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Vol. CXIX, No. 197.
Oatis' Name Is Symbol
0f Opposition To Reds
BY DON WHITEHEAD
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—(AP)—The name of a tall,
thin newspaperman from Indiana is fast becoming a sym
bol of opposition to Communist fear and oppression.
The name is William N. Oatis.
Bill Oatis of Marion, Ind. . . . worked on his hometown
hizh school paper . . . won a scholarship to study at De-
Pauw University . . . got a job with the Associated Press
.. . toiled as a GI in four years of war . . . and then
worked his way up to become AP Bureau chief in Prague.
Today he’s somewhere in Cze
choslovakia in a jail, convicted by
his Red judges as a “spy.” He was
.entenced to spend 10 years in
srison because—his employer, and
his government say—he tried to
onort the news as he first learned
{0 do back in Indiana.
In ten years, Bill Oatis will be
47 years old—if k&'s alive ten
vears from now to pick up the
ihreads of a life which the Czech
police tore apart when they seized
him last April 23. |
In ten years, Bill Oatis will be
a broken, aguiig man with a whole
chunk of his life remembered as
a long nightmare—unless he wins
his freedomn through the protosts{
of his president, his government,
and otbers in many parts of the
world |
Truman Protests }
President Truman has protested
the conviction, which was labelled l
a fraud and a farce by the State |
Department. Congress has voted
its indignation — 443 to 1 — and
called for suspension of trade with |
Czechoslovakia until Oatis is freed.
Organizations and individuals |
throughout the United States and |
n other countries have added!
ineir protests. |
Last Tuesday, President Truman ]
put aside the niceties of diploma- |
cy to give the new Czech ambassa- |
dor a harsh lecture on Czechoslo
vakia’s eonduct as a partner of
Russia. ‘
Usually, the President and a|
new ambassador merely exchange
pleasantries and formal notes
when the diplomat appears at the
White House to present his cre
dentials.
But when Czech Ambassador
Vladimir Prochazka stood in the
oval office of the President voicing
hopes for cordial relations, Mr.
Truman told him the best way to
get better relations would be to
free Bill QOatis.
Further, the .'resident said, the
relations between the United
States and Czechoslovakia will
no§ be uth‘wdc“ they once wer:
unless e h vernmen
changes ltswfiggs B EE e
Those relations have been get-§
ting worse, he said, ever since
Jan Masaryk was murdered. Mas
aryk, who was pro-Western and
who served as Foreign Minister of
Czechoslovakia, died in a drop|
from a window in Prague in 1948
after the Communists seized con
trol of the government. The Reds
insisted he was a suicide.
The day after President Truman
spoke to Prochazka, the envoy was
called to the State Department,
Acheson didn’t offer to shake
hands. He merely showed the
Red diplomat to a chair and then
he told him about the aroused
feelings of the American people
and government.
A State Department report of
the meeting said: “The Secretary
made it emphatically clear he does
not understand the attitude of the
Czechoslovak government during
the past few months and that if
nothing is done to settle the pre
sent problems tension will only
continue to mount.”
Nervous and shaken, Prochazka
came from the meeting and de
clared defiantly to reporters his
government “will not yield” to
American economic, political or
“propaganda” pressure.
“The case is closed,” he cried.
But later the Czech embassy tele
phoned the AP office to say Pro
chazka had stated the case was
closed “from a juridical point of
view.”
President Truman told a news
conference Friday the Oatis case
will never be closed until Oatis is
out of jail.
rormer Athenian
Dies In Florida
Victor Oliver, former Athenian, I
lied unexpectedly at his home in |
West Palm Beach, Fla., on Satur- |
lay. Funeral services will be held l
there on Tuesday, Bridges Funeral |
Home announced.
Mr. Oliver is survived by one
daughtes, Mrs. Louise Spendler,
of West Palm Beach, and two sis
ter-in-laws, Mrs. Carlton Beussee
and Mrs., Leila Betts of Athens.
His wife was the former Miss
Flora Collins of Athens.
Mr. Oliver was a merchant here
for many years and his friends |
will regret to learn of his death.
SEARCH CONTINUES
MONTAUK, N. Y., Sept. 3 —
(AP)—The Coast Guard and state
police held little hope today of
finding many of the 18 persons
still missing and presumed dead
after their party fishing boat cap
iize.r! Saturday with a loss of 37
Ives,
Searchers continued, however,
to scan the Long Island beaches
and the Atlantic in their hunt for
the missing,
RETURNING VETS
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept, 3—(AP)
Thirty-one men from Alabama
and 44 from Georgia are among
the 1,177 army troops aboard the
Navy trangport'Marine Lynx' due
here today ffom Korea. « '
Includo! in the group were Lt.
Normaa €. Handley, jr., and Cpl.
James Jackson, both of Athens.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
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By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
; SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 —
(AP)—The United States sought
firm support from 48 nations to
-Iday for a set of tough rules de
'signed to prevent Russia from
blocking the signing of a Japanese
peace treaty.
. The rules would limit debate
‘and prevent treaty amendments.
~ Their adoption is the key to
American strategy for assuring
success of the treaty conference,
~opening here tomorrow night with
an address by President Truman.
Red bloc countries are expected
to protest the rules violently.
The Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
ister, Andrei Gromyko, isolated
himself in a suburban mansion
with his 38-member mission and
said nothing. |
Western diplomats had no clues
to his strategy or intentions,
Debate will begin Wednesday.
Main Problem
The main problem will be how
to shut off debate and bring the
delegates to an expected favora
ble vote if the Russian, Polish and
Czech delegations attempt a fili
buster. The signing was sche
duled for Saturday.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
scheduled conferences with Ken
neth Younger, British Minister of
State and delegation leader, and
other delegates, on this and re
lated problems.
Informed diplomats said Young
er may urge Achéson to agree that
“reasonable” debate on the rules
must be permitted to prevent any
appearance of Anglo~ American
steamrollering,
- President Truman was due from
Washington by plane at 3:30 p.
m. (5:30 p. m. EST) today.
He is to deliver a five-minute
treasury bond rally speech at
755 p. m. (9:55 p. m. EST) to
night.
Other developments: -
~ Other Developments
| Acheson, Ambassador John Fos
.ter Dulles and other top U. S.
delegation officials conferred with
lJapanese Premier Shigeru Yoshi
da last evening. They discussed
the signing of an American-Japa
nese security pact which they
long have planned to conclude
after the signing of the peace
treaty. The pact would provide
for keeping American troops in
Japan after the occupation ends.
Acheson, Australian Ambassador
Percy Spender and Sir Carl Be
rendsen, New Zealand’s envoy to
the United States, signed late Sat
urday a three-power mutual de
fense treaty. It extends America’s
already great security commit
ments into the southwest Pacific.
Japanese Premier Yoshida and
his party, technically still World
War II enemies, arrived Sunday.
Diplomats said they will take no
active part in the conference ex
cept to sign the treaty. Yoshida
may speak then. To reporters he
expressed hope “the peace con
ference will proceed and termi
nate successfully according to
schedule.”
Storm Growing
In Caribbean
MIAMI, Fla.,, Sept. 3—(AP)—A
growing hurricane, the fourth of
the season, is heading westward
from the Caribbean sea today.
The San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Weather Bureau reports the storm,
which formed yesterday in the
same general area that spawned
the hurricane that killed almost
200 persons last month, was lo
cated at 5 a. m. (EST) today about
225 miles south of Cabo Rojo, P. R.
Winds near the center of the
tropical twister were estimated at
100 miles an hour while gale winds
extended about 100 miles to the
north.
The Weather Bureau predicted
the storm would continue to move
westward at a speed of about 18
miles an hour and that it would
increase in size and intensity dur
ing the next 12 hours.
No land areas are in immediate
danger and chief storm forecaster
Grady Norton of the Miami
Weather Bureau last night said:
“Unless there is a radical change
of direction it will be a long time
before any land area is endan
gered.”
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and not much
change in temperatures today,
tonight and Tuesday. Slight
chance of afternoon thunder
showers. Low tonight 70; high
tomorrow 90. Sun sets today
6:56 and rises tomorrow 6:08.
- GEORGIA — Partly Ccloudy
and not much ' temperature
change through Tuesday, Wide-~
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Labor Day, 1951
Their Common Objective: Peace - - -
On Labor Day, 1951, in a world unsettled and fearful of global war, men who
labor and men who fight for America are united in a gsingle purpose. That purpose is
peace—but peace with freedom, and peace with justice for all men. Once more, the
giant wheels of industry are turning out the sinews of military strength. Whether or
not millions more of the world’s finest youth must die on far-flung battlefields hin
ges on our success in making that strength — America’s great strength — count for
freedom.
Andrei Gromyko, "Thundery One”
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Wallace Rises
To Be Tuesday
Henry D. Wallace, well known
Athenian, died unexpectedly at
his home at 283 East Hancock ave
nue Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from a heart attack. Mr. Wallace
was 58 years old.
Services are to be conducted
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
from East Athens Baptist Church
with the pastor, Rev. H. R. Burn
ley, and Rev. G. M. Spivey, pastor
of Young Harris Methodist
Church, officiating. The body will
lie in state in the church for thirty
minutes prior to the services.
Burial will be in the Oak Grove
Baptist Church, Bridges Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers will be Deacons of
East Athens Baptist Church and
an honorary escort will include
other officials of the church and
employes of the Industrial Laun
dry. Mr. Wallace wag treasurer
of the church and attended serv
ices there yesterday morning.
He is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. C. I. Slayton, Amarilla, Tex=
as, Mrs, B. M. Anderson, Gaines
ville, and Mrs. A. L. Clark, Cum=~
mings; five brothers, J. L. Wal
lace, Seaville, Ga., R. C. Wallace,
Oakwood, Ga., E. O. Wallace,
Cummings, and T. F. Wallace and
Claude Wallace, both of Gaines
ville; sisters-in-law, Mrs. C. M.
Wallace, Gainesville, and Mrs. T.
H. Waliace, Weatherford, Texas;
brother-in-law, J. B. Elliott, At
{ lanta. G e
|+ A'nativé of Dawsor Caurity,iGa,
{'Mr. Wallace had been a resident
0f Athens for the past twenty-one
years, being connected with the
Industrial Laundry,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GCEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1951,
Kremlin’s Expert On US Will
Sound Off In San Francisco
(EDITOR’'S NOTE: Peter Edson, veteran Washington corres
pondent for NEA Service, has gone to San Francisco to report the
background story on the Japanese peace treaty conference, In this
dispatch he gives a word-picture of Andrei Gromyko who prom
ises to be No. 1 trouble-maker at the meeting, Edson’s dispatches
on the conference this week will appear in The Banner-Herald.)
SAN FRANCISCO.— (NEA)—There’s no question about
who has the role of villain for the Japanese peace confer
ence drama in San Francisco’s famous Opera House.
It’s Andrei A. Gromyko. You pronounce it Grow-MEE
ko. He’s Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the 32-man
Cossack choir of off-key disc jockeys and sour note throw
ers. The Russian name Gromyko means ‘“the thundery
one.
Gromyko is also quite a juggler. He can keep more mon
key wrenches in the air at one time than any man alive.
And he can throw hammers and sickles with uncanny ac
curacy, at any country on the map. SE
The chief Russian delegate to
San Fransisco is supposed to be
Russia’s expert on America. As a
young professor of economics he
majored in American affairs. Then
he became head of the American
;'iection in the Russian foreign of
ce.
When he came to the United
States in 1938 as counselor of the
Soviet Embassy, under Ambas
sador Constantin Oumansky, Gro
myko began to study this country
in earnest. He became a great
movie fan, not for the fun of it,
but to help him learn the English
language. He now speaks it pretty
well, particularly the word, “No!”
He began a systematic study of
American culture and American
humor. He got wotks on American
art and American joke books, and
he memorized stock passages from
both. The result is that as a din
ner or luncheon companion, Gro
myko is now said to be one of the
world’s greatest bores.
It Never Shows
When in a talkative mood —
which is seldom—he now has the
reputation of being able to make
more banal remarks about Ameri
can life, and tell more corny,
Joe Miller jokes than a 10-year
old.
In short, if Gromyko really has
acquired any real understanding
of the United States he never al
lows it to show. Or else his mas
ters in Moscow never allow him
to allow it to show.
The San Francisco conference
is Gromyko’s sixth major meeting
with U. 8. and allied powers. His
first was negotiating the initial
Lend-Lease agreement of 1942,
He was charge d’affaires at the
Washington embassy then, be
tween Amassadors Omensky
and Maxim Litinov.
Gromyko succeeded Litinov in
1943. He took part In the Dum
barton Oaks conference with Sec
ertary of State Edward Stettinius
and Sir Alexander Cadogan in
1944. The next year he went to
San Francisco for the UN Chart
er conference and was in charge
of the Russian delegation after
Foreign Minister Molotov went
home., L t
Everything had gone with fair
wm“éfif upl 10 this time: Gro
myko ' wWas considered a redason
able cuss-—for a Russian. Several
people had actually known him
to smile. But when a reporter
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
once asked for a personal inter=
view, he answered, “My person=-
i ality does not interest me.”
. It was in 1946, at the first United
Nations meeting, that Gromyko
showed his real form. He staged
his famous walkout and he con
tributed two dozen wetoes.
He blocked all efforts for agree
ments on international atomic en
ergy control, disarmament and
creation of a UN police force. And
as a fillibusteer, he proved that
if necessary he could outlast even
the late Huey Long.
Gromyko was allowed to return
to Russia for a rest in 1948, after
nine years in the U. S. But he was
back last Spring, in Paris, he
(Contmuea On Page Twa)
9 Mishap Deaths
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During Week-End
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‘ By Associated Press
Highway crashes, drownings
land lightning have killed nine
persons in Georgia during the ex
tended Labor Day weekend and
the toll is expected to rise before
the holiday ends.
In addition, two Georgians met
’death in accidents outstide the
| state.
| Last year, the State Highway
| Patrol recorded 13 traffic fatalities
in Georgia over Labor Day.
A panel truck wrecked and
burst into flames near Atlanta
Sunday, killing Robert E. Vickery,
Jr., 24, of East Point. Vickery was
trapped in the wreckage, but three
others escaped with minor injuries.
! An auto piled into the rear of
Ia disabled vehicie near Macon
| early Sunday and killed James
| Trice Dumas, 25, of Macon, who
g was fixing a flat tire. Five others
were injured.
’ A car zipped off a curve near
Warner Robins and overturned,
killing Paul W, Veal, 42, of War
ner Robins.
H. A. Boose, bus driver from
| Winston-Salem, N. C., drowned in
| lake Olmstead near Augusta Sat-
Eurday night when he tried to re
trieve = drifting boat.| |||
An aito plunged into a'canal at
| Pahokee, Fla., Saturday night,
| bringing death to Pvt. Leßoy
‘ (Continued On Page Twe)
Blocked Efforts
U. N. Truce Delegates
Confer With Ridgway
Nation's Leaders
Pledge Unity
Against Commies
By The Associated Press
Labor Day, 1951, brought new
pledges of national unity against
Communism, new praise for la=
bor’s contribution to defense, and
a proposal to warn Russia that
the Kremlin will be bombed if
new Red aggression occurs.
Against this somber background
millions of Americans passed the
holiday at beaches, ball games
and picnics and in endless lines of
motor cars jamming the nation’s
highways.
The militant proposal for meet
ing Red aggression was made by
George Meany, secretary-treasurer
;ot the American Federation of
' Labor.
In a major AFL address, broad
cast (Mutual) nationwide yester
day, Meany said:
Meany Statement
“If the Soviet leaders were
made to understand in clear and
unmistakable terms that further
aggression anywhere against free
nations would subject the Kremlin
to attack, there would be no more
aggression.”
President Truman, preparing to
fly to the Japanese peace confer
ence at San Francisco, issued a
statement saying that labor is part
of the American team, along with
management and government,
working out the nation’s destiny.
Secretary of Defense Marshall
said American labor “has consist
ently stressed its stake in the free
way of life and has made great
contributions to the preseryation
of that life.”
Manly Fleischmann, Defense
Production Administrator, said in
another mtemfint that “labor is
meeting the challenge” of the mo
bilization program.
AFL President William Green
and CIO President Philip Murray
sent messages to foreign workers,
through the State Department’s
“Voice of America” overseas
broadcasts.
Green said that “when trade
unions fall under control of the
state, workers become the slaves
of dictatorship .. .”
Murray’s overseas rhessage said
that Americar workers “are
against reactionary fascism and
they are against the reactionary
Soviet system that kills liberty
and places unions in straight
jackets.”
Secretary of Labor Tobin said
in another “Voice” broadcast that
the U. S. has shown through the
Marshall Plan and the North At
lantic Pact that “American re
sources are at the command of the
free world.”
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Gremlin In The Path-
The turn in the primrose path had to come some time. It spelis the end of u&
rious summer and the start of another round of books and blackboards, study :
and homework. The gremlin with the evil leer and the ominous sign was put there by
a pivyish artist. But, whether he’s there actually or in spirit, he looms inevitably in
the carefree path of these “Tom Sawyers” on a last hike to the ol’ fishin’ hole. :
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Allies Believe Reds May Be
Deliberately Delaying Talks
TOKYO, Sept. B.— (AP) —Three United Nations armis
tice negotiators flew from Korea to Tokyo today as Allied
headquarters said Reds “may be deliberately” del.yg.
Korean war truce talks “to blackmail the rest of the
world” at the Japanese peace conference in San Franeiseo.
Vice Adm, C. Turner Joy, senior
U. N. representative, and two
other members of the five-man
Allied cease-fire team-—Lt. Gen.
74 C. Craigie and Rear Adm. Ar
leigh Burke—arrived by plane at
7:30 p. m. (4:00 a. m. EST).
Presumably , they will confer
with the United Nations comman
der, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
on the stalled negotiations at Kae~
song, Korea.
Red Charges
Suspended armistice negotiations
sank closer to a complete break
under dn outbrust of Red charges
that grew like a festering sore.
Full-scale fighting in the 14-
months-old war was ready to
flare at any moment if cease-fire
talks collapse completely.
A see-saw battle blazed for the
fourth day along the east central
front. U. N. troops smashed out
bloody gains through savage couns
terattacks by massing Red forces.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway was
stonily silent about the latest Com=
munist charge that his U. N. forces
violated the Kaesong neutrality
zone,
But his public relations office
issued a release saying the Reds
delibertely “set about to bring the
peace negotiations to a standstill,
without consideration for the fact
that their own forces are dying at
the rate of over a thousand a day.”
U. N. Release
The release said the Chinese and
North Koreans originally entered
truce talks “determined to secure
by conference what they had fail
ed to do in battle.
“Having failed to destroy the
Republic of Korea and to enslave
the Korean people by force of
arms, the Reds may be deliberately
prolonging Korea’s suffering and
frustrating its eventual unification
in order to blackmail the rest of
the world at San Francisco.”
The statement again accused the
Reds of manufacturing charges to
prevent resumption of peace talks.
Negotiations began July 10 and
were broken off Aug. 23 by the
Reds on the allegation that an Al
lied plane bombed the Kaesong
geutrality zone where they were
eld.
All charges have brought den
ials from the U. N. eommand.
VERY ODD EXCUSE
SALISBURY, Eng., Sept, 8 —
(AP)—Robert F. Mount explained
in court today why he was caught
speeding.
“I had just bought a copy of
the city highway laws,” he said,
“and was preoccupied with read
ing it as I drove along.”
The fine was 3 pounds ($8.50).
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EDITION -
BY DON HUTH
Allied Ground
Unifs Strafed -
By Red Fighters
By The Associated Press
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 8 —
(AP)—Communist fighter planes
today made six bombing and straf
ing attacks on United Nations
ground forces on the east esntral
fighting front.
The Red planes fled north im
mediately after the attacks.
Some dropped single bombs.
The one identified as a Yak-9
fired a rocket at Allied ground
troops,
There was no repert of results.
¢ Two Attacks
One attack was against a front
line unit near Kumhwa, The oth
ers were directed at Allied troops
just to the rear of the front line.
As Eighth Army Headquarters,
Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
United Nations ground commander
in Korea, said the Reds have
built up a striking force of about
800,000 men, some of them Cauea
sian, since the start of now-stalled
cease-fire talks at Kaesong July
10.
In ground action on the east
central front, AP Correspondent
George A. McArthur reported at
tacking Allied troops swarmed up
two vital heights north of Inje
Monday and routed Reds from
their last stronghold on the line
north of the punchbowl, scéne nf
bitter fighting before the armis
tice talks began,
U. N. Gains
U. N. gains gave the Allies eon~
trol of the supply road inte the
punchbowl through which Reds
have been pouring south.
Red resistance in the area was
reported slackening by nightfall
and an estimated 500 Communists
were observed marching north
from the punchbowl. They were
brought under artillery attack.
The Reds apparently were pull
ing back to set up another defense
line a short distance to the nerth,
West of the punchbowl, how
ever, the Reds stubbornly eoun
terattacked and defended #heir
dug-in hill positions against hard
driving Allied troops,
Allied troops, attacking on a 30-
mile front, carved out bloody
gaing earlier in see-saw aetion
from Kumwa north to Inje.