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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1958 ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE PRICE: FIVE CENT! Democrats Pressing For Early Decision On Tax Reductions FCC Moves To Restudy TV Grant Controversial Miami Channel Award Is Eyed WASHINGTON UD The Air Force Apologizes For Bomb Crews Continue Clean Up Work At Florence, S. C. FLORENCE, S. C. UP) Air Federal Communications Commission todav moved to WASHINGTON UP) Congressional Democrats prodded the Eisenhower today for an early decision on possible antirecession tax cuts.

Force crews continued their work today to remove scars left by the TNT explosive of reconsider its grant of TV ihe administration, meanwhile, Channel 1U at Miami, central case in a House inves tigation that led to the resignation of Commissioner an unarmed atomic oomo. a Defense Department investigation was promised in the incident. Meanwhile, this sedate tobacco land community of 30,000 which for a few hours Tuesday walked in the shadow of an atomic peril Richard A. Mack. The commission, taking note Cut Would Fatten S.

Pay Checks charges in the House investigation that pressures may have entered that never came went about its into tne award, tuea a motion the U.S. Court of Appeals request ing that the case be returned to business as usual. Some, even seemed startled a what was called the "fanfare' the FCC for further revi By a 4 2 vote last year, the FCC awarded the channel to Public WASHINGTON UP) An income tax cut of the sort now under consideration in Congress would add an extra $2 to $3 to the weekly pay check of the average American given the town after the nuclear weapon slipped accidentally from a B47 jet bomber's belly. Mayor David McLeod at City Hall got an apology for the inci Service Television a subsidi ary of National Airlines. waited to assess the results of stepped up spending programs it1 has ordered and recommended before deciding whether a tax cut is needed to spur production and create jobs.

Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and hi assistant Sen. Mansfield of Montana urged action to make it clear whether there are going to be tax reductions and what kind. Johnson told the Senate that "we will face up I hope very quickly to the question of tax cuts." Saying that he hasn't reached any firm conclusion himself, he added: "But I believe owe it to our fellow Americans to end the suspense at the earliest possible moment" Mansfield said in an interview he is glad Secretary of the Treas ury Anderson has announced ho will confer with leaders of both parties on the tax question. "I hope these conferences art held quickly and the results announced immediately," he said.

"The people ought to be told where they stand." Anderson announced that the administration will delay any tax Dreaawmner, The FCC decision is now before In the aggregate, it would mean the Appeals Court in two proceed dent irom Ma, uen. unans: Dougher of Hunter AFB, bomber's base. the quick addition of an estimated ings. SIMPSON IS HONORED William W. (Bobby) Simpson, center, last night was honored as Graham's "Young Man of the Year" for 1957, principally for his service with the Graham Rescue Unit.

At left is Jack Henderson, last year's winner who made the presentation, and at right is Bob Cox of Chapel Hill, national vice president who of tax planners seeking a quick antirecession stimulant. Whether a tax cut actually will be attempted, and when, hye not five billion dollars of new con sumer buying power. in one ot mese, wia an unsuccessful bidder for the chan Elsewhere, high ranking officers and claims personnel toured the Tlus immediate release of new yst oeen decided, it is one of sev maae tne principal aaaress. uimes iews mow). nel, is challenging FCC's refusal of last September to reconsider the two mue square area surrounoing eral things under study.

buying power is the primary goal grant to Public faervice. the impact point near the shattered Waller Gregg house five Congressional tax experts say that any tax cut would be reflected immediately in the form of fatter employe paychecks because ine other Appeals court case was brought by Eastern Airlines, hich asked the court to overrule (See Picture On Page 6 A) of lower tax withholdings. Self employed individuals. FCC order which denied East rn the right to intervene in the Graham JC Award Goes To Simpson Mass Rioting Threatened By Cubans HAVANA Armed with a Channel 10 proceeding as a pro testant. VA Planning Big Dividend This Spring WASHINGTON TO The Veterans Administration will pay a special dividend of 32 million dollars in April and May to about 325,000 holders of World War I government insurance.

That averages nearly $100 per policyholder. pay their taxes quarterly, would be able to give themselves a tax credit equal to the percentage cut when mailing their next quarterly The commission move for re turn of the case to it came as decision until "the future course of the economy has been clari the House Investigating Commit miles east of here. Gregg, his wife, their three children and a niece injured, none seriously. The niece, 9 year old Ella Da vies, was the worst injured. But she was back with her family after hospital treatment for lacerations requiring a total of 30 stitch tee was continuing its inquiry into tax installment.

The greatest impact of an overall individual income tax cut new decree suspending civil liberties. President Fulgencio Batis GRAHAM One of the organizers of the Graham Rescue Unit ho has also given considerable service in other activities for the financial relations between Mack That left up in the air the timing for any possible tax cut would be on the low and middle a Whiteside, a past several years last night was named the town's "Young Man of move. ta's police and army stood ready to smash antigovernment demonstrations if thousands of Havana the Year" for 1957. wealthy Miami attorney and longtime friend of the ex Chairman Byrd (D Va) of the income taxpayer, who make up (See CUT On Page 6 A) The award went to William W. Adminitrator Sumner G.

Whit students go mrougn (Bobbv) Simpson 32 year old part At one time, Whiteside was tier, announcing the Dayment to Air Force authorities said the bomb did not set off a nuclear Forest College. He served in the Navy during World War 2. In citing his service, Henderson told that the winner not only was instrumental in the organization of ner in the Graham Soda Shop, and with plans to hold a mass meeting today. Senate Finance Committee, who opposes reductions now, said any tax cut is likely to cost the Treasury up to seven billion dollars in' revenue and bring on a 15 billion dollar deficit. day, said tne special dividend plugging for award of the channel to Public Service Television but came during the annual D.

fa. addition to the regular annual The students planned to assem complete triggering device. The Boss banAu lr was never an attorney of record ble on the first anniversary of a dividend for 5,300,000 World War I and World War II holders of accidental bomb release Rescue Unit which he said providing a valuable service to; rebel invasion of liatista palace. House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the case and has testified he refused an offer of employment by the law firm which was han Labor Heads Conferring With Ike GI insurance. r.

tins town and tne county dui aisd (D Tex) was reported to feel that Congress ought to make its ob The regular dividend of 202 mil Principal speaker for the meet served as its captain and last year About 20 persons were killed at the palace and 20 more elsewhere in Havana during a daring but poorly organized plot to kill or ade an honorary life Cox of Chapel Hill, lion dollars is being paid out at the rate of 22 million dollars a month. See DEMOCRATS On Page 6 A) national vice president of Jay i tributed to malfunctioning equipment. In Washington, Secretary of Defense McElroy said last night the Air Force confirmed the area was uncontaminated by any radioactivity. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) had cautioned there might hn sump qlirrhf pnnfnminaiinn nnc. dling Public Service's application.

Also on tap for a return appearance was A. Frank Katzentine, Miami Beach radio station opera (See FCC On Page 6 A) Without referring to it as an anti Kidnap tne uuDan resiacni. tcession measure, Whittier noted WASHINGTON UP) Top labor The suspension of civil liberties cees and a candidate for the national presidency for next year. Jack Henderson, last year's Dis that addition of the special divi union leaders headed for a White as rammed tnrougn aausias captain. The Rescue Unit at present, he said, has life saving equipment valued in excess of $3,500 and "funds for this equipment are due in large measure to his devotion to this cause." Simpson, in his capacity as captain of the unit, also served as dend between mid April and mid tinguished Service Award new peace cabinet in an emergency session, forcing the resig May means all dividends for the Eibility.

imade the presentation and cited nation of Premier Emilio Nunez Jury Getting Textile Head Asks Changes In Trade Act SPARTANBURG. S. C. Iff) A period would total 54 mill: lars. Portuondo.

McElroy said a "high level" in Ule accomplishments ny Simpson vestigation has been ordered into ln servicc to thP "wiriir imniinatinnc nf (hi nJ A resident of 503 Paris Street, spokesman said the special The fiery little diplomat walK it was a face saving gesture. House conference with President Eisenhower today to plug for a tax cut and other quick antirecession moves. The group led by AFL CIO President George Meany and Walter Reuthcr, auto union chief and AFL CIO economic chairman, said in advance they would stress a need for urgent action on a vari Frank' Wetzel chairman of the Old Fashioned dividend actual was annrovpii Only the night before he had Fourth of July celebration which SOme time ago by the former ad fortunate he, too, i he is a graduate of Burlington expressed deep recret to the six! High School and attended Wake promised constitutional guaran has since become an annual af numerator, Harvey V. Higlcy, but Case Today leader of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute (ACMI) tair in me luun. hl aiio ims iitciu ijt took time to set up machinery injured.

The Hunter base identified three tees would not be suspended for the eighth time in 15 months. His General Fund said today the lime has come for ety of fronts. I cabinet resigned with him, then funds for the unit. i whittier said the special divi veteran captains as crew members of the bomb Capt. Earl E.

the administration to completely Meany and Reulher both have most of the min mner also is a Red Cross will E0 lo hoIders of DCr. instructor in first aid and has con Koehler, about 36, of Mount Car jobs back, and Nunez Portuondo manent plan U. S. Government ducted several classes. He also! mel.

111., Capt. Charles S. Wood called for hiking individual tax amount and duration of jobless payments, and expanding public Wetzel, for which the state is seeking the death penalty, was expected to reach the Lee County Su prepared to return to his previous post as Batista's ambassador to Collections Are Dropping ruff, 35, of Van Wert, Ohio, and worked with a local group in organizing Civil Defense for Graham. works spending for schools, roads, capt. unice M.

AulKa, 29, of New Life Insurance. He said about 44, 000 USGLI policies will be excluded. Those omitted include 19, (See VA On Page 6 A) the United Nations. Minister of State Gonzalo Guell A member ot tne uranam voi perior court jury today. Only arguments by Solicitor W.

hospitals and housing. Both said no single plan is sufficient to re xork City. In London, the incident quick ened concern in Parliament ovei became premier. RALEIGH North Carolina's La Hiairman nf Firo Prpvnntinn The first effect of the new de erse the Dusmess downturn. Reuther urged in a speech that possible nuclear devastation by Jack Hooks and Defense Attorney, John T.

Page Jr. remained before Judge George Fountain charged the panel. revaluate the United Mates reciprocal trade agreement on foreign textile imports. Robert C. Jackson, ACMI executive vice president, said "th trade agreement has been so twisted and distorted away from its original concept" as first written into the pact by former Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the nation's textile industry lias been endangered.

The agreement is now coming up in Washington for proposed re Jacksori told a breakfast meet cree was to bring back censorship of Cuban newspapers, radio and general fund tax collections for week in the town last year, this fiscal year may fall mil 1 ie jS married to the former Miss lion dollars short of meeting es Marion Foust of Elon College, and Brundage Out accident irom American trolled weapons. Congress empower Eisenhower to suspend withholding tax collections for workers for a period of A few curiosity seekers returned In a week of testimony by 58 itnesses from nine states, Hooks timates made by me legislature, i have two daughters. His par Revenue Commissioner James S. ents are Mr. and Mrs.

Luther As Director i to hu days. He said it would cost 500 million (See AIR On Page 6 A) Currie said today. i Simpson of Burlington. In a reDort to Gov. Other former DSA winners Hi A TV as well as outgoing foreign dispatches.

Police also were empowered to make arrests without warrants and hold prisoners without charges. All mass meetings were banned, in effect halting campaigning for the June 1 presidential election. The decree remains in force 45 days but can be receive; tl I r.urrie Dointed out that sales tax in attendani attempted to brand Wetzel as the man who gunned down Highway Patrolman J. T. Brown near here the night of last Nov.

5. Brown's death came an hour after Patrolman W. L. Reece was slain simi his including M. E.

Younl, dollars a week in lost revenues, but would be "without doubt the quickest way possible to pump purchasing power into the economy." The power would be used if other antirecession plans fail, he Dr. Allen D. Tate, and Alton J. Utley, as well as Hender collections usually considered a reliable barometer of business conditions have been declining in recent months. ing of 230 business, industrial and civic leaders "the thinking expressed by an important cross section of the Industry nationally suggests that circumstances are right for a change of pace and a change larly near Ellerbe, about 50 miles south of here.

said. "We must be aware of the pos Wetzel, 36 and of Seneca WASIIINGTON W) Percival F. Brundage resigned today as director of the budget. President Eisenhower appointed Maurice H. Stans, now deputy director, to succeed Brundage.

Eisenhower also named Robert E. Merriam currently an assistant to the director, as deputy chief sibility that general fund collections can conceivably fail to meet of course." Responsibility Cox, in his address, told Jaycees that they have a responsibility not only to themselves as young men but to the community of which they are a part to work constantly for betterment of their fellow legislative estimates this fiscal N.Y., is already serving a life sentence for the Reece slaying. A Richmond County jury convicted him in January, but its mercy recommendation saved him from He declared that the govern lent domestically controls 80 per Rand Facing Kohler Strike Questioning Donald Rand faces crossfire questioning by Senate rackets probers today on whether he was involved in or "masterminded" any violence in the Kohler strike. Rand is administrative assistant to Emil Mazey, secretary treasurer of the United Auto Workers. Mazey is oae of the top strategists in the UAW's marathon strike Cole Case Is Slated For The Jury Today cent of the cotton textile indus year by as mucn as v.s minion dollars," he said.

Currie also reported that highway fund collections also are run try cost structure 55 per cent the gas chamber. ot tne ouieau. In a letter to Eisenhower mad He cited experiences he has had as a national officer in the organ Page and the other court appointed defense attorney, Harold ning below estimates, and analy public by the White House, Brun I dage said Ik is stepping down be ization and told that nothing is by way of cotton and 25 to 30 per cent through wages. "We have a government cotton policy the vicious forces of which have gradually closed in upon both the farmer and the LUMBERTON, N.C. L4V A pac ligures indicate mat me W.

Gavin of banford, chose to present no evidence when the ing, table pounding, silver haired more demanding of present day young leaders than the opportuni drop for the fiscal year may be as much as million dollars state completed its case yester ty to serve, the consciousness of cause he "must attend to some personal matters that have been neglected." White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said "of course not" when asked whether Brun below estimates. day. Gavin led off arguments to the Currie pointed out that if the A mill in any country abroad buy a bale of cotton produced The state built its case on evidence, from Sheriff Malcolm McLeod. He testified that after learning the Indians were incensed at the klan, he drove to Cole's Marion, S.C., home in an effort to dissuade him and head off the rally.

Bruce Roberts, a former Lumberton newspaperman, quoted Cole as persisting in holding the jury by reminding them of their duty to decide "whether a man dage was leaving because of any; shall keep his life or lose it. leading their communities in staying alert and in moving forward, and in giving of their individual selves in order that others may enjoy more of the benefits and opportunities that this nation offers. He hit at attitudes which would claim that it is impossible to real uscai policy ditierences witn tne administration at this time of business recession. He argued the state had failed to place Wetzel in North Carolina at the time of Brown's slaying Eisenhower accepted Bn lawyer demanded the conviction today of Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard James W. Cole "before there is death and bloodshed in this county." Cole and Klansman James Garland Martin of Reidsville are charged with inciting a riot of Robeson County Indians.

Several hundred Lumbee Indians, incensed at the Klan, shot up and routed a rally of armed Klansmen near Maxton last Jan. 18. Testimony ended yesterday. The defense presented no evidence, banking on its closing argument to carry its point before Judge Clawson L. Williams gives the makes plumbing fixtures' Koh collections fall short of estimates ler near Sheboygan Wis as lndicated tne difference be Rand testified he had struck general fund revenues and person in Sheboygan and had i estimates would be only 1.9 per never been arrested He denied and the hlBl'ay fund 2.8 that either he or the union had PeTrT cont' organized name calling demon He said that an analysis of the strations around the homes of Kral fund collections pattern non striking employes.

show that the entire gap in gen The committee is investigating eral fund collections is more than charges by the company and the accounted for by the anticipated union, in which each has sought to i aP ln sales tax collections. and questioned testimony of Ne rally because the klan never accomplishment and told his I dage's resignation "with great re in South Carolina cheaper than a mill in South Carolina can buy it, by about 20 to 25 per cent, then convert it intotcxtile goods with cheap labor, flood the product into this country and sell it in competition with American products at prices lower than this country's production pattern ol substantial wages, investments, and modern machinery can possibly permit. backs down." gro Hitchhiker Robert Terry Jr. gret and reluctance. The defense contended the state budget who identifid Wetzel as the slay Brundage has served listeners that the future of Graham "well can rest within your hands as civic minded young men of Recce.

Gavin termed Terry had not proved a necessary ele director since April 2, 1956. Eisen "not worthy of confidence." ment of the charge, that the rally nower chose lima to succeed Rowland R. Hughes. constituted uniawiui asscmoiy. (See GRAHAM On Page 6 A) Solicitor K.

R. Hoyle pleaded with the jury for a guilty verdict and the "punishment under the The defense, driving hard blame the other for violence in the strike which has continued contention the klan had a legal right to rally on land it leased for law" The death penalty. since April 5, 1954. Allegations were voiced the purpose, concentrated on case to an all male, all white jury. The charge, a general misde Widows of the slain officers were present often during the Sumatran Rebels Dispute Government Claim Of Capturing Important Town Rand was a leader in a prostrike stitutional guarantees of freedom of assembly and the right to keep and bear arms.

Lawyers for Cole and Martin meanor, carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison. trial, which began last March 3. Wetzel remained impassive dur demonstration variously called the "Clay Boat Riot" and the "Clay Luther Britt one of three ing much of the trial, whispering Boat Incident," which marked a 1955 high point in the strike questioned McLeod closely State Will Get Federal Funds To Aid Parks WASHINGTON WV Nearly $450, 000 in federal projects are planned in North Carolina as part of an accelerated anti recession program. Interior Secretary Seaton said Lumberton attorneys hired by private citizens to assist Solicitor E. JAKARTA, Indonesia iffi The, Harbor to leave or face destruc lthe safely of Americans remain whether or not any Indians had Maurice Braswell, told the jury: indicating an assault been arrested and charged in con Both sides have ing in the Sumatran rebels today disputed the Jakarta government's claim "Gentlemen, you had better stop nection with the not.

often with his lawyers and occasionally showing signs of ten Much of the states evidence revolved around a 1957 black Olds mobile, found abandoned in Chattanooga, the night after The Pakanbaru landing was the! piedSed to Protect foreiS" workers "Have you made a thorough and In that incident, a large crowd of demonstrators prevented the unloading o' a shipload of special clay consigned to the Kohler plant. A series of acts of violence this. If you don't, there will be more bloodshed. There will be; that Sukarno lorce: nave captured Pakanbaru, gate iot to damase the 125 mil largest military action so far in conscientious investigation ot In way to the American oparated oil dians who participated in that people killed and another jury may be trying someone for your lields of Central Sumatra. Reece and Brown were killed.

lion dollar oil installations. In Jakarta, meanwhile, Atty. Gen. Suprapto today ordered all copies of the March 10 issue of not? the defense asked. "I have not made an investiga were reported.

Sen. Mundt (R SD) The Jakarta regime announced A .44 caliber magnum revolver, murder. yesterday the projects were in addition to other projects planned for the year starting July 1. some 300 paratroopers the civil war tnat nas Deen developing since a revolutionary government for Indonesia was proclaimed Feb. 15r in Central Sumatra.

In their drive to deny the rebels the oil the U.S. owned Caltex Co. tion," McLeod after the with two shots fired from its Stop this thing, gentlemen. committee it seemed that Rand dropped on the Pakanbaru airport Time magazine confiscated. The There is but one way to do it chamber, was presented judge overruled strenuous state: North Carolina projects, part or "masterminded" the and that's by your verdict." death weapon.

It was recovered objections. and a combat regiment tnat loi lowed them in had taken over the the estimated $25,067,000 program, include: from under the driver seat of Britt, who told the jury he had The state presented 10 witness Two Sheboygan contractor brothers, Peter and Cornelius the car. National Park Service: $282,200 es, four of them newsmen who been involved one way or town of 50,000. The big Minas oil field is about 20 miles upriver produces in Central Sumatra, Jakarta troops also landed at the other in every Klan trial in this number of other guns. covered tne rally.

Most ot the witnesses corroborated McLeod's from the town. for reconstruction of Newfound Gap highway from Newfound Gap to Kephart Prong in the Great quantity of ammunition, men' However, a broadcast from the clothing and jewelry were placed area in 30 years, paced the floor, declaiming in a vigorous courtroom style. issue, on sale in the capital since last Saturday, carries a cover picture of Sukarno and a five page report criticizing the Indonesian President. U.S. Rear Adm.

Roy Benson, visiting Singapore with the heavy cruiser Bremerton and two destroyers, said the Navy is prepared to evacuate Americans from Indonesia if necessary but "we're not planning to go dash rebel center of Padang, Smoky Mtns. National Park. evidence and identified Buteyn, named Rand as having had a big hand in directing it. Rand got a sharply critical quizzing about hie acknowledged offer of financial help to Peter Buteyn if ie latter would agree not to unload the shipload of Officers, including Mate Jiign way Patrol Captain C. R.

Wil stolen goods found in the car. Hiue Kioge Koaos, Pointing nis linger at uoie, Brut east coast oil port of uumai, 80 miles north of Pakanbaru. The other exit point for Central Sumatran oil, the port of Pak ning, was captured by Jakarta troops over the weekend in their first landing on Sumatra. Caltex suspended operations walks, and employee residence, er Wetzel's alleged route shouted: liams told how they planned to matra's west coast 125 miles southwest of Pakanbaru, claimed; rebel troops had surrounded the; If you think you can take every handle the not they thought would into North Carolina and his getaway to Chattanooga, the state aders and fighting continued. Gillespie Gap, for similar projects at Linville, improvements at various locations, Kluxer in Marion, South Carolina, clay.

surely develop and descriDCd Rand pictured Peter Buteyn as! brought witnesses from New York, their subsequent actions in con The rebel radio said the casual tics on both sides were heavy. or Reidsville, North Carolina, or everywhere and drive that crowd roads, walks, picnic ta Pennsylvania, West, Virginia, Vir trolling the outburst. just before the invasion began and moved some American women The rebels, meanwhile, await permission of the Jakarta gov ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky gesturing toward the predomi About 500 spectators packed the crnment." I Others were summoned from New bles and drinking fountains, Ashe ville, visitor center, amphitheater and parkins area. nantly Indian audience of about sympathetic to tlic striKers view, but reluctant to go along with them because Buteyn was "heavily in debt." Rand said he had otfared Buteyn financial help. ed naval attack on Padang.

Two small warships of Jakarta's navy and children to Singapore. U. S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones said he had no reason to fear for 300 seat courtroom when the trial opened Tuesday.

But yesterday's audience numbered only 200. He added that he "has no great Hampshire, California, and various 350) around, you've sot another think A coming," warned two freighters in Padang Doufihton Park, $103,900..