Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 1

Location:
Montgomery, Alabama
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

SHOP FROM The Weather Montgomery: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain. Predicted high ta-day 62, low 55. High yesterday 60, lew 45. (Details, Weather Map, Page fA). SORE MSIEK FBI IOUR NAME MAX BB LISTED ON rHK WANT AO PACES FOR FREE MOVIE TICKETS TO THE FAKAMOCWT THE ATM Full Day, Niht and Sunday Sarvica Tha Associated Praaa Montgomery, Monday Morning, December 19, 1955 22 Pages Price 5 Cents 127th Year-No.

302 wtm aar Voters ake steps Knowland Set To Press Bid For Presidency Calif or nian Clings To Plea For Answer 1 owarct Keioimng i 5 i. i -w 'if iM y-t i 'i 1 -w. i 1 I 111 ii. yyt-j- 'sLh PRESIDENT PRESSES YULE KEY President Eisenhower, with his wife Mamie at his sJde, poses for photographers with his hand on golden telegraph key with which he illuminated the brilliant lights of the giant Christmas tree on the Ellipse across the driveway from the rear grounds of the White House opening the Pageant -of Perce in Washington. The President pushed the key at Gettysburg College AP Wirephoto Pres id ht Id To Prods For Early Decision On '56 FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED Thirteen cars of an 85-car freight train on the New Haven Railroad were derailed Sunday.

No one was injured but the accident knocked out utility service to some 200 homes in the Dorchester--Quincy area. AP Wirephoto. GETTYSBURG, Dec. 18 (AP) President Eisenhower turned a deaf ear to rumblings within his party that he should announce an early decision on he will run again. A medical report of "excellent and encouraging" progress along the road to re covery from his Sept.

24 heart attack bouyed his hopes for ultimate recovery. But ths doctors made it clear that it will be mid-February, at the earliest, before Free World More Secure, Dulles Asserts On Return To Eisenhower Plans WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 UB Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) today was reported unwilling to delay his prospective entry into the Republican presidential nomination race to await a possible mid-February decision by President Eisenhower on a second term bid. Knowland, the Senate Republican leader, was said by friends to have communicated directly to Eisenhower his view that potential GOP candidates cannot afford to wait that long before acting to get their names on primary ballots.

Dr. Paul Dudley White said after an examination of Eisenhower at Gettysburg, yesterday that four or five weeks of exposure to the full load of the presidency will be required for a medical estimate on. the ability of the President's heart to stand the work. STUDYING SCHEDULE Dr. White disclosed that the President plans to resume his full duties again about Jan.

9, with the prospect that the test period would be concluded about mid-February. Dr. White declined repeatedly to say whether he thinks Eisenhower will be in shape to run again. Knowland has been studying carefully the schedule of primary filing deadlines and finds that an aspirant who delays until mid -February will be blocked out of six primaries. These, and their filing deadlines, are Illinois, Jan.

23; Alaska, Feb. West Virginia, Feb. Ohio, Feb. New Hampshire, Feb. 11, and Minnesota, Feb.

15. Knowland also is described as incensed at the suggestion of Re publican National Chairman Leon ard W. Hall and others that the President could wait until March 15 or later to announce his inten tions. HANDICAP IN DELAY Such a delay would block a po tential candidate out of six more primaries. The filing deadlines in these are Pennsylvania, Feb.

20; Wisconsin, March Massachu setts and Florida, March New Jersey, March 8 and Oregon, March 9. Knowland probably would select Wisconsin, Illinois, Alaska and West Virginia from the two early deadline groups, adding California and others as time went along. The California senator is represented as firmly convinced that Eisenhower isn't going to run again. He has built his whole strat egy on this assumption and the recognition that he is going to have to do battle with some of Eisenhower's closest associates if he is to win the nomination. For this latter reason, the pri maries appear to Knowland to of fer him his only practical hope of getting within striking distance of the prize.

With that in mind he evidently is busy trying to consoli date in his camp those who differ with the administration on some points in foreign policy. That was the explanation offered in some quarters for Knowland's weekend blast at what he called the administrations ac quiescence to a pacKage aeai Dy which 12 non-Communist and four Communist countries were admit ted to the United Nations. Knowland said this deal presaged a similar package effort, possibly after next year's elections, to gam U.N. recognition for Communist China. He called on presidential candidates in both parties to pledge an American veto against Peiping, if needed.

Flanders Visits Karachi KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 13 MP) Sen. Flanders (R-Vt) arrived here today on a three-day visit He is on an air tour of the Far and Middle East. Stymie Experts Three of was John B. Hollister, director of the International Cooperation Ad ministration.

This is the agency that now dipenses foreign economic assistance. Earlier today Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey and Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson flew in from Paris. They had attended the same conference as Dulles.

Humphrey and Wilson added no substantial new information about the' big new foreign aid plan reported to have been worked up by the administration. Wilson expressed satisfaction with the session of ministers from the 15 Council nations, calling it a "good meeting." Dulles- was met at the airport by ambassadors of countries in the Atlantic alliance. To newsmen he said he considered the Paris meeting was "vigorous in its unanimity and in its sense of accomplishment." "I feel that as a result of that meeting," Dulles said, "the free nations of Europe feel more than ever free more than ever secure." One of the major decisions of the Council session was to develop a closely integrated radar warning system along the vast distances of the cold war" front in Europe. The whole Paris meeting, Dulles said, was conducted in a "fine, friendly atmosphere and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (as a result) is on firmer ground than ever before." He said one of the achivements (See DULLES, Page 2A) Princess Stuns TTTV JaeicJi Valley Elects New Assembly Urging Union Lopsided Victory Given To Parties Leaning To Germany SAARBRUECKEN, Saar, Dec. 18 (r The Saar today elected a new Parliament overwhelmingly dominated by three big pro-German parties pledged to speedy union of this industrial border state with West Germany.

The 50-member Parliament will choose the new government. Official, complete returns gave a total of 375,577 votes to the pro-German parties which have vowed in coalition to throw off France's economic controls and make the Saar the 10th state of the Bonn Republic. That is 63.9 per cent of the total turnout. FALL SHORT OF GOAL But the three forces foil short of their goal of winning a 75 per cent majority, by which they alone could erase constitutional restrictions to union with the Fatherland. This will force them to work with the Christian People's party (CVP) of former Premier Johannes Hoff mann, which has collaborated with tne trench during the 10-year occupation.

But the CVP. champion of the ill- fated plan to Europeanize this rich industrial basin, and five smaller parties have said thev will not block the impending constitutional cnanges. Fiery ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider's Democratic party ran neck and neck with the Saar wing of Bonn Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Their ally, the German Social Democratic party, wasvfourth, trailing Hoffmann's: CVP. FORMER HITLER PAL Schneider, who helped Hitler wia back the Saar for Nazi Germany in 1935.

waged a whirlwind cam. paign with appeals to national emo tions. He demanded an immediate end to France's special economic privileges in the Saar and the quick return of the Saar to Germany. Three splinter parties polled only a handful of votes and were shut out of the new Parliament. The three big pro-German parties are expected to form a coalition government.

This will be the first time since 1945 that this 991-square-mile border territory has been ruled by political forces with open allegiance to Germany. OCCUPIED BY FRANCE France occupied the Saar after World War II and included it in the French economic area. In 1947, the territory was allowed a semi- autonomous government, but it was subject to French economic and financial legislation. Strons efforts undoubtedly will ba made to merge the Christian Democrats and the Christian People's party into one big Saar Christian (Roman Catholic) party. This would permit the parties which attract Catholic voters to name tha new premier and shunt Schneider to a Cabinet post.

Such a step might head off fresh trouble between West Germany and France over the future of the Saar and its prized coal and steel resources. Schneider, 48, has repeatedly termed the French colonizers and oppressors of the Saar." He called Hoffmann and his CVP traitors to Germany. ADENAUER ON SPOT A Saar government headed by a Christian Democrat could be expected to voice a more moderate' attitude in forthcoming negotiations with Pans and Bonn to eliminate French political influence here and restore the Saar to Germany. Chancellor Adenauer is anxious to avoid a break with France over (See SAAR, Page 2A ADVERTISER TODAY Pse Ps( Bas. RcTlesr SB Itgal Nstlee 7B City Limlti IftB Lacal Radio-TV 10.4.

Class. Ads 7-9B Maries 4B Comics 11A, IB Obituaries A Crossword Sports t-tn Editorial 4A Weather Map 4 Hambone A Columnists: Lyons, DaTldson, Jones Tucker AA SHOPPING DAYS LEFTI Hslp Fight TB i U.Buy Christmas Stcls-J jlq Deaths Mar In Alabama injured a passenger, 26-year-old Charlie Boatwright, also of Abbeville. Highway Patrolman Earl Henley said Turner was driving at high speed when he lost control on a curve. The Highway Patrol saidXarry Daniel Taylor, 18, Warrior, was killed when a car he was driving wrecked six miles west of Nectar on a Blount County road Saturday night. A 44-year-old Tanner man was fatally injured when' his car rammed into a bridge on U.S.

Highway 31 in Limestone County Saturday. He was identified as Thomas Marion Moblitt. Mrs. J. B.

Keller, 69, Hance-ville Rt. 1, was struck and killed by a car 7.6 miles south of Cullman on U.S. Highway 31 Saturday morning. Warner Gupton, about 60, former Birmingham resident, was listed as a hit-run victim after his body was found in a highway 5 miles south of Prattville early Saturday. Another car struck the body be fore the driver could halt.

Gupton said when he left a Birmingham rooming house that he was going to a veterans hospital "up north somewhere." A special Christmas was being planned for Betty Foster, 16, Mobile, when she was struck by a car and fatally injured near her home early Saturday. Betty and a sister were walking home with their mother, Mrs. Louise Foster, 41-year-old waitress, when the car swerved into them. Mrs. Foster suffered a leg injury and the other sister was unhurt.

The Pilot Club of Mobile had adopted the family for Christmas, and was rounding up gifts to make the holiday a happy one. Willie Jackson Burton, East Tal-Iassee Rt. died Friday of injuries suffered in a Nov. 28 accident. He was driving a car which wrecked four miles south of Tal-Iassee on a county road.

Eight Traffic Pre-Yule Joy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic mishaps caused eight of the nine deaths reported in weekend Alabama accidents last night. A drowning accounted for one of the fatalities which brought tragedy to homes already bright with Christmas decorations. Elmon Phillips, 45, Remlap, drowned while fishing near Gun-tersville Dam Sunday. Details were meager but he was believed to have been fishing with a companion below one of the locks. The Highway Patrol said Sam Wilks Royster, 35, Millerville, died when the car he was driving ran off Alabama Highway 9 about Zhi miles south of Ashland Sunday afternoon.

A 16-year-old Fairhope boy received fatal head injuries when he fell beneath the wheels of a truck on which he was riding near Fair-hope early Sunday. The patrol said James Odom died in a Mobile hospital. An Abbeville man, Carey Tur ner, was jailed there on a man slaughter charge Sunday afternoon after his car overturned on Ala bama Highway 173 and fatally Jet Fisliter Hits Hangar, Killiiis: Three LINCOLN, Dec. 18 WJ Three persons were killed and a hangar was destroyed by fire when a Navy jet fighter plane ran wild on a flight line today at Lincoln Air Force Base. One of the dead was the pilot.

Bodies of the other two were re moved from the hangar ruins. A total of seven aircraft was de stroyed when the fighter plane unaccountably developed 100 per cent power and jumped its chocks, while preparing for flight. One of the destroyed craft was a Navy patrol bomber through whose midsection the runaway fighter plunged. The pilot was identified as Lt. (j.g.) Vernon R.

Chapman 25, of Grand Island, a Korean War veteran now a reservist. Another was Air Controlman l.C. Kenneth C. Newman, 24, of Lincoln The third victim was not immediately identified. Lt.

Chapman was a member of a reserve squadron in for weekend practice. His plane first struck a P2V4 patrol bomber, plunged through another bomber, hit the tail of a twin-engine training plane and plunged into the hangar, its jet still spurting Lt. Roy Highberg, Navy com mand liaison officer, said witnesses estimated its speed from 46 to 92 miles per hour. Inside the hangar the runaway craft plowed through a single engine attack bomber, and came to rest against another. A third plane inside the hangar was burned.

Spendlnr Christmas In Norfolk Dal las or Bii-minKham? Trailways takes you STRAIGHT THRU! Always (o TRAIL- WAYS! Phont 4-5326. UdvJ in Group To Try Again Today For Bus Pact A committee of eight white and eight Negro citizens will try again today to study terms for ending a bus boycott that began two weeks ago. The committee, appointed by Mayor W. A. Gayle, failed to come to terms at the first meeting last Friday but agreed to continue efforts today.

The group had split on a resolution urging postponement of the boycott until Jan. 15. The white members all voted for the resolution and all eight Negro members voted against it. Thousands of Negroes have refused to ride city buses since Dec. 5 in protest to a $10 fine given a woman who refused to move back into the rear of a bus as required by state law and a city ordinance.

Mayor Gayle appointed the committee to make recommendations to the city commission on the terms demanded by Negro leaders for ending the boycott. At an earlier meeting with bus company officials, Negro spokesmen requested a seating arrangement in buses based on a "first come, first served" basis, more courtesy on the part of bus drivers to Negro patrons and the employment of Negro bus drivers on predominantly Negro routes. Bus officials refused to employ Negro drivers. They said the proposed seating arrangement was against the law, and pointed out there had been no recent reports of discourtesy by drivers toward Negro patrons. Two Egyptian Planes Charged With Attack JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Dec.

18 () An Israeli army spokesman charged today two Egyptian jet planes flew over the El Auja-Nizana area, and an Egyptian position in the Gaza strip fired on an Israeli patrol near Neeri village, causing no. casualties. Miss Asher ever had been married before. It was pointed out that any ceremony uniting him and Una Schmidt would have been invalidated by Schmidt's return Both Schmidt and Fine said they wanted Una and left it for her to decide. Schmidt's baby, born after his departure to Korea, called Fine "Daddy''.

Schmidt said he wanted the child's custody, even if his wife should decide against him. After a period of agonized indecision, Una rejoiml her husband in Portland, last August Last night, after the marriage performed by the Rev. Felix A. Manley of the Federated Congregational-Presbyterian Church here. Fine and his youthful bride declined to be interviewed or to pose for pictures.

Fine listed Millville, a lumbering town about 25 miles east of Redding, as his present address. Eisenhower can say whether he feels he is able to try for another four years in what is often called the hardest job in the world. The only official business on the President's schedule today was an automobile trip to Gettysburg Col lese with Mrs. Eisenhower to apeak a few words of holiday greet logs to his fellow countrymen on a nationwide radio TV "Pageant of Peace" program. He and Mrs; Eisenhower have started mailing thousands of greet ing cards to well-wishers through.

out the nation and around the elobe. His news secretary, James C. Ragerty, announced today that the Eisenhowers will return to Wash ington Wednesday to spend Christ mas at the White House with their son and daughter-in-law and their grandchildren. A golden telegraph key, present ed to him by the Western Union Telegraph Co. in 1954, was the vehicle for lighting the giant Christmas tree on the grounds of the White House in Washington The ceremony was part of a pro.

gram heralding the beginning of the observance of a holiday season dedicated to this country's devotion to peace and good will among men everywhere. It came at a time when pressure was buDding up in some GOP ouarters for a "yes or no" an swer shortly after the end of January on whether he will be the Republican standard bearer again next year. Proponents of an early answer, led by Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate minority leader, found little hope in a weekend medical report from a staff of physicians headed by Dr. Paul Dudley Wtote, the Boston heart specialist.

While pr. White said the 65-year- dd Eisenhower is "out of danger" from the September seizure, he said it will be mid-February beiore it will be known how the President's damaged heart stands under increasing mental and physi cal activity. Plans for the President to move (See PRESIDENT, Page 2A) President Voices Prayer For Peace As Tree Lighted WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 Wl With a prayer for understanding and peace" in the world. President Eisenhower tonight lighted the national community Christmas tree.

The giant spruce's 8,000 multi-colored lights blazed in the dusk of Washington when the President pressed a switch from Gettysburg. 80 miles away. Eisenhower spoke to a nationwide TV audience while seated at a desk at Gettysburg College. He said: This Christmas is "brighter In its background and in iis promise for the future than any we have known in recent years. I think it is even better than last year and you will remember that Christmas was the first one in many years that was not marred by the grafic incidents of war." WASHINGTON, Dec.

18 WSec-retary of State Dulles, returning from Paris, said today the North Atlantic Council meeting just concluded has made the free nations of Europe feel more secure than ever before. Asked by reporters at the airport for information on a reported five-billion-dollar new foreign aid program planned by the Eisenhower administration, Dulles said he had nothing to say on that matter because "I don't know what the final budget decisions were." This indicated an understanding on Dulles' part that top. level decisions have been made on the program which is reported to include $1,900,000,000 for economic spending abroad and three billion for military assistance to friendly nations. The program, always subject to last minute revisions, will be sent to Congress early in the new year by President Eisenhower. Returning from the Paris meeting on the same plane with Dulles North Korea To Execute Ex-Official LONDON.

Dec. 18 (AV-Tass, the Soviet news agency, said tonight that Pak Huen Yung, former foreign minister of North Korea, has been sentenced to death as an American spy. The agency, in a broadcast mon itored here, said the indictment charged Pak entered North Korea from South Korea on American orders in 1946 and worked to dis. rupt the Communist revolutionary movement from the inside by es pionage, subversion, muraer ana terror. It said the case was heard by the Korean Supreme Court three davs ago and that Pak was in court.

Once before Pak was reported sentenced to die. The North Ko rean radio at Pyongyang and the Moscow radio announced on Aug, 7, 1953 that the former foreign min ister and nine other high North Korean officials had been sen tenced to death for plotting with U. S. secret agents for armed rebellion in the Communist-ruled half of Korea. The outside world never heard that the sentences were carried out, however.

On Sept. 22. 1933, South Korean police reported Pak had fled to Japan and was in custody of American authorities. U. S.

authorities never confirmed that report and his whereabouts remained a mys tery, ine Korean War was on then. Shipping a Christmu packace? Us Trallwaya Bus Express! Bame-dar delivery to many nelchborinr cltlesl That' TRAIIjWAYSI Pilons 4-5320. (adTj With Crazy, Mixed-Hp Getup Figure In Enoch Arden Case Writes Off Past, Weds Again By EDDY GILMORE LONDON, Dec. 18 1 Princess Margaret, who rates on nearly everyone's list of t-dressed women, stunned style experts today with a costume for the races which they say violates the rules of fashion. "She Shocks the Fashion World," said a front-page headline iq one Sunday the People.

The pretty princess sported the costume when she went to the races at nearby Hurst Park yesterday with her sister, Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother. Although the stylists criticized her, they admitted they were intrigued by her unconventional getup, which consisted of: A stocking-like goblin hat of heavy soft material, a short cloth coat with mannish lapels and a fur collar, a dress of different material than the coat yet coat and dress have large matching black buttons, suede shoes, suede handbag. but butl pigskin gloves. fashion experts who begged that they remain unidentified looked at the costume and gasped. Said No.

1: "It seems a strange blend of town and country wear, and neither is the right thing for a race meeting. You can't mix suede shoes and suede handbag with pigskin gloves." Said No. 2: "The coat is too short for an ordinary coat and not short enough for a short one. To my eye the collar is wrong and the lapel line is not at all smart. However, it's daring of her to wear it." Said No." 3: "1 can't follow the style.

With that tunic it's essential that the dress should be of the same material. The princess defies the rule. Yet she's matched the buttons. Extraordinary, to say the least, and different." Oh yes, with all this Margaret wore a string of pearls. And she had two winners.

1 RENO, Dec. 18 Wr Logger Alfred D. Fine, 21, was honeymooning somewhere today with his 18-year-old bride, putting behind him for good the unhappy chapter of a wartime Enoch Arden drama which engulfed him last summer. Fine and Ellen Irene Asher, a Redding, bookkeeper, were married here last night. The young logger was thrust into limelight last August when he was discovered living at a Nevada County, lumber camp with 20-year-old Una Schmidt, whose husband, Airman Daniel Schmidt, had just been freed after 2V4 years a Chinese Communist prison camp.

Mrs. Schmidt, saying she believed her husband dead, declared she and Fine were married in Mexico in September 1954, but never gave a precise date or place. Fine's marriage license application here stated that neither he nor.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Montgomery Advertiser
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Montgomery Advertiser Archive

Pages Available:
2,091,521
Years Available:
1858-2024