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MARGARET TRUMAN A TRUE DIPLOMAT IN FLORIDA
Margaret Truman, the President’s
daughter, proves herself to be areal
diplomat in handling a certain little sit
uation at ‘Miami, Fla. Florida’s U. S.
Senator Claude Pepper and his opponent,
Rep. George Smathers, were at a recep
tion in honor of Miss Truman after her
apnearance as guest soloist with the
Coal Miners Treasury Threatened
By Defiance Of Back-To-Work Order
Miners-Not Lewis-Cited In Contempt
Of Court; Hearing Scheduled Friday |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—(AP)—The entire treasury
of the striking coal miners, variously figured at $13,000,-
000 to $20,000,000, was endangered today by their defi
ance of a court order once again to end a coal strike.
Reports from the coal fields showed a spirit of rebel
lious indifference to the situation. %
City Court
The first day of city _court
closed yesterday after disposing of
a heavy opening day docket, with
Judge Arthur S. Oldham presid
ing,
Cases heard included:
Fred Washington, -colored, gos
sessing whiskey, $l5O fine and 12
months probation; James H. Fam
brough, speeding, $39.76 fine; Cor
dia Glenn, colored, possessing
whiskey, SSOO fine, 12 months pro
bation; Mack Young, colored, pos
sessing whiskey, §750 fine, 18
months probation; Lindsey Robert
Tanksley, driving under influence
of intoxicants, S2OO fine, Six
months probation, six suspension
six months suspension of driver’s
Coleman TFloy Smith, driving
under influence of intoxicants,
S2OO fine, six months grobatlon,
sixmonths suspension of driver’s
license; Andrew J. Brewer, driv
ing under influence of intoxicants,
S2OO ine six months probation
S2OO fine, six months qrobation,
license; Walter Bonds, colored, pos
liquor, S3OO fine, 12 months pro
probation,
Robert Rouse, drunk on higx
way, $42.28 fine; Archie Watkins,
abandonment of minor ehildren,
12 months probation, $8 per week
for support of children; Mattie
Sue Fberhart, colored, possessing
liquor, 300 fine, 12 months pro
bation,
Bench warrants are out for the
srrest of the following, who have
tlready forfeited bonds:
Charlie Walls, abondonment of
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Falr and warmer tonight with
# low temperature of 44, Wed
nesday ghowers followed by
colder weather, High tempera
ture Wednesday 88, San sets
this afterncon at 6:21 o’clock
and pises Wednesday st 7:12.
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GEORGIA—FaIr and warmer
this afternoow and tonight.
Wednesday, partly eloudy and
Varm with showers over north
portion, fwrning eolder in
Rorthern seetion Wednesday
u’ternoon.
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TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Miami Symphony Orchestra. Margaret
was asked to appear with the candidates
for photographs. SBhe insisted she appear
with both of them at the same time of not
at all.- Then she took Pepper (left) and
Smathers (right) by the arm—and here’s
the picture.— (AP Wirephoto.)
The United Mine Workers—but
not President John L. Lewis per
sonally—were cited for contempt
of court here yesterday by Judge
Richmond B. Keech, who had is
sued the back-to-work order.
The union was given until Fri
day to clear itself of contempt by
getting the 372,000 idle miners
back to work. Union lawyers were
told to explain Friday, if the
men are still out.
That didn’t seemr to bother the
miners. They expressed such
comments in the Pennsylvania
fields as, “Nobody is going to pay
any attention to a contempt cita
tion.” Another: “Let them fine us
until our money is gone.”
Mine* disorders were reported,
especially in eastern Kentucky.
If the union doesn’t comply
with the back to work order by
Friday, to the satisfaction of the
court, it will mean a hearing
Monday before Judge Keech. The
UMW could be fined any amount
the judge deems proper. If still
out next Monday the strikers will
have been in defiance of the
court order for two weeks, The
order was renewed yesterday un=
til March 3.
The union paid $2,120,000 in
two fines for similar scrapes with
the courts in 1946 and 1948,
Rich Holdings
Judge Keech could wipe out
the UMW’s rich holdings, built
from almost nothing since 1933.
These assets consist of huge bank
accounts, four valuable Washing
ton office buildings only a couple
of blocks from the White House,
bonds and bank stocks.
Lewis was held responsible
along with the union both previ=-
ous times. He has met the court
orders this time. Two communi=-
ques from Lewis failed to get the
miners back on the job. They in
sisted on lifting again their tra
ditional war-cry: “No contract, no
work.” They have been without a
contract since the old one expir
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HOUSE WENT UP IN PUFF
Seven Children Die In Farm Fire
ADDISON, Mich., Feb. 21—(AP)
—A fire devoured a farm house
near here early today, killing sev
en children and their father.
The only survivor of the middle=
of-the-night blaze was the mother,
who was badly burned.
Evidently, firemen said, the {wo
story frame building went up like
a g\fifl.
e vietims:
%armer Gerald Beagle, 44.
s children: Geraldine, 14;
Bearbara Jean, 12; Eloise, 10; Nor
me Mae, 9; Paul, 6; Willlam, 5, and
Linda, 28-months old baby.
The mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bea
-5:3 burned and eut in a flight
ugh a window, was in serious
condition at a hospital here.
The blaze, believed caused by &
defective basement furnace, broke
out about.l:3o & m. in near-zero
temperature.
WGAU FM Offers
Play-By-Play Q.
AHS Tournament
" WGAU FM will broadcast the
Athens High Regional tourna
ment games here Wednesday
and Thursday nights, it was
announced today.
The first game will be broad
cast tomorrow night at 9 o’clock
featuring Athens High against
Stephens County High, Should
Athens win this contest they
will meet the winner of the
Elberton-Toccoa g a m e on
Thursday night. 3
Sportscasters Ed Thilenius
and Bob Oliver will present the
play-by-play account of these
games from the Athens High
RN e &
WGAU FM is 99.5 megacycles
on your dial.
Indcations at the Chamber of
Commerce this morning were that
tickets for the 44th Annual Din
ner Meeting of the organization
would be completely sold out be
fore tomorrow night. Only a few
were unclaimed at noon today and
the committee in charge an
nounced that the ticket sales would
close tomorrow afternoon at §
o'clock in order that a definite
count might be given to the ladies
at the Y.W.C.A. who are looking
after the dinner, to be held Thurs
day night at 7 o'clock.
In addition to the address of
Hughes Spalding, prominent At
attorney and Chairman of the
University System Board of Re
gents, the invocation will be de
livered by the Reverend J. O. Mc~
lanta attorney and chairman of the
livered by the Reverend J. W. O.
McKibben, Pastor of the First
Methodist Church, and the first
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Two fire trucks dashed over}
winter-rutted roads the two miles
from the little’ community of Ad
dison. Smouldering ruins were all
that remained.
Tt was starkest fragedy.
“Tt must have been all afire be
fore we were even called,” said as
sistant fire chief Hugh Dennis,
“All we found was flaming debris
in the basement.”
Victims Buried
Only one sidewall remained up
right. Room and floors had toppled
into the basement, burying the
eight victims.
It was a considerable time be
fore firemen &nd state police could
begin removing the bodies.
Barefoot and bleeding from cuts
on her face and hands, Mrs. Bea&
l;;& rm'\‘:l frantically thr&mh
‘ .and SnNow, a 2,
home 80 rods aw:&"”bfr.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CE NTURY
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950.
U.S. Businessman Given
15 Years On Spy Charge
Vogeler Plans Appeal;
Hungarians Get Death
An American business man was sentenced to 15 years
in prison and a British associate to 13 years by a Hungar
ian court today after they abjectly confessed guilt en gpy
charges.
The Hungarian manager of the International Telephone
and Telegraph Company’s Budapest branck and another
Hungarian national accused in the same spy plot were
sentenced to death.
Robert A, Vogeler, the American
executive of I. T. and T., and Ed
gar Sanders his British aide, con~
fessed to espionage and sabotage.
They said they gathered vital Hun=
garian defense secrets to pass on
to American and British intelli
gence.
On pronounceemnt of the sen
tences, the defense announced it
————eee wolld. Appeal to
World News 2 higher court.
The prosecution
Roundup immediately
i oy Dommered itk
that it, too, would appeal—but for
stiffer penalties for the American
and Briton and three other co-de
fendants who did not receive the
death sentence.
Their arrest last November
tightened further the strained re
| lations between the two Western
‘| nations and Hungary.
In New York, Paul Ruedemann,
an executive of the Standard Oil
_Company of New Jersey said Hun
i ) ~:~.‘ ,_,; G & By @’ffi?.
“confess™ through torture, solitary
confinement and threats. Ruede=
mann said “confessiens” were
wrung from him in 1948 before he
was expelled from Hungary.
In Sofia, five Bulgarians, two of
them former employes of the
American legation, were charged
with spying for the United States.
The Communist-controlled press
used the indictment as a signal for
| stepping up its campaign against
the U. S. legation.
Opposing Labor and Conserva
tive leaders in Britain are winding
up their campaign for Thursday’s
election with last minute appeals
to the heavily-taxed and ration
{ weary independent vcters.
The “Floating” vote which has
not yet made up its mind is the
| main target of Prime Minister Att
lee and Winston Churchill, Tory
chieftain.
Churchill claims his call for big
power talks with the Kremlin to
end the world atomic weapons race
has become a major issue in the
campaign. He said the introduc
tion of the international proposal
has struck home to many Britons.
Attlee contended the Labor par
ty was a sound program for peace
| which it will continue to work out
| through the United Nations.
i In Washington, the Economic
| Cooperation Administration chop
.| ped $150,000,000 off its budget for
| the year beginning next July 1.
| Admintstrator Paul Hoffman is ex
| pected to ask Congress to approve
| machinery to pressure Marshall
Plan countries into speeding up
currency exchange to promote eco
nomic advancement. He is in fav
or of a central clearing house to
ease convertibility of European
currencies and thus clear the way
for freer trade.
, Crewmen on an airliner running
between Hong Kong and Hanoi,
Idochina reported today that Com
munist Chinese troops have in
vaded the Nationalist-held island
| of Hainan. They said they saw
violent fighting on the island.
| Hainan and Formosa are the only
major island holdings of the Na
tionalists.
She told firemen she broke a
window to escape. On the ground
outside she said she heard her
trapped children screaming in
their upstairs- bedrooms.
Bloody Footprints
So swiftly did the fire spread
that by the time her neighbor,
George Miller, had raced to the
burning home there was no chance
of rescue. Miller followed Mrs.
Beagle’s blood-marked footprints
to the house.
Dennis said the fire department
in town got the alarm at 1:50 a. m.
Racing over frozen eounty roads,
broken by recent thaws, the
town’s two fire trucks reached the
home in “no more than four min
utes,” Dennis said.
“But whén we got there it was
all in flames. It was an old frame
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By The Associated Press
Spotlight
0 C mmies
Lack Of Water, Teo
Many Potatoes Also
Trouble Lawmakers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—(AP)
—The fight against Communism at
home and abroad again occupied
the spotlight in Congress today.
Not enough water and too many
potatoes, changes in presidential
election methods, and a look-see at
congressmen’s payrolls™ were
among the variety of other sub
jeets under discussion.
Secretary of State Acheson and
ECA Director Paul G. Hoffman
went before a joint meeting of
“Jouse and Senute foreign eommit
tees to argue against any whole
sale cuts in the European aid pro
| gram.
The adr-inistration has pared
$150.000,0Cv from it’s request for
$3,100,000,000 to help European
nations stand against Communist
- gconomic pres
sure during the
co“gres’ year starting
Roundup July 1. Many
e JeEiEIRtOTS B AV €
talked of much deeper cuts, es
pecially from funds for Britain
whose economic and social pro
grams they oppose.
Acheson faced almost certain
questioning also on charges by
Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) that
a “Big Three” Russian spy ring is
operating in the State Departmerit.
The department denied previous
charges by McCarthy that it em
ployed a number of card-carrying
Communists.
Senate Majority Leader Lucas
(D.-111.) called on the Foreign Re
lations Committee to sift McCar
thy’s accusations that the depart
ment employed now or in the past,
81 Communists.
McCCarthy, throughout a five
hour running word battle with Sen.
Lucas in the Senate last night, re
fused repeatedly to name his sus
pects. He said a “Big Three,”
composed of a woman and two
men, directed “an espionage ring
in the State Department.” :
- The House Un~-American Activi
ties Committee called a former
FBI agent—nine years undercover
in the Communist Party—to tell
what he had discovered of Com
munist activities. ,
Water Fight
A quarter-century fight over
water was up for Senate vote late
today. Arizona wants the Colora
do river water flowing into Cali
fornia to irrigate its farm land.
California says it needs all the
water it can get. The multi-mil
lion dollar proposal before the
Senate would use the diverted
water both for power and irriga
tion.
More discussion was slated in
the Senate on government potato
purchases. . Tacked on to a bill
increasing cotton acreage allot
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Zoology Department Questions
-
Students Story Of “Big"” ‘Cat
For the sake of accuracy the Zoology Department of the Uni
versity of Georgia reported today that "the 37-pound wildcat,
which according to three students in a story in yesterday’s Ban
ner-Herald, had attacked them, actually weighed 13% pounds.
Also, a member of the department said, if the students’ story
of the attack is as accurate as some of their answers on recent
quizzes, then zoological circles are quite skeptical of the whole
story.
“In other words, the autopsy suggested that the animal had
been well run over by a car (and probably dead) prior to the
alleged attack, and therefore, should not have been difficult
for three men to subdue,” a zoology faculty member added.
“If, on the other hand, the boys stick to their story, then it is
recommended that they consult a physician at once about taking
rabies treatments, since only a very mad cat would likely make
an unprovoked attack on a hunran being, much less three of
them,” the zoology faculty member concluded.
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Gordon Persons of Montgomery is campaigning for
the governorship of Alabama in a rented helicopter. He
says he’s using the aircraft to “drop in” on voters
throughout the state. Persons is one of 12 candidates
seeking the Democratic nomination for governor.—
(AP Photo.)
BELATED CHALLENGE
Dismiss British - B
isimiss Pritish - born
Juror In Mercy Trial
MANCHESTER, N. H., Feb. 21, — (AP) — A British
born juror—the oldest of nine seated so far in the Sander
“mercy killing” trial—was dismissed today after the pros
ecution raised a belated challenge.
Counsel for Dr. Herman N. Sander offered no objec
tions to removing 72-year-old Albert Baines, a retired
Manchester Gas Company employe who came to this coun
try about 40 years ago. e i e
Baines —a Presbyterian —was
one of the three Protestants among
the first nine jurors chosen yester
day to try Sanders on a charge of
murder for pumping air into a
hopeless cancer paitent to end her
suffering.
After a conference of an hour
and a quarter with defense coun
sel and prosecutors, Judge Harold
E. Wescott returned to the court
room to announce:
“The state has requested the
right to challenge the last juror
seated yesterday. The defense of
fered no objections. The request
is granted.”
The reason for -the state’s re
quest was not explained.
The 41-year-old country doctor
—a former Dartmouth ski cap
tain remained calm during the
long and monotonous opening day
proceedings. His attractive wife
sat beside him.
The state charges Dr. Sanders
injected 40 cubic centimeters of
air into the veins of Mrs. Abbie
Borrote, 59, wife of a Manchester
oil salesman, as she lay on a bed
of pain at Hillsborough county
hospital last december. |
The injections, the indictment
says, were given four times in
quick succession and in sufficient
quantities to cause death.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Avea
Six of the nine juror: selected
yesterday are Catholics. The other
three recorded their denomina
tions as Protestant Episcopalian,
Baptist and Presbyterian. They
represent several racial groups.
Only once during the initial
proceedings was the word “mercy
killing” used in court. A prospec
tive juror William R. Connolly
of Manchester, was excused by
Judge Ralph E. Wescott after he
told the court: I'm a Catholic and
against mercy killings.”
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4 Fires Keep
.
Firemen Busy
Three grass fires and a chimney
burning out-—all of which caused
no damage — kept firemen busy
late yesterday and today.
Early this afternoon they went
to Ruth street to a grass fire. Late
yesterday they were called to grass
fires on Oconee street and West
over Drive.
This morning firemen answered
a call to a residence on Hopson
avenue where a chimney was
burning out.
Annual Press Institute
To Open Here Tomorrow
The 22nd annual Georgia Press
Institute will open on the Univer
sity of Georgia campus tomor
row night.
Announced plans include over ao
dozen well-known speakers,
round-table, dinners, luncheons,
andd other entertainment.
While cn the campus, editors
will attend weekly Appreciation,
a regular Thursday night program
under the direction of Hugh Hodg
son, head of the music department.
For the first time in Georgia,
front pages of all state newspapers
will be displayed in the eGorgia
Museum of Art, Alfred H. Hol
brook, curator, has announced.
The undergraduates are Richard
Asworth, Alan Patreau and Sloan
Hill, Atlanta; Bill Simpson and
Charles Moore, :Athens; . Minox
HOME
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Break - OH
Since War
WASHINGTON, Feb., 21—(AP)
—The United States broke diplo=
matic relations today with Com~
munist Bulgaria.
American Minister Donald R.
Heath and other U. S. representa=
tives in Sofia were ordered home.
The break climaxes a dispute
with Bulgaria over Communist at
tacks on Heath and a demand from
the Bulgarian government for his
recall.
Bulgaria was directed to with=-
draw its small diplomatic mission
in Washington,
It is the first time the United
States had broken diplomatic rela=
tions with any nation since the
war,
The U. 8. decision was com~
municated to the Bulgarian gove
ernment at Sofia yesterday, Vou~
tov was summoned to the State
Department. today and informed
of the action.
He was directed to make ar
rangements to leave the United
States with other members of the
legation and their families.
After talking with Llewellyn i
Thompson, deputy assistant see- g
retary for European affairs, Vou=
tov told reporters “I think the
break is complete.” He said there
are 12 members of the legation
staff, including dependents, and
that all probably would leave i
| early in-Mareh. fok
Burton Services i
Set Wednesday
Services for R. C, Burton, wfi i
known Athens business man, will ||
be conducted Wednesday morning |
at 11 o’clock from Colbert Bap~ |
tist Church with Rev. A, E. Lo=-
gan, pastor of the church, and |
Rev. W. R. Coile offigiating. i
The body will lie in state in
the church at Colbert from 10:30
o'clock. Mr, Burton died in a |
local hospital Monday at poon
following a heart attack earlier
in the day at his home. He was
59 years old. i
Burial will follow in Colbers
cemetery, Bridges Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements. Pall= =
bearers will be Alton Flanagan,
Harold Christopher, Herbert O’=
Dillon, Walter Crawford, Grady 9{-3
Henson and Tony Costa. ? f
An honorary escort will im~
clude members of the Sinclair Of =
Company organization and of |
Athens Lodge No. 790 B. P. O. I
Elks and the United Commercial
Travelers. £
Surviving Mr. Burton is his
wife, Mrs. Clara Hix Burton, |
Athens; two daughters, Mrs,
Ernest Daniel, Athens, and Mrs.
Calvin Langford, Danielsville;
son, Joe Burton, Atlanta; sister, .
Mrs. H. C. Jackson, Washington, @
Ga.; brother, J. H. Burtem, St |
Petersburg, Fla.; nephew, Ma= |
jor Burton Chandler, Fort Bels |
voir, Va.; and three gramdehile =
dren, Joneita and Betty Jane i é
Daniel, both of Athens, and Mar
“fi Burton Langford, Demiels =%‘
ville, 40F
Born in Madison county, Mr. }
Burton came to Athens im 1927
and had been connected with the
oil industry since, for the last
twelve years heading the Sinclair
Oil Company .agency for the Ath
ens division, He resided st 238 @
Milledge Circle. t
He was a member of Celbert |
Baptist Church and of the Elks
and United Commercial Travele
ers. Mr. Burton was a member
of one of Madison county’s most
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Shadburn, Thomaston; Julisa
Clark, Moultrie; Charles Martin, 1 ‘
Belton, S. C.; Otis Hughes, Mueons
John Ponnington, Andersowville;
Millard Grimes, éolumbu; Char
les Glenn, Cairo; and J. David
Cook, Ocala, Fla..
The }Erefossional members are
Elmo Hoster, Atlanta Journal;
D. B. Turner, Bulloch Times,
Statesboro; Roy F. Chalker, The
True Citizen, Waynesboro; Charles ;
T. Graves, Tri-County Advertisor,
Clarkesville, T: ~mas m :
milla Enterprise; Sam y M
Atlanta Constitution; Q. B. Cope- |
land, editor, Georgia Ageleviyal
Extension Qmice, Athens;” San
ders Camp, Walton ‘l‘% A
roe ; and R. M. Edge,
County Press; Jaspery ;. cieitoo b