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Vol. CXVIIi, No. 34,
Federal Judge Issues New No -Strike Order
in Coal Dispute: March 3rd Set As Deadline
Congress
Schedules
Busy Week
Test Votes Seen On
Two Top llssues; FEPC,
Displaced Persons
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—(AP)
—Congress gets down to real busi
ness this week after a long period
of relative inaction. Test votes are
possible on two top Truman is
sues—displaced li?rsgns and fair
loyment practices.
ex?ffier two weeks of marking
#ime while members ranged t}}e
country for political speeches in
the names of Lincoln and Jeffer
son-Jackson, the Senate may take
up by midweek a bltterly-cpntest
ed bill to open the gates wider to
Furopean refugees.
The House may get a Chanc,e
Wednesday to decide whether it
will debate the Fair Employment
Practices (FEPC) bill being fought
vigorously by Southern Democrats.
Both issues have top priority on
what President Truman calls his
“Fair Deal” program. They are
the first to approach a showdown
stage in a seven-week old session
that has been devoted largely to
preliminaries and the clearance of
minor bills.
From now on the political heat
is on, with the administration try
ing to push through its program in
time for a proposed early August
adjournment.
The first major foreign policy
measure—another year’s outlay for
the Marshall Plan in Europe—
starts its uncertain way through a
lineup of would-be budget cutters
at joint Senate-House foreign com
mittee hearings Tuesday.
Scheduling a night session, Sen
ate leaders called for a vote today
(4 p. m;, ESP) on 2 bill to set up"
a permanent Senate small busi
ness committee.
After that Senator Lucas of Illi
nois, the Democratic chieftian,
planned to seek action on a meas
‘ilre rejuggling cotton acreage quo
as.
An amendment dropping potato
price supports threatened to cause
a lot of talk. Lucas sponsored the
amendment as a partial solution to
the government’s multi-million
dollar surplus potato headache.
The Senate previously had
agreed to vote tomorrow afternoon
on a measure affecting the Arizo
na-California division of water
from the Colorado river.
With that out of the way, Lucas
said, he wants to bring up a dis
placed persons bill previously ap
proved by the House in somewhat
different form. The measure would
boosp the number of refugees to be
admitted to this country and
:)irozaden the base for their admis-
KIWANIS SPEAKER
Edward W. Hiles, executive
vice-president of Georgia Savings
and Loan Association, will speak
so members of Athens Kiwanis
Club on “Public Housing” at to
morrow's meeting at one o’clock in
the N and N Civie Room.
SEVERE SENTENCE SOUGHT
Verdict In Vogeler
Trial Due Tomorrow
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 20.— (AP) —The trial of
U. 8. businessman Robert A. Vogeler and six others on
Epy charges ended today, with the prosecution demand
-I"3'. ‘the most severe punishment.” Court was adjourned
until tomorrow, when the verdict will be read.
Vogeler, in an abject “last word statement” to the
Pf?‘mle'l Court, declared he had confessed to the charges
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A flash fire sweeps'through the Rulane
Gas Company’s plant at Charlotte, N. C.,
to set off a series of explosions which
caused damage estimated at sso,ooosThe
The University of Geeorgia
zoology department today is in
possession of a 4% foot long, 37
pound wildcat secured the
“hard way.”
Three students were return
ing to school from their home
in Savannah last wnight when
they saw the large animal along
the roadside. They stopped amnd
the wildcat immediately at
tacked Jimmy Williams; how
ever, he was only slightly in
jured. The ’cat was finally sub
dued by Donald Austin, using a
switch-blade knife, and “Mik
ey’ Mollick, who clubbed the
animal.
The youths estimated that it
took 25 minutes to kill the ani
mal, which was found about 15
miles from Athens on the
Washington road. They gave
the wildecat to the zoology de
partment for study.
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Carnival At
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St. Joseph's
St. Joseph’s School on Prince
Avenue will stage a giant carnival
at the school tomorrow afternoon,
starting at 3 o‘clock, it was an
nounced today.
All kinds of refreshments, in
cluding hot dogs and cold drinks,
will be sold at the carnival, and
there will be many games, featur
ing a fishing pond with prizes for
the fishermen. Admission is ten
cents.
Proceeds of the carnival will go
to the St. Joseph's School.
“1 know I have so suffer pun
ishment,” the assistant yice-pres=-
dent of the International Tele
phone and Telegraph Co., said,
“put I hope that the court will
consider my request for a mild
sentence and _also the argumen
tation of my lawyer.”
“The attorney for the 38-year
old businessman admitted to the
court that Vogeler's activities
“caused tears and blood,” but he
said Vogeler's deeds cannot be
considered from the same stand
point as similar deeds by Hun
garian citizens. :
Prosecutor Gyula Alapi, the
same man Who prosecuted Joset
Cardinal Mindszenty and former
Vice Prenmier Laszlo Rajk, called
Vogeler a great spy whose pun
{shment should be commensurate
with his deeds.
Alapi told the Peoples Court
that Vogeler, 38-year-old assist
ant vice-president of the Interna
tional Telephone and Telegraph
Company “is a spy who lost and
was unmasked.”
Alapi made the charge after
nine witnesses had paraded to the
stand to testify that Vogeler and
his co-defendants were guilty of
sabotage and _spying for the
United States intelligence servi-
M"'.” “'r, % i 48
FIRE SETS OFF GAS EXPLOSIONS
Possibility Of Second
Atom Capitol Pondered
Defense Officials State Possible
Underground Nerve Center Planned
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — (AP). — Senator Tydings
(D.-Md.) said today defense officials haye been studying
for some time the advisability of setting up a second U. S.
capital to be used in event of an enemy attack.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Commit
tee discussed the situation after Rep. Holifield (D.-Calif.)
had proposed the establishment of an alternate capital,
perhaps underground. There have been similar suggest
ions in the past, especially from Senator Wiley (R.-Wis.):
Holifield planned to introduce in
the House a joint resolution to
create a seven-member commis
sion. It would study the feasibili
ty of a substitute capitol and re
port to the President and Congress
by January 31, 1951.
Paul J. Larsen, new head of the
Office of Civilian Defense, al
ready is talking of a plan of de
fense which includes scattering of
functions and putting some of
them underground.
Larsen, who takes over March 1,
said at Albuquerue, N. M., yester
day:
“Our first job will be re-location
and re-design of the present gov
erlnmental office setup in the capi
tal.
“Dispersion, even out of the
Washington area, and underground
installations either in or out of the
capital, will be our chief means of
defense.”
Rep. Holifield said in a state
ment prepared for House delivery
that a single bomb on Washington
could paralyze the “nerve center of
our nation.”
Senator Tydings, Incommenting
on Holifield’s plan, said that it
“deserves the greatest study.” He
added:
“This matter has been under
study by high military officials for
some time. In the event his (Holi
doubtedly the commission ‘created
field’s) resolution is adopted, Im
would bring the ideas of the mili
tary before the Congress in con
crete form.” .
Holifield said that the develop
ment of atomic-weapons now has
reached the point where ‘large
cities and their inhabitants can be
destroyed by a single explosfon.”
He noted that in Washington the
White House, Defense Establish
ments, the Capitol, Supreme Court
and vital government departments.
are located “within three square
miles of destruction aceredited to
one atomic bomb—not a hydrogen
bomb.” A
The hydrogen bomb which Mr.
Truman has ordered developed
may be from eight to 1,000 times
more powerful than the present
uranium-plutonium weapon,
The commission Holifield pro
poses would consider (A) possible
sites for a second capital; (B) the
buildings to be constructed “on or
under” any site; (C) what dupli
cate coples of documents and re
cords should be prepared, and
(D) procedures to be followed in
naming successors to high officials
should it beeome necessary to do
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SHIP FIRE
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb.
20—(AP)—Flames swept a dittle
Danish steamship in fo;-cova-ed
Katte%t Strait early today, driv
ing 108 passengers into lifeboats
for safety. L ;
All the passengers — traveling
from Oslo, Norway, to Copenha
gen, aboard the 3,038-ton Kron
prins Olav—were picked up safely
a short time later by a Swedish~-
American liner which answered
the burning vessel’s distress call.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
fire started when a big tank truck was
being filled with propane gas from a
railway tank car. Plant officials said no
one was injured.— (AP Photo.)
5 Persons
Hurt In
Accidents
Five persons were injured in
accidents in Atheng and vicinity
yesterday and today, four of these
being involved in automobile
wrecks.
One man was injured this morn=-
ing in an accident at the Athens
Body and Paint Shop at 1060 Hob
son Avenue. General® Hospital
listed his name William Alewine,
24, of 159 Oak Ridge street. He
was reported suffering from chest
injuries,
Workers at the paint shop said
that Mr. Alewine was working be
neath a car when the jack holding
up the vehicle slipped and the car
fell on him. He was carried to the
hospital by a Bernstein's ambu-~
lance. His condition was listed as
good. ‘
Meanwhile, there were two auto=
mobile accidents in this area yes
terday. The first one occurred
around 4:30 p. m. on the Neese
road near Ila. Three persons rid
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DOCTORRELAXED, WIFEGRIM
Picking Of Mercy Case Jury Begins
MANCHESTER, N. H., Feb. 20
—(AP)—The mercy. killing trial of
country doctor Hermarn N, Sander
opened today and the searching
task of picking a jury barred spec
tators. from theé courtroom. . ]
Uniformed policemen turned
away all except those with official
passes. o
Dr. Sander is charged with first
degree murder in the death of his
cancer patient, Mrs. Abbie Bor
roto, 59. He is accused of injecting
air into her veins just béfore she
died last Dec. 4..
The doctor wore a smile of con
fidence and a bright red scarf as
he arrived at the red-brick court
house. With him wag his wife, who
has stood loyally by his side, and{
two defense lawyers. |
Dr. Sander—clean shaven and
looking chipper—seemed com
pletely relaxed. e
But his wife looked grim. ..
» They walked to the courthouse
after meeting earlier at the law
office of Chief Defense Counsel
Loouis Wyman a block away, .
. A total of 162 veniremen, with
five women volunteers among
them, marched under escort to the
courthouse.
. Court Clerk Arthur S. Healy ex~
plained that no; spectatirs i woulel
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1950.
Chinese
100,000 Assault
Reds For Excessive
Rice Requisitioning
TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 20 —
(AP) — The Nationalist Defense
Ministry today said 100,000 farm
ers revolted in the Tungting Lake
region of Hunan province killing
many Communists.
The Ministry said the revolt was
sparked by excessive requisition
ing of rice by tne Chinese Com
munists. The revolt occurred in
the heart of the main rice growing
district of China.
At the same time the ministry
announced the return of Nation
alist Gunboat 38 which had gone
over to the Reds in October. The
gunboat was said so be operating
with the Nationalist fleet in the
South China Sea.
The communication ministry an
nounced an agreement had been
reached whereby Washington had
revoked an order for the seizure
of Chinese merchant ships under a
mortgage to the United States. The
ministry said instailments and in
terest on the mortgage had been
paid through the end of last year
by the Nationalist government. -
Yesterday three Nationalist
Mitchell bombers damaged a pow=
er plant at Nanking, scoring a hit
on a big transformer.
The raid followed Nationalist
warnings to 10 Red China cities
that they would be bombed. Nan
king was the Nationalist capital
until a year ago. Some foreign
diplomats still live there.
The raid on Nanking was made
from the Chusan Islands, 100 miles
southeast of Shanghai.
Dispatches from Hainan Island,
off the coast of South China, said
Nationalist warplanes based there
resumed their attacks Sunday on
potential Red invasion craft along
the Liuchow peninsula. Scores of
junks and other small craft were
reported sunk.
R. C. Burton s
Taken By Death
R. C. Burton, agent here for the
Sinclair oOil Company for the
past twelve years, died in a local
hospital at noon today. Mr. Bur
ton was 59 years old and suffered
a heart attack at his home at 235
Milledge Heights this morning at
3 o'clock.
Funeral arrangements have not
yet been completed and will be
announced later by Bridges Fun=-
eral Home. Burial will be in the
cemetery at Colbert.
Mr. Burton is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Clara Hix Burton,
Athens; two daughters, Mrs. Ern
est Daniel, Athens, and Mrs. Cal
vin Langford, Danielsville; son,
Joe Burton, echief clerk in the
office of Secretary of State in
Atlanta; sister, Mrs. H. C. Jack
son, Washington, Ga.; nephew,
Major Burton Chandler, Fort
Belvoir, Va.,, and three grand
children, Joneita and Betty Jane
Daniel, both of Athens, and Mary
Burton Langford, Danielsville.
A native of Madison ' county,
Mr, Burton had been a resident
of Athens since 1828 and during
that time . made many friends
whoh\vere shocked to learn of his
death. ‘
be admitted until a jury is select
ed, .
¢“There’s- no room for them,”
Healy explained.
International attention is focused
on the .case .because of the
euthanasia—mercy killing—angle.
Press representatives from the
major cities of the United States
and England are on hand to record
the details of the trial that will
unfold in a 45-year old red brick
courthouse in this typically New
England industrial city.
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Garden Series
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“Your Garden,” a* 12-part
sketch-and-text series for home
gardeners, begins on the Athens
Banner-Herald farm page today
and will be published on the page
every Monday".
Author of the series by NEA
Service is Arnold M. Davis, di
rectdr of the Garden Center of
Greater Cleveland and horticul
ture expert.
. The garden articles appear in
easy-to-follow strip style. It cov
ers all phases of gardening, in
cluding lawns, . flowers, vegeta
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An attack on two pilots fly
ing Miss Willie Jane Frost
{above) im a charter plane from
New York to Palm Beach, Fla,,
forced the fliers to make an
emergency landing at Wash
ington, D. C., to have their un
controllable passenger removed.
She was reported recovering
from her hysterical outburst
following her removal fto a
Washington hospital, — (AP
Wirephoto.)
Violence Breaks Qut
In Soft Coal Fields
Two Kentucky Mine Operators Beaten
By 100 Men; Equipment Is Damaged
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20.— (AP) —Violence broke out
in the soft coal fields today as renewed defiance cf miners
to work commands pushed their strike into its seventh
week. 5"
~ Two operators of a Kentucky mine’s processing plant
were beaten and equipment was damaged near Barbour
ville by a band of about 100 men.
Owners Douglas Blair and
Douglas Noonan said they were at
tacked after telling the men the
plant was operating without a
contract but under the Taft-Hart
ley Act.
"The operators said they were
beaten on the heads with pistol
butts. Noonan was hospitalized.
The band upset office furniture,
ransacked . files, overturned com-=-
pany trucks and ran one truck in
to a coal elevator.
Over the nation, only a handful
of strikers even tried to work.
They gave up under prodding of
roving pickets.
Defying stop-strike orders from
both the government and John L.
Lewis, United Mine Workers
ignored back to work whistles in
all big soft coal producing states.
Near Bellaire, 0., about a dozen
diggers reported at one mine, But
they turned and went home with
out picking up their tools.
A little group of diggers appear=
ed at a pit near Pageton, W. Va,,
pickets persuaded them to leave.
Reports from all fields showed
the strike is as strong as ever with
some 372,000 refusing to work
without a contract.
The coal states of Alabama, Illi
nois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Vir=
inia, Indiana, Ohio, Colorado,
%Jyoming and Montana all said no
UMW mines are working except
those few which signed new con
tracts on Lewis’ terms.
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Government Studies
Miner Contempt Move
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — (AP) — Federal Judge
Richmond B. Keech today issued a new no-strike order
against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, It
runs until March 3. R e
Keech has had a “stop strike” order out since February
11, but the 372,000 miners have ignored it,
Lewis himself has observed it to the extent of twice
génding instructions to the miners that they should go
back to work. : 4
The miners’ refusal to obey the order has the govern
ment casting about for possible new actions to get coal
mined. One move that is a possibility is contempt action
against the United Mine Workers. That could result in
big fines on the union. .
There has also been talk in Con=
gress of legislation to let the gov
ernment seize the mines. But
Democratic leaders are not taking
to that idea.
House Speaker Rayburn (D.-
Tex. said after a conference of
legislative leaders with President
Truman today that the President
has no plans to ask such authority.
Mr. Truman said he does not want
it.
Senate Democratic Leader Lucas
(Il1.) said he had not heard any
talk of seizure legislation by the
administration. :
Rayburn said there was only
general discussion of the coal sit
uation at the White House con
ference. He said Mr. Truman told
Atomic Sub
WASHINGTON, Feb, 20—(AP)
—An informed source disclosed
today that the United States is
pushing plans to start construction
of what it hopes will, be the
‘world’s first atomic-powdered
submarine.
This source sald that discussions
are underway between the Navy
and the Electric Boat Corporation
“at Groton, Conn,, in regard to con
struction of a submarine hull in
which could be installed an atomic
-energy reactor that may be de
veloped by the Atomic Energy
' Commission. The company built
'many of the Navy’s submarines in
World War 11.
The discussions were described
as so far advanced that quite like~
ly Congress will be asked to add
an appropriation for the work to
the 1951 Navy budget for the year
beginning July 1. Some lawmakers
said a week ago that a race be
tween the U. S. and Russia to be
first to develép an atomic-power
ed sub was a possible complication
in efforts to produce a hydrogen
bomb, |
The Atomic Energy Commission
in a report last month revealed
that considerable progress has
been made toward developing re
actors suitable for submarine or
ship propulsion. Study is also be
ing made on a proposed reactor
for aircraft.
Nuclear reactors are machines
for putting nuclear energy to work
under controlled conditions. In
contrast, an atomic bomb explosion
is instantaneous, an uncontrolled
nuclear reaction.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and continwed rather
cold today and tonight. Tues
day fair and warmer. Low fo
night 32 and high tomorrow 38.
Sun sets at 6:20 and rises to
morrow at 7:13.
GEORGIA — Continued fair
through Tuesday. Cooler in
south portion this afternoon,
and continued cool in the north.
Rather cold again tonight with
frost. Low temperatures tonight
28 to 34 in north portion and 34
to 38 in south. Warmer Tues
day,
TEMPERATURE
Wahewt .. .. 0 B
oWt . e
BN .5 s e e
Normal ... .l 98
RAINTFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since February 1 ... 1.47
Deficit since February 1 .. 2.12
Average February rainfall . 5.09
Total since January 1 .... 4.60
Deficit since January ‘ll .. 3.55
HOME
EDITION
them he was “expecting some kind
of report” later today on the situa
tion. Presumably, this is a report
from his fact-finding board and
mediation officials keeping in
touch with developments.
In Congress, there was senti=
ment expressed in the Senate for
legislation permitting the governe
ment to seize the mine in an effort
to end the strike. Some lawmake
ers noted that the Senate already
had included such a provision in a
Taft-Hartley substitute which was
never acted on by the House.
No Power !
President Truman said twe
weeks ago—and the White House
repeated Saturday—that the Presi=
dent doesn’t have gseizure powsr
now and doesn’t want it. 5
But the question of a contempt
citation against the union was an
other matter etirely.
Some officials said there seemed
no point in walting tonger to ask
for court action. They called at
tention to estimates of less than &
10-day coal supply for the nation,
adding that it could take all week
to complete a contempt proceeding.
Other officials said that, even if
the men indicated a desire to go
back, it would take several days to
prepare the abandoned mines for
production. Even maintenance
men have been refusing to work.
Administration sources specus
-lated Lewis himself probably
would escape any confempt penw
alty, because he has twice asked
the men to return. But this
wouldn’t necessarily be a defense
for the union. It has been held
that a union is responsible for the
mass action of its members.
Lewis and coal operators were
due to resume contract talks in
mid-afternoon (2 p. m., EST).
But these court-ordered negotia~
tions apparently were not pro
gressing very fast.
Coal operators declined to eon=
firm reports that they have made
their first money offer to the un
ion. For his part, Lewis hoisted
his demands last week. This ar~
tion was to replace contract goals
the union was barred from seek
ing by Judge Keech, om the
ground that they are probably
illegal.
One favorable slgn in the mego
tiations was the report from
ernment observers that &
sides had at least gotten to grips
with the issues, even if they
were still arguing hotly abeut
them. ¢
In the eight months of union=
operator talks neither side would
budge from fixed positions and
Lewis never gave his demands in
any details. Now he has asked
for wage and welfare fund beests,
plus a 200-day work guarantee
every year for the miners, and a
7% hour day.
One demonstration of the ef
fects of the coal shortage was the
rationing of coal in New York
City. A brown-out to save elee=-
tric power made fromr coal went
into effect throughout New York
state last night. Industrial as
well as home users of coal in
many places over the nationm re
ported serious shortages. -
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DEATH TRAIN
Motorman
Reported
Still Dazed
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y.
Feb. 20— (AP) —A dazed fi
grief-stricken motorman, :
for a railroad collision in which
29 persons were killed and 108
others injured, was ordered into
court today on a manslaughter
charge.
Authorities said, however, that
the doctor attending the meotors
man, Jacob Kiefer, 55, told the
policeman on duty at the metor
man’s home that Kiefer was in
no condition to be arraigned and
might not be for a week. Nassau
county officials were attempting
to reach the physician, Dr. James
Weitzer, for official confirmation.
Kiefer was placed. under arrest
at his home after Friday night's
crackup on the Long Island Rail
road—the worst railroad wreck
in the nation since 1946. :
Nassau County Distriet 1 :
ney Frank A. Gulotta said Kiefer
drove his train - through one red
light, and possibly two, hefore
two electric commuter trains
crashed on a temporary g
Thirty-eight of the injured re
mained in hospitals toc 17 of
them in critical condi LAk