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Legal Southern
Revolt Possible
8 Southern States Can Legally
Deny HST Their Electoral Votes
BY JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— (AP) —Democrat enemies
of President Truman apparently have a legal opportunity
in at least eight Southern states to deny him their electoral
votes if he runs again next year. _
Whether they will try to do so, however, depends upon
developments yet to come.
|cy Winds, Snow
L ash Eastern
Half Of Nation
By The Associated Press
A double drubbing from the
scason’s worst snow and cold had
mruch of the Eastern half of the
nation ‘weather groggy Saturday.
The storm caused at Ileast 69
deaths.
A blast of sub-zero cold—-hft
ting on the heels of a fast-moving
snowstorm — whistled across the
Midwest on its way 'to the North
Atlantic coast. ;
Overnight sub-zero readings
were in prospect from eastern
Wyoming and Colorado to north
ern New York.
The twin weather blow caused
misery and inconvenience to mil
lions from the Great Plains to the
Middle Atlantic States. The cold
rolled into the deep South, drop
ping temperatures below freezing
in southern Mississippi and Texas.
Sub-Zero Cold
The mercyry slid to 25 below
zero in Miles City, Mont., and
Dickinson, N. D. Chicago, buried
under a 11-inch snow blanket, had
a low of —2 and expected an over
night low of —lO.
The Weather Bureau in Wash
ington forecast in a special bulle
tin overnight temperatures as
much as 10 below in northern
New York and zero in parts of
West Virginia, and Ohio.
Twenty below zero tempera
tures wetg recorded from north
ern Min.neLota to central Montana.
Duluth, Minn., ang‘ Sibley, lowa,
had a low reading of —l7.
The weather deaths were caused
by the widespread snowstornr Fri
day that disrupted transportation
and communications in scores of
large cities, including Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Washington, New
York, Newark, Chicago, St. Louis,
Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwau~
kee.
Severe Storm
The severe storm, causing haz
ardous driving conditions, forced
cancellation of a mediation ses
sion in Pittsburgh designed to
head off a threatened nationwide
steel strike,
Even Santa Claus was snow
bound in Plattsburgh, N. Y. He
had to postpone until December
21 a transport plane flight to de
liver toys to upstate New York
orphanages.
New England skiing resorts wel
comed the storm, which brought
up to a foot of snow.
The death toll in the storm:
Indiana 8, New Jersey 7, Kansas
4, Illinois 4, Missouri 3, Nebraska
3, New York 3, Tennessee 2, and
Wisconsin, Delaware and Massa
chusetts one each.
Rep. Whitaker
Is Found Dead
RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., Dec. 15.—
(AP) — Rep. John A. Whitaker
(D.-Ky.) was found dead in his
ls:aw office here late today. He was
Whitaker, who had been in ill
health, became Second Kentucky
District representative after Earle
C. Clements, now United States
senatof, was elected Kentucky
governor in 1947 while serving in
Congress. ;
"ational Bank
Votes Dividends
Regular dividend of SI.OO per
share and an extra dividend of
$2.00 per share was voted by the
Poard of Directors of The National
Fank of Athens at their regular
meeting Tuesday, President W. R.
Antley announced yesterday.
The dividends, payable January
15, 1952, represent 15 per cent,
M. Antley said, P
Total dividends paid during
1851 amounted to $5.50 per share,
which represents 27% per cent,
he continued.
The bank was established Feb
ruary 20th, 1866 and has never
passed a dividend, having paid
chareholders a total of $1,966,500.-
00.
“The National Bank is happy
so continue its record of never
having failed to pay a dividend.”
President Antley said. “The bank’s
business has continued to increase
during the past year and our de
posits are substautially greater,
with many new customers having
been added. .
“We wish to express our ap
preciation to the many lriqnds
who have made use of the various
services offered by the bank in
the past and the bank’s officers,
directors and staff pledge their
every effort to inue ve
servide” of high Standasd o the
public,” President Antley said.
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
An Associated Press survey of
Southern state election laws shows
that only in Florida and North
Carolina will party members who
vote their ticket have to support
Mr. Truman, if he is the nominee
and if a Dixie revolt against his
leadership gains its widest possible
expansion.
Even in North Carolina, how
ever, an elector is only morally,
and not legally, bound to support
the party nominee when he votes
finally on a presidential candi
date.
Alabama, center of a fight be
tween national party adherents
and Democrats who followed the
States Rights banner in 1948, will
have a showdown next month on
efforts to clinch the state's elec
toral votes for the national party
nominee,
The States Rights ticket took 39
votes away from Mr. Truman
when he won in 1948 by a margin
of 303 electoral ballots to 189 for
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the Republican presidential
nominee.
Attempt Promised
Despite their failure to affect
the final result of that election,
Democratic opponents of Mr. Tru
man’s civil rights program give
strong indications that if he runs
again they will make another at
tempt to beat him without them=-
selves turning to the Republican
ticket. 5
A bi-partisan committee to ex
plore political realignment report
ed recently that almost everybody
knew—that there coutd be no ef
fective coalition of Republicans
and Democrats in the South or
elsewhere next year. @
Instead, the weight of evidence
is that the Dixie anti-Truman bloc
will seek to get the voters of indi
vidual states to pledge their elec
tors to someone other than Mr.
Truman if he again is the candi~
date. @
In at least eight states—Arkan
sas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip=
pi, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia—local Demo=
cratic organizations apparently
could attach the Democratic party
label to a set of electors pledged to
someone besides the national par
ty’s nominee. :
These eight states cast 94 elec
toral votes in 1948—twice the to
tal of New York—and gave all but
28 of them to President Truman.
Alabama supplied the other 11 for
the States’ Rights ticket’s 39 total.
Depends On HST
Whether the effort to organize a
revolt by individual states ever. is
carried out apparently depends
largely on whether President Tru
man runs again and whom the Re
publicans nominate.
If the President steps out of the
picture, most political strategists
think there will be no revolt of
serious proportions, even though
the Democratic convention reaf
firms its strong stand for eivil
rights and the new nominee de
clared himself just as forcefully.
Because of their panting desire to
get rid of Harry S. Truman, dissi
dent Dixie Democrats seem per
fectly willing to take their chances
on a new Democrat in the White
House. A Sl ;
Should the Republican party
nominate somebody with vast na
tionwide popular appeal, many
polticians here think the Southern
anti-Truman bloc might sing a
very low tune, on the theory there
would be no percentage in bolting
the regular Democratic organiza
tion in the face of a likely Repub
lican victory.
Senator Russell (D.-Ga.) has
been suggested by some anti-Tru
man leaders as the most likely
choice as an alternate candidate
if President Truman runs again.
Gov. James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina and Senator Byrd of Vir
ginia are among the Russell
boosters.
Russell himself said this week
he has no intention of becoming a
candidate and is “under no illus
jons about any southerner being
elected President.” ¢
Under present plans, however,
Russell’s name might not be form
ally presented to the national par
ty convention next July, or to any
rump convention held later. He
might simply emerge the choice of
individual state organizations as
the man to whom their slate of
electors would be pledged.
Other Possibilities
If the anti-Trumanites chose,
they could hold & convention of
their own and nominate Russell or
anv other candidate. But it still
would be up to state organizations,
acting individually, to get his name
on the ballot. :
In the event that no candidate
for president got a majority of
electoral votes, the constitution
provides that the election be de
cided in the House of Representa~-
tives. With each state allowed
only one vote under this proce=
dure, almost anything could hap
pen.
Here ig a partial state-by-state
summaryrof the legal possibilities
for putting an anti-Truman Dem=
ocrat on the ballot:
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WALTER WANGER AFTER SHOOTING — Walter
Wanger (left), film producer and husband of Actress
Joan Bennett, is closely attended by his attorney, Jerry
Giesler, as he was questioned by the Beverly Hills, Calif.,
police about the shooting of his wife’s agent, Jennings
Lang. The shooting occurred in a parking lot as the
actress and Lang arrived in the latter’s car. Police Chief
Clinton Anderson said Wanger told him, “I thought
Lang was responsible for breaking up my home.” Lang
was shot in the thigh and abdomen.— (AP Wirephoto.)
(lear Weather Spurs
Christmas Sales Here
Christmas shopping in Athens went into high gear yes
terday.
A combination of a brilliant sun that chased away the
cloudy, misty, gloomy weather of several days past, and a
decided zip in the air, together with the nearness of the
date for the annual visit of Santa, brought people out in
droves and kept most stores thronged with pecple from 9
a. m. until closing time.
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Carol Service
This Afternoon
The University of Georgia's an
nual Christmas Carol service will
be given this afternoon at 4:30
o’clock in Fine Arts Auditorium,
This is the University’s second
musical production of the Christ
mas season, Handel's “Messiah”
being presented last Sunday after
noon. :
The service today will tell the
story of the birth of Christ from
the prophecy to the Mystery of
the Incarnation. Leighton Ballew,
head of the University’s drama
department, and Madge Mander
son, Atlanta drama student, will
read the scripture.
The service is being sponsored
again this year by the University
of Georgia Religious Association
with music by the combined Uni
versity Glee Clubs, the Athens
High School Glee Club, and the
boys’ choirs from the Athens city
schools.
Soloists for this afternoon’s
service are Sybil Seymour, Mon
roe, who will sing “No Candle
Was There,” Ann Crawford, Mad
ison, “Jesu Bambino”; and Shirley
Helmly, Statesboro, “Cantique de
Noel.”
The Boys Choirs will sing “Away
In A Manger” and “Shepherds
Shake Off Your Drowsy Sieep.”
Other carols to be sung by the
combined choirs include ‘“Adeste
Fidelvs,” “God Rest You Merry
Gentlemen,” “The First Noel,” “O
Three Kings of Orient Are,” ‘Joy
To The World,” “Lo, How a Rose
E're Blooming,” “Good King Wen
ceslas,” and “Hark the Herald An
gels Sing.” &
Music will be under the direc
tion of Byron Warner. The pian
ist will be Ernest Edwards, and
Nolee May Dunaway will be the
organist. A brass choir from the
University band will also take
part in the service.
Bible Lectures
A series of eight Bible lectures
will begin today at 3 p. m. at the
Kingdom Hall, 133 1-2 W. Clayton
street and will continue each Sun
day at the same hour through
Feb. 8, 1952. These lectures will
be delivered by various Theocra
tic Ministers, who are special rep
resentatives of the Watchtower
Society. The subject for today is
“Evolution vs. The Bible” by F. W,
Brush.
The public is ¢ordially invited
to heur all the fectures in this se
ries. No collections are taken.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1951,
And, according to merchants,
those crowds of people were not
just “lookers” but buyers. The
looking period had long since end
ed and now folks were purchasing
the itemg they had already spot
ted.
A large majority of the stores
and 'Elaces of business reported
ihai iness was as good, if not
' i’.fime%lfit ‘better, than last year,
which set a record for Christmas
buying. And the merchants. feel
that the tempo of buying will keep
right up to its present pace and
that the total for the Christmas
season will be greater than last
year, SEC O e
One “Extra Day”
This viewpoint is held because
of the “extra” day. This year
Christmas arrives on Tuesday,
leaving Monday for last minute
shopping. Last year Christmas fell
on Monday and Saturday was the
final shopping day. And merchants
point out that one extra day can
mean a whale of a difference in
total business.
It is a {trying season on the
staffs because no matter how
heavy the day's sales have been,
those shelves are always full
stocked by the time the store opens
the next day. Many stores have
their largest inventories in his
tory and most of these expect
stocks to be severely depleted by
the end of Christmas rush. :
This year, also, the stores have
noticed an increase in Christmas
buying by University students and
a large volume of purchasing by
people living in this trade ter
ritory outside of Athens. It is be
coming more and more popular
for friends to form shopping par
ties to Athens, enjoy a nice lunch
and a day in the stores. Also fewer
Athenians and people from this
sevtion are visiting Atlanta, pre
ferring stores here with their wide
selection of offerings and rapid
service to the pushing and shov
ing and also the delay in being
weaited on attendant on the “in
door football game” in the At
lanta establishments.
Largest Stock
One store proprietor told the
Banner-Herald Saturday that his
concern has the largest stock’ on
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Good Fellowship Fund
Large Family In Great
Need Of Financial Aid
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ban
ner-Herald is publishing a series
of case histories of worthy fam
ilies who need help. These are
compiled by the Welfare Com
mittee of the Salvation Army
Ladies Auxiliary and the City
Schools. Who is number one on
your list? In as much as ye do it
unto the least of these ye do it
unto me. Matt, 25:40.
Case No. Seven: This father
works, " but for very low wages
that are not adequate. The mother
is an expectant mrother, and the
day that this home was visited by
the case worker the mother and
two #chool-age children were in
bed with flu, and there was no
fuel in the house. The case worker
took a dollar from her purse and
left it so that they could buy
some wood. The need of fuel is
stressed as Athens weather has
turned very cold.
There are six children, a daugh
ter 15, and one 13, a son 10, a
daughter, 7, and one five’ and a
baby one year old,
Call 131 for further information
UN Negotiators Press For
Information On Prisoners
Britain To Pay
On American,
Canadian Loans
By ARTHUR GAVSHON
LONDON, Deec¢. 15 — (AP) —
Hard-up Britain announced today
she will pay both interest and cap~
ital installments, totalling 176 mil
lion dolars, due Dec. 31 on her
postwar loans from the United
States and Canada. She might
have claimed a waiver on the in
terest.
Prime Minister Churchill’'s new
government also gave the British
pound sterling a small measure of
freedom to demonstrate its real
value in foreign money markets.
Subject to some continuing limi
tations, the Bank of England au
thorized private individuals to
trade British pounds for foreign
money for the first time in 12
years,
Both moves clearly were in
tended to restore world confidence
in Britain’s wobbly economy and
weakened currency and to bolster
the British case for more military
and economic help from the United
States.
A highly placed informant said
the government will have to sell
gold from the British-banked
sterling area’s waning gold and
dollar reserves to pay the United
State and Canada.
Asks Aid
However, Britain has asked for
600 million dollars in economic
help alone from the U. S. Mutual
Security Agency for the next six
months and the United States ex
pects to be able to hand over per
haps half that. -
A British treasury announce
ment said:
“Under the relevant agreements,
his majesty’s government have the
right on certain conditions to re
quest the waiver of the interest
ilément of these payments,l but
after a, careful review of all the
i'circumstanc(::gil tt;"l?yy have decided
not to make such a request. The
payments will therefore be made
in full on the 31st of December
next.”
The interest accounts for sllO,-
700,000 of the total. The install
ments are the first of 50 which
Britain is due to pay yearly until
the year 2000.
The United States will get 51%
million dollars on principal and 87
million in interest; Canada will
get 14 million on principal and
$23,700,000 on interest.
1946 Loans
The United States put out $4,-
350,000,000 and Canada $1,185,~
000,000 for Britain in 1946 when
this country was reeling under
economic shocks from World War
11,
Churchill plumped for the re
payment Dec. 31 in spite of a con
tinuing British economic crisis.
The 77-year-old Prime Minister
sails for New York Dec, 29 to call
on President Truman in Washing
ton. He wants both economic and
military help under the mutual se
curity program.
Some U. S. congressmen may
oppose additional help.
The move to relax currency ex
change regulations followed ru
mors that the pound would be re
valued or set free to find its own
level. The government did neither
of these things. The sum total of
the change is that permitted cur
rency transactions will take place
through the private money market
rather than through the bank, a
nationalized institution.
l In New York's Wall Street,
| there was mild approval. Some
f American financial sources specu
{lated the move might be a first
| step toward freeing sterling com
[pletely from government control,
[ but others felt it could be called
ionly a gesture at this time.
and refer to Case No. Seven.
There has also been an appeal
’for a heavy jacket and a warm
coat, -
Good Fellowship Fund
The Good Fellowship Fund was
led by a little boy, who proudly
brought 100 pennies from his
piggy bank to be used to aid the
Athens school children (both
white and colored) that are in
dire need of clothing toc wear to
school. There are more than one
hundred of these worthy children.
They are the future citizens of
your community, so give them a
chance. 3
The response to this fund is
heartening. At present the Fund’s
contributions stand at $l2B, and
there are 59 girls and 47 boys
from one year to 18 years of age
that need clothes. It is hoped that
each boy can be presented with a
pair of dungarees and a nice shirt
and that a skirt and good warm
weater can be secured for the
iir]s‘. Mail your check' today, the
Good Fellowship Fund, in care of
the Barner-Herald,
By The Associated Press
MUNSAN, Korea, Sunday,
Dec. 16. — (AP) — Allied
armistice negotiators are re
fusing any more bargaining
offers until the Reds come
up with information on pris
oners and a better truce sup
ervision proposal.
The United Nations is
standing pat on a demand
for a list of Allied prisoners
and where they are held.
“We want all of the men
back,” said Brig. General
William P. Nuckols, U. N,
command spokesman. ‘“We
don’t want some of them to
wind up in slave labor camps
in China or Korea or any
where else.”
Nuckols added that there can
be no progress on armistice super
vision discussions until the Com
munists offer “a new proposal,
better than the one they came up
with yesterday.”
He said the only thing the truce
negotiators agreed upon at Satur
day’s Panmunjom meetings was
to meet again today at 11 a. m., (9
p. m, E. S. T, Saturday).
The Communists want agree=
ment now on their proposal for an
all-for-all exchange of prisoners.
They insist that such things as
lists and locations of prisoners are
secondary “technical details.”
The Reds also have refused to
permit International Red Cross
inspection of prison camps.
UN Missing
More than 100,000 Allied soldiers
(the bulk of them South Koreans)
are missing or capfured—the great
majority of them believed cap
tured. Of these, some 11,000 are
Americans — but Communist
sources indicate that less than
4,000 U. 8. troops could be expect
ed to be returned as prisoners.
The others either were atrocity
vietims or were battle casualties
whose bodies were never found.
Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner,
head of the Allied sub-committee
working on a program of armistice
supervision, rejected flatly the
Reds six-point proposal. Saturday.
“You seek to gain through nego
tiation what you could not win
through fighting,” , . . he told
them.
The Reds had proposed that
troop rotation be limited to 5,000
monthly. o e
Turner observed that the Com
munists lack “the military capa
bilities” to prevent unlimited ro
tation of troops in Korea after any
armistice.
“On the other hand,” Turner
told the Reds, “We do limit the
extent to which you ean replenish
your forces.” :
- He warned them Allied forces
would continue to:
Allied Warnings
I—“ Keep your airfields unusea
ble by constantly attacking them.”
2—“ Conduct aerial surveillance
throughout your rear.”
3—*“lnterfere with your so=-
called internal afafirs by disrupt
ing your internal communica
tions.”
4—“ We have the military capa
bility” to continue the attacks “un
til the armistice is signed.”
“We agree to apply the same re
strictions to ourselves, even
though you lack the military capa
bility today to implement these
restrictions by force of arms, but
you complain this is unfair—you
who are unable to impose any of
these military restrictions upon
our side by your own strength,”
he added.
The Allies demand behind-the
lines aerial inspection, freedom for
observer teams to travel over
prineipal lines of communication,
a ban on airfield construction, a
single armistice commisson to su
pervise observer teams, and troop
rotation and materiel replacement.
Soviet Rejection
PARIS, Dec. 15— (AP) — The
Soviet bloe today rejected a re
vised Western disarmament plan
drawn up specially to meet some
of Moscow’s demands.
The Russian bloc hinted, in
stead, it would like to see the Big
Four Powers continue discussing
arms control in secret sessions.
Polish delegate Stefan Wier
blowski disclosed the Soviet bloc’s
position in a speech to the Politi
cal Committee of the U. N. Gen
eral Assembly. He repeated So
viet demands for immediate pro
hibition of atomic bombs and a
cut of one-third in the arms
strength of the United States,
France, Britain, China and Rus
sia.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Sunday and Monday fair and
very cold. Low expected 16;
high 34.
GEORGIA — Fair and con
tinued cold Sunday.
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Deficit since December 1 .. .39
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Deficit since January 1 ... 9.42
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OF HONOR
M.-Sergeant Hubert L. Lee
(above), 36, of Leland, Miss.,
wounded three times while
leading six assaults in the Ko
rean campaign, has been
awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor, the nation’s
highest military decoration. A
native of Arburg, Mo., Lee now
is assigned to the First Artillery
Training Group at Fort Sill,
Okla.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Whitney Named
Director Of
Civil Defense
. Colonel F. W. Whitney, U. 8.
Army Ret., veteran of forty years
of military service and Eromlnont
in ecivic movements, has been
named by Mayor Jack R. Wells as
Director of Civilian Defense here,
succeeding Ed Downs, who re
signed due to press of business.
In accepting the post, Colonel
Whitney said:
“It is my desire to get the
city in a position to help itself in
case of a major disaster. We hope
to have a simulated attack, such
as the one held in New York re
cently, in Athens in the near fu
ture.” He continued, *“To further
the deferise plan I will appoint a
committee consisting of the heads
of the Police and Fire Departments
and various leading citizens to as
sist in organization, planning and
training.”
Col. Whitney came to Athens
in 1924 as PM&T. far .the ROTC
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Recommended
law Changes
ATLANTA, Dec. 15. — (AP) —
The Georgia Bar Association to
day recommended three major
changes in the state criminal laws.
Paul Wehb, solicitor general of
Fulton county and chairman of the
Association’s Crimrinal Law and
Procedure, said proposed bills for
the changes now go to the legisla
tive committee for approval and
submission to the General Assem
bly next month.
The changes would: =~ " =~ = °
1, Permit the defendant in a
criminal case to be sworn as a
competent witness, examined and
cross-examined. At present, said
Webb, Georgia is the only state
which permits the defendant to
make an unsworn statement in his
own behalf,
2. Transfer the sentencing pow=-
er in felony cases from juries,
which under the law do not have
past crinvinal records before them,
to the presiding judges.
3. Provide that when a defend
ant is found innocent by reason of
insanity, the judge will ccmmit
him to the state insane asylum at
Milledgeville. Now an acquittal
on such a plea leaves the insane
man free to walk out of the court
room, Webb explained.
Other lawyers on Webb’s com
mitte are T. Arnold Jacobs of Ma
con, Ernest J. Hair of Savannabh,
James Maddox of Rome, and So
licitor General John J. Flynt of
the Griffin .Circuit.
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Drive For Scrap
Metal Scheduled
This Affernoon
Putting vour scrap metsl“le
work for the Athens Community
Chest and for national defense is
your opportunity today with the
city—wide scrap collection.
Some 60 trucks manned by
members of the Boy Scouts, Y.
M. C. A, and the Junior Chamber
of Commerce will canvass all of
Athens starting at 1:30 o’clock this
afternocon. Planned originally for
last Sunday, the collection was
postponed until today because of
’bad weather,
Scrap metal, badly needed by
‘ steel mills engaged in national de
'fenso production, will be sold te
Jocal scrap dealers. Proceedls will
go to help complete the 1851 guota
of the Community Chest to fin
ance local Red Feather wervices. ;
Several trucks will be assgigned |
to cover the up-town business ¢
area, Luther Glass, chairman of .
the Clarke county scrap mobiliza- ;
tion committee, announced Satur
day Firms with small amounts
of scrap to donate are reguested
to place it on the sidewalk or |
have someo;o on hand to stop one
of the colléction trucks between
1:30 and 3:00 p. m,
The trucks and oollection crews
will meet at 1:30 p. m. on the
University campus at the BStege
man Hall parking lot west of the
main entrance to the stadium.
Territorial assigments will be made
there and the collection drive set
in motion. 8
All types of scrap other than tin |
cans are needed. Scrap is furnished
by local dealers to steel mills de~ '
signated by the National Produc
tion Authority, agency of the fed
eral government gromom scrap
collections throughout the mstion.
Truman, Judge
Murphy Confer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—(AP)
—President Truman held & long
“highly profitable” talk today
with U. 8. Judge Thomas ¥. Mur
phy, his reputed choice t® yun an
administration cleanup, but delay
ed any announcement of plens at
least until Monday,
Murphy himself, reached m
porters after the unusually
White House session, would enly
say that “matters of interest to
the country” were discussed and
that he may see the President
‘again.
He would not say whether he
had accepted any assignment, nor
whether the talk was about vor
ruption in government. Neither
would the White House.
But the jurist’s answers to side
issue questions left open broad in
ferences that he it on the plan
ning, at least of a house-cleaning.
The towering, moustached
judge, who climbed teo the federal
bench in New York by way of the
prosecution of Alger Hiss and a
rackets cleanup in the New York
City police department, was jusi
about as non-committal as the
White House.
By the delay over the week-end,
Mr. Truman missed his own Sead
line for “drastic” actiom t® sweep
“wrongdoers” out of gevermmsent.
On Thursday, the President had
told reporters to look for @evelop
ments by the end of this week.
Christmas Club
Pays $18,165
Away back at the start of the
year some 885 Athenians loolked
ahead and began to prepare %or
Christmas.
' And to those 885 Athemians, the
Citizens & Southern National
‘Bank has paid out the sum of
s7B,76s—the amount those far
looking people saved up Wduring
the year to help out wit‘ Chirest
mas expenses.
Executive Vice-Presidemt R. V.
Watterson said the average check
in the Christmas Savings Club was
$89.00. A person merely cpems a
Christmas Club account and pavs
a fixed sum into it each wesk, or
for as many weeks as possible and
gets the entire amount paid in
back in December,
“For the past several yeurs since
the plan was set up by our bank,
the list of those participating has
steadily’ grown,” Mr, Watterson
said, adding, “because peqple luave
found it an easy method %o lay
aside money that will be meeded
later on. And since the weskly
payments usually are small (the
sum fixed by the individual) the
money i not missed. This is
money that possibly would g
been spent on non-essentials.
the small weekly payments owes
the period of a year mount up snd
come in very handy indeed &t
Christmas.”