The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 1

MISS. -Mostly cloudy with a the showers, wormer this a taroon, turning much colder Tues. and In northwest portion tonight, around freezing nonhwasi ARK. -Cold wave waining rauh. wast portion, Much colder tonight with lowest 10-20 northwaw and 20-35 elsewhere.

Conilnued cold Tues. Mostly cloudy with a law showers this afternoon, a low show flurries northwest and aztume north portion tonight ond highest Tues. 20s northwest 301 southeast. 71st Year United Press International (UPI) MEET ON RIVERFRONT Senators and Mississippi River Commission officials touring river public works projects aboard the Steamer Mississippi were met by members of the L.evee Board and the Vicksburg District, Corps of Engineers, here Sunday afternoon when the sternwheeler tied up at City Wharf. From left to right are Levce Board Members B.

C. Lundy of Belzoni, and E. M. Barry of Benoit, Senator Allen J. Ellender Also Plants Senators See Harbor Project, Plantation By CHARLES S.

KERG. Two United States Senators, in Greenville and the Mid-Delta Sunday on a Mississippi river inspec-lacre tion trip, voiced interest and enthusiasm over the area's agricultural and industrial development. The Senators, Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, chairman of the public works sub committee and chairman of the Senate Agricul- Irish Diplomat Promises Aid To. Accident Victim COURTLAND, Va.

(AP)--From the pulpit of a small Negro country church, an Irish diplomat has expressed deep sorrow for the death of a maid hit by his son's automobile. John J. Hearne, Irish ambassador to the United States, told an overflow congregation of more than 500 at Zion A.M.E. church Sunday his government "will do everything in- its power" la help the family of Jossie Hamlin, 56. She was struck down on a Washington street last week by an auto driven by Hearne's son.

David, 21. The young man, who diplomatic immunity, said he hit Mrs. Hamlin, a widow, while trying to avoid another pedestrian. Ambassador Hearne was invited to the pulpit by the Rev. M.

D. Nathan, who assured him that "our people do not have any ill will. Fire In Leland L.ELAND A hot water heater flared up when a thermostat suddenly went out of order at 227 McGehee street carly today. Fier Chief Joe Fox and a company of Leland firemen made a a a a a a run at 5:45 a. m.

They cut off the gas and halted the flames. No damage resulted. WEATHER AND RIVER (Fat Greenville and The Missippi River at the Grann. ville-Lake Villate Bridge, 29.73 fall at 7 a.m. today, a 24-how fall af 0.21 ft.

High temperature for Me 74-hqw Hie of 0.2 ft. High Temperature for the 24-haur period Preceding $:30 a.m. leday 44 degrees, low temperature 32 degrees, Temperature 42 degrees of 8:30 a.m. Rainfall. 15 NW MISSISSIPPI Cloudy with erasiana! rain today.

Claudy with showers and tuming calder tonight. Claudy and cold Hiph today 44-40: low 1 tonich: 30-34: Nigh tomorrow 34-36. Winds ly 10-15 mIles per hour, shifting fo northwest 5-25 m.p.h, lanight, Outlook Wednesday, clovdy with freezing temperatures, low 24-14, high 34.41. tural Committee, and Henry C. Dwarshak of Idaho, made a three and a half hour tour of the 38,000 Delta and Pine Land Company's plantation at Scott and the industries of Greenville.

Senator Ellender saw eventuall completion of the Greenville harbor project of a bydraulic fill be crucied south city to improve the slack water harbor and provide sites for industries. He noted his committee's interest FOR REL DAT GET The Associated Press Delta Democrat- Times RED FINAL STREAK (AP) Greenville, Mississippi Monday, November 16, 1959 Price 5c No. 66 Voter Suit Filed In Memphis; Top Court To Hear Vote Suit WASHINGTON (AP) phis, challenging the in Fayette County, Tenn. The action, brought cite County under the Civil with alleged racial discrimination Three Negro previous voting cases rights filed toltec, preserve discrimination of cerned alleged in voting registrations. The Memphis suit asked for an injunction to prohibit the Fayelte County Democratic organization from preventing Negro participation in primary elections for local office.

Same As Election The complaint alleged that Democratic nominations in Fay: ette County Are tantamount to election. No other party has offered a candidate for local office in Fayetle County since reconstruction days. suit said the Fayette County Democratic Executive Commit- Sight Bodies Floating Airliner Down In Gulf NEW ORLEANS (AP)-A NAlional Airlines plane carrying 36 passengers and a crew of six went down in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico early today. Coast Guard helicopters sighted several floating amid widely scattered wreckage. Six Killed In Slate Accidents During Week End of Louisiana, Maj.

Gen. W. A. Carter of the River Commission; Senator Flenry C. Dworshak of Idaho; Board Member Harold Council of Greenville: Levee Board President E.

D. Rayner of Engineer; and Levee Board Member L. T. Wade of Mayersville. Merigold; Col.

James E. Walsh, District Engineer: and Levee Board Member L. T. Wade of Mayersville. (Staff photo) The four engine plane, en route from Miami L3 New Orleans, lost contact with radio check points shortly after midnight.

Locate Wreckage The Coast Guard located the wreckage about 100 miles southeast of New Orleans, and about 25 miles from the southern tip of Louisiana, The crash was strikingly similar to the crash of a National Airlines plane in February, 1953, when 46 persons died. The plane, National Flight 967, vanished in a fog that enveloped! the area so quickly that Moisant International Airport at New Orleans had to amend its midnight forecast. The plane was already Moisant when the amended forecast came out. The plane was about a out of Moisant when it dropped off the radar screen that had been tracking it. The aircraft was flying at 14,000 feet over the 450- mile overwater route from Miami.

A radar station a. Dauphin 1s- land, just south of Mobile, said it was watching the plane on its screen "when it just dropped off." The plane carried standard escape equipment for overwaler flight, including inflatable jackets for each crewman and passenger. The plane stopped at Tampa, after leaving Miami and picked up 10 more passengers. Like 53 Crash The crash today and the one in 1953 had some striking parallels. planes were on the same run, the weather conditions were about the same and both carried approxthe same passenger load.

The 1953 crash resulted in a rash of law suits, one of was settled only last week by the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court denied a Nation- Coleman Asks Repeal Of Coast Port Action (UPI) Gov. J. P.I intends to ask his special of the legislature to State Port Act as it apthe Port of Gulfport.

said Saturday: "the presently prevailreference to state ownerthe Port of Gu'lport will in history, as one of the By United Press International Al least six persons were killed in traffic accidents during the weckend in Mississippi, a UPE survey showed todny, George T. Brown, 81, of Bay Springs was falally injured Saturday on a county road south of Bay Springs he was struck by a car driven by Leroy Musc. rove. Brown was rushed to Community Hospital in Laurel but died Sunday morning. Two Taylorsville High School, girls were killed Saturday night when their car was hit by a Trail-: ways Bus.

Four persons in the bus! were slightly injured. Killed were Idna Dean Phipps! and Sarah Lou Sullivan, both 16. They were the only persons in the car. Mrs. J.

W. Havard, About 30, of Mobile, was killed and her husband and two children injured Saturday night in a three car accident on U. S. 98 aboul 15 miles west of Hattieshurg. Mrs.

Joyce Frazier of Petal was also killed in traffic mishap north of lattiesburg Friday. Homer J. Price, 41, a construction worker from Inman, S. was killed Friday night when his pickup truck went out of control Sand crashed one mile north of Wayside on Stale Highway JACKSON Coleman session peal the plies to coaling told ship of go He noted his committee's interest in providing funds for planning of the project. Both Senator Ellender and Senlator Dworshak hnd pointed out.

to, them an arrival in Greenville's harbor the project. Bruce Tucker of Memphis, representative of the Mississippi Valley Flood ConAssocintion, explained details of Greenville's harbor proposal. Traveling on the famed Corps of Engineers steamer Mississippi, the senators, guests. of Maj. Gen.

A. Carter, of the Mississippi River Commission, arrived shortly after 3 p. m. Sunday at the wharf, foot of Main. street.

They were met by President E. D. Rayner and members of the Board of Mississippi Le. Commissioners. Senator Ellender said the planning was to define the costs of the harbor project to elevate land and make it sale for industries, and he expressed belief that the harbor work would be carried on through.

Boarding a Greenville charter bus at the wharf, the group off Senalors, River Commission men, levee commissioners and S. Engineers, including Col. James E. Walsh, Vicksburg District Engineer, traveled 14 miles north of Greenville to Scott. See Plantation At Scott, Minor Gray, president of Delta a and Pinc Land Company, directed the tour of the large plantation units.

The tour was through meat department. feed lots, the town of Scoll and D. P. rice drier and colton gin. Both Senators Dworshak and Ellender voiced themselves as.

beting greatly interested in the deversification program under way at Scoll and the Delta area and, Senator Ellender plucked a boll of cotton and placed it on the of Senator Dworshak. Gray told the Senators an average crop 820 pounds of line cotton per acre See SENATORS Pages 1 2 State City- News -Delta VOTE PLANT BONDS COFFEEVILLE -Electors here Saturday voted Coffeevilte approval of a $300,000 BAWI bond issue to construct a building for Industries, a garment factory. GREENVILLE CAP TO MEET The Greenville Civil Air Patrol cadet squadron will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at the CAP building at Municipal Airport. CUBS PLAN PINE WOOD DERBY The Cub Pack No. I6 will meet at Carrie Stern school at Tuesday night.

There will be a pinc-wool derby. GREENVILLE TEACHERS AIDED EDUCATION FOUNDATION The Greenville Negro Teachers Association presented said. Mrs. $100. a check to the county Education Foundation last week, Ruth Nichols who made the presentation.

A Sunday story said it was given by the county education association, 66 Charged With Drunkenness Fan Hits Ole Miss Cheerleader: MEMPHIS (UPL)-Attorney Sebastian Moore of Jackson, was free on $37 bond today after being arrested in connection with the tossing of a pop belle during the MississippiTennessee football game here Saturday. He was charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Moore, 31, with a Jackson investments firm, was charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct after a bottle from the stands hit an Ole Miss Cheerleader. Moore reportedly denied tossing the bottle but witnesses said he threw it while irritated at a decision by referecs. Ann Hudson Jones, 20, daughter of Dr.

Paul Tudor Jones, was leading cheers when the bottle hit her on the shoulder. It knocked her down but did not injure her. Dr. Jones is the former pastor of the Grecoville, First Presbyterian Church, today filed suit at Memconducted last Aug. 1 Committee of Fayfirst court action dealing gress intended to provide for suit against a sovereign state.

The Justice Department appealed to the high tribunal to review and overturn the lower courts. The appeal said they had, incorrectly decided the issue of state amenability to suit. It called the question one of "national im-, portance" which should be resolved promptly by the Supreme Court. SUDDEN FLOODIN' Residents at the comer of Theobald and Archer were awakened early Sunday morning with a crash outside and the sound of water. A car driven by Robert E.

Lockler. of 903 Hammond had uprooted the fire hydrant on the corner and ended up, to the right, in the yard. The accident caused a quick flood before quick action from the city waterworks' shut off the supply. (Police Dept. Photo).

Prominent No Motive Of Family GARDEN CITY, Kan. -In a farm home far off the beaten, path of this vast wheat area four members of a respected, well-todo family were murdered over the weekend. Herbert. Clutter, 48,. his wife, Bonnie, 45,.

their. daughler; Nancy Mae, 16, and son Kenyon, 15, were bound hand and foot and gagged. AlL were. in. the' head.

Clutter's throat was slashed. The victims: were slain by a shotgun. Neither the gun weapon with which Clutter's throat was cul has been Nothing in the house was in dis: array. No valuables appeared to be missing: Money, which Nancy had' placed in an envelope for church lay on her bedroom beside a diamond. ring The coroner, Dr.

Robert Fenton, said Mrs. Clutter, and Nancy apparently were not molested sexually, He placed the time of death between 11 p. m. Saturday and 2 Nancy and Kenyon attended high school in Holcomb, a village of 270 population a mile from their home. Both were honor students.

Nancy last week won the: school's good citizenship award. The family apparently had been ready to retire when they were attacked. All except Kenyon werel in pajajmas. The boy wore jeans and a while T-shirt. The bodies of Mrs.

Clutter and Nancy were in separate bedrooms. Clutter and Kenyon were found in the basement. The home, seven miles west of Garden City, is nearly a mile from any through road. The only. persons living close by are family of Alfred who has worked 11 years as farm hand for the Clutters.

Stoccklein said he saw the Chitters early Saturday evening, hefore he and his wife and three children went out. They returned about 9:30 p. m. 'They heard a. m.

Sunday, The Clutters gave a ride each Sunday to two of Nancy's school mates. The girls, Mary Ewalt and Susan Kidwell, stumbled on the killings when they were driven to! the Clutter home. Clutter was a founder of the Kansas Assn. of Wheat Growers. He was a past president of the National Wheat Growers president of the Garden City Equity Exchange, a director of the Consumer's Cooperative.

President Eisenhower appointed hito in. 1954 to the Federal Farm Credit Board. Clutter declined pointment two years later. The Justice Department validity of a "white primary" against the Democratic Executive Rights Act of 1957, was the in an election. the 15 voting districts in Faycomposed of representatives; ette County, are responsible for calling and conducting local primarics, including designating the election officials.

the of The government charged that about five weeks before the Aug. 1 primary, the committe adopted a resolution excluding Negroes, from the primary and on election day a notice on each ballot box barring Negroes. According la the suit, the notice said: "Only White Democrats are authorized lo vote in this! primary. "If any Negroes shoukd ask to vole in your district, they are to be informed that this is a white Democratic primary and not 3 general- election." The complaint said that as a result, several Negrocs who tried to vote were turned away by elecofftion officials. al Airlines petition for a review an order awarding $250,000 to Mrs.

Beryle Whiteman Stiles, widOW of one of the victims. The Coast Guard ordered an allout search, including a specially equipped 95-foot search and cue vessel. Teams of doctors and full medical equipment were readlied and private vessels joined the hunt. Mrs. John Edwards Slightly Hurt Near Leland On Highway Mrs.

John Edwards, of Tribhett, WAS shaken up and Sunday night when the automobile in which she and her husband riding east toward Tribbett, collided. with a car driven by Richard Tale, 40, 8 Negro, on Old Highway 82 mite enst of Le' land. Mrs. Edwards was brought to the City Hospital in Leland i in a Boone ambulance and was after receiving treatment there. Deputy Sheriff Ed Campbell of Leland arrested Tate at Tate's home where he fled after the accident, Deputy Campbell said; Tate is being held on charges of leaving the scene of An accident and not having a drivers' license.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were enroute to their home at Tribbett when the crash occurred. Depjuty Campbell said the two cars collided headon. Gas Valve Breaks, Starts Fire And Water Pipe Bursts Fire brake out and 8 frozen water pipe broke simultaneously at the W.

F. Foard residence, 615 Dyer Circle, at 6:12 Saturday night, A valve broke loose on small gas heater under a washstand a in the bathroom of the home and fire damaged the walls. Water damage also resulted from the broken pipe. Fire Engines 2 and 5 made a run and quickly extinguished the flames. A flareup in a heating unit at the Greenville Golf and Country Club, Highway 1 South, caused a fire scare Sunday morning.

Firemen made a run to the club, located outsida Greenville, in responce to an alarm at 8:24 a. m. Employes of the club extinguishthe fire before firemen arrivled. To. Review Case WASHINGTON (AP)-The Supreme Court today agreed to review lower court decisions that the federal government cannot sue a state on charges of discrimination against Negroes who tot register to vote.

U.S. Dist. Judge Frank: M. Johnson in Montgomery, and the U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans ruled that neither on the 1957 Civil Rights Act's face, nor in its history, was there any sonabic basis for holding that Con- Yannigans, Cotton Belles To Be Feted Tuesday Greenville's E.

Bass Junior 'High football squad of more than 100 members; the Colton Belles and cheer leaders.1 will attend the' annual hot dog supper at the junior high school cafeleria at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. At 7:30 o'clock parents of the football players, Cotton Belles and cheer leaders will attend dance to be held in the' school gymnasium. Arcola Negro Couple Hurt In Accident Clarence Smith, 42, Negro tenant farmer. on the John Shaw plantation near Arcola.

and lus wife, Celeste Smith, '40, were injured in a highway accident near Cleveland Saturday night. Smith and his wile are patients in General Hospital Monday. The extent of their injuries were not immediately available. There was no Highway Patrol report immediately available on the details Laurel Plant Is Closed Down Today LAUREL, Miss. (AP) Lack of orders from automotive and industrial customers is blamed for an additional shutdown by the! Masonile Corp.

here. Production unit No. 1 closed today, idling about 500 employes. Unil No. 2 has been closed since Nov.

2. Masonite, the state's largest industry, normally employs about 13,500 persons. SCHOOL BUS WRECK BATON ROUGE (AP)-A. school bus with failing brakes turned over today near Baker, on the northern outskirts here, injuring more than 62 parochial students. New Winter Storm Hits Rockies DENVER, Colo.

(AP) The weather sick Rocky Mountains and northern Gret Plains coped with a new blizzard today. Subzero temperatures were charted and wind gusts up to 60 m.p.h. were clocked in parts of the Dakotas, Montana and Kansas, Blowing snow reduced visibility to near zero in some localitics. Low temperatures included 32 below zero at Butte and -29 at Helena, both in southwestern tana; -23 Lewiston, and -14. jet Sheridan in northern Wyoming.

Cold wave warnings were postled for most of the Rockies and the Midwest, with sharp drops. in temperature and snow in storc for Kansans For Murderi Of Four disturbance. A classmate of Nancy's, Bob Rupp, said he left the Clutter home at 10:30. The Clutters had two other Donald Jarchow, Carroll, and Beverly Clutter, 20, a student nurse at the University of Kansas cal Center in Kansas City, Kan. Driver Hurt As He a Tried To Avoid A Hog And A Dog John D.

Edmonds, 58, of 208 California Avenue, Leland, was seriously injured today when he atempted to dodge a hog and dog and his car plunged from the Airjwent Base Leland blacktop highway, a and six miles west of Leland. quarter mile. from Feather Farms. Edmonds, a fireman at Greenville Air Force Base, was enroute to Leland when the acci-sevelt dent occurred and the car, a 1955 Pontiac, plunged into a ditch. Taken to City Hospital at Leland in a Boone of Leland ambulance.

Edmonds was reported by his physician to have suffered a spine injury. Chief Depuly Sheriff William Logan said Willie who was in the car with Edmonds, escaped injury. 13 Persons Hurt in 4 City Accidents; Fire Hydrant Hit Three persons received slight injuries last weekend in two of four Greenville accidents, 0-n a fire plug was uprooted leaving a sudden flood in the yard of one city resident. Louisa Warren received ai knee. injury and Jim Werren, 33, a bead injury Saturday morning at 10:36 85 their car was waiting to 'cross': Highway 1 on the Old Leland road.

They were headed toward Greenville when a car driven by. John. A. Brewer, 30, of Lei: land, traveling north on Highway: made a.right turn toward Levi land across the line of traffic mov. 5 ing north on the four-lane highway.

Brewer's car. first' collided with a trailertruck driven by Jessie B. Brown. of Gunnison, then out of control and hit: the Warren car, police. said, Cale Carulhers, 19, of 348 Cleveland, was hit in the leg as ha walked along the sidewalk on Nel-1 sun.

Street. A car driven by RooGear, 53, of 745 Purcell: Street, pulled into a parking area just past the Edison intersection in front of Brown's Bakery and hit him, police said. The accident happened at 1:25 Saturday 'afternoon. Saturday morning at 10:30 driver parked on Broadway near Washington Ave. opened the car door on the street side just Ent See 3 PERSONS Page In another statement, said the Dec.

I special session would not consider raising the pay of future governors. He had suggested that the salary should be raised after he leaves office from $15,000 to $25,000 but Gov.Elect Ross Barnett opposed the proposal. "Since Mr. Barnett doesn't want the raise, there is no reason to ask the legislature for Coleman said. Youth Sought After Plantation Shooting major economic tragedies of 1959.

to "It would appear that the peaple desire state ownership, tainly the (Agricultural and Industrial) Board heartily supports stale ownership under reasonable contract. "The naked political jockeying! now going on will prevent a fair contract from being offered, It also proves that state ownership cannot be made to work at shall therefore ask the special session of the legislature to repcal the Port Act insofar as it applies to Gulfport, and thus close this unhappy chapter, "I am very that all of our hard work has gone for nothing." Coleman said. Mayor R. B. Meadows Jr.

of Tuliport said he was "shocked" by Coleman's statement. He called it "rather drastic." than dozen states. Helena, Montana capital that Thy cold weather was expected, took the brunt of a record storm to invade most areas from east- last midweek, reported 20-inch ern Wyoming and Colorado, north- snow depth with about six inches: west New Mexico, northwest Tex- of new snow. as, Oklahoma, Kansas, the The new storm dropped two tof kotas, Nebraska, iowa, Minne- inches of new snow over Mon-1 Wisconsin, Missouri and tana, but all main highways renorthwest Illinois. mained open.

Air travel was Below zero readings were pre- halted, but trains and buses mandicted for northern states, along aged to keep near schedule. with strong northerly winds and In western Montana, authorities snow. were looking for two missing huntAt Scottshluff, the tem-ers, Fred Miller and Joc Kent of perature dropped from a Sunday apparently became lost Sunday alternoon high of 64 to zero by Hamilton, Mont. Officers said they midnight. The temperature in while hunting with three other Denver fell 29 degrees in one hour men.

Snow in the area is 14-16 Sunday night. inches deep. Washington county officers to-led day renewed their search for Joe Lee Butler, 16, Negro, who they say fled after shooting and wounding Charlic Smith, 40, also a Negro on Bamboo planlation, 7 miles west of Leland, late Saturday night. The taro Negroes, plantation! workers, engaged in an argument at a "Saturday night juke joint and Smith was shot in the side and in the back with liff .12 gauge sholgun, Deputy SherEd Campbell of Leland Butler left the scene of the shooting and was the object of a Sunday by Deputy Campbell and renewed this morning. Deputy Campbell expressed Lief Butler was in hiding somewhere on the Bamboo plantation and said he expected to arrest the assailant soon, Before he was shot and Smith, an ex-convict, fired shotgun dn the front porch of a home on the plantation, Deputy Campbell said.

The officer added that he did not believe the firing of the sholgun by Smith an hour before he was wounded had any connection with his being shot. Delails of the argument between. the two Negro plantation workers were meager, the officer said, but Butler went to his home after the argument, got his shotgun and wounded Smith. Smith served 8 two year lence at the stale penal farm at Parchman after shooting and wounding another Negro on the Swain plantation at Hollye Knowe in 1955. Brought to General Hospital.

in Greenville, Smith was moved to the Charily Hospital in Vicksearly Sunday..