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to PAGE FOUR THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 13, 1947. The Huntsville Times THE HUNTSVILLE Established March TIMES 23, 1910 PROPS. AMIS, Editor JACK LANGHORNE, General Manager Entered AS Second Class Matter at Huntsville, Postoffice, Under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Published Each Afternoon, Expect Saturday, and Sunday Morning at The Times Greene and Holmes Streets Telephones: Editorial 37 and 38; Business and Advertising office 183: Circulation De- partment 692. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL (Cash in Advance) One Month 60c Six Months $3.50 Daily and Sunday, per year 6.00 Beyond Zone 2, per year $10.00 BY CARRIER IN HUNTSVILLE Daily and Sunday, per week 25c MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively en- all titled to the use for publication of dispatches credited.

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Drafts and Notes Money be made payable to The HuntsOrders. must ville Times Huntsville, Ala. of Radio Station WHBS, Affiliated Operators With The American Broadcasting Company. Postwar Objectives 1. Completion and equipment of Huntsville airport, and its administration by an airport beard.

2. Completion of Airline highway in both Alabama and Tennessee. The population of Iceland is a little more than 120,000. Sixteen thousand persons engaged in farming are killed in accidents annually in the U.S. Hanson Repudiated Recently, the Associated Press and other news services carried a news item that C.

C. Hanson of Memphis, secretary of the Southern Association of Commissioners of Agriculture, had presented a petition to President Truman and the Federal Trade Commission, urging that the Hull trade treaties be abolished, and that Southern farm products be protected by high tariffs. The story was given a big play in the New York Times and other newspapers in the East, for the reason that it appeared the South had made an historic decision to reverse its stand of opposing tariffs and advocating the leveling of trade barriers. There was an immediate suspicion that there was something "screwy" about the Hanson statement. It contained the names of no Southern farm commissioners, made no mention of the time or place in the South where such a meeting was held, or such a statement drafted.

The Progressive Farmer of Birmingham, edited by Alexander Nunn, promptly polled the Southern commissioners. At least seven of the 13, including Joe Poole, Alabama's commissioner, replied promptly and denied emphatically they had authorized the statement by their secretary, Mr. Hanson. That seems to. leave Secretary Hanson out on the end of a limb.

If, without permission or justification, he gave to the press SO misleading and untrue a statement, he should be fired. Truman's Strategy On the gridiron Truman's brand of cooperation with the Republican Congress would often be called something else. Evidently, he has been doing some thinking along football lines, for on a number of issues, he has kicked the ball far into enemy territory. No doubt the President wants to cooperate for the welfare of the country, and it's handy when you can do that, and at the same time benefit yourself politically. As things stand, the Republicans will probably be forced to accept responsibility for some steps that the Democrats would probably have taken anyway, had they been in the majority.

If outcomes are unfortunate, the Administration can blame the Republicans. If results are good, it can claim credit for cooperation. This formula can't be counted on in all situations. In some instances, the Democrats will put up a stiff fight, And: it may be expected that the GOP will have some ideas of its own for making the Administration look bad. But it is evident that the presidential strategy may work often enough to make the White House sweepstakes of 1948 a closer race than was thought likely, when results of the November election first became known.

We note that a proposal was made to the Salesman's club to have to go on record for passage of a law by the forthcoming Legislature to make hitchhiking illegal. The purpose of such a state statute is perfectly praiseworthy, but it is open to doubt whether it would be very effective. In other words. it would probably become quite soon a dead letter through lack of enforcement. The desire for such a statewide law arises out of the most recent of a series of "hitchhike -the cold, premeditated killing of a Middle Tennessee business man who had befriended a couple of young ruffians beating their way to Florida.

They tied him up to a tree, and one of them shot him in cold 1 blood, in order that they, might take his car. Probably a better, and more effective, way to stop hitchhike murders would be a campaign of education among motorists. Most of them already know that they are taking their lives in their hands in picking up suspicious looking strangers along the highways. They are well aware that many of these "thumb artists" will knock them in the head for a few dollars. Protection of the kind-hearted motorist, who, with an empty car, yields to the impulse to befriend some unfortunate who needs a lift along the highway, is more difficult.

But, passing a statewide law against picking up hitchhikers will hardly do him any good. Besides, who will be out on the highway to enforce such a law? Practically everyone who owns an automobile has read or heard about these recent murders. If they will not protect themselves, by refusing to stop and take on suspicious passengers, then the law can't do much for them. A few weeks ago, the top of prices was threatening to blow off; now, it seems that the bottom is about to fall out of them. Hardly Pratical Only bouquets are being tossed at Secretary Byrnes and General Marshall.

Watch out, the brickbats will be along in due time. The Republicans in Congress, in spite of all their talk and boasting, don't seem as happy as they might be, as they brush up against the hard realities of the situation, and assume responsibility. Could Happen Anywhere (The Birmingham Big figures often mean little to the average reader. When he is told that 6,000 out of 20,000 teachers in Alabama are not well enought trained to hold regular certificates, he may not be as much impressed as he would be if his own child were being badly taught by one of the insufficiently prepared instructors and it showed up when the child was put in competition with students who had had better teaching. Nor does one necessarily shy away in shock from the statement that 350,000 of the best teachers in America have been lured out of the schools into other and more lucrative employment.

Yet if the school to which he sends his children has to close down, because most of the teachers in it have taken jobs somewhere else, he suddenly knows that something is very wrong. So the news that came out of Tennessee the other day is startling in that particular way. Tennessee is our neighbor. What happened in Robertson county might conceivably happen in any county in Alabama. Out of 135 teachers employed by the county system, 108 of them resigned their work.

They did not go on strike. They simply resigned. They are willing even anxious that the schools be reopened as soon as other teachers can be secured to take their places. But they are no longer willing to. work for the wages offered and they took the simple way of showing it.

They quit and began looking for jobs in other activities. Most of them will find such work rather quickly. Out of that number there must have been some so valuable to the system that they can never be replaced satisfactorily. Some of them will undoubtedly be willing to return if salaries are boosted materially, but until that time comes they will work in other fields. This is a specific example of what might happen to your children and your schools.

It's not a happy prospect. Perhaps never before has the situation been so dramatized, but what happened in Tennessee has been going on in smaller degree for a long time all over the nation. The Washington Merry-Go-Rounc By DREW PEARSON Note: This is the second of Drew Pearson's columns giving the background of the new Secretary of State, George C. WASHINGTON-As -As with Jimmy Byrnes, the toughest job facing new Secretary of State George Marshall will be ironing out our snarled relations with Russia. When Marshall was Chief of Staff in the fateful days of 1941, as Hitler marched into Russia.

he made the mistake of telling a press conferences that the Nazis would in about six weeks. While the estimate was informal and off-the-record. naturally it got back to the Russians. Naturally, also, they did not like it. The probabilities also are that the Russians won't relish General Marshall's appointment as Secretary of State.

It will be interpreted as a semi-military threat against them; and not only in Russia, but in leftist France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and England, it will be construed as a further move of the conservative USA toward the conservative right. If the Russians have objective memories, however, they will also recall that it was Gen. Marshall who consistently urged second front across the English Channel, and who backed up Stalin every inch of the way in his rows with Churchill. Furthermore, it was Marshall who cast the die with Stalin and against Churchill in decreeing that the British and American armies should not go into the Balkans, but through France. If George Marshall had looked at the second front on problem through the eyes of future Secretary of State, rather than a soldier, his present job of ironing the Balkans would be far easier.

Generals Rule World (Trademark) Actually, the chief risk incurred in Marshall's appointment is not that he will be anti-Russian, because he will lean over backward to be fair. It is the danger that comes from the increasing number of military men in top jobs in an atomic-triggered world. While the USA hasn't appointed as many military men to high jobs has the USSR, we now have generals as our Ambassador to Russia, our Assistant Secretary of State for Enemy Territories, plus our Secretary of State; to say nothing of an admiral as Ambassador to Belgium, another general as Ambassador to Panama, and three other generals in charge of veterans administration, Labor department rehabilitation, and the Office of Temporary Controls. A general in modern warfare does not ride into battle waving a sword. He sits behind a desk.

And the plans he makes, plus the men he picks, win or lose his battles. One secret of George Marshall's success as Chief of Staff was his ability pick good men. On the they were also men who respected civil liberties. By and large, they believed that the job of the Army was to fight, not to interfere with peacetime affairs. Marshall, himself, seldom chafed at congressional criticism.

One of the Army's severest critics long. has been GOP Congressman Albert Engel of Michigan, who once accused the War department of 30 per cent waste in cantonment construction. Instead of grousing at gadfly Engel, Marshall said: 'The congressman puts ants in our pants, but he's a damn good inspector." The Pershing Clique Marshall belongs 1 to the Army's so-called Pershing clique. He was Pershing's favorite young officer, and only a captain when he executed the most brilliant maneuver of the last war, transferring 1.000,000 men from St. Mihiel to the MeuseArgonne front, plus 40.000 ammunition, 34 hospitals, 93,000 horses, 164 miles of railway, and 87 depots-all in a week's time, without the enemy's knowing it.

It was a great job-though small compared with some of the gigantic military movements World War II. Marshall was only 36 in the last war. And he was relatively, young -59-when Roosevelt 34 numbers down the list of colonels to elevate him to the exalted rank of full general and Chief of Staff. In making that selection, Roosevelt picked the second non- West Pointer in history to be top military man of the Army. The only other non-West Pointer who served as Chief of Staff was Leonard Wood.

It was a queer twist of political fate that sent Marshall to Virginia Military Academy, rather than West Point. He wanted to go to West Point, but McKinley and the Republicans were in power, while Marshall's father was a Democrat -one of the few in Uniontown, Pa. So young George went to VMI, which perhaps a break, for him; because, when it time tp pick a new Chief of Staff, the late General "Pa" Watson, military aide to Roosevelt and a staunch Virginian, put in a powerful oar to have a fellow Virginian head up the Army. Marshall For President' In 1944, before Roosevelt definitely decided to run for a fourth term, there was some talk about nominating Marshall--incidentally, talk which Marshall himself deplored. Naturally, there also talk now that Truman is grooming Marshall as his possible successor in 1948.

By that time, Marshall will be 69, an age generally considered too old for the job of being President. However, Marshall has kept himself in excellent physical trim, is up at 6:30 every morning, rides horseback, for after 50 lunch, minutes. and holds takes his social engagements down to the minimum. Doubtless he could All The Traffic Will Bear TRUMAN REPUBLICANS FARROW MACKENZIE'S Column By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Unhappy China, torn by civil strife between Comunists and the Nationalist regime under Generalissimo Chinag Kai-shek, is in the midst of a fresh crisis -the problem of making a go of the new coalition government which has been organized by non-Communist parties pending a general election- and developments are causing observers to wonder whether the United States is on MACKENZIE the verge of a shift in its Far Eastern policy. That's giving an incomplete picture of the position for, even if the coalition can function, the bloody gulf between the Central government and the powerful Communist party still will remain.

And there are few, if any, impartial observers who venture to predict that this world, isms could be settled in any other way than the one now being employed--combat on the battle-field. There we have one of the most dangerous and tragic situations of our time--perilous not only to poor old China, but to world peace. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, new Republican chairman df the Senate foreign relations committee, brought the thing home in a speech before the Cleveland Council of World Affairs Saturday night, when he declared that "there will never be a minute when China's destiny is not of acute concern to the United States and to a healthy world." But the senator did more than that. After referring to the coalition of non-Communist parties, he said: "It is my own view that our own Far Eastern policy might well now shift its emphasis.

While still recommending unity, it might well encourage those who have so heroically set their feet upon this road, and discourage those who make the road precarious." The Communists thus far have refused to join the new coalition, or to have anything to do with the Constitution which the Assembly adopted at However, the Communists are not the only one at odds with the efforts of the liberals to bring peace to China. There were powerful reactionary elements in the Kumintang (Nationalist party--war lords and other vested interests.) Only a few days ago General George C. Marshall, on winding up his peace mission a special U.S. envoy to China, accused extremist elements of both sides of being responsible for the continuation of civil war. "The salvation of the situation as I see it," said Marshall, "would be the assumption of leadership by the liberals in the government and in the minority parties, a splendid group of men, but who as yet lack the political power to exercise a controlling That idea would seem to have stand the Presidential pace far better than most men at his age.

His chances, however, are going to depend largely on his success as Secretary of State. This is a new diplomatic world George Marshall is entering--a new and tough world that calls for streamlined methods. And in recent years. General Marshall, despite his heroic achievements of the past, hasn't always kept abreast of modern methods. It was Marshall who told newsmen even after the atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima, and just before Japan surrendered, that we would still need a land army of 8,000.000 to defeat Japan.

It was Marshall's General Staff which in 1940, one year after Germany started war in Europe, was so ground-minded that his generals asked for only six Flying Fortresses. And it was the same General Staff, still under Marshall, which recommended a peacetime air force the same size as our Air Corps in 1936-at the same time the Chief of Staff was preparing to recommend a conscript land army of 4,000,000 men. In contrast, the new Secretary of State faces a world where big land armies mean little as against rocket bombs, disease warfare, and atomic bombs, and where a series of missteps could plunge the world into its last conflagration. But, whatever his methods, George Marshall has one great asset. He has experienced horrors of two world wars, and the last thing he wants is to throw humanity into another one.

WASHINGTON CALLING by MARQUIS CHILDS mum WASHINGTON-Gen. George C. Marshall's appointment as Secretary of State came so suddenly it overshadowed the important declaration he made on China. That statement is proof, if any proof were needed, of how eminently fair-minded Marshall It made clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the problem in China is not even remotely as simple as some in this country make it out to be. It is not a choice between one side which is all white, and another side which is all black.

Steering way through the tortured intricacies of Chinese CHILDS political intrigue, Gen. Marshall found millions of ordinary people disillusioned with both the Communist and the Chiang Kai-shek government. He found liberals on both sides who honestly desired a reasonable settlement that would end civil strife. Within the Chiang Kai-shek government, Marshall found a clique of reactionaries seeking to perpeuate "their own feudal control of China." The Communists are dominated by fanatical Marxists who will sacrifice anything and an anyone to win domination. Between these two millstones, the tragedy of the Chinese people is being ground out.

There has been an effort to make it seem that American policy in China was being A pushed in the Communist direction officials in the State department. Specifically, this was aimed at John Carter Vincent, head of the Far Eastern division. The facts do not support that charge. Throughout the long, difficult months of Marshall's mission to China, the General worked closely with Vincent. They have been in general agreement the view that it was not a question of choosing one side that was all white, and rejecting another side that was all black.

Similarly, Marshall has worked closely with Undersecretary Dean Acheson. The latter Has developed the of admiring loyalty to the General which Marshall seems to inspire in everyone he with. In the light of this relationship, it is all the more regretable that Acheson is apparently determined to go through with his earlier intention of resigning. If Marshall had found within the Kuomintang--the party which reality the government in China determination to move toward democracy; then we might have given Chiang Kai-shek all backing. We that would the have had of right to hope mass the Chinese people: would eventually give their loyalty to Chiang.

But a corrupt and feudal government is a poor instrument. Tillman Durdin is veteran Far Eastern correspondent for the New York Times. From a long background of experience, he knows not only China, but Japan, India, and the colonial empires of the British and the Dutch. In a recent dispatch to The Times from Nanking, he had some interesting things to say about the wave of anti-American demonstrations in Peking. Durdin wrote: "Probably the most important aspect of the outburst is the large number of students in it, and the scope of the resentment against Americans and American policy.

The manipulators of the demonstration could not have found support, if an emotional basis for the anti-American campaign had not existed. "The demonstrations have been a measure of the extent to which the Communist interpretation of events in China has spread, and have been a manifestation of the unpopularity of the government. They are evidence that the dissatisfaction with the Americans is not confined to Communists. "Confused, frustrated anf faithless, the young people of China are in a mood that makes them ready tools for a campaign rooted in the already existing dissatisfaction with the government, and with another country that has done much to support it." Some will call George Marshall's mission to China a failure. But -in a broader sense it has not been a failure.

He has shown that he could find his way through a political jungle as dense and as hazardous as any in the world. And he comes out with a fair appraisal, even though it is not a definitive solution for making the jungle into a peaceful garden. His experience in China should give him a running headstart for the intricacies and perils 4 of his larger assignment. James E. Brown, Farmer, Died At Lincoln, Tenn.

James E. Brown, 74-year-old retired farmer of Lincoln, died at his home at 4:05 a.m. yesterday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the State Line Methodist church by the Rev.

Joseph Porter. Burial in the adjoining cemetery will' be directed by Spry funeral home. Mr. Brown was a life-long resident of Lincoln. Brown, Survivors are Fayetteville, two sons, Edgar and Thomas Brown, Memphis, Tenn.

today not to vote for Communists in next Sunday's election. His statement said the people must support only "those parties which do not propose to scrap the constitution and take power for their own dictatorship, for one class or one group." Trade in soybeans is credited with making the Chinese port of Darien an important center. Vandenberg Gives Marshall Support Address At Cleveland Seen As Guidepost For Successor To Byrnes WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP)Gen. George C.

Marshall becomes Secretary of this week, with assurances Senator VandenStates terg of Republican support on major diplomatic issues expected to arise during the months ahead. Final plans for Marshall to take the oath as successor to James Byrnes are yet to be announced, but officials said privately that the ceremony probably will be held White the latter part of the week. Marshall, resting after 13 months arduous diplomatic work in China, remained in Honolulu over the weekend, and the exact time of his arrival is not known. Meanwhile, the pattern of his future tasks and something of the extent of the Republican support he can expect in striving for their accomplishment were made clear in speeches by Byrnes and Vandenberg, the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. Vandenberg spoke out for: 1.

Congressional appropriations to carry on an American relief program in war countries: 2. Rehabilitation loans for countries which need them, and 3. Continuance of tariff-reducing reciprocal trade agreements in some form. Beyond these points, the Michigan senator also urged a policy shift in China, saying the United States now should support the coalition of non-Communist parties backing China's new constitution. This evidently would mean abandoning the policy which Marshall followed during his stay in tween the Communists and China- policy of equality Nationalist Kuomintang, which to date run government.

Moreover, Vandenberg demanded that the long delayed Pan American conference on hemispheric defense be held at Rio de Janeiro in the immediate future. Vandenberg spoke on the same program as Byrnes, but while he devoted himself to specific issues, his discussion broad the retiring secretary, directed questions of world peace and American aims. Byrnes declared himself more confident than ever before that the United States "can achieve a just peace by cooperative effort" with other nations, provided will remain firm in upholding "the right." Much of Byrnes' speech was given over to a plea for the maintenance of military forces adequate to (a) carrying out American occupation policies in Germany and. Japan; (b) uphold American prestige in dealings with other nations, and (c) discharge American obligat i within the United Nations. Mrs.

Bullock, 84, Passes At Home Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bullock, 89, of 414 Seventh avenue, West Huntsville, died at her home, at 2 p.m. yesterday. Rites will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday from the residence, with burial in Bullock cemetery in Paint Rock valley.

Survivors are seven sons, J. R. Bullock, Faris, W. H. Bullock, Alabama City; D.

A. Bullock, Gurley; J. Bullock, Walnut Hill, R. Bullock, New Hope; P. R.

Bullock, Flat Rock, B. R. Bullock. Fanbrook; one daughter, Mrs. Harry Myers, Huntsville; and 204 grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

The sons and the son-in-law will act as pallbearers. Laughlin-Service funeral home will be in charge of arrangements. Goodson Funeral Will Be Tuesday Sampson Dodson Goodson, 76- old retired farmer of Ardmore, died at 7:40 p.m. Sunday at his home after an extended illness. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

tomorrow from the Bluff Springs church, 14 miles north of McMinnville, and interment will be in Webb cemetery. Laughlin -Service will direct the rites, and the Rev. William McElory and the Rev. E. D.

Martin will officiate. The remains leave Huntsville by hearse at 8:30 a a.m. tomorrow. Survivors are one son, Carl Goodson, Athens; three daughters, Mrs. Otha Titsworth, Elkton, Mrs.

Opal Smith and Mrs. H. P. Paton, Huntsville. Rites Held Today For Mrs.

Hartman Funerals services for Mrs. Louisa J. Hartman, Lafayette, were held at 10 a.m. today from the Trenton Baptist church, and burial was in the adjoining cemetery. Mrs.

Hartman died late Saturday night at the home of relatives on 499 Clopton avenue. The 73-year-old women was visiting in Huntsville. Survivors are three sons, Tom Hartman, Lafayette, Kanie and Lester Hartman, Rossville, one daughter, Mrs. Jim Oglesby, Summersville, and two sisters. Mrs.

Sarah Hall and Mrs. H. T. Lindsey, Trenton, Tenn. Spry's funeral home was in charge of arrangements.

READ THE WANT-ADS State Briefs MONTGOMERY, Jan. 13 (P) Merton Thomas, 27, told Montgomery police he was attacked and robbed by a Negro yesterday for the second time in five weeks. He said the assailant attacked him yesterday with a brick and a knife, and took $5. Hospital attendants his condition was not serious. said, the assault, Thomas said he lost $4.

MONTGOMERY, Jan. 13 (AP) Alabama recorded 297 new cases of tuberculosis in November of last year, the state Health department said today, topping the previous month 64, and nearly doubling the total for November, 1945. Fifty-four of the November, 1946, were in Jefferson county; Mocases, and Russell 22 each; Montgomery had 18; Etowah 14; Tuscaloosa 13; Madison 10; Lauderdale, nine. Miss Mary Garner Died This Morning close relation to Vandenberg's suggestion that Uncle Sam might encourage those who are working for unity, and discourage those who are making' the road precarious. Presumably shall have an answer to that soon, in view of the fact that Marshall is the new secretary of state and heads the Senate foreign relations committee.

If there is a shift in American policy, it will be interesting to see what forms of "encouragement" and "discouragement" will be hand ed out. It would seem that Uncle Sam must be getting fairly close to the bottom of his bag of resources by this time in China. This much we probably are safe in saying: a great deal will depend on what- any--encouragement the Chinese Communists get from Russia in their war against the Central government at Nanking. Should the Chinese Reds get moral and material aid from Moscow, the chances of making peace in China would be small. Foreign Briefs LONDON.

Jan. 13 (AP) -Members of the deputy Foreign Ministers Council converged on London today to begin preliminary discussion of the German and Austrian peace treaties. Robert Murphy, political adviser to the American commander in Germany, who will represent the United States in the deliberations on Germany, arrived from Paris yesterday, accompanied by Gen. Mark Clark, U. S.

representative for Austria, who came from Vienna. ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jan. 13. (AP) The Paraguayan government press office announced today that President Higinio Morinigo had assumed command of the armed forces, and declared a 30-day state of siege after the discovery of a plot to overthrow his regime. MANILA, Jan.

13 (P) -Southern Luzon's towering Mayon volcano, boiling for five days, erupted this morning with a furious shower of boulders and lava. Two towns near the the base were evacuated earlier as lava boiled over down the eastern and southern slopes, and black smoke mushroomed three miles into the sky. BERLIN, Jan. 13 (A) -British military government headquarters reported yesterday that bands of Germans, some several hundred strong, were attacking coal and food trains in the British occupation zone, ere cold continued to "cause widespread death and suffering. More than a score of deaths were reported over the weekend.

Hundreds were reported arrested as a result of the attacks, and at the Bonn freight yards, a German was shot and killed by a Belgian military policeman who was assisting German civil police in dispersing a crowd of some 200 looters. In Hamburg, where more than 20 Germans were said to have died of the cold, 230 looters were arrested in one day. PEIPING, Jan. 13 (P) -Government troops have recaptured town of Anping on the PeipingTientsin highway, government reports said today, but a section of the road still was in Communist hands and unusuable for U. S.

Marines stationed at both ends. Fighting continued east and southeast of Peiping. The Communists launched a second strong attack in the Tahsien area, 12 miles south of the ancient capital, but were repulsed. The Peiping-Paoting railroad, back in government control, was reopened to traffic today for the first time in three months. TOKYO, Jan.

13" (AP) -Prospects of a cabinet shakeup this week increased today as political activity intensified, but indications were that the Conservation would retain their firm control in the government. Several political leaders and most newspapers predicted Premier -Shigeru Yoshida and his cabinet might resign en masse within a few days, but probably merely as a preliminary move for Yoshida's return to power with an altered lineup of ministers. Yoshida had an audience with the Emperor for one hour this afternoon, outlining the delicate political situation, but reliable sources said he did not resign. st RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 13 (P) President Eurico Gaspar advised Brazilians for the first time Miss Mary Brancy Garner, 44- year-old resident of 3, Huntsville, died at the Huntsville hospital at 6 a.m.

today. The Rev. W. W. Brown and the Rev.

Joe Anglin will conduct services in the Laughlin- Service chapel at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Maple Hill cemetery. Survivors are foor sisters, Miss Irene Garner, Miss Brooksy Garner, Mrs. Coleman Newby, Athens, Mrs.

Carl Vaughn; three brothers, T. T. H. and W. B.

Garner, and several nieces and newphews. Active pallbearers will be Lewis Vaughn, Herman Sharp, Horace Nance, D. T. Thomas, Warren Moore and William Sanderson, Jr. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Dr.

M. M. Duncan, Dr. Carl Grote, Douglas Newby, Earl Vaughn, Marvin Barksdale, Alton Lynch. Paul Voekel, Roy Hargroves, Thomas Kelly, J.

B. McCrary, Larkin Sanderson, Harold Garrett and Dr. Bibb. Funeral Tuesday For Mrs. Letson Mrs.

Mattie Lee Letson, 69, of Lee drive, at the Huntsville hospital at 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Old Bethel church, six miles south of Courtland. The Rev.

Raymond Terry will officiate, and LaughlinService funeral 'home will direct interment in Old a Bethel remetery. Suvivors are eight sons, Jesse Letson, Tuscumbia; Cleveland Letson, Town Creek; Pruitt and Robert Letson, Huntsville; Harry and Roy Demopolis: R. V. Letson, Detroit. Gurley Letson, Courtland; two daughters, Mrs.

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