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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 12

Publication:
The Tennesseani
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
Issue Date:
Page:
12
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THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Friday, 10. 1954 vented any supplies from reach- Beauty Scorned ing them from the border. Invaders Cornered, He said the band was under mortar fire. Haiti told the United Nations Duvalier Boasts last Friday that the invasion force was made up of rebel Hai tians and Dominicans and that additional border crossings were Mid-Year Store-Wide PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti UPM Republic June 29 and established Planned as part of a campaign aimed at assassination of "the President Francois (Papa itself in mountain strong- closest valier.

collaborators" of Du- Ioc) Duvalier's government hold. claimed yesterday its troops and Foreign minister Rene Chal-loyal peasants have surrounded men said the invaders will have an invasion force that crossedjto eurrender or be wiped out be-into Haiti from the Doniinicamcause Haitian forces have pre- To nlace your Classified Ad call 254-1031. SHOP 10 A.M. TIL 10 P.M. Discount Department Stores Selling First Quality Only SPECIAL EVENT Starts Thursday at 10 A.M.-Ends Saturday 10 P.M.

12 I --7 CLEARANCE 0 MEN'S QUALITY SUITS Summer and Regular Weights SALE In keeping with our policy to bring you the lowest possible prices on the highest quality merchan dise we have purchased floor sample merchandise at a recent distributor's showing enabling us to give you fabulous savings during this sale. We have moved all our RCA Appliances, TV's and Stereos to our Big Covered Sidewalk. Refrigerators, Ranges fan reezers. were s19500 now s16585 Choose from selected Fashion-Right groups, all from Levy's regular fine stocks. Featuring such Famous Quality Brands as Louis Roth Hammonton Fark Austin Leeds Grieco Joshua Trent Deansgate and other regularly featured makes.

IMPRESSIVE SELECTIONS FREE ALTERATIONS AP Wirephoto OLYMPIA. Wash. Duke, a peacock owned by the governor'! son, Albert D. Rosellini must have been running at large when he walked into the secretary of state's office where candidates were filing for office. Anyway, Duke wasn't appreciated and Oscar Barclift, chief engineer for the state division of building and grounds, gave him the heave-ho.

Smokies Air Crash ENTIRE STOCK RESISTOL STRAW HATS 12 PRICE (Continued From'Page One) for a conference on blood platelets opening today. J. H. Burroughs, pnginerr. R.

R. Cramer, accounting superintendent. S. D. Ford, maintenance The men were listed as Dr.

Alfred Leitner, Harvard Medical School; Dr. R. H. Levin, Na tional Cancer Institute, Beth- All lived in the Chattanooga esda, Dr. Melton Cross, area.

school of medicine. State Uni 1 RIHBI ilBiij "tG i tf jP AUjUDjM5ih vrr-- fi TRADE IN iv In Philadelphia, a United, spokesman released a statement! versity of New York, Buffalo; and Dr. P. H. Geisler, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

by George E. Keck, president! CLEARANCE FAMOUS BRANDS SPORT COATS were s2995 52485 to $6285 Iioose from Hundreds All Fashion Right of the airlines. Keck said: At least seven Hnoxville area 1. 1 1 1 i- I rrssh "I ME AIRCRAFT Was ap-: They were identified bv air-I lines officials ner nying; Sam Orleans. Onerator of u.v.

film production firm. I Company representatives are Dr. Durant DaPonte. assist- approacning tne scene and will ant dean of the University of he working with government of-! Tennessee graduate school. mciais.

rom mis point on. tne George L. Leupold, salesman. aeronautics Board is in. B.

E. Crowder, salesman. complete charge. Subsequent re-j Mrs. Richard C.

Harper Sr. BOTH STORES OPEN TONIGHT 'TIL and her son, Richard 5. pons as to the cause will be: provided by the CAB. I "United has flown 21.84S.970, L. D.

Schaffer of Oak Ridge also was reported aboard the plane. Another victim, Hugh Taylor Huntsville, was to have gotten off the aircraft at Knox-ville to visit bis parents at their home in Morristown. CLEARANC passengers, 14.668.000,000 revenue passenger miles since its last fatal accident on Nov. 23, 1962." The spokesman said that crash occurred In Maryland. The captain of the plane's crew was identified by UAL as Oliver E.

Sabatke of Washington. The first officers was identified as Charles L. Young of Baltimore with two stewardesses, J. K. Vollmer of Pittsburgh and C.

L. Berndt of Orleans had made numerous motion pictures for the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy Commission and other CLEARANCE ON ALL FLOOR SAMPLE RCA VICTOR TV STEREO government agencies. Dr. DaPonte, about 45. was a native of New Orleans and had been assistant dean of the UT graduate school since Septem ber.

Youngstown, Ohio, also aboard. The spokesman said a complete list of the passengers aboard the plane was being compiled at the airline's Chicago 'Dr. DaPonte death Is grievous loss to the university totaMto Eft fe-P DlsC0Unts on TV Stereo yj Trade In RequiredA said President Andrew D. Holt. He was one of the most promis SPORTSWEAR FURNISHINGS $7.95 to S27.95 Fine Slacks (Entire Stock) S685 to 2185 $2.95 to $27.50 Sport and Knit Shirts Now 235 to S1885 $5.00 to $10.00 Dtess Shirts (Lf sht si).

$385 to 885 Comparable Reductions on Robes, Pajamas, Hosiery and Nechcear. Selected groups of Famous Quality Brands Mavest Mayfair Merrill-Sharpe Holbrook Van Heusen Enro and many others regularly featured at Lew's 2 Stores. ing young members of the faculty." Three employes of DuPont corp. in Chattanooga were 901 Murfrcesboro Road Acres of Free Parking aboard the plane. Headquarters.

UNITED AIR Lines said the pilot radioed at 5:02 p.m. CST that he was changing from an instrument to a visual flight plan. The plane crashed 13 minutes later, six minutes before its scheduled arrival time. The wreckage still was burning when rescue workers reached the scene. "It was terribly disintegrated," said Denver Trentham, who lives DuPont officials identified them as: nearby.

A part of one engine was about 1,000 feet from the rest of the wreckage. There were FORMAL WEAR REDUCED Famous Quality Brands Tux Suits, Coats, Pants no seats just small pieces of metal. JOHN M. Jones a reporter for the Greeneville Sun, said tbe mangled bodies were widely sep CLEARANC MEN'S SHOES arated over an area of about one-half square mile. Several hundred persons crowded the crash scene, and officers blocked highways leading to the area as the crowd grew.

A call was sent out by authorities for large searchlights to search through the night. Bodies were brought to an improvised morgue at Newport. 1 "The plane was flying very low and smoking before it hit the ground, said Frank Turner, a constable at nearby Parrotts- ville. "It exploded before it hit the side of the hill and then eX' ploded again." Ah OTHER eyewitnesses said they saw objects falling from the plane before it crashed, according to Jones. They were unable to say what the objects were.

The Civil Aeronautics Board, which sent a team of investigators to the scene, said there was Tint Im 4Nfef a 4.000-foot ceiling, 30 miles visi 1 79-0 I ff AND UP Simap nop summer refiresllDinnieinit vmb crisp Whey's dod bility and scattered clouds at the time of the crash. Dr. DaPonte, UT Dean, a Victim KNOXVILLE Dr. Durant H. DaPonte.

assistant dean of the graduate school of the Univer sity of Tennessee, was among SHOE FOR MEN 1 VAND UP those killed in the crash of a United Air Lines plane near here yesterday. DaPonte was married to the former Martha Lee Pennebaker of Cookeville, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. B.

Pennebaker. Buy two pairs at these savings! fJot every style on sale but the selection of styles at sale prices is broad enough to give you excellent choices. DaPonte had boarded the plane in Washington after deliv ering an address at the University of Maryland on "The Wom en In the Plays of Tennessee Williams," a paper originally written for and delivered at SHOES SOLD IN DOWNTOWN STORE ONLY Gilbey's crispness enlivens any gin drink. Makes a Tom Collins zippier. A gin tonic brisker.

A martini snappier. Try crisp, London Dry Gilbey's Gin. Born in London in 1872. In the best London Dry tradition. Now an international favorite.

Taste why "The world agrees on 'Gilbey's, please'!" Le Petit Salon in Nashville last January. (DaPonte. a specialist in American authors, was a fre quent contributor to the book pages of THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN. At the time of his THE FRIENDLY STORES WITH THE MOST -OF THE BEST IN MEN SWEAR GILBEY'S GIN Crisp, London Dry death he was writing a book on Joseph Wood Krutch.) Other survivors include a DISTILLED LONDON DY 30 P.QOF ,00 ORA.N NtJ1PAL SPIRITS W. 4 A.

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