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Georgia Gl Is
Believed Held
By Russians
TENNILLE, Ga,, Dec. 28 —(AP)
— A Georgia soldier whom the
Russians claim is seeking refuge
behind the Iron Curtain from
Western “War Policy” is described
by an officer acquaintance as a
guy who “wouldn’t go Commun
ist.”
An Associated Press story
quoted the Russians as saying Pvt.
Sydney R. Sparks of Tennille, is
one of three American soldiers who
fled to Berlin’s Russian zone in a
personal protest against the west
ern powers’ “war policy.”
Sparks tep-father, J. W. Glad
den, said last night: “I absolutely
don’t believe Sydney holds any
such motions. He has some hard
luck, but he wouldn't want to turn
against thig country. I think he is
being held against his will.”
Sparks “wouldn’t go Commun
ist,” said Washington County
Sheriff A. W. Smith. “He pro
bably went AWOL and is now
peing held against his will.”
Smith said the soldier, who had
lived here all his life, had never
been in serious trouble before
going into the Army a year and a
half ago.
Sparks was quoted by a Soviet
ficionsed news agency (ADN) as
saving: *“ln Germany there are
now men of Geman nationality
who are being collected in a
quickly expanding army which has
black uniform and also arms. The
tormer Nazi-generals are at the
Lead of this Army. I believe this
to be the war policy of the United
States. But lam against it.” .
ADN said the other two Amer
jcans who deserted with Sparks
are Pvt. Ray B. Schultz, Batavia,
N. Y., and Pvt. Charles J. Scott,
Decatur, Il
Flight of the three men was
acknowledged by U. 8. authorities
last week.
Harold Sfassen
Will Seek
GOP Nomination
By LEE LINDER
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28—
(AP)—Harold E. Stassen, former
Governor of Minnesota, is going
to make a second attempt to win
the Republican nomination for
President of the United States.
Stassen, now president of the
University of Pennsylvania, last
night joined two other seasoned
GOP campaigners in the nomina
tion fight—U. S. Senator Robert
A. Taft of Ohio and Gov. Earl
‘Warren of California.
There was immediateé specula
tion that Stassen’s declaration
would slow down the drive of a
number of Republicans who have
been campaigning to get Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower into the
field. Mowever, backers of the
general discounted such specula
tion.
Stassen said some time ago he
would endorse the general’s nom
ination—if Taft *would do the
same. G
In faet, _;hat Minnesotan recent
ly asked Taft publicly tc quit the
race and support, with Stassen
the Eisemhower campaign.
But last night, before addressing
millions of Americans on a na
tionwide radio and television
simulcast, Stassen disavowed the
offer and said “it is all off now.”
“I am in the race without a
commitment to any other person,”
he declared.
He did admit, however, in a
hastily-called news conference in
Washington—where he flew three
hours before making his address
here—that he decided to seek the
presidency after speaking with
Fisenhower in Paris earlier this
month.
Parried Questions
He parried question after ques
tion, on Eisenhower’s intentions;
said he didn’t know what the gen
eral’s plans may be; and insisted
he'd stay in the race even if
Fisenhower decides to run.
Senators James Duff of Penn
sylvania and Henry Cabot Lodge
o Massachusetts, two of “Ike’s”
leading GOP backers, said Stas
sen’s decision would have no as
sert on the Eisenhower candidacy.
Both Warren and Taft, who like
Stassen lost the nomination to
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York in 1948, welcomed
Stassen into the political arena.
Attacking the present adminis
tration’s foreign and domestic pol
icies as “failures” and ‘“disade
trous,” Stassen said he would of
fer a “humanitarina- and liberal
D;O{lram” to the American peo~
ble. &
Platform
This is his platform: ;
_ 1. A new American foreign ppl
icy that would defeat Communism
without war, and give freedom to
all peoples of the world. .
2. Higher moral standard in
Washington “with plain honesty
In public employes.”
3. A modern gold standard, with
& “solid dollar,” to prevent in
flation.
4. “Full employment, excellent
farm income, conservation of na
tural resources and a balanced
budget.”
g 5. Marmony bctwiet;nmh&t:',
armers, employers “w. p
paying and- more profit-sharing
plans with employers throughout
American business” == .
8. An administration that seeks
experienced gounsel and “is not
& one man bend.”
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Josie Pearson, 21-year-old
adopted daughter of Mrs, Evy
leen Cronin, former maid-sec
retary of actress Tallulah Bank
head, gets a hug from her foster
mother before a recent session
in the latter’s grand larceny trial
in New York. Miss Pearson told
the court she shared her foster
mother’s duties for Miss Bank
head and that a shopping trip
for the actress was a search for
“blouses, slacks, shoes, medicine
and marijuana.,” Mrs. Cronin is
charged with hiking checks
made out to her by Miss Bank
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First Christian
Minister Ends
10 Years Service
On next Sunday, Dec. 30th, Rev.
Paul C. Howle will celebrate the
completion of ten years as pastor
of the First Christian Church.
Moving to Athens the last week in
December 1941 he began his minis
try on Jan. Ist, 1942. The church
under his leadership has has made
marked progress. A long standing
:lebt was paid early in his minis~
iry and the interior of the" build
ing renovated. From time to time
improvements have been made to
the church property, the latest
being the purchase of a new Con
sole for the pipe organ.
Perhaps the outstanding ac
complishment of his ministry was
the leadership given to the esta
blishment of the Christian College
adjacent to the University. The
first unit of a building program
has been completed and paid for
and Dr. W. W. Wasson is leading
in an expanding program.
The local Church has had a net
gain in active membership of over
one third; six people have gone
into fulltime Christian Service;
and the yearly giving has increas
ed by 250 per cent.
The Church will enter the new
year with a well rounded program
of Evangelism, Education, Stew
ardship and Missions. On Sunday
Morning the pastor will speak.on
the subject: “Ten Years Together.”
In the afternoon from 3, Mr. and
Mrs. Howle will observe Open
House at the parsonage to which
they have invited the entire con
gregation and their firends.
Mr. Howle is fresqug;t of the
Athens Ministerial Association and
has been active in community af
fairs.
Mr. Howle was born in Oxford,
Ala., and attended the public
schools there. He attended Miligan
College and received his A. B. at
Texas Christian University. After
graduation from TCU, he attended
Winona Lake School of Theology
where he received his M. A. in
Theology.
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Daniel Services
TodayAtsP. M.
Miss Emmie Daniel, popular
Athenian, died early today at the
home of her brother, Garnett L.
Daniel, on Rocky Ford Road. Miss
Deniel had been in failing health
for several months.
Services will be conducted this
afternoon at 38 o'clock at the
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Emerge Unscathed
SEOUL, KOREA, Dec. 28.— (AP)—OQOutnumbered Am
erican Sabre jets shot a Red jet out of Korean skies today
while Allied infantrymen recaptured Christmas Hill on
the snow-covered battlefront.
The Fifth Air Force said U. S.
Sabres came out unscathed from
their 20-minute dogfight. The bat
tle was between 24 Sabres and
more than 70 MIG-15s.
One Red jet was sent tumbling
down in flaming pieces by the
same flight of Sabres that killed
two and damaged one Thursday.
The fight for Christmas Hill,
scene of the fiercest fighting in 31
days of twilight war on the Ko
rean front, was the only sizable
ground action reported.
Christmas Hill
The Hill, towering beside Mun
dung Valley not far from Heart
break Ridge, is just an outpost on
the eastern front. But it has
changed hands repeatedly since
Christmd®" Day.
The U. S. Eighth Army report
ed the rest of the front remained
coldly quiet in the first day after
a 30-day agreement on a tentative
cease-fire line expired Thursday
midnight.
Attacking Reds captured Christ
mas Hill twice Thursday, lost it
once. United Nations infantrymen
counterattacked again Friday.
They scaled the slippery sWpes
under snvall arms fire and show
ers of grenades. The Chinese gave
up after a two hour and 20 min
ute fight.
Guerrillas Killed
South of U. N. lines, Republic
of Korea troops reported they had
killed 207 guerrillas and captured
108 in 15 fights since Christmas.
Warplanes continued their
round-the-clock assault on Red
transport. The Fifth Air Force
mounted 642 sorties during day
light hours Friday.
Shooting Star jets damaged four
Red tanks headed for the western
front. Other pilots reported in
flicting 70 casualties on Red
troops. Night-flying bombers
knocked out 100 trucks of nearly
2,000 spotted on the roads.
Off both coasts U. N. warships
continued their, blockade of the
freezing coasts of North Korea.
Gillette Says
Son Treated For
"Wrong Diesase’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 —(AP)
— Senator Gillette (D-Iowa) said
today the Army had treated his
son Mark Gillette, 21, “for piison
ivy when actually he was suffer
ing from scarlet fever.”
Gillette said the mistaken dia
gnosis was made in October at the
Army training center at Camp
Pickett, Va., and he was assured
later by Army medical leaders
that he termed medical incom
petence there would be corrected.
Mark Gillette was inducted in
March under selective service at
Camp Meade, Md.,, and sent to
Camp Pickett for six weeks basic
infantry training, his father told
a reporter.
“He came home on a weekend
pass and was so seriously ill that
1 had to carry him into the house,”
the Senator said. “We called a
civilian doctor and he said Mark
had an advanced case of scarlet
fever.” # L
Gillette said army medical auth=
orities at Water Reed Hospital
then confirmed the diagnosis and
kept his son a I;‘>l:=ltient there for
seven weeks. He said his son,
meanwhile, had been assigned to
Fort Meyer, just across the Po
tomac River from Washington.
The Senator said he understood
that “other army trainees at Camy
Pickett thought to have poison ivy
were found to be suffering from
more serious diseases.” :
Gillette said he had previousky
refrained from discussing the case
because “Mark and I agreed to
keep quiet to the army that he
was the son of a Senator.”
“Mark and I have leaned over
backwards to avoid any hints of
political influence in his army
career,” the Senator said. “The
fact that he isa private first class
in the infantry ought to answer
that one.”
Streetcar Picked
Best Movie Of ‘sl
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 28 — (AP)
— New York critics have picked
“A Streetcar named Desire” as
the best movie for 1951. And thea
ter men have selected rugged John
Wayne as the top boxoffice star
for the second successive year.
In the opinion” of the Gotham
critics, “Streetcar” also rated
number one for the best direction,
best actress’ performance and the
second best actor’s job.
Wayne, currently the movies’
most manly hero captured the top
spot in the Motion Picture Herald’s
1951 poll of theater men.
Two zanies who were voted
“Stars of Tomorrow” only a year
ago wound up in second place and
in their case, elevision must rate
an assist. Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis were known only to night
club audiences before the nation
saw them on TV.
In third place was Betty Gable,
unhurt by an éight-month sus
gension by her studio. Abbott and
ostello were fourth, followed in
order by such old favorites as
’Bmf Crosby, Bob Hope, Randolph
Scott and Gray.cmw.,lq.gg;tn
sg:t was another newcomer, Doris
y.
2ERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
BY SAM SUMMERLIN
HST Refurns
To Capifal
After Holiday
" INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 28.
—(AP)—President Truman heads
back to Washington today with
the steel strike threat off his mind,
temporarily at least, but with
budget worries bearing down on
him. :
He had an inrportant session
scheduled with military officials
on the defense spending figures
for the fiscal year beginning next
July 1, almost immediately after
his arrival in the capital this aft
ernoon.
He has called that part of the
budget the most troublesome he
has encountered in 16 years as
senator and president. The budget
will be presented to Congress-soon
after the lawmakers go back to
work January 8.
The trip back to Washington,
aboard the White House plane In
dependence, closes out a Christ
mas holiday trip home which be
gan on Christmas Eve.
Yesterday’s decision by the CIO
Steelworkers Wage Policy Com
mittee to keep their men at work
pending a union convention in
Atlantic City January 3 took an
inrmediate load off the President’s
mind.
The President said:
“I am happy there will be no
steel strike on January 1 and I am
hopeful there will be no strike at
all.”
The President has told union
and management that production
must keep going. He has said also
}hat he Kill use the Taftr-Hartlteiy
aw, with its provisions for -
strike injunctions™ in emerggcy
labor disputes, or any other power
of the presidency, to keep the vi
tal industry going.
Neither Mrs. Truman nor
daughter Margaret was on the In
dependence’s passenger list for the
return flight to Washington. Mar
garet flew out with her father,
Mrs. Truman had been here sev
eral days in advance and planned
to stay a while.
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Twin Brothers
Divorce Twins
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Dec. 28—
(AP)—Twin Brothers filed di
vorce suitg in Twin Falls yester-~
day from the twin sisters they
married six months ago.
Their reasons—identical. The
twins said their wives declared
they no longer lover them and left
home,
Samuel David Alldritt married
Lillie May Durham and Jonathan
K. Alldritt married Betty Morene
Durham on-~June 12.
In their district colurt divorce
complaints, the twin husbands
said their twin wives were cross
and guarrelsome during the brief
marriages.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair with slowly rising tem
peratures through Sunday, fol
lowed by rain Monday or Mon
day night, turning cooler to cold
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Low tonight 30-35; high tomor
row 6C. Sun sets today at 5:31,
rises tomorrow at 7:38.
GEORGIA—Fair with slight
ly higher temperatures this aft
ernoon and tonight. low temper
atures tonight 28-32; Saturday
fair and warmer.
TEMPERATURE
Manest .. e add s Y
TOWOI ivi sidn sty vis ok
MOAN .oos sssbintios vrsn weuc B
Normoll oo oili it e A
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total gince December 1 ... 6.19
Excess since December 1 .. 2.15
Ave;!agie December rainfall. 4.59
Total sinté Janhary ‘l-.%.° . 42:32
Deficit since January 1 ... 6.80
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1951.
BY W. H. MOBLEY
Reds Intimate Prisoner List
Given Allies Is Complete
Truce Negotiators Offer
No Accounting Of Unlisted
BY GEORGE A. McARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, Dec. 28.—(AP)—The Reds strongly
intimated today they already have given the Allies a com
plete list of living U. N. prisoners in their hands.
~ Communist truce negotiators
offered no further accounting of
some 50,000 captured soldiers the
U. N. asserts werc not listed on
the Reds’ official prisoner roster.
North Korean Major General
Lee Sang Cho indicated the Com
munists would report unaccounted
for Americans died of disease or
exposure. There are 357 American
prisoners believed to have died of
disease or exposure.
Rear Admiral R. E. Libby quot
ed Lee as saying “we must remem
ber that Americans are not accus=
tomed to this climate and are sus
ceptible to local diseases, so it
wouldn’t be surprising if a large
number died of disease.”
U. N. negotiators at Panmunjom
again accused the Reds of insin
cerity and stalling the truce talks.
Communist Charge
The Communists, in turn, de
clared that Allied insistence on
banning a Red air buildup during
an armistice runs the ‘“risk of
throwing overboard completely
the whole basis” of negotiations.
Red China’s Peiping radio quot
ed a Communist negotiator as tell
ing U. N. delegates at Pannrunjom:
“If you want the negotiations to
continue, I must ask you not to
repeat such statements.” )
The Reds again refused to put
in writing an oral promise not to
build up their air strength during
an armistice.
While the war of words raged
on without letup — and without
apparent decision — there was no
indication that the Korean battle
front was about to explode into
action even though the 30-day
cease-fire line agreement had ex
pired Thursday midnight.
Most observers expected the
“twilight war” to continue for the
time being at least.
“Will Not Sacrifice Men”
AP Correspondent William C.
Barnard quoted General James A.
Van Fl};et, Ei%hth Army comman
der: “We Jwill- not. sacrifice our
men needl:ssly. What is the use of
thousands of casualties if it is
questionable what good they will
do?” z
Friday the battle front was cold
and quiet. Allied forces recaptur
ed a peak known as Christmas
Hill, on the eastern front. It
changed hands three times Thurs
day. Otherwise there was little
action.
The truce subcommittee discuss
ing prisoner exchange continued
its wrangling over prisoner lists
but reported no progress. The del
egates didn’t even hold an after
noon session. They scheduled an
other meeting for Saturday.
The Allies continued to press
for a full accounting of the 50,000
prisoners they said were mention
ed in Communist broadcasts but
not listed on the Reds’ prisoner
roster. Most of the 50,000 were
South Koreans.
Commies Repeat Demand
The Communists repeated their
demrand for an accounting of some
44,000 prisoners they said were
reported by the International Red
Cross, but were not on the official
U. N, list. i :
High authorities in Tokyo have
said the 3,198 American prisoners
reported by the Reds was approxi
mately the number they expected
to survive of some 11,000 Ameri
cans missing in action. American
officers have reported the Reds
killed 5,000 to 8,000 captured Am
ericans,
However, U. N, negotiators ask
ed the Communists for an ac
counting of 1,083 U. S. prisoners
whose names were broadcast by
fihe Reds, but were not on the Red
st.
The Communists, in a written
report, replied that 571 died of
wounds or disease or were killed
by U, N. air raids or artillery. The
Reds said 152 escaped, three were
released and 332 names were be
ing checked. There was no report
on the remaining 25.
As for the Red assertion that
44,000 names failed to appear on
the Allied list, Brig. General Wil
liam P. Nuckols, U. N. spokesman,
said: “The apparent discrepancy
is largely explained by U. N. re
classification of 37,500 prisoners
as South Korean civilians.”
Gunned Agent To
Tell Of Shooting
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,, Dec.
28—-(AP)—Actor’s Agent Jennings
Lang will give his version today
of how he was gunned by Pro
ducer Walter Wanger last Dec. 13
in front of Wanger’s wife, actress
Joan Bennett.
Adolph Alexander, deputy dis
trict attorney, said a detailed
statement will be taken from Lang
some time today.
Lang’s lawyer, J. W. (Jake)
Ehrlich of San Francisco, arrived
yesterday to confer with the agent,
recuperating from a bullet wound
in the groin.
Wanger had been arraigned in
nearby Santa Monica and will en
ter his plea to the charge of intent
to commit murder Jan. 7 in the
same court. He Is at liberty un
der $5,000 bond. i
The producer told police after
shooting Lang that the agent “was
breaking up my home.” Miss Ben~-
nett and Lang, however have de
nied that their relationship was
other than agent and client,
ClO Postpones
Steel Strike
For Three Days
PITSBURGE. Dec. 28—(AP)—
The nation wfll escape a crippling
steel strike on New Year’s day—
but will have to face the threat
again on Jan. 3.
The wage-policy committee of
the CIO United Steelworkers
voted to defer a work stoppage for
at least three days. That gives
the special USW convention in
Atlantic City the final say on
calling a strike.
The convention also will make
the union’s formal answer to Pres
ident Truman’s appeal to avert a
strike and submit the steel con
tract dispute to the Wage Stabil
ization Board. The steel com
panies already have agreed to the
President’s proposal.
The action of the Wage Policy
Committee had been widely pre
dicted. Mr. Truman, who says
there must not be a steel strike in
view of the national defense emer
gency, has declared he will use
every law in the books to prevent
a nationwide steel walkout. |
If the convention accepts the
President’s plan, the Wage Stabil
ization Board will study argu
ments and outline recommenda
tions. These will not be binding
on either side.
An entire new contract between
the big union and the country’s
steel companies is at stake.
The union’s 22 demands are
topped by a call for an 18% cent
hourly wage increase, Muljrfi
also wants a guaranteed annu
wage, union shop, and other con
cessions for the men in the bills.
He says higher living costs and in
dustry profits justify a substantial
wage increase,
The 650,000 USW members em
ployed in the industry now aver
age slightly less than $2 an hour.
The Wage Policy Committee em
phasized that the strike was put
off only until the convention at
Atlantic City.
' The Government stepped in
after negotiations stalled. The
contract talks began Nov. 27.
When federal mediators failed
tp make any progress, Mr. Tru
man turned the dispute over to
the Wage Stabilization Board for
a recommended settlement.
The steel industry has not made
a wage offer and Phillip Murray,
president of the CIO and USW
accused company negotiators of
bargaining in bad faith. The in
dustry maintains a pay hike would
only add to inflationary pressure.
BAT-SAP Annual
Dance Tonight, 9
The BAT-SAP annual formal
dance will be held tonight at the
Georgian Hotel from nine until
one.
The intermission party will be
held at the Teen Canteen from
9:30 until 11:30,
All alumni are cordially invited
to attend the dance and party.
Army Gun Shoots
Around Corners
DETROIT, Dec. 28—(AP)—The
army has perfected a sub-machine
gun that shoots around corners.
And what is more, Joseph C.
Soma, project engineer at the De
troit arsenal, says the curved bar
rel is more accurate than a straight
one.
Sights are secret, but the gun
shoots a .45 calibre slug that can
be deflected as much as 90 de
grees and will pierce an inch
thick pine board at 100 yards. It
will fire 450 rounds a minute.
The around-the-corner: gun is
made by attaching a curved bar
rel to the Army’s M-3 sub-ma
chine gun, commonly known
among Glls as the “grease gun.”
The new barrel, some said, is
now ready for large scale produc
tion. It can be set to fire left or
right, up or down.
The gun using the curved bar
rel is a light type costing only $lB
to manufacture. Tank crews in
Korea asked for such a gun to
shoot Communists off the tops of
their tanks. After they reported,
they had to ask other tank crews
to blast Reds who had crawled
atop their tanks,
DEPORTMENT SALES UP
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 —(AP)
— Department store sales in the
week ended Dec. 22 were 2 per
cent higher than in the same
Christmas shopping period a year
ago.
This was reported yesterday by
the Federal Reserve Board, which
said that for the four weeks ended
Dec. 22 Department store sales
were even with last year.
« Up until that d@té total sales
for the year ‘weké up+3 per cent
over 1950. b
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
U.S. Fliers Believed
To Be Freed Today
BY RICHARD O’REGAN
VIENNA, Dec. 28. — (AP) — George Abbott, U. s
charge d’affaires in Budapest, reported at noon, Austriam
time, that he thinks the four American fliers detained by
Hungary “will be released today.”
Abbott talked by telephone with
Walter J. Donnelly, U, S. Ambas
sador and high commissioner in
Austria, and they scheduled an
other talk later when it was ex
pected more information would be |
obtained on the !ime and place of
the airmen’ release.
There was anair of expectancy
here. It seemed almost certain
that the Communist Hungarian
government had accepted the U. S.
offer to pay $120,000 in fines—
called a “ransom” in the U. S.—
levied against the fliers on charges
of violating Hungary’s borders.
NICKELSDORF, Austria, Deo,
28.—(AP)—The four American
airmen held by Communist
Hungary for 40 days crossed
the Austrian frontier back to
freedom at 5:01 p. m., Austrian
time, tonight.
Their unarmed C-47 transport was
forced down by Soviet fighters
Nov. 19 after straying from its
course on a routine Munich-Bel
grade flight.
Abbott’s latest report advanced
the situation just a shade. In an
earlier conversation with Donnelly
he said he “hoped” the filers
would be freed, but could not say
definitely if the release would
come today.
Cautious Optimism
Despite the atmosphere of cau
tious optimism among U. S. Of
ficials here, neither they nor the
Budapest legation would con
firm that the Hungarian govern
ment had accepted the U. S. offer
to pay the fine. 5
There had been speculation that
the Rt:sians had a finger in the
‘delay of the fliers’ release, which
had been expected yesterday.
Abbott reported to Donnelly
twice this morning by telephone,
after conferring with deputy For
gign Minister Andor Berei of Hun
gary. Donnelly said he did not ask
Abbott what arrangements had
been made for payment of the fine.
Lack of position information from
Budapest had indicated that the
negotiations were in the final stage
and that details of the payment,
if accepted, would not become
known until after the airmen
reached the freedom of Austrian
soil.
Berei arranged the meeting
yesterday after most of the day
had gone by with no word on
Hungary’s decision on releasing
the four men and accepting the U.
S. government’s offer to pay their
fines.
Fines Imposed
The fines were imposed by a |
military court which say in secret
last Friday to try the men on
charges of deliberately violating
the Hungarian border in their U. |
S. airforce cargo plane with the l
intention of later dropping spies.
The United States explained to !
Hungary the fliers were lost in
a routine flight.
The twin-engined C-47 plane
was ordered confiscated and the
men were sentenced to serve 90-
day jail sentences if the fines of
$30,000 each were not paid.
The four fliers, imprisoned since
Nov. 19 when Russian fighterl
planes forced their craft downl
near Papa, Hungary, are Capt.
Dave H. Henderson of Shawnee,
Okla., Capt. John J. Swift of Glens
Falls, N. Y., T|Sgt. Jess A. Duff |
Spokane, Wash.,, and Sgt. James
A. Elam of Kingsland Ark. -
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Luciano Negrini, 42, and his
bride, the former Clair Mary
Young, 21, of Chicago, leave
Milan, laly’s, City Hall after
their marriage in a ecivil cere
mony. The groom, a former
priest who broke his vows, and
the bride, who remounced her
American citizenship earlier this
yvear, were automatically ex
communiczeed from the Reman
Cathelie Church,—(NEA Radie«
telephoto.)
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Warned Against
Bomb Hysteria
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 28—(AP)—
Investigators working on Florida's
latest and most serious bombing
remained tight-lipped today while
police warned Miamians against
“bombing hysteria” after a mys
terious blast turned out to be the
work of a happy bridegrooni.
Sheriff H. T, Williams of Brev
ard county said officers had waork
ed throughout yesterday om the
Christmas night death-bombing es
Harry T. Moore, Florida negre
leader at Mims, but, the sheriff
added, “I can’t say anything new.”
Two FBI agents, an investigs
tor from Gov. Fuller Warren’s ef~
fice and two experts from Dade
(Miami) county’s new criminal
investigation bureau worked en
the Mims case.
Williams said they were follew~
ing up every possible clue im an
effort {o track down the persom er
persons who planted the bomb
that took the life of the 46-year
old negro teacher and injured his
wife at their home 40 miles seuth
of Daytona Beach.
Before Midnight
The explosion in suburban
Hialeah shortly before midnight
Wednesday was traced to a man
who set off an aerial bomb te
celebrate his return from a heney~
moon trip.
Poice Chief H, U. Warner said
the explosion, heard over a 25-
block radius, was caused by am
aerial bomb left over from the
Fourth of July.
“The bridegroom called up snd
told us about it after reading the
papers,” Warner said. “He set ofif
the bomb without realizing how
hot the dynamite situation is in
this area.”
The Hialeah explosion was the
12th in this area in recent menths.
No one was injured and ne ar
rests have been made.
Three dynamite blasts have ae
curred since June at Carver Vill
age, a negro housing project, -g 5
another at a Jewish synagogue.
Dynamite has been planted at
six other Jewish and Catholie
buildings but failed to explode.
Terrorism
Warren called Moore's death
“not only murder but terrorisms™
and posted $6,000 in rewards fer
information leading to convictiom
of the perpetrators, The rewanrds
included $2,000 for the Moore
case, SI,OOO for the Miami cases
and $3,000 for the arrest and com~
viction of any persons using =
bomb in an unlawful mannew.
The national association for the
advancement of colored peeple
added a $5,000 reward for the
Moorse case, bringing total re
wards to $19,325 offered by
aroused communities and citizens -
since the bombings began.
Finance A
PARIS, Dec. 28— (AP)—Foveiga
and finance ministers so six West
European nations met today te twy
figuring out how to pay for the
planned 43-division continental
army.
West Germany’s Changelior
Konrad Adenauer attended. -
Two general views were expeet~
ed to be aired at the session m the
French Foreign Ministry:
I—A German proposal fer a
single treasury to which all sim
nations—France, Germany, Itale,
The Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg—would contribute.
2—The Benelux idea for eaeh
country to pay for its own soidiers
in its own currency.
Coalition or Federation
The general situation aftexr 1@
months of debate and prebing
boiled down to whether a coali
tion or a federation would bhe the
best way to pool forces for a single
defense. #
All have agreed that a single,
one-uniform army would be the
best means of getting Gernans
back into military circulatiom *
without nationalistic tendencies
and the most efficient way of fin
ing up against Communist aggres
sion.
How to go sbout it is ancther
matter.
Five of the foreign ministers m >
an Adenauer representative mae
for five hours yésterday and got
no farther than a round of oratexry
re-stating previously stated views.
The two factions are -split Jike, .
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