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ANY GOVERNMENT that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you've got! Protection Needed For Free Access To Information A competent and respected newspaper woman, Marie Torre, whose work- for the New York Herald Tribune was good enough that it was syndicated and sold to numerous other newspapers, has been sent to jail for doing her job properly. The jail sentence is technically for contempt of court because she upheld one of the basic premises of her profession and refused to divulge the source of her information. Thus far, no one has questioned the accuracy of the information. Rather it's a matter of a judge requiring her to tell where she got it. The cause of it all is a suit by Judy Garland against the 'Columbia Broadcasting System for a great sum of money.

The singer feels she was libeled by remarks that. a CBS man is supposed to have made and which Marie Torre quoted. In the course of events when it became obvious the news woman would go to jail rather than go back on her word, Judy Garland made some remarks that were a bit flippant and showed she had little concern except for the money she hopes to gain from CBS. In effect, she condemned herself in the public eye a good bit more than the remarks allegedly made by a CBS official. The New York news woman and her attorneys exhausted all legal avenues in her defense against contempt of court, carrying the case to the Supreme Court.

And the judge who imposed the sentence upon her revealed some misgivings in the course of the case. The Marie Torre case has. dramatized the need for legislation in this area. Radio and television newsmen require some protection just as much as do newspaper reporters and editors. There are now 12 states which provide such protection.

It is ironical, to say the least, that Miss Torre is serving her sentence in a prison in New Jersey, one of the 12 states. There are plans to introduce legislation in New York State and some olher states to guarantee the inviolubility of news sources. Marie Torre is a living example of why it is necded. Our laws protect our congressman from libel in regard to their statements on the floor of both houses of Congress so that they may debate the right and wrong of things without being subject to limitation in this respect. Since the nation's newsmen on all levels have the responsibility of making news of all activitics available to the people, they deserve protection enough to do the job.

They have never sought protection from libel nccusations because the truth is generally A good defense against libel charges. But getting at the truth docs often require protection of the source. This newsmen should be allowed to do without facing jail sentences. All 40 states should act to assure them this guarantee. Otherwise, the public's right to know is endangered.

Color Scheme To Be Truthful Green grows the ripened orango of Florida and Texas, and green it must stay, according to the Supreme Court, whether it looks like an orange or not. For some years, it scems, growers in the two states have been using additives, allegedly unharmful in the amounts used, to make oranges look more like oranges. Congress got into the controversy two years ago by exempting growers from any ban until March 1 of this ycar. Now the Supreme Court has upset the whole orange cart by ordering growers to start marketing oranges in their natural color come March 1. Citrus interests had been pressing Congress to extend the exemption.

Their complaint is that it is difficult to wangle a shopper into buying an orange that, say, looks like an overgrown lime. Inching Along Next July 1 the inch will no longer be the same old inch. In the United States it will be two parts per million shorter; in Britain it will be almost two millionths longer. The standards laboratories of the two nations have agreed to equalize their inches in this way. Likewise they are equalizing yards and pounds but not gallons.

Next question: Is it a cinch the new inch won't pinch (in a 15-inch shirt collar, that is)? Regardless of the answer, it is a safc prediction that a year from now there will be. certain persons looking back and grumbling that things are sure in a mess since the inch was shortened, that "we ought to return to the inch standard," when a man knew how much he wasn't giving when he wouldn't give an inch. -10 P. BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1959 Top O' The Morning National Guard Big Asset To City By Emile J.

Hodel Sunday afternoon's big National Guard' meeting here was an enjoyable and highly interesting. affair. first of all confess that we had a badly mistaken notion about it. It was our thought that we' would have lunch with the Guardsmen and hear a brief presentation on the changes being effected around the state and that. would be it.

In actuality, Brig. Gen, "Bill" Blake is too public relations and promotion man for the session to be that simple or and dried" particularly after the political- mud-slinging approach was used at Fairmont in an attempt to hold on to more than two Guard units there. We've known Patrick Beacom of Fairmont for some time and he's a fast-talking, sharp promoter of his own-with political ambitions. He apparently seized what he thought was an opportunity to be the "hero" for Fairmont, figuring that accusations of political reprisal might force the West Virginia National Guard to give Fairmont a better break than anyone else to disprove his claims. What he did not stop to realize was that most of the Guard units in the state would been denied the communities in which they stationed it there had been any idea of making.

reprisals for the November voting results. After all, there were hardly any cities in the stateparticularly in the southern part that did not vote Democratic last year. Further, all the cities which had more than two Guard units were cut back to only two in order that single-unit towns would not be without any unit at all. Thus, Charleston and Huntington were cut from five each to two each: and Fairmont and Parkersburg were cut from four each to two each. of the four, only Parkersburg had a net gain in total personnel and Huntington and Charleston both lost far more heavily' than Fairmont.

Beckley Fortunate Beckley WAS quite fortunate in that, having only two units in the beginning, none wore lost. And in the necessary shuffIng of units about the state, we will have about a 50 per cent gain in total authorized personnel, One of the reasons for this, it turned out, was because Bill Watts. local insurance man and native of Beckley, is pre-eminently qualified to head the new Special Forces allocated to the state in view of his prior military background. Gencral Blake and his aides and colleagues also did a good job in showing, for the first time as far as we were concorned, how beneficial National Guard units are for a communily. And Il present plans materialize, there can be little doubt that the Guard will prove to be of even greater advantage to its communities in the future.

Beacon must have known this. The Guardsmen have been most unfortunate In receiving comparatively poor publicity in few instances in recent years. But in one afternoon, the "brass" showed beyond any doubt that it was throughly unjustitled and that any wideawake community can profit materially by working with and behind its After all, the National Guard is so consdiluted that it is the direct descendant of the Minute Men and the state militias which had a major role in obtaining our freedom and independence for us way back there in 1776. And they certainly played a leading role for in the past two wars about which we know. We pray that they won't ever have to do it again.

But maintaining them as strongly 115 possible is Just part of the Insurance against it. The big search nt Egerla some three years ago or more for two missing children WAS a demonstration of how the Guard provides aid in local emergencies. Here nt we are fortunate not to have required demonstrations in regard to their activities when a community is flooded. When and if they got new armory building here, there will be many other immediate and direct benefits to the city also. Good Bergman Job Incidentally, before desisting this morning, we want to tell you that the Ingrid Bergman picture.

"The Inn of The Sixth Is really fine film fare. Say what you will, that gal is truly a wonderful actress. We would say that her performance in "The Inn" might very woll put her in the running for the "Oscar" again. It's hard to beat the old, established stars. Charles Boyer showed in "The Buccaneer" that he Is top notch in shifting to character roles from romantic leads.

And we hear that Spencer Tracy in "'The Last Hurrah" is another fine performance. Top o' the morning! MY ANSWER by Billy Trahom QUESTION: I attend a Bible teaching church, Don't you think I would be better off to get all my Bible knowledge from this ministry and not try to do my own study lest 1 get some false ideas? T. W. ANSWER: No amount of Bible teaching and preaching can take the place of your own personal contact with the Bible. It is helpful to get thoughts from others, but the vital power of the Christian life comes through your own contact with the Word of Gode It is said of the church of Berea in the book of The Acts "These were more noble than those of Thessalonica for they searched the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so." You should test the truth of every teacher and every preacher by your men contact with and study of the Bible.

Then what you have will be from God. At the same time, do not minimize the importance of your pastor. Thank God for him and support him with your prayers. You need his help and he nerds your sup. port in prayers.

THREE CHEERS FOR THE U.S.A.! ORGANIZE THE POLICE AND WE GOTIT MADE! CRIME DICTATOR DICTATOR OUT iF NO FOR DICTATORS Free This week our subject is Jesse Hughes, celebrated Indian fighter and frontier scout, a distant blood relative of mine as well as that of Travis Parsons, the Crab Orpharmacist, and Floyd Sayer, the Beckley attorney. These are all Jackson County names and some of them are Republicans, but not mine. Jesse Hughes and 2 brother Elias Hughes, or as the name was corrupted in frontier speech by his family and friends. Reference above was made to someone being Republican. It sort of runs in the blood for folks to follow a brand of politics.

Jonathan Hughes, son of Elias "Ellis" Hughes, and a nephew of Jesse Hughes, was one of them. Of Jonathan Hughes it was written that he "never drank whisky as beverage, never tasted tobacco but once, never smoked a cigar, never voted the Democratic ticket but once, and that was for Andrew Jackson. Hughes Was strong prohibitionist." Jonathan Hughes was born on Jan. 14, 1796. in Horrison County not far from Clarksburg.

tinction of being the hunter who killed the last buffalo that was killed in Jackson County. Hughes, veteran of the Point Pleasant battle, was among them. like forty Indians made up the attack party. "Ellis" Hughes led the whites. It was decided to ambush Indians before they reached the Buckhannon Fort.

A spot was chosen where a cemetery is located as the spot: to lie in wait for the Indians. When the issue was joined the struggle was fiercely contested. Yesterday And TodayLife And Exploits Of Jesse Hughes: Part 2 By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Bibbee enjoyed the unique dis- such number, rushed to the fort. JESSE HUGHES FIGURED prominently in the last extensive attack the Indians made on the white settlement. at Buckhannon in our Upshur.

County. This will interest Georgia Reger Oram of Lester, because her forbears were in. that battle against the savages. Mrs. Oram's ancestors who the savages and were slain are buried in Heavener Cemetery at Buckhannon.

Some time ago when I was in that cemetery on a mission the gravestones were noted, John Reger Jr. was in the aforesaid battle. He a progenitor of the Lester woman. Roger was scouting when he saw a force of Indians on the war path. He spotted an Indian who was taking a little rest while the others were hunting.

Reger made a captive of Indian and told him if he did not tell him where the force WAS headed it would simply be too bad for him. It he the Indian, persisted in giving only his name, rank, and serial number, Roger told him he would kill and scalp him. Upon demand, the Indian divulged that they were headed for Buckhannin to kill white settlers. REGER OUTDISTANCED the Indians and reached West's Fort near Buckhannon that very night. but was so worn down when he reached there that he could not in Buckhannon section to make go further, and notify the settlers haste and get inside of the stronghold.

Then it was that Jesse Hughes, feet of foot. volunteered to go on from West's Fort to Buckhannon Fort and warn settlers to flee the Indian wrath to come. Jesse Hughes got: to Buckhannon' Fort and gave the general alarm. Soon 30 hardy frontiersmen, or some WHEN THE RESULT was in the balance, the Indians were starting a flanking movement and Jesse Hughes spotted the strategy. While trying to line up his braves for the surprise strategy the Indian chief leader temporarily exposed himself, That was his mistake because Te Jesse Hughes saw him and lowered the boom on him.

Jesse leveled his rifle on the exposed warrior chief and drew a bead. At the crack of the Hughes rifle the big Indian crumpled to the earth dead. No man of the 30 or so frontiersmen in that fight gave a better account of himself than did Jesse Hughes. Another man who distinguished himself in that vicious combat was John Reger, brother of Jacob Reger and an early kinsman of the Lester woman. He was receiving fire from a certain vantage point with uncomfortable regularity.

Taking a reading on the situation, John Reger soon got the angle from which the rifle balls were whistling in his direction. Then his keen eye located the Indian who was using him as a target Reger's aim was unerring and the big Indian became a Reger casualty. When the other Indians saw their leader fall they rushed to him but the fire of the frontiersmen drove them back. Thus the Indian attack on Buckhannon Fort failed largely through the personal effort of Jesse Hughes and the equally brave John Roger. Tomorrow, more exploits of Jesse Hughes.

Drew PearsonAlabama's Grafters Tried To Dodge Taxes WASHINGTON Here are more details on now the political cronies of ex-Gov. Gordon Persons set up their tax deal by which they received thousands of dollars from liquor companies, yet paid 10 taxes on it. As previously reported, the Treasury Depariment offiially recommended criminal prosecution of the Alabamans, but someone in Washington highthan the Treasury manded the prosecution. Tax officinls in the Justice Department have been maintaining red-faced silence. Governor Persons insisted to this column that he had not appealed to his brother, Gen.

Wilton Persons, now replacing Sherman Adams in the White House, for aid. Ex-Governor Persons did admit that he had received some of this concealed money. -thugh as litical contributions. This. on its face, is strange, since Alabama law does not permit a governor to succeed himself.

therefore Persons had 10 need for political contributions alter he was elected ani after he appointed henchmen to the liquor board. Any tax prosecution obviously would have been highly embar. rassing to Persons and, indirectly. to his brother in the White House. It's estimated that during the Persons regime 11930-341 000 in cash and $300.000.000 in free liquor WAS coliected from the liquor companies by the governor's cohorts.

The seament of this op. eration which came in for interrive fax investigation by the Treaspry was that conducted by Jimmy Thrower. ex-mavor Dothan. Ala. appointed to the ABC Liquor Ray Tucker- Joe Martin Defeat Said To Advantage Of Nixon WASHINGTON in its broad, background implications, the spectacular victory' of House Republican rebels in the leadership revolution has an adverse effect on the political fortunes of President Eisenhower and Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller. Although the situation is still confused, it may work to the advantage of. Vice President Nixon, Unlike the revolt Republican Liberals in the Senate, the anti Martin movement was engineered by a hard. core of House conservatives.

It was inspired by Rep. John H. Ray of and general counsel the AmeriNew York, former vice, president can Telephone Telegraph Company. His group become disenchanted with Eisenhower's. "Modern Republicanism," which they likened to Roosevelt's New Deal, and with Representative Martin's co operation with speaker Rayburn in enacting the major portion of the White House legislative program.

Recognizing that he never bad enough Republican votes to put over the administration's proposal the deposed House minority leader worked closely with the amiable Texan. In return for. sufficient Democratic votes to ratify Eisenshower measures, Martin had to accept Democratic amendments regarded too liberal to satisfy the conservative dissenters. 'CONSERVATIONISTS' In SPENDING The principles which they expounded, and on which they differed from both the White House and Martin-Rayburn philosophy, were (1) federal spending, (2). inflation, (3) national defense appropriations, and (4): a check on expansion of the "welfare: state." They dislike the term "conservatives" as.

applied to them. They prefer to call themselves "conservationists" in the fields of taxes, spending, and national security. They advocate smaller expenditures for social and economic projects, a cutback in foreign aid and far larger appropriations for national defense, especially in the scientific area, than Eisenbower has asked. TOO LATE TO HALT MOVE With their denunciations of northern Democrats as "socialists and spenders" in the closing days of the 1958 campaign, Eisenhower and Nixon appeared to have swung to their side. But it was then too late for a few desperate stump speeches to stop the anti-Martin movement.

However, they give Nixon for effort: and his influence. on White House ghost writers. The Ray dissenters had another and more specific grievance against Representative Martin and Rep. Richard M. Simpson of Pennsylvania, chairman the Republican Congressional Committee.

To. offset Martin's lack of aggressiveness and his close asso-. ciation with Rayburn, they organized their own research and: publicity bureau with $25,000 advanced by Simpson several years ago. Partly because of a want, of funds and also because of a want: of sympathy, Simpson and Martin forced the Ray fundamentalists to disband this bureau on the eve of last year's a disastrous congressional campaign. WITHSTOOD LANDSLIDES Strengthening the rebels in 1959 House organization is the fact that every one of their members was re-elected last November, despite Democratic landslides around i them.

Another indication of their new power among House Republicans. is the fact that one of their scrappiest and most dedicated conservatives Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wisconsin elected chair-. man of the House Policy Committee, replacing Martin.

Last year he refused to introduce the White resolution for extension of the Reciprocal Trade Program. As a matter fact, their preference for minority. lead-. er was Rep. Gerald Ford Jr.

of Michigan, and he could have been elected over Halleck, who is not personally popular. But Ford refused be a candidate, preferring to remain as ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee handling national defense money. Thus, ironically and perhaps premonitorily, while Senator 'Republicans shift to the liberal position on key issues and procedure, House GOP-ers, by 90-60 and 74- 70 votes in the Martin-Halleck fight, moved even further to the right. Thurman SensingLoss Of Unlimited Debate In Senate Seen Disgrace Over the years, the principal wark of good government United States has been the Senate. And the chief within the Senate against action has been the unlimited rule, which is Rule 22.

ancient rule, which enabled tors to speak freely without a islative gag being applied, been the heart of the greatness. greatness. Today the unlimited debate rule is threatened. A clique of Senate "liberals," headed by Sen. Paul Douglas (D-III), one of the notorious spenders in the upper house of Con- gross, is attacking Rule 22 as Congress convenes.

Every American who wants to check radicalism and the spending mania in Congress has a stake in preserving Rule 22. There is a lot of loose that the recently strengthened radical bloc in the Senate can strike out the unlimited debate rule. Fearful individuals are saying, "We must accept a compromise." Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex), the majority leader who has an eye on the White House in 1950. is reportedly gaining sup- Merry ZOOLOGICAL PARK LEE by S.

United Of right Syndicate, "Why shake hands with gorilla, anyway? He can't vote!" bama. therefore had great power over the liquor companies. When federal tax investigators began digging into this complicated array of front men. buth Thrower and Solomon hastily filed amended TAx returns and paid taxes on the income received from the front men. However, this was no substitution for criminal proscoution.

every taxpayer in the USA would fudge en his taxes, wait til he was caught. and then up back taxes. there would be no tax collection at all. The men caught in this tax scanda: have still not. been prosecuted.

Just who the powertal friend was who stepped in to stop prosecution tory-which still remains a myswall be investigated in an early column. bulthe S. bulwark unwise deThis senaleg- has Senate's port among southern senators for his compromise proposal, namely, that two-thirds of the senators present be able to end debate. HUGHES, father of Jonathan Hughes, "SIt" in the big Shawnce pattle at Point Pleasant 1774. Job Hughes, another brother ol Jesse Hughes, is buried in Jackson County.

In addition to Jesse Hughes' father being killed by Indians, a brother was also killed. This made him. hate Indians. Then when Indians captured Jesse's daughter, Martha, cup of his wrath ran over. One of Jesse's married Joseph Bibbee who near sisters, Ravenswood.

Joseph Bibbec had a brother named William Bibbee who was quite a nimrod. William IT IS FANTASTIC that" any conservative southern senator accept such a compromise in advance of the Senate battle on the unlimited debate rule. There is no question as to how southern voters feel about this ancient privilege of extended speaking. The southern states have a considerable number of conservative senators. If such a bloc, working in unison.

with like-minded senators from other parts of the country, were ed in opposition to this radical move to limit free speech in the Senate, it could strike it down. There is no reason why these southern senators should not be united. Nor is there any reason why the voters in the southern states should allow their. rights to be forfeited without a fight. Of course, the Senate majority leader can strong pressure to bear on senators who do not go along with his policies.

The old carrot and stick technique often works in Congress. By promising good committee assignments or by threatening to change a 'senator's committee assignments, a majority leader can often force an individual senator to fall into line. But if the southern senators were firmly united, they could not be ill-used. board, and Emory Solomon, a leader of the Persons forces in the Alabama Legislature. NETWORK OF FRONT MEN Others involved in the deal, some of then possibly innocent victims, were: 1-S.

E. Gellerstedt. whose wife is remotely related to ex-Mayor Thrower. He was approached by Thrower with an offer to make some money. Under the deal which was then set up.

Gellerstedt was put on the payroll of Berke Brothers Distilleries and Taylor Wines. He mailed most of his salary checks to Thrower's Post Oftico Box 236 in Dothan. The money was then deposited in Gelierstedt's name without his knowledge at the Headland National Bank. In 1952 alone Gellerstedt collected $19,977.5 from the two companies. He then proceeded to kick back $12.173.75 to Thrower.

However, Geilersted: eventually decided that he wasn't receiving a fair share and broke up the deal. Ho cashed one of the larger checks and held out most of it. 2-Dan Sallis, a tenant farmer on Thrower's land, was also hired AS a liquor agent and kicked back most of his salary to Thrower. This money was also deposited in the Headland bank in Sallis's name but without his knowledge. 3-Heary D.

Williams, a football coach who lived next door to Thrower's summer cottage in nama City, also became an Alabama liquor agent even though he spent no time in Alabama. He was then coaching football at nama City' Bay High School. Tater moved to West Palm Beach. where he now coaching. The checks sent to Williams by the liquor companies were mailed the general delivery window At Pensacia, Pia.

Ho claims none the money was kicked back, that he invested it all in real estate. 4-Thomas B. Hand, once associated with Emory Solomon in a veneer business, was hired by the liquor compar.is and kicked back over $12,000 of his salary to Solomon. However. Solomon insists the money was part payment of a $35.000 debt.

5-W. F. Hatcher, a political crony of Solomon's, also turned up' on the payroll of Taylor Wines and of "Mr. Boston," a well-known liquor brand. All Solomon would acknowledge receiving from Hatcher was $500.

He claimed this was a political contribution. ILLITERATE LIQUOR AGENT -6-F. H. Grace, a $60-a-week cmployee in Solomon's fertilizer plant, was also hired as a liquor though he neither reads nor writes. Gib Solomon, a brother of the Alabama legislator, opened a bank account for Grace at the Headland Bank of which he is part owner.

Grace denies any. part of his liquor salary was kicked back. but obviously it's a bit unusual fort two prominent liquor companies located in the north to hire, as A liquor agent. an employee in 8 fertilizer plant who cannot read or write. 7-Julian Brannan.

who is Solomon's fourth cousin, also was given a job with the liquor cornpanics. What work he did remains a mystery, but he collected a saiary while continuing to work in Solomon's service station and auto agency. Brannan claims he pocketed the whole amount himself. This WAS the intricate ar. ranged by political conorts of Gov.

Gordon Persons by which money was received from northern liquor companies and used for political and perhaps personal put. Poses in Alabama. Jimmy Throw ers, a member of the ARC liquor brand. conid ban any brand liquor from being sold in AiR- THERE IS TALK in that some senators plan to remain quiet on the issue of unlimited debate and accept a compromise. Conservatives should realize that there is no merit in The South never gains from compromising.

a compromise, for the region is called upon to do all the sacrificing. Furthermore, a vital issue is at stake in the unlimited debate rule. It is much bigger than any fight against "civil rights" legislation. debate means that Unlimited states, through representatives, can speak their case and not be silenced by any ruthless majority. Unlimited debate all groups and interests in protects the United States.

not merely the South. There should be plenty of dle-of-the-roaders in the Senate mid-' who can be made to understand that striking out the unlimited debate now, while politically as a slap at the South. popular also threatens every other group in the nation in the long run. IT WILL BE A DISGRACE it any of the South's senators practice appeasement on this issue. The Senate is a great conservative device within our government.

The unlimited debate rule guarantees an element of conservatism within the Senate. It is time for thoughtful people to let their senators know this issue. Ending of unlimited op- dehow posed they are to any surrender 07 would case the way for bate the radicals who want to spend this nation into a state of socialism directed by an bureaucracy. I southerners let their senators kniT their wishes and the of their feeling against compromise, one can be sure that the senators win not yield..