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COTTON
Vol. €XX, No. 69.
Ctate Prison Inmates
Attempt Break In N. J.
Rickenbacker To
Headline Talk
A AI . D
At Alumni Day
Alumni who return to Athens on
ne 4th this year will hear one of
he most outstanding speakers in
e country. Capt. Eddie Ricken
cker, president of Eastern Air
ines, has agreed to be the main
.peaker for the day, Alumni Presi
ent William C. Hartman has an
mnced.
Rickenbacker, widely known
Nolrd War 1 aee, i 8 one of the
eading figures in aviation today.
As president of Eastern Air Lines,
e has seen this field of trans
ortation grow from the barn
storming days of the '2os to cor
jorations capitalized in the mil
ions of dollars.
Captain Rickenbacker’'s speech
s only one of many aetivities
wvhich have been arranged for
s Jumni Day this year. Registration
will be held in front of the Chapel
.nd Academie Building, starting
4t 9 a. m. The annual meeting wil
regin at ?proxmulz 10:30 in
the Chapel with Pres t Hart
man of the Alum:l Society ealling
Ihe meeting %9 ordey.
Com:“u.;om
Reports from various commit
tees, induflnl the eleetion com
»mttag. will be made prior to Cap
tain Rickenbacker’s talk. The in
juction of mew officers will be
eld following the report of the
clection committee. S
A luncheon for alumni, mem
bers of their family, and friends,
will be held under the trees on
Ag Hill in the same %hco where
it was held last year. No speeches
will be made at the luncheon, as
the time is designed not only for
alumni to eat but te greet class
mates, friends, and faculty. The
cost of the luncheon will be $1.75
per plate, Tickets may be obtained
by letter in advance of Alur'ni
Day at the registration tables”on
the campus, or at the site of the
luncheon.
After the luncheon, some “free
time” will be allowed on the pro
gram so as to give alumni an op
portunity te visit friends in town
or on the campus. d
A business meeting of the Board
of Managers of the Society will be
held in the Qld College conference
room at 3 p. m. This is an ‘“‘open
meeting” and any member of the
Society is welcome to attend and
learn of plans for the Society dur
ing the coming year.
~ Reception o L
At 4:30 p. m., the Class of 1922
will be host to alumni and faculty
at an informal reception at the
Georgian Hotel. This will be a good
opportunity for alumni to see
faculty members and Athens
friends. There will be no receiving
line, no speeches, just fun and
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Parleys Resume
Prisoner Talks
MUNSAN, April 18 — (AP) —
Allied and éommunist staff offic
ers, after a two week recess, to
morrow reopen off-the -record
talks on how to exchange prisoners
of the Korean war.
There was no indication whether
a break was imminent in the long
deadlock over the Allied deman
for voluntary repatriation. k
Some observers, however, in
dicated a compromise formula was
in the works. Both sides were be
lieved to have spent the past two
weeks overhauling prisoner rost
ers and bringing them up to date.
The agreement to resume pri
soner exchange talks came during
a short “no progress” session of
the subscommittee on truce sup
ervision.
The meeting lasted eight minu
tes and 25 seconds—more than the
total of the previous seven ses
sions. But Maj. Gen. William K.
Harrison said no headway was
made toward breaking the two
way deadlock over Red nomina
tion of Rusgia as a neutral truce
nspector ar&l Allied objections to
the rebuilding of the North Korean
military airfields.
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7%
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair and continued warm to
day, Saturday and Sunday. Low
tonizht 48, high tomorrow 78.
Sun sets today at 7:07 and rises
tomorrow at 5:58.
GLORGIA — Fair and warm
this afternoon and Saturday;
fair and slightiy warmer tonight.
EXTENDED FORECAST
GLEORGIA—LittIe or ne pre
clpitation during the period
with a chance of light showers
Tuesday or Wednesday, temper
atures averaging two to four
degrees above normal, normal
maximum 73 in north Georgia
to 80 in south Georgia. normal
minimum 50 in nerth Georgia to
57 in south Georgia.
TEMPERATURE
Eifihest el e e
OWBE Lot s b, e o e
Mown |oo bl
Normels= e i 48
RAINFALL
nches last 24 hours .. ... .00
otal since April 1 .. .. .. 2.03
eficit since April 1 .. .... .27
Average April rainfall .. .. 3.95
Total since January 1 .. . 20.41
Excess since January 1 ... 3.01
ATHENS BANNER -HERALD
Associated Press Service
Fifth NJ Riot =
In Three Weeks
| RAHWAY, N. J, April. 18—
- (AP)—A group of 222 rebellious
prisoners took over a dormitory
‘ wing of the Rahway State Prison
Farm and. held nine guards cap
tive today after a night of rioting,
State officials said the outbreak
was staged in sympathy with a
four-day revolt of 69 convicts who
Lave barricaded themselves in the
print shop at Trenton State Pri
son, holding three prison employes
as hostages.
The Trenton convicts are de
manding the ouster of Warden
William H. Carty and an investi
gation of the prison. They released
one ill hostage last night and ar
ranged a mediation meeting with
prison officials for today.
The Rahway rioters made a
similar request for a prison probe
early today after a wild outburst
of breaking windows, beds and
furniture in the dormitory wing.
The rioting started abcut 9 p. m.
after an earlier report of ‘“noisy
and unruly” activities in the wing
during the afternoon.
Fifth Disturbance
It was the fifth prison distur
bance in New Jersey in the last
three weeks.
The two-story dormitory wing
houses 350 inmates, with nine
guards stationed on each of the
floors. When the outbreak started,
guards managed to remove 118
men before the others barricaded
the entrances, trapping nine
guards on the second floor.
“To the best of my knowledge
the guards are safe,” said Deputy
State Commissioner of Institutions
and Agencies F. Lovell Bixby.
“The situation is under control.
We have the wing completely sur
rounded and we'll sit it out as we
are doing in Trenton,” he added.
The rioting prisoners set fire to
furniture in the dormitory and
attempted to break through the
barred windows. They quieted
down toward morning.
State police and extra guards
were rushed to the huge prison
farm, which has two cell blocks
and the dormitory—all ringed by
a 30-foot high brick wall. A
branch of Trenton State Prison,
located 40 miles from here, it
houses 1,000 convicts of all types.
The barricaded Trenton in
mates last night released one of
their four h%- who. suffered
a mild heart atfack. They lowered
prison employe Oris Robison from
a six-foot high window into the
arms of three waiting guards.
Held 60 Hours
Robison, not in serious condition,
was not permitted to make any
statements. He had been held for
more than 60 hours. e
Guards reported last night that
a microphone eavesdropping sys
tem had been set up through a
loft in the print shop and prison
officials had been listening in on
everything the prisoners say.
They said the convict group is
armed with broken blades from
a paper cutting machine.
The convicts also are reported
almost out of food and water. Bix
by said Robison revealed that the
convicts had divided among every=-
one the eight sandwiches which
have been sent in for the hostages
at each mealtime.
Demo Polifical
Picture Murk
By The Associated Press
A SIOO-a-plate dinner and a
special news conference by Presi
dent Truman left the Democrats’
presidential picture murkier to
day.
More than before, none of the
party’s White House hopefuls ap=-
peared to have enough support in
the right places to claim priority
to the front-running spot.
The dinner—a swank affair last
night in New York attended by all
except one of the announced Dem
ocratic candidates—failed to pro
duce any hoped for clarifying de
‘velopments.
It was held to honor W. Averell
Harriman, Mutual Security Direc
tor, and make him a full-fledged
candidate for the Democratic nom
ination.
“The faithful came to hear a
new post-Truman political Mes
siah and seemed not to find him,”
wrote Jack Bell, Associated Press
roving political reporter.
_ At least the gathering did open
the way for today’s expected en
dorsement by New York’s county
chairman of Harriman as a favor
ite son. This would make him a
holding candidate to keep the
state’s 94-vote delegation intact
for the Chicago convention.
“Beyond that,” Bell wrote,
“there was little expectation that
the 60-year-old scion of a wealthy
railroad fanily would go any
where on a national scale.”
Bell reported that Governor
Adlai E. Stevenson of Illirmois—
who had said he couldn’t accept
the presidential nomination—stole
the show at the dinner with a
humor-studded speech. Stevenson
started by saying he was making
a fraudulent appearance, since he
wage running for governor of Ili
nois and not for President. -
Vice-President Alben Barkley
said the party was sure to win in
November “because it deserves to
win, because it is right.”
Bell said Barkley indicated to
him he has no present intention of
announcing whether he is a candi=
date for the presidency. This Bell
interpreted as making the Vice-
President “the chief darkhorse
candidate.?’ ’ LA
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With Senator James E. Murray (left)
of Montana at his side, President Harry
Truman gets a first hand view of the
flooding Missouri river through the win
dow of his plane, the Independence, as he
Wealthy Miamian Delivers Ransom
For Son's Return In Phony Kidnap
Parents Profest
Son's Sentence
By Air Force
EL PASO, Tex., April 18—(AP)
—Spreading controversy marked
the case of the balky air force
pilots today, although Gen. Hoyt
S. Vandenberg called it a “tem
pest in a teapot.”
Relatives of Lt. Verne Goodwin,
Air Force co-pilot sentenced to
prison for refusal to fly, said they
planned to carry his case to the
president if necessary.
Goodwin was sentenced to two
years in prison for refusing to fly
in a C-124 transport plane to Eng
land last December. He said he
feared it would have caused his
wife to lose their unborn child.
But at Birmingham, Adjt. Gen.
(Crack) Hanna of Alabama said
Goodwin’s sentence was too light.
“If those old, worn out, gold brick
pilots in Texas had the proper
leadership,” he said, they would
never have pulled their so-called
sitdown strike.”
Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of
Staff, commented on a more gen
eral situation. He said a “small”
number of airmen “is not indica
tive of anything as great as it
seems to appear on the surface.”
He added that the Air Force stop
ped calling reservists involuntari
ly five months ago and expected
the situation to ease.
The mother of another Air Force
officer charged with refusing to
obey orders to fly, said in Dallas
that her son is “a nervous wreck
and very sick” because he is af
raid to fly.
In Merced, Calif,, Frank C. Hil
ton of Reading, Pa., National
Commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars said punishment of
such men was tragic.
BOCA RATON, Fla., April 18—
(AP) — J. M. (Mac) Cheatham,
Griffin, Ga., textile executive, to
day was elected President of the
Cotton Manufactures Association
of Georgia.
He succeeds Henry W. Swift,
Excutive Vice-President of Swift
Spinning Mills, Columbus.
Cheatham is President of Dun=-
dee Mills, Rushton Cotton Mills
and Lowell Bleachery and of the
Hartwell Mills of Hartwell and
Toccoa,
The Georgia Manufacturers,
holding their 52nd annual meet
ing, were told by Rep. Frank
Twitty of Camilla, Ga., that failure
of business men to take an active
interest in government has result
ed in election of men ‘such as
those who now are at the head of
our national government.”
Twitty, administration floor
leader in the Georgia house, said
the penalty business has paid for
aloofness to politics has been “cor
ruption and confusion” in govern
ment and the “unbearable tax
burden that is continually being
placed on the individual and busi
ness.”
Plans Complete
.
For HS Showing
Arrangements have been com
pleted to provide ample parking
space for handling traffic at
the big Open House to be held
Saturday and Sunday afternoons
at the new High School building
just off Milledge Avenue.
Members of the Police Depart
ment will be on hand to direct
traffic and see that it flows
smoothly and also to see cars find
parking space.
The public is invited to attend
the Open House and inspect the
new building and those attending
will be greeted by 2 corps of boys
and dirfs who have familiarized
themselves with w many fea
tures and will serve’ as’ guides lo’
the visitors.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
Ingenius Dupe .
Police Assert
MIAMI, Fla., April 18—(AP)—
A wealthy Miami jeweler paid
$15,200 “ransom” for return of
his six-year-old son yesterday in
what police called a phony kid
naping.
Daniel Richter was duped into
paying $15,000 in jewels and S2OO
cash in what police said was ‘“one
of the cleverest and most perfect
ly timed” extortions in memory.
The boy, Richard, was never
actually kidnaped, police said, al
though Richter was convinced he
was buying his son’s safe return.
While police and the FBI mar
shalled forces to meet what they
thought was a genuine kidnaping,
the child was riding in a taxicab
from a_private W Miami
“Beach to doctor’s hospirdt in Coral
Gables, a distance of about 12
miles.
Police said the plotters used the
school, the taxi company and the
hospital as unwilling dupes in
their ‘shakedown.
As police reconstructed -the
crime, it happened this way:
A man who said he was *“Dr.
Henderson” called the Yellow Cab
Co., at Miami Beach and asked
them to pick up Ricky Richter at
Coburn School and drive him to
the hospital, purportedly to be
with his “gravely ill” mother.
Almost simultaneously, a wo
man’s voice called the school. au
thorities and said a texi would
arrive soon to pick up the boy.
Cab driver Bert Walowitz, 24,
was sent to the school and picked
up the boy. One member of the
gang must have watched him be
cause a telephone call then went
to the father’s office in downtown
Miami. i TS
The caller told Daniel Richter
he had Ricky in his custody and
that no harm would come to the
child if the father cooperated.
“He said, ‘This is purely a busi
ness deal and will require $50,000
in diamonds and $5,000 in cash for
you to get your boy back,’ ”
Richter reported.
The caller warned Richter the
boy’s life would be in danger if
police were notified, aind gave him
five minutes to verify the story.
Richter quickly called the school,
learned his son was gone, then
decided to notify police. While
detectives M. H. Wiggins and E,
A. Taunton were enroute to
Richter’s jewelry store, his phone
rang again. 4
“He gave me instructions to take
the jewels and money to a phone
booth in the Ponce de Leon Hotel,”
Richter related. “I told him the
most T could raise was about $15,-
000 in jewels and S2OO in cash.
He said that would do.”
Richter went to the hotel and
waited in the booth. A bellboy
told him he was wanted on the
phone at the desk and the same
man who had called earlier told
him to put the jewels and cash in
a bag in a coin locker at the
Greyhound bus station, place the
key with a wad of chewing gum
(Qontinued On Page Two)
Two persons are dead today as
the result of a wreck last night
about six miles south of Winder.
Emmett Cleo Carson, jr, 21,
Auburn, and Sue Ledbetter, 18,
Winder, were instantly killed last
night at 11:30 o’clock when the
car driven by Carson ran off the
road and turned over several
times, according to the investigat
ing officer from the Georgia State
Patrol.
Two persons were also hospital
ized. They were Annie Mae Hen
drix, 21, Winder, who was ser
iously hurt, and Gene Allen, 18,
Auburn, who was reported in good
condition.
The Patrol officer said therewas
evidence that the yv=32i > wi2s
feavdling ata rfast raty G e
pbefore it turned o or :
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1952,
flies over Omaha, Nebraska. Truman flew
from Washington to Omaha for a confer
ence with the governors of seven Mid-
West States.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Unwilling Dupes
Verified Story
Truman To Give
Final Decision
On Wage Hikes
WASHINGTON, April 18.—(AP)
—Top officials of the natien’s
eight largest steel companies met |
today with Secretary of Commerce ‘
Charles Sawyer, federal boss of |
the seized steel inquiry. \
The closed door meeting was
expected to be a prelude to early‘
government action on Philip Mur~
ray’s demand for an immediate
wage boost for his 650,000 CIO
steelworkers.
The steel executives were
headed by Benjamin Fairless,
president of the U. S. Steel Cor
poration. Other companies repre
sented were Republic, Bethlehem,
Jones and Laughlin, Wheeling,
Youngstown, Inland, and Ameri
can Rolling Mili.
Following the conference, Saw
yer planned another mreeting with
Murray.
A cloak of secrecy was wrapped
tightly around all aspects of the
situation.
Sawyer has been in constant
touch with President Truman, it
was learned. There was every in
dication he would confer with the
President again before announcing
any change in wages for Murray’s
steel workers.
The President said yesterday he
personally would make the final
decision on how much of a wage
boost the steelworkers would get.
He made that statement after
Murray had said “we expect the
government will impose on this
industry the recommendations of
the Wage Stabilization Board.”
The Wage Board proposed a
three-stage 17%-cent wage boost,
81% cents in fringe benefits and
the union shop—a form of com
pulsory unionism which would
compel all workers to join a un
ion within a specified time.
Highest Offer
The highest offer industry has
publicly made was 12% cents in
straight wages effective last
month and about five cents in
fringe benefits—paid holidays and
the like. Most of the industry
holds the union shop unaccept
able.
The question of prices has been
a key point throughout the six
months dispute,
Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall has
repeatedly said the industry is en
titled, to a maximum $3 a ton
price boost. The industry contends
it needs four times that much to
offset the cost of the Wage Board’s
proposal,
In an industry statement last
night, Charies M. White, president
of Republic Steel Corporation, ac
cused Arnall of “using his govern
mental office as a vehicle for anti
industry propaganda.”
In New York, a steel industry
spokesman described as ‘‘just an
other red herring” CIO President
Murray’s charge that “the taxpay
ers’ money is paying” for adver
tisements criticizing governnrent
seizure of steel plants. He said the
charge was intended to “becloud”
the issues.
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Editors Cry Dictator
After Truman Remark
Issue Exploded
At ASNE Mecet
BY JACK RUTLEDGE
WASHINGTON, April 18.—(AP)
—Editors of leading American
newspapers today hoped for White
House clarification of President
Truman’s news conference remark
which implied he felt he had the
right to seize newspapers and ra
dio stations, as he did the steel
industry, if it would best serve
the country.
Some of the editors who were
among the 520 newsmen present
at the conference yesterday pro
tested afterward that if such pow
er exists the nation is close to
dictatorship.
The explosive issue was touched
off when the President was asked
this question:
“If it is proper to seize the steel
mills, can you in your opinion,
seize the newspapers and radio
stations?”
Truman replied that under sinr
ilar circumstances, the President
of the United States has to do
whatever is best for the country.
That is the answer, he added.
Reaction of editors here attend
ing the annual meeting of the
iAmerican Society: of Newspaper
Editors (ASNE) ranged from cries
of dictatorship to belief the ans
wer was merely unfortunate,
Sample comments:
Comments
E. J. Gaylor of the Daily Okla
homan and Oklahoma City Times:
“If the President could do that
(seize newspapers), we're pretty
close to dictatorship.”
Normans E. Isaacs, Louisville
Times: “As between steel and
newspapers, the cases simply are
not parallel. 1 think the question
may have been phrased unfortu
nately, but the President answered
‘in an even-more unfortunate man
ner.” ~
o {fhe incident recalled the reac
‘tion that followed Truman’s order
to government agencies to “clas
sify” information available for
publication. He gave civilian agen
cies—outside the Defense Depart
ment and the State Department,
which already had the power—
right to withhold fromr publication
any information they consider “top
secret” or “confidential.”
Newspaper editors at that time
attacked the move as a blow to
freedom of the press, saying it
could lead to covering up of mis
takes by classifying information
about such things as “top secret.”
Yesterday’s news conference,
the 300th time since Truman be
came President, was on the whole
good - natured, with frequent
laughter. It also was the longest—
-40 minutes.
Crow Conviction
Upheld By Court
ATLANTA, April 18 — (AP) —
The conviction of Johnnie Crow
for assault on a non-striker during
a labor dispute at the Atlantic Cot
ton Mills was affirmed by the
Georgia Court of Appeals today.
Crow was tried in City Court-at
Macon on a charge of assult and
battery on Paul Spicer last year
and was sentenced to four months
imprisonment.
Also affirmed was a Clarke Sup
erior Court Judgment of $2,500 in
favor of the Gamma Delta Chapter
House Corporation and against the
Mayor and Council and the Board
of Education of Athens.
Gamma Delta filed the suit,
asking $5,000 and charged damage
to its property by the opening,
grading and paving of Hamilton
Street.
The Appeals Court reversed the
Ware County Superior Court’s
conviction of Homer Thomas, sen
tenced to three to five years for
involuntary manslaughter. Thom-
as, operator of a tavern near Way
cross, fatally shot Herbert Davis
during an altercation at the place.
At his trial, Thomas offered no de
fense witnesses and made no state
ment.
The Court of Appeals said the
State’s evidence showed that the
shooting was in self defense and
that “the burden of proof was not
at any time upon the defendant to
justify or mitigate the homicide.”
It added that the “evidence failed
to support the verdict” and that
the {rial court erred in overruling
a new trial motion.
Brenau Student
Dies In Fall
© GAINESVILLE, Ga., April 18—
(AP) — Martha Sue garlin of
Miami, Fla., a 17-year-old fresh
man at Brenau College, was killed
yesterday when she tumbled over
a waterfall while on a picnic.
Sheriff Cal Wilson said she ap
parently slipped-while wading in
a stream at Glade Shoals and went
over the #SO-foot falls into an old
grahite quarry.
She and another girl and two
boys had gone to Glade Shoals for
a picnic.
She was the daughter of ' Mr.
and Mrs. P. C. Carlin of Miami.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Excellent Music
Programs Heard
Here Lasi Week
Two musical programs of ex
ceptional quality were heard in
University Chapel during the past
week., On Monday night, Raymond
Bird, holder of the Hugh Hodgson
Pilano Scholarship who is studying
under Miss Despy Karlos, was
heard in Junior Recital. On Thurs
day evening a program of con
temporary music was presented at
the regular Thursddy evning Mus
ic Appreciation hour.
Mr. Bird was highly acclaimed
by members of the University
Music faculty following his re
cital. Playing in University Chapel,
he presented selections by Mozart.
Beethoven, Deßussey, Chopin,
Harris, and an original eomposi
tion entitled, “Mood”. His rendi
tions of such music as Fantasie
in D Minor by Mozart, Donata
in D Mingr, opus 31, No. 2; and
“Jardins Sous La Pluie” by De
bussey were received appreciative=-
ly by his listeners.
The contemporary music pro
gram heard in the Chapel on
Thursday night included a Sonata
for Clarinet and Piano by Hin
demish which was presented by
Miss Julia Schnebly and Robert
Cing-Mars. Selections also in-
Cing-Mars. Selections from Mom
pou Schonberg, Prokofiff, and
three Hodgson ortginal composi
tious were also included on the
program.
- Mr, Hodgson and Robert Cing-
Mars teamed together to play a
Bernstein composition for clarin
et and piano and the popular duo
of Hodgson and. Karlos interpreted
selections by Thomson, Shostak
ovitch, and de Falla, e
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater was
presented here last Thursday in
keeping with the Maundy Thurs
day tradition. The work was given
by women’s voices from a newly
organized choral group on the
University Campus.
With Miss Julia Schnebly, mem
ber of the Music faculty, directing
from the piano the thoughtful
work of, the Baroque style was at
once compelling and convincing.
Athenians Talk
On Heritage Plan
Rzg?esentative: of the Ameri
can Heritage Program at Athens
Regional Library spoke Friday at
a meeting of the South Carolina
Library Association at Myrtle
Beach. Miss Sarah Maret, librar
ian, and Louis Griffith, Henry
Grady School of Journalism assis
tant professor, outlined the work
ings of the Heritage Program in
Clarke, Oconee and Oglethorpe
counties,
Miss Maret discussed the obli
gations of the public library to the
community, and told the South
Carolina convention how the Her
itage program was conceived. She
outlined the events leading up to
the selection of Athens Regional
as one of six libraries in the Uni
ted States to pilot the program.
Griffith related steps taken in
local application of the program
and told of activities within the
four discussion groups which have
operated in the Athens Regional
Library area since January.
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TINY FLOOD VICTIMS-—Fondling the only plaything
she brought out from her flooded home, Karen Greot
hoff sits with admiring friend, Judy Bell, whose family
was forced to flee the rigsing waters of the Missigsippl.
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Wisconcgin, v 7. e un to help the flood: victims in
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HOME
EDITION
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Citizen Battle
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To Stem Tide
By DON WHITEHEAD
OMAHA, April 18—(AP)—The
mad Missouri squeezed its flood~
swollen crest into the narrow
Omaha-Council Bluffs levee chan
nel today and an army of werkers
battled to hold the great river in
its strait-jacket of dikes.
The critical hours began before
dawn when the slow-moving flood
crest began surging into the seven
mile long funnel of scdden dikes
protecting the lowlands of the
twin cities of Onvaha and Council
Bluffs, lowa.
The next 48 hours may deter
mine whether the tremendous wa
ter pressures will burst threugh
levees and cause more agony and
damage along this river which has
become a monster of destruetion.
All night long soldiers and
civilian workers—more than 24,-
000 of them—toiled under flood
lights on the dikes here and on
levees downstream where the ris
ing waters are expected to smash
through almost every farm dike
all the way to Kansas City.
Doctors, lawyers, business exe
cutives, students, newspa n
and other volunteers toom;r
turn heaving sandbags an the dikes
to strengthen them against the
most awesome floods the Missouri
Valley has every known,
~ Beyond Flood Level
The river crept to 30.15 feet
early today. Flood level is 19 feet
and the highest flood ever re
corded was 24.6 feet back in 1881,
The gréat battle was to get the
crest of the river safely past the
narrow Omaha channel through
which the water is flowing at the
fantastic rate of 286 billion gallons
per day.
North of Omaha, the Missouri
sprawls across the farmland for
as much as 15 miles. Little ham~
lets are inundated and farm build
ings stand with only their roofs
showing in the vast and lonely
wilderness from which all living
things have fled.
For 50 miles upstream, the river
averages 10 miles in width—or
52,800 feet, But in ®he narrowest
part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs
channel the funnel is only 1200
feet wide. And the tide must be
passed through this slender bot
tleneck before the danger is past.
. There was no wall of water or
(Continued On Fage Iwe)
Griffin Elected
Bank Director
Directors of the Hubert State
Bank at their monthly meeting,
elected John E. (Buck) Griffin,
cashier of the bank a member of
the Board. Mr. Griffin has been
cashier at the bank for some time.
The bank recently increased its
capital stock from $50,000 to
ilfio,ooo, all of which has been
taken. It also increased its surplus
from SIO,OOO to $35,000. AL
MR. AND MRS.
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