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1 i The Weather M'TKOyOLITAN Clearfv Warm Mattered ihower tadty urit unht- Hfc mt iw ytlrdyS5Lr BWfnlBf Hifk NORTH CUadr Bud virm wltk thBderlrmi bih 74-S3 CthM! eldT wl kwen and Well thndentrma extreme ct VcVr Vr iziz City Edition 116TII YEAR i 4 President To Vaccine Data To Nations Of Globe WASHINGTON April 13 UP) President Eisenhower in an international gesture of good will decided today to send latest information on the Salk polio preventive to nations around the globe including Russia and other Red countries Secretary of State Dulles announced tonight he will do this at the President direction Dulles said he also will consult with other government officials to see jjgig i ijijj Three Children Freed In Slaying 6 'y Bomb aken From Roof Of Exchange At Morristown By RALPH GRIFFITH A dynamite bomb with a partially burned fuse was found on top of Southern Morristown exchange yesterday and was taken from the premises by city and county police The attempted bombing was one of two new developments in the 31-day-old strike against the telephone company In Maryville Circuit Court Judge Wayne Oliver issued eight contempt of court warrants against four CWA strikers and four others The eight are charged with violating an injunction issued by Judge Oliver9 P'S v- iHiFPAPf: txaLarr 4 AiHM WRENS TAKE OVER A pair of wrens have taken up residence in the mail box at the Robert A Monroe home at 1424 Tugaloo Drive The rightful owners of the box rather than start eviction proceedings have built a temporary box to take care of incoming mail and papers Actually Mrs Monroe said we encouraged them to make their home with us had started nests in our box and another across the she said I put all the nesting material in one box and the litt tie birds went ahead and finished the She said she was unable to determine how many eggs are in the nest or when the would occur Mailmen and paper boys are cooperating in operation wren Squall Sweeps Southeast But ET Escapes Dai A massive squall line swept in East Tennessee Kingsport re-across the Southeast yesterday I ported 08 of an inch of rain County Arkansas the wind-smashed how far the United States can go in making the vaccine itself available for export Only a few hours before the Commerce Department clamped export controls on the newly approved vaccine Officials said at Dr Jonas Salk Plays Hookey from University Enjoys it Page 15 the time it might be possible to meet worldwide demands for the long-sought weapon against the dreaded disease in 1957 Sen Hill (D-Ala) proposed meanwhile that Eisenhower call a nationwide conference to choke off any that might spring up in the officially described only yesterday as safe and 80 to 90 per cent effective in preventing paralytic polio State Department officials likened the decision to share data on the antipolio weapon to his atoms-for-peace program They said Dulles will get tomorrow from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis a copy of report by Dr Thomas Francis Jr which gave a favorable evaluation of the Salk vaccine as a preventer of the crippling killing polio Dulles then will send copies to American missions in the 75 foreign countries which the United States accords diplomatic recognition Officials said sucn countries as Red China and Albania which the US government does not recognize undoubtedly could get copies of the Francis report from countries like Russia and Poland Communist nations which are recognized in Washington Also the World Health Organization composed of virtually every nation in the world will be provided with copies Dulles did not say whether the United States would provide technical assistance to countries lacking the facilities for developing the vaccine However officials suggested that might be a logical step findings already have been widely reported in technical journals Thus officials said the Salk formula is already pretty well known They said rhe Francis report on the nationwide tests is the important new factor statement said full details will be sent other inter-4 ested countries around the world so that they may have the benefit of this humanitarian research project as well as the information on the Salk formula plan to see Mr Basil president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis tomorrow afternoon to discuss with him this new promise of ending this scourge to Dulles added Sen antiblack market proposal came in the course of a Senate hearing on another phase of the medical program Gold Medal Urged For Vaccine Work WASHINGTON April 13 Rep Steven Deroun-ian (R-NY) asked Congress today to authorize a gold medal for Dr Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine Derounian introduced a joint resolution that would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make the medal for the scientist Chairman Brent Spence (D-Ky) whose banking and currency committee would handle the resolution said Salk deserves this The resolution calls for an appropriation of $2500 to be made for the medal that a suitable inscription be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury Inside Tips juries Hard To Appraise HARDER The moral injuries suffered in strikes are harder to gauge than the economic ones Page 4 ALMOST Robin Roberts came within two outs of pitching a no -hitter yesterday against the world champion New York Giants as the baseball sea son swung into Page 19 Editorials 6 Obituaries 8 Home Folks 10 Society 16 17 TV-Radio 18 Movies 18 Markets 22 a full schedule Tom Anderson 19 Sports 192021 2324 Comics 25 Horoscope 25 MARMADUKE By Brad Anderson i -v farmer died In ruins of his home about 10 miles northwest of Pine Bluff Tuesday Jefferson Coroner Frank Reed said the farmer was killed by a blow on the head from a "flying At Jackson Miss Mrs Mary Clark 42 drowned when her automobile was swept in to a rain-filled drainage ditch A severe windstorm struck the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama injuring three persons when a trailer in which they were living was toppled by the gusts Damage in that area was estimated at $500000 The Mobile area bore the brunt of the storm and the US Weather Bureau recorded 1156 inches of rain between 6:30 and 10:30 am reaching close to the record 1298 inches for a short period in Mobile in October 1874 By the time the rain began tapering off at Mobile late in the afternoon 1335 inches had fallen Heavy rainfall was recorded at other points throughout the South including 923 inches at Columbia Miss Forecast for the Knoxville area today is cloudy and warm with scattered showers Cloudy and cooler tonight High today will be 70 degrees five degrees lower than top reading Low tonight will be 53 as Compared with 60 degrees expected this morning The Knoxville Weather Bureau said the tornado alert was issued at 11:10 ajn by two severe forecast centers One at Kansas City Mo and one at Washington MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE Cloudy nd warm with remttcrcd ahawcrc Uixh 78 LOWER EAST TENNESSEE Cloudy and warm with aeattered ahaweri Hlfh 74 Cloudj and warm with aeattered ahaweri Blah 68 TRI-CITIES Cloudy and warm with aeattered ahowera Hieh71 Sextuplets Reported BELGRADE Yugoslavia April 13 Oft A 19-year-old woman gave birth to sextuplets in a Yugoslav mountain village the Zagreb weekly newspaper reported today The news paper said none of the babies 1 1 I 1 4 i a a 4 Flowers the reporter was told off on a -Hamblen County Sheriff Momson would only say have no information to release at this time There has been no Governor Clement proposed yesterday: 1 The union should furnish sufficient employes to man the switchboards and render sufficient emergency service 2 The company should furnjsh ocal supervisory personnel to watch over the property and supervise the operations 3 Local officials should make available necessary disinterested parties to arbitrate any clash of personalties over operations if either party desires their presence WANTS PROTECTION Southern Bell officials have contended all through the strike that the company would operate exchanges at full service if police protection was given to willing workers The Maryville exchange was closed in the wake of violence around the plant and the exchanges at LaFoIlette and Jelli-co were closed to avert violence company officials said CWA officials have previously offered to reopen the exchanges on an emergency basis and quickly approved plan Telephone officials said the proposal was under consideration In Knoxville District Telephone Manager Tom Stokes issued the following statement: Maryville exchange was closed only after the telephone company was advised by the proper law enforcement officers that they were unable to afford protection This advice came even after an injunction was obtained by the company against mass picketing and violence the closing of this exchange we have been working diligently to arrange with the authorities for sufficient protection to permit us to reopen attorneys have been at work for the past several days and were In Maryville yesterday for that FIRST ARRESTS MADE The first arrests here In the strike were made early yesterday when three striking employes were charged with prowling near the telephone garage The three followed three non-striking employes when they left the Knoxville exchange in a taxicab after midnight Five officers in three cruisers arrested and charged the three Charged were Garnel Lee Craig 32 of Route 16 a records depart ment employe Butler Carter 43 Negro of 308 Gap Street and James Freeman 41 Negro1 of 1418 Detroit Avenue Carter and Freeman are jaintors Webb president of CWA posted $250 bond for each of the men for a City Court hearing May 2 The three arrested men had been walking the picket line earlier They were parked in a convertible when the three nonstrikers left the building and fol- Mother Killing Details Heard Special Te The Jearnal MARYVILLE April Mrs Grace Davis 41 and her three children who range in age from 8 to 14 tonight were acquitted of first degree murder charges by a Criminal Court jury which deliberated two hours and 40 minutes before finding all four defendants not guilty The four had been charged in the bludgeoning-strangulation death of their husband and father 39-year-old Sam Davis last Feb 27 Davis died in the car which had been parked at the edge of a 100-f embankment near Little Pigeon River near a point known locally as Hatcher The acquittal came after Mrs Davis her 14-year-old daughter Shelby Jean and her 11-year-old daughter Katrina took the witness stand to admit they beat and strangled Davis after he had threatened to kill the entire family Mrs son eight-year-old Clell did not testify Soft-spoken Mrs Davis who made an effort to raise her voice after a member of the jury said he hear her testimony was the first of the defendants to take the stand She told the Jury that Davis was driving near cut when he told them all to praying all going to hell She said her husband whom she remarried last September after many separation put the car in low gear and drove to the edge of the embankment At that point she testified Shelby Jean turned off the ignition and grabbed a wrench hitting her father twice STRIKES WITH WRENCH Mrs Davis said she took the wrench from Shelby Jean climbed over her husband and out the left door of the car She testified she hit him several times Continued on Page 13 Col 3 Union Halt Efforts For Settlement April 13 (INS) Company and union officials abandoned their efforts today to work out a settlement of the month-old Louisville and Nashville railroad strike by direct negotiation and government mediators again moved into the picture National mediation board members who are trying to bring the deadlocked parties together said officials of the company and the 25000 striking non-operating employes will be back at hoard offices Thurday for more separate talks For the last two days reper-sentatives of both sides met across the conference table with no government mediators present in an effort to reach an agreement in' their dispute over a health and welfare fund for employes They gave up this afternoon and before the close of the day resumed separate conferences with board members This was the procedure that had been under way for more than three weeks prior to last Friday when joint meetings were started charged from the Navy in November 1943 James Schrim and Joe Thompson of Knoxville named in two other suits by the US are asked to return overpayment of subsistence allowances in the amounts of $73233 and $157550 respectively The suits point out that each of the men was paid $90 per month subsistence during certain periods of duty with the Armed Services and that both failed to submit proof of marriage Unmarried servicemen in their positions it seems by the bill were entitled to only $50 monthly for such living expenses A suit against Joseph Martin Continued on Page 2 CoL 1 FIRST Capt Clyde Mills Airlines pilot holds the first shipment of Salk anti-polio vaccine to arrive in Knoxville The vaccine which arrived last night has been allocated to pediatricians for immunization of children on a pay basis Vaccine to be given free to certain school children has not arrived The serum which arrived here was part of that allocated to Southern states on a priority basis due to the nearness of the polio season in the South Knox City Schools Due US Funds Knoxville and Knox County schools will receive immediately a total of $99913 from the Federal Government as federally impacted schools it was announced in Washington yesterday The money will be split $59125 for county schools and $40799 for city schools The money is based on the number of students in the system whose parents are employed by the Federal Government on property that is tax exempt Tentative allotment for county schools for the present fiscal year is $90961 and from city schools $62571 The $99913 is for im-mediate delivery according to Associated Press Miss Mildred Doyle county superintendent was out of the city and could not be reached but Wilson New city superintendent said the money would be used to employ more teachers to care for an anticipated enrollment increase next term New said the city staff had been working for some two years to secure the federal money The latest request went in to the Federal Government around the first of the year according to New The money was not in the '1955 budget because were not sure we would get Chuckle A bore is a guy with1 flat feats Copyright General Features Corp April 2 against mass picketing and violence at the exchange The warrants were issued about 3 pm and were delivered to Sheriff Ed Guinn about 4:30 pm Special Ts The Journal MARYVILLE April The Maryville Enterprise suggested in a page one editorial today that Blount County Sheriff Edward Guinn resign if he is to supply the protection needed to keep telephone exchange in Sheriff Guinn had to make on the warrants when reached BOMB HOMEMADE Two pieces of dynamite taped together with an eight-inch fuse was found on top of the Morristown exchange early yesterday The fuse was partially burned Yiolenee in Kentucky Markedly Less Than In Tennessee Page 15 LaFoIlette Mine Operator Charges Six After Being Beaten And Buried Alive Page 15 The homemade bomb had apparently been thrown from the street to the top of'the two-story building Hamblen County Sheriff Morrison said the bomb apparently was thrown there several days ago at the same time two phone company homes were dynamited He said the bomb will be turned over to the FBI today adding that it was two quarter-sticks of dynamite taped together was definitely the work of a the sheriff said Asked if any arrests had been made he replied: they imported a guy in to do the job and he has now moved Sheriff Morrison explained that the bomb found until yesterday this way: Tuesday night several small rocks and peebles were thrown at workers coming out of the building He recom mended the company to install more lights around the exchange and when workmen went to the top of the building yesterday to install the lights they found the bomb The two developments were the only new incidents in the strike The situation remained unchanged with exchanges at Maryville LaFoIlette and 1 1 i 0 closed Gov Frank Clement stepped into the strike picture for the first time yesterday although state aid has been requested in keeping order by offering a plan for reopening the strike-closed exchanges DETAILS KEPT SECRET Details -of the attempted bombing of the Morristown exchange were being kept secret No reasons were given for the tight-lipped attitude Only Asst Police Chief Robert Travis would admit that had been found at the building know what it is but will check tomorrow he 'said The would be dismantled he added Ned Flowers manager of the exchange declined to discuss the bomb the first time a Knoxville Journal reporter contacted him At a second attempt to reach John Engelbrecht manager and president of South Central Broadcasting Corp stated: "This move came as a surprise to me This is the first time to my knowledge that the operator of one station has petitioned the FCC to bestow a channel on another Hall had named along with Knoxville Columbia and Augusta Ga as possible sites for Channel 7 He claimed that the removal of Channel 7 from the Spartanburg area would as well as give two cities both larger than Spartanburg a chance to make use of the channel Englebrecht explained this by 4 Continued on Page 2 CoL 3 is At Mohile Ala more than 13 inches of rainfall during a six-hour period left all highways but one blocked by high water and two freight trains were derailed by washouts a few miles north of Mobile Planes were grounded for five to six hours as commercial plane service was disrupted throughout the Southeast according to the Civil Aeronautics Administration The squall line swept down out of the Northwest and moved slowly across Texas Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama into Northwest Georgia Tornado alerts had been issued in those states ahead of the storm Josh Shavers 47 Jefferson Gen Fields Named AEC Manager WASHINGTON April 13 UP) Brig Gen Kenneth Fields a key figure in nuclear weapons development tonight was named general manager of the Atomic Ea ergy Commission Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss said Fields would replace Maj Gen Kenneth Nichols on May 1 Nichols previously had announced his resignation as of the end of month to become an engineering consultant in Washington For eight of the last 10 years Fields has been associated with the US atomic energy program both with the commission and the Manhattan Engineer District The AEG announcement said the Army had assented to his retirement in order to accept the $20000-a-year general managership Since 1951 Fields has been AEC director of military application Sprouts Of Plant Play Part In New Test For Cancer SAN FRANCISCO April 13 (fl-A simple new test for cancer which ses the sprouts of a plant as an dicator was reported to the biologists today by a veteran Ifcimore drug expert Dr David Macht lie technique can detect not pc KV1U114UC can ucccb uv 1 the presence of cancer but it can also determine the advance or retreat of malignancy while under treatment Dr Macht said A sample of urine is all that is needed from the test subject An extract of the sample Is applied to the little rootlets of lupinus al-bus' a member of the lupin family of common flowers The extent to which the extract damages the roots shows whether cancer is present Dr Macht reported to the Federated American Societies for Experimental Biology Dr Macht was not present His paper was read by title and made a part of the record but the East Tennessee area apparently escaped the uncounted damage heaped upon areas (Weather Map on Page 26) by tornadoes and torrential rains Two persons died as a direct result of the high winds and rains Arkansas and Mississippi A Weather Bureau tornado alert caused unusual excitement in East Tennessee before it was lifted at 3:55 pm Rockwood city schools and at least one Knoxville school were dismissed early and several parents took their children out of other schools Despite announcement by the Weather Bureau that is only an alert not a hundreds of worried Knoxvillians telephoned The Knoxville Journal county jail and city jail for information concerning a tornado which did not exist The Weather alert stated only that atmospheric conditions were such that a tornado could develop The alert stretched from Montgomery Ala to Knoxville Sen ter principal of Beardsley Junior High School said dismissed about 15 minutes From 10:35 am until 5:30 pm 65 of an inch of rain fell at McGhee Tyson Airport But at Mobile Ala 1156 inches of rain fell from 7 am until 10:30 pm The Weather Bureau said it had received an unconfirmed report that a mild tornado struck Tallassee Ala No storm damage was reported Lai Director Smug On Having Tax Chore Done City Law Director Clarence Blackburn has just broken a personal record got my income tax return finished before the last Blackburn like many others has been fighting the April 15 deadline time in my life I ever finished it until the final he said Then he folded it up and stuck it in his desk be doggone if going to get it Your 1954 tax return must be mailed before midnight Fri-day Obituaries Bsl Biyei Welten Huffman John Steven Brownlsf Dudley Arnold Miss Nsney Childs Ralph Dosvlui Rem Teresa Darlene Branant Mrs Annie Patterson Mrs Mary Hannah Rsiais Walsh Mrs Mattie Hanley Mrs Anna Allman Smith Bill Walden Fred Adkins Retd Alvis Hope Stuehser LENOIR Mrs Cherry Hall Norman Mrs Ollie Thompson Combs David Lynn Horner WHITE Mrs Wheeler Jady Ellen Chambers LAKE Mrs Aliie Haney Barbffyt Diane McCarter Lf Smith Gordon Barter OBITUARIES ON RAGE 8 FCC Asked To Switch Channel 7 To Knoxville US Sues On Allotment Overpaid Four Years Continued on Page 2 CoL 3 Droodles By ROGER PRICE MONOCLE FOR ENGLISH ACTORS WHO WANT TO BE Few people realize how useful a monocle is For instance whenever I have to face the oncoming charge of an enraged Tiger in deepest Burma practi-c a 1 1 helpless without a monocle to adjust nonchalantly It also gives me a feeling of security to place it firmly in my eye just before slapping a face with my glove and then horsewhipping him for a fancied Insult It is essential for staring down a cad and a pinch of snuff just a pinch of snuff if I have any monocle Egad not sure what means but I know it goes with all the other stuff just written So does So Odi Bodkins! A South Carolina television station operator has asked the Federal Communications Commission to switch Channel 7 to Knoxville in place of Channel 26 and manager last night said his company would go along with the proposal if after serious study in their opinion it serves the best interests of Knoxville Wilton A Hall operator of WAIM-TV in Anderson yesterday petitioned the FCC to Direct South Central Broadcasting Corp (WTSK-TV) to show cause why it should not give up ultra high frequency Channel 26 in favor of very high frequency Channel 7 Associated Press The wheels of Government bookkeeping sometimes exceedingly But they get their small grist It took the US Navy almost four years to tie up the discharge papers of Seaman Wilford Phillips of Clinton with the wheels that kept on dispensing a family allowance of $50 per-month to his wife In one of 10 suits filed by the Government yesterday In Federal Court here Wilford and Lucille Phillips are asked to repay $2300 plus interest at six percent per annum from Feb 16 1954 for erroneous payments received by them from Dec 1 1943 through September 30 1947 Phillips according to the bill was dis- the guy a chance The light just 7 f'.