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-MINE INVESTIGATION BEGINS—John
L. Lewis (center), president of the United
Mine Workers, stands with local union
presidents Hugh White (left), and Sher
man Whitlow at the Orient Mine No. 2 in
West Frankfort, 111., at start of investiga
tion to determine cause of the nation’s
worst mine disaster in 23 years. The in
Few Coal Miners Idle:
[0 Sign Of Mass Strike
WEST FRANKFORT, 111.,, Dec. 27.—(AP)—A few of
the nation’s coal miners remained idle today in memory of
West Frankfort mine blast victims but there was no indi
cation of @ mass work stoppage.
Investigators still are seeking
the cause of the explosion that
prought death to 119 men.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers Union, said
he made some “definite conclus
fons” about the cause, but he
wouldn’t elaborate,
Federal, state and company in
vestigators, who spent eight hours
in the mine yesterday, won’t com
ment until the inquiry ends. They
planned another eight-hour study
today. L e
Lewis had nothing to say about
the walkouts or a report he might
call & 10-day “memorial work
stoppage.” He described the latter
as a rumor.
Walkouts Neot Ordered
Other wunion officials said the
walkouts were not ordered by the
union, but added the men were
leavintg their jobs in sympathy
with the West Frankfort victims.
Two mines in Arkansas were
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State Officials
Seeks Ways For
Safer Driving
ATLANTA, Dec. 27 — (AP) —
Georgia’s record-smashing Ckrist
mas holiday traffic death toll has
moved state officials to seek meth
ods of making the highways less
hazardous.
Highway accidents killed 28 per
sons in Georgla during the long
Yule weekend, placing the state
third in the nation in the Associat
ed Press count of such fatalities.
Only California and Texas, topped
Georgia’s grim record.
Col. George Wilson, state di
rector of publie safety, announced
yvesterday that he will add 25
troopers to the State Patrol next
Month in an effort to ge a better
policing job done on Georgia’s
traffic arteries.
Zack Cravey, a member of the
public Safety Board, criticized the
patrol after making a holiday
journey by automobile and failing
to encounter any troopers. He
called for stricter enforcement of
traffic laws.
Road Patrolling
Col. Wilson replied that every
available man was patrolling the
roads during the Christmas season
and added that this would also be
true during the long New Year's
holiday,
Rep. Howard Overby of Hall
County said he expects the Gen
eral Assembly to enact his uniform
traffic code when it convenes here
next month. The measure would
require annual inspection of mo
tor vehicles.
When the code becomes law,
said Overby, “unsafe motor vehi
cles will be taken from the high
ways. This should lower the death
rate.”
Overby’s bill was defeated in
the last legislature after strong
opposition from bus companies
and railroads.
Support for the Overby proposal
came from Garland Byrd, director
of the Georgia Citizens Council,
which has adopted highway safety
as its chief project.
State Patrol Praised
Byrd praised the State Fatrol
and urged better enforcement of
traffic laws at the local level. He
said the patrol was doing a good
job “witl!x, what it has te work
with.”
Nofin: that 23 of the 28 deaths
Occurred in rural accidents, Byrd
asserted:
“The increase in deaths in the
;urial areas t:an be ath'thuted, t«;
arge extent, to the 0
local enforcem. &tm&%{fid a
%::'k”ot severe penalties to vicla-
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
vestigation was conducted jointly by
union, federal, state and ecompany offi
cials. Lewis would not confirm or deny
speculation the nation’s miners may stage
a work stoppage as a memorial to the 119
miners who died in the explosion. — (AP
Wirephoto.)
Florida Blasts
Continue Affer
Mysterious Call
AMIAMI, Fla,, Dec. 27—(AP)—
nother mriow‘em . oe=
curred in the Miami area early to
day just four hours after a blast
shook a wide area in suburban
Hialeah.
The explosions followed warn
ings by dynamiters yesterday that
they planned to strike again.
In both instances police were
unable to determine the exact 10~
cation of the explosions and no
damage was reported.
Two Coral Gables patrol cars
reported hearing the latest blast
about 3:30 a. m. (EST) and con~
tacted headquarters immediately.
Officers later talked to residents
awakened by the noise.
The explosion in Hialeah came
last night at 11:30 p. m. (EST).
Squad cars checked all houses
of worship, such as have been tar
gets in many of the 11 blasts set
off here since last June, in the
Hialeah-Miami Springs area but
found all undamaged. 7
Safety- Director William G.
Kimbrough of Coral Gables re
ported two calls warned him
Wednesday that the dynamiters
are planning further acts.
He said a caller with a heavy
foreign accent telephoned him
Wednesday morning and warned:
“We just want to let you know
we've got plenty of dynamite left.
We have no preference as to what
kind of church it is. We intend to
go on bombing churches.”
At about 11 p. m., Mrs, Kim
brough answered the telephone
and was told: < L
“We're going to blow up the
Jewish center at Galiliano (street)
and Zamora (avenue) tonight.”
She said she recognized the
voice as the same which had de
livered previous bombing threats.
While authorities were investi
gating the latest Miami incidents,
Sheriff J. B. Henderson of Dade
county sent two of his top aides
to Mims, Fla., where a blast Tues
day night killed Harry More, co~
ordinator of the National Associa=
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People for Florida, and in
jured his wife.
New blasts were reported in the
northwest section of Miami
Wednesday morning, No damage
was reported.
About $9,000 in rewards have
been offered for the arrest of the
dynamiters.
Student Show ls
Set For Jan. D
January 25 has been set as the
date for the annual Lions Club
Amateur Show here, Lions Presi
dent J. W. Henry announced to
day.
Previously the club president
had anmcunced that the widely
known amateur show would be
held in late January and the Judge
Arthur Oldham of Athens City
Court would be master of cere
monies.
As in years past the show will
be held in the Fine Arts Auditori
um on the Universit{ of Georgia
campus. Tickets will go on sale
soon, with children tickets selling
;or go cents and adult tickets for
1.00.
Prizes to winners thig year will
{otal mlmost S3OO, Henry stated.
First place winners in the chiidren,
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Steel Leaders
Meet: Believed
To Delay Strike
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27— (AP)
—The steel crisis came to a head
today with union policy makers
meeting to decide whether to
strike or work.
While leaders of the CIO-United
‘Steelworkers gave no hint what
ikind of action they may take, it
was believed generally they will
vote to delay the nationwide strike
}set for New Year’s Day.
The union’s 36-mran executive
committee met at 10 a. m., EST.
The 170-member wage-policy
‘board was to meet this afternoon.
to-last" two hours or longer. ~
The executive committee makes
decisions; the wage-policy board
accepts or rejects them,
As the sessions are secret, no
announcement is expected before
the larger group completes its ses~
sion, probably late today.
Possibilities before the wunion
seemed to be:
(1) Acceptance or rejection,
complete or conditional, of Pres
ident Truman’s demand that the
wage fight between the 700,000-
man union and the steel industry
be turned over to the Wage Sta
bilization Board for study or set
tlement.
(2) Postponement of the strike
at least until January 3 when a
special international convention
will be held at Atlantic City to
plot the union’s future course.
Since Monday when Philip Mur
ray, president of both the CIO and
the USW, called for the meetings
there has been a virtual cessation
of strike preparations in the local
unions. Talk of a walkout has
been at a minimum.
Although most industry officials
are hopeful the scheduled shut
down will be postponed, they are
prepared to start banking fur
naces.
The union has asked an 18%
cent hourly pay boost for workers
averaging $1.93. The USW also
wants a guaranteed annual wage,
a union shop, elimination of geo
graphical pay inequities, improved
premium and incentive pay( and
other benefits. Some authorities
have estimated the entire package
would run to 30 or 50 cents an
hour.
The union says the pay raise is
necessary because of increased
living costs.
The industry has made no wage
offer. Its spokesmen have argued
that any pay raise would add to
the inflationary pressure. Also,
they declare, they cannot raise
pay unless they get an increase in
steel prices.
Missing AF Plane
Believed Crashed
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., Dec. 27 — (AP) — An Air
Force plane with eight persons
aboard was missing today, be
lieved down in storm-blown
Northern California.
The Alr Force withheld identity
of the five passengers and three
crewmen, returninfi on a rcund
trip flight to Fairchild Air Force
Base, Spokane, Wash.
The C 47 plane left Spokane yes
terday afternoon. It had fuel to
operate until about midnight
(EST).
The pilot reported over Klamath
Falls, Ore., near the California
border, about 7:15 p. m. (EST).
Then he headed for the Siskiyou
Mountains, snowy and rocky, and
the channel-like Sacramento Val
ley, flanked by ragged peaks.
Storm and darkness blocked air
search last night, Officers said it
would begin today under-the Air-
Sea Rescue Headquarters at Ham
ilton. AFB, across the Ban Francis
co Bay from here, i
The plane was attached to the
1733rd Air Evacuation SBquadron.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.,
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951.
U.S. Sabre Jess
Active: Ground
War Infermitient
BY JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 27.—(AP)
—American Sabre jets shot down
two Red jets and badly damaged
another in a renewal of air battles
over northwest Korea today, the
Fifth Air Force reported.
The MIG-15s were shot down
in a 30-minute battle between 32
saores and 50 fight-minded MIGs.
Earlier 100 MIGs had run for
cover when a filght of Sabres
opened up on them. The Fifth Air
Force said no American planes
were hurt in either encounter,
The air war broke out anew in
clear skies as Allied infantrymen
fought in knee deep snow and
sub-zero temperatures near
Heartbreak Ridge to regain an
advance position cut off by the
Reds.
The Communists have been
fighting intermittegtly since
Christmas night to capture and
hold the outpost.
A company of Reds attacked
again shortly after last midnight,
just 24 hours before the end of a
30-day truce trial period.
The fight continued through the
bitter cold early morning dark
ness. By 7 a. m. the Reds cut off
the position.
United Nations troops counter
attacked at 11:10 a. m., the U, S.
Eighth Army reported, and at
noon “were fighting in knee deep
snow to regain the position.”
Infantry Stays On Sides
Chilled infantrymen of both
sides stayed mainly behind their
own lines. Patrols, as always,
roamed the No-Man’s-Land be
tween. The U, 8. Eighth Army re
ported that, for the third day
within a month, no American sol
diers were killed in ground action
in the 24 hours ending 6 p. m.
Wednesday.
Temperatures on the eastern
front dropped to an icy 5 degrees
above zero (F.) and were well
below freezing elsewhere.
In the air, while the Sabre jets
hunted for MIGs and flew cover
for heavier planes, fighter-bomb-~
ers resumed their relentless at
tacks on North Korean roads, rails
and supply lines. .
Fifth Air Force said 237 sor
ties were marked up by noon
Thursday. Most of tlre attacks
were against communications
areas in northwest Korea.
Red Rail System Shattered .
Lt.« General 0. P. Weyland,
commander of Far East Air For
ces, said in a special communique
that the aerial bombardment of
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Maid's Daughter
Tells Of Purchase
Of Marijuana
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 — (AP)—
The adopted daughter of Tallulah
Bankhead’s former maid-secretary
says a shopping trip for the
actress was a search for “blduses,
slacks, shoes, medicine and mari
juana.”
But a state objection cut the
shopping list short at this é)oint
as 21-year-old Josie Person Corn
in testified yesterddy at the trial
of her foster mother, Mrs. Evyleen
Cronin.
The 59-year-old Mrs, Cronin is
charged with forgery and larceny
for allegedly raising the figures
on Miss Bankhead’s checks. The
trial today enters its 12th court
day before an all-male general
sessions jury.
Miss Cornin, a pretty red-haired
girl took the witness stand to tell
how she shared her foster mother's
duties as Miss Bankhead's em
ployee.
First, the young witness told of
one shopping trip she made with
the defendant for Miss Bankhead.
Then, under g_\;estioning by de
fense attorney Fred G. Moritt, Miss
Cornin said in April 1950 Miss
Banl,:head “asked me to get coca~
ine.”
Assistant district attorney Jer
ome Kidder wvigorously objected
a second time, and Judge Harold
Stevens ordered the cocaine re
mark stricken from the record.
In a high, girlish voice, Miss
Cornin gave this description of the
duties she shared with her foster
tx:mg&her in the Bankhead house
old:
“We were maids, We did the
cooking, cleaning the house, buy
ing and shopping, fixing up the
guests. We did everything for her.
I also did the maid work at the
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Place For DeMolay
““Fun-Degree Will
Be Legion Cabin
Announcement was made today
by Nelson Nash, Master Councilor
of the Frank Hardeman DeMolays,
that the place of the “Fun-Degree”
slated for 6:30 tonight has been
changed. The degree will be held
at the American Legion Cabin on
Lumpkin Street instead of at Dad
Bridges cabin on the Talassee
Road. ;
The “Fun-Degree” is the only
degree in the DeMolay work that
is of a light nature and the boys
who'have joined the Chapter are
not eompelled to take the degree
ig) remain members in good stand
g.
A special Invitation is issued te
all old members of the Chapter
and te members of Masonry who
would like to attend the degree.
Candidates for gne degree are
asked to bring their fathers, if
their fathers are members of
masonry,
Cease-Fire Agreement Expires
Renewal Indications Sparse
Libby Says Reds Hinted
Allied Prisoners Dead
BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 27, — (AP) — The thirty-day
Korean cease-fire line agreement ran out today on “a
rather ominous note” in truce talks about Allied prisoner
of war deaths. =
Single Army To
Be Studied By
European Meef
PARIS, Dec. 27— (AP)—Lead
ers of six European countries meet
here today to devise a plan for
pooling their military strength in
to a single, one-uniform conti
nental army. :
They have several points of dis
agreement on which compromises
must be worked out.
The best guess was that they
would be successful on a compro
mise agreement to create a high
commissioner job that would make
one man a sort of European De~
sense Minister. His job would be
to recruit a European army of 43
divisions in the next three years.
France and Italy would provide
12 divisions each. Germany’s pro
posed 14 divisions and the five
from the Benelux countries—Bel
gium, The Netherlands and Lux
embourg—would be stripped down
versions of not more than 13,600
men each.
They would be merged into in
ternational corps and armies and
their supply lines would be strictly
international.
Optimism that agreement could
be reached was based mainly on
reports that the French would be
willing to compromise simply to
get the European army formed.
The French seem to think organi
zational defferences can be solved
later after a trial period of one to
three years of actual practice.
Two main differences confront
the delegates in addition to the
comparatively minor problem of
whether the European Army shall
be bossed by a single high com
missioner or a governing body of
defense ministers of all six na
tions.
Main Points
The main points are (1) wheth
er to draft a coinmon budget for
the army and levy taxes aaginst
the six countries to finance it and
(2) whether to allow any of the
six member countries to exercise
veto power over plans for army
expansion or operation.
Belgian Premier Paul Van Zee
land has been plumping for a plan
that would allow each country to
contribute troops at its own ex
pense and retain authority to wih
draw them at will,
It is understood Van Zeeland’s
based his stand opposing ali-out
merger on his own domestic politi
cal situation and that France and
other nations might take this sit
uation into account and yield here
and there.
Prepare Germdn Troops
The big idea of most is to get
German troops ready to face the
Soviet East as soon as possible.
Delegates are expected to work
through = Saturday getting their
plan ready for consideration of
the meeting of the North Atiantic
Treaty Olt}‘anization (NATO)
Council at Lisbon Feb, 2. .
If they make it, the entire
European Army would be turned
over to General Eisenhower as
part of the Allied defense force.
KOREAN CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 —(AP)
— Announced U. 8. battle casual
ties in Korea have risen to 103,418,
including 17,670 battle deaths and
11,048 currently listed as missing
in action. The new totals were
announced by the defense Depart
ment late yesterday, The sum~
mary covers notifications to next
of kin through last Friday.
NEVADA’S OLDEST MAN
ELKO, Nev., Dec. 27 — (AP) —
Billie- Mose, an Indian who said
he could remember when Salt
Lake City’s population of 16 per
sons lived in a single log cabin,
died Tuesday night.
Mose was believed to be 112
year old, Nevada’s oldest indian.
WEATHER
Continued fair and cold
through Friday night. Sajurday,
fair and warmer, Low tonight
22-26. High tomorrow 45. Low
Saturday 26-30. Sun sets today
at 5:31 and rises tomorrow at
7:38.
GEORGIA — Fair and rather
cold this afternoon, fair and
colder tonight. Friday, fair and
continued cold. Low tempera
ture tonight 22-28 in north, 28-
36 in south.
TEMPERATURE
DR ovs T ee 2B
SR i S B
SENOE vis wsai dvin ansk sl
DEURIINT oo o g N LAR
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ~. .01
Total since December 1 ... 6.19
Excess since December 1 .. 2.29
Average December rainfall. 4.59
Total since Januaary 1 ~ ..42.32
Deticit since January 1 ... 6.75
There was no indication here of
plans to extend the agreement re
sponsible for the 30-day twilight
war. The full five-man armistice
committeers which signed the
original agreement Nov. 27 did
not even meet. An official U. N.
spokeman said neither side asked
so an extension,
But in a subcommittee session
at Panmunjom Thursday, Rear
Adm. R. E. Libby said the Com
munists hinted: They may report
many of the 50,000 unaccounted
for Allied prisoners of war died of
exposure and disease.
Libby said it was *“a rather
ominous note. It might have been
a forwarning that all these peo
ple died of illness.”
Truce negotiators will meet as
usual today, 11 hours after ex
piration of the 30-day Xorean
cease-fire agreement,
Subcommittees working on the
problems of exchanging war pri
soners and supervising a fruce
still were deadlocked when they
adjourned their last session before
the scheduled expiration hour. The
agreement was timed to run out
at midnight (10 a. m, EST) Thurs
day.
Each committee scheduled an
other meeting for 11 a. m. Friday
(9 p. m, EST Thursday) in Pan
munjom,
Washington sources expressed
belief Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
would approve a 15-day extension
of the period in which the 145-
mile line drawn across Korea Nov.
27 could become a permanent
cease-fire line,
High diplomatic officials in
Washington said the Supreme U,
gfi commander had bteen autl:;riz
to approve an extensi up
to 15 &l;s if he felt me‘wu
hope of reaching an agreement,
On Nov. 27 negotiators drew a
tentative case-fire line and agreed
it would become the center of a
2% mile wide buffer zone if an
armistice were signed within 30
days.
Otherwise the line would be re
drawn just before a truce is signed
to follow changes resulting from
battle action.
Expiration of the case-fire line
afreement could bring an ex
plosive end to the month-long lull
on the battle front; or the twilight
war could continue while negbtia
tions go on.
Front Cold And Quiet
. The front was cold and relative
ly quiet Thursday as temperatures
dipped below zero in some sectors.
A company-size Red attack on the
eastern front near Heartbreak
Ridge cut off one Allied unit. U.
N. forces counterattacked in knee
deep snow and bitting cold.
In Thursday’s fruitless talks in
snow-swept Panmunjom each side
accused the other of needlessly
delaying the truce.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho charged that the U. N.
wasted time by refusing to agree
to a Communist proposal for an
all-for-all exchange of prisoners.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby told the
Reds they wasted 12 days by re
fusing to set up a prisoner ex
change subcommittee, then de
layed for another eight days before
iligreeing to exchange prison<)
ts.
List Deceptive
| The list finally submitted by the
Reds was “fatally deceptive,” Lib
‘by asserted.
In a nearby tent, the Com
munists verbally promised not to
build up their armed strength dur
ing an armistice. But they re=
fused to put it in writing.
Six times in 30 minutes Maj.
Gen. Howard M. Turner tried to
get the pledge on paper. But each
time Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh
Fang evaded a direct answer or
said no reply was necessary since
the Communist stand on supervi
sion of a truce was well known.
. Libby asked the Reds for more
information on the 726 American
prisoners the Reds said Wednes
day had died, escaped or been re
leased.
Lee Asked How Men Died
He asked Lee to state specifical
ly how each of the 571 men died,
where they died and where they
were buried. A written Red re-~.
port said the prisoners died of il-
Iness of were killed in air attacksi
or by artillery while being march
ed from the front,
Libby also asked when and
where 152 Americans escaped and
when and where three others were
released.
The Reds said neither Allied war
prisoners nor internees were bheing
held in China.
Libby said the denial was “dif
ficult to believe” in the light of |
inforranation held by the Allies. l
Libby’s line of questioning was a
continuation of U. N. efforts to
learn the fate of more than 50,000
missing Allies, most of them South
Koreans.
The Reds had some complaints
of their own about the Allied pri
soners list.
The U. N. command explained it
did not include the names of 1,456
prisoners on list because the men
would not identify themselves.
The U. N. said approximately
40,000 names forwarded to the Red
cross were not on the prisoner list
because ' they had been reclassi
fied as South Korean civilians.
Read Daily by 25,000 People In Athens Trade Arer
Hints From Hungary
Indicate Airmen Freed
%
VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 27.— (AP) —Communist Hine
gary kept tight secrecy today on how and when she intends
to let four American fliers go free across the Iron Curtain.
Christmas Day
Heel Slashing
Investigated
BUFORD, Ga., Dec. 27.—(AP)—
State prison officials today began
looking into a Christmas Day heel
slashing outbreak which sent
about 30 of Georgia’s incorrigi
bles into solitary confinement.
Warden Hubert L. Smith of the
state’s new Rock Quarry Prison
said yesterday that the hardened
inmates cut their heel tendons
with a safety razor blade to es
cape work. Most of the cuts were
light, he reported, and the pris
oners were confined to solitary
cells after the prison doctor sewed
their self-inflicted wounds.
The prisoners, who make up
about one-fifth of Rock Quarry’s
inmates, began slashing their ten
dons following a big Christmas
dinner, the warden related. He
said one of the group obtained a
razor blade, cut himself, and the
instrument was then passed rap
idly to the others.
Warden Smith and J. B. Hatch=
ett, assistant director of the State
Board of Corrections, named Roy
and* Joseph Mauldin, Rudolph
Chandler and Earl Curtis Taylor
as ringleaders atr m%‘g
declined to list the others un
the inquiry, headed by Hatchett,
can be completed.
The prisoners reportedly were
demonstrating against limited vis
iting privileges and a lack of
reading material and radios at
Rock Quarry.
The warden said, however, that
“they did it just to get out of
work.”
All the men named as ring
leaders are serving long sentences
for armed robbery. Taylor and the
Mauldin brothers have escaped
several times from various state
penitentiaries and fled the “es
cape-proof” Fock Quarry last Sep
tember. They were swiftly recap
tured.
Hatchett termed the incident
“an attempt to arouse public sym=
pathy by a group of men who re
fuse even to accept social respon
sibilities in an average prison.”
Rock Quarry Prison has had a
turbulent history since it was
opened a year ago.
Its first warden was Ed Clem
ents, who directed the skilled
conviets who built the structure.
He was dismissed after an argu
ment with the State Corrections
Board over regulations governing
inmates.
W. N. McHan, who succeeded
Clements, was relieved after six
prisoners escaped September 24,
although an inquiry cleared all
prison personnel of responsibility
in the break.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 27 — (AP)—
Gen. Douglas MacArthur has
been named “man of 1951” in a
poll of the Governor of 48 States
conducted by the CBS-TV pro
gram “man of the week.”
- He was awarded a glaque yes=
terday by J. L. Volkenburg, presi
dentl:‘ of the CBS Television net
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EDITION
The four fliers were jailed 38
days ago when Russian fighter
planes based in Hungary forced
down their unarmed C-47 earge
plane.
The United States givernment
agreed to pay fines totalling $120,~
000 to save the men from three
months in a Hungarian prison.
American legation officials in
Budapest, the Hungarian mfl;'l‘
tried repeatedly today teo
straight information on freedom
| for the airmen.
| U. 8. Charge D’Affaires George
| Abbott in Budapest sought an ap
| pointment with Foreign Minister
Karolyi Kiss, but up to noon (6
a. m. EST) he had been shunted
aside. :
Abbott and Walter J. Donnnelly,
U. S. Ambassador to Austria,
talked on the telephone hourly.
Abbott couldn’t even find out
whether the men will be let loose
at the Hungarian horder or turned
| over to the legation in Budapest.
| A Hungarian military court se
§retly convicted the four airmen
02 days ago on an accusation
th they deliberately violated
Hungary’s border to size up the
ground for later spy dropping.
The American explanation—
sent to the Hungarians in a note
which the Red regime curtly re
jected—is that the plane got lest
on a routine flight and {its erew
had nothing to do with spying.
Abbott Refuses To Talk =
Abbott, reached by tele 2
refused to~ discuss” arrangement
for paying the fine. " Although
was unable to reach any official
for information, he sald he ex
pected no undue delay or diffi
culty in arranging the airmen’s
freedom. e
Ambassador Donnelly planned
to send an embassy representative,
or go himself, to meet the fliers
if he could learn In advance they
were being released on the Austro-
Hungarian border.
If they were freed on the border,
some U. 8. official would have to
be there with permits to get them
across the Russian zone of Austria
to Vienna,
U. S. Alr Force authorities in
Germany assumed the fliers would
be sent back through Vienna,
where American officials and
troops are stationed nearest the
Hungarian border, oo
Cryptie dispatches from Buda
pest, the Hungarian capital, said
yesterday there was “certain
signs” that the men had been
freed or would be fre2ed last night.
But reporters there eould not am
plify that reference or deseribe
events immediately. They are al
lowed to operate under “responsi
bility censorship,” meaning they
must not displease the government
of Hungary.
Despite American agreement to
pay the fines, mystery still
shrouded when and where the four
men would be set free. There wes
no direct evidence early today
from anywhere that the fines had
been actually paid.
Offer To Pay
~ The State Department offered
on Christmas day to pay. A
spokesman at the Hungarian z;
tion in Waghington said the
was - accepted. But Hungarian
banks, through which the monev
might have to be transferred, were
shut down until thig morning by
a three-day Christmas holiday. -
At Erding, Germany, a U. 8.
Air Force base, a plane was held
in readiness to fly the four men
back to Germany as soon as they
are released into Western terri
o SRR e b
i Their families in Germany wait
'ed expectantly. But none knew
in the early hours today when er
where the release would be.
The Erding base commander said
the fliers weuld be reunited with
their families as soon as possible.
The four fliers are Capt. Dave
'H. Henderson of Shawnee, Okla.,
Capt. John J. Swift of Glens Falls,
N. Y., T-Sgt. Jess A, Duff of
Spokane, Wash., and Sgt. James
A. Elam of Kingland, Ark. "
The Hungarian government kept
secret any facts on where snd
when they would be freed. Offi
cials refused even to tell U. S,
Minister Christian Rawvndal.
Ravndal told reporters in Buda
pest early today: “I have been
asking the Hungarian government
about the release of the four fliers,
but I have not received an answer. .
We asked them to let us know
where and when the men will be
released. Gyl £
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Calvary Baptist
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Revival Starts
The public is cordially invited
to attend the revival meeting
starting tonight at 7 eo’clock at
Calvary Baptist Church on the
Danielsville Road. it
Services will be held at that
hour each night with Rev. Joe
Parson, of Wadesboro, N. C, the
visiting evangelist, '
Rev. Virgil Edwards is sastor of
the church.