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B o b o o A T ~ L I e R e ; i~\ g Egh dfv‘{; Bl o % ; o > sol BRERS R p2Y 3 oo “o R R o~ BT R S ’%«&4 g. = it eey \%v : ’ W g el go T g R ' SRR R o e e B R Se 1 S TR g W o 3 R ,g:'r'};{.':‘.’»')"i';"‘:'v PR B B A % { B R Ro S P R 3 LR ReT Gy g Tt e { .SR eTR SRR VR R ’ & A BR R e JIOIE RS B R ol ¥ -- 4 ’ ’ U 9 A"g;& T ?{8 m 1 TANKER SURVIVORS REACH LAND— curvivors of the wrecked tanker Fort viercer walk down a gang plank in Bos ton, Mass., from-the Coast Guard cutter Tank Survivors Relate Dramatic Saga Of Ailing Captain's Rescue NATO Studies Russian Problem In Meetings . / Major Concern . is Air Power By STAN SWINTON I.ISBON, PORTUGAL, Feb. 21 - (AP) -— The 14 Atlantic Foreign Ministers met behind closed doors today for an up-to-the-moment study of the Russian problem. A spokesman sald U. S. Secretry of State Acheson and his collea gues heard and thrashed over top level reports on the Soviet Union and its latest policies toward the free world. Earlier, Allied Defense Ministers in less than one hour approved a military committee report calling for 50 to 60 divisions to be in the field by the end of 1952. The report now goes to the con cil. There the full-dress assembly of foreign, finance and defense ministers must settle a conflict between the Allled chiefs of staff and W. Averell Harriman's tem porary eouncil committee. The committee says the 1954 target of 100 divisions on active duty or in immediate reserve must be scaled down 12 per cent be cause the European economies cannot afford the full goal. Meanwhile, the top military and financial brains of Bxe North At latic Treaty Orgonization (NATO) were hard at work on the problems of how defensive air bases can be strung across Europe before the 1952 building season is lost. Before the defense and finance ministers lay blueprints for the air bases, their communication lines and econtrol headquarters. With these completed, the 14 Western Allies could breathe eas ier depitc the dangers of Soviet Russia’s Korea-proven jets. - Tke Tells Needs Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, boss of the alliance’s military es tablishment in Europe, sent down the outline of his needs. What the defense and finance ministers are pondering is: Who will pay how much of their cost? Acheson at the council’s plenary opening session yesterday sound ed an urgent call for development of “concrete military strength” and a \_\'arnm% that defenses so far built “will be of little value unless we finish the job.” Today the Foreign Ministers moved into talks on the relation (Continued On Page Five) Autograph Party For State Authors Is Held Atheniang and University of Georgia students today had oppor tunities to acquire autographs from distinguished authors of this state at an informal party held at Michael’s Book Department be tween the hours of 2 and 3. A tea honoring the Georgia Authors, in Athens for the annual Georgia Press Institute, was also scheduied for the Georgia Museum of Art loday. At that party the Georgia duthors and the members of the University faculty who have pub lshed books in the last Uyoar will be¢ honored by the University Press and the Go:rnPl Review. The tea, beginning at 5 and ‘asting until 6 o’clock was fol- Owed by the Annual Augusta Chronicle Dinner at the Georgian Hotel at 7 o’clock. No :geuker was slated for that €vent but Georgia authors were Special guests of the University and the Augusta Chronicle. Out-of-town authors attending the functions tea inelude: ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service Acushnet after being rescued off Cape Cod. The Fort Mercer had split in two during a blinding snowstorm and hurri cane.— (AP Wirephoto.) R.I F M 1165 FOr MIS. Mrs. Carlisle Cobb, jr., one of this city’s most popular young matrons, died unexpectedly at her home at 3 Cloverhurst Court this morning at 8:55 o'clock after a brief illness. Services will be conducted Fri day from First Presbyterian Church with the pastor, Dr. Har mon B. Ramsey, and Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor-emeritus, officiating. Hour for the services and pall bearers will be announced later by Bridges Funeral Home, in charge of arrangements. Interment will be in Oconee Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Cobb is survived by her husband: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Dale, Rome; sister, Mrs. H. L. McCullough, Marietta; three brothers, Fred S. Dale, Gaines ville, Francis L. Dale, Cedartown, and Mark C. Dale, Atlanta. Mrs. Cobb was a native of Rome, being before her marriage to Mr. Cobb Miss Juliette N. Dale. She was born July 27, 1915. She was married to Mr. Cobb on De cember 28, 1938 and came to Ath ens as a bride, living here except for the time Mr. Cobb was in service. She was a graduate of Shorter College in Rome and a member -of First Presbyterian Church here. During her residence in Athens she had made a large circle of friends, attracted to her by the many fine qualities she possessed. She was a woman of great charm and culture and her keen mind and sparkling conversation made her an enjoyable addition to any gathering she graced. e i MRS. LOVICK ACUITTED COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 21— (AP)—A superior court jury yes terday acquitted Mrs. Mattie Lo vick, 42, of a murder charge in the shotgun slaying of her hus band whom she married at the age of 13. Alexander A. Lawrence, Edison Marshall, Maybelle Jones Dewey, Thomas Anderson, Anderson M. Scruggs, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, william R. Cannon, Enid Day, George L. Hutcheson, Ruth Elgin Suddeth, Lillian Barker, Howard W. Odum, Allen P. Tankersley, and Marel Brown. Faculty Members University faculty members who have published literary works in the past year are: S. Walter Martin, William Tate, L. L. B¥n dren, Edwin M. Everett, Ed W. Parks, William W. Davidsun, A. E. Cullison,- Louis T. Griffith, E. Merton Coulter, Wwilliam H. Sears, John C. Meadows, Merritt -B. Pound, Willard R. Range, Albert B. Saye, John E. Talmadge, John O. Eidson, and John E. Drewry. The third of the social events of Thursday in honor of the authors will be the Press Institute party, an ‘annual highlight of the Insti tute activities. 3 Coast Guard Is - . Holding Inquiry BOSTON, Feb. 21.— (AP) —A Coast Guard officer told last night how crewmen of the severed Fort Mercer threw tradition to "the storms by forcing their ailing skipper to jump for safety despite his plea to be the last to leave the wreck. The story was told in Portland, Maine, by Commander Joseph Naab of the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat which plucked the skip per, F. C. C. Paetzel, 48, of Hous~ ton, Texas, and three other crew men from the Fort Mercer’s bow. Other developments in the dis aster of the two tankers. which broke in halves during a storm off Chatham, Mass., last Monday: Two commercial tugs today were towing the stern half of the Fort Mercer with 13 seamen aboard toward Block Island at three knots—about the speed of a leisurely walk. The Coast Guard cutter East wind was scheduled to dock this forenoon at Castle Island, South Boston, with the last three of 21 survivors from the stern of the Fort Mercer. Coast Guard Inquiry A Coast Guard inquiry into the Fort Mercer disaster was set to get underway in Boston today. Crewmen of the tanker Pendle ton told an inquiry board yester day that in several respects the vessel’s equipment was in poor order. Both halves of the Pendle ton are hard aground. The bow of the Fort Mercer was sunk by Coast Guard gunfire last night to eliminate what was con sidered “a menace to navigation.” Meanwhile, new chapters were related in the drama of the seas as four of the Fort Mercer’s crew were brought to Portland by the cutter Yakutat. Naab told how second mate Willard F. Fahrner, 28, of Win throp, Mass., and third mate Vin cent A. Galdon, 22, of Bayonne, N. J., forced Paetzel to break the age old tradition that a master is the last to leave his ship. Forced to Jump “They forced him to jump,” Naab said. “They knew he was suffering from pneumonia and frostbitten feet and wouldn’t make it later. If the skipper hadn’t jumped when he did we wouldn’t have gotten him.” Three hours later Galdon and Fahrner — tied to each other be cause they had only one life pre server between them—jumped in to the water and were hauled aboard the Yakutat. Only 19 minutes after Galdon and Fahrner were hauled to safe ty, the bow of the Fort Mercer from which they were plucked, capsized in the rough seas. Nine men, the survivors said, tried to make the bow when the Fort Mercer broke in two. Radio Officer John V. O'Reilly of Staten Island, N. Y. was washed over board in his attempt because he took time to send out a distress signal. ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and mild today. Fair and - cooler tonight. Fair and warmer Friday. Low tonight 34, high to morrow 66. Sun seis tosay at 6:21 and rises tomorrow at 7:12. GEORGIA — Fair teday, not mueh change in temperatures except a little cooler in coastal areas; fair and cooler tonight; Friday, fair and mild; low to .umatostinmurm' and 34 to 38 in-south with scat-. tered frost. ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1952. Georgia Editors Hear Qutstanding Newsmen As They Convene Here For Four- Day Session Info On Truman, Churchill Talk By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—(AP). It’s not compulsory, but President Truman has a demand from the House of Representatives that he supply more details on his private talks last month with Winston Churchill, ! Along with it came unofficial notice that a coalition unfriendly to his foreign policies is still dom~ inant in the House. . The “directive” for full infor mation on any troop commitments made to Britain’s Prime Minister was sent to the administration by a roll-call vote of 189 to 143 yes terday. The vote found Republicans and Southern Democrats in the saddle and this poses a big question mark over administration foreign pro grams. In London, Churchiil faced a similar situation. Labor party leaders decided at a caucus to re new the cross-examination of the Prime Minister on what took place at his” conference here with Mr. Truman. They also are said to want assurances no secret under standings were reached. Expression of Sentiment The House action, on a resolu tion requiring Senate approval, amounts to an expression of senti ment and is not binding on the Secretary of State as the Presi dent’s representative in foreign affairs. It was directed to Secretary Acheson despite claims of admin istration adherents that the State Department already has made available all the information it could supply about the Truman- Churchill talks. President Truman declined comment on the House action at a news conference yesterday afternoon; but later said, in res ponse to questions,” that he had made no troop commitments so Churchill. The House vote was & rebuke to its Foreign Affairs Committee, which had recommended that the resolution be killed. Chairman Richards (D.-S.C.) told the House it would “rue the day” it compelled she administra tion to reveal information that might be helpful to Russia. Richards and others in the los ing fight argued that it would be better to let the Kremlin guess what, if any, agreements had been made. He said that to disclose the information to Congress would amount to making it publiec. Went Too Far - The committee chairman said he feared “the State Department went farther than it should have gone” in revealing details of the conversations “because it tells the Russians what they want to know.” Rep. Vorys (R.-Ohio), who di rected the fight for the resolution, replied he was confident the President and the State Depart ment would disclose nothing “that would endanger security.” If, as the State Department claimed, Vorys said, the tenor of the conversations already has been made public, what objection could there be to the resclution. The Department notified the Foreign Committee that public statements already made summed up the content of the talks “in an accurate and comprehensive man ner.” (At the conclusion of last month’s talks, Truman and Churchill issued a 1,200 word joint communique, couched large ly in general terms but stressing the theme that the U. S. and Great Britain intended to coop erate closely in the global strug gle against Communism.) There have been other occasions when Churchill and American leaders met, Vorys said-—such as at Yalta and Tehran—and “we’re beginning to find out some of the things that happened then.” * City Banks Close . To Note Holiday All three local banks will re main closed Friday, as will the Post Office, in observance of George Washington's birthday, a ‘national holiday, - No city or rural deliveries will ‘be made by the Post Office and all service windows will be closed. ' Special delivery letters and pack 'ages will be delivered. Federal offices and agencies lo | cated here will aiso remain closed. Offices in City Hall and the Court house will remain open. L L I 'i!_él!}rfl r;A_‘"'| , ’ f d — AR S N, W W] 4 ! R § % / |St Too many motorists think the line down the center of the high way was put there for their left tires to run on. ©NeA A T * *. X * - Coordinate Campus Is Suggested » As UMT Site By Rep. Paul Brown WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.— (AP) —Rep. Brown (D.-Ga.) said today the f‘chances are good” for government utilization of the Co-Ordinate College of the University of Georgia at Athens, . The Board of Regents has recommended closing of the college, saying it has been operated at a financial loss. It includes full facilities with 85 acres and 10 buildings. ; Brown told a reporter if the Universal Military Training bill passes every effort will be nrade to obtain one or more units for the college. : i “Not much can be done in this direction,” he explained, “until the bill is acted on. But I think I will have a good chance to land some activity of the government for the college.” Brown said if the UMT bill passes undoubtedly many such col= leges could be put into use. He said he was watching the legisla tion closely and as soon as there is positive action he will make a move to get Co-Ordinate College into the picture. i “If we can’t get a UMT unit for some reason,” he said, “I'm quite sure that some other service of the Eovernment could utilize 18 v BN Nation As Truce Police MUNSAN, Korea, Feb. 21.— (AP) —The U. N. Com mand told the Communists today Russia’s “record of past participation in Korea' bars the Soviet Union as a neutral fit to help police a Korean truce. Simultaneously General Headquarters in Tokyo warned that every step forward in truce talks “will be followed by a step backward until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without further delay.” An information bulletin com piled from “voice of the U. N. command broadcasts” declared: “It seems to be their plan to raise two additional disputes to take the place of every one that has been settled. “Like the hydra-headed monster of mythology, there will be new entanglements . following® every settlement just as long as the Kremlin thinks there is still some thing to gain by prolonging the talks.” At Panmunjon, an Allied spokes man said U. N. reason for reject ing Russia were ‘“clear, and ir refutable.” He did not spell out‘ the reasons. Col. Don Darrow said the U.‘ N. command would reject the nominsation of anv nation “in cloge | o G S S o S e Koas R ;i 9 RBR% BAR ,—{ A s R B R S A i S bR G,: R B R eS s s S G e .RB A G R e 2A b ::-,;»;,:,ﬁ;.;.-:':-: SR A ey R i R 0 i i o ; T . e RA e T s YR S 3 b R ] R L e SRR £ e A et L SR R R -’%‘l A R i i s R R s S NS RR S B B : o o w!?/325-21:.'4{%;;-(&‘;::-:-.::-:~:;:~,;';;;‘,':< e 2 R “";”v’}ﬁ-?z, B s . 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B Eo & 1 ; S Y e S ; A % BB GR % % Gl AR e LIZ Anw hew RuoosY — ki s.ar Elizabeth Taylor and her fiance, British actor Michael Wilding, smile happily as they meet on Elizabeth’s arrival at London’s airport. Miss Taylor, 19, and Wilding, 39, were wed to day at Caxton Hall registry office in Westminster Hall. It is the second wedding for each. Liz Taylor Is Wed Amid Lively Mob Scene Today By ALVIN STEINKOPF LONDON, Feb. 21 — (AP) — Movie Stars Elizabeth Taylor and i Michael Wilding were married ;shortly before noon today in the . midst of a lively mob scene. ' The 19-year-old bride and her . 39-year-old groom, arriving scpa rately, slipped almost unnoticed into the Caxton Registry Hall through a side door but a crowd Jof hundreds descended upon them %as they emerged after the 10- " minute civil ceremony. i Elizabeth radiated happiness as she was jostled by hundreds of persons in the corridors of the hall 2nd in Caxton street outside. : Seemingly the cooler of the two, | she recognized friends in the mill | ing erowd and shouted greetings | to them. nEEEr e ‘The Hollywood beauty wore a proximity to Korea” or any nation which had *‘a record of past par ticipation in Korea.” A Red staff officer said the U. N, reasons were not gatisfactory. Russia Trained Army The Russians occupied North Korea at the close of World War Two. They trained, equipped and advised the North ?aan Army. Both the Chinese Reds andwm North Koreans are supplied large quantities of Soviet-made equipment, including the deadline MIG-15 jet fighter, tough T-34 tanks and radar-controlled anti aircraft batteries. | The border of Soviet Siberia joins Korea for a distance of about ; 10 miles. | The Chinese Communist radio ' (Continued On Page Five) | grey woolen frock with a notice able flare, and a stiff, pleated or gandie collar., There was a sin ple strand of pearls around her neck. A white juliette hat set far back on her dark hair. - Stage Fright? * Wilding seemed to take fright at the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, but finally surged in to run interference for dainty Eliza beth. Other members of the wed ding party, including British Pro ducer Herbert Wilcox and his ac= tress, Anna Neagle, were cimply lost in the melee. & The fans were intent on Eliza beth and Michael and a few hope ful ones even waved autograph books. G It took many minutes for the cople to make their way from (Continued On Page Five) Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trads Area A former U. S. minister of Albania and Thailand teld Georgia editors here today that America is traveling full speed ahead on the road to destruction. It is spending itself to death. Hugh G. Grant, in an address to the Georgia Press Inﬁ tute meeting on the University of Georgia campus, eém pared America’s international policy with that of the Ro man Emipive. - . 0 - e &l W i Lot “It the goal of the American global planners is reached, the might Roman Empire will appear as a piker to the historians of the future who will record what the United States of Ameries did in the years following World War 11,” he said . “And don't overlook the fact” he continued, “that the Roman Empire finally crashed in runis when it reached into remote sec tions of the world far removed from its own frontiers. And as the old slogan goes ‘history often re peats itself’.” Citing exact amounts that have been given to foreign countries by lead-lease and as outright gifts in the last 33 years, Grant said that America has traveled all the way from the politiical philosophy of isolationism to a new brand of internationalism. % - This brand, he said, “in my judgement, is one which the late President Woodrow Wilson, author of the collective security system through a League of Nations, never imagined in his wildest dreams! The pendulum has swung all the way from one extreme to the other.” : Closed Their Eyes “And, unfortunately, he added, “the modern American Interna tionalists, who are planning and promoting this vast global cam paign, apparently have closed their eyes, ears and minds to the pro blems arising within the boundar ies of our own country in carry ing out such a program.” : Grant added that he did not believe the Kremlin military die tators planned to make open war on the United States. “They are too sraart to take such a risk be cause of our industrial and pot ‘ential mﬂitgy i:ower. They have ‘fwwht rather to annoy and to ‘harass us as in Korea. “l believe that their strategy from the beginning of the Cold War has been to break us down from within through infiltration in America of their Communist agents, ?ut dprimarily by encourag ing us to dissipate our financial and material resources.” Max Way Speech Max Ways, senior editor of Time magazine, at the 11 o'clock session today told the Georgia Press In stitute that if the non-communist world is orderly, strong, and unit ed, then Communism ean not move forwarad and indeed, it may even be moved back. ; Ways pointed out that this non communist world certainly is not united now, nor was it united at any time during 1951. The story of Mohammed Mosa degh, who Time selected as the man-of-the-year, he said, .is the most outstanding example of the disunity of the non-communist world during 1951. . Mosadegh was picked as the man of the year because of the import= ance of the story with which he wag involved, Ways explained. His selection was one way of saying that the time had come when the United States must take this ec centric statesman and the problems of a small country half-way a round the world with the utmost seriousness. ‘ He pointed out when the Iranian oil crisis arose last %ring it be came clear that the British could not handle the crisis. Since that time it has become even clearer that this crisis could not be iso lated in Iran. 3 Until a way is found to control this situation and so create unity among all non-communist forces, then more than petroleum will be in danger, he said. At Tallahassee, Fla., Jim Powell, the capital reporter of the Tampa Tribune, lunches each day, and has for two years, in lonely splen~ dor. . This is one aspect—and a sig nificant one—of a series of mili tant crusades his newspaper has waged for city, county and state betterment. R At an earlier session, V. M. Newton, jr., managing editor of the Tampa Fla. Morning Tribune, recounted how his newspaper has waged cdmpaigns to stop waste of financial and material resour ces on the local and state level. Press Is A Pretection ) Contending that good national government must rest on a strong foundation of good local and state government, Newton said that the press is the people’s best protection against graft and corruption. Discussing some of the Tribune’s major campaigns of the last seven years, Newton said that largely be cause of the Tribune’s initial ex pose of conditions in Florida schools these schools’ standards had risen from 47th to 20th place in the nation. - Ao At the same time, he said, the Tribune was at work uncovering underworld activities in Tampa and exposing misuse of state funds in Tallahassee. o i Newton said that his paper’s campaigns were based on the creed of Henry Grady that the“power os banded intelligence and the re sponsibility of a free community” must be preserved. - Managing Editor V. M. Newton, jr., told today how he, his paper and its staff have defied threats of HOME EDITION bodily harm, libel suits and other indignities to arouse what the fa mous Atlanta Editor Henry W. Grady called the “banded intelli gence and responsibllity of a free community.” Of the Tallahassee reporter, Newton said: “Friend and foe alike shun him publicly, because politicians being politicians, none wants the other to think that perhaps he is sup plying the deadly information.” He added: “Few realize that any taxpayer, if he has the know-how, can at tain the same infornration simply by keeping tab on the puble ree ords from day to day.” Newton, continuing study ehair man of the Associated Press Man aging Editors Association, was a speaker at the Georgia Press In stitute. He appeared as guest of the Columbus Ledger-Enguirer newspapers, Cilag No Threats Materialize Of es%ecial interest to newsmen, he noted that none of the libel suits or threats of physical harm, some from the underworld, has materialized. But the Tribune eir culation at Tallahassee, 250 miles away, has grown from 100 mail subscribers to more than 1,500 route subscribers daily. Of public inferest, he related how somre form of reform or im provement followed each of six major crusades and most of others undertaken by his newspaper. The benefits included Tampa govern mental reform and improvement, tightening of state spending to save the taxpayers millions of dollars, routing of a “black hand’’ gambling syndicate and the en gendering of “better government lieagues” in various localities. “I tell you this,” he explained, “{o show you the effect of honest, fair and factual reporting against public evil. Most citizens are hon est and want to live under honest government in clean communities, It is the obligation of a free press to keep its citizens constantly ad vised of conditions of their gov ernment regardless of whether the politicians like it or not.” S Opening Dinner Five years after the postwar atomic energy program eof the United States began as a eom~ plete government monopely, the question of whether this sheuld continue indefinitely as purig policy is beginning to take shape, Morse Salisbury, Director of In formation Service for the United States Atomic Energy Commis sion, reported te the Press Insti tute opening dinner Wednesday night. Salisbury outlined the program: of current studies by industrial groups on the econonric and tech~ nical problems of designing, build ing, and operating atomic energy machines — nuclear reactors -— which will produce plutonium, an atomic fuel useful for bombs or for power units, and convert the heat of the process into eleetrical current, These studies carried on for the past seven months, at the expense of four industrial teams already have produced two re ports, and the remaining two are (Continued On Page Five) Local Hospital To Train Infems Athens General Hospital has been authorized by the Medical Association Council on Medical Education and Hospitals to in augurate a program of interne training here in Athens, to begin on July 1. The announcement was made today by Oscar Hilliard, adminis trator of the local hospital and president-elect of the Georgia Hospital Association, who stated that the report of the inspector on the General Hospital “is excellent, in fact, one of the best that we have ever had.” g According to the report, the hospital is equipped with the mest modern equipment of any hospi tal of its size. The comment of the inspector who toured and studied the conditions at the hos— pital was, “Athens General Hos pital is one of the best 100 bed hospitals that I have ever inspect ed.” The Athens Generai Hospital is one of the few 100 bed hospitals that has been approved for intern ship. The report on the hospital also stated that the inspeector felt that the general set-up for treat ment and services to the publie would provide completely ade= quate interne training. The X« ray department of the hospital was cited as having “as modern equipment which could be found anywhere.” It is significant to note Jhat both hospitals of Athens, the Gen= eral and St. Mary’s, are for interne training at the . time, providing excellent care an€ treatment son-patients,. . ...

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