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THtHCAKT OF TV EE I rm Served by America's Greatest News Services Af fie Crossroads of Natural Gas and TV A Power Telephone Alpine 5-1221 VOL. 57 No. Second Claw Postage Paid at Nashville. Tenn. NASHVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1963 10 CENTS 86 PAGES 1 NASHVILLE T711TTiTT71 CI Ci T71 A TVT pj rx Lift Rf Phoumi Finds Rightists Ready Briley Asks Fire Station Sites Review Mayor Says Proposed Locations Questioned as Not Most Suitable To Serve Needs of Department Jacobs Denies Influence Use In Whisky Case Police Chief Says Evidence Does Not Reflect on Officers By JAMES TALLEY Former City Councilman Gene Jacobs and Metropolitan Patrolman William D.

Larkin 3,000 Troops, Jets Prepare For Takeoft President Sends Harriman to Soviet In Laos Crisis WASHINGTON (AP) Two United States battle groups of o.OOO men and accompanying jets are being sent into Thailand against the backdrop of mounting crisis in Laos, the Defense Department announced yesterday. The announcement came a President Kennedy said he waa sending a top diplomatic trouble shooter to Moscow to head off the mushrooming trouble in Southeast Asia. Kennedy told his news conference Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman, now in London, will arrive in Moscow at 6:15 p.m. today, Moscow time.

WAYNE WHITT By were linked yesterday to reported "pressures" in Metropolitan Mayor Beverly Briley said yester day he had asked the planning commission to review behalf of a bootlegger arrested on whisky charges. However, both Jacobs and Larkin denied they tried to in the proposed locations of two fire department substations to make certain they are situated where they will serve the most people. fluence the patrolman who ar rested Charlie Brown, 45, of 717 Napier Court. At the same time Police Chief Hubert O. Kemp announced that he had received a final report The proposed locations are on Polk Avenue and on Middleton Street near Hermitage Avenue.

The stations are to replace two being dislocated in South Nashville by road Arrests Drop Under Metro on an investigation or the pressures" from the assistant chief, Braxton M. Duke, and that no disciplinary action would be taken. THE NAMES of Jacobs and Prilnv cn ill ihara TV a nm A By FRANK RITTER The number of arrests in question about the location of were lnciuoea in a state- ment submitted Nashville and Davidson County I streets the area tor the "Vfr.lv has declined approximately per rent since Metropolitan gov-the fire trucks to get out," hejBrown AlVl 10' The other ar-. 11 resting- officer, patrolman Carl eminent went Into effect April said. jHarriion.

also reported conver- 1, police records disclosed yes- SAID HE had asked the'sation with Jacobs, terday. commission to review the entire "It seems to me," said Kemp, See editorial, "Dark Clouds in Laos Hold Warning for Mr. and Tom Little's cartoon on page 10. "with a message for Premier Khrushchev from me explaining the purpose of his trip." The Defense Department said the troops and jets were being sent for maneuvers in Thailand next month. i However, the number of com- situation.

"I want the substa- "that vye commend these .1 1. 41.... .1 Affiran Rail nJ a of a AP Wirephoto Pathet Lao forces must be withdrawn from the territory they have seized in recent fighting if the ceasefire there is to be effective. plaints which police have n- arrestino a known white VIENTIANE Rightist Laos Vice Premier Gen. Phoumi Nosavan reviews right wing troops at his army headquarters near Vientiane.

The U.S. has indicated that pro-Communist has His request follows on whiskey hauler. In fact, swered so far this month dropped only slightly. i Fir. r.hi.f 5IC uiI result of the John Ragsdale to make a full report to him on purchasing Police had placed only 776 charges against 720 persons through last Tuesday, records show.

The new Metropolitan Po THE DEEPENING crisis was created bv pro-Communist forces attacking and threatening to drive Neutralist forces from Taos' strategic Plalne Des Jar-res. The assaults have been at leust temporarily halted but practices of his department since last June 28 when the voters However, he said, there is "no Indication" that pressure was put on Ball or Harrison by a member of the Metropolitan Police Department. He said the only pressure "if you can call it that" came from Jacobs. Silence Mdfks Kremlin Talks Alabama Hunts Pilgrim's Killer lice Department Includes all the officers who formerly were with the old city and county patrols. Want War? JFK Answers these other developments pointed DURING 1S62 for compari THE SOUTH Nashville politician, asked about any connection un the serious, worldwide concern: The Defense Department announced that a battle croup of By PRESTON GROVER MOSCOW UP) The U.

S. and with the ease, replied: ATTALLA, Ala. VP) State "No. sir, I didn't have any- and county authorities launched thing to do with that." ja massive search yesterday for Jacobs, who now runs a beerhe slaver of a white Baltimore ratified Metropolitan government. The department has ordered $519,321 worth of fire-fighting (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) Mackey Quits Trevecca Helm By BILLY JOE RICHEY Dr.

A. B. Mackey, president of British ambassadors laid before Premier Khrushchev yesterday the West's Ideas for untangling WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy yesterday that or 5,000 Soviet troops tavern, is appealing a Criminal Armv infantry and another of paratroopers will take part In Southeast Asia Treaty Organization maneuvers in Thailand next month. Planning' for the exercises has been underway for months, but it coincides with movements of 7th fleet units into son an average of 1.994 charges were placed each month bv city police against 1,702 persons. Figures for the county patrol were not available but Sheriff Leslie Jett estimated yesterday that his patrol had averaged 800 to 1.000 arrests per month.

The decline in arrests is atrib-uted by authorities to: The new arrest procedures In misdemeanor cases whereby po-i lice when thev do not have pri Court conviction of conspiracy to violate state election laws. pilgrimage to MIs-jhave ef. Cuba January and said advocates of i. i ij i. i integration sissippi.

William He was sentenced to a year in snarled negotiations for a treaty to end nuclear testing. U. S. Ambassador Foy D. Koh.

ler and British Ambassador Sir Moore, 35, was shot: Luuguer tuua policy snuuia mane cieai wneuiei Southenit Asia waters. prison. Ball said in his statement Jacobs approached him April 11 to death at close range about 8. they want America to go to war, Th, linlli nliirla 41,. 1.1 1.0 linn j.

nhr.u Trevelyan emerged i nese were ivenneav reniies ar a news conrer- in the police station, the day this Northeast Alabama town. from A meet nn of an hour anH ence to two Republican a half In th. Kremlin dec.iningj-r- i TTi.C"1 vate prosecutors must see thej after the arrest was made and minutes after the trial was Moore was wearing pro-integration signs. an comment. I neir subordinates Trevecca Nazarene College, announced his retirement yester- effense being committed beiore thev can make an arrest.

or me aamimsira- WBr, WJI.n.j k. Okinawa. "He said I had arrested one of "WE HAVE nothing concrete," his boys," Ball said. ier iJeputy blieritr Tony ition Cuba policy, Sen.) The impasse that has devel- oped in the Geneva test ban Kenneth t. Keating Otalks caused speculation in Mos- iNew York and that the way was bring 'nri'naied for a foreiirn nun xtnrs otJ cverytning is on or THE PENTAGON said these troops will be accompanied by supporting aircraft and logistic elements.

It Is understood one squadron of air force jot fight- Aerialist Falls, Chills Spectators to know if there was anything The new procedure whereoy UH.v wviuk me uisluuuuu each offender must be taken more than a quarter of a fore a Metropolitan judge for a 'century. warrant before he can be jailed' Immediately after accepting or booked. Mackey's retirement Uncertainty bv officers board of trustees named Dr.j fear that thev will make a mis-l William Greathouse, 43, as Mac-; process now of elimination Ball could do to help Brown. i talking to witnesses and running jVice President Richard conference perhaps a big three. had ao leaas- him Gov.

George Wallace, a rigid includingjer! wil1 take Pfirt- The SEATO ground exercises "I TOLD him no, that I arrested him and booked perhaps a big lour, i France. M. Nixon. Keating had challenged Ken- segregationist, called the slay- key's successor. Greathouse is i pastor of the First Church of the U.S.

SOURCES In Washington will include more than 24.000 and Geneva cautioned that such nien from all member nations (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) take in following the new procedures which were officially adopted onlv yesterday. talk was premature. Acting Police Chief Hubert O. See editorial, "Fruit of Defiance," on page 10. To Meet the President, turn to page 6.

Nazarene, 510 Woodland St. Greathouse had not accepted the nosition early last night, however. He said he had "no comment." Tennessean Today and will be held in Thailand 11 through June 19. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home told the House of Lords in London yesterday that the Soviet Union was frustrat- (Turn to Page 2, Column 3 Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko joined in the talks with the two ambassadors.

So much has been said In Washington, and so many high (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) Kemp said yesterday he believes the number of arrests will pick up eventually, and added: "The changeover, when it Is completely effected, will straighten things out. This pro IN A CLOSED session of the executive board of trustees, Mac- hjt i Pa9eIing a dastardly act and offered Market ia $1 1000 reward for the arrest Basket 37 and conviction of the killer. Nancy Nash 37 Obituaries 52 President Kennedy commented Radio-TV 33 n's news conference, calling Sport3 28-31 the slaVinK an "outrageous By JACK HURST Aerialist Don Floyd gave his wife, other performers and the Shrine Circus crowd a chilling-thrill last night when a ladder slipped and threw him 14 feet to the concrete floor of the ring. Floyd, a 43-year-old high wire walker who had never fallen before, hit the rim of the curb on the ring as the crowd fell into nedy's March report of a withdrawal of 4,000 Russian troops. The senator said as many Soviet military personnel have been moving into the island as mov ing out, so the number remaining is unchanged.

Page Amusements 8 Anne Adams 46 Ask Andy 32 Bridge 42 Classified 52-57 Comics 32 Crossword 48 Editorials 10, 11 Hollywood Beautv 46 cedure is different from that in the past and has caused some concern." key asked to be relieved of his presidential duties by end of the last session of summer school. The Incoming president crime." Uncle Rav 32 THE procedures have causediwould take office September 1. Amy The President expressed per- Vanderbllt 46 sonal shock about "the assas-Weather Man of citizens" on nubile AFTER KENNEDY'S news conference Keating Issued more than a little concern. Mackev's retirement came One Metropolitan patrolman one vear remaining in a recently was overheard asking three-year contract. Reasons for 'Jo Ann Asks Parole to UT 33'Woman's iroads and said the federal gov- a stunned hush Horoscope statement saying: "I stand byi at i my figures." 37 World 37-49 Lawrence An examining physician (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) (Turn to Page 2, Column 7) Markets 34, 35! Word Game 32' (Turn to Page 2, Column 1) Keating said he was not chal- ringside at the time of the (accident said he believed Floyd's ankle was broken, but doctors (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) at General Hospital later suld I Singing Star Brenda Lee Weds it was only "twisted." i HE WAS treated and released from the hospital last night.

Floyd was following his wife Heidi the two are billed as the "del Oros" up to the high wire for their act when the accident occurred. "I was going up and I noticed there was something wrong in the rigging somewhere," she said. "I turned around and signaled him not to come up, but he didn't see me. He came on, and all of a sudden the ladder came By JULIE HOLLABAUGH A woman prisoner who turned a 10-year sentence for armed robbery into a training; course for college asked her freedom yesterday of the State Pardons and Parole Board. Sarah Jeanette (Jo Ann) Johns, 23, focal point of a crime spree that ended in abduction of a Memphis insurance salesman four years ago, told Parole Board members she has been accepted by the University of Tennessee as a student contingent upon her release.

Slnlo Corrections Commissioner Harry Avery, chairman of the htfnrcl, commended the drastic chant'e in the woman's 'hvinr and attitude and said he hoped her example would be an Inspiration to other Inmates, both men and women, possessed of slmllnr mental capabilities. He snld a program to help other Inmntes financially Is being explored by his department. NERVOUSLY wringing a handkerchief and flanked by her equally nervous mother, Mrs. Bessie Johns, 612 Mc-Ferrin Miss Johns told the board she has earned 12 colleen credits from a correspondence coursn spread out over the last three years, ontl- (Turn to Page 3, Column 1) By GERALD HENRY Brenda Lee, the little singer with the big voice, slipped away yesterday afternoon for a quiet and unannounced marriage to tfle 18-year-old son of a Metropolitan councilman. The world famous recording idol, also 18, was wed in Radnor Church of Christ hre to Charles Ronald (Ronnie) Shacklett of 314 Elberta Nashville.

The only persons at the wedding were members of the groom's family, the minister and his wife. No one from Miss Lee's family attended Her marriage. MISS LEE, wearing a white ttfo-plece suit, was married under her real name, Brenda Mae Tarpley. Dub Allbrltten, Miss Lee's business manager, said last night "I don't think the marriage will either help or hurt her career. She is more or less He said the couple had planned to be married after her scheduled May 2 appearance at the Copacabana in New York "But they apparently couldn't wait.

You know how kids are," THE NEWLYWEDS were believed on their way to Gut-linburg last night for a honeymoon of several days. Councilman and Mrs. Earl C. Shacklett, the groom's parents, said last night the two have known each other for more than a year and had 'i Lf i id kL' 111 I i i I 'I 1 1' i I (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Politics By Joe Hatcher Democratic Women Work For Solidarity Democrats may argue, split Into faction.s, and sometlmej vote Republican even, but that's rarely true of the Democratic women and their organizations in Tennessee. The Tennessee Federation of Democratic Women holds its sixth annual convention here Friday and Saturday of this week, and the party will owe them tribute for loyalty, hard work and dedication to the party welfare again.

Women from all the factions In the party are members of i (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) I I 1 I 7 tit-rif-irrri nniiYfritfil r'--ftiMs) lit 'iit Cloudy NASHVILLE AND VICIN ITY Considerable cloudiness and a little warmer with occasional showers and thunder-showers. Hiqh around 70. Showers decreasing tonight with low temperatures in the 50's. Partly cloudy and mild tomorrow. Map, other data on page 31.

Staff photo by Jack Coin Sarah Jeanette (Jo Ann) Johns talks to another inmate about prospects of her being released from State Prison to the campus of the University of Tennessee. Brenda Lee and her new family preparo to leave Radnor Church of Christ after the singing star's wedding. From left are Brenda; her mother-in-law, Mrs. Earl C. Shacklett; the groom, Ronnie Shacklett; and the father-in-law, Councilman Shacklett.

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