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jjr -a -r trvs nnz ww-h- -L u'ij-i 0 The Weather and MmorOUTAN mirkt WiJ'V hmmii Rr CI J1' r- yeiUNijr c0l'r- ki 14 -M 1-M TlCKTFir nnitkil cMlcr hi(h GrHr fair Mi a fiUle eaaler la htterUr Wthf Details Pafe 14) -b 4lTaEE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 1955 City Edition 117TH YEAR KNOX 24 Pages Two Sections PRICE 5 CENTS ctH 17 nnp jvvLivJ 'vO -n rpn frv) nnm LI lid If 1 vo fe Pled To Keep Powers I Law In Riots 1 3fc Fed- Tax On Liquor Traffic Will Keep Other Levies Down Taylor Declares CRUELTY TO HARDEN FIGHTING MEN These two photos supplied by Newsweek Magazine show two phases in course of manufactured cruelty being given US fighting men to harden them against treatment they may" receive if captured by an unscrupulous enemy These phQtosmade at Stead Air Force Base outside Reno Nev show left the where confinement causes temporary paralysis of the muscles and right the tight which imprisons trainees flat on its gravel bottom (AP Wirephoto from US Air Force) Torture Training Of AF Revealed By ALLAN JACKS ISTANBUL Turkey Sept 7 The government reimposed martial law tonight on Istanbul and Izmir and called Parliament into special session in the wake of anti-Greek riots Martial law was lifted for about 12 hours in Istanbul and Izmir largest cities during the day But it was clamped on again tonight and extended to Ankara the capital Premier Adnan Menderes announced the ac': alter an emergency session of his Cabinet which also summoned Parliament into a special session opening next Monday CYPRUS IN DISPUTE -The outbreaks followed the dragging dispute over the future of Cyprus ivhcld i iar baction in the Mediterranean The Greeks want Cyprus which has a big majority of residents of Greek descent Turkey which lost Cyprus to Britain in 1914 says it must get the island back if Britain ever quits it British-Greek-Turkish talks in London on the issue have ended in disagreement CASUALTIES AT 300 Casualties in last night's violence in Istanbul and Izmir were put unofficially at more than 300 Greek-owned property was damaged to the extent of millions of dollars litaniul secret police said 2057 persons had been arrested about half suspected of looting arson and other violence No violence was reported today in either Istanbul or Izmir but tanks rumbled down the streets as armed forces brought in to help police restore order at the height ot the outbreaks guarded strategic points Serous violence threatened to break out y- te day in Ankara when several thousand Turks marched on the Greek Embassy Police dispersed the demonstrators with tear gas RED PLOT CHARGED An official communique issued at Ankara during the day said Istanbul and Izmir were the of a Communist plot and It implied that Red agents had incited mobs of young to attack Greek residents and their property -The communique expressed sorrow and regret for the grave damage to shops homes and cither property of Greek-descended residents of the two big cities The government promised speedy compensation and added steps have beeft taken and will be taken to restore immediately public peace and order violated by these Clearing of dr oris from Istanbul streets was under way Greeks were not the only victims of the outbreaks in Istanbul and Izmir Property of the Armenian and Jewish minorities also was attacked No' Americans -were reported injured and no American property was reported damaged -The demonstrations were the first violence in Turkey growing out of the embittered dispute over Cyprus It followed a dynamite Ben Gordon To Head Big Retail Chain Ben Gordon executive vice president and general manager of Inc department store of Atlanta yesterday was elected president of City Stores Co one of the major retail chains it was announced in New York Yorf-The retail ex- I XX ecutive who 1' played a large part in the opening of store in Knoxville Aug 29 will draw a salary over a year it was estimated in New York retail circles Gordon will assume his new duties Nov 1 succeeding the late Herbert Schwartz He will make his headquarters in New York City Gordon has been associated with largest department store in the South since 1925 He became vice president and general merchandise manager in 1945 and executive vice president 1949 Until recently he was chairman of the Vendor Relations Committee of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn- NINE STORES BRANCHES City Stores Co operates nine department stores with eight branches It also controls 24 Op-penheim Collins and Franklin Simon Apparel Shops including a Franklin Simon store in Atlanta Sales and earnings in the fiscal year ended Jan 29 1955 were the largest in the 32-year history Net sales came to $24L-755000 while profits after taxes totaled $5422000 Frank Neely chairman of the board for told The Knoxville Journal by long distance telephone yesterday that hired Ben Gordon 30 years ago when he had just graduated from Georgia Gordon will not be replaced in the Rich organization Neely-said are well supplied with merchandising managers Mr Richard Rich president and I will serve as an executive or operating committee for AV stated the the magazine said in a statement issued in York the article was cleared by the Pentagon last Friday an officer waved a set of papers all marked in front of Wyden These papers -the officer said were plans to be submitted to Gen Nathan Twining Air Force chief of staff to make the training at Stead Base Nve than it is now The mgaxine account called in the Desert" said the training is taken under the supervision of medical men and five psychologists and 29000 men have safely withstood the 17-day It added that none of the trainees havfe complained formally about the harsh treatment McKenzie himself a prisoner in Germany during World War II was quoted as saying: take it because they realize as Important to them as life Survival training courses are nothing new in the armed forces In World War II airmen and those who might be involved in guerrilla lighting were given training to help them evade capture or to escape after capture All of the services Navy Marine Corps and Army as well as the Air Forcer-have been conducting modernized survival training courses incorporating what has been learned of Communist techniques from men who were prisoners of war in Korea Confinement hard labor prolonged interrogations barefoot Continued on Page 9 Col 3 School Safety Work Backed PUBLIC WILL BACK Sheriff Austin Cate can depend upon the public backing him and his deputies in their school safety work Page 8 OPENERS East against South and Rule versus West in the opening games of the Knoxville prep school football season See preview Page 17 Editorials Society Home Folks Tom Anderson 16 Sports 16 17 8 10 Movies TV-radio Markets 21 22 Comics 23 Horoscope 23 18 18 20 I Knox County majority yesterday won a round in the legal skirmishing with the three-member commission when Chancellor Charles Dawson upheld temporary injunctions prohibiting the commission from interfering with the control over the park beer and zoning boards The ruling was only to uphold the injunctions until the lawsuit filed last week could be heard on its merits The suit seeks a claratory judgment spelling out the powers of the commission and the court The squires lost the first round of the court battle Tuesday when a suit filed by 34 taxpayers challenging the legality of salaries and expense accounts of several county officials including the commissioners was dismissed by Judge Dawson However yesterday Atty Joel Anderson representing the court majority said that an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court on the ruling Earl Ailor county attorney who filed the motions to dismiss the temporary injunctions said that he would confer with the commissioners William (Bill) Maynard welfare William (Bill) Tallent finance and Charles Spangler highways possibly early today on what action the commission might take in view of rebuff Earlier he said he would to a state of in the county that the County Court be permitted to operate as it has in the past until the Chancery suit could be heard on its merits Maynard chairman of the commission said he had not heard recommendation and had what the attitude might be until the group could meet and the The struggle for power between the court and the commis sion was touched off when the court declined to adopt a budget and set a tax rate at its regular July meeting The' commission then because no funds were available to pay salaries and other expenses borrowed a $200-000 to operate the county government and then filed ft mandamus action in Circuit Court seeking to force the court: to meet and adopt a budget- The budget was adopted and the tax rate subsequently set by the court in a special session The action which triggered the open break between the two arms of the county government occurred Aug 27 when Maynard appeared before the county Beer Board and announced that the commission by resolution was assuming authority in three fields of county gov- Continued on Page 9 Col 1 Court Orders ILA Strikers BackToWork NEW YORK Sept 7 The International Assn (Ind) struck the port of New York today in a quarrel with a bistate Waterfront Control Commission Within a few hours after the walkout started shippers obtained a State Supreme Court order directing the strikers to return to work The restraining order drew no immediate reaction from the ILA This is spreading very said the ILA president William Bradley something done by Monday have the whole coast tied The strike climaxed months of turmoil along the 350 miles of New York waterfront as the ILA strove in its own words to the New York New Jersey Waterfront Commission a bistate pier policing agency Caught in the middle in the walkout were 170 shipping companies with whom the ILA signed a no-strike contract last January They stand to lose a million dollars for every day the port is tied up CD Drill On Refugee Care Today Tennessee Civil Defense Staff College students attending a week-long course given by eral CDA at University of Tennessee today will assume the roles of CD personnel in a city of 10000 which suddenly finds itself host to 35000 refugees faom a near-by city laid waste by nuclear attack The 64 students from all over the state who will put on similar courses for other CDA personnel in their own localities will be divided into welfare police engineers and medical units They solve problems given by FCDA staff instructors based" upon situations Europeans" and Japanese faced in World War II The problem will be magnified many times however iq this era' of thermonuclear weapons 25 times as powerful as the atom bomb dropped bn Hiroshima Geraldine May former commander of the Air Force who is now "a FCDA staff instructor Miss Janice Johnson Earl McKeel and James Ridgeway all staff instructors will pose the hypothetical problems Yesterday the students were told of the part civil def ensp plays in natural disasters disaster funds for state and local governments are requested through civil defense but such aid does not replace Red Cross relief Dr A Ross FCDA staff instructor and chef of FCDA extension activities said three organizations coordinate their efforts under various disaster he added personnel and Red Cross disaster workers step in when hurricanes tornadoes floods and other natural disasters strike the other hand in wartime Continued on Page 9 CoL 5 Court To Study School Fuud Question Today County Court will meet in called session today to consider the possibility of appropriating $127-596 in matching funds for Federal funds for the proposed Shannondale School The meeting was requested by five members of the majority of the court They are Squires Bayless Knott Chana-berry Carl Hickam and John Thompson County Schools Supt Mildred Doyle has said that failure to provide the funds will jeopardize the future applications for Federal funds Droodles Cl it sold legally or do you want it sold illegally by the bootleggers? There is no other Taylor pointed out that year Tennessee collected $10500-000 in state and local revenue from legalized sale of alcoholic beverages in the state $314 for every man woman and child in Taylor said Then he asked this question: did Knox County recover from the sales of the absolutely FOR VITAL SERVICES Revenue from legal liquor is used in the public school systems for old age assistance and other vital public Taylor a member of the Uni versity of Tennessee Board of Trustees" chairman of Knoxville Housing' Authority and active in other civic and church work continued: estimates of state officials indicate that the bootleg business in Knoxville alone reaches a staggering total of $1000000 a year business is handled by people who you may be sure are now spending a large share of their profits to stay in business It is a business that goes tax-free and contributes nothing to the economic welfare of Knoxville or Knox County GAG RULE RESENTED Taylor then turned on the United Dry Forces of Knox County He called them prohibitionists He said: word prohibition as it relates to personal tastes and preferences rubs a lot of people the wrong way Many people just like to be told what they cannot eat or drink what entertainment they can see or not see or what they can and cannot do other words people are willing to listen to argument Continued on Page 9 CoL 5 1 Fire Destroys Belcaro Trees A forest fire yesterday nearly destroyed ten acres of woodland on the Belcaro Estate the home of the late Judge Hu Mc-Clung For two hours the Fountain City Fire Department battled the blaze which was described by Fire Capt John Bailey as all of the smaller trees and damaging most of the larger He said that he did not know what started the fire The showplace home was recently sold to Mr and Mrs Wilburn by Mr and Mrs Thomas Berry Mrs Berry is a daughter of Judge McClung Another fire earlier in the day gutted two rooms and damaged two more in the Hillview Avenue residence of Oscar Morgan Fountain City" Fire Chief Robert Russell i estimated the damage at $3000 and said that as yet the origin is undetermined Miss First To Win ATLANTIC CITY Sept 7 W) Miss Alabama (Patricia Byrd Huddleston of Clanton) a silvery voiced southern beauty tonight won the first preliminary talent' contest in the Miss America pageant The hazel-eyed 21-year-old University of Alabama coed was voted the winner for her theme of Pace Mio an Aria from opera Forza Del Patricia a soprano has studied voice for six years She wants to study in Europe Later tonight a winner in the swim suit competition was to be chosen by the panel of judges Forty-nine beautiful girls began the battle tonight for the crown of Miss America 1956 in Gordon holds many positions with groups foundations and corporations affiliated with the central Rich company Neely said These posts he will relinquish gradually he added TAIR TRADE ADVOCATE Gordon is widely known in retail circles as a champion of prices As head of Continued on Page 9 Col 2 Twenty Gallons Of Whisky aken In Two Raids Knox County deputies yesterday raided two more bootlegging places confiscating some 20 gallons of tax-paid liquor and charging two persons with possessing Six area bootleggers were raided Tuesday by deputies who seized some 10 gallons of government stamped whisky All six were charged with possessing A raid yesterday at George place on Knott Street netted Chief Deputy Lonnie Taylor and Capt Estel Wrinkle some 15 gallons of stamped whisky and gin in bottles ranging from half pints to fifths The LaRue Grill on Clinton Highway was raided earlier in the day by Deputies Jess Chamberlain and Cobb who confiscated four fifths and two pints of whisky The operators arrested yesterday arp Eddie Chesser of place and William Walker of the LaRue Grill They both were released after posting $250 bonds Hearings in Sessions Court have been set for Sept 14 MARMADUKE By BRAD ANDERSON wish hurry up and get that bone A favorable vote for legal liquor in Knox County Sept 20 will put a tax on the liquor business that is already here and will keep other taxes down Jerome Taylor Knoxville lawyer said yesterday Speaking on the first of a series of talks in behalf of legal control Taylor -said that Chattanooga collected more than $500-000 last year from legal liquor Two prominent Knoxville lawyers Ray Jenkins and Brucfe Foster will be on WATE-TV (Channel at 6:30 pm today In behalf of Citizens for Legal Control Jenkins will discuss the bootleg problem here and Foster will outline many of the benefits that legalization will bring to the county1 a County can get its share of this needed revenue by taking it from the Taylor said the liquor business that Is here now" place it Under strict regulation control it and tax Taylor said the campaign not The liquor is here now and in vast quantities he added is sold on Sunday it is sold to he continued LEGAL OR NOT? the issue is not liquor The issue is simply this: Do you want Air Collision Kills Three LAS VEGAS Nev Sept 7 (INS) Three persons were killed and two were critically injured today when an Air Force bomber crashed while attempting an emergency landing after colliding in the air with a jet fighter plane The B-25 bomber crashed and exploded 50 feet off the runway at Las McCarran Field shortly after it scraped wings with an F-86 in the air Witnesses said the wheels were in the landing position and the pilot apparently was attempting to bring it down safely when it suddenly hurtled into the field The Air Force did not immediately identify all five persons aboard the bomber two of whom were killed instantly in the crash The third victim died en-route to a hospital One of the dead was identified however as David Barton Lees 38 a civilian photographer Chuckle A considerable number of people are living on the reputation of their reputation' Copyright General Features Corp for top-flight local presentations Engelbrecht said- The three-floor 100 by 65 fool building is under construction now and should be completed early in October leveled off over 1500 yards of solid rock and dirt to prepare for this structure according to Thomas Robertson president of the Nicholson Construction Co doing the work The new WTVK will continue the CBS Television affiliation afong with the secondary' ABC contract In addition to an expanded network schedule the station will offer special film features and outstanding local performances Engelbrecht said On the fall programming schedule WTVK will add such attractions as Continued on Page 9 CoL 5 Continued on Page 9 CoL 3 11 Temperatures To Be Above 90 In Area Today (Weather Details Page 14) not the humidity the heat get you today! Weather forecasts call for fair skies and temperatures in the 90s but with a considerable drop in humidity Good sleeping weather is predicted for tonight High temperature expected for today is 91 low tonight is expected to be 57 High yesterday was 93 low 59 No rain is expected before Friday or Saturday according to an extended five-day forecast and temperatures will average about normal for the season MIDDLE EAST Fair and less kimll today thrsnfh Thars-day nirht Warm fat the afternoon! cool at alrht Hlyh SI LOWER EAST Fair and less hamld threats Tharsday nlfht Cool at alfhti warm la the afternoon High 94 Fair and less- hamld threagh Tharsday night Caol at night warm in the afternoon High It CROSS Fair and less hamld High S7 WASHINGTON Sept 7 UB-High-ly realistic measures of physical and mental pressure borrowed from the Communists are being used on Air Force combat crewmen at a new center in Nevada for trainin' in resistance to brain washing Newsweek magazine reported today The Air Force promptly called in the commanding officer of the center for questioning about the article The magazine in its current issue describes an unusual 17-day course being giv at Stead Air Force Base outside Reno where it said the air crews undergo hunger pain fatigue and mental pressure to teach them to survive in enemy territory or captivity It speaks of combinations of and mental and tells of men who are washed out of combat flying because of their reaction Col Burton McKenzie commander of the base is already en route to Washington for questioning about the story' Other officers on his staff are expected to be with him Officials said what the Air Force high corr nd wants to konw is whether the story is overwritten cr is an a of tLCi- niques being used by officers and men themselves former prisoners of war in the training course Meanwhile the Air Force declined to tiiccu th" tra ling crater courses until after they have interviewed McKenzie One Air Force spokesman said that if the account is accurate it is quite possible there will be some changes in techniques In New York a Newsweek spokesman said the article was cleareu by "i ta on befi re publication He added that the writer of the article Peter Wy-den was first class and that the magazine had confidence the 'article was anything Newsweek under- Leopard Killed Defending Mate Against 5 Lions CHICAGO Sept 7 WV-A black leopard was killed defending his mate against five lions mistakenly let into the leopard cage at Brookfield Zoo today Zoo officials said the animals battled for five minutes before keepers separated them with iron bars The female leopard was not hurt Keeper Cecil Aldridge said he before leading the lions all males from their outdoor grotto into the cage for their daily meal the 12-year-old leopard killed in the melee was captured in the Netherlands Indies and had been at Brookfield since 1946 Obituaries Gary Lynn Bnwllnf Hmrry Scett Dvid Callaway Jane Jnaie Green Welch Danny Enyene Claheafh Thensas (Tern) Aistla Mr Meta A DeWine Mra Res Carr Habert Barker LAKE Ona Clalherne Mrs Katherine Reed Mrs i Tretter Mrs Bennie Gese Betts Geerye Waahlnrten Arp Rer Jeel Tayler Edward Mehlherm Adam Fairchild (COLORED) Vilen MeDewell OBITUARIES ON PAGE 11 -must By ROGER PRICE "FRANKS WITH I drew this while waiting for Dr Schwine when I went to Coney Island with him and Dr Kitzenger last month We planned a rip roaring time but as soon as we got there Dr Kitzenger ered some Compres-s i Research he had to do and spent the entire day sitting by the air vent in the Fun House I felt sorry for him because this ruined his chance of having any fun Dr Schwine and I went on the Roller Coaster though and I bought 2 tickets Unfortunately just before the ridafDr Schwine decided it might be too rough for me and he made me get out and give my seat to a young lady wearing slacks and a sweater bet he was sorry because all during the ride she kept screaming and throwing her arms around him Beats me how he stayed on for 23 trips WTSK-TV Tells Plan or Power Increase Drunken Driving Fines PaidBy 21 Total $2675 I (Pictures on Page 14) A very- large power increase and a new name are on the schedule for WTSK-TV Knoxville television Channel 26 soon after Oct 18 as we can install i John Engel-brecht president and general manager of the UHF station said yesterday improved station will be operating on 3 14000 watts of effective radiated power under the name Television' "as soon as possible" Engelbrecht said Application for the change will be filed with-the Federal Communications Commission in Washington Present operational power is 21900 watts The station is building new headquarters and studio facilities atop Ridge to house the giant General Electric transmitter and staging equipment needed fines of $100 each and were bound to the Grand Jury on $250 bonds each They are William Strickland of 1106 West Baxter Avenue Willie Harris of 410 Commerce Avenue Hubert Robinson of 518 Oxford Street James Yarnell of 916 Chicamauga Avenue Fred James Jr of 18 Clancy Street James Hackney of 1202 Twelfth Street John Grigsby of 1609 Phillips Street and Mack Anderson of 3515 Sutherland Avenue Jaime Parra- a 21-year-old South American student paid fines of $50 and $25 after he told Judge Charles Kelly only drank a little wine to celebrate graduation from The six who paid fines for not having licenses are: Hackney Anderson Strickland Harris Yarnell and Griffith Twenty-one Labor Day weekend drivers were fined a total ot $2675 in City Court yesterday on drunken driving charges of the 21 paid an additional $25 fine each for not having licenses Those who paid $100 on the city charge and $50ron the state charge are- Bobby Rose of Mascot James Key of Wichita Falls Texas Bobbie Allen of 210 Emmett Street Charles North of Murfreesboro William Gettys of Athens Earl Griffith of 2419 Hoitt Avenue Walter Daniel of 200 Van Huss Street Elmer North of Murfreesboro Charles Bryant of Peakland Lee Ball of New Market Walter Jackson of 721 Chestnut Street and James DeLozier of Route 3 Seymour Eight others paid the city 1 iJ.