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The magnificent playwriting of
George Bernard Shaw, impressive
cots. and the unusual talents of
wiss Gay Dangerfield combine to
make University Theatre’s produc
tion of “Pygmalion” a noteworthy
accomplishment.
A near-capacity first night au
dience, including many represen
tative high school st."dents from
various secondary scho.ls in this
cection of the state, respondied en
thusiastically to the production as
a whole.
Show’s Star
Miss Dangerfield, junior artist
in-residence in the Drama Depart
ment and a native of England
where she worked with the Young
Vie School of the Theatre in Lon
don, revealed herself to be a com
petent, serious and intelligent
actress, virtually forsaking her
pm identity in order to assume
shat of Eliza Doolittl®—the flower
girl who evolves into a lady
through the efforts of a phonetics
expert (Henry Higgins) played by
Gus Mann, veteran University
Theatre performer,
Other than Miss Dangerfield and
Vir. Mann the cast included Lillie
pittard and Virginia Woodall, both
of Athens, in the roles of Miss and
Mrs. Eynsford Hill, respectively;
Stan Lippman as Freddy Eynsford
{lill* Bston Perkins as Col. Pick
ering, who assists Henry in the
iransformation of ‘Eliza; Peggy
Jeter as Mrs. Pearce, Henry’s
housekeeper: Michael Sinclair, al
<o an English artist-in-residence
in the Drama Department, as
Tliza’s “undeserving poor’ father;
Maria Priles as Mrs. Higgins, Hen
rv's mother; and Jane Krumrine
&< the Mrs. Higgins parlor maid.
Supporting Players
Particularly outstanding among
the supporting players were Mi
chael Sinelair, whose flair for the
Shawvian eomedy is obvious from
his first entrance, and Maria
Priles.
Settings for the play, with the
exception of that for the first act
designed by Michael Sinclair, were
211 designed by Miss Dangerfield,
who thus deserves a double meas
ure of praise for her outstanding
accomplishments as actress and
designer, v
As usual, the production as a
whole, staged by James W. An
drews, member of the Drama De
partment faculty;is most efféetive,
weeks of hard work and com
mendable effort obviously having
heen devoted to preparations for
the production. :
The play, which opened in Fine
Arts Auditorium at 8:30 last night,
is in five acts; the entire stage ac-
tion consuming approximately two
hours of playing time.
The comedy will continue to
night and tomorrow night. Tick
ets may be arranged for through
the Drama Department office or
may be purchased at the box office
in Fine Arts Building tonight prior
to curtain time. -
Game And Fish
Club Organized
A new and beneficial Clarke
county organization, the Game
and Fish Club, has been organized
by a group of Athens sportsmen
in an effort to aid in the conser
vation of the wildlife of the coun
ty and state.
With the help of such clubs
throughout the state, the Game
and Fish Commission is attempt
ing to cut down on game law vio
lations and otherwise benefit the
wildlife population by strict and
resourceful conservation meas-
Beginning with a meeting set
for the City Court room in the
Clarke county court house, Mon
day night at 7 p. m., ® the local
sporting club will begin its full
s-ale organizational and expan
sion plans. All Clarke county
sportsmen are urged to attend
this initial- meeting and join the
wildlife group,
Membership cards have already
been printed and constitute a
vear's membership in the organ
ization, These cards can be ob
tained at the Athens Sportings
Goods Store from T. Ed Williams,
secretary of the Game and Fish
Club, for a small $1 membership
lce. E. E. Lamkin, a long-time
hunting enthusiast and outdoor
portsman, - has been mnamed as
a'ling president.
The group has the backing 9f
the state game and fish authori
ties and now has a growing num
ber of members, More members
are expected at the first meeting
Moncday night,
“As a member of this club I
pledge myself to make a sincere
cliort to conserve the game and
fish in this county and state,” is
the pledge that accompanies a
membership card.
Because of the diminishing sup
ply of natural game life in this
county, the Game and Fish Club
can do an excellent community
service if it has the support of all
local sportsnren.
CHASE TEEN CLUB
City Recreation and Parks De-
Partment officials today announ
ced the second open house since
'topening of the Chase Street
Teen Club is to be held Friday
bight between the hours of 8:00-
10:30 o’clock, e .
All teen-agers in that district of
t(?Wr& a&d others interested all:) in
vited to a open house.
i\grs.'lnubm 'Wfl'wfl“
€ club.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Estimated 2,000 Dead
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MANILA, Dec..” s -An official estimated today
that 2,000 persons %" yesterday’s atomic-like eruption
of Hibok Hibok volc .o on Camiguin Island in the south
ern Philippines.
The estimate was made by Governor Paciencio Ysalina
of eastern Misamis province, He came from nearby Man
danao Island to take charge of rescue and evacuation.
Voting Light In
General Election
Voting in the City General
Election today in which the
Mayor and five members of City
Council and two members of the
Municipal Civil Service Coem
mission are being voted on, as
well as five propesed amend
ments to the City Charter, was
comparatively light.
A total of 223 votes had been
cast at noon and the rate of
voting seemed likely to be
speeded up during the afternoon
hours. The polls close at 4 p. m.
In the First Ward 28 votes had
been cast; 46 in the Second
Ward; 75 in the Third Ward; 33
in the Fourth Ward and 41 in
the Fifth Ward.
More Testimony
Slated On Tax
Shakedown Bid
WASHINGTON, Dec. S—(AP)
—TFrank Nathan, self-styled “deal
er” in many enterprises, gets a
chance to reply today to testimony
that he tried a half-million-dollar
tax shakedown, operating behind
a screen of big Washington names
Nathan allegedly described as a
“combine” connected with him.
Abraham Teitelbaum, wealthy
Chicago attorney , electrified a
House Ways and Means subconr
mittee with the shakedown testi
mony concerning Nathan and Bert
K. Naster, a Hollywood, Fla., bus
inessman,
Teitelbaum describéd INaster
and Nathan as confederates in an
attempt to get $500,000 from him
and his partner last winter, Tei
telbaum said the two told him they
were connected with several high
ly placed Washington officials
who could fix tax troubles for a
price.
Many Denials
All the officials whose names
were used immediately issued in
dignant denials.
Teitelbaum said this “clique”
or “combine” of government offi~
cials—he used both words—was
represented to him as “looking
around the county” for “soft
touches” — wealthy men with tax
troubles. L
The attorney said Nathan and
Naster told him he would be in
«pad® tax trouble” and probably
would go to jail unless he paid off
with $500,000 — $125,000 at once
and $375,000 within 72 hours. He
and his partner, who was not
named, were to put up the money,
he testified. S
He gave this testimony to the
House Ways and Means subcom
mittee which has been investigat
ing Internal Revenue scandals and
Justice Department handling of
tax fraud prosecutions.
ThHe committee was also told
that Nathan once boasted he had
Theron Lamar Caudle, ousted As
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$38,533 XMAS FUND
Plant Employes Here
Ready To Greet Santa
The Christmas season really got
into full swing today for employes
of the Athens Nivision of Chico
pee Manufacturing Corporation
when checks amounting to $38,-
533.00 were distributed to mem
bers of the Voluntary Christnras
Savings Fund at the big plant.
Vice-pfesident and General
Manager D. D. Quillian said that
214 employes of the company
participated in the fund, designat
ing that a certain sum be saved
from their weekly pay during the
year and given to them in Decem
ber.
The largest check to be distrib=
uted today was for $552.00 and the
average payment is SIBO.OO.
The Christmas savings plan was
inaugurated last year and was
highly@successful, However, in its
second year the plan has proven
a great deal more successful, the
total amount distributed today
being more than twice as much as
that of last year.
In 1950 there were 191 employes
participating in the plan whereby
the employe could “lay by” a
weekly sunr that would not incon=
venience them and when paid in
December would indeed come in
handy for Christmas shopping and
other expenses.
Greatly Increased
Last year the 191 employes tak=
ing part saved $16,000, as compar
ed with $38,533 this year. The
largest check paid out last year
was for $460 as compared with
$552 this year, and the average
payment last year was SB4, com
pared with SIBO this year.
Those figures show that the em
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORCIA OVER A CENTURY.
The known toll of dead is 157,
Re'((ii Cross headquarters in Manila
said.
The wvolcano issued a second
mighty blast last night, about 10
hours after the first blowoff.
Volganic Activity
Flames and dense smoke still
are pouring from the crater, the
Philippines army commander in
the Mindanso area reported after
a flight over the island,
Lt. Col. Patricio Mcnzon said:
“It was so warm I couldn't get
my plane close enough for a good
look.
‘Camiguin looked like a burning,
smoking flattop (aircraft carrier)
as we hovered above it. Smoke
billowed up to 7,000 feet and en
veloped the whole island.”
Heat and fumes hampered
searchers, digging for victims in
the hot lava rocks and ash.
A steady stream of evacuees
fled in all types of watercraft to
Mindanao Island and other nearby
islands.
Ten villages on the island were
believed destroyed by ash and
lava. Philippines News Service
correspondents who reached the
island last night said they be
lieved about 80 per cent of the
villages’ inhabitants had perished.
Camiguin is 13 miles long and
nine miles wide, Hibok Hibok,
5,620 feet high, is virtually in its
center.
45,000 People
The island, 40 miles north of
Mindano, has a .population of
45,000. ; S
Two U. S. Air Force planes left
Sangley Point Naval base near
Manila this morning for the strick
en area. They carried Philippines
Red Cross workers, 200 double
units of blood plasma and urgently
needed supplies.
A Philippine Air Force plane
also left with blood plasma to be
parachuted onto Camiguin Island.
Brig. Gen. Ernest Moore, com
mander of the U. S. 13th Air Force,
stationed in the Philippines, sent
word to President Elpidio Quirino
“Call on me if we can be of as
sistance.”
~ 'RAIN, WIND STORMS .
Wind " and rain storms which
battered the Pacific Northwest
States, causing four deaths and
heavy property damage, appeared
diminishing today.
Gales of 70 to 75 miles an hour
swept areas in Oregon and Wash
ington yesterday in the storm
which extended north to British
Columbia and south to California.
The Weather Bureau forecast
winds of 50 miles an hour off the
Oregon coast today. &
Three of the dead in the storm
area were crushed by falling trees.
The fourth died when the sirong
winds overturned his pickup
truck, crushing him as he at
tempted to jump clear.
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If you can’t get along with one
man it may be partly his fault. If
you can’t get along with a num
ber of men, it's your fault. ©nea
ployes have increasingly realized
that it is much easier to save
small amounts regularly and be
prepared, than to have to stand
the expenses of Christmas with
out having something to fall back
on.
It means that the employes
taking part in the plan.will be
well fixed ot do their Christmas
shopping and also will be able to
spend more to see that old Santa
Claus does a really big job at their
homes. $ .
It also meéans that the sum of
$38,533 will be turned loose in
trade channels here which other
wise would not have been expend
ed during the Christmas season,
in addition ao the vast amount of
money employes of the big manu
facturing plant, which has the
largest local industrial payroll,
spend during the year.
Business experts figure that
every dollar passes through at
least ten hands before it is re
tired from circulation or leaves a
community. It is easy, therefore to
figure just how much this annual
Christmas fund means locally,
when $38,533 is multiplied by ten.
Christmas Checks ;
The plan was worked out by the
company with the cooperation of
the Citizens & Southern Bank
where the weekly sums were de
posited and the checks being dis
tributed today were indeed color
ful in the red and green of the
Christmas season. s
As one employe put it: “The
many of us who participated in
the plan can really enjoy Christ
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ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951,
Athens To Honor
A.H.S. Foothall
Team At Banquet
By LEON DRISKELL |
At a regular meeting of Mayor |
and City Council last night, the
sum of $250 was voted for a ban
quet to be held for members of
Athens High School's 1951 foot
ball team, parents of the players
and the coaching staff,
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Jack R. Wells and Coun=
cilmen Luther Bond, C. S. Denney,
O. M. Roberts, jr., Albert W. Wier,
jr., Merritt B. Pound, sr., Kenneth
Guest, R. W. Phillips, Roger Hazen
and Dick Thompson.
In a discussion of the motion
by Councilman Wier to appropriate
the money for the banquet, ob=
jection was voiced by Council=
men Hazen and Thompson, who,
while paying tribute to the team
‘and .its record,. said they felt the
expense was unnecessary. ;
In advocating the passage of
the motion, Alderman Weir stated
that the team at the local institu
tion is “one of the finest and most
representative teams that Athens
has ever produced.”
Councilman Wier said that
‘money used by the city to join
in observing the Sesqui-Centenn
ial of the University of Georgia
was probably illegal also, but that
nobody objected.
City Engineer Jack Beacham
earlier in the evening announced:
‘that the new Athens High School
‘Building would be completed and
‘ready for inspection and approval
by the City by the first day of
‘ May, 1952.
Council meeting was broadcust
i in its entirety over station W. R. F,
C. last evening.
Following the invocation by
' Chaplain of the Council, Dr. E. L.
'Hill, and the roll call the minutes
of the last regular meeting
‘and the called meeting were read
by the City Clerk, Allen Smith,
and were approved as read. j
’ Communicatiors Read |
Communications since the last
regular Council meeting included
‘a request for a permit to build
' a concrete block store building at
;number 249 Waddell Street. The
request was made by Joseph
Wansker and was referred to the
Public Works committee. A letter
from E. B. Mell, agent for his bro
ther’s property at 329 Lyndon
Street was read and referred to
the Finance Committee. Mr. Mell
requested that taxes for outdoor
toilets on the property be removed
as three of the four toilets had.
been removed dufing the time e
tween the sale of the property and
its subsequent re-claiming.
A letter from Brunson. Wallace,
director of the Wesley Poundation
of the University of Georgia, re
questing that the Wesley Student‘
Center at 1171 S. Milledge Avenue
be declared tax exempt by the
City Council due to its religious
functions was referred to the Fin
ance Committee.
| Leroy Michael’s” letter request
ing a stop light at the intersection
of Jackson and Clayton Streets was
referred to the Streets and Parks
Committee. Mr. Michael termed
the traffic situation at that inter
section dangerous due to the fact
I that the two streets meet on a hill
and motorists gain considerable
speed as they enter Clayton. The
property owners on LeConte
Avenue petitioned the City that
the proposed paving project for
that street be abandoned. |
Asks Building Use
A communication from Howell
C. Edwin on behalf of Felton
Christian requesting the use of the
shed now on the Trussell Motor Co.
property on the West end of Clay
ton Street was referred to the
Streets and Parks Committee and
the Public Works Committee. An
additional letter from Mr. Erwin
in behalf of the Athens Self-Ser
vice Laundry was read and refer
red to the Finance Committee. ""he
proprietor of the laundry st:.ed
that he had paid 2 sum of SBO to
the City for a license to operate
his business and that with the ad
dition of machinery to do ironing"
and flat work he had been infor
med th ould be necessary to.
buy a $ nse. Mr. Erwin re+#
quested ¢ original SBO pai‘fl,
be appli the $97 license. - =
Zack Arnold, secretary of the
Georgia Municipal Association,
mailed to the Mayor and Council
the recent ressolutions of that or
ganization and requested that they
be discussed and passed. The re
solutions were referred to the pro- l
per commitee, A letter from Carl
H. Chaddaers of the American}
Municipal Association concerning |
the forthcoming convention to be |
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy and mild with
showers today, ending late this
afternocon or tonight, and fol
lowed by partly cloudy and mild
tonight and Thursday, Friday
partly cloudy and mild with
showers Friday afternoon or
night. Low tonight 48; high to
morrow 70. Sun sets today 5:23
and rises tomorrow 7:25,
GEORGIA — Increasing
cloudiness and mild with show
ers beginning today and ending
over west portion this afternoon .
and over east portion late this
afternoon or early tonight; -
Thursday, partly cloudy and
mild.
TEMPERATURE
Highesh .. . oo 0 0 518
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BIGRD ok uvssinnsaivrog gegelil
NOYERIY .. b VLG
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ~. .05,
Total sinece December 1 ... 101
Excess since December 1 .. .26
Average December rainfall. 4.59
Total since January 1 .. ..37.14
Deficit since January 1 ... 897
U. N. Trucemen
Double Talking
Consolidation Of
County Offices
Is Meeting Topic
JUANITA BARTLETT
The pros and cons of the ad
visability of econsolidating the of
fice of Clarke County Tax Collec~
tor with that of County Tax Re
ceiver were discussed at length
last night in an open meeting in
Superior Court Room in the Court
house. The meeting had been ar
ranged by the Athens League of
Women Voters and a citizens com
mittee, and about seventy persons
were in attendance.
The open town meeting was an
outgrowth of two citizens meetings
held in recent months to discuss
the advisability of consolidation
of the offices.
These meetings were called as a
result of studies of county govern
ment and county tax administra=-
tion made by Athens League of
Women Voters in 1950 and 1951
throvgh its Structure of Govern
ment Committee.
Attorney Carlisle Cobb, sr., who
presided at the request of inter
ested citizens, stated, on assum
ing the chairmanship, that he
would remain neutral in regard to
consolidation throughout the pro
ceedings.
To provide a background of un
biased information on the matter
of consolidation of the offices
three citizens were requested to
speak on various phases of the
matter, their purpose being to pre
sent available facts and thus give
citizens in attendance an opportun-~
ity to discuss the various issues,
both pro and con, pertaining to
consolidation.
First Speaker
Mrs., John Bondurant spoke
briefly, enumerating the principal
duties of the county tax receiver
and the county tax collector of
fices as set up under the existing
laws. Mrs. J. J. Lenpir presented
a report, giving the results of the
studies made by the League of
Women Voters on the subject of
consolidation and offering statistics
on the proportion of counties in
Georgia with ~tax commissioners
as compared with those having
separate offices of tax collector
and receiver.
Mrs. Lenoir, in concluding her
remarks, stated that the League
of Women voters, upon completion
of its extensive study of the pre
sent local system as compared to
the consolidated system, had voted
to work for consolidation of these
two offices in this county.
Offers Reasons
Reasons for this support of
consolidation, as listed by the
League, are one, more efficient
handling of records in one office
than in two offices; two economy;
three, more capable and efficient
personnel possible on a year
round hasis since peak work-loads
in the two offices come at differ
ent times of the year; and four,
under the present law neither the
Tax Receiver nor Tax Collector
serves as a check on the other.
The Board of Tax Assessors is re
quired by law to check on the ac
curacy and completness of the tax
list or digest. This would remain
unchanged in consolidation. An an
nual audit is made in Clarke
County of all financial matters re
lating to the two ffices. In addi
tion the Tax Collector is bonded.
These provisions protest the citi
zens in relation to the handling of
m tax money the League main-
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Santa And The Magic Mirrow
SYNOPSIS: Belinda meets Mr.
Lump’s little boy, Thomas, who is
very unhappy because he has
‘ never had a Christmas in his
house, She decides to take Tommy
l to Santa in the department store.
! Chapter Two
: THE MEAN MR. LUMP
! Tommy Lump brushed the tears
from his eyes and stared at Be
linda.
“How could you take me to
Santa?” he asked.
“Well,” said Belinda, “of course
it isn’t realy Santa. I mean it’s
Poppy. Poppy’s mry father and he’s
Santa Claus. Do you see?”
No, Tommy didn’t see at all.
So Belinda explained how Poppy
had a job as a department store
Santa and since Tommy had never
seen a Santa Claus Belinda would |
| take him to see Poppy. And more- ‘
i over, she said, she was sure Pop
| py would be able to do something ‘
about Tommy Lump’s father who
never let Christmas come into his {
house.
Tomnry listened eagerly to all
{ this but at the ened he shook his ‘
' head hopelessly. “My father would |
i never permit it,” he said.
l “I will ask your father,” said l
‘Belinda and she ran up the mar
ble steps to the door. 1
‘ “Oh, don't!” cried Tommy, leap
ing to his feet. “You don’t know}
”
! But Belinda was already stand- |
‘ing in the vast hall of the cold,'
!sad‘ house . and ' knocking at the |
idoor. :
Now I want to tell you about
!Jeremiah Lump, Tommy’s father.’
He was a mean and miserable |
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MARINES MAKE AMPHIBIOUS STRIKE — American
and British Marines struck at the vital North Korean
railroad, running northward to Vladivostok, in a sur
prise hit-and-run raid near Tanchon, 170 miles north of
the 38th parellel. This amphibious assault came shortly
after Red forces had occupied three islands on the west
coast near the mouth of the Yalu river. Meanwhile the
truce talks at Panmunjom had hit another snag as the
Communists insisted the United Nations stop rotating
tr];)ops)during the armistice negotiations.— (NEA Wire
photo.
Jet Fights Rage Over
Northern Battlefront
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. S.—(AP)—U. 8. pilots today re
ported shooting down five Red MIGs and damagirig five in
the tenth straight day of jet warfare over North Korea.
The U. 8. Fifth Air Force said no U. 8, jets were lost or
damaged. i At T %
The Wednesday bag raised the U. 8. toll of Red jets in
10 consecutive days to 64 — 32 shot down, one probably
shot down, and 31 damaged. Announced Allied losses are
six jets. i et s
Liquor Violators
Sentenced In
U.S. Court Here
As United States District Court
convened for the third day of the
regular December term this morn
ing the cases*of Mrs. Horace D.
Moore vs. Herbert Allen Ste\gart
and Horace D. Moore vs. Herbert
Allen Stewart, both suits seeking
damages arising from an automo
bile wreck, were scheduled for
trial, Deputy Clerk Jerry Haw
kins said.
Federal Juage A. B. Conger is
presiding over the sessions of the
court and District Attorney John
Cowart is representing the gov-;
ernment. |
A number of cases have been
disposed of, most of them on pleas
of violation to the liquor laws.
Cecil Sims was given a sentence
of four years on probation for pos
session of non-tax paid whiskey
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man. There wasn’t room in his
life for anything except money.,
He filled the banks with money
and then he dug a big hole in the
lfloor of his cellar and buried
' money there.
He didn't live like a rich man
because he couldn’t bring himseif
to spend the money for grand fur
'nishings or servants or automo
ibiles or even clothes. So even
though he made a great deal of
!money in business the money
never did anything but take up
more space under the cellar floor.
His wife was dead and he lived
alone with his son, Thomas. He
never brought clothes for the boy
until the old cnes were in rags.
He never brought the boy a toy or
took him to a circus or a theatre
or on a vacation because those
‘things cost money and Mr. Lump
was too mean to spend mroney.
Belida did not know all this
about Mr. Lump. She only knew
he was a rich man and it was a
shame Tommy had never seen
Santa Claus and she, Belinda, was
going to do something about it.
When she got no answer to her
knock at the door she touched it
gently and it opened. She waved
back at Tommy, said, “I'll be right
back!” and walked in.
It was so dark in the house she
could hardly see. But she didn’t
have to worry about humping into
furniture because there was hard
ly any to bump.
She wandered around until she |
saw a light in a little room at the |
back of the house.: She went in|
and there, at .a desk, sat Mr. !
Lump. !
“m Belinda,” - said Belinda |
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Read Daily by 25,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
BY JOHN RANDOLPH
The 10-day run of daily lé.t
warfare is the longest of the Ko~
rean war.
35-Minute Clash
Five Russian-type jets were shot
down in a 35-minute class between
29 F-86 Sabres and 80 MIG-15s
over Sinanju Wednesday. Another
MIG was damaged. The time
equalled the longest jet battle in
history.
The Communists put about 230
MIGs into the air Wednesday.
They far outnumbered U. 8.
planes.
U. S. F-84 Thunderjets dam
aged three MIGs and an F-80
Shooting Star accounted for the
fifth MIG damaged in other
fights.
Ground action Wednesday was
minor. United Nations forces
threw back squad and platoon
sized Red probes on the central
sector, an Eighth Army commu
nique said. No significant activi
ty was reported from the western
and eastern fronts.
An Allied announcement said a
U. N. raiding party stormed ashore
in the second hit-and-run raid in
two nights.
Black-faced American Marines
and British commandos scaled a
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gently. “I've come to see—"
Mr. Lump sprang up and a
handful of papers scattered to the
floor. He had been adding columns
of figures and he was furious be
cause he had added to 473,895 dol
lars and now he would have to
start all over again.
He glared at Belinda from be
neath great black eyebrows. He
was the meanest looking man Be
linda had ever seen or dreamed
of.
He never said a word. Just
glared. Belinda lost her voice en
tirely. Presently she felt her knees
begin to shake.“ She smiled faintly
at Mr. Lump the way you would
if you found yourself in a cage
with a lion and you wanted the
lion to know you meant it no
harm.
But a growl began curlinf up
in Mr. Lump’s throat and Belinda
stopped smiling and turned and
ran out of the house.
“I told you! I told you!” cried
Tommy, standing on the steps.
“He won’t even talk to children!”
“Does he know you are out
here?” she asked Tomrmy. "
The boy nodded. “I guess so. 1
just sit here all day.,” = =
~ Belinda took his hand. “Come
with me, Tommy. We'll go see
Santa.” 2
The boy stood up and took Be
linda’s hand. “I'll go!” he said.
With a breathless laugh the two
children ran down the sidewalk
and disappeared around the cor
ner. Not a moment too soon,
either, for hardly had they gone
than the door opened and Mr.
Lump stormed out on the marble
stairs of the house.
(Next: Trouble for Poppy.)
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Blast
Reds
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Deec. 8.
~— (AP) —The United Na
tions command accused ‘
Communist truce negotiators |
today of using double telk te |
gain political objeetives '
through the back door. .
The accusation came in & .
broadcast to Korea after &
subcommittee spent twe llx
a half futile hours at Pane
munjom wrangling over the
meaning of Red propesais
for supervising an armistice.
A “voice of the United Nations
command” broadcast from Tekyo
said the Communist proposal te
freeze troops in Korea during an
armistice was a ruse to accemsi
plish the Reds’ earlier demand fo®
withdrawal of all foreign treeps.
The Red plan would prevent fl
replacements. The broadcast said:
“1f a soldier left Korea because
he became ill, or was injured, er
if his term of enlistment expired
or if he were rotated, he weuld
thus be removed from Korea.”
It that manner, the broadcast
said, the Communists would
achieve their political end of hav
ing foreign troops withdrawn be
fore a peace is signed.
Attacking othe:thasel of the
Red plan for supervising the truee,
the broadcast said: .
“The Communists have indi
cated that they still are more in
terested in building airstrips for
war than in rebuilding the ecun
try for peace.”
Bypass Move
The radio described the Red
proposal for supervision only a#
“ports of entry” as a move to by~
pass any real inspection.
U. N. command neffotlatnu &t
Panmunjom spent half of Wed
nesday’s session trying to find ous
what the Communists meant by
“ports of entry.” :
| “We still don’t know,” said Cel
{ Howard Levie, U. N. command
| spokesman.
i Ports of entry are the only spots
l where the Reds will agree to su~
pervision against a military build
up. And they Insist the super
{ vision must be by neutrals.
Identifying their idea of neu
trals Wednesday for the first time
in truce talks, Red negotiators
mentioned Communist Poland and
Czecheslovakia. They also hfw,‘
under U. N. questioning, that nen= |
Communist Switzerland, Denmari |
and Sweden were neutrals and ac~
ceptable. This was reported in a
U. N. command eommunigue. ;
The communique said the Reds
“stated that those nations which,
though they belong to the Uniied
Nations, did not send treops to
Korea, couid be” eonsidered neu
trals. Denmark and Sweden con=
tributed hospitals, but no treops.
The communique noted neither
side was making specific propo
sals, but merely citing examples
to the type eonsidered neutral.
Otherwise, the communigue
| said, the Allied attempt to learn
the precise meaning of Red pro
posals was, “unfortunately, large~
ly unsuccessful. The Communists
repeatedly gave evasive answers
or refused»to answer.”
Levie said this was typical: :
Allied Queries
The Allies asked what the Reds
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DeMolay Degree
Planned Tonighf
The second largest class of ean~-
didates to receive their initiatien
to the Frank Hardeman Chapter,
Order of DeMolay will have een~
ferred upon them the Initiatery
Degree at the regular meeting of
the young Masonic or%anm
tonight at 8 o'clock. he class
which will be given the first de~
gree of DeMolay work tonight has
been named the Dr, E. L. Hill Class
in honor of the well-known and
beloved pastor emeritus eof the
First Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Hill has long been interestied
in the work of DeMolay and was
serving as Commander of the
Commandery in 1928 "when the
organization was first organized
in Athens.
D, Weaver “Dad” Bridges, Ad
visor of the Frank Hardeman
Chapter, expressed the feelings es
the Chapter today in saying that
Dr. Hill had been chosen te¢ hawve
the Cha?ter named after him be
cause of his “continuous interest
in the chapter and his helpfulness
at all times.”
Other classes honoring lecal
personalities have been the Abit
Nix class and the D. Weaver
Bridges Class.
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