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COTTON .
Vol. €XIX, No. 270.
Siceleton Crew
Cafely Lands
a
Crippled B-3
FORT WORTH, Tex., Nov. 27—
(AP)-—A skeleton crew guided a
crippled B-36 bomber to a safe
landing yesterday after circling
the field 6% hours attempting to
fix a damaged landing gear,
All except three members of the
19-man crew parachuted before
the giant plane came down,
The 28-year old pilot said a
steady rain helped him land the
plane safely.
‘But someone else was pulling
for us, teo, I think,” added Capt.
Clarence F. Horton of San An
tonlo.
The heavy-set pilot, a West
voint graduate, made a tricky five
eneine landing with the giant atom
pomb carrier after ordering 16
crewmen te jump. All but one
narachuted without serious in-
He was T-Sgt. Charles A. Kar-l
¢<<nvil, Petersburg, Va., a gunner.
¥-rays were made to determine
if he had a fractured leg.
Two other crew members rode
the sleek bomber to earth after
circling Carswell Air Force Base
for 6% hours attempting to reme
dv a damaged landing gear,
Horton believed rain-slicked
runways kept tires on the dam
2-ed side of the landing gear from
c-nloding from heat after touch
ing the runway.
Rain, Mist
Rain and mist covered this see
tion of Texas when Horton dis
covered shortly after a routine
taleoff at 9:55 a. m. that some=-
{hing was wrong with the left
landing gear. A pin holding apart
the front and, back wheels of one
¢ide of the gear had broken.
“It was a serious situation,”
paid Horton, wlpo was wearing
moccasin-sock slippers with his
flving suit, “but humor prevailed.”
One crew member lamented:
“Sometimes I almost wish I
voen’'t on flying pay.” |
Repair instructions were ra
diced to the plane from techni
¢'ans who helped build the plane.
They didn’t work. Horton said he
realized about 2 p. m. that he
would have to try an emergency
landing.
He gave orders for the crew to
jump and made four pas’lsg over
2 pasture near the base. 0 men
jumped on the first pass, five on
the next, five en the next and four
on the last. i
I.t. Col. Paul R. Paskvan, La- |
Grange, 111,, aircraft eommander
from another crew, and Ist Lt.
Ernest O. Bennefield, San Antonio,
first engineer, stayed with Hor
ton. |
Lightened Ship :
Horton jettisoned eight 100-;
{J(mnd practice bombs in Lake
Worth and “kicked out” 15,000'
gallons of fuel to lighten the ship. !
He stopped the No. 3 engine “fig- l
guring if anything did go wrong |
some loose pieces might fly into |
the prop and.if they tore it up it§
might tear up the fuselage. .
Horton said he figured one of |
{hree things would happen when
the big eraft hit the ground. They l
were: i
“(1) Nothing; (2) The main
strut of the landing gear might hit
the ground and cause us to ground
loop to the left, and (3) the strut
might snap off—l don’t know |
what would happen then.” i
I'e was right the first time,’
ncihing happened. »
The B-36 glided to a graceful
landing on the first pass Horton
made at the runway. ;
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ATLANTA, Nov. 27 — (AP) —-t
A government official declared to
day a power shortage is cripplingl
the Southeast’s contribution to !
National Defense. !
Regional power administrator
Ben W, Creim said that despite |
protestations of private power
compaines that no new public
liviro-electric projects are needed
he area, “we have a power
VY (IgC'YP
“It will increase as we encoun- |
ter the December peak,” he con
nued in an address prepared for 1
i Regional” Rural Electric Co-op
ting. “It will return to plague .
15 even more severely next winter.
| there is no good evidence in
ight ‘t;}lat it will not return there-
As for the effect on National De
fence, Creim said:
_ “There is in the Southeast today
idle alumium production capacity,
and there is idle electrochemical
production capacity. These have
been the first casualities. There
will be mare,”
Creim heads the Southeastern
Power Administration, set up 20
months ago to market power from
rment projects with preferen
¢¢ 1o public bodies and co-ops.
Ihe charged that the power
tompanies, with two exceptions,
have consistently sought to block
the SEPA’s program to market pow
er “on the most widespread basis
al the lowest possible cost.”
_He listed the exceptions as the
Virginia Electrie and Power Com-~
bany and the Florida Power
Lorporation,
RUSSIANS DRILL CHINESE
S HONG KONG, Nov. 27—(AP)—
The mde;endent newspaper Wah
Kiu Yat Po says Russian advisers
are drilling 8,000 Chinese Com-
Mmunist Matine trainees in amphi
bious landings on Mainan island
off the Norfi;&uu coast. A first
group of 2 eompleted a six
mo"& I-flmmmm Aug. 15,
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CAUDLE AND LAWYER AT HEARING—Former As
sistant Attorney General T. LaMar Caudle (right) lis
tens intently to the advice of his attorney, Bernard Gal
lagher, in Washington Monday. They are preparing for
testimony before a House Ways and Means sub-commit
tee which is investigating operations of the Internal
Revenue Department, and tax scandals. The sub-coms
mittee called Caudle for questioning about his handling
of tax fraud prosecutions. He resigned from the Justice
Department recently at President Truman’s request.—s
(AP Wirephoto.)
Big Internatal Revenue
Shakeup Is Promised
BY CHARLES BARRETT AND B. L. LIVINGSTONE
BIG INTERNAL REVENUE — Page one .... .. 1234455
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—~ (AP) —Former Assistant
Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle testified today that he
and Charles Oliphant, chief counsel of the Internal Reve
nue Bureau, were Florida fishing guests of a North Caro
lina manufacturer under investigation for tax fraud.
Caudle told a House Ways and Means subcommittee he
and Oliphant flew to Palm Beach, Fla.,<in the summer of
1947 in a plane owned by Troy Whitehead of Charlotte,
North Carolina.
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Clarke Countians
Clarke county met its quota in
the Defense Bond Campaign that
closed on Armistice Day, Novem
ber 11. Bond purchases made by
citizens of Athens and Clarke
county amounted to $125,272, ac
cording to an announcement re
ceived from the U. S. Savings
Bonds Division, Treasury Depart
ment, Atlanta.
“This is a splendid record,” said
Paul W. Chapman, county chair=-
mran, “After all, $125,000 is a large
sum for our people to invest with
in the short period of two months.
On behalf of the members of our
County Committee, we wish to
thank all purchasers who, by buy
ing Defense Bonds, made it possi
ble for us to exceed our goal.”
DETROIT'S STRONG THIEF
DETROIT, Nov. 27 —(AP)— If
things keep on this way, Detroit
police may have to man every
manhole.
Since July 1, Carl Warner, di
rector of the City’s Department of
Public Workers reports, 158 man
hole covers and catch basins have
vanished.
Czech Vice - Premier Slansky Is
Jailed For Anti-State Actions
LONDON, Nov. 27 — (AP) —
Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky,
one-time hatched man of Czecho
slovak Communism, has been fired
as vice premier and arrested for
“getivities against the state,” the
Prague radio announced today.
The arrest was ordered by Com
munist President Klement Gott
wald at the suggestion of Premier
Antonin Zapotocky, the announce
ment said, because “investigations
into activities of subversive
groups” brought out facts that
convict Slansky.
Slansky was removed from his
job as Secretary-General of the
Czechoslovak Communist _party
last September in a move tied by
Western observers to Moscow or
ders io the Czech Communists to
t&i‘ghten their ranks against inroads
“Titoism.” o ;
The announcement at that time
sald Slansky would get “another
important state post,” but did not
say what the post was to be.
The witness, fired recently by
President Truman from his Justice
Department post, denied that he
knew a tax fraud case was in the
%czks against Whitehead June 25,
“If T had known Mr. Whitehead
was in tax trouble, I would never
have invited Mr. Oliphant,” Cau=
dle said.
Today’s testimony came as In
ternal Revenue Commissioner
John B. Dunlap prepared to let
loose with the biggest broadside
yet in his announced drive to im
prove efficiency and weed out
employes “who have betrayed
their high trust.”
A fully informed official, de
clining to be quoted by name, told
a reporter that several employes
will be ousted from offices not yet
publicly linked to the current se
ries of firings in the tax collection
service.
Dunlap will also anncunce final
decisions on most of the 14 em=-
ployes in San Francisco and New
York who have been suspended
pending investigations, this sour
ce said.
Caudle Recalled
Word of these impending an
nouncements was disclosed as a
House Ways and Means subcom
mittee inquiring into the bureau’s
operations and related issues re
called T. Lamar Caudle to continue
his account of the career which
carried him to a spot as No, 1 U,
S. prosecutor of tax cases.
Fired as Assistant Attorney Gen
eral by President Truman two
weeks ago, Caudle yesterday re
livered an emotion-charged de
fense of his officcial life before the
subcommittee.
The impending announcements
of further bureau shakeups, it was
learned, will be made by Dunlap.
The official said Mr. Truman may
be called upon to act in the case
of James G. Smyth, suspended
collector at San Francisco. The
White House appoints collectors.
The action also may involve the
Detroit office, where an investiga
‘tion has been under way into re
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The Czech government shakeup
was believed to have been linked
with growing unrest in Czechoslo
vakia at the rising demands of the
ruling -Communists for greater
production to feed the Soviet war
machine. The demands on Czech
economy created critical shortages
and passive resistance among some
of the workers.
Underground Info
An underground source report
ed from Czechoslovakia Jast month
that the Slansky ouster came be
cause the Oatis care backfired.
The Czech Communists imprisoned
and convicted Associated Press
Correspondent William N. Oatis
as a “spy,” sentencing him to 10
years, The trial was denounced
throughout the non-Communist
world.
slansky, editor of the Prague
sCqmmunist newspaper Rude Pravo
for 15 years, fled to Moscow when
World War Ii started in 1939.
President Gottwald went with
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, CA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1951,
Truce Negotiators Wrangle
Over Supervisory Methods
NATO Deputies Study
US, Belgium Introduce Seperate
Measures To Speed Mobilization
BY STAN SWINTON
ROME, Nov, 27.— (AP) —The United States and Bel
gium introduced separate resolutions to the North Atlantic
Council today designed to speed up establishment of a
European army.
Both resolutions were quickly referred to the NATO
deputies, who will try to combine them into one plan to put
before the Council tomorrow,
The Council Chairman, External
Affairs Minister Lester B. Pear
son of Canada, said he thought the
“margin between (the two plans)
was not very great.”
He described the plans as an ef
fort to give a “push forward” to
the move for the European Army
and for bringing in courtries
other than those belonging to the
North Atlantic Treaty orgamiza
tion, presumably a reference to
West Germany, |
Other Developments
Other developments today at the ‘
NATO meeting included:
1. A private breakfast at which
Gen. Eisenhower entertained Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden. Eisenhower appealed for
British agreement to the appoint
ment of an American Naval com~
mander for the North Atlantic and
adoption of .30 caliber ammuni~
tion as the standard for the At
lantic armies’ small arms.
2. A meeting of the big three
Foreign and Defense Ministers to
discuss the proposed middle East
command. A qualified informant
said they made some progress but
nothing concrete emerged from the !
meeting.
3. A report to the council on the
military might of Russia and the
satellites in which, among other
things it was sald the Soviet Un
ic is lpgedlnz her MIG-15 jet
fighter—of Korean fighting fame
—too the Air Forces of her partners.
The report was compiled by Lt.
Gen. Alfred Gduenther, Chief of
Staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s surpreme headquarters |
(shape) in Paris. i
Gruenther’s report was put be
fore the council side by side with
Eisenhower’s estimate of the forces
he needs to partially .counterbal
ance the power of Russia and her
followers. A SR
Imformed source say SHAPE
believes Russia would have about
175 first line divisions available
at the beginning of a war, with
probable quick expansion to 200
to 300 divisions. A Russian di
vision, however, is only about half
the size of a U. S. division.
Gruenther reported that the
Russian MIG jets—already well
proven in Korean air battles —
are speedily réplacing piston-en=
gined planes in satellite Air Forces.
The MIGS are powered with an
engine adapted from the British
Rolls Royce Nine, some of which
were sold to the Soviet Union in
1948. The U. S. and Britain now
are concentrating on jet engines
with more powerful compressors.
Eisenhower reportedly is ex
pecting to have 34 western divi
siong ready for combat by the end
of 1952. This force would include
six American divisions, seven
British, eight French, six Italian,
three form Norway and Denmark,
and four from Belgium, Holland
and Luxembourg.
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SCHOOL BUDGET OKAYED
ATLANTA, Nov. 27 — (AP) —
Gov. Herman Talmadge today ap=
proved ‘an amended budget sub
mitted by the State Department of
Education which provides for ad
ditional funds totaling $3,818,730
from school reserve funds.
The State Board of Education
approved the budget Friday. The
Governor signed in his capacity as
director of the Budget Commis-~
sion.
The additional funds are to be
used for school transportation, ad=-
ditional teachers and increasing
the contingent or equalization fund
from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
him. The two were considered
“Moscow Communists.”
Gottwald himself took over the
job of Secretary General—party
boss—when Slansky gave it up in
September. Slansky became just
one of a number of vice premiers.
As vice premier, Slansky was to
have the job of coordinating the
nation’s economic plans, reporting
back to the Czechoslovak FPolit
buro.
Slansky had been considered an
international Communist, like
Gottwald, more interested in the
spread of world Communism than
in the welfare of his own country.
But Slansky and Gottwald were
reported to be at odds as far back
as 1948. Soon after Yugoslavia's
Communist party was expelled
from the Cominform, Slansky
called a meeting of the Secretariat,
in Gottwald’s absence, to lcok into
the dangers of Titoism in Czecho
slovakia. There was a hint that
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Dr.W.G. Pollard
Will Address
Physics Society
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mh of Nuclear Studies g
Oak Ridge, Tenn., will address
the Society of the Sigma Xi at the
University of Georgia on Nov=-
ember 27, 8 p. m. ,201 Physics
Building. He will speak on “Nu
clear Forces and Mesons” under
the auspices of the Traveling Lec
ture Program, which is conducted
jointly by the Institute and Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. The
University of Georgia is one of
the 29 Southern universities which
sponsor the Institute.
~ One of the first persons to sense
the exceptional opportunities pre
sented by Oak Ridge, Dr. Pollard
was given a leave of absence in
1945 from his position as Pro
fessor of Physics at the Univer
sity of Tennessee to devote full
time to the promotion of the In
stitute, which at that time was
only an idea in the minds of a few
scientists in Oak Ridge and the
Southern universities. Dr. Pollard
resigned from the University in\
November, 1947, to accept his pre
sent position with the Institute.
Dr. Pollard was born in Batavia,
N. Y. in 1911 but has lived in
the South since he was twelve
years of age. He did his under
graduate work at the University
of Tennessee and received his
master’s and doctor’s degrees at
Rice Institute. He has conducted
research in the fields of cosmic
rays, radioactivity, gas absorption,
gas diffusion and separation, and |
neutron diffraction. '
Dr. Pollard is the author of a
number of papers published in the
Physical Review, Science, The
Mathematical Journal and several
other technical magazines, and is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa, |
Phi Kappa Phi, the Society of Xi,
the Mathematical Association of
America and is a fellow of the
American Physical Society.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy and cooler to
day; continued cool tonight and
Wednesday with occasional light
rain Wednesday, beginning late
this afternoon or tonight. Low
toright 42; high tomorrow 56.
Sun sets today 5:24 and rises
tomorrow 7:18.
GEORGIA — Consider
able cloudiness and ceol this
afterncon, tonight and Wednes
day, occasional light rain to
night and Wednesday, beginning
over extreme north and ex
treme west portions this after
noon.
GEORGIA — Temperatures
average two to six degrees
above normal with liitle tem
perature change during period.
Rainfall about one-fourth of an
inch, occurring meostly tonight
and Wednesday. Normal maxi
mum 57 in north to 66 in south
Georgia, normal minimum 37 in
north to 45 in south Georgia.
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ... .. .00
Total since November 1 ... 1.99
Deficit since November ~ 1 .36
Average November rainfall. 2.74
Total since January 1 .. ..36.01
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.81
New Differences Develop As
Cease-Fire Line Is Approved
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 27.—(AP) —Truce negotiators
signed a cease-fire line agreement today and immediately
developed two vital differences on how to supervise an ar
mistice in Korea.
United Nations delegates insisted ont
1. Joint Allied-Communist inspection teams with ‘“free
access to all parts of Korea.”
2. Provisions against military buildups by either side.
Neither point was included in a
plan proposed by the Reds, who
have never permitted outsiders in
Commuinst Korea.
' The differences developed in a
I session described by the top Allied
| negotiator as “short and sweet,”
The full five-man negotiating
teams—all in full dress except for
two drably clad Chinese Generals
—approved a cease-fire line agree
ment opening the way for an
armistice within 30 days. Then
they plunged into the next truce
question. That is supervision of an
armistice. Each presented its own
ideas.
The two plans were in general
agreement on four points: (1)
shooting to stop when an armistice
is signed, (2) a joint commission to
supervise the truce, (3) all forces
to withdraw from the buffer zone
and enemy territory after the
armistice is signed and (4) armed
troops to stay out of the buffer
zone,
Allied Plan l
Vice Adm. C. Turner Jay, Chief
U. N. delegate, presented the
seven point Allied plan after hear
ing the Communist suggestions.
“We started the ball rolling by
telling the Communists their pro
posal wasn’t broad enough on the
general principles (for supervi
sion). Then we gave them an idea
of what we wanted.”
The Communists asked for an
adjournment until 11 a. m. Wed
nesday (9 p. m. Tuesday, EST) to
study the U. N. plan. s
Fighting quieted along the fro
zen, 145-mile front as the full five
man truce teams met for the first
time since Oct. 25. But the air war
flared with two deadly jet battles.
Allied Air Forces reported one
U. S. Shooting Star and four Red ‘
jets were shot down, and two Red
planes damaged.
The Day's truce conference, set
in a Christmas-like landscape in
the snow of Panmunjon, opened
with a series of agreements on a
provisional cease-fire line—{first by
the staff officers who drew the
' line on a 14-foot map, then by
subcommittees which gad argued
over a buffer zone for more than
three months, and finally by the
full truce delegations.
| Buffer Agreement
The truce teams also ok’d a buf
fer zone agreement, making the
line the cease-fire line if a full
agreement is signed within 30
days.
The agreement does not halt the |
fighting. Agreement first must be
reached on three other clauses—
supervisions of the armistice, ex=~
change of prisoners and recom
mendations to governments. ‘
Each can be as troublesome as
the cease-fire line, the first andl
only armistice clausez approved
since negotiators first met July
10.
Admiral Joy sought so speed
settlement of the remaining points
by proposing each side begin now
compiling necessary data on thel
exchange of prisoners. {
The Reds made no reply and |
the truce teams plunged into the
problem of supervising the armis- '
tice. |
North Korean Lt. Gen. Nan I, |
clad -in full dress uniform with |
gold epaulettes, Red striped trou-l
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WILL HE RUN?
Truman Silence Keeps
Everyone In The Dark
KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 27 —
(AP) — President Truman kept
even his intimates puzzled today
over whether he will seek re-elec
tion.
His press secretary, Joseph
Short, voiced officially what other
White House aides have said off
the record:
“Your guess is as good as mine.”
Nobody, even those who insisted
Mr. Truman wants to throw the
Democratic nomination to Chief
Justice Fred M. Vinson of the
United States Supreme Court, pro
fessed to know whether Mr. Tru
man would accept it or whether
he could win the nomination for
the noted jurist.
HST Secretive
The President, who says he
won’t reveil his intentions for
1952 until after he submits his
three major messages to Congress
in January, seems satisfied to keep
everyone guessing.
He is concentrating, for the mo
ment, on dominating the deoisions
of the party.
For instance, he told his last
press conference that he will in
clude his controversial “Fair Deal”
domestic legislative program in
his “State of the Unipn” message
which he will deliver to Congress
in January.
And, the President sald with the
“Read Dally by 55,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
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French screen actress Denise
Darcel is the latest of many
glamour girls to succumb to the
trend of short hair-dos. Here
she models her clipped coiffure
while wearing a high neck
blouse which, she says, “is very
chic with short hair.” — (NEA
Telephoto.)
Vinson Predicts
Early Approval
Of UMT Program
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—(AP)
-—Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of
the House Armed Services Com=-
mittee today predicted early Con=-
gressional approval of legislation
to put universal military training
into operation.
Back from a trip to Georgia,
Vinson announced that hearings
on the legislation will start before
’his committee on January 9.
~ When Congress reconvenes on
January 8, he told newsmen, he
will introduce a bill embodying
the recommendations of the Nat
ional Security Training Commis~
sion created this year by Congress
to draft a UMT program. |
While Congress already has ap
proved the principle of UMT, with
six months of training for 18-
year-olds, it must enact another
law before & program can become
effective. Without another law, no
youth can be inducted for UMT.
Lead-Off Witness
One of the lead-off witnesses
for the Congressional hearing,
Vinson said, will be James W,
Wadsworth of New York, chair
man of the National Security
Training Commission and a former
senator and representative.
Vinson predicted that both his |
committee and the House would
approve the implementing legisla
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spirit of the successful 1948 cam
paigner, he could guarantee that
the “Fair Deal” will be a part of
the 1952 Democratie platform.
Most associates agree that the
nomination of Sen. Robert A. Taft
of Ohio by the Republicans would
be the biggest inducement for Mr.
Truman to run again.
The President has said that Taft
is his candidate for the GOP nom
ination.
Taft Response
Taft yesterday countered Mr.
Truman’s recent insistence that
Taft won re-election as Senator
from Ohio as a result of heavy
spending by “special interests.”
He testified that big labor
unions, Communists and White
House officials campaigned against
him “in the most vitriolic attack
probably ever conducted against
any candidate.”
Taft gave a 22,000-word state
ment to a Senate committee in
which he calied completely false
Mr. Truman’s speech before the
National Woman’s Democratic
Club charging special interests
poured money into Taft’s re-elec
tion campaign.
Taft charg%d dtbtat the campaign
against him had the character of
a sinister iénv.m:;zrl'm:y-voi‘lth H&fi*g}
its activity .directed “right !rom!
the White House.”
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By JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 27—(AP)
Four Communist MIG-15 jets and
a U. S. F-80 Shootln% Star were
shot down In two battles today in
a fierce flareup of the alr war
over northwestern Korea,
Four MIGs were damaged in
Tuesday’s double-barreled aetion.
The figures were reported by the
U. S. Fifth Air Force,
Ground fighting slowed almost
to a standstill as truce negotiators
agreed on a provisional cease-fire
line across the Korean peninsula
and plunged into work on the nexi
item on the armisfice agenda —
supervision of a truce.
The provisional line will become
the cease-fire mark if negotiators
agree in 30 days—by Dec. 27 —
on terms of a full armistice.
Sides are ‘free to keep up the
ground, air and sea fighting dur
ing the 30-day period.
War Continues
It was considered a certainty
that air and sea warfare would go
on unabated.” A lull was expected
in ground action on the theory it
would be wasteful of men and
materials to take new ground and
have to give it up almost fmme
diately in the event of an armis
tice.
The American Shooting Star
was knocked down in the first bat
tle Tuesday—a skirmish between
16 MIGs and four of the slower
Shooting Stars. Fifth Air Force
said the pilot was killed. One
MIG was damaged in that battle.
The four MIGs killed came in
the day’s second fight, a clash be
tween 19 U. 8. Sabre jets and 18
MIGs. One MIG was damaged.
1t was one of the rare battles in
which the American jets met the
Reds on even or better terms.
Fifth Air Force sald all Sabres
returned safely.
The battle raged nearly 20 min
utes from 35,000 feet to ground
level. It swung across M 7 Aliey
from side to side.
There was a marked decrease in
the number of close support miss
ions flown by Allied warplanes
Tuesday. By noon, only one strike
had been called for by the infan
try. It killed an estimated 15
Communist soldiers on the eastern
front.
The Fifth Air Force Tuesday re
ported one of its most profitable
ldaylight attacks against Commu
'nist rolling stock.
Red Losses >
By noon, Air Force headquarters
had received pilot reports of eight
locomotives and 43 rafl cars de
stroyed or damaged.
Reds on the touchy western
front Monday night set off a series
of colored flares. The unusual
display led Allied officers to theo
rize that Communist troops might
be celebrating the cease-fire agree
ment.
Far East Naval headquarters in
Korea said Communist shore bat
teries on the Kalma Peninsula
scored a direct hit Saturday on
the American Destroyer Hyman in
Wonsan Harbor. The announce
ment said there were no Allied
casualties.
There were only a few threaten
ing flareups at scattered points
along the battle line Monday night.
In most cases it appeared that pro
gress in Panmunjom toward a
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Train Collision
Is Investigated
WOODSTOCK, Ala., Nov. 27—
(AP) — Three Interstate Com
merce Commission investigators
today sought the cause of a stream
limer collision which killed 16
persons seven of whom remain
unidentifed,
| They planned to gather evidence
iat the site of the Sunday wreck
'involving two New York-New
’Orleans trains, the Crescent and
' the Southerner, They alsc will in
terview crew members.
| The body of the engineer of the
northbound Southerner, P. J. Pow-~
’ers, 68 was still being hunted in
‘the wreckage of five cars and
two diesel engines stiil on the road
bed.
The only other white victim was
Stanley Lichtman, 55, Greens
boro, Ala.
The Southerner and Crescent
met head-on when the Southerner
pulled from a side track into the
path of the southbound Cieicent
on the main I'ne.
The Crescent was travelling as
the second section of a southbound
streamliner, which passed before
Powers pulled his train off the
siding.
“Tt appears that the engineer of
the Southerner (Powers) pulled
off the siding in the face of a
warning signal,” L. E. Wetterau,
Southern Railways General agent,
said yesterday.
“I cannot say if that is tnfi
but it appears to be the case,
board of investigation will at
temsé. ,to determine what' hap
pen i g ’;"\ ‘Vh:}“::,'\'j :
The ICC investigators will 'dé-*
termine if a public hearing on the
crash will be required. Ao