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Vol. CXIX, No. 315.
Bomb Explosion
BY REX THOMAS
PHENI¥ CITY, Ala,, Jan. 11.—
(AP) — A hurriedly =summoned
srand jury was called today to in-
Lestigate the bomb explosion that
wrecked the home of a vice cru
<ader who helped clean up this
onced-rowdy playground of gam
pblers.
Circuit Judge J. B, Hicks direct
ed the jurors to meet at 10 a. m.
(ES.T.), less than 60 hours after
a dynamite charge ripped apart
Hugh Bentley’s residence on the
outskirts of Phenix City before
dawn Wednesday.
pentley, 42-year-old sporting
geods dealer, was away from home
when the blast shattered the five
roont frame dwelling, but his wife,
two sons and a nephew were
asleep in the house. They escaped
serious injury.
Fven before the grand jury went
o work, Judge Hicks spoke bit
terly of the incident.
Full Probe
«Fuman habitation is too sacred
{0 be treated in that manner,” he
iold the Associated Press. “This
court wants a full investigation
and who ever is to blame brought
t 0 iustice — whether high or low,
rich or poor.”
Solicitor MArch Ferrell, chief
prosecution officer for Russell
county, said he will demand the
death penalty for “who ever is
found guilty.” Alabama law pro
vides the extreme punishment for
cotting off an explosion “in, under
or dangerously near” an occupied
av ufling.
Bentley himself blamed the at
tack on gambling and his efforts
to stamn it out, but he made no
accusations against any one group
or individual. He said simply that
«if it hadn’t been for the bug rack
et (lottery) there would have been
no bonrbing.”
Dentley told a meeting of about
300 persons in the Russell county
courthouse here last night of a
whispering campaign directed
acainet him since the bombing.
“The latest rumor is that Hugh
Bentley blew up his family be
cause he is just that anxious to
¢lean up the town,” he related.
He added that he felt no malice
acainst the perpetrator of the
crime,
Expiosives Unknown
City, county, state and federal
investigators so far have found no
trace of the explosives planted
under the front porch of the Bent
lev's Lakeside home. Bit by bit
they combed through the debris
yesterday without success. Army
demolition experts from nearby
I ort Benning earlier had said at
least 24 sticks of dynamite prob
ably were set off.
Meanwhile, there was no evi
cence of the wide-open gambling
that in months past made Phenix
City a favorite night spot for frol
icking soldiers from Fort Benning,
just across the Chattahoochee
Triver.
“They're closed down tight as a
tick over here,” said State Inves
ticator J. V. Kitchens, “and appar
ently have been for some time.”
[t was a year ago that Bentley,
an anti-gambling campaigner for
more than a decade, launched the
clean-up drive that paid off when
Governor Gordon Persons took a
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(fficers Name
Officers and directors of The
National Bank of Athens were re
e'ected at the annual meeting of
stockholders of the bank in their
arnual meeting, :
The stockholders also were giv
en the annual report of the Presi
dent, W. R. Antley.
Officers re-elected were Presi
dent Antley, Executive Vice-Pres
ident R, C. Gilmer, Vice-President
T. Evans Johnson, Cashier J. M.
Mcßae, who is now on military
leave of absence, E. K. Randolph,
\assistant Cashier and Mrs. Clara
H. Foster, Assistant Cashier.
Directors re-elected were Presi
dent Antley, Executive Vice-Fres
-Ident Gilmer, Julian H, Cox, Car
ter W, Daniel, Gordon Dudley,
Milton Leathers, David B. Mich
acl, Sam H. Nickerson, D. D. Quil
1, Malcolm A. Rowe, W. A.
ooms, jr. and H. Paul Williams.
In his annual report, President
Antley said that the bank, which
Oucerves its 86th anniversary of
f°rvice on February 20, had ex
berienced a very successful year
@O7O he told the stockholders that
( its in their institution now
§tand at an all-time high mark.
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THREE STAGES 10w . .cor iISE EPIC — Here are
three views of the freighter Flying Enterprise showing
how it lost its battle with the sea. In the top photo, taken
January 3, the decks are barely awash and the life boat
swings high. In the centey photo, taken three days later,
the added list is evident as the water has now invaded
the cabins. The bottom photo, taken January 9—barely
24 hours before she sank — show the ship floundering
deep in the water and the life boat is entirely submerged.
A raging storm bested the valient freighter within sight
of land and she rolled over on her side and sank stern
Zirst shortly after her skipper, Captain Kurt Carlsen,
was taken off.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Oof Two-Weeks Battle
BY EDWARD CURTIS
FALMOUTH, England, Jan. 11.-——(AP) —Safe ashore,
Captain Kuft Carlsen toid “the Story of his monumental
fight with the raging Atlantic—a two weeks battle against
wind, waves and cold.
He told a cheering crowd of thousands: “I deeply regret
that I was not in position to bring the Enterprise back with
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SECCND MARRIAGE
Mrs. Agnes Dixon Sasser, 22,
Atlanta, Ga., solved her two
husband dilemma by filing suit
for the annulment of her second
marriage. Her first husband,
Sergeant Walter Dixon, was re
ported killed in a Korean en
gagement, so she married PFC.
Bill Sasser. Then Dixon’s name
appeared .on the Communist
Prisoner of War List. That Dix
on is still alive was confirmed
recently when Mrs. Sasser re
ceived a letter from him.—(NEA
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NEW ULM, Minh, Jan. 11 —
(AP)—Chief of Police Edward L.
Larson said today a New Ulm wo
man has confessed kidnaping an
18-day-old baby at Mankato yes
terday.
Larson identified the woman as
Mrs. Leonard Scheid, who is in
her middle 30’s. She has no other
children and lives in a second
floor apartment over a tavern in
downtown New Ulm.
The baby—son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Callahan—is “okay and in
charge of a police matron in the
New Ulm police station,” the chief
said.
On a tip, the chief went to an
apartment this morning where the
baby was reported held.
A reporter for the New Ulm
Daily Journal, Chet Gebert, said
the woman earlier had told her
neighbor that she had the baby.
The neighbor, Mrs. Frances
Pregler, told Gebert the woman
gaid.toeers = i it
P feel better if 1 tell someone
about it.”
From the deck of the rescue
tug Turmoil he watched the death
throes of the 6,711-ton Flying
Enterprise yesterday, minutes af
ter he leaped into the water from
the dying freighter. She went
down in 30 fathoms (250-feet of
water 37 miles of this fishing port,
after a thrashing, titanic battle
with the sea.
“That really hurt me, quite a
lot,” Carlsen said.
It was that “last gale” which
struck the stout ship its death
blow, the couragous, 37-year-old
skipper told a packed news con
ference.
“The last few days’ gale was too
much,” he aid. “There were high
seas going and they were too
much.”
His worst moment in the long
ordeal, he said, “was the moment
that the Flying Enterprise dis
appeared.”
He obviously loved his ship.
3-Years Command
“I commanded that ship for
three years and made 44 crossings
of the Atlantic,” he said.
“She was a very well built ship.
She wa an extremely solid ship,
I had command of that ship for
over three years and crossed the
Aflantic many times, so, I knew
what she could take.”
He will go back to sea, he seid.
And it may be aboard, another
Flying Enterprise. The Isbrand
sten line, owners of the ship, re
ferring proudly to the heroic
master, has announced that he can
have a new command whenever
he wants it and that likely there
will be a new Flying Enterprise
for him one day.
Carlsen seemed clam as he de
cribed his ordeal, a solitary battle
for a week after he ordered his
crew of 40 and 10 passengers to
abandon ship on Dec. 29, four days
after the Christmas hurricane hit
him. He managed to get fouv to
six ‘hours sleep a night, sleeping
“half on the port wall and half on
the floor” of the crazily tilted
vessel.
It was a hungry affair for him
for a while. e ;
“1 found down in the storeroom
a big pound cake with a big hole in
it, and I put my arm through it
and brought it up,” he said.
Little Food
He lived on the pound cake and
water for several days. Later he
found some wine and beer aboard,
Still later, the U, S. destroyer Wil
lard Keith got hot coffee and food
to him. By night, he read by the
light of a flickering candle. His
book was “The Seaman and the
Law.”
Things brightened for him after
a week of lonely battle, when the
salvage tug Turmoil, coming close
by, put aboard first mate Kenneth
Dancy, 27.
What did they talk about om
those long, errie nights?
“Well, we taiked about this press
‘business,” Carlsen replied. “To
be,frank, we were both scared of
it. :
He became even more scared,
he admitted, when the fame of his
heroic stand spread and he real
ized there might be quite a fuss
about him ashore. |
‘When the last moments of the
Flying Enterprise arrived, hé and
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA,, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1952,
Asian Sifuation
Considered By
Pacific P
Paciic Fowers
By C. YATES McDANIEL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 —(AP)
— The Military Chiefs of the Paci
‘fic powers meet here today to
consider what might be done to
save Southeast Asia from an as
sault now threatening from Red
China.
The staff chiefs of Britain, Fran
ce and the United ‘States, with
observers from Canada, Australia
and New Zealand, open their top
secret conference under a dark
shadow cast by reports that the
great leader of the fight against
Communism in Southern Asia lies
dying in a Paris Clinic. r
Urgency was given to the high
strategy session by warnings from
French Gen. Lattre De Tassigny
before he was stricken in Indo
china and flown home for treat
ment. He expressed fears, backed
up by facts and sobering evalua
tions, that Red China was prepar
ing a major intervention in the
Communist inspired and led re
bellion in Indochina.
Unified Company
Diplomatic officials in Landon
said Britain, France and the U. S.
are considering plans to set up a
unified military command in
Southeast Asia. This would enable
a pooling of available air, 1 and
sea forces. The command would
be tied in indirectly with the
North Atlantic Treaty orgamiza
tion. P
Informants said the plan%w:is
discussions. It said the mfiry
leaders would “consider g sic
measures to strengthen the securi
ty of Southeast Asia.”
The nature of these specific
measures is shrouded in utmeost
secrecy. But this much ean be
gleaned from guidance provided by
informed officials here and a
broad. Z SR
France, represented by Gen.
Alphonse Jin, entered the con
ference with this question for the
American and British chielf; what
will you do if Red China invades
Indochina?
French Question
The replies are not likely ;o in
clude firm assurances of immed
iate and all-out military action by
all British and U. S. units which
might be spared from Korea,
Malaya, Egypt and Western Euro
pe.
Gen. Omar Bradley, top U. S.
military commander, and Birtish
Field Marshall Sir William Blim
‘could say, aswflgw, e »
recommend to thefrr political su
periors support for any appeal
which France might make to the
United Nations if China invades
Indochina.
Offers of lipnited air and naval
assistance might be offered by
the two powers, but only if prompt
and positive action were taken on
the French appeal by the U. N.
With the experience of Korea
behind them and the stresses of an
election year already upon them,
no U. S. Chief of Staff would read
ily recommend throwing American
troops into another Asian war that
might well follow the course of the
Korean campaign to a military and
' possibly a political stalemate.
Military recommendations for a
caution to be voiced by the U. N.
or through some less closely in
‘volved nation, preferably asiatic,
'might result from today’s session.
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PROGRESS NOTE
New Quarters Planned
For Hubert State Bank
The Hubert State Bank will
move into new quarters on the
southeast corner of Washington
and College streets on or about
May 1, bank officials announced
today.
The bank will occupy a new
building to be erected on the site
now occupied by the Co-Op Cab
Company, according to John E.
Griffin, cashier of the bank. He
estimated the value of the new
building at $60,000.
Negotiations for the sale of the
property, he said, were carried
out through Bradberry Reality
Company, and the property was
purchased by Dr. Walker H. Mat
thews. No figures on the sale in
volved were given.
“Plans for the new building are
now being drawn up,” Mr. Griffin
said, “and contracts will be let as
soon as the plans are completed.
The Hubert State Bank will be
completely refurnished and will
offer its depositors full banking
facilities.” New services will in
clude night depositories, a com
plete checking service on all types
of accounts, and a complete ma
chine bookkeeping system, he
pointed out.
Both Griffin and Dr. Matthews
ascribed the bank’s need for a new
location to the rapid growth of the
bank since its incorparation in
1049 and to the generally bright
future of Athens and the Athens
“The growth of Athens and its
Virtual Ultimatum Handed
Reds By U. N. Negotiators
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IN PACIFIC STORM
Captain George P. Plover,
above, master of the freighter,
Pennsylvania, reported a 14-
foot crack in his vessel, as the
ship was battered by high seas
700 miles off the Washington
coast. Late reports say rescue
ships are plowing at full speed
through the stormy north Pa
cifiec in an effort to reach the 45
men adrift in lifeboats after
they abandoned ship. — (NEA
Telephoto.)
Crew Of Sunken
Ship Sought:
Nothing Sighted
SATTLE, Jan. 11 — (AP) —
Bad weather and bad results were
all that searching ships and air
craft have been able to rfisort on
the possible fate of 45 Mariners
who abandoned the freighter Pen
nsylvania Wednesday evening on
the storm-tossed North Pacific,
Canadian and U. 8. ship and
planes yesterday conducted o day
long criss-cross search of the re
gion 465 miles northwest of Van
couver Island where the broken
and water-logged freighter last
reported being in difficulty.
They found nothing. Not even a
scrap of wreckage, a drifting bit
of clothing or a life preserver. Just
wind and waves and snow flurries.
The surface search for the four
lifeboats from the Pennsylvania
kept up all night as ships crews
maintained a ceaseless vigil,
searching the wild swells and trou
ghs with the aid of lights and flar
es. Airplanes were forced to return
to their bases at nightfall.
Cmdr. R. M. Dudley, chief pilot
of a Coast Guard flying boat, re
turned to Seattle and reported
simply:
“We didn’t see a thing. Not a
trace.”
He said a storm was still raging
and surface swells were so great
his Flane would have been torn
to pieces had it been forced to sit
down, e
Little Hope
The flyers said they felt little
hope that the 7,800 ton victory
ship was still afloat.
“You can’t imagine the size of
those waves,” one Coast Guards
man said. “an abandoned ship
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future prosperity are inevitable,”
Dr. Matthews said, “and the Hu
bert State Bank expects not mere
ly to keep step with that growth,
but to lead it. The expansion of
the bank is expedient to take care
of the future needs of Athens.” He
especially pointed out the bank’s
desire to provide additional space
for its increasing small loans de
partment, which the new building
will make possible.
The Hubert State Bank was in
corporated in 1949 and began
business in November of that year,
absorbing the Hubert Banking
Company. It started operations
with total assets of $432,388.89 in
that year, and has since increased
its assets to a total of $1,060,815.51,
as of November, 1951, Mrs.
Blanche Brackett, president, said.
The bank is a 8 member of the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corpora
tion, which insures all accounts up
to SIO,OOO. .
Officers of the bank are:
Mrs. Hubert Brackett, president;
Mrs. Virginia H. Kellar, executive
vice-president; John E. Griffin,
cashier.
Members of the Board of Direc
tors are:
Dr. Walker H. Matthews, Dave
Gordon, W. R. Bedgood, John C.
Stiles, P. B. Middlebrooks, W. W.
Bullock, J. T. Middlebrooks, J. L.
Oldham, H. Cutler, Mrs. Blanche
‘Hubert Brackett, and Mrs. Vir
ginia H. Kellar,
BY OLEN CLEMENTS
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan, 11,—(AP)—Allied truce nego
tiators handed the reds a virtual ultimatum today. They
demanded an explanation of an alleged contradiction in
the Communists’ announced stand on construction of air
fields during an armistice.
Major General Howard M. Turner said negotiations for
supervising a Korean truce could not continue until the
Reds explain the apparent discrepancy.
Turner said the Reds last month
announced they planned to build
and repair airfields while a truce
was in force, but denied yester
day that this is their intention.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang
Insisted that the Communist posi
tion never has changed and de
clared:
‘“You will never get a satisfac
tory answer to your unreasonable
demands.”
The truce subcommittee met for
only 34 minutes. The subcommit
tee on prisoner exchange ad
journed after four hours and 20
minutes. Both will meet again at
11 a. m, Saturday (9 p. m. EST
Friday) in Panmunjom.
Explanation Urged
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby told
newsmen that in the prisoner sub
committee “we are still trying to
get them to explain their sudden
shift on the doctrine of free choice
—how they justify it and then
repudiate it.”
Thursday Libby accused the
Communists of insisting on forced
repatriation of war prisoners after
the Reds said thousands of South
Koreans had joined the Red armies
of their own free will following
capture,
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
official U. N. spokesman said “the
basic question we are trying to
decide is the question of freedom
for the individual versus slavery
fgL the individual.” ;
In the truce supervision session
Turner quoted the senior Com=-
munist delegate, No;‘b_«,&oman Lat,
Gen, Nam 11, as saying Dec, 2:
Nam 11 Statement
“T can assure Admiral Joy that
the Korean people will certainly
reconstruct and reinforce their
airfields during the period of a
military armistice so as to prevent
the possibility of any further wan
ton bombing by your side and to
safeguard the security of their
armed forces.”
On the other hand, Turner said,
“yesterday as well as on man({
previous occasions you stated,
General Hsieh, that our assertion
that you intend to increase your
military ecapabilities by building
airfields was a misrepresentation
and a slander.
“Which statement are we to be
leve?” |
“There is mno contradiclion,”
Hsieh replied. “Installation of
facilities is an internal affair that
your side has no right to look in-l
to."
“You have not answered my
question,” Turner said angrily. “If
you have nothing more I suggest
we reconvene tomorrow.” ‘
Broadecasts from both Peiping
and Tokyo Friday stressed that the
truce talks have reached a critical
stage.
U. N. headquarters, in a broad
cast beamed to Korea, declared the
Communists “have lost the battle
for world opinion” and “want air
fields more than they want an ar
mistice.”
Peiping warned that unless the
Allies accept “final” Red terms on
truce supervision the armistice
talks face a “grave crisis.” |
HS Band Concert
Slated Tomorrow
Nearly 400 high school music
jans who will be guests of the
University of Georgia Saturday
will pool their talents tomorrow
night in a concert in the Fine Arts
auditorium at 7:30.
The concert will be the high
light of the University’s second
annual high school music festival
which will attract musicians from
36 Georgia schools, i
Climaxing a full day of musical
activities, the concert will be open
tc the public. Participating in it
wll be a chorus of nearly 300
voices and a 100 piece band.
Rehearsals for the concert will
be held during the morning and
afternoon sessions of the festival.
The band will be directed by Rob
ert M. Barr, conductor of the Co~
lumbus Civie Orchestra and di
rector of the Jordan Vocational
High School Band, Columbus.
Choral . director will be Douglas
Rumble, director of choral work
at the Henry Grady High School,
Atlanta.
The festival is being sponsored
here by the University’s music de
partment and the Georgia Music
Education Association. It will give
high school students the oppor
tunity of playing and singing to
gether in large well-balanced
groups under outstanding direc
tors.
In addition to the concert and
the practice sessions the festival
will also include a tour of Athens
and the campus, and a dance for
the visiting students.
The Festival is designed to
stimulate greater participation in
school music activities.
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Air War Flames:
US Sabre Jess
Down Four MiGs
SEOUL, Korea, Jan, 11-—(AP)—
Red jets flashed south almost to
parallel 38 today—and paid for
their audacity with loss of four
MIG-15s.
They were shot down, and a
fifth was damaged, in five blazing
battles with American jets.
The air war flamed within 30
miles of the Panmunjom truce
site. One fight was nearly 180
miles from the Yalu river boun
dary between Korea and Manchu
ria. This is far south of MIG slley
where the jets usually fight.
The new outbreak of air war,
after jets were snowbound yester
day, raised the Allied bag for the
week to 11 jets shot down and 13
damaged.
One jet destroyed today was hit
over Sariwon, 150 miles southeast
of the Yaluu No MIG had been
bagged so far south before.
One MIG was downed in the
same battle by America’s top ace
—Col. Francis S. Gabreski of Oil
City, Pa., 51st Fighter-Interceptor
Wing Commander. It was his
fourth MIG and his 32nd plane in
two wars.
This battle, between 22 Sabre
Jets and 60 very aggressive Bus
sian~-type MIGs, raged for 35 min
utes over a 75 mile area, It was
as long as any jet battle recorded.
Sabre Action
All of the day’s kills were made
by F-86 Sabre Jets.
But the southernmost fight in
volved F-84 Thunderjets. Three
MIGs attacked them near Kum
chon, 180 miles southwest of the
Yalu and only 11 miles north of
38.
This was the most southerly jet
engagement ever fought in the
Korean war. .
Maj. William Waltman, Air
Force briefing officer, said prob-~
ably the Reds wventured so far
south because they were “getting
more and more experience under
their belts.
“Qur boys up there didn't have
any picnic,” he added,
The U. S. Fifth Air Force made
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and not quite so cold to
night. Saturday increasing clou
diness and warmer. Low fonight
34; high tomorrow 58. Sun sets
today 5:42 and rises tomorrow
7:49.
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
continued rather cold this after
noon and tonight except not
quite so cold im north portion
tonight, low temperatures 28 to
34; Saturday increasing cloudi
ness and warmer.
EXTENDED FORECAST
GEORGIA — Temperatures
will average 4 to 8 degrees
above normal. Warmer Satur
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Aiken Says lke
To Be Relieved
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—(AP)
—Senator Aiken (R-Vt.) said to
day that “if General Eisenhower
wants to be President he should
ask to be relieved of his present
job and make his views on domes
tic issues known.”
“He should come out s
and not be so coy,” Aikm
adding “and I'm from an Eisen
hower area.”
Aiken’s comments attracted at
tention here because he long has
battled what he calls *the old
guard” in the Republican party.
Aiken’s proposal compared with
President Truman’s news. confer
ence statement yesterday that he
will keep Eisenhower as supreme
commander of Allied forces in
Europe as long as the general wil}
stay,
Mr. Truman, after repeating his
previous praise of Eisenhower,
said the general would have to
resign if he wins the Republican
nomination.
Aiken Views
“I think he better resign if he
wants to win the nomination,”
Aiken told a reporter. “He would
greatly strengthen himself as a
candidate if he lets voters know
where he stands.”
Mr. Truman’s news conference
comment that he had been told
last August the general was a
Democrat received quick verifica«
tion from Kansas,
The President, indicating the
announcement Eisenhower is a
Republican came as news to hiw,
said a brother of a former Kansas ,
governor told him the general was
a Democratic precinet worker at
the age of 18, -
In Olathe, Kas.,, Frank Hodges,
brother of the late Gov, George |
H. Hodges, said Eisenhower as & |
young man nrade a speech at a !
young men’s Democratic club ban- |
quet In Abilene, Kas. Hodges said ,
he told Mr. Truman about it in a
letter. :
Many supporters of Benator Taft |
(R-Ohio) for the GOP nomination |
have said that Eisenhower shouldj
take off his uniform and get into
the primary contests.
Aiken, who has not yet joined
other New Englanders in hooming
Eisenhower, said the “voters are
entitled to know Tke's views”
“He certainly can’t differ too
much with administration foreign
policies because he’s been ¢ i
out part of them,” Aiken -3’ A
adding: ¥
Tke Views?
“I want to know, for instance,
his views on labor, health, educa~
tion and farm programs,
“We don’t want a President as
coy as he’s being as a candidate,”
Aiken added.
President Truman repeated yes
terday his hope that the lo?-
licans will nominate Senator Taft.
Taft had no comment on this today
although it was recalled that he
once observed he hopes President
Truman would be the Democratic
nominee.
Mr., Truman put off questipns
again about his own intentions .
but said reporters would know his
plans before the Republican con
viction which begins on July 7.
Stafe GOP Men
‘, n
Plan Campaign
ATLANTA, Jan. 11 — (AP) —
Eisenhower Republicans, Taft Re
publicans and plain died-in-the
wool Republicans launched a ten
month campaign in Georgia today
to carry the state for the GOP.
A new Fulton (Atlanta) county
Republcan club and an Eisen
hower headquarters were set up.
Three top members of the State
Republican organization came out
for General Tke Eisenhower.
‘ W. R. Tucker of Dawsomville,
state chairman, Mrs. Robert R.
Snodgrass, Atlanta, natonal com
’mitteewoman and Elbert P. Tut
tle, Fulton County chairman, ail
lsaid they were for Ike but added
they would not use their official
postions to win delegates for their
favorite.
Harry Semmers, Republican na
tional committeeman, is support
ing Senator Robert Taft of Chio."
He agreed wth Tuttle that no ene
could predict how Georgia’s 17
convention votes would be divded
at the Republican conventien.
James W. Dorsey, son of a
former democratic govermor of
Georgia, will be in charge of the
Eisenhower headquarters. The
Eisenhower club workers are cir
culating cards throughout the city
seeking members and finamcial
support. He said 250 cards were
returned today. ;
Some 90 Republicans formed the
Fulton County Republican Club
last night at the Capital City Ciub.
That organization hag no favorite
candidate but aims to carry Ful
ton county, and the state if pals
ible, into the GOP column mnext
November. S
One of the eclub's first functions
will be to sponsor a “schoel for
politics” to teach précinct and
ward organization,