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of of 6-5161 Publisher-Circulation TELEGRAM PHONES THE ROCKY MOUNT WEATHER 6-5163 Society-Bookkeeping Dial 6-3163 News-Editorial Advertising Fair and cold today; fair MosDial 6-5164 Display Dial $-1068 Classified Advertising day and warmer. Dial $-5460 Sports Department SUNDAY TELEGRAM FORTY-SIXTH YEAR 36 PAGES Five Sections ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1957 6c DAILY -15c SUNDAY-40c WEEKLY U.S. Tol Form Anti-Red Space-Age Bloc Two Nations To Seek 50-Nation Pact In Future By ARTHUR GAVSHON LONDON, Nov.

9 (-The United States and Britain tonight were for reported shaping up 50 plans nations a worldwide campaign to block banding together about in the spread of space-age communism. Senior here said this proposed new diplomats global diplomatic strategy would be charted on the a long range assumption- on could possibility prolong the cold war until Soviet Union the cenury. United States and Britain ed evidently countries hope under a umbrella to align like-mindtheir nuclear power, the inof formants said, and will cooper- pledges from them political, economic and that they ate efforts to beat Russia's in military Sputnik-paced girdling challenge. hookup, at In the least four regional defensive alliances would 'be joined. They are 15-nation Atlantic Pact, the 8-mem- 5- the nation Baghdad Pact, the ber Southeast Asian, Treaty Pan Organization and 21-state diplomats insisted there American Alliance.

But the intention to step up any foris no ing mal powers. out new, the. Even the 50-member the commitments 50-odd idea treaty of a of countries spell- con- the ference which the Unitectedate has with treaties has been That is because Washington and London want to avoid any sugges- build tion that they are trying up a rival to the U. N. the informants said.

idea instead is to draw all The West's regional groupings tothe gether, to create continuing liaison machinery between them and to do pull not in belong to any formal alother friendly states which liance. The purpose etc 4th graf TA12 The purpose is to launch a new stage nomic cooperation of the non-Comin the political-military-ecomunist world. Scope of the plan is vast. It ranges from I defining conditions for st massive nuclear retaliation against an aggressor to standardization of most types of war materials. American and British specialists: are preparing the proposals for submission to the A5 heads a the Atlantic Pact governments who meet in Paris month.

This conference will be followed by high level meetings of the fivepower. Baghdad pact, and the eight-power Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. their plans, the United States and Britain allow for the possibility that the EastWest cold War might go on for the next two generations- until the year they are reported seeking to adjust the scale and pace of Allied efforts accordingly: Diplomats say the State Department in Washington and the ForSee ALLIANCE Page 4-A Sunrise Daily Almanac. Sunset 7:50 p.m. Moonrise Last Quarter Nov.

14 PROMINENT. STARS Square of Pegasus, high in south at moonrise. Alpheratz is the upper left-hand star of the figure; the lower right-hand one is Markab. GOING HOME Little Pamela Schatz with her father, John Scatz, left Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for her in Long Island. Her Siamese twin sister, Patty, with Mrs.

Schatz, discharged a week ago, drove from New York with her parents to escort Pamela on the return ride. The girls, born on Long Island Sept. were separated successfully at Children's Hospital early in October in a 2-hour. 35 minute operation by a team of 14 pediatric specialists. (United Press Telephoto) Overhaul Favored In Science Fields By G.

MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (P) A staff report to the Senate Government Operations Committee today urged a massive overhaul of he nation's science and technology programs. The report, signed by staff director Walter L. Reynolds, an- Average Prices Show Decrease BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Average prices for flue-cured towere dev for the week ending Friday on all three bells North Carolina and Virginia as sales ended for the season on the Eastern Belt. With only Wilson and Rocky Mount markets open this past week, Eastern Belt gross sales for the week totaled 2,849,220 pounds for an average of $45.20 per hundred pounds a according to the Federal-State Market News Season sales have amounted 353,473,237 pounds averaging $54.30.

These figures compared with year when season totals were 508, last 200,583 pounds for an average I of $51.47. There were 61 selling days last year, as well as this year. Average prices by grades during the final week were about in line with the previous week with fluctuations of $1 to $3. The quality of offerings was lower this past week. On the Old Belt most average prices were a little lower this past week than the week before.

Gross sales for the past week were 985,110 pounds for a $50.45 averSee TOBACCO Page 4-A R. Flake Shaw, Farm Bureau Leader, Stricken GREENSBORO, N.C., Nov. 9 (P R. Flake Shaw, 68-year-old executive vice president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation who died here today, will be buried Sunday. Funeral services will be held at3 p.m.

Sunday at the Presbyterian Church of the Convenant. Dr. Joseph Garrison, pastor of the Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Guilford Memorial Park. Shaw was a native of field add spent his early childhood working on a farm.

In 1940; he assumed control of the federation, and the organization reached a peak membership of 71,000 farm families in 1948. He became prominent in the field of banking in 1940 when he was named to the board of directors of the Bank of Greensboro. He was serving in that capacity at See SHAW Page 4-4 Honor Medal Winners Observe Veterans Day By ROBERT MCHUGH Associated Press Writer Veterans Day tomorrow has a special significance for South Carolina and six of its residents holders of the Medal of Honor, highest military decoration the nation has to -offer. In all, South Carolina has produced 19 Medal of Honor winners, a quota that can be regarded as exceptionally high for a state ranking 27th among the 48 in population. Statistics are somewhat clouded since heroism among Confederate troops was not regarded with enthusiasm during the disagreement of 1863-1865 by the Federal Congress, the body which awards the Carolina Piedmont Files WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Not.

9 (P)-Piedmont Airlines filed an application with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington Friday to add 2,952 route miles and 10 new cities, including Atlanta, and Baltimore, to its system, Thomas H. Davis, Piedmont president, said here today that the application was made in connection CAB's newlyopened Piedmont area local servI ice case. Piedmont, which serves 33 cities in seven states and the District of Columbia, is requesting CAB authority to serve for the first time Atlanta and Augusta, Baltimore; Columbia andFlorence, S. Jacksonville, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount and Elizabeth City, N.C.; a and Staunton, Va. If approved, the routes applied for would nearly double Piedmont's system, which is now 3,507 miles, Davis said.

Terrible Red Weapon Seen By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 Soviet science today was reported pointed toward a weapon more terrible than the "ultimate" intercontinental ballistic missile a manned, hypersonic bomber that could glide at fantastic speeds through space and bomb and spy on any place on earth. The United States was also described as interested in such a weapon, but far behind Russia in missiles work that lead to this and other developments. This information came from nongovernment sources who are nevertheless in a position to know much about missiles progress. asked not to be identified.

least some of what they told newsmen is expected to be presented before a congressional investigating committee soon. The informants said: 1. The U. S. government has circulated word that by 1959 the Soviets can be assumed to have long-range missiles able to attack all U.

S. strategic air bases. All forward U. S. bases, such as those in Europe, are already believed faced with intermediate range Russian ballistic missiles with ranges of up to 2.

The Russians successfully launched two ICBMs last 'August. They were in the range but capable of going further, A September launching attempt of a Russian ICBM-type missile, perhaps, a Sputnik earth satellite, was successful. The United States also knows of hundreds of firings of missiles with ranges of 1,500 miles or less. 3. It is not known whether the Reds have solved ICBM problems of accuracy and re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.

President Eisenhower noted Thursday night the United States has successfully brought the nose cone of a missile back to earth, without its being consumed by frictional heat as it reentered the atmosphere. But the informants said much work on reentry remains to be done. 4. A U. S.

Defense Department committee has turned thumbs down on proposed use of photons (light particles) to propel space ships. After careful inquiry, it was decided photon propulsion didn't show promise of enough push. The Russians were described as interested after World War II in getting all they could from German scientists on V2 rockets, an antiaircraft missile system and a Saenger hypersonic bomber proSee SOVIET Page 4-A Missing Airliner Is Object Of Massive Air-Sea Search 44 On Board Big Plane On Pacific Flight Navy Orders Big Aircraft Carrier To Join Search By JIM BECKER HONOLULU, Nov. 9 (P-A sive search by air and sea was shaping up over the mid-Pacific tonight, in quest of a missing Pan American Stratocruiser with 44 persons aboard. Pacific Fleet headquarters directed the big carrier Philippine Sea to leave Long Beach, at once, hurling its far-ranging radar -equipped antisubmarine planes into the search.

The carrier should reach the area by noon Sunday. In San Diego the Navy ordered two destroyers, the John R. Craig and the Oreleck, to depart immediately. Helicopter Squadron near San Diego, was ordered to board the Philippine as was Anti-submarine Squadrons, 21, a plane unit. The Pan American clipper with 36 passengers and a crew of 8 vanished from the skies between 5:04 PST and 6 p.

m. yesterday without a word that would indicate rouble or disaster. The 5:04 radio call was a dis routine position report. The pilot didn't make the customary call at 6. In mid-afternoon a Coast Guard cutter sped to the position last given by the pilot.

This was more than 1,000 miles east of Honolulu PENTAGON PUZZLED -The Pentagon is puzzled by President Eisenhower's re- Earlier, a plane had spotted two address that "the B-52 (top photo) will be succeeded by the bobbing yellow objects, possibly mark in his nation-wide life rafts- or wing tanks jetisoned B-58 (bottom photo), a supersonic bomber." The military was under the impression by a searching jet. that the B-58 Hustler, which because of its high fuel consumption (to give it super- Then the 'Navy reported that a sonic speed) has an approximate range of only 3,000 miles without midair refuelling, an unidentified plane object in had the spotted radar-equipped the present medium range B-47, and not the B-52, which is a heavy, about 100 miles southwest of the would replace range bomber with a range of approximately 6,000 miles without midair refuel- ocean station in the general pounced "at least a tentative concrusion that there is presently little or no coordination between agencies carrying on science activities, and very little exchange of It said this has resulted in "unnecessary duplications and waste of scientific personnel in many The report, made public by committee sources, recommended: Creation of new Senate and Science and Technology headed by a new Cabinet officer as a major step to help assure American scientific supremacy in peace or war. Creation of New Senate and House science committees to ride herd on the proposed new agency, and handle science legislation, The wading a new Academy of Science, patterned after the military academies, to train gifted students in advanced science courses, plus "a broad system of science scholarships and proper incentives to instructors in the existing schools, colleges and uniEmergency steps to. recruit See SCIENCE Page 4-A Mock Legislators Shock Rep. Cooley RALEIGH, Nov.

9 UP- The State Student Legislature drew the ire of Rep. Harold D. Cooley (D-NC) today for its resolutions to legalize inter-racial marriages and prostitution. Rep. Cooley, addressing the closing session of the assembly, departed three his prepared speech to tell the 212 students attending he mock legislaure that he was "shocked by the action taken." The actions, of course, had no significance beyond an expression of student opinion.

"You have shocked the sensibilities of our people," Cooley 1 regret very much the actions taken by this assembly." The resolution on egation Woman's marriages, "College, introduced by the University delwas yesterday by the students representing 21 white and Negro colleges in the state. Indicating he was personally annoyed at the action being taken See COOLEY Page 4-A Ike His Will Routine Get Annual Check WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (P- The White House said today that President Eisenhower will undergo a complete, routine annual physical examination starting tomorrow. will enter Walter Reed Army Hospital tomorrow afternoon or eventing and stay there overnight for the checkup. Mrs.

Anne Wheaton, associate secretary, said Eisenhower will return to the White House Monday. It will be his first overnight stay at the hospital, since Oct. 27-28. 1956, when he had his last complete checkup. Mrs.

Wheaton said the President has been to the hospital twice in interval, for brief examinations of the heart and lungs. The President underwent an intestinal operation at Walter Reed See IKE Page 4-A Nature Forces Still. Tough By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS H-bombs, rockets and Sputniks don't awe Nature. Her forces still are stronger and less controllable than anything man has devised. Nature gave North Carolina a little roughing-up as the weekend started a series of tornadoes, twisters and windstorms.

These left at least one dead as an indirect result of the storms, five or more injured and several buildings Egypt Keeping Up Attack On Jordan By ANGELO NATALE CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 9 (P- Egypt's drumfire of propaganda against King Hussein and his Jordan government continued today. It appeared aimed at the Israel- Industry, Union Trade Charges RALEIGH, Nov. 9 The manager of a Westinghouse Electric Co plant here charged today that AFL-CIO Vice President James B. Carey was bringing up old, discredited issues in asserting that industry "has started to use race hate as a union In a night Howard University, in Washington, D.C., "race hate" used by industry as propaganda against activities in four Southern cities during the past two years.

Carey, who is president of the International' Union of Electrical Workers, said the firms which used "this new technique of war against labor" were the Westing house Electric plant here: the Neco Co. in Bay Springs, and two firms at Jackson, See CHARGES Page 4-A a ANOTHER TORNADO WRECKAGE SCENE Shown Jones residence was one of the easternmost houses hit by here is what remains of the home of the Burch Jones Friday night's rampaging tornado, (Telegram Photo by family of Route 2. Rocky Mount, as it is being looked: Killebrew) by neighbors at the scans of the tornado yesterday. hating Palestinian refugees cooped in Jordan, Egyptian radio broadcasts accuse Hussein of agreeing to negotiate with Israel on the refugee problem. These negotiations, the Egyptian press and radio charge, will end in Israel's favor.

Nothing boils the blood of these refugees more than to be told that Israel may come out on top in the refugee problem. The refugees who flocked into Jordan after Israel became a nation, comprise large part of Jordan's population. Jordan has branded all the Egyptian charges as lies. The councils of three Jordan municipalities Bethlehem, Beit, Jala and Beit Samur -have sent pleas to President Nasser of Egypt to stop what they called a vicious campaign against young Hussein. But the drumfire goes on.

The See MIDEAST Page 4-A search area. The cylindrical objects, hunted by the cutter were by an Air Force plane 80 miles southwest of the last position reported: by the Hawaii bound transport, "Romance of the Skies." That roufine last word came at 5:04 p. m. yesterday. Capt.

D. B. MacDiarmid, chief of Coast Guard operations, said it was possible the yellow objects were not rafts but rather wing tanks jettisoned from a jet plane. The Coast Guard commander directing the search said there was a "potent possibility" the plane "suddenly and for an known reason went out of control." The four engined plane, after passing the of no return halfway along the 2,400 mile flight. from San Francisco, mysteriously vanished without once reporting any trouble.

The transports fuel supply is estimated to have given outne 3 Coast a.m. Guard cutter Minnetonka was part of a search party. of more than 29 planes and 14 surface vessels covering a charted checkerboard of 65,000 square miles. Cmdr. William E.

Chapline, heading the Coast Guard phase of See PLANE Page 4-A land houses storms hit destroyed all over or the damaged. state Friday, during the day and night. of the earliest blows was followed by the death of Henry Lutz, 30 year-old Negro construction worker, who picked up the end of a broken power line at Newton. He was electrocuted. Storms reported later hit Rocky Mount where five persons were See TORNADOES Page 4-A Police Still Hunt For Slayer Of Patrolmen By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police in half a dozen states have followed a hot and cold trail for the elusive, dark-complexioned gunman who killed two North Carolina highway patrolmen five days ago, and left two widows and sev-30, en orphans.

Suspects have been picked up and released in Delaware, Towns County, Bamberg, S.C.; and Georgetown, Ky. Other men have been detained with inconclusive results in Columbus, Ohio, Jacksboro, and Bristol, Tenn. in the continuing manhunt for the motorist who gunned down Patrol Pfc. Wister Lee Reece 39, of Hamlet, and Pfc. J.

T. Brown of Sanford in separate attacks Tuesday night. The search has been spurred by trail of stolen, wrecked cars. A Negro hitchhiker the killer picked up at Asheboro, N.C., fled from 1957 black Oldsmobile after the man took a long gun' from the glove compartment. The slayer walked toward Reece, who had stopped him at a speed check point on U.S.

220 near Eellerbe, and shot and killed him. The hitchhiker, Robert Terry Jr. of Norman, N.C., said he had been in New York City for two months and was returning to North Carolina. He described himself as a sometime lay preacher, and said he had left his Bible and gloves in the Oldsmobile, which was found Thursday morning in Chattanooga, Tenn. Terry, who hid in a ditch during Reece slaying, was" taken to both Bamberg and Georgetown, but said neither of the men de tained there was the gunman.

He described the killer as in his middle 20s, 5 feet 11 inches, about 150 pounds, dark complexioned, and Spanish looking. Terry also said the man talked with an Italian: accent and told him he was -en See MANHUNT Page 4-A R. FLAKE SHAW Western Trade Bans Hurting Chinese Reds 1-27th-if the total number of medals awarded in all wars is considered. However, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, reported last year that there were 320 known living Medal of Honor winners in the United States. And South Carolina at that time, could boast of seven living, a total, well above the median if all 48 states shared alike, regardless of population.

Six Medal of Honor winners live in the state today. They are Adj. Gen. James C. Dozier and Brig.

Gen. John T. Kennedy, both of Columbia; Thomas E. Atkins of the New Prospect Community near Campbello: Donald L. Truesdell of retired Marine C.

Beckeley of Beaufort, See VETERANS Page WATSON SIMS I LONDON, Nov. 9 UR A British, government leader who returned this week from a tour of Red China's industrial centers said today that country unquestionably is being hurt by Western trade restrictions. "I was a subject which came up everywhere I went, each time talked with government or industrial leaders." said F. J. Erroll, whose four-week tour marked the first visit to China by a British minister since the Communists took control.

said he mixture of defiance and resentment toward the Allied ban on strategic materials. one hand the Chinese said the restrictions had been, good for the country because they: had forced Chine to -becomi more sell sufficient," Erroll said in an inter. view. "But on the other hand they would demand: 'Why are you here to talk about trade when there is so much you will not During a tour which included all major Chinese industrial cities, Erroll said he saw much evidence: that the nation's industrial expansion had been held back by the lack of Western trade. particularly in petroleum, ships and precision machinery.

Erroll went to China on what he described as a ground paving mission aimed at expanding British-Chinese trade in nonstraegic materials, Britain eased her restrictions on such trade last May despite U. S. objections, but still prohibits goods which might contribute to. China's war Sea CHINA Page.

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