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Vol. CXIX, Ne, 260,
Tax Probers In House
Seeking Truman Ord
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(AP)—House i :
of .x'car}((iialst'inl th% fe(%e:'lal.tax gathering g;:ferlr]l“lgz&:ggt?g:
a Presidential order today to giv Wi
probing tool. A give them a powerful new
Rep. King (D.-Calif.) announced yest ;
ident Truman'’s assurance—by teleghoneen}g()n:el(heafl‘gres'
Ila.—that a directive would be forthcoming aty =
sive the investigators access to Justice Department ?}llce =
tax fraud prosecutions. A .
King, chairman of the investi
gating Ways and Means subcom
mittee, said he took the issue di
recily to the President after “re
peated delays” by the Departmrent
in making the files available. He
has said his group wants to know
the reasons for failure to prose
cute some big tax fraud cases
worked up by the Internal Reve
nue Bureau.
Score Affected
More than a score of Internal
Revenue Department employes,
including six regional collectors,
have been suspended or fired since
the committee began itis inquiry.
Two former collectors have been
indicted.
necently the investigation has
turned to the tax division of the
Department of Justice, headed by
Acsistant Attorney General The
rcn Lamar Caudle. He seemed
lil-cly to be summoned as a chief
witness in hearings set for next
v eel—possibly Tuesday,
King said yesterday that Mr.
Truman had promised hinr the
“rull cooperation” of the Justice
Department in continuing the
probe.
At Key West, Presidential Sec
retary Joseph Short said Mr. Tru~
man had talked with King yester
day, and added: “There will be
further communication between
tiem and the President may have
something to say later.”
Teanwhile these additional de
ve opments came to light:
. An independent “comprehen
sive survey” of the Alcohol Tax
Unit was ordered by Internal Rev
enue Commissioner John B. Dun
lap. He coupled this with a rec
ormendation that the unit’s lic
ensing and regulatory control over
the ligquer industry be transferred
entirely outside the Treasury De
partment, ;
Less Secrecy
2. Lowering of secrecy barriers ‘
which for years have hidden fed
cral tax collection and enforce
ment operations was in prospect.
Commissioner Dunlap told news
men he had recommended to Mr.
Truman and Secretary of the
Treasury Snyder the creation of a
special committee, including edi
tors, to study what he termed “too |
much secrecy” in the Internal
Revenue Bureau. ‘
2. Hearings on irregularities in
the San Francisco revenue collec~
tor’s office were set tentatively
for the first two weeks of Decem
ber—or, if the Christmas holidays
interfere, then the first two weeks !
of January.
Committee sources were mum
on the nature of specific new evi
dence they have on tap for future
hearings. But some “12 or 15”
cases have been under committee
scrutiny—all involvlrfimthe Justice
Department’s tax division, which
is charged with prosecuting fraud
cases recommended to it by the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
Christmas Seal
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Santa Claus will pay an early
vicit to Clarke County this year,
A jolly, ruddy cheeked verison
0’ cld Saint Nick grins gleefully
from the 1951 Christmas Seals,'
which Clarke County citizens will
cceive in their m .. »n Monday, |
November 19th, uccordin‘g to Clar- |
‘es Carter, Clarke County Christ-]
mas Seal Sale Chairman. |
“Santa Class is a particulary
‘itting theme for the Christmas
“eal;” Mr. Carter said. “Althoughl
the task of beringing tuberculosis
vnder control ig a largeone,the pur
chases of Christmas Sales by Am
ericans in the past 45 years have
made possible great progress
against this disease, which though
preventable, caused neary 1000
'eaths in Georgia last year and
hrought grief and suffering to
thovisands of others.”
Mr. Carter pointed out that by
Christmas Seals, Clarke Countians
~re actually giving a gift of health
so themselves, their families and to
fu'vre generations.
“Buy and use Christmas Seals
senerously,” said Mr, Carter,
“fond a gift of health on every
Christmas card, letter and pack
age.”
MRES. PADDOCK ON TV
Mrs. Dave Paddock, who gained
fame throughout the New England
states by virtue of her puppet
shows and radio entertainment,
will be seen and heard on tele
vision over Station WAGA in At
lanta Friday afternoon at 3:30
o’clack.
Mrs. Paddock will be inter-
Viewed on telévision about her
puppet shows and will exhibit
some of her puppets.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness and
not much change in temperature
today, tonight and - Friday.
Chance of some rain today. Low
tonight 55; high tomorrow 73.
Sun sets at 5:30 and rises to
morrow at 7:08,
GEORGIA i Partly cloudy
and not much change in tem
::raturel today, tonight and Fri-
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
ssluiatod Press Service
Local Farmers
To Hold Ag
Plannin g Meet
All farmers in Clarke county
interested in the planning of
the overall 1952 agricultural
program for this section are
urged to attend a planning meet
to be held in City Court room of
the Court House tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
This anncuncement was made
teday by County Agent Francis
Bowen.
Russia Blasted
By Yugosiavian
Delegate To UN
PARIS, Nov. 15—(AP)—Com=
munist Yugoslavia _charged to
day that Russia’s satellites have 25
divisions poised on her borders,
threatening world peace.
Speaking before the United Na
tions General Assembly, Yugoslav
Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj
claimed this was almost double the
number of troops the satellites—
Hungary, Romanta and Bulgaria
—had stationed there two years
ago. The figure, he said, did mot
include the Soviet troops in those
countriec.
~ The charge was part of a 11~
point indictment Kardelj present
ed to the 60-Nation Assembly to
back up Yugoslavia’s eomplaint of
“hostile acts against by her by the
'Soviet Union and other Eastern
Zuropean Countries—once her
Allies but mow her bitter enemies,
Kardelj said Russian agression
against Yugoslavia was not an is
olated incident but was part of a
worldwide series of Soviet acts
which threaten the peace of the
World. He cited the war in Korea
as another example of warlike
Soviet policy.
Kardelj was one of the small
Nation speakers today in the con=
tinuing opening debate before the
General Assembly. French Foreign
Minister Robert Schuman is ex
pected to be the last speaker Fri
day.
Kardelj called on the Assembly
“to recommend to the Sovit Union
and other Governments of the
Soviet bloc to use all means for
the peaceful adjustment of the out
standing problems existing be
tween them and the federated peo
ples Republic of Yugoslavia.”
He also suggested that a meet
ing of President Truman, Prime
Minister Churchill, Prime Min=
ister Stalin and France’'s Premier
Rene Pleven would be a “positive
step” toward peace.
Referring briefly to the military
aid pact his country signed yester
day with the United States, Kar
delj regretted that “Soviet aggres
sive pressure” made it necessary
for Yugoslavia to spend aid she
receives from outside on arms in
stead of on the economic welfare
of her people.
Comer Named Third Prize Winner
In Champion Home Town Contest
Comer was named third prize
winner in the 1951 Champion
Home Town Contest in the 750 to
3,000 population group, it was an
nounced today by Charles A. Col
lier, vice president of the Georgia
Power Company. Comer will re
ceive a bronze plaque and a cash
award of SSOO.
Other winners in the 750 to
3,000 population group are Arling
ton, first prize of $1,000; and Chip
ley, second prize of §750. Winners
in the under 750 population group
are Greenville, first prize of $1,000;
Menlo, second prize of $750; and
Powder Springs, third prize of
SSOO. Winners in the 3,000 to 20,-
SOO popupation group are Dublin,
first prize of $1,000; Statesboro,
second prize of $750; and Tifton,
third prize of SSOO. Franklin, a
first prize winner last year, will
receive a sweepstakes award of
SI,OOO in a special contest open
only to former first prize winners.
Here are a few of the things the
citizens did to make Comer a bet
ter home town:
A beautiful parkway was con
structed and planted to replace a
dangerous and unsightly area in
the middle of the main street.
The city purchased a tractor, a
power lawn mower, a fire siren
and a new traffic signal.
Education Field
In the fleld of education, the
school was repainted and redeco
rated; several new courses were
added to the curriculum includ=
ing automobile driver training; an
eye clinic was held for all students;
and a Parent-Teacher Association
was organized.
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bell Caldwell, first vice-president
of National Education Association
and one of the foremost figures in
U. 8. public education, at a dinner
in Georgian Hotel tonight at 6:30
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Mrs. Caldw .’f native of Cov
ington, Georgia, is past president
of National Classroom Teachers
Association and in 1949 served as
representative of this organization
at the World Organization of the
Teaching Profession in Bern, Swit
zerland. She has been a leader in
the activities of National Educa
tion Association for many years
and has long been prominent in
focal, state, national and interna
tional educational affairs. . Foi
lowing her. participation in the
Bern Conference in 1949 she
toured various parts of the conti
nent on an education mission for
NEA.
The prominent educator spoke
to the assembled students and fa
culty of Athens High School this
morning on her experiences in
touring other countries and study
ing their respective education sys
tems. She stated that it is not
until one has had the opportunity
to stun;‘and comgm state con=-
trolled and democratically direet~
ed education systems that the
overwhelming superiority of the
latter become obvious to the in~
vestigator. Subject of Mrs, Cald
well’s address tonight has not been
announced.
Fducation Week
This week is being observed
throughout the nation as Ameri
can Education Week. Mrs. Cald
well’s appearance here is consid
ered a part of the local observ=-
ance. In addition, the various lo
cal schools are presenting radio
programs over stations WGAU
each day in the interest of educa~
tion. The programs, which began
Monday morning, will continue to
morrow at 8:45 a. m. with a Jun
ior High pregram, ending Satur
day morning when Athens High
presentation is scheduled.
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Moles are a menace to the turf
on golf courses-—--and so are most:
golfers. ® 1951 by NEA Sorvics, e,
In the field of religious welfare,
the churches spent a considerable
amount of money on improve=-
ments in their buildings; but even
more important, the churches were
more and more becoming centers
for recreation and fellowship for
the young people of Comer.
Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops
were organlzea 1n Comer and the
Four-H Club program was ex
panded.
In these and other projects car
ried on by Comer during the last
year the emphasis was placed on
participation by everyone. Com-=-
mittees in the Negro community
paralleled the work of the gen
eral committee in their own area.
The Comer report of progress
concludes with the following para
graph:
“If we don’t win the conte®, the
Comer community has still won a
great prize. Through cooperation
we have made, in no small way,
our town a better place in which
to live, work, play and worship
Goa.”
In each population group the
judges chose, in addition to the top
three prize winners, four towns
for honorable mention awards and
¢ix for Certificates of Achieve
ment. The honorable mention
winners will receive a bronze
plague and a cash award of SIOO.
Honorable mention awards go
to Avera, Alma, Carrollton, Col
bert, Duglas, Fairmount, He: tyell
Hogansville, Saint Marys, Tococa,
Toomsboro and Woodbine.
Winners of Certificates of
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951,
Allies Reveal Chinese Atrocity
Killings; Peace Talks Bog Down
Red Demand For
Immediafe Cease
Fire Is Dropped
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 15.
— (AP) —The Communists
today abandoned their in
siztence on an immediate
cease-fire in Korea.
The reversal eame after
Major General Henry 1.
Hodes, chief of the United
Nations cease-fire subcom
mittee, accused the Reds of
wanting to ‘“substitute a le
gal clause in place of good
laith.
Hodes called on the Communists
to work out a joint proposal for
settlement of the touchy hisser
zone dispute.
“With this eliminated,” he said,
“our (cease-fire) proposals would
be to all intents and purposes
identical. I propose that we for
mulate a proposal on this basis.”
The Red negotiators replied they
never had sought an end to the
fighting before a full armistice is
signed.
Wednesday, however, the Reds
declared that a de factor cease
fire would be “an unavoidable re
sult of the agenda” and “an in
dispensable part and inevitable
consequence of the process of ar
mistice negotiations.”
Lt. Col. Howard S. Levie, acting
spokesman for the U. N. command
said Communist negotiators told
Hodes their speeches Wednesday
were entirely unnecessary because
their Saturday proposal “spoke for
itself.”
The Communists continued to
insist on immediate establishment
of a cease-fire line paralleling the
battle {front. However, üblder
terms of their Saturday propoual,
this line could be changed through
subsequent military action.
Levie described the new Com
munist position as “inconsistent”
with one taken Wednesday by
North Korean Maj Gen. Lee Song
Cho and Chinese Maj. Gen, Hseih
Fang, ~
Subcommittee Meeis
Two-man subcommittees repre
senting both sides will meet again
in Panmunjom at 11 a. m. Friday
for another debate on the buffer
zone issue. ¢
A U. N. command spokesman
said there was no mention of the
Allies’ prisoner of war atrocity
charges at Thursday’s negotiating
session.
The spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. J. E.
Bauernschmidt, said the only ref
erence to prisoners of war came
during a discussion on item four of
the armistice agenda, This covers
the exchange of war prisoners.
Throughout the negotiations, the
U. N. command has expressed con
cern over the fate of Allied troops
captured by Communists.
U. N. negotiators have insisted
that an exchange of prisoners be
arranged before g cease-fire be
comes effective. @
Bauernschmidt declined to spe
culate as to whether disclosure of
the long-secret atrocities would
Piavc any effect on the negotia~
ons.
Achievement are Americus, Aus
tell, Calhoun, Cave Spring,
Clarkesville, Commerce, Dalton,
Dudley, Fitzgerald, Irwinton,
Moreland, Oecilla, Pine Lake, Rex,
Smithville, Villa Rica, Wadley and
‘Washington.
The first three prize winners in
each population group will receive
their awards at a series of dinners
to be held in the winning towns
late in November and early in De
cember. g
Contest Judges
Judges for the contest were Mrs.
Doris Lockerman, former column
ist of the Atlanta Constitution;
Edwin Camp, retired associate ed
itor of the Atlanta Journal; Dr.
Raymond R. Paty, director of pub
lic relations for Rich’s, Inc., At
lanta; Mrs, Inez Henry, assistant
to the president of Berry Schools,
Mr. Berry; and Dr. W, Carson
Ryan, Kenan Professor of Educa
tion, University of North Carolina.
In selecting the winners the
judges said in a joint statement,
“The evidence of accomplishment
for the progress and betterment of
the 171 entrant communities was
a revelation even to those of us
who thought they knew their home
state. Such accomplishment of
ccurse cannot remain local or tem
porary. It spreads and grows. It
serves not only as an example but
as motive power. The material
growth and betterment are shown
to have been great but in our
judgment the educatiofial, | soeial;
and spititual growth is something
for which all may be proud and
grateful.”
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A RED GIVES UP—A North Korean soldier, who volun
tarily surrendered to the Allies, is questioned by intelli
gence men on the east central front. The prisoner in-
Jured a foot when he crossed a mine field to give himself
up. In contrast to the treatment this enemy soldier will
get, there are reports now telling of the mass killing of
Allied prisoners of war by the Communists, —— (NEA
Telephoto.)
Prices Rolled Back
On Used Automobiles
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(AP)—The government to
day rolled back ceiling prices on used automobiles six per
cent below levels of last January.
The Qffice of Price Stabilization (OPS) said its new
dollars-and-cents ceilings set prices at about current mar
ket levels. An exception to the immediate rollback will be
1951 models which may be sold-gt the going market price.
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Harry M. Scrivener, well-known
Athens telephone man, will ob
serve the 30th anniversiary of his
telephone career on Friday, Nov
ember 16,
Mr. Scrivener began work with
the telephone organization on
November 16, 1921 in the Traffic
Department at Winchester, Ken
tucky. After spending the early
part of his telephone career in
Winchester; Louisville, Kentucky;
Meridian, Mississippi; and Atlanta,
Georgia, he came to this city in
1949 and has been a resident of
Athens for the past two and a half
years. He is serving here in the
position of District Traffic Man
ager. He and his family reside at
550 McWhorter Drive.
Mr. Scrivener is a member of
the Kiwanis Club of Athens and
a member of the First Baptist
Church, in which he is a Deacon.
In recognition of his long and
loyal service to the Company and
to subscribers, Mr. Scrivener will
be awarded a gold pin containing
six stars one for each five-year
period of his service.
Long To Atfend
National Meet
Roscoe Long, Immediate past
president of the Georgia State
Singing Convention, will be a del
egate to the National Singing Con
vention to be held in Conway,
Ark., next Saturday and Sunday.
Other delegates from Georgia
will be Jack Stancil, Decatur, a
past state president, and E, F.
Fowler, Atlanta, treasurer of the
state convention. ’
- The Georgia delegation will
g 1 o eftol o bring. the 1952
natiohsl convention . to Gaines
ville, Ga., for its annual sessions.
(Continued on Page Two.)
~ However, OPS said 1951 cars,
along with all others, will be sub
ject to a two per cent deduction
for depreciation on Jan. 1. Every
three months thereafter, on the
first day of each calendar quarter,
another two per cent must be cut
from the price of all the named 35
makes of cars manufactured be
tween 1940 and 1951.
The ceiling price of pre-1540
cars will be that of the oldest
model listed for the same make.
The new dollars and cents order
replaces previous orders setting
ceilings on the basis of prices in
several used car guide books. Pro
visions of the regulation are ef
fective Nov. 20. However, the dol
lars and cents prices do not go
into effect until 30 days after that
date. G l
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The order divides the country
into three geograhpical areas for
priceing. The arears generally re
flect differences in shipping costs
of the cars originally. Those in
Region A -will have the lowest
price and those in Region C the
highest under the lengthy tables.
OPS gave this example of how
the two per cent depreciation will
apply:
A 1950 Chevrolet skyline special
4-dpor sedan In Region A is listed
at $1,555. In Jan. 1, 1952, the ceil
ing price will be two per cent less
than that price, or $1,523.90. On
April 1, 1952 the ceiling price will
be two per cent less than $1,523.90,
or $1,49342, and so on for each
calendar quarter.
The ceiling prices include all
standard equipmenti, as well as
radio, heater and other items on
the car at the time the seller
beught the car. Automatic trans
missions or drives, or air-condi
tioning units extra and prices also
are listed which may be added to
the car ceiling.
OPS said the ceilings for such
extra equipment must be deprec~
(Continued On Page Two)
Old Newspaper Tells
Story Of Early YMCA
Among the treasured possessions
of the local Young Men’s Christian
Association is a photostatic copy
of a yellowed clipping from the
Southern Banner, ancestor of the
fi?nner-Herald, dated March 26,
57.
The clipping, brought by the
Banner-Herald by H. C. “Pop”
Pearson, general secretary of the
WMCA, shows the masthead of
the old paper, listing J. A. Sledge
and A. W. Reese as editors.
Immediately beneath the mast
head is shown an eagle with wide
spread wings, carrying an Ameri=
can flag, in its beak a ribbon beai
ing the inscription, “The Union—lt
Must Be Preserved.”
YMCA Formation |
The article tells of the forma
tion of the YMCA here and is
headed® simply: “Young Men'’s
Christian ssociation.” |
Text of the article follows: é
“According to the announce- .
ment in the last number of this
&M & meetibg was held in’ the |
ethodist Church, on: Thursdav |
evening’for the purpose of organi- |
zing & Young Men’s Christian As- |
Read Daliy by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
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Repercussions On Battle Line
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And In Peace Talks Indicated
TOKYO, Nov. 15.— (AP) —Allied disclosures of long
hushed Chinese atrocity killings may cause repercussions
})igteh in the sickly Korea cease-fire talks and on the bit'tlg
United Nations charges that Chinese and North Korean
Reds slaughssered nearly 6,000 U, N. prisoners of war were
expected to inject a bitter issue when truce negotiations
come to discussing exchange of prisoners—if they do not
crop up sooner. :
Battle reaction may be immediate,
Allied troops generally had pre
sumed the Chinese Reds treated
their prisoners better than the
North Koreans, who massacred an
estimated 8,000 Americans early in
the war.
This belief was fed by the Chi
nese Red strategy of releasing
American and British prisoners in
small groups last winter and spring
when the fighting was raging at
its highest peak.
The Army newspaper Stars and
Stripes ran the account of Chinese
Red atrocity slayings of prisoners
as Its lead story of the day.
Record of Killings :
An Allied spokesman said the
incompiete tally of atrocities shows
“a record of killings and barbar
ism unique even in the Commus=
nist world.”
The report underscored U. S,
Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s
charge before the United Nations
Assemnbly in Paris that Red Chi
na’s conduect was “so low that it
would take considerable improve
ment to raise it to the general level
of barbarism.” :
In Washington, Rep. Cole (R.-
N.Y.) said if the report of atroci
ties is true, the Communists should
be punished with atomie bombs.
The Eighth Army reported yes
terday in Pusan that the Chinese
Reds had killed at least 2,643 non-
Korean prisoners of war since they
entered the war Nov. 1, 1950. Al
most all—2sls—were Americans.
During this :gan, the North Ko
reans were arged with massa
cring 147 non-Korean prisoners.
Along with the estimated 3,000
American captives killed by the
Korean Reds in the first four
months of war, this brought to
nearly 6,000 the atrocity slaying
of non-Koreans.
5,500 Americans
The bulk of those killed—about
5,500-—were Americans, the Eighth
Army said, Others included Bri
tish, Turks, Belgians and 75 “of
unknown nationality.”
In Pusan, the South Korean De
fense Ministry said 88,390 Repub
lic of Korea tronps were missing.
It estimated at least 10 per cent
had been killed.
An American officer said the
figure probably was closer 1o 15
per cent and “perhaps a lot more
than that.”
The Eighth Army called atten
tion to estimates that the Reds had
killed 250,000 Korean non-com=
batants in atrocities.
Clarence Ryee, official govern
ment spokesman, said the war had
cost South Korea about 2,000,000
lives. He said 240,000 troops, po
lice and government officials and
1,760,000 civilians had been killed.
These deaths were attributed to all
causes connected with the war.
The report on Red atrocities was
given by Col. James M. Hanley,
Chief Judge Advocate General of
the Eighth Army.
It exploded at a time when
cease-fire negotiations at Panmun
jom were strained close to the
breaking point.
Even if the cease-fire issue is
settled, the problem raised by the
atrocity charges complicates
agreement on the prisoner issue.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway does
not want to lift the pressure of his
fighting ground, sea and air forces
against the Reds until the release
of all Allied captives is assured.
The Red accounting of prison
ers, in view of the Eighth Army
atrocity charges, may prove
stormy.
So far, only 174 U. S. soldiers
have been listed as captured. An=-
other 10,836 are listed as missing.
sociation, The meeting was well
1 attended, and among those present
we were glad to see a consider
, able number of the students of the
| College. The meeting was called
| to order by appointing Mr. Young
| L. G. Harris chairman and Rev.
. Cicero Mitchell secretary.
| “Y” Character
{ “After prayer by Prof. Mell, the
| character and claims of Young
| Men’s Christian Associations were
| briefly discussed by Pref. Easter.
iDr. Brantly warmly commended
' the enterprise, alluding particular
1y to the operations of the Associa=-
’tion in Philadelphia. A committee
of three was appointed io draft &
Constitution, and to report at a
' meeting to be held at the same
[place next Thursday mnight. The
meeting then adjourned.
~ “The next meeting has been
postponed until Saturday night at
half past seven o‘clock, when the
committee will report, and an ad
dress may be expected from Thos.
R. R. Cobb, Esq. Those ‘who desire
to join the Association are earn-.
estly invited to be present on this
_.occasion." 1
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EDITION
36 Die In Crash
0f US Air Force
Plane In France
CHAMBON-SUR-LAC, France,
Nov. 15.—(AP)—Rescue crews to
day found the shattered snow
encrusted wreckage of a missing
U. 8. Air Force transport plane
5,000 feet up a mountain slope in
southern France, All aboard were
dead.
American and French rescuers
began bringing the battered and
burned bodles of the 36 passen
gers and crewmen—all U. 8. mil
itary personnel—down the side of
the mountain where the twin-en
gined flying box car craashed
Tuesday.
Rescue Efforts
Rescue teams who fought their
way up the snow and ice encrust
ed slope 250 miles south of Paris
said most of the fire-scarred bod
ies were battered to bits by the
crash,
The plane itself appeared to be
in one piece, with only small hits
of wreckage scattered over an
area of somgl 80 square yards. Its
two engines had buried themselves
into the snow-crusted soil and the
fuselag> had burst open. Half the
twin tail assembly was burned,
but the other part was intact.
A team of French soldiers first
sighted the wreckage just after
dawn. They had trekked afoot and
on skis all night, through a three
foot snow layer, to reach the erash
scene. Later they were joined by
10 U. 8. Air Force rescue workers.
~ The plane disappeared Tuesday
on a routine flight from Frank
furt to Bordeaux with 29 airmen,
a U. 8. soldier and six crewmen
aboard. It crashed into a peak in
the Mont Dore group some 20
miles south of Clermont Ferrand.
Today the plane lay
in the sunlight, a few fm
the opening of a defile toward
which e pilot apparently had
headed. Chambon residentg said
the weather on Tuesday at the
time of the crash was foggy, with
visibility very limited.
First Trace
First trace of the missing plane,
discovered yesterday, was a part
ly burned U, S. Air Force certifi
cate found in the Mont Dore area.
It was identified as having belong
ed to one of the passengers.
The airmen aboard were en
route to Bordeaux where they
were to open a motor pool as part
of the gigantic U. 8. supply line
from the Atlantic across France
to Germany.
The names of the victims have
been withheld pending notification
of next of kin.
Suprema Courf
Admits Athenian
- Miss Clara E, Smith, former
Athenian, now secretary to United
States Senator Richard B. Russell,
has been admitted to practice law
before the Supreme Cpouz"t of the
United States.
Miss Smith, sister to Mrs. W. A.
Buchanan, of Oconee Heights, is a
native of Madison County.
For many years she was secre~
tary to the late Thomas J. Shack
elford, prominent attorney and
she studied law while in his of
fice. She then successfully .took
the state bar examination.
In 1941 she went to Washingtor
as Secretary to Senator Russell,
She is the first woman attorney
from Athens te be admitted to
U. S. Supreme Court practice and
among a small number in ‘he na
tion.
Rules of the Supreme Court
make it necessary for an attorney
seeking to practice in that court to
be presented to the court by an
active praectitioner of the court.
She felt she could be performing
a «service for constituents from
Georgia if she could qualify in
that line, she told Judge Arthur
Oldham, an old friend, while on a
visit here a few weeks ago and
her many friends here will be
delighted by her success.
UNDERWRITERS MEET
Athens Life Underwriters Aw_p
ciation will hold a luncheon meet
ing Friday atnoon in the Georglan
Hotel and will be addressed by A.
B. Cochran of the local U. 8. so
cial Security Office,