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[lew Session Tomorrow
BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— (AP) —The 82nd Congress
tarts its election-year session tomorrow, with politics
likely to weigh heavily in all major actions.
The next six menths are expected to bring forth decis
ions, one way or she other, on such matters as universal
military training, foreign military and economic aid, eco
nomic controls at home, and defense spending.
Datfered Shi
aiierea Jnip,
Brave Skippe
H{earing Haven
By ERNEST AGNEW
I.OONDON, Jan. 7T —(AP)— Un
#nkable Capt. Kurt Carlsen and
the Flying Enterprise were half
way to haven today.
At 8 a. m. (3 a. m. EST) the tug
Turmoil and the gale-crippled
American freighter she is towing
were reported 152 miles from the
(Comnish port of Falmouth. The
tues honed to make port sometime
Wednesday.
Carlsen’s herole stand with his
noar-sinking vessel—which he re
fr=cd to leave—had started some
2010 miles west of the English coast,
where the Flying Enterprise al
most capsized in the worst Atlan
tic storm in 50 years. |
The U. S. Destroyer Willard
Keith, escorting the tug and her
charge, reported the little con
voy's 8 a. m. position and said
“condition of Enterprise un
changed.” The message said the
weather was cloudy, with a light
sos, the sea moderate with wester
v swells, and visibility was three
to six miles.
Heavier weather earlier had
forced the tug to take a zig-zag
course to ease the strain on the
tow.
The battered Flying Enterprise
today was almost flat on her port
side, but still “being towed well,”
the Turmoil’s radio operator said
in a radio telephone call to the
Associated Press. He reported
Carlsen “more confident than
ever” that his battered ship would
reach a safe harbor.
Tough Towing
The Turmoil was towing the
6.711-ton Flying Enterprise at an
angle of 30 degrees on her star
board bow, using a single steel
wire 750 yards long with a break
ing strain of only 65 tons.
That was like a fisherman try
ing to land a heavy salmon on a
line meant for small trout. But
the Turmoil has heavy manila
housers 20 inches thick in reserve
if the wire breaks.
Fog last night, which reduced
visibility to almost zero at times,
lifted at dawn. It had not cut the
Turmoil’s steady speed of three
knots, an ordinary walking pace.
Aboard the Flying Enterprise,
Carlsen shared watches with his
only companion, Mate Kenneth
Dancy of the Turmoil, who jumped
from the tug to the freighter early
Saturday. While one slept for two
hours, the other watched. Then
they swapped.
Increasing the cheeriness of the
dauntless skipper was a broadcast
message from his father, Martin,
who flew in from Copenhagan
with his wife to greet their coura
lfico(\;s son when he finally makes
anda.
Father’s Message
The gist of the message—relayed
on a record from the escorting U.
S. destroyer Willard Keith—was,
“We're proud of you, Kurt.” Kurt
acked that it be played over twice
and then, said the destroyer, “be
came emotional.”
As the ships neared land, The
Turmoil was going to have to cut
across the crowded Atlantic ship
ping lanes. Because the Flying
Enterprise, almost half a mile back
of the Turmoil, was without lights,
that increased the danger.
Lloyds issued a general warning
so all ships to give the little con
voy a wide berth.
.1, Dooley Is
Weldon I Dooley, ore of Oconee
county’s best known citizens, died
2t his home Sunday afternoon at
350 o’clock. Mr. Dooley was 77
vears old and had been in failing
health for the past several months.
Services are to be conducted
Tvesday morning at 11 o’clock
from Watkinsville Methodist
("“nrch, with the pastor, Rev. Mar
n Conway, Rev. Dan Joiner,
nostor of Watkinsville Christian
Church, and Rev. J. S. Hayes, pas
~ of Watkinsville Baptist
Choreh, officiating.
Burial will follow in Ray’s
Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Lamar
(larke, Hussey Downs, Alva
Downs, Warren Downs, Harvey
Dvms and Jim Biggers.
~ Forming an honorary escort will
be J. T. Biggers, Will Downs, W.
B. Hales, €. G. Hardigree, Austin
“oxon, Bob Ashford, Bob Ed
vords, Roy Ward, Bill Whitehead,
Durham Bell and M. O. Smith.
Mr. Dooley is survived by his
Wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Sutherland
Dooley; three daughters, Mrs. J.
P. Petty, Dawson, Ga.; Mrs. T. A.
Kimble, Orlando, Fla; and Mrs.
H. B. Crowell, Tampa, Fla.; one
son, Weyman 1. Dooley, Cleveland,
fenn;; four sisters, Mrs. A. H.
Coker, Mrs, Emory McDonald, and
'Mrs. A, L. Wofford, all of Statham,
and Mrs. Jennie Hinton, Eastville,
tud five: brothers, John, Jessie,
Prince, Robert amd. J'm ' Dooley,
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Leaders are hopeful the session
can wind up in time for the July
polictical conventions so members
can go home afterward for the
fall campaigns.
All House seats will be at stake
in the Novermber VOtinTl So will
32 Senate seats, as well as the
presidency and the vice-presiden
cy. '
Because of the approaching ele
ctions, observers generally expect
the session to be marked more by
talk than by action.
President Truman will blueprint
his legislative program in his
state-of-the-union message Wed
nesday. That will be followed by
two more messages, one on econo
mics and the other transmitting
a federal budget expected to exce
ed 80 billion dollars for the year
starting July 1.
The President is expected to re
new his request for many of the
things he was seught, and failed
to get, in the past. Among these
are Civic Rights legislation, Com
pulsory Health Insurance, and
tougher Wage, Price and Rent
controls.
He may ask for more taxes,
since Congress didn’t give him as
much as he wanted last year, but
hlis chances of getting them are
slim.
It isn’t likely, either, that Con
gress will go along with the Pres
ident on Civil Rights, or Anti-
Discrimination legslation, or on
Compulsory Health Insurance.
It propably will approve an ex
tension of the defense production
act which expires June 30, but
the present outlook is that the
President won’t get what he wants
in the line of wage, price and rent
controls.
Investigations, providing heavy
ammuition for political cam
paigns, will constitute a major
legislative activity. Committee
probers will delve into charges of
graft in high places, scandals in
tax law enforcement, waste of
public money, and Communism.
Inquiries started last year and
to be continued this year already
have provided Republicans with
campaign slogans dealing with
mink coats and home freezers to
toss at the Democratie administra
tion.
Working under the general con
trol of a combination of Republi
cans and Southern Democrats,
Congress is expected to balk not
only at the President’s dqmfistic
program, but also to rear batk on
some foreign proposals.
There is strong sentiment for a
sharp curtailment of foreign mili
tary and economic aid. Many le
gislators who went aboard during
the fall and winter months return
ed with the impression that fore
ign countries receiving U. S. help
aren’t carrying their full share of
the rearmament and recovery load.
Others want more emphasis on aid
for the far east.
Just how much the President
will request for foreign aid of all
types is not known. Last year he
asked for 8% billion dollars and
Congress cut that by more than
one billion. Proportionately, a big
ger slash appears likely this year.
Election-year demands for ec
onom._ - and a balanced budget pro
bably -will affect 1952 defense
spending, too.
The first big tussle of the new
session probably will come over
universal military training. Con
gress last year approved the prin
ciple of UMT, subject to enact
ment of legislation setting it up
this year.
A special Congressional com
mission has submitted a UMT plan
on which the house armed services
committee will start hearings Jan.
15. Some time next month the is
sue will come to a vote in the
house, with the outcome doubtful.
Congress may approve a com=
promise with no compulsory pro
visions.
First major voting of the new
house session is scheduled to come
on a bill giving all armed services
personnel a 10 per cent cost of
living pay increase. There is no
major opposition.
Guns With Butter Plan
Is Outlined By Wilson
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—(AP)
_An administration decision to
keep up the flow of most civilian
goods while gradualaly expanding
defense production drew praise
from two key senators today.
Mobilization Director Charles E.
Wilson outlined the “guns-with
butter” approach in his quarterly
report on defense production.
Wilson has been under heavy
fire from both sides recently.
The Senate Preparedness sub=
committee protested that defense
production was far short of its
goals and called for tightening the
belt on civilian output.
On the other side, the automo=
bile industry and other civilian
producers have made vigorous
protests against sharp cuts in their
supplies of materials being divert
ed to the defense effort.
Wilson told a news conference
that ths government had re
examined its entire mobilization
policy in light of all criticism and
decided again on the graduala type
of buildup.
He said the National Security
Council, headed by President
Truman, had backed the decision.,
Senator | ©’'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.),
chairman of the joint Congres
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DiSTINGUISHED VISITOR — pPrime Minister Winston
Churchill of Britain looks straight ahead as he poses out
side Blair House in Washington. He wears a dark over
coat, a white scarf and his familiar bowler hat. He is in
the United States for four days of talks with President
Truman.— (AP Wirephoto.)
President, Churchill
resident, Churchi
To Review Differences
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.— (AP)—High policy talks be
tween President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill
move into the second and more earnest stage today with a
frank appraisal assured of Anglo-American differences
over several world danger spots.
The two chiefs of state with a full panel of advisers on
each side were scheduled to meet at the White House in
two sessions, the first probably at 10:30 a. m. (EST), the
second in the afternoon at a time to be fixed. Two more of
these full working sessions are slated for tomorrow, after
which a public statement on results will be issued. . f
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AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. T—(AP)—
A Coast Guard pay clerk and more
than $45,000 are missing from
nearby Camp Gordon.
The pay clerk, Ernest L. Whet
zel, jr., 36, was the only person
who knew the combination to the
safe in which the money was kept.
He has been missing since Thurs
day, but officials did not learn un
til yesterday how much money
was gone,
The safe could not be opened
until the arrival of Lt. Cmdr, G.
A. Nordling, assistant to the
Southern Inspector of the Coast
Guard in New Orleans. A lock
smith opened it before Nordling,
FBI agents and representatives of
the Army’s Criminal Investigation
Division, the Coast Guard and the
Comptroller General’s office.
The FBI said Whetzel, a veteran
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sional economic committee, com=-
mented:
“The policy of seeking to organ
ize the world for peace, while
building the assembly line for use
if war should be thrust upon us, is
wise.”
Senator Edwin C. Johnson,
chairman of the Commerce Comr-~
mittee, said, “I like Wilson’s ap
proach to the problem of mobil
ization but I hope he will cut his
50 billion dollar spendjng estimate
by about 10 billions a year.”
Wilson said he consistently has
favored a top military outlay of
about 50 billion dollars aannually,
He said he hoped the new govern
ment budget would be held to
this.
“Severe Pinch”
The mobilization chief said the
nation now is entering a period of
“severest pinch” in allocation of
critical materials and the pinch
certainly will continue into 1953.
Even so, Wilson said defense
leaders reaffirmed plans not to
issue “death sentences” for less
essential industries by cutting off
all their copper, aluminum or
other critical materials.
i For the year just ended, Wilson
claimed “tremendous” gains.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GCEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1952.
The groundwork for the full
dress meetings was laid in a Series
of get-acquainted-again talks
which the President and Prime
Minister held Saturday, following
Churchill’s arrival here.
A T75-minute conference of the
two leaders and their top advisers
aboard the Presidential yacht Wil«
liamsburg after dinner Saturday
night was described by White
House Press Secretary Joseph
Short as having been on “the
friendliest basis.”
Mr. Truman, presiding at the
head of the table in the ship’s
dining compartment, led off the
discussion in which Churchill,
British Foreign Secretary Eden,
U. S. Secretary of State Acheson,
Treasury Secretary” Snyder and
Defense Secretary Lovett all spoke
in some detail.
There was no official disclosure
of what they said, but authorities
indicated they generally em
phasized the importance of Anglo-
American cooperation.
The discussion reportedly
brought out as problems to be
dealt with such issues as relations
with Red China (which Britain
recognizes); the Anglo-Iranian
dispute over oil which United
States officials have regarded
much more fearfully than the Bri
tish-Egyptian row over a Suez
Canal guard force, and the Sudan,
which the United States also re
gards as a source of possible Rus
sian troublg.,.
Differences
Differences exist, too, over
standardization of a rifle for Bri
tish and American troops, over the
extent of British backing for
Western European unity and cre
ation of a unified European army,
(Continued On Page Two)
U.S. Jets Down
Seven MIG-13s
SEOUL, KOREA, Jan 7 — (AP)
—Flashing U. S. jet planes de
stroyéd seven Russian-built MIG
-15 jets and damaged 12 in two
days of renewed furious air fight
ing high over northwest Korea.
U. 8. sabers shot down two
MIGs and damaged two on Mon
day. The day before, U. S. planes
blasted five of the Red jets to
earth and scored hits on 10.
U. S. losses, if any, were not
reported. Under a new policy the
U. S. Air Force wiil announce any
losses only once a week.
Allied ground forces on the
western front fought fiercely in
sub freezing weather foward a
prize outpost lost to the Reds Dec.
28.
United Nations infantrymen
made slight gains against stubborn
Chinese resistance early Monday
after hurling back two Red thrusts
Sunday. The outpost is west of
Korangpo and only about six miles
from Panmunjom — site of the
deadlocked armistic talks.
At sea, Allied warships main
tained their tight blockade of
both the east and west Korean
¢rasts. Carrier planes hommered
Communist coastal supply routes
and cut east-west rail routes in
109 places.
Land-based Fifth Air Force
bombers made 96 cuts in main
rail arteries. in northwestern Ko
rea Monday. THey destroyed two
locomotives.
lke Declares Himself, In Effect,
Willing To Accept GOP Nomination
Allied Truceman
Says Reds Don't
Want Armistice
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 7—(AP)
The United Nations’ chief truce
negotiator said today there are
growing indications that the Com
munists do not want a stable ar
mistice in Korea.
Today’s report from Panmun
jom was the now familiar “No
Progress.”
If the Communists “are acting
in good faith and sincerely want
peace, there can be no reason for
them to construct military air
fields during the period of an ar
mistice,” said Vice Adm. C. Turner
Joy. He flew to Tokyo for con
ferences with Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, Supreme Allied Com
mander,
“If, on the other hand, the Com
munists are acting in bad faith
and are, in fact, preparing for war,
the construction of a military air
field becomes, and is, a matter of
gaeat urgency to them,” Joy add
ed.
The Reds reiterated their insis
tence on the right to construct and
repair airfields during a brief
Monday meeting of the subcom
mittee on truce supervision.
The session ended abruptly after
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang ac
cused the Allies of “intentionally
delaying the negotiations” and
trying to wreck the truce talks by
insisting on prohibiting construc
tion of military air bases.
Red Rejection
Communist delegates again re
jected a six-point Allied plan for
exchanging prisoners of war and
civilians.
Admiral Joy teld newsmen in
Tokyo his conferences with Ridg
way would cover only routine
matters. '
“There is no change in truce
negotiations at Panmunjom to
prompt this visit,” he said.
“With each passing day there is
less and less reason to think the
Communists really want a stable
armistice. Certainly, no one can
accuse them of being in a hurry to
demonstrate good faith.”
In a statement handed to news
men, Joy emphasized that the pri
mary responsibility of any mili
tary commander is the security of
his forces, during an armistice as
well as in war.
“The debate at Panmunjom is
not over an academic point,” he
declared. “The debate is over the
extremely practical matter of life
and death for our forces and those
they defend.”
An official U, N. spokesman,
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
said Communist negotiators at
Panmunjom appeared disinterest
ed and lack-adaisical, as though
they were waiting for new in
structions.
Disinterested Reds
Hsieh, Col. Chang Chun-tsai and
their interpreters giggled, snick
ered or read magazines while Maj.
Gen. Howard M. Turner was re
stating the Allied position on air
field construction, Nuckols said.
Nuckols said that with crated
fighter planes hidden in North
Korea “the offer made by the
Communists to prohibit the intro
duction of any combat aircraft to
insure stability of an armistice is
without substance.”
Nuckols declined to estimate
how many MIG fighters the Reds
hove brought across the Yalu in
crates but he said the number was
“considerably more than any token
force for display purposes.”
The U. N. communique said Red
negotiators again objected to “the
voluntary repatriation aspects” of
the Allied proposal for exchanging
prisoners and civilians,
“The Communists indicate that
they want all of their former sol
diers who are now in U. N. Com
mand hands to be returned with
out regard for the desires of the
individual,” the communique said.
The Allied exchange plan calls
for trading prisoners of war on a
man for man basis until one side
has no more. Then remaining
prisoners would be traded for ci
vilians, and finally remaining
civilians would be exchanged on
an all-for-all basis.
However, the U. N. insists that
nolone be repatriated against his
will,
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ATHENS AND VICINITY |
Fair and continued cold to- '
day and tonight. Fair and war
mer tomorrow and likely Wed
nesday. Low tonight 27; high
tomorrow 50. Sun sets today
5:38 and rises tomorrow 7:40. |
GEORGIA-—Fair and contin- {
ued cold today and tonight. |
Lowest temperatures 20 to 25 in |
mountains and 26 to 32 else- |
where tonight. Tuesday fair and |
warmer. i
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Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since January 1 ..... .22!
Deficit since January 1 ... .78
Average Januarv rainfall .. 4.84
General Spikes Rumors That He
Will Ask Relief To Seek Office
PARIS, Jan. T.— (AP) —General Eisenhower today in
effect declared himself willing to accept a Republican
Presidential nomination.
The General in a statement indicated that if he were
nominated next July he would consider acceptance a “‘duty
that would transcend my present responsibility.” Eisen
hower is Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Eu
rope and he said that under no circumstances will be ask
relief from this assignment to seek the Presidency per
sonally.
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STILL IN LOVE
Although their marriage has
been declared void, 11-year-old
Eva Dean Baggett and her hus
band, Arvil Ott, 23, embrace
each other as they declare that
they are still in love. The nine
day-old marriage of the child
bride was ended when she was
brought down from a honey
moon hide-away-on Etna Moun
tain, near Chattanooga, Tenn.
Ott followed her to Chattanoo
ga, where they are shown in
brief reunion. — (NEA Tele
photo.)
o.M.Roberts, Sr.
Is Honored By
Baptist Deacons
O. Mortimer Roberts, leading
Athens businessman, was twice
honored by the Board of Deacons
of the First Baptist Church at its
first meeting for the new year Fri
day evening.
In recognition of his “long, ef
ficient, and outstanding service”
to the Church, he was presented a
beautifully framed scroll of “rec
ognition and gratitude.”
Just as this presentation by H.
Paul Williams, 1951 chairman of
the Board, had been completed, it
was announced that Mr. Roberts
had been elected vice-chairman of
the Board of Deacons for 1952,
The resolution, signed by Chair
man Williams, Pastor H. P. Gid
dens, and Board Secretary John R.
Carreker, reads as follows:
Resolution
“Whereas, O. Mortimer Roberts,
as a member and officer of the
First Baptist Church, Athens, has
rendered long, efficient, and out
standing service, as indicaded by
the following record:
“Sunday School Teacher, Su
perintendent of Junior Depart
ment of Sunday School, Member
and Secretary of Board of Dea
cons, Member of Finance Commit
tee, Member and Chairman of
Property Committee and Member
and Chairman of Building Com
mittee during the time of planning
and construction of the Edwards-
Sams Educational Building; and
“Whereas, members of this
Board are conscious of the great
amount of time and interest which
Mr. Roberts has devoted to all
these duties, especially the plan
ning and supervision of the con
struction of the Educational
Building; and
“Whereas, members of the
Board recognize the value of these
services to the Church, not only
now, but in years to come; and
“Whereas, members of the
Board wish to express their grati
tude to Mr. Roberts in a form
which he may preserve;
“Be It Resolved, That this state
ment of recognition and gratitude
be nscribed on parchment and be
presented to O. Mortimer Rob
erts, with the admiration and high
esteem of his co-workers on this
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Exercise Snowfall
CAMP DRUM, N. Y., Jan. 7 —
(AP)—This northern New York
reservation girded today for
“atomic warfare” in cold and
snow as the Army and Air Force
officially set in motion “Exercise
Snowfald.”
The services began a four-week
period devoted to small-unit prob
lems designed to toughen up
troops assigned to the joint winter
maneuvers. The actual exercise,
involving mote than 30,000 men, is
scheduled for Feb. 9 to 15.
“Snowfall” will include the use
of simulated atomic weapons at
division level for the first time.
The Army has said the simulation
will be a realistic as possible short
of actual employment.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
Eisenhower is 61 and cempleted
today one year as the supreme
commander,
Eisenhower’s statement today
came after Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, who has announc
ed himself as the general’s cam
paign manager, disclosed that
Eisenhower’s name would be en
tered in the New Hampshire pri
mary in March. The New Hamp
shire primary is the first this year
in which voters have a chance to
express themselves for their fa
vorite candidate for the presi
dency. The nomination will be
made by the Republican conven
tion in July. There are three an
nounced candidates to date—
Senator Taft, Governor Warren of
California and Harold E. Stassen.
Eisenhower’s statement today
was read to reporters at the Su
preme Allied Headquarters by
Brig. Gen. Charles T. Lanham,
Chief of SHAPE'S Public Infor
mation Division. Lanham said
Eisenhower does not intend to.say
anything further. He added the
general “hopes this statement will
convince our citizens and those of
the other NATO (Northi Atlantic
Treaty Organization) countries of
the responsibility he feels for his
present duty.”
Eisenhower in the statement
confirmed he is a Republican,
Ike Statement
The text of his statement:
Senator Lodge's announcement
of yesterday as reported in the
press gives an accurate account
of the general tenor »f my poli
tical convictions and of my Re
publican voting record. He was
correct also in stating that I would
not seek nomination to political
office. :
I have frequently and publicly
expressed my refusal to d¢ so.
My convictions in this regard
have been reinforced by the
character and importance of the
duty which I was charged more
than a year ago by our country
and the other nations of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
America’s enlightened self-inter
est and the future of western
civilization alike demand success
in our collective effort to produce
security against communistic
threat and to preserve peace,
Under no circumstances will I
ask for relief from this assign
ment in order to seek nomination
to political office and I shall not
participate in the pre-convention
activities of others who may have
such an intention with respect to
me.
Of course there is no question
of the right of American citizens
to organize in pursuit of their
common convictions, I realize that
Senator Lodge and his associates
are exercising this right in an at
tempt to place before me next
July a duty that would transcend
my present responsibility, In the
absence, however, of a clear-cut
call to political*duty I shall con
tinue to devote my full attention
to the vital task assigned.
~ Dewey Support
Eisenhower already has the sup
port of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York, the 1948 Republican
standard bearer. The general also
has the editorial support of sev
eral newspapers—among them the
New York Times, the New York
Herald Tribune, the Chicago Sun-
Times and the Providence (R. I.)
(Continued On Page Two)
Kefauver To Be
Enfered In Race
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—(AP)
—Rep. Hays (D.-Ohio) announced
today a complete slate of delegates
will be entered in the Ohio Dem
ocratic primaries for Senator Es
tes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) for the
Presidential nomination.
Hays made his announcement
at a news conference.
Ohio law requires that a candi
date for a party primary nomina
tion enter his consent in writing
before delegates may be placed
upon the party ballot,
Asked if he had such a written
approval fromr Senator Kefauver,
Hays replied: :
“I don’t have it at the moment.
But I have been in politics for 20
years and you’'ll just have to as
sume I know what I'm doing.”
It was Hays who last month
emerged from a White House con
ference with President Truman
saying that the President would
issue a statement by February 6
telling whether or not he was a
candidate for re-election.
The White House said Mr. Tru
man had not made any commit
ments about the date for announc
ing his intentions.
Hays told newsmen %“there will
be no repudiation of my action.”
The announcement was the first
open move to get the ball rolling
for the Tennessee senator, who
achieved nation-wide prominence
over the television networks dur
ing hearings of the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee. Kefau
ver was chairman of the commit
tee. ;
HOME
EDITION
Fourfeen Perish
In Massachusefts
Aparfment Fire
(AVXES’;FIELD Mass.,, Jan, 13-3-
)—Fourteen per «
possibly 15, were bcflm today
to have perished in an apartment
business block firs amid sereams
for help heard more tham three
blocks distant. '
Police and Red Cross officials
said as far as they have been able
to determine 14 were at home at
the time of the fire and did net
get out in time. fogide s
Two others were said to i
a fifth-floor bowling alley but pe
lice weren’t able to verify that v
to an early hour today.
All five floors collapsed into
the cellar in a tangled mass of
burning wreckage that - firemen
found impossible to probe im
mediately.
Fourteen other persons were in
jured, 12 seriously enot’xlgh to be
kept at Noble hospital. The other
two were discharged after freat
ment. "
Fire Chief Jeremiah A. Moriarty
estimated property damage at
“more than $1,000,000.”
Wall Collapses
One of the walls collapsed at
the height of the blaze and erash~
ed through the roof of an adjoin
ing one-story block of stores,
Fire Chief Moriarty said there
would have been many more cas
ualties had it not been for the
heroism of several firemen, po
licemen and onlookers who disre
garded personal safety to carry
tenants down fire escapes and lad
ders.
Robert L. Greaney, 2 navyman
on leave; Chester Dawicki, an air
force man also on leave, and Min
go Grunerio, were credited with
saving five persons who were on
tlée point of collapse when reach
ed. .
Greaney later reentered the
building but was forced back
when flames burned the coat off
his back and singed his hair.
He said that as he left the build
ing the second time he could hear
a woman shouting, *help me, I'm
burning.”
Calls For Help
Dr. Harold Beattie said he heard
the anguished screams for help
from his home three blocks away.
An elderly couple, dressed only
in nightclothes, nearly collapsed
on the street while waiting for
help. Onlookers took off their own
shoes and overcoats to protect the
couple from the freezing cold.
Jerry Murphy, who recently
came here from Ireland, carried
two women down a fire escape—
one on each shoulder,
The building was made of brick
and wag the largest businese
apartment block in this eity of
24,000 population.
The first floor had stores, the
second, third and fourth had pro
fessional offices and apartments
and the fifth a bowling alley.
Firemen B§aid that because of
the huge mass of tangled and
smouldering wreckage it may be
days before any bodies can be re
covered.
The thousands of cubic feet of
water poured onto the flames
quickly turned to ice making even
more- difficult the immediate
search of the wreckage.
The fire broke out last night but
was not brought under control un
til early today.
Georaia GOP I
Split Over ‘Tke’
~ ATLANTA, Jan. 7—(AP)—
Democratic comment on the avail
ability of General Eisenhower as
a Republican Presidential candi
date was sparing in Georgia today
but Republican activity in his be
half was redoubled.
A national leader of the Eisen
hower movernent, Rep. Scott (R-
Pa.) will visit the state Thursday
and Friday to lend added force to
the Eisenhower boom. Backers cf
the general in the state said they
were overjoyed that he could be
counted on as a candidate.
The statement of Eizenhower's
position brought an unusual Geor
gia GOP split when Harry Som
mers, National Committeeman,
said definitely that he will support
Taft (R-0O.) for the party nom
ination, Four years ago Sommers
backed Gov. Thomas Dewey of
New York, one of the original
Eisenhower advocates.
Other Georgia leaders, however,
were leaning strongly toward the
General, although no announce
ment of their stand is expected be
fore Friday. These include Elbert
P. Tuttle, Fulton county GOP
chairman; State Chairman Roscoe
Tucker of Dawsonville and per
haps Secretary W. Barnaby Hill
of Atlanta, Mrs. Robert R. Snod
grass of Atlanta, National Com
mitteewoman, said some time ago
she is for Eisenhower.
On the Democratic side, Gev.
Herman Talmadge said Eisen~
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ACTRESS MASSEY WEDS
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Jan. 7
— (AP) — Actress Ilona llng
was married yesterday to Char
Walker, Manhattan jeweler.
Miss Massey, Hungarian
w;r’:sz difiorced fio& Alan Cu:.h
Valker’s as 36,