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Courts Martial Ordered In Missouri Grounding
s TWQ MURDERS IN FIVE DAY S=—e
FATHER SURRENDER'S TO SHERIFF'S WIFE
AFTER SHOOTING SON-IN-LAW TC:#/£ATH
BY ED THILENIUS
A 40-year-old father surrendered to the wife
of Franklin County Sheriff Tom Andrews late
yesterday afternoon, an hour after he had shot
and killed his 27-year-old son-in-law, Dennis
Hill. : §
Being held in- the Carnesville jail under a
murder charge is Roy Chappell, who admitted
firing two .45 calibre bullets into Hill in' Canon,
Three companions with Hill witnessed the shoot
ing.
Meanwhile, another man is being held in the
Carnesville jail on a murder charge, He is Willie
Phillips, colored, accused of shooting and killing
Ruth Wilhite, also colored. This shooting took
place Sunday afternon,
Chappell surrendered while Sheriff Andrews,
his son and deputy, N. V. Andrews, and three
Federal Revenue Agents were searching for him.
The agents were T. Y, Harris, Bob Thomas, and
L. A, Mika,
Sheriff Andrews said that the shooting was
ihe aftermath of a lamlly argument. He said that
Middle - Income Housing
Plan Goes Before House
Senate Votes 43-38 To Chop Plan
Out Of Catch-All Housing Measure
WASHINGTON, March 16.— (AP) —A’ bitter Senate
defeat left the fate of President Truman’s middle-income
housing program squarely in the hands of the House today.
The Senate chopped the entire program out of a catch
all housing bill late yesterday on a tight 43 to 38 vote. Its
Senate backers promptly began rooting for a House vie
tory which might give them another chance. ~el
Concert Toße
Highlight Of
Music Festival
More than 500 high school mu
sic students are expected in
Athens tomorrow for the all-day
Tenth District Festival of Music.
Activities in the Festival, includ
ing judging of piano, chorus, and
instrumental students, will take
place in the Chapel and Fine Arts
building on the University cam
pus.
The Festival will end with a
concert tomorrow night in Fine
Arts auditorium, featuring stu
dents recommended by the judges.
The puklic is invited to the con
cert, which starts at 8 o’clock, and
there will be no admission charge.
Bands, choral groups, and solo
ists are expected from almost a
dozen Tenth District high schools,
including Washington, Elberton,
Thomson, Winterville, Crawford
ville, and Athens. Athens will be
represented by choral groups
from all four elementary schools
—Barrow, Chase Stree, College
Avenue, and Oconee — and both
schools, in addition to the Athens
High Band .-
Judges will rate students ac
cording to their abilities, but
Thomas J. Byrnes, director of
music education in Athens city
schools and also chairman of the
Festival, points out that students
are not competing with each
other, but are competing with na
tional standards of instrumental
and ehoral ‘'musie
All students taking part in the
morning sessions to be judged
must stay within their classifica
tion, Mr, Byrnes said. Classifica
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ASKS DAUGHTER CUSTODY
Bergman Sues Husband
For Stromboli Salary l
LOS ANGELES, March 16—
(AP) — Ingrid Bergmag wants
her money back from her ex
husband,
She wants her 12-year-old dau=
ghter, too, and “reasonable” sup
port for the child.
The actress’ attorneys filed suit
Yesterday against Dr Peter Lind
firom, whom she divorced in
Mexico Feb. 9, demanding an ac
%gunitting of perosm:!l am%o dt;or!;;
nunity property and ous
their chlfd, Pia.
Miss Bergman, %4, demanded
£154,000, a.t?er taxes, which she
fald she earned in making the
g\ovie “SBtrombolt” for Director
oberto Rossellini on the Island
gt Stromboli in the Mediterra
ean.
Last Feb. 2 she bore a son in
Rome which Rossellini seid was
Jiß. Their plans to be married
Rave been &hnd by ’1;,‘,1 tech=
soallfi' Sweden, Miss Berg
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
“ Chappell had traile/ sé? in his car. When the
two vehicles react &' ¥ cross road inside the
Canon city limits/ & el cut his car in front of
the truck Hill y # sing and blocked the road.
The sheriff s/ N appell then ordered Hill out
of the truck ar.&' ien he refused, Chappell at=
tempted to fire his pistol, but the gun only
clicked twice.
Witnesses said Hill then got out of the truck
- and began pleading for his life. Chappell fired,
striking his son-in-law in the left shoulder above
the heart and then fired another quick shot,
striking Hill in the temple. Chappell then leaped
in his car and fled. Hill diea instantly.
Sheriff Andrews said that Chappell was ar=
rested and found guilty last year of shooting a
policeman, He received a fine and the policeman
recovered from the wounds.
The negro shooting also followed an alleged
argument, Sheriff Andrews said Phillips was on
parole from another shooting in which the person
lived.
Both cases will be presented to the grand jury
at their next session which is March 27th.
“If that happens,” said Senator
Sparkman (D.-Ala.), “we will
fight it out in the Senate again,
We need only change three votes—
or get some more Democrats on the
floor—to win.”
A combination of 30 Republicans
and 13 Democrats, mostly from the
South, administered the death
wmow in the Senate.
Frantic last-minute efforts by
Senator Maybank (D.-S. C.) to
peg interest rates at 4 per cent, in
stead of a lower figure, failed to
pick up enough votes for victory.
The rest of the bill, carrying
more than $3,000,000,000 in gov
ernment loans and mortgage in
surance for various other pro
grams, was approved. :
Sparkman pointed out that the
House Banking Committee had al
lowed the full $2,000,000,000 of
government credit asked for co
operatives and non-profit organi
zations to build housing for fam
ilies with incomes of from $2,400
to $4,700 a year. The loans could
run for as long as 60 yvears with
interest expected to be about 3
per cent.
Senate sponsors had trimmed the
amount in half and tightened up
other provisions in their efforts to
push it through there.
“We had the whole works
against us,” Sparkman said, “The
real estate crowd, the bankers, the
home builders, the building and
loan group and everybody else.”
The successful move to knock
out the “middle income” section
was made by Senator Bricker (R.-
Ohio).
Voting for the motion were these
13 Democrats: Byrd (Va.), Chap
man (Ky.), Ellender (La.), Ful
bright (Ark.), George {Georgia),
Hill (Ala.), Hoey (N. C.); Holland
(Fla.), McClellan (Ark.), O’Conor
(Md.), Robertson (Va.), Russell
Ga.) and Stennis (Miss.).
. The actress said Lindstrom, 43,
Beverly Hillg brain surgeon, has
been holding the $154,000 as her
‘American agent. But, she insisted,
‘he has no right to it because it
was earned after she left him more
than & ¥ear ago.
She also demanded her interest
in two films still being exhibited,
“Joan of Arc” and “Under Capri
corn ”
The actress asked for a division
of community property, including
their home here, three automo
‘biles, gewelry, furs, life insurance
and $20,000 in government bonds.
The court was asked to enjoin
%tingltrom ’f;':m difiposing of any
@ pro y until an agreement
is rucguf
Miss Borgmm now is in Ttaly.
Her daughter, Pia, has been in
Lindstrom’s care since Miss Berg
man left to work for Rossellini a
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JohnSS. Service
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Loyalty Checkup
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
(AP) — The State Department’s
sudden summoning of John S.
Service from India for a review of
his loyalty record was termed “a
very significant and startling de
velopment” by Senator Hicken
looper (R.-Iowa) today.
The Department’s decision yes
terday came only 24 hours after
Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.) had
accused Service, American consul
at Calcutta, of having Communist
affiliations.
MecCarthy made his charges be
fore a Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee which is investigat
ing his contentions that the State
Department harbors Communists
and Communist sympathizers.
Hickenlooper, a member of the
committee, told reporters it seems
strange to him that the Department
first said it knew nothing about
one of MecCarthy’s accusations
dealing with Service, and then
“apparently reversed its field.”
The lowa lawmaker was refer
ring to McCarthy’s testimony that
Service had been cleared by the
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ATTACKS HOLLYWOOD’S “WICKED ELEMENT”’
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D.-Colo.) called Ingrid
Bergman (right) and Rita Hayworth (left) “Holly
wood’s two current apostles of degredation.” In a Senate
speech bitterly attacking the “wicked element” of Hol
lywood, the Coloradan said that “a stupid film about a
%regnant woman and a voleano has exploited America.”
e called for a Federal licensing system for actors, pro
ducers, and motion pictures, and called it a “practical
method whereby the mad dogs of the industry may be
put on a leash to proteet public morals; nothing more.”
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TR, - SRS e s
Economists Concerned Over How
To Halt Spiral Of Unemployment
Nation’s Jobless Total Is Nearing
5 Million Mark; ‘6O Outlook Dismal
WASHINGTON, March 16.—(AP)—Government econ
omists showed concern today over how to clamp a lid on
unemployment, now inching toward the five millién mark.
By 1960, they said, the nation will have to grovide jobs
for some 70,000,000 workers, instead of the 60,000,
for some 70 million workers, instead of the 60 million ¢con
sidexed the top goal for the ipmedjate postwar era.
R sy U . N e * i
force appavently has brought no
corresponding rise in job openings
in recent months.
" Census takers counted 4,700,000
jobless on .Feb. 11. Statisticians
‘say the number may pass the
15,000,000 point this year, for the
first time since 1941. :
Already a dozen areas have been
stricken with unemployment de=
scribed as equal to that of 1933.
While most of these are small,
scattered places with special prob=-
lems, 43 areas are classed as hav
ing “substantial” surpluse in man
power meaning that more than 12
per cent of their workers are walk
ing the streets.
The 12 areas listed as hardest
hit are Washington County, Me,,
Lawrence, Mass., Pottsville and
Greensburg, Pa., Jasper, Ala., Clin
ton, Ind., Cairo, Crab Orchard, and
Mount Vernon, 111., Sheboygan and
Muskegon, Mich., and Park City,
Utah.
National Average
Over the nation, 7.1 per cent of
all workers covered by jobless in
surance were listed as out of work
in mid-February. That compares
with the national average of 25
per cent unemployed in the worst
year of the depression, 1933.
Another 1,750,000 college and
high school graduates are expected
to join the labor force this spring
and summer. It will be a record
influx, representing the biggest
wave yet of war veterans whose
entrance into the work force was
put off for a four-year GI educa~-
tion.
To help relieve the pressure, the
federal government is conducting
a campaign to encourage private
business to make more jobs. Presi='
dent Truman has told Congress
that 2,000,000 more jobs in private
industry will solve the immediate
problem.
Economic Policies
The Labor Department has set
up a committee on Economic Poli
cies and Programs, headed by
youthfal Wiliam L. Batt, jr., sen
of the Philadeiphia industrialist
who was vice chairman of the
War Production Board during
World War 11. »
Batt’'s committee has been as
signed to keep an eye on the job=-
less problem for Becretary of La
bor Tobin.
The Commerce Department is
assisting by steering private indus
try into new openings. Industries
in the distressed areas are being
encouraged to bid on federal con
tracts,
A “shelf” of public works pro
jects is being assembled, but most
of the projects are in the field of
construction, which has not been
nearly so hard-pressed by unem
ployment as certain others, like
textiles. |
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~ rain this afternoon, followed by
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day. Mild temperatyres. Low
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temperature Friday 60. Sun sets
’ this afternoon at 6:41 and rises
‘ Friday at 6:42 a. m.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
~ this afternoon; fair and slightly
~ cooler tonight; Friday fair and
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FIRST VACATION ACT
Truman Signs Oleo Tax Repeal Bill
KEY WEST, Fla.,, March 16 —
(AP) — President Truman today
signed the bill to repeal the federal
tax on oleomargarine.
It was Mr. Truman’s first action
after his arrival here for a vacation
gter a sea voyage from Washing
i :
Charles G. Ross, Presidential
secretary, said the signing of the
bill was done at the “Winter White
House.” The measure was flown
here by courier plane from Wash
ington yesterday.
Under the”new law all federal
taxes on margarine are wiped out.
But it does not interfere in any
way with taxes or restrictions
placed on oleomargarine by any
state government.
The law does say that any res
taurant selling yellow margarine
must sell it in triangular pats, and
the restaurant must post a notice
saying margarine is sold there.
If it is sold in packages it must
not weigh more than one pound,
with the package clearly labeled as
oleomargarine. g
' “Earlier,” Mr, Truman, Hi§ spikits
Judge Orders No
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More Movies For
Run-A-Way Child
LOS ANGELES, March 16 —
(AP) — Lora Lee Michel, the
nine-year-old who ran away
from her life as a SIOO a day
actress, is through with the
movies—by &Mln’u order,
Juvenile judge A. A. Scoit
said yesterday that Lora Lee will
be made a ward of the court and
“will be kept in Juvenile Hall
and studied for awhile, then she
will he placed in another foster
home where she can have fun
like any other child.”
The child twice has com
plained to authorities that she
was beaten and starved in order
to keep her weight down for
movie roles.
Rises Held For
Rev. J. L. Gerdine
ATLANTA-Funeral services for
the Rev. Joseph L. Gerdine, who
died Monday in Crescent City, Fla,,
will be held at 11 a. m. Thursday
in West View Abbey chapel. Dr.
Nat G. Long will officiate. Burial
will be in West View abbey.
Mr. Gerdine, a former Metho
dist missionary to Korea” and the
father of Mrs. L. H. Webb, of De
catur, was a native of West Point,
Mississippi.
He was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia and for some
time practiced law in Macon. He
was a member of Kappa Alpha
fraternity.
He received a call to the mis
sionary field and went to Korea in
1902. For 35 years he remained in
that country. i
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Eleanor Dye; two daughters,
Mrs. L. H. Webb, of Decatur, and
Mrs. N. S. Bitting, of Ocala, Fla.; a
son, P. L. Gerdine, of Jackson,
Miss; four sisters, Mrs. T. J. Woos
ter, of Athens; Mrs. Harvie Jordan,
of Atlanta; Mrs. W. B. Burke, of
Macon, and Mrs. C. C. Capron, of
Crescent City, Fla.
buoyed by calm seas yesterday and
today, was inclined to laugh off
the misery of Monday and Tues
day when the Presidential Yacht
Williamsburg unsettled stomachs
and made life miserable.
Greeting reporters when his ship
docked at the Key West Naval Sta
tion, he described ris voyage as a
“fine trip.”
He admitted it was “pretfty
rough” for a time but said the At-
Jantic later became “smooth as a
mill pond.”
“] lost four pounds,” he said of
the rough days, “because I couldn’t
eat.” He laughed heartily. Report
ers, viewing his bulging waistline,
were inclined to be skeptical.
He even indicated he might try
a sea trip here again, something
Secretary Ross hinted during the
height of the rough weather was
unlikely. 3 2 :
~ “Do you think you'll do it
again?” reporters asked.
“Yes,” he said, “it was a very
nice trip. I think everybody en
joyed it.”
'Even’ Ross said’ the “last two"
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Commander, Operafions Oflicer,(
And Navigafor To Face Charges !
NORFOLK, Va., March 16. — (AP) — General courts
martial were ordered today for the commanding offieer,
the operations officer and the navigator of the battleship
}!lissoyri asa regult of the vessel’s grounding in Chesapeake
bay, January lid.
The officers to be tried are
Capt William D. Brown, of Frost
proof, Fla, the big Mo’s skipper;
Cmdr, John R. Millett, opera=-
tions officer, and Lt. Cmdr, Frank
G. Morris, of New York, naviga
tor
The courts martial will be eon
vened March’ 27 ‘at the Norfolk
Naval Base. The trials will begin
at that time, Naval spokesmen
said, if the defendants are ready
to proceed. All' proceedings will
be open to the public and the
press. :
The courts martial were order
ed by Rear Adm. Allan E. Smith,
commander of the cruiser force of
the Atlantic Fleet, after a review
of the fproceedings of the Naval
court of inquiry which investiga
ted the grounding. :
Smith’s action was announced
by Adri, William M. Fechteler,
commander-in-chief of the Atlan
tic Fleet
Fechteler said “the formal
charges and ltp;citieatlons to be
served upon ese officers and
upon which they will be tried,
will not be made public prior to
the convening of the respective
courts. The individual officers
concerned, however, may release
the charges and specifications in
their respective cases at their
own discretion.” o ;
Fechteler said Smith did not
consider the evidence against Lt.
John E. Carr, or Norfolk, Va,
combat operations officer of the
Missouri, of sufficient gravity to
to warrant trial by court martial.
However, Smith has addressed a
letter of reprimand to Carr.
Brown, Millett, Morris and Carr
were defendants before the eourt
of inquiry, which heard a half
hundred witnesses during 18 days
of - sessions between February 3
and February 28.
Fechteler said no serious blame
was “considered as attached” to
Ens. Elwin R. Harris, of Norfolk,
Va., the Missouria’s assistant nav
igator, and therefore no disciplin
ary action was taken in his case.
Harris, who was plotting the bat
tle ship’s position the day of the
grounding, was named as “inter
ested party” in the court of in
quiry proceedings.
Omne bright note was disclosed
by the inquiry and Adm. Smith
took note of it thusly:
“The engineering watch of the
USS Missouri at the time of
grounding proved extremely
alert. When confronted with an
emergency without any prior
warning of approaching danger,
they met this emergency efficient
ly and expeditiously. The engi
neering plant of the Missouri was
shut down 'in a commendable
manner without serious damage.”
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Crommelin Put
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On ‘Furlough
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
(AP)—The Navy has decided to
punish Capt. John G. Crommelin,
persistent critic of Pentagon poli
cies—by furloughirg him indefi
nitely at half-pay instead of trying
him in a court martial.
The action amounts to his in
voluntary retirement at the age of
47, and Crommelin blamed it on
the Army and Air Force general
staffs. He has been blaming them
all along for what he called a
serious weakening of the Navy in
the Army-Air Force-Navy unifi
cation setup.
Secretary of the Navy Matthews
announced the punishment last
night, effective April 1. A Navy
spokesman said it was for “con
tinued actions prejudicial to the
service.”
days made up for cverything.”
Major General Harry H.
Vaughan, army aide, denied that
he was the worst sufferer.
“The President was more hori
zontal than I was,” he kidded re
porters.
Bulletin
BERELEY, Calif., March 16,
— (AP — Secretary of State
Acheson challenged Russia to
day to demonstrate her desire
for peace by accepliig a new
seven-point program w free the
world from “destructive ten
sions and anxieties.” .
Boiled down, the seven steps
Acheson proposed call for an
end to Russia’s aggressive.diplo
macy, both in her dealings with
sattelites and with the Western
world, and for new moves to
conclude peace treaties and to
find some solution to the prob
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Secret Milifary
Installations
Under New Study
$70,000,000 For :
“High Priority”
Projects Considered
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
(AP) — Requests for about fi:
000,000 worth of high secret
tary installations —— described by
the armed forces as imperatively
needed — came under new study
on Capitol Hill today.
Military witnesses have told the
House Armed Services Commit
tee that these projects should have
“high priority.” They are part of
a $187,142,000 amendment te the
defense department’s - $477,974,~
000 public works bill which the
committee previously had umnder
consideration.
In addition, Chairman Vinson
(D-Ga) instructed the Marines to
submit two amendments for $27»
476,000, bringing the grand fotal
in requests for public works %
$692,592,000.
o T};; %agégef arxifndmentn are
or $2,476, or liv g
at Quantico, Va,, and‘ngz.')‘,:g
for a depot in the east, gwchflr
to be located at Albany, Ga.
The classified (secret) installa
tion requests are very hush-hush
but they mg‘i,‘(;ate ;:gnlaifled acti~
vity in radar, s al wel
guided missiles, biolozlcam
chemical warfare. - Considecable
}zttention is given to the defense
‘of Alaska ‘
The largest :ing: réguest is by
the Navy. The vy is asking
$23,316,000 to develop naval facil
ities, including housing, at & se=
cret location “outside the contin
ental United States.” - f
by Aby g R
zation for SB,OOO, 0 con
struction of a classxfim
tion in the Sixth Army - area,
which has headquarters in Sam
Francisco, Calif.
No details were given in the
brief announcement made publie
except to say that an additional
$2,500,000 will be required later
to complete the installation, The
Army described it as “of highest*"
strategic importance.”
The increased importance of Al
aska in military planning is reflee
ted in requests for construction im
that northern outpost so close te
the Soviet Union.
In strengthening Alaska, the
army proposes to spend $53,826,~
400 in the already announced im=-
provement of bases where {roops
will be stationed for defense of
Fort Richardson, Elmendorf Air
Force Base, Ladd Air Force Base
and Eielson Air Force Base,
Aside from the amendment the
pending public works bill is stud
ded with requests for money to
build additional facilities to carry -
on rocket and guided missile
work, :
Merchant’s Council
Will Meet Tomorrow
The Executive Committee of the
Merchants Council will meet to
morrow morning, March 17th, at
11 o’clock in the auditorium of the
Civie Building, i
Although notices of the meeting
are being mailed only to the Exe
cutive Committee members, this
nreeting, as are all other meetings
of the Executive Commlittee, is
open to all merchants who wish to
attend.
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