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Defaliation Is
Newsmen In La.
By KEITH FULLER
I.AKE CHARLES, La,, Dec. 7—
(AP)—The issue of whether pub- ‘
lic officials were defamed by
hewspaper criticism was in the
hands of a Louisiana judge today
following the trials of two news=
paper editors charged with crim
inal defamation. |
Judge J. Bernard Cocke had un
der advisement the defamation
caces of Kenneth L. Dixon and
James Norton, managing editor
and city editor of the Lake Char-
Jes American Press, |
Judge Cocke said his decision,
which will be written, may not!
be forthcoming for at least a
month, He said he would set a
dege for argument of the cases
later. ’
Norton and Dixon were two of
tive newspapermen indicted dur
jng a campaign to enforce gam=-
bling laws, They are charged with
defaming 16 publie officials and
three gamblers.
Dixon’s trial was sparked with
the outburst of District Attorney
Griffin T, Hawkins, one of the of
ficlals allegedly defamed, who
stallced across the courtroom while
Dixon was on the stand and ox
citedly shook his hand at the wit
ness,
Hawkins, who was & spectator
i: eourt since he is one of the al
gedly injured officials and is not
wroseouting the ease, muttered to
g:o {udge fi,” glared at Dixon.
‘.Wh?m man eomes off the
& g i The
- quoted kins, The dis
triot attorney’s words eould not be
heard by others in the courtroom.
Ordered Out
During & aub-fl:‘x::t recess,
howsver, Nawkins e into the
gourtroom agh- agroached
¥izon after he had left the stand.
wo deputie led annragod dis~
triet @, @ room.
City idifzr gorton charged
with defaming Sheriff l&can’Roid
jn an article written f&r the Louis
ville Courler-Journal, followed
Dixon on trial.
Norton'’s indictment was based
on a portion of this article that
said the sheriff’s records weren't
available to a newspaper reporter
when he sought them while eov=
ering his courthouse beat, ’
The prosecution ecentered its
case on this statement which said
in part, “it was impossible to tell
who was in the Parish jail, for
what or how.dong-they had been
there.
Several employes of the sheriff’s
office testified the records were
never denied a newsman or any
one else requesting them.,
Mrs. Kathieen Mallow, corres
pondent for the Beaumont, Tex.
Enterprise, was called as a state
witness. She said she had never
had difficulty in obtaming the
sheriff's records.
Records Moved
On cross exam:ination she said
that one of the records that listed
the prisoners in the Parish (coun
ty) jail was moved a few months
back from its customary place on
fop. of a desk to a drawer in the
aesk.
Carter George and Jolene Mc-
Mahon, American Press reporters,
told the jury they, too, had dif
ficulty in getting news from the
sheriff’s department after the
Arnerican Press began its cam
paion against gambling.
Dixon returned to the stand as
a witness in the Norton case and
explained how Norton came to
write the story for. the Courier-
Journal.
Dixon said the Louisville news=
paner, an Associated Press mem
ber, requested that he or one of
his ctaff members write a feature
(Continued On Page Two)
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rrance Reports
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CAT Missing
MARSEILLE, France, Dec. T—
(AP) — A U, S. Air Force cargo
n'sne with 10 persons aboard dis
anpeared last night after radioing
n only 40 miles—l 6 minutes —
from its destination—Marseille.
he plane, a twin-engine C-47,
woe believed down in the moun
t~inous terrain along the French
liviera, east of here, or perhaps
the Mediterranean. It wag com
in from the U. S. Air Field at
C-47 normally carries a crew
four, and the other six aboard
> nresumed to be passengers.
» nlane was attached to the U.
. Third Air Force Base at Bent=
;s Wield, Eng.
e French Army sent ground
!5 fanning into the moun
while search vplanes, ham
! by fog and limited visibility,
00’z to the air. The search force
belnded French aircraft from
‘ and Marseille and U. S. Air
"2 planes from Germany.
© Force authorities said the
blone last reported by radio at
141 P. M. (1:41 p. m. EST) yester
. It was due to land at Mari-
Field near Marseille 16
nies later,
ir Port officials said the plane
only 40 miles away, flying at
) feet, when it gave its last
e plane took off at 2:47 p. m.
{947 a, m. EST) from its base at
heelus Field in Tripoli.
_ I'wo other U, 8, Air Force trans
is have been downed in Europe
1@ past month. °
; A C-47 bound fronr Erding, Ger
"ony, to Belgrade wag forced
Cown in Hungary on Nov. 19 by
Soviet fighter planes. The plane
‘od its four crewmen still are
7¢d by the Hungarians,' '
q\ C-82 "Fl}'inihßOxcar" crashed
&4 burned in the mountains of
3¢ hern France on Nov. 13, All
servicemen aboard were killed.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
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BY DON HUTH
TOKYO, Dec, 7.—(AP)—Two Japanese who 10 years
ago talked peace in Washington while their Navy churned
toward Pearl Harbor still insist they knew nothing of the
impending attack.,
They are Kichisaburo Nomura, retired admiral whom
the then Secretary of State Cordell Hull tongue-lashed on
that December 7, and Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu.
New Evaluati
0f Foreign Aid
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—(AP)
—Benator Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa)
said today Winston Churchill’s
admission that Britain can’t keep
up with her arms building sched
ule may force a re-evaluation by
Congress of foreign aid.
The senator told a reporter he
is not greatly surprised by
Churchill’s statement to Commons
that his government has given up
hope of fulfilling its three-year
$13,160,000,000 arms program on
schedule.
Churchill said Britain will fan
short of spending the $3,500,000,«
000 budget for thisg year.
As a Senate Foreign Relations
Committee member, Hickenlooper
sald he had been impressed on a
recent trip to Europe by the fi
nancial cflfflculties faced by the
Conservative government in Eng
land.
“Churchill’s statement calls for
a re-evaluation by Congress as to
where the, prime interests of
United States defense in Europe
lie,” Hickenlooper said.
Hickenlooper View
“Perhaps it would be wise for
us to reallocate more money to
Britain in the effort there, but I
for one do not believe that we can
go on spending for foreign assist
ance as we have been without
seriously impairing our own
economy.”
Hickenlooper said he would ad
vocate that the current $7,483,-
000,000 appropriationifor all forms
of forefgn aid be cut next year.
He said, however, that perhaps
sonre money out of the lower total
might be spent better in Britain
than elsewhere. s
Senator Monroney (D.-Okla.)
declined to comment on Church
ill's statement, but Senator Wel
ker (R.-Idaho) said he was sur
prised at Churchill’s admission.
“This isn’t going to help the
feeling of the American people
when we are called upon to send
more men, money and materials
to help Britain,” he declared.
High Time
Complaining that the British
had failed to cooperate fully with
the United States in the Korean
fighting, Welker said “it's high
time they get their industry and
will-to-win in gear.”
Hickenlooper said the foreign
military aid program also may be
affected by developments in Ko
rea, where Chinese Communist jet
fighters have been outnumbering
jets in the air. Whether more jets
should be assigned to Korea and
fewer to Europe is a question he
said Congress undoubtedly will
want to hear about.
AUTO PRICE HIKES
WASHINGTON, Dec 7.—(AP)
—The govermment cleared the
way last night for a third round
of increases in auto prices in a
year. Two boosts okayed previ
ously were estaimated to have
raised prices an average of 8% to
91, percent.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion (OPS) said eight of the ten
auto makers have indicated they
will apply for further hikes un
der the order, issued last night,
which allows them to calculate
new ceilings and submit them to
OPS for approval. :
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness with
little temperature change
through Saturday. Showers
likely Saturday. Low tonight 63;
high tomorrew 72. Sun sets to
day 5:23 and rises tomorrow
7:26.
GEORGIA ~— Consider
able cloudiness and continued
unseasonably warm this after
noon, tonight and Saturday with
somewhat higher temperatures
over north portion this after
noon; showers in north Satur
day and a few light showers in
extreme north this afternoon
and tonight.
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EXTENDED FORECAST
GEORGIA — Average tem
perature 3 or 4 degrees above
normal; precipitation moderate
to heavy; showers likely Satur
day or Sunday and again about
Tuesday; continued unseason
ably warm over the week-end,
turning cooler by Monday.
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TEMPERATURE
Highest .... s-eo coes B
Lowest .... scvs sass s v 0
MEAN oo sses spse sree ... .04
Mopmal ... oss Wik Sne
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .06
Total since December 1 i ke
Excesg, Since December 1 .. .08
Ave‘ December rainfall. 4.29
Total since January 1 .. ..87.26
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.95
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Nomura was Ambassador to
Washington. Kurusu was sent at
the last minute with Japan’s reply
for maintaining peace while his
country’s militarists kindled the
flames of war.
Purged now and living quietly
in Tokyo, both men expressed
hope that the people of the United
States now understand the posi~
tion into which they were thrust.
“We never knew the attack was
coming, said the ailing, 65-year=~
old Kurusu.
“The situation was very critical.
War was a possibility, But we
saw a chance of maintaining
peace,
‘We ftried everything possible
but®our efforts came foo late.
There were too ma%y ifs. It was
a great disappointment to me that
our efforts failed.”
Robust and jovial Nomura—who
will celebrate his 74th birthday on
Dee. 16—said:
Not Told
‘They never told us the attack
on Pearl Harbor was coming while
our discussions were going on in
Washington.”
Both men have many friends in
the United States. They spoke
with high regard for the men with
whom they conducted their talks.
Each said he was extremely wor
ried whether there was resentment
against them personally for what
had happened.
Kurusu recounted his particular
concern over the feelings of Ber
nard Baruch, elder statesman
whom he considered one of his
good friends.
“When I was leaving the United
States on the exchange ship from
New York six months after the
war started, word reached me in
directly from Baruch that he had
not held me personally accounta
ble for what happened,” Kurusu
said.
“It relieved my mind a great
deal because- I felt he *!ew we
had. u?af.w%ufi#w. ,
Kurusu lives modestly with his
American wife in a small, unpre
tentious home, built on the site
where his former home ‘was
burned out during the war.
Two strokes within the last four
years partially paralyzed his left
side. The facile mind of the lit
tle, gray haired man with the trim
mustache moves faster than he is
able to speak.
Good Memory
Kurusu remembers faces well.
He immediately recognized Asso
ciated Press photographer Max
Desfor, who photographed him
and Nomura in Washington during
the critical 1941 conferences.
“I have met you before,” Kuru~-
su said, although he had not seen
Desfor in a decade.
Kurusu said his time is spent in
voluminous reading and listening
to every Japanese and English lan
guage news broadcast.
From his veranda Kurusu can
look across to the Diet Building
where the legislature often dis
cussed his reports while he was
Ambassador to Belgium, Luxem
bourg, Germany or on special dip
lomatie assignments.
But those days are gone. “I
shall live the rest of my life quiet
ly,” Kurusu said. “Public life
would be too much for me now.”
Visitors are important in Kuru
su's life. Prime Minister Shigeru
Yoshida, an old friend, called on
him a few days after returning
from the Japanese Peace Confer
\ (Continuea On Page Two)
Much Destruction At Pearl Harbor
Credited To Five Midget Jap Subs
By JAMES BACON
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7—(AP)
A captured Japanese book, distri
buted privately in March, 1942, to
high Jap officials and publishers,
credits five midget submarines
with much of the Pearl Harbor de
struction. ‘
Most American accounts of the
disaster list the subs’ role as
minor compared with that of the
attacking Jap air raiders. |
Nine officers — all under 30—
manned the five subs. Thus one
is presumed to have had a single
occupant. They are revered as
“Hero-Gods” in the book, much of
which quotes Capt. Hideo Hiraide,
chief of the Navy press section of
Imperial ?z'ipanese headquarters.
The book leaves twq questions un
answered—how big the subs were
and whether each carried more
than one torpedo.
Also there is no explanation of
why it was printed in English,
cince its circulation was limited
and it apparently was never used
for propaganda purposes.
The book is owned by Roland A.
Martone of South Pasadena, a law
student at Southwestern Univers=-
ity in Los Angeles, who was amons
the first American troops to lan
in Japan in the late summer of
1945. Infantry Sgt. Martone no
ticed a well-dressed Japanese
burning books behind the Nippon
Times bullding in Tokyo. Still car=
rying his M-1 rifle, Marfone
seized his copy. He learned the
history of the book, which is ex
cellently bound and printed, from
the Jap and later from other ofti
cials while reporting the war
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951,
Red Unifs Drive
Allies F
Outpost Position
By JOHN RANDOLPH |
SEOUL, De¢ 7 — (AP) ~— Com
munist troops attacking throuih
a chill early morning rain knock
ed Allied infantrymen out of one
central front outpost today. Storm
clouds meantime threatened to end
the record breaking 11 day series
of U. S. jet victories over north
west Korea.
The Reds launched five small
probing attacks shortly after mid
night southwest of Kumsong on
the center of the 145 mile Korean
front. United Nations outposts beat
‘back four of these stabs,
~ The Fifth Allied unit withdrew
&from its advance position in the
' face of the attack,
Otherwise, the U. S. Eighth
Army’s evening communique said,
the fronts were quiet. g
Low-hanging rain and snow
clouds which darkened MIG alley,
scene of daily U. S. §et victories,
})rode loose when, they hit the
ront,
Chill Rains
Chill rains struck the west. The
slopes of Allied held little Gib=
aritar and other shell torn hills
turned to slippery mud.
Snow blanketed the fox holes
of U. N. infantrymen perched on
the towering ridges dominating
the eastern front.
‘Deep behind Allied lines, the
South Korean Army tightened its
hold on the 6,000 foot Shiri moun=-
tains but did not find the 1,500
guerrillas it had expected to trap.
South Korean generals said a
new sweep of valleys and lesser
peaks might turn up more fugi
tives
The South Korean government
said the cleanup drive which be
gan Sunday had resulted in 403
gurrillas killed, 745 captured and
21 surrendered. It said that less
than 20 South Korean troops had
been killed.
Jet Activity
Fifth Air Force jet pilots Thrus
day ran up their longest sustained
run of air battles with this record
claim: 33 Communist planes de
stroyed, two probably destroyed
and 32 damaged. This included the
following claimed toll of MIG-15s,
the Russian-type fighter jet: 22
destroyed, two probably destroyed
and 29 damaged. The Fifth Air
Force reported six Allied planes
were shot down,
The battle series which gtarted
Nov. 26 produced three new Am
erican aces and, on Nov. 30, the
greatest Allied Afr victory. On that
day, the Air Force reported, U. S,
sabre jets shot down 12 Red planes,
probably destroyed one and dam
aged four.
PHILIPPINE REFUGEES
MANILA, Dec 7.—(AP)—PBhil
ippines Naval patrol vessels to
day began evacuating 12,000 refu
gees from Camiguin Island and
the fury of Hibok Hibok’s erupt
ing volcano.
The known dead from Tuesday’s
eruption rose to 266. Official esti
mates say another 500 are buried
under lava and ashes.
The volcano blew a continuous
rain of hot ashes over the north
ern end of the island, sending
more frightened residents fleeing
to the southeastern coast.
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3 Copies Exist
He believes only two or three
copies still exist. The burning of
such books, especially those print
ed in English, was common in Ja=
pan in the last days of the war.
Martone mailed it home with
other souvenirs and forgot about
it until now—the tenth annivers
ary of Pearl Harbor. ‘
Hiraide reconstructed the mid
get sub raid in these words: |
“The enemy had naturally taken
elaborate precautionary measures
to guard Pearl Harbor from hos
tile attacks. An anti-submarine
network was spread across the en
trance of the harbor, while num
berless mines were planted.
“The members of the special at
tack flotilla, however, thanks to
their long training, steered their
craft past all these barriers with
consummate skill and without mis
hap.
“Some of the submarines came
close to the big battleships and
delivered telling surprise attacks,
while others discharged their tor=-
pedoes at other capital ships, tear~
ing large rents in their sides.
“Just when they were about to
renew their attacks, one enemy
destroyer, which had presumably
\espied the periscopes of the Jap
anese submarines, came rushing to
attack them., Without waiting to
ascertain the results of their ini
tial attacks, therefore, some sub
marines submerged.”
Hiraide then relates how the
subs surfaced for a second moon
light attack. A detailed announce=-
men by imperial headquarters, is
Allied Negotiators Open
Major Compromise Effort
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Red Hints Half
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Of Missing Gls -
N
Are Prisoners
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 7.
—(AP)—A Communist cor
respondent hinted today
that more than half of the
10,000 Americans reported
missing in Korea are prison
ers of war,
The report came from a
Chinese mewsman at Pan«
munjom, where Allied truce
negotiators today opened a
major effort to reach agree
ment on a compromise pro
gram for policing an armis
tice.
i The Allies dropped their de~
mand for joint U, N.-Communist
inspection teams. They also told
the Reds the question of with
drawing troops from Korea could
be “brought up and discussed
later.” But they said troop with
drawal early in the armistice def
initely is out.
Chu Chi-ping, a Communist cor
respondent covering the armistice
negotiations, told Allied newsmen
he knew of no war in which more
than half of the soldiers listed as
missing were prisoners.
“I do not see why the Korean
War would be different from other
wars in this respect,” he said.
Chu referred to the fact that
only part of those reported missing
in action are taken prisoners. The
others are killed in action and
their bodies not recovered. Allied
correspondents dids not construe
his statement as confirming the
recent report by Col. James M.
Hanley, chief of the U. 8. Eighth
Army’s Judge Advocate’s section,
that the Reds had slaughtered ap
proximately 5,500 American pris
oners.
Red Claims
Other Red correspondents at
Panmunjom said all Allied prison~
ers are being held in big camps in
Korea near the Manchurian bor
der. He said none have been tak
en to China.
Allied truce negotiators
launched their effort to obtain
agreement on a program for en
forcing the truce by rewriting the
Communist plan to include U. N.
demands. G
The two-man subcommittees
reached general agreement on
three points, left three for further
discussion, and were sharply di
vided on two when the four-hour
session ended.
The sub delegates will meet
again Saturday at 11 a. m. (9 p.
m. EST Friday).
Before Friday’s meeting broke
up, U. N. delegates told the Reds
they were “receptive to any ideas”
the Communists might have for
breaking the deadlock.
When the Reds raised their fav
orite subject—withdrawal of all
foreign troops from Korea—Maj.
Gen. Henry I. Hodes said the U.
N. command was willing to dis
cuss the matter after agreement is
reached on policing the armistice
and exchanging prisoners of war.
“There can be no withdrawal or
reduction during any early stage
of the armistice and in any event
this is a question that can be
brought up and discussed under
item five” (last item on the agen
(Continued On Page Two)
quoted:
Original Announcement
“In particular, the instantaneous
sinking of a battleship of the Ari
zona class as a result of a night
assault by the special attack flo
tilla was clearly observed by the
Japanese naval force far away
from the Hawaiian naval base. At
just two minutes after the moon
rose, a tremendous explosion oc
curred’ in Pearl Harbor, sending
fiery columns in the air, scatter
ing red hot splinters. In a few
minutes the fiery columns disap
peared, whereupon the enemy
anti-aircraft batteries went into
action, apparently mistaking the
raid of the special attack flotilla
for that of the Japanese Air
Force.”
A final wireless message was re
ceived from one of the subs at
10:41 p. m., which said “attacks
successful.”
“The vessels of the special at
tack flotilla are regarded as hav
ing either blown themselves up or
having been sunk by the enemy,”
the announcement concludes.
Some of the men, certain of
death, prepared their kin in last
Jeiters. One wrote his brother:
“My only regret is that I must
cause my parents undue Wworry.
When the news of my death is
officially announced, they will
probably be bothered by the visi
}torl and interviewers, who would
‘proifer their well-meant condo
‘len'ces. Shield them as much as
'you can, and take good care of
' them.”
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DENOUNCES SHAKE
DOWN STORY
Frank Nathan, waving his
hand and adjusting his collar,
denounces as “a dirty, filthy lie”
a story that he and another
man tried to “shake down” a
Chicago lawyer for $500,000 in
4 tax fix. Nathan, a promoter
who has had difficulties with
the law in the past, shouted his
denial under oath before Con
gressional investigators of the
tax collection service in Wash
ington.— (AP Wirephoto.)
C. 0f C. Members
Elect Directors
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce were urged this morn
ing by President Smiley Wolfe to
mark their ballots for six new
directors and return them to the
Election Committee immediately.
No votes can be cast after Mon
day noon, December 10.
Those in charge of the election
are Roy Porter, chairman; R. C.
Gilmer, John E. Griffin, Howard
Harris and E. H. Massey.
Directors whose terms expire at
the end of the year and are in
eligible for re-election until one
year has elapsed are: W. R. Ant
ley, Howell C. Erwin, jr., J. Swan
ton Ivy, Owen Roberts, jr., Dur
ward Watson, J. Smiley Wolfe.
Directors who have one year
yet to serve are: John P. Bondu
rant, Newman Corker, Billy Dan
iel, Ed Downs, C. W. Fitzgerald
and Uly S. Gunn.
In addition to the twelve direc~
tors elected by the membership
three directors-at-large will be
elected by the twelve merbership
elected directors.
Hoboes Want Low
Level Confabs
NEW YORK, Dec. 7~—(AP)—
“High level® talks getting no
where-—let’s have low level talks.”
That was one of the signs car
ried yesterday by hoboes march
ing in front of the Russian United
Nations delegaticn’s Fark Avenue
mansion,
Other signs carried by 10 ho
boes, including their cigar-smok
ing l?ueerx, “Boxcar Betty,” read:
“U, 8. hoboes and Russian
Tromboniks (hoboes) must meet
to discuss peace.” .
“Stalin, you send the vedka,
we'll bring the beer. Stalin can’t
call this a capitalistic plot.”
' Read Dally by 55,000 People In Athens Trade Area
right): George J. Schoenman, Joseph
Nunan, former Commissioner of Internal
Revenue; Jess Larson, head of the Gen
eral Services Administration, and Charles
Oliphant, chief counsel of the Internal
Revenue Bureau.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Oliphant Missing From
Hearing He Requested
WASHINGTDN, Dec. 7. — (AP) — Charles Oliphant,
after demanding an immediate publie hearing by House
tax investigators, failed to appear today at a committee
session called to hear him. He sent word he wished to de
lay his appearance ‘“several days.”
Oliphant, 42, resigned two days
ago as chief legal officer of the
scandal-hit Bureau of Internal
Revenue, He said then he felt un
able to endure any longer the
“vilification” to which he had
been subject at hearings by a
House Ways and Means Subcom
mittee. The group is looking into
charges of irregularities in the tax
collecting service.
Oliphant blasted particularly at
the “scurrilous charges” linking
his name to an alleged “clique” of
Washington officials which a wit
ness had sworn he was told was
on the look out for “soft touches.”
This story came from Abraham
‘Teitelbaum, Chicago attorney,
who said two men tried to shake
him down for $500,000 on the
representation that they would
save him from “tax troubles”
through their connection with the
alleged “clique.” He named the
two men as Frank Nathan, Pitts
burgh promoter and man-about-
Washington, and Bert K. Naster,
Hollywood, Fla., business man.
Teitelbaum’s story was followed
quickly by angry denials from of
ficials. Nathan took the commit
tee's witness chair and swore, un
der oath, that it was a “dirty lie.”
Attorney General McGrath Kes
terday ordered that the whole
matter be placed before a federal
grand jury.
Only last night, Oliphant “de
manded” the right to reply from
the committee’s witness chair to
the bringing of his name into the
hearings,
TEHRAN RIOTS
TEHRAN, IRAN, Dee. T — (AP)
— A reliable diplomatic source
said today that as many as 24 per
sons may have d?ined as a result of
yesterday’s Communist = sparked
riots in Tehran.
With the death of Police Col
nel Nouri Shaad this morning and
an eye-witness account of the
death” of a young. girl, crushed
beneath the wheels of an Army
truck during the rioting, the un
official count today was up to
seven, No official ecasualty list
has been issued.
The diplomatic source said the
number of dead may go as high
as 24 and that possibly more than
200 persons were injured.
ROSS DIES
BOSTON, Dec 7 — (AP) —
Harold W. Ross, 60, editor of the
New Yorker Magazine which he
founded 26 years ago, and a for=-
mer newspaperman, died here last
night. Hewas born in Aspen, Colo
rado.
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University Sefs
Evening Classes
The University of Georgia ie
planning another expansion of its
services, with the expansion this
time being made right in its own .
back yard.
Plans were announced here this
week for a series of night classes
to begin in the winter quartes for
Athens area residemts. This will
be the first time that many of the
University's facilities have been
made available to Athens town
people.
The night classes, sponsored by
the Division of General Extension,
will relieve the University eof
opening any other extension uniis
in this immediate vicinity.
Announcement that night
classes definitely would be held
at the University followed three
months of planning with academic
deans. Courses will be offered in
five subjects during the winter
quarter. The number and variety
of courses offered during subse
quent quarters will depend on the
demand.
The classes will meet three
times a week. Scheduled for next
quarter are courses in human’ bi
ology, history, English composi
tion, accounting, and business law.
The history course, ‘entitled the
United States in World Affairs
since 1900, will be taught by Dr.
C. Mildred Thompson, professor
of history at the University and
dean emeritus of Vassar College.
Registration for night classes
will be held Januaxg 3 from 4 to
10 p. m. in Old Coilege on the
University campus.
According to E. A. Lowe, direc
tor- of the Extension Division, the
night classes here will “utilize in
formation gained from —Univer
sity’s five off-campus centers and
couple it with the courses and
teachers already available.”
CHRISTIAN RE-ELECTED
Felton Christian was re-elected
te the Board of Directoros of the
Georgia Farm Equipment Asso
ciation while in attendance of this
annual convention in Atlants
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Mr. Christian is president of the
Christian Eq\gpmmi Company,
distributor of Oliver farm eguip
ment here, ,