Statesville Daily Record from Statesville, North Carolina • Page 8

STATESVILLI RECORD Killer's Son Slays Youth British Soldier Stamps Out Reds In SYLVA (UP) Mountaineer Berl Moss, 58, who once served a prison term for killing two men.in a gun battle, faced a murder charge today in connection with the slaying of a 15-year-old youth by his 9-year-old son. Moss is charged with htnding his son, Berl a .22 rifle and telling him to shoot Lindsay Passmore during an argument between the two boys Sunday. An eyewitness to the shooting, Charles Young, 19, told police the argument started over Passmore's guitar playing and singing. Highway patrolman S. W.

Sanford said Young told him he and Passmore were sitting beside a spring in a truck when young Moss and his brother Clinton, 8, came up to the spring to get water. "According to Sanford said, "the Moss boy asked Passmore wfoy he didn't quit playing the guitar, and they got into a fight." Young told officers the two Moss boys tihen left and returned a few minutes later with their father who was carrying a .22 rifle. "Young said Passmore called the Moss boy a foul name and the boy's father said, 'If he calls you that again, shoot him," Sanford said. Young said Passmore repeated the name and Moss banded the rifle to his son who shot Pasmore in the left eye. A warrant charging elder Moss wilih first degree murder was sworn out by Acting Sheriff Joe Green of Jackson County.

Police records show that Moss served a prison term some 14 years ago in connection with a gun battle near here in which he shot and killed Abe Stuart and Fred Pruett. ly CHARLES M. McCann Unitvd Staff Correspondent Gen. Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer is going home to Britain to report, in effect, "mission accomplished." The ramrod--backed soldier and son of a soldier, was sent to Malaya early in 1952 to deal with an emergency. The Communist rebels might not have been succeeding in winning over the rich peninsula, as they had hoped to do after the end of World War II.

But they threatened to paralyze its economic life. Templer was able to say, in a farewell press conference, that the Communist guerrillas no longer pose any threat of a full-scale revolt and are steadily losing ground. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in Ottawa in January, 1952, at a conference on British commonwealth defense. Discussion turned to the acute situation in Malaya. Sir Henry Gurney, the high commissioner, had been killed in a Communist ambush.

Something had to be done. Churchill ran his finger down a list of possible successors. "Get said. Templer was in Britain. He flew at once to Ottawa.

He was named not only high commissioner but commander in chief in Malaya. Three weeks later he was there. The Communists were derailing trains, attacking police, cutting communications wires, murdering rubber olanters and tin miners. Templer realized at once that his biggest problem was to get the cooperation of the people. Templer has spent more than two years doing his double job of fighting the rebels and seeking cooperation.

has succeeded in both jobs. He has been tough with the rebels and tough with civilians who refused to cooperate against the rebels. But he has done all he could also to improve economic and social conditions. He has whittled down the rebels from a threat to a nuisance. He really has won a little war.

Templar boasts he is the only! British senior officer who ever fought the Russians and complains he is the only general ever wounded by a piano. He was a second lieutenant in combat in France at 18 in World War I. He fought with the Czarist Russians against the Bolsheviks as a member of a British force. He was the youngest lieutenant sen- eral in the British army at 43 in World War II. It was at Anzio that he was "wounded." An army truck carrying a baby piano was blown up beside his car.

A piece of the piano hit Templer and severely injured him. After the war Templer served in was made if military intelligence and was a vice chief of the Imperial General Staff. Now he is going back to Genr-any as commander of the Northern Army Group. He will be one of the two top ground forces commanders of the 7 crth Treaty Organization. OLDEST STATUE Although the equestrian stitne of Gen.

Andrew Jackson in Washington, D. is the oldest in the United States, it was not the first such statue. A gilded lead statue of King Gi.rge III was dedicated at Fort George, N. in 1770, was torn down in 1776 by a mob of patriots. Later the statue was melted into bullets for the Revolutionary Army.

More than 200 different typei of cheese are made from milk. MARY'S LAMB HAD IT SO GOOD--Sally the lamb is merry when feeding time comes at the home of her mistress, Mrs. Florence Byers, of Walton Hills, Ohio. She cradles on her mistress' lap and drinks milk from a bottle. Sally is three months old and has been with the Byers since she was 14 days.

Recently the family was tempted to sell the lamb, but backed down under the tearful protests from their two daughters. Amb; By BILLY GRAHAM Written for United Press LONDON (UP) --I have come to the conclusion that, by and large, the American servicemen are good ambassadors of the United States. Right below the small hotel, in which we stayed in London is a club. It is frequented' by some American personnel. Many nights we have been awakened by the loud voices of drunken brawlers.

We would get out of bed and look down on the street and see drunken American servicemen. This "made our hearts ache. However, this is the 5 per cent you read about. You seldom'hear of' the good works of the 95 per cent. During the past few weeks it has been my privilege to tour several of the American air bases.

I have talked with our commanders, officers, enlisted men. Also I have talked with British leaders of all strata about the effect U. S. Service men are having on the British. Many Britons are getting to know for the first time how Americans live through our thousands of servicemen and their families here.

I have found everywhere genuine respect and appreciation for Amr- ican Air Force personnel. I have been impressed with the moral quality and spiritual insight of ouar commanders and officers. They are trying awfully hard to please the British, and the Britisn are trying awfully hard to please the Americans. As a result, there is a mutual understanding and generally excellent relations. It is true that there is a small segment of American personnel that leaves a bad taste.

But it has been blown up out of all proportion, to the facts. I disagree with my good friend Cassandra who writes for the London Daily Mirror when he says the British do not like.our folksiness. I think they do. But they do not like our drunkenness and braggadocio. In speaking to thousands of our men at their bases I have found there is a deep spiritual hunger.

Most of the meetings were held out of doors and the men came with their families. They listened intently. They sang lustily such hymns as "The Old Rugged Cross" and "What a Friend we' Have in Jesus." Many of them bad Bibles. Scores would grip our hands and say "thanks for coming." At the end of the service, hundreds would raise their hands, making commitments to follow Christ and the church and to attend their chapels regularly. The Air Force chaplains are do- ing an excellent job.

I found them to be mem of the highest caliber with a great sense of spiritual and moral responsibility. Spending a few hours at-, each base was like being in a little bit of America. Seeing the men with their cameras and with a familiar 'Hi'ya, Billy" almost made me lomesick. It was wonderful to get a milkshake or a hamburger and a stick of chewing gum. The British know very little abut these small things that mean so much to an ordinary young American.

But I think our British allies are to be commended for the wonderful way they have treated our men: It's not easy to have of troops of another country in your midst. My feeling is that American troops here are going a long way toward bettering Anglo-American relations despite what some extremists may say. Nation Faces 'Atom' Attack NEW YORK (UP) --The nation's first coast-to-coast atomic attack exercise will be held June 14, it wa announced today. Civil defense and disaster units will take charge in cities after air raid sirens signal the start of the exercise sometime in mid-morning. Persons at home or in offices will go to shelter areas.

Radio stations will broadcast special disaster instructions to avoid panic. All vehicles will be stopped in the streets and autos on civil defense highways will be expected to leave the route at the nearest exit. During the 10-minute exercise it vill be assumed three atomic aombs have hit. New City. Civil defense forces will operate command posts and control centers hroughout the country 'for the next 24 hours.

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Combinations of: Green, Red and Blue; Blue, Gold, Lime; Blue, Green, Gray. Sizes 4-5. NOTICE OF FORECLOSTJRE NORTH CAROLINA, IREDELL COUNTY; Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in certain deed ot trust executed by P. Taylor and -wife, Helen O. Tuylor dated March 3, 1951 and recorded in.Book 157.

page 439 in the Office of the Register of of Iredell County, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the, indebt- ednew thereby secured, and the deed of trust, being by the terms thereof, subject to foreclosure, the. undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at pxtblic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse door, at Stateivllle. North Carolina, at 12:00 noon on Saturday. June 26, 1954, the property conveyed in the deed of tnist. the same lying and being in the County of Iredell, State of North Carolina, in Statesville Inside Township, in the City of Statmville, and more particularly described as Being all of Nos.

33. 24. 26, and 26 in Block 5 of the property of C. C. Pox and wife, Louise Fox.

as shown by map thereof, designated as "Revised map of portion of W. D. Turner's addition to Stfttwville, North by G. Sam Howe, C. in May, 1948 and recorded in Plat Boole HO, Iredelt Registry, ami to which Pint reference made for full complete description of the above lots.

Tht above lots conveyed subject to the covenants, restrictions, and reservations applying thereto, as set forth in an instrument executed by C. C. Fox and wife, Louise Ton, dated May 18, 194S and filed for record on. Junt 1946, and recorded in Deed Book 178, Page 575, Iredell County and which instrument a part, of this Deed fully if copied herein. will to til uapaW taxw ana municipal MMwmtnti.

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