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THE! NAS 1 f4 fi "71 Served America's Greatest News Agencies Af fie Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap 7VA Power-Telephone Alpine 5-1221 VOL. 51 No. 10 NASHVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1937 5 CENTS 2(5 PAGES (ft I'll I tmi i 11 JLU J.J Jl JL Jl 4 Van Buren Boost ifl I Calls Ch arge Cartoon by Tom Little Wins Pulitzer Prize VU Gets Many Wires Protesting Hospital Switch Branscomb Hits VA's $1 Million Explanation As 'Short-Sighted' By TED SOLINSKI Malicious, YM 1 ou Wi 'V 0 Union 'Indictment' Could Lead To Ouster From Labor Federation; Counts Based' on Officer's Activity By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON (AP) Teamster boss Dave Beck swiftly voiced his defiance yesterday after the AFL-CIO threw a 22-page corruption "indictment" against his union and set May 21 as the deadline for its reply. Beck told the AFL-CIO ethical practices commit tee its charges which could lead to ouster of the Teamsters union from the labor federation constituted "malicious and unfounded" slander of our mem bership and our official family, local and national." The AFL-CIO committee's charges were based Dave Beck Belligerent reply Beard Rejects TVA Leg Irons Must Be Permitted To Run Show If Agency Is To Grow, Backer Says Vanderbilt i i ty's medical school has re ceived numerous telegrams from leading medical au thorities protesting the Vet erans Administration's switch In the new VA hospital site. Dr.

Harvie Branscomb, Vander-bllt's chancellor, anounced receipt of the telegrams yesterday from medical men throughout the coun try. Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, former medical director of the VA, charged in Washington Sunday See editorial "Decision on Nashville's VA Hospital of National Concern" on page 10. that "Bureaucrats and professional veterans" sabotaged the cerefully laid plans to build the hospital close to the medical school.

Magnuson also criticized Branscomb and some members of the Tennessee delegation in congress as "pussyfooting around (in the matter) when they ought to be in there fighting." No Financial Interest Branscomb said yesterday, In ra-gard to Magnuson's criticism, that thereason he was not more out spoken on the site change was because he did not want to leave the impression Vanderbilt had a financial interest in the hospital. "But from the standpoint of what it will mean to the veterans and the public, having the hospital close to the medical school would be one of the greatest things that could happen to Nashville," he said. VA officials eaid building the hospital at the present site Thayer VA hospital on White Bridge road instead of the pro posed filte adjacent to the Vandcr but medical school would mean a saving of more than a million dol lars. But Branscomb said: "That million dollar savings Is short-eighted economy, "How can you think of saving $1,000,000 when the values of hav ing the hospital cloe to the medi cal school would outweigh that savings thousands of time over the course of the years the hospital would operate?" the university chancellor asked. "It's not only Nasville's concern where the hospital should be," he said.

"We've received a number of telegrams from some of the best medical brains in the country, protesting the change in site." Among the telegrams' were those from Dr. Stanley Dorst. dean of the college of medicine, University of Cincinnati: Dr. George Packer Berry, dean of the Harvard Medi cal school; Dr. W.

II. Berryhill, doan of the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina; Dr. J. M. Mayman dean of Tufts Medical school, Boston, Dr.

Shields Warren, professor of path ology at Harvard Medical school; (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) 0 fcr 1 My Parent! Didn't Give Me Salk Shots? self-financine plan, its enemies want to place additional restric tions on it. Beard said the fact that many Republicans who opposed TVA have been defeated in recent elections leads him to hope that some others "see the handwriting on the wall." If so, he said, (Continued on Page 8, Column 3) TVA Self-Pay Rejection Asked Let Private Power Supply Valley, Congress Urged By LOIS LAYCOOK Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON A spokesman In School Funds Modest, Limited Undeveloped Counties Have Little To Tax-State Carries Load By WAYNE WHITT One of the state's Ics developed rural counties- Van Buren plans to raise its county school tax rate this year to 1 get at least $1,000 more at home for its schools W. B. Cummlngs, Van Buren superintendent of schools, said the increase will bn a nmHpst nn. probably not more than 10 cents on each Jioo assessed valuation.

can't ask for too much wore," he continued, "or we would work a real hardship on our people. It's easier for Davidson county to raise $100,000 than it is for us to raise $1,000." While Van Buren anticipates a tax increase, another rural county in the Mme general region of the state cannon win keep its pres- Third in Series nt school tax rate of each $100 assessed valuation. Because it receives so much of it eAitra tional funds from the etui a nH federal governments, Cannon has reduced its tax rate for education by 30 cents over the last three years. Has No Large Payrolls Van Buren is a county which has no larze navrolls. It uhlrt tan torv at SDencer.

which ervmlnveH 300 persons, has been closed for several months. The equipment is io ne soia mis montn and spencer residents nope the buyer will re open it. There is some coal and timber left, but not much. The coal is becoming harder to get to each year and as a result, mining op. rations become lets profitable.

Two or three sawmills still operate about the county. There is one automobile agency and several stores in Spencer, but little else. Van Buren's school enrollment thla year totals 2100. It probably will decline next vear if the uhlrt factory is not re-opened for there win oe noming iert cut rarming to hold residents. And most of the farm land is hilly.

Bottom of List in Stats The county is at the bottom in the state In local support of Its schools, raising less than five cents on every dollar spent there on education. Its school budget this year (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) Politics By Joe Hatchet Few Mayors Rate Talk For Governor's Race CHATTANOOGA Normally a convention of 260 mayoie of a state's cities might he expected to provide almost as many potential candidates for governor, or a major office. Thus Chattanooga municipal league gathering, the biggest attendance ever registered for the convention, lists only a half dozen or less potential candidates for the brewing gubernatorial race of 1958 but a lot of interest in who's going to run. Only Chattanooga's mayor R. R.

(Rudy) Olgiati, Nash- (Continued on Page 15, Column 3) Fair, Warmer (U. 8. Wethfr Bureau Forecist) NASHVILLE AND VICINITY TODAY Fair and warmer today and tonight. High 75, low tonight 60. Winds from east at 6-10 m.p.h.

Visibility more than 15 miles. TOMORROW Fair and Warmer, High 75-80. TENNESSEE TODAY Fair and warmer, with high in 70s. TEMPERATURES 2 a.m. 4 t.m.

6 a.m. 5 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 45 43 42 52 52 64 68 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

8 p.m. 10 p.m. Midnight 2 a.m. 70 58 62 55 50 43 2 p.m. Hiah 70 at 4 p.m.

Low 42 at 8 a.m. Mean 56. Normal 66. Sunrise 4:50. Sunset 6:38.

Relative humidity at midnight I2C THIS DATE Highest 9 Lowest 37 in 1944 Highest last year 72 Precipitation: For 24 hours ending at midnight 0. Total this month .60. Deficiency this month ,12. Total this year 20.87. Excess this year 2.09.

I'm A nded' largely on activities of Beck as president and Frank Brewster, Seattle, and Sidney Brennan, Minneapolis, as vice presidents but they also listed allegations aeainst more thn a score of other Teamsters officials in New York city, Sc-nnton. and Portland, Ore. The ethical practices group, in its memorandum of charges, alleged that the embattled Teamsters organization has so far failed to recognize anything wrong" in Its ranks, to conduct any Investigation, or to suspend any union officials whose activities have been questioned. Powers For Own Clean-up It was contended the Teamsters organization ha ample powers to conduct its own cloan-up If It so desires. The federation's detailed listing of charges eeemed to add up to this: That as far as the parent AFL-CIO is concerned the Team- See Tom page 10.

Little's cartoon on sters will have to dump Beck, Brewster, Brennan and perhaps a number of other officer under fire if the l'i-million-memher trucking union is to stay in the AFLrCIO family. There was no mention in the AFL-CIO charges of a federal court indictment against another influential Teamsters vice presi dent, James R. Hoffa of De troit. Hoffa is charged with con spiracy to bribe a senate investigator to feed him information from the special senate committee investigating labor management activities. These charges, however, do not allege union corruption or union misconduct.

Hoffa was reported leagued with two other powerful Teamsters Ham A. Lee at a Teamster board meeting yesterday, following the AFL-CIO ethical practices group's hearing. The strategy of the Hoffa-Eng-lish-Lce combine was reported as seeking Beck's ouster as president of the Teamsters union. This wa.i aimed at cooling the heat generated by the. AFL-CIO proceedings and the senate committee investigation which together have ben singeing the Teamsters organization.

I'Wl VWI I 9 UCl DOCK But Hoffa told a reporter later the reports he was out to get Beck (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) Tennessean Today Paget Amusements 1 3 Lawrence Bridge 12 Markets Classified 22-25 Obituaries Comics 16i Pattern Crossword 22 Radio-TV Daily Record 20 Sports Page 14 21 22 13 20 18-20 12 17 Designing Society Woman Editorials Horoscope 14 Uncle Rav 10 Weather" Map 20 20 1 Word Game 16 COLUMNISTS: Fleeson. Kllgallen, Pearson, Oth-man, Viewpoint Page 11 about it as long as it ixn't In direct connection with their business." One of Prosecutors Bumpus and Robert Warner Jr assistant district attorney general, will prosecute a charge of violating tho anti-daylight saving Jaw against Albert II. Phillips at 2 p.m. in general sessions court before Judge Henry F. Todd.

Phil-Hps is president of Klmbrough-Phillips company which moved Its clocka up as a matter of company policy last week. In other developments on the fast-breaking, fast time front: Criminal Court Judge Charles G. Gilbert told the grand Jury it (Continued on Page 17, Column 3) for the private utility lobby called l1 1 JF. English and Vice President Wil- Wonder Why Salk Drawing In Tennessean Gains Honor Tom Little, veteran cartoonist for THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, yesterday was awarded a 1957 Pulitzer prize. The award, which carries a $1,000 cash prize, was announced yesterday along with the other Pulitzer prizea by the trustees of Columbia university.

The winning cartoon, "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" was published in See editorial "Top Cartoon Prize Is Little's Reward" on page 10. THE TENNESSEAN Jan. 12, 1956. It depicts a small boy on crutches watching a group of boys his age playing football. Part of Salk Campaign The cartoon launched THE TENNESSEAN'S campaign in support of the Salk vaccine program which received wide acclaim from medical authorities.

The cartoon was reprinted and distributed nationally by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. "There is no way of evaluating how much the cartoon helped us in the Salk program," said Dr. John J. Lentz, Davidson county health officer. "Every time I went into a school building-there it was." Receipt of the award, which is the world's most famous journalism prize, caps a career which has won national fame for the cartoonist over a numbe of years.

As word spread of the achievement, newspaper colleagues showered their congratulations on Little and telephone calls snd telegrams began pouring in. The 56-year-old cartoonist, ho draws with his left hand, first Industry's Spread Called Dixie Hope By CHARLES L. FONTENAY If TVA is going to grow, it "must be allowed to run its own show," Mayor Leonard Beard of Sheffield, president of Citi- zens for TVA, said yeater- Uav Because TVA is the sole source of power in the Tennessee valley, no additional restrictions should be placed on it, "especially as long as we pay our own way," Beard said. For that reason, he added, he is in favor of the TVA self-financing bill sponsored by Sen, Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.) and opposed to an alternative bill sponsored by Sen.

John Sherman Cooper In Washington, Sen. John Sten-nis (D-MisM.) and Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-Miss.) said they strongly oppose a provision of the Fifth in series. Cooper bill that would restrict TVA'a use of proceeds from proposed bond issues to its present territorial limits. Want Additional Restrictions "It looks like the enemies of TVA would gladly back this (the Kerr) bill" said Beard.

He explained that "in effect, thui is what they were asking for" when TVA was depending solely on congressional appropriations, but now that TVA has proposed a and now "frankly aspires" to be come an industrial state. "With the exception of the rich soils of the famous delta area, it id that or be de-populated, the cl-(Continued on Page 3. Column 1) Army Delays Nickerson Trial ATLANTA f.Tt The court- martial of Col. John C. Nickerson fr; on charges of making secret Information on he army rocket pri'mam avmmmc io uniiuii persons has been postponed from May 15 to June 25.

The third army announced the postponement yesterday. At the same time, it disclosed that counsel for Nickerson will be al-lowod access to "certain classified information they deemed necessary." No details were given. Nickerson Is stationed at Redstone arsenal, liiintsvllln, and the court-martial will bo held there. Result of Request The trial delay was granted, the announcement explained, as a result of a request Monday of last week from Nickerson's counsel. The military trial, to be held at Redstone, already had been postponed from April 23 at the request of Robert K.

Bell of Huntsvllle. civilian attorney for the 41-ycar- old guided missile specialist. on congress yesterday to reject TVA self-financing legislation and instead permit private power com panies to supply the valley region. Walter H. Sammis of Akron, Ohio, president of Ohio Edison company and ths Pennsylvania power company, told a house public works subcommittee that the private power industry is just as opposed to TVA having authority to issue revenue bonds as it is to the agency receiving congressional appropriations.

"In other word vou want to destroy TVA." declared Rep. Clif ford Davis chairman of the subcommittee. Sammis, aided by Republican members of the subcommittee, delivered a two hour attack on TVA from the witness chair. Called Form of Socialism He called TVA a "form of socialism." Rep. Robert E.

Jones (D-Ala.) immediately challenged Sammis to say whether congressmen who believe in TVA arc eocialists. "I can't answer that," Sammis replied. "I am confining my com ments to the dictionary's definition of socialism." Jones cited to Sammis the private power lobby's intense nationsl advertising campaign (Continued on Page 8, Column 1) Staff photo by Joe Rudis Tom Little at his drawing board puts the finishing touches on the editorial cartoon (or today's TENNESSEAN after receiv. ing word that he won the Pulitzer prize. Eugene O'Neill's Fourth Pulitzer Prize, Attorney Sets Up Watch, Defies Law By NAT CALDWELL Staff Correspondent CHATTANOOGA Industrial de velopment is the only route by which the Southern states "will ever escape from poverty and an existence as eoloniee," a former Mississippi governor said here yes terday.

Hugh White. 75-year-old author of Mississippi's famous balance agriculture with industry law, told the Tennessee Municipal league: "Twenty-five years ago 'balance agriculture with Industry' was called socialism gone to seed. Now the eyes of our people have been opened (to the fact) that Industry! is the only way up they de-l mand that their public officials gct: Industry and they get it." First Steel Mill Only two weeks ago MissisKlppi's first steel mill was announced climaxing half a billion dollars worth of new Industry obtained In the past 20 years by that state, he aaid. White said that Mississippi's problem Is "roughly comparable to that of the other Southern states" to escape the "economic blood letting colonial dependencies must expect." He said his state has passed the point of just seeking a balance of payrolls with agriculture Snap Shots by SEIG International crisis, Nerves on edge, How shall we play it, Putter or wedge? award was worth $1,000. "If you read the story without realizing that you won $1,000 you were in a state," a coworker told Little.

Mrs. Little, principal of Glen-dale school, heard of the news when her husband called her at the school. "It was a wonderful thing for him," Mrs. Little said. "When he (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Posthumously in a previous Investigation which won the Daily News a Pulitzer prize Jointly with the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch. Established in 1917 The prizes were established in 1017 under the will of the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the old New York World. The university trustees made the awards from among recommendations received from an advisory board, consisting mainly of newspaper executives. The journalism awards are worth $1,000 each to the recipients, except In the case of the newspaper category of meritorious service.

In the latter citation, the newspaper wins a gold The awards for music and lct-(Continutd en Pige 6, Column 3) learned of the award when Ed Ball, chief of the Nashville bureau of Associated Press, brought him a wire story of the announcement. Award Worth $1,000 "I was numb for a while." Little said. "The Pulitzer prize really means a lot. It puts you up another notch professionally." Numb as he as, Little at first failed to realize that the Is First Given biography award to a member of contrress. Sen.

John F. Kennedy for his "Profiles of Courage." a study of eonw of the great figures in S. senate his tory. For the first time since 1954, the trustees passed ever the current crop of fiction and made no award for novels. However, Novelist Kenneth Roberts received a special citation for past achievement in the field.

In Journalism, the Chicago News won the Pulitzer prize for meritorious public service for exposing a 24 million dollar fraud in the office of the state auditor of Illionis. The auditor, Orville E. Hodge, went to prison as a result of the work of 21 staff members of the Dally News, who were assigned to the cane. Among them was Reporter George Thlcm, a key figure For Journey, NEW YORK CP Eugene O'Neill yesterday won the first posthumous Pulitzer prize ever awarded for his autobiographical drama "Long Day's Journey Into Night." It i.s a current Broadway hit. The late play wright thus Join ed two other men as four-time winners In the 40-year-old history of the awards.

The others were the late playwright biographer, Robert E. Sherwood and Poet Robert Frost. In another un O'Neil precedented citation, the trustee of Columbia university cave the By WILLIAM KEEL A Nashville attorney went on daylight saving time unchallenged yesterday and an assistant attorney general said he believes the fast time ban applies only to activities directly related to busi ness operations. Hugh Gracey, tho lawyer, said he hiarJ from no law enforcement officials yesterday after moving his watch ahead an hour. He had puhllclv invited them in THK NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN to "cheek" his time switch yesterday.

Paul Bumpus, assistant district attorney general, said his personal interpretation or the law is that individuals "can do as they please.