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Vol. €XIIX, No. 309.
Counterproposal
Offered By Reds
Allies Reject Plan Including
Rebuilding g{fpg:m]TJe Airbases
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 9.—(AP) —The C 3
day submitted a new counterproposal agreein(;;n;:)n:l'luitfli?é
terms for supervising a Korean armistice except a ba
rebuilding Red airfields. The U. N, command pro tln .-
iected the compromise. P 19
HST, Churchill
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By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—(AP).
Prime Minister Churchill leaves
Washington today for a visit to
New York and Ottawa, apparent
v convinced that his talks with
president Truman have laid a
new basis for tightened British-
American cooperation around the
world,
In a final White House session,
ending last night, Churehill and
M. Truman agreed to give all
out support to formation of a
unified European defense army,
including German, French, Italian
nd Low Country troops. Mr. Tru
man had wanted such a commit
ment from the British leader in
the hope of speeding up the army
project in Europe.
A communique summing up re
<ilts of the four days of talks, but
omitting information on secret
military discussions, is expected
to be issued late this afternoon
llowing Churchill’'s 2 p. m. de
parture by train.
Communique
The communique, informants
reported, will announce several
specifie points, including an agree
ment on raw materials supplies.
This is expected to assure Britain
of more American steel and the
United States of British tin. Other
materials may also be covered.
The Prime Minister is leaving
behind for further consideration a
number of issues which may be
rronths in solution plus some poli
tical problems——presumably cen
tering on the "Middle “East—for
discussion between Foreign Sec
retary Eden and Secretary of
State Dean Acheson.
Churchill is understood to have
expressed to the President a de
sire for greater exchange of atom
ic information among the United
States, Britain and Canada and
for arrangements to test Britain’s
atomic weapons here. This infor
mation exchange would require
‘tion by Congress to relax present
ricid atomic secret restrictions.
Winding up the talks last night
Churchill thanked Mr. Truman
for devoting so much of his time
to the discussions in days when
he also was getting ready for the
congressional opening. The two
men spent -a total of about 15
hours together on seven occasions,
including social gatherings.
Praises U. S.
Following last night’s session,
(:“Hl‘(‘hiH told newsmen the
American people were carrying
out their mission in world affairs
“not for themselves or any nation
but for all mankind.”
A British spokesman declared
the object of the talks had been
achieved in a “very good atmos
here.” This was known to be also
the American view but informants
commented that the discussions
had produced no earthshaking de
cisions. They said the talks in
creased good relations between the
tonferees and brought a better un
“erstanding. of the policies being
"mt\\'ed by the other’s gowern
men
One agreement reached yester
¢av was that both nations should
alie the maximum effort to co
cinate their pelicies and min
mize their differences in the Mid
dle East and the Orent. In the
iddler East Britain’s troubles
vith Iran and Egypt are consider
¢ "‘;v the U, 8. a source of poten
"2l new crises. In the Far East the
!0 powers are split over recogni
tion of Red China.
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SAVANNAH, Jan. 9 — (AP) —
The Citizens and Southern Na
tion=l Bank’s “unprecedented first
‘ > rank among banks in the
Southeast” was hailed at Tues
d2v's annual meeting of the bank,
held in Savannah,
Mills B. Lane, jr., of Atlanta,
president, reporting to the SH
nual stockholders’ session said in
trease during the year .of the
banlc’s capital stock from $6,000,-
100 to $7,000,000 assured the bank’s
first rank position. Total assets
of the bank $394,597,865 and total
capital is $20,074,046.
All officers and directors were
re-clected. William Murphey of
}k wvannah is chairman of the
oard,
. Modernization of all bank build
ngs in the C, and S. system, with
the exception of Macon and Thom
aston, is now completed or in the
!inal stages, Lane reported.
WATTERSON ATTENDS
Attending the annual meeting of
tshe Citizens & Southern Bank %1
Savannah Ty sdg%?w «Robert V
Watterson, ‘é;ecu fle”m"é’i}
dent of the local bank.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
The future of Red airfields is
the basic point of dispute.
“There is no major disagree
ment still existing except that of
airfields,” said Maj. Gen. Howard
M. Turner, U. N. negotiator. “That
has been the major disagreement
throughout.”
The Communist counterproposal
formally accepted Allied demands
for troop rotation, replenishment
of supplies, and supervision of the
truce by neutrals.
Chinese Maj. Gen, Hsieh Fang
called these “great concessions.”
Turner retorted: “You have not'
made one single effort to solve the
major difference confronting us.” |
® No Progress
No progress was made in a sub
committee meeting on exchange
of prisoners, Both subcommittees
meet at 11 a. m. Thursday (9 p.
m. EST Wednesday) at Panmun
jom.
Each side made strongly worded
attacks on the other.
The Reds made theirs in pre
senting their truce supervision
counter-proposal. A U. N. Com
mand communique called it an
“inflammatory statement” accus
ing the United States “among oth
er things of imperialism and world
domination.”
The U. N. command made its at
tack in a broadcast from Tokyo to
Korea. It charged Communist
truce delegates “represent only a
small clique of power-mad mas
ters in the Kremlin.”
The broadcast said the Red dele
gates “like Communist leaders
everywhere, would not and never
will represent the will of the peo
ple. The voice of the U. N. com
mand at the conference table is the
voice of the Kurean people and the
people of all free nations.”
Hope Expressed
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief
U. N. delegate, expressed hope
Communist delegates would give
“a working demonstration of good
faith” eventually “in spite of their
intransigence to date.”
In a letter to Robert Eunson,
Associated Press Bureau Chief in
Tokyo, where the admiral is con
ferring with Gen. Matthew B.
‘Ridgway, Joy said he was neither
pessimistic nor optimistic about
the future of negotiations.
President Syngman Rhee of
South Korea was definitely pessi
mistic. He said talks would “get
nowhere.”
It looked as though both sub
committees had run into dead-end
streets.
Turner said the Communist
truce supervision “counterproposal
was unacceptable as it did not con
‘tain the restrictions on airfields”
' necessary to guarantee against a
Korea-based Red Air Force. Red
planes now must fly from neigh
boring Manchuria.
Alan Winnington, reporter for
the London Daily Worker, said
Red delegates told him their coun
terproposal is “as far as they will
go” on the supervision issue.
“The talks can either succeed or
fail depending on the American
attitude to this proposal,” the
Communist newsman said at Pan
munjom.
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Talmadge Demands More Leeway In
Distribution Of US Relief Funds
ATLANTA, Jan. 9. — (AP) —
More leeway in local distribution
of federal relief funds was de
manded of Congress by Governor
Herman Talmadge after a county
welfare official resigned because
there are “more welfare families
than there are farms . . .”
Peach County Welfare Board
Chairman R. P. Swan quit yester
day, protesting that “the local
board has no authority. The local
poard is merely a screen behind
which the department operates.”
Swan’s letter of resignation to
County Manager B .A. Young said
“there are 414 farms in Peach
county. . . . Yet there are 262
more welfgre families than there
are farms in the county.
“In the Fort Valley High School
and Junior High School combined,
grades 6 through 12, there are 400
children enrolled. There 459
children in the county receiving
aid . . . amounting to $9,009 for
October, more than SIOO,OOO &
‘year.” L¥ ’
"/ The Governor and State Welfare
fi&brfiflm Kemper said that
they will seek stricter state legis
Save Freighte
LONDON, Jam 9 — (AP) —
Heavy seas held up frantic at
tempts by tugboat men today to
get a new towline aboard the bat
tered freighter Flying Enterprise,
dangerously adrift off the rocky
Cornish coast.
A radio telephone call from a
tug at the scene said Capt. Kurt
Carlsen and Tugboat Mate Ken
neth Dancy were still aboard the
ship at noon (7 a. m. EST) but
that the sea was too rough then to
attempt another tieup with the
hulk wallowing helplessly in the
heaving swells.
The Enterprise broke loose at
1:30 a. m., snapping the five inch
steel hawser by which the British
tug Turmoil had dragged her 250
miles through the waves. The
break came just after the convoy
had ridden out a fierce squall that
struck in the night.
The Turmoil, three other tugs
g(nc} tt:he U.B Di;sgtroyor Willard
eith were standing by the FI ‘
Enterprise today. ying‘
But the radio call from the
French tug Abeille 25 to Paris said
The Turmoil was apparently
awaiting better weather before
trying to get another line aboard.
An officer on the Abeille said
he did not know whether the Tur
moil would try to put other men
aboard the drifting ship to help
Carlsen and Dancy, but “in this
weather it would be extremely
difficult for the two men to make
another towline fast.”
Both Visible
The officer said both Carlsen
and Dancy were visible from the
French vessel.
d“I can see Carlsen now,” he add
ed.
Until the cable snapped, the
Turmoil had expected to make the
safety of Falmouth Harbor by
noon today with the crippled hulk.
Falmouth lies about 50 miles
northeast of the spot where the
Flying Enterprise was drifting be
fore the wind at three knots an
hour.
The French tug Abeille 25 ra
dioed it saw Carlsen and Dancy
at dawn, working precariousiy on
the slanting decks of the listing
ship preparing to help fasten a new
hawser.
In a radio-telephone conversa
tion with the Associated Press in
Paris, the Abeille’s radioman said
Carlsen was “still in danger.’
. The Abeille was assisting the
Turmoil.
Tough Task
“We're doing everything we can
to pass a line but it is going {o be
very hard,” the radioman said.
“The sea is very rough.”
The nearest land was Lizard
Point, a rocky promontory that
forms the southernmost tip of
England. The Flying Enterprise’s
position, plotted by the Willard
Keith, was about 40 miles scuth
west of the Lizard’s crags. Fal
mouth is about 15 miles farther
along the coast.
~ This position conflicted” with one
given earlier by the Turmoil’s
‘owners, who said Capt. Dan Par
ker reported that when the tow
line broke, he was only 10 miles
southwest of the Lizard.
Carlsen, saving his weakened
radio batteries for emergency
messages, reported to the Keith
only once during the .night.
At 3 a. m. he told the destroyer
he had so far been unable {o in
spect the frayed tow line “due to
the heavy rolling of the Enter
prise.”
The Enterprise had a steady list
of about 60 degrees. At times,
heavy seas almost capsized her.
The black and white funnel oc
casionally dipped almost to the
wave tops, then the ship slowly
rolled back to her precarious, off
center balance.
Long swells tossed the ships, a
gusty wind ranging from 16 to 20
knots in force was blowing from
west southwest, and the tempera
ture was 44 degrees.
Four tugs were at hand. The
Dextrous, from Cardiff, joined the
little convoy last night. The
Abeille had come up shortly after
the Turmoil began its towing job
last Saturday. The Englishman,
chartered by the Associated Press,
also was standing by.
lation requiring fathers to support
illegitimate children. They also
announced enforcement of a new
law making step-fathers support
step-children.
Talmadge Assertion
Talmadge asserted that he will
ask Georgia’s delegation in Con
gress ot introduce a bill to decen
tralize the welfare program and
delegate more power to states in
the handling of welfare money.
“Washington should send the
welfare money to Georgia without
any strings, rules, or laws attach
ed,” said Talmadge. “The Georgia
Legislature and the State Depart
ment of Welfare should nrake as
they see fit the laws, rules and
regu}atiq_ns for the distribution of
the funds. We should have more
local government, and less federal
bureaucracy.”
The Governor last year tried to
limit assistance to illegitimate
hildren to one per monther but
ghe federal government killed tie
attempt. The govermg?t's stand
was that children Should not have
t 6 suifer because of their. parents
mistakes.
Under Talmadge’s new plan,
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952,
Election Year Truce On Political
Fights Is Proposed By President
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ROK Units Kill 1,000
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Reds Near Truce Site
BY MILO FARNETI
SEOUL, Kores, vast. 9.— (AP) —South Koreak troops
killed an estimated 1,000 Chinese near the Panmunjom
truce talks site Tuesday in the war’s heaviest fighting in
six weeks, the U. S. Eighth Army reported today.
But the South Koreans had to give up two small hills
west of Korangpo when the Reds hurled about 4,000 troops
into the battle of Sasi Bulge. : :
Robinson Heads
Polio Drive Here
Harry Robinson, Athens busi
ness leader who is Eighth District
chairman for this year’s March of
Dimes, January 2-31, will preside
at a meeting of the county leaders
in his district Thursday, January
10, at noon at the Holman Hotel
in Athens.
General Alvan C. Gillem and
Miss Anna Kothe, of the Georgia
Chapter office in Atlanta, will be
guest speakers at the meeting and
will report on progress of the
campaign throughout the state.
Host at the meeting will be the
newly-appointed Clarke county
chairman, R. H. Kimbrell of Ath
ens. Other newly-announced
chairmen in the Eighth District in
clude the Rev. N. O. L. Powell of
Jefferson, director for Jackson
county, and Mrs. J. R. Findley of
Homer, director for Madison
county.
Colonel Paul Turner of Gaines
ville, Third District director, and
T. Hamp McGibony of Greens
boro, Seventh- District head, have
been invited to attend the meeting
along with their county chairmen.
the father will either support the
children or go to prison in which
case the state naturally will aid
the child.
Kemper Plan
Kemper said he will try to force
mothers to reveal names of the
fathers in order to make the chil
dren eligible for aid. He said he
will also seek to have the Legis-
Jlature raise the age limit of ille
gitimate children for which the
fathers are responsible from 14 to
16.
~ Swan in his letter said:
“T don’t think any person objects
to really dependent children re
ceiving aid in order that they may
have adequate food, clothing and
schooling, However, many of these
ghildreg merely havco b.een aban
one: one Qr mor
s’imfildy gecéfise ?he i)”ax;nt fir par
ents know that the welfare de
pariment will provile funds for
Tearing fimese children, leaving the
parents free to rear, spend and
beget other children to become
wards of the government ... '
State Senator William J. Wilson
made Swan’s letter public.
The vicious battle has raged
since December 28. The Aled
troops were identified Wednesday
as infantrymen of the Republic of
Korea (ROK) First Division.
An Eighth Army briefing officer
said since the fight for the outpost
began, 3.076 Communists have
been killed, 852 wounded and 10
cabtured. He said Allied losses
were “much lighter,” but gave no
figures.
The Eighth Arnry communique
made no mention of fighting in
the sector Wednesday.
But a new scrap broke out dur
ing the early morning darkness
near Heartbreak Ridge on the
eastern front. An attacking Red
platoon pushed a United Nations
unit out of an advanced position,
but the Allies recaptured it in a
counterattack.
A raiding U. N. patrol got mixed
up in a sharp two and a half hour
fight northwest of Yonchon. This
is north of the Sasi Bulge on the
western front.
Fighter bombers destroyed or
damaged 10 locomotives and about
150 rail cars during the night, Far
East Air Forces said.
Night {lying pilots reported a
decrease in Red truck traffic.
About 320 were attacked, and 25
were reported destroyed.
Eight B-29 Superforts battered
the rail yards at Kuni, key link
in the supply route leading from
Manchuria to the front.
Allied ' Naval forces on the
northeast coast pounded Red troop
positions near Kosong. Carrier
based planes from the Essex and
Valley Forge cut rail lines in 106
places. Pilots said they killed 161
Communist soldiers.
CIVIL PRODUCTION CUTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—(AP)—
Production of most household
goods is due to be cut to 40 per
cent of pre-Korean war level
and construction of new homes is
to be reduced 23 per cent begin
ning next April.
This announcement came to
day from Manly Fleischmann, the
Defense Production Administrator,
who also said that automobile
production is to be curtailed by
at least 7 per cent for the first
six months of this year.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Thursday.
Low tonight 54; high Thursday
65. Sun sets today 5:40 and
rises tomorrow 7:40.
GEORGIA -— Partly cloudy,
warmer today and continued
rather warm tonight and Thurs
day.
TEMPERATURE
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MNBINEE & L i a 8
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ... .. .00
Total since January 1 .... .22
Deficit since January 1 ... 1.08
Average January rainfall . 4.84
Tax Hike Question Left Open
In “State Of Union™ Message
BY ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTUN, Jan. 9. — (AP) — President Truman
proposed to Congress today that it join him in an election
year armistice on “political fights’” which might endanger
the natonal interest at a time when all men walk “in the
shadow of a Third World War.”
He declared “we are moving through a perilous time”
with Soviet Russia steadily increasing its armed might, and
“all of us—Republicans and Democrats alike—azll of us are
Americans; and we are going ot sink or swim together.”
“The United States and the
whole free world are passing
through a period of grave danger,”
he said.
“Every action you take here in
Congress, and every action I take
ag President,” Mr. Truman told
a joint meeting of Senators and
Representatives, “must be measur
ed against the test of whether it
helps to meet that danger.
“Vle have a great responsibility
to conduct our political fights in
‘a manner that does not harm the
national interest.”
Open Question
In a “State of the Union” mes
sage of unusual gravity, delivered
in person in the House Chamber,
the President even left open the
question of how much, if any, new
increases in taxes he will ask in
his economic and budget messages.
He said only that the country
must have ‘“high taxes” over the
next few years and that they must
be “shared among the people as
fairly as possible.”
Since the outbreak of the Ko
rean war in June, 1950, Congress
has voted three tax bills increas
ing revenues by an estimated $15,-
642,000,000 making the total tax
load about 63,700,000 for
the current fiscal year ending June
30. The total is expected to raise
as much as three billion more in
fiscal 1953 as the nation experien
ces the full force of the latest raise,
voted last fall.
And he asked for this year only
those “Fair Deal” measures he
said will “contribute most to de
fense.” At the same time, he in=
cluded “his controversial Civil
Rights proposals among them,
asking they be permitted to come
to a vote. £
Mr. Truman said he will re
commend shortly—presumably in
his budget meseage later this mon=
th, “some increases” in the size
of the armed forces which he said
now total nearly 3,500,000 men.
Arms Increases
These increases will involve
“particular emphasis on air pow
er”, he said, and will mean “large
scale production of planes and
other equipment for a longer
period of time than we had orig=-
inally planned.”
Secretary of Defense Lovett said
early in December budget plans
call for an air force of 143 wings
instead of 90, 126 of the increased
group to be combat units.
The President reported that
planes, tanks and other arms are
being delivered the tate of 115 bil
lion dollars worth a month and
that “a year from now, we expect
this rate to be doubled.”
He warned that the military de
mands for steel, aluminum, cooper,
nickel and other scarce materials
will bring sharp cutbacks in civil
jian goods during the next two
years of “peak” defense produc
tion.
But, he said, the cutbacks “will
be nothing like those during
World War 11, when much civil
ian production was completely
stopped.” g
The “give ‘em hell” phrases of
previous “State of the Union” and
campaign speeches Mr. Truman
has directed at Congress in other
years were almost entirely absent
from his address today-—until he
came to the issue of price and
other economic controls.
“Qur stabilization law was shot
full of holes at the last session,”
he declared. “This year, it will be
one of the main tasks before Con
gress to repair the damage and en
act a strong anti-inflation law.”
The President said his admini
stration intends to “hold the line
on prices just as tightly as the
law allows.”
Still leaving Congress and the
nation in the dark on whether he
will seek re-election, the Presi
dent declared:
“This will be a Presidential ele
ction year—the kind of year in
which politics plays a larger part
in our lives than usual. That is |
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Bishop Walth
ATLANTA, Jan. 9—(AP)—The
very Rev. John B, Walthour was
consecrated Bishop of the Episco
pal Diocese of Atlanta today with
the centuries old ceremony of the
“Laying On Of Hands.”
Fourteen protestant Episcopal
Bishops from over the country
participated in the consecration.
A solemn processional of 200
clergymen, lay leaders, govern
ment officials and choir members
formed part of the ceremony in
St. Philip’s cathedral.
The cathedral was packed with
ap%roximately 800 persons.
ishop Walthour became the
fourth Bishop of the Atlanta Dio-~
cese which was created in 1907.
The Diotese roughly includesg all
of Georgia north of a line through
Columnbut and Macon’ and serves
approximately 15,000 members,
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
S2O M.II' M
ATLANTA, Jan., 9—(AP)—The
Board of Regents of the Georgia
University System today asked the
Legislature to authorize an nddi-!
tional $20,000,000 building pro
gram for the University.
After an impassioned plea by
Roy V, Harris of Augusta, for a
“great university,” the regents
voted to ask the Legislature to ap
propriate an additional $1,000,000
annually to finance the proposed
new construction and to authorize
the University System Building
Authority to carry it out.
~ The action came after a lengthy
discussion of the general public
school and higher educational sit
uation in Georgia.
} “Where is the money coming
from,” asked Mrs. William T.
Healey, of Atlanta, following the
vote on Harris’ motion. “I'd like to
know if it means they are going to
raise taxes.”
The question fell like a bomb
shell among the other nine re
gents, all males.
After a pause, Harris said that
would be up to the Governor.
Governor Herman Talmadge re
! cently said he would nos favor
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Costello’s MD
Is Questioned
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 — (AP) —
Gambler Frank Costello’s throat
doctor told a federal jury yester
day he had advised Costello he
was fit to answer questions last
March 16—about three hours be
fore he walked out of a Senate
Crime Commission hearing.
The physician, Dr. Douglas
Quick, faced additional cross-ex
amination by defense counsel to
day.
Costello contended at the March
18 hearing that acute laryngitis
made it impossible for him to tes
tify without aggravating the con
dition.
He is on trial on 11 charges of
contempt of the U. S, Senate for
refusal to answer a number of
questions before the committee
and for walking out on it.
U. S. Attorney Myles J. Lane
may complete the prosecution’s
case today. Omne of his witnesses
will be Rudolph Halley, former
chief counsel for the Senate com
mittee and now president of the
New York City Council, The jury
was selected Monday and the trial
got under way yesterday.
Dr. Quick, called by the govern
ment, said he told Costello March
16 it would be safe for him to
testify for up to two hours if he
limited his answers and avecided
straining his voice.
Defense Counsel George Wolf
failed in attempts to get the doc=
tor to say that Costello’s condition
on March 16 made it vital for him
to remain silent.
DeMolays Install
Officers Tonight
Officers will be installed at the
regular 8 o'clock meeting of the
Frank Hardeman Chapter, Order
of DeMolay, tonight in the Chapter
room of the Masinic Temple on
Meigs st. The meeting will be open
to the public. -
The three principal officers of
the chapter to be installed are
Master Councilor Donald Branyon,
jr., Senior Councilor Leon Driskell
and Junior Councilor R. H. Drift
mier. Other officers are appointive
and have been notified of their
appointments to the various jobs.
Chosen by the Master Councilor
to head social activities for the
ensuing administration was John
ny Upchurch. Selected to head the
DeMolay Degree team was George
Florence. These officers will not
be installed tonight but play a
vital part in the work of the Chap
ter.
Parents of all members and of
ficers of the Chapter are cordially
invited to attend the installation
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Probe Promised
In Kidnapping
SALT LAKE CITY, Jam & —
(AP) - Mayor Earl Glade has
promised a “searching” investiga
tion into police activities dur-~
ing the 79 days that a young, m
gy cheeked used car saleman
a teen age boy in brutal eap
tivity.
The salesman, John D. Bfllett,
24, nabbed Monday on a bank rob~
bery charge when police mm:
a “tearoom strap,” is accused
kidnaping 14-year-old Richard
(Ricky) Hendricksen.
Billett will be arraigned in City
Court today.
The double-chinned chain smokes
also is charged with the $21,000
holdup of a Salt Lake City branch
bank, The bank was robbed Meon~
day and young Hendricksen re
leased yesterday. The whole affair,
said Mayor Glade, iz “bizarre and
fantastic.”
Chained To Bed
Hendricksen was held captive,
much of the time chained to a bed,
while a search for him spread over
the nation.
“The house was less than a
block from a large church and was
located near a busy interseetion,”
Glade declared., “The man had to
enter and leave the house at least
once a day so surely seomeone
could have followed him there.”
Billett, a used car saleman at a
lot where Rick washed cars, was
originally questioned in the lad's
disappearance,
Capt. M. D. McGinness, police
plainsclothes division commander,
said Billett had been “tailed” by
officers from Nov, 1 until “about
10 days ago.”
McGinness said “Billett knew
we were following him and always
manafied to give us the slip.”
Ricky said fear for his life, and
‘that of his family, kept him frem
lattemptm’g to escape.
Ricky claimed that Billett beat
him but kigt him well fed and
supplied with comic books.
Billett Arrest
Billett was arrested in a down~
town department store tea reom
eight hours after a lone gunman
stepped out of a snow storm and
robbed the First Security Bank of
Utah’s eighth south branch. Moest
of the $20,900 taken has been re
covered.
Ricky, reunited with his family,
said Billett had driven him past
the Hendricksen home several
times.
Ricky said he had written his
initials on his hands “in case I vw.2
murdered.”
The Hendricksen's joyfully stag~
ed a belated Christmas and ab
served Ricky's birthday, which
was Nov. 7, nearly - three weeks
after the lad disappeared.
Billett emphatically denied that
he made any gexual advances tow
ard the boy.
Dies Of Cancer
ATLANTA, Jan, 9 — (AP) —
A four-year fight against cancer
has ended in death for a 19-~year
old high school beauty queen
whose shattered romance with a
young sailor touched a nation’s
heart.
Dark-haired, dark-eyed Betty
Thompson died late yesterday af
ternoon, valiant to the end.
Hey parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P.
Thompson, of suburban REast
Point, said Betty had been grow
ing weaker steadily for the past
three weeks. She was conscious
until about four hours before she
died.
To the very last she was stout
hearted. “I am ready to die”
Betty told her family yesterday.
“Don’t break down or grieve for
me when I am gone.”
The disease made it necessary
to amputate her right leg in 1949.
Last May her doctor told her she
was incurably ill. A little later,
Betty broke her engagement to
Tom Amburn, her 19-year-cld
sailor sweetheart of Sioux Falls,
S. D.
Tom’s family summoned him
home from a visit to Betty, in the
wake of widespread publicity that
had been given the engagement.
“'m not mad at him,” Beity
said soon after Tom came to wvisit
her from the Naval Station at
Norfolk, Va. “But I think it best
to end our engagement under the
circumstances. 1 love Tom, just
like I love everybody else.”
Soon after learning that she was
hopelessly ill, Betty said brightly:
“The doctor told me to live one
day at a time, and that is what
I intend to do.”
Betty was treated to a whirl of
entertainment on a recent airplane
trip to New York City as a guest
of the American National Theater
and Academy, ’
The raven-haired girl walked
across the stage of Russell High
School on crutches last J‘%
to receive her high school dipla
smiling to prolonged applause.
She served as Junior State
Chairman of the Georgia Division .
in the fight against cancer.