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Vol. CXIX, No. 305.
West Shakes Off
Wintry Weather
By The Associated Press
The Rocky Mountain area be~
san shaking off the effects of a
five day seige of snow and sub
sero temperatures but icy 'wea
ther still gripped some sections of
the nation.
In Southwestern Colorado snow
drifts were 80 feet high in spots.
Highway crews fought their way
through the ~drifts to rescue 14
persons from shelter houses on
<nowbound Wolf Creek pass.
Ice-glazed roads slowed travel
¢nd disrupted communications in
-arts of Texas, Missouri, Illinois,
E:;sas, Olkahoma and New Mex
ico.
gix persons were killed on
@orth Texas roads and 250 long
distance telephone circuits were
reported out of commission.
In Southwest Missouri, ice pra=
citically paralyzed some counties.
The ice storm knocked out long
distance telephone service in ap
proximately 20 towns. Some el
ectric power lines algo were down.
Several southern Illinois towns,
across the Mississippi river from
Missouri, also were hit,
Freezing Rain
A freezing rain last night also
glazed roads in Oklahoma and
southeastern Kansas. Parts of
Kansas and Missouri got more
SNOw.
A new storm of heavy snow and
sub-zero cold struck southwestern
Colorado yesterday but it was ex
pected to drop off today.
Among those rescued from east
and west shelter houses on Colo
rado’s snow-locked Wolf Creek
pass were three children.
Four truckmen from Los Angeles
were rescued from the west shel
ter. They were identified as Paul
Stowe, T. A. Crows, Cliff Snyder
and Joe Cadall.
The State Patrol said the nine
persons taken from the east shel
ter included Mr. and Mrs. Richard
J. Spendt of Denver and their
three children, and Rev. and Mrs.
John MaDennely of Colorado
Springs and three unidentified
truck drivers.
The presons had been marooned
since Sunday when the storm
struck, leaving behind five days
of blizzard, avalanche and death.
It was the worst blizzard in
modern Colorado history, taking
possibly six lives, Two persons
froze to death, one man died of a
heart attack attempting to free his
car from a snow bank, a four
month old Dumas, Texas, girl was
killed in the crash of a small plane
on Monarch Pass and two truck
drivers are still missing.
Search Continues
And the search for stranded
motorists, farmers, ranchers and
skiers still goes on.
Tiny Silverton, C 010.,, once a
raucous mining community, was
lined with ecivilization thursday
when snowplows bit through
blocl.:ed highway 550 north -of
Durango. Residents had been is
olated since Sunday, but they said
they suffered no hardships.
Attempts to clear Cumbres Pass
on the Colorado-New Mexico
line and a narrow guage line of
of the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad, continued today. Thirty
eight crew. men aboard a work
train toiled at a slow pace to open
the line. The train was expected
to reach Osier, Colo., last night
and the crewmen switched to
trucks to be taken to Alamosa for
a rest.
Food and provisions were drop
ped along the line earlier to im
prisoned trainmen and rescusers.
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*:ans Oppose
ATLANTA, Jan. 4—(AP)—Gov.
Ta'madge’s proposed authority to
build pay-as-you-ride super high
ways in Georgia faces opposition
led by Rep. Owen Adams of Up
son county.
Adams contends that the state’s
three per cent sales tax was sup
posed to supply enough money to
give Georgia good highways. Cre
ation of super highway authority,
he argues, would take the control
of the project away from the peo-
P'e and in addition would cost
thom every time they used a toll
road,
The Upson legislator expressed
hic views in his newly established
monthly political paper, “The
Sto'e Banner.”
He contends a toll road system
as proposed by the Governor
would virtually eliminate . the
tourist business in Georgia. At
present, he- said, the tourist trade
brines about $200,000,000 ¢ year
Into the state. !
Acams expressed favor for
Georgia highway improvement
but said a toll “super highway
would “funnel tourists through
Georgia non-stop so they can car
ry every dime to the open and
€ager pockets of Florida business
men. untouched by Georgia
He said numerous legislators had
old him they, too, oppose the
turtpike authority proposal,
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MOORE HEADS GROUP
ATLANTA, ‘Jan, € «s (AP) —
Methodist Bishop Arthur J. Morre
nas been elected chairman of a
Religious Advisory Committee to
.-Ive with the Georgia Civil De
fense Division, Dr, Louie D, New
‘on of Atlanta was elected secre
1y Other members are Rabbi
}‘?“ac E. Marcuson of Macon, MS-
R. Joseph G, Cassidy ,of Aflazfis,
& Rey. L. A.'Han-fldt:nu n,
o r. Hugh . B ey of De-
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TRIAL BEGINS
Dennis W, Delaney, ex-collec
tor of Internal Revenue, walks
down the corridor of Boston’s
Federal Building before enter
ing court where he is on trial on
charges of taking $12,000 in
bribes and making false certifi
cates. Delaney, 55, is the first
Internal Revenue Collector
brought to trial so far in the
current national probe of alleg
ed irregularities. — (NEA Tele
photo.)
HST Silent On
Possibility Of
1952 Candidacy
BY MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—(AP)
—President Truman kept every
body guessing today whether he
plans to run for another term.
And the question whether Gen
eral Eisenhower will bid for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion apparently was delaying cam
paign decisions on the part of at
least two already announced GOP
candidates.
At his news conference yester
day, Mr. Truman repeated he has
made up his mind whether to seek
re-election. But he again refused
to disclose the decision. He said
he would announce his plans when
he gets ready.
Truman Silent
As for the statement Wednes
day by Rep. Hays (D.-Ohio) that
Mr. Truman had told him he
hoped to have something worked
out by February 6, the President
said he was sorry to tell newsmen
he couldn’t give them any enlight
enment on when he will have
something to say. 3
Hays made the statement after
conferring with Mr. Truman. The
White House said later, however,
that the President had given no
indication or ‘commitment as to
when he would disclose his plans.
Asked at the news conference
whether he had told Democratic
National Chairman Frank McKin
ney that he would let him know
his decision by March 1, the Pres
ident replied he had told no one
anything regarding his plans.
Meanwhile, Senator Taft, an
avowed candidate for the Repub
lican presidential nomination, re
portedly was standing by his ten
tative decision last October to en
ter primary contests only in his
home state of Ohio and in Wis
consin.
Anunouncement Awaited
Friends of the senator said,
however, that he was awaiting
with much interest an announce
ment here Sunday by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts, campaign
manager of an Eisenhower-for-
President Republican group.
Lodge has promised good news
for thosz who would like to see
the general nominated. So far,
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Arkansas Shooting
Abused Mother Of 11
Kills Sleeping Mate
JONESBORO, Ark. Jan. 4 —
(AP) — A small, 32 -year-old
farm mother of 11 children has
been charged with first degree
murder in the slaying of her hus
band who, she told authorities,
beat her over a 10-year period
and threatened to kill her.
Also charged with Mrs. Velma
Arnder is her oldest child, 14-
year- Claude, jr. %
The first degree murder charge
against the son was only “a tech
nicallty,” deputy prosecutor Bill
Penix said last night. It was filed
against the youth, Penix added,
because he re-loaded the 22 caliber
rifle from which his mother fired
two shots into her husband’s head
while he slept early Wendesday.
The husband, Claude (Jack)
Arnder, was 59.
When the east Arkansas farm
woman surrendered to authorities
Wednesday, she sobbed out a story
of brutal mistreatment against her
and her children.
Daily Beatings
Almost daily for the past 10
years, she related, her husband had
beaten her and the children, and
New Year’s night had called in
their four oldest and told them he
planned to kill their mother to
“get her out of the way.”
Sheriff's deputy Ode Cantrell
of Craighead Countg' said the
slight, flflqm mother, who i§
expetting er child, ‘a’dgxigte*d
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WAR SIDESHOW
Armisfice Site
By DON HUTH
PANMUNJOM, Jan. 4—(AP)—
This military armistice conference
site is the safest place in Korea to
watch the war,
There is some battle activity
daily. It is only a few miles from
Panmunjom where United Nations
and Communist negotiators are
trying to end the 18-month-old
conflict.
Bursting artillery shells and
aerial strikes on Red positions
echo over the meeting tents of the
two subcommittees,
Allied and Communist newsmen
congregate in the muddy fields
beside the four abandoned huts
called Panmunjom to watch the
sideshow, It is like having a
grandstand seat at a football game.
Panmunjom seems far removed
from the war until U. N. artillery
and air forces go 1o work.
A razor-backed hill to the east
has been getting special attention.
Allied guns have “walked” phos
phorus and high explosive shells
from one end to the other and
along the slopes.
Phosphorus Marker
The white phosphorus plumes
skyward to form a marker for the
artillerymen to get on their target.
Then the sharp kettle-drum beat
of high explosive shells thumps
across the frozen, snow-covered
rice paddies,
Sometimes the noise rolls in like
a report from a string of loud fire
crackers.
The air shows are the most in
teresting. Planes take over where
the artillery left off.
They bank lazily away from the
four huge oringe balloons that
mark the armistice zone bounda
ries.
Seven planes gave a spectacular
performance this week. They ¢ir
cled a short time. Then the leader
“peeled off” in a steep dive toward
the valley, apparently on a recon
naissance run. In seconds, he was
back with the flight.
Fighter Action
The fighters moved in for the
attack. One by .one they sweoped
down. The sound of bursting
bombs, rockets and machinegun
fire was heard.
One plane circled wide to rejoin
the formation. Three bursts of
Red antiaircraft fire marked the
hazy sky with black puffs of
smoke,
Observers watched rockets spurt
from the Allied planes. The flight
also let loose napalm, dropping the
searing jellied gasoline over Red
frontline installations.
Rear Admiral R. E. Libby, Al
lied negotiator, joined newsmen
watching the show.
“This is more interesting than
anything I have to say,” the Ad
miral remarked.
One jeep .driver who served
with a frontline company said:
“Boy, I sure would have liked a
place like this when I was on the
line. All comfort and no sweat.”
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Arnder at their home at nearby
| Cash.
! At the County ‘Jail here where
she was lodged before she and
Claude were released on bond,
Mrs. Arnder told managing editor
Gene Smith of the Jonesboro Sun
of the events that led immediately
to the shooting. ;
l On New Year‘s day, she related,
ber husband beat her and struck
one son, 11-year-old Amos, SO
hard on the left arm that he was
unable to move it the next day.
Death Plan
He told the four oldest children
of his plan to kill her, the mother
said, just before he went to bed
{Tuesday night. He awakened and
! cursed her when she arose early
|Wednesday to feed her youngest
| cliild, 10-months old, and then
went back to sleep, Mrs. Arnder
said.
When she finished with the
{ child, the mother added, she got
‘the rifle and fired one bullet into
her husband’s head. When the
second shot misfired, she she
went into another room, obtained
another cartidge, and then shot
Arnder again.
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{and then set out with Claude for
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SOAP AND WATER FOR GI P. 0. W’'S.—An American
GI, holding an issue of soap and towels, stands with fel
low prisoners in a Communist P, O. W, camp in North
Korea, according to the caption accompanying the pic
ture which was distributed by Eastfoto, New York
agency which handles photos originating in Communist
China.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Over Soviet Proposal
Plan To Discuss Truce In U. N.
Might Disrupt Armistice Talks
PARIS, Jan. 4.— (AP) —The United States expressed
grave concern today that a new Russian move to bring up
Korean armistice negotiations in the United Nations Secu
rity Council might break up the talks now going on at the
front.
U. S. Delegate Benjamin Cohen told a news conference
that the U. S. could not understand why the Soviet Union
had made such a proposal at a time when truce talks in
Korea appeared to be making slow but sure progress.
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McGrath Fufure
Remains Vague
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—(AP)—
There was a complete administra
tion clam-up today on the future
of Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath, a wheelhorse in the: Tru
man cabinet for the last two years.
A fair assumption based on de
velopments yesterday is that noth
ing has been decided despite grow=
ing criticism that he has not been
vigorous enough in cracking down
on irregularities in his depart
ment,
The Attorney General refused
to talk with news reporters.
Through a secretary, he sent out
a repeated “no comment” all day
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and cooler today and
tonight. Light rain probable this
afternoon and tonight. Satur
day rain and continued cool.
Low tonight 38; high tomorrow
48. Sun sets today 5:36 and
rises tomorrow 7:40.
GEORGIA—CIoudy and cool
er this afternoon and tonight,
light rain tonight and over
north portion this afternoon;
Saturday cloudy and cool with
rain ending in forenoon over
north portion, partly cloudy and
mild with scattered showers in
south portion.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for period
ending 7:30 p. m., Wednesday,
January 9:
GEORGIA — Average tem
peratures five to eight degrees
above normal remainder of this
week, becoming somewhat war
mer first part of next week.
Rainfall light te moderate in
Georgia, occurring mostly on
Friday and Saturday.
TEMPERATURE
Fhaheat A
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Molh .. i, s dave exoNg
Norwwal ... DOOO v disi
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Tota] since January 1 .. .. .00
Deticit (since January 1 ««i: .5O
Average January caipfall .. 4,84,
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951.
Cohen said the U. S. was de
cidedly and unqualifiedly opposed
to a Russian resolution calling for
a special high-level Security Coun
eil meeting to discuss how to aid
“the armistice talks.
The proposal, he declared, could
not fail to have a bad effect on
the talks at Panmunjom. He said
he wondered whether the Russians
wanted to settle the Korean war
or reopen it.
Delaying Effect
The effect of the resolution in
troduced by Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, he de
clared, might well be to delay or
disrupt the talks now going on.
If the Soviet Union thinks it
can help push them to a successful
conclusion, he declared, they are
no doubt in touch with the Chi
nese Communists and North Ko
reans and can work through them.
Cohen charged that the Soviet
proposals, which also included a
section calling for the council
meeting to range over all sub
jects of international tension, were
a diversionary operation neatly
designed to appeal to man’s hope
for peace.
Such a meeting, he said, might
well have the reverse effect of in
creasing tensions, especially if Vi
shinsky were to use it as a propa
ganda forum for more vitriolic
speeches against the West.
Soviet Proposals
The Soviet proposals were sub
mitted yesterday to the 60-nation
political committee, which is dis
cussing action the U. N, veto-free
Assembly might take to combat
agression whenever it appears.
The Assembly last year created
a 14-nation collective measures
committee to recommend such
steps. They have submitted a re
port which is endorsed in a reso
lution presented by 11 members
of the committee including the U.
S., Britain and France.
The first point of the rival Sov
iet plan would abolish this com
mittee and hand U. N. anti-agres
sion action back to the Council
where Russia has the veto.
S. Price Gilbert
Memorial Rites
ATLANTA, Jan. 4 — (AP) — A
memorial service for the late S.
Price Gilbert will be conducted
by the Georgia Supreme Ccurt on
Feb. 13.
Gilbert, who died August 28,
was an Associate Justice of the
court for 21 years. He retired in
1937,
A committee of members of the
bar appointed by the Supreme
Court to conduct the service in
cludes Robert B. Troutman, At
lanta, chairman; R. C. Bell, Cairo;
Millard Reese, Brunswick; Willis
Battle, Columbus; T. M. Cunning~
ham, Savannah; Graham Wright,
Rome; Hatton Lovejoy, LaGrange;
D. R. Cumming, Griffin; Walter A.
Harris, Macon, and W. W. Doug
las, Savannabh.
ATLANTA ROBBERY
ATLANTA, Jan. 3 — (AP) —
Three armed bandits bourkl and
gagged two furniture store of
ficials yesterday and escaped with
mere than SI,OOO, police reported.
Officers said the bandits entered
the store just as the last customer
was letng at closing time. They
bound Whd gagged manager Earl
Beaver and employe E. R. Mc-
Reynolds and fled with the con«
rtemf-ef the cash register and the
Inen's personal funds.
Negotiators Wrangle
Over Prisoner Issue
Murray Directs
Union Hold Off
On Steel Strike
BY WILLIAM SMOCK
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 4.
—(AP)—President Philip Murray
of CIO United Steelworkers rec=
ommended today that his wunion
hold off a nation-wide steel strike
for 45 days until February 21.
The recommendation calls for a
strike postponement until 45 days
from the day on which the Wage
Stabilization Board begins hear
ings on the steel dispute.
The board has scheduled a pre
liminary hearing for next Monday
in Washington.
Resolution Set
The recommendation was made
in the form of a resolution sub
mitted to a special convention
called to decide whether the mil
lion-man union would strike
about 90 percent of the basic steel
industry to back up its demrands
for pay increases and other con
tract concessions,
The proposal carried the en
dorsement of President Murray
and the 36-man policy making
executive board.
The resolution said:
“We are authorizing postpone
ment of our strike,
“This postponement shall be for
a period of 45 days from the day
on which the Wage Stabilization
Board begins its hearing. We are
not foregoing our right to strike.
This we will not do in the absence
of satisfactory agreements.
Meet Planned
“We further direct President
Philip Murray to convene a meet
ing of the wage-policy committee
at the end of this 45-day period so
that it can, at that time, deter
mine what action by the wunion
may then be appropriate.”
President Truman had made
two appeals to the union to fore
go a strike now and keep badly
‘needed steel flowing for defense
and essential civilian needs. Not
ing the White House pleas, the
resolution said:
“To the President of the United
States we say: We accept your
request and agree to postpone the
effective date of our strike so that
the Wage Stabilization Board may
consider the case promptly on its
merits and recommend fair and
equitable terms of settlement.” |
The WSB recommendations will |
not be binding on either union or
industry, |
Bar Associafion
Meefing Monday
Members of the Athens Bar As
sociation will meet Monday morn=-
ing at 11 o‘clock in Superior Court
room in the County Courthouse for
the purpose of fixing the calendar
for the regular January term of
Clarke Superior Court on January
14.
The October term Superior
Court Grand Jury will also con=
vene Monday, at ten o'clock, to
hear progress made on recommen=
dations by it at the last term of
=~ourt.
Carlsen’s Sojourn Aboard Broken
Ship Apparently Near End Today
LONDON, Jan. 4—(AP)—Capt.
Kurt Carlsen’s six epic days and
nights of drifting alone aboard his
broken ship, Flying Enterprise,
helpless in North Atlantic storm
waves, appeared to be nearing an
end today. ’
The U. S. Destroyer John W.
Weeks, standing by the crippled
vessel, radioed tersely at 10:17 a.
m. (5:17 a. m. EST):
“Believe possibility we will take
Captain Carlsen off Flying En
terprise sometime today.”
The destroyer’s captain, Cmdr.
W. L. Thompson, sent no further
explanation. Naval officials in
London were unable to say wheth
er his message indicated an emer
gency had developed.
Until this message, the Weeks
had been silent for several hours,
leading to a belief it probably was
helping in salvage and rescue ef
forts.
Brawny crewmen aboard the
4,000 horsepower tug Turmoil
maneuvered to put a messenger
line across the waves to Carlsen,
who could make it fast and start
the risky effort for a dozen boat
men to scramble onto his tilted
freighter. Then the herculean job
of hauling huge 20-inch towing
howsers aboard could begin.
New Perils
But fresh storm perils were
brewing. Britain’s offic ewlaiear
brewing. Britain’s official weath
er forecasters posted gale warn
ings for .dfippifl&,just north of the
area where the Flying Enterprise
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 4.
— (AP) —The Communists
made seven objections today
to the six-point Allied plan
for exchanging prisoners of
war and rejected a new U,
N. appeal for an immediate
trade of sick and wounded
prisoners.
In a nearby tent at Pan
munjom Allied truce nego
tiators asked for an explan
ation of reports that the
Communists are shipping
crated warplanes Into North
Korea. They also accused
Red China of releasing sol
diers of Korean origin from
its armies in 1949 and 1950
to form the cadre of the
North Korean Red army.
Chinese Major General Hsieh
Fang said there was nothing
wrong in this. He labeled the
crated plane report a ‘“ridiculous
rumor.”
Hsieh, in turn, accused the Al
lies of holding behind their lines
through intimidation with the
atom bomb some 500,000 North
Koreans.
Both subcommittees reported no
progress toward an armistice. Both
agreed to try again Saturday at
11 a. mr. (9 p. m,, EST, Friday) in
Panmunjom.
Marathon Session
The prisoner exchange commit
tee held a marathon session last
ing four hours and 20 minutes.
Afterwards Rear Admiral R. E.
Libby said:
“It looks to me as if we are in
for a long struggle.”
The Reds rejected the Allied
exchange plan Thursday, but
Libby asked them to study it fur-~
ther.
Friday they specifically object=
ed to:
1. Exchanging prisoners of war
for civilians.
2. Differentiating between the
release and repatriation of prison=-
ers; 5
3. Neutral supervision by the
Red Cross te make sure prisoners
or civilians wanted to be exchang
ed.
4. Any form of paroles for pris
oners.
{ 5. Using a prisoner's pre-war
address to determine whether he
a North or South Korean.
The Reds also:
6. Charged that the Allied plan
would not speed up the exchange
of prisoners.
| Red Denial
7. Denied that thousands of
South Koreans had been impress
ed into the Red arnry.
The Allied plan called for an
exchange of prisoners on a man
for-man basis until one side or the
other holds no more. The remain
ing prisoners would be traded for
civilians, and finally thousands of
displaced civilians remaining
would be traded in an all-for-all
exchange.
However, the Allies specified
that no one—war prisoner or civ
ilian — would be repatriated
against his will. |
Prisoners refusing to be ex
changed and prisoners traded for
civilians would have to sign pa
roles promising not to fight again
in the war.
North Korean Major General
Lee Chang Cho said “all peace
loving people of the world” favor
ed the Red all-for-all plan for
exchanging prisoners.
Libby told Lee repeatedly not to
speak for the world, but only for
those whom he represents at the
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wallowed almost on her side, 300
miles west of England’s southern
tip. ’ .
They predicted gale winds up to
50 miles an hour, after Atlantic
storms abated to 25 mile an hour
winds yesterday. Winds already
were freshening.
The Turmoil’s captain, Dan Par
ker, radioed in mid-morning he
was “too busy” to give progress
reports or accept any radio-tele
phone calls.
A spokesman for the Turmoil’s
owners reported they had received
no word at mid-morning whether
the tug’s efforts were meeting any
success.
“l imagine they’re too busy
aboard the Turmoil to send any
radio reports right now,” he said.
“It’s a tricky job and I suppose all
hands are laying to.”
The Turmoil arrived shortly be=
fore midnight last night, flipped on
its powerful searchlights and tried
three times to put a line aboard.
Carlsen, hanging with one hand"
to the starboard rail of his lurch
ing ship, failed to catch any of
them and the Turmoil backed off
to wait for dawn.
70 Degree List
The Flying Enterprise was list
ing 60 to 70 degrees. But despite
the fierce buffeting she took from
the worst Atlantic storm in 50
years, she still was buoyant.
The ship was broken &crosfq the
middle, through the third of her
five holds. i BaT gh i o
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Earthquake Kills
At Least 93 In
Eastern Turkey.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan. 4 —
(AP) — An earthquake killed a¢
least 93 persons in Eastern Turkey
yesterday. Officials said today the
death toll undoubtedly would ge
highei,
Rescue workers prodding
through ruins of homes and build«
ings had recovered 93 bodies up te
noon today.
The quake was described as
moderate intensity, Tt o-hld
between Erzurum and Hasankale.
Most damage was reported in the
collapse of clay huts.
Three hard shocks, one of them
lasting 20 seconds, struck yestere
day and trapped Turks in hune
dreds of homes, !
Hardest hit were the largecom
munities of Hasankale and Pasine
ler, both just east of Erzurum.
Survivors were left without shel«
ter in frigid weather.
Scoreg of remote mountain wvil
lages in the quake area remained
to be heard from in the roundup of
casualty figures.
All military and civilian rescue
forces were called on to cope with
the emergency, Officials at Ar
zurum reported to Ankara, the
capital, that thousands of tents and
medical supplies, food, clothing
and fuel are urgently needed.
Getting relief to the stricken
communities will be the greatest
problem, Teams must plough
throuyn deep snow that echokes
the r row passes.
Offict .is feared that many meore
victims are likely to be found un
der crumbled houses within the
next several days,
Athens Federal
Wins Hioh Rank
. With reserves amounting te $358 -
002.92, shown In its statement of
condition after the close of busi
ness on December 81, Athens Fe
deral Saving & Loan Asseciation
ig in the upper ten per cent in the
matter of reserves of all the 7,000
similar associations in the United
States, it was announced today by
President Howard H. McWherter.
Total assets of the Association,
organized here in 1929, as shown
in the statement, amount te $3,-
701,976.94.
The recent dividend declareß
brings the total dividends paid
since establishment of the local
concern to $845,000, Mr. McWhor
ter said.
~ In commenting on the statement,
Mr. McWhorter said he was hap
py to report that the Athens Fe
deral Savings & Loan Association
ranks in the upper ten per cemt
among the 7,000 such associatiens
throughout the entire nation.
“Our statement also shows a
substanial advance and increase
of the previous year”, he said.
Officers of the local Associatien
are Mr. McWhorter, president; H.
A. Birchmore, executive wvice
president; L. O, Price, second vice
president; Roy W. éurth secre
tary-treasurer: and E. 8. éeli, as
sistant secretary-treasurer.
Members of the Board of Dir
ectors, in addition to the Associa
tion officers, are M., P. Jarnagin,
J. H. T. McPherson, Robert Hansa
and W. B, Dozier.
Weeks managed to get a line to
him and send across food, ciga
rettes, and magazines yesterday,
spoke briefly over his battery
powered radio shortly before
dawn.
“If the weather remains in our
favor, as now, I would say we
have a fair chance of bringing the
Enterprise into port,” he said.
The Turmoil figured it would
take at least three days and mayhe
more to haul the freighter in. She
intended to make for Falmouth
but also picked out Brest, France,
and Bantry Bay in Southern Ire
land, as alternate havens.
Carisen’s early morning mes
sage asked the Weeks to pass on
his “gsincere thanks” to the 4@
crewmen who sailed with him
from Hamburg before Christmas.
“It’s hard to describe my feelings
toward those men,” he said.
He also waxed philosophical
about his lonely plight.
“Being used to solitude, the
loneliness was not too hard to
bear, and I know help was com
ing,” Carlsen said. “The thought
of all my loved ones and of my
responsibilities kept me going.”
His loved ones are a wife and
two daughters in Woodbridge, N.
J. His responsibilities included
the care of a ship valued at $&~ 3
400.000 and a cargo of Christmas
mail, antiques, pig iron and other
miscellaneous cargo, o
He m@:{’nawmmemgu
ous tale of ordeal to the Go b 4