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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION For 79 Years on Independent Georgia Newspaper, Georgia Owned and Georgia Edited VOL. LXXIX, No. 126. ATLANTA (2), SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1946 itiutd Dally and ftun1av. ntrrJ cond-clu matter, poit off lea.

Atlanta, Ga. Price Five Cents Mi if to fart ennsioi Hows ItaoTOiry NOTICE Sunday, October 20th, the price of The Atlanta Constitution, daily and Sunday delivered by carrier, will be 35 cents per week. The Sunday Constitution will be 15 cents per copy. These changes have been made necessary by greatly increased costs of newsprint, larger payrolls, and higher printing costs. WASHINGTON, Oct.

18. (AP) Secretary of State Byrnes called on Russia and the world Friday r.ight to rid themselves of any fear that war is inevitable a fear which he said is "throttling the economic recovery of Europe" and js-1- 5 I Jf 'GA 47 vY (F (fts (ps yfN vyj lllv: 4 PEACH STATE'-. Spies' 'Paymaster' Jdiled In Mew York charges in the United States Dis 'HIGH STATION NO PRIVILEGE' Calvert Given 2 Years, Fined in U. S. Cases Robert A.

Calvert, Atlanta steel manufacturer, yesterday was Fcntcnccd to two years' imprisonment and fined $5,000 by Federal Judge E. Marvin Underwood in income tax and war fraud cases in v.hkh he was found guilty four months ago. "A high station in Lfe Mid business success do not carry with them the privilege of violating laws," Judge Underwood declared in passing sentence on the President of Calvert Iron Works, Inc. Appeal bond of $10,000 Was set to permit ('dense counsel to investigate the possibility of appeal. Calvert was found guilty on June 18 of making alleged false statements in matters pertaining to war contracts, and of f.adirifi taxes totaling approximately $595,000 for the years 1940-44.

Auto Crash Into Pole Cuts Off Lights Trolley and telephone service in the Highland avenue area were disrupted for a short time last night when an automobile crashed into a telephone pole near the Highland Ave. bridge, knocking down trolley and telephone wires. Three men were treated at Grady Hospital and transferred to police headquarters. Wife Gets Year, Mate Bond in Assault Case JEFFERSONVILE, Oct. 18 (JP) Mrs.

Louis O'Neal, 30, Friday night was convicted of assault and battery on a youthful Macon Vocational School student and sentenced to serve one year in the State Penitentiary. Her husband, 38, was found guilty of being an accessory and was sentenced to serve a year in prison or pay a fine of $750 in the same case. He made bond of $1,500 pending a new trial hearing set for Nov. 14. The couple had been charged with assault with intent to murder nd assault with intent to rape on the girl's story they beat her, ripped off her clothing and left her in an abandoned clay pit after she refused immoral advances by O'Neal.

Davis Named To Succeed OPA'S Harris Alexander Harris, former Knoxville, businessman who helped set up the Government price control structure, resigned yesterday in Atlanta as Southeastern OPA Administrator because, he said, of differences with officials over "OPA's program and policies." The differences were not revealed. Harris will be succeeded by James J. Davis, who has been OPA Director for island possessions, including Puerto Rico, Alasjca and the Virgin Islands. Davis is a native of Tennille, and a graduate of Mercer. Harris' resignation is effective Thursday.

'Weather' To Be Provided Mariners SAVANNAH, Oct. 18 The U. S. Weather Bureau, stepping up it reconversion to peacetime operations, is taking advantage of the tie-up of shipping to contact all skippers immediately and reinstate its maritime weather reporting service, Al W. Taylor, local weatherman, said.

Fulfillment of the plan will not only bring the service up to its prewar standard, he said, but because of the increased number of ships in operatton every spot on all of the oceans will be under the immediate scrutiny of the Weather Bureau for climatic conditions. Nazi Hanging Critic Transferred Hugh G. Grant, ex-diplomat whose protest against the Nazi hangings drew sharp criticism from an ex-GI spokesman and others, was transferred to Atlanta yesterday from his post as Vocational Guid-nce Chief for veterans at Valdosta. Vaux Owen. Veterans' Administration State Manager, announced Grant was being moved to the Atlanta office, not as a disciplinary move, but because his usefulness at Valdosta has been "seriously impaired." Phone Waiters' Hearing Wednesday More than 47,000 Georgians are waiting for telephones to be installed by the Southern Bell Telephone Company, the Georgia Public Service Commission disclosed as it prepared to conduct a hearing next Wednesday to determine why subscribers and would-be iubscribers are not getting better service.

The hearings also will involve more than 100 smaller independent companies. The waiting list for telephones in Atlanta totals 15,749. Battle Hill May Shelter Negro Patients Battle Hill Sanitarium may become the refuge of 25 inmates of a Negro convalescent home at 199 Houston N. which Marvin Harper, City Building Inspector, yesterday closed because it is unsanitary. Wellborn Ellis, Administrator of the Fulton County Board of Public Welfare, said he will seek permission to use a building at Battle Hill formerly used for Negro tuberculosis patients.

Battle Hill patients are to be evacuated to Battey General Hospital Home and the sanitarium will eventually be abendoned as a tuberculosis institution. Harper summarily ordered the Houston Street structure vacated, the building and burned in 30 days. Carolina Court Denies Epes' Plea COLUMBIA, S. Oct. 18 (UP) The State Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment imposed on Samuel C.

Epes, son of a wealthy Richmond, family, for the murder of his wife. Epes. an Army lieutenant at the time of the slaying, buried his wife's body in a foxhole on the Fort Jackson military reservation rear here. Epes had appealed on grounds that the State failed to prove that Mrs. Epes' death was other than accidental.

Sunday Readers' Fest Georgia is winning in her campaign against insanity, but losing doctors who have brought her a reputation for leadership in the treatment of mental ills. Doris Lockerman has an informative story in tomorrow's Sunday Constitution to start all Georgians thinking. Harold Martin has been roaming with Photographer Kenneth Rocers acain. In words and pictures, they bring Sunday Constitution readers "Living Pictures Along Georgia's Highways and Byways." In another story, Bill Boring tells of a sweet old lady who settled in a Georgia community to retire, only to find her life's work beginning with the town's youth. The showdown battle between industry and CIO is being waged in Georgia.

Jim Furniss has an interpretative story from the key city in this battle. And in her own style, Celestine Sibley will bring you a story of the old railroading days and the wrepkmaster who cleared the tracks after some spectacular wrecks. All this and more you'll find in your Sunday Constitution tomorrow. 1 if i. t.

i fr' St- 'v' Constitution Staff Photo Carl Dixon GEORGIA ADVERTISES ITS PEACHES For the first time since 1941, Georgia will proclaim its slogan of the "Peach State" on its automobile license plates. Here Miss Billie Camp, of Newnan, an employe at the State Capitol, shows a sample 1947 tag with a color scheme of brownish red on cream. The State has ordered tags in anticipation of another year of record sales. II I "I I I trict Court in New York City in March 1942 and sentenced to prison terms totaling 132 years. The FBI announcement of the arrest of Lau continued: "In the investigation of the Ludwig case the FBI learned that Capt.

Ulrch von de Osten. who was killed by a taxteao in Times Square and one "Bill" were the paymasters for the German spies operating under Ludwig's tutelage. "When von de Osten was killed Ludwig recovered the lat-ter's brief case from the scene of the accident and fled. Subsequently von der Osten's notebook was recovered by the FBI and the name "Bill" was mentioned prominently in a secret ink letter sent by Ludwig describing the fatal accident of von der Osten. "Lau, an Argentine citizen of German birth, had been operating a hosiery business in Argentina during the war and also had an office in New York City as a front for his activities in 1940 and 1941.

Investigation by the FBI conduct-1 ed in South America, England and Canada since that time culminated in Lau's apprehension today in New York, where he arrived from Canada on Wednesday of this week, his first visit to the United States since his flight in 1941. Lau has been under indictment for his espionage activities in New York City since the trial of Ludwig. He was arraigned at once and bond was set in the amount of $50,000." Mora WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (AP) The United States charged wrathfully Friday night that Soviet-dominated Yugoslavia has made "slave laborers" of at least 165 American citizens and that a number of them, possibly 10, have died in horror camps. Candidate Scott Near Institution Treatment delaying true peace.

In a major radio speech reporting on the Faris Peace Conference, Byrnes also replied to Former Secretary of Commerce Wallace's protest that the United States is pursuing a "get tough with Russia" policy. Neither the word "tough" nor "soft," he said, accurately describes "our earnest efforts to be patient but firm." Talking of the slow progress toward peace, he said ''the very root of our difficulties" may be a belief by Soviet leaders that another war is inevitable. His thesis was that such a fear, not only in Russia, but elsewhere, increases ten- GENE'S HOSPITAL STAY STRETCHED a 1 a probably will have to remain in a Jacksonville, hospital another week or 10 days, his son, Herman, said yesterday. Herman said his father's condition continues "very good." When he does return to Georgia, the Governor-Nominate probably will spend most of his time at his home in McRae prior to his inauguration Jan. 14.

man ancestry who either were naturalized in the United States, were Dorn in tnis country, or were born abroad of parents who are American citizens. Many of them are in their teens or early 20's, having been taken abroad as small children by their parents, who were naturalized Americans. The United States note declared that enemy soldiers captured in the of battle get better treatment under international law than the Tito regime extends to nationals of a friendly power which helped to liberate and reconstruct Yugoslavia. A statement from the Yugoslav Embassy Friday night denied the American charges. Issued by Ser-geije Makiedo, charge d'affaires, it said: "The Yugoslav Government has al'vays scrupulously respected the rights and privileges of all American citizens.

I most emphatically deny that any Americans are being subjected to slave labor in Yugoslavia, or that slave labor conditions exist in my country. "There are approximately people of the German minority in Yugoslavia, among whom are included those to whom the Continued on Page 4, Column 3 to him because he turned it over to representatives of the Four-Power Commission here immediately after the hangings. Prison officials theorized that Goering might have slipped the poison vial into his mouth while sitting on the toilet in a corner of his cell Wednesday night. It was demonstrated that it would be impossible for the guards to see the upper portion of his body when he was in that part of the cell. But if'for three or four minutes a man did not move his legs and fet, which were visible, the guards would enter the cell, the officials added.

How the poison got into the cell remained a mystery. It was a two-inch cartridge, impossible to conceal on the body for any length of time. A prison doctor never made any rectal examination of Goering after he was committed to the jail, however, Andrus said. Capt. Samuel Binder, Security official, said that guards found sion and brings about conditions which prevent world recovery.

He thus almost directly challenged assertions by Prime Minister Stalin that he does not fear another conflict. Without specifically naming Russia, he declared that the way to international amity is through reconciliation of differences and that no states should "arbitrarily exercise their power of veto, preventing a return to conditions of peace and delaying economic reconstruction." Possibly having in mind Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's declaration that he would continue to fight some of the majority decisions of the Paris Peace Conference such as that on Trieste Byrnes declared "no state should assume that it has a monopoly of virtue, or of wisdom. No state should ignore or veto the aggregate sentiments of mankind." "From the Potsdam Conference, which took place at the beginning of his administration," Byrnes said. President Truman and I have worked and we shall continue to work to bring about an understanding with the Soviet Government. "Two States can quickly reach an understanding if one is willing to yield to all demands.

The United States is unwilling to do that. It is equally unwilling to ask it of another State. He told of various compromi5e settlements worked But at the Pans Peace Conference and reviewed issues still outstanding with the Soviet Union, notably over Trieste and Danube navigation. Then he added: "The thing which disturbs me is not the lettered provisions of tbe treaties under discussion, but fne continued if not increasing tension between us and the Soviet Union." At a er point, warning against acceptance of the idea that conflict is inevitable, Byrnes said: "It is that idea of the inevita- bilil nf ronfiirt that is throttlin the economic recovery of Europe. It is that idea that is causing artificial tensions between States and within States." Byrnes did not use the word "concessions," but he recalled the extent to which Russia broadened its territory and influence during and after the war.

Davis Acquitted In Ellijay Killing ELLIJAY. Oct. 18 (JP) A Superior Court jury acquitted former Deputy Sheriff Harry Davis of a murder charge Friday in the May 4 slaying of Toy Cochran, owner of a farm near here. David Slusky, 85, Succumbs in Augusta David Slusky, 85, a Vice President of the Hebrew Orphanage located here, and widely known Augusta businessman, died last night after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.

m. Sunday in Augusta. prohibited articles in the rooms of the Nazi defendants on 10 different occasions from the first of the year until the executions, They ranged from a single screw found in the cell of Constantm von Neurath to a glass vial found in the possession of Joachim von Ribbentrop, and all might have been used in suicide attempts, Binder said. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had such articles on his person on three occasions. They a safety pin hidden in a shirt, four nuts and two bolts taken from his cell and a long piece of sharp metal concealed in his billfold.

Other incidents reported by Binder included: a strong cord three feet long and 10 paper clips found in the cell of Hjalmar Schacht; six inches of wire, several short pencils and a broken mechanical pencil found on Col. Gen. Jodl; a strip of shoe lace tied together, found in the cell of Adm. Karl Doenitz: a spoon found in the cell of Fritz Sauckel. were called to Scott's home cause of his actions, but did be-not take him into custody since members of the family made no charge against him.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 JP). The FBI announced Friday night the arrest of Teodoro Erdmann Lau, 44, described by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as the "paymaster" of a group of Germans convicted as spies in 1942. Lau was picked up by special agents in New York and charged with espionage, the FBI announced.

Hoover said Lau has been identified as "the mysterious Bill" who was paymaster bf the espionage group headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig and his eight German associates who were arrested by the FBI and convicted on espionage HE COULD SHE DID Mate Slicker Than Radio. Killer-But RIVERHEAD, N. Oct. 18 (UP) Mrs. June 28, listened to her husband brag that he could commit a better murder than the villain of a radio crime program.

Then she shot and killed him when he fell asleep after the broadcast, police said Friday. Mrs. McNeice was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting of her husband, Francis, 36, at their home in Central Islip and held in county jail here pending a hearing Oct. 25. The attractive mother of a two- year-old son told police that her husband had been drinking heav ily and had quarreled with her in the afternoon.

Later he listened to three crime broadcasts and criticized the tactics of one radio murderer. He bragged that he would never leave fingerprints on a gun if he were a murderer and put on gloves and took a rifle from a closet to demonstrate, she said. Her husband waved the gun for sometime and finally put it down and fell asleep on a couch, Mrs. McNeice told police. "I stood it as long as I could, she was quoted.

"I couldn't stand any more. I grabbed the gun and suddenly it went off." Aussie Wool Fits Top SYDNEY, Oct. 1 8 (JP) The highest price ever paid for wool in Australia, namely 56 34 pence (about 76 cents) per pound was obtained at Geeling sales this week. It was bid for a line of 70s superfine Merino fleece of high yielding quality. and meat packers saw no reason to expect a lot of fresh meat on dinner tables this weekend.

However, many retail stores reported fairly large quantities of lamb and veal on hand and many of them advertised their intention to keep prices down as far as their costs permit. OPA provided a $6,000,000 boost in the nation's food bill by setting higher ceilings Friday on jams, jellies, fruit preserves and apple butter. Processors of these sweets were allowed an immediate increase. When their product reaches retail counters, apple butter will go up a penny a pound and the others will advance two cents. In the non-food field soft mattresses will go up from 15 to 17 percent at; manufacturers' levels.

OPA said this will add 15 percent to retail prices. The increase is the second in recent months and was attributed to higher costs of cotton linters, used to stuff mattresses. Men's white handkerchiefs in In a blistering note expressing "abhorrence and condemnation," the State Department accused the Tito regime of herding persons with a valid claim to American citizenship into concentration camps, of maltreating them so cruelly that some died, and of hiring the survivors out to private individuals to work long hours without pay. Asked how many had died, an official said that he knew of two for certain and that an "outside estimate" might be 10. Many of I the "slaves" are persons of Ger- traveling to Trona, with Emory.

Eaton's father, and a brother, viewed the body Friday night at the funeral home and told Capt. Otis it was not that of Henry. The father said his arms were tattooed and that the body he viewed had no tattoo marks of any kind. 'Wrong Body' (Clears Eji-MnmHie's Ifame HIS LAST LETTER REVEALS PLANS OPfl Emses More Food! Ceilings; lifting Wage Control Ulnndes: Study Charges of "disorderly conduct and demented" have been placed on the police blotter against Au-relius Scott, Negro candidate for coroner, who was taken into custody by city police early last night at his home on West Hunter street. Radio Patrolmen L.

Rowell and H. H. Summerlin reported they received a call to the Scott home at 1355 West Hunter and there learned Scott had broken a glass in the front door, and also overturned several pots of flowers. The officers 'said they had to call for help in an effort to overpower him, and that he had to be taken to Grady Hospital for treatment of a wrist, said to have been cut by breaking glass. They also reported Scott smashed a glass in the police patrol wagon while officers were en route to the hospital.

C. A. Scott, a brother of the Negro candidate, told Assistant Police Chief A. J. Holcombe that arrangements would be made over the weekend to transfer Aurelius Scott to an institution in Nashville, Tenn.

At Grady Hospital, physicians reported they had to strap Scott to an operating table in order to treat the wrist injury. After treatment, Scott, strapped to a stretcher, was transferred to a cell at police headquarters. Once before this week police Fair, Cooler Weather Is Forecast for Today Fair and cooler is the forecast for today, according to the weatherman. Sweeping skies clear of clouds, a cool air mass is passing over Atlanta from the Northwest and is expected to cause high and low temperatures of 68 and 48 degrees for today. The sun is expected to warm the city slightly tomorrow to a high of 72 degrees with scattered clouds.

PRICE OF MEATS SHAMES BUTCHER PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 k(UP) Ralph Rosa put a sign in the window of his meat shop. It read: "We have meat, but at these prices we are ashamed." Goering Boasted of Cheating Rope; Other Prisoners Foiled in Attempt These had spurted promptly after President Truman's Monday night speech announcing meat decontrol and an accelerated program for dropping other price and wage controls. Livestock prices had dropped sharply Thursday. Friday brought a heavy decline in hog and cattle receipts at Omaha and Chicago LYNN, Oct.

18 (P) Police were confronted with a "wrong body" mystery Friday night after a fingerprint check disclosed no similarity between a corpse shipped here and a former Lynn Marine reported shot by police in Arizona. Dr. Earle A. Donovan and Police Inspector John F. Sullivan issued this statement after checking fingerprints of the corpse and those of David Henry Eaton, Jr.

"Fingerprints of the body at the Goodrich Funeral Home are positively not the same as those of former Marine David Henry Eaton, Jr." Police Capt. Otis E. Lyons gave this story: Sheriff Frank L. Porter, of Mo-jave County, Arizona, wired Lynn police last Monday, stating that David Henry Eaton, Lynn, had died in a Kingman hospital from gunshot wounds sustained after a stolen car chase. Lynn police notified the youth's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. David H. Eaton, who in turn made arrangements with Undertaker William C. Goodrich to transport the body to Lynn. Friday, Mrs.

Eaton told Capt. Otis she received a telegram from a friend of he son, "Buddy is O. K. A great mistake has been made." The tele gram was signed by Norman Emory, of Trona, Calif. Mrs.

Eaton said a recent letter from her son told her he was Suffers Leg Fracture H. M. Crosby, 56, of 484 Central S. suffered a broken leg yesterday when he was struck by a bus at Whitehall and Hunter Streets, according to Radio Patrolmen J. W.

Cody and R. V. Paschall. WASHINGTON. Oct.

18 The iist weakening OPA calculated Fr.day nicht Xhut more than one third of the average family's food budget has gone out of control within a week. And, as a White House Cabinet meeting discussed the shucking off of wage the OPA wiped out price ceilinrs on a few more items and raised them on others. It is at a Nov. 1 deadline i'ir lifting controls from most items still under ceilings but not rents, automobiles or building materia 1. OPA said buyer resistance re- mmns as the only control over, prices for items which a week ago were taking about 34.5 percent of the average family spending lor food.

It figured that Mr. and Mrs. American consumer had been spending about 30.5 percent of their eating money on meat, two percent plus on fats and oils and two percent on coffee. All are now totally free of price control. A downward trend in prices was reported continuing, meanwhile, in most food and commodity markets.

NUERNBERG, Oct. 18 (JP) Hermann Goering, in a final boastful gesture, disclosed in a letter to Col. B. O. Andrus how he planned to evade the gallows by taking his life, an authoritative informant said Friday.

The letter does not incriminate any individual, and even goes out of the way to exonerate various persons, the informant added. But that was as far a the informant would or could go. The letter, with two others found in Goering's cell after he swallowed poison Tuesday night, will be turned over to the Allied Control Council in Berlin by the official investigators of Goering's suicide. It will be up to the Control Council to decide whether to disclose the texts of the letters. A second letter was addressed to Goering's wife, Emmy, and the third to the German people urging them to have courage, the informant said.

Andrus said he did not know what was in the letter addressed Doctors Study Case Of 2-Headed Baby Atlanta's foremost pediatricians are being called in lor consulta tion to determine whether or not an operation shall be undertaken on the child with two heads, four arms and three legs, born 'Wednesday night to a Chattahoochee resident at the Crawford Long Memorial Hospital. The child, now entering its fourth day of life, has exceeded all previous longevity records, medical authorities sav. and the consultation is for the purpose of i the low-priced field were advanc-determining if there is a possi- 35 to 40 percent. OPA said the bility of saving its life. 1 Continued on Pare 4, Column 3.