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Here the Trojan starting five (left to right), Bill Compton, Dickie Carteaux, Warren Annual Georgia Press Institute Opens On University Campus Today Tieup Fails WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(AP) —Government mediation of the nationwide telephone dispute ran into stone-wall resistance today. Only quick White House inter vention appeared as a possibility to head off the walkout of 100,000 workers Friday. Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Communications Workers of America, told a Nashville audi ence last night that the walkout seems inevitable. Conciliation Director Cyrus S. Ching reported the stalemate in peace efforts to the White House last night. His plans for bringing the West ern Electric Company representa tives into the same room here with the CIO-Communications Workers vesterday were rebuffed. The com pany said it would negotiate only in New York, where it has been meeting for weeks in fruitless bar gaining sessi with the union. The unlongﬁs'bresenmtives; who stood by all day yesterday while Ching argued with company of ficials to sit down with the union in his office, refused to return to New York for talks here. Deadline Nears The hours ticked away toward the deadline for a mnationwide telephone strike at 6 a, m., local fime, Friday. The last countrywide phone strike was in 1947, by the same union, then the National Federation of Telephone Workers, an independent organization. Now the union, under the lead ership of Beirne, is affiliated with (Continued On Page Two) IN “MERCY” TRIAL State Won't Request Sander Death Pencally MANCHESTER, N. H., Feb. 22— (AP)—The State of New Hamp shire s not going to ask the ex freme penalty in the “mercy death” murder trial of Dr. Her mann N. Sander, County Prosecutor William H. Craig disclosed last night the Gov frnment did not plan to seek death by hanging —the maximum sen tence for murder In the first de- Erce—ln the case of the 41-year -old country doector, The Sg}t'e charges Dr. Sander hastened the death of Mrs™ Abbie Borrotp, 59-year old incurable can~ ¢er patient, by Injecting air into hf F veins' % Unless the prosecution asks for 'he most severe punishment, the JUry—not yet completed—cannot Make such a recommendation. ,Under New Hampshire law f¢ath by hanging is imposed only on the ju:’?l recommendation. Otherwige, the penalty for eonvic oo of first degree murder is life 'Mprisonment, “ralg is assisting Attorney Gen= #7al William L., Pginney in prose 2 Wgliarn L., Plindiey WOgitcbe- {Wmes Protestanth: R U e R e Athens High Tournament Game On WGAU FM Tonight At 9 P.M. ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service Thurmond, Frederick Leathers and Ted Short, confer with Coach Arnold DeLa- Perriere. Not shown, but expecting action during the tournament are Charlie Par rott, Sonny Suddath, Jimmy Williams, Jerry Price, C. W. Marlow, Henry West, and Pat Bowden. See story on Sports Page.— (Photo by Ed Thilenius.) el oo phnar e ielen D EGRRG alel The 22nd Georgia Press Institute will open here late this afternoon and continue through Saturday morning with several outstanding journalists speaking daily in Chapel sessions to Georgia editors, University students and townspeople. Chapel addresses will be held every morning and the afternoon sessions will consist of round-table discussion groups held in the Georgian Hotel. Program for the annual Press Institute in the Chapel Thursday will be as follows: 10 a. m.—Robert P. Tristram Coffin, author, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner. ; 11:05 a. m.—Benjamin M. Me- Kelway, editor, The Washington Star and president of the Amer can Society of Newspaper Edi tors. 12:05 p. m.—Robert Nixon, In ternational News Service White House correspondent and presi dent of the White House Corres pondents Association. TEditors will be entertained by the Georgia Athletic Association, with Coach Wallace Butts and staff as hosts, this afternoon at the Georgian Hotel at 5 o’clock. Dinner Tonight A dinner will be given tonight by the University of Georgia and Athens Rotary Club at Snelling Hall on the south campus, with music presented by the University Music Department. Edward Tom linson, foremost authority on inter=- American affairs, will be the speaker. He will address the group on “Our New Destiny in the Amer jcas.” Other gournalists and publie leaders who will speak during the Institute are Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Pultizer prize - winning poet; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington star and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Robert Nix on, prseident, White House Cor respondents’ Association; Ww. C. Tucker, editor, Columbus Enquir-~ cuting the case #n ‘which world wide attention is focused. He said an agreement had been reached, even before selection of prospec tive jurors began, not to ask the death penalty. Ten jurors had been chosen when the second day of court ad journed yester day afternoon. Judge Harold E. Wescott expressed the belief the remaining two jurors and an alternate would be added to the panel this morning. Judge Wescott, at day’s end yes terday, again asked newsmen not to report anything on the questions and answers that occur -in the ex amination of prospective jurors. The purpose of the court-im posed censorship was to make cer tain prospective jurors yvet to be callecf would not be informed of the nature of the questiors. » One venireman at a time is be ing examined in the absence of the others from the courtroom. Seven of the 10 jurors £0 far chosen are Catholics; the other three Protestants. e.r’ oy - J. Leroy Thompson, Wall Street Journal; Lawrence Laybourne, chief of the newsbureau of Life magazine; Floyd Taylor, director, American Press Institute; Robert C. Ruark, sydicated columnist; Ernest Rogers, Atlanta Journal columnist. Robert Shellenberg, Saturday Evening Post; Lee Rogers, man aging editor, Atlanta Constitution; Guy Tiller, Atlanta Journal sports (Continued On Page Two) CLOSE VOTE PREDICTED Last - Minute Hustle In British Elections LONDON, Feb. 22.— (AP) —A lot of doorbells were ringing today in a last minute hustle for those extra votes needed in what looks like a neck-and-neck general elec tion in Britain tomorrow. : Party workers were out in force to urge support from those Britons who hadn’t made up their minds. AT ¥ TRk G AAT LLB el il TUREATE bt Y i Leadérs of the two major po litical parties in this critical fight for power —the Laborites of Prime Minister Attlee and the Conservatives of Winston Church ill—agreed the race would be close but each side expressed confidence of victory. Both parties were urging a heavy poll to insure a better ma jority for themselves. About 34,~ 000,000 of Britain’s 50,000,000 population are qualified to vote for the 625 members of the House of Commons. T.abor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips told party doorbell . Former Athenian e ; Dies In Texas Mys. Mary Lumpkin Weeks, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin, sr., of this city, died early . today in Houston, Texas, Memorial Hospital, where she was taken yesterday morning suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Burial will be in Oconee Hill cemetery, the date to be announ ced later. Mrs. Weeks is survived by two children, Mrs. Charles Winbrow, Arlington, Va., and Henry Atkin son, Houston, with whom she was making her home; two sisters, Mrs. J. S. Russell-Rigby, Holly wood, Fla., and Mrs. Stephen C. Upson, Greensboro, Ny C.: and three brothers, Gerdine Lumpkin, Washington, D. C.; E. K. Lump kin, Jackson, Miss., and n. Lumpkin, Athens. A native of Athens Mrs. Weeks attended local schools and Lucy Cobb - Institute. She mmrried Henry W. Atkimson, wlﬁ died many years ago and later she was married to Charles Weeks, She resided in Washington for many years and for the past two years had resided in Houston, Texas, where her son Is in business. SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950, Government Ponders Possible Contempt Move Against Lewis New Action Foreseen As Negotiations Bog WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—(AP)—Thwarted thus far in its effort to produce coal by court order, the govern ment today was reported considering contempt action directly against John L. Lewis and his top lieutenants. A federal contempt of court citation — which named the striking United Mine Workers as a union but not the officers—has brought ne results in two days except fur ther fuel famine, more plant shutdowns and scattered violence. Negotiations here droned on. The bargaining sessions grew shorter and the recesses longer. No progress was visible; demand grew for federal seizure of the mines. - But a responsible government official said the Justice Depart ment first may try “filing some more papers” to broaden the con tempt case. He suggested that Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech may be asked to add the mames of Lewis and some of UMW’s 24 district presi dents in the soft coal areas to the contempt citation. This official said the govern ment, when it obtained the con~ tempt citation Monday, lacked evi dence to do more than make a ALBANY POLICE ARREST UNIQUE ‘DRUNK DRIVER’ ALBANY, Ga., Feb. 22 — (AP) — The Police Blotter said today residents of a doewntown area complained of a drunk driver. A few minutes later police had rounded up the driver, ne gro Willie Trour, and slipped him in the pokey. Willie, said police, was driv ing under the influence of alco hol. 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Nick is 23.— (AP Wirephoto.) blanket coraplaint against the 370,- 000-member union. Now, he said, more specific charges may be lodged. . This dovetailed with reports — from both. union and industry sources—that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been busy in the coal fields, assembling evidence on the union’s effort—or lack of effort—to comply with the court’s back-to-work order. Lewis, who has twice wired his defiant men to resume digging, smiled gently as he left each bar gaining session, and said not a word. ' Last Resort As for legislation authorizing a seizure of the mines, the White House obviously regarded such a step as a last resort, to be taken only if all other efforts fail. Reports of spreading unemploy ment, closing schools, hardship and violence built up the tension here. Ten thousand members of the Inde);‘)endent Progressive Mine Workers (PMW) union went on strike in Illinois today. Negotia tions, pursued sporadically since last summer, collapsed finally near midnight last night. The PMW has been producing most of Illinois’ coal supply since Lewis’ much larger UMW went on strike, Simultaneously with the new blow, Rockford, 111,, closed its public schools for the rest of the week. The state capital, Spring= field, followed New York's lead and began a “brownout.” | Lights Doused " Cleveland turned off almost 4,000 street %l‘ts. Pittsburgh sus r‘pended"an night school classes, as Washington, D. C., did yesterday. The Indiana public service com~- mission authorized the state’s elec tric utilities to cut service as rmuch as 25 per cent, upon a showing of emergency. Idleness in the steel mills and other coal-fueled industries totaled ‘ 55,500. Another 23,000 steel work ers were due for furlough tonight. Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) reported receiving word that “organized gangs” were operating in Ohio to prevent miners from working. An official of the West Virginia Coal Association reported that “goon squads are the order of the day” State Police in Pennsylvania re ported that about 2,000 pickets were roving in the rich bituminous area northeast of Pittsburgh, try ing to close down all non-union mines. Tyrone Powers . i Expecting Stork HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22— (AP)— The traveling Tyrone Powers are expecting a baby in October. “We both want children,” a studio spokesman quoted the actor, “We're very happy -about it.” RAR SR A AR S R R f;z:wﬁ»&éf&@‘%ﬁ R e M Ll S e o PR ERER Re TR e e Ol 2 RSR e S e SRR R R R AR T R R A x s Re S 0 % SR S e N 5% AR :_:;._,;q::.‘:r.c;‘;:«;::zz A AT < 4 Wi e ee;s R L R B S e Sk 4 N N wgﬁ,, ss S R 2 e 5 3 v AR ; RR R S S 4 £ * O R . 3 S S 2% 3 £ 3 ,‘%";s’g‘;&“’:&s b B S B TR S s o S 7 o 3:&¥ R R Y e ER P R “-;f":"(&l#vﬁ» o 72"3‘&39' ARG o 43 e o g ,@\%‘% S .2 3 R P, A R SRR e e E B 3 W O ’? P R I}&@*: i . P SRR AR R § A 3 g‘ilz-:-i:-” i 2 PRe3SFT R R . i ' SOO R 3 & E $ i S % ] i SR 0. 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Gaid e, g . i g AR S Wi e e ""‘%rl’ﬁ' S SN o : i S B 23’ & o iy 0 T o R R g R L Mg B T o & i o» G 15...¢i:vzcgf<{ % ;<f§”\ B % e o 5 A y R i L % Mﬂ; O i ﬁn.z"' SRR R R T ek R wun i (.’ o s s . i e B oA O S ’ ASR A 00 sP R MINE STRIKER KEEPS THE HOME FIRES BURNING Earl Walters, striking soft coal miner, uses this little boy’s sled and a store box to haul home fuel from the tipple of the Berwind-White Coal Company at Johns Southerners Prepare Filibuster Strategy; Bitter Fight Foreseen WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—(AP) —After months of circling around, the House comes to grips today with fair employment practices (FEPC) legislation. The anti-job discrimination bill which cornerstones President Tru man’s civil rights program has top priority immediately after the an nual reading of George Washing ton’s farewell address at no@n. It would create a Fair Employ ment Practices Commission to enforce bans on discrimination in employment against Négroes and others. Never before has it progressed to the showdown point in the House, despite platform declara tions of both major political par ties professing to support it. The bill comes up under unus= ual procedure requiring it to be disposed of in one legislative day unless a two-thirds vote keeps it alive longer. A legislative day can last indefinitely, however, and warring factions in the biggest House fight of the year were ready to slug it out all day and all night and far into Thursday if necessary. From advance indications, that may be necessary. Outnumbered Southern Demo crats spearheading the opposition pledged themselves at a caucus yesterday to “emmploy every hon orable means and parliamentary .procedure permitted to prevent the enactment of this totalitarian measure.” ’ Their main hope is to filibuster, through time-consuming maneu vers such ag forcing repeated roll calls and by offering numerous amendments. Dixie Strategy Their strategy as outlined by their leaders is to ‘“‘wear out the opposition and . force adjourn ment of Wednesday’s session without a final vote.” They aren’t too optimistic about their chances but there was no doubt that they would not give up without a fight. Their ace in the hole is a Senate filibuster (Continued on Page Two.) ATHENS AND VICINITY Light rain this afternoon and early tonight, followed by clearing and colder Thursday. Low temperature tonight mear 42, high Thursday 54. Sun sets this afternoon at 6:22 and rises Thursday at 7:11 a. m. GEORGIA — Showers this afternoon and tonight, follow=- ed by clearing Thursday, win dy and colder Thursday, be coming colder in west and nerth portions tenight. Mild temperatures this afternoon, TEMPERATURE T AR R LT Lowest .... ¥l oo B bR ok sshe D SRR T ke e RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ... .21 Total since February 1 ... 251 Deficit since February 1 .. 2.27 Average February rainfall . 5.09 Total since January 1 .... 4.81 Deficit since Janyary 1 .. 3.70 Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area town, Pa. Like many of his fellow-Amer icang, Walters did not store away enough coal for the strike erisis, — (AP Wire photo.) J. C. Bell, head of the University poultry depart ment, was killed this aft ernoon in an automobile accident between Com merce and Jefferson. State Patrol headquar ters here said it was re ported only one car was involved in the accident. Bernstein Funeral Home will be in charge of fun eral services. No other details were available at presstime. Commission Members Announce All three of Clarke county’s Commissioners, J. F. Hammett, J. I.H. Towns and Harry Elder, today had qualified with the Clarke County Democratic Executive Committee as candidates in the Primary March 29. The three Commissioners point to their program for the county as a whole, including activity in be half of better hospital facilities, improved roads and bridges and the erection of a health center ! with the assistance of the city, the Istate and federal governments, as an example of their aims for all lthe citizens. At the present time Athens Gen eral Hospital is being enlarged a a result of authorization by the citizens for issuance of bonds for that purpose. As soon as the bond selection was held and the issuance approved by the people at the polls, the Commissioners set to work to obtain state and federal financial aid under the Hill-Bur ton Act. The construction of the new (Continued On Page Two) BONES IN COW SHED Sirange Murder Tale, Family Secret Bared PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 22 — (AP) — Huma bones dug from a cow shed grave today furnished leads to a fantastic tale of as father’s slaying and a family’s dark seoret. The bones, exhumed by search light last night, presumably were those of Stanley James, auto work=- er who was 54 -h_a he vanished more t.an two years ago, suppos edly committeed to a mental in stitution. . Behind the discovery was a sto ry of a family pact ‘o hide the ‘death — then a daughter’s nagging conscience which resulted in its disclosure. Authdrities of Cakland ecounty still were trying to piece it all to g-ther. Pr -ceuts. Clyde D. Underwood anncunced he woi'd ask the ar rest of a son, Carsen James, 28, ar ri-e sergeant, . ho he said was ramad as the actuzl clayer. The son, one of seven children in the fami: vas reported. én route from Washirgton, D. C., to a base in Califcrnia. ey Authorities dug up the cloth wrapped bones from.a crude grave | in the co. shed on the James‘| family’s nine-acre truck farm near 1 the southeastern Michigan village HOME .. EDITION Coal Piles Very Low In Athen; Sudion Cold Wave, Coal stock piles k Athens are dangerously low. quick eold snap could easily place the eity without any coal luvg)é:. These facts have . learned through a %eck with local eoal company officials. Some com panies report only a scarce amount on hand while others are com pletely out and don’t have any shipments in sight. Local dealers feel that con tinued mild weather could streteh the Athens supply two or three weeks. Meanwhile the Associated Press reports two other cities in the same boat as Athens—Augusta and Dal ton. However, Macon, Columbus and Atlanta have enough to withstand a short cold snap without too fefieh difficulty. A The state’s industries however, are beginning to feel the sharp cut in coal supplies. The Southern Railway laid off six workers in Macon because of coal shortages. The si% joined about 1,000 laid off by the road in other states. Briefly, here is the way eoal dealers view the situation in some cities. : H, R. Creamer of the Augusta Ice and Coal Co., said Augusta stockpiles are at their lowest point in a “long, long time.” : W. D. Richards of a Dalton Coal Company said a cold snap would wipe out Dalton’s supply in twe days. On the brighter side, Atlanta is reported to have about a ien day supply on hand for cold weather. Macon has enough coal for from ithree to four weeks, Van Bullard (Continued On Page Two) of Clav..on, l Earlier yesterday Police Chief Clarence Witt oZ Clawson, « small rural community near here, said he had been told t:e story on the tel-plhone froi Washington by a daughter, Mrs. Muriel Hocker smit’ , 26. W' : said that Mrs. Hocker smith, a scl . ° teacher and wife of a contractor, declared her con science had driven her to tell of her father’s slaying. Another son, Hugh, 18, w™» lives with hir mother, Ruth, 54, later eorroborate 1 his sister's ac com.t, Witt said. Witt said he was gived so un derstand that the Elder James 'mistreated his vise anc children and that Cersen shot him to death “for the good of the family.” Witt said he was told that James was slain after a quarrel at a fam~ ily reu-ion on:Thanksgiving Day in 1947. -Members of tk: family, sworn 1. secrec—, buri¢:l the body, he said. : Aside from the story of the fath e~’s _eath, the Tones’ family his tory is remarkable. Th. farm hime is a boarded over basement of three rooms. The co-s have college degrees cr are attending college. Sp

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