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P. Leased Wires, Member ABC andNEA Net Paid ClrculaUon 13,427 VOL. 68 NO. 22 ANN1STON, ALA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1949 5c A COPY-30e A WEEK BY CARRIER Yankees Win Slayer Says ith Homer Confession WasForced; 'Other Man' Killed Pair' In 9th Inning Local Forecast fat Cesspool Deaf Mute Charge Beat ings By Poliee CausedIIim To Confess Two Deaths French Head Resigns Post In Fund Row Henrich Knocks One Over The Fence For Dramatic End To Series Opener Last-Minute Score Ends Tight Battle Contractor Named As Killer Of Girls Frank Adair Will Take Stand To Deny Part In Murders Navy Probe Gets Started In Congress Committee Urges Navy To Fire Civilian Aide Who Quit A Month Ago WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (U.B The House Armed services Committee recommended today that the Nary Fire Civilian Official Cedrle It-Worth.

The Navy promptly replied that Worth resigned more than a month ago. Worth, a civilian assistant to Undersecretary of Navy Dan A. Kimball, admitted he wrote the celebrated document charging political skulduggery in the B-36 procure-nvent program. He recanted the-document's charges under oath. With its recommendation that I iImiiii i aaai.fft.wtaar.talallt! sPr- 1 GRAIN BINS FOR A BUMPER CROP Anniston's Kilby Steel Company pours out all-metal grain bins at the rate of one every four minutes.

Some 7,000 of these bins built to government specifications will keep tons of grain up off the ground this Winter. At upper left a hydraulic lift hauls a stack of sheci metal into the Kilby Steel plant step one in the production. Upper right, the wall sheets, corrugated for strength, go through this machine which punches bolt holes along the edges. At lower 'eft, the wall pieces are finally rolled through this machine to give them the curvature of the bins. Lower right, the completed "Blue Bonnet" grain bin fire-proof, rat-proof and weather-proof, and "Made in Anniston." Kilby SteeVs Made-In-Anniston Corn Bins Help West Farmers To Save Bumper Crops TALLADEGA.

Oct 5 Herbert Hoover Gentry. 2. named a friend as the slayer el his wife and her girl friend, today testified that Talladega police officers beat him into confessing the murders. Gentry is on trial on charges of murdering his wife's friend, Mrs. Dorothy Deal, 21, of Rome, Ga.

He also is charged with shoot ing his wife. Flonnle, 19. to deitlWTrr The near deaf mute, sometimes testifying through his own vole and sometimes through a sign' language Interpreter, surprised the crowded court room late jrea terday by naming Frank Adair, a Talladega contractor, as the slay- er of the two girls. Officer "Slapped" Hloa Gentry testified that three Talladega officers. Police Chief WilUs Dean and Policemen Carl Jacks and Walt Thackerson, slapped bint and beat him on the head with blackjacks.

-I just had to say I did It," told the court "I got tired of It (the -I couldn't stand it I told them "yep. I did if" Gentry, testifying through a sign language interpreter, said that Frank Adair shot: and killed two girls last Feb. 9 and said "he would kill me if I told any- body about him." Earlier testimony brought out that Adair was -on a "drinking party" with Gentry, his wife and Mrs. Deal at a tourist cabin the night they were Last week the state Introduced four separate statements madato police in which Gentry 'confees ed" killing the two girls and placing their nude bodies In a cesspool. State Solicitor J.

J. Cockrell said that Adair would be placed on the stand for the first Uma as a rebuttal witness. The deaf youth, alternating his testimony in a nervous monotone with sign language relayed to the court by an interpreter; told of -the party at the tourist cabin and said they returned to the Gentry home. "We had been drinking for sev eral hours." he said. "I got sleepy but I saw Frank (Adair) kiss my wife in the kitchen.

She took Adair's glasses off. Me and Frank had a fight. He tore my shirt "Then we both shook hands and BY CODY HALL Photos By Lamar Whlsenant Every four minutes under the thunderous changing of huge presses and the slamming of great sheets of metal the Kilby Steel Company turns out a completed "Blue Bonnet" grain bin for the farmers of America. Kilby Steel is one of Anniston's busiest, hustlingest industries. You can hardly hear yourself yell over the noise of the machinery at the West End plant where some 450 men maintain 24-hour-a-day operations.

i 7 JOHN W. HOWELL Howell To Seek A Second Term In State House Solon Reverses Position On Campaign; Patterson Talked For Congress John W. Howell, State Representative from the northern part of Calhoun County, announced today he would be a candidate for re-nomination to the State Legislature in the Spring primary next year. "I previously said I would not be a candidate again because of my age," Mr. Howell said.

"But I have changed my mind because my experience in the Legislature makes me more efficient to cope with the legislative processes." He said he feels he can accom plish more in his second term than in his first. "Not A Quitter" "Besides, he added. "I do not like to be called a quitter. A man has a right to change his mind about running for dffice, but he has no right to change his policies after he goes down to the Capitol." Mr. Howell, whose home is in Jacksonville, said "I worked in the interest of the Public Welfare Department.

The Ways and Means Committee cut the Public Welfare funds $1,500,000. and through an amendment offered by me, $1,000,000 of it was restored to the department." He added that he also spon sored a bill for $450,000 from the general funds to make up the de partment's loss of money. The bill passed the House and was lost in the Senate filibuster. The Calhoun County representative said he also voted for every educational bill that was presented, and supported the Veter an Affairs Department's added appropriation bill. Patterson To Run? On the congressional scene, meanwhile, friends of LaFayette Patterson, professor of history and government at Jacksonville State Teachers College, were reportedly urging him to seek the Fourth District Congressional post.

Mr. Patterson, who served as Congressman from the old Fifth District which was abolished in 1931. declined to say whether he would seek election to the position to be left vacant by Representative Sam Hobbs decision not to run again. The Jacksonville educator worked for the Department of Agriculture after losing his seat in Congress, and was with the War Food Administration during the last war. While in this work, Mr.

(See Howell. Page 3. Col. S) if aW av German Reds Move To Form New Rtiflsiuii Satellite; Chinese Forces Fight By ASSOCIATED PRESS Premier Henri Queuille offered his resignation today to President Vincent Auriol. Queuille's coalition government, in office more than a year and longer than any previous postwar French Cabinet, ran into a crisis with the insistence of the Socialist Party that labor's demand for wage increases be satisfied.

Queuille heads the Radical Socialist iConservative) Party. The tender of the Premier's resignation followed a meeting of the Cabinet ministers which had been deadlocked on the wages and prices issue. Robert Bruynell, undersecretary of state, 'reported earlier that Queuille was to see Auriol this afternoon, presumably to offer his resignation. Parliament To Meet Queuille told reporters that Parliament, normally due back from vacation Oct. 18, would be convened in extraordinary session next Saturday.

The Premier said Auriol had tried to persuade him to let Parliament decide, by vote, the fate of the coalition government, but the Premier said he re plied that would have been use less. Eastern German Communists speeded their efforts today to form a new Russian satellite republic to rival the West German Government sponsored by the United States, Britain and France. The Communists sdmitted that fear of an anti-Soviet Titoist heresy that might split their own ranks goaded them on. Berlin will be the capital of the new republic which is due to be proclaimed next Friday. The government may be installed next week.

There will be no elections. The administration will, grow out of the Communist-ruled German people's council. The Soviet occupation authorities, it is believed, have already endorsed Communist appointees as Ministers of Interior, Economics, and Propaganda, the key posts in any government. Tito Not Afraid Premier-Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia indicated he has little fear of pro-Soviet sympathizers within his borders. Tito opened the jail doors for 713 former Moscow supporters.

They have repented, the government said, and have been released to build roads for Tito. Canton dispatches said a critical battle is being waged between Communists and Nationalists for the key city of Kukong. Loss qf the city, 125 miles north of Canton, would sever communications between the present Nationalist capital and its military forces in Hunan Province. Military Chiefs Meet Military chiefs of the United States and 11 other North Atlantic treaty nations met in Washington today to set up organizations that will utilize the billion dollars in American arms aid recently voted by Congress. Paraguay, the little South American country which switched presidents in a coup only three weeks ago, was ruled today under a state of siege decreed to combat "despotism and terror." The state of siege was ordered by the government yesterday afternoon but there were no immediate reports of disorders.

Worth be fired, the committee end ed the B-36 phase of its investigation. It gave a clean bill of health to Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, AircraftManufacturer Floyd B. Odium, and all others who came under Worth's fire In his document. But another phase of the committee's Investigation will start tomorrow that of charges by Navy officers that the morale and fighting effllcency of their service are being undermined by armed services unification.

Three top admirals were asked to testify tomorrow. Other congressional developments. OLDS The Senate Commerce Committee failed to heed President Truman's 'appeal in behalf of his appointment of Leland Olds to a third five-year term on the Federal Power Commission. The committee voted 10-2 that the Senate reject the appointment. TIDELANDS Supporters of legislation to give title of marginal sealands to coastal states urged approval to "preserve the fundamental rights to the states." ATOMIC Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, (R.r la.

was joined by Senator Eugene D. Millikin. Colo and William F. Knowland. Cal today in a demand for reopening of the hearing into Hickenlooper's charges of "incred lble mismanagement" of the atomic program by David E.

Lilienthal. The Senators are members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Com mittee. Chairman Brien delayed until tomorrow any decision on the motion by the three Republican Senators. Meanwhile, Senator Clinton P. Anderson, N.

accused unidentified administration forces of sabotaging his farm price support bill in an effort to win eventual passage of the Brannan Plan. Dempsey Requests City Commission To Reinstate Him Former City Detective J. H. Dempsey asked the City Commission for reinstatement at the regular weekly meeting yesterday. Dempsey presented the circumstances of his case in a letter to the commission and said he would be willing to meet with the commissioners to discuss his going back to work.

Cty Attorney Richard Emerson said a judgment for back salary, awarded Dempsey in a suit against the city, would be appealed. Mr. Emerson told the commission the appeal bond would be brought before the group for authorization before the appeal. The commission also heard, and referred tq the City Engineers, a petition to open an alley In the 1600 block of Front Street. Homer Comes On Third Pitch At Opening Of Final Stanza NEW YORK, Oct.

3 (U.R Tommy Henrich, first man up in the ninth Inning, lined a home run into the right field stands and cave the New York Yankees 1 to 0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first game of the World Series today. Henrich's blast broke a brilliant pitching duel and gave the Yankees' Allie Reynolds the nod over Big Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' ace right hander. Until that fatal pitch. Newcombe had set the Yankees down with four scattered hits and had struck out 11 batters only two short of the series record of 13 sot by Howard Ehmke of the Philadelphia Athletics against the Chicago Cubs way back in 1929. He started the ninth, by missing the plats on two fast balls to Henrich.

Then he put in the fast one which Henrich caught squarely. There never was sny question from the time his bat met the ball that It was a home run. Gives Up Two Hits Reynolds gave the Dodgers only two hits. He set nine Dodgers down on strikes. That made a total of 20 strike outs for the two pitchers only two short of the series record of 22 set by Mort Coop er the Cardinals and Denny Gatehouse of the Browns in the 1944 series.

The Dodgers had several chances. Reynolds passed four men but every time a Dodger-got on base he bore down and slammed the door. Newcombe's control was needlepoint. He walked no one. Reynolds went three balls and two strikes on nine Brooklyn batters.

Of the. 123 pitches he threw. 46 were balls. Newcombe used only 114 pitches, of which 37 were balls, lie gave only, one Yankee batter more than two balls this Henrich. who was to ruin his brilliant bid for the first World Series victory of a Negro pitcher.

66.224 See Game A crowd of 66,224 some C.000 short of capacity thrilled to Hen-rich's fourth World Series home run three of them against the Dodgers. But none was ever more Important than today's for it sent the Yankees off winging in their quest of a 12th world championship. The Dodgers started out as though they were going to get Reynolds, who won 17 games for the Yankees this season but seldom was able to go the distance. PLAY-BY-PLAY Dodgers First: Reese took two called strikes, a ball and then grounded out, Henrich unassisted. Jorgensen doubled off LlndeU's glove in deep left centerfleld.

Snider struck out on a three and two pitch. Robinson flied to Ma pes. No runs. One hit. No errors.

One left. Yankees First: Rizzuto, attempting to bunt, fouled to Hodges. Henrich, after taking three balls and a strike, grounded out, Reese to Hodges. Berra popped to Reese. No runs.

No hits. No errors. None left. Dodgers Second: Hermanski walked. Furillo also walked, Hermanski going to second.

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Oct. 5. (IP) The Veterans Administration may start paying the GJ insurance dividend before Christmas at the rate of a million checks a week. As son as the bulk of those payments is out of the way the agency will get to work on a second special dividend, the size of which has not yet been determined. Veterans Administrator Carl R.

Gray, has ordered completion of the first dividend payment, to some 16,000.000 World War II veterans, by next June 30 if possible. May Beat Goal The VA insurance section had expected to start the payments in January, on a 200.000-checks-a-day basis. But a spokesman told a reporter: "There is a possibility that we might start them before the first of the year. "We will go just as fast as we can, and if we can beat the January deadline we will." About 12,000,000 veterans have applied for the dividend since application blanks became available Aug. 29.

"Dividend checks will go out roughtly In the order that the applications were received first come, first served," the spokesman said. "Veterans who fail to apply? Their dividends will be held for them." The maximum dividend is $528. It is available to veterans aged 40 or less when they took out their policies, and who kept $10,000 policies in force for 96 months up to the 1948 anniversary date. Annual Dividends "Eventually and when there Is a surplus VA expects to pay the dividends annually on policy anniversary dates," the spokesman said. He said there probably will have to be at least one other special dividend to cover the period that has elapsed since the 1948 cut-off date for the first payment.

Cabby Is Freed Of Rape Cbargc A criminal court jury yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Ray Williams, alias Clarence Burgess, Jacksonville taxi driver, who was charged with criminally assault ing a young 16-year-old girl sometime this past Summer. A number of witnesses for the state and the defense were call ed to the stand during hearings. including the attending physician of the girl, who was hospitalized at Memorial Hospital here after the. alleged attack was reported to have taken place. Meanwhile, hearings got underway here in the trial of Sadie Mae Dozier.

alias Hadle Dozier. Negro woman, charged with the; first degree murder of Emma Boyd. The defease htg pleaded sot fuilt. Gty Is Chosen For Planning Study By Yale Anniston Only City In State Included In National Planning Survey Anniston was the one city In Alabama selected for a survey on; city planning is now being made by the American Institute of Architects and Yale University. A.

Whitney Murphy, who is conducting the survey throughout 52 cities in the United States, arrived in Anniston yesterday to begin the survey and will leave this afternoon after gathering needed information. Included in the study will be such items as building constriction ordinances, zoning, 'and traffic and transportation surveys. The survey is being made 1o determine what progress is being made in city planning, what problems are facing the communities in regard to planning, and the background of each city's plans. Anniston was selected because it has no city planning commission, Mr. Murphy stated this morning.

The survey is going "on the assumption that all cities should have planning." Mr. Murphy said his-job in the survey was merely to gather the facts about each town and that he could not yet give any opin ions or conclusions on Anniston's survey. The facts gathered will be used by the sponsoring organizations as a record of city planning situations in the 52 cities studied. All cities surveyed will fall within the population range of Anniston, he said. Mr.

Murphy has obtained information from the Chamber of Commerce, local architects and individuals in town. Findings of the survey when complete will be distributed to the various cities to help their better planning problems. session. In Chicago, the national business men's association called on President Truman to use his "available and sufficient" powers to force an end to both the coal and steel strikes. The coal strike fanned the flames of a minor war between union and non-union miners today and the steel shutdown idled more workers In allied industries.

Miners Are Arrested Nearly a score of men were arrested in Virginia and Pennsylvania. This resulted from battling between pickets and unorganized miners still working In defiance of John L. Lewis and his striking United Mine Workers, No one was injured but several truck loads coal were dumped. In the steel strike, idling more than 500,000 members of the CIO United Steelworkers. there Is nothing in sight to end the free pension war.

More than 290 Obo railroidera These "Blue Bonnet" grain bins they're building out there are ex pected to be one of the greatest boons to farmers since the tractor came They are pre-fabri-cated, all-metal grain storage bins which are weather-proof, fireproof, and rat-proof. They provide economical and efficient storage space for grain farmers who each year lose millions of dollars through these three hazards. On Second Order Kilby Steel is currently working on its second order of bins, this one for 4.000 units, from the Commodity Credit Corporation. The firm was awarded an order for 3,000 bins Aug. 17.

It was completed before the 30-day delivery date and final delivery on the present batch also is expected to be completed ahead of time. The bins are built to U. S. Agriculture Department specifications. These government-standard bins are 18 feet in diameter i.d 16 feet highsat the eaves.

They hold 3,300 bushels of shelled corn and, when erected, the cost to the farmer is about $-25 for each bushel roughly $825. Because of these bins, many grain-raisers will have storage space for this year's bumper crop safe from foraging rats, moisture and fire instead of dumping it out in great piles on the ground. "Farms" Spring Up Already "farms" of these An-niston-built Kilby bins are springing up in the Midwest's corn belt, similar to the cluster of oil-storage tanks outside of town on the Birmingham highway. One of the bins is on display now at the Alabama State Fair, and another in the lot behind the county health center here. Off three basic part fabricating (See Kilby.

page 3, col. 4.) red result of the walkout. In Ashtabula. Ohio. 200 employes of the New York Central Railroad car shops were laid off.

The Pennsylvania Railroad said will lay off 50 workers at Ashtabula, 'i The government Is considering clamping down on steel exports. Many companies announced precautionary steps to conserve steel. Issues Are The Same The issues in both steel and coal strikes are about the same. The workers want better pensions and Insurance programs. In the steel picture, Philip Murray, president of the steelworkers, is standing pat on his demand that industry pay all the costs of a pension and welfare Industry Is standing pat.

too. It will pay up to 10 cents an hour but insists workers chip in a few cents an hour, too; There are no negotiating sessions in sight. The government la keeping band off lor the preajnt I County To Have Tico Girls In Cotton Queen Judging I bad some coffee and whisky. I went and laid down on the bed. I heard a noise.

and went- lata the living room. "My wife and that girl were lying on the floor. Frank was standing near them. He had a gun in his hand. He pointed it at me.

"I told Adair if he would not shoot me, I would not tell nobody. Frank said. 'I don't want to -shoot you. We're Threat Is Charged "Adair said he would kill me if I told anybody about him. or his friends or his people would shoot me." Gentry said Adafr told him to pull the bodies into the bedroom and take off their clothes.

"He told me to put them ta. the cesspool," Gentry said. Gentry told the court that they-went to Adair's shop near the Gentry home, built a frame and put it in the cesspool on top of the bodies, A "He put In some rocks first, and other pieces of lumber." Gen- said. "Ail the time he kad gun In his pocket" 4 But later, Gentry saiA; Adair, unloaded the gun and left it oa a table In the Gentry living room. Gentry said the next mornlag ho washed blood off the sofa, cleaned up the 'house and then spent several days with an aunt The two girls were shot Feb.

5 and their bodies found ol Feb. 11 To Be Tried For Beating Kitten BIRMINGHAM, Oct 8. Mrs. Helen Price. 20, today st 1 city Jail oa charges ef to animals.

Witnesses told police ahe checked to a small hotel last noticed ax kitten on the stairway, picked It up and carried it to 1 room. They told police the t' the thrce-RionttuFold kitUa tall and stompcl It, U. S. Calls Talks For Lewis, Operators PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3 Thefhis own call for an operator-union fwere ordered furloughed as a di- from J.S.T.C.

was sponsor try the ALHOUN County will be sented at the Queen of Cotton Contest in Birmingham tomorrow night by blonde Betty Walker of Anniston and red-haired Npnagene Morrow of Jacksonville State Teachers College, who will be among the more than 90 beauties from over the state who are competing for the honor of Queen of Cotton of Alabama. From the time they arrive 1 the Magic City tomorrow morning until their departure late Friday, the girls will be entertained with round of luncheons, dinners, and sightseeing tours. They will be accompanied by Mrs. K. Coffee of the Jacksonville News and Mrs.

Gertrude Tyson of The Anniston Star. -The contest for the selection of a girl to represent Calhoun County In the state contest ha been apon-sored by XU Star, while toa con- ed by the college The lucky girl who is selected tomorrow night to represent the state in the National Maid of Cot ton Contest will receive $500 in cash, a free wardrobe, and many other gifts, as well as all of her expenses to and from Memphis and the various trips in connection with the contest. Miss Morrow was selected as "Miss Jacksonville" earlier In the year, and Miss Walker is the third member of her family to win beauty contest, sot It should not be surprising for one of these young ladies to win the state contest; which will be determined by personality as well a looks. Farm Bureau and State Fair officials are doing everything possible to make the trip tof Birmingham for the contest a memorable one, and all attention will be" focused on the parade of 'Alabama' beauties tomorrow night for Um fttajUoa el Queca of Cotton, Federal Government took steps today to halt the coal strike but withheld action in the steel shutdown. U.

S. Mediation Chief Cyrus S. Ching called John L. Lewis and bituminous operators to a Friday meeting in Washington in an effort to end the three-week mine walkout. The situation, Ching said, Is at the place "where it is approaching a crisis" that requires intervention of his office.

He added: Some Affected New "Although there la a lot' of coal at some points, even today some people are affected by the coal shutdown and the longer it goes the wprse it gets." Ching said any reports of progress by operators and United Mine Workers negotiators now in session at Biuefield and White Sulphur Springs, W. Va would be very encouraging," But it woutd have to be very definite, lie continued, for him to drop A' -'V- v..