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Vol. CXIX, No. 293.
Wintry Weather
Lands Another
Knockout Blow
By The Associated Press
Blustery, wintry weather landed
another knockout blow today from
the Rock Mountains to Northern
New England.
A fresh snow storm whistled out
of the Pacific Northwest, pelted
the Rocky Mountains to Northern
spread over the Plains States, the
Upper Mississippi Valley and the
Upper Great:Lakes Region.
Temperatures tumbled along the
route of the snow storm, dipping
far below zero in many areas. The
eolder weather headed into the
storm-buffeted Midwest as it
moved eastward in the wake of the
snow,
It was sub-zero, also, in north
ern New England and north parts
of New York state.
The severe weather appeared to
follow the pattern of the past
week, heavy snow and the ensuing
cold. The storm-battered areas
have reported a total of 226 deaths
attributed to the severe weather
of the past week,
There was considerable drifting
and blowing in the fresh snow
belt, adding further danger tc the
already hazardous driving condi
tions.
The U. S. Weather Bureau in
Chictg said the sub-zero belt
extended as far south as North
eastern Colorado and Northwest~
ern Kansas. :
It was 25 below zero in Havre,
Mont., early today and =-19 in
Sheridan, Wyo. The cold spots in
the Northeastern section of the
country included 11 below zero at
Burlington, Vt., and Albany, N.
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Chilly South
It was chilly in parts of the
South. A freezing rain and sleet
pelted areas in the Middle Missis
sippi Valley, the Lower Ohio Val
ley and in parts of. Georgia, Rain
fell southward into the Lower
Mississippi Valley and the East
Gulf States.
There appeared no immediate
relief from the severe cold in the
Midwest. Temperatures generally
were above zero in most of the
North Central Region today but
the icy blasts were expected to
move in during the day. The
forecast was for below zero read
ings tonight and Friday.
Between 5 and 10 inches of new
snow was in prospeet for most of
the Midwest storm belt. It was
generally fair over most of the
Eastern States but the fresh fall
of snow which put record amounts
on the ground in many areas was
expected to reach the Northeast
ern Region tonight or Friday.
The far Southwest and the deep
South appeared to have escaped
the cold. The 28 above reading in
Charlotte, N. C., early today com
pared with 68 in New Orleans; 72
in Brownsville, Tex., 73 in Miami,
and 51 in Los Angeles.
Sub-Zero Spots
But there were many sub-zero
spots—l 7 below in Miles City,
Mont.; =l4 in Grand Forks, N. D.;
-10 in Valentine, Neb., and -2 in
Denver. It was 10 above in Dodge
City, Kans.; 16 in Minneapolis, 19
in New York and 26 in Chicago.
But near zero was predicted for
Chicago tonight with a high of §
übove Friday.
The snow storm hit Utah and
Southern Idaho yesterday. High
winds struck in parts of Nevada.
At Carson City, winds of up to 60
miles an hour tore 800 square feet
of roofing off the Heroes Memorial
building, broke several windows in
the State Capitol building and
felled scores of trees.
Storm deaths by states since last
Friday: Ohio 33, Indiana 29, Illi
nois 23, New York 23; Wisconsin
19, Massachusetts 13, New Jersey
13, Michigan 9, Alabama 8, Mary
land 6, lowa 5, Kentucky 5, Mis
souri 5, Kansas 4, Nebraska 4,
Pennsylvania 4, Tennessee 4,
Maine 3, Colorado 2, Connecticut 2,
Delaware 2, Georgia 2, Nevada 2,
Oregon 2, North Carolina 1, Vir
ginia 1, Utah 1, Wyoming 1.
lIS. Traffic Toll
15, Traffic To
Nears 1 Million
By The Assoicated Press
The nation’s traffic toll today
neaved the 1,000,000 mark.
The National Safety Council
said the grand total had risen to
999,750 last midnight.
It added:
“The remaining deaths are ex
pected to occur by about noon Sat
urday if the anticipated travel and
acrident pattern does not change.”
But the Council also advised
driving and walking Americans
that “the millionth death can still
be postponed by improved traffic
behavior in the final hours.”
The statement was, in effect, the
flag signal for the final laps in a
race against death that began Sept.
13, 1399.
That was the date of the first
known motor” vehicle fatalily in
the U. 8. The victim was H. H.
Bliss. He stepped from a trolley
and was run over by a horseless
carriage in New York City.
Thereafter, the toll rose—slowly
at first and then with alarming
speed.
Fatalities reached a peak of 39,-
969 in 1941. They slumped off
during World War 111, then rose
to the 1951 average of around 100
per day.
Now motorized Death is nearing
the end of his drive to the 1,000,000
milestone, with - his¢ élapsed time
mdjca?ecri. (at B 1: syears, three
months and eight days.
“It is a tragic and ironic circum
stance that the millionth death
should occur almost on the very
eve of Christmas,” said Ned H.
Dearborn, eouncil president.
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JACKSON, Mich.,, Dec. 20 —
(AP) — A 44-year-old business
executive faced a lie detector test
today in the strange death by
freezing of his young bride.
Edward G. Spencer, vice: presi~
dent of a Jackson moving firm,
was held without charge for inves
tigation in the death of his pretty
wife, Loretta, 21.
Prosecutor George Campbell
said Spencer would be given a lie
detector test by State Police today
in an effort to clear up what the
prosector termed “several discrep
ancies” in his story.
Mrs. Spencer was found frozen
and dying at 8 p. m. yesterday in
the driveway of the couple’s fash
ionable country home two miles
south of Jackson. It was 6 below
zero. Her arms and legs frozen, she
died soon after in a hospital.
Spencer, who was divorced,
married Loretta Noylor, his secre
tary, last May. He has seven
children by the previous marriage.
Spencer told officers he last saw
his wife Tuesday evening when
she drove to Jackson to finish her
Christmas shopping. He said he
believed she was spending the
night there with her mother when
she failed to return.
Spencer was taken into, custody
after a nearby farmer told authosi
ties he had seen Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Tuesday night. The famer,
H. F. Brooks, said he found the
couple, their car stuck in snow in
a ditch, at 10 or 10:30 p. m. a mile
from the Spencer home.
Deputy Sheriff Harold Yarger
said the farmer told him he re
cognized Spencer by the clothes
he was wearing. The farmer said
he called a wrecker at the re
quest of the man in the car.
The car was deserted when the
wrecker arrived.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Freezing condition to end
about the middle of the after
poon with rain this afternoon
and tonight ending Friday mor
ning, followed by partly cloudy
and colder Friday night and
Saturday. Low tonight 38, high
tomorrow 38. Low expected
Saturday 25 to 30. Sun sets 5:27
and rises 7:35.
GEORGIA — Occasional rain
with slowly rising temperatures
today; freezing rain changing to
rain in north portion mid
morning; cloudy with occasional
rain and a little warmer tonight
and Friday, followed by colder
Friday night.
TEMPERATURE
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MBRI S oo siibibaee wrio P
Normal, . ... suug? oty oy ol
Inches last 24 e IR 00
Total since December 1 ..« 3.63
Excess since December 1 . .63
Average December rainfall, 4.59
Total since January 1 .. .439.76
Deficit since January 1 ... 8.40
SERVINC ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
H. B. Ritchie, jr., of Athens and
Washington, D, C., has recently
been appointed by the State De
partment of the U. S. Government
to post of Assistant Legal Coun
sel to the Technical Assistance Ad
ministration with problems aris
ing in the near east and Africa as
signed specifically to him.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Ritchie, sr., of Athens, Mr. Ritchie
has many friends here who will
be interested in this signal recog=
nition of his talents and achieve
ments. He is a graduate of the
University, holding both A. B. and
L. L. B. degrees, and holds the
I. L. M. degree from the Har
vard Law School.
Havard Graduate
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from Harvard, he accepted a
as associate solicitor of the Dept,
of Agriculture in Washington and
in this capacity was selected as
legal couhsel to accompany the
Secretary of Agriculture to Cuba
when the entire sugar crop was
bought to insure adequate sup
plies in this country during the
war emergency.
Mr. Ritchie served as a major
in the Judge Advocate’s Division
during World War II and was as
signed to the 3rd Air Force. Im
mediately after being demobilized
he returned to the Dept. of Agri
culture as associate solicitor. When
leaving for his new duties, he was
given a testimonial dinner which
was attended by seventy-five legal
and administrative co-workers
who presented him with a hand
some fitted leather case and a set
of the Life and Works of Charles
Evans Hughes.
Visits Here Often
In 1940 Mr. Ritchie was mar
ried to Miss Tone Seafield of Iron
ton, Minnesota and ihey have two
children. He and lis family are
frequent and popular visitors in
Athens. His eight-year-old daugh
ter, Margaret was a member of the
YWCA camp family last summer
and his six-year-old son Billy,
recently came to Georgia where
he unveiled the portrait of his
great-aunt and godmother, Miss
Adams, the first Dean of Women
of GSCW, in Milledgeville.
In connection with his present
responsibilities, Mr. Ritchie will
have some residence abroad and
many visits to the nations which
are today in the center of inter
rational importance and concern.
DeMolays, Dates
To Attend Dance
Members of the Frank Harde
man Chapter of DeMolay, their
dates, and guests will dance to
morrow night to the music of the
Dixie Cotton Pickers. The oc
casion will be the annual Christ
mas dance and will be held in the
Student Union Ballroom of Me
morial Hall,
A large attendance of DeMolays
and guests is expected to be on
hand for the festivities. Refresh
ments will be served during the
evening. Highlighting the affair
will be the presentation of a sil
ver loving cup to the winner of
the current “Ugly Man” contest.
DeMolays competing in the con
test are Buck Upchurch, Tommy
Blasingame, Marion Caskey, Fred
dy Nash, and Billy Dunnaway.
Votes are collected by receiving
one cent donations to the Chapter.
Chaperones for the dances will
be D. Weaver “Dad” and Mrs.
Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lay,
C. O. Baker, and Mr. and Mrs.
F. P. Blasingame.
Members of the chapter are re-~
minded that they are allowed to
bring extra guests to the dance
with the purchase of one invita
tion,
RED SANTA CLAUS
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 20— (AP)—
Chinese Reds are using a new
kind of propaganda on the Korean
war front—Christmas stockings.
The U. 8. Eighth Army said
cheese cloth stockings full of
Christmag cards, ch ‘presents,
and invitations to surrendet were
being “delivered” by the Reds.
Most are brought across the lines
by Korean farmers. Others are
sneaked across and left where Al
lied troops can find them. :
ATHENS, CA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1951,
Judge, Newsman
Disagree In
Defamation Case
By KEITH FULLER
LAKE CHARLES, La., Dec. 20—
(AP)—The trial of four newsmen
charged with defaming three
gamblers ended last night in a
disagreement between the judge
and one of the defendants on what
crimes involve moral turpitude.
“You call a man & thief and he
mllfht slap your face but if you
call a man a pimp he’ll kick your
brains out, I guarantee you,”
Judge J. Bernard Cocke told
Managing Editor Xenneth L.
Dixon of the Lake Charles Ameri
can Press.
Cocke took the cases under ad
visement. He said he would hand
down a decision some time after
the record is transcribed and oral
arguments and briefs are present
ed.
Dixon was the last of the de
fense witnesses. He, publisher
Thomas Shearman, co-publisher
William Hugh Shearman and Re
vorter Carter George were tried
on charges of defaming three gam
blers during an anti-gambling
campaign.
Prosecutor M. E. Culligan start
ed the tiff between Judge Cocke
and Dixon when he asked the 36-
year-old managing editor if he
thought the crimes of rape and
kidnapping involved moral turpi
tude.
Shameful Act
Turpitude is defined by the dic
tionary as a depraved or shameful
act.
Dixon said any departure from
the order of conduct established
by society might involve moral
turpitude.
Cocke said caustically:
“There are laws protecting a
man’s establishment from having
pies thrown around,” Cocke said.
He added that gambling and
drinking are wrong because the
law says they are wrong, while
crimes like murder or “defiling
the chastity of a woman without
her consent” are abhorrent to all
society.
The discussion was indirectly
referring to a part of the police
record the American Press attri
buted to one of the ~amblers, E. J.
Miller, The newspaper had listed
under Miller’s name the charges
of rape and kidnapping.
“Culligan maintained these
crimes were charged to another E.
J. Miller, a different man with
the same name as the gambler.
Culligan and Cocke both as
sailed the newspaper for its man
ner of gathering the records it
printed August 12 on its front
page.
The American Press reported
what was held to be the police
records of 15 persons with names
similar to some gamblers who had
pleaded guilty to gambling char
ges and received suspended jail
sentences.
Editor’s Note
An editor’s note stated that “un
der normal judicial procedure” it
was unusual to suspend sentences
of persons having a previous po
lice record for the same crimes.
The three gamblers took the
stand and testified that part of
the criminal record printed under
their names did not belong to
them.
Dixon was tried earlier this
month on charges of defaming
District Attorney Griffin T. Haw
kins, Assistant District Attorney
Melvin Wetherill and the 13 mem
bers of the County Executive Body
in connection with the anti-gam
bling drive.
City Editor James Norton—not
a defendant in the trial yesterday
—was tried on charges of defam
ing Sheriff Henry Reid,
Those cases also are pending
argument and briefs also.
Defamation, a misdemeanor,
carries a maximum penalty of one
year in jail and SB,OOO fine.
COX HONORED
ALBANY, Ga., Dec. 20—(AP)—
Businessmen and civie leaders of
Albany gathered last night to
honor Rep. E. E. Cox of Camilla,
Second District U. S. Representa~
tive on his return from Europe,
and heard him refer to the “ter
rific” amount of Government
spending in Washington.
Cox, at a dinner held in the Ra
dium Springs inn, added that the
price of security for America “will
come high.” ‘
Good Fellowship Fund
Deserted Mother And
4 Children Need Aid
l EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ban
| mer-Herald is publishing a series
| of case histories of worthy fam
| ilies who néed 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
unte me. Matt, 25:40.
Case No. 11 is that of a mother
'who has been deserted by her
'husband and has four children, a
| boy and girl, twins, aged three, a
| son two and a baby one. She takes
| care of her invalid father and her
hgick miather, They need help bad
fy. Call 474 and refer to Case No.
11, for further information.
Some help has come in on Case
! No. 10, but there is dire need for
{ bedding and warm gowns for the
| case. More help is needed also on
Staff Officers Delegated
Problem Of Policing Truce
Department Of Defense Continues
Check Of Red-Supplied POW List
JC-Sponsored
In connection with the OPERA
TION SAFETY program empha
sizing Holiday and Winter Traffic
Hazards for the period November
20-January 15 and sponsored in
Athens by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, Mayor Jack R. Wells
has issued the following procla
mation:
“WHEREAS the practice of
safety on the highways, in indus
try, and in the home for the avoid
ance of preventable accidents is
always an objective of great na
tional concern; and in these trou
blous times the eombined efforts
of all our citizens are required in
the forging of a defense program
upon which so many of our sons
in the field are now and in the
future may be increasingly de
pendent; and
“WHEREAS instead of conserv
ing our resources to the utmest
the stark fact is that as a people.
we are guilty of scandalous waste
of our national substance in our
continued tclerance of preventable
accidents; and the awful toll of
lives and maiming through the op
eration of automobiles on our
highways alone is a grave indict
ment of our patriotic intent; and
“WHEREAS in a little while we
shall be in the midst of a holiday
season, which will be the occasion
for more than ordinarily heavy
fraffic ’gn the ;t_rete;s Tndd'high
wWays.. mpmut ut the land, an
while such ‘season. of the ye‘fig‘
should be a joyous one, it will be
marred and saddened by useless
loss and blighting of many preci
ous lives if we do not recognize
our obligation to observe the
highest degree of sober care in our
use of motor vehicles during that
period; and
“WHEREAS laws and regula
tions in themselves, no matter how
effective their enforcement, can
not adequately serve unless they
are implemented by an aroused
public consciousness ,a recognition
of the deep personal responsibility
that rests upon each of every one
of us:
“NOW, THEREFORE, I Jack R.
Wells, Mayor of the City of Ath
ens, do fervently appeal to all my
fellow-citizens to throw off the
tragic apathy which is costing us
so dearly, and to take on in its
stead a militant determination that
avoidable accidents shall cease;
each so te rejolve firmly for him
self and to (emand of others dur
ing the forthcoming holiday season
and throughout the New Year of
1952.
“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand at the
City of Athens this twentieth day
of December in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and fifty
one.
JACK R. WELLS,
Mayor”
“Pon’t kill your holiday by ac
cident!”
Program Slogan
This is the slogan of the OPER
ATION SAFETY program. This
program is being promoted by the
Georgia Citizens Council and Jun
jor Chamber of Commerce in co=
operation with the National Safety
Council in its nationwide effort to
postpone the country’s one mil
lionth traffic death due this month,
“I¢ is ironic,” said Sheriff Tom
my Huff, who solicited the aid of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
in sponsoring this program for this
community, “that December, which
is traditionally the happiest time
of the year, is also the deadiiest.
This is particularly true this year,
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Case No. 9.
Good Fellowship Fund
The Good Fellowship Fund is to
aid the Athens school children
(both white and colcred) that are
in dire need of ciothing so wear to
school. There are more than one
hundred of these worthy children.
They are the future citizens of
our community, sc give them a
chance
The fund is now at $312.00 and
there is need for more money as
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
sweater can be secured for the
girls. Mail your check today to the
Good Fellowship Fund, in care of
the Banner-Herzld,
! By JOE HALL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—(AP)
‘The Defense Department still had
-about 250 names to check today on
the Communist-supplied list of
American prisoners of war in Ro~
rea. :
The Pentagon finished the first
phase of the huge job at 8:30 p, m.
(EST) last night. At that hour,
about 2,940 names on the full list
of 3,198 had been identified.
Telegrams making it a joyous
Christmas season for hundreds of
American families went out by
last night to nearly all of the next
of kin of the 2,940 men. But the
sorrow deepened for the many
more whose sons were not listed.
About 75 soldiers on the identi
fied list named nearest relatives
at overseas addresses. Messages
to these kin are to be sent today.
Prisoners identified at the Pen=
tagon included 2,724 soldiers in
addition to the 75 with mu:;
next of kin, eight Navy men,
Marines and 76 airmen.
Special Problems
The approximately 250 remain
ing to be identified presented spe
cial e(fmblt.-ms. The Pentagon de
cided at 8:30 last night to tackle
these today. At that hour, the
staff working on the list had been
on duty 26% hours, ever since the
names began pouring in from Tok
yo Tuesday night, -
"They had been handed to United
Nations officers several hours
earlier at Panmunjom, Korea, the
site of the truce negotiations.
Even though the checking and
dispatching of telegrams covering
the 2,940 names were finished last
night, the Defense Department
continued working through the
night to get the full Mst out to the
press and radio.
Except for those with overseas
ki?;bfnd those ogrezenting fgec&l
pr qmfihnfi the job of processing the
lists of names for n%w?m was
finished at 7:03 a. m, EST. That
was almost exactly 36 hours after
the Pentagon started the task.
Those lists gave home towns, street
addresses and nearest velatives.
11,051 Missing
There are 11,051 Americans of
ficially listed as missing in action
in Korea, so the release of the
names meant tragedy in at least
two homes for every one where
it brought happiness.
President Truman joined high
military officials yesterday in em-=
phasizing that the list is “com=-
pletely unverified.”
“This country has no way of
verifying whether the list is accu
rate or inaccurate, true or false,
complete or incomplete,” White
House Secretary Joseph Short told
reporters at Mr. Truman’s request.
“For the sake of the families
whose sons are missing in action;
everyone should treat this list with
skepticism.”
And even if the men listed by
the Communists are alive, they
still are in prisoner of war camps
with their release wholly depen
dent on the success of the ago
nizingly long drawn out truce
talks.
A Pentagon spokesman gave
some hope that the Communist list
might .be an honest one.
He said that nearly all of the
names checked in the first phase
of the operation—and this phase
included more than 90 per cent of
the total—were found in the De
fense Department’s own official
list of missing.
“The number of discrepancies
has been negligible both in num-
Ler and in type,” the spokesman
said.
Many Mixups
The release of the names
brought its special heartaches for
some families when mixups in
identities developed.
Two families had a brief spurt
of hope that sons buried earlier
this year actually were alive in
prison camps, but these quickly
faded.
In Kansas City, Kas., Mrs. Hen
ry S. Smith heard that the name,
James W. Smith, was on the list.
This revived her belief that the
body buried at Fort Leavenworth,
Kas., last August was not that of
her son.
But the Pentagon quickly es
tablished that the James W. Smith
held as a prisoner was from Cross
ville, Tenn, with a different serial
number from that of the Kansas
City Smith.
Similarly, in San Diego, Calif,,
Mrs. Jean West, foster mother of
William O. Boyd, learned of that
name on the list and expressed
hope her son might be alive al
though his body purportedly had
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Rear Admiral R. E. Libby
thumbs through the list of pris
oners of war held by the Com
munists and given to the United
Nations ftruce negotiators at
Panmunjom. The list, which
was quickly transmitted to
Washington, contains the names
of 3,198 Americans and 8,361
other Allied prisoners said to be
held in Communist camps in
Korea.—(NEA Telephoto.)
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SUE HARDY
FOR §90,701
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 — (AP) —
John R. (Fat) Hardy, who faces
a life sentence for his part in the
poison liquor deaths of 38 persons
last Oc¢tober, has been sued for
$90,701 by the survivors of ene
victim.
Named as co-defendants in the
suit were three men accused of
helping Hardy mix the fatal brew
and the druggist who supplied
wood alcohol for the mixture.
Three minor children of Ola
Mae Wright, a negro, are plaint
iffs in a suit filed yesterday by
attorney Joe Salem against Hardy;
Druggist C. B. Wheeler, who
admitted selling Hardy the wood
alcohol, and Roger Smallwood,
Richard Weems and L. O. Riggins.
During Hardy’s triai Smallwood
and Weems admitted that they
helped Hardy mix the lethal li
quor on a Gwinnett County farm.
Riggins was identified by Weems
as his boss, a wholesale bootlegger.
These three have been charged
with involuntary manslaughter
and currently are free on bond.
The suit asks $50,000 punitive
damages and $40,701 on the basis
of the deceased woman’s life ex-
Ipectancy.
Wheeler testified during Hardy’s
trial that he thought Hardy was
a garage operator and needed the
alochol in his business. He denied
knowing that the wood alcohol
was to be mixed in moonshine.
' The other four are also defend
‘ants in a SIOO,OOO damage suit
filed Nov. 1 by the husband of an~
other of the moonshine victims.
"Fix" By Solons
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—(AP)
-—Senator Monroney (D.-Okla.)
said today he will introduce in
January a bill to prohibit any
member of Congress from inter
fering in a tax case pending be
fore the Internal Revenue Bureau.
Monroney, one of the authors of
the Congressional reorganization
act of 1946, said his proposed
measure also would (1) place tax
collection agents under civil serv
ice, (2) require publication of any
intervention by a lawmaker in
RFC loan cases, and (3) bar pen
sions to officials convicted of
breach of public trust. *
Meanwhile, a House Ways and
Means subcommittee investigating
Internal Revenue Bureau scandals [
called in Henry (The Dutchman)
Grunewald to explain his asso
ciation with Internal Revenue of
ficials,
Although Grunewald demanded
an open hearing, today’s session
was to take place behind closed
doors (2 p. m.,, EST).
Grunewald, something of a
mysterious figure along the fringe
of Washington officialdom, has
been portrayed as am intimate of
Charles Oliphant, recently re
signed chief counsel of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau; and an old
friend of George J. Schoenernan,
whe resigned last June.
Until Monday night, Grunewald
was in a Washington hospital suf
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EDITION
Action Termed
BY G. A. McARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, Deec. 20.
—(AP)—Truce negotiators
turned the problem of how
to supervise a Korean armis
tice over to staff officers to
day in a “one-shot effort” to
break the long deadlock.
The staff officers met for
two hours at Panmumjom.
Then they adjourned wuntil
10 a. m. Friday (8 p. m.,
EST, Thursday). There was
no report of what happened.
An official Allied spokesman
said U, N, subcommittee delegates
suggested calling in the gtaff offi
cers because there had been no.
progress for days.
“I give you my solemn werd,”
said Brig. General Willam P.
Nuckols, “the decision to appoint
the staff officers was because of
the lack of progress rather than
because of any progress.”
Earlier in the day the Commu
nists suggested their version of a
compromise.
Red Requesis
They asked the Alkes to (1)
permit construction of Nerth Ko
rean airfields, (2) accept the Red
proposal for inspection by meutral
teams at specified points, and (3)
drop 2 demand for aerial observa
tion over all Korea.
In return, the Communists said
they “might consider” the U. N.
demand for unlimited rotation of
troops and replenishment of
equipment and supbplies.
The U. N. is represented at the
staff officers’ session by Air Force
Colonel Don O. Darrow, Tacoma,
Wash., and Air Force Colonel An
drew Kinney,
l The regular subcommittee will
meet Friday at 1 p. m. (11 p. m.,
EST, Thursday) regardless of the
outcome of the staff officers’ ses
sion.
There has been no announce
ment as to whether the subcom
mittee on prisoner exchange will
meet Friday., There was no ses
sion Thursday. Allied negotiators
said they needed more time e
check the list ‘of 115890 Allied
prisoners supplied by the Com-~
munists Wednesday.
The actual method of exchang
ing prisoners remains to be work
ed out. 7
But the Eighth Army announced
everything i set to fly all T.N.
personnel to Japan after they are
freed. Plang also are being made
for moving 132,472 Chinese and
North Korean prisoners morth
ward from Allied prison camps.
POW Processing
Allied prisoners will be taken
first to reception centers in Korea
for identification, gmumry
medical checkups and new umi
forms. Then they will be flown to
Japan,
South Koreans will be precess
ed through Korean medical chan
nels,
In the truce town of Panmun
jom staff officers took as a basis
for discussion the latest Com
munist proposal for policing an
armistice, with some U. N. modi
fications.
Allied negotidtors mseid they
would accept the Red plans as =
starting point. But they specified
there would be no modification of
the U. N. demand for a ban on
the repair or construction of North
Korean airfields and a freeze om
the military strength of both sides,
with full rotation.
The Allied suggestion to eall in
staff officers raised immediate
speculation that the U. N. might
take a different approach to the
deadlocked issue.
Major General Howard Turner
told the Communists repeatedly
that the U, N. command will not
'modify its insistence om bamning
airfield construction during am
! armistice.
. Chinese Major General Hsieh
Fang declared bluntly: “An inde
pendent sovereign state has the
‘inviolable right either to build its
facilities or not, either during the
war or during the period of an
armistice.”
Only seven days remain before
the provisional cease-fire line
agreement expires. Negotiators
agreed November 27 that the line
will become the center of a 2%
mile wide buffer zone acress Ko~
rea if an armistice were signed
within 30 days.
2 Cars Damaged
.
By Falling Tree
A huge tree on the courthouse
corner of Washington and Jacksen
streets, overburdened with ice,
crashed just after noon today.
The tree fell across Jackson
street and almost demolished a
1?531 Claavrol.et pg;ktecll by the side
of the Georgian Hotel, w-ah:x
crushing the top and rear
A Plymouth parked behirs |
other car was also badly: §
Owners of the cars had :
them, locked the dcors and at 1.30
p. m. had not returned.
City working were clearing up
the debris shortly after the tree
fell this afternoon.