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United States intends to stay in West Berlin and will fight if necessary That is the substance of the State response to the call by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev for an end to four-power occupation of the city whose Western zones are a free world island within Red-ruled East Germany Khrushchev made his bid Monday in Moscow in a speech at a Polish-Russian friendship rally for Wladyslaw Gromulka visiting Communist chief from satellite Poland The majority of Western diplomats in the Soviet Capital took him seriously and predicted (Picture on Page 11) 2 Years In "HOME AT LAST Mrs Jessie Evelyn Daniel who physicians feared was near death following an accident more than three months ago sufficiently recovered from multiple serious injuries to return to her home at 1932 McClung yester--day and a reunion with daughter Alice 11 and Eugene 16 Mrs husband died in the crash near Madisonville and Alice and Eugene both were injured They have been staying either in hospitals or at the homes of relatives since the accident which occurred last Aug 3 Yesterday was the first time the three together since then (Story on Page 16) Khrushchev Confronts World With New Possibility Of War Editorial On Page 4 Wife Killing By BILL BILLINGS Journal Correspondent KINGSTON Nov 11-Luther Phillips 69-year-old West Virginia sawmill worker on trial here in the gun slaying of his wife Mrs Minnie Bell Hall Phillips 51 was convicted of involuntary manslaughter late today by an all-male Criminal Court jury which deliberated only 25 minutes The jury recommenced a two-year sentence for the one-eyed defendant who accepted the ver- TRUE PATRIOTS These two young patriots and several other thousand of both young and old showed their true patriotism yesterday by turning out for the annual Veterans Day Parade to honor the war dead These two are Cindy Brooks daughter of Mr and Mrs Neil Brooks and Steve Lambert son of Mr and Mrs Earl Lambert all of Route 1 Powell (Story and another picture Page 3) City Councilmen Commend Police In Handling Of Riot By RALPH GRIFFITH Safety Director David Garrison Chattanooga Mayor Olgiati and the Knoxville Police Department received special commendation last nignt from City Council for the part they played in the riot Saturday following the Chattanocga-Tennessee football game The five councilrften present and Ernest recuperating at home from a major operation unanimously praised the efforts to stop the that injured eight policemen Councilman Roy Bass Jr was absent Councilman A Christenberry reened into two of three youngsters walking along Schofield and then roared -away from the scene Injured were Patsy Farmer 14 daughter of Mr and Mrs Farmer 2478 Western Avenue and Gary Blake-more 12 son of Mr and Mrs fc-B Blake- HATCHER more 129 Richmond Avenue Both was admitted at University Hospital Patsy suffered a fractured pelvis and leg and a head injury Gary was admitted for observation Walking with the two but uninjured was Jimmy McMurray 2418 Western Avenue according to police Hatcher whose address is list ed as Tennessee Avenue was being held for further investigation at City Jail Safety Director David Garrison said pieces of metal picked up at the scene fitted parts missing from the car Hatcher was allegedly driving and that what appeared to be flesh taken off the car will be sent to a laboratory to be analyzed hour and 10 minutes after arrest he was given Continued Page 2 Col 2 (Picture on Page 12) As Cars Depot smiling on Southern Railway several persons narrowly escaped cars knocked a parked dining and into the south wing of the none seriously when the cars broke loose during switching new East-West flareup in Europe Others however leaned to the view that Khrushchev was only aiming to impress Gromulka with the degree of Russian backing for members of the Soviet bloc and to test Western reaction HE SAYS theme was that Western violations had outdated the Potsdam Pact under which the German city is now ruled and the Communists should free themselves from the agreement The Potsdam Pact among other things provides for free transport and communication rights between West Germany and West Berlin Khrushchev argued that the West should deal with the East Germans on matters concerning Berlin Khrushchev did not spell out just what he had in mind to do but his words- set off quick speculation on a Russian pull-out from the Potsdam Pact His proposal brought up memories of the Berlin blockade which the West broke with a massive airlift In response to questions about the possibly menacing DETROIT Nov 11 (B-Chrys-situation State Department Press ier 8000 unionized office ixr Lincoln White asserted: workers and engineers walked No one of the four powers out today to support contract de-(Russia the United a sjmands and quickly forced shut 3 Co Chrysler said the strike could Five Hurt Crash Train must have been Station yesterday morning as death when nine runaway freight car some 60 feet off a spur track station Five persons suffered injuries if Clinchmore Driver Kills Another In Road Battle (petal Ta The Journal JACKSBORO Nov A 52-year-old Clinchmore man was charged with first degree murder late today in the fatal shooting of- Bobby- Cooke "30 this afternoon Campbell County Sheriff Rose Kitts reported John Marlow told Sheriff Kitts that he shot Cooke in a gun battle which followed firing into the rear of car had blocked Clinchmore Road with his car and let me pass" Marlow told the Corpse made the motion in behalf of the safety department and Mayor Olgiati and it was seconded by Councilman Hobart Carey Councilman had prepared a resolution commending the action and planned -to attend last meeting but at the last minute he could no attend He- recently underwent spine surgery for a blocked nerve and has not fully recovered He asked Christenberry to sponsor the resolution for him SHERIFF OMITTED Council almost 4T Hamilton County Sheriff James sheriff I a a to get'j-urner fOT hjs actj0n Garrison around him but he started contends Turner was one of those mg after I had gone about 40ea(jjng an attack on officers who feet past his car I had arrested a Chattanoogan and operations at Dempster Bros plant near Coster Shop and came rolling back ihto the railway yard and rammed into a Pullman and dirung car The nine freight cars struck the pullman which was connected in front of the diner and shoved the dining car some 40 feet into the building clipping off the corner of Terminal Supt Jesse of- fice before coming to a stop in the rest room Huckaby who w'as in his office talking on the tele- phone when the dining car made its abrupt en- actually aided in getting the riot started Turner contends the fracas started when Chattanooga supporters started tearing down the goal posts and Knoxville police slugged one participant He has said he will sue Garrison and Police Chief Joe Kimsey for 5100- GARY PATSY diet calmly After Judge James Witt pronounced sentence Phillips shook hands with members of the panel Mrs relatives who were in the courtroom did rot take the verdict so auietly just Mrs Mildred Hunter daughter of the victim said don't see how the jury could have reached such a verdict It certainly Immediately after sentence was pronounced by Judge Witt attorney Kc-Kenzie filed a motion for a new trial Judge Witt set hearing on the motion for Nov 21 in Athens As the first witness for the defense this afternoon Phillips told the jury that twice Mrs Phillips had threatened to kill him were married last May Phillips testified she furnished the money for our honeymoon trip to Washington few days later I left her in Falls Church Va and went to Norfolk where I had a job lined up at a sawmill went back to Iaeger Va on May 31 and met the defendant continued threatened to kill me and later she repeated that threat on a street in Iaeger when she had a gun in her Phillips said his wife owned a pistol and that she was left-handed Yesterday Mrs Hunter had said her mother was right-handed and did not own a gun far as I After the May 31 threats Phillips testified he next saw his wife on June 2 at the bus station in Bluefield Va where he said he had just purchased a ticket to Crab Orchard Tenn walked up to me and said you I'm going wnth and followed me onto the Phillips continued was drinking gin while we were enroute from Bluefield to Knoxville and when we left the bus there for a rest stop she got into an argument with a Negro man over a dime and hit him on the head with her purse as we neared Rock-wood I asked the bus driver to let me off and Minnie followed me She hit me in the head with Poland Joins Russia In Asking Talks spread to a full shutdown of its auto-making operations but the United Auto Workers Union which represents strikers andi production workers moved to minimize work stoppages I The UAW ordered white-collar pickets off lines at shift changing 'll Russia time Thus UAW members would Continued on Page 2 Col 5 MOSCOW Nov Student Killed On School Bus CAMDEN Nov 13 (B Lorraine McClay 13 put her head through an open window of a moving school bus today to shout goodby to some schoolmates A moment later her head Struck a utility pole She was killed trance said the car missed him by about four feet room was full of dust and you see a the superintendent said found myself crawling around on the top of my desk after the diner When asked where hie had been and Poland tonight joined in a new demand for a summit conference The two countries issued a joint communique after talks in the not violate a long-standing policy against crossing picket lines- of fellow unionists Chrysler and the UAW reached a new three-year pact covering a CT UllV-C JVUA puvt VVV fl I between Premier 70000 production work-Nikita Khrushchev and Polish ers five weeks ago but left un Continued on Page 2 Col 5 Carted To Campus SABINA Ohio Nov 11 IB They brushed old Eugene's clothes off dusted him up a hit and put him back on his little couch today and said tsk tsk tsk what a thing to do to a corpse Especially Eugene When a corpse has lain nice and peaceful for nearly 30 years in his pleasant little brick house and always looked so well eerie in a way but sort of beautiful bathed ia those dim you figure he's earned a little more respect But there are always pranksters around and in early morning darkness they had their fun police theorize They broke into old place and carted him 45 miles and dumped him on a bench on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus Elige Kellem an OSU employe found him Well there much Kellem could do but call the police So he did and it wasn't too loner before one of them remembered about Eugene And by 8:30 am Eugene was back home much to the relief offeart Littleton operator of the Littleton Funeral Home in this Southeastern Ohio community of some 1700 people home is behind the Littleton place on Jackson Street here nobody remembers first saw Eugene on June 51929 walking through Sabin The second time they saw the middle-aged Negro he was lean-ingjigainst a fence post very relaxed and sort of thoughtful-look Continued on Page 2 Col 1 CAREY flu Christenberry if MM Communist Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka The communique said: delegation of the Polish Republic decidedly supports the Soviet proposal for a summit conference to examine and solve the most pressing problems of disarmament and to settled were terms covering those who struck today The first eight shutdowns come with shift changes and all stemmed from refusal to cross picket lines Drivers shuttling new cars from assembly lines to shipping decide on ep to "beT a ken toyards brinng strengthen the security of Europe or Parts to assembly plants and the rest of the wouldn't go through pickets In 4 -w i I i IA Sheriff Kitts quoted Marlow as saying he got out of his car and fired eight shots with a 30-30 caliber rifle at Cooke who had taken refuge behind a telephone post and was firing his pistol at Marlow Sheriff Kitts said he found two 38-caliber bullets in the rear of Marlow's car The shooting oc curred at 3:30 pm Marlow told officers (hat two women and a baby were with him in his car at the time of the shooting The sheriff said Allie Newport about 40 as arrested with Marlow and charged as an accessory before the fact Minnie Sue Hatfield about 20 of LaFollette also is being sought connection with the shooting She and her baby were in car at the time of the shooting Kitts said Marlow and the Newport woman are being held in Campbell County Jail without bond Their hearing probably i 1 1 be held Monday Sheriff Kitts said Law Officers Cartoon Topic SHERIFF STOPPER Charlie Darnel the cartoonist pens a poignant cartoon anent the troubles of sports-minded law officers As Tom Anderson woulc say it depicts a of Page 4 GO Ann Landers gives a weary father the green light with the suggestion he tell his wife in effect to abandon or apply it to the bottoms of their four unruly children Page 7 Editorials '4 Society 7 Fulton Lewis 4 Home Folks 8 Tom Anderson 9 Sports 9-19 Ben Byrd 19 Markets 11 Obituaries 12 Classified 13-14 Comics 15 Horoscope 15 Billy Graham 4 Dr Popenoe 4 Hutton 4 Earl Wilson 5 Movies 5 Rob Thomas 5 TV Previews 5 IVRadlo FRIEDMAN European na I I a rival of The comm "rapidly ad 1 of We European TURNER WALKER Continued on Page 2 Col 1 Rebels Free All Seized On Airliner HAVANA Nov 11 Cuban rebels today released all 25 passengers and three crewmen seized in the rebel hijacking of a Cubana airliner a week ago Authorities here announced the passengers and crew members had arrived in Santiago The plane was taken over by rebels at gunpoint and forced to land in rebel-held territory The rebel high command Sunday announced a 30-hour ceasefire around Santiago for releasing the plane occupants to the International Red Cross The ceasefire was to last until 6 pm todays UX ONES Clock 5 one instance workers who went out for lunch go back through Six of the first plants shut were in the Detroit area The other two ere the Plymouth assembly and body plants at Evansville Ind This left Chrysler assembling automobiles only at its Plymouth-Dodge plant in Newark Del and in its all-lines plant in Los Angeles The striking white-collar workers are spread through 34 Chrysler plants 20 of them in Detroit The UAW said it was urging production workers to stay on the job but came up with no quick answer on how it might in the future avoid shutting-down circumstances which developed today The union said there would be no strike or pickets at any mis- Contlnued on Page 2 Col 5 Fair And Mild Weather Seen For Area Today (Weather Details Page 11) Fair and mild weather is expected here today followed by fair to partly cloudy and not as cold weather tonight And for Diursday the outlook calls for partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures High today will be 71 and low tonight 40 High yesterday was 64 and low this morning 3u MinmF FAT Fair an mild Hick 71 Fair aad mild Hick CROSSV1IIE-IjiFOUETTE Fair aad mild Hick 7k EOWFR FAST TENNESSEE Fata-m4 mllfl Hiffe 72 The statement added that because of and dodging talks pursued in place by the US Government both delegations consider it necessary to strengthen the defensive Warsaw The communique charged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization aims to turn Western Europe into a arms (The Warsaw Pact of Eastern nations was set up as NATO) communique declared the advancing militariza-Westem Germany including the arming of the Bunde-swehr with atomic and rocket weapons represented a threat to the peace and security of the rest of Europe Jet Airliner Sets New Record NEW YORK Nov 11 (B American Airlines said a jet transport flew from San Francisco to New York 'today in hours and 38 minutes setting a new commercial record for the route The training flight of the Boeing 707 was 1 hour and 19 minutes faster than the record set in 1954 by a DC-7 piston-driven plane the airline said Chuckle Job Applicant: right I don't smoke I don't dnnk I like Personnel Manager amazing You have no vices whatever Applicant: yes I teU If Von Miss Yimr Journal (fall 3-3131 Before' 7 am 7 If you have news Call 2-4141 MAKMADUKE By BRAD ANDERSON WHAT COUNCIL DID Commended Safety Director David Garrison Chattanooga Mayor Olgiati and the Knoxv ille Police Department for their actions during the riot following last football game Approved low bid for construction in brick of South Knoxville Recreation Center Approved contract with state in connection with West Expressway Approved lease of hangar at airport to Atomic Energy Commission Approved low bid for digester mixing equipment lor sewage disposal system Approved several ordinances on final reading and two pension resolutions Authorized committee study request of church board for purchase of some equipment from old Knoxville General Hospital Declined to act on proposal of Gonncilman Hobart Carey to memorialise constitutional delegates to vote against proposed amendments Obituaries TVkorak Ana Tiiwl Mr ara-jr Hofkca Jack Satina Mrnaaa Cartrr Mr Mary A Kras Alrlu A Gaimtt Omar Lm Flrldra Mrs Mary Vlrylaia Alrsaadrr Hnats lafaat Saa 1 Mr and Mrs CHffatd Uat Rbrt Mnaroa Walks CarsM Krxtoa WARTB1 Jnka Krlty TA7EW Isrrars Rwd ROOFRSY Frrrrtt Hurt (kalis Waraer Mrs Ellnbrtk BrnrAIrt HaH SEV 1KRV Gilrs Yateatiaa CCOLORED) Mr Lrta Fayg TbItIb KlaralA BrssELJLV 1LLE Mrs Abu Stayer Bewtey OBITUARIES ON PAGE 1 UNWELCOME A Southern Railway car was knocked some 40 feet into the south wing of the Southern Railway Station yesterday morning when nine freight cars broke loose near Coster Shops and came roUing back into the railway yards Five persons were injured none seriously in the accident However it was reported the lives of several persons were saved by a matter of minutes An electrician was reported to have been under the diner and three persons in an office which was demolished shortly before the car was rammed into the building snap it! as pleasant as he can.

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