana had been evacuated. Evacuation of 300 more families from the neighboring parish of Avoyelles was to begin today, John Russell of Atlanta, Ga., di- recting Red Cross relief, said there was no need at this time for mass feeding, but that “if it becomes necessary we are fully prepared f6r it.” Country lanes south of Ferriday in Concordia parish were crowded with a motley army of overall clad farmers and herdsmen who were bringing out their families, cattle, poultry, hound dogs, bed ding and stoves. One aged farmer grumbled, “they won’t let them Yankee riv ers overflow, but they don’t mind that same water coming down here and running us out and killing our stock.” Russell said some residents were reluctant to leave the thireatened area. Others moved out just ahead of the creeping flood, breaking camp daily and grazing their cat tle as they went along. A half dozen rivers—tributaries to the Mississippi—were contri buting to the flood. Army en gineers said levels on major streams remained intact but bayous and other minor tribu taries were backing up surplus (Continued On Page Two) Many Donors To Heart Group Enter Contest Many Athenians during the past several days have made themselves eligible to win a brand-new 1950 Plymouth sedan by making con tributions of one dollar or more to the Georgia Heart Association. ~ The Plymouth will be given ‘away in a contest tc the person making the closest estimate of the number of pennies deposited in the parking meters here during the period March 1-Marcia 28. In the event a ‘tie results, those tied will estimate the number of pen nies deposited the following week, Only pennies count in the con test—just the copper coins. In oth er words nickles cannot be counted as five pennies. Everyone is eligible to take part in the contest by making a con tribution of one dollar or more, except employes of the Citizens & Southern National Bank, where the pennies will be counted. For every contribution of one dollar, the donor is given a contest blank on which to write his name and HOME EDITION Bankers’ Meeting Ends Here The second annual Banke:g Farm Credit short course clos a two day session on the Univer= sity of Georgia campus ag noon today. s The course was sponsored by the Agriculture Committee of the Georgia Bankers Association in connection with the University’'s College of Agriculture. | Final session this'morning fea~ tured a panel discussion on the€ operating and capital needs of the farm and addresses on some cur= rent farm problems. 1 Panel members were J. 8 Wolfe, jr., Citizens and Southern National Bank, Athens; George Baker, The Farmers Bank in Monroe; N. E. Fackler, Etowah Bank, Canton; E F, Vickers, Cits izens Bank & Trust Co., Bain« bridge; and George M. Bazemore, First National Bank, Waycross. Clyde Medlock, Cartersville ' and Monroe Kimbrel, Thomson led the farm credit discussions. Yesterday the bankers tourec the farm of H. E. Woed in Win terville. Production on the farm is being changed from cotton t¢ dairy products. ’ A banquet was held last nighi with Dean James E. Gates, Schoo! of Business Administration, as speaker. address and his estimate. Local members of the Georgia Heart Association have these blanks, or they may be secured from Gordon Dudley, at Athens Manufacturing Company, sponsor in the Tenth District for the Geor= gia Heart Association, now en gaged in raising funds to continu€ the fight against heart disease. f_i? Entry blanks may also .be se« cured at Gallant-Belk, National Bank of Athens, J. Swanton Ivy, Edwards Pharmacy, Richardson~ Hodgson, Michael’'s, Gunn’s Store, | Hutchins-Cox-Stroud, Tem Till< man Company and Costa’s, - 2 As a guide togcontestarts im . making -their estimates, the fol« lowing are the total amounts of money—not just pennies, but the total amounts—deposited in the parking meters for several monthsg March, 1949—55,937.84; Novems §5 ber, 1949—54,470.08; Dmmba 1949—56,125.40, and January, 1950 —54343.78. b

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, February 17, 1950, Home Edition, Image 1