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Negotiators In Full Accord
On Final Armistice Clause
Two Major Hurdles Still Block
Complete Settlement Of Truce
MUNSAN, Korea, Feb. 19.—(AP) —Negotiators agreed
today on the final clause of a Korean armistice, but two
major hurdles still blocked a truce settlement.
Today's agreement : To recommend that belligerent gov
ornments hold a high level political conference within 90
days after an armistice to consider “withdrawal of all for
eign forces from Korea, the peaceful settlement of the
Korean qqestion, etck.”J .
Agreement was reached in a
full dress session.
staff officers were assigned the
job of incorporating the recom
mendation in the armistice.
No date was set for the first
staff meeting,
Other staff officers are work
ing on two other uncompleted
clauses. But they are skirting
around the two big unsettled
questions: ’
1. Voluntary repatriation of
prisoners of war.
9. Rebuilding of Red airfields
during a truce.
The wording of the Political
Conference recommendation was
drafted by the Communists, in
cluding the “ETC.”
Communist Idea
The third staff conference meet
ing was a Communist idea. Red
negotiators insisted on it when
the United Nations command ac
cepted the Communist wording
for the political conference recom
mendation, right down to the
“ETEY
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, head
of the U. N. delegation objected
at first, He said “there is nothing
for the staff officers to do.”
Later, however, he agreed. But,
a U. N. communique said, Joy
stipulated “the staff officers would
not be empowered to make any
substantive change or addition to
the draft recommendation.”
North Korean Gen. Nam Il said
the meeting of staff officers was
necessary to write a preamble and
for proper wording and insertion
in the armistice agreement.”
Joy’s qua.ification limited the
work of staff officers “to com
pleting any mechanical details.”
Joy named Air Force Cols An
drey J. Kinney of 'A’d’a!sfa afd Lt
Col. Howard, S. Levie -of New
York. They will meet when the
Communists are ready.
Staff officers working on the
prisoner of war clause “continued
to make slow progress,” a U. N.
communique said.
Most of the two-hour and 20~
minute session was - devoted tc
“meticulous details of phraseolo
gy,” said Col. George W. Hick
man. He said they were “just
about in complete agreement” on
the last five paragraphs of the
nine-point elause. But he wouldn’t
guess at when they would be
through.
No irogress was made toward
the other clause—supervision of
1 truce during an armistice.
"OLIO TREATMENT REPORTED
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Feb. 19
— (AP) — An all-time record of
998 patients were treated for 59,-
243 hospital days at the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation last
year,
President Basil O‘Conner said
in this report, released yesterday,
that it ref?ects one of “the nation’s
four worst polio years.”
The reports said 5338 patients
were aided by the March of Dimes
fund from local chapters of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, also headed by O‘Con
ner. This treatment covered 43,858
hospital days—T74 per cent of the
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FIRST SNOW FOR GEORGIA GIRL — Janice Wright,
17 (right), of Macon, Ga., helps Joyce Pew, 17, of Man
llowoe, Wis., build a snow man after she arrived in the
Wisconsin town along with 29 other Macon school chil
dren. The youngsters, participating in the nation’s first
group exchange of students from above and below the
Mason-Dixon line, were greeted by a crowd of 6,000.—
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ATHENS BANNER -HERALD
Associated Press Service
Tri-State Group
Asks sl7 Million
For River Funds
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 —(AP)
— The House appropriations com
mittee today weighed arguments of
a Tri-State delegation for imme
diate allotment of more than sl7
million to river projects in Geor
gia, Alabama and Florida.
The group, headed by James W.
Woodruff, jr., of Columbus, Ga.,
appeared yesterday in behalf of
ge Buford Dam on the Chattaho
hee River near Gainesville, Ga.;
The Jim Woodruff Dam on the
Apalachicola River near Chattaho
achee, Fla., and the proposed up
per Columbia Dam on the Chat
tahoochee near Columbia, Ala.
They asked a minimum of $,-
000,000 to continue work on the
Buford Dam which is well under
way. To keep the Woodruff pro
ject rolling, they requested sll,-
300,000 and to start construction
of the Columbia project they re
quested $3,000,000.
The sums asked for the Buford
and Woodruff Dams were the same
as recommended by President Tru
man in the Federal budget.
A. Perry Gordy, Executive Dir
ector of the Chattahoochee Valley
Chamber of Commerce, Columbus,
and W. Newt Creekmore of Ap
alachiocla, Fla. both agrued that
the etapper Columbia werk shold be
speeded. The ldtter said “any oné
of the dams is not, in itself, econ~
omically justifield. The entire pro
jeet, of course, is.”
Gordy said the upper Columbia
Dam “will produce 375,000,000 kil
owatt hours of power annually. It
is the highest Hydro-Electric pro
duction dam in the total project,
therefure it will bring the greatest
Revenue. It will bring navigation
to Columbus from the inland wa
terways of the Gulf and from the
Seaport of Apalachicola.”
Others appearing before the
committee included Thomas O.
Galloway of Gainesville, Ga.,
George Massey of Bainbridge, Ga.,
Wallace D. Malone of Dothan, Ala,,
Jake C. Gissendander of Chat
tahoochee, Fla.,, Mayor R. H. Mc-
Swean of Abbeville, Ala., and
Grady Cleveland of Eufaula, Ala.
REVENUE EMPLOYES MEET
SAN JOSE, Calif,, Feb. 10 —
(AP) — A director of the National
Association of the Internal Reven
ue Employes -announced the or
ganization’s convention—slated for
San' Francisco next September—
had been cancelled.
Remo N. Cipolla blamed “the
current investigations (of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau) and bad
publicity” for the cancellation. He
said last night he and Frank Luk
ey, chairman of the organization’s
San Francisco unit. had been aut
thorized to notify National of
ficers of the decision.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
Lions Purchase
Electric Magnet
For Local Needs
An electric magnet for removing
foreign objects from the eyes has
been purchased by the Athens
Lions Club and is now available
free of charge to doctors and hos
pitals in this area, it was announ
ced today by J. W. Henry, Lions
president. ;
Located at Athens Fire Station
Number 1, the magnet is available
on call. The fire departnrent will
deliver it within the city. Hospit
als and doctors in towns in this
vicinity are expected to make use
of it when needed. Heretofore the
nearest magnet of this kind has
been in Atlanta and was in de
mand over a wide area. A
Amateur Proceeds
Using proceeds from the Lions
Club recent amateur show to pur
chase the S4OO magnet, the Lions
organization secured this piece of
equipment and it was presented at
a regular club meeting.
During the presentation cere
mony it was pointed out that the
magnet was used the same day
that it arrived in the city. A local
youth was shot in the eye with an
air rifle within a few hours after
the machine arrived here.
The Lions Club also hag avail
able a telebinocular visual sur
vey machine which is wused in
schools in this area, The machine
has been in Gaines School recent
ly and is at Whitehall now. With
this machine it is possible to de
termine whether or not a child
needs eye attention. This machine,
also, was purchased with proceeds
from an amateur show.
Millard Seagraves is chairman
of the Lions Club sight conserva
tion committee. The sight conser
vation project is the major one
conducted by the Lions Club.
Drewry To Head
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Book Committee
Dean John E. Drewry of the
University of Georgia’s Henry W.
Grady School of Journalism has
been named chairman of the com
mittee of Kappa Tau Alpha, na
tional journalism scholarship soc
iety, to nominate the book pub
lished in 1951 which is to receive
the Kappa Tau Alpka Research
Award.
Dr. Charles E. Swanson, director
of research of the- University of
Minnesota School of Journalism,
and Dr. Fayette Copeland, head
of the University of Oklahoma
School of Journalism, are the other
two members of the committee.
The appointments were made by
Dr, William F. Swindler, Univers
ty of Nebraska, national president
of Kappa Tau Alpha.
ey
Y” Urges Parents
To Apply Earl
pply Early
For Pine Tops
An announcement of great 1~
terest to Athens youngsters was
made today from the local
YMCA in regards to the opening
of Pine Tops “Y” Camp on the
Mitchell Bridge Road. Accord
ing to the announcement appli
cations are already coming in for
the sessions at the Camp and
interested parents should apply
for their sons’ enterance immedi
ately to insure getting a place.
Pine Tops will open June 9 to
run for the 10 week camping
season through August 16. First
week will be for 4 and 5 year
olds and the last week will be
for Beginners.
The Camp, which is rustic and
beautiful to see, is one of the
best known camps of its type in
the South and draws youngsters
rom all section of the United
States each year.
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TV Comedy Team
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Receives Award
HOLYWOOD, Feb, 19—(AP)—
gid Caesar and Imogene Coca,
noted for their TV comedy work,
hold gold statuettes today as the
best television actor and actress
of 1951. ‘
The “Emmy Awards” TV ceun
terpart of the movie “Oscars,”
were Tvm last night at the fourth
annual banquet of the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences.
Nominations came from 150 ™
editors throughout the country.
Final voting was by 500 Academy
members,
Miss Coca and Caesar also were
nominated for the best comedian
or comedienne, but Red Skelton
was voted tor eomic. There was
no separate elassification for eom
edienne.
Skelton, who recently displaced
Milton Berle as television's top
audience favorite, also won the
award for the best comedy show.
«personally 1 think it should
have tosone to Lucille Ball,” com
men Skelton. :
“The Show of Shews,” which
stars, Miss Coca and Caesar, was
voted: the top variety show. ..’
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952,
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LIONS GIFT—On hand for the presentation ceremonies
at the Athens Lions Club when the electric magnet ar
rived in the city were: Dr. Andrew J. Denman, jr., Dr.
A. Paul Keller, jr., Dr. J. L. Pendley, Lieutenant Albert
Cook, Athens Fire Department; Dr. Lamar Pendley,
Lions President J. W. Henry, Dr. T.O. W. Meissner, Mil
lard Seagraves, Dr. Gerald Thomas, and Dr. W, H, Cab
aniss.
United States Planning
Test Of Bargain Bombs
BY FRANK E. CAREY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.— (AP) —The United States
may be planning to test “bargain” bombs — that is, A
bombs packing full-scale power but with lesser amounts of
precious atomic explosive.
This is an unofficial view, because both the Atomie
Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Department,
in announcing yesterday a new series of atomic tests will
be held at Eniwetok, offered no clue as to their nature. Not
even the date of the start of the tests was announced.
The unofficial view goes this
way:
The United States, at its Nevada
proving grounds last fall, suc
cessfully tested a series of weapons
generally presumed to be relative
ly small atomic bombs, f;rhaps
disigned for tactical uses sup
{mrt of troops rather than for
ongrange bombing of enemy in
dustrial targets.
And, from lessons learned in the
development of such smaller-type
bombs, America’s atomic weap
oneers may well have devised pos
sible means for getting greater
explosive effeciency out of the city
blasting types.
Use Less Explosive 3
_Other words, the bomb makfis
may-have found théoreticak
of using less explosive and vek
getting as much explosive wham
as was produced by the Tull-scale
models previously tested at Eni
wetok. If so, they may now be
planning to put these theories to
a test.
The AFC, in describing results
of tests at Eniwetok last year, said
information was gained on the
effects of weapons “several times
more powerful than the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki weapons.”
If this unofficial view is correct
—and the Eniwetok tests pan out
successfully —the significance
would be this: e i
The Unitecl States would, in ef
fect, have substantially expanded
its atomic arsenal at a “bargain”
rate, so far ¢s expenditure of pre
cious Uranium and Lutonfum ex
plosive ig concerned.
The AFC, in its recent semi-an
nual report, said “marked pro
gress” had been made in the de
velopment of atomic weapons even
prior to the Nevada tests—and the
commission said the latter tests
“contributed to the further advan
cement of the wurk.”
.
Kleckner Given
Research Post
Dr. Albert L. Kleckner, head of
the department of veterinary hy
giene and director of research at
the University of Georgia’s
School of Veterinary Medicine,
has been appointed a collaborator
6n the Sectional Research Program
in Microbiology of the National
Institutes of Health.
He is one of 12 collaborators in
the research program for the
southeastern area.
The programr encourages and
utilizes original investigations by
independen¥ investigators through
out the country, and establishes
better relations between these in
vestigators and official agencies
having the legal responsibility for
the control of communicable dis
eases.
A grass-roots program, the re
search is degigned to develop more
rapid methods of detection, diag
nosis, immunization, an chemo
therapy of diseases for which
there are no specific treatments,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and a little warmer to
day. Increasing cloudiness and
warmer tonight, Showers and
warm Wednesday. Low tfonight
50, high tomorrow 65. The sun
sets tonight at 6:19 and rises
tomorrow at 7:13. -
GEORGIA—Fair and slightly
warmer this afternoon, increas
ing cloudiness and warmer to
night, light showers in extreme
north portion late tonight; Wed
nesday cloudy and mild with
scattered showers.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Average temperatures for the
next five days near or slightly
above normal with daily maxi
mums mestly between 56 and
66 and minimums 35 to 45. Av
erage rainfall four to eight
tenths of an inch, except lighter
in southeast Georgia. Showers
likely Wednesday and Friday or
Saturday, followed by brief per
jods of colder weather.
Press And Radio
Are Honored
By Jaycees Here
Addressing inembers of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce and
their guests at a dinner meeting
in the banquet room of the Geor
gian Hotel honoring the press and
radio, Dr. Dow Kirkpatrick, pas
tor of First Methodist Church, dis
cussed ‘“Public Relatigns” and
told his hearers that in order to
be successful A business must have
integrity of individuals, integrity
of product and irdegrity of the
concern.” !
Dr. Kirkpatrick was the fea
tured speaker at the dinner which
saw presentation of distinguished
service certificates to Earl B.
Braswell, editor and publisher of
the Banner-Herald; L. H. Chris
tian, manager of Radic Station
WRFC, and Lewis Doster, man
ager of Radio Station WGAU. The
certificates were presented by
Jaycee President Bob Maupin,
Text of the Banner-Herald
certificate was as follows:
TO
Athens Banner-Herald
IN RECOGNITION AND
APPRECIATION
Whereas, the American Press,
ever conscious of its obligation,
faithfully observes, records and
interprets the acts of mankind
toward civic and social advance-~
ment;
Whereas, in fulfilling this ob
ligation, the Fourth Estate be
comes a counselor of incalcuable
value to those banded together
for promotion of mational wel
fare; now
Therefore, be it resolved, that
the
ATHENS, GEORGIA
JUNIOR CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
and
The United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce
express, in this way, gratitude
and appreciation for the inesti
mable benefits which have
accrued from a cordial relation
ship, together with hope that the
future may wiitness the same
splendid cooperation.”
The citation is dated February
18, 1952 and s signe¢ by the
National President, Executive
Vice-president and the Presi
dent and Secretary of the local
Jaycee organization.
Seated at the speakers iable
were President Maupin, who pre
sided, Dr. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Bras
well, Mr. Christian, Mr. Doster,
Richard Bloodworth, vice presi
dent of the Jaycees, who intro
duced Dr, Kirkpatrick, Bill Jordan,
Jaycee Treasurer and B. C. L.ump
kin of the Banner-Herald, and
past president Bill Hartman. John
E. Griffin is secretary of the local
Jaycees,
Dr. Kirkpatrick pointed out that
in whatever line of business a
person chanced to be, good public
relations were necessary to suc
cess, It was then that he outlined,
and discussed, the three cardinal
components of what he considersd
good public relations.
He emphasized the duties, not
alone of means of public com
munication cuch as the press and
radio, but also of private indivi
duals in an age which almost ap
parently has come to accept hood
lums in places of high trust. But
he stressed that while, at the pre
sent time such condition apparent
ly is received without undue con
cern, he feels that this is only an
outward manifestationn and that
the good sense of mankind will not
long permit such conditions to
exist. :
s Great Ob)ksthns
He told of the great obligations
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Coast Guard Moves To Tow
Mercer's Stern To Boston
Louisiana Vot
Governor's Post
By The Associated Press
Louisiana voters electing a Gov=
ernor today decide whether to
kee¥ in power the political organ
ization headed by (ggv. Earl Long.
It’s a machine he built upon the
shattered dynasty of his brother,
the late Huey Long, a Louosiana
Governor and U. 8. Senator.
Long, ineligible to succed him
self, is supporting his hand-picked
candidate, Carlos Spaht, young
political unknown. Spaht, a form=
er distriect judge, is opposed by
appellate judge Robert Kennon in
a Democratic Primary run-off
which is equivalent to election in
solidly Democratic Louisiana.
The seven candidate who lost
out in the Jan. pprimary have
joined Kennon, a veteran office
seeker, in a detehmined effort so
halt Long's regin.
Senator Russell Long, son of
Huey, has declared he is backing
Neither Spaht nor Kennon, whom
he defeated in the Senate race in
1948.
The basic issue is longism. Ken
non has promised to reduce Louis
iana’s taxes, the highest per ecapita
of any state. Spaht has said he will
continue Governor Long's {)ollcies.
In the National political arena,
names of Gen. Douglas Mas Arthur
Harold E. Stassen and Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower were entered in Pen
nsylvania’s April 22 Republican
Presidential prefferential primary.
Their backers did not need the
candidates’ consent to enter them.
The three have until Fef. 25 to
withdraw,
Senator Taft of Ohio said he de
cided not to enter the primary
since Pennsylvania’s 10 at-large
delegates to the GOP convention
already have been chosen and the
vote is not binding on them.
Swine Growers
Hear Williams
Georgia ranks high among the
states in the nation in producing
hogs, but we still have much to
learn about reducing hog losses,
in the opinion of R. O. Williams,
Extension Service livestock spe
cialist, who spoke to the farmers
and agricultural workers attend
ing the first annual Swine Grow
ers Conference on the College of
Agriculture Campus today.
With some 200 farmers, county
agents, vocational teachers, vet
eran teachers, and other agricul
tural leaders in attendance, the
Swine Growers Day featured talks
by more than a half dozen live
stock experts from the Universty
of Georgia, and included a “type
conference.”
The meeting was arranged by
Dr. 1. A. Dyer, animal husbandry
professor at the College of Agri
culture, and was sponsored by the
Animal Husbandry Department.
Dr. A. E. Cullison is chairman of
the animal husbandry division at
the University. :
According to Williams, Georgia
growers marketed 1,414,000 hogs
in 1950, and latest figures availa
ble indicate that this state ranks.
9th in the nation in hog numbers.
“We out-produce any other
state in the Southeast,” Williams
stated, “and are next to the corn
belt states in hog production. The
Southeastern states produce ap
proximately 25 per ecent of the
nation’s hogs.”
Warns of Losses
In warning of tremendous losses
through improper production
practices on the farm, and impro
per marketing procedures after
the hogs leave the farm, Williams
stated that losses from bruises
alone in 1950 totaled around $185,~
000.
Continuing, he said that 85 per
cent of the pork livers produced
in Georgia are lost or condemned
by packers, and this represents a
$650,000 loss annually. Approxi
mately 94 per cent of the kidneys
are condemned, and 30 per cent of
the casings used for sausage are
condemned.
‘Because of all of these things,
hogs produced in Georgia dress
three to five per cent less than
those produced in the corn belt
states,” Williams stated.
Urging practices that will over
come these losses, Williams sug
gested correcting (1) mistakes;
(2) negligence; and (3) lack of
information.
W. C. McCormick, specialist at
the Coastal Plain Experiment Sta
tion, Tifton, stressed the need for
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Seven Known Dead On 2 Tankers;
Thirteen Are Unaccounted For
CHATHAM, Mass., Feb. 19.—(AP)—The Coast Guard
cutter Eastwind moved to the side of the severed Ma‘
section of the tanker Fort Mercer in rough seas todm i
planned to tow the wreck and the 33 crew members a
to Boston.
Skies were clear, the sea was running about 18 feet and |
the wind 25 to 82 knots at mid-morning when the eutter
moved in toward the Mercer’s stern. . e
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ALEXANDER NUNN
Will Addre
Press Insfifufe
Alexander Nunn, executive edi
tor of the Progressive Farmer
Magazine, will zddress the 24th
annual session of the Georgia
Press Institute to be held at the
University of Georgia Feb. 20-23.
Nunn will appear on the pro
gram under the auspices of the
University’s Agricultural Exten
sion Service. He will speak at the
Institute’s -final session, In the
| University Chapel Saturday morn
ing,
Just before his ‘address, the Ex
tension Service will present
awards to the Georgia daily and
weekly newspapers who have
done the most outstanding fob eof
farm reporting during the year.
Announcement of Nunn as a
speaker is made by Dean John E.
Drewry, Henry W. Grady School
of Journalism, and Stanley Park
man, Carroll County Georgian, In
stitute chairman. The Grady
School and the Georgia Press As
sociation co-sponsor the annual
Press Institute.
Young Folks Editor
Nunn has been associated with
the Progressive Farmer since his
graduation from Alabama Poly
technic Institute in 1924, His first
position with the magazine was as
young folks editor., Four years
later he became associate editor,
and later moved up to become suc
cessively managing editor, editor
of the QGeorgia-Alabama-Florida
edition, secretary of the Progres
sive Farmer Company, and execu= .
tive editor. ‘
In addition to his magazine
work, Nunn operates a livestock
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Willie Suton Captured
After 5-Year Manhunt
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.— (AP) —Fugitive Willle (The
Actor) Sutton emerged today from the role of an obscure
miser with a $6-a-week room, and was called before a
judge as the nation’s most-sought bank robber.
Two alert young policemen recognized Sutton on a
Brooklyn street yesterday to end a vast five-year manhunt
launched when he made the second prison break of his
career.
Police were taking special pre
cautions today as Sutton, 51, was
to plead before Queens County
Judge William B. Groat on an in~
dictment accusing him of a $64,-
000 bank holdup here in March,
1950.
Sutton,whose exploits and dis
guises have become criminal le
gend, also has been mentioned by
police in many other recent big
jobs—including the 1% million
dollar robbery of Brink’s Inc,
Bé)ss(;on armored car service, in
1R - &
Asked about the Brink’s job yes
terday, Sutton affected a toothy,
theatrical smile and told news
men: :
“Hell, I don’t know anythi:g
about it. I'l probably be blam
for anything unsolvad in the
books."”
Number One Criminal
Police Commissioner George P.
Monaghan called Sutton “the&;bo
Ruth of bank robbers” and “the
world’s number one criminal.”
Monaghan said the arrest “ends
the greatest manhunt in history,”
Then he gave immediate promo
tions to the youxy patrolmen who
made the arrest, Joseph J. McClel
lan, 28, and Donald Shea, 26. He
also promoted detective Louis
Weiner who aided them,
Sutton was stopped tinkering at
his automobile battery because he
did not want to pay a garage mech«
anic $1.50 to do the job for him.
But police found $7,000 in cash in
his pocket and another $2,00 in his
HOME
EDITION
Meanwhile the stern eof the
tanker Pendleton, which suffered
a similar fate as the Mercer in
yesterday’s* fiercae snowstorm,
floated more than five miles
south of Chatham light. K was
believed there was no one om the
Pendleton,
Seven men are known to be
dead from the crews of the twe
ships. Thirteen others are wnae
dounted for and 32 were rescued
last night by heroie Coast Guards
who battled mountainous seas
during a driving snowstorm.
The Coast Guard sald it was
deemed more practical to attempt
to tow the stern of the Mercer inte
port than to try to remove the
men in the rough ocean,
The Mercer's bow 1s about 40
miles from the steru. No one was
was believed aboard the bow. The
stern’s position this morning was
about 55 to 70 miles southeast of
Nantucket. » :
h d task
The hazardous of
the 33 men was in the mnt '
Captain O. A. Peterson, skipper of
the Eastwind. i
She replaced the cutter Me-
Culloch which wag ordered back
to Boston. The McCulloch re
ported no sign of life aboard the
bow of the Pendleton which was
aground 1,500 yards off the Pol
lock Rip Lightship.
First word that 83 survivors
were aboard the stern half of the
‘Mercer came from the military |
iransport short splice just after
rescue operations resumed at
dawn,
“We have just contacted the
stern of the Fort Mercer,” the
Short Splice messaged Coast
Guard headquarters. “There are
33 survivors aboard. They all seem
OK, The stern-is tiding good.”
Among those feared lost in the
bow of the Pendleton was her
’ skipper, Capt. John Fitzgerald, 38,
of Boston. -
32 Rescued
Thirty-two seamen were res
cued from the fourth section by
the light of flares in a daring,
split-second operation carried out
«in the face of a ncreamin&nor&x
west storm off perilous Chatham
Bar.
A moment after the reseue, that
section of the split tanker was
smashed against Chatham Ber by
breakers 25 or 30 feet high.
The two tankers—The Pendle
ton and the Fort Mercer—ayp
parently broke yp at almost the"
same time yesterday in the win-~
ter’s worst storm off this HNifle
fishing port.
Five, and possibly six, men
perished early today when they
leaped from the tossing bow of
the Fort Mercer and missed the
bouncing life rafis put out by the
Coast Guard Cutter Yakr‘ b
One man was lost while hercie
Coast Guards were takin eB2
seamen from the stern of Elo Pen
dleton,
Still another, although elad in
a lifejacket, was swallowed up by
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$6-a-week room.
~ The room, just a few blocks
from Broeklyn police headguar
ters, was small and with a mini
mum of furnishing. Sutfon lived
there as “John Mlhc:ex" and was
described as “quiet clean” by
Inez Marsan.
his 70 - year - old landlady, Mrs.
Asked how he eluded capture
during the i 8 months he lived in
Brooklyn, Sutton iold newsmen he
kept away from uniformed police,
never ate twice in the same restau
rant, avoided old friends and
“ducked women” who “can also
get you in trouble.”
Disquises
Sutton earned his name of “the
actor’—as well as“ Slick Willie”—
from the disguises he used i his
bank jobs. He has pulle drobberies
dressed ag a Western Union, mail
carrier, private chauffeur ané even
as a policeman.
His %olice record goes back 31
years. But his first big job did met
come off until October, 1930, when
he and his confederates pulled a
SIBO,OOO jewel! robbery here.
A month later he was caught
and sentenced to Sing Sing Prisen
for 30 years, but in late 1982 he
sawed his way out of a supposedly
escapeproof cell. ;
In 1934, Sution was captured je. |
Philadelphia and sertenced to Hel
mesburgh, Pa., prison for 25 te 50
years on a robbery conviction, He
escapped by overpoweriig & guard
Feb. 10, 1947, and had been a
fugitive since, '/ BV