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BLYTHEVULE COURIER NEWS na DOMINANT mcwartnm or ARKANSAS AMD BOUTHEAST MISSOURI VOL. 91 BlytheTllk Daily BlytherUleHarald stlsslnlppl Valley BLYTHEVILLE, ABKANSAS, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955 EIGHT PAGES Published Dally Except Sunday SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Hong Kong To Admit US Turncoats By DAVID J. ROADS HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong authorities today accused Chinese Communist officials of attempting to pull a fast one in demanding transit permits for three turncoat Americans who want to leave Red China. Announcing such permits had not and would not be issued, a government spokesman said the was a propaganda move' aimed at pressuing U.S. and British authorities into allowing the men to enter Hong Kong legally.

A government statement issued shortly afterward said the British charge d'affaires in' Peiping had been authorized to inform the Chinese Red Cross Society that the men would be admitted to Hong Kong. Undocumented Aliens This was interpreted as mean- Ing they would be allowed to enter as undocumented aliens, the status U.S. and Russia Quietly Settle Attaches Dispute State Department Accepts Soviet's Right of Dismissal By JOHN A. SCALI WASHINGTON The United States has quietly settled its latest diplomatic dispute with Russia over three American Army officers expelled from the Soviet Union. The State Department, apparently lo keep the incident from Big of most European refugees returning from Red China.

There was no indication whether this would satisfy Peiping authorities. The announcement said the formal authorization for their entry had not previously been given "because of the necessity for consultations with authorities in London and Washington." As undocumented aliens, they would be tured over immediately to American authorities here. British sources said the Hong Kong government's position has been to make certain that the men would not be left on its hands through some dodge that would prevent them being handed over directly to U.S. officials. The government spokesman earlier explained that the possession of transit permits would enable the men to stay in Hong Kong until they- could arrange their own transportation and would permit them to try for etry into some other country than the United States.

Changed Minds The three War prisoners who first chose to remain in Red China and later changed their been scheduled to cross the Hong Kong border Into British territory today. But Peiping radio announced last night their departure had been postponed. The broadcast I a ed the change of plans on the failure of British authorities to supply the permits. The men reportedly are now in Canton, awaiting final arrangements for their departure disturbing prospects for the tt Four summit conference, has Red China Peipinfr has Idet- cepted Russia's right to order the if'ed them as Lewis W. Origgs, of the three- embassy, aide out country- Three replacements for the men, all assistant Army attaches, will be named, however, with the expectation Russia will agree to accredit them for the American Em bassy in Moscow.

One Recommended The name of one of the men has already gone forward for approval, it was learned, but Informants did not disclose his name. The whole incident and its aftermath have bee handled without publicity, obviously in an effort to keep the affair from mushrooming into a major disagreement at this time. The State Department confirmed the incident only after details had become kown. Informed officials disclosed last June 17 that Russia hnd banned the trio, declaring them "persona non grata," or persons unacceptable to the Soviet Union. The three were Lt.

Col. John S. Vinson of Milton. Capt. William R.

Stroud of Kewanee, and Capt. Walter Mule of Ft. Monmouth, N. J. Returned to U.

S. The three have already returned to the United States for reassignment to new posts. As far as could be learned from officials who were reluctant to talk about the matter, the United States has no plans for retaliating against the Soviet Union by order- Ing several Soviet Embassy aides to leave the country. Russia and the United States in the past adopted a tit for tat policy whenever such incidents came up. Nearly a year ago Russia ousted 1 an American lieutenant colonel and Jacksonville, O.

G. Bell, Olympia, and William A. Cowart, Dalton, Ga. Peiping radio nyide no mention of a new departure date. But British police officials maintained a watch at the Shumchun River frontier, 32 miles north of Hong Kong, in case the men should arrive there without further notice.

Border officials said they were not on this afternoon's train from Can- Puuled Official! The Red Chinese moved puzzled British and American officials here. A spokesman at the U.S Consulate said authorities "were at a loss to understand the Red Chinese motives in the last-minute delay." Private sources said the Communists apparently are making a final effort to use men for propaganda purposes before thes cross into the free suggested that other turncoats in Red China may be showlnj signs of uneasiness about staying behinc and the Reds could use the case of these three as an example 01 the difficulties they would meet if they too tried to leave. A British spokesman confirmed that the Red Chinese had asked the British Embassy in Peiping for transit permits, he said the embassy had replied that the men would be received at the border here and would get the necessary papers only on their arrival. This is the customary routine with persons arriving as undocumented aliens. Under this procedure, they would be turned over to authorities for Hot Enough for If you think Blytheville's 80-degree-plus weather of late has been warm, just think of the plight of persons elsewhere.

The newsman above demonstrates how hot it has been where he lives with these series of trick photos. He's Jack Rye, state editor of the Decatur, Herald and Review, who felt as if he were going to melt during the mid-west's current heat wave. And, according to the photos, he did, too. Russell Sticks by Guns In. Reserve Controversy By EDWIN B.

HAAKINSON WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Russell (D-Ga) today stuck by his proposal to exempt veterans from compulsory reserve training, despite Pentagon opposition. "I still think I've got the best plan," said Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Russell spoke in an interview after receiving a letter in which Secretary of Defense Wilson stressed the administration's be-, lief in the need for reserve duty by "individuals who have served with the active forces." However. Wilson assured Russell the Pentagon plans to use the least possible "enforcement measures." Armed Services Committee public hearings on the program to build a combat- rendv reserve force of 2,900,000 by 1960 were in recess until Monday.

Defense officials were scheduled to at that time. Little Opposition There appeared to be little, if my. Senate opposition to an administration plan to recruit up to 250,000 teen-age volunteers a year for six moths of active duty, followed by 71i years active traiing in active reserve units. The House version of the reserve bill contains such a provision. Instead, Senate differences appeared to be centering on a requirement that former draftees or enlistees must also take active reserve training.

has arged elimination of compulsory reserve service veterans, suggesting instead a S40Q bonus to encourage such ex- servicemen to volunteer for three years with a combat unit of the Army or Marine Corps reserve. Passed by House The House voted to exempt from active reserve training all veterans who completed full-time duty before July 27, 1953, date of the Korean armistice. Under present law, all servicemen are obligated to eight years of military duty, split between active and reserve service. The House approved an enforcement feature that would allow recall for 45 days' active duty of any reservist failing to maintain satisfactory training in any year. The House also.

reduced the over-all obligated peroid of service from eight to six years. Secretary Wilson said he objected to this cutback until the new reserve plan had been tried for a while. As to service veterans, Wilson See RUSSELL Page 8 a major attached to the American I American consular authorities for Embassy, accusing them of inv identification and verification of proper activity Including espionage. The State Department promptly denied the charges. It said Russia's move was dictated by a desire lo retaliate because the United States had kicked out three Soviet diplomats earlier in the year on similar grounds.

Quake Recorded TOKYO light earthquake was felt in the Tokyo area at 7:04 p.m. today. The Central Meteorological Observatory placed the center of the quake about miles northeast of Tokyo their citizenship status. The three reportedly have no papers whatever identifying them as Ameri- Maney Saving Idea TOKYO babies, fewer dependent allowance, lower labor costs. That's the theory behind a plan announced today by the Hitachi Shipbuilding Co, It's going to teach its 14.000 employes about birth control.

Estimated annual savings: 127,800. Hoxie Public Schools to Open Doors to Negro Pupils Monday HOXIE, Ark. School doors will open to Negro and white children alike here Monday, starting first racially integrated public in the history of east Arkansas. Most of Arkansas' Negro population is concentrated in the cotton land in eail Arkansas. Supt.

K. E. Vance aald yesterday that Negro and white children will have equal status in the classroom, lunchroom, on the playground and on achool buses. "We are making no special preparations and are expecting no trouble of any kind," Vance said. "We will try to begin the new program without fanfare." tats, wtth puMMMa t- 8S5, is the fourth Arkansas school district to integrate its wheels.

The Biggers-Reyno rural district near also In east Arkansas, has announced that It will integrate at the start of the fall term. Last year, the Payettevlll: district eliminated segregation in the high school, and Charleston has integrated the races In Its school system. Fayettevllle and Charleston are in northwest Arkansas, where the Negro population Is small. Negro high school at Hoxle formerly went miles by bus to Jonesboro. The Hoxle elementary school had one teacher for eight grades In the Metro Sinking Ship Mystery Solved; Youth Admits Beaming SOS WOODMERE, N.

Y. (AP) Two youths were held early today as police unravelled the mystery of the fishing boat Blue Star. An SOS signal, purportedly coming from the vessel, sent Coast Guard rescue craft on a $50,000 search of the Atlantic early Thursday. Nassua County police said one of the youths, a 21-year-old former crewman on a commercial fishing boat, admitted that he beamed the phoney distress signal to show his 17- year-old pal how a "real radio works. The older youth was as Thomas Maldona, of East Rockaway, N.Y..

laid off six weeks ago from the fishing boat St. Joseph. His companion was George Teen, of Oceanside. N.Y. Police said the youths, who broke into the radio shack of the St.

Joseph, were charged with a third-degree burglary. They are expected to be turned over for prosecution by the Federal Communications Commission as soon as a warrant is obtained from a federal judge. 110,000 Fine Under commission regulations, hoaxer faking a disaster at sea faces a $10,000 fine, a year in prison or both. The distress signal said the 40- foot fishing boat Blue Star was sinking with 21 persons aboard after striking a "strange object" 30 miles off Barnegat. N.J.

The message said a boiler room explosion set the boat ablaze, blocking access to life preservers. The last radio telephoned message said tersely that the Blue Star was going down and a foreign submarine was picking up survivors. Coast Guard air and sea craft patrolled some 4,000 square miles of the sea in the area pinpointed in the message only to find an oil slick and a torn, unmarked lifejacket bobbing in the water. Neither was necessarily an indication of a disaster, the coast guard said. The search, which cost government $50,000 was called off er 30 hours, when It was ascertained that all boats listed as the blue star were accounted for, no submarine was in the area and that no calls from relatives were received by the coast guard.

Police lived the first clue lo the hoaxer's identity when William Herlvede, of Valley Stream, N.Y., owner of the St. Joseph, reported the lock on the boat's radio shack had been broken and that the radio set was on. Tell BUry Police pieced together this story: On the night the fake disaster was beamed, the two youths were maklnf the rounds of Lone Island jnrs. During a discussion of radios New York Split Points To Big Demo Squabble By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) A split among New York leaders added today to growing signs that the Democrats may be in for a battle over their 1958 presidential nomination. Sen.

Lehman (D-NY) was said er than it was in 1952. Arkansas Tells Memphis: Quit Fighting D-Y WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. Turning cold eyes toward Memphis, just across the Mississippi River, representatives of 30 east Arkansas communities have threatened to "terminate the happy relations" if Memphis doesn't stop fighting the Dixon-Yates contract. At a meeting here lest night, jammed with the top political brass of Arkansas, a resolution addressed to Memphis citizens was drafted. It said, in part "We have been a part of the Memphis trade territory and have been your customers.

Our relations have been pleasant and mutually action of your city officials and their selfish and deliberate distortion of facts in this matter are to blame for this unhappy situation. "No Alternative" "The actions if continued leaves no alternative other than to terminate the happy The resolution adopted was a revision of an earlier one which was rejected as being too mild. Former Gov. Francis Cherry said the first resolution gave the "impression we are sorry we are mad at them. I'm not sorry we are mad at them." The Dixon-Yates combine plans to construct a 107 million dollar steam generating plant here.

It has a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission to supply power to certain Tennessee Valley Authority areas. It would replace TVA power being diverted to AEC plants. Plant In Jeopardy Memphis, which is in the area, has announced plans to construct its own generating plant, rather tlu buy power from the private compay. This development has placed the Dixon-Yates plant in jeopardy. Gov.

Orval Faubus, who flew here for the meeting last night criticized the Eisenhower administration for "vaccilation and hesitation." He told the group he had telegraphed President Eisenhower that "Your indecision regarding construction of steam generating plat at West Memphis, by Dixo- Yates is'in high disfavor in this area. Failure to carry through on construction will be admission that your administration is guilty of all charges of error, bad judge- ment, neglect, and conniving with special interests that have been hurled by the opposition to this project." Pratt Remmel, Little Rock's Republica mayor was was defeated publican mayor, was defeated by Faubus for governor last November, placed the blame for Dixon- Yates' troubles on the Democrats. "The Republicans have been for this contract all he said. It is the Democrats who are fighting it. The Republican party has done everything it can for you.

You ought to appreciate it." by aides to be sticking solidly- behind former Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois as his candidate for the nomination, despite a state organization lineup for Gov. Averell Harrima. Lehman's stand aligns with Mayor Robert P.

Wagner Jr. of New York City, who said on his return from a European trip that Stevenson remains his choice. Leaders at Odds They thus are publicly at odds with Carmine G. De Sapio, Tammany leader and Democratic national committeenian, and State Chairman Michael H. Prendergast, who have come out tor Harriman.

While Harriman himself has said he' is for Stevenson, the position of De Sapio and Prendergast indicates at least a possible holdout of New York's iey 97-vote delegation at next 1 year's Chicago convention. Such a development could cause Stevenson trouble if he goes In pitching for the nomination. So far, Stevenson has't said whether he will seek another try at the presidency. Toe HoM for Adlai The support of Wagner and Lehman would give Stevenson a toe hold within the New York delegation, but neither apparently la in a position to do much to overcome organisation control. Steveson needed the bulk of New York's votes to win the 1152 nomination on the third roll call.

These had gone to Hirriman on two previous ballots before he stepped aside. If New York Is a holdout next year, many Democrats think Sie- i would Hot Ibt lofec The Harriman was not generally regarded, outside of his ow camp, as having any real chance for the nomination. But since his election last fall as governor of New York. Harriman apparently has picked up strength in other states. Ex-Bar Proxy Dies FORT SMITH, Ark.

Cecil Randolph Warner, president of the Arkansas Bar Association in 1949, died last night at a hospital here. He was 65. Weather ARKANSAS Partly cloudy and wram this afternoon, tonight and Sunday with isolated afternoon and evening thunder showers. fair south and partly cloudy north portion Sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms northwest and extreme north. Cooler extreme north this afternoon and extreme northeast tonight.

Low tonight middle 60s extreme north to near 70 south. High Sunday 80s extreme north to the middle 90s south. Maximum Minimum this SUAKt MMH Precipitation lut 24 hours to 7 p.m. Frtclpitatlon Jan. 1 to This Datf Last Year Maximum 96.

Minimum this 1 to M. S. Powell New Pemiscot Superintendent COOTERr-M. S. Powell conies to Reorganized School District TV this year as superintendent replacing J.

E. Godwin who had served the school for nine years. an lowan by birth, was superintendent of school at Novinger, last year and had held that position for four years. With Mrs. Powell and their 10- year-old son he moved to cooler early last month.

They have a married daughter residing near Novinger. Cooter schools open Monday for the cotton vacation term of approximately six weeks. Powell is the only new superintendent in Pemiscot Counts' this year. Pemiscot Has First Polio Case CARUTHERSVILLE Alexander Gordon, nine-year-old Warden Negro, has been confirmed as Pemiscot County's first polio case this year, according to county health officials. Gordon was admitted to the St.

Frances Hospital at Cape Girar-; deau last month. Administration, Memphis at Odds Over Power Plans it will build its owa By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) The Eisenhower administration and the City of Memphis were at odds today over whether the. city has given "proper assurance" 11 power plant. On this point may hinge the fate-fr- of the controversial Dixon-Yates contract.

White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said yesterday "an example of such assurance would be a vote by the mayor and city council that the city assumes the sole responsibility of providing its own power." Hours later, Mayor Frank Tobey came back with an assertion that the Memphis City Commission June 23 had passed a resolution "authorizing our (utilities) division to commence the construction of a steam plant." Tobey in dicated he felt this was assurance enough, Restudy Underway The Budget Bureau, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission now are engaged in a restudy, at President Eisenhower's order, to determine whether to cancel the Dixon- Yates contract in the light of Memphis' announced decision to build its own' plant, rather than use the output of the private project. The 107-million-dollar Dixon- Yates plant now is under construction at West Memphis, Ark. It intended as a source of energy to replace TVA power being diverted chiefly from the Memphis area to AEC plants in the Tennessee Valley area. While awaiting the outcome of Ehe contract restudy, Dixon-Yates foes concentrated their attack on two side issues.

The use of the FBI to gather information on Memphis' plans and the dual role of Adolphe H. Wenzell as a Budget Bureau adviser while he was a vice president of the First Boston a firm that later became a Dixon-Yates financial agent on a no-fee basis. Eisenhower has said Wenzell's role was entirely proper. Atty. Getting Facts Gen.

Brownell said the FBI was used to "gather facts" for his guidance in rendering legal advice on whether to cancel or go ahead with the Dixon-Yates contract. But Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn). chairman of a Senate antimonopoly subcommittee, said he wasn't satisfied with that explanation. "The legal and historical background of the FBI," Kefauver said, "doesn't show it should be used to investigate sovereign cities.

The Tennessee senator said Brownell may be asked to come before the subcommittee later for full explanation, Kefauver contends the use of federal agents in this matter was an effort to "put the FBI into politics." However, Mayor Tobey said the FBI's check of his city's power plans "in no way upset me." As for Wenzell, he told Kefauver's subcommittee yesterday See D-Y Page 8 He Proved It NEWARK, N. J. ifi As James Faulk, 40, was being questioned yesterday on whether he had turned in a false fire alarm, he pulled alarm handle twice more before the amazed eyes of Battalion Fire Chief a-s O'Boyle, police said. With all doubt eliminated, Faulfc was arrested on charges of turning in the false alarm. Vickrey Explains Case Dismissals Prosecutor Points Out There Was No Hope for Conviction! took office in January, but waited almost six months so CARUTHERSVTLLE Pros.

torney James (Tick) Vickrey explained this morning why 51 criminal cases were dismissed in Fern- iscot County June 13. Vickrey said most of the cases had" been on the docket for more than a year and a few were three or four years old. Many of the witnesses had left the state and possibility of convicting evidence dwindled as the years passed, he said. Vickrey said the cases could. have been dismissed when he first he he could investigate the cases and find out if any could be tried with a likelihood of conviction.

He said there were several old cases which he did not dismiss, but he felt it was his duty to dismiss those he did because, "There's no use spending the county's money when you don't have any wiU nesses." Vickrey issued press releases ft month prior to dismissal of tha cases. The releases asked people to contact him if they had any information about old cases. Vickrey said he alone did not decide to dismiss the cases but that it was a mutual agreement with. sheriff's officers, highway patrolmen and other law enforcement officers. A confidential source told Courier News correspondent about the dismissals yesterday and said he was told that Vickrey had re- qested the cases not be released to the press.

Vickrey did not deny this, but said the source was probably, one of my political enemies." Court officials did not deny press access to the records. Keep Ike And Nixon, Hall Urges CHICAGO winning team of President Eisenhower and Viet President Nixon should be retained by the Republicans at the 1956 national convention, says Leonard W. Hall, GOP national chairman. "Mr. Eisenhower is as popular today as he ever was," Hall told a news conference yesterday.

"He 1 win as big In 1958 as he did in 1952." Hall said he is working as national chairman "on the assmup- tion that Mr. Eisenhower will seek reelection next year." The President has not announced his intentions for 1956. Hall, who was in Chicago lor a meeting of Republican campaign contributors, also said the Republicans will regain control at Congress next year. Einstein Warns of Future Wars LONDON tfl Just before his death, Albert Einstein and eight other scientists signed an appeal to world rulers to end war lest nuclear weapons destroy man kind. Bertrand Russell, the 83-year- old British philosopher who is now an Earl, drew up the statement.

He disclosed its wording and the details connected with its signature at news conference attended by 200 persons. Bussell atid be received Xto- stein's signature to the document a day before the propdunder of the theory of relativity died In the United States on April 18. The statement said: "In view of the fact that in any future war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of. mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for settlement of all matters at dispute between them." Russell, who was of the signers, issued the statement at a news conference. Einstein's scientific studies to the development of the bomb and eventually to the hydrogen bomb, which he TCiy Mawm ol.