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N. commander said ar mistice negotiations have reached a point where it's impossible to tell what is going to happen. He blamed Communi: negotiators “who resort: to ‘ir perate lan guage and deliberately employ known falsehoods,” Ridgway branded Red stories that Allieg are using germ war fare as “completely, absolutely and categorically false.” He speculated Communist ac cusations were either (1) an at tempt “to cover up their inability to prevent epidemics and to con trol them after they do occur” or 2) an indication they plan ‘“to employ such methods’” (germ war fare) themselves. Ridgway said he was not ac cusing the Reds of plotting to in itiate bacteriological warfare, “but t is conceivable.” And, he said, e wasn't absolutely certain that epidemics are sweeping Red Ko a but evidence indicates bubonic sue is rampant. Red radios have been pouring { the germ warfare stories for itlmost three weeks. They have not een mentioned in truce talks. ‘n the armistice talks them ves Rear Adm. R. E. Libby told the Communists: Gefffng Fed Up We are getting fed up with vour attempts to make things ap eor as facts that are not facts.” Libby’s blunt statement came answer to accusations from North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang ‘ that the Allies ‘“raised ex ‘ensive fabrications to further de v negotiations. Lee referred to Allied demands for an accounting missing Allied troops, including 1.000 South Koreans, as dexter s delaying tacties.” Tuesday Lee ked for an accounting of 1,036 (Continued On Page Two) ATHENS AND VICINITY l Fair today, tonight and Wed- | nesday, Warm again today and cooler tonight and Wednesday. Gutlook for Thursday, showers I warmer. Low tonight 38, iizh tomorrow 60. Sun sets to- G-y at 6:37 and rises tomorrow | at 6:49. GEORGIA —~- Fair today, to nizht and Wednesday except o showers in extreme south vect portion early this morn in7; warm again today; cooler toniizht and Wednesday. “XTENDED FORECAST GEORGIA — Temperatures are expected to average about three degrees above normal, cooler Tuesday night, warmer Thursday and mild Thursday through Saturday, cooler again about Sunday, normal maximum 68 in south Georgia to 55 ex treme in western North Caroli na, normal minimum 46 in south Georgia to 31 extreme in west ern North Carolina. Precipita tion expected to average one half to three-fourths inch, oc curring Thursday and again about Saturday. TEMPERATURE Highest', .(7 s satrsioyriig Lowest . 5 i v iOO MeRIY .. ov i e i aiis i A 0 Normal . apidas vt vva RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ... 2.24 [otal since March 1 .. ... 496 Excess since March 1 .. .. 3.15 Average March rainfall ... 5.27 Total since’ Jahpary 1. .. ..12.58 Excess since January 1 ... 5 ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service RAIL STRIKE STOPS TRAIN IN FIELD . . Officials Want Federal Order CLEVELAND, March 11.—(AP) —The Army goes to court today in the hope of getting strike-stall ed New York Central trains roll ing again, Having failed in a demand that the strikers return to work or face “appropriate action,” Army and government officials now want an injunction. The Army has con trolled the nation’s railroads since August 27, 1950. An injunction, ordering three rail brotherhoods 6,000 strikers to get back on the job, will be re quested in Federal Court here, the government announced. _The order . would be . against. strikes called against the New York Central system west of Buf falg and the St. Louis terminal. The strike, slowing down freight shipments, causing some layoffs, and forcing about 20,000 daily NYC passengers to find other rides, now is in its third day. Arriving in 'Cleveland fronr Washington today for the court action were three Justice Depart ment officials, headed by Edward A. Hickey, special assistant to the Attorney General, and an Army officer. Hickey. declined to iden tify the Army officer. Chiefs of the striking brother hoods said approximately -200,000 members, despairing of what they call lengthy, fruitless negotiations, want better working conditions and a pay raise. On raises, how ever, the two sides are fairly close. More important is their fight against attempts to change four working rules, which they say would amount to substantial wage cuts. Ready to Negotiate In spite of differences with the roads and the government, the )leaders of the striking brother hoods announced at their head=~ | quarters here last night that they stil] are ready: to negotiate. The statement was signed by the three chiefs: R. O. Hughes of the Order of Railway Conductors; D. B. Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En ginemen; and J. P. Shields, Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locemotive Engineers. | Except” for the railroads that lhave been ‘struck, layoffs so far have been spotty. Haynie Rises To Be Wednesday Walter N. Haynie, 70, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Foster Huff, on the Watkinsville Road, Monday afternoon at ¢ o’clock. Mr. Haynie had been in declining health for several months. Services are to be conducted Wednesday morning at 11 oclock from Clyde MeDorman'’s Chapel with Rev. R. N. Saye, pastor of Edwards Chapel Church, officiat~ ing. Burial will be in Oconee Hill Cemetery, members of the Ma sons serving as pall-bearers. Mr. Haynie, a retired textile worker, is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Joe Al= len, both of Athens; two sons, Arthur C. Haynie, Albany, Ga.. and John S. Haynie, Athens, four grandchildren and one great grandchild. A native of Jackson County, Mr. Haynie had lived all of his life in Clarke and Oconee counties, for many years being connected with the Mallison Braided Cord Mill. He was a member of the Baptist Church and had many friends ;throughout this section who were saddened by his death. i ‘ DIMITROFF SPEAKS Commaﬁder George C. Dimitroff will speak on The State of The Cosmos tonight at 7:80 in the phy= sies aduditorium on the Univers ity of Georgia- eamps. The public is invited to attend. ; of the train refused to cross a picket line set up by striking trainmen of the sprawl ing New York .Central system, — (AP Wirephoto.) Hod Rites Morning At 11 Mrs. Paul Hodgson, member of one of the city’s most prominent families, died today at 12:30 a. m. in a local hospital after an illness of three days. The family of Mrs. Hodgson re %uests friends to omit flowers and i? they care to, to make a con tribution to the Cerebral Palsy Association, James W. Alexander. e deeply interested in the assocTation and its work. 3 Services are. to be conducted Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock at the graveside in the Hodgson lot in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Rev. J. Earl Gilbreath, rector of Em manuel Episcepal Church, officiat ing. Bridges Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements., Mrs. Hodgson is survived by her husband Paul Hodgson, Athens bu~ siness man; one daughter and three sons; parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mclver, Monroe; two brothers, Horace Mclver, Atlanta, and Hey ward Mclver, San Francisco, Calif. Native of Monroe 2 Mrs. Hodgson was a native of Monroe and had been a resident of Athens since 1947. Her marriage to Mr. Hodgson united two of the best known and most influential familes in this section. She was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and took a very active in terest in the affairs of that congre gation. Mrs. Hodgson became the mother of triplets late Saturday afternoon, two sons and a daughter, who have not yet been named. Complications set in and a number of transfusions were given in an effort to save the life of the popular young matron but to no avail, and it was with sorrowing heart that Athenians this morning heard the sad news. Rarely in ‘the history of this community has an incident so deeply touched the hearts of all Athenians, friends and strangers alike, as did the gallant battle waged to save the life of the young mother. The hospital was deluged with a constant flood of telephone calls and visitors in person hoping Lagainst hope for somé optimistic or cheering word, word that never came. She will be greatly missed by the many who knew and admired her and it is needless to say that her husband and family have the deepest symathy of all Athenians. Grim Killer Hunt On For Schuster Murderer NEW YORK, March 11—(AP)— Death threats to a mourning fam ily and to a garageman involved in the arrest of bank robber Willie Sutton today spurred New York city’s grimmest killer-hunt in a dozen years. For 19,000 policemen the “No. 1 job” was to trap the slayer who in gangland-style Saturday night shot down pants salesman Arnold Schuster, 24. The latter’s tip led to Sutton’s arrest. The scope of the manhunt was emphasized last night when Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri said he would ask the City Board of Estimate to vote a $25,000 reward “for the capture of the murderer.” Not since 1940 has the city put up such a high reward, and then it was in the killing of two detec tives. i Even as Schuster was buried yesterday, the reports of new death threats extended the shadow of terror over Brooklyn. A report said that Just two hours before the funeral, Schus ter's fami‘liy r;ciiﬁrgd thls warn - “One death isn’t enough, there w%l be others.” It v:gs “rg\t ‘3&; SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY. Soviet Proposes. Big Four Meef To Seek Peace By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW, March 11—(AP)-— The Soviet Union proposed today an immediate Big Four conference to reunite divided Germany and prepare for a peace treaty barring the Germans from alliances aimed at any of their World War II enemies, Western observers in Moscow predicted the United States, Bri tain and France would turn down the proposal, which Included a detailed outline of prineciples which the Soviets said should be the basis of the peace treaty. The Russians, said however, they would discuss other projects also. (West Germany is one of six governments megotiating to form a European Army linked to the Atlantic Alliance against Com munism—an alliance which Rus sia has insisted is aggressively di rected against her.) - Deputy Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko handed the plan to Big Three diplomats in Moscow last night. It was made public almost immediately, in early morning Soviet broadcasts and the morning editions of Pravda and other papers. - In Washington, the State De partment’s press officer, Michael McDormott, said early today the text of the note had not been re ceived and there would be no U. S. comment until State Depart ment officials have a chance to study it.) el The R%a said they wanted Big Four on German unifi cation and on the tnat{ to begin “without delay” and asked Wast ern answers to their notes “in the shortest possible time.” A final peace with Germany was pictured in the identical Sov jet notes to the Western Big Three as the key to a “once and for all” easement of East-West tensions. (The last Big Four attempt to settle their differences was in a private conference in Paris last November, under United Nations auspices. It brought no agree ments beyond setting up a new disarmament commission.) ; The Soviet list of principles for a German peace seemed identical with previous Russian proposals on the subject. They called for &Utﬁl;lnx the Gebr man borders on the li set by ‘the Big-Four in the msw Conference, (This gave a big slice of pre-war East German territory to Poland but the West has de clared the decision was tempora ry, subject to revision in a peace treaty.) The Russians also proposed Germany have land, Naval and Air Forces “essential for the de fense of the country” and be al lowed war industries only big enough to equip these permitted forces. Occupation forces would be withdrawn within a year after the peace treaty became effective. The treaty also would “insure the removal of the possibility of a revival of German militarism” but would give former army offi cers and former Nazis—“excluding | those who are serving sentences] passed by courts for committing‘ crimes”—the same civil and poli~ tical rights given other Germans. WE SHOULD HOPE SO WASHINGTON, March 11 — (AP) — Leon Keyserling, Chair man of the President’s Council.of Economic Advisers, conceeds that the United States is nearing & “saturation point” on taxes. During hearings on the indep endent offices appropriation bill, published today by the House Ap propriations Committee, Keyserl ing told Rep. Phillips (R-Calif), “we are certainly approaching the point where one has to be very careful about the levying of more taxes.” GALES RIP 'BAMA BIRMINGHAM, March 11 — (AP) — Wildg® March gales with gusts up to 105 miles an hour ripped deep into Alabama last night, buffeting four state cities. The highest velocity of 105 miles per hour was reported at Mont gomery, but Dothan suffered ex tensive damage from.winds up 10, 94 miles an hour. whether the message was mailed or phoned. Police had no comment on this report, Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan noted that a special 24-hour guard had been placed on the family, Young Schuster received several threats before his death, and po lice said later he had rejected of fers of a guard. Garage Man Threatened While the Schusters were at the funeral, a threat was directed at Jack Peene, a garageman who was helping Sutton with a stalled (1:;1' shortly before his capture Feb. A man telephoned Peene’s wife, Mary, that she«should advise her husband “to take out a larger in surance policy and mot to take long walks.” Peene immediately was given a police guard at his service station, while his wife and their two small children were sent under guard to an Dgmdizclosed ghelter. | naghan said police were “passing :dp nc;thing." They l“oppe,d nused-car lots and garages " (Confified On 'Pige Two) ATHENS, CA., TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1952, 5 e . R RA - RO SRR St S BRI -;é"«y e BT e IR SO R R RN BRI e e B P S e AT A (i et Ay g CT BRI No, L 0 :,‘:' S M 4 SO RSR ~) % g e S 3 3 SR N 3 R RN & SR LR % 5 R R SN A Y FRE R Ty 3 * S L B, 3 4 pmT % ﬁ g..::::q i ~ % 3 o R & 5 b R 3 : i.',::i.v Rigow s . SRR 3 §Te £ 2 .e A ; SR & R R g S WY SRR SRR R R S R R R A R SR ST T - ;R “'Q'c._ DR. ARTHUR M. WEIMER Dean of the School of Business Administration at Indiana Uni versity. Dr. A. M. Weimer Named To Lead Business Meet Dr. Arthur M. Weimer, dean of the School of Business Adnmistra tion at Indiana University and an authority on real estate and sav ings and loan associations, will be on the University of Georgia cam pus Friday to conduct the second in a series of five Executive Man agement Seminars. . The Seminars, each one center ing around a distinet phase of ‘management action, are being held ‘throughout the spring. At the session Friday Dr. Wei mer will discuss current economic 3conditions and their impact upon ‘executive action, It will be a crit ,ical review of the present eco ‘nomic situation and an analysis of future prospects. Seminar Sponsors The seminars are sponsored by the ‘University’s College of Busi ness Administration and Division of General Extension for execu tives of business and industry. Sponsoring organizations for the series are the Cotton Manufactur ers Association of Georgia, Asso ciated Industries of Georgia and National Association of Manufac turers. Friday’s semrinar leader is a for ‘et professor and . head of the department of economics and so cial science at the Georgia Insti tute of Technology. He was a member of the Georgia Tech fac ulty before he joined the faculty of Indiana University where, since 1939, he has been Dean of the Schoocl of Business Administration. Dr. Weimer’s teaching career also includes experience at Alma College in Michigan where he was a professor of economics. A gracduate of Beloit College and the University of Chicago, Dr. Weimer is a director of the Rail roadmen’s Federal Savings and Loan Association and economist for the U. S. Savings and Loan League. He has also served as Field Research Supervisor for the Federal . Housing Administration and is the author of several books. The Executive Management Seminar will be held in the Geor gia Museum of Art on the cam pus. Poet Frost To Speak Thursday Robert Frost, celebrated New England poet, will fill his annual speaking engagement at the Uni versity of Georgia this week. Frost is scheduled to speak and read his poetry in the University Chapel at 11 a. m, Thursday. It will be his eighth annual appear ance, ¢ Traditionally the first lecture is one of the highlights of the Spring season on the campus. Ap pearing at the University under the auspices of the committee on Special Convocations, Frost al ways speaks to a standing-room only audience. -~ Pulitzer Winner A four-time Pulitzer prize win ner, Frost has given 14 volumes of verse to contemporary Ameri can literature. His “New Hamp shire,” “Collected Poems,” “A Witness Tree,” and ‘A Further Range” took the Pulitzer awards. In addition to these, Frost has also won the Loiner Prize for Poetry, the ‘Mark Twain medal, and the gold medals from the Na tional Institute of Arts and Let ters and the Limited Editions Club. The letter award was made two years ago for his “Complete Poems,” cited by the Club as one book written by an American during a five preceding years that was most likely to become a clas sie. - BEducated at Dartmouth and ‘Harvard, Frost helds numerous honorary degrees. He is a former professor of English at Amherst College. | LITTLE LIZ : g J,,' > \ hen & " / X \ NN ) / A Sk b £; % | i = 31} / Girls and billiard balls kiss each other with about the same amount <of feeling. Xiy R L NH Voters Appear At Polls Early In First Big Primary Nafional Firm Wants To Build In Athens Area Five thousand men and women from the Athens area are wanted. A nationally known industry, one of the largest in the United States, is interested in building a new and modern plant near Ath ens providing five thousand men and women are available for steady, year-round, permanent employment at excellent pay and under the best working condi= tions. This is not a temporary de fense industry, it has been pointed out. The Athens Chamber of Com merce is setting up eleven regis tration offices in the Athens area for men and women who may be interested in working in such a plant. These registration offices will be open on Friday and Satur day of this week fromn 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. at all points except Ath ens which will also be open on Thursday. This industry, interested in the Athens area, will have an annual payroll of approximately $15,000,- 000, officials said, and the plant itself will contain approximately one million square feet of floor space covering several acres. Op tions have been taken on sites but no definite selection of the site has been made. SR Places io register are listed be low and men and women who want jobs are urged to register without fail. Athens—-Civie Hall Auditorium (Athens also open Thursday). Comer—Comer News Office. Commerce—Belk-Gallant Store. Danielsville — County Court House. Greensboro — County Court House. Jefferson—County Court House. Lexington — County Court House. Madison—County Court House. %em. oe——COém!.y.ert House. : atkinsville — Countvy Court House, b o uvv‘ﬁ;‘der»—Council Chamber, City Heall. Bafista Pledges. To House Clean Cuban Politics By BEN MEYER . HAVANAH, Cuba, March 11 — (AP) — Veteran revolutionary Fulgencio Batista was back in the Cuban saddle again today, pledged to clean up “thieving and gangster ism in government.” He promised elections for a new government ' after the cleanup. | With army backing, Batista ousted the government of Presi dent Carlos Urio Socarras before dawn yesterday. Two men killed in a brief gun battle at the Presi dential Palace were the only re ported casualties. Batista’s forces were reported in command of police, Army and Navy stations in Cuba’s five out lying provinces. The 51-year-old Batista, who ruled the Caribbean Island Coun try from 1934 until 1944—first as behind-the-scenes dictator and then as President—this time called himself “Chief of the Revolution.” He named a 15-man cabinet of civilians, replaced top military and police officers as well as Havana’s mayor and said he, himself, "‘might possibly become Prime Minister and, as such, head of the ‘ government.” Batista is barred from the Presi dency until October, 1952, by a Cuban law requiring an ex- Presi dent to stay out of the office eight years. Fled To Mexico President Prio, who had left the Presidential Palace yesterday just ahead of Batistaagontrolled | Army tanks, took refuge ‘early to day in the Mexican Embassy. He was expected to ask asylum in Mexico. where he lived in exile from 1935 to 1946. Mexico was expected to grant his requesf and to start negotia tims for his safe conduct there. A number of officials of Prio’s gov ernment also were refuged in the embassy. The government overthrow came in the midst of the campai gn for Presidential elections June 1 in which Batista was a candidate. He at once postponed the ballot ing indefinitely. In a radio speech last night he assured Cuba’s peo ple that the new government will be in power only the time requir ed, and then we shall have elec tions without pistoleros (gunmen) sowing terror in the Republic.” Batista said he staged his revolt because he had reliable news that Prio, “faced with the defeat of his candidate in the June 1 elections, was planning a phony revolution for April 15.” Prio, barred from re-election, was supporting the nominee of his own authentic revolutionary garty, former Secretary of State Carlos Hevia. Batista and Roberto Aga monte were candidates of the op position united action and orthodox people’s parties, respectively. Batista during his former Presi denc:{] mgint&iged ist’%:l::(sie lgxrg:si \gith the. U. .S. .and. visit ent. go'oseveltin-flﬂz. S P Pl Read Daily by 35,000 People In xihqgs Trade Area Both Major Parties Watch Contest Closely To Learn Political Trend CONCORD, N. H., March 11.—(AP)—The nation’s first Presidential primary election began early today in New Hampshire, bringing thousands of voters to the polls in & contest closely watched by both major political parties and the men they may nominate this year. y Voters were ready to cast their ballots as soon as the doors opened at many of the polling places. s Waterville Valley, a community deep in the mountains, recorded its vote a few moments after mid night. It cast all seven votes for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. It also gave Taft two write~-in votes and Stassen one write-in vote for Vice President. The town has a population of 10. Close behind Waterville Valley in the balloting was Millsfield which reported these returns: Taft, 4; Stassen, 1; Kefauver, 1, Truman, 1. Eisenhower received no votes. Millsfield has a popu lation of 16. Political observers expected the vote to go over the 100,000 mark, setting records for many com munities. National, and even in ternational attention, was focused "on the election. Correspondents from both London and Paris were on the scene to cover the story, as well as American newsmen from virtually every part of the country, Ike-Taft WFight ‘ Major interest focused on the struggle between Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio), on the Republican side. This is Eisenhower’s first ap pearance in the national political arena. He is in Europe as milita~ ry head of the North Atlantie Treaty Organization and has neither appeared nor participated in the maneuvers in New Hamp shire. New Hampshire may be the test of Taft's vote-getting abilities. He campaigned hard in New Hamp shire, making 36 speeches in three days and firing most of his big guns at the Democratic adminis tration and at his opponents who argued that if nominlzd, he could not be elected. : l On the Democratic side, the contest also marked the first ef forts by Senator Estes Kefauver ' of Tennessee to become his party’s standard bearer against President Truman. The President, after having asked that his name be withdrawn from the election, consented to let it be placed on the ballot. But he did not come to New Hamp shire, nor did he campaign active= ly. Correspondents who accoms= panied Truman to Florida, where he is on holiday, reported he has shown no outward sign of interest in the primary. The Taft-Eisenhower and Tru man-Kefauver contests dominated the election today. MacArthur Represented However, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur is represented on the bal lot by a slate of delegates who registered for him despite his re quest that he be withdrawn from the election. And former Gover nor Harold E. Stassen is on the Republican preferential section of the ballot but he has no delegates entered for him. New Hampshire sends 14 repre sentatives to the Republican con vention and eight to the Democra tic. In the case of both parties, ob servers generally considered the election of delegates less impor= tant than the preferential ballot. In this lattr section, the people register a preference directly for the presidential candidate in what is known as “the popularity con- | test.” i Eisenhower's list of delegates is gar more impressive than Taft’s and a majority of them are ex pected to be'elected. But the “popularity contest” | apparently was a very close race and supporters of both men, while predicting victory. conceded the margins might be narrow. Before leaving the state, Taft said the SR R P e W L AT 0 & e B . o {)3‘%‘2 S R E 4@“‘* .. 1 & SRR . - 'R L% eWS o R T ] . o @ . o . x 3 @ 0 . .S e, ol e g: ] \%\ o | N v . gl R Sl T F oo o b E : | E s e C . e e SO o : Woam : S s o R £ 4 $ i b ‘ se: o A BRI sSAR R bR RS b 8 A G gs R o e\ e G e o L N B K 0 SltSt S o TR o g Eh o e e R R ' N eeR R L S s RN e ",;'_v,-,':'3-15"5:3}'7:52'1:1‘53":',5’-3.“555\:-.""1‘:" o RN ,‘A__- Pi RS T FIGURES IN CUBAN REVOLT — Fulgencio Batists (left), Cuba’s strong man from 1933 to 1944, is reported «> to have seized control of the Cuban government with Army backing. President Carlos Prio Socarras {right) fled the palace amid rumors that he was under arrest. — (AP Wirephoto.) HOME EDITION BY RELMAN MORIN polls showed he was running even with Eisenhower. Other soundings of public sentiment indicated Eisenhower Held a short lead ever the senator. Just before the polls epened Eisenhower supporters fired theiw last heavy broadside. Speaking in Dover, Senatew Lodge (R.-Mass.) head of the General’s national organi.% tol dan audience “Eisenhower clean out the Communists in gov ernment. He has never beem aum~ certain sbout the Communist threat.” % Red Cross Goes Info Ind Week -, 0f 1952 Drive * | Contributions to the Red Cress drive, now entering its seeond l week, are still coming in, but def inite figures are still not avsilshile, A percentage of the workers have yet to report. Some sdditions have been made to the workers on the dowmtew= business division, under the elgir manship of Uly Gunn. Persons now working em five business phase are Captain Q. M. Roberts, jr. and Mrs. W. W. De- Beaugrine; Captain Don Shellmut and Mrs. Howard Pope, Leuie Clarke, John Thurmond, Jemes Dre C. B. Hubbell, sné H. Paul ;;ul; Captain Rickard Bloodworth and -Ed . Fortsom, Richard Harrﬁhauﬂn Mottala, Mrs. Rose Smithson, Terry Wing | field, Upshaw Bentley, jr., How | ard Harris, Dr. Gerald Themas, Bruce Jennings, Bill King, and Bill Jordan; Captain Elbert Whit mire and George Whitmire; Cap~ tain Van Noy Wier, sr.; Cagtain Dan Dupree; Captain S. E. Patat; Captain Joe Foster, Wallace Ses sions, and Bob Pruitt. For Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph: Captain W. O. Me- Dowell; Office captain, E. H. Mas— sey; Plant captain, W. D. Warren; Traffic captain, Mrs, Emma Estes. Captain' Bruce Woodruff and Charles Thornton, jr.; Captain Harry Robinson; Captain Sam Wooil; Captain Miss Leah Perryy Captain Kinz Crawford and Fres ton Almand; Captain J. N. Roper; Captain A. B. Cochran and Hil liard XKing; Captain Sheldom Moore and Harold Saye; Captaim Baxter Cooke; Co-captains Jinm Wilfong and Dan Greer; Captaim Fred Griffith and G. E. Colemamn; Captain H. A. Westervelt and Bob Kimbrell; and Captain Tommy ’ Woods. i CHENNAULT VISITS U. S. TAIPEH, FORMOSA, Marel 11 — (AP) — Retired Maj. Gemn. Claire L. Chennault, wartime eam mander of the Flying Tigers, leaves tomorrow for a three monthg visit to the United States. He denied re— ports published in Chinese news— papers that he intended to rum for U. S. Senator in Louisiana. QUAKE DAMAGE HEAVY TOKYO, March 11 — (AP) — The Kokkaido prefectural gowern ment today reported Tuesday's | earthquakes and tidal waves | caused $42,777,777 damage om the Northern Japanese Island. ' The quakes joited Northerm ' Honshu Island too, but damage to the main home island was less severe.

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