The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 10

1Q. A THI NA5HVILH TlNNESStAN. Unity Merwisf, March 6. H5S Gabe' Sleeps, Harbinger of a Bad Time for Parts of Midstate Area Retrial of Jelke To Start Monday Sexy Case Will Be Heard Again Because Judge Barred Press, Public I Hottest Item in the case are the i itwc-r ii jL-r I DiarK ooon wnicn usica ine names pi me so-cauea junns, or potential customer! of the call girls. Cafe society is fearful lest these names be spelled out this time ith chapter and verse.

Pretty much the same cast of characters is due to reassemble In Valente's general sessions court. New Members In Cast Besides Jelke and Valente, there will be Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler for the state. Jelke has a new lawyer. George Washington Herz, one of the town's better known trial lawyers.

Also on hand will be the state's galaxy of Miss Ward, Barbara Harmon, Pat Thompson, Miss Cordova, Virginia Dee and Erica Steel hard, polished, provocative, and blonde, brunette or red-haired as the fancy strikes. Chief state witness again will be the girl who finally told the cops about Mickey. She it Miss Ward, of the pixie face, lithe figure, and Peter Pan collar, Wails lor 'Day' Early Summer Set for Event; Portland Braces PORTLAND, Tenn. Uncle Gabe kicked a houn'dawt; off the front etep yesterday and sat down to meditate in the warm sun. He pulled a razor-sharp pocketknife and a sliver of cedar out of his overall pocket, and shaved off a couple of cedar curls.

"Long way to Portland," he said, and went to sleep. That was Uncle Gibe's only re. action when he was told that, this year for the second time, he will be the guest of honor at Uncle Gabe Day in Portland. "He's like that," Aunt Fanny murmured. "You churned up hie insides somethin' awful when you told him that, but he'd nvr iet you know, now for nothin', Gabe's always been independent, MIGII-TEE independent." Tentative Plans Set Tentative plans to sponsor Portland's tribute to its fiction, al first citizen were made last week at a meeting of American Legion Post 75.

Although the-date for the event, "as country as sorghum pouring from a bar. rel," has not been set, it will be held sometime In early summer, Ed Blaisdell, Irf-glon post commander, reported. The event will be sponsored bv the legion post and THB NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN. A year ago, the event was held en the last day of the Portland strawberry festival. No plans for the festival have been made thus far.

A decision on this event is expected to be made within the next few days. "The legion will be glad to work with the festival rommit. tee In making this a joint celr. bration, because we helieve they belong together." Blaisdell said. "However, if for some reason it Is derided not to hold a festival, wp plan to go on with Uncle Gabe day just the same." W.

M. Hunter, principal of Sumner county high school, was elected 1955 chairman of th strawberry festival, but reportedly has said be cannot serve because the main preparation will be necessary when commence, ment is taking place at the school. Pole Climbing and Sack Races Uncle Gabe Day a year ago was a hilarious succession of greased pole climbing, greased pig catchings, tater bugging and sack races. legionnaires agreed that these same games, so popular vith the -Staff photo by Joe Rudis This view it from the Church street viaduct with the state capitol in the A massive black storm cloud, rattling giant hailstones in ponderously over Nashville 5 p.m. yesterday, blotting out the its depths, rolls sun as it moves.

Tornado Hits DeKalb, Wilson; Hail, High Winds Rake Sections fpr: 'Xwf iff i If'" -K I I 1 I I WH I By ARTHUR EVERETT 1 NEW YORK CD At 1 a.m. hot lummer'i night nearly three years ago the doorbell sounded In Ji plush 1147.50-a-month apartment 155 E. 47th St. In New York's fashionable East Side. Minot F.

(Mickey) Jelke padded eleeply to the door early that morning of Aug. 15. 1952. Waiting out-ude to arrest him were police vice xadiers. Thus began the sexiest New i York crime- story since Charles (Lucky) Luciano was sent to prison in the 1930s for white slavery.

For in the background of the case were illicit $100-a-night re-rdevous, the aluring charms of glamorous love-for-sale girls, the ft -fcLki" Marguerite Cordova Reportedly has damaging list smoky, edgy excitement of cafe society and its smart supper clubs, the soft mink and hard diamond aura of Park avenue and the social register Now three years older and 25 rounds lighter, Mickey Jelke is scheduled to go to trial again tomorrow on procuring charges. No Delay Expected He is accused of living beyond his immediate income on the proceeds of prostitution. Both sides forsce no delay when the case is called. They expect the trial to last three weeks to a month. Mickey's first trial began Feb.

2, 1953, and ended 25 days later with his conviction on two of nine original counts. These two accused him of procuring Pat -Ward for prostitution, and con- spiriting to oo ine same witn be retried only on the two counts. Together they carry a maximum 40 years in prison. Originally, Mickey was sentenced to serve three to six years in But because General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valentine barred press and public from the slate's presentation of evidence, the whole thing was upset on an appeal.

Valentine, now in his llth year cn the bench, barred his courtroom to outsiders "in the interest of public decency and morals." Action Held Unwarranted Fifteen months later, the appellate division of the state supreme court held Valentine's action "un orthodox. unwarranted." The 3-2 majority said the all-male jury justly convicted Jelke but that Vai-ente. In effect, bungled the trial. The finding later was upheld by the state's highest court. jeixe, now so, served seven months In the workhouse in 19,13 for two guns found illegally in his possession at the time of the vic raid.

He lost his rating as the town's most eligible bachelor, and his listing on society's blue book, the social register. But he gained a wife shapely, blonde Sylvia Eder. 27, They were married last year Recently Mickey inherited a $125,000 share in the estate of his brother, John F. Jelke. who vanished on an air national guard training flight early in 1954.

He also due to come into an inheritance of three million dollars later this year. It is part of the fortune built up in the mil iMwikl-mi'iiun uuiicir uicg- margarine business. His father, John F. Jelke of Chicago, sold out to Lever brothers Co. in 1948.

Many Names Withheld Mickey has spent much time recently in Florida, working on fishing boats. Valente's ban in the first trial had the effect of keeping secre'. many of the names of men win bought the love of the so-called Jelke girls. This time, the defense says, the names will go on the record. Actually some names leaked out of the first trial from the testimony of Pat Ward.

But to a man they protested they had met her only casually. And there was no tangible suggestion from any quarters that any of them wen romantically involved with her crowd, will be repeated this year. Uncle Gabe frequently peeks into Elmer Hinton's "Down To Earth" column in THE TENNF.S. SEAN Magazine. He made hie first appearance as the black sheep of his family in "Ht Head and Hominy," Hinton's former column in the Upper Sumner Press.

Uncle Gabe and Aunt Fanny live in Sumner county's 42nd district on the Caney Fork creek, "Back where you can't hear no noise but the babblin' of tha i creek and the crows stealin I corn," Uncle Gabe says, "and THEY fly on greased wings." Occasionally, this delightful reprobate gets out his dusty old Whippet automobile and drives into town to stock up on I staples, but his opinion of the and staff photos by Gerald Holly hail broke Mrs. M. M. Fus- The results of a freak hail storm is shoveled off a roof by Charles Taylor of Two Mile pike, site of an unusually heavy deluge. A wind-smashed window is boarded up by W.

E. Morgan at a home on Old Hickory boulevard off Dickerson road. windows at home. (Continued From Page One) pital. He wss discharged following treatment.

Houses Damaged At least three houses and several barns were damaged in Sur- onnsvilln anH a jrrnrerv store was knocked from its moorings by strong gusts of wind and plunked in the middle of U. S. Highway 11-W halfway between Suigoins-ville and Rogcrsville. G. Hawkins county deputy sheriff, said "a couple of houses were blown away five miles northenst of Rogcrsville on Stanley Valley road between Rogersville and Surgionsville." Slightly Injured One person was slightly injured when a house occupied by five persons was blown over.

There were no other Immediate reports of injuries. In Davidson county, window panes were shattered ss large hailstones, driven by heavy winds, beat down, and shingles were torn from many rooftops. Cathcart and his wife were in their home when it was struck by the tornado, "We heard the sound of the wind and went into the kitchen. I saw we couldn't make it to the MITCHELLVILLE, Tenn. Nobody knows where this old rusty bucket came from, but it was lodged snugly between two barb wire strands by a freakish maneuver of Friday night's tornado.

storm cellar outside." Cathcart said, "so I. told my wife to 'hit the "She just stood there. She didn't know what I meant. So I said, 'Hit the Under Bed "She dropped down on the floor and crawled under a bed. Cathcart remained in the kitch en, he said.

The kitchen remained upright, He said, when the twister struck but the room in which his wife was in at the time was demolished. She was uninjured, however. Joe McCreery and Billy Mc-Creery, brothers, and Douglas Brown and C. W. Rutherford, all of Nashville, were driving back to Nashville from a fishing trip at Center Hill dam when they saw the storm four miles east of Watertown.

Describes Storm McCreery said afterward: "I was driving. I saw a big blue flash, I guess it was a wire shorting out. right up in front of us, I would say a couple or three hundred yards in front of us. "Immediately afterward we saw a swirling twister filled with dust, sj -Photo by George Holt The and operated by I. H.

Groves on Highway 31-W two miles west of town was lifted from its foundation and blown 50 feet into an adjoining field. It was torn apart. Barns were blown down on the Simpson Gillespie farm and the home damaged. A tenant house on a farm operated by Nathan Hall was wrecked. Other damage was reported on the Jimmy city offi cial defied the dictionary yesterday and stuck resolutely to his own definition of "capitol." The words, "Memphis the Cotton Capitol," appear on 120,000 city auto license tags which just went on sale here at $5 a copy.

A Memphis Press-Scimitar rer porter told Fred M. White, city license collector, that "capitol" was misspelled that the advertising blurb should read: "Memphis the Cotton Capital." In effect, the dictionary defines Washington as the nation's capital city and the building in which congress holds Its sessions as the capitol. But White stuck doggedly to his guns. "Capital means money, that's all," he said. "I don't care what the dictionary says.

It could be wrong." Baptist Conference ton's boulevard her Old Hickory Vaughn farm. Two barns on the Walter Mc-Glothin farm near the state line were demolished and the home badly damaged. The roof of a building at Ellen Inn tourist court was ripped off. Three general stores In Mitchell ville were damaged. Len Dickens garage was flattened ss was Cok- er's strawberry sales shed.

Electric Engineers To Hear Atlantan J. C. Hartley of Atlanta. Ga. will be the speaker at the Nash vllle chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering Thursday at the Nashville Electric Service auditorium.

Hartley is electric utility application engineer of the apparatus sales division of General Electric. He will discuss "The Art of Protective Relaying" and will describe fundamental types of relays and their application to electric systems. He is a native of South Carolina, a graduate Hartley of Clemson uni- versity, and has held positions with General Electric since 1941. Mrs. C.

T. Campiey of Nashville contributes today to "It Happened Hereabouts" on page 35 in THE NASHVILLE TENNES-SEAN Magazine. tree limbs and what appeared to be pieces of roofs crossing the road. Got Out of Car "We were going pretty slow at that time. My brother though the he.t thing to do would be to get out of the car.

He. and Doug Brown got out and lay down flat in a ditch at the side of the road. 1 lay down on the front seat of the cur. Rutherford stayed in the back. He tried to open a door but the wind was so strong he couldn't.

"I don't know whether we were in the center of it or not, but the wind was mighty strong. It sounded like a freight train. It lasted several seconds. There was hail and rain with it too, "A farmhouse directly across the road from us was unroofed. So far as I know, no one was hurt there.

Wires Down "Wires were down about a half miles or less. Telephone and power lines were down." Black storm clouds swept across the sky in Davidson county and lightning flashed in sharp streaks against the clouds as the storm passed over. Hail the size of hen eggs fell in Joelton and the entire northeast and east sections of the county, Old Hickory, Hermitage, Madison and East Nashville. Power service in the northeastern section was momentarily interrupted. Broke 4 Windows A Goodlettsville resident, John Partish, said hailstones "completely pulverized my roof.

It broke four of my windows. I've lived more than 50 years in Middle Tennessee and I've never seen anything like it." Parrish said hail lay on the ground four to five inches deep. Three storm windows in the home of Richard Carpenter, 1206 Elliston Old Hickory, were broken. Carpenter, who was standing by a window in his dining room when hail shattered the pane, said the storm "sounded like three or four freight trains." Two other residents, Engineer William Martin and Capt. G.

C. Warren, of the Old Hickory fire department, described the hail stones that fell around the fire station as "the size of a fist." Power Wires Down Warren said two power lines at Thirteenth and Bryant streets, and at Ninth and Elliston streets were knocked down by the stones. J. C. McCauley, of 2600 Pennington Bend road, Ponelson, said six inches of hail accumulated on the ground in front of Ben Polk Chevrolet company there.

Mrs. Victory Ellis, McCoin street, Goodlettsville, said she drove between Madison and Goodlettsville shortly after the storm had passed. All Over Road "The ice was backed up all over the roads," she said. "As soon as we hit Goodlettsville, it seemed like the temperature dropped 20 degrees," she said, "We had to turn on the heat. It was the strangest thing we ever saw." She said the wind was blowing "very hard" when she reached home but that there was no dam age to the house, Everv window on the west side of the home of H.

L. Burgess, Old Hickory boulevs'-d near Dicker- son road, was knocked out by the hail, Burgess said. Some of the hail stones came into the house, he said. "They like to scared my wife to death." F. D.

Riley, a member of the WLAC staff, said the stones knocked out seven windows on the west side of the radio build ing on Dickerson road. too In foreground, right, it the town lashing fury of the twister. "The wind didnt seem car Is anything but good. "It smells like coal oil, looks like and runs worse," is hia observation. Once, when plans for the Panama canal were being formulated, Uncle Gabe got up a petition to have it run through Portland, but nothing ever came of it.

He did, however, sell sev. eral parcels of land on his promise that the buyers would "live right by the canal and get to see the Titantic go sailing by." Building Operators To Confer Here Delegates from 11 Southern states will meet here next week for the Southern conference of Building Owners and Managers. The conference will open March 15 at the Hermitage hotel. It will continue the' following day. An estimated 250 to 300 person are expected to attend the session, will be a panel discus, sion on traffic problems.

Participating on the panel will be: Mayor Ben West of Nashville, Mayor Frank Tobey of Memphis, Mayor J. W. Morgan of Birmingham, and Mayor William B. Hartafleld of Atlanta. Gov.

Frank Clement will be principal speaker at a banquet March 14. Manning Klrby of NRshville, conference vice president and chairman of the program committee, will be master of jOpens Here Monday strong," Riley said, "But those hailstones did the damage." An American airlines pilot, en route to Bowling Green, said he circled a storm area about 30 miles north of Nashville. He said he saw no evidence of tornadoes but the storm was very turbulent. Leonard Sisk, general manager of Nashville Electric service, said five 4000 volt lines were knocked down in the northeastern part of the county. No More Than 3000 Service was interrupted "for not more than .5000 customers at any time," he said, "and then only for a few minutes because we retained our emergency crews." Mitchellville, struck by the Friday night tornado, walked about in a daze as twisters skipped over the other areas yesterday, totaling up the damage and picking through the wind-strewn debris.

The funnel-shaped tornado roared out of the west at 10:55 p.m. Friday. It followed a narrow path of destruction along the town's main street. Only 2 Badly Hurt Only two of the five reported injured were severely injured. They were: Bobby Hinton, 25, farmer, admitted to Carter Moore hospital, Franklin, with a fractured foot.

And, Mrs. Bertha Weissinger, 58. treated for severe cuts about her face and Head from flying window glass, but not hospitalized. Treated for shock were Mr, and Mrs. Simpson Gillespie and Mrs.

I. H. Groves. Very Lucky "We're lucky nobody got killed," said Booker Pearson, mayor of the tow'n of 300 residents. Thirty homes caught in the path of the twister were damaged, some hrvond repair.

A number of barns and outbuildings were damaged. hall which eollapied under th I Many were blown down. Several families were homeless. They were temporarily housed by neighbors. The town hall, oldest building in the community, was flattened.

The southeast section of the large brick elementary school was demolished and the rest damaged. A small service station owned Texas Land Man Held in Fraud Charged Conspiring To Commit Theft In Veteran Program AUSTIN. Texas JT Former Texas land Commissioner Bascom Giles was arrested yesterday on a charge of conspiracy to commit theft in the state's $100,000,000 vet erans land program. More than 100 criminal indictments have been returned In multi-pronged investigations of fraud in the sale of land to the state for resale on easy terms to veterans. The arrest of Giles on indictments returned Friday by the Travis county grand jury followed by a few hours that of rancher L.

V. Ruffin of Brady on similar charges. Bond was set for Giles $100,000. Giles resigned as land commis sioner Jan. 1 in the midst of the investigation of the veterans land program which he fathered in 1949.

He has refused lo testify as to his business relationships with numerous individuals and companies involved. Circle Theater To Give Inge Drama The Circle theater cast for "Picnic" has almost been completed, Madalane Buford, director, announced yesterday. The drama, by William Inge, ill open at the Hillsbofo road theater March 23 and will run through April 2, Mrs. Buford said. Rehearsals began a week ago she added.

Featured in the cast are Charles Holland as Hal; Pam Pyle as Madge; Betty Hatrher as Helen; Jane Wolfe as Milly; Steve Laslcy ss Bomber; Irene Lewis as Flo; Nancy Green as Rosemary; Ralph Bolinger as Alan; and Glicksie Oglesby as Irma. Security Lists 36 High Paid Jobs Applicants to fill 36 professional and technical jobs are being sought by the state department of employment security, the depart ment announced last night. The department said all of the positions are in Tennessee. Openings range In salary from 5 250 to $500 a month and occupations ranging from college economics teachers to purchasing and production management. Local openings include calls for 24 nurses, an anesthetist, medlcai librarian, pharmacist, dietitian, X-rsy technician, stationary engineer, canvas goods foreman and assistant, chemist, Donald Mc-Sween, commissioner, said.

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The conference, to be held at the American Baptist Theological seminary, also will feature an address tomorrow night by Dr. M. C. Cleveland of Montgomery, Ala. He will discuss the problems of the present-day psstor.

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This is the town'i one main trtet where night's tornado ripped a path of destruction. 1075.