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IM TMI fUT Of TV A THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Served by 'A merica's Greatest News 'Agencies fhe Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap TV A Power Telephone Alpine 5-1221 VOL. 49 No. 264 NASHVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 17, 1936 5 CENTS 26 PAGES fa) JU rfDfin jj HA. Ma)fpW JlK Muff Mh Needed, Too Meat Packers' Court Approves Bonds To Widen Gallatin Road $600,000 Issue Includes Work At County Hospital By WILLIAM KEEL Ex-Staff Chief Says President Wrong in Report GOP Politics Calls Turn on Military, General Declares By JAMES LEE WASHINGTON (INS) Gen.

Matthew B. assailed President Eisenhower yesterday declaring the administration's military policy is dictated by "political considerations." The retired four-star general further accused the defense department of seeking to force him to fit his views on national defense to a "preconceived politico-military 'party And he challenged the accuracy of a statement by Presi- dent Eisenhower about a decision by the joint chiefs of staff. Falling Again' The ex-army chief of staff, whom the President did not ap w-- 'd "V-Jf 'J iii mill I -T- i Art I i I a Ridgway, President Eisenhower decorations now bitter accusations Democrats Vow Rudaet Staff photo by Eldred Reaney It's earmuff weather around these parts these days not only for charming young ladies, but for dogs, too. The earmuffs of Jane Berlin, 18, of Nevada avenue, are matched by those worn by her pet Dachshund, Heinzie. Byrd Brands It Spending Orgy; Bulb Blundei CYNTHIANA, Kv.

(in Wilbur Smith likes hamburgers, but he'll be more careful in the future when he reaches for the onions. Smith was finishing up a midnight snack of hamburgers when his wife informed him the "onions" he had used were narcissus bulbs. Sales to U. S. Slated for Probe Benson Program Said To Aid Middleman, Not Pork Farmer By NAT CALDWELL Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Rigged bids by the nation's big meat packers on $3, worth of pork sold the irovernment will be1 probed Thursday by a house agii culture subcommittee.

The investigation was disclosed exclusively to THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN by Rep. W. R. Poage (D- Texas), chairman of the livestock subcommittee of the house agriculture committee. "It looks as if the department of agriculture recognized the bid rigging, went on and bought at the rigged price, and then rewarded the big meat packers by another price increase the next week," Poage said, lie announced he will "invite' Time D.

Morse, Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson top as sistant, to "explain this mess' Thursday morning. "I expect him to bring a whole delegation of assistants along with lnm to explain this one, and he will need it," Poage said. "This is a very shabby way for Secretary Benson to look after the nation desperate hog farmers." The department of agricul. ture's $85,000,000 pork buying program was instituted six weeks ago, after prices paid farmers for hogs dropped to 14 year lows.

Its aim was to raise prices to farmers. Hog prices have remained on a 10 to 11 cents per pound liveweight bottom ever since. Poage and Rep. Harold Cooley (D-N. C), who studied prices paid by Secretary Benson's department (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) program will be continued in the schools this week and next week.

Those eligible to receive the vac cine mav get the snots at tne health department from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 3 to 4 p.m., daily See another in polio on page 6. a series on except Saturday. On Saturday the hours will be from 8 a.m.

to 12 noon. The department is cioseu Sunday. Persons eligible to get the vaccine are those one through 14 years and pregnant women. The state health department reported a total of 395.964 shots of Salk polio vaccine had been given in Tennessee since the program started last spring. This included the shots given under the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis program.

Dr. R. IT. Hutcheson, state health commissioner, said reports from counties "Indicate that the activity is increasing in many counties." He added, "those counties where it has increased are to be congratulated." Hutcheson said the report "indi cated that a few of the counties are lagging and that the program in these counties should be stepped up." He added, "In general we are (Continued on Page 8, Column 4) Davidson county court unanimously approved on first reading yesterday reso lutions authorizing expendi ture of $600,000 for the road widening project and county hospital improvements. Magistrates were also informed In a report prepared by County Judge Beverly Briley that revenue collections for the first, half of the 1955-56 fiscal year hit $7,710,777, an all-time high.

That is $1,201,945 more than the $6,498,832 collected for the same period last year. May Call Session Briley indicated that a special meeting: of county court may be called to act on the two bond reso lutions. This is required before the bonds can be issued. Of the $600,000, a total of is for payment of one-third of the right-of-way costs for widening 4.32 miles of Gallatin road. The section extends between the Davidson and Sumner county lines.

Remainder of the project costs will be paid by the state and federal governments. County Budget Director Ed West ftaid that plans are to use $400,000 to finance the following improve ments at the county hospital and home for the aged: Installation of a sewage dis posal plant. Construction of quarters to house 40 employes and cottages for doctors. Rebuilding and re-equipping the laundry room. Re-roofing the home for the aged and part of the hospital section.

Re-equipping the kitchen in the "home. County court adopted a resolu- (Continued on Page 8. Column 4) Cloudy (V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast) NASHVILLE AND VICINITY TODAY Partly cloudy and cold.

High in the upper 20s. Low tonight in the low 20s. WEDNESDAY Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer. TENNESSEE TODAY Rather cloudy and cold Tuesday followed by light snow in the west. Wednesday some snow mixed with rain and not as cold.

TEMPERATURES 2 a.m. 28 4 p.m. 27 4 a.m. 27 6 p.m. 23 6 a.m.

25 8 p.m. 21 8 a.m. 24 9 p.m. 22 10 a.m. 23 11 p.m.

20 Noon 26 Midnight 20 2 p.m. 27 High 29 at midnight. Low 21 8 p.m. Mean 25. Normal 40.

Sunrise 6:57. Sunset 4:57. Relative humidity at midnight 80'. Precipitation: For 24 hours .01. Total this month .01.

Deficiency this month 2.45. Total this year .01. Deficiency this year 2.45. THIS DATE Highest 71 in 1937 Lowest 5 in 1916 High last year 50 (Map, Nation's Weather Page 8) 5000 Get Vaccine In County Clinic's Lentz Hails Turnout of 2217 Pre-School Children for Shots Scruti nv Major Achievement gress yesterday a balanced $65 865,000,000 budget for the 19S7 fiscal year starting July 1. He called on the legislators for the "utmost co-operation" in keeping it balanced.

Republicans generally hailed the President's balanced budget as a "major achievement," although some thought it might be cut slightly, Members of both parties disagreed over whether irTuTed out a tax cut this year. Byrd, a leader of the senate economy bloc, called the midget "disconcerting" and "alarming." Notes Discrepancy He noted that whjle Eisenhower proposed to spend $65.9 billion next year, he had asked congress to appropriate $66.3 billion, some for future years. Chairman Clarence Cannon I'D-Mo.) of the house appropriations committee and senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas also hit at the increased spending. Cannon said the budget called for more money "in every last' federal department.

House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) countered that the GOP administration had red need spending in its first three yus. He said the halaneed budget was an achievement for "our tax-paying public." May Be Too Low House GOP whip Ieslie Arends (R-Ill.) said congress can increase Eisenhower's estimated $400,000,000 budget surplus by trimming appropriations. He also speculated that the President's rev enue estimates may be too low.

President Eisenhower ear- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Slim Promise Of Rain Offered Or It May Be Snow Tomorrow, Says Forecaster; Cold Stays The weather man held out a slim promise for breaking the midwinter drouth last night with a forecast for possible rain or snow tomorrow. But mercury Is not expected to get out of the 20s this afternoon and may dip frigidly near the high teens tonight, the weather man said. Tomorrow will be a little warmer. Things to Come An Indication of things to come was registered yesterday when northern blasts sent thermometers well below the freezing mark in Nashville and lower than that In East Tennessee areas. Nashvillians awoke to see their lawns fringed with the second no ticeable snowfall of the season and East Tennessee reported as much as three inches of snow in the mountain areas.

Lebanon police reported a "thick" downfall there while Cookeville measured about two inches. Nowhere, however, was there a break in the area's drouth. TVA Lakes Low Most of the TVA lakes were low, and the Mississippi river it self was feeling mighty low yester day the lowest ever since men began measuring Its flow past Memphis. The water level went down to (Continued on Page 14, Column 5) the citizens of this county the best possible service," he said. "I am unable to do it with THAT door closed." He said that to proceed his year without the door "would be a matter of physical Impossi point to a second term, warned Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Charles E.

Wilson are "falling again into the error which cot us so much blood and agony in Korea." He declared they are "measuring our country's security in terms of dollars" for "the advantage to be gained in the field of domestic politics." "In my'joo as chief of staff," the general wrote, "I say in all earnestness and sincerity that I felt I was being called upon to destroy, rather than to build, a fighting force upon which rested the world's best hope for peace." Ridgway lashed out at Eisenhower and Wilson in a Saturday Evening Post article which is tha first of six Installments relating his story as a top U. S. soldier in war and peace. He said that as chief of staff from 1953 until last year he was subjected to "incessant" pressure "sometimes subtly, sometimes crudely applied," to "make my military judgment conform to the views of higher authority." Ridgway flatly declared that his position was misrepresented by the President in the 1954 State of the Union message. Shot at, Bombed' "As a combat soldier," Ridgway wrote, "I have been shot at from See editorial "Ridgway Sounds the Alarm" on page 10.

ambush and bombed by planes which I thought to be friendly, both of which are experiences that are momentarily unsettling. 'I do not recall, however, that I ever felt a greater sense of sur prise and shock than when I read in President Eisenhowers state or the Union message in 1954 that: 'The defense program recom mended for 1955 is based on a new military program unani mously recommended by the Joint chiefs of Ridgway said he was "nonplused" because he "most emphatically had not concurred in the 1955 military program as it was presented to the people." The general added: fart is, the 1955 budget was a 'directed as wer the army budgets for 1956 and '57. The force levels provided in all three were not primarily based on (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) tivitv. Nine of the 11 robberies here have occurred inside the city, S. P.

Nicholson, a tax consultant of 1705 Long was swiped across the head with a blackjack in yesterday's rob-bery. He suffered a gash on th left temple and received emer-gency treatment at St. Thomas hospital. Police said the two setf-styled repairmen attacked Nicholson after lie admitted them to Ills home, and took his money from a bill fold. The cash, thev said, represented receipts of Nicholson's tsx service.

He was alone at the time. Puriled by Contrast Local police, faced with holdups at the rate of one for each ona and-a-half days of the year, wer puzzled by contrasting reports from Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxvllle that bandits there were keeping out of sight. "Maybe we've just been living; (Continued en Page 2, Column 1) Tennessean Today Republicans Laud WASHINGTON (tP) Democratic congressional leaders yes terday promised a close study of President Eisenhower's $65.9 bil lion budget. Sen. Harry F.

Byrd (D-Va.) called it "this orgy of new spend ing." Eisenhower submitted to con Dr. L. M. Lanier, Radiologist, Dies Death Follows Mayo Clinic Funeral Incomplete Dr. Leon Martin Lanier, a pioneer in radiology here and out standing member of the medical profession, died yesterday at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, following an operation.

He Mould have been 64 next Monday. A radiologist since 1921 when he joined Dr. C. C. McClure, Dr.

Lanier had been in ill health and unable to work for the past five months. Operated on Last Week Doctors at Mavo operated on Dr. Lanier last week. Previously he had been a patient at Baptist hospital and at his home. His wife, the former Miss Martha Kil- lebrew, was with him in Roches ter at the time of his death.

They had been married since 1922. Dr. Lanier, a native of Waver-ly, and a graduate of Hume-Fogg high school here and Vanderbilt Medical school, was a son of Capt. T. L.

Lanier, of the Confederate army, and Mary Martin Lanier. After the War Between the States, Captain Lanier was a lawyer and judge in Waverly. He died when his son was 11. Dr. Lanier commanded high re spect and admiration in his pro fession and was consiuereu an excellent athlete.

'He was forever trying to help medical education," Dr. Hugh (Continued on Page 14, Column 3) Politics General Then retirement, Delegation Raps Budget Plot Congressmen Say Financing Plan Aimed At Weakening TVA By LOIS LAYCOOK Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Tennessee valley congressmen charged yester day President Elsenhower' budget proposal for TVA is part of the administration's plan to force acceptance of restrictive self-financing legislation. The President's budget, delivered to congress yesterday, fieeks to force TVA into paying the treasury its total net income, estimated at $75,000,000, in the next fiscal year. Tied to Plan The future of TVA was pinned tightly to a self-financing plan by Eisenhower. He recommended to congress construction of three new steam generating units to meet an- See editorial "New Aim at an Old Target" and Tom Little's cartoon on page 10.

ticinated needs by 1958. But he proposed that the bulk of the estimated $70,000,000 cost should come from revenue bonds to be issued by the agency for public sale. And he asked congress to put up only slightly more than $5,000,000 toward the $279,000,000 operating (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) Mixing Bar Operator Pleads Innocent Robert Green, 29, Printers alley mixing bar operator, pleaded innocent in criminal court yesterday to charges of tippling, liquor license violation, assault with intent and carrying a pistol. His trial on the charges will be net at a later date, according to R. B.

Parker assistant attorney general. Green, operator of Club Unique in Printers alley, was charged witli two counts of tippling and of doing business without a retail deal ers liquor license in indictments brought against him by the Sep tember grand jury. The assault and pistol charge stemmed from a pistol whipping Green allegedly administered Howard Iongworth, 24, of 1603 Hayes at Club Unique last month. Longworth was a patron at the club at the time of the incident. Dilemma in D.

C. After weeks of looking at political pedigrees, the Republicans still have only one "horse" that can run, Thomas L. Stokes today. ays "It's a grim fact that gives party leaders the i when they are alone with their thought Stokes says. You'll find his column on page 11 of Stokes THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Where Yon Jteml the and IIMST FEATURES (It By NELLIE KENYON More than 5000 children lined up yesterday in Davidson county schools to receive shots of the Salk polio vaccine.

Dr. John J. Lentz, county health director, said 5081 children were vaccinated in the schools during the day and another 66 at the health department on the ground floor of the courthouse. Those vaccinated in the school clinics included 2217 pre-school children. Dr.

Lentz said he was much encouraged by the number of pre-school children who came for the vaccine. The county has been making a special effort to get parents to bring these younger children into the clinics. Dr. Lentz said the vaccination bility without a heavy traffic Jam." Briley said that the lines disrupt operations in his office. Witnesses In Probate court get (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) 2 Pose as Gas Men, Rob Tax Consultant There Are 2 Sides Most Doors, But This One-Well, a Lot Hinges on It Louisiana Vote Today May Be Hint For South; Taylor Aiming at Capitol? I Pllll IMIIHII 1 i i i 1) it A iimiii mi i Tin ill mi mil 1 SMHMiMBWHMMBaMaBaMHMUaMMMHMa4 -I Two men posing as gau company employes slugged and robbed an unsuspecting East Nashville man yesterday of $500 cash the 11th armed robbery line in the 16 days of While Nashville and Pavidson county's crime rate zoomed, the state's three other large cities reported no Increased holdup ac- By Joe Hatcher hower cause in 1952, Is Ineligible to run, but is barking Fred Prcaus, former highway com-misnion chairman, as his hope to remain In power.

Ex-Gov. Earl Long, brother of the late Huey and uncle of U. S. Sen. Russell Long, and New Orleans' Mayor DeLesseps (Shep) Morrison may well corner the run-off and leave Preaus outside.

Odds favor Long in the runoff with either Preaus or Morrison, Francis flravemherg. the state police chief under Kennon, may split into the ndminintration vote, but is not considered a threat; nor Is (Continued en Page 9, Column 2) County court held a full-dress debate yesterday on whether to re-open THAT two-faced door between the offices of County Judge Beverly Briley and John Cobb, county court clerk. The thing was referred to a special committee after an hour's debate. A motion to table it was defeated by a close, 24-22 vote. Eight magistrates, Cobb and Briley took part in the discussion, Says Use Brains One magistrate, J.

R. Coarsey, came up with 'the idea that someone might use his brains. There were amazed expressions on many faces. He wound up on the special committee. The door was sealed off on Briley's side during a recent remodeling.

The door's still there on Cobb's side. But it is like much of yesterday's debate. It leads nowhere. The proposed resolution requests Briley to re-open it pronto. It was referred to the committee, composed of Coarsey, real estate developer, C.

Faulkner Hickerson, an architect, and Frank King, a lawyer, They ore to investigate, act, and report. He Needs It Cobh's voice quivered as hfl told the court he felt that the very welfare of Davidson county taxpayers is at stake. He has used the door to channel a long lln of car license-buyers by his cashier every year. "My only purpose it to give Louisiana fires the opening gun on 1956 elections today. The five-way governors' race heads the list, and carries south, wide and even nation-wide political import.

Today's vite ma not be tie. riivn, but only the preliminary step to the showdown In the run-offs two weeks hence. At least three strong and two weaker candidate in the gubernatorial field indicate a run-off will follow in traditional Louisiana fashion. Kennon Ineligible Gov. Rnhert Kennon, who the Louisiana bolt to the Eisen Page Paqe Rridge 12 Markets 21 Classified 22-25 Movies Comics 20 Obituaries 22 Designing Patterns 12,13 Woman 13 Radio-TV 19 Editorials 10 Society 12, 13 Horoscope 18-19 Lawrence 13! Uncle Ray 20 Manners Game 20 Staff photo by Biil Preston The door which caused a two-hour controversy during a session of the county court yesterday, awaits its fate at the hands of a special investigating committee.

At left it the side that opens into County Judge Beverly Briley'a office, neatl sealed, and at right G. L. Cummingj, courthouse nightwatchman, looks at the tide that opens into the office of John Cobb, county court clerk, ready to be opened. COLUMNISTS: Stokes, Pegler, Pearson, Othmsn, Kilgallcn. Pag 11..