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MARGARET TRUMAN VISITS POPE— Margaret Truman, accompanied by Bishop
Martin O’Connor (left), papal aide and head of the North Ameriean Pontifical Col
lege, passes the Swiss Guard enroute to a 15-minute audience with Pope Pius XII at
the Vatican. She was the first member of a living American President’s family to
make such a visit.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Wood, New Supervising Principal,
Succeeded By Guy Driver At AHS
Wide Favor Of
ATLANTA, June 29 — (AP) —
Virginia Senator Harry Byrd’s
challenge to the South to demand
return of its two-thirds rule club
over the Democratic party has
found wide favor deep in Dixie.
But there is enough indifference
expressed to demonstrate once
again that the South no longer is
solid.
In a Jefferson-Jackson Day din
ner speech in Atlanta Monday
nicht, By administered a
tongue-]ashi::}o‘the Truman ad
ministration, agd‘urged the South
to demand ration of the two
thirds tule in the Democratic Na
tional Convention and repeal of
the rivil rights plank.
Without specifically recom
mending belting the party, he de
clared “No President can be elect
ed without the South.”
Varied Reaction
Reaction varied. Democratic
Chairman H. C., Sevier of Louisia
na said that “on civil rights and
the two thirds rule, I agree with
Sen. Byrd 100 per cent.” Demo
cratic National Committeeman
Jonathan Daniels of North Caro
lina had this dour comment:
“It seems to me Senator Byrd
has been saying the same thing to
the American people since 1940
and the reaction will be the same
as in the past.”
Gov. Sid McMath of Arkansas,
who activey campaigned for Pres
fdent Truman in 1948, declined to
comment on the Byrd speech. So
did Gov. Gordon Browning of
Tennessee,
In Senator Byrd’s home state,
Gov. John Battle und other state
officials did not care to comment
on the senator’s speech at this
time.
Gov. Fielding Wright of Missis
sippl could not be reached.
“Demagogiec Appeal”
Gov. Gordon Persons of Ala
bama also was unavailable, but Lt.
Gov. James B. Allen declared the
civil rights plank is “a demagogic
appeal for negro votes” and is
foreign to traditions of the Demo
cratic party. Likewise, he said that
return of the two thirds rule
“would be a wholesome thing
since it would tend to lessen the
power of big city machines and re
turn the party to control of the
rank and file.”
Gov. James Byrnes of South
Carolina commented cautiously
that—*“it Senator Byrd’s speech
was eorrectly reported in the
press, he said many things I heart
ily favor”
Lightning Kills
ATLANTA, June 29—(AP) —
A construction worker seeking
shelter during a sudden thunder
storm was killed by lightning in
Atlanta yesterday and a bus pas
senger, running to get out of the
rain, was injured.
John Ray Wilcoxson, 55, negro
section erew employe of the At
lanta and West Point Railroad,
was working with a crew at Union
Station when the storm struck.
The State Patrol reported other
workers went to a nearby house,
but that Wilcoxson took shelter
under a tree, which was hit by
lightning.
J. M. Clements, 67, was treated
at Grady Hospital for cuts and
bruises suffered when he alighted
from a bus and dashed for sheiter
—and crashed through a plate
glass window. .
The Weather Bureau said the
afternoon thunderstorms would
continue throughout the state to
day and Saturday.
7 KILLED IN CRASH
VR T
- Seven Navy men w
killed and two rescued today in
the crash of a patrol bomber. '
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
BY JEAN COUCH
Retirement of three well-known
Athens teachers, election of a Su
pervising Principal of the City
Schools, and selection of a prin
cipal for the High School high
lighted yesterday’s meeting of the
Board of Education.
Miss Patty Hilsman, Mrs. Nell
McDorman Flanagan and Miss
Bonnie Brock, whose services with
the city schools begar, in 1904,
1909 and 1920, respectively, ac
cepted retirement undzr the Geor
gia Teacher Retirement System.
They were indiviqually given a
rising vote of thanks by the board
members for their. loyalty and
Text of resolutions praising
the services of three Athens
teachers, Miss Pattie Hilsman,
Mrs. Nell McDorman Flanagan
and Miss Bonnie Brock, upon
their retirement will be found
on an inside page of today’s
Banner-Herald.
service throughout the years they
have been affiliated with the
school system. ’
Sam W. Wood, principal of Ath
ens High School for the past eight
years, was unanimously elected to
the newly created post of Super
vising Principal, the duties of
which position involve extensive
administrative supervision in con
junction with the in-service train
ing of teacners.
The position to which Mr. Wood
was elected was created by the
Board at a previous meeting, the
title of Supervising Principal hav
ing been given to it at yesterday's
meeting,
Driver Succeeds Wood
Guy F. Driver, principal of La-
Grange High School for the past
seven years, was elected Principal
of Athens High to succeed Mr.
Wood.
A native of Sandersville, Ga,,
Mr. Wood holds both the A, B. and
M. A. degrees from the University
of Georgia, and has engaged in
graduate study at Columbia Uni
versity, New York City, and at
Emory University. As a member
of the University of Georgia fac
ulty during several summer ses
sion, he has worked largely with
teachers and prospective teachers,
dealing primarily with problems of
curriculum planning, school-com
munity relationships, instructional
techniques and procedures and
similar concerns of today’s educa
tors. The members of the Board
concurred that this work, com
bined with his active participation
in the Georgia Congress of Teach
ers and Parents, Kappa Delta Pi
Educational Fraternity and other
professional - organizations, made
the former High School principal
the ideal choice for the office.
Mr. Wood is married to the for
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
hot tonight and Saturday. Scat
tered aftermoon or evening
thundershowers. Low tonight 70;
high tomorrow 92. Sun sets 7:48
and rises tomorrow 5:25.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and a little cooler this after
noon and tonight with scattered
thundershowers this afternoon
and evening. Saturday partly
cloudy and warmer with scat
tered thundershowers in the aft
ernoon.
EXTENDED FORECAST
GEORGIA — Temperatures
will continue two to four de
grees above normal over the
week-end and falling slightly
Tuesday and Wednesday. Mod
erate to heavy rainfall and scat
tered thundershowers through
out the period
TEMPERATURE
Highest .... s.OO cres i9B
owest .... «iiw voss vlB
RERAR . e ves wirnnab i
NG e T T
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ~ ... .00
Total since June 1 .. .. .. 5.68
Excess since June 1 .. .... 2.54
Average June rainfall ~ .. 4.13
Total since January 1., ..23.12
Deficit since January 1 ... 6.02
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GCEORCIA OVER A CENTURY.
Clock Faith{ul
To Its Keeper
LONG BEACH, Calif.,, June
20— (AP)—For 44 years, Charles
E. Hilkey had cared for the big
clock in the tower of a down
town office building.
He climbed the steps to the
roof twice a week to wind it by
hauling on cables attached so a
drum. He kept it cleaned and
oiled, and running se¢ accurately
that fellow townsmen regulated
their watches and their daily ac
tivities by it.
Hilkey, 70, left last Saturday
on a trip to Kingsburg, near
Fresno, after assuring himself
that his beloved clock, which he
heiped install back in 1907, was
in zood shape. :
But Sunday night a little
piece of metal jammed the cogs
and stopped the clock, shortly
before 9:30 p. m.
At almost the same hour and
minute, Hilkey was taken ill
and died a few hours later.
Curbs Extension
Passed In Senate
WASHINGTON, June 29.—(AP)
—A bill to extend price, wage and
rent controls eight months but
which would curb drastically or
possibly ban any new price roll
backs was passed by the Senate
early today.
The bill, which falls far short
of the kind of measure President
Truman contends the country
needs to combat inflation, was
approved at the tag end of a tu
multuous marathon session by a
rollcall vote of 71 to 10.
Bill in House
Weary senators sent the bill to
the House, which plans to shunt
it aside temrporarily and act in
stead—probably later in the day—
on stop-gap legislation to,extend
the present controls law 31 days.
The House bill as cleared by its
Rules Committee would prohibit
any price rollbacks during July—
the proposed life of the measure.
It also would bar fixing any new
price ceilings during the month.
The current law expires at mid
night tomorrow. House leaders
have decided against considering
at this time the longer range ex
tension approved by the Senate.
So the Senate appeared to face
the alternatives of (1) going along
with the House on a stop-gap ex
tension, or (2) letting the controls
program Japse. Agreement on a
brief extension seemed to be the
likely choice, %
Get-Together
Senator vi\fia}fiank (D.-S.C.),
floor manager of the Senate bill,
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Czechs Agree To
Free U.S. Pilots .
WASHINGTON, June 29—(AP)
—The State Department said to
day Czechoslovakia has agreed to
release two western pilots and
their U. S. jet fighter planes. They
have been held since they made
emergency landings near Prague
June 8. RE i
1t said the €zech foreign office
gave Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs
a note whch promised to free the
pilots and the planes, but did not
state when. The Czech note was
in response to a vigorous protest
made this week by Briggs.
The plane, on a training flight
in the Ameriean occupation zone
of Germany, made emergency
landings near Prague on June 8.
The pilots since have been held
incommunicade while the Com
munist Czech suthorities have car
ried on an “*nvestigation” and
complained that this was one of
a long series of American “provo
cations.”
The Fliers were Lt. Luther G.
B o T ohank b W W”" shp
A rn Johan g regdian
training with the U. 8. Forert.
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951.
Ridgway Given Instructions
For Cease-Fire Negotiation
Fighting War Slows As (Cease-Fire
Talk Mounts; Red Activity Light
Early Action T
Aid Free Natio
WASHINGTON, June 28—(AP)
—Secretary of Defense Marshall,
appealing to Congress to move “as
quickly as possible” on military
aid for the free nations, said to
day “the buildup on the other side
is rather ominous.”
“Aside from the tragedy of the
casualities, Korea is an incident in
the world picture,” Marshall so
berly told the House foreign af
fairs committee.
He did not elaborate on the
meaning of his terse assertion that
there was an ominous “buildup”
of forces among the Communist
nations.
But only a few minutes earlier,
Marshall had declared “ a crucial
tests of the success of the mutual
security program must be met in
western Europe.”
The United States, he said, must
expect to maintain for “at least”
three more, years a multi-billion
dollar level of spending for for
egin military aid.
Serious Matter
Marshall made plain that he
feared a let-down in the event of
a Korean truce. It was one of the
“most serious considerations,” he
declared, adding:
“The world picture requires us
to continue building up our
strength and in some ways'to in=
crease it.”
America’s future position in Ko
rea and the Far East, Marshall
said, depends largely upon the
state of U. S. power in the pacific
and the “military posture of the
rest of the free world.”
Continued American assistance
is organizing the defenses of the
free world “is a project of self
interest for twis country of the
highest and most pressing urgen
cy,” Marshall said.
He testified before the House
foreign affairs committee on the
administration program for SB,-
500,000,000 of U. S. economic and
military aid abroad during the
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To Insure Flow Of Oil
BY ROBERT D. HEWETT
TEHRAN, Iran, June 29.— (AP) —U. S. Ambassador
Henry F. Grady appealed anew to Premier Mohammed
Mosszdegh today for concessions that would insure the
flow of oil to the West from the world’s largest refinery
at Abadan.
Grady talked for 90 minutes
with Mossadegh, then told news
men that chances for easing Iran’s
oil crisis “don’t look too bright.”
despite Mossadegh’s promise to
suspend anti-sabotage legislation
opposed by the British, But Brit
ish officials, with the refinery un
der the guns of one of their cruis
ers, appeared more hopeful.
Grady said he would propose
to the British that they keep their
technicians on the job at Abadan.
A British embassy spokesman
said employes of the Anglo-Iran
ian Oil Company, which operates
the refinery and produces virtu=
ally all of Iran’s oil, would not be
withdrawn so long as the refinery
stays open. Withdrawal of the
technicians would close the refin
ery.
Grady called suspension of the
anti-sabotage bill a goodwill ges
ture. It followed on the heels of
Mossadegh’s letter yesterday to
President Truman, Grady said Mr.
Truman had informed the premier
he would reply to the letter with=-
in a few days. ;
Grady Statement
The U. S. Ambassador made
clear that the premier would not
budge an inch on the nationaliza=-
tion program, At Khorramshahr,
near Abandan, Iran’s National Oil
Commission took over AIOC's
general executive offices.
Grady said Mossadegh refused
to make even a temporary conces~
sion in the dispute with the AIOC
over oil tanker recepits. Iran re
fused to let the tankers sail with~
out such receipts and AIOC or
dered the tankers to unload their
cargoes and pull away from the
docks. The receipts indicate pay
ment to the Iranian National Oil
Company.
Previously AIOC had hinted
that the tec’micians will be with
drawn from the refinery when all
the storage fill up. There are tanks
available to handle another eight
full days of production. If produc
tion is cut, the refinery can oper
ate for another month, a British
enibassy spokesman said.
-7 (In London, | Britidh 1 Foreig
Secreta%y’ g:mrt Mmfs’?m‘ig
Increased Air Action Is Noted;
Red Defenses Probed By Patrols
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, June 29.—(AP)—The fighting war virtually
disappeared from the Korean front today under a mount
ing wave of cease-fire talk.
A small, fierce fight raged throughout the afternoon for
a single hill northwest of Yonchon on the western front.
The ridge changed hands six times before Allied forces
withdrew, leaving Communists still holding the hill.
Barkley Warns
Against Booby
Trap Peace Bids
ATLANTA, June 29— (AP) —
Story-telling Vice-President Alben
Barkley issued a solemn warning
against “booby trap” peace propo
sals here last night.
Jovial and serious by turns, the
Kentuckian told more than 750
Methodists attending the North
Georgia Methodist Conference:
“We're anxious for peace. We're
willing to explore any and all gen
uine, bona fide peace efforts—but
we must not be caught in a booby
trap which will destroy the very
ideals we cherish.”
The United States must be so
strong that “no aggressor ever can
destroy our right to live in free
dom and worship under any kind
of steeple,” Barkley said. And
paraphrasing Lincoln’s Gettysburg
address, he added:
“The United Nations now is un
dergoing the supreme test to de
termine whether any organization
so conceived and so dedicated can
long endure.”
A Methodist since he was 17,
the Vice-President told his fellow
churchmen that “religion and de
mocracy are weapons—they are
not only weapons, but as weapons
are means to an end, the end be
ing happiness, prosperity, econom
ic security and the good life here
on earth and salvation and eternal
life in the world to come.”
Barkley is occupying the same
hotel suite he had while on his
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there is still hope Iran will nego
tiate a settlement. He advised
AIOC employes to stick together
until normal operations can be re=
sumed at the refinery.
Official View
(British Defense Minister Em
manuel Shinwell also expressed
belief that Iran would show a
“more reasonable” attitude, But
he said that in addition to sending
a cruiser off Abada other meas~
ures were In preparation to pros
tect British lives.) i St
It is impossible to predict what
will happen next in the strained
nationalist atmosphere, but it ap
peared likely that suspension of
the anti-sabotage bill would ease
the threat to British AIOC works=
ers and give three or four weeks
time for cooler heads to try to
work out a compromise. e
AIOC 7et;r'lprlbyés had refgge_q to
work for the new Iranian Nation
al Oil Company, largely because
of Iran’s proposed anti-sabotage
bill, which would provide penal
ties- up to death.
The Iranians began making con=
cessions shortly after the 8,000~
ton British cruiser Mauritius
steamed up the Shatt El Arab
River and cast anchor within a
mile of the great Abadan refine
ries. Her eight-inch guns could be
seen from Jetties where tankers
now have started pumping oil
back into the refinery storage
tanks and are preparing to leave.
U. 8. Approval
The U, 8. governmént gave
quick approval last night to a vol
untary agreement among 18
American oil companies to pool
their resources in supplying fuel
to “friendly foreign nations” who
may be cut off from Iranian oil.
Mossadegh's letter assured Pres-
ident Truman Iran is making ev=-
ery effort to maintain the west
ward flow of Iranian oil, but de
clared any breakdown in that
flow would be the fault of AIOC
officials. British officialz in Lon
don said if Mossadegh refuses to
i respect Anglo-Iranian propezty
tclaims, Britairb r’n:dy carry her
plaing; to the ‘United Nijj +
g:fi;tyg’gouncil.‘ ‘? sSe
Chinese Reds threw some small
probing attacks at the center of
the line.
Elsewhere ground action was
confined to patrol activity.
Urited Nations patrols screen
ing the lower half of the “iron tri
angle” were turned back by heavy,
though inaccurate fire.
“The Chinese don’t shoot unless
we provoke them,” one officer
commented. “They sit tight until
we come in gun range, then they
let loose.”
The whole battlefront was like
that. The U. S. Eighth Army took
only 108 words Friday night to
cover the entire ground action in
the briefest communigue it has is
sued this year.
More Air Action
There was more activity in the
air. Propeller driven U. N. Mus
tangs tangled Thursday with Red
jets. Cne Russian-made jet was
damaged, the Mustangs were un
hurt, Far East Air Forces said.
Two American jets were shot
down by ground fire.
On the ground a few hundred
Reds struck in the early morning
darkness Friday in the Kumhwa
area. A series of earlier Chinese
attacks in this same corner of the
old “iren triangle” were beaten
back during the night and daylight
hours Thursday.
Communist radios at Pyongyang
in Korea and Peiping in China ig
nored cease-fire talk.
United Nations sources in Japan
and Korea would not comment.,
But a spirit of optimism was ap
parent in U, S. Eighth Army
Headquarters.
Clarence Rhee, a South Korean
government spokesman, predicted
the shooting war would stop with~
in “the next few days.”
In Tokyo Gen. Matthew B. Ridg
way, Supreme Allied Commander,
was reported ready to carry out
at a moment’s notice any instruc
tions he might receive from Wash-~
ington to end the war.
Ridgeway’s spokesman said the
QGeneral would not comment on
reports he might be instructed to
enter truce talks with Communist
commanders in line with a Rus
sian cease-fire suggestion. But
Ridgway was expected to fly to
Korea in the next few days for
conferences with his field com
mander, Lt. Gen. James A. Van
Fleet,
Sherman Silent
Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, U. 8.
chief of naval cperations who re
turned to Tokyo Friday from
Korea, declined to talk about the
possikility of a truce. Sherman
told a press conference:
“T don’t intend to discuss politi
cal events in this cease-fire talk.”
The Korean legislature unani
mously adopted a resolution op
posing s truce on the 38th parallel,
20 mileg south of the most recent
fighting,
Sources at Eighth Army Head
quarters speculated that Kaesong,
ancient capital of Korea, would be
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FOT SPOT IN OIL CRISIS — Here is a general view of
the huge Anglo-Iranian Oil Company plant at Abadan
where Iranian officials have se¢ zed the company head
quarters. Britain has ordered (30 key technicians {c
leave here.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Avea
One Killed, Two
Hurt As Shelton
War Flares Anew
FAIRFIELD, 111, June 29 —
(AP)—Another bloody chapter in
an apparent campaign to wipe out
surviving members of the Shelton
gang family resulted yesterday in
the killing of one person and the
machine-gunning of two others.
Three of the notorious Shelton
brothers, leaders of a gang dating
back to the prohibition era, have
been assassinated in less than four
years.
Gravely wounded in the ma
chinegun shooting at a street in
tersection here were Guy Pen
nington, 37, and his wife, Lulu
Shelton Pennington, 44. Each was
shot four times.
They amed as their assailant
Charlie (Black Charlie) Harris,
an ex-convict and former partner
of the Shelton Brothers who later
split with them and became their
arch rival.
Mrs. Pennington is the youngest
sister of the notorious Shelton
brothers.
Info Source Unnamed
Without disclosing where he got
'his information, State’s Attorney
Gerald Mayberry of Wayne Coun
ty announced he had been in
formed Harris would surrender
voluntarily to authorities this
morning. A warrant charging
Harris with attempted murder was
issued last night. . :
A few hours after the Pen
ningtons were shot down, Louis
Sons, 49, a_ farmer, was found
shot to death in a farm house
resort. Police said the place is
operated by Ogie Pennington,
brother of the victim of the earlier
shooting.
Police Chief Otis Hallam said
he was operating on the theory
Sons might have been killed be
cause he witnessed the shooting
of the Penningtons. Others sug
gested the killer might have mis
taken Sons for Ogie Pennington,
who saw the earlier shooting.
Lulu Pennington said Harris
was laughing as he fired at her
and her husband and that he
shouted: “Now you are going to
get some of the same stuff your
brothers got.” ;
She said the machine gun jam
med and that Harris then got into
a black sedan and drove away.
Sam Mercer of Fairfield told
authorities he witnessed the shoot
ing and that the Penningtons’ as
sailant was tall and bushy-haired.
Harris is short and slick-haired.
oOld Wars
The Shelton gang wars date
back to the prohibition era when
at least 40 persons were killed as
the Sheltons were feuding with
the rival Birger gang.
The more recent campaign
against the Shelton family began
with the ambush-killing of Carl
Shelton, the gang-leader, near his
Fairfield farm Oct, 23, 1947,
Bernie Shelton, his youngest
brother, was killed by a rifle shot
from a hidden gunman while he
stood In front of the Shelton
Amusement Co., in Peoria, lil,
July 20, 1948.
Roy Shelton was killed by a rifle
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HOME
EDITION
Limifed Power
To Go Ahead
Given General
WASHINGTON, June 29.
—(AP)—General Matthew
B. Ridgway is getting gen
eral instructions on nmh
tion of a cease-fire in ea.
Robert A. Lovett, Deputy
Secretary of Defense, an
nounced this officially teday.
He told a news conferenee
the instructions, being sent
through the Defense Depart
ment, have the approval eof
President Truman and were
developed by the National
Security Council in diseus
sions with the State Depart
ment.
The council is the nation’s tep
advisory body. It includes Presi-
dent Truman, Vice President
Barkley, Secretary of State Aehe
son, Secretary of Defense Mar
shall, and the chairman eof the
National Security Resources
Board. The latter office & now
vacant.
Lovett said the instructions gave
Ridgway, the U. N. commander for
Korea, authority to go ahead en
certain lines. Lovett did met say
what those llnes are. .
He said further that any terms
for a cease-fire developed In 2
field conference of military repre
sentatives would have to be ap=-
proved in Washington.
Lovett said he was personally
uninformed as to whether the
orders had actually reached Ridg
way at the time of the news con«
ference, beginning at 9:30 a. m.
(EST). :
Loveit Answer
But in response to a questien as
to “what has Ridzwai been told,”
Lovett replied that Ridgway has
or will have general instruetions
which have been worked out by
the responsible agencies of the
government here,
Asked whether any actual ne
gotiations would be condueted by
Ridgway or by Lt. Gen. James A,
Van Fleet, the Bth Army eom
mander in Korea, Lovett sald he
did not know.
It was understood the gemeral
thought was that Ridgway sheuld
make a formal bid for truee falke
with the Communist commeand in
Korea.
! Some authorities said thig would
be the most simple and direet way
of finding out whether the Rus
sian suggestion is sincere and
whether their North Korean -9d
Chinese Communist friends will
go along,
The whole cautious peaee-seek
ing maneuver now under way ie
aimed at effecting a cease-fire
somewhere in the area of the 38th
‘parallel, the pre-war boundary be
tween North and South Korea.
But strong opposition was veiced
in Congress today to any #Bth
parallel truce.
No Final Decisions
At the moment no final deci«
sions have been made on what
step should follow Moscow’s elari
fication of the cease-fire sugges
tion made Saturday by the Seoviet’s
Chief U. N. Delegate, Jacob Malik.
Consultations are underway
both between the State ?ul
ment and representatives the
15 other nations with tw in
Korea and among State De
fense Departments and the White
House on U, 8. policy.
Responsible officials said that
whatever is decided upon must
represent the overall views of all
the interested nations, "& the
whole, consultations to date have
shown a general acceptance of the
belief that Russla would really
like to end the Korean fighting.
But what conditions can b€ im
posed to prevent a resumption of
hostilities by the Commundsts are
questions for which answere still
have to be found.
President Truman told & news
conference yesterday that he
hoped the peace -efforts will
work out -— everybody does, he
said. But he added that heé has
not made up his mind yet beeause
the thing hasn’t reached & con«
clusion.
And Senator Douglas (P.=11.),
who has gone along with the ad
ministration in opposition t 6& Gen.
Douglas Mae Arthur’s propesals te
blockade China, bomb Manehuria
and use Chinese Nationalist m"i
cautioned against a 38th paralle
settlement,
Douglas told a reporter he had
“yery grave doubts” that the
United Nations should agree to
end the c%imtljct with the €om=
munists still in possession of the
north half of Korea.
Drawn Battle
“That would be in the riature of
a drawn battle,” said Doufi, a
Marine veteran of the ifie
fighting in World War M. “It
would not be a real victory.
“If it is militarily possible, it
would be better to have a Boun=
dary fixed at the neck of Korea,
100 miles norinh of the 38th paral
lel. That would be a vkm#‘n'
the U. N. For South Koreéa
wonld have three-fourths of the
commtrv’s papulation.” £
A~ for the general peace
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