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More Firings Seem Inevitable
In Internal Revenue Service
BY B. L. LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— (AP) —T. Lamar Caudle,
hose testimony about his out-of-hours activities as former
sistant Attorney General already has touched on mink
oats and oil deals, was recalled today for further ques
tioning by House tax service probers.
One of the things about which he was to be asked, Ways
and Means subcommittee sources said, was a reputed
¢5.000 eommission paid in the sale of an airplane. In ad
ance of the hearing they declined to give details.
Prices Ease On
Pork, Eogs And
“:me Vegetables
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By The Associated Press
Netail prices of most pork items,
co-s and several fresh vegetables
1 this week. Butter climbed
one to six cents a pound in many
I s, reflecting a tighter supply
ituation.
Consumer food buying generally
was reported slow following the
Thanksgiving feast shopping last
week, “The budget-anxious house
wives are digging in for a while
alter the big splurge, and you’'ll
find a lot of price-trimming on
the more moderate-priced items in
siores @s a result,” said one big
chain’s sales manager.
The sharpest reductions report
¢d were for various pork cuts.
Center cut pork chops, for exam
ple, were marked down two to as
mtch a 3 15 cents a pound in sonre
marketing centers.
Pork consequently was high on
the Ulsts of advertised specials
planned for the coming week-end
by major independents and store
chains, Pork loins were the cheap
et of the season in some places.
Other stores featured smoked
butts and hams.
Plentiful Foods
The Agriculture Department
headlined pork iand apples) as
most-plentiful £ for thrifty
Luying this week. The hogs com
ing to market now are part of
last spring’s crop of nearly 64 mil
lion head, the second largest on
record. Ever since September,
with the exception of a single
week in October, pig slaughter
fisures this year have been run
ning above those of a year ago.
The seasonal peak in pork pro
duction will come next nronth.
Top grade eggs were off two to
four cents a dozen in most stores
alter weeks of working higher.
Market analysts said eggs might
ease a little more in the next cou
ple of weeks before heading up
ward again shortly before Christ
mas.
Most beef items were unchanged
this week, although prime rib
roasts fell back as much as eight
or nine cents a pound in a few
places to sell at about the same
level as choice grade cuts. This
was attributed partly to tempor
ary heavy supplies, partly to the
competition being waged by pork.
Poultry Prices
Poultry prices were mostly
steady, with only a few scattered
and minor reductions in chicken
fryers and broilers.
Slow demand rather thaa any
significant change in supplies was
responsible for small declines in
scveral fresh produce items, in
cluding snap beans, broccoli, cab
bage, carrots, celery, lettuce,
sweet potatoes and grapefruit.
Oranges, raisins and turkeys
top the Agriculture Department’s
nuional list of plentifuls for the
month of December, The list is
compiled to help promote con
sumption of foods in heavy supply
and usually comparatively low
priced.
Others on the list: apples, can
ned and frozen concentrated or
ange juice, dried prunes, broilers
and fryers, pork, frozen whiting
and ocean perch fillets, canned
tuna, cottage cheese, nonfat dry
milk solids, and honey.
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Mayor Jack Wells of Athens
Ot lines the future of municipal
vernment in Georgia in the cur
rent issue of the Georgia Local
Government Journal.
_The article is a reprint of Mayor
Wells address before the Georgia
Municipal Association at the last
@inval meetng, Mayor Wells is
Outeoing president of this group.
Prediction
In the article Mayor Wells pre
“icls that Georgia is destined to
Play an important role in the fu
ture development of the South. He
ddds that the way in which the
Municipalities of the state are
toverned will have a lot to do in
: ermining what this future will
"Too often we think of Georgia
@ a predominantly rural state,”
he saigq, “According to the 1950
Census, over 45 per cent of the
People in Georgia live in urban
{leas. Ana we all know that the
tend toward urbanization in this
“late is continuing. We are fast
b(-mmmg an urban state.” e
He added that the rural areas
should not be neglected or forgot
-0 but that Georgians should
Wake up ang recognfle the place
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Assniahd Press Service
Meanwhile, more firings were
reported just around the corner
for the Internal Revenue Service,
purged in a singfe stroke yesterday
of 31 employes.
Since the Revenue Bureau and
the House subcommittee began in
vestigating reports of corruption
and inefficiencies, 49 officials have
been dismissed or resigned under
fire.
Eight have been indicted on
criminal charges of fraud or brib
ery. Cases of five of those fired
yesterday were turned over to the
Justice Department for possible
prosecution. Five other employes
are still under suspension, while
their records get further study.
Fourth Day
Today was the fourth consecu
tive day on the stand for Caudle,
fired by President Truman two
weeks ago for “outside activities”
while serving as the government’s
chief tax fraud prosecutor,
Caudle told the House group
yesterday:
1. His wife still owes S9OO on a
$2,400 . mink coat purchased last
winter through Jacob Landau,
New York tax attorney. He testi
fied his wife paid $1,500 on the
coat, purchased at wholesale, but
now ‘‘she’s awfully embarrassed
about it.”
2. Mrs, Caudle also arranged for
the purchase of two more mink
coats by the wife of Senator Mc-
Clellan (D.-Ark.) and the wife of
Kenneth Royall, former Secretary
of War. McClellan and Royall
said they paid for their wives’
coats.
3. His daughter Rose got a Mou
ton coat—‘“that’s a little cheap
sheepskin coat”—through Landau,
m%wfwew%‘“fi&
That-was $25 more than the same
coat would have cost him in Wash
ington, he said.
Cohen Testimony
C. T. Cohen, Atlanta tax attor
ney and former partner of Landau
in a Washington law firm, testified
later that his firm paid for the
Mouton coat and also for still an
other coat for the wife of Turner
Smith, then Caudle’s top aide in
the Justice Department tax divi
sion. Smith-resigned this fall and
now is in private business.
Cohen said he was told the cost
of the two coats was $563, and was
charged off to firm “business ex
pense.” The coats, he said, were
treated as Christmas presents,
Cohen testified that Caudle and
Smith both expected to pay for he
coats. He said Smith actually sent
a check, but that it was torn up.
Senator McClellan said in New
Orleans last night that “my wife
purchased a fur coat in New York
at some store recommended by
Mrs. Caudle.” :
“I do not know the name of the
firm,” he said. “I do know I paid
for it and gave it to her as a
Christmas present.”
Royall said in New York he had
bought his wife three mink coats
in the last 15 years through whole=-
salers, but said he did not recall
ever meeting Landau.
Cohen said he “would not have
done it” if he had known that the
fur coats were to be treated as
business expenses. He understood
payments for the two coats were
made by Landau, he said.
THAILAND COUP
LONDON Nov. 29 — (AP) —
The British Foreign office said
today it has heard reports of a
bloodless coup in Thailand.
It added that it had no official
confirmation of the report.
Premier P. Pibulsonggram has
been Thailand’s strong man. He
was out of office temporarily last
July when a four-man military
junta assumed control of the gov
ernment. The Junta took over af
ter a rebellion led by Navy officers
lizzled.
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(left to right) are Ernest E. Norris, who will retire as
president of Southern Rm]wzx%y on December 31, and
Harry A. Deßutts, present Southern vice president
gperation, who will succeed Mr. Norris as president.
The announcement was made in New York today after
the meeting of the railway’s Board of Directors which
also announced that Mr. Norris has been named Chair
man of the Board, effective January 1.
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BLASTS WAR REPORTING
Major General Charles A.
Willoughby (above), General
MacArthur’'s former chief of
inteiligence, has accused six
newspapermen of “inaccurate,
biased and prejuciced” report
ing of the Korean war. Wil
loughby’s accusations are con
tained in an article in the Dec
ember issue of Cosmopolitan
magazine. The second portion of
a Relman Morin article, which
presents both General Wil
loughby’s charges and the re
plies of the various newsmen,
will be found on page 5 of this
newspaper.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Champion H
ampion Home:
Plans were announced today for
the Fifth Annual Georgia Cham
pion Home Town Contest by Char
les A. Collier, vice president of
the Georgia Power Company, The
company will award eash prizes
totaling $8,950 to the towns in its
services area making the most
civic progress in the next twelve
months. o B
“In addition to choosing three
prizes winners in each of three
population groups, the contest
includes a *“sweepstakes” classi=
fication for first prize winners in
the 1951 contest and 1952 contest
reguardless‘of size.
Towns Eligible
The 1952 contest is open to all
towns in the company service area
with less than 20,000 population.
There will be three population
groups. One will be composed of
towns with less than 1,000 popula
tion, another with 1,000 to 3,000 and
a third with 3,000 to 20,000.
The first prize in each popula
tion group will be SI,OOO in cash,
second prize will be $750 and third
prize, SSOO. Four honorable me:-
tion awards of SIOO will be made
in cash population classification
in addition to six certificate of
achievement awards, which carry
no cash awards. Winner of the
sweepstakes award will receive
$1,000."
By terms of the competition, the
prize money received by the win
ning towns is to be spent solely
for civic purposes for the benefit
of the community.
Entry Deadline
Entries must be mailed to the
power company by midnight,
March 1, 1952. Entrants will have
until October 22 to prepare and
submit reports of progress which
may include all forward steps
made by the community between
October 1, 1951, and October 1,
1952. Information leaflets and
official entry blanks are available
at local Georgia Power Company
stores.
The 1951 coutest was entered by
171 towns. First prize winners in
the three population groups in
cluded Arlington, Greenville and
Dublin. Second and third place
awards went to Menlo, Powder
Springs, Chipley, Comer, States
boro and Tifton. Twelve honorable
mention awards of SIOO each were
made to other towns and 18 com
munities received certificate of
achievenment ‘awards.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, GA,, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951,
Artillery Opens Up As Van Fleet,
Ridgway Deny Ordering Cease-Fire
Civil Righ‘ts :
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Nov, 29~—(AP)
—~Senator Humphrey (D=Minn)
reportedly wants the Democratic
party’s 1952 platform to call for
easier squelching of senate fili
busters against President Truman’s
controversial Civil Rights pro
gram,
And Humphrey is understood to
have made it clear to friends he
will oppose any -eompromise move
in the party next year to tone
down the endorsement of that
program written into the 1948
platform.
The Minnesota lawmaker played
a leading role in winning adop
tion of the 1948 Civil Rights
plank, which fanned Southern op
position to Mr. Truman’s pro=-
gram and widened a party split.
Senator Anderson (D-MN) re
cently said -the Humphrey-spon=
sored plank went too far and had
caused a lot of trouble which eould
have heen avoided. Anderson,
Chairman of the Democratic Sena
torial Campaign Committee, said
he believed a compromise could be
worked out in time to give the
party a united front for next
year’s Presidential Election.
In a letter last week to editors
of about 20 southern newspapers,
Humphrey touched off some sp
eculation that he might be will-
Rights issue, although he did not
ights issue, although he did not
say so specifically.
He wrote that he did not be
lieve that either those who would
rely on education and time or those
who would put their entire em
phasis on legislation have “the
complete answer” to Civil Rights
problems, 3 :
He algo wrote that he was aware’
that the Federdal Government is
not the only government that can
deal “with the pressing issue of
human rights,” but he added he
believed the Federal Government
has a responsibility to act and set
legislative standards.
A gualified source who was con- |
sulted in advance regarding the
letter said today that Humphrey
has no thought of softening the
1948 Civil Rights plank—and that
the Senator is convinced Mr. Tru
man would oppose any such sug
gestion, regardless of whether the
President runs for re-election next
year.
This source, who asked not to
be named, said Humphrey on the
contrary actually wants a 1952
platfrom which almost certainly
would further aggravate the South.
Humphrey, now in Europe, re
portedly wrote his staff this week
that the 1952 platform should put
the Democrats on record as favor
ing a simpler method of choking
off senate debate on Civil Rights
legislation.
Filibusters by southern Sena
tors have been the traditional way
of blocking action on bills calling
for such Civil Rights features as a
fairemnloyment practices Com
mission (FEPC) and a Federal
phohibihion against lynching.
Under present senate rules, it
takes 64 affirmative votes among
the 96 Senators to limit debate.
That is a hurdle difficult— and
usually impossible—io clear,
Humphrey is sponsor for a bill
which would permit debate limita
tion by a simple majority vote—
one more than half the Senators
voting, provided a quorum, or 49
Senators, was present,
It is that principle which Hum
phrey reportedly wants endorsed
in next year’s platform. Even if
he did succeed in getting it adopt
ed, however, he still would face
an uphill fight in obtaining a
change to that effect in the Senate
rules. The proposal has been made
in the Senate before, and it never
got anyplace.
Early in 1949, Mr. Truman
himself endorsed the idea of shut
ting off debate by a simple majori~
ty vote. He came out forsit during
the course of a Senate filibuster on
a Civil Rirght measure, but the
lawmakers paid no heed.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and warmer today and
Friday. Not so cold tonight. Low
tonight 34; high tomorrow 60.
Sun sets today 5:24 and rises
tomorrow 7:19.
GEORGIA—MostIy fair and
warmer today except partly
cloudy in. coastal area; slightly
cooler in coastal zrea tonight;
Friday, fair and warmer.
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RAINFALL
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Total since November 1 .. 2.11
Deficit since Novenmrber 1 .. .42
Average November rainfall, 2.74
Total since January 1 .. ..36.13
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.87
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THE LINE IS DRAWN—Truce negotiators at Panmun-
Jom draw the final line of demarcation in Korea as a big
step toward an armistice is made. The line, which is
identical to the present battle line, is initialed at various
points along the map by Marine Colonel James Murray
(left) and North Korean Colonel Chang Chun Sun.—
(NEA Telephoto.)
Of Mayor And Council
It is unusual, to say the least, when a governmental body
or agency proposes action that will curtail its power. In
most cases it is the direct opposite.
But the unusual is the case when Athenians vote on five
proposed amendments to the City Charter in the City Gen
eral Election to be held December 5.
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Out Cease-Fire
KEY WEST, Fla.,, Nov. 29 —
(AP) — President Truman kept
in close contact with the Korean
situation today but the White
House cautioned the nation that
“there can be no cease fire in
Korea until an armistice agree
ment has been signed.”
The Department of Defense
transmittted latest developments
to the President at his Naval Sta
tion retreat last night.
A spokesman for Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway said in Tokyo that no
order had been given to halt
ground fighting in Korea.
Apparently concerned lest re
ports of a halt in ground fighting
might bring premature jubilation
to parents with sons at the battle
front, Presidential Secretary Jos
eph Short denied an Associated
Presg dispatch from Seoul, Korea
which asserted:
‘Orders from the highest source
——possibly from the White House
itself—brought Korean ground
fighting to a complete, if tem
porary halt today, AP correspond
ent John Randoulph reported
through censorship.” .
But Short would not answer
questions whether the President
had issued any type of order ap
plying to the fighting in Korea or
whether the White House has dir
ected any cessation of offensive
action by American forces in Ko~
rea. |
He said he was net going be
yond his statement, made to a
hastily-summoned news confere
nce yesterday.
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you have te do is sit down and
listen, o nea
. One~eof the five amenaments
| proposed by action of Mayor and
City Council would set up the of
fice of Tax Assessor and also @
Board of Tax Appeals.
Under this proposal the Tax As
sessor would evaluate all property
in the city and if a citizen felt he
or she had been done an injustice,
that citizen could appeal to the
Board of Appeals.
Under the archaic act of 1872,
which has never been repealed,
however, the sei-up is entirely dif
ferent.
Given Great Power
By the act of 1872 the Mayor
and any two member of Council
are invested with the power to
supervise all returns, together with
clerk of council, and if “in their
opinion, any such returns are in
correct in fixing the value of pro
perty is the same, then to correct
such returns thus incorrectly made ‘
by affixing or assessing such high
er value as in their opinion may
be proper and right: provided such
assessment shall not exceed the
amount for which the owner would
sell the prooerty.” -
Under the act of 1872 the Mayor
is thus given the right to name two
members of Council, with the elerk
of council, and review all returns
and to assess higher value where
they deem fit,
If a Mayor were of dictatorial
or venal nature, or sought politi«
cal reprisal on one who opposed
him, or some member or members
of the council, the way would be
wide open to do so. And the one
so treated would have no appeal
whatever, except recourse to the
courts with attendant fees for at
torneys, court expenses, etc. If
one were inclined to graft, the
present aet, still in force, also
leaves the path clear.
The proposed amendment, which
would repeal the act of 1872 with
its dangerous provisions, entirely
divorces the Mayor and members
of Council from the matter of tax
ation and they will have no power
whatever to take direct action on'
assessments or taxation. ]
For the information of citizens
who are not familiar with Section
25 of the City Charter, which the
amendment proposed by the Mayor
and Council would repeal that
section reads as follows:
Text of Section
“Be it further enacted, that
hereafter it shall be the duty of
all tax-payers and owners of pro
perty other than real estate in the
City of Athens, and they are here
by required to make their returns,
under oath, of the value of their
property in said city, held in their
own right, or in the right of oth
ers: PROVIDED ALWAYS, HOW
EVER, That the mayor and any
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Macon Explosion
Leaves Two Dead
MACON, Ga., Nov. 29 — (AP)
— A kitchen stove exploded in a
four-room rural home yesterday,
fatally injuring a man and his
11-year-old dauThter. The mother
and three small children wers
hospitaliszed,
. Dead were Albert E. Tompkins,
41, and Alice Gwendolyn ’lPomp
kins, Injured were Mrs. Tomg
kins, 30, and her children, Ronald
Earl, 6, Phyllis, 4, and Joan, 2.
Mrs. Tompkins said the stove
exploded when her husband pour
ed gasoline in it thinking he was
using fuel ofl.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athers Trade Ares
"Misinterpretation” Of Orders
Will Be Corrected—Van Fleet
BY JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 29.—(AP) —Allied artillery open
ed up on the western frout today after officers repqrted
receiving new orders to ‘“shoot to kill.”
The front line report came shortly after General James
A. Van Fleet announced his Eighth Army command had
issued ‘“‘certain military instructions’” which some troops
may have interpreted as a cease-fire order.
He said any such “misinterpre
tation” would be corrected.
An official Eighth Army spokes
nman said the original-—and still
secret—directive remained ‘“‘com
pletely unchanged.” Any changes
showing up on the front, he said,
were the result of clarifications
ordered by General Van Fleet.
The spokesman’s comimend ap
parently applied to the “shoot to
kill” orders reported received by
artillery officers of the Third Di
vision. Artillerymen said appa
rently their new instructions did
not apply to the infantry.
The original report of an Eighth
Army directive not to fire on the
Reds unless necessary came Wed
nesday from a Third Division of
ficer.
First high official acknowledge—
ment that some sort of directive
had been issued came Thursday
from Van Fleet, U, N. ground com=-
mander in Korea, He said it was
not a cease-fire order—but did not
disclose its nature because security
was involved.
No Change
Col. Kenneth Booth, Eighth Ar«
my public information officer,
said Thursday night this “basic di=-
rective has not been changed. -
“Anything appearing to be a
change at the front is solely the
result of the clarification ordered
by General Van Fleet.”
Van Fleet acknowledged s
headquarters had issued “certain
military instructions” which ap
parently had been misinterpreted
by some troops as meaning they
snould stop shooting, . .
Like the White House and Tok
yo headquarters of the United Na
ti;ms command, Van Fleet empha~
sized:
~ “There is no cease-fire order in
Korea.”
He promised action to clarify
the directivé for those “who mis
interpreted” it.
Shortly thereafter front line dis
patches from the western front re
ported the Allies were again firing
artillery and mortars at a nearly
normal rate after a day of abnor
mal quiet.
Front line troops were reported
confused by the big guns opening
up on the front where the day be
fore they had watched Chinese
Reds play volley ball.
A Third Division briefing offi
cer said reconnaissance patrols
went on scouting missions as usual,
but with the understanding they
would not look for trouble.
The change came on the same
front where reports of a new
“don’t shoot first” policy origi
nated.
’ Van Fleet Assertion
Van Fleet’'s statement did not
say what directives the original
Eighth Army order contained. Nor
did he say that troops would be
ordered to resume full scale fight
ing along the quiet 145-mile front.
In the uninterrupted air war,
Communists sent a record 320 MIG
jets steeaking across the Yalu riv
er from their Manchurian bases
Thursday, The U. 8. Fifth Air
Force said three American Sabre
jets and one Red MIG-15 were
damaged. It happened in the day’s
biggest scrap when 22 Sabres took
on 175 Red jets. |
In Rome, high American offi
cials said presumably neither the
United Nations nor Red forces
would attempt to change the pre
sent front lines before Dec. 27. If
an armistice is reached by that
time, the present front will be
come the cease-fire line. |
However, these American offi
cials said local Communist attacks
in the East Korean hills Wednes
day might have raised a question
as to just what the Reds would do
during this 30-day period.
Official quarters, ranging up to
the White House, denied issuing
any cease-fire order.
A cease-fire must wait until an
armistice agreement is signed by
truce negotiators meeting at Pan
munjom. Thursday the Red dele
gation proposed immediate discus
sion of gradual withdrawal of for
eign troops from Korea, instead of
the Allied guarantee against rein
forcements during a truce.
A spokesman for Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway’s headquarters in Tok
yo said “no order has been given
to halt ground fighting in Korea
by tl,\e Eighth Army or anybody
else. \
President Truman’s spokesman
in Key West, Fla.,, denied an AP
report that such orders had come
possibly from the White House.
AP Correspondent Milo Farneti
on the western front said he saw
an Eighth Army order not to fire
unless fired upon.
Van Fleet's statement was the
first ackrowledgment that there
had been any order that could be
so interpreted, even through “dis
tortion of meaning,” as the gen
eral labeled it.
Fires Blaze
Fires blazed along the Commu
nist side of the line, breaking the
17 months blackout.
Only the occasional rumble of
artillery disturbed the un-warlike
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HOME
EDITION
15 Crewmen Die
As Tanker Rams
1710-Ton Trawler
BOSTON, Nov. 29 -— (AP) —
Fifteen fishermen of a 17-man
crew perished last night when the
10,000-ton tanker Ventura smashe
ed into the stern quarter gstba
170-ton Trawler Lynn in ton
harbor,
None of the 50 crewmen on the
Texas Oil Company tanker was
injured. ;
The sea was calm and the night
clear at the scene of the crash—a
500-yard wide channel enly six
miles from the Boston fish pier.
Coast Guard observers said 13
of the victims went down with the
Trawler, “tra?ped in its steel hull
like sardines in a can,” while eat
ing their evening meal or worke
ing in the engine room.
The other four were plucked
from the water by one of several
boats in the vicinity, but two died
later in a hospital.
Capt. J, Carl McNamara, 41, of
Medford, one of the survivors,
said the c¢rash came with such
little warning that he didn’t even
hac\lrc time to give an abandon ship
order.
Helmsman John J. 40, of
Winthrop, the other survivor, said
the Lynn, went down in about a
minute. “The ship flipped over
like a fish on the starboard side,”
he said.
S. O. Pederson of Port Arthur,
Tex., skipper of the tanker, told
the éoast Guard the fiahix’nvdeml
‘cut across our bow. ~ . we
rammed her.”
Both vessels were outward
bound—the Lynn for Georges
Bank, 180 miles east of Boston, and
the Ventura for Philaddfi:: af
ter dischargini gasoline b
Within minutes after the disas
ter, 15 Coast Guard vessels were
dispatched to the scene to join
fishing boats already scanning the
waters for survivors or bodigs.
From overhead, a Coast Guard
plane dropped flarers to light up
area for surface searchers.
= Relatives Gather
About 50 relatives and friends
of the Lynn’s crewmen gathered at
the fish pier looking out at the
scene. They could see the ships
there silhouetted against the clear
sky by the flares. .
Some became hysterical when,
after several long hours, only four
of the Lynn's erew were brought
ashore. They seemed %o sense
tllliat no more would be brought in
alive.
All the Lynn’s crewmen were
residents of greater Boston.
The Coast Guard and fishing
vessels searched the waters far
into the night but all they found
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Rites For M
ifes For Mrs.
Hartog Friday
Mrs. Bessie McCorkle HMartzog,
member of a well known Athens
family, died at her home at 490
McWorther Drive Wednesday af
ternoon at 1:25 o’clock after being
seriously ill for ten days.’
Services are to be conducted
Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
Ifrom Bridges Chapel with Dr. E.
{ L. Hill, pastor—emeritus of First
| Presbyterian Church, and Dr. Har
|mon Ramsey, the present pastor,
| officiating.
| Interment will follow in Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Hampton Rowland,
Lamar Leßoon, Jack Rowland,
James Dickerson, Monroe Butler,
Fred Matthews and Paul Cook
serving as pall-bearers.
Surviving Mrs. Hartzog is a son,
Sidney Hartzog, Greenwood, S.C.;
five sisters, Mrs. Bergna Ison and
Mrs. Thomas Warlick, both of
Athens, Mrs. Mott Saunders, Al
bemarle, N. C., Mrs. M. M. Cole
man, Lyons, Ga.,, Mrs. Robert
Wingfield, Washington, D. C.; four
‘brothers, Francis N. MeCorkle,
Camdan, 8. C,, Neil B, McCorkle,
Arlington, Va.,, Jim MeCorkle,
Charlottee, N. C., and Douglas
McCorkle, Lyons. Ga,
Mrs. Hartzog was a native of
Crowley, La., the daughter of the
late Francis N. and Bessie Brash
ear McCorkle, and came to Athens
in 1911. She had made her home
here most of the time since.
Mrs. Hartzog was a member of
First Presbyterian Chureh and
though she had been a shut-in for
the past sereval vears, she aly m
maintained l&:ight and 1
outlook on Hzn&“ tience,
thoughfulness and 8
of others served as an inspiration
to the many who knew and greatly
admired her, .