The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

Associated Press a Leased Wires C4L Vakm ounded ebruary 1899 30n ear no 19329 Danville Vo Thursday Afternoon Ap i I 21 1 955 LAYS COMMUNIST COLONIALISM Champion Eats 77 Hamburgers Mobilized In Surprise Alert pl XSsfc Byrd (Turn to Page 2A Story No 8) I 51 The Weather (Turn to Page 2A Story No 7)' (Turn to Page 2A Story No 6) Aiic voKiiuaoe nuo (Turn to Page 2A Story No 2) decorated for the event Byrd Demands Elimination Of Economic Aid To American Allies (Turn to Page 2A Story 1) 7 2 7 odav's QueerStory rt ormal Ceremonies Slated At 8 Picketing In Birmingham Halts Seaboard Railroad Service Denies Statement WASHINGTON Corsi was quoted tn a State De partment communication made public today as saying in Eu rope last January that the Eth iopians were in better hands under Mussolini than they arc now Corsi denied he said it With Corsi in the witness chair of a Senate Judiciary sub committee committee counsel Eleanor Guthrie read a cable she said was sent to the State Department on eb 1 by Roy Wade who accompanied Corsi on the trips Violence Marks Strike LAKE SUCCESS Violence broke out for the sec ond day in a row today at the huge strike bound plant of the Sperry Gyroscope Co Two men were reported in jured and several automobiles were damaged as CIO Elec trical Workers resumed mass picketing at the plant closed since midnight Monday tn a dispute over a new coutract program Eisenhower said would be directed primarily at Asia Chairmen George (D Ga) of the Senate oreign Relations Commit tee and Richards (D SC) sot the House oreign Affairs Committee showed disinclination to tackle the problem immediately Each said he would let the other House act on it first Richards proposal to delay fi nal consideration of the measure until the Senate acts was support ed by Reps Lawrence Smith (R Wis) and Gordon (D IU) mem bers of the House Committee Gordon Hid he thinks the Sen technical assistance to underde veloped countries he said "The administration had a car ryover of $10900000000 in foreign aid funds at the start of this cal endar year Of this $1800000 000 represented direct economic aid exclusive of defense support funds "With such a large carryover there is no sense in authorizing more direct economic In a message to Congress yes terday Eisenhower asked for $1 717000000 in military assistance Chanqe Needed WASHINGTON ormer President Herbert Hoover said today there must be a "great change in the whole Communist before any worthwhile changes in the United Nations Charter can be made The 80 year old Republican told a Senate subcommittee be has "no notion that we can abandon any organization that makes for irst Round Is Completed Temperature Reoding By The BEE's Radiol Thermometer Roanoke Driver Burns To Death After Collision WASHINGTON The Unit ed States was reported today to have sent a hurry up mission to ormosa to test Nationalist senti ment for a cease fire line down the middle of the embattled or mosa Strait Another factor credited In top congressional circles with influ encing the mission was a reported step up in deliveries of late type jet planes to Red China Adm Arthur Radford chair man of the joint chiefs of staff and Asst Secretary of State Wal ter Robertson left yesterday on a 10 day trip to the' Nationalist Chinese capital Taipei Their plane took off within two hours ff WASHINGTON Sen (D Va) said today an investigation into operations of the Wherry housing program has turned up ir regularities "which bear striking similarity" to those disclosed last year in postwar apartment pro jects Investigations then into a now' expired federally insured apart ment program turned up evidence that many builders had collected by getting mortgages iu excess of their actual costs and pocketing the difference The Wherry Act named for the late Sen Kenneth Wherry (R Neb) provided special federal in surance of housing projects on or near military and atomic energy Byrd Issues Statement Housing Program Probe Reveals BIRMINGHAM Ala The Seaboard Railroad today cancelled service on its Birmingham Atlanta lino as picketing began at its yards A Seaboard official said the pickets "are not Seaboard em but that union members had declined to cross the picket lines The Seaboard yards in Birming ham Interchange freight with the strike bound Louisville Nash ville Tonight at 6 the 1955 Au tomobile Show gets underway at Warehouse on Riverside Drive The formal ceremonies will be held preceding the first stage show which takes place two hours after the warehouse doors open to the public Matinee performances will be given on riday and Saturday aft ernoon with the warehouse being opened at 1 each day A cooking school will be given each afternoon at 2 and a stage show will follow at 3:30 in the special feature will come riday night This is the spring and summer style show presented by the Belk Legget company Mod els will be 20 girls sponsored by Home Demonstration and HA groups throughout this section of Virginia and North Carolina The winner of this contest will be named "Miss Danville air of and will represent the city in a state contest for the title of "Miss Virginia State The special feature for Satur day night is the Auto Show Edi tion of the Barn Dance Clyde Moody and his Woodchoppers and Hack Johnson and the Tennes seeans will be joined by a number of guest stars for the Virginia Barn Dance which is usually held at the Danville airgrounds There will be stage shows both riday and Saturday nights as well as in the afternoons Saturday night at 10 a 1955 model car will be given away with round dancing following the presenta tion actories have sent a number of automotive displays direct to Dan ville for this event while others are here from auto shows in Roa noke and Greensboro The warehouse has been cailv fl) Action by the National Board of ire Underwriters several weeks ago in down grading Danville's resi dential fire defenses from fourth to Hfth grade has prompted steps designed to elevate the grade back to fourth it was disclosed today City Manager Temple said this morning that the national board has agreed to conduct an other review and that he currently is engaged in preparing requested memoranda to that organization This development is designed to restore the fourth grade Commercial property remains in the coveted fourth grade that both had been for the past 20 years In view of steady Improvement towards conforming to the recommendations following a 1951 survey Danville officialdom was surprised and also felt the I pride had been hurt upon learning that the national grading of resi dential fire defenses had been lowered The upshot was that both the National Board of ire Under writers hnd the Virginia Insur ance Rating Bureau which fixes fire insurance rates in accordance with a grade agreed to meet with Danville officials Such a meeting was held last week it was learned today with Temple Utili ties Director Hawkins ire Chief John Long and Howard John son water plant superintendent at tending The entire situation was explored largely in the light of (Turn to Page 2A Story No 5) WASIHNGTON President foreign aid program ran into stormy water in Congress today with Sens Byrd (D Va) and Potter (R MIch) demanding elim ination pf direct economic assist ance to Allies Sen Mansfield (I) Mont) propos ed In a separate Interview that the request for $3530 000000 in military and economic help for friendly nations be sliced below 3 billion dollars The vigor of objections and some obvious lack of enthusiasm by some administration supporters ap peered to spell trouble for the of the announcement they would go It was understood intelligence reports indicate the Soviets re cently have increased shipments of jets to the Chinese Reds Some of these were said to be of the latest types comparable to the planes It is the understanding on Con gress that none of these planes yet has shown up at a series of air bases being rushed to comple tion by the Communist along the coast opposite ormosa and the island groups of Quemoy and Matsu "No crisis is Secre tary of State Dulles said as he left for a weekend vacation He said the Radford Robertson trip to see Nationalist Leader Chiang Kai shek involved "normal main tenance of contact in a situation that is admittedly Assignment bf Robertson and Radford to the ormosa mission was considered to be significant It gave rise immediately to specu Down Graded ire Defense Brings Action Another actor In Visit Of I ivm umciais is jer none ouiiaup first installment of a huge back log The Telegraph published an eight page supplement highlight ing the lost 26 days and most oth er newspapers hit the high spots in smaller condensations The papers reappeared with such headlines as "Here We Are "Read All About and Morning The tabloid Daily Mirror whose readers like pictures of pretty ROANOKE A Roanoke driver for the Rowe urniture Co was burned to death last night when his truck collided with a tractor trailer truck on the West Virginia Turnpike He was identified by Cal houn Jr personnel manager of the Salem firm as Curtis Allen Peters 38 of 1604 Padway Ave SE He was the father of five children Lt Yoak head of the West Virginia turnpike police said truck crashed into the back of a truck loaded with scrap Iron and caught fire Both trucks were going down hill in the area of lat Top Mountain to Mercer County Va Yoak said He was driving a truck owned by Plantnick Bros of Bluefield Calhoun said Peters truck which was empty was demolished He said Peters had been to Southern Ohio delivering furniture THUNDERSHOWERS VIRGINIA: Considerable cloudi ness showers and scattered thun derstorms warmer east and north portions tonight and riday low est tonight 55 82 NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy and rather warm and hu mid through riday with scat tered showers tonight and riday beginning to mountains this after noon High temperatures today 75 to 80 In mountains 85 to 90 elsewhere Low temperatures to night mid to mountains and' 60s elsewhere Virginia Zone orecast on Page IB OR ALL DEPARTMENTS CALL 1 4500 Auto Show Opens onight or 3 Days Passenger sendee canceled tem porarily on the Birmingham At lanta leg only included the Cot ton Blossom from Birmingham to Washington and the Silver Comet from Birmingham New York streamliner Pickets at the Seaboard yards bore signs reading: "Seaboard RR officers unfair Strike breaking against em ployees Birmingham Is the terminus of Seaboard operations into this area Presumably senice north of At lanta will continue Shackelford strike direc tor for non operating union members said he know with what organization the pick ets were connected Police rushed to tthe pas senger station here yesterday when violence flared briefly in the six week old railway strike A crowd of more than 100 gath ered when a passenger train was due and jeered workers at the station A few eggs were thrown but the train arrived and departed without further incident Earlier 2 men were attacked as they attempted io enter a nearby office building according to Kirchner division super (Turn to Pate 2 A Story No 3L DANVILLE AND Considerable cloudiness with showers and scattered thunder storms by late this afternoon and tonight ending riday morning and becoming partly cloudy and warmer low tonight 60 high ri day 81 Price: IVE CENTS LONDON A columnist to the Daily Sketch started off today: I was about to say when I was so rudely interrupted The Chronicle stoutly denied that it is dead A Daily Express cartoon showed a gentleman in a bowler hat crawl ing around with a newspaper in his mouth while his wife explain ed to a neighbor: "He has to teach all over how to fetch our And the Daily Telegraph gave thanks that Britons now can stop trying to dig such Yankee jive as "Redwings Rip Leafs as Canadians Blank The great London newspaper strike was ever After 26 days In a muzzle the nationally distributed dailies most of them in expanded editions set out to tell their 15 million readers what they had missed Such chit chat for instance as the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill and that a general elec tion is coming up May 26 Emulating its New York coun terpart after big strike the Times carried a 12 page sup plement which summarized the lost news day by day On the front where they always were four solid columns of birth death and mar riage announcements It was th? BATTLE CREEK Mich A baby bit a man here A young mother was nt a movie theater with her ener getic Infant son To quiet him she held the child over her shoulder Suddenly there was a ylpe from the rear The baby had nipped the toe of a man scaled with his shoes off and his feet up on the back of the seat The embarrassed mother hur rlcd out before ushers could get her name WASHINGTON (AP) The National new role in this era of possible atomic defense of the was 'tested in a surprise mobilization which drew praise from defense planners today Guardsmen in more than 2000 communities from iori da to Alaska sprang to arms or took to the air last night in response to a surprise alert flashed from the Pentagon Maj Gen Edgar Erickson chief of the National Guard Bureau said preliminary reports gave that the Army and Air Guard can be assembled by the state governors in a and efficient manner for service in any state or national City Requests Gets Re Survey Late News Churchill Back In London Headlines As Papers Reappear Mission Io ormosa Will Test Nationalist eelings On Cease ire TT I ate will make and he wants to avoid a be tween House and Senate bills But Rep Morano (R Connl an other committee member said "we have an obligation to consider this measure and we should go ahead with it without waiting for the Byrd who long has urged gov ernetnt economy said he is "op posed to starting another large program in "In my'judgmcnt the time has come to eliminate all economic aid to other countries except for a reasonable amount of 1 Success Of 'Operation Minuteman' Draws Praise rom Defense Planners The story was the same at the city health offices today as 535 colored children in first and second grades received their Salk polio vaccinations to bring the two day total to 1866 By noon the initial shots had been given all Danville children due to receive them under the mass program at this time These youngsters will make a return trip in four weeks for the final inno culations With a day of experience be hind operations ran even more smoothly at the office today How ever there were delays at times as the buses had difficulty keeping up with the doctors Pupils from Westmoreland were the first to arrive at city hall As was the case with the white chil dren yesterday names were check ed arms swabbed the needle ap plied and a lollipop given every child Incidentally the" local chapter of the National oundation for In fantile Paralysis made the suckers available as well as the bus ser vice The colored doctors on hand to day volunteered their time just as the white physicans had done yes terday Visitors to the' scene the past two days were impressed with the manner in which the doctors op erated despite the rate of speed When a child became tightened they would take time to calm him When time permitted between buses' often a doctor would be seen with a youngster on his knees It appeared that mass psycho logy was more pronounced today When" the first few in the class did not cry none would But when someone would let out a scream nearly all would As an example nearly 30 went throughout without a whimper Suddenly a little girl screamed at the top of her voice Nearly all who followed on that bus had tears (Turn to Page 2A Story No 4) 1 REIDSVILLE Tommy Knight the 45 year old farmer of Stokesdale Rt 1 who was gored and tossed by an angry' bull earlier: this week is resting in a satisfac tory condition at the Annie Penn MamArid Wncnital mwh The accident look place when Knight' lives on the farm with his mother Mrs Margaret Knight was stabling his stock and was trying to lure his herd bull into the barn with feed The animal attacked him and pinneti Knight against the wall of the barn then gored him badly puncturing his stomach and sever ing arteries The bull finally tossed Knight over his back and into the farmyard i While holding the wound closed' with his hand Knight managed to start his tractor and drove a mile to his nearest neighbor who brought him to Reidsville to the hospital TEMPERATURES pjn yesterday 84 (cteaH em today 85 (cioady) em today 0 (etow pm today 83 (eleir) Avery Wolfson Meet ace To ace I I CHICAGO The eyes of American business will be focused tomorrow on a structure that looks like an old world mosque the Medinah Temple at 600 Wabash Ave The four story brick building is distinguished from its near North Side neighbors by two plump round domes The theater type temple was built by the Masonic fraternity It has been used for such occidental activities as circuses and conven tions Tomorrow it will house the an nual meeting of Montgomery Ward and Co stockholders Their chief business will be to decide whether the 721 million dollar firm will re main under the control of Sewell Avery or shift to the command of Louis Wolfson The battle of these titans of in dustry will be witnessed by hun dreds There are seats for 4500 on the main floor and to the bal cony There will be accommoda tions for an additional 2000 In the basement The shareholders can listen or via a public ad dress system equipped with mo bile microphones Chairman Avery and other Ward officers and top executives 18 or 20 in ill occupy the stage Other members of the manage ment team and its candidates for places as directors will be seated on the left side of the main floor Wolfson and the other members of his squad including their nomi nees for the directorate will be SerumGiven 535 Negro Pupils Today? Asian African Committee In Closed Meeting BANDUNG Indonesia (AP) Prime Minister Sir John Kote lawala of Ceylon denounced at the Asian African conference today Red Premier Chou En lai obviously dis turbed Immediately demand ed time to make a reply Sir John appearing before a closed session of the politi cal committee demanded that the conference declare itself against all forms of co lonialism Including Commu nist domination of satellite states in central and eastern Europe Delegates said that as Sir John finished Chou leaped to his feet and demanded that the Ceylon statement be circular ized to ail delegates of the 29 nar tion conference so Chou could reply to it at tomorrow's commit tee session In earlier debate the committee heard Chou express the opinion that peaceful coexistence between nations of different systems was possible Sir John who had already tak en the spotlight with a proposal made outside the conference for creation of an independent or mosa told the committee there were too forms of colonialism and the Asian African nations should oppose both equally He demanded that Russia and Red China dissolve the Comin form as proof of their good inten tions In proposing the peaceful co National Guard International Soundpboto Philip Yazdzik of Olyphant Pa is shown as he chews his way to a biting finish to Chicago for the title of Hamburger King of the World He ate 77 hamburgers which he washed down with 24 glasses of milk and 6 bottles of soda as waitress Dorothy Johnson kept score The just called it a Yazdzik broke the previous record by one His normal dinner consists of three dozen eggs and a "few of cold cuts 'I 5 Prime Minister Of Ceylon MakesDenunciationChou Demands Time or Reply To Visit arm A II I ON The White House said today Presi dent Eisenhower probably will visit his farm at Gettysburg Pa this week end He may make the trip late tomorrow afternoon Mrs Eisenhower has been at the 189" acre farm for about three weeks An announcement April 9 said she was resting from a respiratory attack and I supervising house decorations 1: if ive eared Lost LONG BEACH Calif ive or six members of a San rancisco yachting party are believed lost in the collision of the 50 foot yawl Suomi and the Swedish motor vessel Parra matta off Pt Arguello early to day The Coast Guard said that a skiff with the name Suomi on it was recovered near the col lision scene 50 miles north west of Santa Barbara along with other wreckage One body also has been recovered Calls On Peron BUENOS AIRES Argentina Gen Matthew Ridgway Army Chief of Staff who is making an unofficial visit in Argentina today called on President Juan Peron Accompanying Ridgway was Brig Juan Ignacio San Martin whose aviation ministry is part owner of the newly established Industrias Kaiser Argentina a subsidiary of the Henry Kai ser Co in the United Stales The subsidiary In which the government has part owner ship plans to produce motor vehicles including trucks jeeps and station wagons To Televise Speech NEW YORK (A President address at the As sociated Press luncheon to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Monday will be telecast and broadcast CBS and NBC said today they will carry it live on their tele vision networks at 1 (EST) NBC ABC and Mutual will carry it live on lheir radio net works Tornado Strikes (By The Associated Press) A small tornado and heavy rains hail and lightning struck Arkansas and the northeastern section of Texas early today leaving two persons dead and several injured The twister crashed through a iny community near Pine Bluff Ark killing a woman and injuring her husband and son Their home wag demolished and three other houses in the area were badly damaged Three homes also were damaged at Benton 18 miles southwest of Little Rock waraoanie Climax Comes Tomorrow It may be days before reports are in from the 5600 guard units listed to take part in the big test But the National Guard Bureau estimated early this morning that some 280000 men were at their battle stations or assembly points within two hours of the zero hour which was known to advance to only a handful of officers This turnout represented 8 out of every 10 citizen soldiers who were on the lists pre pared by the state guard organiza tions for this first continent wide mobilization test to peacetime history Officials stressed that it was a test only wth no cause for alarm Some 50000 of the cur rent total strength of about 400 000 men were excluded from the alert because their units are un dergoing reorganization Units were advised several weeks ago that there would be a test but the date and time re mained a closely held secret Not until about 6 last night did the Pentagon planners give the word for an alert to start a half hour later in the east andat staggered times in other time zones (Turn to Page 2A Story No 9) armer Gored By Angry Bull (Turn to Page 2A Story No 10) i Blame Madman or Street Shootings ST LOUIS A series of four street shootings in which one woman was killed and two wound ed early today started a police investigation to determine wheth er all were the victims of a Negro madman Miss June Lytz 51 was found fatally wounded in a parkway about 6 a today and two per sons reported hearing a shot about 12:30 a Three other victims told police they were fired upon by a young Negro driving a dark colored car Patrolman Bernard Goclowskii reported Miss Lytz dead from a gunshot wound in the back was found lying face down in a triangle shaped parkway Goclowski said he was led to the body by the woman's smalt black dog while walking his beat Miss Lytz operated a massage parlor located a few blocks away I Helen orrester a 34 year old waitress told police she and two friends were approached by a Negro in a car about 12 20 a She said she told him to leave after he called "hey He fired two shots one striking her in the back She is in serious com dition at City Hospital OS "Vi 4 rt i a z' vv V' i 'V' ''z i it 4 5 J' 4 WO jr? 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