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TELEGRAM PHONE! Bll MKi PaalUhar-Clraalatlaa' Dial S-5I6I gocltl? Bookkeeplni Dial S-3I6S Nawa-Editorial Dial 6-3164 Displa; Adterllsml Dial S-4II68 Classified Advertising Dial t-5460 Sparta Departmeot The VENING TELEGRA WEATHER Fair, not quite so cold tonight; Tusdy partly cloudy, slightly FORTY-SIXTH YEAR 14 pages Two section, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1957 6c DAILY 15c SUNDAY 40c WEEKLY raopes board or 44 escue Violent Deaths In North State Reach New High By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 24 persons died by vio issing Airplane Flicker ris Am i lence in North Carolina over the weekend one of the bloodiest in i years. Three nprsons died in the col- lision of a car and a truck carry- ing tobacco hogsheads at an in-; tersection at Hightowers neari Burlington. They were Coleman' truck driver; Rosemary Lea, 25 HONOLULU Ufl-Hope of rescu-nt Waciiinrrnn anA MilHroH ir.

anv of the 44 Dersons missina Allen 15. of Blanche, near Bur- lingtOB. I MrSMDMihea iuik.aIii Mortfrt U7 9c fata Hi- in. i 1 ar a8aVXi Sjured when an automobile in I wmcn sne was nam- sianea wnn its bumper just on the AUan tic from "other search acraft Coast Line tracks near Fayette- poast Guard spokesman said, ville, and was hit by a freight were light (lares and locomotive. Six others in the car that.s always kind of douDlfal as luckily escaped harm as the ve- a distress signal hide was knocked into the air at.

investigation of the flares con-a crossing six miles north of Fa- tinued after daybreak as part of yetteville, and landed in a ditch. a gigantic search operation cover-Mrs. Shirley B. Tate, about 50, jng square miles of the a department store employe, suf-1 ocean. focated in fire at her home in But no trace of the missing Fayetteville.

plane, "Romance of the Skies," Daughty Owens. 44, a Negro, had been found at daylight today, was knifed to death in the King- more than 2M- days after last word ville area of Albemarle. A Negro from the huge Flying Clipper, woman, Maudie Tillman Crump, I Additional search aircraft flew 28, was held in connection with out from Oahu Island at daylight the slaying. to join the Pacific's greatest air- Mrs. Agnes R.

Talton, 60, of sea rescue mission, planes, heli-Mount Holly, was fatally injured copters, submarines, the aircraft when she was thrown from an; carrier Philippine Sea and a small I LITTLE LEFT FOR SALVAGE Pictured here is what remains of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Knox Porter of Route 2, Rocky Mount, one of the worst hit dwellings by the tornado which struck about three miles east of Rocky Mount Friday evening. And even the Porter car was victim of the incident, as it is shown here in the rear of the house where it was hit by a falling tree. (Telegram Photo by Killebrew).

Edgecombe's Tornado Victims Digging Out Of Wreckage 1 I- Tribute ican Legion Post No. I spoke briefly. All Gold Star Mothers in the Warsaw area were invited to sit in the reviewing stand for the pa rade there. The celebration indud ed a dance and beauty contest to -night. Many of the programs were scheduled tonight.

At Wilmington, State Treasurer Edwin Gill will speak at the American Legion Home on "The "Wasted Years." Adm. Hamilton Howe TUSNRet director Civil Defense for For syth County, will speak at Win swn-aaient owing an observance OUTLINES RESCUE EFFORT Pointing to crash scene on plotting board of Coast Guard Air-Sea Rescue Coordination center in San Francisco, Lcdr. David S. Williams outlines the great rescue effort aimed at finding Pan American Stratocruiser downed on Friday with 44 persons aboard Lcdr. Williams points to area where search planes and ships are criss-crossing the Pacific in search of the plane.

(United Press Telephoto). yesterday to handle the traffic Friday placed the total damage of the tornado at well above the auiomooue wnicn collided with an- iieet of Coast Guard vessels other in downtown Charlotte. searched the ocean's swells for Peggy Anne Mathews, 19, of Rt. traces of the plane after a series 1. Conover, and Luther of possible clues faded out.

also of Conover died when a car; The destroyer escort Epperson which they were riding rammed had been ordered to invstigate into a tree near Hickory. the flares sighted last night. Two young men, Lloyd Brooks! Long-range radar-equipped Fullwood. 19, of Mullins, S.C., and Navy Constellations reported see-Robert Wayne Gore about 20, of ing two flares at different points Front Royal were fatally in-j one 540 miles west of the plane's jured near Southern Pines Friday nnsitinn whpn it radioed routinely N. C.

Pays night when an automobile and a hearse collided head-on. Their two companions in the car and the driver of the hearse were serious ly injured. To War Veterans 4 A 40-year-old Georgia Pan Amprican airliners' last By BOB WILSON Telegram Staff Writer Residents in the tornado-torn area of Edgecombe County today were continuing their efforts in cleaning up the debris left by the wake of Friday night's destructive twister, and repairs on buildings and homes which 'weren't left a total loss were being effected. Late damage tabulations today! had 14 homes along Hichway 64 either seriously damaged or destroyed by the tornado, and two dwellings on Highway 43, about a mile and a half southeast, of Rocky Mount, also were victims of the Storm. No estimate on the destruction Involving the numerous other buildings including barns, storage bins, garages, and the like has yet been made.

However, observations made to day by some of the law officers Who have been on the scene since 1 Hussein Hitting At Propaganda AMMAN. Jordan UV-Kinz Hus- sein is striking back personally at Cairo propaganda broadcasts. The young monarch is charging that Egyptian leaders are treacherous and "have sold themselves 0 communism Jordan and Egypt have been waging propaganda warfare against each other since the young King last April put down resistance at home which he attributed to Communists and pro-Egyptians Hussein himself has spoken sharply during the past few days. He said yesterday that Egyptian leaders "have sold themselves to Three Flares I rLL ran i urrer LL PaliAr I VI 1 1 IxCllCl since Friday night on a vanished Pan Ameriran strfltnrrnispr in thp Pacific virtually flickered out to- Three flares si Med ast ni Mra "chtino et Friday night before disappearing, The second was slightly west of the first. An Air Force plane sighted a third flare some 340 miles west of reported position.

It was described as wnite. Surface craft criss-crossed the search area, now broken into two rectangular areas under the new pattern. One is 460 miles long and 115 miles wide and the other is 695 miies iong and 172 miles wide, Roth straddle the path the lost nianp was rmvicatma Earlier hope had flickered and flare and something red" at a spot 425 miles west of the. airliners Jfest position. TSowS' aisetf before two ship reported that nothing could "be found at that spot.

A Coast Guard spokesman said re-evaluation of the sighting reported by a lone airman indicated it could have been a school of whales instead of See PLANE Page 2A Condition did not stay overnight. This latest examination comes as he faces a new speedup in a working pace already at a more! taxing cup man at any time since 1 nis nean attacK. The President told a news con-1 ference two weeks ago there had! not ben a day in the preceding 15 months that he had not been faced with one crisis or inlnrnilinnql Armt'n Ua r-trl hp found (Sat wparino at fimpc put endurable because of his lailh America overtake and surpass Russia in development of space age weap ons. He goes to Oklahoma City See IKE Page 2A Prestol Webb of Swainsboro, was mui iu ucaui omuiuay boarding house fire at Sanford. fwo other persons were hospital ized and six escaped unharmed Near Asheville, Wallace (Steve) Stevens, 40, proprietor of Steve's Drive-In on Black Mountain High- way was shot to death in what; ounce aescnoea as a iree-ior-au fight Saturday.

1 jLevai oarreu, or faded with a report of the signt-Asheville, a Salem College fresh- ins of a vyellow dye marker, "i (communism and -exploit Arab MflW. D. Bobbins bins man, was fatally injured in an automobile collision in1 Winston- Salem; m. uunn, ana nuDeri iranKiin Ryan, 30 of Rt. 1, Four Oaks, were killed when their car went out of control on the Brogden Road near Smithfield.

It smashed into a tree. See DEATHS Page 2A Leaf Poundage Lighter But Prices Are Higher The Rocky Mount tobacco mar-icent. "I feel confident that a belt-ket concluded sales for the 1957! wide loss as compared with last season with a total sale of year will be much greater than 196 pounds as compared to last Rocky Mount's loss percentage-year's total of 37,740,280 pounds, iwise," Johnston stated. wcAiugiui vcicviateu us Tea Doctors Report To Ike witnessed by more than 10,000 per. sons.

Brig. Gen. Charles H. Chase, deputy commander' of Ft. Bragg, was the featured speaker.

FOSS SPEAKS WASHINGTON (fl-The nation military dead from all wars ate honored today at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where next year See VETERANS Page 2A On Physical half-million mark. The disaster area was first re opened to the public at noon yes terday, following the restoration of electricity and telephone service to the area. Set. Lewis B. Lane, who headed the work of the State Highway Patrol during the disaster, stated this morning that overflowing traffic" iammed the tornado area until well after dark last night.

"I've never seen so many spec tators in my life. It was worse than a sellout football game. As soon as we began letting visitors into the area, traffic between Roc ky Mount and Tarboro stayed bumper to bumper for the rest of the day. Sight-seers rode through as many as six times looking over the damage," Sgt. Lane declared Twelve highway patrolmen were placed on duty in the disaster area inc supervisor poimea out mai another important factor in the lower sales this year is that last year was the second greatest year the market has had and the mar ket was shooting at a pretty high mark this year.

He also asserted that the sale this year in Rocky Mount was the smallest poundage since 1948. when the market reach ed almost 46,000,000 pounds. In 1944 the market sold 58,000,000 pounds. According to Johnston, the counties that joined the local market. Hah By FRED S.

HOFFMAN WASHINGTON 0f Deat reportedly has claimed the Russian dog Laika, first earth creatureto penetrate outer space. The report of Laika death was puoiisneo today Dy tne iiaiian Communist newspaper L'Unita, quoting its Moscow correspondent. It said Laika was "put to sleep by a strong narcotic contained in last bite of fodd to avoid its 'suffering prolonged agony." Although the market tell under; last vear's mark in gross total i Dottnds and money paid out, which was $26,622,142.80 and last year $37,625,645.44, it topped last year's average per hundred with $51.78. Last year's average was $51.02 per jundred pounds. According to E.

G. Johnston lales supervisor for the local market, the market sold 61 sales days, xactly the same number of days last year. The market closed on 20, By MARVIN L. ARROWSMfTH twice for brief examina-WASH1NGTON 11 President tions of the heart and lungs, but By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today was a holiday for federal and state employes in North Carolina as Tar Heels paused to pay tribute to veterans who have served in tha nation's wars. Parades, speechmaking and dinners highlighted Veterans Day observances throughout the state.

Gov. Luther Hodges led a long list of state officials and employes who observed the holiday with rest. Among the cities scheduling na- rades were Salisbury, Charlotte, ana Warsaw. iue speaKers at Salisbury were at Salisbury of of the-America' commander gion, and James Wallace tonia, state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The speeches came at thp pnd of a big parade in Salisbury which in turn was followed bv a free.

lunch for all Rowan County veterans. At Charlotte, veterans. National Guardsmen, and reserve units of an branches of the Armed Services, paraded to Independence Square where Commander Robert Barker of the Hornets Nest Amer- FBI Claims Enough To LANCASTER, Ky. Ofl-The FBI reported last night it has evidence which will enable them to identify the killer of two North Carolina patrolmen as tne searcfl for the fugitive moved to a stalemate in this area. M.

P. Chiles of the Charlotte, N.C.. FBI office said "Certain pieces of evidence have been obtained which will enable us to identify the individual" who stole a 1957 Oldsmobile involved in the shootings nearly a week ago. Meanwhile, police in Clinton, N.C., last night picked up a man with Kentucky plates. However, be was cleared early today after Lt W.

F. Hunt of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said it was ascertained that be was merely a carnival drifter who had no connection with the slayings. Kentucky State Police Capt. Millard Sharp said earlier "We assume the fugitive is still in Kentucky and will continue to hunt until it is proved different I Sharp said all lead are being tracked down, including the theft Evidence Mark Killer Eisenhower gets a doctors' report today on the state of his health a year after election to a second term. ine rresiaent wno nas cauea it a year 01 constant aeaimg wnn crises entered Walter Reed Army Hospital yesterday after-.

noon for his head-to-toe physical! examination in a bit more than 12 months. TVia Utlita If nil CO aTla4 (Vio animation rontinp an annual nrp- caution. Eisennower arranged to check out his third-floor nospital In 1956 and had two holidays for fax, Nash, parts of Edgecombe 'he companies to catch up in the; and western counties, experienced factories. This year, the market lone of the poorest growing seasons open earlier and closed on Nov. 8.

that can be recalled. He declared Johnston pointed out that percent-! that sections to the east and south age wise, the loss this year as received more rain and at oppor-compared to last year will be ap- tune times, and that much finer proximately 30-30 and one-half per See TOBACCO Page 2A jam. Sheriff Tom P. Bardin of Tarboro, who, along with Sgt. Lane, directed rescue and salvage op erations at the disaster scene Fri day night and Saturday, said today that every Edgecombe County law enforcement officer but one who had just gotten out of bed with the pneumonia worked the tornado area "at least part of the time." See TORNADO Page 2A Paris Meeting Sees Challenge PARIS American and British members of a NATO parlia mentary committee today are expected to challenge charges by a study group that the alliance's ground forces are disintegrating and atomic weapons are being overemDhasized.

Neither U.S. nor British repre sentatives were consulted by the Belgian and Dutch officials who drew up tne critical reimn. larger nations were certain to offer a rebuttal. The report was presented by Arthur Gilson of Belgium, chairman last year of the NATO Par-Committee, and Lt. Gen.

Michael Rudolph Hendrik Catmeyer ot me Netherlands. They had 2sharp words for NATO's supreme headquarters, under the command of U.S. Gen. Lauris Norstad. The report went to the 15-nation Military Committee, scheduled to' meet here today.

The committee's parent body, the Parliamentary Assembly, is the Atlantic Alliance's chief civilian advisory group. 1 uuson and caimeyer, instructed a vear aao to draw up the report declared; "The Soviet military threat cannot be met simply by means of atomic bomb." The two experts called for renewed emphasis on conventional defense forces, a "common defense plan, an equitable division of the common effort and subse quently a common defense budg et' The report expressed the Continental uneasiness accelerated by Britain's reduction of her forces and by France's withdrawal of most of her forces to fight the Algerian rebels. NATO circles regarded it as a revolt by some of the smaller nations against the nuclear strategy of the United States and Britain. The report said: "The Continen-See NATO Page 2A What Took Place When U. S.

Rocket Went Up, Returned? By ALTON L. BLAKF.SLEE AP Science Reporter NEW YORK (fl-Sputniks mer- But a U.S. rocket soaring 4,000 miles high falls back to earth. How come? Whv didn't the American rocket stay up when it went that high? What keeps Sputniks up? The questions still puzzle many peo ple. Gravity and speed are the main answers.

Gravity usually means that what goes up must come down. But there's a way of getting! around it. through speed. This is what Sputniks do. They travel fast enough so their speed counterbalances the pull of the earth's gravity.

So they keep swinging around somewhat like a ball on the end of a string. For a Sputnik near the this speed has to be about five) miles per second, or 18.000 Our regular moon stays up for! the same reason. II travels only-about 2.300 But that's just right for a heavy moon 240.000: miles awav from the earth. The! earth's gravity keeps it on the in-' suite before nightfall. The sub-! Lately, particularly since the stance of the report he receives Russian advances in the missile from his physicians probably will and satellite fields, he has been be made public.

I working longer than usual hours This is the first time since the at his desk and getting out to the President's heart attack in Sep-golf course less frequently. The tember 1955 that anywhere near length of the lists of his daily en-as much as a year has elapsed gagements is reminiscent of the between his full-scale medical 'early days of his first term, checkups. He had three last The pace is likely to get faster, and his last complete exmination He is now organizing a drive to Space -Traveling Canine Generally Believed Dead MOSCOW (Pv There was gener-jfate of Laika. Tt was considered il agreement in Moscow today probable that the Soviet govern-that Laika. the space-traveling: ment would issue no formal, of-ilog.

is-dead. But there was noth- ficia' description of the dog's end. was Oct. 27-28, 1956. The doctors reported then he gave "every appearance of being in excellent health." Since then he has gone to the tionalism to divert Egyptian pub he opinion away from the de teriorating situation at home." The King made the charges in a reply to an offer by religious leaders in Iraq to mediate be tween Jordan and Egypt.

The Iraquis said the propaganda duel is worrying other Arab countries. It is painful for Jordan to be forced to adopt this unhappy atti tude in order to defend herself against malicious lies by this treacherous clique," Hussein said. The King declared in a nation wide broadcast Saturday that he appreciated his people's resent ment of lies fabricated recently by the hired trumpets of propa ganda in Egypt against Jordan 'with the intention of stirring mu- tiny. Cairo broadcasts of tne past few jdays seemed to be aimed pnn- cipally at the Palestine refugees who comprise the larger part of Jordan population. The broadcasts accused Hussein of agreeing to negotiate with Is- fnn nil tha rafllflOA nmhlpm TllP I Spp HIISSF.IN Pace 2A Family Reunited After II Years CHICAGO (ft A reunited family today marked the end to 11 years of separation, 11 years spent by the American father in seeK-ing to free his Lithuanian wife and two children from a Communist labor camp in Siberia.

William Gavcus, 47, a naturalized American, greeted his happy family at Midway Airport yesterday. Seeing them for the first time in more than a decade, he was speechless with emotion. "Everything dimmed I was in tears." he told newsmen. "I'm just beginning to come to. I am the happiest man in this whole, wide world.

1 do not nave the words to express myself." Monika. his 44-year-old wife, took it calmly. So did their daughter Rutha. 16, and son Romualda, 13 Neither Mrs. Gavcus nor the children speak English but they chatted happily in Russian and Lithuanian.

Gavcus married Monika in 1939 on a trip to his native country. He had to leave his family behind when he returned to the United States in 1946. he said. He began then to plead with officialdom to bring the family together on American soil Three years after they separat ed the wife and children were sent to a collective farm in Si-) beria. Gavcus intensified his ap-l from New York.

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He said descriptions of hitch hikers fitting the description of the killer of patrolmen Wister Lee Reece and J. T. Brown have failed to check out. The manhunt moved into this area of central Kentucky Thursday following a trail of stolen and wrecked cars. Agent Chiles indicated the auto found abandoned in Chattanooga, furnished the lead which may identify the fugitive.

The FBI, saying it was giving the case priority attention, said everything possible is being done to identify the unknown assailant-who shot the patrolmen last Tues. day night. The only eyewitness to one ot the slayings cleared one suspect held at Georgetown, late last week. About 50 state. FBI and local authorities ended a fann-to-tann search Saturday without turainjj.

up a tangible lead. tag official to prove it. The most widely believed ex- fclanation was that the doe's last tneal contained poison to kill her quickly without further suffering. However, no official or semioffi cial source professed to know. Reports that Laika is no more appeared based on a combination jf the earlier announcement that Sputnik II carried rations for the fciog for eight days and the com- Tiunique yesterday that biological and medical observations from satellite had been concluded i successfully.

Pravda and other Moscow news- japers published the communique viihout any speculation on the I The headline said "Latka isirily circle the earth Georgia Congressman Dies In Crossing Crash Dead, although the story did not use those words. It said. "Laika will never return to earth." An See DOG Page 2A A 3 'r A ROME. Ga. Rep.

Henderson Inljm D-Ga, 69, a veteran of 11 years in Congress, was killed yesterday when his car and a collided at a Rome crossingj He was a member of the House Appropriations Committee. Friends said he vigorously opposed reductions fat the armed services and never hesitated to speak out when he thought it necessary Police said he was driving alone on the way to address a Parent- Teacher Assn. meeting at nearby Garden Lakes school County policeman Bill Hart said a Central of Georgia switch ea- gine struck his car broadside, knocking it into a ditch. The con- eressman was found lying beside the vehicle and. was prtuaQUMvdii dt-ad at the scene.

Lanham was bom in Rome Sept 14. 1838. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the Univer sity of Georgia 1910 and a bachelor of laws degree in 1911. He was elected to Congress Nov. 5, 1946.

winning the Democratic ilvW visible sinne To hang a Sputnik in space, you npvf cnmathiiiff ruir thn iutl IKE GETS CHECKUP Presadent Eisenhower, or-rivmg at Walter Reed Amy Medical Center is Washington for his annual physical checkup, is greeted by Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, commanding aeneral of the hospital, who performed the President's ileitis operation speed. You need very good timing and aiming.

i If a rocket just goes straight' up. lalU down again The. Farm gravity seeps slowing LAIKA REPORTED DEAD This a photo reported by the Russians to be that of Laika, the space-traveling dog which now is resorted to hove died in Sputnik IL (United Press Telephoto last year. (United Press Tckpfcota) LA.NHAM Face 2A SET. fia LtXSiH iSee EOCKET5 Fse 2A 1 I "M-aTaa.