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Vol. CXIX, No. 248,
Byrd Says Only A
Uprising Can Save
13 Athens Area
Towns Remain In
Confest Running
A total of 13 reports of progress
pom towns entered in the 1951
Champion Home Town Contest in
the Athens division of the Georgia
Power Company were chosen by
the judges to represent this di
vision in the final judging, it was
announced by L. M. Shadgett, vice
president and division manager,
These reports will compete with
the best from the five other geo
raphical divisions of the company
gor the $8,950 in cash prizes of
fered in the contest. Thirty-th-ee
towns in this section and 171 towns
from the ¢ompany's entire service
area submitted reports.
Towns chogen for state judging
from the Athens division include:
(Clarkesville, Clayton, Celbert, Co
zml\mm A Dahlonefia, Dan
e, Gainesville, artwell,
Rutledge, Bocial Circle, Toccoa and
Winder. P e
Serving ag divisional iudgu
were Mrs. O. % Aderhold, Athens
givie leader; W. A. Sutton, state
4-H Club leader, Athens; and
(litford Campbell, clerk of the
White County Superior Court,
Clevelend.
Announcement of the state win
ners in the Champion Home Town
Contest will be made in November
snd the prizes will be awarded at
g series of dinners te be held late
in November and early in De
cember,
Jenkins Services
Will Be Friday
Mrs. Van Jenkins, 82, member
of a prominent Madison County
famfly, died in a local hospital
Thursday morning at 12:45 o'clock.
Mrs. Jenkins had been in failing
health for the past. three months
and seriously ill for ten days.
Services will be conducted Fri
day affernoon at 3 o’clock from
Union Baptist Church with the
pastor, Rev. R. E. Carter, and
Rev. William Cauthen, pastor of
Danielsville Methodist Church, of
ficiating.
Grandsons of Mrs. Jenkins will
serve as pall-bearers. Bridges
Funeral Home is in charge of ar
rangements.
Mrs. Jenkins is survived by two
daughters, Miss Ruby Jenkins,
Danielsville, and" Mrs. J. Grady
Gower, LaGrange; six sons, J. V.
Jenkins, sr., and H. B. Jenkins,
both of Hull, Ruel Jenkins, Dan
ivlsville, D. D. Jenkins, Colbert, A.
F. Jenkins, Madison, and L. E.
Jenkins, Athens; fifteen grand
chiloven and five great-grandachil
dren.
A native of Madison County,
Mrs. Jenkins had lived in that
community all of her life. Be
fore her marriage she was Cora
Lee Mitchell, daughter of the late
James and Martha Mitchell. Mr.
and Mrs. Jenkins celebrated their
54th wedding anniversary before
ue death of her husband nine
years ago. She had resided in the
same house for the past 64 years.
The body will lie in state in the
church from 2:30 o’clock until the
hour for the services.
Sims Rites Will
Be Friday At 3
Charles Emory Sims, well known
resident of Otcnee County, near
Mars Hill ‘Church, died at his
home this morning at 1:30 o’clock
after being in failing health for
the past three years,
Services will -be held Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mars
Hill Baptist Church with Rev. J.
S. Hayes, pastor of the church,
and ‘Rev. R. E. Carter, Athens, of
ficiating.
Burial followed in Mars Hill
cemetery, Clyde McDorman Fun
eral Home in charge of arrange
ments. Pallbearers were Ver
non - Vaughn, Weyman. Malcom,
Keith Hamilton, Maurice Sims,
Talmadge Whitehead and Clar
ence Thornton.
A lumberman and farmer, Mr.
Sims is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Hattie Sims; two daughters, Miss
Hazel Sims, Bogart, and Mrs. J.
L. Burrell, Savannah; son, Carroll
C. Sims, Athens; three sisters,
Mrs. George Garner and Mrs.
Leon Dozier, both of Atlanta and
Mrs, Arthur Mitchell, Russellville,
Ky., four grandchildren and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Mr. Sims was 74 years old and
was a native of Danieisville, but
had been a resident of Oconee
County for fifty-six years. He
was a member of Mars Hill Bap
tist Church and was widely
known.
The body will lie in state in the
church for one hour prior to the
services,
RENT OFFICE CLOSED
Athens Area Rent office will be
closed Monday, November 5,
through Wednesday, November 7,
it was announced today.
Reason for the closure ig that
personnel of the office will attend
a rent clinic in Charlesten, S. C.
The office will re-open at 8:30
a. m. on Thursday, November 8.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
BY REX THOMAS
SELMA, Ala., Nov. I.—
(AP) — Senator Byrd (D.-
Va.), in a bitter attack on
the Truman administration,
said today only “an immedi
ate uprising of political vir
ility in the South” will save
the Democratic Partv,
“I am calling on you to
save tle Democratic Party
from elements now in con
tro! who Lave debauched its
principles and made it a
pairty of political expedien
cy, one of its chief articles of
trude being ‘the peddling of
poilitical influence,” Byrd
said.
Urging that the anti-Truman
forces in the southern states “keep
themselves free to take whatever
effective action may be necessary”
to assure President Truman's de
feat if he seeks re-election, the
Virginia senator added:
“It is my firm belief that the
Democrats of the south will not
permit the Trumanites to press
down upon the brow of America
the un-Democratic crown of
waste, of Bocialism, and of dicta
tion from Washington.”
Byrd Speech
Byrd spoke out in a speech pre
pared for the annual meeting of
the Dallas County Farm Bureau.
The barbecue gathering had been
billed ag in part a caucus of anti-
Truman southern Democrats, but
Byrd was the only nationally
prominent figure on hand,
Asserting that only the south
ern wing of the party can pre
vent “the downfall of the de
mocracy and all of the freedoms
we hold dear,” Byrd said it must
ask at next year's party conven
tion for:
Restoration of a rule, abolished
in 1936, which required a two
thirds majority for selection of the
natlonal ticket; elimination of the
1948 civil rights plank; ‘“reaf
firmation of states’ rights;” and
endorsement of ‘‘the irue princi
ples of the Democratic party.”
.Byrd’s 7,000-word speech was
liberally sprinkled with such
epithets for the Truman adminis
tration as ‘‘fiscal irresponsibility,”
“political hypocrisy,” “infamy,”
“weakness,” “wave of scandals,”
“moral turpitude” and “the dis
reputable Boyle.” The last was a
referance to William M. Boyle, jr.,
who resigned effective yesterday
as party chairman,
“1f Mr. Truman and the Truman
party are re-elected in 1952,
Byrd said, “it will be regarded
and rightly so as a mandate from
the people of America to push
through Congress their whole un
constitutional socialistic program
with especial emphasis on civil
rights legislation.
“You cannot rely as safely as
you have in the past on the proba
bility that southern senators can
defeat these proposals. We will
fight to the last ditch, but, con
fronted with such a mandate giv
en to a victorious Truman, the
odds will be against us.”
Byrd said that if the convention
requests he suggested “are de
ried, we can take counsel among
ourselves and determine our
course. It would be presumptious
of me to establish a program of
action.” He added:
“It would be unrealistic at this
time for any of us to chart pre
cisely our 1952 course. We must
meet the conditions as they de
velop. But, above all, the southern
states must keep themselves free
to take whatever effective action
must be necessary for our funda
mental freedoms.”
. Truman Critic
Byrd, one of Mr, Truman’s bit
terest critics within the party, as
sailed as “a cluster of political
hypoerisy designed 1o destroy lo
cal and state autonomy and in
dividual rights” the administra
(Continued on Page Eight).
Waéhington Dazzled By Britain's
Elizabeth And Handsome Hushand
!
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — (AP)
__Britain’s Royal couple headed
into a second and nexi-to-last
round of public appearances today
on their 45-hour visit to the Na
tion’s Capitol.
And it looked like a safe bet
that while poised, attractive Prin
cess Elizabeth—a“fery Princess,”
President Truman called her—
would take the spotlight of official
attention, the ooh’s and aah’s of
the bobby-soxers and their elder
sisters would be for the Princess’
handsome blond husband Philip.
Today, Elizabeth and Philip, the
Duke of Edinburgh, lay a wreath
on the tomb at Mount Vernon of
George Washington,’ liberator of
the American colonies from Brit
| ish rule.
Wreath-Laying
Another wreath-laying was
sceduled at the tomb of the Un
known soldier in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery, tollowed by a
diplomatic reception in the Can
adian Embassy. .
The day’s big event, with 2,000
on the invitation list and thous
ands more on the disappointed list
was a reception in the big, campus
like British Embassey champagne
and French pastries were to be
served in a circus tent on the lawn.
Among those invited: All mem
berd of Congresss * i LS9
" Back.at the Canadian Embassy,
Elizabeth and Phili will give a
formal dinner for gresident and
Mrs. Truman, to “pay pack” the
Southern Political
Democratic Party
Vatican Envoy Opposed
By Protestant Leaders
NEW YORK, Nov. I.—(AP) —The policy-making board
of America’s largest Protestant group says President Tru
man has done “a grave disservice to our country” in nomi
nating an smbassador to the Vatican. ;
The Gerneral Board of the National Council of the
Churches of Christ in the U, S. A. said in a statement yes
terday:
“Only .a prompt withdrawal or
rejection of the President’s pro
posal can save this country from a
most unfortunate and unnecessary
controversy with reactions that
will be cumulative as the issue be
comes more widely recognized.”
Board Request
The board’s request that Mr.
Truman withdraw or the Senate
reject the nomination was made at
an emergency session.
The statement, disclaiming any
religious prejudice, protested what
it termed “an alarmin{ threat to
basic American principles.”
It called the nomination “wrong
in principle, useless in practice,
and disastrous to the national uni
ty of the American people.”
The board’s statement did not
mention the name of Gen. Mark
W. Clark, whose nomination as
ambassador to the Vatican was
sent to the Senate by President
Truman on Oct. 20. Congress ad
journed that same day, without
action on the nomination.
The National Council’'s Board
authorized the council’s president,
President Episcopal Bishop Henry
Knox Sherrill, to appoint a com
mittee to carry out a “program of
education” based on the board’s
statement. W _
Bisnhop Sherrill indicatéd he
would announce the committee
membership next week. The com~
mittee will seek te coordinate Pro
testant opposition to the ambassa
dorship.
Large Board
The board is composed of 125
representatives of 29 Protestant
and eastern Orthodox churches. It
was anno;g::d that the 80 officers
and mem -« of the board who
attended the five-hour special ses
sion approved the statement unan
imously.
Another development on the is
sue came yesterday in Gary, Ind,,
where the American Council of
Christian Church urged a Protes
tant protest pilgrimage to Wash
ington.
The Council, which claims a
membership of 3,000 churches,
called for a pilgrimage next Jan.
24. The proposal was made in a
resolution by delegates represeni
ing 14 Protestant denominations
at their tenth annual national con
vetion.
Trofti To Be
Honored Here
Lamar Trotti, Hollywood pro
ducer, will be initiated into Phi
Beta Kappa society here Friday. -
Trotti was elected to member
ship in the University of Georgia
chapter of the society in the spring
but was unable to attend regular
initiation ceremonies. A special
initiztion is planned for him Fri
day. 3
The first graduate of the Uni
versity’s School of Journalism,
Trotti was elected to membership
by the oldest and best known of
the honor societies in recognition
for the distinction of his work in
journalism and cinema.
Trotti will remain in Athens for
‘Homecoming activities and the
Georgia-Alabama football game.
dinner the Trumans gave for their
royal guests last night at Blair
House.
It was evident from the first
that the blond Duke, though he
kept carefully in the background,
was the crowd-pleaser of the pair
—among the women who lined the
curbs and applauded, at any rate.
Bobby-soxers in front ot the
Statler Hotel, where the Princess
and her husband attended a I€-
ception, clapped politely for Eliza
beth but burst into excited squeals
when Philip, tail and biue-clad in
a Lieutenant Commander’s uni
from of the Royal Navy, appeared.
The reception was given by some
900 news correspondents. It in
cluded the presentation of an In
dian war bonnet for the Royal
couple’s three-year-old son, Prince
Charles, and an Indian doll for
their year-old daughter, Princess
Anne,
Elizabeth smiled, said she liked
America fine and promised to
come again when she could stay
longer.
Blair House Dinner
Next came the Blair House din
ner—strictly a white tie and gold
salad forks affair.
Besides the hosts and the guests
of honor there were only 13 guests
—_the British and Candian Am
bassadores and their wives. Chief
Justice Vinson | ‘add: MTs. 'thn
acting Seceretary or ¢ State and
Mrs. James E. Webb, bachelor
Senator Green (D-RI), Senator
McMahohn (D-Conn) and Mrs.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORCIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1951,
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CHURCHILL HOLDS
FIRST MEETING
British Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill leaves 10 Down
ing Street in London after hold
ing his first cabinet meeting.
To begin an economy drive the
aging statesman gave himself a
30 percent salary eut. — (NEA
Radiotelephoto.)
Nightlime Radio
Operations Begin
AT WRFC Tonight
After many months of prepara
tion Radio Station WRFC begins
nighttime operations tonight, ac
cording to an announcement today
by L. H. Christian, General Man
ager.
Commenting on the new move,
Mr. Christian said, “WRFC is
proud of its community service
record in its three and a half years
of operation and with the addi
tional time now permissable, it
is the plan of WRFC (o better serve
the Athens community with many
new local interest features and
sporting events.” ;s
The move from daytime to full
time operation is the culmination
of two years of work, the original
application for extended time be
ing made to the Federal Com
munications Commission in Oct=
ober, 1949. After three different
hearings before the Commission in
Washington, a. construction per=
mit was granted July 18, 1951.
Work began immediately on the
two additionai towers necessary
to eliminate interferrence with
‘two other stations at night, WDBJ,
'Roanoke, Va, and WBRC, Bir
mingham, Ala., both on the same
frequency band as WRFC.
The daily schedule will now run
from 5:30 A. M. to 12:30 A. M.
Monday through Saturday, and
(Continued On Page Eight)
McMahon, and Senator H. Alex
ander Smith (R-NJ) and Mrs.
Smith.
Princess Elizabeth wore a white
and gold lace gown which she’d
saved for the occasion, Mrs. Tru~
man wore a full-skirted blue
brocade dress and Margaret Tru
man a pale 'avender satin dress
with a small train.
Mr. Truman ina toast said that
“when 1 was a little boy I read
about a fairy Princess and there
she is.” He also proposed a toast
to the King. Elizabeth’s father,
and the Princess oiferad a toast to
the President. o >
A reception for about 100 guests
followed the dinner, and the royal
al couple went up to their suite
a little after 11 P. M.
Mr. Truman tried to give the
royal visit something of a homey
atmosphere through a strictly in
formal, I-used-to-know-your-folks
sort of welcome when the Princess
and the Duke arrived by plane
just before 4 P. M. (EST).
“Margaret tells me,” he said to
the princess, “that whenever any
one becomes acquainted with you
they immediately fall ir love with
you.”
Elizabeth beamed but stuck to
her script.
She said the whole free world
kiofil(s igo ;l;::i United Sta,te;‘ ‘(‘iw;x;;‘h
atfection end withihopa,” And 'she
promised that Btita‘igp%and Canada
will join this country in working
“with all our strength for freedom
and for peace”
Daily Schedule
Hike In Federal
Taxes Becomes
Effective Today
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — (AP)
~=This is the day you start contri
buting your share of the new $3,-
891,000,00 in annual revenue to
Uncle Sam. That averages out to
S3B for each person but not every
bod%', of course, wilt owe that am~
ount,
You'll notice the tax increase in
z:ur next salary check and pro
bly in a lot of things you buy-—
a pack of ’eifarotts, an automouile,
a tankful of gasoline, a bottle of
lic}uor, a roll of tilm, or a foun
tainpen, for instance.
You may even feel it when you
gllce a bet with your favorite
ookie—if he still is doing busi
ness at the same old stand.
~ Not quite all the tax law changes
are on the sour side, though.
The 3% per cent excise comes
off your electricity bills. You now
can buy baby lotion, a house trai
ler ,a heating pad and a ticket to
a high school football game or a
symphony concert—ali without
paying any federal tax.
N‘A:,l ntlat these c&;ng:s w%'e in the
passed Oct. 18 by Congress.
President Truman promptly sig
ned the measure,
Today is the Day
Today is the effective date for
the new low with the exception of
corporation tax increases, retroac
tive to last April 1.
Most ?:rsom are going to be
rapped for an income tax boost
of about 1134 per cent over what
they have been paying. Those in
the very high brackets zc¢ some
what lighter treatment; they must
pay an increase amounting to nine
rer cent of their taxable income
est after paying the old tax.
This section of the bill will add
about $2,280,000,000 a year to the
nation’s tax bill —the biggest
single new sliice of revenue.
The next biggest revenue pro
ducer will be the increase in cor
poration and excess profits taxes.
These will raise an estimated $2,-
207,000,000 of extra money an
nually.
Basic Rate
The basic rate on corporations
earning more than $25,000 a year
is hiked to 52 per cent from the
present 47,
But you probably will run into
the tax changes most often in the
long list of increases in the excise
taxes. There are a few decreases
‘and- eliminations, too.
“ Not all of these excise tax chan
ges will be passed along to the
consumer but most of them likely
will be and in some cases the
price hike will be more than the
new tax.
One of the excises—a tax on
all bets taken by professional
gamblers — plows new ground.
Few tax experts are willing to
risk a prediction on how this one
will turn out. Its congressional
advocates said it would raise
$4000,000,400 a year, about 20 per
cent of the potential tax take from
gambling.
Some gamblers over the country
reportedly have screamed it would
put them out of business.
Alumni Plans
For Homecoming
University of Georgia alumni
coming back to Athens for Home
coming this week-end will be
special guests at a number of
functions planned in their honor.
According to Alumni Secretary
Bill Crane, the alumni will be
feted .at entertainments on the
campus as well as at fraternity and
sorority houses across town.
Alumni who are former mem
bers of Blue Key society are in
vited to attend the annual Blue
Key banquet and initiation Friday
night.
Saturday a smorgasbord lunch
eon will be held for alumni up
stairs in Wally -Butts -Cafeteria
from 11:30 to 2:00 p. m.
After the game a coffee hour
will be held in the ballroom of
Memorial Hall. . Honored guests
will be retired members of the
University faculty.
Hundreds of alumni are expect
ed to be in town for the Home
coming game with Alabama and
for the annual Homecoming
dances. Among them will be La
mar Trotti, Hollywood . producer,
who will stay over in Athens for
the game after his initiation into
Phi Beta Kappa society here Fri
day night. ;
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and cool with some
rain today. Partiy cioudy and
cooler tonight and Friday. Low
expected tonight 44; high fto
morrow 64. Sun sets today 5:40
and rises tomorrow 6:53.
GEORGIA — Mostly cloudy
with showers and cooler today;
fair to pa#tly cloudy and colder
tonight; low tonight 32 w 0 42 in
extreme north and 45 to 52 in
south and central poriions.
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .30
Total since November 1 ... .30
Excess since 'Novernber i 1 .. .21
Average November rainfall . 2.74
Total since January 1 .. ..34.32
Deficit since January 1 ... 830
Progress Reported
On Buffer Question
BY NATE POLOWETZKY
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov, 1.
——{AP)—A United Nations
briefing officer said tonight
the Allies and Reds are in
“general agreement’” on the
eastern half of. a .peutral
zone for a Korean armistice.
Negotiators are “nearer to
agreement en a buffer zone
than ever before,” said Lt.
Colonel L. G. Hill, the brief
ing officer. :
But he emphasized agreea
ment on the zone would not
end the shooting. Hill said:
“There is a possibility the war
will go on for a long time after
ward.”
The buffer zone is only the first
point of a proposed armistice. If
the battle line changes substantial
ly after an agreement is reached
on 3 buffer 2one, Hill said, it prob
ably would have to be negotiated
all over again.
Red China’s Peiping radio said
the Reds' new proposal ccatains
“the greatest possible concession”
the Communists can make on a
buffer zone.
General Agreement
Hill said that at the close of
three hours of talks in Panmun
jom today U. N. and Red subcom
mittees were in “general agree
ment” on where a demilitarized
zone should run from Kumhwa to
the east coast of Korea.
Kumhwa is the right anchor of
the old Red iron ftriangle. It is
55 air miles from the east coast in
the approximate center of the bat
tleline. -
Both sides are basing their l‘pl'b
posals for a buffer zone generally
on-the battle line. S
Peiping radio said the proposed
dividing line Dbetween the two
armies starts on the east cecasf ten
miles southeast of Koscig at a
point 37 miles north of the 38th
paraliel; runs 6.2 miles south of
Kumsong and 2.5 miles northwest
of Kumhwa.
Allied troops are on the out
skirts of Kosong and about three
miles south of Kumsong. Their
exact distance north of Kumhwa
has rot been announced.
Hill said the subcommittees dif
fered over where the line should
run from Kumhwa to the Kaesong
sector and added:
“The United Nations command
fought hard battles: to get this
area. I don’t think it woulc be
willing to give up much of it.”
Biggest Argument
Biggest argument is over Kae
song itself. Each side wants this
former site of armistice negotia
tions. The town, now in Red ter
ritory, is just south of 38.
Hill said that in Thursday's ses
sions Allied negotiators got a full
understanding of the Reds’ “last
and best proposal” for a demili
tarized zone.
“Each side,” he said, “tried to
convince the other side its propo=
sal was the correct proposal.
“The Communists are approach=
ing the military realities, This is
because of the strength of the
United Nations command in com=
parison with the strength of the
Communists.”
Hill implied that the Red ne
gotiators had no choice but to give
in to the U. N. delegation on many
military points.
They scheduled the ninth meet
ing of their subcommittees at Pan
munjom for 11 a. m. Friday (9 p.
m., Thursday EST).
Battlefronts were gquiet under
falling snows and rains. Fighting
has dropped to a low level as ne
gotiators appeared near agreement
on the first major point for an
armistice. 1
Forrest Turner
Church Specier
Forrest Turner, who made front
page headlines over a period of
years by his many escapes from
Georgia penal institutions and
chaingangs and later reformed and
has been doing evangelistic work
since, will speak Sunday night at
Tuckston Methodist Church on the
Lexington Road.
The meeting, which will start at
7 p. m., is primarily designed to
interest the young people of the
church but Wesley Whiteheaq,
Sunday School superintendent,
says the public will be cordially
welcomed. Rev. H. A. King is
pastor of the church.
For many years Turner was
known to penal officials and peace
officers as a “tough guy,” hold-up
man, burglar, etc. He escaped at
least a dozen times while serving
sentences. Later he was convert
ed and after being paroled studied
dentistry.
He now devotti his spare time
to lectures to Teligious gsoups,
using his own life as an object
lesson, :
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JET ACES DOWNED NINE MIGS — Lt. Ralgh (Hoot)
Gibson (left) of Mt. Carmel, 111., and Captain Milton E.
Nelgon of Birmingham, Ala., recount Korean experien
ces at Selfridge Field in Mt. Clemens, Mich., where they
have been assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing after being
credited with shooting down a total of nine Russian
built MIGs. Gibson shot down his fifth MIG last month.
Nelson downed four enemy jets. As members of the 56th
Fighter Wing they are responsible for defending Mich
igan’s industrial areas against air attack.— (AP Wire
photo.)
Helicopter Attack Is
BY SAM SUMMERLIN e
U. 8. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Nov.
I.—(AP)—U. 8. Marines successfully raided a Red Ko
rean guerrilla stronghold behind United Nations lines in
the first true helicopter combat attack ever made, the Ma
rines announced today .
The attack was made Saturday. The news was withheld
until today for security reasons.
The announcement came as light
snow and cold rain chilled com
bat troops along the battle fronts.
The quiet was shattered during
the night by a thundering 160-ton
8~29 bomb raid.
33 Volunteers
Thirty-three volunteers made
the flying Marine raid. Two heli
copters carried them seven miles
over jagged North Korean moun=-
tains to the guerrillas’ mountain
fortress.
The airborne raiders landed on
a mountain top. They hid in the
wild peaks and struck the next
day. .
Under cover of a frosty ground
haze they charged three huts,
headquarters of & band of 150
North Korean Reds operating
from a mountain hideout.
g “tlig—;fibiseqficnt fight, =2
spokesman said, the Marines “be
lieve they broke up this strong
hold.”.
Twice before First Division Ma=-
rines have used their ’copters to
ferry infantrymen to the front
line. But never before have the
flying windmills actually carried
troops into action.
The ground war dwindled to
“the quietest damn thing we've
had in a long time,” a briefing of
ficer said at noon Thursday.
Night flying B-29s from Okina
wa and Japan blasted Communist
front-line troops with 400 big air
bursting bombs.
The medium bombers struck
their heaviest blow on the central
front, There seven 3uperforts
from Okinawa ripped open Chi
nese bunkers in the rugged hills
north of Kumhwa with 70 tons of
bombs. The blasts touched off 30
secondary explozions. Pilots said
several ammunition dumps were
exploded.
313,721 Casualties
In Washington the U. 8. De
fense Department announced the
Allies have suffered 313,721 cas
ualties during the war and inflict
ed 1,402,504 on the Communists.
Heaviest Allied casualties were
suffered by the South Koreans,
212,544, with 95,952 Americans
accounting for nyost of the remain
der. Snow and pelting rain sweep
ing Korea cut down the number
of Allied air attacks Wednesday
and Thursday.
On the ground, the U. 8. Eighth
Army’s Thursday evening commu
nique reported only three light
Red probing attacks, and a Suc
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EDITION
Moseman Rites
To Be Friday
Bismark M. Mozemsan, 82, wide
ly popular Athenian, died st Hi¥
home at 518 North Jackson Street
this morning at 8 o’clock follow
ing an illness of several weeks. ~
Services are to be eonducted
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock from
Bernstein’s Chapel with Rev,
Burch Fannin, puastor of Oconee
Street Methodist Church, officiat
ing. i
Burial will be in Winterville
Cemetery with Bill Epps, Henry
Horton, B. E. High, Lawrence Col
lins, jr., W. T. Sailors and T. W,
Parks serving as pall-bearers.
Mr. Moseman is survived by
two sisters, Miss Doris Moseman,
Athens, and Mrs, E. A. Veal, Ma
con; two nephews, Talmadge Veal
and Albert Veal, both of Macon.
A native of Clarke County, Mr.
Moseman was a lifelong resident
in this community. For a number
of years he had been employed by
Warren J. Smith & Bros, as & drug
clerk and for many years he was
connected with the old Palmer
Drug Stores here. He made &
large number of friends during his
residence here' by his friendly
spirit and unfailing courtesy and
his death is a source of sadness to
the many who knew and greatly
admired him,
{ Convicted |
MACON, Nov. I—(AP)—Four
men were convicted last night in
U. S. District Court for conspiring
to steal government property from
Warner Robins Air Force “ase.
Eight men were on trial, charged
with taking radio equipment from
the base and selling it. The jury
ordered four men freed.
Those found guilty on all counts
of the indictment were: Aiken
Stanton, Ferrell Linder and How
ard Golden.
The jury found Merriit Andrews
guilty on five eounts.
Those freed were: John Floyd,
Wulter Samuels, Fred Hill, and
Kiley 'Woods,
Jadge 7. Hoyt Davis set Nov. 8
for passing sentence on the men.
The maximum svatence is five
years in prison and SIO,OOO fines
for the eonspiracy and those
named in separate theft cm
could receive 10 years and $1
tmesfortl,fih&mm gPt n
‘Defense Atiorney T. Arnold Ja
cobs said there were ne immediate
plans to appeal the ease,