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How It Looks
At My Angle
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Dan Magill
(Bditor’'s Note: On April 1,
(his year, Dan Magill, sr., Asso
cinte Editor of the Banner-Her
-411 whose death occurred last
week, wrote the following col
ymn, From time to time Mr.
Ara~ill wrote personal columns
and this was his last. The re
<nonse was very favorable in
deed and there have been re
opests that it be published in
order that those who did not see
it when published might do so
now.)
Coming into town on the bus,
whicly is punctual more often than
ot these days, yesterday after
inner 1 got to thinking how fre
wently it is that you cen judge a
man's age by the size of his gar-
At thirty, and from that. point
w 0 the early forties, nothing less
an an eighth of an acre will do.
¢ that age a man is land hungry.
I'e bigger the grounds on
\ h hig house is built the better
likes ft.
“11 the trees located on his place
ot shed enough lecaves to bend
i~ back beyond endurance every
v .tomn and by Christmas every
{ has been raked and piled high,
to rot into woods earth, or else
:cd into the garden soil.
As the vears go by it begins to
. as if the trees are bearing
oe and more leaves and then it
is January, or February, before
(hev are all raked up and not so
ny of them now get worked
into the garden, which itself is be
¢inning to shrink in size.
In the early days when an
¢iohth of an acre seems to be not
¢nough ground to work, several
ows of corn are necessary, plant
cd two weeks apart so that roast
ine ears may be had well into the
.ummer, At forty-five corn has
ceased to be a necessary crop and,
.nyway, the weevels have become
<y worrisome that few full ears
are grown. Corn can be bought
«t the stores, or off an occasional
vegetable truck for (at least that
as the price) five or ten cents
an ear, :
The diminish%g firden plot #t
about age forty-five no longer in
cludes rows of butterbeans, both
bush and pole beans, as well as
onions, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce,
and perhaps, beets, cabbage,
squash and field peas. The beans
have held on, that is the bush
beans. The business of stringing
wire or rope from pole to pole to
make a trellis on which the Ken
tucky Wonders may spread them
sclves, has been abandoned and
only the -bunch variety of beans
is found desirable and possibie of
cultivating.
When the bush bean has devel
oped a peculiar one-crop variety
through the cooperative efforts of
our summer weather and various
insects they, too, are dropped from
the list in the wvanishing garden
plot which at age ftifly has long
since mostly been let out to ber
muda grass.
There remains just enough bare
#round for three rows of onions
which, because of their indigesti
ble qualities are now grown for
others than the aging gardener.
There is left a few rows of let
tuce and four dozen tomato plants
—'he kind that will not wilt: but
otherwise is subject to all other
ciseases and ailments to which the
tomato is a vietim.
~ At fifty-five the tomatoes are
hiving a difficult time to main
t7in their ground. Despite putting
un a strong fight they have -de
cicased to about two dozen plants,
vst stuck in the ground and left
10 get along the best they can,
instead of being treated to an 18-
imch hole in the ground with ma
bure and multeh of several inches
10 take care of proper feeding and
brovide moisture in droughty.
weather,
The lettuce hangs on but in
;|-:‘r(i of being transplanted from
the rows in which it is sown in
‘.ie summer or early fall, it is
vst left in the original rows to
b 2 thinned it is eaten. And
fven by thafi(ind of arrangement
g fate of lettuce is problemati-
Cal. since it has not been able to
£less what the weather is going to
€0 and fortify itself against sud
¢en November freezes.
Alter fifty-five and on the high
'oad to sixty, four tomato plants,
@9 evidence of a determination not
'O 2lve up the struggle, are all that
flirvive, After then, perhaps the
pictures in the seed catalogs are
3] that remains, if sight is still
tairly good. ,
‘ One of the saddest of all sights
: 2 garden spot that is no longer
g tilled. I have known two
J ‘hree Athenians wha worked
(€ll gardens right on up unti! the
;‘me they were forced to their last
cds by old age, or until actual
...ese people at seventy-five or
o e _still had a wonderful zest
living,
¢ [}‘f' €ry year it seemed as if weeds
Con st would take over their gar
. When spring came and the soil
cooan to grow warm these gar
!¢ were ploughed and planted
, "' as they had been for twenty
(o or thirty years, or longer. And
\,”f eardendrs ' themselves' ‘hever
““¢med to grew old. They mever
g4ve up cultivating their garden.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Eight (it; utficials Named
In City Democratic Vote
Wells, Philpot, Owens, Roberts,
Danner, Lovern, Bondurant Win
In a City Democratic Primary in which voting started
slowly and then increased rapidly in the afternoon hours,
Athenians yesterday re-noimnated Mayor Jack R. Wells
without opposition, selected five members of City Council
and two members of the Civil Service Commission.
Brifish Troops
Seize Bridge
Over Suez Canal
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 18 — (AP)
—RBritish troops seized the only
bridge over the Suez canal in a
short, sharp battle with Egyptian
troops guarding it yesterday. Two
Egyptians were killed.
The action took place before
dawn. Egyptian censors held up
news about it for 24 hours.
A British army spokesman said
the canal area was quiet again
last night and today.
It was the second successive
day the British had fought with
Egypteins, They opened fire Tues=-
day on rioters and lcoters at Is
mailia, where the Egyptian govern
ment said seven were Killed. The
British said they fired in self
defense.
But today the British moved to
ease tension at Ismailia, site of a
Bristish army sub-command.
Egyptain officials said the Britons
agreed to pull their troops out of
the town of 50,000 and leave it in
control of Egyptian police.
Troop Transfer
The British, meanwhile, were
due to complete today the transfer
by air of 3,500 parachute troops
from the Mediterranean Island of
Cyprus to the canal area where
40,000 or more British soldiers
and airmen adready were on the
alert.
The commander of Britian’s
land forces in the Middle East,
Gen. Sir Brian Robertison, left Lon
don by air today for the Suez area.
He is due there tomorrow after=-
noon.
The El Ferdan bridge, scene of
vesterday's battle, links Africa and
Asia. It's Eastern end is on the
Holy Land. The bridge site is
where the Holy family reportedly
crossed on its flight into Egypt.
The present bridge is a swinging
structure that is pulled to the can
al side when not in use.
The commander of the Egyptian
detachment there, Lieut. Rizk Ab
del Rahman Shehawi, give this
account of the battle to Zein
Nagati, an Associated Press news
men;
A British detachment of 90 in
fantrymen, with three small cali
ber field guns, moved up before
dawn against his group of 24 men
guarding the bridge. They opened
fire before being challenged by
Egyptian sentries and the battle
continued until late in the morn
ing, when the Egyptians surrend
ered.
British officers said the Egvpt
ians opened fire first, without
warning, and the clash lasted only
15 minutes.
Emergency Declared
In Cario police declared a state
of emergency—as they have sev
eral times in the past 10 days—
and stationed strong reserve forces
at strategic spots. The city is quiet.
The first news stories about
Tuesday’s rioting were published
in Cario papers today, along with
pictures of cars set afire by Egypt
ian demonstrators and of a dead
Egyptian policeman stretched on
the ground. .
The papers gave prominence to
a statement by fiery interior min
ister Fouad Serrag Eddin blaming
the British for inciting distruban
ces.
The tense sitution is the out
growth of Egypt's action Monday
breaking its 1936 mutuul defense
treaty with Britain and the 1899
agreement setting up joint Anglo-
Egypticn rule of the Sudan.
The defense treaty gave Britian
the right to station troops ‘in
Egypt to guard the canal.
Egypt is trying to oust the troops
and take sole control of the Sudan.
Britain’s foreign secretary Her
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Mrs. Kennedy
Is Acquitted
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 18 — (AP)
—Deliberating less than three
hours, a Richmond County jury ac
quitted Mrs. Margze Kennedy late
yesterday of the murder of her
husband, former Augusta police
commissioner and political leader
John B. Kennedy.
At the three-day ftrial, the
frail, 43-year-old woman read an
unsworn statement saying that
Kennedy had subjected her to con
stant physical brutality for nearly
20 years. She claimed she shot
him in self defense and did not in
tend to kill him.
Kennedy, who once headed the
powerful Cracker Party in Augu
sta, was shot six times at his
home June 30. Two doctors, cal
led by the State, told the court
that in their opinion his death was
not caused primarily by the bul
lets. Uremia and diabetes were
f_fiicpally responsible, they testi
jedy ¢
" The State did not ask for ithe
dealth penalty. :
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY
Re-nominated with Mayor Wells
without opposition were Council
man Owen M. Roberts, jr., of the
Second Ward and Councilman
Walter N. Danner of the Third
Ward, and Second Ward Civil
Service Commissioner T. M, Phil
pot.
Due to lack of space it was
impossible to publish today
cards of appreciation to the
voters from candidates in yes
terday’s City Democratic Pri
mary. These will be published
tomorrow.
Luther T. Bond, incumbent
Councilman from the First Ward,
was re-nominated to that office
over the opposition of Herschel R.
Bullock. The vote was 446 for
Bond and 334 for Bullock.
In the Fourth Ward Kenneth
Guest, seeking re-nomination to
City Council, was defeated by
Curtis L. Lovern, the vote being
268 for Lovern and 210 for Guest.
In the Fifth Ward John F. Bon
durant defeated incumbent Coun
cilman Roger N. Hazen for re
nomination to City Council by a
vote of 345 to 312.
Citywide Race
In a citywide race for member
ship on the Civil Service Commis
sion, W. B. (Billy) Moss, seeking
re-nomination as the Fifth Ward’s
representative on the Commission,
was defeated by Comer Owens.
The balloting in this race was on
a citywide basis and the vote was
1,625 for Owens and 930 for
Moss.
The vote by wards was as fol
lows:
First Ward—Wells 768; Philpot
731; Moss 198; Owens 521; Bond
446: Bullock 334.
Second Ward—Wells 225; Phil
pot 233; Moss 121; Owens 115;
Roberts 231. i Ji
Thitd Ward—Wells 497; Philpot
497, Moss 209; Owens 286; Dan
ner 497.
¥ourth Ward—Wells 461; Phil
pot 474; Moss 169; Owens 291;
Guest 210; Lovern 268.
Fifth Ward—Wells 640; Philpot
650; Moss 233; Owens 412; Hazen
312; Bondurant 345,
Mayor Wells received a total of
2,591 votes, Mr. Philpot 2,585, and,
as stated above, Mrs Owens 1,625
and Mr. Moss 930 in the citywide
balloting.
Nomination in the Democratic
Primary is tantamount to election
in the City General Election to be
held the first Wednesday in Dec
ember,
Patrice Munsel
Concert Tonight
When Patrice Munsel appears on
the stage of Fine Arts Auditorium
tonight at 8:30, Athenians will
have the opportunity of hearing
one of the most beautiful colora
tura voices of our time.
Miss Munsel, whose appearance
is equally as lovely as her voice,
once aspired to bé a .professional
athlete. She is proficient in many
sports, including horseback riding,
swimming, big game fishing, and
surfboard riding. It is hard to be-~
lieve that the exquisite young con
cert artist was once the captain of
an all-girls football team, but back
in her home town of Spokane,
Washington, there are witnesses
who will tell you it is true.
Miss Munsel made a brilliant
debut with the Metropolitan Op
era as an enchanting Philine in
“Mignon.” Since her engagement
py the Met, Patrice Munsel has
sung eleven important roles, in
cluding parts in “Lucia de Lam
mermoor,” “The Barber of Se
ville,” “Coq d'Or,” “Romeo and
Juliette,” ‘Don Giovanni,” “L’Elisir
d’Amore,” and others. Her role
of Adele in “Die Fledermaus,”
during the past season, was de~
clared by critics to be her firest.
The appearance of the youthful,
lovely Miss Munsel here marks
the opening of the annual Uni
versity of Georgia Concert Series.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and mild tonight, Friday,
and likely Saturday. Low to
night 58; high temorrow 80. Sun
sets today 5:56 and rises tomor
row 6:41.
GEORGIA—MostIy fair with
little temperature change to
day, tonight and Friday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ... .vvou v s |
TOweat o vl Rl
WEOEN - i st v fn o b w9y 100
Mokl cvol k. il wdi BR
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since October 1 .. .. .00
Deficit since October 1 .... 1.80
Average October rainfall .. 2.96
Total since January 1 .. ..32.38
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.03
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951,
Hope Reporied
For Revival
Of Peace Talks
By RORERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 18—(AP)
Efforts to revive Korean truce
talks took a hopeful turn today
‘ after the United Nations command
| submitted a compromise security
‘ zone proposal,
Communist liaison officers took
i the suggestion under consideration
overnight.
‘ Brig. Gen, William P. Nuckols,
lofl'icial spokesman for the U.‘ N.
command, expressed “cautious
optimism.” .
{ “Tangible progress definitely
| was made” in Thursday’s con
| ference between Red and Allied
liaison officers, Nuckols said. It
l was their eighth meetlng at Pan
| munjom, a village in no-man’s
| land selected as the new site for
| armistice negotiations. ¢
] Col. Andrew J. Kinney, senior
U. N. liaison officer, took an “op
timistic view of the situation.”
Kinney said the liaison delega
tions Thursday reached “substan
tial agreement on one or two
points which had been in dispute.”
But, he cautioned, “we still have
several fundamental questions re-
PRI ™ 2 Ve ’
| Referrini to some of these
!points, Col, - Chang Chun' San,
‘heading the Red delegation, re
marked, “I find very little dif
ference between us.”
(In Washington the State De
partment said Moscow recently
turned aside an American propo
| sal for joint U. S.-Russian action
| to bring about a truce in Korea.
(U. 8. Ambassador Alan G.
Kirk made the proposal Oct. 5. In
| his reply Soviet Foreign Minister
lAndrei Vishinsky blamed the U.
S. for failure to arrive at an ar
t mistice.)
Boost In Bond
Buying Expected
John Griffin, cashier of the
Hubert State Bank of Athens, said
today that “the defense bond is
the easiest, most economical way
our government can preserve its
strength,”
“We haven't noticed an increase
in the purchase of bonds so far,”
said Mr. Griffin, “but. we expect
an increase soon as the bond drive
gains more momentum.” The bond
drive will continue until November
3, and the quota for Clarke coun
is $125,000. %
“The peopde who aen't able to
purchase a bond a month Mr, Grif
fin continued, could buy defense
stamps one month and supplement
this with enough the next month
to trade them in on a bond.”
Mr. Griffin pointed out that the
salaried class of people were more
inclined to purchase bonds re
gularly than people working for
themselves. “Defense bonds are
good securities,” he said, “but
bonds aren’t a money making pro
position. People must realize that
men are fighting now and need
support just as they did in World
War II.”
“I am calling on my co-workers
for an extended effort in selling
more bonds,” he added. “The peo
ple will not let their fighting
men down. By buying bonds, you
are not only helping the defense
of your country, but you are help
ing yourself.”
-
® To the American People...
g Probably never before has there
N been so much at staks in the
2 preservation of the freedom
4 which we have enjoyed since
& the birth of our republic. All
S of us that possibly can do so
BB] should participate in its de
-4 sense and this we can do by
8 regularly purchasing Defense
N Bonds, thereby maintaining a
,% strong economy egsential to
d our free way of life.
= Faithfully yours,
5 &5
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¢G. 0. Marshall
! 5
Chinese Troops
Abandon Hills
To Allied Units
By The Assoclated Press
V. 8. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 18—
(AP)—Chinese suddenly abandon
ed a series of key hills in western
Korea to attacking Americans to
day. But they stiffened against
Allies crunching forward toward
their Kunrsong stronghold in the
center.
" Troops of the U. §. First Cav
alry Division overran four hills
northwest of Yonchon almost un
opposed.
The Americans had been fight
ing for the ridge line for two
weeks in one of the bloodiest
small actions of the entire United
Nations autumn offensive. Chinese
deserted the western hills during
the night after beating off a series
of flame-throwing attacks Wed
nesday.
The doughboys fanned out over
the charred, artillery - scarred
ridge virtually without firing a
shot.
Two-Mile Advance
The unopposed advance placed
the cavalry troopers about two
miles in front of their positions of
October 3 when the U, N. western
offensive started.
A front line officer said the op
eration “to all practical intents
and purposes is complete.”
From the center of the Korean
front AP Correspondent Sam
Summerlin reported a ‘“curtain of
smeke from bursting U. N. shells
and bombs rose like a sweeping
forest fire” in front of Allied in
fantrymen advancing on Kum
song.
After flying over the area
Summerlin wrote:
“Kumsong looked like a ghost
town. It was pock marked with
bomb craters. Allied planes had
knocked out the spans from both
the road and railway bridges
across the river.”
Observers said the Chinese ap
parently had pulled most of their
forces out of the ouce bustling
road junction.
South of the city Chinese resist
ance stiffened against attacking
Allied infantrymen. U. N. troops
captured two key hills south and
southwest of Kumsong and inched
forward against Reds on a ridge
blocking their way to the town,
Other Gains
Three Allied divisions punched
out gains of a quarter to three
quarters of a mile in the heaviest
«Won of the week-old offensive.
A front ling dispateh .reported
at least 200 Chinese were Kkilled
trying to escape from a trap on
encircled Fortress Mountain.
“Many” others were Kkilled in
their bunkers.
In the center of the Korean
front Allied troops ran into stiff
fighting before capturing two key
hills south and southwest of Kum
song.
American and South Korean
troops advancing along a 22 mile
front toward Kumsong were with
in three miles of the town.
In rugged mountains to the east
Allied infantrymen attacked a
towering, craggy peak. Their
morning assault was unsuccessful.
South Korean troops on the
east coast beat off two brief coun
terattacks south of Kosong with
the help of the U. S. destroyer
Waller.
The Navy reported the battle
ship New Jersey, flagship of the
Seventh Fieet, killed more than
500 Reds Wednesday while sup
porting Allied troops. The battle
ship sent 150 tons of high explos
ives hurtling from its big guns
against Red concenfrations 18
miles inland.
FRAUD ARRESTS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — (AP)
—The FBI today announced the
arrest of 22 persons on charges
of fraud against the government
in connection with the G. I. Ed
ucation program.
Fourteen arrests were made in
Miami, Fla., two in Detroit, one
in Dayton, 0., two in New York
City and three in the Newark, N,
J. area.
Moscew Rebuffs US
Truce Aid Proposal
Russians Want
To Discuss
Global Tension
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18,
— (AP) — Moscow has re
buffed a secret U. 8. propo
sal that she act to bring
about an armistice in Korea,
offering instead to talk over
the general causes of east
west tension.
Initial State Department
reaction was that this offer
was propaganad, but the
wording of the Russian note
was propaganda, but the
ing among diplomats as to
whether the Kremlin is sin
cere.
Moscow and the State Depart
ment disclosed last night that Am=-
bassador Alan G. Kirk on October
5 made the approach for Soviet
intervention to end the deadlock
between United Nationg negotia
tors and the Communists.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky gave no direct reply,
but he noted that Russia is “not a
party ot these negotiations.”
He also: (1) charged the U. N,
command created the cease-fire
stalemate with “all kinds of inci
dents”; (2) 'supported ‘the North
Korean-Chinese position regard
ing a truce line in the area of the
38th parallel; and (3) offered the
Soviet’s “full and energetic sup
port” of measures for “the suc
cessful conclusion of negotiations”
—successful presumably from the
Red viewpoint.
Vishinsky Queries
Vishinsky also questioned the
good faith of assurances from Kirk
that the U. S. and its western al
lies are armring only for defense
and have no “aggressive designs”
on Russia or any nation.
Vishinsky commented tartly that
“this sort of statement” is contra
dicted by actions “which show
that the government of the U, 8.
A. is not at all concerned with the
maintenance of peace.”
As examples, he complained of
economic measures the U. S. has
taken recently against Russia and
the Soviet bloc and of President
Truman's statements that agree
ments with Russia aren’t worth
the paper they are written on.
The rebuff convinced top Amer=
ican officials that at the moment
Moscow is not interested in con
fidential negotiations like those
which ended the Berlin blockade.
They tabbed Vishinsky’'s response
“propaganda.”
Charles E. Bohlen, State De~
partment counselor and Secretary
Acheson’g principal adviser on re
lations with the Kremlin, told re
porters: “It is characteristic of
Soviet procedure that when they
are seriously interested in any
subject they don’t publicize it the
way they did this.”
Possible Hints
At the same time some omuicials
thought they detected two possible
hints that Moscow may be willing
both to reach a settlement in Ko~
rea and to discuss wne settlement
of other east-west issues. They
noted:
1. Vishinsky reaffirmed that
Russia is standing by its proposal
of last June which initiated the
Korean armistice talks. This was
that Moscow had in mind an ar
mistice on a military basis with
political considerations to be left
for the future.
2. The Foreign Minister wound
up his 2,000-word statemrent by
saying Russia “agrees to examine
with the participation of the gov
ernment of the U. S. A. all import
ant and unsettled questions and to
discuss measures for the improve=-
ment of international relations, in
cluding rélations between the So
viet Union and the U. S. A.”
Kirk’s approach was made with
the advance knowledge of Britain
and France and of General Mat
thew B. Ridgway, the U. N, com
mander, officials said, It was de
cided on as a means of taking the
Kremlin’s temperature because
Kirk was preparing to leave Mos
cow before retiring as ambassa
dor, and could talk with Vishin
sky in a farewell call,
Because the Kremlin took ad
vantage of a similar confidential
approach made by former Ambas
sador Waller Bedell Smith when
he left Moscow in 1948, the State
Department was wary. It had
ready for publication — in case
Russia broke the confidence—its
version of what Kirk said orally,
and the reply Vishinsky turned
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MacARTHUR RAPS TRUMAN POLICIES — General
Douglas MacArthur (second from left) appears at the
American Legion convention in Miami where he made
a bitter attack on the Truman administration in an ad
dress Wednesday. He accused the administration of
plunging the nation toward socialism and economic dis
aster. Legion Commander Erle Cocke, jr. (left), walks
with MacArthur. Behind the general is his personal
pilot, Colonel Anthony C. Story.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Green Says Lawmakers
Allowed Profiteering
BY DON WHITEHEAD
MIAMI, Oct. 18.— (AP)—President William Green of
the American Federation of Labor charged today that Con
gress has sanctioned *ruthless profiteering and price
gouging” in the present price control laws.
He told the final session of the Ameriean Legion national
conventicn the twin evils of inflation and a housing erisis
are threatening to undermine the morale of American de
fense workers.
Green gave his views in a
speech prepared for delivery in
the closing hours of the convention
which yesterday heard General
Douglas MacArthur turn a bitter
attack against the Truman admin
istration’s military, domestic and
foreign policies.
Election Prospecis
The delegates appeared ready to
elect Don R. Wilson of Clarks
burg, W. Va., as their new nat
ional commander to succeed Erle
Cocke, jr, of Georgia. Mrs. E. A.
Campbell of Homnrer, La., will be
the new president of the American
Legion Auxiliary. She had no op
position.
Green said the American work
ers are supporting the mobiliza
tion effort, But he added:
“1¢ this popular spirit and mor~
ale is to be maintained, none must
be permitted to exploit the pres
sures of emergency for their own
selfish purposes . . . or to profit
from the sacrifices of their neigh
bors.
“, . . we have an act (price
control) which lends the sanction
of Congress to the ruthless profit
eering and price gouging which
has occurred since the outbreak of
the war in Korea.”
Green said it is the people who
must bear the brunt of the con
flict with Communism. Then he
warned: “No amount of military
might, economic strength or po
tential productive capacity ecould
suffice to take us to victory if the
people of this country . . . were
to be made cynical, disillusioned
and embittered at the trend of
events.”
Cheer MacArthur
Yesterday, the Legionnaires
cheered MacArthur's criticism of
administration policies and his
call for stronger military action
to bring about a decision in the
Korean war.
The General charged the ad
ministration with plunging the
nation toward socialism and bank
ruptcy at home while squandering
money and manpower overseas.
The convention renewed a de
mand that the Communist party
be outlawed in this country and
commended labor for its fight
against Communism. It pledged a
drive to expose and fight Com
munists and their fellow travelers
in the entertainment world.
The Legion’s committee on Am
ericanism reconmrmended these ac
tions and also called for the de
nortation of Harry Bridges, the
New Zealand-born labor leader on
the West Coast. :
The Legion approved a 15-point
program for tightening controls on
the traffic in narcotics.
GAMBLING HEARING
BILOXI, MISS., Oct, 18 — (AP
- A Senate Committee today sub
poenaed Biloxi city officials in
cluding Mayor Robert Hart Chinn
{0 testify at a hearing on thees-
sects of liquer and gambling on
30,000 air men statiored here.
HOME
EDITION
Compromise Tax
Bill Is Sought
WASHINGTON, Oct. u—g‘?;)
Administration leaders today
hopefully east about for a new
compromise on a multi-billion
dollar tax increase, the master
key to quick adjournment of Con
gress.
Although surface indications of
any agreement were luohnf, the
peacemakers seemed cautiously
optimistic of working out a meas
ure mutually acceptable to the
Senate and to the Republican-
Northern Democrat combination
that trounced the original $5,782,-
000,000 compromise tax bill in the
House Tuesday.
The conferees were called back
into session after an exploratory
meeting yesterday which produced
no tangible results.
Democratic Leader McCormack
of Massachusetts told the House
after that meeting “it is hged"
that a new compromise will be
ready by Friday. If that happens,
and if prompt Senate and House
approval are forthcoming, ad
journment would still be possible
on Saturday, as originnl}y planned.
The four Democrats on the
House conference delegation con
sulted with staff aldes and treas
ury experts on possible revisions.
There were no public conciliation
moves by their three Republican
colleagues, or from the five Sen
ate conferees.
While a dozen possible “pack
age” ‘settlements were rumored
around the capitol, the men trying
to. settle. the dispute confronted
some tight specifications.
An attempt had to be made to
satisfy (1) Republicans who want
no tax increase or who consider
the proposed rise too high, and
(2) a bloe of Democrats who in
sist the original compromise hit the
low income groups too hard and
let off corporations and wealthy
individuals too lightly.
23 Killed In
Plane Crash
NANAIMO, B. C, Oct. 18 —
(AP) — A Queen Charlotte Air
lines plane, laboring futilely at
full throttle to gain altitude, crash
ed into the side of a mountain 10
miles from here last night, carry
ing 23 persons to death.
The victims were 30 miles from
their destination at Vancouver, B.
C., nearing the end of a south
bound 400 mile flight from Kema~
no, when the twin-engined w
hit the rocky side of 5,000
meunt Benson. All those aboard
except the three crew members
were believed to be loggers and
consiruction workers,