The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

The Weather 'kiric'tt'ir City Edition WOKTH to partly etoaly with iiuia tomyaratara cheap today and tat rday laGINTA Fair la aarth aai aaaaa alaadl-aaas Math partiaa today with fcipfc to IS Mtarday partly elaady aad slichtly waraaar KENIUCKT Gcaerally fair today with Utk Id to tatarday aaaia alaadlaeaa aad warn te Great South Full Associated Press Service United Press International News AP Newsphotos Two Sections PRICE 5 CENTS 115TH YEAR KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 1953 28 Pages fP "to" Ike Invokes Taft-Hartley Clause As Strike Stuns Port Of New York Pjtl iT A ft i- i 4 Shipping Industry Expects To Lose SI 500 000 Daily Until 60000 Men Return By ARTHUR EVERETT NEW YORK Oct 1 The great Port of New York lay paralyzed today as President Eisenhower invoked the Taft-Hartley Law against a multi-million dollar East Coast waterfront strike At best however the strike of 60000 longshoremen was expected to run into next week at an estimated cost to the shipping industry of $1500000 a day Ports were idle from Maine to Virginia The White House set up a board A-Weapons Expert Major Gen Nichols Will Succeed Boyer WASHINGTON Oct Maj Gen Kenneth Nichols who as district engineer of the Manhattan District was in charge of the development of the atomic bomb at Oak Ridge Tenn during World War II will succeed Marion Boyer as general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission Nov 1 it was announced here today AEC Chairman today announced the resignation of Boyer and said that General Nichols 45 a longtime expert on atomic weapons and former chief t' tit i fijpr1 7 of inquiry giving it until Monday to report back Then the way would be clear for a strike-ending court injunction The rackets-ridden ILA kicked out of the AFL only last week launched the strike at midnight Wednesday to back up wage demands on deep water shippers The very future was at stake LOOK FOR INJUNCTION Its leaders promised to return to work if and when an injunction that time the strike will said Patrick Connolly ranking ILA official since TV Makes Debut In Knoxville Although delayed three hours WROL-TV started the first commercial television operation here at 9:30 pm yesterday and WTSK-TV started its test pattern shortly afterward and showed two filmed non-commercial programs Originally slated to start at 6:30 pm technical difficulties prevent- Picture and another story Page 7 UT BAND SPONSOR Pert Margaret Trotter 20-year-old University of Tennessee junior yesterday was elected sponsor of the UT of The Band She won out in a close election over Ruth Ann Barker of Trenton Miss Trotter lives at 1709 White Avenue Body Pulled From Lake i The body of the second victim of Wednesday Fort Loudoun Lake boat explosion Roland Whedbee was pulled from 20 feet of water at 8:45 pm yesterday less than 100 feet from the accident scene Whedbee 55-year-old Knoxville labor leader missing after the 42-foot cabin cruiser exploded and fatally injured Juvenile and Domes-l tic Relations Court Judge Hu Demos Back was bareiy singed Douglass For Vacancy Richard Douglass former state representative and Veteran of Foreign Wars leader has the backing of the administration Democrats for the post of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge it was reported last night Knox County Democrats who supported Gov Frank Clement were understood to have decided to rec ommend Douglass to fill the vacancy left by the death of Judge Hu the fire APPARENTLY DROWNED He apparently drowned following the accident that left three others Lawyer Allen Elliott and Howard and Bill Sentell contractors and brothers injured from the fire They were in satisfactory condition at Fort Sanders Hospital yesterday Elliott was at home Earlier yesterday deputies and US Navy personnel drained the craft of water after searchers found particles that appeared to be human bones The workers thought it possible Whedbee was trapped at the helm by the flames and intense heat cremated him A laboratory test on the particles failed to obtain a conclusive or answer whether or not the objects were bones and Sheriff Austin Cate asked lake Continued on Page 6 CoL 1 iL fS -JK tV fYl iwu A quicksilver were the only tools carried by an old-time prospector in his two-year fruitless search for gold in the Smoky Mountains Read more of the interesting details in Vic Weals Page 12 UNRESTRICT IVE DIET A 14-day trial period on the Tillie Lewis Plan with plenty of good satisfying food should convince even the most skeptical i that they can lose those pounds without starving in the process For more details see Tillie first installment on her new dieting plan Page 21 Editorials '4 Sports 13 14 Movies 8 Radio Clock 8 Society 10 Dennis the Menace 12 Tom Anderson 13 Home Makers Page 18 20 Classified Ads 24 25 Markets 26 Comics 27 Obituaries 28 of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project will be appointed to the post TO PRIVATE BUSINESS Boyer who took the post for a three-year term on Nov 1 1950 is returning to private business He is a vice president of the Standard Oil Co of New Jersey Strauss praised Boyer in a statement for his and devoted public with the commission and said he had been urged to continue on the job Nichols now on duty in Washington as the chief of development and research will retire from military service on taking over the AEC post A-BOMB PIONEER A native of Cleveland Ohio Nichols was a pioneer in the development of the atomic bomb He had been scheduled for wartime troop duty when he was assigned in July 1942 to a special group set up by the late President Roosevelt to develop and produce the A-bomb The secret project later became known 'as the famous Manhattan Engineer District As district engineer Nichols was in charge of the design construction add operation of all plants used in the production of plutonium and uranium-235 including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge Tenn and Richland Wash A graduate of West Point where he was fifth in his class of 1929 Nichols advanced from first lieutenant to his present three-star rank in 14 years In 1950 he became deputy director for the development and production of Army Navy and Air Force guided missiles He is married and has two children General Nichols who helped to select the site for Oak Ridge in July 1942 was associated with Clinton Engineering Works there from 1942 until 1944 when he was named district engineer He lived with his wife and two children in Oak Ridge until 1946 when he returned to West Point as an instructor for one year In 1947 he went from West Point to Washington as chief of the special weapons division 14-Day Diet Plan Of Tillie Lewis OnPage21 Today here! Look on page 21 for the first day menu sheet of the Tillie Lewis 14-Day Diet Plan Just because it sounds like a banquet be fooled into thinking made a mistake and published a diet for skin-nies to grow fat on Stick to it closely every day and find at the end of the trial lost pounds easier than you ever thought possible worry about what to do with the left-over leg of lamb after the first day no waste in this diet but arranged to give variety see the lamb again in sandwiches and cold dishes later in the week Two Killed Others Hurt In Traffic 3 Two persons were killed and several others including a Knoxville doctor injured in traffic accidents in the Knoxville and East Tennessee area yesterday Jim Ferguson a 61-year-old McMinn County farmer was killed when a truck hit the wagon on which he was riding on Highway 411 near Etowah Joe Turner 24-year-old farm worker from Jamestown was killed when the motorcycle he was riding crashed on a highway one mile south of Jamestown Dr Roberts 75 of 1901 Washington Pike was in fair condition at General Hospital last night with cuts and bruises suffered in a wreck on Solway Road late yesterday Farmer Killed When Truck Hits Wagon Bveelal Tn The Journal ETOWAH Oct A McMinn County farmer was killed and his son injured early today when a truck hit the wagon in which they were riding on Highway 411 Jim Ferguson 61 of near Etowah was fatally injured in the crash and his 18-year-old son Billy was reported in fair condition at Epperson Hospital in Athens Two mules pulling the wagon also were killed The accident occurred about four miles south of Englewood when the smashed into the Englewood Police Chief Charles Carver reported know just how it happened but one witness said the wagon pulled out onto the highway from a side road and into the path of the Elderly Physician Injured In Crash Dr Roberts 75 of 1901 Washington Pike was injured yes- Continued on Page 6 CoL 3 Safety Film Now Shown In County Schools The Optimist Club safety film for teen-agers Your which met with such enthusiastic response at city schools is now being shown at county schools Students at High School yesterday saw the movie being shown as a part of the Optimist Club Safety Campaign It is scheduled for Powell High School at 2 pm today Showings for other county schools are Oct 6 Central High School three separate showings beginning at 11:30 am Oct 7 Farragut High SchooL 8:30 am Oct 8-9 Young High School Oct 14 Bearden High SchooL 9:30 ajm Oct 14 Gibbs High School 1 pm and Oct 21 Carter High School 2 pm Various members of the Optimist Club will accompany the film to the schools where they will make brief talks and offer the and safe driving agreements Optimists who will -visit the schools are McCord Archer Charles Callis Hop Bailey Sherrill Mitchell Lee Ihle and John Montgomery US Weatherman Promises Fair Warm Weather The Weatherman last night promised fair and warm weather for the Knoxville area today The official forecast Is sunny and warm today Fair and cool tonight High today 84-83 Low tonigmt 60-64 High yesterday was 91 and the low for this morning was expected to be 58-62 MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE Saafly BBS warm today Fair sad ml tonlpht Hifk today 84-88 Law toaipht 88-44 TRI-CITIES Sanity aad warm today Fair aad eaal tanip hi Hiph today 84-88 Law tonight 44-44 CROSS VILLE LaFOLLETTE Saaay and warm today Fair aad eaal tonight High today 84-88 Law tonight 44-44 LOWER EA8T TENNESSEE Saaay aad warm today Fair aad aaal tonight High today 44-48 Law toalght 4-44 -w AW 'rP'' SUCCEEDS Maj Gen Kenneth Nichols who served as head of the atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge during World War II will succeed Marion Boyer as general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission effective Nov 1 Anti-Red PW Riot Quelled By Gunfire PANMUNJOM Friday Oct 2 (JP) Five hundred North Korean anti-Communist prisoners rioting at the sight of Red Polish and Czech medical inspectors inside their stockades were quelled by Killing Of Anti-Red PWs Increases Belief Commission Communist TooL EditoriaL Page 4 gunfire yesterday in what the Indian guards edited a Attempt One North Korean was wounded in the first shooting incident since some 23000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners who renounced Communism were turned over to neutral custody last month A sixth North Korean was reported wounded later so seriously he may die Some Indian guards were injured by prisoners attacking them with stones sticks and tent poles an Indian statement said It did not give the number REDS PROTECTED Before the 60-minute demonstration ended guards hystled away five medical inspectors including two doctors from Iron Curtain- countries They were escorted to a area away from the an official release said The reports of the shooting caused surprise among diplomats at the United Nations in New York They had been assured only Monday by delegate Kirshna Menon that the Indian guards were unarmed The flareup of violence graphically emphasized the latest breakdown in truce machinery calling for to prisoners balking at return to their homelands PRISONERS REBEL Originally set to begin last Saturday the explanations were postponed until Thursday and then delayed again for an indefinite period Many prisoners objected to forced attendance at the interviews The UN command and the Communists have refused to go ahead with the interviews until each side relocates and builds better for to talk to the prisoners not going to start building until after the Communists an Allied spokesman said December 23 is the last day for explanations under armistice terms An Indian spokesman for the Continued on Page 6 CoL 5 Poison Liquor Seller Escapes ATLANTA Oct 1 W-John (Fat) Hardy who mixed a batch of poison moonshine liquor blamed with killing 41 persons here in 1951 has escaped from prison The notorious bootlegger who weighed 360 pounds in healthier days slipped away from the Telfair State Prison Camp at McRae Tuesday night Atlanta police revealed today Hardy was sentenced to life imprisonment in Fulton Superior Court in December 1951 for the death of John Blount one of the moonshine victims At his triaL the big bootlegger freely admitted mixing and selling the liquor that police said brought the wholesale deaths but said be did not know it would kill anyone Prison Warden Dan Johnson said Hardy considered a trusty escaped while on watch at a washed-out bridge He was unguarded at the time and apparently just slipped away Port Strike Is War Between Unions That May Develop Into Ugly Labor Strife Rivalling Insurrection of 1937 EditoriaL Page 4 President Joseph Ryan was hospitalized a few days ago with an illness Connolly said the Federal Mediation service called from Washington in the afternoon to sound out the chances of the ILA returning to work at once without waiting for an injunction told him we would not return to work until an injunction is the strike leader informed newsmen It was the first time in his eight months in office that President Eisenhower had made use of the Taft-Hartley Law to ward off a peril to national health and safety President Truman invoked the law 10 times once against the ILA in 194a -EERIE QUIET By land and by sea ILA pickets roamed the desolate 350 miles of New York piers where bustling activity had given way to eerie quiet and sun-splashed loneliness Only military ships were being worked Tugboat crews were respecting ILA picket lines As a result the big luxury liners Liberte and Constitution docked by themselves a tricky and ponderously beautiful maneuver even in perfect autumn weather Their motor launches helped guide them to their piers Twehty-eight ships were caught at their berths in New York Countless others rode their anchors in indecision in the harbor itself Sixty-eight streamed out to sea in an armada-like formation yesterday to escape the strike A -strike leader announced in midday: ports are tied up completely from Portland Me to Hampton Roads Va Nothing is His went unchallenged However in several of the 12 struck east coast ports there was nothing to strike against There were no ships in harbor for example at Portland and in the Connecticut cities of New London New Haven and Bridgeport Several big liners were at sea or about to depart from abroad Continued on Page 6 CoL 6 Yankees Again Trim Dodgers Details on sports pages NEW YORK Oct 1 An eighth inning home run by Mickey Mantle with Hank Bauer on base gave the New York Yankees a 4-2 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the second game of the World Series today The blast which broke up a 2-2 tie and a battle between Ed Lopat of New York and Preacher Roe of the Brooks gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series Tomorrow the scene shifts to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn home of the National League champions where the Dodgers will try to get back into the series Carl Erskine who pitched one inning and gave up four runs yesterday as New York won 9-5 is scheduled to pitch for Brooklyn Vic RaschL wbo has won five and lost two games in past series competition is to hurl for New York Erskine won one game and lost one last year in the series with the Yankees Both are righthanders 4- 14 Killed ed WROL-TV from starting the first telecast until 9:30 pm As the delay grew longer calls continued to jam telephones at WROL and The Knoxville Journal from hundreds of Knoxvillians sitting by their sets to see the first program Linebaugh WROL executive vice president said the sta- tion "encountered a lot of difficulties and rather than disappoint -the public wedecided to go ahead and try to get on the The station continued telecasting until about 1:30 am today to get all the programs originally scheduled for last night on the air Guy Smith III WTSK-TV em-phasized that this station although showing two programs last night will not be on the air with regularly scheduled shows untiL later this month The test pattern however will be shown daily WROL-TV is on Channel 6 very high frequency and WTSK-TV is on Channel 26 ultra high frequency Smith reported test pattern was being picked up in Oak Ridge Johnson TV Delayed JOHNSON CITY Oct Johnson much -delayed station WJHL-TV was set back another week today due to late shipment of tower materials Station officials had announced yesterday that plans were being made to televise initial programs Continued on Page 6 CoL 8 Cordell Hull Due To Celebrate His 82 Years WASHINGTON Oct 1 Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull celebrates his 82nd birthday tomorrow Despite several grave illhesses since he resigned in 1944 Hull regularly takes automobile rides and walks around the grounds of the Sheraton Park Hotel where he lives He also follows domestic and foreign developments closely State Department press officer Lincoln White who reminded reporters of the birthday anniversary said Hull a ride every morning toward Fairfax i 't CLOSE BATTLE Ruth Ann Barker "Miss Tennessee" lost out as UT Band Sponsor yesterday in a very close election Miss Barker is from Trenton and represented the state in the Miss America beauty pageant last month at Atlantic City where this picture was taken Knox Junior Sponsor Of UT Band Politics was the order of the day yesterday in the University of Tennessee election to select a sponsor and when the smoke cleared the winner was Margaret Trotter 20 year old junior of Knoxville She won out on the fourth' ballot a voice roll call vote over Ruth Ann Barker of Trenton 35 to 33 The voting started with some 15 candidates but the first ballot narrowed the field to three On the second ballot the third candidate was eliminated and on the third 'dhe vote was tied between Miss Trotter and Miss Barker Then the election officials called for a roll call vote and Miss Trotter was declared the winner The new sponsor succeeds the former Carolyn Dennis now Mrs Hugh Little and Miss Trotter will be presented at pregame ceremonies at the Duke Tennessee football game Saturday Miss Trotter is a student in the liberal arts college majoring in art She is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and is the daughter of Mrs Louise Allen Trotter 1709 White Avenue An aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs WR Cooper live at the same address Esther Williaijis Has Baby Girl SANTA MONICA Calif Oct 1 UP) Actress Esther Williams who is Mrs Ben Gage in private life today gave birth to a seven pound 15 ounce baby girl in the Santa Monica Hospital The baby has been named Susan Mu and Mrs Gage also have two sons aged 3 and 4 Chuckle: School teacher: One who takes a lot of live wires and sees that they ate well grounded diligently for poor little Bobby1 It was not known if the offer would be accepted by the agonized parents of the boy who was spirited away from an exclusive Catholic school by a red-haired woman Monday morning Under a care both parents yere near collapse from the emotional strain of waiting for word that has not come Mrs Greenlease left her home for the first time since the kidnaping to attend Catholic mass this morning Police Chief Bernard Brannon said he had instructed his men to continue to use caution in their investigation because well-being is uppermost in our Brannon' declared: want to catch the kidnaper or kidnapers if it means the Continued on Page 6 CoL 8 Webster in the boat fire and explosion Wednesday night on Fort Lo Lake The governor is expected appoint a successor although Courthouse officials said they considered the special act setting up the court was not specific on the point No formal steps will be taken however until final rites for Judge Webster have been held Saturday Knox County Asst Atty Gen Mack Blackburn looked up the act yesterday to see what official duties Criminal Court Clerk Horace Cate would have following the death of Judge Webster and found no specific provisions were made Cate is Domestic Court clerk also was mainly concerned to see what Mr official duties were since the Blackburn said in reading the bill I could not find where it said the governor should appoint in the event of a Blackburn pointed out the 1925 legislative act called for the governor to appoint the first holder of the office to serve until an election However County Judge Howard Bozeman said the governor will appoint successor to serve until the general election next year at which time candidates would run to fill the remaining term of the six-year office Courthouse officials say there is a possibility Clement will al-f Continued on Page 6 CoL 8 Obituaries Wilier Stivers William Price Jti(i Ha Webster Kelind Whedbee Jlm) MeKeyBllds Gest Gliflard KreU Mrs Abbs Mae Jaardaa Walter Seivers Jack A Ceantiss ROGERS Rebert Jeha LAKE CITY Mr Gertrsde Slaver Mrs Sarah Heath James Neliea Maail Mrs A Befle Leris Wallace LENOIR CITY Themai Hareld Brews lafaat Carr MADISON VLLLE F-ElaakeBihlp Five Blount Repatriates Will Be Honored Today Mailmen Join Hunt For Kidnaped Boy Special Ta The Jaarmal MARYVILLE Oct Blount five repatriates will be guests of honor tomorrow afternoon at a parade and informal reception to be sponsored by Post 5154 Veterans of Foreign Wars The five former prisoners of war ir Korea are Capti Fred Speer John Phillips Donald Heaton James Dobson and Jenkins All except Captain Speer who will arrive tomorrow have been at home for some time The captain with his wife and two sons has spent several days on the West Coast but notified his parents Mr and Mrs Lee Speer that he will arrive tomorrow VFW plans to have a motorcade meet the Speer automobile outside the Maryville city limits were dropped at the request ptftiu i jerques KANSAS CITY Mo Oct 1 (INS) The 120000 mailmen offered today to join in a search for the kidnaped son of a Kidnapers Of Children Deserve Only Death Penalty And Too Light EditoriaL Page 4 wealthy Kansas City auto dealer who said he will pay any reasonable ransom for his safe return As the third day passed without word from the abductor of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease help of the army of letter carriers was volunteered in the hunt for clues The offer was made by the postmen through their union president William Doherty of the AFL National Association of Letter Carriers who said: mailman is the family friend In many cases he has saved lives by alertness search ASUNCION Paraguay Oct 1 Fourteen persons were killed and 30 injured when a crowded bus overturned here today Police said the accidentias due to faulty brakes i 11 Continued engage 6 CoL 6 CAPT FRED SPEER.