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TXI HUIT Of TV A Served by THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN America's Greatest News 'Agencies At the Crossroads of Natural Gas and Cheap TV A Power Telephone Alpine 5-122? VOL. 49 No. 306 NAJIIVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 28, 1956 5 CENTS 28 PAGES Ul 5) IINiltIM I I I i Milliron Blames Houses Fall, Debris Flies With Twister Fulbright Says Dulles Withheld Truth on Reds Secretary Challenged To 'Give Facts' of Bid For World Leadership WASHINGTON (AP) Staff photo by Jack Corn in the house when the roof was ripped off and the wall fell out. Balderidge's car was crushed under the wreckage.

WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. The roaring winds pulled this house apart like a toy. Henry Balderidge stands on the roof and stares at the empty shell of what was his house. His mother was Chancellor Sets Lebanon Poor Home Ties or Crime Jump Report to Mayor Shows Murder Down; Chief Fears Increase By EUGENE DIETZ Police Chief John B. Mill iron said yesterday young men with inadequate home raining caused Nashville's sharp increase in crime last year! THe police chief's annual report to the maor showed there were 67 more robberies, burglaries and thefts in 1955 than in 1954.

Murder Rate Down Nashville, which was listed In 1954 by the Federal Bureau of In- estigation as having one of the highest murder rates in the nation had only 30 murders in 1955 com pared to 38 for 1954. There was a decline also in the number of rapes and traffic deaths. Even though fewer rapes were listed inside Nashville last year, there was an increase in that crime in Davidson county outside the city. Milliron said he was happy that fewer human lives were taken lo cally in acts of crime last year, but he is disturbed about the in crease locally and nationally in other forms of crime. 18-23 Ago Problem Our big problem is the 18 to 23- year-old bracket," Milliron said.

"Young men in that age group are committing far more crimes than in the past. "I think the problem lies with the home. There has been a breakdown in home training, Churches and schools are doing a pretty good job of teaching children what is right, but parents seem to be spending less and less time with their children. Milliron said he fears an even greater increase in crime "if par ents aon taKe more time to teach their children to do the right cnings. Parents must set a pattern by their own actions if their "teach-mg" is to be effective, Milliron said.

cnuaren need the companion ship of their parents, Milliron said. "If parents would spend a little more time with them police men would have to spend a lot less." The police report showed there were 2242 larcenies (excluding au tomobiles) in Nashville in 1955 compared to 1728 for 1954. Other on Page 4, Column 6) Snap Shots: by SEIG Precious crystal, China press. Helpful hubby, One less. JiDates for Briefs Plans Restudie Negro View Does the Southern Negro want integration? Dr.

George Gallup, head of the Gallup Poll, asked this ques-t i recently. His answer, the second in a series, appears today on page 11 of TENNESSEAN Your Readable Meuspaper 15 Die in 1 Plane Crashes Air Force Bombers Plummet to Earth In Missouri, Ohio KNOB NOSTER, Mo. CP) Fifteen persons were killed and a mother and her son were injured as two air force planes crashed yesterday, one here and another near Dayton, Ohio. In the latest crash, a B-47 jet bomber exploded, then crashed into a farmhouse just 10 miles from the base and three minutes after take-off. Four airmen aboard the plane were killed.

Their names were withheld pend ing notification of next of kin. Mrs. Marjorie Curtis, 36, and her son, Danny, 14. were in the farmhouse. The mother's hair was singed and both were badly shaken up The plane was from White man air force base near here.

Superfort Crashes In the other trash, a four-en gine B-50 Superfort carrying 11 men on a test flight, crashed and then exploded on a farm near Dayton, killing all aboard. A series of explosions ripped It apart and scattered bits of wreck aire over. a nine-acre area. After hitting the ground it first ploughed into an unoccupied farm dwelling Flames splashed over the house, an adjoining barn and garage housinq two automobiles. All the buildings burned to the ground.

Mrs. Madeline Henderson, owner of the property and a widow, is vacationing in Florida. The plane was attached to Wright air development center at Wright-Patterson air force base near here. Officials there said it took off for the brief test flight at 11:45 a.m.. and crashed at 11:55 a.m.

on the Henderson farm, situ ated on the Wilmington pike in Montgomery county near the War ren county line. 5 Eyewitnesses At least five eyewitnesses noticed that the plane wa.s in trouble be fore it crashed. John Michael and James Hoyer of Davton. driving in a truck on the Wilmington pike, told this storv of the crash. "As we drove south on Wilming ton pike, we suddenly heard a roar (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) Chicago Snow Halts Disc Jockey's 'Raid' CENTRALIA, III.

(Ul Disc jockey Allen English flew within 13 minutes of Chicago yesieraay in a flight to drop Confederal flags on the city and then was turned back by a snowstorm. English, a record spinner from Oxford, and two pilots were forced to retreat and land at this southern Illinois community. The disc jockey said he planned to return home and try again "when the weather will let us. English planned his "raid" In retaliation for a flight sponsored by Chicago disc Jockey Al Benson last week in which copies of the U. S.

Constitution were dropped on Mississippi. ft W.I THE NASHVILLE Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) opened a Democratic attack on Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles in tho senate yesterday by accusing him of withholding the truth about "our present peril" from Soviet Russia. He said Dulles may endanger administration hopes for passage of a foreign aid program by implying that "the battle against the Soviet bid for world dominion has been won." Fulbright, abetted by fellow Democrats, challenged Dulles to 'tell America the truth as the senate foreign relations committee called in Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.

for a closed door examination of the critical Middle East situation. Quizzed on Situation Hoover and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, were questioned shout the military situation in that area as the aftermath of Dulles' testimony at an open committee meeting riday. Fulbright, a member of the foreign relations committee, said that Dulles, in his testimony, "misleads public opinion, confuses it, feeds it pap, tells it that if it will suppress the proof of its own senses, it will tee that Soviet triumphs are really defeats and western defeats are really triumphs." He questioned whether public opinion is prepared to "make new sacrifices under the circum stances and asked: "Will our people believe us when we ask them to approve new out- laye?" Statement' Fulbright said Dulles gave the committee "a fantastic" statement on Soviet tactics.

Dulles testified that Russia has had to make a change because its old policy had failed in the face of free world unity. Dulles said Russia had made little progress in efforts toward world domination and added: "This minute in Moscow they are revising their whole program. If we were revising our (Continued on Page 8, Column 4) Cloudy, Colder IU. S. Weather Bureau Forecastl NASHVILLE AND VICINITY TODAY Partly cloudy and colder, high 40-45.

Cold tonight, low 25. TOMORROW Some cloudiness, moderate temperature. TENNESSEE TODAY Partly cloudy and colder. Low tonight 28-34 west and central and 33-37 east. TEMPERATURES 2 a.m.

4 a.m. 6 a.m. 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m.

51 49 49 47 50 52 65 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m. Midnight 1 a.m.

63 65 50 46 40 39 High 70 at 3 p.m. Low 39 at 1 a.m. Mean 58. Normal 44. Sunrise 6:23.

Sunset 5:38. Relative humidity at midnight THIS DATE Highest 78 in 1918 Lowest 11 in 1888 Highest last year 75 Precipitation: For 24 hours ending at midnight .01. Total this month 10.31. Excess this month 6.31. Total this year 15.98.

Excess this year 7.05. Nap, nation's forecast, page 16 Winds Pummel City; 28 Degrees Predicted To Follow Storm Front A jolting tornado smashed through Sumner county yesterday afternoon leaving behind a path of destruction. Two houses were de molished, at least 18 others damaged and four -persons were slightly in- jured when the vicious -tornado ripped a three-mile strip." through rural Sumner county. The boiling twister roared through the northeast section of the county for 15 miles, smashing barns, outhouses and snapping power lines. The storm was about 25 miles northeast of Nashville.

Trooper Jack Pruett of the state, highway patrol, who made a survey "of the area last night, said tho countryside was strewn with debris, dead chickens and livestock. "I know it was a tornado." said Mrs. Brice Roach, couomown, who watched the twister dip and bounce within a mile of her home. "I saw it coming. I hope I never see another one.

'Furry Pink Cloud" "It looked like a huge rubber tire spinning along with a furry pink cloud just above it, sne saia. The injured, all treated and re leased at Simonton clinic, Port land, were: Odie McCreary, 36, Cherry Mound community, lacerations about the right ear and multiple bruises. Mrs. Thurmond Rogers, 35, Clearview community, lacerations about head, and her two-year-old son abrasions about the face. Mrs.

Claude Hall, 45, New Deal community, shock. The tornado was tha only one reported in the Midstate yesterday during the alert sounded at noon by the U. f. weather bureau. Tho alert was lifted at 6 p.m.

Nashville, however, was buffeted bv winds, clocked at 51 miles per hour by the weather bureau. The. winds were accompanied by dust that left a thin coating of grime on automobiles. Other than a few trees, no damage was reported in tlie city. Cold Wave Follows The wpftther bureau said the "tornado-sprawning" weather was the forerunner of a cold wave, which will send the mercury dropping to 28 degrees early today from a high of 70 at 4 p.m.

yesterday. The Clearview and New Deal (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) Soldier Fined $50 On Assault Charge A 22-year-old Fort Campbell soldier was fined $50 yesterday on an assault and battery charg which grew out of an incident near a mixing bar Feb. 18. He is Pvt. Francis E.

Nemeth. Another soldier, Pvt. James C. Guard, also of Fort Campbell, was acouitted of a charge of carrying a by Judge John L. Draper of general sessions court.

Mrs. Marvetro Hughes, or 180-B Wharf testified that Nemeth got into the front seat of a car where she was sitting and grabbed her shoulders. The Incident occurred in front of Paradise club, 1609 Fourth S. Xenieth said he ua drunk and did not recall seeing her. He was slashed by the husband of the woman, Marvette Hughes, who said he heard his wife screaming and found two soldiers 'attempting to pull her out.

Hughes said he had parked his ear there while he wa.s maXtnjr delivery of moat to a nearby home. ef cancer, typifies the sort ef progress which has made America the medical center of the world," Trabue said. "Dr. Hahn and his associates are important members of the medical scientific team which Is every day extending the frontiers of medlctna against disease, and death. Tennessean Today Page 13 24-27 24 Paqe 23 15 24 13 Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Markets Movies Obituaries Pattern Road Right-of-Way Pike Funds Voted Judge Beverly Briley at yesterday's special session of Davidson county quarterly court.

At tha meetina. magistrates gave final approval to bond issues of $200,000 to purchase rights-of-way for widening Gallatin road between Madison and the Sumner county line and $400,000 for improving the Davidson county hospital. The state has agreed to make Lebanon road a four-lane highway to Donelson if the county will purchase the rights-of-way at in estimated cor-t of The count has insisted that at present an 87-root right-of-way i-s owner! for the road and that this is sufficient for making it a four-lane highway. State Considers Plans Briley said the county highway department had been notified that state highway engineers were re- tudying the plans. "I hope the state will eonrlude that present righls-of-wav are suf ficient.

Briley continued. he- cause the earlier plans are drastic and I don't believe the people out there would want the highway; widened if they knew how much of their property it would require." The Lebanon road project cannot qualify for federal aid. Under federal aid projects the county only has to purchase one-third of rights-of-way with the state and federal governments buying the other two-thirds. When the Gallatin road project (Continued on Page 4, Column 2j 2 Riot Leaders Jump Daytona Bail DAYTONA REACH, (IP) Police said yesterday that two of the alleged ringleaders of a wild hotrodders" riot here early Sunday apparently had jumped bail. Constable Otis McCuIIourIi Iden tified the men a Eddie Pitts.

41, of Norfolk. and Donald Mm phy, 20, of Youngstown. Ohio, hoth charged with inciting a riot. Pitts posted bail of $150 and Murphy $100 bona and apparently skipped town, the constable Raid. I Gamblers Say Peek Kept $129 Awaits Court Order, Constable Answers; Trio Sues To Recover Tliree Old Hickory men filed a court petition yesterday charging that Constable Floyd Peek refused to return $129 allegedly taken from them at gunpoint during a gambling raid Oct.

23. The three admitted crap shooters are: Perry Couch, of 901 Elliston who said Peek took $64 from him. M. T. Turyfill, of 140 Scenic drive, who claims Peek took his $31.80.

H. B. Hall, of Halls lane, who said he lost $24 to the constable. Peek announced for re-election as fourth district constable last Wednesday. Says Dirty Politics When notified of the petition filed before General Sessions Judge Herbert H.

Moses. Peek said "it is dirty politics." He claimed the petition was filed at the instiga tion of Magistrate Lewis Hurt, of Old Hickory, to Hickory, to prevent his (Peek's) re-election Hurt denied this. In their petition the three claimed Peek "refused to return our money" after they were (Continued on Page 4, Column 3j 100,000 Miles ly none of them ever got there so quickly. The velocity, he said, indicates "a very, very active area." Observers are anxious for next month to arrive so they can get another look at the unusual violence. This flare the one was photographed on the rim of the sun as the field of sun spots that produced it rotated out of sight Feb.

10. It should be back in a couple of weeks, D'Mastus said. The flare was composed mostly of hydrogen gas from the sun's surface, D'Mastus said. The normal pattern in such flares, he said. Is for the material to return bark along the path of the eruption.

This one, though, gave the stuff such a boost that it apparently never came back, he said. The force of it has been estimated at more, than one million H-bombs. Politics Monster Eruption on Sun A UA am yuiiiciua i icuiu In Suit To Bar Funds From Austin Peay By WILLIAM KEEL Chancellor William J. Wade after hearing arguments yester day on both sides of the Integra tion case Involving Austin Peay state college, told attorneys to-file briefs in the case within 10 days. The lawyers clashed in chan-eery court over whether Tennes see's 1955 school appropriations statutes were passed in accordance, with previous segregation laws, or repealed the laws.

To Uphold Law Wade told attorney Sims Crown-over who condemned the S. Supreme Court, that as chancellor lie is sworn to uphold the law. And Wade added that Crownover. is a matter of law, had conceded that state statutes which conflict with supreme court integration decisions are unconstitutional. "You are addressing a court and not a legislature," Wade said.

Crownover had just said he had heard someone say recently that the supreme court integration decision had "set back rare relations in the Soutli 100 years." Crownover argued there is no authority for expenditure of state funds to finance operations of Austin Peay as an integrated (Continued on Page 8, Column 2) Revolting Situation NORWICH. Conn. Deputy Sheriff Paul A. Del Monte took his wife nut for a driving lesson yesterday and police said this happened: In the center of the city, Mrs. Del Monte misjudged a turn.

The car ran up on the sidewalk and knocked clown a parking meter. Tlu-n the car turned off he sidewalk and shot across the st reel. It hit a parked car and pushed it onto tho sidewaik. That car knocked down another parking meter. When poliee arrived they arrested Sheriff Del Monte on a charge of failure to have a mo- tor vehicle under control while instructing an unlicensed per- son.

of Hr. Paul Halm, of the Meharry staff. Dr. Trabue made the presentation during a ceremony at p.m., in vfiich Mayor Ben West also praised the Negro medical college and the contribution it htw made to Nashville and to the Soutli. "The program we have just seen paid tribute to a school which is a source of pride in this region," Dr.

Trabue sud. He pointed out that more than half the Negro doctors and dentists now practicing in this country are Meharry graduates. "I think it noteworthy ttiat Meharry received this venr more grants for research than ever before in the history of the he said. The total in grants came to Jl.Ml.OOO. Trabue said, and touched "almoct everv area of med ical knowledge." "This research, including that now being carried on here with radioactive gold in the treatment State To Decide on Problem; Gallatin By WAYNE WHITT Plans for widening Lebanon road between Nashville and Don- clson are being re-examined by the state to determine whether the project can be carried out under existing rights-of-way.

This was disclosed by County Churches Open TV-Film Series Premiere Slated Tonight for Religious Dramas Created Here The first in a series of television dramas based on non-denominational religious themes will be presented here tonight spon sored by the Nashville Association of Churches. Titled "The Way." the series of 13 films was produced in Hollywood by professional actors. Research and early script writing was done in Nashville by the Radio and Film commission of the Methodist church. National distribution is being made bv the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S.

A. Tonight's film. "An Eye for An Eye," concerns a minister's fight to build a youth program in his community. He is faced by three youths who destroy his church's recreation room, and later commit an armed robbery and murder. The program will be on WSIX- TV at 9 p.m.

Scheduled on 47 television stations thtitughout the country, the public service films treat a basic theme of the Christian aspects of everyday living. Time for the programs is donated by the television station. 'Sense of Urgency' Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett. president of the Methodist Radio Film commission, said the series of half-hour plays "has grown out of a sense of urgency with which large numbers of American people are possessed. Enjoying a higher standard of living than ever before, but filled with anxiety and I (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) By Joe Hatcher with A dial Stevenson in the March 20 Stevenson Is now scheduled in Minnesota March 2-fi, and Kefauver March 7-9 and March 11-lfl.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is slated to speak for Stevenson in Minnesota on March fi. The latest Minnesota development is that Sen. William Know-land (R-Calif.) decided in conference there Saturday to remain in the Republican primaries and wage a campaign regardless of (Continued on Page 6, Column 2) Hurls Hunks SACRAMENTO PEAK OBSERVATORY, N. M.

A monster eruption on the sun which threw bits of the sun's surface 100,000 miles into space as it whooshed upward at between 45,000 and 52,000 miles an hour has observers here excited. Howard D'Mastus. an observer for Harvard university at this mountain top station, said yesterday the strange eruption may be. the fastest ever recorded. He said there have been others that went higher, but quite like- Trabue Praises Meharry for Research With Radioactive Gold, Presents Award I Kefauver Drive Now in High Gear; Knowland Stays in Minnesota Race Mehai ry Medical college "is respected all over tho world for its high standards and the excellence of its graduates." the president of the Tennessee Medical association said here lust night.

Dr. Charles ('. Trabue IV of Nashville lauded the college, its faculty and its graduates, as he presented tho school with an award on tiehalf of the American Medical association. The award was made at Me-harry last night shortly after a eoast-to-coatt program on ABC-TV was telecast "live" from Me-harry, deahnq with the use of radioactive gold in the treatment of cancer and leukemia. The program was aired here at p.m.

over station WSIX-TV. Meharry is the first Southern medical school to be featured on a nationwide telecast of this type. It featured the research work 21 12.14 18-21 22 Designing Woman Kditorials Horoscope Ijiwrence Manners Radio-TV Society Sports t'nele Ray 14 10 22 14 Word Game 14 The Kefauver campaign for president goes Into high gear this week to carry the drive through the June California primaries and thence to the Aug. 13 convention in Chicago. The Tennessee senator opened the 'week yesterday in Iowa.

Me goes to Wisconsin today and Wednesday and Thursday flies eastward for a sweep into New Hampshire. He swings back Into Minnesota for a face-to-face show-down 22 COLUMNISTS: Stokes. GMlup, Pearson, Oth man, Kllgallen. Page 11 SACRAMENTO PEAK OBSERVATORY, N. M.

More powerful than thousands of hydrogen bombs, the surface of the sun erupts, hurling flames outwird for 100,000 miles. This picture was taken Feb. 10 by Howard de Mastus, Harvard university observer..