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M1MUMIMH and Monday tnd Monday night. wanner Lowtit 93! to 40 Monday njKht, Gentle to tnodfiAtc northerly winds on comt, btcumlng vnrlbblt Monday night. IWfci Bcmocra RED 8TRKAK FINAL! 58th Year United Press UP) Greenville. Mississippi Monday, November 23, 1953 Price 5c House WorkingNowOn Transportation Bill SPEECH WINNERS--Winners in the Greenville Chamber of Commerce "Voice of Democracy" essay and speech contest are, left to right, Art Giese, second place; Morris Gibbes, third; and Bob Cade, first place. Charge Made By Senate Investigator Officials Doubt Reds i Iff Still la US Agencies JACKSON (UP)-The House resumes work on a slow-moving school transportation 'bill Monday, wliile the Senate is expected to consider a $60,000,000 bond issue the governor called unnecessary.

About 10 amendments are still Mrs. Paul Gamble pending on a House bill providing for transportation of pupils at public expense. Representatives last week were divided on a section setting $30 as the State Board of Education allocation for school bus (irivers. Some representatives called the proposal a "student drivers" bill, and asked for a larger monthly Services Ai Home Here On Tuesday Mrs. Mary Lipe a WASHINGTON (UP)-- Govern- question Igor Gouzenko, for: Gamble was the daughter of the nient security officials expressed iner code clerk of the Soviet em- late Mr.

and Mrs. N. B. Lipe, about a Senate.sian atom spy ring In 1945. investigator's statement that wo.

Ki'd spy rings may still be operat-; Ins in federal agencies. allocation. The section, as amended by R. L. Fox of Claiborne, would allow up to $60 a month for aduit drivers, providing no student drivers are available.

The Senate was expected to look into the proposed bond issue to' Greenville civic a'nd mclal' Tead- provide money tor Negro scl 01 er, and wife of Dr. Paul G. bulklm K- Gov Hu While said he ble, prominent Mississippi sur- was to tiie issue, bul passed on not veto the bill. "As chair! i morning. Services will be con-l rnai1 of the bond commission, I'll.

'ducted by John Osoinoch of simply refuse to issue the Memphis at the family residence'he said. i at 3 p. m. Tuesday, followed The governor said the issue was burial in the Greenville ceme-; ot necessary because school funds' tcry- could be obtained from other Born in McKenzie, Mrs sources 'i. Italy Accepts Big Three Plan To Talk On Trieste and sister of the late Lawrence Lipe.

Mrs. Gamble a school in Nashville and spent summers in England with her grandparents. She attended Vanderbilt University for two i and was a graduate of Columbia JAII-Wl'mAII University, taking an M. A. de- JvJJIUH Tf IUIGII gree there.

Also later she studied abroad at the University of Frie- to They said there is "no reason to get excited" about the "possi-' bility" cited by Robert Morris, counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, in a television interview Sunday night. HOME, (IB Italy Monday offl- Morrls said there is "reason to Cal1y announced acceptance "wlth- bclieve" that the pattern of Com-; out conditions' rnunist Infiltration, in the 1946 I-Hzabeth Bentley 1 lhe conclusion of the war, she there' were four espionage net-: This action by the Italian a ith Dr. Gamble to Green- works active in Washington when eriiment apparently paves the way she broke with the Reds in 1945. lo a speedy solution of the Trieste. t( rest Good School Plan To Be Result Of A good program for the state's No.

71 Dean Challenges Reds To Invite Russia To Talks As Belligerent PANMUNJOM, Korea (UP) -American envoy Arthur H. Dean challenged the Communists Mon. to invite Russia- to the Korean peace conference as a co-bellhje- rcnt in the Korean war. "We want the USSR there as a full participant with full responsibility," Dean told Red diplomats. Dean issued his challenge as an answer to the Communist insistence that Asian neutrals and the Soviets offer their 'good offices" to settling tiie Korean problem.

Red Chinese and North Korean negotiations have emphatically defended Russia's neutrality in the Korean war, but different view. Dean took a "Of course the USSR would be I1ONOKED AT DSTC Bobbie on your side as the participant," Graves ol Greenville, top, and the American diplomat told his William Box of Stewart, were Red counterparts. elected Miss and Mr. DSTC in the recent "Who's Who" con- Dean said Russia should he seated under the provisions of para- test on the Delta State Teachers; 6Q of he armistice agrce College campus. They will be featured in' The 1954 Broom the yearbook.

Miss Graves is the daughter of Mr. burg and the University of Ber- schools will be the outcome of the and Mrs. W. H. Graves, I present special session of the Mis- Cedar Street, Greenville.

Isissippi Legislature, Washington After her marriage 1002 'i County Representative Joe Wroten been a cc life of the community. zed the Greenville was a charter id down iwhile, but things are beginning to shape up now," Wroten told the Delta Demoi crat-Times. and "So far as we know only two blllcr dispute between Italy and'she onzaniz have been exposed," Morris q0 slavia. i Study Club "That is not saying there are still, or lne nancing any school program they closing time of the drive--Saturday Greenville Garden approved. Wroten replied that he evening at six--that persons re- two rings in government, but cer- renner Giuseppe Pella announ-, a member of tne Garden! thought financing measures would questing membership later than Delta Music Group Stops Ticket Sales -Way Over The Top mem ersnl t() fought in Korea.

"I again urge you to agree to the holding of the conference as provided in 60 plus the addition of the USSR to your side," Dean said. The U. N. envoy accused the Reds of breaking "solemn promises" by now denouncing the Allies "for wishing to carry out our obligation under paragraph 00." Dean is bound by a U.K. General Asked whether he thought the' The Delta Music Association a(J Assembly resolution of Aug.

28 to legislature would get around to fi-igone so far over the top by the; limit tue con erence to actual tainly there is a possibility are still in government." two ccd over the weekend that hlslrjlub of America, an honorary was ready to discuss'member of the Federated Wo- Trieste issue at a confercncejmans Club, served on the Green- Other developments in the con- the United States, Great Bri- ville Public Library Board, and tinning spy hunt set off by the min, France and Yugoslavia. on the board of Directors White case: But since the text of Pella's tne Delta Music Association. be forthcoming as soon as had to be turned down, Mrs. ing touches are put on the school 0. James, campaign chairman, program legislation.

Rep. Wroten left Monday morn- announced Monday. I Thanks to the strong support giving for Jackson after a weekend len the organization, four concerts 1. The intenal Security Money For Equalized Schools May Not Be Considered Just Now the Yugoslav government at thal' 1)nis Affairs Forum, the nmlee a puMte hearing were announced in "ad- ollary of con nent ending its at 2 p.m nesses vance. 2.

Sen. John Marshall (R-Md), a member, said the Sen! "completcly unacceptable" it any atr subcommittee "undoubtcdly" Prior conditions were attached. will question former Secretary of, the Treasury John W. Snyder and "probably" will seek testimony from former Ally. Gen.

Tom C. Clnrk. 3. Chairman Harold H. Velde (R-I11) said the House Un-American Activities Committee, which tried Country Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution, cc 'P land the Boston College Club, However, Yugoslav officials did.

One of her many interests was member Butler say that Pclla's proposal would bej conservation. While a Tuesday Night Is Dixiefander Night of the Mississippi State Forestry Commission, she was active in the development of Mississippi State Parks, especially the Leroy JACKSON William. J. Gnnn of Meridian said Mon-i instead of three have been contracted for, Mrs. Hodding Carter, president, said.

The talent committee, headed by Mrs. Jack Findlay, met at headquarters at Tatum's Music Company at 8 p.m. Saturday and chose the concerts to be presented. These will be, in addition to the Houston Symphony previously an- Korean war belligerents, but he has hinted he might welcome neutral nations if they were not given power to make decisions. Interviews Of PANMUNJOM (UP)- The Nc tral Chinese Reds North Korea Sign Aid Pact TOKYO (UP) Communist China and North KJi rea signed a 10-year economic pact Monday, wiping cmf North Korea's entire war debt to China, a Red broadcast announced.

The agreement signed in Peiping promises North Korea 350 million dollars worth of reconstruction aid for the next four years. The agreement cancels all North Korean debts to China incurred from June 2lC 1950--the day the Korean war started--until Dec. 31, 1953, Radio Peiping said. The broadcast did not specify wiiat these debts were, but apparently they were the result of China's military aid tn North Korea during the war. The pact was signed by Chinese Premier and Foreign Minister Chou En-lai and North Korean Premier Kim II Sung in Peiping after 10 days of high level conferences between tha two most powerful Red governments in Asia.

The broadcast said China will aid North Korea for the next four years by sending coal, clothes, food, construction materials, transportation equipment, metal products, machinery, farming implements, fishing vessels, paper and stationery. United Nations officers in Tokyo It indicated that Mao Tse-tung's government expects to keep North Korea under its wing for another decade, despite Ihe West's hope that the split people can be united under one government to ease tension ill Asia. Only Sunday South Korean President Syngrnun Rhee, in a jor policy reversal, agreed nationwide elections even at tilt risk of his own political future. Child Dies In Plantation House Fire Saturday Martha Young, S-year-olj Negro girl, burned to death Sat, night and three other Negro children escaped to safety when a flash fire, believed to have beeb set by a bolt of lightning, struck and flames leveled their 4-room house on tiie Homer Dean plant's-' tion near Tribbett. The parents, Bob Young and wife, were enrotite home after a trip to to buy a pair of shoes, When they neared tha house they saw their dwelling house in fianvs.

The badly-burned body of the child was found by Deputy Sheriff Horace Eubanks and Coroner (Bob) Gookin lying at the edge oil the fire area. The four children were alseep in the house, Deputy Eubanks said, when fire broke out and the nldesl of the children, almost 12 yean on Commis-1 sion turned down a Polish plan to I segregate war prisoners Mon. ami itbe Swedish member said the out- County Negro 4-H Boys, Girls To and Teisher, wit near Hobllandale the enabling phase ol TMr name. As "chairman Vth'e Ne 8 whi school eqqualizatlonjintone, who has sung wi reenville Garden Club Mounds is practically assured. or symphony orchestras jmmittee.

much of her time andj necessary revenue increase tO' a th male concert star in' 0i her name. As chairman of the Gr Committee, much of her time ul revenue increase iu' any was concerned with for tne program may not be America. In vain to subpena former Presi- (ne Dmelakmlers Teen-Age Talent dent Truman and Clark, may ask show at the nigh Schoo1 auditorl former Secretary of Slate Dean llrn sday night at 8 Achcson to testify about the White case. The show is sponsored by brought a it im- old, succeeded hi getting two of out of the flaming'house. A coroner's jury after an investU gallon returned verdict, of accidental death by fire.

The blaza broke out around 8 p.m. and it more than two hours later when the body of the child was located. The body was first turned over to Dillon Funeral Home at Leland JACKSON. Miss. (UP)-- Negro and later turned over to Edwards mmv 4-II Club project winners will be and Evans at Greenville.

Funeral stances the explanations can nol! nwal (1( prizes Monday night were not completed resumed" Major Gen. Jan "'e a Mississippi 4-11 Svenstrom, the Swedish commis- roundup. i Deputy Eubanks said the sioner said i John W. Mitchell of sec CHILD DIES--Pajrc 9 the present A large crowd is expected of the at the special session. "We believe that that UUs group, 5 i 1 6 5 fol national leader of Negro agrienl.

t.wii,u i i Pnsimitlir cVio I-it-nii rrl-i rlitnn eairi nnnpiflfv.r»l It- iff, 111L rllliail ULHiaUU LdUCU IUJ. group of well known archaeolo- possible to predict whether the; appeal so that each member can of concerts has enough variety 4 culting dQwn tfe sizc of pris fura i extension work, will speak at! see Mrs. Paul Gamble--Page 9 proposed tax would The' sei J2J lllie banquet. Awards will go to 180 the WEATHER AND RIVER ision in January. considered before the regular ses-! nim most mu sic," Mrs.

Find' machinery that would permit They include: 4. The Canadian cabinet studied Greenville Band Parents Club andj (For Greenville and Vicinity) Hay a new request from the Jenner will feature acts from all parts of subcommittee for permission to this area these coming from Cleveland, Indianola, Belzoni. Hollandale Generally fair Monday with increasing cloudiness laf? Monday night and Tuesday. Mod- Man Wounded While Hunting Sunday Moorhead and other ci-l tics as well as a number of local Scott Gardner. 33.

650 Hcrnando Featured will be a variety of Street, was seriously wounded In acts including dance groups, song the abdomen Sunday while rabbit i and dance acts, dance bands, vo- hunting. His condition Monday wasical quartets, singers, singing reported fair by attendants groups, instrumentalists, and corn- Washington County General Hospi: edy acts making up a variety show tal. lo delight any audience. Gardner was admitted about 1 Tickcis for this show are on sale p.m. Sunday to the hospital.

De- by members of the Band Parents t.Vh of the accident were not or they may bo obtained at able. i the door Tuesday night. i Lake Village, Arkansas, erat southwesterly winds 'end a stalemate last week prompt-j "I do believe, however, that the! enabling phase is fairly well a i i i I he said, adding, that UiejW II U3ntZl6r fast action of the upper house to' day increasing Tuesday. High Tuesday 53-57. Low Monday night 33-37.

High Tuesday 59-64. The Mississippi river at the Village Bridge at 7 a.m. Monday 9.63 feet, a fall of 0.01 in 14 hours. High for the 24-hour period preceding 7:30 a.m. Monday 59.

low tempp.rature 33. Temperature at 7:30 a.m. Monday. ed his statement. Services Monday Funeral for William Grover Dantzler, 69.

of near Avon, retired farmer and resident of the Delta for 45 years, were conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the National Funeral Home by the Rev. Leach of the Church of Christ. Burial as in fhe Ruleville cemetery. Mr.

Dantzler died in Washington Fire Damage At Cotton Compress Won't Be $50,000 to interview as few! John L. Dunn, Coahoma County. stated following the rt prisoll cl as lev wishl inst( a(i boys' achievement: Marguerite, of the stipulated 50D a day. Wiishingtou County, girls' The Poles al.su want the Indian achievement: Leroy Simmous custodial forces to erect separatejWashington County, boys' juniorj 'ire Chief A. Z.

Lokey said Mon- compounds in order that prisoners 'leadership; Jessie Marie Gibbs.jday he considered the estimate of who have attended interviews aiidjCoviiigton, girls' junior leadership, a fire which damaged between 50(1 and 600 bales of cotton at rejected repatriation be segregated Allie Goss. Winston and James 'from those who have not faced'Henderson, Yazoo. adult leaders; persuaders. sioner in rejecting the plan. County General Hospital at 8 p.m.

Svenstrom also made public his Coahoma, dress revue. -State- City- -Delta No Respect For Religion JUNIOR HIGH I'TA BOARD TO MEET There will be a meeting of the Executive Board of Junior High Parent Teacher Association Tuesday morning at 101 at the Community House. members are urged to attend. Post Office, Grocery SQUARE DANCING TUESDAY Honor your partners and corner off. Be at the Community House at 8 p.

m. Tuesday for a Square Dance. All folks who want to look are invited to circle the hall. A thief invaded the Assembly God Church here Sunday, according to a Greenville woman who reported to police that her purse, containing $75 cash and a $50 check was taken while she I had left her seat to go to the altar. i Mrs.

Carl McPherson, 1634 RAIN DRENCHES THE DELTA SprucCj said ner purse and a boy Greenville and the mid-Delta area was drenched Saturday who nad bccn silting ncxt to ner night when a downpour of rain, the heaviest in many months, broke long dry spell. Observer Brodie Crump measured the rainfall at 1.74 inches. SCOUT LEADERS MEETING Scout and Cub leaders will meet to plan Scout and Cub activities for the coming year at 7 p. m. Tuesday in Scout Troop 71 meeting room in the former St.

Joseph's school building. It will be the last Scout leaders meeting of the year. All new den mothers and cubmastcrs are especially urged to attend to learn how to carry on den and pack programs. were gone when she returned to her seat. Indianola Man Hurt By Truck Dave Hoskins, 50, of Indianola, was reported in a critical condition at Washington County General Hospital Monday.

Hoskins suffered head injuries when it was reported, he was hit by a truck. He was admitted to the Saturday, only two and a half the should be hospital in a semi-conscious con-! after ne was admitted to the hos-L oose on Ja dition at 9:15 p.m. Sunday. pital i ii Mr. was born in Carolina.

He made his home at the; time of his death for miles fromj Avon on Old Highway 1. HiSS Appeal For He leaves a daughter, Mrs. J. R. Dobbs, route 1.

Hollandale: two stepdaughters, Mrs. Maltie W. Hen-1 derson and Mrs. R. F.

Wesley. WASHINGTON (UP)-The Fed-' both of Greenville: a son. W. Pai'de Board Mon. rejected Danlzler of Greenville and a step-jfor the second time the application; son, R.

T. Watson of Grecuville.lot Algcr Hiss for a parole from; cigarettes, a clock, men's also leaves 20 Lewisburg. federal pris Delta Cooperative Compress Friday night to be high. Lokey said the damage would not reach tlis figure of $50.000 listed in the Delta Democrat-Times. All of the city's tire engine com- jimi- panies did not battle the flames.

Svenstrom and the Swiss Mae Wise. Coahoma. bread! Ai! four companies answered the Howard Sanders, Washington, trac- Lt. Gen. K.

S. Thimayya, Indian tor maintenance; Leroy Hair, chairman of the five-nation sweet potatoes: James mission, told the Reds it was'Lewis, Washington, field crops; "physically impossible" to build i Clarence Horton. Hinds: meat an- the compounds and then joined imals; Q. C. Bonner, Jones, swine; 'demonstration; Christine but only two companies 'fought the fire, Lokey said.

a 22 matter hgs ma( the "explanations" on going Parole Rejected a billfold, a dozen shirts, anil sev-i era! ladies' slips were taken by the thief who gained entrance to the building through a high side window which had been covered i cardboard. and 4 great grandchildren. The pallbearers for Monday's services include D. L. Martin, W.

M. Wilson, Floyd Keith, a Bradshaw, Leon Berry and R. To Visit Whole Empire Queen Bids Children 'Bye'--Off On Tour ')--Queen KlizaDeth year-old queen and het husbanrl, liiidren a mother's'the handsome Duke of Edinburgh, i-ice Jinn, us Buck-1will inspect the far-flung British ace bustled with final'Empire on which the sun never Hiss, former State Department Palace bustled lyitn official serving a five-year ti TM fo1 her departure sets for perjury, was first denied a Mon. nighl on the longest tour i cover more than Perjury, wis utrmcu ovol i gn in his-'MO miles on the royal tour, open parole last November. Reconsider- marie bv a ruling na mon5 attP nri 50 stai.

ation of the application was auto- '-dry. For six months. ur MX parliaments, attend 50 Ihe beauliful dillners and (ther CINEMA SIXTEEN MOVIE SET TUESDAY It will be a three-feature show for the members of Cinema Sixteen. Kenneth Hnxton announced Monday. The movies will be shown nt 8 Tuesday night in the Mississippi Power and Light Company auditorium and include "The Titnn." made by Americans in Italy; "The Quiet One," a U.

S. film, and "Neighbors," a Canadian documentary. AIR SHOW TO BE SU.VDAY The Jaycce "Air Show," which was postponed Sunday due to the heavy rains Friday and Saturday, will be held beginning at 2 p. m. Sunday afternoon nt Municipal Airport.

NCO WIVES CLUB MEET MONDAY The NCO Wives' Club of the Greenville Air Force will socinl mcetlnfl nt Monijny night nt the NCO balhoom. Hostesses are Mrs, Jimmy Webb and Mrs. Fred Mllllnr. All NCO Wlvct ftro invited. Police are watching tile Green-1 ville Post Office closely at night! after bars on the windows were! reported pried open.

I Traveling by air as well as at sea and on land. Elizabeth aiiti Prince Philip will attempt to see as many of the queen's 600,010.000 subjects and as much of the 13,000,000 square mile commtin wealths as possible. 1 Elizabeth and her husband have Special ward care service at low tiered at "less than cost," Franklin.the patient anything, but protects ciitcijury and lati-r Iransfcr (o all of their spare time with Inaugurated Low-Rate Special Mrs Marguerite Johnson has been inaugurated at said, the hospital will sustain a.lhc hospital, since the insurance vale and semi-private service with-Hhdr children-Princess Anne. 3 lold police several of Washington County General on practically all accounts and'uompany has agreed to pay spe-'oul paying all differences in char-jam! Prince Charles, the sturdy tal. it was announced Monday by loss will be chnrgcd "Rainstii-ific amnunls, the niinomiccnieiH gos for services received from who will some day master, the service windows were pried, but that, entrance was not gained.

B. Franklin, hospital County tax funds. This.said. S' snid the wooden windows wore 'or. the! be Britain's king, the past few days.

Mon. the Queen will havi with the children at '7 The below cost rales arc: Room O'clock. time ol their admission until time ol tlu transfer. groups, principally Negroes, serv- accounts based on these special Thieves entered the OK Grocery, 025 St. Charles Street, here Saturday night and took quantity of merchandise as well as $25 to $110 in change, owner George Mnnnnur reported lo police.

Mnnsour snld hi'sidcs change, -DO assorted cartons of HI" i "1C i i i I I I I I (ini-i: i.uunmi.- MI ui. i "Patients who can pay our rcKU-keplcd on these accounts, wilh Hit: mny llllvc to hc llstort niu-slhclic (for drug and equip- Inr rates sre ineligible for the ser-limrtorstnmling that the hospital will. Wnrd i is nut Intended for pa used by outside anesthetist) vice. The rates hnve been consld-jcollect from the Insurance com jlicnts who can pay regular anesthetic (for drug and equip- erabi.s reduced, and some of Ihe pany any room rule allowed nbovc Franklin snld. These reduced rales incut adminislcrtd by hospital an-jturnoul was expected In services have likewise dropped lo (he $5 per dny, and any olhci reduced care arc Intended on- rslueiisl) $10 to $20; X-ray, la- where commoners have a lower level, but arc slill ade Ictits in full appearing on (ho pa-lly for people who must hnve spc- borntory, pharmacy, nml other scr- known to stand In the rain wishers to the airport.

The forccasl wns cloudy nntl dry with no fog and an extfa accounts up to the regular Vial consecration. Patients mny nntivlces, will be charged at the usual hours Jual tor glimpw Of Since Um warrt is being charges. This docs not cost be admitted to the hospital in thiairctci less one-third. quceu..

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