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Cibyle Fanning
Sipyle |
OueenOf A H.S.
Miss Sibyle Fanning, member of
the senior class of the Athens High
cchool was crowned beauty queen
2t the annual Beauty Review
which was held last night in the
pine Arts Auditorium before a
capacity audience.
Judges for the review were
Claude Hipps, 1951 captain of the
Georgia football team; Joanne
Fulcher, 1951 Pandora Beauty
Queen; and Burl Womack, WGAU
radio announcer. Pat Hudson was
imistress of ceremonies and an
nounced the beauties as they were
escorted to the stage.
Queen’s Court |
Others chosen with Miss Fan
ning, to serve as her court were
Jean Fulcher and Rita Loyd of the
senior elass; Shirley Loyd, junior
class; Carey O’Kelly, sophomore
class; and Joan Bell, freshman
class., Runners -up respectively
were Gretchen Parrott, Freida
Bryant and Pat Rigsby.
Roy Tom Scoggins, organist,
presented the musie for the affair,
while ushers were Barbara Wilder,
Kay Kinne, Jane Weatherford, and
Ava Aaron. The page was Judy
Cohen, and the faculty advisors
wcre Miss Ruby Anderson and
Miss Frances Nunn,
The proceeds from the beauty
review will be used to defray the
expenses of the school year book.
Escorting the’ seniors was Bill|
Save and those taking part were
Bobby Jean Berryman, Ann Chris
tian. Julia Ann Coile, Betty Dixon,
Joneita Daniel, Sibyle Fanning,
Jane Floyd, Jean Fulcher, Martha
Jean Hale, Faye Harris, Marion
Hopkins, Rita Loyd, Helen Rogers,
Hilda Shackleford, and Joyce Wil
3ams.
The Escorts
Escorting the juniors was Larry
Jones and the group included Mary
Jo Adams, Martha Howe Chandler,
Betty Cook, Janey Mae Cooley,
Kay Dillard, Anne Hunt, Shirley
Lovd, Rowena Janes, Jane Messer,
Gretchen Parrott, Nan Richardson,
and Olief Wingfield,
Escorting the sophomores was
Jimmy Williams, and in that group
were Freida Bryant, Eleanor}
Crane, Ann Halley, Beverly Ham
mond, Barbara Hunnius, Jean
Messer, Mary Nash, Carey O’Kel-‘
ley, Elsa Parrott, and Joyce Wil-}
liams,
Calvin Winfrey escorted the
freshmen and in that group was
Joan Bell, Naney Butts, Cissy Cor- |
ker, Ann Cox, Rosalind David,
Demaris Fowler, Pat Rigsby and
Marion Lumpkin, the latter being
unable to compete, having been ill
with tonsilitis for several days.
US Pilots §
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Gunless Victory
SEQUL, Korea, Jan. 17—(AP)—
American jet polots were credited
with downing three Red jets to
day, two of them without firing a
shot. They also destroyed three
Communist tanks near Kaesong,
former site of armistice talks.
Two acrobatic Sabre jet pilots
were credited with the gunless air
victory. The U. S. Fifth Air Force
sald they outmaneuvered - two
MIG-15s so badly the Red jets ap
parently went “into a high speed
stall from which they were un
able to recover.”
The Red pilots bailed out and
their planes crashed. The third
MIG was shot. down by It. Col.
James B. Raebel of Redfield, S.
D. Another Red jet was damaged
in a series of air battles.
~Two young lieutenants on their
first combat missions burned out
the three Russian-type T-34 tanks
Near Kaesong. They said their
fire bombs turned the tanks into
“gutted hulks.,” A fourth was
damaged.
_ The two Shooting Star pilots—
2nd Lieuts. George Patterson of
Orlando, Fla., and Robert E. Rail
€y of Oakland, Md.—said they
sbotted the tanks just outside the
cstricted area surrounding Koe
song.
~ The Communists charged that
American planes early today ate
: cied the Kaesong protected zone,
now headquarters of the Red truce
delegation,
Jncre_ was no report of any ma-
O action on the snow-covered
J—~-‘>'lmd. Eight small fights broke
L;“»[{fn the 145 mile front, The U.
“_"'}v\lghth Army said the largest
voived only one Red platoon.
‘he longest was over in an hour
and 20 minutes.
i acrobatic - pilots credited
1‘\‘1“” downing the two MIGs are
. 1. William F. Shaeffer of Boone,
S and Lt, Frank P, Robinson, jr.,
Shreveport, La.
0 I'he damage report was made by
. Anthony Kulengosky, jr., of
]\""Ssal Pa.
JLULP INDUSTRY BOOST
(2 TLANTA, Jan. 7— (AP) — A
— -¢ Increase is in sight for the
p, 1S pulp and paper industry
Put there is no fear that there
i be more timber than is need-
Ihis was the prediction of Frank
B Albert of Atlanta yesterday.
F““rlei regional forester of the U. S.
(mh;t Service. He spoke at the
S (:(_)\l»nnon of the Southern Pulp-
A.i Conservation Assoclation.
$:2 bert said the South’s capacity
73 Producing pulpwood may reach
duerer cent above the 1949 pro
“,;gor} by 1953.
. € lorester ealled for a stepped
brs lé‘:::est’! "rok’tn!!n‘id the South
. intain an adequate supply of
ural forest resources.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
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ATLANTA, Jan. 17.—(AP)—A bill to restore the price
fixing powers of the State Milk Control Board was submit
ted in the House today.
In addition, the House received a bill creating & board
of education drawn from each Congressional district and
appointed by the Governor,
“Also introduced was a constitutional amendment to
make Superior Court judges elected by judicial circuits in
stead of the state at large.
Mother Believed
To Have Killed
Her 4 Child
FORT KNOX Ky, ian, 17 —
(AP) — Army authorities today
sought a motive for the butcher
knife slayings of four young chil
dren of a 29-year-old second
lieutenant.
The officer—Lt. Joseph P. Coo
nan—walked into his blood spat
tered apartment here last night to
find his four children dead from
throat cuts, and his wife near
death from a similar wound.
Col. Franklin Reese, Provost
Marshal, said the mother appa
rently killed the children and then
tried to kill herself.
Post authorities said a stomach
analysis indicated that Mrs. Coo
nan, 28, evidently drank lysol after
stabbing herself in the throat.
Mrs. Coonan was taken to the
post hospital, where her condition
was reported critical. Her hus
band also was taken to the hospi
tal, suffering from shock.
The Dead
Dead are Patricia Marie, 4%
months; Claire, 2; Joseph P. jr.,
3%; and Constance, 5.
A bloody butcher knife from a
carving set was found at the scene.
Post authorities said Coonan, a
combat instructor in the Third
Armored Division, found his wife
at 6 p. m.,, lying on the floor of
the children’s second-story bed
room. He stepped into the next
room, where he found the bodies
of the children, all lying on the
bed he and his wife had shared.
Blood was spattered over the
‘beds. and floors of both bedrooms,
and over the wash basin in the
bathroom.
Army authorities handling the
investigation said they believed
Mrs. Coonan stabbed the children
in their own beds, then carried
them to the parents’ bed. It also
was theorized that she stabbed
herself and took lysol as she stood
in front of the bathrom sink.
A continued investigation in the
tragedy was planned today. The
case is being handled entirely by
army authorities.
Neighbors were to be questioned
in an effort to establish a motive.
Apparently none heard any un
usual noises in the Coonan apart=-
ment before the lieutenant re
turned from his daily duties,
Apparently Happy
“They apparently were a happy
little family,” one officer said.
After finding the bodies, Coonan
dashed outside, summoned a phy
sician living next door and then
called military police on a tele
phone-pole alarm box beside the
street. He then telephoned his
father, J. A. Coonan, at Lancaster,
Pa., after which he collapsed.
The father was reported to have
left Lancaster last night by plane
for Fort Knox.
No charge was placed against
Mrs. Coonan last night. Neither
she nor her husband was in con
dition to be guestioned.
The lieutenant was clutching &
picture of his children when he
was taken to the hospital.
The Coonans had been at Fort
Knox since last April. Before
that, Coonan was stationed §or
four years in Alaska. His wife,
Lois Ruth, was a nurse there. She
‘is a native of York, Pa. (address
unavailable). -
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ON THE SUN BEAM- Carlsbad, N. M., which calls it
gelf the ‘“Sunshine City,” is now having its title chal
lenged by six other communities that boast of the quality
of their weather. A contest has now started to see which
citv's sunshine can melt a ton of ice first. Here pisters
Dorothy and Jean MecAlpine rest their feet on the ton
set up at St. Petersburg, Fla.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Rocking along toward adjourn=
ment today, the Senate approved
increasing the speed limit on state
highways to 60 miles an hour and
passed a bill making child aban
donment a felony.
The milk control bill (H 8764
was introduced by five represen
tatives, including J. Phil Camp
bell, jr., of Watkinsville, and
Chappelle Matthews of Athens and
Leon Aycock of Millen.
Under this bill, the board is
given broad powers to fix prices
to “assure a reasonable return.”
Court Action
Recently, the State Supreme
Court threw out the price fixing
powers of the milk board on
grounds that it violated the due
process of law clause in the State
Constitution,
The new proposal suggested
that as “a guide . . . the board
shall determine from its knowl
edge of the milk industry and in
vestigation of economic conditions
the prices for milk handled or sold
in each milk shed to adequately
protect the milk industry and in
sure sufficient quantity.”
The measure gives the Gover
nor the power to declare a state
of emergency and to fix milk
prices on groumds that the influx
of defense workers into the state
might make such action neces
sary.
In addition, the bill exempts co
operative marketing agencies from
internal control by the board.
The bill setting up a new board
of education was submitted by
Reps. Luke R. Warren of Tennille
and Howard Overby of Gaines
ville.
This measure sets up an 11-
member board, with members
drawn from each of the Congres
sional districts and including the
Governor, It provides “all of the
members are to be appointed by
the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Senate.”
The « original appointments
would be two members for two
years, four for four years and four
for six years; thereafter, for four
years each.
Other general bills introduced
today included one by Rep. Emory
L. Roland of Wrightsville, setting
up a medical examining board to
inspect claims for workmen’s com
pensation in disputes over occupa
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Whirlwind Reception
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For Captain Carlsen
BY RAY KOHN
NEW YORK, Jan. 17. — (AP) — A hero to the world,
mild-mannered but steel-nerved Captain Henrik Kurt Carl
sen ca mehome in triumph today and humbly said :
“All I did was my duty.”
Youthful Robber
Is Apprehended
SAVANNAH, Jan. 17—(AFP)—A
tip from a junior deputy of the
Sheriff’s office led to the arrest of
a 14-year-old junior high school
student on suspicion of staging
several recent armed hold-ups in
this area.
Det. Capt. E. A. Fitzgerald ar
rested the youth in his class room
yesterday. The tip came from a
member of a junior deputy organ
ization operated by Sheriff Wil
liam C. Harris.
Police withheld the name of the
boy but said he confessed to hold
ing up a service station Monday
night and a bakery Tuesday.
Officers said the lad used a
pistol in all his stickups.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952,
Continuance In
Drewry Case
Denied Defense
Judge Henry H, West has denied
a motion for defense attorneys
for Mrs. Kathleen Merry Drewry
for a continuance in her trial on
charges of assault with intent to
murder, scheduled for trial on
Tuesday of next week.
The motion for postponement
was made by Attorneys Carlisle
Cobb and Rupert Brown on the
ground that a defense witness,
Paul Saye, is in military service,
Saye is serving in Hawaii.
Solicitor General D. Marshall
Poolock offered to allow Saye's
testimony to be read. L
In denying the motion, Judge
West said the court has no way
of bringing Saye back to testify,
since he is in service, and his atfi
sence may be a matter of mon
or years. o
Mrs. Drewry was convicted in
her first trial on charges of shoot=
ing, the present Mrs, Drewry who
at the time of the shooting was
Marian Thurmond and was senten=
ed from two to four years. Her at
torneys appealed to the State
Court of Appeals, which upheld
the verdict of the trial court. They
them appealed to the Georgia
Supreme Court, which granted
Mrs. Drewry a néew trial,
Attorney 1l :
The case was called for trial at
the October term of Superior Court
and was postponed to the J anua.lz
term because of the illness of A
torney Cobb. ;
The jury hearing the case of
Shackleford vs. Ridling yester
day returned a verdict for the
plaintiff. The case of Lumpkin vs.
Lumpkin was dismissed and Her
rington vs. Michael was continued
to the April term of court.
The case of Dulinavka vs. Col
lins, a dispossessory action, rg
sulted in a verdict for the defend
ant. The case of Myers vs. Myers
was placed on the uncontested
divorce case list and will be taken
up tomorrow with the other un
contested divorce actions. Moore
head vs. Moorehead was dismis
sed condoned.
The court is now up with the
docket and the court next week
will take up the criminal docket
Monday morning with Judge West
presiding and Solicitor Pollock
prosecuting for the State. !
SPAHT, KENNON LEAD
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17—(AP)
Politically unknown Carleos Spaht
—aided by Gov. Earl Long—and
Appeals Judge Robert Kennon, an
independent candidate, appeared
today to_ be outdistancing iefi?n
other candidates in the race for
Governor of Louisiana.
U. S. Rep. Hale Boggs of New
Orleans—backed by U. 8. Sen.
Russell Long, nephew of the gov
ernor, and Mayor De Lesseps Mor
rison of New Orleans—was run
ning more than 14,000 votes be
hind Kennon.
The modest skipper, who for 16
days stuck by his foundering ship
and grittily created a new saga of
the sea, got a whirlwind 12:minute
reception as he stepped off the
plane that brought him to Idlewild
Airport.!
Later today, he'll hit the “tick
er tape trail” through the concrete
conyons of lower Manhattan.
Glowing with joy in the em
brace of his wife and two children,
the stock little sea captain—he’s
five-feet six inches and weighs
160 pounds — waved his gold
braided cap to a crowd of several
hundred persons and told them:
Expresses Thanks
“Fellow citizens, I cannot hope
to tell you how I feel at this time
because of the warm welcome you
have given me. . Thank you, thank
you.” .
It was after 1 a. m. (EST), but
the airport seethed with excite
ment. Searchlights swept the
scene, special lighting studded the
barricade set around the plane,
movie cameras whirred and flash
bulbs popped—all amid the hub
bub of voices wishing the captain
well, _
To newsmen, the 37-year-old
Carlsen said he felt “a little oider”
and that he planned to “get a little
rest and go to sea again.”
He and his wife, Agnes, and
their two youngsters, Sonia, 11,
and Karin, seven, posed willingly
for photographers. :
Carlsen wore a new brass-but
toned uniform of a merchant ma
rine captain.
Besides official city greeters led
by Grover Whalen, he was met by
his boss, Hans Isbrandtsen, owner
of the ill-fated freighter Flying
Enterprise.
Ship Sinking
The 6,711-ton vessel started to
crack up in heavy Atlantic seas
last Dec. 26. Three days later
Carlsen was alone on the badly
listing craft, having ordered the
40 crewmen and 10 passengers to
leave the ship and directing their
rescue. One passenger later died.
Carlsen stayed alone on the
nearly eapsized ship until Jan. 5,
when he was joined by Mate Ken-~
neth R. Dancy of the British sal
vage tug Turmoil. The tug towed
the freighter for five days when
a new gale snapped the towline
about 30 miles off the coast of Fal
mouth, En,/land.
ANg‘r:utes ‘before the battered
freighter - keeled over' 'and sank
last Friday, Dancy, and then Carl
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Congress Hears Britain's
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Allies Hear New
Red Accusations
Allied Plane Violated Neutral
Zone, Communist Trucemen Aver
MUNSAN, Korea, Jan. 17— (AP) —The Communists
today charged that an Allied plane dropped a bomb in the
neutral zone near Kaesong, and U. N. investigators were
shown a deep hillside crater on the outskirts.
. The crater was eight feet deep and about 25 feet wide.
Six Koreans from a nearby village told investigators
they heard planes overhead before the bomb fell.
Stamp Trouble
Catches T hies
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 17—
(AP)—Twenty-year-old Wilson
Curtis’ extravagance with
stamps proved to be his undoing.
While working at a men’s
clothing store as a wrapper and
mailer during the Chrisimas
shopping season, Curtis mailed
himself a suit and three ties
without bothering to drop $76 in
the till.
He lavished 38 cents worth of
stamps on the package.
Postal inspectors returned the
package to the store, with a note
that it needed only 18 cents in
stamps."A checkup followed.
Curtis yesterday pleaded
guilty to petit larceny. .Judge
Perry Sellers. sentenced him-to
11 months and 29 days at the
Shelby County Penal Farm.
.
Grady Hospital
.
Called Fire Trap
ATLANTA, Jan. 16—(AP)—At
lanta’s Grady Hospital, a munici
pal institution, was assailed today
as a ‘“fire trip” with “deplorable”
conditions.
The attack was made by Dr, L.
Minor Blackford in an address to
the health division of the Com
munity Planning Council. He is
chairman of the division’s commit
tee on chronic diseases.
Dr. Blackford urged rapid cormn
pletion of the long-planned new
Grady Hospital as the solution to
the problem of caring for patients
acutely il before their ailments
become chronic.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
warm today, tomight and Fri
day, with early morning fog.
Chance of showers and a little
cooler Saturday night or Sun
day. Low tonight 52; high to
morrow 70. Sun seis today 5:47
and rises tomorrow 7:38.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
and continued warm today, to
night and Friday.
TEMPERATURE
BHIEONE . i L b N s s s O
BOGNE v e b 08
MEND .o iviiaeis wiin one 08
MO i v iiiiian ek
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total sin¢e January 1 .. ... .31
Deficit since January 1 ... 2.19
Average January rainfall .. 4.84
* Marine Col. James C. Murray
looked at the crater, picked up a
fragment and said:
“Apparently there was an ex
plosion here. We will see what we
can find out about it.”
U. N. and Communist investiga=-
tors were quiet and friendly, The
Reds did not report there had been
any damage.
The accusation was made at
Thursday’s “no progress” truce
talks.
The Reds sharply criticized Al
lied negotiators for allowing two
representatives of the Internation
al Red Cross to enter the Panmun
g'lom area Wednesday and Thurs
ay.
The Communists handed the
Allies “a written message declar
ing the Red Cross delegates were
not welcome. And added:
“We hope that no similar in
cidents will recur in the future.”
The two Red Cross representa
tives returned to Seoul after hand=-
ing an envelope to North Korean
Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho. They
were refused permission to enter
North Korea to inspect prisoner
of war camps.
; “Unnecessary”’
The Communists said they con
sider it “unnecessary to receive
regt;esentatives of the Red Cross.”
th subcommittees working on
armistice terms spent the day
wrangling over issues which have
deadlocked the talks for weeks.
An Allied briefing officer said
that for the delegates discussing
prisoner exchange “it wag merely
a matter of ploughing over the
same old ground with the same
results—no results.”
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby asked
Chinese Col. Tsai Cheng-Wan for
whom he was speaking Wednesday
when he declared angrily that Red
China will “fight to the end” if
any Chinese soldiers in Allied
hands are repatriated to Chinese
nationalist Formosa.
Tsai, in firm control of his
temper, gave no direct answer.
Libby accused the Communists
of violating the Geneva conven
tion by failing to mark their pri
soner of war camps. He suggested
that safeguards be set up to avoid
any future attacks on North Ko
rean prison camps.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho said he would think it
over.
An official U, N. release quoted
Lee as saying that since the Alleg
ed attack Monday on a camp near
Kangdong occured at night it
would have made no difference if
the camp were marked.
Lee Defenses
lee also was quoted as saying
the Communists tried marking the
camp, but Allied planes attacked
it anyway so the identification
marks were not replaced.
Allied headquarters said planes
were bombing military targets in
the Kangdong area Monday night,
but it had no way of knowing
whether the prison camp were ac
cidentally attacked since the Reds
never have disclosed the location
of their camps. ;
In the subcommittee discussing
supervision of a truce, Maj. Gen.
Claude B. Ferenbaugh told the
Reds construction of airfields near
the battle line would give them
increased air power even though
no additional planes were brought
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Leader Says Brifain Must Have
" Help To Meet Production Goals
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.— (AP) —W inston Churchill
told a joint session of Congress today “I have not come
here to ask you for money.”
He said the United States can count on the British tostle
their part in the defense of Europe.
President Truman, who will see Mr. Churchill again to
morrow, was notmon hanq,tp hear him speak.
However, Mrs. Truman, Miss
Margaret Truman and Miss Sarah
Churchill, the Prime Minister's
daughter, were in the presidential
gallery.
Senators entered the House
chamber 10 minutes before
Churchill arrived. Senator Taft,
Republican presidential hopeful,
was cheered by Republicans. Dem
ocrats countered with applause for
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee, a
potential Democratic nominee.
The only supreme court justice
absent was Hugo Black of Ala
bama,
Almost all members of the
Washington diplomatic corps
were in the aucrence. But no rep
resentative of the Soviet govern=-
ment was noticed.
No Money Asked
Churchill drew hearty laughter
and applause early in his speech
when he informed the lawmakers:
“I have not come here to ask you
for money.”
The British Prime Minister said
- American help is necessary if
~Britain is to meet the defense pro-
Juction goals it has set.
He declared “it is for you to
judge” how much aid Britain
should receive.
But whether the United States
l provides “much or little,” Church
ill declared, the British nations
will continue to make a maximum
effort to strengthen the defenses
of the free world,
Of aid, Churchill said that he
had come to the United States to
ask ‘“not for gold, but for steel,
not for favors but for equipment.”
This is necessary, he declared,
not to aid British recovery, in
w he expressed confidence,
to assist Britain in building
its defenses.
He does mot ask aid, he em
phasized, to “make life more com
fortable” for Britons,
It was the third address Church
ill has delivered to the U. S. Con
gress as Prime Minister of Britain.
He spoke before it twice during
World War ll—On Dec. 26, 1941,
and again on March 19, 1943. |
He alluded to this early in his
address, speaking of it as his
“good fortune.”
He recalled, too, an address he
made at Fulton, Mo., and requeted
in part the words he spoke then:
“Let no one underrate the abid
ing power of the Rritish empire.”
He added:
“f am very glad to say the same
to you here today.”
Churchill spoke of the many
changes in international relation
ships that have developed since
World War 11.
He noted that somre former ene
mies now are allies and some for
mer allies now are antagonistic,
Russian Reference
Speaking of Communist Russia,
he said:
“It is not the fault of the west
ern powers if a great gulf has
opened between us.”
- RBxpressing confidence the west
ern world can meet any threat, he
said that if the English speaking
nations combine their industry
and science “there will be no
quivering balance of power to of
fer temptation to aggression.”
Churchill noted that the United
States had expected China to be
one of the “Big Four” after the
last war, and added:
“] was always a bit skeptical.”
The Prime Minister said that
although Communiism now con
trols the Chinese mainland, even
tually he expects China to throw
off Comrmunism. .
His audience laughed heartily
when he quoted a Chinese pro
verb: “The tail of China is large
and will not be wagged.”
Churchill said:
“1 like that.”
Churchill lauded the United
States for opposing Communism
in the Far East and the Red Chi
nese aggression in Korea,
He said the United States was
“hearing nine-tenths or more of
the burden in Korea which the
United Nations has nominally as
sumed.”
Churchill said the western na
tions would not - allow Formosa,
the island stronghold of the Chi
nese Nationalists, to be taken.
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‘ Marooned Train
| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.—
(AU) — Tired refugee passengers
from the snow-blanketed stream
liner, City of San Francisco, ar
rived today — almost four days
late.
They were noticeably w and
sober-faced. But most loow &s if
they’d just completed a pormal
40-hour run from Chicago = in
stead of having survived three
and a half storm-bound deays in
mile-high Donner Pass.
The deeply snow-packed high
Sierra reluctantly had given up
the 222 passengers and 32 South
ern Pacific crewmren late yester
day. The empty luxury train still
‘was stuck there.
Those who started from Chicago
Friday night in the sleek stream
liner ended their frip im old
fashioned green pullmans. -
Their relief train arrived at
Oakland, just across San Fran
cisco Bay, about 3:30 a. m. (6:30
a. m., EST).
The tired men and women
trickled slowly from the cars in a
flower of light for television cam
eras.
All were neat—the men freshiy
shaved.
On the relief train, which took
seven and a half hours from
mountains to coast, they had
steaks and chicken, baths, changes
of clothes, sleep.
Tender Embraces
Perhaps the embraces from
some 300 waiting spectators were
a little more tender than usual. A
public address speaker boomed
in the cavernous Oakland station,
reeling off names endlessly to pick
up messages.
Fifty-seven passengers slept
aboard until late morning.
Others left quickly on half-hour
ferry or auto rides across the Bay
to San Franciscc.
An estimated 150 persons wgg
aboard when the relief train snu
bed to a stop at the end of the
track, Fifteen, including twe
stretcher cases, had got off at
Sacramento. Others left at later
stops.
Half an hour after arrival at
Oakland, some still popped out,
sleepy-eyed.
Heroic Dr. Walter H. L. Roehll
of Middletown, Ohio, said the ex
perience was “something I'll never
forget,”
The stocky and grgx 52-year-old
physician had worked tirelessly to
treat some 60 victims of gas fumes
that seeped through the train
shortly after regular heat gave out
rein the 20-degree temperatures
Monday. Only a few remained ill.
He said his wife luckily had
brought along @& shoebox with
medicines.
~ Most of the passengers were
'matter-of-fact about their experi
ence.
“We felt eventually someone
would get to us,” said Philip Gor
don, a San Francisco furniture
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Gaulding Rises
Sef For Frid
Miss Geneva Gaulding, member
of a prominent Colbert family,
died in a local hospital this morn
ing at 1:30 o’clock after an illness
of several weeks. Miss Gaulding
was 53 years old.
Services will be conducted Fri
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from
Colbert Methodist Church with the
pastor, Rev. J. W. Eberhart, offi
ciating.
Burial will follow in Colbert
Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home
in charge.of arrangements. Pali
bearers will be S. N. Benton, J. K.
Brookshire, Ralph C, Collier, J. C.
Hardemah, E. R. Hart and H. L.
Palmer.
Miss Gaulding is survived by
three brothers, J. M, Gaulding, W.
L. Gaulding and H. F. Gaulding,
all of Colbert; two nephews, J. M.
Gaulding, jr., Gainesville,’ and
Harold Gaulding, jr, Colbert; a
niece, Barbara Ann Gaulding, Cel
bert, and a great-nephew, Richard
Morgan Gaulding, Lawrencevilie,
Ga.
A native cf Colbert, Miss Gaul
ding had been a resident of that
community all of her life. Her
family is one of the most pi i~
nent and influential in thatmgé
tion. She was a devoted member
of the Methodist Church and gave
R .Ao SR
, e was . ad
mired by all with whom she came
in contact.