The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-07-16

HAN WRITES ON MURDER OF CHS MAN

lunch but I was out =. For the nex1
three days I checked his hotel once
or twice day, left him couple OF
notes -.
| On Wednesday his wife came, a
grand little girl of Greek parentage
an extremely intelligent girl. We met
! in the USIS office. She was worried
about George. He had cabled her to
meet him in Kavalla on Wednesday
or Thursday Only by chance, be-
cause she couldn't get a direct plane
from Athens, had she gone to Salon
lika When she called his hotel and
they told her he hadn't been in since
Saturday morning Git later developed
to have been Saturday night, she
went to town, took one look at the
room and was terrified. 1t was as if
he had stepped out for cup of coffee
|. !. George didn't do things that way.
Had he known he was going some
where he'd have left note; he'd
have carried his camera or locked up;
he'd have put his map in his pocket,
his excess clothes in a grip; and he'd
have mailed the letters he wrote his
mother and CHS. .
Trip To Markos
The next days went by quickly.
Helen Mamas of Alp and 1 did what
we could to keep Rea Folks spirits
up. We finally came to believing our
selves that George had been able to
make that coveted trip to Markos, a
trip no reporter has made because
Greeks don't dare and foreigners are
mt supposed to. 1t isn't encouraged
by the government. 1t is, in fact,
dangerous to try.
Maybe that's where George made
his mistakenly letting anyone know
what he wanted to do But I doubt
it. Those who knew him realized that
he would jump at the chance !. Most
anyone who spoke English could move
up to him in a coffee house or phone
him to say, ~ hear you are interested
in getting to Markos -. Maybe ! can
help you :"
George didn't go to Salonika with a
pass to the hills in his pocket. I'm
convinced of that Those who are
trying to tie the crime to the Com
munists say he did In the beginning
he had planned a two-couple trip to
sort of last outing, George
with his wife and their closest Athens
friends, the Hadjiargyrises. The one
couple decided not to go and at the
asst minute, the night before he and |
his wife were to leave, she decided to |
stay at home, finish packing and keep |
some dressmaking appointments.
(They were leaving May 20 for the
States where George would spend a |
rear at Harvard or become manager
If CBS's Washington bureau)
Unanswered Questions
So he went alone to Salonika And
Ie asked four persons whom he con-
idered friends if they knew any Com
nunists -. Did one or more of them
netnion it to someone else? And was
that some one who hunted George
p, who had a midnight engagement
nth him Friday, probably dinner Sat
rday night And a rendezvous at
1 Is pm. when he left his hotel for
be last time? Or was the someone
rating for George when he reached
alonika? How did he make contact
18th Communist in II hours?
ras there 10 days, couldn't meet one,
OF one.
~. Sunday evening "They have
ound George Folks body in the
ay :"
And then I thought of that little
life, that girl who loved him very
luch, and whom he loved very much
/ thought about the notes she
ad left in his room, "in case he gets
ack while I'm out :" One said,
Welcome Home Baby!" Another
ave instructions about where to find
ONE food she had bought because
e may be hungry. She bought him
pair of cheap slippers because his
Get would be hurting after the Cruel
lg trip through the hills where travel
by foot many places, not even by
lule And / was with her the day
ne bought some shaving lotion and
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