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See Weather Map Page S-A Price Five Cents MONTGOMERY; FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1955 United Prtn 28 PAGES 67th YEAR NO. 186 Th Associated Press ftft HHHHBMBMM i fife Frfterum Amr Folsom Support Fails To Help Jasper Lawyer 11 Freed Fliers Land In Tokyo For Checkups Col. Arnold, Crew Whisked To Hospital; News Parley Slated TOKYO Eleven freedom-relishing U.S. airmen, who denounce Red Chinese charges of "spying," landed here tonight on their way home after 30 months in Commu I -GS (i 1 II: i V1 "1 v. tic i -v 'Ji 1 9 mmimL (AP Wirephotos) officer, and Miss Thelma Ruth Ballard of Salisbury, N.

stewardess, two of the crash victims. Lower photo shows soldiers removing the body of one of the 30 crash victims. Military and civilian personnel in background are shown searching for bodies in the smoking wreckage. No one aboard survived the crash. THIRTY PERISH IN MISSOURI AIR CRASH Twenty-seven passengers and an American Air Lines crew of three died in flames when a St.

Louis-bound plane crashed on the Ft. Leonard Wood reservation yesterday in the rugged Ozarks hill-country of south-central Missouri. Pictured at top are William G. Gates of Tulsa, first Measure Ordered Back To Committee; Senate Bogs Down A local designed to override pending disbarment proceedings against Sen. Reuben Newton, of Jasper was halted abruptly, ia the House of Representatives today.

vote of the House voted to recommit the bill which was reported out of the House local legislation committee a few hours earlier. Speaker Rankin Fite of Marion, who is an attorney himself, supported the motion and referred th bill back to the Judiciary Com- Attempt To Revive Repealer Bill Fails An attempt to revive the. bitterly disputed "Right To Work" law repealer fell short today when the House of Representatives refused to take it off its adverse calendar. The vote was 48-41. .1 Unless labor forces can mus- ter the required 54 affirmative votes on a new motion later.

the repeal measure will die on the advese It would scrap a 1953 law which prohibits union shop contracts and other similar labor-management agreements in Alabama making union membership a condition of employment. mittee. This is a group' composed of lawyers They are not expected to- Committee again. It was the first time in many years that a local bill endorsed by all members of the local dele- Cgation concerned had been given such harsh treatment. Under local courtesy rules of the Legislature, local bills usually are passed without explanation or debate.

Folsom In Chamber Gov. James E. Folson, who came out in support of Sen. Newton's bid to beat the five-year suspension ordered by the Alabama Bar Association, came into the House chamber during the debate. The senator's attractive, red- haired wife, Sue, stood at the rear of the chamber with Gov.

Folson part of the time. Sen. Newton was also in the circulating among the members. He paused (See LEGISLATURE, Page 2-A) Woman Is Missing; Blood Found In Car KANSAS CITY (ft Police, today found bloodstained clothing "in an abandoned automobile belonging to Mrs. Wilma Allen, member of a prominent North Kansas City family.

She was reported missing last night. Mrs. Allen, is the wife of Bill Allen an automobile dealer. Her father is William Kelly, a Corn Products Refining Co. executive in Chicago.

Officers said the clothing' had been identified as that Mrs. Allen was wearing yesterday. The car was found under viaduct near downtown Kansas City. The clothing, which was ripped, was in the trunk. The interior of the car, a convertible, indicated there had beea a struggle.

Ninth Polio Case Reported In County A 13-year-old Lincoln Road boy has become Montgomery County's ninth polio case of the year, according to the county health department. Dr. Douglas Cannon, county health officer, said the boy was stricken with paralytic polio trol when a. United Nations Disarmament subcommittee meets at New York later this month. Ha said he did not consider that Bulganin's dismissal of his plan as unrealistic had "closed the door" to negotiation.

Eisenhower's whole tone was friendly and optimistic in the same vein in which he and Bui--ganin dealt with each other at Geneva. Eisenhower's refusal, to admit public discouragement may be one of the reasons why Bulganin, within the short space of (See REVERSAL, Page 2-A) eluding the two burned-out TV cameras in the bottom left photo. Fire Department officials said the fire was confined largely to transmitter rooms and studios, but there was some smoke and water damage to other parts of the building, which was built about a year ago. In the bottom right picture can be seen the charred remains of one of the rooms, where the blazs was centered and finally subdued. (Photos by Kraus) $300,000 WCOV BLAZE The above photographs were taken of the aftermath of an early morning fire at WCOV-TV station on Adrian Lane, where fire, smoke, and water damages reached the half-million-dollar figure.

The picture at the top is of the engineering control and equipment room, where the fire is believed to have started from a short circut in the electric clock on the wall. Most of the damages con aisled of destroyed 'television equipment, in- Short Circuit In Clock Blamed: 30 Die In Missouri Gully Pilot's Valiant Battle Fails nist prisons. The fliers landed at nearby Tachikawav Air Base after flying from Manila where they happily satisfied prison-denied appetite for steaks. They were whisked immediately to the base hospital. The 11 were freed yesterday at Hong Kong in a surprise Communist action of which they first learned in their Peiping cells Sun day.

The prison-thinned fliers were brought here in two plush C54 transports. One was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's former personal plane Bataan. The other was the personally assigned plane of Gen. Lawrence S.

Kuter, Far East Air Forces commander. To Remain Several Days A FEAF spokesman said the men probably would remain in Japan several days for thorough medical checkup. He said they would return to the United States via the Alaska route, arriving at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. Two of 13 Red Cross packages ordered by relatives of nine of the men were delivered to Airmen 2.C. Daniel C.

Schmidt, of Redding. Calif. There still was no indication Schmidt knows his wife has remarried, saying she thought him dead. In a news conference Sunday afternoon. Cel.

John Knox Arnold of Montgomery. Ala. and Silxcf Springs, and his 10 B29 crew members are expected to give a fuller account of their ordeal of months of grim questioning in Red Chinese prisons. Far East Air Forces headquarters announced delay of the meeting originally set for tomorrow. In a brief news conterence at Hong Kong, Arnold emphatically declared the B29 was 35 to 40 miles south of Red China's borders when MIG fighters shot it down Jan.

12, 1953, in the Korean War. Arnold spoke bitterly of the last November in which Red China convicted them as spies" and asserted the leaflet dropping plane had "violated" Communist China's air. They were given 4 to 10-year sentences. Of their life in the 21 months between capture and trial, Maj. Ralph Bryant, FEAF public information officer, said they reported it was questioning "for weeks and months on end." In the overnight stay at Clark Field near Manila they relaxed happily in their new freedom, underwent medical checks and rel ished American-style food.

Sgt. Howard W. Brown, 5t. Paul. ate seven steaks within three hours.

Lt. Col. James N. Davis. St.

Louis, said medical checkr showed them "physically and mentally well really doing fine." City Plans Welcome For Ex-Red POWs Chamber of Commerce, city and county officials today took initial steps toward planning a welcome for Col. John Arnold and Lt. Wal lace Brown, Montgomerians who are among American fliers released from prisoner-of-war camps in Red China. Exact date of the welcoming celebration is indefinite and dependent on the fliers plans, but a steering committee was set up today at a meeting in the Cham ber of Commerce offices. Present at the meeting Mayor W.

A. Gayle, chairman Grimes of the County Board of Revenue, Col. Lawrence McAuley of Maxwell Air Force Base, Max S. Baum of the chamber's execu tive board, C. of C.

staff. Full committees for the welcome celebration are to be announced later by the Chamber of Commerce. On Inside Pages Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Editorial Horoscope Movies 1- OtJltuarles 5-B 2- Patterns 7-B 2- Radio TV 2-B 8-D Society 6-B 4-A Sports 3-C 3- A Uncle Bud 2-A 4- Weather 6-A Air Liner WCOV Radio-TV Station Gutted By Half-Million Dollar Blaze A fire that apparently started from a short circuit in an electric clock caused an estimated half million dollars damage at radio and television station WCOV early today. Oscar Covington, president of the station, said he estimated that fire, smoke and in ver' low, over a housing area, then banked steeply and headed for the post airport. Wing Falls Off "One engine was trailing flame and smoke.

Then, over a wooded the right wing fell off." The air liner crashed on the ede of this sprawling Army post. It was the second time within 10 months the pilot Capt. Hugh (See AIR LINER, Page 6-A) water damage, mostly to engineering equipment, would Hurricane Heads For Puerto Rico 'Connie' Packs Winds UpTol25M.P.H. MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Hurricane Connie now poses a direct threat to Puerto Rico, the Weather Bureau announced today.

It packs winds of 125 miles an hour. If the storm maintains its pres-end course, the bureau said, the center should pass near the north coast of this island commonwealth Saturday night. The Weather. Bureau's storm warning service ordered hurricane warnings hoisted in the erouo of islands at the north end of the Lee ward chain, including Barbuda, Saba, and Antigua. All interests were advised to make immediate preparations for dangerous, winds and tides.

The Virgin Islands, an American owned group to the east of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico itself were told to stand by on the alert for possible hurricane warnings later today. "This is a dangerous hurricane," tjie storm warning service advised. The violent tropical disturbance (See HURRICANE, Page 2-A) County's Choice To Reign On WSFA-TV: Fashions To Be Modeled During Cotton Maid Finals To FT. LEONARD WOOD, Mo. A pilot kept his crippled American Airlines plane aloft for more than 30 miles in a desperate bid for a safe landing yesterday but crashed just short of his goal.

All 30 persons aboard were killed. "Just a little more and he would have made it." said an eyewitness, Lt. A. J. Brewster of Ft.

Leonard Wood. "The plane came Elderly Woman Brutally Slain Alabama Storekeeper Is Hacked To Death CENTRE, Ala. A 73 year-pld woman was hacked and beaten to death in her rural store yesterday in the "most brutal Cherokee County murder in many years. The body of Mrs. Exie Russell was found lying in a pool of blood at the rear of the store near Lawrence, Ala.

Deputy Sheriff Jerry Trammell said her head was crushed, her throat partly cut and that she had been stabbed in the stomach several times. Trammell said her clothing was "half torn off." Fought For Life Coroner R. O. Perry said she apparently was beaten and hacked with a hatchet and knife, and officers said a crow bar. also may have been used in the.

slaying. It lay nearby. There were indications she fought for her life before she was cut down. The little store had been ransacked and Mrs. Russell's emptied pocket, book lay near the body, the coroner said.

He called the slaying the "most in the county in many years. Sheriff R. C. Leath and State In- (See SLAYING, Page 2-A) Save Flaming He said WCOV radio would con tinue broadcasting from temporary itudios but that the UHF television station which operates on Channel 20, wouJd be off the air until new equipment is installed. Fife Chief R.

L. Lampley said the fire was reported at 4:23 a.m., but it was apparently well under way before it was detected. Chief Lampley fixed the time of origin of the fire at about 3: IS a.m. The building had been burning for more than an hour by the time i his firemen got to the scene, he I aaid. Blaze Confined Four pumpers and two ladder trucks confined the blare to the transmitter and control rooms of (See WCOV, Page 2-A) To The Management City Lines Buses Gentlemen: The new fare boxes you have Installed are very attractive to 1 the eye.

They are not so pleasing to the ear. You pay your dime and then get twenty seconds of. click-click-click. If the noise is necessary, why not make it less annoying? Couldn't the boxes be rigged up for music. "Oh What 5 a Beautiful Morning" would sound much better than click-1 click-click.

run to at least $500,000. over WSFA-TV. Eight lovely semi-finalists will model new fall fashions given them by local stores, prior to the an nouncement of the winner and her alternate. The semi-finalists are: Maudie Elouise Talley, 20, of 1307 Bell St. She is She was graduated from Sidney Lanier (See COTTON MAID, Page 2-A) Milk Bill Sent Back To Senate The Senate Health Committee took most of the punch out of a proposed new milk control bill today and then sent it back to the Senate with an adverse report that could kill it altogether.

The action puts the House-approved measure on the Senate's adverse calendar. It will take i majority of the Senate member ship, or 18 votes, to get it switched to the regular calendar. Sponsors claim they have the votes to do lt. but it will also take a special order from the Rules Can Dramatic Eisenhower Plan Be Saved? Reds Still Study Eisenhower Plan Bulganin Has Not Rejected Whole Idea MOSCOW MV- Premier Bulganin said today his government will continue to study President Eisenhower's proposal for an exchange of military information and mutual aerial inspection. Bulganin told the Supreme Soviet that Soviet Russia naturally prefers its own disarmament proposal but nevertheless will not refuse to consider ther sincere plans.

Still Seeking Ways In this connection he said Eisenhower's proposal still is under consideration. The Soviet is trying to find ways to get the positions of the two sides closer together and find agreement, the Premier asserted. Yesterday. Bulganin told the Su-(See BULGANIN, Page 2-A) Flying Instructor Honored By Queen LONDON (J) Queen Elizabeth today honored her husband's flying instructor. She invested squadron leader Caryl Gordon with the insignia of the Royal.

Victorian Or-der. Gordon has been the Duke of Edinburgh's instructor since the duke started flying. Bulganin' Swift Reversal The Montgomery County Maid of Cotton contest finals will continue as scheduled tonight, although the telecast will originate from WSFA-TV rather than WCOV as originally The time is 8:30 p.m. until 9. The change was made due to the fire that destroyed WCOV studios early today.

WCOV-TV personnel will present the program Big Negro-Home Project Begun A newly organized Montgomery construction firm has started work on the first of a projected 300 homes to be sold exclusively to Negroes. It is the second project of its kind in the Cradle of the Confederacy. The 3-bedroom, asbestos-siding homes will be sold for $7,000 and financed so the owners can buy them with $350 down. J. Wells, Montgomery lum-(See HOMES PROJECT, P.

2-A) ffo chtBt of kiu bttctt as Uyevar ea TraUvayi' ehe5. ale to Norfolk. Columbus, Etllu! fh. 328. air.) Boosts American Hopes By JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON W) Administration hopes for successful disarmament negotiations with Russia got a new boost today from Premier Nikolai Bulganin's dramatic reversal of his own dismissal of an Eisenhower plan for trading U. S.Soviet military information. President Eisenhower told a news conference yesterday that the United-States will present new proposals for arms inspection and con- Alwi ride TRAILWAVB for ttster service! Phone TraUwasri Bust TtL 4-S329. i (See MuJf. BILL, Page 2-A) 4 i I.