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Vol. CXIX, No. 296.
Christmas Part
Tragedy Kills 41
BY TED McKENNA
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec 24.—(AP) —Screams of dying
children and women left this city gripped today in the
horror of a Christmas party fire that took a toll officially
estimated at 41 or more lives.
Burned and broken remains were still being examined in
an effort to complete an accurate count. There were un
official estimates (by Chamber of Commerce President
Jorge D. Solar, for one) ranging up to 90 or more.
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Hungarians Hold
U. S. Hliers F
. 5. FHers ror
420,90 Ransom
By ENDRE MARTON Wi
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 24—
(AP)—Hungary has ruled the four
American fliers forced down in
their C-47 cargo plane by Soviet
fighters Nov. 19 must pay fines of
360,800 forints (abkout $30,000)
each or spend three months in jail.
The Government, in announcing
that yesterday, said they confessed
to violating the Hungarian bcrder
and acquiesced in the wverdict
sgainst them in military court.
(Their plane got lost while en
route from Germany to Yugosla
via with cargo for the U. S. em
bassy in Belgrade, American au
thorities announced after they dis
#ppeared. .
(Hungary and Russia later dis
closed they were being held and
their plane was impounded.
(The four were accused by the
Russians at the United Nations
Assembly last week of being
“spies and saboteurs.” The U. 8.
accused he Russians of “spy
mania).
The four are Capt. John J.
Swift of Glen Falls, N. Y.; Capt.
Dave M. Henderson of Shawiee,
Okla.; T-Sgt. Jess A. Duff of Spo
kane, Wash., and Sgt. James A.
Elam of Kingsland, Ark.
Official Effort
Officials of the American lega
tion here were trying to contact
the Hungarian foreign ministry to
day to find out who is supposed to
pay the fines, where the money
has to be paid, and how.
This is an official holiday in
Hungary so workers will have
three days off around Christmas.
Banks and Government offices
were closed.
(Reports telephoned from the
Budapest American legation to U.
S. authorities in Vienna said it
was doubtful whether the four
could be bailed out before Christ
mas.
George Abbott, U. 8. charge D’-
Affaires at Budapest, said efforts
to reach Communist officials to
learn the conditions for their re
lease were fruitless. He said the
Reds apparently were celebrat
ing the holiday and the banks
will not reopen until Dec. 27.
The legation apparently did not
have $120,000 or its equivalent in
forints in its vault. Abbott said he
was awaiting for instructions from
Washingfon on whether the Lega
tion would pay the fines. Late yes
terday he said the Legation had not
M{ly notified of the trial
“ ¢ the verdict.
~ Neo Cémmunication
American efforts to communi
cate with the fliers failed. And
U. S. Minister Christian Ravndal
said their trial -and conviction
came as a complete surprise to
him.
When told of the trial by re
porters vesterday, Ravndal said:
“We had no idea when a ‘trial
vwould be held. T really can't give
anvy comment now.” .
The government said the fliers
a‘mitted they violated the Hun
garian border near Gyula on Nov.
19, 1t said they faild to give a “sat
icfoctory explanation” of why they
h~d military maps of some parts
of Russia and the people’s de
rmocraies, why they had ‘“‘super
fluous numbers” of parachutes and
a radio transmitter and bundles
of blankets in the plane.
_ ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy with little
change in temperature tonight
and Tuesday. Rain possible
Tuesday night or Wednesday.
Low temperature tonight 30,
high Tuesday 52. Sun seis today
at 5:29 p. m. and rises Tuesday
7:37 a. m.
GEORGIA — Generally fair
and ne impertant change in
temperatures this afternoon,
.tonight and Tuesday.
TEMPERATURE
Highl 7. v .iaiss iIB
LOWSE ... 5.5 sl
MORD iovivsin siie sins sl
Noroguh .. hiis ii o adi P
RAINFALL .
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since December 1 ... 5.63
Excess since December 1 .. 2.03
Average December rainfall: 4.39
Total since January 1 .. . 41.76
Deficit stnce January 1 ... 7.00
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Dist. Atty. Francisco Gastanon,
jr., who announced the official es=
timate, said he believed it was the
highest toll of deaths in a single
fire in the history of Mexico.
88 Escape
Eighty-eight who escaped from
the burning, three-story building
downstairs to a single doorway,
were treated for burns al the
Miguel Aleman Hospital. Offi
cials said the only fire escape was
not only locked but boarded up.
Thirty-three were still in the
hospital, five or six on the verge
of death, doctors said.
Among the 33 were 19 children.
Officials said this probably indi
cates the ratio of little ones among
the dead. :
- Only 26 of the bodies had been
identified early today.
The annual party for needy
children was in full swing when
its joy was turned to terror at
11:15 o’clock Saturday night.
Accounts
There were different accounts
of how the fire started. Tijuana
Fire Chief Gill Chidez declared
that someone was criminally re
sponsible, He did not elaborate.
Everyone agreed the flames spread
with terrible speed from near the
location of a Christmas tree.
As panie took hold among the
300 or 400 people in the third floor
hall of the old coliseum building,
three blocks from Tijuana’s gay
main street, the lights went out.
“Then all was madness,” said Luis
Alrid, 34, radio station announcer.
“A tl;;t of people were tf;mp‘lad F
death before they awvere ‘
e N e S
in two rest rooms into which the
victims apparently had been push
ed by the erowds surging toward
the exits.
Others piled up and died on the
stairway.
Much Ceonfusion
The confusion was increased by
frantic mothers and fathers try
ing to get into the building to save
children. Firemen arrived aided
later by fighters from California)
but there was no pressure in the
water mains,
People leaped from lhe concrete
and wood building to the street
and crawled away injured. A wo
man ran among them with flam
ing hair.
U. S. Navy men in Tijuana for
a Saturday night of recreation
smashed windows and helped pull
children out. The dead and injured
were carried to the Aleman Hos
pital where Dr, Jose Maria Ocar
ranza, working through the night,
said: “This is the most hideous
tragedy I have ever seen.”
Some of the survivors said twe
rowdies knocked over the Christ
mas tree on the stage and that the
flames apparently started from
shorted electric lights.
U.S. Official s
Crash Fatality
TEHRAN, Iran, . Dec. 24—
(AP) — Dr. Henry 3. Bennett, U.
S. point four program director,
and seven other Americans were
killed Saturday night when their
plane crashed in a heavy snow
storm north of the capital. All 21
aboard perished in the disaster,
worst in Iran's air history.
The cash came when the four
engined plane owned by Egypt's
Airlines, struck the base of
a 10,000-foot granite range north
of Tehran.
Among the victims was Ben
nett’s wife, who had accompanied
him to Tehran for an offical five
day visit in connection with the
point four program of technical
aid to underdeveloped countries.
The Iranian government sent a
message of condolence to the Uni
ted States government,
In Washington, President Tru
man paid tribute to Bennett as,
«A great teacher of the simple
ideas of cooperation and brother
hood.”
Mr. Truman spoke of another of
the victims, Benjamin H. Hardy,
Chief Public Affairs officer of the
program, as_one of the creators
of the idea of helping underdeve
loped areas. Hardy was a native of
Barnesville, Ga. .
Secretary of State Acheson also
exg‘x}'lessed grief over the tragedy.
e American embassy here,
which had prepared elaborate
plans to entertain the Christmas
visitors, was plunged in gloom.
Other Americans aboard the
plane were James T. Mitchell,
Audio-Visual specialist; A, C.
Crilley, Bennett’s special assist
ant; Louis Henrik Jordan, Univer
sity of Michigan botanist, beileved
to have been @ a mission for the
United Nations Food and Agricul
tural Organization (FAO); Jesse
&eh Smi;th, repr&senting the cer;
eripial Cotten # G mpanv :
Colunibus, Ga.; a&? r's. Ehfl'setn
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Christmas - Spirit, Mayor Avers
CIO Steelmen’s
Reply Awaited
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—(AP)
President Truman today awaited
a reply from his appeal that the
CIO Steelworkers cancei a threat
ened New Year’s day steel strike.
CIO President Philip Murray
weighed his response in Pitts
burgh and the betting was about
even on whether he would accept
or reject the plea, Murray also
heads the Steelworkers Union.
Some labor leaders here felt
that the union executive commit
tee’s “no contract, no work” policy
meant going ahead with the sche
duled walkout when present agree
ments expire at midnight Dec. 31.
Others guessed that Murray will
have the Steelworkers’ committee
rescind the policy and call off the
strike, Mr. Truman said it was
the union leadership’s patriotic
duty to do so.
Murray remained silent. Ar
thur Goldberg, the union’s general
counsel, and one of Murray's top
advisers, was summoned from
hére to Pittsburgh last night. Pre
sumably other union leaders were
gathering to help draft the union
reply to the White House.
Mr. Truman acted Saturday
night after federal mediators had
failed to break the deadlock with
the indlstry over the union’s de
mands for an average 18 1-2 ceni
hourly pay boost and other con
cessions. Steel workers now aver
age just under $2 an hour. ;
The President sent the case to
the Wage Stabilization Board
(WSB) for a recommended solu
tion. The board promised early
hearings, but it can not complete
the case until after Murray’s
strike deadline, :
So Mr. Truman appealed to the
industry and union to keep steel
production going until the WSB
can come up with a suggested so
lution.
Steel output is now at record
levels but it still falls short of
staggering needs of defense and
civilian industry,
Mr. Truman’s statement said the
nation simply can’t stand a steel
strike now. He said it so positive
ly that it seemed clear he intends
to use every weapcn at his com
mand to avoid any stoppage.
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ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1951.
By JAMES PARLATORE
BETHLEMEM, Dec. 24—{AP)—
“There is no Christmas spirit in
Bethlehem,” the town that gave
Christmas to the world, Mayor
Elias N. Bandek said Sunday.
Members of the town council
in the birthplace of Jesus nodded
solemn agreement. ¢
“It is gloomy here for us,” Ban
dek said.
The 40-year-old chief executive
blamed “many things.”
“Business is bad. Many of us
who own property in Jewish-con~
trolled territory cannot reclaim
our property., Many of us are
broke, and there are too many
refugees here.”
The normal population of Beth
lehem is 15,000. Today, he said,
ther are 30,000, one-half of whom
are refugees from Israel-con
trolled territory. Another 12,000
displaced persons live in Bethle
hem suburbs.
Although some 4,000 Pilgrims
are expected to start arriving to
day, “less than a quarter of them
argd spending tourists,” Bandek
said.
Bandek hoped this would be
the biggest Christmas season in
three years, but it still would not
be enough to help the town’s econ
omy,
No Rush
There was no rush and excite~
ment of Christmas shopping like
that in American stores, Shops in
Bethlehem were empty of Buyers,
but stores displayed Christmas
decorations in their windows
Shop keepers blamed heavy
rains and floods this week for
: keeping many tourists away. Town
authorities blamed the Jews.
Before the Israel-Arab conflict
in 1948 closed the road from the
Jewish side of Jerusalem to Beth
lehem, Bandek said, about 20,000
or more tourists came each year.
Tourists today may arrive in
Bethlehem via the Jewish or Arab
Iside but cannot return homeward
through their entry place. They
must make a one-way through
trip-—if they are lucky enough to
have both Jordan and Israeli visas.
The Jordan government, three
years after the Palestine War, will
not give visas to tourists with
Israeli travel papers, so many Pil
igrims must approach Bethlehem
from Aman over a long, treacher
ous path that goes up and down
barren mountain sides, The trip
one way takes three hours by car.
Monks Celebrate
But Franciscan monks went
{ahead with plans to celebrate
l Christmas in St. . Catherine’s
! Church, adjacent to the Church of
| the Nativity.
[ The program calls for the ar
! rival in Bethlehem of Albert Gori,
| Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, at
{1:30 p. m. local time (..:30 a. m.
| EST) Dec. 24, An official parade
‘lknown as the “solemn ingresso”
then takes place.
| One-half hour later the patri
arch will lead a choir of 100 voices
i in chanting vespers and at 4 p. m.
! (9 a. m. BST) will lead a proces
sion from the church to the grotto
l,o_f nativity - where a 14.nginted
| silver. star indicates the spat where
‘tx‘bdiflon,sa{vs Jespus was born..
" (Continued On Page Three)
Banner-Herald
Wishes Readers
Merry Christmas
In accordance with its custom
the Banner-Herald will observe
Christmas Day and no paper
will be published that day in
order that employes of the pa
per may have the day with their
families.
This edition of the Banner-
Herald is being printed several
hours earlier than wusual, thus
necessitating the omission of
much late mnews that might
otherwise be printed.
The Banner-Herald extends
to its readers and the public its
best wishes for a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year.
THE BANNER-HERALD.
X X X
Nativity Scene
D. Weaver Bridges, assisted by
six DeMolays, Sunday erected the
Nativity Scene in front of the
Bridges home at 425 Cloverhurst.
This scene was first used about
twelve years ago and was viewed
by thousands of people from the
surrounding communities as well
as Athenians, One year it was
placed at the side of the First
Methodist Church and another
year was placed at Legion Park
on Lumpkin street. The entire
scene was sent to Neshoba county
in Mississippi another year and
e;i'ected there for the citizens to
view,
The scene is bathed in soft lights
at night and Christrras music is
played.
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AID UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN— Athens Kiwan
ians are shown above assembled for their annual Christ
mas party for underprivileged children here. Kiwanians
shown arve (left to right) Jim Gates, , Walter Martin;
Wieren-Phuemond. J. D, Boltan; Rev. H. C. Holland of
Communists Reject
New Allied Appeal
Kiwanis Party
Provides For
Underprivileged
Annual Christmas party was
held this year by the Athens Kiw
anis Club at its regular meeting
December 18th, This party has been
a yearly project of the Kiwanis
club for nearly twenty-five years.
Each year the club officers and
the wunderprivileged children’s
committee obtain from the county
welfare department a list of child
ren who probably would have no
Christmas without some aid from
outside the home.
Van Noy Wier, the secretary of
the club for many years, sends
each Kiwanian a slip of paper with
a child’s name on it. For example,
a slip will read: “Jean, age 9. The
mother of htis family has been fll
for six months. The father is in
prison and there are three other
small children besides this little
girl.” With this information, the
Kiwanian brings a gift of clothing,
and always a toy or two, to the
Christmas tree meeting.
The packages are marked with
slips and the welfare department
picks up the presents to distribute.
No Kiwanian knows to whom his
gifts go and no names of Kiwan
ians are put with the presents.
The custom has also developed
in the club to have the Christmas
season message given by the Rev.
Mr, Harvey. Bollandh: former
member of the club. . Holland
was the pastor of the First Metho
dist Church of Athens about five
years ago and was a Kiwanian
then. Although he has been away
form Athens for several years, he
has taken an active part in the an
nuai Christmas party of the Kiw
anis club for neariy ten years.
The officers of the club this
year have been Robert G. Step
hens, jr., president, John P. Bond
urant, vice-president and Van Noy
Wier, secretary and treasurer. The
officers elect for 1952 are John
P. Bondurant, president, A. D.
Soar, vice-president, and Van Noy
Wier, secretary and treasurer, Ro
bert G. Stephens, jr., will be dis
trict lieutenant-governor.
-
C. L. Harrison
.
Dies Today
Charles L. Harrison, 65, well
known resident of Oglethorpe
county, died at his home this
morning at 9:30 o’clock after an
illness of five months.
Services are to be held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Brown’s Baptist Church with Rev.
J. H. Wyatt, pastor of Lexington
Baptist Church, officiating. Burial
will be in Harrison family ceme
tery, Bridges Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
A merchant and farmer, Mr.
Harrison is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Willie Noell Harrison; daugh
ter, Mrs, J .P. Jackson, Lexing
ton; sister, Mrs. Dorsey Hopper,
Union Point; grandson, Larry
Jackson, Lexington, and a niece,
Miss Ozella Hopper, Union Point.
RUSSELL VIEWS
ATLANTA, Dec. 24—/AP)—
Sen Richard B. Russeil (D-Ga.)
thinks it may become necessary
to withdraw U. S. resources from
Western Europe “unless those free
nations develop a will to fight
Communism.”
But, the senator added in an in
terview on WSB-TV yesterday,
“we have by no means reached
the point where such action is nec
essary.”
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Neutral Postoffice For POW "
Mail Is Proposed By Commies
BY GEORGE A. McARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 24.— (AP)—General Matthew
B. Ridgway’s appeal to the Communist high command te
open the gates of North Korean prison camps to represen
tatives of the International Red Cross was rejected today,
a Communist correspondent at Manmunjom said.
However, the Reds proposed, and the U, N. quickly
agreed, to establish a postoffice in neutral Panmunjom se
prisoners of both sides could send and receive mail. De
tails will be worked out later.
With only three days remaining
until the provisional cease-fire
line agreement expires, there ap
peared slim chance that neaotla-i
tors would be able to agree on a
Korean armistice before the dead- ‘
line,
Along the quiet, wintry battle
front Allied troops beat back a se
ries of minor Red probing attacks.
But for the most part soldiers at
tended religious services and put
the finishing touches on grepara
tions for Christmas celebrations.
There was little ailr action except
for strikes against Communist
railways and supply facilities.
Six hundred soldiers jammed a
new chapel near the front Mon
day and heard Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New
York, celebrate his first wartime
mass in Korea.
A hand-written letter from Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean to his wife
in Berkeley, Calif., was turned
over to U, N, ngothtorl by the
Reds Monday in Panmunjom. The
letter immediately was put aboard
a plane for Japan. It will be for
warded to Mrs. Dean from Tokyo.
The letter was delivered soon
after a Communist W
told of interviewing ““former
24th division commander at a
prison camp near Pyongyang only
three days ago.
The prisoner of war subcom
mittee continued its haggling over
lists of prisoners exchanged last
Tuesday. The subcommittee work
ing on the problem of how to po
lice a truce reported no progress.
Both groups scheduled meetings
for Tuesday, Christmas Day, at
11 a. m. 9 p. m. EST Monday) in
a last-minute attempt to reach
agreement. \
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Jo struck a hopeful note.
“We hope we are trying to reach
an agreement before the 27th "of
December,” Lee said. “Of course
we will give priority to (exchang
ing) the sick and wounded (pri
soners). As the 27th is not far
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Mine Disaster
Leaves 119 Dead
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Dee.
24—(AP)—One survivor was res
cued from the West Frankford
mine disaster today and mine su
perintendent John R. Foster, set
ting the final death toll at 119,
said there “were no more alive.”
Rescued from the mine 550 feet
below the surface was Cecil San~
ders, 44, of Benton. He was taken
to the United Mine Workers hos
pital in serious condition,
Foster said:
“There are five men down there
—no more alive, We believe that
is all.”
. With 119 dead, the West Frank
fort blast is the nation’s worst
mine disaster in 23 years.
There had been an earlier re
port that some others trapped be
low may still be alive. However,
later inspection led to Foster's
statement that no more survivors
were in the explosion which rocked
the sprawling mine last Friday
night.
Atlanta, former pastor of Athens First Methodist Churéh
and guest speaker at.the meetinng; Ernest Crymes,
Swanton Ivy, John Bondurant, Bob Stephens, Tom
Jones, A. D. Spar, Van Noy Wier, Andy Denmau, Louis
Griffith and L. H. Christian. : Sl S
HOME
EDITION
Holiday Death
Mouns; 17 Dead
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By The Associated Press
Traffic deaths in the Georgia
area rose to 17 Sunday n!&t with
two days remaining of long
Christmas holidair weekend.
Eight persons lost their lives in
three mishaps. Separate aceidents
claimed the other vietims.
A head-on collision of {we suto
mobiles killed thres persons in
Augusta Sunday night. The office
of Richmond County sheriff Gary
Whittle reported the cars eollided
near the Augusta National Goif
course, kill:nbg Gordon Bosweli, 64,
of Kathwood, 8. C.; Marvin B.
Inglett, jr., of Martinez, Ga., and
Da;xid L. Chamberlain of A:ua:u
ve persons pe two
accidents Sflm'dzydi:“l 28-mile
stretch of U. 8. Highway 301 near
Jesup.
Mr. and Mrs., Perry Weathers
and Rozzie Weathers died in a
head on smashup on Highway 301
near Ludowiel.
Two negroes were killed in a
three-car accident near J::p. Sgt.
F. A. May of the State Pa jden
tiffed them as Leroy Gee, 40 and
Bernice Weatherspoon, 182.
A truck-auto eollislon near
Tucker Saturday fatally injured
Roy Samuel Hughes, 43 of At
lanta.
~ Jarnie Jarrell, 5!, of Cobins,
‘died in a highway mishap near
Collins Saturday night.
A mishap in South Carolina near
Augusta killed Mrs. Mary Barrett
Spears, 40 of Augusta Sunday the
South Carolina State Patrol re
ported.
A 21 year old negro was killed
Friday when his car left the road
and crashed into some trees. He
was identified as Algem Lene of
Waynesville.
James Everett Whitworth, 25 of
Atlanta died Friday when his car
seemingly went out of control and
rammed into a ditch,
Charles O. Boggs, 21 of Dallas
was killed on Highway 101 tfen
miles south of Rome when his ear
overturned,
Frank Gabel, 85 of Ball Ground
died when struck by a car five
miles west of Dawsonville Satur
day, - .
Vera Ray oJnes 19 montihs of
Jasper was killed and seven others
injured in an auto accident two
miles west of Genewva,
Pvt. Robert J. Cox, 20 of Ro
berts County Virginia, stationed at
Camp Rucker, Ala., was killed in
an accident near Stone Mountain.
TALMADGE mng
ATLANTA, Dec. 24—(AP)—In
his annual Christmas message
Gov. Herman Talmadge urged
Georgiang to “unite in the coming
year to spread the gospel eof free
dom and liberty and the worshs
of God to the remote corners
the earth.”