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I-' i HEAT MARCHING ON BIRMINGHAM AND VICINITY Partly cloudy with little change in temperatures tonight and Saturday. Widely scattered afternoon thunder showers. High today, 94; low tonight, 70; high Saturday, 95. (Furntxhad B. S.

Weather Bureau) EDS ROCKED Deportations hurt racketeers, Reds. See Riesei, Page 32. OTHER PAGES: Page Page Bridge 9 Sports 17 Crossword 9 Social 21 Editorials 10 Amusements 28 Radio-TV 16 Comics 30 67TH YEAR NO. 101 PRICE: 5 CENTS 40 Pages 4 Sections BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1954 Here is Phenix, club by club, violation by violation Come take a walk where lawmen went blind BY EDWIN STRICKLAND News staff writer PHENIX CITY, July 9 There is an old adage that there are none so blind as those who will not see. That adage provides an apt description of city, county and state officers who have walked with unseeing eyes through conditions of vice, violence and crime here.

This article proposes to open a few eyes about night clnbs here, their links with gambling and vice rackets. The information contained herein is acces sible to officers by the same route used by Birmingham News reporters: Digging into documents and human recollections. CLUBS ARE singled out, in this instance, because they are (Second of a series) the backbone of the gambling and vice industry which so long flourished here. Most of them have liquor licenses, which some owners could display alongside their federal gambling stamps. They have been the scene of arrested, but those in the back, behind a door marked "ladies were not disturbed.

Fuller said he didnt go back there because he thought it was a ladies rest room instead of a gambling joint IT WAS AFTER this raid that Patterson spent a day trying to reach Gov. Gordon Persons to inform him of the conditions of wide-open gambling and vice and appeal to him to help in cleaning it up. Pattersons death seven months later resulted in that cleanup Turn to Page 27, Column 1 who wore a gun while practicing his trade. They might learn a lot from the B-girls of the Maytag Cafe and Skyline Club about slot machines and other gambling there during recent weeks. All they need to do is buy a copy of The News to read a full account of how two News reporters sat in a back room of the Bama Club and watched gamblers go on undisturbed at their task while the Qlace was raided by deputies led by Albert Fuller.

The officers should know that the front part of the club was raided, and four persons were dustry. Records on all of these places are available. Officers might want to check into the activities of the Avalon Club, the Eldorado Club and Bennies Cafe, plus the long list of night-spots pinpointed in the first article of this series. All active here until an assassin pumped three bullets into Attorney-General Nominee Albert Patterson the night of June 18, and forced a halt to vice operations. OFFICERS PROBABLY could get a pretty good story from the croupier at the Club Avalon, officers might well mull over the past activities of such clubs as: THE BLUE GOOSE CAFE, long off-limits to soldiers, the scene of active gambling for years and the haunt of working girls.

The Hillbilly Club, the Club Plantation, the One-Two Club, the 431 Club, Wilson McVeys Place, the Diamond Horsehoe Inn. The Rainbow Room, and a score of others have records as gambling dens, fronts of houses of pleasure, or are known for other facets of the citys vice in brutal beatings, dope peddling, administration of knock-o drops, gambling in all forms. They have fronted for prostitution rings and every conceivable racket, yet these clubs continue to maintain their Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board license. Certainly had officers taken the pains to give a close look at the clubs they would have found indication that a law or two was being violated by the licensees. But even the light of open publicity failed to stir some of them into action.

Now that the heat is on, From where I stand How long will Phenix be off-limits to Ft. Benning soldiers? BY VULCAN HOW LONG will Phenix City be off-limits to the boys stationed at Ft Benning? As long as the soldiers are kept out of the sin-and-gin town revenue will be cut off from the raekets. Keep the soldiers away long enough and the place just cant come back. There has been a good bit of speculation as to how long the comman ding SYKES TO SEEK GRAND JURY Killer may Discs point to Shepherd Wiretaps show Mr. Big's on Phenix City BY EDWIN STRICKLAND, News staff writer PHENIX CITY, July 9 A man who has never been elected to public office has absolute political control over this city.

A man who never attended a law school holds in his hands the outcome of cases tried in Russell County's "hall of justice." general at Ft. Benning will keep Phenix City off-limits. Ajn the racket bosses there is high hope that a new com-mandant will lift the off-limits ban. They argue that the Army cant be concerned with cornered VULCAN PHENJIX CITY, July 9 Amid positive signs that the killer of Albert L. Patterson is known, Acting Atty.

Gen. Bernard F. Sykes said today he will ask for a special Grand July to be convened here "as soon as possible." Sykes' announcement came after disci osure that a number of new eyewitnesses who saw events immediately before and after the murder had been rounded up. A man who often refers to those he controls as stupid, nevertheless does actually control the lives of scores of residents of this city. Hoyt Shepherd, gambling kingpin and political fixer, has for years held himself out as the eyes, ears and conscience of this city.

By the medium of a telephone in his fortress home, this kingmaker keeps his fingers on the Sit-tight plan likely on Chi-Red UN bid It also is known that his staff has uncovered actual witnesses to the crime, Sykes said he will ask Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones of Montgomery, to convene the Grand Jury here as soon as a new jury list can be drafted. That may take a week to 10 days, or more. Tear off and keep this part foreign policy of the action together with any recommendations the president may have. More stories and photos on Page 21 Read this, for justice's sake YOU may be able to help trap Patterson killer with n6 risk to yourself BY RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON, July 9 The Senate foreign relations committee appeared set to stamp approval today on a wait-and-see plan for dealing with the prospect of Red China's seating in the United Nations.

Sen. Knowland author of the toned-down proposal, forecast a favorable verdict in advance of a formal vote scheduled behind closed door and in this he was joined by Sen. H. Alexander Smith N. acting committee chairman.

Knowland, the Senate GOP leader, said in an interview he expects tremendous support from both Republicans and Democrats for his amendment, apparently revised at administration urging from a stiffer version. The Knowland amendment would write into the pending $3 billion foreign aid 1. Another congressional statement in opposition to admitting Communist China to the UN. 2. A request to President Eisenhower if Red China is seated in either the Security Council or the Assembly for a statement to congress on the implications to U.

S. THE AMENDMENTS actual wording is a far cry from Know-lands original demand that America promptly withdraw from the UN if Red China came in, with this policy to be set by Congress beforehand. It conforms more to Eisenhowers view, as he expressed it Wednesday, and endorsed by Secretary of State Dulles yesterday. The president told newsmen he is completely and unalterably opposed to admitting the Peiping regime, but he said the United States should go Blow on deciding whether to quit the UN as a result. Eisenhower expressed the view that it was unlikely the other UN members would override the wishes of the United States in this matter and Dulles predicted Communist China would not be seated.

A fresh statement of the administrations attitude was given Congress today by Asst. Secretary of State Thruston B. Morton, in opposing a resolution calling on the government to reexamine its policy regarding the UN if Peiping is admitted. the morals of soldiers. In times past there have been students from Auburn who sneaked into Phenix City.

But the gamblers there have never liked the college boys coming into their town. For one thing, the boys dont have much money to throw away. For another, the racketeers know that a college boy in trouble in Phenix City could bring down the wrath of the state. But soldiers are different? I dont know about that. In these days of the citizen army we take boys out of school and put them into uniforms.

Nearly all these boys are away from home for the first time. They 'are young. They need to be protected from a fester spot of vice and crime just as much as if they were not in their countrys uniform. Let your congressmen and your United States senators know how you feel about Ft Benning and Phenix City. Your boy may not be stationed at Ft Benning, but somebodys boy is there.

There is no reason for the Ft Benning off limits in Phenix City to ever be raised. People doing things WINTON BLOUNT, the Montgomery contractor, was a dinner guest of President Eisenhower at the White House last night You can congratulate William B. Caldwell on his birthday today. Corn crops have been suffering from the drouth all over Alabama, and that includes some corn close to home. Clint Johns says nothing is needed more than a lot of rain to save the tasseling corn around here.

Anvil sparks UNCLE SAM is taking an official census of Midfield this week. That Alabama American Legion Junior Band is really busy these days tooting for a big chance to go to Philadelphia. Still need more money to make the trip. J. W.

Conner the Capital Airliner, made Wiyiam B. Goldstein an honorary captain the other day. Mayor Jimmy Morgan all smiles over the happy progress of the zoo. Alabama folks FRED L. MERRILL, new Anniston Civil Service Board member, is a young business man in Calhoun County Folks around Sandy Cove are doing some bear hunting this holiday week-end Earl and J.

O. Thompson saw a bear the other day, first one spotted in Morgan County in a coons age. Dr. Charles Summersell, new head of the University of Alabamas history department, is another expert in the history of the South Mrs. Lamar Huffman, known as Woodlawn Highs Jean Huffman, stopped over in Chicago to see Melvin Douglas new play Time Out for Ginger and had a pleasant backstage chat with the Georgia-born actor.

pulse of a city of nearly 30,000 persons, and still finds time to dabble in gambling enterprises In Florida, Georgia and other places. Hoyt Shepherd Is Mr. Big. The reference might now be more accurate in the past tense Night after night law enforcement officers and elected officials of Phenix City and Russell County, called Shepherd for his instructions. He picked grand juries with the aid of a deputy sheriff and an elected public official.

He directed his badge-wearing henchman tb sqe that certain witnesses, considered 'dangerous, were called on and their test! mony fixed. TO ONLY ONE man, apparently, did Shepherd pay homage. That man was referred to by Shepherd as the big man upstairs. He spoke of three hour conferences with the man upstairs, and said he had been assured that everything was going to be all right. The time of this statement can only be placed by the mentioning of other known events, but apparently this particular conversation occurred in 1950.

The complete crime history of Phenix City for the past several years has been recorded by a phantom wire tapper who has furnished more than 200 recording discs to the Russell Betterment Association, and to investigators. Turn to Page 2, Column 1 PHENIX CITY, July 9 Do you know something about the murder of Albert L. Patterson? You can give your information and no one need ever know your name. YOU CAN aid justice, and also earn $10,600 reward if your information is the link between the killer and the crime. DID YOU see the killer as he fled from the scene after pumping three bullets into the attorney general nominee? DID YOU overhear some conversation linking the killer, his possible accomplices with the crime on the night of June 18? DO YOU know something which you have feared to state because you are afraid of reprisal from the killer? YOU CAN give your information now, and no one will ever know where it came from.

This is what YOU CAN DO to help officers track down the murderer: Write your information on a plain sheet of paper. Do not sign your name. Instead, sign it with a series of seven numbers, followed by three letters. Something like this: 7439852 GVC. Do not use that particular grouping of scrambled letters and numbers.

Make up your own. Old Sol opens throttle for hot week-end A muggy week-end si in prospect for Birmingham, with scattered showers expected to bring little if any relief from the heat. Todays high Is expected to be 94, with a low tonight of 70 and Saturday high of 95. Partly cloudy skies over the city may produce spasmodic thun dershowers, but not enough rain for cooling. Thursdays .83 inch of rain during the afternoon lowered tempera tu swiftly after a high of 93 grees had been reached.

This mornings low was 69, for a one degree- above-normal mean of 81 degrees. a Blind couple to wed They'll really never know just how each other looks Miss Greece eliminated Lovely Rika Dialina 21 -year-old Athens, Greece, beauty, has had her plans to enter the Miss Universe Contest at Long Beach, shattered by the McCarran Act. U.S. Embassy officials have declined to issue her a visa, saying investigation of her background 'is notNcomplete. She allegedly illustrated a book written by a Communist.

(AP wirephoto.) At Montgomery today, Judge Jones said he will be in Phenix City Saturday morning to hand commissions from Gov. Gordon Persons to the three new mem-ers of the Russell County Jury Commission. It was expected that the three new commissioners would start filling the jury box with new names as soon as they receive their appointments. Judge Jones also announced he would call a special session of the grand jury at Phenix City to investigate the slaying of Mr. Patterson as soon as the jury box refilling job is sufficiently advanced to permit the organization of a special grand jury.

THE ACTING attorney-general said the Grand Jury will go into the homicide, vice, and all law violations here, including gambling, prostitution, narcotics and everything else. Then, Sykes repeated twice: We are going into all wrongful acts of any public official, and. I mean any public official. Patterson was shot three times as he got into his automobile June 18, in an alley parking lot beside the building which houses his office. Sykes said state investigators are checking and double checking the accounts of one eyewitness against another to wrap up the whole picture of exactly what transpired when Patterson was shot.

THE NEWS learned that at least five men, several women and several children were in a position to have seen the killer either immediately before, during or after the murder. SYKES CONFIRMED this today by making a rough sketch for newsmen and placing Xs all around the area of the murder, then noting: People were at all these different places. Each, looking at the scene from a different angle, has something to tell us. We still are finding new witnesses, persons who had not appeared before. They were present and saw things which transpired there.

Sykes said a woman who was believed to have been within a few feet of the scene of the murder when an assassin shot Patterson down, has been located. He had appealed to the woman through the press to see him and tell her story. Sykes also said that investigators and his staff are getting leads on the murder and other facts of vice investigations here from police departments and officers all over the Southeast. In addition to all the witnesses already located, Sykes said his staff expects to find more witnesses who were in and around the scene of the homicide on that night. All of this information pertinent to law violations here will be presented to the Grand Jury, he said.

The News already has reported that a business man near the scene of the shooting could furnish valuable information about the killer. The same is true about four youngsters who were within a few steps of the murder scene Turn to Page 8, Column 3 BY BOB HOLTON CORRY, July 9(P) Howard Collins says he just knows Gladys Camfield will be beautiful when she walks up the church aisle here tomorrow to become his bride. Gladys says Howard will be the most handsome man in the wedding party. Though their friends in this Erie County community agree, Howard and Gladys will never really know. They are both blind and have never seen each other.

HOWARD IS A TALL, thin man with square shoulders and a lean, handsome face. Gladys is a trim brunette with pretty features and an abundance of poise. There is no doubt that they will make a handsome couple, friends agree. THE COUPLE didnt plan a church wedding at first but members of the Corry Evangelical United Brethren Church took a hand in the matter and arranged for the church wedding. Once before residents of Corry took a hand in Gladys welfare when her seeing-eye-dog died of cancer about a year ago.

Residents of Corry collected enough money to send Gladys to California where she selected a new seeing-eye-dog and returned to her home. The couple will live in Lock Haven with Collins mother, Mrs. Bertha McKinney. Howard and Gladys each receive $50 a month blind pension and Howard learned the chair caning trade and earns a small living in that way. Over the state, the weather will continue partly cloudy and hot with litle temperature change.

Scattered thundershowers are forecast in most parts of the state. Evergreen, with 1.77 inches of rain Thursday, was the states wettest spot. Game ends in death REDWOOD CITY, July 9 (IP) A 7-year-old boy pretending to be a calf died yesterday after his brother snagged him with a lariat and a riderless horse dragged him 500 feet Alabama trucker killed in Georgia GRIFFIN, Ga July 9-(3P) R. G. Holsonack of Albertville, was killed near here when his tractor trailer left U.

S. Highway 41 and hit a tree yesterday. The state patrol said Holson-back apparently fell asleep while driving a truck owned by Bowman Trucking Lines of Gadsden, Ala. The accident occurred near Forsyth, Ga. HOWARD WAS born blind 45 years ago in his Lock Haven, Clin ton County, home.

Gladys lost her eyesight 28 years ago when she was 14 years old. The loss was caused by an eye disease. The couple became acquainted year ago through a pen pal club, hey exchanged letters in Braille. Six months ago they met in Lock Haven for the first time. Four months later they became engaged and last month announced the wedding date.

DROODLES By Roger Price Now wife of rich executive Pretty ex-call girl loses fight for 3-year-old son Nominee toa sick to serve AFTER YOU HAVE SIGNED the letter with these scrambled figures, write the same numbers and letters once more in the lower right hand comer of the paper. Tear off this piece of paper with the scrambled signature and keep it in your possession, or hidden away somewhere. Mail the letter addressed to Tips, care The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Ala. If you are entitled to any share of the rewards, which now total more than $10,000 the torn piece of paper with your scrambled signature will be your identification. It will be matched against the tear on the letter received by The News.

YOU NEED NOT APPEAR YOURSELF. Your preacher, lawyer, friend of anyone you choose could handle the whole matter. Thus. NO ONE NEED EVER KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Your information will promptly be turned over to proper sources and will be carefully checked out in an effort to bring the killer to justice.

Somebody knows who killed Albert L. Patterson. If you know, this is your chance to team up with the forces of law and order to rid the state of a vicious murderer WITHOUT ANY DANGER TO YOURSELF. Guatemala recognized TAIPEH, Formosa, July 9 (P) Nationalist China today recognized the new government of Guatemala. Runaway girl now a happy wife, mother ALBUQUERQUE, July 9 (ff) A teen-aged girl whose disappearance from her Pittsburgh home two years ago prompted a nationwide search turned up here last night as a contented wife and mother.

As Peggy Ann Hewston, she fled her home Aug. 24, 1952, when she was 15. Now she is Mrs. Tom Cory, wife of an Air Force sergeant. I had been planning it for a long time, she said in recalling her disappearance.

I could not stand my high school any longer, and my folks wouldnt let me go to another one. I had saved $70 and I knew I was going to do it. I didnt even leave a note. SHE CHANGED her name and fled to Albuquerque where she met and married Air Force S. Sgt.

Tom Cory, 23, who attended her church here. Now a mother of six weeks, the 17-year-old Mrs. Cory says she feels much better since her deception is over. She was recognized by a Pittsburgh airman at the Sandia Base Hospital where she was having her baby. The unidentified airman thought he recognized her from back home.

He asked if she wasnt Peggy Ann Hewston. She denied it. The airman notified the Sheriffs Department. Mrs. Cory said she hadnt told her husband her real name until they had been married eight months.

Demo chief doubts legality of Paterson's withdrawal 7-4 CINCINNATI, July 9 ()' The pretty 20 -year -old wife of a wealthy New York advertising man risked exposure as a call girl yesterday but lost her fight for custody of her little boy. Mrs. Jean Kennedy Weil, a blue-eyed brunette, was battling for custody of 3-year-old William Bruce Kennedy, who lives with his father Mrs. Weils first husband, Wiliam J. Kennedy.

DESCRIBING HERSELF as the wife of a New York radio and television worker, she based her plea on the contention she could give the child a good home. Kennedys attorneys tried to discredit her by linking her to the Miles (Lucky) Leslie vice ring in New York. Leslie, 43, drew a four-year prison term in 1952, on prostitution charges involving six women in addition to his wife, Kathleen Sullivan. Judge John W. Peck ruled: The number of rooms in her house or the amount of acreage around it cant be the controlling factor in determining the fitness of a mother.

He refused Mrs. Weil custody. UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION, Mrs, Weil said she en gaged in prostitution in New York in 1952 and identified a bank book showing she made deposits of up to $2500 a month. Mrs. Weils lawyer said: One false step that Mrs.

Weil, a girl from a small town, made when she reached the big town did not forever make her essentially base or bad. She was just a victim of temptation that could befall any girl. Kennedy had testified he learned his wife was connected with the Miles Leslie ring when he ended a hitch in the Navy in the Spring of 1952. She had told him she had a modeling job with a Pat Penrod, he said. PAT PENROD turned out to be Kathleen Sullivan, Kennedy testified.

Mrs. Weil, who Is expecting another baby, testified she was a prostitute between the time of her marriage to Kennedy in Oklahoma City, her home, on Oct. 7, 1950, and her marriage to Weil. She said she got an uncontested divorce from her sailor husband last year on grounds of mental cruelty. Shes happily married now, she told the coipt, and lives in a $65,000 home ih Westport, Conn, MONTGOMERY, July 9 An offer to withdraw critically ill Haygood Paterson Sr.

as Alabamas incoming commissioner of agriculture was announced by hjs family yesterday, but the chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee said he doubts such a move would be legal. Haygood Paterson Jr. asked the state committee for the proper procedure to follow in withdrawing his father as the Democratic nominee. AT THE SAME TIME, the younger Paterson said in a letter to Chairman Ben F. Ray that his ailing father would be pleased if the committee named Asst.

Commissioner W. D. Gilmer as commissioner of agriculture and industries. Ray said the familys suggestion creates a novel situation. He pointed out that a vacancy can be created by death or resignation, but said he personally doubts if the family can resign for a nominee.

However, he added that the "Bald Headed Man Hiding From His Wife in a Bowling Alley" Men shouldnt worry so much about their hair falling out because (1) baldness is a sign of intelligence and virility TAKE MY WORD FOR IT) and (2) there is something you can do do about it The other day I. ran into Stuart Oliver, a friend who used to be as bald as a Casaba (notice how cleverly I avoid using cliches) and he had a head of thick black curly hair. I asked how come and he explained that every morning when he gets up he massages his scalp with hot oil. Then on top of that he puts an egg shampoo. On top of that he puts a sun lamp.

Then on top of that he puts pure lanolin. Then on top of that he puts an expensive toupee. Looks fine. French premier, Molotov to talk PARIS, July 9 (P) Premier Pierre Mendes-France will meet with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov in Geneva Sunday afternoon in a resumption of high-level talks aimed at ending the war in Indo-China. This was announced today by the French Foreign Office, which said Mendes-France will leave Paris by plane Saturday night for Geneva. Mendes-France has promised to resign if he has not worked out an Indo-China cease-fire by July 20. Today's chuckle CONFIDENCE IS the feeling you have before you know bet-Iter, (c). NOTICE! Nothing like a News and Post Herald Want Ad for selling, renting or buying.

Call 54-7671 and you'll love the quick Too ill to serve Haygood Paterson Sr. Mom's Day coupon on Page 29 state committee certainly would give it consideration if the family presented a doctors certificate. Turn to Page 8, Column 4.