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Vol. CXVIN, No. 181,
U.S. Offensive Takes Heavy Total Of Reds
B-19 BOMBER
EXPLODES AT
TRAILER CAMP
17 Air Force Men
Are Killad; Over 60
Other Persons Hurt
Fairfield-Suisun Air Base, Calif.,
Aug. T—(AP)—Flaming gasoline
gnd exploding bombs shattered a
crippled B-29 bomber into bits
Saturday midnight, killing 17 Air
Force men. .
Two others were missing and 60
or more persons were injured,
some seriously. Many of the in
jured were ~Air Force personnel
and their families, living in a
trailer camp only 150 feet from the
scene.
Bombs leveled the trailer area
¢like a giant had stepped on them”
g witness related.
Among the dead was Brig. Gen.
Robert F. Travis, 45, much-decor
ated commander of the base, lead
¢r of the Ninth Heavy Bomber
Wing here and hero of World War
11. He was riding behind the
pilot.
Both the plane commander and
the pilot were among eight of the
General Travis
Georgia Alumnus
Brig. Gen. Robert F. Travis,
was killed Saturday night in a
B-29 Superfortress crash at
Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base
in Cslifornia, was an alumnus of
the University of Georgia, Class
of 1923. His father, Major Gen
eral Robert J. Travis, former
National Guard officer and pro
minent Savannah attorney, has
for years been one of the most
active alumni of the University.
20 men aboard who escaped alive.
They had made an emergency bel
ly landing. The fire and explosion
came several minutes later.
Seventeen bodies have been re
covered. - The two missing men
were crew members. The four-en
sine aircraft crashed and exploded
shortly after takeoff for a long
range training mission.
The bodies of ten men who were
in the plane were recovered. The
other dead included three mem
bers of the base fire department
and a volunteer fire fighter. Three
other dead were unidentified.
Base Headquarters said Capt. E.
Q. Steffes, 28, of East Chicago,
Ind., the plane commander, was at
the controls, His injuries were
listed as not serious.
Engine Trouble
Both inboard engines developed
serious trouble as the wheels of
the heavily laden bomber left the
runway. The pilot told the con
trol tower he couldn’t raise his
landing gear. This caused further
drag.
He eouldn’t lift the plane more
than 200 feet. Low hills eonfronted
hin. He tried to get back to the
runway.
ile almost made it—needed less
than a minute more.
Sgt. R. H. Lewis, Clay, Ky.,
vatched as the troubled ship
‘ame swinging in on a 180-degree
turn, said: .
~ “Suddenly it straightened out,
leveled and smashed its left wing
into the ground.”
Crushing Roar
There was ‘a grinding, erushing
roar. The landing gear erumpled.
I'he big ship gouged a trench ,and
settled in it.
Its 2,000 gal-lons of high test gas
oline spilled and fires began.
~The bomber earried 10 to 18
five hundred pound demolition
bombs, Eye-witnesses sald the
bombs began to explode in 10 to
20 minutes.
Sgt. Lewls said one dazed man
E féom the plane soon after
nit, and «. .
“I could hear mep shout L.et’s
get out of here, gtnere‘ aré bombs
on there’”,
o Trucks Blaota!
_ Alr Force families in about 50
railers only 180 feet awg tumbled
out of bed. They saw the flames,
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~ — TERMED DANGEROUS CRIMINALS ———
2 0f 8 Insane Escapees Are Recaptured
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Fla., Aug.
7—(AP)~Two of eight Sugitives
om the eriminfi insane ward of
e state hospitel here were re
aptured without vesistance today.'
Five of the escaped inmates, alll
-Onsidered dangerous, remained at
arge. One Bfl}:d been caught‘
hortly after the break yesterday.
Albany, 5:.., police picked up
“he of the men on a downtown
‘reet this morning when a resi-*i
ent spotted hipa, tfiad in 'Fajamac 1
and reading a newspaper. The man
“ave his name as Jv ‘F rW»t. (
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Clubls Formed
A new organization has been
formed here—Henry Grady Chap
ter of Dale Carnegie Club. Rich
ard Bloodworth. and . Mrs. Rose
Smithson will lead the group as
chairman and secretary-treasurer,
respectively.
The class of 26 completed the
Dale Carnegie Course in effective
speaking, leadership training and
the art of winning friends and in
fluencing people here. It was
sponsored by Marsh Business Col
lege of Atlanta.
After completing the course and
being awarded certificates recept
ly, the group dGecided (o form the
club, which will be chartered by
Dale Carnegie International.
Club Officers 2
Mr. Bloodworth, who is the
agent for the Northwestern Life
Insurance Co. in Athens, is very
active in civic work in the city.
He is a member of the Board of
Stewards at the First Methodist
Church, and of the Board of Di
rectors of the Athens Rotary Club.
He is the vice president of the
Jaycees and serves in the capa
city of treasurer of the Northeast
Georgia Council of Boy Scouts.
He is also a member of the Board
of Directors of the Athens Region
al Library.
Mrs. Smithson, who was the on
-Ily woman in the class, came to
Athens seven years ago to take
her duties as cashier of the Life
and Casualty Insurance Company
of Tennessee,
She is immediate past president
of the Life Agency Cashiers As
sociation, having served in that
apacity two terms. Mrs, Smith
%on {s a member of the Lutheran
“hurch and is secretary-treasurer
{ the Athens Lutheran Mission.
g‘here being no regular Lutheran
Services in Athens, she attends
the First Methodist Church and
is active in the Youth Adult Class
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in two hours.
County efficers and State High
way Patrolmen in North Florida,
South Georgla and South Alabama
joined in the search. Chattahoo
chee, 30 miles northwest of Talla
hassee, 1s a few miles from the
point the Florida, Georgia and
Alabama borders meet.
The men used a concrete slab
from a bench to batter through a
thin partition and out of their day
ioom, sald Frank Palsgraaf, acting
ospital suporintendent. Holding
three guards at bay, they used a
romogado aluminum key to-un
o«*h e main entrance door.
e guard on duty on the second
floor where the inmates were
quartered resigned later, Pals
faaf said, He was identified as
. J. McAnulty.
The escapees were armed only
with a length of pipe broken off
a radiator, Palsgraaf seid. Only
clue i the search:so far weastheft
Would Slow U. § ]
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Invasion Effort
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Little Transportation
Also Hindrance To
Landing Behind Ko-Reds
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—(AP)
—Lack of manpower and, to some
degree, transportation apparently
precludes any early, large-scale
effort to upset the Korean Red
Army by amphibious or airborne
invasion behind the lines.
Nevertheless, military men
here are not disposed to rule out
the possibility that the time will
come for use in Korea of the sea
air invasion technique that helped
win World War II campaigns in
both Europe and the Pacific
islands.
Nor does it mean there won’t
be more forays by small groups
landing from ships for demolition
and scouting purposes along the
enemy-held coastlines of Korea.
The departure from American
west coast ports of units of the
Ist Marine Division led to a wide
spread expectation on the home
front that a spectacular landing
was imminent. The Marines’ repu
tation as amphibious landing spe
cialists presumably gave rise to
the expectation. Instead, the bri
gade landed quietly at a South Ko
rean port, then moved to the front
to take up positions with troops
already in battle.
Heavy Odds
Whatever the military or psy
chological value of putting a big
force behind the enemy now—to
divert some of his attack force to
beachhead defenses—the odds are
weighted heavily against it.
Every man with a gun in the
far east zone seems to be needed
badly to hold the defense line.
There are no troops to spare or
withdraw fronr the front.
Because the Pacific war was
waged almost entirely by a series
of amphibious landings, there are
‘presumed to be a fair supply of
landing ships and craft in Gen.
MacArthur’'s command. But it is
doubtful that numbers and special
ized types needed for a substantial
effort—a division or more—are
immediately at hand and ready for
service.
On the other hand, the amount
of available naval and air units
needed to provide gunfire and air
cover for a landing already is
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Allgood Rites
Charlie H. Allgood, 86, for more
than thirty years a member of the
Athens Police Department, died
unexpectedly in a local hospital
Monday morning at 4:15 o’clock
following a heart attack Saturday
night.
Services are to be conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock
from Bridges Funeral Home Chap
el with Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor em=
eritus of First Presbyterian
Church, and Rev. C. C. Shafe,
pastor of Central Presbyterian
Church, officiating.
Burial will follow in Oconee
Hill cemetery with the pall-bear
ers being Police Chief Clarence
Roberts, €aptain R. E. Eidam, J.
L. Garvin, Captain L. C. Corneli
son, E. M. Wood and Martin
Nelms.
An honorary escort will include
Mayor Jack R. Wells and members
of the City Council, members of
the Civil Service Commission and
members of the Police Depart
ment,
Mr. Allgood is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Hoyt Brown and
Mrs. W. E. Jones, both of Athens;
two sons, Charlie A. Allgood and
Marion Allgood, both of Athens;
three. sisters, Mrs. Emma Winn,
Mrs. Ralph Fackson, both of Ath
ens, and Mrs. Lillian Jarrett, Tex
arkana, Texas; two brothers, Ab
Allgood and Johnnie Allgood,
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of an automobile at Ponce de Leon
a few miles west of here yester
day.
One of the men, Woodrow
George, escaped in 1945. He was
sent to the hospital while charges
of armed robbery were pending
against him. |
The other escapees and their
convictions or charges against
them: *
Vasco Joyner, breaking and en
tering and safecracking.
Daniel Luke Cota, breaking and
entering.
Lonnie J. Parrish, 26 years for
armed robbery.
John H. Gurley, assault with in
tent t% murder.
J. T. West, committed while
charges of killing his mother and
father pending.
~ Charles Paul James, committed
while charged with whipping his
mother and stabbing.
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A new flag will wave in Korea soon if these Leather
necks have their way. “We're from the South, suh! And
we're goin’ to battle with our own Confederate flag fly
ing,” they promised. Blements of 2nd Battalion, U. S.
Marine Corps, from Camp Lejeune, N. C., these regulars
will make up complete combat units in Fleet Marine
Force Pacific. (Names were withheld by Marine Corps).
They are pictured in Camp Pendleton, Calif. — (NEA
Telephoto.)
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3 Year Rearmament
Nation Calls On U. S. And Britain
To Station More Troops In Europe
PARIS, Aug. 7.— (AP) —France pledgeéd herself to a
three-year rearmament program today to help guard
against Communist aggression and called on Britain and
the United States to station ‘“‘a sufficient number of divis
ions” in continental Europe.
Thus she joined the vanguard of European countries,
who have announced their determination to step up spend
ing for defense, with the aid of American arms and money.
The government anuouncement
said France will spend the
equivalent of $5,710,000,060 on re
armament. It promised an im
mediate increase in military
spending from 420,G00,000,000
franes ($1,200,000,000) to 500,000,-
000,000 francs ($1,428, 500,000)
next year. This would divert an
estimated 8.2 per cent of-the na
tional income to defense costs, and
the three-year program is expect
ed to take at léast 10 per cent of
the total income. Britain’s stepped
up program will cost that much,
too.
The statement said the program
will give the French Army 15 new
divisions. It also proposed a uni
fied command of all armies of the
Western world now deploying
against &:ossible Communist at=-
tack, and suggested a pool of fi
nances and resources to make it
run efficiently.
France was the fourth to reply
to President Truman’s recent re
quest to Atlantic pact nations as
to what they would do about re
arming in view of the present
world situation.
Britain, Denmark and Norway
have made similar announcements,
The British are ready to spend
$9,520,000,000 on defenses over the
next three years with American
help.
Denmark plans to spend 400,-
000,000 kroner (about $57,100,000)
in the next two years.
Norway today proposed to spend
the equvalent of $35,125,000 more
for defense. Her 1950 military
budget equals some $1,200,000,~
000.
while charged with larceny, He
was recaptured.
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Marine Squadron-
Ordered Abroad
CHAMBLEE, Ga., Aug 7—
(AP) — Creeping mobilization
caught up with an entire Marine
squadron: as 1t reported for two
weeks training at the U. S. Naval
Air Station here.
The summons for the unit, the
number and strength of which is
classified information, was re
ceived yesterday as it reported
aboard.
As members of the unit, com
manded by Major Leland Smith
of Montgomery, Ala., began pack
ing, another unit, CMF 331, re
ported to the station. VMTI 331, a
;fighter-bomber outfit, likewise is
[slated for a two-weeks training
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Local firemen answered two
calls over last night and this
morning, neither of whick incured
much damage.
About 9:58 last night, trucks
{from the Number 3 Station an
swered a call to 1541 South Lump
kin where an electric wire was
down in the street.
. Another call was answered at
9:20 this morning to an automobile
blaze at the corner of Foundry and
Broad streets, Only damage to the
burning wires resulted.
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| MISS GEORGIA
Blonde Ellen Louise Thomas
~ (above), 19, of Fitzgerald, holds
her trophy after winning “Miss
Georgia of 1950” title at contest
in Columbus, August 4. Miss
Themas, a bookize per, won
aver 12 otlier contestanis.— (AP
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Harriman Returns
From Frontline With
“Optimistic’’ Reports
By RUSSELL BRINES
TOKYO, Aug. 7T—(AP)—U. S.
Marines and Army infantrymen
cracked out on ‘a 20-mile-wide
front today and rolled stubborn
Red troops back nearly two miles
in Southeastern Korea.
It was the first American of
fensive after five bitter weeks of
defensive retreats.
About 9,000 Americans and
some South Xorean commando
units were thrown into the at
tack.
'hey clashed head-on with the
crack North Korean Sixth Division.
It is backed by the Red First
Division. The two wotal around
15,000 men.
As the big push started, W.
Averell Harriman, special foreign
affairs adviser and assistant to
President Truman, visited a front
ling command post in Korea.
On his return to Tokyo, Harri
man said he had found American
military leaders and South Ko
rean officials “very cheerful and
optimistic.”
The offensive had been under
way only a short time when B
29’s, some of them less than six
days out of the United States,
plastered Pyongyang, North Ko
rean capital, and the industrial
city of Wonsan with 540 tons of
bombs. This was the biggest sin
élenglow dealt thus far by the
-295.
In the latest official field report
Monday on the new allied pf
fensive a U. S. Eighth Army com
munique releeased at 8:35 p. m.
(5:35 a. m. EST) said:
Broad Front
. “The attack launched this
morning by the 25th Division and
the Marine bhrigade advanced
‘about 3,000 yards today on a
broad front. Strong resistance was
met with U. S. forces inflicting
heavy casualties on the enemy.”
Field reports to Eighth Army
headquarters in Korea said the
Reds suffered probably their
heaviest casualties of the war.
The reports said the U. 8. attack
forced Red infantrymen to expose
themselves to Fifth Air Force
fighters and bombers.
One staff officer said:
“The air boys had more and
better targets today than they
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Rites For M
Ifes For Mrs.
Collins Tuesd
Mrs. Eula Thomas Collins, well
known resident of 3 Bryan Court,
died in a local hospital Monday
morning at four o’clock. Mrs. Col
lins was 57 years old and had been
in failing health for the past four
months.
Services are to be conducted
from First Presbyterian Church
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
with the wvastor, Dr. Harmon B.
Ramsey, and Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor
emeritus, officiating.
Burial will follow in Oconee
Hill cemetery, Bridges Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers will he R. E. Poss, jr.,
L. J. Pendley, ijr.,, J. R. Kittle,
Robert Martin, James Puckett and
J T. McElheney.
Mrs. Collins is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Howard R. Smith,
Athens; three sons, M. W. H. Col
lins, jr., Athens, H. R. F. Collins,
Atlanta, and J. E. Collins, Con
cord, Calif.; four sisters, Mrs.
Montine Griffith, Mrs. R. E. Poss
and Mrs. H. L. Parr, all of Athens,
and Mrs. John McElheney, Macon;
brother, H. E. Thomas, Athens,
and six grandchildren.
She was a native of Lulu, Ga.,
and came to Athens in 1897, mak
ing her home here since. A mem
ber of one of this section’s best
known families, Mrs. Collins was
the daughter of the late H. N. and
Henrietta - Buffington Thomas.
Early in life she united with the
Presbyterian church and had re
mained a dev ted and interested
member, loving her church, her
home and her friends.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and mild tonight and
Tuesday. Low tonight 65 and
high Tuesday 87. Sun sets 7:28
and rises 5:49.
GEORGIA — Continued fair
and mild this afternoon, to
night and Tuesday.
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Black smoke mushrooms from bomb hits on the ap
proaches of two railroad bridges on the outskirts of
Pyongyang, North Korean capital, during a recent raid
by B-29s of the U. S. Air Force.— (AP Wirephoto frem
U. 8. Air Force.)
On Inflation Measures
Congressional Committees Fret
Over How To Give Truman Curbs
BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — (AP) — President Truman
appeared certain today to get broad powers to cope with
crisis-born inflation trends; but Congress was fretting ever
how to give them to him.
Banking committees of the House and Senate called
meetings for today in an effort to untangle the legislative
knot that stymied action last week. :
To give its commitiee time to
work out a compromise, the House
tossed aside the controversial con
trols bill until tomorrow after hav
ing spent almost all of last week
getting nowhere.
Its leaders said they were confi
dent now that a compromise would
be forthcoming in time for House
passage Wednesday, ‘Spokesmen
for the disputing groups® which
have held up action said they were
ready to come to terms.
The terms on which they seemed
likely to agree would give the
President stand-by authority to:
(1) Allocate materials and say
who has first call on them, (2) in
voke wage and price controls, (3)
order rationing of scarce materi
als, (4) makeé government loans to
spur production and (5) control
the extension of credit.
Standby Plan
This is more than Mr. Truman
asked but he has indicated will
ingness to accept it all if Congress
doesn’t make the legislation too
rigid for his taste. Specifically, he
says he doesn’t want a bill which
would automaticaily impose wage
and price controls once the cost of
living has reached 5 per cent or
so above the June 15 level. He
holds that would be an‘invitation
to a 5 per cent rise.
The House, which voted for a
mandatory automatic control pro
vision and then reversed itself,
appeared ready to let the Presi
dent have his way on that sub
ject. The Senate Banking Com
mittee has voted to give the Pres
ident the free hand he asked on
this. "
However, Senator Lyndon John
son (D.-Tex.) said yesterday that
without the automatic feature tied
to living costs, “I am afraid that
controls may become a political
football.” |
Four Developments ‘
In related preparedness and
anti-inflation steps over the week-‘
end, there were these develop
ments: : g
1. Rep. Vinson (D.-Ga.), chair
man of the House Armed Services‘
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AT MIAMI BEACH
Citizens Join Police,
Firemen In Snake Hunt
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.,, Aug. 7.—
(AP)—Two hundred persons, in
cluding firemen with ladders and
policemen with squad-cars, were
on a big snake hunt here today.
A boa constrictor was on the
loose ‘in . this =~ area intended for
tourists. The snake is six and a
half feet long and answers to the
name of Sabu.
So far it hasn’t answered when
the 200 searchers called its name.
Miss Susan Williams, a dancer,
reported the loss of the snake. It
crawled out of the back seat of
her car at 21st street and Collins
avenue, she reported.
,f‘s‘m so werried 1 haven't had a
ink of sleep alk night,” she de-
HOME
EDITION
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U. 5. Casualfies
Total 2,016
WASHINGTON, Aug. T— (AP)
—The Army announced today thas
its Korean war casualties reperted.
to familres and released for publi=
cation through August 6 totaled
2,616.
There are additional casualty
lists, awaiting release after notifi=
cation of families.
Today’s toial covered onty Army
personnel. Losses with other
services have been relatively
light. :
The breakdown of those casual=
ties released for use shows 1353
killed, 1,590 ‘wounded and 878
missing, spokesmen said.
The Army said it was not “try=
ing to hide anything. We are tryi::z
to handle casualty notifications i
a dignified and considerate way.”
An officer said that the time lag
in reporting casualtles will de=
crease now that the front in Korea
is “mere or less stabilized.”
The subject of the casualty count
came up at the briefing because of
a report by Columnist Drew Pear
son that the casualty total up te
August 1, was 660 killed, 2,978
wounded and 3,000 “actually miss=
ing in action.” 3
Pearson wrote that he had seem
“the secret casualty list kept by
the Army Surgeon General’s of=
fice.”
The Army spokesman said im
answer to questions, that the totals
given by -Pearson *do -not agree
with casualty lists-I have seen.”
Replying to"a specific question
about a “secret list,” the spokes
man added that it is the Army’s
Adjutant General that handles cas
ualty reports.
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