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ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Markets Clearing, Mild Clearing, mild Saturday; scattered thunderstorms possible early Saturday in north Georgia. Saturday's predicted extremes: SO and 60. Friday's: 84 and 62. ri Stocks, higher; late rally. Bonds, mixed; changes narrow.

Cotton, higher, mill covering. N. Y. stocks. bonds, 52,904,000.

For 85 Years the South's Standard Newspaper VOL. LXXXV, No. 271 ATLANTA (2), SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1933 Price Five Cents rum Reds Name 4 Asians As Possible Referees; Russia Vows Buildup IF Associated Press Wirephoto Staff Photo Van Tool A BATTERED DOLL AN INJURED CHILD RECEIVES TREATMENT rf-4 Ctomm. AMONG THE RUINS Friday to start rebuilding in U. S.

Offers Disaster Aid; Tornado Toll $10 Million By DEKICK DANIELS and BILL ALLEN Constitution Staff Writers WARNER ROBINS, May 1 Thousands of emergency workers and volunteers Won't Reveal Choice; Quit Till Mondav By RUTHERFORD POATS TOKYO. Saturday. May 2 tP The Communists named India. Pakistan, Burma and Indonesia as neutral Asian nations today, but refused to select one of them as custodian of Red war prisoners who refuse to go home. North Korean Gen.

Nam II. chief Red negotiator, said during a 64-minute truce meeting at Pan-munjom that the four nations could be considered as neutrals, but that he would not nominate one as a custodian until the UN agrees to transport Korean prisoners to a neutral country. A UN spokesman reported Nam II said he was reluctant to name any one of the four nations as a preferred ncurtal because it might prove embarrassing to that country if the UN failed to agree. REMAIN IV KOREA UN negotiators have maintained that prisoners not wishing to be repatriated should be placed in the custody of a neutral nation, but that they remain in Korea. Nam II also requested, and the UN negotiators agreed, that negotiations be recessed until 11 a.

m. Monday (9 p. m. Sunday EST). He gave no reason for not wanting a meeting on Sunday.

Negotiations today on the selection of a neutral custodian were concerned less with the nation to be selected than with the place where 46.000 anti-Com HOMELESS SIFT RUINS Heartaches and Mark Twister's Keep Powder Drv, Defense Chief Asserts MOSCOW, May 1 (Ift Defense Minister Marshal Nikolai Bulgan-in said today in a May Day speech the Soviet Union will con tinue to build up its armed forces because the Western powers have not supported their peaceful statements with deeds. His keep-your-powder-dry ad dress to cheering throngs in Red Square was made from a steel gray limousine shortly before Soviet armor rumbled across the square in a 13-minute display sf armed might shortest on record and jet planes flashed over head. Bulganin's speech was notable for absence of anti-American or anti-Western utterances and his welcome to any state which takes steps to "promote international co-operation and make an endur ing peace. Foreign observers saw the same theme in the floats, posters and slogans displayed in the capital the "amicable settlement of international contro i "lasting peace" and 'Mnternation-al collaboration." The most popular slogan was Mir Mini" peace to the world. Premier Georgi Malenkov with his top colleagues, Lavrenti Beria, V.

M. Molotov and Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, stood on the parapet of the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum behind Bulganin. Army Cloaks News of 2d, 3d GI Flights An Army-imposed curtain of "security and compassion" today shut off news about the return flight of Pfc. C. Moreland of At lanta and 61 other former prisoners of the Communists in Korea.

The men were aboard the sec-j ond and third planes of the Army's "Freedom Airlift" from' Tokyo to Travis Air Force Base: near San Francisco. I A spokesman said medical of-i ficers decided the men were "just too tired" to leave immediately from Honolulu, the first-stop on their trip to the United States. The plane on which Moreland is a passenger was due to leave! Hawaii at 1 a. m. Saturday.

At- lanta time, for Travis Air Force' Base, Calif. Youth Is Killed, Companion Hurt In Car Wreck Carl Thompson, 19. was killed and Elmer Marks, 18, was injured Friday night when the car in which they were riding went out of control and overturned in the 1500 block of Bolton Road, N. police reported. Thompson was killed instantly.

His death recorded the 19th traffic fatality within Atlanta city limits since the first of the year, compared with 24 deaths for the corresponding period last year. Marks was admitted to Grady Hospital, suffering injuries of the right arm, neck and back. Paulj Avenue N. W. addresses werej given for Thompson and Marks.

'Our Sort of Revolution Not so many days ago in Washington I sat long in talk with Justice William O. Douglas, prodding him gently with questions. I spoke not, of course, to the jurist, who has been a jus 1 tic tice of our Supreme Court since 1939. but to William Douglas, ex-plorer. traveler and venturer into remote corners of the earth, carrying always with him the spirit of his country.

I was the more impressed with his great capacity for enthusiasm about going and seeing what is going on in a disturbed world, and by his stamina which took him through the great passes of the Himalayas and along the arduous trails of Central Asia, because before lunch I had looked up a few facts. He was born in 1898 in Maine. had his first schooling in Washington state, began as a high school teacher there, and went on to have a distinguished career as teacher and attorney, accepting appointment to the Supreme Court in April of 1939. Asia The threat of communism hangs over Central Asia, like one of the great, lowering, storm-filled, ominous clouds which he so often encountered on the struggles to climb up to, and through the many Himalayan passes. Toward the.

conclusion of "Beyond the High Himalayas," having come from the hills to blistering-hot Pesha war, he talked with a man of 50. a former Mongol prince, who had fled the Communist invasion of Tibet, and who was fearful the Russian "ideas" would prevail. Douglas countered, with the America idea "I described the vicious imperial designs of Soviet Russia. I pointed out that since the end of World War II Soviet Russia had added over two million square miles of Asia to its empire while Russia was making China and Sinkiang subservient to her wishes, America was promoting a program of liberation. Since World War II America and other nations of the West had been influential in getting independence for over three million square miles of Asian territory India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Burma.

Ceylon, Indonesia. Israel, Korea. Russia was forcing people into a police state but, through the West and the United Nations, a fourth of the world's people had won political independence this was no new and casual program it began with the Declaration of Independence it gave promise to all men. The Mongol prince thought it wonderful but the people of Asia "do not know these things." Misunderstanding Douglas went out and walked in the darkness of the hot. humid distant city, and thought "We have not caught the spirit of the revolutions sweeping Asia; we do not understand their tempo nor the force behind them.

We do nor understand how easy it would be to guide and direct them, how dangerous it would be to try and stop them we see frustrating difficulties when we should see exciting challenges. Douglas found that Point Four was our best possible weapon but that it was limited because it cannot free the peasant. So little of our help reaches the masses since increased production usually means the landlord takes a greater share. His plan would be to promote our sort of revolution the sort we had to win independence from absentee landlords and heavy taxation. He would establish schools to train natives of the countries involved to return to their villages as teachers and experts, and he would send Americans who are willing to go into the villages of Asia, to settle there and spread benefits of education at the grass roots.

"Too much of our aid has tended to stabilize the situation to promote feudalism which is why the Red tide iweeps on. "Somehow we must make the Asians realize that our Declaration of Independence is for them, too." By DERICK DANIELS Red-eyed and smutty, Warner Robins came back to life with Friday's dawn. To a grim and shattered life for all but those whose mangled bodies lie cold in the morgues of nearby Macon. You walk along with the homeless as they plow through splintered lumber and twisted steel, the wake of Thursday's snarling tornado. And you see a clock pitched in the wreckage.

Red hands stand motionless: 5:12, a speaking reminder of the hour of death. For most, as they wander, there is thankfulness that loved ones were spared. How so many escaped you can't understand. For 20 city blocks every house is razed. The morning broke clear and humid.

You watch as a woman picks aimlessly through what had been a bedroom. She lifts a battered photograph album and you can see the tears smearing a muddy face. Her sister died in the ruins. Everywhere you meet the bandaged and limping as they return to pick up the material threads of existence that remain. Generally they smile, or try to.

Not always, though. The little girl's strawberry hair shines in the morning sun. But her face is twisted in sobs as she tugs at her mother's skirt: "I don' wanna go back." Down the block, an ice cream truck perches crazily in a living room. A few hours ago it had jingled its Pied Piper message to the laughing springtime children. The ice cream sandwiches are melted and the sticky cream drips on the crushed face of a doll in a crinoline skirt.

A cat watches silently the task of salvage, clinging Continued on Page 11, Column 5 streamed into Warner Robins tornado. The rising toll of dead during the day reached 19. Ten others still were in critical condition at hospitals in the area. Warner Robins was designated a disaster area by the federal government hours after the twister roared through the city, the nearby Pubins Air Force Base and three rural communities. HAILSTORM FOLLOWS A heavy hailstorm pelted the Macon area Friday night, adding to damage already inflicted.

Telephone and power lines were knocked down, but nobody was reported injured. Emergency housing for more than 2,000 homeless was established in the city's schools, spared homes and a dormitory used by civiliart workers at the air force base. Tents also will be made available. Some 350 to 400 brick apartment units lay in wreckage along with 65 private homes. The business area was almost untouched by the winds that sliced a mile-long swath across the southern fringe of the city of 9,000 residents.

A man listed as Scotty Parmen- tier, earlier listed as dead, was found alive but injured in the Robins Base Hospital. Rescue workers still were sifting the rubble late Friday in search of more bodies. LONG-TERM LOANS Designation of Warner Robins as a disaster area means easy, long-term loans will be available from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Lt. Gen.

Edwin Rawlings, commandant of the U. S. Air Materiel Command, flew into the air base from Ohio to study the damage. He figured 55.000,000 in government buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged. He said 11 supply buildings and six administration buildings were demolished by the winds.

Other property considered a Continued on Page 11, Column 1 Arlington Hospital Story on Page 8 Only 10 per cent of the beds at Arlington City Hospital were occupied last year but the occupancy rate has risen this year. The hospital's progress is described in the 19th article of a series on Georgia's Hill-Burton hospitals. See Page 8. 3 Are Killed In Alabama Tornadoes Tornadoes and severe windstorms struck several points in Alabama Friday night, killing at last three persons, injuring several and causing heavy property damage. The fatalities were reported at Harkins Corners.

The storm, accompanied by the traditional, ominous black cloud, took the lives of three members of one family. The Alabama state highway patrol identified the victims as Mr. and Mrs. John Loveday, both about 65, and Mrs. Becky Jones, about 93, mother of Mrs.

Love-day. 5 HOMES SUCKED UP The patrol said five homes were sucked up by the storm and others were razed. The National Guard was sent to the scene. At Calera, about 30 miles from Birmingham, a twister cut a wide swath through a semirural section, damaging six homes and injuring two Negroes. Calera is near Siluria, scene of heavy damage and casualties from a tornado two weeks ago.

TRUSSYTLLE HIT A third storm hit Trussville, about 20 miles from Birmingham, causing property damage estimated at $150,000. No casualties were reported. LaGrange was alerted Friday night that a tornado was approaching across Randolph County, Alabama, but the winds dropped and only hail hit La-Grange. Meanwhile, the weather bureau at Columbus pointed to the possibility of the Chattahoochee River rising to the 30-foot flood stage if predicted showers occur. RECORD RAINFALL A record-breaking rainfall of 5.20 inches fell on Columbus dur-j ing a 24-hour period ended Fri-j day morning.

The river was 17 feet above normal. Approximately a dozen Mill-edgeville families, forced to evacuate their homes Thursday by rampaging waters of Tanyard Creek, Friday began returning to their residences. Buffeted by high winds that tore the roofs from at least two homes in Baldwin County, Mill-edgeville recorded more that six inches of rainfall Thursday. Clearing, Mild Weather Seen Georgia appears out of danger from tornadoes Saturday, the Atlanta Weather Bureau says. Clearing and mild weather is scheduled, with a high of 80 and a low of 60.

Winds up to 40 miles an hour were recorded at the municipal airport Friday. A light fall of hail, thunderstorms and showers hit the city and other parts of the state. Temperatures ranged from 84 to 62. High winds put out lights in the northeast section of Atlanta for several minutes. Low visibility forced an Air Force fighter plane to circle over Atlanta 15 minutes.

It attracted considerable attention. Additional weather information is on page 2. Guatemala Says No To Pay for Fruit Firm GUATEMALA, Guatemala, May 1 Gf) Guatemala has re jected a note from the United States urging prompt payment for properties of the American-owned United Fruit Company expropriated under this country's land reform program. Associated Press Wirephoto 'WILL STRENGTHEN" Russia's Marshal Bulganin 'Brainwash9 Is Feared as PWs Arrive WtLLOW GROVE, May 1 (W Two "freedom airlift" trans-i port planes, carrying an undeter-i mined number of soldiers "who may be under the influence of communism." landed at Willow Grove Naval Air Station tonight and were transferred immediately by ambulance to Valley Forge Army Hospital at Phoenixville, Pa. The returned soldiers, whose names were not disclosed by Army officials, flew here from California, according to Maj.

James Campbell, Valley Forge public information officer. Campbell said some of the men "may be under the influence of communism" as a result of "brain' washings" during their confine-1 ment periods in Red prison' camps. The officer added that investi-l gation and study of such cases in the Far East "has been limited -and not conclusive." I "It would be unfair to brand a whole group of men as being un-: der Communist influence," Campbell added, referring to the undetermined number of repatriated soldiers. He said strict "security" enforcement by the Army was because most of the returnees did not want to be interviewed. The Army officer added that names will be released from Valley Forge as soon as they are ac commodated at the hospital.

Returning Reds Stage Wild Riot PANMUNJOM. Saturday. May 2 (W A group of North Koreans broke into a wild demonstration here on their way back to communism today, ripping off their clothing and threatening an American officer. As the uproar spread through four ambulances, one North Korean ripped off his shirt and rushed toward U. S.

Marine Col. Leo J. Dulacki, Omaha, but a Chinese military police officer intervened. "We don't know yet just how long he will be here," the parents said. "It really was a thrill to see him again." Brock said he was informed three days ahead of time by the Reds that he was to be released, but that he doubted the promise and was "greatly surprised" when he was turned over to the Americans in Korea.

He said he received generally good treatment by his captors, but that at times it was poor. the wake of a $10,000,000 Rubble Path List of Dead WARNER ROBINS, May 1 Here is the list of 19 known dead from the tornado that struck this area at twilight Thursday: Reuben Wyndall Lindsey, 35, Warner Robins, school principal. Mrs. Sheridan, 38, Warner Robins. Thomas H.

Walker. 26, Warner Robins, appliance dealer. Myrna Loy Cornwell, 4. Warner Robins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. Cornwell. Mrs. Tommie Neel Flanders, 20, Warner Robins.

Mrs. Rosemary Loftus, 34, Warner Robins. Barbara Ann Massey, 14, Warner Robins. Mrs. Minnie Mixon, Warner Robins.

Marie Tidings, 6, Warner Robins. Glenn Register, 5, Warner Robins. Ruby Lee Haynes, a maid, Warner Robins. Hazel Gravitt, 30. a maid, Warner Robins.

James C. Germany, Warner Robins. Hugh Glover, of Twiggs County. Sandy Kaye Eason, 3, Dry Branch. Charles E.

Barrentine 4, Dry Branch. Mrs. J. O. Robertson, Warner Robins.

Capt. Nicholas Vasile, Warner Robins. Elistine Fountain, 10. munist North Korean and Chinese prisoners would be held under neutral custody while their fate is being determined. The UN has declared that it will not agree to having the prisoners moved from Korea, and the Communists argue that the prisoners must be transported to whatever neutral nation is chosen.

For this reason, they say, an Asian nation would be a "practical" choice. Lt. Col. Milton Herr, the UN spokesman, said that Nam II declined to nominate one of the four Asian nations he named, and that he "indicated he going to do it until the place of prisoner of war custody is decided." WOULD "CONSIDER" (Administration sources revealed in Washington Friday night that the UN Command would be willing to "consider Pakistan or India as the neutral custodian of Korean War prisoners if the Communists propose either country for the job. (India, however, has let it be known that it would not actively seek custody of Red war prisoners refusing to go home and.

in fact, would be reluctant to get involved. But Pakistan was understood to have given some indications it might be interested.) The UN has suggested Switzerland and Sweden as candidates for neutral custodian. Jet Divers Slug N. Korea Capital SEOUL. Saturday, May 2 Fifty U.

S. Sabres in their deadly new role of dive bombers hurled destruction Friday on the North Korean capital at Pyongyang. While the 50 attacked the radio station and a military headquarters building on the outskirts, other Sabres flew high overhead on the lookout for any Red MIG jets that might try to interfere. None did. Inside Today METROPOLITAN' OPERA Review Page 3 McGILL SPEAKS to Journalism Forum Page 2 Annie Lou Hardy 15 Bisher 5 Bridge 15 Business IS, 17 Charles Allen 4 Classified Ads 18-21 Comics 22 Crossword Puzzle 13 Editorial Page 4 Financial News 16, 17 Leo Aikman 4 Obituaries 17 Ollie Reeves 15 Radio and Television 12 Society 14, 15 Sports 5-7 Star Gazer 15 Theater Programs 15 Weather 2 Women's Features 14, 15 Columbus Storm Victim Receives First RFC Loan M.

E. Everett, Atlanta manager for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, announced that the first disaster loan went through Friday for a victim of the April 18 Columbus area tornado. The loan was for $6,000 to Foy Clark to rebuild his florist shop on Lamore St. after the accident, volunteered to go to Kinsey's aid. He was lowered by rope into the well.

He tied the rope around Kinsey's wrist and had him pulled to the surface. By that time, Gordon felt the effects of the fumes. The men removed the rope from Kinsey, who had ceased to breathe, and lowered it to Gordon and he was pulled out of the well. Kinsey was for carbon monoxide poisoning at a hospital and was revived. Gordon was pale and extremely nervous but recovered, the citation said.

LaFayette Farm Hand Is Cited for Heroism PITTSBURGH. May 1 (P) The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission today presented a citation and bronze medal to a 20-year-old LaFayette, farm hand for rescuing a well digger from suffocation. After 2-Yr. Wait, Santa Fills Brock's Stocking After two years Santa Claus finally caught up with Pfc. William R.

Brock Jr. Friday when the 20-year-old Rome soldier arrived at Ft. Campbell, from Korea. The deed of John E. Gordon of Route 3 was listed among the acts of heroism recognized by the commission in 10 states and Alaska.

The citation said Gordon rescued Abraham L. Kinsey, 52, at Villanow, in Walker County, July 8, 1952, after the well digger was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a motor driven pump at the bottom of a 32-foot well. Gordon, who arrived at the well with four other men 10 minutes Brock was among the first American prisoners of war to be released by the Communists in Korea. He was flown to Ft. Campbell from the West Coast for hospital treatment of face and arm wounds suffered when he was captured in November, 1951.

Among those greeting him upon his arrival were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brock Sr. of Rome, who brought along the Christmas presents left over from 1951 and 1952.

They waited hours before the plane arrived..

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